The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-01-15
INDUSTRIAL AND GENERAL.

II Over 1000 sheep were taken from
y Montana to Lnusing, Mich, last week
C to be fed there on sugar beet refuse.
Frank IL. Peavy, the Milwaukee
grain magnatc who died the other day,
carried Il policy for 81 ,000,0 900 on his
life.
. Mrs. Bri lsct Mccarthy, of Ansonia,
! Conn, is almost l09 years old. She
was born in Mitchelstown, Ireland,
, ON May 10, 1893.
, The time is close at hand when
Florida VIII ship as many boxes Of
oranges as she did before the great
freeze of 1S95-namely, 100000
boxes.
The German sc tiers now in south
ern Brazil now number more than
300 900, German capital has establish
ed banks and is makiog public improve
ments.
The longest measured drift of a boz
tie was in the Pacific, from four de-
grees south of the Equator to the Fiji
Islands, distance of G,7OO miles in
455 days.
a Chicago man has invented a ma
chine that is cracking 200 pounds of
nuts in an hour. 1t is claimed that it
Is the only automatic nut cracker iu
the world.
Richmond, Ind, will try the expert
ment of municipal electric lighting and
now has under construction $l50,OOO
plant. IL will probably be ready with
in three months.
Queen With, lmiui OF the Neither
lands has sent a dol dressed by herself
In Dutch national costume to a bazaar
TO be held in Lisbon on behalf of the
children of the Boer refugees in Por-
tugal.
1t is said that the quictcsi man in the
United states Senate is MIR. Simon, of
Oregon. He never makes speech nor
participates in debate. He is always
at his seat in the chamber, reading or
writing, and he always votes wi h the
Republican leaders.
Princeton University is soon to re-
ccive from Prof ID. Wilson a collection
Il Syrlac manuscripts said to be the
largest and most valuable ever made by
private individual. Many of the
documents date from the reign of the
Emperor Constantine.
President Roosevelt has been recon-
mended for a overwhelmingly by the
Army Board Of Brevct Awards, of
which General Arthur spresident. The
Presidents distinguished conduct in
the presence of the enemy before San
tiago, July 9, 1898, is the reason of The
r,cOmmendai ion.
1t is rather early in the seas 70 for
The peach crop to be killed, but what
appears to be carefully gathered and
seni-oflicial Information from the
Michigan peach country is to the effect
that the trees, which produced 100000
bush, Is Of the fruit last season, were
practically ruined by the recent freeze.
Sheriff James G.. Harvey, OF Luzcrne
County, is believed to be the strongest
nan in Pennsylvania. He thinks
nothing of picking up a whole beef and
Halking around with it, and does the
'aine thing with horse. He has
oeen known to take a fair-slzed man
IN either hand and boist them over his
head.
Senator Warren, although at present
surrounded by all the luxury of the
prosperous mac, delights in telling sto.
rics of the days when his bed was Il
pine box, filled with hay, in an attic,
and when he ha to get up every morn
ing at 3 O'Clock, iced the cows, SPLIT
lot of wood before breakfast ana then
walk three miles to school,
a common sight in Sicily where is
f,mOus Mount Aetna, and where 1c-
mains ct Grce!: architecture abound,
is train of freight cars bearing tons
Of bars OF sulphur, as yellow as gold.
This island now supplies about 90 per
cent of all the sulphur produced. The
rocks and the soil are largely of vol
canic origin, and the sulphur mines
penetrate in some cases deep into the
earth.
mammoth cottonwood tree was
cut few days ago in the bottoms of
the Little Wabash river, in Illinois
Ii contained 5 900 feet of lumber. The
tree was 2l feet in ci' cumferenco aud
l2-foot log on the first limb cut 600
feet of merChantable lumber. VIII, N
the tree was fclled the talest man in
The neighborhood could not SEQ over
Ihe logs as they lay on the ground.
English sparrows continue to multi.
ply, despite all efforts at their extinc-
tion, and where they prosper, other
olrds are Ling out or are driven out
oy them. An Illinois sparrow hunt
has Just ended and as result four
'1ns OF sparrows were killed. The
nuht was indulged in by two parties of
farmers, tgenty.men on each side.
Fhe victorious party brought in 13 900
birds, while the losers bagged III 900,
total of $4,000.