The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 17, 1884, Page 6

Reine 0, SHAKING HANDS. Some of the Various Modes. The pump-handle shake is the frst that deserves notice. It is executed by taking a friend’s hand and working it up and down through an arc of fifty degrees for about a minute and half To have its nature, force, and charac- ter this shake should be formed with a fair and steady motion. No attempt should be made to give it grace, and still less, variety, 2s the few instances in which the latter has been tried have uniformly resulted in dislocating the shoulder of the person on whom it has been attempted. On the contrary, persons who are partial to the pump- handie shake should be at some pains to give an equable, tranquil movement to the operation, which should on no account be continued after perspira- tion on the part of your friend has commenced. The pendulum motion may be men- tioned next, as being somewhat similar in character, but moving, as the name indicates, in a horizontal instead of a perpendicular direction. It is execut- ed. by sweeping your hands horizontal- ly towards your friends, and after junc- tion is effected, rowing it from one side to the other second ne to the pleasure of the parties. ‘he only caution in its use which needs partic- ularly to be given is not to insist on erforming it in a place strictly paral- fei to the horizon. You may observe a person who had been educated to the ump-handle shake, and another that fea rought home the pendulum from a foreign voyage. They met, joined hands, and attempted to put them in motion. They were neither of them feeble men. One endeavored to pump and the other to puddle; their faces reddened, the drops stood upon their foreheads, and it was at last a pleasant illustration of the doctrine of the com- position of forces to see their heads slanting into an exact diagonal, in which line they ever after shook; but it was plain to see there was no cordi- ality in it, and, as is usually the case with such compromises, both parties were discontented. The tourniquet shake is the next in importance. It derives its name from the instrument made use of by surgeons to stop the circulation of the blood in the limbs about to be amputated. It is performed by clasping the hand of your friend as far as you can in your own, and then contracting the muscles of your thumb, fingers, and palm until you have induced any degree of com- pression you may propose in the hand of your friend. Purticular care ought to be taken, if your hand is as hard and as big as a frying-pan, and that of your friend as small and soft as a maiden’s, not to make use of the tourniquet shake to a degree that will shake the small bones of the wrist out of their places. It is seldom safe to apply it to gouty persons. A hearty young friend of mine, who had pursued the study of geology, had acquired an unusual ardness and strength of hand and wrist by the use of the hammer, on re- turning from a scientific excursion, gave hisuncle (the gouty one) the tourniquet shake with such severity as had well-nigh reduced the old gentle- man's fingers to powder, for which my friend ed the pleasure of being dis- inherited as soon as his uncle’s fingers got well enough to hold a pen. The cordial grapple is a shake of some interest. Itis a hearty, boister- ous shake of your friend’s hand, ac- companied by modern pressure and loud acclamations of welcome. It is an ex- cellent traveling shake, and well adapted to make friends; it is indis- eriminately performed. The Peter Grevious is opposed to the cordial grapple. It is a pensive, tran- quil junction, followed by a mild sub- sultory motion, a cast-down look, and an inarticulate inquiry after your friend’s health. a The prude major and prude minor are nearly monopo! i by ladies. They cannot be accurately described, but are constantly to be noticed in practice. They never extend beyond the fingers; and the prude major al- lows you to touch them only down to the second joint. The prude minor al- lows you the whole of the finger. Con- siderable skill may be shown in per- forming them with nice variations, such 4s extending the left hand instead of the right, or stretching a new glossy kid glove over the finger you extend. I might go through a long list of the gtip royal, the sawmill shake, and the shake with malice prepense, but they are only factitious combinations of the three fundamental forms already des- cribed, as the pump-handle, the pendu- lum, and the tourniquet. I should trouble you with a few remarks in con- elusion on the mode of shaking hands as an indication of character, but as I see a friend coming up the avenue who is addicted to the pump-handle I dare not tire my wrist by further writing. + = The Boy and the Bee. A boy about 10 years old, says the Detroit Free Press, who was slouching around the Bates street end of the Central Market suddenly gave a yell, élasped both hands on his stomach and a a war dance that soon drew & crow “I’spected as much!’ shouted a woman as she waved her hand towards the boy. ‘Them ‘ere boys eat any thing, froma green melon down to peach stones. Serves him just right!” “I thought he looked kind 0” colicky around the mouth afore he tackled them spiced gooseberries,"’ added a man who had come in with a load of potatoes. “I don’t see how they keep him from dying, really I don’t,” put in a woman wh acucumberin each hand. “If there was any way—any lawful way— so open that boy and look into ‘his stomach, you would find three or four eld bananas, a piece of watermelon, six or eight green apples, four or five to- matoes, at least two cucumbers, and a lot of sour berries.”* “Say!” yelled t around. *‘Somebox or somebody!" boy as he capered r git the. peri nice to want the and the doctors and the medical college ambulance,’’ sneered a fat man who some tomatoes in a basket, “but why didn’t you think of these before?” the “And with the cholera raging in France and likely to come over here any day!’ added a peak-faced woman who had been buying s fish. The boy laid down and rolled over and sat up. | Well, [don’t want to be on the | coroner’s jury,”’ said a man whose hair and whiskers had just been dyed in a barber shop near by. “And I wouldn’t seehim die for a $10 bill,”’ added a young man with eye glasses on. Just then a policeman pushed his way into the crowd and asked the trouble, and some one replied tbat the boy had been seized with the bilious colic. “Seized me right here!’ whined the lad as he stood up and clasped his stomach. He had on a shirt torn down the front and held by a single pin, and his pants were held up by a strap. The officer opened his shirt, and a bumble- bee, looking as large as awalnut, crept out and was brushed to the ground. Just below the boy’s chest was a red swelling larger than his fist and still growing. “No colic about that,” observed the officer, as he crushed the sputvering bee. Only one person in the crow had a remark to make, as the boy lop- ed off. That was the woman with the cucumbers. She sort o’ shook them after the retreating figure, and called out: “This orter be s great moral lesson to that boy, but I doubt it—can’t help but doubt it. If we had any right—any legal right—to open him to-morrow and look into his stomach, we'd won- der why that bumble-bee fooled his time away instead of tackling a grind- stone.” Novel Sports. Considering their lack of opportuni- ties, the people of the Gilbert islands manace to amuse themselves in a va- riety of w Out of ves of cocoa- nut shell with the ks attached, fleets of miniature ps are built, and their s: from a broad, dry, thick lexf, the tiny boats are ranged in line by : ited crowd of yachtsmen, and sent 1 their course over the Ingoon toward some floats anchored half «mile or so away, the Trace cre ement as any civi r kites are made of the f thin leaves of the pandanus, fastened together by their edges, and shaped like the long, nar- row pinions of a sea-bird. The frame- work of the kite is built of the thin but strong and elastic midribs of the cocoa- nut pinne, and the whole machine is so light and‘ so nicely balanced and deftly strung that no il’’ is needed to balance them in the air. In size they vary from six inches to six feet in length. Another form of aeronautic toy is a kite shaped like those already de- scribed, but furnished at the tip of each wing with a piece of light wood hanging from the end of the short string. The one flying this kite wades into the water a short distance where the wind 1s blowing off the land, and tosses the toy into the air. It is carried along by the breeze, sinking as it goes until the bits of wood touch the water, when the kite, being relieved of their weight, springs into the air, again to descend and rise in s succession of graceful bounds, until it is lost to sight out atsea. Nosmall amount of skill is shown in adjusting the weight of the bits of wood to that of the kite to have it affected by the wind as has been de- scribed. In the game of checkers, and in all its varieties, they are very skillful, and in manufacturing a loop of string in the game of ‘cat cradle’’ they are only excelled by yhe Esquimaux in the num- ber and variety of the figures they will construct ontheir taper fingers. ‘‘Jack- stones,’’ ‘‘jackstraws,’’ and other in- door games they are very fond of and proficient in. Among the boys and young men foot races, leaping, and wrestling are practiced a good deal, and much agility and muscular energy shown. In their dances there is much slow, rhythmic movement, which differs from the Hawaiian hulas in the absence of the undulatory motions of the body. A group of men and women will gath- er together for a dance and form in two rows opposite each other. One steps forward as a leader, and a chant is commenced. The time is accented by an occasional stamp of the foot, ora resounding slap on the mat covering the body or the muscular part of the DpEee arm snd chest, The stamps and blows grow more frequent as the song is sung, the voices are raised higher and higher, the words are shouted faster and faster, until, a climax being reached, the stanza concludes wit! three echoing stamps and claps, and the noise suddenly ceases. The Gilbert islands were once ac- counted to be one of the most savage races in the Pacific. But few vessels touched at the group, and they lay off and on while they procured cocoanuts, fish, etc. If s Vessel did anchor or when bosts were sent in, a most care- ful watch had to be kept lest the crews should be murdered and the boat captured or vessels driven ashore.— Pacific Commercial Advertiser. Sa eer ee It is some s comfort to know that other n beside sometime of war ve made in otives, The Chinaman’s “Four Most PrecionS Things.” In China the ‘four most precious things” are the paper-plant, ink and its saucer, and the brush. The hornet, whose sharpsting is the terror of children, is the recognized pion- eer of paper-makers. Its cellular nest on trees and rocks, is built of material which resembles the most delicate | tissue-paper. Eighteen hundred years ago, the Chinese, acting upon the wasp’s sug- gestion, made paper from fibrous mat- ter reduced to pulp. Now, each prov- ince makes its own peculiar variety from the inner most bark of different trees. The young bamboo, which grows six or eight inches ina single night, is whitened, reduced to pulp in a mortar, and sized with alum. From this pulp sheets of paper are made in a ey ae hand. The celebrated Chinese rice paper, that so resembles woolen and silk fabrics, and on which are painted quaint birds and flowers, is manufactured from compressed pith, which is first eut spirally, by s keen knife, into thin slices, six inches wide and twice as long. Immense quanti- ties of paper are used by the Chinese for a great variety of purposes. Funer- al papers, or paper imitations of earth- ly things which they desire to bestow on departed friends, are burned over their graves. They use paper window- frames, paper sliding-doors, and paper visiting-cards s yardlong. It is re lated that when a distinguished repre- sentative of the British Government once visited Pekin, several servants brought him a huge roll, which, when spread out over the large floor, proved to be the visiting-card of the Chinese Emperor.—From Paper: Its Origin and History’ by Chas. E. Bolton, tn St. Nicholas for August. A Wedding in Stihouette. Awedding is not considered quite the solemn event it should be unless attended by some of ‘‘de white folks- es.”” I was a little surprised at the en- trance of one of my neighbors not long ago to invite me to a negro wedding. “But,” I said, “they did not ask ” “That is always left with us,’ said my neighbor. ‘‘fhe more that come the more impressive the occasion. All you have to do is to carry a cake made for the bride, and if you think best some expensive present. That, how- ever, they don’t look for, but the cake they do. Put on all the finery you have, for the more conspicuous you make your apparel, the more you hon- or them.”’ So I arrayed myself in my best bib and tucker, with an Indian necklace of shell and bracelets to match, which had hung in my cabinet for months. My large chocolate cake was ready and looked very appetizing. Mr. S. came round with the wagon, in which I stowed away a folding clothes-horse destined for the bride. The cabin had been unpartitioned if Imay use the word, and where four rooms had been there was butone. It was a pretty sight after a drive of five miles, to see the iittle homestead sur- rounded by bush fires, north, east and west, which a dozen little negroes kept supplied with fuel. A wilder scene Inevercame upon. The brill- iant flames set off the log cabin, all folded in with honeysuckle vines; the dusky usher busy in looking after the carriages of the guests, ali the menin white jackets, the inside of the cabin all one red glow, an immense fire blazing on the hearth, showing the buxom figures of the women, every one dressed in the brightest colors, with huge bouquets in their belts and white flowers in their hair, the long tables, covered with snowy linen, made up in all a tout ensemble that was like & picture from another country. We were ushered in with great cere- mony by Augustus Whifiletree, and in- stantly surrounded by the guests in ebony, who quickly and deftly re- lieved us of our wraps. Then we were stationed at the head of the table, the children called in, and the ceremony proceeded. ‘The minister was as black as polished ebony, the bridegroom was a good-looking fellow of 25, and the bride a really pretty girl of 16. One of the colored people whispered to me that sister Felicia hat gone donea good thing for herself—that ‘*brudder”’ Budge had a farm of twenty acres and a bright nice cabin to put herin, add- i n’ he’ll tote her car’i’lly down ”? to allof which I listened with & serious countenance. Supper being ready, we were in- stalled at the head of the table, while the bridal party waited till we partook of the viands, a proceeding which I confess made me feel rather foolish, though the rest of the white company took itas amatter of course. After we had finished, the* others fell to, and it was amusement enough to watch the proceedings from the feast to the bless- ing, and from the biessing to the dance. Speeches of congratulation and toasts were made, some ef the latter odd enough, and drunk with lemonade, one of which was as follows: “I perceive dat dis lemonade is s mixture ob sweet and sour. De sweet am berry sweet and de sour am berry sour. Dat minds me dat life is made up of de sweet an de sour, vid a spice ob bitters in it. I hopes, chillen, you'll git’em so well mixed dat itll seem sweet all trough and de bitter’ll on’y be a sort o’ medicine to make you all right if you ebber do go wrong.” Then came the scraping of fiddles, but, as they were proposing to dance, we drove sway in the halo of blazing | fires to the sound of merry laughter.— |— Florida Letter in San Francisce Chronicle. pounds of hair worth $2.50 a pound, | may be sheared from body every year. A camel can carry a ton, and 20 ic Exploration. It is but eight years less than three dition reached the region of polar ice and spent a dreary winter locked in by the icebergs and shut up in their huts by the wolves, snow storms and white bears. ‘Iwo lives were sacrificed in this expedition, which reached a lat- | itude of 80 degrees and 11 minutes. Three hundred years have passed | and the latest, the Greely expedition, ‘ touched 83 degrees and 24 minutes, the | highest latitude reached since the | Dutch navigators spent ten months in | the ice off the island of Nova Zembla. | In ali those three centuries only three | degrees of the journey to the pole have been overcome—a distance somethin less than the distance from New Yor: to Boston, a little more than between New York and Albany. This fact alone is a significant com- ment upon the value of these expedi- tions which have cost prince’s rev- enue and as many lives as have been lost in some noted battles. ‘The Duteh were the great navigators of the sixteenth century, and soon after achieving their nation’s independence, began to speculate upon a passage to China and India by way of the North Pole. Their ideas of that region were fanciful indeed. Some believed that those seas inclosed a [pole continent of perpetual summerand unbroken day- light, whose inhabitants had attained perfection in virtue and intelligence. Others thought it peopled with men- sters having horses’ hoofs, dogs’ heads and ears so long that they coiled them around their bodies in lieu of cloth- ing. Other tribes were headless with eyes in their breasts, living in inces- sant fogs and tempests during the sum- mer, but dying every winter, and, like plants, revived to life by the advent of a brief spring. It was believed that the voyagers would have to encounter mountains of ice and volcanoes of fire, together with monsters on land and sea more ferocious than the eye of man ever saw. But in spite of these terrors, on the 5th of June, 1549. the first expedition destined to navigate these frozen seas set out from Amsterdam. Their ships d appliances were of the rudes cription. In place of the stanc ern steamboats built for the they sailed in sma ieldy built like a tower at stern and scooped in the middle and able to plow their way throv water, to say nothing of the ice. dof the del e and ingenious entific instruments constituting an exploring outfit of the present > they had a clumsy astronomical ring three feet in cireumference on which they depended for ascertaining the lat- itude. They nad no food, no rifles, no compact ammunition, no heavy clothing of fur, no rubber garments, no loga- rithms, log or nautical almanacs, no tea, coffee, or the hundreds of luxuries, stimulants, medicines, and other stores which now abound in such profusion. The first expedition was turned back by the ice and polar bears, but the problem of a northeast passage to China was considered solved, and the next year a second ship was sent with a car- go of broadcloth, linens and tapestries ‘or the Chinese market which the ex- lorers were expected to reach. Again ice and bears frightened them back. But an offer of 25,000 florins to the discoverer of 3 northeast passage to the east led ton third expedition, the first that outlived a poiar winter amidst perils and sufferings, whose story reads as much Jike the narratives of Kane, and DeLong, of Hayes and Greely, as the stories of shipwreck and rescue in the days of Robinson Crusoe read like those of the days of Enoch Arden. Notwithstanding all the discoveries and appliances of the year 1584, the Greely and DeLong parties suffered ite as much us the Dutch explorers of 1596; which one may see who cares to read the in the third volume of Mo: ted Nether- lands.” > = —_ An exchange thinks ‘the time may come when the thunder-storm may be called up by artificial means.”” Come? Why, bless you, itis her The only is to get up a Sunday-school p an occasional failure, but it is about as reliable as aything on this ever- changing globe—save death and taxes. —Norristown Herald. «How glorious it is to be engaged in a purely intellectual occupation,” murmured a Boston maiden gazing rapturously into the admiring eyes of & country editor; ‘‘your own mental faculties for tools, and the whole uni- verse for a workshop. Now tell me,” she added, ‘‘what do you find the most difficult thing connected with your noble _ profession?’’ “Paying the hands,”’ said the editor.—Philadelphia Call. 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