The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-11-21

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The fact that 610 pairs Of twins
we're born in Boston within the past
twelve months indicates that the infant
industry still fourishes there, 10 spite
Of the hard times.
Ex-President James McCosh of
Princeton University, is reported to be
critically i'll at his residence in Trenton,
N J..
The address of young man having
been declined by young lady, he paid
court to her sister. How much you
resemble your sister said he. the even.
ing Of his first call. You have the
same hair. the same forehead. aud the
same eycs-' ..And the ssmes uoes."
she added quickly.-Tit Bits.
Fanaticism is an evil, but not the
greatest of evils. 1t is good that a people
should be reused by any means from a
state # utter torpor Lord Macaaaay.
There is railroad line, 800 miles
long, running from Constantiople to
Angora, which has 1000 bridges and
16 tunnels.
The human race is divided into two
classes-those who 60 ahead aud do
something. and those who sit still and
inquire Why wasn't it done the other
way.-Olioer Wendell Holmes.
Mr.. Charles E. Ford will present
to the City of Baltimore magnificent
| portrait Of Edwin Booth. painted by
him, to serve as memorial Of the
great tragedian.
Lady Sophia Cecil. aunt Of the Mar
quis Of Exeter. is 81, and the only
survivor of the most famous ball of
bistory-sha, 10 Brussels on the Dight
before Waterloo.
With the possible exception Of
Thomas Edison, John Ericsson, who
conceived the Monitor, was the most
prolific inventor Of the century His
ideas suficed 10 build up many large
fortunes. He was the originator of
nearly one thousand devices.
Japan didn't 60 into the racket with
China just to smash some chinaware
aud have some fun. She is enjoying it
80 much that she demands $500, ,000,-
600 and the island of Formosa to quit.
Mrs. Abigail Dodge, ''Gail Hamil-
ton" has written the English committee
to protect American negroes from lyoch
law that she will give $500 for the
production of evidence certified by the
lord chief justice Of England aud the
chief justice Of the Supreme Court of
the United States, as proof beyond
reasonable doubt that Mrs. Maybrick is
guilty either of murder or of attempt
to murder her husband by poisoning
with arsenic. Miss Dodge says she
does this to show her sympathy With
the suppression of illegal outrages, 'in
both countries.
A recent writer in the papers,
telling about the practice Of voudou in
Washington City, describes one priest
ess of the art, Spanish mulatto from
Porto Rico, who, if one-half that he
tells be true, ought to be taken to the
penitentiary or the gallows He says
that she understands the preparation Of
loco, the subtlest and deadliest vege-
table poison il the world, aud some
times fixes it up for persons, who have
some enemies to be taken out of the
world. The poison may be administer
ed IN cup of tea. as it has slightly
aromatic taste, and no i'll results follow
Immediately, but in six weeks time the
victim is dead The person who takes
it suffers no pain, but gradually be-
comes dull. incapable Of fixing the
mind on anything, and soon falls into
sort of ca;aleptic state, until death
supervenes. In the West Indies and
Central America every physician is
familiar with the peculiar effects. ln
Mexico it is penal offense to sell the
drug. In Cuba it is capital offense.
DR.. Peabody 10 the Medical Record,
says that iu all sorts of sickness, and
especially 10 fevers, attention should be
paid to the appetite and desire of the
patient, and that, if patient is really
hungry, solid food, of a properly Sc
lected kind and in judicious quantities,
will rarely disagree with him. Dr..
Peabody believes there is less danger OF
doing harm to an liberated ieum in
typhoid fever by giving finely divided
egg, beef, or chop, than BY giving
milk, and babitualy gives his typhoid
patients who are hungry such food.
| He believes that it is mistake to with
hold solid food merely because
patient has fever, and that it is incor-
rect to regard milk as fluid food as is
commonly the case-the simple fact