Bellefonte, Pa., December 2, 1910. QUEENSBORO BRIDGE. The Greatest Structure of Its Kind In the World. Measured by the combined length and capacity of its tive main spans, the Queensboro bridge, across the East river from FIifty-ninth street. New York, to Ravenswood, Queens, is the greatest bridge in the world. Includ- ing approaches, its total length is 8,600 .. feet, width SG feet and greatest height over 200 feet above the water, It crosses from shore to shore, 135 feet above the river, with three enormous spans of 1.182 feet, 630 feet and 9S4 feet, the middle one reaching neross the full width of Blackwell's island. Besides these there are two more great “anchor” spans, one at each end. whol- ly over dry land. with a length of 3,724 feet for the five. which together contain over 105.000.0000 pounds of steel. No other spans in this country, except suspension bridges, approach the longest of these, and the only trussed span in the world which ex- ceeds it is the Forth uvaodge., which, although 1,710 feet long. has a capaci- ty for only two railroad tracks, less than one-third of this, There are two decks. the lower carrying a wide drive- way and four electric car tracks and the upper one two sidewalks and two elevated railroad tracks and having in all an estimated capacity of 200,000. 000 car passengers and millions of ve- hicles and pedestrians annually. It cost over $20,000,000.—Exchange. RULE OF THE SEA. Old Whaling Law Applied to a Twice Caught Cod. That etiquette is observed among the fishermen that journey to the fish- ing banks was discovered by an ama- teur angier on his first trip. The amutenr hooked a codfish, but his line parted just as the fish was above the water. Back fell the cod- fish, carrying with him two sinkers and the hook Twenty minutes later another angler cried out that he had captured a cod with two sinkers and a hook. The amateur went up to the angler. who appeared to be an old salt, and asked for his hook and sinkers. which bad his name stamped on them. He was surprised when the old salt told him to take the fish also. According to the rules generally fol. lowed on the fishing boats, the second angler was entitled to the fish, but the hooks and s=inkers should be returned to their owner. The old angler ex- plained why he wanted to give up the fish, It seems that he had followed the sea a great part of his life. When a young man he was a whaler. and, ac cording to whaling law. a dead whale | belongs to the ship whose name ap: pears on the harpoon that killed it. Therefore the old salt figured that the amateur owned the codfish he had taken.— New York Sun. Euler's Wonderful Memory. Leonhard ‘Euler. who was born in | Peters- | burg. where he spent his life as a! teacher of great power and as a pro- | 1707 and died in 1783 at St. lific writer, was an instance of the genuine mathematician endowed with almost superhuman powers. He left more than 200 manuscript treatises on | and the bulk of | his favorite subject, the works published by his academy between 1727 and 1783 were from his pen. Im his old age he was totally blind. Then he carried in his memory | a table of the first six powers of the “series of natural numbers up to 100." It is related that on one oceasion two of Euler's students attempted to calculate a converging series. As they advanced they found they disagreed in the result by a unit in the fifteenth figure. The question was referred to Euler, who decided to make the calcu. lation. result was ‘ound to be correct.— New York Tribune. The Codmoppe. Herrings are still eaten as much a= in the days when Yarmouth had to seid a hundred yearly to the king. baked in four and twenty pasties. But where is the codmoppe gone, and what was it like when kings dined off it in Lent? “Codmoppe sauce Hollandaise” would sound most intriguing on a Sa- voy menu. He did this mentally, and his More original still would ! be the “rostid perpes” of a Henry V. | STUPID PEOPLE. ' Couldn't Tell What Grew Up Straight and Was Served on Toast. Never ask any one to supply you with a missing word, says a writer in the Atchison Globe, and if the experi ‘ence which he relates is typical it i= good advice. A woman was enguged recently in writing a letter to a friend. in which she was telling of what they had to eat at a party. She was getting along very well when all of a sudden she stopped to think. “What” called to her family. “is that grees stuff that grows up straight?” “Evergreen trees,” some one renliced “Oh. no.” =uid the woman: “1 mean something to eat.” “Onions,” was the reply. “No.” she said, “not onions.” “Lettuce,” “beans,” “peas,” and so on. were all called out by the fainiiy all anxious to supply the missing word “None of them is right,” said the woman. Then she tried a new tack “What ix it.” she said. “they serve on toast?” “Poached veges” the family “Jam.” said another. Then the woman got up, letter into picees and put off tii! ater on Three days tater she was in a gro cery store nud saw something marked “15 cents a bunch” that sent ber ran ning all the way home. “It wax asparagus!” <he cried. “i should think some of vou might have known it was asparagus’ Didn't | sav it grew up <teabght and wax served on tons” ABSURD FASHIONS. Hairdressing and Hats In the Time of Marie Antoinette. Some of the fashions in France dar ing the reign of untortunate Queen Marie Antoinette were exceedingly ab surd. partenlarly haivdressing hats, which were trimmed with suey an extravagant wealth of feathers that the coaches had to have thelr seats sls «nid one member of tore her the thing : ' uno lowered According to Mme, Cada pan. “mothers and husbands muro ed. and the general rumor the queen wonld ruin the dies.’ One day Louis NVI decided 10 for bid the court in a body to follow the royal bunt in coaches. In order to be freer he wished only to pergit rea sportsmen to attend. ‘The n%ble in dies immediately vebelled, and the Princess of Momico criticised the dec: sion by means of her headdress, upon which arose a mininture voyal conch followed by two gentiemen on foot in gaiters. On the left of this was dis played a cypress garnished with black tears. the large roots being formed of crape. More absurd still was the hairdress ing of the wother of Louis Philippe. upon whose bead every one could ad mire her son, the Duc de Beauj. us ' in the arms of his nurse as well as a parrot pecking at a cherry. was thai French ia Her Only Criticism. Little Dorothy not only liked her tea and coffee to have the appearance of being *“real and truly,” but she also afternoon her mother took her to a friend's home where tea was served at 5 o'clock. The hostess guve to Dorothy what she usually gave to her own children. i of Dorothy's age, in the line of liquid refreshment—viz. hot water, sugar and milk. Dorothy tasted hers politely and ate her little cakes. “Why. Dorothy. you aren't drinkin: | your tea. dear. Isn't it sweet enough®” asked the hostess. “Yes, Mrs. C., it's sweet enough.” re . plied the child. “Then why aren't you taking it?" “It's too dull,” she replied.—New York Times. Another Meaning. ! A traveler to the north on the Great ' Northern railway, having delivered his luggage to the care of an alert railway | porter. proceeded to make himself comfortable in the corner of a firs: class smoking compartment. The por | ter, having performed his duty. came i to the carriage to report. not without expectation of acceptable reward. : “Well,” said the passenger. “1 sec i by the letters *‘G. N. R." on your cap. ‘Gratuities never received.” | “Not quite that, sir,” replied the por | ter, touching his cap peak. “It might | mean ‘gratuities never refused.’ Anu the way that porter smiled when ue left the carriage betokened his satis thrown up by the biggest voleanoes A physician alvags in the house; a Patents. ROYAL ACCOUNTS. | Methods of the King of England In Transacting Business. + No advertisement is more valuable | to a British tradesman than the royal ; warrant, which allows him to place the | royal arms over his place of business and describe himself as “purveyor by | appointment to his majesty the king." Bach tradesman who has the royal | does not come from below this depth or tell us what lies hidden there. Ex- change. Helter Skelter. “Helter skelter” has been sugges. tively defined aux a jingling expression vaguely imitating the hurried clatter of feet rapidly and irregularly moved | Most dictionaries. however, led astray 1 i custom must send in his bill at the end | ' of the month. It is compared with his | ledger acesnunt kept at Marlborough | | House and if correct is paid in the | first week of the menth. No discount is asked on any of the royal accounts. A tradesman who receives the royal | custom is informed that he must <up- ply goods at the lowest prices, and there is never auy attempt at bargaining by the official of the royal household. If un trade<man is thought to be making extortionate | charges he simply loses the royal eus- , tom, Coal is supplied to Marlborough , House by contract. the contracts be- ' tng made for three years and the con: tractors paid in equal half yearly pay- ments, Window cleaning. carpet clean- ing and chimney sweeping are all done by contract, nnd the glass frames of | large pictures are also kept clean by contract. Servants’ wages are paid monthly, the upper servants being paid by check sent to each from the treasurer's de- partment. The king's accounts for clothes, cigars, theaters. newspapers, books and other personal articles are | sent to his secretary, not the treasurer, "and are also paid monthly.—Toronto Times. CORE OF THE EARTH. One of the Enigmas of Nature That Science Cannot Solve. Human beings know only a mere skin of the surface of the earth. not more than thirty miles deep. while the globe is 8,000 miles in diameter. There is probably ne oxygen at all below heaviest elements form a dense core near the center. reasonable | ! here—no scenery. . good things to eat. | tractions. thirty miles, and it is difficult to guess | what are the elements within. ably the . come because we Prob- probably by the ordinary orthography. have missed the true etymology of this phrase. It <honid be “heiter kelter.” “Helter” ix an old word for “hang.” probably connected with aalter, and “kelter” ix used by old writers in the sense of “order” or the proper state Thus Barrow. the divine, says. “If the organs of prayer be out of kelter how car we pray?’ “Helter skelter,” there fore. ix titerally “hang order” and means, “Oh. hang order: tet us do i, or let it take its chance.” Ben Jon sou in “Every Man In Hix Humor” writes, “Helter skelter, hang sorrow, care ‘Il kill a ent” and Shakespeare, using it to express rush and barry. says. “Helter skelter have | rode to thee’ Horseradish as a Vegetable. In Germany horseradish ix frequent 1y made inte an excellent cooked vege table which goes particularly well with boiled mutton or chicken fricassee. It is made ax follows: Grate ax usual and stew tii! tender in butter; wix wel! with grated Parker House rolls, one cupful of the latter to three of the horseradish. and boil up once more, adding a heaping teaspoonful of sugar Served with very tirmly jellied cur- rant jelly. scooped out with a teaspoon and laid in =olid little ovals like a wreath round the white wound of horseradish, this delectable dish looks almost as good as it tastes, —Subur- banite. The Attraction. Tourist—1 must confess that 1 can't see why so many people want to come no amusements, no absolutely no at- Ab, sigoor. zey ‘nve ze gr-ran’ label to stick on ze luggage, - Mexican Her: Innkeeper ald. It i= in some respects astonishing, | most alarming, | of the constituents of the vast mass | of globe beneath us and really only | know the merest film | brane one-twentieth } | thickness A skin or mem- of an inch in (the thickness of kid or . brown paper) spread over a ball a lit- | tle more than a foot in diameter repre- | | | | { | | i i { | i liked to taste the flavor of each. One | sents the proportion between the i the known crust of the earth thirty miles thick und the great globe itself. We are dependent on inference and speculation for our notions as to the constitution of all that is beneath the mere skin of thirty miles thickness on the globe's surface! Even what is that we are so com- : pletely devoid of any direct knowledge | 1 Civilization. The upward sweep of civilization is not unlike the rising of the incoming tide. It advances and recedes, but each advance carries bumanity to a bigher altitude than it had reached before.— B. O. Flower. Insulting a Humorist. ‘Did you write this joke?" “] Qi4." “Ha-ha-ha!" “Well. what are you laughing at? Ain't it a good joke" - Toledo Blade. The wise man ix cured of ambition by ambition.-- La Bruyere. physician the whole of I a, science and exper ience from the day of Galen down; et is practically what is offered in Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser. This work containing 1008 pages and over 700 illustrations, is sent free, on receipt of stamps, to pay expense of mailing only. Send 21 one-cent stamps for paper-cover- ed book, or 31 stamps for cloth binding, to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N.Y. Hood's Sarssporilla. Could Hardly Hear TASTE AND SMELL SENSES OF WERE ALSO GREATLY IMPAIRED — afflicted with catarrh,” rites Eugene Forbes, Lebanon, Kansas: *'I took several different medicines, givin f cach a a fair trial, but grew worse untill coul hardly hear, taste or smell. 1 was Soule to give up in despair, , but concluded totry Hood's Sarsaparilla. After taking three bottles of this medicine I was cured. have had no return of the disease.” Hood's Sarsaparilla effects its wonder cures, not simbly because it contains sar- saparilla, but because it combines the ut- most remedial values of more than twenty different ingredients. There is no real substitute for it. Any preparation said to be “Just as good : is inferior, costs less to make and yields the dealer a larger profit. Get it today in usual liquid form or choc: olated tablets called Sarsatabs Carpet Cleaner. 10 Days Wren Trial In Your Own Home of the improved “Simplex’ ny Yuu Sn We want to sup- ply one lady in every borhood witha smplex Vacuum Cleaner, for adver- tising purposes. Write today for the most liberal of- fer ever made. The “Simplex” is guaranteed to do as good work as electric machines costing $100.00 and over. It is light in | weight (only 20 lbs) | runs extremely casy and can be operated [eflectly and casily y one person. With ordinary care the ‘Simplex will last a lifetime. Dealers and Agents Wanted to sell bothour hand and electric machines, Electric Cleaner Co. 98 Jackson Boul. CHICAGO, ILL. 55-45-15¢. ATENTS, TRADE MARKS, COPYRIGHTS. &c. Anyone sending a sketch and ge de- script ui orton o - ion free the ion 1 probe jar Shia - able. Communications are 8 Probe A on patents a ree. Oldest agency for securing experience. ents taken in a E Co. receive MH Notice without in the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, a handsome illustrated weekly. Largest circula- tion of any scientific } hal. Terms $3 a vear; four months §1. Sold Jers. MUR os ¢ Co., 52-45-1y. roadway New York. Branch office. @ Bro Washington, D.C. ILES.—A cure that is guaranteed if vou use RUDY'S PILE SUPPOSITORY. D. Matt. Thompson, Supt. Graded Schools, Statesville, N. C., writes: “1 can say they do all you claim for them.” Dr. S. M. Devore, Raven Rock, W. Va., writes: “They give uni- Yersul satisfaction.” Dr. H. D. McGill, Clarks- : "In a practice of 25 years gy have found no remed Jo eal yours. Price 50 cents. Samples Sold "2. Drug- arr s, and in Bellefonte oy C. M. all for free Sample. MARTIN RUDY, Lancaster Pa. 52-25-1y. Travelers Guide. ENTRAL RAILROAD OF PENNSYLVANIA. Condensed Time Table effective June 17, 1909. ' READ DOWN READ UP. — — TTT STATIONS ' | 4 No 1 No5No 3 No 6 No 4No 2 . m.|p. m. p.m. BT, RL EFONTE 76 10.5 85D 40 715/706 232... Nigh.......... | 8 57) 4 52! 9 27 7 2047 11! 237). cotiase Zion......... 18 51, 4 47/19 21 727, 718 2 45 HECLA PARK. 8 45/ 441/915 729 | 247... .Dunkles.... 843 438 913 7 33/17 23! 2 51|.. Hublersburg. f8 39 4 34 {4 09 7737 728 2 55 .Snydertown. . 8 36 429 \ 05 7 40{17 30, 2 58......... Nittany... 18 34 4 27/1% : 2 74/733 301)... Huston 48 32 4 24/18 10 746/738 305... Lamar... 18 29 4 21/18 57 748/17 40 3 08|_.__Ciintondale.... 8 26 4 18/{8 54 752 744] 3 12| Krider's Siding. 8 22 4 14| 8 50 73801 4 3 16. Mackeyville.. 18 18 4 09;f8 48 8 02) 7 54| 3 22|.. Cedar 1812 403 843 8 05 1:3 roppiss Salona... 810 401 841 810/802 330. MILL HALL.. 805 356! 836 (N. Y. Central & Hudson River R. R.) a0 38 emer Shore, | 10 782 IT. » ve. 12 20 I i% 6 50 730 650. ECPHIA” | 16 36 11 3 1010 900... NEW YORK | 9 00 (Via Phila.) | p.m. a.m. Arr. ve) am. p.m. t Week Days. WALLACE H. GEPHART, General Superintendent. ELLEFONTE CENTRAL RAILROAD. Schedule to take effect Monday. lan. 6. 1910 WESTWARD ARD Read down Read up. 1 STATIONS i i Nos tNo3 Nol tNo2 Nod No 6 Ja.m.jLve. cw « Aria. p.m Os % 00 2 07| 10 20| 6 35] Coleville.... 8 5 50 2 12! 10 23 6 38]. Morris... . 8 5 47 217 1027] 6 43]... el 8 5 45 2 21| 10 30 6 46lF 8 540 3 26( 10 34/ 6 50 | 8 535 2 32| 10 40| 6 55|. .. 8 530 2 35| 10 45| 7 00. | 8 525 | 10 571 7.32/. 5 Si ! 33% 3 40 ls 2 F.H. THOMAS. Supt, Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria. [ i V Clothing. To Those WHO WANT THE BEST Clothing. To those who want the pick of the finest, the most exclusive Clothing produced this season, we say Come Here, Come Now. Without a doubt, we are showing The Most Striking, The Moss Stylish Clothes for Men and Young Men ever shown in Bellefonte. banquet, which was the “sea swine” | faction at the material result of his of the unrefined Saxon. the “porco ma- | smart answer and the service he had rino” of the mediaeval ecclesiast. maister coke gives an early receipt for “puddyng of purpasse.” another teaches how to “salte porpyesse aud seele,” another how to “undertraunche that purpos.” From which it may be seen that enterprise extended also to the spelling of the porpoise.—London Chronicle. Candymakers’ Tricks. An Atchison man went into a candy factory. He was surprised to see one! of the candymakers reach with lis | bare hand into a pot of boiling candy | 8 bail. | ing fluid. He was testing its consist. | ency. He first put his hand in a pail | He brought out a handful of th¥ of water. After he had jerked out his | hand he put it back in the water. The Atchison man tried the same thing and did it without getting burned.-- Atchison Globe. Another Boring Question. “] say, pa, is a man from Poland called a Pole?” “Yes, my son.” “Then, pa. why isn't a man from Holland called a Hole?'—Comic Cuts Al rendered. - London Mall. First Potatoes In Scotland. It is claimed by nn correspondent that the first person to grow potatoes in | the open field in Scotland was Thomas | Prentice, a day laborer in the Wes: ' Barony of the parish in Glasgow. nea: Chapel Green. | 1728. It was about four years after | that date that he (Prentice) enter«d | the market with them and was ver) successful with his experiment, as be de £300 of it, which he sank in double interest and died at Edinbur:! in 1762. — Glasgow Herald. —. — | Strictly Legal. “What is n young man to do whee | his attention bas been arrested by = : pretty girl?” i “Why. carry his cafe to court. | course.” Red Hen. i Sarcastic. “Is she an great singer? “No: | shouldn't eall her great. ' can understand every word she sings” | =Detroit Free Press. ol That was in the yeni | You | Everything that Man or Boy Wears. Nothing but Honest Goods, all sold the Fauble Way--- HONESTLY. Your Money Back any time you are not satisfied. Do you know of a better way to buy any- : thing. Be a Fauble customer and you will never grumble. : : re a —————— ———————————— rod oni ls f il oe ee AR Allegheny St., Bellefonte. wn —————————— T ; :
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