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The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-04-27

Miniature painting is an art which, If
mot lost, has at least fallen into decline.
Certainly the costly ivory miniatures of
our fair ~grandmothers could not be re-
produced to-day by the same process,
with. anything like satisfactory results.
Something which is more than q substi-
tute, however. is found in the curious
and beautiful rock-crystal portraits
which are now to be seen at.leading jew
elry stores Of New York city. They are
produced by q process known only to the
inventor, Monsieur E. Irlande. The por-
traits first yitriied. upon the crystal,
and then painted in oil colors, either in
monochrome or in the style of the ivory
miniature. It has all the. artistic effect
;ot the latter, while far ~surpassing it in
Fidelity Of likeness. These miniatures
can be produced in Hawless perfection
down tog the minutest size, and will prob
ably come into high favor for lockets,
brooches, sleeve buttons, etc.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-04-27

Felicity.

LUL ~.
The cat sang or the backyard fence
Whence all but she had fled;
I seized my stock Of common-sense
And flung it at her head;
I flung my best habilaments,
My chair, my feather-bed;
Yet still, with passion quite INTENSE
With strange contorted lineaments.
That cut sang on the backyard fence,
Whence all but she had fled.
Ispoko with strange grandiloquence,
In coaAiug tones I plead;
My boots we.u gone-my last defcnse-
Ny Sunday hose had sped;
All things or petty or immense
Found Judgement on the sled.
The feline wondered much from whence
They came; but still, with grief intense,
She sang upon the backyard fence,
Whence all but she had fled.
She reused two other residents
l oft had wished them dead,
For they were music-loving 'gents,"
And dwelt above my head.
They seized their stringed instruments,
Which stood hard by their bed
They played with wondrous eloquence-
With II a howl of pain intense
That feline fed nfar from thence:
She sings no more upon our fence,
But on a loftier eminencc-
Our next-door neighbours shed.
e. Frank LintdGe7. IN Pick.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-04-27
Hiding VaIuables.

Speaking of silver, says NJ. G.. McClel-
LAND in the Chicago Times, reminds me
of q little story I heard n Richmond lady
tell my mother some time after the cap
ture. She had a quantity of valuables
and slowed them about in every conceiv-
ablc place for safety. Among other
things she had n huge solid silver fire.
mans trumpet, which had been presented
to her husband by the volunteer fire
brigade of Richmond many years before
III recognition of his service as their
chief. This trumpet was forgotten ia
the general hiding Of %valuablcs, and the
Yankees were fairly in sight when she
discovered it resting ostcntatiously in the
middle of the comfortable in the parlor.
She was loath to lose it, knowing that
her husband valued it greatly, but where
to stow away the big thing she could not
think. At last she took it out to an old
negro man who was very much attached
to her husband, explaining her dilemma,
and old him to take the thing away and
hide it. Long before the end of the
three days she gave the trumpet up for
lost, as the soldiers, not being hurried,
pokcd about in every hole and Granny
with q perseverance and fertility of re-
source worthy Of n better cause. But tho
day after they departed the old negro
presented himself at the house with smiles
on his countcnancc and the trumpet
ndc his arm. On being questioned, he
explained that he had ''totcd dc horn
down dc hill IN jammed it up in one ole
hollcr log what was sortcr layin' in de
creek, an too soggy fur to make fire."
He had stuffed up the opening in the end
with wet leaves, and calmly watched the
soldiers sitting on the log by the hour at
a time without the f~aintcst suspicion of
its silver heart.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-04-27
Killing a Giraffe.

The noble animal stood at bay paving
and stamping the ground, his long neck
swaying to and fro; several more shots,
were fired at him, causing him to strike
desperately with his fore feet a blow
which would knock q horse down. Dis
mounting, ran to get a nearer view.
There was despair in his large dropping
brown eyes, and n look which seemed to
say, "What harm nave I ever done you?'
It seemed Il shame that no one gave him a
coup dc grace, and put him out of his
agony. Turning to one Of the men I said,
"Shoot him i'll the head, and put an end
to his pain" But he answered me by
grasping my arm and pulling me to one
side, shouting, "Look out, or he will be
on YOU" Looking up I saw the crazy
creature swinging his head about, his
long neck putting me in mind of an,
anaconda, rs it fairly whirled through
the air, forming wide circles as he made
desperate plunges to keep his body UNI
der his neck; pitching forward, he fell IN
his head and shoulders, and rolled over
with a thud that shook the ground. Re
was a "zwart bont" Cblack-spottcd; the
variety usually seen in geological collcc-
tions; the white-spotted ones are longer
and finer made, and have never been
brought to Europe, and are never SO.
heavy. He measured from the root of
the tail to the shoulder 6 feet 1 inch, and
from the shoulder to the tip of the nose
10 feet z 1-2 inchcs.-Lon1on Graphic.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-04-27

1t appears that one of the reasons for
the low price of quinine lies in the fact
that the cinchona trees are no longer de-
stroyed in the harvesting. The old plan
was to cut them down and strip off the
bark when they were ten years old. Then
the idea was adopted of tearing off long
strips and filling the bare places with
moss. The present method is to scrape
off the outer layer of the bark, the por-
ton richest in q%uinine, and this does not
interfere with the growth of the tree.
The bark is scraped half around at one
operation, the other half being scraped
six months afterward. The process may
be repeated year after year.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-04-27
HaHk and Cat.

A huge California hawk swooped down
on a sleeping cat Mt Santa Rosa the other
day, and bore it squalling and scratching
high in the air. When about 500 feet
high the hawk lost its grip, and the cat
came down with fearful velocity, but
tho hawk caught it again just before it
struck the earth, and was carrying it off,
when suddenly both fell like lead to TIE
ground. The cat had bitten through the
hawks head, killing it instantly, and the
fall killed the cat.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-04-27

: An Albany doctor asserts that electric
fly has been one of the most beneticent
modern health restorers. It is now used
successfully for a great variety of mala-
dies. Tumors are cured by it, paralysis
relieved, neuralgia dissipated, sleepless-
ness overcome, colds broken up, rhcuma-
tsm benefited, constipation helped,
some skin diseases healed, and asthma,
st. Vitus' dance, and a great number of
other affections favorably influenced by
its proper use. Of course many cases
are not IN the least helped by electricity.
and it should always be administered by
any expert as a guarantee that more
harm than good may not result.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-04-27

1t is announced that Messrs. Appert, of
Clichy, France, have discovered u process
that will make glass blowing by the
mouth unnecessary. Many attempts have
been made to get rid of this painful pro-
cess in the operations of glass making,
to this day in every bottle house, may be
seen the pale-faced' men with their
cheeks hanging limp in folds, the result
OF years of glass blowing by the mouth.
Cases have been known in which mems
cheeks have been worn SO thin that they
have actually cracked, and it is a COM
mon sight in q bottle house to see blow
ers at work with their thin checks pulled
out like the fingers of a glove.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-04-27

The expedition sent out by the Domin-
ion government to ascertain whether the
.'Hudson Bay route" to Europe is naviga-
bic was highly successful. It discovered
that it was not navigable. The Alert
fought the ice nearly every inch of the
way; had to put back for repairs in July;
was stuck in the ice during August;
broke q blade of her screw, and, after be-
ing for several days at the mercy of the
ice pack, returned, bafled. If an Arctic
ice vessel can't traverse the Hudson bay
route in midsummer, the chance of any
ordinary steamship getting. through in
January, o. even in July, can be easily
calculated.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-04-27

claimed that excellent Rombaad.
''Where in the world did you catch s2ch
cod2 In the cars, perhapsW
ut is possible" replied, "but really
I do not regret it."
Nobody understood this queer
but felt the sweet and compassionate
gaze OF my lovely travelling companion
coming to me across the ordorous fumes
of a superb soup.
What moro shall I say? Next day I
did not go to Nicc-and we are to be
married in two weeks !-FT0m tie French
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-04-27
Fortunes Made in Old Corks.

"You wouldn't think n man could
make n fortune selling old corks and Dot
ties, would you? WE'LL. 1 know a man
who bought out u coffin shop twenty-five
years ago and began to deal in old corks.
Eight years ago he went into the old bot
tie business, and he is now a rich man."
The policeman who said this took the
writer down Mulberry street, and a few
blocks below Blocker stopped before .
rickcty old building, in front of which
stood several barrels filled with bottles of
all sizes. There were bottles empticd of
Vino Yarmouth, Piper Sec and Rhine
wine, of Bass ale, clarct and stomach
bittcrs. Inside the shop were seen the
nccks of a thousand bottles, pointed
toward the door like little howitzers.
They were piled up and boxed up and
were in rows on the floor. From the roof
hung dingy dcmijohns, covered with
cobwcbs, and in the center Of the room
was n barrel of old champagne corks.
elbow many corks havc you sold to-
day, Hugh?" asked the policeman.
Eight barrels"
elbow many bottlcs?"
"~Seventy-tivc gross. You see we never
take the labels off, and never wash the
bottles. The men who buy wine bottles
want the labels as we'll rs the bottles
sometimes want the labels much more
than the bottles; but we do not deal in
labels. When n junkman comes in with
a load of bottles he may have twenty
different kinds. We sort them. When
We get a gross of a certain kind we know
where to sell them. A gross of quart
champagne bottles fctchcs 81. so; pints,
$2.25. Clarct bottles sell for SO. rs per
gross, and SO do soda water bottles.
Bass ale is worth $2.25, but for Rhine
wine bottles we get sc per gross. ''Tom"
gins and tomach bittcrs go at 81; porter
and Vino Yarmouth at $2.25. Apollina-
ris, quarts. we sell for So per gross, and
pints at 1925. A gallon dcmijohn is
only worth 90 cents, but larger beer bot
ties with the patent shoppers bring So
per gross. Root beer bottles sell for Sc,
while ginger alcs only fetch $3.50. W.
sell Hathorn, Congress and Gcyscr bot
ties back to the mineral spring men in
Saratoga for 80 cents per dozen. Most
of the small bottles are bought by catsup
and table sauce makers. We don't buy
medicine bottles. We sell very little
stock to medicine men.
"You know a champagne cork has a
sound head and is turned from the bark.
1t is not cut out rs straight corks are
made. When it pops from the bottle the
head is cut up by the string and the cork
looks like a mushroom. We put them
all in a big kettle of boiling water and
swell them. Then they're as good as
new. Ordinary sound corks sell for
twenty-five cents per gross, but corks
from champagne bottles, made with more
labor, bring $3.50. We have handled
enough corks in the past twenty-five
years to float the Great Eastern" -Neo
York. Sun.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-04-27

Anthony Comstock, of the New York
society for the prevention of vice, says it
is difficult to trace persons conducting
fraudulent schemes because of their
numerous aliases. One man whom he
had arrested had 145 different names and
addresses, another 1876, and q third had
eighty.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-04-27

Mr.. Theron e. Plat, of Fairfield
county, Conn, has raised 900 v~arities Of
p~otatoes on his farm during the past
year. The study of fungoid pests of the
potato has also occupied his attention,
and his discoveries respecting certain
diseases of this plant are likely to provo
serviceable.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-04-27

A st. Louis physician cured n case OF
alcoholism by means of opium; he then
cured the opium habit through the
agency of cocaine, and now he is search
ing for something with which to cure the
cocaine habit.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-04-27

Professor Arthur T. Hadley stated, in
the course of a recent lecture at Yale col
lege, That no less than $1,000 persons
Were injured annually in the United
States in the duty of coupling cars.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-28
slaughterlng Deer in DlIssouri.
From the St. Louis Republican,


 On Hurricane Creek are two expert deer hunters, who have been bagging deer and turkey on the wholesale plan since the open ing of the game season. They came from Michigan in September. Since the deer sea son opened they have shot and killed thirty eight deer, and only wounded one which they did not finally capture. They use no dogs, but they go through the woods steaIthily and travel but short distance apart. They use the Marlin magazine rifle. Three times out of five if deer starts up before them one of the hunters stops him the first shot, Failing 10 do this they fol- low the animal up with three or four shots in quick succession. If the deer should es- cape this fusilade and disappear from sight both hunters strike out after him like a streak of greased lightning They go boun- cling over logs and through brush like all
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-28
Tuesday, December 2s, 1886.
CITY rGoVERNmENT.

How to govern the cities of this country
 well is one of the pressing questions of the time. It has apparently been discovered that they cannot govern themselves
 well, and lately ma of them have been more or less governed by 'the legislature" ]" It has also been found that this plan does not work satisfactorily, and there is good deal of discussion of the matter.
 New York, the biggest city on this conti- nent, has had great deal of trouble in gov ern1ng itself and also in being governed by the legislature. The New York cities are all governed under special charters, most of which have been amended many times, that of New York especially having been tinker ed and patched by almost every legislature. When an evil became intolerable an act was passedto cure it, abolishing one department and creating another, changing the manner of appointment of officers or the character of 8 commission, without much regard to the congruousness of these changes to the other parts of the machine. Now Mayor Grace suggests that an amendment of the constitu- tion should limit the power of the legiflature to interfere in every municipal difficulty or to give to party or faction an advantage which it cannot secure for itself. He has asked ten or twelve well known gentlemen to organize committee to consider the sub ject of the relations of the State to the cities, with view to agreeing upon 8 constitutional amendment defining the powers of the legis- lature as to city charters. He asks the com mittee also to prepare form of general city charter, which, with the necessary adap- tation for differences in population, might be enacted by the legislature for the government of all the cities of the State
 It is to be hoped that the committee will undertake the work laid out for them, and give it careful attention. If they can devise some plan which will decrease the evils at tendant upon government of cities by the legislature they will do great and needed work. But it must be confessed that the of any real and lasting reform in the. government of cities is not very hopeful. There are too many ''scaly politicians" who must be supported by the public.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-28
meetings until the grievances of the race are redressed.

Judge Cooley, lately appointed receiver of
 the Wabash road, is described 8 tall and slender man with long and narrow head.
 The most conspicuous feature of the face is the nose, and the next the tightly closed and determined lips. The eyes are bright, but their light is hid under a beetling pair of brows. Judge Cooley has almost none of the clements of popularity. His outward bearing is chilly, his manner abstracted, his voice thin and rasping. In spite of these defects he manages to attract large audiences and to hold them closely for hours. This he does by the beautiful lucidity of his mind and his perfect command of the subject, whatever it may be. Yet he is not learned man out side of the branches parallel to his profes- sion. His daily life is so systematized that he is capable of an enormous volume of work, and does it constantly. The new duties thrust upon him will necessitate the relin- punishment of some already in hand, for he is now a lecturer and dean in the School of Po- litical Science at Ann Arbor. and constant writer as we'll. Much of the manual work of authorship he imposes upon himself writing rapidly in a small neat hand with 8 stub pen. He is impatient of interruption and disagree ably vinegary with strangers.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-28
OCEANS OF SW EkTS.
Where Tons of Caadfes are Made Daf-
 ly for Dainty Palates.

Where Tons of Caadfes are Made Daf-
 Iy for Dainty Palates.
 From the New York Star.l
 With fear and trembling, and heart sur- charged with anxiety lest somebody should see him, 8 reporter made his way into can dy factory the other day. He took slim legged dude along with him to swear to an aiibi in case of need.
 A door opened and shut, and the visitors found themselves in room which at first sight might have been taken for a machine shop. Ponderous wheels reyolved noiseless- ly, and upon every side great engines stretched aud drew back their long steel arms, engaged upon some unknown but ti- tanic task The odor of chocolate was we'll nigh overpowering. The reporter stepped forward to an enormous bowl of polished copper and gazed into it's depths. A strange sight greeted his eyes. Within the interior of this great copper vessel revolved two large mill stones, while 8 steel rake-ike imple- ment, constantly in motion, directed river of rich brown chocolate so that it flowed steadily under the wheels. It was extraor- dinary how this mighty torrent twisted in and oat-s great writhing boa constructor struggling to escape.
 eThat is the grinder,' remarked the super
 
 the crushed cocoa bean and sugar. It looks semi liquid of course, but that is because of the essential oil of the bean"
 Near the grinder stood machine some thing like great coffee mill. The cocoa beans in their entirety were turned into a hopper at the top and issued in the form of liquid into 8 large vat beneath.
 Chocolate making is rather a complicated process. The beans are first placed in a sep arator, which dries and assorts them. Next they are roasted. Machine No. 3 cracks them, cleans them, throws out the shells and the germ and preserves the kernel After this the kernels are ground with sugar; the half-made chocolate is heated in an oven, then passed through three finishing ma chimes and finally comes into the hands of pretty young girls, who wrap it in silver foil and box it.
 In small room we'll lighted and ventila- ted and scrupulously clean-as indeed was the entire factory-five men were at work. They looked like band of Brazilian plant CTS who had been lifted up bodily and set down in the middle of Canadian snow storm They were clothed from head to foot in spotless cotton-cotton coats, cotton aprons, cotton trousers, cotton blouses and cotton caps A white powder drifting through the apartment had settled on their mustaches and faces, to say nothing of their clothing. This powder was corn starch. Over huge copper caldron, heated beneath by coil of sinuous steam pipes, leaned one of these queer, white figures. In his hand he held gigantic spoon, and every now and then he stirred the contents of the great yes sel vigorously.
 The reporter peered over the brink and saw mass of snow white substance about the consistency of buttermilk. "Try somea' queried the superintendent, ss he thrusts a ladle into the vat It was marshmallow, but such marshmal- low! It took two ladlefuls to quiet the dude,
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-28

possessed. They will run away from an or
 dinary person who is not used to Missouri
 thickets and jingles as easily as Kansas tor nado will outstrip a Missouri cyclone. Both
 of these hunters have whistles. By the sound of these whistles they telegraph to each other the course of the game they are pursuing whether it is bearing to right or left or moving straight ahead. Nine times out of ten they will reach the summit of a divide before the deer reaches the apex of the next divide and then they open fire again. That deer is made of good stuff that gets away without taking some of their lead with him-tha. rises and shows himself any where within forty rods, and these hunters say they have wounded only one deer since they came that they could not capture. shot, but it was spoiled. They ship all their venisen to St. Louis parties They realize twelve and one-half cents per pound for the saddles, which is all that they ship.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-28
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A very hearty tone is noticeable in the Lo- gan obituaries. He was man who won real admiration as we'll as respect.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-28

The rumors that the natural gas supply of Pennsylvania shows signs of giving out" are not surprising. It was not to be expected that it would last long,
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-28
5fIediIaI.
ClairvoYance.

MRS. D. J. CLARA K
 The we'll known business, test and healing medium, is not only maintaining her reputation as reliable Clairvoyant, but is com incing visitors each day by her astonishing gifts She can be consulted at her residence. 22S Crown street. all matters pertaining to business social affairs, health. etc, and always renders satisfaction. She compounds choice vegetable remedies. which have great po' tency in curing diseases. Hours from 10 a. m. to and 5 b. m. and evenings n3
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-28
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