The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-15
SCRAP BOOK FOR TO-DAY

1 1 Rain today means that it will rain
 for two-score days to come, and vice
 versa.
 You don't believe it? Oh. very well.
 sceptic. You don't have to-
 1 Swithin was a noble Saxon who 1iv- l ed in the ninth century, during the
 reign of Ethelwolf, papa of Alfred the Great. He was a great and learned bishop, but made no claims to beine versed in weather lore. He gained | that reputation only after he was dead. It was like this:
 swithin asked to be buried in the
 co1cmoE churehyard. The monks re-
 srected his wishes, but, after Swithin was canonized, they considered it a dis
 grace that a, saint should rest in 8 public cemetery, and decided to re-
 move the remains to the choir of the church. They set the fifteenth of July for the ceremony, but it rained
 so violently on that date, and for forty days thereafter, that they abandoned their design. Thus began that tTa- dition that continues to have peneV- CTS even to this day. Of course, the meteorological rec
 ords do not bear out the superstition
 although it is a fact that whenever
 wet season sets in about the mid
 de of July it usually continues to the
 end of the Summer. An examination of the weather da- ta, for St. Swithin's Day shows that this date in 1881 was one of the hot test ever experienced in both Europe
 mometer reached ss in the
 shade, and in Paris it was
 only one degree less. Most of North America was converted into a | a good imitation of raging furnace by Old Sol In Cincinnati alone the | heat wave, which continued a week, | caused the death of 363 people by | sunstroke. The highest temperature ever reached by an official weather
 bureau was registered in Algeria on this date in 1879, when the tnernorn- eter reached 127 degrees. Yuma, | Ariz., holds the American mercury climbing record, 12O degrees.
 In the calendar of the Catholic church to-day is the festival of St Henry, Emperor. Bavartans In America as well as at home are plan ming to celebrate a year hence the
 900th anniversary of the coronatlonI of the Bavarian duke who was honor ed in life by his election as emperor, and after death by canontzaIon. Ac- cording to tradition. Duke Henry Of Bavaria was early a favorite of the saints and angels, who accompanied his army when he made war on the pagan Slavs, and annexed Poland, Moravia, Bohemia and Burgundy to his Kingdom. Afterward he went to
  ory He returned Benedict VIII. to the papa1 throne, and was crowned emperor by that pontim in St. Pe- ter's in the year 1914. Scores of ca thedrals, monasteries and churches were built by Henry, and ruins of some of them still remain His wife. Cunegundes, the daughter of the first Count of Luxemburg, was also ntadeI g. saint. She had, by Henrys consent made a VOW of virginity before her marriage. Many miraculous tales are told e,i her. It is recorded that on one cccasion vile accusations were made against her. and the Empress 70 disprove the scandal, walked over red-hot Eloughshares and was unhurt- After IIenry's death she put off the imperial robes and clothed herself in the habit of poor religious. and in this she was buried.
 Washington statesmen "view with alarm the rising flood of emigration to Canada, but they should pause and consider that this movement is only reciprocity. Once the tide flowed from British America to the States. and bore with it James J. Hill, Eva Tanguay, Uncle Ike" Stephenson, Margaret Anglin, Walt Mason, May IT. win and many other notabIes, not the least of whom is Franklin Knight Lane the new secretary of Uncle Sam nly's interior and honorary chief of the BIackfeet Injuns. MT. Lane is usually called Canadian, but he was born forty-nine years ago to-day in Prince Edward Island, nine years be- fore that Province entered the Do-I minion. Going to California as an infant, he graduated from Oakland high school at thirteen, and then rush. ed through the University of Califor- mia in two sessions, occupying his leisure by reporting for the San Fran cisco papers Next he became a law yer, but in 1891 he returned to the newspaper game" as part owner of the Tacoma News. While in the Washington city he drove out. a. polit- Anne Wintermute, the charming Wo- man who is now one of the leaders in the cabinet set'' at Washington. Re- turning to California, MT. Lane mar roVEly escaped being elected governor, although a Democrat. AS a member sion he won an international reputa- tion- Secretary Lane loves the sea, dotes on Ripping and grape juice. but most of all he likes to fight politi- cal bosses, gangs and grafters-
 Starting his newspaper career with little capital and no pull Lord Northcliffe will celebrate his forty eighth birthday to-day as chief prop rtetor of the London Mail, which has a daily c1rculaI1On or near1y SOUpUUO, the largest in the English-speaking world; the London Times, the great est tradition in British journalism; the Mirror, which prints 750, 900 copies daily; the Evening News, with a circu- Iation of half million; the weekly Dispatch, Answers, Comics Cuts, and other newspapers and periodicals. AL together the presses of Lord North cliffe turn out eight million papers a week, and the Ana1gamated Press, I,l which is the corporate title of his publishing company, paid profits last , year of $1,316,415. Alfred Charles |, William Harmsworth, now Lord ; Northc1iffe, first Baron of Isle of Ina net, was born in Dublin, the son of a | comparatively poor barrister, and in