The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-05-18
ALL SORTS.
A SEASoNABLE LYRIC.

Hit the rug another whack-
| Finest sort of exercise,
Great for Strengthening your back
See. the clouds of dust arise
Getting in your mouth and eyes;
Face and hands and linen black?
Nonsense! Stop those weary signs,
Hit the rug another whack.
Hit the rug another whack-
Better than your doctors drugs
Put more vim in your attack;
! DlspoSSeSS the moths and bugs,
| While the busy hOuSemaid Tugs
More adown the garden track,
Aren't you glad you've lots of rugs?
Hit the rug another Whack
Hit the rug another whack-
Surely you don't need to rest?
Seems to me you're getting slack,
Now go at it with zest!
That's developing your chest
Pretty soon you'll get the knack.
Really, you seem quite distressed
Hit the rug another whack.
Chicago News.
The process in operation in For
mosa for extracting the camphor is TO
chop the trees down and cut them into
small pieces, from which the eamphor
is then distilled. Dr. Watkins will
adopt a different method in Texas.
He sows the camphor seeds like
wheat or oats, and the shrub quickly
sprouts. When it has attained a
height of about three feet it will be
cut down by moving machine at
height of about one foot from the
ground. The several portions will be
put through the distiIling process and
the camphor extracted.
From the tender stubble other
shoots will spring up. and the cutting
process can be repeated once year
for several years. 1t is asserted that
a better quality of camphOr can be OBJ
tanned by this method than by the
ancient process that is in use in For
mosa. The crop requires no attention.
except the sowing and harvesting.
A woman has just been elected JUS
tice of the peace in suburb of
Chicago, and, being interviewed, she
said she did not feel that she had been
extraordinarily honored. since she
thought woman who was a first
class cook was superior to a first
class justice of the peace.
A Philadelphia settlement worker
tells of two fresh-air fund children
who gaZed in some wonder at num-
Der of chickens running about the
place to which the youngsters We're
taken, says Harper's.
Haven't you ever seen any
chickens before?' asked the kind
woman in charge of the expedition.
oh, yes, num- answered the cid
est child. knowingly, we has seen
lots of 'em. only it was after they was
peeled''
There is an interesting romance IN |
the family history of Queen Louise of
Denmark. Her grandmother who died
in 1900 as queen of Sweden and Nor
way, was born plain Mile Desiree
ClaTy, daughter of MarseiIles stock
broker. She refused the hand of the
great Napoleon to accept that of NJ. |
Bernadotte, who subsequently became
the great French general, and who |
was adopted as heir to the Swedish /
throne by the childless King Charles |
XIII.
The throttle of the first Japanese
railway train was pulled by an Ameri- |
can, Duncan Mcdonald now a vet |
eran in the employ of the Southern |
Pacific. That was thirty-fiye years /
ago, says the Railroad Meh's Maya |
zine. Oh the OCCdSlOH Oh the cOmDlG- !
ton of the narrow gauge line from !
Yokohama to Tokyo. and Mcdonald /
had the honor of drawing the present /
then young man of scarce |
ly 20.
At the government house. in Poona. !
India, every cat which may happen to |
pass out of the front door after dark |
is Saluted by the sentry, who presents /
arms to pussy. Tradition relates that |
in 1888 Sir Robert Grant, governor of |
Bombay, died in the government |
house. On the evening of the day of |
his death a cat was seen to leave the /
house by the front door and to walk |
up and down particular path where |
the late governor had been in the !
habit of Strolling after sunset A Hin |
doc sentry observed this. and told n /
priest. who declared that in the cat .
was Gov. Grants soul, and it shonld /
be saluted. AS the particular cat
could not be identified by the sentry
it was decided to present arms TO all
the cats.