The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-09
CURIOUS FACTS.
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A Baltimore mulatto is turning pinksS
The Alps stand in six different States:
A sewing-machine works twelve:
times as fast as the hand. ..G-a
A suuaower in season viii produca
$4,000 seeds, while LOBBY bears 32,j
000.. 80.
- The amount Of gold in the world
would tit in a room twenty four feet each
way. .:
A rose cultivated in Philadelphia
hothouse measures seventeen inches in
width.
Covent Garden in ,aoon T..1 b.. 49,,
, , % N sae rTrrsss:s.on'of the Bedford family
fof SSeeee ;ysafS ------s'-sss' -
It is claimed that fouf-year old boy
In Forsyth County, Ca, can read any
piece of music at sight. !
Telephones are put in the houses Of
Stockholm, Sweden, at the rate of $2.' =
aayear each. For each call, how 80
there is charge of q cents extr" ''e.
A novelty at the Botanic =
Washington is plant who salusu -
a remarkably we'll execute % !ea. Neas
the Duke of Wellington u carlc@ufe "
veining. . aIl done III INC
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pave birth to f. "a Dumfries, Scotland,
other ewes j. Ie lambs in May. Three;
tr,nlets. ", the flock have dropped!
four ewe 4ich makes fourteen lambs to-
the 1ea the japanese hitch horse IN.
, street, they do so by tying his four
.egs together. Hitching posts are never
used in Japan or Corear except BY
!. foreigners. 4
. Some land in Paris has been sold at the
e rate of $4,000 per acre, some In
0 London for what would net SIS, 00O,e 900
? per acre. and some in New York fos q
q sum equal to $s,0oo,0OO.
The City Troop, of Philadelphia, pos
S sesses what is believed to be the only
9 Continental flag in existence. The old
e flag is preserved between two pieces of
+ glass to keep it from falling to pieces. 4
, The importance of microbes to the
! growth of plants has been practically
demonstrated by M. Laurent, of Franced
who obtained only one-fourth as much
buckwheat from sterilized mold as he
did from soil swarmiug with bacteria.
There is cone Of FURNISHED tin,
twenty inches in height and twelve in
placed there by the Appalachin Club, Of
Bangor, Me. It denotes the distance
, from which the summit OF the peak may
be seen. !
: In the hippopotamus the eyes, ears
! and nostrils are set exactly on the same
plane. This enables the animal to sink
its body entirely below the surface Of
the water and yet be able to perceive
the approach of foes by hearing, sight
and scent. 4
DR.. A. 81. Crawford raised musk
melon in his garden in South Abbeville,I
Ga, this season that measured three feet
in length and was correspondingly large
in circumference. The flavor of the
melon was excellent rivaling the cam
telope in this respect.
A citizen of Chestnut Ridge, Penn,
owns tame crow that is remarkably in
telligent. Last summer be split the;
birds tongue and taught him to talk,
The crow delights in calling the COWS,
and will laugh immoderately when he
succeeds in fooling the dog and cat.
The hide of the former Cincinnati ele-
phant, Old Chief, which was shot last
February, has been stuffed, aud with the
mounted skeleton of the brute has been
housed in special building at the Gin!
cinnati Geological Gardens. The hidd
weighed 100 pounds, and it has been
stuffed with oakum.
The oldest church in Europe is said
by some who are discussing the question.
to be St. Martins, Canterbury, England,
which was built as church before the
end of the fourth century. St. Mary
in-the- Castle, Dover, was built about.
this time, but for nearly two hundred
years it was used as a garrison fuel
depot.
Boiling to death was once legal pun
ishment, though not frequently used:
It was the sentence for poisoning and
coming. Drowning was also common,
The latter was used in Anglo Saxon
times for theft, and it was instituted by
Richard the Lion Hearted as the punish!
,nent for any soldier who killed fellow
crusader journeying to Palestine. This
was discontinued about the beginning OF
the seventeenth century.