The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, May 12, 1927, Image 6

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Men are four:
tie who kuows and knows he Knows,
He is wise~—foilow him;
He who knows and knows not that
he knows,
He Ip uslesp—wrke him; |
He who knows not and knows not
that he knows not,
He 18 8 fool-shun him.
He who knows not and knows thas
he knows not,
He is 8 child—teach him.
LET US EAT MORE FISH
As fish as a class are a safeguard
against mineral deficiencies In the
diet it follows that they
deserve more attention
than they have had from
scientists and dietitians
from this point of view.
Our country is abun
dantly supplied with ali
kinds of fish, and very
few fresh or salt water
fish are not palatable
and good food.
Here are 8 few things which will be
well to remember in regard to this
great food.
Slow cooking of fish after it has
once started to cook, keeps it tender,
sweet #8 well as retaining the food
value of It
Unwrap fish at once, wash quickly
in salted water and wipe dry. Do not
allow fish to lay in the water an In-
stunt as the cut surface of fish ab-
sorbs water very rapidly. This spolls
the flavor as well as changing the
quality of the meat for cooking.
Sprinkle with salt sana pepper
(using plenty), wrap {n waxed paper
(the kind that is wrapped around but-
ter) and put in the ice box, where it
wiil keep for twenty-four hours.
Blts of fish may be added to abd
omelet, soup or chowder. With vari
ous ‘sanees to serve with coesked fish
there will never be monotony In serv-
ing It
Where similar varieties of fish are
mentioned, one may use the same
recipe for any of them. It is not nee
essary because you have 8 whitefish
to cook, that a recipe calling for white
Baked Weakfish With Raising. —
Split the fish and lay on a well but
tered dish. Cover with slices of to
mato. Pour over the whole two table
spoonfuls of bulter, melted Season
with salt and pepper and cover with
finely minced parsley. Strew seedless
raising in the pan around the fish, add
one-fourth cupful of water and one
fourth cupful of vinegar. [Pour this
Reptiles Spit Poison
Into Eyes of Enemy
Snakes that spit poison are among
the interesting features of West Af-
rica, according to Lieut, Col. A. H. W.
Haywood. “One of the comrfonest
and most dangerous, although not
deadliest, of snakes which
these regions is the spitting adder,”
he writes in his book, “Sport and
Service in Africa.” “This species
seems to have a peculiar partiality fer
injecting his poison into the eye of his
victim,
the eye attracts his alm in much the
same way as a bull's-eye of a target
marksman,
“There are a number of instances
eye blinded in this way. On one occa-
sion I remember it happening to a
W. A. A. F. officer,
as follows: The officer In question was
shooting bush fowl with a friend up
shot a snake as it was darting into a
hole.
the hole, thinking it wags dead. The
and spat its poison into his eye.
was instantaneously blinded. Had it
not been for the assistance of his
companion and the lucky proximity of
would never have recovered his sight.
As it was, he was confined to a dark
room with a bandaged face for some
ten days and endured great pain be-
fore the blindness began to pass off.”
Unable to Find Grave
of Button Gwinnett
Your interesting article about But-
ton Gwinnett indicates that you may
be interested in a brief quotation from
the most recent work on Butten Gwin-
nett by Charles Francis Jenkins, of
Philadelphia. On page 154 there is
the following: “It is not known
where Gwinnett was buried, nor have
we any details of his funeral service.
As Rev. James Foley was pald for
funeral expenses, the inference Is he
was the officiating clergyman. It is
supposed that his grave is in the old
Colonial cemetery, now called Co-
lonial park, within the limits of the
city of Savannah, His executor pro-
vided a gravestone, but this has dis-
appeared. Indeed, there Is a news
paper story current that his stone was
at one time used as the top of a bar
in a grog shop in Savannah. | In 1848,
when the monument to the signers was
erected In the city of Augusta, every
effort was made to find Gwinnett's re
maing in order that they might rest
with those of his associates, Lyman
Hall and George Walton, who were
interred under the monument,” —Rich-
ard P. Swarthmore, Pa, in Pathfinder
Magazine
Auras Possessed by
Persons Not Saintly
An oculist maintained before a Lon-
the saints,
has an aura about him, and there are
those to whom these auras are visible,
And the Observer reminds us that in
parior maid at the deanery had this
gift. She used to shudder, as she told
Miss Dean, when she opened the door
to one of the canons, a well-known
figure of twenty years ago. His aura,
as she saw it, was of dirty purplish
It 1s curious to note that
one of the greatest blackguards that
the possession of a halo, “a resplen-
dent light above his head,” which ap-
peared at dawn and sunset and
showed best when the grass was wet
with dew. Benvenuto considered that
this halo was a signal mark of the
divine approval of his virtuous life,
but In this he must have been mis.
taken. If he had a halo at all it must
have been worse than the canon's—
a sort of post-impressionist halo~—
Plerre Van Paassen, in the Atlanta
Constitution,
Bit of Colonial History
Governors island, in New York, was
ceded to the director of New Nether.
lands in 1637 “in consideration of cer-
tain parcels of goods” In 1698 the
island was set aside by the assembly
as part of the “Denizen of His Ma jes
tie's Fort at New York for the bene.
fit of his majestie's governors,” and so
ft became known as Governors Is-
land.” Governors {gland was ceded
to the United States by the legisia-
ture of New York state on February
15, 1800. The island consisted of 60.8
acres. This was found Inadequate for
the military needs of the department
headquarters and the military garrison
and In 1880 a further cession was made
by the legislature of 103 acres, The
island at present has an area of 173
acres.
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Monster of Cruelty
Nero, emperor of Rome Irom H4 to
68 A. D, was the last of the line
that descended from the Caesar fam-
ily. He was one of the most wicked
monsters of whom history ¢onitins an
account. Among those he murdered
were his mother and two of hier wives,
He Invented specially cruel derths for
the Christians whom he falsely ac-
cused of burning Rome, He was on
the throne when St. Paul was a pris
oner in Rome, and when he wus put to
{ death, The army, led by Galby, turned
| against Nero. Lle either committed
| suicide or was put to death by a
swa!! band of soldiers.
}
be could not resist the temptation to
make paper boats, which he would
then launch, watching their progress
He would
remain rooted to the spot until all his
paper was exhausted and he could
As It was his
custom to take a book along with him
on his walks, the fly-leaves of most of
his books were missing.
himself In this favorite pastime may
be judged from the story told concern-
ing the day he found himself on the
bank of the Serpentine without any
the pond in Kensington gardens. The
only piece of paper he could lay his
hands on was a £30 note,
struggled with temptation for a long
time, but yielded at last. Twisting
ity, he committed it to the water,
even more intense nnxiety than usual,
Fate was kind, and in due time the
gite shore, where the owner was nal-
ready walting its arrival with bated
breath,—Market for Exchange,
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Dust as a Shield
The British reyal commission on
mines has made some interesting ex
periments on explosions of mixtures
of coal dust and air. It has demon-
¢trated that such mistures are emi-
nently explosive, and also that the ex-
plosicns can be mitigated, or confined
in area; by means of stone dust,
which Is not explosive,
A conl dust area was placed be
tween a dustless vegion and one
gpread with stone dust, after which
an explosion was produced in the coal
dust by firing a cannon, The results
appeared to demonstrate that the ef-
fects of an explosion may be trans
mitted to a considerable distance over
n dustless zone by the coal dust driven
before the air blast, but that the stone
dust has a restraining effect.—Wash-
ington Star,
Mercury's Many Uses
Mercury istan element sometimes
found native, but mostly derived
from cinhabar. Normally, by far the
greater part of the world’s production
of mercury is used in extraciing gold
and silver from their ores. In 1914
and 1916, owing to the European war,
it was used mainly in the manufacture
of fulminate for explosive caps. It Is
also used in the manufacture of drugs,
of electric appliances and of scientific
apparatus, thermometers, barometers
and for making vermilion. Mercury
is found in California and Colorade.
by Millions of Feet
Tralls worn deep in the granite of
Sawtooth mountain, towering 12.500
feet above sea level, tell the story to-
day of hunting parties of primitive
man, says the Rocky Moyntain News,
How many years these tralls were in
the making even sclentists have falled
to fix, a
From earliest times these Colorado
tional forest, were the hunting place
of man. Antelopes, deer, buffaloes
numbers, while the stream abounded
wilds man had hunted, and in the days
of this adventurous Spaniard up to
very recent years Indians swarmed
through this wonderful hunting
Trails across the mountains made
broke the way through the forest,
To the student vacationist these
trails have proved of vast interest,
as they have to scientists. They are
visible proof that man lived in Colo-
Easy to Be Punctual
in Washington's Time
The first President was a great be-
Hlever In punctuality. “Never ask™ be
told his servants, “whether my guests
have arrived, but whether the hour
has arrived.”
Washington was always on time and
believed every one else should be, If
he had guests for dinner no matter
how important they might be, he al-
ways began eating at the appointed
dour.
It would be Interesting to note how
many times Mr. Washington would
dine alone if he were living today, He
would learn a great deal about traffic
jams, delayed trains, street car block.
ades and the thousand and one other
alibis made use of by late comers,
Punctuality is a great thing if you
don’t happen to live in a crowded
city ~Thrift Magazine,
Trial Marriages Ancient
Divorce-as-you-please marriages may
seem modern, but ancient Scotland's
“bandfasting,” referred to in Scott's
novel “The Monastery,” was that kind
of marriage. A man and woman
agreed verbally In the presence of wit.
nesses, to live as man and wife, At the
end of the year each might choose an-
other mate, or call the priest to marry
them for life, or merely shake hands
on it and say “pleased to meet you,” or
something lke that.—Capper's Weakly.
Inventor Had Vision
of Modern Locomotion
In 1788 an American inventor, Oli
ver Evans, applied for a patent to
use the steam engine for vehicles, but
was refused by the Pennsylvania leg-
islature, says Dr. Frank 1. Vizetelly,
managing editor of the Standard die-
tionary,
In 1880 or 1801 Evans commenced
applying the noncondensing engine to
a steam carriage, but changed his
plans and turned his attention to mill
driving by steam power, Later be
reverted to the idea of steam locomo-
tion and wrote: *1 have no doubt
that my engine will propel boats
against the current of the Mississip-
pl and wagons on turnpike roads with
great profit, . , . The time will come
when people will travel In stages
moved by steam engines from one city
to another, almost as fast as birds can |
fly, fifteen or twenty miles an hour,
« « « A carriage will start from Wash-
ington in the morning and passengers
will breckfast at Baltimore, dine at
Philadelphia and sup in New York the
same day. . . . Engines will drive
boats ten or twelve miles an hour, and |
there will be hundreds of steamers
running on the Mississippl, as pre
dicted years ago.”
Scotland Yard Wants
From George Diinot's “Story of
Scotland Yard,” as it tells of the test-
ing of the detective chauffeur:
“A candidate is taken to a remote
country lane with an official sitting at
his side.
“A shot rings out and he is informed
that one arm is ‘wounded’ With one
hand, therefore, he has to continue his
Journey at speed.
“Again, a bundle of hay is thrown
in front of the car unexpectedly. He
bas to dodge this obstacle without the |
“In quick succession a bewildering
number of orders is rapped out, each
of which has to be instantly obeyed. |
“Many of these cars have wireless, |
by which constant touch may be main.
tained with headquarters, either by
telephone or with the Morse code™ |
A spy may do with an argus eye, |
but the sleuth in the Scotland Yard
car must have an iron nerve.
Greeks Prefer Beauty
Greeks ns au people heve a phil
osophy of life that is quite different
from that of Americans. Their desire
is to be rounded out human beings,
and having an interest more in beauty
and life itself than in material suc
cessos, Harshness In personal rela
tions is exceptional and as a rule their
habits are temperate.
They show a liking for the mere
process of thinkirg
sa
Salad Greens, Salads
This is the season of the year
when the young growing things appeal
to the appetite."
The very early
salads muy Include
the vegetabies
which we have al-
ways considered
as greens,
LLook for the
- blanched dande
longs which have been growing under
boards or the wood pile: these make
the most succtient and wholesome of
salad plants. It Is well to remember
that blanched greens, either lettuce or
any other vegetable, are lacking in the
green coloring which is so valuable a
food adjunct. They tell as that the
delicate head lettuce which we so
much enjoy Is not so rich in vitamines
as the leaf lettuce becnuse it has a
larger amount of chlorophyll,
French dressing Is the simple, easily
made and most desirable of all dress-
ings for lettuce, pepper grass or water
Every one should learn to enjoy th
dressing made from olive oll. It is so
meaty in flavor, so nourishing and ap-
petizing. Be sure that it is fresh and
Corn olls and other vegetable oils
cause of their prices. These olls, too,
are most nourishing and make tasty
but they lack the
nutty flavor that is characteristic of
Pepper grass, mustard and sorel
which the farmer finds so objection
able in his fields, as noxious weeds,
make fine salads if well dressed with
A good salad green is the top of
radishes. These early vegetables grow
so quickly and the tops are so full of
succulence and mineral matter that
and serve with butter or bacon and
fat.
Cress, when mixed with pepper
grass or lettuce and served with
French dressing, is a salad par ex
cellence,
A calorie Is the term used to denote
the amount of heat (that is of fuel) tec
Just as an engineer can estimats
producing power, so can we determin
the fuel value of foods,
Outside leaves of lettuce rolled and
rut into strips make very attractive
salads and garnish for various other
salads,
The artistic taste may well be used
to as good advantage in the prepara’
tion and serving of foods as in othy
things.
Nerie Maywere
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