The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-12-05


Mr.. NJ. q Hogarth. we'll known for
his Intelligent work 10 Egyptian ex-
plora,iou, tells of the. high hopes he
entertained when working to discover
the site of a temple which be believed
had hitherto been untouched. After
digging down some sixteen feet he came
upon small fragment of a German,
newspaper of 1875. He says: "This
was BY no means singular experiences" J"
Prof Hadley Of Yale lie to introduce
system oEinstruction in his classes in
political economy. He will substitute
debate for recitations. A division OF
thirty members Of the class is to choose
subject for debate. The negative
side then draws up complaint similar
to legal paper. This in turn is met
with reply by the affirmative. The
arguments are then made By the .law-
yers' on each side, and finally the de-
bate is thrown open to the house.
Robert T. Smith, one of the old-time
temperance lecturers. is still living iu
Baltimore, and celebrated the 80th an-
niversary Of his birth on Monday. He
began his crusade against the cup that
inebriates more than it cheers in 1887,
as secretary of the Franklin Society Of
ID. 1t:.oora nouotu
The colored republicans of New York
city are calling the attention of the
State republican executive committee to
the fact of their existence and asking
that their race be given its share of the
Offices to be filled by Gov. Morton. The
colored republicans say they are 40, 900
strong, that they mean to have their
rights and that those rights include
representation on the next republican
State ticket.
Mr.. W. L. Dallas reports that the
observations of twenty-five years, made
in the Bay of Bengal by the Indian
government meteorologists, have shown
that the average temperature rises
during years that sun spots are numer-
Gus. aud sinks when they are few.
When the lumber Of sun spots exceed.
ed the average the barometric pressure
was less than it's average.
Two men. foreigners. happening to
meet on La Sale street. Chicago, the
other day. forthwith embraced. each
kissing the other on either cheek. This
quadrnple form Of osculation between
men is common enough in Europe. but
is so rare in this country as to attract
attention. The two men were for a
moment surrounded by curious group
of men and boys. but quickly walked
away arm in arm, apparently oblivious
Of the fact that they had done anything
out of the ordinary.
One of the most popular aud eminent
lecturers. on astronomy is Sir Robert
Ball, who used simple and graphic
illustrations to give his hearers ideas of
| magnitude and distance. For instance,
be says that going at the rate of the
electric telegraph-that is l86,O00
miles second-it would take seventy
eight years to telegraph message to
the most distant telescope stars. But
the camera has revealed stars far mord
distant than these, some of which, if a
message had been sentin the year A. D.
1-tbat is to say, 1894 years ago-ths
message would only just have reachee
some Of them, and would still be on the
way to others. going at the rate OF
1856, 900 miles second.
A fad over across the sea is to have
your foot photographed. as we'll as your
hand or face-sbas is, if you are lucky
enough to possess foot blessed with ar
tistic curves aud outlines. A prominent
society woman of New York, Oh her re-
turn from Paris several months ago, Ell
hibited to room full Of admiring
friends the sweetest, daintiest little
plaster cast of foot, which, she de-
clared, was counterpart of her own,
made by sculptor of worldwide fame.
She was at that moment having life.
size one carved 10 marble, to be mount
ed on cerise velvet, and several small
ones. one-half the size. struck of in
different shades of pale pink, blue and
old rose, The extraordinary popularity
Of ..Trilby" has helped to direct atten-
tion to our humblest member, and now
the women of New York are expert
mentiug to see whether they have in-
steps that water will flow under
sure sign of blue blood.
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