Tillamook Headlight, January 11, 1912.
Tibetan Incenia Sticks.
The most valuable Incense sticks in
I China and those which seldom, if ever.
Lire Imported into this country are
those In the manufacture of which Ti
betan Inreuse ia used. These sticks are
made almost exclusively for the Im
perial court, which requires them for
I all Its ceremonies.
The sticks are long and thin and
are never allowed to be wholly con
sumed by the court. They are careful
ly extinguished when about three inch
es remain. These remnants are either
sold or given by court officials to
friends or foreign visitors. The cheap
est variety of the Tibetan Incense stick
comes In thin sticks of great length
and coats from 2H to 5 cents a stick.
The larger and more costly sticks
range in value from $1 to $2. The
Chinese have a tradition or a theory
that the smoke from one of these cost
ly Tibetan sticks, if the genuine Tibe
tan Incense has been used, will rise to
a great height without being affected
by the wind, no matter bow strongly
It may be blowing.—New York Herald.
Africa's Gold Coast.
The Gold Coast is a British colony
on the west coast of Africa. Its cli
mate is notoriously unhealthy, the
heat and moisture being excessive: the
coast is lined with unhealthy swamps
and shallow lakes, while the peculiar
rock of the country is said to give off.
under the influence of the air and
moisture, large quantities of hydrogen
gas. The native towns are crowded
and dirty, intermittent fevers and oth
er diseases being always present.
These are peculiarly fatal to Euro
peans. though the natives do not suf
fer so much. The whole region Is
more or less n gold producing country,
but at present the value of the terri
tory is chiefly due to the profusion of
vegetable products supplied by the rich
soil. Cocoanut and palm oil, bread
fruit. Indian corn. yams, sweet pota
toes. limes and oranges are only some
out of many other valuable produc
tions of tbls territory. The principal
exports are gold dust and palm oil.
Soma Mysteries of Dress.
We have wondered at the popularity
of the fez In the east in spite of its ap
parent unsuitability to eastern suns
Sir Charles Eliot has some observa
tions which are in point. "Dress in
the east is a matter determined by
rank or race and Is not affected by
such trifles as climate or temperature.
Some people think it proper to go
about almost naked, others bury them
selves under a mountain of clothes, but
all would scorn the idea of putting on
an overcoat because it was cold or
leaving off a fur lined robe because the
thermometer was at 90 degrees in the
shade.” These remarks are made in
connection with the Bulgarian wom
en’s gala costume—white linen gown
with woolen embroidery on skirt and
sleeve, various sleeveless garments
over this and above all a thick quilted
jacket and voluminous sash. In all I
this they will perform the national
dance throughout a blazing afternoon.
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The mussel's natural home la at ttofl
bottom of the sea. never tn very too*
water aud yet deep enough to be Mar
ly always covered at any state of the
tide. for preference It likes a bo* at
sand or smooth, fine gravel. Th ttoto
tied It attaches Itself by tbe Ugotwe-
llk* growth ou tbe shell known M tbe
byssus. and thus, standing an end
with Its point to tbe bottom of tbe sea.
it form-« itself In a dense mans so
closely packed together that Mt an
Inch of tbe sea floor is visible. As
new ones come they do not extend tbe
ground space occupied, but range
tbetuselves one on top of another in
layers, all firmly fixed together by a
living cord of connection. In thto po-
sitlou they are exposed to many dan
gers. A heavy storm may break tbe
mass to pieces aud disperse its con
stituents far and wide. An alteration
of the tidal current may sweep a sand
avalutaebe upon them and bring about
their end by suffocation. Even if they
escape these dangers it la certain that
bottom layers will be crushed out of
existeuce.
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The Vegetable Lamb.
Oro of tbe most remarkable mat
ural fetish’s in the world is tbe Cbl
nese kouchi. called by some people
“the vegetable lamb.” It is regarded
by tbe natives of China as something
supernatural. They believe It to be
part vegetable and part animal. Tbe
plant certainly bears a resemblance to
nn animal, altbougb it might be taken
for a pig as readily as a lamb. Kou-
cbi is composed principally of the
plant known as rhizome and springs
from seed.
After attaining its full
height roots and tendrils spring from
tbe fiber and grow downward until
they enter the earth. It is tbls peculiar
formation which has caused it to be re
garded with so much awe. Tbe Chi
nese claim that after it has reached
its full size It ceases to be vegetable
and turns animal, feeding upon the
tender shoots of plants which grow
near it —Watrnrapa Times.
A Submerged Crater.
During tbe explosion of the volcano
of Krakatoa. in the strait of Sunda. in
1SS3. a large part of tbe Island of Kra-
katoa was blown away, and the sea
took its place. Not long afterward
measurements were made of the shape
aud depth of the cavity left covered
with water at tbe northern end of the
disrupted island. The results were pub
lished by Dr. Verbeek in 1886. Lately
Dr. Von Hemmelen has remeasured the
submerged basin formed by tbe ex
plosion. and be finds that within the
partial ring formed by the three re
maining islands of the Krakatoa group
there is a central basin, oval in shape
and with a fairly level floor, having a
depth over a considerable area of 820
feet. Comparison with the former
measures Indicates that there has been
no change in the sea floor during tbe
intervening years. There is no sign of
volcanic activity.
Whan Liszt Met D Iriks.
A Paris contemporary relates an In
j Careering story of Liszt. The great
pianist was living In a little German
town when Diriks. the Norwegian
painter, went to reside at tbe same
i place, thinking be would be able to
j work there without interruptions. He
bad been Installed In bis uew quar-
1 ten» only one day when be made tbe
piauist’s acquaintance.
Tbe painter
bud beeu trying his art for about two
hours, uud then be gave up in despair.
He went outside, and at tbe same time
Liszt came out for a breath of fresh
i air.
Tbe painter addressed tbe pianist,
and this dialogue ensued: "Are you tbe
pianist, monsieur, whom I have beard
all day?" “Yes, monsieur.” “It is very
Irritating." “Alas, monsieur, you do
not love music?” "1 detest It.” "It is
very regrettable, but I must practice.”
"But you disturb me in my work.
Moreover, you play atrociously." "Ab.
yon think so? it is the first time any
one has ever told me so” “Judging
from your age. there have been many
opportunities." was the painter’s au
ewer
Then there was silence for a
moment Liszt, going Indoors, content
e* himself with tbe observation, "My
name ia Liszt."
Nature’s Parachutes.
Careful examination has been made
of tbe tieads of Canada thistledowns
IB order to determine their effective
ness as parachutes carrying the seeds
of tbe plant to great distances through
tbe air. Tbe results of this exami
nation are quite remarkable. Calcula-
lion shows that a thistledown starting
from an elevation of twenty feet in
still air would require two-thirds of a
minute to reach tbe ground. With a
wind blowing twenty miles an hour
it would be carried ou the average
about a fifth of a mile. The total sur
face exposed to the air in an average
thistledown is. on account of the great
number of batrlets. a little more than
one-third of a square foot. Another
well known and very beautiful exam
pie of nature’s parachutes is furnished
by the light silken threads with tbe aid
of which tbe little gossamer spider
makes long aerial voyages.—Scientific
American.
Teaching the Teacher.
Tbe teacher of tbe first grade ta tbe
district school In tbe cattle country
hud much trouble with tbe slx-year-old
boy wbo was tbe sole member of that
grade The boy is tbe son of a cattle
man
After a week or so of refusal
to learn th« alphabet tbe teacher said:
“Johnny. if you do not learn your
letters you never will know any-
i thing.”
"Shucks!” replied Johnny. "1 know
more'n you do.”
“Why. Johnny, what do yon mean
by such talk?” gasped tbe teacher. “I
never heard of such impudence."
Johnny bolted for the blackboard
and drew half a dozen cattle brands—
the Flying D, tbe Lazy B. the Trian
gle Dot. the Lazy Crutch, the Bar 7
and some others.
"What’s them?" he asked.
Tbe teacher couldn't guess.
"Well." said Johnny, "don’t you talk
to me no more about them things you
call letters when you can’t tell cattle
brands apart." — Saturday Evening
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The World’s Worst Penman.
Most remarkable among execrable
writers was John Belt, the barris
ter of whom Lord Eldon said to the
prince regent that he was tbe ablest
equity lawyer of bls time, though he
could "neither read, write, walk nor
talk."
Bell was a cripple, and his
Westmorland accent combined with
bis stammer to make bis sjteecb until
telligihle. The character of his writ
ings appears from his own statement
that he had three styles, one of which
he could rend, but bis clerk could not.
u bile the second was Intelligible to his
clerk, hut not to himself, and the third
baffled both of them. Something slm
liar is told of Henry Ward Beecher,
whose daughter, acting as his copyist,
had throe chief rules—that no dotted
letter of his was meant for nn ”1."
that no crossed letter stood for a "t”
and that no capltnl letter ever began
a sentence. —London Chronicle.
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Drunkenness In China.
As regards the sobriety of the Chi
nese there seems to be a difference of
opinion, and it is a question upon
which writers disagree, but it seems to
be the geueral opinion that very few
Making Love by Telephone.
intoxicated men or women are seen
Wooing is a slightly more compli
upon the streets. Wbat drinking Is
cated matter in Sardinia than it is
done—and from all accounts there
here Tbe marriage customs are very
must be considerable—is carried on
curious. If a father has a marriage
within doors. Habitual drunkenness is
able daughter the would be suitor ap
punished by banishment and servitude,
plies to him for permission to see her
but occasional intoxication is only a
as she goes to church, or In the event
matter of comment, and the result Is
of her not wishing to be seen be com
the notifying a person on the street in
muñientes with her by means of a spe
w hich he Ilves that so and so is drunk,
cies of telephone which has been In
and If the subject Is not boisterous
uae since time immemorial. It is a
the affair is let drop.
But. on tbe
long string with a wooden knob at
other haud. If ho Is noisy and shows a
each end.
The father's permission
disposition to quarrel and fight be to
having been given, the lady drops one
at once taken to bls rooms and com
knob out of tbe window and. the shut
pelled to remain there until the effect
ters being closed, places the other
of the liquor has worn away.—New
knob to tbe ear, while down below her
York Sun.
would be lover pours bis protestations
lato tbe knob she has thrown into tbe
Concerning Frsshmsn.
street. Sometimes this curious form
James, aged five, aud Sarah, aged
of courtship continues for two or three seven, were the children of a profess
years, tbe mau never seeing tbe face or and took a gre.it interest at tbe be
of bls inamorata
ginning of tbe college year In tbe class
Preserving Spiders’ Webs.
Naturalists employ an ingenious
method of preserving all kinds of spi
Changed Hie Mind.
A southern senator was alone In his ders' webs. Tbe webs are first spray
office one morning when a middle aged i ed with an atomizer with a thin solu
Longfellow's Incomplete Library.
woman entered, bringing with her a tion of artists’ shellac, and then, should
1 remember there was one little boy
they lie of tbe ordinary geometric
wild gleam in her eye.
of whom Longfellow was very fond
“Can you lend me $20?" she asked, form, they are pressed carefully
against a glass plate, the supporting | atoi wbo came often to see him One
calling the senator by name.
day tbe child looked earnestly at the
“I’m sorry," replied the lawmaker. strands at the same time being sev |
long rows of books in tbe library and
*but I’m afraid I can’t this morning. ered. After the shellac solution has
at length said. "Have you got ’Jack
dried
the
plates
carrying
the
webs
can
I’m pretty hard up.”
the Giant Killer?’ ”
The visitor fidgeted in the chair be stored away In a cabinet. Even
Longfellow was obliged to confess
which she had taken without invita dome shaped webs may be preserved
(Mt bls library did not contain that
tion. "I need $20 very badly." she in their original form by spraying
venerated volume. The little boy look
continued. “In fact. I’ve just escaped them with shellac and then allowing
sd very sorry and presently slipped
from a lunatic asylum.” The gleam in them to dry before removal from their
«own from bls knee and went uway.
supports.
Many
spiders'
webs
are
very
her eye got wilder, and she began to
tart early next morning Longfellow
beautiful,
and
all
are
characteristic
of
wave4 her hand bag in long swinging
saw him coming up tbe walk with
motion before her. “1 just got out the sjiecies to which they belong, so something tightly clasped in bis little
:hat from a scientific standpoint their
yesterday,” she said.
flats
Tbe child bad brought him 2
"That being the case." concluded the permanent preservation is very desir
cento with which be was to buy a
senator somewhat hastily, ¿¡here's the able.
“Jack tbe Giant Killer,” to be.his own.
twenty.’’—Washington 8tar.
—Annie Field, "Authors and Friends."
How Flying Fish Fly.
Tbe popular notion that flying fish
The Absentminded Record.
Insect Tones.
Duluth is the home of a woman who beat their “wings" Is a mistake, If we
An Investigator given to tbe collec
are
to
rely
upon
the
results
of
studies
In the line of absentmindedness has
tfoo of curious data has observed that
of these fish made by no less an au
the whole world beaten to a finish. tbority than Captain Barett Hamilton I there are at least three different tones
She Is absentminded from the time
It appears that the wings are not true emitted by insects—a low one during
she wakes up until the moment she
organs of flight, but rather play tbe Mgbt. a blglter one when tbe wings
goes to sleep.
part of a parachute or an aeroplane I are held In such manner that they do
"Emily.” a friend asked her on one The whole motive power is supplied | Mt vibrate and a yet higher tone
occasion, "bow old was your mother by the tail, which acts as a propeller. I wkn tbe insect to held so that none of
when she died?”
and tbe vibration or quivering of tbe ‘ Ito limbs can be moved. This last. It
“I don’t know.” replied Emily sweet wings in tbe air currents and their to pointed out. to the “voice proper" of
ly. "Yon know she died long before 1 occasional shift of inclination are not j tbe Insect. In some cases It is pro-
was born.”—Popular Magazine.
phenomena connected with the propul - «need by tbe stigmata of tbe thorax.
sion of tbe fish In Its aerial flight
Life’s Crucible.
Thoughtful Painter.
It was said of Diderot that in bis In
“1 see you are paying tbe hospital
Dear In Scotland.
variable optimism he was like one of
The deer are probably the safest crop expenses of that tut inter wbo tell off
the old alchemists, who always found In Scotland
Oats may perish and the roof”
gold In bis crucible because he had never ripen by reason of too early
“Yes He's too good a man to lose.
first put it there. That Is wbat the frosts and long continued wet Grouse Ao be went down be touched up two
instructed soul learns to do. for life may tri re disease and < ea«e to count er three places which would have been
consists always of wbat we put into on any moor for several years. Sheep very bard to reach."—Louisville Cou
it
are generally voted of less value than rier-Journal.
grouse
But deer are very rarely af
Hard Hearted.
fected by tbe seasons In such a way
Where It Hurts.
"Poor Bickers has a very hard heart as to touch the sport and the letting
“I tell you." said Slnnlck. "men are
ed wife.” said Tri wet.
value of forests. —Illustrated Sporting getting so deceitful these days that
“What’s tbe trouble now?” asked
News
yea can't trust your best fr ends "
Dicer.
“And what's worse.' interrupted
"She not only broke the broomstick
Whore Now!
Borrougbs gloomily, "you ant get
over his head, but made him go to the
The Family Frlend-My dear. I «are year beet friends to trust you
Catb
store and buy another ”
Bay yon And comfort In the thought ellc Brand a rd and Times.
fhat you made your h-t’band Sappy
while he lived Tbe Widow -Mt reel
Nature.
It Certainly D'd
Nature paints the be«t part of tbe tzlng the double-meaning of her words,
"Johnny." «aid tbe Munday school
picture, earves tbe best part of tbe -Yes. Indeed Foor Jack was to Muv
teacher, "can you tell me oust caused
statue, but'ds the best part of the bouse en until be died.-London Sketch
tbe flood?”
and speaks tbe best part of tbeoration
“Tea. ma'am." answered tbe little
—Emerson.
Test
fellow; “It rained -Chicago News
■How sball I dose tkto lefter te «te*
Marine Yem.
pay-*youre truiy or •respeetfuHTF "
Well Worn.
Pilpper-And bow did your boat
"Sey 'reepeetfully.' hot add. 1« «e
Wlgg—Tbst wss a pretty old joke
reme to be wrecked? Skipper—Well, reotbeses. foe thè test tl**'"-rtos-
Itorem cracked at dinner R agg-Bor
you see. she wan making so many geode Riattar.
rm didn't crack It. That joke t>as been
knots the crew wasn't able to unravel
cracked for years-f’blladniphia Rec
them
ord
He that tossa bls eooarleace baa
The tree art of memory to tbe art
notblnr left that la worth seeping —
of aneetteto-Jotaaom
Proverb.
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collisions which they daily witnessed
on tbe campus. They discussed the
merits of tbe case from every side,
.lames usually preferred the freshmen,
wbile Sarah always sided with tbeir
j enemies.
One afternoon Jnmes was trotting
across tlie campus, bolding tightly to
bis father’s hand His little face was
quite serious, and be kept looking be
hind him more or less fearfully
His
father. deep tn meditation, was not no
: ticing until finally a small voice said:
"Father, they wouldn't mistake a lit
tie boy for a freshman, would they?" —
Woman's Home Companion.
Antimilitariam In Germany.
At Strassburg I saw a general leave
barracks. Tbe sentries stood at atten
lion, then when be had passed on they
both at tbe same instant mimicked bls
gnlL which was peculiar, behind bis
back—sentries, mind you! I have also
seen street boys in Germany mock the
paradesebritt of troopers when an offi
cer passed by. and the troopers grin
ned broadly and tbe officer saw. but
said naught. Such antimilitarism 1s
unthinkable in France.—London Globe.
DR. D.
A. SANBURN,
Freneh Specialist.
I treat aucccHHiully all Chronic
sexes with Imported Herbs, ar
so-called magnetic treatments.
most stubborn cases without the
Diseases of both
I with my hands
I will cure the
use of the knife.
OVER 40 YEARS EXPERIENCE.
Ho Made the Sale.
"Yes, tbe property Is cheap enough.
Why do yon went to sell ItF’
"You won’t give me away'f
"No.”
"Well. sir. It's because I'm the only
man In this neighborhood that doesn't
move tn high society, and I'm lone
some."—Chicago Tribune
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"What’s the trouble with yea aud
your fiance? Is be Jealous?"
"Well, he isn’t exactly JealoM. bat
he's v hut you might call old fash
lor—I
He doesn't want me to be en
gaged to anybody else.'-Washington t
Herald
Good Sense.
Cold sense Is a* different fro* gentes
as perception to from Invention; yoL
though distinct qualities, they tM-
qnoncly e ubata» together.
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Naval Salutes.
Ori,finally a town or a warship fired
off Its guns on tbe approach of friend
ly strangers to show that they bad
sneb faith in tbe visitors’ peaceful to
tentions they didn't think It necessary
to keep tbeir guns loaded. Hence the
naval salute.
Marked Resemblanoo.
■'(¡rare. to that sweetheart of Jours
sn auctioneer?" "No. father WbyT
"Be- ,;.e tie keeps on saying he's go
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