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Bellefonte, Pa.,, May 30, 1930.
ORTOISE OR CARP
IS LONGEST LIVED.
Current stories of long lived ani-
als are discredited by Prof. A, D.
eacock, of University College, Dun-
se, Scotland, in a recent tabulation
f the greatest recorded ages ofall
inds of animals made for the
ritish publication, the Wonders of
nimal Life, now being issued in
ondon, says The Boston Globe.
or the elephant, usually supposed
ng to outlive man, the longest
uthentic record which Prof. Pea-
ck has found is 70 years. The
laximum attested age for a whale
, 40 years. :
Only four creatures are regularly
pt to live longer than man. These
re the giant tortoise, for which a
50-age is unquestionable and 200
ears a probability; the German
arp, which may live for 150 years,
1e white headed vulture, for one of
hich there is a record of 118 years
nd the eagle, which has an attest-
4 record of 104 years. Four other
irds, the crow, the parrot, the
aven and the eider duck of the
rctic, may live about as long as
ng lived men or women, their
\aximum records being about 100
ears each.
Two fish, the sutmon and the
nark, probably equal this record;
nd one variety of shellfish, the
jant mussel, called Tridacna gigas.
_ sea anemone once lived in a z00-
)gical laboratory for 66 years,
The insect recorc is held by a
re beetle found alive in a piece of
rood which the insect must have
ntered 37 years before. Ant queens
ave been known to live for 13
ears, but the longest lived flea is
8 months. The record louse is 7
reeks and the housefly, ignoring
oubtful cases, lives only 34 days
r less.
A toad is known to have lived
pr 36 years, an alligator for 40
nd an eel for 60. The record for
. goose is 57 years and for a hen
0. years, Lions and tigers live
nly about 25 years, but at least
ne domestic cat lived to be 40.
‘he record age for dogs is 35
rears; a horse has lived to be 40
nd a cow 25.
The shortest animal lives are
mong the insects. While the wing-
d male of the insect called stylops
aay live, Prof. Peacock states, for
nly one to three hours, although
he female lives for several days.
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‘RAPPER PUZZLED OVER
HABIT OF WILD GEESE,
“Why do wild geese set up a
errible 24-hour-a-day racket flying
jouth, when they are as quiet as
hey can be flying north?” is what
Robert Nelson, sixty-four-year-old
rapper, of Iron Mountain, Mich.
vants to know. Nelson has learned
he answer to almost every other
voods question by experience dur-
ng the 40 years in the woods, but
hat puzzles him. He claims he
as checked them year after year and
mows that they raise their voices
vhile flying in one direction only.
About 30 years ago, says the
Milwaukee Journal, Nelson came
0 Michigan and soon after settled
n the upper peninsula. Bob has
earned much from nature and books
ince he established himself in his
shack. "
«Ever see a deer kill a snake 2”
1e asked. “Well, sir, I tell you its
\ great sight. TI was walking down
he road one day when I heard the
jarnedest commotion; couldn't make
out what it was. First. I saw
wo fawns looking intently ahead
yf them. A step farther and there
was a doe, leaping way in the air
wnd coming down on all fours, her
jo0fs tearing into something. I
ooked closely and saw a huge pine
snake writhing in the grass.”
A man living in the woods for
10 years is pound to have some hair-
-aising experiences. The one stamp-
sd most on Nelson's mind is a
-harge by an angry mother bear,
ind he has his dog to blame for
it. The “purp,” as he calls it, left
aim to chase @a rabbit.
The trapper heard the dog utter
a strange bark and went to it.
There was the dog, while rolled up
in front of him like a furry ball
was a cub bear. Nelson bent over
it, when he heard an angry snort
and looked up in time to see an
angered mother bear start a rush
toward him.
wWell, I’m not Nurmi or any of
those other boys who break records,
he grinned, “put, mister, I'm
ing you that for five minutes I
put ground under me. ‘The bear
gave up the chase after a while,
put for a couple of minutes it look-
ed like the bear was going tohave
minced trapper for supper.”
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FIFTY SILK DRESSES GO
TO COLLEGE LABORATORY.
The relation between the
of a silk dress and its real value
will be determined in the textile
laboratories of the Pennsylvania
State College. :
Fifty silk dresses, ranging In
price from $2.95 to $50, are being
purchased and tested by the chemists
working under the direction of Mrs.
Pauline Berry Mack, assistant
professor of chemistry. The dresses
are the gift of an anonymous
donor, the first shipment being re-
ceived at the college recently.
After the garments are rated for
style, workmanship, and the amount
of silk used in their construction,
the material will be analyzed for
percentage = of mineral weighting,
breaking strength, tearing strength,
and resistance to perspiration.
——All the Coolidges are not
averse to holding office. Marcus
Coolidge is a candidate for the
Democratic nomination of Senator
in Congress for Massachusetts.
RE
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INVESTIGATION IS CONFESSION '
Some Senators will put in a busy
summer,
Many investigations are planned. |
Senator Glass proposes turning the
Federal Reserve system inside out,
to show how the machinery works.
In connection with this probable in-
vestigation, which many Senators
advocate, chain banking and control
of credit in relation to stock market
speculation will be examined.
The most sensational investigation
will be that of primary finances.
Chairman Nye, of the committee in
charge of this probe, says he will
hunt for instances of ‘lavish, um-
fair and unlawful use of money” in
securing nominations.
Close rival to this investigation in
point of spectacular possibilities will
be the investigation of postoffice
leases. It may even rival the Tea-
pot Dome scandal for unsavoriness.
In St. Paul, Uncle Sam is alleged
to have been paying $129,000 rent
on a building for which $40,000 a
year would have been a more proper
figure.
Then, there will be investigations
of the Shipping Board's sales to
private operators, and of railroad-
holding companies, alleged to exist
for the purpose of thwarting control
by the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission.
Truly, an amazing list!
At first blush it might seem that
the Senate deserves praise for
vigilance against abuses of the law
and subversion of the public in-
terest in the machinery of law
whereby business is regulated. !
But—what a belated vigilance! |
How come these occasions for in- |
vestigations ?
The Republican party has been
in power through the Harding term,
the Coolidge administration and!
more than a year of Hoover. !
Since March 4, 1921, the G. O. P. |
has held the reins of government.
We are now in the tenth year of an
unbroken run of Republican domi- |
nance.
Power is inseparable from respon-
sibility. The party that ‘has oppor-,
tunity must also have the credit or
blame for the things, good or bad,
that mark its incumbency.
If the Federal Reserve system has
been abused; if buying and selling
of votes has flourished; if postoffice
leases are unfair to the people; if
the railroads have built up holding
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. hereditary. The whole village lives |
| for this production. The inhabitants
companies through which law can
be sidestepped; if ships have been
sold at less than bargain prices
—whose fault is it?
This flock of investigations may
be praised only by the short-sighted
as a credit to the Republican party.
To those who look beneath the sur-
face, they constitute a damning in-
dictment against the spirit of gov-
ernment which has ruled in Repub-
lican councils.
With “prosperity” and prohibition
keeping the President awake nights,
and these numerous confessions
that things have gone wrong haunt.
ing the minds of Republican legisla-
tors eager for re-election, the peo-
ple may well question whether the
i time has not come for a big-scale
turnover.—Editorial in the Philadel-
i phia Record.
«PASSION PLAY” LIFE OF
SMALL. BAVARIAN VILLAGE.
The Passion play, a dramatization
of the sufferings in the life of
Christ, takes place in the little vil-
lage of Oberammergau, nestling in
the Bavarian Alps.
And this play |
has been going on every ten years |
since the plague of 1633. During
that year the citizens of Oberam-
mergau vowed that they would
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IRIS LONG A FIGURE
IN MYTH AND HISTORY
From earliest times the iris has
figured prominently in song and story,
says Nature Magazine of Washing-
ton. In the annals of Greek myth-
ology one reads frequently of Iris,
goddess of the rainbow, and, the
word “iris” is Greek for “rainbow.”
History has it that the golden de-
vice which was on the flag of roya:
France, as far back as the Fifth
century until the downfall of Louis
Philippe in 1848, was modeled after
the iris.
It is said that when Louis the
Seventh of France joined the ex-
pedition of the Crusaders in 1147,
he adopted the iris as his emblem,
enact the piece every ten years as |
a thanksgiving offering for having
been delivered of the plague.
The original text and arrange-
ments were probably made by the
monks of ‘Ettal. The music was
| composed by Rochus Dedler, school-
master of the parish in 1814. The
it came to be
“flow-
and that is how
known as “Fleur de-Lis” or
er de Lois,” Lois being the manner
‘in which the
! signed their name.
early kings Louis
Later in Eng-
lish the name changed to flower-
de-luce, and finally, to flower- de- !
lis. |
production is given in the open air |
and stands are constructed to accom-
modate 5,000 spectators. Seven
hundred actors are employed in the
play, all native villagers. The pro-
ceeds go for the public good after
the expenses have been defrayed
and a small remuneration made to
each actor.
The play is a stupendous mani-
| festation of religious worship and
. the moral character
of each actor
is considered as well as his histronic
The principal parts are
spend their time at fashioning cruci-
fixes, rosaries and images of the
saints to sell to the tourists who
flow through their quiet little city
year by year.
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!
Indeed, even prior to the time of
these French kings, the Etruscians,
who were a civilized people long be- |
fore the foundation of Rome, em-:
ployed the iris as a motif in orna-|
ment. The Egyptian sphinxes have
a part in the story, for the iris
appeared constantly in their head-
dress. Particularly sacred to the
Virgin Mary in Catholic countries.
It appears again and again in the
religious pictures of the early
masters.
From the shores of the northern
oceans to the balmiest of seas, the
iris blooms in a multitude of types
and a maze of brilliant coloring that
makes one dream of the splendor of
the Babylon of long ago.
Certain varieties of this lovely
flower revel in bogs, some decorate
‘relatively modern, it was
the edge of deserts, others display
their pretty flowers in lands with
definite dry seasons, while hordes of
1
them flourish with average con-’
ditions of climate and soil. Central |
and southern Europe and China are
the centers of the original location
1
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of the iris, but it thrives on Ameri-"
can soil as freely as any native
plant.
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“FISTIC ART” HAD ORIGIN
IN DAYS OF BARBARISM,
Although boxing as a science is
in the
blazing sun of Italy and Greece, in
the great ampitheaters of long ago,
where, barbarian captives fought and
died to tickle the fancy of the
populace that boxing as a sport
was born. That these people must
have developed a skillful school , of
boxing during the period in which
the cestus was used is certain, but
unfortunately little is known either
of the style of fighting or of the
personal attributes of the boxer by
which comparison can be made be-
tween those long-dead champions
and the modern wielder of the pad-
ded glove. The nearest connecting
link is the famous Greek statue
chiseled in time-defying marble
known as “The Boxer.” This, at
least, affords a study in character.
During the early part of the
Eighteenth century in England box-
ing was about as inhuman a sport
as one can imagine. The middle of
the century, fortunately, saw the
dawn of a new day for the boxer,
for at this time Jack Broughton, a
young English champion, invented
boxing gloves and originated a code
of rules prohibiting much of the
former savagery of the sport, on
which many of the future rules
have been based.
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KLINE WOODRING.—Attorney at
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Practices in ali
courts. Office, room 18 Crider’s Ex-
change. S1-1y
KENNEDY JOHNSTON.—Attorney-at-
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt attem-
tion given all legal business entrusted
to his care. Offices—No. 5, East High
street. F144
M. KEICHLINE.—Attorney-at-Law and
Justice of the Peace. All professional
business will receive prompt attention.
Offices on second floor of Temple Court.
49-5-1y
G. RUNKLE.— Attorney-at-L s
WwW Consultation in Fnglish and Ger
Office in Crider’s Exchahfe
man.
Bellefonte, Pa.
PHYSICIANS
S. GLENN, M. D., Physician and
Surgeon, State College, Centre
county, Pa. Office at his residence.
R. R. L. CAPERS.
OSTEOPATH.
Bellefonte State
Crider’s Ex. 66-11 Holmes Bldg.
D. CASEBEER, tometrist.—Regis-
C tered and on by the State.
Eyes examined, glasses fitted. BSat-
1staction guataniged, Frames i» placed
enses ma! . Casebeer Bl{: , High
St., Bellefonte, Pa. oe 1
VA B. ROAN, Optometrist, Licensed
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the Court House, Wednesday afternoons
from 2 to 8 p. m. and Saturdays 9 a. m.
to 4:30 p. m. Bell Phone. y 88-40
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Wagner's Egg Mash - 2.90perH
Wagner's Pig Meal - 280perH
Wagner’s Scratch Feed - 2.30 per H
Wagner's Medium Scratch 2.40 per H
Wagner's Chick Feed 2.60 per H
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Wagner's Bran - 1.80 per H
Wagner's Winter Middlings 2.00 per H
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Wayne Egg Mash - 3.15 per H
Wayne Calf Meal - 4.25 per H
Wayne mash chick Starter 3.90 per H
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Purina 24% Cow Chow - 2.65perH
Purina Chick Startena - 4.50 per H
Oil Meal - - 8.00 per H
Cotton Seed Mea) - 2.60 per H
Gluten Feed - 2.40 per H
Gluten Meal “ 3.25 per H
Hominy Feed - 2.20 per H
Fine ground Alfalfa - 2.50 per H
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