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COMING! KINO & TUCKER'S RAILROAD SHOWS rWill exhibit at _ Kingstree,S.C. TUESDAY, OCT. 20TH. A College of Instructions. A Convention of Amusements. The Event of the Season. Some of the things you will see with King and Tucker's show: Prof. Buckley's performing elephants The famous BelLHelvan Troupe of Acrobats. The Miacosisters, Double trapeze performers. The Erwins, Contortion ists. Irene Morrell and her den of untamed lions. Topsy the baby elephant Trained Dogsand Ponies. 9 of America's funniest clowns and lots of others. 2 Performances: Don't miss the grand free outside exhibitions on the ( show ground at 1:30 P. M, v. . Fire Caused by Sea Waves. In spite of apparent impossibility a lire was caused by water some few years ago on the western coast of Ireland. The rocks along this coast, which the huge Atlantic rollers have for centuries been slowly L'J r\ rr rl.-wwn un?l ninrfinnr trifll uicai\Jii^ uv? n m*?v? > ?? great caverns, contain in their depths masses of iron pyrites and alum. At one part of the coast the water penetrated to these, and a rapid oxidization took place, which produced a heat fierce enough to set the whole clilf on lire. For weeks ^ the rocks burned like a regular volcano, ami great clouds of smoke and BJT vapor rose high in the air. When at last the fire died out, great I masses of lava and clay burned to B brick were found in every direction. B Tha Carnivorous Ants. W The subject of vegetarianism had K occupied a great deal of attention a ir> tKo tainilv Dno rlnv the five F ** v"v ;* ~ ?J year-old was out walking with his elder sister, and he meddled somewhat too freely with the affairs of a large colony of ants. lie deserted them rather suddenly and came back to his sister's side, rubbing his bare legs vigorously. "What's the matter?" asked sister. "Oh, nothing, only them ants ain't vegetarians," was the sententious reply of the youngster. Kaolin. The name kaolin is said to bo l derived from a hill near Kingtihf chin, in China, called Ivaoling, where the clay was first found in considerable quantity. The kaolin earth was first sent to Europe by a T /%cn i 4- nii^ciAnnr\- r\ f i r? erf i in about 1795. A similar clay was soon afterward found near Sclmeeberg, Germany, and used in the manufac' ture of porcelain, thus laying the foundation of the famous Dresden ware. Kaolin is found in Nebraska and in some of the eastern states. INot to Blame. Governor Oglesby once visited the state penitentiary at Joliet to hear complaints of prisoners and inspect the premises. The governor stopped before a cell containing an unusually ugly man. "My man," said Governor Oglesby pleasantly, "how did you get here?" "For abducting a girl," growled the man. Governor Oglesby looked him over critically and then 6aid: "Well, I'll pardon you as soon as I get back to Springfield. You could not get a girl in any other way!" A BACHELOR DINNER. tt Began With Medicated Soup and Ended With Olive Tarts. One often reads of the tremblings and anxieties which accompany the tirst dinner parties of the young wife and housekeeper. Mr. Gerald Gordon in '"Life In the Mofussil" gives a bit of experience which shows that a youthful bachelor makes his debut as an entertainer with similar feelings of trepidation. Feeling almost as nervous as a girl for the success of his initial social enterprise in India, he entered the dining room with his guests: "The table looked very well. In the center was a large citron melon, with the thick rind cut into ornamental shapes. The flowers were prettily arranged. When I viewed the dining room before the arrival of the guests 1 felt well contented. "The critical moment was when we sat down. I was prey to a hundred and one anxieties. These fears were not allayed by seeing my right hand neighbor only making a show of eating his soup. Then I saw the colonel take one spoonful and order the servant to take it away. My own turn arriving, T found, to mv horror, a strong flavor of castor oil in the concoction. On looking round the table it was clear that every'' one else had discovered it. "The eonsumah, standing by the , sideboard, was totally unconscious that anything was wrong, and I had f/-v 4..11 him ta-!r>e tr? remnre the soup. "Later the horrible mystery was explained. It was the custom of the native cooks to strain soup ! through a cloth, and a clean one was provided every day for the purpose. In my establishment we burn castor oil in the lamps. The duty of straining the soup that day was given to a wretched undercook, who took a cloth which had been used I for cleaning the lamps. "This was trying, but every one tried to make the best of matters. The dinner went smoothly after this until dessert. Among the dishes was one of greengages with a lot of fluffy cream on top. I felt rather proud of this delicacy. The colonel tasted it. " 'Goodness! Olives!' he shouted. "Alas, it was too true! At the time I had given out a bottle of ! greengages I had also given one of i fine Spanish olives. Now, for the first time, I noticed the greengages [ lying innocently in a cut glass dish where the olives should have been. "This was too much for the guests' power of self restraint, and thev laughed loudly and long. It was "l ?L U U.,4- T xne oesi way 10 gei uver it, uut x did not soon hear the last of those olive tarts." ' Stones In Queer Places. A round stone is found in the joints of certain kinds of bamboo. This is called "tabasbeer" and is supposed to be deposited from the siliceous juices of the cone. Another curiosity of this kind is the cocoanut stone, which is found in the endossperm of the cocoanut in Java and other East Indian islands. It is pure carbonate of lime and is sometimes round, sometimes ear shaped, while the appearance is that of a white pearl without much luster. Some' of these stones are as large as cherries and as hard as feldspar or opal. They are rarely found and are regarded by the orientals.as precious stones, the lower classes using them as charms against diseases and evil spirits. Stones are also sometimes found in the pomegranate and in other East India fruits.?Chicago News. No Great Punishment. Jarcd Wilkins possessed no education and was even unable to read. Harold, his grandson of seven years, learned of this for the first time when he asked him to read a story in his new book. "Can't you read?" he asked in surprise. "No, sonny." "Why can't you, grandpa ?" "Because," the old gentleman replied impressively, "I was a bad bov and wouldn't go to school." "Were von a real bad boy?" "Tory lad." "And now you can't read ?" "Xot a word." "Well," said the youngster thoughtfully, "it seems to me you got off pretty easy."?Woman's Home Companion. By Way of Comparison. "You were having a quarrel with the prosecuting witness, were you not?" said the judge in an effort to straighten out a complicated case. "Oi wor," was the reply. "And it was a very severe quarrel r "It wor, an' it kep' gettin' worser an' worser." "Can you give me some idea of how bad it was ?" "Well, your honor, at Man toime Oi t'ink it wor most as bad as what's been goin' on bechune the lawyers in this case." ? Harper's j Weekly. SOME EXPENSES IN T851. t Interesting Disclosures Made by an Old Memorandum Book. An old memorandum book has come to light in which some interesting prices are recorded. They make us groan. As we read them we begin to believe what the old people tell us?that former times were indeed better than these. The woman who kept this account book paid, to bo sure, $3.25 to po from Westtield, .Mass., to New York and $5 more to go from New York to Philadelphia, but she paid only 28 cents a dozen for her ! washing?beautifully ironed and brought to her door?and $10 a i month for her hoard and says that ' it was good too. She had her daguerreotype taken, a single picture, and paid $1.50 . for it. (We can improve on that price.) She bought a pair of shoes for $1.25 and had a dress cut for , 371k cents. The accounts bristle! with half and quarter cents. Things i cost sometimes a 'Tip," sometimes a | ' "Vv." The former was G'4 cents, * tl latter 1215 cents. . v bought a pair of rubbers for J 871 - nts and wrote them down as "gums. For her pew rent at1 church lie paid GG 2-3 cents a| ..v. Her gowns wore made of j "debagc, "delaine" and "mull," j and she paid $1.75 for the fitting > and making of one. She wore con- ! gress gaiters and paid the exorbitant price of $2.25 for a p>?v^Shc ! bought a copy of "Agnes-'' to Her Coffin," a book w mented parlor tables in t ? tics. It was considered a ful work in its time and m forting to those in affliction, ft teaching school eleven weeks this i woman received $J?2. Stio r?<iid 30 rents tn en from i Westfield to Springfield and $1 from Springfield to Hartford, with carriage hire. She usually went from Hartford to New York by boat, but she makes one entry, "Hartford to New York, across the land," and then neglects to record the price. She has a tooth drawn and pays 25 cents. We reflect that this was before the days of anaesthetics. She burned in her lamp "fluid," a highly inflammable oil which preceded the safer kerosene, i Those seem primitive and homely days to some who read these lines. It is true that life was simple then, but in New England and eastern New York and the vicinity there may have been higher living in many respects than now. ? Brooklyn Eagle. Sad, but True. A precocious son five years old looked very philosophically at his mother one day and remarked: "T ?!_ JL J 1 "isn l ii wonuenui nuw uue o s&m is put on? Is it sewed together or pasted with glue?" Realizing the folly of any physiological explanations, she replied, "No, dear; it is all in one piece." Still a quizzical expression o'erspread his face. Peering at his mother's forehead, he raised his finger and exclaimed, "Well, mother, I really think you have a seam across there." After thg humor of the remark had passed* it awakened a note of pathos, for that mother, with the aid of the mirror, discovered that the hitherto unobserved seam was there, her first wrinkle.?Philadelphia Ledger. Still Aliva. "That flirt Miss Robinson has refused two suitors whom she dis tinctlv encouraged, une ox tnem i threatened to leave this earth." "And did he carrv out the threat ?" "Yes." "How sad!" "Not at all! He simply went lip in his airship! The second one told her that he would be beneath the waves in an hour." "Gracious! And did the poor fellow drown himself?" "Xo; he was a lieutenant on a submarine !" Thsu-ing. To persons of los er rank one sailh "you" without thou-iug anybody, be it not some little 'child, and that thou wert much more aged and that the custome itself amongst the meer courteous and better bred were to speak in such manner. What concerneth familiar friends, amongst them the custome ' 1 ? ' 1 * 1 aorn comport in certain piaces mai they "thou" one another more freely, in other places one's more reserved.?Youths' Behavior, 1652. A Crowded Universe. In Xew Ilavcn the committee of a graduating class once went to a local jeweler with a commission for a class badge. They had in view a design representing a youthful graduate surveying the universe. "About how large would you like the figure?" the jeweler asked. "Well," said the spokesman, "we thought the graduate ought to cover about three-quarters of the badge and the universe the rest."?Success Magazine. ACCEPTED HIS ADVICE. Then the Tailor Was Sorry He Tackled the Lawyer. The young lawyer had waited many days for clients, and still they did not come. His bills were mmintiticr hiorhar ami hiodier. and. i sad to 6ay, some of his creditors | were becoming impatient. At this j very minute his tailor, whom he 1 owed for his last winter's overcoat, was sitting beside his desk uttering all sorts of dire threats. 'Til pay you when I can," he said. "Well, that doesn't satisfy me," retorted the tailor. "What would happen, do you think, if I were to I take this matter to the courts and j sue you?" "You'd get judgment, of course," said the young lawyer. "Then, in your opinion, you haven't a leg to stand on," insisted the tailor. "Xot a leg," returned the briefless youth. "Very well, then, I shall proceed of " coif) fhr? fnilnr risinor. *'1 certainly advise you to," said the lawyer, with a gleam in his eye. "I shall most certainly accept your advice," retorted the tailor sarcastically. "Good!" said the lawyer. "What is the amount of your bill?" # "Sixty-eight dollars and fifty cents." saiil the tailor. "All right," said the lawyer. "Hand over six fifty, please." "Six fiftv!" said the tailor, j "What for?" "You have just consulted me in 'hotter of a suit at law and , Vl the* you accept my ad-1 " civ ge for that is $75, , ai. s\y jfty is the dtference between ur bill and mine," said , the law; .r. "If I don't hear from you by noon tomorrow I shall put j the matter in the hands of my at-1 torneys. Good morning, sir!" And the tailor went out, mar- ' veiling much that so ingenious a young gentleman should be a mem-; ber of the great army of th$?M;emnlnved.? rner's Weeklv. I??_ -1 J advance Knowledge. The disadvantage of too much ! knowledge in advance in his audi- 1 tors was experienced by that uni- | versity preacher of whom all have j read. Knowing the lesson which j he would read, irreverent undergraduates pasted together the pages of the Bible which he would open. The result was that he read aloud, "When Noah was an hundred and twenty years old he took unto him a wife who was"?and here he turned over?"one hundred and forty cubits long, forty cubits wide, but of: gopher wood and covered with pitch inside and out." Naturally the dear I old gentleman was puzzled. "This ^ is the first time I have noticed this j in the Bible, but I accept it as an i evidence that we are fearfully and wonderfully made," was his mild j J. comraeui. Making It Worth Whilo. There was a man who dropped a penny down a crack in a board walk. With a wire and a stick he tried to recover the penny for a long time. Then, shaking his head sadly, he | went home. But the next morning he returned early to the spot, and he was bending over the crack with a quarter in his hand when a friend happened along and said: "Hello, Joe! What are you doing there ?" "Well, I'll tell you," said the | other. "Yesterday I dropped a penny down this crack. Now, I rea-; soned that it wasn't worth while to pull up four or five boards to find a penny, but last night in bed an idea struck me, and I'm going to drop a quarter down to make it worth my while." The Satisfaction. "I sent 3*ou an account of ?5 for collection," said a man, coming into the office of a lawyer. "Yes, you ditL" "What success have you had?" i "Sued him last week and got it." , "That's good. Give me the monpv and toll me the amount of your' fees and I will pay you." "My fees are ?10. I have given you credit for the ?5 collected. Pay mo another ?5, and we'll be square." "What?" gasped the man. "I don't see where I make anything by collecting the debt." "Nothing, my dear sir, from a money point of view, but you have the satisfaction of knowing that a dishonest man has been brought to justice/'?London Express. Libels on Dogs. After all, man does not remember the dog's good qualities as he should. Look at the simile3 he uses?"you lying hound," "mean as a hound dog," "dog" and "low down cur." Man hardly can think of a lower name than one connect-1 ed with dogs. And in horse racing the worthless ones are called "dogs." It seems a little ungrateful when one remembers all that a dog will bear from a man and still love him. V ' . ' . ' r STOLL BR( |WE f STCO BUY BONE AND | ftND SELL | LAN E It will pay you to always s any business of this kind. 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