The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-02-27
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2~,7l5.570 men able to appear in the
field at a minutes warning.
Rule Britannia" is usually credit
ed to James Thompson. 1t first ap-
peared in a play entitled alfred" by
Thompson aud Mallett, IN 1740. The
air was by Dr.. Thomas Arne.
The Chenab Irrigation canal in
Northern India is said to be the widest
canal 10 the world. 1t is ITO feet
broad and will be 200 feet broad when
completed, With a length Of $50 miles
a French railway has lately ar
ragged its telegraph lines SO that at a
prearranged sigoal wires are switched
from telegraph Instruments to tele-
phones, thus enabling the operator
either to talk verbally or to communi-
cate By the telegraphic code at will.
Nearly all the children Kept by the
Poor Law 10 Scotland aud Ireland are
boarded out, and 10 EogIaud it is to
some extent, adopted. Dr. Beroardor
who boards out 5000 children yearly,
considers it is the best plan of dealing
with pauper orphans.
A valuable wa nut tree which stood
in the center Of the gardens of
Garvock. near Dunuiug. was blown
down during the recent storms.
The tree was the largest Of it's kind 10
Scotlsnd. Some years ago the laird
was offered G100 for it, but refused it.
The last remaining house in Cain
City, Barton county. Kansas. was sold
for SS25 the other day aud moved away.
A few years pgo Cain City had $50 in-
habitants. a bauk, newspaper. churches
aud several merchants. Rival towns
on either side gradually Slapped away
the life Of the town.
Congress has restored the grade of
acknowledgement, held by Grant,
Sherman aud Sheridan, and the Presi-
dent has signed the bill making it a
law. When the formalities which are
required are fully complied with there
will be one acknowledgement, three
major generals, sixteen brigadier gene
rails aud seventy y colcnels 10 the
United States army.
@. H. P. Belmont will have his
summer villa at Newport 80 arranged
that guests will drive in on the lower
aoor and their horses aud earriages
will be taken up on the elevator. just
as they are driven 10. go that persons
may alight directly at the ball room
door.
A recent census bulletin shows that
Of the -, 690.152 families in the
United States 1920 per cent hire their
farms or homes and 1870 per cent
" them. aud Of the owners of homes
27.97 per cent own subject to incum-
brauce aud 1908 per cent own free of
incumbrance.
Some time ago California offered a
bounty of SIS each for coyote scalps
1t was supposed at the time that there
were not more than 1000 coyotes in
the state, but the claim for bounties for
the last quarter OF 1894 already
amount to $50. 600 with seventeen
other counties to hear from.
4! terrible volcanic upheaval is devas-
tating the New Hebrides. Half the
fertile island of Ambrein is covered with
ashes, and it's eight thousand inhabi-
tants have nearly al! disappeared. The
crater of the sea of lava is three miles
in circumference, with walls rising
from $50 to / LOO feet above the Roor.
NJ. W. Durham. of Elgiu. H., had
a he'd of fourteen deer in his park. A
battle took place between two dogs aud
au old buck, which lost its horns de-
Tending the fawns. but proved himself
master OF the field. As a result of the
encounter, however, two fawns we're
killed. Two deer jumped the fence,
and are still at large, while the buck is
used up and will need considerable re-
pairs about his head to renew the fight
some other day.
A farmer and naturalist of Gates, N.
Y. Henry Carey Diuslow by name,
writes to the New York World about
curious affections which be has observed
among animals: ..My fox hound. an
intelligent fellow, took q fancy to a
email pig, and would spend hours in
the barn yard cutting up antics to at
tract the attention of this pig. He was
overjoyea when his portly friend would
coodescend to play at tag or pouuce out
in most furious manner from the dark
ness Of its pen. Fowls often show q
decided liking for whomever feeds aud
cares for them. but | we'll remember a
pullet which was constantly at my heels
as soon as l entered che poultry house
or yard-not fos food, for there was
generally some In the pans. but because