The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-20
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
quaint and Curious Paragraphs
Gathered from Various Sources

--Senator w. h. Chandler savs he has
not changed his viows on the financial
questlon, but stands firmly for b,met
ailsm rs the great need OF the coun.
try. o'"n'
-" Fighting Bob Evans was in hls
early days the Nimrod OF his Virginia
countrywide. No ono could bring home
as many rabbits or birds, and no one
could break colt as we'll rs he.
--Colonol N. Nj. Dyer, who com.
manded the Baltimore at the battle of
Manila, did not graduate from tho ma.
val academy, but served six years on
merchantmen before entering the
United States navy.
In letter just received from Sur.
geon Beck OF the Thirteenth Minhe-
sofa, now in the Philippines, he says
thai In the | 100 cases OF wounded SOL
dlers who had gono to tho hospital 1T
the time OF his writing there wero only
threo casos OF amputatiOn.
"A statute Of the late United States
Senator Ztbulon Is. Vance is to be
placed 1T the eastern entrance to Capi-
tol Square, Raleigh, N. c., opposite
the monument to the Confederate dead
mo State Legislature appropriated
So,O OOO Tor 1t and private citizens added
Us 900 to the amount.
y Senator w. A. Clark said in an in
tervlew last week that he owed his
success In lie entirely to his early OK
pcrlences on his fathers farm in Penn
sylvania learned that hard work."
he said, was necessary If u man
wanted to live. The trouble with most
people Is that thSy don't realize this"
John Hates, OF Lower Alloway, N.
o., who rocently had hatched out q
chicken with three legs and another
with tour logs, now has n third with
only one leg. All arc doing well and
hates hopes to complete his collection
OF freaks by securing more ono-legged
lowls TO evcn matters up on the count
OF legs.
Tho increase OF insanity in civil
iZad centors OF population !s appalling
a hall doZ,n new asylums have been
built In and about London in the last
dozen years, and each ono Ia filled al
most as soon as completed. Tho mum.
Der OF insane in London institutions
alone now reaches an aggregate OF
over rs, 600.
The Dekalb Avenue Mothodis ist
Episcopal church has brought suit
against Geo. S. kelk. as tho t.dminis-
traitor OF Jane Boese, who Sled In d.
cember, 1897, alleging that sho obtained
S077.U from tho church during a pc
riod OF years by fraudcntly represent
ing that she was u pauper and in need
OF aid Tor support. After sho died
thoro wore found In her apartment
various sums OF money argrcgating
1854 70, bank book showing a balance
Of deposits In the Brooklyn Savings
Bank amounting to 81, 500 and another
bank book showing balance OF $360.
Mrs. G. w. Goodlander. the young
wife OF the Mayor 0! Fort Scott, Kans
has attracted much attention by an In
| n0vatlOn she has introduced In the line
OF assisting her husband in one OF his
most onerous public duties, namely
providing for tho needy poor OF the
city. She spends certain hours each
day driving around the poorer quar-
ters OF tho city and personally invcsti-
eating claims for assistance, and no
lndolont or undeserving person gets On
ordor from her. She permits no social
Junction to intorfero with this work.
Tho results OF her enterprise are being
anticipated with great interest.
"A novelty In summer schools is Of.
fered in Missouri this year. Tho State
university has given Instructions along
the lines familiar In such schoos dur.
log the vacation season for good
while past, and it now adds new courses
In horticulture and agriculture. Pre-
sldent Jesse holds that some attention
| should be given in the public school 0
40 agricultural. State to studies Of s0il
climate, birds, Insects and plant life
| and he points out that tho fields, for
ests and highways In tho country ant
the lawns and public squares IN th,
city and towns furnish all tho labora
tory facilities which are needed To-
such studies.
Governor Roosevelt shortened tn
sentence Of John Howard, a convict /
Sing Sing prison, because tho prisono
constructed two large bipe organs 70
the chapel, working two years on tn
JOB, and thus saving the State an an
ount OF money estimated at ab0u
$5,OC0. The organs were finished abor
two weeks ago, just as HOward's ser
tence expired, and he was released
me organs were greatly admired
| When 1t came to trying them last Sun
day it transpired that they only looke
| like what they purported to be, an,
despite all tho electric pumps woult
not give forth q sound. Howard failet
W leaVo MS 1uturo address At th'
prison when he depal ted.
"A remarkable freak OF lightning
occurred at East Brookfeld, Mass, thu
| other day, when o sudden shock restored
TO It's Old-timo vigor the loft arm o
| Ell Forbes, which had been useles To-
thirteen years on account OF rheumn
tism. While he was sitting at tn,
window a thunder shower came up ant
with 1t woro two sharp nashes OF light
ming. With one OF tho tremendou
crashes Mr.. Forbes felt sharp prick
Ing OF his flesh and tingling In hi
bones and with jerk his loft arm sho
violently forward from It's crampet
position. The shock was over In O flasl
and Mr.. Forbes felt his loft arm brlstl
with tho Vitality aud tingle with vigor
TO his delight he found he could us
the arm ~ well as ever.
Attorney General Bellinger ha