Deora td. Bellefonte, Pa., August 15, 1930. RH RRR RAR RHR RXHRXRR | NAMES OF BRITISH COINS REVEAL THEIR ORIGIN.— RF HRT FRET RRRXREREXXREERE The origins of the names of How Air Currents Are English coins are most interest- ing, constituting, as they do, a historical record. The first coin, and for many years practically the only one, was the Roman denarius, whence the sign “d” now used for a penny. The denarius was a silver coin weighing originally 24 grains troy. The copper penny was in the beginning merely a token, a pledge to be redeemed in goods to the value of a denarius. The word “penny” is derived from “pand,” which is Dutch, and means a pledge. The earlier forms were “pending,” then “penning.” In Ethelred’s time it became the custom to divide these tok- ens into half and quarter wedge- shaped pieces. These were the origin of the terms halfpenny and farthing—the fourthing of a penny. The pound sterling is from the Latin “pondus,” a weight. From a pound of pure silver 240 denarii were made. Hence the word as applied to the coin. The fourpenny piece, or groat, was so called because it was a “great” penny, from the Dutch word “grote,” meaning great. The guinea derived its name from being minted from the Guinea coast of Africa.—Mont real Family Herald. i Tested for Flying Men | In the present days the demands of and direction of the wind at different heights before he starts on his jour- ney. tion of the upper atmoSphere is neces: sary. These explorations are made by Therefore a systematic explora- | 3 ¥ ! i effect—in crimson, pink and yellow aviation make it desirable that a pilot | orated. houl knowl h : should have a knowledge of the force | on the heads of the distinguished, English Poet Laureates Long Lived but Prosy Poet laureates of England have been a long-lived race. Doctor Bridges | —he was a physician, too—was eighty- five when he passed on. The ages of | his three immediate predecessors in the office—Alfred Austin, Tennyson and Wordsworth—averaged eighty. | Among the distinguished laureates of an earlier period, Ben Jonson lived to be sixty-three and Dryden to be sixty- | nine. But the record among laureates is held by the actor-manager Colley Cibber, who died in 1757 at the age | of eighty-seven. { As a poet Colley Cibber was terrible | and King Edward had no great opin- | jon of the poetry of Alfred Austin, poet laureate at the time he ascended the throne. He was not alone in that opinion. | “I always thought that Mr. Austin’s appointment was not a good one,” he wrote to Lord Salisbury, then prime, minister, “but as long as he gets no pay it would, I think, be best to re- | new the appointment in his favor.” | A few months later King Edward sent to Salisbury some verses and pointedly called his attention to the “trash which the poet laureate writes” i —the letter is quoted in Sir Sidney | Lee's “Life of Edward.” i Possibilities of Paper Showers Pointed Out It was the skyscraper that evolved the idea of showers of bits of paper to welcome distinguished guests in triumphant procession in the street below. Who threw the first handful? He was a ploneer in that kind of pageantry; and the fluttering par- | ticles confer an air so festal that nothing else can equal it. In earlier eras flowers may have been thus cast from windows and balconies, but never in the prodigious volume with which the paper cas- cades descend; nor from the impres- sive height. We have often thought that this new feature of enthusiastic salutation to heroes and joy-inspiring guests should be developed and elab- If we may not bestow rose-leaves tissue paper simulation of rose-leaves —perhaps somewhat larger for festive | might be thickly sifted through the -small balloons less than three feet in | diameter, technically known as pilot ; ! The extent to which they | We don’t half realize the possibilities | of this showy and enlivening innova- balloons. are inflated causes them to rise at a uniform speed of 500 feet per minute, and while rising they float in the same direction and at the same speed as the air current they are in. course is followed by a theodolite which gives the angles of direction and elevation. These being known, also the height, which depends on the time the balloon has been up, the speed and direction of the wind at .different altitudes can be arrived at by a few simple tules in mathematics. Their : “Phe use of this knowledge to the mod- . ern aviator is obvious. For instance, if he “takes off” in a ten-mile wind ..on the surface and knows that at 8,000 feet there is a gale plowing at 60 miles an hour, he will, if this wind is . adverse, naturally keep below that < altitude. How Fish Sleep ‘Fish are unable to close their eyes, and they do not sleep like animals, that is, by relaxing and losing all sense of what is going on about them. The United States bureau of fisheries ‘reports in a bulletin on the subject ‘that close study of the habits of fish show that they follow periods of great activity with periods of repose in which they rest and are indifferent te -what goes on about them unless ap- sproached by an enemy. It has been .observed that fish in swift streams -gppear to keep up a continuous battle against the current so they will not be swept : Saas i How to Remove Tight Ring One simple method suggested fo: taking a ring off a finger when the finger has grown and ring has not “been off the finger for some time Is to rub the finger with soap and cold vater to help the removal of the ring. Another way is to begin at the end of the finger and wind a strong thread around it, with close coils, until the ring is reached, then slip the end of thread through ring and unwind 8o as to carry off the ring. If the finger is very much swollen or the ring is very tight, it may be necessary to have the ring cut. How to Cut Glass Easily “The bureau of standards says that glass can be cut more easily under water because the vibration is less than in the air, and the glass is there- fore less liable to crack. Pure water attacks all glasses to a greater or less- .er degree, and in the less perfect kinda extracts the alkali. In certain kinds of glass the action of water is not confined to the surface only, but pen- etrates and causes a partial hydration of some of the silica or silicates. How Much Brain Weighs The average weight of the human prain is about 45 ounces. Generally speaking the brains of men are heav- fer than those of women, although the relative weights of the brain and body are about the same in the two sexes. The average weight of the male brain 1g 48 ounces; that of the female, 48. i —————— How to Overcome Shyness Shyness can best be cured by the development of self-confidence, which calls for the power of thinking, the power of acting on the thought, and the power of self-control. away from a favorite haunt. : got a fellow named B— out there?” air; or still more gorgeous, mingled with stars of silver and gold paper. tion—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. about Galleries and Gardens of the Zwinger, Dresden. (Prepared by the Natlonal Geographic Society, Washington, D. C.) WO capitals of German states, Dresden in Saxony and Munich in Bavaria, are capitals, as well, of art, and annually draw their thousands of art-loving tourists. Dresden is filled with artistic won- ders. Its picturesque setting, astride a beautiful bend in the Elbe river, 110 miles south of Berlin, caused Herder, the poet, to call it the Florence of the Elbe. From an approaching river steamer, the Saxon capital is a city of graceful spires and huge domes and cupolas, but inside the Altstadt (old city) on the left bank of the Elbe, the picture changes to one of artistically embel- lished buildings, handsomely sculp- ‘ tured monuments, galleries of famous paintings, numerous museuins with choice collections of all sorts, spa- cious squares and parkways, and can- yonlike streets where Kunst (German for “art”) is heard among the throngs nearly as often as some of the com- mon verbs. A large portion of the Altstadt lies sear the Augustus bridge, one of the five spans that connect the old town | with Neustadt, on the other bank of { the river. The Hof-Kirche, facing the | bridge with its 272-foot tower, is a Proof of Friendship A telephone call came to the super: ! intendent of a sanitarium pear Chi- cago. “Say,” queried the caller, “have you “Why, yes.” “Is he paying you any board?” “No; he's a charity patient.” “Say, that guy hasn't got any more ! right to be a charity patient than 1 have. Why, he’s got $400 in one bank and $600 in another and he owns a pungalow out in Waukegan. You'd better hide his clothes before you give him a bill, though, or he'll skip out on you. He's that kind of a crook.” “Say,” demanded the superintend- ent, “who are you and how do you come to know so much about B—'s affairs?” | “Oh,” replied the unknown calle:, “I'm a close friend of his,”—Chicage Evening Post. i i | Misled by Sign Pat, the Irishman, had agreed to ac- | company his wife on a shopping ex- pedition. “here's a good pair of boots,” saia the latter, as they stood looking in the window of a boot and shoe shop. “I'll get those for little Jamesy.” Pat looked at the articles indicatea and a murmur of surprise left his lips as he saw the price and the notice, “Last Seven Days” displayed on a card above them. : “But, surely, Martha,” he said, “you don’t want to buy those things.” “Why not, Pat?’ asked his wife wonderingly. “Begorrah,” gasped her husband, |