The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-05
CURIOUS FACTS.

France has a cycling population Of
$1,000.
The New York Excelsior cent of 1888
is worth So.
Thereare twenty-three acres of land
to every inhabitant OF the globe.
The very finest brand of Havana cigars
fetches $500 thousand in Paris.
In British India twenty eight million
acres are cultivated by irrigation.
Be- ston was the first city of the early
colonies to have free public school.
4 Pittsburg widow has had three hug
bands, each of whom was over six feet
tall.
The month of May, 1891, was the
wettest May in Europe for nearly seventy
years.
California counties are growing poor
through paying bounty on coyote
scalps.
The largest bay in the world is Hudson
Bay, measuring $50 miles north and
south by 600 miles wide.
On June 4, 1912, war declared by the
United States against Mexico, on ac-
count of the proposed annexation of
Texas.
The ponies of Manipur, India, are Gel
ebrated, and it is claimed that it was in
Manipur that hockey or polo was in
vented.
There is boy in Centreville, Iowa,
whose hair always curls day or two be-
fore the arrival of a storm. When his
barometric locks begin to kink the peo-
pie in his neighborhood prepare for
rain.
There are many odd ways of getting
living. One of the oldest is pursued by
the salonniers of Paris, who make pro-
fession of tying gentlemen's cravats. An
expert artist in this line can earn $40 an
evening, it is said.
Garfield was the first Knight Templar
ever elected President. Fillmore, on
the other hand, was waited into the
State Legislature from Erie County, N.
Y, as an Anti-Mason, during the excite
ment that resulted from the abduction
and murder of William Morgan.
Before the end of his reign, Henry
VIII. had organized his navy, established
dockyards at Deptford, Woolwich and
Portsmouth, set up the admiralty and
navy Offices, and placed all naval affairs
on footing which for the most part re-
NAMED as he left it for over century.
The peasants of Russia believe that
drought will be relieved by soaking the
body of righteous man in water. The
wife of a dead beadle wanted to be
buried beside him, but the grave was
empty. Upon search the dear departed
was found anchored in the river near by.
The smallest 'smoonshine" distlllery
ever captured by the revenue officers was
found recently at Atlanta, Ca, and sent
to Washington US a curiosity. Its ca
pacity is about three gallons. 1t is con-
structed so as to be operated as an ordi-
nary cooking stove, and it is complete in
every detail.
DR.. Jerolersn, a Brooklyn physician,
who jumped into the East River and
rescued lad from drowning, got back
to shore to find some mean rascal had
made off with his hat and medicine
chest. He was returning from visit to
a patient when he heard the cries for
help and went to the rescue.
A hermit named Brunei, who for fifty
years had lived in q tower of the
Church of Our Lady of Grace at st.
Etienne, France, has just been murdered
by some unknown person and robbed of
the savings of his lifetime. Visitors to
the church often gave aims to the hermit,
and it was tradition IN the neighbor-
hood that he had boarded up large sum
of money.
Saginaw Bay, Michigan, was at one
time the greatest fishing grounds of the
great lakes, but it is so no more. The
cause of the falling off is traceable to
sawmills and salt blocks. Every winter
the salt blocks throw some of their re-
fuse matter upon the ice and into the
river, and this in time finds its way to
tie bay and is washed upon the spawn
ino md feedino oround of the fish.