THE ALAMANCE GLEANER
VOL. L
Young Husband Comes
Forward With Advice
On* year after marriage la the mo
ment when a man can talk the sonnd
eat sense on the vital subject of mar
riage. Before that he does not know
enough. Afterwards he may know
too much and be unable to see the
wood for the trees, "A Happy Hus
band" writes in the Continental Edi
tion of the London Mall.
, When I went to the altar last Sep
tember It was with the old adage for
the proper handling of matrimonial
quarrels—"When you are In the wrong
apologize. When you are in the right
upologize twice!"—ringing In my ears.
It was good advice and I have never
regretted following it
Women are' great'hands at giving
new lamps for old. Make little sacri
fices for them, and they will make big
ones for you. "Remember a wife's
birthday, It has been wittily said, "and
the remaining 304 days of the year
will look after themselves."
Considering how careful women are
to study our little ways and peculiari
ties, it seems a pity we do not take
more trouble to study theirs. They
are really so ridiculously easy to man
age, If we only knew it. Tbey do not
alter with the ages except on' the sur
face.
The woman of today prizes motet
the same qualities as the woman of
1924 B. C. did before her —chivalrous
instincts, first overtures to reconcili
ations, the ready shouldering of re
sponsibility and blaipe. They may not
comment on these things at the time,
but they will remember them, and the
reward will be a hundredfold.
When you shut your mouth tight
and smother the clever retort which
springs to mind, they know they have
got a man. Sometimes they will de
liberately do things to test a husband.
Lucky the man who successfully sur
vives that test. It is on him, and on
him alone, that the uttermost treas
ures of a woman's soul will one day be
lavished.
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Proper Diet for Fly
Are you feeding your house flies
properly? These delicate creatures, so
charming and desirable, about the
home, can't be happy and healthy on
just "any old thing" you leave about
for them, says the Kansas City Star.
In the Journal of Experimental Zo
ology R. W. Glaser tells of a series of
experiments to discover just what
sort of food is suitable for them. The
housewife will appreciate the Informa
tion.
On an exclusively protein -diet they
live from on% to eight days. Eating
only sugar the life period Is longer,
but no eggs are laid—no baby tiles to
gladden the home.
Mr. Glaser reached the conclusion
that the very best food is sugar and
some form of starch that can be eaten
and assimilated. On such a diet they
thrive, lWe long and lay plenty of
eggs. The Average life of the house
fly Is only about twenty" days. In
general, female .flies live longer than
males.
Steam-Heated Bird Nest
Steam-lieated nests with steam
baths are being used t>y & pair of blue
birds In Yellowstone park, according
to reports to the national park sen-ice
headquarters at Washington. The
happy couple have, however, avoided
expensive modern plumbing and steam
fittings. They have simply taken over
one of nature's big steam plants by
constructing their cozy home in the
nearly extinct Excelsior geyser cone.
Every morning they can be seen dart
ing In and oilt of the steam.
Plants are also using the geyser as
■ natural greenhouse. Wild straw
berries have been found growing not
far from the cone two weeks ahead of
their usual season.
Question* of State
The proprietor of a village store was
sitting with the loafers who had
formed a circle around the stove. His
sole assistant was a youngster who
had lately drifted In from parts un
known^
A woman entered and asked for a
pound of cheese. She would not allow
the assistant to wait on her, but in
sisted on having the proprietor.
The lad must have been trained in
some city office, for to this delnand
be made firm reply:
"Can't disturb him now. He's la
conference." Pittsburgh Chronicle-
Telegraph. .
Roman Theater Unearthed
The remains of a Roman theater, 65
feet In diameter dating from the Sec
ond century et the Christian era, have
been discovered In a garden at Feren
tino, about fifty miles sooth of Rome.
▲ fine background Is provided by the
range of the Monti Leplnl and the val
ley of the Sacco, along which the rail
way runs from Borne to JJaples. The
ancient Ferentlnnm was a city of the
Hernial, taken by the Romans (m Ltvy
tells us) and destroyed In the second
Punic war. It afterward became a Ro
man colony and was selected by Hor
ace as a typical quiet country town
whet® the nerve-fagged Roman could
recuperate.—Scientific American.
Use of Stethoscope ,
Old Medical Custom'
SIr"Wllllam Hale White, president
of the Royal Society of Medicine, re
cently expressed the opinion that
"nothing that doctors do has seized
the popular Imagination more ""than
their habit of tapping tlie cliesf and
listening to It with a stethoscope."
Medical men in their investigations
have found that this tapping of the
chest is a quite remote custom, the
Toronto Globe observes. A book writ
ten in Latin In 17(31 recorded the fact
that the chest of a healthy person
when tapped yielded a note "like the
stilled sound of a drum covered with
a thick cloth." *
-A- French physician, Laennec, is said
Ao have made the first use, of the
stethoscope. For years he was the vic
tim of Jjl health and family troubles,
but' after the battle of Waterloo lie
made public the discovery that it was
possible to fasten to a person's chest
wilh a stethoscope.
He also wrote a book telling of all
the human ailments it Was possible to
detect by means of this instrument.
Sir William Hale White says that,
from till* book arose the physician's
habit of asking'patients to pronounce
certain words like "ninety-nine" whe i
examining the chest. These words are
produced in thc> larynx, and are suit
able sounds' when earned tnrough the
chest to help the physician to obtain
confirmatory evidence of j
Warden Had Some Good
Picking "on the Side" \
Those who talk of present-day graft
would be interested in itemizing the
emoluments of the keeper of the Tow
er of London during the reign of Queen
Elizabeth. His nominal salary was
only about S3OO a year, but. lie had
numerous privileges. Most of the pris
oners, being political offenders of high
rank, were granted liberal allowances
by the government for their board.
Whenever they were too proud to ac
cept tills allowance It fell to the war
den.
Moreover, this official wns entitled,
to seize all cattle that slipped off Lon
don bridge, all carts that fell Into the
moat, all flotsam and jetsam in the
Thames, all swans that floated/below
the bridge, two flagons of wine from
every vessel arriving from Bordeaux,
a toll of sea food from every fishing
craft landing in London, and as many
ruslies as "a person could hold be
tween two arms" from boats carrying
such cargo, besides a fee on nil hides
cured at East Smlthfleld, near the
Tower.
Old Hen's Christmas Gift
An attorney who was also an en
thusiastic chicken fancier spent much
money and time coddling Wooded hens
that did not begin to pay for their
kaep. He had several pullets that
were guaranteed to be the best kind
of layers, yet every morning for al
most a year he retifrned empty-handed
from his search for eggs. Finally he
had given np hope.
On Christmas morning, however, he
was astonished and delighted to find
four beautiful pearly eggs In one of
the nests. He quickly gathered them
u$ and ran trimphantly to show them
to his skeptical wife. Not until he
had emerged from""the (dimness of the
henhouse did he notice that each egg
horeNtlie neatly penciled greeting:
"Merry Christmas from the Old Hen."
—Youth's Companion
Siam Country of One Town
One of the oldest features of that
odd country. Slam, is that It is a coun
try of one town, observes a writer In
the Detroit News.
Bangkok Is the seat of a
ntralized form of government and ad
ministration. It contains the only per
manent residence of the king and all
officials and nobles, except a very few
provincial officers, have'their work and
dwellings In the capital. It Is there, j
too, that they take nil their pleasures.
To the European, Bangkok Is all Slam,
nere he meets all the foreigners In the i
country, all officials of foreign govern
ments and the mercantile community.
Aside from this unique Import nice
which Bangkok holds In Slam. It I* oni
of the most Interesting of the great j
cities of the East.
Time for Making Repairs |
An observant householder says that!
If he has any repairs to make on his j
house, cemefftt walks or fencej he has i
It (lone In cold weather rather than !
In the spring. While spring Is the
natural time in the minds of many tt'
Is not. be believes, the best time. The
lawn can be tramped down and dls-!
turbed othenfcse considerably In the;
fall and put back Into place and come j
up well In the spring. 'Besides, If I
there Is any great displacement'Of the
surface, there will have to be oome re
adjustment made in the spring.
Trail's End.
Speaking of pathetic figures, what
la more pitiful than the predicament
of that Ithaca man who discovered
thai he had twen corresponding with
his own wife through a matrimonial
bureau? —Buffalo Express.
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 25, 1924
AGAINST THE WALL
If X live till my fighting days are dona
I must fasten my armor on my eldest
son.
I would Klve him better, but this la
my best;
I can Ket along without It—l'll be
to have a rest.
And I'll sit mending armor with my
back against tjie wall,
| Because I have a second, son If this
one should Call.
So I'll stake It very shiny, and I'll
whistle very loud,
And I'll clap him on the shoulder and
I'll say, Very proud:
l "This Is the lance I used to bear!"
j (Dut I mustn't tell what happened
when I bore It.)
"This is the helmet I used to wear!"
(Cut I won't say what befell me
when I wore It.)
For, you couldn't tell a youngster—lt
wouldn't be rlnht —
That, you wish you had dMd in your
very first flKht. *
And I mustn't say that victory Is never
worth the cost. *
That defeat may be bitter, but It's bet
ter to have lost.
And I mustn't say that glory Is as
barren as a stone—•
Vd better not Hay anything, but leave
the lad alone.
So he'll flKht very bravely and proD
| ably he'll fall
And I'll sit mending armor with my
baok against the wall.
, —Aline Kilmer, in Poetry.
| Russians Make Museum
of Famous Cathedral
The great St. Isaac's cathedral at
Leningrad, a mecca for tourists, has
been turned Into a museum, Pathfind
er Magazine reports. Dwindling
church attendance and lack of money
contributions toward its upkeep is
said to be the reason. Admission will
now be by fee. This great churcb was
St. Isaac's Cathedral.
erected at a cost of $11,000,000. Its
golden dome, can J>e seen from a dis
tance of ninny miles. The exterior
columns are of red granite. Massive
Jprronze doors lead into the edifice. In
the days of the czar the Interior was
hung with rich paintings, and mag
nificent icons and vessels Of gold and
silver adorned the altars.
Using Up the Whole Tree
Whenever .Tack seemed to need a
little threat to make him behave bet
ter, Mrs. Xeal had a habit of saying
that If he di(Jn't behave she would
have to go out to the peach tree,
which stood in the hack yard, and get
a switch and use It.
Mother wished Jack to eat his din
ner, but Jack seemed In no mood to
comply. Finally mother appealed to
i the old standby.
"Jack, If you don't eat your dinner
I'll have to get a switch, off the peach
,tree."
"You better watch out, mother," the
youngster replied, "pretty soon they
won't be any limbs on that peach tree
and then you won't have any peaches."
—lndianapolis News.
The King's Pipers
The king of England, when enjoying
| his shootlpg and stalking on his High
land holiday, wears the kilt, always;
and for dinner, the fnll dress of the
1 Stnnrt Trartnn, with the silver orna
■ ments bejeweied with cairngorms,
which nre as handsome as they- are
valuable. A piper always plays under
! the king's windows every morning at
| eight o'clock, and at night, as soon qs
| their majesties, with their guests, are
| seated at the dinner table, the piper*
I all enter the reom and march round
' two or three times playing as they go.
I —London Mail.
| i .
Light Mystery Soloed
One of the most spectaojtfar forms of
lightning (If It can be so* cnlled), oc
j curs in the Andes, and has occaslonal-
I |y been reported from other moiin
j talnoas regions. At times the moun
tains seem to act as gigantic lightning
' rods, giving rise to more or less con
tinuous diffused discharges between
themselves and the clouds, says Na
ture Magazine. A few years ago Amer
ican meteorologists thought they had
found an example of this striking
phenomenon In Nbrth Carolina, but
the once mysterious "Brown mountain
lights" have been proved to be merely
the beams of distant locomotive and
automobile headlights or due to other
human agenciea
Hope of Nation Is
in the Rural Home
The true American family can only
lie found In the rural districts, the city
family has ceased to exist, C. J. Cal
pln.of the federal Department of Ag
riculture dec-lured in an address before
the National Catholic ltunfi Life con
ference. held at Milwaukee.
, Census statistics, he stub, show that
I "hi the 30,000,(Ml of farm population
there are 4,000,000 ino/e children under
twenty-one years of age than In the
.'10,000,000 of city population."
"The city," he continued, "Is the
place of fewer famines, more unmar
ried adults and fewer.children In fami
lies having children. Space Is too dear
In the cities for children. Families
who desire children must move to the
country. The farm lias sunlight, space,
air and»qulet. That's why the children
are there."
The common occupation of the farm
er's family, he said, also tends to weld
more firmly the fnmlljr Ideal, nddlng
that "tfie rural home and family be
comes, therefore, a type In the nutlon.
'The city family has long ceased to be
the type of Amorlcnp family. The rural
home Is holding the line for the family
Ideal In the nation. If the rural struc
ture crumbles, the rural home crum
bles, and the nation crumbles."
Pennsylvania Plans to
Beautify Its Highways
Banks nnd slopes along Pennsylva
nia highways next year will glow with
color. Flowering grasses, vines and
shrubs will hide the yellow scars
where fills or cuts have been made.
The department of highways, which
some months ago announced the In
auguration of a planting program, has
revised that program to Include the
setting out of blossom-bearing vines
and small trees.
Highway department officials . are
anxious to hasten plnnjlng so that pas
sage over Pennsylvania roads will not
be continuously through landscapes
scarred by the activities of road build
ers. "*
The highway departmeht In Instruct
tlons to engineers has notified them
thnt they nmy make requisition for
vines and other growths they deem
necessary. The state will require np-;
proximately "00,000 vines. Among i
these will be wild roses, rambler und 1
creeper roses.
But the colors will not be confined
to vines the department will plant. j
■"flie engineers pre making selections,
from ten grasses. Including white
clover, the pink alsiVe clover, the bIUe 1
hairy vetch, the purple alfalfa and yel
low vaccarla. These grasses will be
used for slope planting In conjunction
with orchard grass, meadow fescue,
tall meadow oat grass, Canada blue
grass and perennial rye grass..
Reconstructing lltynes
Rebuilding or altering of old houses
is often an excellent Investment even
where not necessary from the utlllza
. tlon point of view. Selling values.thus
Ruined are frequently out of propor
tion to the expense. This is particu
larly true of lumber-built houses, which
are peculiarly susceptible to altera
tion, and they are a large proportion
of the houses which are available for
renovation.
Building material dealers through
out the -«yipiPry are actively Assisting'
their clients In studying and planning
alterations of an improving nature,
Isitli practically nnd estftetiually, und
the l r.-al architect will usually be
found to be a very staunch supporter
of any de|inrture that promises a bet
ter-looking town.
Home Environment Counts
The old question of the father to
the daughter's lover, "Can yoij support
her in the style to which slip is ac
customed?" Is merely aHother-fcugges- I
tlon of environment, Jf the (laughter
has been accustomed to a nice home
and pleasant surroundings she will not
be contented Unless'her own home Is
Just as pleasant. If she has the
strength of character, and determina
tion. no matter how limited her fi
nances. there Is every probability that ,
her own home will show good taste :
and a love of beauty; even though on
a simpler scale titan her girlhood
home. Pleasant environment plants a
desire for beauty hi the tnlnd of a
girt which humbler circumstances can
not eradicate.
Get to Work on Lawn
To delay work until spring usuaßy
means raising or lowering sections In
the lawn later on when the grass does
not respond so readily. Flower beds
♦hat have planned fpr the spring
can better be- started Iji cold wenther
In order to get the advantage of the
rotting sod to enrich the ground
Apple-Core Philanthropy
The back yard of a little St Loult
boy adJolptM an orpbange, from which
It was separated by a high walL One
day the boy's mother discovered him
out by the apple tree eating one apple
after another and tossing the cores
over the wall. Fearing that he would
have a stomach ache, she ordered him
not to eat any more, but hb called
back earnestly: "I must, mother. It'i
for the orphans 1 They're waiting for
the cores!"— Youth's Companion.
Flowers in Lily Family
The lily family Is noted for beau
ty of flowers, Including the tulips, the
hyacinths, the dog-tooth violets, the
Mariposa lilies, the day lilies and, of
course, the true lilies. Of the true
lilies, the genus -Lillus, there are as
many as 400 different kinds or species.
Many of these are, however, rare and
unknown in cultivation. Only about
50 kinds are known to flower growers
and of these only about 25 are well
known.—Detroit News.
Work of Ancient Scholar
Hipparchus of Nice about 102
B. C. is credited with the determina
tion of latitude and longitude as well
as with the discovery, during astro
nomlcnl work done In the island of
Rhodes and at Alexandria, of tbe pre
cession of the equinoxes. '■ He also
made a catalogue of 1,080 stars, giv
ing the latitude and longitude of each.
Oldest University in World
The famous university of Bologne
at Bologne, Italy, wtis founded In the
Eleventh century. Its foundation by
Theodoslus the Great In 425 A. D. Is
legendary. This Is the oldest univer
sity In the world. The university of
Paris Is the next oldest. Harvard Is
the oldest  university In the United
states.
Torrey Pine Vanishing
The Torrey pine Is restricted to the
southern California coast near San
Diego and the Santa Barbara Islands,
says Nature Magazine. So rare Is this
species that a park has
been created to protect the few re
gaining specimens, thus assuring
them a sightly longer lease of life.
Br'er Williams
It's blgh time for folks to quit play
in* de devil. Ef they tries to whip
him round de stump, they gits dizzy
an' falls over, an' ef tbey fights him
with Are, he knows more *bout lire
than what they knows. Better try
to put de flre out by turnln* do hose
on him.—Atlantn Constitution.
A Short Night
It was little Arthur's first Journey
on a railroad. The train entered a
long tunnel, and when they came out
Into tfee daylight again the little fel
low exclaimed; "Oh, mother, look,
it's tomorrow already I"—Boston Tran
script.
Study Beautiful Things
Nothing Is so Improving to the tem
per as the study of the'beauties eith
er of poetry, eloquence, music or paint
ing. They give a certain elegance of
sentiment to which the rest of man
kind are strangers. —Exchange.
Invented by Great Printer
Italics, the light types used tor
emphasis, or for foreign words, was
Invented by thb famous scholar and
printer of the classics, Aldus Manutlus
of Venice, and were named by him for
his native country, Italy.
Royal Governor Driven Oat
Sir Edmund Andros, who for a short
time during the reign of James II was
royui governor of New York and New
Jersey, was driven out of New York
In TOSS by an uprising led by Jacob
Leister.
Four Mountains of Iron
The world 'contains at least four
mountains of almost solid Iron ore.
One Is the Irun mountain of Missouri,
another In Mexico, another In India,
and a fourth In the Interior of Africa.
Where Credit Is Due
"Even If de Jedges do sometimes
msfce a wrong decision," said Uncle
Eben, "dey's entitled to n heap of
credit foh stayln' awake while de law
yers argue."—Washington Star.
Ancients Knew Corn '
U>rn I* found among the relics of
the most ancient tribes of Indlsns,
»a;.s Nature Magazine. It was culti
vated by all the agricultural natives
of which there Is any record
Something Big Left Behind
Says the West Point News— "A man
who Is toe big to have his neighbor
call him by his first name has already
outgrown the heat things of life."
Moral tor Fathers
Every man Is a hero to his son ex
cept the one who tries to help work
algebra problems. San Francisco
Chronicle.' * • -
Steps in Discoveries
Ono year after Michael Faraday
had discovered benzine came the dis
covery of aniline, which Is today made
In enormous qqantltles from
lp 1835 a Germun chemist named
Itunge discovered, that aniline treated
with chloride of lime produced a beau
tiful tyue color, but It was not until
1850 thnt an English chemist. Sir
William Henry Perkln, discovered ani
line purple and so founded the Im
mense color Industry of today.
Pretty"Legend of Diamond
Diamonds are the favored stones for
betrothal rings, says tradition, because
the man who discovered the art of cut
ting and polishing the diamond made a
fortune and wns thus enabled to wed
the ninlden of his choice. The man
was Louis de Berquem, a native of
Flanders, who was clerk to a Jeweler
of Bruges In 1470, and who, so the
story goes, had revealed to lilm In a
dream how the stones might be beau
tified by cutting.
• 4
A Tragic Comedy
The proud possessor of a palatial
home was much lmpgrtuned by a
movie company to let them use It for
a few takes. One day he nssented,
left for his office as usual, and In dpe
time returned. He found a bath tub
on the lawn, half the windows broken,
and the front door in splinters. "I
didn't know It was to be a comedy,"
remarked the owner ss he surveyed
the scene.
American Post Office
The beginning of the American post
office proper was In February, 1091.
From 1707 to the year before the Rev
olutionary war the general post office
In London controlled the postal service
In Amerlcn. The period of activity In
the establishment of postal facilities
began when 'Benjamin Franklin was
appointed postmaster at Philadelphia
in 1737.
Perfect Continuity
A continuum Is a total that Is con
tinuous and uninterrupted; that which
has perfect continuity, as the con
tinuum of space. A universal con
tinuum , appears in space where, pro
gression Is uninterrupted In all direc
tions. Time'is a one dlmen*lo#ll con
tinuum cnpable of geometrical repre
sentation by a line.
"Crossing the Rubicon"
Cne*i r's crossing of the Ruhicon
was significant because a proconsul
could not legnlly cross this frontier at
the head of his troops. His ut was,
therefore, a virtual declaration of w»r.
Thus "to cross the Rubicon" has come
to mean the taking of an Irrevocable
step.
The Paper as a Salesman
"Don't sit behind the steering
wheel waiting tar business to turn
up," snys the Grlfljn (Oa.) News.
"(*ank up. Get In the game. Use
the columns of your local newspaper
as an additional salesman and turn
that stock before It gets rusty."
Early Discrimination
The same shop assistant served a
customer with two pieces of cheese,
One for herself and one for a friend,
and remarked: "You'll know the dif
ference when you get home, as tbey
are both the same." —London Tit-Bits.
Father of Greek Music
Tertiander, the father of Greek mu
sic, was celebrated among his con
temporaries of the Seventh century
B. C. for his development of the lyre
and for his many victories at the
Pythian contests In honor of Apollo
Spanish Heroine
Augustlna, the maid of Saragossa, Is
celebrated In Spanish history for the
heroism sin- displayed during the
siege of her native city by the French
from Jure to August, IfiOS. and from
December, ISOB, to February. 1800,
Mexico's "Sad Nighe'
TAe "Sad Night" Is the name given
to the night of June 20. 1520, when
the Spanish conquerors were suddenly
attacked by the Mexicans, and suffered
hedvy loss to their small force and to
their Indian allies.
Wigs Long Worn
Wigs date back 100,000 years, If
the ehrlous covering of a prehistoric
woman's head carved In Ivory, found
by M. Plette In a cave In the Landes.
may be interpreted as a wig of the
Stone age.
Hardly Conservative
Though loaded shotguns have been
dragged through the fence successfully
at times, the custom would not he rec
ommended by Insurance companies.—
Toledo Blade.
Not Natural Cleavage
The parting of a husband and wlfo
Is like the cleaving of a heart; one
half wlli flutter here, one there.—
Tennyson.
NO. 47
Ordeal of "Trial by
Touch" Long Popular
This was an ancient superstition
although not entirely confined to Scot
land. Andrew Smeaton was charged
In 1080 with the murder of a man
found dead In Belnalow Moss. At the
request of his mater, the laird of
Abercnirnle, he touched the corpse aa
the others assembled had done.
He even went further and "lifted
him up and embraced him in his arma,
and willingly offered to remain a
space In grave with him." As no
blood followed on this contact, he waa
held innocent, as no doubt he waa.
In 1044, four men were drowned
by the upsetting of tljelr boat in a
culm. Marlon Peebles, a noted witch,
was charged with having changed her
self Into a porpoise, and under this
, form to have wrecked the bout Con-
I elusive proof was obtained when at
her touch "one bled at the
another In the hand and fingers; gush
ing out blood thereat to the great ad
tpiratlon of the beholders and revela
tion of the judgment of the Al
mighty."
Another noted witch, Christiana
Wilson, quarreled with her brother.
One day In 1001 be was found dead in
his own house, naked, and with a
"bloodless blow" on his face. Chria
j tlane was suspected. The battle and
ministers haled her to the dead man'a
house. As she touched the corpse the
blood gushed out, staining her ttngera.
1 She wus condemned.
Arabians Can Have at
Least One Good Laugh
'■ J? A naturalist recently returned from
Arabia has described to a learned ao
clety a plant called the "laughing cac
tus." The plant gets Its name from
the fact that nnyone eating Its seed
gives way for some minutes afterward
■ to Immoderate laughter, frequently;
ending In nervous prostration.
• The natives of the district In whldl
the plant flourishes dry the aeeda and
grind them Into powder, which they,
keep, and on auitable occasion* ad
minister to those against whom they
have u real or fancied grievance.
An overdose may result In temporary
loss of reason, following which the
victim falls Into a deep sleep, awak
ening with BO memory of his cnitost
conduct.
Fish'* Deadly Tail
A fish which can emulate some e(
the feats at a rodeo has beeft cap
tured in the English channel, and la
now In the Brighton aquarium. The
tall of the fish, which" Is known aa the
sting ray, Is long and flexible and
armed with a lengthy projecthig spine,
sharply pointed and furnished along
both edges with razor-sharp, saw-Uke
teeth. When attacked, the sting ray
suddenly throws this whip-like tall,
with unerring precision, around the
offender, in ta4so fashion, and, holding
the victim tightly against the barbed
spine, wields this weapon with such
ferooioud strength .and rapidity that It
lacerates the llesh to a frightful ex
tent.
NOT DELICATE ENOUGH j
'ifiir- 1
"There's been a great drop la
prices." (
"So? None of the sclsmographa
have reported the shock, however, I'm
sure."
White Blueberries
White strawberries, white currauta (
and white raspberries are nof uncom-j
mon, but It remains for the town of
Whltneyville, Maine, to have  the dis
tinction of having white blaeberrlea
growing within its limits, says the
Boston Qlolte. "This freak of nature
occurs on land owned by Newell Aibee,
who Is very careful of his treasure
and allows only a very few to be
picked.
Merchandising Read to Millions.
A' careful statistician recently mad*
a list of 4,047 American millionaire*
and what each made h!s rftoney la.
The resuk showed that general mer
chandising Is the best road to millions
10 the United Stales, and trasu ■nublyl
everywhere else, too. w