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The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1885-04-02
Ships' Anchors and Chains.

Several large plies Of rusty iron anchor
chins filling the sidewalk in front of a
shipsmithing shop near South street,
New York, caused O .NaA ami Ermess re-
porter to step within the building and
ask how many pounds of iron vessel
usually carries as part of its outfit.
MANY vessels" said the proprietor,
whose shop is che Of the oldest in the
city, "carry as many as $4,000 pounds
each. TO a landsman this naturally
seems pretty big load in itself, but it
forms an essential part OF ships make
up. OF this 81, 900 pounds are usually
in chains and 1000 pounds in anchors.
The Henry B. Hyde, large ship built
in Maine, carries two anchors, one of
which weighs 1000 pounds and the
other G,OOO pounds. Every vessel, as
well as steamship, is obliged to carry five
anchors, a spare one and two stream
anchors beside the one in regular use.
Our largest anchors weigh 5000 pounds
each, while we have them as light as
twenty five pounds. Some Of the largest
chains are composed of links the iron Of
which is two and half inches in d.
ametern
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1885-04-02
HOmachOl6 Hiut7.

A few drops of ammonia in basinful
of water is much better than soap for the
toilet.
Sweet milk, used before the article is
washed, will almost infallibly remove
ink stains.
Never put blueing in babies clothes
which come next to the skin, as it causes
painful chafng.
The worn out cover of an old silk
umbrella makes an excellent dust cloth
for fine furniture.
A few oyster shells, mixed with the
coal used for furnace or large stove,
will effectually prevent the accumulation
of clinkcrs.
The best way of using old crewel and
silk embroidered chair backs is to tie
them in q loose knot in the center and
fastcn them on the tops of the chairs.
Put few oyster shells in the CRATE
while the fire is burning, and the clinkers
will at once become looscned. and may
be readily removed without injuring the
lining.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1885-04-02
A Feminine William Tell.

Miss Lillian F. Smith, the phenomenal
rife shot, is plump little maiden of
thirteen years. She is about five feet in
height and sturdy in build. Her face is
remarkably pleasant, round and smiling,
and lightened up with a pair of twink
ling, deep gray eyes. Size gives one
the impression that she is frolicsome
lass, who would never willingly or know
ingly hurt living creature, rather than
a young woman who has killed wild
cats, squirrels, cotton tail, and jack rab-
bits by the score, and quails, red-heads,
mallards and young ducks by the thou
sand. At an early age Miss Lillian dis
played a remarkable propensity to kill all
that came within herreach. and at seven
years OF age she manufactured for her
self bow gun, with which she slaugh-
tered all the little birds about the house.
Chow did you come to be shot9"
asked q Chronicle reporter of her the
other day.
81 really don't know. 1t came natu
raj to me. / have a brother who is rather
good pigeon shot. Perhaps that in
duced me to emulate him, and that may
be tho reason. Oh, no, I never have
been out of this State. I was born up
in Colevillc, Mono county, and when l
was quite small we moved down to the
San Joaquin valley. That is where |
actually commenced shooting. No, l
am not wing shot and don't like to
shoot, because am afraid it will injure
my rifle shooting. though, of course, l
sometimes shoot at pigeons, as I did the
other day at Birds Point. You know l
made somewhat of o good score in Sac.
ramento last October at the Agricultural
park. I smashed ninety-four clay pig
cons out of 100. They were sprung from
the fourth notch"
"Havc you tried to get up any
matchesl"
"Haven't I2' answered the ambitious
shot, with lively emphasis. Il have
challenged everybody, Carver, Bogardus
and the rest of them, and they won't
take any notice OF girl. declare its
too bad. | have not tried 10 get up
match in town. Your paper said l was
anxious to arrange match with Jacoby;
but Jacoby won't shoot. No one
will" and the appearance of something
like q pout was plainly visible on the
disappointed face.-!San Frcncisco Chron.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1885-04-02
A Man to Whom all Eggs arc Bad.

There is gentleman living in Hamil'
ton to whose system egg is poison. A
sip of coffee settled with egg unsettlcs
his stomach and makes him sick. The
presence Of egg in anything he eats nau'
scates him and less than the twentieth
part of one egg has made him sick Iol
days. TO handle broken eggs blisteis
his fingers and to cat single egg he
thinks would kill him, and his friends
who have noticed closely the effect egg:
have on his system agree with him. His
is constitutional antipathy to egg, and
he would decide in favor of the arsenic
if forced to decide between an equal
quantity of it or egg. He is e man Of
robust constitution and his case is most
singular. -1dtlaata Constitution.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1885-04-02
wall Pockets OF Fal.g.

A somewhat novel fashion for utilizing
the Japanese fans for decoration is to
trim them up to serve as pockets or bags
to hang against wall, and they are
really ornamental if we'll done. The leaf
of the fan is first covered over smoothly
with plain piece of the material select
ed for the pocket, then a larger piece is
cut to allow of the necessary fullness of
the front of the pocket; in this cord is
run, or three gathering threads, a head
ing being both at the top and bottom,
the threads being lastly drawn up, and
the piece sewed on to the front
of the fan. The material may be
embroidered or painted, if the worker
likes, but if this is done it should be
afterward stiffened over cardboard that
the pattern may be seen; in this case
there will be no fullness, but it will be
cut out to shape. Yet another plan is
to box-plait the material, leaving head
ings OF the top and bottom as before.
Soft balls of silk are fastened at intervals
round the bottom edge, and are much
prettier than ball fringe. -CasssNs Fam
ely Magazine.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1885-04-02
Rcvnro OF Him.

Farmers--good, honest souls-are the
special prey Of the sharper and confidence
man. Their belief in anything that pre-
tends to be scientific is unbounded. Any
thing, therefore, that relates to fertil-
izers and analysis of soils is very apt to
be favorably considered BY them. But
in this respect the greatest caution should
be observed. The fruit-tree peddler and
the hghtning-rod men may be received
as friends with open hearts, but when
the patent-manure man comes around
as he does and will-he should be re-
ceived with suspicion and GOODNESS, if
not warned off peremptorily; and this
because he is most dangerous frand.
His cheat is not discovered ana it's ef-
fects are always to be explained away.
A common crab purchased for Bald
win or q choice russet speaks for itself
and bears its own sins; but the paten.
manure formula for which five dollars
has been paid is buried In the soil, and
its failure can never be identified. 1t
may be suspected, but can never be
proved. But the experiment stations
have taken hold of this manure fraud
and have exposed the worthlessness of
his formulas, and farmers should have
nothing to do with him.-Neso York
Times,
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1885-04-02
The First DAYS OF Stockings.

There were no manufactured stock
ings in the days of Lady Macbeth. A
strip Of cloth or woolcn stuff was wrap
ped around the feet and up to the knees,
and held in place by strings or straps,
laced like our shocstrings. Actors OF a
generation ago always wore such leg
gings when personating Macbeth. A
remnant OF these old improvised stock
ings may be observed upon the feet of
newly arrived Cinnamon. The first
manufactured stockings of the ancients
were of coarse material and clumsy fab
rication. The first silk stockings known
in England were knitted by q lady of the
court of Queen Elizabeth for her majesty,
who was so delighted with their softness
and hexibility that she kept the donor
knitting silk stockings as long as the
august legs needed worldly covering
.Nep York. World.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1885-04-02
Diet for tho Sick.

DRINK IN CASES OF DIARRHGA.-A
coffee. cup full of Drowned, coarse corn
meal, boiled in sufficient water to make
it as strong as coffee. Drink as warm as
possible.
CRACKER PANADA.-Soak a cream
cracker in q pint of water until it has
absorbed almost the entire quantity.
Sprinkle cinnamon and little sugar over
the top. then pour over the whole two
tablcspoonfu's of wine or other liquor.
CURRANT JELLY.-Like ice cream, the
ordinary currant jelly is too sweet for in
valids, but this recipe may please any
invalid: One pint currant juice, one and
q half pints cold water, one tablespoon
full sugar, one lemon Guice only, one
tablespoonful Cox's gelatine. Pour a
half pint of boiling water on the gela-
tine to dissolve it. Add the other in
gradients and set on the ice to freeze.
WHITE CUsTARD.-Separate the yolks
and whites of three eggs; use the whites
only. Take also one-fourth teaspoonful
of salt, two tablespoonfuls ofsugar. Give
light grating of nutmeg, then one pint
rich milk. Beat sugar, whites, salt and
nutmeg; then add little milk, and beat
thoroughly; then add the rest of the
milk. Bake in cups, set in pan of
water. When firm in the center, put on
the ice to cool.
Ice CREAM FOR INyALIDs.-As ice
cream is sold in the stores it is too sweet
for an invalid's palate, so we give re-
cipc for making it 'just right" One
cup of milk, one teaspoonful arrow root,
one pint cream (not very thick), half cup
of sugar, half tcaspoonful essence Ito
suit taste). Boil the milk until it begins
to skin, then add dissolved arrowroot.
Boil few minutes longer and set aside
to cool; when cold add the other in
gradients and freeze.
GELAr1NE.-I buy the domestic gela-
tine in sheets from the druggist. To
make small quantity for n 'honne
bouche" for an invalid, I take three
sheets, or one ounce. dissolve in one
pint of warm water. When it is thor
oughly dissolved l bring it to boil,
adding one-half cup of sugar, the juice
of lemon, and the white of an egg.
Beat it we'll and put on ice. Remember
tablespoonful served in dainty dish
may persuade your patient to ask for
more: but bowlfull will never accom-
plish that purpose. The eyes of invalids
sometimes seem to act as stomachs to
digest before the mouth receives.
REMEMBER.-Wheni invalids are con-
valescing they are more particular about
the minutIe of their diet than when
we'll. Always serve as small a quantity
US possible ut once. Let everything be
neat and clean on the tray. Do not spill
the tea in the saucer ror fill the Cruel
bowl more than one-half full. When
you make toast always roll it on your
bread board with the rolling-pin, to
crush the crust; then put it on hot
plate in the oven for q minute; cover
with another hot plate and serve. If
you serve boiled eggs in the shells and
wish to keep them from cooking hard
after they have boiled three minutes,
Just take the buck of the bowl Of tea
spoon and crack one end little, to stop
the cooking process. .-Mrs. Emma Brant,
IN Health and Home.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1885-04-02
passementories, corded and chenille or.

passementeries, corded and chenille or.
naments and lace.
The fashionable buttons are either coin
or bullet shape, made of dull vegetable
ivory to match any shade. Z:
The gilt-embroidered surahs for even.
ing dresses are beautiful in cream white,
pink, pale blue or layendar.
scallops are liked on the lower edge
of plain or full tabliers, and rest upon a
narrow protective plating.
A closely-woven fabric is called trico-
tine satin. 1t has the slight ribbed ef-
feet familiar in jersey cloths.
A fringe OF delicate, pendulous flowers
is worn around aprons, panniers and low
neck bodices of full dress toilets.
Brown, gray, black and blue promise
to be used for dressy wraps, trimmed
with lace, passemsnterie and feathers.
A pretty skirt is make of gros.grain
silk laid in wide kilt plaits, pointed on
the lower edge and falling over lace
ruffle.
For evening dresses no color is more
popular than q peculiar shade of blue
which Parisians style bLeu de ciel (sky-
blue).
Embroidery of all sorts seems to be
running wild. An exaggerated soutache
braid, fully quarter of an inch wide, is
among the novelties.
Among the prettiest and most artistic
of the new woollen costumes are those
which are embroidered in chenille shaded
in several colors of the wool.
For elaborate spring toilettes second
skirts of woollen lace are worn over silk
skirt of different color. The lace Sec
ond skirt is mounted on o short round
skirt of silk, plain on the front and trim
med at the bottom with several ruffles,
the lace skirt reaching to the first of
them. 1885,.
Ribbons are much wider than any
used of late. The gauze ribbons striped
with velvet or dotted with chenille are
the novelties for summer bonnets. while
for trimming spring hats and bonnets
there arc many plaid and striped ribbons
of soft silk and etamine, through which
threads of silk. and dull gold are drawn.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1885-04-02
FOR FEMININE READERS.
q word 70 the Ladies.

Jane Eyre says: "iknow that if wom-
en- wish to escape the stigma of hus-
band-seeking they must act and look
like marble or clay-cold, expressionless,
bloodless; for every appearance of feel.
ing, of Joy, sorrow, friendliness, antipa-
thy, admiration, disgust, are alike con-
strued by the world into an attempt to
hook husband. Never mind! we'll
meaning women have their own con-
sciences to comfort them after all. Do
not, therefore, be too much afraid of
showing yourself as you are, affectionate
and good-hearted; donot harshly repress
sentiments and feelings excellent in
themselves because you fear that some
puppy may fancy that you are letting
them come out to fascinate him; do not
condemn yourself to live only by halves
because if you showed too much anima-
tion some pragmatical thing in breeches
might take it into his pate to imagine
that you designed to devote your life to
his inanity."
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1885-04-02
Fashion Notes.

Hats and bonncts are faced with bri ght
red, golden brown or black.
The hair is worn higher and higher on
the head from week to o'wcek.
Draperies raised will, tabs or roscttcs
of large blossms are much in vogue.
The latest cut pompadour neck is
much wider than the one formerly worn.
Pearl bead embroideries and friuges
make the decorative parts of many ball
toilets.
The cashmere brooches brought on this
spring arc among the prctticst goods OF
the season.
All repped silks arc in favor, especi-
ally what is called gros faille with fiat
tened reps.
Watercd silk is again in vogue as q
combination with cashmere and camel's
hair fabrics.
Tho trimmings for black silk are fat
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1885-04-02
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
!, Eacts worth remembering.

It is worth while for all farmers, every
where, to remember that thorough cul-
ture is better than three mortgages on
their farms.
That all offensive war against weeds is
FIVE times less expensive than a defen-
sive one.
That good fences always pays better
than lawsuits with neighbors.
That hay is good deal cheaper made
in the summer than bought in the win
ter.
That horse who lays his ears back
and looks Lightning when anyone ap-
proaches him, is vicious. Don't buy
him.
That scrimping the feed of fattening
hogs is waste Of grain.
That over-fed fowls won't lay eggs.
That educating children is money
loaned at a hundred per cent.
That one evening spent at home in
study is more profitable than ten in
lounging about country taverns.
That it is the duty of every farmer to
take some good, reliable agricultural
paper, and pay for it promptly.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1885-04-02
A Venetian wedding Day.

A Venetian festival is synonym o.
all that is magnificent and romantic.
From the earliest history the fetes have
been events of tile greatest popular in.
terest and importance. They have been
celebrated most frequently to pcrpetuatc
the memory of some triumph of the Venc-
ton army, and tie patriotism of the peo-
pie has been kept alive by these fetes
quite as much as by the consciousness of
commercial Importance and power. For
centuries the Marian festivals were the
most important holidays Of the year. 1t
was custom introduced early in the
tenth century to select from the different
parishes Of the city twelve poor maidens,
distinguished for virtue and beauty, who
were provided with dowry at the cost
of the State, and fitted out with wedding
trousseaus from the treasury Of St. Mark.
The girls were dressed in long robes of
white, with loosened hair interviewer
with threads of gold, and in arich barge
were carried to the church of St. Peter,
followed by cortege of gayly decorated
gondolas, with music and singing, the
doge and signory accompanying the pro-
cession. Each maiden bore in her hand
9 small box containing her dowry, and
met her appointed husband in the
church. Mass was celebrated, and
the bishop ofticiated in the marriage
ceremonies. This was the beginning Of
the fete, which lasted whole week.
With the growth OF luxury and laxity OF
morals the festival lost its original char
acter, and it became necessary to limit
its observance, and during the Genovese
war, in the fourteenth century, the Gel
ebration was neglected and fell into dis
use. An incident which happened in
the tenth century during the observance
of this festival has long been 4 favorite
theme of artists and poets, and illus
trates too we'll the spirit of the day and
the isolation of the new republic to be
omitted here. The Trieste pirates long
watched an opportunity to rob the festal
barge of its treasures, both human and
monetary, and one fine morning of st:
Maly's eve they burst open the doors of
the church. surprised the congregation
and escaped with the brides and the
treasures. The dogc, who was present,
urged immediate pursuit. Every boat
capable of carrying rowers was manned
and put to sea in the greatest haste.
Venice rose as one man to join in the
pursuit of the pirates. and TO assist in
the recovery Of the brides. The cnthu-
siasm of the Eenetians was so Irresistible
that the pirates were overtakcn and
beaten in one Of the entrances to the la
COON. Not pirate escaped, such was
the fury of the pursuers. The brides
were recovered entirely uuharmed, and
the ceremony of marriage took place
with increased pomp the same evening.
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0piates.

The first indulgence is IN some sense
legitimate; is almost enforced, either by
acute pain or chronic insomnia. The
latter is perhaps the most dangerous.
The pain, if it last for weeks forces re-
course to the doctor before the habit has
become incurable. Sleeplessness is more
persistent, and to most people much less
alarming thing; and it is, moreover, one
with which the doctors can seldom deal
save through the very agents of mis-
chief. Neuralgia, relieved for time by
chloroform or morphia, may be cured
by quinine; sleeplessness admits
ofs hardly any cure but such
complete change of life as is rarely pos
sibc. at least to its working
victims. And the narcotist habit once
formed, neither pain nor sleeplessness is
all that its remuneration would involve.
The drunkard, it must be remembered,
gets drunk, as arule, but occasionally.
Save in the last stages of dipsomania, he
can do. if not without drink, yet with
out Intoxicating quantities of drink, for
days together. The narcotist who at
tempts TO 60 for whole day without
his accustomed dose suffers in twenty
four hours far more cruelty than the
drunkard deprived of alcohol in as
many days. The effect upon the stom-
ach and other organs, upon the nerves as
we'll as the brain, is one of indscribable,
unspeakable discomfort amounting to
torture; q disorder of the digestive
system moro. trying than sea sick
ness, c disorganization of the
nerves which after some hours of un-
speakable misery eliminates in convul-
sive twitchings, in mental and physical
distress, simply indescribable to those
who have not felt it. Where attempts
have been made forcibly and suddenly to
withhold the accustomed sedative they
have not infrequently ended in few
days in madness or death. In other cases
the victim has sought and obtained relief
by efforts or through hardships which, in
his or her best days, would have seemed
impossible or unendurable. One woman
thus restrained escaped in deshabille
from her bedroom on winter night of
Arctic severity; ran for miles through the
snow, and was fortunate enough to find
a chemist who knew something of the
fearful effect of such privation and
had the good sense and courage to
give in adequate quantity the poison that
had now become, the first necessary of
life. In word, narcotics, one and all,
are, to those who have once fallen under
their power, tyrants whose hold can
hardly ever be shaken off which punish
rebellion with the rack. and with all
those devices of torture which medieval
and ecclesiastical cruelty found even
more terrible than the rack itself; while
the most absolute submission is rewarded
with sufferings only less unendurable
than the punishment of revolt. De
Quincey's dreams under the influence of
opium were to the torturcs of resistance
what the highest circle of purgatory may
be to the lowest pit of tho inferno
National Rerieu.
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The public should note the fact that
the only proprietary medicine on earth
that ever received the supreme award Of
Gold Medal at the great International
World Fairs, Industrial Expositions and
State Fairs, is st. Jacobs Oil. After the
most thorough and practical tests, in
hospitals and elsewhere, it has universally
triumphcd over all competitors, and been
proclaimed by Judges and Jurors, in
cluding eminent physicians, to be the
best pain-curing remedy in existence.
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A Vegetarian Argument.

Count Ferdinand DeLesseps, the pro-
iector of the Panama Canal, believes in
more bread and less meat. He says that
one pound OF dry wheat is worth more
than three pounds of wet beef. Scald a
pound of flour and you have gallon of
mush which could not be eaten in three
days. 1t takes eight pounds Of grain to
make a pound OF meat. One acre of
cereals in France will support five men
while it would take two acres to support
one steer, and in the end one man would
eat the steer. The steer is an unneces
sary tramp DcLesseps thinks it strange
that our Southern States have thrown
away barrels of cotton-seed oil while
buying unhealthy pork and lard
Health Aonthly.
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Life in Madeira.

A writer in the Medical Times describes
the island of Madeira as presenting the
curious anomaly Of country which is
destitute of any wheeled vehicle what
ever, fact due to the almost complete
absence of roads. People travel in ham
mocks, and, with three bearers only,
they may journey oil day with hardly q
halt. The highest temperature of the
island in 1885 was 90 degrees, and the
lowest 43 degrees the mean tempera-
ture of the months of the whole year
varied but twelve degrees. Thus, for
the winter months, it was G1, 60, GO
spring, G3. "a; summer, 6s, II, 70, and
autumn, 70, GO, Ga.
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thousands fastened to their Graves

BY relying on testimonials written N wv wv
glowing language Of some mracuiaus. Gus. cuto ~.
patent medicine has hastened thousands 70
their graves; the readers having almost IN
sane faith that the same miracle will be per-
formed on them, that these testimonials men a
tion, while the so called medicine is ill tns
time Fastening them to their graves. Al
thnnnh wa hnYa