The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-07-12

Little Roy tat ticket ottice,-l want a
return ticket. please Ticket Agent
Where to? Little Boy-Why. back here.
Of course!
Knicker-W What's the matter with
Smith? Rocker-His baby wants the
moon, and his wife wants the earth
New York Sun.
A. J. Kamm, superintendent of the
Yakima division of the O-W. R. & N,
was in town between trains Monday,
coming down with Palmer, of the Cas-
cade.
Phone your guess as to whose profile
is reproduced on the front page. You
stand as good chance of getting that
dollars worth of goods as anyone.
Phone in your guess.
Lon Boyle, prosecuting attorney of
Benton county, was down from the
present county seat on the Ellis-Hoff-
man case, which came up in the local
court Monday. He was too late to get
in the argument, however.
George Mclean and his sister, lizzie
Mclean, of Winnipeg, visited at the
home of A. H. Wheaton over Sunday.
Mr.. Mclean is general manager for a
wholesale grocery company operating
chain Ofnine stores in the principal
Canadian cities.
A file of government year books
should be on every farmers book shelf.
Each volume contains inform i O n
gathered by the country foremost ex-
perts, and colored plates showing all
kinds of fruits, new and old, together
with every kind of orchard pest, and
manner of their determination. Get
this years book at this office, free, and
start your collection. There aren't
many left.
Brewer says the sign & Is called
sanders. ampers or amprus" 1t Is
sometimes called ''short and" In old
ell times 1t was known as ampersand
but that word long ago fell into dis
use. 1t is simply a contracted and
rapidly made form of the Latin ct The
name ampersand is derived from and
per see and'-that is. single symbol
| which In itself is and Ampersand
meaning g. is used In chapter II of
adam Bpde" nS59,: also in a poem
in Punch of April II. 1863 The first
stanza in the poem alluded to is as
follows:
OF all the types in a printers hand
/ Commend me 10 the ampersand
| For he's the gentleman seems to me.
| OF the typogra phical companie
Oh, my nice little ampersand.
My graceful. swanlike ampersand!
| Nothing that Cadmus ever planned
Equals my elegant ampersand
When a pipe shaped like the inverted
letter q. in which the arms are Of
equal length. is filed with water and
each end Of the pipe is put into sepa.
rate vessel full Of water 1.-The down
ward pull" or weight. of the liquid in
each of the two arms will balance the
other, and If the water is at the same
level in the two vessels 1t will re-
main at that level in both vessels
But If the level Of the water in one
vessel is lower than in the other. since
pipe full of water. the water will run
down from the higher level to the low
er This constitutes what is called a
siphon 4 siphon itself has no more
magic about it than a pencil has when
it falls or than any other similar phe.
nomenon in nature. yet some of the
siphOn's manifestations seem to be
not only magical but almost incredible
st Nicholas
Seldom has u town heen more wholly
the expression of its founder s viii
than Richelieu. the tiny square bulil
town in the corner of TOuraine aDC
POltOu 1t is like some old GreeG
colony The streets are cut at right
angles The towers. the church. the
private houses, are all wonderful ex
amples of the purest Louis XIII. style
They were all built at the same time
In accordance with the cardinals plar
to form city by the little chateau
which is supposed to have been thu
scene Of bis birth in 1886. Whether
this be so or not flor another tradition
places his birth at Paris). Richeliel
was the place the cardinal loved and
strove to dignity by founding a new
town. He approved the plans Of 6
square walled city with six gates. gave
exemption from taxes to those inhab
itants who built the first hundred
houses and built for himself outside {
marvellous chateau. rivaling the stat'
of the king. which has since been de
stroyed. Gazette.