Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-12-20
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and are worthy of attention, indie ed
they must be watched, Perhaps a
few illustrations will help to remem-
Der this fact:
A cow kicks over lamp, taken IN
to a barn while the woman owner at.
tempts to milk, and $200,000,00O
worth of property is destroyed and
ffty-six insurance companies fail as a
result of the Chicago fire. A foolish,
cigarette smoking boy throws burn.
ing stub into shaving pile and Port
land, Me-, is burned to ashes. The
tiny acorn, given dirt bed, moisture
and breath, becomes the giant mast
of the ocean steamer Tyndale says
that the big SNOWFALL in the arms of
the playing boy has enough force IN
it to send village, people, houses,
soil and all, to the sky. One grain O..
wheat produces fifty each year. II
every grain is planted for twelve years
there would be enough to feed all the
inhabitants of the earth for centuries.
The Crimean War began by the
Greek and Roman churches fussing
over the KEY to the Holy Sepulcher.
The Sepoy rebellion was precipitated
by the rumor that native soldiers
were to be polluted by the govern
ment placing lard on gun cartridges
which must be wet in the mouth be-
fore they would slip into the guns.
A clerk copying tariff bill put a
comma instead of hyphen between
fruit and plants and both were adj
mitted free, costing the government
100000 before Congress could cor
rect the error. A scientist brought
few gypsy moths to this country for
study. One day three or four escaped
and Massachusetts, has since spent hum
dreds of thousands of dollars trying
to exterminate them.
Hume in early youth was an earnest
Christian, but was appointed to de-
fend the skeptic's position in debate
and was turned. Voltaire learned an
in6del poem in boyhood and never
losts it's influence. West said, "A kiss
from my mother made me painter. >
A tiny twig may show the wind 8
direction. A small piece of paper
used as gun wad found near the loca-
ton of a mysterious murder led the
detectives to locate the man by fitting
this piece into the torn news sheet
discovered in his room. An abscon-
der was intercepted by studying his
library card to find that he had been
reading books on South America, and
then watching the ships sailingil that
direction. A clerical appearing visit
or in factory tuning out rubber
according to a valuable secret process
was discovered by wetting his knife
as he prepared to cut a sample. The
superintendent recognized that no one
but an expert would know that this
was necessary,
A few years ago a small savings
bank in Kansas City was strained by
a run. A street car manager hauled
several sacks of money to the bank
in wheelbarrow and depositing them,
stopped the run. The sacks contain
ed $40 in pennies. That bank is now
the National Bank Of Commerce, one
of the largest in the country. A
woman drug clerk suggested to the
apprentice chemist that pepsin put in
chewing gum might aid digestion.
He tried it and is now worth several
millions, while his name is on many
lips. Manhattan Island sold few
hundred years ago for 1874 worth Of
beans. This amount put on compound
interest for 365 years would purchase
the whole United States. Az Afri-
can farmer sold beautiful stone his
child played with for $4,000. Ex-
perts christened it as a diamond,
THE Star of Africa, and it sold for
800, 1000.
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote I'm
Gle Tom Cabin at odd moments at
ter her house work was done. Darwin
scrubbed the matter for his books on
scant slips of paper at scattered mo-
m'ents. Longfellow translated DaLs
te 8 Inferno" through several years
by using ten minutes day while
waiting for his coffee to boil. The
great institution guided by Russell b.
Conwell began with ffty-seven pennies
a little girl in an attic had saved to
build a large Sunday School room.
Six years after her death-at six and
a half years of age-the little note
found with her savings had raised