Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1905 — Page 2

On written Books.

Goldsmith often raised money on ■ome projected work, then put it asld« and started another. He once drew up ; • prospectus for a “Dictionary of Arts and Sciences” and obtained .promises of help from his friends, Johnson, Reynolds and Burke, but the booksellers were too wary for once, and the scheme, fell through. One of his last proposals was the “Survey of Experimental rhllosgphy,” which met with the same fate. The more practical Dr. Johnson could himself devise and not undertake. He once thought of writing a life of Oliver Cromwell, but it is as well perhaps that he changed his mi ml. His constitutional indolence was too great to admit of his undertaking many great literary enterprises, and, unlike Coleridge, he was well aware of the fact He dawdled oyer his edition of Shakespeare for nine years,, although he had promised it in a year, and only finish- , ed it in consequence of the attack of Churchill, who accused him of cheating his subscribers: He for subscribers baits Ills hook And takes your cash, but where's your book? No matter where; wise fear, you know. Forbids the robbing of a foe. But what to serve our private ends Forbids the cheating of our friends? ( —Chambers' Journal. ]

An Orator's Voice.

"In the church,” says Emerson in his essay on eloquence, “I call him only a good reader 'who can read sense and poetry into any hymn in the hymn book.” The test is a severe one, for there are hymns which are wanting both in sense and poetry. The essayist doubtless intended to call attention' to that charm of a good voice which enchains attention and indicates a rare sensibility in the reader. “The voice, like the face, betrays the nature and disposition and soon indicates what is the range of the speaker’s mind. Many people have no ear for music, but every one has an ear for skillful reading.” John Quincy Adams was said to be so good a reader that no maq in his time could read the Bible with such powerful effect. Mr. Emerson, who heard the ex-president speak when his fine voice was broken by age, records that “the wonders he could achieve with that cracked and disobedient organ showed what power might have belonged to it in early manhood.”

Why the Golfer Married.

“In Scotland,”’ said an Englishman, “golf Is almost a disease. I heard not long ago of an elderly bachelor In Edinburgh who had played golf from his boyhood up. He had never courted A girl because, he said, golf hadn’t allowed him the time. “Hence everybody was surprised one <lay to hear that the crusty old gentleman was to be married. A caddie—the caddies are men in Scotland—went to him, wrung him by the hand and said sentimentally: “ ‘Man, I’m glad yer going to wed. I think ye must love her dearly. I know your life will be all bliss and sweetness now, and I envy ye the golden days o’ romance in store.’ “ ‘Pooh, pooh, Robert,’ said the other. ‘lt’s nothing of that sort. Macmann, the champion, took a wife last year, and it improved his game. I am just taking one in the hope that It will improve mine.’ ”

Bridge of the Evil Man.

Near Aberystwith, on the west coast of Wales, where the Monk river flows through a black, yawning abyss, there Is a single arch bridge of unknown antiquity. The popular legend says that it was built by the devil, and far and near it is known as “the Bridge of Devils” or “the Bridge of the Evil Man.” British antiquarians are united In the belief that it was built by the early monks, but that fact does not affect the popular legend In the least, “Old Harry’s” part in its erection being never questioned by the inhabitants of Cardinganshire. Grose says that “the bridge is an honor to the hand that built it, whether that hand be Satan’s •r that of some monk.”

Life's Changes.

The great novel, the great book of any sort. Is no longer being written for exactly the same reason that the Gothic cathedral is no longer being built, not because men have become incapable of it nor because its possibilities are exhausted, but because unforeseen changes in social and economic conditions have rendered it impossible.—H. G. Wells.

Satisfied Her.

She—Stop! You shan’t kiss me tonight—at least, not before I have had an explanation. I heard today thM you had been engaged to sixteen different girls. He—But that was befora 1 had seen your angel face, my lova. She—So it was, to be sure. I never thought of that.

Samples Didn't Sait.

Neighbor—Did that artist who stayed with you last month paint your ts,„ s and windows? Farmer —He not. At first he refused to do such common work, and after I had seen o. » of his pictures I refused to let him do It.

The Compromise.

She—How sweet of you to own that you were in the wrong! He (absentmiudedly)—Yes; mother always taught me that It was easier to give In to a w man than to argue with her.—D# trolt Free Press.

A Hint For Health.

Physicians say that those who sleep r ! 'h their mouths closed have the best 1 !th. If you awake In the night and C i your mouth open get up and close It. Kansas City Journal.

Among all forms of mistakes propb»ry In the most gratuitous.—Eliot.

MAHOGANY WOOD.

Vh« Way It Came to Be Used la tba .Malting of Furniture. Chippendale owes his reputation to the fact that he published a book of designs with over 200 copperplate engravings, so that today any one who wishes may get them and reproduce them exactly or with such changes and improvements as suit his That they are capable of improvement Chippendale himself was the first to declare. Chippendale was one of the first makers of mahogany furniture. Before his time this precious wood was valued only for the medicinal qualities It was supposed to possess. The idea of making furniture of mahogany wood appears to have been the result of chance.. A certain physician in London had a great many mahogany planks, and, wanting a candle box, he sent for a cabinetmaker and instructed him to use the mahogany for the required article of furniture. The man objected that the wood was too hard for his tools, and the doctor told him to get harder tools. . The man did so, and when the doctor saw the box he was amazed at Its beauty. Patients and friends talked about it, and at last the Duchess of Buckingham came to see it. She was enraptured and persuaded the doctor to give her wood for a similar box. As a result mahogany got to be the fashion.

HORSEPOWER.

The Unit nn It Was Originated and , Defined by Watt. When steam engines were employed to drive mills, pumps and other machinery which had been previously driven by horses, it was natural to attempt to express the work done by them in terms of the working power of the horse. James Watt was the first to define the unit of horsepower, which by experiment he found to be 33,000 foot pounds a minute. In other words, a one horsepower engine would raise 83,000 pounds one foot every minute, and so on proportionally to the numUfer of “horsepowers” indicated by the engine. He arrived at this conclusion by observing the work done by heavy dray horses in breweries working eight hours daily and found that a horse going at the rate of two miles and a half an hour could raise a weight of 150 pounds by a rope led over a pulley, which is equal to 33,000 pounds raised one foot in one minute. Watt, for the credit of his engines, selected horses of more than average power.

THE ELDER TREE.

In Days Lons Gone by It Was Held In Disrepnte. In olden days to be crowned with elder was a disgrace. In an old play we read, “Laurel for a garland and elder for disgrace.” This may have been due to the story which Shakespeare has noticed that Judas hanged himself upon an elder tree: Well follow’d: Judas was hanged on an elder.—" Love's Labour’s Lost.” This legend was generally accepted. Ben Jonson in “Every Man Out of His Humour” has, “He shall be your Judas, and you shall be his elder tree to hang on,” and Nixon in his “Strange Foot- j steps,” “Our gardens will prosper the better when they have in them not one of those elders whereupon so many covetous Judases hang themselves.” | Shakespeare also makes it an emblem of grief: Grow patience And let the stinking elder, grief, untwine Hts perishing root with the increasing vine.—"Cymbeline.’’ —London Telegraph.

Miseries of the Red Sea.

In the waters of the Red sea the cessation of the engines on a steamer for an hour means extreme physical suffering for passengers. For a day it would involve absolute torture. The wind which prevails every day is a hot, asphyxiating blast, and its continuous directions are from north and south toward the center. As a result every passing vessel is subjected to two days of almost intolerable heat, followed by two days of comparative comfort, but Instances have been known of crowded liners being compelled when traveling with the wind to turn round and 6team bnck for an hour or so in order to give the a brief respite from the sufferings Induced by the dull, dead, unbearable atmosphere. —London Tit-Bits.

Defiance.

A little boy in Deering, Me., was brought before his father recently and accused of killing a chicken. “Who told you about it?’’ asked the boy. “'l’he hen did,” said the father. Nothing more was said that day, but the next morning the hen was found dead, and the boy, being accused of killing It, admitted it, r saying In defense, “Yea, I did kill the hen, and I’ll kill every hen that tells on me.”

Justified.

City Editor—Why do you say he ran Into the police station “puffing and blowing?” “Puffing” and ’blowing” are synonymous. Reporter—Not at ull. There’s a vast difference —for instance, between puffing a man up and blowing him up.—Philadelphia Ledger.

His Matches.

“You told me this horse hod won hnlf a dozen matches against some of the best horses in the country. He can’t trot a mile In six minutes to save him.” “It was in plowing matches that ha took the prizes, sir.” A look of intelligence In a man is what regularity of features Is In women; it is a style of beauty to which the most vain may aspire.—La Bruyare.

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TO FIND HUSBANDS.

lout Quaint Customs of the Young Women of Russia. Russian girls frequently amust themselves by attempting to discovei what sort of husbands will eventually lead them to the altar. A favorite manner of doing this is by so called divination. The girl who is tired of a single life ■lts in the mystic hours of the nlghl between two large mirrors. On each side she places a candle and then eagerly watches until she can see twelve reflected lights. If the fates are propitious she ought also to discern the husband she desires portrayed in the glass before her.

Another method of divination is to have supper laid for two. If the young lady is in luck the apparition ol the future husband will come and sll down beside her, but in order to secure success the girl must not divulge to any one her Intention of thus attempting to dive into futurity. There is a story told to the effect that the daughter of a rich farmer was in love with a young lieutenant, and he, suspecting ’hat she would probably have supper laid for two, climbed the wall of the garden and, sitting down by her side, partook of the prepared banquet, the girl being under the Impression that It was hla apparitiou aud not the real simon pure. On leaving the room the officer forgot his sword, which he had unbuckled before he sat down to supper. The girl, finding the weapon after his departure, hid It in the cupboard as a memento of the visitor.

Eventually she married nnothei suitor, and he,’ fancying that there was' some rjval who supplanted him In his wife’s affection and one day discovering the sword, was confirmed in his ■uspicions and killed her in a fit of passion. Sometimes the inquisitive husband seeker will take a candle, and, melting the wax, pour It on the snow, after which she strives to discern In the hardened substance the likeness of him ■he seeks. A very favorite amusement when several girls are congregated under the same roof is to divine by the aid of a cock. Each girl, taking some corn, makes a small heap on the floor and there conceals a ring. The chanticleer is then Introduced and is let loose beside the corn. Presently he begins to peck at the heaps of grain. At last one of the rings Is exposed to view, when Its owner, according to the popular belief, will outstrip her companions In the race for mutriiuojfy.—Cassell’s Journal. \l

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