Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1907 — FOR THE CHILDREN [ARTICLE]

FOR THE CHILDREN

Can You 800 ?—A Game. Try it in this interesting game, which any number of persons may play. The objects to be seen are placed on a table In a separate room, or they may be the ordinary articles'of furniture In such a room. One of the players should prepare the room or the table. The> more articles there are the better. Each player is admitted to the show room the same length of time, say half a minute, or the whole company may file in slowly and keep in line as they pass around the room and out again, looking carefully at every object. Then all write down ns many articles as can be 'remembered. Each player Is allowed the same length of time to think and write. These lists are then read aloud by a leader aud checked by a correct and complete list previously prepared. The points a player makes equal the number of articles he names correctly. If he names an article that was not In Hie room, be loses a point. The prize, goes to the player who has the most points at the close. This same game may be played out of doors, and each player be given three minutes to write down what he sees from the piazza, or wherever he may be sitting. Fruit Eating Bats. In the islands of the Philippines there are some bnts nearly as large as cats, with wings which extend three feet. These curious creatures congregate by the hundreds In the thick foliage of the tropical trees, where they hang from the branches in the daytime, sleeping head downward. Whife they like trees that have plenty of leaves, they avoid the thick forests and sometimes roost on a lone tree in the plains. As soon as the sun goes down they wake up, attacking the fruit orchards and eocoanut groves. They like the Juice which the natives make from the tuba or palm beer aud drink it out of the cups in which it has been collected. If the juice has fermented, the bats will become Intoxicated and fall to the ground, where they helplessly lie until killed the next morning by their enemies. 'Plants and tha Electrio Light Various experiments have been made to determine exactly what effect the arc light has on growing plants, and the result Indicates that it is substantially the same as sunlight Soma plants, indeed, grow faster and larger in the arc light than they do in sunlight. They produce chlorophyl (the green coloring matter) In abundance, reach out toward the light and twist this way and that. Moreover, they assimilate more potash, produce more albuminoids and yield a larger quantity of ash. All this shows that the physiological quality of the arc light Is the same as that of sunlight Cable Codes. Sending a message of ordinary length by ocean cable Is expensive—too much so to suit the views of business men—and so firms that have need to use the cable often employ a code or cipher, In which messages are transmitted. That is to say, they make up a list of single words, each of which expresses the sense of several. A whole sentence may thus be sent by the use of one word, and as each correspondent has a copy of the code 4t Is done with perfect-convenience. The Leaning Towar of Pisa. The leaning tower of Pisa Is peculiar, In that it deviates about fourteen feet from the perpendicular, a peculiarity not due to original design. Beginning to keel over at the completion of the third story, the architects deliberately accepted the conditions and, adhering to the inclination, diminished the slope of the upper stories so as to keep the center of gravity well within the walls. The height of the tower la 180 feet. Its cost, reckoned in American money, was $250,000. Riddles. When is a lover like a tailor? When he presses his suit Why is a flea like a long winter? Because it makes a backward spring. Why did Shakespeare’s wife tove him so? Because she had a Will of her own. When Is silence a damper on the spirits? When It reigns supreme. Why should the largest tree In a town 'be near the church ? There should be no bigger tree (bigotry) there. From Pig to Chinawara. Here is a word with a queer origin. There is a kind of chinaware, yon know, called porcelain, a name that grew out of the ware's resembling the surface of a shell called porcellaha, and the shell got its name from its supposed resemblance to the back of a pig, the Latin name of which is porcells.