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ENQUIRER - SUN COIDMBPS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY; NOVEMBER 2, 18 \t.
A LITTLE ISLAND COLONY.
miy White Folks Who lave on & Loft;
Bock Just Big Enough for Them.
A few months ago the handful of peo
ple wh« 'live on Pitcairn island cele
brated die hundredth anniversary of the
landing of their fathers on that little
rock. The world is always glad to hear
of the prosperity of this people, and sev
eral other little communities inhabiting
the smallest specks of land in the ocean
also excite much interest.
There is one island, however, of which
we seldom hear. It is Lord Howe isl
and, the home of fifty or sixty white
people, about 600 miles northeast of New
South Wales. Years ago two or three
families from New Zealand thought they
would seek a new home.
They had heard of the profuse vegeta
tion on this crescent shaped little island,
and decided that they would build new
homes there. So they went to Lord
Howe island, which is only six miles
long and about a mile wide, and rises
precipitously from the sea to a height of
nearly 3,000 feet at nearly every point.
They built tbeir huts, tilled the land,
and after a while two or three other
families joined them. Some of these
original settlers are still living, but most
of the residents are their descendants.
The island is under the government of
New Zealand, and once a year it is visit
ed by a magistrate, who settles all little
■disputes. It is a very easy task, for
there are seldom any differences among
the people. Like Pitcairn and other lit
tle island communities, they have never
fonnd it necessary to build a jail.
There were none of the higher mam
mals on the islands when they went
there, but now there are quite a num
ber of goats, swine and cats, which, hav
ing escaped from domesticity, have
lived in the woods so long that they
have become quite wild. While some
of the men engage in tilling their gar
dens others are out fishing. A great
many edible fish are caught there, and
the people find it very easy to live in
comfort without a large amount of labor.
They say they have not the slightest
desire to return to larger communities.
They do not encourage immigration be
cause they think they and their children
will need all of the 3,230 acres of the isl
and. Sometimes a sailor from a passing
ship spends a little while in the commu
nity, and has been known to carry away
one of the daughters as his wife, but
most of the people are bom, live and die
there.
They cannot travel more than a few
hundred rods without seeing the sea. and
of course they come to know every inch
of their little world. Once or twice a
year a vessel comes to them with a large
variety of supplies, and they purchase
With their corpa and other products the
goods they need for the ensuing year.
At the same time their libraries are re
plenished with new books, a large lot of
newspapers come to their homes, and it
takes them a good while to read of all
that has happened in the busy world
since they last heard of it.—New York
Sun.
Loose the Bands of Thy Neck.
My mother used to tell a story of a
curate in a Norfolk parish, where the
rector was non-resident. One Sunday,
just as the curate had entered the read
ing desk, the rector came into the
church, and sent him a note to the effect
that he wished to preach, but had for
gotten to bring his bands. This ap
pendage to the clerical wardrobe was
quite indispensable in those days, and
the only way in which the curate could
help him out of the difficulty was to un
tie his own bands and hand them up
into the three decker as soon as the
rector mounted.
But when the time came, as ill luck
would have it, the string of the bands
got into a knot, and by one of those un
accountable coincidences that sometimes
occur the singers in the gallery struck
up the anthem “Loose the bands of thy
neck, thou captive daughter of Zion,”
and as they repeated the words over and
over again, and one part echoed an
other, “Loose the bands of thy neck—
loose the bands—loose the bands,” the
hapless curate became more oaffied in
his hopeless endeavors to untie the knot
ted strings, aiid in his nervousness sup
posed the anthem to be directed to him.
I do not remember how it ended, but
probably the amusement it caused after
ward may have more than compensated
for the annoyance of the time.—Corn-
hill Magazine.
Ready Slade Clothing:.
I am sometimes amazed in passing the
great ready made clothing establish
ments of Boston to note how differently
they are regarded than formerly. It was
less than a generation ago that they
were patronized almost exclusively by
workingmen, mechanics and fanners,
wlio desired rough, cheaply made cloth
ing. Merchants, bankers, professional
men invariably left their measure with
their tailors, and scorned what was fa
miliarly termed “slop made” clothing.
But a demand arose for fine grades of
ready made clothing, and the alert
American manufacturer was ready to
meet the demand.
. The demands of the customer were
exacting, and to reach his high standard
of excellence scientific methods were em
ployed and competent designers. It was
the old story of the relative cost of mak
ing one coat or of making 500. Bnt
there were men of peculiar shape who
heretofore had been able to become fitted
only by the custom tailor. He was too
tall or too fat to be fitted from the ready
made stock of the olden time. This
difficulty was soon met and overcome
until to-day. although the custom tailor
•has by no means disappeared, the ready
made dealer has for his customers that
class of meu who once fevomed him.—
Boston Advertiser.
Sharp Bliooii Saugglen.
We are informed that a jewelry firm
not far from Madison square, on Broad
way, succeeded in getting a number of
diamonds past the customs officials in a
peculiar way.
The diamonds numbered between
eighty and ninety, and were worth in
the vicinity of $12,000, as they were all
large stones.
On the invoice they were billed as im
itation French jewels of the new kind.
These diamonds are made of brilliant
pieces of glass highly polished and deftly
covered with a thin coating of genuine
diamond shavings. These stones are so
expertly made that it is almost impossi
ble to detect the imitation even by the
use of a strong microscope. The tell
tale feature of the imitation stone is a
roughness around the circular edge at
the widest part of the stone, where the
two layers of the diamond coating join.
This is really the only way that the
imitation can be detected. Emeralds,
pearls and rubies are also made in this
way. It is necessary to use a micro
scope to detect this roughness about the
edge.
When the consignment of supposed
imitation diamonds arrived the assist
ant appraiser assigned to gauge their
value examined each stone carefully with
a powerful microscope, and fonnd that
all of them had the tell tale roughness
on the edges. He accordingly allowed
them to be delivered to the consignees
on payment of the duty based upon a
valuation of $600. This saved the firm
some $1,200 in duty.
As a matter of fact the jewelers knew
the means taken by the custom house
authorities to discover if the stones were
imitation or not, and had filed the edges
of the diamonds before shipment from
the other side, so that they resembled
the spurious articles.—Jewelers’ Cata
logue.
What “Burgoo” I*.
“Burgoo,” explained Col. James Orr,
of Covington, “is one of the oldest Ken
tucky dishes we have. No one knows
who first made ‘burgoo,’ nor does any
one know where or how it got its queer
name. ‘Burgoo' is an out of doors crea
tion, and pots of ‘burgoo’ have simmered
over a hot fire in the sun at every big
political gathering in the state since
Henry Clay was a hoy, and years before
that, too. It is not only an extremely
palatable dish, if you can call it that,
but it's very nourishing. ‘Burgoo’ is a
cross between a stew and a soup. It is
always made in the open air.
“How is it made? Well, I take a big
cauldron, put some red pepper pods in
the bottom, add some potatoes, tomatoes
and corn: then put in half a dozen prairie
chickens, as many more tender ‘yellow
legs' and a couple of dozen soft shell
crabs. I add some young squirrels when
they can be obtained. When everything
is in readiness there is enough water put
into the cauldron to just make the con
tents float.
“Then it is put on the fire. It must
be allowed to simmer slowly for six
hours, and must be stirred constantly
with a hickory stick. A hickory stick is
best and is always used, but another
might do as well. When it is nearly
done it may he flavored to suit the taste.
It is ‘done’ when the meats are thor
oughly shredded, not before. When it
is done—um!” and Col. Orr’s eyes spar
kled at the prospect.—Cincinnati Com
mercial Gazette.
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An Octogenarian I'ji a Spire.
A venerable athlete of Levweller, who
is known throughout Lothringen and
the Erckinaun-Chatrian country as “Old
Vetter Michel.” made a wonderful ex
hibition of his undiminished prowess one
day. Although he has passed his eight
ieth year, the lively old gentleman act
ually climbed to the top of the spire of
the parish church of Saar-Alben. which
is 133 feet high. There he stayed some
minutes, turning the weathercock round
and round, and performing a few other
gymnastic feats. He then came down
again as quietly and composedly as he
laid ascended, amid the cheering of the
crowd of admirers. The athletic world
will surely acknowledge "Vetter Mi
chel” to be the champion grand old man
of the profession, although less .sympa
thetic critics will probably say that there
is no fool like an old fool.—Pall Mall
Gazette.
Color of Natural Wool.
There are certain fallacies abroad con
cerning the proper color of natural wool,
and of natural silk, too. for that matter,
so that a furnisher is very often com
pelled to keep his “natural” wool under
wear of a decidedly gray color, and his
“natural” silk ditto of a rich salmon
pink, which he furthermore is expected
to verify as being the natural color of
the undyed thread. Now many a long
hour's soak in the dye tub ilo both silk
and wool undergo to acquire the “nat
ural” color demanded by the pnblic,
and the customer is now so used to the
deception which his persistently false
notion compels the manufacturer to
practice that he would not believe the
real undyed fabric to be genuine if lie
saw it.—Clothier and Furnisher.
No Ise for Any of .Them.
“It's funny, isn’t it?” he said to his
companion, as they were riding up town
on the elevated road.
“What's funny?”
‘‘That there are two thousand seven
hundred ;md fifty languages iu the world,
and not one of them is good enough for
that brakemau.’’-4-Puck.
A Big Bargain.
The new girl stood behind the counter
a South End bake shop. A young
man walked briskly np and laid down
two cents, with the words, “Two kisses.”
Doubtless he would have been satisfied
with two of the white sugar and egg
structures in the showcase, bat the new
clerk, who was brought up in Thompson-
ville, climbed upon a stool and pursed
her red lips so temptingly that the cus
tomer got an extraordinary bargain-
four kisses for fwo cents.—Springfield
(Mass.j Homestead.
lee Cold Tea Not Iignrious.
Ice cold tea, according to Dr. G. W.
Barr, soon loses all the physiological ac
tion oi theine. A man of nervous tem
perament, vVho was kept awake all
night by a single enp of hot tea, could
drink a half gallon of iced tea during the
evening, and sleep soundly at his usual
time of retiring. To avoid excess of
tannin the tea should be strained be
fore being allowed to stand. —Arkansaw
Traveler.
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