The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-05-12
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
Culled from Various Sources and Re-
Iating to Numerous Subjects.

An anti-sQuirrel convention will be
held at Spokane, Wash, on May 10.
"A boy baby is thing that neve-
comes amiss.
Deep and rapid breathing is recom-
mended as means of stopping hic
cough.
There is sa'tpeter cave in Bar
tow County, Georgia, literally alive
with bats.
Some people never realize how
well OIL they are until they try to ride
a bicycle.
Mrs. Cleveland favorite pets are
q pair of mocKing birds, Of which she
Is particularly proud.
The first watch ever made by ma
| chlnery in the United States was made
at Roxbury, Mass, in 1850
Two trees 125 feet from each other
at Gainesville, Ca, were recently
struck and shattered by a single bolt
OF lightning.
The smallest tree in the world is
the Greenland birch. It's height ia
less than three inches, yet it covers o
radius of two or three feet.
Judge Albion w. Tourgee has
undertaken Il crusade against books
with uncut leavso which he pronounces
"a senseless and snobbish fad"
Half the diamonds known to exist
IN the whole world come from South
Africa. The value of all the diamonds
known Is estimated at $l,000,0O0,000.
Tho city of Sydney, Australia, has
imposed fine of So upon any person
convicted of splitting upon the floor of
public buildings or upon the street.
1t is reported from France that
the fresh juice of the poppy plant ap-
piled to recent bee stings give immc-
dlate relief and prevents inflammation.
The excavation made on the site OF
Nineveh prove that the city was burn
ed and deserted by its inhabitants, who
were probably deported after the last
great siege.
-Nine thousand maple trees will be
cut up this summer on the upper Ken
nebcc River Maine, to furnish mate
rial for filling an order for 500, 600
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. V. Stewart, who was digging u
well on his farm.
Two mcn intoxicated and driving a
largo gray horse hitched to q wagon
loaded with dynamite were arrested in
Willimantic, Conn, the other day
while driving at q gallOp
Unlike his predecessor, the Young
Car of Russia walks almost daily in
the streets Of ST. Petersburg. Some.
times he is attended by no one but his
wife. On other occasions he goes alone.
Mrs. Fannie r. Allen, of Athol,
Mass, who is 10 years old, recently
took unto herself Il new husband. This
is somewhat remarkable in view of the
fact that the bride is a great grand
mother.
Col. J. H. Benton has learned
through recent discoveries in the H.
brary of the British Museum, that the
first book printed on the American
continent were made in the City Of
Mexico.
Miss Annie Scott student at Cen
tral Normal College, Kansas, has been
commission. She is niece of Justice
Brewer, Of the Supreme Court chair
man OF the commission.
Liberia is the only more or less
civilized country where clocks are al
most entirely dispensed With. The sun
rises exactly at a. m. and sets at p.
m throughout the year, and is vcrti-
cally overhead at noon.
N. /,..-
physician of Richmond, Va, whc had
made a particular study Of append
citls and was regarded as an authority
ON the disease, died from it four days
after he was attacked by it.
Orange groves in Central Florida
shat were cut down to the ground by
the cold waves are now showing anew
growth eight to ten feet high. The
shoots have been bnddcd with choice
fruit, and 10y next year the trees will
be nearly as large as they were before
the freeze.
"A German mathematician has
figured that if all the inhabitants OF
the world l,lS0,0O0 900, could be
brought together and placed as close
as they could stand, a good bikcr
could ride around them in four hours.
The Isle OF Man would be big en-
ough to hold them.
Capt. Tanner, whom the Repubi-
cans OF Illinois haze nominated as their
candidate for Governor, is an illitcrate
politician, who is looked upon with
contempt by the more intelligent
people Of his own party, but who has
won his way by his skill in manipulate
ing the machine.
Professor Rocntgen goes to Flor
ence every year for IL little rest. This
year. in spite Of his efforts to escape
public attention. the students gave
great dcmOnsti alton in his honor. One
Of them gave an address in German
and the Professor responded in choice
Italian. He is a taP handsome man,
with fair hair and beard.
"A recent incident ia the war III
Cuba illustrates the novel possibilities
of modern Appliances. A Cuban gen
cral, Pablo Olivia. arrived at the out
skirts Of a town defended by a Spanish
garrison. He found q telephone, and
securing connection with the fort,
summoned the commandante to sur
render When his demand was re-
fused he called back over tho wire
| that unless the commandante changed
| his mind within an hour he would
| burn the town. At the end OF the
| hour he called up the fort again, and
| found the garrison ready to surrender,
upon which he entered the town with
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