Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 6 September 1906 — Page 4

■btstri***STRIKING EYEGLASSES. Uw Which Deci area It u Auravated OSenac. It is the common opinion that for striking a man with glasses on there Is a severer penalty than for striking Mm under similar circumstances when he is not wearing glasses. Careful •earch, however, does not bring forth any statutory provision which declares the offense greater when the man who la 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 u source of general protection in these cases and often take advantage on that ground, but this is wrong, because court would hold it worse to strike a man with glasses than one withoti 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 eye glasses would not enter the case at all. —Jewelers’ Circular-Weekly. fjord Kelvin’s first argument for limit* tag the age of the earth. He found that if the earth had been losing heat in the past “with approach to uniformity for 20.000,000 years the amount of heat tost out of the earth would have been about as much as would beat by 100 degrees centigrade a quantity of ordinary surface rock of 100 times the earth’s bulk. This wou.’d be more than enough to melt a mass of surface rock equal in bulk to the whole earth. No hypothesis as to chemical action, internal fluidity effects of pressure at great depths or possible character of substances in the interior of the earth, possessing the smallest vestige of probability, can justify the supposition that the earth’s upper crust has remained nearly as It is, while from the whole or from any part of the earth so great a quantity of neat has been lost.” By considering the cooling of the earth and by tracing backward the process of cooling Lord Kelvin came to “a definite estimate of the greatest and least number of million years which can possibly have passed since the surface of the earth was everywhere red hot.” This estimate he expressed in the following words: “We are very ignorant as to the effects of high temperatures in altering the conductivities and specific heats and melting temperatures of rocks and as to their latent heat of fusion. . We must therefore allow very wide limits in such an estimate as I have attempted to make, but I think we may with much probability say that the consolidation cannot have taken place less than 20,000,000 years ago, nor more than 40,000,000 years ago, or we should now have more underground heat than we actually have.”—St Louis Globe Democrat THE CUPEY TREE. One of the Most Curioua Growths ot the West Indie*. 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 for'ests 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 •11 life in the unfortunate tree that cherishes it tn Its early growth. The seeds are borne on the wings of the wind and deposited on the branches of other trees, when they burst into toots, 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 ‘■-ronger until they resent 1 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, but 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 i toots of the».-,destroyer now springs a great trunk,, which rises high into the air. When/a cupey is full grown It presents a fbagnificent spectacle, for the cordlike root rises often to fifty or sixty feet and supports In midair the vast tre* itself. cars siums uemg invananiy in its eastern quarter is that this quarter is the one that is exposed to the harsh and unpleasant rigors of the east wind* The Pointer. There is as much fallacy in attempting to prove the origin of pointing as in a like attempt to prove the origin of eating. As a matter of fact, the pointing act commonly exhibited by the pointer and setter is an incident of the capture or attempted capture of food by dogs, and also by wolves and foxes. Coyotes have been Seen to draw and point on prolife dogs and grouse in precisely .the name manner that the pointer and setter draw on game birds. There were the same rigidity and stealth, the pause to Judge of distance and opportunity and the final rigid pause When all the energies are concentrated for the final spring to capture. All the phenomena displayed by the dog family Indicate that the drawing and pointing in the pursuit of prey were ever natural traits. It may be reasonably believed t^ z man could not breed the pointing instinct out of the dog if he attempted to do so.— Forest and Stream.

Etiqaette Amoag Foreat Ranger*. While in the forest reserve in which we hunted I met several of the forest rangers, all of them intelligent men. some with college education, men who seemed peculiarly adapted to their calling, who knew the mountains thoroughly, handy with an ax and gun and full of resources. A degree of ethic? obtained among the sportsmen, guides, trappers and forest rangers that was interesting. When any one goes to a deserted cabin, in most of which would be found food, bedding, a stove, etc., it is proper form . for him to stay all night, eat all he can put away under his belt, If in dire need divide any supply of tobacco and matches he may find, but he must take away nothing else, since to carry off an article of little value, such as hammer, hatchet, pinchers, snow glasses, screw driver, fish book, pipe or other similar article might inconvenience the owner greatly when be happened along and wanted them and was forty or more from a source of supply. If a belated wanderer fails to wash the dishes and leave a supply of dry wood sufficient to build a fire and cook a meal he is at once tabooed and his companionship is not sought after. — Northwestern Sportsman. The Si«e of the Sun. The sun, provided we measure only the disk seen with the smoked glass, is 86G.000 miles in diameter—i. e., 108 earths could be comfortably ranged side by side across the disk. To cover the surface would require many thousands. To fill the interior we should need 1,300,000. On a smaller scale we might represent the sun by a ball two feet in diameter and the earth by a good sized grain of shot. Let the sun be hollowed out, then place the earth at its center and let the moon revolve about it at its real distance of 240,000 miles. There would yet remain nearly 200,000 miles of space between the moon’s orbit and the inclosing shell of the sun. Indeed to journey from one side of the stm to die other, through the center, would take one of our swift express trains nearly two and a half years. So vast a glqbe must be heavy. Since its density is only one-quarter that of the earth it only weighs as much as 332,000 earths, or two octillions of tons. The attraction of gravity on Its surface would cause a man whose weight was 150 pounds to weigh two tons. A Bißu OF GUIANA. ft Can Speak Every Lt«am*<e Thai It Once Hear*. There is a biyd of Guiana which deserves to be widely known. This is the “tion-tion” (pronounced tee-yawn tee-yawn) on account of its cry. This bird is valued by the natives for its brilliant plumage, especially the tai) feathers, which they wear in their headdress and make clothing of,. but the most interesting characteristic of this strange bird is its Imitative fao ■ ulty. A naturalist became acquainted with the bird’s powers in a qur-ous manner. He was awakened from his sleep one night by hearing cries of distress in French. Some one was being mur iered not far away, so much was absolutely certain. There were cries for mercy and help, uttered in excellent French, shrieks of agony and groans.Jumping to his feet he awoke his Indian guides, saying that they must all go to the assistance of the victim. At that moment the voice uttered a shout of ironical laughter, followed by “tiov tlon.” and the guides turned over, wife X grunt of vexation. The learned naturalist had a great deal to learn, they remarked sarcastically. The tion-tion is the Worst of chatterboxes. It can, and does. Imitate every sound It hears, with the utmost fidelity. It ern speak all languages, giving the proper accent and Intonation. This is a strong statement, but it Is correct. It will shout for assignee in the best Eng’ish or German, and you will really believe that some fellow countryman is in dire distress until the .bird Intermpts its own pleadings with a derisive laugh. Then you feel like one who has been the victim of a Ist of April joke. If the bird could be caught and so far domesticated as to be happy in confinement the parrot would go out ot fashion as a home pet. Mrs. Josepnine" Eremin erman Edmunds, soprano, of Indianapolis, and other eminent soloist** ’•dll be heard. A Commereinl Transaction. “My dear lady, may I have the refusal of your hand for a week?” “A week? Why, I’ll give you a refusal that will last forever.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Considerate. ! Neil—That horrid Mr. Hansom insistL ed upon kissing me last night. Belle—- , Why didn’t you scream? Nell—l didn’t want to scare the poor fellow.—Philadelphia Ledger. ’ VEGETABLES AS MEDICINE, f Asparagus stimulates the kidneys. Water cress is an excellent blood DO 9 rifier. a j Parsnips possess the same virtues at sarsaparilla. j Carrots are good for those having a 3 tendency to gout. b Celery contains sulphur and helps to i. ward off rheumatism. 1 Celery is a nerve tonic; onions alec e are a tonic for the nerves. 1 Tomatoes are good for a torpid liver, 1- but should be avoided by gouty people '• Beets are fattening and good for peoF pie wh6 want to put on flesh; so are • potatoes. P Lettuce has a soothing effect on the * nerves and is excellent for sufferen from insomnia. f Spinach has great aperient qualities and is far better than medicine for sufferers from constipation.

MARIE ANTOINETTE. l*Wa Dramatie and Contraating Epi■odea In Her Life. TWstelton-Dyer, In his “Royalty In 111 Ages,” describes two and tragically contrasted episodes is 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 Achillea came to the line “Let us sing and celebrate the queen," be turned toward the radiant young 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 theie were cries of ‘Long live the queenF 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 au was in uproar, and the theater was full of hoarse, angry cries of “No mistress I 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. He Had Already "EL" '~~ •* know a western Kansas town where the rules of etiquette are purely upon a logical basis,” said a man from the short grass country the other day. “The daughter of the hotel keeper at hostelry I was living was to be married. I received an invitation. At about 11 o’clock in the evening the wedding supper was spread. An old lady came down the table side, passing the viands to the guests. When she reached my plate she skipped me and began again with the next man. The old lady bad seen me eating my supper as usual at 6 o’clock. “‘You’ve et,” she said as she gave me the go by. Things began to look dubious for me. Then an old man came along with more food. He alsc had seen me eating at the usual evening hour. He shied around me with a look of surprise that I should be at the feed rack again and said, ‘Why, you’ve et.’ “Everybody had been ‘saving up’ fer the occasion so that they might eat like heroes at that wedding feast. The fact that I had not been missing any meals nearly ostracized me in that happy gathering.”—Kansas City Times. The Fate of Citie*. Some ancient cities have disappeared. The archaeologist digs through the sands of the desert, the accumulations of vegetable mold and the debris of human habitation in a search for the palaces of great kings, the markets of wealthy traders and the homes of a once numerous people. The massacres of ancient warfare may explain soma of these dead and buried cities. The inability of people in early history to deal with the sanitary problems of a congested population may have been a contributing cause to their destruction. Cities may have died because their people' could not live. But in most eases a change in the routes of commerce will be found to have diverted the stream of nourishment from a city and left it to die of starvation. Yet the Eternal City and Athens, Byzantium, Jerusalem, Antioqh and Damases illustrate the tenacity of municipal vitality, even though a long succession of centuries brings great changes in the methods and subjects and courses of traffic*—Philadelphia Record. Easy Work. First Transient—ls you had got to go Into business, what line yould you thoose? Second Ditto—l’d open an deployment agency. It would be so nice to be getting other people to work without having any temptation to do any yourself. — ' £ - — CONTROL OF EN timer. 1* It Possible For the Human Rao* to Avert Extinction ? The only Conceivable way in which the human intelligence can ever succeed in averting the. “procession of the great year” is not by postponing the Issue, but by reversing the process. The question is this: 'While energy is being dissipated in accordance with the natural law, can we so manipulate things as to accumulate energy, making the unavailable available—notwitb standing the fact that cosmic processes seem to be essentially irreversible? Now there is assuredly no inherent reason why we should not accomplish this. It is true that hitherto all the atomic evolution that has been observed is atomic disintegration. We may speak now, indeed, of the analysis of the elements. But so it was, we may remember, that the older chemistry began, and yet analytic chemistry was toe precursor of synthetic chemistry. V/e began by breaking up 1 compounds, but now we can make them—can, indeed, make compounds ! hitherto unknown in nature, Siffiilkrly, it is more than probable that we shall ere long learn to achieve the 1 1 synthesis of the elements as well as their analysis. No energy is ever lost ’ Even when the radlum atom, itself the child of the uranium atom, breaks 5 down and dissipates its energy, ending, it is supposed, as the dull atom of lead, the original energies are not destroyed. Why should they not be gathered up - again and thus again become avail- > able? Are matter and energy to go on their way, ultimately destroying the s human race? For myself, I incline to 1 the view that victory will rest at last with “man’s unconquerable mind.”— b C. W. Saleeby, F. R. 6., in Harper’s ; Magazine.

He* bevf A queer instance of the working ot 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 then muttered in a disjointed fashion, as if half tq him'self, 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 e 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 pump 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. Title* In Germany. 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, Frau Director, Frau Doctor, are most particular about their husband’s titles being attached to their own names, but when it comes to ipilitary circles it is different, and both men and ’’•omen 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 leu aristocratic regiment. Enough Money. Half a dozen brokers were discussing Russel) Sage and his peculiarities when one of them told this story: The financier was once asked, “When does a man get enough mon£y, Mr. Sage?” “When he gets SIO,OOO more,” said Uncle Russell as he stopped at an apple stand for a moment. Then he passed on without buying. His Part. * “Look here,” remarked the thrifty man to Ns extravagant wife, “you’re carrying too much sail, my lady.” “I don’t know why you should bother about that,” she retorted. “No?” said he, “I think I should, ‘ since I have to raise the wind.” Brought Down the House. Critic—l hear that the new man’s acting brought down the house. Manager —Yes, it did. In one week it brought down the house from 800 to 10 people . and the attendants. In the Doctor’* Waiting Room. Doctor (entering suddenly)—Which of you has waited longest? Shears 1 (sulkily)—l. I have waited six months, and you haven’t paid me for that last suit yet! The First Son. Nodd—l can’t make up my mind what college to send that boy of mine to. Todd—How' old is he? Nodd—- - Nearly three weeks. When Christianity Began. | The hills of Bethlehem are full of eaves, natural and artificial, and many of them have historic significance. There is the milk grotto, in which Joseph and Mary are said to have concealed themselves before their flight into Egypt to escape the evil designs of Herod. The snowy whiteness of the soft chalk out of which it is hewn is ascribed to the spilling of a few drops of the Virgin’s milk when she nursed the infant Jesus. Another grot- 1 to is pointed out as that? in .which’ St. Jerome for more than thirty years led the life of a hermit when bitter sac- | tional dissensions had forced him to leave Rome. On a western hill a rock strewn plateau, around which stately terebinths stand guard, marks a place where the ancient Hebrews brought 1 their sacrifices unto the Lord. It is a solemn place, well fitted to excite de | vout thoughts—a place where a man might well keep communion with his Maker. In its broader features Bethle- 1 hem is almost unchanged since the days of David.— Four Track News. Doing Their Beat. “Didn’t I understand you to say they keep a servant girl?” I "Certainly not. I said they try to. As soon as one goes they get another.* —Philadelphia Press. ’ Speech is too often not, as the 1 Frenchman defined it, the art of con- . cealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.—Carlyle. Cash Year Check*. It is not well to keep checks locked Up in your desk. Cash them. It is se- I curlty for yourself, if the drawer is not entirely reliable, and a favor to him If he is. “Stale” checks are an annoyance to bank officials and a general hindrance. Cash your checks! Sarcastic. Boftly—l’d have you to understand, sir, that I’m not such a fool as I look. | Sarcast—Well, then, you have much to be thankful for. r I

Dandle* of Pipa*, Even the natives of Papua have their flue gentlemen, their dandles. To rank in this class the young man is compelled to lace Lis waist and to have a nose ornament of polisHed sbfelL But as an explorer says, “very few young blades can afford to possess one, and accordingly it may be lent either for a consideration or as a very special favor. The possessor of one of these ornaments could easily bay a wife for it and sometimes it is p ild as a tribal tribute by one should he have to pav blood money or be unable to give the statutory pig as atonement'for a murder.” Papuan husbands, too, have a primitive way of dealing with their re calcitrant wives. A man named Gedon had a shrewish helpmate whom he at tempted to tame according to this method: “He would pick up a billet of wood when she was ha Ifway through a tremendous scolding and give her a terrific blow over the back. Thereupon ensued pandemonium. The other men and women Would gather round, jabbering, but they would make no attempt to stop the beating once it had begun.” The Fashionable Dinner. Eight men exclusive of the butler are required to serve a dinner of twenty•four covers, one being allowed for every three diners. Another is stationed in the pantry to “run in” the courses. Absolute order and silence reign among these men, who perfectly understand the butler’s cabalistic signs. Electric signals pass constantly between chef and butler. From the seating of guests until the ladies leave not more than eighty-five minutes should elapse, for long dinners are considered bad form. Upon these occasions scarcely a member of the domestic corps escapes some special duty. The housemaids assist the pantrv maid. After each course twenty-four .silver plates and countless small silver must be carefully cleansed, wiped very dry and then polished with chamois before being put away. Nearly 200 pieces of engraved crystal ware must be washed and polished, and it is too costly and brittle to be hastily handled.—Everybody’s Magazine. n *»«■ «aa ?io,ow,ww. Rogers once walked into the hut of Ned Haskins, who lived tlit> life of a Bemihermit in a hut eight feet square close to Fort Phenix in Fairhaven, Mass., where Mr. Rogers’ summer bouse stands now. “Ned, what would you do if you bad $10,000,000?” asked Rogers. 4 “By jlhgs,” said the hermit after long cogitation, “I’d have this hut built two feet larger.”—R. H. Murray’s “Henry H. Rogers” in Human Life. BANANAS ARE TENDER. They Are Easily Chilled and Easily Become Too Ripe. “You would not believe how tender these bananas are,” said a banana man the other day. “They are more tender than eggs. They will chill, in fact, at 52 degrees—that is, the green ones, while the ripe ones will stand a somewhat lower temperature. “A chilled banana never ripens. While green a banana will bleed when bruised, exuding a juice approaching the color of the fruit when it is ripen- j ed. Under the influence of cold this j sap becomes chilled and dried, and the life is out of the banana. After that it breaks like, a stick and is of about as much value as a stick for the purpose for which bananas are usually bought. i “From the time the bananas are taken green from the trees till they are sent out by the wholesalers in a condition approaching ripeness, a period of nearly a month elapses. At the Central American plantations they are loaded on big scows by negroes, poled out to fruit steamers and carried up to New Orleans. They are unloaded also , by negtoes, who carry the bunches to the scales before placing them on the I cars. The whole load, negro, bananas, and all, is weighed and the African weight deducted. The produce men 1 buy the bananas by weight in New Or- I leans, though they sell them by the 1 bunch here. From tire time they leave tiie plantation till they are loaded on the fruit train is usually a peribd of about four or five days. j “A messenger who knows bananas *from the stalk to 2 the tarantula’ accompanies each train. He rides in the i caboose, and he watches those bananas as a setting hen guards her eggs. The temperature in the car when they 1 are loaded Is usually from 60 to 70 degrees. Seventy, in fact, is a trifle too warm. The messenger is between two fires all the time, or, to put It more , accurately, he is between heat and frost all the time. At 52 degrees the green bananas will chill, while a slight1 ly lower temperature will absolutely ruin them. If a temperature of 70 or over .be maintained throughout the journey of about fourteen days from New Orleans to the northwest, the fruit will arrive too soft and ripe and will very likely be worthless before it can reach the hands of the retailer. “The fruit should reach here in a green condition, so as to require a few days in the ripening room before being placed on sate. This isa little room at the rear of the commission house in which the bananas are placed after their arrival. There an attempt is , made to reproduce the warm, humid conditions of the Central American plantation. This effect Is furnished by a little gas stove kept burning part of the time, over which is placed a pan of water to form the steam. “Three to five days under these eonI dltions usually place the fruit in shape to show to the' retailer, who comes along the street with his eye peeled for the bright yellow color of the ripened bananas. “For northern shipment the bananas are sent out in an unripe condition, wrapped in heavy manila paper, besides the straw wrapping, which is de- | signed to protect them from bruising when sent out to the local trade. Some 1 | varieties are totally unsuited to north* | ' M”' :•.’-k■■ -X''

SPELLING REFORM. The Phonetic Phenomena of the WerA “Phenix.” Thej were talking about spelling reform and the idiosyncrasies of English spelling in general. “There’s that very word “phonetic,’* said one of the -men. “That’s a sample of English spelling. The reformers cell their system the ‘phonetic system,’ and yet they have to spell “phonetic’ with a “pho’ in order to let people know what they mean. The very word that means “spelled as pronounced’ is as far from it as possible.” “Now, now!” drawled his friend. “You’re too bard on the good old Eng- > lish speller. You ought to be proud of “phonetic.’ Why, that word is so trimmed down and sawed off and cut short that I wouldn’t know it was English if I met it alone on a blank page. You ought to thank the language for that word. It is a beautiful word. That ‘pho’ might have been spelled like ‘dough’ and the ‘net’ like ‘ette’ in ‘rosette’ and the ‘ic’ like ‘liq’ in ‘liquor? That would be a good old style English word—phougbnetteiq. But it is coming! Phonetic spelling is coming! Look at the word ‘phenix.’ It is spelled ‘phenix’ everywhere now, and I- remember it always used to be ‘phoenix.’ That ‘6’ has gone, That shows”— “Nothing!” said the objector. “What does it show? That the phenix is a bird. Isn’t the phenix a bird? Yes! Well, that round thing you say was an ‘o’ was an egg. That’s all. ’Twas just an egg, and the phenix laid the egg. That’s all.”—Success Magazine. x THE ESKIMO. Re Ha* No Master and la Absolutely Independent. There are no chieftains in the Eskimo community. They all regard themselves as free men, with air equal right to bunt, fish, sleep and eat. Everybody shifts for hiniself. He is absolutely and unconditionally independent. Hi» only ambition is to be a good hunter and to rear sons who will inherit his skill with lance and harpoon. He has helped himself against the elements for centuries, and the white man descending on his shores ostensibly to confer the blessings of civilization has never been able to improve his condition, but only to detract from the old time happiness and advantages of the aboriginal Eskimo community. The natural helpfulness of the Eskimo. Is the basis of the socialistic state in which he lives. He will risk bis life to save that of another, even his enemy. He will share the spoils of the hunt with his neighbors. If his neighbor dies and his wife is left alone with children he will provide for her until she marries again. He does not slander or. tell tales; he does not abuse any one, and he does not fight. He is a man of peace. He loves peace for its own sake, and his life is one long, laborious attempt at happiness for himself and his people.—Chicago Chronicle. How the Katydid Sing*. Everybody Is familiar with the rasping notes known as the katydid’s "song.” It is the male only that is ca- ; pable of emitting the well known , j sounds, and he does it in a most pculiar manner. His “vocal organs” are at the base of his wiijgs and .consist of two flat excrescences of thin, dry membrane. A is the rubbing of these two membranous plates together which produdes the “song.” If your shoulder blades were so loosely put together that one could be slipped under the other and the underside of one and the upper side of the other were so rough that the operation of slipping them past each other would cause a rasping I Bound you could imitate the katydid’s musical efforts very nicely. Read Starker*. On some of the Yorkshire moors > white posts are to be seen along the 1 narrow tracks which serve as roads. They are called “stoops” and are some--1 thing like boundary poets in appearance. A casual observer might imagine that they really did denote a county or parish boundary, but such is net ( the case. When snow covers the I ground and the paths are invisible these posts point out where they lie and so save the wayfarer from being lost—London Mail. The Teacher’* Joy. Parent—How did you get along with . your geography lesson today, Johnnie? • Pupil—Beautifully. The teacher was so pleased that she made me stay after school and repeat it all over again, onV Just to her. faaaeoon ay analogy. "Mamma, I’s got a stomach ache* Mid Nellie Bly, six years old. “That’s because you’ve been without lunch. It’s because your stomach is smpty. You would fee! better If you nad something in it” That afternoon the pastor catted and Ii? in the course of conversation remarked tha* he had been suffering all day with a ' ery severe headache. •‘That’e because it 1b empty.” said Nellie. “You’d feel much better If yew had something ’a it*—American Spew tßtat, Rnficksllvor. Quicksilver is found in veins ot rocks, like gold, silver and other metalß. SometiPMMi 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 arefor removing free gold and silver inplacer and quartz mining, for manufacturing vermillion paints and dyes,, for backing mirrors, for making thermometers and many other scientific In-. . Btruments.