The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-09-11
CURIOUS FACTS.

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The turnip originally came from Romeo
The peach originally came from Perl
ala.
Bull fighting is getting a foothola
among French amusements.
A five-year-old child in Monson, Me-,
is said to speak three languages. 81
The practice of feasting at funerals il
still in vogue at Lancaster, Penn M
A tree was cut down at Orting, Wash
ington, that measured 80 feet long.
At Huntsville, Ala, pink and white
chicken was hatched short time ago.
Reversible trousers, to correct the
"bagging," are proposed by benefcent
tailor of Akron, Ohio. Isl
Old Mrs. Sidner, who died at Decker
town, N. j., the other day, aged los,
had smoked clay pipe for forty years.
A, strange and fatal disease has ap-
peared in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Victims
fall in the street, vomit foam and blood,
and die. 5{3
They have q trained lion at the Paris
circus that rides on the back of "a horse
around the ring and does all the customa-
ry feats. =.
General Charles Williams, of, Manches-S
ter, N. A., viii give a fine park to that Z
city, to be enjoyed especially by poor
children. S
Large land owners in Scotland are i'm
porting reindeer from Norway, in the
hope that they may become acclimatized
and increase. ~ .;. +,
A swarm of butterflies, so thick as to !
almost obscure the rays of the sun, passed
through Mott, CAL, recently. There
were myriads of them.
"A rustic bridge just completed in
Houston County, Ga, contains fifty.
seven different kinds of wood and vines,
and all were grown in the county.
It is claimed for the Mitre Hotel, Ok
ford, England, that it was first opened
as a public house in 1400. No one to. I.
look at it can doubt the statement.
The California State Board Of Trade.
reports that there are 5000, 900 acres
of arabic land in that State capable of
being rendered productive by irrigation.
The cemetery at Sea Cliff, N. Y, has
been closed because there is SO little use J
for it-only fifteen burials in four years,
and the receipts not equal to the expendi-
lures. y 81. =
James Buchanan, of Ashtabula County,
Ohio, cuts his hair in very peculiar
manner. He shaves all his forehead
short, except ridge from his forehead to
the back Of his neck.
Capt. Haskell, of San Francisco, re- Z
Gently witnessed terrible battle between Z:
swprdfsh and whale in the harbor Of I
San Francisco. The swordfsh was finally
victorious, killing the whale. Xxx %
The latest fad in mechanism is an In n
genious contrivance In the fern of q
large ice-cooler, from which, if one
drops penny in the slot, he can obtain
cupful of ice-cold HJ geia water.
A consignment of 600, 900 kilo-
grammes of terra alba which arrived at
New York on a British steamer a few
days ago will be converted into candy
for the delectation of the American peo-
pie. +
A novel idea in church building has
been started in the neighborhood OF
Dawlish, England, where it is proposed
to raise funds for new church by de-
bentures bearing interest at four percent.
secured as first mortgage on the offer I.
tories. # #,S
Azoth, which was besieged by Psam-
metichus.. the Powerful, held out, ac- Z
cording to Archbishop Usher, for nine
teen years, and according to Herodotus
for twenty-nine years. Troy held out
for ten years. These are the two longest
seiges of which there is any record.
The latest and newest thing in New
York shop windows is huge spider web
made of fine twine and remarkably
natural. It is at least four feet high and
is as true to nature as though a Guliver-
like spider had used the window for
home. To intensity the illusion spider
as big as mans fist, cleverly manufac-
tured, has been placed in the centre OF
the web, while artificial butterflies are
scattered promiscuously about.