The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-04-28
MISSING LINKS.
Germany sent out 1O3,657 emigrants

MISSING LINKS.
Germany sent out l03,e57 emigrants
last year.
Ex-King Theebau's nominal prison at
Madras is next door to q large distillery.
Congressman Springer invariably ap-
pears with yellow rose in the lapel OF
his coat.
The thawing breeze that follows the
blizzard is known in the northwest as
"chinook."
The death rate from chloroform is,
according to recent estimate, one in
one thousand.
The average age of those who enter
college in this country is seventeen; g
century ago it was fourteen.
Miss Sweet says she is happier out OF
the Chicago pension Office than she
was in it, and is making more money,
too.
Ouida says if the Venus dc Medici
could be animated into life, women
would only remark that her waist was
large.
The late Joshua B. Lippincott was
probably the richest of American pub
fishers. He was 4 shrewd investor in
railroad securities.
There are Still public lands open to
settlement in nineteen states and eight
territories at prices ranging from Sl.25
to $3.50 per acre.
Mrs. Mary Grant Cramer, sister Of
Gen. Grant, is lccturing in Massachu-
sets under the auspices of the Won-
ems Christian Temperance Union.
Haller, the scientist, has kept papers
perfumed with single grain OF am
bergis for forty years, and there was no
appreciable diminution in the strength
of the odor.
The ear of Weber, the composer, is
said to have been so sensitive that he
could tell the difference of thousandth
part, or one vibration more or less in
the thousand.
Billy Cook, who is ninety years old
and lives at Spottsylvania, Va, has
taken for his third wife Nellie Jackson,
colored woman, twenty-five years old.
Mr.. Cook is also colored.
Crowfoot, chief of the Blackfeet, has
accepted with thanks perpetual pass
over the Canadian Pacific Railroad, and
Chief Kahkewaeuonaby threatens the
Toronto Globe with a libel suit
As an evidence of the wane of roller
skating an exchange cites that lockwood,
of which the rollers are made, is much
cheaper now than at this time a year
ago, and it is likely to 60 lower.
Some OF the money made in the
Northern ci, .: by electric Lulu Hurst
went to bt., Jersey cattle for Father
Hurst's farm, and now he is selling
Georgians an excellent quality of butter:
DR.. Saliva, an Italian surgeon, says it
is always possible to transplant a por-
ton of muscular tissue from one animal
to another, differences of species having
no effect upon the definite result OF tho
operation.
Edison's patents have now become SO
numerous that they have Il special series
of index or reference numbers in the
patent office-the only case in which
such separation from the general index
ms UeeE LiolSHI ueSSSShi J.
An order for farm in Washington
County, Ind, was received by local
real estate agent there from an Ohio
man, who wanted, also, if possible, "a
wife between the ages of twenty and
forty-tive years" to 60 with the farm.
When fair maid was wed by Colonel
Cough, of the Hussars, IN London, the
other day, his decp-voiced, hearty Il
WILL made the bride jump so notice
ably that everybody smiled. He was
man of Mars who talked in tones of
thunder.
The people of the Congo have no con-
ception of God of any kind, and wor-
ship nothing. They believe n charms
to Keep off all evils. They DO not be-
lieve in sickness or death as natural,
and seek out the cause when any one
dies or is taken i'll. Many persons are
thus killed in punishment, and were it
not for this the populace would increase
very rapidly.
Nine Adam is rich and generous, but
dislikes to be disturbed when at work.
It is told that one day visitor entered
QcT SdlCluu SO1ICiI1uS iIO 4Oi I" AAio
school. PUT me down for 20 francs"
(S4), she said, without looking up.
'But, madame" said the other, "think!
It is for the higher education of girls!'
Twenty francs" repeated she, ''and
now excuse me; must 60 on with my
work" The canYasser left IN despair;
but the next day received from Nine.
Adam check for $1,000.
The question is often asked as to the
the significance of the displayed flags OF
the Government Signal Service A
rhyning officer of the service has form
ulated its entire flag code as follows:
A sun Of red Is weather warm,
A sun Of blue is general storm,
A crescent red Is weather cold,
a crescent blue is fair foretold,
A star Of red no change implies,
A blue star local stormy skies.
square Of black on flag Of white,
a cold wave coming in ell its might
Lord Justice Clerk Braxfeld," says
Chambers Journal, was man OF few
words and of strong business habits,
and, consequently, when he corrted his
second wife he sale to her: Lizzie, I'm
looking out for wife, and thought
you Just the person to suit me. Let me
have your answer, on or of, tomorrow,
and nae mair aboot it. The lady next
day replied in the affirmative. Shortly
after the marriage Lord Braxtield's but
Ter came to him to give up his situation
l,ooo,,so bo oo,,IS not heor her adv