The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-11-02
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
Quaint and Curious Paragraphs
Gathered from Various Sources.


Gathered from Various Sources.
Lieut.. Brumby, of the Oiym pia, is
said to ba the greatest smoker In the
navy. Except when eating, sleeping
or on duty, he always has cigar in
his mouth.
The construction of q cigar box
may seem O very simple matter to the
novice, but the box passes through 10
different processes before 1t is ready
to receive the cigars.
The movement for tho erection Of
q monument in San Francisco to com.
memorate Admiral Dewey's victory at
Manila is already assured OF o success:
Yul outcome, the fund haS Ing reached
$36, 900.
-Instead of issuing return checks to
persons leaving o theatre during the
performance, the Japanese mark the
departing spectator on the hand with
an India rubber stamp, the mark %ary-
Ing each evening In form and color. {.
OF the 140 cities in the Unite d
States having population OF 10000 or
over, all save Al own and operate the
municipal water supply. Only four
have municipal gas work rks-Duluth,
Richmond, Wheeling and Toledo !;
while 13 own and operate electric light t
plants.
-Cooperage woods have advanced
20 per cent. largely caused by the en-.
ormOus demand from tho whisky COM
btne. Experimenters are trying to
mako cloth and soap out OF wood pulp.
Sawdust and wood waste have almost
as great value. as the plank ten years
ago.
The Illinois Supreme Court has
ruled that the shade trees in tho street
In front Of man 'saprQperty belong to
him and cannot be cut down or mutil-
atsd yithopt nts copaent. The, suit
;ssHase bhe In which; q property owner
sued telephone company for cutting
of the limbs Of his trees, in order to
make room for Its wires,~. e." .~,.,.
"A few years ago q Western rail
Froad planted 600 acres Of land with
|theSg;with the idea of'groWing timber
for railway tiss and telegraph poles.
The trees have made good growth, but
are not quito ready for use as poles,
| and some of tho trees are now being
| cut out and made into fence posts in
! order to thin the forest.
"A paper published In Lima, Peru,
tells Of an artillery soldier who was
sentenced to be flogged, and 90 the re-
gulatIon cat-o-nine-tsils was not at
hand was put In prison to await Its ar
rtval-the officer in charge being q
stickler for discipline. It was about q
year before the requisite scourge was
supplied by the authorities, and by
that time the soldier had been dead
several months.
| Tho Lincoln Leapue of Calf fornfa
which is to erect statute of Abrsh am
| Lincolniln San Francisco, has about do
cided to accept the design submitted by
John .Gelert, OF Now York. The design
represents tho martyred President
seated In large arm chair. Tho figure
| will be OF bronze and the PEDESTAL of
granite, with decorative panels OF
marble.
| - The next great celebration In New
York is llkeIy to be held In SUptem ber.
| 1909, and 1t will be the 300th anniver-
sary OF the discovery of the Island OF
Manhatten by Henry Hudson. The
2OOth anniversary, in September, 1909,
Was modestly celebrated by dinner,
held "'under the auspices OF the Now
Yor Historical Society. There is al
reacy talk that the anniverssry may
be celebrated by Worlds Fair.
1T ia said that the bo olinks which
rear their young on the shores OF Lake
Winnipeg, Canada, and 60 to Cuba and
Porto Rico to spsnd the winter, twice
traverse a distance exceeding 2,80e
miles or moro than fifth OF the circum-
ference OF our earth, each year. The
kingbird lays It's eggs as far north as
tho 57th degree Of latitude, and Ia
found In the winter In South America.
The biennial pilgrimages OF the little
redatar exceed 5000 miles, and the
tiny hummlngbird 1000.