Bellefonte, Pa., March, 18, 1921.
‘TO EXPLORE OCEAN'S DEPTHS
British Government Contemplating an |
Expedition for the Gathering of
Scientific Information.
The British government is contem-
plating the dispatch of a deep-sea ex-
‘ploring expedition which is expected |
‘to gather much valuable scientific in-
formation.
Most people imagine that the depths
of the ocean have been pretty thor-
oughly explored, but this is very far
from being true. As a matter of fact,
only a very small fraction of the
'whole area of deep sea bottom has
‘been surveyed. Attention is particu-
‘larly called to a vast subaqueous re-
gion around the Falkland islands and
up as far as Montevideo, which is al-
‘most unknown, and which, having a
‘depth of less than 100 fathoms, may
offer opportunities for the development
of lucrative fisheries.
The first deep-sea exploring expe-
dition, that of the famous Challenger,
was set on foot just 50 years ago.
The ship left port in 1872, and idecs
on the subject were in those days so
primitive that there was dispute as
to whether she should use wire or
hempen rope for soundings. It took a
whole day to make one sounding, or
a single cast of the dredge for bring
ing up fishes and other animals.
Since then deep-sea sounding ap-
paratus has been much improved by
cable ships, and fishing gear has been
greatly modified by steam trawlers,
which use dredges. Besides, a. great
deal that is of value has been learned
by oceanographic expeditions subse-
quent to that of the Challenger. Hence
‘the new exploring vessel will start out
with a prospect of accomplishing a
‘very great deal of work of real im-
portance,
‘TOO MUCH FOR SMALL MINDS
‘Childish Messengers Have Hard Time
; Remembering Names of Books
They Are Sent For.
“I want ‘Ressurection in the
‘Parks,’ ” demanded a little chap of
the librarian at the West Indianapo-
lis branch library. “My brother said
for me to get it for him.”
The librarian did not wish to let
the little chap know she was puzzled.
'She knew it was something that went
on in the parks that the boy wished.
The “resurrection,” she dacided,
might be “recreation,” and that was
what she suggested. “That's it,”
smiled the little chap, “I knew I had
that word wrong.”
Librarians often deal with little
brothers and sisters who are running
errands for big brothers and sisters
ia high school. When one of the tots
asked the librarian at the West Indi-
anapolis branch for “Europe's Ia-
bles,” the librarian smiled, for that was
simple to translate into “Aesop's ka-
bles.” It was different when another
asked for “Out of the Twist,” the
librarian then had to inquire diligent-
ly befere she found that the child
patron meant “Oliver Twist.”—Indi-
anapolis News,
Explanation Briefly Made.
Harold Enutsen, Republican whip of
the house, tells a yarn about an old
fellow up in his country who has a
job carrying the mail from the depot
‘to the postoffice, for all of which he
gets $1 a trip.
Some of the beys around the gro-
cery store the other night got to kid-
ding the old chap about his job and,
eventually, they asked him how much
Le made out of it.
{ “I make $1 a trip, three trips a day,
$123 a month, or $3,000 a year,” he
said.
These figures not sounding just
right, one of the boys sought to pin
him down on his calculations.
“How do you make $3,000 a year?”
he asked.
“A-carryin’ the mail,” responded the
carrier, and with those few words he
departed.
Saturday Change.
Many storekeepers begin their Sat-
(urdays by shopping in the neighbor-
"Bwod for small change—dimes, nickels,
and pennies. Seven customers out of
ten at the butcher's, baker's and gro-
-cer’'s on Saturday pay for their pur-
chases with $10 and $5 bills. Not one
;in twenty counts out the exact amount.
One storekeeper has found that $50
dn subsidiary coins is none too little
carry him through.
» Transit lines and automatic vending
machines receive tons of coins in a
day. Within 48 hours these coins are
back in circulation.
Dimes, nickels and pennies are the
most active elements of our circulat-
ing medium.
Cat Evidently Was Ofiended.
A yellow cat called Shimmy, of no
‘particular breed, but lately a cher-
ished mascot of the Aberdeen (Wash.)
fire department, left her home there
suddenly. Shimmy, according to the
fire laddies, who hunted three days
(without success for their vanished
pet, made her nest in a coil of hose
which is used to wash the floor of
the fire hall. On the morn of Shim-
‘my’s disappearance a careless fire-
‘man turned the water into the coil.
| Shimmy was catapulted toward the
jceiling and shot by the stream of wa-
ter into the street. The cat has not
|yet come back.
——When in doubt as to your pa-
per take the “Watchman.”
| FABLES ACCEPTED AS TRUTHS | 51piVE To BECOME “ARTIST”
Stories That Have Long Been Impiic-
+ itly Believed Really Have No
Foundation in Fact.
The famous Damascus blades that
were fabled to cut iron bars in two
were not superior to the Toledo blades
of the present time. s
Seneca was not a half-Christian
philosopher, but a grasping money
lender, and died leaving a fortune
equivalent to three million dollars.
Charles IX did not fire upon the
¥Huguenots with a harquebus from
the window of the Louvre during the
massacre of St. Batholomew.
The Maelstrom is not a whirlpool
which sucks ships down into the
depths of the ocean. It is an eddy,
which in fair weather can be crossed
in safety by any vessel.
Horatius never defended the bridge.
It was a story manufactured by the
same Roman historian who put forth
that other fabrication of history that
Micius Scaevola put his hand in the
fire.
Pitt never made the celebrated re-
ply to Walpole beginning. “The
atrocious crime of being a young man.”
It was composed by Doctor Johnson,
who was not even present when the
actual reply was spoken.
Alfred the Great did not visit the
Danish camp disguised as a minstrel.
There is excellent authority for assert-
ing that he could neither play the
harp nor speak Danish. He did not
let the cakes burn, either, as history
records.
The hanging gardens of Babylon did
not hang and they were not gardens.
They were terraces supported by
arches and overgrown trees. They
were crected for the amusement of a
Rabylonian queen who had come from
2. mountainous country.
Pocahontas, the Indian princess, did
not save the life of Capt. John Smith
by standing between him and a club
held by her father or by any other
method. It is now considered but a
romantic yarn spun by Captain
Smith's imagination and perpetuated
by the historians.
Hannibal did not send three bush-
els of gold rings taken from the hands
of the Roman knights killed on the
field of Cannae back to Carthage as
evidence of his victory. The fact was
as follows: The messenger who car-
ried to the Carthaginian senate the
news, on finishing his report, “opened
his robe and threw out a number of
gold rings gathered on the field."—
Dearborn Independent.
Callous Old Rascal,
Apes are so human that even when
they display traits that in man would
Fe simply abominable man cannot help
laughing. A correspondent in South
Africa writes that certain large apes
are so much in the habit of raiding
the coffee plantations that they have
to he guarded.
Among the coffee trees there grows
a shrub, the fruit of which the apes
particularly enjoy. But as wasps fas-
ten their nests to the shrubs, the apes,
fearful of being stung, usually keep
away from them. One morning the
people in a certain plantation heard
the apes making fearful outcries and,
rushing out, saw a singular scene. A
large baboon, the leader of a band,
was throwing some young apes at the
wasp nests just as a boy might have
thrown stones at them. The poor vie-
tims, stung by the infuriated insects,
were crying piteously, but the old
baboon paid no heed to them what-
ever. While they were suffering from
the anger of the wasps he quietly pro-
ceeded to regale himself with the fruit,
which he could now pluck without dan-
ger. Occasionally he would throw a
handful {o some females and young a
little way off.—Youth’s Companion.
Czar’s Peculiar “Joke.”
Peter the Great admitted the whole
world to the curious entertainments
to which he added strange and some-
times gross touches of his own inven-
tion. Yakov Eurgeney, the court jest-
er, was engaged to marry the daugh-
ter of a sexton. At Peter's command
the bride and groom rode to church
in the Czar’s best velvet coach. Then
behind them formed a procession, the
members being the highest dignitaries
and the most eminent patricians in
all Russia. Each was mounted. Their
steeds were oxen, asses, pigs and big
dogs.
Some of the important men and
women were dressed in their finest
robes. Others were costumed in sack-
ing of glazed linen or catskin caftan,
with straw boots and other strange
and curious accessories of such an out-
landish toilette.
A Nine-Inch Fox.
We find large foxes in certain parts
of Asia that are of a yellowish-red
color—the Chinese and Japanese spe-
cies being a light red—while in India
we meet with the Bengal fox, writes
Dr. R. W. Shufeldt in the American
Forestry Magazine of Washington.
The latter feeds upon grapes, and may
have been the ones responsible for
the fable of the “Fox and the Grapes,”
though some say that it refers to those
extraordinary little big-eared foxes of
Africa called fennecs that also eat
grapes. Fennecs are very elegant lit-
tle creatures, one of them measuring
only nine inches in length; their hear-
ing is said to be most acute.
Facts About Hudson River Tunnel,
Ground has been broken for the ve-
hicular tunnel under the Hudson river
which will connect New York and New
Jersey. The big double bore will be
11-3 miles long and will require 3%
years to build. It will cost $28,669,
000. Powerful electric fans will
change the air 32 times an hour. Traf-
fic passages will be 20 feet wide.
Not Necessary to Paint Pictures, but
to Do One’s Work With Ekiil
and Finish.
When we say an artist, we are apt
to think only of the one who is able to
paint a picture. We should have a
¢learer conception of what the word
artist really means. It is cne who
does his work with skill and finish.
Most cooks can make passably good
bread; only the artist offers that
which delights, feeds and satisfies.
It is easy enough, though one be not
a marksman, to hit a barn door with a
shotgun. The artist hits the bull's
eye with a rifle.
- An elevator boy can stop his car
within six inches of the floor level, and
then jerk it into place. The artist finds
the exact point the first and every
time.
The pettifogger hangs around the
streets and loafing places of the town
ooking for business, waiting for some
cue to have a falling out, or trouble
somewhere. The artist goes among
strangers, rents a room on the tenth
tioor, goes to work and the people come
ap to him. If he tekes a vacation they
wait until he gets back or go to the
woods after him.
The minister who neglects his prep-
aration through the week, on Sunday
3 greeted with empty pews, finds fault
with the few faithful ones who do
come. The artist is a student every
week, gives his people a message full
of thought and inspiration. His church
is crowded,
What high quality of manhood does
it require to fly into a fit of passion
v'hen something goes wrong, snd to
rage round like a madman.
The artist holds himself in leash,
sitches his tones low and smiles on
through the day's work.
The mother, housewife, or woman
with money and time can have pretty
ciothes, leisure for rest, or society. It
is the artist who, on limited means,
can dress decently, operate the house-
told without friction, be happy and
have those about her happy. It really !
is as easy to be an artist in your line
as a bungler—easier, once it is learned.
It is a good deal more satisfactory,
and pays a lot better—Thrift Maga-
zine.
Isiand Cities in Europe.
There are four cities in Europe
which stand wholly or in part on is-
iands. Ghent, in Belgium, is built on
20 islands, which are connected by SO
bridges, the city having as many
canals as streets. Amsterdam, in Hol-
iand, a city of ten miles in circumfer-
ence, is mostly built on piles driven
into the sandy subsoil, but the flowing
of the tide and the debris of the Ains-
tel river have made 90 islands, and
the city has more canals than streets.
The waterways are traversed by over
300 bridges, so that Amsterdam has
earned the designation of the Venice
of the North. Venice is built on 80
islands, great and small, which are con-
nected by 400 bridges. There is not a
carriage in the city, although footways
are abundant, and it is possible to go
from one end of the city to the other
on foot, though sometimes long detours
must necessarily be made. Petrograd
is built on a peninsula and two islands
connected by several large stone
bridges, and in summer numerous
bridges of boats, which, however, are
removed at the first frost.
New Day for Army Wife.
The lot of the army wife is a hard
one and unless it is made easier the
army system cannot endure, said Brig.
Gen. Clarence R. Edwards.
“These wives and daughters of sol-
diers,” he said, “have patted their hus-
bands and fathers on the back and
sent them to war without a murmur.
They have followed the flag from ore
place to another, patched and schemed.
frozen on one side and roasted on the
other from garrison stoves, put up
with all sorts of hardships, and never
found fault.
“But things are a little different
now. They each have a vote and they
can reach this system through their
representatives in congress. If can-
tonments are not made at least com-
fortable for women of the army, it is
my opinion that the system cannot en-
dure.”
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it is a scientific fact that ‘as you FEEL
SO are you,”
Trim fitting, handsome new clothes,
actually make the man who wears them
not only look younger but FEEL younger.
If you don’t believe this just come in
and let us slide on to you one of our
brand new suits and overcoats. You don’t
have to buy them uniess you want to.
We never urge anyone to buy, We let
our CLOTHING do it.
Wear our good, “Nifty” clothes.
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We will be glad to show them to you.
The town clock is on the second on the strike.
F. P. Blair & Son,
Jewelers and
Bellefonte, Pa.
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