The age-herald., 1898-03-09
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In his volume of "reminiscences, enutled
 'Auld Lang Syne," Prof F. Marx Mueller
 the famous philologist says in one place;
 "Music has often helped me in my pfl- | grimage through life. Both in Paris and
 later on in London many a house was
 open to me which would have remained | closed to a mere scholar. Musicians also | took an interest in the son Of the poet' | Wilhelm Mueller, whose songs had been | set to music, not only by Schubert, put py | many other popular composers | q well remember when telling Jenny | Lind whose son was. how she held up her | hands -and said: What, the son or the l poet of 'Muelerlieder?" Now sit down, l she said, and let me sing you the 'Sehoene | Muellerin." And she began to sing, ana l sang all the principal songs of that sad | idyll, but really acting the whole story as no actress on the stage could have acted II. | It was a perfect tragedy, and it has re- | mained with me for life."
 "The Ohoopee continues to be very low says the Swainsboro (Ga) Pine Forest land you can see many interesting sights l therein such as alligators as long as a saw | carriage and turtles so large that their | weight sinks the timber when they crawl | on it. Also the otters are quite numerous; | you can see them on the timber eating hsh' | etc. Recently one was seen to go unuer | the water and stay quite time, and then return with a trout which was nfteen | inches long and weighed eight pounds, be-
 sides what the otter had destroyed The Abbe Prieur had invented kind Of | shorthand which he thought would be or | some use to the ministry says MT. T; l Hopkins in his "The Dungeons Of Parls. | But the ministry would none or It, anu anu | the abbe made known his little invention l to the king of Prussia, a patron or sucn 1 profitable things. But one of his letters | was opened at the postoffice by the capinet l noir, and the next morning M Appe ffleur | awoke in the dungeon of Vlncennes. lie l inquired the reason, and in the course or months his letter to the king or Frussia | was shown to him.
 | "But I can explain that in moment | said the abbe. Look here is the transla- | tion.'
 | The hieroglyphics, in short, were as 1nno- cent as a verse of the psalms, but the 1 Abbe Prieur never quilted his dungeon | .
 | Dr. A. J. Smith, a Wabash Qnd0 physi- cian reports a well-defined case Of a home l sick COW. The doctor, a few weeks ago, | bought fine milker from Wabash county farmer She was brought in and placed Tn | his stable, but from the first day refused | to eat. and spent the days and nights Tn | melancholy lowing. She the first day or | two gave an abundance of milk, but soon | afterward became "dry," and the doctor l became fearful she would die. Last Thurs- | day he returned her to the farmer. She appeared overjoyed to get back to the old | home began to eat voraciously, and IS l again giving milk. The doctor attributes 1t | all to homesickness.
 1 President Kruger will shortly have the | opportunity of unveling at Pretoria | monument to himself As a result Of the l national subscription, a native artist, Von | Bouw by name, was commissioned neariy | two years ago to execute the work. The l monument is designed to glorify the maj l of ba TransVa11 rpnnhlic. and the statue of Dom Paul, in heroic size, crowns l the structure, in itself some fifty feet high. | The president has insisted being repre- | scented in the ordinary top hat of daily | life.
 l The very unusual scene of man walking | through the street with two-bushel meal | sack full of silver dollars was witnessed l at Lexington, Ky, few days ago. Just l before the close of banking hours two men, | apparently good old farmers, walked into l the Phoenix National bank, one of them | carrying the sack. They told Cashier Wal Ter Rhodes that they wanted to make | deposit, which he, knowing the men to- be l citizens of the country, from near Jacks | Creek, accepted. They united the bag and l counted out a sum which looked to be
 about 5000, every piece of which was | shining silver 'plunk" part of the | money was carefully wrapped in paper | packages, $20 in each. The scent of these | packages clearly indicated that the money
 had been buried beneath the earth |
 Philadelphia has a Chinese bricklayer | named Lee Chang. He works for Edward Clayton, West Philadelphia contractor, | and there is very little about building | that he can't do. The ambitious celectial | started to work for MT. Clayton about | three years ago, and advanced so rapidly | that he was able to compete with any of | his brother workmen after serving two and | a. half years apprentice. Chang is specially talented in turning arches and | building corners, going as high as ten | "courses" at a time without trying the plumb rule. His fellow workmen often
 take delight in rushing him. on a rough
 wall, but the agile Chinaman often makes | them regret the attempt Chang has no | desire to return to his native country, but 1 hopes some day to be contractor. l
 | A Denver man has discovered plan to | get hog back into a pen via the aper- | ture through which 1t passed out. His 1 cipe in substance Is this: Get the hogs | nose at the hole in the pen, then pass
 around behind the hog carefully. get hold 1 of its tadl, and pull back as hard as you | can. The animal will think you want to | prevent it from going in and makes a leap | into it's old place.
 The custom of ancestral worship has as
 firm a hold on the Emperor of Corea as on
 his humblest subject Once every two | years King Ye-Hui visits the tomb of his | ancestors. The little matched houses in | the center of the broad avenue are l moved to make room for the royal process | sion, and, as little notice is given, the | scene is often one of indescribable confu- | sion. The king is carried in a state sedan 1 chair, and to baffie any of his enemies | who have murderous intentions, duplicates of this chair are. carried at different places | in the procession.
 
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