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New Britain herald., 1923-04-18
Facts andFancie
 BY ROBERT CULLEN.

Don't judge France too hastily. There may be madness in her method.
 A widow who has money to burn soon finds old flames to help burn it.
 According to our records. this makes 1923 late springs so far in the Christian era.
 Another good way to get a million dollars is to save ten dollars a month for. S,333 years.
 One eternal triangle that no longer appears in our midst is eat, drink and be merry.
 People who pray only when they are in trouble may be pious, but more probably they are yellow.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-18
NEw SUGAR RECORD

New York, April IS. - New high records for the past three years were established in the refined sugar mar ket todat when refincrs advanced list prices 10 to 20 points. Some quoted fine granuiated as high as 9.s0 per pound.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-18

The reason Rev. Percy $. Grant did not discuss the matter for pub lication was the superior running ability of the reporter who escaped.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-18

Many man thinks he is democratic just because he is glad some million aires son is turning out badly.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-18

One good way to reduce to music is to listen to the musical clink of the trace chains on the blow harness.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-18

There are now 2,T64 vaudeville per. formers using songs that conclude with the words nothing else but
New Britain herald., 1923-04-18

The only profitable advertising medium in the City. Circulation hooks and press room always open to advertisers,
New Britain herald., 1923-04-18

We are in the big league again Girl whose home was here is mar ried to Cincinnati player.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-18

There is one nice thing about home. You can stick around without feeling under obligation to buy every few minutes.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-18

May her manager never order her to make a home run.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-18

It is estimated that there are now enough chances for easy money to keep our jails occupied until 1867.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-18

Also may none of her hits" be sacrifices
New Britain herald., 1923-04-18
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The Associated Press k exclusively entitled 10 the usc for republication of nll news credited "a 1t or not otherwise credited In this paper and also local news pub- lished herein.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-18

It seems strange that some genius doesn't give us touching ballad en- titled: q didn't raise my boy to be taxpayer"
New Britain herald., 1923-04-18

Peace doesn't cramp the style of the orator, He just substitutes Wall Street. for the Kaiser" and uses the same old line.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-18

A good neighbor is one who never gives you cause to form an opinion as to the kind of neighbor he is.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-18

"Principal" might have been man, at that.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-18

When the average man gives to the needy, he feels cheated if he doesn't get his moneys worth of gratitude.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-18

And may there be no bass bawls may they all be the other kind.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-18

At this distance, the only way to judge the European situation is by the length Of time between ultimatums.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-18

Correct this sentence: T tell you" cried the profiteer. "wc must count it great privilege to pay for a war so nobly fought and won"
New Britain herald., 1923-04-18
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The A. R, c. is a national organization which flrrhshes newspapers and advnr- tisers with strictly honest analysis of circulation Our circulation statistics are based upon this audit. This insures pros 'ecp-- against fraud in newspaper tNf' trihutlor figures to both national and rb- cnl adv ynrtisers
New Britain herald., 1923-04-18

The old sport page won't seem normal until it resumes the business of explaining what is the matter with Babe Ruth.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-18
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Nothing is quite so hard on q to take it's temperature at intervals.
New Britain herald., 1923-04-18
TELEPHONE CALLS,

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HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY ussued Daily, Sunday Exeented),
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A widow who has money to burn soon finds old flames to help burn it.
Evening star., 1923-12-09

monkey, goat, chicken & lobster into
his diagram. After that Hon. Oldy
Man feel SO good that he go homo
and get divorced.
"And so onways everywheres,"
belabor. I'm colleges & other hospit-
tie all over land Professors are look
ing with wisedom In their eyeglasses
to find mean ways which will stop
those sick diseases which kill oldy
men. Gout, new-ralja. talkativeness,
hard arteries. soft brain, collision Of
the kidneys & alimony has all went
out of style"
81 read in News Print" say Nogi,
how one poor show girl, age 155,
commit suicide by swallowing a gas
stove because she afraid she might
die a old maid"
Accidents will happen even among
Police" I divulge. Yet Science con-
tinue to march ahead like steam.
Look at that Rockefeller Institoot!"
Nogf attempt to do so.
Every day sometimes 2ce," I main
tain. Hon. Rockefeller Institoot revo-
lutionize medicine. 1t have already
nearly as many revolutions as Russia.
1t teech surjins how to graft new
eyes, new legs. new skin, new ton
Evening star., 1923-12-09

common in southern Italy, may be
collection here.
A little later, and the pins orna-
ment consisted of a disc set with
rubies and turquoise, and still later,
during the medieval times. pictures
Of saints in enamel adorned the disc,
and the fbula became a real breast
pin set with a miniature. Soon pre-
cious stones had taken tho place of
the enameled holy pictures.
Only a century ago the cameo
brooch came into fashion. Our great
grandmothers, wearing their rather
scant empire Dress" which was sup
posed to resemble the Greek gar
ment, sported those large cameo
breastpins that are still preserved as
sacred heirlooms by a respectful
posterity.
But all these changes have had not
the slightest effect upon the modest
safety pin. While her more preten-
tious cousin. the brooch, sparkles In
tho glare Of precious stones and. as
the French say, '-assists' in all the
festivities of social life, the safety
pin has become the unnoticed Gin
derella.
Today the lot Of a servant has fall
On to the faithful safety pin, the
aristocrat Of 1000 years ago. But
quietly and efficiently she continues
to, perform her appointed task, un-
seen and unacclaimed, the patient
drudge Of fallen fortunes. s6io tran
~ gloria mvndi"
Evening star., 1923-12-09
Quartz Vessels.

THE intense heat which the min
= eral quartz is capable of stand
ing makes it unusually suitable as a
material for retorts. crucibles and the
like when these are to be used in
chemical work requiring high tenn
peratures. But If these quartz YES
sells themselves are to endure such
high heats how are they to be
nodded?
This problem has been solved in a
packs beach sand (Which is COM
posed largely of quartz) around a
carbon rod in the center of a carbon
cylinder with a bore of about eight
inches. Then he sends sufficient cur
rent through these carbon terminals
to melt the sand and let the quartz
form into single tube weighing
over hundred pounds. This tube is
drawn out of it's carbon furnace with
tongs while still hot and the hole in
1t is stuffed with either potatoes or
lime, after which tho tube is squeezed
shut at each end, and the hot mass
is put into molds OF the desired
shape.
Owing to the heat, the potatoes or
lime generate considerable gas,
which presses the hot metal out
against the sides of the mold. For
cutting and finishing the quartz ves-
sells when cold the maker uses both
sandblast and saws fitted with teeth
of carborundum, another product of
the electric furnace. But the start in
every case Is obtained by melting the
quartz crystals into a single mass in
the intense heat of a simple electrical
furnace.
Evening star., 1923-12-09
Wires i'm a Cable.

IF you watch men drawing g. lead
covered cable into the conduits
which form a network under city
streets It is usually not long before
you hear some one ask: How many
wires are there in the cable?" That
there may be some variation in the
number of the wires is easily guessed,
but few realize how wide a dis
crepancy in the number of wires may
be. Take. for example, two sections
that are by no means extremes but
give some idea of the range. One is
Of a telephone cable containing
twenty-six dozen pairs of 624 wires,
each pair wrapped with paraffined
paper and the whole entwined in such
a way that plenty of air space is left
between the wires The other. is q
20,000-vo1t cable for a three-phase
power transmission circuit, such as is
used for conveying power from the
central stations to the scattered dis
tributing stations in some of our
large cities. This has the copper
cables imbedded In a solid mass OF
rubber or gutta percha, with no air
spaces whatever, the number of con-
ductors being only three instead OF
e24.
Evening star., 1923-12-09
STATISTICS SOURCE OF LONGEVITY
Wallace Irwin $ Letters Of Japanese Schoolboy
To Editor The Star, who look twelve
q doz.) yrs younger when he take
a shave

To Editor The Star, who look twelve
q doz) yrs younger when he take
a shave.
~ EAREsT sif~LFAat you sip
pose now? A Aw days of
yore Cousin Nogi arrive
- to my Thinking Studio
(kitchen) with very serial express
sion on his eyebrows while making
following report:
Togo" he dictate hurriely. "our
Uncle Nichi were SO yrs old last
Wedsdy. & what you think?"
II are disabled to reply" This
from me.
''Yestdy." gubble Nogi, "he write
from Japan to congratulate himself
on getting married again!! She are a
stylish bell, name of Miss Ricki jim
shaka- In addition to his happiness
Uncle Nichi wish to bora los rap
idly"
How rapidly will his happiness
permit him to pay 1t back?" renig.
He say" explain Nogi, that be-
cause of his very hairless old age
he is willing to die pretty soonly &
leave that 10s for you in his will.
Undoubtedly you win be happy to
wait"
Shall not dor' holla like a roos-
ter.
How can You be so unnatural
izedr say Nogi. For man Of his
age
Man OF his age should not begin
to bora money" decry. 'If he keep
that up, who knows what? 1t will
get to be habit. Many yng. married
folks starts in that wrong way. At
firstly they bora los then in yr. or 2
they desire 15s. In Il or 80 yrs. they
get all covered with mortgages which
they cannot pay for rest OF their life.
No, sir, say! No, mann, also!"
stop up!!" yau Nogi. "Are you
forgot that Uncle Nichi are now SO
yrs. old. How much longer you axpect
him to sow his wild otes?"
who could teIl?" 1 ask to know.
TN this Age of Progress backwards
& forwards) so much are being done
to stop Old Age from doing so that I
cannot be Surprised. Look at Science"
Nogi attempt to do SO while 1 talk
onwards.
Last week in news print learn
how a prominent bricklayer Of Pc
runa, Penn, have got too strong to
work in his 122th yr. So he go into
training with desire to stroke Sir
Jno. Dempsey out of ring"
Another Oddly gentleman axpect to
do that also," commute Nogi
What name, II any?' ! explore.
"Hon. Jest Willard" say Nogi.
'Pussibly," I dib. But 1 are speak
ing mere edgewise. Observe what
Science accomplish Day & night in
their greenish laboratories. amidst
curio smells, chemists with very
swollen brains is working to find
knockdown drops which will stop
teeth, hair & eyesight from falling
out"
Evening star., 1923-12-09
RING GIVES CODE OF LINGO BRIDGE


ing districts OF Washington. ID. c..
namely Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Kelleher.
Linguistic Bridge" as 1t de-
pends on a mastery of foreign langu-
ages. The idear first occurred to me
eight months ago and 1 Immediately
thought of my friends the Chooses
who had been loosing heavily at
every setting in spite of there mark
ed superiority over the rest Of the
bridge playing world.
"Glucoses." l said, rif you will
agree to put in six months of hard
study, I will guarantee that you can
more than make up all the bridge
losses of your life in a few weeks"
What did I mean they asked. So
told them. They must set aside
two hrs, per day for the next X
yr. to the absolute mastery OF all
the languages of Europe. Asia and
Africa and when they had accom-
plished that much. they were to come
to me and I would tell them how
to utilize there knowledge.
To make a short story meager I
will recite the details Of what come
off the first time the scheme was
put to the test. namely VS.. Mr. and
Mrs. Kelleher of Washington. The
game took place In a day coach be-
tween Washington and Danville. Ky.
The Chooses had often played bridge
with the Kellehers and the last
named was s4.30o.00 ahead.
On this occasion the Chooses, ac-
cording to my instructions. asked the
Kellehers If they had ever been
abroad or II they knew any foreign
languages. The answer was plain no.
So the game started and Mr.. Kelleher
dealt and bid no trump.
"Just a minute, dearie," says Mr..
Glucose to his wife. DO you remem-
ber the Portuguese word for canary"
Sure" replied Mrs. Glucose. "Ao
tenha cinque shovellos rey high"
OF course the Kellehers thought
that must be the Portuguese word
for canary and they figured that Mr..
and Mrs. Glucose was just trying to
show off, but what Mrs. Glucose said
really means II have five spades, king
high" and as Mr.. Glucose had tho
ace, queen and six other spades II
Evening star., 1923-12-09

was no trick at all for the Chooses
to set the kellehers higher than a
kite.
X y y y
TT was Mr.. Glucose's deal and after
the cards had all been distributed,
his wife said: "They's something
about the scenery along here that re-
minds me of place We stopped in
Italy. What was the name OF that
placer
So Mr.. Glucose says: "Oh, I guess
you mean Nullo Trompini."
So she says: Mon. 10 rathero playo
I Clubini."'
She was telling him that she had
game hand In clubs IL he could help
her so they made It clubs and made a
grand slam with four honors in one
hand and they never found the other
one.
On Mr.. Kelleher's deal. Mrs Glu-
cose asked both the Keilehers II they
had ever played NAH 5ong. meaning
that her next remark to Mr.. Glucose
would be in Chinese.
IT love the game myself" says Mrs.
Evening star., 1923-12-09

Glucose as she picked up her hand.
but maybe that is because I speak
Chinese. Alice mylee handee is
blackee."
This OF course warned her husband
to not take her out in either of the
red suits and though he only had the
ace, king, jack of spades and the
king, queen, jack of clubs, he allowed
her to play her spade bid and the re-
suit was another grand slam.
It was now Mrs. Glucose's deal and
vile she was dealing, she wflistled
the Russian national hymn and when
she picked up her cards she said:
'Ietsky themski bidsky thisky time
ovitch and weeski will set then1sky.'
And sure enough. the Kelieher's.
who was now desperate, overbid
there hand and was set seven odd
double. This made the Glucoses S.
400 ahead and the Kellehers dove of
the train at Clifton Forge though
they had intended going on TO Dan
Vile. The Glucoses never got there
nancy, but 1t shows what the new
system would do If you was playing
VS. honest people.
RING w. LARDNER.
Copyright, 1921
Evening star., 1923-12-09
Power From Tides and Sun Energy
Are Sought for Europe's Industries

the cliff-locked high-level inland sea,
which also fills itself while running
turbines!
THE construction of these giant
hydraulic machines is said to be
sensationally ingenious. No truly
exact plan of them has been pub
lished, although rough drawings,
from more or less accurate descrip-
tions. are not lacking. But. as every
body knows, the power is there-the
limitless power Of gravity. worked
by the earth and moon upon the
ocean waters! Today 1t Is all lost.
Tomorrow a small portion OF 1t will
be "harnessed." Already the puny
waterfalls Of the French Alps and
Pyrenees are furnishing so much
white coal" that tho devastated
mines of France are sensibly re-
lieved. The power is there. What
may not be expected from the thun-
dering tidal masses Of the limitless
oceani
The power is there!
1t is, also, in the suns rays and in
the atom OF earth and interstellar
space, whose explosive disintegration
is, perhaps, discovered. Dwarfing,
even, the gigantic handling OF the
tides comes ''the French mystery
Of drawing solar energy for indus
try.
Many talk about 1t. None of those
who talk have definite knowledge of
the so-called solar-force machine, ex-
cept that 1t is not a banal solar heat
enginei
working at Issy. The combined cleo
trio light and force companies OF
Paris (Which now have their monster
works In common) are said to be
making the experiments, under two
famous physicists.
That there are other rays than heat
rays coming from the sun is known
to all. What can be done with them
Cor what they can Be made to do 10
other obscure forces) is 1.-THE French
mystery"
The forces are there,
Times and methods change quickly!
These are the forces of tomorrow
just as the forces of yesterday were
in the coal which my own mother re-
members they dug out by the bucket
full from hillsides around Wilkes
Barre, Pa.
How long ago was It that my great
grandfather sold for $4,000 the farm
from which Ave present-day mil
lfonaire families have drawn a mil
lion per cent profits on the purchase
price which so delighted the old man,
My mother. still living. remembers IL.
Yet all the great iron. steel and coal
period has come since-and is, visibly,
going.
Evening star., 1923-12-09
Duo-Negatives.

In photographing subjects with In
tense contrasts the difficulty Of
securing the required amount Of
detail in the shadow without get
ting overdensity in the high lights
Is a common experience. The use Of
films makes II possible to overcome
this difficulty by a simple expedient.
Two negatives are made-one for
high lights with . short exposure
and the other fully timed for the
shadows. The parts desired in each
negative are then coated with cellu-
loid varnish and the remainder re-
moved with the well known red prus-
slate and hypo reducer. When these
two negatives are superposed In reg
lister their combined effect is that Of
properly timed negative. The
method is. of course, one requiring
some dexterity in the blocking out
process and is restricted to films Of
neglible thickness.
Evening star., 1923-12-09
The Family of the Fibulae
By Il. DOORWAY.

clad mostly in furs, yet garments had
to be fastened somehow, and the
thorns and sharpened bones that were
probably first used for this purpose
were most likely not very satisfac-
tory.
Doubtless some prehistoric smith
found the way OF manufacturing a
wire out OF bronze, and. after having
sharpened one end Of 1t, used 1t to
fasten his own garment and that OF
his wife. Who knows but the lady,
having scratched herself with the
clumsy things, was the first to bend
one of its end to form a ring, and SO
saved her skin from being wounded?
This form Of the pin was used by
prehistoric people-probahly Celts-
in the Austrian Alps. where, beside a
most beautiful lake, lies the town Of
Hallstatt, above which towers a
lofty mountain consisting almost en-
tirely Of salt. Even today thousands
Of tons Of salt are dug out and boiled
out of that mountain, after 1000
years Of constantly mining it. Fully
2.O00 years before the Christian era
the wild tribes then inhabiting the
country explored the salt mines.
In graves of these antique miners.
discovered on top of the mountain.
skeletons of an almost gigantic size
have been found. and with them,
among various things OF interest,
were safety pins Of bronze.
1t seems that this pin-then nov
elty-soon found its way to other
countries. The Romans called 1t
'.dbula," and archaeology employs
that name for all antique pins Of this
type. In the course of time. when
artistic workmanship began to be ap-
preciated In Rome. the flbula. without
much changing its first shape. was
ornamented by the skillful gold
smiths Of the Eternal city. 1t was
made OF gold or silver. set with pre-
cious stones. and 50 became the prede-
cessor Of the modern breastpin.
The Teutonic tribes that invaded
the Roman empire during the migra-
tion of the nations, between 300 and
500 AID, were hbulae in the shapes of
animals. And. in fact, some Of these
designs. perhaps Q lizard. which is so
Evening star., 1923-12-09

sils onto people who lost theirs, &.
see what that great institoot have
done to preserve Hon. Jno. D. Rocke-
feller who say at his saith birthday,
while donating pennies TO orphans, L
feel as young as 1 look"
yet he are not so old as Hon,
Chancey NJ. Depew," say Nogf. What
do Hon. Depew take to make him so
boyish In face & figger?"
"Hon. Depew takes a joke night &
morning" I ollicute.
DO taking jokes keep persons
young?" Nogi ask it. {
''1t preserves Hon. Depew pretty
splandid." tell. ''In 1854 he took a
joke from Hon. Joe Miller. and he
have used mono other since"
r x i.
A ND thusly 1t goes" 1 manage.
= Everywhere you look you see
something happening TO Old Age.
What are great grandfathers & even
greater grandmothers doing now
days? While Harvard boys Is hard
at work learning chemistry. so that
they can make gin that tastes real.
the Former Generation are drinking
it in cab-hurrays and other dancing
concerts.
Copyright, 1927
Evening star., 1923-12-09
Odd Bibles.

THE largest Bible is said to be that
L In the Royal Library Of Stock
holm. The covers are made Of solid
plank four inches thick, and the
pages, made of parchment, are yard
in length and number 300. The ia
nous thumb Bible" in the theologi-
cal seminary at Washington, is the
smallest complete Bible ever printed.
A New York mans son, cripple, is
reported to have spent several hours
a day for two years transcribing
Bible. We are told that 1t does not
contain an error in transcription and
that the verses and headings are
beautifully engrossed in red ink.
A shorthand Bible is exhibited in
London, the work OF an apprentice
of the days Of James II, when even
to possess a Bible ~ss held to be an
offense.
An American woman owns a Bible
which an ancestor of hers baked In
q loaf Of bread when a, house-to-
house search was being made for
copies Of the Scriptures.
Evening star., 1923-12-09

account Of the varying Cow Of water,
the changing times at which the
tides occur and the difference in
height OF the tides at the period of
spring and neap tides.
Another obvious engineering diff
Guilty is the problem of generating
power at constant rate through
out the day. These difficulties make
necessary some sort of power storage
to absorb the energy generated dur
ing the spring tides, in order to bal
ance the deficiency in neap tides and
during the non-work hours of the
day. To store electricity in sufficient
quantities by means Of accumulators
is out OF the question from an eco
nomical point of view. Therefore, the
method of storing adopted Is that OF
pumping sea-water from a low to a
high level. utilizing the surplus en-
ergy when 1t is available, and allow
ing this pumped water to drive sub
sidiary turbines during Its fall to
the low level.
An artificial saltwater lake has
been provided for at high level, to
achieve this result. An ideal site ex-
lists In the valley near Tintern Alb
bey, which only needs a dam across
the lower end.
The water will be pumped from the
low level Of the river Wye into a res
ervoir through tunnel driven
through solid rock about a mile long
discharging into the great lake.
Every detail OF the great enterprise
has been worked out in an engineer
ing and construction sense-because.
as a fact, they are on the point Of
breaking ground.
1 give this English scheme in full
detail, because a government Depart
ment is actually committed to it,
and work will almost certainly be
started in the spring. 1t is no Wis
ionary plan.
y 4 4 X
NOR is there anything visionary
I about French plans for harness.
ing" the tides, although the one most
spoken Of at present is so different.
1t is true that on the coast OF Brit
tany, where a small-mouthed bay cut
into cliffs presents an ideal location,