The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-03-20

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be sold 10 Norway.
A great proportion Of the reclaimed
rubber imported into this country
comes from Canada.
Four Italian orders. established at
different tines. bear the title, Order
of the Cross of Christ"
Ruhins,ein wore his hair in the
Beethoven style, which has always been
popular among piauists
Wordsworth had what would be call
ed a Negative face. 1t vas as colorless
as much of els poetry.
A post card posted at Hampstead
England, to an address cot five mln-
utes' walk from the seoder's house made
a journey of $4,000 miles. In the post
the card slipped into newspaper
bound for Tasmania. On reaching
Tasmania, the card was discovered and
returned tc the seuder IN a letter.
Queen Victoria raised a monument
to Di>raeli bearing this Inscription:
ITO the dear and honored memory Of
Benjamin., Earl Of Beacons6eld, this
memorial is placed by his grateful SOW
ereign aud friend, Victoria R. l..
Kings loved him that speaketh right
proverbs xvi, 49, February p,
1882"
Two comets return to peribeliou dur
lug the coming year The first. the
we'll known Eueck's comet. which has
been seen at tweuty-six consecutive re-
turns since 1918. vas nearest the SUP
on February 4; the other. discovered
10 1884 at Lick Observatory. will be at
its nearest point on June 3. When it
will be about as far from the earth as
the planet Mars.
How mauy people know what a
..size" is? Everything, from ready
made clothing to gloves. is made in
sizes, but few know the measurement of
them. ~Incoats. a size is one inch; an
size 10 underwear is TWO inches; 10 a
cock, an inch; in a collar, half an inch;
iu shoes. one-sixth Of ar inch; 10 trous-
ers, one Inch; in gloves, a quarter Of a
iucb; and 10 hats, oue-eighth.
In South American waters mullet are
taken in enormous quantities by boats
which 60 out with wire baskets at the
bows filed with blazing pitch pine
For the purpose in view. the craft is 50
loaded as to bring the ganwale on D
side down nearly to q level With the
water, and the fish, attracted By the
light, jump on board by hundreds.
10 spite of all that has been said in
protest against the unnecessary destruc-
ton of timber, a ruthless waste Of for
ests is still going on in the Northwest.
Only the largest trees are cut for tim
Der, and in the subsequent clearing pro-
cess fine trees are burned to get them
out Of the way. Hundreds of acres are
thus wastefully sacrificed.
Nj. Edouard Mar,el, a French law
yer, who lives in Paris, is quite an ex-
pert 90 caves, having made the exam
%iuatiou Of caverns his hobby. His
long experience has taught what are
the requisites of cav explorations, SO
now be has an outfit of little derricks,
wire ladders, ropes. telephones, mag
pesium lights, boatswaiu's chairs
ras and boats.
A new method of determining the
presence Of metallic poisons 10 the body
after death is to pass a current of cleo
tricisy through it, decomposing the tor
sion and depositiog the metal on q Of
the electrodes. 1t is said that 10 the
cases of anthony, lead. copper. mer-
curry, etc., this method will detect the
presence of as small a quantity of the
metal as oDe-shousandth of a grain.
When Benjamin Bum Of North Caro-
lima cane to congress to represent a por-
ton of the people Of that state, says the
Springfield Republican, he brought his
oratory with him. and when speeches in
honor of the late Senator Vance Of his
state were in order one day last week.
be turned some Of it loose. Here is a
sample:
eyes; he bas left behind a radiant
stream of efulgeut glory. Like the bril-
liant sun which sinks behind the distant
hill.tops, and leaves behind a golden
stream of gorgeous %splendors, making
the whole western horizon seen as if
the most opulent dye pots in the studio
of the angels had been upset and had
leaked through upon the clouds, thus
giving them the tiptings of celestial
glories, 80 his sun of existence has sunk
behind the bill-tops of death and left
behind a stream of memories that will
never fade from the tablets of our hearts
Unlike the glories of the setting SUM-,