The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-05-14
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
Culleu from Various Sources md Re-
latinE to Numerous Subjects.


deep and rapid breathing is recon.
menueu as q Means of stopping hiC
cough.
There is II saltpcter cave in Bar
tow County, Georgia, literally alive
with bats.
--English convicts are to have Ice
lures Oh "scien;iic and interesting
subjects"
Some people never realise how
woll OH they are until they try to ride
u bicycle.
Mrs. Cleveland favoritc pets arc
pair otmOcKing birds, of which sh e
Is particularly proud.
The first watch ever mado by ma
chlncry IN tho United States was made
at RoXbury, Mass, in 1850.
Two trees l25 feet from each other
at Gainesville, Ca, were rncently Y
struck and shattered by IL single bolt
Of lightning.
The smallest tree in tho world is
the Greenland birch. It's height il
less than three inches, yet it covers q
| radius OF two or three feet.
! The Shah of Persia's assassination
Is notable simply for the long time it
has been deferred. He accended the
throne nearly fifty years ago.
Judge Albion w. Tourgce ha,
undertaken crusade against book:
with uncut loavse which he pronounce
"A scnseless and snobbish fad"
Half the diamonds known to- exis
In the whole world conc from Souti
Africa. The value Of all tho diamond
known IS estimated at IL 600, 90, 900.
Tho city of Sydney, Australia, ha.
imposed q line OF W upon any person
convicted of splitting upon tho lloor o.
public buildings or npon the street.
i t is reported from France tina,
the fresh juice OF tho poppy plant ap.
piled to recent bee stinss give iInmc.
diate relief and prevents inflammation.
The excavation made on the site of
Nlneveh prove that the city was burn.
cd and deserted by its inhabitants, hO
were probably deported after tho Last
great siege.
Nine Thousand maple trees will be
cut up this summer on the upper ken-
nebcc River. Maine, to furnish mutc-
rial Tor fllnG an order for 800. OOO
| blocks for shoe lasts.
In France hospitals for infectious
Diseases are furnished with telephones,
SO that the sick may converse with
their friends without danger OF com.
municating disease.
"A mastOdOm tooth twelve inches
long, nine inches wide and three inches
thick was found in Oklahoma RECENTLY
by a. Y. Stewart who was digging y
well on his farm
Two men intoxicated and driving a
large gray horse hitchcd to u wagon
loaded with dynamite were arrested in
Willlmantic, Conn; tho other dav
while driving ut gnllop.
Unlike his predecessor, the Young
Caro- Russi" walks almost daily in
the streets OF st. Petersburg. Some
times he Is attt ndcd by no ono but his
wife. On other occasions he goes alone.
Mrs. Fannie II. Allen, OF Athol
Mass, who is - years old, rccc ntlv
took unto herself Il new husband. This
Is somewhat remarkable in view OF the
fact that the bride is great.grand
mother.
Col. j. FL. Benton has learned
through recent discoveries In the Ii.
brary OF the British Museum. that tn G
first book printed on the American
continent were made in tho CITY of
Mexico.
Miss Annie Scott, student at Con-
trail Normal College,, Kansas, has been
appointed clerk OF tho Venezuelan
commission. She is niece of Justice
Brewer, of the Supreme Court, chair
man of the commission.
Liberia IS the only moro or less
civilized country where clocks are al
most entirely dispensed with. The sun
rises exactly at u a. IN. and sets at 6 p.
m. throughout the year, and is vorti :
cally overhead at noon.
DR.. st. George Bridges, Il young
physician of Richmond, Va, who had
made particular study OF appcndi-
citls and was regarded as an authority
on tho disease, died from it four days
after he was attacked by 1t.
.~Thcre is nothing now under the
sun. In Il stained glass window, plac-
cd in an English cathedral over 100
years ago, Is depicted q bicyoist rid
ing through q town, With tho admir-
ing populace watching him.
Orange groves in Central Florida
shat were cut down to the ground by
tho cold waves are now showing now
growth eight TO ten feet hign. The
shoots have boon bnddGd with choice
fruit, and by next year the trees will
be nearly ~ large Us they were before
tho freeze.