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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20
A MAID or THE MIST.
One of Our Girls Who Impaled a C1out
on the Point of Her Parasol.

One of Our Girls Who Impaled Cloud
on the Point of Her Parasoi.
Il would like so much to touch a cloud with
my parasol." She young and strong,
and for the first time in her life of 10 years
was in the mountains She stood on the
long, wide veranda of the hotel at Manitou
and looked up at the white smoky clouds
curling about the lower mountain peaks with
the eager, puzzled questioning eyes of young,
inpulsfve girl To the left and in front of
her the swelling, almost preeipitous slopes
were bright in the sunlight To her right
the low clouds were boiling down the noun
tain glen, shutting out the view of Cameron's
Cone and sailing along at a level that took
them squarely against the lower cone of Hia-
watha mountain. Around this they moved
like a sailing vessel feeling its way along
dangerous coast. Then they floated of with
the wind into the space between the inter-
vening peaks and touched even the top of the
high hills in front of the hotel. 1t seemed as
though she could in short walk reach q
point where she could, in fact, touch the
clouds with her paraSol.
The score of people sitting on the broad
porch of the hotel watched the young girl as
she climbed up the hill straight in front, and
watched her as she took the mountain trail
that led her through the light white clouds,
sailing along probably 1,500 feet above
them, for the people at the hotel were at an
elevation some 200 or 500 feet higher than
the summit of Mount Washington, and the
incline toward elevations 1900. s.Oo0 and
1900 feet began not 100 yards away. With
their glasses they could see the girl, as she
stood half infolded in the whitish vapor;
then, after another interval, they could see
her beyond, as she half emerged above the
line of those floating clouds. So clear was the
atmosphere that the cheers of the young men
across the glen, at an elevation somewhat
lower than the one reached by the girl, could
be heard by her and those in the hotel
Manitou Letter IN Inter Ocean.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20

Writer'S cramp Is an affection which,
until very recent date, has been looked
upon as in most cases incurable. Fort
unately, however, for those who suffer
from this disease, means are now known
to exist not only for its amelioration,
but for its permanent cure. The diff
Guilty Is one which is not, as its name
implies, confined to writers. 1t may
occur in any individual whose occupa-
ton brings into constant play one set of
muscles; thus the pianist, the teleg-
rapher, and the balIet-d dancer may suf-
fer from these cramps or from an inabil-
ity to perform the acts peculiar to his
occupation.
The cramps are merely symptoms of a
diseased condition, the exact seat of
which is a matter of dispute; some To-
eating it in the brain, others in the
Spinal cord, while there are those who
regard the nerve-centers as in no wise
affected, but trace the source of the af-
lection 10 the nerves themselves. The
method of treatment which has been
found most successful consists in the
application of gymnastics, combined
with massage, to the affected muscles.
The rubbing, and sometimes a gentle
striking of the muscles with a wooden
bar, together with regular movements
OF the fingers or other defective part,
are continued for several weeks, during
which time not more than one hour
daily il devoted to these exercises
Science
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20
LITERARY PERSONALS.
Edwin Arnold, the English poet, IS u

Edwin Arnold, the English poet, Is IL
Miss Harriet W. Preston gives her new
novel the title, "a Year in Eden.
Miss Rhoda Broaghton's new novel, ~Dr.
Cupid, viii lie published by Lippineott-
Margaret sidney's new book viii be enti-
tied '.Hestar, and other New England
Stories
Miss Elizabeth Peabody, in spite Of her
advanced age, IS preparing volume entitled
A Last Evening with Allston.n
An clifton Of 10000 copies of Mrs. Bur
nett's Little Lord Fauntleroy" was ex-
hausted On the day Of publication
Rev. E J. Hardy turns out 10 be the
author Of the hitherto anonymous book,
How to BE Happy, Though Married z
The juvenile reading public has deyoured
f13 of Oliver Optics books, and now he
wants the boys TO read just one more
The venerable historian, George Bancroft,
is at work on branch of history new to him
an essay on the traits of Shakespeare.
Henry George says he writes when the
mood seizes him He regards Journalistic
work as the most valuable training literary
man can possess.
F. G. Hamerton proposes 10 print his
papers on Imaginative Landscape" now APP
pearing in the Portfolio, as fine art book
for the autumn.
Mark Twain remarks that S. 900 would
come much rearer to the sum he got for
~Huckleberry Finn than the $50, 600 that COM
mon report gave him.
Julian Hawtborne's r ortune's Fool Bret
Hartes @Snowbound at Eagles and the
Rev Samuel LongfeIlow's biography Of his
brother have been added to the Tauchnitz
series,
Among lecturers already engaged for this
seasons course at Amherst college are Justin
| Mccarthy, NJ p; Gen Lew Wallace, the
| Hon. George AIalsepeace Towle, and Bob
| Burlette.
Mr. j. T. Trowbridge will persist in run
/ ming his tricycle. on the sidewalk, in violation
/ of an ordinance and the Arlington police say,
! ~Oh, he's one o them literary fellers, and 1t
amt no use to say anything to him about 1t. "
Here Is current story of Charles Lamb:
| That worthy was at an evening party when
| Sir Henry Taylor stoutly defended Mahomed-
| anisn as belief As the departing guests
were looking for their hats Lamb stammered
out: Where is Mr.. Taylor's turban3'
Reading some of his poems to party of
friends the other evening, DR.. Oliver Wen
| dell Holmes specified several which he said he
originally had published anonymously. Since
then no less than three different persons had
deliberately and circumstantially claimed
the authorship of them.
| Gen. Wallace says that his forthcoming
| book Is a romance of Turkish life founded
upon his observations in the east He de
clares that when travelling he writes amy
| where and at any time, as the opportunity
| comes. / carry a scratch book and write on
/ the cars, If 1 have no one to talk to-
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20
INTERVIEWING WITH THE CAMERA.
A New Dispensation Dawning Upon the
journalistic NYorid-Pictures Taken.

A New Dispensation Dawning Upon the
Journalistic worid-Pictures Taken.
A new dispensation or the fine art of inter
viewing has dawned upon the world, and NJ.
Nadar is its prophet n, Nadar is well
known as one Of the most accomplished photo
graphic artists of Paris. He went to see NJ.
Chevreul on the occasion of that scientists
centennial birthday, and exhaustively inter
viewed him for. lie Journal Illustre. But not
merely with note book and pencil in hand.
Oh, no Those implements were subordinate;
merely the small arms of the fray.
The big gun was the camera. For an hour
its deadly bore was trained upon NJ Chevreul,
and in unbrol1en succession it recorded upon
quick acting dry plates his every attitude and
gesture; aye, every expression of his counten-
ance Here the veteran looks up with the
pride of a teototaller as be exclaiIns, Il am a
century old, and l have never yet tasted
wine" Here he clasps his hands upon his
staff and challenges the aeronauts to come
and give him a balloon ride Here again he
bends across the table and wags his head with
scorn, as he tells how a rival dared not come
to his laboratory and be convinced on some
point of dispute. And so on
There are a dozen of them in lie journal
Illustre, and a hundred more in VI. Madras
portfolio. Published in connection with the
text of the conversation that was conducted
while they We're being taken, they are almost
as good as an actual visit to the old chemist
and establish beyond doubt the success Of NJ
Madras idea. Henceforth the reporter, il
Paris at least, must carry note book in one
hand, and in the other an instantaneous
automatic camera. New York Tribune.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20
SPECIAL AND LEGAL NOTICES
TRUSTEES SALE.

IN PURSUANCE Or LAW AND BY VIRTUE
Il OF the authority vested in me as trustee by a
certain deed OF trust dated the LIST day of Oeto-
Der, A. D. 1850 duly recorded, 1 shall proceed to
sell on Saturday the 18th day of November A D.
1856, at Y O'Clock in front OF the office of Barnes
Hotel at Mississippi CITY, in the state Aiississipfi
TO the highest hader Tor cash. in order satisfy said
deed OF trust, the following desc ibed properfy To-
wit; THAT certain tract land together with me
buildings thereon, situate, lying and being in
MIssiss ppl city, County OF Harrison and state nf
NJ mississippi. known Barnes Hotel commend -
at stake on the shore OF the Gull of Me xieo
which stake stands due South OF the Southwest
corner OF the hotel building and running thence
East four hundred and fourteen feet more or less
along said Gulf shore 10 a street or road called
Texas street due north OF the hotel wharf; and
running thence north To the township lin. etea4,
township seYen and eight, range eleven west and
thence due west with said township line fonr him.
dred and fourteen feet more less to a stake ;
thence south TO the sea shore place OF bsginfiue
bounded south by the Guifof Mexico north by the
township line, west by the property Of Mrs Martha
A. Davis, aad east by Texas street; also a tract ~
land adjoining the above and known As the iot mn,
on which are stu ted the billiard room etc ~
Barnes Hotel and described follows. Com naeDcirg
at stake the shore Of the Gulf Of MeS ieo n s,
the east side OF the strt ct called Texas street and
running thence along sad Gulf shore three hun
dred and thirty four ieet more ~ less to the south
west corner OF George Wigs propertv thence
north with the line said Wigs lof sI,ont ono
eighth mile 70 the southeast corner OF \ (2lIens,
property, thence west with tho line OF sa
three hundred and thrty-ioH feet more or less ID the
street or road called Texas street, thence south
with SAID street 70 the place OF beginning bounded
south by the Gull Of Mexico, north bv = CaIleus'
property, west by Texas street and east nv tbe
property Of George Wigs, ali Ia Section one.
Township light, south OF Range Eleven West. ana
also all household furniture, fixtures etc Ia ar
appertaining 70 said Bs mes Hotel 4"
shall convey to the purchaser by proper deed
such title as - vested IN trustee under said
deed OF trust +. HOWARD AlcCALFR.
Harrison County, Miss, Oct. 9Th. lsss-4w. '''''e
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20
CURIOUS FACTS

A Rochester firm offers to give away with
each bottle of an inebriate's cure a patent
hustle.
A Georgia hermit has his house in the
branches of a spreading oak tree. 1t is small,
but quite snug.
A Boston man is exhibiting his extreme
culture by daily eating live frogs in a mu-
scum in that city
John Fletcher, a farmer near Bloomington,
has church on his farm. He has hired
preacher to deliver a sermon each Sunday in
this church during the coming year.
A Boston tailor of twenty-five years ex-
perience has never found customer with
both legs exactly of the same length. The
average difference is ne-sixteenth of an inch.
W. s. Heath, of Warrenton, Ga, recently
picked up in the woods, near that place,
hair brush which he had left there during the
war of the rebellion. He has had chance to
get bald since then
A potato and carrot firmly grown together,
so that it is impossible to tell where the po-
tato begins and the carrot ends, is one of the
vegetable freaks exhibited by a St Joseph
county undl farmer.
A female witness in Rock Island court
testified that she was II years old and had
Deen IIlalTEeu i've AtscfS. one Stt4tl SbS SOuld
neither read nor write, could not tell the day
of the month, or the time by the clock.
Glendower Evans Brown, of Campobello,
N. B., has not only fine name, but fine lot
Of living ancestors. His fathers father and
mother and grandfather and grandmother
are alive, and so are his mothers father and
mother and grandmother and her father and
mother.
Henry Dumble, of Kingston, Can, is IS
years old, and for years has been perfectly
bald; but last spring hair began to grow ON
his head, and now be has fine crop of ele-
CANT black hair, and his whiskers. which have
been gray for twenty years, are turning
black too.
Willard Freemire, of Vermontville, Mich,
located bee tree, but was refused permission
bv the owner of the land to cub down the tree.
He was finally given leave to cut off the
limb, sixty feet from the ground and eighteen
inches in circumference, containing the
honey This feat he performed by firing
seventy-fige balls from a rifle through the
limb.
Mrs. Daniel Hurley, of Bangor, Ne, a few
mornings ago found her COW lying in the stall
| with her feet tied together. The COW was I'M
| tied and two heavy padlocks put on the stable
| doors A night or two after she was poisoned
and died. The same night Truckman Hewes
COW was poisoned and in the morning was
found lying dead, with her feet tied together.
| Cow owners in Bangor are getting excited.
| A ST. Louis man who was going through a
dirty alley one rainy night felt something
warm on his leg. He thought it was a rat,
| and pounded it with his umbrella until his
| leg was sore. Then he carefully covered the
| supposed rat with one hand, and, reaching
| up his trousers leg with the other, pulled out
| his gold watch, which had Slipped through a
| hole in his watch pocket, and which was con
| siderably the worse for the pounding that il
| had received.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20

Among the old papers in the county
clerks office in Freehold, n. j.. is the
death sentence of a negro named Caesar.
1t reads: Therefore the court doth
Judge that thou, the said Caesar, shall
return to the place from whence thou
earnest, and from thence to the place of
execution, when thy right hand shall b
cut off and burned before thine eyes.
Then thou shalt be hanged up by the
neck till thou art dead, dead, dead; then
thy body shall be cut down and burned
to ashes in fire, and so the Lord have
mercy on thy soul, Cesar. New York
SIM
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20
MUSICAL NOTES.

Verdi win celebrate next year the fiftieth
anniversary of his debut as composer.
Mime. Nevada-Palmer viii not sing in pub
lie this season, but will warh1e only at home
to her baby and friends.
Verdi is still retouehing and changing his
opera, ~Iago." He calls it "Iago" because
Rossini had already written an -Othello."
Mime. Sembrich is singing only to her baby
at her Klein Zchachwflz villa, in Saxony.
His debut cost his mother As, 600 francs pen
atty for violation of a Madrid contract.
1 recently attended a performance of a
foreign concert troupe, and before playing a
package Of cotton was passed TO each per-
former. which he stuffed his ears with. Very
considerate Of them, but the audience whe,.
the music began also longed for the cotton :.
New York Graphic.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20

Sir John Lubbock, who succeeded in secur-
ing SO many public holidays in England, has
introduced into parliament a shop hours
regulation bill. which. it is expected, will pass
by a large majority. 1t is to go into opera
tion on Jan. l next BY its provisions, shops
of every class, with the exception of taverns,
refreshment houses, tobacconists' shops and
news agencies, are to be closed not later than
10 O'Clock on the evenings of Saturdays and
holidays, and not later than s O'Clock on
the evening Of every other day Of the week
Where any shop is found open after the hour
at which it IS required 10 be closed, the occu-
pier is liable TO fine of E. Chemists and
druggists viii not be liable 70 fine for sup
plying medicines after the hour appointed,
but they must not keep their shops visihly
open after the hours named. - London Letter.
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Greeting TO Mrs. Bancroft.

There was a stirring scene IN Worcester,
Mass, the other day on the occasion of pub
lie reception given to George Bancroft, who
was born in the town. but has not visited il
before for nearly fifty years When Mr..
Bancroft entered the hall the audience rose as
one man to greet him, and every head was al
first bowed and then upliftad as ringing
cheers broke the stiffness that had for some
moments prevailed N. Bancroft, with hi
snowy hair and stately, dignified manner
was an impressive picture as he bowed right
and left to the warm salutations of his towns
men.-Chicago Times
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20
The Pa~time of Ant Fighting.

The popular pastime Of the youths at Reno,
New, is ant fighting The boys scrape up a
shoyelful OF these busy insects from one
colony and carry them to the next nearest
colony, dumping them together. The result
is Immediately a pitched battle. which is
fought most viciously, the little warriors lit
orally tearing each other 10 pieces. until the
last OF tho inteTlopers Is dead. They fight In
pairs. or in threes, tours and bunches. rs it
happens to come handiest, but il is always
Eight to finish" and no quarter asked or
shown. Chieago Times.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20
beginning in Early youth.

While the orchestra was playing the prayer
from "Rienzi' in the Louisville Music hall the
other day vigorous baby struck in with q
lung solo right in one of the most delicate
passages, Conductor Damrosch stopped the
orchestra and sat down When the little one
had been quoted he remarked that while it
was a good thing to give children musical
education, there was such thing as begin
ming too early i'll life Then he resumed his
baton and the prayer was repeated New
York E4,-
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20

When Hoods barefooted battalions struck
Schofield's men at Franklin, a beauty spot of
Tennessee, in the bend of the Harpeth river
there was as quick and sulphurous a tussle as
ever happened. In it all Capt S. B. Watts,
young Mississippi lawyer, was tripped and
lost his sword to Capt. S. NJ. Knapp, young
Ohioan. The other day Capt Watts iourneyed
1000 miles and got his sword back The
brotherly reunion was at Myers Lake, Ohio,
where the x-Confederate found himself the
guest of the survivors of the One Hundred
and Fourth Ohio.-Chicago Herald
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20
shingles of 1s71.

The old shingles on the Unitarian church
at Brooklyn, Conn, were recently removed
10 make room for new and better ones One
of the first pastors of the church nailed them
with big headed wrought iron nails to the
steeple In III, and under them Gen. Israel
Putnam often has sat and listened TO the dis
courses-rare in those days-giving liberal
interpretations of the scriptures 1t IS stated
that the shingles were rived by men who
afterward fought with Old Put at KSnkeT
Hill The shingles are remarkably wS3 pre-
served Chicago Tins
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20
4 Comedy of the Custnm..

A new use for cattle has been apparently
found in Prussia, where band of .'s1nugglers"
employed COW in their attempt to avoid the
tax on lace A strong 10-month-old COW was
wrapped round with quantity of lace valued
at 81 COO Over this was fitted false skin so
ingeniously constructed as to defy detection.
They passed the COW quite easily at the Gus
toms Office, the men there admiring her size
and beauty, some of the excise officers even
Offering her feed-Country Gentleman
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20
Something Uneo,npIimentarx.

Pedestrians on Mulberry street We're
amused at seeing an Italian woman seated
on the curbstone trying 10 scrape War
ranted 40 lbs" from the abdomen of a
male infant which she held in her lap.
The brand was in bright red, and had
been transferred from flour sack that had
been used as a swaddling cloth. The woman
seemed to suspect that there might be some
thing uncomplimentary to the child in its
meaning. York Letter.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20
business Sense.

A man, noted for shrewdness in trade, is
approached by am acquaintance who has just
come from the country.
"What's the news in the countryf" the
shrewd man asks.
Il am sorry, but I've got bad news for
you"
''You don't say 50"
YES, your wife is dead
"My gracious the shrewd man exclaims,
II would not have that happen for-for $50.
No, let me see, Wen, say S45.-Arkansaw
Traveller
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20
Italians Take Good Care Of the Hal

why is it, said a lady friend on the car,
shat those Italians viii braid and nurse and
beautify their hair and never wash the skinl
Some Of the loveliest heads Of hair have ever
seen were on women and men who never seem
TO have washed / am told the Italians have
a superstihous regard for the hair. which
they care for as the crown of physical perfec-
ton. The rest of the toilet is a myth to
them-so far as the ruder classes are con-
cerned.-BufFalo News
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20
In TIE Circuit Court of the United States for
the Southern District Of Mississippi

N 5. BALDWIN ct Al,
No 447I vs.. Original Bit.
y. T. BURROUGHS ct AL
CALBooS d GREES,
No. 445l vs.. sup Elemental Bil
n T.. BUsROUsHs ET Al
ri'HIs DAY CAME on TO BE HEARD TIL
l. motion Of Calhoon * Green for process by
publication for B. II. Evers, defendant herein il
the original and supplemental bills, and thereupor
il is ordered that 4. Ii. Evers dc his appear
ance thereto at Rules to be holden the Oiiice a
the Clerk OF this Court, Jackson Mississippi or
the FIRST MONDAY or N0vEsBER, Iss6, and
plead, answer demur 10 said original and sup
Elemental bills, or the ssme will be taken tor con
essed, and that publication Of this Order be made
once a week Tor four successive weeks in The
Weekly Clarion newspaper published in Jack
soa- Mississippi, and that the Clerk OF this C0uT-
transmit 10 said ETers, directed 10 his p0-tofiet
Adde'S. No. ITO MERGERS Road. TufIneIl Park Lon.
don, certified copy OF this Order.
Ordered, adj judged and decreea, this 28th day O
September, A ID. 1886 K. 4. HILL. Judge.
A true copy from the record. Attest:
seal JAS. " MCKEE, Clerk
sent y. 'Sf-sw
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20
Homeless Rivalry.

He sadly mused in accents low,
As in the theatre he sat:
why is it that the smallest girl
VIII always wear the biggest hat?''
Merchant Traveller
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20

A gravestone i'll a cemetery, at Bethel,
Conn, was erected by a man over the grave
of his wife, and is a rough bowlder which
was brought from a neighboring hill. 1t was
selected because, as the husband said; at was
ON that stone that my wife and sat when
proposed TO her and she said she'd have
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20

A correspondent of The Noman's Journal
has been visiting the grave of Jesse James,
the OUTLAW. A simple monument bears his
name and age The grave is like bed Of
flowers, and sweet scented bIossoming shrubs
stand at the head and foot
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20
A Valuable White snake.

A white snake that a Maryland clergyman
has is valued so highly by him that, in re-
fusiEg $500 offered for it by the representa-
tiyes of the National museum at Washington,
he stated that it would take $40, 600 to buy it.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20

A peal of bells, in direct imitation of the
famous peal of the Strasburg cathedral, is
being specially cast for the production of Sir
Arthur Sullivan's cantafa. %The Golden I.e-
gend, at the forthcoming Leeds festival The
cantata opens with the changing OF these bells.
the scene being the spire OF the Strasburg
cathedral, from which Lucifer and powers Of
the air are trying to tear down the cross -
Cleveland sO3 Leader.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20
"BehoIden."

Instead Of much obliged Thanks or
4'Thanlzs awfulIy much, the Anglonlaniacs
IN New York say @Beholden,- or very much
behoIden to YOU So, at least, observes The
Buffalo Express