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Thomas County cat., 1889-08-29
Mummihed Human Heads.

There is most interesting ethno-
logical specimen at the art museum.
recently presented by Mrs. F. Has
saurek. 1t was brought from Ecuador
by the late Frederick Hassaurek. 1t
is dried human head from the
Jivaros Indians on the Napo river,
Ecuador, South America. There are
few OF these heads now. The Ma
tiOnal Museum at Washington
has one, l believe. The heads
thus treated are always trophies
taken from a slain enemy. An in
cision is made quite through the skin
around the neck. we'll down toward
the shoulders. The skin is then
drawn off over the head. just as one
would do in faying an animal. cut
tings being made wherever muscular
adhesion made it necessary. The
features are thus left intact The
skin is then soaked in an infusion of
some kind OF herb. The second step
consists in filling the skin with hot
pebbles and sand. over and over, until
it is quite shrunken and dry. The
soaking in the decoction and the
shrinking and drying are alternately
practiced until the trophy is reduced
to the desired proportions The
mouth is then sewed up. a cord is
passed through the top of the head.
and the head is hung up in the smoke
-Ctncinnai Times-Star
Thomas County cat., 1889-08-29
SCHOOLS IN TURKEY.
How Bo.s aud Girls Learn Lessons and
'.Ireat All Around"

How BO.s aud Girls Learn Lessons and
"Treat All Around"
Turkish boys and girls are of the
race which has given the alphabet and
! the sciences of numbers, navigation
and astronomy to the world; but they
study only one book now and learn
only one science. They study the
Koran. from which they learn to read,
and the science OF Mahomet's religion.
as soon as they can commit sentences
to memory. either by having it read to
them or by readingit to themselves.
They study aloud as bard as ever they
can. each beginning with different
sentence, rocking to and fro, ''weav-
ing trouble" meantime. If they falter
in their shrill repetitions the masters
duty is first to admonish, and, if this
is unheeded. to spare not the rod.
There is lull when the I'm uezzin's"
call is heard at noon from the mosque
minaret near by, and then the master
and pupils, with faces turned toward
Mecca. drop to their knees and say
prayer.
When the priests call ceases and the
prayers are over, the voice Of the art
full candy man is often oppOrtunely
heard near the school, for candy is ped
died about on trays there, and not sold
at shops as with US. The new scholar
Is permitted to treat all around" on
the first day. and there are no better
sweets than Turkish delights
pasty, creamy, crackly things made up
from rose leaves. violets and poppies.
nuts. dates, grapes and pomegranates,
delicately mixed with honey. sugar.
sirup and spice. Pure cold water after
sweets is known by all Turks. young |
and old, to be the most delicious OF
luxuries, and this the school children
often enjoy, for the water man is cum
ming enough to follow closely in the
wake of the candy vendor. anxious to
tighten his burden and draw profit, |
ss we'll as spring water. from the
tanned skin of pig, which he carries
strapped to his shoulders like bag
pipe-the Turkish wster ouckek-
Wide Awake.
Thomas County cat., 1889-08-29
WHEN SUFFRAGE COMES.

When suffrage oomeA what shall your lord
ships say!
Is 1t to spoil the mothers holy charm
70 take the maiden's lovely guise away
To make ward rowdies out of w0manhood
And do the gentler sex . lasting harm
And none q good!
When suffrage comes, is IT TO cast q blight
On home delight and pretty household play,
70 lose blessing looking for right
When wives disown the tributary place.
Nor the old rule of custody obey
So losing grace!
What myriad fretful spirits still there are,
What chafng still in many a trammeIled lot
What family that knows no petty Jar,
No murmur or a halfimprisoned will.
Which-take resentment playfully, or not
Is restless stillg
What constant evils plod their heavy course.
What lives are linked, yet foreign in their
sphere:
There is divorce ere marriage seeks divorce:
Fair sous rebel that may not justly share
In answering justice when the world appears
To go unfair.
II suffrage comes; If lives have common cause,
And not apart as now their ways pursue:
Let times be changed let shallow Judgment
pause
We yet may own, with pleasure in the
claim,
So dear home and hearth we never knew
Ere suffrage came!
When suffrage comes, who questions in the
court
How come these seekers for o woman's
crown?
They come with souls of truth, with minds Of
thought,
They come with righteous zeal to spread
the light;
They come whose duties done in fair renown
Have earned their right
What bubble then can this fair claim denyl
What parchment pretext can its end defeat?
What justice give it negative reply?
What accident its onward march befall,
Until its virtuous height shall stand COM
plete,
And honor all?
Charles H Fitch, in Womans Journal
Thomas County cat., 1889-08-29
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


Hereafter ministers of the Church
| Of Scotland are simply to own tine
Confessions doctrine. instead of it's
''vhole doctrine" to be the true doc
trine. and elders are to approve" of
the Confession.
AT the dedication of the Catholic
Cathedral at Sacramento the other
day a check for one hundred and
seventy-eight dollars was receive
from the Blnai Israel synagogue as an
offering to the Catholic poor.
During 1888 the Pope's income
amounted to f504. 600, of which f3112-
600 came from the obolus of st. Peter
and f132.0O0 from the interest of
moneys which are invested VI. of
Italy. The outlay of the vatican was
esq, S0J.
The increase in receipts of tho
Baptist Home Mission Society. under
the administration of Rev. DIR. H. L.
Morehouse have been about 800 per
cent. in ten years. During the same
period the Baptist membership ms il
creased 45 per cent.
The Wesleyan Female College, of
Macon, Ga, celebrates every year tn,
birthday. May II, of Mr. George !.
Seney. of Brooklyn, N. Y, its bcnef-
cent patron. Mr.. Seney has given Ia
various educational, benevolent and
religious objects. mostly Methodist.
oh 81 Of Il lD11
Hitherto there have been rival
young peoples societies in the Meth
odist Episcopal Church. known as
1.-The Methodist Alliance" The OK
ford League" and the Young Peo-
pies Methodist Union" These have
been consolidated and hereafter will
be known as 1.-The EpwOrth League
The Russian church in San tr..a-
cisco was burned recently and Bishop
Vladimer narrowly escaped the sam,
fate. The fire is supposed to have
been of incendiary origin. 1t Is stated
that the church has been in rea!it, %
detective agency for the Cars .or-
ernment, and important records OBJ
tanned in this way were des troycd in
the fire.
"A religious census was taken some
months ago in Wales, but the results
were not published. owing it is s;rid.
to the fact that the opponents of Dis
establishment crowded the churches
on the day appointed with non
church-goers. The census. however.
has been loudly called for and is now
published for the six northern cour-
ties. The attendance at the free
churches was SHOTS; at the Est;,o-
lished churches, sc. 43S.
The faculty of Harvard College
has made a rule that any student who
has been put on probation-that is.
officially warned that his conduct or
scholarship is not satisfactory-can
not compete for any prizes or honors.
nor take part in any public theatrical
or musical performance or athletic
contest; nor will he be recommended
for degree. He may be required to
put himself under the direction of
private tutor or to report daily % the
college officer, or to do both.
Thomas County cat., 1889-08-29

The ..Madura. or true eating
banana, is never brought to Northern
climes. the imported varieties being
those that are used for cooking pur'
poses. There are several varieties Of
the Madura. each having its own pecul-
lar flavor. One of them, the smallest
called the Lady Finger Banana" has
q skin nearly as thin as paper, ana -
the most highly priced Of all
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-03
WOMEN WITH LATCH KEYS.
Brooklyn Ladies Organize to Go to New
York Theaters Without Escorts.
From the New York Sun

| From the New York Sun.
Some independent Brooklyn ladies who have
been deprived Of amusements and musical en-
| tertainments in New York because Of lack Of
| escorts have organized a society and go in
| groups to whatever place of amusement they
desire. Musical members attend the concerts
| and the operas. and those of theatrical likings
| go to the plays. Seats are secured in advance.
| and where concerts are attended course tickets
! are usually taken. The members go alone or
meet at the bridge entrance, and return to-
gether. If there is any strength in union they
get that, and they are relieved of the necessity
of having to depend upon tired fathers or
brothers, husbands or sons, and have better
time with a congenial friend who does no grum-
bling about the distance or expense. As to the
! latter point, it is an economical arrangement,
for but one of family need 60 unless there is
a desire.
At first, in some households there was oppo-
sition to an arrangement which permitted the
women to carry night keys and be out at I'M
| seemly hours, but the society is too strong for
successful opposition now, and it is no uncom-
mon sight for ladies to be seen late at night
crossing the bridge alone after an evening at
the theater.
One night last week. at the first performance
of "Siegfried" at the Metropolitan Opera
house, several members of the society found
themselves IN New YORK at late hour. and,
through delays, they did not reach Brooklyn
until 1 o'clock. The elevated cars were not
running and the street cars were slow, so it was
very late when latch keys were used. At
meeting the following day it was resolved that
never again would any member take the Broad
way street cars after IL o'clock. nor under any
circumstances whatever be induced to go to
South Ferry and depend upon the boats. An
other resolution was that the officials of the
Brooklyn elevated roads were to be pettioned
to keep cars running until o'clock at night.
The members of this real women's rights So
ciety declare that Brooklyn stands in as great
need as ever before of rapid transit connection
with the center of New York. The east side
cars are too far east of Broadway and the 9th
avenue cars are too far west and do not connect
with the bridge. The inconvenience of walk
ing from Park place and Church street across
the city hall park at night is realized more
fully by women than by men, and by the men,
bers Of this evening society more than by any
other of the sex in Brooklyn, and, as the street
cars are so slow, these patrons of New York
operas and plays take two lines of cars, SO as
to reach the east side elevated cars and thus
enter their own city gates by midnight
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-03
DemOlishing a Dude.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
sat in an elevated car the other day and
saw a smart girl demolish dude. She was
evidently from down east somewhere-I should
say Maine-and possessed a striking face; not
exactly handsome, but which came near being
so, and was, indeed, in outline an exact repro
duction OF the face of Liberty on our silver
dollar. or would have been but for the retrousse
of the nose. She had roll of paper under her
arm. the sign manual of a type writer and
looked breezy and nice. The young man was
not specially noticeable beyond his clothes and
his stare. He ogled the girl for some time be-
fore she took note of it, but when she did she
made short work of him. She rested her steady
eyes upon his person, but never permitted their
range to reach above the top of his collar, and
gave every appearance of lively and critical
interest In him. In moment the young man
was daunted; in two more he was routed An
expression Of pain clouded his face, and he
scanned his extremities with deep anxiety.
The maiden increased her interested stare, and
at last, red and discounted, he rose and fed
into another car. Then she settled back with
great apparent satisfaction and resumed her
reading, stopped during the progress of the
campainn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-03
Dead or In "a Trance?

THE PECULIAR APPEARANCE OF WOMAN WHO
WAS ABOUT To BE BURIED.
A Cleveland special to the Philadelphia Press
says: Mrs. Mary Harrington, wife of vessel
captain, was taken to st. Alexis hospital last
week suffering from dropsy. Sunday she died.
or at least was pronounced dead by the attend
ing physicians. An undertaken was called up
and prepared the remains for burial. On New
Year day he returned with the hearse and was
about TO place the body in the casket when he
was astounded to observe evidences OF life in
the supposed corps. The cheeks were flushed.
the hands had become soft and piiable and
what appeared TO be perspiration covered the
brow. One Of the staff physicians made a
hasty examination and concluded that the BODY
was hfeless, although he could not account for
its condition. The body was removed to Cap
tain Harrington's house and further tests were
made to-day. but without avail. although there
are as yet no signs of decomposition or even
death beyond total suspension of the circula-
tory and respiratory organs. Capt. Harring-
ton believes that his wife is still alive, and
states that some years ago she lay in trance
for eighty-nine hours and was then thought to
be dead
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-03
He Didn't Meet Them.
MR.. HAYsEED VISITS THE CITY, BUT SEES
BCNCO MEN.

MR.. HAYsEED VISITS THE CITY, BUT SEES NO
BUNCo MEN.
From the New York Weekly.
Mrs. Hayseed.-"Did you see any O. them
sharpers in the city?'
Mr.. Hsyseed.-"Not a one, Miranda; not a
one. But met some old friends never ex-
pected to see again. Do We remember old Mr..
Bigcrop? Well, 1 met a son of his. Though
both those boys was dead an lying out there
in the cemetery; but this one said he was
snatched by grave robbers, and Just as they
was selling his body to a medical college he
came to. Good enough fer book Miranda:
good enough fer a book, and told him he
ought to write it. and he said he guessed he
would and he'd dedicate the book to me as his
fathers old friend. There's one queer thing,
Miranda. This mans hair is black while the
Bigcrop boys had red hair, but he said it turned
black from fright. He's way up in society,
Miranda, and introduced me to young men
named Vanderbilt, Aston. Gould. Drexel, and
ever so many more. 1 tell you, Miranda these
young fellers spend money! Some bills for
cigars and things came in while we was talk
ing, hundreds o dollars worth, an they whipped
out the cash like a breeze. One of 'em hap
pened to run short, so I lent him all had. but
he said he'd send it by express tomorrow.
tell you what, Miranda a smart man like me
Is just as safe in the city as in the country"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-03
Men in Literary Life.

IRREGULARITIES IN THE ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION
OF SOME OF THEIR NAMES.
Olive Logan in y. Y. Mail and Express
A linguistic popularity in England tends to
throw the accent of all family names upon the
first syllable. Many of those who heard Charles
Dickens read in America were surprised to note
that the great author called their favorite Mrs.
BardeH. Mrs BdrdeL" Being an Englishman
he would as soon have thought of calling him
self I" MIR. Dickens as Mr.. Pickwick's land
lady Mrs. BardsU." The author of Little
Lord Fauntleroy' is called i'll England Mrs.
BuTnet, not Mrs. Burnett. Walter Besant and
his too-famous relation, Mrs. Annie Bssant.
have their name sounded to rhyme with peas
ant We Americans speak OF a great general
as L'fyette. The English say Lat yette. while
the French pronunciation Is Lafjeef. We allude
to the editor of the London Truth as L boucheYe.
The French say LabOucbere, and the English
are so persistent in their habit of LAYING the
stress of voice on the first syllable that they
always refer to the liberal politician as Mr..
Ldbboucher, except. indeed. when they strike
of all the unaccented syllables and simply call
him Labby.
An exception to this rule prevails in the case
of Rider Haggard. For some unexplained rea-
son il is considered quite the knowing thing to
allude to the author of ''She" as Reeder Hagg-
orde. What warrant there may be for this in
the Danish tongue-Mr. Haggard being of
Morse Descent am unable TO say. being all
unskilled in that language. 1t cannot be de-
MED. however, that the name has a striking
look on the title page OF a book, whichever wav
it may be pronounced. Factitious aid to its eff
fectiveness has been given by the excision of
the writer's first name, Henry. Henry r.
Haggard' would be far more commonplace;
exactly as Francis b. Harte" and Thomas W.
Collins" would now seem poor substitutes for
those resounding pen titles, Bret Harte and
Wilkie Collins. Nevertheless. they are the
writer's real names. 1t is no frequent occur
NCa 4
haunts. or otherwhere that authors most do
congregate. The persistency with which he is
accused of plagiarism on the appearance of
every book must be source of great annoy
ance to him. Ii has become one OF the pet ex-
elements Of London life to read madly to dis
cover the inspiration whence Rider Haggard
derived his latest book. 1t is a fashion. a fad.
and 1t Is pure nonsense; for, as Mr. Haggard
truly says, the number of given ideas is finite.
and TO find one which is altogether new is al
mOst irnuOssihla
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-03
And He Still Has HOna


THE SUBLIME FAITH OF MAN WHO HAS MET
WITH EVERYTHING BUT DEATH.
From Daylight Land.
81 have been shipwrecked, been baked in a
railroad accident, and fired out of a foundry
window by boiler explosion. was shot in
the neck at Gettysburg, suffered starvation in
Libby prison, fell overheard from a transport
off Charleston, and left four of nv fingers in
the mouth of a shark. l had nv right arm
broken in two places in a New York riot, and
stood on barrel with halter round nv neck
in southern town at the outbreak of the great
rebellion from sunrise to sunset was buried
under the ruins OF building in San Francisco
during an earthquake, and dug out after fifty
hours OF Imprisonment. 1 have been shot at
three times, twice by lunatics and once by a
highwayman. l was buried two DAYS by a gas
explosion in a mine, and narrowly escaped
lynching last year in Arizona through mistaken
identity. And though l am over fifty, and have
nearly lost the use of my right leg. have Just
had, as l understand. all my property, on which
there was no insurance, DESTROYED by fire in a
western town; and the doctor in New York to
whom went last week for an examination as
sures me that will soon be bedridden from
rheumatism; nevertheless" he added cheerfullv,
''while undoubtedly have met some obstacles
in the past still refuse to believe that luck is
against me-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-03
Look on the Bright Side.

| 1T WILL MAKE ONE FAR HAPPIER DURING THE
YEAR JUST BEGUN.
From the Boston Globe
That large class of people who grow gloomy
toward the end of the year, and who make any
reference to time an occasion for giving their
speech solemn cast, might study with profit
the entries which are found at the close of the
different years in the journals of George Eliot
and Longfellow. The American poet has a
heartiness and cheerfulness in his recor DIS
which we should expect from one who always
looked on the bright side. while the English
novelist. although constant victim of ILL
health, was fully as successful in drawing
pleasant and helpful lessons from the fleeing
years. "Ihave been helped" she says. .in
looking back to compare former with actual
states of dependency, from bad health and
other apparent causes. In this way past de-
spondency has turned to present hopefulness."
She is fond of writing of the ''dear old year.
and OF noting what work she has done during
the twelve months. and she parts from her
old friend she is sometimes sad, yet always has
good word for him. 1.-The year is gone, with
all its struggling and striving. Yet not gone.
either, for what l have suffered and enjoyed in
1t remain to me an everlasting possession"
AS for the poet, he never tires of apostro-
phizing the dying year. 80 closes the year.
he writes; "peace to his ashes, Peace to the
embers OF burnt-out things; fears anxieties
dOuDts, all gone. see them now as IN pale
blue smoke, hanging in the bright heaven of
the past year, vanishing away into utter dark
ness. Not many hopes deceived. not many il
lusions scattered, not many anticipations dis
appointed, but love fulfilled. the heart COM
forted. the soul enriched with affection" And
again he exclaims. as another year passes bv:
''Shake hands, old friend. have learned much
from thee. and sung thy spring in prose and
thy autumn in song. And now FAREWELL
Although Longfellow's memorandums are
shorter and less practical than those of the
novelist, they are more poetical. Only true
poet would bring an annual journal to such
close as this: There is a strange mysterious
feeling at midnight of TIE old year 1t is as if
some one we're dying in the darkness
But the power of a strong mind to triumph
over sickness and trouble is one of the great
lessons of George Eliots life, and is no.
where seen to better advantage than in the
last records which she makes as the De-
cembers go swiftly by. Il enjoy a more and
more even cheerfulness and continually in
creasing power in dwelling on the good that is
given to me, and dismssing the thought of
small evils is the entry with which she closed
her record twenty years ago.
Would it not be wise to try the plan of the
great novelist for the coming twelve-month
and instead of being worried by the small evils
of life, dwell on the good that is given US?
Such plan, faithfully carried out, would re-
suit in making 1889 far happier year for us
than would any number of good resolutions
easily made and soon FORGOTTEN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-03
Telegraphers in Wall Street.

From the New York Star.
l don't know how it happens, but it seems
to me that more telegraphers drift into Wall
street and achieve riches there than any
class / am acquainted with. few evenings
ago was at an uptown club with some gentle
men, when one of the party had a telegram
delivered to him. He opened it, looked at il
doubtfully, and then said that it was unin-
telligible. The operator, in fact, had ..bulled''
it badly, and as it was about a subject of i'm
portance to him, he was somewhat ANNOYED.
Another member Of the party, prominent
stock exchange man, quietly took it, and
without a word jotted down the message as il
was written in the Morse alphabet, He then
separated the characters somewhat differently
from the bungling operator who had received
it. and gave the other gentleman what was
evidently the correct wording of the message.
Where did you learn anything about teleg-
laughed. why, fifteen years ago was a
working operator at S45 month"