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How the World Is Fed.
A study of how the world is fed re-
wveals many interesting facts. Austra-
Ma, the smallest continent, for in-
stance, is the largest meat center of
them all. Asia, largest continent, on
the other hand, is the smallest meat
center among them. Africa and South
America lean toward vegetarianism,
while Europe and North America are
large consumers of meat and other an-
imal products. Taking the world's sup-
ply of cattle, hogs and sheep, writes
Harold J. Shepstone in the Millgate
Monthly, it appears that mankind at
large uses in the neighborhood of 20,-
000,000 tons of meat a year. This
would be an average of about thirty-
nine pounds per capita throughout the
world. In butcher's meat we find the
Australian consumes 192 pounds, the
American 172 pounds, the Englishman
119 pounds, the German 113 pounds,
the Frenchman and Belgian eighty
pounds, the Russian fifty pounds.—
Manchester Guardian.
Activity of the Tongue.
Nobody's tongue is still for a moment
~—at all events, in waking hours. The
tongue is the most incessantly active of
all the body's Woambas,
hot the tongue a8 an organ
o speech, ut if is also an organ of
feeling. When one eats it is constantly
feeling about in the mouth and deciding
out of its own “mind” what particles
of food are small enough or too big to
swallow.
Yes, indeed, the tongue has a mind of
its own—a ganglion or minor brain—
that is busy at mealtimes in regulating
the supply of food to the stomach. But
for its unceasing guardianship we
should suffer much oftener than we do
from the distresses of indigestion.
We think of the finger ends as our
most sensitive organs of feeling. They
are not such at all. The end of the
tongue is incomparably more deli-
cate and discriminating.—Philadelphia
Ledger.
Inviolable Envelopes.
The ordinary mucilage with which
the flaps of envelopes are gummed is
composed of gum arabic or dextrine
and is only too amenable to the per-
suasiveness of moisture or “steaming”
in the hands of the unscrupulous. Per-
sons who wish to guard their inclo-
sures, whether emotion! op financial,
against such pilfering can seal their
letters by a method referred to in the
Annales des Telegraphes. This con-
sists in applying white of egg to the
flap of an ungummed envelope, then
before it has time to dry of itself seal-
ing it by passing a hot iron over it.
If the temperature of the latter is
from 90 degrees to 100 degrees C. the
albumen will be coagulated and the
two surfaces of the paper will be sol-
idly united and water tight.
Watch For Your Chances.
“very young man has chances com-
his way constantly; it is not a
question of having chances, but of rec-
ognizing chances when they come,”
says President Bedford of the Stand-
ard Oil Company of New Jersey. “You
sometimes hear a fellow say, ‘I had a
Aetna can still boil water over the lava
that flowed from the volcano during
the eruption of 1910. Lava, according
to Walter Woodburn Hyde of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, writing in the
Geographical Review, often reaches a
temperature of 2,000 degrees F.
Even the ancient poets recorded the
heat, and Borelli, describing the great
eruption of 1669, says the lava took
eight years to cool. It is related that
steam was still rising in 1830 from
lava ejected in 1787. And this is not
astonishing when we remember that
the stream of molten lava which
reached the sea at Catania on that oc-
casion was at least 600 yards in
breadth, forty feet deep and contained
8,632,000,000 cubic feet. It banked up
against the walls of Catania, which
were sixty feet high, until it flowed
over the top and destroyed a large part
of the city. The huge promontory that
acts like a breakwater to the harbor is
the remains of that stream of lava that
flowed into the sea.
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Unbelievabla America.
In the chapter of HWgo Munsterberg’
. unfinished autobiography, published in
the Century under the title, “Twenty
five Years In America,” the Harvard
professor tells some of the amusing
misconceptions of America current ir
Germany a quarter of a century ago.
“The one, however, who brought m¢
; nearest to America was the historiar
tenacity with which lava retains its |
Holst,” wrote Professor Munsterberg
“In the lecture room his real life worl
was silenced. Who would care to stud;
American history? But in the drawing
room he did not talk of anything else
America and America again. Sometimes
we had to listen to American storie:
through whole dinner parties. I do re
member that at my first Freiburg party
he reached his climax when he told the
fascinated company that he had been it
a Bbotel in New York where his room
had a private bathroom in which he
could have a hot bath at any hour of
the night. The lady next to me relieved
the dramatic tension by whispering, ‘1
do not believe it’ Well, no one be
lieved much of what he heard concern-
ing America.”
Length of Wireless Waves.
1 remember as a boy hearing the laté
Rev. Sam P. Jones tell my father of
what he considered to be the most sin-
cere compliment he ever r®eived, says |
a writer in the Dallas Pitchfork. “I |
was holding a meeting in the city of
Louisville,” Rev. Sam Jones related, 1
“and spending the nights witb an old
Methodist colonel who owned a fine
country home. During my first eve-
ning at the colonel’s home the old col-
ored yard man was instructed to bring
out one of the colonel’s finest saddle
horses for my review. The aged negro
did as he was instructed and led before
me a magnificent animal. The horse
was a deep bay stallion, and he walked
with high, swaggering steps. I said to
the old negro, ‘What makes him step
so proudly” And he answered without
hesitation: ‘Dat hoss has got sense,
Brudder Jones. He knows who's look-
in’ at im.’ ”
Sam Jones sald that was the sin-
cerest compliment he ever received.
Monster Haystacks.
On the first approach to a Roumanian
village one is startled by the largest
haystack that the American will prob-
ably ever have seen. Rod upon rod this
monster stretches upon the horizon.
The explanation is a simple one. Hay
is one of the largest articles of produc-
tion in Roumania. Landed proprietors
and peasants, one and all, raise it and,
depend upon it for their support. When,"
however, a peasant feels grievances in-
tolerable, it is a matter of no great
difficulty to set the proprietor’s hay
afire—and no peasant in the district
would think of assisting in the detec-
tion of the incendiary. So the law per-
mits the proprietor to force all the
peasants in the district to place their
hay with his, a record of the weight of
each man’s contribution being kept by
both sides. In the event of fire—and it
now behooves both sides to guard
against all this—all contributors suffer
in proportion.—HExchange,
chance once, but didn’t take it.” Never
mind the chance that is past; watch i
out for the next one and qualify to be
able to seize it.
“Success that is worth while is, after
all, very largely a matter of plain,
everyday morality combined with tre-
mendous industry and a deserved rep-
utation for integrity and for fairness
toward the other fellow.”—B. C. Forbes
in Leslie's.
Japan’s New Naval Base.
Japan’s purchase from Portugal of
the little island of Macao, at the mouth
of the Canton river, near Hongkong,
has given Japan a strong naval base,
such as Gibraltar gives to Great Brit-
ain and Helgoland gives to Germany.
It can be used to menace any Euro-
pean power that tries to thwart the
ambitions of Japan in China.
Mint.
Mint occurs only in Matthew xxi,
26, and Luke xi, 42, as one of those
herbs the tithe of which the Jews were
scrupulously exact in paying. The horse
mint is common in Syria.
Not Identical.
“Time is money,” remarked the pro-
verbialist.
“And yet the man with millions is
the one who seldom seems to have five
minutes to spare.”—Washington Star.
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Worry In Sickness.
#% When an animal is sick it does
not worry about it nor about
the outcome. Its mental attitude
does not hinder nature’s healing
processes. It goes into the sun-
shine, takes the rest cure and
stops eating and recovers. But
if we have rheumatism in one
joint we expect other joints to be-
come affected. We worry about
it. It is, of course, well estab-
lished that the right mental atti-
tude assists in cure, and it is
equally important to understand
that the wrong mental attitude
hinders health restoration. Rea-
son, imagination and will power
are big factors in the restoration
and maintenance of health. Hv-
ery one should know the laws
of suggestion and apply them in
relation to health. Discover what
habits of living—exercise, breath-
ing, diet, mental habits especial-
ly—are conducive to health, live
hygienically and expect health,
happiness and success. The right
mental attitude is vitally impor-
tant.
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Much Food In Small Bulk.
The British soldier when fresh bread
is not available is supplied with what
he calls “dog biscuit.” It looks like
just that, being a thick cracker four
inches square and weighing three
‘ounces. Of whole wheat flour pressed
solid, it might be described as a con-
densed loaf of bread. }
{ The French have a ‘war bread”
somewhat similar, which when put
into hot water or soup swells up like a
sponge.
The famous German ‘pea sausage’
is composed of pea meal, bacon and
fat. It was the invention of a Berlin
cook, who discovered a process where-
by pea meal could be made proof
against deterioration. One sausage
eight inches long yields twelve plates
of nutritious soup.
Both Cheating Themselves.
You as a manufacturer are helping
to keep prices up because you have
not fully realized that men can do in
six to seven hours what they are now
doing in nine or ten. As workers you
are helping to keep prices up because
you are not doing all you can in the
hours that you work. You are both
cheating yourselves.—Industrial Man-
agement.
State Forests.
State forests, with a total of over
3,600,000 acres, have been established
in thirteen states. Of these New York
has the largest forests, which comprise
1,826,000 acres; Pennsylvania is sec-
ond, with 1,008,000 acres, and Wiscon-
sin third, with 400,000 acres.
Potted Foods.
There is much probability in the sug-
gestion that we owe our system of
potted foods to the North American
Indians, who for many years have
dried venison, pounded it into a paste
and pressed it into cakes for winter
food.
Had No Hills.
“Going to plant potatoes in that five
acre lot you've rented in Suburbus?”
“Like to, but it’s level fleld and my
book on farming says that potatoes
should be in hills.”—Buffalo Express.
Why He Didn't Save.
“Do you save your money?”
“Mister, if 1 saved my money I'd
have to cheat the grocer and the coal
man.”—Detroit Free Press.
Inquisitive.
“That fellow is a positive joke.”
“Relative of your wife’s or holding
a better job than you?’—Detroit Free
Press.
dream— Cooper.
Riches have wings, and grandeur is i
In ‘articles on wireless telegraphy
such expressions as 200 meter wave
lengths, 600 meter wave lengths, 15,000
meter wave lengths are constantly
used. In reply to a correspondent who
asks how the length of the waves is
measured the Scientific Ameriean gives
the following simple explanation:
“The length of an electric Wave 1
determined by a wave meter, The nat
ural wave length of an aerial is fom
times its linear length, just as the
wave length of a note of a closed organ
pipe is four times the length of the
pipe, and the wave length of the note
of a tuning fork is four times the
length of the box which is resonant
with the note. However, other consid-
erations make it difficult to measure
the wave length by a rule, and the
wave meter gives a more correct result
than can be found by measuring the
length of the wire.”
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Through Customer's Glasses.
“How much experience have yom had
behind the counter?’ asked an electric
shop manager of a young man who had
Just applied for a job as a retail clerk.
“None,” admitted the applicant, “but
I’ve had a heap of experience a8 a cus-
tomer.” 3 : :
The ability to put on the emstomer’s
glasses and see windows, cases and
prices from the buying side of the coun-
ter is an asset that cannot be too highly
‘valued. ' Every electric store salesman
is also a buyer. He must purchase
clothing, neckties and shoes. The elec-
trical man who can remember how oth-
er salesmen and clerks showed him
their merchandise in a way that invited
his interest and encouraged him to buy
own everyday selling is the man who
will contribute to the building of a
clientele of satisfied patrons for his
store—Electrical Merchandising.
Fragrant Wild Flowers.
Readers of the American Botanist
have been trying to decide which is
the most fragrant American wild flow-
er, and their opinions on the subject
exhibit remarkable diversity. In New
England tke majority give tirst choice
to the pink azalea, with the white wa
ter lily second. There are niauy voto.
for the trailin: arbutus; it. as the
editor sucuests, its fragrance is doubt-
less overestimited owing lo the fac!
that it is the earliest fragrant wild
flower of spring. Other candidates for
the first place are the par{ridze berry,
the common locust, horned bladderwort
(of which John Burroughs says, “In a
warm moist atmosphere the odor is al-
most too strong”), yellow jessamine,
spotted wintergreen and some of the
magnolias.
Village Life In China.
Chinese village life is essentially
democratic, almost communisite. There
are not today—have not been for cen-
turies—feudal lords or even great land-
lords. It is a country of peasant pro-
prietors, clan government, with practi-
cally all the men of middle age and
over in a community having equal voice
and authority in local affairs, with land
split up smaller and more equally than
in any other country in the world.
Revising an Old Saying.
The old saying that where there's
a will there's a way still holds good,
with certain restrictions, but the mod-
ern way of doing things demands both
will and skill. The individual who pos-
sesses both these virtues will find the
road to success comparatively thorn-
less.—Bakers’ Weekly.
Doing Your Duty.
Those who do it always weuld as
soon think of being conceited of eating
their dinner as of ‘doing their duty.
What honest boy would pride himself
on not picking a pocket? A thief who
was trying to reform would.—George
Macdonald. ’
Contradictory.
‘What did Blank say about me?’
“That you owed him $10.” .
“Why, the lying scoundrel! Well, he
can just whistle for his money now. I
won't pay him one cent till I get good
and ready.—Boston Transcript.
A Household Jewel.
“Is your new maid competent?’
“Very. She can even fool agents
and peddlers into believing that she’s
mistress of the house.” — Pittsburgh
Press.
January Wheat Crops.
Only two countries, Chile and New
Zealand, usually harvest their wheat
erops in January.
Life doesn’t consist in playing a good
| dnd, but in playing a pose hand well.
and who can apply these methods in hig
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SONG OF THE BOOTS.
The Melody That 8pelled Merit to the
Thrifty Chinaman.
John Chinaman often has peculiar
ideas about the wearing apparel that
he buys in America. For one thing he
always wants boots that are several
sizes too large, for he believes that in
that way he gets more value for his
money. In addition to excessive size.
boots may have to possess other pe-
culiar characteristics before they meet
his full approval, as the following story
indicates:
A California merchant offered a pair
of fine boots that he had long kept in
stock to a Chinese for $3. The orien-
tal finally took them, but two days
later he brought them back.
“What's the trouble, John?” inquired
the merchant. “Him good boots.”
“Him no good,” declared John. “Him
no singsong boot. Velly soon wear out.
Me likee singsong boot or me catchee
back t'ree dolla’.”
“Singsong boot!” exclaimed the mer-
chant, “Me no sabe.”
“Me t'ink you sabe, all lite,” replied
John. “Wha’ fo’ him boot no singee
squeak, . squeak, when Chinaman
walkee, alle same good boot?”
When the merchant bad given him
in exchange for the fine boots a pair
of coarse, cheap ones that squeaked
loudly John Chindman departecC. highly
satisfied.—Youth’s Companion.
OUR ORGAN OF BALANCE.
When It Becomes Affected It Produces
an Attack of Vertigo.
When any one feels dizzy and per-
haps almost about to faint his brain
cannot properly control the working of
his eyes. They may move round from
side to side, perhaps independently in-
stead of together, and so it may look
as if things were spinning arouad.
Another reason for dizziness has to
do with a wonderful part of the body
near the ear and without which none
of us could sit upright, much less
stand, though few people have ever
heard of it. This organ, which used to
be thought to have something to do
with hearing, really controls our bal-
ance. In some people it is affected by’
disease, and these people constantly
suffer from dizziness and a feeling that
everything is spinning round and
round.
As every one knows, we can make
ourselves dizzy and so think every-
thing is spinning round by whirling
around ourselves several times in one
direction. This disturbs the organ of
balance, and this disturbance gives us
the feeling. If you turn round the
other way you put things right by re-
storing the original state of affairs
within the balancing organ. The name
for the feeling that things are spinning
round is vertigo, and ‘vert” simply
means “turn.”—Kansas City Star.
A Mediterranean Phenomenon.
Mirages are common in many parts
of the world, such phenomena being
familiar to travelers in the tropics as
well as in the arctic regions and on
deserts just the same as upon the wa-
ters of lakes, seas and oceans. The
most peculiar of the whole list of at-
-mospheric illusions is that species of
mirage called the fata morgana, which
is peculiar to that portion of the Medi-
terranean sea which lies off the coast
of Calabria between Italy and Sicily.
Exhibitions of the fata morgana are
the most fantastic spectacles imagina-
ble. If a city is presented to view
some of the buildings are seen stand-
ing in their natural positions, while
those adjoining may be standing at
every conceivable angle or are com-
pletely inverted. The morgana has
been known since before the time of
Christ and has always been viewed
with awe by superstitious people.
Entirely By.
A seven-year-old in a town down
south was asked by his teacher at the
primary school to produce a composi-
tion upon the subject of his favorite
literary work. The youngster went
into executive session with himself
and turned out the following succinct
criticism of a well known and popular
classic:
“The Book I like best is called Pil-
grim’s Progress. My mother reads this
Book to me every Night before I go to
Bed. I love to hear about The Pil-
grim. He had a hard time, but he got
by!”—Saturday Evening Post.
Growing Cotton.
The yield of cotton is dependent upon
the number of flowers we are able to
induce the plant to form, and root
space is necessary to flowering. The
cotton plant’s normal rooting may oc-
‘cupy two square yards of earth, which
is several times more than given it in
practice, and the yield may often be
reduced by this fact, as the roots mus
interlap.—Los Angeles Times.
A Mixup.
“Madam, try and induce your daugh-
ter not to get her gymnasium and her
musical exercises mixed.”
“What do you mean. professor?”
“I mean that she is inclined to mis-
take the piano for a punching bag.”—
Baltimore American.
Strategy.
Penelope—Lieutenant Huggins seems
to be rather attentive to Miss FElder-
leigh of late. Captain Jones—Yes, and
she is evidently skirmishing round try.
ing to precipitate an engagement.—
London Stray Stories. :
Bad Business, .
Deaf and Dumb Beggar—Do you
think it looks like rain, Bill? Blind
Beggar—I dasn’t look up to see. Here
comes one o’ my best customers.—Puck
Mind is the beginning of civilization,
but the ends and fruitage thereof are
of the heart.
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Pittsburgh, June &.
Butter—Prints, 48@4%%c; tubs, 47
@47%c. Eggs—Fresh, 38c.
Cattle — Prime, $13@13.25; good,
$11.75@12.50; tidy, butchers, $11.50@
11.75; fair, $10.25@11.50; common,
$8.60@9.50; heifers, $7@11.560; com-
mon to good fat bulls, $7@11.25; com-
mon to good fat cows, $56@10; fresh
cows and springers, $40@90.
Sheep and Lambs—Prime wethers,
$10.560@11; good mixed, $9.25@10.25;
fair mixed, $8@9; culls and common,
$6@7; lambs, $8@14; spring lambs.
$12@17; veal calves, $14.50@15;
heavy and thin calves, $7@11.
Hogs—Prime heavy, $16.25; heavy
mixed and mediums, $16.16@16.20;
heavy Yorkers, $16@16.16; light York-
ers, $1460@15; pigs, $14@14.25;
roughs, $14.60@16.26; stags, $13@
18.50.
Cleveland, June 5.
Cattle—Choice fat steers, $11.26@
12; good to choice steers, $10.26@
11.50; fair to goed steers and com-
mon light steers, $8.60@10.50; good
to choice and fair to good light heif-
ers, $8.60@11; choice fat butcher
bulls, $9@10.26; fair to good and
bologna bulls, $7.60@9; good to choice
‘heavy and fat cows, $8.76@10; fair
to good cows, canners and cutters,
$5.75@8.26.
Calves — Choice, $14@14.50; good
mixed, $13.76@14; heavy, $11@12.50.
Hogs—Choice heavy, $16.10; good
mixed, $15.90; Yorkers, $15.85; pigs
and lights, $14; roughs, $14.25; stags,
$12.75.
Clipped Sheep and Lambs—Choice
spring, $16@18; choice yearlings, $15
@15.50; fair to good, $13@13.60; culls
and common, $9@10; good to choice
wethers, $11.50@12; good to choice
ewes, $11.50@12; fair to good, $8.50
Chicago, June 6.
Hogs — Bulk, $15.60@15.95; light,
$14.86@16.85; mixed, $15.30@15.95:
heavy, $15.25@16.05; roughs, $15.25@
15.40; pigs, $10.50@14.75.
Cattle—Native beef cattle, $9.15@
18.60; stockers and feeders, $7.35@
1050; cows and heifers, $6:20@11.70;
calves, $9.50@14.
Sheep and Lambs—Wethers, $9.76@ |
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MOTION PICTURES IN CHINA.
There Were Lively Times For the Man
Who Introduced Them.
At the end of the Russo-Japanese
war, says the Los Anjeles Times, Mr.
Brodsky, a native of Odessa, Russia,
came to San Irancisco. After the
great San Francisco fire he left the
city with an old motion picture ma-
chine and forty or fifty reels of “junk”
film. With that he sailed for the
orient, The motion picture was un-
known in China when he reached there
with his paraphernalia, and he ran
Into many dangers in showing his
wares. To the natives his camera and
projecting machine was a “magic
box.” He bad to pay his first audi-
ences to enter his theater, which, by
the way, was only a tent. In that way
he finally won the crowds.
Matters were progressing well when
Brodsky one eay put on a wild west
film in which a band of cowboys ap-
peared on the screen, charging straight
at the spectators and firing revolvers.
The moment the audience saw those
shooting eowboys bearing down upon
them they rushed, panic stricken, from
the tent theater, cutting their way out
with knives.
After that the eautlous natives were
slow to come back. But finally Brod-
sky hit upon the plan of having a few
ese come and examine the ap-
paratus, pass their hands over the
blank sheet that was the screen and
assure themselves that thers was noth-
ing to hurt them. i
Gradually he established’ picture the-
aters throughout the country until now
there are eighty of them. A
Once he was thrown into a Chinese
Jail, but finally made his escape after
getting the whole populace into the
Jail to view his motion pictures. At
another place he was to have been ex-
ecuted as a “devil” but he frightened
the people and made them change
thelr minds by telling them that he
could easily put them on the screen
and make them work there foreves.
Pistols. |
Pistols were invented at Pistoja,
Italy, and were first used by English
cavalrymen in 1544.
@old, lke the sun, which melts wax
ay, expands great souls
vad hearts.—Rivareol
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