The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-16
A Million Years From NOW.

-Pfttsburg Gazette-Times..
A Million Years From Now.
They were digging down into old New
Jersey, but they didn't know 1t. They
had never even heard the name, and
neither a fossil mosquito nor the skele-
ton of prehistoric trust had so far
been unearthed.
They were digging. digging, digging.
What for? Chiefly, no doubt, for the
sake OF digging, but in a sort of second
airy way they were looking for relics.
They hoped to find something that
istence of anirlals>in that region before
the Great Catastrophe. If they could
only prove the existence of man at that
remote period, the professors claim to-
immortality would be secure. Up to this
time his enthusiasm was far ahead of
his scientific attachments, but he had
managed to impart something of his
own spirit to every man of the expedi-
ton, so that, in spite of any and all dis
couragements, they cheerfully kept on
digging.
Then the learned professor in charge
made critical examination and Jotted
down the framework of a somewhat
labored report:
Nothing like it has ever been known
to science. Man never looked upon the
like before. The conditions necessary
to support this creature could not posi-
bly, support anything SO dissimilar as
n.
full because of it's great size than be-
cause of its peculiar composition and
structure. 1t is much to be regretted
that the Trailer parts have crumbled
away, but enough remains to show
some striking peculiarities-none more
striking than the curious tointing. Moth
ing like it is known to anatomists in
our day. Some joints seem actually to
have been pinned together. This ar
rangement, taken in connection with
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creature was evidently supplied, must
have given it strength beyond our con-
ception."
But the twentieth century small boy
would have summed up the situation
thus: Gee! Can't tell rotten locomo
tive from bunch O. bones !''-The Bo-
hemian.s2
ssitt A Monster Kite
Probably the most wonderful and
ingenious achievement of a Chinese
is designed to represent a
gigantic. centipede. This is unques-
the longest and most fantas-
tic amusement device that has ever
been constructed for aerial fight. From
head to tall 1T measures nearly forty
feet, and is made to fold up accordion
like. The fierce large head of the
creature. with long protruding horns,
huge eyes and gaping mouth, forms
the front Of the kite. This is the gem
and marvel of the whole collection
and entirely new to the eyes of the
western world. Its construction is as
follows: Extending from head to tail
and constituting the body portion are
a series of bamboo sticks running
erosswise to the center, to which are
fastened twenty-five or more paste
board disks a foot or more in dame
ter These are painted in circles
ing the ail-seeing eyes of this mytho-
logical creature. A tail portion of mar
row strips is fastened to the last piece
Of bamboo. BY mechanical contri-
vance the curved pieces of pasteboard
the eyes are made to revolve
by the wind while the kite is being
flown Seen in the air, with serpen-
tine-like- motion, its huge glazing eyes
swiftly twir1ing in their sockets, the
effect is said to be astonishingly real
ing scene, to the Chinese mind at
least. While being flown cord is at
tached to three or more points or It's
length, in order to keep 1t under con-
are required to hold the reel. Un-
we have here one of the
first and most ancient patterns of fly
ing machines, thousands of years old. |
Lillian e. Zeh, in The -Werld To- |
day.
Cut Him Of.
IF there's anything Uncle Joe" Cam !
non dislikes more than another. it's the |
1oQuaciousness of the WASH |
ngton barber.
IShau I clip your hair little at the |
ends, sir?" asked eolored "tonsorial-
ST. of the statesman on one occasion.
you'll have to- grunted Uncle
Joe," unless you've invented some
method by which you can clip it out
rom the middle and save the ends.
which are curly. should prefer that TO
all things. except, Of course, to your
liter Acknowledgements Weekly.
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