Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1888-07-14
MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
NOTABLE EVENTS BELIEVED
TO BE WORTHY OF RECORD.
The German EmperOr.-On the
Street.-In a Country Church.
How They Amuse Themselves
A Boston Problem, &c, &c.

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INifSvS.,~ says: "On me
\ oSyNS\Z0 Sunday not long
ID GIHNS ago / was ,S-avel-
4 Ia .XIIP@NI ling on hysseback
!. IH 9WngNo throughJhe coun-
WfE N&O.M try ngt Canton,
SuE@/lN whe12 came to a
MH ~ - littI Pchurch hid
WEM l.. de<away among
NADPlIEMxA Ye boughs of
9Nf9ESZEX Eome beautiful
.Sk38N trees. The scene
Y8TIG'A[ was picturesque,
J" W the day was hot,
and the voice II the preacher which
foated out to rye suggested that / stop a
while and rest This did by riding up
to the door. (. The preacher was good
man, and Jas trying to tell his flock how
hot the lake in the Internal regions was.
Why said he, it is so hot that if it
were possible for you to take man out
of hndes and put him into the hottest
over on earth he would freeze to death
ir,>nediately."
:, The other day happened to be sit
ling in a suburban train just in front Of
two oldish men who were discussing
their plans for the summer. "Where
do you go?" said one to the other, a tall,
thin, STOPPING person. oval" was the
reply, "my wife and 1 always go up to
Vermont in July and August, and stay
at Cap'en Hanscom's house" "Pretty
hot, isn't it," oval, yes; but it's hot
everywhere" "How do you pass the
time" was the next question. "Wal,"
said the other, "my wife is an easy
going woman, and she likes to sit
around; she gets tired of housekeeping,
and xes to watch Mrs. Hanscom do her
work." And how do you amuse your
self" oval, 1 60 out and watch the
Cap'en work. He grubs around in the
fields pretty much all day, and L set
and watch him." This is surely the
quintessence of cynical enjoyment.
LADY BUCHAN. whose death is record
ed at the age of 81 years, was one of the
last of the surviving persons who had Il
distinct recollection of Napoleon the
Great. Her father, Col. Wilks, was
Governor of st. Helena in 1915, at the
time of Bonaparte's Punishment, and on
the term of his Governorship expiring
Miss Wilks was DESTROYS of being intro
duced to the ex-Emperor. 81 have long
heard from various quarters of tho
superior eloquence and beauty of Miss
Wilks, but now 1 am convinced from
my own eyes that report has scarcely
done her sufficient Justice" said Ma
poleon to her. "You must be very glad
to leave the island" he said. "Oh, no,
Sire" was the answer, 81 am very sorry
to go away" ooh, Mademoiselle, wish
1 could change places with you" Ma
poleon presented her with bracelet in
memory Of this visit.
In the Franco German war it was the
custom of the French soldiers to go
about and pull off the boots of the dead
German soldiers. The feet of the
Frenchmen are small and the boots of
the Germans fitted them SO poorly that
they experienced much dissatisfaction.
At the battlefield of Gravellote one
Frenchman is alleged to have stolen III.
to the German camp. He saw, extend
ing out of one of the tents, as plendid pair
of boots which he supposed to belong
to dead man. He tried to pull one of
them off and was greatly surprised when
the imagined corpse gave a vigorous
kick. He fed in dismay and was for
tunate enough to reach his own lines.
The man whose boots he had tried to
purloin was the Crown Prince of Ger
many.
IT was one of our Boston schools, and
the question was arithmetical, some
thing like this: eff II men can do a
piece of work in one week, how many
men would it require to do it in three
weeks" Up went hand. "Wcll,"
said the teacher. Give men and D boy
IA years DID," How do you make that
out" asked the teacher, endeavoring to
suppress smile. at would take one
third as many men. One third of II is
five and two-thirds." "But where does
the boy come inl" "a person is not man
until he is 81. Two-thirds of q is IA.
1t would take, therefore, men and II
year old boy"
On June IA, 1879, Unser Fritz, the
late German Emperor, had narrow es-
cape from death. He was out riding
at Potsdam, when his driver stopped the
carriage as it stood across the tracks Of
the Potsdam and Berlin railway. There
was crush of carriages in front of the
Grown Princes vehicle. Suddenly the
guard saw an express train bound for
Berlin rushing toward the crossing. A
guard saw the train coming and threw
up the danger signal. The engine was
stopped within fifteen feet of the cross.
ing and the Princes life was saved. He
made the guard handsome present in
recognition Of his services.
FRANCOIS, a dwarf at the Paris Winter
Circus, has fallen head over heels in
love with Virama, a pigmy Cingalese
who acts in the pantOmime at the same
place. Unfortunately she is married to
Appoo, another dwarf nearly double her
age. Nevertheless she wears the ring of
Francois upon her big toe, tue only APP
pendage she has large enough to fill it,
and has put so much life into the love
passages between herself and Francois
in the pantomime that Appoo is dread
fully jealous, and the circus authorities
have to keep Francois constantly under
guard for fear of duel.
Nor long ago the carp were taken
out of the famous basin at Fontaine.
bleau, in France, in order that the basin
might be cleaned. A great fetc has
been arranged to celebrate the return of
the fish. Silver rings are to be put Into
their noses and music and other cere-
monies enough to brighten the poor fish
TO death are to accompany tie
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