Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-08-12
DANGEROUS Diving.

Dangerous Diving.
Drowning is quicker death than
most people suppose. Insensibility Is
said to begin in about one minute and
fatal Inconsistencies generally super
YeneS in the ncighborhood of two min
utcs. Few even practiccd divers can
remain under water more than min
ute and Il half, and it is generally fatal
to remain beneath the surface longer
than that At Navarino. where there
are many expert divers. who plunge
into the sea after sponges, not one was
found who could remain under water
for two minutes. In the Red sea the
Arab divers generally remain down
one and quarter minutes, while at
Ceylon the pearl fishers can seldom
stay below for even n minute. There
is Il case on record at Falmouth where
a diver had descended eighty feet and
on giving the signal was drawn up
slowly 1t was two minutes before he
reached the surface. Blood ran from
his ears and nose. and he was insens-
bic. He died without speaking. In
senSibility, however does not always
involve death. for in many cases per-
son may be resuscitated by the use of
energetic measures.-London Saturday
Review.
What's In a Name?
Perhaps you may have heard Of the
celebrated divine who could move Il
congregation to tears simply by repeat
ing the word "Mesopotamia." 1t was
In the sound. Some words have indi-
vfduality of their own. You cannot
twist "AIesopotamia" to mean any
thing but sleepy, sun-kissed land.
You could not, for instance. endow
those soft vowel sounds with the rug
ged quality of another unmistakable
word. saskatchewan
saskatchewan! Spoken as though
1t came always from the full ridged
chest of tall red man. thin in the
flank. hard in the leg. spoken as
though with the eXhalatiOn of lungs
full Of rugged northern air What
word in the glossary Of rivers sur
passes this in the viriity Of its sheer
sound? 1t reeks of knnikinic and
uIleu Nultc ISL anu SlllOkeu DTcuStS VI
wild geese and service berry and penn
mican. You cannot avoid seeing dog
sledgeS. or help hearing the hOnk Of
wildfOwl, or refrain from noting the
blown breath of men running in the
cold. when you hear the mere name.
wild, mysterious, of this river. one Of
the trails of the young men.-EmerSon
HOugh in Outing MAGAZINE.
Worse Than Before.
A man with that peculiarly agonizing
expression which Indicates corns came
bouncing through the gates at the
Broad street station not long ago and
caught the rear platform of the through
express for the south just as it began
to gather Roadway. He limped into the
car and dropped into seat.
"Oh, Lord he grOaned, and COM
menced Juggling Mt shoe. You'll
have to excuse me-" he continued to
the rightful occupant of that particular
section. but I've just got to get these
tight shoes off. just had time to rush
into store on my way to the station
and get another pair-didn't have time
to try them on, but wear only sevens,
and l told the clerk l wanted tens.
wanted to make sure they would be
large enough
BY this time two glazing white socks
We're exposed to view. With a sigh of
relief the man hurled the despised
reached for the box containing the new
ones.
Great Scott" he gasped as he view
ed his purchase. "That idiot has given
ne tens, chidren's ze"-Philadelphia
Ledger.
A Famous Figurehead.
In 1884 Captain Elliot. who had been
second in command at Lake Erie under
Oliver Perry. excited Il violent political
and partisan demonstration by decorat-
ing at the Boston navy yard the bow
of the Constitution with figurehead
of President Jackson. One stormy
night his eXcellency was decapitated
as neatly and deftly as if the best
tools had with patient labor enlisted
the brightest sunshine in the desecra-
ton. Marines and bluejackets We're
held under dark suspicion, and the
country seethed in Il ferment of keen
contention. Rewards were offered, but
in vain, and for years the secret was
we'll kept. 1t is said that seaman
was the culprit, not for any political
motive, but because of a cherished an
tipathy to the full length image OF
landubber at the bow while three fine
sailors were compelled, with made
Uuate busts, to smile grimly at the
stern However. another head was Sc
cured to the trunk with copper bolts
so tremendous that for many years age
could not wither it nor custom stale
the mistaken fortitude with which Old
Hickory dcfied the breeZes and the
brine.
The Gamecock Of the Marlborough.
The gamecock of the Marlborough
on the LIST of June, 1874. had been pre-
scented to Lord Lennox, who placed
him in n walk where he Strutted with