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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12

Iu I. raAiue, .uIeu % mIuuUW III 4nHui-
son street pair of antlered deer heads
are displayed. The taxidermist says
they.fo the greatest curiosity ever
seen in that line. The antlers are in
terlocked, and, he says, it is the only
pair in existence with the heads we'll
preserved. Other pairs of antlers
have been found tangled together but
he says it was after the animals to
which they belonged had long been
dead and nothing but the whitened
skeletons remained. The theory has
always been that the animals had died
thus fighting. The deers of which
this exhibit originally formed q part
were discovered in combat, and with
their hons inseparably tangled.
H. L. Brown, OF Albion, Mich,
was hunting near Bismarck, North
Dakota, November Is last. when
he came upon two Virginia deer
bucks locked in a mortal tsngle.
How long they had been thus
he could not say, but it must have
been some time, because they had
plowed up about two acres of ground
in their struggle. They could not
run away and Mr.. Brown ended their
struggle by shooting them. He cut
off the heads and sent them to this
city to have them mounted as he
found them. N. Slotkin, the taxider-
mist who prepared them, say the
horns could only be untangled by
breaking them or loosining them from
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12
LOOKING FOR sPoNaEs.

dricd-up sponges that are sold in the
drug stores are the skeletons of
the sponges. When they are pulled
from the water they are covered with
glue-like stuff and filled with slimy
matter. This shiny matter is the
curry and the sponges are kept on the
deck until this curry runs away.
Sometimes they are kept aboard two
days, and the man who cannot work
in o smell which is worse than any
down at the stock yards will never be
able to make living fishing for
sponges.
"But you get used to it in.time, and
you get so you can tell just when the
sponges should be taken to the sponge
crawls. A sponge crawl is made by
stalking out space about twelve feet
square in shallow water. The partly
cured sponges are put to soak in the
crawl and are beaten with clubs and
thus washed out. The water of the
crawl is only two or three feet deep,
found, the old method of diving is
and the men who wash them use fiat
clubs. Then they are taken out, strung
on strings, packed in bales and sold.
Sometimes sponges are bleached.
That makes them white, but hurts the
sponge.
''The sneep wool sponge is the besi
sponge. 1t is soft, just like velvet,
and strong. Sheep wool sponges are
sold for bath sponges, but m ost O
them are used for washing carriages
The yellow sponge is a good sponge
but it is not so soft and strong as the
sheep wool. and the "rass sponge il
noOrest and chea..es:."
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12
A Royal Marriage From Pique.

An interesting story is being told as
to how the King of Portugal became
engaged. Prince Carlos, who was
known at that time as the Duke of
Btaganza, was on the way to Venice
to celebrate his betrothal to the Arch
duchess Marie Valerie, daughter OF
the Austrian Emperor, when, upon
his hrrivAl a. Paris, he received news
that Her IN I'll Highness had
changed her mini The Prince was
unwilling to return t bride,
and sought the advice accule Mar
auise de la Ferronay, an ] OF
the family. Her Ladyshlp o.
him the picture of a young girl, who
she said was rich, talented and his
equal in rank. 81 will have her, who
ever she may be-" exclaimed Carlos.
"Wbre can she be seen?" "Accord-
ing tp this mornings paper" replied
The Narquise, "Rer Royal Highness,
the Princess Amelie OF Orleans, ar
rived yesterday in Nice" Three days
later the Duke and Princess met for
the first time, a shortly afterward
their betrothal was announced. Ga
lignsni Messenger.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12

MS new overcoat out in such beasuy
weather. His brother had q mackin-
tosh, and when the first young man
spied this hanging on the hat rack he
decided to appropriate it for the night
and so save his new oyercoat. Without
saying word to his brother he put on
the waterproof and sailed forth into
the rain, calculating that he would save
his new overcoat at least three months
wear that night. When ne came home
he found his brother in their room.
"Say, old man." he said, II used your
macintosh tonight"
"That was all right" said the BROTH
er, 81 got along very we'll without it"
"You didn't so out this evening, did
you?" asked the owner Of the over
coat.
eyes," answered the owner Of the
macintosh.
"Then what did you wear?"
"Your new overcoat."
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12
Blackbirds With Appetites.

Ifany one has just cause to desire
the ptal determination of destructive
birds E. D. Smith has just grounds
to detest the blackbirds, as he has lost
through them at least $1,000 this year.
Mr.. Smith had probably the best crop
of Egyptian corn this year ever grown
in Butte County. He planted fifty
acres during the proper season and
almoit every hill came up, and the
corn grew and fourished until it was
as high as mans head, and every
stocR produced fine heads; in facs,
good judges claimed that the yield
wouh average forty bushels to the
acre!
Nj. Smith waited patiently for the
cropto mature, we'll pleased with tn 9
PROSPECTS of q bountiful yield. But
judge of his chagrin when he went out
to visw the corn few days ago to find
the field the feeding ground for my
riads of blackbirds and the whole field
deva,tated. The birds had taken the
entir re crop as completely as if it had
been run through threshins machine
Rig& (Cal.) Argus.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12
aHEAD, BODY AND LEGS,
a Winter Nights Game That VIII AT
ford Amusement.

Good games, the Washington Path.
finder thinks, are always worth know
ing about, espe cially those innocent
winter night games that, with their
funny consequences, offer such real
relief from the days cares. No one
wants to make business of playing
games, but the greatest minds are not
above simple diversions, nay, they must
have them. One of the best pastimes
of the kind is the old English game OF
"Head, Body and Legs" the origin of
which is lost in the past.
Get slip of brown paper about two
inches wide and four inches long, say.
Let tine first player draw at the top of
the slip q head, using only the upper
third of the paper. This head may be
that of any imaginable or unimaginable
creature. If its something mongrel
and absurd it's all the funnier. The
first player then folds the paper down
SO as to cover up what he has drawn,
but leaving the neck extending just
below the fold. He then passes the
slip on to the next player, who in turn
draws body on the middle third OF
the paper, joining it to the neck and
then folding the paper just SO as TO
leave enough of the body showing to
indicate where the legs should join OF.
A third player then adds legs and feet
to the strange being, to suit his fancy.
1t will add to the fun to have fourth
player name the portrait.
Finally the paper is unfolded. To
say the least the company will be sur.
priaed at the queer composite. Il may
be that the head and the legs will dis
agree over the direction the creature
is supposed to be fronting. Often
times one of the members will be SO
out of proportion with the rest as to
make the whole effect very ludicrous.
The best way to see the possibilities OF
the game is to try it. You needn't be
an artist to make success of it, since
the most awkward hand will frequent
ly produce the most laughable results.
The combinations may not always be
go comical, but out OF half dozen
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12


That it costs something to launch
big battleship is shown by the state
ment tn at the expense of getting the
Victorious, the latest addition to Eng
lands feet, afoat was about $40, 900.
She4ls a.aiatas ihip 20 aenia can.
and the Majestic, and is 800 feet long.
seventy.fve feet beam, and 273 feet
draught. There were used up on the
ways over which she slid into the water
1000 pounds of Russian tallow, 160
gallons of train oil and 100 pounds of
soft soap. The gross weight OF the
ship, equipped and ready for sea, is
Is, 725 tons.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12
$lOU a uozen. Tne prices o.,

$lOU uozen. rne prices o,
sponges have doubled in the last twen-
ty years, and sponge experts declare
that they will be still more expensive.
As sponges are sold by weight, dis
honest dealers frequently fill tho
sponges with sand to increase the
weight, but this practice is dying out.
TIE practical value of the sponge lies
in its great absorbing capacity and
also is due to the fact that water soft.
ems the tissues until they become soft
and pliable. Although sponges are
found in all tropical or semi-tropical
waters, the commercial sponges are
confined almost exclusively to the
waters of the southern and western
coast of Florida, the Bahaman archi-
pelago and to the Mediterranean and
Red Seas. The. sponges, as they are
found in their native waters, vary in
form; some are cup or vase shaped,
Others half round, others globular,
some are fan-shaped and some cylin.
dricai
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12

Rev. DR.. Talmage, in recent SER
mon, speaking of our near approach
to the twentieth century, said: "only
four summers more; four autumns
more; four winters more; four springs
more, and then the clock of time will
strike the death of the old century
and the birth of the new" 1t is easy
to forget, recalls the Pathfinder, that
there are still five more years before
dawn of the twentieth century. The
nineteenth century will not end. re-
member, till midnight of December
81, 1900, not 1899. You must spend
your Tooth cent before your dollar is
gone, and it is SO with the years of the
century.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12

case it was unfit for occupa ncy upon
its arrival they were to receive the
dwelling as their compensation.
The trip was made principally bv
water. To remove the house to the
edge of the bay was the first difficult.--
to be overcome, as it necessltated tax
ing the building over large dyke
and marsh. This was accomplished
satisfactorily and the house was trans
ferred to two railroad lighters thai
had been lashed together In readiness
for the trip.
Ihe journey by water was COM
pleted with the aid of tug without
accident, and an immense crowd
assembled at Eureka to welcome the
strange craft.
Amid the cheers of the spectators
and the footing Of steam whistles the
lighters were mace fast and the house
transferred to land once more. II
was comparatively easy matter &c
convey it to its new site and the
strange, engineering feat was accor'
plished without any more damag,'
being done to the house than q sllgns
cracking OF the plaster.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12

IN SCANiAS, With his bac6
to the stove in a warehouse
on the river, was telling the
group of lake sailors how he
had fshed for sponges of the Florida
Keys. "You see, boys" said he, "you
stick your head in o bucket over the
side of the dingy, and you can see the
sponges hard fast to the bottom. Then
you put down your hook and haul
away, and get beauty"
GLOW CO. you see through a bucket,
Tim 2" as-ed one of his friends.
"Because, dye see, the bucket has
D glass bottom to it, and that's no lie.
When the light is on the water you
can't see below the top, can yea, be.
cause the water is sort of looking
glass, but you can see under water,
unless you are blind, if you keep your
eyes open. So what do those chaps dc
but clap piece of glass in the bottom
of a bucket after knocking out the
wood; and then they stick their heads
in the buckets; with the balls around
their necks, and shove the buckets un-
til the glass is under water, and they
can see down ten fathoms or MORE"
"I mind the time when was sail.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12
The Danger of Bread.

A Boston dentist tells the follow
ing story: Within the past year he
has had come to him for professional
treatment four Swedish girls. The
teeth in each OF these young women
spre really crumbling away. And
~? In their native country, where
tfe Swedish bread is baked at inter-
walls during the year and hung on
poles to dry and harden, the teeth
had their proper exercise. But when
these girls became subject to Amer;
lean civilization, and were obliged
to eat the pap and pastry in homes
where more time is devoted to cater
ing to the taste than to finding out
the needs and requirements of the
body, the masticatins of food was no
longer a necessity, and the teeth,
finding they were of no more service,
decided to take themselves out OF the
wav
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12
TlIOs. j. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR

especially picturesque. The orna-
mental accessories OF costumes are
more and more on the artistically pic.
turesque order, and trimmings share
the fancy. Many of the new evening
gowns show lavish decorations of
ieweled trimmings, and some of them
are really exquisite, while others
border too much on barbaric maAnifi.
cence to suit thoroughly refined tastes.
A lovely trimming consists of pearls
embroidered on white silk gauze,
while another pretty fancy is that of
spangles in the most delicate tints
combined with pearls, the spangles
initiating small blossoms.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12
Moving a House by Water.

A remarkable feat of engineering
has just been successfully accomplished
by Pacific coast firm. An attorney
named Ernest Sewer is the owner of e
two-story house at Arcata, twelve
miles from Eureka. Owing to de-
cline in the value of property at Ar
cata Sewer determined to have the
house moved-to Eureka, where he in
tended having it set up on some land
that he owned.
A firm OF contractors undertook to
remove the house intact and set it up,
uninjured, for the sum Of $1,000. In
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12

The increase of nearly $4,000 in i'm
migrants for six months excites the
apprehension of some, but it is gener-
ally regarded as the suress indication
of increasing activity in business.
There is no doubt at all, maintains the
New York World, that it helps to re-
store and steady values. All values
depend on the country's prospects of
growth, and increasing immigration
insures the certainty of growth.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12
oRespect Old Age. -

The Rochester IN. Y.) Union tells
of a seven-year-old boy of that city
who recently got even with his COVER
ness. She was obliged to punish him,
aftae which sue administered solemn
sermon for the youngsters benefit.
"Now, Willie," she said, in conclud-
ing the lecture, ''you must remember
this-that at all times you should re-
spect your teacher" Yes'm," sobbed
Willie; "I s'posepd ought to respect
you on account Of your age"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12
Digestibility of Apples.

There is great difference in the dS
gestibility of different kinds OF applesA
Some are very rich with hard and solid
pulp, while others are juicy and digesS
easily. The Spitzenberg apples has u
yery fine flavor, but it cannot be eaten
by some who can eat at will OF varle-
ties like the Fameuse. Most OF the
sweet apples are hard to digest. Even
when cooked they are tough and do
not break down as sour apples will
Boston Cultivator.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12

The Allahabad Pioneer, the princi-
pal journal of British India, and the
one on which Rudyard Kipling began
his literary career, recently contained
q paragraph in the "want" columns as
follows: sSituatlon wanted as snake
charmer in respectable family. P. S.
No objection to looking after the
camel
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12

ion, when you wish to look most be-
witchipgly and becomingly arrayed.
In brown eyes shines sort of grsyish
hue, in blue eyes watery azure, and
in certain eyes greenist shade.
However, all the tints are purchasable,
and, with the promised results, there
is no reason not to be beautiful.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12

the skull, and this was never done, so
they remain as the hunter found
them.
The deer were young bucks of about
the same age, probably two years old.
The taxidermist said if they had been
mounted full figure they would have
been worth more than $4,000. AS they
are now, he says, the pair of heads
is worth $500. They belong to the
man who killed them, and who will
keep them as a trophy of his rare good
luck as sportsman. Chicago Chron-
iola
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12
GOWNS AND EYES.

A famous dressmaker has ventured
on new idea. Let the bright SUM-
light shine directly in your eyes, and
the predominant color discerned there
in Will be the color to choose for a
gown, irrespective of hair or complex.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12

lining and the outside. The pattern
will be found of value in remodeling
old-iashioned fur capes, and great ex-
pense is saved when this can be done
at home. These cape collars can be
worn over basques, jackets. coats, and
will impart a stylish and comfortable
cir to the plainest top garment.
The quantity of 27-inch wide ma
terial required to make the collar for
medium size is 2S yards; to make
the muff, /, yards.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12

The Russian workmen spends very
little for food, lodging and dress as
compared with the foreign artisan. In
Moscow, for example, the board of a
workman amounts to not moro than
50. so per month.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12

checked designs develop stylishly by
the mode.
The quantity of 44.inch wide ma
terial required to make this basque
for miss twelve years old is yards !;
Tor a fourieen-year-old size is 81
yards; for sixteen-year-old size is
81 yards.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12
wraps the cracking thereof browns
the orchestra.
LADIES' CAPE COLLAR AND MurF.

This stylish cape collar and muff,
in Marie Antoinette style, is here
pictured in ermine fur, but astrskhan,
plush, velvet and cloth are the ma
terials usually selected to make up
these comfortable accessories for or
dinarv wear. an edging of fur being a
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12
Ihai and Dumb Couple Converted.

ItIseems to be striking compliment
to Rrvent eloquence, or some other
peculiar power of persuasion, that
amoRg the converts made by revival.
list "A Tekonsah, Mich, recently, were
two eaf and ddmb persons, 8 man and
his Eife. New York Sun.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12
sAsHEs AND GEMS.

A pretty fashion revived is that Of
sashes. They are generally-that is,
the artistic ones-solded SO as TO give
an impression of breadth in front. and
tie in the back in butterfly bow,
wnicn boasts long ends. Sometimes
9he satin ssshes have the ends heavily
embroidered. the Dresden sash being
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12

Public Opinion thinks it is matter
for congratulation that the teaching of
English in our schools and colleges is
at last beginning to get modicum OF
the attention that it has long de-
manded.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12

There are seven surnames in Asian
tee corresponding to the days OF the
week. as follows: Kwasie indicates d
man born on Sunday, kudjoe on Moh-
day. Kwabina on Tuesday, Kwaku on
wednesday, Yao OH Thursday. hoi'
/on Friday. and Kwamina Oh SATURDAY.
These are all accented on the uh'''
SYLLABLE
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12
GOWNS IN SEASON,
WHAT LEAP YEAR is PRoDUc.
ING IN woMAN'S GARMENTS.
Happy Combinations in Materials fol
u Basque Waist for Women anda
Misses Norfolk Basque
Cape Collar and Muff.

ILLUMINATED serge in stylish
mixture of golden brown and
delft blue is charmingly COM
bined with brown velvet in the
two-column illustration. The attrac.
tive-looking waist is provided with
g,ove-ftting Innings that close in
centre front, the fullness OF the ma
terial beng disposed in overlapping
p!aits Of the lower edges On front and
back. The fronts are slashed in "Y"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12
LINING OF SLEEVES.

All sleeves are lined with stiff and
cracking material, and when in thea
tire or opera house, the audience arises
to 60 and thousand obedient escorts
tuck 1000 sleeves into the sleeves Of
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12
rnn TAILS As rR1,1,I1us

Fur is used extensively as trim
ming for cloth gowns. Ialls are more
IN favor than bands, and they are
everywhere, even outlining in part the
cores of some of the new walking.
skirts.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12

One OF the important matters to
which the New York Sun is directing
attention is whether to say "tooth
brush" or fsteeth brush"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12

Bhape from shoulders to bust, expos
ing facings of velvet placed on the
lining, the edges being finished with
the sequin trimming. A long "V"-
shaped vest is exposed between the
front edges, the vest being sewed to
the lining on the right and hooked in
visibly over on the left. The stock
collar ends in loops at the back, two
Paquin points of velvet, edged with
sequins, tiarlng widelv anart in front.
A roll Of velvet with ur9a4 rio o9a
the back finished Il
basque. The fashion
have the fullness H.. 50 .,dsn
gathers at the top, t. .3.sa ...as
falling gracefully on -,
handsome combinatiors - ri
fabrics or co,ering fer = eaSsA =
The mo eja,alsrle@sc ~ at'a-
for decoration, for .a,, ai. sl-5s
Grape or crepon, dull II ~ 2.n.a-
terie furnishing the ;as
The quantity OF a. '2cs r1-.-s-
ial required to make this basque for a
lady having 52.inch bust measure is
81 yards; for 36-inch, 81 yards; for
40.inch size, 81 yards.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12

According to the Paris Revue Hor-
ticole, the largest forests in the world
are in Central Africa, Southern Siberia,
North and South America.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12
WEIGHS us pUUNBS.

Waist, Claims to BE the Fattest Man.
'sThe fattest man in America" is the
way in which Leo Whitton announces
himself. Up to a year ago Leo had
been growing broader, rounder and
moro uncomfortable for the past thir-
ty-seven years. He weighs 715 pounds.
Daniel Lambert, the Norfolk giant,
tipped the beam at 729 pounds, scor-
Ing the worlds record.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12

tits reported that there are $780,
100000 pennies in circulation in this
country, or about one hundred PEN
MES for every man, Woman and child.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12
. Juvenile crimes have increased in
France from 16, in 1860 to $1,000
in 1890.

The Baltimore News believes that
there is nearly $3.50, 100000 of Balti-
more money invested in Southern
securities.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12

anu the larger variety of portraits WILL
increase the entertainment.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12

ing on fruiter in the Mediterranean;
seeing some Greeks diving for
sponges, said another sailor, s'But
thew divad thew did. and did not Hah