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Vol. XXX
Wednesday, May 8, 1929
INTERESTING FACTS
Gleaned and Contributed by Juniors
Skins of wild animals cured, constituted one of the
earliest forms of currency known and while employed
in the most ancient times are still used in some parts
of the world. In America the Hudson Bay Fur Com
pany used beaver skins in trading with the Indians.
In the days of Abraham, live stock was used as a
medium of exchange. Today in Lapland and some
portions of Norway and Sweden, the wealth of a
person is measured in reindeer. The Eskimos measure
their wealth in dogs.
Benjamin West who painted many famous Indian
pictures, was one of the earliest American painters.
He succeeded Sir Joshua Reynolds as president of the
Royal Academy in London.
Tapestry is a decorated stuff produced by weaving
colored threads into warp threads in a manner that
differs from shuttle weaving.
The Barrymore family has been famous on the stage
for the last two generations.
The following months are named for Roman emper
ors—July for Julius Caesar and August for the emper
or Augustus.
Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt as she
turned back, against God’s wishes, to look at the de
struction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Daniel was thrown into a lion’s den because he
prayed to God and not to King Darius.
The Marines fought in many sea actions of the
Revolution and lost forty-nine of their number in the
battle between John Paul Jones’ frigate, Bon Homme
Richard, and the Serapis, in 1779.
The seven wonders of the ancient world are the
Pyramids of Egypt and the Sphinx, the Hanging
Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Diana, the Statue
of Jupiter Olympus, the Tomb of Mausolus, the
Pharos of Alexandria and the Colossus of Rhodes.
The Bridge of Sighs is the bridge connecting the
palace of the Doge with the state prison in Venice.
It was so called because prisoners once having crossed
it from the Judgment Hall were never seen again,
and it was supposed that many of them were dropped
through a trap door into the dark and deep waters of
the canal flowing beneath. It was built in 1589.
The Rialto a bridge at Venice is a single marble
arch 98 1-2 feet long and was completed in 1591.
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A steeple-chase is a race on horseback across a tract
of country in which fences, ditches, and other obsta
cles are to be leaped. Originally it is said to have
been run to see which rider could reach some con-
spicious object first, such as a church steeple.
Sir Joshua Reynolds excelled as a painter of chil
dren’s portraits.
The front and back of a boat are known respectively
as the bow and stern. The starboard is that side of
the vessel on the right hand of one when facing the
bow. The companionway is the stairway leading
from the deck to the cabins. The “Blue Peter” is a
light blue flag which is raised indicating that the ship
is ready to sail.
The first to make pottery were the Chinese.
Topsy the, “eboney lump of mischief” in “Uncle
Tom’s Cabin,” “was never born but just growed.”
“Huckleberry Finn” was Tom Sawyer’s “partner
in crime.”
The little girl who followed a rabbit down a hole and
met with great adventures was “Alice in wonderland. ”
The two obelisks, one in Central Park, N. Y., and
the other on the Themes Embankment, London, are
called Cleopatra’s Needles.
The Nile river in Egypt flows over six cataracts be
fore it reaches the sea.
Dingres are wild dogs of Australia of fox-like aspect.
They are sometimes domesticated.
Huskies are Indian sledge dogs, used for drawing
sleds over the ice and snow.
A beagle hound is a small short-coated hound former
ly, kept in packs for hunting hares.
The dog frequently used for racing is the Whippet,
a cross between a terrier and a greyhound.
Sheep dogs, airdales, and police dogs are good
watch dogs.
Two famous dog books are: ‘ ‘ Rob and His Friends, ’ ’
and “Bob, son of Battle.”
General Custer and his division of two hundred sixty
men were suddenly surrounded by the Sioux Indians
and killed.
Since 1841 twenty-two steamships have left port
and never been heard from again. The latest of these
vanishing ships was the U. S. S. Cyclops, a Collier,
which left Barbadoes, West Indies, on March 4, 1928,
and has never been heard from since. She had a crew
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