The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-10-14

favorable condition to the use of lem
onade taken regularly four times a day.
He has used 5000 lemons a year for ten
years.
One of the English railway compa-
MES has supplied all its employees with
red neckcloths. the wearing of which
is to be compulsory. The object of
this regulation is to furnish porters,
guards or switchmen with red flags
that are always at hand, and can he
employed in the event of any sudden
accident Or the arrangement of the
regular sigA ais.
The safety of mountain travel in
this country is proved by the small
humble: of accidents reported each
year. Compared with the results of
an Alpine season, or even of a sum-
mer among mountains in Wales, the
sum Of the season among u noun
tain resorts is most satisfactory. Per
haps Americans are more careful in
their ventures in Notwithstanding.
Martin Ewing. a colored man living
at keyterville, Mo-, was born in 1765,
and is the oldest man in this country.
His memory is good and his mind clear.
But few wrinkles furrow his cheek.
If he would dye his hair. his general
appearance would indicate a man about
seventy. He has lost but a few teeth,
his eycsight is good, except a cataract
in n eye from a blow forty-fve years
ago
The total annual product of fish is
about 100000 tons for Europe and
America; a ton of fish being equal to
about twenty-eight sheep. Il years fish
supply is, therefore, for the United
States, Canada, and the ten European
countries included in this estimate,
equal to 42,0O0.0 600 head of sheep. OF
this amount. 100000 tons, or the
equivalent to %. 200, 900 head of sheep,
are consumed in the United States,
Canada, the United Kingdom, and
Russia.
The richest single woman in the
copntry is Catherine Wolfe. She has
An income estimated ut half a million
year. and she owns real estate all
over New York. Her father, Peter
Wolfe, married Peter Lorillard's sister,
and with her got adowry of 81. O00 900.
His wife died soon after and he mar
ried another of the Lorillard sisters,
and with her got another million. In
Il short time she died also, and Wolfe,
after specializing awhile with his two
million n more, died himself, and
bis property came to his daughter
Catherine.
OF the 2,647. 900 women in occupa-
lions in the United States sos. 900 are
engaged n agriculture, most of them
"olored women in the Southern States:
O32.0OO are in manufactures, of whom
about one-half are in New York, Mas
Nachusetts and Pennsylvania; 8 600
are m%illiners. etc; 5000 are ~tuilors.
1Of the Al occupations recorded as
f"personal SERVICE" 40 find women in
them. The 525 female surgeons of
1870 have increased to 2,743: the 2
lawyers to rs; the 65 cleraymen to
los. The number of laundries have
increased from G1.OO0 in 1870 to 1872
900, and Of the latter 10S,C0O arc kept
by women. This large increase shows
great tightening of the housewives
labor.
According to the last United States
census there are 500 establishments in
this country devoted to the proprie-
tary medicine business. employing d.
OILS operatives. with an aggregate in
vestment of capital amounting to &c.
$4,000, and the annual product is
valued at SAG 900. New York
State leads all others with an invested
capital Of $3,512,430, which is about
one-third of the entire country's in
vestmcnt. Pennsylvania comes next
aud Missouri ranks third in invested
:apital, followed respectively 10y Ohio
AID Massachusetts. In the amount of
annual product New York again
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