The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-20
CURIOUS FACTS.

Postal cards are made at the rate OF
1000 per minute.
: There is a growing demand in England
for human skin leather.
A pall-bearer at funeral in Dorset,
Vt, dropped dead while stand at the
grave.
A crazy man in the Milwaukee wis.,
Jail labors under the impression that he
is telephone.
The art of making paper from cotton
rags was not introduced till about the
close of the eleventh century.
San Salvador is the first of the Central
American republics to establish telephone
service throughout its territory.
At the rate of increase in the past few
wears the wool crop of Colorado will soon
exceed in value the output of her silver
mines.
J. B. Green, of Mosherville, Mich,
captured an eel in his mill fume which
weighed six and one-half pounds and
was forty inches long.
The Government monopoly articles of
Honduras are gunpowder, tobacco, cigars
and LIQUORS. 1t retains complete and abb
rolute control of the liquor traffic.
The Dictionary of Fossils, issued by
the State CT pennsylvania, contains thirty
four pages in small print correcting state
ments found on the other 4O5 pages.
Children as expert musicians are COM
ing to be the wonder of the profession.
Alice Liebmann, aged nine, is astonishing
London critics with her skill on the vio-
lin.
A curious wedding ceremony recently
/ took place in Dublin, Ireland, when the
clergyman, the son of wellknown Dub
lin artist, married his father to second
wife.
At q California fair the other day q
Plumas County man src forty-three eggs
for supper. The next morning for an
appetizer he partook of nine boxes OF
sardines.
Amos Reider has contracted to attend
to the street lamps Of Fleetwood, Penn,
for SIS q month-in which time he will
have walked ninety miles and lighted
720 lamps.
James Clevenger, aged fifteen, OF
Nashville, Ind, and Miss Anna Patter-
son, aged fourteen, were married recently
at the home of the brides father, in
Columbus, Ind.
A single sheet of paper six feet wide
and seven and three-quarter miles IN
length, has been made at the Watertown
On. " Paper Works. 1t weighed 22o7
pounds, and was made and rolled entire
without a single break.
Lieutenant Schwatka estimates the
number of living cliff-dwellers he has dis
covered in South Chihuaha at from 5000
to $4,000. They are wild and shy, and
upon the approach of white people flee
to their caves in alarm.
Members of the Iowa tribe of Indians
are very we'll off. They have been re-
duced in number to elghty-three persons
and have 200, 900 acres of rich farming
land, which they are to sell to the Gov
ernment-an average of over 24O0 acres
each.
Large fortunes sometimes grow from
queer beginnings. A Gardiner (Me.)
paper is responsible for the story that one
of the wealthiest firms in the State began
business on $4,000 which sister of the
partners got in breach of promise suit
for damages against q wealthy man.
In Stockbridge township, Mich, a
hungry hawk swooped down on some
young turkeys. The mother turkey tried
to drive him away, but, failing to do so,
sped away ,and in few minutes returned
with whole flock of able-bodied turkeys
and made a combined attack on the barn
yard pirate and beat him off.