The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-23
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There is one of two things about this
Armenian business either the Turks
are the most inhuman monsters that n-
habit this globe. or the accomplished
liar from Wichita has gone over to
Armenia.-Lawrence Kansas Journal
"Say, TuGnutte. how did this story
get started about you being trimmer
in politics 2 Oh, that was just little
joke. 1t was founded on my cutting Of
old man Jackson's ear at the primary
last month "-Cincinnati Tribune.
"What won't these city women do
next, 'Smanthy? What's all this talk
about umbrella skirts p II never did
see man yet, Silas, that didn't make
fool of hisself when be took to ta!kin'
about women's 6xin's. Common sense
ought to have told you they raised them
skirts when it raius." ."-Psttsburg
Dispatch.
The Augusta Herald notes that &C.
cording to statistics just completed with
regard to new textile manufactures, the
Southern States hold their own in great
style. Out OF "a total of 263 new plants.
North Carolina furnishes 26, South
Carolina %, Georgia 10. Virginia 8
aud Texas I. The time is not far dis
tant when 80 per cent. Of the money in-
vested in new cotton industries will
find its way to the south.
Manifestations of the New woman are
multiplying. One of them stopped
man on the streets of Detroit, pulled a
cigar and asked for light Up in
Maine muscular woman is working up
paying business spanking her neigh
boris bad boys at so cents spank.
Berlin has now ladies' club,
founded under the patronage of the
Empress Frederick, and oamed for
her "The Victoria y 1t possesses a
fine library, a grand piano and CON-
fortably slrnished rooms, but NC
cuisine, meals, however, being supplied
from restaurant next door. Early
closing is the rule, lights being turned
out at 10 p. m.
When Jacobs sons brought sacd
corn from Egypt, the patriarch was SO
deeply impressed by the fertility Of
that country that he readily accepted
his SOD Joseph's Invitation to make it
his home. When Nebraskans behold
Georgia's grand contribution to her
necessities, her people, with glad and
grateful hearts. will be all the more
uclined to come to this land of plenty,
which opens its doors wide to immi-
grants and bids them enter and enjoy
her harvest.-LaGrange Reporter.
Says the Chicago Times Colonel
w. C. P Breckenridge is failing to
earn livelihood as public lecturer.
Miss Madeline Pollard has been turned
out Of every position she has secured
as soon as her identity was discovered.
The press of the country seems in
ciined to hail these facts as most
glorious illustrations of the virtue o:
the people. There is no memory o.;
the injunction that he that is without sin
should throw the first stooe, no thought
that the merciful are blessed, no desire
to temper justice with mercy. We
think it would rebound nightly to the
credit of the American press if this
bounding of two weak people, who
harmed none save themselves, nigh;
now be stopped. y
1t was in France that the FIRST serious
effort was made to establish the manu-
factare of carpets 10 the fashion Of the
Orient, says Good Words. This was
in the reign of Louis XIV, and under
the direction Of his minister Colbert,
The royal manufactures were designed
to furnish all manner Of furniture. ana
in the Gobelips and Bavauvais factories
$50 master wearers wove rich tapestries.
During the revolution Of 1889, these
factories were almost suppressed, but
Napoleon l. revived the manufactures
and furnished his palaces with their
loom work. The national workshops of
France still continue. and the woven
stuffs of Gobelins. Beauvais, aud the
Sayonnerie are accounted among the
finest ia Europe The knowledge of
carpet weaving was presumably intro
duced into England from France during
the persecution of the Huguenots, the
carpet weavers, with other artistic
craftsmen, fed for refuge to England,
and established themselves in various
towns. Administer, in Devonshire.
was one Of these, aud also the town Of
Wilton These places retained tbeig
supremacy for long time, but with the
introduction of the jacquard loom aud
various improved processes of manu-
facture, the industry was successfully
developed iu Kidderminster, Durham,
Kimapock and Glasgow.