The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-12-27
COME TO THE WORLD
During the Past Year. How the Small
News of the Weeks and Months
Shows the Play of This Old
Worlds Lights and
Shad. WS.

On the way nCne n6 WdS oFsICOAe ny
the cold, and, when bis friends tried
to thaw him out, he lost his winnings
and everything save two buttons.
Until the fist frost there were to be
seen on a tree near Kington on
Thomas, England, several semi-rcast-
ed apples. An auto had caught fire
beneath the branches, and the flames
had cooked the fruit while destroying
the car.
Last february the herrings came
down Departure Bay, B c., in such
numbers that their lush through the
waters sounded like escaping steam.
This lasted 81 hours, at the end OF
which time nearly LOCO 'olls OF fish
were in and near the chat nel, dead
snothered by their own density.
LIES LITTLE IRoNIEs.
Gen. Dokstourt #, running up stairs
to thank the minister OF war for order
ing him to the front (he had begged
to be allowed to die soldiers deatb)
was claimed by heart disease on the
top step.
The only essay entered for the an
nual pre- offered by the Parisian
Academy Of Moral and Political
Science, did not receive the awayo-ss
it was too illegible to be read.
Sir Alfred Harmsworth cfsreo $500
reward for information which might
lead to the arrest of q certain reckless
motorist-who turned out to be Sir
Alfred's brother.
Dying in poverty in a San Francis,
CO hospital, Luscomb Seares received
word that the British government bad
just allowed his claim OF $4,000, 900
arising tom losses dnring the Boer
war.
THE GENTLER SEX.
In October, Nus. Ella G)ltz OF
Portsmouth, o., sWore cut warrant
for circus elephant, which had eaten
her gold watch ard smashed in a
bran6new Paris hat.
a Cologne dairynaid was arrested
for bathicg herself daily IN the milk
she later sold.
A negresS, living near Atlanta, Ga.
has to have her oss made to order.
Finished they are % inches long and
weigh IS pounds.
A June bride entered q grocery
store at Fort Fairfield. Me-, to buy
an empty barrel OF four that she
might make herc,-op for her dog"
WHAT'S IN a NAME.
To commemorate the years yellow
fever epidemic a New Orleans couple
named their baby Stegomyia Sciata
Wilson.
''Old Tsbby," chief Of tribe o.
Utah Indians, died il October Of cat
aleptic 6t.
''Damsite" Is to be the name OF one
OF Texas new postt tnces. There are
irrigation works there.
At a wedding in Pop!sr Eng and,
the BRIDES name was Wedlock, aad
the bsidegroon's Marriage.
OUR FOUR FOOTED FRIENDS.
During a Manchurian engagement
a japanese cficsr found q Peking
, spaniel wondering lost between the
opposing lines. It came to whistle
and was at once afse ctionate. Later,
when the charge sounded, the dog
started fourth with his new friend;
bus as it could not keep up with the
rush, the Jap tucked it under his left
arm and so led his men to victory.
a cat belonging TO the Dutchess OF
Beaufort, being taken to country
seat other than the one where it had
been born, turned back home" after
two unhappy days, covering the 200
intervening miles in safety.
4 veteran police horse October
285b) climbed the steps Of house on
Forty fourth street, New York, and
thunped with bis boots on the door,
helping arouse the leeping tenants OF
the smoke. filed rooms.
WEIRD WILLS.
An Australian detective died IN
April, dividing s35, 600 property into
six shares seeming eQaable to him.
These divisions were specified In writ
irgs, placed in sealed enVelops, the
six heirs drawing them with no clue
to the contents.
Baron Rothschild was named sole
beneficiary under the will OF Nice
niser. Abraham Fidler, who left him
$3.50, 900 on the principle that money
must seek money" The baron hunt
ed up the relatives Of the departed
and gave each an equal share.
This the last will and testament
OF me, John Tdonas," read certain
document in Montreal, last July. /
gave all my things to my relations to
; be dev:dei among them the best way
possible. n. B.: II anybody kicks up
a row he isn't to have anything"
RED TAPE AND THE LAW.
In q lawsuit at Aberdeen, Wash,
aver horse whose death the owner
attributed to man who had hired it.,
the court decided the animal had
committed suicide.
Traced by the impression OF his
teeth in a half-eaten apple, left IN a
house &C Basic, zltZsrland, burglar
has confessed and been sentenced.
In May the famous Stevens, Smith
'scow case" YVES closed IN Colorado,
with q total OF s2 500 attorneys fees,
plus court charges. The COW, worth
only $50 il the first place, has been
dead Is years.
c0NPESS ATOMS,
Rodolph Matter, New York c:Vi
engineer, was uncivil enough to mug
Miss Gladys Chapman, overlooking Gne