The Washington bee., 1911-02-11

Jack" he said, did you do thatT"
With quivering lip Jack replied:
Father, I can't deceive you. did
not cut the tree down. Billy Brown
ala it but bossed the job"
Tears Of Joy sprang into the fathers
eyes. "Bless you, my boy" he said,
BILLY VIII be president OF the United
States, but you viii be chairman Of the
ma dOaaI committae."-Suecegs Maya
kiUs
The oaFgoyIs.
The word ''gargoyle" Is closely akin
to "gargle." for ~gargoyis" is simply
the French "gargOuille" CthroaO. Il
was a good name for the architectural
monster through whose mouth the rain
water was carried OF. But ell idea Of
the throat had disappeared in the ter
rible Gargouius de Rouen, the dragon
which wasted a French district until
st. ROmanus threw it into the Seine.
In after generations a huge sham gar
gOuille used to be carried round the
city once 8 year In memory OF this de-
hVeranes.
Something Wrong.
''Oh, dear, John, Just know ] shah
not like this dFessP'
what's the matter nOWT' asked her
husband without laying down his pipe
o. loOking from his paper. II thought
y0u said you liked It"
That's just T. 1 was 20 sure
wouldn't Ike It whsa I got It home.
though liked it well enough In the
store. And now that am home / do
HE i. and therefore / know I wIn
Sot IKE Il when Il Ia made Up. Now
don't know what TO do"
Search me-" grunted the cruel man.
turning % the sporting pags.-Puck.
DIasaOsd cut DIam,onA.
4 Quaker was negotiating with an
Insurance agent as to effecting a policy
On vessel overdue. At this tuncture
hS heard Of the vessels loss and wrote
st sncs 70 the agent Of the company:
Friend. If thee hasn't filled up tia
policy thse needn't fog I've heard Of
the ship"
'FEh," said the officers, cunning tsl-
b0x. He wants to do Us out of the
pSsn.um" So they wrote to the
QnaksR:
'"rhOu art too late By half an boar.
Thy policy is hllsd up"
etromhoIFs Flames.
gtEcmboli rarely pours out streams
q lava, for this AeOlian crater Ton-
its dams persistsntly and cindeFs spas
medically. Tbs lighthouse OF the
Mediterranean" has been known to
stick to its function Of torchbeaFsr
foE the space Of 2,OO0 years. When
ever the tiny, regular eruption takes
place the stones drop back again into
the crater. While the ancients regard
Cd strOmbou vaFiOusly as the smithy
Of Vulcan and the headquarters OF
Aeolus, the men OF the middle ages
booked upon Il as ths main highway 70
puKEatoRy.
Wkst TslspSthy Is.
Tssspathy is the tranaferenca Of emo
tsOOs and sensations between souls.
While thOGght tTansferencs l. the trans
naissiOn Of words, ideas or images from
mind to mind, Thus telepathic com
nuntcatton Is possible only between
persons Of certain degree Of soul de-
vsiopmsut and between whom there
l. q degree Of emotional aympathy,
while IN transfeFencs Of thought one
dominant positive mind may affect
another without there being any de-
gree Of sympathetie vibration between
thsm.-"svastikA."
The EaFtk's Crest.
The solid crust Of the earth is about
twenty-five miles thick, and It floats
upon = denseF substratum, which IL /
fluid ca at least plastic. The crust OF |
the earth may therefore be compared /
to al ice foe resting on the ocean and |
the mountains to icebergs imbedded Ia !
IL Just as an iceberg floats with only
. small proportion Of It's bulk above !
@A$~ A%~~ VI bAS W0t%Ag ~ SA&S AA4AS
a. we know them are merely the |
creSts Of huge berGs that Goat, almost
wholly submerged, IN a dsnser sub
CrastsF IN New
Quarterly Review.
Eating Oysters.
Surely the queerest way Of cooking
an oyster is that mentioned n the
year l6T2, when Richardson, the nxs
eater, took live coal on his tongue; :
On this he put raw oyster In its shsH,
white an attendant blew upon the eoal
With bellows Until Il 1amsd and spar
kIsd In bis mouth This continued
until the oyster opened and WA per
rsctly cooked.
The European Magazine for 1905
contains an account Of = young lady
&c Brighton who undertook to eat for
supper the amazing quantity OF 800
oysters, with a certain amount Of
bread and butter. This feat she psT-
greatly 10 the astonishmsut
Of al present
ArHaOr Plated Pa~snshoas.