The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-12-26
CURIOUS FACTS.

The total number OF Mennonltes ID
100, 200.
Ice was artifcially made just one hum
dred years ago.
British Honduras was settled by Eng.
lish from Jamaica.
The French language was introduced
into England by William I. in 1866.
The first locomotive built in the
United States was made by Peter
Cooper.
Franklin demonstrated in June, 1852,
the identity of the electric spark and
lightning. -..s.. q. ~.
An Oregon Paper says that fruitgrow.
ers in that State gather five crops OF
pears in season.
Wiley Fletcher, of Irwin County, Ca,
is the proud owner of a fish hook that
has been in constant use seventy-fve
years. '&4sg
Two new kinds of church entertain
ments are coming into vogue, especially
In New England-tne "tombola" and
the "kiakhta."
A little girl in De Kalb County, Ga,
rejoices in the name of Susan Julia Me-
linda Maria Savannah Sophia Elizabeth
Lady Bug Towers.
The wife of farmer named Dufort,
at Masanche, Canada, has given birth to 9
her thirtieth child. She has been mar
ried twenty. one years.
Pages in Congress receive S3.45 per
day while actively employed. They
work on an average OF six hours day
as long as the session lasts.
Lord Ennismore, while i'll at Victoria,
British Columbia, was cared for under
the directions of an English physician,
received by direct wire to London.
Words comes from Wheeling. W. Va,
that live bat has been found there i'm I
bedded in solid rock in a crcvice just big
enough to contain it, and utterly shut Z
away from the outside world.
A convict in Sing Sing Prison, New
York, has pet mouse and five pet cock
reaches, and although his term will soon
be out he is so anxious about his pets
that he doesn't want to be discharged.
Under the laws of Canada if you are
renting house and it burns down you
are holden to the owner for its full
value. If it is blown down by the wind
or carried away by freshet nc must pay
you full damages. ...= s
Judge Samuel Levy, an aged citizen of
Augusta, Ca, during social game OF
poker, "called" friend after jack pot
had been opened, and when the hand was
found to be four aces the judge suffered
fatal stroke of paralysis. Gs
The greatest steamboat disaster ever
known in this country was the loss OF
the Central America, sailing from AS
pinwall to New York, on September 6,
1857, with 4y1 passengers and 10l mem
bers of the crew. There were SGT Lives
! lost. rs
ESThe Southern Pacific road claims the
longest through.car service of any line
! in the world, between New Orleans and
| San Francisco, 2l9, miles. The fGstest Z
! through tain is timed at 113 hours, 25
! minutes, or at the rate Of 23 miles an
hour. ~.
A Mrs. Smith, of Grand Rapids, Mich,
was recently Sc erely injured by the
sudden closing of a foldins.bed on
which she was reclining. She. was COM
pletely shut in by the bed, and it became
necessary to pry it apart before she could
| be released.
shakespeare's statue, just erected op..
posite tailor's shop on the Boulevard
Hausemann, Paris, is described by some
English residents of the French capital
as representing the great bard as tailor.
holding roll of cloth with one hand
and a book of bad debts with the other.
The Emperor of Russia exhibited at
Copenhagen an immeuse dinner service
of Dresden china, which was manufac-
tured for him few years ago at cost
OF $50, 900. There is different scene
of Russian life on every piece, and every
variety of Russian uniform and costume
is represented. 81