The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-27
CURIOUS FACTS.
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Nevada stage.route horses wear snow
shoes. =
There is a Michigan schoolmaster's
Club.
The mint at Birmingham, England, is
the greatest in the world.
Books published 300 years ago sell
from $25 to $500 volume.
"Katie" is a name of Celtic origin,
and means romping, laughing.
A book on palmistry was published as
far back as the sixteenth century.
A sea bass weighing 425 pounds was
caught at San Diego, CAL, few days
ago.
A gentleman in Columbus, Ga, las q
razor which has been in constant use 104
years.
A scarlet geranium leaf that measured
forty.seven inches in circumference was
picked at Hanford, CAL, a few days
ago.
A prisoner in a Cincinnati station
house attempted suicide with an ordinary
brass pin by opening arteries in his
wrist.
An iceboat on the Hudson River re.
Gently ran race with an express train,
beating it easily. Two miles and half
were made in five minutes.
What becomes of all the pins made in
the world2 is question that has been
asked by Thoughtful persons, and it still
stands without satisfactory answer.
Catfish are so numerous in Washoe
Lake that the Nevada people want the
Legislature to import a carload or two
of alligator gars to thin out the catfish.
In the great museum at London is "a
small watch, one hundred years old or
more, in the shape of an apple. The
golden outside is adorned with grains of
pearl.
Quoddy Head, Me-, is the easternmostt
point of the United States, Alton Islands
the westernmost, Point Barrows the
northernmost and Key West the most
southern.
In Kansas the hides of Galloway cattle
butchered are cured and made into LAP =
robes. The jet black hair is thick,
glossy and handsome, and makes
neater robe than the buffalo, while it is
equally warm.
Down in the wilds of Washington
County, yIe., they have discovered tree,
the wood of which is white birch and
the bark hemlock. The natives have
dubbed this queer tree the "mugwump.
of the forest" |
While man at Carlisle, Penn, was.
running planer his coat tail got tangled.
and was fortunately torn off. A bit Of
wood in his pocket blocked a cog wheel
and saved his life. The wood was al
piece of John Browns scaffold.
Cliff dwellings are found in great num-
bers in Morocco, which are now, and
probably have been, inhabited from the.
time of their first construction. These
dwellings in all particulars are like those
found in Arizona and New Mexico on
this continent.
French scientists are puzzling over q.
spider which has been discovered in the
hollow interior of a stone. It is esti-
mated that the stone must be at least
400 years old, but the spider is quite
lively and youthful in its antics. It is
blind and has no mouth.
There is hardly any science that has.
advanced more rapidly than medicine;
though some of the methods of the an
clients cannot be improved upon. The
value of steam in diphtheria was known
to the Egyptians and practiced by them
MANY. many wears before the Christian
era.
John bennett, of Santa Cruz, Cal, re-
Gently found two headed snake about q
foot long. The heads were distinctly sep
aratc and beth were perfect. The heads
were little over an inch in length. When
aroused the snake would throw forked
tongue out of each head simultaneously,
as if they were one.
The first inventor of the sewing ma
chine turns out not to be Howe, but q
man named Thomas Saint, who took out
his patent in 1850, sixty years before
Howe produced his machine. 4 machine
made according to Saints speculation is
now being exhibited at the exhibition
of sewing machines and domestic appli-
ances, at the Royal Agricultural Hall,
Islington.