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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01

The persistent use of the muscular
system is well calculated to relieve the
brain and nervous system of their ten
sion, says DR.. ii. j. Hall in Good
Housekeeping. 1t is also true that
manual work pleases and satisfies the
mind when its results are good. All
this becomes clearer when we realize
how vainly we may seek relief from
nervous fatigue in physical rest or
even in recreations of the ordinary
sort. The quiet room or the quiet hill
side, so suggestive of rest and peace
these are too often impotent in the
presence of carking care. One reason
for this failure is that the brain and
the body are commonly not tired in
what is called nervous exhaustion, but
are only irritated, while the sense of
fatigue, which is so misleading, is
merely the result of that irritation and
may be termed a psychic fatigue. I'm
der these circumstances it is easy to
understand that it is change not nee
essarily physical rest, which is SO sore
ly needed.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
Mailing the Ghost.

An extraordinary instance of rustic
superstition has been brought to light
in Hungarian village. Owing to sin
lister rumors as to the cause of death
the authorities had the body of a peas
ant exhumed and were Mortified to find
the hands and feet nailed down to the
coffin, while long nail had also been
driven through the heart. An inquiry
was at once held, with the result that
an old woman confessed that the act
had been perpetrated under her direc-
tions. The man had died sudden
death, and, there being superstition
in Hungary that persons dying under
such circumstances haunt the house in
which they die, the further superstition
has grown up that postmortem reap
pearances can be prevented by mailing
the body in its coffin. The old woman
further admitted having done the same
thing in all similar cases for many
years.-London Globe.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01

Lewis Swift, the astronomer, told
how he waited in Denver for the
eclipse of 1878. For hundred years
astronomers had expected this eclipse,
and three minutes before the computed
time for it to begin Mr.. Swift seated
himself at his telescope and looked
into a cloudless sky. at was SOL
emn moment" said he. mo words
can describe it. Slowly, as If times
ccaseless flow had begun to slacken,
two of the three minutes had passed
away, and no eclipse and nothing to
indicate that anything unusual would
happen. l then began to count the
tick, tick, tick of our sidereal clock till
all the seconds had passed away, and
no eclipse but before the next tick |
saw three black mountain peaks on
the moons limb glide on the sun. The
eclipse had begun just three-quarters
Of a second too late" 1t is such things
as this that make one respect the accu-
racy of the computations of the as
tronomers when they tell us about the
distances in the heavens, the weight
and size of planets and other kindred
things.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
They Worship SmnIIpox.

"They worship smallpox in western
Hindustan," said the missionary
His auditors gave gasp of horror.
but don't misunderstood me. Don't
get wrong impression" he resumed.
Il don't mean to say that they love
smallpox and desire it. On the con-
trary, they loathe and fear it; hence
their worship, a worship born of hate
and terror.
"They have goddess of smallpox
She has cruel face, two mouths, four
red hands. They pray to her regular
ly. Fresh flowers are always lying at
her feet. A special priest tends her
shrine.
"And much time and money are
wasted on this goddess that might bet
ter be devoted to the purchase and ap-
plication of some good pure vaccine
virus" Journal.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01

Heliogabalus surpassed Nitellius as
far as Vitellius surpassed Lucullus in
the art of eXpending vast sums upon
the pleasures of the table. According
to Lamprdius, he cost the government
for each of his dinners more than
S1S0000 in our money! This statement
almost transcends belief. At one of
his banQuets was served an entree con-
sistlng of the brains of 100000 os-
triches, quickly followed by another of
broiled heels of an incalculable number
Of tender young camels! In the days
of Shakespeare good digestion probably
waited on appetite. Dining was mat
ter Of fact business, and dinners were
so lacking in the variety of dishes that
an appetite was a necessity. In these
days AS in the days of Nitellius, an ap-
petite is a supertluity. Among the
high llvers it is satiated, dull dead,
wornout Special dishes are invented
to tickle and awaken it. Lucullus, Vi
tellius and Heliogabalus are among the
great departed, but their memory lives,
and even in this day and generation
they have their imitators.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
shnISespcnre's Name,

1t has often been a puzzle to stu
dents of Shakespeare why his name is
spelled in so many different ways.
Shakespeare himself is said to have
signed his name on different occasions
Shakespeare and "Shakespere," and
learned disquisitiOns have been writ
ten to prove which is the proper spell
ing. None perhaps was more amusing
than the weather reason given in
1851 by Albert Smith, who averred
that he had found it in the Harleian
manuscripts. 1t was as follows:
How dyd Shakespeare spell hys name?
Ye weatherre maybe We change, we saye,
So write it as We please.
When ye some shone he maybe hys A,
When wette he took hys E'es.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01

Irish miles are longer than American
miles-in fact, eleven of them make
fourteen of such as are measured in
this country. American travellers soon
find this out, and if they are disposed
to complain of the character of Irish
roads they learn that the Irish think
it unreasonable Of the stranger to eX-
pect both quality and quantity. To
one such grumbler the answer was, "If
the quality is infarior, we give you
plinty of it, anyhow" To another visit
or who complained of the narrowness
of the road the retort was, "Well, what
ye lose in the breadth We gain in the
length"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
Dueling Pistols.

The pistol used in the duel is not the
military arm or the revolver, but a
very carefully made and wonderfully
accurate weapon known as the dueling
pistol. For many years the length Of
this arm was matter of grave dis
cussion at'all the clubs in England and
on the continent At first the dueling
pistol had twelve inch barrel and
carried twenty round bullets to the
pound, but in 1910 the elder Devisure,
with his confrere, Lepage, at Paris,
and Manton and Egg of London, the
most eminent pistol makers of their
respective countries, fixed the actual
length Of the dueling pistol barrel at
nine inches, and there it has remained.
A case Of the best pistols used to bring
from 500 to $50 francs, or $100 to $3.50.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
Selling SOAP Bubbles.

Foreigners are constantly surprised
at the japanese schemes for earning a
little money" writes traveller in ia
pan. SIN Choshi / saw the queerest
yet. A man with a bucket and bun
die Of bamboo tubes was going up and
down the street selling soap bubbles.
He carried soapy water, of which he
sold a small portion for one-twentieth
or one-tenth Of a cent. He left behind
him groups of happy children, who
filed the air with beautifully colored
bubbles blown from tiny tubes"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
LANDING A CROCODILE.
What a Malay Native Did With Three
Pieces of Box Cord.

Va dun toru.
Why should crocodile leave a river
stocked with food explore for miles
an unsuitable tributary and then wan
der inland until il finds a pool? One
can only say that it does, declares a
writer in Blackwood's Magazine. He
goes on to speak of the TAPPING lake,
of the MAsay peninsula, whittier three
crocodiles had found their way. So
long as they confined their attention
to the fish and an occasional duck no
one objected to their presence but
when one of them began to take sheep
of the bank as they came down to
drink it was felt that the brutes ought
to be exterminated, and Mr.. Maxwell
and his servant, Manap, made the at
tempt. They set bait attached to
heavy rattan and then waited.
The crocodile had seen us coming,
and, unconscious of the fatal rattan
which marked its course, moved into
deeper water.
Decks were cleared for action Ma
nap was of course barefooted, and |
took off my shoes and stockings, so
that my bare feet might have as good
hold as possible on the smooth bot
tom of the dugout.
As the crocodile moved off into deep
water, dragging the canoe along, we
realized that we had him well hooked.
After protracted struggle | managed
to get the crocodile within a few yards
of the canoe At one moment the open
jaws would surge out of the broken
water and snap together in unpleasant
proximity to our legs. The next mo-
ment the heavy tail would swing free
of the water, and with the weight of
falling tree would hit the side of the
canoe blow that made it shiver
More than once the great claws got on
the gunwale of the canoe, and it seemed
as if the brute would get on board
There was no little risk of losing ones
balance and falling in on top of the
raging brute.
As the crocodile surged close to the
canoe and the open mouth appeared
above the water Manap slipped moose
VI SlOuI COTu over Ile anlmalS upper
jaw and pulled it tight, some six inches
behind the point of its nostrils. Then
with a quick turn of his wrist he
slipped the slack of the cord round
under the lower jaw. He drew the
cord tight and the teeth of each jaw
pressed home into the sockets of the
other. Manap now grasped the point
of the long, narrow head with one
hand and with the other rapidly wound
the cord round the clinched mouth.
Another moose was slipped over
fore leg. 1t pulled the leg up to the
animals side. Manap slipped the line
over the creatures back and caught up
the other fore leg Then he noosed and
tied together the two hind legs.
'Sudah," he said. "That is finished"
What he had effected was marvellous.
In a few minutes he had transformed
ravening water devil into a trussed
up monstrosity, and his only weapon
had been three pieces of box cord.
A few blows dispatched the brute,
and Manap received the government
reward
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01

Instances of eggs within eggs are re-
ported annually in the live stock peri
odicals, both with poultry and pigeons
Such cases are examples of retarded
laying. The oviary channel is, through
some unusual exciting state, deficient
in lubricating fluid. The one egg, tenn
porarily stopped, is incased in the sec
ond, which is thus formed around It.
This accounts for the abnormal size
of the completed egg, which is eventu-
ally evicted, at times with much pain
and difficulty, and occasions death not
infrequently through egg binding as it
Is termed The condition may be
brought about by too much fat forming
element in the fowls dietary-Indian
corn, for example, as a sole food-or
in n measure may be constitutional and
confined to an individual specimen or
even to a strain of birds The inner
egg is often yokeless, though not in
variably so.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
"woOdmnn, Spare That Tree,

"Woodman, Spare That Tree" was
written by George ?. Morris, the story
being founded on an incident which
occurred during a visit of this gentle
man to the old homestead. 1t had
passed into other hands, and the pro-
prietor was about to cut down the fine
tree, which had been planted by Nor
ris' grandfather. The poet redeemed
the tree for $10 and the stately oak
was thus spared.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
PODe's Eayorite

Pope deemed the Essay on Man"
his most polished production, but was
30 fond of revising his poetry that the
printed copy contained almost one
marginal note for every line. If his
wishes had been fully carried out the
second edition would have had so
many changes as to be practically a
new work.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
CaIOneI.

Calomel was discovered by Crollius
in the seventeenth century, and the
first directions for its preparation were
given by Begun in 1908. It's name is
derived from two Greek words, sig
nifying "a beautiful black" because
in its preparation black powder is the
first step in the manufacture, being
produced by rubbing mercury together
with corrosive sublimate.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01

Citiman-Is it really only ten min
ntes' walk to the station from your
house? Subbubs - What a ridiculous
question! Nobody in our lovely suburb
ever walks to the station. I believe,
however, that it's ten minutes walk
from the tatlon.-Philadelph Press.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
Whnt He Needed.

Patient-Why are YOU going to OPP
crate on me? Young Doctor-Because
need the money. Patient-Well,
that's all right. l didn't know but you
was going to operate on me because
you needed the experience.-Judge.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
Actions and Habits.

Aristotle says: "All actions have
tendency to reproduce themselves and
thus to produce habits or states of the
will. By doing just things man be-
comes just; by doing brave things he
becomes brave"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01

1t is said that woman never hits
anything when she throws a rock, but
she smashes the target when she
throws a hint.-Dallas News.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01
Ask for Candies

Merchants desiring their names to appear at
the bottom of this card can have 1t under es-
tablished rules free OF charge on application
to II. CHILDs & COMPANY, Wholesale Dlstrib-
utors, s13 Penn Ave-, PITTsDUGG.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-11-01

Don't be deceived by the
assurances of dealers who
have other brands lust
as good
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-10
TRADE UNCERTAIN
IN WALL STREET
PRICES AT START WE'RE HIGHER
THAN LAST NIGHT.
After Slight Absorption the Market
Hesitated and Then Eased OFF and
Became Dull-A Slight Recovery
Came Later in the Day-Bonds
Steady.

New York. Jan. 10.-Prices started frac-
lion higher all around on moderate absorption
at the opening OF the stock market today. Erie.
Louisville d Nashville, Southern Pacific and
Missouri Pacific We're the leaders, with gains IN
excess of u. ~
Tie market hesltated after the first few min
uteh OF business and then became easier, when
the United States Steel stocks fell below last
night. A period of dullness followed but TO-
ward IL O'Clock prices improved. The Metro
politan stocks were conspicuously strong and
there was good demand for some Of the Pa
c1hcs and low-priced specialties. Louisville q
Nashville, Kansas Texas preferred, Union Pa
cine, southern Pacific, Missouri Pacific, West
lnghOuse Electric, Rubber preferred and Pipe
preferred rose 1, Metropolitan Street Railway
IN, Rubber and Detroit Southern preferred
IN. International Pump fell 11h
Prices Wavered slightly, but resisted and re-
covered. Erie rose /. The movement was very
narrow, except In the specialties. Rubber re-
acted and Manhattan lost 4. The Corn Prod
preferred gained / to TX.
Bonds were steady a noon .'z. .....-..t.
Amalgamated Copper managed to get ND to
-, oesplte the scanty demand. Other leaders
naroly varied more than an eighth from the noon
prices Pipe preferred lost it's gain following
its restoration to full dividend basis and Ice
preferred yielded Ia. Smelling improved a
point.
Prices Of stocks faded away, slowly in the
afternoon until there was little left of the
ing rise. Quite few of the leading stocks
we're quoted under yesterdays closing includ-
ing Pennsylvania, Reading, Norfolk & Western,
Illinois Central and the United States Steel
stocks. Cotton OIL preferred declined 2. and
Chicago Union Traction preferred Jumped 81
Stock quotations reported for The Journal By
Watson y Co., brokers, Chamber of Commerce
Minneapolis. Closing figures are bid.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-10

OF the sum which had been invested in
the worlds railroads at the close Of 1902
it Is estimated, according to the English
Railway Magazine, that more than
s3,760. 100000 has been spent on the 1884,,
600 miles of European railroad and
s3,2s2,o0O,O 900 on the $4,000 miles owned
by the rest Of the world. On this basis
it is found the roads Of Europe represent
an investment Of e22,s52 a mile, while
those Of the rest Of the world average
s11.402. Great Britain's railroads repre-
sent the highest cost per mile. figures
standing at e51.86s while those of Bel
GUM come next with 930.048.
Many have looked with awe upon suit
cases and steamer trunks covered with
labels Of every size and color. and thought
enviously Of the advantages the travelling
owners of such baggage had over the poor
stay-at- homes. The baggage proclaimed
that its owners had been from Sydney tc
San Francisco, from Copenhagen to Co.
lombo to say nothing of visiting half the
capitals and health resorts OF the CONT
nent But the iconoclast has found shop!
where such baggage is sold. all shattered
and batterel and labeled with a score o.
foreign towns, altho 1t may never hav,
| Travelled two miles from New York.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-10
THE V1GrRI.E

Fremantle. Western Australia, is Z, town
with some queer names The mayor IL q
Cadd, the chief printer is Cant, contrac-
tor named Thick has Just sued a local
soup preserving company, and a man
named Offspring Webb was recently fined
for keeping an unlicensed dog.
Miss Louise Mary Driver mayoress Of
chatham, England. has completed her first
year OF the office. She is mayoress by
virtue OF the fact that her father is mayor
and her mother is dead. She is not years
old. The other day, as, mayoress, she
gave fete to 1000 school infants
At the French penal colony, Nou1nea,
New Caledonia; the convicts have organ
lied band. The leader is a notorious
murderer. The cymbal player killed a
subpoena server and the drum player
murdered his landlord with hammer
The assistant bandmaster chopped his
wife to pieces.
The northern belt Of forests is perhaps
greater in extent than all other timber
belts and reserves of Canada combined
It extends from the eastern part of Lab.
rador "north Of the fiftieth parallel in q
northwesterly direction to Alaska. q dis
tance of some 5000 miles, with an aver
age width Of perhaps 500 miles.
The London county council has given no
tice Of the proposed passage Of an or1i-
nance that bread shall not be sold other
wise than by weight, and that it shall be
weighed in the presence Of the purchaser
Also that every cart or other vehicle used
for distributing bread shall carry weights
and scales which an Inspector may tes,
at any time.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-10
STATE GRAIN INSPECTION, JAN 9

u
Inspected In-wheat-Cars-Great Northern
No. l northern. 10; No. northern, Sc: No. 3,
81; No. 4, 12S; rejected 60; no grade, T.
Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul-No. 2 north
ern. 5; No. 3, 5; No. 4, IT; rejected, 49,
Minneapolis & st. Louis-No. i northern, 2:
No. northern, /; No. 8, 2; No. 4, 8; re-
500 Lne--No. i northern, /: No 2 north
ern, 3; No. 8, 9; No. 4. i; rejected, l.
Northern Pacihc-No. q northern 8; No. 8,
q; No. d. 9; rejected, |.
Chicago st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
No. northern, 1: No. northern, 4; No. g. II,
No. 4, 5; rejected, B.
Chicago Great Western-No northern, L;
No s, l.
Totals--No. northern, IA; No. 2 northern,
boi No.. 8, 121; No. 4, 1853; rejected, 1O1; no
grade, T.. t- go
Other Grains--No. duran wheat, cars,
No. 3 winter wheat, S; rejected winter wheat,
25i mixed wheat, 8; western wheat, 2; No. 8
yellow corn. %; No. white corn, 2; No 3 corn,
white oats. .; No. white oats, ri; No. 4
white oats, IL; No. 3 OATS 4; no grade oats, q;
No. rye. 8; No. 3 rye. A. No. barley. II:
No. feed barley, Is; No. feed barley, g.:
no grade feed barley, 2; No. 1 northwestern
fax, Z; No: 1 fax, IL; rejected fax, 16; no
grade fax 1,
Cars Inspected out-No. l. northern wheat, 81
cars; No. 2 northern wheat. IL; No. wheat,
Il: No. wheat. 81; rejected wheat, rs; re-
tected winter wheat. o. No. 8 yellow corn, 10;
No. 8 corn, 9; No. 4 corn, l.; No. 3 white oats,
8; No. white oats, 4; No. barley, L; No. 4
| barley, 16; No. feed barley, i; No. rye, 8;
No. rye, 2; No. ak. G.; rejected fax, 1.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-10
THE CASH TRADE
lzzRMNESs THE RULE IN ALL THE COARSE
| AVE. GRAINS.


! ELAK-Good demand at prices q little under
yesterday Not much in and the undertons
Receipts here, IL cars against n. Shipments
ne, Duluth receipts. Is cars.
Closing gssess: Minneapolis cash. s1.22ah to
oHfs@Firn and active, No white closed at
6oRN-Fair in auiry for choice lots; No. 8
MILLsTUEts--Ne change in prices, but arm
SIS: SO; niddlings, $3.50; red dog, SIS; ali T 5
In Minneapolis; In 200lb sacks. 81 per ton addt-
Itonal; IN loo.lb sacks, $3.50 per ton additional
FEED AND COARsE MEALr-Good tone and a
arm range. Coarse corn meal and cracked corn,
1n sacks, sacks extra. $15.25: No. l ground feed,
I2:S corn and 1-s oats. so-lb sacks sacks extra.
$3.50; No. ground feed, 4 corn and II oats,
4Olb sacks, sacks extra. $15.75; No. 3 ground
3eed, 1-e corn and 2.3 oatB, 75-lb Sacks sacks
extra, SIG.
RYH-No change OF Importance. Closing fig
ahtpmsnts, 2.
u BARIEY--Feed grades closed at s4@ssc;
mating grades ss542o. Receipts, rs cars;
Shipmelts. IS cars.
az aAX Z ssosss $4,000; Se: l. S: 20
g ssso 81 s. n E$',S S :r: ssS e. e.
Geipts, 2s2 tons.