The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-09-22
TIMELY TOPICS,

We shall never know exactly OF VIVA
stuff dreams are made. NotWithstand
ing the unbelief of those who disclain
all superstition, strange cases of occul
telegraphy constantly come to the sur
face. That was q curious one brough
out by the death of Miss Faulkner, o
Chicago. Her aged mother lives il
Ottawa, Canada, and when asked by
correspondent if she had a daughter IL
Chicago, she burst into tears, saying
Tell me what is the matter. Idreamet
last night she was dead" On being in
formed that the dream had indeed beer
fulfilled, she wept distressingly. Cal
all the schools explain what pictured
the girl as dead in her mothers mint
when her body lay uncared for in 8
Chicago tenement house.
1.-The time that is saved be hurryins
to meals AID elsewhere comes out o
a mans life sooner or later" says q phil
osophic p~aragraphist. It is true, ye'
in spite of the knowledge the American
people 60 through life on the jump, ant
boast Of it Any town whose citizens
incline toward elaboration in theil
business is considered "dead." Only
the places where they all hurry and
splurge" are supposed to be "alive.'
The popular idea of being alive is being
in a hurry. That goes by the name oil
business, " though absurd haste would
be 8 more appropriate name for it.
There is no time saved by hurrying.
Whatever is gathered up in small guam
titles is clipped off at tho end of Life in q
solid piece.
/ Women and children are employed In
tolerably large numbers In the English
mines. Out of 8,795 persons engaged
above ground about the metalliferous
mines, 2,l93 are women and girls, and
in addition there are 81 males Of che
tender ages of between eight and thir-
teen. OF girls thirty:six are employed
between eight and thirteen years old,
thirty-two of whom are in the Cornwall
and Devon district. Of girls between
thirteen and eighteen years there are
employed 1872, Cornwall and Devon en-
ploying 645 and the North Wales dis
trict los, the only other largely-employ-
Ing district being that OF Ireland. where
twenty-seven are at work. OF girls
above eighteen years old, there are
1885 employed.
The London World made the startling
discovery that kleptemania was COM
mon in fashionable society, and that
thefts of jewelry, furs and wraps were
frequent in the ball rooms and cloak
rooms of the West End. Instances were.
given, names and places being sup
pressed. Truth followed in the same
strain. and told how a light.ingered
lady of title stole a sable cloak from a
ducal mansion; also how another lady
of title lost q diamond necklace. 1t was
said that these conveyances of property
could not have been inadvertant, seeing
that expensive overcoats, costly lace
shawls and other property were invari.
ably replaced by shabby articles. In
several cases the thieves were caught in
the act, but protesting error, were per-
mitted to 20 on restoring the plumber.
Time is now supplied to street clocks,
public offices, hotels and private dwell
lings in Paris, like gas n water, from a
central station, by means OF compressed
air conveyed through underground
pipes. At the central station there is
reservoir of compressed air, and for the
first twenty seconds of every minute, as
given by a standard timepiece, a current
Of the compressed air is allowed to flow
through the pipes to the receiving
By means of. a small bellows,
whic b is expanded by the transmitted
air, the works of these clocks are kept
going at q practical uniform rate. The
street mains are of wrought iron, about
i l.l6 inch in diameter, and these are
connected to service pipes of lead is inch
in diameter, while the different stories
of a building are supplied by rubber
tubes one-eight inch in diameter. Any
number of clocks can be actuated in this
way within q radius of two miles from
the central station.
The Massachusetts board OF health
that authorizations of staple gro
ceries are not as common as the public
have been led to suppose. For the pur.
pose Of test, the expert of the board
took samples of flour, sugar, bread, soda,
CREAM Oh LaTGaT, duu UdkIuS pOWueLss
obtained in stores in forty cities and
The -four was found. in all in
to be wholly free from all
substances, and, with the ex-
of one or two coarse varieties OF
sugar, no adulteration was per-
,eptible in that article; and in these
cases there was reason for
thinking that the defects were due to
Imperfections in the process of manu-
The soda examined, although
,old under a variety OF names, such as
,~aleratus, bicarbonate, supercarbonate,.
ind cooking soda, was all found to be
much the same article, and nearly all OF
t good. The poor soda wa that which
lad not been properly purified of the
rude soda ash, but this sulphate is not
INJURIOUS to health. Baking powders
we're found to be pure in twenty-tour
instances out of thirty-three. The
!dulteration consisted in an excess OF
lour or starch over that needed for mix
ng the soda and cream OF tartar. There
vas also some alum found. In cream OF
artar a considerable amount of adul-
wos detpcted.