The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1884-10-30
GLEANINGS.

the country's resources this wear.
Of tho 25l applicants for admission
to Harvard, forty-nine are ladies.
The poultry crop of North Canol,na
is said to t'fS bo worth about s.. 800, 900.
The births in Spain 6GGff during 1888 num-
bered 453, 900. and the deaths 10000.
A woman of Greenwood, Me-, is reA
ported to be cutting her fourth set OF
teeth. ms-.
Canada exported last year 81, 705. BIT
worth of butter and $6, ,451, $40 worth
of cheese
Sam Collyer, tho noted pugilist, is
now living in the vicinity of Hampton,
Virginia. -.-..-.r.--.... .-.--,-3s,,e j.
The worstcd industry of England
employs 2, 225, 82O spindles; in France.
2,765, 900. - ...
Alexander II. Stephens library, which
cost him $50, 900, has beeen sacrificed
for $500.
Tho census of 1880 shows 1852, 600
colored people in the former slave
states.
1t is estimated that tho yield of APP
pies in western New York will be A,
| 600, 600 barrels.
An old we'll in Staten Island Is said
to be running dry of water and taking
turn at oil giving.
The "Osbornc' flat-house in New
York city, which is almost completed,
is fifteen stories high.
| Rev. Dennis Osborne, q native mis-
sionary from India, says his people
have 333, 900, 600 gods.
The Cape Cod canal dredger is the
| 1n,p II
cubic yards an hour.
"Thc razor of Daniel O'Connelln is
labclcd for salo in shop window near
the Seven Dials. London.
Samuel Noble, of Admission, Ala, has
given $50, 600 toward founding q free
| high school 1T that place.
1t is estimated that upward of 50O,-
| 900, 600 tons of canned goods are annu-
ally packed in this country.
A Stutts art doctor says that corpu-
icnt persons may become thin by sleep-
ing on and wearing animal WOOL
Thirty vessels havo been wrecked
and sunk of Norwalk and Bird idgewater
on the Conf "cticut shoals since 1882.
Eddie Bunncll. living near Court
land, Sacramento county, Cal. aged
six years and three months, weighs
107 pounds.
Oil-bearing strata exist in the neigh
borhood of Sib, Southern Afghanistan,
and tho government will begin boring
next winter.
Il Walla Wnlla, w. IT,, man claims
to have picked over 5000 pounds of
strawberries from loss than two acres
OF vines this season.
An astronomer who believes that tho
science depends much upon photog-
raphy estimates that it would take ten
years to photograph tho heavens. .."
A woman has recently patented a
fire escape. What we must need in
this leap year of our Lord is man
escape viii some woman patent oneP
General George Fl. Thomas widow
will make Washington her permanent
home IN the future, and has already
begun the erection OF q handsome resi-
dCnco there.
hundrcd-ton cannon that was be-
ing fired for the first time recently at
Gibraltar split or burst at tho muzzle
i'll consequence of the shot not being
rammcd home.
An Old duck shooter calculates that
broadbills fly at the rate of thirty-five
to ITO miles an hour and other varieties
from forty-iivo or fifty to eighty and
100 miles per hour.
There are $50 colleges and uniyersi-
ties in the United States, of which only
twenty four have more than 25O stu.
dents, and only seventeen hayo moro
than twenty teachers.
There arc nine octogonarians in the
British house of commons, tho oldest
being cighty-tnroe. Ono member, Col.
North, who is eighty, has son who
sits in the house of peers as Lord s
North. u
1t has been observed that Miss Hurst
the Georgia magnetic girl" before
eXerting her powers habitually passes
her hands through her bangs. Perhaps
her strength, like Samson's. lies in her
hair. ...
The study of tho Irish language is
becoming popular among many Irish
men in this country. In most of the
large cities there arc classes organized
for the purpose. The Philaielphia
classes, for instance, number fifty
pupils.
In order to prevent haystacks being
destroyed by fire, farmers In the far
west scatter few handfuls of common
salt between each layer. 1t is claimed
that the salt, by absorbing the hu.
mldity of tho hay. prevents It's fermen-
tation and consequent heating.
The mortality of the whole globe has
been computed by continental publi.
cation at the following figures: Sixty
seven per minute, 97,700 per diem and
80 639, $50 per annum; whereas tho
oTths are 36,792, 900 per annum, 100,.
wv per diem and 70 por minute.
~ mysterious and terrible creature
known as tn" "willipus wallipus" has
mate its NJ arance near Clarksville,
TecA. A amber of citizens have seen
II, and they say it is bullet-proof and
bLlches fire. The "moonshin0rs" must
be doing good business in that part
Of the country. ...,...
| Robert Shumote of Nelson KY,, Oob