The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-10-30

children to keep them from getting lost
in the high weeds that surround the
town.
Chicago's barking girl is put in the
shade by the at-Laby of Racine, Wis,
which news like cat in distress, has
claws instead of nails, mouth like that
of q cat, and an arm resembling cats
paw.
The emperor of Brazil has invited
eminent doctors from Europe to Rio
Janeiro to study on the spot the true
character of yellow fever. and discover
remedy for it. Several have accepted
the call.
The wonderful vitality of Loman Grit
GIN, who has lately died in Lodi, o.,
aged LOG, was shown by the fact that he
breathed several days after his limbs
we're lheless, althoug h he had not eaten
for week.
The official statement of the cotton
crop of America for the year 1S77-'78,
foots up as follows: Receipts Of all ports,
1884, 1870; overland movement, 295, 306;
Southern consumption, IA, 369; total
crop, 4,773,s 1865.
, During the year ending in May last
fifteen slave ships we're condemned on
the west coast of Africa. and sixty slaves
set at liberty. The traffic in slaves be-
! tween Mozambique and Madagascar
continues, although the queen of the
latter country has considerably dimin.
ished it.
Two men of st. Paul have patented
an express and postal car to be made OF
bullet. proof iron, fixed with brakes and
coupler that may be operated from the
inside, and with springs by which the
doors and windows may be instantly and
violently closed at the will of the in
mates. There are loopholes and various
other means of defence against train rob-
bers.
| James Il. Slater, the new United
! States senator from Oregon, is an old
settler, having gone thither when the
Territory was almost wilderness. He
is an Illinois man, fifty-two years Of age:
and lawyer of prominence for many
wears. he was member of the Terri
torial legislature, and subsequently OF the
State legislature, and in 1870 was elected
ITO Congress, serving one term. be
defines himself as Democrat opposed
to initiation, but in favor of substituting
grceubacks for national ban notes.
| An invention which merits notice has
just been introduced into parts of Ger
many. The invention consists OF milk
can, so arranged that the milk can be
poured ont to the last drop. but not
drop of water can be added to it. In the
ordinary tin lid, which is securely locked
with paddock after the can has been
! filled, is placed a brass valve, which
opens outwards. When the can iB
| tipped to let the milk out the valve
opens and the milk flows out; but, to
add water, the can must naturally be in
an upright position, when the valve
closes by it's own weight, and prevents
any wafer moving III.
! It is not strange that cholera RACES in
India, where cleanliness and hygiene are
seldom thought of. AS al instance Of
the general intelligence, s%Lall village
in the presidency OF Madras was lately
invaded by the scourge, and out of q
population of 100, tifty-six were attacked
and thirty-four died. Medicines were
sent to the place, and the messenger
who carried them found the natives
washing the clothes of the cholera
patients in a large well that supplied
drinking water for the town. Examples
of this sort are constantly occurring.
Ignorance slays many more than disease
does in every part of the East.
The grand canal of China, which is as
famous as the great wall of that country,
is to be abandoned. This waterway
was constructed by Kublai-Khan and
his successors of the Yuen race, and is
600 miles in length. There are 10000
hat-bottomed boats on the canal, and
these are used in the transportation of
grain. It costs an enormous amount
every year for repairs, tho appropria-
tions there, as elsewhere, not being en-
tirely devoted to the purpose for which
they are meant. Junks are delayed
every month while channels are being
dug for their passage. This year, for
the first time since the construction of
the canal, the grain from Nankin, with
the consent of the government, has been
forwarded by sea, anH this fact has i'm.
PEELED the Pekin authorities to consider
the expediency OF abandoning the canal
as commercial highway.
Vesuvius is at it again, after quie-
tude for six years. Outbreaks are few
and far between that next preceding
1872 was in 1856, which over whelmed
the village of Csrco.o, the stream of
lava flowing ten miles. Between 70 and
1850 only forty-nine serious eruptions
are believed to have occurred, and dur
ing the early part of this century the
crater had been 80 inactive as to justify
Sir Charles Coldstream's remark /:
"There's nothing in it." The summit
had become in appearance rocky sur
face, pierced by assures, whence vapors
escaped. In October, 1922, violent
eruption carried away more than 800
square feet, leaving vast chasm miles
in circumference. The eruption that
overwhelmed Pompeii was in 70. The
amount of matter eructed is enormous,
that sent forth in 1887 being over 49,
$50, 900 cubic feet.
Queue cutting in the San Francisco
prisons has been forbidden by an injunc-
ton during the trial of the lawsuit In
volving the legality of the practice. It
is now said that, contrary to general be-
lief, the preservation Of the queue has
no religious significance to Chinaman.
It was introduced into Cnina by tho
Tartar conquerors in the seventeenth
century, and it's adoption by the Chinese
was one of the conditions Of recovering
| common privileges and. social standing
! with the 7ictors. It is simply a barbario
fashion, and indicates that tho wearer is