Page 3. Thursday, January 9th, 1913, HE — A Dutch New Guinea Dainty. A strange food forms one of the articles of dlet among the natives of Dutch New Guinea, of whom A F. R. Wollaston writes In Cornhill as “The Most Primitive People: “The search for food furnishes occa- sionally some very curious scenes. One of the most remarkable occurs when the river in flood brings down a tree trunk in a suitable stage of de- cay. A canoe is sent out with men to secure it and tow it to the bank. When it has been left stranded by the falling water the people—men, women and children—come out and swarm around It like bees about a honey pot, and you wonder what they can be do- ing. When you go close you find that some are splitting up the log with their stone axes, and others are cut- ting up the fragments with sharpened shells in the same way that their an- cestors—and perhaps ours, too—did centuries ago. The objects of their search are the large white larvae of a beetle, about the size of a man’s thumb, just as they cut them out of the wood, — but usually they roast them in the fire | and consider them a great delicacy.” Why He Balked, A young and husky college man who was traveling on a steamer across the Atlantic was asked to box five rounds with an equally husky chap, who was a fellow passenger, as part of a series of athletic games which were to be held for the amusement of the passen- gers. Next day the young man came to the chairman of the sports commit tee and asked that his name be with drawn. “What's the matter? Are you afraid?’ said the chairman, somewhat piqued. “You bet your life I'm afraid.” sald the collegian “That fellow you picked for my opponent sits at my ta ble, and at dinner last night he leaned ‘What's t said, over to me and his thing ‘*“demitasse” | see on the menu? I knew right away that he was a ‘rough guy’ who had lived all his life in the open. If you want me to fight you've got to find a man that knows a demitasse when he sees It” -—New York Tribune. Neapolitan Dishes. In the matter of curious dishes that Neapolitan favorite, the polyp, should be mentioned The beautiful bay abounds with them, and the fishermen who make the little harbor of Santa Lucia their headquarters spend most of the day and night catching them They are served whole and are not so repulsive as might be supposed. turn ing op in the “mixed fish fry” a nice golden brown. The Neapolitans have strong teeth and digestion. Polyps are tough, and | have always limited my self to the tentacles, which are crisp and tasty. They are usually accom panied by rings cut from the cuttle fish. These ure tougher still, but what, with butterfly fish, gurnets, mul lets and other anknown varieties. a fritto misto pesche at Naples is pot to be despised. — London Standard. Great Men Who Drank. Cato was hard drinker, while, tn the language of writer, old Bey Jonson was constantly “pickled.” The poet Savage used to go on the hardest kinds of “tears.” and Rogers observed after seeing his own statue, “It is the first time | have him stand straight for many years.” Byron says of Porson, the great classical scholar, “1 can never recollect him except drunk or brutal and generally Keats was on a spree once that six months. Horace, Plato, Aristoph anes, Euripides, Alcaeus, Socrates and Tasso of the timers and Goethe, Schiller. Addison, Pitt, Fox, Black- stone, Flelding, Sterne and Steele were all hard drinkers at lotervals.—Lon- don Times. n one seen Hw both iasted old Roman Masons and Their Tools. The excavations at Pompeil and Her- culaneum have anearthed masons tools much resembling those in today and demonstrated the freer use of large tiles, the employment of iron to tle together brick and stone work and the ase of a kind of concrete of which lime was the binding medium and finely broken brick a favorite ma terial. The dome of the Pantheon. built In the frst century of the Chris tian era, «till testifies to the enduring nature of concrete superstructure, al beit bound with lime and not with ce ment. —~Charles Winslow Hall la Na tional Magazine. use Wanted Them Matched. A homesteader received from the de | partment of agriculture a quantity of dwarf milo maize seed, with a request to plant it and report the result. Here s his ‘Mr. Secretary Dear Bir—1 planted your dwarf maize. and it did fine. It was the dwarfest maize | ever saw. But the jack rabbits ate it as fast as it got ripe. Please send an report other lot of seed and send along a lot of dwarf jack rabbits to match the malze.” Qualified, Barou-— You have called to secure the | position of porter? Applicant Yes, gir. Baron Was there not some one in the anteroom as you came In? Ap plicant—There was, sir. There was a man with a bill against you, Herr Baron, but | thew him out—Fliegende Blatter. The Lady and the Oath, The Lawyer (to the lady)~ Youn un derstand the nature of an oath, don't you? The Lady (a little flurried)-| beg vour pardon. The Lawyer (test fly) What is the nature of an oath? The Lady (triumphantly) ~ Profane, isn’t it ?—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Politeness is a coin destined to enrich those who give It away. I have seen natives eat them | Hearing With Eyes and Fingers. The modern method of deaf mutes ls that known as the Bell method of visible speech, The charac- ters of the alphabet on which this sys- tem 18 founded are intended to reveal to the eye the position of the vocal or- gans in the formation of any sound which the human mouth can utter, Ar- ticulation is learned by the deaf mute as a set of movements and sensations in the organs of speech. It is taught by the pointing out to the pupil the po sitions of the lips, teeth and tongue in pronouncing the vowels and conso- nants by making him feel with his hands all the perceptible movements and vibrations of the throat and other organs which are requisite for thelr pronunciation and by using diagrams, ete. He is then required to imitate those positions and to force a quantity of air from the lungs sufficient to pro- duce the sounds and is taught to read the articulations of others by obsery- ing the position of the organs and the countenance. ~Christian Herald. Rocks In the Atlantic. Is it possible that there are partly submerged rocks in the Atlantic ocean, and so close to the steamship routes as to constitute a danger? The Nautical Gazette (London) the ques tion in the affirmative and adds that gome of these rocks are so close to the place where the Titanic was lost as to answers suggest that the fatal iceberg was aground upon one of them. The At- lantic ocean, be it remembered, cov ers a large area rock that may be only a foot or so ve the water or R foot or so below the water is not easy to see. Such rocks were occasion- ally reported in the old leisurely days of the sailing ships, and they made a gort of apologetic appearance on the chart Then they were rem wed from the charts because no one e€ise saw them, which w iatural end , Con sidering the size « f we Ath and the inconspicuousness of a rock per haps no longer, above the water, than a dining room table. The Mills of the Gods. The expression “the milis of the gods” has been used in variou forms According to “Bartlett's Quotations the first form of the is from George He t's “Jacula | lentum’ and Is as f wi: “God | grind slow, but re in | Ve Loga Re bution, translated by Lon ¥, the sentl me ‘ 18 fo Th f God 1 v rot Th walting This quotation will be found among “Poet Aphorisms,” by Longfellow, transiated by hi from the “Siunge dichte” of Friedrich von Logan. The first line of von Logau's is sald to have been taken from the Greek “Oracula Sibyllina,” VIIL, 14 “The {mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small” A Marked Difference. Two Boston schoolteachers were pas gengers on an overcrowded elevated train one evening recently, and one of them, who likes a little joke, thought he saw a good chance to catch the oth- er, who is noted for his precision of speech “Mr. Smith,” he said, “can you tell me if there is any difference between the words ‘made’ and manufac tured >» Mr. Smith, who thought he was ask- ing his opinion in regard to some tech- nical point, thought a minute and said: “I think not, Mr. Brown ‘Made’ be used in of ‘manufac- tured,” and vice versa.” “Wrong,” said Mr. Brown, “and I'll prove it. Take this car, for instance. It was manufactured to carry 100 pas sengers, and it is made to carry 300." Boston Traveler could place wr Gravitation. Gravitation a power also by innate the Greeks and who of the moon attracting the about 38 , CO. Kepler investigated the subject about 1615, and Hooke devised a sys tem of gravitation about 1674. The principles of gravity were demonstrat by Galilel at about 1633 it was not until the great Newton s a supposed ticed by Seneca, was n speaks waters, ed Florence but stepped upon the stage that the matter was fairly settled The had guessed. Newton proved, and to New ton unquestionably the high { honor of having shown the true mechanism of the heavens others bev ngs us | Sharpening a Pencil. “Even the cleverest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution,” sald the Inte Mark Twain “Take the case of any pencil sharp ened by any woman. If you have wit nesses, you will find she did it with a knife, but if you simply take the pect of the pencil you will say she did It with her teeth.” ns A Winner, Mrs. Goldington—I am amazed, sir, that you should propose to my daugh- ter. You have not known her a week The Wily Sultor—Troe, madam. But | have known you for some time, and everybody says your danghter takes after you. (He got the girl) Safe to Love Them Then. “I Hke dear little babies before they | have learned to talk, don’t you, Mr. | Bmythe?”’ | “Indeed, | do! | learned to talk there is no danger of their parents telling you the remark- able things they have sald.” There Is nothing more pitiful than a life spent In thinking of nothing but | polf.~Farrar. teaching’ Before they have THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. Shetland Ponies In Mines, While thousands of Shetland ponies furnish amusement for the children of England, just as they do for the boys and girls of the United Stafes, a much larger number are used in the English conl mines. The tunnels of the Eng lish mines are not nearly so large as those of the mines in this country, and it 1s necessary to have very small po nies to draw the coal cars from the pits, The only alternative would be to enlarge the tunnels, a plan which would entail too heavy an expense to be even considered by the English mine owners, The limit in height of ponies used by the English miners Is forty-three inches. They prefer to have | them not over thirty-eight inches high, | low, stout, compact little fellows, the old days it was a common practice for English miners to use mother po- ples when they were not in a condi tion to stand hard work. But a law in| was passed some years ago prohibiting | the use of female ponies of any age in | the mines. Recently another law was passed prohibiting the use of male po-| lenst and Farmer, not at Stockman that are National nles old. Foundation of Japan, Every Feb, 11 is celebrated in the great annual festival of Kigenset- su, the anniversary of the foundation of the empire by the first emperor, Jim Japan mu Tenno, B. C. 660. The Japanese reckon their present era as from this date, nud it was on Feb, 11, 1880, that Mutsuhito, the one hundred : twen ty first of the dynasty, pt julgated the present constitution of » empire of Japan, the fundamental principle of which is clearly stated in its first ar ticle, “The empire of Japan hall be ned by a line of ges eternal” nt took t Jag “eo 0 fr J 1's it K fwara, In ito, Ww h is re I rians as the re A Daring Ride. During the Russo-J nese WAr an officer of ( } offered to Ar? 4] dispatch wi ten 1} ‘ had al ready failed to get tl Ie get ¢ |] id that the eff + Pp “The othe have po ¢ Moor in i I so the traveled on horse { go horse The f 1 w n hed t the offic off vas f y epted, He started ¥ nT 14a of the ght stray 1 face downw ler his horse, which he & i of the | r gh tt! f ‘ Japan whistled to they the was ar ‘ hors n ‘ i egeed on by blows from tl oft r's heels, accomplished the res if thirty-five miles | foty Stranger still, the officer accomplish ed the return journey on the following | night “Newspaper Day” In England. March 11 ought to be named "news pag ] i t the year 1702, | was pul hed the first da paper. It was prod ] | M t galnst the diel | i i | Fd e.. } or near u e of the pre t Printing Hon es ar Of a Wie DARE two! columi the Dally Courant professed to foreig v without «di torial me { hief of staff supl wer people have sehse « igh to make reflections for them 3 iginal sheet soon pass to the f Ss» el Buckley “at the Zn f the Dolphi in Little Brital { rthy printer of the Spectat 1 one well affected t the ; {f Hanover. The Courant was in 1 ! rbed In the Dally Ga zette. Lot n Chronicle Uranus it was on the evening of March 13, 1781. that W Herschel, at Slough England. discovered a new planet Wish t pay a compliment to | George [8 h pat 1. he gave thu name of Ge m or the Geor Klan star Other Eng h astronoiners wishing to compliment the discoverer himself, = ested the name of Her schel Continental astronomers pro posed that the old mythological sys tem be followed, and the name of Ura nus was cepted b the ‘ } world as the designation of the ses enth pianet Schurz, the “Dutchman” Carl Schurz, according to an icles in the Century Magazine never u ceedled in really becoming an Amer can “If 1 should live a thousand years," he once id. “they would still eall me a Dut in And yet the ar ticle declares that “no man of his time | | spoke so well or wrote to better pur pose.” Just Like Some of Gentler Sex. Howitt My 17.000 tions to ask Jewett Mine wife has ques wlfore going on a journey too the north pole. ~New York Ties One Consolation, Jack~1 tell you, courting a girl is mighty expensive Tom-Yes:; but, | thank heaven, one doesn’t need a law yer to sue for a girl's hand. Boston Transcript, Culture. Gabe-~What is culture? Steve--Oul- ture Is when you speak of the house beautiful when you mean the beautiful house. ~Cincinnatl Enquirer. A Theory. Tommy-Pop, what Is a theory? Tommy's Pop—~A theory, my son, Is anything that is easier for us to preach than to practice—Exchange, four years | If she were about | to take an arctic trip she would want | to know which was the sunny side of | White Flame Full, clear—never flickers ’ FAMILY FAVORITE | The Best Lamp Oil At Your Dealers. For the sake of the family's eyes. FREE. ~320 page book all shout oil, WAVERLY OIL WORKS CO. Pittsburgh, Pa, KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS’ Official OATH. Denial of a Calumny Upon | Members of the Order. r-During the past six months there has been widely circulated a cer- to be the "Oath Ni Ia} tain paper, purporting of the Knights of Columbus” 1 pur- posely refrained from noticing this paper during the heat of the recent political controversy, as I 4id not wish to have t} Order of the Knights of Columbus designated as a political bod It would seem hardly necessar in view of the rriiit f this publica- tion, that hould it { noticing it in an m ever, but n rder ( from the mi f ‘ le per sons wi n ' [ n this | | tion ' 1 I d« re t stant Or o} { } Knight ¢ Colun 1} q tion Is not v y Ye but that it ¥ f Cm for th ' y ! I 1 dq in | tr 4 Steamships Run By the Sun. SCEINCE SOON TO DISPEL DISEASE The radient energy ng ti [ f a st , r og ti ’ ” f fent, if , propel " [ gr r EE } 4 % wa } § 87 ! { aw : the ru y Light has a ct ; ter : M vy » f As a r » Ores ¢ i » L » . ’ & i ere ! ‘ ; - " ring dis ¥ J 5 | i A-Trs r no vind i 1 B i n { oi fata ents of ger wigin ha r ‘ vy offoctiy i curative wet the 1 : Pie ] ¥ How sind Surgical Ir tute it Bafl } Alt gi this tut 1 Wa founded many years ago by Dr. RV Plerce as a genoing fa hospital for those afflicted with chronic diseass yet It has kept abreast of the times and iis trained specialists have become Med- | yorities in thelr various lines autd olet-ray treatment, another in- resting procosding, Is produced bY con trating the light, rich in the violet or ical rays from an arc light with a ally prepared carbon, uj Any por of the bkxly that may be the seat of Su florors | neuralgia. sciatica rhe trains, spr so from " ’ exha £1 # the origin { whi Lor f fe wits or | ¥ i 4 : g d really wonderful i r imatism, | ES } ris f f r It i piso Pp n ron ! bronchial asthma and § Yaron ‘ As a general hy | 0 ‘ ‘ WNCY CAD SCArcely al i { who ha hewn treated at Dir ores invalid How Buffalo. N. Y.. Ant § “ Sah ri / wu] 3 In rica elects ater baths “i rr 0 | [ 1] 114% rot nd other m : peculiar ars been a fac the Invalids' ns employed od and skill Ll . oy 4 isenscs ir life » ition 1s LO oxoes | sil they have succends from the fact that their p from every State and Ter Union as well as from for Many thousands are annu either through correspond. Plerce’s Institution, It Is that, * Experience makes the skilled specialists in this care thousands of cases 1 abandoned ax incurable gonoral practitioners, Hundreds are srought to the Institution from far dis tant states ‘and they go home in a few | weeks well and strong. Quite asx marvel | ous are the thousands of cures annually | | accomplished through correspondence, whi the patient remciins quietly at home Others consult in person, and after being examined are provided with | | specially prepared medicines and return home to carry out the treatment ] In medicine there has boon rapid and | real progress during recent years, and Dr, | Pierce has kept up with the times in that he has had the manufacture and Ingred}- | ents in his well-known remedies improved | in a moderna laboratory by skilled chem: | Jats, the greatest care being exercised to | soe that the ingredients entering Into hs well-known medicines Dr. Pleree's Fa- | vorite Prescription as well as the “ Golden | Madieal Discovery” are extracted from the best variety of native medicinal roots, These are gathered with great care and at the proper season of the year, so that their medicinal properties may be most reliable, These extracts are then made soluble in pure triple-refined glycerine and bottled, Everyone who consults the specialists, whether by letter or in person receives the most careful attention. Groat care Is exercised not 0 over en Squrage those who consult the specialists 0 ged ractice os C of the LAE ry gn 1anas uly treated e or at Dr an old adag perfect.” and field practice wh have ww ’ of } 4 » institution that no false hopes may be raised, altation by or | erin 110,000 Facts { tained in the | Almanac { voted | turns, | figures | torical events, Income tax THE 1913 WORLD ALMANAC. and Figures—Several Hundred New and Special Features. 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