The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-10-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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in the reign of William H., whose
first loan was obtained in 1894.
Benares, the sacred city of India, is
visited annually by nearly 2,000,0 600
pilgrims.
Of the 46, 216 employees in the postal
and telegraph service of London,
Z, 557 are women.
Ice melts at 80 degrees, wax at 149
Degrees lead at 626 degrees, and plati-
mum and 1852 degrees
The biggest farms in the world are
in South Australia. where the average
squatter holds Is, acres.
It is stated that more than 10000
children between ten and sixteen
years old are working in Maryland
factories.
A white diamond, weighing 1491a
karats, has been found by a digger at
Karreepean, near Kimberley, who sold
it for Sl4, 465.
The river Orinoco has more tributa-
ries than any other river. The total
number is put at g. 500, including 436
large streams
The oldest royal house in Europe is
that of Mecklenburg. 1t traces its
descent from Genseric, who sacked
Rome in A. D. 455.
Thomas F. Anderson, Boston
newspaper man for twenty years, has
been appointed by Mayor Fitzgerald,
of that city, head Of the newly estab-
lished publicity bureau.
When a traveller in China desires a
passport the palm of his hand is COW
cred with fine Oil paint and ian impress
sion is taken on thin paper. This
paper, officially signed, constitutes his
passport.
Senator Warner, of Missouri, who
wears Z 3-4 hat, recently tried in
vain in Washington, New York,
Cleveland and St. Louis to get fit;
but the first effort in Kansas City was
| success.
Frederick Hess, publisher Of the
German Demokrat," of San Fran
cisco, has celebrated a half century as
as an editor. He is said to be the
oldest newspaper proprietor IN the
United States.
l. King Edward disburses a good
deal Of money in tips every year.
Each visit to one of his subjects costs
him from 81, 000 to So, 600. On the oc-
casion of his recent visit to the Kaiser
he gave away nearly $40, 00o in this
way.
It. is reported that more than 1C0
Jewish families move into Jerusalem
every week Though most Of them
are very poor, yet they find means to
make a scanty living. Jerusalem is
rapidly becoming once more a Jewish
city.
Large sardine canneries have been
started at Nagasaki, Japan, with a
view to>exporting the fish to Europe.
The flavor, however, is not good, and
the prices are too high as yet to
compete with the Mediterranean pro-
duct.
In his. Presidential address at the
annual meeting Of the Library Asso-
citation at Bradford, England, Sir W.
II. Bailey said that novel reading is a
silent, restful recreation and one of
the best methods of triumphing over
lives misfortunes.
Portland, Ore, is said to be the
largest lumber port in the world. At
one time recently vessels for foreign
ports were loading there, or under
charter to an aggregate capacity of
20, COO, 000 feet, and for home ports
Of 100000 feet more.
A statistical paper on India shows
that in 1904 there were killed in that
country by snakes and wild beasts
"a, O34 persons-21. $50 by snake bites,
1856 by tigers, 399 by leopards, and the
rest by other animals. The number of
cattle killed was 9S.582.
The streets of Nottingham, England,
are sprinEled with water in which
chloride of calcium has been dis
solved. and are, therefore, dustless.
One dressing every three or four weeks
is enough to keep them so, even in the
hottest weather. The cost is very
small
A tree that is freak of nature is
the Asiatic star tree. 1t grows sixty
to eighty feet tall, and for height of
about forty feet the trunk is wholly
bare. From that point there spring q
number of tangled limbs. and these,
grouped together, emit a phosphores-
cent light
The Board of Education of Philadel-
phia has decided to divide the city
into five sections, and to establish a
high school in each. Although Phila-
delphia is the third largest city in the
United States in point OF circulation,
it is the twenty. third in number of
high school students.
It is calculated that society women
at Newport and other fashionable
resorts in the East were robbed of
owe; $500, 600 worth of jewels in the
season just coming to an end Very
few of them have been like Mrs.
Stuyvesant Fish, fortunate enough to