Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-09-07

"A recent Ono lawsuit. involving the=o ownership of 4.589 aefea of valuable v-si estate, was settled by the aid of pA5tog3 aphy. Tho turning point 2. the suit 45a- as t7 5F ether an old deed, cEeeated seyentg-tive years ago, had five sigma sa7.es or only four There Were spaces @e2 sSe, but only traces of tom visible. ss5 clerk of the court was ordered to have the deed photo 4raphed by an expert. He took it to Washington for that purpose. The Geeative developed some evidence of the missing signature but on enlarging it ten times the whole name came forth distinctly.
 -fhe younger Agrippina, the daugh. ter of the widow of Germanicns, was a widow of entirely different speeies from her mother When young girl ghe married a Roman gentleman, who Soon after died under suspicious cir cumstanees. She next eaptivated rich old patrieian, who also died very soon after the union. She then fascinated her uncle. the emperor Claudius. and persuaded him to marry her. She is believed t9 have had hand in his death as also in that of several persons wRo opposed the accession of her son Nero to the imperial throne. After in- uumerable crimes she was finally put to death by command of her equally infamous son.
 There is printing office in Vienna the sole employment of which is the announcement of fetes. plays. concerts, etc, nothing else being printed but placards. The proprietor of the estab- lishment has many pe&sons in his serv- ice who thoroughly understand the most striking way of announcing such matters to the street public by unique arrangement of alluring words. The monster types used are all wood; the effect of the great eolored letters upon hen eyes and fancies is always speeu- lated upon In the pictorial announce ments of estates for sale the letters are often composed of pictures of castles and rural views, the effect of which is very catchy" and sure to please the eye.
 There are good many middle aged and elderly people who are grieyed on account of the increase of their rotund- ity as they grow older. The late Ed muud Yates, of London who had been particularly proud of his light and shapely figure in early life, mourned its loss when he had turned forty. and mourned yet more afteFWard when he got beyond 200 pounds. It is said that Howells. the novelist often tells bow he wishes that he were as slight as he Was thirty years ago. Gen. Miles, who was slender young officer during the war, is now. to his grief one of the heaviest men in the army. There are ways and means by which a man or a woman may restrain the undue exten- sion of the physical frame, but few of the people who have attained great bulk feel disposed to make use of the means ofreducing it.
 -Mr Robert F. Walsh in the Popular Science Monthly, thus recalls the origin of the present menhaden industry: It was in 1850 when an old lady, Mrs John Barfiett of Bluahiti, Me. boiling some fish for hsa chickens observed a thin scum of oil upon the surface of the water. some of this she bottled, and when on Il visit to Boston soon after carried samples to 9 leading oil mer- chant, who encouraged her to bring gn0ra The following year the Bartlett family industriously applied their gill acts and sent to market thirteen bar rels of oil for which they were paid at the rate of eleven dollars per barrel in the following year this family made one hundred barrels. Then the value of menhaden oil having become recog- nized many oil presses-of a more or less imperfect construction-were es- 1ablished along the coast, and the in- dus6y developed so rapidly that within twenty years the yield of menhaden oil exceeded that of the whale from $hs Auari04n fisheries.
 Some time ago, at fashionable salon. the Baron d'Aimerie was one of a group to whom he was imparting an account of his pedigree, which he claimed was derived from the Pharaohs of Egypt Just then Baron de Roths- child approached Gae group, and one of it's members called out: Baron come and let me make you acquainted with the Baron d'Aimerie. He comes of Phsronic stock. and you ought tc know each other" Yes" said the baron, lowing gravely T think" said the Baron d'Aimerie, you should know our family, as your ancestors took from us certain pledges when they decamped from Egypt" True, replied the baron, but those pledges were redeemed by check on the Bank of the Red Sea"
 The protection afforded tothe sart1 by snow is shown by Ebermayer in ths Influence of Frosts." In one observa ton the temperature of the air above she snow was six degrees below zero ..,.lao.,. tl,e sno,u the thermoueter RtQQS