RAILROAD BRIDGE DESTROYED.
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Photo copyright, 1914. by American Press Association.
This shows tlie awful destruction of war. French troopr near Amiens,
France. destroyed a railroad bridge to hmder the movements of the Germans.
Untie barn's Shore Line.
We have rather a long shore line t<
survey. According t<> trend it i- H
(XX) miles hut wlu-a it i.-> iuck.-
ured so as to include the shore lin
of all large islands, bays, sounds ai
estuaries within tidal range it IK
comes upward of 40,000 miles.—W. .1
Showalter in National Geographic Ala;
azlne. ,
"One Eye Open."
Some years ago in London a French
man stepped into a hansom and was
asked:
"Where do you wish to go?"
"One eye open," lie replied.
"Right," said cabby, who understood
nothing and drove off. After a time,
same question, same reply. Finally
the driver descended and demanded
further information.
"One eye open." still was the an- I
swer. Cabby furious. A crowd assem
bled, a policeman appeared on the
scene and demanded the whole story.
Then the mystery was solved. The j
fare wanted to be driven to 1 High 1
HoJborn.
WIFE COILS TO ENTANGLE SHELLS.
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Photo copyright. 1914, by American Press Association.
The Germans took thousands of coils of wire with them from Hamburg
into France and used them as protection against artillery fire. The coils were
placed in front of trenches to smother shells that fell in them.
EYES OF A PORTRAIT.
Why They Seem to Follow Observers
Moving To and Fro.
The fact that the eyes of some por
traits follow the observer as he moves
to different positions has always l>een
looked upon as a triumph of realism.
Although the phenomenon has been
exaggerated in some instances, it Is
not a myth. If the eyes of the portrait
look at the observer in a favorable po
sition they will continue to do so with
in a wide angle extending to any situ- j
ation where a view is possible. Con
trarily, if the eyes do not intentionally
look at the observer they will not d>
so even though he take his station ai
a point where the painted g.-r/.e is seem
ingly directed.
Suppose that the portrait bead is in
three-quarter face turned to our left,
with the eyes turned toward the sje-- •
tator. If we move to the right we do j
not obtain another view of the head— j
that is. we do not move into the profile
GUARDING RAILWAY IN SERVIA
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A Phil May Anecdote.
One winter night an old hawker en
tered the bar of the Old Bell tavern.
Fleet street, and offered the customers
sets of three studs for a peuny. Phil
May said t hiui:
"You are just the man 1 want!"
He took only one stud and gave the
hawker a five shilling piece. The bar
maid said to Phil .May:
"I believe, Phil, you would give your
coat to the first beggar who asked for
it r
"Well, miss," replied the artist,
"there would be no harm in that. St.
Martin gave his coat to a beggar, and
he was a better man than Phil May.
I am only a wicked sinner!"— London
Tatler.
The Widow's Name.
In addressing a letter to a widow—
for instance, "Mrs. John .Jones"—you
can write it Mrs. John Jones or Mrs.
Hilda Jones, whichever you prefer.
Either is proper, there being no hard
and fast rules about the matter. If
Mrs. Jones prefers being addressed as
Mrs. Hilda Jones, then !et it be that.
There is no law in the case one way
or the other.—New York American.
were." said he. "The reason they aiu
not come back was because two of
them got good jobs in Cape Town: the
other two married Boer widows and
settled down on farms," he said.—New
York Sun.
One Thing He Remembered.
He was standing near one of the
stamp windows iu the general post
offlce. His face was flushed and his
features distorted, while he tugged
with his teeth at a knot in his hand
kerchief. When the knot gave way a
friend who had been watching the un
usual performance stepped up and ask
ed. "What was the knot for—to re
member something?" "Yes. to have
my wife's umbrella mended." "Did
you have it done?" "No; forgot the
blamed thing in the subway. But 1
remembered the kuot all right"—Ne
York Tribuu
Champagne.
Champagne is a product of France.
;It was invented or discovered there
250 years ago.
evening recently an aunt who *
newspaper woman called up the boy's
mother on the telephone to cancel an
engagement. She was absent, and the
boy himself answered the call.
"Tell your mother," said the aunt,
"that I can't come out this evening
because 1 have taken an assignment.
Can you remember that?"
"Yes. ma'am." said the boy. "I'll
tell her." When the mother returned
he said to her:
"Mother, auntie telephoned that she
couldn't come, because she is sick."
"Sick? Why, what's the matter?"
s.be wanted to know
"I forgot what it is she's got." said
(be boy. "It's something she has tak
en, but it isn't mumps." Nashvilli
Banner.
Why One Treaty Was lorn Up.
Many wars have flamed up from
slight causes. One recalls the quarrel
'twixt that Venetian ambassador and
that Turkish grand vizier of ihe past.
The ratification a treaty was in
au-cstion, and the Turk asked the
Venetian to sv. ear in Moslem fashion—
upon his beard and the beard of the
prophet. The ambassador would not
"Venetians wear no beards," he re
marked. "Neither do monkeys," replied
the Turk, and straightway the treaty
was torn up and war declared. And
that interchange of compliments cir
cling round the bear cost 150,000 lives.
Supreme Toet of Friendship.
An invitation to breakfast was, in
Macaulay's opinion, one of the supreme
tests of friendship. "You invite a man
to dinner," he wrote to Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe, "because you must in
vite him, because you are acquainted
with his grandfather, or because it is
proper that you should; but you invite
a man to breakfast because you wish
to see him. You may be sure if you
are invited to breakfast that there is
something agreeable about you."
Moral Twisted.
The telephone in a physician's office
rang madly the other day, relates Cur
rent Opinion, and the following qpn
versation took place:
"We want the doctor, quick!"
"Who's sick at your house?"
"Everybody except me. I'd been
naughty, so tliey wouldn't give me any
of the nice mushrooms papa picked in
the woods."
Her Praise Was Premature.
Lady Gushington (to great tenor)—
You saug that last song beautifully
I was in the supper room, but I heard
every word. You have improved; you
have, really. The Great Tenor—But
—I have not sung; I am next!— London
Illustrated Bits.
I The Way Out.
( Dad—The kind of wedding you want
my child, would cost $2,000. Daughter
—Then what is to be done, papa? Dad
—You will have to be married without
my consent.—Boston Transcript.
Always Something.
I find this life upsetting quite,
things never seem to come my way.
It's hard to get asleep at night and
hard to keep awake by day.—Kansas
Citv Journal.
Papa's P!en Prevents Proposal.
He (impecunious)— But you say your
self" that your father is anxious to get
you off his hands. She—Yes; that's
why I don't think he'll listen to you.—
Exchange.
F WHEN FACING DEATH.
Pain or Fright, It Would Appear, la
Rarely Present.
A distinguished British physician
who has been at some pains to collect
data on the subject asserts that few
persons about to die have really any
fear of dissolution. There is cited the
case of the African explorer who was
partially devoured by a lion. He de
clared that he felt no pain or fear and
that his only sensation was one of in
tense curiosity as to what portion of
his body the lion would take next
Pasha, Turkish ambassador
at London, used to tell of an attack
made upon him by a bear during a
hunt in the east The beast tore off a
bit of the Turk's hand, a part of bis
arm and a portion of his shoulder.
Kustem solemnly averred that he suf
fered neither pain nor fear, but that he
felt the greatest Indignation because
the bear grunted with so much satis
faction while munching hira.
Grant Allen, whose scientific habit at
thought gave weight to his words, say*
that in his boyhood he had a narrow
escape from drowning.
While skating be fell through thin
Ice over a place whence several blocks
had the day before been removed. He
was carried under the thicker ice b
yond and when he came to the surface
tried to break through by butting his
head against it. The result wns that
he was - stunned, then numbed by the
cold and so waterlogged that artificial
respiration had to be employed to re
store hira. These are the impressions
as recorded by him with reference to
the pain he suffered;
"The knowledge that I have thus ex
perienced death in my own person has
had a great deal to do with my utter
physical indifference to it I know bow
It feels, i had only a sense of cold
damp and breathlessness, a short strug
gle, and then all was over.
"I had been momentarily uncomfort
able, but it was not half so bad as
breaking an arm or having a tooth
drawn. In fact, dying is as painless as
falling asleep. It is only the previous
struggle, the sense of its approach, that
is at all uncomfortable. Even this is
less anpleasant than 1 should have ex
pected. There was a total absence of
any craven shrinking. The sensation
, was merely the physical one of aa spins
| for breath.—Harper's Weekij.
Taught by Example.
Mrs. Mordecai Hummerfest turned
pale as her husband entered the dining
room for breakfast.
"Mordy." she gasped, "do you—don't
you feel well?"
"Perfectly," he replied in seeming
surprise.
"But—but you are In your"—
"Tell me something I don't know.
Pass the butter, please."
She passed the butter, remarking
nervously, "But, Mordy, dear, as you
came in I saw you didn't have any
shoes on."
"Well, what of It? Your balr is in
curl papers, isn't it?"
"Why—y-yes."
"And you have on a wrapper."
"Yes."
"Very well, then."
And he went on eating his breakfast
in silence except when he asked her to
pass the butter. Then he went up
stairs and finished dressing, and the
next morning and on succeeding morn
ings she reported for breakfast in reg
ular clothes.—Boston JournaL
Changing Matter.
"Can the diamond be destroyed by In
tense heat?" asks a reader.
Y'es. Any substance known can be
vaporized in the fierce heat of the elec
tric furnace. The word "destroyed"
should not have been used. Diamond is
chemically pure carbon—that is, lamp
black—and the same quantity still ex
ists after the diamond ha 9 vanished.
Man Is now able to destroy the form of
all matter known to chemists—that Is,
matter disappears as matter, only to
resolve back into its primordial elec
trons. These are pure electricity, and
nothing else exists. These man cannot
create nor destroy. All that any hu
man can create is a thought that had
not been created before. But this is a
theory, for all thoughts may be eternal.
But here one must stop, for our minds
cannot think of the meaning of the
word eternal.—Edgar Lucien Larkin in
New York American.
MEXICO'S NEW REVOLUTION.
Villa's Plans For March on Mexico City
to Oust Carranza.
Now that General Villa has definite
ly broken with General Carranza and
announced that he will fight to the last
Torreon becomes the center of interest
in the new war in Mexico. It is at
Ton-eon that Villa expects the big bat
tle, and he is preparing that city for a
vigorous defense and a possible siege.
All troops ordered to Sonora by Villa
have been recalled and are being hur
ried to the south. All troops in Chi
huahua City are being sent to Torreon,
and every garrison in the north is be
ing stripped of men to mobilize at Tor
reon the greatest army that Villa has
put into the field. Villa has made
plans for an immediate movement
against Mexico City.
Villa holds all northern Mexico and
in this position has advantages which
will count seriously against Carranza.
Villa wiil be able to control the rail
communication with the United States.
Paris Women Far Outnumber Men.
The war census of Paris is complete.
The population is now 1.507.044, a de
cline of 1.0215.307 from normal figures.
There are in Paris now 949,087 women,
585,486 men and 272.471 children, of
whom 30,980 are under fifteen mouths
old.
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Atomic Attraction.
Hydrogen and oxygen gases sepa
rately may be compressed to the liquid
form, and then the compression fur
ther Is exceedingly difficult. But in
the chemical union of two atoms of
hydrogen with one of oxygen to form
a water molecule the Immense force of
atomic attraction, or chemisin, as one
may prefer to name the force, is one of
the most powerful in nature. It re
duces nuge volumes of the gases down
to a far less volume, and the force is
far greater than can be secured in any
machine of screws, levers or hydraulic
Atomic attraction is perhaps
the most powerful in nature. At least
it is strong enough to hold atoms of
steel and platinum together and dia
monds.—New York American.
Napier at the Battle of Meeanec.
When in the fight 1 held my life as
gone, for as to escaping all idea of that
vanished when I saw the Twenty-sec
ond giving way and was obliged to ride
between the fires of two lines not
twenty yards apart. I expected death
as much from our men as the enemy,
and I was much singed by our fire, my
whiskers twice or thrice so and my
face peppered by fellows who in their
fear fired high over all beads but mine
and nearly scattered my brains. In
agony I rode, holding my reins with a
broken hand (he had sprained it a few
days before) and quite unequal to a
single combat had a Belpocbee picked
me out, as one was about to do when
Marstoj slew him.—Letter of Sit
Charles Napier.
Easily Classified.
Hemmandhaw. who was writing a
letter, looked up to inquire:
"Is It ever permissible to apply gen
der to volcanoes?"
"I don't know," Mrs. Hemmendhaw
returned, "but if it is they are surely
masculine."
"Why?"
"Because they spotter, grumble and
•moke."—Youngstown Telegram.
Wonderful 8 ewe re.
The sewers of Paris are the moat
wonderful in the world and constitute
one of the sights of the city. Visitors
are allowed to inspect them on certain
days each week, and It is certainly an
experience to make a "personally con
ducted" tour of the two main sewers
The journey is made on electric car*
and launches, which draw up occasion
% at brightly Illuminated ■frtttm*
HOLE IN WALL OF MALINES CATHEDRAL
I Photo copyright. 1914, by American Press Assoev tion.
This shows the damage done by a projectile tired by the Germans.
Diet of the Bluebird.
The bluebird, one of the most fa
miliar tenants of the farm and barn
yard, pays amply for its rent and board
by destroying insects, and takes no toll
from the farm crop. Its diet consists
•f GS per cent of insects and 02 i>er
cent of vegetable matter. The largest
Items of insect food are grasshoppers,
beetles and caterpillars.
Both Alike.
"This letter from your son in college
is short." "So's my son. That's why
he wrote it."
Smotnered rile Joy.
Cheerful Husbaud (eutering the
kitcheu singing "My love is like the
red. red rose!") Wife (looking up from
the stove) —You'd look red, too, if you'd
been bending over a frying pan for
twenty minutes!
Iron Ore.
Next to the United States. Germany
and France are the largest producers
of iron in the world. ■
MADONNA SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION. '
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Photo copyright, 1914, by American Press Association.
This little statue, standing in a niche of a small convent in Termonde,
was unharmed, though the building was destroyed and a portion of the roof
fell within n *<->"- iw.oV.oc of tho imn?p
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fklent that the quality of our product will create a big demand. Our
plant is equipped with the most modern machinery, and our
Mr. L. Giammerini has expert knowledge and experience in Macaroni
preparation.
To the retailer.
If you are unable to procure INDIANA MACARONI from
your wholesaler, or if we have no representative in your town, write
us and we will refer your name and address to vcur nearest wholesaler.
If you desire a special kind of Macaroni, we can supply you. It will
pay vou to stock the highest grades. If our product is given an oppor
tunity, we are convinced that your costumers will always ask for
INDIANA MACARONI.
To the Consumer.
INDIANA MACARONI made in the same way as the ge
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of course being made in Western Pennsylvania, you can buy INDIANA
MACARONI when only a few days old.
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Porcupine Quills.
The spines both of the hedgehog and
the jHreupine are nothing more than
excessively enlarged hairs, and on the
bodies of these animals every grada
tion letween hairs and spines can be
found.
The Letter X.
The letter "x" appears but once in
English for every six times it occurs
in French.
Cold Feet.
During a marriage ceremony in
Scotland recently the bridegroom look
ed extremely wretched, and he got so
fidgety, standing first on one foot and
then on the other, that the "best man"
decided he would find out what the
trouble was.
"\T'hat's up. .lack?" he whispered.
"Hae ye lost the ring?"
"No." answered the unhappy one.
with a woful look, "the ring's safe
enough, but. man. I've lost ma enthu
siasm."—Boston Transcript. 3