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

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
1t has been suggested that the
head of Miss Susan Anthony ought
to be put on the silver dollar.
Miss Louise Imogene Quincy,
the poetess, thinks nothing of walk
ing twenty miles on her poetic feet.
Mrs. Adare of Rathdore, Ire,
her cattle ranch somewhere IN the
West. She holds it at SO, 100000.
The fat and particularly venera-
ble Kalakaua, king of the Sandwiches,
will visit England in October. His
sister, Princess Lilino, is going with
him.
Olive Logan, the pioneer ofnews-
paper women, has the honor of be-
ing elected member of the incor-
porated Society of Authors, of which
Lord Tennson is president and Wal
ter Besant the secretary.
The largest fruit farm in West
Virginia is the Becker farm, near Har-
per's ferry. It containg 5000 apricot
trees. $4,000 peach trees, 5000 plum
trees, 5000 miscellaneous fruit trees,
and $4,000 grape vines.
Robert Melhenny OF Plainview,
Adams county, Pa, is the possessor
of a turkey hen that laid ten eggs
while she was hatchin; she hatched
out an even dozen of young tur-
keys, and is still laying an egg every
day.
ALI through New Mexico, Arizo-
na, some parts of Colorado and also
in old Mexico, no rain has fallen for
months, and thousands upon thou
sands of range cattle are lying dead
in the parched valleys and thousands
more are dying for want of grass and
water.
The most monotonous city i'm its
buildings is Pal is, the houses there
being almost alike. An attempt is
now being made to vary this by build
ing houses of the style of the Renais-
sance and Louis XI., and hope is ex-
pressed that the example will be fol-
lowed generally.
"A wonderful wedding dress was
recently made up in Russia for the
daug hter OF a great Russian artist.
1t is Of regulation white satin, but on
the satin are innumerable little pic
lures, chiefly allegorical, painted by
her fathers friend. What may belts
value in years to come?
, "A. Montefore, who has been
travelling in Florida and devoting care
full study to the fruit growing dis
tricts of that vast State, calculates
that the Americans eat more meat in
the course of twenty-four hours than
all the inhabitants of Great Britain,
France, Germany, Austria, Belgium
Holland and Switzerland put to-
gether.
An oculist in Breslau has recently
treated 800 cases of defective eye
sight, for which the cause was not
apparent. It rose as suddenly as an
epidemic, and was confined to men en-
tirely. At last he found the reason
for it in a new fashion of very tight
shirt collars. He made the young men
unbutton their collars and their eyes
got well.
In Maine man has been found
who has sold liquor freely for the
past thirty years, and who has never
missed attending district, county and
State conventions and advocating and
voting for resolutions asserting ad-
hesion to the principles of prohibition
and demanding thorough and effective
enforcement of the law. Well, he is a
curiosity.
There is an interesting scheme
for establishing a floating hotel at
Hong Kong. The vessel is to have
three decks, the lower being arranged
for dining, billiards., smoking and card
rooms. The main deck will contain
O drawing room, twenty.one bed
rooms, each with a full sized bath
and dressing room, while the upper,
or spar deck, has been arranged as o
promenade.
English ladies are adopting The
fashion of putting their ladies who
wait at table in livery. The skirts
are plain of these livery gowns and
of the heraldic color of the house.
All the plerts are thrown behind.
Then the waistcoat and jacket are
trimmed with livery bands, buttons
and crests or monograms in metal
A high stiff white collar, white cuffs
and tiny white cap like topnot
complete this livery.
The Bill Is Dead.
The cold, palsied hand of death
hoe boa, loi5 on M. T,o1oa'a liant