~ 1 Bellefonte, Pa., December 24, 1926. CLEVER NICKNAMES GIVEN RAILROADS The game of trying to find handy names for new and old railways be- gan long ago and has not been con- fined to any one country. It was not uncommon a few years ago to hear the D.,, L. and W. referred to as the “Delay, Linger and Wait.” The Lon- don metropolitan tube was as early es 1863 spoken of as “The Drain.” Another familiar name given to an English railway. was that applied to the old Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln in days when its prospects were not bright, for its “M., S. and LL” was converted by disgruntled shareholders into “Money, Sunk and Lost.” The old Lancashire and York- shire used to be known as ‘“Lanky.” A very important line was called “The Beef and Cabbage,” from the alleged monotony of its meals. In this country, again, the “Katy” is a play upon initials, as is the “Nyp & N,” referring to the New York, Phil- adelphia and Norfolk. Years ago the then Chicago, Paducah and Memphis was derisively known as the “Can't Pay Much,” and “Ginny” was short for the International and Great North- ern in Texas. SEEK CHANGES IN OLD ENGLISH LAWS if a traveler led a horse up to the Savoy or Claridge hotels, the mana- ger, under English law, would be obliged to furnish shelter for “man and beast.” ’t is no dead letter either, for the manager, although he has no longer any stable on the premises, would gend the horses around to a livery stable for the guest and act as though nothing had happened. A bill has been drafted to remove some of the many anomalies in an act which has stood pretty well un- changed, for 300 years, At present a landlord is responsi ole to a guest, up to the value of $150. for any property stolen on his prem- ises unless he can prove gross negli- gence on the part of the guest. It does not matter how many notices he posts up repudiating responsibil- ity, the courts under the present law will hold him liable. This is a point which the British hotelkeepers are anxious to see changed.—London Times. Nhat He Did With Million What would you do with a million dollars inherited unexpectedly? When this happened to Cornelius Sullivan, Boston insurance collector at $30 a week, he bought a $50,000 home for his parents, says Capper’s Weekly. Then he bought an auto for each of his five brothers aud sisters. For himself he bought a ticket for a tour around the world. When he returns he will go back to his insurance job | and keep on living a simple life. Cheese Taste Every day we are developing new and better ways of using cheese in our diet, In the last six years, says the Progressive Grocer, cheese con- sumption has increased 150 per cent. We now consume annually 4% pounds per capita. Europe, however, con- sumes 28 pounds per capita, so we still have a long way to go to catch up with our European friends. Wrong Dope 2olice Captain—What is the charge against this man, officer? Officer—Voting in this state, sir vhen he admits he votes in another. vrisoner—Excuse, please, Mr. Gen- <ral, da man he say when I'm natural- ize, “You can vote in any state now.” —Allston Recorder. Educational Jeorge Ade was recently asked if ane believed in sending the present generation to college. “Yes,” said the humorist, “if you can find one. My idea of college life to- day is that there is too much life and too little college.” Nosed Out #hen Max Cohen, artist, got his last raise, an insurance agent was the logical result. For an hour he talked, and finally asked: “You own your own Hbme, don’t you?” “No,” said Max, “we have company most of the time.” Why Propose? .arry—Darling, there has been some: thing I've wanted to ask you for weeks and weeks, I— Gloria—It will take place a week from tomorrow, dear. Mother and I have it all planned. Successful New Parachute Fashioned so it can be worn as a coat instead of being strapped on as a separate garment, a parachute re- cently devised has withstood actual tests successfully. Classified Willie—What’s an anthology, dad? Crabshaw—That’s a book in which you never find what you're looking for, my boy. Summer Visitors “Are you superstitious, old man?” “Only when we have 18 to lunch and the store two miles away.” OLD SWIMMIN' HOLE VANISHING Stream Immortalized by Riley Giving Out. Greenfield, Ind.—The laughter of children at play drowns out “the gurgle of the water ‘round the drift just below” the “old swimmin’ hole” and few of the surroundings as James Whitcomb Riley knew them during his boyhood days here remain. A Riley memorial park with a play- ground borders Brandywine creek at the “old swimmin’ hole” which the Hoosier poet immortalized in rhyme. A railroad bridge, an electric line trestle and the National trail, an im- portant east-and-west motor highway, cross the creek near the “swimmin’ hole.” The pastoral quietude of the spot, broken only by the hoarse solo of a bullfrog or the plaintive call of a dove, as Riley knew it six decades ago, has been lost in the march of the years. Few of the heavy-follagesd trees that lined the banks In the long, lazy days Where the humdrum of school made S80 many runaways, How pleasant was the journey down the old dusty lane Where the tracks of our bare feet was all print so plain remain. The Brandywine itself, once a sizable stream, now is sluggish and shallow and contains scarcely enough water for swimming, Greenfield basks contentedly in the glory that came to her favorite son. The distinction of having been his birthplace and the center of many of the scenes he sketched in rhyme is one of the city’s most stable commer cial assets, The severe two-story frame house on Main street where Riley was born is occupied by his widowed sister-in- law and her sister. For ten cents vis- itors are permitted to roam the rooms and finger the possessions of Rilev which still are retained there. Before he discovered a bent for verse-making Riley was a sign painter, and several examples of his craftsman- ship are preserved here. Radio Apparatus Value Jumps 215.5 Per Cent Washington. — The tremendous growth of America’s newest industry —radio—was made manifest by sta- tistics published by the Department of Commerce. In 1925 the value of all radio ap- paratus mgaufactured was $170,390, 572, an increase of 215.5 per cent over the 1913 production, worth $54.000, 470. The number of tube-type receiv- ing sets manufactured increased from 190,374 in 1923 to 2,180,622 last year and the number of radio tubes in- creased from 4,687,400 to 23,934,658 the rates of increases being 1,045.4 per cent and 410.6 per cent, respec- tively. Crystal type sets fell from 223.303. valued at 669.906, in 1923 to 112,656. worth $344079, in 1925, English Fight Blindness With Ultra-Violet Rays London.—Surgeons have succeeded in restoring sight to diseased eyes and by standardizing the method of treatment have opened up the way for a new attack on blindness, said A. J. M. Tarrant, secretary of Moor- fields, the biggest eve hospital in the British empire. A year’s experiment with a tiny mercury vapor lamp throwing out ultra-violet rays has just been successfully concluded there. The secretary treatment had been successfully used in cases of threatened total blindness, the eye trouble in these instances be- ing due to tubercular disease. Bones Thought Those of People of 4,000 Years Ago London.—A woman's skull, a thigh pone of a woman about five feet one inch in height and a man’s left shin bone, a man’s right arm bone found under the bed of the Thames at Sud- bury are believed by Sir Arthur Keith, famous anthropologist, to be those of lake dwellers who lived 4,000 years ago. The shin bone is flattened with the “squatter’s foot” showing that the man spent much time in a crouching posi- tion. Bones of oxen, horses, pigs and deer also were found. found belonged to an exceptionally large and early species of red deer. | Man Soon to Flutter; Wings for Everybody Vienna, Austria.—Wings soon will adorn the least angelic of men, says M. Lutsch, an Aus- trian inventor. He is credited with building an apparatus to be worn by the individual, which will enable everyone to do a certain amount of flying In comfort and safety. The machine consists of a pair of wings, moved by a motor which, although extremely light in weight, furnishes a surprising amount of power. The first model weighed 80 pounds and lifted the inventor several yards from the ground and enabled him to move swiftly in any di- rection at will. M. Lutsch declares that his invention when perfected can be turned out at low cost—some- thing In the neighborhood of $300. EIT IIIT Ne Te Nee > said the violet-ray An antler | delete | black one below. tlomary words, except proper names. HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE When the correct letters are placed in the white spaces this puzzle will spell words both vertically and horizontally. fndicated by a number, which refers to the definition listed below the puzzle. us No. 1 under the column headed “horizontal” fill the white spaces up to the first black square to the right, and a number ‘under “vertical” defines a word which will fill the white squares to the next No letters go in the black spaces. 3 Abbreviations, slang, Initials, technical terms and obsolete forms are indicated in the definitions. CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 2. The first letter in each word is defines a word which will All words used are dic- ¢—A musical instrument 8—Lair or cave 10—Name given a sailor 12—A note of the musical scale 13—Application of water to a person in the name of the Holy Trinity 16—Father 18—A sound or clamor 20—Silent; dumb 22—A large tree 23—A measure of length (pl) 24—Before; sooner than 26—Personal pronoun 27—Same as No. 4 horizontal 28—To lay up store 30—Negative 32-—Vessel for preserving ashes of dead 34—A slang expression 85—Abbreviation and common name for high explosive $7—To burn on the surface; to brand 38—The framework of the body 40 —Preposition 43— Attendants of person of distinec- tion 43—Like 44—Coarse cloth made from jute 46—Metal in its native state 47—To cook before a fire : 48—One of the vital organs of the body ’ 1 |= 3 4 5 e |7 8 9 10 i 12 13 14 Is ie 17 18 19 20 21 22 | 2 29 2 26 27 28 29 30 3i 3 39 35 o 37 38 39 40 |4I qe 433 44 45 G4 a7 ZI (©. 1926, Western Newspaper Union.) Horizontal. Vertical. I2 Ditetien utensil used for cook- Jon Insest ysetg) to man 3—The official name for Persia 5—A flower 6—Preposition 7—A short sleep 8—A musical instrument (pl.) 9—A set of steps to pass from one side of a fence or wall to the other 11—To lift up 14—An author 15—A system or theory 17—Everlasting 19—To travel from one place to an- other 21—A fungus growing upon rye 23—Deep, full cry of an animal (pl.)} sound of wind or sea (pl.) 25—Consume 26—Personal pronoun 29—A foolish person 31—@Girl’s name 33—Ascended 35—A small child 36—A number 38—Girl's name 39—Certain 41—Distant; remote 43—Skill 45—Preposition 46—Conjunction olution will appear in next issue. A Real Christmas Story. _A very. successful actor told me a story the other day which to me was so full of pathos that I cherish it as one of the sweetest Christmas stories I have ever heard. When he was a little boy, his fath- ler, whom he adored, married a widow When they came storming into his home, he felt that a terrible chasm | had yawned between his father and ! himself, which could never be bridged. | The children were rowdy younsters and teased and tormented him the ! moment his father left his home to | travel on the road, and the step-moth- | er must have followed the example of | those unhappy ladies of Grimm’s “Fairy Tales,” because she inflicted ‘upon him all the tortures children are id to suffer in our imaginary fairy ore. i When the father returned, the littl: boy said nothing of how he had to run i errands from morning until night or that he was often beaten and sent to bed hungry. He did not want his fath- er to feel badly. While away on one of his trips, the father died, but the boy was too young to understand why his daddy never came home to him. There was lots of talk between stepmother and rela- tives about “brats” and “orphanages,” but all he could understand was that they were going to send him away, so when his daddy returned he would not be there and perhaps his father would never find him again. Christmas came. The children hung up their stockings and his ragged one was among them. In the mornng the stockings were bulging with toys—all except his, which hung limp and for- gotten. “You’re a bad little boy and Santa Claus forgot you,” scolded the step- mother. “My daddy didn’t forget me. Where are the toys my daddy sent me?” { Then, for the first time, she made it clear to him that his father would (never return to him. It came as an awful shock, and that afternoon he stole out of the house and ran as fast as his legs could carry him down the ; street toward the park. There on a bench sat a very old man, with a big white beard and a big, jolly tummy. He looked for all the world like Santa Claus. “Are you Mr. Santa Claus?” the little boy asked. The old man, turning around, saw the little pinched-faced, half-fed child, and took him up on his lap. A week later, the same old man adopted the little boy, and lived to see him reach the top of the ladder before he left him for the long, long journey we all must take after our little span of life is run. I liked this story because, though it is real, it has a fairy tale ending, “and they lived happy ever after.” The G. 0. P. Emblem. The first use of the elephant as a pictorial symbol of the Republican party was in 1874, when Thomas Nast, the cartoonist, made it the G. O. P. emblem. Nast was born in Bavaria seventy-eight years ago and came to America at the age of six. In the sixties he went to Italy and was with with three children, zll older than he. | Solution to Last Week’s Puzzle. oM[BIA[T 1GHIT VEENE|AR RIE|IABRC ‘A RIE Ii TIO ‘NODE E|NID oP NIRNSEEAIN D 1[S|P TENOR A GEESE YE EWER DIO|TISERR EIN[T|E CERIEIA IY AWLESA LEJA[RINGE | [N Mol 1[sSIT! AICIREEEIA EDEREM | IT, SHEMAIG ERA R ESIALE s|OfESIL A RIAlV OIN! YEP EAT E [N|DERD HA E|REEC|AIN|DIO Garibaldi as an artist for British and American newspapers. As political cartoonist for Harper's Weekly, he achieved aa international reputation, and his -cartoons are said to have brought about the downfall of the Tweed ring in New York. In 1874 Nast drew a cartoon representing an elephant, labeled “Republican Party,” and also depicted the Democratic party as a fox, but later the donkey was substituted by cartoonists of op- position political faith.—Indianapolis News. Attorneys Lead in Lower Branch. While the proportion of attorneys to total membership of the next House of Representatives is not going to be as great as in the State Senate where eighteen of fifty are members of the bar. The new legislative directory shows in the lower branch there will | be thirty-four lawyers out of 208 | members. The House will be equipped for or- ganization of almost any business. In addition to its list of attorneys it has twenty-six merchants and sixteen manufacturers. There are two pub- lishers, one editor, one reporter and one “journalist.” It has civil, mining, locomotive and stationary engineers. There are three physicians, rather less than usual, for its physical welfarc and two clergymen for its spiritual affairs. Twenty clerks, four bankers and auditor are listed with five teach- ers, two pharmacists and two veter- inarians. . There are nine farmers and one farm manager. Two coal operat- ors, one well driller, one oil producer are listed as men handling natural resources, while an interior decorator, a florist, and an artist will care for the asthetic side. There are six contractors, four housewives, an automobile repairman, a steam fitter, a machinist, a motion picture man, a telegraph operator, a conveyancer and so on, including sev- en realtors. Others in the list of occupations of the prospective lawmakers are con- ductors, trainmen, salesmen, drafts- men, managers, executives, one car- penter, a secretary, two cashiers, a notary, eight insurance men, a treas- urer, a dealer, master plumber, three dentists, one check weighman, a print- er, a theatrical producer, three retired men, a broker, accountant, superin- tendent and bookkeeper. The latter is the occupation of the wealthiest man in the House. “Merry Christmas to All” AND TO ALL A Happy and Prosperous New Year The First National ;Bank Bellefonte, Penna. 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