The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-27
CURIOUS FACTS.

Chicago leads in Its number Of small
parks.
The "Beaux.less Social" is unique
title of Baltimore Club.
A New York man recently paid $25|
for an almanac 275 years old.
Among the students at Princeton COLI
lege Is one seventy.two years old.
Sixty-three snakes were killed in ond
hole near HarveJsburg, Ohio, the other
day. 49, =
Few ladies consider that they carry
some forty or fifty miles of hair on their
heads.
The Tour de Corduan is a famous
lighthouse at the entrance of the Gi1
ronde. in France.
The Chinaman is peculiarly distin1|
guished from the European by his abso
lutte nervelessness.
A wonderful burning lake, about half
q mile in circumference, is discovered ir|
Knox County, Ind. 5fl
Acrophobia Is new term used to de y
scribe an exaggerated condition of fear
when in high places.
A tame crow belonging to farmed
near Ridgeway, Canada, has been taught
to distinguish colors.
The streets of ancient Jerusalem were
kept remarkably clean because every
man swept his own doorway.
A citizen of Palmyra, No., got up in
the night, went into the woods and
felled large tree while asleep.
Milan, Paris and London lead the
world in all that pertains to a thoroughly
artistic knowledge of dancing.
A Ulysses, Neb., man has built theI
sslarqest corn. crib on earth" It is 400
feet long, AZ feet wide, 10 feet high, and
holds 25, 600 bushels.
Experiments have proved that the face
of a snow breastwoik eight feet thick
and not sloping can defy most ordinary
projectiles fired into it.
There is no salary attached to the
title of Emperor of Germany. The King
of Prussia, however, has q modest ind
come OF 81, 400, 900 ayear.
A person convicted of. any crime ID
China, except that of numbering one %
the royal family, can hi1e substitute To
take the punishment, even if it is death
The word "folk lore" invented byI
late W. J. Thomas for use in English
has been adopted by the French and api
pears in the titles of new publications.
A New York dry goods firm gives
as its reason for paying low salaries
that 'the less an employe earns ths|
less temptations he has to become bad,
man."
The viola played upon by Naha4
Franko at a recent symphony society
concert in New York was Gaspara q
salo made in 1919 and recently sold fo1
$500.
Male sopranos are still to be heard II
some of the churches in Italy. Two1
one old and thin, the other young and
fat, divide the solos in st. PetersI
Rome.
A man in New York has fitted himj
self for an expert witness in chirographyJ
and once h avingseen a mans signature
he can identify it again if simply show7
one single letter of the name.
c. r. Herr, of Stamford, N. Y, y
said to be the po,sessor Of the gold
watch which Major Andre, OF RevoluI
tionary fame, offered as ransom to hif
captors if they would let him 60 free.
Perhaps the youngest couple that eve
married in Butts County, Ca, was Mr}
Allen and wife, who were Joined in wed
lock rear Worthwhile. Allen was just
past fifteen years and his wife was mind
years his senior.
Fire Company, No. 10, of Cincinnati
owns dog which is said to have saved
the lives Of several firemen. The ann
NAL is described rs a large, handsome
Newfoundland, and is credited with bel
ing able to climb ladder three stories
high.