TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. JUNE 2
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VESTAL VIRGINS.
They Kept th« Sacred Fires Alight In
Ancisnt Rom«.
Ovid tolls us that tbe first temple
of Vesta at Rome was constructed of
wattled walla and roofed with thatch,
like the primitive huts of the Inhabit
ants. It was little other than a cir
cular covered fireplace and was tend
ed by tbe unmarried girls of the com
munity. It served as tbe public hearth
of Rome, and on It glowed, unextin-
gulsbed throughout the year, the sa
cred fire which was supposed to have
been brought from Troy and tbe con
tinuance of which was thought to be
linked with tbe fortunes of tbe city.
The name Vesta Is believed to be de
rived from tbe same root as tbe San
skrit was. which means "to dwell, to
inhabit,” and shows that she was tbe
goddess of home, and borne bad tbe
hearth as Its focus. A town, a state,
Is but a large family, and wbat tbe
domestic hearth was to tbe bouse
the temple of the perpetual tire be
came to tbe city. Every town bad Its
vesta, or common hearth, nnd tbe col
onies derived their fire from tbe moth
er hearth.
Should o vestnl maiden allow the sa
cred tire to become extinguished she
was beaten till Iter blood flowed. and
tbe new tire was solemnly rekindled
by rubbing together of dry wood or
b.v focuHlug of sun’s rays. The circu
lar form and domed roof of tbe tem
ple of Vesta were survivals of tbe pre
historic huts of tbe aborigines, which
were Invariably round.—Cornbill Mag
azine.
RAIN FORMATION.
Cold Air Squeezes ths Moisture Out of
Warm Air.
Warm air Is capable of holding more
moisture In susitenslon than to cold air.
When by any means a layer or current
of warm air which is saturated with
moisture Is suddenly ciailed a portion
of tbe vapor must fttll as rain. Cold
slirluks the heated nlr as pressure docs
a wet sjioiige and with precisely tbe
same results, lu mountainous coun
tries this cooling down of the warm
and damp air Is most commonly pro
duced by the air being brought Into
the neighborhood of mountain to|>s.
which are cold.
It is ba- this reason that In such
countries the showers mostly orlginute
a moug tbe mountains and come
through tlie valleys out upon tbe
plains.
It will be eoRlIy understood (but the
higher tlie mountain tbe more striking
will be tbe effects produced. If It be
a snow capped peak in a tropical re
gion a cloud will lie formed such as
to conceal tbe summit all the time.
This cloud will be constantly growing
on tbe side of the mountain toward
which the currents of warm and moist
air are set. for on that side the ulr la
being cooled down, but after It has
been driveu over tbe peak It will waste
away as rapidly, for It Is then coming
in contact with warmer air again.
From such high iieaks the cloud rare
ly breaks away as a shower. All tbe
surplus moisture of tbe air Is depos
ited In tbe form of rniu or snow upon
the ¡leaks over which the air pusses.
The Jellyfish.
The bay of Naples abounds In me
dusae, or Jellyfish, ofteu growing as
large as two feet iu dinmeter and
weighing fifty and sixty pounds. Some
of them shiue at night with u greenish
light and are knowu as noctilucs
(night lanterns) by the natives. Tbe
Jellyfish sometimes make migrations
in great grout*, sometimes so large
■nd so thick ■■ to Impede the naviga
tion of vessels, like the floating plants
In tbe Sargasso sea of the tropics.
These shoals of medusae, as they are
called, may be so deuse (but a piece
of timber plunged In among them will
be held upright as If stuck in tbe
mud. and ordinary rowboats cannot
force their way through them. Their
migrations have never been explained.
They are Irregular and occur at no
particular aeasou of the year and un
der no particular Influences.
ECCENTRIC BRIGNOLI.
FLIGHT OF THE EARTH.
Asm« of th« Peculiarities of th« One«
Famous Tenor.
Brignoli. tbe great tenor, was so
careful of ItN voice when be bad to
sing that be would not speak at all
at/d wus iu tbe habit of writing bis
sixties on a piece of paper
During
tbe last years of bls life he lived at
the Everett House. New York, wben
not on tbe road. It took bint at least
three-quarters of au hour to go from
bls room to tbe sidewalk. He must
get used to tbe changes very gradual
ly Leaving tbe room, he would pace
up and down tbe ball for teu or fifteen
minutes until thoroughly "acclimatiz
ed." as be himself would say, and from
there would go to tbe lobby to experi
ence for twenty minutes a slightly
lower degree of temperature
At tbe end of half an hour he usual
ly reached tbe vestibule, where he
would puss another quarter, opening
the outer door occasionally to get a
taste of tbe fresh air
When thor
oughly acclimatized here he buttoned
hla greatcoat close about him aud
stepped out on tbe pavement.
Brignoil never was known to be
ready to go ou the stage to sing bls
part. He bad to wait one mltiute or
several minutes before appearing, lu
this lie was a great trouble to maua-
pent. "Just give me oue minute more." I
be would beg. aud when that was up
be would plead for another mid an
other till all patient e was exhausted.
Rushing Through Space at th« Rat« of
a Million Milos a Day.
Our dear old earth, which a«-etns Im
movable aud solid as we go about our
daily work or travel over its furruwi-d
surface. Is yet spiuulug aud rolling
and swaying In complex but orderly
motion, lu axial rotation gives us
day aud night. Its circuit round the
■uu Lrings the seasons aud tbe year
Tbe circling of tbe poles produces the
procession of tbe equinoxes.
Tbe
planets perturb lu Its courses. The
plane of Its orbit sways up uud dowu.
aud Its perihelion is slowly shifted
Tbe moou swings round a center
of gravity common to both, while tbe
sun aud all our system spet“d ouward
to some far distant goal. And. if the
bright star lu tbe constellation Taurus
Is tbe central point round which this
vast orbit swreps. then Alcyone is the
center of the universe for us.
As far as astronomers <uu Judge,
this motion through the vast abyss ot
Interstellar spaca is at the rate of
about a million utiles a day. anil It Is
in the direction of the constellation
Hercules. The motion through space
Is lielieved to bi away from Argus uud
toward Hercules. Some have thought
that Alcyone lu the Pleiades Is some
where near the center of the vast < lr
cult swept over by tbe sun and Ills at
tendant worlds. If this Is true, that
beautiful star ns it silently twinkles
In the constellation Taunts Ixs-onies
of surpassing Interest to mankind.
Chicago Tribune.
THE’GREEN FIEND.
Absinth Wat Originally a Harmless
Medical Remedy.
Absinth, the green tiend that satu
rates tushlonable France. was origi
nally au extremely harmless tnedlcul
remedy.
It was a French physician who first
um-d H<11N name was Ordinaire, and
be was living ns a refugee nt Couvet.
lu Switzerland, at tbe dose of tlie
eighteenth century, Like many other
country doctors at that time, be whs
also u druggist, and his favorite reme*
d.v wus a certain elixir of ubsiutb of
which be alone bad the secret.
At bls death he bequeathed tbe for
mula to Ills tmuxekeeper. Mlle. Grand*
pierre. titiil she sold It to the daughters
of Lieuteuant Iletiriod. They cultivat
ed lu their little garden tbe herbs nec
essary for concocting it. and after they
bad distilled a certain quuutlty of the
liquid they sold it ou commlsslou to
Itinerant neddlent. who qu<-kly dis
posed of it In tbe adjacent towns and
villages.
Finally, during tbe first decade of
the nineteenth century, a wealthy dis
tiller purchased the formula, uud very
soou afterward he placed on tbe mar
ket the modern nbslutb. which differs
greatly from tbe old medical remedy,
since the lutter contained uo alcohol
and very little ubslntb.
A Paint.r*a Troubles.
Tbe desire of tbe Hauk of England
officials to discover forgers has some
times led to curious mistakes. On oue
occasion tbe painter. George Morland.
In bis eiigerness to avoid bls duns,
retired to an obscure hiding place In
Hackney, where his auxious looks and
secluded manner of life luduced some
of bis neighbors to believe him ■ for
ger of notes then iu existence. Tbe
directors, ou being fuformed. dispatch
ed some dexterous detectives to tbe
resilience, but Morland's suspicious
were uroused by tbelr movements tn
front of the bouse and. tbluktng them
bailiffs, escaped from the back to Lon
don. Mrs. Morland Informed tbe vis
itors of ber husband's name uud show
ed them some unfinished pictures. Tbe
fuels were reported to tbe directors,
who presented Morland with two twen
ty-pound notes by wuy of com|iensa-
tlon for tbe alarm.
8 he Didn't Dane*.
In 1730 a gentleman living In Hamp
shire. Eugland. named Samuel Bald
win. died after a rather stormy and
most unhappy married life. In hla will
be directed that all bls vast «-state be
given bis wife ou coudltiou that site
should dance upon his grave from time
to time. As the will further Instructed
that hla remulna should be taken by
boat to tbe Needle« nod from there
cast Into tbe sea. tills, of course, pre
vented tils widow from fulfilling tbe
conditions of tbe arill and thua lost her
tbe property, lie, however, hud bls
revenge for tbe various tempers abe
bad exhibited during tbelr life to-
gather and for the remarks she often
made that she "would yet dance uptin
his grave.*'- Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
The Record of Raindrops.
It la by carefully notlug small ■nd
apparently inalgitlfleaut things ■ nd
facts that men of scleucs are enabled
to reach some of tbelr most surprising
and Interesting conclusions, lu many
places the surfscs of rocks, which mil
lions of years ago must bft» formed
sandy or muddy seabeaches, la found
to be pitted with tbe Impreaaloua of
raindrops
Iu England It baa been
noticed that lu many cases tbe eastern
■Idee of these depressions are tbe more
deeply pitted. Indicating that tbe rain
drops which formed them were driven
before a west wind. From thia tbe
Hia Jeb.
Joe—I have got a good Job st last,
coucluslou to drawn that In tbe remote
epoch when the pits were formed tbe Ben. me boy.
Ben—What lie dolo'T
majority of tbe storma In England
Joe—Oh. I'm a cashier In a p'Hce
rants from tbe weet. Just as tbay do
orfls. aud ■ rattlin' good Job It Is.
today.—Harper's Weekly.
Beu—A cashier In a p'llce orfls. Joe
Wbst's that? I never 'sard of that
* Tree In a Thunderstorm.
Every oue to aware that It to__
not afore What's yer dootyf
Joe— Duty! I counts tbe coppara as
wl> r
seek a tree'« shelter In a than
deretorm. but If you must take ref they come lu. - London Answers
uge there thru climb to tbe topwoet
branches It baa been proved that the
Pretty lay.
upper boughs of trees during a storm
"So «he treated you roklly T
would be the safest position and It Is
"Coldly! Sa|. I d have ba<! to have
said that birds lu tbe branches ars a aertant and ao artificial boriaon to
seldom killed When tbe tree to struck be able to find out what latitud« I
by lightning It to tbe trank which, pre
via 1* if 1 bad been tb«ro for that pur
etraiably from Its greater dryness, to poow’-Chk-sgo Record Herald
■ bad conductor and which therefore
suffers tbe most
•ad ThnegM
He-Why are you so sad darling J
•be—I was Jsat thinking, dearest, that
tbto to tbe last ereuing we can be to
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HE WAS NOT IMMORTAL.
A Test That Proved It Wn Possible to
Kill a Spaniard.
Early In the sixteenth century the
natives of Porto Rico plotted to kill
the Spaniards on the island, Tiler.'
was ntueb doubt, however, its to
whether or uot It wns possible to kill
a Spaniard. Many of the natives In
sisted that It was not. Finally It was
decided to make an experiment.
A young Spaniard who was passing
through tin Indian village whs hospltn
bly received and fed. nnd then u num
ber of natives accompanied him on
his journey. When he arrived at a
river his companions offered to carry
him across.
The young man accepted and wns
taken up by two men and carried Into
tbe water on their shoulders. Arriv
ing near the middle of the river, they
threw bint In and held him down until
he ceased to struggle.
Then they carried him ashore with
profane apologies, loudly proclaiming
that they stumbled by accident and
calling upon him to arise and continue
bls journey. But the young man did
not move, and finally the natives were
convinced that be was actually dead.
Having secured the proof they want
ed. the leaders of the reltellion at once
began a general attack upon tlie Span
iards.—Blackwood's Magazine.
Unearned Gratitude.
A sample of .the late Dr. William
Everett's caustic repartee:
"1 always experience a sense of deep
obligation to you whenever I meet you
or hear of you.” sold George Babbitt
to Dr. Everett one morning when they
found themselves pacing tlie deck of
an ocean steamer together.
"Why so?" piped tlie doctor.
"Because.” said Mr. Babbitt. “I re
call that I was once so fortunate as to
win the Boylston prize for oratory at
Harvard, and you were chairman of
tbe board of Judges.”
“I remember It |>erfectly well.“ re
joined the brusque doctor.
"Tbe
Judges were five In number. At tlie
conclusion of the speaking we retire,!
to consider tbe merits of tlie contest
ants.
It was moved that you be
awarded a first prize On that motion
the vote was 3 to 2 iu your favor. I
was one of the two.”—Boston Tran
script.
Bleeding by Bowshct.
Tint all diseases can la- cured bv
bleeding Is still firmly believed b.v sev
eral savage tribes and especially by
tbe rnpu.au uegroes.
Wbeu one of
their physicians becomes convinced
that It 1s necessary to bleed a laitleiit
be goes several feet in front of him.
and then, drawing Ills bow. he fits a
■harp pointed arrow to it and. after
careful aim. fires the arrow Into tbe
velu which he desires to open. The ’
arrow. It Is said. Invariably goes
straight to the mark, and the thorn or
splluter of glass with, which It Is tip
ped does the work as successfully as a
lancet. Moreover, tbe patients never
show tbe slightest fear, since they are
couvluce«! that from tbe moment the
arrows pierce tbelr veins they will be
gin to recover.
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