The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-06
CURIOUS FACTS.

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Consuls were first appointed in l4s5.
New Mexico has a messenger boy
named Gallop.
November was the ninth month of the
year at one time.
The man who sowed the first field OF
potatoes in Scotland died in 1851.
Only one couple in 1850 live to
celebrate their diamond wedding.
superstitious BARRIERS think the money
earned in shaving dead men is lucky.
The feeding expenses of the London
.England) Geological Garden are sSoo
week.
The tusks of an ordinary elephant
weigh about 120 pounds, and are worth
$500.
George ". of England left as a part OF
his estate 300 whips and 500 pocket
books.
Saturday, Sunday and Monday are
the lucky days for marriages. in England
and Scotland.
l.. All the correspondence from the Vati-
can at Rome concerning church matters
is carried on in Latin.
The dogs in the United States num-
Der 20, 900, 600, and it costs S2Oo,ooo
per annum to keep them.
Potatoes were introduced into Ger
many in 1710, into Russia in l769, and
into Scotland some years later.
washington died shortly after IL p. n,
Saturday, December A., 1899, the last
year of the century, the last month OF
the year, the last day Of the week, and
within the last hour of the day.
The Imperial University at Toxic,
Japan, is probably the largest in the
world, having an enrolment of two thou
sand scholars and a faculty of forty
members. It is under Government
control.
An English tramp, arrested and brought
before the Justice of the Petworth Police
Court for the crime of damaging some
cut clover by sleeping on it," was fined
;by the Justice, with the alternative of
going to Jail for eight days.
"The Petition Of Right" was a cele-
brated English statute passed early in
the reign of Charles I. of England tor
the purpose of restraining and limiting
the acts and ~prerogatives of the Crown,
and securing the personal ane civil hber-'
ties of the subject.
Londoners arc very much interested in
the discovery that the original home o.
cashmere shawls is not Cashmere, but
Germany. Large quantities of German
made shawls are taken to India with
limitations of Cashmere marks on them
and sent into the interior and sold as
native products.
Nevada is a part of the territory coded
to the United States by Mexico by the
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, FEBRUARY
2, 1913. It was at first a part OF Cali.
fornia Territory, and was subsequently
attached to Utah. 1t was constituted 6
Territory in March, 1861, with some
what smaller boundaries than at present.
DR.. Williams, a London physician,
has a complete copy of the Bible written
in shorthand characters. There are
many curious copies of the Holy Writ in
in various collections, but it is doubtful
if there is anything in the world that viii
compare with the Doctors unique work
A recent traveller in Morocco says thai
for people who dress in white and love
to be very neat in their personal appear
ance the Moroccans are very Indifferent
to the cleanliness of their towns
Around the most beautifully furnished
houses are heaps of refuse and the bodies
of dead animals. All the care OF tn
people is conferred upon the int rior o
their houses. They furnish them a
extensively as their means permit, bu
what is outside Of their walls does no
trouble them.