The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-06-06
CURIOUS FACTS.

ssEnd OF the century" years are not
leap years unless divisible by four
hundred
Mrs Betsy Davis, of Mansfield,
Mass, celebrated her 101st birthday
the other day.
Phoenix Park, Dublin. covers nearly
two thousand acres; Central Park,
New York, s62.
A novel team driven by q North
Waldoboro, Me-, man consists of q
sleek bull harnessed to top buggy.
Native Australians have their war
boomersnss, their hunting boom
erangs and their amusement boom
erangs-all different weapons.
In Northern France a rabbit is bred
which produces a long, aeecy wool.
Experiments show that it will produce
fabric softer and finer than from
sleeps wool.
"Honors of war" is the privilege
allowed to the enemy, on capitulation,
of being permitted to retain their
arms. This is the highest honor VIC
tor can pay vanquished foe.
". Lewis, Of Arlington, Ga, has
gander which its owner declares is
forty years old. The bird moves
around briskly. BE has paid for him
self several times over in feathers.
Mrs. Jestin Pool, of Fsllville, No.,
is 100 years old and has been church
member for ninety years, and still
walks one mile to church. Some OF
her children are nearly eighty years
old.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson says
that he thinks that Charles Sumner
was the man who first introduced en-
velopes into the United States, as he
brought some samples Of them from
England to Boston in 1840. -. -.
AS Monterey (CaL) fisherman was
unloading his catch at the wharf, an
immense hallibut swan up alongside
his boat. He seized his fish spear,
and with a dexterous thrust secured
the fish, which weighed twenty-seyen
pounds.
The proprietor of small travelling
menagerie in Toronto, Canada, dis
covered few days ago that one of his
monkeys had the letter "M' branded
on the palms of his hands. The dis
covery was made while the animal was
lying i'll and helpless. ,-.
Diamonds occur in the United States
in two regions. One extends along
the southern base oi the Allegheny
Mountains from Virginia to Georgia,
the other on the western side of the
Sierra Nevada and Cascade range in
Northern California and Southern
Oregon.
Bulldog Tavern" situated at the
North End, Providence, R. L, has
been sold under the hammer. The
place has many queer stories connect
ed with it, and it is related that Wash
ington lodged in its western corner
room in the days of the Revolution
The tavern was built in 1890. .,.s,
Laborers engaged in the construc-
ton of road between Smyrna and
Vouria have unearthed sarcophagus
at a spot situated opposite Clazomene.
The tomb bears engraved figures of
men, animals, such as lions, bulls,
bears, horses and goats and of barley
stalks. It is said to be $500 years
old.
The tunnels of the world are estl-
mated to number about 1142, with
total length of 514 miles. There are
about 1000 railroad tunnels, twelve
subaqueous tunnels, ninety canal tun-
nels and forty conduit tunnels, with
aggregate lengths of about $50 miles,
nine miles, seventy miles AMI eighty
five miles respectively. LII.
Abd-ur-Rahman, the Emir OF At
ghanistan, has sent an extremely val
liable copy of the Koran to the holy
city of Isnan-Ruzs, in Persia, accord
ing to foreign papers. It is in cas-,
ket of goli and silver, whose carvings
are said to be of great beauty. The
book, which is valued at Sl25, QUO.
was placed in the mosque with sppro-.
pirate ceremonies.