The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-10-09
ooos AND ENDS.

OooS AND ENDS.
Tho catch of the Alaska Fur company for.
the last year amounted to l 900, 900 seal skins.
A plain gold ring was found By a Washing
ton, n. c., man imbedded in large block OF
ice.
An Eng glish lady has left $4,000 to be ce-
voted to the photographing Of stars, planets
and nebula.
Legal proceedings that were begun in 1890
in Poland to decide the ownership OF forty
acres Of land have just been concluded. it is
chronicled-
It is said that sixty-three millioncires re-
side in the territory between Dobbs' Ferry
and Tarrytowp, n Y, distance of only six
miles
It is estimated that the amount Of gold and
silver coin at the bottom Of the Atlantic
ocean is about s5O,OOO, 900, and it is further
estimated that most of it will stay right
where it is
The prisoners in the Texas penitentiary
raise sugar cane and refine its juice. After
paying all the costs of food, fuel. shelter and
clothing, S65,OOO have been turned into the
state for this work.
The largest bar Of gold ever cast in the
world was turned out at the United States
assay Office in Helena, H. 7. 1t weighed 5W
pounds, and is worth little over slC0,C00.
The first Mohammedan mosque in England
has just been built in the parish Of No&inS,
close by the Oriental institute. 1t is a hand
some structure, surmounted by an elegant
dome.
The head measurements Of l07 students at
Cambridge university show a small dininu-
ton in the heed capacity as the individual
grows one year older, but this is so small
compared with the probable error that the
observations are quite consistent with the.
hypothesis that the head remains quite sta-1
tionary. 4
The tan shoe may have permanent fu-l
ture after all. One Of the results Of the rel
cent maneuvers Of ~the British feet has been]
the suggestion thnt the marines should weaI
tan or brown shoes henceforth instead OF
black ones and brown gloves instead ot;
white
AS q general result Of numerous expert
ments candle power, as determined by mean
Of the Bunsen photometer, affords no correctj
measurement either Of light giving energy OH
Of the luminosity Of the source Of light, the
direction Of the error always being such a.
to favor sources Of a low degree of incandes
cence when compared with those of higher
temperature.
A few days ago T. g. Adams, of Clarks.s
ville Ga, cut a perfectly sound, fresh look.
ing muskmelon he had just received from
Banks county, and upon examination it was
found that o number Of the seeds had
sprouted and had roots nearly an inch |
long The melon was perfectly sound and
the flesh firm and nice. This IS certainly |
q strange freak of nature i
During the London season there is great
demand for plover's eggs in the city markets
They are the eggs Of the lapwing, e bird
which lays about four eggs Of an olive cast ,
spotted with black. These eggs come chiefly !
from Holland, the home produce being now !
very small, and they are received during the ,
spring and summer, from March to June
Malietoa and the other exiled chiefs have !
arrived in Samoa In the German gunboat :
Wolf The natives hoisted Malietoas old
standard, and the crowd cheered him on
landing Herr Stubel, the German consul
informed Malietoa that he was at liberty tc
do as he pleased Mataafa cordially well
coined Malietoa back to Samoa. The Samoan
crops are abundant, and the fears of a famine
are unfounded 1
Experiments are being made at the farm
connected with the New Jersey state expert
ment station, in New Brunswick, with differ.
ent breeds Of cows, to ascertain the cost and
value Of the products Of the different breeds
Those being tested are the Ayrshires, Guern.
seys, Holstein-Friesians, Jerseys and short
horns The experiments, which include
feeding, milking, weighing, measuring, etc.,
will cover period Of from two to four
years.
The O'Sullvans are coming. There are
twenty-seven of them in the farnily-father
mother and twenty-five sons and daughters
Nora O'Sullivan, the youngest member of the
family, fa1en haired miss Of Is years, was
at the Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary at
Castle Garden the other day. Sho informed
Rev. Father Callahan that she had left her
father, mother, thirteen sisters and eleven
brothers in County Kerry, Ireland. Nora
said further that two Of her brothers were
twins and three Of the sisters triplets. She
hopes to see the whole family in the United
States early next spring. She is the advance
agent, as it were, Of the great attraction !
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