Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1898 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A Natural Wonder of Mtaaourt, The Grand Gulf In Oregon County, If ft, I* nearly four miles long, 100 feet dhep and 100 feet wide. It la crossed by a natural bridge wide enough for g wagon road, with a passage below wide enough for two teams to pass abreast At the base of the gulf is a care, leading to an unexplored lake of water inhabited by eyeless fish. This lake is some 500 feet below the surface ■nd is supposed to be a feeder for the mammoth springs in Arkansas, eight wHh* distant The Grand Gulf is one q( the wonders of the world.

WHAT A HICCOUGH MEANT. To a Gallant Toon* Man It BrevcM Title and Lands. One of the grandest bouses of tbs Austrian nobility is Indebted for Its princely dignity to a piece of courtier-like loyalty, performed by ons of its members during the reign of Empress Maria Theresa. The august lady, during the midst el some function, had bad the misfortune to hiccough In a peculiarly loud and aggressive manner, not altogether if keeping with the laws of polite society, but which in Japan or Oriental countries would, of course, have been regarded as a piece of lofty breeding. Perceiving that )pr majesty showed traces of embarrassment—for even empresses are human—a young Austrian nobleman stepped forward, and, with a most clever assumption of intense mortification and humility, craved her majesty*! pardon for his gross breach of manners. The empress received his apologies, not only graciously, but also gratefully, and from that time forth the sanng man’s fortune was made, and bertJre the empress died he bad been promoted, not only to the rank of count, but alisf to that of prince, besides being genet* Dusly endowed by his Imperial benefactress with means to support his ytla*,~-'?oston Herald

THE GOOSE MADE A HIT. Row an Old Gander Killed Massif Mitchell’s Rural Drama. “I have just been approaehed by a fellow with a stock yards show,” saio Manager Will Lykens to a New York reporter. “A stock yards show Is my name for those plays that involve barnyard tceaes with their usual living occupants. The genius I speak of provide* for live cows, calves, pigs, chickens |nd the whole domesticated animal kingdom. “I hava had enough of that sort of thing, and I will tell you why. A few fears ago, when I was her manager, Maggie Mitchell tried a rural drama 't Hooley’b in Chicago*. -The barnyard scene was duly loaded with real live stock and poultry, and tiere the emotional climax of the play was designed to occur. “Miss Mitchell had the center of the •stage in an impassioued soliloquy, vnen a big gander wriggled out of thp and calmly waddled down to the «ront Whatever was in the fool bird’s mind I can’t say, but It calmly poke< : v head into this fcatikiL

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