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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-12-24
ATTRACTING ATTENTION.

In an English exchange, temperance.
worker thus describes novel method for
arousing the attention Of idle people:
have a notice board in front Of my hoIse---a
private one on which tack posters Of inn
portant meetings, diagrams, drink mapa
pictures, sayings Of eminent men, scraps OF.
poetry, etc, etc. Some are exhibited one
numbers of passers who stop and look. They
closely inspect and read what is on the board.
All classes are attracted, gentry, traders
mechanics, farm laborers, and even sots, so
that good diagram or striking picture is'
asuseful asan ordinary lecture, and really
more so, because it catches the attention o.
SO many who never attend our meetings.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-12-24
Hanging Cp His Stocking.

"Arc you going to hang up your
stocking this Year2" asked one young
man of another.
"No; am not," was the short, sharp
reply.
"Well, you needn't tc SO cranky about
it," was the answer.
"Well, l have good reason to be
cranky was the answer. "To ask a
man who hung up his overcoat last sum-
mer and hasn't got it out yet if he is
going to hang up his stocking is
positive insult. l don't like the work
at all. Do you think I am going bare
oteda"-Elmira Gazette.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-12-24
IN THE SETTING UP ROOM.

IN THE SETTING UP ROOM.
ton, and the work cost him over $780,
600. When it was finished it was pre-.
sented to the museum.
Some of the specimens are startling in
their girth and height. They command
respect. wish I could convey to you
in plain types the tone of reverence that
my guide put into his voice when, as we
stopped before monster case, he said:
"This is the yellow pine"
Six feet and over in diameter, taller
than that by a foot or two, stood the
pride of the California forests. A splen'
did and massive specimen. There are
others equally large, equally splendid and
massive.
Next year Mr.. Jessup purposes to ado
to the collection in little glass cases thai
rest against the walls beside the big
wood cases complete collection of those
insects that destroy the various woods.
This collection will be so arranged as to
be of permanent value to the arborcultur.
ist. For instance, take the oak family
of trees. They are arranged in cases by
themselves. Near them will be found
the insects that prey upon them, labelled
and mounted so that the most obtuse OF
foresters may read as he walks through
the hall.
Suspended from the ceiling of this
floor is the skeleton of great whale,
like a featherless bird preternaturally
long of body and short of wing and
neck. 1t has been poised in an attitude
of flight since the building was COM
pleted, and probably causes more useless
and foolish questions than any other
specimen in the collection. While I
was in the hall I was asked twice what
bird that was, and before could an
swer the last time stout young man
youchsafed the information that it was
"an albatross, and the pair went on,
blissful and happy, to the wood cases,
where he explained to his friend that
the Juniperus Virginia the red cedar)
was "the juniper tree of Virginia
On the second floor the birds and
mammals are kept. The mammals are
not on exhibition at present, owing to
the crowded condition of the halls, and
will not be brought before the public
Until the new wing is completed. The
main features of this hall arc the skele-
tons of the great and only Jumbo and
of Samson, the two largest elephants in
the world at the time OF their death.
Both were presented to the museum
by Barnum Il Bailey, the menagerle pro-
prietors. The late Samson once occu-
pied q large place in the affections Of
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-12-24
THREE CHRISTMAS CHIMES.

Hearken! how the Christmas chime
Sings on earth its song sublime!
"See those twain with weary feet
: Wander through the village street.
! Doors are closed against the stranger,
See the Child, the meek and lowly,
Christ, the mighty, the all-holy,
Sleeping Graded in manger."
Sing your JOY, o Christmas chime!
Let us keep the Christmas time.
Be the loaf of plenty doled,
Be the poor mans heart consoled.
Thus we keep the Christmas time.
Hearken! still the Christmas chime
Sings on earth its song sublime!
Wondering shepherds see the night
Flooded with celestial light
Wondering hear the angel message;
Come, and let us kneel before Him,
Let us find Him and adore Him.
Peace on earth this child doth presage. 81
Sing your joy, O Christmas chime,
Let us keep the Christmas time.
Let all strife and hatred cease,
Kindness live, good will and peace.
Thus we keep the Christmas time.
Hearken! still the Christmas chime
Sings on earth its song sublime!
Eagerly the Magi sped
BY the wondrous star-beam led,
Gold and myrrh and incense offer. =.
He brings most yes, He the highest
Draweth unto God the highest.
Who heart of love doth proffer."
Sing your joy, o Christmas chime!
Let us keep the Christmas time;
Love shall be the law to bind
In one band all humankind.
Thus we keep the Christmas time.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-12-24

Chief Simon Pokagon, who was edu'
Gated to be Catholic priest, has just
sent six more remnants of his once pow.
erful Pottawatomie tribe to Kansas
Indian college. He says his people in
Michigan will be entirely annihilated in
half century. -. -.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-12-24
THE CHRISTMA
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.

UR hrst Christmas
Eve in a canal boat !"
said Clara Haven,
la u 6 h in 6. 30 b,
E&e, did you ever
think we should come
to this?"
SIT isn't a canal
boat; it's a cottage!"
cried indignant E6e.
"And if you didn't
tell them, nobody
would ever know it
was made out Of the
old boat that went a.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-12-24

1t will not be placed on exhibition until
the new wing is completed.-Ns~ IarS
Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-12-24

A number of horsefesh restaurants
have been started in Berlin, Germany.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-05-22
Statistics ms 10 Huncbbacks.

Ten years ago n remarkable charac>
ter died in Paris. He was known all
over France and the greater part of all
Europe as The Learned Hunchback. Z"
lie was very wealthy, and spent mint
of money in the last fifty years of his
life, travelling in all directions making
researches concerning his hunchbacked
brethren. 1t was in the milder por-
tions of Europe that he found the mis-
fortune the most prevalent. Spain
supplied the greater number, and in n
circumscribed locality at the foot of
the Sierra Moreno he found that there
was one humpbacked person to every
thirteen inhabitants. They were also
found to be quito numerous in the val
ley OF the Loire in France. The little
hunipbacked statistician came to the
conclusion that there was one hump
back IN each one thousand inhabitants.
or an aggregate of one million against
the estimated thousand millions of the
entire earth.
After tho death of this eccentric
Individual his heirs found in place of n
VIII voluminous manuscript of two
thousand pages, all concerning humps.
The last page, although it said nothing
about tho disposition of property, ex.
pressed the authors desire to have n
hump of marble raised over his grave.
WI this inscription:
Here lies humpback who had
taste for humps, and who know more
about them than any other hump
back"
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-05-22
ExOrhlfanf.

fhe Birmingham Medical Reriep
prints little story to show the risk
which a physician may run in consult
ing patient. A girl had dislocated
her jaw and was taken to the doctor.
who quickly reduced the dislocation
and applied bandage to keep the jaw
In position.
The physician was n young man and
bad mover had just such a case before.
He was uncertain, therefore, what fee
he ought to charge, and went into an
other room and consulted table of
charges published by the local medical
society. This said: "For reducing
dislocation of jaw, one to three
gnineas."
The patient was evidently in roor
circumstances, and the doctor foresaw
that even the minimum fee was not
likely to be forthcoming. 30 he injured,
by way OF getting a clew, whether she
had ever had her jaw out before.
"Oh, yes, sir, replied the mother,
about twelve months ago. She was
treated 10y doctor ut -"
How much did he charge your
"a shilling. sir"
Didn't that strike you rs being
somewhat peculiar fee?'
well. yesp replied the woman, "wo
did think it good deal"
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-05-22
cLEANfNa s,I.yEn wonK

The Je'oeiers' Weekly gives the follow
ing directions for cleaning bright silver
work:
Solution No. 1. Dissolve n piece of
soap three times as large as nm English
walnut in one quart OF water; add n
wineglassful of ammonia and use boil
ing hot.
Solution No. 2. Dissolve a piece of
cyanide Of potassium twice as large MS
an English walnut in one quart Of water,
and use warm.
Directions. First wash the article and
brush with solution No. 1, then rinse in
boiling water, after which dip the solu-
ton No. 2. The article should then
again be rinsed In boiling water, and
this should be followed by washing and
brushing with solution No. 1; then rinse
with boiling water and dry the piece in
hot sawdust or wipe it dry This method
must not be used TO clean oxidized work.
THE cyanide of potassium is n deadly
poison, and must be handled carefully.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-05-22
Europe Plastered with Mortgages.

The real estate Of Great Britain and
Ireland Is mortgaged for fifty per cent
OF its value; the farm lands of denmark
are mortgaged for forty-one per cent. of
their value, and the real estate Of Copen-
hagen for seventy per cent the real es.
tate Of France is mortgaged for g, 900. o.
900, 900, or S25 an acre for every acre. in
Guiding mountain tops aud rivers, in the
Empire; eighty per cent Of the entire
taxable real estate Of Germany il mort
gagged, with mortgages" says Presser,
German writer, scarcely redeemable 4"
The German farmers, according 10 DR..
Jaeger, pay 1925, 900, 900 year interest
on mortgages, and StoepeI, another Ger
man writer, says IL Is FAR above that sum.
Italy Is mortgaged forty per cent. on all
her taxable real estate; Sweden thirty
three per cent, and others in Ike pro.
portion. These are all old countries
and their mortgages represent genera
lions Of Improbable farming, not tho
development ~ great aud new en-
pirc. -- Ciccciand L<aIer.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-05-22
FISH SALAD

Crab Salad-Prepare pint of crab
meat; put it in salad bowl, arrange
about in spIced oysters, and add little
chopped celery; pour over rimouladc
sauce.
Farmers Cookies-Two cupfuls of
brown sugar, one half-cupful of butter,
one egg, one teaspoon OF soda dissolved
in one cupful of water, flour to roll.
Roll thin and bake in a quick oven.
Herring Salad-Put into a salad bowl
the crisp leaves of head of lettuce; re-
move the skin and bone from two
smoked behring's; shred them fine and
add to the lettuce; pour over the salad a
plain dressing and garnish with hard
boiled eggs.
Shrimp Salad-Take ono can OF
shrimps, open, and put in cold water,
drain and dry. Put four OF five tomatoes
in boiling water, and skin, slice and
drain; arrange them on dish, lay the
shrimps on top, and pour over all may
onnaise dressing. Garnish with lettuce.
Crayfish Salad-Wash two dozen cray
fish, and boil them in salt water for fif-
teen minutes; pick them out Of their
shells; remove the entrail in the centre
Of the tail. Put two heads Of lettuce i'm
salad bowl, add the crayfish, pour over
mayonnaise dressing. Garnish with hard
boiled eggs.
Salmon Salad-Takc pound OF fresh
salad Tor canned) aud boil; break in
flakes; put in a salad bowl, with salt,
pepper and vinegar, and very little oil;
let stand one hour; put crisp lettuce in a
large bowl, and the salmon, pour over
mayonuaise dressing; garnish with hard
boiled eggs and celery.
Goldfish Salad-Cut quarter OF n
pound OF salt Goldfish in pieces, three
inches square; split them, aud put TO
soak over night; next dry them, broil
and basic with butter. Take up, let
cool, tear the pieces apart, lay or a dish,
over crisp lettuce leaves, and pour over
plain salad dressing. Garnish with hard
boiled eggs aud sliced lemon.
Lobster Salad-Plunge two Holsters in
boiling water and let cook half an hour;
take the centre OF six heads OF lettuce
aud three hard boiled eggs break of the
shells Of tho Holsters, take out the flesh
and cut in small pieces; put salad in n
49, 49, '~''"h WIZ saw pSPpcI5 "lt
and vinegar; wash the lettuce, tear in
pieces, mix with the lobster and cover
with mayonnaise dressing.
Fresh Fish Salad-Tako two pounds
iof cold boiled or baked fish, take of the
skin, pick out the bones and mince
slice six potatoes, cut Enc n pint Of cab.
bage, add the potatoes, then tho fish :;
ChOp one small onion and two small
cucumber pickles; mix oil together and
pour over mayonuaiso dressing. -
COUrier- J0uTuaI.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-05-22
An Automatic Photographic Machine.

An automatic Photographic machine
has been invented, and it will soon be
launched by company of London CAPT.
talists; it is not unlike the devices which
are used in Chicago to register ones
weight. The machine is in the form of
large square box mounted on a hollow
pedestal. On the front center is small
lens, surmounted by mirror; a money
BLOT is In the top left-hand corner. The
person who is to be photographed takes
his stand in front of the lens, with his
back to post or rail fixed at a distance
oil three feet from the machine, and adj
Justs himself so that his full face shall be
reflected in the mirror. With his left
hand he then puts a coin in the slot and
remains motionless for FIVE seconds
when the sound of bell announces that
the impression is complete. In forty
seconds more the finished portrait, on n
metal plate drops through the delivery
upon the shelf outside. Another coin.
put in another slot, will bring out n
frame for the picture, but this luxury is
wholly optional. The impressions resem-
bles those of the cheap glass positive
photograph, only that tin plate is substi
tuted for glass. The mechanism is at
present secret, but the principle an
pears to be that of rotary arm which
carries the plate through series of
chemical baths until the impression is
developed and fixed Chicago Ne,cs.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-05-22
CANNING FRuIr.

Pare all fruit with a silver knife. and,
as it darkens by exposure to the air, drop
each piece rs pared into cold water and
prepare only the quantity needed to fill
two cans.
Fruit looks and is better when whole.
the juices are clearer aud the flavor is
more fully retained. IL is difficult TO
cook large quantity evenly without in
juring the shape. For this reason il is
better to cook only enough to fill few
jars at "A time. In canning a crate of
berries 1t is we'll to select the finest look
ing quarts and can expressly for simple
desserts mt table. Such particular can
ming will not be necessary for cooking
purposes.
Cook fruit in porcclain-l lined or
granite kettle. II tin is used il should
be new.
Cook evenly for fifteen minutes after Il
begins to boil.
There is no necessity for using sugar In
canning fruit, but one tablespoonful to n
quart Of fruit is sometimes added.
When ready to can, have all articles
needed close at hand. Set the can on
two thicknesses of warm, wet flannel.
Dip out the boiling fruit with a long
handled ladle, and fill the jar to over
flowing. Run a knitting-needle three
times down to the bottom of the filled
can, and liberate the air bubbles.
Then, with n quick movement, break the
bubbles lying on top, and seal without
the loss of a second. In ten minutes
tighten the tops again with your wrench,
and when the cans are cool wrap in
paper, and keep in q cool, dry, dark
place. Be sure there are no seeds or
sediment on the rubber ring before seal
ing. a funnel comes, which is great
convenience in filling the jars. Do not
store your cans of fruit on swing-shelf,
unless you are certain it will bear the
weight. In canning berries, dip out
most of the surplus juice, and seal,
when boiling hot, in pint cans for the
children. -EdsterR argus.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-05-22
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

A method OF transmitting sketches by
telegraph has been devised.
Compound locomotives are to be the
railway engines OF the future.
Los Angeles, Cal. has one sewer 5000
feet long that has not single connec.
ton. In one place it is twenty five feet
under ground.
The Reading Railroad Company is
having 1000 freight cars built, which are
all provided with drawbar attachments
and automatic couplers.
An English inventor offers a system by
winch coal gas compressed to one-cighth
its natural bulk can be carried about and
utilized as an illuminant when desired.
Instead of chewing slate pencils and
drinking vinegar and lime juice adipose
doctors feed their patients raw fruit
without sugar or cream and obesity tea.
The doctors in the French fleet have
been forbidden to practice "hypnotism"
on their patients. A similar prohibition
was issued some months ago TO the
French army doctors.
y The appliance of hydraulic power TO
the manufacture of steel seamless boats Is
one of the latest things in England.
These boats are thought TO be in every
particular superior to those made of wood
and can be made at about the same cost.
The experiment of constructing a
large building of paper has been success.
fully made at Hamburg, Germany, where
an immense hotel, with its facade and
other important parts composed of that
material, and claimed to be fire-proof.
has been erected.
In using emery wheels it has been
found that at a high speed one ounce of
wheel material would only grind of six
ounces OF metal, while at lower speed
1T would grind oil eleven ounces. At
this lower speed the wheel was making
2l5O revolutions.
The electrical process has been sue
cessfully adopted in South Australia for
the recovery of the minute particles of
gold dust that have hitherto been lost i'm
the work of separating the metal from
the ore. The economical value of the
process has been abundantly proved.
An engineer on the Iron Mountain
Road, of Missouri, has perfected an au.
tomato bell-ringer on his locomotive, and
now when running in corporation limits
or whenever the bell must be rang he
just jerks spring and the bell is kept
going by steam power till he turns off
the steam.
A new incandescent lamp has been in
PRODUCED which is said to obviate discol-
Grafton. The carbon filaments are made
from raw silk threads put through a care
full process and capable Of bearing high
temperature. A suspended needle is
fitted inside from the socket to the glass
TIP, and this prevents shaking and at
tracts the PARTICLES of carbon to it.
An Italian journal describes new
pharo-light, which is said to be as pow
erful as the electric light, aud the eff
cheney of which is not impaired by fog,
ms is the case with the latter. A clock
work arrangement pours every thirty sec
onds ten centograms of powdered magne-
stun into the flame of round wick
lamp, producing an extremely brilliant
flash of light.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-05-22
His Conscience Smote Him.

A sad-eyod man walked into n store
in Beloit, Wis, the other day, and,
planking down $40 note, tearfully
said
Just four years ago to day / stole n
pair of ~ shoes from your store. The
matter has been preying on my mind,
but my pride prevented me from con
Tossing. can stand it no longer. Take
your pay out Of this $40 bill"
The merchant, of course, was de-
lighted to meet srrh penitent. cou-
trite soul, and gave the man So, and he
departed with n light heart. The
$40 bill was a very finely execut, d
counterfeit. The next conscience
stricken individual that presents him
self at that store will Toe thrown into
the river with neatness and dispatch.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-05-22
Habits ofFrogs.

The owner Of frog farm near Menas.
ha' Wis, gives some interesting facts
relative 20 the frogs habits. In ninety
one days the eggs hatch. The thirty
ninth day the little animals begin 70 have
motion. In few days they assume the
iadpolc form. When ninety-two DAYS
old, two small feet are seen beginning 10
sprout near the tail, and the head ap.
pears % De separate from the body. I'm
five days after this they refuse an vegefa-
ble food Soon thereafter the animal A.
sumes a perfect form.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-05-22
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
A KITCHEN orLcLoTu.

A cheap oilcloth for the kitchen may
DC made OF cheap, heavy towcloth or
burlap fitted TO the room. Nail IL on
thc side of an outside building and cover
thc cloth with thick paste made Of rye
iour. When this is dry, paint it good,
cheap, strong brown. In two weeks time
paint again, and in two weeks more give
It another coat. Let IL remain till we'll
reasoned, which will be in two or three
months, then varnish and nail down.
This oilcloth, lis said, will last for many
York Tribune.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-05-22
Metropolis ofnn Extinct Raen

Rev. A. n. Somcrs, Of Fort Akin.
son, Wis, who Is a noted archmologist
and aD expert on tho work of the mound
builders, has discovered that the ituc
village Aztalan, Wis. is built upon the
ruins Of CITY which was once evidently
the capital Of a vast region held by the
mound builders. By recent excavations
Mr. somers finds that four cities have ok
isted IN the same place, one bait upon
the ruins Of another.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-05-22

A curiosity reyea'el at Holy Hill,
near Daytona, Fla was the hatching
out OF couple OF chicks by cat fro n
eggs left in the nest by hen that had
got tired OF waiting for them to do
as had tho other eggs.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-05-22

The latest and most Trustworthy Stats
tics show that there are in operation In
This country, and IN the course Of con
strucuon at the present time, no fewer
than l79 electric railways operating 1855
cars with 1860 miles oftack. The num-
Der Of passengers carried 80 would be diff
hcuit b. estimate, but Il cannot be far
from 100, 900, 900.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-05-22
Walked Across the river in a Kettle.

As syrup maker was peacefully
preparing for work among the naples
he became aware that Indians were
stealing upon him and were already in
possession of his canoe. Whatever
was to be done had to be done quickly,
and frontier wit was equal to the
emergency. Snatching up his deep
kettle he inverted it over his head and
boldly waded into the river. The in
yerted kettle acted, of course, as n
diving bell, and with his head in this
air chamber he walked across the river,
which in the middle was many feet
over his head, to the utter amazement
of the Indians. -PhiIade iphia Times.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-05-22
Our Hannah Lime.

our Hannah Jane was thin and weak
And nshy white her lip and check.
We often thought-and thought with pain
We soon must lose our Hannah Jane"
With change of doctors, change of air
She sought for healing eVcrywhcre
And. when our hopes were Plmost mast
"Favorite Prescription" tried nj last.
IL gave us JOY, IL gave us hope,
she ceased TO pine, she ceased to mope
GPlcrce'S remedies are sure and truel
Now Hannah Jane Is good as new
br. Picrce's Favorite Prcscript on Is the
only medicine for women, sold by druggists.
under q positive guarantee, from the manufac-
turers, that ii Will give satisfaction in every
case, or money will lie REFUNDED. This guar
antee has been printed on the bottle wrapper
and faithfully carried out for many years.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-05-22

FITS stopped FREQ by DIR. KLINE's GREAT
NERVE REsToRER. No Fits after first day
use. Marvellous cures. Treatise and 81 trial
bottle free. DIR. Kline, 93l Arch ST., Phila., Pa.