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VOL. V.--NO. 38.
A Celebrated Case.
The Duchesse de Chaulnes, who has
latelv died in Paris, was the wife of .the
late Duke de Chaulnes. She wss of a
noble race, but bom to poverty, because
her branch of the Galitzin family were
converts from the Russian to the Roman
The Duke met her and married her,
though his mother, the Duchesse de
Chevreuse, opposed thp nuptials and
looked down upon her future daughter
in-law as a low-bom person, not fit to be
associated with. The Duke and Duchess
went to Italy, where they disagreed.
The Duke came home with his children
and began a suit to retain possession of
them. He obtained a favorable decision.
On his death in the Chateau de Sable,
on the river Sarthe, in the Province ol
Maine, the charge of the children was,
• by a legal decision, provisionally in
trusted to the Duchesse de Chevreuse,
his mother.
On the 22d of March last a desperate
and unsuccessful attempt was made to
carry off the children from the chateau
from Mme. de Chevreuse, and it was al
leged that one of the Duchesse de
Chaulnes’s most ardent admirers was the
would-be al-ductor. The Duchesse de
Chaulnes then instituted a suit before
the Tribunal of the Seine against her
mother-in-law for the reversal of the
judicial decision which deprived her of
her children. This suit excited great in
terest in Paris. i
The Tribunal confirmed the decision
of the family council depriving the Duch
esse de Chaulnes of tho guardianship of
her children and condemned her to pay
the costs of the trial. The judgment
also affirmed all the complaints brought
by the family council against her.
Alexis Bouvier wrote a new story found
ed on. the case, entitled “Les Deux
Duchesse.”
The decision of the Court was given
on the 6th of Juno last. Mme. de
Chevreuse, tho mother-in-law, is fifty
eight years of age.
The Now Boy.
He was a bran-new office boy, young,
pretty-faced, with golden ringlets and
blue eyes. Just such a boy as one
would imagine would be taken out of his
little trundle-bed in the middle of the
night and transported beyond the stars.
The first day he glanced over the li
brary in the editorial room, became ac
quainted with everybody, knew all the
printers, and went home in the evening
as happy and cheery as a sunbeam. The
next day he appeared, leaned out of the
back window, expectorated on a bald
headed printer’s pate, tied the cat up by
the tail in the hallway, had four fightr
with another boy, borrowed $2 from an
occupant of the building, saying his
mother was dead, collected his two day’s
pay from the cashier, hit the janitor with
a broomstick, pawned a coat belonging
to a member of the editorial staff
wrenched tho knobs off the doors, upset
the ice-cooler, pied tlrree galleys of type
and mashed his finger iu the small press
On the third day a note was received
saying: “Mi Mother do not want I to
work in such a dull place. She says 1
Would make a Good preacher, so Do I
mi finger is Better; gone fishrn’. Yours
1 ill Death do Yank us.”
The Post Boy.
The London postman who was found ■
the other day on duty too drunk to an
swer any questions, and with a large
number of letters and postal cards in his
possession, got off easily with a fine oh
810. The traditions of the English poW
office preserve the story of a jovial per
son who was the principal letter-carrier
in a provincial town, and who was found
one day by a friend sitting on the curb
stone playing an imaginary game of
whist, and gravely dealing the letters
around to partner and adversaries, one of
whom he conceived to bo sitting in the
overflowing gutter. Fortunately the
game had only just begun, and the
orunken carrier was in the hands of a
nen , who got him out of sight as soon
a-s possible. Thanks to his luck he stili
performs Ins daily round.
«<t O* 1 ’ yeß ’” contented man,
1 am just as well satisfied that my
horse isn’t as fast as some. When I
owned a trotter that could get away
with anything on the road, I was in
ront aU the time, and didn’t half enjoy
Now lam behind most of the
Bee dl thQ
—
■las shooting season has set in, and
out < r y begins to worry the life
iu all u l >aren *' B for a gun, with vjiicb,
e-ther ’“T P' oba W, the boy will
“Fath Cn »Pte himself or somebody else,
vou 8 “ d johnny Eizzletop, “can’t
min ?” monp y enough to get me a
bov I’ll * y 80n ’ w hen I can spare a
y 1 u get you g
She Oalton Straw
Washington Society World.
The wedding of Miss Mabel Bayard,
eldest daughter of Senator Bayard, ol
Delaware, and Mr. Samuel D. Warren,
Jr., of Boston, took place at the Church
of the Ascension Thursday morning in
the presence of a distinguished company
of invited guests. The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Dr. Elliot. There
were ten ushers and eight brides-maids.
The bride, leaning upon the arm of her
father, entered the church at 11:45, and
was met at the chancel-rail by the groom
and his best man, Mr. Wetmore, of
Michigan. The bride’s dress was of
heavy white satin, the back of the train
falling in long folds and the front covered
with point lace flounces. Paniers were
shirred across the hips, and the high
corsage was cut with square neck and
elbow sleeves and finished with point
lace.
Her only ornaments were a string of
gold beads around her throat. Her bou
quet was of white roses, and the long
tulle veil was confined to the head by a
chaplet of orange blossoms. The eight
brides-maids were the two Misses Bay
ard, sisters of the bride, Miss Warren,
Miss Crebbs, Miss Marshall, Miss An
drews, Miss Kane, and Miss Lockwood.
The dresses of these bride’s attendants
were of white mull, over silk, the skirts
demi-train, and the fronts covered with
ruffles of pompadour and Aurillac lace.
They wore large white Gainsborough
hats, covered with white plumes and
faced with sapphire and ruby velvet,
each bridesmaid carrying a bouquet of
colored roses iu her hand.
The reception that follow'ed at the
residence of Senator Bayard was a large
affair, and the house was crowded until
the bride and groom departed to take the
4 o’clock train for the North. An
elaborate collation was served in the
dining-room, and souvenirs of wedding
cake were provided for the guests.
Many handsome presents were made,
but were not displayed.
Nothing to Do.
A man who has nothing to do is a piti
able object. He is simply a kept man.
He is living on charity. Some amiable
snoozer, now dead, has left him the
money that ho lives on, and all he has to
do is to draw the money and eat, drink
and sleep.
No eyes can brighten with happiness
when he comes home, because he only
comes home when the other places are
closed. He cannot come home tired,
and be petted and rested by willing
hands, because it be a mockery to
pet a tired man who had got tired doing
nothing.
Such a man simply exists and is no
good on earth. If he would wheel a bar
row and earn a dollar, and get tired, and
buy a beefsteak with the dollar, and
have it cooked, and eat it while the ap
petite was on that he got wheeling the
barrow, he would know more enjoyment
than he had ever known before. That
man with nothing to do on earth no
doubt thinks, as he lays around and
smells frowy, that he is enjoying life,
but he knows no more about enjoyment
than a tom-cat that sleeps all day and
goes out nights to play short-stop to a
lot of bootjacks and beer bottles. Such
a man is a cipher, and does not know
enough to go in when it rains. If there
were less incomes left to lazy young fel
lows, and more sets of carpenter tools,
there would be more real enjoyment.—
Burlington Hawkeye.
The World.
The population of the principal civil
ized countries of the world, according to
the most recent census for each, returns
for but few of them being older than
1879, are as follows, with tho percent
ages of annual increase appended :
France, 37,321,186, 0.22; Prussia, 27.-
279,111, 1.23; Saxony, 2.972,805, 1.54;
Bavaria, 5,284,778,1.04- Austria, 22,144,-
214, 0.78; Hungary, 15,725,710, 0.13;
Belgium, 5,536,654,0.98; Holland, 4,012,-
693, 1.24. Switzerland, 2,846,102, 0.66;
Sweden, 4,565,668, 0.95; Norway, 1,878,-
100, 0.60; Spain, 16,625,860, 0.86; Italy,
28,437,091, 0.76; Russia in Europe, 83,-
626,590, 1.32; England and Wales, 25,-
968,286, 1.43; Scotland, 3,734,370, 1.11;
Ireland, 5,159,839, 0.47; United States,
50,155,783, 2.96. Russia in Europe is
the only country, it will be seen, in this
list that surpasses the United Stales in
the number of its inhabitants, while the
nearest approach that is made k> the
United States in the matter of increase
is Saxony, which show’s a percentage of
1.54, as against ours of 2.96, or only
about one-half as great a percentage.
—
Journalistic recruit: “Father, I wish
to live so as to show the world my con
tempt for wealth,” remarked a young
philosopher, who was just recovering
from the effects of a fifty-cent cigar
“ That’s easy enough,” said the old man
“ become an editor. — Brooklyn J.agle,
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1883.
Swearing Under Difficulties.
Ling Ah Dwe and Ling Ah You are
on trial in the Criminal Court of Chicago
for the murder, on August 28 last, of
Sing Quon. It appeared iu the testi
mony that Quon attacked Dwe with a
Chinese pipe, whereupon Dwe ran out of
the room, procured a knife from You,
and returned and stabbed Quon to death.
There is in attendance at tho trial a
Chinaman named Ling Sing, from Los
Angeles, Cal., who is supposed to be tho
agent of the Six Companies, which are
paying the expenses of the prosecution.
He is very intelligent and richly dressed.
When the examination of witnesses was
begun a dispute arose as to tho kind of
oath that should be administered. Tho
defense insisted that tho Cliinese oath
should be given, and another dispute
was at once begun as to what
the Chinese oath was. The de
fense contended that it consisted in cut
ting off a chicken’s head and swearing
the witness on the decapitated body
with a certain form of words. The pros
ecution claimed that tho oath should bo
written out on paper, all the witnesses
sign their name to it, and the whole
manuscript be burned. Judge William
son said that he understood tho break
ing of a saucer was necessary. It was
finally determined to write out the oath
and burn it, which was done. Tho wit
nesses all signed their names in full, and
a match was applied to the paper by the
clerk, who burned his fingers in the per
formance.
The Emptiness of Human Ambition.
Tho first time I saw Van Buren, writes
the Hermit, was in the spring after his
defeat in the Presidential canvass. He
had felt the crushing nature of what was
his first great disappointment in his
whole history, and he had seen the tri
umphant Harrison inducted to an office
from which he himself had been excluded
by the voice of an indignant nation. He
was, in fact, the worst beaten of all Presi
dential candidates up to that day. In the
midst of tin's disappointment came the
news of tho death of Harrison after only
one month of official service. The City
of New York honored the occasion by a
funeral procession of imposing character,
but its most impressive feature was the
defeated candidate. I was then merely
a boy, but as I gazed on tho long ranks
of the military marching in solemn step
to the wail of dirges, and saw all tho
deep expressions of public bereavement.
I felt the most touching lesson was found
in Martin Van Buren. He occupied a
barouche, dressed with tho American
and British colors bordered with crape,
and by his side was tho British Consul.
I thought then, and I have often thought
since, of the emptiness of human ambi
tion as illustrated by the appearance of
Van Huron at Harrison’s funeral. The
latter had crushed the former, and then
so suddenly yielded to the all-conquering
power of death.
• ♦
Iu Judgment.
Tho late Gen. Chanzy was once ap
plied to by a gentleman for assistance in
discovering the whereabouts of his son,
who had disappeared after tho battle of
Le Mans. Chanzy at once remembered
that this young man and several others
had been by his orders shot for running
away at the moment of battle and calling
out to their comrades: “Nous sommes
trains !” When this recollection flashed
across the General, he hesitated for a
moment whether he should say that ho
did not know what had been the fate of
the young man, or tell tho unhappy
father tho whole story. But the hesita
tion was only momentary, and ho told
him what had taken place. The father,
though as pale as d ath, preserved his
sang-froid and observed that, whatever
his paternal feelings might be, he could
not but feel that General Chanzy had
done his duty. General Chanzy often
referred to this as being the most terrible
ordeal through which he had ever passed,
and said that the figure of this unhappy
father, sitting in judgment, as it were,
upon his son, like another Brutus, had
haunted him day and night for weeks
afterward.
Divorces.—Vice-Chancellor Simrall,
of Louisville, Ky., took occasion sever ely
to rebuke an aged couple who appeared
before him as applicants for a divorce on
a trumped-up charge of abandonment,
the wife, the plaintiff, being seventy
years old and the husband ninety years
old. Judge Simrall dismissed the
petition, and said he believed that if the
records of the courts which alone have
jurisdiction in such cases were searched
they would disclose such a state of facts
as to the number of divorce suits and
the rapidity of thei increase in the last
few years as would 11 the great mass of
light-thinking pe< le in the State with
amazement and di ’wt.
A TERT PATERNAL GOVERNMENT. |
A Chemnitz letter to the Chicago
Bays : You cannot live in Saxony with
out handling an assortment of yellow
tickets every day. You get a ticket for
everything. When you pay your fare on
the street car, the conductor gives you a
yellow ticket. Before reaching tho end
of your trip, another official enters the
car and tears a corner off the ticket. If
you send a package by express you re
ceive a yellow ticket, and if you receive
an express package you get a yellow
ticket. If you send money by mail you
get two yellow tickets, one for the con
signee and one for yourself, and when
the consignee reci ives the money lie also
receives a yellow coupon, and signs a
yellow ticket. When you buy a bill of
goods in a store you are handed a yellow
ticket, and when they are delivered at
your house the bundle boy gives you an
other yellow ticket and takes the one you
first received. I don’t know whether tho
minister who officiates at a wedding gives
the bride and groom yellow tickets or
not, but I believe they must have one
when theif first baby is born. If you
live at 3,796 B street, and you move to
<3,795 A street, you must go to the City
Hall and yet a yellow ticket. If a ser
vant girl leaves Mrs. X, and goes to work
for Mrs. XX, she must also go to the
City Hall and get a yellow ticket. It is
probable that the Saxon goes into the
next world with a yellow ticket iu his
hand, but that is another point upon
which I have no definite information.
All this seems very strange and very
funny to an American until he has in
quired into it thoroughly, and then it
strikes him that tho plan is an excellent
part of an excellent system. In the
street car, for instance, there can be no
such thing as “knocking down.” Tho
brace bell punch will not work. Every
passenger must have a receipt for his fare,
and he must show it to tho official who
tears the corner off. Everybody knows
the value of receipts for packages sent
and received, whether it be by express,
by post, or by bundle-boy.
The books of the City Hall will tell you
where every man in Chemnitz resides,
the number of the street as well as the
number of the flat; they will tell you
whether he is married or single; whether
he lives with his parents or rooms alone;
how many children ho has ; how old he
is ; how old his wife is, and how old his
children are ; what his trade is; whether
he keeps a servant girl; what ho pays
her ; how much his income is ; where he
was born, etc., etc. They will tell you, in
a word, anything that it is possible to
find out concerning himself and his bn i
ness. He cannot sail under colors.
If he pretends to have an income of
10,000 marks per annum, he must pay an
income fax on that amount or prove that
he has been talking too big. If a mer
chant is thinking of hiring a man, he can,
within forty-eight hours, discover
whether his prospective employee has
ever been mixed up in a dishonorable
scrape, and determine whether or not the
account given by the man regarding his
own history is time.
There is another feature of this sys
tem w-hich is remarkable. If you know
the number of the house where a certain
man lives whose history you are anxious
to ascertain, but you cannot possibly find
out his name in any other way, you can
go to the City Hall and have not only his
name but his entire record placed before
you in a very short time. Tho number
of the house tells tho story. But you
cannot get information about Tom, Dick
or Harry simply to satisfy an idle curi
osity, or for purposes of blackmail. You
must show cause for seeking the history
or name of Tom, Dick or Harry; your
own name is entered as having called at
the City Hall at such and such a time for
such and such a purpose, and if you use
the information which you have received
unlawfully, you will be punished se
verely.
* --
A Surprised New Zealander.
A New Zealander who was suffering
from a dreadful headache conceived tho
idea that since the gum tree was potent
against miasma, a poultice of its leaves
might relieve his pain. He accordingly
made a mash and soaked Lis head in It
for an hour or two, when he was de
lighted to find himself completely cured.
But on glancing in the mirror h ■ was
overcome with astonishment which has
since deepened into woe. The gum poultice
had dyed his hair a line peacock blue,
and the color is as fast as the famous
Tyrian purple of which the world has j
lost the secret. Perhaps the surprised :
New Zealander hae involuntarily become
a vicarious sacrifice for the benefit oi
humanity, in which case lie may console :
himself ’with the reflection that his I
memory will be held in reverent remem
brancc long after his illustrious corn :
patriot shall have sketched the ruins of ,
St. Haul’s and sunk into oblivion.
A Wrinkle Against Wiunkt.es.—A
lady writes: “You say that girls who
want to have good complexions should
wash their faces with almost boiling
waler. Not only girls should do this,
but women who do not wish to have
wrinkles. lam above fifty and I have
not got a wrinkle. This is due to my i
having washed my face night and morn
ing with very, very hot water. Jhe
water tightens the skin and prevents it
from wrinkling.” I
<< I have no wealth,’’she said; " Icn \‘
„: vo you only mvhand and heart. And
en ho thought that if
big as her hand, she Wits indeed wciUt y
THE NAPOLEON HEIR.
Sketch of the liiiprlaoued Priueo of France.
Prince Napoleon, lately arrested in
France on political grounds, is the
second son of Jerome Bonaparte by his
second marriage witli the Princess Irixd
erika, of Wurt'emburg, and was born at
Trieste, September 9, 1822. Ho was
cousin to the late Emperor. His youth
was passed at Vienna and Trieste,
Florence and Rome, occasionally in
Switzerland,England and Spain. After the
revolution of February, 1848, Prince Na
poleon returned, and the Corsicans
elected him a member of the Constituent
Assembly, in which he became leader of
the extreme republican party known as
the Mountain. His views, however, un
derwent a change, and in 1819 he -was
appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at
Madrid, but was shortly recalled for
having quit ted his post without authority.
He was made a French prince, with a
seat in the Senate and Council of State,
December 23, 1853, and at the same time
received the Grand Cross of tho Legion
of Honor and tho rank of General of
Division. In 1854 he was appointed to a
command in the expedition to the Crimen,
and commanded a>n infantry division of
reserve at the battles of Alma Inkermann.
On account of his sudden retirement
from this post, ill-liealth being tho ex
cuse. the sobriquet of “Plou-Plon” was
given him by his countrymen.
Ho married the Princess Clotilde,
daughter of Victor Emmanuel, late King
of Italy, January 30, 1859, by whom ho
had two sons. Napoleon Victor Jerome
Frederick, born July 18, 1862, and
Napoleon Louis Joseph Jerome, born
July 16. 1864, and one daughter, Mario
Letitia Eugenn Catharine Adelaide, born
December 20, 18G6. In the Italian cam
paign of H’s 9be commanded the French
army of reserve in the south of Italy,
but was not engaged in any of the great
battles. In the Senate in 1861 lie made
an attack upon tho Orleans family, which
was answered with spirit by tho Duo
d’Aumale. Prince Napoleon, to the dis
gust of a great portion of the French
army, declined to accept the challenge
sent him by tho duke on that occasion.
In 1865 Prince Napoleon was appointed
president of the. Commissioners for the
Universal Exhibition at Paris of 1867,
but resigned the post of
a reprimand which he received from the
Emperor for a speech deltveied at
Corsica at tho inauguration of a statge
of tho Emperor Napoleon 1., May 27,
1865.
In 1861 ho came to this country, while
the civil war was raging, and formed tlio
acquaintance of President Lincoln, Mr.
Seward, and of several of the Federal
and Confederate generals. On war
being d eland with Prussia in July,
1870, Prince Napoleon implored his
cousin to appoint him to a military com
mand. The Empcrcr, howev- r, declined
to do so, on the plea that he might ren
der more efficient aid to France by ac
cepting a confidential mission to Italv,
where lie could bring bis personal influ
ence to bear on his father-in-law, Victor
Emmanuel. Accordingly lie went to
Florence, but failed to obtain tho co
operation of Italy. After tho fall of the
Empire, he spent some months in Brus
sels and in other continental cities, but
ultimately he fixed his residence in Eng
land. In September, 1879, he ventured
to France on a visit to M. Richard, an
ex-Minister of tho Empire, but on the
12th of that month he was banished
from France. Previous to the killing of
tho Prince Imperial, Prince Napokon
claimed to be the chief representative of
his family, and endeavored, hovzever
witheut success, to organize a party of
Lis own in opposition to the adherents of
the Empress Eugenio and the Prince
Imperial.
Tho Subject of Education.
The subject of education rec ‘ives crit
ical and exhaustive attention in the in
augural message of Gov. Butler, of
Massachusetts. T<e Governor claims
that the fund is not expended for the
benefit of all iu the State; the percentage
of illiteracy in her borders shews this
if nothing else. High grades of study
are cultivated, but the spelling book is
abolished; subjects that ought not to be
included in a common school education ex
haust the fund until Massaehus*. tts is the
nineteenth in the illiteracy of her
population of the thirty-eight. The sal
aries in the higher schools are too high
ami in the lower grades too low. It is
necessary, to prevent crime and pauper
ism, to educate the masses up to u cer
i fain necessary point and to fit them for
I the suffrage. The classes above will
and ought to educate themselves up to a
j still higher point. In order that he can
| not be misunderstood, he says that the j
1 tehool fund money is divert' d extrava- j
: -antly from the many to whom it does
i I 'c'ong to the use of the few to whom it
I does n A belong, and he illustrates it by
j citing the F nnal and the Art schools,
i and closes bv advocating the following
' measures: Restrict the branches taught
in the primary schools by law specifi
cally to spelling, reading, writing, gram
mar, arithmetic, geography, history—
preferably of the United States—and re- j
quire that those shall be taught upon
the same system, to the some giwie of
scholars, in every common school m the [
Commonwealth. When the scholar can (
I how by an examination that he is well
■roimded in the elementary English
branches then let him be admitted to a ,
school of higher grade, / t
I for industrial purples /
taught, bookkeeping,
the rudiment ; of the D < WJ(h „ nt - /
iimguag* h, , J 7 ;,/, limen tul Uegri o;
school eduction f
tihould »top.
TERMS: SI.OO A TEAK.
A Suow-Bound Party.
A Vermont letter says; Something
like the good, old fashioned experience
of being snow-bound recently happened
to a party of friends who had assembh d
to celebrate the tenth anniversary of
marriage of a Cambridge couple. The
company was a large one, composed of
old and young, several coming iu sleighs
from the adjoining towns. During the
afternoon the snow began to fall thickly,
driven by a fierce wind. By nightfall
the roads were deeply drifted, and the
wind blew a perfect gale.
What was to be done? Several of the
guests started out with their sleighs, but
most of them returned, saying that the
roads were impassable and the storm so
blinding that the horses could not keep
the trail.
The result was that thuty-four guests
stayed iu the little house all the night,
some sleeping on the beds and lounges,
and some camping out without ceremony
on the floor. Next morning the world
was buried deep in snow, but, after
breakfast, as everything had been eaten
up by tho small army of guests, it was
found necessary to do something, so the
men and boys laid hands on all the shov
els and brooms and pieces of boar I they
could find, and proceeded to make a tun
nel out to the road. Then the teams
were all hitched up, aud presently a
long, slow-moving but merry line of
road breakers went winding across the
wide desolation of snow. It must have
been a pretty expensive and uncomforta
ble anniversary for the ten-years’couple,
but then it wasn’t their fault, at least,
and they had the satisfaction of knowing
that all these good people were rejoiaing
in the thought that they had made them
happy. Ido not doubt (hough that they
ami all other married couples, liable to
the same experience, will thank me for
the suggestion to each and every anni
versary guest, that they bring a codfish
apiece and put a pound of butter into
the sleigh.
- - -
A Nebraska Blizzard.
Uhe read was a mere track across the
wild prairie, crossing draws aud winding
around the elevated portions. At long
intervals, the dug-out or sod-house, if
not abandoned, gave evidence of habita
tion. The wind, that before blow with
cutting effect, bad now increased into a
fearful gale, and was laden with pellets
of ice and snow that, striking the face,
could scarcely be endured. “What do
you think of the storm, driver ?” I asked.
“I have seen them before, and as long as
I know where we are, I am not afraid,
he replied. The fury of the storm in
creased, aud tho horses that struggled
bravely forward now stopped and turned
around. “I don’t know where I am,
shouted the driver. What! Great
heavens I Are wo lost in this storm ?
Aly breath grew short and my heartbeat
loud. Written in ink. iu a memuranda
Isiok, iu my pocket, was my name and
address. Some one would likely find it,
and tho clue to fate and identity would
be established. There comes the snow
cloud swift as a shadow. The wagon
top that we held by united strength for
protection was wrenched from our hold
aud carried away as a plaything. A nek
Os prairie hay standing leeward was blown
on us and over us, aud away with the
storm. “Whip the horses for life,
driver !” we shouted, and wo turned to
go with tho storm. In less distance
than a mile we reached a dug-out. Thank
heaven ! It is a refuge, and, more dear!
than alive, wo staggered in at the door.
Fortunately it was inhabited, and the
hospitable inmates did everything in their
power for our relief. Tho driver s face
and my own were badly frosted, and the
i ears of my companion, frozen hard.
Ohio State Journal.
A Curious but Pleasing Custom.
There is a custom prevailing among
the inhabitants of the Sandeman Islands,
which may throw a fight upon the civil
ized use of wedding cake. When a na
tive girl whose exceptional beauty has
brought her many suitors is knocked
down and carried off by her accepted
suitor, the wedding pair, within fortj
cight hours of the wedding, send a cup
of poison distilled from the hulahula
tree to each one of the bride’s former ad
mirers. If any recipient feels that he
rnnnot become reconciled to the mar
riage, he drinks the poison and dies; but
if he declares that he will survive the loss
of his intended wife, he throws away the
poison and feels bound in honor never to
'how the slightest sign of J
ment Dy this admiiwWe eystem tho
menu. -rv o/
husband a.
i to hve on rnenioj
Kheowes three months
fto do the same.