Deuce
Bellefonte, Pa., May 12, 1922.
SENT DIRECT FROM JUPITER
Ancient Peoples Had Odd Belief Con
cerning Otherwise Unaccount-
able Shower of Frogs.
Showers of frogs must have been
common enough in ancient Greece.
seeing that Aristotle gives them a par-
ticular name, Alluding to the pre-
vailing idea of his time, which sup-
posed them to come from Heaven, he
called them messengers of Jupiter.
Two carefully observed instances In
modern times have especially wrought
conviction among the learned.
The first was attested by a whole
company of soldiers, who during the
French Revolution, were on a march
towards the north of France. In the
open country they were assailed by
a shower of little toads which were
dashed in their faces, falling with
torrents of water. Astonished at such
an unwonted attack, and desirous of
satisfying themselves as to whether
this living shower came from above,
the soldiers spread out their handker-
chiefs on a level with their heads,
and found they were soon covered.
After the storm, the astonishment.
was general when the soldiers saw
this unexpected brood leaping about in
the folds of their cocked hats.
The second well-attested shower of
toads fell in 1834, in the town of Ham,
in Germany, when the streets, roofs
and gutters were immediately filled
with a great number of these young
creatures,
HAD HIGHEST SOCIAL IDEAS
Marriage Relations Among Early As-
syrians Subjected to the Strictest
Code of Human Laws.
Marriage relations among the early
Assyrians were subject to a strict code
of laws, it is now learned from a val-
uable cultural document made ac-
cessible to the scientific world in a
German translation of the cuneiform
text preserved in the Asiatic division
of the Berlin Ethnographical museum.
The early Assyrian lawmakers had
this code inscribed on a set of clay
tablets, unearthed during the excava-
tions of the German Asiatic soclety in
Mesopotamia. By comparing this find
with other prehistoric documents, the
date of these tablets has been estab-
lished around 1100 B. C., which would
coincide with the reign of Tiglat-Pile-
sar L
The rights and duties of married
women and the punishments imposed
for the infringements of these laws.
and as the marital relations of a na-
tion have always been regarded as a
reliable barometer of its culture, this
discovery throws an interesting light
upon early Assyrian social conditions.
Fuses Prevent Fires.
When an electric current flows
through a wire it makes the wire
warm, explains Popular Science. Dif-
ferent materials resist the flow to dif-
ferent extents and are accordingly
heated to different degrees. Fuse wire
is made of an alloy containing a large
proportion of lead, which gets very
warm when large currents pass
through it. Furthermore, since this
alioy melts easily, the current, if large
enough, may cause the fuse wire to
melt.
Wherever current is being consumed
in the house or factory, a piece of fuse
wire is put somewhere in the circuit.
If through accident or design too much
current should be used, the fuse wire
will melt, or, as is usually described,
“plow,” and stop the flow of current
before the copper wire inside the walls
can heat up gnd set fire to the house.
Philistine Described.
The philistine is a man without in-
tellectual pleasures, he will inevitably
be bored, despite the fact that against
boredom he has a great many fancied
remedies — balls, theaters, parties,
‘cards, gambling, horses, drinking,
traveling and so on.
Yet nothing really pleases or excites
or interests him. For sensual pleas-
ure is quickly exhausted, the society of
fellow philistines soon becomes bur-
densome and one may even get tired of
cards.
The great affliction of all philistines
is that they have no interest in ideas,
and that to escape being bored they
are in constant need of realities. But
realities are either unsatisfactory or
dangerous; when they lose their inter-
est they become fatiguing. The ideal
world is illimitable and calm.—F'rom
Schopenhauer.
Perhaps She Was Wise.
When I was in my teens, I was go-
ing with a young man. He called un-
expectedly one afternoon while In
town. As we had a fire only In
the kitchen. I invited him out there,
He stayed all afternoon; also my cake
stayed in the oven all afternoon, with
the gas turned out. I would not take
it out while he was there. I was afraid
it might be a failure. I now cook for
him all of the time.—~Chicago Journal
Says He Can Make Diamonds.
Most precious stones can be made
artificially, but until recently no one
had succeeded in manufacturing dia-
monds of a usable size. Now a French-
man says that he has discovered a
new process by means of which he
can make diamonds of all sizes up to
a guarter of an inch in diameter.
~——Subseribe for the “Watchman”
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BROTHER BEECH TREES
“I am used for floors and tool han-
dles,” said Brother Red Beech.
“I am used for fire,” said Brother
White Beech.
“When I was but a little tree I stood
near enough to some other trees so
that their shade kept me cool and
comfortable and made me feel like
growing well and becoming strong,”
said Brother Red Beech.
“So many trees which are young are
looked after in that way by bigger and
stronger trees,” said Brother White
Beech.
“So many trees do what they can for
younger trees. It is very nice and kind
of them, but then, trees are kind, any-
way, it seems to me.
“Prees give such lovely shade. Now
we have beautiful leaves. Our foliage
or leafy dresses are very thick and
plentiful. There is nothing stingy or
selfish about a beech tree.”
“True,” said Brother Red Beech.
“Qur cousins, the Oak trees and the
Chestnut trees, are fine trees, We have
every reason to be proud of our rela-
tives. I am so glad that my relatives
never make me ashamed of them.
“Suppose they should! It would be
so horrible. Of course it wouldn't be
my fault if they did, but it wouldn't be
pleasant at all.
“What if one of the Chestnut trees
should be ugly and not nice at all; it
would be very sad.
“And it would be very sad if the Oak
trees weren't so fine.”
“Well, if I were you,” said Brother
White Beech, “I wouldn't worry about
something that doesn’t exist.
“Besides, even if the Chestnut trees
were not so fine it wouldn't really be
our fault.”
“Still it is nice that they are so
fine,” said Brother Red Beech.
“I believe we are called red and
white beeches because of our wood,”
said Brother White Beech.
“You are correct,” said Brother Red
Beech.
“We make our own forests,” said
Brother White Beech.
“And why shouldn't we?”
Brother Red Beech.
“Well,” said Brother White Beech,
“there are some creatures who don't.
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In fact, many creatures who don’t. I've
never heard of boys making their own
forests; I've never heard of that.
“I've never heard of girls making
their own forests, either.
“And I've never heard of animals
making a forest, though many live in
the forests, it is true.
“How we grow up and grow up, and
sometimes the birds scatter our seeds
and other beech frees grow up. We
grow well ahd we're strong and we
make fine timber.
“But we make our own forests—our
forests of beeches.”
“Yes,” said Brother Red Beech, “but
you see, even the birds help us. Yes,
very often they help us in making our
forests.
“Birds are fond of the forests, and
they help to make them. You must
give them due praise.”
“What is due praise?’ asked Brother
White Beech.
“It is praise which is due some one
or some two or some three or four.”
“Of course, I see” said Brother
White Beech. “And it is quite true that
1 should give praise to the birds, for
they have helped us.
“Ah! but it is a fine thought to think
of the forests we've made by ourselves
and with the help of the birds at times.
We don’t have to go into a forest all
ready for us, but we can make our
own.
“Yes, we can make forests, just as
people can make houses, It's splendid
to be able to do that.
“And we can help people build, too,
by giving them of our fine timber.
“We can give them pleasure by the
shade of our leaves, and we can give
them pleasure, we hope, by looking so
fine for them.”
“It is nice to be a beech tree,” said
Brother Red Beech, “I am so glad that
I wasn’t born a weed or a small bush.
I'm extremely thankful I'm a beech
tree!”
War Worker Compensated,
Miss Julia Driscoll, a coed of the
University of Pennsylvania, is be-
{leved to be the only girl student be-
ing sent through a big eastern uni-
versity as a result of disabilities in-
curred in the World war. Miss Dris-
coll, ‘who served in the army nurse
corps, became deaf from the contin-
ous bombardments near the hospital
in which she was working at the front
MISS BEDINI STAR EQUES-
TRIENNE. |
Most of This Little Lady’s Life Spent |
Under “Big Top.”
There is no circus of the present
regime that has catered to the amuse-
ment going people of the United
States much longer than that of the
Sparks Three Ring Circus which’
comes to Bellefonte on Friday, May
19th. It will be the 34th annual tour
of this aggregation which has stead- :
ily grown from a two car affair, to
the magnitude of the three ring class :
and this year finds it more complete
in extraordinary features than ever
before.
Probably one of the show’s strong-
est features is Miss Flora Bedini re- |
puted to be the most daring and ac-'
complished rider in this, or any other
country. There’s a reason—Miss Be-
dini comes of a family of noted riders, !
in fact her family were all riders of |
repute even before the Sparks circus
was in existence. When but a little |
girl she was brought to this country
by her father who at that time was
one of the featured riders with Ring-
ling Brothers.
The Sparks Circus is coming to
Bellefonte on their own trains of dou- |
ble length cars and will pitch their |
tents at Fair grounds. Two perform-
ances will be given in the spacious |
tent which has a seating capacity of |
10,000. The street parade, which is |
one mile in length will pass through
the principal streets of the town at
10:30 a. m. and will be a kaleidoscop-
jc procession of glitter and color, all
cages being open to view.
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MEDICINE CABINETS— $5.50, $6.75.
THE FAULTLESS SPONGE—Sanitary, wrings out like a
Wash Cloth— 25¢., 50c., $1.00.
LIBERTY DESK CLOCKS—(30 Hour Lever time), Regu-
Price $3.00—Special $1.79.
PINT THERMOS BOTTLE—Regular Price $1.25, Special 79c¢
THERMOS LUNCH KIT—Reg. price $3.00—Special $1.98.
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Infamous Tree Grows on Island.
For one of its features Christmas
island, in the Indian ocean, may be
said to be infamous rather than fa.
mous. A bulletin of the National Geo
graphic society tells of a tree, believed
not to exist elsewhere, which is de
scribed by one disgusted visitor to the
island as emitting “the most disagree
able odor in the world.” With a trunk
as sturdy as an oak, and leaves af
graceful as those of an aspen, it gives
to the eye no indication of its true
character. But its scent permeates the
air for hundreds of feet in every di
rection, and if one is unfortunate
enough to so much 2s touch its bark
or leaves, nothing short of repeated |
scrubbing with strong carbolic soap
will make him again fit for human so
ciety.
The island is a British possession,
having been annexed in 1888 after the
discovery of rich fertilizer deposits.
Aztec,
In a prehistoric ruin near Aztec, N.
shield. for warding off the enemy's
spears.
The owner cunningly had coated it
with flakes of mica, fastened with gum.
In the sunlight this worked like a
mirror, blinding the enemy.
Behold, there, one of the earliest
manifestations of the inventive spirit,
chief thing that separates us from the
savagery of the past,
Our finest modern inventions will
be considered crude when they are
unearthed by future archeologists.
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