The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1888-02-08
STRAY BITS.

OIF"Nr DlISs
1t will take $4,000 to break up the Great
Eastern, which was sold recently for $4,000.
a blind man in Buffalo has just passed n
law examination and been admitted to the
blr.
Two hundred thousand infants under 9
years old arc believed TO DO farmcd out in
Franco.
An Ohio man has been charged with max
ing love and becoming engaged to three
sisters AL mt once.
PhylloXcra and mildcw have so damaged
tho French vintage that the yield will DO
3,5O0,WO hcctolitcrs less than last year.
There is such n boom in tho Argentine
Republic that Bucnos Avrcs has become tho
dearest city in the world to live in.
The price of pedigree Shorthorn cattle has
dropped in England from an average OF $3.50,
which it reached II few years ago, to $l35.
The cold was so severe in Monterey, Mexico,
recently, that II circus proprietor had to build
n fire around his elephant To keep him from
freezing.
D2awodod, D. T., has nn anti-fat society,
the member of which pledge themselves to
abstain from eating anything hat will odd
to their corpulcncy.
bit of Chinese philosophy runs rs fol
lows: observe not the stranger in thy melon
patch too closely. Inattcntion is often the
highest form Of civility,"
Residents Of Rapid City, d. T., have sent
for II lot of quail for the purpose Of stocking
that region with the birds. 1t is believed
they will Withstand tho rigors Of tho winter.
At tho mouth of the Congo there is u re-
marl:ablo submarine valley. Just Mt tho
mouth OF tho river it is | ,452 feet deep, and it
can bo distinctly traced for 100 miles out to
sea.
In order to Introduce railroads into Mo-
rocco the king of Belgium has devised the
ingenious scheme of sending the sultan q
complete railway train with q lot of rails us
q present.
The new Mexican law which provides that
tho 18th of July each ycar-annivcrsary Of
the death of Benito Juarcz-shall be a day Of
public mourning has been published and gone
into effect.
Hereafter no permits will bo granted in tho
City of Mexico for bull fights OH week days.
This order has been given because hundreds
Of workingmcn neglected their daily avoca-
ton in order to go to the bull ring.
y slcight of hand performer in Thomson,
His, while giving an exhibition presented "a
loaded cigar to Frank Potter OF that town.
When the cigar exploded it burned Potter's
mustachc, cyolids, eyebrows, one Side of his
fuco and one of his eyes.
a Connecticut woman has cmbroidercdthe
words and music of "IIomc, Sweet Home
on a linen sheet which is on the 'spare room'
bed. Her guests havo not decided whether
Tho hostess means to Indicate that they must
feel ut home or had better go homo.
In Liverpool, England, n play entitled
".Nho's the LunaticI' was recently enacted.
Before it was finished half tho people in tho
audience wcic shouting: "Thc author, tho
nuthor!" When he blushingly appeared he was
greeted with roars Of laughter and cries of
Hes the lunaticl'
Five Paris iircmen, on a lark, captured q
c~ountryman's wagon load OF hay on O public
street, and, after turning somcrsaults and
going through other athletic exercises upon
it, began to throw tho bundles of hay Mt one
another and at others. Tho police arrived
about this timc and ended the fun.
Tn" finest house in Washington Is that of
b. IL Warder, on X street. 1t cost 800, 900,
and looks like n Venetian palace. 1t has a
bathroom of white marble, and in one Of tho
bedrooms there is an apartment walled with
mirrors, SO arranged that ono can SEQ every
part of himself without turning his head.
There were lynchcd during tho year 1887
In tho United States no fewer than 1913 per-
sons. or tho various states and territories
Texas leads the list, with fifteen lynchings,
and Mississippi Is entitled TO second place,
with fourteen to her credit. All the victims
were males, eighty of them being negroes.
Saxony and Thuringia are the homo and
paradise of dolls. Tho annual production of
dolls stockings alone in Saxony Is So, 1000
dozen. Thousands of shocmakcrs find con-
slant employment In making dolls shoes,
The export Of dolls to England, Franco and
America is very large, and increasing every
year. y
The Boston and Maine railroad has Just
awarded its prizes to tho station agents who
havo taken tho best care OF their station
grounds and made tho best floral display,
Three prizes of $50 each went TO the agents
ut Atkinson, Madbury n Kennebunk.
There were four $50 prizes, seven $50 and
three $l5.
A Montgomery (Ala.) groceryinap circu,
lated tho report that he had found s 1900 In
bills hidden away among the cobwcbs In q
corner of his store, and there was consider.
Gbic interest around town to know who had
left it thore. After several persons Ind an.
nounced themselves as claimants, no quietly
Informed thom that 1t was Confederate
money.
An Englishman named Hughes, rendered
splcnotic by unYcquited love, committed sui.
cido at Bologna in n most determined man.
pcrs so drank q small bottle Of whisky
mixed with s~trychnine, then locked tho door
and windows, made q fire Of charcoal, and
finally cut tho artery of his loft wrist. A
loaded revolver which no had tying on tho
table became s%uperluous after that.
The littlo village Of Aberdeen, o., which
lies just ncross the river from Maysvilie, KY,
has in tho last quarter OF a century become
widely known az the Grstna Green Of tht
west, and It is estimated that moro unaway
lovers arc married there than In any othel
town In tho world. In thirty years at least
10000 clipping couples have been mado happJ
there and tho justices Of thepeace have grown
rich on the marriage fees.