The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-14
CURRENT ITEMS.

THE Empress OF Austria is said to be
skillful fencer. 70 t,....rr' .... ..> .,.
THE Cape May hotel-keepers are
charging guests with puppies $40 per
! week extra.
! OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES dresses are
common in England. They are garments
to weep over.
AN old thermometer is never very
popular. Nobody wants TO see q ther-
mometer over 70.
The fellow who picked up the hot
penny originated the remark, "An that
glitters is not cold"
ELIAS Polk, the colored carriage
driver of President Polk, still lives at
Nashville, aged 75 years.
THE sale of Edwin Arnold's "Light of
Asia" has been twentyfold greater in
America than in England.
LITTLE boy: "Ma, when you go to
heaven shall you let this house2
When I go to heaven shall not think
about such things as that" Boy: "But
when everybody is dead what will be-
come of all the world?" Ma: "The
world will be destroyed" Boy: "And
all the houses, too?" Ma: eyes"
Boy go what IN awful waste -
THREE little girls had great fun in q
aaighbor's house at South Bend, Ind,
durAg the absence of the family. They
fiEa fNlSeaall the window panes. Then
they curad several gallons of milk on
the srlor carpet. Finally. they empt-
II dozen cans of raspberries and
cherries. into tub, and dyed all
5ie fine ASiresses they could find in the
mice, =
HERBERT SPENCER defines life to be
g the definite combination OF heterogen-
eous changes both simultaneous and
successive, in correspondence with exc
ternal coexistence and sequences" G.. ii.
Lewes as ga series Of definite and sue
cessive changes, both Of structure and
composition, which take place within an
individual without destroying it's iden-.
tity."
/ The RAILROAD monopolies don't have it
all their own way, after all. A lady in
Chicago sued the Central Pacific for 1915
damages for allowing locomotive to
scald all the hair off valuable dog ex-
/ pressed her from San Francisco. She
obtained Judgment and collected the
money before the company found out
that it was q Japanese dog and never
had any hair.
The London Economist says hun
dreds of thousands of sheep, if not mill
ions, have died of plague in England,
and the Russian, Turkish, English, and
Afghnnistan wars, as well as those of
Turkey, Syria, Persia, and the Tridan
country, have caused tens OF millions of
sheep to be killed. In fact, wool-grow-
ing in Turkey, Russia, Persia, and India
has been almost given up on account of
the wars and the low prices current for
the past five years.
WHILE trout-fshing in Holden, Mass,
q. q. Parker SOW woodchuck and n fox
running toward the brrrow of the for
mer. The fox reached the entrance
first, and, turning, faced the woodchuck.
The latter turned to run away, when the
fox seized him by the throat, and life
and-death struggle ensued, the fox being
constantly on the aggressive, and in
about five minuteshe had the woodchuck
hors de combat. He then took the car
cass by the nape Of the neck and trotted
off into the woods.
AUSTIN (Tex.) ReOiew :. While bath
ing in Bear creek, Lembert Briott, a
stone-cutter, was bitten by water-moc-
casin. After being thus wounded he
made dive for the shore, striking the
snake from him, but had scarcelyreached
the bank when he discovered that the
snake was pursuing him. He made
good his escape, but upon reaching his
camp he discovered that he was bitten
on the finger, and, taking o coal of fire,
burnt the flesh of his finger to the bone,
thus destroying the poison of the bite.