Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1899-08-12
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One Built the Ocean. Another on les
and Another Is W0manIess.


One Built ON the Ocean. Another on lee
and Another Is womanIess.
The marine village OF Tupuselei. 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-
ers. who are always on the lookout for
victims. Other villages in this happy
land are perched up in all but mac
cessible trees, for the same weighty
reason.
Another curious place is town
without name on one OF the arms OF
Lake Huron. This consists of some
500 wooden huts. During the summer
these little dwellings are hidden away
In clearing on shore, and the town
contains not 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
the 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
| ho oh onti toe tn their rQSt-
ing place and the fishermen scatter
over the country. This place even,
boasts curing factory and church.
not to mention several saloons-all on
the ice.
Athos. a town situated on promon-
tory on the coast Of Macedonia, well
deserves the title OF the most curious
town in the universe. The peninsula is
known as 1.-The Mountain OF the
Monks from the fact that 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.
. The actual town. as distinct from its
monastic environs, is called Caryes
!, and supplies the simple wants OF the
monks. Here are to be found streets
: OF shops. crowded bazars, fourishine
!. trades and all the hustle and energy
. OF a modern town. But one thing soor
1 tr,l he ;cts CT There
!. is not a female to be seen anywhere
!. for the gentler sex is vigorously ban
4 ished from the place. Even the small
: Turkish garrison, from the command
d ant down to the privates. consists o
bachelors.
= This extraordinary law is carried on
4 even among the domestic animals
Only the wild birds evade it. and thel
only when free, for no female bird a
= ever brought to table; the fowl on
y has for dinner is sure to be a cockerel
: For this unparalleled state of affair
: there is only legend to account Al
though TO our practical minds fiimsy I
a degree. it is implicitly believed in b
the inhabitants. II appears that in on
Q of the chief monasteries ON the prom
h ontory there is a miraculous icor
l. which is a picture or image sacred t
If members of the Russo-Greek church
;, This particular picture is represents
II ton of the Virgin and the legend say
II that one day as the Empress Pulcheri'
II who had literally endowed the church
= as we'll as beautified and restored !
L. was engaged in her devotions. the VII
. gin spoke. asking what she, womal
- was doing in the church. The piot
70 lady. no doubt amazed, did not repl,
:. whereupon the voice commanded he
"a to leave, saying that the feet OF
!. woman should never again tread II
,r floor. The empress, probably surprise
n at the seeming ingratitude of II
n speech. as we'll as awe-struck, left II
Of place, which no female has since el
n tered. How the prohibition thus a
III bitrarily established came to compr
Of bend the length and breadth OF u
er promontory is not very clear. AS
% residence for bashful bachelors
No should imagine Athos would be hard
:" surpass.