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TITLED WOMEN'S ODD PETS. A White Elephant, Pelicans, a Hyena and Pythons Fondled. Many women of title in England have strange pets. The Duchess of Marlborough has a collection of gazelles and pelicans on Thanet Isl and, in the mouth of the Thames. Lady Warwick owns a white elephant. She also has several peacocks. One of these is pure white. It is a con firmed hermit, never going near the other birds, and it is believed to be 100 years old. Lady Constance Stew art-Richardson used to carry a snake tucked into the bodice of her gown. Lady Cottenham and her daughter, Lady Mary Pepys, keeps marmosets. Lady Hope has tamed a hare so that It comes to her call and follows her about like a dog. She calls the hare "Mr. Juggins." Miss Rose Boughton Leigh of Rugby probably has the strangest pet of all. It is a hyena, and she bought it from an Arab in Constantinople. Mrs. Arthur Cado gan, one of the leaders of the young er social set in London, keeps snakes and pythons, and a photograph shows her with a python coiled around her waist. Sfte also tias two lemurs. The Duchess of Roxeburghe, who was May Goelet of New York, has a herd of goats in which she takes great pride. Treatment of the Insane. Hereafter attendants in New York insane asylums who strike and abuse patients are to be prosecuted by the Commission in Lunacy on a charge of assault The commission finds that there is no need of violence on the part of attendants in managing insane patients. Restraint, of course, _is necessary in some cases, but it can be applied without injury to the patients. The decision of the Lunacy Commission to discourage and punish needlessly harsh treatment of per sons whose mental condition renders their confinement in an asylum neces sary will be gratifying to all humane citizens, and especially to those who have friends among the inmates of such Institutions. There is a feeling of dread in the minds of thousands over the fear that their friends or re latives under restraint in asylums shall be subjected to some form of abuse or deprivation. The officials in charge of those instituions should do all they can to allay that feeling and inspire confidence in the management of our state asylums.—Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Too Good a Story to Keep. This woman was ill, or thought she was, which came to the same thing. Accustomed to the ministrations of the family physician, she sent out a hurry call, but the medico could not be located for the moment. She grew sick and sicker with every minute, and as a last resort, another medical man was sent for, a stranger, but of high repute. Before he couM- respond, the family physician turned up and cared for his patient He was not told that an other had been called in, and when the second man arrived, the lady was so flustered and nonplused by the false position in which she found her self that she sent down word she was too ill to see the physician—would he excuse her? He happened to mention the strange incident to the family physician, with whom he maintains close relations, and that is how the story leaked out When Waking Up. Here is a bit of information it will pay you to keep ready for reference, though you will perhaps turn up your nose at it at the first reading: "How to wake up, and wake up fully and quickly! Most people prefer not to wake up in the morning—that is, they think of the pleasure there would be in just five minutes' more of sleep if only that alarm clock had not sound ed its warning. Of course you have to get up, and if there is really any thing that will make the job easier and more pleasant you will want to know about it. Doctors have long ago agreed that dullness on first awaken ing in the morning is due to sluggish circulation of the blood in the brain. This can be quickly overcome by mas saging the neck in the neighborhood of the jugular vein, thus stirring the blood to life and action. Rub your neck well on both sides and drowsi ness will leave you. Try it" —New York Times. / An Isolated People. How much remains to be done be fore we shall have a complete knowl edge of the inhabitants of our little planet is indicated by the failure of Mr. Alanson Skinner of the American Museum of Natural History to get into communication last summer with the Naskapi Indians of Labrador. He had supposed that they could be reached byway of the west coast of Labrador, but found it to be impos sible. When driven by starvation in winter, they go to Nitchequon, in the interior, 55 days' journey by canoe from Rupert's House on East Main River. Otherwise they are confined to the interior of Labrador proper, "held back on the east and north by the Eskimo, on the west by the Northern Cree, and on the south by the Montagnais." Dangerous Oil Wells. The question of underground con nection of petroleum supplies bids fair to be an important one to Mexi can and possibly Texas owners of wells and land. At last accounts the Mexican San Geronimo field was in flames, and the fire was steadily spreading. It became volcano-like at last, and in a great explosion blew off the top of a hill. How far it will ex tend and what effect it will have on the oil-producing territory it under lines are questions which are being *sked with not a little anxiety. ANCIENT HINDU TEMPLE. Remains in Java of Great Works of Eighth Century. The Boroboedoer, unearthed by Sir Stamford Raffles when the English ruled in Java, was built by the Hin dus in the eighth century and is by far the finest example of their work in the island. Standing on a hill in the middle of the valley, this imposing ed ifice, covering nearly ten acres, rises to a height of upward of a hundred feet above the summit of the hill. It consists, says a Java correspond ent of the Shanghai Mercury, of a series of stone terraces built on top of each other in diminishing magni tude, so as to leave circumscribing gal leries, and crowned by a vast cupola; entrance to the galleries is gained by four stairways, north, south, east and west, which run from the ground straight up to the big top terrace, in the middle of which stands the crown ing cupola, surrounded by numerous smaller lattice work cupolas, and from which one may step inside into any of the intermediate galleries. The wbole is built of stone, showing an immense amount of carving, and though there is no genuine inside to ' the temple many of the galleries are covered in, innumerable images of Buddha occupy niches or prominent positions on the walls, and the sides of the galleries were paved with bas reliefs, indicating the glorification of this god and other incidents in his history. When one considers that there are several miles of bas-reliefs alone the work expended on the pyra mids of Egypt pales into insignificance j before this stupendous undertaking. One Author Who Paid His Tradesmen. The personal characteristics of great men so often display meanness, and this meanness is so commonly ex ploited, that this paragraph contained in the enlarged edition of the "Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay," by Sir George Otto Trevelyan, newly is sued by the Messrs. Harper, is worth noting. "Macaulay was at some pains to inculcate upon me," says the writ er, "the duty of never beating a seller down below a fair price, and never keeping a tradesman waiting for his money. I recollect his telling us how he had received his annual bill from a very well known London shop, and had sent a check by return of post. Next morning the head of the firm brought the receipt himself, and burst out crying in Macaulay's room. Every morning, the poor man said, two peo ple walked past his office window, one of whom owed him thirteen hun dred and the other fifteen hundred pounds; and the last of the two was among the most distinguished and powerful soiteemen in the country. Whether as a customer, an employer, 01 a tourist, Macaulay never under paid a service rendered." He Was Under Oath. The late Professor Rowland, of Johns Hopkins University, was the most eminent physicist since the days of Joseph Henry. Among his notable achievements in the realm of pure science was the calculation of the mechanical equivalent of heat and the use of gratings in spectrum analysis, for which purpose he devised a ma chine that could cut 40,000 lines to the inch on a plate of polished metal In the practical application of his knowledge he was noted as the in ventor of the multiplex telegraph ap paratus. Some years ago, testifying in a case involving the Cataract Power Company, in answer to a question on cross examination as to whom, in his opinion, was the greatest American scientist, he replied, "I am." After leaving the courtroom one of the lawyers ventured to criticise this answer for its effect upon the Jury, whereupon Rowland exclaimed: "Well, what else could I say? Wasn't I under oath?" —New York Globe. Aeronautic Progress. Although only three or four men, like the Wright brothers and Henry Farman, have as yet practically de monstrated the possibility of human flight with aeroplanes, the inventors of such machines are putting out a great variety of designs, which com mand much serious attention. At the Aeronautical Exposition in Paris a dozen or more types of these ma chines, including those of the Wrights, Farman and Delagrange, were dis played, together with a large numbei; of monoplanes, motors, screws, and other apparatus intended for use in aviation. From the quantity of these things, the ingenuity and finish shown in their making, and the interest that they excited, one might derive the impression that the manufacture of flying-machines is already an estab lished industry. The Smallest Tobacco Pipe# Made. The smallest pipes in the world are manufactured at Goud%, a little town in Holland. There are three kinds of them, one kind being formed of red, another of black and a third of white earth. They are all, however, of the same shape and of the same dimin sions. The stem is five centimetres in length, a millimetre and a half in diameter outside and three-quarters of a millimetre inside. The bo,wl is ten millimetres in height; its greatest exterior diameter is six millimetres and its interior diameter fr \.*r milli metres. The total weigW A the pipe is only half a gramrr* aud the quanti ty of tobacco which it holds amounts to only a few grains, which barely suf fices for a single puff. The World's Colors. Of the races of the world. 600,000,- 000 are white, 700.000,000 yellow, 215,- 000,000 black, 35,000.000 brown or Malayan, and 15,000,000 red or Ameri can Indians. The Place For Past me Gem Theater I * i New F ctures. New Songs, Every night. Always some thing New. Iligh CJafis Vaudeville Every Two Weeks Prompt Service. Reasonable Prices. Quick Service Pressing Club. I I No. 1310 Union Squure, j HICKORY, N. C. Cleaning, Pressing, Dyi i i.u. Tailoring, and all kinds of Repair work. Telephone No. 178. SORE THROAT often leads to something worse. Gowan's Preparation gives quick relief for sore throat, hoarseness, croup, colds and pneumonia by destroying i nflammation and con gestion. Keep it in the home for emergencies. External and pene trating. $l.OO, 50c, 25c. All druggists. A Morning Reminder. You awake with a mean, nasty taste in the mouth, which reminds you that your stomach is in a bad condition. It should also remind you that there is nothing so good for a disordered stomach as Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. They build up the system, assist nature i to restore natural conditions, and are so 1 gentle in their action that one hardly real izes a medicine was taken. Chamberlain's Tablets are sold everywhere. Price 25c. | Army of Toys and Holiday Goods 1 8 BUYERS WITH A GLAD WELCOME X ft To Our Exhibition of X O Dolls, Toys flffjffijfatir). Foreign and 8 O and Holiday Domestic X | the best'lines Porcelain q Shown Between Charlotte: Asiieville 1 W *JL J Started months ago with the determination that the Holiday season of X 1909 should be the most successful we ever had. Recognizing that X our determination and ambition would be for naught with an ordinary X line of Holiday Goods, we scoured the markets and.secured extraordinary lines of X Holiday Goods from leading manufacturers and importers which we will offeer to X 21 THE BUYING PUBLIC C Ui AT THE LOWEST PRICES O Thus we feel positively safe in saying that nowhere will Dolls, Toys and * Holiday Goods equal to ours be offered for less money. Our array of Holiday * Goods we firmly believe is certain to make a favorable impression upon the know- * ing public. Our 5 and 10 cents counters are loaded with the best values in 5 and X 10 cents goods. X Every day is bargain day at our store. Open Q at night. Next door to postoffice. X g UM STEAD's 8 X HICKORY, IV. C. ft GOOD CHEER FOR CHRISTMA^ Only a few more days and Christmas will be here. Not much time left for purchasing gifts for you, family and friends. Our stock is now complete with everything that is good in the Jewelry line. - Watches, Comb and Brush Manicure Sets, Diamonds, j||| Sets, (®) Lather Goods, Jewelry, Silver Novelties, China. Every department our store is crowded with tempting offerings. Everything is fresh and new, and most desirable from every point of view. Buy Early. Now before the crowds grow larger, come and do your holiday shopping. Not on.y will you find it more convenient to make your purchases, but you will get the full benefit of our present complete stock and of having the ingraving done without delay. 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