The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-06-30
INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS.

| A CABIN was first built to a vessel in
KITCHENS in South America have been
known to be furnished throughout with
utensils made OF silver.
"VoLUMMosITY and "funipotent"
are two new English words which have
Just appeared. The last is applied TO
splrltualists in Pollock's "Spinoza"
A NEW safety lamp for miners emits O
loud sound whenever an explosive mix
ture of gas and air enters it, thus giving
warning Of the presence of fire damp.
THE favorite day for marriages in Paris
ls Saturday, on the morning of which
there may be seen on the streets landaus
and barouches with white horses driven
with white reins.
LIZ girl has pretty teeth she laughs
wear short dress, and if she's got neat
hand, she's fond of a game of whist and
Ii the reverse, she dislikes all these small
affairs.
IT IS related that California pioneer.
seeing Chinaman coolly draw O. "navy
six" and shoot white ruf1ian neatly
through the abdomen, exclaimed with
much earnest enthusiasm: "Them Chi
nese is takin' on Christian ways surprisin'
fastr
YoUNa man, don't be afraid that hon
est, legitimate overwork will shorten
your days. It is better to wear out in a
home, built up by your own efforts-at
the age OF slxty-tive, than it is to rust out
IN the poor-house five years later
Whitehall Times.
WHITTIER says that the first money he
ever earned was paid for copy of
Shakespeare, and that it proved to be
the best investment he ever made. '"The
long years since," he adds, "have only
deepened my admiration of the great
creative poet"
A MONTREAL thief had thrown q bun
die of goods out through the rear window
OF store, and would have followed in
safety, had he not stopped to read a par
agraph which caught his eye in o news
paper lying on the counter. The delay
caused his capture.
RALPH NICKLEBY was a hard. cold
selfish man, without grain of generous
impulse. Newman Noggs was a kind
hearted man, without grain of self in
his composition. Nickleby was rich:
Noggs, poor. The one was wise man:
the other, q fool. Question for debate
Which was the happier of the two?
In CHINA literary property is on the
same footing as other property. A per-
son printing and selling the works of an
author without his permission is liable
to punishment of 100 blows of the bam
boo and three years deportation. If he
has stopped short at printing and not
begun to sell, the penalty is fifty blows
together with the forfeiture of books
and blocks for which it is intended to
print.
DEAN" BUCHANAN tells in his con-
fession of fortune-t teller in Philadel-
phia who reads destiny by the light of
candle made of hun an fat, of O. doctor
who goes to Europe annually and brings
back love-powders, which he represents
are compounded Mt the shrine of Cupid,
in Minerals temple, and of a concern
which sells the pulverized gizzard of
chicken as compound to produce arti-
fetal digestion.
The site Of an ancient camp of Indians
at Cambridge, Mass, has for many years
been occupied bya Baptist Church. The
spirits Of the red men haunt the spot.
becauce they cannot rest under the wrong
done them by the whites, and three times
they have bUrned the meeting-house
On each occasion an Indian war-whoop
was heard, mingled with the cracking of
the flames. Old residents tell this story
with great solemnity.