The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-07-03

INDUSTRIAL
, AND GEN ERAL

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Ihe oldest inhabited house in ENC.
land is on the River Yer, close to ST
Adams Cathedral. IL Is Octae0nnl in
shape, and supposed to be eleven cen
turtles old
lhe Oldest steam engine now at work
Is believed to be Il Newcomer wind,nr
engine at Farmc collicry, near i;las
gov. II was built in 1909. and IN.
worked continuously to the prcscn,
time.
An architect of New York saws that
with The modern steel frame a building
can be carried to Il height equal to
seven and onc-half times the diameter
OF The base. BY this rule ON an orli.
nary city block could be erected n
building 800 feet high, 500 feet hieE.
er than Eifrel tower. 1t would have
10 stories and cost about $30 900 900.
The Massachusetts Legislature bas
adopted bill to compel the mann
featuring companies in the State 10 nav
their employees in cash instead Of NV
checks. There was II hot and stubborn
iSn' over IT, particularly in the Senate.
"ii" 'lcre the measure was finally ap-
pr,Ved, alter three days discussion, by
only '"o majority, the vote STANDING
IL yeas and II nays.
The descendants of Briuham you,u
the mormon apostle, nave lecided 20
| hold annual family rcunions. Anhouyh
ne died III 1877 there are over nno
! thousand direct descendants, and thrrr
Is not in Salt Lake City an ayo,lable
building large enough 20 hold the
ta'nlly.' There are living six Wild
o"s Oh the Mormon president. Some
OF thesc women have positions of higl
honor in the Mormon Church.
"A committee of the leading members
OF Southern Nut Growers Association
| VIII hold meeting at the Brown
| lionse, Macon, Ga, on July IS, to con.
sldcr matters OF Importance to the as
socInllon, and especially to appoint a
time and place and organize plans for
holding general convention of South
ern nut growers, during the fall of this
year, Tor the promotion of the industry
Ill which they are concerned.
John Hamilton Lewis, of Seattle
who, while he represented Washington
IN Congress, was the source of in
eXhaustiblc plcasantries, was hurt in
Chicago last week in attempting to rcs-
cue tcamstGr from n position of
peril under a wrccFed wagon. Mr.
Lewis quite recently won $500 900
law sui for John liealy, formerly of
Fort Benton and now of Alaska, and
the latter presented Mr.. Lewis with
$lOU,O0O Of the amount.
The French consul at Batavia laws
stress on the importance of bamboo as
ii material for constructing builders
acal10ldlng, and he states that in Java
even light house has been built with
It's help. The power of resistance of
bamboo cane measuring 8 inches TO
10 inches in diameter, even with n
length of 81 feet, is enormous. More
over, bamboo is SAID not to rot either
when in the ground or in water, while
the dricr and older it grows the lirmcr
it, becomes.
Dr. laval, Of the French Academy
OF Medicine, who is sightlcss, denie 8
that nature cOmpensates blindness by
increased senslbility of touch and hear
ing, but contends that when person
is blind an extra deI clopment takes
place IN sixth sense, which is latent
in all persons. This sense, which has
been called the sense of obstacles, acts
by the perception of certain warm
and indefinite vibrations. The seat of
the sense is believed to be placed in
the forehead.
Asa consequence of tho absor ption
OF the Plant Railway system, now fully
accomplished, the Atlantic Coast Line
Will have total authorized capitallza-
ton in first mortgage bonds, certificates
OF indebtedness and capital stock of
$l47 100000 AS now constituted the
system will extend from Washington,
-. O., to Tampa and punta Gorda,
Fla, with Norfolk, Wilmington, Char
| lesion, Savannah and Jacksonville as
the seaport outlets and Atlanta and
Montgomery as the gateways to the
| West.
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