The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-12-12
CURIOUS FACTS.


$4,000.
The fastest recorded time made by an
electric railway is about twenty miles an
hour on street car system.
More than four thousand persons per
ished by a hurricane which devastated
Barbados, October 10, 1850.
Four telegraphic messages can now I've
transmitted over one wire at one time by
using the quadruplex system.
Il is estimated that 25O, 900 persons in
the United States are engaged in business
depending solely on electricity.
Eighteen years ago Kansas City man
paid $500 for lot, and was laughed at.
The other dar he sold it for S132, 900.
An Ohio girl has photograph album
containing the pictures of fourteen men
to whom she says she has been en-
gagged.
In a colony numbering seventy-five IN
Tulare County, CAL, no church or saloon
is tolerated, Board of Trustees governs
the: whole.
J. y. Banta, of DeLand, Fla, has q
Dutch Bible nearly 800 years old that his
family carried to the State of New YORK
when first settled.
Will Hensel's wife, of Punxutawney,
Penn. decorated favorite cat named
Jonathan with ribbon and bell:
Jonathan then climbed a tree and hanged
himself.
A wealthy citizen of Alameda, CAL,
who died week Or two ago, proVldeo Ill
his will that if any of his children marry
first cousins they shall forfeit their share
of the property.
The cost in human life of the wars OF
the last thirty three years, beginning
with the Crimean War, Is computed at
2,253. 900 souls. This does not include
mortality from sickness.
While Charles Lawson was blowing up
stumps at Everett, Mo-, he found pow
der can containing $3.50 in gold and sill
YER coin. 1t is supposed it was hidden
during the War of the Rebellion.
In transmitting message from San
Francisco, CAL, to Hong Kong, China,
via New York, Canso, Penzance, Alden
Bombay, Madras, Penang and Singapore
obout fifteen minutes are consumed.
There arc four brothers in Crawforo
County. Penn, all of whom are stalwar
men and married, and not one of whom
is on speaking terms with any OF tn
others. Property litigation is the cause
Five miles an hour is considered goot
walking for man, but W. T. Young, Il
Morgan County, Georgia, can bea
this. He walked all the way IRON
Dnluth TO within afew miles of Madison
n distance of over fifty miles in less thai
ten hours.
Oaths were taken by Abraham B. c
1892 (Gen. xxi. 24), and authorized
1491 B. C. Ex. xii, III. The admin
istration of an oath in judicial proceed
ipgs was introduced into England by tn
saxons. That administered to Judg
was settled in 1874.
The bridge of the Pennsylvania
Poughkeepsie & Boston Railroad at Port
land, Penn, recently completed, is on
of the largest in the United States. 1t
925 feet 81 inches, and the viaduct
993 feet Z inches, making total OF lS|
feet and ! an inch.
A young lady from Caldwell, OHIO
created little scene in the ticket ofhc
st GAINESVILLE the other day. She laid
late-improved six-shooter on the counte
and proceeded to search for her pocket
then bought ticket for Seattle, WASH
showed her gun in her pistol pocket AM
departed.
Since 1869 more than 10000 bodle
have been buried in the Potter's teld, OF
aart's Island, New York city. Iher
are no single interments. The bodies ar
placed in trenches, dug in regular rows
forty-fve feet long, fourteen feet wld
md ten feet deep. Each OF these plt
will hold $50 bodies.
The estimated number of Christians
over 40S, 900, 900; of Buddhists, 42o,
OO0, 900; of the followers of Brahma
1s0, 900, 900; of Mohammedans, l5o,
U0O, 900; of Hebrews, 5000, 900; Q
atheists, deists and infdels, IS, ,ooo, ,ooO
of Pagaus, $4,000, 900, and of ITO
minor creeds, 1913, 900, 900.
Several weeks ago, while Mrs: n: c
Deatrich, who lives near Philadelphia
was gathering hickorynuts, a blacksnak
coiled around her ankle. She endeaV
ored to shake it off without avail, whe
in her desperation she heroically pulle
it off her ankle and threw it from hei
which certainly required much nerve 10
81 woman.