The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-02-26

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The doctors arc very much displcas
ed over a competitor who is gradually
stealing their best practice !; we mean
Or. Bulps Cough Syrup.
1t is stated that the Hawaiian elec
ton is in reality struggle between the
native population who pay no taxes
and the foreigners who do. 7 is likely
that the taxpayers there are at the
mercy of those to each of whom Il ty'
rannical Republcanism gives the same
power at the ballot box on finance
measures as is allowed to the taxpayers
The postal telegraphic service pro
posed by Po&tnlaster-Gcneral Wana.
nl,Her. in his .,,IrGHl report, should b.
promptly rn in operation by '"iI-
@r.sS. Most pr"l.lc'lu n"l Understand
Mis- +"lIelr. Thry think that il j. an
innovation and something altogether
different from what already exists.
The truth is that the postnaster-Gen-
eral is merely continuance, in diff.
ferent channel, of the system already
pursued by the department.. His
proposition is to make contracts with
the telegraph companies for the trans
mission of messages under the Post
office Department, just as the Post
office Department now makes contracts
with the railroad companies for the
delivery of letters. There is no violent
depai ture from existing methods in
volved in this plan.
Mr.. Wanamakers idea is that his
department shall make contracts with
telegraph companies for the transmits
sion Of messages at 4 very low rate,
say at one cent a word, for immediate
delivery. The telegraph company
would merely be responsible for the
delivery: of the telegraph message from
office in2another. The Post-oflice De
partment would then attend to the de-
livery Of the message. This would be
done by local carriers, according to
the system now provided by the spec
ial-delivery stamp upon letters. This
would be Of especial advantage To the
money order department of the POSTAL
service. 1t is calculated that if each
money order Office in the country
sends but three tclcgraghic messages
in day It would amount to 4 good
paying business for Government. 1t
would also lie Il great convenience, as
orders for cash would he telegraphcd
by Il private code, and at very little
cost, with the certainty Of immediate
dcliverd.
"Bob" Burdctte, who has been laid
up with throat trouble, says, character
istically, in letter to friend: "I am
almost wholly voicelcss. Got lot of
things in my neck ] never knew were
there before, and all the Latin parts Of
my throat are ntlalned-'fraid l won't
live long"
The report that Mr.. Cleveland got
up and gave his seat in crowded ele-
waited railroad car to shop girl, the
other day, need excite no surprise.
Mr.. Cleveland is very polite man.
One day last spring he got up and gave
his scat ut Washington to all elderly
gentleman from Indiana.- Chicago
lNcaUS.
Cholera is reported from Persia,
where it is said to prevail with great
severity in the country districts. Its
appearance and unusually fatal char
acter ut this time of the year are re-
garded by European physicians us eX-
tremcly unfavorable, and an epidemic
for the coming summer is by no means
al improbability.
Washington city is likely to become
an educational as we'll as a political
center. The Catholics have deter
mined to build Il great University
there, and now the Northern Metho-
dist Church proposes to do the same
thing. 1t has the wealth to make a
University all that Protestants could
wish. But,they will have to pour it
out very literally if they keep abreast
of the Catholics.
DR.. Isaac Bartlett, of Hope, Me-, is
one of those who have attained good
old age, and he is said to have lived all
his life on bread and milk, and never
to have eaten an ounce of meat in his
life, never to have taken Il teaSpoonful
of intoxicating liquors, and never to
have used tea, coffee, or tobacco. He
now weighs 240 pounds, and is in the
regular practice of his profrssion.-Dc-
h0it Free Press.
Examining physicians say that alco.
hol and tobacco are largely responsible
for the colorblindness with which
large numbers Of applicants for posi-
tions Oh railways are affected.
An English inventor claims that
bells made by soldering together pieces
of bent metal give much greater vol
ume of sound than cast bells.
A rival Of Connecticut's renowned
wooden nutmcgs is manufactured in
Germany. 1t is artificial coffee, which
is made from linseed meal, roasted to a
dark color and mixed with some gluti-
nous substance. Machinery gives il
the shape of the real coffee bean.
German chemists have discovered in
the cocoanut 4 fatty substitute for but
ter, and now United States Consul at
Mannheim, Germany, reports that the
new product has begun to be manufac.
tured OIL large scale in that city. y
single factory produces G,9OO pounds ol
! it per day, worth in the market fifteen
cents pound.
If any man may elect what laws he
will rl,ny nll ,nusr Ia u,nDrIn1 fbo