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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-04-10
RhYming Legislators.

Durine q recent dry debate in the
House wing of the Virginia Legislature
a resolution was circulated among the
members, drawn up by I" the committee
on game" and offering prize for any
man who would find a rhyme to "Terra'
pin." A Richmond correspondent says
the resolution brought out the following
poetical Donations:
You ask for word to rhyme with Terrapin,
'o'io O'' NY ' Hanger.
I think that Terrapin :.
Would rhyme with hair-pin. -Hun'er.
ct ought to but it dont.)
The wretch who kills Terrapin
Commits most egreglous nn. -~a"ooe'
soup made Of the Terrspin
viii not hurt q fellows within. -he"Se''
A good stew made Of Terrapin ~
Is ct for q seraphinn. -oo00'"'
We're asked what is Terrapin,
Would call it fish without nm.
The blamed fools who rhymed on Terrapin,
Oueht to have larrapin. speaker AHea'
The way to give value to a dismond'Ola'k
Terrapin, H. s;.,a
Is to change it's back as though the , diamond
,cere a pin. H'e'''e''
I would rather be creeping scarapin,
Than skill pot Terrapin. -hoo'"So"'
How sweet to sit in your merry inn
nn0 GOV e' -Frdsier.
I would fight 'sooner:a Terrapin ~
Than an Old female harridan. -TdAdJerTo.
I think there Is no fsirer din
""'' W "0" -HdA
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Some Curious Facts About Heads.

A scientific inquiry lately made by
DR.. Delaunsy among the hatters OF
Paris offer some curious results. Ac-
cepting it as true that the capacity OF
the Uranium and development of the
brain are proportional to the external
volume of the head; also, that the INTEL
lieence is proportional to the volume
and weight of the brain, he shows inter
alta, that certain families develop Like
individuals-that is, they have a period
of growth, then astationary period, then
a period Of decrease, previous to e1tinc-
ton. In families of the first period the
head enlarges from generation to genera
ton. The citizens who wrought the
revolution of 1889 had bigger heads than
their fathers. On the other hand, IN
families that are nearing their extlnc-
ton the heads grow smaller. The sons
of the present ruling families in France
have such small heads, according to the
author, that they require hats specially
made for them. Among certain families
newly risen from the common peo.
ple the head increases from gen
GRAFTON to generation. The wide
brimmed hats-bolivars-worn by the
Republicans from 1880 to 1848 were
yery capacious. The quarter in which
are the largest heads in Paris is that OF
the schools. The hatters of the Fau-
bourg st. Germain say that they only lit
fine heads. The Polytechnicians have
larger heads than the st. Cyrians, and
the students of the normal school larger
than those of st. Sulpice, etc. The
members of the clergy present peculiar: !:
featurein these statistics. "In general, "
saws M. Delaunay, "men from thirty to
forty years of age have larger head
than those from twenty to thirty. Not
80 with ecclesiastics, for their heads
cease to grow at about twenty-five. The
cures, bishops, archbishops, etc., have
no larger heads than the students OF the
large aeminaries."
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Strychnia and its Antid0te.

A correspondent in Nature says:
Wanting to Danish mice from pantry I
placed on the floor at night slice OF
bread spread over with butter, in which
I had mixed a threepenny packet OF
"Battle's Vermip, Killer" which con-
tains about grain of strychnia along
with -four and Prussian blue. The fol-
lowing morning I was reused by SER
want telling me that a favorite skye.
terrier was lying dead. I found that
the mice had dragged the slice of bread
underneath the locked door, and that
the dog had thus got at it and eaten
part equal to about one-si1th of grain
of 'strychnia; it lay on its side perfectly
rigid; an occasional tetanic spasm
showed that life was not quite extinct.
Having notes OF the experiments made
by direction of the British Medical
Association last year on the antagonism
of medicines, and wherein it was conclu-
sively proved that fatal dose of .strych-
mia could be neutralized by fatal dose
of chloral hydrate, and that the mini
mum fatal dose of the latter for rabbit
was twenty-one grains, I at once mi ected
under the dogs skin forty-hve grains OF
the chloral in solution, my dog being
about twice the weight of q rabbit. In
q quarter of an hour, fancying the dog
was dead, as the spasms had ceased and
it lay apparently lifeless, I moved it
with my foot, when it at once struggled
to it's feet, and shortly after staggered
to its usual corner by the parlor fire; it
took some milk, and except for being
quieter than usual, seemed nothing the
worse for the ordeal it had passed
through. That the fatal effects OF a
poisonous dose of strychnia was thus
counteracted so successfully what I
should say was poisonous dose of
chloral, given hypodermically, is an in
teresting fact verifying the experiments
I alluded to. Without such experiments
on the lower animals, a medical man
might often be found standing by help
less to aid his fenowman under similar
effects Of poison.
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and some mustard, which feed to them

and some mustard, which I feed to them
twice week, and occasionally after they
are of frying size I find the mixture
beneficial. When the chicks are about
six weeks old, if the hen does not seem
inclined to wean them, 7 separate them
from her for week and then they are
able to take care :uc themselves; but I
give them little feed night and morn
ing. The chicks grow much faster after
being weaned than before. J. never
allow more than three hens to carry
broods at one time. I have given as
many as thirty chicks to one hen, and
never saw chicks grow faster or seem
more healthy than they were. This
plan I do not practice in early spring,
but when the weather is warm I invari-
ably do 80, and discontinue it in the fall,
for in cold weather the mother cannot
warm so large brood properly.-7Tas-
sactioaas Georgia Grange.
Frozen Combs of Fowls.
In cold climates fowls with very large
combs, like those of the Leghorns, are
liable to get frozen; in fact, these large
comb breeds must be kept in q warm
house if freezing is to be entirely pre-.
vented. When the comb of bird is
found to be frozen, it should be thawed
out by the application Of cold water,
either by pouring the water over the
head or by immersing the comb while
the fowl is held in the hand. After the
frost is entirely removed, and the comb
and wattles carefully rubbed dry with a
soft cloth, they should be smeared with
glycerine, to be followed by fresh ap-
pGcation every day until the comb is
restored to it's usual appearance. If the
frozen comb has been already thawed
out, the glycerine may be applied just
the same to prevent the soreness.
Grease of any kind may be used, and
some poultry breeders make an ointment
for frozen combs by melting a little
rosin in hot salt lard. Almost anything
which will exclude the air from the raw
flesh will assist healing and do good.
Propagation OF Hyaeinths.
The gardener to the University of
Berlin has found that hyacinths may be
propagated by their leaves, and this
method would appear to specially rec
ommend itself where the object in view
is to raise large number of specimens
of new rare varieties. The leaves require
to be cut off as near to the bulb as possi-
BILE, put in saucer, and covered over
with thin layer of sandy leaf mold,
the same as geraniums are propsgated.
The saucer having been placed in q
greenhouse or frame close to the inner
surface of the glass, in eight or nine
weeks time the extremities of the leaves
will begin to turn dry, a sure sign that
bulbs are growing out Of them. The
leaves selected for propagation must be
fresh and green, the latest time at which
they should be removed from the plant
being the close of the Towering season.
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Fashion Notes,
The short dress for the street is at last
an oooonn1iahad fact

The short dress for the street is at last
an accomplished fact.
Several rows of knife-pleated lace will
be used for trimming mantles.
Most of the wide collars ard cuffs have
lace frill to stand around the neck and
wrists.
New ties are of plain SILL, the ends
finished in embroidery and fringe to
represent the tip Of a peacock feather.
Get sheer striped muslin, or else dimi'
ty, and work the edges in cclored seal
lops for drapery for an infants basket.
Satin will be much used for trimming
spring and summer dresses. Some OF
the new grenadines are trimmed entirely
with black satin.
A half-lopg sacque or else dolman
mantle of black silk or of camel -shair,
with Jet and fringe for trimming, is what
you want for the spring.
Cashmere suits are coming more and
more into favor. Cashmere made over
silk is exceedingly attractive: Rich
garnitures of all kinds are employed on
these much admired and very servlceable
promenade and dinner suits.
Carrick capes promise to be much
worn on various spring garments. They
are seen on cloth sacques, on basques OF
plain costumes, on polonaises, on dol
mans, on English cloth travelling cloaks,
and finally on linen ulsters.
The furnishing stores display new
costumes of percale, cambzic, and Scotch
ginghams, trimmed with pleated frills
of the material, on which fall scans
rufles of white Hamburg embroidery.
The favorite design for these is ths
pleated basque.
Cambria wrappers are also being fl n
cifully made at the furnishing houses.
The prettiest of these have yoke with
Vatican pleating in the back, and are
made of bordered cambrics, with the
border used for trimming down the yoke,
pockets, collar and cuffs.
Silks of light quality with raised fig
ures are offered for spring costumes, or
as parts of combination suits. These
are more stylish than checked or striped
silks sold for the same money, but they
do not wear so well, as the raised figures
are apt to fray they serve, however,
for season, or as long as the caprioious
fashion lasts.
To make yourself look more slender
you should wear the princesse under
clothing with yoke skirts and with close
fitting chemises that add nothing to the
figure. Arrange your hair so that it will
add nothing to the size of your head:
Braid the back hair, and make coil Of
it high on the crown ; wave the front
hair, and combit back from the temples.
Put velvet buttons on a silk dress
trimmed with velvet. Put wide panels
of velvet down the sides of the over
skirt, and edge it with fringe. The vel
vet Aounce should be 80 deep that the
bottom of the over-skirt will cover the
top of the Aounce, and make the skirt
seem to be entirely velvet. Turn the
edge of the hounce under, and face 1t
with silk. Gathered hounces are very
scant. Pleated velvet aounces are twice
the length of the space to be covered.
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Incantau0n.

Incarnation was one Of the most
powerful modes of ancient magic, and
rested on belief in the mysterious
power of certain words when uttered
with peculiar intonations of the voice.
These incantations were generally &C.
companied by the concochng Of drugs.
The effects, both good and bad, pro-
duced on the bodies of men and animals
by certain plants, and which originally
were discovered accidentally, came in
time to be exaggerated, until all manner
of imaginary attributes were ascrlbed to
them. Medicine, therefore, in it's early
form, was intimately allied to magic,
and while it was thus in its mystic
stage animal substances we're considered
the most valuable. # the Juice Of a
plant mysteriously affected the human
body, the blood Of another animal would
surely be more eficacious, and the rarer
the kind of blood the more virtue would
there be in it. The hearts of animals
were held to be the most potent drugs
because they were the seat Of life. Magi-
cal medicines, therefore, came into
vogue, and in their use incarnation was
q general and almost necessary accom-
paniment. But the operation Of these
drugs and incantations was not confined
to the physical effects on the living
bodies to which they were applied.
They could do more wonderful things
than cure sickness; in fact, they could
produce any desired effect. They could
kill or cure a person, absent as well as
present; they could make the dead speak
and reveal the future; they could ferhl-
ize q field or blast it; they could darken
the sun or moon; raise storms or allay
them; blunt or sharpen swords; burst
fetters and doors, and even make noun
tains fly open. The Romans used incan-
tations for curing wounds and disloca-
tions. In Shetland, to this day, there is
a form of words used for healing sprain
which can be traced to the tenth CEN
tury, and is of German origin. The
operation is performed by tying around
the sprained limb thread spun from
black wool, on which are cast nine knots,
and while this "wresting thread" as it
is called, is being applied the operator
repeats a doggerel in an almost inaudl-
BILE tone of voice. -.-. :.
Medicine-worship has been and is still
the religion of the tribes in Southern
Africa, and packets of medicine are worn
as charms to ward off all kinds of evil
and harm.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-04-10
A New Motor,

Ano RreaG QeSuo Oh GmS WOTlu lS LOW
sort of motion producer. People are
getting tired of steam, with its expense
and general unhandiness. Besides the
habit it has of occasionally going on q
"bust" and forcing the people in the
immediate neighborhood to cleave pas
sage for themselves, out through the
roof, is, to say the least, extremely an
noying. This has great tendency to dis
courage manufacturing, especially in the
persons who are near the machine.
Electricity has long been experimental
with, but no very satisfactory result has
been arrived at. AS was always ex-
pected the real universal motor has been
lying at our very feet, unnoticed. Great
inventions are always simple. This
universal and inexpensive motor is the
rocking chair | It is estimated, by able
statisticians that, in Michigan alone, a
force equal to 2,371 1853 horsepower is
annually expended in rocking while rest
ing. It is the simplest thing in the
world to apply this fearful waste Of
power to something useful. People may
sit in their rocking chairs, and the
churnlng, wasMng, scrubbmg, Klndung
wood splitting, etc., will 60 serenely on.
Large manufacturers can hire young
ladies to do some heavy resting in the
rocking chairs and by keeping them well
supplied with sensation novels, the
wheels of commerce can be made to re.
volve. Then again, an attachment could
be fixed to every chair in which power
could be stored up when the rocker had
no other work to do. This would bottle
up power as Edison bottles up talk in
his phonograph, to be used when con-
venient. A man could have buggy 30
constructed that by taking package OF
these bottled motors he would put them
in place and run his machine, and if his
supply ran out he could take the empty
cans in any wayside house and have
them filed up with power while he
rested in the rocking chair. There's
millions in it.-Detroit Free Press.
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Mater Amabilis.
Down the goldenest Of streams,

Down the goldenest OF streams,
Tide Of dreams,
The fair graded man-child drifts;
Sways with cadenced motion slow,
To and fro,
As the MOTHERHOOD poised lightly, falls
and lifts.
he, the frstling, g,-he, the light
OF her sight,
He, the breathing pledge Of love,
Meath the holy passion lies
OF her eyes,
Smiles to feel the warm, ife-giving ray
She believes that in his vision,
Skies elysian
Ger an angel-people shine.
Back to gardens Of delight,
Taking fight,
His auroral spirit basks in dreams divine.
But she smiles through anxious tears;
Unborn years
Pressing forward, she perceives.
shadowy mufled shapes, they come
Deaf and dumb, =
Bringing what? dry chafr and tares, or
full-eared sheaves3
What for him shall she invoke?
Shall tho oak
Bind the mans triumphant brow?
Z Shall his daring foot alight
On the height7
Shall he dwell amidst the humble and
:. the low?
Through what tears and sweat and pain,
Must he gain
Fruitage from the tree Of life?
Shall it yield him bitter favor7
Shall its SAVIOR
Be as mama midst the turmoil and the
strife?
In his cradle slept and smiled
Thus the child
Who as Prince Of Peace WAS hailed.
Thus snigh the mother breast,
Lulled to rest,
Child-Napoleon down the llied river
sailed.
Crowned or crucifed-the same
D.. CLOVIS the fame
OF her deathless love divine.
Still the blessed mother stands,
In all lands,
As she watched beside thy cradle and by
mine.
whatso gifts the years bestow,
Still men know,
While she breathes, lives one who sees
(stand they pure or sin-deAled)
But the child
Whom she crooned to sleep and rocked
upon her knees.
Emma Lazarus in Sc,ibner.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-21
LOyc.Making.

Summer is eminently the season for
love and love-making, probably because
1t is period of comparative leisure.
When young people meet together at
the seaside or mountain hotels, when
they indulge in communion of spirit,
while the gentle moon silvers the waves,
or fringes the fresh trees with subdued
radiance, all the rough questions of the
daily business of life are toned down,
and their imaginative faculties are alive
to fresh impressions. Then the man
becomes hero, and the maiden an
angel, and central point Of romantic at
traction. The common sense person
will tell you that all this is poor found
alton on which to build lifelong I'M
ion, which is likely enough, true, as far
as experience teaches, but for all that
who wishes to be bereft of that short,
sweet experience, which idealzes atfec-
ton, and raises it beyond criticism?
What would not either man or wo-
man give who has once INDUCED in a
genuine kitten love, to feel once more
the desolating grief or overpowering
joyfulness of that happy period.
1t is the fashion now-a' days to laugh
at love which sees perfection in its OBJ
ject, to sheer at its blindness, and make
jokes of its self-abnegatian, but is there
in the whole list of human virtues a
sentiment more generous or ennobling?
When romances were written, describ-
ing the virtues of almost impossible he
roes and heroism, they at least help up
n high standard of honor and fidelity
to the youth Of both sexes and it is a
question whether the caustic satire
which exposes the obliquities of human
nature in the novel of the period has
not a reverse influence on the present
generation.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-21
Chief characteristics Of Yellow Fever.

Concerning the yellow fever that is
now on its way north, New Orleans
correspondent gives the following as
some Of its chief characteristics:
About the fourth or fifth day the eyes
turn yellow. The skin also assumes a
yellowness like that Of a bruise, or a
bright jaundice yellow. However, the
patient does not turn yellow in more
than one case in six. AS to the causes
OF the scourge, the old atmospheric the
DRY has gone by the board, and the best
writer's now seem to have settled down
to the belief that the poison is of ami
malcular origin-these animalcules
generating and spreading over surfaces
like grasshoppers or caterpillers, and be-
ing introduced into the human blood.
If they exist, the most powerful micro
scope has hitherto been unable to dis
cover them. One fact that seems to
point to their existence is that the same
extremes of heat and cold that kill 9TH
er insects also kills yellow fever, whose
contaglon cannot exist and becomes in
nocuous at 32' and 212o. Yellow fever
is always killed out after good freeze.
Yellow fever never spreads above 600
feet above the sea level. Acclimatza.
ton does not prevent, and no person has
a second attack. The period ofincuba-
ton is generally nine to four days,
though persons have been known to
carry it in their system twenty-three
days and then take it. Without treat
ment, seventy-fve out of every hundred
will die. With treatment and good
nursing, however, about one in three is
the average mortality. In the great ep.
idemic of 1867, in some Texas towns,
one-half died who took the fever. AS to
the cure, no remedy has yet been found,
and all treatment so far, even by the
best physicians, is as empirical as the
causes of yellow fever are unknown be-
yond conjecture.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-21
LOye.Making in Portugal.
Norristown Herald.

The mode of making love in Portugal
is very simple-but it lacks energy and
the true inwardness of the American
article. The Portugal young man pays
his address by simply standing in front
of the house occupied by the object of
his affection, while the young lady looks
down approvingly from an upper win
dow, and that's all there is of it. No
gum-drops, no measuring of waists with
arms, no peanuts, no gazing into the
liquid depths of love-melting eyes, no
and-so-forth. 1t is great saving ofthe
old mans gas and fuel, but on a cold
night the young man is liable to have
his Gears frozen, unless he carries
stove in his coat-tail pocket. These
silent courtships, we are told, some
times continue for very long periods be-
fore the lover can ask tho important
question or the lady return the final
answer. There is: big room for i'm
provement in the matter of Portugal
lovemaking.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-21

!, Get. 0rGnt having asserted that the
great light abcve the clouds at Lookout
was mere romance, no such battle hav-
ing been fought Gen. Hooker, the hero
OF the affair, was captured at Saratoga
and compelled to own up:
"Gen. Hooker-{Rubbing lis fore
head with his left hand Lookout
Mountain? Lookout - Lookout -
think l have heard the name before
but not in connection with any bat.
tie.
Interviewer-This was in 1858, gen.
eral, toward the last of the war, when
Gen. Grant
"Gen. Hooker-War? What war?
Interviewer--War of the rebellion,
general.
Gen. Hooker-Never heard of it.
"Interviewer-Why. the war between
the government and the confederates.
And this was at Chattanooga, lust
after you and Sherman Joined Gen.
Grant"
"Gen. Hooker-Gen. Grant, I think
1 have heard of the gentleman, bu,
nothing authentic. There we're some
little Misunderstanding abroad in the
land, young man, along in 1923; but
there was no fighting, no fighting, moth.
ing to speak Of, The stories about those
battles were all concocted by the news
paper correspondents. There was, in
fact, no war, and all these romances OF
Greeley's and Headley's and the rest
were gotten up to sell. Have heard
something about one Gen. Grant but
he is doubtless a myth like the old
story of Captain John Smith and Poca-
hOntas. EGFIf
7" Then you deny the story about the
battle of Lookout Mountain"
"Gen. Hooker-It was all a hoax.
There was no battle Of Mission Ridge,
and the existence of Chattanooga even
is in doubt. All these stories and the
so-called histories concering Thomas,
Sheridan, Sherman and Grant at Mis-.
sion Ridge are nothing but pretty fables.
As to the storming of Lookout Noun
tain, | assure you, sir, there is no such
place. ! was never there and know
nothing about any such event"