light made to lj fit^durneed. I EVEREMYf 1 FLASHLIGHTS are made in many styles that sell at a wide vari ety of prices. Each is equipped with a genuine, long service Tungsten battery and Mazda I lamp. All are guaran ■ teed to give the maxi mum satisfaction. That's why it pays to get a real We sell them. LIIMCICO Raindrops. Drops of rain vary in their size per haps from a twenty-fifth to a quarter of an inch In diameter. In parting from the clouds they precipitate their descent till the increasing resistance •pposed by the air becomes equal to their weight, when they continue to fid] with uniform velocity. This ve locity is therefore in a certain rati© to the diameter of the drops; hence thunder and other showers In which the drops are large pour down faster than a drizzling rain. A drop of the twenty-fifth part of an inch in falling through the air would, when it had ar rived at its uniform velocity, acquire a celerity of only eleven and a half feet per second, while one of a quarter of •A inch would have a velocity of thir ty-three and a half feet The Change of a Name. How family names change in the course of many years Is illustrated by the conversion of "Botevile" into "Thynne." An English deed bearing date in the closing days of the fif teenth century shows three brothers then flourishing—.John Botevile of Botevile and Thomas and William Botevile. The trio are distinguished from all other Boteviles by the ex planation "of the Inne." or family res ldence, the 'tie to which had come t< I their joint possession. John's grand I son was krown as Ralph Botevile-of I the-Inne, from which the transition to Ralph Thynne is easy. His descend ants have been Thynnes ever since. A aure Proor. "The new family who have Just moved In have something in their li ves ; they want to hide." "Why do you think so?" "Because their hired girl is deaf and dumb." —Baltimore American. BOY-ED AND VON PAPEN ON BROADWAY : *' ; ' " : ' . '' ' ■ ' ' Photo copyrignt by American Press Association. Captain Boy-Ed, naval attache, and < 'aptain von Papen, mifitary attache of the German embassy, who have been recalled. Boy-Ed is reading a story about himself in the newspaper while strolling along Broadway, New York city. Von Papen sailed Dec. 22. Boy-Ed booked accommodations for Dec. 28. ■I -I-.1-I -I '!■■!■ 1 1I1I!■ H -I IM-H-H. (• *j* \ BE TACTFUL. II .. Talent rs iomthmg, but tat •• j * is everything. Talent is seri- II ;• ous, sober, grave and reepecta- ** ♦ ble. Tact is all that and more ** .. too. It is not a seventh sense, • • | * but is the life of all the five. It II ■* is the open eye, the quick ear, •* • the judging taste, the keen •• . smell and the lively touch. It is II * the interpreter of all riddles, the V * surmounter of all difficulties • • and the remover of all obstacles. .. I Tact is a wonder worker. T The River Tigrie. The river Tigris app<-ars in the book of Genesis as Hiddekel, one of the four "heads" into which the river of Eden was parted. The name by which we know it does not exactly "mean" tiger, for the correct way of putting it is that both "tiger" and "Tigris" mean in Persian swift as an arrow. "Euphrates" is a Greek version of the Persian Hu frat, which signifies "the good abound ing" and represents the old Asiatic Bu rat or Purat, akin to our verb "pour." Long Lived Tennysons. The Tennyson family was noted for its longevity. Miss Matilda Tennyson died in her ninety-ninth year; Charles was seventy-one at the time of his death; Mary, seventy-four; Emilia, sev enty-eight; Alfred, poet laureate, eigh ty-three; Frederick, ninety-one; Arthur, eighty-five; Horatio, eighty, and Ce eilia, ninety-two. A Very Old Rule. The oldest mathematie book in the world is believed to be the "Papyrus Rhind" in the British museum, pro fessed to have been written by Ahmes. a scribe of King Ra-a-us, about the period between 2000 and 1700 B. C. This "Papyrus Rhind" was translated by Eisenlohr of Leipzig, and it was found to contain a rule for making a square equal in area to a given circle. It was not put forth as an original dis covery, but as the transcript of a treatise 500 years older still, which sends us back to approximately 2500 B. C., when Egyptian mathematicians solved, or thought they had solved, the problem of squaring the circle. The Hungarian Crown. The Hungarian crown worn at their accession by the emperors of Austria as kings of Hungary is the Identical one made for Stephen and used at his coronation over 800 years ago. The whole is of pure gold, except the set tings, and weighs almost exactly four teen pounds. The settings above allud ed to consist of fifty-three sapphires, fifty rubies, one emerald and 33S pearls. It will be noticed that there are no diamonds among these precious adornments. This is accounted for by the oft quoted story of Stephen's aver sion to such gems because he consid ered them ••unlucky." A False Alarm. "I know something. I do, about a member of this family," said little Bobby Slithers triumphantly to his old er sister. Maud. "Oh, dear!" exclaimed Miss Slithers. "Half a dollar is all I have, Bobby. Will you promise not to tell if I give you that?' "Sure, I will," answered Bobby in surprise. "Bnt it ain't nothin' on you. sis. It was the cook and the iceman." —Birmingham Age-Herald. The Great Eastern. The dimensions of the one time world famous Great Eastern were as fol lows: Length, 692 feet; width, 83 feet; depth, 60 feet; tonnage, 24,000 tons; draft when unloaded, 20 feet; when loaded, 30 feet She had paddle wheels fifty-six feet in diameter and was also provided with a four bladed screw pro peller of twenty-four feet diameter. She had accommodations for 800 first class, 2,000 second class and 1,200 third class passengers, 4,000 in all. Her speed was about eighteen miles an hour. The Great Eastern was finally broken up for old iron in the year 1889 after a checkered career of some thirty-one years. Arms and the Men. "I see you have your arm in A sling," said the inquisitive passenger. "Bro ken, is it?" "Yes, sir," responded the other pas senger. "Meet with an accident?" "No. Broke it while I was trying to pat myself on the back." "Great Scott! What for?" "For minding my own business." "I see. Never could happen to me, could it?" "No." "And if it did I wouldn't be blame fool enough to tell it" Then there was silence in the car.— Chicago Tribune. Machine Guns. Machine guns are really rifles with a mechanical feed, which supplies them rapidly with cartridges. In all modern patterns they are automatic in action. The gas produced by the explosion or shock of the recoil opens the breech, ejects the spent cartridge, loads the rifle, closes the breech and fires the charge. These complicated operations are carried out with extraordinary speed. To give an example: The Max im can fire at least 450 rounds a min ute, or more than seven shots per sec ond, and if in exceptionally good order and cleverly operated can discharge 600 rounds a minute.—London Tit-Bits. Trap For Quotation Experts. if any one wants a catch question to spring on a gathering of self confessed literary sharps let him ask whence comes the quotation. "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." This is one of the six best sellers in the world of quotations, yet not one person in a hundred knows where it comes from. It is comparatively easy to guess the author, hut almost sible to find a person who can name the work. One could build any number of par lor games around "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." Try iL- Spokane Spokesman-Review. Qnestiis 110 l o M in Ml Know. D. Have you read the Consti tution of the United States? R. Yes. D. What form of Government is this? R. Republic. D. What is the Constitution of the United States? R. It is the fundamental law of this country. D. Who makes the laws of the United States? R. The Congress. D. What does Congress consist of? R. Senate and House of Rep resentatives. D. Who is our State Senator? R. Theo. M. Kurtz. D. Who is the chief executive of the United States? R. President. D. How long is the President of the United States elected? R. 4 years. D. Who takes the place of the President in case he dies? R. The Vice President. D. "What is his name? R. Thomas R. Marshall. D. By whom is the President of the United States elected? R. By the electors. D. By whom are the electors elcted? e R. By the people. D. Who makes the laws for the stete of Pennsylvania. R. The Legislature. D. What does the Legislature consist of? R. Senate and Assembly. D. Who is our Assemblyman? R. Wilmer H. Wood. D. How many State in the un ion? R. 48. D. When was the Declaration of Independence signed? R. July 4, 1776. D. By whom was it written? R. Thomas Jefferson. D. Which is the capital of the United States? R. Washington. D. Which is the capital of the state of Pennsylvania. R. Harrisburg. D. How many Senators has each state in the United States Senate ? The -Butt." The origin of the word "buTT as the definition of a confused utterance is doubtful. Some philologists say it comes from the French boule—"fraud" —and others that it is derived from the Icelandic bull —"*orense." Many definitions hae# t*ecu attempted, but the best probatory JC that of Sydney Smith. Writing fl&e difference be tween wit ana he says: "Wit discovers rvaJ rcwktfOrm that are ap parent; 'bußtf adroit apparent relations that are nt*, reai The stronger the apparent connection and the more com plete the real disconnection of the ideas the greate* the surprise and the better the "bull.*" Lords and Commons. An ancient English eastom forbids the participation of a pow in the elec tion of a eommoaesr, so that when a general eleeriojc is actually in progress; the lords are <rr-atorfcally muzied by a fiction that supposes thorn to be quite indifferent t© the a—pssjfiwi of the lower bouse, hut aatil the candidates have been actually rant !&a ted the peers may use all the ©toquea©* with which nature has endowed them for or against the la— tKvotvvd in fbe ap proaching election. R. Two. D. Who are our U. S. Senators? R. Boise Penrose and George T. Oliver. # D. By whom are they elected? R. By the people. D. For how long? R. 6 years. D. How many representatives are there ? .. R. 435. According to the pop ulation one to every 211,000, (the ratio fixed by Congress after each decennial census.) D. For how long are they elect ed? R. 2 years. D. Who is our Congressman? R. S. Taylor North. D. How many electoral votes has the state of Pennsylvania? R. 38. D. Who is the chief executive of the state of Pennsylvania? R. The Governor. D. For how long is he elected? R. 4 years. D. Who is the Governor? R. Brumbaugh. D. Do you believe in organized government? R. Yes. D. Are you opposed to organiz ed government? R. No. D. Are you an anarchist ? R. No. D. What is an anarchist? R. A person who does not be ieve in organized government. D. Are you a bigamist or poli gamist ? R. No. D. What is a bigamist or poly gamist ? R. One who believes in having more than one wife. D. Do you belong to any secret Society who teaches to disbelieve in organized government? R. No. D. Have you ever violated any l.'ws of the United States? R. No. D. Who makes the ordinances for the City ? R. The board of Aldermen. D. Do you intend to remain permanently in the U. S. ? R. Yes. Mighty In Titles. The ruler of Turkey in addition to | the titles sultan and kha-khan (high j prince and lord of lords), also claims sovereignty over most districts, towns cities and states in the orient, specify ing each by name and setting out in each of his various titles "all the forts citadels, purlieus and neighborhood thereof' in regular lefcal form. His of flcial designation ends, "Sovereign also of diverse nations, states, peoples and races on the face of the earth." A) this is in addition to his high positioi i as "head of the faithful" and "suprern lord of all the followers of the proph et," "direct and only lieutenant on earth of Mohammed." A Canine Feat. A blind man, guided by a large and athletic* dog, went down the street the other day. Just as they turned a cor ner the blind man's dog saw a dog It i knew and darted forward in away that threw the sightless mendicant to j the ground. He was speedily assisted to his feet, however, by a waggish passerby, who remarked that he had heard some remarkable stories of the feats performed by dogs, but this was the first time he had ever known one LOUGHRY'S AUGURI PEL 1916 Noi vi auguriamo a tutti un anno prosperoso. Se e' possibile furemo il nostro magazzino più' completo. Nienie altro che mercanzia di qualità superiore. Questa e' stata la nostra regola per ben 50 anni. Il mese di Gennaio e' stato sempre di mercato, sgombrando tutto, Prezzi bassi in tutti i nostri dipartimenti. La Camera, per Donne j jli nogozio per uomini : i| i| MERCATI n j e Offre Prezzi sensazionali da <| | ( <; 1-4 ad 1-3 DAL Paletot £ Vestiti da Il PREZZO COMUNE Uomo 1-4 ed 1-3 I > Risparmiando da || !; DI MENO $5 a $lO so tatti jjjj Vestiti e Paletot per jj I Vestiti da Donna li ra 9 azzi '- 4 a '- 2 ? wnw WW yvuw > | DJ MENO | $2.50 a io su tutti i paiitot :| j; Cappelli, Beretti 1-3 e I-4Ì| | Paletot per donna e signo- \\ ! MENO !| | rine ad e meno. jj jj Paletot, Ghetti e Beretto, e! | Veste da festa y meno ! ]! Mackinaw da $5.00 ora jj 5 Pellicce y meno $2.40 I I Riduzione su tutta la nostra merce W. R. Loughry & Co. ''Quello che comprate qui e giusto" ..The Indiana Macaroni Company.. OUR MACARONI Can be Bought at the Following Stores: The Troutman Department Store, Stevewon <fc Myers, Plotzer Meat Market. | They are FRESH. Made in Indiana
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