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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, SEPTEMBER 24, 1908
MYSTERY CF THOUGHT.
Try to Concentrate Your Mind on Ono
Them. For Five Minutes.
A St. Louis physician who has given
much ntteution to the study of mental
disease In Its various phases, though,
as he says himself, not enough to qual­
ify as an alienist, has a curious theory
with regard tocouceutration of thought
on any particular subject
His Idea is that no human can so
fix his mind on any special topic ns
to avoid even for a moment the errant
thov ts that come and go. not only
without our volition, but In spite or
our most earnest efforts at mental ap­
plication.
He goes so far as to maintain that
nobody but a monomaniac can think
of one subject continuously for five
minutes and eveu believes that the
ability to do so Is oue evidence of
something wrong In the upper story
“I once beard the subject discussed
by a party of Intelligent men. and one
of the number was so confident of his
ability to think of one subject an In­
definite length of time that he roused
his opponents lo the polut or making n
test.
“ If you can repeat the laird's Prayer
and then declare upon your word of
honor that you have not thought or
anything else while doing ft. I'll make
you a preseut of a burse aud saddle
and bridle.’
“The confident one took up the chal­
lenge and in order lo fix his mind
requested the company to keep still un­
til he got through Then, with frown
lug brows and tightly drawn face, lie
begun aloud and went slowly aud ap­
parently with the most determined at­
tention straight through the prayer.
"After he said 'amen' and opened his
eyes he was asked how he had got
along with his task.
" ‘It's a failure, gentlemen. I dldu't
get to the end of hallowed lie thy
name' liefore I woudered what klud of
a horse It was going to lie. and before
I reached 'thy will be doue' I thought
alsiut black saddles and white saddles
and about the horse ngalti: then of the
bridle aud the rein, whether they
would be of light or dark leather;
theu of old Pete, a horse my father
bad and how he threw me over his
head when I switched him with a lo­
cust thorn branch; then of a mare that
kicked old Pete In the ribs while they
were lu the pasture together and left
the Imprint of both shoes on his side
aud before I reached 'amen' I thought
of a drove of wild horses that used to
be out on the plains and what n pile of
money a man would make by round
lug them all up and selling them for
farm horses.
“ 'I did think I could fix my mind on
one tiling for awhile, but when I
tried my brains seemed to scatter like
an old fashioned shotgun.'
St Louis
Globe-Democrat
FISH SUPERSTITIONS.
Queer Old Time Notions, Some «t
Which Still Survive.
The one fish medicine of which mod­
ern science thoroughly approves is cod
liver oil, and this, though tn far less
nauseous form than formerly, Is swal­
lowed In tons every year.
i In old days a much wider use was
' made of fish as cures for various evils,
and some of these practices have sur­
vived to the present day. Some little
. time ago a boy died of epilepsy in a
north Wales parish. The doctor, called
I in too late. Inquired if the deceased had
I been given any medicine. "Oh. yes.”
I was the answer. “We caught a trout.
’ drowned It in new milk and gave it to
the boy.”
Eels are supposed to possess all kinds
of virtues. In the dark ages of medi­
cine a powder made of eels’ liver was
considered an absolute specific for deaf­
ness and was also employed in cases of
ague or fever. A decoction of eels’ fat
Is still used by Dutch peak&nts as a
remedy for falling hair.
,
But the most valuable part of the eel.
according to popular suiierstltlou. Is Its
skin
Many an old farmer wears a
belt of eelskin as a preventive agahyst
rheumatism, and some believe that a
garter made of the skin of this snake
like fish woru next to the human skin
as a preventive not only against rheu­
matism. but also against sprains or
similar injuries.
Another cure for rheumatism, which
finds favor with salt water fishermen,
is a red herring. The herring being the
most plentiful of all the sea fish, a
number of superstitions have attached
themselves to It. For luck through the
ensuing year one must be sure to eat
a herring on New Year's day.
Fishermen believe that each shoal Is
heeded by a king herring, which is
more than double as large as any of its
followers. They believe that when one
of the "kings" comes up In the net It
should be thrown overboard: otherwise
the next day's fishing will be a failure.
—Pittsburg Gazette-Times.
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Tha Other Great Man.
Dr. Russell Cool of California hap
pened to suppress an epidemic of
measles while on a vacation trip to
Tahiti, and Chief Oreaorl gratefully
Invited“ him to a banquet In bis primf
tlve palace. The south sea potentate
and bls white guest sat amiably on
the floor and dined off roast pig and
other native delicacies served on broad
leaves and eaten with the fingers
After dinner host and guest adjourned
to seats outside the palace, lit long. fat.
black cigars aud gazed out over the
moonlit Pacific. In the eyes of Chief
Oreaori, Robert Louis Stevenson, who
did so much to Improve the condition
of the south sea islanders, was the
greatest white man that ever lived
The chief related to Dr. Cool many
Incidents to Illustrate Stevenson's
kindliness, then asked a score of ques
Hotis about the health of Stevenson's
widow and of bls stepchildren. When
the last question had been answered
there followed a long period of sileuce
The two friends puffed slowly at their
cigars and luxuriously regarded the
radiant tropic moonlight glowlug iqior.
rustling palm fronds and the silvery
ocean
Then Oreaorl turned to the
doctor and demanded. “Now tell me
alsiiit John L. Sulllvuu!”—Harper's
Weekly.
Freezing Flesh.
It Is n curious fact that. nltlimig!)
dwellers In northern dimes must have
known for ages that n low temperature
preserves flesh from putrefaction. It
uever seems to have struck any one
that this natural fact could be turned
to artificial advantage until Lord Bacon
stuffed the historic chicken with snow
and thereby caught a chill which killed
him. It Is perhaps eveu more curious
that an experiment resultlug lu the
death of oue of the most eminent men
In the world should uot have called any
attention to nn already well known
principle which might have beeu read
lly turned to great advantage. As a
matter of fact. It was not until the year
1875. 241) years after Lord Bacon's fatal
experiment, that freezing was prac-
tl -ally employed as u method of pre
serving flesh Tills was the commence
THE HEADSMAN
meiit of the frozen meat trade between
He Used the Sword and Not the Ax America and England.
Four years
later a dry air refrigerator was per-
Prior to 1483.
I am Inclined to think that prior to fected.
1483 the Bword and not the ax was
Thought He Had Died.
usually employed as the weapon for
A prominent member of a German
judicial decapitation nnd that a block
was dispensed with, the victims receiv­ American society told u story about a
ing their doom “meekly kneeling upon German friend of bls wha was taken
their knees." and In this opinion I am 111. l-'or many days the German was
fortified by the concurrence of an emi­ close to death, but after a time lie
nent clerical historian. This learned showed Improvement In condition. The
writer agreed with me that the ax did doctor told the German's wife that her
not become the "regulation" lethal Im­ husband might have anything to eat
plement until after the rough and ready that be liked.
The German expressed a desire for
"heading” of Lord Hastings ou the
Tower green, when he was summarily llmburger cheese, and the wife, being
dispatched by order of the protector. a generous woman and pleased at the
Improvement and lu order that her
Gloucester.
In this instance, according to the husband might have a uibble at any
An Eccentric Will.
chroniclers, the victim's neck was time be bad a taste for It, put some
In the year 173G a geurleuinn living
stretched upon a piece of timber theu cheese In every room In the bouse. It
In England named Samuel Baldwyn
In use for the repair of the adjaceut Is easy to Imagine I he aroma.
died after a somewhat unhappy mar
The next morning the doctor called
church of St Peter ad Vincula, prob­
ried life. By his will Mr Baldwyn
ably a “putlog." part of the scaffolding at the house, and as noon as lie opened
left his property to his young wife on
which, we read, “conveniently lay in the door he naked:
the condition that she should from time the way.”
“V, lieu did he die?”—Hartford Post.
Contemporary accounts
to time dance upon bls grave.
seem to Indicate that the executioner
The motive for this strange request straddled over the prone body, and
How It Works Out.
was evident when the Instructions for from this position 1 infer that the de-
"I never tell funny stories In my
his Interment were read Mr Baldwyn capitation was effected by the tool speeches.” remarked Senator Sor­
desired that his remains should be tak known as an adz. the cutting edge of ghum.
en by boat to the Needles anil then which Is at a right angle to and not lu
"The audience always enjoys them."
cast In the sea. This singular wish a plane with the haft
“Yes. A man hears you tell a funny
enabled him to revenge himself on hl«
I may add that the only contempo­ story, and be thinks it la so good be
wife for past disagreements, and the rary reference I have come across of tries to remember It. He regards you
widow lost the property, ns she could the use or proposed use of an ax and as a first rate fellow and feels thank-
not fulfill the conditions of her bus block for Inflicting capital punishment fill to you for giving hlm a new one.
band's bequest.
prior to this tragedy Is In one of the Theu be tells It to the first friend he
Paston series of letters describing the meets, and as he Isn't a good story
The Word “Ogre.”
peril of an unfortunate captive of Jack teller the friend doesn't laugh. Then
Old fashioned etymologists used to Cade's rebels (A. D. 1450). a generation he tries It on the blase hotel clerk and
say that the won! "ogre" commemorat­ before Lord Hastings was so clumsily the stolid drug store man and several
ed the sufferings of Europe during the backed to death.—London Notes and others, and by the time he gets home
ninth and tenth centuries at the bands Queries.
he concludes you have passed him a
of the ravaging “Otgours." or Huns.
gold brick. He not only refuses to
This derivation, however. Is now aban­
vote for you, but tells all his friends
Tha Hair.
doned. “Ogre,” which reached the
A single hair, which can support a he doesn't think It's dignified to keep
French language by way of Italian and weight of two ounebes. is so elastic In office a man who tells funny sto­
Spanish. Is really Orcus. the Latin bell, that It may be stretched to one-third of ries.”—Washlugton Star.
afterward the god of the underworld Its entire length and then regain Its for­
In Romanesque folklore this god be­ mer size and condition. Dr. Pincus
Spelled In Full.
came a shaggy, black, man devouring has measured the growth of balr by
“We had lu editor lu chief On our
monster, with a particular taste for cutting off circles about one lncb In paper years ago who was a stickler for
lost babes in the wood.
diameter from the beads of bealtby no abbreviations." said n veteran news
men nnd so comparing the growth of fiuper man “He didn't believe tn ab­
One View of the Kiss.
the patches with that of the rest of the breviating anything but the word mis­
The olfactory kiss Is Mongolian. The hair. He found that the growth rate ter. The names of states had to be
nutritive affair is European. The Mon­ generally became slower after cutting; spelled out. One time one of the boys
golian kiss is with the nose. The Eu­ that in some cases the balr on the wrote a news story which contained
ropean kiss is with the mouth.
patches grew at the same rate as the this clause: 'And Mozart's mass was
The Mongolian kiss indicates that rest but that it never grew any faster. played.' The proofreader who got the
the party sniffed would be an agree­
The ordinary length of the hair oo story had been under the exacting di­
able prey. The European variety Indi­ the head ranges between twenty-two rection of that editor for years, too
cates that the party embraced would iDcbes and about forty-five Inches, the ninny years to allow any proper name
make a delectable meal.
letter being considered unusually long. to get by him without being spelled
They are but the different forms of -London Standard.
out. so when be came to this 'mass' be
the same Instinct of preservation—the
'rung' the word, and It came out ‘Mo­
give and take of wild beasts.—Ex-
Beetles.
zart's Massachusetts.' "—Omaha Bee.
change.
The Rev Theodore Wood, a well
known English authority on beetles,
Radical.
Art of the Superior Smile.
makes an luteresting observation on a
“1 hear that your new school super-
The superior smile Is a useful accom­ little beetle found frequently in the Intendent la rather radical.”
plishment for any young man. It is flowers of the primrose, but nowhere
"He la that.” responded Fanner
much In vogue at the universities, else, which Is quite a mystery. It Is Haw “Ha'a ent out the higher bead­
where It may be studied at Its best on small, brown and flat, and Mr. Wood work and the perforated tattling, and
young Don. Many men who learn remarks of It: "How Its life Is lived be'a advising teachers to handle the
nothing else at the universities learn nobody knows. Where Its eggs are children according to the rules of com
this art and find It uncommonly useful laid, what the grubs feed'upon, where mon sense. Oh. yes! Our new super­
in after life It Is an excellent cover the chrysalis be bidden, nobody knows. intendent is radical, all right.”—Louie-
for a naked mind and should be sought Nobody knows even why the perfect rille Courier-Journal.
nfter by parliamentary candidate«.— beetle gets Into the primrose blossom.”
Oxford Varsity.
Ambiguous.
An Easy Way.
Parishioner (a little worse for liquor)
Flooring Papa.
“In order to succeed in life." said the —I hearsh you preazb las' night.
Five-year-old Tommy was being put experienced person, "you must not be
New Minister—You didn't hear much,
through a teat in numbers before the afraid to make enemies."
admiring family one day at dinner. I "Then." answered the tractable I fancy.
"Thai what I thought myself.” Lon-
Finally papa asked him the question ' youth, “yon wonld probably advise me
don
Pick-Me-Up.
that had proved the Waterloo of the to put In some time as a baseball um­ i
older children In past years.
pire.**—Washington Star.
Inquisitive.
“Now. Tommy.”
J papa, “how
“One half of the world doesn't know
ninny are two apples and three pears T’
When th. Adam... Move.
bow the other half Ilves," observed the
"Five fruit«!" prompt!/ answered
Mrs K . while telling her children
Tommy.—Delineator.
about Adam and Eve and the beauties morallzer.
“How provoking!” exclaimed Mrs.
of the csrden of Eden, was Interrupted
We exaggerate misfortune and bap- by one of the tiny tots saying. "Oh, Gossy p- Lippincott's.
pines« alike. We ara never eltber ao mamma, when tbnae Adam.es move
w rete heil nr so happy as •• say we •way let nn get that place to live tn."
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Recent experiments have proved that
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exceedingly rich in radium, as is the
water of the Arabian S^a.
Astronomers figure that the famous
Halley’a comet, last seen in 1830. will
• gain be visible to telescopes next fall,
and (hat it will approach the earth until
April, 1910. being apparent to the naked
eye for eeverwl months before that time.
Over 2000 operations without a aingl*
accident nave been performed by Pari*
surgeons with the use of a new anes­
thetic known rn novoeaine.
Sulphuric Heid allowed to drip slowly
upon a peatxl bearing until it cools,
then removed and oil applied, is said to
work a permanent cure.
The smalleHt healthy adult human
brain ever r* corded was that of a New
York c< a< hman, who died recently at
the age of 46. It weighed but 24 ounces.
In New Z aland there h an island al­
most constantly enveloped in steam.
Its waters appear green to the eye, but
anything dipped into them is coated red.
The energy stored up in a gram of
radium is said to be sufficient to drive
a fifty horse power automobile around
the world at the rate of thirty miles an
hour.
Of value to tailors and seamstresses is
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on the arm of a sewing machine.
The ° rolling Slones” of Australia
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contain a magnetic ore.
An Illinois man has invented a ma
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grapliy apiMiratus, which, he claims, will
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