Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-25
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
The sweet bay tree, or laurel. was
sacred to Apollo, and in both Egypt
and Rome its leaves were used to dec
crate the victors in games or in war.
These leaves are much used now in
the culinary art, the practice having
been borrowed from the French.
makes pot of a large white gander,
which is devoted to his owner, and
accompanies him on his walks. If ap-
preached by stranger the gander
tiutters to his master, squawking for
protection, aud is comforted as one
might comfort a dog.
known among men who have been
much to sea in Southern waters infested
by man eaters. The tiercest shark will
get out of the seaway in very great
hurry if the swimmer, noticing it's
approach, sets up a noisy splashing.
A shark is in deadly fear of any sort
of living thing that splashes in the
water.
The most beautiful and costly fishes
in the world come from China, and
the rarest and most expensive of all
is the brush tail goldfish. Specimens
of these have sold for as high as $700
each, and in Europe the prices range
from $3.50 to $500. The brush tail
goldfish is 8, small that five shil
ling piece will cover it, and probably
there Is no living thing of it's size and
weight that is worth SO much money.
1t is not generally known, but law
exists in New England, still unre
pealed, that would have a surprising
effect if put into practice at the pres
ent time.
The Puritan Fathers decreed thai
call women, of whatever rank, pro
fession or degree, whether maids OF
widows, who shall, after this act, i'm
pose upon or betray into matrimony
any Of His Maiesty's subjects by vir'
tue of scents, cosmetics, washes,
paints, artificial teeth, false hair OF
high heels, shall incur the penalty Of
the law now in force against witch.
craft and like misdemeanors.
To attend church where the music
is supplied by barrel organ must be
very like stepping into bygone cen
tury, but it is an experience which the
parishioners of Trottiscliff-a Kentish
village within 25 miles of London -
can every week enjoy. Its adherence
to old customs may be pardoned, for
the church was standing at the time
of the Domesday Book, and the ex
listing chancel is more than 500 years
old. Its pulpit is the one that stood
in Westminster Abbey until 1924.
The musical capabilities of barrel
organ are limited, but the parishioners
of Trottiscliff have a choice of so,
there being six barrels, each supply
ing 10 tunes most of them very old
fashioned.
In ancient times there were some
very curious superstitions attached to
the pins used i'll tho toilet of bride.
If one were left about the person of
the new wife she must school herself
to sorrow, for nothing would go right.
Ill luck was supposed to haunt the
bridesmaids, too, if they kept the
pins. for they would not be married
until Whitsuntide in the next year, or
at earliest until the Easter. When
Mary Queen of Scots married Darnley
she went to her chamber to change
her apparel, and then requested those
who stood by each to take out pin
and to carry it from the room and
throw it away, in order that she might
be saved from the ills supposed to
follow when the pins were kept.