The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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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.
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