The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, April 27, 1886, Image 2
Professor Arthur T. Had ley stated, in
l.:,, the course of a recent lccture at Yale coliegc>
that no less than 15,000 persona
>?v. were injured annually hi the United
States in the duty of coupling cars.
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.. A St. Louis physician cured a case of
, alcoholism by means of opium; he then
curcd the opium habit through the
agency of cocaine, and now he is search
mg for something with which to cure the
cocaiuo habit.
i ?Antliony
Comstock, of the New York
society for the prevention of vice, says it
is difficult to trace persons conducting
fraudulent schemes because of their
mumerou3 aliases. One man whom ho
had urrested had 145 different names and
addresses, another 13G, and a third had
eighty.
Mr. Theron E. Piatt, of Fairfield
county, Conn., has raised 200 varities of
potatoes on his farm during the past
year. The study of fungoid pests of the
potato has also occupied his attention,
and his discoveries respecting ccrtain
diseases of this plant are likely to provo
serviceable.
The almost incredible story is
told of a Western farmer that, some
years ago, hearing burglars breaking into
his house, and heing out of buckshot,
he hurriedly loaded his gun with a box.
ofpills, which were compounded, however,
of a soft material, and merely
smeared the burglars somewhat, as
warmed cobbler's wax might have done,
when the weapon was discharged; and
that the other day, ngain hearing burglars
and being out of buckshot, and bearing
his former failure in mind, he loaded up
with pills which were sugar-coated, and
shot one burglar dead and seriously
(rounded another.
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An Albany doctor asserts that electricity
has been one of the most beneficent
modern health restorers. It is now used
., successfully for a great variety of maladies.
Tumors are cured by it, paralysis
relieved, neuralgia dissipated, sleeplessness
overcome, colds broken up, rheumatism
benefited, constipation helped,
some skin diseases healed, and asthma,
St. Vitus' dance, and a great number of
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vuiti uuu^tiuus mvuiuuiy muuenccu oy
its proper use. Of course many eases
are not in the least helped by electricity,
and it should always be administered bjT
any expert as a guarantee that more
harm than good may not result.
It is announced that Messrs. Appert,of
Clichy,France, have discovered a process
that will make glass blowing by the
mouth unnecessary. Many attempts have
been made to get rid of this painful process
in the operations of glass making,
to this day in every bottle house, may bo
seen the pale-faced" men with their
cheeks hanging limp in folds, the result
of years of glass blowing by the mouth.
Cases have been known in which men's
cheeks have been worn so thin that they
have actually cracked, and it is a common
sight in a bottle house to see blowers
at work with their thin cheeks puffed
, out like the fingers of a glove.
It appears that one of the reasons for
the low price of quinine lies in the fact
that the cinchona trees are no longer destroyed
in the harvesting. The old plan
was to cut them down and strip off the
bark when they were ten years old. Then
the idea was adopted of tearing off long
strips and filling the bare places with
moss. The present method is to scrape
off the outer layor of the bark, the por>
lion richest in quinine, and this does not
interfere with the crrowth of the tri>R.
The bark is scrapcd half around at one
operation, the other half being scraped
six months afterward. The process may
be repeated year after year.
The expedition sent out by the Dominion
government to ascertain -whether the
'Hudson Bay route" to Europe is navigable
was highly successful. It discovered
that it was not navigable. The Alert
fought the ice nearly every inch of the
; \Way; had to put back for repairs in July;
was stuck in the ice during August;
broke a blade of her screw, and, after be?
ing for several days at the mercy of the
> ;.f: ice pack, returned, baffled. If an Arctic
ice VP.Hfifll CATl'f imvAroA+Vi? TI, ,/!?
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route in midsummer, the chance of any
ordinary steamship getting through in
January, or even in July, can be , easily
calculated.
Miniature painting is an art which, if
?not lost, has at least fallen into decline.
Certainly the costly ivory miniatures of
our fair grandmothers could not be reproduced
to-day by the same process,
with anything like satisfactory results.
^Something which is more than a substitute,
however, is found in the curious
j? and beautiful rock-crystal portraits
which are now to be seen at leading jewelry
stores of New York city. They are
{^produced by a process known only to the
inventor, Monsieur E. Irlande. The por,
trait is first vitrified, upon the crystal,
?nd then painted in oil colors, either in
monochrome or in the style of the Ivory
^ miniature. It has all the artistic effect
of the latter, wl\ile far surpassing it in
fiidelity of likeness. These miniatures
can be produced in flawless perfection
down to the minutest siie, and will probably
come into high favor for lockets,
brooches/sleeve buttons, etc. *
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Felicity. j
Tho eat sang on the back-yard fenco s I
"Whence all but sho had fled;
I seized my stock of common-sense
And flung it at lier head;
I flung my best liabilaments,
My chair, my feather-bed;
Fct still, with passion quite intens^
#\Vith strnugo contorted lineaments.
That cut sang on tho bock-yard fence,
Alienee all but sho hud lied.
I spoko with strange grandiloquence,
In coaxing tones I plead;
My boots Wbte gone?my last dtefense?
My Sunday hose had sped;
All things or jjetty or immense
Found lodgement on the shed.
Tho feline wondered much from whence
They came; but still, with grief intense,
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uuu c*aii? u^'uii uiu uawA-jaiu icuu1,
"Whence all but she hud fled.
She roused two other residents?
I oft had wished them dead,
For they were music-loving 4'gents,"
And dwelt above my head.
They seized their stringed instruments,
"Which stood hard by their bed?
They played with wondrous eloquence?
"With one vast howl of jxiin intense
That feline fled afar from thence:
She sings 110 more upon our fence,
But on a loftier eminence?
Our next-door neighbor's shed.
?E. Frank Lintabcr in Puck.
WE MET BY CHANCE.
< wns going to Nice for the carnival.
Only one other person was in the coupe
with me?a stiif, magisterial appearing
man, whose only baggage was a portfolio.
Just as the train was starting soumls ol' a
dispute arose at the door of my coupe.
aIsTo, sir! no!" said a woman's voice.
nr/lniv?fl CI 7 ?*/ on/1 T mnrf %f tJ)
a v>* v?vi w4 it w uj tn-ivi jl muou iia > u it
"But, Maclam, since we have none "
"You ought to have heeded my letter!"
"We received no letter, Madam!"
"Make them add another car, then!"
"Impossible! We have the regular number.
Come, come, hasten?the train is
going!"
"But I must have some place."
"There, in that coupe."
"There?"
4'Yes, there!"
A. little brown head wa? thrust in and
oiiddenly withdrawn, as if frightened.
"There are two gentlemen there!"
'''Eli, madam, I cannot give you a car
to yourself!"
"Very well, I will not go!" .
' 'As you please! The train leaves! I
give tho signal!"
"Stop, sir, stop! I am obliged to go?
and since there is only that coupe?but
they will give me a coupe-lit at the first
station?"
"Yes, madam?yes, madam."
"You will telegraph for that?"
"Voc mnrl om irna mn/1 om
The door opened, the little brown head
entered, surrounded with bundles and
wraps. There was a picrcing whistle; we
had started,, The stiff gentleman gallantly
took a seat by me,leaving all one sido free
for the new arrival. Without glan-cing at
us,breathless and crimson with wrath, she
arranged her things as if for a long journey?one
bag, two bags, three bags, and
cloaks and shawls. I looked on out of the
corner'of my eye, and saw with pleasure
that She was charming in appearance. At
Laroche the stiff man arranged his papers
and left us. He was received by the depot
master as "Monsieur l'Inspector." The
lady rushed to the door.
v "Did they telegraph from Paris for a
coupe-UtV'
"Yes, Madam, I sent the dispatch on."
"What! I cannot have it at once?"
j "Impossible, Madam. We have no cars
1 here. They will give you ono at Lyon
Perrache."
"Not till then? But I cannot stay here
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"Take a care, Madam?the train is
starting."
The cars were in motion. She returned
to her corner, furious, never glancing my
way. I opened my tenth newspaper.
Shall I own it?it occupied me longer than
the nine before it. I read the same lines
twenty times. I believe I held it sometimes
upside down. I wanted to talk with her,
but where was the pretext? Considering
the temperature the classic resource of raising
or lowering windows did not exist.
What could I do? I saw she was a woman
of the world and of the best class. I could
only attract her notice by some very original
speech. But what?what? I meditated
in vain. I was still studying the point
when the train stopped. "Tonnerre!
Twenty;five minutes for refreshments!"
was shouted at the door.
My fair neighbor rose, dropped her
WFaps and left the car. It was noon.
Hunger made itself felt. She wcut toward
the refreshment room. I followed. I
could then admire at my case her elegant
figure, distinctly outlined by a long otter
cloak. I also remarked that she had
pretty curls in her neck, a gray felt hat
and very small feet.
I quickly swallowed several things. My
fair traveler took a bowl of soup. The
time soon passed, and the travelers raced
back to their cars. I went to mine. The
lady had not come. I saw her at a little
book and newspaper stand, looking at
the row of books. Although I saw only
her back I recognized her pretty figure,
her otter cloak and her gray hat. Her hair
did uot look so dark to me?doubtless the
efiect of distance. Everybody was our
board; doors were slamming.
v "She will miss her train," I thought,
and then I called to her from the window*
"Madam! Madam 1"
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! I wns too fnr away. She did not hear.
I The whistle sounded; the train wassturt!
in^r. What should be dont? An idea flashi
cd through my head. She was going to
remain there, in this horribly cold weather,
without any baggage. The poor little
woman must have her things. I snatched
the three bags, and all her shawls and
wraps, and Hung the whole out to a man
stauding near the car.
"Give them to that lady over there,"
I cried.
The man caught the things, and went
toward the lady at the bookstall. At the
same moment, from the other side of the
train, came my pretty companion in great
perturbation, hustled b3r a grumbling official,
but safely on board, just as the train
moved off. Ilorror! I had mistaken the
lad}' traveler; the one at the book-stand
was not the right one?same cloak, same
hat, same outlines, but not the same woman
! She had scarcely entered the car
when she uttered a cry :
"My things! Sdhie one has stolen my
things!"
For the first time she looked at me-<with
what an eye! I shall never forget
that look. "No, Madam," I said, "your
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niin^o uiu iiui aiuiaij i>ui*y lire?muy urc:
left at Tonucrrc!"
i4At Toiincrrc! How?"
I explained everything. Bless me! I
eoulcl never describe tho second look she
gave me?but I believe I shall remember
it longer than the first one.
"Iam very sorry,Madam,"I stammered.
"I am greatly distressed, but the motive
was good. I thought you would miss the
train,and you would be cold, and I did not
want you to suffer. Pardon me?don't fear
for your things. They are in honest hands
?a railway official. At the next station
you can telegraph?I shall telegraph?we
will telegraph?we will soon get them. Ah 1
you shall have them! I swear it, if I have
to return myself toTonncrrc to get them."
"That is sufficient, sir," she said. "I
know what I must do."
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gloves in wrath. But alas! poor little
thing! She hacl reckoned without the cold.
She no longer had her good warm wraps.
It was scarcely ten minutes before she
began to shiver. She shrank into herself,
drew her otter cloak around her fine
form and positively shook.
"Madam," I said, "I beg upon my
knees (hat you will accept my shawl!
You will take a cold; it will be my fault,
and I could never console myself in all
my life."
"I do not speak to you, sir," she said,
haughtly.
I was furious at having made myself
ridiculous. "Madam," said J, "accept
this shawl, or I swear I will jump off the
train!"
Throwing the shawl between us I
seized the door-knob. My air must have
been convincing, for she cried:
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iuu iiju uruz.y, isir?you arc out 01
your head I"
v4'Take the shawl?or I shall spring off!"
She took the shawl, saying: "But
you, sir, you will perish from the cold."
"Don't be uneasy about me, madam.
I am not delicate, and even jf I should
be cold it would only be a just punishment
for my unpardonable stupidity."
"Say for your too great liastc, for you
are right?the intention was good, but
how could you take that lady for me?"
"Because she looked so charming."
She smiled; the ice was broken?the
ice of conversation, for otherwise I shivered.
But how quickly I forgot the cold,
the journey and all! She was delicious,
exquisite, adorable! Dainty, peculiar,
gay and original! She loved travel as I
do. She had been in Italy, like me; in
Spain, like me; she always dreamed of
going to Egypt, like me. In literature,
in music, in every way our tastes were
the same. And then, just imagine?lots
of the same friends. Perhaps I had met
her twenty times without remarking her.
Whero was my head? Heavens I where
was my head? While I eagerly conversed
I did everything in the world not to
have the air of being chilly, but good
Lord 1 how cold I was! At Dijou my
right foot was numb. We telegraphed
to Tonnerre for her things. At Macon
my left foot was numb. We heard from
Tonnerre that her things would be at
Marseilles next day. At Lyon-Pcrrache
my left hand became insensible. She
forgot to claim her coupe-lit. At Valence
my right hand followed the example of
the left. I learned that she was a widow,
without children. At Avignon my nose
turned purple. I thought I understood
that she had never lovfed her first husband.
At last, at Marseilles, I sneezed
violently three times. She handed me
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my tuiuwi, say lisp graciously: "woou-uye,
till wo meet again.n
"Till we meet again!" I was wild. I
passed the night in a hotel,, and rose in
the morning suffering from a terrible cold
in the head, Ought I, in such a state,
to call on my friends, the Rombauds?
They must tako mc as I am, and to-morrow
I will start for Nice and cure myself
in sunshine. What a surprise! That
excellent Rombaurd had invited some
people to meet me, and among them was
my fellow-traveler, my charmer! When
I was presented there was an imperceptible
smile on he? lips. I bowed and murmured:
"And Tonnerre?" "I have
them," she answered, in the same low
voice.
We took our seats at the dinner table.
"What a cold, my goodness l" el.
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claimed that excellent Rombaad.
"Where in the world did you catch rich
acokl? In the cars, perhaps?"
"It is possible," I replied, "but really
I do not rfifrct. if-. "
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Nobody understood tliis queer response,
but I felt the sweet and compassionate
gaze of my lovely traveling companion
coming to me across the ordorous fumea
of a superb soup.
What more shall I say? Next day I
did not go to Nice?and we arc to bo
married in two weeks!?From the French
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Fortunes Made in Old Corks.
"You wouldn't think a man could
make a fortune selling old corks and bottles,
would you? Well,. I know a man
who bought out a colliu shop twenty-five
years ago and began to deal in old corks.
Eight years ago lie went into the old bottle
business, and he is now a rich man.''
The policeman who said this took the
writer down Mulberry street, and a few
blocks below Bleecker stopped before a
I rickety old building, in front of which
stood several barrels filled with bottles of
all sizes. There were bottles emptied of
Vino Vermouth, Piper Sec and Rhine
wine, of Bass' ale, claret and stomach
bitters. Inside the shop were seen the
necks of a thousand bottles, pointed
toward the door like little howitzers.
They were piled up and boxed up and
wenS in rows on the floor. From the roof
hung dingy demijohns, covered with
cobwebs, and in the center of the room
was a barrel of old champagne corks.
"How many corks have you sold today,
Hugh?" asked the policeman.
"Eight barrels."
"How many bottles?"
"Seventy-five gross. You see we never
take the labels off, and never wash the
bottles. The men who buy wine bottles
want the labels as well as the bottles?
sometimes want the labels much more
than the bottles; but we do not deal in
labels. When a junkman comes in with
a load of bottles he may have twenty
different kinds. "We sort them. When
we get a gross of a certain kind we know
where to sell them. A gross of quart
champagne bottles fetches $4.50; pints,
$2.25. Claret bottles sell for $3.75 per
gross, and so do soda water bottles.
Bass' ale is worth $2.25, but. for Rhine
wine bottles we get per gross. "Tom"
gins and stomach bitters go at $4; porter
and Vino Vermouth at $2.25. Apollinaris,
quarts, we sell for $5 per gross, and
pints at $3.25. A gallon demijohn is
only worth 20 cents, but larger beer bottles
with the patent stoppers bring $8
per gross. Root beer bottles sell for $6,
while ginger ales only fetch $1.50. We
sell Ilathorn, Congress and Geyser bottles
back to the mineral spring men in
Saratoga for 30 ccnts per dozen. Most
of the small bottles are bought by catsup
and table sauce makers. We don't buy
medicine bottles. We sell very little
stock to medicine men.
"You know a ehampagne cork has a
sound head and is turned from the bark.
It is not cut out as straight corks arc
made. When it pops from the bottle the
head is cut up by the string and the cork
looks like a mushroom. Wo. mifc t.liom
all in a big kettle of boiling water and
swell them. Then they're as good as
new. Ordinary sound corks sell for
twenty-five cents per gross, but corks
from champagne bottles, made with more
labor, bring $2.50. We have handled
enough corks in the past twenty-five
years to float the Great Eastern."?New
York Sun.
Newspaper and Orator.
Compare the orator, one of the noblest
vehicles for the diffusion of thought,
with the newspaper, and you may gain a
faint glimpse of the ubiquitous powers of
the latter. The orator speaks to but a
few hundred, the newspaper addresses
millions; the words of the orator may die
in the air, the language of the newspaper
is stamped on tables imperishable as marble;
arguments of the orator may follow
each other so rapidly that the majority of
the audience may struggle in a net work
of ratiocination, the reasoning of the
newspaper may be scanned at leisure
without a fear of perplexity; the passion
of the orator influences an assembly, the
feeling of a newspaper electriiics a continent;
the orator is for an edifice, the
newspaper for the world?the one shines
for an hour, the other glows for all time;
the orator may be compared to lightning,
which -flashes over a valley for ?, moment,
but leaves it again in darkness, the newspaper
to a sun blazing steadily over the
whole earth, and fixed on the basis of its
own eternity. Printing has been happHy
defined the art that preserves all arts. It
catches up his (lying words and breathes
into them the breath of life. It is the
gallery through which tho orator thunders
in the ears of ages. He leans from
. tho tomb over the cradle of the rising
generations.
Hnwk and Cat.
A huge California hawk swooped down
on a sleeping cat at Santa Rosa the othe?
day, and bore it squalling and scratching
high in the air. When about 500 foot
high the hawk lost its grip, and the cat
came down with fearful velocity, but
tho hawk caught it again just before it
struck the earth, and was carrvinor it off.
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when euddeniy both fell like lead to the
ground. The cAt had bitten through the
hawk's head, killing it instantly, and the
fall killed the cat.
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A GOAT FARM.
A. "Woman's Venture which '
has Proved Profitable.
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Baising Angora Goats and Selling Their t
Wool at One Dollar a Pound.
A Nyack, (N. Y.,) letter to the New *
York Times, says: Three miles from ^
this village, near the Hudson River, is an
Angora goat farm, which from its nov( 1ty
attructs much attention hereabout. 1
It is looked ui>on as something in the na- C
ture of a farmer's freak, like the raising \
of bees or silkworms. Goats browse and
goats prosper on this farm on the heights 1
that border Rockland Lake as readily as *
they do on the rocks about Shautytown, k
in New-York City. But they are a differ- '
ent breed of goats, more aristocratic than *
their city relatives as to wool, more epic- *
urcan in their tastes, anu more blue- 1
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blooded as to ancestry. The herd in
this somewhat novel farm just iww num- j
bers 75, varying in age from the tiny object
of three months which looks like a
cross between a dos?, a rabbit, and a
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lady's powder puff, to the handsome patriarch
of the flock, a magnificent specimen
of the pure Augora breed, with immense
curlimj horns. This handsome old
1
fellow with his wife were imported by 1
Dr. Agnew, the famous oculist of NewYork,
from Asia Minor, and the importation
cost him a heap of money as the
price of goats goes. Their present owner
is the crood woman who now runs this
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goat farm, and who never tires of dis- ,
canting on the good qualities of her pets.
They know her voice, and answer to
their names when she calls them. Kind
and gentle they appear when visitors are .
about, but the fondness for fighting, as
characteristic of goats as it is of a native
of Tipperary, crops out when the herd is
together and apparently out of sight of
mnnKind.
A strange fact noticed in the breeding
of these animals is that the females do
not thrive in this locality as well as the
male. The hardy female goat of the ordinary
species was introduced into this
fiock for experimental breeding purposes.
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and with marked success. Repeated t
crossing with the common goat and her
offspring has produced apparently pure
Angora goats, the tendency being in all
cases lor the kids to revert in the texture ,
of their wool toward the male side. As .
a consequence the third generation has
all the appearance of its distinguished an- '
cestry, and in the fourth generation even
the best experts cannot tell the pure
bloedcd from the grade Angora. This ,
fact is a matter of considerable interest
to breeders of goats, as an Angora buck
cost $100 or over, while the conunco
goat can be had almost for the asking.
The fecundity of the Angora is not so i
great as that of the common goat, the ,
Angora ewe giving birth to but one kid
yearly. ^ 1
As a source of profit the goats have i
turned out well. The wool is from four
to six inches in length, silky, and of ,
beautiful texture. A full grown animal ,
will yield four pounds of wool, which .
will readily sell at ?1 per pound. Just i
now the demand for this wool is not par- ,
ticularly lively, as the lustrous dress of
fabric into which it was at one time
largely converted is out of vogue with
fashionable ladies. It is therefore used
almost exclusively in the manufacture of
plusli for upholstery purposes. When
the kid is G months old its hide, undressed,
is worth $3, and will sell readily
for that amount to glove manufacturers.
Kids on the farm in question meet
with sudden death on that account at
about that age with considerable regularity.
When it is necessary to kill them
tlxe good lady has them cliloroformcd so
that she may not hear the death cries of
her little nets. Thn milk- nf tlm 5q
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much sought after by dyspeptics, by persons
suffering from pulmonary troubles,
and by otherwise delicate persons, and it
brings a much greater price than cows'
milk. As to their use for food little can
be said, because the goat does not flesh
up well, but the kid, when killed young,
furnishes a fair amount of tender meat
which some people like. It will never
become a great delicacy in the market, or
be in sufficient demand to bqcomo a j
boutco of income to the goat raiser. ,
There is nothing in the world so cheap to ^
raise as goats, because they will find ample
food in lots up here where other animals
would starve to death. Acorns are
a favorite article of food with them, and ,
as these abound in the woods the cost for
Winter fodder is mainly confined to the ,
trouble of gathering the acorns. .
What For. ,
Mr. Doline was always lending money 1
to impecunious friends and his wife was
forever quarreling about it. She heard 1
yesterday of his latest misdemeanor in j
this direction and she called him up. ]
"Have you been loaning money to that i
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nviuticoa uuo OLUiiiM 8IJU luijuircu IIUIIJF. j
"Yes, my dear," ho answered meekly, l
"Oh you have, have you? well how i
much was it?" ]
"Ten dollars, love." i
"Goodness gracious," she said, "what |
did you lend him $10 for?" >
"Don't mention it, dear," he respond- '
ed in a most deferential tone, "but I 1
loaned it to him for two weeks." I
The shock prostrated Mrs. D. in a fit i
of speechlessness.?-Merchant- Traveler.
Hiding Valuables.
Speaking of silver, says M. G. McCleland
in the Chicago Times, reminds me
>f u little story I heard a Richmond lady
ell my mother some time after the capurc.
She had a quantity of valuables
md stowed them about in every conceivible
place for safety. Among other
lungs she had a huge solid silver lirenan's
trumpet, which had been presented
;o her husband by the volunteer lire
jrigade of Richmond many years before
n recognition of his service as their
hief. This trumpet was forgotten ir.
lie general hiding of valuables, and tha
Yankees were fairly iu sight when she
liscovered it resting ostentatiously in the
niddlc of the center-table in the parlor.
5he was loath to lose it, knowing that '
ler husband valued it greatly, but where
.0 stow away the big thing she could not
hink. At last she took it out to an old
logro man who was very much attached
.0 her husband, explaining her dilemma,
tnd told him to take the thing away and
lide it. Long before the end of the
hrec days she gave the trumpet up for
ost, as the soldiers, not being hurried,
joked about iu every hole and cranny
with a prcsevcrance and fertility of resource
worthy of a better cause. But tho
lay after they departed the old negro
presented himself at the house with smiles
ju his countenancc and the trumpet
liuler llis JlVm On linimr nimu+inrwirl lir.
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explained that he had "toted de horn
lown de hill an* jammed it up iu one ole
idler log what was sorter layin' in de
:reek, an' too soggy fur to make fire."
[fe had stuffed up the opening in the end
with wet leaves, and calmly watched the
soldiers sitting on the log by the hour at
i time without the faintest suspicion of
its silver heart.
Killing' a Giraffo.
The noble animal stood at bay pawing
ind stamping the ground, his long neck
swaying to and fro; several more shots
tvere fired at him, causing him to strike
lesperatcly with his fore feet a blow
which would knock a horse down. Dismounting,
I ran to get a nearer view.
There was despair in his large drooping
jrowu eyes, and a look which seemed to
;ay, "What harm have I ever done you?"
[t seemed a shame that no one gave him a
joup de grace, and put him out of his
igony. Turning to one of the men I said,
"Shoot liim in the head, and put an end
:o his pain." But he answered me by
rasping my arm and pulling me to one
side, shouting, "Look out, or he will be
>n you." Looking up I saw the crazy
creature swiuging his head about, hi9
ong neck putting me in mind of anmaconda,
as it fairly whirled through \
the air, forming wide circles as he made
lesperate plunges to keep his body ui^
ler his neck; pitching forward, he fell Vn
lis head and shoulders, and rolled
with a thud that shook the ground. ^
vas a "zwart bont" (black-spotted; the -S
variety usually seen in zoological collections;
the white-spotted ones are longer
ind finer made, and have never been
jrought to Europe, and arc never so
leavv). He measured from the root oi
;hc tail to the shoulder G feet 1 inch, and
'rom the shoulder to the tip of the nose
10 feet 7 1-2 inchcs.?J^ondon Graphic.
Short History of Candles.
Cnixllcsticks are mentioned in the
Bible, but there seems to be no doubt
;hat these were lumps for burning olive
)il rather than supports for which ure
iow called candles. The candles used
jy the Greeks and Romans were rude
:orches made by dipping strings of papy*us
or rushes into pitch, and afterward
joating them with wax. In Europe this
laudle was in use during the middle ages,
the wick being of twisted tow. Often
these were very large and heavy. Among
:lie poorer classes candles were made by
soaking splints of wood in fat or oil.
The use of these wood splints is mentioned
in English history about the beginning
of the fourteenth century. Wax
handles were also m:ule durirw this mn
tury, but they were expensive and dcem2d
a great luxury. Soon after this ?
lipped candle made from tallow was introduced.
A company for making wax
?andles was incorporated in London in
1484. Mold candles are said to be the
invention of the Sieur Le Brcz, of Pari*.
Spermaceti candles are of modern manufacture.?
Chicago Inter- Occaix.
Goats as Animal Doctors.
It is a curious fact tha t. nreiudiced aa
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we seem to be Against the useful goat, in
Bpite of all its really admirable properties,
it has been from very early times
popular in this country, on account of a
virtue which is purely fictitious and fanciful.
Antiquity has bequeathed to us
the legend that goats were exceptionally
wise in the matter of wholesome herbs,
that they were, in fact, the herbalists
imong quadrupeds and "cunning in simples."
Out of this grew the idea that
they were virtually physicians, that their
presence among domcstio animals waa
acncncini, ana tbat their odor, though
unpleasant to man, was wholesome to
liorees, cows, pig3, sheep, and the farmyard
generally. For this reason one single
goat was often kept, and farmyards
may still be found where "Betty" ox
"Nanny" lives at its ease, and is maintained,
not for any real use it is put to,
>ut in deference, perhaps quite unknowngly,
to an almost obsolete superstition.
?London Telegraph.
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