The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-06-11
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS
Cullcd from Various Sources and Re-
lating to Numerous Subjects.

!
There are eighteen daily papers in
Russia has thirty eight State tele-
phone systems.
-Ihc same mine has been worked in
Sweden for 800 years.
"A Hood occurred at Mound Citv.
MO-, causing II damage Of $4,000.
The total number of fatalities thus
!ar discovered in st. Louis and vicinity
is 400. '9
,-Railway travelling in NORWAY ia
cheaper than in any other European
country.
During the month OF MAY the net
incrcase in the public debt has been
$5, lSS, ,130.
President Cleveland has sent back
10 Congress, without approval, three
private pension bills.
Mako yourself an honest man. and
Ihcn you may be sure that there is ono
rascal less in the world.
"A wicked little boy saws that
nome without u mother would be n
solid picnic all the week.
-Ihirtcen has always been an un-
lucky number. Adams 18th rib was
The cause OF all his troubles.
-, AN explosion Of gas in the Buck
lNusc colllery at Shamokin, Pa,
seriously injured six miners.
Geo. w. Jones, lowa's first United
baquo. He is 92 years OF age.
1t is feared that there NAV bo an
epidemic Of disease among tho home
less sufferers in East ST. Louis.
Senator Quay estimates McKinlcv,s
strength nt JTN and bo)
will be nominated on the first ballot,
Tho Secretary for Foreign Affairs
and the First Lord OF the Trcasnrv in
England receive each salary of $50
000 S'''
A newspaper published in Madrid
Is printed on linen, which NAV be-
washed and used aftcrward as a hand
kcrchicf.
Tho farmer who lets everything 90
10 waste about him will gcncraly be
The one who complains that farming
don't pay"
A large party OF the citizens OF
Ocala, Fla, greeted Gen. Ftzhugh
Ice, who passed through that town on
his way to Cuba.
"A man may be loaded to tho cyes
with philosophy, and yet be as helpless
us child whom he tries to get the last
"ofu Win woman.
Lending citizens of Virginia pro-
pose TO establish a national battlefield
park on the sites Of tho famous battles
near fredericksburg.
One OF the hardest Of all crops "to
ralsc' in Tho financial sense, is a mort
gage, but 1T is easy to plant. The less
one plants the better.
According to Carroll d. WRIGHT
thcrG arc lo,0O0,00O wage carners in
the United States, OF whom onlv 400
600 belong to the labor organizations.
.-Francc has 544 savings banks, with
| l,l4o branches, and nearly one-sixth OF
the population arc depositors, with nm
average OF $l05 to the credit OF each.
-Thrcc-tcnths OF the earnings of n
Belgian convict are given to him on
his release. The majority save more
money In jail than they have ever saw
ed before.
| "A recent visitor to the eX- Empress
| Engcnic contradcts the report OF her
III health. She is now 70 years old.
with snowy white hair, but is said to
be rs beautiful as ever.
"A good man and wise man NAV
at times be angry with the world, at
times gricvcd at it; but be sure, no man
was ever discontentcd with the world
II nc ulu MS duty IN it.
1t is authorit tativcly stated that
the Russian Government holds $50, ,7G9,-
ll5 IN American gold coin. This uc-
counts for IL part OF the immense loss
OF gold by the United States.
--"Ihc tendency to do wrong in
crcascs toward night" says q we'll
known Clergyman. think this is very
likely to be true, for when Adam ate
the forbidden fruit it was near Eve.
/ You might as we'll undertake to
hunger with q dime with hole in it,
as expect to prevail on Il man to own
up to his wife that he has been in the
wrong.
by new law in Paris each owner
OF bicycle is required to have his
name and address sodcred on his
wheel. Fifty bicycles were impound-
ed in one day recently for violation of
this rule.
1t is said that the longest artificia
water course in the world is tho Bon
gal canal, in India, which is 800 miles
long. The next longest is the Erie ca.
nal, which is 363 miles long. Each
cost nearly $4,000, ,000
Two negroes were hanged to a tree
in broad daylight on the maiE bust
| IL,
and their bodies riddled with bullets
by an infuratcd mob. Both had boon
guilty Of the usual crime.
"A posse is hunting Sam Bratchcr
of East Rankin, Miss, with a.vicw TO
ynching him for having outraged the
lG-ycar-old daughter of a neighbor,
who was spending the night In his
t"'sc as the guest OF Mrs. Bratcher.
=. g first house built in southeast.
orh, ma, and now the oldest house
in IT, :. is still standing at Greons-
burg. the log cabin that was
buliS by nomas Hendricks, uncle of
the late Vice President Hendricks, in
1911.
Mr.. G. Walton Whitman has fullv
made up his mind to take the sturnp
in the coming campaign as o candidate
Tor Governor. His platform will be
death to tho whiskey traffic las a bev-
crage), death to competition in matters
OF hig her education, in which the
State is a party the best system of
/