VOL LI
Many Famous Pet sons
Had Defective Hearing
The customary callosity of authors
to the afflictions of the deaf, was re
ferred to in a lecttilre on "Deafness in
Literature," recently delivered In Lon
don by Dr. Macleod Yearsley, a prom
inent consulting aurist Doctor Years
ley said it was curious that one of the
greatest of human
often be dealt with so uns.vmpathetlehl
|y by authors English literature
teetfed with pathetic blind characters,
but deaf people were seldom mentioned
except In a casual way and as a sub
ject for humor. As a matter of fact
the deaf mote was a far greater suf
ferer than the sightless person. The
only great British .authors who made
serious and successful attempts to rep
resent the case of the deaf were Sir
Walter Scott, Thackeray and Dickens.
Speaking of authors who themselves
suffered from deafness, the speaker
mentioned Doctor Johnson, Harriet
Martineau, Rousseau and Martin
Luther. The last named, he said, was
wont to ascribe the Incessant head
noises by which he was afflicted to the
machinations of tke devil. It would
therefore, that a competent aural
surgeon, had he been available, would
have been able to solve some of the
greatest religious difficulties of the
time. —Exchange.
Animals and Birds
Have Own Domains
V yon warn a piece of land yon buy
It, but If a robin wants a garden he
fights for It, and So long as he Is fit
be will continue* to fight for it and
drive off all Intraders of his own kind.
Other birds he tolerates, but no other
robin, except bis own mate, may in
vade his "property."
Each fox has his own range on
which he hunts, and other dog-foxes
respect his rights. Badgers have their
own territory. There are great earths
in the Devonshire woods Inhabited by
badger families that have been there
so loife that mankind's oldest families
are mare upstarts when compared
with thecal
GoMe® eagle* art viry long-lived,
and a pair wllh«Mg t* the same eyrie
for many years. Peregrines do tbe
same, hot them fine hawks have the
cui-toas habit of .nesting In one place
and hunting In another. Keepers de
clare (hit they never touch game in
tine h boflwod of their uesting
plMArt&blMon Tit-Bits.
SimMM of Start
Great Mrotftts Of meteors or shoot
lnf stars have occurred on a number
of ifttes. One of the most brilliant
was that of November 12 and 18, 1833.
On this occasion' ft was estimated that
stars *to the number of 240,000 fell in
the space of nine hours, all from tbe
same part of the heavens. Another
grfeat Shower, though less intense, was
observed hi November of the following
year. On November IS and 14, 1866,
there were other abnndant meteoric
showers, meteors felling at the rate of
about 2,500 an hour. Observers have
noted that these brilliant displays have
occurred «t Intervals of about one
thlrd of ft centsry, tbe explanation be
ing that « great cloud o* distended
stream of meteors revolves around the
sun in that period, and that one por
tion of the elliptical orbit Intersects
that of the earth.
Discovarsd by Accident
Sheffield plate was discovered by
accident in 1T42 by Thomas Bolsover.
a Sheffield mechanic.
He was repairing the handle of a
pocket-knife composed partly of sil
ver and partly of copper, says Good
Hardware, and In making his repairs
accidentally fpsed the two metals. He
at once conceived the Idea of uniting
these two metals and used this as a
substitute tor making articles which
hietherto bad been made of sterling
silver only.
He seems to have specialized in
making small articles such as buckles,
buttons, snuff boxes and match boxes,
some of which were only half an inch
in diameter. He did not appreciate
how important his discovery was. and
consequently did not reap the full re
sults from his remarkable invention.
Poet's Small Reward
The great Spanish poet and novelist.
Cervantes, received three silver spoons
•s the first prize for winning the great
poetical tonrney. which was held at
Saragosso. Spain. In May, 15P5. in hon
or of St. Hyacinth.
Guarded of fell
f«rbenis arc-or- *> ■ to noMent (Jre«'k
ni.Tthnloer wii* •* tv-fchilng f'»»u
guarded the witntnc* to the Infernal
regions. He wss usually pictured as
having three beads, a serpent's tail and
■ dum of serpents' heads.
Immortal Hymn
The Immortal hymn. "Jerusalem the
Golden." Is derived from "Lsus Patriae
Coetestla." « part of "De Contempt®
MundL** one of the seven great hymns
of ' the Latin chorch.
THE ALAMANCE (^LEANER
Gutitt? Lonq Famous
as Musical Instrument
In the National museum at Naples
is a statue of Apollo, the god of music,
seated and holding the clthara—&
small harp-shaped Instrument from
which the lyre was derived as long ago
as 1700 Br C., according to a writer In
the Cleveland Plain Dealer. in
Greece the clthara was used both to
accompany the voice In song and In
epic recitation and aa a solo Instru
ment at the national games. The
Greeks of Asia Minor transformed the
clthara into the guitar, and later still
the application of the bow to the guitar
resulted in the violin. The Moors car
ried the guitar into Spain, a country
where, as in Italy and Prance, It has
always been regarded with the highest
favor among all clasps. In the early
part of the Seventeenth century an
Italian guitarist was court musician la
England, and "playing the guitar be
came a fashionable accomplishment.
In the Eighteenth century it was pop
ular in court circles in Germany; about
the beginning of the Nineteenth cen
tury Sor of Barcelona, one of the great
est guitarists, again brought it into
favor in England; and In the latter
part of the Nineteenth century special
Interest In the guitar appeared in the
United States.
Old time Wedding Cake
Finds Stout Defender
Whatever the moderns may think of
the news that the wedding cake Is
abandoning its Gothic complexities of
decoration, it is certain that one fath
er famous cook would have been hor
rified at the change. Readers of "Pen
dennls" will remember that when
M. Alclde Mlrobolant wished to sig
nify his undeclared passion for Blanche
Amory, he sent up to her a special
dinner, the dishes of which were de
signed from beginning to end to sym
bolize her maidenly virtues and his
own admiration for them. He wound
up with "an ice of plombiere and
cherries ... in the form of
two hearts united with an arrow, on
which I bad laid, before It entered, a
bridal veil In cut paper, surmounted
by a wreath of virginal orange flow
ers." If Monsieur Mlrobolant could
do so much with a mere Ice, to what
heights would his symbolism have
soared In the architecture of a wed
ding cake? It is clear that he would
have had no sympathy with a cake
which depended on a classical sever
ity of line for Its effect—Manchester
Guardian.
The Calm, Clear Mind
The more wheels there are In a
watch, the more trouble they are to
take care of. The movements of ex
altation which belong to genius are
egotistic by their very nature. A
calm, cleaf mind, not subject to the
spasms and crises which are so often
met with In creative or intensely per
ceptive natures, Is the best basis for
love or friendship. Observe, I am
talking about minds. I won't ssy the
more Intellect the less capacity for
loving; for that would do wrong to
the understanding and reason; but
on the other hand that the brain often
runs away with the heart's best blood,
which gives the world a few pages of
wisdom .or sentiment or poetry. In
stead of making one other heart hap
py, • I have no question. —Oliver Wen
4£ll Holmes.
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Tree of Vast Age
A tree trunk of record size, that
grew In the coal-making forests mil
lions of years ago, has been discovered
by Prof. Sari Noe, paleobbtanlst of the
University of Chicago. The find was
made In a coal bed of the Carbondale
formation, near West Frankfort, 111.
The circumference of the ancient trunk
Is ten feet, and the length of the sec- i
tlon unearthed about five. The whole
tree, as" It originally grew, may have
beeti In the neighborhood of 100 feet
high. Doctor Noe says. The surface of
the trunk Is covered with close-set pits,
which are the scars where the leaves
onre grew. These ancient trees had
few branches, and the leaves grew all
over the trunk, like the scales of a
llsh. The name of the genus, "Lepldo
dendron," means "scale tree."
How Diamonds Ar« Judged
The color of a diamond Is the most
Important thina Diamonds of the '
finest quality are colorless, perfectly j
clear and are said to be of the flrst j
water. Some varieties are green, j
orange, red, yellow and blue. Tbose
are the most valuable In which the
tint Is decided and equal throughout.
The commercial value of the diamond
Is affected by the slightest tinge of a
different color. The way a diamond
1> cat to also Important
How Sky Writing Is Don*
In tfce alrptane used for sky wrlt
'ng the Instrument board to clattered
with some lfi controls and recording
devices and half a dozen dials, levers'
aad Indicators controlling smoke
.a of which Sbe fiyer must watA
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GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 31,1925
Expert Writes About
Borrowing Big Money
As to borrowing money—which is
one of the great essentials of busi
ness—l simply do It. As soon
as I got across the steps of the bin.k
I should be afraid —scared that they
would throw me out.
I know, of course, from rending
about it that this is mere silliness,
that the bankers are there simply
waiting to lend the money—just crazy
to lend It. All you have to do is to
Invite the general manager out to
lunch and tell him that you want half
a million dollars to float a big prop
osition (you don't tell him what it
is—you Just say that you'll let him
know later), and the manager, so I
gather, will be simply wild to lend
you the money.
All this I pick up from the con
versations which I overhear at my
club from men who float things. But
I couldn't do It myself; there's an
art in it; to borrow money, big money,
you have to wear your clothes In a
certain way, walk in a certain way,
and have about you an air of solenun
lty and majesty—something like the
atmosphere of a Gothic cathedral.
Small men like me and youi my
dear reader, especially you, can a do j
It. We feel mean about it, and \iherj
we get the money, even if it- Is lonly |
ten dollars, we giye ourselves away i
at once by wanting to hustle oft Jvith |
It too - fast. The really big mail In
this kind of thing can borrow hajff a '
million, button it up in his chest, hnd
then draw on his gloves antl nxllt %
easily about the League of Natrons
and the prospect of rain. I adm£ I
couldn't do it. If I ever got that luilf
a million dollars I'd beat it outfof
the bank as fast ns a cat going ifi-or
a fence. —Stephen Lcacocfc in Harper's i
Magazine.
Einstein Theory Tested.
Prof. Dayton Miller is doing spine 1
work at the Mount Wilson observatory
near Los Angeles which may "stfake j
the foundations of the Einstein theory. I
The results indicate that the eaVth
travels through the ether. Ki*steir»
himself admits that If these results
are confirmed the theory will be on- J
tenable, because according to It
motion would never be detected from j
the earth. The experiments were /{fat
made from an underground chamber.
Professor Mlchelson of Chicago uni
versity made similar e\perlments.' At |
first the results substantiated the i
Einstein theory. But Professor Miller
then made similar experiments at
Mount Wilson, which Is about a mile I
In height. This tlm\ he found that
the results varied with the altitude.
Pathfinder Magazine.
Loti's Invisible Grave
The announcement that the ACH6-
emle Francalse has set "The Tomb of
Pierre LotI" as the topic for Its animal
poetical competition has brought the |
subject of Loti's grave and his odd I
instructions regarding It to public )
notice.
Pierre Lotl, himself quite as roman
tic as hla books, was buried at his
own wish In the garden of his home,
the Malson des Aloules on the little
Island of Oleron. That Islet has been
described as "a floating raft." It Is
not more than nine feet above sea
level except for one small hill crowned
with a few pine trees.
By the terms of the novelist's will
only ten persons now living are al
lowed to visit his grave—lf they wish
to do so.
Celluloid Hippopotamus
A celluloid hippopotamus Is the
latest thing In museum art, according
to Popular Science Monthly. Hereto
fore the hippo has defied the skill of
taxidermists because It could not be
reproduced with convincing realism.
But now L. L. Walters of the Field
Museum of Natural History at Chi
cago. 111., lias discovered a method of
using celluloid to p'Oiluce translucent
color effects that are said to have al
most the semblance of living flesh and
blood. Us'ng this method he Is con
structing n remarkably life-like repro
duction of a hippo. In which the real
hair* are embedded In the eellulo'd.
Late Fall Flower
The last fall flower Is the ep>-
ber 01-ssom of the witch hazel, or,
as It Is sometimes called, "the fr.»st
flower." It looks like an Ice crystal
in shape and -color and can be fonod
low on the ground among the brown
stubble. This sturdy blossom -Is not
In. the least like the fragile summer
flower of the witch hazel. It never
irrows to more than three Inches In
height, so most ordinarily be sought
for before It Is found.—Grit
Sex and Athletics
According to a study made by Prof- !
A. V. Hill of the University college. '
London, woman athletes are able to
attain a maximum speed of only 79
per cent of that of men. In running
and swimming. A woman la able to
expend only 62 per cent of the energy
expendable by a man of the same
I weight /■ It
WHY
Pianos Are Held Impractical
in Arctic
Dirigibles, not airplanes, must be
used- If an aerial survey of the Arctic
regions Is to be successful, according
to Donald B. MacMlllan, who #as com
pelled to abandon that part of his ex
pedition to the North. From his and
Amundsen's experience, he was con
vinced that the uncertainty of landing
places and t£e unreliability of caches
of fuel and food made travel by air
planes exceedingly hazardous. For that
reason, and because adverse weather
bad set In earlier than had been ex
pected, he advised that further ex
ploits by naval planes be discontinued
this year. "A fjord Is free today and
icebound tomorrow," was one of the
explorer's radio messages from the
Far North. "A cache under such condi
tions, is not a help but" a menace, for,
if depended upon and a plane arrives
out of fuel, destruction is „tlie inevi
tably result. The lighter-thnn-alr ma
chine can do the work and should do
it at the earliest opportunity." Naval
i .Ulcers declare that the d:. Hirers of ven
i iring into the Arctic regions with a
dirigible Mich as the "Los AngeW' are
] tremendous. They point out that If
| the big gas bags get weighted,, with
j snow or ice from frozen mist and rain,
they might never return. On their ail
vlee, the naval airships were not al
lowed to fly to the polar regions In
search of Amumlsen and Ellsv orth
when it was feared that they were lost
summer.—Popular Mechanics Mag-
I- azine.
Why One Feels "Blue";
Mere Matter of Air
It may be assumed that during tlie
I summer there are many occasion 3
when you will exclaim, "What a de
pressing day!" Your sprits will
I droop; energy will go; work will be
come hard labor. Do you know why?
, Well, it's just a matter of air!
Bad weather decreases the normal
jwessure of the atmosphere. The im
mediate result on ourselves ts that
our blood vef «ls become Inflated; the
circulation of our blood is hindered.
Our uncomfortable feeling is in
creased by two other factors. When
the air is damp we do not perspire
normally, and therefore our bodies re-
I tain the waste and poi?ctnous products
I that otherwise would pass off. The
! non-energetic feeling folttnvs.
Further, Instead sCJtHe air contain
ing Its ordlna/y supply of oxygen,
ttiere Is a smaller and a diluted sup
ply. The position Is the same as that
of an engine from which normal work
Is required, but which Is not being fed
with sufficient fuel to raise the re
quired amount of steam. Oxygen is
the body's fuel, and we cannot fully
assimilate our food without a full sup
ply. Hence the "heavy" feeling.
Why Gasoline "Goes Up"
' A large percentage of automobile
I mechanics may be seen smoking while
working on cars, even when tinkering
with vacuum tanks. Motorists seeing
this conclude that gasoline has ceased
t«k be dangerous, and because noth
ing happens they acquire n Contempt
for Its known hazards. Sometimes,
however, something does happen and
the result Is always serious.
The vapor from a gallon of gasoline
when mixed with the right portion
of air produces a hazard eqnal to 85
pounds of dynamite.
If a motorist will consider the po
tential destructive power of gasoline
on a par with dynamite fewer ac
cidents of tl's n; are will occur.
Why Circular Rainbow
The rainbow Is caused br ll.'ht from [
the snn pasnlng Into a drop of '
nnd out again 'after reflectloty from j
the far side.' The light I* refract" *. !
as we my, both where It enters th
f'rop and where It leaves the drop, a"
t' ereby split up Into Its original col- j
 ~n. Now. the red, say. or any other j
fiiven color, reaches the eye of the
observer only wh"n the straight line**
from drop to snn and drop to eye
make a particular angle with ei'ch
other; the reason for this comes from
the laws of refraction.
Why Columbine Is Liked
Among the reason* advanced for
making the columbine our national
flower are: First, forms of the colum
bine grow wild In all states of the
Unjoo. with a possible exception of
Louisiana; second. It can be ctiltl- 1
vated easily In any garden; third.!
It lends Itself admirably to conven
tional tleslzn ; fourth, the nntne eoni 
from Hie same roif word as Co!am
bus; tlftn,' the technical name, aqua
legla, comes from the same rent word
as eagle, our national emblem.
Why They're Green
Recent test n- show that the green
color of 'French oyster* is d'le to n
pigment present in their fm>d mate
rials. A quantity of the pigment was
Isolated and oysters placed In a solu
tion wblch contained it took up the
» twenty-f&ttr hours.
How Nature Provides
for Seeds "Travelipg"
Most people would be surprised- If
told that the dandelion growing on
their hack lawn had its origin In Af
,rica. Yet this might easily be so, for
seeds do travel In the most remarkable
way.
How then, do they do It? One way
Is by air. Those that travel In t|)ls
manner have H kind of wing or para
chute attached to their seed, by means
of which they can carried by the
wind for miles before they finally
come tb earth ami grow.
Others with the :iid of a light float
take a sea voyage and travel with the
current of the water for great dis
tances. But by far the most Inter
esting way of all is the-seed that trav
els with animals and birds. This ts
dene with the help of a booked at
tachment which clings to* the animal's
fur.
'Charles I>:rwln once tool: from
the iot of a ! 'ri a Final! fr -
i. "tit of h.inlea 1 earth; this he
n d ajid warmed, nnd waited
v. «t curiosity Whet I r or not
anything would -rrmv from it. To his
great surprise no fever in SO plants
sprang from this ill portion of so!!.
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Officer's Revenge
A naval officer, who had talten of
fense at something pall at a 1 T
party by a ci Tgyma.i who ha'! t
been "made an honorary canon. : ]
who was somewhat' actocrati ,
solved to be revenged.
He invited the whole party to la
speet his ship next day, nnd wh a
inquiry was made regarding the use
of one of the sham wooden cannon
he had put In a conspicuous place
to attract notice, he re;'lied. In a
loud tnnc: "Oh, that wood-nt! -ig;
It's only a dummy—a sort of honorary
.pannon I"
The Great Smith Family
The great family of Smiths bear a
name which Is not > ;■*" ? common
est but the o' 'lt* t in t irld Pro- ;
fe por s!ah:t: >*, when dec .:or;pg the!
Petrie papyri, came upon :e bearing!
the name of Smith, unmlV* ably writ-!
ten. "We have never," be .).* "found
anything like it before, and it is sure-1
ly worth telling the many distin-1
gulshed bearers of the name that there '
was a man known as Smith la the ,
twentieth year of the third Ptolemy, j
227 years B. C., nnd that he was oc- i
cupied In brewing and selling— beer P |
Add Motoring Perils
• One of Attleboro's fairest little
maidens has been having a rush Job j
done at the dentist's. A broken tooth j
needed expert attention. It was no or
dinary mishap, the breaking of that ,
tooth. She and he motoring and
while kisses were being exchanged the
car hit a particularly rough spot In the
road. There was a facial collision In
which lips proved ineffectual bumpers,
two sets of teeth met head on—and
then came concern on his part, lamen- 1
tatlon on her part, and the enlisting of
the dentist's services to repair dam
ages sustained In an unusual way.—
Boston Globe.
Complimented
When an Edinburgh councillor was
traveling to London there was an old
man in the same carriage to whom he
spoke several times without getting
a reply. Just as they neared the eifd
of the journey the old man leaned for
ward and asked, "Are we near King's
Cross?"
The councillor toH the old man :
th.it be thought him very Ul-msn- !
EFRED for not REPLYING when spol'i-n
to earlier In the day.
f ild the nged trnvrter: "Mar. I
win ' ared to nr.sw -r ye. Ye nr ■
a 'u' ke a pot.' 'rnph I »sw ; n thu
p> of a murderer" —Louden Tlt-
B M.
Fashion No'e
Ilopresentative V;> -e'of I'idladelph'a j
gald at Atl; ntlc fit. :
"The f -h! --.-I of t- !ay :■ r«* all rlsht
provided visit's Insid-* t!u-or n tb
er what's out'ld • their, for f '«!
more outside than In iti.» usually— *
all right, too.
"Whf.t would happen if we "O." .
Bre o'trnolves as others see lis?"
Representative Vyro gri/ed out ov, r
the crowded boardwalk at tho b-» ii
crowded with bathers, then he addnl:
"A great many ladles, certainly,
would put on more clothes."
Oldest Book in the "World
The oldest book In the world I*
the "Rig Veda," which was la exist
ence, as complete as we have It now,
1/AKi yoars In-fore rhe Christian era.
V
One Defxr"'ort
The p.--ilmißt - : »5! . 'ho would
enj-.y tl •* J. "> of putting •.» "i"".- tour"
—Lafay'te .Tournal .*, ' Courier.
,*- i
We Gct.Yov.'Jpf n I :
A Chinamnn'f ! >-' ■ it. ■ » or a p?sno:
•Tbem box, you'light hjn iS-ihe teeth,
he wy."
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Capitalize Blunders
It doesn't make much difference
whether your age Is seventeen, seventy
or one hundred and seventy you will
grow and develop as long as you are
willing to profit by your mistakes, says
Harry Daniel In Thrift. Look your
mistakes straight In the eye, shake
hands with them and then bid them
good-by forever. A bad habit Is noth
ing but a mistake that hns acquired a
permanent address.
The average man of success today
will say, M I owe my success to hard
work." Bat he Is holding out one of
his choicest secrets. What he, should
say a giieeis* because I knew
how to clean tip SIOO worth of wisdom
on every little ?2 mistake I ever made:"
Mistakes seldom bite the first time.
A? ysi cries*
Not all the mysteries are cleared
up. There Is one connect!*! with those
per* : 4 who walk across the continent
or wheel pe-amhulatorg from one sec
tion to another or undertake to get
the a' ograpbs of a thousand mayors
—all, vay, upon a iJet. What o. e
would ike to know Is who pirs up the '
reward or lays down tb» other .. I
of e vager. We never hear of it! .
He is ! lore obs r and mo!e«? thin
the he 1 of a booties.-- . :e
aii'l, • - it 1 ;-. .-r 7 b: ..fr d
that 1 - " h ! - dt • ! p h
asent —Toledo Blade.
Odd Cc-irt Cases in 16SS
Apa » fro sa SI ac * «'■*
docket /'T the year 1 '336 rev»*al® Usst ?
Henry l Va •* was "3 for saying .
that be -»uid as leave \r a Crz ,
berk as to hear Kever-ad Coblriui .
pr. eh; '.hat llobert E-i .iriU waß !
fined f' ■' excess in apparel In wearing
s!ee% and gold button*; that
jo! w.: fine 1 for ste? : ng hU
. Kt:--e?r ox and selling it to fcim and
that 8 ih Collins w»s fined fer r*iJ4
tag at her ; jsband—Detroit News.
Polar Explanation
Early- efforts, in polar .exr>!oration
were It for c canwrciul inter
ests. C th ' T ■'.-■Lh ceatnT
thp r I of .- .a la t *
Arctic iv ! Antarctic RO4M has'beea
due lar>. :y to the sp.-'t of sdentl'c
research, but also for geographic
achievement. Peary, at the North
pole, made a great number of ob
servations which are very valuable
In the study of geo-.-rs; '-y. phy-ofe-,
mphy. nseteorolory and oc anography.
Crave Error
"I bear tell that Horace Bristles zot
shot yesterday down at his fence cor
ner,'* stated Mrs. Johnson upon
return from a neighborhood «Jl
' "Seems i.'ce he was Just drainroiad
It when n feller goir.g by up and *: «t
1 him."
"I've been look.a:; for something of
| the kind to happen f>>r sir art of
| a while." replied Gap Johnscn of Ua;n
pus BUlge. "He frt to have shav. •!
oftener, nnd he wouldn't have heea
["■mistook for a mad dog."--Kansas Oty
Star.
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Barkless Dogs
Thoroughly T izaied "het d>-
eclairs" I;-ve n' tlte'r appear*:-.--#
at Detroit, air: wr:He batter U
[poured iato \ - • -taHy c- nstrU£*te«l
grid raoleK-d rc the *hape • -* a ftall
! growr. raw "i! '-." As the ■'rst.tin£«
jof golden Hrp'.vn founj« over baUer,
i the coo'; drope lt> the canine. : *
[ spoonful of batter completely I- :.;*s
j the bar' * - ?r.
"Foll r- C the Ear:d"
I A Of a ahlafe pertwmS*-
' RT.d d J:\ I '3 • ei'ss - >
wen* reeov. •! by r v»'r p'jj*-
jvnt ". " -t hof Ifree 1 v t,
IN. J!.. u-r h«-.* d t-.» ' ! a :ru -
:el in; >-■«#■ "■ ,-n » -end
| mlle«. .» . '•*> f nntl t ■ Isn-n ctm
i i;e> > «.- ni' 'try tv
i In-- " > ti -r.a: er for
i ho'-.. .
, sc-ri in Clirr' '-,g
liar • r-.«
- has ( c -nr.t ~toa 3
times. J i ii'l .r !he-v outings Lj
has era «.n! n { bad w> other only
thn-e t! mo-c of t 'inie the
fair we * -ri be*-a "ettr -ra-ly fair."
he _'■> ms 4,'i-ne :o the sur>
mlt .-a ac!» tr'p. .'Jtmnt WntUng>
ton Is ot f the show of the
mi - nia'n in New £nglaad, freQaeai
ed by i -.sands of tourist* regularly
i each yei r.
V/hy Tountaia Pen Leaks
A fountain pi n is more HkeTy to lesk
i when-it almost the
j heaf of tbe hand cause the air inside
i to esjuind. tending to force out the
| Ink.
WJhy SUituo Is Arrti'-Jsa
Venu- • Mi.lo is "always tpf'twoffl
wlthour becM!«> a n'tt: ortg
■lnal stul e was  a i'' d on
1 Island o. Mfjos the ..rit; had
kroken off and were never discovered
NO. 48
Wonder of Nature Is
Vision Given to Bird*
The vlslpn of birds 1s an aranstag
thins. A vulture soaring almost oat
of rlew gees a carcass lying perhaps
In a quite Inconspicuous position; a
kestrel hovering at a height of 100
feet, spies a mouse creeping about in
the grass; a gannet cruising round 200
Wet above the sea observes a flab
swimming some distance below the
surface, says W. W. White, In the
Nineteenth Century Magazine. •
The gannet's sight is by no means
''the least remarkable among keen-eyed
birds, for It haa to penetrate *.vater aa
well as air. A gannet's hurtle on .
beneath well expresses the action. At
once it checks its flight, poises ,for a
second. half closes Its wings, and 2l Tea
j with tremendous speed. The;*} is a
; curious corkscrewlike tnotlon a the
downward rsroop, end at the
of entering the water the jch-'i 1
are folded.
Day's Length Varies
in Different ~"arff
■*
if you .-net a man. and he c r
re;, irte i that he ate 315 me. 7 - i
*7. you would either be •zi l
his appetite or take blzn - a
■ :ie»J romancist Bat tb>» no*
o:.-iy be 'rtnn Spitsbergen, wfc« - t- *7
kite aC y three and a half r •Jw i
length.
An'! or the whole it weald & wis.•.
if one si -»ttld C 2 d ,-rtake to ia t: rt... *
work to receive so much a i2j ji -
ment. to smtierstand Jsat wh* t2«
work Is to be lone, or one ail? ■ t
to labor IVi hoars Stacks iff
it happened to be the toogeaj rTsy eff
".he year, or all the ttme from ir - 21
to July 21 if in some parts of Ko -y.
Ie Pjtn; •id the longest dv '9
hocra aed * shortest 5 ftowr-L »
> t Finland there to > 22-fcocr Air.
j London aM at Bremen the r. 7
ss l f > r i hoars; at Harnbrrr? and £>. -
rig IT hoars, and at Washington. a&ecß
j 15 boars.
Neva Rays Discovered
Science ha* llhli ihi J the >Tf-rf
en~e of atr.r rays, struer?>r than aTr-*
X-rays an«i UOS9 tiaHS great?* fit -
wttii feo -ati'-a t£e *%MI
•at asl (laws of the dey ©r a»i4
of li>j9X>. '*.*>-vote variety. They were
partly «i**mhed by Dr. R. A. JliHlksn
of the California instftote at
to the convention of the Xa
! tiona: Acadenp at Sciences fca Madl
.. "TJs Re haa studied them since
'he WocM war. begtaaiac where
Herman scientists left off. mrmtM
wco the S-fXCGO Xofcei prise far first
nuajim laciit at the eteetsefc. Tbe
| rays, cii named. are doe to posn
fr- over to other sftii, with the -«n>
having a»-> effect aa the actio*, be
iJd- They appear throes' it
b iuhord the earth feota all .ireetfoaai
> at all tin:;-, and have. e~"r\ujnEnaay
absorbing- power.
Was Well Stocked
A day I»ok of a retail cr-jcer le
gated in* a r:idwest«ra terra si xws
the en* ire list of Import ad arti-ta*
sold by bEta hi ISH2 as feOewv; €«r«a
tea. flea. bastard, pepper. 1 liinn aB
• { spice, r. :uneg. ginger. 'imiia
. lenoas. or an fee. sage, prunes, raisins
and aimoß'is. Other foods handled by
, h?m were: Rws. nwtajßes. drfed ap
ples. dried peaches, cranberrfe*. po
, > tatues, vtn«-sc«r. salerataj, b«t
--) ter. cheese, cracker*, lard. ricked
. j.balibut, whiUfiah, dried herrtß2. rfc*.
1 ? simp, «a!t. vreaM 01 tartar. V;im.
| rve, col.-e. pewsnta, beei veal, p ri;
! letacn extract, cabNi rae
ripe aad satire t«n If thi- ->;re
j k >ep«'r had ether fixdts they w-t» not
Indicated on his rtarge aetueJl t r
~TTt> ye&rs.
'k ' j
Ncihins Ever Lost
Clements which enter Into the -rtaX-
Ing of a  ap-bubbie &lm are as ' stir -
as thoee vhlcb form granite rv ; r
' s n!.*.;crial thine h ever lost t i
js" . ed. says science. Man's lm: -tai
j Ity Is fairly well assured be by
j *cier.ce aad the Bible. It wa.* the
.1 Frenchman, Lavotsler, who tu
5 proved v. th his One balance. V it I
» ell cbemi al operaticma It la or - th > •
r kind ef : latter that Is th 
■. Quantity remaining the sa e. Th
• was the discovery of the ceuser
. of matter to which knowledge * th j
. cmservatlw of energy has sinev be«a
added.—Capper's Weekly.
f AVomen'a Wigs
White wfc* are to be the vo«Be "f
the women f Berlin this wlatpr. >
eo'rdiag to the Philadelphia Levlr
I- The natural biond hair of Gem a
o j women was popular In classical >
t!qt;ty with Rotaan wefcuen, «rt»o wo:»
e | v. igs made of It to cover up their own
I Mack tresses. be
| gan to be used In Europe In the Six
teenth century, and Queen Elisabeth
owned no fewer than 80. The fnll
' j bottomed wig. similar to the lropoe
■ in* headgear of lingiish judges today,
■ reached i» apogoe in Queen Anncfe
u j ßy . wig in that epoch often cosfc
k | 5000 or S7OO.