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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-01-08
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Fashion Notes.

Fashion Notes.
Mink sacques are again in vogue.
Tie French twist is on the decline.
The feather trade is on the increase.
Feathers OF all kinds are in demand.
Squirrel look is still the popular fur
lining.
Undressed kid gloves are worn on..all
occasions.
Sealskin sacques are still the favorite
fur wraps.
Chatelaine braids, worndownthe back,
are revived.
Mixed fancy feathers will be much
worn this winter.
It is no longer necessary for gloves to
match the costume.
Fur.lined garments bid fair to take
the lead this season.
Furriers recommend the skins of the
squirrel for fur Innings.
Seal sacques without borders are pre-
ferred by choice purchasers.
Buff or gold.colored kids are worn with
maroon or garnet costumes.
Sealskin sacques are from thirty.
three to forty inches in depth.
Black ostrich tips are again the lead.
ing full-dress feathers for either hats or
bonnets.
Feathers of the finer and more delicate
kinds are used to ornament opera hats
and coiffures.
Mink lining and bands form very
elegant wrap, with sicilienne or amure
for the outer covering.
Six buttons are de rigueur for dress
ing toilets, while the coat sleeves are
rather short and very tight.
Colored and white silk handkerchiefs
formed into diagonal bows are worn by
fashionable women as opera coiffures.
Elderly and sedate women prefer the
plain gray squirrel skins for cloak lin
ings to the white and gray locks and
backs.
One, two or three broad black ostrich
tips, held down by fiat, fancy, mixed
feather, form the dressiest OF all hat or
bonnet trimmings.
Long polonaises made last year and
slightly worn may be easily reiuvenated
by turning back the front corners and
fastening them below the waist with q
large bow.
Birds are fastened on some of the
new fans in such way that the bird
seems perched on one side when the fan
is folded, but lies in the middle when it
is opened.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-01-08

At recent sale of ostrich feathers in
South Africa, q pound OF that connodi.
ty brought $88S.76. 81
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-01-08

The house OF representatives in Mas
sachusetts contains among it's members
thirty-seven mechanics, thirty-si1 mer-
chants, thirty-three manufacturers,
twenty-nine lawyers aud twenty-seven
farmers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-01-08

The value OF property in the United
States has increased during the last
thirty years from $18, 600, 100000 to
$50, 600, 900, 900.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-01-08

Three colors-red, white and green
are used as signals by the railroads, and
engineers complain that in bright SUM-
light the red appears green. The Penn:
sylvania railroad company is thinking OF
making partial change.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-01-08

A lawsuit for small piece Of wood
land, which was claimed by both
branches Of family, has just been SET
tied at Ak, France, after lasting fifty.
six years. The loser had to pay the
winners costs, which amounted to
$4,000
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-01-08

A Louisiana newspaper reports that
there are now fifty cases OF leprosy in
Lafaurche, all originating from one per.
ss ,aAo, some twenty years ago, settled
G the lower part of Bayou Lafourche.
Legislative inquiry is asked for.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-01-08

A curiosity in typographical blunder-
ing is noted in connection with the ofti-
cial list OF awards made to British e1hi-
bitors at the Paris exposition, which
claims to have been "issued by order OF
His Royal Highness the Prince OF
Males I"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-01-08

The making of horse-hair rings and
chains by the convicts in the Kentucky
penitentiary has been prohibited, be
cause of the manner in which they levied
campaign assessments on the tails OF
horses driven into the yard, sometimes
seriously disAguring the animals.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-01-08

Prof. schiff, the great vivisector of
Florence, sacrifices on an average two
dogs day in the interests Of science. It
being reported that he had thus destroy
ed IA, 900 dogs in the last ten years, the
humane society has irterfered, and now
buy up all stray ours and puts them to
death painlessly.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-12
How the Errors Crept In.

Florence be Laigne, who recently
published some verses on '.Autumn' in
these columns, writes to ask: who is
responsible for the typographical errors
in the Haeokeye?" Lean down here,
Florence, while we whisper in your ear /:
''--sh; nobody is. The editor writes ST.
plainly that even blind man can spell
out his words; the compositors are col
lege men who have edited papers of their
own, and set up the matter exactly as it
is written and correct what mistakes the
editor makes; the proof reader is a pro-
fessor of rhetoric and philology in an
Iowa college, and never made mistake
in his life; and he corrects what few mis-
takes the compositors may make; the
foreman is Gottingen graduate, who
has nothing to do but see that the matter
is perfect when the forms go down. There
isn't a mistake in the H0uteye when it
reaches the press. But we'll tell you, as
professional secret, Florence, how the
mistakes creep in. The pressman told
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-12

frozen, for the third time the appari-
ton appeared to me. 1t stood close to
me, pointed to one of the levers, and
was gone again. | seized the one indi-
Gated, and pushed it down and held it,
just as the first wheels of the engine
touched the points where the rails
branched off.
There was jerk, shock, then the
train wound smoothly along the curve,
and, with shrill scream of triumph,
rushed on its way. had just time to
turn the points again, when the other
passed, scattering long train of sparks
behind it; then there was silence again,
and the lonely line and the moonl1t moor.
l stood moment like one in dream;
then, as I looked to right and left. after
the red lights Of the fast disappearing
trains, as I thought Of all those human
lives, each with its golden circle OF loves,
hopes, memories, joys, sorrows linked
with other golden circles, in that ever
lengthenlng chain of humanity which
reaches from earth to heaven, as I
thought of them all fathers, mothers,
lovers, children going to their way safe
and unconscious, and remembered what
might hive been, fell on my knees
under the stars, and thanked God from
my soul, while the tears poured down my
cheeks like rain.
Then rose and looked round. There
stood the little cabin in its tiny plot of
garden, It's door, as usual, sopen. I felt a
shuddering reluctance to enter: but, put
ting a strong censtraint upon myself,
crossed the lines, and approached the
door.
A lamp burned on the table. and there
with his back to me, sat Evan Wynne. A
book was open before him and he seemed
to have fallen asleep over it, for his head
was living on his folded arms. But before
I touched him, before I raised his head,
and turned his calm dead face to the
light, knew that he slept ''the sleep
which knows no waking"
Yes he was dead-struck down bv
heart disease in the prime of his lustY
manhood.
His body was not yet cold; probably
life had not left it more than quarter of
an hour or twenty minutes; perhaps
his spirit was summoned only a few
seconds n before e it first I: appeared to me:
There was an inquest, at which was
the only witness. The evidence 1 gave
amounted only to the fact that, calling
at the pointsman's cabin in the course Of
a night walk, I had found its inmate
dead. No accident having occurred on
the line, it was taken for granted that he
had lived long enough to set the points
for the 1915 express. I let the belief
pass uncontradicted, and until this day
have never told the story Of my sDesper-
ate Run"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-12
TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS

I shall never forget the uncomfortable
position that found myself in through
too free use of that unruly member, the
tongue. I was a young fellow then
clerk in London bank. My father was
an officer in the army, and he often told
US boys that setting each of us up in some
business or profession was all he could
ever do for us, for the scanty pittance he
would leave behind him must belong sole.
ly to my mother and sisters. But nv
brother and l were energetic and hopeful
So long as each day brought us enough
to satisfy our daily wants, we rocked lit
tie Of the future.
One bleak, cold January morning I was
greatly surprised on my arrival at the
bank to find my father pacing up and
down before the building. / was not
living at home just then, and his presence
there made me fear lest something was
wrong.
Philip" he began, care you in time9
Can you spare me three minutes?"
"Yes, sir" replied, :for a wonder,
see | am ten minutes earlier than need
be. What is the matter?"
"Do not look so startled" he said,
Nothing is wrong. You know Mr..
Fosberry?"
"Oh, you mean that half-cracked old
man who is awfully rich, and is my god
father as well as cousin thirty times re-
moved?" | asked
eyes, !" was the reply. well, last night
| received a letter from him, after years
OF silence, in which he asks after you."
And he read me the letter.
"What queer old boy!'' I exclaimed.
"What does he mean?" for / did not ex-
actly understand it.
"Mean," cried my father, excitedly,
snatching the letter from me, and crush
ing it in his pocket. "Why, to make YOU
his heir, Philip-his heirp'
"Whew!" said I, blushing; "that's a
good idea"
you must apply for leave to 60 off at
once," said my father. 'Strike while the
irons hot. It's splendid chance. Philip
splendid! Use it we'll, and your fortune
is made"
So thought, applied for leave, and set
of for the Paddington Station soon after,
with my ears ringing with legion of in
structions for pleasing old men, given me
by my fellow-clerks. The only one
could clearely remember was, to rise
whenever he came into the room, and
then eschew every comfortable armchair
for fear he should want it. I felt burst
ing with Importance, and actually treated
myself to a glass of hot whisky ana wa
ter at the refreshment room.
"Hello, William!' suddenly cried a
voice.
''Why, Jack, what brings you here2" l
replied, recognizing friend, John Evans.
II am going down to Gloucester" said
he. Where are you off to?
"Oh, to such luck!" I cried. am off
beyond Hereford, to humor an old gen
tleman."
"What?" said Jack.
"Come along, and I'll tell you all
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-12
Pioneer DAYS.

An ancient dame who settled in Indi-
ana sixty years ago-she it now ninety
four years old-recently gave cores
pondent of the Cincinnati Emo uSqer
few "reminiscences Of early life on the
frontier. She said: "We bad no win
dows to our house, and the door was
made of blanket which was hung over
the doorway. We had large fireplace
made of sticks, in which fire was always
kept burning. My babe was then three
months old.
''All we had to keep house with was a
small provision chest, bell-metal tea
kettle, a sugar-bowl, pewter plates, and
some cups and saucers.
"When we moved into our cabin we
had no beds, and my son, then 1our years
old, mad the whooping cough, felt that
it would be dangerous to place him on
the puncheon floor, so had my husband
make d hammock by suspending a Quilt
from the rafters by BEDFORD.
eve made table out of a walnut slab,
and then three stools, and our house
keeping outfit was complete.
"Well, as told you, my husband
started to mill and expected to be absent
a week. had brother living in Vim
cennes who had sent US word that he
would pay us visit, and Twas expecting
him.
''rhe second night after my husband
left | heard some hallooing down in the
bottoms, and felt certain that it was
my brother who had lost his way in the
darkness. [ Immediately answered the
cry, and was promptly responded to, and
continued to approach. set candle on
stump in the yard, and leaving my
little boy sitting in the door, advanced
toward the wood, calling to the approach
ing person to come to the light.
'You cannot imagine my fright at
hearing the yell between me and the
house, and on looking around discovered
a large panther pass between the light
and my boy. I gave scream and picked
up the candle, and dashed into the house
and lowered the quilt. / can't tell you
how long that night was, or the nights
which followed until the return of nv
husband.
Il had to bake my bread at neigh
bor's, and usually went over at night,
but never dared to go unless I carried a
lieoiduu LII my uduu. MANY Time I've
seen the flashing eyes of a panther, but
they never dared attack me on account
of the fire.
"When the neighbors went visiting in
those days, they took their teams and
guns and stayed week, the men hunt
ing, and the women quilting and helping
each otner at their domestic duties.
Chow did I make butter? Oh, easy
enough! I put the milk in gallon Jug
and shook it until it was churned. The
trouble sometimes was in getting the
butter out of the jug.
Il have frequently gone to mill alone
when had to swim the horses across the
river, the boat not being large enough to
carry them. l have often seen the WON
en- walk five miles on a visit and carry
babe. They would set the child straddle
of one of their hips, and putting their
arm around it, could carry large child
with ease. The men in those DAYS wore
bucksin trousers and went barefooted in
summer, while the children seldom had
shoes at all"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-12
FASHIONABLE HARDNESS.
Hoac the Latest Social Tendency Operate
an Nerad0.

HoaU the Latest Social Tendency Operate
an Nerad1.
Virginia (Nevada) Chroniclel
1t is now considered the height of fashion,
able flummery in this city to be among the
last arrivals at a social party given at private
residence. Last evening there was party of.
that description on north B street-which
didn't come off. A lady who desired to give
little entertainment made the usual prepara-
lions and invited a number of guests. She
illuminated the parlors and left the blinds
open, that the glare of gas might light the
weary traveller on the street This was her
grand mistake. About nine o'clock couple
came up to the house, and the Young lady
looking In the windows and seeing the parlors
empty, insisted on returning home as she
would not for all the world do such vulgar
thing as to enter house where there was not
big rOomful of people to look at her. The
two accordingly returned home. In few
minutes another couple reconnoitered the sit
uatlon from across the street and retired. One
after another the guests came up. viewed the
empty parlors and melted away in the dark
ness. There was no party, and the lady who
prepared the entertainment didn't know what
to make of such shabby treatment. This idea
OF trying to be the last one at an evening party
is growing to be so common on the ComstocI
that the time will come when an invitation to
a Friday evenings entertainment will mean.
Come as early possible on Saturday morn
ing"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-12
A LIVELY CORPSE.
The O'Shea's Deprived ofa Funeral.
Chicago Tribune1

lOASo5o
The first requisite to properly-conducted
funeral is to have the corpse on hand, and to
be sure it is the right one. For lack of the
latter precaution, a funeral which was to have
come off to-day at No. 224 Maxwell street has
been postponed Indefinitely, much to the salts
faction of the friends and relations, and to the
infinite chatting of the corpse by his boon
companions for failing to play out his part
in the Iugubrious drama. Sometime vester-
day morning one John O'Shea called upon
Undertaken Elton and told him he had received
a postal-card from the authorities of the Cook
county hospital stating that his brother,
Micheal O'Shea, had died during the night Of
dropsy. and asking for instructions as to what
should be done regarding his burial. Mr..
OShea-the very much alive but sorrow-strick-
en- one-requested Mr.. Elton to send over to
the Hospital, get the body, prepare it for the
grave, and bring it over to the family resi-
dence. This was all done. decently and in
order, and in the meantime the O'Sheas made
all the usual preparations for a funeral, and,
in this case, for the wake which was to precede
it and give it the proper eclat. The shroud was
ordered, the burial permit and physicians
certificate were obtained, the friends were
called in. pipes were lighted and certain stoups
of liquor found their way down eager throats
with the usual accompanying smacking of lips
and verbal praises of the ''crayture." Every
thing was ready but the form of the beloved
departed.
In the course of the afternoon that came-or
what was supposed to be the mortal remains
thereof. Tears there were, voices choked with
emotion, and-more Hbations. The corpse
neatly shaver, in plain but appropriation
casket, and Laid on the cold, cold bier" was
mysterlously exposed to view by removing the
cotfn-plate. The mourners gathered around.
expecting to see the the dead form of him
whom they had known in life. When the last
screw was removed and the lid taken off the
fond illusion was dispelled. ''H"wly Noses
yelled one OF the sorrowing ones in tones Of
mingled wrath and disgust. s'Holy Moses. and
do yes call that Michael O'Shea? Divil bit
Nv Mike OShea in that stiff" The sentiments
expressed by the remaining mourners were
wonderfully similar. The wake was at stop.
The corpse was taken back to the Hospital, the
brother and some of his friends accompanying
it, and then they wanted to know, you know,
how the - this was.' The upshot of it all
was that the other o Shea. the dropsical Michael
was found in one of the upper wards, alive
and with his cloths on, and very much aston
lshed at the news he received, and the subse-
quent chafngs to which he was exposed. The
queerest thing about it all was that none of the
Hospital folks knew who the dead man was. if
he wasn't O Shea, and the latter positively re-
fusedto be considered dead, or anything like
1T. 1t might be good scheme for the Hospital
authorities hererfter to label patients or brand
them, so that when found dead they can be
properly identified.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-12

the manager. and the manager told US;
it's the ink, Florence, it's the ink. We
pay out thousands and thousands of
dollars year for good ink, and we can't
get an article that won't fairly measle the
paper with typographical errors.--Bur-
Iingtoaa Haauheye.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-12
WINONA.
The Skip of Count-Committed-N
Buck Still Alive.

Buck Still Alive.
WINoNA, Mimi, Jan. ga man, who has
been working in the vicinity for some time as
a farm hand, and calling himself Count Leo
Won Frankenberg, came into this city last
week, aud, after borrowing considerable sums
of money on the strength of his noble name,
skipped out for parts unknown, on Saturday.
Baron Won Wimpful, of this city, one of his
victims, vouches for the rascal as real
count, and the son of colonel IN the Prussian
army. It is thought he went to Chicago
George Howard, recently shot through the
jaw in scufhe with the police of this city, has
been committed until the next term of court
on charge of stealing watch.
telegram, dated Boise City, Idaho, Jan. s,
says of District Attorney Norman Buck:
Physical condition BETTER but grave fears for
future mental condition.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-12
The Silver Lining.

There's never day so sunny
But little cloud appears;
There's never life so happy
But has had its time OF tears;
Yet the sun shines out the b lighter
When the stormy tempest clears
There's never a garden growing
With roses in every plot;
There's never heart Sc hardened
But 1t has one tender spot:
We have only to prune the border
To find the forSet-Ine-n net.
There's never Il cup so pleasant
But has bitter with the sweet;
There's never a path so rugged
That bears not TIE prints OF feet;
And we nave helper promised
For the trials we may meet
There's never a sun that rises
But we know twill set at night;
The tints that CLEAN in the morning,
At evening are just as bright;
And the hour that is the sweetest
Is between the dark and light.
There's never a dream that's happy
But the waking makes us sad;
There's never 4 dream Of sorrow
But the waking makes us glad;
We shall look some day with wonder
At the troubles we have had.
There's never 4 way so narrow
But the entrance is made straight;
There's always guide to point US
To the little wicket gate;;'
And the angels will be nearer
To a soul that is dcsolate.
There's never a heart so naughty
But will some day bow and kncel;
There's never Il ncart SO wounded
That the Saviour cannot heal;
There's many a lowly forehead
That is bearing the hidden seal.
There's never q Gay so sunny
But q little cloud appears;
There's never life so happy
But had its time Of tears;
Yet the sun shines out the brighter
When the stormy tempest clears.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-12

The American consul at Tangier writes that
the murderers of Jewish family have been
arrested and their punishment will deter
Others from similar crimes
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-12
Epigra1lls.

A pompous attorney, while trying cause,
Was quiZzing witness and looking for flaws,
The witness, who owed him personal
grudge,
Provoked him until he appealed to the
Judge.
81 demand, sir" he cried with fery-red face
"A little attention while trying this case,''
"YOur Honor" responded the meek little
"pm paying as little as any one can"
The Judge with a frown.
Looked solemnly down
On the squabble, and said, from the bench
where he sat,
"We want nothing but silence, and little Of
A widower Of sixty-fve, with countenance
Unto the marriage altar leads miss Of sweet
sixteen,
The priest steps down, in stole and gown,
with grave and solemn air,
And to the font, withouta word, he leads the
blushing pair,
"Why bring us here?'' the groom inquiries.
The sober priest replies,
81 thought that thee had brought to me this
infant to baptize."
Johnny Vanderburg married wealthy old
wife,
Who oft, in querulous tone,
Each day of their wearisome conjugal life,
Would remind him her wealth was her own
My money bought this, and my money
bought that
With my money you seem to besfree''-
Til Vanderburg cried, as he put on his hat,
Twas your money, my love, that bought
me-"
A close-fsted deacon III class-meeting rose:
He balanced himself onhis heels and his toes
He snuf1ed and said las he wiped up his tears
1--WE been church member for forty ode
years
To all O. the love. feasts an'meetin's I've went,
An all my religion hain't cost me a cent?
lhen' from dark corner, voice loud anc
Responded, "Amen! Your religion is cheap"
of all my reverses," a miser declared,
There is one where I've not lost a dollar,
tell you that many penny is spared
By reversinga soiled paper collar"
Said young Romeo Butts to Miss Claribe
Cults,
Asthey stood in parlor Respondent with
With Wearisome sigh, 80, I can not tel
why,
But somehow, I feel like fool here to-
Said Miss Claribel Cults to young Romeo
Butts,
With pitiless smile that she could moi
conceal,
YES, your face would betray, 1 am sure, what
you say,
For you certainly look all you say that you
feel"
Each Sabbath morn, through fields and woods
Old Silas Robinson would stray,
And mid the mountain solitudes.
Would while the sacred hours away,
One day, returning from stroll,
He met his pastor on the road
A dull, well'meaning, honestsou
AS ever in the world abode,
"Why stray from church ~ the pastor cried,
Because" old Robinson replied,
In grave and solemn tones,
II leave the sermons from the sticks
For sermons from the stones"
VIII
20, husband!" said Mrs. Ophelia McAunn,
AS she gazed at her willful and passionate
son.
Where that boy got his temper, Inever could
see;
I'm certain he never could take it from me. {,
mo doubt, my dear wife, your assertion is
true
never have missed any temper from YOU. .
-EugeneJ. Hall IN chicago Tribune