Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1889 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mrs. .Jane Shaw has bought the Win. Warren property, in Rensselaer . ANCIENT EGYPTIAN NECKLACE. More Like • Klbbon of Delicate Tissue Than Like Metal. It is a chain of exquisite gold, a rich orange yellow in oolor, with links dexterously twined one upon another, says an article in St. Nicholas. It is about 13 inches long, | of an inch wide, and as nearly 1-10 of an inch thick as I can measure it with a rule. The ends of it were at first fitted only with small solid rings set into clamps beautifully ornamented with leaf work. Perhaps it was fastened to the wearer’s neck by a filament or cord of silk tied through. The present owner has arranged a modern clasp in the shape of the lotus flower. It can still be used, and Indeed as well as ever, as an ornament for one in full dress. It is so flexible, falling down into picturesque folds the moment it is let go, that it seems more like a ribbon of delicate tissue than like metal. An expert goldsmith told me, after he had examined it with a glass, that it undoubtedly had a perfectness of uniformity in the links which could be found only in a chain manufactured by machinery. This was to me a matter of wonder, for I Was not prepared to learn that the ancient Egyptians had the knowledge of machines which could produce woven fabrics from pure gold. It was at once a discovery and a delight. It must be confessed that when I have spoken of this necklace as belonging to a priqccss I have no actual authority. It dates from the t>ge of Moses, if Herr Brugsch is correct—a learned period, it is a fact, but how much acquaintance the nation had then with delicate machinery it is not easy to say. This ornament was found in one of that range of tombs opened along the Nile, where royal and priestly tombs were frequent. It may have been Wbrn by a daughter of a king, not yet is anyone able to give her name, her Jjpeage, or her history.

The Girl on Your Arm. 'You can tell pretty well how a girl feels toward you by the way she takes your arm, says a connoisseur in the San Francisco Chronicle. If she doesn’t care a cent you know it by the difference of her muscle, If she has a great confidence in you the pressure tells it; and friendship is as distinct from love in that mode of expression as in words or looks. A woman can take the arm of a fellow she likes with perfect comfort, even if she is six feet, high and he is four. But, even if the two are just matched, she can make him feel disdain, contempt, discomfort, dislike—anything she likes, by the way she holds on to him. lam told there is a great deal of difference, too, between the way a girl fits a #ai£t to one man’s arm as compared with another, but hardly believe it. What la Fog? In an interesting letter to Science, H. A. Harlen, of Washington, gives some interesting and valuable particulars respecting the properties and nature of fog. He says that it is admitted that fog is simply cloud composed of water dust or spfid minute spheres of water from 1-7,000 to 1-1,-000 of an inch in diameter. Many have supposed that a dust particle must be a nucleus for each sphere, but an examination under the microscope of evaporated fog has proved that such is not the case. Briefly stated, the cause of fog is as follows: It is essential that there be no wind. The sky must be clear. The air must be saturated or nearly so. The formation of fog is purely a mechanical process, unaccompanied with heat PeculUHMas of the Tig. A California paper mentions some of the peculiarities of the fig. It has no blossom, and evidently requires breathing places, for from the little button at the end, there are minute ducts or air spaces which run right through the fruit and clear into the stem. If, in drying, the fig is not placed as it grew on the tree the fruit sours and molds. The fruit does not hang from the tree but inclines upward, held by the stem, and this button, or mouth, opens toward the dun. If not so placed When being dried the button is shaded and the fruit then spoils.