The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-01-02
INDUSTRIAL AND GENERAL.

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ire general and sevonty-six extra aides
ie-camp.
Andrew Carnegie has presented
500 600 to the city OF Chattanooga for
a public library, on his usual terms of
50 900 a year to be expended by the
city in maintaining it.
The capital stock of the Eureka
cotton mills, Chester, has been in
creased from $50 900 to $50, 600, and
it is the company's intention to make
improvements in the mill.
Mrs. William Carter has died of
smallpox in Union under unusually sad
conditions. She was married Just a !
year and was only twenty years old.
She leaves a baby two weeks old.
More coffee IL used in the United
States than III any other country, the
annual consumption being not far from
100000 900 pounds, for which Amer
lean importers pay about 800 ,0C0 900
to the growers.
Some mathematical genius has calcu-
lated that an oak tree of average size
has 700 900 leaves, and that it lifts
from the earth into the air about 1913
tons OF water III the five months during
which it is In leaf.
There are about 1G 900 900 pupils in
the schools Of the United States-as
many as Germany, France and Italy
combined, and three times the enrol
mcnt of Great Britain and Ireland, and
live times as many as Russia, with its
| population OF 100 900 900.
a shipment of forty engines will
shortly be sent to France from Phila-
dclphia. These have been completed
at the Baldwin Locomotive Works in
that city, and will be loaded on the
Norwegian steamship Fortuna at Port
Richmond, making one OF the largest
cargocs of this kind ever taken IN one
shipment from ar American port.
a ~pcrsevering gentleman in st.
John, Kan, has been convicted of
violating the p%rohibltory law by selling
whiskey. There were f%orty-nlnc dis
tinct violations of the law and he has
been sentenced to forty-nine months in
Jail, as well as a fine of 500 for each
offence. AS he cannot pay the "a 900
he must spend a day in Jail for each
half-dollar of the Uncover thirty
years altogether.
Even the birds are not forgotten at
Christmastide by the Swedish pcasan-
try At the door of every farmers
house is erected a pole, to the top of
which IS bound n large, full shcaf OF
grain. There is not Il peasant in all
Sweden who will sit down with his
children to a Christmas dinner until he
| hoQ irat roiSnl a1,ft n rb;I.. H.,
ner for the little birds that live in the
cold and snow without.
AT he coming session of the South
Dakota Legislature a bill will be in.
troduced to set aside a sum for The
collection Of documents, relics, etc
bearing on the early history of tho
territory now embraced by that Stat,
and to furnish suitable quarters fol
the same. The first Legislature O.
Dakota Territory, which met in 1862
incorporated a historical society, which
included among its members man,
prominent pioneers.
The annual report of the Commits
sioner General Of Immigration shows
that in the last fiscal year the tota
number of Immigrants who arrived ir
this country was 44S,572, of which %,
200 came through Canada. Of the
whole number, 3O4 Jas were male.
and l44,424 females. This is a net IN
crease over 1899 of l3G, S57. These
figures, however, the COMMISSIONS
General says, do not show the tota
number of alien arrivals, as G5 ,G3:
aliens came as cabin passengers.
London has q 1oruar cop,p,oroo tI,,
any other city in the world, saws tn.
New York Tribune. Liverpool comes
next, and Hamburg probably ranks
third, although Antwerp closely ap.
proaches her. The docks of London
cover a greater area than those OF
Liverpool, and some of them individu.
ally are, or were until recently, larger
than any on the Mersey. The Vic.
toria dock, opened in 1865, measures
5000 by 1850 feet. The Rova1
Albert, connecting with it and com.
pleted in 1880, is $500 feet long and
400 feet wide. The two, with their
locks, constitute a chain almost three
miles long, across one of the great
horseshoe bends in the lower Thames.
DR.. Herbert Howe, of Chamberlain
observatory, Denver, is collecting data
concerning the largest meteor seen for
more than thirty years. 1t was
observed December 8 between 3 and
4 o'clock in the afternoon. Reports
came from Rocky Mountain divide as
far north as Saratoga, Wyoming, and
as far south as Delta, Col. Judging
from these distances Prof. Howe csti.
mates its height above the earth az at
least 800 miles. 1t appeared nearly as
large as the moon and was lncandes-
cent. When apparently just above
North Park, Col, it exploded with ac-
companying phenomena resembling an
earthquake, houses being shaken and
a rumbling sound pcrccptible for miles.
a novel application of the utilization
OF Inc power of the wind for the pro-
duction of electric energy is being en-
pioye ed at Wittkiel, a small town near
Kappein, at the entrance of the bny of
hat name, in the Baltic Sea. The
wind motor, constructed by G p
Neumann of that place, has q diameter
OF 40 feet, with a wind surface of / 900
square feet. 1t is of thirty horse
power, and turns eleven times per
minute. 1t operates IA dynamo; runs
at normal speed when tbs wind is three
and three-quarter miles an hour. The
dynamo is usually employed to charge
the accumulators which furnish the
lighting of the town and the driving of
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