The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-01-29
GLEANINGS,

land, participated In principally by tho
scientists, looking to fhe abolition of
private insane asylums. ~: r......
The Popois one of the busiest men
In Europe. S'~His time, from early
morning to lato al" night is completely
taken up by business and callers.
A Massachusetts man hns discovered
o sure euro for sea-sickness. 10 .
counter-irritant in tho shape of o mid
blister application behind The ear.
A recent estimate, made by means OF
q, very intricate testing apparatus,
places the rate Mt which an electric dot
travels over q telegraph wire at 10000
milos per second.
| Recently in Paris, during tho session
OF the Congress of the ee-Thinkers,
one ominont thinker, striking an atti-
tudo passionately exclaimed: "Gentle-
men, am an atheist-thank Godr'
A New York street car company
sends cars to Japan. Australia, Buenos
Ayres, Santiago, Calcutta and Berlin.
Tho company makes GOO cars annually,
ranging in price from $3.50 to $1,000.
A clean ond perfect COPY of John
Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progross," 1878,
has just boon added to tho British Mu-
scum library. Only three other copies
arc known, apa but two Of these are
perfect.
Professor Baron Nordonskiold Is
about to vary his arctic experiences by
an attempt to visit the south pole Ho
has gono to st. Petersburg in order to
interest several influential porsons.in
his now enterprise.
A brick in tho gable end of ON old
tavern Mt Hancock's Bridge. Salem
County, N, j., bears tho initials of "W.
5. b. The wero placed thore by
William and Sarah Hancock, who hnd
the house built in 1884.
Horr Mycr, German statistician.
says that 95 por cont. Of tho people of
| Germany receive less than q dollar n
day. Tho sudden and formidable
| growth of Socialism in that country
may thus DO undorstood in measure.
The Progress Medical describes two
new Oriental poisons, which arc said to
be innOcuous whom taken into tho
stomach, but have tho remarkable
quality of Immediately arresting tho
action of tho heart whom introduced
into tho blood.
The discovery of n silver mine dis
trict sixty miles by thirty on tho bor-
| ders OF Now South Wales and South
Australia, Is tho excitement in those
parts. In ono instance a mass of two
tons yielded 10000 ounces. A similaR
discovery is also announced in another
part Of Now South Wales.
Bismark evidently thinks that 1t ls
as easy to make horse drink as to
lead him to tho wator. Ho caused
law to bo passed forbidding tho inhab-
itapts OF tho duchy of Schleswig-Hol-
stein. recently wrested from Denmark.
from speaking tho Danish language.
Evcn school children aro punished
when they speak among themselves in
their native tongue, and so far has this
law been carried, that O. young girl's
birthday festival was broken up and
the guests arrested and fined because
they sang some old Danish folk songs.
During tho Franco German war Mets
ana Paris communicated with the out
side world by carrior-pigeons. and tho
German Generals declared them con-
traband of war. They continued how
ever, to be introduced into France from
belgium, where they arc q specially,
Pigeon-racing and breeding having long
peen national sport, there. The Boil
gum societies were never more -four
lshlng than as present, and are very
| ~A'ASAioA III IoBdtu W DC0eu9s tho
Antwerp being the favorite; In some OF
the!r nurseries tho boxes arc mahogany,
with solid silver embellishments. Thir.
ty miles On hour Is tho average speed
OF the Antwerp pigeon, which always
doscends at night for shelter and re-
pose tho carriers flight being
guided by sight alone.
In France, by refinement Of judicial
cruelty, tho date of execution is NOT
known until tho previous evening.
Notices are then sont to the gov
ernor OF tho jail, oxecutioner and chap
lam. From tho hour of his sentepce
tho criminal Is dead to tho world. En-.
| Vironed by guards, he Is taken to q cell
with two beds, one of which is occupie6
by monster (prison spy. He s put
into suit OF rough canvas shirt, wool.
On trousers and felt Shoes. A ahort
walstcoat of canvas, opening behind
and secured with leather straps IA fixed
over this suit, and the long sleeves arc
attached to q cord which passes around
the thighs, so that he cannot lift hiq
hands above n certain height, and Ia al.
most helpless to perform the most or.
dinary movement. His food Is taken
with wooden spoon. A wardor and
gendarme keep perpetual watch. He
nlay sleep or smoke or cat, but no visit
tors arc admitted nor any tidings from
tho outer world.
Tho German newspapers report that
vory destructive insect has been rn'
Gently introduced into that country
from tho United States. 1t is described
as moth, imported with wheat nv
Indian corn, and capable of reproduo.
ing itself rapidly. Tho appearance OF
this insect has caused no littlo alarm.
especially among tho millets, because
in somo instances it has become nooea-
sary already to suspend work In order
TO free the bins and machinery which
were chokcd by tho lodgoment in them
OF myriadS Of the pest. Herr Zelley'
the Wcil.known entomologist. has clsss
siiled this small butterfly, the worm Of
which only lives upon -four or meal eS
Q Phicydo. This injurious moth Is said
70 have boon first seen in Holland AZ
1879, since which tinnn e ~ - -