The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-07-27
Music is understood by people Of
every land.

Don't make a speciality of thinking
secondhand thoughts.
Custom is poor excuse for making
the same error twice.
There were only 354 days in the year
1902 Change of calendar
Il hear he's a humOrist."
Not now; he's reformed. Lamb.
The worlds consumption Of tea has
tripled in the last thirty years.
II apples are cored before pairing
they will keep their shape better.
The first western sovereign to adopt
flag was Clovis, king of the Franks.
High cheek bones are said to indicate
great force of character in some direc-
tons
Let every man. if possible, gather
some good books under his roof
Claiming.
Laughter won't cure an ailment; but,
by gosh. it won't make it any worse!-
Detroit Free Press.
Pistols were invented at Pistoja, It.
ally. and were first used by English
cavalrymen in 1914.
Flour sold for ST. a barrel in the
United States in 1917. In 1920 the
price dropped to So.
The angel Uriel. the name signifying
the fire of Cod" is named only in II
Esdras iv. |, SO; V. 20; x, %
Do not iron a veil that has become
wrinkled Roll it smoothly on card
board and steam over a kettle.
The Anglo-Saxons called the month
of May Trimilki. because then they be-
gan to milk their cows thrice day.
The skin of the turbOt, cleaned.
stretched and dried. is used by the
Siberian peasants to form window
panes,
Rhubarb leaves are not suitable for
use as green's because they contain sub
stances which make them poisonous to
many persons.
Before Lorraine was united with
France in 1876 ii belonged to the de-
throned king of Poland. Before that 1t
belonged to Austria.
In the New Testament (Revelation
xii. u Michael fights in heaven against
the dragon and Satan. (which deceiv-
eth the whole world
A naturalist declares that the feath-
ers with which birds are covered com
bine the highest degree of warmth
with the least weight.
Paper was made for more than 100
years in England before ii was discov-
cred that the pulp could be bleached
and a white paper produced
Nearly 11,OOO,0OO pieces of mail mat
ter posted in this country last year
were so blindly addressed that they
were sent to the dead letter office.
If the wax taken from jelly tumblers
is washed clean with warm water and
put in a clean tin can and covered II
can be used again the following sea
son.
The Greek killed troops, the Euzones,
bear a variant of the old name which
was given to troops in the days of
ancient Greece. Euzonoi. meaning well
girdled
It's all right to save up for rainy
day, but some folks act as though they
thought the sun never was going to
come out and shine again-Detroit
Free Press
zone should always breathe through
the nose when asleep" says a physi-
clan. If you awake and find your
mouth open get up and shut t--New
York Globe.
Bobby, did you take that message
to Mrs. Tanner. as told your
"Yes'm"
And what did you find out?''
Mrs. Turner. Boston Transcript.
Azrael. which means in Hebrew the
help of God" in the Jewish and Mo
hammedan mythology was the name OF
an angel that watches over the dying
and separates the soul from the body
The cross of st. George has been the
British emblem since the fourteenth
century. Before that time the cru
saders wore il on their armor, and
among them it came to be known as
the jack.
Wet summers are generally succeed
ed by cbld winters because the great
evaporation carried on through the wet
summer reduces the temperature OF
the earth lower than usual and so pro-
duces cold
When John Ruskin was a professor
Of nv ford no tOOk his students out to