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~ Bellefonte, Pa. Octolhr 3, 1919,
EARTHS IN SOLAR SYSTEM
{Thousands of Asteroids, Mostly Small,
Known to Be Swinging Around
the Sun.
Swinging around the sun between
the planets Mars and Jupiter there are
more than a thousand little earths,
ranging in diameter from three to 485
miles. These are known as the aster-
oids, and although they pursue their
individual ways in the solar system
much like our own globe they are
too small to support any sort of life,
being unable to hold an atmosphere.
From time to time new asteroids are
discovered, not by astronomers pa-
tiently peering at the heavens through
a telescope, but by means of the photo-
graphic plate. A thousand have al-
ready beengfound, but it is likely that
thousands of smaller asteroids remain
to be discovered.
The four largest asteroids, Ceres,
Pallas, Vesta and Juno, are respec-
tively 485, 304, 243 and 118 miles in
diameter. A few more asteroids may
exceed 100 miles in diameter, but the
great majority are simply huge rocks
five miles or less in diameter. Unlike
the major planets, the asteroids are
not spheres, but simply jagged rocks,
huge mountains hurtling through
space, whirling round and round on
their axis as they journey about the
sun.
Possibly, as some have suggested,
they may be the larger fragments of
periodic comets of unusual size that
have in the course of ages been shorn
of their appendages.
MANIFOLD USES OF THE OX
Animal May With Truth Be Said to
Be Most Useful of All the
Domestic Animals.
Of all our domestic animals the ox
is certainly the most useful, writes
Henri Fabre in Our Humble Helpers.
During its lifetime it draws the cart
in mountainous regions and works at
the plow in the tillage of the fields;
furthermore, the cow furnishes milk
in abundance. Given over to the
butcher, the animal becomes a source
of manifold products, each part of its
body having a value of its own. The
fiesh is highly nutritious; the skin is
meade into leather for harness and
shoes; the hair furnishes stuffing for
saddles; the tallow serves for making
candles and soap; the bones, half cal-
cined, give a kind of charcoal or bone
black used especially for refining
sugar and making it perfectly white;
this charcoal, after thus being used;
is a very rich agricultural fertilizer;
heated in water to a high temperature,
the same bone yields the blue used by
carpenters; the largest and thickest
bones go to the turner’s shop, where
they are manufactured into buttons
and other small objects, the horns are
fashioned by the maker of small wares
into snuff boxes and powder boxes; the
blood is used concurrently with the
bone of black in refining sugar; the
intestines cured, twisted, and dried,
are made into strings for musical in-
struments; finally, the gall is fre-
quently turned to account by dyers and
cleaners in cleaning fabrics and par-
tially restoring their original luster.
Curious Clubs.
The recent announcement tnat an
English “Bald-Headed Men’s club” had
just met—the first time since 1916,
owing to the war—serves to recall one
or two odd clubs.
“The Fat Man’s club,” for instance,
was known to exist in Paris in 1897.
Its heaviest member turned the scale
at 336 pounds and the chief qualifica-
tion for membership was to weigh at
feast 220 pounds.
About this time there also met in
New York the “Society of the Pointed
Beards”—a most exclusive club. No
one was eligible unless he had a care-
fully cultivated beard of natural
growth and terminating in one sym-
metrical peint half an inch from the
apex of the chin. .
At two club dinners in 1898 even the
celery was Kkerved with its leaves
trimmed to a point.
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Thomas a Kempis.
“Here in the service of the Lord
Thomas a Kempis lived and wrote
“The Imitation of Christ,” are the
words that appear on the foot of
the monument to the author recently
erected at Zwolle. In a gentle spot,
surrounded by ancient oaks and firs,
and with shrubbery around, this mon-
ument stands on a hill which was
presented for the purpose by the van
Royen family. The monument is in
the shape of a cross with the mono-
gram of Christ and the symbols of the
four evangelists. The inscription on
the main part is “In Cruce Calus.”
Many subscriptions were received for
the monument as soon as the plan was
suggested in 1916. Queen Wilhelmina
was among those who gave.
Coating Iron With Lead.
Lead as a substitute for tin as a
coating for sheet iron, iron wire and
wire gauze was strongly advocated at
the Buffalo meeting of the American
Chemical society by Charles Basker-
ville, who exhibited some specimens
of a process worked out by him.
Iron shingles, so treated, have been
exposed to the weather in a roof test
for two years and eleven months and
show no signs of rust. They may be
bent without cracking the coating and
exposing the iron. Chicken wire so
' greated is quite as good as the galvan-
§zed and cheaper to produce,
GATHER STRAW FLOWERS.
If you are fortunate enough to have
any straw flowers in your garden do
gather some—not all in the garden,
but some and take them into the
house to add one cheerful note to the
cold, dreary months to come.
if you did not plant any Heilchrys-
um Monstrosum, which is the rather
long, tedius name by which the hota- '
nists know them, purchase a few seed
hext spring and sow in rather rich
soil in some sunny portion of the gar-
den, and then you can forget them.
They take care of themselves and
in August develop those queer gay,
rather prim, little posies.
One thing stray flowers demand is
room. Leave at least 12 to 14 inch-
es space each way.
They have no especial insect ene-
my, so do not need special care.
They are quite hardy annuals, so
do not have to be planted each year.
The texture of the stems and little
petals are unlike that of any other
plant. They resemble straw.
Pick them in mid-day and tie them
in a loose bunch and hang them in
some dry, sunny spot. You pick
them just as the petals are unfolding.
Do not wait until they open, else the
color will be more or less faded.
When they are open arrange them
in a gray, deep blue, dull orange or
green pottery jar. They will be love-
ly and you will be glad you have
them. They will retain their beauty
the entire winter and give just the
touch of color that you need to add
an atmosphere of joyousness to that
somber corner.
A bed of straw flowers presents a :
“Dolly Vardon” effect. When you
pick them select colors that will har-
monize best with the color of vour
bowl. If in your garden you have
more than you need give your neigh-
bor some. She will love them just as
surely as you do, and take a few to
the invalid you visit. They will be a
suggestion of the lovely months of
summer during all the long cold win-
ter.
Was Thinking of Him.
Newpop (walking the floor at 2 p.
m).—Mary, how can you lie there
sleeping without a single thought of
me.
Mrs. N.—You do me aa injustice,
dear. At that very moment 1 was
thinking how hard it would be for you
if the baby had been born twins.
The season for home canning
and drying does not end with sum- |
mer or early autumn. Many things
may be canned or dried in October
and November. Among these are
turnips, spinach, squash, pumpkin,
carrots, parsnips. cabbage. celery,
bests, late corn, kale, chard, salsify
and tomatoes.
For high class job work come
to the “Watchman” office.
$ COURT HOUSE NEWS ¢
INNA CINS INSTA I SNAP
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS,
J. W. Weaver, et ux, to Tresciz
Fink, tract in Huston township;
$2560.
D. F. Runkle to M. A. Miller, tract
in Huston township; $3800.
Moshannon National bank to W.
Alfred Svotts, tract in South Philips-
burg; $400.
Edward S. Bullock. et ux, to Geo.
G. Fink, tract in Worth township:
$3100.
John S. Beals to John Varner. et
al, tract in South Philipsburg; $400.
Grace M. Troy, et bar, to B. W.
Deitz, tract in Worth township;
$3100.
Elizabeth J. Erb to William Aus-
tin, tract in Philipsburg; $800.
.Elizabeth J. Erb to Louis Finberg,
tract in Philipsburg; $500.
Joseph C. Foreman Sr., to Samuel
Foreman, tract in Rush township; $1.
Susannah Hayes’ Admr. to Philin
E. Womelsdorf, tract in South Phil-
ipsburg; $260.
W. T. Bair, et ux, to Mary Alice
Snyder, tract in South Philipsburg; |
$750.
Bellefonte Cemetery Association to
ar L. Steele, tract in Bellefont:;
40.
Philipsburg Realty Co. to John
Gallo, tract in Philipsburg; $205.
Louisa H. Atherton to Roy Wilkin-
son, tract in Philipsburg; $3500.
G. W. Zettle to Ella M., Zettle, tract
in Boggs township; $1.
Susan Hamer, et al, to John Litke,
tract in Philipsburg; $1000.
Breeze M. Benner to State College
School Board, tract in State College;
$800. X
C. D. Houtz, et ux. to
Williams, tract in College township;
$400.
D. L. Leitzel, et ux, to M. I. Foi-
cey, tract in Philipsburg; $1.
RMinnie Fi.
Charles A. Dunlap, et ux, to Edwin |
Butterworth & Sons, tract in South
Philipsburg; $10,000.
Ella Jane Walters, et al, to Miriam
Copelin, tract in Philipsburg; $1.
Cranberry Crop Large.
Washington. — Cranberries for
sauce “trimmin’s” at the Thanksgiv-
ing, Christmas and New Year dinner
feasts ought to be cheaper this year
than they were last, although labor
conditions may force growers to de-
mand prices higher than the average.
This year’s crop of cranberries, ac-
cording to the September forecast of
the Department of Agriculture, will
. be about 637,000 barrels, as against
350,000 barrels last year.
Cold Day for Him.
“So Jim married a cold million,
eh?”
“Colder than he thought. His wife
freezes on to every cent of it.”
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husky fellow.
See the big Nobs
The ‘Nobby’ is a big rough
The tire they are
all talking about.
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A great road gripper — a sure
slipper.
Makes casier
driving. More
| enough non-skidder and non.
riding and easier
safety, more com-
fort—more mileage.
‘Nobby’ is a United States Tire,
—whicrk means
none better. Just
right for our roads,
United States Tires
are Good Tires
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‘We kn
why we sell them.
ow United St.ates Tires are GOOD Tires, That)’s
'P. H. McGARVEY. Bellefoute.
| HUBLER BROS. State College.
J. HH. BANEY. Howard.
J. HARRIS CLARK, Blanchard
UILT like a wagon.
B rear wheels track.
and rear axle.
on. Chain-Driven Exclusively.
levers.
t=" Just received a carload of Conklin Wagons
Axles coupled together with angle steel reach ;
Wide-tired wheels
Positively not a worm or cog gear on the machine.
The lightest, easiest running and most practical Spreader.
. All sizes and for all purposes. 62-47
Solid bottom bed with heavy cross pieces, and supported by full width of sides.
No moving paris on rear axle. Ax'e
Dubbs’
Front and
coupled short, dividing load between front
not used as a bearing for gears to run
No clutch. Operated by only two
Implement and Seed Store.
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Your Banker
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tain banking relations can be of service to
ycu in many ways.
The Centre County Banking Co.
does not consider that its service to its pa-
trons ceases with the safeguarding of their
funds. It keeps in personal touch with all
of them in such a way as to be of assistance
very often when other matters develop
affecting their interest.
It Invites You to Take Advantage
of Its Unusual Service.
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INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS
WILL DO ALL YOUR HAULING
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Big Truck for Heavy Loads
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BELLEFONTE, PA. 61-30 DISTRIBUTOR.