The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-10-26
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Quaint and Curious Paragraphs
Gathered from Various Sources.

Quaint and Curious Paragraphs
Gathered from Various Sources.
1t is predicted that In less than
five years the sturgeon will become
practically extinct in the great lakes
and on the Atlantic coast unless their
existence be maintained by artificial
propagation.
Mon exposed to tho rigors OF the
Alaska winter never wear moustaches.
They wear full boards to protect the
throat and face, but keep tho uppor
lip clean shaven.
| The Pennsylvania Steel Company
has been awarded the contract for the
erection OF an iron ore pier, 1000 feet
In longth, to be erected near Santiago
for the Cuban Steel Ore Company.
This Includes the erection OF all bridges
and viaducts. The price will reach
almost $500, 900.
The last Federal census showed
that during the ten years, lS67.lS7G,
there were 1872, 12l divorces in tho
United States, and during the next ten
years l877-l886, there were zoe, sos di,
vorces. The ratio Of increase greatly
exceeded that of the population.
"A Kansas soldier, by way of illus
tratlng the civilizing influences that
are at work In Manila. says that whom
the city surrendered to the Americans
there was not saloon on the main
sSSroe1v oi the CITY, buj that five months
lator he counted 432.
The widow OF former Governor At.
kinsOn, of Georgia, has Great ID some
thing OF a sensation in business and
! social circles by going into .he field as
general State agent for fire and life in.
surance companies. She says her pur-
pose is to mako q living and educate
: her five children. She Ia already do
Ing we'll and has received ietturs uf
congratulation from numerous society
women.
,, AT least once u year it Ia in order
TO ask What becomes OF The pins. The
annual returns show that $4,000, 600
were made In England last year,
Great Britain wastes $l ,000,000 annu-
ally by losing pins instead OF sticking
them neatly In cuehion, or man-fash-
ion In coat lapel. The Baltimore an
swer to the old conundrum should again
be cited. They fall to the earth and
: become terra pins.
, 1T Ia said that ex-President Harri.
sons fee as chief counsel for the Re.
public of Venezuela in the arbitration
proceedings just concluded is to be
a $3.50, GOO. Runor has 1t that he re-
n fused to make any charge until he hat
. carefully examined into the case ant
! when he communicated to the Venezuel
= an republic that England was wron
a In her contention he received immedi
q ately an offer of fee Of $3.50, 900 to ur
q dertake the case.
l. French physicians have for som
81 <tooo hoon t,,nn1frN ,of1lr 1
Y place OF COW milk, especiafl5y,. for CHI
i dren. The former, they say, is rioier
0 In gasoline and 1t carries no danger OF
:. tuberculosis. Goat milk Is nearly the
J. same In composition with that of o
( young mother, and even better, be.
y cause 1t contains moro salts, which
l. favor the bony system. Goat cream or
butter, containing all the caseine is
y wholesome to weakly children. Goa
Y milk is said to cure constitutions
r syphilis In infants, and dyspeptics car
Q take 1T when cow milk disagrees with
y them. Cow butter Is dangerous, goat
. butter is harmless, and ought, accord
Q ding to this theory, to take It's place.
1 says: "Senator Vest, is in West Vir.
y ginia catching mountain trout and
q cooking them as his friend, Wade
9 Hampton, taught him to cook them in
East Tennessee and Western North Ca
q rOllna. First catch your trout, though,
In the meantime, have good fire on
8 tho bank OF the stream that you can
q roast q potato In the embers. Dress
0 your trout before the life is out OF 1t,
n dip In cold spring water until 1t is cold.
y Put d rasher OF bacon inside 1t, with
1 butter, pepper and salt, enclose in q
h groen corn shuck, from which the
- | oor hoo hmm folyap nn
Y, open the embers, deposit the shuck
II and fish, cover up with hot embers aud
" live Goals, and by and by you have q
@ dish Of fish that Lucullus would have
It given the ransom OF O. province for
n That Is what Vest does every summer
ls vacation, and there is no telling how
,s long man who does that is going to
n live"
l. DIR. Richard j. Calling, inventor OF
l. the Gatling gun, has just celebrated
g. his eighty-frst birthday. He Is tall
20 br0ad-shOuldered OF orect carriage and
l. stately figure. He looks twenty years
e younger than the average man OF hit
e years. He Ia we'll read in literature
u delights in Dickens, Scott and Thaok
K cray, and can quote freely from Ameri
u course, his guns are his hobby, though
n he shows none of tho eccentricitie
y commonly ascribed to mon of genius. Fl
d Is North Carolinian by birth but ha
made his homo in Cleveland, O., fo
L. many years. He comes honestly by hi
h title OF doctor, being q medical man b
n training and profession, but as @ bo
1t he took to mechanics naturally, an
t. thirty seven years ago conceived th
0. Idea which bears his name. Althoug
st the inventor Of such q murderous wei
q. pom, the doctor is one OF the mildes
is hammered, most kindly dispositione
~ mon On earth.