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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-14
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
DINING ROOM CURTAINS.

For dining-room use short curtains
of white or cream spotted muslin, OF
batiste with colored figures, fastened
against the easement at the top, close tc
the window, and looped to each side mid,
way thelower sash. The curtain reaches
only trifle below the sash. Sometimes
the length is divided by using piece OF
the muslin about two feet deep, drawn
quite full at the top and bottom over :
tape OF small brass wire, across part O..
the upper sash. The lower curtains are
hung with gilt rings over a small brass
rod just below this, and looped as before
The only other treatment We could sug-
gest, as you cannot have long curtains
on account of the baby, would be drap-
cry over the windows, coming low at the
sides, with loopings in lambrequin effect.
-Housepife.
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New Oil Spreader for Stormy Seas.

A difficulty experienced in the use of
oil in storm at sea is that when spread
on the surface the wind blows it to lee
ward and the effect is lost. This diff
Guilty is now overcome by new device
consisting If mortar and bomb. The
latter is nearly globular shell of cast
iron fllet. with oil. On the side toward
the muzzle as it lies in the mortar is an
aperture closed by 4 hinged cover, fitting
tightly and fastened with a sort of latch.
The latch is so constructed that when
the mortar is discharged the pressure of
the air releases it. But the aperture in
the shell is not opened until it strikes
the water and sinks beneath the surface.
The shell is so weighted that as it sinks
the aperture is uppermost, and the cover
is lifted by the pressure of the oil upon
it. Thus the oil is released we'll beneath
the surface, and rises through the waves,
producing the most effectual results
Courier journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-14
IssEcT PESTS IN THE HOUSE.

In bulletin just issued by the divi-
sion of entomology, Department of Ag-
riculture, DR.. G. V. Riley, writing OF
insect pests of the houshold, after de-
scribing various species of cockroaches,
saws: In the latitude of Washington and
further south the croton bug eats every
thing which contains paste, and conse-
quently wall paper, photographs and es-
pecially certain kinds of cloth book
bindings suffer severely from their at
tacks. In a recent number OF "Insect
Life" will be found an account of severe
injury done to certain of the important
files in the Treasury Department in
Washington, the bindings of many I'M
portant public documents being disfg-
ured and destroyed. In the office of the
United States Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey they have become an intolerable
nuisance by eating off the surface, and
particularly the blue and red paint from
drawings of important maps.
But l need not elaborate further upon
the damage which they DO. How to kill
them and prevent this damage is the
question.
Without condemning other useful
measures or remedies like borax 1 would
repeat here what have already urged in
these columns, viz, that in the free and
persistent use of California buhach OF
some other fresh and reliable brand OF
pyrethrum or Persian insect powder we
have the most satisfactory means of deal
inc with this and the other reaches men
toned.
Just before nightfall 60 into the in
tested rooms and puff it into all crevices,
under baseboards, into the drawers and
cracks of old furniture-in fact, wher'
ever there is a crack-and in the morning
the floor will be covered with dead and
diving or demoralized and paralyzed
reaches, which may easily be swept ur
or otherwise collected and buried. With
cleanliness and persistency in these
methods the pest may be substantially
driven out of house and should never
be allowed to get full possession by i'm
migrants from without.
For no other insect have SO many
ouack remedies been urged and are sc
many newspaper remedies published
Many of them have their good points
bat the majority are worthless. In fact
rather than put faith in half of thos'
which have been published it were better
to rely on the recipe which T. A. Janvie
gives in his charming article on "Mexi
can superstitions and Folklore" pub
lished in recent number of iScri6ner''
Magasine, as current among Mexicans
To get rid of cockroaches-Catch three
and put them in bottle, and so carr!
them to where two roads cross. Herr
hold the bottle upside down and as they
fall out repeat aloud three credos. Ther
all the coachroaches in the house frol
which these three came will go away.
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FEEDING AND WATERING.

The frequency of feeding has gradually
decreased until at the present time it has
narrowed down to feeding either twice or
three times day, says Farm and Home.
The tendency at the present time is very
strongly toward emitting the monday
meal and feeding the COWS only morning
and night, allowing them day of rest
in which to remasticate and digest the
morning meal, the same as they have al
ways been allowed night of rest for the
evening meal. A recent census of expert
ment station directors showed that nearly
two-thirds were feeding but twice day.
The same remark applies to watering.
Twice DAY is sufficient in all cases, and
and where green fodder is given once a
day is usually enough. This allows a
very economical use of the farmers time.
He can feed, milk and clean the stables
the first thing in the morning and 60
about his other business for the rest of
the forenoon; a few minutes spent in
watering at noon, and he can leave them
again until night.
AS to whether warm or cOld water
should be given, doctors have decidedly
disagreed. Many practical farmers adj
duce proof from their own experience
that warm water pays. 1t is at least a
noteworthy contribution to the literature
of this subject, that out of four stations
which have tested the subject in the most
careful manner, three have found no gain
by warming, and the other gain which
at the utmost amounts to less than fifty
cents per COW per winter. There is 6
growing belief among those who have
most carefully studied the subject thai
the question is not one of warm or colo
water, but rather of warm or cold barns
If the animal is we'll housed in gooG
warm stables, warming the water will be
of no advantage But if the barn is full
of cracks, and the animals are compelled
to drink out of doors and stand shiverine
in the cold afterward, or are kept il
open sheds, or still worse, allowed tt
warm the prairie, everything in the nature
of warmth which can be gotten into then
will show an effect.-Natioaal DaiTynaan
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-14
Discovery of Silk and Satin.

Few people know that the discovery OF
silk is attributed to one of the wives OF
the Emperor of China, Hoangti. who
reigned about two thousand years before
the Christian era; and since that time a
special spot has been allotted in gardens
of the Chinese royal palace to the cult
vation of the mulberry tree and to the
keeping of silkworms. Persian monks
who came to Constantinople revealed to
the Emperor Justinian the secret of the
production of silk, and gave him some
silkworms. From Greece the art passed
into Italy at the end of the thirteenth
century.
When the Popes left Rome to settle at
Avignon, France, they introduced into
that country the secret which had been
kept by the Italians, and Louis XII. es-
tablished at Tours manufactorJ OF silk
fabrics. Francis I. founded the Lyons
silk works, which to this day have kept
the first rank. Henry II. of France,
wore at the wedding of his sister the first
pair of silk hose ever made. The word
"satin," which, in the original, was ap-
piled to all silk stuffs in general, has,
since the last century, been used to desig-
nate only tissues which present lustered
surface.
The discovery of this particular
brilliant stuff was accidental. Octavio
Mai. silk weaver, finding business very
dull and not knowing what to invent to
give new impulse to the trade, was one
day pacing to and fro before his loom
Every time he passed the machine, with
no definite object in view, he pulled
little threads from the warp and put them
to his mouth, which soon after he spat
out. Later on he found the little ball OF
silk on the floor of his workshop, and,
attracted by the brilliant appearance OF
the threads, he repeated the experiment,
and by using certain muci!aginous pre-
parations succeeded in given satin to the
world. .-Brooklyn Citizen.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-14
GRATING WAX.

An excellent wax is made of three
parts resin, three of beeswax and two OF
tallow. A cheaper composition, but
more liable to adhere to the hands, is
made of four parts resin, two of tallow
and one of beeswaz. These ingredients,
after being melted and mixed together,
may be applied in different ways. The
wax may be directly applied when just
warm enough to run by means of a brush,
or it may be spread thickly with brush
over sheets of muslin, which are after
ward, during a cold day, cut up into
plasters of convenient size for applying,
or the wax, after cold, may be worked
up with wet hands and drawn out into
thin strips or ribbons and wrapped close
ly together around the inserted graft. In
all cases success is more certain when the
wax is closely pressed so as to fit every
part and leave no interstices, and it is
indispensable that every portion OF the
wound on the stock and graft be totally
excluded from the external air.-Chiedgo
Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-14
DEPTH TO SOW GRASS SEEDS.

1t is necessary to revise the common
practice in sowing grass seeds and no
longer scatter them on the surface, where
the young plants experience precisely the
fate mentioned in the parable of the
sower who cast his seed in the hard
ground, where, having no depth of root,
the plants withered away when the suns
heat dried the surface. This is precisely
the result of the common practice of SOW
ing grass and clover seed. The writer's
practice for several years past of harrow
ing in these small seeds with a light
sloping-tooth harrow latter thorough prep
aration of the soil previously and max
Ing smooth, fine surface, has been sue
cessful without exception.-NeaO York
Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-14
A SCARED EDITOR.

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As an invigorating tonic, it imparts
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-14
POPULAR SCIENCE.

No limit has been found for a tele-
phone line.
Coffee is injurious to the health of
some people.
The depth of sea about six miles
deep is reduced 620 feet by compres-
sion.
Two French chemists have succe eded
in making crystals, which have all the
appearance of fine emeralds.
Victor Meyer IN a recent address de-
clares tnat we may reasonably hope that
chemistry will teach us to make the fibre
of wood source of human food.
The Sanitary Neaes says that the uni
versal nabit among women of biting off
the thread with which they are sewing is
prolific of sore throat and blood-poison-
ing.
If the ocean were incompressible the
level of the surface would be 116 feet
higher than it is at present, and about
2,000,0r0 square miles of land would be
submerged.
A very ingenious instrument has lately
appeared for showing the velocity and
pressure of the wind. The effect is pro-
duced by the rising or falling in level of
mercury in trough.
1t is stated that the frmness of paper
sized with resin increases by storage,
owing to the fact that the resin in the
paper undergoes an operation OF harden
ing by exposure to the air.
One of the more. interesting and curl
Gus results of recent spectre Photographic
work, is the discovery of the duplicity OF
several stars far too close to be divided
by any existing telescope.
The fishermen of Ireland now carry oil
as means of smoothing the waves in
rough weather, and are thus enabled to
continue fishing at times when otherwise
they would be compelled to put for the
shore.
A medicament more powerful than
quinine in counteracting fevers is said to
have been discovered in Mexico. 1t is
plant called the pombolano, the root of
which contains substance analogous to
quinine.
A vegetable flannel is made in Ger
many of fine leaves which are woven into
undergarments and clothing of various
kinds. One great advantage is no yer.
min will lodge in clothes made from the
material.
Croftcn, naturalist and geologist, says
that there was darkness over the world
Tor a tpace of 600 years during the
formation of the earth, with flashes of
lightning and peals of thunder at inter-
vals of five minutes.
In Paris all the electric light wires, no
matter of what description, are under
ground-telephone and telegraph as we'll
as electric light. This is accomplished
under stringent municipal regulations,
and accidents are unknown.
The bolo flower, discovered by DR..
Schadenberg growing upon a volcanic
mountain in one of the Philippine Islands,
is perhaps the largest flower in existence,
being about three feet in diameter and
twenty-five pounds in weight.
In making charcoal for gunpowder iti
always kept for three or four days in air
tight cylinders before picking over, and
ten days to fortnight before it is ground.
This, it is said, is done to counteract the
well-known tendency to fire if exposed
too soop after it. is made
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-14

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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-14
CURRANTS.

There is no other fruit so common on
the farm as the currant. Its hardness
aud adaptability to all conditions ac'
counts for this to a considerable extent,
while the excellent quality of the fruit
makes it most deservedly popular with
all. Were it not so hardy and tenacious
of life, it would not be SO commonly
found on the farm, for as rule the care
given it is very slight. A row of bushes
is usually found along the fences, or be-
tween the apple trees, where the roots
are bound with ever cncroaching sod, land
the whole institution smothcred by weeds
and grass. They will continue to exist
under all these disadvantages for years,
yielding n scanty crop of inferior quality.
Like all other plants, the currant will
amply repay thorough and constant .ul-
!ivatiou. It's demands in the way of
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-14
How to Mail Flower Buds.

To mail flower buds, cut a potato into
two pieces and bore holes into them, and
insert the stems of the buds with cotton
to support them. There is sufficient
moisture in a good.sized potato to sup
port a flower for two weeks in a moder'
ately cool temperature. Flowers from
bouquets or baskets may be preserved IN
the same way. The potatoes can be hid
den by leaves or moss.-Boston CAltioat0r.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
COOKED FGCD FOR PIGS.

Many coarse kinds of food, especially
roots, will be only freely eaten by pigs
when cooked. Raw potatoes will barely
keep pigs from starving. When cooked,
the same vegetable will fattcn the pig.
Even the potato peeings should be boiled
few minutes before putting them in the
swill tub. After boiling and cooling, it
is still better to give the peelings to the
pigs separate from the swill, as partly
decaying potatoes, if put in the barrel,
soon make the swill very offensive, If
not absolutely unwholesome.-B0st0n
CaKipdtOr.
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William D. Howells predicts that the
great American novelist will come from
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A PHILADELPHIA manufactures l5,0D,O00
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A PARIS bankrupt selected the door sill Of
he morgce rs 4 place for suicide.
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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-07-16
Another Industry for Florida.

Mr.. j. C. Mcdaniel, our Southern Ex-
press agent, says the Tampa Journal,
showed us to-day roll of mating made
from the salt marsh grass with which our
sea coast and rivers are lined, which was
manufactured by order of Mr.. H.. B.
Plant for the purpose of demonstrating
what can be done in that line. 1t is as
neat and pliable as any mating We ever
saw, and would probably outlast any
other mattingnow on the market, as the
grass is very tough and large. AS was
noted in Wednesdays Daily Journal, the
marketing of this grass will probably
prove one of the chief sources of revenue
of this section, and we hope to see the
matter investigated and developed i'm
mediately. And why couldn't factories
be built and the mating manufactured
right here?
Mr. Plants efforts to direct the atten-
tion of foreign capital, and our home peo-
pie as well, to the mines of undeveloped
wealth lying unnoticed all around us, are
deservingof the highest praise.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-07-16
Satisfactory Figures.

A document of no small Importance to
Florida is the report of Chemist Dutton,
of the FloridasSugar Manufacturing Co.,
at st. Cloud, covering the grinding sea-
son OF 1SS9-9O. This shows that the to-
tai acreage was 357, from which there
was produceda a total of 1, ,442, 900 pounds
OF sugar and AZ, GIG gallons OF molasses.
Mr.. DuttOn also gives much other valu-
able information in connection with this
crop and the details of it's manufacture
into the sugar and molasSes OF commerce.
The results in many particulars prove
that the drained lands OF the TohOpeka-
liga region are the best adapted to sugar
culture of any in the known world, and
that the predictions of Claus Spreckles, as
to the future of this industry in Florida,
were not idle ones.
The farmers should engage more exten-
sively in cane planting. This st. Cloud
mill alone has a grinding capacity of
nearly $4,000 tons during the season,
and the company would pay good prices
for all that might be offered for sale at
the mill. There would be an enormous
profit to the growers in that section, and
even with the present facilities for trans
portation little difficulty would be expe-
rienced in getting the crops from the