The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-11-02
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

"A rather extraordinary suicide was
committed in London the other day. A
man mounted the steps of hospital
and filling his mouth with gunpowder
touched it off with a match.
"A small boy of London, deemina
himself ill-used by his parents, waited
until they happened to be simultaneous
ly sick, and then took safe revenge by
stabbing the father, clubbing the mother,
and smashing the furniture,
From report of the accidents
which occurred last year on the railways
of Great Britain, it appears that the
proportion of passengers killed and in
jurod from all causes was in 5,760,74
killed, and 1 in 1855 injured.
The committee appointed to con-
slider the question of substituting q nickel
coinage for the bronze coinage now cir
culating in France has decided in favor
of nickel, which has already been
adopted in Germany and Belgium.
The Krupp gun business is now con-
sider ed the wonder of the world. The
population of the Essen Works is 15,TOr,
and the statistics of the number of boil
ers and engines is bewildcring-429
boilers, 453 steam -engincs, with horse
power of 18,5O0; 80 steam hammers,
1856 furnaces, of which II arc high fur
naces, producing 10000 tons Of steel
and 10000 tons Of iron yearly.
Another famous collection is COM
ing into the market, for, among the nu-
merous private bills that have been
quietly smugglcd through Parliament
is one giving power to the trustees Of
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the heirlooms at Stourhead, most of
which were collected by the well-known
Sir Richard Colt Hoare, who died in
1888. Some years ago the collection
was valued at 900.
"A writer describing Newmarket
fifty years ago says: cts staple trade
is blood horses; its inhabitants, for the
most part, Jockeys and gamblers; its
language that of Tattcrsalls; its busi-
ness on endless succession of matches
on the race course, in the cock pit, the
tennis court, on the billiard table or the
card table. About 800 horses are trained
every year, From 50, 800 to $4,000 is
is given. Nearly every one in the towr
learn to lisp the pedigree of horses, tht
1t Is much the same to-day.
Some tlmc ago a wcll-known native
of Bombay offered to give a new clocl
and chimes to the University of Bombay
and deposited large sum of money
with the authorities to carry out hi
| generous intention. The gift has beer
manufactured in London and is about tC
be shipped to Bombay. Doubtless it il
such q time-piecc as India never saw
The dials, of opal glass, are thirtcel
feet in diameter; it is fitted with an ap
paratus enabling it to telegraph its time
daily to the observatory and to correc
all the other clocks in the city, and con
nected with it is a chime Of sixteen bell
which can play, automatically, sixteel
tunes and $50 changes.
Three hundred and seven thousanc
francs in gold, rolled up in wrappers O
the MonttcW newspaper Of the time 0
the French revolution, were discoveret
recently by q carpenter in the wall of
house at Dion. DR.. Channut, the own
er of the house, claimed the money, bu
a counter-claim was set up by the de
! scendants of the Viscount de Moussier
who owned the house at the time of tn
revolution, and memoranda in who's
| handwriting were detected on tn
| wrappers. The Dion tribunal has de
| cided in their favor, on the ground tha
their ancestor must have hidden tin
money between 1874 and 1916 for rea
sons unknown.