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Btei OFTHE AZTECS. people AND! PRACTICES |N SOUTHERN MEXICO. T fUl Pyramid la Found Covered ^Itastio HleroslyP h, «*- Thousa,MU ***£ A don> It* Interior A Corre- irondert.il Experience. ^Loondont of the City of Mexico > Sica states that he has discov- * -uliar people in the extreme 4 portion of Mexico whom he Hf*e,liethe remnant of tlie great lTCS ce who formerly inhabited the I* 3Jib southwestern country. -I am at present, to the best ^Imlgnient. about 150 miles south- * f theValenque ruins, but whether k state of Chi upas or Tabasco, or in '•^public of Guatemala, I am unable tf fccsme lost in the tropical forest, comiiiR to a l>eaten path, he fol- jt uu til he found himself in a | fl | town, whose inhabitants were *Tjy diileri iit from those he had ever "toWico. in customs, dresa, houses, ** ‘ , ;U d language. These people Clam fora Gi*L He savs: “1 fronted to the east and VI to the sun. They seemed to un- i>y it that 1 it wtu for whom rL, thoir forefathers had waited, htlie center of a double line of priests, 5* my servants behind me, I was es- ffrtfd to a large truncated py/amid Jv-jj, hithertofore had been obscured L my sight by the vegetation. The Hilt mass of rock, which I afterwards im ], covered several acres of land, J'Ja perpendicular height of 150 feet. truncated apex being fully 200* w gqiuire. A broad staircase leads from ®^ g rournl to the two largo temples sur- loundng it. The othor three sides are Jpem] with anaglyphs sculptured in ^shapely way, but speaking*a record of —rs. This monster pyramid is inclosed riih a high fence of solid masonry, and flopped with a peculiar network of ser- pnts. Witliiu it are two mammoth one Jtoiy buildings of block granite, covered fitli fantastic hieroglyplu. Thousands of ikull* in separate niches adorn their inner ijde»—being, in a word, veritable Gol plii-is- These are the charnel bouses viicre for centuries the heads of the victims of festal sacrifices have been inhered. 1 was, with my servants, taken to one die of the pyramid, which was pierced itli a tunned. In this opening we were led by the priests. Our way was lighted kj cocoa nut shell lamps, which revealed toiu other tunuels branching from the «e wo were traversing. About midway of the pyramids, I should judge, we came into a spacious vaulted chamber which ns brilliantly illuminated from the roof, which was many feet above us. About tiie room wore scattered instruments Dade cf copper not known to me. The vails were lined with discs of precious metals, studded with emeralds and other •ones common to the Aztec period. Manifesting that I wa3 hungry, I was turprised to see a priest step to the center of toe chamber and in a modulated voice wue a number of commands. In a mo ment afterwards there appeared upon a tojijir table without any one being near it&'xculiarly shell shaped server loaded wish fruit. The table was supported by only one leg. and how the fruit readied its destination without lx'ing placed there by human hands is a mystery. My mojios were badly scared by what tad occurred since we entered the town wul they did not relinquish their vigil- ■Mce for a moment and eyed one another curiously after the fruit feat. I must say that I was astonished, but j» r ing before seen such magical doings it did nut impress me with such awe. though it did cause me surprise. My a sign I told the priests I desired to be alono with my men. Great was m J astonishment when one of them led toe to a highly polished piece of metel •ad indicated to mo that by placing my hinds upon it 1 could whe-a I desired wth see and communicate with them by ♦igns. He touched his fingers, by way of explanation, to it and the whole town ^as pictured upon the metal. I saw about the streets, which were laid Out tnth due precision tothecnrdinal points, inhabitants offering up prayers with ♦heir heads inclined to the east. I mo- boned to the priest to have them arise. He spoke into an aperture near at hand to a whisper, but a voice, which must have been echoed in thunder tones from •a instrument on the outside, was heard to its re ver bat ions through the pyramid btonel to our chamber. The people •nose. x The priest, with many bows, conducted toe to a ball that hung in mid air in the central part of the elmmber. He put it w toy ear. I stepped back ainazea. The S? » 'J 8 ®* R thousand voices I heard in J®e brief moment that I had the pecu- towiy constructed-globe to my ear. non Uisft , oon 1 was positive in my belief to»t the Aztecs were the masters of elec- “tohy; that they controlled the electri cs currents in the air, which did tlu ir better than our system of wires, to one corner of the room I saw- a large Ian ln i? 0 * 1 there appeared to be earth, .approached it, but was warned away «/,' e Ptoest, who indicated to me that t touched it 1 would die. I understood that it was the great posi- J t , "h'tery that worked in connection vjto the earth negative. No liquids or ye connected it with any place... *hJLi e ftby my priest friends, who ^eu out of the great hall backwards, win, A . r hands projecting on a level ir e,r heads toward me. . mozosi whose ignorance of science denart lenx 8u P er stitious, as soon as the taW i Q of the white robed men had Dt-wj 8 ’ heseeched me to leave the at once, but I protested against to att a mc >ve, believing it worth our lives g^Pt it so soon. I explained the bro them to wait a dav or danger ^ 4 . W0 °H deliver them from •teenohfi? they agreed with me. I *°Uowi , beep my promise on the ^twesUn .T* a ^ cr we had seen many ’ j fun ^ 81 ghts. *Pts A totended to release my serv- shances • ® ^Towing day and take these strange people, who, lm av . Winced, are the last of the Aztecs, fcoetnu to fnthom their secrets and rate the mystery of Plato’s Atlantis Stanley’* Peculiar Views. The great explorer Stanley has some peculiar views on the subject of woman ly characteristics which will doubtless be quite as interesting to the average reader as the report of his latest explora tions. According to a letter written by him just before his last departure, and published in The Woman’s Cycle, he seems to prefer encountering a jungle tiger or a Kaffir warrior dressed in a Btring of beads to meeting a soft voiced, tender faced woman, lor, as he expresses it, “Women appear to me so soft, so very unlike (at least what I have seen) the rude type of mankind, that one soon feels when talking to them that he must soften his speech and drawl or affect a singular articulation lest offense be taken whore none was intended. Hence men arc seldom sincere to women. “1 am absolutely uncomfortable when speaking to a woman unless she is such a rare one that she will let me hear some common 6ense. The fact is, I can’t talk to women. ’ In their presence I am just as much of a hypocrite as any other man, and it galls me that I must act and be affected and parody myself for no other reason but because I think, with other men, that to speak or act other wise would not be appreciated. It is such a false position that I do uot care to put myself into it.” Stanley is quite a traveler, but there is an undiscovered country he has never explored, whose labyrinth he has never threaded, whose mystical, intricate river courses he has never traced, whose mountains of inspiration and valleys of despair he has never measured, and which might prove as difficult of in vasion, as wonderful in revelation as the interior of the Dark Continent, and that is the heart of a woman, for he says further: “For the life of me I cannot sit still a moment when anything approach ing to love comes on the tapis.” One woman friend only has this peculiar man of fame to whom tie can speak, for “af ter the first few minutes of strangeness have gone she soon leta you know that shaff won’t do,” and he concludes his singular letter by sending to this friend a message: “Please say a hearty friend wishes her daily enjoyment of her life.’’ SLEEPING CAR PORTERS. SOMETHING OF THIS WELL KNOWN STUDENT OF HUMAN NATURE. LIZARDS itiAl luVl uiuoto. Men He Has Received Tips from—Talmage as a Liberal and Sociable Passenger—Jay Gould Don’t Give Up Freely—The Por ter’s Experience In Europe. A row of white metal buttons, a black or yellow face, a haughty air, a tip; or, perchance there be few travelers abroad, the sSme buttons, the same face, bull no mein of haughtiness, no tip. Thus has been described the sleeping car porter of America. He isn’t such a bad fellow, after all. He is a good judge of human nature, and when his almost unliniited experience in casual study of it is con sidered there can be no wonder that the sleeping car porter looks with disdain upon that which makes greater men stare: that he is sometimes curt in man ner and at others surly. When cuirt he is out of patience: when surly he lias rid den 400 miles without a sign of a tip and with the loes of a half dozen towels and a pillowslip. These the poor fellow must account for, lie well knows, and with nothing of recompense from the weary traveler, whose every beck and call he has answered until his legs are going back on him, it is no wonder that he i3 sour and that his answers to the trouble some old lady’s many demands are lack ing in spirit and fully unsatisfactory to j They Followed a Whistling Student Until Scared Off ljy a Peasant. As is well kmwn, lizards of all colors i and sizes abound in Italy. They lie bask- j ing on all the stones, they run along all I the walls, they peep out at every chink [ and crevice; but as soon as they hear the faintest noise they disappear with light ning speed, and it is bard to see them near and to observe them closely. Walk ing carelessly and noticing the dear little animals, darting now here, now there, 1 remembered the Greek statue of Apollo Sauroktonos, who is always represented as busied with a lizard—Apollo, god of the sun and of music. “Suppose I try,” I thought, and softly, quite softly, I began to whistle a dreamy old German air, and behold! a lizard lies still jis though rooted to the spot, raising its little head in a listening attitude and looking at me with his sharp little eyes. Without stirring 1 continued my melody. The lizard came nearer and nearer, and at last approached quite close, always listening and forgetting all his fears. As 6oon, however, as the whistler made the slightest movement it vanished into some crevice, but to peep forth again a mo ment after and to listen once more, as though entirely entranced. A delightful discovery, and one of which 1 extended the field of observation daily. At last as many as eight or nine of these little music lovers would sit around me in the most comio attitudes. Nay, two of them, a mother and its the fussy bunch of femininity, who young one, would sit awaiting me as I uuvi Keacue. OneSaturc •: night two men employed | at a saw mi' in Albemarle county, Va., j named Clark Sutherland and A. Martin, j started to go to their homes near North ; Garden, distant about seven miles. They were both mounted, Martin having be hind him a nephew of the former, about 10 years of age. The night was intensely dark. Their course lay across Hardware I river, an ugly, turbulent, rocky stream, j dangerous at any time to cross. On this occasion it was swollen from the frequent ! rains that bad fallen. When they came ! to the ford Martin, with the boy, was in t advance. His borse bad hardly entered the stream when he stumbled over one ] of the many large rocks that lay in their course, and in trying to recover himself j he entirely lost his footing and submerged both his riders. Sutherland had not yet entered the stream, as his horse had become unman- , ageabla, and from the darkness could ; not tell what had occurred. Martin, j after some time, managed to get out, i and not until ho reached the shore did ■ Sutherland learn what had happened, j and that his nephew was being washed ‘ down stream. He only waited to hear ; that the boy was still in the water when, j with the rapidity of a deer (Sutherland j is a strong, athletic, courageous young j man), he sprang down the ride of the stream, calling to the boy, but not until he had run about half a mile did he re ceive a response so feeble as to be hardly heard. He plunged into the water at a point THE GOLDEN LAND. The Thankless Hoggar, An interesting anecdote is related by the “Yugend Freunde" of King Alphouso X, surnamed “The Wise,” who succeeded to the throne of Leon and Castille in 1252. On leering that his pages neg lected to ask the divine blessing before partaking of their daily meals, he was deeply grieved and sought diligently to point out to them the evil of this omis sion. At length he succeeded in finding a plan. He invited the pages of his court to ‘dine with him. A bountiful repast was spread, and when they were all as sembled around the table the king gave a signal that all was in readiness for them to begin. They all enjoyed the rich feast, but not one remembered to ask God’s blessing on his food. Just then, unexpectedly to the thought less guests, entered a poor, ragged beg gar, who unceremoniously seated him splf at the royal table, and.ate and drank .undisturbed, to his heart’s content Em prise and astonishment were depicted on every countenance. The pages looked first at the king, then gazed upon the audacious intruder, expecting momentarily that his majesty would give ordexs to havo him removed from the tablo. Alphonso, however, kept silence; while the beggar, unabashed by the presence of royalty, ate all ho de sired. When his hunger and thirst were appeased he rose and without a word of thanks departed from the palace. “What a despicable, mean fellow!’’ cried the boys. Catmly the good king rose, and, with much earnestness, said: “Boys, bolder and more audacious than this beggar have you all heen. Every day you sit down to a table supplied by the bounty of your heavenly lather, yet you ask not his blessing, and leave it without expressing to him your gratitude. Yes, each and all of you should be heartily ashamed of your conduct, which was far worse than was the poor beg gar’s.”—The Little Christian. would ask the porter to fan her all day and never put up a cent. The old porter—not the sallow, greasy fellow who Rtands at the end of his car for the first week or month or year—but the old porter, the fellow whose locks have become gray in the service, can tell many an interesting story between the hundred fragmentary remarks to inquir ing passengers while the train lies in the station just before going out on its run. He remembers all about the great men he has looked after in his day; he can tell you to a half number the size of this president’s boot or that governor’s shoe; he can tell you what the company is making on this run or that run if you ask him in a confidential way; he knows a green traveler when he sees him, and can spot a man who was never in a sleeper before the moment he rests his eyes on him; lie knows the newly mar ried couple as they pass sheepishly up the aisle and- cast blushing glances at each other. Just before 9 o’clock most any evening one can find young and old sleeping car porters in plenty at the Union depot. There are numbers of them there as early as 5 in tlie afternoon, but in order to see the bid fellows in tlie greatest number it is well to bo on hand after 8 o’clock. ; If you catch one of the old porters in a bright mood at this time aud ask him the name of the richest man he ever waited on in a sleeper-he will promptly say Jay Gould. The great rail road magnate does not ride in a common sleeper with the herd of earth any more, but be used to, and there are few of the real old porters now running who did not black the famous financiers shoes and brush his clothes some time or other, l>efore the great Gould had risen to his preseut greatness. The question at once arises, “Was Gould a liberal passenger?” The old porter would answer emphatic ally that ho was not. The Brooklyn diviue, Rev. T. Do Witt Talmage, is a general favorite with sleep ing car porters the continent over. This good old gentleman travels a groat deal in filling his lecture dates, and ho fre quently finds it necessary to rest his weary bones on one of tho bunks of a sleeper. Before turning in ho always makes it a point to get acquainted with the porter and have a merry chat with him. When he arises in the morning lie gives his large shoes a careful looking over, smiles one of those broad smiles of his, and if the porter happens to lie about he rc-members him. If the porter isn’t handy tlie great divino looks him up and cdlls liis attention to the fact that he is about to be tipped. Talmage, like arrived whistling at the same hour of day. sitting on a large stone, under which was probably their home. With these, too, I made some further experiments. After having made music to them for awhile I cautiously went a few steps fur ther, whistling on in soft, drawling tones, such as I had found they best loved to hear, and see, verily, they followod me! Watching them with intense interest, 1 continued to whistle as I walked on slowly, halting every few paces and being silent while I halted, and truly the little creatures followed, slowly, it is true, but in a straight line, at a distance of about fifteen steps, until at last, un happily, the heavy tread of a peasant put them to Right. But my experience had lasted long enough to make me under stand the Apollo Sauroktonos, and I once more reverenoed the keen native obser vation of those old Hellenes. Besides this, the legend of the “Ratcatcher of blamdin” suddenly became much more credible.—Leisure Hours. Tho Othor Way. A well known Chicago attorney tells a good one anent the quick wit and ready tongue of that, brilliant lawyer, the late Emery A. Storrs. It was after the ven erable Justice Skates had left the Illinois supreme bench. The justice had specu lated a good deal and had been unfor tunate. He had been sued to recover certain claims, judgment had been en tered against him, and attachments against his property had been taken out. But none of his property could be found and the attachments remained unsatis fied. On account of the prominence of the justice, the case was well lmowii among lawyers. Not long afterward Mr. Storrs was defending a heavy at tachment suit, and tlie lawyer on the other side took occasion to cite a certain decision of the Illinois supreme court in support of liis position. Storrs was on his feet in a moment. “Whose decision is that? ’ he asked. “It was written by Justice Skates,” replied the other attor ney. “Well,” said the witty Storrs, ‘“Skates on attachments’ may be all right, but attachments on Skates ain’t worth a cent!”—Chicago Herald. A Lesson in Spelling. Pay great attention I What does this spell—Ghoughphtheightteau? Well, ac cording to the following rule it spells—it spells— Do you give it up? It spells po tato, viz.—gh stand for p, as you will find from the last letters in liiccpugh; ough for o, as in dough; phth stands for t, as phthisis; eigh stands for a, as in neighbor; tte stands for t, as in gazette, and eau stands for o, as in beau. Thus you have p-o-t-a-t-o. Who will give another?—Yenowine’s News. The Upper Berth. A Pullman sleeper oonduotor: Every body who wants a berth in a sleeper wants the lower berth. I have been in the employ of the company for fourteen years, and I have never yet had an appli cation for an upper berth. Of course, tho upper berth is not so easy of access as the lower, but if you don’t mind climb ing to the upper berth you will at once admit, after the night is over, that it is the more comfortable of the two. The ventilation is better and you are not so close to the rumbling noise. You are more private than you are in a lower berth, and in case of accident you have a chance of coming out on top. In hot weather the upper berth is cooler than tho lower. The lower berth, as you know, is made up from the cushioned seats, which are of warm material. I have never known a man to fall out of an upper berth. Ill ink if the company would make a dif ference of a half dollar in favor of the upper berth it would soon be in demand. But I believe the Pullman oompany never makes any difference in the charges.—Chicago Tribune. Tbo Electric Piano. I have been asked dozens of times if the new invention that plays the piano by an electrical attachment will not de crease the number of students of piano playing when it comes to be generally known. I think not. The electric piano plays just os well as can possibly bo done with hands and fingers, and all the ex pression and all the accuracy are there. Whon tlie heavens are drearily shrouded With clouds and wintry chx>m, • I dream of a land that is coidon With sunshine and summer bloom, *■ And thru the eioudu nml the darkness, JOka mist, roll awuy from mine eyes. And I bee, ln ita beauty and splendor. Tbs land of the golden skies) And so, though life's roses have perished In storms of wintry years. Though sunshine has turned into darkness, ~"l And pleasure to pain and tears, I dream of skies that are cloudless. Of ptistco, and of heavenly rest. And 1 see, in a glorious vision. The golden Land of the Blest! —Charles W. Hubncr, in Philadelphia News. in tho neighborhood to onter. Only in tent, however, on saving tho lad, ho thought not of his own danger, and. in the shortest possible time reached the nearly drowned aad freaen child, whom he bore in his arms to the shore. The first words of the little fellow after re covering his speeeh wmk “Uncle Clark, I knew you would save me, and not let me drown,”—Philadelphia Frees. The Dimensions of Heaven. The following calculations, based on a text in Revelations, is both curious and interesting. It is copied from The Charlottesville Jeffersonian, and will bo found good food for reflection: Revela tions xxi, 16: “And he measured the city (tho New Jerusalem) with a reed, 12,000 furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height are equal.” Twelve thousand furlongs—7,920,000 feet, which, being cubed, is 943,088,000,- 000,000,000,000,000,000 cubic feet, and half of which we will reserve for the throne of God and the court of heaven, half of the balance streets, and the re mainder divided by 4,096, the cubical feet in the room, 16 feet square and 16 feet high, will be 80,843,750,000,000 rooms. We will now suppose the world always did and always will contain 900,000,000 of inhabitants, and that a generation will where it was more dangerous than any last thirty and one-third years—2,700,- Hlstory of tka Fork. I* seems clear enough, is the light of negative evidesee, that the few forks in cluded ia the silverware cf the middle ages ware not used as forks are used to day. Siaoe kitohen forks served as spits and for holding roasts, it is probable that the high born lord* and kdiee of those times, who only appear to have possessed these instruments, used their silver- forks for toasting their bread at the breakfast room fire. There is some direst evidence that they were employed to hoki gub- stanoes particularly disagreeable or in convenient to handle, as toasted oheese, which would leave an unpleasant smell; or sticky sugared dainties, or soft fruits, the juice of which would stein the fin gers. Only one incident related of the use of the fork in the Nineteenth century fashion. This was by a noble lady oi Byzantium who had married a doge oi Venice, and continued in that city to eat after her own custom, cutting her meat very finely up and ooaveying it to hei mouth with a two pronged fork. The act was regarded in Venice, according to Pietrus Damian us, as a sign of exces sive luxury and extreme effeminacy. It suggests a probability that the fashion of eating with forks originated at the imperial court of Byzantium and thence extended to the west. Some hundreds of years had stiil to pew before it could be domiciliated in Europe, for this doge’s Byzantine wife lived in the Eleventh century, while the fashion cf eating with forks did not become general till the Seventeenth century.—Exchange. 000,000,000 persons. Then suppose there were 11,230 such worlds, equal to this in number of inhabitants and duration of years—then there would be a room 16 feet long, 16 feet wide and 16 feet high for each person, and room to spare. •: z i .1 But nevertheless it is not the skilled many peat men who occasionally get j }>ian4Bt with intelligent fingers and aym- off to themselves where tliey are either j ^ athot . c face wh J k the not known or not recognized, stoops to , |X llsic> ^ ono ^ with * adi 8- b tacking. One wants to see the person who is mak ing the musio. Tho invention, I suppose, will be used largely in concerts, where several pianos ore needed and good time must be kept, and it may do much good in teaching. But nothing mechanical can ever take the place of the trained piano musician.—Pianist in St. Louis Globe-Democrat. How Ho Spelled It. Jessie—Don’t you agree with me, Mr. Doodleigh, that Miss Jiltem is the most artless of girls? Doodleigh (an unsuccessful wooer)-— Certainly. Awfully artless. (Sotto voce.) But I spell it with an “h.”—Pittsburg Bulletin. good flock in the City of Churches would hot care to see him mingle with. European travelers in this country find high favor in the porter’s eyes, for they tip liberally. Theatrical parties are in bad odor with the sleeping car fellows," for it is said they never think of the por ter. But with all his disappointments and bad luck the black servant grows gleeful when he discovers a brand new groom on his car. Such a person is gen erally a “fish.” The experienced porter rarely makes a mistake in picking him out, and handled well he always develops something worth working for. In tho first place, the shoes must be blacked several times daily; all signs of dust or lint must be kep* away from the young man’s clothing and bits of choice scenery along the line of the day’s ride should be pointed out to the blushing bride. The green traveler who has never been in a sleeper before Is of little profit to the 'porter, but he furnishes that student of human nature a world of Amusement. The sleeping car porter of America is a national emblem. Ho will live here, but when be attempts to cut a wide swath abroad he is a failure. It is said that one of the guild once thought Europe would be a fine field for an at tentive and experienced servant like himself. He went to France, Russia, Germany, England and Italy, but he found none of the liberality oi the trav eler who rode with him in America. After going all over the countries named he at last brought up at Genoa. He looked about the town and in his walk came upon the hall of the town counci L He entered the anteroom, and while standing there caught sight of a bust at one end of the apartment. He went over and stood in front of it; then he got on his knees, and removing his hat, raised his eyes to the bust and said: “I tbank you for discovering America.” It was the bust of Columbus that the Maud Howe’s Romance. Maud Howe received the goodly sum of §1,000 from The Ladies’ Home Jour nal for her new novel. About thirteen years ago, when Porter’s _picture of her was exhibited in the Centennial, she was one of the famous beauties of America, and is on unusually handsome woman stiff She became engaged to Porter, aud before the affair was broken, nursed the man she subsequently married—John Elliot—through an attack of malarial fever in Rome. He was an ardent young art student at the time, and had worked too hard In a dangerous climate. He passed from the fever of Rome into the fever of love, but was unable to per suade Miss Howe to think of him until some years after her engagement with Porter was off. She had resigned love for literature and seemed contented with the exchange.—Current Literature. A Dog’s Fad. Mr. Jaeger, of Rochester, N. Y., was frequently puzzled by the absence of his dog. The animal was frequently absent half a day at a time, and last week was missing for two days. His owner adver tised for him, and on the following day he was returned by a man who had dis covered his peculiar mania. It was for riding on street cars. He will get aboard of any car he sees and ride until he is Tha Decline of Wrestling. ,, It is ©c record that Henry VHI him self, who was something much more than an amateur athlete, continued to keep up his practice in wrestling, among other mustfilar exercises, even after his acces sion to the throne. But the example of the merry monarch, though dear to the manly tastes of the people, could not avert the reaction which tho spread of tlie new learning surd the decline -of chivalry were rapidly bringing about among the upper classes, to some extent even under the later Tudors. Still more when the Puritan movement acquired strength in the oountry .wrestling, among other out of door sports, sank to a lower level of popularity than it had ever pre viously touched in England. Poacham, in his “Compleat Gentleman,” published in 1623, went so far as to say that thrown ing the hammer and wrestling were low class sports, “not so well becoming no bility, but rather soldiers in a camp; neither have I read or heard of any prince or general commended for wrestling save Spaminondar and Achmat, the last' em peror of Turkey.”—New Review. Europeans ln Brazil. / ; , 1 Certain observations of Dr. Alfredo da Luy, of Rio de Janeiro, are not encour aging to intending immigrants from comparatively cool latitudes. Such in habitants of Rio de Janeiro as are not colored persons are generally pallid, weak, of short stature, and of but little muscular strength. Malarious infection —not usually fatal by itself—seems to impoverish tho blood and render the children of Europeans frail and liable to succumb early to disease. The children of Portuguese and Italians suffer least, but Germans, French, Belgians and other persons from climates very different A Lous Shot. from that of Brazil are warned that My hunting experience# have, as arule, prosperous colonization can only be ef- been very tame and uninteresting, but 1 fected by a crossing with races better had one last month, when on my vaca tion, which I think is worth recording. I had been tramping ail day in the woods about Louis Lake and the little sheets of water at that neighborhood in the Adirondocks and had bagged noth ing of any consequence. I was just hungering for deer, and just as I emerged from a bit of foreet on the edge of one of these little lakes my eye fell upon a fine stag drinking from the lake, but opposite to me and fully half a mile away. It was tantalizing, for I am not a half-mile shooter, and anyway, if I shot the noble fellow, he would only dart back into the woods to die and I would never be able to find him. But I was desper ate, and raising my rifle I “bimmed” away at him. The deer gave a bound at the report of my weapon and darted into the woods, white I set on my way around the edge of the lake. I had not traveled more than half a mile when I come upon the dead body of my deer. Ho had run a third of the distance round the lake towards me before falling. I knew it was my deer by the peculiarity of his horns.—N. Y. .Evening World. put off. Mr. Jaeger proposes now to get .. a season ticket, good on all street rail- homesick porter bowed to. Ap. American roa ds, and attach it to the dog’s collar, witnessed the scene and, taking com pas- j tVtnt the nnima.1 may indulge his street —Kansas City Times. | wgn-CBicago MaU. __ It TTas Mean. Although there is no more true love, there are still lovers’ quarrels, and sad partings, and much irritation, and lying awake and misery. And when these quarrels come the man is just as mean as the woman. They had quarreled, and It was final. She demanded all her preeenta back, and her letters and her photographs. He sent them. Then she wrote him a note, saying that he had kept one little tender present she had made him in the days when she thought he was good and true and a gentleman, with the “gentleman” underscored sev eral times very heavily. It was a lock of hair, and 8he could not naturally per mit him to keep that. He sent it back with a brief note: “It'doesn’t make any difference whether I keep it or not. No body would know it was yours. You forget you were a dyed blonde when I got it.” “It was so mean,” she said, “because my hair had only grown a few shades darker lately.”—San Francisco Chron icle. Exasperating Occasions. There are two times when a man thinks a woman’s hat is too high. One is when it is in front of him at the play, and tho other is when it is his wife’s and he has to pay for it.—Detroit Free Press. adapted to Traveler. hot climates.—Arkansaw A Disgosted Cat. Jx In some way a cat found ita way Into a cyclorama building a few days ago. The man in charge attempted to cliasa the trespassing feline through the door, but the cat evidantly thought there was a better way of escaping tlie rising tem per of the irate man. It looked cau tiously about, as if to avoid stepping on the prostrate forms of heroes slain in the battle. Finally its eyes caught sight of a tree. A projecting limb bung pretty low, and here the cat thought to find a place of safety. It gave one leap, and no doubt was the most disgusted oat in Portland when it learned, by sad ex perience, that the tree was on the can vas. It picked itself up and slowly slunk through the door, down the stairs and out of the building.—Portland Ore gonian. Way to Equatorial Provinces. The routes are two. The quicker 111 down the Red Sea to Suakim; thence by caravan 240 miles to Berber; thence by nuggar or steamer to Khartoum; thentie 1,010 mileB to Lado, also by water. A very quick trip without delays would be forty days. The other route is by river 500 miles to Assouan, six miles by rail around the first cataract, 120 miles by water to Korosko, nine days by caravan to Abou Hammed, and thence by water and caravan to Berber, and the rest of tho journey as before. The- desert journey from Korosko to Abou Hammed is a hard oue, with water at but one place on the route; but it is taken to cut off the great bend of the Nile, which is full of rapids. —Col. H. G. Prout in Scribner, Oldest Newspaper in "the World. The oldest newspaper in the world fa The King Pau, or capital sheet, which is published at Pekin, China. It first ap peared in the year 911 and since 1812 has not missed a single issue. For the first few hundred years all the work on The King Pau was done with brushes. At present it prints three editions daily and has a circulation of 14,000 copies.—St. Louis Republic. Youthful Affection. “What does Charlie say in his letter, Marie?” “He’s going to California for two years. Pm so glad!" “Glad?” “Why, yes. I can go to the theatre with George without having to break off my engagement with Charlie.”—Epoch.,