The age-herald., 1900-09-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE


 Seek work and ask favors in the after ncon."
 'If this be thy birthday. sickness and trouble threaten thee, and thy affairs will go sadly wrong keep sharp eye on thy business or it will fail"
 "A child born on this day will be very
 unlueky and generally in some trouble"
 If a female, her courtship and marriage
 will be one of disaster"
 Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for Sun day, September 2S, 1900:
 An unfavorable day"
 'If this be thy birthday, sickness and sorrow will befal thee, and thy bereave- ment will be keen; in thy business thou wilt have an unsettled and unfortunate year"
 "A child born on this day will be singu. larly unfortunate and will be in constant trouble or poverty; it's domestic lie will be one of grief and affliction." The last survivor of the "Six Hundred" 1 in the battle of Balaklava has again | died. this time out West not far from the | spot where a reporter killed Belle Boyd, | the famous Confederate spy" It was | Belles twentieth death, and this person | they call the last hero of the Light Bri- | gade has probably died twenty times | twenty times. True, there are several of l him living hale and hearty in the famous | Chelsea hospital in London; but that has | got nothing to do with Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin and the West generally. In | those lands of valor and veracity no re- spect is entertained for living heroes: | must have them dead-"death of last sur l viyor' of Gettysburg. Bull Run or Teddy; | memorable battles indeed.
 They never do discover survivors out 1 West except dead ones. Worse than Geor- l gia for that. Hundreds of persons, each | the only survivor of some one of a half dozen occurrences, have been recently dis | covered dead. Last veteran of Waterloo,
 last body servant of G. Washington, last 1 child of Grace Darling who remained a l virgin. last one of the Alabama" Indians, | last granddaughter of the first settler of Illinois and so on. Dearly beloved Geor- gia runs only to last servant of c. Wash- ington last survivor of Marshal Ney, and Pod Dismukes; whilst down here in Ala
 bama we have no survivors at all except rickety old boarding house of Jefferson
 Davis in Montgomery, which some of us call the White House of the Confedera- cy just to show that we are not altogether out of the survivor business Somebody somewhere somewhen ad- vanced the proposition that seven illus trious Greek cities claim Homer dead, through which the living Homer begged his bread,
 All day yesterday shifting crowd of on- lockers watched the workmen making and placing the concrete foundation for the street pavement in Second avenue between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets. There was huge sort of shallow square pan made of wood, with no rim on one side. Dry cement was placed on this pan, water turned on, and eight or ten stalwart men with long-handled broad hoes stirred it vigorously. When it had been sufficiently wetted wheelbarrows loaded with crushed stone, called by the Scotch road metal" were rolled into the pan and the stone emptied. Water was again turned on from the hose and the men with the hoes thor oughy mixed the mass. It was then placed on the bed of the street, and the pan was moved forward. Manager LaCose, in charge of the work, who has spent many years at street paving, said that the cost
 of the paving in progress was dollar and seventy cents square yard which was too little. It was worth eight cents more. dollar seventy-efght was what the con-
 tractors got for paving in Montgomery, in more favorable circumstances than here. But when the contractors undertook to pave Second avenue, it was understood that there should be no concrete founda- ..on. This calculation was erroneous. as aCa into his excavations. The contractors then split the difference" with the city, and undertook to do the work for dollar-sev- enty. The base of the pavement as it is
 being laid will last thousand years, and
 be even better then than now.
 A Birmingham lawyer made the bond of
 negro man who was under arrest for offend
 ing the peace and dignity of the State of
 Alabama. The lawyer became restive un-
 der the bond. and the other day he sent
 for the negro. When the negro entered
 the office of law, the lawyer handed him
 note and said:
 George, I have looked into your case.
 Take that note to the Sheriff, and it will
 be all right"
 "Yes. sir; thank you, sir!' At the foot of the stairs leading from the lawyers office the negro opened the note and read:
 ''Sherff BurgiR: Arrest the bearer of this
 note, George Blank; I'll no longer be re-
 sponsibe for his bond"
 The lawyers name was signed to the note, and when the negro read it he is said to have winked both eyes most know ingly and then he fed His present where about Is unknown, and the lawyer has got to pay the bond. The lawyer now thinks
 of the heather -hinee. the while he softly swears.
 William White, who represents a large inn
 porting house, was in Birmingham yester-
 day selling mattings and carpets. He says the German government has offered his
 firm 50 cents premium on every one of its Manchuria furs. Germany is need of these
 warm furs to clothe its soldiers who will be stationed along the northern border of China during the coming winter The win