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The CHEMAWA AMERICAN Page 4 INTERESTING FACTS it took him three years, from 1519 to 1522, to circum navigate the globe. In 1857, baseball reached the west, and it was soon of fifteen officers and 221 men, with six army officers seen that to give consistency to the game some general and fifty-one enlisted men as passengers. Tea plants are propagated in nurseries, then trans governing body was necessary. A tentative effort was planted. It takes three or four years for the plant to made in New York in 1857, when a convention of mature and it lives about twenty-five years. The players was held for the purpose of drawing up rules, plant is an evergreen and is kept pruned down to a but it was not until the next year that the National height of three to six feet. Leaves are picked by Association of baseball players came into existence. hand several times during the season. They are placed On March 9th 1859, it held its first meeting at Cooper Institute. on bamboo mats and turned at intervals until slightly Henry Chadwich (1824-1906) sporting editor of the wilted. Then they are roasted in metal pans over Brooklyn Eagle has been called the “Father of Base charcoal fires, after which they are rolled on tables, ball.” A memorial tablet so dedicated to him stands a second roasting follows. today. Epic poetry is the name given to the most dignified Proteins are a class of exceedingly complex com and elaborate form of narrative poetry. When he was dying, the Roman poet, Virgil, ordered pounds containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen his Aeneid to be burned as it required three more years and sulphur, found in nearly all the solids and liquids of work to finish it. “Paradise Lost” and “Paradise of animals and vegetable oragnisms. The foods that Regained” described the fall and redemption of man. contain large percent of proteins are milk, eggs, meat, The largest bell in the world is the Tzar Kolakoi, or cheese, fowl, fish, beans, peas, nuts and gluten of wheat. Tzar bell, which now stands in the middle of a square The cocoa bean grows in pear-shaped pods six to in Moscow and is used as a chapel. Cast in the year 1733, an attempt was made to hang it so that it might twelve inches long; each containing about fifty seeds be rung, but it broke from its support and fell to the the size of almonds. Knives on the end of poles are ground making a great hole, through which it sank used in harvesting. The pods are left on the ground for a day. Then the seeds are removed and dried on and lay for over a hundred years. In 1836 it was open air platforms. Later they are packed in large raised by the emperor. The broken side forms a door bags and shipped. way to the present day chapel. RETURN OF ICE AGE The chief trees that are found in the state of New The feeling that another ice age is creeping slowly York are white pine, spruce and hemlock, inter back on northern Europe and North America has been mingled with maple, beech, oak and basswood. revived in European minds by the unusual co.d of the In 1868 President Grant began the “peace policy” present winter, and it has received the support of the of settling the Indians on reservations and planting distinguished German geologist, Prof. WaltherGothan of the Prussian Geological Survey, according to Dr. schools and missions among them. The most famous of English potters is Josiah Wedge E. E. Free. Prof. Gothan basses his suggestion large ly on the evidence of fossil plants. The ice age was wood, who established his works in 1769 in Stafford not, he points out, a single period of cold. Instead, it shire. Wedgewood China is famous the world over. was divided into several glacial periods separated by The murdering of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand warm inter-glacial periods. During these interglacial of Austria and his wife at Sarajevo, Bosnia, on June periods plants migrated northward behind the edge of 28, 1914, set the world afire and was the direct cause the melting ice, leaving their fossils in a regular suc cession. of the World War. First came stunted bushes and grass plants like those James Fenimore Cooper was the first American au which now grow on the tundras of Alaska and Siberia. thor to picturize the life and habits of the North Behind these, as the climate grew warmer, came forests American Indians, in “The Leather Stocking Tales.” of pine and birch trees. Finallv toward the middle of Knowledge of the plants and animals preceding the each warm interglacial period, the forests were of beech trees, as the natural European forests are now. When creation of man is derived from their remains dug out each interglacial period gave way, in turn to renewed of the earth and called fossils. cold and ice, this plant sequence followed the reverse Uncle Remus is the Old Negro Slave who tells the order; beeches were replaced by birch and pine, these famous “Bre’r Rabbit” Stories in the book, “Uncle by the tundra, this, finally, by the ice. A few centu Remus.” The book was written by Joel Chandler ries ago, Prof. Gothan believes, the present beech for ests of Europe were larger than now. Already he Harris. suspects, birch and pine trees have begun to supplant Fernando Magellan was the first explorer to make them; perhaps a sign that 20 or 30 thousand years a trip around the world. Sailing from Seville, Spain, from now the ice age will be back. (Continued from page 1)
