The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-02-16
wAYSIDE GATHERINGS.
Bits OF Humor and Nuggets of Truth
for the multitude

An excellent wash for the faoe-wa-
ter.
"A good road makes short trips and
near neighbors.
-London's population increases about
10000 every year.
-ln Germany the census is taken
every five years.
Half of your worry today is due to
your neglect yesterday.
-Religion is like medicinc-it ia the
overdose that neutralizes.
--.Laplanders often skate in one day
distance of $50 miles
Birmingham Ala, is shipping pig
iron to Birmingham, Eng,
1t robs the world for q man of
ability to live in idleness.
People who deserve criticism gen.
orally look on it as abuse.
"A good habit is q faithful servant:
bad habit is a hard master.
st. Louis is the largest tobacco
manufacturing center in the world.
The popular idea OF reform" You
go out and let me como in"
An excellent thing to remember
Is That every story has two sides.
Simplicity of character is the ma
tural result OF profound thought.
Consider we'll what YOU can and
ought to do and be faithful in per-
forming it.
Mckinney is another of the long
list OF American presidents who were
not college graduates.
Only about one in u thousand mar
ried couples live to celebrate their
golden wedding.
There is a clerk in Marne, France,
who has made II unsuccessful attempts
to commit suicide.
Every man knows of a position
superior to his own that he could fill
much better than the incumbent.
Newspapers are folded, wrapped
and addressed by machine recently
patented by man in California.
"A woman, the manager of one of
the leading insurance companies in
California, receives $4,000 year.
"A Cincinnati genius advertises for
situation, saying that Work is not
SO much an object as good wages"
Ono Of the public schools of Cor
many has made it obligatory for all it's
pupils to learn to ride'the bicycle.
To have a family properly bal
anced the man should know how to
accumulate and the woman how to
save.
There are more wrecks in the
Baltic sea than in any other place in
the world. The average is one wreck
a day throughout the year.
Alfred Nelson, Swedish million
aire, gave the most stmagniticent Christ
mas gift on record. He gayGor@nays @
LII nI,
-f,t the recent election in ~: -. h'"'I
the women cast I'D Of tho2'
polled, or less th..G 33 per CSs-'-------------- Cs----------
men voted. "1AIIUs
No man who is intoxicated, or
whose breath is even tainted with
strong drink, is allowed to take his
post on u train on the Grand Trunk
railway.
Millions of men in India live, mar
ry ana rear apparently happy children
upon an income which, even when the
wiie works, Is rarely above 80 cents q.
week.
"A drummer who has been in south
Florida for the past week, says that
the beef in that section is SO tough as
to render it almost impossible to stick
a fork in the gravy.
The pipe smoked by the new Shah
OF Persia on state occasions is set with
diamonds, rubies and emeralds of the
costlicst kind, and is stated to be worth
as much as $4OO, 600.
st. Petersburg is probably the
only city in the world where, from
year to year, the death rate exceeds
the birth rate. In the 125 years end
ing in ISoS there were ,539, 900 births
and l,7T2,OOO deaths.
When Il graduate of Cambridge
University, England, commits crime
;he authorities OF the university take
his degree from him and strike his
name from the rolls OF the alumni.
Mexico produces anything that
can be raised in any other country. So
varied is the climate that in the same
State can be raised any product Of the
tropics and of the polar regions.
"A caterpillar in the course of one
month will dcvour 5000 times it's
weight in food. 1t takes a man nearly
three months to eat quantity Of food
equal to his own weight.
st Michael's church, London, has
had Il large telephone transmitter
placed in the pulpit, SO that sermons
may be heard In number Of hospitals
and other institutions.
Tho superintendent of public
grounds ut the national capitol reports
that l,3l0,416 persons have ascended
the Washington monument since it
was opened to the public eight years
ago in October, 1888.
Not mile Of railroad track was
laid last year in Nebraska, Wyoming
South Dakota, Nevada, Idaho, Rhode
Island Arizona, New Hampshire, New
Mexico, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
and only one mile in Kansas.
WHO DIED FIRST There is going
| to be an interesting litigation in New
York city over $40 600 of Insurance. on