The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-05-19
Corot's Friendship.

Corots Friendship.
A few months before Corot's death
his friend, Francois Millet, the painter
of The Angelus," died, leaving a
widow and eleven children almost
penniless. The art world was moved
and the state was induced to give a
pension to Millet's wife. Corot, find
ing the sum insufficient, added to it
an annual allowance of 1000 francs
Almost Immediately after this. feel
ing his own health decline rapidly
he desired to secure the widow of his
friend against the loss of this assist
ance consequent upon his own death
therefore he turned over to her the
capital necessary to give her this an
nual income for the rest of her life
and sent it to her with these words
In this way ! am sure that in no
case of misfortune will you have to
suffer inconvenience. His death.
which occurred soon after, shows
this to have been wise considera
ton. New England Magazine.
When the Mind Resta
In private conversation one day
one of Chicago's oldest and most
learned physicians gave utterance to
the following:
Why Is it that when we see a
person gazing fixedly for several
moments at certain point on the
floor or in the street we say he or
she is thinking hard about some.
thing2 Nine times in ten a person
thus engaged - or disengaged - is
thinking of nothing. At such times,
if you only know it, the mind is nap
ping and there is no thought. Prob
ably one of the oldest fads-and it
seems to be nothing more-consists
of persons when at such times they
are asked what they are doing say
ing thinking hardr
In the large majority of cases
when a person is thinking hard or in.
tently the eye roams from one object
to another and the hands and feet are
moving more or less.
The busiest and hardest working
brain insists ON taking momentary
maps several times a day. Just be-
fore dropping off, into one of these
maps the mind commands the eye to
fix itself upon some object, thus
usually insuring the holding of the
head and probably every part of the
body quiet. Then the mind catches
its little nap These little mind maps
or flashes of rest may never be more
than twenty seconds long, and yet
they have been discovered to do the
mind wonderful amount of good
They never come to the deranged
mind, and it has also been discovered
that the supposedly sound mind
WHICH does not take them is on the
yerd mes Insanity. Exchange.
Statistics About inc LaKes.
The following figures obtained from
reliable sources show the mean level of
the lake surfaces above the mean tide at
New York and their maximum depths,
respectively; Lake Ontario, 2466l feet,
73S feet deep; Lake Erie, 572.S6 feet and
2l0 feet deep; Lake Michigan, 5S1 .2S
feet, $40 feet deep; Lake Huron, 5SI %
feet, $50 feet deep; Lake Superior, GOl 7s
feet, zoos feet deep The deepest water
runs very fairly in md lake through.
out the chain
The area of water surface in square
miles according to CHEESEMAN'S delinea.
ton Is as follows. Lake Superior. 81 200
Lake lrron 21.sN0. Lake Michigan
% .450; Lake Erie $3.50: Lake Ontario
7,24O. "r Il total area of ~ $50 square
miles. Maine Record.
Anti Donnelly nen rcpudiated the
Peoples party and want TO ally with
namncratS