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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1919-10-16, Page 6Georges Otiemeueea , Premier of Prance All Ills Hfe Premier Clemenceau has been a crtmader, Utterly reckless of consequence. At 40ventyseven, tigbh, ing blood rens in the veins of the! tempestuous little patriarch. When ! Woodrow !\Upsets was a child, (elem.! anomie was teaching i''ta!nett and practicing medicine in West• Twelfth' Street, Ntty York (`icy. it was in the 'United Slates that the young French rebel courted ?d el Plummer, his future wife„ who was ince of Itis 'ands • at .Utas Aii its school at. Stamford,' Connecticut. As a mere bey of twenty. Ciemen-' retail went to jail for shouting, "Vire la. Republique!" ^ntid the joyous riot of an imperial fete. ltsevtng estv,a his !hest sentence. he went t., the 'United States, and there ad'1e.1 to Irl: small income by writing political let- tets for the Paris papers. Ile and his bride returned to Paris during tho -eig+' tad helped to care for the starv- ing refugees. As founder and editor of rive news- papers, ('tentenceau was in his ere meet as the sternly petrel of French politics. La. Justice. lallemene Libre, L'I lumuno b nc leame, L'Aure e —the mere titles reveal the nt:ui In roe last•nanned paper Cleuten.au fought passionately for Dreyfus, and won at last. Then propaganda plays, no41:, essays and duels engaged this Gallie genius, whose slogan was ever "I:xera- sez !'infante:" He overthrew tieu- Ianger; he caused the fall af Grevy and .rules Ferry; he wrecked the atm bilious of Do Frey einet at least three times; and drew upon himself •tiro odium of the Holy .See, through his ileree advocacy of Separations fol' Church and State. But a now nrto WAS perceptible in the. ('lr,iuenceau who surged once more hull public 111'e after the Panama affair haul subsided. He was now a prose, pout; the tensa ien t of Flamm to ['rtue" yet ;Always aha knight, ati.t with lames in cote n. the 1;,•t t+•;s rb .rs. pia of Rights. It WA.; int10Orges (le- tnenl•eitU's paper that Zola pubis tea his Lunette Jeteeut:e! Aud so en to Yoloism, to tate probing of naval scan- dals and to the overthrow of the Call. 1 tui ,,nut Brenna ministries. "1 wage dots always been the curt Cle. u :ee•au pe[tcy. No leader of nt ul rn !'ranee has swayed the um -s s this titan has. -one day when he entered a church in Lille during m:,: the eengr 1„tinn rose and sheered him frantically --and the rob. -ti priest himself joined in from the alter steps. "Ali, loon unit:' he said recently to a friend, "le vtux tigrt' is tamed at last; • he late now ne r 1 for teeth and claws, staving nothing lett but smiles." And now, a he Is nearing his e gh- tiefh year, mann^ fiery appropriately . rechristens her "Grant Young Man' Le s'e.r- dor to victotre. His life's work Prince of Wales Stories. While the Prince of Wales was at- tached to the Canadian Corps my bat- talion was billeted while out on rest after the "dinilig,an Woods" (Forest do Kahuna) scrap, at a anuli town- ship in front of Valenciennes, Called Vieetgue, lie Attic[ a surprise visit to inspect our billets ane day. and burst upon my platoon, who in:mai :e d the ti p Muir of the chateau. Thi: officer ac- cunipany-itig do !Unlace at once called Rriin Is. Still a Profound Mystery, the boys to atteetinu. He asked the Only a Few Facts Are as Yat buys if they ware "comfortable," with a very t•nrit)'te and somewhat comical Established. atni'h +, ,-. on the hist word. "Well, That ne••ve energy IS simple elec. ("hewn, and even in my far•off mum, mea," let sail' in conclusion, •'1 to try of Australia, the Bean Streets aro sorry to have broken tip your tame of trIelty is a belief now held b; many physlnlu7ists. often the only available playgrounds poker; hut," he added wearily, "1 as- Their idea is that the brain is the for the kitltlies. Howe Seen them ooz- star you it is not nay fault." see 0,0c'e ntral power :;taltion of anflelectric ing out, its Barry wenld may, of their 7 bad lots of t.,.ittct, to ssystem that hits for „ main trans -tuts. tenements at dusts—on the mutt tilde, wwino, Prince. end I assure everyone sine line rite snival cord, and for its throughout tlo Fagt ]Ind, or in the ho hasn't come in contar^t with h: ;t btltttiary wires, the ter' es. purlieus of Perls _pouring into tate that he is a jolly good sport. I remora.at • be (hie me•utq the brain directs and roadways to play, The sight always her ttnuther occasion-•• Le was walking1 s • it the activities of the body, 'reminds'reminds mo of the rabbits in Australia round our billeting area at Queant af• juntr.cl. a just Ile an ol::gay pores• stance over- that come out of their warrens as the ter the Camuliau :ted Ftriiislt fur, es ,, , , .ttfs the electric I°„hies, the t Lreet Cars, sun fines cloven, seendngly to sport to had smaeLcd the animus Dl a, .rutt- S •' Ile walked over and the innlunJ1111;!, mat•hines turd the open. eetic-ant .wtttdc Line. mechanical contrivances of n city. lou might go through these ways in avhlg in- But the electrical system of tt hu, the day and you might nut know there for scout n + Cs than were chikh•en there. All the time of the play hours of the children the traffic !,roves up and clown the thoroughfares of their play- HUMAN lay HUMAN BRAIN AN ELECTRIC DYNAMO NERVE ENERGY IS ELECTRICITY, SAY THE PHYSIOLOGISTS, Mean Streets A $ Playgrounds Will Crooks, M.P., with his magic wand of good -fellowship, recently turned one of tate Mean Streets of London Into a temporary, Hall of Yeasting and Festivity for the eh lid• ren, says Crawford Vaughan, lute Presider of S. Australia. His happy inspiration at once prompted the ques- tion, "Why Is tile not done more of- ten?„ In the crowded centree of great cities like London, New York, Paris, , to a party of ns wt)n were n struction in trap-readil,g tt i. et ery one of tie 'luau being is ori Mote to In l individually. Ian g1,e.n,itw c std when he c•>uue to that of : city. It has a much greater inlivit'tt 5• t y;tr!ety et (itrin; t0 ('(110 form, and 11 is question one of ..all leen. wit hailed vestry more efltt'lent. from Dstr.clt e, the &rorty answered him ton the Oneillelhld of generating c]eetrlufty gruuuds—gree' lorries, flying motor to u vets broad accent, whereupon lav burning coal. l'art of the heat cars, serene -ling taxis, spluttering mo - Prince said: "You nn1,t be Scotch.” is • Mac; r "but I thereby obtained is conver..etl into tor bicycles, Those little ones of the ^I mut that sir," repleterledrlrity by the mei of a dynamo, rho streets]earn to play hide and seep i canna mak' tett hoe ye leen." As the :.til but done; Houten anti the gar•t Prince and his accutepanying officer trursfurmatiort of one kind of energy —_...._. den, his birds and a very few friends; merest on their way he burst into a into another, utlitzn It for me. .;111 tent claim the .'venin of his roar of hearty langlitr+ J F. lark ct t an hepur, Tc a motor is f ov me. t 1 ' ally. !este 42ml Battalion 1 n;al web, phcnumeuotl representing merely the with Death. They dodge under great r tlUe its day. ed finders of Canada. In your own body tine fuel is the wheels, escaping often by it miracle It certainly is not an ideal recrea- tion ground, but It is all they have, and, however good may be our inten- tions, it is all they are likely to have for some time. But 11'111 Crooke dente,t alting with a now Idea, Ido ]cults the treble, sets tables loaded with good lhinge in the streets, and hie cheerful spirit dons the test. This is for one day in the year only, Niel r c t s .an of these •t �e•t 1 'Why cannot ti Mean streets htto playgrounds every find day of the year? Let us halt the traPte at certain hours In certain 01100111 and divert it down parallel streets, Do not let us take the busy hoot's for this purpose, but only the twilight hours --say after 6 pen. All good lor- ries should be in bed by 6. Such tine., tic as must bo about its business after the respectable hour of 0 p.m. Wouldn't mind proceeding on its way down streets p$rallel to the playing streets. 'The children's curfew, summoning then to play, instead of to their crowd- ed hones, would need, of course, to ring earlier in Whiter, As John Dlosefield tells us; "1Ie who gives a child a treat, joy - bells rings in Heaven's Street. Ile who who snakes a child a home builds palaces in Kingdom Come." 60M War F g res Rem odellin' arinennt•S. GWater,. Garret to Se Kept Intact. W _ food vote eat, which Is chemically Some comparative figures which � b.une,i, producing Sir Douglas Haig Went to Church The desire to avL sloth and the t t n ung With Tormm�.s, of iii heat according to the theory of the world war just ended are hero t o tin, James 'Wer p t 1 1 h' difficulty d f S• D here quoted) i, converted into elec.. i The ;,ante in which ., segs er heat A large part force a realization of the magnitude present -aitch ty to ,.;eixutg goo t + rs1 ec is Ute• i t moderate prices have chnrtcal studies is to be rcinoyefl in- I t During the past sur years 1r cog • e g vela: materialsa P - WI it toelittle from iia position an a3 llaig has been little more than a trielty, which is stored for use as it There were nineteen ntnjor wars caused women everywhere to tarts fit I z emacs to the British public, writes a may be required. their attention to remo:iell1°' old gar- top where ""ll iatltisethtst • correspondent in the '•Manche; ter One naturally asks, what part of the g fought 1093htott1(10 in 11�t 117years war alerts, Jlinding, patcning and d ring v. rte, whet ve•ars, mai r0-'�rectel in the central Guardian " Those who were asseci. br.•in generates the 1 at ]r�rtis0l�'escasla cost e0 per cent. more in lives and are fattbeouabde among prof' den. t • "d' a t t be n easel in ated with hie Staff were often sur- •is n dynamo? 1 1 0lectrictty lost 700 Per coot. more in money spout housewives; and the woman who has meitttt '11 zau ,ng.- c P t' its Birmingham. When 'Watt died tate • Prised at the secrecy of his comings : metal'. .11111 w•lte. is rite not turfed hert sl. 11 in the revived 1 a •t garret was locked and remained un- 1 and gat ,gs. no one in England seem- stored? ofb our thrifty granrin?e.: tors is nut, op:>ned for about fifty years, and even . ing ever to be aware (hat he had I "'Motor Areas" of the 110810. abreast- o£ over times. n,w it is still in exactly the sant: con-; erossed the Channel. But he Inas cane Nobody can answer these questions. To make a garment require^ ion as when Watt wonted in iti wiatderfully out of his shell in the last' The brain is :till n profound mystery judgment a.; well as skill, especiaity trite piece of iron Watt was last en-, few weeks, and has put aside some.to the pnysiolugdst. who has managed if the garment has been worn and t.ae thing or the gravity and reserve that ; to find out only a few things aboxtt it. material is not as strong as it was, gaged in turning lies on the lathe,• Next came the tour of 1554'50, in r The as es of his last fire where Watt c+lurracterizeci his appearance at Deb- i He can paint out Certain "`motor areas" which England, France, Sardinia, Tur- w'.ten it was new. It is not G.e-,ort, used to tin his wn emitting hecttuso of :tic worship at ge.uertil headgnartere' art its 501taoa, wlllch control move- key, Austria and Russia fought; 609, - to expend hours 0f labor ir.:iiping his wife's objeet_on to weir,, Iter bus-! Ile ryas a most conscientious church. and resewing a garment that will net, ! goer, and milers ho were • 01) the line„ meats or various pants of the hotly'— 797 men were killed. r. •• 4. w•a__<hin s, It is economy,! band 'looking like a blacksmith" are as, for instance• the big tor, which is The more recent war between Rus- s and g 5 still in the grate; the last lump of coal ing which chid not see hint at his place .a i,lt'd in response to enders from sia and Japan came third, claiming • than the whole nineteen other wars put together. The most costly in lives of the pre- vious wars was that between England and France, 1791;-1815, a total of 1,900,- 000 men having perished, however, to remake say -thing that is is in the scuttle. The Dutch oven is' there was nota single Sunday 1110111- rrr still strong and durable, The worker in the little but that wac a soldier's the ssiil le of the top of the cerebrumIt . the lives of a a,90D mea. first should be sure of her material.' in its place over the stove and the He will tell you that the "cerca ed bo- , frying pan in which he cooped his canteen all the weeds and a Presby- —a small Secondary brain, located be-_ The old adage that "what's worth o-; Q terian church on Sunday. Indeed, it ing at all is worth doing 1011;' should' meal is hangin on its accuatonred hind the ears --has for one of its func- tions was a canteen on Sundays, tco, be- tions the co-ordinating of muscular cf. In the struggle between France and always be in mind, for a garment carefully planned and cut and having well -made seams will never make a child fear that some taunting voice will call attention to the "hand-me- down." There is really more satis- faction in making a good-looking gar- ment from old materials than in mak- ing one from new goods. Women's clothes have been made over for girls and men's clothes for boys for years, but it is Duty during the last few years that men's clothes of his nose. He dropped a penny into have been utilized to any extent for little girls' dresses and for women's it. Tnrning up Queen Street. he en- aprons. countered another contingent of the A man's shirt is usually made of Salvation Army, and again a smiling good material, fast in color, and has -lass" held a collection -bag in front of the further advantage that it has been him tested for durability and has been Na, nal" he said. "I giod a penny shrunk. Worn portions round the tae a squad o' your folic roan' the cor- neck and cuffs soon make the gal'ment; ler just the nos." unfit for a man's use, but an ingenious ,•Really?" said the lass, "That was needlewoman can cut—not rip—rho very good of you. But, then, you can't shirt apart, and with a simple pat- do a good thing too often. And be - tern can make useful garments for; sides, you know, the Lord will repay children. you a hundredfold:" There is enough good material in al .,_tweet," said the cautious Scot, shirt to make a whole dress with long' „we'll jist wait till the first trausac- sfeevea for very young children. To don's feenished before we start the use a shirt in making garments for al second:' child seven or eight years old it is' often necessary to put other material with it. eenleSe the shirt `s very The Latest Ex^,use, strong, it is not -Jaen 1' use for this purpose naw material, but rather! Farmer—"IIsy, there, how came you some old material aha. has teen tested; to be up in lay apple tree?" for color and shrinkage. As to color,! Boy—"Please, mister, I just fell out if the supplementary material; of an airplane." matellc anything in the shirt. the! effect is .os touch the better. White: Bible in 370 Languages, pante collars and cuffs, a bit of bias' piping and perhaps a little hand! The British and Foreign Bible So - clay malts the garment more in -'clay [seues the Scriptures in upward tars •t.ing and distinctive. I of 370 languages and dialects. Germany, so disastrous to France and which played a very important part in the recent peace settlement, 311,000 lives were lost. So great has been the development in the engines of death that it is al- most impossible to conceiee the in eteaso of fatalities in tlto late war as compared with previous war's. There were sixty-nine years of war among the various nations in the 117 years prior to 1910. As nearly as can be learned, 5,098, 907 men lost their lives in those w'ar's That would mean 73,895 lives lost a year, 01' about 200 a (lay. In the late war there were 200 men killed an hour, about 4,800 for every clay of the war; a total of 7,450,200 according to the best available+ figures That would be about 1,750,000 a year In money cost of previous wars the French -English War, 1793.1815, comes first, with its tax of $0,250,000.000, THE S0ORY OF THE APPLE APPLE OF EDEN NOT THE FRUIT WE CALL BY THAT NAME. Many Fruits Having Word "Apple" as Part of Their Names Do Not Belong to the Apple Family, it is curious that the tipple, its WO know that fruit, should be counc•.et-d In the minds of men with the forbid• dell flute The apple has played a largo role in the history of the world, but by scholars there is wad to be no realm to believe tinctthe apple of Eden was the fruit that we call by m that une. A number or varieties and species of frulte have been called apples wbtch are not epithet qt all. One atitlt.n'ity has pointed out that the word "apple," like the French word "meanie," its equivalent, as in "pontine de tone" for potato and "patinae (rumour" for tomato, not to mention the Latin word "pontum," is largely and loosely em- ployed for0 groat number or different products of nature, Tho golden ape pies of the Hesperides may have been oranges, but even that is conjecture. It is certain that limey fruits have hug the word "apple" as a part of their 111111105 aro not apples in any other sellae than that they are traria- ties of fruit or vegetable, Some are edible and Sonne are not. They du not belong to the apple faintly and have not even the remotest relationship. For example, there are tho "custard i apple,' the May apple, tate mandrake dw apple, the vire apple, the egg apple, the rose apple, the nem apple, that - pineapple and the apples of Sodom.. Tomato Called Love Apple. Elders; persons can recall that the tomato wag generally termed the "love apple" -tt this country, and nobody but ;1 a mutter of names Would associate the real apple with the tomato. The thorn applo, with its prickly Seed pod, is ' nothing but the seed pod of the jim- 15011 weed, There are the cedar apple, which is an excrescence upon the junt- per tree; the oak apple, which is pro- • dueed by a ptu•asdte that attaches it- • self to oak trees, and the monkey ape ' ! Ale, the scientific name of which is "clausia iiava," iIt Is recalled that the peach, which ts supposed to be of Persian origin, These cells aro miniature Leyden jars, and in them is stored electricity The centenary of the Famous invent. tween the morning and evening ser - forts. When it comes to considering ! or of the steam engine was recently vices. There was never anything in the business of the "medulla oblongs-' supplied from the central nervous sys• celebrated at Birmingham, the nature of a church parade. Sir which is a great enlargement of Item of animal. Douglas quietly tools his seat, end any ta,' The reeear part of the brain expands Tommy was at liberty, untrammelled the upper end of the spinal cord. jest ! into a large bulb (called the "electric by ceremony, to Join in a service of below the brain, ho 15 pretty much ill' lobe"), from which big nerves run into Canny Finance.the dark. homeliness and simplicity. A. man from the north of Scotland There must be a motor somewhere, was on holiday in Glasgow. On Sun- to drive the machinery of the body, Sun- da/ evening he was walking along Argyll Street when he came upon a contingent of the Salvation Army, and a collection -bag was thrust in front The Salving of K-43 'More hike sainuresilito destroyer th;int and the forward air tanks blown. th:: nitr'ltn:uy !,r%31w,-I•n haat., Ii, An I? ,•it•mn•ine attel,ning the trials saw ti hiit•(i. s and made off for a It t;tib marine of a new help tacene lite t,leritl.w; 1 Wirelr.1 type, :Site wao nears il:an three huts• message to the naval 0rt...0 at t,hns• dr,•d feet long, • end displaced two gen'. Teltgrant e,•, sent ,to the thonsand tons when submerged. 17n- btiilde:s, and t ,rk w tt tartecd to like mu.t : ttionerine:t, 11.1.1 wag a sur raise tee alon<t, 1 .pedal bine-eu„^ined :ateaite•r with two funnels stiff of me rltintrrt toren a tub's seven fitted with water -tight covers for "dot- inches in diameter that .as to open ing when etre dived. '1'ltc ventilators up a Maurbt.twcau the lin- that feet airto her bother room were ii'isnu•:d tt !ne:lied"the upper sit'. The also atluitited,fot ; Kd closing down. mitt WP:-; re: rr, rly until i.r• rly two At noon un January 29, 1917, the A.- clays after 111: 1100t 0:111k, arid 11110 1.11(15' 13 loft her benders' yard to carry out had b r nu • ;ill rl ill fnr,,, +ht feel ah' diving beetle in the Gare Lich. A. lari;e that tin fnr f,:; 1o t! , nu•tt tapped party v 111 01) boar(!. W11 110 stcamhli; out. in Mo111 uta the Loll of the boat down the Clyde she mounded at ;ailed r 1. ;11,1..1Y, 'P1,•, t.+1,1,; was Wititeineh, but ,,offered no hurt, mid ,ultt .e 1, 1 ma11y the 0 ter:bled Ont on to the flora i:noh -red passed senora ,l,.lt,estrtotl, and were ready to w successfully through her trials, She unscrew the plate of an awn -tuition was aeeepteri tot the Royal Navy by ; hoist when the tubo wat) !11 place, the Adndrtdty officials. Then the alp. O't':e (venal, the tube earrlati i tt expected happened, tie It alwejet noes r clown to the matt, anti when one rrr at sea. The enntnuatttiEr atmelati to the lenge salvage steamers ;mil eel •Uut take 1110 rttmt•e dive, Ile gas's. the or sebrearilliA4 he to : 0 ra[si:I and dor, and the -11.13 aimed; but her volt• halo n1 :,: c t . , eeie the , 0ter and tilatot's had been left moan. instantly the tenter plate+ with stn ;mete:tine the water poured auto the engine ir,ttl., le.te:a tee men were taken 0111, 1 room, and K•13 sank by the stain. All 5,i••y could nr h , l..e aunt many of that happened in a few seconds. In- therm eurtld nr,l well:. Thee heel been stantly all eompattmerts were closed impel, ,.:..1't t e:e'e1 seems. Victims of "The Weed," "They are passionately addicted to tobacco" a British olt'cer wrote home, the many -celled ntasaes. This robe is an enlargement of the medulla iblon- gate, and it generates the electricity There is the blood to be kept centime, which is thereupon stored in the oval ally circulating through many miles of i masses above described --the latter veins and arteries, and, to accotnplislt ( being actually storage batteries, con - "and can be made to do almost any- tits, power must be applied to the 1 Strutted on substantially the same thing under its influence. One of them pump which we call rho heart. Power principle as the most up-to-date bat• uses a des ice lar bit of wood for a must be available ror use by' the exter' teries built for automobiles. nal muscles, and for many outer pun Tho electrical equipment or the for cigar fielder, and when a cigar is poses, e pedo ray, however. is far more eft'. Your nervous system is vastly more cient than any constructed by human complex than you probably imagine. hands, delivering a much greater Distributed on the spinal cord and amount of electricity in proportion to along the important nerves throughout the size of the apparatus and quantity the body are knots of brainstutf called of fuel (represented by food in the "ganglia," These are the subsidiary fish's case) consumed. stations of your electrical system, and According •to the theory here set tuh ththe aer[- forth, the torpedo ray offers merely an onshroPartsgofem yotu bodyctivttios arofe cltheirecvtod illustration of electrical phenomena and controlled. which are, in all essential respects, re - Human Electrical System. produced in a human being, though less open to ready observation. lighted and 1?reased into the bole and put in his mouth, he immediately closes his eyes and puffs away through his mouth and nostrils till the cigar is entirely consumed. "Furthermore, the nicotine appears to exercise a stimulating and refresh- ing effect upon them, so that, when apparently they aro ready to drop from fatigue before a smoke, they will plod on for litany snore miles after it," The letter does not, as the reader may have began to fear, relate to the! The system is a veritable maze of Merles and other camels that the oM- e_er saw in his service in the East. The Other Kind. A smell of buns and cakes end now- lybakecl loaves pervaded the shop as Mrs. Mnggins entered, a business -like old lady in cape and bonnet, "Good morning!" Sail she briskly, "Permit me to compliment you ou the lightness of your bread," The baker rubbed his hands, and smiled benignly, "Thank you, madam!" he remarked, proudly but respectfully. "It is my aim to bake the lightest bread 01 this British Tommies, but to some stroma- "wires" extending through every part of your body. Look at the palm of your hand, and observe the wonderfully elaborate arrangement of ridges with which it is covered in curiously 1011 - voluted patterns, Each of there ridges is merely a roof to protect a row of tiny nerve -cents. Beneath the outer skin of your palm are hundreds •of thousands of these, nerve -ends, and the arrangement of their rows is marked by the ridges. The sante remark ape plies to the similar ridges that, in equally complex patterns, cover the sole of your foot, These are nerves of touch. Suppose that the end of your finger comes into contact with something hot Enottglt to city," burn, The finger instantly signals to Tile old lady, still husiness]ike curl the the brain, "Something painful has brisk, then put the closure on the 1 touched me!" The brain signals back,, meeting. "Pall your finger away!" "Yes," she remarked: "and you do The order, of course, is promptly It. If it gets mucic lighter it'll want obeyed. But in the meantime, your two of your pound loaves to weigh' finger may be burned badly enough to sixteen ouncete!" blister; for it tapes an appreciable --- 3 time to send an alarm to the central Keep the etreets•Clean. Power station and get au answer back, ti familiar fihtetratton. of this is af- i)1'op it anyveliere! Nobody care::!! forded in opera Ung a tYPewriter, You ;1nyv.ay, 0110 Halo t•igorette box, or know that you are going to strike a the wrapper of chewing gate, or tins wrong ]ley, but you cannot got quickly envelope from the letter--snrilly, one enough from your brain the order to tie lid not call il,opI,i117 them 011 the your linger not to strike it, and so you have ±1 latter to rub out. Curiouely 0111711, the first hilt that nerve energy Might be electrical 10155 obteinocl through observation or a fists ---the so•called "torpedo ray," which looks Like a magnified skate, and car - Id' 1 1111 elaborate equipment for gen- erating toil etr,ring nlectt•itaty. So formidable are the tluvulnrbolts with wldeh it is armed that a marl who Ire (Tel foe ly Lonehr;t a fresh • caught p,.citticul ha 1115017 to be knot teed do ten. Storage Dc itc:lea of tri,. eidewelly', littering the strem hitt, if each citizen, pitting and n1t1, drops a paper on thrs public stt'rct.'t, the ea nnt- lative. effect will trot hp plr'ataent to behold, In Many of''im' towns and cities bo•:SS ere placed on that street:' for the defer:It of waste pep0r. Wtrnre sueli are not available, however, it is no hardship to rrarr - ,111111 piper writing:re until they can be properly deeps e11 01. 1't4t.1'r;l1,, and 7.11,, cost• tahrers afro not ant of plane in -Um pec ctuntilr1n,ty: Ie;pthem,h re, and, for the yr Iro, of eletteiy opeer' tlt1ee of tine etreets end that t ivld , 5 , I r.: •11 111.1:',1,1:1, 0110 on (.!et, whiel; is r,: ential•tn the general •51t:a- r,1 u'.1 brat: e,r-tn:.d., 11 11 pride 6 " prespe.,rity of the. home Levee, keep tesla t',e? et 'e et eleeed veetieelle t 'a s of taper off this attest anti b.:::, •,1•,1 .i a ly 1 : , :ttb.,can..o. Chinese Candy Makers. The Chinese are very skillful in making confectionery. They are able to empty an orange of its pulp entire- ly and then fill it up with fruit jelly without one iteing able to find the smallest cut in the rind or even a tiny hole, Indeed, they even empty an egg in this manner and fill it with a sort of almond nougat without one being able to find the slightest break or ha cision in the shell. --- I was called, long after its introduction Wilhelmshaven Sold. lint() western Europe, the Persian ape Wilhelmshaven, the ouco proud base! pie. 'There is even a vlrariCty of the fortress of the Imperial German navy, !wild limo which belongs to tho largo has been sold by the Government to - and interestiltg citrus fancily, yet a private syndicate. Thus closes the I which is, and long has been, familiarly career of one of Ole most formidable j called "Adam's apple," From this it naval strongholds in history, The might appear that Eve ]sanded Aclaln proud words with which von Roon, a lemon instead of a pippin. Even Minister of 'War under *William I„ thls fq•midable array of false apples baptized the newly built port, are well does not exhaust the list, for there is remembered in the Fatherland. ,,And the "Apple of Cain, or "Arbutus un - so I announce and proclaim, on the ileo." There also are tho alligator 1p• strength of the order of his Majesty pie, the golden apple of Bengal and the King, that from this hour on this the elephant apple, or tho w'ootl apple. port and the city which is to rise Anel the list might be still longer. around it shall be called Wilhelncs- it has been established to the evt- haven until the end of time," This dent satisfaction of some writers that was a half a century ago, on June 17, the "apple of discord," with which the 1809, The site of the harbor and city originally belonged to the Grand Duke of Oldenburg. From hien it was pur- chased by Prussia in 1853, and the construction of the base began a year The wild appl©or the crab apple, later, It was a desperate struggle has been known in Enropo and \tits iegeinst the sands of Friesland, against troth remote titles, and it is believed the wind and sea and climate, The that the ancients developed it into an edible and fairly palatable fruit, for . ' the Romans introduced into Britain a variety of the apple which was sae parlor to the native wild apples the inhabitants of Albion had previously known. Tho evolution of the apple has employed then thought and effort of many great men. Thera are hue•-- dreds of well known varieties in Canada, Tho Dutch and the Irrench were early in the field as cultivators and adapters of the apple, and many of the British varieties wicich were plant- ed in the American colonies were o,: Dutch and French descent, Tho ap- ple to divided into three main classes, "eating apples," which the English call "dessert apple"; "cooking tip• pies,", which they call "kitchen ltDe pies,' and "cider apples," Of course, most apples will produce elder, but name of Paris has long been associ- ated in classical lore, was not an tip• Ale In the present meaning of the word. Process of Evolution. job was finished in 1870. Something Missing.e Mrs, Brown: "Don't you find it aw- fully hard doing your own work?" Mrs. Smith: "Oh, I don't mind the work; in fact, I did the most of it when I had a maid. But it is rather wearing not to have anyone to find fault with." A New Use For Sandpaper. When the pans and cooking dishes become black at the bottom, use sand- paper and your utensils will loon like new. Kitchen Tyrants "A dish of foreign pipestems that bes a pudding whin 'tis cooped, but yez calls it a vegetable," a disgusted old-time Irish cook termed macaroni on ber first acquaintance with it, 13ut Bridget, - although rebellious and re- luctent, never actually refused to pre- pare what she also called a "mess that St, Patltriek, boliito, wed have cursed instld of atin', for the aterptne look of „.it 10115 otherwise, more c'crently, with Cdorinda, a colored nook from the South, contemptuous of rules and t'e- celpts, but a taut mistress or the art of producing good things to eat. Only; She nest like them htrself, She had absolute confidence in her own palate, aunt a native Sense of the culinary proprieties; and a dish that she dis- liked or disapproved of she simply do- elined to serve. - "No, Mimi Sully," mho declared flatly, when a daughter of the house wee 0111 to urge her to concede a fruit salad at a coming luncheon, "I am ;•..1'10 utak no sere a dissultablo mesh ,:•r nultody, This - ear multi' salad , -.,ht' over puffocltdy good o'inge,-1 hatttttp s and 11011r5 and peachett tigl'1: no, Mies Stt:ty, 1 dost' lee -:tit' wheat quality 'Nike deed it, 'taint rlghtl 'Cause nobody knows lirezackly Vat de good Lord had in tnln' even I -Ie made mustard, but mos' Into 'twos hawgs, and it sure enough wa'n't Poaches, tier o'ingeci. Go 'way, chile!" "But the dressings for fruit salads are different, Clarinda," protested Miss Susy, "Most of them are very mild, and—„ Taln't no use, Miss Susy," inter- rnpted Cloritttla, rolontlesaly, "Caitt't have no fruit salads iu die louse; not w'ilo I9n In it, 1 ain't gwho Stan' for 'em, no nror,e'11 I would for hoss•radltdi in de ice cream," Kitchen tyrauts, even in the house- holds of the mighty, have been known in all ages and countries, In !France, Napoleon II., in the heyday of hie power, could rarely obtain at home, and then only by personal insistence, his favorite dinner Of partridge with boiled cabbage. His cook consented readily enough to partridge, but he considered platin, plabien cabbage bo. !teeth the tmperial....dignity. If the emperor's palate eyperlennod maiitt- perlal cn•avinga, so much tine wore° for the rtotjiernfl "1 regret it, H'my master Is disap• pointe,d," he once Batted, "but I know my duty antd.I know my art, I serve to hint that which ahonld bo served." there is a difference between some varieties of apples which ere bred end cultivated especially for the produce tion of cider, just as there is a differ• encu between "table grapes" and "whlo grapetP Frons the Earth to the Moon, The speed of a shell when leaving the nuzzle of a gun of ordlntt'ly di• mansions is more than halt a inile a second, The muzzle velocity of the shells that the Gorm'tns tired into Paris is believed to have been about one mil& a second. According to an a ticle in the y eater- nal ane nal of the Royal Artillery, a slloll with a nuzzle volotiity of five miles te second, if fired at the correct angle, would become an attendant satellite of the earth, and would go mend It in a little less'thatt ono alol a butt ltottrs. If the speech were lncroaantl to 5nv011 miles a second, tho shell would go off into elides altogether, and presumably could be sent to the lmoon if correctly aimed, •Asparagus is 0110 of rho oldest known plants used for, food, An aloatrloally heated tray that can be .00mxaoited to any 1.6ginliiyg fixture id a new sick -room eonven!enoe,