Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1907 — How Many Ways. [ARTICLE]

How Many Ways.

At a young people’s party a boy proposed that each member of it take the line, “All day the smith shall stand for us beside the flashing forge,” and see in how many different ways it might be written without changing the sense. Suppose the boys and girls try it They will probably be surprised at the result One of the boys at the party referred to wrote the line in forty-two different ways, beginning each/time with the words ‘‘For us.” Wh«m it Is remembered that there are various other ways of beginning the line some notion of the possibilities of the case suggests itself.—Chicago News.

Desultory.

The origin of some words is queer, almost to the point of laughable. Take the word “desultory,” for example, which, as everybody knows, means disconnected. or jumping from one thing to another. Strange to say, we get it from the Roman circus, where ec-rtaln performers rode two or more horses and would leap from one to another. These were called “desultores” in Latin, and from that word came “desultor," which, in the same language, means one who goes from one thing to another, as in a rambling, disconnected speech. .......

Real Causes of Earthquakes.

While civilized man Is trying to grasp the meaning of an earthquake the uncivilized of all ages have long ago resolved their doubts. In Mongolia It is the breathings and skippings of a huge frog that cause the mischief, in China a gigantic dragon, In India a world bearing elephant in Celebes a hog and In other countries the scheme is varied by the Introduction of a bull and a tortoise. Earthquakes in Siberia are believed to be due to the frolics of mammoths who live in the center of the earth, while in Vancouver island It to the spirit of evil with his marshaled hosts of all the wicked people who have ever lived.

lodine Liniment.

A good liniment is made by putting equal parts of tincture of iodine and spirits of ammonia together and letting them remain so for twenty-four hours before using, shaking occasionally. It will then be clear as water and will neither blister nor stain when used. The Democrat for job work.