Centre Democrat. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, October 20, 1881, Image 7

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    CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.
The weight of an average male adult
is 140 pounds.
New York has a society which sends
ice free to all who make application.
Dice games for SIOO a throw are said
to be common on tho streets of Butte,
Montana.
About two-thirds of a pint of air is
inhaled at each breath in ordinary res
piration.
A tree full of birds was struck by
lightning at Owcnsboro, Ky., and 050
of them killed.
The women prisoners in the Louis -
ville (Ky.) workhouse are compelled to
labor in tho stone quarries.
Tho Druids gathered their sacred
mistlotoe with a gold knife when the
moon was six days old.
Wood has been preseived 3,000 years
in Egyptian tombs, where it has been
exposed only to dry air.
The tunnel under the English Chan
nel at the present rate of working will
be completed in five years.
In ancient Elrotia each new month
was nshered in by a day of merry-mak
ing in honor of a tutelary deity.
A Connecticut woman has given her
son a large comforter made of hair cat
from her own head during ton years.
The skin contains more than two mil
lion openings, which are the outlets
for an equal number of sweat glands.
The sense of smell in ants is highly
developed. Huber discovered that
they trace each other in search ot food.
The warm baths, so valn?d by the
Romans, once fell into disrepute be
cause Augustus had been cured by cold
ones.
The inhabitants of the island of Nias
have one name for blue, violet and
black, and another for yellow and
orange.
Saiit Hilarious ate only fifteen figs
and six ounces of barley per diem.
Saint Paul, the Hermit, lived 150 years
on dates.
Silk damasks are now made by past
ing thin silk tissae on cotton. India
rubber 'dissolved in petroleum is used
as a cement.
A man breathes about eighteen times
a minute, and uses three thousand cubic
feet, or about three hundred and soventy
five hogsheads of air per hour.
A cripple, traveling on his hands and
knees, has undertaken a journey to
Texas, starting from Montreal. He
seems confident of his ability to per
form his task.
There is a theater in Berlin which
gives performances at half past six in
the morning during pleasant rammer
days. The price of ad mission is low,
and 2,000 to 8,000 persons are often
present at these representations.
A Brazilian paper speaks of a negro
who died there recently aged 130, and
of several other persons who reached
remarkable ages, and attributes this
longevity prineipally to the fart that
the men and women referred to were
vegetarians.
Wonderful Spring*.
A moat remarkable discovery baa j net
been made in the Bweetwater country
in the Wyoming Territory. It is a de
posil of anlphnric acid in natural atate.
The odor, chemical action and general
appearance of the stuff demonstrates it
to be a pnre quality of anlphnric acid.
The ground ia impregnated over a large
area—loo acre* or more—and parties
hare filed claims upon it. When will
nature cease her wonder* ? A abort
time since Arkansas produced a spring,
the waters of which tasted like apple
brandy, and were intoxicating in their
effects. California boasta of a honey
spring, from which a substance flows
that ia pronounced to be a good substi
tute for the genuine. In Nevada there
is a spring known as "The Chicken
Soup Spring," the watersof which taste
exictly liko chicken soup when sea
soned with salt and pepper. This spring
is a great reeort for tbo tramp en route
acroes the mountains. With a ponnd
of cra'kers he can here rest, and lire in
seeming lnxnry for weeks at a time.
Arizona baa a soap spring from which
good washing soap, in a liqnid state,
can be procured. Another Western
Territory a few years since announced
the discovery of a milk spring, and
claimed that its product was at least
equal to the alleged lacteal flnid sold
by the city milkmen, (tola and sulphnr
springs are abundant all over the Went,
and we may next expect to hear of some
enterprising prospector laying claim to
the discovery of a spring from which
the gennine lager beer flows in gener
ous stream, unadulterated with the
deadly glucose. There arc yet many
secrets locked in the storehouse of na
ture,and this may be one of them.— Fret
Pre**.
There are 7,002 public houses and
4,425 beer houses in London. Daring
last year, 29,688 persona were appre
hended for drunkenness. Of these, 15,-
006 we e male end 18,870 were females.
The average of arrests for drunkenness
seems to be dtminUMwg j
LADIES' DEPARTMENT.
Pnaltlott rtotra,
Ilalayensos remain in vogue.
Bridal rosea arc again in vogue.
All midwinter wraps are very long.
Moiro is again used as half mourning.
Yellow chamois gloves are moribund.
Button gloves are no longer fashion
able.
Feather turlwns bid fair to be mnch
worn.
Long mitts are the favorite hand wear
at (he moment.
Great latitude is permitted in the
shapes of sleeves.
Fanehon and Normandy breakfast
caps are favorites.
Ombro plushes wiil be used as trim
mings on costumes.
Small broken checkod suitings and
plaids will be worn.
Looso-wristed long gloves will be
more worn than ever.
Flowers are used on evening toilets
to an unlimited extent.
Mow silver breast-pins have the initial
or monogram in script.
Striped moire ribbons will trim many
of the early fall bonnets.
All costumes and suits are composed
of two or several fabrics.
There is a rapid demand for dolmunH
and dolmau-sacks this fall.
Women with long, stick-like arms
should not wear tight long sleeves.
Dolmans in the sack-visite shape
and dolman mantles lead the styles lor
fall.
Opaque pearl and oriental jet jewelry
is worn with steel gray silks for half
mourning.
(Quantities of Spanish lace, white,
black, cream and colored is a feature
in fall toilets.
Horse-hair cloth, mohair, steel and
whalelxtne-stiftened crinolets will be
worn until cold weather.
Some of tho new plush goods have
immensely long pile cut in irregular
depths to form the figures.
Chenille plush stripes, on >a'iu mer
veilleux grounds, are seen among some
of the new trimming stuffs.
Rhine-crystal clasps, buckles, medal
lions and slides ornament various parts
of the most fashionable evening toilets.
White evening toilets of the richest
description are destined to greater pop
ularity than ever the coming winter
season.
The popularity of shirring remains
unchanged, and every part of a dress
that can be gathered is drawn up into
innumerable gaugings and fine puffs.
The return of moire to the world of
fashion is received with enthusiasm by
the dames and dowagers Tho attempt
being msde to render it a popular
fabric for yout ifnl toilets will fail.
Elegant plush goods having an ex
tremely long and heavy pile, and show
ing broad stripes of satin of a deeper
or contrasting color, brightened by
small flower brocades woven in clusters,
are among the most expensive dress ac
cessories of the season.
A Mtndr of Woman's fiend.
Every woman's head shonld lie stud
ied carefully by its owner, with a view
to making the most of it, becanae much
of her style depends on whst shape she
gives it and how she carries it. Br
nsing two mirrors—or, better, one of
the Japanese cabinet mirrors—she can
readily decide npoa the outlines that
best snits her face, and thus, by arrang
ing and adding to her hair, she can
prodnce those outline*. If she has a
high forohead, she shouldn't lot any of
the abuse of bang* hinder her from
bringing her hair down over it. Big
foreheads are not pretty in women, no
matter how desirable they may be as
brain-holders, and they shonld be re
duced by bangs or aome kindred de
vice. If the forehead is low, but too
broad, oover it at the sides. The varied
styles of hair-dressing now in vogue
lnckily give a wide olioioe to a fashion
able woman. The same is true of hats,
as I have already described, and one
has herself to blame for any lack of
beanty about her head, except tbo face
itself. .She ought, also, learn how
to pose her head effectively, not affect
edly, bat with a grace that appears
natural. The fashion among girls just
now is to tip the head to one aide, es
pecially while pretending to liaten in
terestedly to a man's talk, in a manner
suggestive of a bird. This is thought
to t>e heart fetching. Another whim of
the moment is to puff out the hair at
the back of the head, at the point
where the phrenologists locate Ihe
organ of arnatirenews. This bit of de
ceit arises from the belief that men ad
mire affectionate, womanly girls. If
some of the bumps tbns simulated were
real, and phrenology were a true sci
ence, scandals would ba multiplied by
s hundred.— Clara BtlUt AW York
LMtr.
A Koauil* WoSSIoc.
A recent letter from Colorado .Spring*.
Col., says: C. A. Dot ton, Herman ▲.
Throcmorton, lira. H. A. Throe morion,
'iiAA .. 1- -
nnil Miss Nellie J. Throcmorton, of
Boston, registered at tho Muni ton house
last night. Thoy made inquiry con
cerning the difficulties of ascending
Pike's Peak, and in tho courso of tho
evening engaged tho Bov. Dr. J. Ed
wards Smith to go with thorn to the
summit of tho peak for tho purpose of
performing a marriage ceremony. This
morning at sunrise six bronchos stood
in front of the Manitou house, and in a
few minutes tho entire party were in the
saddle. Tho Ho v. Dr. Smith was
mounted on a particularly lively brute,
which, after waltzing on two legs down
tho road, from the hotol to tho bridge
over the Fountain, wound up his per
formance by bucking tho clergyman
over the railing into tho stream. Mr.
Smith was rescued, and although not
seriously injured, tho accident deranged
the plans of tho wedding party, for tho
clergyman declined to risk his health
by continuing tho trip, in spite of all
persuasion and the offer of a safe and
quiet animal. After much consultation
the young geutleman suggested that Dr.
Smith should come to this city, (Col
orado Springs,) and from tho United
States telegraph office, which is con
nected with tho signal station on the
peak, perform tho marriage ceremony
by telegraph. The doctor consented to
this arrangement, and tlms by accident
another element of romanco was added
to tho already romantic affair.
The snmmit was reached about noon,
and Sergeant O'Keefe was found in
charge of the station. Ho received his
visitors with his usual hospitality, and
when their intention of celebratiug a
wedding was announced was overjoyed
aid set ationt making arrangements.
The instrument room of the signal
station was decorated with flowers and
flags, and then the sergeant seated him
self at the telegraph instrument and
sent a call down to the Springs office,
10,tKKi fo-t below. Officer Jones, who
was in charge, replied and informed the
sergeant thst the Rev. Dr. Smith had
arrived and was ready to proceed with
the ceremony. Tue young people joined
hands and stoo 1 before the sergsant,
the father and mother of the bride
standing on either side, and the ser
geant at tho instrument real off the
questions of the clergyman as they came
thrilling over the wires. There was a
rapi l clicking for a moment and then
Sergeant O'Keefe, in a solemn voice, re
peated the message: " Charles A. Dut
ton, do you tske Nellie J. Throcmorton
to bo your lawful and wedded wife?"
"I do," responded the bridegroom, with
evident emotion. The sergeant tapped
tho telegraph instrument and in a mo
ment another message came and was
read by him: " Nellie J. Throcmorton,
do you take Charles A. Dutton to be
your lawful aud wedded husband 7' " I
do," said the bride in a low voice. The
sergeant heard it, however, and trans
mitted the reply. There was a mo
ment's jansc, and then came the solemn
concluding words. Up from the valley
to that small stone keep, 14,000 feet
above the ocean, came that message
making two heaits ono: "Then I pro
nounce you man and wife."
A Costly Dinner.
The most costly dinner ever served by
tho late Delmonico was that given fif
teen year* or so ago to 100 prominent
citisens of New York by the silver
tongued adventurer from England, Kir
Morton Peto. This ostentations indi
vidual expended 820,000 on that one
night's entertainment, S2OO for each
gnest. The first citizens of New York
were present, victims of this oily
scamp's pretentions phraa's. In a re
view of that dinner, the Timim has do
scribed a "marvel of skill and art and
extravagance. Thesaloon wan smothered
in the rarest flowers; the menn was in
gnilt on embroidered satin; some of the
wine cost $25 a tattle; the cleverest
mnsicians were engaged at fancy prices;
Clara Louise Kellogg had SI,OOO for
two songs, and a present besides of a
diamond bracelet. In all probability
such a dinner had never been scrvod in
the republic; it wonld have delighted
Bayer and Francatclli, and had the
ancient Greek Philoxonns been there he
wonld have again wished for the neck
of a crane that he might longer enjoy
the passage of so many dainties down
hi* greedy throat.— Albany Argm.
Aparhc Atrocities.
This is tho plcax-int pictaro of Mr.
and Mm. Apache drawn by a Chicago
Tim** correspondent, who baa I wen
down to tho scene of the late trouble in
Arisona:
He cuts off the nose of a prisonor
while yet alive, and throwing them on
the coals will allow them to become
half broiled, and then throat them in
the month and down the throat of his
victim. He will beat a piece of iron
and with thia piercc,the cheeka of a liv
ing man through and through, and then
let the instrument serve as a gag be
twecn the jaws of the horrified captive.
Terrible as these tortures may appear,
it is the squaw who exhibits a refine
ment of cruelty that pats the male
Apeohe to theme. She it is who in
vents new and startling devices for
mutilation of the dead, and la their exe
cntion chuckles with feverish glee.
PEAIU.H OF TiIOUUHT.
One ungrateful man injnres all that
are in distress.
There is no grief like the grief that
does not sjieak.
Life is too short for its possessors to
wear long faces.
Whatever you dislike in another cor
rect in yourself.
The history of your fortune is written
first in your life.
Always tell the truth; you will find it
easier than lying.
It takes a bold man to roll bis own
idea into tho world.
The seeds of knowledge may be
planted iu solitude, but must be culti
vated in public.
The changes wo personally ex]>erience
from time to time we obstinately deny
to our principles.
Vulgar minds refuse to crouch l>c
neath their load; the brave bear theirs
without repining.
If a man talks of his misfortnries
there is something in them that is not
disagreeable to him.
To have stored moral capital enough
to meet the drafts of death at sight
must be an unmatched tonic.
No matter how purely and grandly we
live to-day there is no denying that we
may live more purely, more gruudly,
to-morrow.
How many hopes may have quivered
for us in past ycara—have flashed like
harmless lightning iu summer nights,
and died forever.
When people undertake to restrain
themselves without knowing how, they
are often worse off than if they had left
themselves alone.
Bombardment of the Earth.
"It'a A lncky day for us that the
earth has such a good bomb proof on
the skyward aide," ssid the astronomer,
an he ntood r >atless and bareheaded on
the roof, wah-hing the meteors.
" Why ?" asked the reporter, panting
as he clambered np through the scuttle
i hole.
"You'd have seen reason enough if
yon had been up bore with me for the
lant two hours," naid the astronomer,
j " Why the earth has l>een undergoing a
j regular bombardment. It'a not over
yet. Look at that fellow, how be
skims? You wonld call it a shooting
i star. Well, there's as much reason for
< calling it a celestial shell. That meteo
roid was moving twenty or thirty miles
' a second ; yet it could not get throug'h
the laomh-proof that protects the earth."
" Where U the bomb proof 7"
"Why, right under your nose; all
around you; it'a the atmosphere. When
the metcoroids strike the air that sur
rounds the earth the heat produced in
conseqnence of their tremendous ve
locity runs up a million degrees or more
a second, and iu a twinkling they are
: changed to va|>or. If they could get
through the atmosphere they would
make it lively for us. No man eonld
| tell at what instant he might be struck
j down by a shot from the sky, for me
tcoroids ATV plunging into the atmo
sphere all the time at tne rate of several
millions a day for the whole earth. At
certain times, as about the 10th of
August and thi 10th of Novemlter, they
' come in showers, and fairly ltombard
the earth. The soft air that fans the
cheek is to most of these project
iles from epaee as impenetrable as a
wall ol steel. Some of them, however,
are able to penetrate to the earth, but
they are compaatively very fewinnum
tier. When a mo'ooroid strikes the
earth it is called an aerolite. No good
mnseum of mineralogy is withont one or
more of theae black-crusted, iron-like
bodies. Humboldt relates that two
Swedish sailors were killed by an aero
lite on Itoard their ship in lt>74. The
thatched roofs of houses have been set
on fire by aerolites, and sheep and other
animals have been struck dead in the
fields by them.
" Well, there are modern instances
enough. We are no safer than our fore
fathers. Hardly a year passes withont
one or more masses of meteoric stone
falling in tbo neighborhood of human
habitations. A man is in more danger
of bciog killed by lightning than by an
aerolite, bnt it won 11 not be so if the
air did not protect him."
He Wanted a tfiilot Life.
A nervous-looking men went into a
store the other day and sat down for
half an hour or so, when a clerk asked
if there was anything she oonld do for
him. He said no, he didn't want any
thing. Mho went away and he sat there
half an honr longer, when the proprie
tor went to him and aaked if be wanted
to be shown anything. "No," said the
nervous man, " I just wanted to set
around. My physician has recommended
perfect qniet for me, and says above all
1 must avoid being inorowda. Noticing
that yon did not advertise in the news
papers, I thought that this would be
at quiet a place aa I oonld find, so ]
just dropped in for a few boura of
isolation." The merchant picked dp a
bolt of (wper cambric to brain him,
bnt tha man went out. He said ail he
wanted vaa a qniet life. - Ptek't Sun.
i TOPIC* OF THE DAT.
Farmers in Great Britain suffero 1
severely during the first half of IHM.
No less than 571 agriculturists had to
declare tbcmselvos bankrupt, including
farm bailiffs, miller*, tnd market g i
doners. In trades immediately co
nocted with farming, 501 have be< n
forced to give tip business.
Our latest acquisition in real esta
the vast region of Alaska, is ambitious
of congressional representation, and 'ias
chosen the late collector of customs as
a delegate to the national Houseof Rep
resentatives. As Alaska has no terri
torial organization, the newly-elected
delegate's chance of admission is small.
Tho following table shows the money
value of the articles named imported
into the United Btates during the last
fiscal year:
Biwlntnlli mid other fariuao-on*
article* 110,374,416
buttons 3,12*1.334
'ut and wwed clothing 322, 11"
lih nched and unbleached cotton... 1.JiV1,42H
Hosiery, fdiirte and drawer* 8,331 ,023
Earthen, stone and chinaware 0,0811,223
Ha* ls 1,402,2*'
Gather 5,745,30!
Splee* ~f all kind* 1.H50.250
llrutnmgar., H1,352,251
Orange culture is rapidly increasing
in Florida, and the prospect is that Ire
fore many years that .State will have a
monopoly of the orange trade of the
United States. Within a recent date
eight of the wealthiest citizens of At
lanta, Ga., have made heavy investments
in Florida, principally in Orange conn
ty, where the fruit is said to attain tho
highest point of luscionsness. (Inc At
lanta capitalist tome time ago put £20,-
000 into an orange grove in that county,
and now refuses $50,000 for his pur
chase.
Butter is now marie out of cotton
seed oil, in New Orleans, after months
of experiment. Not content with its
natural color, which might betray it,
the inventors have succeeded in ao
tinting it that it may be passed off as
dairy butter. In Ibis matter of hatter
not many years ago, all we bad to do -
pend upon was the rich product of the
dairy churn. Bat alrtudy we find cir
culated iu the community the product
of bull fat, colored and put up so as to
imitate butter, aad soon we shall have
a farther varietv.
The fears that are entertained for the
safety both of the Herman em]>eror and
of his chancellor, BUmarek. are shown
by an incident that occurred daring the
letter's stay at Kiasengcn. While he
was driving along one of the country
roads a building contractor, some dis
tance ahead, stepped to the side of the
highway with ft telescope to take a view
of the surronndings. He was suddenly
seized by a gendarme, who compelled
him to put his glass out of sight until
Hismarrk had passed, for the reason
that, in the existing condition of politi
cal affairs, the prince might easily mis
take the telescope for the barrel of s
rifle, and be seriously startled by it
Fresh most has arrived safely in Eng
land from Australia. When previously
tried this experiment failed, owing to
the long and trying voyage under the
torrid skies of the tropics, which were
too much for the I Test regulated refrige
rators, bat a* the present trial appears
to have been entirely successful. About
150 tons, comprising 400 quarters of
beef and 3,720 careasos of mutton, made
up the assignment. The slaughtering
was done about 200 miles up the conn
try from Sydney. Aboard the same
steamer, consigned to royal personages,
were the tails of those kwgarno* and
wild tut keys which the son of the Prince
of Wales shot recently at Adelaide.
There is no lady member of the new
President's lionsehold. General Arthur
lost his wife a year sgo last Jaanary.
She was the ilsnghter of Lieutenant
Commander Herndon, of the United
States navy, who went down on his
ship, the Central A men a. A gold
mesial in recognition of his bravery was
voted by Congress to his widow, and a
monument to his memory wss erected
in the Naval academy grounds at Ao
napclis. Mr. Arthur married Miss
Herndon in the early part of hie career
as a lawyer in New York city. He has
two children—one s youth of seventeen
named after his father, bnt called Alan
by the family, the other a girl of eleven
named Nellie. These, with the servants,
constitute the household of the New
York residence. The President has one
brother. Major William Arthur of the
regular army. He has three married
sisters.
There is substantial progress being
made on the great fonr track steel roed
that is to connect Chicago and New
York. It was begun before the greet
fire in Chicago, bnt the grants of right
of amy and many other records indis
pensable to its prosecution vera de
stroyed by that calamity. They have
all bees restored, end thd work of con
struction la being pushed as rapidly as
to consistent with making it a vast and
permanent institution The fat that
it is to be throughout stone UUae'ed
and nine] railed .indicates that it it. lor
permanent investment, and not merely
for ntock speculation. The foals ia
built between Cleveland and Fort
Wayne, and the track IN being laid east
of Cleveland and west of Fort Wayne at
the rate of four mile* a day. Between
Valparaiso, Indiana, and Chicago, track
is Leing laid at the rate of one and a
half mile* per day. One hundred
mil ON of track are laid lMjlweeo Chicago
and Cleveland, and the whole road ia
expected to be in operation between
Chicago and New York by Jnly 1, 18 HZ
Michael Kellcber, watchman of the
United Htatcs snb-tmstiry at Ht. Lou in,
died recently in that city, at the age of
seventy-five, after twenty-eight eonsecu
tive yearn of faithful ervice. One of
hi* datiea was to carry back and forth
the liags of bullion, and General Ed
wards, assistant treasurer, believes that
he handled daring his lifetime more
money than any other man in the coun
try. His fidelity and honor oem to be
a characteristic of the Ntock to which
he belonged, as the distribution of his
modest estate showed. His property
amounted to about $30,000, and in bis
will, msde only a few days before his
death, the name of a favorite niece was
found to be omitted. The legatees, be
lieving it to lx> an oversight, promptly
made a pro rata assessment upon their
own legacies for her benefit, thus secur
ing to her $3,000, equal to the average
amount devised by the will. This was
accomplished with |Mrfect harmony,
the only desire of all being to give the
favorite niece the amount which br
nncle probably intended to bequeath to
her.
The telephone has been playing a
conspicuous part in the electrical exhi
bition in Paris. Connections were made
with the Theater Francais and with the
Grand Opera House. Each listener war
furnished with two telephones—one for
cash ear—connected with microphones,
one on the right and one on the left of
the stage, so that, whichever vr*y the
performer faced, the sound would be
caught. A writer in the London Time*
says: •• It is somewhat curious to watch
the different listeners, if we have not a
telephone in hand oumkes. Perfect
silence reigns; tea people stand round,
with their haodt holding to their heads
things which look like large ears. You
see an expression of satisfaction, of
sadness, of rapture, on their faces;
they look at each other and express ap
proval with their eyes ; and when the
end of the solo has been reached, and
they hear the clapping of band* and
bravo* of the audience, they lay down
their telephones and frequently join their
applause unheard to that of tile audi
ence at the Opera, unable to restrain
themselves from the expression of their
delight."
Tie Mexican mn*eum has recently
published a remarkable book written
one hundred years ago by a Catholic
priest, who was able to read the Aztec
writing* subsequently destroyed by
order of an archbiahop. The writer of
-
p e wlus inhabited Mexico at the time of
the conquest by the H|>saiards. It
claim* that about A. D. *2O the people
living in the then populous cliff cities
of what is now Sew Mexico, migrated
to and overrun all the country south
ward, built great edifice* now in rains,
established great cities, and reached
Mexico or New Bpsia abont A. D. 902.
These people vt the cliff cities were
of six tribes, who did not migrate at
one time, but successively. They all
held that they were the chosen people of
Ood, and that He gave them ill the
southland for a possession. They found
Mexico inhabited by two sorts of peo
ple. Oue were men of great stature,
who were brutal and savage, and lived
mainly by hunting The others were
more numerous and civilized. It may
lw that both theae had also migrated
from the North and had their characters
modified by their conditions of life.
A (jneer Way of BallJing House*.
There are in the world many queer
ways of making houses, and one of the
queerest is fonnd in the city of I'alem
bang, Hnmatra The town extends for
three or four miles on both sides of a
rather wide liver, and both short* are
lined with houses. First come* a row
built upon pile* which are driven into
the bottom of the river, and outside of
that another row resting on great bam
boo rafts, which are laid by cables of
rattan to the piles of the naxt houses.
Of course these rafts rise sad fall with
the thle, aud the doors open upon the
water, so that they an* reached by boats.
The thresholds are not more than a fool
above water, and one step* directly from
a boat into a bouse. Oue can buy any
thing there is for sale in this town with
out getting oat of this boat. The peo
ple are Mstays, and it i* said that they
never build bouse on dry land if they
can find water to set it in. and Osver g
an? where oa foot, if they can reach the
place in a boat.
John of Abyssinia and Alexander of
Rasak are the two potentates w*-
fsed U all tasted ere they nsV