The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-11-19
CURIOUS FACTS.
A Harrisburg Penn.) horse sports q
mustache

A Harrisburg Penn.) horse sports
mustache.
Rev. DIR. Sitter, of Detroit, Mich,
has read s'Paradise Lost" twenty-one
times.
The largest family among members OF
Congress is that of Mr.. Bullock, OF
Florida, who has thirteen children.
The recognized spelling of the name of
England's greatest dramatist is Shakes
peare. There are forty-two other ways.
The deepest place in the Mississippi
River is just opposite the United States
Mint, on Esplanade street, New Orleans,
La. 1t there measures depth of 22S
| feet.
Lithography was invented by Alois
senefeldar, of Munich, Germany, in
1895. It was the result of three or four
years hard work, and was perfected in
1900.
A miller at Oothcaloga, Ca, found the
wheels in the mill clogged so that they
would not work. After taking $50
pounds of GELS out the wheels turned
once more.
h. R. Gregory, of Independence,
Mo-, has sunaower stalk that is fifteen
feet nine inches in height and has 266
blossoms. This is supposed to be
world-bcater.
There were 1895 houses in Philadel-
phia, Penn, which were closed during
the summer; 5605 were reported to the
police, and of these four only were en-
tered and robbed.
The total length of the streets, ave-
nues, boulevards, bridges, quays and
thoroughfares of Paris, France, is set
down at GOO miles, of which nearly 200
are planted with trees.
The vapor of steam as we'll as soda
now hovers about the soda-water fount-
ain, as hot drinks take the place of iced
ones, greatly to the comfort of thousands
of much.abused stomachs.
The Austro Hungarian convict who is
condemned to die stands on the ground
with rope around his neck, and at a
given signal he is pulled off his legs to
remain struggling in the air until he is
strangled.
Up in Rogue River, Oregon, fruit
growers have found a firm friend in yel-
low jackets. They are death on the
green aphis scale, and when they light
on tree is is thoroughly cleaned in
few minutes.
There has been inaugurated in Paris,
France, q novel development of the
automatic fountain invention. It is for
the supply of hot water. Automatic
fountains are becoming one of the
features of out-of-door Paris.
The guests at dinner party in Phila-
delphia, Penn, recently sat under vine
arbor made of living vines from the hot
house. While the party were at dinner
they frequently amused Themselves by
plucking the luscious black Hamburg
grapes from the vines.
Anew use is reported to have been dis
covered for English hops-namely, for
the curing of bacon. tits found that a
sprinkling of hops in the brine when
bacon and hams arc put in pickle adds
greatly to the flavor. of both and enables
them to be kept an indefinite period.
A member of the British South African
Company reports the discovery of an
ancient ruin in Lundi, Mashonaland, of
which the race there now has no record.
It was there when their forefathers came
to the country. It is a circular and
massive building, with walls of wrought
stone, in some places ter feet thick. 1t
is supposed to be fort.
The Pateo dc la Albuca, in which the
fire at the Alhambra originated, was a
superb court, set in the centre with an
immense basin, in which the sultanas OF
years ago were accustomed to bathe.
The court was about 140 by seventy and
almost completely surrounded by green,
glossy hedges of myrtle, which has led
to its being sometimes known as the
Court of the Myrtles.