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THE COLORS IN THE RAINBOW
A learned German savant, in the
course of an exhaustive study of the ev
olution of the sense of color, discovered
that the rainbow has not looked the
same to men in all ages, says the New
York Tribune. He found that it was at
first thought to be all of one color. To
Homer, he says, the rainbow seemed
purple white. At a later period Xeno
phon saw in. it "a purple cloud, red and
yellow green." Two centuries after this
Aristotle distinguished three colors red,
green and blue and was able sometimes
to see yellow between the red and green.
Three hundred years after Aristotle
came Ovid, to whom the rainbow was "a
thousand dazzling colors, which the eye
cannot distinguish separately." But the
tricolor division persisted until the thir
teenth century.
Congress using the government mails for
private purposes at the expense of the
federal treasury, the envelopes in which
free garden seeds are sent to constituents
bear in one corner thb inscription:
"Penalty for private use, three hun
dred dollars."
The other day, says the Popular Maga
zine, Representative William A Roden
berg, of Illinois, received the following
letter from a farmer to whom he had
sent a package of the seed:
"Dear Congressman Rodenberg: I re
turn under separate cover the seed you
sent me as I would use them for private
purposes, and this would make me liable
to the $300 fine."
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