Bellefonte, Pa., March 4, 1910.
Queer Whistling Language of the Ca-
nary Island Natives.
In Gomera, oné of the smallest of
the Canary islands, the silvando, or
whistling language, survives. A cor-
respondent writes: “A traveler must
land at the little port of San Sebastian
and there find a muleteer from the in-
terior. With him he must ride up the
steep bridle paths that wind through
the mountains. When no longer any
living thing is within sight and the
wilderness is only broken by the crim-
son flower of the cactus growing in
the clefts of the rock, the muleteer
dismounts, sets hiz forefingers togeth-
er at a right angle and places them
in his mouth. An arrow of piercing
sounds shoots across the ravines and
up the stony terraces into the fast-
nesses of the mountains. A moment's
pause and there comes a thin, almost
uncanny, answering whistle from far
away.
the sounds rise and fall, are stacca-
toed or drawn out, so they are faith-
fully echoed and transmitted by the
hills.
“Then comes the ghostly reply, and
then question and answer follow with-
out hesitation or misunderstanding.
Perhaps the stranger will ask, ‘What
are vou doing there?” Answer: “There
is a traveler with me. One of our
mules is lame. Can you bring us a
fresh one? ‘Yes, 1 can. Do you
want anything else? ‘You might bring
some milk along if you have any,’
and so on. That the conversation is
correctly interpreted is presently con-
firmed by the arrival of the mule and
the milk, and the distance that sepa-
rated the parties to the dialogue turns
out to be ahout three miles.
“Lon= notes and short notes, rising
and falling tones, go to make this mar-
velous means of communication. No
record is to be found of its origin or
history, and it will be a thousand
pities if scientific investigation is not
made before the silvando is added to
the list of dead languages, as assur-
edly it will be within the next two or
three generations.”—Chicago News.
STRANGE COMPANIONS.
The “Happy Family” and a Kitten and
a Hawk.
The first public exhibition of a “hap-
py family” in England was given
about fifty years ago, when there were
shown a monkey, a cat, several rats
and three or four pigeons in one cage.
The monkey was on excellent terns
with the cat so long as puss would
allow him to warm himself by cud-
dling her; otherwise he would show
his vexation by slyly giving her tail
a nip with his teeth.
The birds perched on the cat's back
and pecked at her fur. and the rats
were as friendly with their natural
enemy as If she were one of their own
sort.
A lady walking in the Isle of Wizht
observed a little kitten curled up on
a mossy bank taking a midday nap.
As she stopped to stroke it a hawk
swooped down and, pouncing upon the
kitten, hid it from sight.
The lady. fearing for the life of the
kitten, {ried to rescue it. but the hawk
firmly faced her, stood at bay and re-
fused to move. She hastened to »
fisherman's cottage and told the in-
mates of the impending tragedy.
“It's always so,” they said, laughing.
“That hawk always comes down if
any one goes near the kitten. He has
taken to it and stays near at hand
to watch whenever it goes to sleep.”
The lady. greatly interested. made
further inquiry and learned that the
kitten's mother had died, after which
the nursling was missed for several
days. One day the hawk was seen
about the cottage picking up seraps of
meat and carrying them to the roof of
the cottage.
“The fisherman climbed up and found
the lost kitten nestled in a hole in the
thatch and thriving under the care of
its strange foster father. It was
brought down and restored to the cot-
tage, hut the hawk would not resign
his charge and was always at hand to
rescue the kitten from the caresses of
strangers.—Philadelphia North Amer-
ican.
How to Open a New Book.
<The best way to n a new book
-yithout risk of inj it is to place it
«on its back upon a smooth or covered
table, let down the fore and then the
hind board. hold the leaves in one hand
and open nu few of the fore znd after-
ward the end leaves until you reach
the center of the volume. Do this sev-
eral times and you will not break the
back of the book.
Made It Very Clear.
“Hw {do you suppose she manages
to kop up appearances on her hus
band’s income?”
“what is her husband's income?”
© «1 don’t know; but, of course. it can't
te as big as it woul'l have to be if they
could afford to live as they do."—Chi-
cago Record-Herald.
The New England Spirit.
One thing we New Euglanders like
about us is our all around superiority
to the people of the rest of this great
hy glorious country.—Springfield Un
An Old Saying Amended.
Man—Won't you marry me,
then? Bachelor Girl—Certainly not!
When is bliss ’tis folly to
be wives.—Illustrated Bits.
The
A man must be excessively stupid
well as uncharitable who believes
! is no virtue but on his own side.
~Addison.
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Conversation begins and, as’
Do You Really Love Dogs?
Perhaps the final test of anybody's
love of dogs is willingness to permit
them to make a camping ground of the
bed. There Is no other place in the
world that suits the dog quite so well.
On the bed he is safe from being step-
ped upon, he Is out of the way of
drafts, he has a commanding position
from which to survey what goes on in
the world, and, above all, the surface
is soft and yielding to his outstretched
limbs. No mere man can ever be so
comfortable as a dog looks. Some per-
sons object to having a dog on the
bed at night, and it must be admitted
that he lies a little heavily upon one's
limbs, but why be so base as to prefer
comfort to companionskip? To wake
up in the dark night and put your hand
on that warm, soft body, to feel the
beating of that faithful heart—Iis not
this better than undisturbed sloth? The
best night's rest 1 ever had was once
when a cocker spaniel puppy, who had
just recovered from stomach ache (dose
one to two soda mints) and was a little
frightened by the strange experience,
curled up on my shoulder like a fur
tippet, gently pushed his cold, soft nose
into my neck and there slept sweetly
and soundly until morning.—H. C. Mer-
win in Atlantic.
Absentminded Dyer.
Charles Lamb had a friend named
George Dyer who was perhaps the
most absentminded man on record.
+1t was Dyer who, leaving Lamb's Is-
lington home at broad noonday,
walked straizht into the New river.
He was known to take up a coal scut-
tle instead of his hat, to walk home
with a footman's cockaded hat on and
even to leave one of his shoes under
the table and get well on his home-
ward way before discovering his loss.
He called at a friend's one morning,
heard that the family was away in
the country, left his name in the
visitors’ book, and a few hours later
called again, asked for the book again
and was astonished to see his own
freshly written name. Once, when
Proctor breakfasted with him, Dyer
forgot the tea. The omission being
noted. he fiiled the teapot with ginger.
Proctor left as soon as he could to get
a better breakfast at a coffee tavern,
and there Dyer strolled in and asked
him how he did. quite unconscious of
having seen him earlier.
Lawyers’ Wills.
A rematkable specimen of a lawyer's
invalid will was that of Sir Joseph
Jeckyll, master of the rolls, who died
in 1738 and bequeathed his fortune
after his wife's death to pay off the
national debt. “Sir Joseph was a good
man and a good lawyer,” was Lord
Mansfield's comment, “but his bequest
was a very foolish one. He might as
well have attempted to stop the middle
arch of London bridge with his full
bottomed wig.” The testator's patriotic
jutentions were therefore treated as
proof of mental weakness, and his will
was promptly set aside, Among the
wany blundering wills that lawyers
have made for their clients, if not for
themselves, the strangest on record
was that of a Dublin gentleman who
left all his money to the elder son of
his brother and, if he had no elder
son. to the second.—London Chronicle.
Raindrops.
Drops of rain vary in their size per-
haps from a twenty-fifth to a quarter
of an inch in diameter. In parting
from the clonds they precipitate their
descent till the increasing resistance
opposed by the air becomes equal to
their weight, when they continue to
fall with uniform velocity. This ve-
locity is therefore in a certain ratio
to the diameter of the drops; hence
thunder and other showers in which
the drops are large pour down faster
than a drizzling rain. A drop of the
twenty-fifth part of an inch in falling
through the air would, when it had
arrived at its uniform velocity, ac-
quire a celerity of only eleven and a
half feet per second, while one of a
quarter of an inch would have a ve-
locity of thirty-three and a half feet.
A Peacemaker.
It is a commonly accepted belief that
nothing short of being pried loose will
induce a bulldog to give up his grip
on another dog or on an intruder, but
this is a mistake. A little -household
ammonia poured on him as near his
nose as circumstances will allow will
make him let go immediately. The
fumes of ammonia are so overpower-
ing that a dog cannot possibly main-
tain his grip and his breath at the
same time. —Country Life In America.
A Word to Parents.
Never amuse your children at the ex-
pense of other people; never allow
your children to ridicule other people.
Neglect this advice and the time will
assuredly come when these children
will amuse themselves with your foi-
bles and ridicule your authority.—Ex-
change.
Which Was the Worse?
“When I returned from our poker
party last night my wife just looked
at me; not a word was spoken.”
“My wife looked at me, too, and I
don’t believe that a word was unspo-
ken.”—Houston Post.
Reaching Conclusion.
«1 imagine from your speech that
you are a taxidermist.” :
“What makes you think so?”
“Principally because you tell me I
am as wise as an ow! and then try to
stuff me."—Exchange.
Peaceful.
Mrs. Frost—Who was it
one whose telephouc was out of or
der.—Life. i
Cheerfulness is one of the surest ie
dications of good sense. i
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“Peace, perfect peace?” i Sk wi}
— — —— nm
it Has
ical Drop of Water.
Nature offers a free microscope
whenever one is wanted. She has
been dealing in free optical instru.
ments and optical phenomena ever
gluce the first dewdrop tormed or the
first raindrop fell earthward. Every
dewdrop and raindrop und spherical
water drop has all the powers and
principles of a microscope. To get
one of nature's microscopes in opera-
tion take up a drop of water between
the two points of two sharpened sticks,
say matches, and hold the drop over
the minute object to be examined. The
result will be thit the object will be
magnified about three diameters. The
supposed invention of the microscope
was nothing more than shaping a
plece of glass into an imitation of a
water drop so as to be easily handled.
Spiders hue made suspension bridges
for ages. The rough edge of sword
grass gave the inventor the idea of
the reaper blade for the harvester.
The buzzard has been using the aero-
plane for fiying a goed many centuries.
By tapping ou un end of a long beam
the man at the farther end can hear
you telegraphing. the sound traveling
through the timber. Fishes have been
using bladders of wind for balloons,
lifting them in water for countless
years, Water has been a camera ever
giuce the world had sunshine.
Help yourself to nature's store of all
things man needs, but never say ang.
thin; about the invention. Nature in-
vented; yon car only arriige and com:
bine facts.—St. Louis [epubile.
EARLY BALLOONING.
Some Odd Ideas That Prevailed In the
Eighteenth Century.
As far back ns 1844 the American
public were led to believe that the
Atlantic had Leen crossed in a bal- |
loon. On May 28 in thar year the
New York Sun published a detailed
account of an aerial voyage from Liv-
erpool to Charleston, which purported
to have been accomplished by “the
steering balloon Victoria in a period of
seventy-five hours from land to land.” |
Five columns were devoted to the de-
seription of the journey and to a sci-
entific account of the balloon, of
which a woodcut was given, and an |
air of verisimilitude was added by a
list of eight passcnzers, one of the
names mentioned being that of Harri
son Ainsworth, who was then at the
height of his fame. |
At the end of the eighteenth century
balloons were all the rage. Then, as
now, enthusiasts predicted a time near
at hand when war would either be an |
awful matter of the annihilation of |
armies and forts by bombs from above
or would cease altogether through the
{ abolition of frontiers and the fusion
of uations.
ther.
Canals and roads were to vanish and
the space occupied by them to be re-
stored to agriculture. And ships (if
any still existed) when caught in a
storm would be grappled by the mast
from balloons above and safely con-
veyed into port or even carried over
mountain ranges..—Chicago News.
Self Protection.
“You didn’t really need a wig.”
“1 was driven to it. Now the bar-
ber won't try to sell me any tonics
er hair restorer.” —Louisville Courler-
Journal.
'rophecy went even fur-
Never add the burden of yesterday's
trouble to that of tomorrow. The one
is past; the other may never come.
A Misunderstanding.
“The manage:meni of one of the big!
opera houses in New York has to pay
$2,000 n week for conductors.”
“Does it pay the same rate for mo-
tormen 7’ —Judge.
Clean Living.
its Prototype In Every Spher-
Words and Feelings.
“Drunkenness is folly!” earnestly ex-
claimed Bishop Magee in the house of
lords on a celebrated occasion, How
horrified was the prelate to read in
the papers next morning that he had
given utterance to the very baccha-
nalian sentiment, “Drunkenness Is
Jolly”
Lord Salisbury was a master phrase-
maker, but one of his best points was
spoiled when a careless reporter turn-
ed his reference to “manacles and
Manitoba” into the meaningless “man-
acles and men at the bar.”
Sir William Harcourt was badly mis-
| quoted once. “Great is Diana of the
Ephesians!” he exclaimed upon the
platform, but a country paper had i:
“Great Dinah! What a farce is this!”
Lack of knowledge of familiar quo-
tations is a prolific source of misre-
porting. For instance, a speaker once
made use of the well known lines
from Milton's “L’Allegro:”
But come, thou goddess, fair and free,
In heaven yclept Euphrosyne.
The country reporter deputed to
“take him down” was in despair. ile
could not make head or tail of this
mysterious utterance. But, following
the sound as far as possible, he seized
his pen and produced the following
gem:
But come, thou goddess, fair and free,
In heaven she crept and froze her knee.
The speaker was taken down in
| more senses than one.—London An-
swers.
Don’t Give Up.
Among some skaters was a boy so
small and so evidently a beginver that
his frequent mishaps awakened the
pity of a tender hearted If not wise
spectator.
“Why. sonny, you are getting all
bumped up.” she said. “I wouldn't
stay on the ice and keep falling down
| so; I'd just come off and watch the
| others.”
| The tears of the last downfall were
| still rolling over the rosy cheeks. but
the child looked from his adviser to
the shining steel on his feet and an-
swered, half indignantly:
| “1 didn’t get some new skates to give
up with; I got "em to learn how with.”
Life's hard tasks are never sent for
us “to give up with" they are always
intended to awaken strength, skill and
| courage in learning how to master
them.—Selected.
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Has held fast by the soundest traditions
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of season.
Urged upon a people engrossed in busi-
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Rigeteousness and competency in public
Justice to authors.
Wholesome conditions in the crowded
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ar larger educational opportunities for
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his shelves last week and re-
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Look! Look!
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Thing of it, $4.00 Shoes Reduced to
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