The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-02-07
= Marshall county. Alabama. claims

Marshall county, Alabama, claims
hog with half human head. The dime
r. useums are bidding for it, but its own
or, farmer, refuses to part with the great
curiosity.
w. B. Gardner has curiosity in the
form Of fruit tree In his grove at Fort
Meade, Fla, It bears oranges on one side
and grape fruit on the other, each side
having been budded differently.
Near Birmingham, Ala, man on
retiring for the night heard a strange
noise in his chimney, and discovered the
legs Of q man dangling therefrom. He
lit fire and scorched the fellow constd-
erably before he released him.
Mr.. J. w. Armfield, Of High Point,
N. c., swallowed an oyster shell, while
eating oysters, which was an inch square
and sharp on both edges. Physicians
succeeded at last in pumping the she'll
out Of his throat.
Near Cocoa, Fla, a man was awak-
ened from his slumbers by stra nge
noise in his room. He arose, and was
Mortified to discover two large rattle
was not long in dispatohing them.
The five children besides baby
Esther Cleveland who were born in the
White House were also girls. One Of
these girls, the grandchild OF a President
ments in Washington, ending as she be-
gan, her days under the Governm ent's
| roof tree.
"A ladyIat Cannonville, N. c.. found
q snake in her stove nicely Drowned and
toasted. It seems that the snake had
gone into winter quarters In hollow
stick Of wood. The good lady in order
to have her wood nice and dry to cook
breakfast with put 1t In the stove the
night before.
- AT 0viedo, Fla, Mrs. G. E. Brown
spied hawk making dive for q chick
on, and she ran up 10 It, expecting to
| scare 1t away, but instead Of accomplish
ing this tho hawk showed fight and at
tackled the lady. She called to Mr.. Far
nell expecting to seeit take flight at bis
approach, but to his surprise the hawk at
tackled him also, and he bad to pick up a
stick and delare war himself, when he
soon came of victorious.
Some Of the evils predicted when
| Stephenson was trying to introduce rail-
| roads " ere that cows would he prevented
from grazing and hens from laying, while
horses would be driven distracted. Some
gentlemen in st. Johns Berkeley, in the
same spirit, objected to the building OF
the Northeastern Railroad because it
would ruin the breed of horses iu the
parish If the young men could get to
Charleston 30 much quicker by rail.
"A most remarkable electrical ex per-
iment has been successfully exhibited at
the College Of Physicians and Surgeons
In Baltimore. BY means of flexible
rubber tube a diminutive electric light
was introduced into the stomach of q
patient. The lights in the room being
lowered, over 200 students viewed the
workings of the patients internal organs
through the translucency the light created
| in the abdominal wall.
| "A man in Elwood, Ind, bought q
cabbage in a grocery store, for which he
paid 20 cents He took 1t home and his
wife proceeded to do it up. into "cold
slaw." Upon inserting the knife it
struck something hard. The cabbage
was divided and $40 gold piece reveal
ed. Further dissection revealed three
more twenties, a ten and five, all in
gold. The supp0sition is that some gar
dener hid his savings in the cabbage
when IL was young, and then forgot the
plant.
A few days ago the Greenville NeaOs
mentioned the case of a citizen Of Green
Vile county who has sixteen living chill
eclipsed by that of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
county. Mr.. Looper is 81 years old and
his wife is Sc. They are the parents Of
sixteen children, and have had 1l6 grand
children. and average Of something over
seven apiece, and 81 great grand emil.
dren, total Of 226 direct descendants In
three generations. Mr.. and Mrs. Looper
are in good health, active and sturdy and
seem to be likely to see many more years
and descendants.-GreenviLke Ne1os.
| The longest continuous cataleptio
sleep known to medical science was re-
ported from Germany in the Spring OF
1892; the patient-a Salesian miner
having remained absolutely unconscious
for period Of four and a half months.
The doctors in attendance could not re-
port anything in the way Of symptoms
which would suggest that there was
something out Of the ordinary in the
mans slumbers, excepting q complete
rigidity OF the limbs. One popularity
which was much commented upon was
that the hair grew naturally during the
whole of the extended nap, but his
beard remained perfectly stationary and
lifeless.
- Heretofore information as to the
precise date of the end of this planet has
been unsatisfactory for lack of scientific
basis. This has now happily been sup
piled by German astronomer, Rudolph
Falb, who, in speech at Leipsic recent
| ly, announced that the comet OF 1866
would collide with the earth on Novem-
| Der 13, 1899, between and S o'clock o.
m. The result Of the collision is to be
| such display Of shooting stars as will
astonish the inhabitants of Mars and We
nus for three days. Unfortunately, as
constituents Of the rockets and Roman
candles, we shall not be able to appre-
ciats the spectacle as whole. However,
we have time for preparation.
Some three hundred and odd cats
are maintained by the United States
Government, the cost Of their support
being carried as a regular item on the
accounts of the Post Office Depart
ment. These cats are distributed
among about so post Offices, and their
duty is to keep rats and mice from
eating and destroying postal matter
and canvas mail sacks. Their work
is of the utmost Importance wherever
large quantities Of mail are collected,
as, for example, at the New York
Post Office, where from 1900 to 5000
bags of mail matter are commonly
stored away in the basement. For
merly great damage was done by the
mischievous rodents, which chewed
holes in the sacks and thought nothing
of boring clear through bags of letters
in night. Troubles of this sort no