The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-12-12
INDUSTRIAL AND GENERAL

Benjamin ID. Stillman is not only
the oldest practicing lawyer in New
York and the Oldest living graduate OF
Yale, but is also, so far as Is known,
the oldest living college graduate in
the world.
Mrs. j.. l. McCallum, the adopted
daughter OF the late Johu Sherman,
will sell most OF his effects new in the
Sherman house at Washington. This
house cost almost 500, 600. Mrs. Nc
Callum has sailed for Europe with her
husband.
Gov. Sayers OF Texas Is said 20
have contributed to the Galveston re-
lei fund more money In proportion to
his private means than any o,her per-
sou interested but his gifts were dis
tributed secretly, and we're not pa bic
Iy acknowledged.
The Japanese government Is con
sidering the ACCESSIBILITY OF inntctinp
capital punishment by means OF sui.
location. 1t Is proposed to place the
SUBJECT in an alright chamber and
then exhaust the air from the box by
means OF a pump.
"A New York lawyer recently
charged a fee of $17, 600 in a certain
case, the payment OF which was re-
sisted on the ground OF excessive
charge. The matter vas referred to a
referee who reported that the services
rendered were worth 5000.
Miss Kate Miller, OF Fredericks-
burg, Pa, is probably the Oldest fac.
tory girl in the United States. She
recently celebrated her Slst birthday,
ana Tor the last twenty years has
worked In the same establish ment.
IN never misses a day, turns out q full
! OuOCA M wDrk II -.
sixty years her junior.
a year ago q seventy-pound
Mississippi catfish was taken to the
New YORK aquarium, For about al y
months 1T was an exceedingly ineXpen.
siVe ooarder, eating hardly ANYTHING.
NOW, however, it is feeding regularly
taxing every other day a single meal
OH pound to a pound and a half OF cells
ana herring. The bottom OF the big
cats tank Is covered with white sand,
In which II loves to rub itself.
-Ihe largest toy factory in the
world Is where playthings in lin are
turned out by the million. There are
Low distinct toys: No. | is a single
anlmal the last number Ia an entire
menagerle. There are 2 600, 900 circu.
lal .in "nisties sent out each year. Tin
swords and similar articles are made
by the thousands. The demand IN,
such toys is universal, though in other
sOrts there is more or less variation in
the taste OF children.
A divorce petition filed in cour,
az Hutchinson, Kan, recites the story
vi an extraordinary cO%urtship. Tn.
woman says she didn't want to marry
her husband, but n Afternoon @ anG
ms sister got her into a b re- anf
GROVE ABOUT the country ali lig &c. the
pair taxing turns in pleading With he,
W consent to h marriage. at last
near daylight, she consented from
sneer exhaustion and without givine
ner nance to repent, the man drove
her. ~ OIL
"A well known authority on bacteri
ology 8 vs. hat all kinds OF disease
10y oe Traced TO the eating OF un
m"sne9 fruits and particularly OF un
washed grapes. After washing some
grapes which had stood for a loop linn
"a a basket on a fruit stand, the mar
vi science found that the water con.
Gained tuoercle bacili in sufficient
quantities 20 Xii q guinea pig in two
Jays "o other guinea pigs which
were ~lnoculated with the germ in.
'ected water died within six weeks.
when young S%tonewall Jackson.
one OF the most awkward, ~ungsinly
ana seemingly unpromising youtbs
That the South has produced, heard of
a vacancy at West Point he imma.
alateiy went to Washington, deter.
mined to get the appointment, and he
got It,. When he reached West Point
the other boys laughed at him, but one
o. them, with more penetration than
MS companions, said That fellow
LOOKS IKE nee come to stay" He did
stay. He worked hard, economila d
and saved enough from his cadets nav
alter covering all expenses, to buy his
sister a silk dress. LAG