The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-04-16
GLEANISGs.

"LfSANASSHsSs
Three billion wooden toothpicks are
manufactured each year In this coun.
try.
The living expenses of an ordinarily
economical single man in the Montana
mining regions is over S62 per month.
One of the New York prison convicts
lately invented hat-pressing machine,
tho patent on which he sold for $1O,-
600.
Tho highest velocity that has been
impaired to shot Is given as 1926 feet
per second, being equal to q mile In SO
seconds
There are but two copies of the
Gutenberg Bible in existence, and one
OF them was sold in London recently
for $19,5OO.
The incessant labors of Major Burke,
director of tho New Orleans Exposi-
tion, for tho past six months have
turned his hair white.
Snakes are so numerous and poison
Gus in Southern Australia that reme-
dies for the cure of snake bites are al
ways in great demand.
AT Leipsic a musical critic has been
sentenced to five days imprisonment
Tor describing the leader of an orches-
ira as n "violin scraper."
The old superstition that the bowling
OF dog at night is always followed bY
death has many adhcrents in the most
civilized communities.
On several transatlantic ships tele-
phones are now used between the
bridge and the wheelhouse, instead Of
speaking tubes as heretofore.
Prince Krapotkino is steadily re-
gaining his health. and by the aid of
his wife, who now lives at Clairyaux, Is
able to do much literary work.
Murder hole is the name given to
a mysterious hole in the ground near
Salem, Va. 1t Is 4Ox60 feet in size and
l36 feet deep. The average Temporal
turo Mt tho bottom is Al degrees.
Mexican merchants never classify
their silks, cottons, woolens and linens,
but mix them up indiscrimately, and
their gloves and perfumery are kept in
the samo drawers with their shoes.
Cadet Alexander, n colored lad from
Ohio, stands nineteen in the West
Point third class Of seventy members,
and Cadet Young. another colored
academy lad, stands thirty-two in the
fourth class of scventy-six members.
Students and professors at Prince
ton have boon discussing hypnotism,
and some of them don't seem to know
what hypnotism is. Do you know.
gentle reader? We do, having lust
looked it up in Mr.. Wcbster's Diction-
ary.-Boston Post.
Men have been employed on RAILWAYS
with the temperature at 1O4 degrees,
and in the mines, under favorable cir
cumstances. at 1875 degrees, while in
the stokc-holcs of tropical vessels they
arc said to work occasionally ~ tem-
perature Of 156 degrees.
A consignment Of hunhln-becs was
lately taken out from England to New
Zealand. At present clover does not
"secd' in that country for want of fer
tilization for tho blossoms. The i'm
portcrs hope that the bumble-becs will
save them 50, 900 year in clover seed.
Mr.. F. II. Gushing. whose papers in
the Century descriptive of his life among
the Zuni Indians have attracted much
attention, says that Zunis smoked ci-
garettcs 700 years ago Many of tho
young men OF to-day are making O. des-
Pei"'' cHoit ~ hiil tnclnSclVeS and re-
vivo the classic customs of the Zunis in
both smoking and banging their hair.
An inability TO clearly perceive forms
and outlines, or form blindness, il a
defect that hats been discovered bv n
New York artist, who says he has
sometimes placed objects in the shapo
Of hcNagons, or octagons, or even so
common shape as a pcntagon or A
fivc-pointed star before certain pupils
as test, and almost invariably they
were unable to distinguish one form
from another, even when with careful
distinction tho differences were OK
planned to them.