The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-08
CURIOUS FACTS.

Four big sausages, made for S. E.
Hill, of Lctterkenny, Peun., filled q
bushel measure.
An accomplished young man of Lon
don is employed by fashionable sta
toner to write speeches for wedding
breakfasts.
The yeor 211s, according to the Presi-
dent of the Manchester Geological So-&s
ciety, will see the exhaustion of the
English coal.
Farmer Harms, of Kings County.
Oregon, cut down cottonwood tree
recently, from which he took 700 pounds
of fine honey.
An Allegan (AIich.) minister recently
astonished some of the worlds people
down there by lifting 300-pound box
of chickens and depositing it in a wagon.
Mrs. Hiram Peters, colored, of Ritchie
County, W. Va, has just found her son, {
who was stolen when an infant. He is
now a clerk of courts in Iowa, and is
worth $40, 900. Il.
Governor Joseph G. Yates, of New
York, was buried in 1887, at Schenec-
tady. The other day the body, when
taken up for reburial in New York
city, was found to be petrifed.
A Northampton County penn far.
mer while butchering the other day struck
bullock with sledge- hammer, and left.
the animal for dead. When he returned
from his breakfast the bullock was finish
ing chest of meal.
A citizen of Hawkinsville, Ca, who
was suffering from asthma, was advised
to try remedy sometimes used by the
colored people. He got hornets nest,
boiled it, made a tea, drank the liquid
and was completely cured.
A girl at Reading, Penn, postponed
her wedding because she was unable to-
secure the white horses owned by a cer-s
tain liveryman for the date she had fixed; q
The animals are in great demand for we'd
dings and are said to bring luck to the
bride.
A newspaper in California relates that
after rain storm, which occurred there
| last November, many people of Angles
Camp, Calavcras County, got money
enough for their Thanksgiving dinners
by picking up gold in the streets and IN
the shallow streams.
Many families on the shores of the
Straits of Mackinaw, Mich, will buy no.
flour this winter. The recent wrecks
there enabled them to get hundreds of
barrels of it-and no questions asked
Some wreckers have -four to sell at twenty
five cents per barrel.
In some of the Indian villages of British
Guiana, South America, a traveller nos:
ticed many tanned animals-such as par.
rots, macaws, trumpeters, monkeys, toti-a
cans, etc.-which were used as currency
to adjust balances in the bartering be.s
tween the different villages.
The feat of playing twenty games Of
checkers simultaneously and winning all
but one, which was draw, was recently
accomplished by Clarence A. Freeman,
in Providence, r. I. His contestants
were experts from all over Rhode Island, :
The play lasted one hour and forty
minutes.
Recently party Of hunters in the neigh
borhood of Fairfield, Iowa, brought 20
town in a wagon s47 rabbits, which they
had shot in days hunt. Another party
brought in $50, and it is common thing,
for single hunter to capture twenty OF
thirty in day. The country is oVerruns
with the pests, and much damage to fruit
trees and vines is the result.
Thomas Edwards, of Erie, Penn, was
walking along the street the other day
when his dog came up, pulled his coat
and tried to make him retracc his steps.
He turned around and followed the dog
a short distance and picked up fine re-
volver. The dog seemed to know that
the weapon was valuable, although it was
too heavy for him to carry in his mouth.