The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1884-11-20
GLEANrNas.

The oyster interest In New York en-
ploys $20,000,000 capital and about
$4,000 men In tho Wholesale trade
alone. Gotham's average daily con-
sumption OF the bivalve Is So. 600 bush- &
els. ...
About 600 German newspapers sre
published Ia the United Stntes. OF
which are in, the New England
States, 208 in the Middle States. 85 in
the Southern States, and $50 In the
Western States.
Mr.. d. II. Elliott, whose services In
the Development Of transportation Ia
cilities have built up the Florida orange
trade. estimates the crop of 1884 and
1885 at million boxes, against the
650. 900 boxes Of last season.
The 9uadricycle is the namo ,giyeRto
n wheeled vehicle invented by Jarnss
y. Brown, Of Boston. 1t has two
small wheels in front and two large
wheels behind. Tho inventor says
tricycle.. 60
There are now in the Treasury vaults
Mt Washington 10000. 600 silver dol
lars weighing nearly 5000 toms. II
placed in ordinary coal carts. ton iR Z
each 1t would make continuous pro-
cession fourteen miles long. The above
figures do not include the silver bullion
and fractional silver. of which there is
thousand tons more. t u
Miss Nellie Arthur carries doll,
When she was with her father at Kings.
ton, N. Y, a woman said: MY good
ness! why does that big girl carry
dollr' An answer was quickly given
by another woman. who said: ..Well,
If the Kingston girls would, carry dolla
until they were q little older instead Of
running after tho boys before they got
their short dresses off 1t would bo
much moro to their credit"
What is claimed to be the largest
grain elevator in the world has been
erected Mt Newport News. Va, by the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company.
1t is 80 fcet wide, SS6 feet long and
about 164 feet high, with engine and
boiler rooms 4Ox100 and 40 feet high.
The storage of the house is /, GOO, 600
bushels. with o receiving capacity OF
80, 600 and shipping capacity Of 20.-
900 bushels per hour.
The Chinese have what Is termed tho
kite festival on the ninth day Of tho
ninth moon. Sometimes the kites re.
semblo serponts 80 feet long, at other
times group of hawks hovering
around center, all being suspended
by single strong cord, but each kito
moved by separate line. Sometimes
the kites arc cast adrift under tho bo-
lief that they will carry away with
them all pending disasters. "
A benevolent woman In Cincinnati
has undertaken to supply poor, lonely
bachelors in tho West with wives. For
81 she will send an applicant list of
names of farmers daughters with whom
ho can correspond with matrimonial
intent. IL he cannot, with this advan-
tago, capture companion. ho ought to
be doomed to everlasting loneliness.
Several able works on tho art Of letter
writing contain somo effective amnu-
milton for this purpose. Having the
girls namo to begin with. he has only
to fire it Mt the mark. - - -
Coral fishing is largely followed in
Algeria, 10000 to 45, 600 pounds Of cor
oil, valued ut about G38, 900, boing the
yearly production; La Gallo Is the cen-
ter of this industry. and there are en-
ployod annually 160 boats and 1000
men. The coral is obtained by means
of wooden apparatus in tho shape of
a cross, having in its center leaden
slug or stono for ballast. Nets, tho
mesh hes Of which arc loose. are hung
on the bars of tho CROSS and dragged at
the bottom of the sea, and among tho
crevices of the rocks. These nets.
winding about tho coralino plant.
break up or tear offits branches, which
adhere to tho meshes. The apparatus
Is drawn up by the fishermen whenev.
or he thinks it sufficiently laden. There
is also not which is provided with
large iron nails. having thus great
forco to break the coral. but this ap-
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