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Bellefonte, Pa., January 16, 1914.
ES TNA,
Hardening Soft Iron.
To harden soft iron wet it with wa-
ter and scatter over its surface pow-
dered yellow prussiate of potash: then
heat to a cherry red heat. which causes
the potash to melt and coat the sur-
face of the soft iron: then immerse
quickly in cold water and repeat the
operation. A white heat must not be
used, as this would not harder. but
oxidize the iron. Care must be taken
not to use red prussiate of potash in-
stead of the yellow: it will not an-
sSwer. :
Granted the Request.
The Irishman in France had been
challenged to a duel. “Shure he
cried. “we'll fight wid shillalahs!”
“That won’t do.” said his second.
“As the challenged party you have the
right to choose the arms, but chivalry
demands that you should decide upon
a weapon with which Frenchmen are
familiar.”
“Is that so. indade?” returned the
generous Irishman. “Then we'll foight
it out wid guillotines.”—New York
Times.
First Hunger Strike.
Cleopatra seems to have been the
first hunger striker. Shakespeare rep-
resents her as saying when she was
captured:
Sir, I will eat no meat; I'll not drink, sir;
I'll not sleep neither; this mortal house
I'll ruin.
Do Caesar what he can. Know, sir, that l
Will not wait pinioned at your master’s
court.
—Argonaut.
Ominously Strange.
The dear girl said to her father:
“Papa, George Beecham has pro-
posed.”
“Humph!” her father
“What's his income?”
The girl started.
“How strange! How very strange!”
she said. "That's the very question
George asked me about you.”’—Ex-
change.
returned.
A Business Asset.
“Now,” said the professor, “when
you have taken a few lessons in acting
I think I can commend you as a high-
ly competent dentist.”
“Why do 1 want lessons in acting?”
“After you have assured a patient
that you are not going to hurt him you
must show great skill in displaying
grief and surprise when he yells.”—
New York Gloke.
Rain From a Tree.
On one of the Canary islands there
is said to be a tree which dispels from
its branches actual rain to such an ex-
tent that a cistern placed at its base is
never unfilled. This tree grows in one
of the dryest isands. through which no
water ever flows, The branches of the
trees are a cloud that changes into
moisture frequently and sheds clear |
water.
Pretty Warm.
Once a visitor was narrating a case
he had just heard in court. This was
his way of expressing his meaning:
“At this point,” said the narrator,
“ghe broke down and wept scalding
tears.” |
“My goodness,” exclaimed a listener,
“she must have been boiling over with
rage!”’—London Telegraph.
Well Trained.
Miss Wilkins, the primary teacher,
was instructing her small charges.
“Name one thing of importance that
did not exist 100 years ago,” said the
teacher.
Ralph Franklin, an only child, who
was seated in the front row, promptly
arose and answered:
“Me.”—Harper’'s Magazine.
He Had Been There.
Rodrick—Howdy, old man? We are
going on a camping trip socn.- Did you
ever enjoy a camping trip where you
had to do your own cooking and sleep
beneath the stars? Van Albert—Nope.
Rodrick—What? Do you mean to say
you have never been on a camping
trip? Van Albert—No. I mean to say
that I never enjoyed one. — Chicago
News.
Crazy.
“We find the prisoner not guilty by
reason of insanity.”
“But the plea was not that of insan-
ity,” remarked the court.
“That's just the point we made,” re-
joined the foreman. “We decided that
any man who didn’t have sense enough
to know that an insanity plea was the
proper caper must be crazy.”—Phila-
delphia Ledger.
Their First Meeting.
«1 am very glad to meet you again,
Miss Dowsley,” he said when they
had been introduced to each other.
“Again?’ she replied. “Why, have
we met before?”
“Well, perhaps we haven't exactly
met before, but you tickled my chin
with your feather for about an hour
one evening in an elevated car.”—Chi-
cago Record-Herald.
CHEERFULNESS.
It is generally supposed that a
light and buoyant temperament
tends to frivolity and to fickleness,
but no man is so well qualified to
discharge the duties of life as one
who acts through a temperament
that is glowing and genial.
1
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The crater of Halemaumau, Hawaii. ’
Islands In a Volcano.
presents a particularly impressive
sight, for the surface of the boiling
lava supports several boating islands. |
According to Frank A. Perret. most |
of *he larger islands seem to be caus-
ed by the fall of masses from ‘the cra-
ter wall, and some of them last for a
year or more before they are finally
melted. The phenomenon bears a cer-
tain resemblance to the formation and
melting of icebergs. When the islands
finally sink the lava surface oscillates
like boiling molasses. When one is-
land disappeared it caused a huge sau-
sage shaped. gas inflated bubble of
black lava glass no less than 170 feet |
long.—Youth’s Companion.
A Legacy of the Distant Past.
“Did you ever notice.” asked the ex-
perienced restaurateur. “that when one
man is giving a dinner to another the
waiter upon opening a bottle of wine
generally poufs a little into the glass
of the host and then proceeds to fill
the other man's glass to the top? If
you asked the waiter why he did that
he probably would be unable to tell
you, but as a matter of fact it is a sur-
vival of feudal days. when life was
held somewhat more lightly than to-
day. It is intended to give the host
an opportunity of taking the first taste
of the wine in order to assure his
guest that it is not poisoned.”—New
York Tribune.
In Extremis.
Late one night .a clergyman was
called out to minister to an old man—
a worker upon the adjacent railway—
who was supposed to be dying. The
summons was brought by another old
man, the elder brother of the stricken
one. While he was bustling about. |
making preparations for departure, the :
clergyman forgot momentarily the so-
cial status of his visitor and asked.
“Is he in extremis?”’
The old man was not going to be
beaten. ‘‘Aye, he's right in, your rev-
erence.” After a pause he added as a
clincher: “Clean in, poor chap; right |
up to the neck. sir.’—Cornhill Maga- |
zine.
Fire Terms In Japan.
Fires in Japan are so common that,
this destructive agency has estab- |
lished itself as a national institution. |
and a whole vocabulary has grown up !
to express every shade of meaning in!
matters fiery. The Japanese language |
has special terms for an incendiary |
fire. an accidental fire, fires starting |
from one’s own house, a fire caught
from next door, a fire which one shares
with others. a fire which is burning to |
an end. the flame of a fire. anything—
for instance. a brazier, from which a!
fire may arise; the side from which to |
attack a fire in order to extinguish it;
a visit of condolence after a fire.—Lon- |
don Mail.
Sterne’s Destitution.
Laurence Sterne, the writer, was the |
victim of the intensest poverty. A lit
tle time before his death, being in a
state of destitution, he went one even-
ing to borrow £5 from his friend Gar-
rick. Upon arriving he heard music
and knew that a party was going on.
He heard the merry laughter and.
gently replacing the uplifted knocker,
retraced his steps. 3
We never feel our miseries so keenly
as when contrasted with the joys of
others. and it is only then that we
realize Wordsworth’s picture:
And homeless near a thousand homes I
stood
And near a thousand tables
pined for food.
—Exchange.
Some Satisfaction.
During the staging of a series of
Shakespeare's plays in one week at
Stratford-on-Avon not only were the
performers tired out, but the heavy
shifting and many changes had also
wearied the scene shifters and proper-
ty men. One night just after a strong
death scene, when F. R. Benson as
one of the English kings had drawn
his last breath, one of the stage hands
was heard to observe in a growling
undertone to one of his fellows, “Well,
Bill, thank heaven there's another
bloody king dead!”
Women In England.
In the seventeenth century English-
women were recognized as possessing
an economic and political status side
by side with Englishmen. There was
written an interesting entry in the
church warden's accounts of St. Mar-
tin’s-in-the-Fields, proving that one
Elizabeth Bartlett was intrusted with
the casting of the second bell and that
all the women employed thus were
paid at the same rate as men for the
same work. Another instance is to be
found in the records of the Fleet pris-
on, of which the first female warden,
appointed in 1217 on the death of her
husband Robert, received the same
salary “as the said Robert had been
accustomed to during his life.”
The Right Bone.
“Fred, dear, 1 feel it in my bones
that you are going to take me to the
theater tonight.”
“Which bone, darling?”
“I'm not sure, but I think it’s my
wishbone.”
Very True.
“Dere am nuffin’ in dis worl’ mo’ eas-
ier t’ git dan de t'ing we doan’ happen
t' want.”—Puck.
Work.
Let a broken man cling to his work.
If it saves nothing else it will save
him.—Henry Ward Beecher.
Yellowstone Park.
There are between 5,000 and 10,000
hot springs of every variety in the
Yellowstone National park. :
A Source of Glory.
All Scotsmen take a pride in their
native land. but none more than the
old gardener of Duddingston. of whom
the New York Tribure tells the follow-
| ing story: :
The gardener was showing to a tour-
ist the beauties of the loch and of the
little village. It was evening. and as
he expiated on the lovely scene and on
the glories of his country. the moon
rose over a hill.
The old man stopped short in the
middle of a speech and gazed at the |
moon in admiration.
After a moment he turned to the
tourist and said: “There's a moon fur
ye! I tell ye. mon, we're a grand na-
tion!”
Altered the Case.
“Henry. what is this underworld
there is so much talk about?’ *The
underworld is a genera! term that is
applied to the class which is made up
of people who trade on vice and live
by criminal practices.” “Dear me!
Why is such a class permitted to ex-
ist?” “Oh. it serves its purpose.” “In
what way. | should like to know?”
“For one thing. if there were no such
class I'm afraid I'd have to go out of
the law business right away. and 1
don’t know of anything else that 1
could make a living at.” “Well, of
course. that being the case. | suppose
we ought to look at it sensibly, but 1
almost wish you had studied to be a
doctor.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
Sharks and Divers.
The fully equipped modern diver
does not dread sharks in the depths,
though there are cases on record where
these monsters have bitten savagely at
the air pipe, causing a serious leak and
almost drowning the man before he
could be hauled up. Sharks are, how-
ever, notoriously timid, and all the ex-
perienced diver has to do to frighten
them away is to open one of the air
valves in his dress and cause a stream
of bubbles to rise up all around him,
whereupon the “tiger of the deep” will
make off in abject terror.
Carrot Pudding.
One cupful of grated carrots, one
cupful of grated potatoes, one cupful
of sugar, one cupful of flour, one-half
cupful of raisins and currants mixed,
two teaspoonfuls of all kinds of spice
mixed, one teaspoonful of soda, one tea-
spoonful of salt. Mix all together and
steam for three hours. Grease a smi.ll
pail and put the dough in it. Set the
| pail in a kettle of boiling water. keep- |
ing the water well up near the top of
the pail. Cover kettle over so all the
steam may be kept in as much as pos-
sible.—Boston Post.
How Frozen Insects Revive.
Experiments in reviving frozen in-
sects by a naturalist show some sur-
prising results. A large cecropia moth,
frozen in the center of a snowball un-
| til it was perfectly brittle, revived in
twenty seconds when held near a stove. |
Several newly hatched io moths reviv-
ed in a similar manner after being
frozen stiff and then thawed out. Sim-
ilar experiments with ants, butterflies
and houseflies gave the same results.
But the naturalist noticed that recent-
ly hatched insects resist cold better
than older ones,
Pulled Out His Own Teeth,
An inmate ot the lunatic asylum at
Chalons, France, had the obsession
that his breath smelled so bad that no
girl would accept him as a husband.
Brooding over this totally imaginary
defect, he decided that his teeth must
be the cause of it. He abstracted a
forceps from the surgeon's case and,
when he found himself alone, carefully
pulled out all his teeth. The wounds
healed rapidly. and the poor maniac
confessed that the operation had been
very painful.
Some Sentence!
The champion speller of congress has
on tap a great assortment of stories
dealing with words and spelling.
One of his linguistic feats is to reel
off a sentence of twenty-six words,
each word beginning with the succes-
give letters of the alphabet, like this:
“A boy cannot dig easily for gold;
hence, if just keeping lead melted
needs oxygen put quicksilver, rapidly
saturated, timidly under vitriol, when
xebecs yean zeolites.””—Popular Mag-
azine.
The Walking Stick.
One does not look to one’s walking
stick to tell the date, but earlier sticks
often combined the functions of aima-
nacs and staffs, for our first almanacs
were simply ‘the courses of the
moones of the whole year engraved
upon sticks,” and those who went on
distant pilgrimages soon saw. the ad-
vantage of turning the heads of their
staffs into almanacs. Their sticks
were at once props and guides to as-
gist them in arriving at the recognized
assembling places of pilgrims at the
correct time.—London Globe.
Peor Angel.
“] wonder,” said the sweet young
thing, “why a man is always so fright-
ened when he proposes?”
“That,” said the chronic bachelor, *“‘is
his guardian angel trying to hold him
back.”
The Pigeon.
Many birds form their sounds with-
out opening their bills. The pigeon is
a well known example.
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Switzerland and Scotland.
Switzerland shares with Scotland the
distinction of being the best educated
country in the world.
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The Poor Poet.
“The poet is born, not made,” sayeth
the proverb. In other words, it isn’t
his own fault. :
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THE CHILD, THE STAR AND THE
| BIRD.
{ This might be called the Child Age, a
much more vital one than the Stone,
Bronze or Iron Ages.
An old gentleman avers that when he
was a boy some eighty years ago, all
reverence was given to old age, while
now all reverence is given to children,
so he has missed it altogether. Special
legislation is being made for the child.
i The hosts of Boy Scouts that marched
; to Washington were treated with almost
| the same consideration as the Army or
| Navy. A command has gone forth that
every child shall be educated.
Some people complain that he is being
| turned out a too finished product, that
he is really to step onto the top rung of
the ladder at the start, so that soon the
lower rungs will be empty.
i This however is not a paper to criticise
“the methods of training the child, it is
. on the other hand to ask for more for
him.
While the children are being taught
almost everything else, there are worlds
in the heavens of which they know noth-
ing.
As a rule the average child’s knowl-
‘ edge of the starry heavens begins and
ends with—
| “Twinkle twinkle little star
! How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
{ Like a diamond in the sky.”
One beautiful winter night when the
stars were shining I pointed out, to a
. boy walking with me, the Big Bear and
' the Little Bear and the evening Star.
The boy exclaimed “Is that what they
are? I thought they were just stars.”
. Some parents ridicule their children as
' they look at the planets and call them
| “star gazers,” and the boys most likely
turn to the pool table and strike a ball
| to cool their injured feelings. The worst
feature of the pool table is its being in-
doors. Any recreation that takes the chil-
, dren into the openlair has a double advan-
, tage. Please dolnot_ discourage them from
| hitching theirfwagons to the stars, “they
| will come to earth soon enough.” Again
, our trees are peopled by millions of
feathery inhabitants, that the average
boy knows{as;birds; good targets for his
sling shot.§His literary knowledge of the
bird is
“Wholkilled Cock Robin ?
I said the Sparrow
| With my bow and arrow
1 killed{Cock Robin.”
A very scientific tale it is, for who has |
, not seen the[outrageous enmity towards
| the robins exhibited by the sparrows?
| The latterfwill tear down one nest after
, anotherfbuilt;byfithe robins and finally
appropriate thelfmaterials for one of
their own. ’
| once asked a little boy whether he
knew the differentjkindsfof birds. He re-
plied, “I know a robin-a, and I know a
sparrow-ajand I know a hawk-a,” and
that endedfhis knowledge. Since I put
the question to him I'fnotice he is much
more observing of birds and has added
quite a few to his first list.
No doubt many children become dis-
couraged by their failure to catch the
robin whenl trying tojfput salt on his
tail. How many of;fus have not spent
many a futilethour withfthe salt in our
handsjhopingZforgsuccess. There is noth-
ing so discouraging as failure, in the end
, we tried to convincef{ourselves that we
did notfwant the robin after all, and gave
up all interest in birds, a pity! for the
birds must certainly have been sent to
us to know.8 Mostfchildren with a little
encouragement would be glad to know
them and would train themselves to
learn much by observation, and at the
same time {would} be fbreathing good,
pure, fresh air. Any boys or girls in-
terested in crowsswill have a fine oppor-
tunity of seeing them by walking to the
. “Pretty Turn” between Nittany Furnace
and Axe Mann about five o'clock in the
evening,” when thousands upon thous-
ands of crows fly liked black clouds
a
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Weak kidneys allow impurities to multi-
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