The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-09
MISSING LINKS.

year.
JOHN Waiter. the new managing ed
jtor of the London TIat.s, is only 80
years OF age.
In Russia in 1888 there were pub
lished 5.31S books. Of wiiicE 1889, O5O
copies were printed.
English cutters who used to pay $3,-
900 ton for ivory have recently hao
to pay rs high rs $4,000.
Mrs. Lizzie Weaver of Bridgeton, N.
j., has. after fortv-se!en years OF labor,
finished crazy-quilt Of 80, O73 patches.
Noah Armstrong, owner Of the great
race-horse Spokane, reports that MS
famous steed cleared last season about
, $4,000.
Mr.. Hamilton Disston, the saw man
ufacturer of Philadelphia, gave about
! SIT. 900 in Christmas presents to MS
employees.
The manufacture of oil of roses is to
begin on 4 large scale in the Crlmea'
where the roses grow in great pro-
fusion in the mountains.
1t is said that one of the English
novclistS is able to repeat from memory
every word he has written, and ne IS
the author of many books.
Quincy Stodder, who died in Hing
ham, Mass, the other day, aged 81
years. has been tifty-two years a tlsher-
man and was never ship-wrecked.
Col. Bob Ingerso!l is real mad. a
New York tobaccouist has seized his
genial face and is using it as colossal
Chrome advertisement of a cigar
Miss Amelia Edwards has announced
that she will not write q book on Amer
lea. This is great innovation on the
part of a visitor that will be app-eciat-
ed.
Stepniak, who is coming to this
country, is described as a black-haired,
bristlv-bearied, vigorous-looking, six
footer, with gentle-m&nners and kindly
ways.
Last year Germany granted only
1921 pensions against England's g.
779 and the nited States 20, 42O. The
number ora ned in Germany has fallen
of 927 in five years.
A Philadelphia undertaken who has
much use for his telephone, has had 1t
rugged up on dumbwaiter arrange
ment so that he can answer call from
any part of the house.
The largest and best paying graphite
mine in the country is in Warren
county, n. Y. In the same region are
also extensive garnet mines, the ore
from which is worth $40 ton.
Mary Routh Ellis of Philadelphia,
one of the beneticiaries under the will
of the late Jefferson Davis, is the
orandniece of the testator on her faith
er's side and of Gen. Meade on her
mothers side.
Coils P. Huntington is preparing
to erect palatial mansion OF granite in
New York. Few millionaires can afford
two such expensive luXuries as genu-
inc German Prince and . New York
palace in the same year.
For several years the receipts from
the sales of public lands in Canada
have not been sufficient to cover the
expense of surveying and manage
ment. Last year there was q detclen-
cy Of more than $4,000.
President Eliot says that Harvard is
the only college from which profes-
sor was ever taken for President Of the
United States, John Quincy Adams
having held the chair of rhetoric and
oratory in that institution.
Kansas raised 34,00O,000 bushels OF
wheat this year If made into bread,
reckoning i bushel to sixty pounds OF
-four, it would give each man, woman
and child in the United States thirty
four two-pound loaves OF bread.
Hermaa Merivala, poet and dramat-
ist, prints u card deriving tie word
:maShcr" from masha, 4 Roumanlan
term meaning fascination or the eye" !"
lie gives us lis authority Leiand's Die
tionary Of the Roumanian Language.
Where hot retorts are plentiful-In a
gas-house.-BoSt0n Herald.
Eternal vigilance is the price of an
oyster at q church social.-IeraS Sltt-
i1eg$.
Silence is golden; when the gold is
coined, however, money talks.-1e1as
Sittiz1gs.
and $50, 900 horsepower. In the past
year the feet had steamed 2,500,00e
miles without accident or delay"
While the increase in marriages be.
tween English people in Great Britain
has not kept pace with the population,
being only per cent in nine years,
marriages among the Jewish inhabi.
tants have grown no less than Is pei
cent.
Here are a few definitions given by
pupils of the Gardiner Me-, grammar
school at a recent examination: Exile,
a part of a wagon: byword, q word
that has gone by; mermaid. kind of 3
maid; turmoil. a kind of oil; repast, to
pass by
The British boat Brisk has given the
most conclusive proof that a torpedo
may be effective. She fired one of hers
at q buoy which had been towed out
as . target by her steam cutter, and,
missing the buoy hit the cutter and
sank her.
Indian jim, captain OF the WasEoe
band in Sierra Valley, California, laid
in 100 pounds Of -four and q can Of bak.
ing powder for his winter supply. He
then killed 1000 rabbits for fresh meat
and settled down in his camp with a
light heart.
IN Georgia, when you ask man
how far it is to the next plantation, he
will answer that it is "a peep and q
right smart screech.n He means that
it is rs far rs you can see from where
you stari and then as much further as
strong voice can be heard.
A company has been organized at
Tacoma. Wash. to build tlume to a
huge glacier on Mount Rainier, and to
slide ice to that city. The glacier is
| 700 feet thick, Of the purest quality of