The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-11-21
Curious and Scientific Items.

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The largest nugget of gold found il
Mexico within the. memory Of white
men was picked Vi by u Mexican at
Planchas placers, Sonora, in the spring
of 1892. 1t weighed tourteen and q
half pounds.
An European mathematician OF
worldwide celebrity claims that from
Il single potato a careful cultivator
could raise 10000, 900, 900 tubers within
Il period of ten years.
There is a bold ridge Of gray vol
canic mountains in the Cape Verde
islands the crest of which is said to
form ar exact likeness of George Wash
ington.
In calculating exact time " at the
national observatory at Washington,
the astronomers do not, as is generally
supposed, use the sun as a basis of their
calculations. Such deduction are made
only from the relative position of tho
fixed stars"
In every land between S%pitzbergen
and Patagonia there is some species
of the common blood-sucking mosquito.
In British America and Alaska they
are very large and troublesome.
The British scientific expedition to
the Philippine islands is said to have
discovered $500 feet above sea level,
on the sides of the extinct volcano Apo,
a flower five feet and O half in diane
ter.
That peculiar old city, Inquique,
Bolivia, should certainly be the Mecca
OF Melbourne and our government rain
makers. No man ever saw arainstOrm
at that place.
The assayer who examined the
aerOlite that fell on the farm of Law
r,annn Ftsnnr,Non ,nn. Roth & ~
the afternoon of August 20, 1892.
reports that the principal minerals it
contains are gold, silver, nickel and
cobalt.
Statisticians claim that the earth will
not support exceeding 5,994, 600, 600
people. The present population is
estimated at 1,467, 900 900, the increase
being 8 per cent each decade. AT that
rate the utmost limit will be reached
in the year 2072.
The first newspaper published in
Holland appeared on the morning of
January 8, 1856. 1t vas called De
Weecketycke Courante Van Europa.
1t is now the Haarlem Courant.
The noe Ia not 80 small after all.
Its surface area is fully as great as
that of Africa and Australia combined.
which would make is only about
III OSSh IN u q lIliCo OIldIlcI Uldu
our earth.
The Schenectady, N. Y, postofice
once received u letter bearing this
address; "Mr. Rev. q. w. Drees,
Servant of God, Learned Man of Scrip
turo, Peacher Over tho Sheep, Bucks
and Mother Lambs of the Congregation
of the Lord"
Gold leaf, when beaten into u sheet
OF the thickness of but m two hundred
and fifty t~hOusandth of an inch, aD-
pears to be of n beautiful green when
held up to the light. Such sheets are
really semi-transparent.
Tho water tunnel under Lake Michi-
gan at Chicago is eight feet in diameter,
four miles long and cost the city ST.
100, 600.
Nothing shoull be cooked in iron
vessels that can be cooked In earthen-
ware. The heat is more uniform, the
flavor Is better preserved and there is
less liability to burn in the earthen-
ware vessels than in the iron.
There is a liability OF disease germs
in the dust and dirt that adhere to the
ordinary wear of any person during
the day, and it is wise therefore always
to brush your clothing every time you
change it after a days use OF it.
A good way to test ham is to stick g.
knife under the bone. II the knife
comes out clean and with u sweet
smell, the ham is pure and wholesome.
a good set of carpenters tools arc
among the most valuable articles to
have around the house, and they should
always be kept in n box by themselves
where they can always be found.
Jacob Junk, of Milwaukee, aged
eighty-three years, has brought suitfor
'dfvprceagqipst his vito an Foreground
that she takes away his ~speotacfes.