The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-15
CURIOUS FACTS.

Glass furniture is now manufactured.
Morphinomanic is becoming an epil
demic in Paris.
Live cats are in lively demand in
Dakota at So apiece.
They have found the grave of Miles
Standish, the Pilgrim warrior, near Bcs-
ton.
A Philadelphia connoisseur in eating
says that muskrat meat tastes better than
any sirloin.
In large portion of Europe, from one
half to two-thirds of the population is
crowded into cities.
The common house fly was unknown In
the Pacific islands until Europeans car,
ried it to them in ships.
A South American has invented sky
rocket, with parachute attachment, with
which he shoots himself into the clouds.
The toads found imbedded in coal at
Thomas G. Henn's premises, in Tioga
County, Penn, q few days since, were
alive, but stone blind.
Lake Worth, Fla, is said to be so full
of fish that it is nearly impossible to move
q boat through them, and they are taken
so easily that there is no fun in it.
John Airhart, of Phnnixville, Penn,
has rooster that he claims can eat corn ;
off a table three feet high. He weighs
fifteen pounds and his crow is proportion
ate. .."
L. M. Mccartney, of Ellensburg, Wash.
ington Territory, has tom cat that
catches ducks. He hides in the brake BY
the creek and pounces upon his prey as it
swims past.
A York England) lady bit into an
apple and found wrapped around the core
piece of coarse thread twenty -four inches
long. It is thought to have been dropped
by bird when the apple was in full
blossom.
A plague of foxes has overrun the VII
lage of La Rochette, not far from Digne,
in Southern France. Foxes coolly trot
about the streets in daylight, and one
vixen is even bringing up litter in
stable manger.
One of the objects of interest sold at
the auction of the furniture of Barnum's
Hotel, in Baltimore, few days ago, was
card table on which Henry Clay lost
$500 at poker to George Ackmun, of
Massachusetts,. -
Planked shad was considered by Daniel
Webster the best dish he could set before
friend, and the great statesman was
prouder of his ability to cook shad in this
way than of his power of carrying the
Senate with him.
The iron grasshopper which for 147
years has marked the 7acillations of the
wind from his perch on the tower of
Faneuil Hall, in Boston, and one day last
month toppled down into the street, was
restored to the scene of his glory with
touching ceremonies. 10 :
There has been great increase in the
demand for candy in England, owing to
American importations. e.. Caramels and
two hundred other kinds of American
candies are in growing demand. Scot
land is very large consumer of one par
ticular candy, called "slim jim"
The Jacksonville Fla.) Times says per-
haps the tallest cabbage stalk ever grown
in the United States was on exhibition In
the colored peoples department of the
Sub-Tropical exhibition, grown by COL
ored man of Palatka. It measures twenty
feet in height, with a Towering head,
looking like an old-time Seminole chief
wearing his tufted plumes. -
The victims of the epidemic last fall in ,
Presque Isle County, Mich, are said to
have lost complete control of their legs
and the lower portion of their bodies. In
some cases one leg is shorter than the
other, and they are marked in other ways
for life. The cause of the epidemic was
poison from decaying fish offal near Ham
monds Bay, deposited by fishermen.