The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-07-02
,JS3C5t3S3C5E3s5t3E3S3E5c Observation-Disclosures
3 INDUSTRIAL
AND GENERAL
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The oldest inhabited house i'm Eng
land is on the River Yer, close to ST.
Albans Cathedral. 1t is octagonal in
shape, and supposed to be eleven CEN
turies old.
The oldest steam engine now at work
is believed TO be a Newcomer winding
engine at Farme colliery, near Glas-
gov. 1t was built in 1909, and has
worked continuously to the preseut
time.
The Massachusetts Legislature h,
adopted bill to compel the manu-
featuring companies in the State topa,
their employees in cash instead of by
| checks. There was hot and stubborn
fight over 1T, particularly in the Senate,
and there the measure was frally ap-
proved, after three days. discus sion, by
only two majority, the vote standing
16 yeas and Ia nays.
The descendants of Brigham Young,
the Mormon apostle, have decided to
hold annual family reunions. Although
he died in 1877 there are over ona
thousand direct descendants, and there
is not in Salt Lake City an available
building large enough 10 hold the
family" There are living six wild
ows of the Mormon president. Some
of these women have positions of high
honor in the Mormon Church.
A committee of the leading members
of Southern Nut Growers Association
will hold meeting at the Brown
House, Macon, Ga, on July IS, to con.
slider matters of Importance to the as
sociation, and especially to appoint O
time anu place and organize plans for
holding general convention of South
ern nut growers, during the fall of this
year, for the promotion of the industry
in which they are concerned.
John Hamilton Lewis, of Seattle,
who, while he represented Washington
IN Congress, was the source of in
eXhaustible pleasantries, was hurt in
Chicago last week in attempting to res
cue teamster from position of
peril under wrecked wa~ou Mr..
Lewis quite recently won $500 900
law suit for John Heal, of
Fort Benton and now u -. and
the latter presented ~ with
800, 900 of the amou
The French consul Is #,asia lays
stress on the Importance On bamboo as
IL material for constructing builders'
scaffolding, and he states that in Java
even light house has been built with
its help. The power of resistance of
a bamboo cane measuring 8 inches to
10 inches in diameter, even with q
length of 65 feet, is enormou,. More
over, bamboo is said not to rot either
when in the ground or in water, while
the drier and older it grows the 6rmer
it becomes.
DR.. laval, of the French Academy;
of Medicine, who is sightless, denies
that nature compensates blindness by
increased sensiblity of touch and hear
ing, but contends thai when person
is blind an extra del elelopment 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.
AS consequence of The absorption
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 G
$147 100000. AS now constituted tn
system will extend from Washington
ID. c., 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.
Twenty. five thousand American far
mers have migrated to Manitoba this
spring, and the Canadians are getting
a little uneasy lest these pioneers
may sometime start movement for /
the annexation of the province to the
United States. The homestead Law
has resulted in the taking up of all the
available arabic land in the United
States and Manitoba is the last
chance" ii is great cattle country !,
as well as good place for raising |,
spring wheat. 1t will soon be settled !
up at the rate people are rushing I'M
there this year. Most of the imml-i
grants are from the prairie States. z