Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 23 August 1906 — Page 7

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Among freaks of nature In tree# there stands conspicuous one known as the Asiatic star tree. It is enormously tall, growing to a height of from sixty feet to eighty feet, while from the ground up to a distance of about forty feet the trunk is perfectly bare From that point there spring a number of tangled limbs, which shoot out clusters of dong, pointed leaves, and it is these, grouped together, that emit at night a clear, phosphorescent light This gives the tree a spectral appearance and is .Very deceiving to travelers, who frequently mistake the glow for an illuminated window of a house. The light Is not brilliant but is of sufficient strength to allow of a newspaper being read by it It does not flicker, but glows steadily from sunset to day* 'break.

Herbert Spencer’s notions of art were very crude. His favorite color was what he called “impure purple.” He wore “impure purple” gloves and, finding that the furniture was a little somber, had a binding of “impure purple” pasted round it by a seamstress. He cut the first strip himself and showed hor how to. stick it on with paste. He had his vases filled with artificial flowers. He wished to have everything i bright about him and consequently en- , joyed, color. When it was suggested he , could get that in real flowers he re- . plied: “Booh! They would want con- . stant replenishing!” He wanted to , know why the people should object to j artificial flowers in a room any more , than to an artificial landscape.—“Horn* Life With Herbert Spencer.”

THE BEST INDIA INK. It Is Redolent of Musk, Bright With .Gold and. Very Costly. “This India ink,” said the clever Chinese art student, “has no more right to be called Indian than your American redskins have to that name, for India Ink all comes from China, and India never produced a 'stick of it “Anhui, my own province, is the one where India ink is made. The best of the ink Is kept at home for the use of the royal scribes and the official litterati. It Is only the lower grade that is exported. This lower grade sells at wholesale In Anhui for $1,500 a ton. “The very best grade of India Ink, the kind rich with gold, is worth $75,000 a ton. “The constituents of India Ink are colza oil, pork fat lampblack, glue, musk, gold leaf and the oil of a poison ous tree, the heng, which grows only in the Yangtse valley. “After the admixture of the oils the lampblack, the fat and the glue, the resultant paste is beaten for many hours with steel hammers upon wooden anvils, and during that long beating certain quantities of musk and of gold leaf are added, the musk to give the ink perfume, the gold to give it luster. v “Afterward the ink is dried for three weeks in molds. The stocks are then decorated, the most artistic scribes gilding them with very beautiful Chinese characters. “There is no ink worthy to be mentioned In the same breath with ours, an ink redolent of musk and bright with gold .”—Exchange. The Real Australia. To catch the true spirit of Australia one must pass beyond the metropolitan cities, which are but the gates of the continent and where life is 'not strikingly dissimilar to that in many other places inhabited by the same race, except that democracy supreme has rendered it more care free. The Australian, who is a great lover of sport and outdoor life, sees to it that overwork does not deprive him of either. That, perhaps, is the reason why he is robust in physique and does not give one the Impression of being subject to nervous disorder. In a general wa/ it may be said that the agricultural part of the country forms a belt around the coast, broader by some hundreds of miles in the east than the west. From this region in good years many million bushels of wheat of the best quality are shipped to England. Then you enter the domain of forest and plain whence comes the wool, of which the clip in a year has reached a value of $15,000,000 for the single colony of Queensland.— Four Track News. Ten Leaves Used Again. “ “There are some men,” said a health officer, “who buy from hotels all their used tea leaves. These they dry and put on the market again as fresh tea. As a matter of fact, there is still a good deal of strong tea—plus a good deal bf tannin—in these' used leaves. They make ap black and bitter a brew as the greatest tea flend would want to drink, but such a brew Is unwhole--some, for the percentage of tannin in 1t is much larger than in an ordinary cup of tea. Used tea leaves are easily made to resemble fresh ones. They are dried on hot iron plates, the heat of which curls them up nicely, giving them a natural appearance. A cup of this second table tga refreshes you tremendously.’ but afterward your mouth Is drawn up as If ybu had been suckAg alum.”—Philadelphia Bulletin. “A Bare Bodkin.’’ •‘Bare” means “mere” as well as “naked,” and I cannot doubt that by “bare bodkin” Shakespeare meant “mere bodkin,” the point of the passage being with how contemptibly small an Instrument we could, if we chose, put an end to life and all its bother. “Bare” probably was used instead of “mere” for the sake of effective alliteration. (Cf. with Hamlet’s “bare bodkin;” Richard H.’s “little pin,” 111, 2, 169.) For “bare” in the sense of “mere” I need cite only “bare imagination of a feast.”—London Notes and Queries. Animal CleanllneM. The perfect cleanliness of some animals la a very notable. circumstance when we consider that nearly their whole lives are passed in burrowing In the earth and removing nuisances, yet such is the polish of their coating and limbs that we seldom find any soil adhering to them. All the beetle race, the chief occupation of which is crawling in the soil about dirty places, are, notwithstanding, remarkable for the glossiness of their covering and freedom from defilements of any kind. Birds are unceasingly attentive to the neatness and lustration of their plumage. AU reptiles and the slug race, though covered with slimy matter, are perfectly free,from soil. The fur and hair of beasts in a state of liberty and health are never filthy or sullied with dirt. Some birds roll themselves in dust and occasionally particular beasts cover themselves with mire, but this is not from any liking or inclination for such things, but to free themselves from annoyances or to prevent the bites of Ifisects. Bull Baiting: In England. In the old days of England bull baiting was as common as fodtball. A reminder of this exists in the will of one George Staverton of Wokingham. He bequeathed out of his estate a sum of S3O yearly with which to buy a bull for the baiting. The bull was to be given to the poor of Wokingham to be baited In the market place Dec. 21 of each year, the remains of the animal to be sold ahd the proceeds devoted to the purchase of shoes and stockings for the poor children. The will was carried •nt until 1825, when the corporation forbade any more such celebrations.

BOOK ILLUMINATION. j An Early Example of the Artli<la • Culture of the Ancients. The underlying thought which has inspired illumination from its very beginning is move interesting even than the gorgeous pages which pass beyond our power of appreciation and defy our comprehension. To the ancients the rarest gems in all the world were . the gems of thought. The book was the tangible and visible expression of man’s intellect, worthy of the noblest setting. Its covers might be made of tables of beaten gold inlaid with precious jewels, its words might be written in minium of rare brilliancy brought from India or Spain or In Byzantine ink made from pure orien- ’ tai gold upon parchment soft as velvet made from the skins of still born kids, while upon the ample margins could be displayed miniatures and decorations portraying the highest skill of the great artists of the day. ' The earliest example of illumination is a papyrus in the Louvre in Paris, ( which contains paintings representing funeral ceremonies executed in bright colors, touched in its high lights with penciled gold. Although we find frequent mention of some poem written in gold, of some magnificent volume or codex of colored vellum or some collection of miniatures or of some magnificent gift book decorated for prince or church, yet this simple, imperfect fragment at the Louvre is the sole tangible evidence we have that so obvious a form of artistic culture aa the art of illumination was known to the long period of classical antiquity or to tha later luxuries of the life of Athens and Corinth, of Pergamum and Ephesus, of Cyzicuus or Rhodes, Syracuse or Tarentum, of Sybaris, of Pompeii and of Rome. With the invention of printing the demand for the illuminator and the scribe became gradually less, and finally by the end of the sixteenth century illumination ceased to be an art. The book as the developer of the people In science and literature and in learning generally had crowded out the book as an object of art. It need not have done this, perhaps, but as a matter of fact it did.—Boston Transcript. A Mussulman’s Ideas. A respectable and honest Mussulman —and of course there are mflliofik of Mussulmans entitled to that descrip-tion-will not swallow alcohol if he knows it, even for the good of his health; will not lift “the harem veil.” even if lifting it is essential to the life cf his wife or daughter; will not take out an insurance, even when failure to do so is ruinous to him in a business competition, and wii n«t to a country ruled by Mussulmans from any motive whatever short of a necessity such as destroys freedom of will accord equality to men of any other faith. In these respects he is a “fanatic”—that is, he will act upon the precepts of his creed as interpreted by its doctors without reference to any other consideration, and especially without reference to convenience or to the opinions, moral or otherwise, of men of any other faith. A Mussulman’s creed is for him the operative law, as custom is for a Chinaman, or a caste rule Tor a Hindoo, or duty for a good Englishman, or that which.is convenient for a respectable Frenchman, and, though there are points upon which he will break the law, especially for gain, there are also points, especially those we have mentioned, upon which he will not—rather will be chopped in pieces or chop you and take all consequences serenely. — London Spectator. His Too Thoughtful Wife. Several physicians were relating how carefully their wives looked after their interests and how diplomatic they were in saving them from doing unnecessary night work. One doctor gave an instance demonstrating how the best laid plans of men and mice oft miscarry. “When I got home this morning at 3 o'clock, dead tired from attending to a trying case,” he remarked, “I almost dreaded to look at the hall table, upon which my wife always leaves a note when there is an urgent call. I was naturally delighted to find that I did not have another call to make and at once hurried to my bedroom and, without lighting the gas, undressed in the dark and tumbled into bed. “My head touched something on the pillow. I lighted the gas to investigate and found that my thoughtful wife had pinned there a note, so that I should not fail to see it, informing me that I was wanted at once without fail to call on a distant patient as soon as I arrived home, no matter at what hour.”—New York Press. Buffalo Calves. Buffalo calves, as a rule, are born ip April and May. They are active, vigorous little creatures, mild eyed as domestic calves, but possessing much greater strength and endurance. In a few seconds a tier birth they can get on their feet, and in twenty tn incites they are fit to fight for their lives. Usually it is unnecessary for them to defend themselves at this tender age, as a buffalo cow is quite capable of attending to any business which may arise in connection with the defense of her precious baby.—Washington Star. H»r Lhit rnm*, A Doniphan county woman who Was U1 and found herself in a trying position explained her woe to a friend. “You see, my daughter Harriet married one of these homeypath doctors and my daughter Kate an allypath- If I cal! the homeypath my allypath son-in-law and his wife will get mad, an’ if I call my allypath son-in-law then my homeypath son-in-law an’ his wife will get mad, an’ if I go ahead an’ get well without either of ’em then they’ll both be mad, so I don’t see bnt I’ve got to die outright”— Troy (Kan.) 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CAUSE OF THE DELUGE. 1 Qaeer Tradition of the Aboriginal Blacks of Australia. The abdriginal blacks of Australia have a queer tradition about the flood. They say that at one time there was no water on the earth at all, except iu the body of an immense frog, where men and women could not get it. There was a great council on the subject, and It was found out that if the frog could be made to laugh the waters would run out of his mouth and the drought be ended. So several animals were made to dance and caper before the frog to induce him to laugh, but he did not even smile, and so the waters remained in his body. Then some one happened to think of the queer contortions into which the eel could twist .itself, and it was straightaway brought before the frog. And when the frog saw the wriggling be laughed so loud that the whole earth trembled, and the waters poured out of his mouth in a great flood, in which many people were drowned. The black people were saved from drowning the pelican. This thoughtful bird made a big canoe and went with it all among the islands that appeared here and there above the surface of the water and gathered in the black people and saved them. Importance ox noomes. For the well being and stable balance of every mind it is normally necessary that every man should have some pursuit which shall be uncon- . nected with his business, which he must pursue With absolute seriousness. The hobby may be a game, it may be , a collection of some sort (even stamps) or it may be some artistic achievement, and whether a man scarcely attains mediocrity even in it mattery not at all, provided he pursues it with the fixed idea that nothing else in the world matters.—London Queen. Tree Snakes of Borneo. The flying frogs of the Malays appear to be mythical, but the tree snakes of Borneo are credited with taking flying leaps from the boughs of trees to the ground. It is found that scales on the lower part of the body may be "drawn inward so thaf'the whole lower “ surface becomes concave. The resistance to the air is thus greatly increased and experiments indicate that the snakes do not fall in writhing coils, but are let down gently in a direct line by the parachute-like action of their peculiar bodies. How Colds Are Uausrbt. Most colds are taken at home in the early morning before the furnace gets well started or In the fall of the yea* before the furnace is lighted, according to Modern Medical Science. People shiver into their clothes in cold rooms or sit in their apartments chilled by 1 the first fall winds, and then wonder 1 why they catch cold. In every room there should be soma I means of raising a little heat quickly 1 at times when the furnace cannot b» 1 depended upon, either a gas or an oil ’ stove. The price of such a stove will 1 save its cost many times over in floo ' tors’ bilto— New York Pratt. , a '

Sailor’s Story of Jungle Surgery. “There wuz this here black Kamerun savage, naked as an animal,” said the sailor, “and there wuz this explorer In his pretty suit of white drillin’, and there wuz a Kamerun medicine man with a headdress o’ human bones. They stood under a palm tree. I sot on a log and watched ’em. The medicine man put the right arms of the savage and the explorer close together and then, Aourishin’ a dull lookin’ knife, he nicks a vein in the white arm and then an artery in the black arm. The blood come a-gushin’ and a-gushin’ out of the black arm, and the medicine man scooped it upjh the holler of his hand and rubbed it into the nicked white arg. He must ’a’ rubbed in a pint before he closed the wound. Transfoosion o’ blood is what they call it. They say it saves a white man from jungle fever and from all the evils of the miasma, of the hot swamps, of the damp heat, the rottin’ vegetation. They say Stanley had black blood transfoosed into his’n eight times. That is how he stood Africa. I know it’s a common thing for African explorers to go through the transfoosin’ process. And I’ll tell you a funny thing about it. It makes the hair thicker and darker and it darkens the skin a couple of shades.” —New Orleans Times-Democrat. I Oldest Body of Human Being. The oldest body of any human being reposes in the Egyptian gaUery of the British museum. It is the body of a man who was buried in a shallow grave hollowed out of the sandstone on the west bank of the Nile in upper Egypt. This man must have hunted along the -banks of the Nile before the time of the earliest mummied king which the museum possesses, before the time of Menes, who was supposed to have ruled Egypt at least 5000 B. C. There were previous to that time two prehistoric races, one the conquerors and the other the conquered, from which sprang the Egyptian race of the earliest dynasties. It is with these remote stocks that this man had to do. Considering the cbndi-. tion in which he was fouhd, it is evident that he was associated with a late period of the new stone age of Egypt. He was -buried in a characteristic neolithic grave, with his neolithic pots and instruments of Hint about him. There is of course no inscription of any.. kind on the pots, knives or grave, all having been long before the invention of any written language.—American Antiquarian. 'An Instance. Hewitt—l was once kicked by a donkey. Jewett—We often hear of people kicking themselves.—New York Press. ’ : Curiosities of Woman. Women pin from left to right; men from right to left Women button from right to left; men from left to right Women stir from left to right (their tea, for instance); men from right to left Women seldom know the difference between a right and a left shoe, and if a housemaid brings up a man’s boots she will nine times out of ten place them so that the points wIU diverge. Can these peculiarities be explained?—London Truth.