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THE MONROE J
VOL. XL.
Good horses »ro cheaper in Homo
parts of tho West now than dogs in the
East.
Pro lessor McCook of rr-.v y Col
lego, has been closely 8 ^.ffg Amer
c.an tramps, and finds them enviably
able-bodied.
Tho Jnpun Diet lias authorized a
loan of $15,000,000 to Korea. A little
government that can carry on a big
war arid loan money at tho same time
isn't exactly an object of pity, thinks
tho »St. Louis Star-Hayings.
George T. Angell of tho American
Humane Society of Boston is agitat¬
ing in favor of n system of govern
inent inspection of persons supposed
to bo dead in order that the fact may
bo definitely established before tho
funeral.
'1 ho growth of bicycling in France
lias caused a very serious fall in the
price of horses in Paris and tho large
cities and towns of the It public. Tho
horse dealers arc complaining bitterly
but, tho government Las pointed out
that it run do nothing toward giving
them aid Li stemming tho bicycle
tide.
It seems likely that one of the most
important benefits to civilization of
Stanley’s African expedition will be
tho introduction of African tnnho gf»ny
to western comm roe. There is even
How a flourishing trade in this wood,
which is sold more cheaply in the
United States than it formerly was in
Liverpool.
i'iio New England Homestead says;
•—The decrease in human consumption
lias been very marked during tho past
ten or twenty years. The doctors at¬
tribute this to bettor modes of life.
Now the vets have the nerve to say
that thin gratifying decrease would
liuvo been far larger but for bovina
consumption—a position that utterlw
bogs the question ! Less killing, lossy
injecting, cfticiousnoss less yawp from vets, less]
from the whole gang o,
inspectors, less expense for faucyj
salaries, less lying by the daily papers
—lUGfo. coiumwkgetretv-mu» -cdttea
tion of fnrmers upon tho dangers of
ill-ventilated stables and want of exer
cise by cows, more prevention, more
sanitation: these are the needs of the
dairy.
Fur some time past a distinct feel¬
ing of animosity toward Great Uritaiu
has been evidenced by a large section
of the German press and the Elbe dis¬
aster has been tho occasion for a dis
play of Anglophobia, according io tho
New York Sun, which says: “l’he
Jvreuz Zeitung led the onslaught with
a highly prejudiced article in which
it w«» claimeil lh,t tho oat.otropho 1 lm,
shown that the English have a brutal
disregard tor other people’s rights,
tho blame of the collision entirely
falling, according to the Kicuz
lung on the British steamer Ural hie.
Other newspapers followed with severe
denunciations of the Urnthie, cmbel
lisbed with a shower of abuse
England, i, , , aud . the statement a a . appeared ,
in some of the newspapers, and re
mains uncontradicted, that the cm
peror, on receiving lull particulars of
the collision,characterized the conduct
of the Crathie as ruffiauly and inhir
man.”
Indian Camp, whore the
hospital for lepers has been estab¬
lished, is on the Mississippi river aud
nud in the parish of Iberville.
main building is n lino old plantation
house that was the seat of a generous
hospitality before the war. Gardens
and woods extend ou all sides of it
aud tho scenery is Arcadian, With
eight cottages included, there are HO
comniodations for 109 lepers, but the
present colony is mueU smaller, vic¬
tims of the disease showing but little
disposition to put themselves under
the care of the state. The health of
fleers have always fouud the task of
isolating lepers a difficult one. The
last time an attempt was made to in¬
spect a settlement ou Bayou La¬
fourche the lepers fled to swamps and
there was no reaching them. The an
nouncemeut of the authorities that the
btftto hospital now open has tilled the
unfortunate Mctuns everywhere with
dread and it will be necessary to take
mauy of them to Iberville by force.
The inhabitants of this parish are also
making the duty of the hospital stall
uupleasaut, refusing to supply the pa
tients with food, which, in couse
quence, is brought direct from New
Orleans. Moreover * ’ the sorvnnt*
the institution . have been warned
they will be shot should they
outside the hospital grounds. It
the intention of t the (. uuti' . ion > ies t
make the colony so attractive that
ihe end all the lepers of the state
Come in and pH) themselves
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FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GA UE8DAY MORNING, APRII j 23, 1895.
A A I SI ON Of BEAI T1
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CORK, IRELAND, ITS HISTORY
AND ASSOCIATIONS.
11hh the Fluent Harbor In A11 Kurope r ** c
-Legend of the I ar-Famed Shandon
Helia — Patrick Street, n Leading
T boron fg h fa re - H istorlc Places,
On the Green Isle.
It has been said that a few minarets
placed in the hanging gardens around
the eity of Cork, li-elahd, Certain would real
ize the Bosphorus. it is that a
fairer vision of noble and quiet beauty
than is disclosed on approaching ilm
city from the sea is seldom seen The
wooded and grass-covered heights, the
beautiful lawns and villas, the anion
did country scats of the Wealthy and
here aud there a hoary castle or church
tower rising into tho heavens combine
to make a picture of surpassing love¬
liness. The harbor is the finest in
Europe and within it all the navies of
tli»> world might ride.
'i lx* city until recent years was the
second in Ireland, but it now imuks
third in importance. The county, of
which Cork is the capital, in the early
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history of Ireland was a separate
kingdom, including, however, a con¬
siderable tract in Kerry and Limerick
It was ruled over by tlic MacCurthys.
The territory was confiscated by Hon
E^Uuxl, M W B iLabert being Kltz divided StO
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The . cl™ of Cork boasts of a high
antiquity, li is supposed to have been
built by tin* Danes in the sixth century
and the city walls were built by the
Danes in the ninth century and after¬
ward repaired by John, the coward
King of England. In 1690 Cork en¬
dured a siege by the Duke of Marl¬
borough with a force of 10,000 foot
and 12,000 horse, The river Lee al
most encircles the town aud is span¬
ned by nine bridges.
Legend of the Shandon Bells,
One of the famous places in the city
is the Church of St. Anne Sliandon,
famous for its sweet-toned bells, whose
music has been celebrated b.v Father
1>ro,,t ' The legend of these bells is in
» Swlss b f
maket made them fora church on the
shores of Lake Geneva, and thinking
always to enjoy them resolved to make
,ll<>IU his masterpiece in the art. The
"ere finished and hung in the
tower, and every day the bell-maker
enjoyed their wondrous sweet music
But after a time came conquest and
s l )() bation. The sweet chime of hells
'T 88 b ° rn ° l, v lhe vict0 ™, aud
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the , bell-maker 1 1 was almost , lieart-brok
on . At j ast he resolved that he must
iiiul them, and set out on his search,
going from country tp eouutry and
city to city In his long and fruitless
search. At last, grown old and weary,
he had arrived at Cork one golden
summer evening, where he had heard
there was a sweet chime of bells. He
paid a boatman to row him out on the
rlvor Lee > hoping against hope that
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the search of years was at lasf to be
rewarded. As the sun was slowlv set
ting, and the brooding quiet of a smn
mer evening descending upon . the
Ev«X
p 0:Uman suspended his stroke not to
miss a note of their wondrous music,
After the chimes had ceased he looked
at his solitar - v passenger who had au
parently fallen asleep with an expres¬
sion of happiness and rest upon his
face. The bell-maker had falleu
asleep to the sweet music of his own
l° v °d bells. He was dead.
Historic Places.
(A short distance from Cork iu the
0 j d burial ground of the ruined clmrch
of Clonmel the ashes of Tobin, author
ot “The Honeymoon,” and of Rev.
Charles Wolfe.the anthor*of the Burial
j 0 i )n Moore, a lyric that almost
rivals Gray’s immortal elegy in
pathos and simplicity and also in pop
nbn-iiy. *.b—p *i<l« by ride. Cluyne,
near Cnrlt. wm* one HUhop
It whi frvtn U»l<
departure his ? or America that he wrote
poem, whose last stanza begins
with the famous line:
“Westward the course of empire tikes
its trav.’’
Myrtle Grove, Youghal, where Sir
Walter Raleigh once lived aud in the
° f ^.T ! he P ° et SpenS f
conversed with his patron host, is onlv
n short distance from Cork. Here the
first potatoes were planted in Ireland.
Another interesting place in the neigh
borhood is Castletownroclie, where
Edmund Burke, the Demosthenes tf
m °dern oratory, attended school. In
tbc immediate neighborhood at KS1
colraaa U'astle Spenser lived and wrote
three books " f “ The Faerie Qiiecue.”
111 the neighboring county of Water
ford Lismore Castle, one of the seats
of tho Dl,ko of Devonshire. It is built
0P e f l A e °f a " ft “ cient University to
ttnd * 1, ! , ch Which , 1 £ , ? ed the Great attended went to by study 4,000
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Feathers Plucked by the Wind.
The man with the wisp-broom goatee
crossed Ids logs and remarked:
“I never seed such wind ns we had
In the State of Kansas last summer.”
“Blow your born away?” asked the
landlord, sympathetically.
“Not much. Barn blowed into the
next county last April.”
“House, mebbe?”
“Lost the house ’long in June. Kited
over cast about three miles, aud lit in
Cherry Creek. Didn’t mind that sc
much,” he continued, “got ’em back and
anchored 'em again all right, but along
about July 1 we got to havin’ real
breezy weather.”
The landlord said nothing, and the
group around the hotel stove prudently
followed Ills example.
“The 9th day of last July,” continued
the stranger, after a reflective pause,
“there come up the doggondest wind 1
ever see in the State of Kansas. When
it began to blow my bantam rooster
was just flapping his wings to crow.”
“Did it blow the crow out of him?”
inquired the stableman jocosely.
“Gentlemen,” said the man with the
wisp-broom goatee Impressively, not
heeding the interruption, “before that
bird had done crowing every livin'
feather on Ids fJody was blowed clean
off.”
“Leave tlie pinfeathers?” asked the
landlord, skeptically.
“Yes, sir. Left the pinfeathers, and
II tlvr.ee minutes along came a streak
ring aud singed that
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Detroit Free Press.
Municipal Pawnshops.
The movement for state regulation
pawnshops received its great impetus
from Savonarola, who liberated tlie
Florentines from oppression and gave
them popular Institutions. Through
his instrumentality they were estab¬
lished in the principal towns of Italy,
aud spread throughout Europe. The
first inont de piete in France was
started at Avignon in 1577, and still ex¬
ists. Their establshment in the Neth¬
erlands dates from the sixteenth cen
tury. A Spanish priest, Don Fran¬
cisco Piquer, founded the mont de
piete of Madrid In 1705, starting with
tlie modest capital of five pence, which
he found in the offertory box he had
placed in tlie church to receive contri¬
butions for the institution. By tlie
end of the seventeenth century there
were moats de piete, formed more or
less after the Italian model, in most
countries of Europe. The character¬
istics of the original institutions re¬
main with those of to-day, although
they have long since ceased to be under
the influence of the churches, The
main object. Which Savonarola and
other early founders had in view—the
protection of the poor from usurers
and their relief in periods of distivss—
is still maintained, and the monts de
piete in all Latin countries are asso
dated with public charities and hospi
tals.
Flying Under Water.
When the penguin iu the London
Zoological Gardens is fed. the fish are
thrown into the water, aud the bird,
which cannot fly in air or swim on the
surface of the water at once plunges
in. aud is transformed into a swift and
beautiful creature, beaded with glob
ules of quicksilver, where the air clings
to the close feathers, and flying
through the clear and waveless depths
with arrowy speed and powers of turn
ing far greater than iu any known
form of aerial flight. The rapid and
steady strokes of the wings are exactly
similar to those of the air birds, while
the feet float straight out. level with
its body, unused for propulsion, or
even as rudders, aud as little needed
in its progress as those of a wild duck
when ou the wing. The twists and
turns necessary to follow the active
little fish are made wholly by the
strokes of one wing and the cessation
of movement in the other: and the fish
are chased, caught, and swallowed
without the slightest relaxation of
| speed, quite in rapid a submarine that flight of which birds is
* as as most
which take their prey iu midair,
She Learned Differently.
Vicar (severely, to bis cook)—Mary,
you had a soldier to supper last night.
Cook—Yes, sir: he's my brother.
| Vicar—But you told me you had no
| brother.
Cook—So I thought, sir, until
preached last Sundav and told us we
xve re all brothers and sisters.-London
Tit-Bits.
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Owes It to Others Literally.
“Bilkeu modestly declares lie owes
the immense fortune he has accurnu
luted all to others.”
“Yes. the money was made chiefly by
HUken’s failure* In burine**
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DISAPPEARING B, ERIES.
The Importance of Mechanical In¬
genuity in Modern Warfare,
Great guns and heavy armor will be
only incidentals in the next great war.
Mechanical ingenuity in matters of
off* use and defense is being expended
in many other lines of fully equal im
porta nee, and a vast array of war ap¬
paratus. iu which even the civilian
must be interested, is being put iu readi
ness for action should the demand for
it suddenly come. Not the least inter
csting product of military inventive
genius is the disappearing gun carriage,
of which no ciul of modifications have
been proposed aud in part executed
during the past decade, though the
principle of the apparatus was applied
to its specific purpose much longer ago
than may be generally supposed. The
first arrangement of disappearing gun
and carriage, mounted in a circular pit,
seems to have been made ion Jamestown
Island, in Virginia, in the year 1S<51,
during tlie great civil war, a conical pit
having been dug in which an 8-inch gun
was mounted. The piece was so placed
on a platform at the bottom of the pit
that, when pivoting, the muzzle was
just clear of the ground. In this way
an all-round tire was made possible,
In 1801 and 1802 guns mounted at sev¬
eral points wore similarly treated, but
the pits were dug deep enough to admit
of embrasures. Mr. Beverly Kennon,
then in the confederate service, has
been credited with the design of this
early contrivance and also with that of
a counterpoise battery, perfected after
lie had entered the Egyptian service
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DISAPPEARING GIN CARRIAGE.
several years later as colonel of coast
defenses. This later battery, it would
appear, was sunk entirely below the sur¬
face of the ground, and its guns, maga¬
zines and garrison were always out of
harm’s way except during the few sec¬
onds when the gun was raised above
t he ground level to be trained and fired.
Practical test during the bombardment
of Alexandria in 1882 conclusively dem¬
onstrated the value of this arrauge
“'jgnr ex it seems, strange fhat the
appearing batteries were accorded
something like their just measure of
consideration, and foreign powers par¬
ticularly seemed to suddenly find In
them advantages well worth securing,
so that now they are well recognized
means of defense, likely to perform im¬
portant service in any international un¬
pleasantnesses which may require the
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OUT OF SIGHT.
exercise of force of arms.—Cassier’s
Magazine.
Interesting to Collectors.
Nowadays there are collectors of
everything collectable, from a postage
stamp to a beetle, but the list is not
yet exhausted. Iu Taris they ::re col¬
lecting posters—the large sheets posted
on walls for advertising purposes. The
French posters are some of them gen
nine works of art. The drawing of the
cuts used iu their illustration is very
bold, and the colors are handled well.
although sometimes in a very startling
manner. Usually the size of the poster
is large, but there is very seldom any
nttempt made to show a complicated
design. A broad sketchy effect and a
dazzling display of color are their chief
points. Some of the best artists in
France design for the lithographer.
There are places in Paris where r>ost
ers are bought and sold, aud the best
examples cost from 60 cents up. Post
ers without any lettering are those
thought most desirable for collectors,
and cost about ten times as much as
the others. Rare examples frequently
command fancy prices. Much of the
work is admirable, and the artist is not
ashamed to affix his signature to it.
No better example of the extreme to
which this art has been carried could
be found than tbe Poster Exhibition,
which has been held at Brussels. A
special building was given up to it.
and people paid their admission fee.
wandering about through the differ
ent examples critically, just as we
would at an art exhibition,
The Cannon of Crimean Days.
The cannon of Crimean Days were
| I crudest momlte d construction; „„ wooden the carriages recoil was of
controlled, but merely limited by
. stout breeching-rope. Elevation aud
training were given by moving
gun and carriage by common wooden
handspikes, aud the gun was run out.
after being loaded, by side tackles.
> Every operation was performed by
simple and direct application of
ual labor, and the number of men told
oft to work a thirty-two pounder gun
of uot more lhau Tbm * ton * wei S ht
fourteen, and they all had hard work
to perform. With the modern gun
more than double tbe weight just
Vgnn the number of men are required.
captain, or number one. aims and
: fires, and. unassisted, elevates and
} trains the gun with tlie greatest of
■ und nicety up to tht moment
j th* g*jy h>h» out &ubPS6ti¥«l!|!
recoil. The only operation th: re¬
qfiires any expenditure of force is the
actual loading of the gun, aud that is
reduced to a minimum
A VENOM-SPITTING REPTILE.
T,1C Deadly Cobra Equipped to Do
Hattie at Long Range,
G. R. O’Reilly writes some very in
teresting facts about the cobra, the
deadliest of all snakes. He asserts
that it is able to squirt its venom from
the ground to the height of a man's
face; So nervous is the cobra that it
will strike at a moving object before
it has come within its reach. It is very
wasteful of its venom,
Mr. O’Reilly was first convinced of
the venom-spitting habit of the cobra
by this incident: “One day. being
alone iu the bush, I saw a cobra band
ed with black and white. He was in
an open glade, gliding through the
herbage, delaying a little perhapit for
an opportunity to get at some birds
that were chattering and hopping
about on the branches of a thorny,
yellow-blossomed acacia. The sun was
blazing down fiercely on him, as, with
half-distended hood held close to the
ground, he slowly passed through the
leaves and flowers. For a few minutes
I watched Ids movements through my
binocular glass; but fearing he might
notice me aud escape in some hole, I
picked up my six-foot hunting stick
and rushed toward him, intending to
press his head to the ground with ir,
and then take him by the neck with
my hand. He saw me coming, and
like a valiant warrior that knew his
power lie faced around and stood erect
with expanded hood and quivering
tongue ready to receive me. His bright
black eyes sparkled with energetic de¬
fiance. and every fibre of his being was
electrified with excitement.
“While I was yet ten feet away he
struck toward me with such force that
the impetus carried him flat to the
ground. In trying to get my stick
across his neck he dodged it, and it
came instead across the middle of his
body. At this moment he was be¬
tween me aud the sun, with about five
feet between his face and mine. I
looked into his eyes and held him down
firmly. His rage seemed redoubled.
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cobra’s head, showing mouth exposed
He leaned backward to make a more
vigorous dash at me, and as he struck
forward the mouth partially opened,
and two tiny streams of venom shot
from his feints us from & syringe, one
of iligii] catching me on the face just
beneath the eye. Had it gone a little
higher up I should have been blinded
for months, and perhaps had my sight
permanently injured.
“This unexpected attack made me
ha sten the capture; so, getting his neck
1 messed down to the ground with the
stick, I soon had him grasped in my
hand just behind the head in such a
way that he couldn’t possibly turn ly
bite me—which he made every effort to
<lo for some minutes afterward. Talc
iug him home with much satisfaction,
I made him thereafter my fellow
lodger. While living in his cage I ob¬
served him many times squirt the
venom from his fangs against the glass
of its front. Thenceforth my doubts
about spitting snakes were removed.”
The cobra is also remarkable for its
habit of raising almost the entire body
upright before striking. When anger
ed that part of its body behind tlie
neck swells in a very alarming manner,
This is caused by the upper ribs, from
the head downward for five or six inch
es or more, spreading themselves out
laterally. The cobra’s poison fangs
project beyond the lower lip when it
strikes, so that it can injure fatally
without biting.
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Work Their May.
Some of the forty or fifty State agri
cultural colleges make special provis
iou for students wishing to work their
way through college. Such students
work daily on the experimental coi
,e » e f arm au<1 receive current wages.
There are many free scholarships In
these colleges, aud board and lodging
are cheap, so that a working student
finds that his labor goes far toward
paying his way. 'tutoring pays better,
however, and very clever men some¬
times earn from $1,000 to $1,500 per
year in helping through their duller
fellows. Such opportunities, however,
are found only in the great college?,
and are few. At one of these institu¬
tions one successful young lawyer, of
New York City, is said to have earned
$2,000 in a single year tutoring while
yet an undergraduate.
Poor Business Instinct.
Irate Landlady—I want you to take
back that folding bed you sold me, and
I want my money back. One of my
boarders smothered to death in it and
he owed me a week’s board.
Furniture Dealer—Madame, you have
no business sense. If you were in the
habit of making your boarders pay a
mon th in advance you would have been
awav ahead.—Cincinnati Tribune,
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The Boston Lady.
•Shall I clean the snow off. madam?”
asked the little boy of a Boston lady.
“No,” she replied, severely, “you’d far
better go to school and learn that it is
tlie pavement and not the snow that is
! to be cleaned off.”—Harper’s Bazar,
'l’he water of tbe Dead Sea yields
about two pound* to th* gallon of »*Bth*
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BOSTON’S BLIND ARCHITECT.
lic Is Also a Printer, uml Has lie*
signed a Number of Buildings.
The architect who designed the ‘plans
for tile library aud natural history
building, the Howe building, and a
number of tenements belonging to the
Perkins Institution, and the Massachu¬
setts School for the Blind. Boston, is
himself a pupil of the school and to¬
tally blind. He also designed the
plans for the kindergarten for the
blind. IPs name is Dennis Reardon.
Mr. Reardon saw as well as any one
till he was !> years of age. Then his
sight failed partially. lie attended
the school and recovered it in a meas¬
ure. but, when 29 years of age. lie lost
it entirely. lit' is now a middle-aged
nmn. pleasant faced, a singularly
pleasing manner and an interesting,
well-informed conversationalist.
“First I get ilie idea of what 1 want
in my head," lie said, speaking of his
work to a Boston Post reporter.
“Then 1 draw the plan in raised liners
I do not get the correct measurement,
but the plan 1 have assists me in ex¬
plaining to a draughtsman. 1 give him
the figures and then he draws the plan
with the Correct measurements.”
He showed the reporter a plan for
tenement houses. Running his linger
lightly over the raised lines, he ex¬
plained where the bay window was,
how far it was to project, the folding
doors, closets. So - retimes, instead of
raised lines, he us pins and a string
in a pin cushion, lie says he does not
read as rapidly as those who have been
educated to it from childhood. Adults
seldom grow so proficient as children
who have grown up in the school. Mr.
Reardon is also foreman in the print
ing room which furnishes all the books
and reading material for the blind in
tlie institution and also the books con
tained in the public library m Boston,
Fall River, Providence, Portland, and
many other New England cities. The
only charges made are those for trails
portatiou. Their large printing busl
ness has outgrown their room and an
addition Is needed very badly. They
are trying to save enough to enlarge
their quarters, and no doubt, with a
little aid from the friends of tlie insti¬
tution. it could soon be accomplished.
His next work will be the plan for the
annex.
Human Sacrifices in Russia.
It is probably known to few people
lhat the practice of sacrificing human
lives under certain conditions stil! ex¬
ists in certain parts of the empire of
Russia. The government and the or
,, lliodox church , , , have attemped , . .
m vain
to stop the Inhuman practice, but up to
Bpe they have been unsue
eessful. Revel^ffohs regarc
tom was made in recent issues of the
Gazette of Yakootsk, Siberia. It pre¬
vails among a sect known as the Tskuk
shen, not far from the city. Old peo
pie, beyond the Biblical limit as to age,
and sick ones, tired of life, offer
selves as the sacrifices.
^ hoii *i r I slmksliG decides to u offor
himself up, he sends word to all his
relatives, friends and neighbors, who
then visit him and try to persuade him
to change his intentions. But prayers,
upbraidings, threats, are useless in
such a case, and the fanatic prepares
for liis end. The friends and relatives
leave his house and return in ten to
fifteen days, bringing the death
date white clothing and several weap
ons, with which he is supposed to de
fend himself in the other world against
evil spirits and to shoot reindeer.
After completing his death toilet the
candidate takes his place in a corner
of his house or hut. About him gather
his relatives, who offer him the choice
of three instruments of death, u knife,
a spear, and a rope. If he chooses a
knife, two friends hold his arms, while
a third plunges the blade into his
breast. Practically tlie same thing is
done if he decides to die by the spear.
When he prefers the rope, two of those
present place it about liis neck and
strangle him to death. A cut is then
made in the breast to let the blood flow
out. All those present sprinkle their
faces and bands with the blood, believ
ing that it will preserve them from evil,
and bring them fortune,
The body, after this ceremony, is
placed on a sled, which is drawn by a
reindeer, to the “cremation hill,”
the village. The neck of the animal is
C ut at once upon arrival at the place,
The body is stripped of clothing, which
j s then cut iu small pieces, aud placed
ou the altar with the dead man or
woman. During the cremation
mourners utter prayers to the spirits,
begging them to watch over those mor
t als still left on earth. This custom
has been followed by the sect for cen
turies.
Wanted to Use It.
“John.” said the man who had been
abused by the newspaper, “will you be
using your football suit to-morrow?”
“Why, of course,” replied his son. “Well,
hurry up aud get through with it.
I’m going over to demand satisfaction
of the editor, and I think maybe it’ll be
a good idea for me to wear it.”—Ex¬
change.
Primus—Dalton’s sight has become
strangely affected, poor fellow. He
sees everything double. Seeundu.s—
By Jove! I’m glad you mentioned ir.
I owe him a pound, and I’ll tender iiim
this half sov.—Tit-Bits.
M itherby— I forgot my latch-key last
night, and when I came home I couldn’t
get in. so 1 had to wait until the fam¬
ily got up. Plankingtou—How long
was it. old man? About half an hour
New York World.
A man will trust bis wife to take care
•f his children, but he won't trust her
n lbe care of his prize chicken#
Of course we don’t know what it i*
to ps»* a nip** ‘o (be tomb, but we
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Ceylon has ladies’ cricket olubs.
Dogs are the favorite jiets of Mrs.
Gladstone.
Mrs. Olipliant has written seventy* ,
eight novels.
Denmark has an insurance company
for “old maids.”
English women are taller than their
American sisters.
No unmarried woman iu Armenia
may speak to a man.
The list of society women who are
writing novels is extending.
Hetty Green has $60,000,000, but
is said to live on $7 a week.
Mrs. John J. Ingalls is said to bo
oue of the best cooks in Atchison,
Ivan.
The new ribbons are in small checks,
amt hair lines, aud in pretty, delicate
colors.
Wedding cake has been moro gener¬
ously distributed'this season than ever
before.
There is no reason to believo inter¬
national mnrriages are going out of
fashion.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt is muni¬
ficent in her charities and untiring in
her good works.
The shirt waist is so numerous as to
entirely negative tho rumor that it is
not to be popular.
Boston girls are accused, by a Bus¬
ton newspaper of wearing paste dia
m onds to tlio opera,
Russia has five female astronomers
who have submitted papers to tho
Academy of Sciences.
There is a new button made ap¬
parently of twisted wire, with a large
stone ball in the center.
Miss Anna Shaw, D. D., says tho
^est to address , , audience ,. . to ,
way an is
talk as if you were scolding your hus
band.
A few courageous women, tired of
iho lorgnette, have adopted the mon¬
ocle as it is worn by certain London
women.
It is considered bad form to correct
T) U tIer who mispronounces your
name in ma kj ng drawing-room an
nouncement.
A fashionable dress designer in tho
End of London is computed to
B)ake 0]J m ay between ®25,000
and $80,000 a year
sprays and sf a clear ground,
and greatly improve the appearance
of a poor complexion.
The wife of Prime Minister Orispi,
of Italy, is an ardent lover of cigar
^H es » and enjoys puffing a cloud
whenever she is disengaged.
Oolhirottos ftncl movftolo uorthfts ot
tho same variety of mateiials arc in
all shapes and sizes and as plenty and
pretty as fancy can picture,
Almost every bodice of recent date,
for evening dresses and walking gowns
alike, has a pouched front, whioh con
ceals the waist line and overhangs the
skirt.
Women’s Foreign Missionary
Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Chuich has issued over 5,000,000
pages of missionary literature during
1894.
When the wash gown has a round
wa i s t sleeves are bishop shape, made
ver y fuR, and are most becoming to
roun( ied arms when three-quarter
lengths.
The chief exponents of music in
Japan are women. Most men would
consider that they were making them¬
selves ridiculous by playing or sing¬
ing in society.
The Countess Castellane, nee Gould,
at one time attended the fashionable
ladies’ school at Ogontz, near Phila¬
delphia, and was noted for her pranks
and violation of the rules.
As President of the Bed Cross So¬
ciety, the Due d’Aumale has received
$5000 from a woman who wishes her
name kept secret, for the relief of the
wounded in the French Madagascar
expedition.
A Mr. Clark, of Calcutta, says that
the prevailing impression as to tho
life of woman in India is entirely er¬
roneous, and that the women there en¬
joy quite as much liberty as their
English sisters.
The gloves most fashionably worn
with dressy street toilets are white or
pearl-tinted dressed kid, but beige
tints are worn when they harmonize
with the dress, and in beige the un¬
dressed kid is the best choice.
“Throatlets” formed by garlands of
artificial roses, violets or chrysanthe¬
mums are the next thing after the
rage of the wrinkled stock of satin or
velvet. Are you fair and young enough
to wear one, girls? Try it, but be
wary.
One of the newest patterns in or¬
gandies is in wide stripes of plain
color with floral stripes between.
Still others show the plain colored
stripes, lined with white stripes upon
stripes, divided by floral designs in
vine patterns.
A San Francisco girl, disappointed
in love five years ago, has built a
cabin in the woods on the Upper Sal¬
mon River and lives alone. She is an
expert hunter and has raised a pair of
grizzly bears, which are very affec¬
tionate toward her.
The manufacturers of laundered
shirt waists are showing a larger as¬
sortment gplors and
shapes thaiy a t ftn y time since their in
trodnetio# ojf,the [ n to the fashionable world.
Some «toull checks are very
clear pretty, and c»nnct,
eially made * dftwy N
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