The Washington bee., 1911-02-04
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Kendall had a son who was the pride
OF bis heart One day he found one
OF his favorits cherry trees cut down
"Jack." he said. did you do thatT'
With quivering lip Jack replied:
Father, can't deceive you. / did
not cut the tree down. Billy Brown
did II, 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 eommittea."-Success Maya
Hns.
The asraeyIs.
The word "gargoyle" Is closely akin
to "gargle." for "gaFgoyle" Is simply
the French "gargOuIlle" Ohroatl. Il
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 Gargoullle de Rouen, the dragon
which wasted a French district until
St Romanus threw 1t into the Seine.
In after generations a huge sham gar
gouiIIe used to be carried round the
city once a year In memory OF this de-
uyeranca.
Something Wrong.
{ "oh. dear, John, 1 just know / shall
not like this dress!''
kae kEa
husband without laying down bis pipe
or looking from his paper. 81 thought
you said you liked It."
That's Just 1t. was so sure :
wouldn't like 1t when l got 1t home,
though ! liked 1t well enough In the
store. And now that l am home do
like It, and therefore ] know I viii
not like 1t when 1t Is made up. Now
/ don't know what to do"
Search me-" grunted the cruel man,
turning to the sporting page.-Puck.
Diamond Cut Diamond.
A Quaker was negotiating with an
insurance agent as to effecting a policy
on a vessel overdue. At this tuncture
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"
"EA," said the officers, cunning fel-
low. He wants to do US out of the
premium" So they wrote to the
| Quaker:
Thou art too late by half an hour.
Thy policy is filed up"
stromboITs Flames.
StromboH rarely pours out streams
| OF lava, for this Aeolian crater vom-
its flame 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 StFOmbOli 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 Tslepathy Is.
Telepathy is the transference Of emo
lions and sensations between souls,
/ while thought transference IS the trans
mission of words, Ideas or images from
mind to mind Thus telepathic COM
munication Is possible only between
persons OF a certain degree OF soul de-
yelopment 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
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 denseF 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 a 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
supper the amazing quantity Of 800
oysters, with a certain amount OF
bread and butter. This feat she per
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