The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-04-09
Profanity.

swearing it is sign that he is an je-
norant man and has lived in uncul-
tured surroundings all his life. 4 well
known writer on the development of
| language asserts that the use OF ex-
pletiveS has been steadily diminishing
Is L result of the cultivation that rem
ders cOarseness generally distastefuI.
Apart from the moral aspects OF the
ease it is held that what may be called
! the explosives of talk not only repel
the listener, but weaken the argument.
! All excess OF gestures or facial express
! sion, of grimaces. shrugs and manual
fourishes, either shows the poverty Of
| the tongue or the lightness Of the
| cause advocated --Atchison Globe.
The Thrifty Chinese.
! On a visit to one of the United States
fleet to ,Hongkong one Of the coolies
! engaged in passing coal was acciden.
| tally caught in the machinery and had
hi; leg 50 badly crushed that it was
! decided necessary to amputate it, This
was explained to the fellow. and after
/ much persuasion he was induced to
submit to the sleeping medicine and
have the leg taken Off He recovered
! in remarkably quick time and when
! able to leave the ship where he was
confined was given 4 handful of mon
/ ey the officers had collected for him,
amounting to about $50 gold In less
| than days time the ship was be.
! sieged by an army of Chinese, all clam
! Oring to have Il leg taken Off
A Point on Your Pencil.
"a Bavarian pencil: Yes. sir" said
the statloner's clerk. You find the
wood SO much better in these import
| ed pencils? Well it is undoubtedly a
! fine quality Of cedar. But"-the clerk
smiled-"but all the cedar for foreign
| pencils he went on, comes from this
| country, sir. 1t comes from Florida
Florida produces the finest lead pencil
cedar in the world. Thousands of
! acres Of rich Florida land are given
| over to cedar production. All, SO you'll
! take Il dozen domestic pencils, then,
| sir: Well. | assure you that the same
| quality OF Florida cedar is used in
! them as in the more expensive foreign
article New Orleans Times Demo-
! crat
Reduced Size.
| After concert at Manchester, Eng
! lanG. Joachim, the great viOliniSt, was
! at station waiting for Il train.
! \ respectable looking man, apparent
| !y Il NAVY i'll his best clothes. paced at
his side awhile watching him with
! close interest Finally he asked for a
! light, and got H. AS he drew at his
| pipe to get il started he looked Joachim
/ Gull in the face. Then. just as he was
| about to go on. he tapped the viOlinist's
chest impressiyely.
| But paganini was the man." said
! lie.
/ narrator OF this story that he never
| felt SO small i'll his life. Whole pages
of learned musical criticism had never
I begun to white him down so fine.
! An Unpleasant Office.
| The task assigned to the bellbOy at
! Il small New England hotel was no
| sinecure. and he realized it, for the
! old gentleman who had requested that
he be Weakened for an early breakfast
was extremely deaf.
| Il don't know what III do about the
man in No II that wanted to go Off
on the o'clock train" the bellbOy an
nounced hreathessly to the proprie-
! tress.
"Havent YOU walked him up yet?'
demanded that brisk person.
"I've walked him three times" said
the boy sulkily. but he hasn't heard
llia yet. Everybody else has, though.
! on that floor. | know because they've
all hoIlered to me to stop battering on
! their doors Youths Companion.
Sleep Fasting Contests.
"Sleep fasting matches. before the
| law put 4 stop to them, took place fire.
! quently i'll this country" said a special
list in insomnia Yes, back in the fif-
ties and sixties sleep fasting was as
popular 4 form of sport as football.
| Champion sleep fasters were idoltzed
by the girls i'll hoOpskirts and water
falls The ordinary youth who had to
sleep once III twenty-four hours wasn't
one, two, three, in those days.
"W. G. WoodfOrd of San francisco
was the champion of all the sleep fast
ers. In the famous contest OF 1860
this man kept awake for 1853 hours and
IS minutes-over Il week. He was a
little, thin man of Il nervous temporal
ment
Henry X Jackson OF Detroit held
/ the next best recOrd-144 hours and
II minutes Third came Adolph
| Mueller of Milwaukee, whose record
was 14o hours and 81 minutes.
why were sleep fasts so popular
with our fathers: Besides their un-
| hho1tb;poor thar ,yoro fame hayOnd