The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-04-24
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INDUSTRIAL
AND GENERAL
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Il The King of Siam owns an arm,
: corps of 500 elephants, all well traine,
b. ior mllltary purposes and under com.
v mand of n general.
Henry M. Flagler has had built in
his new home at Palm Beach. Fla. tho
largest pipe organ ever placed in pri-
Vatc house in this country.
Judge Buchanan has issued n tenn.
porary injunction against the cxpan-
sionlsts OF BroOkland, suburb of
Columbia, who wished the municinal
limits extended.
John a. Mccall, president of the
New York Life Insurance Companv
VIII present q $4,000 pulpit to the
toman Catholic Cathedral of the I'M
maculate Conception in Albany, N. Y.
!, Thomas O'Day, who lives at Veynv.
Ind, is one of the very few survivors
of The famous British cavalry Light
Brigade, which im,nortalizcd itself in
history by the charge ut Balaklaya,
Russia, Sept. 25, 1854.
January and October in the same
year always begin with the same day
OF the week. Tho case is the same
with April and July, with September
and December, and with February.
March and November.
Prof. G. II. Eigcnmann, of Indiana
University, returned last week from
Cuba, where he wont to collect spcci-
mems Of fish for classroom work and
the museum. In his collection are
l5S specimens o. blind fishes.
a commission of experts, REPRESENT
ing the Lancashire cotton manurac-
turcrs, accompanied by delegates re-
presenting the operatives, have sailed
from Liverpool for the United States
to investigate the cotton industry IN
America.
a new giant gcyscr Of ROLomahana,
N. H., Is attracting attention. A mass
OF boiling water half an acre in extent
rises III a great dome, from which a
column OF water and stones rises to
300 feet, while immense columns of
steam ascend as far as can be seen.
Helen Keller, the deaf and blind
girl, has written an autobiography
which will soon appear. She is now
student at Radcliffe College. Her
| book, which is written in sign language
of the blind, is said to be remarkable
for the excellence of its style.
A new material for skin grating
was used in New Jersey hospital not
,Ong ago. IL was the delicate inner
skin of an cggshcll. A man was badly
| scnldcd, and in the operation of graft
ing, which was found necessary, the
cggskin was tried and is thought to be
| n success.
Bishop Hurst, OF the Methodist
| Episcopal church, is very i'll, and his
condition causes grave fears. lie has
never recovered fully from the apoplcc-
TIC stroke he received at the lnterna-
tional conference in London when he
heard Of the assassination of President
Mckinley.
/ According to the records of the Con-
grcsslonal Library for the winter, 3 900
people have gone into the building
every day during the season. OF these
about 2 200 daily are supposed to have
been sighlscers, the rest being people
who wished to make use of the reading
room. Employees were not counted.
In Japan ii is always The rule Of po-
litencss TO pay tritlc moro than the
sum mentioned on your hotel bill. TO
settle the account net would be con-
sidcrcd an insult, or at least mark of
great dissatisfaction. People who have
travelled in Japan say that the Japanese
always tip the waiter on entering The
hotel.
The geographical center Of the
United States on a high point of land
on the public reservation at Fort Ri
ley, Kan, is marked by large monu.
mcnt erected over the grave of Major
Edmund Ogden of the United States
army, who died at Fort Riley in 1856,
by Joseph O. Sawyer, formerly of Gin
cinnai.
M. Cadet, an oculist, of Bordeaux, is
reported TO have been successful in
the treatment Of cataract without
operations by the application of baths
OF salicylatc of soda. He has arrested
the progress Of the cataract in nu
mcrous cases, and is sanguinc of success
II the treatment is begun at an early
stage.
Senator Cullen, of Brooklyn, has
, made himself remarkable at lhis scs
, sion Of the New York Legislature by
not introducing a single bill. My
notion," he said, "is that there are too
- many bills introduced and too many
laws passed. | have introduced but
five bills i'll seven years and three of
thom became laws"
AS an instance of The lcisurcly man
ner in which the military authorities
Of Turkey move in time of peace it is
said that o committee appointed in
1890 to prepare plans for the construc-
ton of Notifications for the defense OF
tho stratcgically most important points
on the Turkish shores of tho Persian
Gulf has just completed it's labors.
The war department has decided
upon general courtmartal of Officers
for their barbarous treatment of Fill
pinos. General Chaffee has bee,