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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-03-04
AmputatiOn OF Frozen Fingers.

All of Dick Snyder's fingers and
both thumbs were operated upon re.
Gently at the hospital of the Sacred
Heart by Drs. MacLean and Newman.
Two fingers on the left hand was taken
off at the near knuckle joint, and all
the others on both hands were ampu'
tated, some near the tips and others at
the first and second joints. 1t will be
necessary to amputate all the toes OF
the right foot and to remove parts OF
the bones of both feet.
Snyder is tho hrapper who WIS ter.
ribly frozen ca New Years Day and
night while endeavoring to save his
companion, Bronkins, in the noun
tains northwest OF Athol, Idaho.
Bronkins perished and Snyder saved
his own lie by enclrcling q small tree
with his left arm, walking around the
trunk all night end swallowing tobac-
CO to avoid falling asleep. When he
was brought to Spokane by his young
er brother, Walter Snyder, it was ap'
parent that he would lose some of the
fingers of the lei. haad, which had
been most exposed while clinging to
the tree, but hope was entertained
that the right hand and both feet
might be saved intact. - Spokane
Wash Review.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-03-04

The John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse,
Wis, pay high prices for new things. They
recently paid $500 for yellow rind water
melon, $1,000 for 80 bu. new oats, $500 for
100 lbs. Of potatoes, etc., etc.! Well, prices
for potatoes will be high next fall. Plant a
plenty Mr.. Wideawake! You'll make money.
salzers Earliest are fit to eat in % days after
planting. His Champion of the World is the
greatest yielder on earth and We challenge
you to produce its equal. (A.)
If YOU WILL SEND Us 10c. in stamps to
the John A. salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis.,,
you will get, free, ten packages grains and
grasses, including Teosinte, Spurry, Giant
Incarnate Clover, etc., and our mammoth
catalogue. Catalogue alone Sc. for mailing.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-03-04
Animal Enr.

Fur is q thread-like fiber which
grows ont of the pores Of the skins of
animals. It grows in length from the
root, and not from the top, as With
vegetable productions. The lower
portion merely lengthens out, and the
:op projects forward, consequently, if
once cut, it will always remain blunt.
It is tubular and filled with oil, which
gives to the fiber its color. In addi.
tion to the oil it contains mineral
matter, among which are sulphur and
iron. A close examination of the
fiber will, to certain extent, show the
section of the country the animal in
habits. The short and crisp, with an
oval or angular Cross section, indicates
a tropical growth; the long and soft,
with circular cross section, a aNorthern
climate. The fibers form different
structure and value, that which is
taken from the back of a land animal
being the finest, while the reverse is
true of the animal which confines it.
self mostly to the water, the under
side being much finer than the back.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-03-04
Sent His Eve to Be Examined.

A short time ago an order was is.
sued on one of the lines of the Penn
sylvanla Company for all section men
to come to the Office on certain day
and have their eyes examined. Just
before the man who had charge of the
tests left the Office messenger boy
came hurryingin with small package
neatly tied up and addressed to the
eye inspector. The latter opened it
and was surprised to find a glass eye
wrapped up in tissue paper and also
an old fashioned silver watch. The
contents of the package proved puz.
zle to the inspector until he unfolded
a note, which, on being deciphered,
was found to read as follows:
"Oye inspector-Dear Sir: The day
before yesterday at nune I got wurd to
cume down and have me ise looked
after for culur blindness as ye call it.
I had forty-fve ties and ten rales to
put down beyond the sand cut, and as
Jerry Sullivan and Dominick Cooley
were laid up since the wake that wuz
holded over Denny Doherty, my hands
war too short to spare me. Twas
lucky that the rite eye that was first
in my head was put out with blow OF
a pix and me glass eye that is perfect
figger OF the eye that WAS not put out
is sent to you together with my watch
for the denomination. I could spare
the glass eye better than the oye in
the head and if she is culur blind I'll
get ole that amt. Yures truely, An
thony Driscoll. ."-Pittsburg Dispatch.
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back cores and a we'll. curved center
seam that ends in deep coat laps below
the waist line. Rounded coat plaits
that are marked by single buttons give
added fullness at the side back cores,
the stylish ripple effect at the sides in
the skirt portion distinguishing the
new modes. The full gigot sleeves are
shaped with single seam, the flllness
at the top being plated into the arms
eve, a double seam of machine stitch
ing Stimulating cuffs. Pockets are
inserted on each front aud concealed
by laps that are neatly lined and
stitched in tailor style. The edges
can be plainly finished or machine
stitched as preferred. All kinds OF
rough or smooth.fa cloth, tweed,
cheviot, serge or diagonal in checks,
stripes, mixed, plain or fancy weave
will make stylish, comfortable and
protective coats for storm or ordinary
everyday wear.
The quantity of 54-iuch-wide mate
rial required to make this coat for
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-03-04
Chinese AmericanIZed.

Cinnamon in Philadelphia, Penn,
are slow to adopt civilization. Since
the days of One Lung, who, it is be,
ieved, was the first laundryman to
land here, nobody has ever thought OF
keeping tab on their names until now.
The city directory for 1896 designates
Chinese laundries by giving the ad-
dresses at which they may be found.
Their names are omitted entirely.
This seems to have wounded the
pride of the younger generation of
Chinese laundrymen, particularly
those who wear hand-me-down suits
and attend Sunday. school, and as a re-
suit the city has an entirely new crop
of laundries for 1895. Sam Lee is now
Samuel @. Lee; Yip Sing is now
James Sing; Hong Quon is now Henry
Queen; Jim Lee is James A. Lee, and
80 on. In this way no less than thirty
Cinnamon have worked their addresses
into the new directory. Hit the pipe
New York Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-03-04

WALTER BAKER & Co., LIMITED, DOR
CHESTER, MASS, the well-known manufact-
urers of Breakfast Cocoa and other Cocoa and
Chocolate preparations, have an extraordin-
airy collection Of medals and diplomas award
ed at the great international and other ex-
hibitions in Europe and America The house
has had uninterrupted prosperity for nearly
century and quarter, and is now not only the
Oldest but the largest establishment of the
kind on this continent The high degree Of
perfection which the Company has attained
in its manufactured products is the result Of
long experience combined with an intelligent
use of the new forces which are constantly
being introduced to increase the power and
improve the quality Of production, and
cheaper the cost to the consumer.
The full strength and the exquisite n atural
flavor of the raw material are reserved unim-
paired in all Of WALTER BAKER & CoMPANY'S
preparations; so that their products may truly
be said to form the standard for purity and
excellence.
In view Of the many limitations of the name,
labels and wrappers on their goods consumers
should ask for and be sure that they get the
genuine articles made at DORCHESTER, MASS.
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Doctors, Office Building.

"The Clinic" is the namc selected
by Architect Willis G. Hale, Of Phila-
delphia, Penn, for most remarkable
Office building. His plan is for O
structure that will include every
feature of medical college plant and
a private hospital, along with the Off
ces for the individual use OF physi-
clans.
In this age OF special!;es in medi'
cine, and particularly surgery, the
necessity for such structure seems to
have arrived. Mr. Halo says b. has
already enough assurances il hand to
make the project success. New York
Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-03-04
A Flying Frog.

Some..years ago an Englishman trav'
cling in the East Indian archipelago
in search OF rare species discovered
one of the most singular of all the an
imals which are enabled to simulate
flying. He was moving slowly along
in deep forest when he noticed what
was apparently bird darting down
from a tree, though it's movements
were extremely unbirdlike. 1t seemed
to dive down with plunge, then rose
and caught another tree, some hity
feet away. The strangest part OF this
flight was that no wings could be seen.
The naturalist stopped and began q
careful examination and in a short
time was repaid hv catching the little
flyer in the act. Alarmed by the net
it daried from the tree and missing its
object fell upon the ground and was
brought to the traveller in triumph by
tie natives. 1t was a frog-a new
tree. frog-a most attractive little
creature that had been endowed by
nature with enormous webbed feet
WHICH IL eAphuueu llho wings 10 ~
darted through the air and which sup
ported it sufficiently to pass from
tree to tree in graceful leaps.
While such method of progression
is called flying it ls simply because it
resembles the act of flight, being, in
reality, merely soaring, illustrating
the principle of the parachute. The
webs between the toes of the frog
press against the wind and form q
strong resistance, as do the membranes
that are stretched between the rays of
the fin of the gurnard. The delicate
skin that covers the false ribs of tn,
flying lizard also buoys it up, pre-
venting a too rapid fall, while the
folds of loose skin of the colugo when
stretched to their fullest extent per-
form similar Office for that interest.
ing animal. In all these instances the
plan is one devised by nature to aid
in escape and self-preservation. At
lanta Constitution.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-03-04
MISSES CAPE WITH HOOD.

The stylish cape of boucle cloth
shown in the second large illustration,
and designed by May Manton, is
handsomely lined with plaid silk.
The cape is shaped in circular outline,
and can be worn with or without a
seam in center back, as best suits the
material. The shoulders are smooth,
smoothly fitted without darts, and it
falls to fashionable length in stylish
ripples all around. The collar can be
raised, with the fronts rolled as shown,
closed higher, or rolled over on cape
as preferred. The pointed hood is
lined throughout, displaying the
pretty plaid silk on its rounded front
edges. The cape is hooked closely at
the neck, two pointed straps closing
the front edges with bone buttons.
The edges of cape, straps and collar
are finished with machine stitching in
tailor style; but this can be omitted
if a plain completion is preferred.
Capes by the mode are made of medi-
um and heavy cloaking IN plain and
mixed colors, with smooth or rough
faced surface. For early spring capes
in this style are made of the dress ma
terial and warmly interlined. The
hood can be finished separately and
hooked on at the neck when worn, or
omitted when not desired.
The quantity of 54-inch wide mate
rial required to make this cape for a
miss twelve years old is Il yards; for
a fourteen-year-old size, Ii yards; for
a sizteen-year.old size, l. yards.
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known as the "Newmarket," is made
of dark, rough.faced cheviot, and
closed with large pearl or bone but
tons. 1t is shaped according to the
latest tailor mode, the fronts being
widened to fall loosely below the
hips, conforming in shape to the fash
ionable skirts. The loose, double
breasted tlonts are deeply faced, and
reversed at the top in coat lapels that
meet the ends of the deep, rolling
storm collar IN notches. The lapels
and collar can be raised and closed to
the throat for better protection IN IN
clement weather. The back and sides
fit closely, with underarm and side
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-03-04

cular basque is joined to the lower
edge starting from the darts on front,
the free edges being stitched to match
the straps. The full gigot sleeves are
gathered at the top and arranged over
comfortable Innings, hollow box-plait
being laid underneath, that extends to
wide cuff depth, with the edges caught
down by rows of small buttons. A
close fitting collar finishes the neck,
that can close in front or on the left
shoulder, as preferred. The tailor
made gown is the favorite for shop
ping or street wear, and this style is
especially chic and becoming. Serge,
cheviot, tweed, camels hair. crepon OF
cloth in the stylish mixtures, checks,
stripes or plain varieties will develop
handsomely by the mode.
Tke quantity of 44-inch wide mate
rial required to make this basque for
lady having a 32-inch bust measure
is 81 yards: for a 3G-inch size, 81
yards; for 40.inch size, 81 yards.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-03-04
A Remarkable Wound.

An extraordinary tale is told by
Major Pryse Gordon of wound re-
ceived in the Waterloo campaign by
one Donald, of the Ninety-second Reg.
,ment. He had been shot in the thign
by musket ball. The ball was ex.
tracted, but still the wound did not
heal. A large abscess formed. Poul-
tices were applied, and on an incision
being made, 10 and behold! a five
franc piece and one-franc piece were
extracted, together with q bit O.
cloth, the larger coin having been hit
nearly in the centre and forced into
the shape of a cup.-Notes and
OuerieS
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-03-04

grounds OF quaint colors, or dotted, or
else in checks and stripes. The chlntz
fowered waists that women OF fashion
adopted last year, the designs like
foulards, are also occasionally seen.
Those with buff ground strewn with
roses were lovely last summer with
light -colored skirts of covert cloth,
but are not effective with black skirts.
Turn.down collars of linen or of the
fabric of the shirt will rival the stand.
inc collar, and the cuffs are cnt to
match. Ecru linen bastistes, English
holland, and the familiar grass linen
will be more useful for shirt waists
even than Isst xssssssssse-are re-
fned-Iooking, are capable of being
semi.dress if we'll made, do not show
soil, and are generally becoming. The
new grass linens have stripes of color
woven in, or else there is an all-over
design of flowers embroidered in white,
cream tinted, or in colors, or else lace
designs appliqued from their exquisite
garniture. .-Harper's Bazaar.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-03-04
EMPIRE OF DRESS.
NEW AND BECOMING GARMENTS
FOR WOMEN.
A Stylish Basque of Cheviot-Hand-
some Cape and Hood of Boucle
Cloth for Misses - The
"Newmarket."

~ ROWN mixed cheviot made
* the stylish tailor finished
basque, depicted in tho FIRST
large Illustration. It is dec.
grated in latest mode with stitched
straps and small guilt buttons. The
glove-ftting adjustment is accom-
plished by single bust darts, under
arm and side back cores, and a curv-
ing center back seam. The closing Is
in the center front, the seamless vest
extending to close on left, under the
graduated straps that extend to lower
edge of front. The back is provided
with straps to match, both meeting at
the shoulder seam. The shallow cir
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-03-04
Over 400, 1000 bicycles are in use IN
France. Each machine is taxed 1926
annually.
The Worst of 1t.

II the best Of life, as 1t is said to be. Is but
anticipation, the worst of it is surely worry
and vexation. They are the plows and har-
rows that furow the brow and cut deeply
into the nerves. 1t is constant plowing OF
this kind that tears up the nerve tissues.
The greater nerves, like the bigger roots,
may resist for time. but the ploughshare
gets down to them. Worry brings all sorts
last the sciatic nerve is reached, a disturb,
ance to which in the form Of sciatica is at
tended by excruciating pains. st. Jacobs
Oil has cured the worst cases Of men Grip
pied by it. Use it and make snre of a prompt
and permanent cure.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-03-04
CURIOUS FACTS.
There is one red diamond.

Asia has nineteen paper mills.
Congress contains 238 lawyers.
Africa boasts 634.carat diamond.
The speaking trumpet is said to
have been used by Alexander the Great,
335 B. O.
AQuitman (Mo.) man has just re.
ceived 800 for a horse killed during
the Civil War.
The growing roots of trees have
shifted the foundations of church at
San Como more than seven inches.
Eight hundred fishermen were car
ried of on an ice foe in the Sea of
razor the other day, but were all res
cued.
A rattlesnake seventy-nin inches
long and having twenty-one rattles,
was killed near Jefferson, Ga, re-
Gently.
The steamship Aller was the first
transatlantic liner to be equipped
with triple expansion engines This
vessel was built in 1885.
A red rabbit was caught near East.
man, Ga, few days ago. 1t IS alive
and on exhibition in that place, and
the farmers living thereabouts say it
is the first kind they ever saw.
Wolsey's seal ring is preserved in
the Tower of London. 1t is set with
q peculiar stone, the nature OF which
Is unknown, but which was believed
by his enemies to possess magical
properties.
James T. Ware, a merchant of Ka l.
sas City, NO., dreamed of wonderful
buried treasure near Versailles, Ky.
He spent a good deal of time and
money digging for it, and now says
that he doesn't believe in dreams any
how.
An orchestra has been installed in
the Baptist Church OF Galesburg,
Mich. The pastor OF the church leads
and plays the clarinet. The music is
good, and the new feature of the serv-
ices is attracting big crowds to the
church.
A man in Barton, VI, married his
stepmother q few weeks ago. The
match was interesting, but not suc-
cessful. Domestic difficulties brought
them into the police court very few
weeks after their marriage, and the
troubles are not smoothed out yet.
A fashionable photographer in Lon
don whose place of business is on Re-
gent street, hung out the Union Jack
and the Stars and Stripes side by side
during the recent "wsr scare" The
centers of their edges nearest to each
other were bound together by broad
blue ribbon.
Jules Simon says the most exciting
moment of his life was when he was
trying to obtain concession from a
foreign diplomat whom President
Grevy was beating at billiards. 1t was
only in response to Simon's mute but
agonized appeals that Grevy consent
ed to lose the game.
There is no other work in the world
of which 80 many copies are printed
annually as of the Chinese almanac.
This almanac is printed at Pekin,
and is a monopoly 1.-The Emperor. II
not only predicts the weather, but
notes the days that are reckoned lucky
and unlucky for commencing any un'
dertaking. for applying remedies in
diseases. for marrying and for bury
ing.
Mecca is a large city, and a princi'
pal one of the East. The temple
OF Mecca, to which so many pilgrmt
annually travel. forms o spacious
square about a quarter of mile in
each direction, with quadruple row
of columns. A number of steps lead
down to Mohammed's house, and
within it is the black stone said to
have been brought by the angel Ca
briel for its foundation.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-03-04
FL1RIOA FACTS.

February and March are two OF tie bes )
months to visit Florida. The climate is finp
and the social features at their height. OF
interest. When you have made up your MIND
TO 20. you naturally want to get there as soon
as possible and in the most comfortable man
ner II you live in New York, Boston or
Buffalo. you can take one of the Magnificent
Trains of the big Four Route" from any one
OF these cities to Cincinnati, and with only
one change of cars continue your journey to
Jacksonville. Direct connection made in Cen
tral Union Station. Cincinnati, with through
Mccormick, Passenger Traffic Manager, or
D. B. Martin, General Passenger and Ticket
Agent Big Four Route, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Evaporated Potatoes.

Evaporated potatoes, prepared in
the same manner as evaporated ap-
pies, are to be put on the market from
Minnesota next fall. Last seasons
potato crop was so large that man. ?
millions of bushels wese wasted, and
experiments were made in eVaporating
potatoes. The experiments were sue.
cessful, and two big factories for pre-.
pairing potatoes in this manner are
building.-New York Sun.
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NJ. NJ. Luther, East Troy, Pa, grew last
season over 200 bushels of Salzer's Silver
Mine Oats from one measured acre! How is
that for old Pennsylvania? Over 10000 farm
ers are going to try and beat this in 1895 and
win 5000 in gold! Then think of 116 bus.
barley from one acre and 1900 big full bushels
Of potatoes and 2s0 bushels of Golden Trl-
umph Corn!
What is teosinte, and sand vetch aud
spurry and so other rare things? We'll,
salzer's catalogue will tell you. Largest
growers OF clovers. grasses and farm seeds in
America. Freishls cheap to Pennsylvania
and the east.
If Tou WILL CUT THIS OUT AND SEND It
with 10, postage to the John A. Salzer Seed
Co., La Crosse, Wis, you will receive their
mammoth catalogue and ten packages grain
and grasses, including above oats, free. (A)