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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Plunge q we'll polished knitting
needle into vessel OF milk and with
draw it Immediately in vertical posi-
ton. ii the milk be pure, n few drops
Of it will remain attached to the needle;
ii, however, only small quantity of
water has been added none will adhere.
--IOlcio Biude.
The consumption o. parSnips IS
largely increasing in towns. At one
time they were only salable III the spring
after they had been frozen aud thawed.
They arc now in demand all winter
Some raisers dig them in the fall, allow
them to freeze, and keep them in that
condition till they are sent TO market
Chicago Times.
For white fruit-cakc use one cup
OF butter and two cups Of white sugar,
and beat them together thoroughly;
then add one cup of milk, two and half
cups of flour, the whites of seven eggs,
and two teaSpoOnfuls Of baking powder;
beat ell we'll before adding the fir it,
Take onc pound each of raisins, figs,
dates, and blanched almonds, and
quarter of pound OF citron; cut all
| very fine, sprinkle with flour, and mix
the other ingredients. Bake slowly
| Chicago NcTS.
Orange Shortcake: One quart of
| flour, two spoOnfuls of butter, q tea.
spoonful and half of baking powder,
| little salt and sweet milk to mix. Sift
the baking powder with tho flour and
rub the batter through it. Mix as soft
&c possible Roll into two thin sheets
and bake IN a quick oven. The tanges
should be peeled, cut into small pieces,
freed from seeds and sugared at least an
hour before wanted. When the pastry
is done, put the oranges between the
layers and serve with swectcned cream.
The editor of an Eastern agricult-
ural ournal says: 'In the course of O.
ride OF five miles, in a good farming
county in Massachusetts lately, we saw
three moving machines standing out
in tho snow. Just where their careless
owners had left them when they got
through using them last summer. If
we were making or selling moving
machines we should be tickled to
death when we saw the farmers rusting
out their tools more in one winter than
they could wear them out in three
summers"
Regarding the value of birds to the
farmer, Prof. Stcarns, in a paper read
before the Connecticut state Board of
Agriculture, states that young robin
in the nest requires daily supply of
food more than DuivHlcnt to its own
weight. The swallows arc tho natural
enemies of the midgcs and similar small
insects that prey on grain. 1t is esti-
mated that the ncstlngs of q single
pair of swallows will in three weeks
consume half million insects. Blue
birds protect fruit trees from insects.
The king-bird is strictly insectivorous
and q great protector. The wrens can
be induced to remain near houses If
suitable boxes are provided, and they
war without ceasing upon caterpillars
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08
Corn and Hogs.

From carefully-conducted expert
ments by different persons, it has been
RsGcrtainGd that one I,ushcl OF corn will
make q little over ten and one-half
pounds Of pork, gross. Taking this re-
suit as basis, The following deductions
are made, which all our farmers would
do well to lay by for convenient refer
ence-that:
When corn soils for 12} cents per
bushel, pork costs H. cents per pound.
When corn costs II cents per bushel,
pork costs 2 cents per pound,
When corn costs % cents per bushCl,
pork costs cents per pound.
When orn costs -, cents per bushel,
pork costs 4 cents per pound.
When corn cost so cents per bushel,
pork costs ) cents per pound.
The following statements show what
the farmer realizes on his corn wher
sold in the form of pork:
When pork sells for 3 cents per pound,
it brings 25 cents per bushcl in corn.
When pork sells for 1 cents per pound
it brings 81 cents per buShcl i'll corn.
When pork sells for 5 cents pei
pound, it brings 45 cents per bushel il
corn. --1DlCricUU FaTlner.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08
Russian Courage

| should rather incline to think that
mere courage is more general among
Russians than among any other people
nowadays. | mean the unreasOning,
irresponsible readiness of dog to risk
life and liberty upon provocation. Not
more volunteers rush out, when des-
perate enterprise is mooted, thap from
our own ranks; more than al is o
mathematical absurdity. But the En-
glishman stakes his life in another,
grander spirit. He feels and reckons
with the peril. Before meeting it, so
far as have seen examples, he is quiet,
thOughtful, contemplating the worst and
making his arrangements. A Russian
scOrns all that, does not even think of it..
After assuring himself, rather roughly,
that the ncedful dispositions have beon
made, he becomes the lghtcSt- hearted
of the company to which he hastens. [
do not say affects to become, for it may
well be that deadly danger stirs him to
mirth as it stirs another man equally
brave to solf-cOmmunC. | can not for
get an instance on RadisOvO Hill the
morning of the great attack. An in
tantry regiment stood ut ease in the rain,
waiting the order to descend into that
valley blind with smoke, cChoing with
tthud of guns and angry crackle Of mus
kerry. The Colonel and a staff Captain
approached and asked us to accept
charge Of letters for their wives, to DO
forwarded in case of accident. Then
they stood chatting of London and Paris
with the warmth of mon whose hearts
were there, though the battle ragged
closer, and ball now and then musi-
cally spun above our heads. They asked
gotten got Dow S1U amS their sbre%d eo%maOts
told they were attending closely, when
an aide came galloping through the
mist. Three minutes afterward the
doomed regiment filed away down to-
ward the valley of death.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08
A VOudOO "Chnrm."

A gentleman brought to our office the
other day q "charm, 80 called, that was
drawn out of the well of a colored man
living on his place, which is supposed TO
have been placed there by one Of his Of.
Tended colored neighbors, who claims to
be n coniurcr. The "charm" consisted of
n portion of n black bug, q bent pin, a
small particle of cotton, thread-liko root
of some kind about two inches long, and
O pinch of hair from q ne8ro's head, all
of which was wrapped up III n small piece
of dirty cotton cloth, that mad been sat
uratcd in some kind of grease or oil. 1t
is quite common to find these cOnjurers
among .la colored people, who claim to
be able by TIC means of "charms" Of one
kind and another to Dut frogs, lizards,
snakes, and the like in certain portions
of a per,on's body This is done, trey
claim, by placing their "chnrms" und9r
the stops oS oinair victims houses, or By
placing them III thor wells or springs, or
by sewing them up in certain portions of
their clothing. Tho great mass of the
colored people are credulous enough to
believe the conjurers possess all the
power they claim, and are generally care
ful not to provoke or offend them. .--Aa-
der8on IS. c. HIteJH9eHoer,
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08
Educational Gifts.

Do not Americans appreciate educa-
ton? Here is list of their benface-
tions: $1,000, 600 by Mr.. Simmons, of
Boston, for tue industrial education Of
women; 81, 100000 by Daniel Drew, to
endow theological seminary, to which
Abel Menand adds $780, 600 more 81 for
the education of women for the min
istry ;" 5000, 600 by Erastus Corning, for
female college 100000 by Robert
Barnes, of Indiana, for tho education of
orphans i'll tho State 100000 by Or
ange Judd, the ngricultural-book pub
Usher, for scientific department in IVES
leyNn University; 100000 by Cyrus
logical seminary Mt Chicago; $1O0,OO
by Daniel Appleton the book publisher
for the Chancellorship and library in
New York University; 100000 by
Nathaniel Thaycr, of Boston, to Harvard
University 500, 900 by Chauncey Rose,
of Tcrre Haute, Ind, for a female col
lege; 100000 by Henry Sage, of
brooklyn, N. Y, for n femalc-collegc
building at Cornell Univcsity; $500, 600
by Mr.. Shaw, of st. Louis, for park and
botanic garden; 100000 by Mr.. Pm-
dee, Of Pennsylvania, for scientific de-
partment at Lafayette College, at Easton,
Pa; $75, 900 by Hiram Sibley, of Roch-
ester, N. Y, for library building at
Rochester University; $4,000 by the
Rev. Jesse T. Peck to the new university
at Syracuse, N. Y, which has been in
creased by other citizens to a million
and half; $15O,O0O by Samuel Willis
ton for educational purposes in East
hampton. Mass.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08
A UindOO Jnggler,

The automaton I shall now describe
is huge carbunclc, in form and appear
ance just like an ordinary date, such as
any one would handle and attempt to eat
without suspectinG deception. 1t was
owned and exhibited by Hindoo von-
trIloquist, who was also juggler, and
he called his carbunclo "the speaking
date" Whenever he spoke to it, the
answer came promptly and appropriately,
as it seemed, from tho very heart of tho
date, which lay on table several feet
from the exhibitor.
1t was not always, however, an obe-
dlent servant, for sometimes, when the
master gave an order, the date argued
the point, making objections, Offering
excuses, and finally yielding, as it were,
under protest
Itwould complain that it was "sleepy. "
or tired of doing the samo thing over
and over" or " the people were not pay
ing attention" But all this only enhanced
the interest of the occasion; and when,
at last, the rebellious little thing conclud-
ed to do as it was bidden, the audience
was in ecstacies.
A tree was made to grow, in our pres
ence, putting forth its long, pointed
leaves, then the dainty blooms and finally
" ShihiC VI luoShouo lIult buU OF IHlS
we are not invited to partake, for it dis
appeared suddenly, and only the single
little golden brown date we had seen Mt
the first remained. This was, of course,
only q specimen of the slight hand
"tricks " that Hindoo jugglers know so
we'll how to perform, while the apparent
speaking of The date was the result of
ventriloquism-thc juggler being able to
make his voice sound as if it had como
from where the date lay, and so induced
the audience to think that the voice came
out of the fruit-like carbuncle itself.
But alter this the stone jumped, walked,
ran, and finally, with head and wings
suddenly attached, flew across the stage,
and alighted between the conjurer's Join
ed hands. This was accomplished by
means of machinery adroitly hidden be-
tween the carbunclo and the golden
tripod upon which it lay. Curious and
startling rs were the movements, they
were wonders of mechanism, and of
course had nothing to do with the super
natural powers, such as the vcntriloQuist
pretended to possess. ss.-FTona on India,
Letter.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08

NOW she receives less than half that
amount, the remainder coming from the
coal helds near Birmingham, Alabama
ouil the Pittsburgh miners stand out
tor their four cents, and one large oper-
ator has made up his mind to 20 to the
mountain, and has already taken up
5000 acres in Alabama.
The United States Government has
purchased the Gumman property, ad-
joining the site Of the former custom
house, at Pensacola. The land purchas
ed by the Government has front OF
seventy feet on Government street, and
they paid for it $4,000. This is the
first move i'll tangible shape to render
available the appropriation of $25O,O0O
made by the last Congress to replace the
custom house that was destroyed by fire
in December, 1880.
One of the most noted housekeepers in
Talbotton, Ga, has not bought pound
of store lard in forty-fve years. She al
so has never failed to plant her Irish po-
tato crop during the dark nights of Feb
ruary in forty-five years, and this year is
the first year in forty-ive that she has
failed to put hog hair on her potatoes.
She maintains that nothing helps Irish
potatoes like small bunch of hog hair
put on top of each seed potato placed in
the ground.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08
NeiCS.
Mouth Breathing rs n Disease Pro.
ducCr,


DR.. Carl Seller recently addressed the
Philadelphia Pharmaceutical Associa.
ton, at the College of Pharmacy, on the
subject of "MOuth BrcatlIing" He said
that many ills that are subscribed to
other causes are in reality due to the ef-
fects of this habit Nature intended the
nose to be used for inhalng and exhal-
ng the atm osph ere, and fitted it up for
that purpose. The mucous membrane
contains what are termed serous glands
which give moisture to the air as 1t is in
hailed, while it is warmed and purified by
its passage through the nose. When
taken directly through the mouth into
the lungs, the air is apt, by reason of its
lack of moisture, impurity or improper
temperature, or all three, to act
as an irritent, especially in the
larynx and in the air cells of the
lungs. Owing to the imperfect oxygena-
bon of air inhaled directly by the mouth
habituaHy, there is often set up in the
system condition that gives the symp-
toms of dyspepsia, consumption, ETC.
The lecturer described the development
Of nasal catarrh and the diseased forma-
tions that ensuo from it, and after speak
ing OF the excessive pain that attended
| attempts to treat them with the knife or
nitric acid, stated simple process for
| burning these formations with an in
candescent plantinum wire, plan which
he declared to be painless to tho patient,
as the intense heat of the cauterizing
agent destroys the nerves before they
have time to communicate with the brain.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08

The question Of the adoption of the
whipping-post for wife-beaters and other
despicable criminals is one upon which
opinion is much divided, and also
one regarding which many mems opin-
ions frequently change. To-day O man
thinks whipping-post law would be o
disgrace upon the statute books of O
State; tomorrow q miserable crime is
brought to his attention, and a appeals to
his wrath, and he thinks tho lash too
light q punishment for the culprit. CAL
ifornia is the State that has most recent
ly refused to add q whipping post amend
ment to its Constitution.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08

SoARnATINA surpasses diphtheria in
Its ravages in Russia. In 1882 there
were 1923 deaths from the former. and
l,l46 from the latter in st. Petersburg
and during five years there have been
156.O27 fatal cases out of 1853. .O18 persons
attacked by these two diseases in the
empire. The GoloS remarks that no war
has ever been so disastrous, and that,
considering the large proportion of
young people among the victims, it is
really the future of the country that is
in question, The great difficulty is the
lack of competent physicians.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08

PHYSICIAN rented his stable in
Chloago to some men who had said they
desired to roast over again some coffee
that had been damaged by wetting: but
he soon discovered that they we're en-
gagged in treating worthless coffee with
poisonous chemicals, so that it could be
deceptively sold for the very best Java.
ne informed the Board of Health, and
one OF the largest grocery firms in tho
city has been exposed as the real pro-
moter of the fraud,
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08

A MASSACHUSETTS, man is curing him
self of dyspepsia by endays fast At
the end of five days he said he felt full
of energy, had no sense of hunger, and
expected to taste nothing until his time
was up. There is no manner of doubt
that fasting will cure dyspepsia, or any
other disease, if tho sufferer will only
refrain from eating long onough.
SwTNDITNa practices by Brooklyn un-
dertakers have been exposed by the
Commissioners OF Kings County, New
York. The law requires expenses of
burying soldiers and sailors who die in
destitution to be paid by the Commits
sioners. The board report that many
bills presented to it by Brooklyn under
takers have already been paid by friends
of the deceased.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08
Kissing in Paris.

party Of young people in Paris
conversation happened to turn on the
subject of kissing, and the question was
proponndcd who of the young men
present could boast of having given or
being able to give "his girl" " the most
kisses. Various were the replies this
question called out. Finally q Young
man and the girl to whom he was be-
trothed bet 200 francs that they could
kiss 10, 600 times in ten hours, provided
they would be allowed to take an Oc-
casional glass "between. Two persons
we're appointed committee TO count the
number of kisses, and Che work began
During the first hour they counted 1000
kisses. During the second hour the
kisses were not nearly as numerous, for
the committee only counted 1000.
After the third hour, during which they
managed to score but 1850, further
operations were brought to sudden
standstill. The lips Of the young man
were seized with cramp, and he was
carried off in q faintinG condition. The
girl, a few days later, was stricken with
brain fever. When the people who had
won the bet demanded their money, the
parents of tho girl refused to pay her
share Of it. The matter was then taken
to the courts; there it was decided that
the bet must be paid.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08

THE Executive Committee OF the
Trunk lines and managers of Western
roads have signed the following agree
ment: owe hereby pledge ourselves
that we will not allow any variations to
be made from the established eastbound
rates, by an officer, agent, or employe of
the roads controlled by us; and that
upon the request of the Commissioners,
when evidence satisfactory to him has
been presented, that the established
rates have been out by connecting road
or its connections, even though reduc-
tion may be made in lis or their own
proportion Of rate, we will withdraw all
prorating arrangements and will not nc
cept from such connecting roads through
bills or through cars, but will cause
transfer and rebilling of property at full
tariff rates from the junction point ::
and we further agree, that any agent
under our control who may be shown to
be quoting less than, or instrumental in
cutting established rates, either by re-
bate or otherwise, shall be discharged" ."
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08

W. w. STORY has expressed his will
ingness to make bronze statue of Dan
iel Webster, to be erected ON Boston
Common, his reward to be either $15, 900
or $4,000, according to size. About
So, 600 have been subscribed, and it is
likely that Mr.. Story will be commission
ed to undertake the work.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08

VANDERBILT has sold the block on
which the Madison Square Garden
stands to Edward S. Stokes and Will
liam Mackey, the bonanza king, for
$95O,000. It is intended by the pur.
chasers to erect O handsome and costly
theater and to cover the rest of the
block with series of splendid compart-
mont houses.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08

The feeling on the lower Mississippi
in consequence of the flood is one of
dread and expectancy. The terrible dis
asters of last year are still fresh in mind
and their repetition is feared At various
points the population is abandoning the
low lands.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08

The Rev. w. Q. Winslow has loaned
to the Boston Society the ancient door
knocker, once in use on the door of his
famous ancestor, Governor Winslow of
the Plymouth Colony. The venerable
relic Is of solid yellow brass, and is ap-
propriately mounted upon piece of
English oak that might have accompan-
led the knocker over in the MayAower.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08
F1CkENS, s. G., THURSDAY, MARCH S, 1888 VOL "a

recent Bloomington, Ill.,, dispatch says
George P. Davis, who, with his wife,
went to Washington with tho intention
OF proceeding to North Carolina to wit.
ness his fathers wedding, has returned
to his homo. The Vice Presidents half
brother, Mr.. Lyman Belts, emphatically
denies all reports concerning Mr.. Davis
matrimonial intention.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08

A VAST amount of cheap fish ts an
nually wasted.in England because the
people ignorantly suppose it is not fit to
eat and won't buy it, One of the useful
features of the coming international
Fisheries Exhibition at London will be
daily demonstrations by the School of
Cookery that these so-called inferior
sorts Of fish are saYorY and nutritious.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08

AN eccentric New Hampshire man re-
luested that after death he should be
buried standing in his coffin and pipe
placed in his mouth; also, that he should
be h&ulcd to the grave in hay-rack.
He died the other day, and his upsym-
pathizing relatives planted him in q
horizontal position, and were glad to get
him under in any shape.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08

AN APPLE IN perfect preservation, al
though ninety-six yeas old, is in posses
sion of a gentleman in Ulster County,
New York. AS it rounded up from the
blossom of the parent stem in the early
summer of 1887, a bottle was drawn
over it and attached to the branch, and
after the apple had ripened the stem
was severed and the bottle sealed tightly.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08

The Asiatic Socioty is about to erect
a monument on the site of the Black
Hole of Calcutta, the dungeon in which
146 British prisoners were confined on
the night of June 20, 1855, and from
which only twenty-three were taken out
alive the next morning.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08

The customs officers ut New York
seized Bible few days ago, because
set in space neatly cut in one of the
thick backs was diamond ring valued
ut $3.50. The package was addressed to
q lady in San Francisco.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08

JAY GOULD expresses the opinion that
there are no good grounds to fear n COM
merclal and financial panic in this coun.
try. He thinks large percentage of the
new railways being built are useless, and
the building of parellel competing lines
simply to sell is ruinous.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08

A NAN named Peter Vending, living
in Bismarck, Penn, was recently exam
ined by the Philadelphia County Medi-
cal Society and pronounced wonderful
medical curiosity. He has neither hair
nor teeth, does not possess the sense CT
smell, and has no pores in his skin. The
latter fact is the cause cf much wonder,
as it has been held that no person
could live without porous skin.
Vending experiences great discomfort
from his incapacity for perspiration,
and his body grows so hot that his
clothing has to be kept wet in order to
mitigate his discomfort. He has al
ways been in good health, and has a
wife and eight children. None of the
children partake of their fathers pecu.
liarities, except that none of them have
perfect teeth.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08

A YOUNG lady OF Bamberg, Germany,
has been punished by fine and costs
for the offense of playing the piano at
night by an open window.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08

"A rrTTsBURaHd detective observes that
there ere few fat men among"the criminal
olassea. The lean and hungry Cassius
Is the bad man. "Our most desperate
criminals" the detective remarks to q
reporter, are mostly small-sized men
with light Domplexions."
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08
LAST spring two women wera electe

LAST spring two women were elected
school directors in Philadelphia. Their
services have been so satisfactory that
eight or ten more prominent ladies have
been put forward by their friends as can-
didates for similar positions soon to be
vacant They will, it is expected, stand
good chance of success.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08
TOPICS OF TIE DAY,

THE latest Washington real estate
claimant is ono who asserts title to the
arsenal grounds.