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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-01
. CURIOUS FACTS.
.rtifcial eggs are being made.

Artificial eggs are being made.
The cashmere shawl industry is de-
clining. ..
The word smilliner" owes its origin
to Milan. 49,.
The bodyguards of Queen Victoria, of
England, are called Beefeaters.
The sister.in-law of pauper in the
poor house at Glasgow, Scotia nd. has
bequeathed $40, 900 for church purposes.
A Michigan jury was locked up "a
whole week before they could determine
whether or not two men set fire to
haystack.
A quaint clock, owned by Louis
Philippe, of France, when he taught
school in Boston, Mass, is to be seen in
one of the shops of that city to-day.
In fencing in the 1900 acre sheep
farm in Botetourt County, Virginia, 100
mill of fencing will be necessary, the
farm being divided into 30OO-acre lots.
A man in Birmingham, England, re-
ceiving letter February 9Th, 1891,
which had been posted in Stafford in
July, 1856, period in transit Of almost
thirty-fve years.
A big idea in New York City is to
convert Castle Garden into an aquarium,
which shall be, as nearly. as possible,
complete exemplication of animal and
vegetable life in the sea.
An Indian father drew the body of
his dead child on hand-sled thirty-six
miles across the upper end of Lake Mich
igau in order that it might be buried
from the Catholic Church.
There is curious grapevine at Haber-
sham Park, Ga. 1t grows from large
oak tree about five feet from the ground.
The tree is perfectly sound and no roots
of the vine are discernible.
The City Council of San Antonio,
Texas, is said to be seriously contemplate
ing the creation of the office of City
Aeronaut and the selection of a compe-
tent balloonist for the place.
Iced oysters on the half shell are en-
tirely obsolete. People have learned
that the process eliminated the flavor.
Now the thing is to keep them on ice
until time to open and serve them.
1t is said that Daniel Webster was the
first editor of tne first college paper pub
lished in this country, the initial number
appearing at Dartmouth in 1909. These
journals now number 100 in the United
States.
The ancestral home of the Washington
family IS Sulgrave, an insignificant vii
lage in Northamptonshire, England. The
family lineage has been traced back as
far IS Sir William de Hertfurn, knight
Of the twelfth century.
A TELEPHONE line about five mlea
long has been established in Iceland,
and is regarded as great curiosityi
being the first ever established on the
Island. "
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Suicides BY LITERARY WOMEN.

Froken Minna Telenius, from Finland,
who the other day committed suicide at
Copenhagen hotel, is the third author
ess who within some two or three
years has taken her own life in the Dan
.ish capital. The two others were Fru
Victoria Benedictsson, the well-kuown
Swedish lady writer, better known under
her nom de plume as Arnst Ahlgren, and
the young Danish lady, Froken Adda
Roonkilde. Literature not having
brought them the fame or the success
they expected, they were unable to bear
the disappointment. None had, how
ever, shown moro determination than
the young Finnish lady who ended her
life the other day. She had arranged
everything with wonderful GOODNESS and
dressed herself in white before taking
the deadly poison. Chicago Post.
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FASHION NOTES.

Mourning paper has q black corner
only.
The corslet isbecoming to almost any
figure.
Satin has made great advance in favor
of late.
Black dotted wells arc at the height Of
fashion.
A new shade of violet verging toward
gray is called pctunia.
Small boys are to be seen in regular
man-o'-war suits this spring.
On some of the spring goods the spots
are as large as small orange.
The brim of black straw hat is square
in front and the crown is only lace.
A cloak of Russian sable of the best
quality could cost scarcely less than $685.
900.
Causia is the name of new soft shaggy
cloth, much resembling French camels
hair.
Very large plaids and wide stripes bid
fair to be more popular than for many
years.
Undcrsleeves of chiffons are put in all
silk gowns and robes made with hanging
or angel sleeves.
The new perfumes and powders are
nut up in rich cut-glass bottles of unique
shape, having silver tops.
Venetian aud Vatican effects are en-
ploycd at weddings, making them more
brilliant pageants than ever.
Bridesmaids dresses for children from
ten to fourteen are made in white CLOTH
with an abundance of stitching.
The sailor hat bobs up serencly among
spring head coverings, and although it
cannot be heard it is sure to make itself
felt.
The new French silks are shown in
corded grounds strewn with figures in
brocaded or shot effects, or striped with
satin.
Chiffon fans are novel, though costly
aid fragile. They can be made to match
any evening gown. but in white they are
very dainty.
Tho new colors in silks for evening
comprise laurel-pink, clear rose color;
rose de Noel, a pale old-rosc, and bright
Bengal-rose.
Of all the novel boas the most unique
is the rose Leaf, made by threading rose
leaves on a pink cord. Violcts and
other field flowers arc treated in the
same way.
Neat little spoons come from Salem,
which from their ornamentation of
witches and pins are called "witch
Spoons" Those made for eating oranges
are lined with gold and are shaped like
scoops with pointed ends.
A biscuit-colored clo%k was the going
away dress of recent bride. It was
trimmed with black velvet and jet and
gold gallon. The hat was Of cloth, lined
with black velvet. The coat was made
or black velvet with blue and black
matelesse sleeves. ~.f
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cAPEs FOR SPRING WEAR.

The capes for spring wear are made
quite long. Many of them are finished
without yoke, the fulness being adjusted
in neck band, to which the Medici collar
is fastened. BY some ingenious method the
cape is slightly raised on the shoulders,
and there is a pretty hood lined with a
color, which gives style to what would
otherwise appear commonplace and
somewhat childish garment. The cape
is lined throughout with silk, and rib
bons to match fasten it at the throat.
At present light colors are most favored,
aud are likely to remain popular. The
Henry w. cape is one among the many
revivals of the modes of past centuries.
1t becomes youthful women who are tall
and slim, but it is not by any means a
garment suited to mature people, and on
a short stout figure, though the wearer
be young, the cape is decidedly unbe-
coming. York Post.
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CHICAGO WOMEN LAWYERS.

Chicago is especially kind to women
who practise law, and some of them hold
high places in the profession. Judge j.
B. Bradwell presided at the recent din
ner of the Illinois Bar Association, and
his ideas on the subject may be gathered
from the fact that his wife, Mrs. Myra
Bradwell, has been for over twenty years
the editor of the Chicago Legal Nsus,
and his daughter, Mrs. Bessie B. Helmer,
has studied law, and has assisted her
father in editing twelve volumes of the
Appellate Reports osIllinois. The Lega
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THE WEAVER.

1stood in the room of weaver,
Then watching the shuttles fly,
And the colors as they blended,
Like rainbow in the sky.
His eyes were fixed on the pattern
As he wrought the figure fine,
So wonderful in its beauty,
So marvellous In design.
How earnestly he is looking;
He turns not to gaze away
From the figure he is weaving,
Or the shuttles in their play.
He knows if a thread is broken,
Ora color be misplaced,
1t would mar tine costly fabric,
And could never be effaced.
watched, and watched, nor grew weary
And these thoughts came to my mind:
That we. all of US, are weavers,
And God has made the design;
Has drawn beautiful pattern,
For US to work by each day;
Is helping US with the shuttles,
Is guiding them in their play.
But there oftentimes come moments
When We tire. and listless stand;
Grow forgetful of the pattern,
= And seek not the helping hand.
Only moment We turn back,
Then cry out with grief and pain.
20, Father! see the broken threads
We cannot make whole again."
When our weaving is all finished,
And cur looms stand idly by;
When our work, its imperfection,
Is seen by the Masters eye,
May we hear these words, rejoicing:
Though many threads are riven,
AND mars and stains thy fabric bears,
For these, thou art forgiven"
Home Magazine.
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News is prosperous and well-arranged
journal. Mrs. Helmer, Judge Bradwell's
daughter, was married not long ago to a
young lawyer. She is President Of the
Association of Collegiate Alumnae. Mrs.
Mary A. Ahrens, another female lawyer
of Chicago, answered to the toast "Wo-
man IN the Learned Professions" at the
banquet of the State Bar Association.
Governor Fifer and Judge Lyman Trum-
bull had preceded her as speakers, but
she had sufficient self-confdence to make
graceful though modest speech. A
few sentences of her speech were: "Wo-
man in the learned professions. AS q
preacher, we know that she is eminently
qualified to stand by the coffin and speak
to those who sit broken-hearted and
mourning by the side of their beloved
ones; we know that out of her heart she
will speak words of comfort and cheer;
we know from the past that she no longer
shrinks at the sight Of blood; she Is able
to bind up the wound, yea, strong enough
to use the knife and cut out that part
which is infectious, and if not removed
is death. In the profession of law she
comes last, but she will not be the least:
she comes among her learned brethren
with humility enough to make her a
willing pupil. ."-Ne'o York Tribune.
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WOMAN'S WORLD
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
MARTHA WASHINGTON III YEARS OLD

MARTHA WASHINGTON Ill YEARS OLD.
The ladies of Trinity A. NJ. E. Zion
Church, Long Branch, N. j., recently
gave a Martha Washington tea party.
The feature of the party was the i'm
personation of Martha Washington by
Aunt Judy Cummins. who is Ill years
old. Mrs. Cummins is spry' and enjoys
good health. She surprised the young
folks by the case and grace with which
she led the grand march.-New York
Sun.
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USING VELVET ECONOMICALLY AND WELL

The judicious use of velvet enriches a
gown, is universally becoming, and is
the one material that can be used with
lace, silk, wool, cotton, etc. Ribbon
velvet and grosgrain ribbon having a
satin edge, are the favoritc trimming
ribbons, which are put on skirts in cross
and leugthwise rows, as bride bows,
binding on the edge of the drapery
whether it be slashcd, in tabs, or plain ;
trim panels, hold bit of drapery here
and there in rosette, edge the basque
ending in rosettes back and front, hold
the Tapped basque fronts with roscttcs,
trim collars in one-pointed tab on each
side, form bretelles, trim the wrists, hold
the fullness of sleeves in tight little bows
on the outside of the arm. and trim the
front OF the basqucs irregularly, as three
straps on one side and two or four on the
other, coming diagonal!y across the
front. The cabbage-rosettes spoken OF
arc used on ladies' and children's dresses
and hats. They must be loose and fluffy
to be Il success. If made of ribbon take
thirty inches of No. II or No. IL ribbon,
gather along one edge and pull it up to
form the loose rosette, catching it light
ly here and there in place. If made of
piece silk or velvet, cut bias strip two
inches and half wide when doubled,
gather the two raw edges as one, draw
the fulness up and form the rosette as
described for the ribbon, and take a
strip the width of the velvet. -Ladles'
Home Journal.
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WOMAN NOT THE WEAKER VESSEL.

Among savages the woman is just as
healthy as the man. Considered as an
animal from a physiological standpoint,
woman is capable of more hard work,
of enduring more hardship, deprivation,
and disease than man. A woman will
endure where man will succumb and
break down entirely. She is not natu-
rally the weaker vessel, and certainly in
some respects woman is isconstitutlonally
the superior. Out of an equal number
of male and female infants there will be
found at the end of the first year of life
larger number of girls alive than boys,
according to statistics. This discrepancy
continues up to the age of fifteen or six
teen, when the mortality becomes great
est among the girls. At the age of forty,
or fifty the death ratio is about equal in
both sexes, and, finally, the oldest in
habitant is always woman, thus show
ing that her constitutional fund of vi
ta.ity is naturally greatest. 1t is some
times argued that woman is naturally
weaker and inferior because the average
weight of her brain is from four to six
ounces less than that Of the average
man, and that thus her intellectual
quality is less as well as her physical.
But when the size of a woman's brain is
considered in comparison with the weight
of her body, it is evident that woman
has more brain per pound than man |;
and if that be proper standard of COM
parison, then woman is the superior.
There is no physical reason why wo-
man should be more feeble or diseased
than man. Stanley was furnished with
two hundred African women to carry his
stuff into the interior of Africa, and he
found them the best porters he had EN-.
ployed, although he felt very doubtful
about accepting their services when first
proposed. The Mexican Indian woman
is able to carry her household goods on
her back with two or three babies on top
when change of location is desirable.
Meanwhile her husband trudges bravely
along carrying his gun. On the CONT
nent of Europe most of the heavy work
is done by women. In Vienna, women
and dogs are frequently hitchel to.
rether, and sometimes woman is yoked
with COW to draw load of produce to
the city. Many of these peasant women
will carry upon their heads load OF
vegetables that few American men could
easily lift. These women have the mus
cles of the waist and trunk thoroughly
developed. Despite their hardships,
they do not suffer from the backache or
other ailments which the women who
dress fashionably are constantly afflicted
with.-PhrcnoZogical Journal.
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HAIR, HAT AND SHOE OF ENGLISH GIRLS

HAIR, HAT AND SHOE OF ENGLISH GIRLS.
One of the funniest sights in London
at the present is found in the hats worn
by the young women. At various times
the hat of the New York female has
dwindled to humorously small proper
tions, but never has it faded to the
atomic size of this present hint of head
covering now fixed upon the head of
feminine London. An abundance of
hair is also fashionable at lust this time,
and, with the small, butter plate arrange
ment slapped at sharp angle precisely
on the front of great bush of frizzled
locks, the young women seen about are
better than anything in the current bur-
lesque. Another peculiar feminine fash
ion of the day is that of the low shoe.
The choicest girls in Mayfair wear
only the low shoe in the sloppiest and
coolest weather. The sensible walking
shoe of the British maiden is one of the
myths that are so plentiful in the records
of the English, for she makes sadden-
ing attempt to utilize the high French
heel and pointed toe, which, considering
the national failing, is very large job
for her to successfully accomplish. The
hair, the hat and the shoe of the West
End beauty are the only conspicuous
distinctions that exist between her and
her American cousin. Her garments are
similar to, and as attractive, as those
worn by the bellies of Murray Hill.-Chi-
cago HeroR.
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A TELEPHONE line about five milea
long has been established in Iceland.
and is regarded as great curiosityi
being the first ever established on the
Island.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-04-24
rAAr eoe1 OF TIE FUTURE.

I've been reading, Sir Riley In recent maya
zine.
Of your Poet of the Future with the truly rural
mien.
OF the careless simple fashion in which he'll
choose to come
With tho beauty Of his bugles oyerbalancing the
drum;
And by what his hands hold not and by what be
does not wear
rather think I'D know him If met him any
where;
But really Mr. Riley, do not clearly see
How you can at such a distance say that the
poets he"
For it may be that this singer who shall our souls
confess
And come to with bugles-will wear them on
her dress;
That we shall find her shining with pearls upon
her breast,
Or radiant in some cottage as she us her babes
to rest;
In the choir OF the cathedral we may hear her
pure voice swell
Or murmuring some sweet measure as she serves
us from the WE'LL
For her hands may not be sunburned- although
And your poet, Mr. Riley. may not be at all man
Oh. the Poet of the Future shall find welcome and
have ROOM
Whether singing at the plowshare or sweeping
with broom,
But this honest arm Of Labor" that you speak OF
IN your song,
Always TO a him" pertaining, may 1t not to "her
belong?
For some women's palms" are sisters to the
honest toiler's7 too
And they cannot always fold them when the
plowman s toll is through
And 1t may be- that this poet on whose coming
we agree,
When really come and with US will be spoken o.
as she"
Charles Henry Webb In The Century
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-04-24
Both Elopers Wore Gowns.

A novel elopement which occurred
Saturday was that of Mr.. j. T. Higdon,
a young printer, and Miss Rosalind
Bush, the 14-year-old daughter of Sam
uel T. Bush, well known carpenter of
Greensboro, KY. AS the girl could be
gotten away from home only during the
daytime, the groom conceived the idea
of dressing in female attire and getting
out of town without creating any suspi-
cion. Accordingly he so dressed him
self, and, calling at the house of friend
for the girl, they escaped in a buggy to
Rockport, Ind, where they were mar
ried. Too late the father ascertained
that he had been outwitted, aud swore
he would kill, etc. He is tanner now.
however, and the young people are hap
py.-Cor. Louisville Courier Journal.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-04-24
A Clever Smuggling Scheme.

A string of sausages fioated idly around
in an eddy between two Pacific coast
steamship docks two hours the other
day. They popped up from somewhere,
nobody knew where. The City of Pueb-
10 had been thoroughly searched and
nothing contraband discovered. Gus
toms Inspector Critcher, standing guard
on her deck, suspected nothing, but fret
ted by the persistency of the sausages
in floating in the slip instead Of follow
ing the tide, called to two boatmen to
take them out of the water. The boat
men did so, and it was found that every
sausage had fine silk fish line tied to
it, at the end of which dangled a box OF
opium wrapped in oiled silk. There were
1900 boxes in all, worth nearly SO, 600
The "sausages' were scraps of cork
wrapped in tarpaulin and linked with
cord, each link being loaded with suffi-
Gent salt to sink it about a foot under
water San Francisco Letter.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-04-24
Work of Young Princes.

Those who think that being prince is
a pretty easy job are requested to turn
their attention to the present crown
prince of Germany, aged 6 years, and
his under study, Eitel Frederick, aged .
years. These two helpless little rats
have just one hour and half day in
which to play They get up at 6 o'clock
in the morning, go to their studies at Z
O'clock, and are drilled all day long.
learning the trade of king and how to
kill people in the speediest possible man
ner.
The poor children are denied the priv
ilege of sliding down the banisters. They
cannot run off after hand organs and get
lost They cannot jump off and on street
cars nor peg" snowballs at windows,
running away from the policemen and
hiding under sidewalks, to be dragged
out by the hind leg. They cannot play
"hookey" from school and go swimming
No; they have to sit around quietly and
be careful of their clothes The indica
tons are very strong that they will either
have fits or whiskers by the time they
are 10 years old. -Chicago News,
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-04-24

! have always thought that the weak
spot in the Salvation Army is that Gen.
Booth places his children in high posi-
tions, and evidently contemplates the
generalaihip being hereditary in his FAM
lily. NV, the odds against the son Of
remarkable man being the person best
fitted to succeed him in arbitrary sway
over vast organization are great. We
do not dream of judges sons succeeding
judges, or prime ministers sons succeed
ing prime ministers, although possibly
the fathers may think that the SONS are
more fitted than any others to carry on
their work
In letter the general explains that
the general of the Salvation Army for
the time being is to have the fullest pow
ers of administrative and executive con-
troll over the property Il. e., the funds
subscribed). and that in the deed regu-
lating this provision will be made for
the appointment of his successor at his
death. But he does not explain how this
successor is to be appointed. If the
funds are placed in the hands of Gen.
Booth a committee should be appointed
to whom he would himself be response
BILE, and which committee would have
some voice in the appointment of his
successor, and have some sort of control
over him. London Truth.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-04-24

A case which is believed by lawyers
to have no parallel in legal history has
just been brought out in the Norfolk
county court at Dedham. The late r.
w. Shapleigh, of Brooklyn, n. Y, died
leaving an estate of 100000 for thirty
heirs with no provision as to its dis
posal that would stand the test of the
courts. There was found, however, in
an old wallet paper in his well known
handwriting, but without his signature,
which disposed of about half of the prop
erty to individuals, mostly nearest rela-
tives. Some of these would not get a
penny if the estate was settled by proc
ess of law. A family meeting was forth
with held, and it was agreed by all to
abide by the apparent wishes of the late
Mr. Shapleigh. They also decided to set
apart sum to maintain a cemetery at
West Lebanon, Ne, in which Mr.. Shap-
leigh always had deep personal inter
est. The lawyers say there was never
such case brought to their notice be-
fore.-Springfeld Republican.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-04-24

A queer story is told about a Maine
character who recently won an unenvi-
able notoriety While well known
Baptist clergyman, Rev. c. V. Hanson,
was coming from Lewiston by train
about year ago, an elderly man in the
same car inquired whether there was
any one present going to Skowhegan.
Mr.. Hanson told him he resided there,
whereat this man counted ont $500, and
gave the same to Mr. Hanson to deposit
in the First National bank.
The circumstance passed from his
mind until one day looking over his pa
pers Mr.. Hanson discovered by the re
ceipt given him by Cashier Page that
the man who intrusted him with tbs
$500 was none other than Micah w. Nor
ton. of New Portland, Either Norton i:
a pretty good reader of physiognomy o.
thinks he is.-Somerset Reporter.