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esrcisir.g-hi the royal gymnasium.
Tho new volume in the Zigzag sc
ii is, ”J r.ivnoys in tho Antipodes,”
Y 'sa very graphic desciiplioo of
l!io wonderful• physical training of
tli girls, wh > ages vary froia
live to twenty years i’iio curious
;rd subtle features of picking up a
id of straw with the eyelids can
l.s loarnod only by the youngest of
tl nii, who are made lo practice it
i order to ivtvlarth'm flexible in
every part of the body.
There are t wo long rows of bench
es, one a little higher than the oth
er. On the lower is a row of little
girls, and on the upper bench are
laid fine polished bits of straw. At
the sound of the drum the little
girls all together baud back the
head and neck until they touch the
bits of straw, which, with wonde
ful dexterity they secure between
the corners of the eyelids.
The cup dance is the most grace
ful aad poetic of their dances A
row of young women with alierof
cups on their head take their place
in iho centre of the gymnasium. A
burst of joyous in u.-ic follows. On
hearing this they simultaneously,
with military precision, kn eel down
and ful l their hands and bow their
heads until their fore head i almost
touch the polished marble floor,
keeping the cups steadily on their
heads by some marvelous jerk of
the neck. Then sudd*n!y spring
ing to their feet, they describe a
rucccssion flf rapid and iniricate
circles, keeping lime to the music
with their arms, head and feet,
If ext follows a miracle of art,
such as mar be found only among
people of the highest physical
training. The music swells into a
rapturous liuipuif The dancers
raise thoir ilelicate feet, curve their
arms and fingers ia seeming impo#
sible flexures, sway to and fro like
withes of will©w, agitate all the
muscles of the body like the flutter
of leaves in a soft evening breeze,
but stiil keep the tier of cups on
Iheir heads. At other times a cup
full of some licp-ul is placed on the
floor in t hot. "-u of the hall. A
girl will spring to her feet and
dance about it in round, wild ed
dies, and, suddenly laying herself
down, keeping her anna folded
tighten her breast, will lake up
the cup with her lips, and drain
the liquid without spilling a drop.
Th© resignation of ihe FraK’sh cab
inet has >x.t tbs country in an uprosr,
and trait bie is looked fer. (Jen. Bju
langer considers that an immediate dis
scletien of Parliament ia inevitable,
and that this will lead to the frimcph
of his ideas.
Birmingham, April S.—Gilbert
Lowo, one of the negroes arrested last
’>:% k, charged with the Meadows mur
der, to day made a fall confession cor
roborating the confession of Bcu Eigy.
Lowe cays E!gy, himself and the other
* two negroes now in jail, murder* and and
robbed Meadows, and that all were
equally implicated.
iar CanineSliephordg.
A dsseription is given in an Ed
inburgh paper of four different
breeds of dogs that are very vain
l ife for the protection of {locks of
of sheep.
Probably the mo t ancient and
widely diffuse 1 is the Spanish
sheep dog, iiis largest, most savage
and powerful of tho race, in ap
pearance he somewhat resembles
tho Alpine or Mount St. Bernard
dog. So strong and ferocious are
they that one of them can always
master a wolf, and dogs of e.nv oth
er race rash enough to at tint the
flocks under their charge, arc cer
tain of defeat and death.
The Mexican sheep dog is doubt
lass a descendant of tho Spanish,
and so no doubt are the various
strains found among the South
America states, Introduced at the
time of the conquest, or shortly
thereafter, these have differentiat
ed considerable from the parent
stock, while still retaining its chief
characteristics—unsociability, fe
rocity, great strength and fierce fi
delity in protecting the flocks in
their charge. In educating the
Mexican pups a few of the strong
est, healthiest and finest looking
are selected from the litter and put
to suck a ews which has first been
deprived of her own lamb. She
soon becomes accustomed to the
appearance of tho intruders and
learns to look upon them with ma
te, rnal affection. For the first few
days they are kept in a hut, the
ewe suckling them morning and
evening only. Then they run with
her for some time in a ssaall i nclo
sure, and finally they are folded
with th* whole flock for a fortnight
rsr so, and then run permanently
with the sheep, which, after a time
become so accustomed to them, as
to be ablg to distinguish them
from other dogs, even from those
of the same litter which have been
nurtured elsewhere. After th® pups
are weaned tlrey never leave the
drove among which they were
reared and in protecting which
they are at all times ready fe die.
The Hungarian sheep dog is
commonly white, though some
times incline'! to a redish brown,
and is almost the size of a New
foundland dog. Their sharp noses,
erect ears, shaggy coats, and bushy
tail give them the appearance of a
wolf, and except towards Iheir mas
ters they are extremely savage.
Tho French shepherd dog is of a ;
medium size, has straight • ears,
hair ot a dark color, thickset and
longest on th© fail, which js car
ried horizontally. They are very
indifferent to caresses, but arevig
ilanf, active and faithlul in the care
ot their flacks.
During x sever© taunder storm
which pasted over Perry Sunday mor
ning, lightning struck tho residence of
Mrs. 0. T. Lawson, or. Swift street,
tearing a large hole ia tho roof and
passing down mar tho chimney into
the irons©, scattering the cor,tents, but
doing uo dasstage to the family btyoud
tho shock.
Tha post ollica at East Point,
near Atlanta, tvas broken into by
burglars aad quite a haul was
made, No arrests.
Georgia Items.
Judge as a M, Jack sou, who tor
40 years was ordinary ot Clarke
county, died in Athens at the age of
seventy-four.
The Piedmont Exposition, at At
lanta, only lacks SIB,OOO ct the
amount necessary to start the
wheels in motion.
A panic is on at Social Circle,
caused by the death of John Henry
Won)mack from hydrophobia, tho
result ot a cat bite. Several others
were bitten and more deaths stro
looked for.
Conductor Lindiey Murray of
tli © East Tennessee road, was kill
ed at Rex by a train breaking in
two, and corning together again, it
wrecked the cab sose in which Mr.
Murray was
“Jumbo” Hunter, the famous. A
tlanta policeman, is astonishing ev
erybody by the system he ban infmed
into tba oat-t f-door relief plan. The
poor people are brnefitted, and mi ev
is saved to the tax payers.
Tollason, the tnau v,h-e started an
alleged bank in Atlanta, and failed ow
ing a large amount of mosey with as
sets of ain nt sixty cents, snl
promptly jailed by Judge Marshall J.
Clarke, eo.v offers to settle for fifty
Cents ok the dollar.
The steamer Aid, plying between I
Cirmlu' and Apalachicola, Fla.,
ws burntd to the water’s edge at
Stewart’s landing, near Eafsala. The
fire caught in the wood rack, and as
the wind was blowing v ery hard, the
was soon binned.
The strep'® of the Baptist Church
at AHairsville, was struck bv light
nir. at Sunday morning, and tired the
church The tiro was >®on exungnish*
ed by the aid ot bucket;! and the atria
tear fi e company, Mr. George W
Dow's barn, nearby, was also struck
by lightning during the night and torn
to pieces.
One hundred and two of the looms
in the check department of Clege.G
cotton factory in Oelurnbns arc iTc.
and operatives have stopped woik.
For sometime past the Clegg mills
have been paying its Weavers thiify
tbrae cents per cut, which is more
than the other mills pay On Sa ur
day afternoon the operatives of tie
check loom at the Cie?g’s mills were
notified of a reduction of five cents per
cut, end when rhs milla opened Mon
day morning they telused to go to
work
Herman v iekery, a burglar who
was killed while trying to escape from
tho California penitentiary the other
day, had a *)uear record. Every time
he burglarized a house ho kissed all
the sleeping women in it. N * matter
how great tbs risk, the rascal always
vrpat through the bed chambers and
kissed everything worth kissing.
Blown Into Eternity.
The shock ot a tremendous explo
sion awoks the residents for blocks
sronod the corner of High aDd Al'en
street in Harford, Conn., early on
Monday rooming. On that corner
stood the Park Central hotel, a five
story structure, about thirty feet front,
and a hundred Bet deep. The liistto
arrive at the scene found this building
a he&p of ruins from which issued
ernoke and steam in denar cloud* and
the spectators we;e appalled by the
shrieks and groaus of many human be
ings who were imprisoned in a mass
of timber and masonry from which the
flataea wore already bursting. A gen
eral alarm summoned the entiio fire
departmout, but the flsaies prevented
eny attempt at rescuing any one and
the ruins were fioo-lcd with water be
fore any work could be prosecuted.
The cause of the accident is not at
present known, but it is supposed to
have resulted from tho explosion of
boilers in llio basement, and from the
adjoining bnildinge, the explosion the
| cry seems the most probable.
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James T. Comer,
Maysvllle, :::::: GEOx( IA
Has Employed A First Class
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styles, t'onr the finest to the cheapest. AUo-fine Dross Goods. Rib- ! h - ‘ •
Laws, Kid Gioves, Embroidvriss. Corsets kinds In set a Cnnq.b e
jta.-lt o* farev notions. Shoes, Jdts and Clotbiug. I ban-o So, it- Gioc.’t
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Drugs and Patent Medicines,
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ealinn. Agent for Athens Factory goods, and many more A D *
Georgia Test and Acid Work’s Pure Bom*, For man’s Solar- ■ II me aad K-un
i.eal Gnauo. The beat line of guanos in tho united state?, p -c-s us e.tcap as
tho che; esc. Breeder of fifteen varieties ct fancy Dock-. Oh J P liCfi ft’
Eggs tor sale. •
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