The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-07-17
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
: INDUSTRIAL
AND GENERAL
Observation-Disclosures

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The first rain for lifty-six days fo)l
"Wednesday in Alexander City, Ala,
bringing great relief to the people.
General Chaifco has ordered q court
martial TO try Lieutenant Hickman
on charges Of cruelty to the Filipinos.
IL ls alleged he had native duckcd
until the latter died.
The stick insect of Borneo, the lar
gest insect known, is sometimes thir-
teen inches long. IL Is winglcss, but
some species of stick insects have
beautiful cOlOrcd wings that fold like
fans.
Salt Lake City is about to loso one
Of its landmarks. The old school
house where the children of Brigham
Young wore educated is to be torn
down to make room for some modern
structure.
Three. tcnths cf the earnings of a
Belgian convict nrc given to him on
The expiration of his term of lmprison-
mont. Some of them thus save more
money III Jail than they have ever
saved before.
In church at West Kensington,
London, a notice was lately posted an
nOuncing the sale Of five pews. One
of tho " advantages" of these pews,
ran the notice, was that the con-
tribution box was not passed to them.'
While 100 tons is load for an
English freight tram an average load
on one of our railroads last year was
$40 tons. On the British railroads it
costs from 4S 1-2 cents to move ton
of freight one mile, while the cost of
leading New York road is 23 1-2
cents mile.
Col. V. M. Backus, of Indianapolis,
has in his possession a dress sword
presented TO Gen. William Henry liar
rison and carried by him through his
Indian campaigns and during his term
of office as Governor of the North.
west Territory.
A work by Mr.. +. w. Thcobald on
the mosquitoes Of the world, prepared
to aid medical men in identifying the
kinds suspected of spreading disease,
describes 300 species, l3G being new.
Most OF those species are found in and
around towns or arc pests known to
travellers and traders.
A Japanese tea impol tor SCOTS at
the idea Of successful tea raising in the
United States and in Hawaii on nc
count of the high price of. labor. In
Japan children, who do much of the
work in the tea gardens, are paid but
3 cents a day, and even at that it 70
qulrcs strict economy to enable the
rasers to place the prepared article in
the market AT II profit.
~ daily average of $500 900 tons of
water is received into the Dead Sea
from the Jordan and other Soul ccs
during the year. There ls no outlet
and the level is kept down by evapora-
ton only, which is very rapid because
of tho intense heat, the dry atmosphere
and the dry winds which are constant
ly blowing down from the gorgcs be-
tween the mountains.
a Berlin dispatch says that Emperor
William has given orders to sock his
game preserves near pNtsdam and
Berlin, with American quail as an eX-
pertinent. The Emperor is quoted as
saying that he wants American quail
because, like American citizens, they
are satisfied with their surroundings,
while German quail, like a great many
German citizens, emigrate every fall.
Tennessee now has ,445 names on
its State pension rolls of old soldiers,
and the total amount paid to them in
the past year was 9149 ,220. No more
names can be added unless the Legisla-
turc increases the appropriation. The
pensioners are divided into thrco
classes-thc first receive $500 year
oach, the second 5000 and the third
800.
The butterfly is stated by an EN-
glish writer to sleep on the very top of
grass stems, invariably with its head
downward and it's Dyes looking toward
the roots of the plant. Its wings are
folded to the smallest possible size.
This is doubtless chiefly for protection
against cold, but it reduces the dmen-
sions to those Of n narrow ridge, max
ing the creature resemble in shape as
well as color the seed-hcads on sur
rounding stems.
Litchlield, Conn.,, has more historic
trees than any other town In New
England. Among others arc Two elms
planted by John G. Calhoun; syca-
more SAID to bo one of the thirteen
planted by Oliver Wolcott, slgner of
the Declaration of Independence, and
named after tho thirteen original col
Onies; an elm which served as q whip.
ping post in colonial days, and a viii
low tree which grew from a walking
stick stuck in the ground by Col. Tai
madge, the American oiliceriwho captur
cd MIR. Andre, the British spy.
There are forty millions of men ant
boys in tho United States, of whom
ten millions or more are smokers. The
consume annually some six billions o