The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-01-21
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There Is clock in Middletown.
Conn.,, that has kept time for 227 years.
There is a monstrosity in Shenand pah
County, Va, which is half monkey and
| half calf s.e .,
There are 452 women editors in En.
| gland-more than in all the rest OF Eu.
rope combined. ..r-- ,s
A place where old Roman coins aro
manufactured has been discovered in
Connecticut. 5
The full name of Los Angeles, Cal, IL
La Puebla de Nuestra Sonora La Reina
de Los Angeles. ~'
A Wisconsin man has been sued for
damages because his bees trespassed on
n neighbours sheep pasture.
A man in Crowley, Tex, claims TO
have the biggest hog ever raised in thiA
country. 1t weighs 900 pounds.
| a valuable fragment of Homer's
"Odyssey" has been found at Vienna.
1t dates from the second century
Pearlio Gleason, little girl only nine
years old, took the first prize for oil
painting at the Los Angeles fair. a
Nothing but part of the foundation
now remains Of the house in which
Shakespeare spent the latter portion OF
his life ~ -
Cassius M. Clay. though not far from,
| IS, is managing q large farm in Ken.
lucky, and nearly as vigorous in mine!
and body as he was in his prime. ~
Congressman John B. Storm, of Mon.
roc county, Pennsylvania, occasion all,
eXhorts from the Methodist pulpits In
the absence of the regularly ordained
ministers.
A now sect has sprung up in Canada
whose doctrine is that women have no
souls, because the Bible nowhere men
tons women angels. The leader 10
Frenchman.
A Masonic trowel made of solid silver
for General Lafayette, ard which he
used at the laying of the De Kalb nonu-
mcnt in 1925, is in the possession Of a
family living near Camden, sc.
Nine Modjeska has sent to the New
Orleans exposition doll dressed by her
own hands rs the Scottish Queen Mary.
and the costume is an exact COPY In
miniature OF her own dress in the last
act of MARY Stuart" ~,
The Princess of Wales, who jg still
wonderfully pretty (says Edward King,
writing from Paris), has been several
times in the Bois with her prstt;er
daughters, and the young Princessca
wander about town in the mornings as
no Parisian girl would dare to do.
Miss Clcvcland's conversation ia said
to have oracular quality of her writing.
TO one lady she said: II wish 1 could
observe Washington life in its political
phase, but suppose l am too near the
centre to get an accurate prospective Of
that. Those who live on Mount Athos
do not see Mount Athos'"
Miss Maud Powell, who has recently
met with some favor as solo violinise
at Theodore Thomas Philharmonic cou.
ccrts, is q daughter of tho superintcn-
dent Of public schools of Washington.
Mrs. Annie Louise Powell, who has stlpp
Tor Mr.. Thomas, is also Washinrt,Jn
lady, though not related TO the former
The improved kind of explosive knowp
as cocoa powder is said to possess such
superior value for many purposes that il
has been introduced into the fam rs
| Krupp factory. 1t is asserted that, wa
equal pressure, this substance Civ,
greater velocity to ball than can be 4
tanned with ordinary powder, while It's
smoke is found to be less dense and to
clear OF moro quickly.
The Smithsonian Institution contains
the small nugget of gold, n little LARGER
than pea, that first met the eyes of
James Marshall in the s,lw-lniIl wall At
Sacramento, and was the beginning Of
those discoveries in California at have
added nearly $l,500,0OO,OO0 to the
worlds stock of precious metals. The
nugget is kept in glass case, and 10 ON
object of curiosity to all visitors.
There are two well-known houHe-
decorators in New York City who ara
brothers, Of the same height, weight,
complexion, and build. wearing clothes
Of the same color and style, gnd lunch,
ing together, without speaking word
to each other, every day at Delmonico's.
The ordinary mortal cannot tell them
apart, and one never knows which os
the two he is talking to. '.
\ brewer in Toledo, O., said to cary
on the largest business of the kind In
the State, has had incorporated brow.
ing company with capital of $500, Goo,
| ana has distributed one-half Of the ahares
gratuitously among his employees 1t IL
explained that the owner, fearing THAI
he would not long live to enjoy his
wealth, has taken this method of divid.
ing 1t among those who helped him 40.
cumulatc it,
The Euphrates River, once n mighty
stream, seems likely to disappear alto.
gether. For some years the river bark
below Babylon have bcen giving way
so that the stream spread out into 4
marsh, until steamers could not pnss.
and only narrow channel remained
ior the native boats. Now the passago
IS being filled up, and the prospect Il
that the towns on the banks will b
ruined and the famous river itself viii
be swallowed up by the desert.
The Duke Of Abercorn, says the Lon
don Truth, was a peer and landowner
OF the best type. He had been prorni.
nent figure in society for more than 1ftT
years, and he was certainly one of tho
most popular men of his time. Prince
Albert was particularly fond of him and
often consulted him with advantage
about both public and private INattofs.
The Duke and Duchess ofAberoorn Doshy
figure prominently III "Lothsir," and
thcy were great favorites of Ltrd Bea-