The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-05-23
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ALI SOrIS Oh fAIaSr&pAss
A Gatling-gun fires five thousand
shots minute.
"A woman's hair is said to weigh
on the average IA ounces.
Three out Of every l35 English
speaking people have red hair.
- Recruits for the Chinese Army
are not accepted unless they can jump
a ditch six feet wide.
john II. Craig, near Danville,
Ind, claims to weigh 907 pounds and
to be the biggest man on earth.
Tom: How old is your sister
Mabel? Ned: Her count, do you
mean, or family Bible record?
Never defer a vital matter. A
cough shouldn't be neglected when
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup will cure it at
once.
In Sicily it is claimed that fire
will not burn nor snakes bite the per-
son who was born on St. Paul's Day
(June 3O.)
The wife of farmer named Will
liams at Terrell, Tex, died on the
18th inst. On the 10Th he married
another woman.
Until the discovery of the gold
mines in California, Russia was the
greatest gold producing country, min
ing about s13, 900, 900 year.
In the northwestern part of
Colorado there is aregion several hun
dred square miles in extent which is a
vast deposit of petri6ed fish.
The wonderful cure by Salvation
Oil of Mr.. NJ. S. Culp, chronic
rheumatic, s16 George St., Baltimore,
Nd, is miracle.
- Radicalism hates everything that
is old -fogyism hates everything that
is new conservatism looks at the
intrinsic qualities of things.
Nearly 10 per cent. Of the yield
from this years cotton crop in the
South is from cotton seed oil, once
thrown aside as useless refuse.
The annual value of the clothing
made in the United States and Europe
is estimated at two billion two hun
dred and FIVE million dollars.
Sincerity is speaking as we
think, believing as we pretend, acting
as we profess, performing as we prom
ise, and being as we appear to be.
"A square copper coin, struck by
the Swedish Government in the Six
teenth Century, is nearly one-half
inch thick and weighs pound and
quarter.
When the skull of man who
has died with delirium tremens is
sawed into, the gas which escapes can
be lighted, and will burn with a blush,
alcoholic fame.
An enterprising daily paper
recently announced that well-known
actress had married her uncle"
What the editor wrote was "sprained
her ankle"
- Richard McGritf, Of Deerfeld,
and John McGriff, Of Geneva, Ind,
claim to be the oldest pair Of twins in
the country. They are in their goth
year.
- Taking the earth as the center OF
the universe and the polar star as the
limit of our vision, the visible uni
verse embraces an aerial space with a
diameter of 42O, 900, 900, 900 miles.
- "Have you had your new house
insured, Mrs. Dwight p eyes,
"Your husband is afraid of fire,
then ?" Mercy, yes; he will leave the
house any time before he will make
one"
Those who suppose that the peo-
ple of all China use the same language
are badly mistaken. There are as
many different dialects spoken in the
Flowcry Kingdom as there are in all
Europe.
elbow do you know that DcIerc
is not in love with Mabel Sweetbriar?'
because l heard him tell her the
other evening. when they came from
church, that he knew of short cut
home. "
- A widowers' association has been
formed in Dresden. No man can join
unless his wife is dead, and if he
narries again he becomes an honorary
member merely. One of the chief
purposes of the association is to help
1ewly-made widowers by looking after
heir wives funerals and caring for
heir children, |