Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-07-20
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! m Ornon missions nave heen eStab.
lished in the Philippines.
There's no redress for the man
who has but one suit Of Giothes.
The way of the transgressor may
be hard; but it is usually pretty
smooth. %
a man can, make good bluff by
looking wise and keeping his mouth
closed. ..
The good man who goes wrong is
in reality a bad man who has Just
been found out.
New Zealand farmers now send
frozen cream to London, where it is
churned for butter.
Worry never cures an evil; but it
sometimes relieves the monotony of
too much happiness.
While oursing his daughter for
marrying against his wishes, a Texas
man was stricken with death.
AS a rule we have only words of
praise for the dead. Our atock of
censure is exhausted on them while
alive.
In some parts of Russia the only
food for tho people consists at pres
ent of acorns, leaves and tho soft
bark of trees.
a cynical bachelor says Adams
wife was called Eve because, when
she appeared, his day of happiness
was at an end.
The Standard Oil Company is 60
ing to establish a barrel factory in
Greenvillc and make that place a
distributing depot.
Seventeen Governors of States
have accepted invitations to attend
tho antitrust convention at st. Louis
in September.
The population Of the South Afri-
can Republic consists of 10000
Beers, $4,000 other whites, called
Outlandcrs, and 100000 Kaflirs and
Iulus.
The Attorney General of Iowa has
asked all county attorneys to prose-
cute all trusts within their iurisdic-
tion to the best of their ability.
Grasshoppers have become great
plague in Spain, invading even the
cities. In Austria 5000 soldiers
were ordered to assist in destroying
them.
A bcggars' syndicate, organized
and operated in accordance with the
latest trust methods, has been dis
covered in New York by the arrest
of two crippled beggars.
Probably the richest person in
Cuba is woman, Sonora Rose
Abicn. She owns millions and vast
estates, but is democratic in taste,
and favors the United States.
An immense whiskey trust, which
will cont, OF 95 per cent of the out
put in the United States, with a
working capital of &125,000, 700, has
been organized in Now York.
Colorado will send to the Paris
Exposition the statue of n typical
American girl cast in pure gold. 1t
is said that it's value will be s1,0UO,-
600.
A dispatch from Mannheim, Ba-
den, makes the important announce
mcnt that a workman named Mon
tag has succeeded in making arti-
fetal coal from earth and mineral
substances.
Chinese dentists arc said to have
a powder which is rubbed on the
gums over an affected tooth. After
an interval Of five minutes the pa
ticnt is told to sneczc and the tooth
falls ont.
The tallest trees in the world are
the gum trees of Victoria, Austria
liza. In some districts they average
300 feet high. The longest pros
tratcd one measured i73 feet and 81
feet in girth near the roots.
A Fourth of July celebration is
much more destructive than whole
weeks campaign in the Philippines.
The Chicago Tribune sums up the
casualties from $50 cities and towns
as follows: Deaths, SO injured, 73O
fire losses, s233,000.
Lady (engaging cook)-Why did
you leave your last place =? Cook
| couldn't stand the dreadful way the
master and missTa used to quarrel
mum. Lady-What did they quarrel
about? Cook--Thc way the dinner
was cooked, mum.