The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-01-04
CURIOUS FACTS.

glass.
Of all symbolic signs none is so an
cient as the barber's pole.
Natives of the Gilbert Islands,wear ar
ticles made of human hair.
A locomotive on the Reading road
has covered mile in thirty.seven Sec
onds. Z
The Shah of Persia will not remain at
table on which is either lobster or
salmon.
In Shakespeare's day there was no
other scenery than tapestry hangings
and curtains.
The first woman on the English, stage
was Mrs. Coleman as Tanthe, in the
"siege of Rhodes" 1866.
Three men named Brown, Jones and
Robinson are msmbss, of Queen Lilu.
kolani's Hawaiian Cabinet.
John Wesley used the expression
"Cleanliness is indeed next to godli-
ness" in sermon on "Dress.
The English clergy were at first very
bitter against the fork, one man de.
claring that its use was impious. :.
In the South Pacific Ocean is found a
wonderful species of the seaweed called
the vegetable boa constructor"
The people of many of the South Sea
Islands manufacture their entire suits
from the products of palm trees.
Archie Leroy, of Boston, is seventeen
years old, but is only forty-two inches
in height and weighs sixty pounds.
Within the last thirty years there have
been on the British coasts &C.,
wrecks, with the loss of %. 312 lives.
A recent experiment has proved that
carrier pigeons may be trusted to con.
veys messages from ships several hundred
miles at sea. .....
The prosecuting attorney of Kalksska
County, Michigan, was elected in 1886
by one majority, in 1887 by two and in
1891 by four. ,.. 4
There are nine 110-ton guns in the
British navy at present, and every time
one OF them is fred $50 pounds of pow
der are used up. ....- ....
A woman in Ohio has a churn which
has been in her possession for ffty-fve
years and which has made more than
$40, 900 worth Of butter.
Mrs. Kate Flanagan, of Tamaqua,
Penn, no longer rocks her baby's
cradle. Her carpenter husband built
little windmill upon the house, and it
furnishes power, easily conducted down
to the cradle, which takes the place of
the s'hand that rules the world"
While men were digging grave at
Industry, ILL.,, and when about four feet
below the surface they came upon the
petrifed body of man, Persons who
have examined it say that the features
are natural and the hair the same as in
life. The body will probably be ex.
humed for scientific purposes.
Among the great men of the world
blue eyes have always predominated.
Socrates, Shakespeare, Locke, Bacon,
Milton, Goethe, Franklin, Napoleon and
Renan all had blue eyes. The eyes of
Bismarck, Gladstone, Huxley, Virchow
and Buchner are also of this color, and
all the Presidents of the United States
except General Harrison enjoyed the,
same cerulean color as to their optics.
George Washington was the Com
mander-in Chief of the Army ab the age
OF forty.three; Cromwell entered on bis
remarkable career at forty-nine; Napo-
leon conquered Italy before he was
thirty; Gladstone was member Of Par.
Lament at twenty-three; Macauley be.
gan his literary career at twenty; Col.
umbus started on his voyage of discov-
cry at thirty-six; Frederick the Great
began the thirty years. war at the age
of thirty, and Blackstone finished his
commentaries before he was thirty-fve