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Variation« In Taata Ara D u. ta tha
Sanaa af Small.
I t it not generally known that we
can taste only four different kinds
o f matter— that is, perceive by
means o f the tongue any more- than
four taste qualities o f matter. They
are sweet, sour, bitter and salt. ‘ Ï I
one holds his nose and places on his
tongue in succession pieces o f apple,
onion, raw potato and beet he cannot
tell the difference between them. By
these experiments it has been deter
mined that the sense o f smell has
a great deal to do with the flavors
perceived or taken cognizance o f by
the brain. As the tongue can dis
tinguish only these four sensations,
it is at once seen that all variations
in taste are due to the sense of
smell. In some cases, as with the
orange, all the flavor is in the smell,
so when we eat an orange while we
have a cold no taste is apparent.
These four sensations also have
not their respective seats distribut
ed uniformly over the tongue. Sug
ar and other sweets are perceived at
the tip o f the tongue, as are also
salty things. I f a little sugar is
placed on the back of the tongue
no sweetness is apparent. The locus
o f sour and bitter perception is
back farther in the mouth and
laced on the sides o f the tongue.
loth these facts are easily proved
by experiment.
Another peculiarity o f taste per
ception is that dry things cannot be
tasted; only those that are in solu
tion. I f a dry cracker is placed on
the tongue not taste is apparent un
til the saliva has dissolved part of
it. I f the tongue is wiped dry with
a handkerchief and a little sugar is
placed on it no taste is perceived
for some time.
The mechanical arrangements
provided by the body for the per
ception o f taste are also interesting.
In the mouth, situated in the places
mentioned as seats of taste percep
tion and also in other places,
though not so thick, are what are
known as “ taste buds.” They get
this name from their almost exact
similarity to a bud when cut in
cross section.
These taste buds
have in them the excessively fine
branches o f the nerves o f taste that
carrr the impulse to the brain.
The only reason a great many
things are tasteless to us is because
they are not soluble in water or sa
liva. Take sand, for instance, or
lead or gold. None o f these gives
any taste on this account.
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THE BASTIL L E
uses besides the organ or taste. ua*
o f the chief o f these is the ability RI m and tha Fall af tha Famaaa 8tata
Prison of Franoa.
o f its end to perceive very slight
The famous French prison known
touch sensations. The tip o f the
tongue is proved by numerous ex as the Bastille was started on April
periments to be the most delicate 22, 1356, by order o f Charles V.
touch perceiver in the human body. The Bastille turned out to be an im
O f course the floodgates o f the portant structure in history, and its
saliva ducts are controlled by nerves fall on July 15, 1789, marked the
from the brain. One or two pecul beginning o f the French Revolu
iar experiments can be made to tion. It was originally intended by
show results o f thought on their op Charles as a defense against the
eration. I f one thinks about suck English. When it came to be used
ing a lemon or about eating a lus as a state prison it was provided
cious pear his mouth immediately with vast bulwarks and ditches.
receives an extra flow o f saliva. The Bastille had four towers of
The mouth waters for it. I f a per five stories each on each o f its large
son is frightened the flow o f sa sides. It was partly in these towers
liva is stopped, and immediately and partly in underground cellars
risor
were situated. It
afterward one perceives that his that the prisoners
le o o f containing from sev-
mouth is extraordinarily dry and was capable
cannot account for it.— Lawrence enty to eighty prisoners, a number
frequently reached during the
Hodges in New York Tribune.
reigns o f Louis X IV . and Louis
An Accent Accident.
X V ., the majority o f them being
Cast away upon a desert island, persons o f the higher ranks. On
Lonely Joe came suddenly upon an its site now stands the Column o f
other shipwrecked party— tne lost July, erected in memory o f the pa
Hiberian crew o f the good ship triots o f 1789 and 1830.
The name bastille, or bastel, in
Shamrock. Their hair flowed down
below their waists, and their beards ancient times was given to any kind
and whiskers resembled miniature o f structure calculated to withstand
a military force, and thus, formerly
jungles.
“ I want food I” gasped Lonely in England and on the borders o f
Joe to the first man he met. “ Food 1 Scotland, the term bastel house was
Qive me food ! Tell me, are you usually applied to places o f strength
and fancied security. The French
the mate?”
“ No, sorr,” replied the Hibernian Bastille was originally called the
ship’s cook coldly. 'T m the man Bastille St. Antoine.
Stephen Marcel, provost of the
who cooks the mate.”
“ Great heavens!” cried Lonely merchants, undertook the erection
Joe, fleeing for his life. “ Canni o f the French Bastille. The build
ing was enlarged in 1369 by Hugh
bals!”
He took the first plank home and Aubmot, provost o f Paris under
Charles V . He added two towers,
as he sank gurgled:
“ This is a far, far better death which, being placed opposite to
than t’ other would have been.” — those already existing on each side
London Fun.
o f the gate, made o f the Bastille a
square fort, with a tower at each o f
A Big Bell.
the four angles.
The largest hanging bell in the
After the death o f Charles V .,
world is said to be that in the great Aubriot, who had many enemies,
Buddhist monastery near Canton, was prosec uted for alleged erimas
China. It is eighteen feet in height and was condemned to perpetual
and forty-five feet in circumference, confinement in the Bastille, o f
being cast of solid bronze. This is which, according to some histori
one o f eight immense bells that ans, he was the first prisoner. A ft
were cast by command of the Em- er some time he was removed
we
pei ror Yungfo about A. D. 1400. It thence to Fort l’Eveque, another
is said to have cost the lives o f prison, from which he was liberated
eight men, who were killed in the in 1381 by the insurrection of the
roccss of casting. The whole bell, Maillotins.
oth inside and out, is covered with
After this insurrection, in 1382,
an inscription in embossed Chinese the young king, Charles VI., still
characters about half an inch in further enlarged the Bastille bv
length, covering even the top piece adding four towers to it, each 100
from which it swings, the total feet high, thus giving it, instead o f
number being 84.000. These char- the squnre form it originally pos
acterf tell a single story, which is sessed, the shape o f an oblong or
one of the Chinese classics.
parallel osrram.
T o increase ita
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strength the Bastille was surround-
ed by a ditch 25 feet deep and 120
feet wide. The road which form er
ly passed through it was turned to
one side.
The Bastille from its command
ing position was closely connected
With important affairs in French
history and was occupied by the
Guises in .1588, by Charles IV . in
1584, the Frondeurs in 1649 and
Conde in 1652.
It was natural, therefore, that the
Bastille should be one o f the first
objects o f attack at the outbreak
o f the Revolution.
In July 15,
1798, the populace o f Paris, recruit
ed chiefly from the Faubourg St.
Antoine, attacked the fortress and
stormed it after a half hearted re
sistance by the governor, De Lau-
nay, and a handful o f Swiss. The
vernor and seven o f his men were
led, the archives o f the prison
scattered, and the prisoners, seven
in number, were carried through
the streets and bailed as victims o f
tyranny and martyrs in the people’s
cause. The building itself was torn
down. The anniversary o f the tak
ing o f the Bastille is celebrated ev
ery year aa the national holiday o f
France. ________________
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An Old Tim * Eneyelopedia.
An ancient encyclopedia was that
compiled by a Chinese. In 1403
an emperor o f the Ming dynasty or
dered that snch a work should be
undertaken, and in 1410 the 100
volumes were ready for block print
ing. This process in ancient Chi
na was accomplished by pasting
written copy on blocks of wood and
cutting the letters in relief. The
work o f printing the encyclopedia
seemed so arduous that it was aban
doned, and the work remained in
manuscript. The hooks o f the en
cyclopedia were one foot and eight
inches in length and half an inch
thick and were hound in yellow silk. |
They were stored in Peking and \
were burned fluring the siege o f
that city by the allied forces in
1901.— Harper’s Weekly.
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His horse went dead, and his
mule went lame, and he lost six
cows in a poker gam e; then a hurri
cane came on a summer’s day and
blew the house where he lived away,
and the earthquake came when that
was gone and swallowed the land
that the house was o n ; then the tax
collector came around and charged
him up with the hole in the ground.
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