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jMTIQUE FURNITURE AGAIN, j
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Bedroom Coffers of the Middle Age!
▲re in Use Among the
Fashionables.
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The feminine world is again taking to
the use of stately and artistic coffers or
chests, reports the Washington Star.
The dames of the middle ages, who
had no convenient bureaus in which to
store their finery, were dependent upon
the coffer. Some of these historic chests
are marvels of delicate carving, inlay
work and painting. The greatest artists
of Italy did not disdain to decorate these
receptacles.
So valuable were some of the coffers
that a great lady was considered well
dowered if she received one on her mar
riage day. It was placed in her cham
ber, with the great bedstead and a stool
or two, which were the sole furnishings.
Toward the close of the eighteenth cen
tury coffers were all but discarded. Un
til recently specimens were to be found
only in the museums or old castles and
manor houses of Europe.
Now the taste for antique furniture
is bringing the coffers again into favor.
Two seen recently were made for the
state rooms of yachts. They are both
carved and tinted.
One chest Is built of weathered oak.
deeply carved and then stained in green
and red. The design represents mer
maids sporting in the midst of an ocean
forest Seaweeds and shells are the moat
conspicuous features in the picture.
The other coffer is of oak, having a
gray finish. It is decorated with a burnt
design. Green and mauve stains are
used to touch, up the figures. The sub
ject of these decorations is a scene at
the court of King Neptune. —
Bedroom cojjgrs are usually adorned
with flowers, bird’s, XutterSies or some
allegorical or mythological scene. One
small boud >ir chest has representation!
of Penelope among her maidens upon ita
panels. Through open windows the
sprays of the climbing roses are blown
into the room and the flowers with the
garments of the women are brilliantly
colored.
Scriptural subjects were painted on
some of the antique chests, and these
have been well imitated by modern
workmen. The painted panel is set deep
in the wood and framed by a wide band
of molding. Carved figures, supporting
the corners, and elaborately designed
lids are features of the painted chests.
The most ancient designs are the
heavily carved ones. Those who are
versed in the history of furniture can
tell to a nicety the age of a chest by the
style of carving and quality of the wood.
The earlier Renaissance specimens are
aJmost priceless, and even copies of
them are expensive. In appearance they
are not unlike a coffin. There is usually
a richly carved base, the long shallow
body above it being slightly curved. The
lid projects over the body, and is less
deeply cut than the sides.
A more modern Renaissance chest,
and a style which is more frequently
copied, is embellished with small panels,
on which appear conventionalized foli
age designs in line work. The shading
is burnt into the wood.
n i I /I n d end Anemnlo/I ooffaefl A r A als<t
to be seen, but they are eighteenth cen
tury work and represent the period of
decadence.
The modern household coffer is usual
ly lined with silk or an art fabric. Plenty
of tiny pockets are scattered over the
lining, and In these are placed sachet*
for perfuming the contents of the box.
The chests are convenient receptacles
for linen, bedclothes, draperies or gar
ments not In use.
Those who can afford a cedar chest
aeed have no fear of moths. Although
these ornamental boxes cost more than
trunks, they will last a lifetime. They
ars distinctly decorative, and may ba
made to fit any vacant niche in a small
room. The price varies with the stylo
ol decoration and wood. Some are com
paratively Inexpensive, while others,
good Imitations of the carved, antique
chest or the gilded and enameled eight
eenth century masterpieces, are valued
as are most works of art.
HIS FIRST WATERSPOUT.
driten Sailor Boy Wanted to See One,
and He Was Quickly Ac
commodated.
A. waterspout is one of the first thing*
a green sailor boy wants to see. He has
read about it as one of the wonders of
the sea, and it rouses hie keenest curi
os! ty. He gets the old sailors to promi3*
to call him when one is sighted. They
promise, winking stealthily at each oth
er, relates an exchange.
The ship gets down Into tropical wa
tev, and the boy is told that a water
spout may come along almost at any
time.
One night he is awakened suddenly.
An old sailor shakes him.
“Come on! Hurry up, young feller?
there’s a waterspout on the starboard
bow bearing right down on us."
The boy hastens up the companion
way without waiting to draw, and a*
he darts out on aecK ne is tnrown down
by a mass of water descending on him
liko a wet mountain. He struggles to
his feet, gasping, sputtering:
“Wa-a-s that-t a wa-a-a-ter spout?”
The sailors are around him roaring.
Then he looks up above the companion
way and sees an empty hogshead. Having
seen and felt the waterspout, he descends
to his bunk, wipes himself dry and turns
in. Next time waterspouts in great num
bers may be reported on boAh bows, but
he will have no particular desire to ob
serve them.
Baby’s Eyelashes.
Some mothers clip the baby’s eye
lashes to make them grow long. This
may be all right for the baby, but after
maturity has been reached it is perhaps
betetr to rub a little pure ointment or
plain vaseline into the lashes rather
than to clip the ends.—Medical Tailfc
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ODD FANCIES ABOUT BEES, i
Old-Time Belief That Honey Was of
Celestial Origin and Other
Queer Notions.
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In these days of scientific bee cul
ture, when bees are trained to pack
their honey in pound boxes ready for
market, and are as much under the
control of the beemaster as sheep are
of their shepherd, it is difficult to
realize what quaint delusions prevailed
only a few centuries back iu every
thing relating to the nive and its in
habitants, says the Chicago Daily
News. The sources and composition
of honey were subjects for many in
genious speculations. One old writer
affirms it to be “made of the ayre.
most of all at the rising of the starres,
chiefly the dogge shining out early in
the morning,” although he admits him
self in doubt a9 to “whether it be the
sweate of the heavens or a certain®
spittle of the starres or a juyce that th*
ayre purgeth from himselfe." This be
lief in the celestial origin of honey
runs through all the old treatises on
apiculture, from the time of Virgil
downward. It was supposed to be a
kind of manna from heaven, and its
quality depended greatly on the favor
able or unfavorable Juxtaposition of the
stars at the time of its descent
Although the existence In each hive
of one bee much larger than all the
others was generally recognized in old
en times, this was believed to be mere
ly a ruler or king over tbe rest. That
the large bee was actually the mother
of the whole colony never seems L®
have occurred to anyone until recent
times. This king bee is very fanci
fully described as having “a lofty pace
and countenance expressing majesty,
and a white spot in his forehead glis
tening like a diadem.”_ IneacbJiivej
also, there were “Subordinate govern
ors and leaders and captains and
colonels, marked by crests, tufts or tas
sels on their heads, some yellow, some
murrey.” Among various other duties
it was the king's part to go out each
evening in search of any bees that had
not returned to the hive b£ sunset, and
to show ttem the 'way' horn?:
From the earliest times honey ap
pears to have been held in extraor
dinary favor as a universal specific for
human ills. A3 a hair restorer it was
largely recommended, rubbed In plen
tifully night and morning, and if dead
bees were dried, pounded and worked
up into a thick paste with the honey,
its hair-producing capabilities were
much enhanced. This mess had to be
plastered on the bald places of the head
•ver night, with infallible results in
the morning, if one may credit a cer
tain fifteenth century writer. For
weak eyes the same authority says to
tak® a handful of the heads of bees,
burn them, and mingle tbe ashes with
honey gathered in the dog days. The
»ye® were then anointed liberally with
the mixture, and clearness of vision
was the invariable reward.
In the old days the situation of a
beehive was a matter of prime impor
tance. It was to be placed always on
the south side of a stream of water,
and never in a place where there wer®
echoes, as an echo was very injurious
to bees. A little gravel was to be put
down in the neighborhood of the hives.
as m wijiuy weiuier uie uees atrcueu
small stones to carry about in their
Bight a3 counterpoises. The baekeeper
was recommended to shave and keep
his head close-cropped, long hair on
head or face being extremely offensive
to his charges, and in attire he was to
avoid anything of a red color, as this
was detrimental to,tha bees.
CURIOUS WORMS OF NORWAY
They Gather in Great Numbers Form
ing a Serpent-Like Mass
When Migrating.
The Sciaras, of the genus Tiplux, a tiny
wormlike creature which is found in
the forests of Norway and Hungary dur
ing the month of July or early in August
gather in huge numbers preparatory to
migrating in search of food or for a
change of conditions. When setting out
on this journey, says Nature, they stick
themselves together by means of some
glutinous matter, and form a huge ser
pentlilce mass, often reaching a length
of between 40 and 50 feet and several
Inches in thickness. As the scaria is
only on an average of about three-thir
ty-seconds of an inch in length, with no
appreciable breadth whatever, the num
; her required to form a continuous line
' of the size above mentioned is incal
culable.
Their pace is, of course, very slow,
and upon meeting an obstacle, such ae
1 a stick or stone, they either writhe over
i or around it, sometimes breaking into
j two bodies for the purpose. A celebrated
l French naturalist says that if the rear
! portion of this snakelike procession be
brought into contact with the front part
the insects will keep moving round la
that circle for hours, never seeming to
realize that they are getting no further
on their Journey. If the portions be
broken in two the procession will unite
i in ashortjime. When the peasant meets
one of these processions he will lay some
obstacle In front of It. If It passes over
it it is a good omen.
The Leopard of the Snows.
When we look at the leopards in a
menagerie our minds instinctively turn
to pictures of the hot tropics and the tor
rid lands of the equator. But there are
leopards that love the snow, and never
willingly descend below the levels
where snowstorms occur in summer as
well as in winter. The New York Zoo
| logical park possesses, at present, a
beautiful specimen of the “snow leop
; ard," whose home is among the lofty
mountains about Thibet Thousands of
tanned skins of the snow leopard are
carried to Shanghai for 3ale, but the Jiv
ing animal is rarely seen away from hie
cool mouc lm home —Youth's Couapaa
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MOST POPULAR NUMBERS.
Seven and Thirteen Are Fixed Upon
in the Minds of the Oreater
Number of Men.
“Ask a man to pick out some nura-i
ber between one and ten. and you can
tell him nine times out of ten what
number he has selected, though hla se
lection is made menially,” said a man
who, according to the New Orleans
Times-Democrat, is fond of the old
things, “and when you come to think
of it, the task of naming the correct
number is not a difficult one. In the
course of an hour the other day 1
asked ten men to think of a certain
number—any number between one and
ten—and I would tell them what num
ber they had flxiid their mind on
In nine cases out of ten I was correct
missing it only once. The minds oi
nine of the persons selected the num
ber seven, and one of them selected
nine. It is not difficult to understand
why the mind should run to the num
ber seven. Even in the case of the
man who fixed his mind on the num
ber nine, he told me when it was ail
over that his mind had first run to
seven, but he quickly changed to nine
without knowing just why it wa3 that
he changed. Seven is the most prom
inent figure between one and ten. It
U the most popular number in the line,
and is associated with more things
than any other number, and it is quits,
reasonable that the mind should light
on seven. I made another test the
other day with five persons, asking each
of them to write some number between
one and ten, and give it to a sixth per
son. When the slips had been handed
to the sixth man I said: 'Seven is the
number on each of the slips.’
“ ‘Correct,” said the man to whom
they had been handed, and the five
men were a bit bewildered for the
moment by the fact that they had all
j !ait upon the same number, and that I
was able to tell what the number was.
It would be quite as easy to name a
number between 10 and 20, though I
have made no tests along thi3 line. I
dare say that 13 would be^ ^he first
number to flash in the mind, simply
because it is the most talked of, and
the only number between 10 and 20
that has the widest association. So
you can tell there is no trick about it.
and it doesn’t require any knowledge
of the occult philosophies."
EXTENDING BOUNDARIES.
Some of Our Larger Cities Have An
nexed Ground Far Into Adja
cent Farm Lands.
According to a recently Issued census
bulletin, the real rank of cities is not al
ways indicated by the order in which
they stand in the tables of population.
Some great centers have a considerable
part of their massed population lying
outside the municipal boundaries. Bos
ton is a good example; about 1,200,000
people live in sight of the state house
dome, and less than 600,000 of them are
governed by the Boston mayor. Other
cities have annexed far into the farm
lands of the adjacent country, says
iuulu b vjumpdai'vu.
It la customary to speak of the popula
tion of a state, “in proportion to its
size.” Such a comparison Is seldom
made of cities, although it might not be
uninteresting. Pittsburg, for example,
has a population of a third of a million
on 18,000 acres of ground; New York's
population, little more than ten times
as great, spreads over nearly 12 timw
as many acres.
Chicago was long famous for Its an
nexation habit, but since 1890 New York
has annexed much more territory than
Chicago’s total area. New Orleans has
a slightly larger area than CMcago.
Bach of them covers six times the area
of Baltimore.
Washington, whicty occupies the Mary
land part of the ten miles square set
aside for a national capital, is a fair
j sized city as area goes, for this genera
i tion. It may seem small a century hence,
! although it looked abundantly ample for
i all the purposes of urban development
when laid out.
In the case of cities, as well as of other
corporations, consolidation is plainly
one of the tendencies of the times. More
than one-third of those in the United
j States have added to their territory by
annexation since 1890. Townships and
Bounties are occasionally subdivided, by
reason of local interests, but the cities
seem to be steadily pushing their boun
daries outward. There are some eco
nomic reasons for this, but the reason
In many cases has been the desire of
their Inhabitants to make a “good show
teg.”
In the Bight Boom.
At the latest of the ladles’ clubs a
“pets’ room," with little stalls for dogs
and cats, lemurs and lizards, all the
small creatures that a lady finds neces
sary as companions, is provided.
One of the moat enthusiastic members
was showing her friends of her own sex
j over the establishment, and opened the
j door of the “pets’ room with proper
i yrtde.
There, in the center of the room, oo
two chairs, sat two immaculately
clothed young men, gnave of face, b«t
with a wicked twinge in their eyes.
“Don’t you know this is the ladies*
'pets’ room?’” asked Jfce enthusiastic
member, with some acerbity.
“That’s why we are here." replied the
more serious of the two young men, with
becoming gravity.—Sporting Times.
Longevity of Birds.
Small singing birds live from eight tc
eighteen years. Raveas have lived for
almost 100 years in captivity, and par
rots longer than that, fowls live 19
tp *0 years. The wild goose lives up
ward of 100 years, and swans are said to
nave attained the age of 300. The long
Ilfs of birds has been interpreted at
compensation for the £feat mortality
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TOR’S SALE.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned as
incMlary administrator of the estate of Isaac
[cott deceased, will offer for sale at public auction
o the highest bidder on a credit until October 15,
[905, at the front door of the Courthouse in New
>ort, Jackson county, Arkansas, between the
lours of ten o’clock in the forenoon and three
I’clock in the afternoon, on
SATURDAY, THE 18TH DAY OB’ MARCH 1905
ill the lafids belonging to the estate of Isaac Scott
leceased, lying in Jackson County, Arkansas, to
vit: The s e 1-4 of the s e 1-4 of sec. 12, the n w
-4 of the n e 1-4 of sec. 13. all in Township 12
lorth range 3 west; also thirty acres off the north
iide of lot 2 of the n w 1-4 and ten acres off north
.ide of the e 1-2 of lot 3 and the w 1-2 of lot 3 all
n the n w 1-4 of section 7 and the w 1 - - of lot 3 of
the s w 1-4 of sec. 7, all in Township 12 north
ange 2 west.
Said sale being made by virtue of the order of
he Probate Court of Jackson County, Arkansas.
Purchasers will he required to give note with
ipproved security and a lien to be retained upon
•he land to secure the payment thereof.
Possession will be given January 1st, 1906.
Given this 16th day of February. 1905.
J. R. COX,
Ancillary Administrator of the estate of Isaac
Scott, deceased.
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Please verify the claim and file with me or the so
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