The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-01-26

st. Mary's Hospital, where the boy had
diod of typhoid fever, and there learned
that after three days the body had been
given in charge of the city undertaken,
who said he had inferred it in the Pot
ter's Field, but no grave could be found
from his directions. The father then
determined to search the medical col
lcgcs. They went through the watts and
dlssccting rooms in the State Medical
College, also the Miami, but did not
find that for which they were on search.
Next morning they visited the Eclectic
College where, after a battle with the
officials, they found the body in a ter
ribly mutllatcd condition on one of the
dissecting tables. AS they were I'M
willing that the boys mother should
know all the terrible details, the body
was quietly buried in that city.
A CERTAIN Duchess, happening to
pass through the Burlington Arcade, in
London, stopped for an instant before a
bonnet shop. An elderly individual
came up, and in winning tones INQUIRED
if she admired the bonncts. Slightly
surprised, she answered that she thought
them very pretty. "Thcn," said he,
"would you like me to buy you one?'
Thoroughly approaching the Joke, she
Immediately said that nothing would
please her better. After having care
fully examined every bonnet, she finally
chose one, for which her ancient adj
mirer promptly paid. "What address
shall | send it to, madame2" asked the
assistant. The answer came in a clear,
steady voice, "To the Duchess Of -,
No. -- street." When she turned
round she found that her friend had
vanished.
IT is said that a large part of the pop
Bloomington, Ill.,, where the farmers
their perquisite. In 1884 the crop was
so large that the price fell to two cents
a pound, and then experiments were
made to use it as a food rather than a
confection. A farmer who fed his COWS
than ever before. Others made ''mush'
of it, and found it more palatable and
n%ourishing than the ordinary article.
Then the chemists analysed it and de.
clared it to contain more albuminoids
than most OF the other cereals; so pop
corr bids fair to become q recognized
diet.
A SINGULAR sort of manure for potato
fields has been introduced on a Pomcr-
anian model farm. Hitherto herrings
and potatoes have been known as q pala-
table dish in family households. The
manager of the farm in question has
hit upon the idea Of blending them
from the start, by planting his seed po-
tatoes with a herring placed in every
heap, and with so decided q success as
to cause him to increase the area thus
planted from twenty acres last year to
sixty i'll the present one. The expense
he calculates at about nine marks per
acre, which is cheaper than the cost of
any other kind of manure, and amply
repays the outlay. Of course it can
only be employed near the sea coast.
A PECULIAR instance of religious fer
O has just occurred in indianapolis.
Samuel Stcinbcrg and his wife, Polish
Hebrews, each eighty years old, died
from the effects Of suffesation by gas
which had escaped from a stove, the
pipe of which had fallen early on Friday
morning. That day being a holy day,
and II religious!y observed among the
sect to which the aged couple belonged,
all work of whatever kind being pro-
hibitcd, they would not raise a hand to
adjust the pipe. When found they
were SO nearly dead that it was impos-
siblc to resuscitate them. The old lady,
however, before dying impaired the
foregoing explanation of their con-
dition.
A LEADING publishing house states
that when a manuscript is received it is
turned over to a "rcader," who after
examining it carefully, returns it with
his opinion as to its merit or lack of
merit. If a reader returns a manuscript
with a strong endorsement, the merits
CT the work are considered from a com.
mcrcial point of view-whe,ter it is
likely to sell, how much it will cost for
production, &c. Frequently this manu-
script is turned over to a second reader.
sometimes to a third If all say, ''This
is n strong work; think it will pay you
to publish it," or words to that effect,
OF course their recommendation goes a
long way in the question of publication.
Santa Claus Will Skip Him.