The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1898-01-19
AReal Blood Remedy.
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.


Commerce in Persia is still carried on
almost entirely by caravan.
Nearly $1,000, 900 worth of patent
medicines are exported from the United
Kingdom each year.
Seven hundred Cinnamon in San
Francisco have professed conversion in
the Salvation Army.
Thereare parts of the Ganges valley
In India where the population averages
1900 to the square mile. .
Muriel Mustard is the name under
which London S-year-old pianoforte
prodigy is Drawing the world.
A cent stamp must adorn every day
book, ledger or other account book kept
by business house in Mexico.
immigration at the port of Philadel-
phia fell off more than so per cent dur
ing the year ended June 80 last.
Corrected returns made by the labor
bureau give North Carolina cotton and
woolen mills l,044,3S5 spindles.
A paturalist of eminence finds that
land birds make their journeys in the
daytime and water birds by night.
An English aericulturist has succeed
ed in the cross fertilization Of grasses,
clover, cereals and other food plants.
Anew Testament jammed in switch
made train on the London and North
western railroad jump the rails recently.
1t is reported that the Carnegie COM
pany expects to sell 10000 tons of steel
rails in Holland during the coming sea-
son.
The japanese do not care much for
novels. Among ~, ,000 new books print
cd last year only 462 were works of fic-
ton
1t takes 2,00o of the Korean coins
known as leash" to equal 81. Travellers
need an extra bullock to carry their
funds
The profits are said to be larger for
the amount Of capital employed in poul.
try keeping than in any other branch OF
live stock breeding.
London has 10 piano factories, in
which 0.000 instruments are made ev-
cry year, 10000 elephant tusks being
required for the ivory.
Thirteen crimes were punishable by
death when Queen Victoria ascended
the throne. Today there are practically
but two-t-eason and murder.
A geographically well posted pedes-
trian succeeded the other day in setting
foot in the course of hours and 40
minutes in seven German states.
French Guiana is said to have the
most violent thunderstorms i'll the
world. The thunder is almost deafen-
ing, and the peals come in quick success
sion.
When cotton thread was first made,
$40 yards of it, weighed one pound.
Hence it is No J. A pound containing
twice that number of yards is No. 2,
and so on.
4 colorless ink for writing upon post
al cards, ETC., is made by mixing to-
gether water and sulphuric acid, the
writing becoming permanently visible
when heated.
Fifty years ago" says the Decker
town IN. J.) independent, nearly ey-
cry town in this (Sussex) county abound
ed in distilleries. Nearly all have now
disappeared"
Bricks made of plaster of paris and
cork are now used in the construction
Of powder mills. In case of explosion
they offer slight resistance and are bro
ken to atoms.
Green rests the eye. Resting the
eye often means to rest the nerves, and
the refreshment of the eye is as neces-
sary to comfortable life as the renewal
of the other bodily forces by food.
A pigs tail is said to unerringly indi-
cate the condition of the animal. If it
hangs loose it shows that the pig is not
we'll and that its food should be changed.
If it be coiled tightly the pig is healthy
and happy.
The Brazil nut contains from Is to "a
seeds, which all germiuate at one time.
The most vigorous one gets first through
small hole at the top to the open air,
and thereupon it strangles and feeds
upon the rest.
The annual average Of decimal peri
ods of the benevolent contributions of
the Methodist Episcopal church from
1910 to 1890 has risen from sos, 200 to
50, 304, 900 and the average per member
from l3 cents to S1.02.
The German army has a swimming
school for troops where every one must
learn to swim. The best swimmers are
able to cross stream of several hum
dred yards width, even when carrying
their clothing, rife and ammunition.
The hill near Jerusalem where the
crucifxion Of Jesus occurred is formed
of limestone. The shores of the Dead
sea are lined with pumice stone show
cred out of some volcano that destroyed
Sodom and Gomorrah, which cities
finally sank beneath the waters Of the
Dead sea.
Members of the Chinese imperial fam
lily will soon be railroaded to the celne-
tery. 1t costs from 800, 900 to 400, 600
taels for the transportation Of member
of the barem and 2,000, 900 taels for