The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-07-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A Hungarian paper announces
the death of a veteran of Waterloo,
aged 105 years, in his native village,
Hatszeg, i'll Pennsylvania.
,-Colorcd citizens of Birmingham
| Ala, propose to start bank there,
owncd, officered and patronized by
their own race, with capital of $50
| 600.
Tho newly appointed woman
deputy factory inspectors for the
State of Now York will receive q sal
ary OF 900 year and their cx-
penscS.
DR.. Meredith, u Brooklyn preacher,
has established Il second reading
room for workingmcn, where no re-
strlction is placed on smoking cigars
and pipes.
| "A huge tower, eleven stories high,
is to be erected at South Kingston,
Is. l., and dedicated to the advent of
modern spiritNalism, by Joseph p.
Hazard, Il wealthy spiritualist of
that place.
George Eliot made S75, 900 by
her great novel "Middlemarch." That
IS much more than Gen. Lew Wal
lace has yet realized from his very
popular Ben Hm" George Eliot
also made $4,000 by her ''Romale." :"
Asst. Petersburg doctoris stopped
late at uight by a policeman, Who
asks why ne IS out SO late. "To at
tend Mr.. Popotf, who was taken i'll"
do ne have permit to be taken
suddenly ill?" "No." "Then YOU
will have to go to prison" ."-Detroit
FREQ Press.
DR.. w. Gilmore Thompson, of
| New York, has made several success
tul experiments i'll tranSplanting brain
tissue from the head of ono dog to
that OF another, and from cats to
dog $ heads. Ho is now considering
the practicability of transplnnting
human brains in the Same way.
Augusta is having warm fight
over the confirmation of Postmaster
Dcmlng. He is opposed on several
grounds, including physical disability
and Il change that he once ''raised''
and approved a bill against the city
and collected on it several hundred
drollars more than was due him.
In the Louisiana parishes SO far
hcnrd from tho census shows the
white increase Of population to have
Dccn greater since 1880 than the
colorcd increase, and to such an cx-
tent that if the parishes yet to be
n"aTd from turn out rs expected Lou
lS!a:a will be "whitc' by 1861 ma
jority.
During the fiscal year just closed
the pension Office issued 151,G51 Ger
tliicatcs. The number issued during
the preceding year was 145,292. Oj
the number issued during the past
year, G6,G37 were original pensions,
which IS an increase of nearly $4,000
as compared with the number issued
during the preceding year.
"A special to the Chattanooga
Times says it has been found that the
collapse OF the Briscoc building in
knoxville was caused by q cave under
The building. The centre support
dropped into cave of unknown
t depth, not yet explored, but a stone
dropped into il Ci.n DC heard 20 hit
+ the bottom 'away down.
"A curious fashion has come into
= vogue i'll Paris. In all the cemeteries
. metal boxes with a slit in the lid are
placed on the tombstones to receive
the cards Of visitors. The relatives
OF the deceased are thus enabled to
see who among the living still cherish
the memory Of their departed
friends.
1t is stated that German artill-
cry officer has succeeded in making
a new explosive from carbolic acid
that shell filled with this material
| possesses power hitherto unobtain-
ed. Experiments made with these
| shells thrown from mortars have all,
it is stated, proved highly success
ful
| During dispute over a calf at
Camas Prairie, Oregon, recently Ed
Rinchordt hit Helm Mcconnell on
the head with heavy plug of to-
bacco. In order to prevent suit
charging him with assault with a
deadly weapon, Rinehardt paid $40,
besides giving over the calf and the
plug of tobacco.
There are only five States in the
Union in which schoolmaster can
now legally hog pupil. In all other
States % pupil menaced with corporal
punishment can arm himself with any
secret weapon and use it as he best
can. Massachusetts teachers fog an
average of two boys per day per
capita.
The guests in an uptown res
taurant were considerably shocked
and then amused the other night to
see we'll dressed woman pour water
from tumbler into napkin and
deliberately wash her face and hands.
She didn't seem at all disturbed by
the snickering, and paid her bill as
inditfercntly as if it had been for a
Turkish bath.-New York World
During the eleven months ending
May 31st, the European immigrants
arriving in the United States num-
bered fraction over 40O,OOO-more
than equal to the number of inhabi-
tants of any one of the twelve States
Of the Union. Nearly c-half came