The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-07-18
CURIOUS FACTS.


There are %, 900 shad eggs in quart.
The Assyrians were noted for their fne
boards.
Musket balls were legal tender IS
farthings in Boston in 1885.
The Mikado, of Japan, never wears .
garment that has been washed.
A strawberry is scientifically described
as SO pulpy pericarp without valves.
- The Dunkards have an in6exible rule
that no member shall wear a mustache. !.
'God Save the Queen" was written in
1857, the words by Mime. de Brinon and
the music by Lulli.
George shenberger, of York, Penn,
has a German Bible which was printed
in the year 1889. The print is quite
plain.
An English farmer was lately awarded
q prize far wasps nest thirty inches In
circumference, containing thousands OF
wasps. m
One of Forepaugh's circus elephants
had to be covered with mustard the other
day to ease his pains, and it took twenty
two pounds to do it.
Excelsior Geyser. in the National Park,
Montana, is discharging column OF
water sixteen feet in diameter and 300
feet high. The eruptions occur every
forty five minutes and last from three TO
five minutes. Il
At Minnesota sheep .shearing, some
thing bright cleaned out of the mouth
of one painting animal, and upon exanal.5
nation proved to be handsome gold
ring around the tongue and imbedded
in the flesh of it. ss-sss3s
Pearls do not appear in every oyster
shell, even on the coast of Australla,
but about one in every five yields the
valuable jewels. The most perfect ones
are found loose in the shell, but they are,
of course, very rare, as well as the
colored ones.
Plants most cultivated by working
people in the cities are said by q florist
to be the geranium, the heliotrope,
fuchsia, daisy, gillyfower, primrose,
pink and oxalis. These will grow where
less hardy plants would die and VIII
thrive in small quarters.
One hundred bottles of beer were de-
livered by mistake at the house OF Mrs:
Travers, q prominent member OF the:
woman's Christian Temperance Union
in Detroit recently. Mrs. .Trayers:
promptly smashed the bottles in tho;
gutter, and suit at law is the result e
A wonderful landscape. on exhibition
in Paris has been executed in European
and foreign insects. Every desired tone
is supplied by 35, 900 coleoptera in the:
foreground, and 1000 varieties of the,
insect tribes for the remainder OF the
pictures, The work required four years
of the artists time.
Frank A. Hardy claims to be the old
est fireman in the United States. He:
Joined fire company in Hollis, N. H-,g
on March II, 1887, aud has been mem-s 2;
Der of some department continuously;
during the succeeding ffty-on years,
He is now Secretary of the Fire Depart
ment of Piqua, Ohio. ss,;
The Coopers' Dance is q curious Gus.
tom, observed in Munich every seventh
year for some weeks prior to Lent.
During the plague of 1917 Munich gaYe.
up to ab;ect terror. In order to buoy
up the spirits of the citizens some FOL.
lowers Of the art of cooperin9 used to
perform dances in the open spaces and
streets of the town. Since that time
the Coopers' Dance has been commsmo-
rated periodically. i.g
The canoes of Alaska are very neatly
made, the ribs being whitfield from thin
strips of birch, with gunwales OF the
same material, to which the bark is
bound with very fine strips of dried
roots, which resemble bamboo split IN
two, and is very strong. The seams
where the bark is bound on to the ribs:
are made water-tight with heated pitch
gathered from trees. When it becomes
cold it makes these little craft thoroughly
water-tight. Il