The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-02-05
ODDS AND ENDS.

it is said, consisted IN her green eyes.
Eat only pure food, drink only pure
liquids, think only pure thoughts,
and keep your blood pure.
The best whitewash for a cellar is
made of lime and water only. The
addition of other things hinders the
purpose of keeping the cellar pure and
healthful.
An experimental train on railroad
in Pennsylvania made run of nine
ty odd miles in about sixty minutes,
some of the distance being run at the
rate of nearly two miles per minute.
It is significant tnat the winner of
the mathematical prize of $500 at Bow
doin is the best general athlete in the
Maine colleges and one of the best
baseball players.
Fort Keogh, NJ. T., has the widest
range of temperature of any place on
earth. Last summer the thermometer
ranged from 12O degs to $50 degs.
above, while recently it marked IS
degs below zero, total range of 1876
degs.
Candor is the seal of noble mind,
the ornament and pride of man, the
sweetest charm Of woman, the scorn
of rascals and the rarest virtue of
sociability.-Bentzel Steman.
That action is best which procures
the greatest happiness for the greatest
n,,n,ln,S
Praise, to mean anything at all,
must be spontaneous and prompted by
real approval Of character or admira-
ton of excellence; otherwise it is as
futile as q bubble that floats moment
in the air and is gone forever.
The twenty-third anniversary of the
Protestant China inland missions in
London brought out the fact that
there are now 32S protestant mission
aries at work on those missions; that
the number of Chinese who had been
baptized during the year on profes
sion Of Protestant faith was 472, max
ing the number now in church fellow
ship N connection with the missions
Mrs. W. NJ. Oils, of Springfield, Mo-,
is said to be the best judge of horsefesh
in that valley. Mrs. Dills is southern
woman, and comes from the blue grass
region Of Kentucky, famed for its horses,
its pretty girls and its whisky. Mrs.
Dills has not neglected her household du-
ties for her stock farm, and she has
reared an interesting family. 1t is re-
marked by one who has made some study
of the subject that when southern women
arc thrown upon their own resources
they show al energy that used to be at
tributed only to the daughters of New
England.
Miss. Nellie Gould is an artist of No
mean ability, and her collection of brio
a-brac, adorned by her own brush and
pencil, IS much admired She is proba-
bly, the richest heiress in America, and at
her fathers death will come in for
twenty or thirty million dollars. Like
her mother, she is not too proud to wait
on herself. She does not mind riding in
horse cars, and does not put on nearly as
many airs as the wives of some of the |
men who serve her. Last spring she took
to Atlantic City several little girls from
New York charity hospital and cared for
them with great kindness and considera-
ton.
N. Salaza, the young French tenor and
prizeman of the Conservatoire, about
whose engagement the authorities Of the
Paris Grand Opera and Opera Con,ique
have been wrangling, was two years ago
only q humble shoemaker in provincial
town. One day as he was going about
the streets singing q passer by stopped
him, and asked him TO call at the for
ner>s house. This Saleza did, with the
result that he at once abandoned shoe
making forever and set to studying his
scales. Later on he entered the Con-
If the minister of tinc arts,
with whom lies the final award in the
matter. should decide, as seems prob
able, i'll favor of the Grand Opera against
the Opera Comique, there will be some
danger OF Saleza unduly straining his
voice. as 1t is as yet hardly powerful |
puOurh for q large hOusa