THE TIMES
.
SONG OF THE WHALE.
A single dollar down
Is the talk of the town;
Just a dollar a week
Is all that we seek,
On the finest of gowns,
Either female or male—
Come to us—we’ll make the sale
That the garments will fit,
And are made very tine
Is guaranteed by “ It”—
SHIPS AS THEY SINK.
C o m m e n c in g et Heme.
The Humpback la a Littla Mora Musi- Thair T r ip to tho Bottom and What
cal Than tha Bowhead.
H a p p e n s A fterw ard .
Whales are rarely thought of aa vo What becomes of the ship that sinks
calists. yet according to Miss A. D. In mldocean? If It is of wood it takes,
Cameron In "The New North” they tn the first place, considerable time for
really have a distinctive song of their it to reucb the bottom. In a hundred
own.
or more fathoms of water a quarter of
A certain Captain Kelly was the drst an bonr will elapse before the ship
to notice that whales sing. One Sun reaches bottom. It sinks slowly, and
day. while otUcers from three whaling j when the bottom is reached It falls
ships were ’’gamming" over their after | gently Into the soft, oozy bed, with no
noon walrus meat. Kelly started up crash or breaking.
with “1 hear a bowheud!" There was Of course If It is laden with pig iron
much chatting about “Kelly's band.” or corresponding substances or If It Is
but Kelly weighed anchor and went to an iron ship it sinks rapidly and some
find the band wagon. Every sail fol times strikes the bottom with such
lowed bis. with the result that three force as to smash In pieces. Once
whales were bagged.
sunken a ship becomes the prey of the
Among bowbeuds this singsong Is a countless Inhabitants of the ocean.
call that the lender of the school, as be They swarm over and through the
forces a passage through Bering sea. great boat and make it their borne.
makes In order to notify those that fol Besides this they cover every Inch of
low that the straits are clear of Ice.
the boat with a thick layer of lime.
Walruses and seals and all true main This takes time, of course, and when
mals that have lungs and live In the one generation dies another continues Mrs. Suffrage—It is woman's duty to
water have a bark that sounds strange the work until finally the ship is so correct the crying evils of our times.
enougb us It comes up from hidden laden with heavy Incrustations, corals, Mr. Suffrage—Then you had better
depths Every lookout from the mast- sponges and barnacles that If wood start spanking baby.—New York Mall.
tuaid notices that when one whale Is the creaking timbers fall apart and
Btruck the whole school Is ’’gallled” or slowly but surely are absorbed In the
stampeded at the very Impact of the waste at the sea bottom.
harpoon; they have beard the death Irou vessels are demolished more
song.
quickly than those of wood, which
The sound that the bowhend makes may last for centuries. The only met
is like the long drawn out “boo-boo-oo als that withstand the chemical action
oo-oo!" of the hoot owl. A whaler says of the waves are gold and platinum,
that the cry begins on F and may rise and glass also seems unaffected. No
to A, B or even C before slipping back matter how long gold tuay be bidden
to F again He assures us that with in the ocean, it will always be gold
the humpback the tone Is much finer when recovered, and this fact explains
and sounds across the water like the the many romantic and adventurous
note from the E string of a violin.
searches after bidden submariuo treas
ures lost In shipwrecks.
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D a y and N ig h t Schools.
It is said that when Thomas Jeffer
son Journeyed from Monticello to Phil
adelphia on his way to take the oath
of office as vice president he carried a
lot of bones In bis baggage. The bones,
alleged to be tbose of a mammoth,
had been found In Greenbrier county,
Va., and sent to Monticello, where
they were set up by Jefferson, who.
It appears, entertained a somewhat ex
aggerated notion of bis attainments In
natural history and who stood sponsor
for the bones as those of “a carnlcu
rous clawed animal entirely unknown
to science.”
It was not until after Jefferson
renched Philadelphia that he wns un
deceived. for at a glance the learned
Dr. Wlstar saw that they were the
bones of the common sloth, several
specimens of which he showed the
Virginian. Jefferson. It Is related, wns
greatly chagrined, especially as his dis
covery became known as Megalonyx
Jeffersonil.
It has been pointed oat that Indi
rectly no less a naturalist than the
great Buffon mny have been responsi
ble for Jefferson's error. It was the
Virginian’s practice to send Buffon
specimens and Information, and with
the subtle flattery of a courtier the
French naturalist wrote:
“I should have consulted you, sir.
before publishing my natural history,
and then I should have been sure of
the facts.”—New York Sun.
EARLY COLONIAL HOUSES.
S o m e H a d In n e r Sto n e W a lls to R e sist
the In d ia n R aide rs.
In America the early colonists had
little use for the masou's art, except in
the construction of the huge chimney
stacks which In any dwelling of con
siderable size and any pretensions to
comfort formed a very considerable
part of the structure. The great kitch
en fireplace and oven, with smuller
hearths In from two to four rooms on
each floor, required a very considera
ble part of the material and skilled
mbui bestowed upon a colonial home
stead In the more northern colonies.
In some sections where the dangers
of an attack by Indian raiders were
Imminent, the wooden walls of tho
lower story Inclosed a stout wall of
brick or a kind of rubble masonry.
Some of these buildings are still stand
ing and Inhabited, although dating
back (at least so far as the lower
stories are concerned) over two cen
turies. A very few brick buildings
have wholly or In part come down to
us from the first years of colonization,
and until within the last half century
some that preserved the peculiar fea
tures of Elizabethan and Stuart types
of dwelling and business structures.
Much of the brick and about all the
great flooring tiles nnd ornnmentnl
tiling were at first Imported from Eu
rope, but lime nnd brick of good qual
ity were soon produced In almost every
community.—Charles Winslow nail in
National Magazine.
NEW TEEM OPEING
MONDAY, APBIL 1, 1912.
Building, Cor. Sixth and Taylor Sts.
Class—
Fee to June 1.
F o ste r M other.
Love W ill F in d a W a y.
Algebra ............................................$ 5.00 There Is T h a e story
about a hen The young
hastened into the
Architect, Draft ............................. 7.50 which was Intrusted told with
a sitting union station. couple
Arithmetic ..............................
2.00
It
wns
patent that
ducks' eggs to batch. When the they were not married. very
Automobile Course ...................... 50.00 of
They
were alto
Bookkeeping ...................................... 6.00 young brood went down to the water gether too chummy for that They went
Boys’ School .................................... 4.00 she wns frantic with anxiety, but the out onto tbe platform and stood and
Business Eng. and Cor.................... 2.00 second year, when her next brood of talked for a minute, when he took her
Business Law .................................. 2.00 ducklings went to swim, she was In his arms and kissed her fondly and
Carpentry and Woodworking.... 10.00 scarcely troubled at all, nnd the third again
hurried away toward n train.
Chemistry ........................................ 10.00 year she would fly to a stone In the i
Dairying .. ....................................... 2.00 middle of the pond and from her coign i “What do you think of that?" in
Electricity & Electric Machinery 15.00 of vantage watch the ducklings swim quired one of the attaches of the sta
English for Foreign Men................. 3.00 ronnd her with evident pride. The tion.
English Grammar and Reading. . 3.00
looks all right. Why?”
English Literature ......................... 3.00 fourth year she was allowed to hatch “That
“They do that three or four times a
Freehand Drawing ........................... 7.00 her own eggs, and when she discover week.
They think that everybody else
French ................................................ 5.00 ed that the Infant chicks had no In will think
that he Is going away on u
Forestry and Lumbering.............. 10.00 tendon of taking to the water she long
but he has never got on a
Geometry ........................................... 5.00 flew to the stone In the middle of the train journey,
yet ne simply walks around
German ............................................... 5.00 pond and clucked frantically to them
back of tbe train and disappears. He
Latin .................................................. 5.00
gets his kiss all right, though.”—Louis
Mechanical Drafting ..................... 7.50 to swim ont to her
Penmanship ..................................... 2.00
ville Times.
C h e e rfu l F o r H im .
Pharmacy ........................................ 25.00
Plumbing Shop Practice.............. 15.00 Not long ago a stock of crockery was
M in u te n e ss of an Atom .
Public Speaking ............................. 6.00 sold at auction, and Mrs. Wilson at Sir Oliver
Ixidge ouce gave a striking
Rhetoric ............................................. 3.00 tended the sale When she returned
Illustration of the minuteness of the
Spanish ............................................... 5.00 her face was radiant with Joy.
Shorthand ........................................... 6.00 “Yon must Join the cremation so atom. The amount of gold In sea
Show Card Writing...........................12.00
although very small, seems con
were the first words she said water,
Trigonometry ..................................... 5.00 ciety."
siderable when stated In atoms, for a
Typewriting ....................................... 6.00 to her husband
single drop of sea water contains 50.-
Vocal Music ....................................... 3.00 Mr W.-What for?
atoms of gold That figure,
Call or send for Free Illustrated Mrs. W.—I’ve bought such a lovely 000.000
however. Indicates merely one-fiftieth
Catalogue.
vase to hold your ashes! Yon have no of
a grain In a ton of sen water, and
Similar schools Seattle, Tacoma, Spo Idea how It will set off the mantelpiece
It would take 100 , 000.000 atoms to be
kane.
visible under a microscope of the high
H e r G entle H int.
est
power.
Borem—Rome
one
must
have
been
W a n te d to Be Prepared.
Joking
Miss
Suburbs
about
me
and
told
A congressman tells of a little shoot
A B a d 8pill.
her I owned the street railway system
ing party which he attended.
a young woman left *500,
“More^tban one of the party,” said I here. Porem—What makes you think 000 “Here’s
merely for spilling n little sun
the congressman, "felt a trifle nervous so? Borem—Why. I was out to call on
Into sn old man's life."
about a certain young Englishman as her last night and every time she shine
“Her experience Is more fortunate
he and his gun seemed strangers beard a car she said. “There comes than
mine 1 once spilled a cup of
Nothing occurred, however, until 1 felt your car, Mr. Borem.”—Judge.
coffee Into an old man’s lap and he
something poking me In the side as we
cut me out of his will altogether.”—
crept along. Turning quickly, I found
T h e L aw s.
the novice prodding me with the muz “I care Dot w ho m akea the conn Louisville Courier-Journal.
zle and fumbling with the hammers of try’s la w s.” anld the "s h a r p ” law yer.
Satisfie d W ith 8ound.
•If”—
bis gun.
“The
man
has a wonderful flow of
“ HI, Gns.' he whispered, ’before we “If wbnt?" bis colleague asked.
language."
said
the Impressionable
get on to the birds you might just I “If they continue to put In verbiage girl.
show me 'ow yon let these 'ere trig that may he varloualy Interpreted.”— | “Yes." replied Miss Cayenne. “He Is
Chicago Record-Herald.
gers downT "—Boston Traveler.
one of the people who would rather
talk than be listened to.”—Washington
Esp e cially.
O n io n S o u p and Fam e.
8tar. *
The
Preacher-We
never
realize
the
j
Membership In the French academy. .
foil
value
of
anything
until
we
lose
It.
I
the hoped for reward of Gallic writers,
8 h e C o u ld n ’t 8»» It.
was once c'osely associated with onion The Bereaved Widow—That'» bo . ea- j Miss—You earn *50 a month. Refore
peelally
If
the
lost
thing
Is
Insured.
soup. During the restoration In France
I marry yon you'll have to earn *.V; a
• clnb was formed under the title of
week. Mister—B hut with yon a month
P o o r O p in io n of Papa.
“Diner de la Soup a I'Onlon.” This or
would seern hut a week.—New York
ganizatlon contained twenty members Little Elsie (after being punished»—I I Globe
It met every three months, when the think papa 1 » dreadful Was he the j
dinner was opened with an onion soup | only man yon could get. mamma?—Bo*
Som e tim e s H ap pens.
The clnb was to endure until every ns ton Transcript.
Mr«. Whyte—I understand «he mar
sociate was elected to the academy
ried beneath hpr. Mr». Browne—Ye»,
This was accomplished In 1845, when When the heart say» “Give” the gift the young man In the flat below.—Bom
will never tie too »mall
the laer hnnnuet was held
ervllle Journal
“Do you know why all the artists
have such long hair?"
“Why, of course: so they can have
some brushes.”—Le Hire.
C aricatured .
"I should like to make an attempt
at caricature. Can you give mo an
Idea for one?”
“A portrait of yourself.’’—Puck.
And She W as
Fat.
"I thought you
were so madly in
love with Ethel?”
“ I was.’’
“W el l , w h a t
happened?”
“You know girls
are apt to grow
to look like their
m o t h e r s after
awhile?"
“Yes.”
“Well. I met
her dear mam
ma.”
Rude.
Bird-What are you sqnlntlng nt, yon
rude boy? Didn't you ever seo a bird
before ?
P la y fu l Pusey.
i
“How did you come by tbose
•cratches?”
“I was playing with the cat.”
"And that bruise on your /orehead?”
"8be—she threw a flatiron at me.”—
Fliegende Blatter.