The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-10-21

Automobile masquerade runs are the
latest
A brick house is more endurable than
one of stone. A we'll constructed brick
house will outlast one built Of granite.
During the last three years twenty
two millionaires have died In Eng.
land. Their average age was seventy
| five years.
The average man will die for want
Of air in five minutes; for want Of
water in q week; for want Of sleep
in ten days.
Two or three hives Of bees on Kent
(Englan6 farm have declared war on
the poultry, and several fowls have
been stung to death.
:. . In the Sandwich Islands there are
twice as many japanese as natives,
and the Chinese outnumber the na-
tlves by small excess.
r, the ground that letters patent
have no intrinsic value woman was
acquitted of theft on her trial at Wen.
na for stealing such a document.
Seventy Polish schoolboys at a Ger
man gymnasium have been sentenced
to terms of Imprisonment from six
weeks downward for belonging to a
secret society.
The great violin neighborhood is
Markneukirchen, Saxony. In that
town and vicinity there are about 15,'
900 people engaged exclusively in the
manufacture Of yiolins.
In accordance with q superstitious
custom, a Hungarian girl was enter.
ing a chapel in StaranovareS to toll
the bell during q thunderstorm to ward
off lightning when the chapel was
struck and the girl killed.
In New York, at the lowest possible
average, 100000 people live in rooms
which ought to be considered absolute
ly uninhabitable, dark and without
any window or ventilation.
Tight lacins caused the death OF
Della Ackerman in the Cook County
Hospital, Chicago. CONSTRUCTION Of the
vital organs resulted from constant
compression, and septic poisoning en-
sued.
A feature of Iowa's dairy exhibit
at the ST. Louis Worlds Fair will be
statue in butter of John Stewart
It will be life size and will be kept
frozen in a glass case throughout the
!. Exposition.
The best protection against cold Is
the skin of the reindeer. Any one
clothed in such a dress, with the ad'
dition of blanket of the same mate
rial, may bear the lowest temperature
of an Arctic winters night.
Scotland has an area OF 1902, 49,
acres, Of which 1894, ,46G acres are un'
der cultivation; 112 persons own one
half Of the total area and eighteen per
sons own one-fourth Of it. One-fourtl
Of the tenants hold five acres or less
and nearly one-third hold between five
and twenty acres.
Animals have q language made up
of signs or inarticulate sounds express
ing impressions, sensations. passions
but never ideas. So this language ex
cludes conversation and is limited to
interjections or signs or movements
expressing joy, g-:ef, fear, anger, all
the passions Of the senses, but never
more.
Tobacco is both cultivated and con-
sumed on q large scale in Japan. The
plant was introduced by the Portu'
guese in the seventeenth century, and
the trade IN it is Government mo-
nopoly. Tobacco is almost UNIVERSAL
ly used in small pipe. While cigar
cites are manufactured in large quan'
titles, they are nearly all exported.
The Lutheran Church rangs first
among Protestant denominations in
the United States, having 1900 con-
gregations and membership Of 1.S00,-
900, forty eight theological seminaries,
forty three colleges, fifty academies
ten young ladies' seminaries, twenty
two hospitals. tifty-two orphan asy-
lums, twenty homes for the aged and
! eight deaconess houses.
Best Apples Sold in Boxes.
In the fruit trade it is no longer
the thing to order barrel Of apples,
If you wish to get the best. Only in
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