Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-22

The marine village of Tunuse1ai in
 New Guinea, would take a lot of heat
 Ing on the score of singularity. Here
 tue houses are all supported on piles
 ana stand right out in the ocean. some
 considerable distance from the shore.
 The object of this strange position is
 10 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
 ooV wooden huts. During the summer
 these little dwellings are hidden away III a clearing on shore, and the town contains not a single tnhabitant. But
 on the arrival of winter, when the lake IS frozen over with a 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 hRts 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- traordlnary town is once more broken up, the shanties go back to their rest tng place and the fishermen scatter over the country. This place even boasts curing factory and a church, not to mention several saloons-aH on the ice.
 Athos, town situated on a promon- tory on the coast of Macedonia, we'll 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 O. so of monasteries are dotted about the rough hillsides or the valleys. In these establishments dwell a numerous body of ascetics. kind and hospitable to wanderers, but full of superstition, and believing in the doctrine of separation to wonderful degree
 The actual town, as distinct from it's rnonastie environs, is called Caryes, and supplies the simple wants of the monks. Here are to be found streets of shops, crowded bazars, flourishing trades and all the hustle and energy of modern town. But one thing soon strikes tke 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 $ 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 legend to account. AL though to our practical minds flimsy to a degree, it is implicitly believed in by the inhabitants. 1t appears that in one of the chief monasteries or the prom entory 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 Palcheria. who had literally endowed the church, as well as beautified and restored it, was engaged in her devotions, the Vir- gin spoke, asking what she, woman. was doing in the church. The pious lady, no doubt amazed, did not reply. the voice commanded her to leave, saying that the feet of 8 woman should never again tread the door The empress, probably surprised at the seeming ingratitude of the speech, as we'll as awe-struck, left the place, which no female has since en@ tered How the prohibition thus ar- established came to compre- bend the length and breadth of the is not very clear As a residence for bashful bachelors We ,hould imagine Athos would be hard to surpass.
 eour Famous Statues.
 The most famous statues in history Ire the Colossus of Rhodes, the Sphinx md tue vocal statue of Memnon at rhebes, and of these the last is the most remarkable, in consequence of it's 'roperty of emitting sounds when it's ips were touched by the rays of the ising sun so that it seemed to greet he coming day. It was originally 'ortrait model of King Amenophis III. nd was one of pair of statues be- ween sixty and seventy feet high, arved out of single blocks of sand tone and transported from the quar- ies to Thebes, whereas the Sphinx vas carved from the living rock in the lace where it now stands.
 Of statues not so well kr ewn the aost remarkable is that of Bu Ina at Sara, gar Kioto, in Japan. winch was