The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-09-25
INDUSTRIAL AND GENERAL

"A Missouran has quit chewing to-
+ ""cco after forty years of indulgence
mere are more newspapers publish
cd IN Iowa in proportion to the ponulo.
,,"n than in any other State in the
Union. ii 'h'
a wealthy resident of a town in
Miller CountY, Mo-, has selected a site
near his own home and is buildino for
himself with his own hands an elabo.
rate tomb.
Inc United States Rubber Company
mas announced its policy for the com.
ing year. aud it will continue an un-
compromising fight against the indie
pendent companies.
Thirty Cinnamon who have accumu.
iatcd considerable wealth in this conn
tiIy, left Chicago few DAYS ago for
emma to live and enjoy it.
"a memorial of the late Senator
stephen NJ. White, of California. in
me form of life size statue, is TO he
placed in the courthouse grounds at
Los Angeles. >' 90
Utah. with $50 1000 population b,s
$50, 200, 900 invested in wool groyinm ~
oou'h Carolina has nearly five times as
lhucn population, but grows rather
dog hair than wool
The eucalyptus trees on the island
Oh Tasmania sometimes attain great
SIZE. one that has been measured ia
55o iect high, and some are sa,d TO at
tain a height of 400 feet
NnruaI hoe ;,,
cross roads about 1900 miles of
roads, which are kept in repair at o
cost OF - 800 900 a year, which is dirt
chcap, Tor her roads are said TO be ey-
ccllcnt.
Ernest a. llamill has been elected
10 me treasurcrship of the Chicago Art
Institute, place held for many wears
Dy Secretary Lyman j. Gage, whose
duties at Washington forced him TO
rclinquish it.
Rev. John spurgcon, father of the
iate CHARLES II. Spurgeon, recently, on
ms nlnety-lirst birthday, laid the
foundation stone of All extension to the
SCUM Norwood Baptist Church, in
England.
frlnceSs Frcdcrick-August of Sax
ohy, daughter of The Grand Duke and
Duchess of Tuscany, who some dav
VIII be the Queen of Saxony, is taking
Il regular course as a trained nursn ~
the Lutheran hospital in Dresden
1t is said that the New TIampsbirc
historical Society has the original
patent on process for the use of steam
IN propclling boats. 1t was issued to
Samuel Morcy, March %, 1896, and
was signed by George Washington.
Mrs. Phoebe Hearst has agreed to
pay all the expenses of department
OF anthropology at The University of
California, which will be devoted
especially TO the study of Indians ON
tn" Pacific coast. The cost will be
about $4,000 a year.
A Denver, Colorado, woman has
sent formidable document to Secre-
tary Gage informing him that she owns
Tbs country, and wants the treasury
moved from Washington to Denver.
and right quick. She wants to have
it where She can keep a closer eve on
1t.
1t is now thought that the monu-
mcnt for Benjamin Harrison will be in
the form OF an arch to cost 5000 900.
Over $50 900 has already been raised.
me lund FOR the erection of a Whittier
monument which was started only n
week ortwo ago, already amounts to
over 50 900.
William a. Pcarscll, a Connecticut
farmer, was shot IN the left shoulder
slNty-ohc years ago. On Tuesday the
bullet was removed from his wrist.
lie mad experienced no pain or incon-
Vcnlcncc in the meantime until about
a mouth ago, when his wrist began to
cnlarge.
Tennessee has lost picturesque
character by The death of "Uncle
Alfred " Jackson, at Nashville, recent
~. lie was the favortc body-servant
Of Andrew Jackson and the last of the
servants of the Hermitage farm under
It's llrSI owner. Uncle Alfred " was
ninety.siX years old.
Wolf Won Schicrbrand, the news-
paper correspondent expelled from
Germany, is in New York. He claims
that the actual cause of his expulsion
VIZ" NV, 90 7l''cu Wy UcTlllan OlllClalS,
because he had tried by Legitimate
means To obtain advance copies of The
new German tariff bill, but because in
two OF his letters the drinking habits
OF the Emperor were described.
A million more farms arc IN the
United states today than ten years
ago. This fact is brought out in the
work of the Federal census bureau, de-
tailed figures soon to follow. These
VIII show approximately 5,G45, ,0OC
farms in the United States when the
census was taken last June, compared
with 4,3G5 900 farms ten years ago.
Compared With earlier decades, re-
markabc progress has been made i'm
cutting up Uncle Sans prairie hills
and valleys into tillablc farms.
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