Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-05-28
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Wonders.

WOnderS
Bishop Pierce, in letter to the Charles
ton Christian Advocate, from Texas, re-
latcs the following marvels in the vcgcta
bic and animal Kingdoms. We believe cv-
cry word the Bishop says, but had we told
the half he relates we should quarrel with
no one for having doubts:
Texas is a rare country in more WAYS
than | have time to describe; but YOU
must allow me to indulge little in the
marvellous. | have seen in various papers
accounts OF a strange production of the oaks
last fall, especially in Eastern Texas. 1t
Is called oak wheat, simply because it re-
Semblcd in shape grain Of wheat. New
crthclcss it was larger and perfectly white.
grew on the leaves of the Red Oak, one
grain, Gf [ may so call iD on each side, and
the two directly opposite. The crop of a.
corns was II failure, and this seemed to be
IN effort of nature to supply the want. The
trees atounded with this production, aud
the ground beneath was covered with them
after wind or shower. The hogs grew
fat on them. | examined them carefully;
they had tho favor and were almost idcn-
tlcal in appearance with the germ of an
acorn. They were not the nut gals, with
which we are all familiar, but entirely diff
tcrcnt in form, color and everything. 1t
may have been the production of an insect
AN cxcrcsccnce favored by chemical laws
with the sap of the tree on which it grew.
! cannot tell, | never saw anything like it
before.
"Minc host at Austin calls his country
home Mount Wonder, an appropriate name,
you will think, when you read the follow
ing statements. ] tell the tale as twas
told to me, and vouchcd for by many re-
spectacle witnesses will begin with the
vegetables. In crop of turnips he found
ten weighing ono hundred and sixty pounds
ono weighed eighteen pounds He had
cabbage stalk three years old, Which had
on it, at one time, one hundred and sixty
three heads, making a circle ten feet three
inches in diameter. What are you stretch
ing your eyes about? Well, you say, that's
wonderful for a dry, droughthy" coun-
try. Yes, it is and the people came TWEEN
ty or thirty miles to see it. When heard
this statement ] puckcrcd my mouth and
whistcd, but the narrator summoned his
witness and proved it,
Next, we will turn to the feathered
and Brahma Pootos! My friend had
hen, and she laid an egg with a handle five
and half inches long. Give her the pre-
MUM and we will pass on. The egg and
what follows all came to pass, or was dis
covered within week. First, a mule
brought forth colt; n ram had horn
upon his car; and sow had litter of
pigs, each having the ear mark which mine
hosts wife had adopted to distinguish her
stock. This beats Jacob and Laban, with
the brown sheep and ringstrcakcd, spotted
and specklcd goats"
BETTER THAN EDIrING.-Thc most
striking instance of mans leaving our
trade for better, Che was once all editor)
is that Of George wilkins Kendall. whom
we all loved and admired exceedingly MS
brother quill, but who, getting tired of
"public opinion" took to the raising of
sheep. lie writes, from his farm in Tex
as:
81 have now about five thousand sheep
and all fine stock Have realized over sew
cnty-fivc per cent profit per annum on the
Investment since have been here, which
will do for hard times. FlockS now in heal
thicr and finer condition than ever. My
good luck has now lasted three years wish
out intcrmission If can 90 ON for three
years more, with continuance of the same
success, you'll hear the bells all the way to
Boston; it will beat ALL | went
to New Orleans last Christmas time, with
my wife and oldest girl was gonesix weeks,
which was quite long enough. / wouldn't
live in city if you would give me one
! am in the enjoyment of the very best pos
siblc health, and am now ten years young
or than 1 was ton years ago-and twenty
years gained, in the life of a man past the
middle age, is something worth the while,
No such country as this for
children on the face of the earth. 1t is
never hot herc~-neveT cold; always pleas
ant. What more do you want? l..
trust am duly thankful to kind Prov
idencc which frat directed my steps hith-
or. | have a set of good neigh
bors, and shall soon have the best kind of
society around me"
"WnAT branch of education do you have
cAiehyin your school -" A branch Of birch
air tho master las used almost n whole free p