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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe East Huron Gazette, 1893-02-16, Page 53 3 88 ss ES. 11. A WICKED LOOK-. That Caused Fortune te Smilten-tHe HO* tor. IL H. Sothern. - - - people who have succeeded always like to put their finger on the spot where their success began, as people who mint the train which later runs into an open switch like to think that their lives were spared because they stopped to take a second cup of coffee. "If it hadn't been for that cup !" they say. _The spot from which Mr. Sothern dates the tarn in his fortunes ie situated on some part of Broadway. Mr. Sothern was going 1 down this thoroughfare one day in a de- jected and discouraged spirit ; managers did not seem to want him, the public had not learned to know him well enough to forget him, and even the papers left him alone. In this desperate rsjne of mind- he met a friend who -ask- ed him to come and hear a man read a play. The fact that Mr. Sothern did go to hear this play read shows how des- perate his condition was. The play was very bad, and Sothern, on being asked his opinion, said so to the author. A year later the author succeeded in get- ting the play placed upon the stage, and telegraphed wildly over the Unit- ed States for Mr. Sothern, who was then traveling, to drop his present engagement, to return to New York, and play the villain in the piece. This Mr. Sothern did, not be- cause he thought he could play a vil- lain, but because he had not received any salary for twelve weeks. On his return Sothern asked the author why, of all people, he had chosen him to leave one company and come east to play the villain m his. The author re- lied that on the afternoon of the day ice-solaiti00 ite.-wEitoag • attest ta-Terfneinitma, = _ = ee. The Wittel" hegg en wttlf Citee raent is nothing whew compared_ with: the swift nile-a-mimatta rusher an- lea.7 boat on Toronto Bay. And yet, despite the perils that encompass this great win- 4tcanadseuir tespeasrtgrora, ra18 pidly d s ny a growingpopthuauQui4 population I Popularityo°m. Ineltercialadegrrseagetnnerallem y are familiar with the skate -like construction of an ice- boat. More than once this form of vehicle has been pictured. 1 The ice -boat fleet on Toronto Bay is a very large one and the situation of the harbor is peculiarly suited to the forma- tion of a comparatively smooth sheet of ice and plenty of it. On ordinary days there are scores of ice -boats ecurrying hither and thither and the scene is strikingly characteristic of the Canadi- an people. Since Edward Hanlan, the ex-charapion oarsman, has settled down to comparative quiet in his Toronto home he has taken enthusiastically to ice -boating, and his ehiefest delight is to unchain his steel -shod flyer and take his American visitors for a spin. Eddie Dornan (Hanlan's nephew), who is look- ed upon by Hanlan as the champion oarsman of the world, is also a skillful pilot and can round an air -hole when he sees it with as much skill as au ordinary skater can. There are many others who practice ice -boating on the Bay who are equally ready with the sails and to whose tender mercies the novice infireayt making his will, although the latter is always a wise and proper antion. when he had first met Sothern, and . Ice -boating particular y adapted for when he had read him his play, he had just ellen winter. weather as we have noticed "a wicked look in his eye," and been treated to since late in December, had said to himself in consequence, when the temperature is down almost That is the man to play my villain in to the lowest peg, when the wind is my play." Accordingly, a year later, blowing at .the rate of 30 miles an hour when he was about to cast the play, he and the air is filled with frosty flakes as had made it a point to discover the fine as dust, then is the time to indulge whereabouts of the young stranger with in the glorious sport. To be warmly the wicked eyes, and had offered him dressed is of first importance. Bundling that part. It would make a much bet- up well in furs and woolens serves a ter story if I could now add that Mr. double purpose sometimes. One is then mixt-tally protected from the piercingair which penetrates the thickest of and providing there is a collision or other accident one is less liable to broken bones. With a gale blowing, and good ice, an ice -boat's speed is simply terrific, and when this is cut short by accident, the occupants are hurled es from a cata- pult. Happily, there are few of these acci- dents. Once in a while a boat drives in- to a hole in the ice and those following are likewise precipitated into the cold embrace of the icy water, but this does not often happen, and there is so much joyous exhilaration, so much genuine sport in this northern pastime that people brave the dangers' take the chances, and live—Buffalo Express. safelyentrust himself with t Sothern made the hit of his life and the sensation of the day. This, I regret to say, I cannot do; for, though I never saw him in the part, he assures me he was very bad in it—so bad, indeed, that Miss Helen Dauvray's manager, after seeing him play the villain, promptly engaged him to play low comedy in her company."—Harper's Weekly. Cheap Candle Light. A fish frequently seen in the district around Vancouver is the candle fish. Technically the name is Thaleichthys Pacifcns, a remarkable species of the family Salmonidae, strictly a sea fish approaching the coast to spawn, but never entering rivers, says the San Fran- cisco Call. The specimens measure a foot in length, and have somewhat the appear- ance of an eel, except the head, which is pointed and conical. It has a large month. The color is greenish on the back, passing into silvery white on the sides and bell ,which is sparsely spotted CURIOUS FREAK OF NATURE. The Imprint of a Human Face Fixed Upon a Baby's Hand. The little hamlet of Rorsebnrg, S.C., is to the fore with a euriosity which is ahead of all others. This is a 3 -weeks - with dirty yellow. old baby whose right hand bears the im- The Indians of Vancouver Island and print of a human face. The face occu- vicinity use the fish both for food and pies nearly the whole palm, says the light. It is the fattest or most oleagi- Philadelphia Times, and is as clearly nous of all fishes and, it is said, of all outlined as if drawn on porcelain. It is animals. It is impossible to either boil ; the countenance of a little child about 3 or fry it, for the moment it is subjected years old lying asleep, with the eyelashes to ea The Indians. who use the fish for food, take them, and, without cleaning them, ; run a rkewer through the eyes and sus- pend them in the thick smoke that arises from wood fires. The fish ac- quires the flavor of the wood and the smoke helps to preserve it. When the Indians want to make a meal of the fish they heat them, reduce them to oil and drink the oil. When they want a light they take a dried fish, draw through it a piece of rush pitch or a strip from the upper bark of the cypress tree, a species of arbor vitas, as a wick, a needle of hard wood being used for the purpose. The fish is then lighted at one end and burns steadily until consumed. drawn in fine dark lines on the full cheeks. The month seems to be slightly parted and the lips are delicately tinted. The baby whose palm contains this singular portraiture is the child of Clarke Osborne, a thriving merchant of Rose- burg, and Mrs. Osborne declares that the face in the infant's palm is that of a lit- tle girl she lost about three months be- fore the baby's birth. Relatives and intimate friends also profess to bc able to see a strong resemblance to the dead child. When the baby was first put in its nctother's arms she looked at the hands, and, with a loud cry, fainted away, but on coming to herself exhibited the little creature's hands to the attendants, who saw at once the strange likeness to the Forestry. dead and gone sister. Mrs. Osborne Every society or individual that is en- was at first much frightened over the gaged in popularizing a knowledge of singular circumstance, but at last be - forestry is rendering a valuable public came convinced that this strange por- trait was Bent to comfort her. Physe A knowledge of the uses of our for- clans say, however, that the mother's eats is calculated to check the barloarons caresses of the dead child impressed the and ruinous habits of our predecessors, unborn infant, who menely regarded her which have already destroyed much of mental pictures of the'qttle girl as the the possible ornamentation of our streets last beheld it. - and fields and threaten to affect in- 1 The image on the palm was much jurionely those sanitary provisions clearer the first few days of the infant's which nature bounteously provides for life than now, and it is thought to be over protection. gradually fading away. The family are The ruthless and uncisaed_eoe destenc. I very sensitive on the subject and have ild except to rela- the savage scalping of our -hill -tops a tins and. most intimate tion of the native growth of our forests refused to show the ch friends those "arboreal " locks which wreathe dime museum manager has already ae , their heads with pride" the grubbing- propositions which have been declined. up and burning of the scented hedge- A Mad Bide. rows along our roadsides and the need- less destruction of even our swamp Capt. A. Wheeler and engineer Lyle thickets, whose dense shadows have, , took a steamer through the Cataract with as much scientific exactness as I Canyon of Colorado River the other day, Poetry, been called the "protecting par- 1 a feat never before attempted and here- ents of our murmuring streams a_au tofore deemed impossible. The boat was this wanton waste of is benign natural : the twin-screw launch Major Powell, provision for our health and happiness .built at Green River, Utah, to be used country of its original beauty, but is Juan go -field. - • g passengers to the San has not only deprived the face of the in changing for the worse the character of. ThkeetaCaptain and engineer donned cork ter supply. wales. 'When' Cataract Canyon was and threw fenders over the gun - oar climate and even imperiling the wa- jacket. We are thuPelled I reacted the engines were reversed, but s oomto ackn°%7L"g edge even on this continent that what the launch fairly flew along, bei is caned by as civilization can be carried tarotti:klyly veeredtoogrerattor isatarggboedardreeakand. to a point by human effort at which it Celine to be improvement and becomes After passing through nine miles of simply deetraction. seething caldrons it had smooth sailing for a few miles, and with an evertre- Recent Inventions. creasing velocity went down one of Reviving an old projeeti A French maddest torrents ever attempted by company proposes that lightships con- pilot • agoasa: nected by telegraph be stationed at in- Twelve miles b-1111* ul. a comparative- tervals of 200 miles across the Atlantic. ly insignificant rapid, asnag caugh _t the 4 new inventionire a saw -horse with Wrt propeller, breaking fro Nadel/ a tOothedalog • for holding the piece of The launch swung to the le , striltiflagy. timber in place, the device being pivoted big rock and stowing the bows ham at the cross -legs and operating under a She was safely beached and . will be re - spring tension. A recent invention is a bicycle tire consisting of an endless closed rubber tube filled with hollow rubber 'balls of the same diameter asthe inside diameter of the tube. The perpendicularity of a monument ht visibly affected by therays of the sun. On every sunny day a tall monument has a regular swing leading away from the sun. This phenomenon is due to the greater expansion of the side on which the rays of the sun fall. A new electric appliance for surgeons isintended to serve as an extension to the fingers, nerves, and all. It is a hard rubber tabe, inelosing a number of ieMall wires, and it is to be attachedto- the finger tip in internal operations. its de paired."---Neweltork World. A Costume of nattlesn4lie Sklar • _ Peter Gruber, theRattleatitkeXing, of Venange Countt_ 'tato hadariniidn the most unique costume aanY-' man ever wore. Itoonsistaottioata vest, trousers. hat, shbesainfiltrit; arid itemade entire- ly of the skirted rattlesnakes. Seven hundred kee&1 caught and skinned bGraber during thepant five years, provided:the material for this novel cos - tame: Topreserve the brilliancy and ilexibirityof the- skins in the greatest poaaible degree, the snakes was skinned alive, firrit. beingrnade unconscious by • chloroform. Then.were then tanned by .a method Peculiar toGrutier, and are " aoftaid elastic:7aa wooblia goods. The f thin -outfit were - eren - sign being to transmit substantially the cite, tailor% enoeansisse sensations that would be experienced if "wcriutiyera ethe ea:lawns is -valued the ,11II • all - finger werein contact with the anti* sa i,ossea,patts Cliroidde, cal:acne o you want anything in the line of BIKES NYNII B$OII$ and Prayer Books; If so wa nava a Large range -to choose from .5 an prices. IGHT now is a good time to call .and 'inspect the balance of my Stock of WALL Pugin and if you •ee anything you like you Can get it at AWAY DOWN PRICES. 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