The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-21
CURIOUS FACTS.
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The death reaaH.ty was abolished il
Michigan previous 70 1850
A Maryland fatheY Gun '''biad out" hi
son; Maryland mothtx cannot.
Bookkeeping was first frtrodued i2te
England from Italy by Peele' tn 1859.
The japanese have only one swear
word and that is no more expressive than
our "by gosh"
julius Hildebrand, who for sixteen
years was the body servant of Bismarck,
is living in Chicago.
Signals to be used at ses were first
contrived by James H., when he was
Duke of York, in 1868.
Charles Breck, of Milton, Mass, owns,
and sometimes wears, a pair of shoes
made by his father SO years ago.
Over 1000 skunk skins went ct Of
Scranton, Penn, for Germany the other
day, where they will be made into grena.
dier caps.
Warren, Penn, claims the oldest
member of the G.. A. R. in the country.
His name Is D. T. Van Vcchten, and he
was born in 1899.
The City of London, England, proper,
covers an area of 1872 square miles.
Philadelphia covers more territory,
spreading over 129 square miles.
Notaries Public were first appointed
by the Fathers of the Christian Church
to make q collection of the acts OF
memoirs of martyrs in the first century.
Recently an elk was shot in Galicia.
It is now 100 years since the last of these
animals was killed in Austria. 1t is be-
lieved that the one referred to had come
from Lithuania.
Three men, over six hundred miles
apart, invented an egg-beater on the
same day and their applications for a
patent arrived in Washington within two
hours of each other.
An Englishman has given up his home
facing Hyde Park in London because
strange lady used to walk in the park at
10 o'clock every morning wearing green
gloves on her hands.
There is in the vicinity Of Vaughns-
Vile, S. c., an infant few months old
whose mother is seventeen, grandmother
thirty-two, grandfather thirty-seven and
great grandmother fifty-one.
A New York merchant estimates that
5000. 900 bushels of peanuts were con-
sumed in this country last year. The
cost to the consumers was SO, 600, 600,
fully half Of which was profit.
An old man living near Wabash, Ind,
cut railway telegraph wire, run the line
into his house, and was utilizing the
electricity as cure for rheumatism when
the linemen discovered where the break
was.
Martin P. Rogan, cashier of the Plant
ers' House, in st. Louis, picked out
handsome pearl from the shell Of clam
be was eating IN the Planters House cafe
the other day. 1t is about the size of
small pea, and a jeweler says it is worth
$50.
There is O woman at Port Jarvis, New
York, who goes into convuls'ons every
time she hears any one sing the air of
cold Lang Syne," and neighbor
woman has just been mulcted IN the tune
of $4OO for singing it with malite afore-
thought.
At the trial of q Wooster, Ohio, man
for murder, it was brought out in the
course of the testimony that at the out
break of the war he had himself con-
victed of stealing sheep in order that he
might avoid military service by going to
the penitentiary.
Raw silk is said to have been first
made in China about $50 B. G. 1t was
first brought from India in 274, and Q
pound of It that time was worth q pound
of gold. The manufacture of raw silk
was introduced into Europe from India
by some Monks in $50. Silk dresses were
first worn in 1866.
Another edition of the Siamese twins
has just seen the light of the world. The
wife of O Door workman at Misslitz, in
Moravia was delivered of triplets, two
of the babies grown together by the ribs
and having common breastbone. The
rest of the two little bodies is perfectly
developed in every part.