The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-06-27
CURIOUS FACTS

CURIOUS FACTS.
A silver pound piece of Charles [
brought $s75.
Thirty loaves of bread are sold for 81
at Fort Valley, Ga.
]. F. Irwin, of Oswego, N. T., paid
SO, 900 for Bible.
There are estimated to be 800 opium
and morphine takers in Ithaca, N. Z.
The voice of Henry Hammond of Mas
peth, Long Island, who died recently,
could be heard mile.
Dade City, Fla, turns out an alligator
fourteen feetlong, and with spread of
jaws to close around pork barrel.
ASouth Carolina newspaper says that
there is an old colored man in Jonesboro
who has been married nine times and
has had III childlen. is S
Ed Snyder, of Dayton, Ohio, has a
dog that eats onions. The curious
animal will dig up an onion bed to get
at the bulbous vegetable .55.s
A Tuscola county Mich man has,
during the past eleven years, been tapped
1874 times for dropsy, and $500 pounds
of water taken from his body.
The wife of Votello Sanchez, a Mexi-
can, gave birth at Pomona, CAL, to three
healthy boys. The babies have been
called Los Angeles, San Bernardino and
San Diego.
An elm tree growing in the grounds
of.the Pennsylvania Hospital, in Phila.
dalphia, is a scion of the famous tree
under which William Penn held the first
treaty with the Indians. = e. g.
A Georgia man has three-legged
chicken which, it is said, when it grows
tired of walking on two legs, corkscrews
itself over and hops along on the third in
q highly entertaining and original man
ner.
A Puget Sound (Oregon) sawmill has
sent stick of timber Isl feet long aud
20 inches square, to an exhibition in San
Francisco. It is believed to be the
largest piece ever turned out from 9 saw
mill. 80. -
Two young boys of Lafayette, Wis,
went out hunting few mornings agoand
shot FIVE wolves before noon. Then they
took the scalps to the County Clerk and
received 500 in bounty certificates for
their mornings work. 8 ~.
Mr.. Boyd, of CollinsviIle, La, must
be set down as fast man, however ex-
emplary he may be. Lately he hauled
lumber, built house and moved into It,
all in space of day and night, which
certainly beats the record up to date.
Giles Shoot, of Calhoun County, Ca.
has steer twenty-three years old, By
whose help he has managed to raise
twenty crops and a big family. The,
animal, once jet black, is now very
gray, but spry and hearty as q two.year
Old.
MI. Arbuthnot, of Beavers Falls,
Penn, fed his twenty-year-old horse on
brewers grains for awhile; and from
being the steadiest animal in town, the
horse has developed an idiosyncrasy Of
running away that makes folks think him
crazy. Is. ,sS5}'ssg
For the past ten years the owner of 8
Touring mill at Dubuque, Iowa, had 9
eign on his freproof safe, reading: No
money is here-please call at the house. /"
It was intended for burglars, and the
other night one called at the house and
secured $3.50.
Jesse Ruth, of Newtown, Penn, had
the little toe Of each foot amputated the
other day as a remedy for corns. He
had suffered such pain that he threatened
to cut the toes off with chisel if the
family would not consent to have sur
geons perform the operation.
Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the mother OF
Abraham Lincoln, is buried on the out
skirts of Lincoln City,, Ind. A plain.
slab of marble about four feet high, al
most covered with grass and dogweed,
marks her grave. On the stone is the
inscription: Erected by friend OF her
martyred son, 1879" ~ = -
The oldest merchant vessel, with one
exception, now in actual service is the
schooner Good Intent. She was built
by Clapp & Loring in Braintree, Mass,
in 1918, and was originally sloop, with
square stern and no fgurehead her length
4S feet; her breadth, 16 feet; her depth,
At feet, and her measure, 20 tons. The
home port of the Good Intent, according
to the list of 1885, was Camden, Me.
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