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BRYANT’S EXPEDITION.
It Will Sail from New York on
the 24th of June.
Ito Object I* to Meet 1.1 rat. Peary and
Hi* Party at Bonrtoln Bay—The Able
Young Man In Charge of
the Enterprise.
The announcement was made at the
monthly meeting of the Philadelphia
Geographical club that an expedition,
to be known as the Peary Auxiliary
expedition’will sail from New 5 ork
on .Inno 21, 1894, for Newfoundland.
The party will consist of seven persons.
Lieut. Peary, before leaving Philadel
phia, deposited funds and instructions
with Prof. Angelo Heilprin covering
this relief project.
The leader of the party, says Harper's
Wccl.’y, will lie Henry <l. Bryant.
They expect to reach St. .Johns, N. I''.,
in time.to leave that port in the Fal
con, which they will there find await
ing them, on July I. The first stop
will bo at Godhavn, on what is called
Disko island, in North Greenland. This
is a Danish tettlement, and recognition
of the expedition by the officials at that
point will be secured through the state
department at Washington.
Continuing north. Melville bay will
be crossed ns quickly as the condition
of the ice will permit, and Cape York
visited. From here the run will be
direct to Peary headquarters at Bou
doin bay, in Ingleficld gulf, in latitude
seventy-seven degrees forty-three min
utes north. They calculate to reach
this harbor by July 25.
Lieut. Peary and his companions are
not expected to return to this point
from their long sledge trip through the
ice-floes until the last of August. In
the meantime the Falcon will be em
ployed in original research. The Baflin
bay shore of Ellesmere Land wifi bo
explored for some trace of the young
Swedish explorers, Bjorling and Kall
stenius, whoso schooner was wrecked
on the Carey islands in the summer of
1893, and who loft a message on these
Islands, which was recovered by a
Scotch whaler in C.-'obcr, 1893, stating
wSL i
KICNHY o. BUT ANT.
that they proposed to seek refuge
among the Esquimaux of Ellesmere
Land.
Jones’ sound will also be explored for
a greater distance than has yet been
attempted, and the effort made to map
out the 299 miles of unknown ooast-lino
forming the northeast shore of Jones’
sound and the western border of Elles
mere Land. This triangular area of
100,090 square miles, known as Elles
mere Land, is one of the few largo ter
ritories the outlines of which have not
yet been determined. A tribe of Esqui
maux are said to inhabit this land who
have not so far coma in contact with
explorers.
The Fa 100, will bo back at Boudoin
bay on September 1, and expects to
reach Philadelphia with the Peary party
on September 15. Dr. Axel Olilin, a
Swedish naturalist, representing the
friends of Bjorling and Kallstonius,
will accompany the auxiliary expedi
tion.
The leader will be Henry G. Bryant,
who was born In Allegheny, Pa., on
November 7, 1859. He is the son of
Walter Bryant, a well-known Pitts
burgh merchant. Young Mr. Bryant
graduated from Princeton college in
1883, and after studying law in the
office of Hon. Robert N. Wilson, of
Philadelphia, graduated from the law
department of the University of Penn
sylvania in 1886.
He has been an insatiate traveler.
In 1884 and 1886 he visited the north
ern countries of Africa. Subsequently
he employed much of his time in hunt
ing trips in the Rocky mountains. In
1891 with Prof. C. A. Kevaston, he
started north to Labrador, penetrated
a distance of 350 miles inland from the
coast., reached the Grand falls after
many privations and hardships, and
found their height to bo 310 feet.
Mr. Bryant was second in command
»ot the Peary relief expedition sent out
by the Philadelphia Academy of Natu
ral Science in 1892, under the leader
ship of Angelo Heilprin. Upon his re
turn from this trip Mr. Bryant pub
lished a volume on Labrador. He is now
secretary of the Geographical club of
Philadelphia.
Idiocy Cured by Surgery.
11 is of interest to note the results of
recent experiments made by surgeons
in the curing of idiocy in children.
Like many other things now in surgery
and medicine, these experiments
originated in Paris. The idea was
conceived that idiocy frequently was
caused, where no congenital causes
were apparent, by ths premature
union of the bones of the skull in
infants. Acting on this assumption,
the French surgeons removed a por
tion of the bony covering of the skull
on several patients, the idea being that
the brain had not had room to expand
commensurate with the growth of the
child. The results in many instances
proved the correctness of the theory.
In some ca*s the results were remark
able. In one case an idiot girl of eight
years began to show signs of recover
ing intelligence the very day after the
operation was performed.
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HAVE YOU SEEN IT?
Fr»k Leslie's Scenes and Portraits of the Civil
War.
The only official illustrated history of the
late war ever published.
The greatest book of modern times, which
illustrates the principal events of American
history, with an introduction by Maj Gen.
Joseph B. Carr.
Hundreds of stirring battle scenes, grand
naval engagement, blockade running oper
ations of cruisers and privateers graphically
pictured.
Nothing recalls the past so forcibly as
pictures of the scenes taken at the time and on
the spot.
A picture is impartial; it cannot represent
the success of the victors, without represent
ing the heroism of their opponents; it does
justice to both sides.
Like Memorial day, which the north and
south both keep holy, it strengthens the ,
bonds of sympathy between all true American
citizens.
Don't fail to examine this publication before
purchasing any other war history.
Livery.
If you want a road hetse the only place in
town to get one is at the Pulaski House
stables. More of them than all other stables
combined. Landaus and Kensingtons for hire
by the hour or day. No plugs »r cripples.
E. C Gleason, proprietor. 188 and 140 Bryan,
rent to PulMkl house.
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• ’ F.'n.si To ; - .1,
Frtv of »’.v England*.! t uHih’F.v i ionn Can
Jb rr.'K i'tl to Ohl England.
liven in Connecticut wns y>o skill of
the Kuiekei'boekern iwlmired, says Har
per's Magazine. A new invention or
Unproygimjit wms. said to ‘'beat tho
Dirteli. The Delft tiles on the Itearfh,
the crockery on the dresser, the blue
tiles lining (lie front, of the fireplaces
in tlw best houses show how the Dutch
had a part in the evolution of the New
England house. Hundreds of open fire
places in New England were decorated
with these tiles ufter tile Dutch fashion,
and contained not only “proverbs in
porcelain,” but abundant Biblical illus
tration. From the evidences of relies
nearly as much of the imported tine
furniture of t he northern colonies camo
from Holland as ft’om England. Not a
few of the old teapots and other table
service, which followed upon tho in
troduction of these oriental hot drinks
which drove out the beer and tankards,
did indeed come over from Holland,
though not on the Mayflower, as so
often aniiehronistleally alleged. When,
too, the open fireplace gradually gave
way to supposed improvement, it was
ton Dutch thing with a Dutch name—
the stove. Not only in Plymouth, but
elsewhere, numerous houses had what
can be occasionally seen throughout
New England to-day (nor by this do
we mean the later substitute of tin) —
■a Dutch oven. It was under this spa
cious dome of brick and clay that those
famous articles of Yankee diet, the
pumpkin pie. brown bread, baked beq.ns
aud fish balls had their evolution.
No smoker of tobacco in the snow
white meerschaum rejoiced more in his
coloring of the seafoam clay than did
the rosy housewives of Massachusetts
bay in the rich hues of bean, bread and
flsh. The Browning clubs of early
days met in the kitchen rather than in
the parlor or vendome. The doughnut
may have been too cosmopolitan an
article to claim invention at the hands
of any one people; yet what Yankee
“fried cake” or doughunt ever equaled
an olekoek? Was not cruller, whoso
derivation confounds the dictionary
makers, who call it “a kind of” dougli
uut, first brought to perfection by
Capt. Kroll Qironouneed anil sometimes
spelled crull), the whilom commander
and Dutch church elder at Fort Or
ange? To this day the “cookey”
(koekje), noodles, hodgepodge, smear
ease. rulliehies, cold slaw mid other
dishes that survive iu New England
farmhouses are. despite their ehanged
pronunciation and spelling, proofs that
the Yankees enriched their monoton
ous menu of early colonial days by bor
rowing the more varied faro of their
Dutch neighbors in tho west and south.
As for the popular American winter
breakfast luxury, the buckwheat cake,
it was introduced from Central Asin by
the Hollanders, acclimated, cultivated,
named “beechmast” (bockweit), and In
the form associated with heat, sweets,
aroma and good cheer is a Dutch inven
tion.
UNDAUNTED by polar cold,
The Fursult of Food Tempts Birds to
Brave tho Most Rigorous Climate.
In tho countries bordering on the
polar seas, where the changing seasons
bring alternately the two extremes of
dearth and plenty birds are more trtii
rnerous in the short summer than anjs
whore else nil the world over and
winter are absent altogether. All apg
immigrants there by force of clrcutm
stances. In like manner the blrds of
temperate climates are affected by the
eewoual change*, though in a leu de.
cn«> tteeugh nt ai ms
lluri bye:. ":of c . • . ..> /. .11-
proteei . d holies. Ace .-r 'i . < to Lit
teli's Living Age, a coat of mail! not
to lie compared to a coat of feather. '>r
safety, so fai K as a bird's life 1 <■ u
cerned. Layer upon layer of fcatn s
Ltv,* o £ w»Ur *.
any degree Os cold. In proof of this,
see how the delicate tern, after winter
ing in comparatively mild weather,
go back to the ice. floes of tho polar sea
and lay their eggs on the bare ice.
For two or three weeks the tender
breast of the sea sxvallow is pressed
I against a cold block of ice. Again, as
another example of the influence of
I food rather than climate in governing
bird action, take the colony of bee
calicos. Tho becenlico is a .Mediter
ranean bird common on the southern
shores of Spain and Italy, in the Gre
cian islands, Sicily and Malta andon
the northern shores of Africa. For- 1 '
merly it was quite unknown in the!
British isle: . but some years ago a;
large orchard of fig trees was planted
near Brighton, and the beccafieos have
discovered tho fact and come over to
share the spoil. Doubtless the niyht
ingules told them the story of English
tigs and showed them the way over.
Be this 1: , it may, the little birds from
the warm shores of the Mediterranean
( bid fair to bee ane established as nat
uralized British subjects.
Ail Old Tlinvr.
Abraham Garrison, the broiher of the
late Commodore Gurrison, who died at
Allegheny, I’a., at the age o! nine: -,, a
few days since, said in a reminisei ut
mood recently: “In 1846, when I was in
Washington. 1 saw Cluy. Calhoun. Web
. ster and Benton in the senate. A party
of us each paid Samuel B. Morse fifty
cents to telegraph our names to Balti
more, mid he was glad to get the
money. In 1840 I saw Gen. William
Henry Harrison drive up to the old
‘ Pittsburg hotel, now the St. Charles
, hotel, with an old army comrade. It
was snowing, and some men told tho
‘ general to put on his hat, which he
. had raised to acknowledge the greet
ings of the people. The general laughed
and said to the old comrade at his side:
! ‘We have been iu a worse situation than
, this without our hats, and itfwon't hurl
us.’”
Terrible Prison*.
■ It Is said that the prisons of Morocco
■ are the worst in the world. No care or
I attention whatever Js given to the pri»-
I oners. They uro left dependent on
; their friends for food, and if they have
■ no friends the government provides only
a bit of bread or a handful of grain daily
’ to keep them alive,
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SUPERSTITIOUS POSTALCLERKS
Mail Shcl * That Have Been iu an Acci
dent Arc Kouj'ht After.
A group of railway postal clerks, just
in from a run, stood in the transfer of
fice at the Pennsylvania station the
other morning, waiting for the cable
car to start up i" order to get home,
say; the Washington News. .
‘ Tell yon. felt a bit scary on this
trip." observed one of the men as he
knocked the ashes from his pipe and
glanced at the clock.
“What v.a the matter? Inspector on
the ear?" asked one. "Flat wheel?"
queried another.
“Worse than that. Forgot my red.
Left it in the office. First time for six
months.”
“'A here did you get yours?” asked
the tall man with the sandy beard.
“I've had it a long time. Cub gave
it to me. and he got it from the ‘Fat
Nancy’ wreck,” was the reply.
Just then the whirl of the enisle be
came audible in the dear morning air,
and the mail slingers made a run for
the avenue.
“Vdiat's a red?” was asked of a clerk
who was still lounging in the room.
For reply he opened his valise and
drew out a dingy red mail sack. It
was a plain canvas pouch, such as is
used for nmil matter of the lower
classes, and, save for the color, did not
differ from any ono of the 100,000 or so
that the government owns,
“Once in awhile we have a little
smashup. you know,” he said, “and oc
casionally some of the boys get hurt,
or worse. Our ears are pretty danger
ous places in the event of an accident.,
and. if there is any damage, why. it's
usually felt most in the mail or ex
press ear. It isn't often that they
are : erious, but now and then one of
the boys get., smashed, and then there
is naturally some blood around, and it
gets on the mail .sacks. In the old days
the government very considerately
used to put such sacks out of use. for
you can t get the stain out. Then some
genius conceived the notion of dyeing
them red, but that only served to mark
them.
“Every business has its supersti
tions. he continued, “and I guess we
are no exception, for some of us have!
nn idea that it is lucky to have a red in
the car. I don't know why, I'm sure,
unless it is on the principle that the
same sack will not be in two bad acci
dents. So when one comes our wav wq
freeze onto it. and try to keep it handy.
“Os cou'rse,” he continued, rather
shamefacedly, “it seems like a queer
kind of feeling to have a reminder of
that sort around, but it's all in the
way you look at it, and there are lots
of things just as foolish other people
do.”
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE.
A Sportsman, Sportins Man, and a Sport
Not the Sarno Thing.
There were a knot of men standing
on a street corner, says the Washington
Post. One of them had just finished re
lating some experiences of a bunting
excursion which he had taken the day
previous down the river.
“So you're a sporting man, are you,
Jack? I never knew that before,
really," said one of his companions.
“No, sir,” said the first speaker, “I
am not a sporting man; I am a sports
man, but I am neither a sporting man
nor a sport.”
“Indeed! And where, pray, is the
difference?”
"The difference? Why, great Scott,
man, there is as much distinction be
tween » sportspaa, upd a
! man, and a sport as there is between a
: doctor, u cannibal, and a thief!” The
speaker glared at the others, but the
first man still looked blank.
“Pray define it then,” he said after a
pause.
“To bo sure. It's something that
everybody ought to know, but unfortu
nately lots of folks never take the
trouble to learn those things. A sports
-1 man is a man who loves sport in its
1 truest sense. At least Iso consider it.
; lie is a man who enjoys hunting, fish
ing. camping out, and is commonly
' fond of other athletic amusements in
the way of boating, swimming, and
the like. Ho is, pardon my opinion,
apt to be a man of gentlemanly in
stincts and brains. A sporting man is
an entirely different sort of a fellow.
He. is one who takes an interest in sports
of different sorts, although he may not
engage in any of them nt all. He prob
ahly plays the races, drinks bard, takes
I in all the prize fights, and spends most
I of his evenings, when there is nothing
I else on hand, playing cards and whoop
ing things up. But a sport is on a still
lower scale. He is a fellow who thinks
he's big potatoes when he'sreally noth
ing but a runt. He need not know any
thing about sports or engage in them
either. His reputation will be won
chiefly by his loud dress, his flirtations
with the girls, his hangiro- around sa-
I Lions, and his general worthlessness.
No, sir; there are a good many persons
who are proud to be called' sporting
men or sports, but to call a true sports
man by such a term is little short of an
Insult.”
An OdurlcsM Region.
“In that country once known as the
‘Great American Desert,’ embracing a
portion of Texasand Aria aa. there are
no odors," said a citizen of Dallas to a
Cincinnati Enquirer reporter. “There
luscious grapes and many other fruits
grow, especially near the cross timber
country, lint there is no perfume; wild
flowers have no smell, and careasses of
dead animals, which in dry reasons are
very plentiful, emit no odor. It was
always supposed to lea ti\ less plain,
upon which no plant could grow or
breathing thing could lire, but u large
part of it is now sucoc- .-.fully cultivated,
and but for the rarity of the atmos
phere. causing the peculiarity 1 have
named, and the mirages, which are
even more perfect than in the Desert of
Sahara, no one would look upon it as a
barren country now. Another singu
lar feature common to the desert land
is that objects at a great distance ap
pear greatly magnified. A few scraggy
mesquite bushes will look like a noble i
forest; stakes driven into the ground !
will seem like telegraph poles,”
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STRANGE DISCOVERY.
Tlie Ossified Romalita of a Pre
historic American.
Spine Was Carved So Tlr.it tho Maa Could
Not Have Looked Away from the
Ground Secrets of an
Ancient Mound.
An hour's ride south of San Francisco
the remains have just been discovered
of a community of prehistoric inhabit
ants of this country. They were found
by a party of students from Stanford
university who were on a scientific ex
ploration some four miles east of the
(University grounds.
A pear-shaped mound of earth covers
the remains of the colony. It is calcu
lated that some thousands of persons
are b --' 1 there. The mound lies with
its longer axis north and south, and
: measures 470 feet in length fcy 320 in
i width, and has an area of nctrly two
; acres. In height ij ranges from about
two feet at the southern end to ten feet
at its highest point, pear the northeim
extremity. The soil used in its con-.
1 struction was the ordinary black adobe
i of the neighborhood. .
It was ascertained from Eqjne of the
■ old inhabitants of Spanish descent in
: the vieiiffty that when the whites first
! settled the country there was an Indian
village near the mound. But tha
would not necessarily indicate any con
nection between the Indians and the
prehistoric people buried there.
The mound is now being explored
with scientific care under the direction
of Prof. Mary Sheldon Barnes, who has
charge of the work in Pacific coast his
tory at the university.
The first day's excavation resulted in
the finding of three skeletons, together
with a number of pointed bone imple
. ments and two large stone mortars,
: such as are used by the Indians for
■ grinding corm
One of these skeletons, which is de
! picted here, is apparently that of an old
man -who had been a sufferer from a
terrible disease, which had caused ai
extraordinary deformity. With the ex-
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OSSIFIED REMAINS OF THE PREHISTORIC
AMERICAN.
ception of the second joint in the neck
there was a complete ossification of all
the joints in the spinal column, mailing
it as rigid as a broomstick. The ribs
were fixed to the backbone, leaving no
possibility of motion in respiration. At
the points of attachment of the larger
ligaments there were deposits of os
seous tissue. The unfortunate man
with tlie immovable backbone did not
even possess the advantage of being
able to stand upright. His spine was
curved forward from the first lumbar.
He could never have seen the sky un
less his friends turned him on his back.
It is rather surprising that a primi
tive people should have taken care es
such a useless old man, but possibly
they thought his shape was nn indica
tion of supernatural power.
The larger bone of his left forearm
had been broken at some period and
reset with considerable skill. The oi
man was found reposing on a bed of
ashes and his legs had been partially
burned. Close at hand was found a
large stone mortar, nnd a clam-shell
was found near his left hand, indicat
ing. possibly, that lie had partaken of
that mollusk shortly before his death.
Not faraway were the remains of a
large quantity of burned shells of the
bay oyster, crab and aboline, apparent
ly the remains of a prehistoric clam
bake. Bones of a deer, elk, skunk and
other animals were also found. It was
evident that the primitive people fared
extremely well.
Some twenty skeletons have been
found, according to the latest reports.
They are those of persons of all ages.
The owner of more than one skeleton
had met with a violent death. In onp
skull a boned spear-head was found
imbedded two inches. The skull was
that of a child not more than fourteen
years old. Thu skulls, as mav b
judged from the one reproduced here,
are those of a race of small intelli
gence. A number of shell ornaments
were found, and also perforated disks
and pendant s, showing rude attempts at
ornamentation.
A Nice Old Family.
There is living at present in the vil
lage of Urussofka, in the Russian gov
ernment of Tula, a hard-working and
industrious peasant family, the head
of u hich is 104 years of age. and was
formerly body servant to Prince
Schakofskoi. There are nine sons,
whose ages range from 50 to 80 years.
Two of them performed tlie long mili
tary service of twenty-five years under
Czar Nicholas. The father is still com
! paratively as active as his younger
! sons of .>0 and GO years, and takes his
I full and equal share of the field and
farm work. No member of the family
is a total abstainer, but father and
sons have always led a temperate and
frugal life. The patriarch himself, ia
his gay moods, is still accustomed to
execute with astonishing verve and
agility some of the favorite national
j dances—dances which always require
, a suppleness of limb in the dancer.
■ The villagers invariably consult the
old man in their troubles.
Popes and Their Beards,
If we are to believe the old proverb,
prophetshave always had beards for
the faithful to swear by; not so with
the popes. From the time of St. Peter
down to the year 1153 the popes all
wore full beards, but for the next four
centuries they were cleanly shaven,
j Then came a period of two centuries in
which they again wore the beard, but
from the year 1709 until the present
time the smooth face alone has bM*
*aen in the papal line.