The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-07-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Henry ". Stanley's manuscript
is very legible, and scarcely an altera-
ton is made in n folio.
"A woman buried at New Madrid,
Mo-, Il few days ugo, weighed 75O
pounds. There were Is active pail
bearers.
One of Cahfornias pretty heir-
csscs is Miss Grace McDonough, who
will inherit fortune of $3,000,00O
from her mother.
--Scnator Wade Hampton hos at
last shaved of the side whiskers
which he has SO assiduously culti-
waited for 10! these many years.
The estimated expenditure in the
British navy for the year will be,
from all sources, G19,263,633, while
that of tho army will be G19,O47,s 800
Tho Emperor of Rlssia, Aexan-
! der II, has just had 1000 pheasants
scnA~ from England to his shooting
place, On the Gulf of Bothnia, at Nh
expense Of gGiilaasaa.e gGiilasa each: --...........s..
"A report having reached the ears
of p. r. Barnum that the grave of
| Jenny Lind is forgotten, he indig-
nantly denied it, and added that it is
strcwn with flowers every day
Great fears prevail all over Eng
land that the harvest will be total
failure, and the archbishop of Can
terbuly has ordered prayers for fine
weather to be offered in all the
churches.
- Experiments prove that the At
lAntlc breakers have force of three
tons to the square foot; thus asurface
OF only two square yards sustain o
blow from Il heavy Atlantic breaker
equal to fiftyfour tons.
According to the statistics gath
cred by Mr.. e. Payson Porter, sta
tisticai secretary of the international
Sunday School convention, there are
IN the Unitod States 1O9,252 Sunday
Schools, with 8,643,25 scholars and
LIB, 100 teachers and officers.
In tho course of his successful
career, Capt. McMickan, at present
the commander of tho Cunarder UNI
brla, has made 478 passages across
the Atlantic, carrying 165,57O pas.
sengcrs, and sailing on all voyages
over distance Of 2,129,8OO miles.
The Rev. John Prince, Metho.
dist clergyman, aged 80, and Mrs.
Cynthia Wood, aged 81, 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 12 years lain upon q bed with
scous 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 Joint responsive to
his will.
"A German of Detroit tried to
figure the height of 1OO,OOO,OOO silver
dollars if placed ono on top of the
other, and because he couldn't get it
within a foot or two he jumped off
wharf with suicidal intent Although
he never had pile foot high he
wanted to be exact about other peo-
pies morey.
-Joh1. Merriman, of Rhode Island,
called Himself a humanitarian and
brought up q lot of old horses and
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
divorce on the grounds of extreme
cruelty. She proved that he almost
starved her to death.
In speaking of Sam Jones's ser
mon at Oxford, Justice Lamar said:
at 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 timontitting, = anyTheres
acting automatically, and capable OF
emonoting from no brain other than
that of the original Sam Jones'"
In an interview with the Roches-
ter Union Dem.) Bob Ingersoll says:
II believe in protecting what are
called the infant industries, but after
these infants get to be six feet high
and wear No. IL boots it is about
time to stop rocking the cradle, es-
pocially when the infant tells you
that if you stop rocking he will get
out of the cradle and kick your head
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