The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-06-04
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
Cullcd from Various Sources and Re-
lating to Numerous Subjects.

Tho net debt of New York on Nav
| vas $llO,5S7,000 1t is gradually
increasing.
This year tho Prince OF Wales will
nave boon Grand Master OF the Eng
lish Free Masons for 2l years.
-tarmcrs, diversity your crops and
you Will be pleased with tho result.
INC one cropagc has evidently "seen
its best days"
1T takes boy seven or eight wears
TO learn tho multiplication. table, but
hour and Il half.
-ln England the "rulcs of the roadn
require 1oot passengers to keep to tho
right, and horscmcn and vebinlos
to keep to the left.
No material except that produced
IN inc state is allowed to entor into
the construction Of the new State
capitol at Olympia, Wash.
Mrs. Jane Robertson, who has inst
died at st. llyacintho. Quebec, at the
ago OF 80 years, was cousin OF Long
icllow and OF Noah Webster.
--Ebcnczcr Nelson, the senior odi.
Iorlai wrltcr OF the Boston Transcript,
VINO has Just died, was connected WIKI
'ha' paper Tor forty-four years.
-Miss Frances Jones, of philadc1.
Ph'a. mas been chosen one of tho Presi.
u'hCial cicctors-at-l Largo, and delcuates
10 the National Prohibition Convcn.
tion. 0'n'ch-
iroicssor,' said q graduate. try
my 10 hc pathetic at parting, 81 am in
dobtcd to you for all | know" "prnv
40 not mention such trinc," was tho
reply. ""' WIZ
-Somo one has said that the man
VINO has an itching for success must
constantly keep scratching. Luzinoss
Is the only sure incubation against the
disease.
1t Is said that man who won't
nuy apapcr because he can borrow one
mas lhVcntci machine by which hc
cah COOK ms dinner by tho smoke OF
his ncighhor's chimney.
:, me extent OF the bicycle crazo in
rhG'and may be estimated from tho
,"CU tiihC company organized to
manufacturc pneumatic tires is cani-
tailzcd 1T 10000, 600.
Tho postmistrcss of Gibraltar IS
MISS Margaret Crcsswcll, who re-
cclV"s the handsome salary of 81. 500 Il
year. , hr is also superintendent of
Ihc va"l"u> Dpstoiiccs on the North
African coast.
The Westminster Gazette SAWS
that 2,39G OF Spurgeons sermons have
pccn printed and sold, and that the
sum IoIal OF tho sales reaches nearly
io'oooooo, an average Of about 81, 600
copies per sermon.
1T is probably true that tho life of
President Garfield would have been
saved if the ltocntgcn rays had been
known in 1881. No difficulty now is
lound lii locating IL bullet distinctly in
the deepest rccessrs OF tho body
Senator Black burn, 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 tho tickets"
! l1c adds that it will be impossible to
elect him.
"A gardener claims that whom five
acres nave been brought up to the high
est state Of cultivation, when the full
extent Of its usefulness, is rcuchcd,
more money can be made from it than
from two hundred acres in ccrcals us
usually c"itivutcd.
--llcnry I'olten, who looted the
Treasury Of the city OF Omaha, Neb.,
OF Tlo',oOo, has been sentenced to
nineteen years in the State pcnitcnti-
ary, ana IN addition to pay a. fine of
S2l0,000; double tho amount he was
convicted Of embczzlng.
"A new warehouse in Paris has been
built with glass iloor. The initial
cost Is considerably over that OF the
| ordinary floor, but in view Of the fact
that touEhcncd glass Is SO much longer
llVcd than wood, the experiment is
llkcly TO prove cheaper in the long run.
Capt. James D. Johnson, who died
in Savannah the other day in his 18th
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.
rio entered tio navy Us Il mdshipman
! in 1892.
DIR. d. 6. Gilman, who has been
! for twenty years the president OF Johns
Hopkins University in Baltimore, is
likely to become the superintendent Of
New Iork's system Of public instruc-
ton. The olfcr has not bucn made as
yet, although Dir. Gilman's name has
been favorably discussed. The posi-
Jion IS most important one in view
OF the recent measure providing for
the consolidation of New York, Brook
!yn and Long island City.
Tx Governor James t.. Campbell,
OF Ohio, is quoted in Il newspaper in
tcrVleW as saying that he would accept
The Democratic nomination for tho
Presidency at Chicago no matter what
the platform NIGH be. He first said
he was in favor Of bimcLallism and be-
| licvcd in the use OF both gold and silver,
provided proper international agree
! mcnt could be arrived at in regard to
| the white metal. His idoa was that
| II silver wave was spreading over the