The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-08
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

The slate is unknown in Belgian bar.
roonls. the law prohibiting credit for
! drinks.
In the year 1545 the royal head of
France paid $4,000 to have corn re-
moved from his toe.
| A Milford PENN correspondent says
that thirty feet at bound is no uncJm-
mon jump for wildcat.
There is mountain of GOAL In Wild
Horse Valley, Wyoming, which has
been burning for thirty years.
A thread has been produced from the
common nettle so fine that a length OF
sixty miles weighs only two and half
pounds.
An elephant lives 400 ycals; a whale,
300; a tortoise, 109; a camel 40; horse,
25; bear, 20; lion, 20; an OK, q; a
cat. IS; dog, II, sheep, 1O;'a squirrel,
s; q guinea pig, 7.
At the mouth of the Congo there is a
remarkable submarine valley Just at
| the mouth of the river it is 1852 feet
deep, and it can be distinctly traced for a
IlllCS OuI W oCo
During her twenty years of married
life Mrs John Guest, of Wichita. Kan,
has presented her husband with twenty
two children. She has twice given birth
to twins and once to triplets.
The Berlin beer drinkers are the fast
est in Europe. In certain saloon me-
chanical lion roars when new cask is
tapped, and that inctes every one to fin
ish his glass and order new one.
The natives of Central Africa had
never before seen woman who wore
skirts and long hair until Mrs. Hobub,
wife of the explorer, came among them,
and they regarded her as supernatural
being.
The oldest piece of carpentry in the
world is a wooden throne which be-
ionged to a queen of the eighteenth
Egyptian dynasty. 1tis NOR than 4,0C0
years old, and was recently presented by
jesse Haworth, collector, to the British
museum.
a Hannibal Mo.) man says that he
went into the woods few days ago and
painted black circle on the end Of log,
and when he went back to the spot an
hour later he found 800 dead rabbits
there. They had mistaken the circle for
a hole in the log and dashed themselves
to death against it.
A traveller on Georgia railroad
wanted to get oil at station where the
train did not stop. 1t was after dark.
and so when the conductor would not
agree to stop for him, the passenger
went to the front platform of the rear
car, drew the coupling pin, set the
brakes, and when the car stopped jumped
off.
A queer custom prevails among the
Indians of the Kuskowim country. 1t
seems that if o native woman is agree
able to change of husbands, the ques-
ton of her possession is decided by a
wrestling match between the two rivals,
in which the victor carries off the
woman. The vanguished comhatant
does not appear to entertain the slightest
feeling of anger or resentment against
his more successful opponent.
The die of the Goddess of Liberty ueed
on our coins was first cut by Mr.. Spencer,
the inventor of the Spencer lathe. lie
cut medallion Of Mrs. Washington, wife
OF General Washington, and some of the
first issue of coins were struck with her
portrait. When General Washington
first saw them he was much spleased,
and requested that the figure be changed.
Mr.. Spencer then placed cap on the
head, altered the features a little. and
called it the Goddess Of Liberty. 1t has
been used ever since then without
material alteration.