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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-16
Fashionable Women's Whfms.

The extent to which money is wasted
on q fashionable woman's whim was il
lustrated to me the other day. I was in
the shop of a well-known florist on
Broadway when lady came in from a
private coach. She purchased three
huge roses, for which she paid $5, and
carried them daintily away by their long
stems. An hour later, going by Del
monico'e, I saw my lady of the roses
lunching at one of the windows with a
companion of her own sex. Fifteen
minutes afterward, returning by the
same way, noted that the table where
they sat was vacant. Three bare rose
stems lay amid the dishes, which were
buried in rose leaves. The lady of the
roses had plucked S. worth of flowers to
pieces in few minutes idle conversation
after her luncheon! Neither their cost
nor their beauty had any value in her
eyes.
Speaking of flowers this same florist
informed me that at q dinner given in
this city less than q month ago the sup
ply of roses for the table alone cost the
host round $500. Quite neat sum to
put out on the partial and immate:ial
decoration of a feast in town where
there have to be one-cent coffee stands
to keep people willing to work for liv.
ing from dying of starvation, Is it not3
-INew York Neps.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-16
An Ingenious Chinese Clock.

A New Orleans gentleman has just re-
ceived from San Francisco wonderful
piece OF workmanship, which is a striking
evidence of the patience, skill, and in.
genuity of the natives OF the Celestial
Empire. 1t is in the form of m egg,
but little larger than a turkeys, and, to
outward appearance, nothing but such
an egg as might be picked up in any
farmyard. But inside of the shell there
is such delicate mechanism that an ac-
curate description of it is we'll nigh i'm
possible, and to get fair idea OF the
limits to which human skill may reach it
is necessary to see this marvel. The egg
shell is divided into two pats, but so
closely and skilfully are they joined that
the naked eye fails to discover the line OF
junction. The tiny works by which its
different parts are operated are let OF
microscopic springs and diminutive
wheels, so small that the largest of the
lot hardly rivals in size those small
spangles which are used in gold lace en-
broidery.
The arrangement is such that once in
each hour the two shells. which are
hinged at the base, fly apart with a
spring, displaying to view. a gorgeous
tulip, so artistically and truthfully col
ored that one can hardly believe it has
not been plucked from flower bed in
stead of being production of art. The
petals of the tulip slowly unfold, open
ing one after the other, until the flower
is full blown. Within it stands wee
church, with belfry, on the outside Of
which is small dial plate, where the
tiniest hands point the hour. The latter
are so very small that, placed next to
them, the finest needle seems monstrous.
The hour strikes with fairy like tink-
ling, the church slowly revolves on its
axis, when the rear comes to view, ex-
posing the works to the sight. Then the
petals of the tulip fold together again,
the shells of the egg rejoiu, and for
another hour the whole seems to the
uninitiated beholder nothing but COM
mon egg.-MeU Orleans Times.
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Results Of Ear.BOXing.

The professional opinion In regard to
boxing the ears Of children is, that it is
punishment criminally wicked or sense
less. Medical records which have been
Investigated to this end show fifty-one
cases in which the ear has been injured
by blows of the open hand or fst-the
nature of the injuries varying, of course,
considerably. In one case the patient
has Inflammation of the ear, with sus-
picion of internal injury, and running
of the ear for twelve years following the
blow received by that organ; this pa
tient subsequently died of brain disease:
In another case the ear became infamed
and the hearing very much impaired. In
another the patient was slapped upon the
left ear, and immediate pain and deaf
ness ensued. with bloody discharge.
from which he was three months in re-
coverinp
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Sore Throat in Cattle. .

Chronic sore throat in cattle is some
times produced by feeding coarse dirty
hay or musty straw-containing more or
less rank irritating weeds. But if you
have nothing better to feed your cattle
than wheat straw it is high time you
either give up farming or dispose of your
live stock to some one who will give them
such food as they require to keep them in
health and comfortable. You certainly
had wheat if you raised wheat straw, and
the grain if sold would supply the where
with to- purchase bran, middlings, and
other kinds of cheap ground feed, this
being sprinkled on cut straw slightly
moistened or steamed would make excel
lent food for cattle. If the animals are
worth saving, cut up the straw, and
either steam or soak it few hours in
warm water, then drain off and add bran
and handful of linseed or cotton-seed
meal to each feed, three times day.
Keep the cattle in the stable when the
weather is cold, and give tablespoonful
of glauber salts once day in their food.
Steaming the nose and placing warm wet
bandages about the throat will often af-
ford relief.-NeU York Sun.
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A Chanter Fran Real Life.

In the largest and most splendid me.
tropolis of our country: the centre of our
wealth and commerce; city which is
the most gorgeous outcome of our snowy
civilization, there was enacted, the other
day, tragedy we'll calculated to make
the angels weep and men blush with
shame.
A wretched workingman and his wife.
living in miserable attic, found them
selves out of work. They parted little
by little with everything that could be
pawred, and the man trampcd the
streets wearily day after day begging,
not for for money or bread, but for
work. Night after night, when he re-
turned unsuccessful, his brave wife with
mighty effort threw off her sadness
and greeted him with a forced cheerful
ness. 1t was of the utmost Importance to
keep up the breadwinner's spirits, and his
wife never gave way to her despair in his
presence. There was baby, loo, to be
thought of, and even when the last penny
had been spent the neighbors heard the
woman singing to the child and its father.
For days after the money was all gone
the little family managed to 1--we. At
night the woman slipped out and picked
up crusts of bread and other scraps of
food. But this could not 60 on forever.
The husband and wife consulted to-
gether. Should they try another world
They did not know what the conse-
quences would be. but it seemed to them
that it would be blessed escape from
the selfshness and inhumauity of man
kind.
They succeeded in obtaining little
poison, and they died together. They
did not have the heart to kill the baby.
Half crazed as they were, they thought
perhaps that people would look tenderly
upon the orphan of such a frightful
tragedy, and give it bread instead of a
stone. All this is horrible, but the short
and simple annals of the poor are full Of
Just such horrors. s.-Atlanta Constitution.
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Odds and Ends.

Do not hurry the COWS from the pas
ture.
Sow turnip seed after, not before, a
rain.
1t is not too early to begin on your
fair exhibits.
Better have whitewash than manure
on the sills.
Try hard to keep the stable dry dur
ing damp days.
Th, poorest land is too valuable to
grow weeds or briars.
Reduce the amount and improve the
quality of the fencing.
Pasturing meadows is removing the
door to stop knot hole.
More hoe is the best remedy for poor
quality among vegetables.
Cultivate the mud -wasps-they are the
sworn foes of the cricket.
Plows in the fence corner are sign OF
"farm for sale" within ten years.
A mixture of grasses stimulates the ap.
petite and affords better nourshment.
Buck wheat and sheep are most ex.
cellent help in renovating foul, worn
land.
Empty the slops on heap of dry earth
under shed near the house-not in a
sink drain.
1t was well-rotted chip-manure lib
orally applied that made the radish so
sweet and tender
The secret of transplanting sweet po-
tato plants successfully is to firm we'll
the soil about then.
A weak fence, pond near the house,
scrub male, or lean manure heap, is
not seen on we,l-managed farm.
Having two many implements is as bad
as not having enough; and having i'm.
plements in bad condition is always bad.
A large per cent of merchants are
ruined by the failure of other merchants
few farmers indeed lose by the failure OF
other farmers.
Put it down to the credit of the silo
that at least it has shown farmers that
their worst faults have not been in pro-
ducing but in utilizing.
Flowing around stumps and rocks is
not unlike driving slower to reach your
destination sooner; yet the children
would be afraid of you if you did the
latter.
The farmer who thinks that to make
money he must 60 where land is cheap
er, should consider we'll if he would not
make more money by making the land he
has deeper and richer.-Anserican Agri.
ruLtprisf
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SCOTS EMULSION of Pure Cod
Liver Oil, with Hypophosphites, is a
combination of two of the most valua-
Bile remedies in existence for the cure
of Consumption and all Wasting Con-
ditions; is more generally recommend
ed and used by Physicians than any
known remedy; it gives most satisfac'
tory results, and tones up the system;
and when the Consumptive has wasted
away and loses hope, the Emulsion
will speedily check the ravages of this
terrible disease, and restore the sufferer
to good health and happiness. This
is equally true in regard to Rickets in
Children, OF Marasmus and Anamia in
Adults, and all impoverished conditions
of the blood and especially desirable
for Colds and Chronic Coughs, as it
will cure them more quickly than ordi-
nary Specifics used. Palatable as milk
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-16
Natural Electricity Discovered.

Considerable excitement has been
caused by the discovery of electricity in
the water works well at Lebanon, Mo.
Some time ago, during the dry weather,
the Frisco Company put a pump in the
we'll, but before C, injection was made
with their tank water was plenty and
the we'll was abandoned. An attempt
was made to remove the pump, when it
was found some part of the pump was
fast to the piping, which extends down
about 800 feet. It was also found that
by the application of small steele article:
that the pipe is highly magnetic and
steel readily adheres to-it: The we'll is
1900 feet deep, and has 900 feet oi
water in it. It has filled in and been
drilled out three times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-16
A Chinese Meat Shop.

IT'S there Chinese butcher shop in
New York;"
This was question put by Mail and
Express reporter to several city butchers,
and the invariable answer was "No." A
search of the neighborhood usually fire.
quented by Mongolians led to the dis
covery of one in the rear of No. 8 Mott
street, by the side of the building oc-
cup;ed BY the Wo Kee Company. Sitting
on a rough board suspended between
two large wooden blocks sat Sam Wah,
hard at work cutting up pieces of fat
and rinds taken from pork loins. After
good deal of speculative conversation
he managed to explain his manner of
conducting business. He makes daily
visits to the American butcher shops in
the neighborhood and buys up all the
pork, fat and trimmings in the market.
He usually adds to his basket load any
bargains in the shape of flank and shin
pieces of beef he can find. This stock
he carries to his little cellar shop and
carefully sorts into different grades.
Every evening economical Chinese
laundrymen come from all parts of the
city TO his emporium and purchase
enough provisions to last them for
several days. Mr.. Wah further explained
that in the matter of prices he can under
sell any pork butcher in New York, but
admitted, with rare candor, that his
stock was moi exactly suitable for the
tastes of Fifth avenue millionaires. He
stated that he had been engaged in this
business in San Francisco and thatit was
only matter of time when the Chinese
would make deep inroads into the pro-
vision industry of this city. 1t only
needed, he said, the arrival of few hun
dred more Mongolians to set in motion
scheme which the residents of Mott
street have now in contemplation. As
to the nature of this economic scheme he
was very seriously silent, but gave the
inference that it was in the meat line.
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Management of Raspberries.

It always improves the fruit, both in
earliness and size, to prune the bearing
canes of raspberries and blackberries.
The old dead canes are removed, the
young canes are cut back to about Al
feet high, aud the side branches short
ened II or IA inches. Uusually these
fruits are grown in hills of three or four
plants, each distant four feet apart in
the rows, and the rows five or six feet
apart, and each cluster of canes, of four
or FIVE of the best, is tied to strong
strong stake. They are then more easily
worked and cultivated and the fruit is
gathered more easily. The worm which
bores in the stems and kills the canes is
the larva of small beetle about half an
inch long known as Oberea tripuncta.
This insect deposits its egg near the tip
of the cane, which withers soon after;
the worm then eats its way downward
and upward through the stem, consum-
ing the p!th; it remains in the cane all
the winter and transforms to mature
insect, which leaves the cane near the
root at hole which 1t makes through
the cane. The only way to destroy this
pest is to destroy the tops of the canes
late in the summer, and earlier if they
are found to he withering at the tip.
The beetle cuts two rings around the
caue near the top about an inch apart
and lays its egg between them, so that
the presence Of the young worm is easily
discovered.-Neso Krk Times.
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Milk Diet for Laying Hens.

Please listen to the substance of an
instructive little story lately told by a
Canada editor: A neighbor whose hens,
to our evaporation, kept laying on when
eggs were twenty-five cents a dozen,
while ours persistently laid off during
the same season, on being ques-
toned. revealed the fact that his hens
had paiiful of skinned (perhaps clab-
bered) milk each day, and no other
drink. On comparing notes we found
that our manage nent of fowls was al
most exactly alike. with the single milk
differences difference that had put
many dollar to the credit side of his
ledger, while ours was left blank during
the same period-and this thing had
been going on for years, with the results
always in favor of milk diet. A good
thing for poultry keepers wanting eggs
to remember.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-16
Bug.PrOOf Fences.

A Kansas man told me that an in
genious individual in Southern Kansas
had invented fence to keep out chinch
bugs. He takes strip of flooring and
sets it on the ground with the groove
side up. In the groove he puts candle
wick aud saturates it with coal oil. The
chinch bug, when it crawls up the SIDE
of the board and gets sniff of the
kerosene, reti.es in disgust.-Lima Re-
pNhicqa.
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Labels for Trees and Plants.


The subject for consideration at a late
meeting of the Massachusetts Horticul-
tural Society was Methods for Labelling
Trees and Plants" In an essay on the
subject read by Robert T. Jackson, the
suggestion is made that as labor costs
generally more than anything else it is
economy to provide good labels-labels
that will last long time. Metals were
named as best material for durability.
Zinc is the metal most commonly used,
as it is reasonably imperishable, cheap
and readily handled. Bright, clean zinc
may be written on with an aqueous solu-
tion of chloride of platinum or chloride
of copper-the former is probably the
better. They may be obtained of chem
lists or purchased under the name of
chemical inks for zinc labels. A quill
pen should be used in writing with
them. The zinc should be prepared for
them by cleaning with fine emery paper
or very weak muriatic acid, the latter
being preferable, as it is not so likely to
be followed by extensive oxidiZation,
30 injurious to the writing. Use rag
dipped in weak acid and rinse in
clean water. After writing nothing fur
ther is necessary. Zinc. when slightly
roughened by oxidation, may be writ
ten upon with a soft lead pencil, and
the graphite soon becomes indelibly iyei
on the zinc, and is quite as permanent as
chemical ink. The labels may be suf-
6cently oxidized by leaving them few
weeks in o damp place. This is much
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-16
"Leyel Culturen for Potatoes.

Mr. T. B. Terry, of Ohio, very sue
cessful potato grower, makes the follow
Ing pertinent argument for the ''level
culture" of potatoes:
On q field cultivated level and the sur
face all mellow, the rain goes right down
where it falls, wetting all the soil, and
carrying what fertility it has in it right
10 the growing roots that extend all
through between the rows. Where a
shovel plow is used during heavy
shower, much of the water runs off IN the
furrows, carrying its fertility with it.
The ground in the hills, instead of being
yielding medium" often gets so dry
and hard that the yield is injured. Level
Ioil will withstand drought best. In a
wet season potatoes will stand hilling
better, but on drained land even then
hills are an injury. When one takes soil
from between the rows to pile up around
the hills, he is laying bare, or nearly so,
the roots that are along in the center.
This is abusing the plants, and on
drained land I know of no possible
benefit to be DERIVED. Better plant
about four inches deep and keep the
ground nearly level. In practice have
to throw a little dirt in under the plants
once with the Planet horse-hoe to keep
The weeds down without the use of hand
hoe, but we keep the surface as nearly
even as possible. After raising many
thousands of bushels in this way. we
fined no more greened or sun-dried than
when we hilled up high; in truth think
not so many.
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The Vanilla Baan.

The vanilla-bean is the costliest bean
on earth. It tfouriehes in Mexico, chiefly
in Papantla and Misantla. 1t grows
wild, and is gathered and marketed by
the natives. Just as they come from the
forest the beans sell at $40 and $12 per
thousand. After the beans are dried
and cured they are worth from 81 to $12
per pound, according to quality. Last
year the vicinity of Papantla alone ex-
ported sixty million beans. They are
used by druggists and confectioners, and
are an important article of commerce.
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the quickest way of making any metal
labels and makes one of the best labels
for outdoor purposes. They have been
seen perfectly clear after ten years en-
perience.
Zinc labels may also have the names OF
plants or catalogue numbers stamped
with steel dies. The letters are rendered
clearer by rubbing black paint into the
lines after stamping. This is an ex-
tremely good and permanent method,
but if the labor of stamping is to be ex-
pended it would be better to use copper
or pure tin.-Neao York World.
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Three months ago Charles Willis, of
Brooklyn, N. Y, dreamed that a certain
lottery ticket would draw $4,000. He
.telegraphed around the country until he
located it, got man to buy it for him
for $500, and when the drawing came off
he was $50 numbers away from even the
smallest prize.
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A monster toad, weighing sixty-six
pounds and measuring nearly three feet
round the body, is said to have been
found at Iuillac, France, and sold for
$3.50 to manufacturer at st. Etienne.
Its croaking bears close resemblance to
the barking of dog. The inhabitants
of all the country round have been pour
ing into Juillac to see the phenomenal
animal
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