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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-02

KATIE LEEsMAN, aged eight, met horri,
BILE death at Cincinnati, Ohio. Innocsntly
picking up piece OF lime from the sidewalk
the child placed it in her mouth. thinking it
was chalk. The moment the saliva touched
1t the hme began to slack and, aided by the
child's hot breath, soon filed her mouth,
choking her tn death in O fnrp r,onao-t-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-02
Dahomeyans Again Defeated.

Colonel Dodds, the Commander OF tbs
French forces operating against :he King or
Dahomey, telegraphs that his expedition has
carried a strongly intrenched outpost slS
miles from Cana. The French loss was
twenty EIGHT killed and wounded
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-17
ACAT THEIR FOSTER MOTHER.
Four Skye Terrier Puppies Which Arc
Being Brought Up Nicely.

Four Skye Terrier Puppies Which Are
Being Brought Up Nicely.
New York Recorder.]
Enoch Edwards is a colored man, who
lives at 239 West One Hundred and Twenty
fourth street, and is ianitor of two large
fiat houses in Harlem. MI. Edwards con-
siders himself somewhat Of dog fancier.
At present, in his fiat on the second floor,
there is the very unusual spectacle of a
large, fne-looking black cat nursing four
little skye terrier puppies.
How Edwards happened to become
possessed of this singular combination is
not without interest. Up to last week Ed
wards owned skye terrier, but she was
stricken with apoplexy and died. Edwards
was much moved, tor he had kindly re-
gard for the old girl, as he called her, and,
in the interest of science, and incidentally his
own finances, he decided that the pups
would have to be saved at any cost. The
mystery of the Cesarian operation was to
Edwards blank, but he tried it and sue
cesstully.
The noses of the artifcally born pups
were stuck into saucer of warm milk, but
it seemed to almost isuffocate them. Ed
wards was about to reconcile himself to the
fact that after all his trouble his puppies
would die, when he thought of his old black
cat When the old mother cat got home
that night she found the four young skyes
occupying her kittens quarters "She acted
q little queer-like tor while" explained
Edwards, "but just as soon as she found out
she could be of use she went to work nurs-
ing the youngsters just the Same as if she
were their own mother
The puppies are about the normal ;size
and perfectly healthy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-17
. A SULTAN WITH EDUCATION.
The Ruler OF Johore With Full Suite ts
Visit tho Worlds Fair.

The Ruler Of Johore With Full Suite to
Visit the Worlds Fair.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.1
Through the solicitation of the Hon.
R ounseville Wildman, United States
Consul and Worlds Fair Commissioner for
the Straits Settlements and Borneo, His
Highness, Aboukar, Sultan Of Johore, has
consented to visit, with his suite. the
Worlds Fair and to send over to the E1-
position a complete Malay village. His
Highness is the only independent ruler in
the Malay Peninsula, and one of the richest
princes in Eastern Asia.
The Colonial Government declines to
make any appropriation toward the Fair,
yet through personal and commercial
channels large number of merchants will
cooperate in creating an adequ uate fund for
the purpose. The Times Of Ceylon, in
speaking of the Sultan Johore in relation
to some local matters in which he was
asked to arbitrate, speaks Of him as one
who is much in advance of his associate
native princes, many of whom are his
relatives. It IL claimed that Aboukar
il good representative of what . Malay
when gifted with the opportunities of
civilized life, and in this respect the
present Sultan of Johore is regarded as one
of the most enlightened princes of the
East. The Times, in concluding its sketch
of his personal character, says: He is
noble in birth, and in impulse of heart; stern
in purpose yet merciful, honorable and
truthful in word and deed, keeniy intelli-
gent, and judge of character. Evidently
he is one of the Eastern princes whose
presence would be appreciated at the Fair.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-17
SNOW IN SUMMER TIME.
That IL the Reason Prof. Davidson Cannot
Get Long-DIstancs Signals.

That Il the Reason Prof. Davidson Cannot
Get Long -DIstancs Signals.
San Francisco Bulletin.1
It is now three weeks since Prof. David
son, of the Coast Survey, went into camp
on Mount Diablo. He did not 60 up to that
windy and fog-topped crest for his health,
but to do scientific work He went to catch
heliotrope signals from Mount Conness,
over 140 miles away on an air line, but not
heliotrope has bloomed, so to speak, in
that direction since he got his equipment
ready for action. Those who know the
professor best do not imagine him entirely
calm during this time of forced inactivity.
Heliotroping, or signaling by aid of the
sun and powerful mirror, is not carried
on often at such long distances as from
Diablo to Conness, but that 1t can be sue
cessfully experts in such matters do not
question. That is not the present trouble.
Prof. Davidson has not been able to "pick
up" Conness, as Coast Survey vernacular
has it, because so far as known there is vet
no one there to find. Frank Edmonds
started on the I'd inst to conduct Peter
johnson and William Argens to Conness,
but a letter from him two weeks since an
nounced that he was blocked by snow at
the foot of the mountain. He had then
made reconnaissance of over five miles,
but was forced to 60 back to Soda Springs
because Of snowdrifts ten feet deep or more.
The assumption is that since then they have
been toiling skyward through the snow.
Mr.. Edmonds has been over the route be-
fore, and consequently little anxiety is
felt 1t is considered there is 10 doubt of
his getting up the mountain eventually,
but the delay is trying to scientific nerves.
Another heliotroping station with Diablo
that works all right when the fog permits
is on Mount Mocho, near Mount Hamilton.
James Van Karger has a solitary camp
there.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-17
INTELLIGENCE IN MULES.
Having Boon Hurt by Fence They Still
Thought 1t Was There.

Having Boon Hurt by Fence They Still
Thought 1t Was There.
A friend recently told me of an incident
which occurred on q farm near Topek a,
Kan, which illustrates the intelligence of
the mule, says writer in the St. Louis
Globe Democrat. He owned a number of
these animals, and kept them in q pasture
surrounded by an ordinary plank fence. In
the next inclosure was field of gro wing
oats, and the mules, not being able to un-
derstand why they should be kept away
from the oats, repeatedly broke down the
barrier and feasted. He finally put up .
barbed wire fence, ard the mules, trying to
get into the oat field, severely scratched
themselves with the barba They gave up
the effort, and he considered the victory
won. 30 it was, but the mules had learned
more than he gave them credit for. A few
months later he found it necessary to divide
his pasture, and ran line of posts through
the center of it, intending to put the wires
in position the next day. But the wire did
not come, and he was advised that it would
not arrive for several days.
He let the posts stay, but going out one
day to drive his mules from one side of the
pasture to the other, he found it impossible
to drive them through the line of posts
They would run up and down the line, but
not mule would venture through. They
could not see any wires, but that was evil
IDENTIFY not sufficient evidence to the mulish
mind that no wires were there, and the
animals were too much afraid of getting
scratched to take any risks
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-17
RIVALRY AMONG THE MILITARY.
Some Amusing Phases During the Stirring
Times OF the Civil War

Some Amusing Phases During the Stirring
Times of the Civil War
Youths Companion.l
The jealousy which almost always exists
between different arms of the military SER
vice used to be illustrated BY the dialogues
which took place between cavalrymen and
infaEtrymen during the Civil War. 1t was
favorite and brutal joke on the part of the
cavalrymen, who affected to despise The
foot soldiers, to shout to some soldiers as
the cavalry were passing the infantry on
the march:
''Are you tired of walking?"
Whereupon, if the infantryman, suppos-
ing that he was going to get a lift, re-
sponded "Yes!" the cavalryman would say,
"Well, try running a while"
The intantrymen, for their part, ridiculed
the cayalrymen numerically when they
were in camp, where the cavalrymen were
compelledto spend much of their time in
acting as body servants to their horses.
A cavalryman was one day engaged in
laboriously cleaning down" his rather raw
boned steed. An infantrymen sauntered
up, and with his hands behind his back,
leisurely inspected the operation.
"Hullo, John!' said the cavalryman.
'Think you'd like to be in the cavalry?"
''Oh yes" said the infantrymsn; "but
only - horsel''
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-17
4 Panaceu for the Book Worms Hunger.

4 Panacea for the Book Worms Hunger.
which would have Jared the rock ribbed
dam at st. Anthony's Falls or shaken the
wet cotton domestic roof of the Chicago
Am pronounced "forum"). shall utilize
it in a school speaker which am about to
issue, to be used in advanced classes of
rhetoric:
He stands to-day most grandly panoplied
and most magnifcently equipped and most
luxuriantly robed with those splendid at
tatnmente. which most admirably ft him
for that high arena OF brilliant usefulness,
where his grand powers shine forth with all
the undtnimed splendor and matchless bril-
and which emit at all times those rare
waves of luster that lend and impart ad-
ditional glory to the rich and glittering tiara
of American manhood and American states
manship. In the fortitude of his purpose.
and the strength OF his character. and the
tenderness of his sympathies, and the wom-
anly gentleness OF his heart % he reminds US
beautifully and symmetrically developed and
richly and luxuriously follaged with the
graceful garniture of vernal woven gar
and withstanding the raging blasts OF the
widest storms, and yet Offering, within the
tender and gentle recesses and its leafy
bowers, nesting place for mother birds to
safely nurse their tender brood.
The Man Who Refused 1t Is Icy.
If Mr.. Harrison sent that back he richly
deserves the charge of being the great
American ice machine. Cold as my own
heart is at times, I cannot read the above
without quickened pulse, and over and
over again as read it promise myself I
will never again do so without providing
myself with handkerchief. If Mr.. Cleve-
land returned this inflamed encomium it is
no wonder that Republican newspapers
charge him with trying to drive over little
children with q moving machine. Mr.
Cleveland is keen critic of beautiful word
picturing, and If he sent this graham gem
back to North Carolina it must have been
owing to his vulgar haste and his anxiety to
get away with Joseph Jefferson and catch
tomcods in Ruzzard's bay.
In my mind now I see Mr. Cleveland
with new tiara made specially for him by
Lyon 8 Healy, of Chicago, and quietly
learning to play on it in Mr.. Jefferson's
studio, while Mr.. Van Wlnkle is painting
life size picture of Buzzard's Bay. Then,
again, see him at the close of busy day
taxing off his panoply and hanging it on .
chair as he retires to rest, or mayhap in the
morning, equipping himself for that high
arena of brilliant usefulness where his 60
and powers shine forth with all the undim-
med splendor and matchless brilliancy of
the knightliest grace and dignity, which
emit at all times those rare wares Of luster
that lend and impart additional glory to the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-17
WILL SHAVE FOB 10 CENTA

A Windy City Barber Who Believes 16
Cents Is Too High . Price.
Chicago Newe-Record.1
Ten-cent shaves will not become obsolete
on the West Side. A number Of the bar
bers will not join the 15-cent movement
They will not enter into any combination to
raise the price of the West Side mans
toilet.
81 and several others have not Joined or
agreed. and do not intend to extort from
our customers and friends the unreasonable
and e1orbitant price of 15 centsfor shave"
said West Side barber yesterday. "In
my Is years experience have been salts
fed and glad to get customers at 10 cents,
and do not intend now to put on wartime
prices aud rob my friends Along cross
streets and Halstead can be found many
barber shops charging 10 cents shave and
Is cents hair cut. So all BARRIERS are not in
the unreasonable and foolish combine. 1t
is an extort1on and the public will not
stand it. In fact, have had an increase of
five men coming from other shops with
their cups, etc, declaring they would not be
swindled, and a 15-cent charge was an out
rageous imposition.
"While in favor of the closing on Sum
day, we, with the public, object to the rob-
berry charge of 10 cents.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-17
SUNDAY, JULY II. 1892
rich and glittering tiara of American man
hood and craftsmanship.

rich and glittering tiara of American man
hood and craftsmanship.
News Via the North Star.
find the following paragraph in one OF
my Swedish exchanges, and hardly know
whether the reference is friendly or not. L
quote from the Nordsyernan, Of New York.
The Nordstjernan goes on to say as follows:
Bill nye, var bekante humorist, slog gacken
los Torsdags morgon vid stortbaden sara
toga, da hans fot slant pa marmorgoifvee
och han foil rakt pa en- porsinsspottback
och erholl raft svara sar pa ryggen och
sidan. Han blef ford till slit rum Congress
Hall, der en- doktor sydde ihop saret. Han
maste nu halla sig sang en- Vecka och
mojligen langre.
am not so fluent in the Swedish Ian
guage as I should be after having had .
Swedish cook tor years, but if understand
the above paragraph it errs in some of its
statements was never in Saratoga in my
life, either on Torsdags morgon or else
where, and the allusion to "rum Congress
Hall" is purely gratuitous, and most every
one knows how I abhor rum when see
what it has done for everyone but Mr..
Kelley, and how turn from It, especially
when I remember how many other things
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-17
Explaining Away the Libel.

Explaining Away the Libel.
am led to believe, however, that the
authority for the item is a paragraph re-
Gently printed in some of the American
papers in which a man who has assumed my
name and gone to Saratoga for jagying pur-
poses only fell over a pet cinnamon bear at
Congress Hall and cut his brow open on the
sharp edge of porcelain cuspador or
''spot back" He lay unconscious until
some one detected gas leak and following
up the odor discovered the cash in his head.
1t was then learned that he had registered
under my name, and the gladstone news
flashed over the wires that had fallen on a
''spott back" He is the same dappel
gauger of mine who three years ago stole q
carload of watermelons in Ohio, using moth
ing but an iron bar and pseudonym.
But even other people are talked about
Democratic Conventions:
Jag har lvckats ia rum pa Grand Pacific
Hotel, der Cleveland demokraterna hafva
slit bufvudqvarter redan ordnadt under
-ledning at Colonel John Tracy, hvadan jag
saledes blir tillfalle att ia Sc dem full verk-
samhet.
Hitting Pretty Near the BULBS Eye.
Here it will be noticed that rum and its
jag, as well as the demokraterna, are closely
associated, and yet those who know the
Democracy best know that its prohibition
plank is the proudest moment of its life.
Speaking OF Chicago reminds me of an
exhibition 1 am getting up for the great
Worlds Columbian Exposition of roads and
road beds, to be shown in the furniture ex-
hibit, Glass D, No. 3O9N. The exhibition
will consist of talk, with illustrations of
same, regarding tie great national question
of the "Use and Abuse of Wagon Roads"
treating it not as a local question, but as a
national and international question, and
showing by personal "reminiscences how I
found the wagon roads of our own country
when I was thrown in contact with them a
great deal, treating same under the title of
"Wagon Roads With Whom I Have Met
Up With" append one of the illustra-
tions. BILL NYE.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-17

they have ever been before. There is .
greater rivalry existing than ever, and there
will be more contests this year than We
have had since amateur athletics were
known. This is all very encouraging, and
will do good if only the rules OF fair play
are enforced all round. An unfair act at
one place prompts retaliation at another,
and this becomes the source OF trouble
that will jeopardize the entire business.
Amateurism is now on the highroad TO q re-
markable success. Let those interested In
it be careful.
Affairs Among tho PugilistA
To use an old phrase, the pugilists and
boxers are at present mending their nets for
future use. All the leading lights of the
pugilistic world are getting ready tor ap,
preaching encounters, and before next fall
is over we will have many important con-
tests to talk about
Interest is beginning to grow in the Sui
livan and Corbett battle, and as the time
for its decision gets near it is safe to say
that the public will hardly notice anything
else. Already there has considerable bet
ting taken place on the result, and as the
third deposit has been put up by each prin-
cipal, everything looks like business Each
man now has s., 800 up A friend OF mine
q few days ago bet $500 to $500 on Corbett,
and there will be that odds at least on Sulli-
van when the date of the battle comes round.
I do not think the bet q bad one by any
means at this time, because We may rest as
sured that Corbett will be in first-class con-
dition, while there is no certainty about
Sullivan in that respect. 1t is much too
soon to 60 into details on the matter yet,
but to is very big odds under the cir
cumstancee
The Olympic Club has made complete
arrangements for the three big battles and
as announced the other day in this paper
the prices have been fixed. They are pretty
high, but it must be remembered that the
club is giving away very large amount Of
money.
Some More Prospective Battles.
No matter how good man is there is al
ways somebody ready to tackle him. George
q number of little fellows want a contest
with him. There is kind of prospect that
a contest will be arranged between him and
Johnnie Murphy. The latter is quite eager
for 'tgo" and I cannot see why Dixon
should not be just as eager Murphy is
quite handy little fellow, but his eager
ness in this instance may lead him to de-
feat.
There is also strong probability of a
battle being arranged for Ed Smith. Being
unable to secure fight in England,
Choynski is about to return to this country
and offers to fight several men, among the
number being Smith. There mas been so
much claimed tor Smith BY his friends, and
he has done so we'll in four-round bouts
against the best OF people, that a good club
might do we'll 70 offer purse for Smith and
Choynski. While believe that Smith is
much better than his performance against
Godfrey showed, hesitate before say
that he is likely to be better than Choynski.
But he is worth trying. PRINGLE
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-17
An OPINION OF WEBSTER.
Tho Old Statesman Did Not Think That
Railroads Would Be q Success.

Tho Old St1te0mon D1o NOT Inink TnAt
Railroads Would Be Success.
Youths Companion-t
In the year 1910 the locomotive was .
small, weak machine that was employed to
drag a few coach-Eke cars at q speed of
about ten miles an hour. Then the directors
and stockholders of railroads constituted
the meekest class of citizens, very differ
ent from the dictatorial, influential class of
the present
Daniel Webster, in describing the Amer
lean railroad of that time, said: 'They are
made Of two stringers of scantling, notched
into ties that often get loose in the ground.
Upon the stringers two straps of iron, the
width and thickness of wagon-tires, are
nailed.
'These straps of iron frequently get de-
tached at the ends, which turn up like
snakes heads, and pierce the floors of the
cara" Such an accident actually happened
to car between Elizabeth and New York.
'Then," said Webster, ''the wheels slip
on the iron straps, in winter especially, 50
much that NO dependence can be placed
upon the time of arrival, and many people
think that it is not certain that railroads
will be success"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-17
Ballet Girls In Japan.

The japanese dancing girls are rosy
Tipped and black-eyed, with comely and
delicate features, tiny hands and feet and
possessing an air of graceful modesty and
innocence rarely seen on any stage. As for
their coiffure, it is q miracle of Japanese
hairdressers' skill. Their costumes are
sglow with scarlet, light blue, white and
gold, In robes of great length, adorned with
flowers and coral. Fans, of course, play q
prominent part in the intricate gestures Of
the mako.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-17

Engineers Judge of the condition Of tt
machinerysby the tone it gives out WI
running. Every engine, whether station
or locomotive, has particular tone of
own: the engineer becomes accustomed
that and any departure from it at once
cites a suspicion that all is not right
engineer may not know what is the matt
he NAV have no ear for music, but
change in tone of his machine will be
stantiy perceptible, will be instantly rec
nized. and will start him on an immedi
investigation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-17

Can the President and the Vice President
be Inhabitants of the same State. 8. p. z.
No; article XII of the amendments to
the Constitution provides that the electors
shall meet in their respective States and
vote by ballot for President and Vice Presi-
dent, one Of whom, at least, shall not be an
inhabitant of the same State with them
selves" etc. Suppose that the candidates
for the Presidency and Vice Presidency
were inhabitants of the same State, the
electors of that State could not vote for
them, under this clause in the Constitution.
This is the only clause in the Constitution
bearing on the question. Presumably the
candidates might both come from one State;
then the votes of the electoral college of that
State might be thrown out as having been
cast unlawfully and the votes of the other
colleges might elect those candidates Such
proceeding would be within the letter Of
the law.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-17

October. 1t il only within comparatively
few years that commandments have been
held at the end of the year. Originally the
summer vacation was short, and the winter
vacation long-to allow the students to
teach the winter schools-so that the gradu-
ates would return to their college to "com-
mence bachelors and the freshmen would
come up to begin their college life.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-17
Who were the mine Worthies?"

They were worthy fighters, three He
brews, three Christians and three Pagans.
The Hebrews were Joshua, David and
Judas Maccabeus; the Christians, King
Arthur. Charlemagne and Godfrey de
Bouillon; the Pagans, Hector, Alexander
and Julius Caesar. r. G.
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An Enterprising Newspaper.

The Petit Journal, in Paris, according to
the latest report, has reached the enormous
circulation of l, 256, 900. 1t is printed on
wood pulp paper, the raw material-the fir
being brought from Norway and Austria
The little journal consumes in a 12-month
120, 900 fir trees, each having an estimated
height Of 66 feet, equal to the annual clear
ing of forest having an area Of $4,000
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-17

Does universal suffrage exist in Spain OF
in any other European country. +. J.. T.
Universal suffrage does not exist in
Spain by any means Only the largest tax
payers and certain corporate bodies have
votes. In Denmark, France and the EN-
pire of Germany there is universal suffrage;
in all other countries suffrage is more or
less restricted