Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-06

Mountain Of the Moniss--EVen to ths
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 The marine village of Tupuselei, tn New Guinea, would take a lot of beat ing on the score of singulartty. 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 fn all but inac= cessible trees. for the same Weigaty reason.
 Another curious place is=a 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 a single inhabitant. But on the arrival Of winter. when the lake is frozen over with a thick coating Of ice. the owners Q. the =huts arrive and proceed to move their houses out onto the surface of he 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 untilthe spring releases the lake from its icy bonds. when this ex traordtnary town is once more broken up. the shanties go back to their rest iag place and 6be fishermen scatter over the country. This place even boasts 9 curing factory and church, not to mention several saIoons-au on tae ice.
 Athos a=toWn situated on a promon- tef9 on the coast of Macedonia, well deserves =tae tftIe of Che most curious town in the universe. The peninsula Is known as "Tae Mountain of the Monks, from tae fact that a score or so ot monaster3es are dotted about=tIe rough htl1sides or 3he Ea1leysZIa these establishments dwell a numerous body of= =ascettes9 kind and bospftabls to wanderers. but fQll of superstition. and believing ia the doctrine of separation t0 q wonderful degree.
 The actual town. as distinct from it's monastie enyiroas. Is called Caryes. and supplies the simple wants of the monks. Here are to be found streets Of shops, crowded bazars. foHrishing trades and all the hustle and energy Of 3 modern town. But one thing soon strikes the visitor as strange. There is not female to be seen anywhere. for the gentler sex is vigorously ban isbed 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 even among the domestic animals Only the wild birds eYade it. and then only when free, for DO female bird 8 ever brought 10 table. the fowl one has for dinner is sure to be 3 cockereL For this unparalleled state of affairs there Is only legend to account Al though to our practical minds f1imsy to a degree it is implicitly believed in by the inhabitants It appears that in one of#the chief monasteries oa the prom ontory there Is miraculous icon, which is picture or Image sacred to members of the Rusao-Greek. church This particular picture is a representa- ton of the Virgin and the legend says that one day as the Empress PuIoheria. who had ltberaily endowed the church. Rs well as beauti1ed and restored lt, was engaged in her deYotIons, the Yir- gin spoke. asking what she, woman. was doing In the church The pious lady no doubt amazed. did not reply. WhereuDon the voice commanded her to leave. saying that the feet of a woman should never again tread ths floor. The empress, probably surprised ae the seeming ingratltuds of the speech, as well as awe-struck, left the place, which no female has since en- tered. How the prohibition thus ar, bitrartly established came to compre- bead the length and breadth of ths promontory is not very clear AS a residence for bashful bachelors ws should imagine Athos would be hard to surpass.
 Pinch E Flowers
 4 peculiar species of climbing plan,