The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-03-04
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Aihoihoh III Euiopcs .... .......
M. Hervc, the "father of opera
bouffe," now lives at Folkestone, and
has become n naturalized British sub
ject.
Salvini smokes only cigars that no
himself gets from Naples, and his son
says they are frightfully bad and cost
only II cents each.
The Prince of Wales now wears u
black silk ribbon as a watch-guard, and
about the first of next July the Anglo.
maniac in this country will affect tho p
came style.
Asbestos cloth has been chosen as tho
'J"ckct for the boiler of new loco
motive built for tho Boston S Albany
hallway. This will not char, rs docs
WOOD, and will retain moro heat.
a platinum wire too fine to be seen
with the naked eye is said to have been
made by II. L. Read of Brooklyn. 1t il
TO DO used i'll telescopes as substitute
1or the spiders web usually employed.
Tho single town of Besancon in
owltZeriand, employs over $1,000 Der
sons In matchmaking, and the annual
product approaches 100000 watches. A
government horological school is main
tanned there
In st. Petersburg there arc men who
take about hot tea in largo metal pots
covered with fclt, and sell it to hack
drivers and coachmcn, who have to
wait for long hours In the cold when
there is party.
Archdcacon Farrar is telling English
audiences that during his long Journey
through the United States he saw less
drunkenness than in n single walk in
London. He thinks America is far
ahead of England in temperance work.
The French have looked with alarm
upon the steady export Of Perchcron
horses to the United States; but the
most prominent breeders there now
say that the progeny of these horses
raised in the United States arc an i'm
Provement upon their sires, and that it
Is profitable to rcimport 1t is known
that Napoleon III. used to import Per-
cheron horses from Vermont for the
post chaises which he used so much.
DIR. Gould, the astronomer, is shocked
at the progress America has been max
ing during his fifteen years absence
toward practices and fashions which
arc not the normal ougrowth of Amcri-
can institutions, but an aping of foreign
ways and usagcs, an acceptance of SO.
to England or continental Europe.R
Let them that the fox-huntinp cap
fits" says the Boston transcript. put
it on"
The French papers have been filled
with stories more or less apocryDhal
| about the late Mr. Vanderbilt and his
purchases in Paris. One tale is to tho
effect that on one occasion, looking mt q
| superb exhibit OF ornamental iron work
shown at the Palace of Industry at an
annual fair, he inquired the price of tho
lot. "Thc whole is worth 10000 francs,
II 1t Is worth penny" proudly said the
owner. "Ill take it," said Vanderbilt:
deliver it to me after the exhibition il
over" And he went away. The deal
CT pluckcd at the sleeve of the gentle
man accompanying Vanderbilt and in
quircd in whisper: lis your friend all
right in the hrad?"
investigation shows that the limit Of
temperature ut which men can work de-
pcnds upon the length of their exposure,
the amount of cxcrtion they put forth
their condition. and the nature of the
atmosphere, particularly rs to its dcgrcu
OF moisture. IT is stated that men havo
been employed on railways ut 1O4 de-
SrcrS, in mincS---undcr very favorable
conditions--at 125 deg, and are said 10
work occasionally in the stokc-holcs of
tropical steamers at l56 deg. Professor
Dubois is reported to have estimated
that Il temperature of 122 deg can be
endured when the air is rs dry as possi-
Bile, but that even 1O4 deg. is likely 10
be fatal in an atmosphere saturated with
moisture. 1t is also considered certain
that men cannot become accustomed to
stand for any considerable time high
cr temperature than from l45 deg. to
l65 deg. even when they keep perfectly
still and are in quite pure air.
a letter in the Pittsburg Dtspatch
says: "Col. Ingcrsoll is the kindcst-
hearted man ever saw. Riding all
day with him between Omaha and Chi
cago ! saw little incident that will
illustrate this. On the train was pale,
sickIy-looklng woman. with o frcttul
baby. The woman was in shabby
mourning and was almost worn out
with the crying and worrying of her
little one. The passengers were very
much annoyed and kept looking around
and frowning at the woman, who was
evidently doing her best to quiet tho
child. Finally Mr.. Ingcrsol, who had
been reading, noticed it. Getting up,
he stepped across to the woman and
TOOK the babe, telling her to take littlo
rest and he would take care of the child.
The little one stopped crying at once,
playing with his watch and chain
awhile and finally nestled its little head
down on his arm and went to sleep.
The tired mother also dropped to sleep,
and the Colonel cared for the baby for
upwards Of hundred miles before the
mother awaked and relieved him"
The Dublin Freeman saws: "Thc
Princess Beatrice is beginning to derive
some littlo benefit from her marriage.
Up till now she has never been permit
ted to pay visit on her own account,
to any house-not even to her own rcla
hves. 1t seems, however, she is 10 be
allowed in the course of q fortnight 10
go to Sandringham with her husband
and spend Il few days with the Prince
of Wales. But, rs we all know, tho fcS-
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