The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-12
CURIOUS FACTS.
A Partisan uses potatoes for soap. { Z

A Partisan uses potatoes for soap. &;
The Chinese word for farewell meanA, !,
"go away slowly" fsS
A family of five generations live unsi
der one roof in town in Louisiana.
One sheet of paper recently made VIZ
eight feet wide and seven and three
quarter miles long. ls5ss
Prayer books, bound in ivory, that
sell at $33 apiece, are among the favors
in demand at shops that carry specially
gift stocks. ~
Twelve oranges, which grew on twigii
six inches long in George Stones grove,
near De Land, Fla, completely filed o.
peck measure and weighed thirty.fve
pounds. "a
A Mexico (Mo.) man has tax receipt
in his possession acknowledging the pay-SS
mert of forty.thre cents on forty acres
of land in Boone County, The receipt
is dated 1s43.
The Hawaiians are supposed to be Of;
the Malay family of nations. Their
complexion is tawny, inclining to olive x
They are Of middle stature, we'll formed,
with muscular limbs and open counts.I
nance. II ~;
A man applied for naturalization st
Merced, CAL, the other day who, after
thirty years. residence in this country,
could not answer a word OF English Of
single question put by the court re-3
garding our laws. .-:
The proportion Of insane to sane per-
sons in the United States is one in every
262; in Scotland it is one in every S74;;
in the agricultural districts of England
it is one in 500; in London the propor-a
ton is one in 400. s.
The State Of Washington owes its
name to Kentucky member of Congress
named Stanton. The petition to be set
off as separate Territory from Oregon:
was before Congress as early as 1857,
but was not acted on till 1855. W
In the German custom of clinklings
glasses before drinking the rims are apt
to get Clipped and the particles of glass
to fall into the cup. At "commersS
recently in Castle a student swallowed a
piece of glass thus Clipped off and died
in horrible torture.
The people of Thessaly, Greece, werel
the first to break horses for service in
war, and their proficiency as equestrianx
probably first gave rise to the ancient
! myth that their country was originally
inhabited by centaurs, fabulous Great
ures supposed to be half horse and haifs
man. Z
While the mate of an Ohio River
steamboat was eudeavoring to drive q
cow on board she tossed him overheard;
and jumped in after him. He was corn-s
PEELED to dive to get out of her way. and
when he escaped she swan to shore,
furiously dashed herself of bluff, and
was killed on the rocks below. sssssF
Mabel Hunter, asixteen- -year-old Iowa
girl, is the victim of a peculiar habit
formed in childhood. Whenever she IS;
sent on an errand she walks to and from
the place backward. Sometimes She
will absentmindediy walk tight, but mp
on recovering her senses will immediate-
| ly retrace her steps and begin the Jour-
hey over again backward. .s5
The &erobates Agassizii, tbs grass
,, eating turtle OF the Mojave Desert, is
said to be the only one of the turtle
species which lives by grazing like 81
horse or an OK. Xerobates dig hole in
,, the sand to escape the intense heat; Is
about ten inches in length when full
grown, and weighs from six to eight.
pounds. Coast dealers in curiositiea
value them at S5 each. .~essAIg
The Corean wears his lair braided
down his back, it being considered un-'
holy to cut it, or to even wear it loosely
around the neck and shoulder. After hsl
gets married, and not before, the law
permits him to wear it curled up on top;
of his head. To tell a married Corean
that he had ought to wear his hair down
is equivalent to telling him that his wife
is the better man of the two.