Demonic Watdyman Bellefonte, Pa., November 29, 1907. ANXIOUS WAGNER. The First Performance of “Rienzi” at Dresden, In Ludwig Frankenstein's Wagner ear book Gustav Kietz tells this story connection with the first perform- ance of “Rienzi” at Dresden: “On the day of the first performance Wagner asked me to meet him in front of the theater after the box office had been opened, so that he could give me and my friend Schuster, the butcher, tick- ets for the performance. Wagner was fn a state of great excitement, and when he gave me the two tickets Heine whispered to me, ‘Take some one with good big hands with you. He watched the people as they came toward the theater, and every time one went In he would make some ve- mark to his wife which showed his satisfaction. I had to go within, but I shall never forget the childish joy of the composer when he saw groups en- ter the house and the disappointment when others passed the open doors. I thought of it even that evening when the enthusiasm was the greatest. How bappy Wagner and his wife must have been at the following two perform- ances, when the house was so filled that even his relatives, who had come to Dresden for that purpose, could not be admitted to the theater!” THE DESERT SANDS. Why the Arabs of Sahara Lose the Use of Their Eyes. “I shall winter in the Sahara,” said a traveiing man. “With a caravan | shall traverse under a blinding sun and an endless plain of snow white sand, but none of my Mohammedan attend- ¢nts will wear any kind of shade over his eyes. “Against that dazzling glare the backs of their necks will be swathed In white linen, and even their ears will be protected. Nothing, though, will keep the sun out of thelr faces. “Wondering about this, I sald one day to the kaid of an Algerian village: “ ‘Why don't you Arabs wear a cap of some sort? You live in the world's worst sun glare, but neither fez nor turban under any circumstances has a peak.’ “ “The Koran,’ the kaid answered, “forbids all true believers to shade thelr eyes. Obeying the Koran implic- itly, we dwellers in the desert avoid ilke poison brkns to our headgear. In consequence there is more blindness among us than among any other peo- ple in the world.’ "—Los Angeles Times. A Popular Play Indeed. Jhakespeare's ‘Julius Caesar” has been translated into German nine times, luto French seven, into Italian six, into modern Greek three, into Latin and Swedish twice and into Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Frisian, Po- lish, Roumanian, Russian, Magyar, Portuguese and Yiddish. There are seven or eight English acting editions of the tragedy. But one attempt actu- ally to alter and improve it has ever been made. This was in 1722, when John Sheflield, duke of Buckingham, divided it into two parts at the death of Caesar, calling it “The Tragedies of Jullus Caesar and Marcus Brutus,” and made many other changes. To enrich this poor play, or, rather, these poor plays, Pope furnished some choruses, but they had the usual effects of ill ad- Justed ornaments—they served only to make the meanness of the thing they bedecked the more conspicuous. a. Full Faith In the Doctor. A young farm laborer called one mar- ket day at the registrar's office to re- cord his father's death. The registrar asked the date of death. “Well, father ain't dead yet,” was the reply, “but he will be dead before morning, and 1 thought it would save me another journey if you would put it down vow.” “Oh, that won't do at all,” said the registrar. “Why, your father may take a turn before morning and re- cover.” “Ah, wo, he won't,” said the young laborer. “Doctor says he won't, and fhe knows what he's given father.”— Liverpool Mercury. Irish Wit. As Sir Walter Scott was riding with a friend near Abbotsford he came to a field gate, which an Irish beggar, who happened to be near, opened for him. Bir Walter was desirous of rewarding @ilm by the present of sixpence, but found he had not so small a coin in his purse. “Here, my good fellow,” sald he; “here is a shilling for you, but, mind, you owe me sixpence.” “God bless your honor!” exclaimed the Irish- man. “May your honor live till I pay you!” The Bone. “Say, paw,” queried little Tommy Toddles, “what is the bone of conten- tion?" “The jawbone, my son,” answered the old man, with a side glance a‘ ais wife.—~Ohicago News. A Blunder. Oustomer—1 must say, waiter, this is the first time I've ever bad a really tender steak here. Walter (aghast)— Good gracious, | must have given you the proprietor's steak! — London Standard. His Awful Threat. Mother—~Why did you not scream when #Hans kissed you? Daughter— He threatened me. Mother — How? Daughter—ke said If 1 did he'd never kiss me agala.—Meggendorfer Blatter. THE THERMOMETER. It Was Invented by a Poor Man Who Had Failed as a Merchant. There is one little instrument in which the interest of all classes of people in this country never diminishes through all the changing seasons of the year, from the first day of January to the last day of December. It regulates fhe business puise of the nation and is the shrine to which men of all occupa- tions turn. And this little instrument {8 the thermometer, which bears the name of Fahrenheit. Before the seventeenth &entury men could only judge of the amount of heat prevailing at any place by their per- sonal sensations and could only speak of the weather in nn very indefinite way as hot or very a... cold or very cold. In that century several attempts were made by scientific experimenters by means of tubes containing oli, spir- its of wine and other substances to es- tablish a satisfactory means of meas- uring heat, but none of them proved successful. Even Bir Isaac Newton, | who applied his great mind to this | work, and also the noted astronomer, | Halley, failed in their attempts to pro- | duce a heat measure. f It was reserved to Gabriel Daniel | Falirenheit, an obscure and poor man, | a native of Dantzig, to give to the world the instrument which has proved to be so serviceable to mankind. He BLOOD PRESSURE. In addition to those bodily move- ments which are called “voluntary” | various bodily phenomena which are clearly Involuntary accompany violent mental excitement. The blush of shame, the distinctive flushes of Joy | and of anger, the pallor and sweat of fear, the tears of grief and the “creep- ing” of the flesh provoked by horror are familiar examples. The respira- tion is quickened by joy and retarded by anxiety, and the feeling of relief finds expression In a deep sigh. Vio- lent emotions often disturb the diges- tion. The heart “bounds with joy,” is paralyzed by horror, “leaps to the throat” in terror. The connection be- tween the heart and the emotions is so intimate that the heart was long re- garded as the seat of the soul. Most of these involuntary physical concoinltants of mental excitement are brought about by a special part of the nervous system, the sympathetic nerve and its branches, which ramify to ev- | ery part of the body. The best known branches are those that govern the | dilatation of the blood vessels, which | are profoundly affected by mental states. These phenomena are suscepti ble of exact quantitative determination by means of a method devised by the Itallan physiologist Mosso. The result had failed in business as a merchant | 18 fairly accurate measurement of the and, having a taste for mechanics and | variation of blood supply in the brain. chemistry, began a series of experi- | The subject is laid on a board which ments for the production of thermome- | 18 balanced on a fulcrum at the center ters. At first he made these instru- | of gravity. When the subject is quiet ments with alcohol, but soon became | 4nd undisturbed the board lles horizon- convinced that the semisolid mercury was a more suitable article to use In the glass tube. Fahrenheit had removed from Dant- | zig to Amsterdam, and there about the | year 1720 he made the mercury ther- mometer which has ever since been | i | fashioned much like the original. The basis of his plan was to mark on the tube the two points respectively | at which water is congealed and bolled | and to graduate the space between. | He began with an arbitrary marking, | beginning with 32 degrees, because he | found that the mercury descended 32 | degrees more before coming to what | he thought the extreme cold resulting | from a mixture of ice, water and sal | ammoniac. In 1724 he published a dis- | tinct treatise on the subject of his ex- periments and the conclusions that had | resulted therefrom. Celsius of Stockholm soon after sug- | gested the more rational graduation of | a hundred degrees between freezing | and boiling point. This was the centi- | grade thermometer, Reaumur propos- | ed another graduation which has been accepted by the French, but by far the | largest part of the civilized world Fahrenheit's scale has been accepted and used, with 32 degrees as freezing, B55 degrees as temperate, 96 degrees as blood heat and 212 degrees as boiling point. It is true that the zero of Fahren- heit's scale is a solecism since it does not mark the extreme to which heat can be abstracted. This little blemish, however, does not seem: to have been of any practical consequence, Arctic explorers have persisted in de- scribing temperatures below the zero of Fahrenheit, and scientists have pro- duced artificially temperatures far be- low any ever dreamed of by the ther- mometer maker of Amsterdam. There is doubt as to the year of the death of Fahrenheit. but it is generally placed in 1740.—1.os Angeles Times, Sun Power. There is one source to which all minds revert when this question Is mentioned. a source most promising and yet one which has so far eluded the investigator. The sun on a clear day delivers upon each square yard of the earth's surface the equivalent of approximately two horsepower of me- chanical energy working continuously. If even a fraction of this power could be transformed into mechanical or electrical energy and stored it would do the world’s work. Here is power delivered at our very doors without cost. How to store the energy so gen- erously furnished and keep it on tap for future use is the problem. That the next half century will see some solution thereof, either chemlicsl or otherwise, seems likely.—H. 8. Pritch- ett in Atlantic. Victoria and Lady Millais. It is related that when Sir John Mil lais fell ill Queen Victoria sent the Princess Louise to the dying man to inquire what favor she cculd accord him that could alleviate his sorrow if pot his pain. Sir John thereupon called for his writing tablet and Inscribed upon it the words, “I should like the queen to see my wife.” Then the queen broke through her iron rule not to receive any woman whose marriage tle had been once dissolved, whether be blame or not, graciously ac to the request and accorded the tried lady a tender and sympa. interview.—8t. James’ Gazette. 1h] Ambitions. The toller in the city had been giver an advance in salary. “Now.” he said jubllantly, “I can begin saving to buy a farm.” The agriculturist looked at the check received for his season's wheat. “An other such crop or two and I can move into the city,” he mused.—Phila delphia Ledger. Light Work. “Want a job, Rastus?” , ‘No, sah; no, sah. Done got a job, sah.” “Indeed! What are you doing?” “Takin’ in washin’ foah ma wife to do, sah.”—Lippincott's. Grieving for the lost opportunity is the very worst way to find new ones.—~ Baltimore American. tal. Now, If an unpleasant sensation or emotion Is induced in the subject his head is involuntarily elevated, In- dicating diminution in the quantity of blood in the brain. An agreeable sen- sation of emotion produces the opposite effect.—Scientific American. Tennyson's Queer Ways. It was with great difficulty that Professor Hubert Herkomer, the por- | trait painter, obtained Tennyson's con- | sent for a sitting. but at last he was | successful and called at the poet's house, After some little delay the door of the room where the artist was wait. lng slowly opened, and Tennyson en- tered with drooping head. He looked most dejected and murmured: “I hate your coming. | can't abide sitting." However, Mr. Herkomer was allowed to remain. Soon after he had retircd to his room for the night there cr ne a knock at the door. A head was thrust in and the voice of the poet remarked: “I believe you are honest. Gowl night.” Secondhand English. Swede (to Englishman at Colorado Springs, noting that the Englishman's | accent was unlike that of the other in- | habitants) — How long you bane In dese country? Englishman — Nine months. Swede—You bane spake de language putty goot already. Ven you bane In dese country two years you vil spake as vell as de people here. Eng- lishman (annihilatingly)—Man alive, 1 | am from the country where this lan- | guage is manufactured. What you are learning to speak is secondhand Eng- lish. —Judge. The Modern Youth. “When [| was your age,” said the se. vere parent, “1 was compelled to earn my own living.” “Sir.” answered the complacent youth, “I know too little of the circum- stances to attempt to defend my grand- father.”—Washington Star. 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In the magazine world the one by which the rest are measured has always been and is today THE CENTURY. Ask writers where their best productions are first offered, Ask public men where ar- ticles carry the most weight, Ask the public what maga- zine is the choice among peo- ple of real influence, The experiences of an English house- holder In India are often amusing. An instance of one of the amusing experi- ences Is given. The old gray bearded butler an- nounced at luncheon one day that the dishwasher was {ll with fever, but that If IT would give him some medi- cine he would soon be able to resume Lis work. I happened to have none by me, but the matter was urgent, clean dishes being important. “Can he go to the chemist’'s, do you think, for some physic if [ give him a! letter?’ I asked. “I don't know what | to write for.” “Oh, yes,” he said; “he Is quite able to go that short distance.” I thought that was much the best | i t ' way, and then the chemist could give! him what was proper. So I wrof il “Please give the bearer a dose of med- | icine. He says he has fever.” | 1 forgot to Inquire about him till two days after. | “How is the dishwasher?” 1 said. | “He is much better, your honor.” “Ab, then he took the physic?” “No, your highness. The bazaar cooly took the physic.” “The bazaar cooly!” 1 exclaimed “What for?” “The dishwasher sald: ‘Cooly goes erramds. He may fetch me the physic. So the cooly took the letter. Shop master prepared physic, then told ba- zaar cooly to drink it. Cooly said: ‘Not for me is the medicine, but for another man. 1 take it to him." ‘Not 80, sald the shop master. ‘The mis. tress has written, “Give to bearer” and she means you must drink it here. Many times the cooly sald he was not the man, but they would not listen, and they made him drink it."—BEx- change. True. “It isn't true, is It,” asked Rollo as he finished reading “The Pied Piper of Hamelin" —"it Isn't true that he could play on his pipe so that the rats would g0 off and drown themselves?” “Well,” replied Rollo’s father, “I don't know about that. I think it may be true. Your Uncle George can play into a river and drive all the dogs in the neighborhood crazy. Yes, I should say the poem Is true.”—London Ap: swers, The Obsolescent Honeymoon. Houneywoous are going out of fash ion and will probably eventually disap: pear. At present they are often short. ened to four or five days or even a paltry week end. Marriage is getting to be looked upon in a more matter of fact way, and it is no doubt well that the romantic girl should not expect ab solutely unreachable things of wedded A Good Excuse. “Now, then,” demanded Luschman’s wife the next morning, “what's yout excuse for coming home in that con: dition last night?’ “Well, to tell you the truth, m’ dear,’ he replied. “none of the hotels would take me in.”--Philadelphia Press. Of High Degree. “What kind of a dog have you got there, my boy?" “Dat's a mouse hound, mister.”— Judge. Quite a Difference. . “What does Vernon do for a living? “He works in a paint shop.” “Why, 1 understood he was a write: for the magazines.” “Well, you asked me what he did for a living.”—Bohemian. The Century Magazine, You Want “In all the feverish desire of magazine makers to cater to the superficial taste, the makers of Tur Cexrony have stood firmly by the id« al of the best in ‘lit erature, art, nnd thought’; and Tux Cex. 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