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Making a Victoria Cross. |
Ever since the Victoria cross was |
instituted by Queen Victoria at the !
end of the Crimean war the making of i
the medals has been in the hands of |
the same firm. The ordinary medal is |
made from a steel die, being stamped |
and completed in the same process. |
But the metal from which the Victoria |
crosses are made is so hard that no
die would stand it without breaking. |
It is well known that the first crosses |
were made from captured Russian
guns, but now the materials come from
guns taken from the Chinese. With
an order for the cross is sent a supply |
of the metal.
First a rough cast of the cross is |
made, and this has to be filed, drilled |
and chased. The chasing occupies the |
attention of a skilled artisan for many |
hours. The bar is a separate casting |
and is also chased. The authorities |
are most careful to see that none of
the metal is wasted. It is most care- |
fully served out, and if any is left over
from one lot of crosses it is used up |
before a fresh supply can be obtained. |
—London Globe.
Signing Diplomatic Notes.
No one can say exactly why our sec-
retaries of state sign diplomatic com-
munications with their surnames only,
except that it has always been so. We
copied the custom from European chan-
celleries, and it probably has tts origin
in the habit of royalty, which is to
sign with one name only. Thus King
George of England signs himself
“George, R. 1.” (Rex, Imperator—King,
Emperor); Sir Edward Grey signed al-
ways as ‘Grey;” the democratic Mr.
Bryan when secretary of state affixed
his signature to diplomatic notes as
“Bryan.” At first sight there seems to
be a profound flattery implied in the
custom. It assumes that the signer
cannot be mistaken; that there is only
one “George,” and “Grey,” one “Bry-
an.” And generally there is only one
in the diplomatic world where these
exchanges take place.—New York Sun.
Effects of Arsenic.
“Arsenic, as science has long told us,
is an accumulative poison,” said a
druggist. “When one takes it either bry
prescription for the upbuilding of an
appetite or for the bleaching of the
skin he does not feel any ill effects for
several years. The effect of the drug
is bracing and makes a person feel
like eating. It also aids the digestion.
The average user of the poison takes
it in such small quantities that he does
not realize how much of it will ac-
cumulate in his system in the course
of four or five years.
“Being an accumulative poison, it
often takes that length of time to see
the results of the drug. Then the user
may complain of not being able to con-
trol his fingers or toes. Subsequently
he loses control of his hands and arms.
Paralysis, superinduced by arsenical
poisoning, is the fearful result.”
Got There All Right.
Many years ago, at the beginning of
November, a missive bearing the St.
Albans postmark ed St. Martin's.
The envelope was ressed “lud mar
lunding.” Neither tail nor head could
be made out of this by the staff, so the
envelope was opened for a clew. The
letter read, ‘“kenyobiauosfoyosho bil
igs.”
The practiced St. Martin's decipherer
of puzzles promptly made out the sig-
nature as “Bill Higgs.” With the key
this afforded the rest was deliciously
easy. The message was, “Can you
buy a horse for your show?’ and “lud
mar’ meant “lord mayor.” So the let-
ter, with an official translation consid-
erately appended, was delivered to the
lord mayor elect.—London Mail.
Many Uses For Sawdust.
Sawdust is valuable. It can be used
for almost anything except iv. Used
as an absorbent for nitroglycerin it
produces dynamite. Used with clay
and burned it produces a terra cotta
brick full of small cavities that, owing
to its lightness and its properties as
a nonconductor, makes excellent fire-
proof material for walls or floors.
Treating it with fused caustic alkali
produces oxalic acid. Treating it with
sulphuric acid and fermenting it with
the sugar so formed produces alcohol.
Mixed with a suitable binder and com-
pressed it can be used for making
moldings and imitation carvings. If
mixed with portland cement it pro-
duces a flooring material.—Philadel-
phia Record.
Ivory In Siberia.
An enormous suppply of ivory exists
in the frozen tundras of Siberia, which,
it is thought, will probably suffice for
the world’s consumption for many
years to come.
the tusks of the extinct species of ele-
phants callel mammoths. The tusks
of these animals were of great size
and are wonderfully abundant at some
places in Siberia, where the frost has
perfectly preserved them.
Tree In a Chimney.
On the island of Trinidad is a lone
brick chimney which once was part of
a sugar mill long since gone to ruin.
The chimney has remained intact, and
a tree has grown up through the cen-
ter and pushed its branches through
the top.
Love.
At twenty love is a rosy dream, at
thirty it is a thrilling reality, at forty
it is a calm contentment, and at fifty
it is a reminiscence.
| him. He was the obliging mechanie,
This ivory consists of
——Subsecribe for the “Watchman.”
Worked the Car Owners.
Quite recently patrons of & well
known New York restaurant, who
were in the habit of leaving their
cars unattended outside, uncovered the
methods of a new kind of practical
joker, new because he was practical.
It appears that almost every day
some one would have trouble in get- |
ting his car started. After he had!
tinkered for a few minutes an obliging
mechanic would stroll up, proffer his
aid and have the engine running in no
time. Two actors happened to com-
pare notes one day and found that this |
incident had occurred to both of them.
They immediately became suspicious
and on leaving the restaurant saw the
man working at a car a short distance
down the street. By quick action one
of them pounced on him and caught
and after his arrest it developed that |
he had deliberately disconnected por-
tions of the cars’ electrical systems |
and then had collected substantial re- |
wards from puzzled owners for serv-
ices rendered in starting the machines.
—Motor Life. |
How Wood Shrinks. :
Students in the college of forestry at
the University of Washington have
proved by experiment that a cord of |
full length wood when sawed and re-
piled in the ordinary stack shrinks on
an average 21.76 per cent. As dealers
buy wood in full lengths and usually
measure it for delivery before sawing
it, they are often accused of giving
short measure.
A “cord” is the standard measure-
ment of wood, and it is defined as 128
cubic feet of wood, measured by a pile
four feet high and eight feet wide of
logs four feet long.
The discrepancy between the cord as
bought by the dealer and as delivered
to the customer, according to Professor
Hugo Winkenwerder, dean of the col-
lege, is not entirely explained by the
sawdust. When wood is piled up in
four foot lengths there are many spaces
between sticks, caused by knots and
curvatures. These spaces are elim-
inated when the wood is cut up small.
Ancestry of Modern Dogs.
According to Charles R. Eastman,
writing in the Museum Journal, our
modern dogs have a varied ancestry,
some being descended from Asiatic
and some from African species. The
spitz in all its varieties is a domesti-
cated jackal. The mastiff and St. Ber-
nard and their kind are descended
through the molossus of the Romans
from a huge, wolflike creature that was
already domesticated by the Assyro-
Babylonians 3,000 years before our era.
The Russian borzoi and the Sicilian
hound had their origin in the Cretan
hound, which is still common in Crete,
and it and its cousin, the Ibaza hound
of the Balearic islands, came from the
ancient Ethiopian hound, which was a
domesticated wolf. The collie or shep-
herd dog seems to come down direct
from a small wild dog of the paleolith-
je period.
Here's a Tip About Hotel Guests.
In the American Magazine a writer
says:
“Here's a funny thing, by the way,
that I’ve noticed about hotel guests:
You leave a soiled towel in a room
and the guest will probably complain,
but you can leave a bucket of paint
and a paper hanger’s scaffold in the
hallway and compel the guest to crawl
under a stepladder to get to his room
and he will put up with it cheerfully,
because he knows you are painting or
papering by way of making an im-
provement and he is in sympathy with
that. It doesn’t cost much to make
over a carpet so that a bare spot in
front of the dresser will be eliminated,
but such little details are a vast help
in making a hotel prosper.”
The “Only Child.”
When parents have an “only child”
it seems to get as much attention as
six or eight children in a large family.
Some statistics show that out of a hun-
dred “only children” eighty-seven were
nervous, the girls suffering worse than
the boys. And then the statisticians
say the only child lacks self reliance,
is precocious, vain and unsociable, is
often extremely timid, being afraid of
dark rooms and of sleeping alone.—
Exchange.
It's an Ill Wind.
“Rejected you, did she, old man?’
“Yes.”
“Poo bad! No doubt you bad plan-
ned to buy her a ring and all that?”
“Yes.”
“Had your money all saved up, eh?”
«I should say so. Had $50 all ready.”
“I say, old man, you—er—couldn’t
lend me that $50.till you find some oth-
er girl who will have you, could you?”
-—Boston Transcript.
Worse Still.
“Does you father ever comment on
my staying so late at night?”
“No, Algernon.”
“That's geod.”
“But he sometimes makes sarcastic
remarks about your staying so early
in the morning.” — Birmingham Age-
Herald.
Cause and Effect.
She—So you danced with Miss Light-
foot at the ball last night? He—Yes.
Did she tell you? Sbhe—Oh, no. ButI
saw her going into a chiropodist’s this
morning.
Mosquito Netting.
Mosquito netting is an ancient Greek
if not Egyptian invention, even if it
does seem a Yankee idea.
It is easier for the generous to for-
give than for offense to ask it.—Thom-
son.
What It Would Be.
‘A teacher was endeavoring to ex-
plain the term ‘facsimile’ to his class.
“Now,” he remarked to one sharp
youth, “what is your father's trade or
profession?”
“He's a lithographer,” was the reply.
“Very well. Supposing a man came
Mr. and Mrs. Romanoff are Hoeing
Potatoes.
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Romanoff,
with the Misses and Master Romanoff,
have joined the “back-to-the-soil”
movement. They are hoeing potatoes
in the park of Tsarkoe Selo palace—
were known as the royal family, used
to deal out life and death to all the
Russians. -
The spectacle of the seven mem-
bers of the erstwhile royalty garbed
in peasants’ clothing and doing peas-
ants’ work, is being enjoyed by big
audiences daily. Soldiers and civil-
ians alike line the fence to the estate,
want]
oe - —
watching every movement of the
, shovels and trowels that the former
| czar, czarina, czarevitch and the four
grand duchesses make.
According to their latest state-
ments, Canadian banks had on depos-
| it something more than $1,500,000,
000. Last year’s increase was $232,-
i now. In either case I reckon it would
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to your father with a document which !
he wanted reproducing in every partic-
ular, your father agreed and the docu-
ment was faithfully copied, what
would it be?”
“Well,” replied the boy thoughtfully,
“jt depends.” !
«On what?’ asked the teacher.
“Qn the document.”
“How so?"
“Well, if it was a ten dollar bill, for |
instance, the other would be a counter-
feit. If the document was a check the
copy would be a forgery.” i
“You #lon't understand what I mean.”
“Qh, yes, I'm quite sure IL do,” went
on the boy. “I'm just coming to it
be about ten years.”
Bostones.
“When the Boston girl wishes her pet
dog to stand on his hind legs,” remark-
ed the observer of events and things,
“she requests him to assume a ram-
pant attitude.” —Yonkers Statesman.
Surnames.
Surnames were introduced into Eng-
land by the Normans and were adopt-
ed by the nobility in 1100.
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PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT.
Headache and Sick Stomach.
This condition results from im-
perfect digestion. Whether it has
been caused by eating too much
food, which has disturbed diges-
tion, the treatment remains the
same, and this is to empty the
stomach. Drinking one tumbler-
ful of water after another as rap-
idly as possible until six or eight
glasses are taken is the quick-
est way of washing offending
substances out of the stomach.
If this is done in ten minutes one
will have relief from the sick
feeling and headache and be
ready to go to sleep or to go
about again in comfort. This
method of tweating a sick head-
ache is also good for attacks of
acute indigestion. Half an hour
after the stomach has become
comfortable it is well to take a
seidlitz powder or a dose of ci-
trate of magnesia. Either of
these remedies will bring up the
gas, sweeten the stomach and
give one a clean, pleasant taste
in the mouth.
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SATURDAY
AKING day. A roaring hot fire! Goodness knows it’s
hot enough anywhere this weather, but that kitchen is
almost unbearable. Why should it be? There's another way.
All over this nation busy housewives are using
sr,
and they get the same big brown loaves, crisp cookies and
flaky pies without heating up the whole house and wearing
themselves all out.
A Perfection is always ready to fry, boil or roast. No wdit-
ing for the fire to draw up. Wo carrying wood, shoveling coal
and toting ashes. The fireless cooker and the separate oven
are two big features. Ask your dealer.
Perfection Oil Cook Stoves burn the most economical of fuels
— kerosene. And the best kerosene is Atlantic Rayolight.
Ask for it at the store that displays this sign: “Atlantic
Rayolight Oil for Sale Here.”
"THE ATLANTIC REFINING COMPANY
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh J
ATLANTIC
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Dry Goods.
Dry Goods.
Mid-Summer
We have too many Under
have to make a sale to
CORSET
Lace or Embroidered trimmed,
. 50 cents, sale
$3.50, our price $2.25.
quality $1.50, our price $1.00.
at less than cost to manufacture.
COAT SVITS
sizes, at greatly reduced prices.
SILK
65c Silk Boot, Black and White,
black, white and colors, value $1
All sizes in Silk Gloves, colors
our price 75 cents.
SHOES!
old price. Men's, Women’s an
price. Men’s Shoes from $1.75
$1.50 a pair up.
Come in and look over our stock
LYON & COMPANY.
have made cpecial lots of the following:
NIGHT GOWNS.
Low neck, short sleeves, good quality nainsook, choice of lace or
Embroidery and scalloped trimmed, value 7
Better Quality in the exclusive Dove Brand,
Made of fine Nainsook val. lace or fine embroidery trimmed, re-
inforced arm holes, well finished, quality 75c, sale price 48c.
Dove Brand, Silk Crepe de Chine Envelope Chemise, quality
Dove Brand, Silk Crepe de Chine Wash Satin Corset Covers’
FF Dove Brand Night Gowns, Umbrella Drawers, and Petticoats
We have a large assortment of Suits and Coats, all colors, all
mms
All our Silk Hose must be sold at a sacrifice during this sale.
SILK G
Why pay more for Shoes when we can sell you Shoes at the
Children’s Shoes from 75 cents a pair up.
save money.
Lyon & Co. --. Bellefonte.
If Style, Value and Service Mean
Aught to You---You'll Wear
High-Art Clothes
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Summer Muslins and will
reduce our stock. We
sc, sale price 48c.
COVERS.
all sizes, qualities 35 cents and
price 23c.
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AND COATS
Our comfort in selling men and young men these un-
usual clothes lies in the fact that their strength is
“triple.” The genius who designs them stands {ore-
most in his profession. :
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gor The policy of Strouse & Brothers, their makers, in-
volves small profit on large sales. And this sterling
product, backed by our warranty, and that of its mak-
ers, assures service unexcelled.
HIGH-ART CLOTHES
await your inspection at our store.
$18.00 to $25.00
| FAUBLE’S.
Allegheny St. s+ BELLEFONTE, PA.
our price 35c. Pure Silk Hose,
.35, our price 95 cents.
LOVES.
black and white, $1.00 quality,
SHOES !!
d Children’s Shoes at the old
a pair up. Ladies’ Shoes from
, you will surely be pleased and .