The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-03-04
SELECT SIFTINGS.

There are twenty nine kinds of Metho.
dists.
Twelve average tea plants produce one
pound of tea.
A pet dog in Paris, France, wears
stockings and shoes.
Two centuries and seven different men
claim the invention of gunpowder.
A woman has begun business as q
matchmaker in Christiana, Norway.
Butler County, Penn, has genius
who dreams the correct location of oil
wells.
S. Ha- or..>--. tile s;r. uuty ul:ad with snec-
Inc Inc of her relaIve, Mrs. sal,ie rhon,,or
-, Our young friend, c. F. Norma.
tacles free Of charge by Boston Mass.j
society.
The proportion of pure Auglo.Saxo
words in the Bible is ninety seven per
cent. of the whole.
British horses were famous when
julius Caesar invaded the country. He
carried some of them to Rome with
him.
An old we'll IN California which, for
number of years, has furnished excellent
water, has suddenly turned into an oil
we'll.
In the sleepy little town of Winborne,
in Dorsetshire, England, is an ancient
library in which all the books are chained
to the selves.
1t is common sight among the Es.
luinaux, according to u travellers story,
to see nursing infant with quid of
tobacco in its mouth.
Judge Story was at Harvard College at
fifteen, in Congress at tweuty-nine and
Judge of rne 3Supreme Court Of the
United States dt thirty-two.
Late tests prove that the strongest
wood growing in the United States is
the "nutmeg hickory" Of Arkansas. The
weakest is the yellow or West Indian
2irch.
In recent l;5cl suit in Detroit, Mich,
there was diversity of opinion as to tho
verdict, rangir (, from six cents to $780,
300. A compromise was finally reached
on $11 600.
Martin Mohler, Secretary of the State
Agricultural Department, has made his
fnal estimate of the amount of wheat
raised in Kansas in 1891, and places the
amount at SO, ,97O, 900 bushels.
Seals when baskins place one of their
number on guard to give the alarm in
case of danger. The signal is quick
clap Of the tlippcrs on a rock. Rabbits
signal with their fore paws and have
regular signals and calls.
The Chinese make what is called "Chi.
wan-hi. nor grass cioC!,, non the fibre OF
the common nettle. 1t is said to make n
splendid cloth for tents, awnings, etc.
When made into betting for machinery
t is said to have twice the strength of
leather.
Colors have been made to produce
sounds by being passed through prism.
Green ard red lights produced the loud
est noises aud yellow the faintest. How
loud the noises were is not stated, but
doubtless they we're distincy audible to
people who can shear the corn grow"
Walter s. Cinpbsn, of Chicago, Ill.,,
net his sister Alice at the general deliv-
cry window in tne Indianapolis Gnd.)
postoiticc the other day for tho first
time in twelve years. TIC family lived
Aeokuk, Iowa, but Walter, at sixteen
gears of age, rln away, and had heard
lothing of his old home until this meet
ing.
la the Language of the millions of
china aud Jal,aa ti,ose is no tenn that
corresponds with our God. Every
student of missions knows we'll the
abiding difficulty in China over the au,s.
lion of term for God. Both the ma.
live Christians and the foreign mission
aries are divided a'noag themselves over
this perplexing question.
The oldest rose bush in the world is
at Hildersbeim, in Hanover, Germany.
1t was planted more than one thousand
years ago by rlenagnc in commem.
Grafton of visit made to him by the
Ambassador of the Calph Haroun al
Raschid. The bush is now twenty three
feet high aud covers thirty two feet of
the wall. The stem is only two inches
in diameter.