Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1947-05-09

ed by the Columbia University in
1914. We will now open the book
at random and relate what we dis
cover.
We opened to pages 652 and
659, the :'f" section. Now, let's
see.
"Founding or casting" we read,
"is the shaping Of metals by mel
ting and pouring them into molds."
Well we knew that, anyway, so
there's nothing gained that time.
Let's try again.
All, page 1176 informs us that
Mimnermus was a Greek poet who
lived around 500 B. c., whose chief
work. "Nanro," is noted for its
characteristic fragment is on the
barrenness of old age, because
love has forsaken it."
HMM. Interesting, but it
doesn't sound like much fun.
Another try takes us to page
III and our eyes spy:
"Guilford College, in Guilforc
co.. N. c., w of, and near, Greens,
boro. It was found in 1889 b,
the Society of Friends, being ar
outgrowth of the New Garder
Boarding School 1884: coeduca
tionap."
There, now. You never knew
that before, did you? This time
we open to page 1860. Oh, dear
Look at this.
"Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeye
vich, 1799-1837, Russia's creates
poet. whose importance as a pros,
, writer is overShadowed only b!
his verse"
There's a lot more here about
how great he was, but only one
hothers us. What did his friends
all him?
On page 356. We learned that
Chloe was a Corinthian woman in
whose home there were Christians.
This is an important information
because now we can direct all
hose singer who chant, "Chloeeee,
Gotta 60 where you are" Just
IKE the next boat to Athens, fell
'oe kut You'll probably be several
nNturaS too late.
Ono more random shot takes us
, nooe 1856 where we learn, that
'!v" is the 23rd letter Of the al
hnhnt. Now. remember that. The
,o>.+ tinc somebody asks you
-"o"s the 22rd letter of the al
hahnt. YOU won't have count up
W your fingers.
Let's see what the book says a.
bout some local towns.
Well, this is interesting. LoriS
?npearS as part of the name of
Count Tarielovieh Mikhail Loris-
MeHkov, a Russian statesman who
lost his job when Tsar Alexander
TIT was assasinated
We also find that Guillaume de
Lorris was French poet who lived
in the 18th century and wrote a
poem which was 90 go lines and
ends abruptly." We'll, it was too
long anyway.
References to Tabor CITY an
pear five times. as the Biblical
mountain, as the mountain the
Palestine, as towns in Czechosalva-
kia. Iowa. South Dakota, and
North Carolina. 1t also says here
that Horace A. w. Tabor, a pros
hector, took 100000 in silver
from a Colorado mine.
You must admit Horace did all
''ioht for himself.
EIGHT references are made tn
Conway. It seems ConwaVS were
-"riters, generals, statesmen and q
Mot to deprive Washington Of the
commend Of the revolutionary ar,
Nv. Four American towns are
amcd Conway, as we'll as al
'n"lish county.
There are pages and pages of
'hiteS but the local town of White
lille is the only one listed.
See? There is no end of en-
'ightenment in an encyclopedia. We
could 90 on for hours but suggest
YOU seek your knowledge by do
-" a little browsing of your own
We got soured on encyclopedias
me time, though. We looked up
camel and it said "See drome,
larry" We looked up "dromedary'
md it said, "See samel."
You can't oct VerV far on Z