The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1884-08-21
NO. AZ.
GLEANINGS.
The King of Siam has 263 child

advantages" Of the Fort Gaines Come
terry.
When q man boards o wrong train
OF thought ho is liable to run of tho
track.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart Is eighty-four
years old and tho richest widow in the
world.
At the Carlisle Indian school thcro
arc arc at present 455 pupils-325 boys and
13O girls
Paper is now used in Germany IN
stead of wood in tho manufacture of
lead pencils.
These are tho mornings when tho
roses kiss tho girls on tho checks and
forget to go away.
Two new Cunarders arc now beinq
ouilt with the object of boating all pro-
Vlons records in crossing tho Atlantic.
Robert Griffin, of London, saws tho
world Will not be large enough to hold
Inc population in thousand years
| from now.
wall street is an attractive place
whore man can lose $4,000, 600 in
Tour years without half trying. Norris
totCn HCrald.
There arc l24. 900 miles of railroad.
III the United Statos, or seven times as
many miles rs there are in the United
Kingdom Of Great Britain.
Tho staincd~glass craze in fashion,
ablc households is waning, and tho
opinion of Intelligent people Is that
Wholesale imitation killed it.
Darby Green is & Connecticut Yankee
who was seven years old when tho De-
claration of independence was sienod.
lie IS still vigorous and happy.
Tho Kentucky House of Representa-
tives has passed a bill prohibiting bicy-
| cllstS from using tho public roads of
most of the counties in the state.
New York's Legislature has exempt
ed from taxation the property of dis
abicd ministers and priests oyor 70
years oid, to the amount of $1,000.
Charles Rcado knew tEat death was
coming and refused absolutely to meot
1t at Cannes. NO" he said, "I fool
myself breaking up and l wish to 20
home to die" %
ecclesiastical clocks for bedrooms
arc the newest. They are made of
olive wood in the form of u cathedral.
and in the stceplo in tho clock, sweet
chimes designating the hours.
Lady Ripon and Lady Hobart, Miss
Ky" and Miss Mcpherson, have aided
upword OF ten thousand men, women
and children to cmigratc from ENGLAND
TO the colonies or this country.
Chinese laundries arc sDrinoino IN
with wonderful rapidity in al tho
Southern cities, and tho competition
which they have excited has, in manv
instances, resulted in street brawls.
Matthew Rankin, of Lewiston. Mo.
has been confined to one chair for
thirty-thrce years. He has combino.
ton OF mirrors by which ho looks ont
of the window without moving his
head.
The Astors own certainly n sixteenth
of tho roal estate of New York. And
thoy arc tho very best of landlords
Their prices are moderate, and thcy
never refuse any reasonable demand
for repairs.
Allen Clifford and wifo, of Easton
Washington county, will celebrate at
Christmas tho sevcnticth anniversary
OF their wedding, if life is spared to
them till then. He is ninetv-threo
years old and she is eighty-nine.
In Leigh Richmond's advice to his
daughters, he wrote: "Girls, be cheor-
ful, but not gigglcrs; be serious, but
not dull; be communicative, but not
forward; be kind, but not scrvilc. Be-
ware of silly, thoughtlcss speeches."
A gentleman who has given a good
deal of study to the subject says that
while Philndclphia has u greater num-
Der OF benevolent institutions than anv
city IN the country, the percentage OF
pauper3 to the population is also larger.
a New Haven man has inventcd
new kind Of parachute, which Is fas-
tened around the center of the balloon
ltSelt, and 1t is expected to bring tho
whole affair, including the acrOnaut
down safely If any accident happens TO
the balloon.
Statistics show that among !, 900 doc.
tors the number of deaths annually
ranges between fifteen and twonty-fiye.
AT This rate the number of deaths an
nuaily among the 90, 900 medical mon
OF this country would be, on an aver
age, 1900.
MIR. Case, q matchmaker of Franklin.
"a, has completed n locomotive and
tender six inches long all told, that has
every part complete that is found In O
working engine. 1t is made of gold.
silver and steel, md is destined for tho
Now Orleans exhibition.
Last summer n Philadelphia gentle
man dug out q sand crab on tho Jersev
shore, which he took homo and put in
his cellar. Up to date he says it has
caught liz rats. The rodents smell its
breath, and whom they go to investigate
they arc nippod and hold until tho dog
arrives.
Most Of the ice used Mt Calcutta Ia
now manufactured. Up to four or five
years ago 1t was shipped from Boston.
Although tho manufactured leo only
lasts half as long as the natural ico, It
can be made so much cheaper that it
has driven tho Boston leo out of tho
market.
Two anecdotes OF Seney. tho Metro.
politan's ex-presidont: When, in tho
days Of his prosperity, ho was giving
so much in bcnoVolcnce, bright