The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-12-27

land, last September. In each OF tn
t. Ut cases bride and groom were OF th'
same age, ranging from l9 TO %.
A young and pretty Bellevue nurse
d.opprd her stethoscope out OF th'
hospital window in May. It hit thj
shoulder OF a masculine passer-by. Th'
two were married in Juoe.
A couple were wed sed in Hertz'elc
Switzer!ae3, af-ef 3 courtship OF 4;
years and the exchange Of ), 300 love
letters; while, down in Tvxls jiltec
swain has sued his once fair lady fol
90 1000 charging $1,000 TO courtshil
expenses at 81 day for his time.
uCMORS OF LIGHTNING.
Near a small town In Minnesota
lightning struck an electric auto whose
batteries hal TN out. The stroke re-
charged the batteries and the cccu
panus Of the machine ran 1t home.
A DO t stuck the home OF Kellal
Creagen, at Ringgold, Ma, running
around his straw hat to above bis left
ear, then down the side of his neck &c
the body, tearing the shirt collar, then
d,wn his right leg, tearing the shoe
IN half and splitting the great toe.
His skin was scoIched but his hair
was not even singed.
The chstelain Of the Castle OF Ben
atonnaire, France, was sitting in a
cnaiY when struck by a bolt. She was
herself uninjured, but on the back Ct
her dress was found perfect picture
Of the chair, to its minutes detail.
STRANGER THAN FICTION.
At the very hour OF the assassina.
tion Of the Russian Grand Duke Ser
gius, bis god daughter, in the Alexis
calaee, declares he opened the door OF
her room covered with bleeding
wounds, and exclaimed: Look, young
princess"
Enber Mason, who lives near In
City, Mo-, has built his
ow, coffia from a tree he planted when
he first came to Jackson county, u
years age; while an Irish merchant
vas buried in the spring, bis requiem
being sung from phonozEaph record
ne himself had made just before death.
81. Luis sttrrneys found in E b
urary a missing heiress to an estate,
through the continuous cries OF pet
porrot OF the deceased II want to see
my Baltimore BABY" was the clue
which lead to slcceSs in the city
named.
POULTRY in ODD ROLES
a brown African goose in North
Atleboro, Mss, amazed its owner by
producing an egg measuring IL 6-S
inches in circumference, while a hen
at CleYerton, e gland, was 50 exsraV
asaut as tc include three yolks In on
shell.
1t was fortunate for Mamie Gaul-
son Of Fort D dge, Ia, that she hao
chicken for dinner On January 81, for
ir the gizzard OF the fowl she found e
necklace she had lost two years ago.
Mrs. Ley Seymour Of Great Bir
rlnton, Mass, has a hsn which lays
eggs each bearing the initial NJ (or W.
on the shell. Every tine this fowl
lays an egg she packs on tbs kitchen
wir Dc VI till her mistress gathers III the
a. 9 iisitioD.
TRAGEDIES IN LITTLE
ST might as well dead as alive, I've
nothing to live for" As a tramp on
5he road near Ls1lgh, E Elglaad, ssid
this he was stl uck by lightning, dying
Instantly.
During the singing Of a pathetic
song, picturing the old home"
scenes ycurg man in Chicago the
atre, shot himself. (February
Sent to bed in punishment FOR a
little naughtiness which it 5ranspirso
later be did not commit. Harry AM
bier, a l4-year old London boy, hung
himself.
At Stoke ou-Trent, England, in
a Mr.. Latham assisted IN
caring for q boy killed by dray. He
vas bruised beyond rec2gnlzstion,
out a more thorough examination OF
the body showed the rescuer be had
been working over his OWE son.
kANsEsQUE.
A Topeka girl. Mabel Huston, say
ed her fathers wheat crop from q
threatening rain by given hugs and
kisses IS prizes to the laborerS VINO
shocked the most grain.
Kansas has prohibited the printing
Of menue cards in any languages Saw
English.
Toe worst hail storm in the history
of the State visited the eastern coun-
ties late in July. The stones, Il 1T in
shape, were many Of them II inche;
across. Hogs were killed, and horse'
and COWS, blinded by the missiles,
stamped into the wire fencing ano
were badly cut up.
DIVERS DIVORCES.
Abriham Leakin, New York tail
OF, brought action in July for dlVolc:
from his wife Dvosi, alleging that
she" is man. They had been mar
ried II years.
4 long Island gentleman, whose
wife had decided to establish residence
in Sioux, Falls that she might divorce
him, Travelled West with her as she
vas unaccusstomed to going ab vi
alone-aud didn't like to, anyway.
a Manchester, England, mechanic
applied for separation from bis wife
on the ground OF her goodness.
She put in SO much time praying fo'
me-" said he, that he she has no tini
for housework, an I have to do The
cookin'.'
THE OLD FOLKS.
James Barns, aged IS, c-mp,eted il
Sev tember, the walk from Ss~ vorl
to DIS Moines. Iowa. while In tina