The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-25

The area of the United States en-
braces 3,570,27l square mile; that of
Canada, 3,470,392 square miles.
When petroleum was first discovered
in the United States it was bottled and
sold fer medicinal purposes under the
name of "Rock OIL"
Hereafter the Reformed Presbyteri-
ans will decline to vote because there
Is no formal recognition of God in the
constitution of the United States.
The four new States cover an area
eight times as large as the State Of
Pennsylvania, and already they have
a population of about 100000.
The giant diamond, lately discover
ed in Cape Colony, weighs one hum
dred and sixty carats, and is valued at
81, 900, 900. 1t is said to be of the first
water, and as pure as the famous Re.
gent in the French crown diamonds.
The statistics of the Presbyterian
Church given at the Presbyterian Gen
eral Assembly showed that the growth
of the church for the past year was
fourteen and seven-tenths per cent, or
an addition of 103, ,023 members, max
ing present membership of 800, 900
members.
1.-THE world is growing better ~
writes a Georgia editor. A man who
has owed us seven dollars for seven
years came in yesterday and settled at
the rate Of fifteen cents on the dollar.
A man out West has ordered fifty back
numbers of the paper at five cents EACH
and the town council has remitted our
last years tax. 1t is not bad world,
after ALL" ~
Nothing, in recently published
compilation of like definitions, excels
the following, said by the Norwich
(Conn.) Bulletin, to have been writ
ten by a boy in school in that city,
in language lesson to which the
word "organic" was to be used in gov
erning the sense of the sentence:
1.-THE italian is the most organic
man on the face of the earth"
An investigation of the lives of sew
enty-four centenarians, it has been
stated that most Of these were above
average height. None had bad di-
gestion. Out of fifty returns where
fatness or leanness were mentioned,
only nine individuals were fat. Out
of forty-siX returns fifteen took no al
cohol at all, and only one is described
rs taking "a great deal of beer" Sew
en- out of forty-five smoked great
deal.
The most prevalent surnames in
Scotland are Smith, the name of one
person in every siXty-nine ; MacDon-
aid, one in seventy-eight ; Brown, one
in eighty-nine; Robertson, one in
ninetyeone Campbell, one in ninety
five; and Stewart, one in Mighty
eight. cone person IN every twelve
in Scotland" says Mr.. Seton, twill an
swer to one or other OF these seven
names"
A SAFE RULE.-The following waif
going the rounds of the secular press
has Il point Bad boy: "What ye
talkin'' bout me goin' to tn bad place
fer? Our preacher says there is one,
but Johnny Stages preacher an lots
of other preachers say there amt.
Guess they know about as we'll as our
preacher does. His mother with de-
My son, whenever a preach
er says anything that bad boys like to
hear, you can jest make up your mind
it amt true
"Why should farmer be prohibit
ZIONIST, when the liquor business helps
him by buying his grain?" asks
Western farmer. Helps him" does
it? See how it helps. A farmer sells
a bushel of corn for ii cents. A dis
tiller buys it and makes from it 3.6 gal
Ions of whisky. The Government
.axes this 1924 to begin with-with-
drawing that amount from circulation
md piling it up in the Treasury vaults.
The wholesale and retail dealers get
heir phenomenal profits, and then the
consumer pays $19 for it, and makes
MS wife and children 60 without any
hing to eat or wear in order to keep
10 the market for that farmers one
oushel of corn at IA cents. This may
be good political economy, but 1t is diff
icult to see how the farmer is going to
yat rinh at it-N Y Voice.