The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-10
CURIOUS FACTS.


A Charlestown Mass.) man claims TO-
prove that the earth is fat and floats in z
water. sac
The illumination of the dome and
cupola of St. Peters, Rome, usually re-
quires over 200 men,. 81
The master and engineer of trading
steamer on the Columbia River, Oregon,
are husband and wife.
A fifteen-year-old boy of Fitchyille,
Conn, has trained six sheep to harness
and drives them daily about the village.
The machinery palace of the Paris
Exposition is 1400 feet long and the
largest building ever constructed under
single roof.
The fortune Of the richest man in New
South Wales, Sydney Burdekin, began
in pawnbroking. he is worth several
millions of dollars.
A "sandwich man." in New. York
parlance, is man who walks along the
streets between two advertising signs,
strapped over his shoulders. s
Windmills are said to have been origi-
nally introduced into Europe by the
Knights of St. John, who took the hint
from what they had seen in the cru
sadcs.
Sea lions are so plentiful on the coast:
of California this year as to be nuis-
ance, especially to fishermen, while their
barking annoys the farmers for two miles
inland. 5s5
In China grief is associated with q
white dress, in Ethiopia with brown, in.
Turkey with violet, and in Egypt with
yellow. Thoroughly civilized nations all !
affect the black. 90
A rustic chair, bought by q citizen of
York, Penn, was made of green sassa-
fras wood, and a few warm days have
caused it to put forth many sprouts,
some an inch long. 81
Mathematics has its oddities. The
multiplication of 9s7, ,654, ,321 by 45lr
gives A, 444, 444, AS. Reversing the
order and multiplying 123, ,456, ,7S9 by:
45 result equally odd is obtained, J,
5,555, ,555, sos. 81
Judge J. 81. CASTOR, of Merriweather,
Ca, has jumped across thirteen foot:
gully every birthday of his life formany
years. The other day he was seventy
five years old, and he made the Jump
with perfect ease. Y. u
A man on Long Island, N. Y, has had
a dog FISH in pond for twenty-eight
years, and there is no sign of his being
worn out yet. He figures that the life OF
a dog fish who takes proper care OF him
self is at least forty years.
]. E. Vardeman, who died in Sparta,
Ca, a few days ago, possessed won
derfully retentive memory. BE knew
the greater part of the Bible by heart,
and had vast array of political and !
historical facts at his tongues end. 81
Beekeepers at Independence, 1nyo
County, Cal, complain that for no reason
that they can see etheir bees are idling and
not gathering honey. One man keeps q
hive on platform scale and says it did,
not increase in weight oyer pound IN
a week. iS.
A curious feature in ornithology Is
reported from lexington, Yorkshire,
England, where hen has hatched two
chickens from one egg, both chickens
being in perfect state except That they
are Joined together on one side OF the 7
membranes of the wing. Is s
A Montgomery On. " farmer has q
colt that has learned to ring the farm farm
bell by catching the rope in his teeth and
prancing back and forth. He knows, too,
when to ring tat daybreak, to awaken
the farm hands, and at noon, to call them
to dinner, and is never five minutes late
or early. /