Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-19

Animals,
 The marine village Of Tupuselef. in New Guinea, would take lot of beat ing on the score Of singularity. Hero the houses are all supported on piIea and stand right out in the ocean, some considerable distance from the shore The object of this strange position ia to protect the inhabitants against sud den attacks of the dreaded head-huat CTS, who are always on the lookout F6- victims. Other villages fa this happy land are perched np in all but inae- eessibie trees, for the same wefgAty reason.
 Another curious place tis a town without a name on one Of the arms snf Lake Huron. This consists of some 960 wooden huts During the summer these little dwellings are hidden away in a 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 aud proceed to move their houses out onto the surface of the lake The floor oe the huts is taken up and d hole cut through the ice. Through these hotes the residents fish, carrying on their operations until the spring releases the lake from it's 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 saloons-alI on the ice
 Athosi town situated on promon tory on the coast of Macedonia, well deserves the title of the most curious town in the universe. The peninsula i4 known as "The Mountain Of the Monks from the fact that a score Or so of monasteries are dotted about tho rough hillsides or the valleys. In these establishments dwell a numerous body of ascetics, kind and hoapitable to wanderers, but full of superstition, and believing in the doctrine of separation to wonderful degree.
 The actual town, as distinct from fts monastic environs. is called Caryas. and supplies the simple wants of the monks. Here are to be found streets of shops, crowded bazars. flourishiug trades and all the hustle and energy i of modern town. But one thing soon strikes the visitor as strange, There is not a female to be seen anywhere. l ba AI,,, 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 ,s ever brought to table, the fowl one has for dinner is sure to be a cockeret. For this unparalleled state of affairs there is only a legend to account. Al though to our practical minds fimsy 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 a 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 well as beautifed and restored It. was engaged in her devotions, the Vlr 1 gin spoke, asking what she, woman. was doing in the church. The pioua lady, no doubt amazed, did not reply. Whereupon the voice commanded her to leave, saying that the feet of woman should, never again tread the floor. The empress, probably surprised at the seeming ingratitude of tho speech, as well as awe-struek, left the place, which no female has since en- tered How the prohibition thus ar bitrarily established came to compre- bend the length and breadth of the promontory is not very clear As residence for bashful bachelors we should imagine Athos would De hard to surpass.
 Balloon Accents.
 M. Janssen the French astronomer 1 is arranging for balloon ascents from three stations, one in Europe, another in America and third in Siberia. to observe the November shooting stars next fall. The balloons are to meas l ure 50000 and 60,000 cubic feet. and carry three men, one aeronaut. ant 1 two observers with electric 1aY,ns