"Bellefonte, Pa., October 6, 1911.
LIFE OF THE SUN.
Old Sel’'s Heat Will Warm the Earth
For Millions of Years.
The reason why the sun retains its
heat in spite of the quantity that it
ves out is explaired by the fact that
t is generated by the fall of par
ticles toward its center. The diameter
of the sun diminishes annually by 150
meters, a little more than the ten-mil-
flonth part of its total.
According to estimates made, 30,00!
years will puss before the solar radius
diminishes enough to produce an ef-
fect appreciuble by the most delicate
fostruments, aiwavs supposing that
the astronomical! jpstrur®®nts of the
future will be similar te the instru-
ments of the present. By like calenls
tions it is estimated that the =uu will
send heat te the earth between xix
mililons and eight millions of years
longer.
Radium, which emits heat spontane-
ously and without cessation, is present
in the sun. One gram of radium frees
enough heat in one hour to raise a
grain of water from the temperature
of ice to the temperature of boiling
water. Hence the presence of this ele
ment assists in the preservation of the
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It Was Long Drawn Out and Only
Whetted His Appetite.
THE FINISH WAS EXCITING.
After the Pork Ceurse Gave Cut a
Dessert of Cold Lead Ended the
Feast, and the Unwilling Host Vowed
Never Again to Fool With a Bear.
A teamster in the employ of one of
the big tanneries in the west had a
laughable yet trying adventure with a
with a load of bark. As he emerged
from the woods with his team he
stopped to give the mules a breathing
spell and to eat his dinner, which he
carried in a tin bucket. He bad
scarcely opened his bucket and begun
to eat when a bear came out of the
woods on one side of the road, only
two or three rods in the rear of the
no attention to the team, but the team.
ster, desirous of seeing what the bear
would do, threw a bit of salt pork in
his way. The bear stopped. smelled at
the pork aud gulped it down greedily.
Then the animal, noting the source
of the morsel, came “oward the wagon
sun's heat. The spectroscope reveal:
great quantities of helium in the sun, |
quantities great in proportion to the |
sun's other elements. The presence of |
helium is due to the disaggregation of |
radium. Two grams of radium per ton |
of the sun's elements would be enough |
for the entire regeneration of all the
Rpt lost the sun.—Harper's
SUNFLOWERS. |
Their Pith Makes Fine Interlining For |
Battleship Armor. !
The most remarkable use to which |
the sunflower has been put is In the!
construction of battleships. The xtalk |
of the plant Is very pithy, and even
when compressed into blocks this pith |
is capable of absorbing a tremendony
quantity of water. These blocks, in
which the pith retains some of its flexi-
bility, have been employed with much
success In the solution of the vexed
problem of the lining of a battieship's |
sides. They are placed between twe
walls of steel, and the substance is s: |
resilient that it completely closes uj |
the hole made by a projectile, keepin: |
out the water for a long time.
Another little known use of the sun |
flower is In the manufacture of cigars
There is not a part of the plant that i:
without commercial value. The seed
which is raised by hundreds of million
of pounds every year in Russia, male
a palatable edible ofl, with a residue
of seed cake for cattle, or it may be
fed in the kernel to poultry. The blos |
soms furnish: honey first and then an
excellent yellow dye. As for the stalks,
the Chinese are clever enough to get a
sort of silky fiber from them, and they
are also good for fuel and for the pro-
duction of potash. In New England
it is believed that the sunflower “keeps
away malaria.” [It is also believed thnt
the blossoms follow the sun in its daily
course, but that is not true. |
When the Immortals Nodded.
The French papers have made much
of a slip Ly M. Emilie Faguet in his
oration before the academy. Th!
academician rendered to Caesar more
than was Caesar's, for he gave the
“fighter and writer” credit for a line
which belongs to Cato. But it seen.
the immorizls are not immune {Tor
lapsus linguae. General Langlois jot
mixed up with Palestro and Solferino
Even Scribe and Moliere refer to tin
revocation of the edict of Nantes
which took place in 1683, twelve ye:r.
after Moliere's death. Dut perhaps o
more glaring instance is that of Mon
tesquin, who, in his “Esprit des Lois.”
wvolumn 1, chapter xxi, 22, writes, *!
have many times deplored the blindnes
of the council of Francis 1., who rebut.
«d Christopher Columbus when he pro.
pounded his scheme for India." Dut
Francis 1. ascended the throne in 1515,
aine years after the date of the death
of Columbus.—London Globe.
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What Gold Beaters Can Do.
Gold beaters by hammering can re-
duce gold leaves so thin that 282.000
must be laid upon each other to pro-
duce the thickness of an inch, yet each
leaf is so perfect and free from holes
that one of them laid upon any sur-
face, as in gilding, gives the appear-
ance of solid gold. They are so thin
that if formed into a book 1,600 would
only occupy the space of a single leat
of common paper, and an octavo vol-
ume of an inch thick would have as
many pages as the books of a well
stocked library of 1,600 volumes with
200 pages in each.
The Wrong Market.
Mrs. Newlywed—Have you any nice
slumps this morning? Butcher-
Slumps? What are they? Mrs. New-
lywed—Indeed, I don't know, but my
husband is always talking about a
slump In the market, and I thought |
should like to try some.—Philadeiphia
Record.
Plenty.
Wife—But we—we shall not begin
our married life with a secret, sha!l
we, dearest?
“No, darling,” be murmured: “there":
plenty of time.”
Worse Luck.
Fatigued Philip—Did the lady t'row
bollin’ water on 3. 1s? Wanderin:
Walter—Worse’n dat, Phil, worsen
| other charge upon the wagon.
BRUIN'S BANQUET.
bear while on his way from the woods |
wagon. Bruin sauntered along, paying ,
and rose on his haunches as if to say
that another bit of pork would prove
acceptable.
The teamster laughed and tossed out
a second piece, which bruin devoured,
and then he posed again. But the |
teamster wanted the rest of his diner |
himself and paid no attention to the,
shaggy intruder. The beggar, seeing |
| that the teamster was no longer aware |
| of his presence, snorted sharply two or |
three times und walked back and forth |
across the road as If reconnoitering
the situation. Presently he growled.
but the teamster, thinking that the
beast would go away if he got nothing
further, continued his meal.
The bear ventured near and finally
climbed up the load of bark at the
hind end of the wagon. The man was
unpleasantly surprised at this move-
ment of bruin’s, as he was wholly
unarmed.
Accordingly he threw a bit of pork
into the road, at the same time yell
ing to the bear to direct its attention
to the meat. The bear dropped down
and went and picked it up, but as
soon as it was swallowed and there
was no more forthcoming he made an-
The teamster started the mules on.
ward, but knew that he cculd not hope
to escape with his heavy load of bark. |
An idea struck him. He would coax!
the bear on by feeding the lunch to
him until they should come to a
friend's house a mile or two along the
road. Then he would get a gun and!
shoot the old fellow, i
The teamster sat on the bark, facing
backward, his big dinner bucket at!
hand. When the bear came up with
the wagon and threatened to climb |
upon the load the teamster tossed out
a plece of pork. The supply of this |
edible was limited, xo he tossed the |
beast a slice of bread, which fell but-!
ter side up. Bruin nosed it, then |
licked the butter off and left ir.
The next slice fell butter side down, |
and the bear ignored it. Boiled eggs |
and cheese fared the same. Bruin
wanted pork. The tenmster dealt this'
out in small bits, which failed to satis-
fy, and the bear was growing ugly and
aggressive,
At length the tenmster suw his friend
at work in a field and called to him to
run for his gun. The man seemed to
realize the state of the case and set
off on a dead run for his house, a
quarter of a mile distant. But the
supply of pork was out before he re-
turned, and the poor teamster was in
a sorry plight.
The bear climbed upon the load. The
teamster tossed him the iast piece of
pork and then jumped from his wagon
and tore down the road. Bruin, prob-
ably thinking that the teamster was
fleeing with a stock of coveted pork,
started after him. The terrified man
had a fair start, but he stumbled over
a stone and fell full length, and the
bear was close upon him when there
came the loud report of a gun,
The friend had come at last. The
teamster rose and looked round. There
lay his late pursuer in the road, dead.
The teamster declared that never again
would he fool with a bear.—Harper's
Weekly.
They Bumped.
A true happening which has been
made the subject of a cartoon occurred
at a fashionable golf club near Lon-
don. A young man interested in golf
solely for the sake of the social at-
mosphere one day decided to play a
round. So he sauntered leisurely
down to the caddy house. where he
met a certain peppery lord. Not know-
ing the gentleman and barely looking
at him, the somewhat foppish youth
asked, “Are you the caddy master
here?' Without an instant's hesita-
tion Lord — replied, “No, I am not,
but I happen to know that he is not in
need of any caddies this afternoon.”
It was some time before either recov-
ered.—Boston Transcript.
Tongue Could Tell.
“Last night, George, you told me you
loved me more than tongue could tell,
and, oh, George, that wasn't true!”
“Why, darling, what do you mean?"
“I mean that it wasn't more than
my little brother's tongue could tell
He heard it all!”
Ill patterns are sure to be followed
more than good rules.—Locke.
est and most legible band of any dis-
tinguished author. But the master of
the easiest and most flexible style in
English fiction occasionally made care-
less and geritating slips. He wrote
“different to.” which is a common and
quite unaccountable mistake, and
“compared to,” which is as bad. No
one would think of saying or writing
“compare this to that,” yet you find
“compared to” in print every day In
the week. And he also fell into the
common error of making the surname
plural instead of the prefix—the “Miss
Potters,” for instance, in “The New-
comes,” instead of the “Misses Potter.”
Would anybody write the “Mr. Pot
ters?’ Why should the ladles be so
mishandled *—IL.ondon Chronicle.
The Fruit Cuckee.
The Indian fruit cuckoo, which, Hke
all members of the cuckoo family, lays
its eggs in the nests of other birds and
thus avoids the trouble of hatching
them, is said to exhibit a great deal or
strategy in dealing with crows, its nat.
ural enemies. Whereas the hen, an
inconspicuous, speckled gray bird. con
ceals herself in the foliage, the cock.
remarkable for his brilliant black
plumage and crimson eyes, places him-
The Centre County Banking Company.
Strength and
self on a perch near a crow’s nest and
sets up a great racket. The crows im-
mediately rush out to attack him, and
he takes to flight with them in pursuit.
The hen meanwhile slips into the nest
and deposits an egg. Sometimes the
crows return before the egg is laid.
and then the intruder gets a trouncing.
A Link With Primitive Times.
All ceremonial maces at court. in
parliament, of learned societies and
municipal bodies, field marshals’ ba-
tons, gold and silver sticks, etc., are
descended from the heavy fighting
sticks and clubs of primitive savages.
The chiefs always had the best carved
clubs, which were the symbols of
prowess and authority. The Austra-
lian boomerang and the Irish shillalah
are both maces.—London Standard.
Also the Whale.
A Kansas fisherman declares that a
catfish will pur like a tomeat when it
is stroked the right way. Did he ever
try stroking a German carp and bear
ing it sing *I11 le. hi lo?"—Kansas City
Star. And did he ever stroke a whale
and hear it spout?—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Every man has a fair turn to be as
great as he pleases.—Colller,
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