The Washington bee., 1910-12-31
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Kendall had a son who was the pride
of his heart. One day he found one
Of his favorite cherry trees cut down.
"Jack." he said, did you do thatT'
With quivering lip Jack replied:
Father, 1 can't deceive You. did
not cut the tree down. Billy Brown
did it, but bOssed the job"
Tears OF joy sprang into the fathers
eyes. "Bless you, my boy" he said,
BILLY Will be president Of the United
States, but you will be chairman OF the
national committee. Success Maya
zine.
The GargoyIs.
The word "gargoyle' is closely akin
to "gargle" for "gargoyIe" is simply
the French ''gargouille" throat. It
was a good name for the architectural
monster through whose mouth the rain
water was carried of. But all idea OF
the throat had disappeared in the ter
rible Gargouille de Rouen, the dragon
which wasted a French district until
st. Romanus threw it into the Seine.
In after generations a huge sham gar
gouiIle used to be carried round the
city once year in memory Of this de-
nverance
Something Wrong.
"Oh. dear, John, just know shall
not Ike this dress"
whats the matter nowY' asked her
husband without laying down his pipe
or looking from his paper. 81 thought
8 you said you liked it."
! That's just it. l was so sure I
wouldn't like 1t when 1 got It home,
/ though 1 liked 1t well enough In the
store. And now that I am home I do
not Ike it when 1t is made up. Now
don't know what to do"
Search me-" grunteds the cruel man,
turning to the sporting page.-Puck.
Diamond Cut Diamond.
A Quaker was negotiating with an
insurance agent as to effecting policy
he heard of the vessels loss and wrote
at once to the agent Of the company:
Friend, if thee hasn't filed up the
policy thee needn't for I've heard OF
the ship"
"Eh," said the officers, cunning fel-
low. He wants to do US out of tho
premium" SO they wrote to the
Quaker:
Thou art too late by half an hour.
Thy policy is filed up"
stromboIPs Flames.
StrombOlt rarely pours out streams
OF lava, for this Asolian crater vom-
its fame persistently and cinders spas
medically. The lighthouse OF the
Mediterranean" has been known TO
stick to its function OF torchbearer
for the space OF 1000 years. When
ever the tiny, regular eruption takes
place the stones drop back again into
the crater. While the ancients regard
ed StromboH variously as the smithy
Of Vulcan and the headquarters Of
Aeolus. the men Of the middle ages
looked upon it as the main highway to
purgatory.
What Telep&thy Is.
TeBepathy is the transference OF emo
tons and sensations between souls,
while thought transfeTence is the trans
mission Of words, ideas or images from
mind to mind. Thus telepathic com
muntcatiOn is possible only between
persons Of a certain degree OF soul de-
velopment and between whom there
is a degree Of emotional sympathy,
while in transference OF thought one
dominant, positive mind may affect
another without there being any de-
gree OF sympathetic vibration between
them.-"Svastika."
The Earth's Crust.
The solid crust of the earth is about
twenty-five miles thick. and it floats
upon a denser substratum, which is
fluid or at least plastic The crust of
the earth may therefore be compared
to an ice foe resting on the ocean and
the mountains to icebergs imbedded In
it. Just as an iceberg floats with only
a small proportion of its bulk above
the surface OF the water, so the hills
as we know them are merely the
crests Of huge bergs that float, almost
wholly submerged, in a denser sub
stratum.-Captain Craster in New
Quarterly Review.
Eating Oysters.
Surely the queerest way Of cooking
an oyster is that mentioned in the
year 1872, when Richardson, the fire
eater, took a live coal on his tongue;
on this he put q raw oyster in its shell,
while an attendant blew upon the coal
with bellows until it famed and spar
kled in his mouth This continued
until the oyster opened and was per-
fectly cooked.
The European Magazine for 1905
contains an account Of a young lady
at Brighton who undertook to eat for