The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-03-13
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temple.
Amsterdam will have next year an
international exhibition ofhotel arrange
ments and accomtn @ citations for travellers.
The smallest coal burning locomotive
in America, 2S5 poan6s, was made by
G. D. Young Of Denver, in 1891.
An eagle with sever feet spread of
wings was caught in a wolf trap near
Brady Island, Neb., recently.
The medura is a true sea water jelly
which, when abandoned By the waves
on the beach, melts and disappears.
A professor at Edinburgh University
has an income of over $40. 900 a year,
aud his chair is the most valuable ID
the world.
The churches iu the new towo of
End o. T.. have no bells yet, and the
town FIRE bell is rung every Sunday to
announce the hour Of religious services.
At Heazig, Hungary, on Oct. IL,
1894, three perfect rainbows were seen
three smaller e inside the main or
primary bow.
A lower floor Of the crypt OF old St.
Paul's was recently discovered by a bin
of vine falling through from a cellar
just above.
The German house builders always
cootive to leave a small fat place on
the roof Of each house for the storks to
rest and build on.
In several European countries butter
is sold BY the yard. The rolls are a
yard in length, aud are aold III sections
to suit purchasers.
A butcher IN Belfast, Me-. is train
ing a hog to harness, driving him be-
bird a sled. He has also two tame
skunks which act as tramp discourag-
ers.
The Guild Of Arts and Crafts of San
Francisco will erect a mem, rial to
Robert Louis Stevenson 10 the shape Of
q very beautiful drinking fountain
which is to cost $500.
At banquet Of lawyers 10 Ediu-
burgh not long ago q toast was drunk
to 1.-The greatest benefactor of the pro-
fession-the mar who makes his own
will"
Good Friday is a legal holiday in
the states of Alabama. Louisiana, Mary
LAID. Pennsylvania and Tennessee. In
many others it is informally observed.
B. F. Bachman. an early pioneer of
Los Gatos, Cal, who died the other day
was one Of the party that discovered the
Yosemite valley, 10 March. 1851.
The Boston Police board has recon-
meuded to the legislature the enact
ment of a law providing for the appoint
ment o. az assayer of the liquor of that
city.
Another innovation rpon t~hs::conduct
of funerals has been started by Mrs
Turner Of Grand Rapids, Mich, who
upon the occasion of her husbands in
terment, delivered the address over his
grave. She knew him best. aud was
quite fitted to do justice to his memory
A certain lady 10 Maysville, Ga un-
willingly carried a spool Of thread to
church. A young lady say the end
of the thread on her dress aud innocent
ly supposing it to be a loose one began
to take it of. The spool continued to
unwind and the lady to pull uatil she
had almost enough to supply a retail
store.
One OF the absurdities cf the appli-
cation Of silver to all sorts Of things is
It's use in trowels for the use of the con-
~servatory. Silver is no better suited
for trowels than some other and cheaper
noncoroding metals, since the used
trowel, of whatever mater;"l, is always
bright. An iron or steel trowel Of the
UEsV WolCILdl ouO WVlhWooouIp SOo'o
81 50, while the silver trowel costs
from eight to twenty times as much.
An American in Germany was sur
prised to fnd a nnmber of cripples
among the celebrated college professors,
men whose high standard of learning
makes them famous the world over.
One Berlin professor is wheeled into
his lecture-room every day, and there
are others similarly though for the
most part less painfully afflicted. This
is due partly to the fact that under the
military regime of Germany, when a
BOY is disqualified for the army he is
trained for science or toe law.
Writers of fiction should be careful
how they trife with natural sceince.
One popular novelist described with
much eloqueuce a tropical full moon,
and represented as occurring immediate
~ after ward a total eclipse of the sun