Bellefonte, Pa., February 2, 1912.
PARIS LIKES WHITE CANARY
New Songbird Is Most Popular in the
Gay Capital and Fetches
High Price.
The Parisian has an amiable little
weakness for the canary. Every street
echoes to the song of this noisy bird,
and in the holiday time, when families
are away, there are concierges whose
more or less restricted quarters ure
positively cumbered with cages of
canaries left in their charge by ab-
sent tenants,
But in or out of the season the bird
market is held every Sunday in the
year in the City Island and a lively
trade in canaries is always done. The
best songsters in the market come |
from an old house close by the market,
where lives an ornithologist who
spends his life in teaching canaries to |
sing, and he has now, after some years
of effort, produced a pure white canary
with a song as powerful and sweet
as any yellow or green bird ever
sold.
The supply of the white canary be-
ing at present strictly limited, those
that were sold last Sunday fetched
comparatively high prices; but they
had all the honors of the day, and for
the few hours that they adorned the
stall they were the center of an ad-
miring and wondering crowd. There
are plenty of canaries that are nearly
white, but this bird is as white as
a dove, without any speck of yellow on
his plumage.
The Parisian has his own special
way of transporting his canaries to
the cage that awaits them at his home.
The bird is placed in a small paper
bag and pinned to the lapel of his coat.
~~Paris Correspondence London Stand-
ard.
UNCLE HIRAM TO HIS NEPHEW
He Hopes the Boy Will Turn Out to
Be Good Judge of Men, When
His Turn Comes.
“Stevey, my boy,” said Uncle Hiram
to his hopeful nephew, “I hope it will
turn out that you are a good judge
of men, for by virtue of that quality
a man is able in effect to multiply
his own power,
“It is a common thing to hear
people say that the more pay a man
gets the less work he does, and as
to the doing of actual labor this may
be true; somebody else saws the wood
while he sits by the fire.
“As a matter of fact there are plen-
ty of men high up who still work
hard, and all of them certainly worked
hard when they were younger, and if
they are doing less actual labor now
it is because they are good judges
of men, able to pick out for the busi-
ness under their direction just the
right men to do the work and carry
it forward successfully.
“Really it is in the exercise of this
gift that we find the greatest value in
a manager; it is just this that makes
him worth his high pay.
easy and give himself time to think
and keep his head clear. We don't
want him to get out and chop
trees; we want him to be able to
select men who can do that work to
the greatest advantage and with the
greatest economy.
“Some of us know men on sight
and some don’t. I hope, Stevey, that
you will turn out to be a good judge
of men.”
Always a Fly in the Ointment.
The two old cronies happened to be
taking an automobile ride through the
fruit belt.
“Rammage,” observed the man with
the cropped mustache, “this is a land
of plenty. I could be perfectly happy
here.”
“You wouldn't though, Ruggles,” re-
turned the man with the auburn
beard. “I'll bet you a dollar that the
first man you congratulate on his
prosperity will put up a howl about
his hard luck.”
“You're on.”
Ten minutes later they stopped at
a farmhouse, ostensibly to get a drink
of water.
“You've got the finest yield of
grapes in that vineyard,” casually re-
marked Ruggles, “I ever saw in my
lite.”
“Yes,” gloomed the fruit raiser;
“I've got too gash-blamed many grapes
this year. I can't git half enough
basi: t8 to ship 'em in.”
“Re.. mage, you win,” said Ruggles.
And i.¢y rode on.
She Knew Harry.
“Now, Harry, go to Smith's, the
grocer, and get a pound of the best
syrup,” said his mot'ier, and she hand-
ed the young hopefr|l a couple of good-
sized jugs. When the boy had gone
the vicar's wife seid:
“You didn't tell Mm to get anything
in the other jug. Is he going to leave
it at the shop?”
“No, ma'am; he's gping to bring it
back here again.”
“But why send two jugs to get a
pound of syrup?”
“Well, you see, it's this way. If he
has a jug in each hu: d, he can't go
dipping his finger in .he syrup and
eating it as he comes along.”
Empl-ved,
Father—Satan al~ays finds some
work for idle hands o do.
Tommy—Wonder if that's why Mr.
SE © ro away busy holding sis-
108% ~ Judge.
TAME GULLS OF SHETLAND THAY CLINGING REST HABIY
Each Family in Lerwick Has Its Own
Flock Which the Children
Feed.
There are many small villages mm
the world that have only one street;
BR
Hard to Break, but It Can Be Done,
Says the Amiable Mr.
Glimmerton.
“For that don't feel like work feel
ing, with which,” said Mr. Glimmer-
but Lerwick, in Shetland, besides hav- | ton, “I fancy we are all of us more or
ing only a single street possesses only | less likely to be afflicted, I would in
one tree, and it is not a very tall one
either. There are no land birds there,
not even a sparrow; but the sea gulls
are plentiful,
The inhabitants of Shetland are
very proud of their tree and very kind |
to the gulls, of whom the children |
make pets. Children who are brought
for the first time to see the wonders
of one-streeted Lerwick are always
shown, as a great curiosity, “the only |
tree in Shetland.”
The sea gulls are the sparrows ol
Lerwick; and as such they have ¢
greater share in the town’s life thav
the sparrows of London.
morning you will note that a sea gul'
sits on every chimney. pot. Sea gulls
swoop and hover over every roof ir
town. The air is full of their strange
high, plaintive, haunting cries.
Every house has §s own familia
gea gulls and every street its owr
band of them.
Fruit Magazine, they never mix.
children in each house have a pe!
name for their own particular se:
gulls; and, having called them by
In the
some cases prescribe rest, though in
most cases no doubt the proper pre-
scription would be exertion.
“The trouble with the rest cure i=
that it is like taking oplates; the
more you take the more you want, The
rest habit is easy to acquire and hard
to bresk.
“The habit of exertion, on the con-
trary, is one that commonly we dé not
take to se kindly; it does not, as it
were, spontaneously permeate us as
the rest habit does; it may in fact re-
quire assiduous cultivation, and it
takes quite a man to acquire this
habit in a completely saturating and
permanent form so that he is proof
against attacks of the rest habit,
' which, if he has a trace of it left in
But, according fo the |
The |
those names, they feed them every!
day.
Each sea gull knows what is mean’
for him. No bird attached to ont
house ever seeks to eat the food scat
does not dare to do so. So all day
the roofs of Lerwick.
The people of the town if they come
across a little pile of rice laid upon tht
him, is sure to develop on the slight-
est provocation.
“Exertion is the only real cure. It
may be hard to take at
you'll come to like it.
first, but
Persist and
you'll find it vastly strengthening and |
and then, while in’
then delightful;
taking the rest cure you are all the
time paying money out, in taking this
one you have money all the time com-
ing in.
“Try work, continuous, steady,
hard work. Once get the habit of
| work embedded in your system and
tered from the house next door. He | YOu won't be troubled any more by
| that tired feeling.”
long the sea gulls hover and call ove |
roadway step over it with care. The) |
know that it has been placed there fo
some sea gull.
gulls leave their appointed chimney
pots and fly gracefully away to thei
resting places on the rocks of the
Isle of Noss.
And at night the se: |
Merchant Told of the Strong Attach-
ment of King Edward for
John Bright.
An interesting account is given for
the first time of an incident which
began the friendship that existed be-
tween John Bright and King Edward
VII. The story was told by Mr. Bright
in the hearing of Mr. Connah, a mer-
chant in Manchester. Mr. Bright, it
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be granted the privilege of being «yy. orien wonder,” says the Spring. | PC" next. Destiny may be waiting round
counted among the tribune’s friends.
“Whatever may be my personal opin-
ion of kings and princes,” Bright said,
concluding his narration of the iaci-
dent, “the man before me was a son
making an appeal on behalf of his |
mother, and T could not resist it. We convenient to pick a few mushrooms
|
shook hands, and have Been close] in a nearby field and die at honie sur-
field Union, “why anyone should put
himself to the trouble and expense of
going to the Adirondacks or the Maine
woods to be shot in mistake for a deer
when it is so much easier and more
friends over singe ~Chriatian Sek rounded by one’s sorrowing relatives.” |
ence Moniter.
Medical.
New Heat Unit,
The use of gas for heating as well |
as lighting has made obsolete the old
unit the candle power, owing to the
fact that this unit rates merely the
brightness of the flame, not the heat- | D 0 n't O V e r-lo 0 k
ing power. Thi S
Deville and more recent experi-
menters discovered a remarkable pro-
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portion between the light and heat of
a mantle, and using this, makers are
rating burners according to the units READER.
of heat given to them per unit of |
time in standard calorics. Gas of 5,- |
200 calorics efficiency a cubic meter |
has been recommended as the stand- |
ard.
The latest designs of burners for | Mrs C. Johnson. 33 E. Bishop St..Belle-
heat and lighting require that the gas A fonte, Pa, : "1 cannot say too much
have a fairly constant consumption, | are the best Re
since the maximum efficiency of the, acheand other symptoms of kidney com-
burner is attained only when the rela- | Dla. 2 coe tine Fas Nat oo Yams
, tive quantities of air and gas are| and dizzy spells were
| closely regulated. Water gas may be |
added to ~~event excessive variation
: in calorific value.—America.
med I had taken.
An Incident of the Road. kidney secretions became natural and the
“Stop!” cried the man in the road.| Pains and lameness in my back, was re.
“You are exceeding the speed limit.” |
“That's all nonsense,” retorted |
Binks, bringing his car to a stand-
still. i
“That's what they all say,” said the
man in the road, cl. bing into the car.
“You can tell your story to the mag-
istrate at Hinktown—jest seven miles a ave. taken
up the road. Start along, please.” t Doan's Ridney His and in each case
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he. “You can settle that matter of
speed with the magistrate if you want
| the corner this minute.
—Not being able 10 make an excuse
| sometimes a man is compelled to speak
the truth.
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OLD FASHIONED FAMILY PEW seems, had, at a meeting in St. James’
, hall, rebuked those people who were
In That Rested the Strength of the A criticising Queen Victoria for her rare
Church, and It Should Be | appearances at public functions after
Restored. | the passing away of the prince con-
sort. On the following morning the
private secretary of King Edward
(then Prince of Wales) called upon
Mr, Bright with a special request from
the prince to call upon him at Marl-
One sometimes hears a deal of non
sense about the danger of creating
préjudice against religion in the mind
of a child by making him attend
chuseh once a week. The danger | borough house. Mr. Bright at first
would seem to be about one-tenth as demurred, but yielding to the pleading
great as that of arousing a prejudice | ©f the messenger, he went, and he
against education by sending him to Was received in the most friendly
school twice a day. In both cases the | manner by the prince and introduced
remedy lies in the good sense of the | 10 the family circle. The prince took
parents and their estimate of the | Mr. Bright aside and as a son thanked
value of religion and education care. | him for his kindly words on behaif
fully instilled into the ciifid's mind. | ©f the mourning queen, and asked to
The strength of the church has been
to. As a stranger in these here parts
I don’t think my word would go for
much.”
White Heron in New Jersey.
Local naturalists 1d bird lovers are
interested in a number of white heron
which are making their headquarters
at Avis’ Pond, Woodstown, N. J.,
about a mile from town. The birds
were first noticed out a week ago.
These are the bir’ from which aig-
rettes are obtained. Extinction of the
species is feared because the aigrettes
can be obtained o ly when the bird
is raising its young, and its death at
the hgnds of the hunter algo means
starvation of the young heron.
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him to sit around and take things:
down !
in the old-fashioned pew, with father
at one ond and mother at the other,
and un stairway of more or less restless
children. From that pew have gone
out the upright, devout, consecrated
men and women who have loved the
church and maintained her worship
and done her work in their several
generations. For the sake of the
church, and especially for the sake of
the children, let it be restored.
If it be impossible for the children
{ to attend both Sunday school and the
| church service, this writer would by
{all means teach them the catechism
at home and bring them to church
! that they may learn to worship God in
| the congregation of his people.~South-
| era €hurchman,
Valuable Jamaican Woods.
The most valuable of the Jamaican
| woods are the yaca, the bully tree,
| fronwood, hahoe, juniper, cedar, ma-
! hogany, lignum vitae, ebony, fiddle
wood, yoke, prickly yellow, broad leaf,
i soapwood, cashew and calabash. Hard-
| wood is used principally for railway
! sleepers, telegraph poles and fence
posts, cedars used chiefly for native
shingles and furniture, and other
woods are used in building houses in
| the highlands. Unfortunately the
| streams are not large enough to log
| them to the coast, Wt there is no rea
| son why portable engines and saw-
| mills should not be utilized so as to
| turn these woods into the market.
How Perfume Is Weighed.
! It was the Italian physician Salvi
joni who devised a microbalance of
! such extreme delicacy that it clearly
demonstrated the loss of weight of
musk by volatilization. Thus*the in.
visible perfume floating off in the air
{18 indirectly weighed.
The essential part of the apparatus
iis a very thin thread of glass, fixed
{at one end and extended horizontally.
The microscopic objects to be weighed
are placed upon the glass thread near
its free end and the amount of flexure
produced is observed with a micro
scope magnifying 100 diameters.
A mote weighing one thousandth
of a milligram is said perceptildy to
bend the thread.—Buffalo Courier.
Cheap Mode of Living.
With no rent to pay, no street car
fares or other of the usual unavoid-
able city expenses to meet, the basge
and canal boat men of the Nether-
lands live possibly the most frugal
lives of any of the urbaa workisg
classes in Europe. They, with their
families, exist in the hulls of their
craft. The rooms are small, with lit
tle ventilation, and necessarily low to
enable the boats to pass under the
bridges. The decks form the chil
dren's playground. Chickens are
sometimes kept on the boat and cob
sume the garbage.
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