The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-08-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Henry y. Stanley's manuscript
is very legible, and scarcely an altera-
tion is made in folio.
"A woman buried at New Madrid,
Mo-, a few days ago, weighed $50
pounGs. There were 16 active pail
beare s.
One of Californias pretty heir
esses is Miss Grace McDonough, who
will inherit fortune of $3.OOO,OOO
from her mother.
Senator Wade Hampton has ut
last shaved off the side whiskers
which he has so assiduously cult
waited for 10! these many years.
The estimated expenditure in the
British navy for the year will be,
from all sources, El9,263,6 ,633, while
that of the army will be f19,O47, 800.
The Emperor of r. Issia, Alexan-
der II, has Just had 1000 pheasants
sent from England to his shooting
place, on the Gulf of Bothnia, Mt IN
expense of a guinea each.
"A report having xeached the ears
- Ae!nunla t&t the grave of.
mandy denied a. s8l kddsdlsds tHHt ~ q
strewn with flowers every day.
Great fears prevail all over Eng
land thah the harvest will be total
failure, and the archbishop of Can
telbury has ordered prayers for fine
weather to be offered in all the
churches.
Experiments prove that the At
lantic breakers have a force of three
tons to the square foot; thus a surface
of only two square yards sustain
blow from heavy Atlantic breaker
equal to tiity-four tons.
According to the statistics gath
cred by Mr.. E. Payson Porter, sta
tistical secretary of the international
Sunday School convention, there are
in the United States 1O9,252 Sunday
Schools, with 8,643,255 scholars and
,143, 100 teachers and officers.
In the course of his successful
career, Capt. McMickan, at present
the commander of the Cunarder Um-
bria, has made 47S passages across
the Atlantic, carrying 165,570 pas
sengers, and sailing on all voyages
over distance of 2,129,S0 miles.
The Rev. John Prince, a Metho.
dist clergyman, aged 80, and Mrs.
Cynthia Wood, aged "a, were married
recently in Montreal. They were
lovers in childhood and would have
been married sixty years ago, but
their parents prevented the match.
james Melvin, of Concord, Mass.
has for IL years lain upon q bed with
out changing his position. The os-
seous portions of his body have
united into one piece, and from the
crown of his head to the soles of his
feet there is not a Joint responsive to
his will.
"A German of Detroit tried to
figure the height of 100, 900 silver
dollars if placed one on top of the
other, and because he couldn't get it
within a foot or two he jumped off q
wharf with suicidal intent. Although
he never had pile foot high he
wanted to be exact about other peo-
pies money.
John Merriman, Of Rhode Island,
called himself q humanitarian and
brought up lot of old horses anu
turned them out to pasture to end
their days in peace. He had got
about thirty and the papers were
eulogizing him, when his wife got q
divorce on the grounds of extreme
cruelty. She proved that he almost
starved her to death.
In speaking of Sam Jones'G Tor
mon at Oxford, Justice Lamar said:
"It was striking in many senses.
Parts of it were like a Pullman palace
sleeping car-capable of being hitch
ed to any train, going in any direc-
ton, at any time-fitting anywhere,
acting automatically, and capable Of
emanating from no brain other than
that of the original Sam Jones"
In an interview with the Roches-
ter Union Dem. Bob Ingerson says:
"I believe in protecting what are
called the infant industries, but after
tn ese infants get to be six feet high
, and wear No. 12 boots it is about
time to stop rocking the cradle, es-
pecially when the infant tells you
that if you stop rocking he will get
out of the cradle and lick your head
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