Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 30 November 1905 — Page 6

\f HOW BIRDS SOAR. 'The Kite a Mahler of tlie Art of Souring. “In the summer of 1872 I was visitlag oil the Warm Springs reservation in eastern Oregon," says a writer. “The residences of the government employees were in a deep valley between table lands through which the water courses had cut deep canyons. I climbed up on oue of these tables, the edge of which was in most places perpendicular for ten,* twenty and more feet, and as I stood there in a strong breeze blowing against the face of the c-lope a small hawk came gliding along eight or ten feet above the edge and following the course of the edge, and he kept on until he was little more than a rod atway trom me. He seemed to be making no effort except a littie balancing and turning in order to steer himself. The explanation seemed to me very simple. Just there at the elge there was a strong, sharply ascending current which enabled him to use wind and gravity against each other. “In the autumn of that year I went to Fuchau, China, and there 1 found the city frequented by a species of large bird whieh we call a kite, it aeems to be half hawk, half buzzard, In Its build and habits. Its flight is heavy and awkward, its wings being too big for its pectoral muscles, and their tips are not pointed like a hawk’s, but broad and square across. But It Is a master of the art of soaring. There are in Fuchau two hills which lie square across the path of the afternoon sea breeze. Here toward the close of a breezy autumn afternoon a dozen or a score of these kites will resort and have a genuine coasting game. “These hillsides are quite steep, and of course there results a strong, sharp upward current at the top. The kites come to the top and, starting from the eddy in the lee of the top, glide out Into the uprushiug current, wings balancing up and down and head and tail turning and twisting till they are in the heart of the upward current, and then they turn broadside to it and are borr.e upward and backward seventyfive or a hundred feet. Then they descend again into th“ eddy and again steer themselves out into the uprushiug current. Throughout it all there is very little flapping of the wings.”—Chicago News. ERRORS IN ILLUSTRATION. How Easily They Are Made In llurry ot Preparation. “Perfection of detail," said the cartoonist. "is very rare in the making of pictures, whether they he painted on canvas by the great masters or drawn in line by men who illustrate the flaiiy newspapers. It is the general effect that tells. There are few newspaper pictures—and I don’t except my ownin which you can’t pick some flaw from the standpoint of realism. “la the hurried effort of the newspaper artist, who counts the minutes by ike clock, there may be some excuse for tliis, but when we see a man carving a turkey left handed on the cover of a magazine we must agree that the artist lias either been careless or else has employed a left handed model to pose for him. and the latter solution is scarcely probable. “A fisherman landing a trout on a light rod with never a finger on the reel ii quite a common mistake among magazine illustrations, and in the matter of co.stunies of .’arioui periods the illustrators are woefully lacking in information. "To illustrate how apt we are to make mistakes.” continue 1 the cartoonist, “several years ago I drew a figure representing Cuba, emaciated, starving. a thing of skin and bones. The figure was half naked, and I tried to bring out all the horrible details —the shrunken limbs, the gaunt face, the ribs protruding through the skin and. above all, the hollow cavity where the stomach should have been. A friend of mine, a doctor, took me to task about it ’Persons who are starving to death.’ he said, ‘may be abnormally emaciated in every other part of the bod > except the stomach. The abdomen in the advanced stages is expanded. giving the victim a grotesque appearance.’ To substantiate this statement he showed me some photographs taken In India during a famine, and I was farced to admit that he was right.” —Philadelphia Itecord. Women In Venice. In Venice, says the I. -’ Realm, the women of the lower das ; - accept tribe.tes to th'dr beauty from perfect strangers as a matter of course. It is considered not only proper, but polite, to compliment a passing maiden on the charm of her beautiful eyes or complexion. If one treads on the skirt of a pretty woman, one has only to say. “Pardon, beautiful girl.” to receive the most dazzling smile and how in return for the awkwardness. At cases frequented by the people it is the custom for waiters to say when placing a chair for one of the women, “Take this seat, beautiful blond.” or, “Sit hero, lovely brunette.” as the case may be. A Woman Soldier. Women dirguised as men have often served as soldiers. The following ihscripticn is on a tombstone in the English town of Brighton: “In memory of Phoebe Harsel; born 1713, died 1821, aged 108'years. She served for many years as a private soldier in many parts of Europe, and at the battle of Fontcnoy. fighting bravely, she reeeited a bayonet wound in the left arm.” Although not yet perfected, the MaJorania telephone bids fair vastly to extend the field of usefulness of the long distance telephone by rendering audible vibrations torjpint to actuate the disk of the ordMfy receiver or «ven the mlcronhone instruments.

Cared Beyond Ali Question.^ There were cures for drunkenness hi the early days of this country, and* from this account in the New York Gazette of May 7, 1772, we are told of a treatment that cured one patient beyond all possible question: “On Saturday last Mr. Montanny’s negro man, who had misbehaved himself and was a remarkable drunkard, was sent to Bridewell and underwent tlie usual discipline of the house for such offenses—viz a plentiful dose of warm water and salt to operate as an emetic and of lamp oil as a purge, in proportion to the constitution 1 the patient. Os these he took ut three quarts of the one 1 t.. 0 and a half spoonfuls of the other: also a gill of New England rum. which operated very powerfully, attended with a violent sickness which obliged him to lie down, and between 8 and 9 at night he was discovered to be dead. He died of excessive drinking. co-operating with discipline and medicine. Mr. Dobbs, tlie operator, was innocent of his taking off.” Won Ilia Promotion. The Duke of Clarence, afterward William IV., once received a very adroit and humorous hint which he took In very good part. Ho was visiting Portsmouth and inspecting the ships there when it happened that his guide over the “seventy-fours" was an aggrieved and battered lieutenant who had waited for promotion many years in vain. He seemed despised and forgotten. As this man removed his hat to salute royalty the duke observed that he was bald and said jestingly: “I sec, my friend, that you have not spared your hair in your country's service.” “Why, your royal highness,” was tlie quick answer, “it’s a wonder I have any hair left, for so many, young fellows have stepped over my head.” The duke laughed and made his inspection of the fleet, but in a few days his Portsmouth guide received an appointment as captain. The Mentone Man. An almost perfect skeleton was found in a cave at Mentone, France, March, 1572. It showed its owner to have been a tail, well formed man, with an average skull and a facial angle of eightyfive degrees. The antiquity of this skeleton, known as the Mentone man, Is undoubted. His hones are associate! with those of the cave iion, cave bear and other extinct animals. All tlie bones were in place, surrounded by flint implements and the remains of animals which the man probably had killed. Twenty-two perforated teeth, which may have formed a chaplet, lay by his head. These bones, with the Dutchman’s skull found in a cave near Engis, are the oldest specimens known of human remains and go far to prove that prehistoric races were well furnished with brain power. A Triple Coincidence. A correspondent of the London Standard relates ihe following triple coincidence, taken from an old maim : script diary, dated 1842, in which a relative quotes from an "old journal:” "In the year 1064, on Dec. o, a boat on the Menai (Menai strait, in north | Yv'ales) crossing that strait, over which a bridge has since been built, with eighty-one passengers, was upset, and only one passenger, named Hugh Williams, was saved. On the same date, in the year 1783, was upset another boat, containing about sixty passengers, of whom all perished excepting one, whose name was Hugh Williams. On Aug. 5, 1829, a third boat met with the same disaster, with twenty-five passengers only, and all perished with the exception of one, whose name was Hugh Williams.” Boulevard and Esplanade. Both “esplanade” and boulevard” are military terms by origin. The original •’boulevard” was a bulwark or horizontal part of the rampart, and an "esplanade” was originally tlie glacis or slope of the counterscarp of a fortified place. A writer 290 years ago noted that the word boulevard was "now chiefly taken for the void space between the glacis of a citadel and the first houses of a town;’’ hence its extension to other “void spaces” suitable for promenading. The old French “esplanade” was defined by C'otgrave as “a planing, leveling, evening of ways,” from Latin “explanare,” to smooth or flatten out, whence the Engiir’: s "explain” and "expianatl >n.” Exact nine* Here is a hit of exact reasoning on the part of a little schoolgirl. The teacher wished to impress the idea of the wrong of idleness. He led up to it by asking who were the persons who got all they could and did nothing in return For some time there was silence, but at last the little girl, who had obviously reasoned out the answer Inductively from her own home experiences, exclaimed, with a good deal of confidence, “Please, sir, it’ baby!” Hl* Object “I can recommend you to a good lawyer.” “AH right, but don't let him be too good. I'm trying to conduct my business so as to Keep out of jail, not so as to go to heaven.”—Houston Post. The Start. Judge—Were you present when the trouble started between the man am his wife? Witness—Yessir. I was a deir weddin’, es dat’s whut yo’ means, sail.—Philadelphia Bulletin. The Only Safe Place. “Can yon lay this carpet so the children won t wear it out?” “Where shall I put it, madam—on the roof?”—Harper’s Bazar. Oate were not known to tlie Hebrews or the Egyptians.

Studying: Nature, The thing to aim at in studying the beauties of nature, as is the case with aU artistic pleasures, is the perception of quality, of small effects. Many of the people who believe themselves to have an appreciation of natural scenery cannot appreciate it except on a sensational scale. They can derive a certain pleasure from wide prospects of startling beauty, rugged mountains, steep gorges, great falls of water all the things that are supposed to be picturesque. But, though this is all very well as far as it goes, it is a very elementary kind of thing. Tlie perception of which I speak is a perception which can be fed in the most familiar scene, in the shortest stroll, even in a momentary glance from a window. The things to look out for are littie accidents of light and color, little effects of chance grouping, the transfiguration of some well known and even commonplace object, such as is produced by the sudden burst into greenness of tlie trees that peep over some suburban garden wall or by the sunlight falling by a happy accident on pool or flower. —Cornhill. Why the Horse Heeds the Bugler. An interesting report regarding the development of the musical sense in horses was made by a committee of German zoologists and botanists. The report says: "The Investigations as to the musical sense of horses have shown that that sense is very poorly developed hi these animals. It has been proved beyond doubt that horses have no notion whatever of keeping time to music, and that at circuses they do not dance according to the tune, but that the musicians have to keep time according to the steps of the animals. "Other investigations show that horses do not understand military trumpet signals. It is only the rider or the animal’s Instinct of imitation which Induces horses to make the moves required by the signal, but no horse without a rider, however carefully trained, takes the slightest notice of a trumpet signal, and the same observation has been made on a large number of cavalry horses without riders.” Science of Bell Ilingins;. It was Sunday morning, and the bell ringer had just finished ringing the chimes that called the gully to church. “Bell ringing is a science. Did you know that'” he said. "It is called campanology, and there are abstruse and technical terms in it. like ‘Kent treble bob.’ 'Stedman cinques,’ ‘double court bob,’ ’dodges.’ ‘noils' and ‘stiugoes.’ Each of these terms defines a certain phase or kind of bell ringing. In England there is n society, the Central Council of Bell Ringers, that every campanologist desires ardently to belong to. Maybe you think bell ringing is simple? Do you know what a peal is? A peal in ringers’ parlance is a series of 5.000 changes rung upon a chime, no change occurring more than once.” —New York Tress. Children's Names In England. The vicar of Membury, Derbyshire, writes in Lis parish magazine, "A hundred and thirty-eight baptisms, and I have not yet had a ‘Sarah Jane’—that delightful, old fashioned name!” Amused, as he said by the vicar's sad wail, a parishioner replies to the vicar, saying the reason is not far to seek. The custom of the parents residing in these parts is to consult with their incumbent regarding the choice of the name for the offspring. The natural consequence is that ali children born on a saint’s day are called after the saint. Thus a girl born on St. George's day would be christened Georgiana and one on St. Clement's day Clementina, and so on.—London Express. Eels In Scotland. Although eels abound in Scotch waters and are caught in great quantities, they are not considered fit food there. No matter how plentiful and how vers' fine and large they may be in any district of Scotland, no native will eat one. The objection to the eel is said to be based on its serpent-like appearance and the fact that it is not overfastidious as to what it feeds on. Tons of choice eels for the London market are taken from streams that are not conspicuously free from sewage. Hi* First Intimation. ‘‘How did you find out you could draw?” inquired tlie admirer of the celebrated illustrator. “By the marks I received in school for the excellence and fidelity of my work,” replied the eminent one. "My work was a caricature of my beloved teacher on the blackboard and the marks came from the teacher's cane.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Pessimist. “Don’t be too anxious to get a husband,” said the wise matron. “Don't go around hunting for one.” “Think I should just sit down and wait for one, eh?” replied the maiden. “Yes, for you’ll sit up and wait for one often enough after you’ve got him.” Quite Natural. Husband—What did you think when yon heard the chandelier fall last night? Wife—Why, I thought you had been detained on business again and were getting upstairs as quietly as you could. Looking: Forward. “Progress Is becoming extremely rapid.” “Yes, indeed. In the year 3000 cr so lightning will have to get a move on if It wants to be considered fast.” Larky Patients. “Did you ever make any mistakes, I doctor?” “WeiL I've had several patients get well that I expected would die.”

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