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FIRST TUDOR SEDAN OWNED
BY QUEEN MARY.
The earliest coach and the latest
sedan --.both Tudoisl
Queen Mary's wee the first Tudor
sedan,
Creation of the original Tudor se-
dan is credited to "one Walter Rip -
pen,' by Ralph Strauss in his "Car.
riages and Coaches, Their History
and. Evolution."
"Rippon's first coach is supposed to
have been built for Queen Mary in
1556," says Strauss, "and in 1564 the
first 'hollow -turning' coach with pil-
lars and arches, for Queen- Elizabeth,
though precisely what is meant by
'hollow -turning' coach is difficult to
conjecture.
"This same Rippon, twenty-four
years later, built another coach for
the Queen which is described as 'a
chariot throne with four pillars be -
bind, to bear a crown imperial on the,
top, and before two lower pillars
whereon stood a lion and a dragon,
the supporters of the arms of Eng-
land."
"It could not have been very com-
fortable," obeerves Strauss, "and,
Elizabeth seems to have preferred an-
other coach brought out of Holland by
one William Boonen, who about 1560
was made her coachman, a position
be was still occupying at the end of
the century.
"Boonen was a Dutchman, whose'
wife is said to have ,introducedthe
art of starching into England, whence
followed those huge ruffs so conspic-
uous in all the Elizabethan portraits.
"Boonen's coach could be opened
and -closed at pleasure. On the *co-'
sloe of the Queen's passing through,
the town of Warwick she had `every.
'-art and side of her coach to be
'ened, that all of her subjects pre-;
i , t might behold her, which most
Tiy they desired,'
'This coach is described as 'on four
letels with seven spokes, which are
n, rently bound round with thick,
len rims secured by pegs."
elven this coach, however, can not
es -
have been very 0om0rtable and in
1668, when the French Ambassador
obtained an audience, Elizabeth was
complaining of 'aching pains' twine
being knocked about in a coach. driven
too fast a few days before,
"'No wonder,' comments one Ids-
torian, 'that the great Queen used her
coach only when" occasiona of state
demanded.'"
LIFE QP TIRE HINGES ON CON-
DITION OF VALVE CAKE;
"A. • very delicate piece of metal
about one inch long, faced on one end
with a slight piece of, rubber and sur•
rounded by a small spring of very
delicate nature, plays an exceedingly
important part in the life of every
automobile tire. It is known as the
valve core. It is the little metal strip
which screws into the inside of the
valve stem. In large pneumatic cas-
ings it is called upon to hold back a
force of more than 100 pounds which
automatically increases with severe
road bumps," says "Automobile Di-
gest."
"A valve core frequently lasts as
long as the casing, but tire experts
recommend that this little piece of
mechanism be watched carefully ata l
times so that it will be in good work-
ing condition and will not permit any,
of the air to escape from the tube. If,
the spring grows weak or the rubber
becomes worn, a new core should be
inserted."
HOWRENCHLDS LDs PIPE
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A. pipe cannot be held very securely
in the ordinary type of bench vise, as'
the jaws permit only a single line
contract on each side of the pipe. Byi
using a monkey -wrench, with the jaws
placed along the axis of the pipe, the
effect produced is almost the same as
that of a pipe vise. The wrench
should be set so that it bears on the,
pipe only on the edges of the jaw.
SPARE IS BAD BUMPER.
Never use the spare tire on the rear
for a bumper.
The Idle Gold Piece.
Idle money, like idle people, has no
proper place le the world. Don't hoard
your money; keep it employed. Put It
Into the savings hank that it may help
along the great undertakings of busi-
ness. That excellent advice comes
from the Boston Herald, which tells
this remarkable little story of a gold
piece:
In 1840 an attractive tea -year-old
girl, brought to Boston to visit a rich
uncle who had just returned from
European adventures, received from
him at parting a ten -dollar gold place.
She kept it as a memento. When she
died fifty years later she gave it to a
favorite niece, who kept it as an heir-
loom.
It has recently passed into the hands
of another young woman, whose fath-
er, a man of a practical turn of mind,
said to her: "That gold piece has been
loafing long enough. We will put it to
work."
And so he has deposited it in the
bank, but first he did a little sum. If
the original gift had been Invested at
once, at six per cent, interest, a rate
that could have been obtained during
most of the time that the gold piece
was idle, it would have amounted at
the time: his daughter received it to
Some twelve hundred dollars:
Why Not Sing?
Anyone' can sing, ,even if they only
make feeble orgruff noises in the pro-
cess. In any case It is surprising how
quickly gruffness or feebleness devel-
ops into clear and pleasant sound by
means of a little exercise of the voice.
Singing le of great benefit to every-
body who practises it. Its value to
the health of the individual by means
of its effect upon chest, lungs, beart,
end blood -circulation, is admittedly
great. And the pleasure to be had by
the singer from his ever so elementary
trolling of a song or two, is not less
great. Some of the eminent singers,
and hundreds- of those -who sing well
and give enjoyment to many hearers,
began by emitting no more than the
thinnest stream of sound. Nearly
everyone has a voice that can be made
to sing with some or other aceeptance.l
If the good singing voice to a rare
gift, the ordinary singing voice is a
common possession. That shyness
over the sound of his own voice which
so often affects the first appearance of
the public speaker, is repeated in the
potential singer who won't sing. It is
only Shyness, In most cases, which de-
ters, us.
That Longing to Ply.
"German aviators say it's quite pee-
elble to fly to the North Pale."
"Well, you can't blame 'em for con-
sidering any little trip that Would take
'em out of Germany just now."
When Eyes Tell Lies.
A well-known optician recently
made the startling assertion that color-
blindness is usually inherited, and not
the result of disease.
Sometimes, like gout, it skips a
generation. People who are color-
blind are always supersensitive. There
have been cases where men of seventy.
have hidden color -blindness from their
friends throughout their lives!
The famous chemist Dalton, a Quak-
er, who first discovered color -blindness
in himself in 1792, bad only three nor-
mal color sensations instead of six. A
Bower which he was told was pink
looked blue to his eyes, and in candle-
light reddish. When he cut his chin
one day he saw bottle -green blood
flowing from the wound!
About a hundred years ago there
lived a shoemaker who could not tell
brown shoes from black, and always
persisted in saying that anything pink
was green.
Some people are color-blind in only
one eye. While the right eye may see
red as red, the left sees 11 as black.
A High Style.
The ready wit of Henry Erskine, at
one time lord advocate of England, has
been preserved in many laughable
stories. Mr. Walter Jerroid in A Book
of Famous Wits records several of his
amusing sallies. One day Erskine met
a verbose friend and, perceiving that
his ankle was tied up with a silk hand-
kerchief, asked what had happened.
"Why, my dear sir," came the ans-
wer, "I was taking a romantic ramble.
In my brother's grounds when, com-
ing to a gate, I had to climb over it,
by which I eame in contact with the
first bar, and have grazed the epider-
mis on my skin, attended with a slight
extravasation of blood."
"You may thank your lucky stars,"
said Erskine, "that your brother's gate.
was not so lofty as your style, or you
must have broken your neck!"
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Under His Breath.
Two Irishmen got into trouble at the
factory in which they worked, The
foreman sent for them. Pat was call-
ed into bis office first and Mike waited
outside.
After the fateful interview theform-
ee• came out. Mike inquired how he
had got on.
"Splendid," said Pat, "I simply -
told him to go to Hades:"
Fortified with fresh courage, :Mike
went in to take his medicine. A few
minutes later he came out looking
very despondent.
"What happened to you?" said Pat,
"I got the 'lack," replied Mike..
"What for?".
"Weil' I foilowed your example, and
sent him to warm climate."
"Did he hear you?" said Pat, in as-
tonishment. - -
"Of course he heard me."
"You• slily idiot," replied Pat. I
spoke under my breath,":
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Ice takes about four and a half
years to travel from the Arctic
Ocean tetras of Siberia to the East
Greenland current, where it begins
to affect weather in England.
TESTAMENTARY
"Some day," said Porkies 13. McGill, '111 tape an hour and
make my will.' It Is e. job that I despise, although I ]chow it's
'sane and wise, for it reminds tbe '414'1011g skate that belt be
some day in a orate, and o'er his bead the goats will brows°, and
also sheep and bob -taped cows. It should be done, I must admit,
and shortly 1'11 attefid to it, but just at present, as you see, Tan
busy as a bumble bee, and I shall let It slide, I wet, until my work
slacks up a lot," While he pursued,his useful gauze 9 dark blue
auto climbed his frame, He gave a few brief angutehed pants,
and bade farewell to wife and Aunts, and journeyed to that shin•.
lug shore where autos butcher folks no more, And his effete;
were badly mixed; to get thloge straightened up and fixed, ad-
ministrators and their elan came in a etatoly -caravan. A second
cousin filed a suit, a lawyer looked around for loot, and creditors •
sprung large accounts, and fakers asked for large amounts, and
buagry relatives appeared with claims detestable and weird.
And when fit was all settled up the widow drew the Airedale pup,
• and all the balance went to pay the costs—which is the good old
way. The widow's busy scrubbing flora anddoing other drastic
chores, and as she toile site murmurs still, "If Porkies had but
made a will!" •
Anthem and Antiphon.
Most people know that the word
"Anthem" comes from the old "Anti-
phon," which consisted of psalm
verses sung from side to side of the
choir, or alternately by men's and
boys' voices. Not so many realize,
however, haw old the term and the
style of music for which it was invent-
ed are. It was described as being
very ancient by Philo, the Jew, a
writer of the first century. of the
Christian Bra, and this is confirmed
by the study of the old services of
Jews and Greeks. St. Augustine and
his fellow -missionaries are said to
have entered Canterbury singing one
of the Litanies of teat time in Anti-
phon. The modern Anthem, however,
In spite of its name, Domes froze a
much later style of music, and is more
like the motet which in Roman. Cath-
olic Churches usually is sung where,
in the Church of England, the Offer-
tory sentences occur.
Mirrors for Repairs.
The last place one would expect to
find a mirror is in the auto -repair shop.
Yet a collection of small mirrors will
be found to bo very useful tools.
For instance, when examining the
differential, into which a light cannot
be inserted, a small mirror will be
found useful to reflect the light from
a lamp into the deeper recesses.
Again, when working in back of the
instrument board, a mirror may be
placed on the floor of the car, reflect-
ing the light upward.
One great advantage of this it that
the light need not be held close to the
face, which not only makes for dis-
comfort but frequently defeats its own
purpose by supplying sufficient light
temporarily to blind the worker.
It Is a good plan to attach handles
to the mirrors, so that they may be in-
serted into narrow places.
Commands That Clashed.
Little Billy was visiting his grand-
mother, and she was doing her best to
give the small boy a good time.
The morning after his arrival she
called one of the neighbor's children
over to play with him.
"There now," remarked grandma, in
her kindliest tone. "You two can have
a good time together."
But the two boys merely stared at
each other across the room, and
grandma could not quite understand
it.
"Come now, children," she said, "Go
on out Into the garden, Billy, and
strike an acquaintance."
"But, grandma,' complained the lit-
tle boy, "mother told me just before
I came away not to fight."
Bargains.
There are no bargains
In the counter sales of .]life,
Wo think so, but some unexpected
day
We find our purchase
is a worn and shoddy thing,
So atter all in that "long last"—ewe
pay,
Experience
That comes at prices all too high
Is packed so often in the waste of
tears,
But when unwrapped
It will intrinsic value show;
Its worth will not diminish with its
years.
There are no bargains
In the counter sales of Life,
But Time alone can teach.us how to
choose;
Can show us that
What seemed a loss is really gain,
And where we bought for little -we
shall lose.
—Nan Terrell Reed,
He Had Already. Stolen Her Heart.
Ellen, the cook, was of a suspicious
nature. She distrusted mankind in
general and banks In particular; she
never banked her frugal savings. Part
of her wages were hoarded in a stock-
ing in some obscure corner of her
room, Ellen's "gentleman friend" was
the neighboring butcher, and as the
friendship proved enduring her mis-
tress was not astonished when the girl
announced her pending marriage,
"And I want to ask you, mum," said
Ellen, "what's the best way to put my
money in the bank?"
Her mistress regarded her in as-
tonishment, "Why, Ellen, I thought
you didn't believe in banks!"
"No more I do, mum," replied the
girl, "but since Pm going to be married
next week I kinder feel the money
would be safer in the bank than in the
house with a strange man about."
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Room for an Empire.
Saskatchewan has room for another
empire north of Prince Albert and
North Battlefof , in which agriculture
can thrive well, said the Right Rev.
Dr. G. Eaton Lloyd, Bishop of Sas-
katchewan, on his return from a six
weeks' tour of the limits of settle-
ment In his diocese. Flfs trip of 2,400
miles was taken ostensibly to survey
the possibilities of further settlement
of war veterans from Britain. The
country available in the districts re-
ferred to could provide homes and liv-
tees for a quarter of a million, was
his estimate,
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Stories About Wellinown People
Maatarinq the Atom,
With 1115 entrancing pereoualite and.
hie patience with less °lever people,
Sir William Bragg ie a aoloutist who
proves that eli professors are not "as
dry as dust."
Sir William bas achieved a world-
wide reputation be hie services to
science in comenticn with X-ray re
search, And in 1910 was awarded the.
Nobel Prize for Physics. You seined
have seen him as a hind of "uncle,"
explaining the atom to children at it.
reoont lecture at the Royal Institution.,
London.
Ile did -conjuring tricks with a dial
of sand pieced en a beaten drum, a
lead bail sinking into the sand and a
Celluloid sailor bobbing up stoat
quaintly.. The children came away
talking of the ninety wonderful worlds
wrapped up in the ninety different
atoms, and of how Sir WlIllam put
Ping -Dong balls into a tank and made
them mysteriously race to the centre,.
to illustrate how eleetrona form
around an atom,
Putting Color'Into Films,
It is good to know that a Briton, Mr,
Claude leriese-Greene, has invented a
way of making colored alms that
sabisty the eye and do not exhaust the
pocket.
Only twenty-five, he is the son of
the late Mr. W. Frlese-Greene, one of
the pioneers of the film industry, who
paved the way for others to make big
fortunes but died himself compara-
tively poor, Mr. Claude Friese-Greene
is going to add lustre to an already
famous name.
Business•Woman of Eighty,
Alert and nimble -lingered despite
liar eighty years, Mrs., F. G, Fettle fa
one of Lendon'8 most wonderful briei-
4080 women, For sixty yeare else has
acted as cashier !n her husband's shop'
and all slay amts at a. pay desk in New
Oxford Street.
Who said that modern business is
a worry? Mrs. Kettle keeps serenely
an, living proof teat the introduction
of women into business 10 not quite s0
recent as we sometimes think,
Speiling Reform Overdone.
The famous American evangelist,
Mr, "Billy" Sunday, Attributes much
of his-suceess as a public orator 10 the
fact that he spooks to itis hearers iu
language they are familiar with and
can easily understand.
'"It's no good talking over the heads
ofyouraudience," he told a reporter
the other day, and as an lllustratlou
oe his meaning he went on to tell the
story of Mr. -Curran and Mr. McManus,
The tWo friends came to New York
to see the eights, Among the objects
was a fine new public building. The
feature of this building that appealed
,meet strongly to Mr. Curran was an
inscription cut Into a huge Mons.
-"MDCCCXL,VIIT„" : he read aloud,
"What does them letters mean, Tim?"
aThat inscription," replied the cul-
tured Mr, McManus,"stands for 1848."
"Ob!" replied Mr, Curran. Then,
after a thoughtful pause, he added:
"Don't yez think, Tim, teat these
New Yorkers are overdoin' a bit this
new craze for spelt a reform?"
TallW enom .
I love to watch tall women when
go
Slenderly, as they should, and some-
what slow—
Unhurried, gracious, altogether sure
That they , are comely. Yet a shade
demure.
Loved women, who know life and are
complete
lu every little circumstance of joy—
Who have quaffed' deep the cup and
know the taste
Of those last bitter lees. I see
them go
Raptly, with steadiness and undis-
mayed'
By any small inconsequence of days.
High hearted and insuolant,I think
Tail women are, and wholly underter-
red'
By trite opinions. I have watched
them go
Their straight unhindered ways with
swinging stride,
And lithe and lovely, with e, 4arelese
pride
In their so stately bearing. So I say,
Tall women, thoroughbred, intrigue
my eyes
With their long lines of beauty, when
they go.
Slenderly, as they should, and some-
what slow. —Barbara Young.
The Fundamental Beauty of
Music.
Too many persons regard music and
its performance as some sort of mys-
tery, comprehensive only to those pas-
sessed of special training, whereas to
a certain extent any one who has a
goodbarand will apply common sense
to this consideration of music can-de-
terrntne whether he ought to enjoy It
or not.
If music is an art at all it is the art
of beauty in sound.- We need not tor-
ment ourselves by trying to arrive at
a definition of beauty. Let us confess
at once that beauty has never been
successfully defined and that it is en-
tirety a matter of opinion. But the
fact remains that among the cultivated
peoples of the world there 1s a pretty
general view that -Its fundamental
beauty 1s the beauty of tone. If the
sounds produced by instruments or
voices are harsh, rough, impure, or, in
a word, noises rather than musical
tones, beauty cannot exist. For that
reason we may without hesitation as-
sert that the chief object of all musi-
cal technique is the production of
euphonious tone. Probably that Is
what Liszt had in mind when he de-
clared that three things were needed
to make a planist, First, technique;
second, technique; third, technique.
What he undoubtedly meant was that
a perfect and inexhaustible technique
is essential to good piano playing for
the reason that without it nothing can
be made to sound beautiful.
Evensong.
The embers of the day are red,
Beyond the murky hill,
The kitchen smoke; the bed
In the darkling house is spread; •
The great sky darkens overhead,
And the great woods are shrill,
So far have I been led,
• Lord, by Thy, will;
So far I have followed, Lord, and won-
dered still.
The breeze froth the embalmed land,
Blows Sodden toward the shore,
And claps my cottage door,
I .tear the signal, Lord -1 understand,
'lhe night at Thy command:
Cornell. I Will oat and sleep and will
not question more, •
---R, L, Stevenson, • And Avoid bisappoihtment,
Chatfield said "Humanity is: numb' ninny of the utnilgrants arriving in
more shown in our conduct toward this Country tomo baro in search of
animals, where we are irresponsible liberty."
except to heaven, than towards nor ''You don't. mean 1)? Why don't.thee
fellow -creatures, where we [,re en.. take the iittlo trouble necessary to
• strained by the laws, by pii' lt' 051,15-, write to 0511141 nettve-born Amertcali
ion,. and Soar of retaliation." before they set cut?
Winterre's
T es.
The winter trees have kinship with
the skies
When the pale sun of February lies
Upon the level west and the air is
cold;
Then the last chilly rays like splinter-
ed gold
Come slanting up the fields, and swift
they set
A torch in every treetbp, in the net
Qf naked birches, in the maple brush
A twig or two will glimmer like a
rush;
And up the apple trunks a pinkness
pour,
And copper lights are in the sycamore.
But soon the sunlight wanes, and sud-
den slips
The lovely glazing from the maple tips,
And strikes along the evening cloud
and , glows
In richest plummy hues and burnished
rose.
And noiv by field and dotty wood and
lane
The trees are faded down to drib:
again.
Only the upper branches in the sky
Reach for the colored`clouds as they
go bee
Tangle them in their boughs and pull
them down
And wear them like a soft arboreal
crown.
—Christine Curtis.
Platinum Substitutes.
The great increase in tee value of
platinum during the last two decades
has led many investigators to &eek
substitutes therefor. It appears that
the search has been partly successful.
Platinum clad nickel steel wire in in-
candescent -lamps; wires of nickel al-
lays are now making the • cheaper
grades of artificial teeth; asbestos
threads are taking the place of platl-
num wires in gas mantles, and fused
quartz ware has come into general use
in chemical laboratories in the Place
of platinum utensils. Yet the intro -
dilation of these substitutes has not
affected tbe price of platinum. The
demand for the metal seems steadily
to have increased in spite of them.
Bicycling is the most popular form
of locomotion in France. Eetent tax
returns show that there are more
than five millian bicycles in the coun-
try—many more than there were in
any earlier year,
Where the mind continues to live
every hour of the day, the body will
also live inthe course of time;. and
what we continue to imagine our-
selves being or doing, without inter-
ruption, and with deep faith and feel-
ing, we will finally do and become in
reality. --Christian D. Larson,
A Clever Ruse. '
Fanners who suffered . from tite us-
ual pilferings of motorists the past
season might, try the plan that a sum-
mer hotel manager adopted. Ho had
planted a ]tower garden, but the guests
broke off blossoms whenever they
pleased and were not Pert!Cularly
careful to avoid injuring the plants,
Signs, "Do not pick the flowers," had
little or reo effect, but when the pro-
prietor repainted the signs to read,
"Flowers for sale" the, depredations
Mopped immediately.
The Worltl'8 Longea Tonna..
The latest trluniell of ce relneerinq
science is the recent Recoi,,fut eerie.
plotter* of the bord'g through anti us*
der no Catskill Meuntalne in 7Yew
York State, of tee longest couttituous
tunuel in the world, It is part of the
extension of Now York Citya water -
81101'17 system and will one' water
from the artieciai Soltoharle -reservoir
between Gilboa and Prettevillo to Al.
laben wt Elopes Creek, 18.2 miles
away.
The exact length of the tunnel le 90,-
740 feet, The uoxt longest Continuous
tunnel is that of the New York City
Proesur° Tunnel, part of the present
aqueduct system, and 03,053 feet long.
Tire third longest is aim) part of an
aqueduct system, the west section of
the Ketch Iietehy Tunnel in Calf•
Torula, 73,334 feet long, Tbs lougest
railway tunnel is the Simplon under
the Alps, 65,042 feet in length,
The Shandaken Tunnel, es the new
tunnel Le called from the part of the
Catskill range through which it runs,
is horseshoe -shaped in Dross section,
eleven foot six incites 'high and ten
feet three inches wide at the widest
point, The depth below the surface
averages 760 feet and in planes is 2,000
feet. The tunnel has a flow capacity
of 609,000,000 gallons a day -
Pouring tela immense stream into
Esopus Creek and thane into the
great Ashoitaa reservoir, the' resources
of which it will practically double, will
enable the metropolis to draw 500,-
000,000 gallons of water dally even
over a period of fifty yeare. With other
resources already in use title will as-
sure New York of an ample supply for
many years to 'come.
A Child's Faith.
Ruth' mother was thankful when.
thosein authority at the hos1itaI told
her that she might stay with her little
daughter when after a long illness tie
little girl had to be taken there for an
operation. Ruth was quiet and pa-
tient; she seldom complained and
never said anything to show .tow she
felt about the operation through which
she was to pass. She did not seem
frightened,' and she met everyone with
a brave smile.
Being with her night and day, her
mother noticed that she was careful
to keep her handkerchief in a place
where she could get it easily. There
was nothing strange about that, but
her mother also observed, that when
ever the nurse brought her a clean
handkerchief Ruth would transfer to
it .something that was tied into the
corner of the one she had. Her moth-
erw as naturally curious about the
mysterious something of which the
child waa so careful, and one day she
gently asked her what it was she
guarded with so much solicitude.
Ruth looked up with tears in her
eyes. "I found It," she answered, "in
the drawer when we left home, and I..
wanted that much with me," She let
her mother untie the knot in the Cor-
ner of the handkerchief, and there lu
a tight little roll was a leaf from the
Bible.
She wanted "that much" with her;
she could take "that much" to the
operating room; she could keep "that
much" in her hand when the dressings
were made. She had It when the
stitches were taken out, and It meant,
oh, so much to her! On the scrap was
this verse:
Music's Universal Language.
There is constantly in 0151' ears de-
bate as to the amount of loss suffered
by reason of the translation of an
opera -libretto out of the language ite
which; it was alginate- written into a
language more familiar to its burned!,
ate audience. There is also general
agreement that poetry, or any other
form of, literature, loses essential
nueiltiee in the process of its repro-
duction in the idiom and with the
words of another language than its
own. But music- bas no such limits.
tions. Its language is universal and
of universal appeal. Given a know-
ledge and a love of music 1n' its hear-
ers, a Beethoven Symphony cau be
played to a moved and delighted
audience from one end of tbe world
to the other, and lesser forms of
music are still more sure of their ap-
peal whether its hearers inhabit the
frozen north . or live under tropical
suns, Music le not only untranslat-
able.
ntranslatable, It needs no translation, This is
ono of the reasons why it may fairly
claim to be the greatest of the arts.
Giants of the Insect World,
The Atlas moth, a nighb,fiying insect
of Central Brazil, le one of thelargest
winged Insects in the world. its wings
measure foueteen inches from tip to
tip!
Another remarkable !asset, toned in
the mountainous regions of India and
Ceylon, is a spider that spins a bright
yellow silk web about live feet in
diameter, the oupliorting lines being
ten to twelve feet tong, These webs
are so strong teal oven birds and
small !lords are caught in therm, The
spiders, 'with their logs stretchtil out,
measure six insets ecroas,
As soon as a bird, IS caught in this
huge snare, tee spider throw cells of
web about its victim's head Until it is
blinded and choked to death.
In the jungles of the Island of Sus
metra lives a spider measuring over
eight inches across the back, and
seventeen thews with lege Mired(' out.
In, Venezuela IS to be found the
largest insect luiown. This is the ale -
pliant beetle, which often weighs
seven. 0051000.
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Artonius Ward said; "Whorl 1 nm
Mid, I sing, andthen others are end
with meat