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WHERE MOLE BEATS MONKEY
Simian Is Comparatively Helpless In
the Water, as Are Many of
the Land Birds.
Have you ever noticed a gull drop-
g on the sea—how it spreads its
Wihgs high so that the feathers shall
fiot be wetted? If a gull’'s wing feath-
¥fs get wet it cannot rise until they
dry, says a writer in’ London Tit-Bits.
Throw a mouse into the water. It
swim a little, but as soon as its
oh Is soaked down it goes, and
owns. So, too, in the case of a rab-
bit. As soon as its fur is wet it is
done for.
A mole can swim like anything, but
a monkey is very helpless in the water.
Almost all land birds drown very rap-
idly if unlucky enough to fall into the
water. They strike out with their legs,
move round and round in a circle, but
cannot get off the water.
Lions and tigers are very good swim-
mers, and do not share the common
cats’ hatred for the water. But of all
the cat tribe, the South American
jaguar is the finest performer in the
water. It seems often to plunge in for
mere joy of a swim.
A rabbit, as we have said, drowns
as soon as its fur is soaked through,
yet curiously enough its near relative,
the hare, swims quite well, and will
often cross a river when hunted.
Bears are good swimmers, even those
that usually live far from large sheets
of water, and the common rat is no
mean performer.
One of the best of animal swimmers
{s the horse. Horses have been known
to swim a river nearly a mile wide
simply to get back to their old stables.
Deer, too, can all swim well. There
are cases of caribou having swum
across lakes ten miles wide when
escaping from forest fires.
ALCOHOL GROWS ON TREES
Liquid Declared to Be Plentiful in
Blooms Which Flourish in Pro-
fusion in India.
Alcohol in these days has attention
from governments in diverse ways.
England has had a committee study-
ing the possibilities of increasing the
production of alcohol to be used in
generating power.
The opportunities discussed by the
committee are interesting. Of course,
potatoes, artichokes and cereals came
in for attention. But it seems there
are less known sources of alcohol. For
example, there is the flower of the
mahua tree, which flourishes in Hy-
derabad and the central part of India.
This flower, when sun dried, contains
6 per cent of its weight in ferment-
able sugar, and apparently is to be
gathered by the ton. Then there are
the fertile gases of the coke ovens.
They are so rich in surprises to the
everyday man that it is not very start-
ling to learn they contain ethylene,
which by synthetic processes some-
what developed under the stress of
war may be converted into ethyl al-
cohol.
With the coal beds about to pro-
duce alcohol, and the trees of India
fairly blossoming with it, thé man
with a motor car may quiet the fears
aroused by the scientists’ figures
which show that we are in sight of the
end of petroleum and gasoline. There
is nothing like being easy in one’s
mind.—The Nation's Bulletin.
American Buys Franklin Portrait.
A portrait, of Benjamin Franklin,
painted in Paris in 1778 by Joseph Si-
frede Duplessis, and showing him as
the American ambassador whom
Parisians of that period knew, has ar-
rived in this country, the property of
Michael Friedsam, the New York Eve-
ning Post states. Franklin presented
the portrait to the Freres Perier, en-
gineers and owners of the Chaillot fire
engine, when he left France, and it
was from the Perier family that Mr.
Friedsam purchased it this year.
The portrait, whose gorgeous frame
of the period is carved in the form of a
serpent, is said to be typical of the
best work of Duplessis, who was made
a member of the academy in 1774, and
was later appointed conservator of the
museum of Versailles. In Versailles is
a street called Duplessis, and a statue
of him stands in a public square of the
city. :
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"Only Live Okapi in Captivity.
The only live okapi in captivity has
deen brought to Antwerp from the
€ongo. The okapi is the survivor of a
distant ancestor of the giraffe. An
adult stands about five feet high, and
although jt has the general shape of
«the giraffe, its neck is relatively
shorter and its forelegs are not so high
In proportion to“the hindquarters.
The sides of the animal's head are
Tignt TAWn color, and the general color-
ation of the body is a dark purple.
The most striking characteristic is
that the rump, and the upper part of
the legs are transversely striped with
black and white. It was first known
in 1901, having been found in the
Semliki forest, haunting low under-
growth and swamps.
Getting On.
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engagement, I wonder?”
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TOWN HAS FINE CATHEDRAL
Otherwise Sleepy Little Leon,
Northern Spain, Has Nothing to
Attract Tourists.
Surrounded by its prosperous wheat
fields, the shabby little town of Leon
in northern Spain seems peacefully in-
different to its out-at-elbow appear-
ance, and to the fact that its
streets are not enlivened by the bustle
of modern industry. A few mule carts
rattle recklessly over the road, but
otherwise it might easily be Sunday
or a holiday and every one away from
home.
The humble dwellings of the Leon-
ese lie in the very shadow of one of
Europe's most wonderful cathedrals,
made possible by their ancestors’ gen-
erous gifts and wrought by a master.
The cathedral is the center from
which radiates the tranquillity and
harmony felt throughout the town. Its
spires and towers of softly yellowed
stone rise in gracious welcome above
a mass of trees. A multitude of win-
dows give promise of a bright, sunlit
interior. Carved columns and figures
frame the portals, and quaint gar--,
goyles glower from nooks in the cor-
nices, as if to ward off all evil.
Inside, the hall is vast and silent,
lighted by scores of stained glass win-
dows. The maker of the windows in-
dulged his taste for bright and glow-
ing color to an extent that would have
been disastrous in a small church; but
through the sweeping length of the
vaulted naye the colors blend and fall
in soft, rich shades. In this sanctu-
ary of light rests the king who first
planned the cathedral and made Leon
a city of wealth and palaces. Since
his day the city has been destroyed
and plundered and rebuilt. It never
again reached its former greatness.
but the king's cathedral rose from its
ashes, and stands now more beautiful
than the founder had planned.
FINEST OF ALL EATABLES
Ideal Food for Both Body and Brain
Is American Pie, According to
This Enthusiast.
This is the height of the pie season
in all parts of the United States. Pie-
plates in every household are juicy
with the good stuff between the crusty
roof and the less crusty foundation.
Of course, it will be said that it is a
matter of taste, but we speak for
green-apple pie as the best of the
season’s offerings.
Every day in the year is the height
of the pie season in New England. A
westerner who lived for a year at
Framingham is on record as saying
that he had ple three times a day,
21 times a week, and—do the rest of
the multiplying yourself—some thou- |
sand times in a twelve-month. From
only one meal was pie missing, and
on that day the housewife, momentar-
fly careless, allowed the delectables
to be burned up in the oven, and the
neighbors were unable to lend because
they had just enough for themselves.
All sorts of shameful things have
been said about the New England pie.
It is just as good as middle western
pie, and no better, but this is speak-
ing in high praise of all the pastry
from Rhode Island to Maine, inclusive.
There are persons who say that Em-
erson, Whittier, Longfellow, Holmes,
and Lowell, while they wrote well,
would have written better if they had
cut out pie as a steady diet. We do
not believe it. Pie is food for the
body and food for the brain. It is
America’s surpassing dish. Apple,
peach, berry, cherry, pumpkin, lemon,
squash, custard, mince—and a proper
slice of each is a full quarter, and
then repeat.—Denver News.
Russians Flocking Into Japan.
A minor, but none the less particu-
larly interesting, outcome of the an-
archy in the former empire of the
czars, is the extensive Russian immi-
gration into Japan. There are Rus-
slans everywhere in the land of the
chrysanthemum. In Kobe and Yoko-
hama particularly every available dom-
icile is taken up by Russians. For at
least two reasons Japan welcomes
this influx into her borders. The Rus-
slans find everything very cheap in
Japan, after their country’s high
prices, and are good customers. The
other reason is an outcome of the
fact that many of the refugees belong
to the old revolutionary strata of Rus.
sian society, and there are many ex
pert chemists among them. These men
have opened laboratories in their new
home, and are organizing an industry
which bids fair to make Japan inde
pendent of the German market. Thus
Japan is reaping a valuable reward for
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her hospitality to her former foes.
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rion hrandss OR -EYS
Said to Depend Largely on Time of
Life at Which the Accident
Occurred.
What actual disability is involved
in the loss of one eye? Accident in-
surance companies usually estimate
it at 50 per cent, but Sir Arthur Pear-
son told the British committee on the
administration of soldiers’ and sailors’
pensions that this was absolutely ab-
surd, and suggested 25 per cent as a
more reasonable estimate.
It depends largely upon the time of
life at which the eye is lost. By
binocular vision, says the Lancet, we
fuse two slightly dissimilar images
of an object, which are focussed upon
the two retinas, and this enables us
to estimate correctly the relative po-
sition or distance of objects. This
power, however, is not confined to
those of us who possess two good
eyes. The man who has been blind in
one eye from infancy possesses it in
almost equal perfection with the pos-
For many other
factors unite to compensate for the
absence of stereoscopic vision. These
are atmospheric and shadow effects,
parallax and, above all, memory of
what the shape of objects really is,
according to knowledge which has
been acquired in early years, largely
by the sense of touch.
On the other hand, if one who pos-
sesses this faculty is suddenly deprived
of it he will be considerably handi-
capped, especially at first. A woman
may find she cannot pour from a tea-
pot into a cup without spilling the tea.
A hammerman may take séme time
before he can hit the nail on the
head with his former accuracy ; indeed,
whether or not he can ever attain it
again is doubtful.
WASTE COUNTRY MADE RICH
Cnormous Rubber Plantation in Su-
matra Developed by American
Industry in Ten Years.
Perhaps the most surprising thing
about the enormous rubber plantation
that covers nearly 100,000 acres in
Sumatra, recently described by a
writer in Commerce and, Finance, i8
that less than ten years ago one could
have traveled these acres without see-
ing a rubber tree. The land was ac-
quired by an American company, end
the rubber trees followed. Today they
count up to something like 5,000,000,
tended by an army of about 16,000 la-
borers, most of whom come from the
neighboring island of Java. The land
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rises to a slight eminence overlooking
the sea of rubber trees which stretches
for miles in every direction, with here
and there glimpses of the fine roads
over which motor cars travel the plan-
tation on business or carry passengers
between the bungalows of the estate
managers. Sixty-five miles of narrow-
gauge railway run through this re-
markable rubber forest, with every
tree raised in response to the twen-
tieth century commercial demand for
rubber.
Electric Transmission.
How different it is now, in the trans-
mission of electric power, from what it
was, say, 25 years ago, when there
had to be relay stations for the trolleys
every ten miles or so. For example, in
California, physical connection of three
large hydro-electric systems has been
made by means of which power gen-
erated near the California-Oregon line
is transmitted continuously for a dis-
tance of 300 miles to the San Franeisco
bay region. Experts were wont to say
in the nineties that nothing like this
could be done. But it is being done,
and experts are now proclaiming that
other and greater things contemplated
in electric power transmission are im-
possible. Time will perhaps show that
they are not.
Airplanes in Collision.
. Losing the engine from his plane
while flying at an altitude of a mile did
, not disconcert a young American air-
man while flying at an overseas field,
according to Popular Mechanies
Monthly. Collision with another craft
tore the engine from his machine, but
at a moment when the plane was glid-
ing on an even keel, he climbed on to
the top of the fuselage at full length
and in some manner managed, by con-
tinually shifting to prevent the craft
from fluttering into a direct fall. While
maintaining balance with his body he
also manipulated the controls and
guided the machine earthward.
Friday the Thirteenth.
Here is how Friday the 13th will
occur in the years to come: 1919,
June; 1920, February, August; 1921,
May; 1922, January, October; 1923,
April, July; 1924, June; 1925 Feb-
ruary, March, November; 1026, Au-
gust; 1927, May; 1928, April, July;
1929, September, December.
About a Foot.
“Darling,” her ideal man murmured
mournfully, “I've just been in to
speak to your father.”
“Oh. Harry; tell me how you came
out.”
“Just a moment too late.”
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in use for over over 30 years, has borne the signature of
and has been made under his per
sonal supervision since its infancy.
Allow no one to deceive you in this,
All Counterfeits, Imitations and “ Just-as-good ”’ are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric,
Drops and Soothing Syrups.
neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance.
age is its guarantee.
Tt contains
Its
It is pleasant.
For more than thirty years it has
been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising
therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALways
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In Use For Over 30 Years
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Bad habits lead children astray.
Good habits guide them safely into
the path of character, uprightness
and independence.
You can start them right by teaching
them to save money. Set them an ex-
ample by saving yourself. Make
them admire thrift.
Once started, the saving habit helps
to form other good habits. It pro-
vides experience for them in handling
their own funds.
This start in the right direction is but
a simple step. Take it by opening a
Savings account with us for your chil-
ren.
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60-4 BELLEFONTE, PA.
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