The weekly ledger. (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1894-1896, December 31, 1896, Image 6
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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C„ DECEMBER 31, 1890.
|0F BLOOD.
>TOMS ATTRIBUTED
IANTI SAVAGES.
lorrlble I)« talln of thV'Finallj
Efforts of tho English to I>e-
i (Moody Rolcu of Preuipoh Told
Ion Paper.
8pvonty-two years ago tho first Brit
ish expedition against Kuraassi came to
a miserable ond. Tho skull of its leader,
Oorcrnor Sir cSarlcs McCarthy, was
tornod into a drinking cup, from which.
If they at all behaved according to their
wont, Pmnpeh’s ancestor and his vic
torious warriors must hare toasted each
other in bumpers of human blood. Tho
second expedition, ye:nr 1803, was also
iftteu, but by King Fever. Most
people know the hutory of tho third
expedition, Lord Wolseley’s, year 1878.
Every newspaper reader has a general
idea of the fourth and final expedition,
which, without firing a shot, made an
end of Prempeh’s hideous rule, on the
20th of January, 1890. The recording
angel saw' at least one good deed done
the earth that day, Jotting it down
Bull’s credit as a singularly satis-
ictory example of his work in tho
>rid. Those who may like to possess a
• upset, faithful, most readable record
ho campaign will find it in the illus
trated voinme of Major Badeu-Powell’s,
to which is appended a suggestive chap
ter by Sir George Baden-Powell, M. P.,
on the political and commercial position
of Ashanti.
However much we may detest war, it
is gratifying to rccogniw) tho fact that
this west African one has been a service
to humanity. King Prempeh was one of
the three or four most appalling mon
sters with whom the British govern
ment has had relations within the last
20 years. Still, hud it been merely a
question of removing Prempeh, the suc-
lessful expedition would not have de
served all the culogium wo have just
bestowed upon it. When on Jan. 20
Prempeh did homage to Governor Max
well, kneeling on a biscuit box, while
his excellency sat on another, it was
not merely a black king who passed
r i away, but a whole atrocious system of
I blood, torture and state sorcery that
had endured from immemorial time.
The name Kumassi means “the death
place. ” IIow well it deserved its name
is made plain enough in the first part of
Major Baden-Powell’s book. So rmnirr-
ous were PrentiH'h’s executioners that
two whole streets of the town were set
apart for them to live' in. Ono of tho
streets was occupied by the executioners
of men, women and children doomed to
be sacrificed. In spite of tho Wolseley
treaty, human sacrifices were never
stopped in Ashanti. At the harvest fes
tival human Ix'iugs were sacrificed to
the spirits. Whenever the king made a
pilgrimage to his ancestral ghosts, ho
sacrificed 20 men, hacking their heads
off on tho edge of his execution bowl, a
vessel five feet across.
“The blood of the victims was allowed
♦o pntrefy in the bowl, and leaves of
certain herbs being added it was enn-
fidored a very valuable fetich medicine.’ -
When a groat personage died, “two of
his household slaves were at once killed
on the threshold of the door, in order to
attend their master immediately in his
new life, and his grave was afterward
lined with the bodies of more claves
who were to form his retinue in tho
spirit world. ” Sometimes the slaves, or
free people kidnaped for tho puri>ose,
were buried alive with the dead person
age. Slave girls were killed to accom
pany their mistress into the other world.
Great numbers were paerifleed when a
king died. When a man was kidnaped
for Fueriflcc, he was gagged with a knife
run through hisein eks. These frightful
customs of the Ashanti capital were oh
served 1 y every kinglet in the Ashanti
“empire. ” Executions were decreed on
any pretense. “It is even said that on
one occasion be (Prempeh) preferred a
richer eolor in the red stucco on the
walls of the palace and that, for this
purpose the blood i f 400 virgins was
used. ”
We need Fay nothing of tho march, in
which our author rendered most excel
lent service with his pioneering and
covering corps. The following funny
ttory is worth quoting: A native runner
came in “with a crumpled piece of pa
per” bearing the inscription, “Major
Gordon killed 14th instant.’’ Commo
tion and grief, cf course. Then “some
one discovered a faint js-ncil note of re
ceipt initialed by Major Gordon himself,
and it then was remembered that a piece
of fresh meat had been sent off to him
a day or two previously with this pelf
Fame labf 1 attached to it. ” There is a
very good description of tho last peonos
at Kumassi, including tho destruction
of the fetieh village and the blowing
r,. with gun cotton of the “great fetieh
tteo in whose shade hundreds of vic
tims have been sacrificed.” The old
Ashanti “darn” which prevented com
mercial intercourse betwe u tho coast
and the interior being now removed. Sir
Georg'’ Baden-Powell, in the chapter he
contributes, advocates the construction
of n light railway from Cape Coast Cas
tle to the Prah river.—London News.
An Ffonlt Study of RubtF*.
The ruby, ns indeed every other
gem, had its magical properties in
those old times when occultism wj s nn
article of faith. Tho oriental ruby de
fied both poiron and the plague. Worn
on the person or ground to powder and
drunk as a drug it preserved tho wearer
and the swallower from that ever pres
ent danger of poison, that ever present
fear of tho plague. When misfortunes
and evil days threatened tho wearer, it
lost its brilliancy and became sad and
dark.
A learned German with an unpro
nounceable name testifies to this. “On
tho 6th day of October, 1600 after the
birth of Christ Jesus, as I was going
with my beloved wife Catharine Adcl-
mannio (cf pious memory), from Stut-
gard to Cahena, I observed by the way
that a very fine ruby which I wore
mounted in a gold ring (tho one which
she had given mo) lost repeatedly and
each time almost completely its splen
did eolor, and that it assnmnf a somber,
blackish hue,which blackness lasted not
one day, but several, so much so that,
being greatly astonished, I drew tho
ring from my finger and pr.t it into a
casket I also warned my wife that
some evil followed her or me, the
which I augured from tho change cf
tho ruby. And truly I was not deceived,
for within a few days she was taken
mortally sick. After her death the ruby
resumed its pristine color and bril
liancy.”—New York Dispatch.
Ills •‘Sheer.”
The distinction of Ic^ig the riches!:
and meanest man in the town in which
lie lived belonged to old Andy Scraggs.
No ono questioned his right to this hon
or when old Andy’s wife died and he
went to four different undertakers, try
ing to get them to make him a coffin
for $5 out of some worm eaten old black
walnut boards ho had kept in his barn
for 20years “for that very purpose, ” as
ho admitted. #
When ho was worth over $160,000, a
committee went to him to solicit some
thing for a widow with six little chil
dren who had been burned <mt of house
and home and who hail not a penny in
tho world nor a change of clothing for
her children or herself.
“I’m dreadful sorry for her,” paid
old Andy, “dreadful sorry, and I agree
with yon that it’s right for her friends
and neighbors to help her out. I’ll do
my sheer, gentlemen; I’ll domy sheer. ”
He was making his nsnal five or six
tons ct mapie sugar at tho time, ami,
after a few moments’ reflection, he said:
“I’ll tell you what I’ll da I’ll send
her over two quarts o’ maple sirup if
she’ll be sure to send back the jar I’ll
have to put it in. I think that’ll be
’kont my sheer, gentlcmiu. ”—Detroit
Free Press.
Scorchlns Bed KeB-JIng,
The man who gets so interested in 1 is
newspaper on the street cars that he is
oblivious to women who stand and men
who climb over him has not endeared
himself to his kind; but Kansas City
lias produced even a greater nuisance in
a bicyclist who reads as ho rides. It
would seem to tho casual observer that
tho bicycle offered sufficient advantages
to inflict or receive accidents even when
the rider kept his eyes open and Iris wits
alert. This rider is described as going
scorching along with his attention ap
parently absorbed by what ho is reading,
while terrified pedestrians climb the tel
ephone poles and seek such other places
cf safety as they can find. A few days
ago another riiirr followed him, hoping
to bo in at the death; but tho literary
bicyclist redo on, reading congenial
tales of battle, murder and sudden deal h,
until lie turned down a quiet Btre* t,
where iio folded his paper, put it in his
pocket end roasted pnfely into his own
yard.—New Orleans Picayune.
Georffo Franclt Train’s I'cculiarMU*.
George Francis Train’s hair is a littla
whiter and his eccentricities a little
more pronounced, and ho has even in
creased the size of tho bouquet that ho
wears pinned to tho lapel of his white
coat Ho is tho most picturesque char
acter to be found in Madison square,
Nov/ York, on a warm day. It was a
goed many years ego when George
Francis Train announced his determina
tion to shako hands no more and ex
pressed tho opinion that tho friendship
of children was worth more than that
of their elders. Ho has cultivated tho
acquaintance ct the children who pley
in Madsiou square, and every one of
them knows him to bo a goal fellow.
People who see him regularly have
come to look upon his eccentricities
with little interest, but ho is one of the
eights of Broadway to visitors who
know anything about his career. Ho is
not averse to notoriety and willingly
talks with sny ono who addresses him.
—New York Letter.
SCOLDING WOMEN.
Fonnerly a Oroatfir Feft In England Than
at thn Prtnent liny.
Formerly the “common peold”—tho
woman who made her neighbors’ lives
intolerable with her raging temper, her
bitter tongue, her slanders and calum
nies—was found everywhere. Laws
were p.v-vd n cognizing her as one kind
of criminal. There were two forms of
punishment by which she was repressed
or deterred or cowed into gentleness—
viz, tho clicking stool and the brank.
Tho clicking stool assumed various
shapes, but it generally consisted of a
chair on one end of a beam, which rested
on a bar so as to make » seesaw. Soma-
times the chair was hung from the beam
by a chain. The culprit l»eing tied on
tho chair, the other end of the beam
went up and the chair went down into
the water, sousing the 'woman com
pletely. They did this three times, after
which they let her go.
8nch stools belonged to nearly every
parish. Like the stocks and the pillory,
they formed part of the furniture of jus
tice. For instance, about London, there
was one on Bankside with which they
ducked the wives of the players. There
was ono at Kaddiffc, one at Kingston-
on-Thames, and there was one which
stood till the beginning of this century
beside the great pond or reservoir of the
Green park.
Apparently the chair and tho cold
bath did not completely destroy the fe
male tendency to scold, for it was found
necessary to invent another punishment,
which was extensively adopted, although
not authorized by the law. This was
the “brank, ’ ’ or “scold’s bridle, ’ ’ which
consisted of a small cage formed by'iron
hoops to lit tho head, with a piece of
iron which pressed the tongue and
formed tho gag. Thus adorned, the scold
was either led or carried about the town
for all the world to see. Sometimes she
was placed on a high scaffold. The
brank was used in some places down to
tho beginning of the century. Its disuse,
its disappearance, make ono incline to
the belief that the scold has also disap
peared. However, such is not tho case.
The disease or infirmity of scolding still
exists, but in a much milder form. The
mildness of the modern form is mainly
duo to the improved conditions of life.
Two hundred years ago tho villago
household was insufficiently fed; tho
quality as well as the quantity of the
food was bad; work was hard; men we re
rough; husbands beat their wives habit
ually; in cold weather they were thinly
clad; in hot weather their clothes were
too thick. If there was any indulgence
possible, it took the form of beer. Tea
did not exist. Children, hungry and
, cold, cried all day and all night; every-
i thing combined to exasperate a woman,
i What wonder if, from time to time, she
| lost control of herself and became copi-
! ously eloquent over her wrongs? Things
i have great ly improved. The husband no
I longer—or very seldom—beats his wife;
the food has become cheap; wages have
gone up; luxuries, formerly unattain
able, have become necessaries; the scold
is dying out of the land because there
is so little left to scold about.—Phila
delphia Ledger.
Eotxlon Fojr Fi-waut Ioim.
It has been computed that a fog costs
the metropolis from £80,000 to £100,-
000 a day. A la r go portion of fids Is
borne by the railroad companies. As
food as the fog do'ccnds the plate lay
ers, without wailing orders, leave their
work and undertake tho duties of fog
signalmen. For this they receive an ex
tra shilling a day. This appears a small
ilrm, yet a single fog has Ikhui known
to cost over £80 for extra wages to plate
layers at Clnpham Junction alone.
Each fog signal man is supplied with
a lantern, flags and a supply of detona
tors. By means of these he conveys to
the engine drivers tho signals which
they cannot distinguish through the
mist, “Caution” is given by a single det
onator, “danger” by two detonators
placed upon the rails at a distance of
ten yards apart Detonators are pmall
tin boxes two inches in diameter, each
containing three percussion caps and a
pmall quantity of gunpowder. At the
base of each are two strips of lend for
fastening it to the rail. They are made
with great care, chiefly in Birmingham
and London, and it is rarely that one
fails to explode. The wholesale price of
detonators is 1 penny each, and the av
erage annual consumption of each big
railway company is about 160,000, cost
ing £026.—Sau Francisco Chronicle.
ONE HEART.
I BOBfiftlmi s linurr o'i r (ho list
Of flic ti I V f i - i othi r «lny«,
An.l ei',1 i!.')'ii’o ;t‘ n with ran/'fayi
“Who)’. I 'v.M I l)c> min- ilt"
CJERFECT •mil permanent are the
■ nuvK by Hood’s Sarsaparilla, be
cause it makes pure, rich, Itcalthy,
life and !h\d:li-givhi;. 3L00E?.
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mro my Dioucrht—
.in ii who K.v bought
Ipr name.
Wiioii tV.ou li.i.i : m tHuo oorthly moo,
Thou viU n t “lonv>. v i lit in teuxu,’
N will nir a r- m in afn r y< ;»r»
To view Milt..’ i .irthly rcMtinsr pi.uco.
J. E. WEBSTER,
A. 11 < »rnA* v -At- S w,
Gaffney City, S. C.
I’radices in all t he comls. Collec
it i)8 well;
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to 1)0
Qacer Cnstonm n Ccntnry Agt*.
I thought that 1 knew most of the
manners and customs of the eighteenth
century, but I find two or thn-o with
which I was unacquainted, so that very
likely there are a great many more still
undiscovered.
In the year 1792, for instance, visit
ing was managed by sending round an
empty chair attended by footmen—that
is to say, the chairmen carried the chair
and bohind.it walked two footmen, who
carried tho cards ami with grave faces
asked at each door whether Lady A.
*was at home. Hho never was at home.
A.gain—but only if ono was .a very
great lady—it was common to invite
one’s friends to a rout, and when the
street was blocked with tho coaches and
the rooms with tho company assembled
the hostess would call her own coach
and go off to somebody elso’s rout.
Also, for another pretty trait, there
were ladies, but not great ladies, who
gave frequent card parties and found
their hospitality profitable on account
of the “card money.” At that time
every player was supposed to Flip some
thing under a candlestick. When the
company departed, the servants collected
tho money for themselves.
fn the ease of this prudent housewife
she lifted the candlesticks herself and
kept tho coin.—London Queen.
Thy poor reuiiiinr- v.'i'.l f
Thy fijurifc will h” un I .
A mu virJi |t. i, i f,t i hino
A Milton or a Lajihavl,
I ret iio, thys.ilf, but houvsn thanlt
It nil the Ruin) that thou c;,n.tt ilo
M;.y In) do itiijio t!mt only fi w
Need evt r know thy plnoo Is Hank.
Be thankful if hut ono ti-ue heart
Hhull feel for tboo tho moment's pain—
Ere it ean H.iy, “Wu meet iiRain"—
Of knowing v. lust it Is to part.
One lovir.s; H-urt thou mayc-t crnvo,
Lest nil flioit < n;\-dst for on enrth
bhinild nvr.1 to h.’ivu r.o lasting worth
And end for.v r in tho gravo—
One fnitiif’d Li r.r* Id ne.ith the sky,
In which to lonvo n Heed cf love.
To Mossom in :i world abovo
And be;;r n fruit which -hull not ciio.
—C. d. L i U i in Omnihtrs’ Journal
t ions a sueeialtv.
W. D. ARCHER,
TOr<«OI*lAI^ AItTlST.
Hair-cuttiiig, in the latest styles.
Shaving and Shampooing at reason
able prices.
next ti) J. D. Goudo-
lock’s store.
Not Natural.
“Oh, yes,” paid the coroner, “there
was every indication that tho actress
laid died a natural death, but other
actresses insisted that it was not po-bii-
ble. They were firmly of the opinion
that the deceased could not die a natu
ral death, am! of course that left mo no
alternative. I had t > hold an inquest.—
Detroit Tribune.
Tho Eternal Fltnewk
Nauey Praney—Your bloomer suit in
very becoming, dear; but why such
large dis ks in your stockings?
Kitty Hurdup—That is to harmonize
with the machine. You see, I bought it
cu very large tick.—I’iusburg Chroni
cle.
Any . Vl (PWi.l improvement upon
a macbj or dovieo not
wiaff putrukxL
The Largont Described hcahe.
Speke, in his narrative of tho journey
to the source of tho Nile, describes the
largest snake that has ever been si en
j by man. “I shuddered, ” he says, “as i
looked upon the effect of his tremendous
dying strength. For yards around where
i ho lay grass, bushes and saplings—in
fact, everything except full grown trees
—were cut clean off, as if they had been
trimmed with an immense scythe. The
| monster, when measured, was 61 feet
2,Lj inches in extreme length, while
around the thickest portions of its body
tho girth was nearly 3 feet. ”
A World Out of Joint.
A poor devil tells his latest misadven
ture: “I hud hud nothing toeat for two
days. In d-wpair I threw myself into
tho fieiue. A sailor fishes me out. Well,
they gave $6 to my rescuer and nothing
to me. ’’—Figaro.
A WOMAN’S ARM.
Well Known Sculptor Describes It ns the
IVrfcct One Should He.
“I find great difficulty in getting a
model with good arms,” said a well
known sculptor recently. “It is aston
ishing how very few women have arms
that conform to the standard. A perfect
arm measured from tho armpit to tho
wrist joint should be twice the length
of the head. Tho upper part of the arm
should be large, full and well rounded.
Tho forearm must not lie too flat, not
nearly so fiat as a man’s, for example.
A dimple at the elbow adds beauty to a
well proportioned arm.
“From u well molded shoulder tho
whole arm should taper in long, grace
ful curves to a symmetrical and rounded
wrist. It is better to have an arm that
harmonizes even if the parts do not fol
low the generally accepted lines. For
instanef 1 , a full, round upper arm which
is joined to a flat or thin forearm has a
very bad effect. It is only a degree
worse, however, than a graceful, well
molded forearm tacked on to a thin,
scrawny upper arm.
“Correctness of form is not tho only
thing necessary for a good arm. Tho
owner must possess the power of expres
sion in her arms. As a general thing
American women are deficient in this.
Those nationalities which show the
most expression in their arms are tho
Spanish, French and Italians. The
warmest admirer of Sarah Bernhardt
would not claim that she had beautiful
arins, yet no one cun say .that the divine
Sarah ever appears ungainly in conse
quence. Much more lies in the faculty
of arm expression than is generally
supposed.’’-—Boston Post
A Kavosft,
A kavass is a native servant appoint
ed by the sultan to tho various embas
sies and legations. They are paid and
clothed by their employers and are an
swerable to the sultan for the safety of
those on whom they attend. In old clavs
if any accident happened to a member
of a legation er embassy, the wretched
kavass, whethi r in fault or not, forfeit
ed Ids life. Those who have read “Paul
PatolT” will remember the terror of tho
kavass on Alexander Patoff’s mysterious
disappearance from St. Sophia. There
arc six kavnsses at the British embassy.
Their undress uniform is dark blue
cloth thickly braided in black, with a
broad gold belt and gold straps over the
shoulder. They all carry a sw rd mid
have a revolver in a gold pouch slui g
from the waist bolt. The dress nnife u
is a line shade of crimson, also thickly
braided and only worn on state occasions
when in attendance on the embassador.
—Longman’s Magazine.
Pcbblelike Drain.
A curious case of “mimicry” has
bei n noticed on the coast near Manilla,
in the Philippine islands. The seeds of
a bean fall among quartz pebbles, and
so closely resemble thetn in shape, size,
color, luster, hardness and stratification
as to be distinguishable from them only
by a very close e xamination. The beaus
range from a third of an inch to an inch
in size, and vary greatly in shape also,
some resembling well rounded beach
pebbles and others mimic pebbles that
have been broken across. The color
varies from dark to light drab, some
with a greenish tinge, while others re
semble pebbles of chalcedony or crystal
lized quartz. Nearly all show a series
of dark bands, suggestive of stratifica
tion. All arc hard, and clink when
shaken together.—Rochester Democrat
and Chronicle.
Men are often capable of greater
things than they perform. They are
! sent into tho world with bills of credit
mid seldom draw to their full extent.—•
i Walpole.
Tho brain of woman is absolutely
smaller than that of man, but is stated
to be somewhat larger in. proportion to
the weight of Hub body.
Tucked GovrnK.
Tucked gowns are in very high vogue,
and wo see pretty cummer toilets e»f
pink, eronm or blue dimity, organdy,
zephyr goods, ehambray, figured French
lawn and similar fabrics, with tucked
bodices, tho tucks, as a rule, about an
inch wide and running horizon tall}"
from neck to Ix lt or from tho neck to
half the length of tho waist, forming
r yoke. .Skirts are likewise tacked their
entire length, ea- from the bom to the
! kuei s, and puffed sleeves are tucked
round and round tho puff, with, in
| many eases, rows of loco insertion be
tween.—New York Letter.
Ho We Do.
When we get u new article of dress
we pretend to have had it for some
time; but when it has grown old in our
service wo endeavor to make others l»e-
lievo that, it is brand new or very near
it.—Boston Transcript
Couldn’t llcnr Torture.
Customer—Is that the razor you
shaved mo with the last time?
Knight of the Razor—Ye”, sir.
Custom*;/ -Chloroform, please I—Lon
don Tit-liiU
A F t and f ng EngngeineDt.
The Due d’Anmale once challenged
Prince Napoleon to a duel on account
of something the latter had said against
tho Orleanists. The prince refused to
fight and was therefore reckoned a cow
ard. Next day the prince went. to call
on Li onide Leblanc, the famous actress,
at an hour when the duke chanced al
ready to be there. “Toll the prince,"
said she to the footman, “that I am en-
gjiged, but only with tho Due d'Aumale,
so he may come right in.” But the
prince did not go in. Nor did ho ever
go in again, for whenever he called
thereafter he was told that she was en
gaged with tho Due d’Aumale.—San
Francisco Argonaut,
Caught.
Bobby (at tho breakfast table)—
Maud, did Mr. Jones take any of tho
umbrellas or huts from the hull last
night?
Maud—Why, of course not. Why
should hi ?
Bobby—That’s just what I’d like to
know. I thought he did, lieeause I heard
him say when he was going out, ‘I’m
going to steal just
what’s tho matter,
Ibrald.
one,' and— Why,
Maud:—Montreal
Crutheil.
“Sir,” said an irate little gentleman
of about 4 fiet II inches to a 6 foot
man, “I would have you know, sir,
that I have been well brought up. ”
“Possibly,” was the answer, “but
you have not been brought up far.’’—
Loudon Tit-Bits. /
a white ele-
tbought oc-
WORE THE DIAMOND IN HI3 LEG.
A Story cf tho Way t ho Orloff St ono V.'a»
Taken From Forsia to Ilussia.
Gnu Fox, a dealer in diamonds on
Fourth street, has u story about the f.i-
moun Orle.ff diamond, named after
Count Orloff, tho first European who
bought it. Fox says: “It was originally
tho eye > t an idol in Trichiiiopoli. It
was stolen, according to tho accepted
account by a Frenchman, who eeeuped
with it to Per in, where he sold it for
the equivalent in r nr money of $8,000
to a Jewish nn'reliant.
“Tie J WiYh merchant sold it to an
Armenian mun' d Mnifras, who had
traveled in Pussia and conceived the
idea cf tfiring the diamond to that
country and •oiling it to the Empress
Catherine f a .'-rent cum. Shafras paid
him ifOo.Oe ) for i*.
“Having rewired the stone, tho next
question with d’cafra/i was how toget it
to Hus. ia, or rather how to conceal it
when he was; searched by robbers, as he
was sare to be on the road. The journey
was a long and perilous ono, and thieves
abound'd cv< eywhere. Shafras thought
of swallowing the stone when he should
he take n by the robbers, but was obliged 1
to give that plan up, as the diamond
was too large to swallow.
“He b^gan to fe'1 ho had
phant i n his hand ; wh< n
currcd to him. I
lunre, made a cut
his left leg uml tv.niHt the diamond into
tho wound Ko sewed up tho rut with
a needle and a silver wire. It healed,
leaving the diamond imbedded fast in
the It quite out of sight.
“Th' u he started for Russia. On the
way lie w as a. iced by robbers again ond
again and w;;.- thoroughly searched.
Being an Armenian and suspected of
going to Russia to trade, tho thieves
marveled greatly at finding nothing of
value upon hi: perron.
“He arrived in Russia at last, and,
aftiv extracting his diamond, visited
the < in pis ss. lie was willing to sell it
for about $ 160, GOO, but the empress had
net so large an amount iu cash for the
pnriha.-e, and Slial'ras preferred to go
on to Amsterdam, t h" seat, of tho dia
mond cutting industry, whoro ho had
tho f trine polished.
“Here Count Orloff, an extremely
wealthy Russian, saw the diamond and
was fill' d with a determination to se
cure ii fev ihe Russian rrown. He did
secure it. but 5 hafrr.s exacted from the
Rus: ian povcininent $400,000, an an
nuity i f £20,(-00 and u till** of nobility.
He died a millionaire.
“The Orli lf diamond weighs 195
carats and i.t about the size of a pi
geon's egg. It is smaller thau the Kohi-
noor, in tho prssession of the English
queen, v.lri'h h supposed to bo worth
$8,700,000. ’—Cincinnati Enquirer.
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memorable performnneo of ’Henry IV’
on Dee. 18, 1S62, at ti)e Princer,s’ thea
ter, when George Bartley—called then
the hist of tho FaMaffs—made his fare-
will bow to the public sifter 60 years’
service. ’On this very night of tho
week, the very date of the month 60
years sign.’ he Paid, he had made his
first .appearance on the boards. I remem
ber, too, his Paying ho had played Or
lando to Mrs. Jordan’s Rosalind. Asa
boy I was mmli struck by tho trans
formation from the burly knight to the
arisroeratie looking old gentleman in
evening dres:; as he tearfully hade 1 is
andieneo farewell. Charles Kean was
tho llot.'-pur, Ryder the King, Lacy tho
Prince, while Harley, Meadows, J. Vin- I
ing, If. Saker, Miss Murray and Mi i.
Daly were in the cast. Poor Bartley
died within fix years afterward and ;
was laid in St. Mary's churchyard, Ox- I
ford, win n 1 was an undergraduate in
that university.” — Westminster Ga-I
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yon may call him’ iu the pulpit once,
and at another time in the course of a
conversi'tion I said to a woman:
“ l)i you lx lievo that Jonah swal
lowed the whale?’
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roturnin*. learn Now Orleans Wednesday* ami
Eutnrdara Thla train also enrrlea Rleh'mond-
Anyusta s.eopinjj earn betwenn Danville nnd
Charlott«. Piiat clnaa thoroiiRhfnrn cnaehe*
hetw-eom Waatungton and Arlania Din I ns car*
Jerru all bieaia en rotua.
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ruua solid bolw>«n Wa*hlnii(oii and Now Or
leans, via Sou'harn Ri.ilway, A. .V W. P. R. R.,
and fi. m N. R. R.. botn* composed of Im/Taip)
ear and ooaohes, iljrouidi wilhout charKn for
pns^itmors of all elasae* Pullman tmlaco
oravi-iag room airepliifear* hslween Wash-
inst- a and (ba'vsaton, Tex , via Atlanta, New
8 rtmnaandl4o ifharnPa -ifie Railway ; Pullman
rawinir room s’oojilnd car* between .lormiy
(Tlty and Atlanta l.iavlng Wnahlnston enea
Saturday, a aurtaf ali-oplnr car will run
through bet wen Wnaldngton and Sail Krnn-
Cisco withont earn re
Nos. 11 and 12 /Pullman slneplnf narHlait w«*on
Blchmond nnjg Jan villa.
The Air I.^i Bolin train, No*. 17 and 18, lio-
twtam AdaAia ami Cui uonu, (4».. daily mac«,i|
fcunday.,-
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Tho espouses of tho queen’s hoQSc-
hold mo £173,600.
W. H. ‘iRBilN,
GftnT 8upt., _ _
WatliinKton, D. C. ^ O.
W. A. TURK. a H. HARDWICK,
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