How would a person in the 1890s have sharpened their pencils?

They totally did have pencils in the 1890's. Check out the wikipedia articles about pencils and pencil sharpeners, they had some crazy models of pencil sharpeners in those times! a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bleistiftsch%C3%A4rfMaschineJupiter1.JPG" rel="nofollow"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bleist…/a !