The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-03-26
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flowers arc. visible only Skon tho wind
blows. Thoplant Is about three fcot fr
height, and on tho stalk arc 4 number
of little Jumps from which the fiowofo
protrude when tho wind blows upor
them tS
N1he Free Methodist minister at Colo
rado Springs owns cow twonty-thres
years old, aud he challenges tho ocufs
try to show up her senior. This may
not be the. oldest COW living, but there
are q great many people who believe
they have seen pieces OF older once or
their breakfast tables.
Araf11e for a fawn recently took placs
in Montana town. After the raflia
was over the holder Of the winning
ticket asked for his fawn, supposina
the animal to bo pet in some family y
The lady manager of the affair told him
it was out in the hills with its dam, and
oil he had to do WAS to go and catch H.
A North Carolina eolored man re
Gently found a lady's workbRg, containa
ing $40 in money and a Giamond pin
and kept it intact three months, mean
while searching everywhere for the
owner. When at last he found her. II
proved 10 be 3 lady OF woaith, who
opened her heart and rewarded the
colorod mans honesty with . gift Of ~ :
cents.
In Montreal snow is not allowed tc
romain deeper than six inches on the
sidcwalks, and tho surface must be kept
even. The clparin9 Of roofs aud
walks must be finished before Q q. m.
Twonty dollars and costs is the penalty
for tenants and owners who ignore the
civic bylaw III this respect. end ell re.
sponsiblo citizens arc liable to arrss,
without warning for its contFaYentioi,.
% Denmark spends SO, 900 annually :,oa
agricultural teaching There are dairy
schools and schools in agriculture.
Improved methods are taken up ay
every Dane, from the King down to tha
humblcst farmer The consequence 10
that this little, cold, barron country 10
able to export largo numbers of excel
lent cattle, quantities Of farm and dairy
produce, whilo the producers arc thriv.
ing and comfortable.
The Turkish woman is supcrstitious
in the extreme. she believes In charms.
She will not live IN hour boroft Of heS
thrce-corncrcd bit OF leather which en-
closes the mystic phrase thst 10 potent
to ward Off tho evil eye. She distrusts
Tuesday rs the mother OF ill-lucS, and
will not celebrate the birthday anniysr-
sarcs of her children, or even record
the date, lest somo magician uses It to
cast spoil against the child. "as
There is q lady residing in Paris At
present who is said to be preparing a
genuine sensation for publication. 1t
is TO be n brochure, in which she at
tcmpts to prove that she is the eldest
daughter of Queen Victoria. She claims
to be able to show that she was substi-
tutcd in tho place of the Grown Prin-
cess of Germany, with the connivanco
ofSQnc of tho court habitues, and with
out tho k..oWlI.:Y& 0( I've :i.u..:tcr.
Eli Perkins was given q reception
worthy of his reputation ut Yankton.
ID. T. He was advertised to lecture In
tho opera house, but whom Ihe->gsached, 4
the hall, though it was brilliantly
lighted, not soul was to be seen. moi
did any one como in during tho hal
hour the committee spent in exprsssir
its surprise to the great fabric
Then he took him over to MarketsrSS
where packed hot &c greeted hintpiW
great laugh. .' y, F. ... m
In spite OF Signor BriSnoli hayin9E
sided so long inAmerica and the fact tia
nc married an American lady, he mover
learned to speak our language with
any degree OF iluency or correctness. At
one tlme when lie was staying ut hotel
at Long Branch he missed his hair
brush; unable TO find it he rang bis bell,
and when his servant appeared he said,
In very curious tone: Yeuter,Iav I
was hairbrush; to-day.-whero am fP'.
Tennessee has now sixteen coal.
mines in. successful operation. Il is
said that tho Sewanee coal-mines are
the best ventilated mines In the STATS.
II not in the South. They have sS
many entrances, connected with each
other, that the atmosphere in thern 10
not only delightful, but tho temperA
ture remains the same all the ysay
round. Miners wear tho same clothins
in the mines during the Winter months
that they wear in tho Summer. Twelve
hundred and thirty men arc engaged ir =
these and the South Pittsburgh n1ines.
and GOO more miners would be employed
II they were to be had.
The superintendent of the New York
Women's Protective Union gives an in.
teresting account of tho wages of wo
men belonging to the union. Actresssy
OF tho ballet and utility get from 95 ts
81 and from $18 70 $50 4 woek, MillL
ncrs each from Sc to $18, dressnnakers
from S6 to So. Housekoepers get from
$50 to 800 per month This Includes
board. Trained nurses earn $40 to &N
a month. Proof-rcadcrs mako from 9I5
to 500, and copyists get from 81 to SIS
a week. Saleswomcn earn 50 to SI2 a
week. Teachers of languages earn
from 26 cents to 81 an hour, '"elegraph
operators got $40 year.
Il have" says wcll-known Nov
York Professor, taught the art OF rid.
ing in Germany, where tho uncmotiongl
German lass is perseI oring enough, bus
lacks the fearless dash and energy "a
the American girl. have travelled and
observed tho English women az they
appear. when or horseback, seen the
maidens cantering oyerths
campagna on their bushy-tailed steods.
and watched the French matrons a.
they paradcd past on high-stepping
chargers on the Bos de Boulogne,s btii
for graceful position and porfect ease
in tho saddle will place the American
girl against them all"
Chatting with Gen. W. T. Sherman