Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-29
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 <Axs''--Even to the he marine village of Tupuselei, in Guinea, would take lot of beat on the score of singularity. Here houses are all supported on piles stand right out in the ocean, some siderable distance from the shore. The object of this strange position is 10 protect the inhabitants against sud- den attacks of the dreaded head-hunt- CTS. who are always on the lookout for victims. Other villages Tn this happy land are perehed up in all but inac. :sAssible trees, for the same weighty keason.
 'sasA curious place is a town name on one of the arms of iron. This consists of some en nuts. During the summer
 
 ie dwellings are hidden away N clearing on shore, and the town lns not single inhabitant. But arrival of winter, when the lake Dzen over with thick coating of ce, the owners of the huts arrive and veed to move their houses out onto surface of the lake, The floor of huts is taken up and a hole cut pgh the ice. Through these holes Sesidents fish, carrying on their MWlons until the spring releases the fom it's icy honds, when this ex- alnary town issonce more broken e,Nsss shaLtiea go back to their rest aA nlsss saTfu the fishermen scatter ] the country. This place even fists curing factory and a church, lot 10 mention several saloons-all on fhe ice.
 Athos, town situated on a promon- tory on the coast of Macedonia, we'll deserves the title of the most curious town in the universe. The peninsula is known as The Mountain of the Monks" from the fact that a score Or 10 of monasteries are dotted about the ough hillsides or the valleys. In theso Establishments dwell numerous body f ascetics, kind and hospitable to wanderers. s@ full of superstition, and doctrine Of separation
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 ade it, and then II no female bird s lght u table; the fowl one innerd sure to be cockerel. unpaalleled state of affairs only legend to account. Al to ouI practical minds fiimsy to e. Implicitly believed in by huS. It appears that in one sEnChasteries on the prom there is a miraculous icon, "a picture or image sacred to scI of the Russo-Greek church. jtfcular picture is a representa- zxpexhe Virgin and the legend says 6e day as the Empress Pulcheria. Ad liberally endowed the church. as beautified and restored it, ged in her devotionsf
 e. asking what she,& The in the church. TheSE. Nj. doubt amazed, did not reply, the voice commanded her
 wing that the feet of a
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 Impress. probably surprised ning ingratitude of the s well as awe-suuck, left the lch no female has since en- How the prohibition thus ar lilly established came to compTes nd the length and breadth of the 1sssntory is not very clear. As tn2sspce for bashful bachelors we fifsaN imagine Athos would be hard to s'!s Is.
 iEs HE WOMAN WHO SToOPS. ssw She Can Be Cured of This Un-
 graceful Habit.