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Clever Police Work
Credited to Italian
For a moth to be convicted of mur-
der seems incredible, but this actually
happened. After giving a dinner party
the Princess Caravella of Naples went
to lie down in order to refresh her-
self for a dance, and later was found
shot through the heart. Suspicion
pointed to her husband, who was
known to be of a jealous disposition,
and he was arrested. The fact that
the pistol was found lying near the
dead woman seemed incongruous, but
the husband would probably have been
convicted but for the shrewdness of
Naples police officer.
He found a huge moth lying on the
floor by the bedside. A lighted candle
had stood on the bedside table where
the pistol lay, and the moth had been
singed in the flame. He also found
dust from the moth’s wings on the
trigger of the pistol, which was also
proved to work with exceptional ease,
whilst the pistol lay in such a positior
that it covered the woman's heart
It was argued in court that the
moth had burned its wings and had
fallen on the table, where, writhing
and fluttering, its wings had struck
the trigger and the pistol had been
fired. On this evidence the prince
was acquitted.
Music Shown to Have
Odd Effect on Hai
4 all the violinists in the world as
sembled together in one vast building,
and they numbered, say, 100,000, it is
probable that there weuld be but 100
among them with bald heads. But
if the same number of brass instru.
ment players were Inspected, bald
heads would be as common as flies
in summer time!
If you doubt this, make a point ot
observing the heads of the orchestras
In the cinemas or theaters you patron-
Scientists declare that the playing
of stringed instruments induces hair
growth. A series of éxperiments on
the partly bald has proved that
stringed music has power to raise a
hairy crop!
Cornet and horn players lose thei:
aair early; theirs ifs the wrong sort
of music from the hirsute point of
view. The explanation advanced is
that the physical strain of blowing
affects the circulation and deprives
the roots of the hair of their due sup-
ply of blood.
Playing Cards Known
Since Earliest Ages
Doctor Le Cour, delving in Cartha-
genian ruins, says the ancients had a
play similar to our card game. They
used small tablets on which were
painted figures. There is also men-
tion in one of St. Augustine's works
of cards that are used for gambling.
8till the playing cards we now use
were invented in the Fourteenth cen-
tury by a French painter named Ja-
ques Gringonneur. It is said that he
invented them to amuse the mad King
Charles VI of France. The kings were
David, Alexander, Caesar and Charles;
the queens were Argine, Esther, Ju-
dith and Pallas; the four knights, now
called knaves and vulgarly “jacks,”
were Ogier the Dane, Lancelot, La
Hire and Hector de Garland, knights
of old romance. The Cardmakers’
company was incorporated in 1629,
and as early as the reign of James I
cards were taxed. Probably the first
game played in England was called
“trump.” All the most important his-
torical events have been at one time
or another depicted on playing cards,
and some of the packs are very rare
and valuable.—Pierre Van Paassen, in
the Atlanta Constitution.
Blood Analysis Helps
Doctor in Diagnosis
The doctor who used to feel his
patient’s pulse or gaze into a gaping
mouth to determine the cause of ill
ness nowadays takes a drop of blood
to analyze. The guilt for much of
human suffering has been traced to
the germs, tiny but deadly, which
force their entrance into the human
body, and which can only be detected
by svch analysis, *
“Blood tests provide us with clews
«0 an ever-growing number of ail-
ments,” said a doctor to the writer.
“It is being found, for instance, that
eye complaints are often due to the
absorption of germs which have af-
fected other parts of the body, such
a8 the tonsils. We can often detect
them by testing the blood.
“Many cases of illness are due to
something taken in from without—
usually microscopic germs. More and
more of these germs are becoming
known to ‘us every day. There is
reason to believe that the origins of
other diseases which are still un-
known may be found in the same
cause.”
Grenade Duel Fails
In Germany two university students,
each seeking the hand of a comely
girl In marriage, decided they would
have to fight it out In a duel. They
chose hand grenades as weapons,
paced off the required distance and
when the referee dropped the hand:
kerchief they each threw. The gre
nades went saljing through the alr
but nothing happened. Two other
grenades were offered them and these
exploded, but only spattered mud on
the duelists. They then decided to
allow the girl to choose.
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Modern Dishes That
Got Name From Latin
Fricasse has usually been derived
from the Latin word frigere (to fry)
through the French frier, but it is
thought more probable now that it is
derived from the French fracasser,
meaning to break into pieces or the
Latin fricare, to rub.
In French the word is used to Indi-
cate any meat fried in a pan, but the
English meaning is a dish made from
cutting chickens, rabbits, and other
small animals into pieces and cook-
Ing them in a frying or other par
with a gravy,
Molasses came through many medi-
ums from the Latin mellaceus, mean-
ing honey-like, which is derived fron
mel, honey.
Mushrooms get their name from the
same source as moss.
Custard was a corruption of a mid-
dle-English word meaning a pie or
tart, and was allied to the modern
French word croustade of the same
meaning. All these words came fror
the Latin crusta, meaning a crust.
Salad literally means salted, and
is a direct descendant of the Latin
word sal, or salt. The use of salad
to mean the greens from which or on
which a salad mixture is placed is
one of only recent origin. The Italian
insalata and the Spanish salada, mean-
ing salad in those languages, actually
mean salted.
Tomato is a word of Mexlcan deri-
vation from tomatl, the native name
in that country for the vegetable. The
original tomato was the “love apple”
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Bright Children Fail
to Develop in Ability
Children who are mental giants at
ten years old, are, as a rule, no bet-
ter at tests of musical sensitiveness
than quite ordinary children of ‘their
age. This is shown by experiments
with a group of superior children, con-
ducted by Dr, Leta S. Hollingworth o*
Columbia university.
Results of the experiments report-
ed in the Journal of Educational Psy-
chology, indicate that superior chil-
dren as a group make somewhat bet-
ter ratings in their judgments of time
than other children of their age, bu*
not in other musical tests,
The children were tested on pitch,
time, consonance and tonal memory.
Since the brilliant children as a
group were larger than unselected
children of the same age, it had been
expected that they might excel in
such tests because of the advanced
development of the anatomical struc-
tures involved in making musical
Judgments. This was not, however.
found to be the case.—Science Serv
ice Bulletin.
Fiction and Frying Pans
If the stories of Brillat-Savarin,
which it is proposed to publish in com-
memoration of "his centenary, reveai
their author to the world as a suec-
cessful writer of fiction as well as a
gastronomer, he may perhaps he re-
garded as repaying the interest which
some famous novelists have taken in
matters of the table. Balzac took a
keen interest in cookery, as befitted a
man of gigantic appetite. So also did
George Sand, whose cookery must
have been pretty good, since it was
reputed to be as exciting as her ro-
mances. Joseph Conrad, as he ad-
mitted in connection with a cookbook
written by Mrs. Conrad, gave a high
place in his esteem to the culinary
arts, while George Meredith left so
book of cookery recipes in his own
handwriting which figured in a book-
seller’s catalogue some years ago and
may possibly yet appear in print.--
Manchester Guardian. |
Socrates in Art
The British museum has recently
come into possession of a statuette.
eleven inches high and in very good
condition, that is considered by arche-
ologists to be almost certainly a por-
trait of Socrates as he walked and
talked in the streets of Athens. It
portrays the familiar coarse face, the
rough beard and the snub nose, but
the result is not grotesque and there
can be no doubt as to the intelligence
of the sculptured figure. The statu
ette is supposed to date from a pe-
riod about a century later than Soe-
rates. If so, it is the earllest por
trait of him, for all the other busts
in existence belong to the Roman pe-
riod.—London Post.
What She Wanted to Know
Mandy, black and ponderous, has
trouble with her teeth and was look-
ing over some dental plates.
“Could Ah eat wid ’'em as good as
Ah used to eat wid mah own?” she
asked.
“Oh, to be sure,” replied the den
tist. “These plates are so scientifi-
cally fabricated that mastication is
facilitated to a degree equal to, if not
exceeding, Nature's own product.”
“Yassuh, yassuh,” from Mandy, stil)
unconvinced, “put what Ah wants ta
kuow is kin you chew wid ’em as well
as wid you’ own ?”—Pittsburgh Chron-
icle-Telegraph.
Wheelbarrow Long in Use
The wheelbarrow is a geod illustra
tien of the old adage of familiarity
breeding contempt, at least indiffer-
ence. We are so used to having one
around the place that a few of us
stop to wonder when and where this
useful article was invented. Its be-
ginning is lost in antiquity, for thou-
sands of years ago it was known to
the Chirese, who put it to good use.
The moder, steel, perfectly balanced
vehicle is but an improved edition nf
s crude idea of ages ago.
on Child Training
Gay, light-hearted and debonair
though Robert Louis Stevenson was
during most of his life, he held views
on the training of children that, com-
ing from him, seem astonishingly se-
vere. Mr. Lloyd Osbourne, his step-
son, writing in Scribner's Magazine,
described a conversation that occurred
when he and Stevenson, then thirty-
two years old and in poor health,
were sojourning at Davos in the
Swiss Alps.
One conversation I heard him have
with a visitor at the chalet, says Mr.
Osbourne, impressed me deeply. The
visitor was a fussy, officious person,
who after many preambles ventured to
criticize Stevenson for the way he
was bringing me up. R. L. S., who
was the most reasonable of men in an
argument, and almost over-ready tr
admit any points against himself, sur
prised me by his unshaken stand
“Of course I let him read anything
he wants,” he said. “And if he hears
things you say he shouldn't, I am
glad of it. A child should early gain
some perception of what the world
is really like—its baseness, its treach-
eries, its thinly veneered brutalities;
he should learn to judge people and
discount human frailty and weakness
and be in some degree prepared and
armed for taking his part later in the
battle of life. I have no patience
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with this fairy-tale training that makes
ignorance a virtue. That was how I
was brought up, and no one will ever |
know except myself the bitter misery |
it cost me.”—Youth’s Companion.
Visiting Pest Bane
of Busy Office Man
The “just-a-minute” man is a prod-
uct of modern times, and is in no way
related to the Minute Man of Revolu-
tionary days. He is the worst pest
with whom Detroiters high in public
office and business life have to deal
He always appears to be in a hurry.
He dashes into the outer office of his
victim, pulls out his watch, and
breathlessly asks the secretary if he
can see Mr. So-and-so for “just a min-
ute.” He is often successful in gain-
ing admittance, and he usually stays
about 30 minutes, or until long after
he has worn out his welcome.
The “just-a-minute” man is legion.
His visits sometimes take up several
hours a day of one busy man’s time.
One business man admitted he could
dispense with his secretary if it were
not for the “just-a-minute” man. The
Secretary's chief duty is to intercept
the pest and learn his business.—De-
troit News.
Monk That Made History
Peter the Hermit was a monk of
Amiens, the famous preacher of the
Crusades and primarily responsible
for one of the most gigantic religious
movements the world ever saw. - Lit-
tle is known of his life until 1095 (he
was born in 1050), when he preached
the necessity of a crusade to wrest
the Holy land from the infidel. He
rode about France on a mule, exhort-
ing the populace to follow him. In
1006 he set out toward Palestine with
some thirty thousand followers, most-
ly of the poorer classes. The undlis-
ciplined army straggled on through
Europe, but after crossing the Bos-
porus into Asia Minor it proved so
unruly that Peter left it and joined
the army of Godfrey de Bouillon. He
had a part in the capture of Jeru-
salem, and in July, 1099, preached
on the Mount of Olives.—Kansas City
Star.
Rabbits as Swimmers
An investigating naturalist reports
chat rabbits are good swimmers and
have a very real fondness for the wa-
ter and the sport they find in a good
swim. He says he has been hidden in
the woods and watched rabbits run
on a high bank and dive far out in
the water, swimming about and shak-
ing the water from their eyes, in a
human fashion, then shaking the wa-
ter out of their furry coats after the
swim, exactly as a dog does. Prior
to that discovery he had known rab-
bits to take to the water when pur-
sued by a dog, but had not known they |
chose the water for sport when they
had a day off from play and relax-
ation—Ohio State Journal
Equal to the Occasion
frequently, during the dinner, the
old sea captain had strained the
credulity of the guests, but by the ex-
ercise of his ready wit, had evaded a
number of culs de sac. The supreme
test came while he was describing a
voyage in the South seas. “Crossing
along one morning,” he began, “we
passed an island that was positively
red with lobsters.” “But,” sald one
of the guests, with unconcealed
amusement, “lobsters are not red un-
til boiled.” “Of course not,” replied
the old salt, undaunted, “but this was
a volcanic island dotted with hot
springs and geysers.”
The Bright Iliad
There are few books which are fit
to be remembered in our wisest hours,
but the Iliad is brightest in the se-
renest days, and embodies still all the
sunlight that fell on Asfa Minor. No
modern Joy or ecstacy of ours can
lower its height, or dim its lustre, but
there it lies in the east of literature,
as It were the earliest and latest
production. . . . The rays of Greek
poetry struggle down to us, and
mingle with the sunbeams of the re-
cent day. The statue of Memnon is
cast down, but the shaft of the Iliad
still meets the sun In his rising, —
Thoreau,
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“Well, a duck told me what kind of
a doctor your father is. Quack!
quack!”—The Progressive Grocer.
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Doctor’s daughter: “A little bird
told me what kind of a store your
father runs.”
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