The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-11-18
ALL SORTS.

"A CHINAMAN mas entered the Harvard
Freshmen class.
GEORGE BANCROFT says Washington
was six feet two inches high.
OFFENBACH made much money from
his operas, but died poor.
Mrs. FLoRENCEs costumes in tho
Mighty Dollar" are insured for $685.
600.
A PARIS shop had $1,000 customers
one day this fall, and sold $3.50, 600 worth
of goods.
VERMONT has four venerable ex-Gov-
ernors living, each Of whom is more than
so years old.
WHAT is the difference between fxed
star and q meteor? One is o sun, the
other darter.
The woman who has the best time at
a party is the woman who has the great
est show of real lace.
The Rochester Herald says that the
man who has corner in pork should be
made to squeNl.
A NEVADA ball report says: "Miss
Honora x. was full Of eclat-in fact, the
eclatist lady present"
The honey crop is pronounced fail
ure by one-half. So that wo have not
SWEEP 6nnS III DeeS this year.
No LESS than 5000 Cinnamon are now
building railroads in Oregon, Washing
ton and British Columbia.
ATLANTA has new enterprise, watch
manufactory. It begins with facilities
for turning out six watches per day.
w. w. CoRCoRAN, of Washington, has
given away So, 900, 900 in public benefac-
tions and 81 900, 900 in private charities.
HENRY WALLACE and Jane Wallace,
his wife, have entered college at Wes-
leyan University, Ct., as Freshmen.
SPAIN, with only 1000, ,O0G Of inhab-
itants, turns out yearly twice rs much
wheat as does Italy, with 100000 Of
inhabitants.
On the occasion Of the celebration of
the tenth anniversary of the capture of
Rome, all political offenders were par
doned by the King Of Italy.
FHR bostal savings banks in Italy take
in twice as snuch money as they pay
out, the institution being considered
safe and Convenient by the people.
Al BILL collector returned to Memphis
on horseback with bag full of gold and
silver coin. The horse ran away. the
bag burst, and q great crowd followed
for mile, picking up the money.
/ + AN effort is on foot at Washington to
procure the assembling there of worlds
| convention to promote international ar
bitration, Sept. 8, 1883, the centennial
| Of the acknoWledg of American in
| dependence
"EyERYBopY is looking at Rhode ISL
and, remarks the editor of the Provi-
dence DiSpatch in the course Of an edit
io1 on "a nIafX Of In
explains the recent advance in the price
of microscopes.
PROFANITY has increased to such nm
extent in Now York since the telephone
was introduced that the company has
been forced to put up sign "Please
don't swear through the telephone, "over
each instrument.
Is SWINGING healthy?" asks young
lady. 1t is, under some circumstances.
But if the hinge breaks, the pastime is
We are always glad to extend to the
young and inexperienced the knowledge
attained by years of experience.
KEEPING poultry Of some kind or other
is almost universal in China. The DOOR
ost household has, wherever practicable.
its pert cock and three or four lean hens.
which stalk hungrily in and out of the
mud shanty in search of anything eata-
bic that no one else of the family may
happen to able to digest.
ACCORDING to Vicnncso statistical
journal, Austria is better provided with
public libraries than any other country
in Europe.
Ir has been estimated that of the
horses in the world Austria has ], 1867, 900;
Hungary, 2,179,000; Franco, about g.
600, 600; Russia, 21,470,0 900; Germany,
1852, 900; Great Britain and Ireland,
2,255, 900; Turkey, about 1000, 600; the
United States, 9,504, 900; the Argentine
Republic, 100000; Canada, 2,624, 900;
Uruguay, 100000.