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

Henry n Stanloys manuscript
is very lcgiblc, and scarcely an nltora-
tion is made i'll q folio
A woman buried at New MadlId,
Mo, a few days ago, weighed $50
pounds. There were Is active pail
bearers.
One of CALIFORNIA; pretty heir
esses is Miss Grace McDonough, who
viii inherit fortune Of S3.00O,OOO
from her mother.
Senator Wade Hampton has ut
last shaved Off the side. whiSkcrs
vatcd for 10. these many years.
--Thc estimated expenditure i'll thc
British navy for The year will be,
from ali sources, G19,263, ,G33, while
that of the army will be E19,O47.3OO.
The Emperor of Rlssia. Alcxan-
der II, has just had 1000 phcasants
Sent from England to his shooting
place, on the Gulf OF Bothniu, Mt M
expense OF a guinea each.
"A report having reached the cars
of p. Il. 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 Il total
failure, and the archbishop of Can
terbury has ordered prayers for fine
weather to be offered in MI the
churches.
Experiments prove that the At
lantic breakers have force Of three
tons to the square foot; thus aSuTfacc
Of only two square yards sustain n
blow from heavy Atlantic breaker
equal to fifty four tons.
According to the statistics gath
cred by Mr. f.. Payson Porter, sta
tistical secretary of the international
Sunday School convention, there are
in the United States lO9,252 Sunday
Schools, with S,G43,255 scholars and
1,1l3, 100 teachers and officers.
IN the co6fso of lis successful
career, Capt. McAIickan, at present
the commander of the Cunardcr I'm
bria, has made 478 passages across
the Atlantic, carrying 1G5,570 pas
scngcrs, and sailing on all voyages
oNtl IL NtloIhllNt VI H'l-",SOo IhllSo'
The Rev. John Prince, u Mctho.
dist clergyman, aged 80, and Mrs.
| Cynthia Wood, aged 81, were married
recently i'll Montreal. They were
lovers in childhood and would have
been married sixty years ago, but
their parents prevented the match.
james Mclvin, Of Concord, Mass
has for u years lain upon a bed with
out changing his position. The os-
scous portions of his body have
united into one piece, and from the
crown Of his head to the solcB Of his
feet there is not q Joint responsive to
| his will.
"A German of Detroit tried to
figure the height Of 100,000,000 silver
dollars if placed one on top of the
other, and because he couldn't get it
within foot or two he jumped off II
wharf with suicidal intent Although
he never had pile foot high he
wanted to be exact about other pco-
| pies money.
John Mcrriman, Of Rhode Island,
called himself humanitarian and
brought up lot of Old horses and
JuIuCN IucIl OuC W DtLSIufC 10 Cuu
their days in peace. He had got
about thirty and the papers were
eulOgizing him, when his wife goy q
divorce on the grounds of extreme
cruelty. She proved that he almost
starved her to death.
In speaking Of Sam Joncss scr-
mon at Oxford, Justice Lamar said:
1T was striking in many senses.
Parts Of it were like n Pullman palace
sleeping car--capablo of being hitch
ed to any train, going in aIy dmcc-
ton, at any time-ftting 0nYwhore,
acting automatically, and capable of
cmanating from no brain other than
that Of the original Sam Jones'
In an interview with the Rochcs
ter Union (Dcm.) Bob Ingersoll says:
Il believe i'll protecting what arc
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, osr
pecially when tho infant tells, you
that il you stop rocking he Will get
, out of the cradle and kick your head
on