’
Le Cid faster than the airplane.
. of which he produced about a dozen.
. curs the famous line, “When Greek
wer
Democrat Wala
Bellefonte, Pa., November 21, 1919.
CHEESE ENTITLED TO FAME
Zraveler Asserts Product of Northern
t France Has Any Like Edible
3 Beaten a Block.
i
If perchance we had fared into one
‘of tame. northeastern provinces of
‘France we were reasonably certain
the meal would be rounded out with
‘helpings of a certain kind of cheese
that is indigenous to those parts. It
comes in a flat cake, which invariably
is alt caved in and squashed out, as
though the owner had sat upon it while
‘bringing it into the market in his two-
sheeled cart.
' Likewise, when its temperature goes
‘op it becomes more of a liquid than
n solid; &nd it has an aroma by vir-
tue of which it secures the attention |
and commands the respect of the mos! |
casual passerby. [It is more than just
cheese. ‘I should call it mother of
‘cheese. It is to other and lesser
icheeses as civet cats are to canary
birds—if you get what I mean; and in
its company the most boisterous Brie
or the most vociferous Camembert you
ever saw becomes at once deaf and
‘dumb. i
© Its flavor is wonderful. Mainly it is |
found {on anciént Normandy; and |
mong strangers eating it—or, when |
4t is in an especially fluid state, Urink-
Ing it—comes under the head of out- |
oor sports. But the natives take it |
ght into the same house with them-
selves.—Irvin S. Cobb,
Dyening, Post.
in Saturday |
Bwiftly as Aviators Travel Through |
J the Air, the Swallow Easily
¢ Outflies Them.
¢ Doubtless the swiftest passage over
a long distance ever made by man was
that of the daring aviators who flew
from Newfoundland to Ireland. They
traversed a space of 1,932 miles ‘in
P72 minutes. That was at the rate of
pearly, two miles a minute. To be pre-
ps, it was a mile in 30.18 seconds.
or a. much less distance a slightly
higher speed was made by an army
airplane between Boston and New
York. ' The distance. of 175 miles was
made in 83 minutes. That was a mile |
28.45 seconds, or more than 185
feet a second.
; That is rapid traveling. It'ig not,
however the , wiftlest “aerial flight |
known. A swallow could literally fly !
found, and round one of those air-
planes when the latter was at top
gpeed. Carefully conducted tests by a !
French scientist have demonstrated
shat the speed of a swallow in full
flight sometimes goes as high as 290
J fdet # second; or At the rate of a ile
in 18 seconds, while the ordinary flight
of n swallow is 210 feet a second or
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MAN MERELY POOR SECOND |
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: Platinum Wonderful Metal.
¥ The American: Museum of Natural
History has issued a bulletin giving
many interesting facts relating “to
platinum, one’ of the most striking of
which ‘relates to its ductility. The |
marvelous ductility of platinum may
concelved when we consider that
out of a single troy ounce of the metal
it would be possible to make an al-
most infinitely slender wire that would !
reach from Santiago, Chile, across the
continent to Rio Janeiro, a distance of
about 1,800 miles. To draw ouf .plat-
foum Into so exceedin-ly fine a wire it
{s covered with a thin layer of gold.
This wire is drawn to the thinness of
the former one, and the gold is dis-
sdlved. A small section of this sec-
ond wire is then given a coating of
gold, redrawn and the gold covering
dissolved. After this process has been
pepeated several times the wire finally
8 still intact, but virtually invisible.
England's “Mad Poet.”
The name “Mad “Poet” was applied
to Nathaniel Lee, an English dram-
atist who was born in Hatfield in
1663. He was the son of a Presbyte-
rian winister of Hertfordshire who
conformed to the Reformation. He
w#8 educated at Westminster school
~and@ Trinity college, Cambridge. For
a time he was on the stage, but later
. devoted himself to writing tragedies,
>
His first successful play was the “Ri-
vat Queens” (1681), known afterwards
as “Alexander the Great,” in which oc-
_ Joined Greek then was the tug of war.”
He collaborated with Dryden in “The
Duke of Guise,” (1682). Lee became
«insane ¥n 1684, and was confined in
‘the: asylum for five years, hence he
was styled “The Mad Poet.” He died
fn a fit of intoxication at London in
1692.
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swift-Moving Creatures.
Leaping on skis is doubtless the
swiftest method of locomotion yet
practiced by man. But even that is
slow when compared with the speed
of some other creatures. It surpasses
the bare and the deer, and far out-
distances the comparatively slow kan-
garoo. But there is a jumping mouse
in the African deserts which is cred-
thly said to make eighty leaps a sec-
ond, of 10 feet each. That means 800
feet a second, which is more than four
times the speed of the airplane and
three times that of a swallow. Nor fis
| tumes that depart in main essentials
' maintaining their traditional charac-
{ among those whom the war has caused
RESTORE CASINO AT OSTEND
Famous Pleasure Resort, Devastated
by Huns, Is Being Rapidly Put
in Good Condition.
After nearly five years of war Ostend
Is resuming ordinary life, as far as pos- |
sible under present conditions, with
the reopening of the famous casino, |
says the Pall Mall Gazette. }
Less than twelve weeks ago, says & .
Reuter telegram, the great salons of
the casino were a scene of devastation
and wanton destruction. Although oc-
cupying so prominent a position on
the sea front, the buildings themselves
escaped the constant bombardment
from sea and air that has transformed
so many of the beautiful hotels and
villas along the Digue into: heaps of
rubble, and ‘the use of nine tons ot
glass has repaired all the damage thus
occasioned, but the Germans showed
their usual thoroughness in gutting and
defiling the salons themselves.
Every stick of furniture was taken
away, beautiful tapestries were slashed
and torn by German bayonets and
every mirror in the halls was removed,
together with the copper candelabra
in the salons and the beautiful copper
staircase.
Not content with robbery, the Ger-
mans defiled the rooms in nameless
ways and, in fact, left the whole place
i in a state that would have shamed any
! animal inhabiting a stable.
| February a miracle has been wrought
But since
and but for the fact ‘that some of the
more valuable fittings are at present
! only temporarily replaced by imitation,
| there will be no evidence of the war,
| so far as the casino is concerned, when
it reopens soon.
RATHER OVERDID THE THING
Friends of Candidate for Government
Appointment Laid the Flattery
on a Bit Thick.
John L. McNabb, attoruey, tells this
one on himself: “When I was a can-
didate for United States district attor-
pey in this district several years ago. |
my friends procured documents and
testimonials without number to sub:
stantiate the desired appointment, and
a book full of this eulogistic matter
was forwarded to President Taft. An
outsider reading the documents would
have supposed I was a candidate for
admission into the heavenly kingdom.
so unreserved were the commendations.
“Not long ago I met ex-President
Taft while he was in this city. He
| has a remarkable memory. Shaking
me by the hand, he said: ‘When 1}
finished reading the grandiloquent re
ports in your favor some years ago 1
pictured to myself a man possessed
with angels’ wings and fit to be the
American ambassador extraordinary te :
the heavenly kingdom. I supposed you
were dead at the time, for the report.
read like ‘an epitaph .on a tombstone.’
so remarkable were the testimonials of
your friends in your behalf.’ "—San
Francisco Chronicle, !
Question of Dress.
Few of the picturesque tribal ces
from the dress foupd convenient by
western civilization have succeeded in
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teristics. The Roumanian people are
to forsake a distinctive national male
attire. This, in its main lines, re-
called the costume of the Roman le-
gionaries, which was adopted by the
nation when Roumania formed the !
Roman Province of Dacia. It con-
sisted of a short white tunic. “bag- |
trousers” of white wool, and a curi-
ously embroidered coat. Many of these
garments were carried away as loot
by invaders during the war, and the
relief garments sent in from Franee.
which are of more conventional de-
sign, are expected to drive the national
costume into disuse. Heavy demands.
however, will doubtless be made upon
it in the field of masquerade and musi-
sal comedy.
Skillful Job of Moving.
A gas container 70 feet in diameter
and 75 feet high, weighing 200 tons,
was moved three miles recently at
Portland, Ore. First it was raised 15
feet and loaded on rollers. Then it
was ‘moved four blocks through the
city streets and lowered 28 feet to a
dock, whence it was moved upon a !
pair of barges. The barges were |
towed three miles to a shipbuilding
plant, where the tank was unloaded
and raised 26 feet, moved across new-
ly filled ground for a distance of
2,000 feet, crossing a railroad track,
and placed on its new foundation. It
took 71 days to complete the work.
APPLIED THE WRONG COLOR
Unfortunate Miscalculation of Indian
apolis Young Lady Who Was
Trying to Look Her Best.
One particuiarly hot day a pretty
North side girl. whose crowning glory
is quite Titianly inclined, met a friend
—a young man whom she had not seer
recently—in Monument circle. At his
suggestion they decided to take in the
_ picture show and. incidentally, have ¢
little visit.
Always solicitous about her appear: !
‘ance, this afternoon she was excep:
tionally so and fearful that her nose
might, perhaps, be shiny. Wherefore
on emerging from the theater,
hastily opening her doritie box. gave
her nose a surreptitious dab.
Fortified with the thought that even
if it was a hot day she was looking
pretty fair, she couldn't account fot
the very peculiar expression that she
saw on his face as he turned to spesk
to her in the iobby. After a minute of
strained silence, he said: “What have
you been doing to your face, Elise?
Trying to match your nose to yout
hair? It's a poor job if you did. Let's
beat it back and you take a look in a
mirror.”
“Which same we did,” she said, when
she told the story on herself. Said she: },
“I knew he'd tell it, so | thought |
might as well tell it first,
vou know I hadn't powdered :my nose,
I'd rouged it—and abundantly,
And it didn’t comé off ds easily as it
went on, either.”—Indianapolis News. -
American Buys Old Chapel.
The Havas agency states that awn
American has bought the Belle Croix
chapel, on the heights of Villeneuve-
les-Avignon, France,
by the Chartreuse monks in the four
teenth century.
. The chapel, which contained some
fine carving, has been carefully torn
down and packed for transit to an un-
known destination.
Rastus’ Ambition.
Visitor-—Rastus Johnson
shiftless, isn’t ‘he? 3
Sambo—No, suh. Dat man am de
most ambitious niggah what is. :
Visitor—Ambitious?
Sambo—Yes, suh.. He says he won't
be ‘satisfied until his wife am doin’ all
de washings in town.—Life. ~~
‘
is very
she |
lagged a little behind her escort, and
Of course |
too.
which was built’
' summation of a great victory to pay
i bre-et-Meuse which, though at first
.on in May, 1917, has already overstay-
is’ working ‘with a construction gang
NATIONAL HEROES OF FRANCE
Lazare Hoche and Ferdinand Foch
Are Names to Be Forever Held
in Grateful Memory.
Marshal Foch is taking a particular
satisfaction at this time of the’ con-
homage to the fame of Lazare Hoche,
the famous young general who escaped
the Revolutionary guillotine eventual-
ly to command that army of the Sam-
disorganized, badly fed and badly
equipped, performed the brilliant seven
months’ campaign which established
the reputation of French arms on both
sides of the Rhine. To this day at
Weissenthurm stands a monument to
its memory and that of its brilliant
young chief. No wonder Marshal Foch
takes pleasure in recalling Lazare
Hoche to his countrymen. Of Hoche
it is said that he once proudly wrote
to the minister for war of his day,
“Je suis la patrie.” The French of
the present century would throw up
their hats at such a sentiment as en-
thusiastically as the contemporaries of
Hoche and Rouget de Lisle. With the
great mass of them, though they do
not perhaps express it so tersely, Foch
fs “la patrie” in the sense that he cer-
‘tainly stands for them as “la Victoire”
personified.
Refuses to Leave Prison.
A man sentenced to Sing Sing pris-
ed his sentence more than seven
months, and refuses fo go home. He
building the new: prison, and the war-
den says he does as much work as any
four men. The pay allowed prisoners
by the state amounts to 1% cents a
day. This man was greatly relieved
‘ when he was told that the prison au-
thorities would not shut off his pay
to make. him apply for parole, whicl
he has so far steadfastly refused to do.
Firing While Submerged.
Just as the war ended, the British
navy had, ready to’ put into commis-
sion, large ‘submarines which, among | !
other novel features, could fire’ sub- |g
merged. They are armed with a 12- | | mid : :
inch gun mounted so that it could fire
with only its muzzle out of water. Thé
submarine had to rise to the surface
to reload; but the whole process éculd
be executed in only half a minute.
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wth is indica-
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even this amazing oreature the swiftest
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Le
That, Something”
that kes you turn. around and take a second look .
ata passerby’s s suit—is it in YOUR clothes?” It’s’
Ue rR
own
hard to define—but it is easily recognized.
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will tell you what we mean.
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of them in such a way as to be of assistance
very often when other matters develop
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