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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-06
TODAY'S MARKETS

and local CT commission house sell
ing Of n-W c-cp months which was
evidently inspired by q favorable
view OF the weather news.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-06

Added to folding furniture is a
rocking chair which can be COL
la0sed into a small space. its seat
ARD back being formed of fabric.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-06
Ready to Hop Off

SAN ANTONIO. June 5-tP1-His
ship repaired from damages re-
ceived when forced TO land on a
ranch near San Angelo, Monday.
Colonel Roberto Fierro. Mexican
aviation ace. will leave San An
trnio early tomorrow for New York.
srarting point Of his nonstop
fight to Mexico City.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
Men of Inventive Mind
Belong to All Nations

Answering an inquiry as to the
names and nationalities Of the inEen-
: tors or discoyerers of the steamship,
locomotive, telephone, printing press,
, automobile, radio, airplane, airship,
electricity, electric light, television, the
Detroit News says: ...-e
AS many of these inventions are
the results of years Of development
by numerous workers rather than OF
one inventor, we can give only the
name of the inventor Of the first prac-
teal device. Steamship, Robert Full
ton, United States; locomotive, George
Stephenson, English; telephone, Alex
ander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor
living in America; printing press, at
tributed to Johann Gutenberg, Ger
man, though printing presses were
probably used first in China centuries
before; automobile, Carl Benz and
Gottlieb Daimler, Germans; radio, Gu
gliemo Marconi, Italian (wireless teleg-
raphy), valdemar Poulsen. Danish, DR..
Lee De Forest, United States, and
others; airplane, Orville and Wilbur
Wright, United States; airship, Henri
Giffard, French, A Santos-Dumont,
Brazilian, and Count Ferdinand Won
Zeppelin, German; electric light Qn-
,candescenD, Thomas A. Edison, United
States, and Joseph W. Swan, English;
televislon, John L. Baird, Scottish.
No man can be considered the inven-
tor or dlscoverer of electricity; some
Of its manifestations have been known
since the time of the ancient Greeks.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
Points of Interest ON
the "Road to Mandalay"

A few points Of interest along the
auto road to Mandalay, CLEANED from
an article In the magazine Fortune,
read as follows:
With population Of approximately
30O,O00.0O0 India has some 125,000 mo-
tor cars-about one car for every small
town or big village.
India's Satan Is Black Yama, and
Mohammedans consider green an I'M
lucky color. Therefore black cars and
green cars are unpopular.
Elephants have caused many auto
accidents, but now wear tail-lights, and
like tall-lighted London boobies
possess high visibility.
Indian rajahs love spotlights, thus
princely cars may carry ten or a doz-
en- lamps
Religious pllgrimages stimulate traf-
&c, so also does the Hindu taboo upon
a mans marriage with girl from his
home town.
But 1t Is considered unlucky to trav-
eli east on Monday, north on Tuesday
or Wednesday, south on Thursday,
west on Friday or Saturday. Evil days
for starting JOURNEYS are Tuesday.
presaging fire at home; Saturday, fore
shadowlng loss by thieves; Sunday,
portending sickness. Misfortune re-
suits from payments or deliveries on
Tuesday or Saturday. and all bargain
ing, buying, selling and paying are
suspended at vishagadi, the poison
Gus hour Of the day.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25

EdtOtn n. Hill lent example OF
thrift and, in addition, gives the EN-.
ployees an added interest in the op-
Grafton of the organization of which
they are part.
Annual reports of the Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Companies
show that $3.50 employees in Mary.
land, Virginia, West Virginia and the
District Of Columbia are purchasing
42,267 shares Of stock of the Ameri.
can Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany. At the present market quota
ton, these shares have a value Of
more than $lO,0OO.00O.
Ownership of stock Of the Ameri-
can Telephone and Telegraph Com.
pany is widespread. On January l.,
there were 469,801 stockholders Of
this company. Last year the number
Of stockholders increased 15,205. The
company's latest report gives the av-
erage number Of shares of capital
stock outstanding as 13,113,746. Net
earnings per share available for divi-
dends for 1929 we're $12.67. The cor
responding figure for 1928 was $12.11
per share.
It will be Of interest to know that
the average number Of shares held
per stakeholder Is twenty-eight. No
single individual holds as much as
one per cent Of the total capital stock
Of the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
Humble Leech Has Its
Use in Modern Medicine

An excellent remedy for black eye
is leech, says a writer in the Lon
don Mail These funny little slate
colored slug-like creatures, which were
once so extensively used by doctors
for sucking blood from patients, can
also suck the black blood from dis
colored eye. In recent fight in Lon
don one of the contestants received
terrific punch in the eye, which began
to swell rapidly. A leech was bought
for a few pence from neighboring
chemist and attached to the eye. The
result was that the leech also began
to swell rapidly and the CONCEALED
blood was drawn from the eye.
Leeches, which generally live in
streams, ponds, marshes or bitches,
have two suckers, one at each end.
Most people imagine that they were
useful only in the old and more bar
barrie days of medicine, but press as
ISOLATION reporter found recently that
they are still frequently used with
great success.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
Condensed History of I
Mankind for Monarch

The history of mankind was once
told, according to a story credited to
the Talmud, in but seven words.
The Talmud tale recounts the wish
OF an ancient king for the history OF
mankind. He summoned his wise men
to 20 out into the world and bring
him the essence of knowledge as man
knew 1t. They returned In ten years
with twenty camels loaded with manu-
scripts. Aghast at such tremend-
Gus amount of material he ordered
them to bring him a brlefer account
and they went out and returned with
one camel weighed down with vol
umes. Again, still unsatisfed, he sent
them forth and they came back with
but one book, thick volume con-
tanning hundreds Of pages.
But have no time to read this"
the king rebuked them, us there not
one among you who can give me, In
a few words, what I wishT'
"Sire," said an old sage, "there Is
but this: Man is born, he lives, he
diesr"
And that, 1t might be remarked, IL
something to shoot at.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
Seemingly, Citizens of
New Orleans Live Well

But in New Orleans! Here you find
no one dish, but an army that prom
ises years Of varied delight. The
oysters of Bayou Cook and Four
Bayous. The lake shrimp and the riv-
er shrimp, those last tiny ones boiled
with the pepper. The pompano. The
Spanish mackerel. The reddish. The
green trout. The founder. The court
bouillon and the jambalaya. The bee
a-sine, served au horde du lac. The
perdreux, served chasseur. The ca
nard, either with boiled turnips or
roasted rare so the blood runs as you
cut the breast. The tender, delicate
creole lettuce; the blushing, gentle to-
mato. Chives and shallots; romaine
and endive. Frog legs that thrill you
as never the legs Of the chorus could
thrill. More ways Of cooking a chick
en- than there are chickens. And COT
fee such as Petronius and Lucullus and
Epicurus would have drunk had they
known how to drip 1t.
But why tantallze a nation of stand
ardlzed food They can't all live In
New Orleans.-New Orleans States.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
Wonderful Organ

Before the completion Of the Nor
mon tabernacle, in the early COS,
Joseph Ridges began to superintend
the building of an organ for the tenn
pie. One hundred men were employed
constantly in the construction. White
pine from the hills around Parowan
was used. The logs were hauled by
oxen. 0lye for the pipes was made
from cattle hides and buffalo skins.
The organ was first rebuilt in 1885
by johnson, again in 1900 by Kimball
and in 1915 by Austin. 1t now is a
combination Of seven organs, the whole
operated electrically from a movable
console with four manuals or key.
boards and 270 stops and couplers.
There are 5000 pipes.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
Telephone Research
Department Expands
New Building Under Construc-
ton Will Provide Increased
Laboratory Facilities

The Bell Telephone Laboratories,
where research and development is
carried on for the Bell System Com.
panies, is undoubtedly one of the best
equipped institutions Of its kind in
the world. In this building, located
at 463 West Street. New York City,
one will find more than $500 scien.
lists, engineers and assistants en-.
gagged in problems designed to pro
duce new and improved equipment
for telephony and telegraphy.
Increased research and develop.
ment activities in the telephone in.
dustry have necessitated an enlarge.
ment of the laboratory facilities and
the construction of an additional and
more modern building Is now under
way.
Among the interesting sections of
the Laboratories are the sound-proof
rooms required for research and de.
velopment work on telephone instru.
ments, acoustics and addition.
Besides preventing the entry of
sound, these rooms have specially
treated interiors to eliminate rever.
beration. They have special ventilat.
ing systems to admit fresh air with.
out allowing noise to enter. There
are now thirteen such rooms, which
vary in size from booths in which one
r two persons can work to larger
rooms thirty by thirty feet square
These sound-proof rooms are used
in tests on various kinds of telephone
transmltters and receivers and In
studies of speech and hearing
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
Mortgage Made Matter
of Record in Babylon

II you believe that the drst-mort-
gage-loan plan is something almost
new, you're about 2,400 years behind
the times.
A short while back an archaeological
expedition working in the waste Of an
antique city in Babylon excavated a
clay tablet with odd characters drawn
upon 1t. The translation Of these char
acters reads:
Thirty bushels of dates are due
to Bel Nadin Shun, son Of Marashu,
by Bel Bullisu and Sha Nebu Shu,
sons of Kirbeti, and their tenants. In
the month Of Tashri harvest monthly
Of the thirty-fourth year Of King Ar
taxerxes they shall pay the dates,
thirty bushels, according to the meas
ure Of Bel Nadin Shum, in the town Of
Bit Balatsu. Their field cultivated
and uncultivated, their fief estate, is
held as a pledge for the dates, name
ly thirty bushels, by Bel Nadin Shun.
Another creditor shall not have power
over It."
This prehistoric tablet and other
records excavated show that the men
of old conducted business on the same
plans that we are prone to call ultra
modern.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
Even the Humblest Can M
Make the World Brighter

AS / sit writing in my study, the ra-
do downstairs Is bringing a splendid
concert through the air from more
than 1000 miles away.
hear the sound Of an airplane
overhead. 1t is carrying the mail 100
miles an hour across the continent.
An automobile dashes up to the
door and delivers the purchase made
from store less than an hour ago.
Today was cleanup day in the
home; the vacuum cleaner was going
and the dirt disappeared as II by
magic.
The telephone bell rings; 1t may be
friend nearby or a 1ong-distance
call from clear across the nation.
The shadows lengthen; press a
button and the room is flooded with
light.
What are you and doing to de-
serve all thisl Frank G.. Moorhead
asks, In the Farm Journal.
Do something for somebody else,
and find out how honest and useful
you are, after all. If nothing else, try
saying Good morning. cheerfully to
everybody you meet. That's a long
way fom flying an airplane with the
might mail. But 1t may do somebody
"a world of good.
The best way you could possibly
repay Thomas A. Edison, or Lee de
Forest, or the Wright boys, or Alex
ander Graham Bell, or Cyrus McCor-
mick, would be to be kind to some
body else, to give him a lift in life,
to make things easier and better and
brighter for everybody else. Reduced
to essentials, that's all they did,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
Made Quite a Hit

A Budapest restaurant proprietor,
Matthias Woldhut, hit on an original
idea to celebrate the twenty-fifth ami
versary of the opening Of his restau-
rant. He announced that on that day
the price of meals would be the same
as % years ago. The bill of fare
showed: Soup, Id; boiled beef, with
horseradish, sd; roast veal, with rice,
Sd; baked carp, 4d; roast pork and
cabbage, Sd; beer, Sd pint. At elev-
en- O'Clock in the morning every seat in
the restaurant was occupied, and at
noon 1t was necessary to summon the
police to prevent further inroad Of
customers.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
Football Hiakorv

The ancient Greeks and Romans
played game somewhat similar to
football. English lads in very early
times made use of the bladder without
a covering in contest out of doors.
Barclay, an early poet, who died in
1852, describes the game graphically,
and William Fitzstephens at the end Of
the Twelfth century notes the we'll
known game Of ball played on Shrove
Tuesday. Edward II in 1914 forbade
1t on account Of the great noise, and
1t fell under the ban of succeeding
sovereigns, both In England and Scot
land. Its official entry into main life
as definite game was in 1863, when
rules were drawn up by players of
the University Of Cambridge. In Amer
lea the game was played at Yale as
early as 1910, and the beginning of
uniformity in rules was made in 1873.
when Columbia, Rutgers. Princeton
and Yale met In conference.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
About the Cuckoo

Many of the superstitions connected
with the cuckoo related to matters
matrimonial. If maiden ran into the
fields early in the morning to hear
the first call Of the cuckoo, and when
she heard it took of her left shoe and
looked into 1t, she would there find
mans hair of the same color as that
Of her future husband.
The cuckoo is also bringer of luck
though whether good or bad de-
ponds upon circumstances. If, when
you hear the cuckoo for the first time
in any season, the sound proceeds
from the right, you will be prosperous.
If, on the other hand, the sound comes
from the left. Ill luck awaits you.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
Grim Curiosities in sa
. London Medical Museum


! London's grimmest museum is never
theless the least overrun by the "m6r-
bid curiosity seekers" says writer
In Tit-Bits. John Hunter, originator
Of scientific surgery in England,
founded the medical museum Of the
Royal College Of Surgeons. Hncoln's
Inn Fields; and 1t is now the finest Of
its kind in the world. Only medical
and other privileged persons are al
lowed to enter. Rows Of skulls give
visitors their first shock. They stand
in solid phalanxes upon their shelves.
Here are the skulls Of all ages, all
nations--3,00O Of themi In the Sec
! ton devoted to criminals Eugene Ar
am sits placidly beside Turtell, the
solicitor. The skeleton Of Charles
, OBryan, the Irish giant, stands in
ia feet inches Of skinless dignity be-
side companion who does not reach
his calf. This is Caroline Crochiam.
the Sicilian woman, 10 inches In
height. Grimmest Of all Is the war
room, filled with plaster casts repre-
,sentlng every kind of wound. Most
surprising Of all Is a finger that was
blown of one man into the thigh Of
another, from which It had to be ex-
.tracted. Upstairs Is a purely histori-
cal section, where you can see RIB
Of Robert Bruce; both hands Of one
of the sons Of John Gaunt; and two
portions Of the small intestine Of Ma
poleon ]. In this room also is the
mummy Of the wife of Martin Van
,Buchell, an eccentric pupil Of John
Hunter. After her death Martin kept
her mummifed body in his sitting
room until his second marriage, when
his new wife objected strongly
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
The Enemy's Opportunity

The late Brander Matthews, the ia
nous critic, was cOndollng with play
wright one day at the Century club In
New York.
Your play is fine" he said. You
know it's fine. know it's fine. What
do we care how hard a lot Of dis
gruntled critics knock It?
"The world Is always like that. Look
at Wagner. The greater the master
pieces Wagner turned out, the greater
the ridicule that was heaped on him.
Stupidity? No. Jealousy? Yes"
Mr.. Matthews laughed and ended In
his epigrammatic way:
"When you put your best foot fore
most all your enemies will step on It,"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
No American Proxerh.

Americans are better known for
their slang than for their proverbs
though they are slowly collecting some
of their own. No doubt many are
coined every day but unless they at
tract popular fancy they are not very
likely to survive. Editorial writers
have been most prolific in the matter
Of phrase making but unfortunately
their labors last but for day, after
which they are forgotten. AS a ma
ton, however, we are still too young
to found wisdom Of our own. Un-
til we do. we must interlard our pres
ent tongue with proverbs of older CIV
ilizations.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
Atchiaon Not Preaident

Some authorities claim that Sem
ator David r. Atchison of Missouri
was President for one day. from noon
on March 4, 1S49. to noon the follow
ing day and that he used the seal of
office and signed papers as President
Folks term expired at noon on March
4, which was Sunday, and Taylor
was not inaegurated until the follow
ing day. Atchison was President pro
tempore OF the senate and was empow-
cred to act as President in case Of a
vacancy. As matter OF fact. he was
not President, as he never took the
Presidential oath that is required BY
the United States Constitution.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
Horse Judges Hoaxed

Brian G. Hughes, who died several
years ago and who was known far and
wide for his practical jokes, once en-
tered horse in New York horse
show under the name "Puldaka Or
phan." The animal was from the Fiji
ty-seventh street car barns and was
just great big horse, but it had gone
through five elimination tests, and was
one of q entries left when one Of the
judges began to think that the name
Of the Hughes entry sounded bit sus-
piciously like pulled car often" and
the pride of the car barns was with
drawn.-Detroit News.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
notice to Creditors

scri6er 'V Of Is hereby given that the sinh
tanned from utbOsnt8So oery county has SUB oP-
eomery county UM[ Nj Court of Mont
ton on the PERSONAL %a s.s,. q adnns1Pss
,.,. ;, kHoDA A. WELSH,
s A,i persons Gach having claims sso deceased.
bibt deceased 1Sc are hereby waT AGAINST the
subscriSe same with vouchers tbersos 70 e ex-
October ta on or before the Isl ds 70 tn ne
law he sv 10y; otherwise thew may Gay Of
estate 1 a.! from all benefit oS by ~
tate are reo,,a persons indebted to said Is s0
ment. G SiveeSted to make immedIste ,u ns eS-
day of Anil , under my hand tbisp ist
apr 4.s, SAMUEL S. WELSH.
Administrator.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
Some Wood Will Sink

The leaves of some trees turn red
in autumn like the naples and SUI
macs, says Forests and Mankind.
Others turn yellow like the ash and
tulip tree. Some have leaves so gil
gantic they could be wrapped about
one like robe and others leaves
that are hardly bigger than your fin
gernail. Some trees have wood so soft
you can tear it apart in your hands
and other wood so hard no nail can
pierce 1t and so heavy 1t sinks in wa
ter like stone.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
Human Hear. Tir.l... Worker

In a day Of moderate activity a
mans heart does enough work to lift
man 1000 feet Even in day spent
lying in bed the heart does enough
work to lift man weighing $50
pounds up hill 500 feet high. Thus
1t adjusts its effort to the needs Of
the body. During an athletic contest
1t meets the demand Of the muscles
for blood by working three and half
times as hard for short periods. DR..
B. c. H. Harvey tells these interesting
facts In his lessons in human anatomy
in Hygeia. the health magazine Of the
American Medical association.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
Fishermen Use Electricity

Electrocuting hooked fish too big to
be readily pulled into the boat is q
new system used by fishermen among
the 1OOpound and larger tuna fish of
the Mexican coast.
The boat is equipped with a 11O-volt
direct electric current. At one side of
the circuit is small steel plate, which
is thrown into the water. The other
side Of the circuit is carried to the
steel hook through a small insulated
wire.
Once the fish is hooked, a switch is
closed, sending sufficient current to
stun 1t. The catch ceases struggling
and Is easily pulled into the boat
Capper's Weekly.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
Genesis of the Dram.

About 600 B. c. the poet Arion, at
Corlnth. led his cyclic chorus Of 80.
A half century later came Thespis Of
Attica, whose Thespian innovation was
the Introduction Of an actor to fill the
intervals Of singing with stories and
mlmicry and short dialogues with the
leader Of the chorus. The adventures
of Dionysus were reclted by the leader
Of the chorus and had been answered
by the chorus, and thus made an i'm
portant step toward the drama.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
Standard of Conduct

All Ideals are built on the ground Of
solid achievement, which in e given
profession creates in the course of
time certain tradition, or. in other
words, standard Of conduct. The
existence of standard of conduct in
Its turn makes the most improbable
achievement possible, by augmenting
the power of endurance and of self
sacrifice amongst men who look to the
past for their lessons and for their In.
spiration.-Joseph Conrad.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
EnRlish ROYAL Abode

Sandringham house is at Sandring-
ham. village In Norfolk, England.
The estate, of some 1000 acres, was
acquired in 1851 by the late King Ed.
ward, when prince Of Wales. for about
$1,250,000. 1t was rapidly made into
a model and modern place. Sandring.
ham house is picturesque building of
brick and stone in Elizabethan style,
standing in park of 200 acres. On
a tablet is inscribed: "This house was
built by Albert Edward and Alexan.
dria, his wife, in the year of our Lord
1870"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
NoRsEck GARAGE.

''oNizED FORD SERVICE STATION
aut.mo using genuine Ford parts.
re acHsIns tires. tubes and
d. ana stationary electric plants ..,.,o.
D. 4, ouuress. Rockville. Md pE
dence, SANDY Sy,, Spring 1le F ID: rsx
s1 =, =; FORD. Proprietor.
If successor to Donald Bowl.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-04-25
One Popular Man

The failures Of life sit around and
complain; the gods haven't treated
them white; they've lost their umbrel-
las whenever 1t rains, and they haven't
their lanterns at night; men tire of
failures who fill with their signs the
air Of their neighborhoods; there's q
man who Is greeted with love-llghted
eyes-he's the man who delivers the
goods.-Farm Market Sayings.