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BY
ESTABL.ISHF.D lit 185*
C. W. HANCOCK
DEMOCRATIC IN POLITICS AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE SCIENCE. AND GENERAL PROGRESS
Terms: S2 A TEAR IN ADVANCE
nunurea w«««*»,« --
date andfiRnature, is counteAae a word.
YOL. 32.
AMEBICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1885.
NO. 11.
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AMEI1IOIW
:e in Ilawliin.
r Street, In
looking, ;
DAISY’S VISIT.
common-place picture—a
pretty, slender ycung girl seated under
tppy tor too urn ume in
Sue weeks went by nil
and Daisy was snmmoned to hefc great-
aunt’s dressing-room.
"Tho limit of your stay has expired," Queretaro is
Miss McLean said, looking
in greater harmony with her refined
arance; but Clement Ashley’s eyes
itened as they rested upon it, and
—„ yourself?’’ by hills. It was foundod by the Aztecs,
fancy work, which would hare been "Very, Terr much! Daisy answered, i and was captured by the Spaniards in
— t — • - - her sweet voice choking a little. “Itj 1M1. We went to the Hill of Bells.
- invito mol called *“£1 Cooo de las Campaaas.”
! southwest of the city, where Maximil-
, . . condition.: ian was captured and shot The view
I have learned to love you, but my will from tho hill presents to the eye one o!
is made, as I wrote you. It cannot the loveliest panoramas outside the vnl-
v “ — J *vcn to please you. The ley of Mexico. The valley Is broad
irtunc goes to my half- and full of verdure ana large fields of
very worthy young man. j wheat, barley, and alfalfa, and gar-
remain as his wife! I j dens of bright blooming flowers are on
ago thrill stirred his usually i
i-eptiblo heart
•Have I traversed the wide world
and gone unscathed all these
he asked himself, “only t
love, at first sight, with a rustic di
vinity in tho wilds of Yorkshire?”
At the sound of his footsteps tho girl
looked up, with a startled air, the
lovely peach-bloom color deepening
and brightening in her velvety cheeksT
Wbat Daisy Wentworth saw was a
tall, dark young man. of eight-and-
twenty, with a somewhat listless ex
pression upon his fine, handsome face.
tourist’* dress of slrabby-
ill-worn. grey tweed, that
initiated would havo known
have been cut by a West-end
tailor, and carried a small pack slnng
across his broad shoulders.
“May I trouble you for a drink of
iter?" he asked, in a low. mntlenl
► different
ita refined accents
from the rough northern dialect
which sbo was accustomed.
Before Daisy could comply with the
request, tho door „
open, and a hard, strong-featured face,
with beetling black brows and fiery
Daisy’s step-
Mrs. Wentworth
mther-
“Don’t come in here!" sho cried,
brill, acrid voice, glowering angtrily
at the astonished young man. "You
have nothing 1 want in that nasty pack.
I never buy of hawkers. I*m dis
ced with tho whole tribe; and Daisy
“ i— —- ’• —* of temper
trilling and idling. Just
Clement Ashley’s
“My pack only co
strolling artist lit
real Simon rure," a
hawker, with a sera
tache, climbed the s
beg a draught of
l freckled-faced
Daisy’s chocks wore burning hotly,
but sho caught up her print -un-boii-
net, and. bringing a tumbler
pantry-shelf, led the way to l
the rear of the lu
Clement di
proffered, as though
his gazo happened to fall upo
brooch that
was a cameo of considerable
portrait finely and artistically
>t look out of place, though her
“I beg your pardon!” ho
eagerly. “But may I ask where you
got that brooch?”
“It was my mother’s.” Daisy replied;
“that is why I like to wear it.”
“Oh—an heirloom? Can you tell
le anything of Us history?”
“Very little. My mother prized it
ighly. Tho likeness is that of some
eUtive—a great-aunt, I believe."
“Wbat was your mother’s maiden
QLEKETARO.
■ of Maxi mill laa'a
thousand feet
minnicated with him, and he every side. long bills skirt the valley
very willing
range nienL”
Daisy grew very pale. Consent to
marry a inau she had never seen? No,
that would have been impossible, even
heart
. fill all her
other’s image did
be said, sadly. “There
“Wait until'you havo met my heir.
fait until"yoc.
You might change your mind.'
t dazzling tho eye. Near
At last when the good-byes had
been spoken, she groped her way
” * lrm. A gentle *
1 ..... .
looked up, a startled cry broke from
her lips.
“You here! IIow very strange!”
Sho blushed furiously, bnt as the
Vonng man opened his arms Daisy
leaned her beau upon bis shoulder with
heavy sigh.
“Are you glad to see me, darling?”
"Oh, very glad!”
“Then you do love mo a little?”
” ‘ wered, unablo to keep
the brow of this hill we came to the
three monuments marking tho spot
where Maximilian, Miramon, and Me
jia wero shot The monuments <
contained raised letters, in brass, ..
citing the names and particulars of tha
tragedy, bnt the ruthless hand of the
relic seeker or fiend have left bat few
of them to tell the tale. An iron rail
ing surrounds the monuments. One
Mr. Bull took a line sketch of it, and
near by wo cut a cane as a memento of
our visit We met an old soldier at
the spot who was with the Mexicans
under General Kscobcdo, and
emperor shot He pointed on
the place where he was captured, ami
rave us a pathetic accour *
Iv death. He confirmed r _
ticularthc accepted accounts of his
capture and death, and of the treachery
i low laugh.
face beaming with delight.
“You might as well ring for the maid
wraps, my dear!” she
called
Daisy glanced bewildered from the
smiling woman to the handsome lover.
“What does she mean?”
"That you are never going back to
bo abused by your shrewish step
mother,” Clement answered. “For-
trying you so sorely, but
Fatty’? wish. I am her heir.’
BILL NYK ON DUU.NKARDS.
i the matter of temperance, writes
ivil of intemperance will work its owi
destruction when the proper time
comes. Wo may get pretty wqary
waiting for the day of
i. but it is certainly unwise to make
rape ranee obnoxious by
feeding it t
ask them if they havo violated their
solemn obligation. You may convince
■ reasoning human being, but you
ot teach him a great truth by paim
; on any board fence in the civil!
world, and then running him into those
board fonoes till you ha'
despise both you and the causo you rep-
that put him in the bands of tho Mexi
cans. It was through the treachery of
Col. Miguel Lopez that the emperor
vas taken and his forces subsequently
iurrendered to the liberals. Maximif-
tried before a court-martial
and sentenced to bo shot. Persistent
efforts wero mado to save his life. Tho
Princess Salm-Salm is said to have rid-
I*onis l’otosi, the scat of the
republican government, ICO miles dis-
WANTKD TOAD JOUBN.
The old capitol nt Tallahassee was i
me old capitol at Tallahassee was a
picturesque sight. It was built by the
federal government In the old territorial
unknown. It was of brick,
in imitation of stone. Hero and
there the angir storms, indignant at
tho palpable fraud, had torn off por-
garment, leaving thi
tions of the oi
dingy brick exuded. The bnil
stories high, with a basement.
and ornameutod with heavy columned
'~~u tho floor* of which on a
pitch exuded like patrio-
hall. Tho legislature «
stranger sight been .v
of the hall the State sonata was in ses-
on. At the other the house of as-
imbly was incubating, and in the hall
i hold it within
arptoeive Seed* and Trees.
“Speaking About dynamiters," laid
naturalist, H have brought a few
specimens to Rhutrate that feature in
low life—as there are dynamiters in the
lower animal kingdom ns well ns in the
Jdfher, and, curiously enough, wo
might say tins same of the vegetable
kingdom. I remember a few years ago
1 was traveling on a small vessel be
tween some of the West India Islands,
and atone plaoc had purchased a
her of curious seeds, placing them un
der my berth for safe-keeping,
sitting at the small table, hanging on
with both bands, in company with a
negro passenger, when there came an
explosion that sounded as if a barrel of
powder had gone off. Something
whizzed by my face so closely that
felt tho wind, and another projectile
struck mo fall in tho breast. The ne
gro was not so fortunate. He uttered
progress, tho right
those sacred prccim
given by solemn vote ol the assembled
It was an amusing sighL Upon
plain pine tables, grouped around the
halls rested huge dishes of chicken 1
stow and chicken pie. Hanked with
cake, pic, biscuit and other things cal
culated to tempo tho legislative appe
tite. Behind those sat jolly, laughing
“aunties," dressed in cool calico gar
ments, with green Loughs to keep off
-•... • juried by
lond yell as tho sound came, threw
up his hands, and, with tbo blood
spurting from his face, went over back
ward with a crash that brought the
hurry-. Wo pickod him up, and tint he
iwore that Iliad shot him, and then
that I had hit him with a dob, but in a
moment ho recovered from his fright
pd we bogan to investigate..
xal hours uefoi
orrhago could bo stopped. When I
rose from my seat something dropped
> show that
taat, and begged President Juarez __
pardon the adventurer from Miramar.
The government of the United States
was appealed to in vain. None of the
F.nropcan potei
code and Maxii w
comrades in arms, (ions." Miramon and
Mejia, was shot on June ID, 1867. llis
body was subsequently taken to Vienna
for interment. Tho uight before the
emperor’s execution he wroto the fol
lowing letter to his wife, who was then
a maniac, confined in one ol the pal
aces of her father, the king of tho Bel
gians;
flies-olive branch,
black doves, as it were
the journey of tho ark was
peace and plenty eonld be bad. Be
hind a large tab of lemonade a yellow
Venus presidod, and with sednetivo
smiles and a tin dipper beguiled dimes
and picayunes out of thirsty passers-
by. The center of attraction, ltow*
ever, was tho watermelon table, behind
which a stalwart black, knife in hand,
shouted at short intervals: “Yah’s
your nice slice oi walormillion; only
half dime a slice. Walk up gem’men,
an’ try it. Get frum un’er dat table,
you triflin’ pot-lickin' boy, or I'll chop
dis yer knife.”
upon tho cabin floor, and I afterward
■ncked it iip; and wbat do you sappoae
was? Nothing bnt a section ol one
the seed*, and they were the explo
sive*. Iho heat of the cabin had lu
some way affectod them so that they
went off like cartridges, and, as each
i made up of several pieces, it had
lewhattho effect of grape-shot. One
struck the negro
missed my head and shattered a look
ing-glass bohiad me, another struck
curiously enough, took off the handle
Under
children, cute lu their blackness,
romped and gamboled, and through
the halls and out on tbo broad piazzas
young girls, with anus around each
“»hcr's waists, leisurely sauntered, their
ight eyes flashing as they caught the
itood on the table. Four of tho i
didn't go off, and you may be sure I
put them in a strong box. A number
admiring glauces of»
Jarlotta: If God
ill loom the cruelty
•To My Belo\
ever permits you
theso line*, you v
of my fate which ha* notccascd t ...
sue me since your departure for Eu
rope. You carried witn you my soul
and my happiness. Why did I not lis
ten to you? So many erents, alaid so
many unexpected and unmerited catas
trophic* have overwhelmed mo that I
have no more hope in my heart, and I
await death as a delivering angel. I
die without agony. I shall fall with
glory, like a soldier, like a conquering
king. If yon have not the power to
bear so much suffering, if Goa soon re
unites us, 1 shall bless the Divine and
paternal hand which has so rudely
n
i ribbon*.
casian. Old moth,
little group* disc
question in theology, while their strong-
halves crowded tho legislature m
n-mouthed and awesome wonder at
eloquence and learning there di-
played. _ There was a prolusion
joy and laugh u
Near the waicrniuion table a quartet of
•l'Py yutto* K'ri* '» a low mob
ous voice the song of the Method!*
convert The song was not loudunough
*o disturb the legislature or to be heard
cry far away, but to tho young nortli-
m invalid, leaning against a huge pil-
gazin*
stricken u
Adieu! adieu! Thy poor
Alas, poor Maximilian!
.Atho spot where he
could not resist the temptation to pity
foam and foolishness for the amuse-
histliug along thu lane.
put together a few sentencosof sense
surprise tho public with, he would bo
kled to doatb to cooo around after
office hours and write me a few without
But it was not ou the subject of tem
perance itself that I started out to
speak. I desired to propound to the
readers of tho Inglttidc a conundrum
quory. It is this: Why is it that
lulling
• That dreadful
nas ocen scouting you again.-
“I deserved it, uo doubt”
“Why don’t you leave her? Have
yon no relatives to whom you could
go?”
Daisy shook her pretty head.
“There is only the great-aunt of
horn I spoke this morning—and I
an’t even know where to tiud her.”
ipposo y.
hunt mo up and converse with mm till
The girls'
cheeks
iir,” she
frightened, littl.
idden. But I took a likiug to yon i
No. i
-you
lalize what
lightly printed a kiss on her right
shoulder.
Ume. Edmond Adam grew rosy
indignation and slapped tho general'!
laughing at me!” cried Daisy, running
away and hiding herself, wit'
tions singularly blended of rap'
Daisy
face.
This did not trouble him in tho least,
ne bowed again with inlinite respect
and, with a gesture of admirablo 'fa-
price?" And
of a privilege she arrogated to her
self, immediately
ilvcmonth. He kissed his
helped her into a ricketty vehicle, and
away through, the
farmhou
black-
mithy. and a dinner oflialf raw steak
’President Cleveland has perfectly
lovely eyea,” remarked a Louisville ao-
dety belle rcsterday, who Isjost back
umetbiug; of t
Tho above solemn chunk of ph
by was written for mo by a w
ersonal friend, who told me that
got tired of writing mere froth and
his sad fate, in spito of the fact that be
was a usurper. We had seen the gild
ed coach in which he and his beloved
Carlotta had driven in triumph over
the wido pascos of tho City of Cortez;
wo bad paced up and down tho marble
portico of the grand palace of Chapul-
tcpcc, where the eye of tho ea
could take in the grandest and
magnificent panorama in tho western
world; wo had seen his medals and
decorations, his plato and his portrai
exhibition in a Mexican m
, ind wo stood on the spot water
ed by hia blood, and where his last ex
piring breath had gone np to the Great
Others, bolt upright in their
scats munched peanut*,* U» the droa-
coiu pun intent ol the reading
Judin of all n
pitied him,
had power
pitied him, awl we pitied the man who
because the idea of hunting me
up and associating with me does not
man until he is very, very
'Tlowever this may bo, it is Indeed
•hilly day when 1 do not spend an hour
drunk, politically drunk, orstorically
drunk, admirably drunk, critically
drunk, disorderly drunk, ornamentally
drunk, or just simply drunk.
itched the changing Scene.
The Her. Scipio Pahua. member from
Dug Out, was growing terribly mipa-
ftcut. Never to him had tho ression
I repeat again: Wi
him and send him
back to his dear Carlotta, and would
not do it. In the language ot
Richard McShcrry: “Ho died like
hero. He had done Ids best to redeem
fallen country, but had failed.
the three
brow of the hill,
think: He
but wbat he woi
left before ndjou
l getting $10
think: He was a usurper, but bad 1
lived, ho might have doue much fi
Mexico. Hut God knows best,, and he
evolve good from
ho dared i
illion, <
»eo Cor. llaUiinorr Auvrirc
Tbo Cossacks of “
he fifteenth and si
sore governci l by i
instead of occurring i
vnl*. took place whei
oetorUtically primitive. When the
lution to have them concealed about
bis person, but in the first stage of his
by a “free fight.” betw*
bauch. He generally finds
and be sails up to where 1 am and be-
shield aboru thu heads *
in token of his official *
inauguration
that a great deal of my time Ls taken
smearing his face v
ip conversing with parties who meet
COMPRISES FOUR PREPARATIONS.
LIVER, HEART AND KIDNEY TONIC
For torpid fiver and Kidneys and !*al-
BL00D PCRIFIER.
For Scrofula and Dio (j Taints.
DRAIN TONIC.
Fer Epileptic Fltl and other Convulsions,
DIARRHOEA MIXTURE,
For Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Ac.
Manufactured at K South Broad SL At-
Janta,Gx, and sold by Annalists generally.
general, but after a very few days they
wore a much different appearance un
der her management; ana when sum
mer came, the old farmhouse had been
transformed into a bright little home,
all aglow with the tokens of a woman'*
presence. To be sore it was lonelv
ove the very solitude. °
'Uncle Angus.” sho said, toiemnlv,
like this place. 1 mean to stay here
oversaw. They glisten like pearls.
SEEDS
II kinds. Garden and FlowerSreds and
Handle them Fresh and Reliable
SEED fOSIPM
’ Call and See Us.
J. &-&D.F. DAVENPORT.
AMERICUS, CA.
ing manner imaginable. Ills cheeks
are rosy, too, ana he has a bce-o-tifnl
dimple in his chin, to aay nothing ot a
superb moustache and a hand aa soft
and white as a woman’s. All in all,
he is a very handsome man. and just
tbo sort of a man to keep the women
at his feet lie knows bis powers of
fascinations well, and he is as vain
_ may go?" she cried, in tin eager,
pleading tone.
Mrs. Wentworth frowned, bnt eon-
Wben Daisy’s preparations were all
made, and she was about setting out
upon her journey, Mrs. Wentworth
said—
“That will suit roe well enough."
said Uncle Angus. “Hut it ain’t likely,
c fellow will coinc and snap you
“Now I want yon to speak a good
ord for Joanna. She ain’t no rela
tion of Miss McLean’s, to be Bare, but
tho old miser might send her a few
dresses and j#’
might sen
w bwoIs, am
Take everything tka
yon, Daisy, and when you <
I'll di ' *
I presumo fifteen hundred men have
held me by tho hand and swore that
everything they had was at my service.
Money, clothes, houses, jewelry,
anything else they had was none
good for me. Then they would wring
my hand again and start to go away,
trot they would always return and talk
some more, and when I would swoon
and fall over they would reluctantly go
away. When I ventured to remind
them the next day of their kind offer to
supply me with lands they most gener
ally fall to call it to mind. Sometimes
they ask me in a* Injured tone of vote*
if I expected to hold a man responsible
for all the promises be makes to the in-
dergynaan.
A good story about the Arion ball is
told oy a New* York correspondent: A
well-known man in tho lieau monde
fell a victim early in the ev
charm* ol • particularly fascinating about three hours,
little siren. Hi* devotion continued
all the evening, bnt th
numerable common fools he meets
while drank.
So i desire . _
lie way that on and after this date I
MiUiccnt laughed.
’•There are no -fellows’ here." said
a. “Unless you count Ostler Jack, at
the ‘Eoclofeehan Arms,’ or Daft Sun
il v, that goes about playing the bag-
?Jncle Angus said notuing. He only
laughed a—* *~ J1
“le he easily impressed by women?".
That night s*
roused the quiet hou*bold to active life.
An accident on the railway which ran
by the bouse scarcely a quarter of
down.”—Louisville Commercial.
An Alabama Judge said: fTho de-
sndant Is -net responsible for taking
the victim's life, lor be was a peculiar
rowd o
atcly all but o
far uninjured
... ._ be able to resume their - journey
next morning, but that one for days
lay unconscious of all that was trans
piring around him, iu Angus Carlyle's
house. And one morning in the yel
low glow of early autnmu. bo seemed
onco more to emergo out of r - **
led obscurity of fe *
real world arain.
sort of a fellow and should hare died
anyway.” He is almost as bad as tho
Arkansaw Judge Who’shlfl! “Gentle-
men of the inm 1 am rind to eee tlkl
yon find a verdict of net guilty, /nbe
dead man in this case playod base-ball
and therefore, under tboetatata*, ought
to have died.”—Arkansaw Traveler.
Well preserved shark’s teeth hare
een taken from an artesian woll 1,200
feet deep at ItainbrMgc, Ga.
give notice in this pub-
. and after this d ' *
shall not hold any more open-air
: startled by the mag-
where Miss Mo-
nificeuce of tL> hi
Lean resided.
Her great-aunt, a wrinkled old lady
in bl*ck velvet and lace, welcomed her
with a kiss.
“Yon have your moth;
••Oh.” cried Daisy, eagerly, “do yon
remember my mother?"
••Certainly. I used to wish sho wai
a boy. that I might leave her mj
money. Bnt girls are not of mud
consequence In this world. I had lost
all traoe of poor Ethel. And so Silas
Wentworth is dead? He was a good
»*•» hat sadly wanting la energy.
“How did you And me. Aunt r
•vThat’a a uwrrt ” chuckled t
mnnications with common drunkards,
and, as I want to be perfectly fair and
just toward all. Iam willing to bind
mysstf in a similar way not to try to
convene ititb sober people while I may
he drunk. Now, If there be anything
unfair or unreasonable about this prop-
~ am willing to alter it, so that
aa find fanlt with it I want
to do exactly what la right and I do
not require anything whatever of oth
ers that I am not pwieetiy willing my-
Aooording to a late decision of tho
Illinois Supreme Court a “hoe, in le
gal significance, le a deadly
t having b
[lad wiS a
article of that kind.
tontrary to the i»r'.c
ltuunilic* which, a
e Beat the Old Man.
upon the presentation
$100 bill, to let him know
name and address, reque*
the same time to make a note ol the
number of the bilL Wcdncsdi
unfortunate snau received the I
Ing epistle: "Rear Papa—I i
dreadfully hard up tld* month.
I keep your nice new bank uol.
* Your aftiectionate dai
’ Signiug
S od. man’s >oui
nghtcr. I saw t
was dispatched, am. — —
knowledge doe* not go. but 1 would be
and handsome
e again.
-STrnmi
that the larky parent
bank
If, as the social philosophers insist
is aa iatimate coanactioi *
i the price of wheat and the
generally a provisiou connected with
that could be heard nearly a mile; in
this case the frost was the cause. There
certain insects bore great holes in the
bark of trees rain finds Its way in and
freezes, and away goes tho tree as if
you had placed a torpedo in it theming
what the expansivo power of water win
I'hiladclphia Timet.
his health, and his French physician.
Dr. Tholozaa, it ever within call, so
that the unfortunate doctor is as great
a gadabout as bis roaster. His Majesty
irniuri idiotic*:
•euibly tin
ment. His habits of lifo l__ . ...
his diet plain roasts and boiled. The
King is an early riser, 4 or 6 a. m. be
tas usual time in Summer. This
long day, but bo breaks it
rives hit
by a sics
drunk that ho could hardly I
ong day,
iesta. It is the royal habit when
tired to bo shampooed by bis atten
dants, and it is thought i
—J indignity
for a high official to be told to asust in
the kneading process. Shampooing is
and glossy, he de-
* that ilk, and being able
was in grave tronble.
; lover of watermelon.
whils l.o could bear
■fusion ol the (estival,
s though
• bis service*
nturc. Still
-ry. “Wat.
leaping t
top of h
mTdfrei
■e: "Mu tab
Out has the floor.
whopper.
head as ho glanced anxiously at the
recogni _
energy. “Mistah Speakab, I moves
tall, thin'white
ing his long forefinger
•Ii’ rTP ‘
, m Scipio, said:
sincerely hope that the gentleman
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measure now pending before the house.
• Yes; I think that we* will be able
to close the contemplated debate '
about three hours. I tee no cause
the gentleman’s excessive scitalion.
although, of course, he should bo deep
ly interested in It, as it is a measure for
the amelioration of the condition of his
one?" from tbo corridor.
The hair on the bead of the Rev.
Scipio stood straight up. ••Gorra
mighty,” said lie. shaking I
iber; “does yon lica’ dat?
tj here eff you wante-
bat I is gwinter dejoura right now,
—* - •edouti
and. seizing his hat, he bolted out of
’»# room, and soon was up ’ ’
i a luscious melon.—-V. Y.
Something to Think About.
At birth tho mean length of boys
inches, and of girls, Inches.
Growth is most rapid immediately
them is aa intimate connection be- until sixteen years ol ago the annual
growth is S 1-6'inches; during the next
year, 1J inches; and daring the next
be more prolific ol matrimony than
aay similar period for a long time, for
the erep of food grains has been large
beyond all precedent, and unless unex
pected circumstances intervene
price will be correspondingly low.—o*.
Le*U UMo-Vemoermt. .
A LouisYillo r—11 boot, ol Mm totooroito .id to
1used ln Washington in proportion
peare in tho zenith of his glory. I cou ° lr7 -
. years 1 inch only.
Tka average height ot a man 1ms
been estimated at 6 feet 4 incites.
A man is taller in the morning than at
night by half aa lack, and in
tbo variation ~
r down the hatch in a
•The man had been struck fairly la
blow so powerful that it
pitcher, or monkey cooler, that
Royalty “at Table."
The King of Persia is very careful of
real art, and is carried out
fic perfection by some of Ills Majesty's
more confidential servants. Tbo chisf
barber is a man high in office.
At 12 o’clock the royal breakfast is
served. It is a solitary meal. The
King is squatting on the ground; some
fifty dishes are set before him. HU
Majesty select* tho simplest, and
quenches hU thirst with buttermilk or
iced sherbets, which are served in
delicioas profusion in magnificent
china bowls. Dead silenco is observed
by tho few favored courtiers who stand
around tho wall* of tho apartments.
The royal butlers silently hand the
•arious dishc*. As tho lung eats he
iddrcssc* those whom ho may deirn to
lon'or with his notice, and those fortu-
late ones bow low and answer in
mmble affirmatives, “May 1 bo your
Asylum of thu Universe. So
‘It faappeued exactly as Your
Majesty ordained,” and so'on. The
‘ ind of language is used by tbo
I*rlncos in addressing thoir
and they would not |>re»ume to
t to hit iu tho royal presence;
in Persia no son would sit in bis
i pn'senee unless ordered to do
i is more due filial respect
The Kin
On I.
lick the platters clcai
m-s it.* mouth and wi|*w
n golden bowl, and then
o uieal is served to the
; them it goes lo
stly tliu royal far-
litermlly
oval din-
bout ‘J p. iu.. is n rape it-
of tho
It alniOhtJnipoWiblv at times to
properly regulate the tnui[ierntiira.
Frequently the licnt on a particularly
cold night would boenmaso unbearable
the crowded daucing-hall that
iug open thu window*. Tills of ct>ur»e,
allowed the wintry draught* to p.ay
about the nocks and arm* of the ladies
rore decollete eoytiimos. Iu very
-room have Inch directly allr
vtosure. T ho ladioi of tho p
‘ o physicians say.
ifuE to wrap up thoroughly when
they step from the healed hall to tho
A rido of two blocks on a
bail-room costume, with loose wraps.
society women wear, has often
induced on attack which was soon at-
idod with fatal consequences. The
sedo it- The frequent changes iu the
temjwraluru during a single day make
a ebaugo from heavy to tight clothing
particular J
ilarly dangerous.
“JJonel. Sockvlllc West," writes a
Washington correspondent, “is of mid
dle height, with inconspicuous features,
a pair of large, sad bine eyes, and a
look so wearied ami ttored that it can
>nly jwocecd fi
less ennui. He is of middle age. quite
bald, and slightly grayi H i* court
dress is noted as the most heavily en
riched among the legations. It f> e
where the doth W visible is in the b«ek.
t is an inch, or even t
San Francisco gets 900,000 bananas a
month from the Sandwich Islands. The
number oi bananas on a bunch average
110, and thsy bring in that city at
The President’s mouu.-eript is zahVto
be positively painful to decipher. -.Tbo '
style is sharp and detdsiVe. and many,
ot the Won!* end m’tnnrksTiial are lit
tle more than nervous shake* or the
hand. He write* with almost a telc-
grapuer’* rapidity.
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The most delicate watch wheels .
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