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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-21
John 3. Cough.

Mr.. Rcdpath, the lecture manager
said to a San Francisco Chro'l1cle re-
porter: IN point of universal popularity,
extending over more than generation,
John B. Cough is, without any ques.
ton, the king of the lyceum. He las
lectured oftcner, longer, and refused
more offers of engagements than any
other man who ever lived. His father
was Pcninsular soldier under Yelling
ton-stcrn and stubborn; his motllor
was q. woman of heart and of far more
than average intelligence. All the
schooling he ever got she gave him.
He still idolizes her memory. Cough
got none either of his great or lovable
traits from his father. John came over
when be was quite boy, worked on a
iarm in New York State, and then
learned the bookbinding trade in New
York city. He brought his mother
over, and she died here when they were
desperately poor. She was buried in
what was then the Potter's field. or
what is now Washington square: Once
drove down with Mr.. Cough through
the mean streets southwest of Washing.
ton square to hunt up the house. He
found it. 1t was still let out. every
room scpaS~-..ely, to Irish families, ex-
eept the attic rooms, where Cough had
lived with his mother They formed
one tenement. The woman told us that
Mr.. Cough, the great orator. had once
lived there. and she seemed flattered by
the call when she found out who her
visitor was. Cough went away sadder
than he carlc. 1t is one of the great
gricfs of his life that his mother did not
live to share his prosperity.
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Miss Sennett's Pet.

A singular instance of mental disease
was brought out in the New York city
courts not long ago. The complainant
was a Miss Sennett, who claimed that
the landlady at q clearinghouse where
she had lived had seized fol- non-pay-
ment of board a pet white rat that be-
longed to the plaintiff. In the course of
the testimony it came out that Miss
Sennett was addicted to the use of
morphia, taking this drug in such guam
titles as to be most of the time in q
partially insensible condition: With a
full knowledge of her condition the
boarding-house keeper had, in many
ways, imposed upon her, making her
pay exorbitant prices for the services
she received, until at last she was forced
by these extortions to quit the place, and
then q seizure was made of the white
rat in question. The rodent was greatly
prized on account of the aid he rendered
to the unfortunate woman in her system
of dissipation. It was her habit to in.
iect morphine into her arm every day by
q hypodermic needle, and the rat had
been trained to lick the wound, thus
producing peculiarly pleasing sensa-
ton. Miss Sennett succeeded in regain
ing her pet, though it is probable that
the legal decision in her favor will 60 q
long way toward ending her lite.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-21
Crying Over Split Milk.

There are some people 80 unfortunately
constituted that they can not as easily
appreciate the blessings that belong to
them as those which they have missed !;
who are perpetually groaning over
something lost, or denied, or wasted, to
the disparagcment of the goods the gods
have provided. IF n dish is broken or
garment rent, instead of quietly max
ing the best of it, since no amount of
chaing or crying will restore any in.
jured article to its pristine glory, they
recur again and again to the disaster,
till one might suppose nothing less than
convulsion of nature woulG demand
such hue and cry. A stolen purse is a
text on which infinite changes may be
rung among this class; and one Nigh
! believe that the loss of nights sleep
could be readily repaired by weeping
and gnashing of teeth, while the lament
ations of Jeremiah are weak compared
to the bewailing they make over a ruined
enterprise or tickle lover. With all
their bowling, they only succeed in pub
fishing their misfortunes to a world that
failures, and in annoying their friends,
without mending their estate or recover
ing the lover. .
"We have gains for all our losses, "
says the verse, but surely the gain is not
to be secured by making ourselves and
everybody about us miserable on &C.
count of our mishaps; the one who
bears with fortitude calamities which,
great or small, are beyond her control,
wins whatever advantage there is to be
derived from them, and makes adver-
sites, no less than prosperity, minister
to her development. If our friends dis
appoint g, bemoaning will not recon-
pense us3if; youth, the dream, de-
parts" deploring it will only hasten the
ravages of time; if moths corrupt our
furs, fretting will not act as an exter-
minator; though the early frost kills
our lavorite roots, "for violets dead, the
sweetest showers can ne'er make grow
again"
Although we are we'll aware that cry
ing over split milk is but so much
wasted time and energy, yet many of US
practice it with a total disregard of con:
sequences, which would be heroic if
used in a more unsel6sh cause. In the
meanwhile there is a sort of hopeless
pleasure in sorrowing over the split
milk, which, however blue or sour it
may have seemed when ours, becomes
all that milk should be the instant it
leaves our grasp. Blessings brighten
as they take their flight" and sometimes
it is only when we have lost thing
that we grow capable of estimating its
value, and discover how necessary it
was to our well-being. It is cold COM
fort. perhaps, but one which we are apt
to hug, to reflect with bitterness upon
what different aspect the world would
wear for us if certain pals of milk we
wot of had not miscarried; if Angelina
had married old Goldpill, instead of a
country parson; if Aunt Goodenough
had remembered us in her will instead
of the Feejee islanders; if the lover of
our youth had proposed in person, in
stead of trusting tender avowals to the
mercies of the postman.-Harper's
Bn-1r
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An Extraordinary Diver.

A good deal of curiosity has been ex-
cited in London by the extraordinary
exhibition of new diving process at
the Royal Polytechnic Institution. The
inventor is young Englishman named
Fleuss, twenty-elsht years of age, who
was formerly nm officer in the Peninsular
and Oriental Steamship Company's SER
vice. He is short, slight man of fair
complexion and pleasant appearance.
The popularity of his process is that
the diver takes down with him good
supply of air, and is quite independent
ofany supply from above, 80 that there
is no pumping required. and no help
needed except signal-maR and cord.
The dress in which Mr.. Fleuss desceEds
is like an ordinary divers dress, and
consists of a helmet and breastplate, and
the common water-sight armings and
leggings. He bears on his shoulders q
weight ofninety-six pounds, and his boots
are weighted to twenty pounds. at
depth OF twelve feet he moves comfort
ably in the water under this pressure.
From the helmet there proceeds a light
cord for signaling to the man above.
Before the helmet is fixed and the mask
closed, it is seen that the inventor wears
firmly tied over his mouth and nose an
orinasal mouthpiece. from which a
breathing tube OF an inch bore proceeds
downward. When he is on the floor OF
the tank in which tine exhibition takes
place, MFR. Fleuss moves about rs he
pleases, apparently, without any i'm
pediment. He can pick up coins, can
sit down, and can even lie down. He
breathes, he says, just as easily as when
he is in the air, and quite as freely.
The process by which the breathing is
effected remains a secret, but is, &C
cording to the inventor, extremely
simple. DR.. Benjamin Ward Rich
ardson, a well-known London ply
sician, who sends to Notnre Il long &C
count of his observations of the expert
ments, says that in whatever way Mr..
Fleuss gets breathing room under the
water, he has without doubt achieved
great practical success: He has some
method of getting rid of the product. OF
respiration, which would otherwise
suffocate him, and he is alb lie to live
long time shut off completel " from an
external access to the air. In some Of
the exhibitions. Mr.. Fltuss has remained
under water a full hour, and has showed
no signs of asphyxia on coming out of
the tank, and but little change from his
normal condition. DR.. Richardson sug-
gests that man who can carry his air
supply in his pockets could 90 into fire
as well as under water, provided he had
on q proper tireproof dress, and that the
new invention will be found specially
valuable in wells charged with foul ail ,
or in mines filled with fire-damp OF
choke-damp.
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The Staff of Life.

The pastry of the household may be
tough, the cake heavy, the puddings oi
inferior quality, and get the wheels OF
tie domestic machine move freely, so
lon as the bread is sweet and light and
unilnpeachable. No housekeeper in the
land but would blush over poor bak-
ing, and every savant's dearest ambi-
tion is to turn out good, honest loaves,
innocent of saleratus. In fact, great
emphasis has been laid upon tue quality
and manufacture of bread from early
times, when the whitest and finest was
called sinanel cakes, and was concocted
chiefly to please the 'palate of the rich
and high born, as we'll rs the wastel
bread, not quite so aristocratic; while
the tourle, or twisted loaf, and black
bread made from the coarsest portion of
the wheat, or from some inferior grain,
fell to the share of the poor. Nowadays
we have discovered that the coarse fare
furnishes more nutriment, and the rich
have adopted it and made it popular,
and who knows if the black bread of the
humble class is not responsible for the
fact that out of its ranks the greatest
minds have arisen, while the fine flour
of the wealthy has perhaps tended to-
ward effeminacy of muscle and brain
tissuee
The staff Of life seems to have been
more or less associated with religion in
the past; the simnel loaf not only bore
the image of Christ or the Virgin
stamped upon it, but it was formerly
the custom to keep bread baked on Good.
Friday through the year, and a handful
of its crumbs in water was considered a
remedy for certain diseases. Hot cross
buns are remisiscence of this period,
and the fashion of baking them is even
traced to the pagan rite of offering cakes
to the Queen of Heaven, while bread
baked on Christmas eve will never be-
come mouldy, we are told. We can
hardly conceive of an age when people
subsisted without this article of diet :;
but among the caravans of the African
deserts grain bruised between stones'and
mixed with milk or water is still in use
as the staff of life; and the Romans
formerly derided the Carthaginians as
pottage-eaters, unacquainted with the
art of brcad-making. In short, we find
that bread, Which we had deemed com.
monplacc enough, has its history and
its romance, has borne its part in poll
tics, has been legislated upon, has tig-
ured in riots and has even been baked
or burned-by king.-Harper's Baz0r.
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seriously injured, if not destroyed, by
the caustic powder of the lime. Wells
says: "If the patient is seen soon after
the accident, an effort should be made
at once to neutralize and wash out tho
lime by weak solution ofvinegar, with
free use of syringe. Afterward, cool
ing and anodyne lotions and general and
adopted"
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Longevity.

From the days of Pliny to our own we
have accounts Of persons living ten,
twenty, thirty and even forty, or more,
years beyond century. Though the
accuracy of the records is in such cases
open to doubt, yet there are ample rea-
sons for believing that many persons
have rounded out their full hundred
years of life.
Though life up to such an extreme age
NAV not seem particularly desirable, it
is, nevertheless, true that virtuous old
age-with the passions dead, the ambi-
tions seated and it's work all done, with
pleasant memories Of the past, calm and
hopeful anticipations of the future, and
quiet contentment of each day rs it
passes-may be full of rs real happiness
as any previous periods in the lives OF
men.
Men, now, generally die before their
time. Indeed, some scientists affirm
that, rs the normal limit of animal life
seems to be ut five times the years Of its
growth, man should live to an age, of
live times twenty years. With this
view, the last twenty is the proper
period of gradual decay-or old age.
The tendency to early decay. or to
more violent examinations of life, is
probably determined by the rate at
which vital force is expended. Persons
who use it UP faster than it is fully sup
piled, especially at the period when
much of it should he expended in build
ing up and consolidating the SYSTEM
cannot expect Il long lite. 1t may be
thus expended by vicious indulgence
habitual care, anxiety and fret, and by
overwork, whether Of the body or the
brain.
At the same time, it must be admitted
that longevity seems often to be simply
matter of Inheritance. One who be
longs to long-lived family will be likely
himself to be long-lived.
This, however, is not an exception tt
our previous statement. Such person!
start with vigorous lifc-force, which
easily renews itself after expenditure
And there is reason to believe that thos'
whose heredity is against them in thi
respect. may with care, become the frs
of a better line of posterity, thus largel.
restoring and transmitting the los
yigor inherited from indiscreet anccs
| +oro - Vo,,tb,o Hoo,ar,osa1on
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MY dear" said Il sentimental maiden
to her lover. "of what do these autum.
nal tints. this glowing baldric of tho
skies, this blazing garniture of the dying
year, remind you ?" Pancakes" he
promptly answered. And then she re.
allied for the tir,t time that two hearts
did not beat as one.-A1,areW' Bnzar.
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The Dial Of Time.

luo JJlu1 VI Almcs
Tick, tick, tick, the hand on the dial
Now points to the hour OF one;
The feeble wall OF an infant voice
P1oclaims life begun.
Tick, tick, tick; shy young maid
Sits dreaming in the eventide.
As she thinks of the manly giace Of him
Who late has lett her side.
Tick, tick, tick; life's noon is reached,
A fond sweet kissed is pressed
On the golden curls Of little child
That sleeps on mothers breast.
Tick, tick, tick; with noiseless tread
The years are SLIPPING awny;
Tho hair has lost its golden hue,
And its color is turned TO gray.
Tick, tick hut the hand stands still;
Sow comes the feeble breath;
Lies feeble fame at last goes out
In the gloomy night OF death.
~. II. Polk.
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Little Words" says tendcr-hca"tcd
philosopher, are the sweetest to hear" "
Oh, yes; "no.' for instance, when a
young man asks his girl if she likes him
we'll enough to marry hiln--Harkeys
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IS Hoe Your Own Row."

I think there are some 1naxims
Under the sun,
Scarce worth preservation,
But here, boys, is one,
SO sound and so simple,
IT'S worth willie to know,
And all in single line:
"Hoe your own row."
II you want to have riches,
And want to have friends,
Don't trample the means down
And look for the ends;
But always remember,
Wherever you 60,
The wisdom OF practicing
"Hoe your own row."
Don't just sit and pray
For increase of your store,
But work; who will help himself
Heaven helps more.
The weeds, while you're sleeping,
Will come up and grow,
And If you would have the
Full ear, you must hoe!
Nor will it do only
10 hoe out the weeds;
You must make your ground mellow,
And put in the seeds;
And when the young blade
Pushes through, You must know
There is nothing will strengthen
Its growth like the hoe!
There's no use OF saying,
What will be, will be;
Once try it, my lack-brain,
And see what you'll see!
Why, just small potatoes,
And few in a row;
You'd better take hold, then,
And honestly hoe.
A good many workers
I've known in my time
Some builders of houses,
Some builders OF rhyme;
And they that were prospered,
We're prospered, know,
By the intent and meaning of
"Hoe your own row."
I've known, too, good many
Idlers, who said,
"I've right to my living;
The world owes me bread.'
A right lazy lubber.
A thousand times, no!
lis his, and his only,
Who hoes his own row.
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,ottle. The hair should be wet with

Dolly Payne was Quaker, and a widow,
when She married James Madison, and
the daughter of Virginia planter. born
in North Carolina. Her mother kept
boardcrs while Congress sat in Philadel-
phia, and she helped her mother to keep
the establishment. Among these board
ers were Aaron Burr. then Senator
from New York, and James Madison, a
member of Congress from Virginia.
Dolly was very beautiful and accom-
plished, and when she married Madison
he was forty-three and she twenty-five.
Fashion Notes.
Shirring ornaments the front of many
handsome dresses.
Sealskin is much employed in Paris
for trimming mantles and Jackets.
The four-leaved clover in green
tinted gold is favorite design in jew
elry.
Point d'esprit, both black and white,
trims many fashionable belts and sash
ends.
Small silk handkerohiefs have borders
of Breton lace inserting and plated edg-
ings.
The latest caprice in belts and bags is
| for black velvet ones painted with sprays
of flowers.
Waists without sleeves are worn in
Paris. Large bracelets or velvet ribbons
clasped with jewels are placed above the
elbow.
An overdress ali in one piece, termed
the habit redingote, is fast growing in
favor. This is really polonaise made
long in the back and gracefully draped.
Among new hats for street is the
toque, which is worn not only as bon
net but as hat, according as it is with
or without strings.
Plush is favorite material, both for
bonnets and for jackets, vests and the
trimmings and facings of both silk and
cashmere costumes.
Light furs should only be worn by
blondes, and the fur borders to seal
cloaks and jackets should be of short
fleece if the wearers are inclined to en-
bonpoint.
Women's Dresses Seventy Years Ago.
A lady's dress in those days, says Mrs.
Prescott, an old resident of Troy, N. Y,
would only require six yards of cloth to
make it. Very low-neck dresses were
worn which would be scandalous in
these days, and the cnly evidence of a
sleeve was narrow puff of cloth ut the
shoulder to support the lower dress. To
make this shoulder piece puff out fash
ionably, feather pillow was worn un-
der them to give them the proper e1-
pansion. The arms were uncovered, as
was also the bosom. Dresses were made
short in the waist, the latter being about
IN eighth of yard long in front. The
constant exposure of the bust at that
time was not by anyone considered in
delicate. In cold weather heavy wraps
were worn outside of the house when
going to church, when visiting and
shopping. A dressmaker never received
in those days, when she went out to
sew, more that three shillings and six
pence per day. Mrs. Prescott relates
that when she was sixteen years oi age
she made her father pair Of trowsers.
Men sometimes wore what is known rs
garter trowsers, which were so cut and
sewed together that tile trowsers at the
ankles closed in and over the feet like
stockings. The feet when so covered
were encased in low, morocco slippers,
with pointed toes. Men with such trow
sers on were to be seen everywhere in
tho villope
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Never sit, stand or lie in a current OF
air when you are fatigued or very
warm. -,
A Frcnchman has discovered that the
sevcrcst attack Of neuralgia can be re-
licvcd by directing stream OF water
from force pump against the part nj
fcctcd.
Pressing on the artery that passes
along the undcrside of the right jaw
will stop nose bleeding.
The following is said to be an excel.
lent remedy for burns: One ounce of
pulverized borax, one quart of boiling
water, haitian ounce ofpulverized alum.
Shake up well and bottle. Wrap the
burn up in soft linen and keep con-
stantly wet with the solution. DO not
remove the linen until the burn is cured.
Tie evil effects of lime in the eye are
we'll known. plasterers and whitewash-
ers not unfrequently having their eyes
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-11
r. California Cold story.
Sonora Cali Independent, Jap- 70.


The most singular manner of being
struck with fortune in prospecting,
that we ever heard Of, occurred above
Spring GGlch on Sunday last. Mr..
Snow, late Of San- Francisco, now pros
peeting in the vicinity for other parties,
wa out on q quartz nunt With Dr.
Drake, of San Francisco. They were
returning home, it being stormy, when
Snow lwho was riding o horse belong
ing TO John Neale, o. the Spring Gdlch
rnine), along the trail was suddenly
missed by his COM panion. Shows
horse had slipped. of the bluff, and
down he went TO an angle oil 40 degrees,
horse, rider and Iife which he gripped
firmly in bis hand ,. rolling over and
over in tle snow, unIil he brought up
against a mass OF store standing up
out Of the. snog, its top covered with
moss. He was no! Gurt, as the
cold, soft cushion had saved his
bones from TIE hard ground beneath.
Sarambfing up against the rock, he
noticed that it was quartz lode, and
that where the horse had accidently
kicked off tine moss something
glittered, His eyes { bngged out, but
he did not stop 10 brush them off,
his hands were toe busy elawipg off
the moss. Darkness. coming on, he
had only time to break eff a few. speci-
mems, WHICH are filed with pnre ore.
One small piece exhibited "A town was
estimated to be threeG CHARTERS gold.
Tons Of it are apparently still awaiting
Its owner. Snow says thcyein Is about
thirty feet thick, and in his impulslve
generosity he gave away several shares
Lof his vein soon after. He told-us that
he "would not look at 81, COO for his
interest" 1t is, without doubt, the
richest mass of quartz ever discovered
ia this country, except the Divoli bo-