Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-23


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 -oOeyfng Instructions. Stranger ''Is the edi%oF at home?" Servant "Yes. sir, but he is engaged" Stranger --''Will you please tell him that his house is on freq Servant-"Impossi- bic! He gave strict orders that he was not to be disturbed. Judge.
 --Dr. Cook, who is to go to the Arctic On trip that combines business and pleasure, says that the cold of New York Is more trying to him than the cold of Greenland winter. The latter is dry. sharp. with the moisture frozen out of the air, but winter in New York, he says is wet and raw and penetrating.
 A good deal of gratuitous service is rendered in behalf of the employment bureau of the Young Womens Chris tian association, The bureau procures places for female wage earners in yari- ous branches of industry; it has an ex- change for woman work, and it has classes for industrial instruction. Ths whole of it's business is conducted at 8 very small expense.
 There is said to be in Chicago the biggest collection in the world of idols, fetiches, totems, kobongs, tubus and other symbols of heathen worship of all countries. It was gathered at the expense of many thousand dollars by the late Mir. W J. Cunning It is ex pected that it will find a place in the new Columbian museum.
 It is being realized that deaf mutes suffer from imperfect lung expansion because they use the. lungs so little in talking, singing and deep breathing, and an effort is being made to benefit them by gymnasium work especially adapted to relieve this fault A pecu- liar gait is also characteristic of the deaf-mute, which it is expected proper physical training will remedy.
 When the Mother Hubbard toilet was abroad in the land, one small Ohio town distinguished itself forever by passing law prohibiting the wearing And the landlady of a small village ian in England has handed herself down to posterity ill similar fashion by refusing to let two women cyclists, clad in kniclxerbocl1er suits, sit down to dinner in her public coffee room.
 Ira H. Benjamin, of Romeo, Mich, has a copper coin issued by the oppo- nents of Andrew Jackson in the cam paign of 1884. On one side, encireling the center, are the words, Perish Credit. Perish Commerce, 1s34." In the center Is the figure of hog running, with the words, My Third Heat" on it; above the hog, My Victory" below 1t, Down with the Bank" On the other side, encircling the center, are the words, My Substitute for the U. S. Bank In the center is medallion of Jackson, and below is the words, Experiment. My Currency. My Glory. ;"
 Many people waste great deal of their strength by swinging their arms backward and forward all the time while walking. It is curious fact that the practice is followed by one of the sexes much more than it is by the other An observer has taken notes upon this subject. After standing for 8 good while at the corner of Broadway and Fourteenth street he was able to allege that nearly sixty men in every 100, and only twelve women in every 100, swing their arms when walking Most of them move the right arm with the left leg and the left arm with the right leg. man who gave up the habit for time returned to it, for the reason that it seemed to help him to walk rapidly.
 The chaparral cock is famous bird in Texas and some other south western states, where 1t is known by various local names. It is fierce-look- ing bird, about the size of a bantam rooster; has long and powerful legs and feet, strong bill, three or four inches long. and is an exceedingly swift run ner According to the Texans, this bird eagerly hunts and eats centi- pedes, tarantulas and scorpions, and it also follows and destroys rattlesnal1es in peculiar way. Waiting until the reptile is asleep in it's coil, the bird drags branches of dry cactus, so as to completely surround the snake. Then the serpent is aroused by pushing a piece of cactus against it's skin, and it immediately tries to escape. Being unable to pass the thorny hedge, it turns at last in its blind rage to strike itself and thus dies of its own venom Then the chaparral cock dances around with every show of exultstion, and goes of after apqthsx victim,