The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-03-19
CURIOUS FACTS.

The tooth extracted from thirteen-
year-old horse at Towsontown, Penn,
weighed quarter ola pound.
AKalamazoo G1ich.) groceryman gives
away a copy of "stanley's Travels" with
every pound of cheese purchased. !
On the West Spanish Peak, COL, R. T.
Smith trapped handsome golden eagle
that measured z feet 4 inches from tip to
tip.
A meteor that cast q shadow and ap-
peared as large as the full moon was re-
Gently seen by the people of Noblesville,
Ind.
Some unknown person has been send!
ing one-thousand-pound notes in anony7
nous letters to various charities in Engj
land. !
J. Hayes, of Birmingham Township,
Penn, planted patch of potatoes on
February 5, and he expects crop of new
potatoes by April 1.
Edward D. o. Moore, of Brooklyn,
claims to have solved the problem of
squaring the circle and has written. q
pamphlet to prove it. 4
Sheep are now sheared by electricity in
Australia, Frederick Wolseley, a brother
of Lord Wolseley, having invented a
machine for the purpose.
One orange grower of San Diego, CAL,
keeps trees from being plucked of ripe
fruit by putting up placards: "Thess
oranges have been poisoned. !,
Asanta Rosa (CaI.) furniture man rel
Gently filed an order for mattress. IT
was seven feet six inches long and will be
used by newcomer from Missouri.
Twenty-one tramps met in Decatur,
Neb., and ordered meals at restaurants
After they had eaten they compelled the
proprietor to accept ten cents as payment
in full. (
& quantity of fish shipped to Readingy4
Penn, from Maryland were found to be-
alive when unpacked, and when thrown
into a tank of water darted around as
lively as ever. Z
A London confectionery store gives to-
every purchaser of a shillings worth q
ticket emitting the purchaser to have onet
photograph of herself taken at an estabis
ishment upstairs. +
A colored man who attempted to rob 81
store at Palmetto, Ga, thought heTl
would enter by way of the chimney.
About half way down he stuck fast and
yelled for some one to help him out. 4;
A dudish bird that lines its nest with
the down of certain flowers is the Lam;
ceolate honey-eater. The nest is shaped
like hammock suspended from twigss-
and is very deep. The ground work is
of grass and wool. Il
William Lauderdale, who lives near
Rowland's Mills, N. j., recently killed
sixteen crows and lamed two with one
shot, so that he got the whole eighteenI
The crows were gathering on the carcass
of dead sheep, and he fired from be-,
hind bush house. Is
A peculiar accident happened to Mrsi,
Marshall, of Dubuque, Iowa. While
laughing heartily at some joke she
opened her mouth and was unable to shut
it again. Medical aid was called, and
the jawbone had to be broken before the
mouth could be closed.
There is talk in France of utilizing waf
ter courses as a railway motive power.
1t is proposed that the track shall be laid
on an embankment in the middle of Ahe(
current, and that the locomotives shall
have paddle-wheels dipping into the(
water and revolved by it.
Mrs. W. C. Goodwin, of Sanford, Fla,
has lost a pet canary. The bird had
been in Mrs. .Goodwin's possession fog
fourteen years, but for the past year has
not warbled note until recently, when, to
the surprise of all, it sang for few mo- :
ments and was quite lively, then fell from.
its perch and died in moment. I