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Bellefonte, Pa., October 10, 1924.
Mongolia’s Wild Dogs
! Fiercer Than Wolves
The Mongols believe when persons
are about to dle that evil spirits en-
er the body, according to Mr. Roy
Chapman, leader of the American My
seum Asiatic expedition.
The bodies, once death has occurred,
are placed on carts, driven over the
roughest possible ground, and during
the journey thrown off, to be devoured
|by wild dogs. These dogs are doubt-
les’ the fiercest creatures in the world.
{They are indeed terrible, and were 8
‘constant menace to the lives of the
‘members of the expedition. :
: No member, said Mr. Chapman, went
out of the camp unless armed with re-
volver and knife. No one in Urga,
the Mongolian capital, dares to
go through the meat market at night.
They would be seized and killed with-
in a minute if they ventured to do so.
The members of the expedition on at
least three occasions came within an
ace of death from these animals.
Prof, Oharles J. Berky, the chief geolo-
gist, was attacked on the first occa-
sion by three dogs, and would have
been killed had he not had his revolver
handy. He killed the leading dog and
wounded the other two, but they still
leaped to the attack.
Men of Golden Pens
Made for Each Other
In the summer of 1889 Mark Twain
and Rudyard Kipling first met. Kip-
ling, who had just begun to make his
name known, was touring the world,
and during the trip through the
United States they went to Elmira es-
pecially to see Mark Twain. The ac-
count of the visit and interview is
described by Mark Twain as follows:
+ Kipling spent a couple of hours with
me, and at the end of that time I
had surprised him as much as he had
surprised me—and the honors were
even. 1 believe that he knew more
than any person I had ever met be-
fore, and I knew that he knew that I
knew less than any person he had
ever met before—though he did not
say it, and I was not expecting that he
would—he is a most remarkable man
—and I am the other one. Be
tween us we cover all knowledge; he
knows all that can be known, and I
know the rest.”
Famous Vice Presidents
John Adams, who received the sec
ond highest number of votes, became
vice president in the first and second
administrations. In the same way
Thomas Jefferson was elected vice
president in 1796, when Adams was
elected President, and Aaron Burr
took second place in 1800 when Jef-
ferson was elected President by the
house of representatives. By the
twelfth amendment to the Constitu-
tion, effective September 24, 1804, the
electors were instructed to ballot sep-
arately for President and vice presi-
dent. George Clinton was the first
man nominated and elected to the
office of vice president, being elected
in November, 1904, when Jefferson
was re-elected President.
Steam-Heated Bird Nest
Steam-heated nests with steam baths
are being used by a pair of blue birds
in Yellowstone park, according to re-
ports to the national park service
headquarters at Washington. The
happy couple have, however, avoided
expensive modern plumbing and steam
fittings. They have simply taken over
one of nature's big steam plants by
constructing their cozy home in the
nearly extinct Excelsior geyser cone.
Every morning they can be seen dart-
ing in and out of the steam.
Plants are also using the geyser as
4 natural greenhouse. Wild straw-
berries have been found growing not
far from the cone two weeks ahead
of their usual season.
Where Wives Are Boss
What a visiting sea captain calls
“he harems” are to be found among
the Marquesas islands of the South
seas. The bulky, brown Amazonian
women are unspoilt by association
with oriental ideas, and collect half
a dozen husbands or more. The col-
lection is done by the simple expedi-
ent of driving the man with a bamboo
pole into the harem, thrashing him
well to make him thoroughly under-
stand who is in command—and set-
ting him to work on the coconut plan-
tation or at the housework. These
conditions only obtain in the islands
that are unvisited by steamships.
The windjammer trader is the only
white man who finds the natives ip
their primitive condition.
Antiquity of Coursing
The most ancient field sport in the
western world is said to be “coursing.”
Rules for its proper conduct date from
the time of Xenophon. If Great Brit-
ain alone were to be considered, then
etter-hunting, now in full swing
throughout the land, bears the bell
Under the late Nerman kings, at any
“tronomers in solving the causes for
“Twilight” of Minds
Might Work Wonders
To most grown-ups the child mind
is an enigma, and it is reasonable to
suppose that the grown-up mind is an
enigma to the child. So that, if there
be a sudden “twilight” for a few hours,
great changes would be apparent in
the behavior of the one to the other,
a writer in the Westminster Gazette
comments. :
Take, for instance, meal time—=a
period when youth and maturity wage
eternal warfare—Mary and Bobbie
would appreciate mothers’ dislike to
messy, noisy meals, and mother
would realize in a flash how tiresome
and dull it is to sit quiet and be care-
ful and clean and good right through
all the courses. !
Naturally, a compromise would be
effected. Mary would only drop her
gpoon once, and not see how far she
could lean over to pick it up, capsiz-
ing the chair and herself and knock-
ing her glass of water over at one
fell swoop. Bobble would tip his
acute angle that the tablecloth would
be drenched with rhubarb juice.
. . . As for mother, instead of los-
ing herself in gloomy contemplation
of the years to pass before she could
have her meals in peace, she would
chat companionably and limit consid-
erably her number of “don’ts.”
Colonists Called On
to “Trade” at Home
In a copy of the Providence Gazette
issued during the Colonial period ap-
pears an amusing Item of local news,
which, if literally adhered to, doult-
less would have devastated a portion
of New England of its household cats.
The copy of the paper bears the date
of November 28, 1767, and one readily
discerns that the residents of that
Rhode Island city regarded them-
selves at the time as loyal subjects of
George ILII. The article reads: “A
number of householders in this town
will engage to supply the public with
the article of Catskins of American
breed, not inferior to British ones, for
making Muffs and Tippets. There
are at this time a large number of
his majesty’s American cats, finely
colored and spotted, who are bad
mousers and now ready to be sacri-
ficed for the good purpose of muffs
and tippets, and it is hoped that all
persons who wish well to America
will give the preference to his ma-
jesty’s catskins before those of for-
eign growth. As muffs and tippets
are thought to be of the first impor-
tance, it would be well worth the con-
sideration of all lovers of this coun-
try whether we ought not to eneour-
age the use and consumption of our
own catsking in preference of all
others. The learned assure us that
the American catskins are vastly su-
perior to those of Europe, being of
finer fur and more beautifully varie-
gated with spots and streaks.”
!
Generates Fierce Heat
at ig declared to be the hottest
flame known to man has been pro-
duced by artificial means in experi
ments held to study the form of
atoms. An electric blast, lasting for
only a small part of a second, occur-
ring on a charged wire, seemed to ex-
plode, creating heat so intense that
it could mot be measured, although es-
timates put it at as high as 80,000 de-
grees. Pictures taken as the explo-
sions occur are expected to aid as--
different kinds of light thrown off by
many of the planets.
. Gl
plate (probably), but not at such an
Bloch Clearly Master
of the “Double Cross”
Bloch and Arakelian were invited
to dine at the house of a rich banker.
It was agreed that Bloch would keep
the attention of the guests distracted
while his accomplice pocketed as
much of the silver as possible. After
dinner Bloch whispered to Arakeliap®
“How much did you get?”
“Six spoons.”
“Give me three of them.”
“No. I'm the man who got them.”
Bloch sald nothing more. He
crossed the room and began to be
agreeable to the hostess. All at once
this lady called out:
“Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Bloch
tells me he is a clever sleight-of-hand
performer. He has agreed to give ur
some amusement.”
“Will you please get me six te?
spoons?’ asked Bloch,
The teaspoons were brought.
“Thank you. Now observe that I
wrap them up in my pocket handker-
chief. Then I put the handkerch: :f
in my pocket, so. I pass my hand
over my pocket three times, so, and
you will find the six teaspoons in the
pocket of Mr. Arakelian.,”—Chicago
News.
Rightly Felt It Was
No Time for Poetry
Sam Lung was busy in one of the
great warehouses south of Market
street, San Francisco, tugging at a
ponderous bale of burlap, when a
large motortruck came backing si-
lently through the door loaded with
more burlap.
Another Chinese who had been
sielping Sam, seeing the oncoming
truck, stepped aside and began in the
quaint sing-song of their people to in-
form him of the danger. “If you do
not care to have your bones rest in
unholy ground of the white devils for
a long spell, then in time taken up and
removed to ‘the land of your ances-
tors, you had better—"
Just then, as the heavily loadea
(ruck was about to smash Sam, his
companion finished his warning with
the exclamation, “Look ow!” Sam
jumped in time to escape being
crushed. With a frightened face
he exclaimed to his helper, ‘Wha’
for you no talkee Melican first time?’
—Argonaut.
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London Rests on Clay
The crumbling and decay of many
famous London (Eng.) structures: is
partly due to the clay subsoil upon
which London rests, This is compact
enough to transmit to foundations the
full destructive effects of traffic vibra-
tion, and slippery enough to allow
Subsequent mévement. London got its
clay in Eocene times long before any
of the present topography took shape.
The floods of the Ice age overlaid this
with wide areas of gravel, upon which
earlier London arose and over which
ft extended, as the gravel afforded an
easy water supply. Those parts where
clay forms the Immediate subsoil were
uninhabitable until the invention of
the steam pump and iron water pipes;
largely they were overgrown with for-
ests. It Is, however, an ideal medium
through which to drive London's tubes.
“I keep six honest, serving men;
(They taught me All I Knew):
Their names are WHAT and WHY
and WHEN,
end HOW and WHERE and WHO"
KIPLING
WHAT was the Declaration of London?
WHY does the date for Easter vary?
WHEN was the great pyramid of
Cheops built? & y
HOW can you distinguish a malarial
mosquito?
WHERE is Canberra? Zeebrugge?
WHO was the Millboy of the Slashes?
Are these “six men” serving you too?
Give them an opportunity”by placing
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SPECIAL TRAIN LEAVES BELLEFONTE
Saturday Night Octoberfi18 at 11.55. Returning leaves Niagara
Falls (International Railway Terminal, Prospect Park) 2.45 p.m. Leaves
Pennsylvania Railroad
THE STANDARD RAILROAD OF THE WORLD
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Lyon & Co.
Keeping in touch with the Remark-
able Sales here means adding dollars
to your Savings Account.
Our buyer is now in the Eastern Mar-
ket---and daily we receive consign-
ments of all the Newest Snappy
Wanted Merchandise.
Ready-to-Wear Department
Luxurious winter coats. Phenomenal
values in one of the most attractive
showings of winter styles we have
ever offered.
Charming Dresses
Particularly interesting are those of
the new cloths. Others in Poiret
Twill, Bengaline and Faille, deftly
trimmed with bands, piping and
bright colored buttons.
Sweaters
For men, ladies and children in all the
new colorings and styles at prices that
will surprise you.
Dress Goods
All the new bright shades in plain
colored flannels, in checks and stripes.
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Lighting Contest.
The purpose of
j 8 All the school boys and school girls of this town
over ten years of age have a chance to win this
The home and ten scholarships to universities or
colleges will be given as prizes to school boys and
girls of the United States and Canada in the Home
this Home Lighting Contest is to
conserve the eyesight of the children. Improper
lighting in the home is injurious to eyesight. Teach-
ing the children the proper use of light will help to
:
Boys School Shoes
Guaranteed to Wear
Lyon & Co.
or a New Pair Given
Only $3.00
Store Open Thursday Afternoon
solve this problem,
October 1 marked. the . beginning of the Home
Lighting Contest in this town. Remember the date
and watch this newspaper for further information.
rate, it flourished, and as a royal
sport, for a charter of Henry II, dated
1175, appointed Roger Follo “King's
Yeager’s Shoe Store
Otterhunter,” and “Ralph and Geoffry” Get his Primer— FREE
held the office jointly by letters patent Boys and rn Ter to enter the “Qurtown” THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN
dated at Dunstable June 7, 1216. John contest you must first get this Home Electrical League :
Lighting Primer. Be sure and read the
newspapers for the announcement of
where you can get this. primer, .
To win you must have a primer.
Gott, “Sergeant of the Otterhounrds to
King Charles II” was the last royal
official to be appointed for this sum-
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