The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-10-16

same az in America. The editor of the
Osaka Nippo has been fined thirty yen
for falsely stating that the governor oi
Hiroshima had been arrested on suspi-
cion.
A New Haven policeman has devised
q new kind of policeman's club. It con-
sists of brass covering to an ordinary
club, attached to it by springs, and
colored to resemble rosewood. If a man
should seize it he would only get the
brass cover, leaving the policeman ample
opportunity to WELD the club itself.
Some of the boys at Carrollville, Wis,
made q midnight parade, wrapped in
sheets, and starting from the village
graveyard. Their idea was to scare who
ever saw them. They succeeded. Three
women went into convulsions at the
sight, one sick man was thrown into a
relapse, and girl broke her arm by
fall in climbing hastily over fence.
In the public gardens Of Vienha bear
underwent an operation for cataract.
He was blind in both eyes. A strong
leather collar was firmly buckled around
his neck, and the attached chain passed
round bar of the cage. Two powerful
men pulled him up, 80 that a sponge
containing chloroform might be applied
+ to his nose. The first evidence Of the
action of the chloroform vas diminu-
ton in his struggles; one paw dropped
and then the other. The door Of the den
was opened, and his head laid upon
plank outside. The cataracts were re-
moved, and the bear was drawn back
into his cage. Next morning he came
out of his den staring about him, caring
nothing for the light, licking his paws,
and evidently glorying in the recovery
of sight.
The Chinese quarter Of San Francisco
has been undergoing thorough official
inspection. One house had two stories
below the level of the street, divided
into rooms about five feet by eight, con-
tanning two to six occupants each. Lepers
were found, and one of them was said to
be engaged in the manufacture of cigars
that were sold daily in the city. So
thickly inhabited is this quarter, and to
such use is every foot of indoor space
turned, that in hundreds Of houses the
cooking is done in the streets or on tue
roofs. Some kitchens are built on slen-
der supports overhanging the sidewalks.
Fireplaces are built on the window sills,
with shields of old tin bending outward
for chimneys. Fires were even found
burning on heaps of ashes laid upon un.
protected wooden floors and against
wooden partitions, the sparks flying in
all directions.
A terrible death from phosphorus is
reported. A young man left Paris to
visit his friends at Lyons, and as soon
as he got into the carriage he Lit match
by scratching it with his thumb nail,
and piece of the incandescent phospho
rus penetrated under the nail and made
a slight burn, to which he paid no at.
tention. But after an hour the pain be-
came very great, the thumb swelled,
then the hand, and next the forearm.
He was obliged to alight at the first
station and send for medical man, who
declared that instant amputation OF the
arm was necessary. The patient. insisted
on postponing the operation for few
hours until the arrival of his father, fol
whom he had telegraphed. But before
the latter could reach the spot, it was
too late; the poisonous matter had gain
ed the arm, then the shoulder, and any
operation henceforth was impossible.
The young man died twenty-seven hours
after the burn, in horrible suffering.