The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-12-19
7HE PATENT RECORD Baltimore. Rgd.
INDUS TRIAL AND GENERAL.

The city OF Downs, Kan, has more
mat OOO Inhabitants, among whom
there is not n single lawyer.
There are 20, 600 consumptives in
New York city. A physician SAYS
tenements have tuberculosis in some
form.
A Missouri weather prophet who
reads the future in the leaves OF trees,
says this Will be one Of the mi dcst
winters ever known on the continent.
Census figures show that Des
Moines, with a population Of 90, l39
mas sixty eight saloons, while Daven
port, with but 30, Psi inhabitants, has
wet goods establishments TO the mum.
Der Of 155.
The town OF Eatonville, Fla, has
100 inhabitants, with not a single
whlte among Them. 1t has its full quo.
Ia OF public officials. u bank and otner
business establishments requisite in q
town OF its SIZE.
"A smart piece Of work was recent.
ly accomplished on the railway at
StreetVllle, near Toronto, where an
ola bridge was replaced by & new steel
lattice girdcr bridge of 1870 feet span.
the traffic being Interrupted for ~
minutes only.
Bishop Peterkin, OF West Vir.
Elnia, has been selected to oversee the
work OF the Episcopal church in Portu
ltlCo, and VIII make an Official tour OF
That island EcXt January.
Stockport, Eugland, bOasss The
largest Sunday school in the world,
nearly u uUO children being on the roll
OF the Institution. Tt. recent an .ua
procession was a gigantic atfalr, oiu
schi lArs travelling long distances IT,
lJin IN the walk,
The boundary line between the
United States and Mexico has recently
been resurvcyed and MAJ ked by stone
monuments IN the form of ooclisks,
located about five miles apart. Tbs
shafts are ten feet high, four ieet
square at the base and two feet at the
too, and STAND on foundations five Ic.l
squ9re.
Virginia is Experimenting with
the dispensary system of selling liquor
on account Of the State and tow,
tc2nklln having been sUlcctc.. for the
experiment. The Commonwealth gcts
one fourth OF the profits and the tuwu
the remainder. Under this system,
Inc liquor Is SOLD in original paCk ages
anu must not be consumed on the pre-.
misses.
"A confirmed topper OF Franklin,
"a, MADE Il bet previous 10 tn, cleo
tlon thht II Mckinney was successful
he would eubslst entirely on whisky
FOR six n.Onths. He essayCd TO futii.
his obligations, but after y few DAYS
his tomac rcvoitcd and he found il
phys cally Impossible to cOLtinu,
drinking. lie has now become a strict
tectOtaicr.
"A weil.knOwn Chicago clergyman,
the Rtv. Dr.. Parkcr, of the CentcnniaI
Baptlst church, has written "a move
OF ten chapters, and is reading a
chapter each Sunday at vesper scr
vices. Inc theme is the evil OF ca
distinctions, and he brings this OUT IL
q series OF character sketches ba ed OF
Observation OF the wiCciy varied types
Of deplzens OF the street in which n,
lives. The idea is 10 illustrate som,
sociological facts In popular style, ano
the experiment OF reading his OWL
novel struck him rs the most concrete
form 10 which he could do SO.
1T Is announced thaL one OF the
leading BJnapgrtists will shurtI,
publish . work vi fiction dealing viii.
the career OF the Prince Imperial, son
OF Napoleon I'LL and Empress Eugenie
rms novel, founded on fact, Is to b,
called Els o'Emporeur." Ia it il
uaTSu VIC llic U inc lrlnCe from the
time when he received his ''buptism
OF fire at Saarbruck, on August ,
1870, until the fatal June |, 1870 vine,
he fell 10 the ravine Of Ulunul, pierced
by the assegais OF the L Illus. Tn,
author OF the volume is SAID to be a
writer OF acknowledged reputation.
OF the 100000, 600 Passengers
carried upon the railways Of tue cOun.
try last year 22l were killed prd > gI5
were Injured. or the employ IS 2,237
were killed ana 30, 7i9 were ~ipjureu
and OF the Othcrs-tramUs, ~trcspasser.
and people who we're not in trains
l,GSO were killed and Is l76 were in
Jured, making u total OF IBIS persons
killed ana 1870 injured.
Tho compilation Of the popular
vote Tor President has been completed.
According to the figures, Mckinney
rect iv"d i,2b3, 266 votes. and BRYAN
6,ll5 38I. M,kIniey's plurality in 1896
was oul ,8ol ana this year it was Si7,
O2o, an n rcos' OF 2i6 OPS.
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