The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1884-09-18
GLEANINGS.

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A now kind of beer is made from
rice in q Bavarian brewery. ...,
Talmage has been made o d. ID. by
the University Of Tennessee. -.
The old Garfield Memorial Church
at Washington has been sold for 1882.
Nearly 5000 women arc employed In
tho various government offices In En-.
gland. g.
Queen Victoria was instrumental in
causing women to be employed in tele-
graph offices.
A convict from Clark county, In tho
Ohio Penitentiary. cut off two fingers
to keep from work.
George Augustus Sala says that he
has written during his journalistic
career of 35 years more than 1000
newspaper essays.
James Watts workshop at Heath
held Hall is preserved just as he last
went out of it-even to the leather
apron thrown across the wise.
Out of Japan's total population Of
3O,oOO,OOO there are only 10, ,O50 paup-
ers, and of these moro than 1000 are
at Toxic, in tho work-housc.
The forests of Europe are estimated
to covor 100000, 900 acres. or nearly 20
per cent of the surface of tho contin.
ent.
Turkeys are in demand among the
vine-growers Of Fresno, Cal, who
want them to range tho vineyards and
catch the slugs that arc now attacking
the vines.
There Is q concerted movement
among actors in ''combin ations" to se-
cure tho abolition of tho Wednesday
matinee, which they seem to hold in
special detestation.
Pretty little baskets for sending
flowers by post are the latest novelty
in England. They fasten with pad
lock, the person sending and tho per-
son receiving each having q key.
Croquet threatens to como AGAIN
into fashion in England, lawn tennis
being objected to as making ladies
dreadfully flushed, and rs too rapid in
Its movements for adequate Irritation.
In the eighteenth century the growth
OF population in Denmark was so small
rs to bo scarcely noticeable. During
the present century the population has
two.
A man in Arizona is suing local
paper because it announced that ho
was the father of thieving boy q week
old. The editor meant to say "thriv.
ing but fate and the type.setter
ordered otherwise.
There is fortune in so small a
thing as device for fastening neck
tic. One of the patents in that line
has just been sold to company for
$1,000. 600 in cash, and royalties that
may amount to as much moro.
Baron "ennyson very properly refus-
es to be bored. He announces ofIi.
cially through the London Times that
he will not answer the multitudinous
letters sent to him, will not look ut
manuscripts nor even return them.
Johannes Scherr, tho German critic,
insists that "in tho wide world there
are perhaps hardly throe women who
know, honor and love Shakespeare.
Whyf Because he calls things by
their name; because ho is natural,
like nature"
Coal is cheaper in Boston. 354 miles
from tho coal fields, than it is at Phila-
delphia, only 80 miles from the fields.
Bostonians pay 1926 per ton of 1000
pounds and Philadelphians $3.50 per
long ton of e. 240 pounds, or IS. 90 for
1000 pounds.
The story OF North Carolina ruby
Is thus set forth by the Asheville Cit;-
zen: "Mr. Daniel Selford found a
ruby in Clay county which he sold for
$15. 1t next sold for $4,000, then for
$6, 600, and lapidary bought 1t, and
after working upon it, sold It for $18,-
OOO."
A peculiar reptile is tho horned
rattlesnake now on exhibition in Los
Angeles. 1t is about fifteen inches In
longth, and has two horns which pro-.
ject from its head just above tho eyes.
Ae has only five rattles and button,
and was captured at Indio Station, ON
the Colorado Desert.
Between tho ages of fifteen and
forty-hVe o woman can grow aborH =
seven crops OF hair. 1t averages sunibi
iour ounces to the crop, and Y
the prevailing popular color I'm.
handsome price. The totf I52n,
crop is estimated at 100 tons, 402 D
from 6OO, OOO hoads. Not 30 pI
Tho most successful COUNT 40 p 1
the dino is said to be made or,
mixed with somo base metat1l 65
process unknown to ordinary wor 15
In metal and glass. The counterfo ,
looks exactly like the genuine 10-con D !
piece, but on being struck with O. ham.
mor 1t is crushed to pieces.
Tho Mormon bill should be extended
so rs to include Kentucky, or at tho
very least to include DR.. Hirschbera. OF
Louisville. in that state. He has mar
Tieu' successiVely. a German, .,
French girl, an Irish maiden, q mu.
iatress. and six young American
damsels. He is now, very properly,
In tho cold embrace of Jail.
In Queensland, immunity from pun-
lshment induces tho white men to
think nothing of taking the lives Of
natives, and the latter arc killed for
stealing few pieces of tobacco. IS was
the case with a skipper at Dufaur0
Ireland. For a trihing theft he shot
threo men whom he suspected.
Tho amount of the donoaitR I'm the