The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-29
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
Gatherings from Our Exchanges on
Various Topics.


"A Brooklyn, N. Y, bakery makes
7o,ooo loaves OF bread daily.
Over one million cat skins are used
In the FUR trade annually.
Horses sold at 25 cents each at u
sale In South Dakota, recently.
Glasgow, Scotland, is to have an
international exhibition in 1901.
New York expects million
visitors to the dedication Of Grants
tomb.
Considerable damage is being done
by forest fires in Pennsylvania and New
Jersey.
Tho people Of Dubois, Pa, con-
template the purchase of goats for q
milk supply.
Projected improvements in the
New York City water front will cost
slo,ooO,OOo,
Public exposure of horseiles for
sale is authorized in Denmark, Sweden
and France.
"A sugar refinery is to be built at
Salinus, Cal, which is to be the largest
in the world.
An electric car line is to be built
from Meadville, Pa, to Erie, Pa, u
distance of 81 miles.
1t is reported that many natives in
the vicinity of Ichang, China, are
dying of starvation.
AT the last auction sale of wool in
London, Eng, Boston merchants
brought 05. 600 bales.
Canadian apple growers say that
barrel heads of paper or pulp boards
preserve apples better than wood.
"A nail-making machine produces
as many nails in q given time as were
formerly made by thousand men.
Two boys, each aged II years,
have becn arrested in York, Pa,
charged with burglary and horse steal
ing.
The Oldest woman in Reading,
Pa, died, aged 10G years. Just before
! her last illness she danced a lively
waltz.
"A man has been arrested in Pitts
turgh, Pa, charged with yard
insurance frauds to the amount Of
$4O0, 600.
Bangkok, the capital of Siam, is
hoatlng city, containing 10000
houses, each OF which floats on raft
OF bamboo.
An explosion of fireworks in Bue-
ten persons and the loss of block of
buildings.
The threatened Canadian export
duty on saw logs is driving American
lum mbermcn to establish plants in
Canada.
The British government is build
ing torpedo destroyer which viii
steam 3S miles an hour, the fustest t
boat alloat.
ALL the professors in the Kansas
State Agricultural College have been
removed, it is claimed, for political
| reasons.
In Germany all employers are
obliged to insure their employees, even
when the employment is temporary
and unpaid.
"A French expedition in the in.
terror OF Africa has burned several
native villages and killed many of the
inhabitants.
"A company capitalized at s., ,0OO,-
600 has been formed at Minneapolis,
Mimi, to manufact re sugar from beets
and fight the Trust.
Thieves entered a building in Orn-
dell, N. j., when the inmates had been
tired out watching dead person and
ransacked the house.
The Congress of Honduras will au-
thorize q Washington ID. C.) syndicate
to build traction road from Port
Puerto u TruuXll.C.
--FortyIive thousand acres Of coal
! and oil lands in Preston Co., w. Va,
have been purchased by a company OF
capitalists for $5O0,O0O.
While mass was bcipg celebrated
n n L..
roof collapsed; eight persons were
, killed and thirty injured.
Finland employs six thousand
hands in paper Manufacture, and is
making itself felt as q competitor for
the puper trade OF the world.
Tho revolt in the Philippino
Islands Is reported rs being practicalIy
over. Nearly II 900 rebels have sur
r&:ndcrcd 10 TIC authorities.
"A break in the Standard oil pipes
which loss the SUI squehannn !tlvcr
at Shcnk:a Ferry, Pa, injured the
shad 'iahcr!"c in that vicinity.
Tho Glassboro, N. j., board of
health ordered family to move out
Of town because their iilthy homo was
u menace to the health OF the town.
1t Is proposed to develop Canadian
trade by placing line of steamers
between British Columbia ports and
those OF Mexico and Central America
During tho year 377 900 tons Of ii ,h,
exclusive OF shell fish, were landed in
England and Wales. Tho value, in
clnding shell fish, is placed at 1927 300
600.
by tho advice of u doctor at In
dianapolis, Ind, girl was severely
whipped by her parents to "tako the
deviI out OF hor," and she is now in u
hospital.
The post Office authorities estimate
that 50, 100000 is annually sent to
Now York City for stock and grain |
gambling, to f"'us who Ileece most OF
their CustOmt
Tho Che, uprakc Il OniO Railroad |
Company, IL ID reported, have perfect
cd plans for the erection Of IL station |
at Richmond, Va, to cost about two
million dollars.