The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, October 15, 1908, Image 5
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,
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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