‘Bellefonte, Pa., September 28, 1923.
BASKING SHARK NEVER BITES
This May Have Been Fortunate for
Men Who Caught Monster
: Off Long Key."
" The 40,000-pound sea monster
caught off Long Key has been identi-
fled as an Indo-Pacific basking shark
by L. L. Mowbray, vice president of
the New York aquarium. The bask-
ing hark, Mr. Mowbray announces, is
harmless when let alone. Permit him
to bask placidly on the undulating
bosom of the sea, and he bears no
creature {ll will
It is fortunate for those who go
down to the sea in ships or down to
the surf to swim that the creature is
thus disposed. It required an all-day
struggle and 50 shots from a high-pow-
ered rifie to subdue him, once his
wrath was stirred by the stab of a
harpoon. He was 35 feet long, 28 feet
in greatest circumference and had a
tail span of 12 feet.
Were such a creature of an aggres-
sive nature the sea in his vicinity
would be hardly safe for the average
submarine, while pleasure hoats would
afford no protection whatever from
his fury, and if he used the waters of
the North Atlantic coast as a basking
ground surf bathing would soon be-
come obsolete,
Hitherto the children of the earth
have found abundant reason for grati-
tude that rattlesnakes cannot fly like
hawks, or tigers run like antelopes, or
houseflies sting like wasps. To this
list of blessings we may now add the
fact that basking sharks do not bite
—New York Times,
HEALTHY BABIES OF JAPAN
They Seem to Have a Hard Time, Ao
cording to Our Ideas, but Thrive
Nevertheless.
According to our.modern scientific
ideas as to the careful treatment of
babies, those of Japan would seem to
have a hard time, and yet there are no
healthier, nor fatter looking little mor-
tals on the face of the earth. We im-
sist on a fixed temperature, on steril-
ized milk, on all sorts of improved
things, while the Japanese baby gets
a good dose of nature, and seems to
thrive on it. It is dressed and un-
dressed in a frigid temperature in
winter, and in summer its tender little
eyes are always exposed to the full
glare of the sun, as it is carried on its
mother’s back. It is to be feared,
however, that this latter treatment
often does affect the eyes of the chil-
dren, though they get over it later in
dife. At Nagasaki, among the women
coalers who coal the ship, you may see
many with habies on their backs. The
mothers work all day in the rain or in
the sun, or the snow, and there baby
sleeps, indifferent .to everything, the
top of its head alone visible, while the
movements of the mother do not seem
in the least hindered, and she as if the
babies of this class were born stoics!
: Modern Jerusalem.
The ancient city of Jerusalem, where
Christ did so many of his mighty
works, now has a modern waterworks’
system. The reservoirs known as the
Pools of Solomon were not really
Solomon’s at all, but were made by
Roman engineers. These have been
cleaned out and their leaks stopped.
Now two of them are at work again.
They hold 40,000,000 gallons.
The pools are supplied from a spring
in a cavern called Bir Darash. A
large quantity of gravel and stones has
been removed, and the aqueduct and
tunnels between the spring and the
pools repaired; and Jerusalem has its
up-to-date waterworks—a splendid
triknte to the science of ancient Rome.
For many years the origin of Jeru-
salem’s water supply was a secret.
Durthg the siege of Jerusalem the be-
slegers were disappointed in their hope
of the city surrendering through lack
of water,
Uncle Jasper.
“Proverbs ain't always correct,” be-
gan Uncle Jasper. “I'll cite you a
case. Some years ago Rothschild de-
cided to add to his collection of
madBses and lichens from many parts
of the world, but he wanted more. He
wanted moss from the Urals, from the
Arctic circle, from the tip end of Pata-
gonia. He was ready to pay a good
salary. And who did he employ to
gather this moss? A rolling stone.”—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Blue Law.
‘When they closed the bar on one
#2 the transatlantic liners bound for
the land of liberty one of the passen-
gers protested. “Seems like you're
closing up awful soon; how far are
we from land, anyway?”
“Just about three miles,” answered
the steward politely.
“Funny we can't see it!”
“You could, if the water were clear
enough.”—Los Angeles Times.
No Trespassing.
On e farm in South Georgia is post
od this sign:
“Trespaser’'s will be persekuted to
the full extent of 2 mean mongral
dorgs which ain't never been ovarly
.. soshibil with strangers and 1 dubbel
bariet shotgun which ain't loaded with
no sofy pillers. Dam, if I ain't tired
of this hel raisin’ on my proputy.”—
Everybody's Magazine. ;
—For all the news you should read
the “Watchman.”
$1ANU TORTURE FOR BEAUTY
Many Paris Women Think Nothing of
Having Their Noses Broken
and Reset.
S—
Parisiennes are going to such lengths
‘to achieve beauty as quite to put in
ithe shade the painful operation of
“dimpling” (making 4 hole in the chin
by means of a drugged needle).
Many women think nothing of having
their noses broken and reset in a dif-
ferent shape, says a Paris correspon-
dent. Others actually have the eye-
brows moved upward or downward, as
the fancy dictates. This necessitates
a complete removal of the hair and
either u false and forced growth in a
different position or makeup.
One beauty expert, who undertakes
to change the form of a woman's lips,
has performed many operations. His
latest experiment is to make the upper
lip turn up, giving it an alluring pout.
To do this he stretches a thin hair
from the upper lip to the tip of the
nose. This effect, naturally, is limited
to actresses, who use it on the stage
only.
Some fashionable women are being
laughed at for their insistence on hav-
ing their cosmetics flavored. One has
her lip-rouge tasting of banana,
sn edlaee
HOW REED ACQUIRED TITLE
Why Famous Speaker of House War
Given Name “Czar’—Conduct
Called “Russian.”
Julius Chambers, at one time man-
aging editor of the New York World,
tells in his book, “News Hunting on
Three Continents,” how Thomas B.
Reed, one-time speaker of the house of
representatives, acquired the title of
“Czar.”
When the house of the Fifty-first
congress organized in December, 1889,
with the narrow majority of 164 Re-
publicans to 161 Democrats, Reed, of
Maine, was elected speaker. He in-
sisted upon a new code of house rules.
The Democrats assisted in passing
them, probably under the premonition
that Reed would embarrass their op-
ponents. And that was exactly what
he did. One day the speaker insisted
on counting a quorum by including all
members present in the chamber,
whether or not they answered to their
names at roll-call. Several members
denounced the arbitrary conduct as un-
democratic, even Russian, in character.
The next morning in the New York
World appeared the words, “Czar
Reed,” an inch high across the front
page. :
The words became indelibly en-
graved upon American political his-
tory.
ibis p—
Lincoln Was a Whittier.
Whittling sticks and telling stories
were Abraham Lincoln’s resources.
Biswarck’'s wife, when Beethoven's
“Moonlight” sonata was being played,
noticed the first tear in his eye, and
fe.t “He Is not so hard as he seems,”
and “passionate, heroic music” made
his recreations, side by side with hunt-
ing in youth, long country drives in old
age, conversation and his pipe. The
Reform Earl Grey had a passion for
dancing, and, as premier in the midst
of a political crisis, cried out one right
at 10 Downing street, “What would 1
pot give to dance like Taglioni!”
er —————
Root Cause of Nearly Every War.
During the World war a well-known
french publicist was invited to al-
dress a large audience of children from
the elementary schools of an American
city. Walking quickly onto the stage,
he commenced speaking in his own
tongue, and then smiling at the bewil-
dered children, he said, in perfect Eng-
lish: “You do not understand nie, do
vou? There, my dear children, you
have the roots cause of this and nearly
every ether war. Only through a lack
of proper understanding of the point
o view of other nations are wars pos-
sible"—Christian Science Monitor.
eld
“Santos” Coffee From Sao Paulo.
It is against the law now to label
as “Java” coffee that does not come
from Java or Sumatra. Real Mocha is
grown in Arabia, and after the coffee
became well known and very popular
some unscrupulous dealers applied this
pame to coffee from other countries.
Coffees frequently take their names
from the ports from which they are
shipped. The most widely used vark
ety in this country is called “Santos,
after a pert of Sao Paulo, the great
coffee-producing state of Brazil.
Volcanoes in United States.
While there are no active volcanoes
{n this country, there are a number of
extinct or dormant volcanoes in the
West. These include the San Fran-
cisco mountwins of Arizona, Mt. Tay-
lor in New Mexico, Mt. Shasta in
California and the following peaks in
the Cascade mountains: Pitt, Mazana,
Union, Scott, Three Sisters, Jefferson,
Hood, Adams, St. Helens, Rainier and
Baker, The Spanish peaks of Colo
rado are also the remains of ancient
volcanoes. Most of these mountains
have visible craters on their summits
or on their sides.
Origin of the Dollar.
The dollar was Introduced into
America by the West India trade be-
fore the Revolution. The coinage act
of the 2nd of April, 1792, legalized it
and established it as a unit of Amer-
fean currency. The inconvenience of
the English system of money led con-
gress in 1781 to instruct Robert Mor
ris to devise a system of- national
coinage, + H.s suggestions were not
adopted, but those proposed by Jeffer-
gon were approved.’ He proposed the
dollar as a unit ‘to be equivalent te
~ae hundred cents.
AVIARY IN CENTER OF CITY
Every Variety of Bird Known in Cali.
fornia Is Said to Be Found
There. :
An uninclosed aviary exists in the
center of a thriving California city.
One block from automobile row, where
humming motors and clanging street
cars make the life of pedestrians pre-
carious, a family of feathered crea-
tures live in perfect harmony. The
rear yard of this unusual city home is
covered with oak trees and shrubbery.
An artificial stream runs through Its
grounds.
Birds of every variety known In
California, including the timorous lit-
tle wild quail that find a haven of
safety in town, gather on a common
feeding ground each morning. The
timidity with which the quail enter
the family feast is interesting, says
Caroline Boone in Qur Dumb Animals.
They arrive in pairs. If they were
humans we would call them clannish
or exclusive. The male quail gives
the call to his mate for breakfast and
if she fails to respond instantly he
shows great impatience with her de
liberate ways. After they have fin-
ished their meal they adjourn in pairs
to some low roof and apparently talk
over the day’s program,
Bluejays have proved the most
avaricious, while the smaller bird fam-
ily is meek and gracious. The trees
and shrubbery are filled with the nests
of the jays and the cry of the babies
can be heard until their mouths are
filled. A close study of the quail and
the affection that they show for each
other would lessen the desire of hunt-
ers to slay these most appealing
feathered friends.
WATCH FOR BABY PLANETS
Experts at the Naval Observatory
Constantly at Work Taking Cal-
culations and Photographs,
Those who imagine that astronomy
is a finished science will be astonished
to learn that at the naval observatory
there are dally calculations and photo-
graphs taken of tiny planets whose
number is not yet ascertained. These,
called asteroids, spin about in our so-
lar system like wee beads each in its
own orbit, but follow in between the
track of Mars and that of Jupiter.
Studying these asteroids and dis
covering new ones is the work of pho-
tographic-telescopy. The finest In-
struments are those in the possession
of the naval observatory, and are the
work of George Peters. In taking neg-
atives there is a new exposure about
once a minute, so that the course of
the planet, or rather asteroid, Is
plainly shown by successive negatives.
These negatives are studied under
a microscope and then compared with
maps of the heavens. If any new lit-
tle planet or asteroid appears, it is
at once named by the discoverer. At
present there are more than 700, but
the number is increasing every year.
Any day Uncle Sam is likely to catch
a new one in his naval observatory
net with its magnificent lens. Planet
photography is now a specialty.—
Washington Star.
Buried Five Minutes, and Lives.
Buried alive by a landslide fo:
about five minutes, a laborer of Mitch-
ell, S. D., though severely bruised and
injured, lives to tell the tale. He was
working in an eight-foot ditch in which
water mains are being laid, when a
landslide occurred in which he was
caught. He called for help as the soft
gravel pinned him down, but it was
five minutes before he could be dug
out. The gravel caught and pinned
him in an ypright position and the
dirt was pi three feet above his
head. The landslide broke his shoyl-
der, fractured his pelvis and dislocated
his right hip, and his fellow laborers,
in digging him out, made numerous
bruises and wounds on his head, face
and body with their sharp shovels.
Feminine Ways Unfathomable.
“I notice that many of the girls or
cheir way to work carry their hats
in their hands,” remarked Mr. Brown.
“So I have noticed,” replied his
friend.
“Why is that?”
“Well, the days are warm. And their
hats, I take it, are more or less op-
pressive,” carefully explained friend
Jones.
“In that case why do they not leave
their hats at home and save ail the
trouble of carrying them?”
“Now, my friend, you are asking me
to follow you into the realms of the
unfathomable.”
immense Ore Region in Brazil.
One of the world’s greatest iron ore
cegions is located In the inferior of
Brazil. The ore-beds are pure and
abundant and the only drawback to
development lies in the lack of trans
portation, The natives smelt the ore
and fashion it into utensils and farm-
ing implements by the crudest process
known to medern man. With the
abundant waterpower to develop cur-
rent for electric furnaces, the econom-
ic development of this area will soon
be solved. Brazil now imports large
quantities of iron and steel from other
countries.
The Addict.
Among Jimmie Maiden's favorite
stories is the one concerning two
gentlemen who were getting acquaint:
ed through the medium of casual con:
versation,
“Do you play goif¥ inquired ome of
them.
“No,” sald the other. "but I cent
give it up.”
HAVE PEST OF CATERPILLARS
Myriads of the: Insects Strip Trees |n
Bohemia—Peasants Carry Um
brellas in Woods.
Oscar John, a New York musician
who returned recently from Czecho-
Slovakia, said that the great forests
of northern Bohemia were being de-
stroyed by & caterpillar pest, accord
ing to the New York Times.
“The caterpillars in northern Bohe-
mia,” said Mr. John, “originate in
myriads from the black butterfly called
the nonne, or nun in English, which
lays its eggs on the ground in the for
ests. Directly these Insects are
hatched they swarm up the trees, sap-
pin life as they climb up the
trunk by eating all the green shoots
and leaves.
“On reaching the top the caterpil-
lars swing by their own saliva across
to the next tree and destroy it as they
go down to the ground. Millions of
these crawling pests make a miss
when they are doing the aerial trapeze
act and fall to the ground so thickly
that it is just like rain.
“Peasants walking through these
dense forests have to canry great cot-
ton umbrellas to prevent themselves
from being smothered by the cater
pillars, There are no picnics under
the trees, because a soup basin would
be filled up before there would be a
chance to eat the contents.
“The only thing that can be done
with the trees after the caterpillars
have finished with them is to cut
down the dead trunks and saw them
up into logs for firewood.
“It gives one an uncanny feeling to
walk through the great dark forests
of northern Bohemia and hear the
gloomy croak of the buzzgloak from
the lofty branches of the trees and the
pitter-patter of the caterpillar rain on
the big umbrellas carried by the pear
ants.”
MOTOR CAR CAMPERS MANY
They Are Doing Good Work Building
Great Fraternity of Outdoor
Sports Lovers,
We have heard the lure of the out-
doors preached as long as we can re
member, says the Sportsman’s Digest,
and while no one disputed the value
of time spent close to nature, it re
mains a fact that only since the motor
car has come into universal use have
appreciable increases been made in
the number of people who spend a
part of their spare time in the open.
A few years ago the motor car
camper was a rare specimen—a curi-
osity that would attract attention at
any cross roads. Today he is a fixture
to be found on every highway and by-
way of this broad land. Each season
he is carrying more and more of his
fellows out into the open, thus aiding,
to a great extent, the purpose that
the outdoor press has so long advo-
cated.
The camper is to be encouraged, for
through him a great fraternity of out-
door sports lovers is being built. The
community which has not made pro-
vision for the camper and is not ready
to welcome him is far behind the
times, not only in the way of failure
to co-operate in a growing movement,
but from a selfish standpoint also.
The camper, depending on the treat-
ment he receives, can become a great
asset to a community.
Yes, the camper is a fixture and it
seems to be up to the various com-
munities to receive him well and to
send him on his way pleased with the
courtesy shown him—an ardent boost-
er for the communities which he has
visited.
Wilder Than the Animals.
“With all our so-called wisdom ana
svilization, we have not learned much
about dress,” said one park bench phi-
‘losopher to another, wiping the per-
spiration from his brow and from be-
neath a wilted collar.
“You're right,” said the other, his
roving eye catching a glimpse of a
feminine apparition as it flitted by,
“some of the styles in women’s dress
I've seen would make Mark Anthony
weep.”
“What I was about to say,” the
other continued, “was that a swelter-
ing day like this is no time for a
coat.” He began to shed that part of
his raiment. “Speaking of extremes, I
Just passed a woman wearing a heavy
cape. and furs about her neck. Even
wild animals shed their fur in sum-
mer time.”
“The trouble is,” said the other,
“some women are wilder than the ani-
mals,”—Exchange.
Effects Not Pleasant.
An Evansville young woman, teach
mg her first term at school, was not
only impressed with the nobleness of
her profession but had determined
that all her friends should so be im-
pressed.
“Oh, it is wonderful work,” she
said when at a friend’s home, “this
teaching the young to shoot.”
The friend pointed to her kitchen
window, which had been broken ear
lier in the day by a shot from a sling:
shot,
“Yes,” she agreed, “it is wonderful
work, but you must make it still more
wonderful by teaching them how to
take poorer aim.”—Indianapolis News.
Canada’s Urban Population,
The population of Canada is abom
squally divided between city dwellers
and country dwellers. The total urban
population is given as 4,362,773 and |!
the total rural population 4,485,710.
In Prince Edward Island and Sas
katchewan the rural population fuss
about 75 per cent of the whole.
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