The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-05
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Weaving cotton in Africa is slow
and difficult work. A skilled work.
man can weave about three yards
day.
Gramophones are. used in English
theaters to give stage shouts" thus
saving expense and insuring volume
sf sound.
A we'll recently bored in Canada
produces sand instead of water. The
sand comes up in a fine stream like
q fountain.
Robert Jones, a surgeon of Liver
pool, advocates that in cases where
the patient can not take other anaes-
thetics the spinal cord be treated
with cocaine.
Thus far the opium poppy is found
to thrive better in Vermont than in :
either Texas or California-the other
States in which the Department of
Agriculture is experimenting with it.
In Germany the man must be eigh-
teen years of age, but the age of the
bride-elect is left to popular discre-
ton. In France the man must be
eighteen and the woman fifteen,
while in Belgium the same standard
prevails.
Alexander Hermann was of Ger
man parentage, but Paris was his
birthplace. He made his professional
debut as magician at the age of
eight years in st. Petersburg, Russia.
He died in 1896.
When Italian drivers wish to start
their horses they calculate "Ah!" ex-
plosively. When they wish to stop
they cry "E-e-e-e!" soothingly. When
they warn foot passengers in the mar
row ways they repeat, "A-y-a-a-a!"
endlessly.
A long continued diet, consisting
largely Of pickles and vinegar, in the
hope of reducing weight, caused the
sudden death Of Miss Annie Gross.
A postmortem examination revealed
that the inner walls of her stomach
were eaten away.
About 2400 Roman coins, inclosed
in an urn, have been found near the
ancient Roman road between Ever
eux and Chartres, France. They bear
the heads of julius Caesar, Marcus
Aurelius, the Empress Faustina and
others, and some are medals COM
memorative of battles.
Lieutenant-C Colonel Duff, of the
Salvation Army, is sister of the
Duke of Fife and sister-in-law to the
princess royal. Her position at the
Salvation Army headquarters in Lon
don is that of editor Of the Young
Soldier and the Young People. She
wrote some Of the Salvation Army's
most popular publications.
A new product of the German
chemists is banana essence" a syr-
up whose taste is at first caustic and
then bitter and then sweet. Dr.. T.
Gigli has found by analysis that it
contains fifty-sour per cent. of sac
charine IN a base like pyridine, but
a solution of saccharine in pyridine
did not yield to the substance.
The Bank of France, the largest
hoarder Of gold next to the United
States Treasury, has in its vaults to-
day nearly s600,O00,000 of the pre-
cious metal; two years ago it had
s465, 100000, and in 1900, when
Paris began slowly to forge ahead
of London as the centre Of largest
money supply, the institution held
only s375, 0,000.-Review Of Re-
views.
The African elephant has always
been held to be inferior in intelli-
gence to the Indian species, and in
capable of being trained. The Congo
authorities, after failing to acclima-
tie a herd of imported Indian ele-
plants, are experimenting with the
indigenous stock. The experiment
seems likely to prove Unexpectedly
successful. Twenty-eight young ele-
plants are now being trained, and
some of them have already been used
with success on railway works,
though they have apparently none OF
them been yet educated for as long
as twelve months.