The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-01-07
WAYsIDE GATHERINGS. \.
Bits OF Humor and Nuggets OF Truth
for the Multitude.

"A million dollars In silver weighs
1881 pounds.
Russia exports more wheat than
any other country.
--Tobolsk, Russia, is the coolest In
hablted place in the world.
-Badness is caused by q germ de-
stroying the roots Of the hair.
There are 1852, 1S6, ,O44, ,515 differ.
ent sounds in the human voice.
-PresideDt-elect Mckinley has a
porcelain bath tub inlaid with gold
There are fourteen hundred and
twenty-five characters in the twenty
four books written by Dickens.
Tho region about the Dead Sea
Is ono of the hottest places on the
globe, and the sea is said to lose q
miilions tons OF water day by eyapo-
ration.
-Yaleta, on the Rio Grande river,
In Texas, is said to be tho Oldest town
IN America. ST. Augustine, in Flori-
da, has long laid claims to that dis
tinction.
California has always claimed to
De u smart State, and as her present
years mustard crop amounts to about
10000, 600 pounds, we are inclined to
believe it.
Tho Welsh have saving that II
Il woman wore as quick with her feet
as with their tongue, she would catch
lightning enough to kindle the fire in
the morning.
-Ihere 1s q time when thou nav
est say nothing, and q time when thou
mayest say something; but there will
never be time when thou shouldst
say all things.
.-Learning Is not education, Half
OF al! the fools in the world are "edu-
Gated" Learning gives the means of
acquiring that which correctly used,
enlightens the mind.
If you would enjoy your meals, sit
down to the table good natured. An
angry, iussy man or woman cannot tell
whether they are eating boiled cab
bage or stewed umbrellas.
The model husband lives in Phil
adelphia. He never allows his wife
to DO more than half the work. She puts
up all the canned fruit In the summer.
ana nc puts 1T down In the winter.
In certain parts of China the
young women wear their hair in a LONG
single plait, with which l. intertwined
strand of bright scarlet thread.
which denotes that she is marriagable.
"A curious note of explanation ac-
companicd some poetry received bv a
Michigan editor. The note ran this
These lines were written so years
ago by man who has, for a long time,
slept IN his grave merely for a pas
time"
Tommy twho had just received q
severe scaonIding)-" Am | really SO bad,
you are a very bad bow" Tommv,
| (rctlcctivcly W" Well, anyway mamma.
think you ought to be real darn glad
| Amt twins !"
Our senses do not fall asleep sim
ultancously. The cyelds are first
affected, and shut out sight next fol-
lows the sense OF taste, then smelling,
hearing and touch, the last named
being the lghtcst sleeper, anu most
easily aroused.
An addition to the telephone Is q
| device which shows the photograDhs OF
the persons who are talking. You
can see the picture Of the porson with
| whom you are conversing. This won
acriul Invention is the word of a man
in Alamenda, Cal.
Tho bicycle craze, according to
Inc Cnlted States Tobacco Journal,
has decreased the consumption Of
cigars in this country by about one.
million day. Tho decrease since the
craze set In has actually been seven
hundred million year.
Tho EX-Slave Pension Association
which recently met at Birmingham
Ala;, has put lot of agents on the
roau 10 collect money to further their
scheme In Congress. The Baptist
safeguard warns It's readers to be- on
thelr guard against this new "fortv
acres and mule" scheme.
"A chemical expert saws that 90
per cent. OF the beer brewed in Amer
lcti VIII not come up to the test pre-
scrioed by the German government,
which Is not q severe one. ONLY jnsist.
Ing that pure beer be brewed, and
liking severe penalties for the pro-
ductlon OF any other kind.
Capt G.. !B. Blood, of oTennes,eo
who acted as drill master for the ra,y
!nsurgcnt troops under Gomez. has
Just returned TO his homo. He brinos
PACK the startling information that
Cen. Weyler Is q native of Ohio and n
son OF parents of German origin. His
iather is at present farmer in the
Buckeye State.
"A clergyman's daughter, looking
over the MINIS. left by her father in
MS study, CHANGED upon the following
sentence love to look upon 9
young man. There is hidden poten-
~ oo"'o"i@o "l1nln MS breast which
charms and pains mo-" She sat down
and blushingly added: "Them's NV
sentiments exactly, papa all but the
pains" ~. VIZ
"A Portland sea captain tells of his
sailing In southern seas whore. fivinS
fish abound. They would sometimes
IN their flight in the night come aboard
the ship and drop to the deck. he had
three cats that, though they were
lying asleep below, would hear tie
souhu whenever . fish struck the deck
ana would rush up to get it. They
distinguished this from ali othsr
sounds. The crew tried to initiate It
IN IN various ways, but could not deceive
the cats. Aso ~ -
"A Michigan young lady named o..
Ter was SO confident that Bryan wculd
be elected that she staked one thor.
SANG kisses on him. The young man
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