The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-11-10

say, COrntOSSel, W0C makes dem
sheep nod while they feed?''
The speaker, little city waif, pale
with the awful pallor of the slums,
gave his bucolic host a patronizing
smile and laid familiar hand on his
leg. The farmer caught a sheep, open
ed its mouth and directed the boy to
look within.
you see, sonny he explained, ''the
sheep has no incisors, or cutting teeth,
in its upper jaw. With its tongue it
makes a ball of grass, and it holds
this ball firmly between the cutting
teeth of the lower jaw and callous
pad-see it?-above. Now, the ball
must be cut up. How? With a jerk
of the head, sharp nod, the grass is
partly torn and partly cut, and the
sheep feeds on. The sheep nod is the
substitute, in other words, for the miss
ing upper teeth" = Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
Why 1t Was Cheaper.
Two poorly clad women were pro-
ceeding homeward after the exhila-
rating gayeties of the mothers meeting,
and what more natural than that they
should discuss domestic economy?
''Dae We ken, Mrs. Brown, Pm due
ten and nine for gas this quarter, and
l dinna ken how I'll get it paid"
''Why not be like me-" said Mrs.
Green, "and use the penny in the slot
meter?"
But they say it's the dearest in the
end. Ye get less gas for your penny,
We ken, than l get for mine"
'Aye, but, We see, it's just this way
wi mel never pit in nae more than
penny at 8 time, and, We see, lot O.
folk comes tae my house at NIGHT, and
whenever the gas begins to gaze down
1 just let on 1 hinna got a copper,
an there is aye somebody ready to
stump up the penny. Oh, yes; it's far
cheaper in the endp'-London Express
A Land Where Women Are Tyrants.
A missionary of long experience in
BaSutOland has declared that the men
there are much more often ill used by
their heather wives than vice versa.
The fact is that these women, by their
labor in the fields and their domestic
work, support the men; consequently
the latter are dependent upon their
wives instead of its being the other
way about, as with u.s. and, the field
work making them strong and vigor-
Gus, the women are usually quite able
to hold their own if i'll used-for in
stance, they sometimes bite off their
husbands earsi However, this does
not make it any easier for a woman to
become a Christian, because then she
feels it wrong to assert herself and
hit back, and thus she is at the mercy
of her husband, and it is very little
mercy she gets when she refuses to
comply with heather customs.-Mis-
sionary Review of the World.
Old Turkish Customs.
AS long ago as 1913 Coryate visited
Constantinople and has left minute
account of its manners and customs.
Among other matters he notes that cit
is the custom that whatsoever any fire
ariseth in the city to hang up him in
whose house it beginneth, as now
cook in whose house it begun was
hanged up presently after the fire ceas-
ed" The Turks themselves, it appears,
were models of good breeding. "The
Turk doth never at the saluting of his
friend at any time of the day or when
he drinketh to him at dinner or supper
put off his turban, as we Christians do
our hats one to another, but boweth
his head and putteth his right hand
upon his breast, so that he utterly dis
liketh the fashion that is used among
us of putting off our hats. Therefore,
when he wisheth any i'll to his enemy
he prayeth God to send him no more
rest than a Christians hat"
Gallows Work.
A curious note in "Pepys' Diary" re-
fers to the unpopularity. of hangmen
in those days. Commissioner Pett,
who bad travelled, told Pepys chow
despicable thing it is to be a hang
man in Poland, although it is place
of credit, and that in his time there
were some repairs to be made of the
gallows there, which was very fine, of
stone, but nobody could be got to mend
it till the burgomaSter or mayor of
the town, with all the companies of
those trades which are necessary to be
used about those repairs, did go in
their habits with flags in solemn pro-
cession to the place, and there the
burgomaster did give the first blow
with the hammer upon the wooden
work and the rest of the masters of the
companies upon the works belonging
to their trades that so workmen might
not be ashamed to be employed upon
doing of the gallows work"
Eyes and Other Eyes.
Birds sight is probably not any
keener than mans, in spite of the ira
dition to the contrary, writes DR.. Ed
ward A. Ayers in Harper's Magazine.
The simple fact is that birds flying
aloft are in clearer air, and their eyes