The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-22
CURIOUS FACTS.
A talent of gold was $13,S09

a CalenC OI SOlo was @lo,oVo
Ashekel of silver was about fifty cents.
A violin made of clay has been on ex.
hibition in Berlin.
Aquatinta, is kind of engraving by
which soft and beautiful effect is pro.
duced.
A moving train knocked the tail of q
Missouri calf without in any way hurting
the rest of the animal.
"Lover's ink" warranted to vanish in
twelve hours after use, leaving the paper
blank, is said to be a Western invention.
The other day at Westport, Conn.,,
Mr.. Mitchell and Miss Lewis got married,
and went off canoeing upon bridal
tour. 81
An organ in San Francisco church is
said to have been benefited, rather than
injured, by the accidental discharge Of
bullet into it. &
A cat at Norwich Falls, N. Y, IS
bringing up her kittens on diet of
frogs legs, which she catches for them
in near swamp. !.
At Deep River, Conn.,, two men. both
shoemakers and both 80 years old, re-
Gently died upon the same day and at
| just the same hour. t,
Lightning struck a pine tree on the
farm of w. F. Spann of Webster county,
Ca, and killed twenty hogs that had
taken shelter under it. =
Sharks have appeared at the mouth Of
the Mersey, England, and Liverpoops
small boys are wearing bowie knives
when they 60 in swimming.
AClinton Qowal baby has two grand.
fathers and two grandmothers, two great
grandmothers and one great. grandfather,
besides parents, to pet it to death. (.
A big willow tree in an upper New
York town was blown foot from the
perpendicular in late storm, but little
by little has gone back to uprightness. s,
On the farm of B. Peacock, Thomas
vile, Ca, lightning has struck the same
building three times within one week,
and the building is now about used up.
A university is said to have been
founded at Bologna by Theodosius about
433, but the real date of the establish
ment of the University of Boulosue was
1116. .....-.. Il.
Lincoln Chestnut and Edwina Arrow-
smith were welded at Grafton, Neb.,
few weeks ago. The brides reply to the
usual formula: "Do you take this Chest
nutq' was a painful strain on the sol.
emnity of the occasion.
A decidedly rare fruit is the white
huckleberries gathered this week in
Blooming Grove, Penn. The berries /,
are about the size of wild cherry, and
are creamy white. They are very sweet
Whether new variety or freak OF ma
ture we are not informed.
The old belief that more light-haired
persons than dark become insane has
gone the way of the other ancient de-
lusions. Out of 1G5 patients who are
being treated in the Kirkbvidge Insane
ASYLUM in Philadelphia all except four
are of decidedly DARK complexion.
Nine years ago a Mrs. Manning, OF
Paris, Ill, vowed that if her SON married
certain young lady who was objection
able to her she would 60 to bed and stay
there until she died. The marriage took
place, and the mother, true to her reso-
tuition, never left her bed until she was
borne to her coffin.
There is said to be a smokehouse in
the southwestern part of Madison
county, Fla, that is a veritable bee hive.
and from which large quantities of honey
are taken throughout the year by mere
" cutting the comb and catching the
liquid honey which pours from it. The:
bees have sealed the interior of the house
with comb. >.@ g
The Chinese frequently place little
metal idols within the shells of mollusks,
removing them several years afterward
covered with substance resembling
pearl; they also lay strings Of small
pearls, separated by knots, inside the
shells, and on taking them out, after q
lapse of some years, obtain large and
costly pearls.
About twenty years ago Mrs. Benjs-
min Braughn, of Atlanta, Ca, cut the
hair from the head of her little twoyear-
old child, and saved one curl about an
inch and half in length. A few weeks
later the child became i'll and died.
Yesterday Mrs. Branghn opened the box
in which she had laid away the little
ringlet, and was astonshed to find that
| - nod oroun to he two feet in LENGTH. e