Sellafouts, Pa February 1s, 1910.
Mis Revenge on the Africans For Ate
tacking His Forces.
In the following language Sir Henry
M. Stanley describes an attack of na.
tives upon his party during one of his
African expeditions: “The leviathan
bears down on us with racing speed,
its consorts on either flank spurting
the water into foam and shooting up
Jets with their sharp prows. A thrill
ing chant from 2.000 throats rises
louder and louder on our hearing.
Presently the poised spears are
launched, and a second later my rifles
respond with a ripping. crackling ex-
plosion, and the dark bodies of the ca-
noes and paddlers rush past us.
“For a short time the savages are
paralyzed, but they soon recover. They
find there is death in those flaming
tubes in the hands of the strangers,
and with possibly greater energy than
they advanced they retreat. the pur-
sued becoming the pursuers in hot
chase. My blood is up. It is a mur.
derous world. and | have begun to
hate the filthy, vulturous shoals who
inhab't it.
“I pursue them upstream, up to their
villages. 1 skirmish in their streets,
drive them pelimell into the woods be-
yond and level their ivory temples.
With frantic haste 1 fire their huts
and end the scene by towing their ca-
uoes into midstream and setting them
adrift.”
Literally So.
Owing to a change for the worse In
the character of the neighborhood a
family which for many years had lived
in the same house was compelled to
sell it and move elsewhere. Their old
house became a home for aged col-
ored women. One day a member of
the family happened to visit it. Things
were indeed different within. Being
one of those who harbor a sense of
humor, the former occupant in de
geribing his impressions while among
the aged colored wowen, with whom
his old abode was tilled, remarked:
“1 may truthfully say the whole
complexion of the place bas changed.”
—New York Times.
—
Making the Choir Sing.
Many conscientious ministers have |
bad trouble with wayward choirs, but | that chance existed in history.
Samuel West's | | cause must necessarily underlie every
There | event, although for the moment it may | |
had been ditliculty with the singers, appear as the result of apparently ac- ||
they | Sidental circumstances, An Alexander,
not all have bad Dr.
witty address or management.
and they bad given out that
Gluttony of Scliman and the Appetite
of Louis XIV.
Touching the matter of eating. the
stories told by the®old chroniclers and
historians of the abnormal appetites of
certain Roman and oriental men of
note fairly stagger belief.
Gibbon tells of Soliman, a caliph in
the eighth century, who died of acute
indigestion in his camp near Chalels,
in Syria. just as he was about to lead
an army of Arabs against Constantino-
ple. He had emptied two baskets of
eggs and figs, which be swallowed
alternately, and the repast was finish-
ed with marrow and sugar. In a pil-
grimage to Mecca the same caliph had
eaten with impunity at a single meal
seventy pomegranates, a kid. six fowls
and a huge quantity of the grapes of
Tayef.
Such a statement would defy belief
were not others of a similar character
well avouched. Louis XIV. could hard-
Iy boast of an appetite as ravenous as
Soliman’s, but he would eat at a sit-
ting four platefuls of different soups, a
whole pheasant. a partridge. a plate-
ful of salad. mutton hashed with gar-
lic, two good «xized slices of ham. a
dish of pastry and finish this ample
repast with fruit and sweetmeats.—
London Saturday Review.
Victorian Gods.
If Thackeray. with a brain weighing
fifty-eight and one-half ounces, had
the biggest head among Victorian writ-
ers who had the best features? The
choice would seem to lie between Ten-
nyson and Heury Taylor. “That man
must be a roet.,” remarked one of his
Cambridge contemporaries when he
| first saw Tennyson come into the hall
at Trinity. and another friend de-
scribes him in his undergraduate days
as six feet high, broad chested, strong
limbed. his face Shakespearean, with
deep eyelids: his forehead ample,
crowned with dark wavy hair; his
head finely poised. his hand the admi-
ration of sculptors. But time dealt
none too gently with Tennyson, where-
as Henry Taylor, always a distin.
guished looking mai. seems to have
grown singuiarly majestic with years.
Grant Duff, meeting him when he was |
notes that “Taylor looks |
over eighty,
more like Jupiter than ever,” and coun-
temporary memoirs are full of refer- |
ences to his Jove-like appearance.—
| London Standard.
No Chance In History.
Mazzini said that he did not belleve |
“A
should wot sing ou the uest Sunday. a Caesar, a Napoleon, are not the re-
This was told to Dr. West. “Well, |
well, we will see,” he said and on Sun-
day morning gave out his bymn. After
reading it he said very emphatically,
Tyou will begin with the second verse:
“Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God."
The hymn was sung.
Hamlin’s Soliloquy.
"Hamlin (standing before the tattooed
man in the museum)—-Heavens, how
that fellow must suffer if he ever gets
the jimjams!—-Smart Set.
A Lessor For Nellie.
Mrs. Washington was a strict disci.
plinarian about certain matters and
among other things always required
the members of the household to fol-
low the example of her husband and
dress for dinner, which was at 3
o'clock. On one occasion Nellie Cus-
tis and her cousin, Martha Dandridge,
appeared at the table in their morning
gowns, but no comment was made
upon it until a.coach was seen ap-
proaching and the visitors, some
French officers of high rank and
Charles Carroll, Jr., of Carrollton, one
of Miss Custis’ ardent suitors, were
announced. Instantly the girls, in a
flutter of exciteme: t, begged to be ex-
cused in order to change their gowns,
but Mrs. Washington shook her head.
“No,” she sald. “Remain as you are.
A costume good enough for I’residen’
Washington is good enough for any
guest of lus” Needless to say, Miss
Nellie never overlooked her proper
garb for dinner again. — National
Monthly.
Sensible Sandy.
While me 1ssing by an old fashioned
inn in Scoiland the tourists were at-
tracted by an ancient bagpiper, who
jas tooting atrocious sounds through
an iustrument that was both dilapi-
dated and squeaky. “Great Jericho,
~ Sandy!” exclaimed one in desperation,
“Why don’t you have your bagpipes
repaired?’ And the old man ceased
~ playing ond looked up in astonish.
~ ment. “Havers, mon, ye dinna under-
stand! If ma bagpoipes wor in good
tune the inn mon winna give me 2
shillings to move wu.”
Wind Velocity.
The majority of people are unable to
determine the wind's velocity. When
the smoke from a chimney moves in a
© straight, vertical column, it means that
a one to two miles an hour breeze is
blowing. A three miles an hour wind
will just stir the leaves on the trees,
Twenty-five miles an hour will sway
the trunks; at forty the small branches
will break, and it takes a mile a min-
ute gale to snap the trunks of big
trees.— London Answers.
Advice.
“Nobody listens to advice.”
“You're wrong. One fellow always
does.”
“Who's taat?”’
“The fellow who's giving it.”"—Cleve-
:and Leader.
No Difference.
Jinks— Which women have the worst
tempers, blonds or brunettes? Binks—
My wife has been both, and I could
not see any difference—New York
Times.
sults of accident,
which they spring. It was not Caesar
who destroyed the Roman republic.
The republic was dead before Caesar
came. Sulla, Marius, Catiline, preced-
ed and foreshadowed Caesar, but he,
gifted with keener insight and greater
genius, snatched the power from them
and concentrated it in his own hands.
For there was no doubt that he was
fitter to rule than all the others put
together, At the same time, supposing
he had appeared 150 years earlier, he
would not have succeeded in destroy-
ing the repnblic. When he came the
life had already gone out of it, and
even Caesar's death could not restore
that.”
Nicely Graded.
Iu is still a tradition that tbe people
of Manchester, England, should gibe
at Liverpool with the proverb, “A
Manchester man, a Liverpool gentle-
man;” but, it is said, classification is
not so strongly marked in Lancashire
as in the old days. When stagecoach-
es were running a guard was once ask-
ed, “Who has tha’ getten inside.
Billy? Billy consulted his list and
replied, “A gentlemon fra Liverpool,
a mon fra Manchester, a chap fra
Owdham and a fellow fra Wigan.”
Words of Different Size.
“Did they exchange words?”
“Yes, but it wasn't an even ex-
change. One spoke in English and the
other in Russian.” —New York Press.
I hardly know so true a work of a
little mind as the servile imitation of
another.—Greville.
Had to Do It.
Champ Clark was showing a constit-
uent about the capitol one day when
he invited attention to a solemn faced
individual! just entering a committee
room.
“See that chap?’ asked Clark. “He
reads every one of the speeches deliv-
ered in the house.”
“What!” gasped the constituent.
“Fact,” said Clark. “Reads every
word of ’em too!”
“Who is he?" queried the visitor, re-
garding the phenomenon closely.
“A proofreader at the government
printing office,” explained Champ.—
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
An Easy Numismatist.
Mrs. Goodart—You seem to have
some education. Perhaps you were
once na professional man. Howard
Hasher—Lady, I'm a numismatist by
profession. Mrs. Goodart—A numisma-
tist? Howard Hasher—Yes, lady; a
collector of rare coins. Any old coin is
rare to me.—Philadelphia Press.
Advice and a Mule.
“Givin’ some men advice,” said Un-
cle Eben, “reminds me of tryin’ to dis-
cipline my ol' mule wif a fence rail.
It tires out de giver and hurts de re-
ceiver, but don’t make no real dif-
f'unce.”—-Washington Star.
The Other Half.
Scott—Half the people in the world
don’t know what the other half are
doing. Mott—No. That is because the
other half are doing them.—Boston
Transcript.
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Things That Happen at the Bottom
of the Sea.
Naturalists dispute as to the quantity
of light at the bottom of the sea. Ani-
mals from below 700 fathoms either
have no eyes or faint indications of
them, or else their eyes are very large
and protruding.
Another strange thing is that if the
creatures in the lower depths have any
color it is orange or red or reddish
orange. Sea apemoues, corals, shrimps
and crabs have this brilliant color.
Sometimes it is pure red or scarlet,
and in many specimens it inclines to-
ward purple. Not a green or blue fish
is found
The orange red ix the fish's protec-
tion. for the bluish green light fu the
bottom of the ocean makes the orange
or the red fish appear of a neutral tint
and hides it from ix enemies. Many
animals are black. others neutral in
color. Nome fish are provided with |
boring tails, =o that they can burrow
in the mud
The surface of the submarine woun-
tain is covered with shells, like an or-
dinary seabeach, showing that it is the |
feasting place of vast shmils of ear-
nivorous animals.
A codtish takes a whole oyster into
its mouth, cracks the shell, digests the
ment and ejects the shell. Crabs crack
but the inevitable !
product of the time and nation from |
Webster's Dictionery.
Just PUBLISHED
Webster's NEW INTERNATIONAL Dictionary,
(G. & C. Merriam Co., Mass.)
surpasses the old International as much as that
book exceeded its predecessor. On the old
foundation a new superstructure has been built.
The reconstruction has been carried on through
many years by a large force of trained workers,
under the supervision of Dr. W. T. Harris,
1
I
destruction is constantly going on in
these depths.
If a ship sinks at sea with all on
board it will be eaten by fish, with the
exception of the metal, and that will
corrode and disappear. Not a bone of
a human body will remain after a few
days.—Philadelphia North American.
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