The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-04-03
CURIOUS FACTS.

There are only five bedrooms in the
White House.
The languages of the world number
about nine hundred.
A mine of natural shoe blacking has
been discovered in Utah.
The Declaration of Independence was
written with quill pen.
The French army on peace footing
consists of half million men.
When an animal tanner wishes to SUBJ
due tiger he hits him on the nose.
A cat nineteen years old is to be seen
in the family of n. b. Shaw, AGRA, N y.
Fishermen have discovered that cod
at the Fishing Banks will bite at arti
fetal bate.
Joseph Witcher, of Warren, New
Hampshire's veteran hunter, has record
of forty-two bears killed.
A Georgia man has hen which lays
double eggs, each one having an eg :.
within an egg, as 1t were.
Some japanese chestnut trees at Santa
Rosa, CAL, yield enormous fruit. One
dozen nuts weigh pound.
A Poughkeepsie (N. " woman has a
glass necktie, which, it is said, can be
tied in any kind of knot.
A grocer in New York advert:ses his
business by stenciling his name and ad
dress in red ink On every egg he sells.
In London the windows of private
houses are washed by limited liability
company at the rate of eight cents a win.
dow.
A California paper asserts that one o!
the tramps of the Santa Cru: chain gan.
wears kid gloves when s@eeping the
streets.
Ten coiored men acted as pail bearer:
at the funeral of prominent white Epis
copal clergyman the other day in Colur,
bus, s. C.
A bouquet of white roses hung Oh tie
bell.knob of the house of dead person.
along with the Grape, is q new idea il
trapplngs of woe.
When a man coming to this country
gives an assumed name, being only
known by it and naturalized under 1t,
it becomes his legal name.
A boy born abroad of American par
ents may become President of the United
States before taking out Naturalization
papers, as he is citizen without nat
uralization.
The time occupied in the passage oI
an electric cable message between New
York and London is not of appreciable
duration. 1t is instantaneous, like s
lightning flash.
A Georgia couple, believing in the say.
ing that fruit cake improves with age.
kept their wedding cake until last week,
when, with their children, they ate it
The cake was sixteen years old.
It is said that q Port Even On. W
man, who is fond of animals, has pur.
chased a hammock, in which his canine
sleeps at night. He has taught the dog
to catch one end of the rope in his teeth
and swing itself asleep.
Charles Vail, an undertaken of Madi.
son, Ind, is proud of the fact that he
has buried more than 30, 900 people; or,
as he claims, more than any other man
in the world. He has been in the bus-
ness sixty years and is eighty years Of
age.
The Arkansas Gasette, in order te
locate the largest family in its State,
offers $50 for the mother, $25 for the
father and solid silver mug for the
youngest child. The family must con.
sist of father, mother and living chill.
dren.
A Brewer (Me. woman, while hang.
ing out her wash, discovered what ap-
peared to be patch in the hem of a shirt,
and, investigating, found it to be 5;
bill, which she had long before sewcd
into the hem for safe keeping and for
gotten.
One very comfortable piece of stats
tics has been furnished by the Chautau-
qua Association, to the effect that over
three thousand years would be required
for any one person to read all the liter
ary works now in existence that are rec
ognized as standard.
The Chinaman bears his fathers name
the woman, on marrying, takes her hus.
bands name and adds her fathers to it.
Thus, when Miss Wang marries Mr.. Ly,
while she might usually be called Mrs.
Ly, she must in formal acts sign herself
Ly-Wang. People of the lower classes
have names, the character of which
varies in different places.