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 |
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|
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.
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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.
The fox may lose his hair, but not
his cunning.—Dutch Proverb.
Nearly every Japanese follows the
profession of his father.
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The old gray bearded butler an-
nounced at luncheon one day that the
dishwasher was {ll with fever, but
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Lis work. I happened to have none by
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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.
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