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!”