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EARTHQUAKES OF OLD
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Strange Ideas of the Ancients as j
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to Their Causes.
WARNING SIGNS OF SHOCKS.
Pliny Say* They Were Shown In th*
Air, Cloud, and Water and by Ani
mate— The Two Mountaina That
Craehed Together and Then Receded.
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V,ry Unlucky.
Not long ago a certain farmer be
came bankrupt. In the course of hla
examination before the official receiver
be admitted that be bad been speculat- 1
ing on the turf. Moreover, be went on ' i
to explain that be bad experienced
what he described as "plaguy bad
luck.”
"Did you know anything about horse
racing?” the bankrupt was asked.
“No." was the reply; “that’s why I
engaged a fellow who did to buy some
’osses for me.”
“And these horses turned out badly,
I suppose," suggested the official re
ceiver.
“Very,” was the reply, “though 1
don’t blame the ’osses for that. They
tried bard, but rammat wor bound to
turn up to upset ’em. They nearly
alius ran second!”
“How do you account for that?”
“Well, sometimes they ran second
’cos they’d overmuch weight to carry,
sometime, they ran second ’cos the
jockey had backed another and want
ed ’em there, but more often than not
they ran second ’cos the judge would
have ’em there! Sometimes, again,
they ran second ’cos there wor nobbut
two ’osses in the race!”—Loudon Tele
graph.
A Scholarly Child.
Boston has for long enjoyed tbe
reputation of having exceedingly
learned children who are able, so it fa
said, to dispute on subjects far above
the heads of tbelr elders of other re
gions. But Boston is not unique, lb
a book entitled "Tbe Scot of tbe Eight
eenth Century” Jan Maclaren describes
a similar characteristic of tbe Cale
donian.
It la tbe inevitable tendency of tbe
Scot’s mind to follow out every line to
its terminus, even if it be over a preci
pice, and to divide every hair till in
finity is touched.
It is not only in church courts, but
in market places and In railway sta
tions, in humble cottages as well as in
university societies, that tbe Scot is
disputing, in every spare moment of
bls time, from morning till night.
The story goes that a minister over
heard a mother questioning her child
as it supped its porridge, after the
day's work was done.
“What,” said this austere mother,
“is the true relation between kirk and
state, according to the principles of
tbe Free church?”
And tbe favored child promptly re
plied. “Co-ordinate jurisdiction with
mutual subordination.”—Youth’s Com
panion.
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We carry a Large Stock of
Hardware, Tinware, Glass
and China,
If we search hlatory to find to what
causes the ancient, attributed earth
Oils. Paint, Varnish, Doors, Window
quake, we find that the Babylonian,
believed that all occurrence, of the
Sashes,
kind were due to the influence of the
■tars, especially of the three to wbl'-b
they ascribed thunder—namely. Sat
urn. Jupiter and Mars. The seers of
the day believed that these disturb
ances were caused by the stars mov
ing with the sun or being In conjunc
tion with It. more particularly when
the star, were In the quartile aspect.
Agents for the Great Western Saw.
Pliny chronicles the report concern
ing one Anaximander, a Milesian, who
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warned the Lacedaemonian, to be
ware of their city and bouses. And
Responsive.
There was at least one responsive
legend ha, It that the city was soon
Posted on Music.
The Most Reliable Merchants in Tillamook County.
afterward destroyed.
hearer in the crowded little church in
In one of the large music publishers’
Pliny, who wrote hl, natural history an English village, and it happened establishments on Broadway there is
in A. D. 77, conceived that earth this way:
a man whose employment it is to be
quake, were caused by the winds, as
Guests bad arrived unexpectedly at come acquainted with ell tbe music of
“the earth never trembles except the country parsonage on Sunday the day. both classical and "popular.”
Cures Backache
when the sea Is quite calm and when morning.
When prospective purchasers are un
V,
the heavens are so tranquil that the
The weekly supply of butter had run able to enlighten the other clerks of
Corrects
bird, cannot maintain their flight, all short, so the hospitable host dispatch tbe place as to what they want to buy,
Irregularities
the air which should support them be ed old Joe, the handy man, to bls
they are referred to him as a court of
ing withdrawn. Nor does It ever hap neighbor, Mr. Paul, whose dairy al
Do not risk having
pen until after great winds, the gust ways boasted a surplus. The parson last appeal.
Bright’s Disears
“I wish to get a piece that has been
N Will cure any case of Kidney or Bladder Disease no.
being pent up. as It were, in the fis proceeded to church with his well pre
running tbrougli my bead ever tinea I
or Diabetes
sures and concealed hollows."
pared sermon on some of the deep
M beyond the reach of medicine. No medicine can do more.
Many scientists have observed that sayings of the great apostle and was heard it.” say, the distracted custom
all great convulsions of nature are well under way with it when old Joe, er. "but the trouble Is I don’t know
the title or the composer’s name.”
J. S. Lamar. Tillamook,
’-------------- - and Hawk & Miller, Bay City.
likely to be preceded by calms: also returning empty banded, concluded be
“
How
does
it
go?
”
Inquires
tl.e
spe
that birds and animals generally ex would quietly slip in and hear bls mas
cialist sweetly.
—
hibit certain presentiments of the ter preach.
“Something like this: Tu:n-tl-ti, turn-
event, fact, which the wise men of
Just as he entered the minister
L l
tl-ti.
”
ancient days noted and accounted for leaned over the pulpit, stretched out
“
Ah.
yes;
you
will
get
It
at
tbe
In their different ways.
bis hand with a most impressive in
Pliny say,: “When an earthquake terrogation in voice and manner and second counter to your right. Ask for
occurs there Is often sound without called out, “And what did Paul say?" the ’Pink Waves Waltz.’ by Straws.”
And the remarkable thing about it Is
any motion. When there la motion it Distinctly sounded through the church
that he has seldom, if ever, been
1, tremulous and vibratory. The clefts old Joe's reply:
of the earth sometimes remain, dis
"He say. marster. be ain’t going to known to fail.—New York Post.
playing what ha, been swallowed up. let you have no more butter till you
Teaching Cuba to Kill.
sometime, concealing It, the mouth pay for the last you got.”
Have you ever seen a cat catch a
being closed and the soli brought over
mouse and hand it over to her kittens
it. the city being, as It were, engulfed,
The Tomb of Genghis Khan.
devoured. Maritime districts are more
Genghis Khan, the Mongol chief, in to teach them how to kill? Well, a
especially subject to shocks. Nor nrc the thirteenth century proved himself tiger is merely a big cat. and she
mountainous districts exempt. 1 have one of the world’s greatest warriors. teaches her cubs almost In tbe same
found the Alp, and the Apennines fre Ills tomb exists at Edchen Koro and way, only not with mice. An East In
quently shaken by them. The shocks is described in Count de Lesdaln’s dian officer witnessed a scene of this
happen more frequently In the nutumn “From Pekin to Sikkim:" "Two small kind. An old bull bison had been the
and the spring. They also happen tents, one behind the other and con victim, and tlio tigress had disabled
more frequently In the night than In nected by a very low inner door made him by breaking one of bi, forelegs
She never
the day. The greatest shocks are In of woruout felt and admitting through just below the knee.
the morning ai d the evening, but they tbelr rents the rain and the wind, are touched the throat, the usual place of
often take place at daybreak. They the ’monument’ destined to perpetuate seizing, but allowed the cubs to worry
also take place during eclipses of the the renown of the greatest conqueror the disabled animal. The eyewitness
moon, because at that time storm, are the world lias known. The ashes of relates that the cubs acted exactly like
lulled. They are most frequent when the body of Genghis Khan are deposit kittens, advanced and retreated and
great heat succeed, to showers or ed in a kind of chest cubic in shape worried the victim, all the time mew
•hower, succeed to great heat."
and placed on a wooden support made ing and snarling, while the tigress sat
Pliny further says: "There Is no of small colored pillars adorned with near by, watching their antics and oc
doubt that earthquakes are felt by painting, on all its sides except that casionally giving the bison a blow with
persona on shipboard. There are ninny facing south, which is covered with a her paw when be showed undue ac
sign, for the mariner beforehand, how finely worked copperplate represent tivity.
ever. The timber, of the vessel creak. ing a divinity surrounded by four ani
Llano, of Venezuela.
The bird, that Bettie on the vessel are mals which are not easy to identify.
Venezuela received its musical name
not without their alarms. There is The tomb, in fact, has not always
also a sign In the heaven,, for when a been here, but it is difficult to know from tbe early Spanish residents, who
shock I, near at hand, either In the exactly where the first descendants of saw a resemblance to Venice In the
sites of the Inland cities. The llanos,
dnytlme or a little after sunset, a the great emperor laid hl, remains.”
or blenk plains, on which the llaneros
cloud I, stretched out In the clear sky
live n precarious life, have largely
like a long, thin line. The water tn
Couldn't Quite Qualify.
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M. Mi
V.
changed tbelr character since Hum
wells Is more turbid than usual, and It
“Mebbe you'd like to put a piece
boldt
saw
them.
Then
these
great
emits a disagreeable odor."
about me In yer paper,” quavered the
In describing the various kind, of old man. bobbling up to the city edi pinihs of grass supported Innumerable
herdB of cattle, but civil war led to
shocks and expanding on his Investi tor's desk.
tbe destruction of tbe beasts to feed
gations on the subject Pliny remarks
“What have you done?" demanded
tbe Insurgents. Tbe llanos are now
that "arched buildings are the safest; the arbiter of publicity’s destiny.
also the angles of walls and walls
"Nothin’ much, but I was a hundred rapidly becoming a potential source of
timber.
made of bricks suffer least. The earth year old yesterday.”
movement that resemble, the rolling
“A hundred, eh? But can you walk
A Road Mad, of Anta.
of waves la the most dangerous, or without a stick and read fine print
Of the ants lu Venezuela Professor
when the motion Is Impelled In one without glasses?”
Hliram Bingham says: "At one place on
direction. The tremor, cease when
“N no.”
the sandy trail the ants had formed a
the vapors have burst forth, but If
“Ton are an impostor!"
living causeway over tbe fine sand of
there be no escape of vapor of any
The old man broke down and con the path in order to facilitate the
kind then the tremors may continue fessed that he was only ninety -seven.
great speed at which the majority
for forty days. They have been known —Cleveland Leader.
wished to travel. The causeway was
to continue for two years."
over two Inches wide and from one
The hlstorlnn records the greatest
Lapland Reindeer,.
to three ants deep. So firmly did tbe
“prcdlgy of the earth" as having oc
In April the Lapp lets his reindeer
curred In the district of Mutlna during loose to wauder as they please, and ‘brldgeltea’ hold together. 1 lifted the
the consulship of Lucius Martlus and when the mosquitoes begin to abound, causeway four Inches from the ground
Sextus Julius, when “two mountains alwut midsummer, be collects bls herd by thrusting a stick underneath with
rushed together, falling upon each simply by catching one deer, fitting it out breaking tbelr formation.”
other with a very loud ernsh and then with a liell and trusting to instinct,
Too Groat a Strain.
receding, while lu the daytime smoke w hich leads tbe animals to gather into
Every once In awhile tbe actor
and vapor Issued from them." Pliny herds for protection against tbe mos
says the wonder was witnessed by "a quitoes. to do the rest. In a cool sum while taking tbe part of a dude In a
great crowd of Roman knight, and mer. when mosquitoes are few, this play would spend large sums of bis
stage money. On one of these occa
travelers along the Aemlllan way.”
Instinct does not come into play, and sions it seemed too much for a certain
The same writer says: “The greatest
It Is almost Impossible to bring the person In tbe audience, for a voice
earthquake which occurrvd in our
reindeer together.
rang «brill and clear through tbe
memory waa In the reign of Tiberius,
bouse. "Hey. Bill, how about that five
by which twelve cities of Asia were
Very
Impressive.
you owe me?"—Exchange.
laid prostrate In one night. During
Nouveau Riche la at time, an amus
the Punic war we had accounts of
fifty seven earthquakes In one year ing person. Said one of these exotics
Ju«t Goo, Out
Nor la It an evil merely consisting In tbe other day—be was a commuter—
“Mother, when tbe fire goes out.
just
aa
tbe
train
was
moving
from
tbe
the danger which Is produced by the
where does It go?" asked a child of
motion: It Is an equal or greater evil station:
her parent.
"Er
—
John."
when It Is considered as a prodigy
"I don’t know, dear." replied the
“Yessir!" answered the valet.
The city of Rome never experienced a
mother. "You might just as well ask
"I
—
I
think,
after
all.
1
would
like
the
shock that waa not the forerunner of
me where your father goes when he
asparagus served as an entree to goes out!”
some great calamity."
night.
”
Pliny, of course, take, a good many
And the train moved off amid smoth
U,el,s, Luxury.
of hla accounts from Aristotle, but hl,
reference, to events are confirmed by ered laughter.-New York Times.
A sick peasant motions feebly to bis
wife to approach his tied,Ide and wbis
other writers. Herodotus describe, a
Tact.
per, painfully. ”1 think, my dear. I
great disturbance In hla day. when
Harry—What In thunder did you a,k could fancy a little broth."
Men who cannot slot
“the sea came beyond Memphis, as far
tor a rainy day.- wt
aa the mountaina of Ethiopia, and alao that fellow what time It was for when
"My dear, what do yon want of ;
fr<^ the plains of Arabia The sea you carry a watch that la always right broth? Hasn't the doctor Just given
During the past 36 year« no rem-
| find the arec‘—*
comfort ond
alti sutV’ unded Ilium and the whole on the notch? Dick I merely w-anted you up?"
™L. lPr°V’n more Prompt or
OPPOSITE THE ALLEN HOUSE.
of bodily movement f
more effectual In lu cures of
of p'enthranlg and covered the platn to give him an excuse to exhibit bls
in
Substantial.
through v. hlch the Meander flows." watch —Boston Transcript.
Coughs,
Colds
and
Croup
Tom—I ate of tbe cakes she made
rifr' mi’e, actual mention of one of
And Enjoyed It.
the Ac I’ari Islands having "emerged
just to make myself solid. Dick—Did SPECIALTY IN ALL KIND OF CAKES.
Ethel Didn't It seem an age from you succeed? Tom—I couldn’t feel
from the • i " It was a matter of
efaa“‘y
“coni I WATERPROOF i i
reais- •> l»llcf among the scientists of the time you were engaged till you got any more solid if I bad eaten concrete
ALL KIND OF BREAD.
ntir >’ny that «Icily was tom from, married? Maud -Yes, but Jack and I or building stone.— Vtlca Herald.
OILED C
It,'
by such a disturbance - New managed to squeese through it.—Loo-
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When tbe cow Jumped over tbe moon
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A
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