The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1908-01-04
The Village Fatalist.

The village Fatalist.
when you come to talking about
1anger," said Mr.. Holt, the Bushby
cobbler. 1'it's a-lurking for you on every
side."' The customer who was wait
ing for her shoe to be finished smiled
and made ready to listen.
Eyes, sir-ma' am, I should say
that's the long and short of il" said
Mr.. Holt. "Stay at home from travel
ing and you won't be drowned nor col
lided into, maybe, but your house may
catch a-fire whilst you're asleep an
you perish amongst the flames, or yet
you may fall down your cellar stairs
and break your collar-bone.
s.And the same way 'tisn't well to
select and decide what's most likely to
carry you off. Now there was Annabel
Spears She had dread O thunder
tempests and went ahead o. reason;
she certainly did. Said she knew she
was doomed and destined to be struck.
Every new preventive o. lightning she
heard Of, she'd have hack at it.
House was peppered with lightning
rods, and when q tempest cane up
she'd close every door and window, go
to a dark room in the middle O. her
house, put rubber boots on her feet,
an lie down, betwixt two feather beds
ON a four-poster that she'd had some
kind O glass castors put to. There she
was, insulated complete, as you might
say, and look what happened.
Zone day what she took to be thun-
der tempest proved tp be kind Of
hurricane. Annabels roof was partly
tore off, an most o. the bricks from
old Square Lathrop's chimney, SEEM
ingly came right down on top of her,
lying betwixt those two feather beds.
Some said she could have wriggled out
If it hadn't been for those rubber boots
hampering her SO, but I don't know.
The ways O. Providence are beyond my
Judging.
There. l guess that shoe'll wear ye
for another couple O. years!'-Youth's
Companion.
Radium continues to occupy the In
terest of scientific men. The extraor-
binary phenomenon it presents of
evolution of radiant en-
ergy. going on perpetually without
without chemical change
Of any kind, without alteration of
molecular structure, and without ap-
probable loss Of weight-for the loss
Of weight is estimated at only one
gram per square inch Of surface in ten
million years-is an apparent violation
of the law Of conservation Of energy,
and bids fair to revolutionize some
ideas of matter and
force. A vast amount Of experimental
ton has already been conducted with |
'adium and others of the radioactive
group of metals-polonium. actinium,
Uranium and thorium-and much spec
llation and some interesting hypoth-
,ses have been evolved. From these, |
t is believed, great deal will be |
earned about the constitution Of mat
er and the correlation Of the vital and |
physical forces, more, in all probable
ty, than from any substances which
lave ever been discovered before.
Radium bromide is the strongest ra.
lium salt yet produced, and there is
title of it in existence, the amount
,aving been estimated at four grams.
III radium Of higher activity than 70o0
las until recently been retained fo.
he expexiyapats of FfoTessor and
dadame Curie and their associates,
'ut information has now been received
rom Director Boulay of the Societe
5entrale that they expect shortly to
tut upon the market preparation of
adium, chemically pure, or nearly so,
t cost of $4,000 per gram.-Harper's
Weekly.