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The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-27
Theory OF Soap.

A new theory has been started with
regard to the use of soap on the face.
Women who for years have been careful
Of their compilations would never, under
any circumstances wash the face in soap,
as it was said to roughen and coarsen
the skin. Now, this idea is exploded,
and a w~cll-known physician in the metro
politan profession recommends his women
patients to use it freely every day, lath-
ering the skin we'll. Of course, a fine.
oily and pure soap is most DESTROYS. This
being secured he states that none but the
most beneficial results will be affected
by his method of improving the skin.
He holds-with considerable plausibility
that the pores of the face become as
much clogged by grease and dirt as the
hands or any other portion of the body.
And if soap is considered a necessary pu-
ritter in the bath, its n>cds must be felt
equally on the face. By an abundant
and regular lathering the facial pores, he
claims, are kept open, free from the clog
ging matter that produces unsightly
black heads, acne, pimplcs, and u pure,
healthy, fresh and brighter complexion
IS the resultant. Not mincing matters,
he says that the trouble with most wo-
men who have sallow, pasty skins is that
from years end to years end they never
have a really clean face.
An article published in Good House.
keeping says: Glands kept dirty are
never smooth and white. Absolute
cleanliness is necessary. Many people
who do not work seldom wash their
hands. The days accumulation of dirt
is allowed to remain on the hands all
night. Upon rising the hands are washed
in cold water; then the possessor won
ders why when she does no work her
hands do not look any better. The
hands and face should always be washed
in warm soap suds before going to bed.
White soaps are safest. Highly scented
and colored soaps are almost invaria bly,
made from rancid and ill-smelling fats.
After drying them thoroughly use a few
drops of mixed glycerine and camphor,
which the druggist can prepare for you.
Drop into the palm OF your hands and
rub we'll, and this will be all that will be
necessary to show decided Improvement"
When you rise in the morning do not use
soap on your face, but battle it we'll in
warm water. Do the soap-scrubbing
only at bedtime. Brooklyn Eagle.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-27
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.

A large number of women work in the
mines in England, and it is a curious
fact that as a class they seem to be
stronger and healthier than the average
Remains of wheat seeds arc found in
the ruins of the houses of the lake dwell
lcrs. The Chinese have records of its
culture as early as 300 b. C.. Compared
with wheat, rye is a modern plant.
A young man is living in Nebraska
who is twenty-six years old, thirty-scvcn
inches high, and weighs but fifty pounds.
He has lived at his present home for
twenty years unbeknown TO more than
fifty people.
The driving-whcels of the first loco
motive engine of New York and the third
one constructed in America are interest.
ing relics. Each wheel measures five
feet in diameter and weighs $50 pounds.
Tho workmanship is very crude.
During the later periods of Roman his.
tory the men and women reclincd at
their rcpasts; but the Greeks considered
such n posture indccorous for females;
their women, therefore, either sat at a sep
aratc table or upon one end of the couch
on which the men only rcclined.
In the Santa Paula Valley, Ventura
County, CAL, many wild animals are
caught and killed by getting into small
streams of thick mineral oil or pitch
which flow from the mountains during
the summer down r~avines and river beds
which are water courses in the wet sea-
son.
In Italy a living scorpion is often
dropped into a widc-nccked glass bottle
containing a few drops of olive oil of the
finest quality. More oil is poured on in.
stantly until the bottle is filed and the
scorpion dead. In its struggles to free
itself it elects all its poison into the oil,
and this poisoned oil then becomes a
sovereign remedy for the sting of a
scorpion.
The ancient ritons had a great rever-
encc for running streams, trees and SER
penis. The tree they most hopored was
tho oak, and, still more han the oak, the
mistlctoe which grew on it. Whenever
a plant of it was found on an oak tree
there was a grand ceremony. A solemn
procession was formed, two white bulls
were sacrificed and the sacred plant cut
with a gold knife.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-27
The Alaska Islands.

Alaska is a great island region. One
OF its archipclagocs is three hundred
miles from north to south and about
eighty miles wide. It contains from
1000 to S 1000 separate islands, and tho
aggregate area of these is more than A.
600 square miles. Six hundred miles
further west there is another group which
contains over 5000 square miles, and the
total area of the islands of Alaska is
larger than the State of Maine.
Alaska has the highest mountain peaks
OF the United States. It has volcanoes
and glaciers, and many of these volca-
noes are in active order. The glaciers of
Alaska are finer than those of the Alps.
There is one that extends fifty miles to
the sea, and there ends abruptly in a
perpendicular ice wall three hundred
feet high and eight miles broad. Thir-
ty-fye miles above Wrangell, on the Sit
kline River, between two mountains
5000 feet high, their is a glacier forty
miles long and four or five miles across
at the base. It is from 500 to /, 900 feet
high, and there arc other glaciers through
out the territory from which great blocks
containing hundreds of tons of ice are
constantly breaking off and falling into
the sea.
The rivers of Alaska are among the
finest of America. The Yukon is seven
ty miles wide across its five mouths, and
at some points along its lower course n
bank cannot be seen from the other.
For the first thousand miles it is from
one to five miles wide, and in some
places it is twenty miles from bank to
bank. 1t is navigable for 9, 1000 miles,
and is computed to be 1000 miles long.
- Cleveland Leader.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-27
A Washington Character.

General Joe McKibben is a character
who is a frequent sight upon the streets
of Washington. The general is one of
the few mon who can truthfully say that
during the two years of his service as a
member of the house he never made or
attempted to make a speech. This is all
the more surprising as years ago McKib-
ben was acknowledged to be one of the
best political speakers that ever graced
the stump in California. Speaking upon
this topic the other evening, the general
said: 81 never knew any good to como
out of speech-making but once, and that
was when the governor ordered me to re-
main and take part IN the campaign. I
had bought a ticket upon the steamer
Central America, intending to go to
New York. The steamer was wrecked
and 600 lives were lost. Among them
was Lockwood, one of the brightest law
yers that ever graced the bar. While
the steamer was sinking Lockwood was
ordered to take his place at the pumps.
He replied: Those who are afraid can
work the pumps, but I shan't.' Then he
took off his money bag which was full of
gold and threw it into the sea, exclaim.
ing: Il came to California without n '
thing, and I leave it equally wealthy. 49,
Boston Isupeuer.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-27
Exciting a Cow.

"Never under any circumstances do any
thing to excite a COW while milking her"
sagely remarks an agricultural paper.
Quite right, quite right-we never do.
It never really seemed to be necessary
to do anything to excite a COW while we
were milking her. When a cow begins
to kick with both feet hard enough to
knock the hoops off a tin pail and then
puts her tail up in the air and goes rae
ing around the edge of a ten acre field
with a cloud of dust following her we
don't see how any sanc person could
think for a moneut of shooting off fire
works or doing anything else to excite
her.-EseNiae (Dak.) E>U.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-27
Wanted to Change Places.

The Washington Capital tells this
story of a little fellow who wanted to
change places, Notwithstanding the exal-
tered inducements offered to remain.
During the terrific thunder storm that
came yer the city last week a little
eight-year-old boy living in the northern
part of the town was awakened, and
called his mother, who was sitting in the
drawing-room down stairs. She sat
with him q while, and told him he need
have no fear, because God took care OF
little boys, and would not let the light.
ming hurt them. "But God is away I'M
in heaven" said the child. eyes" re,
piled the mother, "but he is here, too.
He is staying right in the room with you.
He can protect you, but I cannot. As
long as God is here you need not be
afraid" The child was QUOTED, and
the mother left him and went back to
the drawing-room. Pretty soon there
came another deafening clap of thunder,
when the boy, crawling out of bed, came
to the head of the stairs and called again
"What do you want GeorgeW asked hi
mother. "You come up here and stay
with God a while, and let me go down
stairs was the reply.
aAFeHFHfEE LaLEa. - ~ s.ELAHh t.NFaFL-E
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-27
Nutriment In Food.

Fat pork contains a large amount of
nutriment.
Fish is less nutritive than meats, but
five pounds of nutriment being obtained
from 100 pounds of material. 1t usually
contains about S per cent. Salt mack
erel is among the most nutritive and
founder is one of the poorest.
In pint of milk and pint of oysters
there is the same mount of nutriment,
although the oysters contain more pro-
tein and the milk more fat. Cheese
contains a large amount of nutrition.
, Butter has 81 1-2 per cent. of nutritive
matter. The pseudo-buttcr, oleomar-
CINE, has about the same value in food
properties.
The breads representing the carbohy-
drates contain about SO or IS per cent.
of water, flour from 8 to 10 per cent,
corn and maize meal still more water.
They have less protein and more fat ;
oatmeal has, on the contrary, more pro-
tein and less fat. In general, this class
contains most all nutritive material and
but little water.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-27
CIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

The thickness of the earth's crust is
believed by Monsieur Faye, the French
gcologlst to be greater under oceans than
beneath continents, because the earth's
heat has always radiated more freely
there.
Salts OF copper-usually regarded as
very poisonous-have been administered
by a French chemist to dogs and rabbits
without serious effects, either from large
doses or from a long continued regular
use of the substances.
Surveys made during the past two
years have shown that the river Rhone
has cut for itself a channel in the bottom
of Lake Geneva, through which it flows,
between parallel banks, like an ordinary
stream on the earth's surface. The Rhine
makes a similar passage through Lake
Constance.
An instructive display at the newly
opened colonial exhibition in London is
that of the rice of India, which includes
ten thousand different varieties, all be-
longing to a single species. All colors
are represented, from black to pale yell
low and white. Two species of wild
rice are known, only Il of which close
ly resembles the cultivated varieties.
On the Trans-Caspian railroad in Rus
STA, now appro aching Merv, it is claimed
that about $500 per mile is being saved
by the use of ozokerite, or mineral wax,
for ties. When purified, melted and
mixed with limestone and gravel, the
ozokerite, which is abundant in the vi.
cinity of the railroad, produces a very
good asphalt. This is pressed into shape
in boxes, and gives ties which retain
their form and hardness in the hottest
weather.
The botanic gardens of the world, most
of them scientific in character, are re-
ported to number 1877, of which Ger
many has 81, Italy 90, France 20, Great
Britain and Ireland 10, West Indies six
and the United States five. More thar
half are supported by government and
only five per cent. by private enterprise.
A novel locomotive is to be built for
trial OH one Of the French railroads. See-
ing that big driving wheels were good
for speed, the inventor proposes to build
a locomotive with six coupled wheels
8 IA feet in diameter. The tender and
coaches arc to lave wheels OF the same
dimensions, and the calculation is that
with such a train a speed of from 70 to
70 miles an hour can be obtained.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-27
The Bee Clock:

A new French clock contains a novel
application OF the magnet. The clock
appears like a tambourine with a circle
of flowers painted on it's parchment
head. Around the circle crawls two
bees, the largest requiring twelve hours
to complete the circuit, while the smaller
mnkes it every hour. The flowers rep
resent hour divisions, and the bees,
which are of iron, are moved by two
magnets carried, just under the men,
brane, by the clockwork inside the tam.
BOURNE.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-27
Insect Sense or SMELL

In an extensive series of experiments
by Prof. GRADER, insects and many other
invertebrates perceived odors much more
quickly and acutely than the vertebrates
tested hirds and reptiles). The anten.
nae proved to be not the only organs of
smell in insects, although these appear to
be essential to the perception of some
fne odors. In some cases the palpi of the
mouth organs are more sensitive than the
%antennae, but perception Of smell through
the stigmata or respiratory organs Is no,
rapid nor important.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-27
Changed His Mind.

'Don't you think we had better send
dear Clara abroad to complete her musical
educationT asked Mrs. Mullethead of
her lord.
"And have me go to the poorhouso9
Not by any MEANS" he growled in re-
ply.
An hour later-Clara vainly trying to
reach the attic of the scale to piano nc-
compartment.
II do think dear Clara should be sent
abroad to develop her musical talent"
ventured Mrs. Mullethead again.
'!Send her away by all means, " !, was
The still more %ungracious response; .Hbet-
ter that should become q pauper than a
hnatic.-M Bits.n
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-27
Quickness Of Perception.

The following story from the PM
M"nthly is related of Agassiz, and it is
sufficiently characteristic of this remark
ably accurate observer to have the merit
of probability. We are told that once
upon a time the professor had occasion
to select an assistant from one of his
classes. There were a number of candi-
dates for the post of honor, and finding
himself in a %quandary as to which one
he should choose, the happy thought &C.
CURED to him of subjecting three of the
more promising students in turn to the
simple test of describing the view from
the laboratory window, which overlook
ed the the side yard Of the cottage. One
said that he saw merely a board fence
and a brick pavement; another added a
stream of soapy water; a third detected
thec color of the paint on the fence, noted
a green mould or fungus on the bricks,
and evidences of 'bluing" in the water,
besides other details. 1t is needless to
tell to which candidate was awarded the
coveted position.
Houdin, the celebrated prestidigita-
tor, attributed his success in his position
mainly to his quickness of perception,
which, he tells us in his entertaining
autobiography, he acquired by cducat-
ing his eye to detect a large number OF
objects at a single glance. His simple
plan was to select a shop window full of
a miscellaneous assortment of articles,
and walk rapidly past it a number of
times every day, writing down each OBJ
ject which impressed itself on his mind.
In this way he was able, after a time, to
detect instantaneously all the articles in
the window, even though they might be
numbered by scores. american.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-27
In the Eagles Care.

"A cio"o was Sdtuereu around the cage
in which the eagles are confined inCentral
Park, the other day watching a few dar-
ing English sparrows that were picking
up tho leavings of the eagles dinner.
The eagles sat majestic and silent upon
the make-believe trees, as though lost in
deep reveries. Suddenly n vulture dart
cd like a flash of lightning from one of
the upper perches and swooped down
upon one of u own bald-hcads with
fiendish screams. The bald head answer
ed with screams of terror and hastily
retreated into a dark corner of the cage.
The women and children drew back from
the cage in fear, and even the men ex-
hibitcd a desire to be beyond the reach
of Sir Vulture's sharp talons.
The vulture stood silent on the bottom
of the cage for a moment, while the
other eagles moved uneasily on their
pcrches. Then the condor, who had
been sitting on the highest branch of all,
gave vent to a shrek almost as dcafen-
ing as the whistle of a locomotive, and
dropped down upon the vulturc. In a
moment feathers flew in every direction.
All the eagles screamed in unison, and
the little birds in the other cages crouch
ed mute and trembling in the corners.
The ~gray-coated park policeman who
came rushing to the cage shouted to the
keeper, and in a moment the man who had
charge of the eagles came running up.
He seized a pail of water from behind
the cage, and, getting as close Us posi-
BILE to the fighting birds, he doused
them with it. The effect was instant
aneous. The fight was all gone out of
them, and they crawlcd away to differ
ent corners dripping and detected. The
condor had had much the best of the
fight. He was bleeding in only a few
places. while his opponent was covered
with the sanguinary fluid.
"The eagles fight very hard some
times" said the keeper to the reporter.
"Water is the only thing that will stop
them, and even that doesn't always work.
If they are very hot we separate them
with poles, and then yank them into a
tank of water, where we duck them I'm.
til all the fight is gone out of them.
"The condor is boss of the roost, and
none of the others care to dispute his
supremacy. The vultures come next rs
fighters, and the bald head is at the tail
of the list. The vulturcs can't stand
cold water, though. In winter we have
to take them inside, while the other co.
giles rather enjoy the cold.
"When we want to have some fun
with the eagles we throw live rats at
them. Ordinarily they are fed with raw
meat, but live rats are a delicacy to them.
You never know how terrible their talons
are until you see them tear a rat to
pieces. They pouncc upon rats like cat.
and in o jiffy they have been torn into
shreds. The rats go into the other bird
cages of their own accord and steal the
eggs, but they give the eagles cage a
wide BERTH"
"Do the eagles hurt one another in
their. fight" inquired the reporter.
"Oh, Yes. If they were not separated
they would fight until one or the other
was killed. "-Men York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-01
Only Believe.

He is able; he is willing; he is ready.
Settle these three things in your heart.
Go over them again and again, putting
down doubts and looking steadily at
the Lamb of God. Believe that he will
save you. This you must do. The
woman came saying, If | may but
touch the hem of his garment | shall
be made whole" 1t was this faith that
saved her. Not believing that she was
made whole before she was, which
would be believing what was not true
or believing that she was made whole
after she was, which would not be faith
making her whole, but healing giving
her faith. No, no. 1t is very simple.
Her faith was: If touch | shall be
made whole. This she had before she
felt any change in herself; it was naked
trust in Christ, sheer confidence in his
virtue and power and love; it led her to
touch; it brought the healing. 1t is
this firm trust in the saving mercy which
the Savior is pleased to honor.-Rer.
William Arthur.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-01
Did You Speak to Him !

You had the chance, perhaps such as
will never come within reach of your
influence again. All How many prec-
ious opportunities slip through our
fingers The other day Mr.. Sturgeon
went to preach at prominent chapel,
and, after taking tea at the deacon's
house, walked down to the chapel under
the guidance of son of the household.
" Do you love my Master?" was the
question which, in his clear, manly
way, the preacher put to his young
friend. Before replying, he stopped in
the street and, looking his questioner
straight in the face, said: Mr.. Spur
geon, | have walked down to this
chapel with ministers for several years,
and not one of them ever asked me
that question BEFORE The faithful
word was the beginning of new light;
and, seeking God, he found pardon and
peace through Christ. Sincere reader,
if you be a follower of the Lord, ask
yourself the question, Have 1 done
my duty in this respect?" Or are you
letting the opportunities you have from
day to day slip through your iingers?-
The Wdtchmdn.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-01
advertisements.
FROM LIFE TO DEATH

is but moment if rheumatism or nesral-
pia strikes the heart. These diseases are
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of any to which human kind is liable.
They fly from one part to another without
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other outward applica ions are in them
selves dangerous beca use they are liable to
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only be reached by remedy which will
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Such RENE jyi is Athlophoros. 1t has been
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Dover, n. H., March %, 1886.
For the benefit of people suffering with
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has been subject to severe attacks of rheu-
matism, often lasting for several months at
a time, suffering intense pains, and ONLY
found relief by injecting powerful remedies
in the arm. receiving thereby only tempo
rary relief The last of December, 1888,
it appeared in the right arm and had with
it excruciating pains. procured bottle
of Athlophoros and by the time she had
taken the third or fourth dose the pain
ceased. and now after having begun on the
second bottle is much improved and |
think on the road to Il complete cure.
DANIEL $. WARD.
Carlton House, Boston, Mass.
June u, 1856.
Last winter was troubled with a severe
attack of infammatory rheumatism, which
stuck to me with such obstinacy as to cans,
me much worriment, pain'and misery. All
of these troubles were speedily removed b"
two bottles of AtlLophoros. That medicin
cured me entirely. Joseph MoNAHAN.
Every druggist should keep Athlophoros
AMI Athlophoros Pills, but where they can
not he bought OF the druggist the Athlo-
phoros Co., IL Wall St., New York, will
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For liver and kidney diseases, dyspepsia, in
digestion, weakness, nervous debility disease
of women, constipation, headache, impure
blood, nc, Athlophoros Pills are unequaled
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