The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-02-27
CURIOUS FACTS.

Stammering is practically unknown
among uncivilized people.
sHe has eaten his last rice," say the
Chinese when they wish to imply that
mans end is near.
For sneezing in San Francisco
theatre and resisting arrest Il. O.
Simpson was fined $40.
The recent murder in Gorham, Ne. ,
was the first that occurred there since
it was incorporated, 15S years ago.
The tobacco cultivated by the In
dians west of the Mississippi was low
spreading plant, with white flowers.
Justice Crossley, of Trenton, n j.,
has fined his own father $2 for having
neglected to remove the snow from
his sidewalk.
Stockings were first worn in Italy
in the year 100. Before that period
it was customary to swathe the feet
and legs in bandages.
The ex-Empress Eugene, of France,
is the only royal parsonage who has
made balloon ascent besides Queen
Christina, Of Sweden.
Nearly 200 tons of deal board are
utilized annually in skewering the
ha 'porths of cats meat which is the
fate of 26, 900 London horses every
year.
Japanese shops are never large,
scarcely more than little alcoves open
from the street. There is nothing
corresponding to our general store in
Japan.
The first antiquarian to take on in
terest in the Roman catacombs was
Father Bosio, who spent more than
thirty years in exploring their
recesses.
Queen Victoria knows what it is to
eat juicy American apples. Every
year lot of the choicest picked fruit
is sent to her from AlberEarle County,
Virginia.
When japanese baby is seven days
old it's name is officially registered.
On this day the family eat festival
rice cooked with red beans to bring
good luck.
Rhode Island and Colorado are both
names descriptive of color, the latter
named from its brightly hued cliffs
and the former from it's "roody," or
red cranberries.
A Japanese house has by way of fur
niture few Goals in fireplace Of
sand, quilts and cushions, low tables
six inches high, screens, cups and
dishes of common clay.
A large cat which succeeded in
awakening the father of the house by
clawing his whiskers, is credited with
saving the Voolfolk family of Marin.
go, Ind, the other night from being
burned.
The Tucker family of Todd County,
Kentucky, is no. small potato affair.
Old Levi Tucker weighs 26S pounds,
his wife, 256 pounds, and his two
sylph-like daughters pull the scales at
234 and 236 pounds respectively.
While the CARCASS of an enormous
whale weighing 13, 900 pounds was be-
ing lifted in Hamburg, Germany, the
other day, the chain that held it broke
and the immense mass fell on two men.
One was instantly killed and the other
severely injured.
Mrs. Hiram Van Zine, who reside
in the village of Drenthe, Ottawa
County, Michigan, and is but thirty
two years old, is the mother of seven
teen children, of which the first four
teen are pairs of twins. The other
three are triplets.
English army officers are being e1.
amined as to their proficiency in short
hand. Those able to write seventy
words a minute from dictation are
noted as passed." and those who at.
tain a speed of ninety words are classed
as distinguished"
In Edward Tvs time a lady with a
wen on her neck covered it by a
patch. From that time patches be-
came the mode. A hundred years
later they were cut into all sorts of
fantastic fgures-owls, rings, suns,
moons and even a coach and horse.