The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-30

4 monument to Hans Won Bulow
has been proposed Tie list of sub
scribers to the fund is headed by
Helmhol,z, who has himself since died.
The monument is to be placed IN Han
burg, the .'city where the closing
years cf Bulow's life We're spent
DE-. William NJ O'Meagher. one of
New York's new corouers. stood the
-annoyancc Of his Office jus, two days.
lie lost his time. bis sleep, his patience,
and concluded the worriment was not
worth S3. 900 year. He had eight
deaths the first day aud twelve the
second.
Stephen D. White, "The Deacon. .
as be is called in Wall street parlaDce,
comes from old North Carolina Quaker
stock. He arrived in New York in
1865. Since then he has made aad lost
his millions! and thoroughly typi6es a
class of men who don't kaow when they
are whipped.
.Jnan N. Coutroras of Guanajuato,
Mexico, claims to have propbesied the
recent severe seismic disturbances
which did go much damage 10 the City
of Mexico. Controras no doubt fods
it easy to gull the people in country
such as Mexico. where the frequency Of
earthquakes and the percentage of ill''-
eracy are both high.
- While he stayed at the Anitchkoff
palace, before taking up his residence
in the winter palace, the young Russian
Czar was lodged as modestly as a
New York bachelor on limited
income. He had only .wo small rooms
there. and was obliged to ask the
governor general to give up two of his
own rooms, one to be used for q dress
ing room for the empress and the other
for her maid In the winter palace the
empress will have for life the supurb
apartments occupied by the cars
grandmother.
AZ Portland, Ore. recently display
of japanese war pictures drew out quite
crowd among whom were some 200
enthusiastic subjects ofthe mikado- The
pictures were cast upon canvas screen
by an electric s.ereop,ican. Each one
was greeted with applause by the happy
japanese, in which the large number
ofAmerican spectators frequently joined.
Mr.. Sibley. Of Pennsylvania, was
sent TO congress by democrats, populists
prohibitionisss, oil bumpers and paude-
moniums All these varying shades of
political opinions mix and miugle With
his own, forming one grand whole.
which, dumped on the floor of congress,
could not fail to attract attention; Mr..
Sibley also has peculiarities in other re-
poets. He comes from what is known
as the s.beavy oil district of Venaugo
county. where hundred oil mills are
linked together by an ingenious device
and pumped with one engine NOT
withstanaing his pledges to the popu-
lists and bumpers he therefore stands
for the Capitalization of wealth and
steam power.-Nep York Advertiser.
Zone of the most difficult habits to
cure is that of drinking vinegar. said
Cincinnati physician recently. "a
good many women drink vinegar for
the complexion, and in some cases 1t
creates . craving for it even more 10
satiable than that for liquor. As the
hsbit grows the victim is nolooger con-
tented With the ordinary vinegar, but
demands tstrouger aud stronger until
he drinks acetic acid with very little
dilution. 1t burns out the stomach
within very few years. aud it is sell
dom that vinegar 6end lives even un-
til middle age. It can be detected by
the peculiar pallor Of the countcnance,
but no antidote has ever been discover
ed by which the habit can be cured