The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, September 08, 1894, Image 4
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WRAP OF BLACK A:
Bell shaped. The small cape with sr
collar a ruffle of rose loops of heliotrope v
20OPULABM SCNCR -.
At Cherbourg, France, an electric
tanoe is in operation.
Aboaut one-third of the weight of an
egg is solid nutriment. .
The composition of the sun is nearly
the &-me as that of the earth. -
The earth only intercepts one 2,381,.
100,000th part of the total amount o1
,of heat given off by the sun.
An ingenious Boston ma-a has just
patented an electrical device designed to
automaticaly play banjos, mandolins,
guitars and harps.
A ton of sea water yields a grm ot
god ota hr utb a oegl
heldin oluinta- a sytbe b
esaped Thoe mre ape withre
Digestio in he oarse oof harnioropes
eAt inhersaprof thratrean, andt~a
that their oertion.r aoabet h
Aeeopmen ofschi miuthe weiganifss
Sea fo~ls' eggtrhen earal
Tpecosiiotyo thegi nearly ncli
point s~e asthat the eaionrothi
ire.They are ly nte bae edges,
30fhigh rts frohc they amouldo
,fmhet gureyfl off yate fo tisha.
The prevenceu ofsn spot his int
matelynneted wtith dehie ocuened o
mulasneti htorps.o hathssrae
Ah ton gife s wate ieldsea utaon oar
inld 22,0th00 the muto bet oe golt
mor howntoessrthes tie saths oltar
byenieras toi toe seasBto isal nso
the geateprbds to boe sorved mor
isantswis du imeo thatty her cti
ico-rgnimSwic ae LAys' pres
ent ntha e ao batriste. n
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D WHITE MOIRE.
al guipure application. Around the
elvet.
ting its ~"electrl E iof k-3e. he
workers around electrical furnaces in
whih the metal aluminum is produced
suffer from "electricalsunstrokes." The
intense light causes very painful conges
tions, which cannot be wholly prevented
wearing deep colored glasses.
Calculations, based on the observation
of the retraction of light, have caused it
to be supposed that the air becomes so
rare at the height of about sixty miles
that the distance may be regarded as the
limit to its sensible extent, but other cal
culations made during the present cen
tury, of the distance of the earth at which
meteors ignite, indicate that the atmos
phere extends upwards of 100 miles.
Tbe line of the new overhead electric
rilway in Liverpool, which was recently
pened, extends along the whole lengtk
tthe dock s of Liverpool from north t<
suth, a distance of six and a half miles.
n the trial trip the journey, thougb
opping easily and precisely at the vari
us stations, was accomplished in seven
and a half minutes. T'he cost, including
quipment, was about $425,000 per mile.
A Government official sent out to the
>orthwest long before there were an)
rilroads in that part of the country says
tat the glaciers of the Selkirk range
were pure white and blue then. Now
tey have a grayish color, and in some
hts a reddish appearance, and on ex
aioing the surface of the ice it is found
tobe covered with little lutaps of what
sem to be clay. The official says that
tha substance is ashes from forest fires
TERE IS little more tantalizing tu
Sman than to go home with some
hing in his mind he wants to scold
bout, and find company there, and
obliged to aet agreeable.
E who expects gratitude from man
nght as well looK for a tear in the
ay of a corpse.
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KEPT THE SECRET CLOSELY.
Oundreds of People in Peril or Their Livem
Without Knowing It.
At high tide recently the ferrj
steamer Oakland was brought off th<
dry-dock in West Oakland, where she
Lad been undergoing extensive re
pairs. This event recalls to mind the
launching of the steamer Piedmont a
few years ago, when the escape fron
death of nearly 500 passengers on the
incoming steamer Oakland was meas
urad by a hair's breath. No one evei
knew it except the officers and em
ployes of the two boats. Some of th
passengers even clapped their hand
as the two boats grazed each other,
and imagined that it had all been ar
ranged to show off the new steamer
The Piedmont had been tugged to th
mole for an inspection of the ma
chinery, and the orderhad been given
to haul her out for a trial trip. Ful
steam was up. and the captain, witi
Master Shipbuilder Marr and the
master mechanic, stood in the wheel
house. They were to give one whis
tle, when the time came, as a signal
to the man stationed near the bacl
rudder to pull the rudder-pin, so as
to swing the vessel around outside
the pier. Everything went swim
mingly, but when it was time for the
....,
tnt
signal~Iin the capti.-plldt
roe o hitl cme!' riid
gave he roe tu afte sugbut
was useless
man wte ruddera with cosno aait
Wh sthree curved wig the gonabr
agreed bypoo, nde 0 Ipeol Wea
scined ofithe goldbrow The. Spa
shouteid donthe catbi outhed engi
rope ano hie cmers hisenined Bu
gethe vse mustpe turned or destu
tiwas evialeoheplosf.h
thn wseong, anrvd rhing owrs
uanjs then wsthe presenc owmin
with, witheger. Tnerederesoc
ning ilulyha. Tahsecon wa:
manciatsthe rudder wrme wheoval
Hue sto thelstea witle ndiulle
itroachng to oneathuhtl ofcoha
scforeo efc. The logscechnpsuti
hote folowdwa the sbgnalh nginh
emrn andthe ruderled isein. Bu
the vessel stng trund she grest
teOakland, eigut ohone knew oe
nit hom wrng swren frmai coisen
and jsrt thasen ereencely kepb
the Arfier to thscae tog thelu
win tohacom ended seconr th
hbueatmeda steamncistle Candpu.
ritggs-Why, one han though1
bore Tadgoe lwon urhiaton.
Ia sat o otw the rudrpuldther i.a
thbvssiwng aound clohes.rze
Thret asdl)-e caeflyat wh
wer dintb o-Gened atagert
blae-an Fanciscoy Call.ma
wohad timene ay sun ses now? ion
Jusaw you dontown father ls dna1
uig o-Tea of fting os.
Friggs (todyuneg Thsatd)-Wha
whtsm the su hmn haisnessw Fed
Friend (toband-O hesand one ar
nn Rhango.
-CURIOUS TACTS.
It is not a rare sight to see horses im
Paris using false teeth. -
At Norwich, England, a thirty-fiv(
ton weight stone has been quarried. Il
is the largest on record.
A church in Missouri has a bell weigh
ing 870 pounds which can be heari
quite plainly ten miles distant.
Mrs. McNair, a Scotchwoman of God,
manchester, near Montreal, Canada, ha
just c:mpleted her 110th year.
The natives of the Solomon Islands
believe that cyclones are caused by some
monstrous invisible birds flapping theh
wings. r
A bill has been introduced into tho
Pennsylvania Legislature making it
misdemeanor to kill any bird excepi
while on the wing,
A preacher in Denton County, Texas
who is ninety-five years old, has twenty
nine grandchildren and twen.ty-eight
great-grandchildren.
A vegetable curiosity Is owned by i
resident of Wenatchee, Washington. I
consists, it is claimed, "of a network of
large potatoes grown upon one another.'
Robert Ryman, of Versailles, Ky., ib
the oldest miller in the United States
and is now operating a mill built a hun
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LN D WA XLKING COSTU ME
ored skirt, lined with taffeta. Trimme<
n silk braids. Stiff belt of bias mnaterial
vith lay-down collar and reverse cape
ate yoke vest of the same material.
dred years ago ati still'uas ~t~~ 'prim]
tive machinery.
SFrom Switzerland comes the strangi
information that, in spite of the intense
cold, there has been so lhttle snow thit
year that wagons can be use], for in
stance, on the Julier and Bernina passes
A young man at Bushnell, Ill., wagere'
with his mother that Harrison would be
elected. His mother would not entei
into a money wager, but made her soi
promise to go to Sunday school ever)
Sunday if Clevaland was elected.
Another example of precocity come
from Boston. Little Bassie Scates, tel
years old, has written an eleven-chaptei
Iovel, which her fond parents will haye
printed and distributed to their friends
Friendship co'mes high in Boston.
Reports from Russian Poland give ac
counts of serious depredations b:
brigands. These are organized in armel
bands which attack the houses of farmer
and noblemen, burn -.: pinage tbhem
adz, isu some instances, carry off th
owners and keep them prisoners for ran
som.
Alexander the Great, the conquerer o
the world, died when he was thirty -tw<
years old. Maurice of Saxony, thi
greatest captain and statesmain of hit
time, died at the same age. The Duk<
of Weimar, one of Adolphus's generals
died at the age of thirty-six, while Gus
tavus Adolphus died when he wai
thirty-eight. Pascal, the great French
writer, and R'iphael, the great Italiar
~rtist, both died at thirty-seveai.
He Did Not Wait.
Jeweler-You found this lady:
bracelet in the street and now wan1
to dispose of it?
Crook--I do.
Jeweler-Well, if you'll wait until
I get a policeman you can exchangt
it for a gent's bracelet -Jeweleri
Re view.
A Costly Sign.
Mr. Dolley-Now, I don't belie ve it
signs.
Miss Flypp.-Well, I do. Now, for
instance, there is one 1 believe in.
It was an ice cream sign and the
young thing's belief cost Dolley 50
ents. '-_~Dilarlelnhia Times.
CREPE DRESS WVITf RZOSETTE
Skirt of light-blue taffeta with dr:
with silk stripes. Ps taken up at little at i
rosettes. Waist closes in the front by
tulle embroidery, with four velvet rosett
velvet ribbon with rosettes in the centrE
DRESS OF STRIPE
Gored skirt with a 4 inch wide gree
single parts of the skirts are taken up a
The double ripple is put on to the skirt
yoke of ecru laces is trimmed with pint,
Popular Superstiiions.
Few people, says the Ladies' Home
Jouanal, are dauntless enough to risk
being married on Friday, and all have
more or less respect for that old shoe
which is invariably thrown after the
newly wedded pair. Almost all brides
wear during the ceremony some tri
fling thing thrown from a girl frieud
as a propitiatory oiferingf, also some
thing blue and a piece of silver in onte
shoe. All brides-elect rejoice whben the
marriag-e day dawns brightly, remem
bingteodaae
Bles istebio pnwoi tesnd
shine,
andal ar eualy eraintht
Tocanete aean otteh-tr
CREger-es Bu I'm 1o s~r
prsete. She'st the wino the rotad
velitribbonEwhnget .nth enr
HoweS OFrSTeIP
GreAd skr ho ai yo fl twa rde
simnwen art maie the g irltae yup
wee oeage io? ntote
yokio substitute whis imed wintheu
Pwplar.-Life. ~ us
He cper aste is Hom
doun me, are daurantls edsm to s
beliee ora less arec fr the~ outh.
Seoun the cneemod uite tri-ht
Iling ting Sothonfo Chicago.Smit&
mras dothy.dwsbihlrie
Caerin -Wh ldatdsagie ai: ose
Bales wrth? rd pnwo h u ~~
Ck-and't qulyo cknock thatal
S~ hag he Wnm Nt ot the i.
"I it hang l fore rbetwe o andno hbte.
Miss Huosband?" ipe nn
forhyou in our gretaurat will be lat
inger-ruth Pn o sr
hif wh ren e arid scth. r Goe
He-to fel as tnh woe n ckedtwad
ion m,bu ~our ae to lce~ts of difer
t
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TRIMMING FOR YOUNG LADIES. C
ped overskirt of red crepe, interwoven
ither side and fastened by two blue velvet
ooks. The yoke is covered by ecru E
Ps at the edge. Two rows of light-blue
front as belt.
D CHINA TAFFETA. 3
a moire stripe under the bottom. The a
little and fastened through green loops. r
and lined with green foulardiae. The -c
double satin ribbon in zig-zag manner. c
A MUs1cal Orab. C
Ali .g the animals Doctor Alcock has
specially observed is the red ocypode
crab which swarims on all the sandy shores
of India. The bigger of its two chel,
or nippers, bears across the "pal&" x i
long, finely toothed riAe, and on on
of the basal joints of the ''arm," against
which the "palm" can be tightly closed,
t
there is a seconid similar ridge . When
the "palm" is so folded agaiast the base
of the "arin' the frst ridrge can be worked
across the second like a bow across a
fiddle, only in this ease the bow is seT
eral times larger than the tiddle.
And now as to the way these crabs
play their fiddles. A robber crab enters
the burrow of another. When the right
ful owner discovers the intruder tie utters
a few broken tones of remonstance, ou
earing which the intruder, if permittedl,
will at once leave the burrowv. If the
intruder be prevented from making his
escape the low and broken tones of the
rightful owner gradually riss in loudness
and shrillness and frequently until theyI
become a continuous low pitcoed whir
or high pitched growl, thc burrow actin;
ss a resonator. -Nature.
-The, White Sponge.
Trhe white sponLges sold in the druiz
stores are not dangerous to use, as1
someC people supp~ose. No drug storc
couldl arTord to sell spone-s which had
once been in use, and in the hospitals
refuse sponges used in cleaning
wounds anid sores are no9w generally
burned. The white sponges have
been bleached. Only the finest and
best are selected for bleaching,
and these are placed in a
bath of diluted hydrochloric
acid with a little hyposulphite
of soda. Left in this mixture a few
hours, the sponge becomes as white4
as snow, though the process is not
generally carried so far, a light shaae
of yellow or straw color selling more
readily than the white. - Globe
Democrat.
WHEN Stiggins died from cholera,
brought on by eating rhubarb pie, th"
physicians solmenly decided that hi
died of too much pie-eat-ce.
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skr, lie ihfulrie nt
* .m e hormn
IOW OLD IS THE WORLD.
I Fascinating Study That Is Slowly
Elucidating a Great Mystery.
A study of fossils teaches the steady
iniformity with which the work of
reation proceeded. Since man be
an to observe there has been no
bange in the forms of animal and
egetable life. A few species have
sappeared; not one new species has
een evolved. Not only do we find
he fauna and flora of ancient Egypt
s depicted on monuments which are
robably 8,000 or 10,000 years old
dentical with those which are found
a that country to-day, but shells
rhich inhabited our seas before the
e age and grew in an ocean whose
ed overlay the Rocky Mountains are
recisely the same species that are
ound in the Bay of Monterey and the
raters of the Chesapeake. It is evi
ent that there has been no essential
hange in the condition of life since
bese animals and vegetable were
rst created, yet how vast the short
st period which we can assign to the
ap that divides us from that remote
poch.
Little by little the geologist is lift
ng the veil which covers the prehis
>ric record of our planet. The era
hich preceedeq the age of civilized
aan, with its vast rivers carrying
own diluvial floods to the ocean, an
he bursting forth of the mountai
anges from the contraction of
arth's crust, has been painted
ife. But no one has exe
encil on that precedin
orest made way fas
irch and
overed t
own from
vast shee
rove man
nd the rei
egions whi
aped the A
or have we
that subse
ielted or re
ense tropica
iorasses it ha
ig with trop
ncouth batra
rees of monst
bade over shi
nd in the di
anges whose
losed, poured
f lava down th
age of histor
-ritten, but t
umulating and
long wanting.
Not Partcn!a
One of the men
usly in the picneer
-as Colonel Peter
inguished Indian tra
e famous American
ld settler tells the fo
his oecentric pione
-referred the freedo.n
ciety of civilized life
leal of his time in visiti
rams near the old tra
ra regardeJ by the
[e.cghha or big chic
iarried an O.naba womn
-hose intercessions he
nce indebted for tbe pr
ite when attacked by [nd
One night a crowd of
'ere gathered in the stor
arpy and the conversation
he treatment of the Ind
Sarpy portrayed in glow
oble trains of the red me
ustice heaped upon themb
A tall, gaunt looking spiecim
he corner, who was busily en
whittling, listene-i with consider
rest. ie'suddenly looked uip an
erruted the speaker.
"-his rere talk about the Indi-in
oo3 an4 br ave and intelligent may s.
ou traders who have been swa-pin
~ewaws for their valuable builalo rot
d stealing thieir annuities, bur. I have
ived anon'; them too. .I want yoa to
inderstaid, and I'll be hang~e l if they
ire not a lying, thieving race of dos
ho don't know the. d.i~ference bet ween
*ight and wrong. Tae sooner they ara
illed os the better it will be for th'
~ountry."
Tis was too much for Sarpy. He a-.
anced to the front of the speaker aiC
nterrupted him in an excited manner.
'Do you know who amn, sir?" he asked
ith c )nsiderable emphasis. "I anm
eter A. Sarpy, sir! If you want to
ight, sir, I am your muo, sirl Cr. .ose
tour weapons. sir ! Basie koite, i iiit
on or revolver, sir! I'm your man,
h ere the speaker, by way of emp~asus
o his remnar.cs, snappe i his pistol at the
ihtci candlle on the tab~e, ab aat thiree
1c away, and all were left in total
larkness. The stranger availed hims~eif
)f this oppportunity to make his exit by
he side door, being unwilling to serv
is a tartet for the unerring! mar.ksI,
rho would pr i-oablv have exting *e
im in a similar nuer.-Ne Yor)
'erald.
He Was Taught to Eat It.
'-Speak ing about corn and cholera,?
i W. H. Carr, formerly chiiclerk
, the Fifth Avenue Hotel, 'I rc
ember an amusing incident that
ue under my observation. A titled
ireigner, who evidlently had never.
udied agriculture, was a gue.>t of
ie house. One day I happened to
i t athe same t ihle with him. It
as about this season of the year.
he waiter served a lot of sie dihes
icluding corn. The titled guest in -
eed an ear and then laid it lbac
ii the plate. Taking his knife :;ndI
irk he began to dis-ect it, cuttin it
ito siies and st rips. He jabbed hii
rk into the center of the cob) and
ft it there. The otner guests at the
able tried to concoal their emotions
ith napkins. A g.*nt'emuan sitting
ar ue ordered sonie '\tra cars to
how the foreigner how to get amway
ith corn. Tfhcre was a profoaund
hence all around the table, especiamly
ar the woui.l-he corn cnter. The
iiowing day the titled visitor or
erei a double port ion of ti su:
ulent vegetable. "-New York Wor.d1.
rrorenional Rivalry.
"I have ex'.ibited before the
-wned heads of Europe," remarked
I Two-Il eaded Fre~a k, proudly.
-And I have operated on their
rned toes," replied the Famous
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