The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
Quaint and Curious Paragraphs
Gathered from Various Sources.

Quaint and Curious Paragraphs
Gathered from Various Sources.
Men exposed to the rigors of the
Alaska winter never wear moustac hes,
| lhey wear full boards to protect the
throat and face, but keep the upper
lip clean shaven.
| There 10 lemon grove OF 1000
acres In San Diego County, California,
and 1t Is said to be the largest ir the
world. 1t was begun in 1890, when ITO
acres were plante d, and it has been au-
nually added to until it has reached its
present siza.
The Atlantic Transport Company,
which gave the United States a shin
| Tor hospital tervice in the war with
Spain, has now done Great Britain q
similar service. The admiralty have
gladly accepted the vessel, which will
be named the Maine.
The last Federal census showed
that during the ten years, 1S67.lS76,
there were 122, l2l divorces in the
United States, and auring the next ten
years 1S77-lSo6, there were 206, ,595 di
vnrcas. The ratio OF increase greatly
exceeded that OF tie population.
"A correspondent writing from
Tampa says that the pay roll OF the
cigar factories in tn 1T town last week
was larger THAI it had been for years
One factory paid out $4,000 in wages,
end Is not working half as mar hands
ds 1t would work II the labor could be
secured
The Pennsylvania Steel Company
has been awarded the contract for the
erection of an iron ore pier, 900 feet
In length, 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.
Ella Ewing, the giantess, has had
built for herself new residence near
Gorin, Mo. The house was constructed
ON a scale proportionate TO Miss Ew-
ing's needs. The doors are 10 feet high,
snd the ceilings aud windows look
like those OF fabled giants castles.
The proprietress Of this establishment
Is now feet inches tall, and is still
growing.
MANY years ago Rober rt Southey
wrote these words: '' France pur-
chased the sovereignty OF Corsica for
40, 600, GOO of livrts-As II the Genoese
had been entitled to sell it; as II any
bargain and sale could justify one coun-
try in taking possession OF another
against the will of it's inhabitants and
butcherlng all who oppose the usurpa-
tion." 1t Is not very difficult to tird
present application OF these words.
French physicians have for some
time been recommending goat milk In
place of COW milk, especially for chill
dren. The former, they say, is richer
In caseine and 1t carries no danger OF
tuberculosis. Goat milk Is nearly the
same In composition with that of q
young mother, and even better, be-
cause 1t contains more salts, which
favor the bony system. Goat cream or
butter, containing all the caseine is
wholesome to weakly children. Goat
milk is said to cure constitutional
syphilis In Infants, and dyspeptics can
take II when cow milk disagrees with
them. Cow butter is dangerous, goat
butter is harmless, and ought, accord
ding to this theory, to take its place.
DR.. Richard j. Calling, inventor OF
the Calling gun, has just celebrated
his eighty-first birthday. He Is tall,
broad-shouldered, Of erect carriage and
stately figure He looks twenty years
younger than the average map OF his
years. He is we'll read in literature.
delights In Dickens, Scott and Thack-
cray, and can quote freely from Ameri-
can and foreign publications. or
course, his guns are his hobby, though
he shows none OF the eccentricities
| commonly ascribed to mon OF genius. He
| Ia q North CarOlinian by birth but has
made his home In Cleveland, O., for
many years. He comes honestly by his
tile OF doctor, being a medical man by
training and profession, but as boy
he took to mechanics naturally, and
thirty seven years ago conceived the
Idea which bears his name. Although
the inventor OF such q murderous wea-
pom, the doctor is one OF the mildest-
hammered, most kindly dispositioned
men on earth.
The Louisville Courier.Journal
says: Senator Vest, is In West Vir
ginia catching mountain trout and
cooking them as his friend, Wade
Hampton, taught him to cook them in
East Tennessee and Western North Ca
rolina. First catch your trout, though,
In the meantime, have good fire on
the bank OF the stream thai you can
roast o potato In .no embers. Dress
your trout before the life Ia out of It,,
| dip In cold spring water until it is cold.
Put rasher OF bacon Inside 1t, with
butter, pepper and salt, enclose In q
green corn shuck, from which the
roasting ear has been taken, tie up,
open the embers, deposit the shuck
and fish, cover up with hot embers aud
live Goals, and by and by you have q
dish OF fsh that Lucullus would have
given the ransom OF q province for
That is what Vest does every summer
vacation, and there is no telling how
long a man who docs that Is gong tC
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