The Washington bee., 1911-01-14
a. ira Twiu Esndz.

Kendan had son who was the pride
Of his heart. One day be found one
Of his favorits cherry trees cut down
"Jack," he said, did you do thatT'
With qufvering lip Jack replied:
Father, 1 can't deceive you. 1 did
not cut the tree down Billy Brown
did it, bat bossed the job"
Tears Of Joy sprang into the fathers I
eyes. "BIess you, my boy" he said,
BILLY VIII be president OF ths United
States, but you will be chairman OF the
national committee. Success Aaga-
ziae.
The esrsoyis-
The word "gargoyie" Is closely akin
to "gargle," for ~gargoyle" is simply
the French ''gaFgouille'' tthroat. It
was a good name for the architectural
monster through whose mouth the rain
water was carried or. But all idea OF
the throat had disappeared in the ter
| ribse 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
gouiHe used to be carried round the
city once q year IN memory OF this de-
| Hverance.
Something Wrong.
~Oh, dear, John, just know SHAH
not like this dressF'
| whats the matter noWT' asked her
husband without laying down his pipe
or looking from his paper. Il thought
you said you liked it"
That's Just It I was 30 sure I
wouldn't Ike it when got It hOms,
though / liked it well enough In ths
store And now that I am home DO
like It, and therefore I know I wa
not like It when It Is made up. Nov
I don't know what to do"
search me-" gTunted the cruel man,
turning TO the sporting pags.-Puc&.
DIamend Cat DiaNaoRd.
4 Quaker was negotiating with an
insurance agent as to efrecting posey
on a vessel overdBs. at this junctuTe
be heard Of the vessels loss and wroes
aE once to the agent OF the company:
'-Brtend, if thee hasn't flsed up t1s
policy thee needn't, for rVo heard Of
the ship"
''Eh," said the officers, cunning fel-
low. He wants to do Us out Of the
premium" So they wrote 10 the
Qsaker:
Thou art too late by half an hour.
Thy policy is filed up"
Stron1boIFs Flames.
StrombOi rarely pOurs out streams
Of Lava, for this Aeoaian crater vorn-
its fame persistsntly and cinders spas
medically. The lighthouse OF the
Mediterranean" has been known to
stick to its function OF torchbearer
fer the space OF 2,OOO years. Whea-
ever the tiny, regular eruption takes
place the stones drop back again into
the crater While the Rneients regard
ed strombOu variousiy as the smithy
Of Vulcan and the headquarters Of
AeoEus, the men OF the middle ages
looked upon it as the main highway -
purgatOry.
What TslsPAtbsy Is.
Telepathy b the transference Of emo
tons 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
veIopment and between whom there
is a degree OF emotional sympathy
! while in transference OF thought on'
dominant, positive mind may affec-
another without there being any de
gree Of sympathetic vibration betwesI
them--'Svastika-"
; The EaFth's Crust.
The solid crust Of the earth Is abou
twenty-five miles thick. and 1t float
upon a denser substratum, which b
| fluid or at least plastic. The crust o
, the earth may therefore be compared
to an ice foe resting on the ocean ant
the mountains to icebergs imbedded Il
It, Just as an iceberg floats with onl.
g small proportion Of it's bulk abov
the surface Of the water, so the hill
as we know them are merely th
crests Of huge bergs that Goat, almos
wholly submerged, In a denser sui
stratum.-Captain Craster IN EeN
=. Quarterly Review.
Eating Oysters
:. Surely the queerest way OF eookin
an oyster is that mentioned IN th
year 1872, when Richardson, the f<
eater, took a live coal o. his tongus
" on this he put raw oyster in its shei
~ while an attendant blew upon the COZ
is ! with bellows until 1t famed and spai
s. kled in his mouth. This continue
b, until the oyster opened and was pc
ee fectly cooked
d The European Magazine for 1SC
ID | contains an account Of a young lad
q at Brighton who undertook 70 eat fc
ut supper the amazing quantity Of &c
0r oysters, with a certain amount {
De bread and butter. This feat she pc
Id formed, greatly to the astonishmeE