The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-07-23

AND GENERAL
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Thousands of Londoners have taken
out special insurance policies against
smallpox, ranging from 5000 to
$4,000.
Australian sheep raisers mean to
erect S1 100000 mill in Seattle, to
which they can send the product of
their fiocks.
1t is said that the Chinese pay their
doctors only while they are we'll.
When they get sick they don't give
the physicians anything.
The biggest trial on record Is soon
to come off at Kieff, Russia, where
5000 people are 10 be arraigned for
participation in popular uprisings.
DIR. w. I'll. Milburn, the blind chap
lain of the Senate for the past nine
years, Is eighty years old. He held
the same office for many years in the
House.
The park commissioners of Hull.
England, have refused the gift of a
polar bear because it would cost e2OO
to dig a pit and build house for the
animal.
Three hundred million feet of logs
were cut on the Penobscot iriver last
season. This is the biggest harvest
ever known, and nearly half of il is
for the manufacture of paper.
In recent Indian cyclone the force
OF the wind was 80 great that railway
trains running against it were brought
to standstill. Its velocity was esti-
mated at 100 miles an hour.
The United States gold dollar is SC
scarce that coin dealers are advcrtis-
ing for them and paying from 81 so
to $500 for all that they can get. The
mints have not coined any since 1889
The output of gold from the UraI
mines is steadily increasing, and as
peace in South Africa will add to the
worlds supply, the market price as q
commodity should decrease in the
near future.
DIR. Calling, who invented the gun
known by his name, has invented g
plow operated by gasoline, which viii
do the work of thirty men and eight
horses at an expense of little over
$500 day.
In recent interview on Cuba Gen
fitzhugh Lee predicts falling away in
trade, caused by lack of confidence in
the new government, resulting decline
OF the income of that government tC
the starvation point, internal anarch,
and q plea from the Cubans them
selves for annexation.
Typhoid fever has made its appear
ance at Camp Thomas, Chickamauoi
Park, Georgia, for the first time sine,
the epidemic among the soldiers du
ring the Spanish American war. Th,
troops now stationed al Camp Thomas
are the 7th cavalry and the 3rd bat
terry of field artillery.
| Louis wilkins, who died in Chicap,
the other day, deserves foot.note il
history as one of the sons of Anak
He was 30 years old, eight feet tw,
inches high, and 365 pounds. A hal
dollar could be put through his fnge
ring, and special bed had to be con
sSructed for him at the hospital wher
he died.
Mrs. Lindley, the wife of a soldier
went through some of the sharpest en-
gagements of the civil war. She en-
listed in company ID, Sixth Ohio cav
airy, and fought at Fort Magrnde.
Hanover Court House, Bull Run, An
tietam and BOOnsboro. She ls said t
be still living and the mother of Sc,
eral children.
A persistent campaign against mo,
quitoes has been maintained i'm Brool
line, Mass, for weeks by the Healt
Board and good results are reported
Nearly every pond, pool and streal
: and the / 900 catch basins in the tow
have been examined and treated wit
. crude petroleum. The areas treate
have varied from 80 square feet
r $4,000, and more than 100 gallons
!. Oil have been used.
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