Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-13
Around the World
.Tri-Weekty News Flashes From All OpeT
the Earth
Dancers Meet

has bravely set itself to the task OF turning
the clock backward, arresting the tide OF
youth and improving their ideas of grace
on the Jazz hounds Of today.
This conference is an international af-
fair, at Paris, attended by $50 professors"
from Holland, France, Turkey, England.
Greece, Switzerland and Belgium. Stung by
Marshal Fochs comment, Ine neao SO
grave and the back SO gay" they have pre-
pared their samples that would do credit to
their dullest md-Victorian fathers.
The sedate novelties that are TO swamp
the present dances bear such promising ap-
pellations as Tanquerlta, GlronoeIlaa LA
Gyda, Passeto and Ondulata. But only tRe
names are gay. The actual steps and un-
| du1ations taken so seriously and applauded
| so heartily by the experts to1ay, are Daseo
on the schottische, polka, mlnuet OF waltz.
To the modern dancer they look IKE
walk across the room to the wafer cooler'>
~ Bolshevik Goat
Mike Mahala's goat Nanny neld up me
Erie train of William A: Johnson veteran
engineer of the Nyack flyer, at SparKlil' n.
W, and tied up traffic on SarKllls busiest
corner.
Colonel johnson said that in all his rifty
years experience as an engineer he had
| never encountered as stubborn Deast.
Nanny held her ground obstlnately ana
| butted several persons who attempted 10
move her. George Shaw, motor1st OK
TooEenuack was knocked down by the ami
NAL.
Then. stretching herself out, she lay
down on the track, at the same time keep
ing a watchful eye on her enemies Engl'
neer Johnson blew his whistle, autoists
sounded horns and some threw stones, but
to NO avail Traffic kept piling up. Mo-
body wanted to drive over the animal.
At last John Shaw lassoed her and
tugged on the rope, only to be putteo Wnen
she decided to move from the spot. Ine
rope was fastened to fl1vver, the goat was
removed a distance of 100 yards and the
| procession moved on.
Cave Bears
Relics of over 600 cave pears lursus
speloeus) of the last interglac1al period
have been found on the Drachenlocn Tara
gon's cayern) about 400 feet above sea
level, near Watts, in the Tamlna Yaiiey'
Canton of st. Gall, Switzerland.
The Drachenloch forms an important
cavern in the mountain called Drachenkopf.
It's interior is subdivided by small stone
| walls about two feet high, behind wnlcn
| skulls and long bones have peen 1ouno
carefully stored up. bears skull artifi-
| cialIv MERGED by thighbona was pre-
served in a stone chest, near aNfire-plt1 ap-
| narently as a trophy. In the asnes OF sew
eral fireplaces there were bones belonging 10
the feet of these animals SHINING Knives
| roughly made of shinbones, and other In
strnments of palaeolithic> man were lying
/ ahout It is remarkable that all the
homes are those of young animals. obvious
" the man Of the first stone age wax not
able successfully to hunt full grown pears
Making Honey
Few people realize the enormous effort
required to make single pound OF honey.
In pound jar, recent authority tells us,
there is the concentrated essence of $4,000
flowers s
To make a pound of clover honey the
bees must take nectar from $4,000 BIOS
SONS and make 100000 visits in get
ting it.
often the Journey from the hive to the
flower and back is as much as two miles,
so that the making Of pound Of honey
requires Journeys that may aggregate more
than 100000 miles.
Battling Pole
stanislaus Piotrowski, the giant cape
man" who last week astonished the villag"
ers Of Newton, NJ j., by lifting an over.
turned automobile, wrestling and throw
ing a bull. bending iron bars and eventual.
ly landing in the Sussex county jail under
suspicion of being connected with a%crime
in Chicago boke loose from half dozen
guards last week and terrorized the vile
layers in Main street until captured and re-
| turned to the jail.
The sx-foot three-inch Pole has been on
hunger strike since last Saturday, because
| the Jail officials refuse, for some reason, to
give him rye-bread. On Saturday evening
six guards, following terrific scuffle with
the man. managed to chloroform him and
so take his fngerprints. Before he became
unconscious he seized a heavy jail key and,
l with his teeth, bent it double.
Under Sheriff Treloar was asked by the
| Chicago authorities to photograph him.
Three guards and three deputy sheriffs &C.
companied the local photographer. No
| sooner was his cell door opened than the
guards and deputies were bowled over and
the Pole was racing down Main street.
Three blocks from the prison a badly
frightened crowd of villagers 20 confused
him that the guards and deputies recap
| tured him.
Cock Fighting
There seems to be revival Of that So
called sport, cock fighting, in the eastern
name society officers raided a cock fight
near Pittsburg, Pa, recently.
"No one wounded in the exchange or
Shots" says a dispatch, "but several Off
GERS were painfully injured in fist encoun"
ters that followed the gun battle. All the
spectators fled in automobiles"
Deputy sheriffs and state troopers cap
tured twenty-five and twenty-three
/ fighting cocks in a raid near Spen9ar. Mass
They also captured much moonsnine and
beer" AS the World told, late troopers
! swooped down on a main near Springfield,
Mass, only last week, gathered in sixty
game cocks, the pick of all New England,
and confined them in a hen yard. There