Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-08-17
Here and There.

Outlawed i. 0. US are not uncom.
mon and, Ii seems, never have been.
As far back as records go, one learns of
such things and recently the records
have been extended little farther back
into the dim past. The University Of
Pennsylvania Is much interested in the
clay records of ancient Babylon, or
rather, somebody who had more money
than he knew what to do with left some
Of it to the university to spend-and q
univet sity never Is at loss how TO
spend money-and they have sent par
ties out into the sand blown valley of
the Euphrstes to dig up records and
spend some of the above money. Among
their other finds Is an /. o. U. for four
shekels OF silver given by one Bur-Mama
to ii Sinnutum. The date when the
note was given was October, 1862 B. c.,
the year, so the record explains, when
King Rim-Sin occupied the town of Dur.
Dsmigilsha. II seems by this it must
have been war time In Dur-DamIgilsha
with money scarce and interest high.
1t also seems there were men in that
town who were not above pro6teering.
Anyway the interest asked was only
forty per cent per annum, or so DR..
Leon Legrain, who has translated the
note, says. There were four witnesses
to the note. Instead of signatures the
witnesses placed their seals on the docu-
ment and were not liable for payment
unless ii could be shown they knew the
character of Bur Mama, or any other
man whose note they witnessed, was
bad when they swore 1t was good. So
far as Ii Is possible to compute q shekel
of silver in 1852 B. G. was equal to about
one hundred dollars of our money at the
present time. So the note was for about
four hundred dollars.
For years it has been a dictum, there
is "no good Indian but q dead one."
Some of them probably were not bad
when alive, but white men rarely appre-
ciated them at that time. Some of
them did perform good deeds to their
white neighbors, and now that they
have been dead long enough to redeem
the whole mass of red humanity they
are being remembered, generally iu
bronze and stone. Massasoit, who be-
friended the Pilgrims, is one who Is be-
ing thus remembered on this three hun
dredth anniversary of his benefaction.
From now on he will stand In bronze
directly in front Of Plymouth Rock.
There Is an old saying that when the
sky falls We can catch white blackbirds,
or, maybe, 1t Is larks; but any way II
seems we shall not have to wait until
that event to catch the white black birds.
A barn swallow Is not black, but he is
near IL. Well, q white one put In an
appearance at the home of W. Z. Over
lock in Razorville q short time since,
and was q real curiosity to Mr.. Over.
lock and family; and also to the family |
or families of the ordinary swallows
which lived In his barn.
1t Is said that when one gets mad and |
wants to smash things, IL Is good idea
to stop and count ten and IL very mad u |
is not bad plan TO make the amount
one hundred. In like manner when one
gets intoxicated and wants to paint the
town red 1t might he . good idea to
Itop and spell the new kind Of red pig
ment that might be used In the painting.
This Is the name:-paradimeth ksmin-
zeneorthocarboxlic. II q man
10 not sobered by the time he gets
through with that be is hopeless case.