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> ;•!• -■ . >,.nc. r in .Siam . ji -.'.'d o.". i mUui, bondin'' I Ik*”.' .. . 91: UK ! hey . . ickiwgc ::p bit* of 'firs with their eyelids, fha dasic* in 4 girls o: ibisgkok arc always ex 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. how Milliner? Sic w James T. Comer, Maysvllle, :::::: GEOx( IA Has Employed A First Class 'Xgjl tA/V W QAVJ* \sJ \y * A'V w'/ W VvW x VirV'j'tf % , ft V VijT? C^vOOaVvV'rArwVv'V lW ow Wt* w/v With a New Stock of Hats from New York aad BUntim- of e!■ 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 ies, and Harness and Leatlur. A!! Kinds of Drugs and Patent Medicines, COMER’S GUARANTEE CHICKEN CHOLERA CURE, B’f.ndsrd and Pacific Kerocene, Machine and CaMor Oils. y “ r! ‘ , ■■ r 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. • Him can fJ\ ft JTu wßa, yv ww* 5 -a- , —*—.HARMON 7 - GROVE,— * —, > DEALERS IN lu da b ; QV* w bd Qvw&t * VC v VV Vv GwVV& We Keep in stock a full supply of good and fre*b goods. We can not be surpassed in Quality an! Durability. YV bay at lowest market figures; we defy competition in prices. We want only a living profit on ■ur sales. We do not claim to be Vanderbilts, nor do we wish to accumulate their fortunes. Wo are receiving dailv, a full supply of our Customers ev rj. day. wants. |ggg- Country Produce Taken iu Exchange at Highest Market Prices. Hardman & uomj’ay, HarMONy GrOVE DEALERS IN H— R S*i S3, AJ I*S t? mztp * Tti aVN] Ax {ITS r f i'v Y QjjJa U 2 MMs cristJ M* b*s Uab w BBS B Oar Line of Sieves, Tiawar\ Agricyl'ural ImpleisfCde, E<\, caa not be tousd in better Quality t*d Durability, Elsewhere. VVeab-.o keep a gonu line ot gaas for the fall trade. Cali aul examiue our stork aai pr oa . 10