Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 21 June 1906 — Page 7

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- Old Statues. 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 draw 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 their 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, Polymedes, 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. Hot 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 tho- 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 through his trunk and then pouring It intt; 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 ana' 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 Moat Curious Known Animal. The most peculiar and remarkable animal in the world is the Ornithorynchus paradoxus, the famed egg laying mammal of Australia. It is shaped like an otter, has fur like a beaver, is web footed like a swam, has a bill like a duck and a tail like that of a fox. It 18 the only known fur covered creature that lays eggs. A corresponding oddity among feathered bipeds would be a bird that brought forth its young alive*

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The Other Way. The teacher had been talking about a hen sitting on eggs, says English Country Life, and, with the incubator in mind, asked if eggs could be hatched in any other way. “Yes, sir.” said an experienced person of nine. “Put ’em under a duck.” The Remedy. “You’re not in love, Robbie. You only think you are.” “Well, bow the dickens am I to find out my mistake if I am mistaken?” “Oh. marry the woman by all means.* —Home Notes. A Distinction. Mistress—Have you had any experience with children? Bridget—Nope, but they have had some wid me. THE CUPEY TREE. One o( the Moat Curioua Growths of the Weat Indies. The cupey, or, as it is sarcastically called in the English possessions, “the attorney,” is one of the most curious, as It is one of the most picturesque, denizens of the virgin forests of the West Indian islands. It belongs to the parasitical family of trees or plants; but, terrible to relate, it invariably, with the basest ingratitude, destroys all life in the unfortunate tree that cherishes it in its early growth. The seeds are borne on the wings of the wind and deposited on the branches of other trees, when they burst inti roots, which are dropped toward the ground al around the “nurse” tree. In time these roots reach the ground and strike into the soil. From this moment the roots grow stronger and stronger until they resent ble a lot of rope ladders thrown over the tree. Next the parasite sends down a great cord, which twines around the trunk of the supporting tree, at first as though in loving embrace, bub it grows tighter and tighter, eventually strangling its benefactor out of existence. The nurse tree thus killed rots to decay, and from the immense fibrous roots of the destroyer now springs a great trunk, which rises high into the air. When a cupey is full gro«m it presents a magnificent spectacle, for the cordlike root rises often to fifty or sixty feet, and supports in midair the vast tree itself. Time For Weanins. “I trust your honor will excuse me ' this time,” said a habitual drunkard ’ at the police court. “It is my misfor- ’ tune—l am a child of genius.” ' ‘.‘And what is your age?” questioned t the magistrate. “Forty-two years.” J “Then it is time you were weaned. You’ll have to do ten days away from ’ the bottle.” i

f" OCEAN "ROPES. T - A Marine Plant That Growl a Stem , Three Hundred Feet Long. The largest marine plant and probaldy one of the highest plants known on this globe is a gigantic seaweed, the 1 nereocystis, the stem of which has been found to grow as much as 300 feet long. It was first discovered not far from the Alaskan coast, but has since been found floating in various parts of the Pacific ocean along the American and Asiatic shores. This seaweed grows in a very curioVj manner? Large quantities of it are found at a little distance from shore and at depths not exceeding 300 feet. On loamy bottoms large thickets of this ' plant take root, and a stem of the thickness of ordinary cord grows upward. At its top there is a pear shaped balloon, which grows wdth the stem, and when it reaches the surface of the water it odten measures six feet and more in length, with a diameter of four feet six inches. This balloon has, of course, an upward tendency and keeps the stem growing until it floats on the surface of the water. From the top of this balloon a large tuft of strong, thick, spadelike leaves grow out. which originally are not more than two feet long and which grow and split unfit from the balloon a roselike growth of from fifty to sixty-five feet in diameter covers the water. This gigantic weed grows in such quantities that near thb shore lar&e meadowlike islands are formed, which impede navigation. The natives' of the Aleutian islands makj manifold usage of this plant. From their strong dried stems they make ropes 250 feet and more long, while balloons of. this -weed furnish them with large vessels after they are dried, the smaller ones being used in their boats to bail out water. The long leaves, after being dried, are cut into narrow’ strips and used for wickerwork, the making of baskets and similar furniture. LAPP WOLF HUNTERS. ————— Swift Rnnnrrj on Snowshoe* Make Short Work of the Brutes.. The Swedish Lapps live entirely with, by and upon their reindeer. A Lapp who owns a thousand deer is a very rich man; but, as taxes are assessed upon the number of deer, he Is inclined to underestimate his herd. The most dangerous enemy to the herd is the wolf, who, if so disposed, can kill thirty deer in a night. A band of wolves can make a rich Lapp poor. When the snow is deep and soft and it is announced that wolf tracks have; been seen in the neighborhood of the deer the swiftest runners on snowshoes prepare for art exciting chase. The wolf may have a start of a mile or two, but the track it leaves in the deep, soft snow is so prominent thatthe hunters can follow it at their best speed. The wolf, though he may run fast, has but slight chance of escaping the short men who on snow’shoes rush through the wood, dart down steep hills and jupip from ledges several yards in height. Each hunter does hte best to outrun the others, for the wolf belongs to the Lapp who strikes the first blow. As soon as the leading hunter is close enough to the wolf he gives it a heavy blow across the loins with his strong spiked snowshoe staff. If there are other wolves to be pursued, he kills it outright; If not, he disables it and waits till all the hunters arrive before giving the death stroke. t « Ou Tippins the Hat. New Yorkers still cling to the ancient custom of tipping their hats when greeting a male friend or acquaintance. It is a coamon sight to see a staid, prosperous looking business man as he passes an acquaintance tipping his hat, although the other is alone and unaccompanied by a woman. It is the same after a party has been together somewhere, at dinner, probably, or at the theater. You will notice that as one separates himself from the others he will say good night or au revoir and then tip his hat. Also when one man is introduced to another it is dollars to a subway ticket that he will lift his chapeau. Wonder why it is. They don’t do it in Pittsburg.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Canaty. The new stenographer’s yellow hair glittered in the flood of sunlight that poured through the window of the office. But old Duke, the bookkeeper, had no eyes for the girl’s beauty. He light- ’ ed a cigar and set to work. “Mr. Duke,” said the stenographer. “Huh?” the old man grunted. “Look here,” she said imperiously, “I am sorry, but smoking always makes me sick.” “Then,” said Duke, without looking up, “don’t ever smoke.”—New Orleans Times-Democrat. An Irish Compliment. An Irish gentleman said to an English officer. “Do you know Mr. X. of—?” The officer disclaimed having that pleasure. “Ah, he is a very nice fellow and a good friend of mine. But he has been dead these six years. An* shure, you’re very like him!” The officer said he had been compared to a good many things in the course of his lifetime, but never before to a six-year-old corpse.—London Spectator. Latter Dpy Breeziness. “How • often do your housemaids dust?” “Do you mean how often do they fan the furniture,” asked slangy Mrs. Nuwedd, “or how often do they skip out?”—Louisville Courier-Journal. If poverty is the mother of crimes want of sense is the father of them.— Bruyere.

~~ ROMAN MILLIONAIRES. The Phenomenon of Mammoth Fortune! Not a Kew Thins. While it is not a very tangible consolation to those of us who belong to the less favored class commercially, there is at least a sort of historic comfort in knowing that the phenomenon of mammoth fortunes is not a new thing. A magazine writer goes back to ancient Rome, when there were no railroads or trusts or corporations, and gives seme figures on the individual fortunes of that day which might look attractive even to some of our modern plutocrats. Seneca, the philosopher and author, was worth $17,500,000; Lentulus, the augur, $10,600,000; Crassus, the politician who formed with Caesar and ’ Pompey the first triumvirate, had a landed estate of more than $8,000,000; the emperor Tiberius left a fortune of $118,000,000, which the depraved Caligula got rid of in less than a year. A dozen others had possessions that ran into the millions. It is true that these Romans did not “make” these fortunes in what we would call regular commercial operations. But they got the money, and they held on to it, which is about al.' that can safely be said of possessions that run into seven figures in any age or country. And, speaking of campaign contributions and so forth, Julius Caesar once presented the consul Paulus with $290,000 merely as a token of esteem and coupled with the hope that Pauhir would do the right tiling in a certain political matter that was pending. The argument was effective with Paulus and neither he nor Caesar suffered any in popularity. There are many things under the sun that are not new.—Omaha WorldHerald. NAILED TO THE CROSS. The Two Thieves That Were Craclfled With the Savloar. In nine out of ten pictures of the crucifixion where Christ’s two companions In death are represented they are pictured as having been fastened to the rross with thongs or cords. The question naturally arises, Were the thieves in reality bound to their different instruments of torture while the blessed Saviour was nailed to his? And, if so, which mode of death was considered the more ignominious—binding or nailing? The remoteness of the event and the fact that in this case historical truth may have been sacrificed to pictorial effect make the above questions hard ones to answer. The early writers almost invariably refer to the thieves as having been nailed to the cross, while the early picture makers adhered to the general rule of representing them as having been tied or bound to their separate crosses. If we are to give any credence to the story of the holy Empress Helen and her reputed discovery of the three crosses in the year 328 A. D., the two thieves were nailed to their crosses in a manner similar to that observed in the crucifixion 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 had suffered was only distinguished from the other two by the miracles it performed. This would certainly suffice to prove that all three of the instruments 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 in our time, when requests foi marriage fill the journals in the form of gross or jocular and sometimes serious announcements. That may seem to be a hew phenomenon of modern life, yet M. Henri d’Almeras in La Revue Hebdomads ire says the real originator of this industry was one Villaume. In the last days of the empire he set «p in Paris a sort of universal agency, which would supply furnished apartments, domestics, wives and husbanda.—Journal de St. Petersburg. The Tally Stick. 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 w’hich fitted exactly 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 ii twelve times. The bishop asked foi the text. Neither of the churchwardens cpuld remember. “Go back,” said th« bishop sterniy, “and ask your clergy man to preach the sermon once more and then come back and tell me th< text.” Installments. Bacon—Did you ever get anything on the Installment system? Egbert—Yes: I got my household that way. First I got my wife, then her father and moth er and now I’m getting her brothers and sisters. Extreme views are never just. Some thing always turns up which disturbs the calculations founded on their data —Tancred. ♦

TRIP TO A FIXED STAR, Would Be a Long Journey Even With Transportation Facilities. There is a perpetual fascination about tha stars and the immense distances at which they lie from one another and from us. To demonstrate the vast distance of Centauri from this planet a popular scientist gives the following illustration in London Answers: “We shall suppose that some wealthy directors, for want of outlet for their energy and capital, construct a railway to Centauri. We shall neglect for the present the engineering difficulties, a mere detail, and suppose them overcome and.the railway open for traffic. We shall go further and suppose that the directors have found the construction of such a railway to have been peculiarly easy and that the proprietors ’of interstellar space had not been exorbitant in their terms for right of way. “Therefore, with a view to encourage traffic, the directors have tpade the fare exceedingly moderate—viz, first class at 1 penny per hundred miles. Desiring to take advantage of these facilities, a gentleman, byway of providing himself with small change for the journey, buys up the national debt of Britain and a few other countries and, presenting himself at the office, demands a first class single fare to Centauri. “For this he tenders in payment the price of the ticket, £1,100,000,000. “Having taken his seat, it occurs to him to ask: “ ‘At what rate do you travel?’ “ ‘Sixty miles an hour, sir, including stoppages,’ is the answer. “ ‘Then when shall we reach Centauri?’ “ Tn 48,663,000 years, sir!’ ” HENRY BELL’S COMET. The Flrat Steamer That Plied For Hire In Great Britain. Among the curiosities of advertising may surely be placed the first advertisement of the first steamer that plied for hire in Great Britain—namely, Henry Bell's Comet. Thus ran the advertisement in the Glasgow Courier of 1812: “Steam passage boat, the Comet, between Glasgow, Greenock and Helensburg. For passengers only. The subscriber having at much expense fitted up a handsome vessel to ply upon the river Clyde between Glasgow and Greenock—to sail by the power of wind, air and steam—he intends that t£e vessel shall leave the Broomieiaw on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays about midday or at such time thereafter as may answer from the state of the tide and to leave Greenock on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in the movning to suit the tide. The elegance, pomfort, safety and speed of this vessel require only to be proved to meet the approbation of the public, and the proprietor is determined to do everything in his power to merit public encouragement. The terms are for the present 4 shillings for the best cabin and 3 shillings for the second, but beyond these. nothing Is to be allowed to servants or any other person employed about the vessel." What would poor neglected Henry Bell have said could he have seen his humble little Comet, of whose elegance, comfort and speed he was so proud, alongside a modern ocean racer or ope bf the latest palatial river steamers of the Clyde or Thames, all so well advertised?—Chambers’ Journal. Why Timothy Grass Is So Called. The forage grass known to the farmers of the United States as timothy is so called because first introduced and extensively cultivated in tjiis country by one Timothy Hanson, a farmer of Maryland. This species of grass is well known in England and all over western continental Europe, where it Is grown extensively by most farmers between the Mediterranean and the North seas. The botanical name of this grass is Phleum pratense. Timothy is known in the British isles as cat’s tail grass and in several of our eastern states as herd, or herd’s, grass. It was grown in large quantities in Maryland and Pennsylvania long before a spear of it had ever been seen in England, ths first seed of it ever seen in the last named country being imported from America. The “If* la Rather Important. Here’s something that may save your life when a bull gets after your When a bull charges, just before the final lurch he shuts his eyes, and if you have the presence of mind to stand stock still until he is about two or three f»»et from you all you have to do is to step aside, and he misses you. Any child with presence of mind to do this can let a bull charge all day with perfect safety. This is not a new thing, as it is one of the secrets of the bullfighter iu the countries where the sport is practiced. The bullfighters say that a cow does not do this, and they would never try any such tricks with a mad cow. Thair Annoyances. Neighbor—l called to say that you must keep your dog from barking. He won’t let our baby sleep. Householder —l’m glad you called. I wanted to say that if you don’t keep your baby from crying I shall have to enter a complaint. It annoys my dog awfully. Works Like Magic. Callee—Have you ever known any cures effected by what they call suggestion? Mrs. Hewjams—Oh, yes; I once cured Willie of a violent toothache by suggesting that he go to the dentist’s and have the tooth extracted. —Chicago Tribune. Naturally. Knicker — There goes a man who would rather fight than eat. Bocker— Soldier?: Knicker—No;dyspeptic.—Watson’s Magazine. . . ; <

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