The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-11-12
CURIOUS FACTS.

Whitney in 1898.
A thirteen-year-old girl is the organist
in Maine church.
An Iowa woman has named her twins
Gasoline and Kerosene.
There are only six thousand stars
visible to the naked eye.
Five thousand boxes of gum are chewed
up in Chicago every day.
A peasant woman near Nantes, France,
recently gave birth to FIVE children.
Cutting off wife's nose is still a
favorite mode of punishment by jealous
husbands in India.
At the funeral of an aged lady at
Woolwich, England, her seven sons, all
clergymen of the Church of England,
were present.
The rhododendron plantation Of Mr..
Follansbee in the town of Fitzwiillam,
N. H., is one of the floral wonders OF
New England.
Thomas Winans, the Baltimore million
aire, said on his deathbed that he would
give 81, 900, 900 to be able to eat a piece
of bread and butter.
The population of London can be best
estimated by the not generally known
fact that it is greater than that of Norway
and Sweden combined.
The colony of Hong Kong, China,
was first ceded to Great Britain in lS4l,
and the cession was confirmed by the
treaty of Marking in 1912.
The first Colonial Congress met Oc-
tober7, 1895, at New York. Timothy
Ruggles, of Massachusetts, was Chairman,
aud John Cotton, Clerk of the Con-
vention.
A Three Rivers (Micn.) girl has a
beau who is a Lake Shore fireman. Every
day she tics a bouquet to stick and
hands it to her lover as be flies by her
home in his cab.
A family in Isabella, Penn, was the
possessor Of four kittens joined together
after the manner of the Siamese twins.
A cord fastened them together which
seemed to pass through the four. They
lived several days.
An OK has been dug out of q straw
stack on the farm of George Pitzer,
Louisiana, Mo. 1t had been missing
forty-fve days. Though weak it wa:
alive and will survive. The straw buried
the animal as it came from the thresher
Heroditus states that the Greeks re.
ceiyed the sun dial from the Chaldeans.
The first dial on record was one set up by
King Ahay, of Jerusalem, nearly 4O(
wears before Aristotle and Plato, and just
a little previous to the lunar eclipses OBJ
served at Babylon, as recorded by
Ptolemy.
The peculiar reach toward Lake Eri'
in the State Line of Pennsylvania, known
as the Triangle (from its being originall!
the State of New York extcnsion) was
special purchase, September 4, 17ss, from
the Government, of a slice of the North
west Territory, containing 2o2,l lo'
| acres, at d State CosV Va Vio''o
The fastest bird on the wing is tn
swift, which has been known to attain
! speed of 200 miles IN hour. 1t feed
exclusively on insects, which it capture
while flying. The speed of the swallow
which comes next to that OF the swift
is usually fifty miles an hour, but some
times goes as high as ninety miles.
Jonas Leopold has fine farm in Eas
Coventry, Chester County, Penn, ant
the other morning, without any specia
effort, plucked eighty-three stalks @
four, five, six and seven-leaf clover. Tht
four-leaf is much sought for as curiosity,
as there is good luck on every fringe
Up to date Farmer Leopold has secured
24S of the phenomenal stalks and be
licves the record can go much higher.
The Russian Czar's wardrobe vies in
extent and variety with that of Henry
Irving. His Imperial Majesty has forty
four different uniforms, all of which III
has worn save one, that of Russian Fielt
Marshal. Although the titular head o
his army, the Gear has vowed never te
wear the dress of Field Marshal unit
this rank shall have been conferred upon
him by the other Field Marshals after