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About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1907)
THUNDER COCHINEAL. Beliefs That I sed <0 Ells« Days at Old. The Way the Tier leoeete Live eng How They are Gathered. Odd Merry millions of little buglets sup port the vast cochineal industries. Where the tiny cochineal Insect comes from Is something of a mystery, but he does come wherever the nopal plant grows and for a long time was thought to be a seed or a floweret of the plant. The living female Insect is twice as large as the male, weighs one tenth of a grain and loses much weight In dry Ing, so that 70,000 are needed to make one pound. During the rainy season many millions of the creatures afe drowned or washed off the plants, so that when the long dry summer comes (here are but a few survivors on each plant. But these multiply so rapidly that before long the plants are cover ed The last act of the female’s life Is to deposit a large number of eggs, on which her dead body rests, protecting them from the burning rays of the sun until the little ones emerge. In about six weeks after the beginning of the dry season comes the first harvest. The plantation laborers make the round of the nopalry and with a brush go over the entire plant, sweeping the creatures into a bag. They then are killed by Immersion in hot water, by exposure to steam or by drying In hot ovens. The hot water or steam makes them a dark reddish brown or black cochineal The hot ovens make them a red gray hue or silver cochineal. The females outnumber the males by at least 2tX> to 1. a fortunate fact for the planter, since the males are of no use to him whatever. Thunder, just because It Is a noise for which there is no visible cause, has always excited the Imagination of the unscientific, so It Is natural that the moat outrageous superstitions about storms should date back to tbe time when everybody, more or less, was un scientific. One old writer explains tbe belief of bls day that “a storm is said to follow presently when a company of hogges runne crying home.” on the ground that “a hogge is most dull and of a melancholy nature and so by rea son doth foresee the raine that com eth.” Leonard Bigges, in his “Prog nostlcatlon Everlasting” (15561. men tlons that "thunder in the morning signifies wind; about noon, rain, and In the evening, a great tempest.” The same writer goes on to say, “Borne write (but their ground I see not> that Sunday's thunder should bring the death of learned men. Judges and others; Monday’s, the death of women: Tuesday's, plenty of grain; Wednesday’s, bloodshed; Thursday’s, plentj of sheep and corn; Friday’s, the slaughter of a great man and other horrible murders; Saturday’s, a gen eral pestilent plague and great dearth.” After this the gay and lightsome man ner shown by Lord Northampton to ward these grave matters In his "De fensatlve” Is most cheering. "It chaunceth sometimes," he writes, "to thunder about that time and season of the years when swannes hatch their young, and yet no doubt It Is a para dox of simple men to think that a swanne cannot batch without a crackle of thunder.”—London Chronicle. THE CABS OF NEW YORK. They Are lot an Integral Part of the Life of the City. The cab Is no Integral part of New York life. Venice without the gondola were as unthinkable as a woman with out hair. No little of London's com pelling charm Is In Its swift rolling hansoms. These things we know. But one can't think of New York In terms of cabs. Once upon a time I was In exile. Only In memory did the great city rise before me, and what I saw was tills: Huge canyons of stone and steel, filled with noise and darkness, through which great yellow worms crawled, one after the other, In mid air. That Is the picture of New York that haunts the exile, even as the out Inwod Venetian Is obsessed by slim black gondolas cutting ncriss I huos of moonlight. Your true New Yorker Is a steam projected, electrically carted person. Only In exceptional moments of gloom or gayety does he ride “In a carriage and pair." He Is carriage ridden to a funeral. He cabs It In wlney moments, when the fear of Hod Is not In him. There are only 2,000 licensed cabs and hacks on the Island of Manhattan. Others there are. of course, plying plratlcally In the dark quarters, but even with these thrown In the reckoning Is small. No; the New Yorker Is not a cabby person. Vance Thompson In Outing Magaalne. 4 College In Rokhnrfl. There lay behind tlie great arch and the domes and the minarets a retired precinct of ancient trees and shaded walks, a grove In the midst of a city, colonnaded In quadrangle by the point ed arches of the students’ cells. I’nder the trees was a sort of summer house or pavilion. Two or three young men were walking In an avenue against the farther colonnade, and on the stone steps of a wide, shaded pool sat several mullahs on their praying rugs. We visited a number of the students In their cells monastic little brick walled rooms where they live the veer around (there are no vacations In Mussulman colleges) and for years on end. It Is not unusual for a student after passing the primary school to spend as much as fifteen or twenty years at his higher studies, though usually In such a long course he will go through several dlf ferent colleges In the order of advance ment Quiet men. these students, mild eyed, patient, often middle aged.—Mln neapoils Bellman. la Estate or Business No Matter What Your Property is Territory A STUDY IN MILEAGE ith the following specification : Town or city Almost Every Country lias a Stand ard of Its Own. ! | | j I English speaking countries have four different miles—the ordinary mile of 5.280 feet and the geographical or nau tical mile of 6,085, making a differ ence of about one-seventh between the two; then there is the Scotch mile of 5.928 feet and the Irish mile of 6,720 feet—four various miles, every one of which Is still In use. Then almost every country has Its own standard mile. The Romans had their mille passuum, 1.000 paces, which must have been about 3.000 feet In length unless we ascribe to Caesar’s legionaries grent stepping capacity. The German mile of today Is 24,318 feet In length, more than four nnd a half times as long as our mile. The Dutch, the Danes and tbe Prus sians enjoy a mile that Is 18,440 feet long, throe nnd a half times the length of ours, and the Swiss get more exer- else In walking one of their miles thnn we get In walking five miles, for their mile Is 9,153 yards loug, while ours Is only 1.760 yards. The Italian mile is only a few feet longer than ours; the Roman mile Is shorter, while the Tus can and the Turkish miles are 150 yards longer. The Swedish mile is six and a half times and the Vienna post mile Is four and a half times the length of the English mile. 1’earsoD's Weekly. ountv.................................. Slate........................ 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I'pou the walls and the towers surrounding these churches are mounted huge guns, which In the time of the Crlmeau war were directed against the British White sea squadron. “How." «aid the young man who had boon In the matrimonial game tor nearly a week, “can I tell when the honeymoon Is over?" “It will be over." answered the man who had been married three times, "when your wife stope telling things and begins to ask questions.’"—Chicago News. Price between $ I ■ It* th* easiest and on|y to 9*< the best Splendid assortment Boy’s and Youth’s Hij Top Winter Shoes ai Ladies’ foot wear. Sold everywhere KILL thi couch *■» CURE thi LUNCS Mv 30 years practical experience gives tne the advantage selecting a stock of Boots and Shoes suitable for the Tillat« trade.
