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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.
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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.
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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
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12 13 14 Is ie
17 18 19
20 21 22 | 2
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27 28
29 30 3i 3
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Horizontal. Vertical.
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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. |
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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
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