The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-06-09
ALL soRrs OF PARAGRAPHS.
Cnlled from Various Sources and Re-
lating TO Numerous Subjects.

Ireland.
-Russia has thirty-eight State telt-
phoue systems. 4
The same mine has been workedin
Sweden for 800 years.
"A flood occurred at Mound City,
No. causing q damage of $40, 600.
The total number OF fatalities thus
far discovered in ST. Louis and vicinity
ts 490.
Railway travelling in Norway is
cheaper than in any other European
country.
During the month of May the net
increase in the public debt has been
1913, 100.
President Cleveland has sent back
to Congress, without approval, three
private pension bills.
Make yourself an honest man, aud
then you may be sure that there Is one
rascal less in the world.
"A wicked little boy says that
home without q mother would be a
solid picnic all the week.
Thirteen has always been an un-
lucky number. Adams 18th rib was
the cause Of all his troubles.
Geo. w. Jones, Iowa's first United
States Senator, is seriously ill at Du-
buquc. He is 81 years OF age.
1T is feared that there may be an
epidemic Of disease among the home
less sufferers in East ST. Louis.
The Secretary for Foreign Affairs
and the First Lord of the Treasury in
England receive each q salary of. $780,
600.
"A newspaper published in Madrid
Is printed on liner, which may be
washed and used atterward as q hand
lkerchief.
Tho farmer who lets everything go
to waste about him will generally be
the one who complains that farming
don't pay"
"A large party Of the citizens Of
Ocala, Fla, greeted Gen. Fttzhugli
Lee, who passed through that town on
his way to Cuba.
"A man may be loaded to tho eyes
with philosophy, and yet be as helpless
as a child when he tries to get the last
word with u woman.
Leading citizens Of Virginia pro-
pose to establish a national battlefield
park on the sites OF the famous battles
near Fredericksburg.
One Of the hardest OF all crops ''to
raise" in the financial sense, is a mort
gage, but it is easy to plant. The less
one plants the better.
&. According to Carroll d. Wright,
there are Is, 000 900 wage n in
the United States, OF whom only 1,4O0,-
600 belong to the labor organizations.
France has 544 savings banks, with
LAO branches, and nearly one-sixth Of
the population are depositors, with an
average of Sl05 to the credit of each.
"A recent visitor to the ex-Empress
Eugene c~ontradicts the report Of her
ill-health. She is now 70 years old,
with snowy white hair, but is said to
be as beautiful as ever.
"A good man and a wise man may
at times be angry with the world, a.
times g~rieved at it; but be SUI, no man
was evec .fnisooBtenG eu with the world
If he did his duty in it.
1t is authoritatively stated that
the Russian Government holds $50, 769,-
1l5 in American gold coin. This ac-
counts for o part Of the immense loss
OF. gold by the United States.
-Three-tenths Of the earnings of q
Belgian convict are given to him on
his release. The majority save more
money in jail than they have ever saw
ed before.
You might as we'll undertake to
varnish a rainbow or try to stampede
hunger with a dime with a holc in it,
as e&pectt to prevail on u man to own
up to his wife that he has been in the
wrong.
BY a new law in Paris each owner
of a bicycle is required to have his
name and address soldered on his
wheel. Fifty bicycles were impound-
ed In n day recently for violation Of
this rule. u
1t is said that thetongest artifcia
water course in the world is the Ben
gal canal, in India, which is 900 miles
long. The next longest is the Erie ca.
nal, which is 1863 miles long. Each
cost nearly $1,000 600.
Two negroes we're hanged to a tree
In broad daylight on the main bust
ness t~horoughfare OF Columbus, Ca,
and their bodies riddled with bullets
by an Infatuated mob. Both had been
guilty Of the usual crime.
"A posse is hunting Sam Bratcher,
of East Rankin, Miss, with 81 view to.
lynching him for having outraged the
~l6-year-old daughter of q neighbort
who was spending the night in. his
house as the guest of Mrs. Bratcher.
The first house built in southeast
ern Indiana, and now the oldest house
in the State, is still standing at Green's
burg. 1t is the log cabin that was
buils by Thomas Hendricks, uncle of
the late Vice President Hendricks, in
1911.
The tricentenary of the introduce
tion Of the potato is to he celebrated In
Britain this year, for it was in 1896, ex.
aotly three centuries ago, that Sir
Walter Raleigh planted the first Irish
potato on mis- estate at Youghal, near
Cork.
Sugar is fed to COWS on a large
dairy farm near London, England, it is
claimed, With good effect. The sugar
Is scattered over the feed in the man.
ger to induce the cattle to eat it all.
1t is said also that it improves tho aa-
vor Of the milk.
In adjusting the fire insurance loss
caused by burning OF its salesrooms and
stock of wheels on hand of one of the
largest and most popular bicycle manu-
featuring companies In the United
States, the fact developed that the
cost Of 800 machines was but $40 at the
factory.
The Queen Of England receives
from the civil list 60, 900 pounds a year,
or $500, 600 as salary, and there are ex-
teDsive provisions made for house
room, provisions and servants. Besides
this, the Queen has q very large pri-
yate income.