The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-03-27
CURRENT NOTES AND COMMENTS.

\ Florida grower has a Northern coz
tract for three tons OF watermelon seeds.
The dog tax ADDS $39.0C2 4 year to
Connecticut'S treasury.
pigot1ry" and Ito Pigott have
been added to parliamentary English.
A Hungarian woman lately had
sneezing spell which lasted twenty-toiiT
hours.
u claim a pension, wrote soldier
recently to Gen. Black, for vertigo got
in chasing Lee.
A head OF cabbage grown by Geo;
Berry, near Pensacola, Fla. measured
twenty-five inches in diameter.
Henry George is in big luck N Eng
land. The London Times is Jumping
on him with all four OF its feet.
If President Harrison doesn't work
that axe faster there is going to be "
famine in the army of the outs.
More than twenty million acres OF
land in Washington Territory, or nearly
one-half the whole area, remain UnSur-
veyed
When the Samoan commission meets
their first business ought TO be to give
us an authoritative spelling fcr Page
Pang0.
Russian statesmen, from Count Eoist0l
down. are aiding in the organization OF
societies for the prevention and sup
preston Of inebriety.
A ne-thousand-mile submarine cable
is to be laid from Banjoewangle to " est
err Australia to avoid interruption from
volcanic uDheava!.
There are $3.50 lawyers IL New
York city, whose aggregate fees and ~
comes amountto something over -, ,ooo,'
600 year.
The thirteen Canadian Cabinet Of
fcerS receive Sl05,000 a year, while the
eight Cabinet officers of the United
States receive $4,000.
Samuel Cummings Of Boston, while
leaning against rail in his grain mill,
.sbegan sneezing, and Sueezed so harc
he dislocated his shoulder.
The Michigan Legislature has paS>e,, !,
bill which gives the women OF Detroit
the right to vote for school inspector,
beginning with the election this spring.
The Gillian government has issued
!. decree prohibiting the immigration OF
Chinese into the republic.
Iowa farmers raised enough corn last
year to pay off all the farm mortgages IN
that State, and leave q balance of 100,-
900, 900 bushels for feed and Seed.
London has an electric omnibus. It
carries twelve, and it is said that ii can
be guided with accuracy and case by any
man with intelligence enough to drive
horses.
In the German city of Frankfort there
is an old bakers shop in which success
sive generations of dough workers have
carried on their trade since the year
146..
In speaking of the cider clause in the
State law Boston man says that an or
chard in Massachusetts, is good deal
like self-rignteousnesS, the more you
have of it the worse you are off.
a rich pauper, George Cook, aged 20,
an inmate of the poor house at Craw-
fordsyille, Ind, was Friday discovered
to have Sc, 62S. more than half Of 1t in
gold, hidden in a box under his bed.
Australia has just made to a projected
railroad grant of 100000 acres, or
10000 acres mile The grant to the
Pacific railroads in this country
amounted to about 6,400 acres per mile.
.-Pawnbrokers of Boston are op-
posed to recent order Of the police
board Of that city that licensed pawn
brokers shall report daily description
of articles purchased or taken in pawn
and Of the persons pawning.
Postmaster General Wanamaker was
recently asked for an expression of his
views on the prohibition question. He
said: s'There is only one side to the pro-
hibition question, and that is the right
Unconstitutional amendment. am
in favor of it first, last and al the
time.n
"A fashionable young woman in New
York has undergone a remarkable sur
gical operation, long and painful, by
which her tip-tilted nose became an Or
gan of pure Grecian design.
Testimony iu a recent snit brought
by HarrisyGold, of Philadelphia, to obtain
wages due him, revealed the fact that he
had been employed to make trousers for
ninety cents dozen, or seven and half
cents pair.
Saloon keepers in Grass Valley.
CAL, lately organized a 'Etrust" and
raised the price Of beer to ten cents a
glass. Last week newcomer opened
uew saloon, and, with the beverage at
FIVE cents, did a land Office business
until the ''truSt" made it worth his
while to leave town.
While nickel Scent pieces are cx-
tremely scarce, it is a curious fact that
they are freely found among the plate col
lections of some churches each Sunday.
1t is supposed that in the dim religious
light of the churches the donors mistake
them for dimes.
The resignation OF Senator Chace of
Rhode Island has aroused much curl
oSity. It is now said that when the
Senator found money had been cor
rnptly used BY bis friends to elect him
he only remained IN the chamber long
enough to protect the Republican ma-
jority.
George ". ChildS OF Philadelphia
will permit the use Of tie harp that
belonged 10 the Irish poe:, Thomas
Moore, at the Scotch Irish Congress to
be held at Columbia, Tenn. on May s
to II.
Jesse Grant, a son of the late ex-
President Grant, is said to lie growing
rich in California, where he is farming
on large scale. Heis apparently salts