Bellefonte, Pa., November 5, 1926.
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The Wonderful Jails Man of the
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Man of
Weight,
The Wonderful Petrified
the World, height, 5ft. 10 in.
365 lbs.
In the sands of the Missouri river
in Montana by Thomas Dunbar, a
trapper. He looks as if he was alive,
but is all stone. His hair, moustache,
finger nails and teeth are as perfect
as yours. Also shows wound on head
and the way his hands were tied by
the Indians. Pronounced by compe:
tent physicians and the Butte Inter-
mountain as the historical wonder of
the age. By Drs. Sheeran and Vicars
of Livingston, Mont., as the Marve!
of the Century.
He is at present, and will be for a
short time only, on exhibition, where
you can view this wonderful curiosity,
at
MILLARD HOTEL, 13th and Doug-
lass. Children, 15¢c. Adults, 25¢.
Walking up Douglas Street, Omaha,
from the river bridge one day last
summer, I saw on the sidewalk a 6x9
in. dodger. Picking it up I read the
legend as above. I was struck by the
quaint illiteracy of its phrasing as
well as by the unusualness of its an-
nouncement. “Some new fake” -—
when at this moment I reached the
old Millard Hotel, at the corner of
Thirteenth Street. In the abandoned
barroom, a sign informed me, I might
view the wonderful petrified man_ of
the world. Still scenting a fake, but
willing to do anything once I parted
with two-bits and stepped in.
A pleasant mannered personage of
foreign extraction met me; judging
by his accent, a descendant of the
glory that was Greece—considerably
descended. He led me to a raised dias,
within a railed-off enclosure, upon
which reposed the statuesque wonder.
Flat on his head he lay—nude—with
his feet crossed and his arms across
his chest and hands tied together with
a buckled leather strap. well-
built, muscular body, clean limbed as
a Sioux brave. Fine features, a good
forehead, rather ample moustache,
teeth “perfect’—as the circular prom-
ised—finger-nails showing the “grain,”
and finger-tips with “creases” as
clearly defined as in 2 Bertillon print,
while on the soles of his feet you could
feel and see the skin's texture of a
naturalness that would seem to defy
any sculptural skill of simulation.
Down the arms and legs and across
the chest and abdomen following the
course of the arteries in the living
body, was a series of small-hole in-
dentations each about the size and
depth of a split pea. The exhibitor
called especial attention to this fea-
ture. He said it was scientific evi-
dence that the body was naturally
petrified and not a sculptural fake,
telling us that only bodies in which
the arteries burst capable of petrifi-
cation. In the forehead was an in-
dentation showing where the bullet
had entered. In the strap which
bound the hands were plainly visible
the creases which long-used leather
acquires. Such were some of the ob-
vious features to give evidence that :
the body was a naturally petrified ob-
ject, and not a cleverly carved hoax. i
Upon later investigations of ency-
clopedia and other authority, I learn-
ed that it is within the range of pos-
sibility for a human body to petrify.
“In rare cases,” said tl horit,
“the structure or organic remains 1S
organic
atom by atom, by some mineral com-
pound, like silica or calcium carbonate. |
The bad lands of the Little Missouri |
abound in petrified trees which have |
been washed out from shales and
sandstones of the Laramie group.’—
Exchange.
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Hunting Will be Good This Year.
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Reports are to the effect that Penn-
sylvania this fall will have the best
hunting in a quarter of a century.
There are more quail in Pennsyl-
vania than at any time within the
memory of the middle-aged hunter,
they reported. Two hatchings were
noted in the southern part of the
State, and both came through in fine
shape. Even in the northern tier
counties quail are plentiful.
In the grouse belt extending across
the State from Elk county to Pike
county, hunters predict a most favor-
able season, though last year was
most unsatisfactory. English pheas-
ants, too, they said, have increased
rapidly during the last few years.
The rabbit season, which this year
has been shortened by two weeks
finds so many rabbits at large, that
no hardships will result from the
limited period, sportsmen say. Deer
are very numerous, SO much so that
a record kill of legal bucks is foreseen.
Changes in the hunting season will
work to advantage, such as the short-
ening the rabbit season to end on Nov-
ember 30, as to big range hunters the
overlapping of the rabbit season on
their hunting season always has been
a source of annoyance,
The grouse season has been reduc-
ed to two weeks, instead of continu-
ing through November, because a can-
vas made of the grouse-hunting dis-
tricts revealed a decline in their num-
bers. Some sportsmen proposed clos-
ing the State entirely to grouse hunt-
ing for one or two years, but it is
hoped that this can be avoided.
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__ William was not a favorite with
his rich uncle. In vain did he try to
impress him, but the old man was not
impressed.
One evening the young man called
at his uncle’s house ostensibly to ask
after the old gentleman’s health. In
the course of conversation he asked:
«Uncle don’t you think it would be
rather foolish for me to marry a girl
. who was intellectually my inferior?”
«Worse than foolish, Thomas, my
lad,” was the reply—‘“worse than fool-
ish—impossible!”
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the authority |
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preserved by a true petrification the !
substance being replaced, :
Matrimonial Ideas of
Ecuador Jungle Folk
Good looks count for little amongst
the jungle folk of Ecuador, where-
as sturdy build and ability to work
are the greatest assets a woman can
have. If you went hunting for a wife
amongst the Jivaros and picked a
young, nice-looking girl, you would
be considered decidedly lacking in
judgment, G. M. Dyatt writes, in
World's Work. It would be just as
if you married a woman at home on
the strength of having seen her pho-
tograph. The original might turn out
very differently from the portrait.
So with an Indian girl, she might de-
velop into a useless woman. The
young Jivaro can't afford to take such
chances when he takes his first
plunge. His wife No. 1 must be a
sure bet and generally the son profits
by the extensive knowledge which the
father has amassed on the subject of
matrimony. It is only when a man is
well on in years and needs young
blood in the family that he can run
the risk of adding a girl-wife to his
menage.
The woman's influence in the home
is much greater than is generally sup-
posed. Both individually and collec-
tively they swing considerable power,
and woe betide the man who delib-
erately abuses them, for he will let
himself in for a world of trouble. In
our own homes one woman can make
things pretty disagreeable, if she
wants to; but imagine what chance
of peace an Indiun might have with
five or six women arrayed against
him! In one part of the Amazon coun-
try a wife, if neglected by her hus-
band, sometimes resorts to rather a
unique method of getting even. She
prepares a peculiar concoction which
is served surreptitiously in her hus-
band’s food. It has the peculiar prop-
erty of turning him into a driveling
imbecile. Custom permits her to
marry another man if her husband
becomes a lunatic, so she takes ad-
vantage of the opportunity and her
first husband trails along after the
newly married pair like a dog, waiting
on them hand and foot.
Cold Storage
B. W. Redfield, the noted artist,
told at a dinner in Center Bridge a
story about a landscape painter.
“Dawb,” he began, “is always hard
4p. Well, a great lady invited him
to lunch at her palace in Fifth ave-
pue the other day, and Dawb, of
course, accepted, only too glad to put
himself outside of a sumptuous meal,
you know.
“The meal was very sumptuous, and
there were a dozen big wigs present,
but Dawb was quite at his ease. Dur-
ing a lull in the talk the great lady
gave him a condescending smile and
said:
‘‘I think the warm weather is here
co stay, don’t you? . At any rate I
put my sables in cold storage this
morning.’
“weCold storage!" said Dawb, and
ne prodded the great lady in the ribs.
‘Cold storage! Haw, haw, haw! I
never heard it calied that before. My
winter suit and overcoat went in
yesterday afternoon.’”
Napoleon’s Many Hats
dow many hats did Napoleon wear
Of course the num-
ber must have been considerable, and
yet one usually thinks that the term
Napoleon's hat must apply uniquely to
a single petit chapeau. One has just
been sold at the Hotel Drouot for
43,000 francs, its purchaser giving a
guarantee that it would not leave
France. But Napoleon’s hats can be
found everywhere. There are no
fewer than three of them in the Musee
de I’Armee at the Invalides, and in
provincial museums and in private col-
lections they must be numerous. The
list of the specimens of the headgear
of the emperor, if it could be accu-
rately drawn up, would be a long one.
When one speaks of Napoleon’s hat
one should therefore qualify the
phrase: It is not “the” hat of Napo-
leon, but only (assuming it to be a
genuine relic) one of his hats.
Identity
A little colored boy about four years
old whose parents have a charge ac-
count at a grocery, went ‘to the store
and asked for a pint of milk, Having
obtained the milk he started to walk
out. The new clerk to whom he was
not known said: “Walt a minute.
Who is this for?”
“It's for the baby,” the boy re-
plied.
The clerk smothered her laughter
and tried another question. “Whose
little boy are you?’ she asked.
“I'm mamma's boy,” the child re-
plied.
Flyers Feel Cold
air-mail pilots who fly over the
Rocky mountains between Salt Lake
city and Cheyenne have only two
months—July and August—of sum-
mer. The other ten months they wear
a thick bearskin-lined flying suit and
during a flight keep the heating ap-
pliance, attached to the motor, going
full blast. In other regions the pilots
don their summer flying suits and
turn off their engine heaters from May
to September.
Double Jubilee Planned
A double royal jubilee is already
ander preparation for King Gustav V
of Sweden two years from now, as at
that time he can celebrate both his
seventieth birthday and the twentieth
anniversary of his succession to the
throne. Though the two dates de not
exactly coincide they fall near enough
each other to justify a combined ob-
servance. The celebration will prob
ably be set for the spring of 1923.
HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
When the correcy letters are pluced in the white spaces this pussle will
spell words both vertically and horizontally.
The first letter in each word is
indicated by a number, which refers to the definition listed below the pusszle.
Thus Ne. 1 under the column headed “horizontal” defines a word which will
fil the white spaces up to the first black square to the right, and a number
under “vertical” defines @ word which will fill the white squares to the next
black one below.
tionary words, except proper names.
Ne letters go in the black spaces. All words used are dios
Abbreviations, slang, imitinls, technical
terms and obsolete forms are tndieated in the definitions.
CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 1.
(©, 1926, Western Newspaper Union.)
Horizontal.
1—A burnt sacrifice
$—Small couch
9—Kind of red wine
11—Ego
12—To wield diligently
14—Expires
16—To make a certain kind of lace
17—Colorless liquid
19—To stroke gently
20—Preposition denoting position
21—Lower cheek bone
22—O0zone
25—Ripped
26—To scoff at
28—Absence of light
29—To consider
80—To scream
33—Furious anger
85—Note of scale
87—Ocean
.89—Conjunction
'40—Kind of blackbird
‘42—Kind of brook fish
44—Reverential fear
45—A pace
47—Tool case
48—Row
49-—Place where two pieces of cloth
are sewed together
pi—Kvergreens
§3—Delights, or joys
24—Sun god
88—Single
Vertical,
1—Wooded hill
2—Preposition
8—Note of scale
4—Young horse
p—Preposition
6—Grass
7—Journey
8—Bench
10—-To rend
11—Anything by which something
{s measured (pl)
12—To hock
13—Period of time
15—One who talks with an impedi-
ment in his speech
17—Battle
18—Long, narrow inlet
21—Funny stories
923—Raised line or strip
25—To attempt
97—Confederate general
81—Allow
32—Meadow bird
33—To put to flight
g84—Insect
39—Is indebted to
41—To cry
43—Lubricates
486—Companion
48—To bind
50—This person
g1—French (abbr.)
Solution will appear in next issue.
If You Want Your Babies to Grow
Big Here is Another Idea.
Dr. William F. Baker, of Hahne-
mann Medical College, Philadelphia,
addressing the Eastern Homeopathic
Medical Association, in Washington,
D. C., last week, discussed the value
of sun rays on foodstuffs.
He declared that if foods were ex-
posed to the rays of the sun before
cooking they would be so improved
that physical growth in persons who
eat them will outdistance visibly the
growth of persons who eat their foods
in the accepted way.
Dr. Baker explained that ultra-
violet rays of the sun broke up and
distributed through the food the phos-
phorous and calcium, the two valuable
elements in foodstuffs.
It was explained, however, that food
so treated must be exposed in the di-
rect, unhindered ray of the sun and
not in a ray that has passed through
the glass in the kitchen window, for
ultraviolet rays cannot penetrate the
ordinary glass. Dr. Baker's advice is
to place foods in an open dish and the
dish on the outside window-sill for a
time before cooking.
In support of his argument Dr.
Baker told of experiments upon rab-
bits which had been fed ordinary food
and that which had been exposed to
sun rays. The bunnies of the plain
food diet were just plain bunnies,
while those that had eaten the sun-
bathed food were of larger size.
Dr. Baker said sun-bathed food was
being fed to tubercular patients in
Philadelphia with marked results.
Dr. Baker also told of a means of
counteracting sunburn. He said the
idea was used in out-of-doors tuber-
cular camps where children are ex-
posed almost nude to the sun. They
are fed carrots and spinach in consid-
erable quantities and this diet colors
the blood a deeper hue and so the
ckin itself is turned a deep tan. The
ultra-violet rays of the sun are thus
counteracted so far as the burning is
concerned and the children may play
and work in the strong rays without
discomfiture.
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German Immigration will be Restrict-
Berlin, Oct. 7—From October 15 to
May 1 of next year the American con-
sulates in Germany will accept no
more applications from prospective
immigrants to the United States. Ac-
cording to present indications, the
quota year ending June 30, 1927, will
find the consulates having on hand
10,000 to 15,000 more applications for
visas entered during 1926 than can be
taken care of. To catch up with this
overproduction, a pause of six and a
half months will be made.
The new quota for 1927 and suc-
ceeding years will be only 22,000.
Thus, the left-overs from 1926, total-
ing 10,000, already constitute nearly
one-half of the total number of quota
visas to be issued during 1927-28. At
the consul general’s office the impres-
sion prevails that persons applying
for visas after next year may have to
wait two or three years before they
obtain permission to go to America.
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DO YOU KNOW PENNA. STAR?
It’s Second on Flag, Reading Left to
Right from Staff.
Which star of the forty-eight in the
United States flag belongs to Penn-
sylvania?
That each State is represented in
the field of blue is generally known,
and this information has been supple-
mented by official information from,
the Navy Department. A certain star
has been designated to represent each
State.
In the official diagram furnished by
the department, the stars are named
in the order of each State’s admission
to the Union, reading from left to
right from the staff. Delaware comes
first, as the first State to ratify the
Federal Constitution. The second
star is Pennsylvania’s own.
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Marine Band Has Had Long Career.
The United States Marine band is
America’s oldest and best known mu-
sical organization of this type, says
the National Republic. In 1798 Pres-
ident John Adams signed a bill put-
ting the Marine corps on a permanent
basis. A fife and drum corps was then
authorized, and this became the Ma-
rine band, so that it has a history of
127 years.
It first played at the White House
when President Adams received on
New Year's day, 1801. The band has
played at all inaugural balls and all
important White House functions
since. It has played at all Presiden-
tial funerals from that of Taylor to
that of Harding, and was present
when Lincoln made his Gettysburg
address. It played for Lafayette when
he toured the United States and for
Edward VII when he journeyed
through America as prince of Wales;
it also played for his grandson, the
present prince.
_ The most famous leader of the Ma-
rine band was John Philip Sousa, and
some of his most famous compositions
were first played by the band under
his leadership.
Marriage Licenses.
Samuel L. Corrigan and Thelma V.
Vaughn, both of Sandy Ridge.
Nerr D. Weaver and Clara M. Mec-
Closkey, both of Bellefonte.
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The Pennsylvania Railroad
Is the Greatest. Transportation System
in the World
ts total mileage of all tracks is twenty-five thousand
six hundred fifty-two miles. It moves, on an
average, six thousand seven hundred trains every
day. Of these three thousand eight hundred are
passenger trains, carrying one-sixth of all the travelers
by rail in the United States.
Returning from a long journey the Pennsylvanian
feels a glow of pride, a semse of home-coming and
security, when he sees a car bearing the name ‘‘Penn-
sylvania.”’
Railroads are the arteries through which flows, in
ever increasing volume, the vast commerce of the Uni-
ted States.
Every business man is vitally interested in the
maintenance of railroad credit, so that there may be
efficient operation.
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