The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-01-22

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half pennies, the coins being received
in tubes, which are so arranged that
any attempt to pass base coins would
be very easily detected. No second
penny can be received by the machine
until the receipt for the first one has
been duly removed by the deposltor.
New York Telegram.
Mrs. Mona Card. who started the
SIS Marriage Failures" business, has
been studying Buddhism.
There is a young giantess 6 feet s
inches high, said absolutely to be only
10 years old, on exhibition in London.
She is Don Cossack.
The fast mail service between New
York and San Francisco has been re-
duced to four days, twenty-five hours
and forty-fve minutes.
"What fine thing old age is, said
NJ. Augicr not long before his death.
''One is surrounded with care, atten-
ton and respect. But what pity
that it lasts so short time. /"
A sturgeon fourteen feet long was
caught in the Sacramento river, near
Chico, last week. Instead of killing it
the fishermen fastened rope to the
body and turned it loose in the river to
get fat. They feed it on the entrails
Of salmon, and the captive likes the
treatment.
Little Jim was but few years old
when there was wedding in the fam
ily. The aged grandmother kept her
seat during the ceremony. In telling
about it afterward Jim said: 1--WE all
stood up and got married 'cept grand
MAJ"
A novel advertisement appears in a
Gloucester (Mass.) paper. 1t IS from
property holder, and notifies certain
gang Of hoodlums that he intends to
assert his rights against annoyance. 1t
also reminds the parents Of hoodlum
minors that there is a legal responsi.
bility for destruction of property, and
closes with the remark that if the po-
lice did their duty there would be no
occasion for the advertisement.
The farmers CT the neighborhood OF
Hiawatha, Kan, are burning corn for
fuel, finding it cheaper than coal.
Corn is sold on the farm for twenty
cents per bushel, while the average
price of coal delivered at the farm
ranges from twenty-one to twenty
three cents per bushel. The Farmers
alliance brought the attention OF the
farmers to the relative prices of the
two commodities, and advised that
half the corn crop be used as fuel,
thus advancing the price OF the other
half and saving money in their fuel
bills. The farmers have begun to act
on this advice.
The construction OF the canals de-
signed to overcome distractions in the
Tennessee river at Muscle shoals has
been completed. It was begun by
the government in 1873, and nearly
$4,000 900 has thus far been expended
on the work. The opening of the
canals will give water transportation
nine mcHrhs IN the year from Chat
o." Mississippi river.
al StOCC CudI1l1UIo Luall
nel oudon street sweepers do
not tI-..A SO. One of them on being
asked for an opinion replied thatit was
no use asking ladies for gratuity;
they never did and never would give
a poor man anything. Another said
that a lady occasionally gave him a
penny when her purse was handy:
And still another said he never heard
of a lady even noticing a poor sweeper.
The marvellous growth of the colo
nies is now familiar story. Certain
ly nothing more remarkable has been
seen in the history of the world. Dur
ing the fifty years succeeding the &C
cession Of her majesty, the area gov
erned by the queen, exclusive of
Great Britain, increased from 1,100,-
900 to S, 400. 600 square miles; the Eu-
ropean population of the colonies in
creased from 100000 to 10,000,000;
the colored population from 9,S0O,00O
to 26, 200, 900; and the state revenues Of
possessions beyond the seas grew from
s24, 900, 900 to s122, 600, ,00Oa year.
IT. Devore, a Parkersburg CIV. Va.)
merchant, owns dog OF superior in
teligence. The dog goes to the store
with the,nail every morning, and from
it takes the mail addressed to the pri-
vate residence to Mr.. Devore's home.
Nothing can divert him while. attend
ing to his duties as mail carrier. and
he never makes a mistake III taking
the letters to their proper direction.
Every evening be sees to it that the
evening papers are taken to the house,
and if by chance the papers should be
missing, either by being blown away
by the wind or carried Off by theboys,
the dog makes raid into some neigh
bor's yard and hypothecates paper,
which he carries off home.