Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 10 November 1893 — Page 7

AT WAR WITH HERSELF. — '• she Story of a Woman's Atonement, by Charlotto M. Braemo. CHAPTKIt IX—Continued. Then they sat for some minutes Iff lienee, Major St. John amusing hirnlelf by throwing small stones from the '•took into the sea, Captain Flemyug looking with a far-off, dreamy gaze at waters and the sapphire iky; Suddenly Major St. John broke the silence that seemed to have enfolded them. "General Sir Huntley Dacro underItands how to give a good ball. I never remomber a better entertainment in Malta than that of last night.” Paul Flemyng made no reply, the Subject evidently did not interest him. “How beautiful la bolle Etholdreda frows! I admired her exceedingly last Evening.” “She is a lovely girl,” said Paul, ♦outing himself; "it seems a pity that youth and beauty like hers should be buried hero.” “The General is sure to return to England, and when he does that young lady will create a furor. If I. for in- | Stance, had any idea of asking her to Kry me, I should do so at once." And .or St. John looked curiously at the I Balin, handsome face. 1 “That would doubtless prove a wise breeaution,” said the Captain, carole sly; “I am not a great believer in the I felicity of either love or marriage." I “Then you are no soldier.” was the I quick reply; “next ta glory* a soldier I Values love." I “It may be that I have had no actual I experience,” laughed Paul Plemyng. I “1 have imagined to myself a kind of I Ideal woman, but I have never met any I one like her." I. “That's all very well. I prefer the I real myself," returned the Major, drylly. “I should have imagined, for oxI ample, that la belle Ethel was infiI tritely superior to any ideal that you or 11 could imagine.” |! “She is a beautiful girl.” I 1 “She is tnore than that," remarked ■ the Major. “I can read passion, geIbius, fire, power, in her face. Do you ■ know," questioned he, abruptly, “I fanIcied there was seme little tenderness Ibetween you and Miss Dacre?" I “I never care to discuss such matIters,” said Paul, calmly. I “That is so say, you will not boast of (‘good fortune.’” I: “I have none to boast of, and if I had Ithero is honor in love, I suppose, as Iwell as in warfa-e.” I “We all noticed Miss Dacre’s bouquet ■of white rosebuds,” con.inued Major ■St. John, “and we could not help seeing ■that when you left the ball-ro m you ■carried cne of them in your coat.” ■ “There is nothing in that. Miss Bbacie gave it to me because I admired ■them. ” ■ “Young ladies do not give rosebuds ■for nothing,” said the Major laughing, frl consider it a most suspicious circumstance. " ■ To this Captain Flcmyng made no will call at the General’s somokinn to-day?” said Major St. John. I “Yes. I told my servant to follow me fciero first with the papers and letters ■r..m the mail. ■ “Tnen you will not toll me anything Bib >ut Miss Dacre, Fail?” ■ “I have nothing to toll, except that I Bhink her ve.y beautiful, and of ai Kmiable dispa ition. Hew nicely she Kpeaks to her father an I how kind sho ■a to every one! ' Ah, hero comes the Be ters!” ■ There wore several let'ors and paB»r.. Contain Flemyng gave the papers Ho hij f fend, whi e ue read the closely ■written pages of his English correHp nlence. He came at length t >a b uo, Htficial-lookit g eave ope. and Major Kt. John, in-toad < f reading the news, Hooked at him while ne opened it. H The letter was of great moment to Hie young lo'dier. It was to t 11 him Hvhetho • he was Lord Charnleigh, of Known Leighton, a peer of the leilm, Bib a vast fortune at his command: or Khether he was to remain Captain Klemyng, with nothing rave h s unHr.U ned bravery and his noble heart. Ket his hand) dd not tremble as ho Kroko the seal, his fuco neither flu ,hed Korgiew pale w.th emotion—ho was Halm and collected; and the Mater, a Brave man himself, did silent homage B> his comrade s self-command. Paul Klemyng read ti e letter through, toon Kid it aide, and clmly opened the Best. Nothing could bo gathered from Bls face—the. o was neither great elaBon nor disappointment in it. B “What nows?" asked the Major, cuBiously, unable to bear tho suspense Bnv longer. ■fl was just geing to te’l you. For a Biwyer's let tor, this is really romantic. She true heir is found, ana, to use a ■hbcrnicLm. she is an heiress. Tnere Sill be no Earl of Charnleigh, but a ■suntess. It it quite a romance. Even Sir, Clements seems touched by it; he ■tye there is not tie least doubt as to ■arfect legality of the young lady's Maims. Tao court has paved juug■.ent in her favor. No will can I o Miund, and she is the n kin. Ke aids that sho is young, exteedingly Bjvely, and has led a mo t retired li e.” j Hl“W1io was sho?" asked tho major. | K“Taat he d :es not say; but, to give ■pr her full title, she is now Leonie, Muntees of Charnleigh aud Baroness [■eldsaye.” a position for a young girl!” tho Major. “I cannot help Kishing, Paul, that the g oat prize had iKen yours.” ■“I resign it cheorful’y,” he returned. should have liked it, but it is hers, Mid I would not take it from her if I ! Heav en knows. She is welcome 1 Hit. See -1 part with my h pes as j as 1 part with this." And Captain Flemyng, at he sp< k ), tore a p ece H paper into shreds and throw t.iem R a yare a her >. If I had just lost a IBerage, 1 should bo in a most un- ( frame of mind with tho whole , |K>rld. I can admire y >ur h robin, but gHnuot imitate it. D > you know what do if I wore in your place, mon sabreur?” 'I cannot even guess.” Bme te England, wco, win, and marry oO’intcsi. | youngiladles a-o n' t so wiling BBbptaari led,” said Captain Flemyng. go now, Major: It is time I IBlaMny visit to the General. Will you me?” I feel that I should bode trop. Igßha'l see you this evening.” |HAnd the two, without more words, |Hrted after the fashion of Englishmen, SHhough Maj< r St. John had such a ' affection f>r his friend that, he |M d have wept like a woman over his ■appointment. CHAPTER X. Captain Paul Flemyng |Mlked on. He would not admit that UH was disappointed; he said to him■■t thot a soldier must bear the bus- , ■b of fortune as he bears the blows of | |H> enemy, without flinching. As he ■Biked on beneath the sapphire sky, ■■ sun pouring down golden flords of ■■ht upon him, he thought much of SB lovely young counters who was now ■rtiesß of Crown Leighton. He regKted her name to himself.

■Loonie," he raid. “Tho face that goes with the name should bo bright, fair and dainty. I wonder wbot the idchest countess is like. Only 18, and one of the richest heiresses irt England, she should have some one to tuke care of her.” Not until ho reached the General's handsome house did Captain Fletnvng ' cease to dwell uncn such thoughts: then ho was routed from his dreams of far-off England, and returned to tho i evory-day practical duties of life. General Dacro was not ot homo, but Ml.s Dacro was, and tho young soldier follows 1 tho eorvant into tho drawingroom. She was not there, but through the long Ftench windows he saw the gleam of her dress in tho balcony. Evon as he crossed ,tho ro >m he thought to himsolf wligt a perfect picture was before him. /The golden sunlight came brokenly through the cool green vine-loaves; the light iron balcony was one mass of blooming flowers, and tho lovolv girl In their midst looked like their oueon. Tall luscious rcses twined round tho slender pillars, and purple passion-flowers lay at her feet. “A flower among flowers," he said, laughingly. “I called to thank you for one of tho happiest evenings I have ever spent, Miss Dacre. ” “You owo me little gratitude. Captain Flemyng; tho ball was papa’s idea, not mine. Will you come out here on to tho balcony? It is so much pleasanter than in the warm room. I think July is a month that tries one’s temper severely.” “I do not think you havo any temper to try," ho remarkel, pushing.backthe roses while he Lund a place by her side. She looke l at him with flashing eyes. “You are mistaken. Captain Flemy ng. A man’s idea of feminine excellence is always inanity. Now, do believe me, a woman without a temper would be simply insipid and unbearable.” He laughed at hor earnest, vehement words. “You must allow one thing—even if sho has a little spice of temper, she must not show it.” “I shall not agree even to that," she replied. “What would tire any ono more than a continual diet of sugar?” He smiled to himself, wondering if the young Countess in far-off England was of the same opinion, and sho, looking up at him sudden’y, caught the smile. Ho had not noticed that while she spoke to h.m her beautiful face turned shyly away; he never saw how tho white hands trembled and tho dark eyes dropped, so ho did nit lead their secret. Ho was blind to all thse signs, that would have been so well understood by a man of greater vanity. She caught tle smile, and ha.tened to change the subject. Xaptain Flemyng,” sho said, “I wonder if I may ask you a ques i n?” “You will do me honor,” he replied. “I know the English mail was in today, ana—pray, pardon me-I heard papa talking ab ut you to my aunt. Shall you think me very inquisitive if I a k you whether the Charnleigh caso is settled?” Looking at face, and the e’ear, true eyes bent so kindly upon him, the impulse i ano to him to tell her the whole truth. She listened, even as he real his letters, with a calm face; but when his story was e ided, there was little of calm in the Hushed face and trembling lips. “Then you have loot entirely,” she said; “there is no chance for you?” “None at all,” ho answered; “the affair is finally s ttled.” “And you knew that only two hours since, when the mail camo in?" “I received my tette s and learned my fate then," ho replied. v ‘Yet, with that kncwledgde, you could c m > here calm'y to fulfill a trifling social duty, and n iver once kjb> tion what must have lain heavily on your heart!" “I a sure you,” he expla’ned, earnestly, “th it since I havo stoed in this balcony until you a-ked mo ab mt it, I have i.o/er given it one thought.” She was to bo forgiven it' she misunderstood him; her lovely ace flushed and her eyes dropped with a glad, happy Lok whic.i she did not seek to repress. So the sweet, fragrant sunshinv hours paesod while t o two converted among tho flowers. To tho young girl those hot rs teemed stolen from paradise, they were so full of happiness; they flew like golden moments; she could ha-dly realize that they were ended wl en Captain Flemyng said that he must go. He held the little white hand in his for ons minute, then he wes gone; and to the girl it seeped qs if all the sunshine, the fragrance, and the beauty had g< no with him. Ho had been it inding with one h; d lying lightly on tho iron railing; when he was gone, she stooped down and kis ed the place where his hand had lain, and then a hot blush burned her face. “ I would I were a queen," she said, “that I m'g it give him all tho riel es that wonlu be mine. 1 wish I bad tho largest fortune ever given to Woman that I might si.are it with him." CHAPTER XI. Cantain Paul Flomying never spoke of his disappointment; he had not meniioned his expectations, but every I one know from the papers what they I were. Bat one feeling was general, and that was universal admiration of the coolness, the courage, the g ace with whic i he brre what to mest men would have seemed an almost Unbea--ab'e disappointment. No ono admired his cool, calm courage more than Ethel Dacre. “If ever we gn to London," she said to Capta n Flemyng, one day, “I ihall hope t > tee your beautiful young counite «. Have vbu ever seen her yourI se f?” | “No,” ho replied; “to to'l ycu a still mo:o startling truth, I ao n t know of he • existence. I shall nit be sorry when leave of absent o comes, so that I may go home: then I shall see her." “Yiuwiil I e sure to like her very ' much.” said Ethel, with a sigh. j “She is the head of the family; I must look up to her as ‘C-iofta cf a great r. co.” He did not understand the wistful | look she gave ' im. “Ycu wi 1 think her very beautiful, ! without do.,bt, Captain Fle.nyng.” “Lawyers are give i neither to romance nor to exageera ion. and Mr. Clerreots te h me she is lovely ” “You wi 1 be sure t> think h r the very nicest girl y< u over saw." He looked up with an amused smile. “1 cann. t tell, Ml s Dace; I will let ycu know if the mat er interests }ou.” “Os course it interests me,” she replied, turning away with something like taint envy of the young countess. i Yet he did not underotand-granite itself was not colder or harder, not more insontib’e thm he. Meanwhile Leonie, Countess of Charnleigh, was learning to fulfill all the duties of her station. Crown Leighton had in former timea been justly celebrated for It < magnificent hospitalities. Lady Charn.eigh was very anxious to resumo them. I “Imagine a fete in these grounds !" she said, with ’fhe ardor of one of whom all such things were new. “Imagine colored lamps amid these Fees, fountains scattering silver spray high in the perfumed a'r, and music floating over , the trees and flowers—ladies in jewels , bright as the stars in the iky! Oh, j

Lady Fanshawe, do lot us havo ono fete 1” “Not until you havo been presented my dear Luly Charnleigh. I know wfiiit is due te your position and rank. There can bo no obje *ti< n to a few quiet parties, but your first public appearance must be nt the court ot hor. I Most Gracious Majesty." She hod been to a very few quiet evenl ig pa'ties, and Lady Fanshawe hud invited some young people to Crown Leighton, but Lady Cha nleigh did not care for these dull entertain ments. “I am so tired of seeing young ladies in white muslin."she said ono day, with a sigh; “they al! i-ing, and play, and dance, and talk In low voices about tho last now fashions. Auntie”—for by that numo “my lady" cho. e tod .'signatc hor guardian—“toil mo, does njt thp mind require food as well a-, the body?" “Most assuredly, Le file.” “Then my mind li starving. I thought people talked so cleverly—they do In books. No one ever says anything trite or stupid t :oro. I want food for my mind, and I cannot find it in tho society of these white-robed young ladies.” One day in April she entered tho drawing-room whore Lady Fanshawe awaited her. “Oir,. auntie,” sho cried, “I wish it were May !, You said we should go te London ir ..May; I am counting tho hours." 1 “You are to- ’bo .presented in May, Leonie,” returned tuo elder lady; “so wo must decide soon upon your court dress. Os course you will wear the Charnleigh diamonds;” There came to tho youn’g girl, who had been roared in the midst of poverty and privation, a kind of wonder as to was a l a dieam - whether sno would wake up suddenly and laugh at her own folly. Lady Fanshawe looked at tho bril iant face. “Leonlo,” sho sa'd, suddenly, “you ought to marry well—you are sure to marry well. ” A low ripple of laughter came from Lady Charnleigh, as she looked up with the frank, sweet smile that characterized her. “Marry!" sho said; “why, what can marriage give me?" Lady 1 anshawe made no reply. “I have wealth,” continued tae girl, “jewels, rank— what more does Lfe require to make it happy?” “You will find out some day—that is, if you are of the same nature as other girls. I am not romantic, nor do I teach romance, but at your ago I should have th ught that love would take precedence oi all.” “Perhaps it might if I knewanything at all about it: but Miss Templeton d.d not allow such a thing to be mentioned. Any young laly found guilty of receiving a love letter would havo been severely pun'shed." “M.ss Templeton acted rightly," said Lady Fanshawe; “gi Is at school have no business to think of such a thing." “Os course,” continued Leonie; with an air of cha-ming cando -, “we wore allowed to talk as much as we liked about mt nay; so that I understand that better than love.” But in the eyes of Leonio, Lady Cha nleigh. as she spoke, tl ere was something that belied her words. |TO BE CONTINUED. OLD VIRGINIA. Queer Customs Existing* in That Conservative State. A curious custom existing in conservative Virginia is that of considering it impolite to drive past an ther carriage on the r ad and going in the earns direction. T.ue it is, some iconoclasts and out.iaers drive past their fellow travelers w.t’iout c mpuncti n, but they, therefore, prove their claim to be called iconoclasts a d outti lets. When it is a very pressing cate, an apology is called out, such as. “Pray excuse me, but my horse is or “I am in l asts to catch the b. at,” or something cf the kind. But to drive ruthlessly ahead without a word < f apology is considered the acme cf ill bree ling. : The roads in Virginia are n't interesting, except fcr tbe'r natural beauty, as the people of wealth, follov.i.ig their Engli h ancestors in practice, teek a proud seclus.on for their houses. Only the poorest people build their houses on the main road, and one may travel from one end of the country to another and not find a single handsome residence on the pul lie highway. There was in early times another and a very practical reason for abjuring the public highway. Every mtn s house was at the service of every man, woman and child in the country; an Arab hospitality obtained and was enj iyed to the full. The- joeple whi had undesirable homes were always willing to bestow their company up n ’heir more fortunate neighbors, so that it wouldn't do to le tco convenient to the main art ries of travel. Especially was this so when a visit from a family meant t’.ie entertaining of two coacii horse- 1 , a coachman, and a mail; for the negroes went visiting with the white p< ople, and enjoyed it quittras much. Hospital .ty w.is one cf their groat virtues, an 1 is still; for these people excel jn I social viitues, and this part cular ; virtue costs little. It only m ant the '■ klil ng < f half a dozen more chickens | for dli.ner, when there are hundreds, i perhaps, scratching about the poultry I yard; and tl e garde is were overgrown ! with vegetables, for which thoie wa; neither tale or con umption. A Queer Thing About Camels. Some years ago, when the British troops we e fignting against tte fnr< es of the Mahdi in the Scu lan, oppp.irtunity was afforded to many of the correspondents accompanying.the exp edition to study tho habits <f the camel. Most of the transportation of the soldiers’ baggage was dine by thete “ships < t the desert,” as they are called, and at night some of tho newspaper men spent a portion of their lea u e trying to lea-nsomethingnewabo.it I the e st.-argi c.oatures. One of them, who was an in- eteratesmoker, discovered t' at the c. mol is a I great lover of t bacr>. Let any one j smoke a pipe or cigar in tle camel compounl, Said he a id the catnel will follow the smoker about, p’ace his noso close to the burning tobacco, inhale the fumes with a prol< nge l miff, ewall w the smoke, then throwing his head up, with mo itli agape and eyes upturned, thowlng the bioodsn t whites, will grunt a sigh of ocs a -.y that would make the foituneof a Lw comedian in a Inve fcane. 8o if any of you havo a petcamel who seems t > be longing h r something an 1 refuses t ibicomf rted until ho gets it, you m ght gve him a cigar. He is usually so inte ligent that it wo Id probably take very few le sons to teach him how tn smoke in a most expert fashion.—Harper's Yourg People. The ■World's Largest. Vine. The vine at Hampton Courts is believe I to be the largest in Europe, its branches extending ever a spate of 2,300 feet, It was planted from a slip in the y<ar 1708 and genoia'ly beat's upwatdof 2,000 bunches of grapes of the blauk Hambro’ kind. A Trial of Married Lifts. “Just as I expected!" muttered Mr. Billus, examining his Shaving Impletnents. "My wife has quit complaining I about her ooms and my raa jT is rulnedF

HE CAUGHT THE TRAIN. lint G»»o lllraH.lt n Oral of Unnri-nranry Trouble* A story which is ‘convulsing with laughter every railroad man in the . whole State of Fontana who has ’ beard it, was told recently. The butt of tho lauah is a well-known ofllclal of the Great Northern Hallway, says tne Minneapolis Tribune. From Butte to Helena the tracks of tho Great Northern and the Northern Pacific run sidf by side for miles ■ together, ca h taß.ng thesamecurves : around the base of the same moun- i tains and jugging along in genial companionship. About half way to Helena, from Butte, the Great North- 1 e n plunges into an obstructing mountain and runs tbroui? ll ;i tunnel nearly a mile long. The Northern I'acitic here leaves the Great Northern, and, snstea I of passing through - a tunnel, winds about, twisting and turning, leversing itself a dozen times, until one imagines, as he stands upon the rear platform, that ae sees a dozen different railroads, instead of but one. The grade is extremely steep. From the top of the decline one can see the t.ack five different times, each track beine from twenty to seventy-live feet below the one above iu A few weeks ago an Eastern official had occasion to go to Butte from Helena, and as the Northern Pacific | train was the first to leave he boarded i it. The oilfcial was upon an impor-; tant mission, and he could ill cJn-I ceal his indignation when he found that the train was losing time. Sit-! ting next to the window he turned I his contracted brows outward and gazed discontentedly at the wonder-1 tul scenery. Looking down, besud-l denly espied annost directly below] him 10j feet another track He remembered that the Great Northern ran parallel with the Northern Pacific, and that tne latter’s train to Butte would soon be along. So without a word he pulled the bell-cord, clambered off the car and made an ■ uncomfortable climo down the onehiHidred foot cliff. He sat down upon the end of a tie to wait. Fully twenty' minutes passed and no train; twenty five minutes, and be heard a whistle and a locomotive! burst upon him around a curve. The I o.i.cial whirled his hat and the train ] stopped. Climbing onto a coach, he I pit bed his saichel into a seat with i a sigh or satisfact on. However, as' he glanced up, an apparition was be-! fore him in the person of the conductor he had seen twenty-five minutes be.ore on the Northern Pacific i train. ‘•Wbat on earth are you doing i here?’’ inquired the bewildered official. •■Same as I was a half hour ago, coming down the grade on the same train, and saw you silt ng on the same seat where you are now.” The entire coach-load of passengers was onto the joke, and the otlicial sent the newsboy out for a box of j cigars.

Historic Fallacies. Blontlel, the harper, did not disco.er the prison of King Richard. Richard paid his ranso.u, and the receipt for it is among the Austrian archives. lloratius never defended the bridge. The story was manufactured. Gen. Camhronne did notsay: ‘‘The truard dies, but does not surrender.” The words were the invention of a 1 aris journalist, and attritifited to him. Ca? ar did not cross the Rubicon. It lay on the opposite side of th?. Italian peninsula from the point’ where he left his own possessions and entered Italy. The bridge of sighs at Venice has no lomance worthy the name. Most of the unfortunates who crosS it are pettv thieves who are sent to the workhouse. . Dio/e es never lived In a tub. The story that, he did so has no better origin Chan a comment by a biographer that “a man so crabbed (Right to live in a-tub like a dog." , William Tell did not found the Swiss confederation,‘and the story of Gess er lias no historic basis. There is no h store authority for the statement that little George Washington cut down the cherry tree. Wellington, at Waterloo, did not say, “Up guards and at’em!" The words were put into his mouth by an imaginative writer. » i

Alexander Ihe Great did not weep for other worlds to con mer. There is a reason to suspect that his army met witn a serious revere in India, a fact that induced him to retrace his steps 1 The immense burn ng glasses with which Archimedes burned the ships, of the besiegers of Syracuse at ten miles’ distance were never tuanuiiictured, and it is now known that they could not have existed. \ inegar w.ll not split, rocks: so i Hannibal coulcLn'jt thus have made I TiTs wav through the Alps. Nor will ' it dissolve pearls so that the story of Cleo atra drinking pear s melled in vinegar must have been a fiction. The existence of tbe Colossus of j Rho les is considered by some historians extremely doubtful. There is no e\ idence that the ancients were able to cast pieces of metal of such size as must have entered into its I composition. The blood of Rizdo, Mary Stuart’s favo ite, cannot be seen on the floor where he was mindered by Darnley and the other conspirators. What is seen there is a daub of red paint, annually renewed for the beneUt of gaping tour.sts The pass of Thermopvlte was. defended, not by !iio, but at least 7,000 Gieeks, or, according to-ome writers, j 1’,00.1. The 300 were the Spurtan contingent, who showed no more bravery on that occasion than their companions in arms from other Greek btutes. How Katfirs Smoke. The Kimberly Kaffirs are extremely fond of cigars, but they smoke with the lighted end in their mouths. When this peculiarity was first mentinned to me, 1 supposed that my informant was cracking a somewhat vicious joke, but to my amazement I saw numerous instances of the reality in the compound. Tbe native first lighted h s cigar by the ordinary method, then turning it round he deftly arranged the hot, glowing end in his mouth, and, tucking away his

tongue in bls cheoa, proceeded to Inspire and expire the fumes, gradually consuming the whole of the cigar. The smokers assured me that the process was warm, comforting, delicious, and far superior to the usual mode. xJp subsc. ]uent trial I found that the kirtuFcwas less difficult to acquire thanmight bo supposed. Curious American Houses. Among the 05,000 people in the United States there are probably not 500—outside of the locality—who are aware that at the mouth ot the Mississippi there is a little village built upon wooden piles standing far out In tho water. This village, which is called Balize, is reached from tho mainland by Canoes or boats, and its inhabitants have to climb a Kind of pole ladder to get to the doorway of their homes. This is probably the only place in the United States in which "pile-dwellings’’ occur; but all along the Venezuela coast and at the mouths of the Orinoco and Amazon similar villages are rrequently met with, many of them being inhabited by the Indian fishing tribes of the Anjnzon estuary. These strange inhabitants were first discovered by Alonzo de Ojeda, who accompanied Columbus on his second voyage to t his c ntinent. In 149 jhe undertook an independant voyage to explore .the the northern part of j South America, and he took with i him Amerigo \ espucci, who wrote a 'graphic account of the expedition, i The following extract from a tranfiation of Vespucci's work gives .the 1 origin of the name Vcnezula, and 1 tells of the connection between the curious v.Uage discovered there and I the name Venezuela: Proceeding along the coast, they ] arrived at a vast gulf resembling a tranquil lake, entering which they beheld on the eastern side a village the construct on of which filled them with surprise It consisted of twenty large houses shaped like bells, and built on piles ■driven into the bottom of the lake, which in this part was limped and but of little depth. Each house was provided with a draw-bridge and canoes. From the resemblance to the Italian city, Ojeda gave the bay ! the name of tne Gulf Venice (VenI ezia.) The country itself was after- ; wards called Venezuela, or Little ! Venice, the original Indian name beI ing Coquibacoa. In Lake Maracaibo, south of the ] Bay of Venezuela, similar pile build- ' ing are still erected by the Goajoir Indians. —Harper's Young People. Very Married People. ! It is usually considered a noteworthy circumstance for a man or : woman to be married three times; but of old the number would have been thought little of. St. Jerome mentions a widow that mart led her i twenty-second husband, who in his turn had been married to twenty-two wives—surely an experienced couple I ; A woman named Elizabeth Masi, who died at Florence, 17ti\had been married to seven husbands, all of w. om she outlived. She married the last one of the seven at the age of 70. When on her death-bed she recalled the good and Lad points of each of her husbands, and having impartially weighed them in the balance, she singled out her fifth spouse as the lavonte, ai:d desired her remains might be interred near his. The death of a soldier is recorded in 70-l, who had five wives, and lis widow, aged 90, wept over the grave of her fourth husband. The writer who mentoned these facts vainly added: ‘T-he said soldier was much attached to the married state.” 1 There is an account of a gentleman who was married to four wives, and I lived to be il> years old. When he died, he left twenty-three ‘children” alive and wed. some of the said children being from three to fourscore years o.d. I A gentleman died at Bo:deaux in 177.', who had been married sixteen times. In ..uly, 17ff*, a couple were living in Essex who had been married ninety-one years the husband being 1107 and the wife 10•$ years of age. At church of St. Clement Danes, in 1882, a woman of 85 was married to her sixth husband.

Was Too PrecipitousIn the section on railway surgery, at the recent Medical Congress at Washington, a good story was told by one medico on a Virginia colleague. The Doctor had been wining and dining pretty freely before he started for home. He boarded a street car, which started off rather ouickly. The Doctor, who bad not succeeded in getting a goad hold on the car, fell head over heels on to the pavement. The conductor and several passen* gers jum, ed out to pick h in up But the DoCvOr straightened himself up, and looking around in a dazed way, said: “Exp’osion?” The conductor answered in thenegat ve, and, after two or tnree attempts, the supposedly injured medico managed te add: “Collushun?” “Nay,” was the response. The Doctor thereupon buttoned up his coat and remarked ‘-that if he bad knowning nothing was the matter he wouldn’t nave gotten out. Tbe conductor and passengers proceeded on the car in a highly disgusted state of mind, and (he Doctor went back to see a man. — Washington lost. Miles of Silk. In honor of the celebration of the sixty-ninth birthday ot the Que&n Legent of China 1.200,000 pieces of red silk, each 40 feet long and 3 feet wide, werc ordered to be made in the Imperial mills at Nanking, Soo-Choo-Foo and Hang-Chow-Foo. With these the streets of Pekin are to be de orated fpr a distance of forty miles. The Queen Regent has also decreed that the customary birthday gifts annually presented by the provincial mandarins be omitted this year and the money devoted to the relief of the poor, who have suffered much from the unusually severe winter season. Brain Enough fbr Two. A native ot Georgetwon, Md.. has the following sign on the front of bis store: “Born with brain within brain, I can kure enny kind of misery in a short time with only the best erba to wri."—Washington News.

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