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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, lMt.
Egyptian Dictionary Over 25 Years in The Making The dictionary of the Egyptian language, begun a quarter or a century ago, will be completed barring unother war in 1923. There will be approximately 2,000 folio pages of type and 5,000 folio pages of "autographs" or citations." It was an even hundred years ago that a Frenchman deciphered some of the Egyptian hieroglyphics. Since that time Egyptology has flourished, though obscurely. The dictionary will mark a new epoch. About three fourths of the text is already in type.
Few Whites in Kingston Only 2 per cent, of the population of Kingston, Jamaica, is white.
California Advocates Punishment for Flies The people of California have a hearty dislike for the fly. They feel that the germ-breeding pest should be exterminated. They believe that capital punishment for this lowly insect is none too good. They wish some method of wholesale killing that will be an improvement on the swatting process. Accordingly, a genius has designed an "electric chair" for
them. Wires stretched closely
together on a 2 foot by 3 foot
frame have been covered with a concoction of sugar and water. A mild electric current is then passed through the wires, and as fast as the flies, attracted by the sweets, alight on the screen, they promptly meet death by electricity.
Peter The Great Stands Fast
When Czar Alexis of Russia died he left three sons: Feodore, the eldest, and Teter and Ivan, who were half-brothers. Feodore succeeded to the throne, and upon hi3 death Ivan became he new Czar. The Russian people hated Natalie, Alexis' second wife and the mother of Peter, believing that she wanted to get rid of Ivan in order that her
back, and met the ruffians with the remark, "There i3 rio reason why I should fear my father's guards!" This impressed the guards, and so the boys were saved. But who can say what the history of Russia might have been if Peter, who after
wards became known as Peter the Great, had not firmly held his ground?
Rover And The Lost Fur
Gone! It was gone! Helen leaned against the car and tried to swallow her heart, which insisted
in Jumping out of her throat. Her
mother's lovely fur was lost. "It Just couldn't have fallen out," she
thought "It surely must have been stolen." Being too warm with her coat and the fur both on she had taken it off and put It in the
back of the car.
"Home again, Helen?" asked her father. "Why, what's the matter?
You look as though you had lost your last friend." "Oh, Daddy! It's worse than that What shall I ever do? I've lost mother's new sable fur!" "Whew!" whistled Mr. Black, looking serious. "That i3 bad. When, where and how?"Helen tolen him all that she knew about it. Mr. Black Jumped into the car. He decided they better go back and look for it. "Where is Rover?" he asked, as they tore along the road. "Why. I don't know," Helen re
plied. "He did go ,to town with me, didn't he? I don't remember when I saw him last. He just won't Btay with me. He's always straying off." Look! There )ie la, now!" cried
her father, pointing ahead of them to a dark spot in the road. "Whatever is he doing to that man?" They watched the dog, a mere speck in the road which rapidly grew larger, lie seemed to be guarding something from the man. "Oh, what an awful looking tramp!" cried Helen. As the car drew up to them the tramp slunk away to the side of the road, Rover 'snapping at his heels. "What are you doing?"
cried Mr. Black. .-. The tramp pointed at a black ob
ject up the road. "The dog won't let me get that fur me wife lost,"
he whined.
' Fur! In a second Helen was hugging her mother's sable fur in
one arm and dear old Rover in
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Reflection of London's Lights Seen 50 Miles The location of every great city may be recognized afar off at night by the reflection of the sky, but the distance in the case of Loudon is somewhat surprising. An instance is recorded when, in the spring, there was seen the reflection of the light of the British metropolis at a distance of fifty miles. The glow was rather more than two degrees in elevation and stretched at least ten degrees along the horizon. It is assumed that it was due to reflection from clouds something more than two miles high.
the other. "And to think I
because he's independent, he has better sense than I."
scold Why,
Big Shipments of Invisible
Hair Nets from Tsingtao Tons of the almost Invisible
hair nets that hold America's feminine tresse3 in place are shipped from Tsingtao, the port of Kiochau.taken from Germany by Japan during the world war and recently turned back to China.
own son might be czar. Ivan was.:
weak-and timid, but Peter was strong and brave.
Shortly after the death of Alexis a party of hi3 guards stormed the Kremlin at Moscow, the palace of the Russian rulers at that time, and did great damage to the valuable furnishings, cutting paintings and taking souvenirs. Natalie and her two sons were in a room above while all this was taking place. Ivan and his mother were terrorstricken, but Peter was only excited. The rioters called for Ivan, the new ruler, and thought because he failed to appear that he probably had been killed or kidnapped. Finally, in order to quiet them, Peter proposed that his brother and himself go to the head of the stairs and let the mob see them. Both Ivan and hi3 mother were terribly alarmed at this, and it was only after begging hard that Teter
was able to get his mother's consent and to force Ivan to go with him. When they saw Ivan, the guards
all cried, "Long live Ivan, our new
ruler!" But their good will didn't
last long, and they continued their work of destruction, some of them rushing up the staircase toward the two defenceless boys, waving their swords. Of course, Ivan
wanted to run, but Peter held him
Napoleon's House on Elba to Be
Repaired by Italian Government The house in which Napoleon lived for ten months in 1814-1815 during his exile at Elba, the mountainous little Island between Corsica and Tuscany, 13 completely dilapidated. The Italian government is going to have it repaired.
Dangling Under a liallocm Three men were holding a balloon while it was being filled with gas at Maine-et Loire, France, when it suddenly shot aloft. One man let go his hold when he was but a few feet from the ground and was uninjured. The second man hold until he had been carried nearly 100 feet in the air and then dropped. He was killed. The third man became entangled in the drag rope
and was carried skyward, dangling
300 feet under the run-away balloon and was entirely helpless. An airplane was summoned and sent to the rescue and when he first sighted the runaway It was at least 0,000 feet in the air. By the time he had overtaken it the balloon started to descend and 1t landed its unwilling passenger in a tree. His injuries were slight but hi3 experiences were thrilling. Brooklyn Eagle Jr.
Vegetarians and Wrinkles Vegetarians pel wrinkles sooner than those who live on a mixed diet, according to one medical man.
The Star of the North
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about the mysteries of the skies by Dr. H. W. Hurt, National Field Commissioner ff the Hoy Snouts, and writer of two of their three handbooks. Pr. Hurt lias studied the stars for many years, and at one time was In charge of the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Hay, Wisconsin, whore the largest telescope In the world Is located.)
Did you ever think how much people really depended on the
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stars? If you were ever lost in the woods and have found your direction by the north star, you can understand why this particular star has always been of so much importance to man. Nearly all of the history of man is located on the northern half of the globe, the half that can see the north star. As this star seems to be always at the same place, a point which is in line with the axis on which our earth turns, it has been as important to navigation by night as is the sun by day. The ancient seamen ventured forth on the unknown seas with the north star to guide them. This is the object toward which the "north" end of the compass needle points. Not every one knows that those
great pyramids of Egypt were laid out by means of the north star. The Egyptians would sight the north star to make a north and south line and then use knotted ropes to get it "square," using three, four and five units as the rope sides of a triangle drawn around stakes. This star, however, is not exactly north, and that north point also shifts from year to year, but reckoning by this star is exact enough for most purposes. The north star is really a sun, something like our own sun, and is the center of a system, also, though the "earths" belonging to it are too far away to be seen even
through our largest telescopes so far away that a great limited express train dashing along sixty
miles an hour would not yet have arrived in one hundred million years! If you don't know how to locate the north star, find the big dipper and follow the line of the two end stars away from the bottom of the dipper for a distance about equal the length of the dipper handle. There you will see this famous star.
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3,692,000 Motorists Visit National Forest Preserves on Vacations More than five million persons visited the National Forests of the United States last year, of which 3.692,000 were motorists. California led this field with a million automobillsts visiting the state forest parks. Colorado was second with 930,000 visitors. These totals do not include the tourists In the national parks, which, judging by previous years, probably totaled well above the million mark.