The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-02-04
HEisceilaneous r1,sce,I,nx

misceflaneous Miscellany.
women seldom mean the pleasant things
.ney say 10 women or the unpleasant things
they say TO meir,
backwo"ds Subscriber--Wc want ter 81.
Office Boy-That's him sleeping with his
feet on the desk.
Sunday School Teacher (sadly)-I'm
afraid, Johnny that will never meet you
in heaven.
Johnny-Why? What have YOU been
doing?-Harpcrs Bazaar.
$50 you want to know where flies come
from, DO you, Luculus? We'll, the cyclone
makes the house fly, the blacksmith makes
The lire lily, the carpenter makes the saw
NY, the driver makes the horse fly, the gro
Ger makes the sand fly, and the boarder
makes the butter fly" Doubtless the pcr-
petrator Of the above is now making coal
dust.
George Jaynes,. Of Gainesville, Mo. is q
rattlesnake farmer in y large way Of bust.
ness, having about ten thousand of the rep
tiles in stock. lie keeps the pests for the
sake of the oil which he gets out Of them
when they have been fattcned and killed,
and he slaughters about 1000 of them
every season. The oil is worth one dollar
II pint.
The people of Paris consumed within
the past year 21 ,291 horses, 229 donkeys,
and 40 mules, the meat weighing accord. :.
ing to the returns, 4,6l5 tons At the 1870
shops and stalls fromt3 sous to france n
pound, the latter being the price of the
beet horse steaks. Only about one-third of
thesmcat is sold fresh and undisguiscd; the
rest is used in making sausagcs, 4O2 horses
| n2Vinp been Spiyp(
ut for food before being turned into sau-
| aye.
The public agitation on the frequency of
railway accidents in France has become Sc
serious that the matter came up at a recent
cabinet meeting VIXEN the minister of pub
lie works announced that he was giving his
attention to the question OF giving greater
security to travellers and especially to "les-
sening the number of delays to trains,
which have been one of the principal
causes of recent accidents" The matter
has even been brought up by an intcrpella-
ton i'll the Chamber of Deputies.
The annual mortality Of the entire hu-
man race amounts, roughly speaking, ac-
cordinS TO French medical journal, to
33,O0O,O0O of persons. This makes the av-
cragc death per day over 81 900, being at
the rate of $3.50 an hour, or 62 Deoplc n
round. A fourth of the race die before
completing their Sth year, and one-half be
fore the end of the 18th year; but the av-
eragc duration of life is about 3S Years.
Not more than l person 100, 900 lives TO be
100.
The first transcontincntal railway of
South America now iacks only about fifty
miles OF track 10 complete tho line of $50
miles from The Atlantic ut Bucnos Ayers to
the Pacific at Valparaiso. This last link
however, involves the difficult work tf
crossing the AndcS-thc summit level be-
ing nearly lO,5u0 fec! above the sca-and
financial and political difficulties seem like
ly to delay its completion. The Journey
over the gap, hewcvcr, can be made by
mules in about ten hours, and it is intend
cd to improve the road SO that carriages
Cun bc used.
When the Panama canal was first pro-
posed great cry went up that such n
'iitch" would cndangcr the lives of mil
lions of human beings. 1t was argued that
the waters on the Pacific side OF the 18TH
mus were hundreds of feet higher than
they were on the Atlantic side, and that
The great rush OF waters to even uD tho diff
ference in the level of the two oceans
would drown out all southern North Amer
ica, all of the West ladies and most of
McNico and Gucatan. Would-bc engineers
and sensational editors passed their opinion
or wrote yards of scaIc editorials ON the
subject. 1t now turns out that the Attain
tic and not the Pacific is the higher of the
two oceans, and that in place Of the diff
ference in level being hundreds Of feet as
had been affirmed the surface Of the water
On the east side of the isthmus is exactly
G4 feet higher than it is on the western eide.
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