The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-02-02
II MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
WHAT WE FIND IN THE PAPERS TO
SURPRISE AND STARTLE US.
The Yellow Fever-A Story OF wnrd-A
Singular Pooi-A Strong Mnn-Whnt
Squirrels Did, ETC., Etc.

yard. some pigs found hin there and
made a supper from his nose and
fingers, eating them completely off. He
is horribly distigured, bu. is now doing
we'll. Q
SQUIRRELS p~rospected the rich La
Panta gold loa" in Esmeralda. New, one
claim . ON which has been sold for
$50, 600. It was a ''blind iedgc"-i. C.,
without outcropp!ngs-and the ground
squirrels had fairly honcy>combcd the
side of the hill, throwing out in a big
heap the dirt and the dccomposed
quartz, in which a prospector found rich
signs of gold.
A CHINAMAN in Hamilton, Cal, has
devoted the summer and fail to gather
ing the horned toads of the red hills.
which arc as much dreaded by the in
habltants as r~attlcsnakcs. Recently he
shipped Z, 1000 of these animals to China,
where they are converted into various
kinds Of high-priccd medicines. A
horned toad placed in n flask of whisky
constitutes the most valued of the Chi
nesc tonics.
THE Rochester IN. W Union tells this
singular story: A few days since a little
girl residing with her parents in the
Twelfth Ward was attacked with diph-
therla, and was given up by her physi-
clans to die. One evening she asked for
q drink .,of lager beer, and the Doctor
sald to give 1t to her, as it could make
no dltference-shc would die anvwav
She drank two bottles of the beverage
anu the next morning was entirely we'll.
A H~ALF-BREED Indian in the Dead
River region of Maine has domesticated
q bull moose and uses him in his farm
work. He is q good worker and q lively
stopper. In the winter, when he bitches
the moose in his sled and strikes across |
pond, there is nc horse in the region !
that can keep up with him. The half
breed turns his steed into an Enclosure
with a fence of ordinary height. Once
IN a while the moose jumps out and
goes on an excursion, but rs he never
fails to return this privilege is not be-
grudged him,
IT Is predicted that. in the course of
The next five years, the steel nail will
lave rs completely supplemented the
non nail as the steel rnil has it's iron pre-
dcccssor. Already one-half of the nails
Manufactured in Wheeling are made Of
'tccl, and the machinery and plant
necessary for their manufacture are being
get up In every nail centre and at nearly
every nail foundry. 1t is said that
'teel nails can be made about ten cents
per key cheaper than those made of iron,
.ven where the manufacturer has to pur-
chase his ignots.
THERE is a pool in Utah only a foot
1eep, and situated at a very high alti-
Jude, that refuses to freeze even in the
'evcrest winters. There is another
hat mysteriously replenishes itself with
aalt-grown trout. One stream, though
Lear as crystal to the eye md tastcless
Halns all the vegetation that it flows
.ver a deep brown. A warm spring near
salt lake City is the strongest sulphur
water IN the world. A hot spring q few
niles OFF, with waters SO hot that YOU
,an hardly put your hand into them, and
- bright as diamonds, is one of the re-
narkable combinations of chemicals
sver Analysed.
"A CHINESE sheep herdcr employed by
Mr.. Johnson, whose place is on the
iorth fork of John DAVIS river. had n
'ough fight with a bear lately. Bruin
vas hungry and visited Mr. Johnson's
sorral for a supply Of fresh mutton.
John did not believe in such pilferine
md tried to STAY his visitor with an axe.
The bear had too much ~Sullivan-like
clence for the Chinaman and knocked
nm out with an upper cut. Not being
ondso OF Chinese meat he left John for
lead and carried off a sheep. The
ihlnaman came to in an hour and
QUICKLY drove the sheep eight miles to :
ne ranch.-Solem (Oregon) Statesman. ,
AN old man, eight dogs and n !
vheelbarrow loaded with the trans of
he family anchored in the public square ,
VI North Platte, Nebraska. recently. He !
lad been several weeks on the road ,
rom Kearney. He travels on foot, and s
moves the ~wheelbarrow, and carries a t
arge bag. His w~heelbarrow is loaded &
With truck, all a strong man ought to ,
'ush. This he trundles along the road s
is 1ar as he chooses. leaves it there. gees =
back. picks up his bag, carries it ahead q
II his barrow until be is tired of it. and r
hen he leaves it and goes back to his
narrow. So he goes a few miles a dav. .
ylng out on the prairie when night /
>vertakes him. ::
: The London Lancet saws that the main q
# neuralgia headache experienced by r
Eomen Is generally in one or more i
branches of the second c~ervical nerve. q
Tery commonly those terminating in the t.
'calp of the occiput. The nerves of the {
'calp are irritated by the hair drawn
back and put on the strain. not
10 a whole, in which case the strain
would be spread over a large area of the
surface, but by small bundles of hair. a
which are pulled back and held in place t
oy ,hair-pins. Relief is often con
experienced as a result of re- u
moving the hair-pins, but this has only +
; temporary and partial effect. The in Y
Jury done is lasting in its conse- a
4uences. 4
DIR. CARLOS FNLAY, of Havana, has T
been experimenting on the inoculability q