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V 12 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. | a*, a*, a 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. ■-*- ** ^ * * 1 FOR THE HEALING OF THE HATI0KS. .KING’ GERMETUER NATURE’S REMEDY I* a first-class scientific preparation, the result of Dr. King’s untiring labors and researches following after Gaffrey, De- geer, Brandtlett, Pastuer, Koch. Miquel and other illustrious compeers, whose la bors substantiate, as held by the French Academy of Science, that 44 disease germs may be not only attenuated until nearly harmless, but may be revivified by degrees and given the most virulent character.” —ROYAL GERMETUER— is an infallible cure for numerous diseases, such as Rheumatism, Indigestion, heart troubles, Headache, Liver, Bladder, and Kidney diseases. 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