The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1888-03-21
CT RRENT NEWS NOTES.
Facts and TanCics Gathered From
Various Quarters.

DuilnS the last sixteen wears % 900 sailor,
on British ships have been lost at sea.
The business of the London postoi,ico il ot
| such magnitude that the present postmaster
general has saved $4,000 Il year in sealing
wax and twino expenses alone.
Tho little farm house i'm which Horace
Greeley was born, together with l20 ocres OF
farm land, is to bo sold at auction at Am
I herst, n. H., for taxes amounting to S?O25.
An eastern man of figures says that an
average OF 1909 people are drowned through
tho ice i'll the United States every winter,
and an average of 5000 arc drowned nv ne,
cidcnt in the summer
steel steamboat, to cost 100000, is being
constructed To run on the upper MiSsiSSippi.
tho expectation hcing that it will make th.
trip from st. Louis to St Paul in half tho
tlmc required by the existing wooden craft.
Electricity has done much for civilization.
but its possibilities, it seems, have not been
exhausted An electric birchn has been in
vented, by which refractory school pupils
can DO punished to nicely and no marks bt,
left
An Ann Arbor student suspected that soma
ono was stealing his coal He loaded one of
the humps with n charge of gunpow,lcl and
tho next morning his landlady's stove blew
up and his breakfast executed beautiful
ircsco design Oh the kitchen ceiling.
Weight sociablcs' are tho latest craze at
NanIiton. Tho gentlemen pick their ladies,
take them 70 the scales, weigh them ,ay n
quarter OF a cent II pound into the general
iuhd m'd iEcn escort them To supper The
latter costs not far from six bits a pound.
Professor Malcomson, of Dallas. Tex. who
is said To- bc teacher of some learning, adj
vanccs the theory that the earth is Hat and
leo tt.,,,l "a 4,
nor revolving around the sun. He also be-
iicvcs that the sun and moon are smaller than
the earth, and that the light of the moon il
her own and not reflected from the sun
y funeral procession which started for tho
cemetery at Fremont. n. Y. encountered
SHOW drifts so deep that it couldn'g nroceeI.
rho remains were placed in n blacksmith
shop near hN and the mournorS an friends
set To work with shOvclS. The woril was not
finished til! the following evening, whcu tho
corpse was buried by the light of lanterns.
The scale bug is tho pest OF California. Ii
confines lta raNag"S to orange groves. 1t
feeds ou the leaves and burrows in tho ten
drills. aud whcn its work is complete the lcnf
curlo up, shrtNcls, and the tree dies within a
short time. y prominent st. Louis manu-
incturcr recently invested $25. 900 in an
Orang" grove near Los Angeles which suf-
heavy CsS.
Eloch Robinson, 1'or more than half Il cont
ury IL dealer in locks in Boston hns just died
at his curious residence. kuoA a as the Round
house. The building, rs its nanlp indicates,
IS circular III form and has three stories; tho
third story being OF smaller diameter than
the others. The i"!orior arrangements arc
in keeping With the or, :herc being cir
cular StarwayS, clt -a rooms, tables, etc,
in profusion.
Every man when lie takes up his cards at
game OF whist holds one out of G35 Ol3, ,hjU.-
600 possible hands. As for the total number
oi variations possible umong al! tho players,
1t is 50 enormous as almost TO exceed belief
Ilr. BIbhagc calculated that il l,OUO. .0OU IL
men were tp lc engaged dealing cards al th@
rate OF one deal each mi'uip, day and night,
Tor looOOJ@U of years, they would not then
haN" cNNaG tel AL ,hc lCsSib." variations az
the card IN;L only lOu,OUuth part nt them
SOME AMUSEMENT NOTES.