Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 14 June 1906 — Page 6

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'* Hank White Gave the Tip. Hank White, the minstrel, lived in Beading, Vt, for many years. He was very fond of horse races, and rarely missed any of the meetings in Windsor or Rutland county. Once he attended a breeders’ meeting at Rutland. The. breeders’ meetings were famous and attracted people from New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and all over Vermont. On this particular day Hank was seated in the grand stand, one of 5,000 people. “Hod” Fish Ira, a well known character, was driving his horse Belvidere, a very large bay horse, with not too much speed, but the owner had an idea that he was a wonder. It was in the free for all race. All the horses except Belvidere had passed the grand stand almost neck and neck on the first half. It was a beautiful race. Trailing behind about twenty rods came Belvidere, the driver urging him on to better efforts, and when he was in front of the grand stand Hank stood up and yelled at the top of his voice: “Take the first turn to the left, Hod; all the others have gone that way.” Hod drove Belvidere to the barn.—Boston Herald. “The Queen of Sicily.” Syracuse calls itself the capital of the south, but it has no cause to dispute pride of place with Palermo. The metropolitan city is superior in population, wealth and much else, but it is deficient in what its ancient and glorious rival has in such abundance. For Syracuse has the supreme charm of Greecein away that no other city except Athens has. Not even in Corinth, nowhere in Hellas from Sparta in the south to Thebes in the north, is there any Hellenic town to compare with “the queen of Sicily.” As a sanctuary, Delphi is far more impressive than anything in Sicily, as a national meeting place Olympia has no rival, but nowhere except at Athens is a Greek city to be seen today which has the proud record of the marvelous metropolis of the Sicilian Greeks, a city as great in power and wealth and beauty as Athena herself, and victor at last in the long and fatal rivalry which indirectly involved the passing of the Hellenistic dominion of all the lands washed by the lonian and Mediterranean seas.—Century. Barefooted Waiting; Maids In Japan. —Unless there are ladies-among the guests the wife and daughters of the host do not appear at dinner in Japan. Before the meal begins it is customary for them to bri-ng small cups of tea and dainty confectionery, when they take their survey of the party. If gen tiemen only are present the Japane hostess disappears after the greeting is over and does not return until the guests are taking their departure. At a signal from the host barefooted wait-, ing maids, dressed in graceful and prettily tinted kimonos, bring in lacquer tray, bearing tiny covered bowls. Before setting the trays on the table the maids sink gracefully to their knees and bend forward till their foreheads touch the floor. Then they serve dinner, which is of several courses.— Smith’s Weekly.

Quicksilver. Quicksilver is found in veins of rocks, like gold, silver and other metals. Sometimes the tiny globules of the mercury appear in the interstices of the rock, but usually it Is found in the form of cinnabar, a chemical compound containing 13.8 per cent of sulphur and 86.2 per cent mercury. When pure and reduced to a powder it is a bright red color. The principal uses of quicksilver arc for removing free gold and silver in placer and quartz mining, for manufacturing vermillion paints and dyes, for backing mirrors, for making thermometers and many other scientific in struments. STRIKING EYEGLASSES. So Law Which Declares It an Aggravated Oftenae. It is the common opinion that for striking a man with glasses on there is a severer penalty than for striking him under similar circumstances when he is not wearing glasses. Careful search, however, does not bring forth any statutory provision which declares the offense greater when the man who is struck wears glasses. The prevalence of this idea is due, no doubt, to the probability of the judge in such cases giving the convicted the extreme penalty. The legal term for assault under such circumstances is “mayhem,” signifying that the assailant has in one way or another deprived his victim of the power of defending himself. During an altercation from which a struggle Is apt to ensue any one wearing glasses would be wise to remove them, unobserved if possible, however, because If noticed it might act as a signal to begin hostilities. Many think that glasses would be a source of general protection in these cases and often take advantage on that ground, but this is wrong, because mo court would hold it worse to strike a man with glasses than one without unless the assailant struck directly at his opponent’s eyes, with the intent to , wound or maim him, and whether one were hit elsewhere than on the eyeglasses would not enter the case at all. —Jewelers’ Circular-Weekly. A Lady Bountiful. Tramn—Kin you give a poor feller a ' col:’ Lite, mum? Housewife—Yes. On yov.r way out you’ll find some icicles ; on thirg.t'.c-.—Woman’s Home Companion. —* ■■»IWl II ' r .. ....

Old Stataes. Herodotus makes Solon tell Croesus of several men happier than he. Two brothers, Cleobis and Biton of Argos, he said, when oxen were lacking to dpiw their mother, the priestess of Hera, to the temple several miles distant, harnessed themselves to the cart When the mother, proud of her sons and moved by the plaudits of the crowd, had prayed to Hera that her sons might receive the best gifts the gods had to bestow, they lay down in the shade of the temple and never waked. Herodotus says that theii statues were sent to Delphi. Homolle found at Delphi two statues practically identical, of finest archaic -work, made early in the sixth century B. C. Since one of them bore the signature of an Argive sculptor, Polyinedes, in archaic letters, we may believe that the story of Herodotus is based on fact and that we have before us today the identical statues.—Chautauquan. Het Pipe Bites the Tongue. “You see smoking tobacco advertised every now and again guaranteed not to bite the tongue. Dealers sell it, of course, but inwardly they smile at the idea.” So spoke a tobacconist. “You see. it’s this way. The fire in the pipe will bite the tongue if the tobacco burns too fast—namely, if it is a very loose long cut tobacco or a very short dry cut and not packed closely enough in the bowl. There is a point where tobacco may be too closely packed to draw and a point where it may be so loosely packed that it burns fast, and minute sparks pass through the stem and reach the smoker’s mouth. These are the causes of burnt tongues.”— Pittsburg Dispatch. The Elephant’s Trunk. An elephant’s trunk answers that animal as nose and hand. He also uses it for drinking, drawing up the water thro’igh his trunk and then pour ing it intc his mouth. The elephant has a singular habit when suffering from the heat of poking his nose down his throat into his stomach and withdrawing a quantity of water, which he then squirts over his back and sides to cool his bodj ’As during a warm day this operation is repeated about once in every five minutes riding an elephant in the sun is no pleasant undertaking. The Fountain Pen. The fountain pen is not an invention of recent years. In Samuel Taylor’s “Universal System of Shorthand Writing.” published in 1786, we find proof of the fountain pen’s great age. “I have nothing more to add,” wrote Samuel Taylor, “for the use or instruc tion of the practitioder, except a few words concerning the kind of pen prop er to be used for writing shorthand. For expeditious writing some use what are called fountain pens, into which your ink is put, which gradually flows when writing, from thence into a small er pen cut short to fit the smaller end of this instrument, but It is a hard matter to meet with a good one of this kind.”

DEAD MEN’S SHOES. Peculiar Beliefs About Them That Exist In the Old World. “Dead men’s shoes” is a common expression, but means much in many parts of the old world, where the boots of the dead are accorded much importance. In Scotland, in the northern parts of England, in Scandinavia, as well as in Hungary. Croatia and Roumania, the utmost care is taken among the lower classes that each corpse is provided with a pair of good shoes before being laid into the ground. If the dead person h’ppens to be a tramp and to have been found dead barefooted there will always be some charitable soul to furnish a pair of good boots for intermem along with the corpse. An inspector of police in Scotland has been known to purchase of his own accord a new pair of boots and to place them in the grave, reopened for the purpose, of a murdered stranger who had been inadvertently interred barefooted the day before. This practice, ■which likewise prevails among the Tsiganes as well as in many parts of Asia, is attributable to the belief that unless the dead are Well shod when buried their ghosts come back to haunt the locality where they breathed their last in search of a pair of boots. The shoes are popularly supposed to be needed to pass in comfort and safety the broad plains which the departed soul must traverse before it can reach paradise. Among some nations these plains are declared to be covered with furzes, thorns and morass,. while other races say that they, consist of burning sands. These plains of suffering are popularly credited with forming a sort of antechamber to hell. It is ! for this reason that the boots of The dead afe called “hell shoes” in Norway, Sweden; Finland and Denmark. At Hotel. Mr. Verdant—Let’s try this here flemitassy at the end of the programme. Say, waiter, bring us some flemitassy. Mrs. Verdant—Now,'par, you promised me you wouldn’t take fiothin’ stronger’n tea or coffee.—Baltimore American. ’ ■ ft ’' - . Though the sun scorches us sometimes and gives us the headache, we do not refuse to acknowledge that we stand in need of his warmth.—De Mornay.

quaint presents. Odd Wedding Gifts That Have Been Received by Celebrities. Celebrities are often the recipients of quaint presents. For instance, on the marriage of Queen Victoria the farmers of East and West Pennard. Somersetshire, wishing to show their Ijjralty. manufactured from the milk of 750 cows an immense cheese nine feet in circumference. The gift was g- ms ly accepted and was stored i Buckingham palace, where it would un doubtedly have found its way to ti>? royal table had not its don wished to exhibit it as an adv.- euieiit. Their request was granted; bm after it had been exhibited and the makers would have returned it her ma> ffy signified that owing to the altered conditions she could not accept it as > gift. An equally homely gift wb mil« tn the late King Charles of Wnri’ ’> >rg on the morniug of his man t:t Princess Olga of Russia. A [ woman sent him a pair of tr-> her own design, with a note c : - ing the hope that they might be f ’ :: better cut and fit than those b she had last had the honor of seeing his majesty wear. The Italian singer, Signor M. ■ > inspired a hopeless passion in ! rts of so many women that at the t : j<» of his wedding some of this t’o.i found expression in varlou :g---gifts. One was in the shape > i cushion stuffed with tresses from the heads of many of his hopeless aduirers. Another was from a lad.- in Mn nich who had had one of her teeth set in a scarfpin surrounded with pearls and emeralds. In an accompanying note she expressed the hope ti by sometimes wearing the gift lie m ’ht be reminded of his unknown worship j er.—New York Herald.

THE FIRST SPECTACLES. They Were Made In Italy In the Thirteenth Century. Spectacles were invented late in the thirteenth century. The use of glass to aid the sight of defective eyes is, however, much older. Nero looked through a concave glass in watching the gladiatorial games, and many other historical men of his day wen* ndent on similar devices for leug: . ning their sight. . Till the latter part of the ti: >.‘ntb century only the single glass v. as in ase. In 1290 the double glass ..invented, and in the fourteenth :rv spectacles were used quite fre<, -ntiy by the very wealthy and high born, although they were still so scarce that they were bequeathed in will with all the elaborate care that marked the dis - - position of a feudal estate. The first spectacles were made in Italy Somewhat later the manufacture of cheaper glasses sprang up in Holland, and it spread late in the fourteenth century to Germany, Nuremberg and Rathenow acquired fame for their glasses between 1490 and 1500. For many years glasses were used only as a means of aiding bad eyes, until the fashion of wearing merely for the sake of wearing them sprang up in Spain. It spread rapidly to the rest of the continent and brought about the transformation of the old thirteenth century spectacles into eyeglasses and eventually into the monocle. 1 MARIE ANTOINETTE. Two Dramatic and Contrasting; Epl* i sodes In Her Life. Thistelton-Dyer, in his “Royalty In All Ages,” describes two dramatic and tragically contrasted episodes in the life of Marie Antoinette, the lovely and ill fated queen of France. Once, in the days of her greatest popularity, when she went to the opera of “Iphigenia,” when Achilles came to the line “Let us sing and celebrate the queen,” he turned toward the radiant yotmg sovereign and sang two additional impromptu lines of charming compliment. This graceful and unexpected homage so delighted the audience that “all was shouting and clapping of hands, and—what never happened at the opera before —the chorus was encored, and there were cries of ‘Long live the queen!’ at which expression of feeling her majesty was so affected that she shed tears.” On the next occasion, when Marie Antoinette’s sun of popular favor bad set and she was nearing the tragic close of her life, one of the actresses in “Unforeseen Events” bowed to her as she sang the words “Ah, how I love my mistress!” In a moment all was to uproar, and the theater was full of hoarse, angry cries of “No mistress! No master! Liberty!” and “No master! No queen!” and it was some minutes before the tumult quieted down and it was possible to proceed with the play. —-XXX j The Miracle. Woodland—What is the difference be-1 tween a • wonder and a miracle? Lorain—Well, if you’d touch me for $5 and I’d lend it to you it would be a wonder. Woodland—That’s so. Lorain. —And if you returned it that would be a miracle. Had Her Guessing. Margie—l wonder if Mr. Smartly ’ meant to give me a left handed compli-' ment? Rita—Why? Margie-He said these artificial flowers I am wearing just match iny hair. Discontent is the want of self reliance. It is infirmity of will.—Emerson.

ROMAN MILLIONAIRES. x The Phencusen; nos — — .nth Fortune* n ’. i-n Ti. sir. While it is i. a very u . >le consolati >n to t' >eof rs wh» I >ug to the le ; : • ’ reially there i com fort In f; ■ I'jeu ,j of ui .anmih is n,»i a new thj.g * At. - l ito an cient i .-. ■ no r:il roads or • . *. s> - gives ... . . fortunes «.t . ' ;i t;. 4. r .; attractive even > .a.* <>( our modern plutocrats. — Senec tbu... . • t and author.’ was war ’.entulus. t.’g augur. v the politician w > f ed ’ dt Caesar and Pompey the first triunn irate, hod a landed estate of more than ? '.<’00.000: the emperor ‘-is left a fortune of $118,009.' , v the <'.‘”r.'ved Caligula got rid of in less than a eat. A dozen others had possessions tb.it ran into the millions. It 13 true that these Romans did not “make” these fa tunes in what we would call regular commercial operations. F”t they got the money, and they hel'’ to It. which is about all t! at can*;. fel’ be su’d of possessions that r n into ven figures in any age

or co And. • • •rriism contributions ••• t onc< P"O • J • J2hO.. OOP i *r n of e teem and cor ’ > ipe tliyt Paulus w <’ » in a certain political tn utter ‘ was puidiug. The art* ive'witb Paulus an 1 i ’ ■ ii -r i iesar suffered any In p ’ things midei the s’ - m- >-v—Oma’ a World Her. b CROSS. The That Were Cruel* >-<l ) ibe Saviour. In ■ <’•: ’.i pictu"vs of the cruel' »t’.s two companions j in on ted they are pic- ■ tr .een fastened to the I c’- • or cords. The quesi th '•tywrw es. Were'Tie thieves;in or: to their different instr s <.-f . ire while the blessed Sr. •• v- ; ’ tb his? And, if so. whi h ’ itb was considered the t i .pus—binding or nail ■ ing? Ti e ; of the event and the fact that in this case historical truth may hitve been sacrificed to pictorial effect make the above questions hard ones to ar w&r. The early writers al most invariably refer to the thieves as having b<-»ii r.. led to the cross, while the early pibtr.re makers adhered to the g'ner 1 rule of representing them as hiving boon tied or bound to their separate crosses. If we are to rive any credence to the story oft! a b.oly Empress Helen and her repute 1 discovery of the three cro ses in the year 328 A. D., the two thieves were nailed to their crosses in a manner l imiiar to that observed in the crucifixionj of the Saviour. This conclusion has been settled upon for this reason: When the three crosses were disinterred from the mound in which tradition said they had been buried, that upon which Christ bad suffered was only distinguished from the other two by the miracles it per formed. This would certainly suffice to prove that all three of the instru ments of torture bore similar nail marks and that the tradition of Christ being the only one nailed was not known at that time.—St Louis Republic.

First Matrimonial Agency. The title “Matrimonial Agencies and ; Advertisements” ought to attract attention to our time, when requests for marriage fill the journals In the form of gross or jocular and sometimes serious announcements. That may seem to be a new phenomenon of modern life, yet M. Henri d’Almeras in La Revue Hebdomadaire says the rea) originator of this industry was one Villaume. In the last days of the empire he set up in Paris a sort of universal agency, which would supply furnished apartments, domestics, wives and husbands.—Journal de St. Petersburg. The TxUy An old time way of proving one’s right to the payment of money loaned was by tally sticks. A plain stick was used, and when a man loaned a sum a stick was broken, and the creditor and debtor each took a part. When the time for payment, came the man who had the stick which fitted exa.’tly to the stick held by the creditor received the money. Two sticks never break in exactly the same shape, so ,there was never any dispute about who had a right to the money. Their Reward. Dr. Strachan, bishop of Toronto, was waited upon by two churchwardens, who complained that their clergyman wearied his congregation by repeating the same sermon. He had preached H twelve times. The bishop asked foi the text Neither of the churchwardens could remember. “Go back,” said the bishop sternly, “and ask your clergy man to preach the sermon once mors and then come back and tell me ths text.” Installments. Bacon—Did you ever get anything on the installment system? Egbert—Yes I got my household that way. First 1 got my wife, then her father and mother and now I’m getting her brothers and sisters. Extreme views are never just. Something always turns up which disturbs the calculations founded on their data —Tancred.

PORTABLE VILLAGES. Tureomasa Move Their Houses Froir Place to Place. The Turcomans, who live on the east ern shore of the Caspian sea, carry their villages about with them when they travel. As a tribe sets out on a journey every man packs his wooden house upon a camel, which the animal can easily carry, and when a spot is reached where he and his friends intend to rettfain for any great length of lime the camels are unloaded and a village started which it takes about an hour or so to build. It is to be remembered that thf J houses are real houses and not tents and that the settlement is not a camp but a village. The traveling house ol the Turcoman is a marvel of skill nnc ingenuity and is really much lighten more portable and can be packed intc a much smaller compass than any of the so called portable houses that are manufactured and sold in some parts of our country. The frame is made of strong, light wood laths about an inch broad by three-quarters of an inch thick, crossing each other when set up in position at right angles about a foot apart and fastened at each crossing ’by the thongs of rawhide so as to be movable, and the whole framework may be opened or shut in the same manner as those toys for children that consist of a squad of wooden soldiers and will expand or close at will so as to form open or close columns. One part or more made in this way and all inclosing a circle fifteen or twenty feet across form the skeleton of the walls and are firmly secured in place by bands of ropes made of hair or wool fastened round the end of each rod. From the upper ends of these rods similar rods bent near the wall and into something less than a right angle are so disposed that the longer portions slope to the center and, being tied with rope, form the roof. Over this is thrown a covering of black felt, having in the center a large hole which answers hpth for a window and a chimney. Large pieces of the same coarse black felt are wrapped round the walls, and outside these, to keep all tight, is bound another frame of split reeds or canes or of some very light, tough wood bound closely together with strong cords. THE HUMAN BRAIN.

It Undergoes Wonderful Changes During Its Growth. The wonderful changes which the human brain undergoes from the moment when it first appears in the embryo until it becomes the perfected laboratory of thought characteristic to the matured human being has been commented upon by several of the leading writers on biology, physiology, etc. During these successive changes, or, rather, transformations from the lower to the higher sphere, the human brain not only takes upon itself the general shape and form of the brains of various representatives of the lower classes of animals, but appears to have the same structural constituents, at least to a certain degree. Thus it has been found that the original germ of the brain as it appears in the human embryo has the exact outlines of a serpent’s thought factory. After that the changes which take place while the brain is assuming the various shapes which it must undergo before it becomes perfect give it a decided resemblance to the brains of fishes, birds and mammiferous animals. “Hein’s “Thoughts on the Structure of the Human Brain” and Wilson’s “Anatomy of the Human Body” both mention these queer transformations, as does also Hugh Miller in his famous work, “Testimony of the Rocks.” Miller puts it to this way: “It has long been known that the human brain is bnilt up by a wonderful process, during which it assumes in succession the form of the brain of a serpent a fish, a bird, and lastly, before it assumes the characteristic human form, it takes upon itself the outline of a mammiferous quadruped’s brain.” Hence the remais< made by scientific writers that “man la the sum total of nb animals.” Fame. Stranger (in Vienna)—Then this is the hotel which Beethoven used to frequent! I say, waiter, can you not show me the table at which Beethoven used to sit? Waiter—Beethoven? Stranger —"'I; -, he very often came here! Waite- (beth’i'k'.ag himself)—Ah, yes! The gentleman is out of town. Useless Labor. Teacher—Johnny, I don’t believe yon have studied your geography. Johnny —No, mum. I heard pa say the map of the world was every day, an’ I thought I’d wait a few years till things get settled. —■ Milwaukee Wisconsin. _ 2T Natural Privileges. “It is a physical impossibility to keep a watering place exclusive.” “Why so?” “Because there anybody who pleases can be in the swim.”—Baltimore American. The Clever Ones. Griggs—Some men are born great, others achieve greatness. Briggs—Yes; and others simply have the trick of making other people think they’re great Despotism of Jewels. Coquetry and the fashion of unstable forms cannot explain the despotic attraction that preciouh stones exercise over our. senses. Their fascinating power has never ceased. They subjugate and enslave even the most austere, and man esteems as priceless the charm of their yoke. Art strives to dis cover original reductions, to create vir gin enthusiasms, to enrich with new tremors the subtle gamut of our sensa tions, but without being able to detach us from these necklaces, brace lets and jewels.—Paris Eclair.

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EARLY FIRE IMPLEMENTS. appliances Used In This Country Im the Seventeenth Century. Undoubtedly the first fire company organized in this country was formed In New York in 1658. It was called the Prowlers and was composed of eight men, with 250 buckets, hooks and small ladders. Where the buckets were obtained and whether or not they were in addition to those owned by the town the records fail to state. In 1679 Salem purchased two or three dozen cedar buckets, besides hoeks and other implements; also the selectmen and two others were authorized to take command at fires and to blow up and pull down buildings when such action was necessary. This practice appears to hive been much more common before the use of engines than afterward. Boston on Sept. 9, 1G79, ordered that every quarter of the town should be provided with twenty swobes, two scoopes and six axes. The swobes, or swabs, as they are uow called, were long handled mops that could be used to put out roof fires. The general use of swats has long since disappeared, but when a slight blazq is beyond the reach of a pail of water and more improved apparatus is not_at hand a long handled mop is today the most efficient article to be used. In these swabs may be seen on many roof tops. In 1690 New York ordered that five ladders and also hooks be made. In Philadelphia no mention is made of public precaution against fire until 1696, when a law was passed forbidding the firing of chimneys*or allowing the same to become foul. Each house was to have a swab, bucket or pail. Another act was passed in 1700 ordering every household to have two leather buckets. In the following year six or eight hooks for the purpose of tearing down houses were ordered to be made. Herbert S>>ence«*. • A queer instance of the working of Herbert Spencer’s mind is mentioned by the two sisters in whose household he lived. He came to the table one day absorbed in thinking about some photographs of the nebulae he had just received: “As he rose from his chair he stood for a minute gazing with gleaming eyes into the distance, and fhen muttered in a disjointed fashion, as if half to himself, words to this effect: ‘Thirty millions of suns, each probably having its own system, and supposing them each to be the size of a pin’s head they are fifty miles apart! What does it all mean?’ And then, without a pause and only a change of voice, ‘The fluff still comes out of that cushion, you know,’ as with a wave of his small, thin hand toward it he passed rapidly out of the room, leaving us both bewildered by the quickness with which his mind worked.” A Heavy Sample. Sometimes the rigors of patent office procedure are not without their humorous side. A New York attorney filed an application for improvements in a centrifugal pump. The patent office declared the invention inoperative and demanded a working model. The patent office was requested to send an examiner to Trenton to inspect the machine in actual operation. This ~the patent office refused to do. The attorney, therefore,, politely sent a seven ton i>ump to the patent office—sent it, moreover, from Trenton to satisfy a skeptical examiner. Twenty-one men were required to get it into the examiner’s office.—Scientific American. The question of title is one of the most delicate in Germany, a fact of which the stranger is constantly reminded in intercourse with the people, particularly with the women. Frau Professor, Trau Director, Frau Doctor, are most particular about their husband’s titles being attached to their own names, but when it comes to military circles it is different, and both men and women protest vigorously against this sharing of titles. Lieutenant von B. objects to having his wife addressed as Frau Lieutenant, which title belongs as well to the wife of Lieutenant Schmidt or Haff of a less aristocratic regiment Cash Your Checks. It is not well to keep checks locked up in your desk. Cash them. It is security for yourself, if the drawer is not entirely reliable, and a ftfvor to him if he is. “Stale” checks are an annoyance to bank officials and a general hindrance. Cash your checks! Sarcastic. Softly—l'd have you to understand, sir, that I’m not such a fool as I look. Sarcast—Well, then, you have much to ae thankful for. The Weather Prophet. • “How are you coming on with your new system of weather prediction?” “Well,” answered the prophet cheerily, ‘il’ can always get the kind of weather all right, but I haven’t quite succeeded in hitting the dates exactly.”