The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-02-18
CURIOUS FACTS.

Over 3s, 900 copyrights were granted
to American authors during the past cal
endar year.
Rabbits are so thick in the vicinity of
Richmond, Kan, that the boys kill them
with clubs.
4 ton of tomatoes as they come from
the field, it is Estimated, will fill from
400 to $50 cans.
An idol collector in San Francisco,
Cal., who has just died had collection
of 500 little gods.
The Sutlej, large river in British In
din, with descent of IL, 600 feet in 1S0
miles. is the fastest flowing river in the
world.
Of the tweaty-six British mobiles who
signed magma charta all but three had to
ssmake their mark" being unable to
write.
Just above Vienna, Austria, on the
Danube, is the convent and school OF
Mclk, which has just celebrated its thou
sandth anniversary.
The "apee," a popular form of cake in
Philadelphia, Penn, got its name from
the initials of Ann Page, who first made
it there more than century ago.
Alexander the Great had copy of the
ssIliad" inclosed in nutshell, and it is
ouite certain that it could not have been
written without the aid of microscope.
There are only about twenty really great
diamonds in the world. The most
famous of them have come from Golcon-
da and Brazil, but the largest are from
the South African fields.
Henry CRUDE, of Paterson, N. j., had
q parrot ffty-two years old Of which be
made great pet. Last week Mr.. CRUDE
died, and the bird at once began to
droop, living only until the day of his
masters funeral.
A rider who has tried riding with STIR
rups long and stirrups short now says
that he rides with his stirrups only as
lon- as from the palm of his hand to his
armpit; and he always rides with one
stirrup hole shorter than the other one.
Daniel John, of Fulton, Mo-, is afiict-
ed in a most peculiar manner. During
the war a rifle ball struck him at the
point of the nose aud lodged back of his
right ear. The ball has gradually worked
downward until it is now near the hip
and units him for labor.
Twenty centuries before the birth of
Watt, Hero, of Alexandria, Egypt, de.
scribad machines whose motive power
was steam. He also invented double
force pump, used as a fire engine, and
anticipated the modern turbine wheel by
machine he named "Neolpile."
Two remarkably big men were buried
at Marshall, ILL.,, recently. Charles Kel-
Ter, aged twenty, weighed 400 pounds
and an eighteen-year-old son of David
Reynolds weighed q few pounds more
than 400. There was no hearse in town
large enough to carry the coffin of either
of them.
Probably the oldest house in the
United States is decaying stone dwell
ING that stands in Guilford, Conn. It
was built in 1910 and is still occupied.
In colonial times it did duty occasionally
as fort and was place of refuge for
settlers whea King Philip was on the
warpath.
Down to the depth of 200 fathoms,
where daylight disappears, the eyes OF a
fish grow constantly bigger and bigger.
Beyond that depth small-eyed forms set
in, with long feelers developed to supple
mcnt the eyes. Sight, in fact, is here
beginning to atrophy. In the greatest
abysses the fish are mostly blind, feeling
their way about entirely by their sensitive
bodies alone over the naked surface OF
rock at the bottom.