The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-06-02
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
Culled from Various Sources aud Re-
lating to Numerous Subjects.

The net debt OF New York on Ma
! was $l10,5S5000. II Is gradual.
increasing.
I'm the days of Queen Elizabeth
each guest at a diuner party alway
brought his own knife and spoon.
This year the Prince of Wales viii
have been Grand Master of the Eng
lish Free Masons for 2l years.
"A large quantity of Georgia mar
Bile Is to be used in the construction o
the new State House OF Rhode Island.
Farmers, diversity your crops and
you will be pleased With the result
The one crop age has evidently 'seer
its best days"
| 1t takes boy seven or eight years
to learn the multiplication table, but
he can learn to ride @ bicycle In an
| hour and half.
In England the "rules of the road"
require foot passengers to keep to the
right, and horsemen and vehicles
to keep to the left.
e. p. Chalmers, farmer and for
mer member of the Legislature, was
Killed by lightning Tuesday afternoon
at his home in Jalapa.
NO material except that produced
In the State is allowed to enter into
the construction Of the new State
capitol at Olympia, Wash.
Mrs Jane Robertson, who has lust
died at st. Hyacinthe, Quebec, at the
age OF " years, was q cousin of Long
fellow and OF Noah Webster.
-Ebenezer Nelson, the senior edi-
torial writer of the Boston Transcript,
who has just died, was connected with
that paper for forty-four years.
"A negro named Hugh Cox was
killed by lightning a few days ago near
the Marlboro County line. He was In
the field ploughing at the time.
Miss Frances Jones, of Philadel-
Phla, has been chosen one of the Presi-
Dental electors at-large, and delegates
to the National Prohibition Conven-
tion.
Professor" said graduate, try
Ing to be pathetic at parting, II am in
debted to you for all l know" pray
DO not mention such q trihe," was the
reply.
Some one has said that the man
who has an itching for success must
constantly keep scratching. Laziness
Is the only sure incubation against the
disease.
1t Is said that man who won't
BUY paper because he can borrow one
has invented machine by which he
can Cook his dinner by the smoke of
his neighbor's chimney.
The extent of the bicycle craze in
England may be estimated from the
iact that company organized to
manufacture pneumatic tires is capi-
talized at 2O,0OO,OOO.
Tho postmistress of Gibraltar is
Miss Margaret Cresswell, who re-
ceives the handsome salary of $500
year. She is also superintendent of
the various postof1ices on the North
African coast
The Westminster Gazette says
that 1886 of Spurgeon's sermons have
been printed and sold, and that the
sum total of the sales reaches nearly
lo,ooo, ,OOO, an average Of about 36,699~
copies per sermon.
1t is probably true that-the life of
President Garfield would have been
saved If the Roentgen rays had been
known in 1881. No difficulty now is
found IN locating a bullet distinctly in
The deepest recesses Of the body.
Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky,
says: There will be two conventions,
Two nominations and two platforms at
Chicago, and Grover Cleveland will be
at the head of one OF the tickets"
tie adds that 1t will be impossible sto
elect him.
"A gardener claims that when five
acres have been brought up to the high
est state of cultivation, when the full
extent OF its usefulness is reached,
more money can be made from it than
from two hundred acres in cereals as
usually cultivated.
Henry Bolten, who looted the
Treasury OF the city Of Omaha, Neb.,
of $l05, 900, has been sentenced to
nineteen years in the State penitenti-
ary, and in addition to pay fine of
$2l0,0OO double the amount he was
convicted of embezzling.
Capt. James d. johnson, who died
in Savannah the other day in his 10th
year, was the ranking officer of the
survivors of the Confederate Navy and
the senior survivor of the United
States Navy of the time before the war.
Ho entered the navy as a midshipman
in 1882.
"A new warehouse in Paris has been
built with glass floor. The initial
cost is considerably over that of the
ordinary floor, but in view Of the fact
that toughened glass is so much longer
lived than wood, the experiment is
likely to prove cheaper in the long run.
1t seems that there Is some mistake
about the statement that Senator Irby
called Senator Tillman liar in the re-
cent State Convention. Only one or
two men claimed to have heard il, and
on being asked about the matter, SEN
ator Irby said that he used no such
expression.
According to ktho census of 1890,
there are 59,063 white people in the
State over 10 years of age who are un-
able to read and write. The colored
population in the same fix aggregates
3O1, ,262. The proportion of illiterate
white iD Is out out OF 100 and the .pr6<s
portion Of illiterate blacks is 81 q
100.
DR.. D. G. Gilman, who has be5x'
for twenty years the president OF Johns
likely to become the superintendent Of
New York's system Of public instruc-
tion. The offer has not been made as
yet, although DR.. Gilman's name has
been favorably discussed The posi-
tion Is most important one in view
OF the recent measure providing for
the consolidation OF New York, Brook
!yn and Long Island City.
The rapid growth of cotton manu-
featuring In South Carolina Is not real
lied until the figures are brought be
fore one. In 1890 the Charleston News