Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-14
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 The marine village of rupaseIef. in
 New Guinea woald take lot of bsat-
 ing on the score of singuIaritV Here
 tne houses are all supported on piles
 and stand right out ln the ocean some
 considerable distance from the shore
 The object of this strange nosftiou fs
 to protect the inhabitants against sHd-
 den attacks Of the dreaded head-bunt-
 CTS, who are always on the lookouf for
 victims. Other villages in this happy
 land are perehed up in all but ipac-
 eessibIe trees. for the same Wefgbtv
 reason.
 AndAhe curious place is I town
 without name on one of the arms of
 Lake Huron This consists of some
 900 wooden huts During the summer
 these little dwellings are hidden away
 ia q clearing on shore. and the town
 contains not q single inhabitanf. But
 on the arrival of winter. when the lake
 5s tfozen over witch a thick coating of ice. the owners Of the huts arrive and
 proceed to move their houses out onto the surface Of the lake. The floor of the huts is taken up and hole cut through the ice. Through these holes the residents fish, carrying on their operations until the spring releases the lake From its icy bonds when this ex tFaordinary town is once more broken mp, the shanties go back to their rest ing place and the fishermen scatter over tae country This place even hoastsSa Sa curing factory and a church, not to mention several saloons-au on the ice.
 Athos. town situated on a promop- tory on the coast of Macedonia. well 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 score or l so of monasteries are dotted about he rough hillsides or the valleys. In these establishments dwell numerous body of asceties, kind and hospitable to wanderers, but full of superstition. and believing in the doctrine of separation to a wonderful degree.
 The actual town, as distinct from it's 1nonastic environs. is called earyes. .and supplies the simple wants of the monks. Here are to be found streets .of shops, crowded bazars. hourtshing .trades and all the hustle and energy E .ef a9Yodern town But one thing soon .stls Fs the visitor as strange There ! is not a female to be seen anywhere. | for the gentler sex is vigorously ban ished from the place Even the small [ Turkish garrison. from the command ant down to the privates, consists of [ Bachelors.
 This extraordinary law Is carried out E gwen among the domestic animals. Only the wild birds evade it. and then only when free. for no female bird 4s Ever brought to table. the fowl one has for dinner is sure to be a cockerel E For this unparalleled state of affairs ! Shere is only legend to account Al Enough to our practical minds f1imsy to a degree it is implicitly believed in by { tho inhabitants Itappears that in one Of the chief monasteries on the prom Qntory there is miraculous icon, which is a picture or image sacred to snembers of the Russo-Greek church. This particular picture is a representa- fien of the Virgin and the legend says thai one day as the Empress PuIeheria, who had literally endowed the church, as well as beautlfied and restored 1t, was engaged in her deyotons, the Vir- gin Asoke, asking what she. woman, was doing in the church The pious lady no doubt amazed. did not reply, wnereupon the voice commanded her to leave, saying that the feet of a woman should never again tread the floor. The empress, probably surprised ut the seeming ingratitUde of the speech, as well as awe-struek, left the place, which no female has since en- tered. How the prohibition thus ar htrarily established came to compre- hend the length and breadth of the premontory is not very clear As residence for bashful bachelors we shonld imagine Athos would be hard to Surpass.
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 Chicago Tribune: William Allen White recalls that Frederic Reming ton, now famous as writer and iI- luslrator used to farm near Eldorado, and the hired men on the farms near Plum Grove made monkey of him hy getting out bogus warrant for him spr shorse stealing and telling him the instice of the peace would bind him oven Reminatos got so scared that he Iaft lhe counsrN. He has never even