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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 6,1895. |
ITEMS.
Augusta Chronicle: Wheo a elegy man
makes the remarkable statement that
"forty barrels of rum are seat to ?frica
to every missionary,1' we are moved to
inquire what be wants with so mach ?
A description of Rbodar Broughton
is given io a certain Oxford letter, in
which the writer speaks of the novelist
as "the snippy lady with the girlish
figure who was drinking tea upstairs."
Every city of the United States in
wbioh there is a large number of Jews,
excepting Sao Francisco, has at least
ooo Jewish hospital. There are 18,
000 Jews in San Francisco, and the
sum of {30,000 has been raised among
them for a hospital.
The Winter quarters of Prof. Wil?
liam Gentry's equine and canine show
was destroyed by fire at Bloomington,
lil. Eleven trained ponies, thirty
five dogs and a monkey were burned.
Loss $18,000.
"The Jew," says the Jewish Re
view, "has little io common with the
temperance movement, be it for the
reason that, io his ceremonies, be be?
comes accustomed to look upon the
wine wheo it is red, or because bis
average mental capacities enable bim to
resist the insidious temptations of tbe
flowing bowl. The Jew cannot bea
total abstainer; the forms and cere?
monies of bis ritual have forbidden it
for ages."
Rev. Edward Davis, of Oakland,
Cal., recently illustrated a sermon on
*'Eternal Judgment" by assuming the
character of Richard III, and quoting
r"> ? dramatic manner the famous
soliloquy in the first scene and also in j
the fifth act of th<? play The
preacher's acting was realistic. There
was a big audience.
The Philadelphia Record says that i
Philadelphia Sunday school teacher who
has a class of bright boys, undertook
last Sunday to teach them thc names of
the apostles, beginning with Matthew, 1
the publican. One little fellow started
the mischief by asking if all the other '
apostles were democrats, and a second
chimed io with: "Say, was Quay 1
camed after him ?" A third suggest- 1
ed that the original Matthew must have 1
been in the combine, for he was well
fixed for boodle. The yoong teacher
breathed a sigh of relief when the bell :
announced the close of the lesson. '
Dr. Arnold tells an amusiog story of !
a Jew who had forsaken his religion,
but wbo always, when there was tbun- 1
der and lightning, placed an open I
Bible io his window says the New York i
Sun. Upon one occasioB, when he was 1
greatly alarmed, he made a mistake by i
seising the first book which be saw,
and putting it at the window. The <
book was a copy of the * 'Arabian i
Knights Eotertainmsut." Y etthe ]
lightning did not strike him. <
Mr. Bunch, of the State Lunatic Asy- ?*
rum, has a herd of about eighty cattle 1
that he thinks it will be bard to beat as *
far as results are concerned. He hsgT'
been having experiments made^-atra^ac- j!
tual results observed.^Xt?e cow that ! *
heads the list last^Cr netted $155.76. j <
-This is figurejfr'out in this way: The ?
Cow gavey084 1-2 gallons of milk at i
act'JjLweight, which at a fraction over (
8 cents a gallon. the market value, 1
less the cost of keep. ?95, would net '
$156.76. Mr. Bunch figures out the <
cost of feed at 26 ceo ts per day io this 1
way, 50 pounds of ensilage 12 cents ; 10 *
pounds of bran 10 cents and 4 pounds ?
of cotton seed meal at 4 cents. The *
attention is put down at 4 cents per day : 1
aod this is counterbalanced by the j *
manures. The cows is tbe Asylum j i
herd go from this down, and of course,
some of them have to be kept at a loss (
Tbe exigencies of the situation in ! '
which we are placed calls for the exer- j <
eise of the wisest statemaoship aod the ! 1
most conservative leadership. Ail ! '*
factional lines, for the time being at j ]
least, should be obliterated, aod all (
differences healed. There should be no ! 1
longer any rubbing of old sores or say- ; 1
ing or doing anything to keep alive the 1
passions and prejudices of the people. !
Men should be selected as delegates ; 1
to that convention not because they are j
Reformers or Conservatives, but be- (
cause their judgment can be trusted j 1
and their patriotism unquestioned. If I
this be adopted much of the evil which ; '
we fear will be the outcome of a parti- ? !
san convention will be prevented and ;
a wholesome aod ju constitution | ?
adopted.-Lexington Dispatch. '
AD illustration of the marvelous ac- '
curacy characterizing tools or iostru- 1
men's of measurement now employed as
compared with those of former times
is given by a writer in the American
Machinist, Damely, that, whereas, for?
merly 001 inch marked ou a drawing I !
would bave been objected to oo the
ground that it was difficult or impossi?
ble to work so closely to measures as
that, at the present time 0005 inch is
measured in every fine workship, and
dimensions gi^en in hundredths or even
thousandths of an inch frequently ap- ; i
pear on drawings without objection on
the part of the workmen. The instru?
ments of measurement are now made
yith such a degree of refioed accuracy
tu\at even the warmth of the hand may
expand a rod twelve inches loDg so that
the amount of expansion can be meas?
ured/ It has thus become important in
fine measurements to be careful that the
temperature of the piece to be meas?
ured or gauged should have the same
temperature as that of the instrument
by which its size is determined By
first handling a rod of the length named
and measuring it, particularly if the ?
rod be of bras? or copper, and t
after allowiog the rod to oool, b
Hog the guage until the latter expa
it is found that a discrepancy of l
0.007 iDch to 0.01 inch may be s<
times made apparent, due entirely
the differences of temperature.
Romer, Preschel and Irinyi are i
ously named as inventors of p
phorous matches. From the testis
of a still-living college friend it app
that the real inventor is the Hui
nan, Janos Irinyi. It was in ll
when the Utter, then 19 years old
a studeot at the polytechnic school.
Vienna, attended Prof. Meissn
leotures on chemistry. He bec
greatly impressed by a demonstra
of the reaction produced on rubi
together peroxide of lead and sui pl
It struck h u at once that the reac
might be greatly intensified when t
stituting phosphorous for 6ulpi
Irinyi was not to be seen at the coll
for the next few days. His frie
wishing to see bim, called a bis roo
but found the door locked. On join
his friend, Irinyi had his pockets ful
matches, which be struck on the wa
all of them taking fire. He prepa
them by melting phosphorous in a c
centrated solultion of glue and shak
until the mass became cold, and all
phosphorous assumed a finely divii
state. The emulsion was mixed w
brown peroxide of lead, and sti
previously dipped in molten sulp!
were impressed in the mixture
sold bis invention, it is recorded, t
merchant named Romer for about $
500.
As an instance of the difference i
tween the old slavery days farming a
farming by the employment of mi
modern methods and improved mach
erv ia the South, the following iliust
rion is given : C. T. Douglass, a you
farmer of Mecklenburg County, ?. <
in 1898, planted thirte?n acres of la
in cotton and harvested six bales by t
old method of farming. Last year
planted three acres of the same land
cotton with the purpose of cultivatii
it "intensely" as an experiment. E
suit : On three of the thirteen acf<
which yielded him but six bales of cc
ten the year before, he harvested fo
bales of cotton. Difference : Und
the old system of cultivation bis iai
raised less than one-half a bale of cc
ton to the acre ; under the improve
methods it raised ooe and ooe-thii
bales. This practice of "intens?
farming is rapidly spreading, and tl
tendency is decidely towards small
md better cultivated farms.
The S-incb parrot gun, known as tl
"Swamp Angel" will be recalled h
ihose who were old enough to read an
understand the skirmishes and raids an
battles during the civil war. The st(
ry of its construction is about as foilowi
The colonel of a regiment of New Ycjr
?ngineers was ordered by Gen. GjJ'mor
in 1863 to mount the gur^utffiVlorri
[sland, South Carolina, fife place bein
designated as about a^ftile out in tb
swamp, and to tuafce requisition for a!
needed apjajiirt?ces. The colonel made
?ur^?y of the place designated, viewmj
it fn>m the nearest Und, and tbei
:ent in a requisition for "200 men 3(
eet high to work in a swamp 20 fee
Jeep Gen. Gilmore, not appr?ci?t
og tiiis bit of humor from bis subordi
late, placed him under arrest, and tbi
)fficer found it a hard task to get re
ieved. The gun was subsequently
nounted by the colonel, and it was
iubbed the " rwainp Angel," after as
onishing both federal aud confederate?
>y sending a shell from Morris Island,
21,000 feet, into the streets of Charles
on. It fired thirty-six rounds, and
hen burst near the breech It is now
?aid to be in Trenton, N. J., where il
s used as a drinking fountain.
The peculiar and characteristic odors
)f flowers, leaves, fruits, seeds, roots,
Darks and woods are due to the presence
)f essential oils. Without the latter
lhere would be no liquors or perfumery,
md spices would be uoknowu. In some
plants the oil is found only in the flow
;rs, as the rose and violet; in others in
;be fruit, as the nutmeg; in others in
he unexpanded buds, as the clove; in
Hoers in the bark, as certain laurels ;
ind in still others in the outer rind of
:be fruit, as the orange and lemon. Italy
supplies the world with orange and lern?
en oils, and the Italians are up to all
the tricks of mixing and adulterating.
The United States consul general to Ita?
ly reports that practically all of the or?
ange and lemon oils which reach the
United States are sophisticated " to a
great extent. Bergamor, the most
costly, is adulterated with oil of sweet
orange, turpentine, mineral oil, an^
essence of peppermint. Pitch is em?
ployed for coloring, and stearin is
added to increase bulk and weight.
The most, important adulterant is tur?
pentine, which is so nearly related
chemically to the oil of lemon - both
being terpenes-that its presence as an
ingredient can hardly be detected by
analysis.
The comparative money value of
brains is strikingly illustrated in a New
York World cartoon. For the purpose
of comparison heavy-weight, middle?
weight and light-weight (avoirdupois)
statesman and horse jockeys are selected.
Under the first head aro set. Post?
master General Bisselland Jockey Taral
Mr. Bl9Sell is paid ?8,000 a year
and Taral is paid ?25,000 a year.
Under the second hi.-ad are set Senator
John Sherman and Jockey .Simms ('eul?
orel). Thc .senator gets ?5,000 a year
and the jockey $.25.000. Under tho
third head aro Chief Justice Fuller au 1
Jocky Griffin. The chief justice's sala?
ry is $10,500 a year; Griffin's is ?-:j0?
000. A possible explanation of the '
diffi??ce in earnings i- rwev-n these tw .
I classes of public tuen is that this coun
I try is long on statesmen aod short on
jockeys.
Io JaDuary. 1835, Lovina Isher?
wood, then a girl of fourteen, swallow?
ed a "?edle, says a Bath, N. Y , dis?
patch. Ever since then the needle has
been journeying to and fro through her
body. When she was 16 years old she
felt it pricking io her toe. Two years
afterward it made itself felt under her
left knee, and came so near the surface
that every one thought it. would work
'its way out, but it did not. It turned
aod started on a new trip. Several
years passed before it was felt again.
In the meantime the girl had become
Mrs. Durham. Then it was felt under
the left shoulder blade. Two years
later Mrs Durham felt it near her
right elbow. Four years afterward it
assailed Mrs. Durham's right knee,
and an attempt was made to cut it out,
but it got away. So it bad been going
ever since, but last week it was felt in
her left leg, and a doctor succeeded in
cutting it out. It was headed for
another upward journey. #
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O'S
You can get everything that you
want at the lowest prices. We are so
shunted thut we c*n atf )rd io make
prices c!'>5er Ulan an" one else.
All [Goods are new and of
the best quality. ;No shop?
worn goods.
We rruike ? specialty o? School
Supplies ?md also keep a full liri" ol'
Stationery, Blanks Books, Etc
Come and inspect .mr goods.
?i v iw??V\ ft ni
TREET,
, s. c.
-c
CHINA PAINTING
AT THE
SUINTER INSTITUTE.
TAKE DUE NOTICE THEREOF AND
GOVERN YOURSELF AC?
CORDINGLY.
SPECIMENS OF TEE WORK NOW ON
^ exhibition at the Studio, and we ask
ml the ladies of the town who are interested
in (his work to call and examine these sp?ci?
mens. We desire particularly to interest the
married ladies in thi3 beautiful borne decora?
tive Art.
The paintedj china will be ?red at the
Institute. A kiln has been ordered for this
purpose Come and see what we can do in
this line. _
H. P. WILSON, Pres,
Sept. 19. Sumter, S. C.
DO. Mk SIMMS,
DENTIST.
Office
OVER BROWN & BROWN'S STORE
Entrance on Main Street
Between Brown & Brown and Durant & Son.
OFFICE HOURS:
9 to 1.30; 2 to 5 o'clock.
April 9. 2
Maiu Street. Next to City Hall.
SPECIAL ATTENTION
Given to Compounding Prescriptions.
THE SIMONOS NATIONAL BANK
OP SUMTER.
STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSI?
TORY, SUMTER, S. C.
Paid up Capital.S75,000 00
Surplus Fund. 12,500 00
Liabilities of Stockholders to
depositors acccording to the
law governing National Banks,
in excess of their stock . . $75,000 00
Transacts a General Banking Business. -
Careful attention given to collections.
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.
Deposits of Si and upwards received. In?
terest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per
annum. Payable quarterly, on first days of,
January, April, Julv and October.
* R M. W ALLACE,
L. S. CARSON, President.
Aug 7. Cashier. ]
Order Your
PROVISIONS AND GROCERIES
FROM
GEO. f. STEFFENS & SON.
Wholesale Agents, Charleston, S. C,
-Agents for
MOTT'S CIDER,
BED SEAL CIGARS,
and DOVE HAMS.
H. A. HOYT,
MAIN STREET,
SUMTER, S. C.
GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES3
FINE DIAMONDS,
Clocks, Jewelry, Spectacles,
MERIDEN BRITANIA SILVERWARE, &c.
REPAIRING A SPECIALTY.
Feb- 1
NEW
MARBLE WORKS,
COMMANDER & RICHARDSON,
LIBERTY STREET, SUMTER, S. C.
WE H A VF FORMED A CO-PARTNERSHIP
Fur the purpose ot working Marble und
G rn n 1 te, manu fae turing
MOMEDtS, TflfflllStOBSS, EiC,
A:;.i doing ft General Business in that line.
A complete work?!,op 'HMS Deen lilted up on
LIBERTY STREET, NEA R POST O FF 1 CE
And we now ready to execute with
pirom.otoeSi :ill orders consigned to us. Satts
action guaranteed. Ublain our price1 bet?re
uhicing :in ord**! eisewnere.
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Jnne Io.
I
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j HOTEL,
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Three Dollars per day and up, American 3Plan.
FIREPROOF AND FIRST-CLASS IN
EVERY PARTICULAR.
Two blocks from the Third and Sixth Avenue
Elevated Railroads.
The Madison and Fourth Avenue and Bel
Line Cars pass the door.
H. M. CLARK, Proprietor.
Passenger Elevator runs all night.
JE WE LR I*.
Watches, Diamonds.
Sterling and Plated Silverware,
LARGE STOCK SUITABLE FOR WEDDING PRESENTS.
Clocks, Optical G-oods, Fine Knives, Scissors
and Razors, Machine Needles. &c.
POLSO 3\^T.
SIGN OF THE BIG WATCH.
ESTABLISHED 1368._Sumter, S. C.
ON HAN? =
TWO CAR LOADS good Farm Mules
for Sale Cheap for Cash, or on Time on
approved security. Prices to corres?
pond with 5 cent Cotton.
Wagons, Buggies and Carts, Lime and
other Building Materials. Also Hay,
Corn, Bran, Rice Flour, Cotton Seed
Meal and Hulls.
SEED OATS, Texas and South Caro?
lina raised.
Some Thorough-bred Berkshire Pigs.
IS. HARBT,
FEED AND SALE STABLES, SUMTER.
Jan. 23.
Hay Presses.
We are able now to ofter the cheapest
and best portable Hay Press ever put on
tlie market. Bale your hay; it becomes
more marketable and more valuable.
Baled hay looks hotter and sells quicker.
Henry II? Bloom,
Sep 5. Main St.. Sumter. S. C.
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