Demorratc aca
Bellefonte, Pa., November 28, 1919.
WHEN SUN BEGINS TO COOL
Humanity in Its Maturity Will in All
Probability Be Able to Con-
serve Heat.
We can calculate the evolution of the
temperature of the earth in the fu-
ture. The sun will grow smaller and
cooler. Thus in 160,000 years, when
the radius of the sun has diminished
by only one-hundredth part, our tem:
perature will be not more than 26 de-
grees C. (78.8 degrees F.) at the equn-
tor. It will have fallen to 0 degrees
0. (32 degrees F.) at the latitude 46
degrees, and at Paris it will be be-
low zero (centigrade).
Finally, in 850,000 years, when the
radius of the sun has lost only five
one-hundredths of its !
diameter ond
merely 500 degrees C. of its tempera-
ture, the temperature of the equator
will have fallen to zero centigrade and
the entire earth will be frozen. Bio-
logic evolution, which ascends into the
past for a million years, may descend
into the future for an equal period »?
time.
Moreover, the energy of the sun
whence proceeds our terrestrial eo-
ergy, will be then diminished by onl:
one-tenth. Mankind will doubtless i
that ime have long been capable ot
capturing this energy directly, ot
transforming it as the chlorophyl of
plants so admirably does, of making
it serve perhaps for several millic.
years longer to sustain his life and
the development of his thought.
MADE FRIENDS FOR COLONIES
Benjamin Franklin’s Successful Di-
piomacy in France Meant Much
: to Young Country.
“The first diplomat to represent th-
United States at a foreign court was
Benjamin Franklin, who acted in Paris
as oficial “agent” of the infant re
publiciin France. The crossing of the At-
lantic in the sloop Reprisal had oc
cupied over a month, and Doctor
Franklin had had many thrilling es-
capes from pursuing British vessels.
Franklin was given a cordial recep-
tion‘in France, although his refusal to
wear a sword or wig when preseni-
ed at court shocked the fashionables
The greatest writers and philosophers
of that golden age in France deligh:-
ed_to ‘hpnor Doctor Franklin, and even
the venerable Voltaire paid tribute to
the genius of the American. Irank-
Hn remained in France nine years.
At first he was merely the agent of
“the American rebels,” and had vo
official diplomatic standing, but even
in this capacity he had sufficient influ-
ence to bring about the treaty of alli-
ance between France and the Colo-
nies, ivhich had so profound a moral
effeci on the Revolutionary struggle.
He raised a large amount of money
in Feaoed, and after the signing of
the {reaty became the first American
wiinifior to that country.
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Splendid” Fossil Collection.
Smithsonian institution has been
enriched by a ton and a half of speci-
means taken during the last suminer
fromithe Burgess Pass fossil quarry in
British Columbia, which was discov-
ered less than ten years ago. The
work was done mainly by Secretary
Wolcott of the institution, and his wife.
In two months a section of the quarry
180'feet square was taken out, practi-
cally exhausting the site which has
yielded some of the finest specimens
of middle Cambrian fossils yet dis-
eovered and the finest invertebrate fos-
sils yet found in any formation. Large
blocks of hard shale were first blasted
loose, than carefully split with chisel
and hammer to expose any fossil re-
rains between the laminae. The shale
has preserved for some twenty million
years animals that were as soft and
nonregistant as jellyfish, worms, crabs,
etc, notwithstanding all the vicissi-
tudes these rocks have since under-
gene from the time they were simply
hardened mud. They have been sub-
jected to much pressure and profound
chemical change, but the fossils re-
main perfect.
5 Law Officer's Perquisite.
" Kissing the policeman Instead of
the Bible, Mrs. Ameiia Thompson, who
was called as a witness for the de-
fense in an assault case, at London,
Eng., by her evidence got the accused
‘acquitted. In the witness-box she
‘took the Bible in her right hand,
“Kiss it” said Sergt. Mason. “Must
I?” inquired the lady. “By all means,”
responded the sergeant. “Well then,
here goes; if it must be done, it must
be, but it's a curious thing this law,
as much kissing and hugging as if
one was christening a baby,” and she
put her arms around the sergeant’s
neck, and gave him such a violent kiss
that it resounded throughout the
court. The magistrate called her a
“stupid little thing” for misunder
stantling what she was to do.
Uniform Type for the Blind.
American libraries for the blind are
rejoicing over the fact that they will
no longer be obliged to have books In
five different kinds of raised letters in
onder to accommodate readers taught
in different parts of the country and at
different periods. After many years
of discussion a uniform type, to be
knojvo as “revised Braille,” has been
agreed upon, and hereafter all books
embossed in this country are to be in
the new type. “Phe Deserter,” by
Richard Harding Davis, was the first
book to be published in revised Braille.
—~8clentific American.
BEFORE DAY OF "GUNPOWDER
Soldiers Were Capable of Doing Con-
siderable Execution With the
Bow and Arrow.
The first “gun” used in warfare was
undoubtedly the crosshow—arbalest-—
of the type having a reflex composite
bow made of wood, sinew, horn or
whalebone, and wound up with 12
rachet or “crannequin,” which slipped
on over the stock and was held in
place by a loop controlled by a trans-
verse peg in the stock just behind the
Tock.
This weapon reached its highest
development in Germany under Maxi-
milian, when it had a steel bow of
immense power. There is one in the
Boston museum with a bow of over
two and one-half inches wide and near-
ly three-fourths of wn inch thick. In
central Europe, France and Spain the
bow was not used much save by the
people who came under Mohammedan
influence. The cross-bow being a much
casier weapon to use, it was forbidden
in England to anyone not having a
certain income, in order that the yeo-
men and common people should be
forced to use the long bow, which in |
military purposes was vastly superior
on account of the rapidity of its fice,
although outranged by the crossbow.
It had one great advantage of light-
ness. A military crossbow with wingd-
lass weighs about 20 pounds.”
REVOLUTION IN OLD EGYPT
Records Tell of Uprising Which Evi-
dently Ended Unhappily for the
Rebellious Citizens.
A recently deciphered papyrus
shows a pretty revolutionary spirit |
among the Egyptians in the year 2000
B. C, or nearly 4,000 years before |
the Freneh thought of an upheaval. |
The period is between the old and the
middle kingdom, and an Egyptian
sage plaintively invites the king to
save his people in telling him of the
conditions of the country. He tells
him that “that is past which yester-
day could be seen. The land turns
like a potter's wheel. The noble cry
out and the poor are full of joy. Each
town says, ‘Let us drive the strong
from without our midst?” Those who
wore clothes are now in rags, Noble
women trail through the land, and
housewives say, ‘Had we only some-
thing to eat! The poor pos-
sess lordly things, and those who
could buy themselves no sandals now
Lave treasure. The people
have dethroned the king and perse
cuted his officials.” That the revolu-
tion was a success seems hardly to
have been the case, for the papyrus
goes on to say that laughter has gone;
misery is in the land; big and small
say, “If only I were dead.”
While in Africa recently Mr. A. 8.
Le Souef, director of :the Taronga
#00 (Sydney), saw plenty of elephants,
which were destructive to the crops '
put in by the natives of the Uganda
country. He also observed the body
of u small antelope about 14 feet up
a tree. The carcass of thz antelope
had been put. in this position for
safe keeping, by leopards. “These
members of the cat family are hand-
rome, and extremely active,” says Mr. |
Le Souef. “They play about in clear
places in the forest, tear up the |
ground, and spring far up the trees. !
They are most active, but they do
not readily attack humanity, nnless
it be a child at evening, and they
are hungry. The beauty of their fur
makes them desirable for a zoo and
for rugs, but the number that may be
killed is limited. I saw the beautiful
(‘olobus monkey, which, in spite of its :
difficult to observe among the juniper :
trees from whose branches hung ‘ong |
pieces of lichen.”
No Man’s a Hero to His Wife.
While the fire that destroyed the
four-story Stillman department store
in Muncie recently was at its height
an excited woman called police head-
quarters, saying that her husband, a
workman, was supposed to be repair-
ing the roof on the Stillman building
and she feared he might have perished
in the flames. A policeman who in-
vestigated found that the man in ques-
tion not only had escaped but had
helped to save a woman clerk who was
in danger. The officer informed the
wife of this, thinking she would not
only be relieved but proud of the hus- !
band. Instead she snapped back:
“What was my husband doing on the
roof with a woman?’—Indianapolis |
News.
i but
' completely sober, instead of passing
Up a Tree. '
striking black-and-white coloring, was I
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1
OUE TO DIGESTIVE TROUBLE
Condition of Narcolepsy Revealed by
Victim’s Absolutely irresistible
Desire for Sizep.
Even after a meal of moderate size
taken by a normal subject there is a
siight tendency to drowsiness, which
becomes much more pronounced after
+ heavy meal or in dyspeptics.
When sleep under such conditions is
irresistible we have narcolepsy. The
patient may fall asleep so abruptly
that he may endanger himself or oth-
ers. It is characteristic, however, ot
narcolepsy of whatever kind that the
attack is of brief duration. The vie-
tim never collapses, for he always
has time to assume a posture suitable
for sleep. He may even announce
that he must doze for a few minutes,
after which he will awake refreshed.
He may be kept awake or readily
awakened. Hence there should be no
likelihood of mistaking narcoleptics
for epilepties of any kind. The diges-
tive troubles are of no particular type
—cases have been seen of alcoholic
castritis, hyperchlorhydria, atony, ete.
In these patients indigestion is only
! a determining cause, but relief of the
mischief seems to lead to
complete recovery. Possibly akin to
these gastric cases are others In
which a subject falls into an impera-
tive sleep after indulgence in alcohol,
who wakes in a few moments
stomach
into a stupor.—Rocky Mountain News.
GULL HAD GOOD APPETITE
Veracious Observer Asserts Bird Swal-
lowed Fifteen Smelt Within Space
of One Hour.
Sea gulls never visit the Cowlitz
the |
rivers except when
Local fishermen
and Lewis
smelt are running.
now when the fish are at hand by |
seeing the big white birds in the air
wheeling and diving and uttering ;
their plaintive cry. They sound like
complaining children with ‘rather
weak lungs. When the gulls are tired
of flying they settle on piles along
the shore or
they whiten like a fall of snow.
When the sharp eye of a gull sees |
a smelt he plunges for it, submerges
afs bill and head, and brings it up
squirming. The bird swallows his
prey in full flight, seldom or never
perching to dispose of it.
A most observant young man relates
that a friend of his at Kelso, on the |
Cowlitz, selected a guii which he could |
on sand banks which |
. identify and watched it for an hour to |
count the smelt it caught and swal-
i lowed. The number was surprisingly
| large—fifteen.
! Perhaps this gull was more expert
or luckier than ordinary. It must
have been an exceptional bird in color
at least or the Kelso naturalist could
not have told it from the rest of the
flock. Perhaps it was exceptional in
other ways. And perhaps it had a
double personality.—Portland (Ore.)
Journal.
Obituary of a Jellyfish.
One jellyfish at least became world
famous, and when she died, after liv-
ing for sixty-seven years in the most
intellectual society, under the protec-
tion of five successive learned gentle-
men, she received the honors of an
' obituary notice in the Scotsman.
“Granny” belonged to the jellyfish
family, but was, strictly speaking, a
sea anemone whom Sir John Graham
Dalyell picked off the rocks and kept
in sea water all the years of his life.
Sir John fed his protege regularly with
one-half mussel a fortnight, and she
bore a large family.
The Scotsman “In Memoriam” no-
tice stated that 600 of Granny's off-
! spring were known. When Sir John
died his anemone was passed on to
an arctic explorer, and at his death
she was bequeathed to another scien-
tific man. Granny throve and bred lit-
tle ones; she outlived four protectors,
and died finally because of the neglect
or ill-treatment of a botanist.
Length of Life Extended.
In 1348-50, 25,000,000 deaths from
the plague or “black death” occurred,
| which was one-fourth of the entire
population of the world at that time.
| The average length of life in the six-
teenth century was only 21 years,
while in this, the twentieth century,
| the average life is forty-five years. In
i India, however, the average life
today is only twenty-four years.
We are enabled to see what the sci-
ence of medicine is accomplishing in
more civilized countries, where igno-
_ rance and superstition do not prevail
'! to any great extent.
Precocious Youth.
Mary and Ruth were discussing
plans for playing house and Mary sald,
“I'll be the mother and you be my lit-
tle girl.”
“No,” said Ruth, “I want to be the
i father.”
“Oh,” said Mary, “let's play we've
got plenty of money, and then we
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