Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-01-10
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


 of a preacher got into a Broadway, New York, car the other day, carrying a gold headed cane. Around the gold handle was a knitted cover. The cane itself was scratched and marked in several places, but the handle evident ly was as new and bright as the day he got it.
 -one peculiarity of the girls foot ball club formed in Denver is that only two or three girls of either team have ever seen game of football played by men. The two clubs, the Denver and the All America, wear the regular padded football costume, and as they do not court observation, they play in large hall. They are coached by men, and play an excellent game, although it is less rough than those in which men are the performers.
 The woman suffragists are waging vigorous war on the Pacific coast. The Women's Equal Rights league of San FEancisco seems to have captured many of the prominent society people there, and swell social events are being made the medium for missionary work. The league has secured, maybe import ed, a white man, and he is telling San Franciscans of how lovely things are in New Zealand, where they have women mayors, and talk of having women members of parliament.
 While lace making of the more delicate sort is not large industry in New York, lace mending is done by a few skilled needlewomen. Really valu- able laces are intrusted to only well accredited persons. Scores of the cheaper sort are made for pastime by women and children of various foreign nationalities, notably the French, Ital- ians, and above all the Syrians. One seldom sees Syrian girl or woman sitting In the doorways or windows of their quarters without bit of lace work in hand.
 The text: "I love them that love Me, and those that seek Me early shall find Me-" painted high up on the party wall of church in Park avenue, New York, which was pulled down some months ago, has just been erased, and beneath has been painted the prosaie warning: Post no bills under penalty of the law" The ragged remains of some old theater posters on the wall suggest that the text was erased in order that it might not be brought in juxtaposition with the vulgarities of every day life.
 The rigid refusal of the post office, the elevated railroads and the surface roads of large cities to accept mutilated Ao stricted their circulation, but it still holds good that almost anything bear ing the stamps of the federal hints will go in saloon. The popular be- lief that the saloonkeeper makes ab- normal profits probably has something to do with this, but perhaps the fact that some of his customers are not critical as to the sort of change they get may account for his indifference.
 There is no law setting apart day for Thanksgiving, nor is the president under any legal obligations to issue 8 proclamation. He simply follows an old custom, both as to setting apart this day, and as to it's date. Custom, however, has established the festival and the last Thursday in November has been accepted as the date on which it shall occur. This custom dates back to 1864, though Thanksgiving day was celebrated at odd times as far back as the days of the colonies. Among the records preserved by congress is a, proclamation by the council of Massa- chusetts, dated November 16, 1776, rec ommending acknowledgements for mercies enjoyed" A form of Thanks. giving proclamation was reported to the Continental congress November 1, 1777. by Samuel Adams, of Massachu.. SettS