The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-20
CURIOUS FACTS.

The navy In Italy has charge OF th{
coast defenees.
In England burglary was q capita
offence until 1922.
Omnibuses were first introduced II
New York in 1880.
The ourfew bell was lazy only til
the accession of Henry I.
A kitten in Norfolk, Va, has beer
trained to drink milk through straw
There are more than 1000 people
the United States who are over LOO yes
ofage. "'t ''.,". y
A. South Carolina cat swims riv
every morning and evening to 60 to
feeding place.
The weights assigned by the best
thority for cavalry horses to carry avg
age s5s pounds.
Several quite respectable pearls ha
been found in the tresh-water CLAIMS
Kentucky River. 81
In France they propose training horse1
for artillery purposes as soon as they af{
broken to harness. =
Two hundred and fifty is the strength
of q company in the Continental armie4
and 120 in the English.
N. Jules Simon recently declared
French to be the most difficult Language
in which to talk nonsense.
More or less difficulty is being met With
in getting sufficient number OF naval
cadets for the English navy.
A fish dealer at Apalachicola, Fla,
one day recently had no less than twenty
four varieties of fresh salt water fish fot
sale.
The Turks always cut open the oute1
corner of the eyelids of girl, if hed
eyes ore not large enough to suit thei1
idea of beauty.
There are said to be about q dozen
colored physicians IN Brooklyn, some Q
whom have been in active practice fol
fully forty years.
The first impeachment by the Englisl|
Commons House of Parliament, and tn
first Of a Lord Chancellor, Michael de !
Pole, Earl of Suffolk, was in 1885.
The Goldsmiths' Company, one Of thd
earliest of London guilds, was formed
about 1927, and was incorporated ir|
1892. The first bankers were Gold
smiths. 5s
A lease of 800 years, made in the day.
of King Alfred, has ust expired in Eng
land. The land was leased by the church
to the crown, and reverts now to tho
Church of England after millennium
of years.
'.Blue Jeans" Williams, once Governol
of Indiana, never wore suit OF tailor
made or store clothes in his life. His
clothes were made from wool sheared on
his own farm and spun and dyed by his
wife and daughters.
Mr.. Ismay, President of the White
Star Steamship Company, is one OF the
most successful of merchant princes Of
Liverpool. 1t is said that he won tho
custom of the Americans by the ingenioua
idea of supplying ice water gratis az
table.
A Camden IN. J.) cat has toad for 4
play.fellow. She sometimes spends
hours at time tossing the toad into the
air and catching it like a ball. When
tired of the sport she carries the toad to|
its corner and lays it down where shel|
picked it up. aa
A cat crawled into the muzzle of q
loaded cannon in the British barracks atI
Cape Colony short time ago. When Whsl
the evening salute was fired she was
thrown distance of 200 feet, but, strange
to say, lived for two hours after her in-|
voluntary flight. ... -. 2.
At the Dudley Ga.) Poorhouse a
woman named Sarah Wright, who has|
been pauper for thirty years. died rel
Gently at the advanced age of 10 years.
Her mind was lucid and vigorous Until
her death. She leaves daughter OF 33I
years, who bids fair to keep up theI
family record of longevity.
A peculiarly novel letter has Just been|
sent by an inhabitant of Bath, England,
to friend at Trow bridge. 1t was writ
ten in shorthand on the back of post-I
age stamp, the address being in ordinary
writing. The missive was dropped intoI
the letter box at the general postoftice,
and was duly delivered at its destins-
fion ~