The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-04-03
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1t is claimed that the startling is one
Of the very best Of the fealhered friends
of the English farmer in keeping Ger
tain insects 10 check
In the prisons of Germany a gear ago
were SO, 900 inmates. Ii 1000 of whom
were ;ncarcerated for crimes committed
while undor the influence Of liquor.
Rye is believed to be one Of the s,ost
modern of grams; it was DOT kuo~n- to
.he Egyptians; Ut ancient nation bad a
name for it before the Roman empire.
The roar of a waterfall is explained
in the constant explosion of hundreds Of
thousands of bubbles. The impact Of
water against water is believed to be a
comparatively subordinate cause.
A Philadelphia oculist who has been
studying the human eye for thirty
years declares that all great men of the
past ana present haG or have blue or
gray eyes
The English Unitarians have begun a
forward movement. By arrangement
sermons are being delivered on the
Unitarian position in all the London
churches OF that body.
Russia is an upside down world.
Last year the people we're starving F.;
now they are cutting their wheat to
feed the cattle. Want of railway COM
munication is the reason ascribed.
It is said that jewelers. are having
much trouble with artificial rubies.
This stone is initiated so closely by the
French that it is almost impossible to
detect the artificial from the real stoBe.
There is a gigantic rocking stone"
or balanced bowlder on the piunacIe of
Tandil Mountain, Buenos Ayres. Il is
t%wenty-four feet in height, ninety feet
long and will weigh twenty-five :oos.
So much has the art CT dressing and
dyeing feathers been developed that
numbers of the seemingly rare feather
boas worn have simply beec made from
the plmuage of the ordinary fowl.
Glass is the most perfectly elastic
substance in existence. A glass plate
kept under pressure in a bent condition
for fve-ano-twenty years will return to
It's exact original form. Steel comes
next.
New JERSEY has passed a law for the
benefit of trolley aad street car en-
ployes. None but American citizens
must be employed, and the days work
is fixed at eleven hours. with forfy.6ve
minutes of for lunch.
A few days ago a Warren, O., man
dreamed he would shortly meet with a
violent death. Within t~wenty-four
hours after he was run over aud killed
by a locomotive.
The ancient Chinese and japanese
frequently. used to draw pictures With
their th~umbnails The nails we're
allowed to grow to 3 length of nm
eighteen inches. and we're pared to a
point and dipped 10 vermilioD or sky
blue ink.
Electric heat has been applied with
success to the tbawipg out of frozen
water pipes of England. A wire is ruu
into the pipe until it meets the obstruc-
ton, and then the current is turned on.
Saturday was selected for the recent
elections for the London County
Couccil, because the half holiday would
enable the w~orkipgmen to vote. Now
the Jews protest that an election on
their Sabbath practically DISTINGUISHES
them.
The English language is o spoken
by $50. 900. 900 people. Though our
language contains, according to Max
Muller, $4,000 distinct words, the
chaste and modest Milton used but
5000 Of them in his works, and even
Shakespeare did not draw upon over
1900.
The poultry and egg crop of the
United States is estimated to be worth
$3.50, 900, 900 annually. Startling as
these figures may appear, it seems still
more remarkable that, besides the above,
we import between so, 600, 600 aud
100, 00c. 00G dozer eggs each year.
Nine. Emile Angler, widow of the
dramatist. has given the French Aca-
deny the money to found a prize of
ST. 600 to be awarded every three years
TO the best play brought out during
that period at the Theater Francois or
at the Odeon. It is to be called the
Emile Angler prize.
Even the conversation of a trade so
much subject to picturesque tradition as
the retail tobacco business has yielded
somewhat to the facts of modern life.
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