Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-16

The marine village of Tupuse1ei, in New Guinea, would take a lot of beat ing on the score of singularity. Here the houses are all supported on piles and stand right out in the ocean, some considerable distance from the shore. The object of this strange position is to protect the inhabitants against sud den attacks of the dreaded head-hunt- CTS, who are always on the lookout for victims. Other villages in this happy land are perched up in all but inac- cessible trees, for the same weighty reason.
 Another curious place Is a town without name on one. of the arms of Lake Huron. This consists of some 800 wooden huts. During the summer these little dwellings are hidden away ln clearing on shore, and the town contains not a single inhabitant. But on the arrival of winter, when the lake IS frozen over with 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 tue residents fish, carrying on their operations until the spring releases the lake from its icy bonds, when this ex- traordinary town is once more broken up, the shanties go back to their rest ing place and the fishermen scatter over the country. This place even boasts curing factory and a church, not to mention several saIoons-all on the ice.
 Athos, town situated on a promon. 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 a score Or so of monasteries are dotted about the rough hillsides or the valleys. In these establishments dwell numerous body of ascetics, kind and hospitable to wanderers, but full of superstition, and believing in the doctrine of separation to a wonderful degree.
 
 monastic enyirons, is called Caryes, and supplies the simple wants of the monks. Here are to be found streets of shops, crowded bazars, fourishing trades and all the hustle and energy of a modern town. But one thing soon strikes 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 priYates, consists of bachelors.
 This extraordinary law is carried out even 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. For this unparalleled state of affairs there is only a legend to account. AL though to our practical minds f1imsy to degree, it is implicitly believed in by the inhabitants. It appears that in one of the chief monasteries or the prom ontory there is miraculous icon, which is a picture or image sacred to members of the Russo-Greek church. This particular picture is a representa- tion of the Virgin and the legend says that one day as the Empress Pulcheria, who had literally endowed the church, as we'll as beautified and restored it, was engaged in her devotions, the Vir- crir oclz{pnr faa xvOv,aou was doing in the church. The pious lady, no doubt amazed, did not reply, whereupon the voice commanded her to leave, saying that the feet of a woman should never again tread tho floor. The empress, probably surprised at 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~ bitrariIy established came to eompre- bend the length and breadth of the promoutory is not very clear. As 8 residence for bashful bachelors ws should imagine Athos would be hard to surpass,
 French Hatred for Germany Dying.
 The sentiment of vengeance against Germany for the invasion of 1870 is dying out in France. says the Wash ington Post. Three decades have elapsed since the war. A new gener- ation has sprung up in France since the so-called Terrible Year." who know nothing of the latter except by hearsay, and who are, therefore, quite disposed to be friendly toward Ger