The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-03-23
THE MYSTERIESO OF A DAY.
ETRANGE, CURIOUS AND STARTLING
THINGS OCCURRING ABOUT US.
A Strange Btrth-The Life Saving Service
"A Peculiar English Womnu-A Touch
Ing Incidcnt-Cnusht IL Tiger, ETC., Etc.

a CORRESPONDENT writes from Nam
ualay just after the deposition of The
baw: Next morning l obtained ad-
mission to the palace, and for several
hours wendell my way through the end
less succession of buildings. 1t is i'm
possible to attempt here any detailed
description of the mingled magniiccncc
and squalor, filth and splcndor which /
witnessed. X * * l found myself in
the Lord White Elephants house. He
had been left without food or water.
The magnificent silver vessels which
held his food had been lying about I'M
protected. The royal monster seemed
in II very bad temper (no wonder). He
was chained by the fore feet to massive
pillars. Unless you were told that he
was white you would perceive it.
In the dusky light he seemed much like
any other elephant. On closer exam
nation he seemed of light mouse color,
with large white blotches." The same
correspondent describes a most dis
graceful scene Of plumber. The crown
Jewels narrowly escaped.
THERE died in England a few weeks
ago, aged 80, a wealthy old harridan in
high life, in the person of Lady Role,
who was noted for her cffrontcry and
i~mpcliousncss. Although she cxcr-
clscd most a~utocratic sway rs n hostess,
she was on one occasion, at least, com
plctcly outwitted. Among her guests
was the daughter of an Irish Earl. The
men In the house were not to her taste
as partners, yet she felt like dancing.
She whispered her wishes to some other
young lady guests, and found them
quitco of hermind. Presently the sound
OF a waltz drew Lady Role to the room,
when, in her rage. and amaZcment, she
bcheld Lady II, whirllng round in the
embrace of n stalwort and handsome
powdered footman, while her friends
followed her in the arms of similar gal
lants.
DocToRs do not appear to have much
faith in the idea that odd-shaped bottles
or peculiar labels will prevent mistakes
in the taking Of drugs. An English
physician relates that he once gave a
man, for external use, n little croton oil
linimcnt in n blue fluted bottle with 4
rcd label One night the man, being
troubled with a cough, thought he
would take some of his wifc's cough
mixture, which was III n bottle having
raised letters. He mistook the Fittings
on his W bottle for the raised letters
on his wifc's, and swallowed the croton
oil. He soon discovered his error, and
was very i'll for many hours. In a
similar case n man recently died from a
heavy dose of liniment.
In a paper read before the Public
Health Association, DIR. ID. f. Salmon
said that the ravaycs of hog cholera
were unusually cvcrc and widespread
last year. and cost producers nearly
$40, 00O, 600. Referring to the sanitary
aspects of the question, he said: THE
disposition of the millions'of carcasses
of hogs that have died from this dis
ease. is n matter which effects the
health of the people. Sometimes they
are left to putrcfy, sometimes they are
thrown into the ponds and streams
which furnish drinking water to our
cities, sometimes the lard is rendered
from them, and what finally becomes of
this product is IN interesting subject
for speculation"
THE life saving service, it is stated in
its annual report for 1885, saved last
year 81 PERSONS, exclusive of the lives
saved in the regular service of rcscuing
distressed, endangered, and wrecked
vessels, as follows: Total number Of
disasters, 81; total value of property
involved, 81, G34. $50; total value of
property saved, So, $40, 5S3; total value
of property lost, 81, 254, 1877; total num-
Der of persons on board, 2,439; total
number of persons saved, 2,42S; total
number o. persons lost, II; total mum
Der of shipwrcckcd persons cared for at
stations, 500; total number of days
succor afforded, 1856; ~total.numbcr of
vessels lost, SO.
AN E%nglishman in Madras has, by a
lucky accident, made a photograph of a
tiger in the act of sciling its prey. The
camera was focused on a buffalo tied to
a stake some thirty feet off, and had
just received a dry plate, when n tiger
leapcd from the Jungle and struck down
the buffalo with a single blow. The
operator kept his presence of mind and
released his shutter before taking to his
heels. The negative proved a poor one,
but showed the relative attitude of tiger
md buffalo pretty we'll, and confirmed
the generally accepted opinion that the
tiger, with his knock-down blow, en-
dcavors to dislocatc the neck of his vic
tim.
THE French have looked with alarm
upon the steady export of Percheron
horses to the United States; but the
most prominent breeders there now say
that the progeny of these horses raised
in the United States are an improve
ment upon their sires, and that it is
profitable to rcimport. 1t is known that
| Napoleon III. used to import Percheron
horses from Vermont for the post chaiscs
which he used so much, as Gen. Fleury,
his Master of the Horse, found them
much superior to the Mechlenburg
horses, more generally used.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made for a
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