The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-29

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Madrid music journal. &c professional
pianist became,a victim of the cholera
epidemic in Spain. One can easily I'M
derstand that soule piano playing
would scare off even the cholera.
European sugar reiners have lately
discovered in Central India a forest
tree which seems likely to come into
general use as a substitute for the cane
and the beet. 1t is called the Maheva,
and abounds in Southern Hindostan.
Its blossoms yield an immense amount
of juice. which is easily converted in
to sugar of an excellent quality.
In a paper on the rule of the road,
from a scientific standpoint, Sir George
Campbell. a member of the English
parliament, maintains that the most
natural and convenient method for all
right-handed people is to turn to the
left on meeting others in the road, as
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turning to the right, as we do in this
country. He opposes the proposition
to make a change in England.
There are seven sisters in New York
who possess COS inches Of raven hair,
and a statistician recently computed
that their combined hair, if placed in
single strands, would reach over 16O
miles. They put their hair in silk bags at
night to prevent it from tangling. The
father of these girls, Rev. Fletcher
Sutherland, has been pastor of Metho-
dist Episcopal churches in Geneseo,
Lyons and Lockport, n. Y, and is the
only survivor of President Buchanan's
inaugural dinner given at the Ma
tlonal Hotel in Washington, at which
some forty guests were poisoned.
The statistics laid before the
National Butter, Cheese and Egg AS
ISOLATION at its late meeting in Chicago
must have made its members feel that
they were something more important
than flies on the country's coach
wheel. It was asserted in those
statistics that the annual value of
dairy products in this country was
500 900 greater than that of the
entire wheat crop, and $3.50. 900, 900
greater than that of the cotton crop:
while the amount of capital interested
in COW was said to be greater by
$40, 10000 than that invested in bank
stocks.
According to the latest Official state
ment published by the authorities of
Russia, there are in that country not
less than 14.O03 square miles of oil
producing land, but of this vast terri
tory the field at Baku is the only one .
worked, and even this covers only the
limited space Of some three and one
half square miles. The output is
enormous, and TIE fact is stated by
one who witnessed the opening of a
we'll in that locality that a column of
oil spurted to u height of 100 feet,
carrying great stones with it. the flow
continuing until a large lake of petrc-
leum vas formed. The product is re-
fined on the spot, the residue being
used as fuel for steamers and rail-
ways.
In. the cotton mills of the United
States in 1870. there were employed
134,860 people, men, women, and chill
dren combined. The amount paid in
wages per head, on an average, was
s28S.1O for a years labor; or at the
rate of 81 cents per day for 313 days,
the number Of working days in the
year. In 1880 there were employed in
the cotton mills 1884 people, and
they received in wages for their years
labor $243.65, or $44.45 less than in
1870, or about 50 cents per day. Now,
If we allow for a 20 per cent of a
reduction in wages since 1880. it
would leave the average wages of
each operative 81 cents per day; while
the consumption Of cotton between
the two periods of 1870 and 1880 had
increased 40 per cent per head.