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ENQUIRER-SUK: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 7, 1890.
HOW SHE CAN CHATTER.
i.i'VTTY BAB GOSSIPS ALL THE
1 WAY FROM CLEOPATRA TO
ST AXLE Y.
THK color of cleopaera’s hair what
WAS IT?—BAB DOESN’T LIKE STAN
LEY AND TELLS WHY—LATEST
THING IN GARTERS—MAN S ^
IDEA OF ECONOMY.
Xfw York. December 5.—[Special.]—
Beauty may not always draw us by a sin-
' u . ha ] r but tlie subject of hair is much
” 0IV to the fore now than is the subject of
beauty. Whose? Why, Cleopatra’s of
course.
THE COLOR OF CLEOPATRA S HAIR.
The young woman who belongs to the
classes that are going to cultivate her phys
ically and mentally is spending hours in
lhe Astor Library utilizing her French
and German in iter search to discover just
what was the color of Cleopatra's hair.
And the cause of this excitement is that
bardou makes Sarah Bernhardt appear
with black tresses and swarthy skin. The
men who write in encyclopedtedtas, being
men devote exactly half a column to the
woman who upset the world, and in that
half a column never mention the color of
licr hair. I never did take very much
stock in encyclopedia's—they never seem
to have tlie things you really want. They
are too much like general shops.
WHICRE opinions rather differ.
One amiable old German, who had grown
sweet-tempered and old in the study of the
Egyptians and their doings, announces
that Cleopatra had that color hair which
is blonde without a glint of gold in it; an-
othe one, who was as snappy as he was
learned, flatly says she had bright auburn
hair, and still another, evidently a bit of a
dreamer, said site iiad the color hair that
men love best. This was delightfully
vague, as it permits every man to give
Cleopatra the sort of hair that is possessed
hy his best girl. Swinburne tells of her
hair being the color of the ocean when it
is sun-kissed, and another poet says that
her hair was of that shade and of that per
fume peculiar to the golden lily. Gautier
describes her hair as falling in black cas
cades over her shoulders, but credits her
with having blue eyes, and talks about the
amber blondness of her temples. I confess
to not knowing what amber blondness is.
An amber blonde temple would be decided
ly suggestive to me of a never-ending need
for sulphur and molasses. 1 have had
stacks of books beside me. I have had
the assistance of all the learned librarians
—the sympathetic assistance—and the
only thing I do seem to he aide to state
positively is that Cleopatra had hair, and
that you can pay your money and take
your choice and make it any color you
want. It seems most probable that it was
blonde, otherwise she would not have
stood out, as site did, a conspicuous figure
among all the dark-haired Egyptian wo
men: but, as J before remarked, opinions
differ, so that you can give her any color
of hair you want and you will have some
body to back you—a German, a French,
or an English Egyptologist.
RAR ON THE HERO OF THE HOt'R.
What do you think of the Stanley busi
ness'.’ Don’t you think it is rather mean
to pitch into a dead man? Personally, it
is a matter of absolute indifference to me
as to whether the girl was eaten or not—
in fact, 1 wish a few cannibals would come
to New York and eat up some \yomen I
know. 1 would have a special artist to
sketch the performance. But you see,
here it is: this man is dead and can’t get
up and defend himself, and bis widow is
made to suffer from all the horrible tales
that are printed and that exploits Mr.
Stanley. And will you please tell me why
he should be exploited? As I understand,
Emin wasn’t particularly anxious to be
rescued—in fact, be was having rather
a good time of it; and why should we all
yell, Hail chief! to a man who has gone
around hunting strange countries for to
see? Don’t you think the man that
stays at home and makes the country lie's
in a better one is the man who is doing
the best work? My sympathies are en
tirely with the Irishman who said “that
the man who planted the North Pole
should be the one to go and find it.’'
Thank you, no explorers in my evening’s
entertainment.
THE ENGLISHMAN IN HEAVEN.
By-the-by, one constantly says one won’t
and then one does. I took an oath on a
large pile of dictionaries, English, Irish
and profane, that I would never read a
book about America written by an Eng
lishman : but, like my great-grandmother
Eve. 1 was tempted and 1 ate. And 1 got
the entire peck of dirt due me for the rest
of my life. 1 sha'n’t go over the book, I
just want to say this about the English
man. lie convs here, takes everything
he can get, finds fault with everything: he
goes home, finds fault with everything
there, and when lie goes to heaven he
finds fault with everything there, and
writes letters to the Angels' Gazette com
plaining of the dampness of the clouds,
the strings on his lute, and his next-door
neighbor, and he signs this. “A loyal
Britain.”
AMERICAN WOMEN AN1) ENGLISH MEN.
By birth and education the Englishman
is a brute. Physically he is the most
beautiful specimen, and he wears his
clothes in a way that is charming. When
he has lived here awhile, married and
been trained by an American woman, he
is tlie next tiling to a gentleman angel ;but
the Englishman pure and simple, is with
out any exception the greatest combina
tion of brute and idiot that you ever
knew. He is willing to learn, which is
one thing in his favor, but it takes an
American woman to teach him. lie does
not think his own women know anything,
and this is one of his thoughts that (is
mighty near the truth.
" THE LATEST THING IN GARTERS.
Tlie latest thing in garters, and by the
bye, garters are a question of great im
portance nowadays, lias for a clasp a
barred gate which fastens just in the cen
ter: enameled on this is a small dog, and
on the other side is the funny inscription,
“No tresspassing allowed.’’ Somebody
lias been writing articles on garters and
illustrating them, and among those shown
was Mrs. Langtry’s; now between you and
me she didn't wear garters, she always
wore suspenders and consequently the
illustration belongs to somebody else. The
handsomest pair of garters in Xew Y ork
consist of two diamond hearts that fasten
together with a veritable hook and eye,
and have on the back of one of the hearts
this inscription: “Two hearts with but a
single sole." The possessor of these has
a belt buckle to match, which is some
what larger, and the inscription on it is:
“Let us seek for joy among the waste
places.”
"WONDERS OF A WOMAN’S CHATELAINE.
The chatelaine is growing not only in
number, but in variety. Tinkling cym
bals announce the coming of the girl of your
heart, and there is nothing you can ask
for that will not be produced from amid
the curious collection that depends on the
chains of my lady’s chatelane. You talk
about Egypt, and she shows you a curious
ly carved old silver ring that, it is re
puted. was taken from the finger of a
mummy. A gruesome thing to possess 1
You want a pin—the flat silver cushion is
full of them. You want pencil and tablet;
it is offered you. If you want to know
the time, you needn’t bother to ask a po
liceman, for in a quaint old case of Dutch
work a tiny watch will tell you the hour
of the day. You want a bit of powder,
if you are a woman, and that is concealed
in a funny little box that looks as if it had
been meant to hold a rosary. You need a
clove covered with sugar, and it is
promptly extracted from a short, fat ser
pent; while, if you want to conceal a
note or a ring, my lady will hand you a
grinning owl; you lift his head up only to
discover that he is hollow and that he will
hold all the love messages you may wish
to send. So yon see how many things
there are upon the chatelaine.
HOW A WOMAN ECONOMIZES.
It is the time of year when the economical
woman comes to the fore and writes to all
her dearest friends, “Won’t you tell me
of a really reliable, cheap dressmaker? ’
Xow the friends don't know of one of tiiis
sort, and if they did they wouldn't tell
her, for the woman would raise her price
Oh, women, are a lovely, selfish lot! She
at last concludes by having a woman by
the day, and she tells you that, although
she wants to economize, slie will be able
to have four frocks where before she has
only been able to get one. Charley says
money is tight, and she is going to
help him to economize. About two
weeks after that you go to see the finished
frocks and to gloat over their beauties.
You find your friend tired, worried, with
eyes as red as fire, two new
wrinkles around her mouth, and
a lot of abominable, ill-fitting,
undesirable gowns. The woman who
worked by tlie day had ideas of her own
and a will to correspond, consequently she
attained tlie end she desired. She had
no conception of what was meant by a
rounded form or of the beauties of a close-
fitting skirt, so she made all the frocks as
if a large bustle was to be worn with
them, and when this was objected to, she
declared she had always worked for perfect
ladies, and they had never found iault
with what she did. Now, my friend had
never posed as a perfect lady, but during
the time tlie woman by the day was there
she lived in constant fear of hurting her
feelings, and accepted the gowns as they
were given to her. Her punishment was
something awful; not only will she have
to wear those inventions of the evii one.
but tlie man of her heart, the man lor
whom she economized flatly refuses to go
out with her gowned in the abomination
made by that beastly dressmaker. That’s
tlie way a woman economizes.
man's IDEA OF ECONOMY.
When a man wants to economize—I
may mention, quite causually, that he sel
dom does—is he such a goose as to get a
twopenny ha’penny suit of clothes? Cer
tainly not. lie knows the economy there
is in a well-fitting, well-made get-up, and
if he can’t have a new suit made by a good
tailor, lie has his last year’s pressed and
put in order. And that’s what the
woman who wants to economize ought to
do. But no! no! as soon as she thinks
she is helping the family out in any way
by stopping up the spigot and letting out
at the bung-hole, she gets so abominably
uppish that nobody can stand her, and the
only thing to do is to let her work out her
own—well—salvation.
THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE.
The weather has been beautiful enough
to make us give thanks to the gentleman
who puts in the paper what time the sun
goes down and the moon goes up. There
is nothing in this world that's half as good
as sunshine, except love, and when you
combine sunshine and love you are to
count yourself the happiest woman in the
world. And when you can't get either
then you ought to be glad that somebody
else can, and in this way make a little
sunshine for yourself. People are very
tiresome who regulate their amiability by
the weather.
Why, because the sky is gray, should
you conclude that the world is filled with
murderers?
Why, because the raindrops are falling,
should you take it as a personal insult, in
stead of remembering that the umbrella
people must make a living?
Why, when it is blowy and blustery,
should you think that tlie wind selects
you as its special victim, and not realize
that you are of very little importance to
the wind, which could, if it wanted to.
knock you out in one round?
Why, when it's snowing, do you foresee
the sloppiness that will follow, instead of
I the whiteness that exists?
It's because you are a grumbling, ili-
j natured creature—because there is really
i uo place for you on this earth, and no
body wants you here. We want people
! who, through good or bad weather, can be
; cheerful and merry-hearted and always
see the best side of things. Don’t you
agree with Bab?
MIRROR OF TWO STATES-
GEORGIA AND ALABAMA PLEAS
ANTLY EPITOMIZED.
EVENTS OF GENERAL AND PERSONAL
INTEREST—WHAT OUR NEIGHBORS
ARE DOING IN TWO
COMMONWEALTHS.
THE XEW APPORTIONMENT.
AN AGREEMENT REACHED BY THE CEN
SUS COMMITTEE.
Washington, December (>.—It is un
derstood that the Republican members of
the census committee have reached an
agreement upon the reapportionment bill j
based upon a ratio of 35(5 members of the
House. The present House consists of
332 members. This understanding has
been arrived at after mature consideration
and consultation with their party asso
ciates on the. floor. The ratio of repre- i
sentatlon is one member to each 173,901
of population. This is about the lowest
number which will permit each State dur
ing the next decade to retain its present
membership" The States which will gain
in representation are: Alabama, Arkansas,
California 1, Colorado 1, Georgia 1, Illi
nois 2, Kansas 1, Massachusetts 1, Michi
gan 1, Minnesota 2. Missouri 1, Nebraska
3, New Jersey 1, Oregon 1, Pennsylvania
2, Texas 2, Washington 1 and Wisconsin 1,
or 24 in all. It is not at all likely that any
anti-gerrymander features will be incor
porated in the apportionment bill. There
is considerable divergence of opinion as to
the advisability of doing this, and in the
opinion of some members it is doubtful
whether Congress can enact any provision
that will effectually check gerrymandering.
A meeting of the census committee will
be held next week, and it is expected that
the bill and the report will be presented
to the House by the end of the week, and
that before Christmas action will have
been reached by the House.
A large shoe factory is being erected in
Athens.
A savings bank is to be established in
Cartersville.
The Pulaski County Court last Monday
relieved eight gamblers of $710 in fines
and costs.
Governor Northen has reappointed Hon.
W. T. Jones Judge of the Dougherty
County Court.
The contractors have almost completed
the new passenger depot of the Central
railroad at Griffin.
The citizens of Augusta will memoralize
the railroads centering in that city for a
grand new union depot.
The Empire and Dublin railroad has
gone into the hands of a receiver, at esti
mated liabilities of $400,000.
Some prominent and enterprising far
mers of Greene county have under con
sideration the establishment of a cotton
factory.
The capital stock of the Bank of Madi
son w’as increased last week from $50,000
to $75,000. The last sale of stock was at
$113.33.
The Stewart Academy, in Lumpkin, was
destroyed by fire last week. There is doubt
whether the fire was of incendiary origin
or was caused by a defective flue.
In the event of the failure of the present
Legislature to pass a dog law, the Greens
boro Herald-Journal is in favor of organ
izing a vigllence committee for the pur
pose of exterminating all stray dogs.
In Albany, Friday, Jim Harden, a white
horse trader, was arrested on a telegram
from Dawson charging him with horse
stealing. His victim was Mr. R. N. Hig-
den, who suffered to the extent of a horse
and a mule.
At Americus Friday, Elias Clarke, a
negro employed at the planing aud variety
works, ran his head against a fast revolv
ing saw, which sawed through his skull
aud into the brain in a second. Remark
able to say, the negro was still alive, but
there is no hope for him.
At a meeting of the State Military Ad
visory board held in Atlanta, Friday, a
resolution offered by Col. Garrard was
adopted directing the Governor to request
the War Department at Washington to de
tail an officer to be attached to the Adju
tant-General's office of this State whose
duty it shall be to visit the various com
mands of this State as inspector and in
structor. He. is to be subject to the orders
of tlie Governor.
Americus has a sensation of the Enoch
Arden variety. Some years ago a citizen
of that place, who was happy married went
on a short visit to Savannah, there he got
on a spree, aud under the influence of
whisky, sailed for Liverpool. The wife
waited for him for years, and finally satis
fied that he must be dead, married a gen
tleman in Macon and removed to North
Georgia. Now the first husband has re
turned to Americas, and the wife has gone
there to interview him. The result ot the
interview is not yet reported.
The wife of Mr. Nimrod Burke died a
few days ago at her home near New Provi
dence in Irwin county. While the funeral
services were being conducted in the church
about a mile and a half from the home of
the deceased, the alarm of fire was given,
aud the fact was soon made known that
til Jbome, where a short wh 1; since was a
place of sadness, was transformed into fu
rious flames. Through the efforts of the
many friends of the family the household
goods were saved, but the building was
soon a mouldering heap of ashes. The ex
cited crowd left the corpse and church and
fled to the scene of the burning building,
where they rendered valuable service in
saving the, furniture etc. After the ex
citement was over the crowd returned to
tlie church and the burial of the dead pro
ceeded.
The S. G. and N. A. railroad and its
employes suffered a series of accidents last
week. The Griffin News says: On Tues
day and Thursday night three men, em
ployes of tlie S. G. and N. A. railroad, re
ceived injuries at different points on tlie
road. Jim Kelley, who had one of liis fin
gers mashed off while, coupling cars at
Brooks Station. Joe Elliott, fireman on a
freight train, lost his footing and fell from
the top of tlie tender while the engine was
taking water at the tank ten miles from
tills city, and had his collar bone broken.
The third accident occurred at night. A
freight train ran into the service train at
Sargents and the engineer, William Par
nell, had a hand badly crushed. In this
collision but little damage was done to
rolling stock, as only the pilots of the en
gines locked. The wounded men were
brought to this city, and are all getting
along very well. This road has had con
siderable hard luck lately.
IN ALABAMA.
The corn crop in Ilale this year has been
unusually good.
Greensboro has received 0000 bales of
cotton this year.
The Opelika Bank will increase its capi
tal stock on January 1st from $50,000 to
$100,000.
Machinery for the new flouring mill in
Opelika, now approaching completion, has
arrived.
Will Harlsfield, who killed Reed Page,
has been arrested and is now in jail at Co
lumbiana. There is considerable feeling
against him.
Greensboro is tired of too frequent elec
tions, and proposes to elect her city offi
cers every two years instead of annually,
as heretofore.
The Clerks' Association of Birmingham
have elected T. J. Lavery as a delegate to
the National Clerks’ Association, which
convenes in Detroit on the Sth.
Ripe strawberries in Lauderdale county
on the first day of December is something
worth talking about. The berries were
grown near St. Florian. Columbus, Ga.,
can equal it, however, as has been noted.
W. W. Stringfellow has been elected
President of the First National Bank, An
niston. This bank was established by the
late Duncan T. Parker, whose daughter
Mr. Stringfellow married. It has been
one of the most successful banks in Ala
bama.
The barn of W. G. Taylor, near Opelika,
was destroyed by tire on Thursday night.
It contained 500 bushels of corn. Loss,
$1,000. Flem Gardner, a negro, was ar
rested on the charge of setting the place
on fire and was bound over to the Circuit
Court.
Killed a Mountain Lion With Hin Knife.
H. Woods went out to Bullock’s ranch
recently, and from there took a hunting
trip into the mountains the next day
with his shotgun to bring down some
small game. He had not been out long
when he heard a peculiar noise in the
underbrush, and, after some scouting
around, a large-sized mountain lioness
showed up. He had only small shot in
his shells, but as soon as she came in
reach he let loose, and she took the con
tents in her body and dashed up the
mountain.
Woods, thinking that she had a mate,
located himself on a rock where he could
see into the canyon, and, true enough,
in a few moments the lion appeared,
and a monster at that, as large apparent
ly as John Robinson's biggest circus
lion, and he came directly to the spot
where Woods was secreted, and when
within a few feet he got the contents of
the gun in the region of the heart. The
lion rolled down the side of the canyon a
short distance, regained his feet, and
made up an arroyo.
Woods followed him up and soon came
within hearing of the lioness, which was
howling frightfully, and all of a sudden
it emerged from a thicket and dashed at
him, with eyes glaring and mouth wide
open. He emptied the contents of his
shotgun into its mouth, which dazed it
for a moment. Instantly he jerked out
liis sheath knife and as he did so the
lioness sprang for him, but only to re
ceive the blade of the knife into its heart,
and the fierce animal lay dead at Mr.
Woods’feet as the trophy of his hunt.
He did not want any more lioness, but
made his way back to Bullock’s ranch,
but not until he had taken the hide of
his lion, which is now on exhibition,—
Tucson Star.
Murphy’s Long Leap for Life.
John Murphy, a harness maker o!
Cleveland, sat up with a sick friend at
Rocky river and started to walk home
next morning on the Nickel Plate track,
j While crossing the bridge over Rocky
river, which is ninety-two feet above th°
water, he was overtaken hy a passenger
train. He shouted to the engineer and
Started to run, but it was too late. The
shriek of the whistle, the roar of the train
and the trembling of the bridge caused
Murphy to become panicstricken, so
that instead of lying down on the outer
timbers, as he might have done with
perfect safety, he leaped from the bridge
into the chasm below.
The passengers on the train and three
or four persons in the vicinity saw Mur
phy turn over several times in his awful
fall and strike the water, which is only
six feet deep at this point, and supposed
he was killed. The keeper of the boat
house, a short distance below, pulled
rapidly to the spot, found Murphy still
struggling and hauled him into the boat.
He vomited freely, hut quickly recov
ered. and on the arrival of a physician
it was found that, although badly shaken
up and bruised, he had sustained no seri
ous injury.—Cor. Chicago Herald.
About Folding Election Ballots.
If those distinguished New Yorkers
really couldn't fold their ballots accord
ing to the method prescribed by the new
law they may console themselves by
the thought that the greatest minds are
often puzzled by trifles. Newton, who
enunciated the laws of nature, cut a
large hole in his study door for his cat
and a small one for her kittens. Chauu-
cey M. Depew and Abram S. Hewitt
can direct great public interests, hut
cannot fold a little piece of paper. Such
is genius.
As to a Brooklyn gentleman, whe
bears the euphonious title of doctor of
pedagogy, but could not, after repeated
attempts, succeed in folding the ballots
to the satisfaction of the inspectors, his
failure may perhaps have been due to
the fact that he took his learned degree
into the polling place and got tangled
up in its intricacies.—Munsey’s Weekly.
Sending Panoramas Abroad.
A product purely American and prob
ably in the nature of a revelation to the
heathen peoples of England and France,
to whom Steamship Agent Low has just
consigned it, reached here all the way
from Minneapolis a day or two ago by
water. It was a panorama, and as it
was fifty-four feet long it had to be tar
paulined and bolted to the deck of the
steamship Lydian Monarch, as there was
uo room for it in the hold. A single
freight shipment fifty-four feet long is
not to be sneezed at, even if it is only
five feet and a half square in the other
two dimensions, aud this particular big
roll of canvas weighed all of three tons.
The manufacture of panoramas for the
European market is a novel industry of
recent origin. These canvas pictures are
not shown over here at all.—New York
Letter.
Electric Oil Well Brills.
A patent has been granted for an elec
trical drill for oil wells. The device con
sists of a series of motors in tandem,
connected in such a way as to make one
motor. The design has been to get the
power within a six inch diameter, so
that the entire mechanism, which much
resembles a common boiler, can be low
ered in the well, and the power can be
applied at the bottom. The drill bits
are firmly fastened on the rod, which is
worked rapidly in and out of a cylinder,
after the manner of a piston rod.—New
York Telegram.
Women Lasso a Vicious Deer.
R. G. Lanham, a fanner, was attacked
on his farm near Sherman hy a large
buck deer, which escaped from the Bat-
sell park, and gored very badly. Lan-
ham’s wife and daughter came to the
rescue, lariated the animal and tied it
to a tree. This is the second man this
pet has nearly killed with his immense
antlers.—Fort Worth (Tex.) Gazette.
CHRIST IN LIMESTONE.
Horse Sense vs. Fashion.
McAllister—I noticed you kept your
front blinds open all the summer.
Going out of society?
Smith—No; but we concluded that all
the people we really cared to have think
ns out of town were oat of town them
selves.—Puck.
Fauces of Xstnn Carre tbe Faee of the
Saviour in a Marvelous Mauser.
There is a$ present temporarily resid
ing in Alban j* a lady who has in her pos
session a wonderful freak of nature. It
is merely a piece of limestone, bnt carved
most marvelously by the forces of nat
ure into a face—the face of Christ in
death.
To a reporter Mrs. Oliver T. Bacon,
the lady referred to, told the story of her
prized cariosity. Mrs. Bacon said:
“Overhanging the village of Oberam
mergau is a high mountain peak held in
reverence by Hie villagers, who consider
it their guardian angeL After witness
ing the Passion Play of Sept. 12, 1880,
I made the ascent of this mountain. A
few flowers for pressing and two small
bits of rock as souvenirs were taken
near the sranmit, the latter remaining
in my pocket two weeks. Later on,
with a number of curios purchased, a
box was packed and shipped to Georgia.
More than eight years after a fire oc
curred in the Young Men's library,
where the cases were stored.
“In relabeling the curios injured by
water this package containing two peb
bles was uncovered. Although rough
and unhewn, in a certain angle Ruben’s
‘Conception of Christ,’ in death, sud
denly stood out, the drooping month
more drooped, the eyes closed m an eter
nal sorrow; the brow plowed deeply in
furrows of pain, the nostrils grown thin
through lack of breath; the whole face
weary and sorrowful with the weight of
the world's sin.”
Mrs. Bacon is from Atlanta, Ga. After
talking about the curio for some time
she produced a velvet sack. Within the
sack was was a silver case, like a watch
case, and in it was the simple yet won
derful piece of stone. Holding it at a
certain angle the face full of suffering
was easily seen. The freak is truly won
derful. As yet it has only been viewed
by a few persons.
The Rev. S. F. Smith, D. D., author
of “My Country, ’Tis of Thee,” writes
from Newton Center, Mass., Sept. 3,
1890; “The pebble, about half an inch in
length, casually picked up hy Mrs. Ba
con on Mount Christus, near Obenun-
mergau, is a most remarkable freak of
fracture, seeming as if it were the fruit
of design, and the design of a skilled
artist. It requires no effort of imagina
tion to see in it the head of the suffering,
dying Christ, vivid in form and expres
sion. The pebble is only a fragment of
reddish limestone. The curiosity is that
the fracture should exhibit so pathetic
and exact a portrait. Mrs. Bacon sets a
high value on the gem and regards it al
most with reverence. It is certainly re
markable that a little stone, picked up
without selection from the common road
as a mere souvenir of the place and di
rectly following the performance of the
‘Passion Play’ at Oberammergau, should
present so touching a form.”
Of it Bishop Doane said; “I have had
the privilege of seeing the pebble found
hy Mrs. Bacon on Mount Christus, near
Oberammergau. It arrests the atten
tion and arouses the reverent amaze
ment of any one to whom it is shown.
Dr. Smith’s description of it is very ac
curate, and no one, I am sure, can look
upon this curious natural product with
out great interest and wonder.”
Assistant State Geologist Merrill says
concerning the stone: “I have had the
pleasure of seeing the pebble which Mrs.
O. T. Bacon has brought from Oberam-
mergan. and consider it the most re
markable example of accidental resem
blances which I have ever observed in
so small a stone. The material is lime
stone, veined with chert, and the colors
of the two substances contrast in such a
manner as to delineate, with mneh ex
actness, a human face. No tool appears
to have touched it. The surface seems
to be entirely due to fracture and abra
sion.”—Albany Argus.
Reading from Duty.
Possibly, then, one should read from a
sense of duty to others? Never! Never!
Who that is a lover of good hooks has
not been annoyed by the rabble who are
toadies to good hooks? Who put them
in conspicuous places in their conversa
tion as they push the visiting cards of
the upper one hundred into prominence
on their tables? The insufferable, un
warranted conceit of these readers from
duty! Why, a book lover is charmed
into a blessed humility in the presence of
his author, and mentions him in con
versation as one would lift the curtain
of some precious shrine.
And then, though some few can talk
showily as a result of this duty goaded
reading, none can talk to edification.
Usually the conversation of such readers
amounts to this: “Have I read the ‘In
most Revelations of Susy Thrilling?’
Why, of course! Every one reads it,
you know. Gladstone wrote a review of
it, yon know. Let’s see. It came out in
the Seavell Square library, didn’t it?
Number 2,139. Double number, and
forty cents. Splendid, wasn't it?”—New
York Ledger.
One Way of Arresting a Boil.
The first indication of a boil is a slight
itching, followed by a reddish pimple
with a hair in the center. Sometimes
the pulling out of this hair will arrest
the development of the sore. As the
pimple grows the redness extends and
becomes more intense, and the part be
gins to throb with pain. In about five
days it breaks, pus oozes out, the pain
abates, and soon after the dead tissue—
the so called “core”—escapes, followed
by rapid healing. Sometimes no core
appears, nor does the boil suppurate.
This is known as the “blind boil.” It is
very hard and pain rid, and is long in
healing.—Youth’s Companion.
A Natural Picture.
In the church of St. John at Pisa,
Italy, there is a piece of stone heavily
marked with red, blue and yellow spar,
the lines representing an old man with
heavy white beard, with a bell in his
hand, seated beside a small stream. To
the worshipers at St John’s it is known
as the St. Anthony stone, the picture
upon it being a perfect likeness of that
saint even to the minor details of tunic
and bell.—St. Lpota Republic.
An Incident of tbe Wall Street Depression*
A man wearing a slouch hat, ill fitting
clothes and having the general appear
ance of a countryman entered the office
of a prominent Wall street broker.
“Is this here one of the places where
yon buy stocks?” he asked. He was in
formed that it was. No one, however,
was encouraged by his appearance to
make a customer of him. He looked
around curiously for several minutes
and then said: “Well, I came in from
the country to buy some of them cheap
stocks. I read in the papers that Jay
Gould was buying lots of railroads now,
and he’s pretty smart, I guess, and Tm
going to be with him.”
“But you can’t buy less than 100 shares
at a time,” he was told. “All right,” he
replied; “I guess I can stand it if the
rest can.”
“We don’t take checks on out of town
banks,” he was again informed. It was
thought that would settle the matter.
“Well,” he said, “I brought the money
along with me.”
Then began a wondrous display. Bills,
gold and silver coins came out of ono
pocket iifter another. Trousers pockets,
vest pockets, coat pockets, were all filled
with every variety of money. The bills
were of a small denomination, and when
the farmer had emptied his pockets a
! large table was covered with money,
j mostly of very old issue.
| “They told me up country that I’d
j better put money in every pocket, so if
j them pickpockets got the best of mo
they’d only get part of my savings.
I There’s just $7,000. Count and see if
I you don't believe me. Now, you just
j go and buy some of them stocks old
Jay's been buying, and I'll be around in
| abont a month and put my profits in
some more of the stocks. I ain't slow,
yon bet, and I'm in with Gould every
time, don’t you forget it!”—New York
Telegram.
Old Fashioned Watch Chains.
Among the presents showered on
blushing brides this season figures the
old fashioned watch chain, more than a
yard long. After many years of sus
pending watches from chatelaines, from
short chains hanging from a brooch and
from ribbons secured by monograms;
after wearing them in breast pockets or
tucked into the bosoms of dresses with
short chain pendants: after carrying
them in leathern straps or slipped into
the clasp of a bag or using them as deco
rations for the handles of parasols and
umbrellas, card cases and portemonnaies,
as clasps for bracelets or concealed be
neath a miniature in a brooch or behind
the heart of a floral pin—fashion has
gone back to the ancient style of chain
thrown around the neck that our mothers
and grandmothers affected.
The new chains are very fine and gen
erally are divided at intervals of thre©
or four inches hy pearls, turqnoises or
garnets, strung like beads, or by small
diamonds, rabies, sapphires or moon
stones, set clear. As for the watch, it is
hidden in the folds of the dress or car
ried in a side pocket. It is small in size,
and the back should be encircled or en
tirely incrusted with gems similar to
those on the chain.—Paris Cor. Jewelers”
Weekly.
A Co-operative Farm.
S. A. Fetler, of Alabama, says: A
colony of about twenty-five families
from the north, for the most part farm
ers. have recently secured about 3,000
acres of choice farm land in Cullman
county, Ala,, on which to locate a co
operative farm. It is to be organized as a
joint stock company, with a capital stock
of $300,000, limited to 200shares of $'1,000
each. No person can purchase, own or
control more or less than one share of
the capital stock. The labor is to be
performed by themselves and their fami
lies at stipulated wages, the profits to he
distributed as dividends. They propose
to introduce manufactures as soon as
practicable, as they possess a tract of
valuable timber as well as an inexhaust
ible supply of coal. This county is the
only farming territory in any of tho
southern states in which there are no
negroes.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Tartles Eat a Baby.
It is reported that a child was eaten
by turtles in Hangchow, China, a short
time ago. There is a large pool of water
in front of the yamen or the provincial
treasury. In this pool a number of large
turtles are kept, in order, as it is said,
to keep robbers from burrowing into the
vaults of the treasury. Some of the largo
ones have shells that would measure 2
feet by 3 feet or more in width and
length.
People are constantly standing abont
the pool watching them as they come up
to feed or to take breath. One day a
nurse with a child in her arms was
standing there, when the child suddenly
sprang into the water. The turtles soon
gathered around it, tore it to pieces and
devoured it. The nurse Seal.—North
China Herald.
A Child’s Strange Mishap.
Julia Beddick, aged 7 years, met with
a peculiar accident Wednesday after
noon that may cause her death. Tho
little girl was coming home from school
and had a slate pencil about six inches
long in her mouth. As she crossed the
street she fell in such a way that the
pencil was forced through the roof of her
mouth and the point penetrated to tho
base of the skull. She was taken to the
Pennsylvania hospital, where Dr. Leidy
removed the pencil by means of a pair
of forceps. She is now in the hospital in
a dangerous condition and the physi
cians are afraid blood poisoning may set
in.—Philadelphia Times.
Killed by Her Comb.
Mrs. Semmener, wife of a publican at
Watton, Norfolk, met with her death
recently under distressing circum
stances. While ascending a staircase
she fell head foremost to the bottom,
and the teeth of a large ornamental cotub
Ae was wearing were deeply imbedded
and broke off in the skull. Medical aid
was at once procured and the broken
teeth were at once extracted, but death
resulted, owing to the depth of tho
wounds and shock to the system.—Galig-
nani’s Messenger.