The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-02-25
CURIOUS FACTS.
Clafh Is made from wood.

Cloth is made from wood.
Artificial musk is now being manufac.
tured in Germany.
1t is the women who do the proposing
in Dahomey, Africa.
The Chinese are great prize-fghters.
In 1919 the United States purchased
Florida from Spain.
A hen in Salem, Mass, has adopted a
litter of five kittens which sleep con-
tentedly under her wings.
In London one woman in every twenty
is pauper, one in every thirteen is il
literate, and one in every sixty is gin
drinker.
Under q late law made in Egypt the
man who marries need not keep his own
name, but take that of the woman, if he
so desires.
There is a Young Peoples Society of
Christian Endcavor in the Wisconsin
State Prison, which has more than 100
members and is doing good work.
The GRIND Canyon of the Colorado is
simply the channel worn by the action of
running water to depth of 5000 or
5000 feet; the sides are perpendicular
cliffs.
Artificial eyes are supplied to all the
world from Thuringia, Germany. Near
ly all the grown inhabitants of some of
the villages are engaged in their manu-
facture.
"Friendship teeth" is the latest fad.
One of the Gardiner shoe factory girls
has been presented with an artificial set
of teeth, each of her associates giving
her tooth and naming the same.
About century ago it was estimated
that Paris had only about fifty pick
pockets; now the police reports show
that their number has reached 1000 in
in the metropolis alone and about 10, 900
in the rest of France.
Two Portuguese pugilists recently en-
gagged in q prize fight of 1127 rounds.
They fought six hours day, stopping at
noon to eat and smoke. The battle
would have lasted over week, but
both agreed to close on Saturday night
70 as to attend bull fight.
Electricity derives its name from the
Greek word for amber, electron, because
Thales, about 600 B. C. discovered that
amber, when, rubbed, attracts light and
dry bodies, and in the twelfth century
the scientific priests of Etruria drew
lightning from the clouds with iron
rods.
Berlin's population was first counted
in about 1900 and it had then IL, 900
inhabitants. In 1910 the thirty years
war had cut down the number to 1000.
Under the Great Elector the population
swelled to 20, 900, and under Frederick u
to $4,000. In 1860 the populatiG
was 600, 900. Now it is 1,574, 900.
Leando, Gulindo, believed to be the
last member of once noted Spanish
California family, died in the the Ala
media County In6rmary recently. Tha
Galindos once owned about half OF
Alameda County, including the site of
the present city of Oakland. He was
squirrel hunter, and lived on the bounty
of three cents a pelt that he received
from the county.
A Japanese chef, or fancy cook, finds
employment from his own nationality In
preparing the fish dinners which are so
prominent feature of life in the land of
the Mikado. One of his pet masterpieces
consists of large bluefsh which, when
served, has not a single scale broken, and
which, when opened, contains sea
bass, and that in turn one or two smaller
fishes in equally perfect condition.
William Waldorf AStor was offered
five cents work for story of l2,Oeo
words. Mr.. Astor accepted the ottcr,
conditional upon his being able to find
good theme during his present trip
abroad. He said the pay was not OF
much consequence to him, but he would
accept the honorarium an9 'Hevote to 1t
some worthy object.
DR.. CARL EIGENarANN has been col
Letting fish in San Diego for some
years. In making up n collection re-
Gently for the British Museum he found
o new specimen of herring that has
pocket membranes for slipping in the
dorsal pectoral and ventral fins. The
scales are large, the eyes have CLASSY
covering and most of the head is trans
narant.