The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-03-26
CURIOUS FACTS.
The art gallery at Sacramento, Cal
has many Chinese visitors.


has many Chinese visitors.
An Augusta (Me.) lady, who has
reached her seventieth year, is cutting a
new set Of teeth.
VIM. H. Clark, colored student, took
the prize at the intercollegiate contest
in Ohio, for the best essay.
1t is said none of the "blue coat boys"
who 90 all over London without hat or
cap in all weathers had even touch of
the grip.
NIeddybemps, Me-, is ploud of a six
year-old child, who has just performed
the feat of spelling 400 words on stretch
without missing once.
Since Mayor Grant began his warfare
on overhead wires in New York city
more than $500 poles and IA, 100000
feet of wire have come down.
DR.. Know, the German physician who
discovered antipyrine, is said to have
more than million dollars from the
sales of the drug to sufferers from the
grip.
An engine on the East Tennessee and
Virginia road is regarded with supersti-
tious dread by the railroad men. 1t has
killed twenty-seven people during its
career.
A cat in Santa Cruz, CAL, has become
so expert in climbing up the door and
raising the latch to get in that the carry
ing of a big rat does not now interfere
with her performing the feat.
Lemuel Case, of Ironton, Wis, is said
to be unable to drink a cupful of almost
any liquid without having to effervesce
from his mouth as though he were an
animated mineral water siphon bottle.
A one-legged colored man in Egbert
County, Ca, has produced the first bale
cotton every season in that county for
several years. he is prosperous, and is
accumulating handsome independence.
The largest forest in the world stands
on ice. It is situated in the Ural and
Okhotsh Seas. A we'll was recently dug
in this region, when it was found that at
depth of $50 feet the ground was still
frozen.
Bridgton, Me-, has at least one absent
minded citizen. He met with an acci.
dent and was confined to the house for
several weeks, but forgot entirely that he
held an accident policy emitting him to
$25 a week.
The sudden appearance OF a mouse on
the floor of the British House of Com
mons upset the dignity of the eminent
gentlemen near it and led to a little panic
that made it necessary to drop business
for awhile.
Iron is rolled so thin at the Pittsburg
Iron Works that 1900 sheets are re-
euired to make single inch in thick
ness. Light shines through one of these
sheets as readily as it does through
creased tissue paper.
It is not often the case that man
passes his entire life in the home in which
he was born, but such was the experience
of Samuel Banley, highly respected
citizen Of Porter's Corners, N. z, who
died recently aged ninety -ons years. ~.
W. N. Brooks. Of Roxbwy, Mass,
who is ninety-six years old, is the cham
pion "old subscriber. He has taken
the Boston Journal thirty consecutive
years, the Christian Register sixty-fve.
and the Eastport Sentinel seventy-one
years.
Mrs. Joseph Richrode, of Hanover,
Penn. left her fifteen -months-old baby
in his cradle aud wen. into another room.
He promptly crawled out, provided him
self with three sulphur matches, and
sucked their heads off. The doctor
couldn't save him.