The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1888-02-29
HERE AND THERE,

Maine has fourteen cities, and Waterville
Will sooA be added to tho list
Tho average Mexican luborer supports his
| loihily on ten cents peY diem, invested i'm
| corn end beans
| There are fo:ty-three log school houses in
| Iowa. This is the number given in the report
| OF tho state superintendent for 1887.
A low estimate puts tho number Of Dersons
supported by all the forms of employment
furnished by electricity ut 100000.
The Great She" is the name of the latest
goid mine speculative company in London
TIC mine is said to be in South Africa
During 1857 eleven and one-half tons OF
postage stamps-nearly 1000, 600 in number
-werc sold at the New York post Office.
a Greek named Dimitrius Antippa has
just died at Constantinoplo at the ago of 1l5
lie knew RobcSpicrrc, and possessed several
of his letters.
There were not fewer than $3.50 matricu-
iutcd students ut Edinburgh university Inst
year, and tho value Of the scholarship and
p"l"arieS "hich were disposed of was $40, 900
train on tho Alabama and Great Southern
railroad dashed through drove of Gfty
mules at Akron recently ard killed cjght OF
them outright. The locomotive kept on il,
way without leaving the rails
One hundred and twenty bull fights woro
given in tho City of Mexico during tho past
year Seventeen ball fighters were wounded
ana ono professional and two amateur fight
ers killed
The prize for tho cfToctnal destruction of
rabbits offered b. tho New South Wales GOV
Crhileht IS being warmly contested Already
go inventions h&vc been sent in TO compete
for the &2jOQJJ.
lho oorean never cuts his hair, and ho
wears 1t iii braid down his back until ho
gets married, whcn lie has the right to curl
it on the top OF his head 4 man is not SIM.
posed TO hc man until hc can wear lis hair
on tho top OF his head.
Tho champion "Bencdict" OF tho civilized
world Is Francois Sauron wood ranrcr of
Saint Paulicn. He is G3 years old, and on
Jan. ~ was married for the sixth time to a
widow of 60 His last four marriages lovo
occurred in the last four years.
More and more paper is taking Tho place or
woodwork. Paper doors arc now largely
substituted FOR wooden doors. The pancr
doors orc better for tho reason that they arc
lighter; they DO not shrink OF, swell with
chanSc3 of weather; they are maGc from sim
gle sheets of paper nodded into any desired
pattern, and they are not dcarcr than wooden
doors
a Hartford man started q good FRO in n
ShCct l:oh stove in his Office, forgot to close
the d:au8ht, locked the Office door and went
70 dilyc. Nhca he Ca;Hc back he found tho
lire out; but it had madc itself felt before
going ont. Everything in tho room was
scorchod, apples on shelf were baked. and a
dog that mad hGen locked III was dead, cvi-
dcnLly sufoc2tcd
rival TO Dakota for the championship in
low temperature is Wcrchojansk, in Siberia.
INC mean temperature in 1855 was 80 dogs.
below zcro. For January and December il
was G3 dcSs. below, and for July it rose to 60
dogs. above zero. The lowest temperature in
July was 80 dcGs above, while in January
fall to 90 dcgs. below zero was experienced.
This attractive winter resort is in latitude G7
degs 81 minis, longitud1 l33 dogs 81 minis.