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FAMOUS BEDROOMS.
THE SLEEPING APARTMENTS OF
SOME NOTED WOMEN.
Queen Victoria's Bedroom is q Sim
pie Apartment-,Irs. S. V. r.,
Cruger's Couch is Like
Great White Swan.

VTICTORIA, Queen of England,
" is said, according to the New
v York World, to be very par.
ticular about her bed, and
to have q deep.rooted objection to
changing from one couch to another.
Her bedroom is very simple, unpre-
tentious one, and almost any woman
in the land can boast sleeping apart
ment quite as good as that of the
Queen of Great Britain and Empress
of India.
The heavy bed, with its canopied
top and curtains, for keeping out
draughts from the royal sleepers, sew
eral chairs, thick warm rug, great
table of carved mahogany, some good
pictures, including a portrait OF Prince
Albert, complete the apartment IN
Buckingham Palace in which her
Majesty slumbers.
Mrs. s. Van Rensselaer, Cruger, OF
New York, who is Julien Gordon IN
the literary world, has one OF the
most artistic bedrooms in America.
The crowning glory of the room is the
bed, which is a representation OF q
swan. Each feather is exqulsltely
carved in the white enamelled wood
by hand, and the proportions are won
derful in their exactness.
A canopy of white silk falls from
the tall, slender neck, adding to the
beauty, concealing none of the lines
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North Cardinals Big Gold Nugget.

For a small colored boy to pick up
chunk of gold weighing eight
pounds, or about that, worth just
about $4,000, is rather unusual good
fortune. That is exactly what Jupiter
Debarry, of North Carolina, did a
week or so ago, and the nugget is
now in Wall street, Gays the New
York Journal. Moreover, the boy's
regular occupation is picking up mug.
gets. A little syndicate of Wall
street spectators got hold of a piece
of properly in North Carolina last
winter, where nuggets of pure gold lie
around loose on the ground, and they
have people employed regularly, on
daily wages, picking up the valuable
metal.
This particular one, shown in the
picture, is the largest found up to
date, but Jupiter Debarry and the
other colored youth in Stanley County
are vastly excited over the prospect
of finding more and bigger ones.
There are plenty of smaller ones found
from time to time, but they only serve
to keep up the excitement.
The picture is an exact outline
sketch of the remarkable Debarry
nugget. 1t is as rough on top and on
tn, bo tom as it is along the edges,
and the outline shows how rough that
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-05-15
The Height OF Clouds.

The very highest clouds, those
called cirrus and cirrostratus, rise to
the average height of about 10000
feet. A second class keep at q height
of from 10000 to $4,000 feet above
the earth, while the lower clouds usu'
ally float ut height seldom exceeding
5000 feet. In the case of the last-men'
toned class of clouds the lower sur.
face may be at height not exceeding
5000 to 1000 feet, while their tower
ing summit will be removed from the
earth by not less than 10000 feet.
Professor Moller says that the vertical
dimensions of cloud will often e1'
ceed 10000 feet, and that he has OBJ
served those which he had every req
son to believe were not less than 25,'
900 feet thick. st. Louis Republic.
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Exterior materials: Foundation,
first and second stories and gables,
brick. Roofs, slate. Balcony floors
covered with loaded tin.
Interior finish: Three coats plaster,
hard white finish ), soft wood flooring
and trim. Main staircase, oak.
Kitchen and bathroom, wainscotted.
Picture moulding in principal rooms
and hall of first story. Panel backs
under windows in parlor and dining
room. All interior woodwork grain
filled. stained to suit owner and fin
ished in hard oil varnish.
Colors: Trim, including cornices,
castings, veranda and balcony posts,
rails, etc., dark green. Sashes, red.
Brick work painted buff and pencilled
and speckled to initiate mottled brick.
Verands floors and ceiling and out
side doors oiled.
Accommodations: The principal
rooms and their sizes, closets, etc.,
are shown by the floor plans. Cellar
under whole house with inside and
outside entrances and concrete floor.
Two rooms and hall finished off in
attic; remainder of space foored for
storage purposes. Inside Venetian
blinds to all windows of first and
second stories. Bathroom with full
plumbing in second story. Brick-set
range, sink and boiler in kitchen.
Large bay window and open fireplace
in parlor and bedroom over same.
Cost, $4,000, not including mantels,
range or heater. The estimate is
based on New York prices for materi-
ais and labor. In many sections OF
the country the cost should be less.
Feasible notifications: General
dimensions, materials and colors may
be changed. Cellar may be reduced
in size OF: wholly omitted. Three
washtubs may be placed in laundry in
cellar. Double sliding doors may be
made to connect dining room and hall
and parlor and dining room. Addi'
tional bedroom may be finished off in
attic, or attic may be left unfinished
but foored for storage purposes.
This design is presented as an ex-
smple of what may be done in the EN-.
bellishment of q residence in Gothic
or pointed style.
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GUS we'll known styles, we mean that
the spirit of particular class has
been seized upon and not that there
has been a slavish imitation Of dis
tinguishing peculiarities. One of the
most interesting Of all of the styles is
the Gothic.
Highly as this is revered now, and
greatly as the early cathedrals are ad-
mired, it was at one time held to- be
an Unworthy departure from the strict
ly classic standard. The word Gothic
itself was first used by the archi tects
of the Renaissance as q term of re-
proach for all medieval styles. 1t was
a synonym for barbarism. The style
was q natural growth, a modification
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have been copied directly from nature,
and people pretend to see in its pointed
arches and the ribs of the vault an
imitation of the overarching branches
of trees. So, too, they say, the pillars
of the Gothic aisle were suggested by
the trunks of an avenue of stately
trees.
Appropriately enough, the first
Gothic building erected in the United
States was a church-famous Trinity
Church, New York, built in 1S4O.
Since then it has been the prevalent
style for church architecture.
The design illustrating this article
is modified Gothic, and detailed
description of it is as follows:
General dimensions: Width, ex-
elusive of veranda, 81 feet 2 inches; !;
depth, not including veranda and par
lcr bay, 81 feet 2 inches.
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The only necessities in the way OF
harness are the breastplate, the sur
cingle and the bride, leaving the ut
most freedom to the shoulders and
the chest. as we'll rs to the lungs by
reason of less tightening of the glrth.
II the horse rears or otherwise mis-
behaves, the suiliy must go up with
him, and if he makes sidewise move
mcnt, he must land the sulky where
he lands himself, with no danger OF
dlshiug the wheel.
The inventor says that no "training
down" of overweight will be neceS-
sary when his vehicle is used, MS the
heavier the weight, within reason
able limit, the more easily the vehicle
will be propelled. He also says that
a horse may be more easily controlled
, from the new location Of the seat than
when the driver sits back OF and q
tritle lower than the horse.
One of these sulkies is now build
ing, and several horsemep, who have
seen the plans, think very favorably
| of it.
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carved posts reach almost to the cell
ing. By the bed stand the quantity
carved steps, which used to be neces.
sary to success in reaching the soft
embraces of the feather bed. A tall
chest of drawers surmounted by a
small looking glass, some quaint old
spindle-back chairs and pictures
hundred years old and more, complete
this quaint room.
Miss Cameron, the eldest daughter
of Sir Roderick Cameron, has a most
perfectly appointed suite of apart
ments in her fathers country house.
Clifton Berley, on Staten Island. The
bedroom is perfect example OF the
First Empire style of furnishings, and
the mahogany bed, dressing table,
chairs and desk show the beautiful
shape and decoration of that period.
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and carving. The coverlid is of rich
white satin, ruf1ed with flmy lace.
Mrs. Cruger has pillows on her pretty
bed, and these have day slips of satin
much befrilled with lace. The heavy
monogram on the coverlid and pillows
is done in white, and there is not a
touch of color about the whole affair.
The color scheme of the room is dull
pink; the walls, carpets and hangings
are of this exquisite tint. The dressing
table, with its quaint chair, the franz
ing of the tall cheval glass and the
carved woodwork of the colonial man
telpiece are of glistening white enam-
elled wood. A few choice water
colors and some bits of rose-fecked
china give homelike look 10 the room.
Lillian Russell rejoices in sleeping
apartment which suggests nothing so
much as a great pearly pink seashell.
Her little single bed is OF brass, but
scarcely trace of the glittering metal
can be seen, so much of mother-os-
pearl has been used. Not only in in
lay, but to cover the pillars and bars
has the cleaning substance been used.
The draperies are of white silk bolt
ing cloth, painted in pink morning
glories and delicate arbutus, lined
with palest pink satin. Soft white lace
over pink satin forms the covering for
the bed and for the hard, round Dol
ster, and falls on both sides almost to
the white velvet carpet.
The dressing table is of pink enamel
inlaid with wreaths and cupids of
mother. .of-pearl. with faint tracries
of gold. The oval-shaped mirror is
framed in wreath of porcelain morn
ing-glories, the hand mirrors are of
mother. of-pearl, set with jewelled
mcnograms. All of the brushes and
toilet belongings are of gold and the
exquisite sheeny pearl-like substance.
The dressing chair matches the toilet
table in coloring and ornamentation.
1t is quaint little affair, with cush-
ions soft as down. There is no back,
of course, so that the maid can brush
Miss Russelrs golden curls with all
ease and dispatch, but the arms are
broad and curving, and upon these
the singer rests her dinpled elbows
and avoids much of the fatigue of
toilet-making.
Mrs. Frank Leslie's sleeping-room
is almost Puritanical in its exquisite
neatness and plainness. Over the lit
tie single brass bedstead hangs O
crucifx of ivory, which is work oi
art in its matchless carving. A rug OF
soft silky Persian weave covers the
floor of the tiny apartment, and a sin
gle chair completes the furnishings
The toilet table and all of its belong
ings are in the little dressing room
which opens off from the bedroom
proper.
On certain anniversaries Mrs. Les
lies dainty brass bed presents som
bre appearance, for it is Graped il
black; the sheets, down coverlids and
pillows are all covered with silk o
inky blackness.
Mrs. Burton Harrison, the writer
who was Miss Constance Cary, of tn
famous Virginia family, has her bed
room furnished with the quaint oil
mahogany furniture in which he
great.grandmother delighted. Th
roomy old bed would make two of an,
modern creation, and the four tai
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AIR OF SLUMS IS GOOD.
Professor Billings Upsets All Existing No
tions About Ventilation.

Professor Billings Upsets All Existing No
tions About Ventilation.
Philadelphia was selected by the National
Academy Of Sciences as its next place OF
meeting. The Barnard gold medal was
awarded to Lord Rayleigh for his discovery
of argon in the atmosphere. The Watson
medal vas presented to Seth c. Chandler for
his researches in astronomy.
A paper by Dr.. John S. Billings evoked
considerable discussion. DR.. Billings held
that in exhaled breath no conditions OF dis
ease exist and no poisonous bacteria are
contained. The breath even Of q eonsump-
tive is not dangerous. 1t is never in the air
itself that such disease spreads, but in the
dust from sputa. The whole theory OF the
paper was subversive Of accepted ideas OF
Ventilation. DR.. Billings went so far as to
say that, aside from inhalinS poisonous Or
ganic matter, breathing the pure air OF the
mountains secures no special immunity from
disease over breathing the mir Of the slums.
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Electricity as q Poison Detective.

A new method of determining the
presence of metallic poisons in the
body after death is to pass current
of electricity through it, discomposing
the torsion and depositing tie metal
on one of the electrodes. 1t is said
that in cases of antimony, lead, cop.
per, mercury, etc., this method will
detect the presence of as small quan.
tity of the metal as one-thousandth OF
8 grain. Francisco Examiner.
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A REMARKABLE SCENE IN COURT.
Catherine Nolan Triumphantly Acquitted
of the Charge Of Murder.


of the Charge Of Murder. ..
The trial of Catherine Nolan on the charge
of poisoning her brother John In Waterford
was concluded in Ballston, N. Y, the jury
rendering verdict of not guilty. 8 .
She and her sister Elizabeth were there
upon discharged from custody. There was
great excitement in the court room upon tho
announcement of the verdict. '
Juror GofY mounted the Judges bench,
made speech and called for contributions
for the friendless, penniless and homeless
prisoners. Instantly bills futtered IN the
air and silver rained into GATHERINGS lap,
while Foreman Goff pleaded. Such scenes
are sometimes described In novels, but judges
and lawyers declared that they never had
seen one like it in real life before.
The jurymen were among the first to put
their hands deep into their pockets. Counsei
and experts followed. The opposing coun-
sell contributed also, and even the Judge him
self sent u crisp "V'' to the bewildered girl.
Roses and pinks were torn from the bouquet
that Catherine had carried and every juror
decorated himself with one.
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is 1t weighs 1O1 ounces and Is more
than ninety per cent. pure gold, so
that, gold being worth 800 m ounce,
the value, roughly speaking, is al
most $1,000.
The shape is too irregular to de-
scribe, but the measurements are
easily taken. The nugget Is little
over Fix and half inches in length
and five and hal: inches i'll width
at the widest place. The broader end
is also the thicker. aud measures
three and three quarter inches from
top to bottom. while the smaller end
is only about an inch thick.
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ORIGINATED The .:0nc Price" SystciA.

John A. Warren, the old Boston dry
goods merchant who died on last Fri
dav, is said to have been the first
dealer in that city to adopt the lone
price" system of selling goods. 1t WEB
considered Il great innovation, and
everybody predicted that Mr.. Warren
had made mistake. Previously each
merchant had set his own price for an
article, and the customer had to ray
it or beat him down. New York Sun,
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Remarkable Collection OF Shoes.

The Queen of Italy is said to have
remarkable historic collection of shoes.
It includes the shoes worn by Mary
Stuart on her way to execution, the
shoes of Joan of Arc, Marie Antoinette.
Ninon de Lenclos, Queen Louise, etc. /;
also a collection OF shoes of various
countries which has an ethnographlc
value. New York Post.
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WATERMELON PLANT PEST,
An Unknown insect Has Attacked tn
Patches in Southern Georgia.

IL
Patches in Southern Georgia.
Reports from an authoritative source have
reached the Agricultural Department that an
unknown insect has attacked the water
melon plants in Southern Georgia, and now
threatens to destroy that product. The de-
psrtment at once despatched Assistant Ento-
mologist D. W. Coquillet to the spot to make
a thorough investigation. He will make q
close study OF this new pest and experiment
in remedies for its eradication. This insect
Is said to be small black bug that eats on
the plant just below the surface OF the
ground. This industrious little worker ap-
pears also to have co-partner in evil In the
Shape Of white worm that Injuries the roof
Of the young plants.
The Southern railroad companies, who,
during the season, transport thousands OF
tons Of this pl oduct, have Joined the farmers
In urging the department to interfere ana
prevent the spread Of the ravage, II possible
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Electric Cars stopped by Eels.

At New London, Conn, the new organ OF
St. Jamess Episcopal Church was stopped
twice by GELS in forty-eight hours. The
electric street cars over the city were obliged
to suspend running, as the power did not
work on account of ecls. Al! the trouble is
caused by these fish getting into the supply
pipes and shutting OF the water used In
steam boilers
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New York Drinks q River a Day.

The volume of water that howt
through Now York City every day via
the new aqueduct is equal to river
100 feet wide and three feet deep
running at the rate of mile an hour.
If the full capacity of the aqueduct
were used it would represent similar
river 165 feet wide. New York
Weeklv
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Caurht SIS, ,ooo Worth of sturgeon.

The richest sturgeon catch OF record
along the Delaware was tina: OF few nights
ago when over 800 monster fish We're Brought
in to Milford, Del. Tho biggest We, aed
600 pounds, aai many of them We're a1ove
500 bounds eacE in weight. The Delaware
llshermen, in this eaten, earned $1,000, and
New Jersey fishermen were equally success
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KILLED Him While He Slept,

Milton J. Schweigert, foreman on the Sa-
vsnnah (Ga.) Evening Bulletin, was shot
through the heart and killed by his wife. He
was asleep. Mrs. Schweigerr is said to be
insane, and is under arrest.
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Placed end to end in O continuous
line the streets of London would ex-
tend from the Mansion House across
the entire continent of Europe and
beyond the Ural Mountains into Asia
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of older styles and an adaptation to
changed conditions.
Various poetic explanations of its
origin have been given. It was said to
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GOTHIC HOUSES.
Plans for a Residence In This Style
Of Architecture.

The Gothic or pointed and Grecian
or horizontal are really the foundations
of all styles of architecture when we
speak of buildings being Swiss, 1tal-
ian or Gothic, or any of the numer-
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are becoming harder and harder, and that II
Won come to Christ It will be more OF an
Undertaking now than 1t ever would have
been before. The throne Of judgment Will
soon be set. and If you have anything to do
toward your eternal salvation you had better
do it now, for the redemption OF your soul 1s
precious, and 1t ceaseth forever.
Oh, II men could only catch ono glimpse
OF Christ, I know they would love HIM
Your heart leaps at the sight OF glorious
sunrise or sunset. Can you be without emo
tion as the Sun of Righteousness rises be-
hind Calvary and sets behind Joseph's sepul-
cher2 He Is blessed Saviour. Every Na-
tion has its type of beauty. There Is Ger
man beauty, and Swiss beauty, and Italian
beauty, and English beauty, but care not
in what land a man first looks at Christ ne
pronounces Him ''Chief among 10000, and
the one altogether lovely"
The diamond districts Of Brazil are care
fully guarded, and man does not get III
there except by q pass from the Government,
but the love of Christ IS diamond uistrct
eternity. "To-day. If ye will hear Ills VOICE,
harden not your hearts"
Take the hint Of the text that nave no
time to dwell upon-the hint that there Is q
time when He cannot be found. Ihere was
a man in this city eighty years OF age VINO
said to Clergyman who came in, do you
think that man eighty years Of age can get
pardoned?" oh. yes" said the clergyman.
The old man said: II can't. When I was
twenty wears ofagc-I am now eighty years
-the Spirit of God came to my soul, and
felt the Importance of attending to these
things, but put it off, rejected God. and
since then have had no feeling" "Well,'
said the minister, wouldn't you like to have
mo NAV with you?" Yes" replied the old
man, .'but it will do no good. You can pray
with me if you like to-" The minister knelt
down and prayed and commended the mans
soul to God. 1t seemed to have no effect
upon him. After awhile the last hour OF the
mans life came, and through his delirium
spark Of intelligence seemed to flash, and
with his last breath he said, 81 shall never
be forgiven" "Oh, seek the Lord while He
may be found"
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fair 70 remain secure and prosperous long after
every existing dynasty and throne has vanished
from the Continent.
II would be easy to indulge in rhapsodies on
such a theme. but they would bettle It, and they
are uncaled for. France Is to-day her own most
worthy tribute She Is herself the best assurance
NJ her stability and strength. A shrewd intriguer
strove 70 stampede her for the IMAM on horse
back" She refused to be stampeded. One OF her
Presidents was murdered by Socialist assassin.
She brayely bore her grief without the tremor Of
a nerve Another President resigned his place In
nanc.proyokirg circumstances. She knew no
manic. but with calmness the phegmatic Tcu-
ton we'll might envy. chose his successor and kept
on the even tenor Of her way. NJ Rbot formed
his present Ministry amid great difficulties. Men
said It was a mere stop-gap, that soon must fall.
II has not fallen. NJ Rlbot faced the Chamber
with II and held his ground with growing
strength. Through the Parliamentary recess his
consistent and digniaed policy won daily more
popularity well deserved for himself and more
faith in the Go, eminent Of which he Is the bull
wark Today there Is no Prime Minister In
Europe who more commands and merits the loyal
confidence Of his countrymen and the respect OF
foreign Governments and peoples.
These are some of the thirgs which make this
ouaftcr centenary OF the terrible year time
not altogether Of woe for France. 1t Is also the
quarter centenary Of the Republic The same
Sedan that tralled Frances eagles in the dust and
made her legons captive drove from his throne
her tinsel tyrant and set her free to live nobler
life and seek a higher destiny. Her great sister
Republic on this side the sea retolced in the early
trjumphs OF the German arms which crushed the
Man Of December and made the French Republic
nossible. Far more 1t rejoices to-day in the I'M
woverinc maintenance Of that Republic. and
oosors 70 NJ Faure. TO NJ Ribot and to all France
tic heartfelt congratulations. The same hues
hond in the Tricolor and in the Stars and Stripes.
We'll will It be II that shall prove lasting token
that they and their peoples are one IN spirit ana
in destiny,