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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13

On January IA and % February II and
March 10, 1895, the Santa Fe Route will run
a series of homeseekers' excursions from
the East to principal points in Arkansas
Arizona, Southern Missouri, Oklahoma
Indian Territory and Texas.
Ticket rate will be about one fare for
roGnd-trip, with liberal limits and stop-ove1
privileges. These Santa Fe Route excur
sions will enable you to take a Midwinter
trip to new country.
BY addressing G. Il. NICHOLSON, G. P. A
Monadnock Building, Chicago, you can OBJ
tain free literature descriptive Of the Great
Southwest.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13

Study all time cards and you will find
no railroad carrying tourist cars make as
quick time as the Phillips Rock Island
Excursions. One hour and thirty minutes
quicker time than any other route Chicago
to Los Angeles.
A: Phillips & Co. have carried over
l25, 900 patrons to and from California
Why7 Because every well-posted Cali
fornia traveller understands Phillips has
the best regulated touest system.
JNo. SEBASTIAN, G. P. A.,
Chicago, Ill.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13
All About Western Farm Lands.

The Corn Belt" is a monthly paper pub
lished by the Passenger Department of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
1t is designed to give reliable information
concerning western farm lands, what can
be raised on them successfully, and the ex-
periences of farmers who live in the west
Copies of the paper will be sent to any adj
dress for one year on receipt of 25 cents.
Postage stamps accepted. Address 1.-THE
Corn Belt" 209 Adams ST., Chicago.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13
To California in Pullman Tourist Sleeping
Cara.

The Burlington Route &C., B. & Q. R. r.
runs personally conducted excursions tc
Calf ornia, leaving Chicago every Wednes
day. Through cars to California destina
ton, fitted with carpets, upholstered seats
bedding, toilet rooms, etc; every con
venience. Special agent in charge. Route
via Denver and Salt Lake. Sunshine ali
the way. Write for descriptive pamphlet
to T. A. Grady Excursion Manager, III
Clark St., Chicago.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13

Nor AN ENTHUSIAST HERsELF.-Mrs. Up
Italian collect cigar stumps)-"Dear mel
I've heard of this mania for collecting
things, but that's carrying fad too farl'-
Rllck
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13

When they contain the germs of malaria.
To annihilate these and avoid and conquer
chills and fever, bilious remittent or dumb
ague, use persstently and regularly Hos
letters Stomach Bitters, which also rem
edies dyspepsia, liver trouble, constipation,
loss OF strength, nervousness, rheumatism
and kidney complaint. Appetite and sleep
are improved by this thorough medicinal
agent, and the infrmties of age mitigated
by it. A wineglassful three times day.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13

There is nothing new under the SUM- ever
originated" Wife-"Really, l don't know,
unless some woman who wore bonaet
like mine said it to her husband. House
hold Words.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13

Stranger Ito young man)-"You
are not looking well this morning, my
young friend" Young Man-"No, sir;
/ toyed with too much Jersey lightning
last night" Stranger-"Ah! and how
does this lightning, as you call it, make
you feel?' Young Nlan-''It makes me
feel like hunder."-IIarlem Life.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13

"SoME folks" said Uncle Eben, "gits de
reputation of bein' great leaders, when, ez a
matter err fack, dey is jes' bein' showed for
ward FUN behind. Washington Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13

The Florida Limited. OF the Queen &
Crescent Route, leaves Cincinnati to-day at
500 a. M, gets to Jacksonville tomorrow
morning at same hour. 1t is a solid vesti
buled train. 100 miles shortest line
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13

THE mind is found most acute and most
uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, in
deed, species of sagacfty-a passive sa-
gacity. Fools are never uueasy.-Goethe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13

THE Professor (awakeningl-"I there
anybody in this room!" The Burglar-"No,
sir" The Professor-"Oh, thought there
was" (Falls asleep again. Life.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13

81 TELL you, Binks, tennis is great
game" "Really, Jones, you should be more
careful in your English. Tennis UaS a grea'
game ''-BaZar
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13

FITS stopped free by DIR. Klines Great
Nerve Restorer. Motifs after first days use.
Marvellous cures. Treatise and 81 trial bot,
tie free. Dr. Kline, 93l Arch St., Phila. Pa.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13

No might nor greatness can CEN
sure escape; back-Wounding calumny
the whitest virtue strikes. Shakes
peare.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13

PIso's Cure is the medicine to break up
children's Coughs and Colds.-Mrs. M. G.
Blunt, Sprague, Wash, Marcn s, '94.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13
We Are Poisoned by Air and Water

GONE soweth and another reapeth" is a
verify that applies to evil as well as good
George Eliot.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13

Mr.. X. (who has bow-legs, to the pho
tographer) -"For mercy's sake, hurry up, I
can't hold my knees together any longer"
-Fliegende Blaetter
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13

browns BRONCHIAL TRocHEs" are an
efectual remedy for al Bronchial Affections.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13

EvANGELIsT-"Do you ever have any re-
vivals in your town!" Mr.. Bute-"Nope;
they mostly dies once they gifts plugged p
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13

ALTERNATE rest and labor long endure
Ovid.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13

There Is no art of science that 10
too difficult for industry to attain to;
it is the gift of tongues, and makes a
man understood and valued in all coun-
tries ard all nations; 1t is the philoso-
piers stone that turns all metals, and
even stones, into gold, and suffers no
want to break into its dwellings; it is
the northwest passage that brings the
merchants ships to him as soon as he
can desire; in word, it conquers all
enemies, and makes fortune itself pay
contribution.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13

Mrs. SUBURB IL thought you said It was
the little boy next door who was making all
the noisea" Little Johnnie-"So it was,
ma. l was hitting him with a stick."-
Tit-Bits
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04
What There is in Salt Lake.

Say Salt Lake is 100 miles long;
average width, 27 miles; average
depth, 20 teet. Then 100 times 27
equals 2700 square miles, equals TO-.
271, $780, square feet; times 20
equals 1,5O5, 433, 800, 900 cubic feet.
Now, 16 % per cent. of the contents
of the lake, f'according to the analysis
of eminent chemists" is salt and
sulphate of soda, equaling ESQ, $685.
100000 cubic feet. OF this, one
eighth, or 81, 1863, 100000 cubic feet,
is eulphate of soda, equsling lat so
pounds to the foot) 1858, 16O, 600, OOo
pounds, equaliug 7S4, OsO, 900 tons,
equaling 7S, 4Os, 900 car loads of soda
at ten tons each. Again seven.eighths,
or 1852, 400, 600 cubic feet, is salt,
equaling lat 80 pounds to the foot)
1860, 339, 200, 600 pounds, eQualing
$3.50, 169, 800 tons, equaling S7S, ,Ol6,-
$50 cars of salt. Therefore, "taking
thirty feet as the total length OF q
freight car and its couplings" Ia very
moderate figure), we would have a
train of soda AS, 500 miles long, and a
train of salt 4,9Ss, 73O miles long, "or
long enough to reach 1876 times around
the earth and leave an S00O-mile string
of cars over on side track" While
our brains are reeling over these
figures we are ready to- accept without
O murmur the further demonstration
that the sulphate of soda which we
have mentally seen produced Is worth
SIS, 6S1, 100000, and that the salt has
a money value of $103, 4S3, 236, 600. -
st. Louis Globe.Democrst.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04
Paper Flooring.

An innovation in the construction
of floors is in the use of a special prep
aration of paper pulp, invented by
Otto Kramer, of Chemnitz, Saxony. He
calls the new material papyrolith. 1t
comes in the shape OF dry powder,
which is mixed with water, dries in a
short time, and may be spread and
planed down upon a foundation of
either natural or artificial stone, cement
or wood. The wearing quality CT
papyrolith is very remarkable as are
also its qualities of being solid and
without o crevice, bad conductor OF
heat and deadening noise. A further
advantage is the considerable amount
of elasticity which it possesses, and
it's perfect safety from fire. Since the
mass may be tinted with almost any
color, it is possible to lay down sew
eral layers in different colors along
side of each other or to lay floor
with q mosaic design. Parquets with
varl-colored borders can be laid down,
and same material may be used for
wainscoting and stucco work, as slso
for panels and other decorative and
architectural purposes. Mr.. Kramer
has also,recently succeeded in produc
ing a material similar to llnc1usta
walton at only one-tenth the cost OF
that expensive material. Boston Jour
mi of Commerce.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04
A Ghastly Jewel.

A strange and curious personal or.
nament is now owned by Chicago
merchant. 1t is a necklace composed
of three rows Of human eyes in state
Of perfect preservation. polished and
and set in costly mounting OF virgin
gold. The eyes were taken from the
mummies in the burial places OF the
Incas in Peru. Although it is said
nothing can equal the grace and soft
ness of this CHASTITY ornament, so far
but single young woman has had the
temerity to wear it.
This type of ornament is very much
in vogue in all completely savage
tribes, as for instance, the zulus and
the Bushman, who, when they suffer
the misfortune of losing their better
halves, deprive the dead OF those
charming weapons, their eyes. But
savage men are not alone in their fond
ness for human eyes as ornaments
New York Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04
Tile Bureaus Authority.

When General Scott was asked his
authority Tor spelling wagon with two
g's, he said that the spelling WAS on the
authority of Winfield Scott, common
der of the arnlies of the United States
of America. When the officials OF the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing are
criticised for spelling tranquility with
one |, on the face OF the recently is.
sued one dollar silver certificates, they
reply tnat in quoting from the Con.
stitution thev followed the spelling of
the original document; and IN view OF
this authority it is not worth vhile to
hoard for future premiums one.dollnr
silver certificates of the issue OF 1896.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04
Terrible Spiders.

AS rule, spiders are quite harmless
to man, but one or two foreign species
are capable of doing mischief. The
great, hairy spider of the South Ameri'
can pampas, for instance, has long,
black, sickleshaped jaws, which lntilct
severe wounds, and the effects OF the
poison are sometimes felt for many
years after the bite is given.
But an even more objectionable
spider is found on the same pampas.
1t is very large, very active, and OF
extraordinarily bad temper. 1t not
only resents any intrusion upon its
domain. but objects even to any one
looking over the he6ge.
Men on horseback who ventured to
approach within ten feet of it have
been pursued for thirty yards, the
spider keeping up with trotting
horses. This irritable individual is
called "the king of SPIDERS"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04
Caught an ldler.

Idlers SO annoyed the proprietor OF
. bicycle repair shop at Hinsdsle,
Mo-, that he spread a coat of the ce-
ment used in mending tires over his
counter, the favorite resting place of
weary callers, and when bloomer
girl came in and pumped herself down
on it, remaining seated until the re-
pairs to wheel were completed, there
was trouble. She had to continue sit
ting after the wheel was ready until
an application OF gasoline softened the
glue. New York Sun.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04
Oceans of Soup.

There is enough canned soup sold
each year to float half hundred war
ships. At least, that is what man in
the business of preparing the stuff
SAYS. He has been fifteen years can
ming gocds of all kinds, and he says
that no branch of the trade has made
such strides as the soup industry. Last
wear was the most successful in his
experience, he adds, and the chefs and
workmen in his factory worked on an
average of eight hours a day only.
This season promises to be a record
breaker, and for the last five months
the full force has been engagei on an
average of eleven hours day turning
out soup.
"Last year" he remarked, in giving
details of the great industry, eve
canned 2,35O,OOO gallons OF it. 1t
would be possible to food the entire
Erie Canal with this quantity of soup
turned ont annually here and else
where. This year, Judging by the way
we have started off, our output will be
over 5000, 900 gallons. Canned soup
has become popular for various rea.
sons. In the first place, it can be pur-
chased cheaper than it is possible for
the housewife to make it. Then, again,
there is no bother attached to its con-
sumption. 1t needs no seasoning, and
does not have to be cooked. All that
is required is to heat it. The cans are
prepared with the greatest of care, and
will stand any sort of climate, whether
it be the torrid zone or the clustering
Arctic.
"There are, of course, more than
one hundred kinds of soups prepared
at our cannery. The most popular,
however, number about fourteen.
They are the oxtail, beef, chicken,
mock turtle. pea, tomato, green turtle,
terrapin, consomme, mulligatawney,
maccaroni, vermicelli, jullenne and
okra or gumbo.
"The best materials are used in the
construction of the soups, and we have
some of the best Partisan chefs obtain.
able, who prepare the stuff. We ex-
ercise as much care and regard for
cleanliness at our factory as is OBJ
served in any kitchen, private or pub.
lie. All our soups are put up in quart
cans, which is sufficient to supply
seven or eight persons. The soups
vary in price. The average for the
ordinary cans is about thirty cents
each. The more delicate soups sell
for seventy cents quart. New York
Mail and EXPRESS.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04
CURIOUS FACTS.
There are 2750 languages.

There are 2750 languages.
Rice paper is not made from rice,
but from the membranes OF the bread.
fruit tree.
The daily consumption of matches
in Austria is said to average twenty to
each inhabitsnt.
| A Turkish turban of the large size
contains from ten to twenty yards OF
Itahe softest muslin.
Itis considered unlucky in Ireland
to view b funeral procession while the
beholder is under an umbrella. -
At Naalehu,,> Hawaiian Islands,
lightning killed q Cow that was being
MIXED, but did not injd>se tie uilker.
There are no fewer than 1I,UDeo
rooms in the Papal palace, and many
of them never receive ray of sun
light.
There is q display of beets at the
Chamber of Commerce. Los Angeles,
Cal., each of which weighs sixty-five
pounds and is four feet in length.
One "Babe" Harris :.is called the
champion squirrel killer of Graves
County, Kentucky, being credited
with record of lit squirrels out of
l53 shots in three hunts, all within
week.
Six si1.footed pigs, the progeny OF
six-footed yearling pig, are to be
seen on the farm of Jesse Garry, of
Marion, Ind. A seventh pig OF the
same litter had seven feet, but it did
not live.
The idea of beating out gold and
silver into thin sheets, cutting them
up into little rjbons and disks, and in
termixing them with silks and threads
for weaving purposes is traced back to
the first historic periods.
John Muller, 8 German artist of
great mechanical skill, constructed an
artificial eagle, which on the entry OF
Emperor Maximilian into Nuremberg
few out to meet him, and, returning,
slighted on the city gates to await his
spproach.
There was California in Los Gates,
twenty-five years ago, who died and
left the income of 5000 to buy candy
for the school children. The fund is
still faithfully administered, and IN
Los Gatos that man is bigger than
Washington.
An enterprising Frenchman has
duped many of his countrymen by
means of the report that X-rays pro-
duced badness. He advertised to re-
move superAuous hairs from the up
Der lips of those OF the fair sex who
were so afflicted, and his laboratory
was crowded until the fraud Was ex'
posed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04

With most Nations thirteen is al
ways spoken of as bakers dozen, but
in Ital y it is calleds cobbler's dozen.
There is q tradition in that land that
formerly there was law compelling
pobblers to put twelve nails around
the edge ola boot heel, and that when
nails were cheap thirteenth was
driven in the center for luck. -Chica'
20 News.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04
Fun With q POrcupine.

Reople of Sellwood, Oregon, turned
out in numbers one day recently and
had no end OF fun trying to capture a
three-foot porcupine that was found
wandering in the streets. When, after.
being chased, it rolled itself into a
ball, no one succeeded, for a long
time, in making it prize, for the
quilts were too much for the footgear
of the hunters. 1t was finally caught
in box. 1t weighed twenty.one
pounds.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04
Restricted CrUDS.

Farmers about Osceola, Mo-, raise
only corn and oats in large quantities,
ami the merchants of the place have
to import potatoes, onious and other
small vegetables; while over in Kan
sas, in the neighborhood of Arkansas
CITY, one farmer this season has raised
1000 bushels OF white onions and sold
them at fifty cents bushel. New
Cork Sun.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04
A Farm Defined.

A Kansas girl, the daughter of
Greenwood County rancher, was sent
East to school this fall. "What do
you know, my child?" the head teacher
asked her. "Oh, farming" the new
pupil replied. "Well, tell me what is
farm?" "a farm is body of land
surrounded by barb wire fence. the
little maid said.-Kansas City Star.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04
The Smallest Insect.

Entomologists tell us that the small.
estinsect is the alaptus excisus. Viewed
under the microscope it is seen to be
Il slightly built, slender creature of
such diminutive proportions that it
would take over 5000 OF them placed
end to end to stretch one inch.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04
INDEPENDENCE OF CHARACTER.

Mud ge-"If there is one thing do
pride myself on it is my independence
Of character.
Wickwire-"Well, man who lives
in the way you do doesn't have to de-
pend on his character. - indianapolis
Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04
Florid. and western North carolins.

The climate Is nearer perfection than that
of any other place on earth. The time ID test
a nildsr climate. Where shall You got Tho
Southern Railway, Piedmont Air Line" tns
attractive resorts located upon and reached
by this great system of railways, all reached
from New York in Pullmen's finest veshbuled
trains, giving all the comfort and conyeniencee
that are required by the demand of the travel
ing public. II you are contemplating 9 trip
and want descriptive literature or any .infof.
nation regarding the winter re.orts Soutn.
call on or address Genl. Eastern ONCE OF the
Southern Railway, I'll Broadway, New YORK.
FITSstopped freeand dperplanentlycu cured. NO
fits after first days use Of DR.. KLiNE's GRxAT
NERvEREsToRER. Free S2trial bottleand treat-
ise. Send to DR.. Kline, s1 Arch St, Phila., Pa.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04
A SUBSTITUTE.

"Benson, you know, went to Africa,
and there met his death.
"Poor fellow! But his boay was
brought home and given a decent
burial, wasn't itT"
"Well, they hanged the cannibal,
and then brought home his body and
buried "-Philsdelphia North Amer
ican.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04
MUSICAL.

"Now, professor, said the host:ss,
II want you to have numerous plan
issimo passages in your selections for
the musicale.
"You are fond of the sentimental,
then? ?"
"Not especially. But my guests
will want to hear themselves talk once
in a while. "-Washington Star.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04
cIRcUMsTANT1AL EVIDENCE.

Mother lat party)-"Why did you
allow young Saphead to kiss you in
the conservatory"
Daughter-"Why, mar'
Mother-"Oh, you needn't why,
ma me. One side of his nose is
powdered and one side of yours isn't,
and the people have noticed it,
Tit-Bits.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04
DOMESTIC SCIENCE.

"Listen, Mr.. Jones; some one has
invented a machine by which a man
can hear himself wink"
"That's good, Mr., Jones; now I
hope they'll get up one by which a
man can hear himself snore."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04
CAUGHT.

"I wish I were an ostrich said
Hicks angrily, as he tried to eat one
of his wlfe's biscuits.
II wish you were, dear" returned
Mrs. Hicks; "I'd &c, a few decent
feathers for my winter hat. Texas
Sitter.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04
STRETCHES THEM.

"What is the compliments reputa.
ton for truth and veracity?" asked
the lawyer.
"It is generally good, I think" an.
swered the witness, "though in telling
about the size of the snakes he has
killed, he seems to be inclined to 60
to almost any length. indianapolis
Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04
sTATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, /.

LUCAS COUNTY,
FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he is the
senior partner Of tho firm of F. J. CRENEY &
aud State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every case OF CATAKRH that cannot be
cured by the US. HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and suoscri bed in my
,~, presence this 9Th day Of December.
t~~l Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. and
acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
Of the system. Send for testimonials, fee.
F.J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, q
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04
MATRIMONIAL.

She-"Papa thought he was smart
putting q receipted gas bill among the
presents, didn't hep"
He-"Yes; especially when you
always turned the gas almost out when
I called" Harlem Life.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04
MISPLACED.

Highwayman-"TI just take off
your boots and see if you've got any
thing there"
Frightened Pedestrian-"You need
MT trouble yourself, sir. There's
nothing in them but my heart"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04
A sUPPosITIoN.

Kitson-"A foolish Now York artist
has Just married an Indian who posed
for several of her pictures. "
Thatcher-"Well, suppose she
was looking for a model husband. -
Philadelphia North American.