The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-11-08
ITEMS OF GENERAL INrEI,Esr.
Quaint and Curious Paragraphs
Gathered from Various Sources.

Gathered from Various Sources.
Negotiations will soon be opened
at Madrid for new treaty between
the United States and Spain.
1t Is useless to acquire knowledge
unless you have little common sense
with which to season it.
, General Wheeler thinks q brigade
OF cavalry could be advantageously
used In the Philippine war.
The death roll OF the army for
thirteen months, it is officially report.
ed from Washington, numbers nearly
1000 mon.
The Supreme Court has decided
that an Indian chiefs eldest son Is en-
titled to all the property aud title Of
his father.
President Mckinley has been in
yited to visit Nashville on the return
OF the First Tennessee regiment from
tho Philippines.
1t Is now possible to telegraph from
San Francisco to the Klondike, a Ca
madam government line having been
strung from Bennett to Dawson City.
There have been more than 6, 900
suicides in this country during the
past twelve months, which breaks
the record for this or any other coun-
try.
Germany is the third greatest iron
country in the world, and yet a TWEEN.
tleth OF its entire output OF iron ore
comes from the Krupp mines and ia
manufactured in the Krupp works.
Miss Grace Mckinley, who was
graduated last June, at Mt. Holyoke
| college, taking the highest honors of
the class, will spend the winter at the
White House. She is the Presidents
| niece.
The grave OF President John TYLER.
In Hollywood cemetery, Of Richmond,
Va, Is at last to be marked by q monu-
ment, which will be Of granite and
fittingly inscribed. Only handsome
magnolia tree now marks the grave.
"A woman in Pennsylvania who
has 70 children is being given some
prominence In the newspapers. The
Archie Gordon, OF Granville County.
North Carolina, had u children, ali
sons.
In commenting on the great loss
OF the 10Th Massachusetts at Gettys-
burg, BIB out OF COG men being NOR.
tally wounded, the Des Moines State
Register says: sin those days, how
ever, 1T was the best soldiers on earth
against the best soldiers on earth"
1t is expected that in the next ses-
sion OF Congress Senator Clark will be
among those to urge that territorial
government be granted to Hawaii.
The Western llioaairc has
made large investments on the islands
and intends to build summer home
there.
Mr.. Edmund O. Osgood, OF Angeli
ca, New York has just celebrated his
golden wedding. Cataracts formed on
his eyes at the age Of II, aud when he
married he was totally blind. Twenty
six years later an operation restored
his sight, and he saw his wife and chill
dren for the first time.
A former private, Harry Hall of
the 1st Colorado, who did duty in the
Philippines, says that there is fine
field for lawyers in the archipelago.
Hall has enlisted in the regular army
and will go back to Manila, his pur-
pose being to study law and to perfect
himself in Spanish at spare moments.
The town of Essen, which has lOO,-
600 inha oitants has just been admitted
into the ranks Of German cities. The
town was made by the Krupp gun
works, which was started there by She
grandfather OF the present owner (Al-
fred Krupp) ia 1910. There are Al 200
employees, and there has never vet
been strike.
MIR. r. A. Moore, president OF the
Texas Tobacco Growers Association,
reports that he is in CORES pondencc
with six or eight cigar factories which
contemplate moving to Houston within
the next three or four months, and he
estimates that within the next three
years that city will have factories en-
ploying from 1,2OO to 1900 cigarmak-
erS.
"A Manila correspondent of the
Chicago Record, speaking OF the de-
parture of the Twentieth Kansas Reg
iment, notes the curious thing that
when the men turned in their arms
most OF them turned in Mauoere when
they were charged with Springfield
rifles ON the books OF the regir. .aut.
They had captured the Msusers from
the Filipinos.
Miss Frank, u woman OF Benson,
Mimi, 81 years Of age, took very un-
willing ride the other day. She tried
to climb over a stock train while on
the way to church, when the train
started with her on the bumpers and
carried her to Willmar, thirty miles
away, in fifty minutes. She arrived
safely, with her Bible in h hand,
having ridden between the care all the
way.
"A big Western packing concern
has embarked in the business of separ-
ating the whites and yolks Ct eggs,
canning them separately, frcczIns
them and unloading them on the
market. Some thirty dozen eggs are
put up Ia two-gallon can, which is
exactly the nGmber that a case holds.
When baker uses thirty or forty
dozen eggs in day it takes time to
break the eggs and separate them.
The new plan saves time.
The impurity OF the water in the
Mississippi River, from W w1ich the city
of ST. Louis is supplied, will compel the
adoption OF filtration as a means OF
remedy. This work is made more i'm
perative by tie nearing comp elton OF
the Chicago drainage canal. IL Is pro-
bable that legal proceedings will bo in
stituted by the city OF ST. Louis to pre-.
| vent the opening Of the Chicago canal
| unless the sewerage emptied therein
| shall have first been su bmit TIED TO some
efficient process OF publication.
| There are reasons for anticipating
d possible disappointment on this re-
turn OF the main body OF November
neteors The meteors have been scat.
tering during the last sixty years and
| the planet Jupiter has had q hand In