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HAMILTON JOURNAL.
THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF HARRIS COUNTY.
VOL XIII.
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Luther's recreation was nine-pins.
Calvin's relaxation was throwing dice.
Frederick the Great w 7 as a breeder of
fine dogs.
lighter kept a pet mouse, a squirrel
and a white spider.
Cardinal Riche Feu amused himself
with a collection of cats.
The 1 mperor Domitian occupied his
leisure in catching tlies
Honorius, one of the Roman emper
ors rt a favorite
hen.
Louis XFs pastime was in the exhibi
tion of dancing pigs oddly dressed,
which were trained.
The studio of l oz i, the painter, was
filled with animals which reminded one
of pictures of Noah's ark.
elisson's only friend in prison was a
tame spider. The keeper killed it one
day, which plunged Felisson into a tit
of grief.
Goethe's pet was a live snake, which
lie kept in a chimney corner, The
companion of Tiberius, the Roman em
peror, w f as also a snake.
( harlemagne's chief pleasure con
si.sted in swimming in a bath, together
with his sons, officers, and others.
harlemagne beat them all at swum
iliing.
Hoyle, the philosophers, great de
light was to watc the exhibition of pup
pet shows. The Cm erformanee of Punch
inello invariably drew him into the
street, and he did not mind standing in
the midst of a shower of rain to wit
it.
Beauty of the Star Sapphire.
[Fhilad *lplra R »cor<l.]
Asteria, or star sapphires, are very
rare and extremely beautiful. They
are of a pale blue, and the faces of their
six-sided prisms are shot with thread
like shafts or veins, which reflect the
light in the form of a star of six rays.
Among the Burdett-Coutts jewels are
two magnificent star sapphires, esti
mated at $150,000.
Notwithstanding the extreme hard
ness of the sapphires, the ancients, who
valued all success in proportion to its
dirticult attainment, and wno like toim
press with their own handiwork the
fairest specimens of nature, have left as
souvenirs of their skill some wonder
fully beautiful engraved sapphires. One
represents a The woman's figure enveloped
in draoery. stone is one used of two
tints, and the aritst skillfully the
dark tint for drapery. the woman and the light
lint for the The gem is among
the crowui jewels of Russia. TheStrozd
eabiuet at liome contains an intaglio
representing the profile of a young tier
eules by Oueins, and in the cabinet of
t ranee is an intaglio profile of the Era
t^ror I erthiax
HAMHilr^SfuA., AUGUST 4,1885.
A Patent “Scratch-My-Ha^k.”
[Louisville Counter-Journal. 1
‘Til give you a house and lot if you’ll
guess what I've got here,” saiu a eiti
z.en , holding up a small package where
three or more citizens had come to
gether on Fourt h avenue. Furiosity
t)eeame citizen intense. said As nobody back-scratch, guessed,
the it was a
and he took it out of the paper. It was
a small artificial hand, doubled as is the
human hand when in the act of allayin'.*
cutaneous irritation, and it had a long
and beautifully spot,” polished said handle, : ^---- “it
will reach any the
he passed it dow r n over his back. •* You
see the ladies can't rub up against a
post, as a man can, and they must have
one of these.” “What fool the in*
von tor is,” remark © 1 on of the squad.
‘ that he doesn't 53 f ver ise it in the
buckwheat-cake season! My stars!
there is a fortune in it;” Then they all
said they would go and buy one.
Tl»e Nut inTv«*j.
[i^a* Mercury.i
The nutmeg tree fourishes near the
equator. It is raised from the nut in
nurseries, where re until the
lifth year, when it puts lorth its f.rst
blossoms. It is then set out perma
viently. The trees are planted thirty
teet apart, in diamond order, The,
begin to bear in the eighth year, mereas
ing for many years, and they pa va
large profit. There is no nutmeg season.
Every day in the year shows buds,
blossoms and fruit, in every stage of
growth to maturity. The nutmeg is a
large and beautiful tree, with thick foil
age, and of a rich green color. The npe
fruit is singularly brilliant. The shell
is glossy black, and the mace it exposes
when it bursts is bright scarlet, making
it one of the most beautiful of the vego
fo, le king 1 ''__
J tM May V* . f orney _ mp 01 ,_ Hul IT ., ftdeip _ h !f ,, T , mes , l
T T have in my mind , while 1 I write ,
a
ccvtain vei> well known hotel man,
who last summer managed one of the
!Ii °st fashiona le resort houses. I nliko
[nc jst of his fellows, he had a keen sym
P^-thy,f°r himself in o 10 t he clnldien. kitchen He unseasonable would go
*
evenings an* manufacture out of gm
s' er < a for ,ke t the oug delectation i ifiea >rown^horses the small and
**ows o.
ne / a .^* ou \ () n a t,ac ^ c °rner
the porch, and he children . , erected a
tower of chairs were having great
^ ea ‘ ,KW ” KUl * l cel e *
lniU;d vised lessor- fortress was Goaded reading to near desper- the .
no,,>e > the savant rushed to
the Loniface, piotesting against the nui
' >ai lc ' e ‘, °, te mau °°kc<l at him
, > dear sir, ,, lie said, quietly,
t‘ iere ls \\ n !' are
5 ° en s of the children. U hy don t you
novo,'
NO. 31.
CliliiMr ftntoua at Taht».
[Cm diflf Mall. I
The Ciueae consider the stoma *h the
source ot intellect mil life, and, therefore
the fattest man goes for the wisest one.
They effe t to believe that foreigners they
mine to China to eat because have
not enough to cat at home. It is eon
side roil a mark of refined politeness meal to
treat a guest or a visitor to a at
any time of the day.
Only those (h in Amen who have fam¬
ilies take their meals at ho ne: the rest
eat at hotels. They usually have two
substantial meals a day-one an hour
after getting up in the morning, the
other l etween ;i and 1 o'clock in the af¬
ternoon. The well-to do class take three
or four meals a da>. < If ten Ito fatlier
alone eats meat, while the rest o the
family have to he sutislied with rice.
Poor families usually get their meal*
from street vendors. 'The well-to-do
ones employ cooks, the latter getting
their degrees and diplomas like men of
Science.
q ho Gelostials use no tablecloths, nap
kill8f knivea, forks, spoons, dishes,
plates or glassware. Instead of nap
kins they use packages of thin, soft
paper, which also serves them for hand
kerchiefs. After using, they throw
them away. Kaeh guest has a saucer,
0 :^r of sticks, a puckage of paper and
* m mute cup, with .^alt-saucer. The
niRnese * women never dine with the
m0Ii Everybody smokes during the
* at i n g G f a formal dinner, and the din
ner is crowned by a story or legend nar
rated by some more or less known ora
t or. n 0 top i c 0 f general interest is dU
0U ssed at such dinners, but a gastrono
m j 8t w j, 0 kll0ws a p a bout the preuarimr
G f f 00( j receives attention,
No Mich »k M.IIton*.
I( lii ttjfo Tlri|f*S.i
of ITofessor research Douglas, Ohina after many years
says has no such
teeming millions as art! usually credited
to her. Two hundred and fifty million*
he thinks about the righ ostium e.
Many of the hill peoples of China at tho
present day are not Chinese at all. The
Chinese civilization and culture are not
purely brought of native growth; their elements
w'ere from western Asia—per¬
haps from the Chinese neighborhood of the Aral
—by the ere they set out for
rbint
« oni *
<
Emperor W ilTiam U years of age;
Bkmarck is II, \ on Moltke will Imj r*:*
in October. ' t the historic group at
\ crsaillies in IhTI, when the empire was
proclaimed, the crown prince is the ouly
One that seems to have any considerable
, t f !,f e .