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Bellefonte, Pa., October 5, 1923.
CHILDREN BORN IN BUNCHES
Tuscany Woman Gave Birth to Eleven
Sons In Two Years—Her
Total Sixty-Two.
The comedian who walked inte a&
[London dairy which exhibited the
legend in its window, “Families Sup-
pied,” and sald he would take “a boy
and a girl, please,” might have been
fmore successful in America, whence
(comes the news that a wife has pre-
|sented her husband with eight babies
‘in one day, says London Answers.
" In the very same week the informa-
tion was forthcoming that a young
waitress at Durban had given birth to
four children, and the announcement
was accompanied by the assurance
that “all were doing well.”
Some years ago a Palermo woman,
Rose Salemi, presented her husband
with five boys, all well formed, and,
according to the doctor, “eating well
and crying well.” But she was a long
way from wrestling the record from
the peasant girl Gravata of Tuscany.
Gravata was the twin daughter of a
woman who was one of triplets. The
daughter married a man of her own
class. She set the seal on the family
reputation when she made her hus-
band a present of six sons and fol-
lowed the next year with five more!
After this she had triplets twice,
which were followed by a quartette.
Then ensued a procession of ones and
twos, and, finally, came four boys all
together. This brought the aggregate
number of her living children up to
62, and assured her fame in obstetri-
cal annals as “the Gravata case.”
Brand's “History of Newcastle”
credits a similar feat to the wife of a
poor weaver in Scotland, but does not
state how many children arrived at
one and the same time. Her family,
however, numbered 62. Of these 46
boys and 4 girls survived to manhood
and womanhood.
FARMERS THEIR OWN BOSSES
Government Surveyors Say Four-
Fifths Own Their Land and There-
fore Are Independent.
Government surveyors report now
that eight out of each ten farmers in
the United States are their own boss,
while the same proportion of mechan-
ics work for somebody else. The argu-
ment, of course, is for the advantage
of independence the farmer has, and
this ought to have great weight ie any
consideration given the problem.
Out of 10,682,944 individuals en-
gaged at farm work in the United
States 8,240,400 are classified as em-
ployers and independent workers. This
means that they either own all or part
of the plant and machinery employed
in producing their output. Not all are
land owners, but those who rent own
a sufficient proportion of the ma-
chinery to give them the sense of pro-
prietorship. It is this quality that
gives them independence in action,
says the Omaha Bee.
The farmer who owns his lands or
his tools is independent because he
works for himself, employing his own
capital as well as his own labor.
While this condition prevails in Amer-
ica the republic is in very slight dan-
ger of revolution, for citizens so sub-
stantial as these are not given to re-
volt. They may combine to effect
changes, but they do not strike at the
foundations of liberty.
Swallows Obey Whistle,
An expert in bird lore has been mak-
Ing a study of the peculiar actions of
several hundreds of chimney swallows
that make their home in the tall chim-
Ney of a paper mill in Oneca, Conn.
He bas discovered that at exactly 6
o'clock each morning, when the whistle
blows at a will three miles away the
hundreds of swallows rise from the
chimney and fly away to their daily
hunting grounds just as promptly as
the hundreds of human workers an-
swer the whistle. For two months, he
says, they have not been absent or
tardy. At night the birds return ir
small groups.
Preventable,
Sickness costs the United States
$900,000,000 a year in lost wages and
the total loss from preventable dis-
eases and deaths is nearly $3,000,000,-
000, according to the national health
council. How much of this could be
prevented by better laws to ensure
pure water and milk, and abolish
slums and overwork and overcrowd-
ing? How much by shutting out low:
grade emigation?
Laughter Caused Death.
The metaphor, “dying of laughter,”
was translated into real fact in the
«use of an elderly man in Philadelphia,
who was so tickled at the drollery of
. movie comedian that he was unable
control his laughter and suddenly
lapsed, dying in the arms of © woin-
.. sitting beside him. Physicians said
t the victim’s heart had been rup-
el,
Citron’s Remarkable Vitality.
A citron that she raised in 1921 was
kept in the dining room of a St. Johns-
bury (Vt) woman. Wanting some
seeds to start some plants in window
boxes recently, she cut the citron open
and found that part of the seeds had
sprouted, one of the sprouts being
nearly three inches longz. The citron
appeared to be in perfect condition.
FAT MEN HAVE ADVANTAGE
Under Certain Conditions They Are
Able to Endure More Than Their
Slimmer Comrades,
In the diligent research made imto
questions of temperature, ahd the ef-
fect of heat on the physical condition,
by the American Society of Heating
and Ventilating Engineers, in co-
operation with the United States bu-
reau of mines and the Carnegie Insti-
tute of Technology, it was discovered
that fat men endure high tempera-
tures and excessive humidity better
than thin men, and, further, that the
@rinking of ice water when over-
heated does not necessarily have evil
effects.
“It has frequently been stated,” says
the report, “that workers exposed to
high temperatures developed severe
cramps after drinking ice water. A
few of the subjects of these experi:
ments volunteered to drink ice water
after about an hour's exposure to high
temperature, and two of them, in one
experiment, drank a quart of ice wa.
ter in less than fifteen minutes with:
out iil effects. Cramps did not de:
velop in any of the subjects at any
time.”
On entering and leaving the sper
clally heated chamber,
shows loss of weight varied with the
individual, the heavier and stoute:
man losing more than the light and
thin one. Notwithstanding this, the
lighter man, as a rule, could not en
dure the temperature conditions as
long, and complained more of the ex
haustion which followed.
SWEDEN SAVES HER FORESTS
Country Has Comprehensive Syster
Which Has Materially Added to
the National Wealth,
Reforestation has been carried on
In Sweden as a general practice for
80 many years that there are no cut-
over lands such as one sees in this
section of the country, accbrding to
E. J. Hanzlik, local forest examiner
fn the United States forestry service,
who recently returned from Sweden,
where he studied for a year as a fel-
low of the American-Scandinavian
foundation. ‘“‘Sentiment is crystallized
In Sweden so that forestry is an es-
tablished thing,” Mr. Hanzlik said.
Mr. Hanzlik is the first forestry rep-
resentative of the Pacific coast who
ever was sent abroad by the founda-
tion. He attended the Swedish for-
estry Institute in Stockholm and stud-
fed at the headquarters of the Swed-
ish forest service and experiment sta-
tion. The purpose of the fellowship
is to assist In an exchange of ideals
between countries.
Wages In Sweden are generally
much lower than in Oregon, Mr. Hanz-
lik said. The average wage in Swe-
den is $1.50 and $2 for the man who
is working in the woods or in the saw
mills, he added.
Horsepower Machine.
Individuals who claim to feel as
“strong as a horse” may now have the
opportunity to put their strength to a
test. A device known as the eurostom-
eter, which gauges the strength of
human beings in terms of horsepower,
has been perfected. It consists of a
bicycle transmission and a handwheel
geared to a cylinder, which offers re-
sistance to the motion of the transmis-
sion. The person being tested is re-
quired to maintain the velocity of the
resisting cylinder at a predetermined
number of revolutions per minute.
When the machine is in motion a
weight brake is gradually applied un-
tll the revolutions fall below a given
standard. The weight registers upon a
scale beam, on which the horsepower
Is the unit of measure.
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Not a Silver Lining.
Just before the children, Mattie,
Sadie, Sam and Lint, were to go away
to school, their uncle, who was pay-
ing their tuition, called them to him.
Visions of a bountiful allowance
danced before the eyes of the young
scholars, especially the boys.
They walked the hot and dusty mile,
up hill, to their uncle’s house. Duti-
fully they listened to a lecture of
“do's” and “don’ts.” Finally uncle
reached into his “money” pocket.
He pulled out some stamps. To
each child he gave enough stamps to
last all term. The boys looked
chagrined. The girls giggled at the
boys. All thanked him and trudged
the mile to their home,
Santo Domingo’s Sad Story.
When Columbus first landed on
Santo Domingo the native population
numbered, according to the lowest es-
timate, 1,000.000 souls. Fifteen years
of cruelty and oppression sufficed to
reduce their number to less than 60,
000, says the Detroit News. Twenty-
five years later a wretched remnant
of this once happy people, 600 in num-
ber, were, through the benevolent ex-
ertions of Fr. Las Cases, established
In a village by themselves under the
last of their chiefs. For many years
not a single pure-blooded descendant
has existed.
North River Lower Hudson,
The application of the name North
river to the lower part of the Hudson
dates back to the time of the early
Dutch settlement in New Jersey
North river is’ the historic name of
the lower course of the river which
flows between Manhattan and the Jer-
seys. It was north of the New Jersey
settlements, just as the Delaware was
south, and the two rivers were known
to the Dutch colonists as the North
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river and the South river respectively.
the repori’
TIME TO VIEW WITH ALARM
Startling Exploit of Pennsylvania Girt
Whose Fiance Was in the
Sheriff's Custody.
Had an Oppenheim, a Chambers or
a McGrath written a tale a few years
ago of a girl'who forced her way inta
a sheriff’s home and then, single-hand-
ed, freed her fiance from the nearby
Jall with the aid of the keys a re
volver she obtained in her housebreak-
ing, readers would have been amused
at the idea a girl could do such a
thing.
But truth continues to make fiction
look silly. And times have changed
The Warren (Pa.) girl who did that
thing is a type that writers of
shockers have not caltght up with as
yet. There are policewomen and
women deputy sheriffs today—also girl
bandits. Milady in her emancipated
state both enforces the laws and
breaks them. No task is too much for
her.
If the facts in this case were as they
are told, here was love laughing at the
locksmiths and. the sheriff and all the
embattled array of the forces of law
and order. That's the way the movie
scenario writers would look at it.
Many other persons will take that in-
Judicial attitude toward the exploit of
this lass, too.
But are not the ladies golng a bit
too far? Nobody, not even judges and
Juries, have objected very strenuously
so far to women shooting up their hus-
bands at odd times, even to their
shooting up other people’s husbands.
But if they are to be permitted to
break open the jails to get their
chosen ones out of durance, of what
use will be jails or policemen or laws
even?—Buffalo Evening News.
ECUADOR PINEAPPLES HUGE
They Grow to Weight of Twenty-Five
Pounds in the Province of
Esmeraldas.
Ecuador is fast becoming a great
fruit-growing country, said Frank Ed-
ward Kink of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, to
the New York Times.
“Pineapples grow to a weight of 25
pounds in the province of Esmeral-
das,” he declared. “This is about
twice the size of the pineapples grown
in Hawaii and shows that we must
have very superior soil. Moreover,
there is no place in the world that
produces such large, thin-skinned,
seedless oranges.
“Indications are that the province
duction of high-gravity oil.
produced in Ecuador for the last 300
ity oil. These conditions combine to
encourage immigration, which is stead
lly increasing in Esmeraldas.”
Yucatan Likes Wheat Bread.
Corn tortilla, for ages the favorite
bread of Yucatecans, is threatened by
a modern competitor. Little baking
is done in the homes of Yucatan, the
frying pan being the standard imple-
ment of cookery. The simple but
wholesome Mexican tortilla is an ar-
ticle of general diet, but wheat bread
is now being widely consumed. The
wheat bread supply of thé¥entire pen-
insula of Yucatan originates in
bakeries and consists principally of
has also a considerable wealth in oil. !
There are a great number of oil seep-
ages which would Indicate a great pro-
The char- |
acter of this ofl is higher than the fa- |
mous Pennsylvania oil, and has been
years, but it is only recently that mod- |
ern machinery has been used for drill- |
ing, with excellent success. One month |
ago an English company brought in a
well of 300 barrels an hour of 38 grav- '
long, sour French loaves. According
to Consul O. G. Marsh of Progreso
about four years ago a progressive
Yucatecan opened a modern bakery in
Merida equipped with American ma-
chinery and using American fresh
yeast. This bakery enjoys remarkable
Success. A great variety of rolls, bis-
cuits, etc., raised with baking powder
and containing lard and sugar are pur-
chasable,
Wanted a Change.
Watkins came in from the office and
tossed his hat over on the table
“Hello, Mary,” he called.
Mary came from the kitchen to give
him her wifely kiss of greeting,
“Here, dearie, I brought ydu a box
of candy tonight,” Watkins announced.
Mary was nonplussed for a moment.
“Why, Jimmie, this isn’t our wed-
ding annivefsary!” she exclaimed
“And it isn't my birthday—and {it
isn’t— Oh, Jim, you're courting me
again!”
“Nope,” Jim denied casually, “I just
thought a little something sweet would
taste good!”
Billiard Balls From Beans.
Billiard balls at present being grown
at the Royal Botanic gardens, in Eng-
land, are the most recently discovered
use of the soya bean, whose natural
home is in the Far East. But billiard
balls are not the only uses to which
the soya can be put. It can be utilized
as: A substitute for knife and um-
brella handles, buckles and beads. As
an ingredient of cheese, flour, table oil,
cake, sauce and soap. In making lubri-
cating and illuminating oil, glycerin,
paint, varnish, celluloid, printing ink,
waterproofs, explosives and linoleum.
Discovered.
Little Bobby, who had been playing
with a neighbor's daughter, came sob-
bing to his mother and declared that
his little playmate had pulled his hair.
“Why, Bobby,” his mother gasped,
“I thought she was such a nice little
girl she would never do anything like
that” “So did IL” wailed Bobby.
“That's why I kicked her.”—Les An-
geles Times
Curious Musical Instrument.
The ordinary handsaw has appeared
48 a musical instrument. One seeker
after novelties uses a saw as a violin.
After long experiment and untiring
practice he has actually succeeded in
getting an agreeable music from the
tool.
He holds the saw handle between
his legs, holds the tip of the saw in
the other hand and works the usual
violin bow with the other. The vi-
brating steel blade emits soft, appeal-
ing notes, the pitch of which is varied
by changjng the curvature of the
blade. All sorts of queer effects can
be got by adept manipulation of the
blade. Sometimes the music resembles
the human voice; again it has the
weird wail of the Hawaiian ukulele.
Celluloid Eyes.
By the use of celluloid eyes the
olind may be made to see, is the claim
made by Professor Katz of the gov-
ernment hospital in Petrograd. It is
necessary for the sucess of the opera-
tion that the light-perception nerves
shall be intact, as is the case in 50
per cent of cases of blindness. Profes-
sor Katz’ operation consists in cutting
away the withered front part of the
eye, setting in the socket a celluloid
cup, and allowing the light-perception
nerves at the back of the eye to func-
rion through this cup. Professor Katz
states that he is working on an opti-
phone, by means of which light may
oe transformed into sound when a pa-
tient’s optic nerves are dead.
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