TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. AUGUST 5
REDI’S ^EXPERIMENT,
»ut of It Gr.wth. Gr.st Fabrle 8f th.
Germ Theory.
And He Wse 8o Homely That His
Look, Frightened the Children In the
Street»—Bailly, With a Face Like a
Horoo, Won a Famous French Beauty.
ROBERTJLDAM.
H. Cct.d , New
Era
|n EntU||i
Tillamook
Architecture.
Case of John Wilkes, the Famous
London Aiderman.
HE WEDDED A NOTED BEAUTY
1500
f° wKhlrh allus,on has often be«n
th r
he tFUe beglnnin? of the germ
theory arose out of . ludicrously .1^
Ltl»
'nade bT
«Flor-
tlne physician, about the middle of
witbehisnt7nfh Ce“tUr7-
debated
With hls confreres In Florence the
question of the origin of the maggots
appearing In decomposing meat Th»
old view held. of course. th.T’he mag’
Robert Adam (172S-92) was to Eng
““ architecture what Benvenuto Cel
lini was to that of Italy. He was ar
chitect to the kiug. beloved at court,
a member of parliament, aud It was
said of him that he "could uot help
adorning all that he touched.” Those
of the English people who dwell in
Adam houses prize them as rare Jew
els.
*
Adam Introduced into English ar-
chitecture a lightness, delicacy of
touch and charm of proportion which
It had never tiefore possessed and
which gave hls name to that splendid
period of architecture the style of
which lasted over a century. Every
thing In a house, from the panel lu a
ceiling to the vases aud gilt wood tri
pods and branches for lights, from
hangings at the windows to a worn
an s hairpin holder, Adam designed
himself.
Adam got hls rich, beautiful and
distinctive style from the ruins of the
Emperor Diocletian, at Spalnto. As n
fnlsh to interiors he conceived the1
Idea of using figures In relief upon
walls, colored and adorned according
to Raphael’s Stanze [minted flat itprn
the walls of the Vatican Hls Idea
was ns bold as Its result was beauti
ful. He also adopted Pompeiian styles
of decoration.
“Adam was artist as well as archi
tect. and his walls, ceilings and Inte
rior adornments are marvels of har
monious colors.” says an ar hltei t.
"He employed no less personages than
Angelica Kaufman nnd Zucchi to paint
many of the panels and me.l: Elons !
Into his ceilings, and It was hh habit
to hare carpets woven to mutch the
•attern overhead and harmoulze with
the color there employed. The key
note of Adam's style Is ‘movement ’
"omblncd with perfect artistic fitness,
md It Is peculiar for Its grace and
stateliness.”—New York Tribune.
There was perhaps as much truth gots were bred within dead and putre
as boasting in the statement of John fying substances. Redl. taking a piece
Wilkes, the famous London aiderman m muat? C0Vered the u,0llfh of thl J„r
and champion of British electors. in which It was contained with a piece
“Ugly as 1 am'
1 can have but a of fine gauze. He beheld the flesh files,
quarter of an hour's start I will get attracted by the smell of the decaying
the better of any man, however good meat, coming to deposit their eggs, aft
looking, la the graces of any woman.” er the manner of their kind. In the de
Of Wilkes' abnormal ugliness there composing substance. The gauze, how
was never a question, for Is it not re ever, kept them from effecting this
corded that the “very children In the natural object, with the result that the
street ran away affrighted at the sight eggs were laid on the surface of the
of him?” And yet hls powers of fasci gauze and the maggots there hatched
nation were so great that "ladles of out, while the decay of the meat went
beauty and fashion vied with each on uninterruptedly without a single
other for hls notice, while men of maggot appearing In its substance.
handsome exterior and all courtly
On this childishly simple experiment
graces looked enviously on.”
the great fabric of the germ theory of
There were, it is said, few beauties today was founded, for If the law of
of the day whose hand Wilkes might universal parentage applied to the case
not have confidently hoped to win, and of maggots and meat It was clear, ar
when he led Mary Mead to the altar gued Redl, that it must apply univer
be made a wife of one of the richest sally.
Subsequent experimentation
and most lovely women of her time. proved the words to be true, and so to
‘“Beauty and the Beast’ they call us,” day, when our attention Is focused upon
Wilkes once said to bls friend Patter, germs or microbes so minute that we
"and I cannot honestly And fault with might accommodate many hundreds of
the description.”
thousands of them on the surface of a
Jean Paul Marat, whose name will postage’ stamp, we again come face to
always be associated with the evil face with Iledl’s first principle that
history of the French revolution, was each germ could only have sprung
notoriously the ugliest man of bls day from a preceding and parental organ
In Paris. When this reputation reach Ism.—Brooklyn Eagle.
ed hls ears Marat Is said to have re
marked, "But why limit my suprema
MISTAKES IN TITLES.
cy to Paris?” And Indeed the restrlc-
tlou was much too modest.
“Love’s Discourses” Has Nothing to
And yet In hls earlier ye- rs, when
QUITE FOGGY.
Do With Cupid’s Pranks.
he was the most popular of court doc
It is Interesting to collect certain
tors, hls very ugliness seemed to exor the Instances of mistakes In regard of It Must Have Been Pretty Thick Back
to
cise such a fascination over aristocrat the titles of books. Thus the old farm
In the Old Days.
ic ladles that they crowded hls consult er who asked for "Edgwortb on Irish
“Yaas. It’s foggy—quite foggy,” said
ing rooms In order to catch a glimpse Bulls” got no doubt something he did Hezekiah Torpyhue, filling bls pipe ami
of and to exchange words with him not expect, and the dainty youth who puffing vigorously on the stem. "But
under the flimsiest pretexts of Imag applied for "Love's Discourses” did it ain’t nothin’ to the fog we bad back
inary ailments. The studied indiffer not really wish a volume of sermons In seventy-nine. By gorry. boys, but
ence with which he treated alike their by Christopher Love. If application Is that was a f< g. an’ no mistake! Why.
charms and their flattery only made made by messenger, mistakes of a dif it was so thick that when 1 went cut
them the more Insistent until he de ferent sort may occur. An excitable to the barn one night to feed the atii
clared to a friend that he would have boy once asked for Bishop Cocks and mqls I had to git three o’ the farm
to fly from Parts to escape the perse Hen’s "Earnest Communicant;” he bands to come along behind me an'
cution of hls fair admirers.
meant Bishop Oxenden's. Similarly by push me through it.”
“Yaas.” said Hiram Wigley, the egg
Bailly, mayor of Paris at the time of Warne’s "Moral Cookery” be meant
the reign of terror, Is said to have bls “Model Cookery.” A maid forgot king, "that was some fog. 1 remember
had a face almost exactly like that of all about the title of the book she had that there seventy-nine affair very
a horse Ills appearance was, tn fnct. been sent fur except that it was well, but It waru't a murker nlongilje
so abnormal, so monstrous, that chil “something like tomato soup.” She o’ the two we had In seventy -eight,
when me an' Joe Slllsbee had to t ike
dren shrieked and women fainted at was served with “Red Pottage."
the very sight of him, and yet hls wife
It may have beeu a fault of pronun a plow to cut our way through to the
was one of the moat lovely women In ciation on the part of the purchaser henhouse, an', by ginger, when we
the whole of France—so lovely that as who asked for "rubber bands” that he got there we found the hens ii-scttin'
a girl she was known as “the beautiful received a copy of “Robert Burns,” but on It Instid of on thetr nests, an’ some
angel.”
It was certainly the bookseller who of ’em laid eggs right on to it like as
That there Is a powerful fascination was at sea who referred an applicant though ft was made o’ hay. b’gosh!”
"Yaas.” put In old Granther Smoggs,
for some women In extreme ugliness is for "Vega's Logarithmic Tables” to the
proved by innumerable cases in which “funiture department.” In cataloguing the village patriarch, "them there two
women who have been richly dowered booksellers frequently err. Thus Mr fogs was dandles, an’ everything you
with physical charms have fallen mad Madan, the Oxford scholar, who wrote fellers says about ’em Is gospel trewtb,
ly In love with men of almost repulsive a grammar and dictionary of the Swa- but fer real fog ye’d ougbter been
hell language, had those works cata around here back In my young days,
appearance.
A London paper records a remark logued as "Madam Swaheli's Gram I tell ye they was solid, them days,
able case of this kind in 1817, when mar" aud In the line beneath, “Do. do. Why, we boys used to sot on the fence
Lady Mary X. married Mr. Mudford, Dictionary.” Recently, too. a book of down In front o' the little chapel an'
Mr. Lucas’. “A Swan and Her make fog balls outen ’em an' peg ’em
a London attorney.
Lady Mary was a girl of peerless Friends,” giving an nccount of Miss at people as they went by. Seems t >
charms, the most beautiful of all the Seward, “the swan of Lfebfleld,” was me I ain’t seen no fogs sence that ti ne
court ladles and the favorite toast of classified as “Annie Swan aud Her that we could make snowballs out of.
Have you. Bill?”—Chicago News.
the world of aristocrats. She might- Friends.”—Manchester Guardian.
tor her birth and fortune were almost
The Laborer and His Hire.
equal to her beauty—have chosen her
That Settled It.
At a conference in New York of
husband from among dukes, and even
The commissioners In lunacy were foreign missions boards reference ws
more than one royal prince sought her nonplused. The man on whose mental made to the Increased cost of living
hand In vain.
condition the courts had appointee of missionaries home ou leave, which
To the consternation of society, she them to pass seemed perfectly sane It made It harder for them to get along
married Mr. Mudford, not only "a pet spite of all testimony to the contrary than If they stayed In their foreign
tifogging attorney,” but a man of al His every action, his every remark field of labor.
most unnatural ugliness of face and was rational. They were about to glvt
"Why,” said the speaker, "a mission
with a deformed hand and foot. Sin up iu despair when matters took an ary must travel decently, nnd that re
gular. too, as It may appear, her mar unexpected turn. “Ob, doctor, permit minds me of a story of Mr. Spurgeon
ried life was one of unclouded happi me to return the umbrella I borrowed and a fellow clergyman. The two were
ness, and to her dying day, nearly forty from you last week,’’ said the patient. Just starting on n railway Journey nnd
And then, at the thought of earning Mr. Spurgeon’s friend showed him a
years later, she never seemed to have
a moment’s regret for her choice of a their fees with no qualms of con second class ticket.
science, the learned men decided that
husband.
“ 'See,' said he. ‘what good care I
Stlli more remarkable was the story any one who would voluntarily return take of the Lord’s money.'
told of a most beautiful heiress with a borrowed umbrella should be placed
“‘See,’ said Mr. Spurgeon, bringing
an attachment for one of the freaks under restraint.
out a first class ticket, ’what good care
This simply prove« how trifles will I take of the Lord’s servant.’ ”—
of a traveling show, and she per
sisted In marrying him In spite of all ever mold our destinies.—New York Youth's CoJi?anion.
the efforts of her friends and relations. Times.
ThL« singular object of her affections
Ths Don's Opinion.
H« Followed Directions,
masqueraded under the title of "the
Fashion in as Inexorable In men’s as
tape
lends
one
to
curious
Red —-
tnan monkey, or the ugliest man In the
In women's dress. The undergraduate
world, ■ and he had an excellent claim lengths. A writer In the Columbus Is perhaps the most telling example of
Dispatch tells of a street railway car
to the title.—Exchange.
this. It was so even a century ago,
that picked up a young heifer on its when Oxford led the way In adopting
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fender and carried It some distance
the new nankeen trousers that were to
An Awkward Text.
through
the
street.
supersede tight breeches end top boots
A butcher of a certain village, being
In making out the require« report to
a dei out Christian, whenever he sent the superintendent the employee wrote Just about that pericd a don of Trinity
* business note Invariably accom In answer to the query on the blank met an undergraduate arrayed tn all
the splendor of the new fashion
panied It with a text.
form, "What did the victim say?" "Young man." said the don severely,
A certain lady, wishing him to kill
“She was carried along on the fender "you will come to no good. You wear
acme of her pigs, sent him a letter to and then rolled off and ran away
nankeen trousers and keep a dog." The
notify him of the fact, to which he
without saying a word.”
young man afterward became Dr
•*n* the following reply:
Sumner and bishop of Winchester —
“Dear Madam—I will call on Friday
Ths Way Out.
London Chronicle.
to kill your hogs without fall. Yours,
Gobsa
“Think, lore!” saW
J*r B. N. B.—‘Be ye also ready.’”—
Intsrssted.
Oolde "I
’ • ordered
- -------- a dinner gown, and
London Graphic.
that tiresome dressmaker has sent me
He was telling bls wife about s
a traveling suit.”
small game of poker In which he bad
He Had Noticed.
"Well, what are ■voa goln*
d lost 43 cents.
Fuher (who is always trying to
about It?’’ Gobsa Golde demanded
"It was the worst game 1 ever play
wadi hls son how to act while at the
"The only thing Is for us to go
toblei— Well. John, you see, when I abroad again." "be slghed.-Ctnclnnnti ed." be exclaimed, still angry oxer it.
•■«nd 1 got no mad I couldn’t see."
*a»e finished eating I always leave
"What did you do then, dear." th»
'able. John—Yes, sir, and that Is Enquirer._______________
Uked sweetly—“go It blind T’—Chicago
•boot all you do leave.—Loudon Mail.
Amiable.
Record-Herald.
"They say Thelma's husband 1s a
Burst
very amiable man
Caught.
J “ man dnt don’t do nuffin* bat
"Amiable! I should say so! 1 bare
She—Old yon bear they were going
“°k out for No j » M((1 pnc|e Eben. known that man to laugh at • Joks
to tax bachelors? He—Tea, but they 11
’ I'irty sure sooner or later to at- when he «a. taking down the stove
never jet It out of me Rbe-It to nW
attention to htose’f as about de pipe "-Baltimore American
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