Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-13


 The marine village of Tupuseiei in New Guinea would take a lot of heat lng on the score of singularity. Here flae houses are all supported on niles and stand right out in the ocean some eonsiderable distance from the shore The object of this strange position is tp 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 fnac- eessible trees, for the same weipbfv Eeason.
 Another lcurioas place Is a town withont name on one of the arms of Lake Huron. This consists of some 5oo wooden huts During the summer These little dwellings are hidden away m a clearing on shore. and the town contains not single inhabitant. But en the arrival of winter, when the lake Is frozen over with a thick coating of ice, the owners of the hGfs arrive and proceed to move their houses out onto he surface Of the lake The floor nf inc huts is taken up and a hole cut through the ice. Through these holes the residents fish. carrying on their operations until the spring releases the lake from it's icy bonds. when this ex. tfaordinary town is once more broken 2 Up, the shanties go back to their rest ing place and the fishermen scatter over the qpuntry. This place even boasts curing factory and a church, not to mention several saloons-aH on the ice
 Athos. town situated on Dromon 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 so of monasteries are dotted about the rough hillsides or the valleys. In these establishments dwell numerous body of aseetics, kind and hospitable to wanderers. but full of superstition. and believing in the doctrine of separation Go wonderful degree.
 The actual town. as distinct from it's monastic environs is called Caryes. and supplies the simple wants of the ni0Hks. Here are to be found streets of shops. crowded bazars, dourishing trades and all the bustle and energy of Ts69ern 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 fshed from the place. Even the small Turkish garrison, from the command ant down to the priYstes, consists of bachelors.
 This extraordinary law is carried out even among the domestic animals Only the wild birds eyade it, and then only when free, for no female bird AS ever brought to table; the fowl one has for dinner is sure to he a cockerel For this unparalleled state of affairs there is only a legend to account. AL though to our practical minds fimsy to d degree. it K implicitly believed in by the inhabitants It appears that in one of the chief monasteries on the prom ontory there is q miraculous icon, which is a picture or image sacred to members of the Russo-Greek church. This particular picture is a representa- ton of the Virgin and the legend says that one day as the Empress Pulcheria, who had literally endowed the church, as well as beautified and restored it, was e aged in her deyotions. the Yir- gin spoke, asking what she 8 woman, 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 woman should never again tread the door. The empress, probably surprised at the seeming ingratitude of the speech, as well as awe-struck, left the place. which no female has since en- tered. How the prohibition thus ar btrarily established came to compre- bend the length and breadth Of the promontory is not very clear. As residence for bashfu bachelors we should imagine Athos would be hard to surpass.
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 Chicago Tribune; William Allen White recalls that Frederic Bemtng- ton. now famous as a writer and ii- lustrator, used to farm near Eldorado and Che hired men on the farms near Plum Grove made d monkey of him by getting out a bogus warrant for him for 'horse stealing and telling him the justice of the peace would bind him a,-a,, p,,,i,,,,t,s . oc+ eo scared thai he