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

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ne.hfteenth of the inhabita rts O
Spain are mobiles.
Thoroughbred dogs are less intelli
gent than mongrels.
Quite 80 per cent. of the propt trty Of
England is insured.
Nearly all the royal personages o.
Europe are cousins.
London requires 600 900 COWS to sup
ply IL with dairy produce.
ColOred races never have blue eyes.
Their eyes are always dark brown
brown, brownish, yellow or black.
The contract for building the largest
cantiiever bridge in the world has been
awarded by the Wabash railroad. The
new structure will span the Mononga-
hela river.
President Roosevelt is to be present.
f, cd with an Arabian saddle horse by
Captain John Cobb, an American, who
has been II resident of Morocco for
thirty years.
According to the last census sixly-
six per cent. of the men between the
ages of IL and 35 are unmarried and
the average age at which the 81 per
cent. married Was 25 years.
Sweden has 2,3O3 miles of govern.
ment and 4 1887 miles of private rail-
roads. The government has not yet
succeeded in acquiring the latter, al
though efforts have been made to do 80.
Senator Clark, of Wyoming, predicts
that his State will soon be the wealth.
lest in the Union. His prediction is
based on the discovery of a deposit of
platinum in a Wyoming copper mine.
In England, where the government
owns the telegraph lines the newspaper
rate is cents per hundred words.
This would permit OF the telegraphing
of an One-thousand word letter for 40
cents.
=. - One of The most curious plants in
the world is the toothbrush plant, a
species of creeper which grows in Ja-
maica. BY cutting piece OF the stem
and fraying the ends the natives make
a toothbrush.
On rural free delivery route re-
Gently ests blished in Kansas there were
three subscriptions to daily papers.
Within q month there were LOG aud
the subscriptions TO week lies had in
creased fourfold.
1t is estimsted that 100000 900
acres of land are deyeled to the cultl-
vation of tobacco. 4'he world con-
sumes each year $500, 900, 900, pounds
or nearly 2 ,Sl2 500 tons, worth so ,OOO,-
600 pounds sterling.
A Missouri saloon keeper has an
nounced TINT, not only will he sell no
liquors to minor and inebriates, but he
will refuse to sell liqIor TO any man
whose wife advises him that her hus-
band has come home intoxicated.
Miss Mary Mildred Lee, daughter
OF Gen. Robert E. Lee, visited the
State Senate at Richmond, Va, and
was introduced, the Senate taking a
recess of five minutes in order that
the members might be personally pre-
sentcd.
When United States Ambassador
White was introduced to Count Won
Moltko as man who was born at
Homer, and had been president of u
University at Ithaca and a resident of |
Syracuse, the former inquired if it
would be proper for HIM to address
Mr.. White in Greek.
Ethan Alien Hitchcock, Secretary of |
the Interior, had a grocery and provis-
ion store in st. Joseph, Mo-, when a
young man and sold provisions mostly
to pioneers passing through that city
for the far West. He went to China
after selling out and returned to St.
Louis a wealthy mau.
1t is said by correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun that West Virginia is
rapidly becoming more and moro the
Mecca of the negroes of the South.
The climate of the State, as a whole,
is congenial to this race, and the great
coal and coking industries in operation
in almost every county, together with
the extensive railroad construction
being carried on, furnish ready, as well
as lucrative, employment for negro
laborers, of whom $4,000 arc employed
in the mines.
The per capita Of currency was
$29.73 on December l, on a popula-
tion basis estimated by the treasury at
rs, 1874 900. The total amount of money
in circulation was also larger than at
any other period in the country's his
tory, being $2,25O, 1856 ,230, as COM
pared with $2,15S, ,76l ,3G7 on Decem-
ber l, 1900, an increase of $91 ,404 1868.
The amount of money held in the
treasury as assets of the government
vas $289, ,005, ,6G6, which was de-
crease of more than SO 5000 900 since
November 1, due to bond purchases.
A valuable sword and Bible belong
ing 10 the late Rear Admiral John w.
Philip have been sent from the Brook
lyn navy yard to the Smithsonian In
stitution. The relics have been pre-
sented to the institution by Mrs. Philip,
who is now living at Annapolis, Md.
1t was SAID at the yard that another
sword, which was presented to Admiral
Philip by the citizens of Texas shortly
before his death, and which Is said to
be worth $40, 900, will also be present
ell to the Smithsonian Institution by
Mrs. Philip.
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