The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, October 28, 1897, Image 2
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STORY OF THE EARRING
POSSIBLE REVIVAL OF A TIMEHONORED
FASHION.
A Cause of Servitude Anions the Hebrew#
nnd Phivnician*? In Ancient
1 Koiue Earring* Were Generally Worn,
and Very Heavy?Once Worn by Men.
Iu England the Queen's jubilee
seems to have created a tendency
toward the revival of the earring, and
a writer in the Golden Penny devotes
some space to a history of that relic of
barbarism.
The custom of studding the person
with gems is of extreme antiquity, and
the fashion of piercing the ear lobes
for the purpose of sustaining gems set
in gold has been followed by most
races from tlie earliest times to the
t present day. Homer describes how
Juno placed pendants in the lobes of
her ears. Ear-drops were presented
by Eurydamas to Penelope, aud among
. the Athenians it was a mark of nobility
to have the ears bored.
Among the Phoenicians, however,
the wearing of earrings was the badge
of servitude, and the same custom obtained
with the Hebrews. The rabbis
assert that Eve's ears were bored when
the was exiled from Eden as a sign
of slavery and submission to the will
f her lord and master. The Egyptian
women wore single hoops of gold in
their ears, and in Biblical times the
custom appears to have been universal.
They appear to have been regarded as
the most cherished possessions of their
wearers, and were only parted with
under great stress of necessity. Thus
the golden calf is supposed to have
been made entirely from the gold earrings
of the people. Among the Arabs
the expression "to have a ring in one's
ears" is synonymous with "to be a
slave," and to the present day an Arab
BrZAXTIXK (sixth cexttbt).
who has been conquered by another
places a ring through his ear as a sign
of obedience and servitude.
So general was the use of errings in
Borne and so heavy were they, that
there were women whose profession
,wss that of "earhealers" who tended
the ears of those ladies who had torn
or ijijured the lobes vith the weight
of the pendants. These specialists
were known as anriculoe ornatirei. At
one period the Roman man took to
' wearing earrings, but the custom was
forbidden by Alexander Severns,
while in Greece the children wore an
earring in the right ear only.
Coming to more modern times, the
fashion of wearing earrings appears to
have been general in England from
the Conquest.
The early Saxons appear to have
worn rings of plain gold in their ears,
while in the fourteenth century these
appear to have been decorated with
small pearls. In the reign of Elizabeth
earrings were adopted by men of
fashion and, the custom spread nntil
James I's time all the coortiers had
their ears pierced. The earring worn
by men took the form of either plain
wire rings, or crosses or triangles or
gold studded with gems.
There is a very ancient notion which
is still held by country folks that the
piercing of the ears is good for the
sight. The origin of this belief.is lost,
but it has obtained for centuries. It
is scarcely necessary to state that the
belief is quite without foundation.
In the middle ages it was the custom
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mistresses, the persons who were
about to be married used to stick a
flower through the ring or over the
ear, much as a clerk would a pen, as a
sign of their being engaged.
A curious variety of earring much
worn during the reigns of Elizabeth
and James I. was the ear string. This
has been alluded to by many writers.
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Thns in the Westminster drolleries we
find:
Yet for thy sake I will not bore mine eare
To hang thv dustless silken shoo ties there.
And Marston, in his satires, published
in 1598, has:
What maanst thou, him that walks u'i
open-breasted.
Prawn threw the ear with riband*?
As to whether sh? wearing of wires
through the ears is likely to come into
general fashion again in this country
we do not offer any opinion. There
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THE EARTH'S POPULATI
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EUROPE
400,000,000..
On the Continent of Asia live 9(
more than the nnmber of North and Sot
must, we should imagine, always be a
prejudice against the mortification of
the flesh necessary, and the custom of
having children's ears pierced has
ceased to be general for many years.
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and it is just possible that we may see
leaders of fashion wearing both ear !
and nose rings before the close of the
century. Who knows?
A MOVING FORTRESS.
Claimed to be the Most Destructive Agent
Ever Used In Warfare.
The German Emperor is having a
new fighting machine constructed for
army use in the field which, it is
claimed, will be the most destructive
agent ever used in warfare. It is
known as the battle-line destroyer,
and it has been chiefly designed by
Krupp, the great gunmaker, at whose
works at Essen it is now building.
Many features of it, however, have
been suggested by the Emperor himself,
who will personally take possession
of the first one constructed.
The battle-line destroyer will have
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car, with the difference that the
wheels are not visible, the walls of
the car reaching to the gronnd.
These walls will be of the very
strongest steel and fortified on all fonr
sides and on top by many steel prongs
stick: ng oat like the bristles of a porcupine.
The walls will be pierced by
numerous portholes, that open and
shut automatically.
Behind these portholes will be machine
guns to thfow shot and explosives.
The crew of each car will consist
of only twelve men. Th& car will
run on very broad wheels resting on
immensely strong springs. It will
lie on ite own rails and will be able to
do so in any desired direction.
The destroyers are to remain under
the eye of the Commanding General
until the battle is well under way.
THE NEW FIGHTING MACHINE.
Then, when great masses of the enemy
are engaged, the car will be sent
against them.
Herr Krnpp is said to have demonstrated
to the Emperor that the battleline
destroyer will make cavalry attacks
unnecessary. In fact, the soldiers
win oniy engage in sKirmisning aiter
the destroyers have been introduced.
It has been a question whether the
cars will* be able to withstand heavy
artillery fire. Krupp says they will,
the prongs warding off shot and the
machine being too hea\y to be overthrown.
A Gold Lrif Temple.
Not in America, not even in the
Klondike, but in the far-off East, at
Rangoon, the capital of Burmah, is
situated the famous golden pagoda of
a Buddist temple, the whole 61 the
exterior of which is one mass of shimmering
gold. This generous coating
of the metal is the result of years and
years of offerings to Buddha, for devotees
from all parts of the world
come to Rangoon and bring packets of
gold leaf, which they place on the
pagoda. Daring the last century the
King of Burmah gave his (literal)
weight in gold to the walls of the
pagoda, an offering worth .- 9000 sterling.
A Bee-Line.
The eyes of bees are made to see
great distances. When absent from <
their hive they go up in the air till i
they see their home, and then fiy to- 1
ward it in ? straight line and with
great speed. The shortest line be- j
tween two places is sometimes called a ]
"bee-line."?St. Nicholas. j
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ION SHOWN BY COHPARATIVE; F
M),000,000 beings, over twice the populi
ith American inhabitants. Africa is th:
TROT. PACE AND RUN.
Description of the Various Motions of the
Horse When Extended.
When in fall motion the mnner
strides with both front feet at the
same time, following with the hind,
and leaving the ground first with the
front. In ether words it is a "foreand-aft"
action.
The pacer moves by lifting both feet
of the same side simultaneously, and
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is known as a "side-wheeler." it is a
nature, gait.
In the trot, when going slow, there is
always one foot on the ground, a part
of the time two and a part of the time
three. When fast, there are two intervals
in each stride when all of the
feet are off the ground, the horse leaving
the ground froia the hind feet in
succession, while in the run he leaves
the ground from a fore foot. The
limbs of the trotter move in pairs, diagonally,
but not quite simultaneously,
even in the "square trot." The trot
is not a natural gait.
The fastest marks at the three ways
of going, and the number of feet that
the champion runner, pacer and trotter
covered in a minute, are as follows:
' Kunner, Salvator, 1.35}; 1 minute,
3315 feet.
Pacer, Star Pointer, 1.59*; 1 minute,
2660 feet.
Trotter, Alix, 2.03}; 1 minute, 2559
feet.
Unpaid Scavengers.
The crustaceans are among the important
scavengers of the sea and are
also valuable as food for fishes. The
collection of crabs, shrimps, and lobsters
forms large industries all over
the world, contributing directly to the
support of man. In Delaware the
horseshoe crab is used as guano, while
the collection of fossil crabs, as trilobites,
is a peculiar industry. The
fresh-water crayfish produces a concretion
used as an antacid, well known to
chemists. We owe many of the beauties
of our summer fields to insects,
all of which have their special functions
and use. Even the persecuted
flea may render man a'service by keeping
the drowsy watch dog awake,
while the mosquito in tropical conn
tries may am in preventing tne numan
inhabitants from living a continual
siesta.
The flies are among the most valuable
insect scavengers. The spiders
prey upon flies, holding them in check.
The silk of the spider is used as a
cross line in astronomical instruments,
and that of a Bermuda species as sewing
silk. Bridge makers have obtained
valuable suggestions from these
silent workers, from whose web one of
the Kings of France is said to have
made a coat. Grasshoppers and locusts
are enemies of civilized man, but
are eaten by the Indians, while in the
Malay country the dragon fly is considered
a delicacy.?Appletons' Popular
Science "Monthly.
Steel Harder Than Stone.
It is easier to crush the hardest
stone known than steel. Corundum
was chosen for the stone in a recent
experiment. A weight of six tons
smashed the corundum, but forty-two
tens were required to crush the steel.
With a loud explosion the steel flew
into powder, and sparks are said to
have bored minute holes in the crushing
machine.
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1QURES OF THE RACES.
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iuon 01 fiorope ana almost seven times
Lrd in nnmber of people.
Smallest Boos: la the World.
The smallest be ok in the world is
not much larger than a man's thumbnail.
It was made in Italy by a firm
of Padua publishers, the Salmin
Brothers. It is four-tenths of an inch
high and about a qr arter of an inch
wide. The volume contains 208 pages,
eaoh having nine lines and from ninety-five
to 100 letters. The text is an
unpublished letter written by the -fa^
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G AND RUNNING.
mons inventor of the pendnlnm clock
to Mme. Christine, of Lorraine, in the
year 1615. The next smallest book is
issued by the same firm. It is an edition
of Dante's "Divine Comedy," being
a little more than an inch high, a
little less than an inch wide, with type
so small that it takes a microscope to
read the letters.
Why Old Clocks Have HIT.
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ilUV CYCIJ UUU WUU IWAO a? vuv vuat
of ? clock knows that the four I's
which are in place of the usual XV. to
designate the number 4 are there because
of the obstinacy of Charles V.
of France. When Henry Vick carried
to the King the first accurate clock '
the King said to him that the IV. was
wrong and should \? changed to nil.
Vick said: "You are wrong, your Majesty."
Whereat the King thundered
out: "I am neTer wrong. Take it
away and correct the mistake." From
that time tc this dc.7 the four I's have
stood as the mark of the tonrth hour.
?Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
P*rrot Hatche* Chicken*.
J. D. Austin, a merchant at Kansas
City, has a large Brazilian parrot that
is the proud possessor of five little
bantam chickens, which the big bird
watches over and cares for as if they
were her own brood. Some time ago
the parrot, although unmated, laid two
eggs. These were taken from her and
POLLY AXD HER FIVE CHICKS.
a half-dozen sinal^ chickens eggs were
placed in ihe nest* Polly comes forth
regularly with her little chickens peeping
and scratching about her, and
many people stop to view the strange
sight.
It is a very unusual thing for the
parrot to breed away from its native
land even under the most favorable
circumstances, and it is more remarkable
that the parrot should adopt the
chickens as her own offspring.
The returns show that the average
cotton spindle in the United States
produces more than twice as much
yarn as the average cotton spindle in
Qreat Britain.
| THE REALM
While no indication of the genuine 1
princess gown has yet appeared, says
May Manton, there is a decided tendency
toward producing the effect by
means of trimming carried from the
COSTUME IK SIMPLE PLAID DESIGN.
bodice to the skirt in one continuous
line. The costume shown in the illustration
embodies the idea and is eminently
well suited to such women as
aim to appear taller than their
actual measurement in feet and inches.
The model is made from light-weight
wool material showing a simple plaid
design in shades of bleuet and trimmed
with fancy black braid.
The bodice is simplicity itself and
is made over a fitted lining, which
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closes at the centre-front, while the
blonse proper is fitted with shoulder
and under-arm seams and closes in- I
visibly at the left side. The material '
is so cut as to allow the fulness to droop 1
over the belt, and the left-front is '
slashed to form the two squares in i
each of which an ornamental button 1
is plaoed. At the edge is a fall frill '
of ribbon, which matches the color of 1
the gown, but both neck and waist- <
band are of black velvet The sleeves
are close-fitting, except for the slight
puffs at the shoulders, which support
the epaulettes. The outer seams are
left open for a short distance above
the wrists, where bands of trimming
and frills of ribbon make a graceful finish.
The skirt is five-gored. The left
side of the front laps over onto the
side gore and is cut and finished to
harmonize with the blouse. Both
front and sides are fitted smoothly
and without darts, the back being laid,
in deep plaits to give the fan effect
The entire costume is eminently stylish
OT..1 m-anafnl while the line from the
shoulder to the edge of the skirt carries
the eye upward and gives the effect
of height Plain materials and
those showing stripes in place of plaid
can be trusted to still further enhance
the effect; but even cross lines can be
worn without the disastrous effect common
when women of little stature don
horizontal decorations and ignore
jesthetic law.
To make this bodice for a lady in
the medium size will require two and
one-half yards of forty-four-inch ma- .
terial.
Ladien* Cape Wrap.
However much jackets may take
precedence as wraps, writes May Manton,
something that partakes of the
nature pf a cape is |lway3 needed. The tasteful
and stylish wrap shown in the j
illustration exemplifies the latest style i i
and is sufficiently snug-fitting to avoid i
chill at the same time that it allows of
wearing an elaborate bodice without 1
danger of rumpling. The backs are <
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seamed down the centre and tight-fitting
to the waist line, below which
tbej are laid in plaits. The loose
fronts are laid in doable box-plaits,
one at each side of the closing, and
the ample sleeves, of bell shape, are
seamed to the backs and shoulders,
bnt are so constructed as to become
part of the fronts, there being no seam
below the shoulder joint. Attached
to the waist at the back are black silk .'
ribbons, which pass around and tie aft - t
the front. As illustrated, the material '
is silk velvet, with handsome jet passementerie
as trimming. The collar is i
Medici style, but cnt in squares, which
not only increases the flare, bnt is .
universally becoming a? well. A* the
I throat is worn an ample bow of chiffo^
i lace, edged, and a toque of velvet and '
feathers completes the costume. The
wrap is lined throughout with taffeta
silk and has an interlining of splift
wool wadding, which renders it amply
warm without being in the least >
clumsy. Cloth, with rough or smooth- faced
seal plush, and all familiar clockings
are suitable.
To make this wrap for a lady in the
medinm size will require two and onefonrth
vards of fiftv-four-inch material.
Child'* Empire Jacket in Tale Bine.
Among all the styles shown for .lit*
tie girls' outer garments there is no
one that is at once more serviceable v
and generally becoming than the Em- ,1
pire coat The model shown in the
illustration is made of smooth-finished
cloth in the popular Tale blue, the
trimming being a combination of rib- . J
bon frills in the same color and blaek
mohair braid. While the whole effect
is stylish in the extreme the pattern is
simplicity itself, as the fitting ie \
effected by shoulder and under-arm.
seams only. Two box-plaite are laid
at the centre-back from the neek to
the edge of the skirt and the front
shows one at each side of the closing;
which is effected in the centre-front
with large pearl buttons and button
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holes. The sleeves ere tiro-seamed ^
with the fulnees arranged either in
gathers or plaits at the shoulders.
Over each falls a simple "oblong epaolette
trimmed with ribbon and braid,
and a deep, seamless turn-over collar '
finishes the neck. Tie entire coat is M
Lined with taffeta showing a brightfined
plaid and glimpses oI the gsj
coloring are caught beneath the collar
and epaulettes.
To make this coat for a girl of eight Jj
child's e^ri^r. ^ac^?T.
years will require one and ^hrea-*
fourths yards of forty-four-inch ma- -VflM
Skamania County, Washington, <^0
t>oasts a railroad foor miles long vhielL
x)st $3,000,000 to build.