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

A village in Switzerland, more than
five thousand feet above the sea-level,
and surrounded on all sides by snow.
clad mountains. with a climate where
the thermometer oftea stands al
twenty degrees Fahrenheit in the day,
and below zero at night. does not
seem to be quite the right place fol
consumptive patients to winter in.
Yet, such is Davos. where, for many
seasons recently, doctors have been
senGing their patients with the best
results. These results are due to the
extreme dryness and purity of the
air, tie dryness removing catarrh OF
the bronchial tubes, and the absence
OF organic matter in the air prevent
Ing irritation and breaking-up of lung
tissue. Patients are recommended to
begin their stay in the place during
the Summer, so that the coming Au-
tumn may acclimatize them and ena-
bic them to bear the cold of Winter.
The place has plenty Of amusements,
and the only fear is that it may
become over-crowded, when its bene-
fits must surely disappear.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-29
Type-Writing.

The typewriter is generally sup
posed to he a machine of recent in
vention, but it really dates as far back
as TIA. One Henry Mill obtained in
that year in England a patent for a
device that would "write in printed
characters. one at a time and n
after the other" There is no de-
scription Of his device to be had now,
but it is no doubt true that Mills in
vention was the parent of the present
typewriter. The idea seems to have
lain dormant for over one hundred
years, when it was taken up again by
various inventors, who sought ut sun
dry times to embody it in "a machine
that would work satisfactorily, but
apparently without success until 1867,
When a firm in Milwaukee made a
type writer that was actually used.
To such perfection has the machine
been brought that even the most de-
tailed and intricate statements, con-
tanning column after column of
figures, a be readily made with it,
and in a neat and business-like form
that is impossible with the pen of the
average writer. Its use has opened a
field for women who have to earn their
living that lever existed before.
They are naturally expert and skillful
in using the fingers, and they readily
learn to use the typewriter with great
speed. n number of schools have
added it to their regular course, and
young men who learn to use it find it
far easier to obtain situations. Charles
Reade said Il advise parents to
have their boys and girls taught short
hand writing and writing The
shorthand writer who can type-write
his notes would be safer from poverty
than a great Greek scholar"
The speed with which an expert
operator can rattle off words and
sentences is wonderful to one who has
never tried to use the machine. The
fingers play with a swift and ceaseles
motion over the keys, accompanied by
the monotonous "rat-tat' of the ma
chine, and sheet after sheet of neatly
written manuscript is taken from the
roller, from two to three times as fast
as an average penman III produce it.
Few people write with a pen faster
than twenty or thirty words a minute;
an expert will bring out of the type
writer fifty to eighty words in a min
ute. What, then, must be the value
of a clerk who is an expert at both
shorth and and type writing Chicago
Times.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-29
Can't be Cremated.

You can't destroy q false set Of
teeth In the retort of a crematory,
says an expert. This I deem one vic
tory of art over nature. Our own
teeth we can reduce to ashes with Il 9
rest of the body, but false teeth and
gold plate hold their own. Silver.
plates OF any other substance used by
dentists will disappear, but 4.G0Ode-
grees Of heat have been turned on arti-
fetal teeth without destroying them,
and the gold riyets in the teeth after
that heat mas been applied will also
be found intact.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-29
Cattle on the Track.

d we try to avoid killing animals?
We do when it is possible" said an old
engineer. "But if it is impossible to
stop the train before reaching them it
is dangerous to lessen the speed, for
when a train is moving slowly a big,
healthy steer is sometimes enabled to
derail it. If 1 see l can't stop before
reaching the animal I pull the throttle
wide open and let her go. In going
around a curve one night eight miles
from Davenport, on the Rock Island,
l saw a steer standing on the track.
lie did not move, but looked straight
at the headlight. opened the throttle
and the next moment hit him. T felt
the jar. He was literally chopped to
pieces and the particles of flesh COW
cred the headlight, so that L could not
see until the next station was reached.
The engine was covered from the pilot
to the tender with blood and pieces of
flesh" a"tu rs
"The worst animal to encounter on
a railroad track" continued the engi-
neer, "is sheep. Even if they are on.
the outside of the fence they will vent
ure on the track when the first opening
is reached. And the one that takes the
lead is followed by all the rest. Hogs
make a bad mess. I hit a drove one
day while running fifty miles an hour.
Realizing I could not stop before
reaching them Ilet the engine have all
she could take. There was a slight
jar and a moment later the porkers,
were flying in every direction to the
sides of the track and over the engine.
AS the animals began falling the fire.
man sarcastically remarked. Pork is
coming down. That engine was the
bloodiest and dirtiest aver taken to a,
shop. They were two days cleaning
it."-Daoenport (Io.) Gazette.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-29
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.

An Indian and a Chinaman are part
ners in the stationery business in IA,
Nebraska town.
A foot-pound is a force which will
raise a pound n foot, and $4,000 of
these foot-pounds make one horse
power.
"A new industry has sprung up at.
New Orleans. Heads Of large fish are.
dried and sold for table and mantel
ornaments.
A pearl as large as a pigeon-egg was,
shown in Paris recently. There were
ia others in the bivalve from which.
it was taken.
Prof. BinZ finds that coffee is an alb
solute antidote to alcohol. if it be taken.
in a sufficient quantity. Dogs satur-
ated with caffeine could not be made.
drunk.
The divining rod is still believed in.
and used in solne parts of England.
""" ~ Aoso oeeA successfully
used a short time ago in finding water
on the premises of a brewer, where:
digging and boring had failed.
AN Italian astronomer declares that.
the planet Mars is peopled by intelli-
gent beings, who are trying to attract.
attention from jewellers on this planet.
he is now engaged in making expert
ments with a view to discover what
the messages mean.
Statistics show that dogs go mad no
ottener in dog days than at any other
time. If anything, the number of cases
IS somewhat greater 5 srring. The
bite of a rabid cat is mole surely fatal
than that Of a rabid dog. 1t is a mis-
AXE TO suppose that a rabid dog fears
or shuns water. In the early stages of
Inc disease it drinks freely. Later it
delights to seek the water and plunge
It's nose in, but is unable to swallow a
drop.
a joint or gimmal ring was ancient
~ a common token among lovers. It
was generally made Of two or three
hoops, 50 chased and engraved that,
when fastened together by a single
rivet, the whole three formed one de
sign; the usual device being a ring.
When an engagement was contracted,
the ring was taken apart, each spouse
taking one, and the third one being
presented to the principal witness of
the contract.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-29
ssHerr Professor.''

@Why don't you address the profes.
sion with mister" inquired a long
haired German Of an American friend
who had just greeted an acquaintance
with "Hello, Professorr' Now in my
country we always say Herr Frofes-
sor."
"Hair professor! well by joye. that
accounts for your professors being 30
well supplied with Ii "ArkonsGw,
Tydpezser.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-29

Gloucester fishermen from New
foundland aver that on several occa-
sions this season they saw a spectre
ship skurrying over the water. She
was Of strange build. her sails old and
not a soul to be seen on deck. Once
when about to strife a rock she sud-
denly disappeared from sight. They
were very much alarmed at the appar-
[ition.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-29

European sugar refners 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.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-29
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

According to the statement of a
Madrid music journal. 10 professional
pianist becamea victim of the cholera
epidemic in Spain. One can easily I'M
derstand that soule piano playing
would scare off even the cholera.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-29

DR.. Barthelemy of Paris is of opin-
ion that the symptoms of hydrophobia
in man are mainly due to the. magma
ton and the irritability of the patient.
He himself had introduced his finger
into the throat of a mad dog and drew
it out covered with frothy saliva; in
drying 1t he observed that he had y
slight excoriation on his finger. He
lightly cauterized it, but. ten days
after, he experienced q sense of con-
striction about the throat. He felt
alarmed; the difficulty of swallowing
increased until he could not drink
anything. and the Ugh Of water
caused spasms. The will, however,
was strongly exercised, and at the end
of three weeks the attack was mas
tered. This is not an unsupported
experience, there being at least one
other notable cure by sheer will
power. Will-power, by the way, has
also been successfully exerted to over
come the effects Ola yenomous reptiles
bite
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-06-27
An Experiment in PomoIogy.

Asa S. Curtis, of Stratford, has on
his homestead lot an apple tree of the
Rhode Island greening variety, upon
which he has been experimenting for
the last nine years. The tree, like
many Others of this specie, had formed
a habit of bearing every other year,
with no signs of blossoms or fruit in the
intervening year. In the spring of 1876
Mr.. Curtis began his experiment by
picking off all the blossom buds. The
next was an of-year, and no blossoms
appeared, but in 1878 the tree was
again filled with buds. Again the buds
were picked and again in 1879 the tree
showed its obstinacy by refusing to
blossom. In 1880. 1882 and 1884 full
blows were nipped in the bud by Mr..
Curtis, and in 1881 and 1888 the tree
showed no signs Of being conquered.
This year, however, the year when no
blossoms should have appeared, the tree
is completely covered with bloom buds.
and in weeks time a full blow will
reward Mr.. Curtis and prove his theory
that trees may be made to bear in the
of-year to be true. - Hartford Times.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-06-27
ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS.
How They Are Made, Where They Are
Made and Who Make Them.

HOW 1A6y are NAauSS NsACEO 4AGJ <AAO
Made and Who Make Them.
s|There are at least 1900 girls in this
city engaged in the manufacture of ar
tiicia1 flowers said large manufact-
urer yesterday. 'sMost of them are
French girls and the work is done in old
lofts up around the French quarter.
Few of these girls are of the type so IA
miliar to the novel-reader, the sweet
young thing with a hectic flush and a
consumptive cough, who is supporting
her three decrepit maiden aunts on the
pittance earned at the deadly trade.
Most of them are buxom damsels with
big feet and well-deVeloped tendency
to spend their wages on the adornment
of their persons. Still some parts of the
work do interfere with their breathing
machinery, I believe. New York fur
nishes about half the stock consumed in
this country, but only the cheaper va
rieties are manufactured here.
THE method is simply this: A hun
bred layers of prepared tinted silk are
laid one over the other and cut out by a
stamp into the desired shape. These
are then reunited, shaded ana put lnGo
the required shape by the girls. No.
there is no difference of taste exhibited
by different parts of the country. The
best people in every section want the
best goods, though the South is rather
slig hit buyer, and prefers the cheapest
varieties.
.'With artificial flowers, ostrich-feath,
~, aod ,,1,1poaq ara naturally connected
These are imported in the raw state
and colored and finished here. There
are several large dealers, One especial
" carries on an immense trade, and is
now putting up large building to ac-
commodate his growing business. He
is doubtless familiar to your readers as
trotting man, as he owns the fastest
trotting stallion there is going, and is
prominent figure in racing circles. -
NJ Y. Tribune.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-06-27

''You have made mistake" I said
She turned pale, and [ saw her little
hand tightly grasp the edge Of the
counter as she asked:
SIS there not money enough? Is
there not ten dollars?''
''Oh, yes. enough, and more than
enough; here are twelve dollars -see?"
Then I counted out before her the
ten dollars she had paid me and the
two dollars in quarters that had hasti-
ly slipped in with her money, and then
handed back to her two dollars She
was about to say something further, but
I said:
Excuse me. but I am too busy to
bother about change. What train do
you wish your ticket for?"
Eight o'clock tonight" she said,
hesitatingly, still holding the two dol
lars in her hand.
made a memorandum of the number
of her ticket 684-as I stamped it,
put it in an envelope and handed it to
her.
Still she hesitated and was about to
say something more, and again I said:
g Excuse ne-your ticket is all right
please don't bother me about that
change again, | wish you a very pleas
ant Journey and hope may have the
pleasure of selling you ticket again
some time. y
Without waiting to hear a word /
rushed out, catching one farewell
glimpse as passed, and dropped in at
the rival cut-rate office next door to
talk over the situation. But for the
life of me, if were called into court to
testify, l couldn't tell one single word
that was said. When I went back to
my Office she was gone, and / didn't
care whether Chicago tickets sold for
ten dollars or ten cents-or didn't sell
at all.
Now I am business man, a practical
man, cut-rate man, a scalper, but q
sudden inspiration dawned on me when
| looked at the number of the ticket she
had bought. knew the train on which
she was going. I, too, would go to
Chicago on the same train and if in any
way l could serve her-if I could win
her confidence to the extent of being al
lowed to do something for her there
would be the profit of my trip that
/ would be bigger and more comfortable
than any profits my books ever showed.
l had to rush around lively in order
to get away, for it was the worst posi-
bic time for me to leave, and when |
got to the station the train was just
pulling out and it was close call that
[ caught it at all.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-06-27
THE COMING OF THE ROSE.

The stargemmed gates which are never seen
Except by elves on the dewy green,
Were rolled apart at a touch to-day.
And all the roses are on their way,
Coming to fill the land with light,
To crown the summer with garlands bright.
Sweet within sweet and fold on fold,
Crimson and white, and cloth of gold
This with it's fiery heart aglow,
That with the luster of falling snow,
See them toss on the prickly hedge,
See their foam on the meadows edge.
Blooming as fair by the roof of thatch
As where princess may lift the latch,
Scattering odors pure and sweet
On the dusty road or the thrOng1ng street,
Battling the grasp OF rude desire
By the Jealous watch OF the sentry brler.
Everywhereis the fragrance poured;
Earth is a garden of the Lord.
Pride of the bower and light of the lane
The rose is timed to merry strain;
Music and perfume, Joy and June
Nothing is tangled or out of tune.
Bird atilt on the jeweled spray
Weaves the rose in his rollickIng lay;
Child at sport by the cottage door
Never was half SO glad before;
Little wren in the hidden nest
Chirps of the pleasure that fills her breast.
Which ia the lovelier bud or rose,
The clasp that hides or the bloom that grows
Fa1rer and Drawer hour by hour,
Till we gaze entranced on the perfect Hover
Somebody wiser than you or |,
Dear little questtoner, must reply.
Gates through which innocent laughter trips
], as ] bend with kiss to meet
The wistful eyes in their candor sweet
Know that the bud so fresh and free
Is the dearest thing in this world to me.
~-NdrYalet Il. SangSter, IN Hdrper's Kount
People.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-06-27
rHE coNpUcroR,s cHAPrER.

Queer experience a conductor hasp
You are just right he does. There are
cranks of assorted sizes on every train
till it makes me tired, and | ain t one of
the tired kind. I've been railroading
train boy, brakeman and conductor
twenty-five years, and I've seen things
to make fellow laugh till he split and
tragedies-real tragedies-to make a
white mans heart ache. But sad and
glad, first and last and all along be-
tween, | have never had anything
strike me more in a heap than the
other night when I had one of them
Broadway cut mean cut-rate,
scalping fellows4on my train. He
swung on just as did, as she was pull
ing out, and went direct to the smoking
car and took seat, although he had
whole section in the Chicago sleeper
and is well fixed. Our Pullman Cen
ductor put me on him as a scalper or
wouldn't have known who he was from
a side of Illinois sole leather. When l
came through punching tickets the
scalper says to me in an off-hand sort
of a way:
ssSay, conductor, keep an eye out for
ticket No. 1854, and when you come
back let me know where it is located. !"
handing over irst-class cigar as he
spoke.
woman in the case, or else some fell
low has put up job en- him about that
ticket and he is laying for him.
When I found 1864 it wasn't any
woman or any iob-only poor, hump
backed cripple, fit to make your heart
ache to look at. A bright face and all
that-too bright for the kind of body
it was hitched to-just the sort of a face
to make fellow want to kick up row
with all creation that such things could
be. He wasn't in a sleeper, neither.
but in day car, all wrapped around
with shawls and made CONFERENCE.-The
as though somebody loved him, and
had fixed him to 60 through with as lit
tie bother and shaking up as possible.
Well, [ went back after I'd been
through the train, and said to the
scalper, who was putting away nervous
like:
II have found your 1854
s.She's in the Chicago sleeper, amt
sheP She's comfortable, isn't she?''
SWELL" | said, you'd better see for
yourself, She is III the fifth seat from
the front, on the left-hand side in the
next car back.
He threw his cigar away and hurried
into that car. A moment later he came
back, looking black and ugly.
''What do you mean by monkeying
with me?' he said. ..Where is the
young lady with Chicago ticket No.
3.6845"
Il don't know your racket, . said [,
ssbut if You think I'm fooling about it
just walk back with me and I'll soon
convince you"
He followed, and when we had
reached the cripple's seat | said:
Excuse me, sir, but is your ticket
for Chicago?''
With that he reached down, and
hauling out his pocket-book handed me
ticket No. 1854. The scalper stood
close by and / held my lantern up while
/ looked so that he could see plain at
the same time. There was a vacant
seat behind the cripple and the scalper,
without word, sat down in it. Invent
ahead to smoke. When Icame through
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-06-27

next time the Scalper had the cripple in
his arms and was carrying him back to
his own section in the Chicago sleeper,
while the train boy followed with the
cripple's things-a shawl, bag, a pill
low for his back and big envelope box
full of lunch. The cripple was put into
the scalper's lower berth, while he him.
self climbed into the upper, and that's
all I know about them, except that |
thought then, and [ think now, and !
amt ashamed to say it, that whoever
and whatever that cripple was, it was a
kind act the way that Broadway scalper
treated him.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-06-27
Ill

Ill
THE sCALPER RESUMES AND CONCLUDES.
It was a great piece of good luck on
my part, as | am sure that you will
agree, that found Her brother on the
train. He is unfortunate in having
crooked back, but his head is so level
and his brain so bright that no one ever
thinks he is deformed. At first / was
disappointed in not finding Her; but
after all it was better in every
way that l met Her brother. 1t was
for him She had saved up money that
he could go to friends in the West who
are able and willing to help him, and
not for trip for herself. He was good
enough to take pity on me, because L
was so lonesome, and consent to share
my sleeping-car section with me. |
never rode with a more agreeable fell
low in nay life, and we parted great
friends when finally was obliged to
leave him in Chicago and come back.
He also sent q message to his sister here
in New York, which he said must de-
liver personally, and as he made such
point of my doing it in person I
couldn't refuse.
NOW 10 JuSb OCCttIS W hit YOU udf .
been too inquisitive all along, and ]
didn't stop to think who was talking
to; and so l will not under any con-
sideration. tell you who She is or what
grand, brave struggle She has been
making for her invalid mother and her
unfortunate brother. But having
thoughtlessly gone on as far as I have,
/ don t suppose it can do any real harm
to say that, whatever her name may be
now, week from to-day it will be the
same as mine, and I'd like to give
everybody free ride to wherever they
want to go, or do anything in reason to
make everyone as happy as ] am now'
regardless of the fact that if cut rates
save money to some people, they have
given me-or will in a few days give
me-a mother-in-law and lame
brother-in-law to care for, not to mem
ton wife too good for the best and
squarest scalper who ever drummed up
business on Broadway, and so go in
for cut rates to the end of the chapter.
| Detroit Post.