Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-10-28

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in contract time. 1t
is now charged that s ssas.xasss$
the firm received
much larger prices N AZ Me-
OH certain trimming work than were
justified under the circumstances.
A striking inscription. quoted from
William Penn. on the interior of the
view Of the general allegations of
graft:
'There may be room there for such a
holy experiment, for the nations want
a precedent, and my God will make 1t
the seed Of nation that IN example
may be set up to the III. lions, that we
may do the thing that is truly wise
and Just"
The OF Horse.
There was Il little boy" said a man
who Is interested in children's chari-
ties, whom the Country Week asso-
citation Of Philadelphia put on farm
one August. One morning the little
fellow took walk to the village three
miles away, and as he stood in front
Of the postoflice farmer got down out
of his double team and said:
Hey, sonny, ketch holt O. that boss
head while go in an see If thar's any
letters
(Which boss headT said the boy,
advancing.
"'The OFF un,' said the farmer.
1.-THE orphanT said the little boy.
How kin tell which of ems an or
phan. Don't ye try to kid me, mis-
ter"
The Early Umbrella.
We may infer from the following an
nouncement, copied from the London
Female Taller Of Dec. II, 100, that
the umbrella at this period was regard.
ed as too effeminate for the use Of a
man: 'The young gentleman borrow
ing the umbrella belonging to Wills
coffee house, Cornhill, of the mistress,
is hereby advertised, that to be dry
from head to foot on the like occasion
he shall be welcome to the maids pat
tens" About this time 1t was Gus
tomary to keep an umbrella In the
halls Of larger houses for use in rainy
weather, for shelter In proceeding from
the house to covered conveyance, and
doubtless the one alluded to in the
advertisement above quoted was for
that purpose.
Musicians Live Long. Z.
A French writer notes that, though
nj hox IfnH
to wit, Mozart Mt thirty-five, Schu-
bert at thirty -one Belllni at thirty
three, Mendelssohn at thirty eight and
Weber when he was but forty-a large
number have lived to be very old men.
Those who died between sixty and
seventy years of age include Bach, Won
Bulow and Rubinstein. Living beyond
seventy years came Gluck. Gounod.
Handel, List, Meyerbeer, Rossini.
Spontini and Wagner, while the great
age Of eighty-nine was attained by
Auber and others. Dying at more than
eighty were Cherubini, Cramer, Lach-
ner, Palestrina, Rameau, Schultz and
Taubert. The average age Of musical
celebrities is about sixty-seven years.
Market Quotations on Seaips.
The market price of scalps, as agreed
upon between the early French colo
nists of Louisiana and the Indians, with
whom they bargained to fight out
their battles with hostile Indians for
them, varied with circumstances. At
the time the French were at war with
the AlibamOns scalp Of one Of the
last named when brought to them
was paid for at the rate of a gun, FIVE
pounds Of musket balls and as much
powder. "On the 14th Of March"
Q704. writes De la Harpe, "a party
Of twenty Chicachos (Chickasaws)
brought in four Alibamon scalps. They
were given for each scalp a gun, five
pounds Of balls and as much Of pow
der, according to the contract made
with them"
One Divided BIZ Naught.
Four men sitting together were con-
fiding to one another their general ig-
norance Of the matter contained in
text books. One said he had studied
algebra for three years, but he would
find 1t impossible to solve the simplest
problem by an algebraic process. An
other said he had been counted good
student in geology, and yet he doubted
If he could name the principal periods
In their proper order.
"Now, let's see how much you do
know" said one Of the men. "How
much is one divided by naught or
nothing"
zone divided by nothing?" repeated
the man at his right. why, that's
one. If one isn't divided by anything.
1t remains one"
Il think the answer is nothing"
said another. "One divided by nothing
is-nothing. Sure, that's right"
you're the worst l ever heard"
said the man who had given the prob
lem. zone divided by nottingham
means how many times is nothing