The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-10-02
TIMELY TOPICS.
Flies totally disappeared from the dis
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tricts affected with yellow fever.
A Louisville young woman advertised
in the papers for an escort to a concer
and forty young men replied.
BY rolling it in a blanket soaked ir
hot mustard an apparently lifeless child
was resuscitated at Wethers6eld, Conn.,,
recently.
In England and Wales there are
68, ,538 persons Of unsound mind, an
increase of 1902 over last year. The
ratio to population is 27.57 to 10000.
The Prince of Wales in going next
year to Australia, China and Japan, and
Gen. Grant, at the same time, will visit
India, China and Japan, returning to
the United States By way Of California.
! The lady conductor of q well.known
English magazine recently cut out q
leaf from an entire edition of the period.
ical because novel running through
its pages contained q reference of q libel.
ous nature.
Statistics show that the actual con.
sumption of eggs in the United States is
about 10, 900, 900 barrels. The poultry
marketed or consumed in 1877 is esti-
mated at $50, 900, 900 pounds of the value
of $68, 100000.
Edison, the inventor, proposes to pros.
spect IN California for ore bodies by
means of electricity, and thinks he can
determine by the resistance TO the cur
rent the extent of any ore body, and also
determine it's relation.
It is noted by New Jersey nursery
dealer, as feather in the crest of the
sparrow, that whereas formerly he en-
ployed two boys all summer long in
keeping four acres Of rose-bushes clear
of the destructive slug, this season has
been wholly unnecessary since the
advent OF Inc sparrow.
Much litigation is likely to grow out
the mill explosion in Minneapolis. The
insurance companies refuse to pay the
whole damage, on the ground that they
are liable only for the actual loss by
fire; but the mill owners held that fire
caused the explosion, and that, there
fore, the entire loss was in consequence
of fire.
They have anovel mode of discovering
a criminal in Japan: The magistrates
of the village of Ava, being unable to
discover the author of a series of mys-
terious crimes, opened a poll, inviting
every citizen to name on his ballot the
person whom he thought guilty. One
notorious ne'er.do-well was elected as
the culprit by a great majority, and hav-
ing confessed his crime was promptly
executed.
At the Paris Exposition there is a
curiosity, made Of all the different kinds
of lace that could be used for the pur-
pose, is reproduction of the Cathedral
of Milan, structure of wood with every
spire, cupola and minaret covered first
with blue then with the different
"points :" selected. The stonework is
close crochet, which initiates carving,
the fret work is Irish, the rugged parts
are grained tape lace, and one is remind.
ed of Napoleon's curious remark: "Those
towers" he said, care as delicate as
Flemish point, and to this day look as If
taken out of box" W
That the electricity of the atmosphere
is as necessary to vegetation as sunlight,
air, and water has been established by
experiments made by M. Grandeau, Pro-
fessor of the French Ecole Forestiere.
In April, 1877, he took two tobacco
plants, each weighing 81 grammes and
having four leaves. They were both
planted in boxes containing mould OF
Identical quality, and placed side by
side in q position favorable to their
growth. But one of them had placed
over it cage, consisting of four rods
one metre fifty centimetres high, join
ed at the top and covered with wire
gauze, which permitted the free circula-
ton of air, light, and water, but COM
pletely protected the plant from the &C.
ton OF atmospheric electricity. They
we're left uninterfered with until the
middle of August, when the results OBJ
tanned were as follows: The plant in
the open air had attained height OF
three feet five inches, while the other
was only two feet four inches; the former
weighed 273 grammes and the latter l4O
grammes; when dried their respective
weights were thirty grammes and fifteen
and half grammes. Similar expert
ments made with maize and wheat gave
analogous results.