Bellefonte, Pa., November 4, 1927.
Ginger Most Popular
Tonic of Middle Ages
Ginger is the oldest spice known.
It figures largely on the tables of the
Romans. They probably took it to
England, for gingerbread was known
in England long before the Norman
conquest. In the old leech books of
the Eleventh and Twelfth centuries
ginger is often recommended for
medicinal purposes. It was in the
Middle ages that there arose the cus-
tom of making gingerbread cakes in
the shape of dolls, horses and other
objects. In the markets of old times
stalls filled with these gingerbread
shapes occupied a prominent place.
At the fair of St. Bartholomew, in
London, the chief articles of mer-
chandise were “peppermint drops, 20
a penny; wooden babies; cakes of gilt
gingerbread; and also gingerbread
‘horn books, gingerbread women and
gingerbread husbands, of all sizes.”
The old fashion of gingerbread toys
fasted to the last century, In some
books of children’s stories of the Vic-
torian era may be found allusions to
“a gingerbread horse” or “ a little
gingerbread man.” Large quantities
of gingerbread “babies” were baked
and given to the people to celebrate
‘the birth of an heir—afterward the
ill-fated Richard II—to the Black
Prince.—London 'Lit-Bits.
Science Explains How
Israelites Were Fed
The nature of the Biblical manna is
thought to have been established by
an expedition which recently returned
from central Sinai.
The traditional theory was that the
‘Biblical manna was identifiable with
the tamarix mannifera, a species of
‘the tamarix shrub which exudes a
;sugary secretion called manna, It was
thought that manna was a natural
Isecretion from the twigs or buds
which were pierced by rodent insects.
The expedition has determined that
manna is an excretion of the insects
themselves, which produce clear
syrup-like drops that, if sufficiently
abundant, fall to the ground, forming
i Whitish grains from the size of a pin’s
;head to the size of a pea. The quan-
tity of this secretion depends on the
‘rain, but in a good season a man can
collect about three pounds a day.
A Free-For-All
: Pat was on an ocean liner bound for
‘America. It was his first trip on the
water and every ordinary event on the
boat was a new one in Pat's experi-
ence.
On the third day out the ship burst
fnto flames. The fire was rapidly con-
suming the boat.
All the passengers were appropriat-
sng the life preservers, life savers,
and life boats. Pat stood by for a few
minutes, watching the mad rush, Fi-
nally, perplexed and disgusted, he ex-
claimed :
“Well, if everybody is goin’ to steal
stuff off o' the ship, OI'l be gosh
idurned if Oi don’t get in on the
|stealin’ myself.
Bo saying, Pat grabbed a crowbar
jand Jumped overboard.
Frozen Eye Glasses
Optical glasses cannot be cut un-
less fixed immovably. To this end
they are glued to iron frames of dif-
ferent sizes and various shapes. Un-
til recently, when finished the plates
of glass have been. knocked from the
{frames with a light mallet, cautiously
struck upon the edges of the plates.
{The work was hard and as the least
!shiver of the edge, though inpercepti-
'ble, disqualified the lens, the work-
‘man needed a very light, skillful
thand. The discovery was made by
an expert optician that the blocks
of crystal separated more easily
when they had been exposed to the
(cold during the night. This discov-
‘ery has effected a revolution in the
‘manufacture of special glasses.
Shakespeare Pall-Bearer
In a corner of an old cemetery near
Fredericksburg, Va. says Capper’s
Weekly, a gravestone has been found
iying flat on the ground under a tan-
‘gle of weeds and creepers. The in-
scription, in old English, is quite dim,
but still traceable. It reads:
“Here Lies the Body of
“Edward Heldon
*Practitioner in Physics and Chirur-
gery. Born in Bedfordshire, England,
in the year of our Lord, 1542. Was
contemporary with and one of the
pall-bearers of William Shakesveare,
of the Avon. After a brief illness his
spirit ascended in the year of our
Lord 1618, aged 76.”
His Early Training
Two men had met on the beach at
Shrimpsea. Both were attired in
swimming costume, and the conversa-
tion turned toward this sport, After
a few remarks the elder man said:
“I'll race you to the end of the pier
and back.”
“Right you are,” agreed the other,
who was a professional at the game.
“Bet you ten bob I win.”
They plunged into the surf, and the
professional swimmer was badly
beaten.
“My stars!” he exclaimed. “Where
did you learn to swim?”
“Me?” sald the other. “I used to
be a newsboy In Venice.”—Exchange.
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| Archangel.
Monastery in Russia
Place of Pilgrimage
The most strongly fortified monas-
tery in the world is at Solovetsk, -in
This monastery is in-
closed on every side by a wall of gran-
ite bowlders, which measures nearly a
mile in circumference. The monastery
itse.f is very strongly fortified, being
supported by round and square tow-
ers about 30 feet in height, with wall»
20 feet in thickness.
The monastery in reality consists
of six churches, which are the re-
positories of many valuable statues,
and also of precious stones. Upon the
walls are mounted huge guns, which
in the time of the Crimean war were
directed against the British White Ses
squadron. f
The monks who inhabited the mon-
astery at that time marched in pro-
cession on the granite walls while
the shells were flying over their heads,
to indicate what little fear they had
of an attack by the British fleet.
Thousands of people come annually
to Solovetsk from various parts of
Russia to view the churches and the
relics. They are conveyed in steamers
commanded and manned solely by the
monks,
No Appeal Possible
From Birds’ Judgment
Most people have seen large num-
bers of birds gathered together in u
field or on a hill. But how many know
they were probably holding a court-
martial on one of their fellows?
These bird courts are held peri
odically, chiefly by crows, ravens, or
sparrows. The prisoner is brought
into the court and a general croaking
ensues until judgment is delivered.
Should the unfortunate bird be
found guilty, it is set on by the rest
and pecked to death. Stealing sticks
from another bird’s nest is, apparent-
ly, a crime that does not call for such
drastic punishment. Six or so of the
other birds simply proceed to break
up the offender’s own nest!
Should an offender in the sparrows’
court be guilty of a crime not serious
enough to deserve the death penalty,
its sentence is delivered hy a few
sparrows who rush at it and inflict
the necessary punishment, It is then
forgiven and received back into the
fold.
Elephants Put Out Fire
How a herd of wild elephants extin-
guished a forest fire in Travancore, on
the southwest coast of India, was re-
lated recently by laborers who wit-
nessed the proceedings, says Popular
Mechanics Magazine. A tree had fall-
en across the road and had been set
afire to simplify the task of removing
it. The blaze was slowly spreading to
the woods near by when the leader of
the elephant herd, apparently attract.
ed by theredor ef: the smoke, ap
peared, trumpteted loudly to its com-
panions and soon a band of dusky
four-footed firemen were squirting
streams of water on the blaze from
their hose-like trunks. A stream near
the road furnished the supply. The
wondering natives, who had gone to a
house a short distance away, watched
the herd put out the fire and then
drag the tree into the middle of the
road.
Tuning Church Bells
It is said that an English clergy-
man was the first to call attention to
the fact that bells are rarely in tune
and that the fault can be remedied
if a church bell was originally in tune
with itself. According to his theory,
a bell must have at least five tones
at correct intervals to form a per
fect musical chord.
At first the work of tuning was
done with a hammer, a chisel and a
fille, and a magnificent tenor bell in
Norfolk, England, was thus reduced
three-quarters of a Inch in diameter;
but modern bell foundries emplay a
machine with a revolving cutter that
shaves the metal near the crown of
the bell until the tuner, aided by a
tuning fork, has hit the right pitch.
“Everyman” in a Barn
The Fifteenth century mortality
play “Everyman” was produced in a
strange environment one afternoon re-
cently, Its theater was a barn—the
“tithe barn” ‘at Great Coxwell, Eng-
land, a structure reared long ago by
builders who can scarcely have
dreamed that it would ever be put to
use such as this. In its vastness the
tithe barn resembles, however, a ca-
thedral. The dim spaciousness and
hush conspired to create an appro-
priate atmosphere.—New York Times.
Disguised Compliment
A bond man in New York added t.
his activities the pose of “gentleman
farmer” on Long Island. Before leav-
ing his place for a trip to Europe, he
said to his head man:
“Flaherty, I have to be away for a
month or two. I hope everything will
run smoothly on the farm.” ;
“Oh,” said Flaherty, heartily, “ye
don’t do a bit o’ harm, sir, when you're
here!”
Too Much for Ostrich
fhe digestion of an ostrich is said
to be about as powerful as that of a
goat, yet there are some things that
an ostrich cannot digest. This was
proved by a recent post mortem exam-
ination of one at a zoo. The bird, it
was discovered, had swallowed a can
opener and this had caused its death.
Among other articles found in the
ostrich were two staples, a cent and a
zoo attendant’s hat badge,
EEE SE ES —
Honeydew |
There are several kinds of honey-
dew. One kind is the excretion of
aphids or plant lice. Another kind Is
produced when aphids, leaf hoppers
and other insects puncture the leaves
of trees. It is a sugar exudation from
the leaves. Fungi, and even the ordi-
nary processes of over-turgesence. may
also cause such sugar exudations.
Bees, wasps, ants and many other in-
sects are attracted by honeydew.
Honey made by bees from honeydew
usually is of poor quality, being dark
and unpalatable. = Entomologists. say
certain species of ants carefnly tend
colonies of plant lice for the sake of
the honeydew they produce.—Path-
finder Magazine.
Paper Mill Waste
it has been the custom in the paper
pulp making districts of Sweden for
some years past to use white water—
that is, the waste liquor from her nu-
merous sulphite-paper mills—to lay
dust on highways. This water has
been found to be more satisfactory for
this purpose than ordinary water, as
it tends, on drying, to bind the dust
and to make the roadway smooth. To
still further add to its effectiveness, it
has been suggested that a quantity of
hygroscopic salt, which absorbs humid.
ity from the air, be added to the white
water so as to keep the surface of
highways slightly moist.
Forehead Is Cracked
virginia’s mother was preparing the
menu for dinner, and her forehead was
in the early days of shipping there
grew up on the west coast of Scotlan
a strange superstition that some grave
misfortune would fall upon a man who
took a drowning sailor from the sea.
This was at a time when shore dwell:
ers helped themselves to the cargoes
of wrecked vessels. This superstition
was very widely believed and resulted
in some horrible brutalities before it
was finally stamped out, writes J. D.
Whiting in his book, “Storm Fighters.”
There is a legend of one wreck on the
rocky shores of the lonely Zetland
islands where six men tried to get
ashore by means of a hawser fastened
to a rock. The inhabitants who were
gathered on the rocks must have been
th
red the minds of the coast Bt de
with the fear that their winter stock
of grain might not go around if they
were saddled with six unexpected
guests, so they cut the rope and the
sailors were drowned.—Detroit News.
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twisted in a puzzled frown,
“Mother,” exclaimed the child sud.
deniy, “what are you worrying
about?”
“Whatever made you think 1 waa
worrying?” the mother asked her.
“Well, your forehead is cracked!”
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across the Atlantic
Ocean from your Bell Tele-
phone in your home or office.
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Other things, while not so
spectacular, are of
greater benefit to you in your
every-day use of the tele-
perhaps
Your voice travels over wires
to the coast, and then leaps
out over the sea.
The voice from Europe
jumps back over the Atlantic
and comes to your telephone.
This development is indica-
tive of the iremendousthings
which have been happening
to your telephone service in
recent years.
You are connected to nearby
cities today while you wait
on the line—just as on local
calls.
Your calls to more distant
points are handled with a
speed which a few years ago
would have been considered
visionary.
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telephone communication.
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D. CASEBEER, Optometrist.—Regis-
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isfaction guaranteed.
Eys examined, glasses fitted. Sat-
Frames replaced
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the State Board. State College,
every day except Saturday,
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at the right prices.
Wagners 22% Dairy Feed $50.00
Wagners 32% Dairy Feed $53.00
Made of cotton seed meal, oil meal, glut-
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Wagners Scratch Grains .......... $52.00
Wagners Poultry Mash .......... 60.00
‘| Wagners Pig Meal .............. .. B6.00
We handle a full line of Wayne feeds.
Wayne 329% Dairy Feed ...... eee $57.00
Wayne 249% Dairy Feed ........... 053.00
Wayne Horse Feed ............. ves 52.00
Wayne Poultry Mash . . 64.00
Wayne Pig Meal .............. «es 58.00
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Oil Meal 84% ......co0vvnvnnnne eee 58.00
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Ground Alfalfa ...... ...... teense 45.00
Bran ...... 38.00
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