The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1883-06-21
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

1t is stated thaC the StaCe chemist o.
Georgia has found by analysis that ont
bushel of sweet potatoes contains hal
IS much nutrition as bushel of corn
two bushels of potatoes equaling one
bushel of corn, for fat producing pur
poses. If this is correct, it is impor
tant, since land which will produce in
the south forty bushels of corn pei
acre, will produce from 100 to l5C
bushels of sweet potatoes.
How does it feel to be in an earth.
quake? We prefer to take our knowl'
edge of such phenomena at second
hand. Horace d. Warner, writing
in one of the magazines, regarding his
experience in the much shaken South
American city of Caracas, says that in
passing through an earthquake one
feels very much as if he were by one
or two rapid jerks hauled to the sum-
nit of a declivity and then as uncere-
moniously tumbled down the opposite
side.
A deficient wheat harvest in the
United Kingdom is now inevitable.
So great, however, have been the i'm
ports of foreign wheat to meet this de-
ficiency that the Surplus supply of do
mestic and imported wheat and flour
in Great Britain is now about 3O,OOO,-
900 bushels, as against 100000 or
100000 in previous years. The
shortage in the European grain crops
of this summer will, however, make a
fair market for all the remaining sur
plus of breadstuffs in the United
States.
The gold hunters are turning their
faces toward Alaska in mass, and q
movement that way has been begun
which is said to threaten to become a
stampede. A party of twenty of the
oldest miners of the gulch left Dead
wood equipped by pool of $4,000
that was raised among the business
men Of the city in one afternoon. Let
tiers from Chicago report hegira from
that state also, while the papers of
Colorado, Arizona, Montana and Cali
fornia indicate that numbers are leav-
ing from those localities.
Washington daily papers contain ad-
vertisements offering various percent
ages and bonuses for official appoint
ments. One young lady is willing to
give $3.50 for a clerkship paying $50 IL
month. Others offer ten per cent. of
the salary, and others as much as 33b
per cent. The number of these adj
vertisements illustrates the struggle
for existence carried on at the nation
al capital; but the steadiness with
which they are published shows that
the system of office-brokerage in the
departments has not been suppressed.
There. are eighty banks other than
savings banks in New York and
Brooklyn, seventy-one insurance COM
panies, eleven trust companies, fifteen
gas companies. One bank has its
stock quoted at 2105 or 1000 per cent.
premium because it never yielded to
any panic; another has been as high
as 800 during the year, and a third
$50. A few are never quoted and
some are almost unknown, but are in
addition to the number given. The
bank so far up in the scale of prices
has small capital. One bank with
FIVE millions capital is quoted as high
as $50.
A correspondent writes that out in
Che wilderness beyond Cheyenne, Wyo-
ming, dwells hermit whose business
it is to take care of relays of horses
for the stage. Nothing grows nor is
water to be found for miles and miles
around his desolate cabin, and yet he
endeavors to make life cheerful. His
humor expresses itself in the follow.
ing Illuminated signs posted conspicu-
ously on his shanty: "Hotel de la
Starvation" Fifteen miles to water"
TWENTY-FIVE miles to wood" "Seven
inches to perdition," "Wanted-A neat
and tidy girl to do general housework. 1"
This man never sees any living being
axooot onca q dav when the coach