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Ball Against Pythona.
List Sunday week one of tha moat
remarkable scenes on record is report
ed as Laving boon witnessed in the
vicinity of Table Mountain. A troop
of eattlr, consisting of twelve cows
and a patriaicbal old boll, were graz
ag on one ol the plateau-liko epms of
the mountain, which is surrounded on
three sides by precipitioua ravines, and j
on the four.h side, that nearest the
mountain, Iy dense bush, Sonje na
tives higher up the mountain were at
-I;anted by the sudden bedowing of tha
cattle, and saw two enormous pythons
coming out of the bush and making for
ibe cattle, which had drawn themselv
es up in a compact group with the
bull at i:s head. As the pythons
drew near the animals gradually back
ed till they stood cu a small space
that juttled out over a tremendous pre
cipice.
At this staga a sudden rush was
made, but only one heifer succeeded in
escaping. The other cattle, bellowing
most piteously, gradually backed, and
one by one fell over the precipice till
finally the bull only was loft. He
suddenly charged at the big pythen,
transfixed the reptile on his horns, but
the second suako seized the bull in his
dolds and having its taii around a
huge boulder, csixmenced to crash the
ball, which, moaning piteously, atrug
glad frantically to escape. .The tail of
the python lost its hold of tho rock,
hut the larger snake which had slipp
ed off the horn, lapping its tail round
a smaller boulder opposite the one the
other snake bad just released, seizrd
the bull and compressed the animal in
its scaly told. The other python sue
ceeded in regaining its former posi
tion, and tbo bull was laterally sus
pended in mid air by the sDakes. The
scene looked like some gba-tiy trium
pb,rl march. The snakes were evi
dandy getting the bast of the poor
brure, which was bleeding profusely,
when, by a sudden effort, bis struggles
foiced both reptiles to loose their hold
of the rocks and the whole three were
hurled into the ravine beneath.
The cattle were found on the first
ledge of the precipice, all being dead,
but the bull and the pythons bad
bounded from lelgo to ledge, and were
found 400 feet below the scene of the
light. The bull was merely a mingled
mass aud the snakes were greatly mu-
tilated, the lager one having the ver
tebrae broken in nine places. The
pythons, whioh were of the rock spe
cies, male and female, measured re
spectively 40 feet 2 inches and 36 feet
9 and one half inches. This is a com
mon length fo* pythons in South Afri
ca.
A scratch Call.
The people of Ashley, a suburb of
Wilkesbarre, Penn., had a little social
sensation. Pfttecn year* ago John
Lamb, a master mechanic, in the em
ploy of the Lehigh v alley Railroad,
married Miss Mary Crogan, daughter
of Railroad Superintendent Crogan.
Tho nuptial event was the talk of the
town at ike time.. A special train from
Philadelphia brought many invited
guests. Mr. Lamb accepted a position
under one of the railroad companies
headquarters at St. Louis, but he
did not remain long. After being
married only six months, an estrange
ment spraDg up between the young
couple, and the wife returned to bor
homo in Ashley. Lamb left St. Louis
and wandered through the Western
territorv. Ilia wife heard nothing
definite about him until about two
years after they wero married, whon
her brother ia law sent her a clipping
j from a wfstern paper giving an tc
count of tho drowning ol her husband.
John Adams, however, who his a big
rtiiaing B’orj, proposed marriage. Mrs.
Lmb aecrptad. All arrangements
had been mads, and tha wedding trn ;
seau was delivered to tha prospective
bride’s home. The lady was in theajt
of examining her dreset* with the aid
of tho dressmaker, when a knoak earns
to the door. It was opened and there?
stood'the long lost husband. Man and
wife had a long interview, and as ire
suit, reconciliation followed. Aiams
was reluctant to giye up his betrothed,
and a minister had to be called to make
'an,amicable arranveulant..
Japanese Carvers.
An ivory carver set in hi-r li tie
room, open to his little garden, chia
eding upon a magnificent tusk frou
which the form of a graceful female
figure was just emerging. Tho ivory
ha held between his knees, while his
tools were all spread cut by hi* side.
“How long will this take yon?” a6kcd
the Tokio correspondent cf the Phila
del phi a Times. “About four months,”
he replied. “And what is tho propor
tiou between the value of the material
and tho value of the labor in such a
work as this when completed?” “1
paid $l5O for this piece of ivory, and
four months’ work at fifty a month is
two hundred dollars. Total cost about
350 dollars.'’
Fancy one of the mo3t skilful and
original artificers in the world—lor
this man’s ivories are admired every
where—-imply estimating his own la
bor at futy silver dollars a month,
while at home our great painters do
not hesitate to ask a thousand dollars
tor u picture covering a few square
feet I Is there auy doubt which is the
true temperament of the artist? “Are
you not vary sorry sometimes to part
with one of these works that has been
your companion and part of your lile
for so long.” lie looked up for amo
meut at a big white lily nodding above
him in the garden, and then gently
shook his bead. “No,” he said; “Kon
do no wotto migeto no tsumori de
goziimasu—l expect ths next will be
more beautiful.”
The wood carver, seated with a doz
ea apprentices among his fragrant lit
ter, knew that we were coming, and
presented us each with a largo #ugar
figured cake in a pretty box. “I am
very p00r ,,/ no said, with a aniile, “for
wood carving is out of fashion now.
Nobody builds beautiful Japanese
houses any more.” He had just been
so fortunate, however, as to get a eom
mission for a number of pierced ventil
ating iriezes for the new palace, and
one of these he showed to us neatly
completed--an exquisitely gracelul
desiga of flowers and flying storks.
If rich English and Americans only
knew for what trifling sums such a
man as this would produce far thorn,
carved woodwork for their man&ions,
tar more beautiful than they could get
elsewhere for ten times—yes, fifty
times the cost, ha would not bo poor
long.
The Laneiers and ‘ Tucker."
Tho recent discussion which has
just been started in religious cir
oles concerning the inauguration ball
has led to the publication of a story
as to how Gen. Harris >u once had a
dancin; party in his own house, and
with his own consent, in spite of his
strict Presbyterian principles. Tho
story is toid by an Indianapolis lady,
as follows:
“At the olosa of the war 1 was one
of a club composed of about twelve
couples of young people, and Mollie
Scott, tha youngest sister of Mrs. Hir
rison, was also a member. Tha girls
were all the daughters ol strict Presby
terians, and the boys, young fellow#,
who had just returned from the war.
At that time the lano ers were high in
favor. It caused many a heartache
among tho girls because dancing by
church people was not considered the
proper thing. By dint of ardent plead
ings most of them secured tho consent
of their parents to learn the dance, but
some failed. The cla£> at different
meetings was entertained by the differ
eat yoaug lady members.
(jjou. Harrisou’s opposition to dare
ing was well known and discussed,
but, despite this, Mollis Scott and her
brother ilenry, enjoyed the dance as
thoroughly as any of the club mem
bars. When it became Mollie’s turn
to-entertain at her sister’s houue, she
said, sadly:
‘l’m afraid we won’t havo a pleas
ant time. I wjn't dare to ask Broth
er Bea, for I know it would do no
good, and ha might not let mo go out
any more. 1 conld manage Carrie
all right, but B?u is so strict 1
The evening came, and a strain of
the favorite qnadrillo set every foot
tapping, and tho qmstion of dancing
was put under discussion, but thero
were the general and his wife sitting
across the hall. One of the party pr o .
posed they fool Ban by making him
think the dance was a game. The un
holy scheme immediately jumped into
favor, and Mollio, with two others,
wont timidlv across tho ball and said:
‘Ben, do you care it we play Tuck
er?’
•Tucker, what’s Tucket?’ said BeD.
‘Oh, its a sort of play where the
boys and girls get around in a ring,
with an odd one in tba center called
Tucker, and wh*n they promenade ho
steals someone eleo’s partner, and the
one left is Tucker, ’ was the unbiash -
ing'reply.
Tba general said lie didn't care
what they played, when Mrllie said
she didn't know but what he might,
as they stepped around to music
and one eompaaion chimed ia with
‘something like the old fashioned wcev
ily wheat."
The girls flew back across the ball
with beaming faces, and it didn't take
many minutes for the dance to bn go
ing, with the additional feature ‘Tuck
ei‘ its the center. The plan worked
finely, aud Gen. Harrison and his wife
looked on and laughed with the rest,
atid its just possible that he doesn't
know yet that he was so wickedly tak
en in. He didn't know a dance when
he saw it, as much as he was opposed
to it.“
The Tndianapelis News says, “Good
f&r Banks county, Ga.! The Banks
County Guards, who were ‘terrors,'
and all so thoroughly equal that their
captain was wont to give command.
•Gentlemen of the Guards, will you
pHate guide right; forward march,*
and who in that shape fought for the
Confederacy, have resolved to tender
their services as guards to the federal
government in ease of war with Samoa.
When Bismarck hears of this ally bo
will wilt. But, joking aside, the inei
dent ia indicative of one of the compen
sations that a foreign war would have
in old Confederate and Union sold e s
fighting shoulder to shoulder and
‘drinking Irom the same canfcfen.*
Which is why we say ‘good for Banks
county, Ga.“—[lndianapolis Journal.
Some of the above may be niagni
fied or imaginary on the part of the
Journal, but it is right in saying tho
Ccnfeilera>o and union soldier wilt
“fight shoulder to shoulder and drink
out of the same can teen,“ —especially
when it is for self protection. But the
late eauee for a division between the
North aud South for gord govern
: nasnt, the latter still demands.
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