Tillamook Headlight, May 16. 1912
CURIOUS CLOCKS.
In a Frying Pan With a Knife and
Fork For Hand«.
;n a Third avenue restaurant there
as l>reu for more than twenty year*
tin odd clock on the wall. The clock
Is placed in a frying pan. The bottom
of the pan forma the face of the clock,
and the hours are numbered on oyster
shells fastened to the pan. The hour
and minute bands are a fork and knife.
Other curious clocks stand in out of
the way corners of the city. In a dime
museum that used to be on the Bow
ery there stood for many years a huge
clock, about the size of the ordinary
roll top desk, said to hare been made
by a cripple with the aid of a fretsaw
and a jackknife.
Thia clock was made of 70.000 pieces
of wood of different kinds. It had
five dials, showing the time in London,
Parts. Berlin, St. Petersburg and New
York. There were also dials that in
dicated the phases of the moon, orbit
of the earth, small figures representing
the last supper, the crucifixion and
othci Biblical scenes. The quarters,
halves and hours were struck on small
bells by gnomelike figures made to re-
sem. ie familiar dwarfs In the Sleepy
Hollow scene of "Rip Van Wlukle."
Far many years this clock was the
main feature In the museum. It was
later bought by a club. It Is said.—New
York Sun.
BUILT FOR WASHINGTON.
A Philadelphia House the President
Refused to Occupy.
The second year of Washington’s ad
miristratlon the seat of government
was removed from New York to Phil
adelphia. In the meantime the federal
city, Washington, was in building, and
the legislature of Pennsylvania voted a
sum of money to build a house for the
president, perhaps with some hope that
this might help to keep the seat of the
general government In the capital, for
Philadelphia was then considered as
the capital of the state.
What was since the University of
Pennsylvania was the structure erect
ed for the purpose. But a* soon as
General Washington saw Its dimen
sions and a good while before it was
finished be let it be known that he
would not occupy it and should cer
tainly not go to the expense of pur
chasing suitable furniture for such a
dwelling, for it is to be understood in
those days of stern republicanism no
body thought of congress furnishing
the president's bouse, or if perchance
such a thought did enter into some
aristocratic bead It was too unpopular
to be uttered.
President Washington therefore rent
ed a bouse of Mr. Robert Morris la
Market street between Fifth and Sixth
on the south side and furnished it
handsomely but not gorgeously.—Ex
change.
The Black of the Eye.
The Invariable blackness of the pupil
of the eye was a puzzle to scientific
men until Professor Helmholtz showed
It to be the necessary effect of refrac
tion. Sufficient rays are reflected from
the bottom of the eye to render visible
the parts there situated, but since these
reflected rays in emerging from the
eye must traverse the same ocula
media through which they passed in
entering the eye It Is evident that they
must undergo the same refraction
which they underwent as entering rays,
only In an opposite direction. The re
sult of this Is that the paths of the
emerging and entering rays coincide,
and the former will therefore return to
tt: source whence as incidental rays
t! <•> originally started. There Is noth
in, in the pupil to reflect light—in fact.
It resembles a window looking into a
dark room.
The First Erie Canalboat.
The William Tell was the first boat
to pass over the Erie canal from Buf
falo to Albany and down the river to
New York. Her cargo consisted entire
ly of hogsheads, barrels and bottles of
Lake Erie water, part of which was
mingled with the waters of the bay of
New York on the occasion of the great
fete in celebration of the opening of
the wonderful waterway. Her paseea-
gers Included Governor De Witt Ctta-
ton. the leader tn the canal enterprise,
aia a delegation of statesmen and dis
tinguished persons from foreign lands
and various parts of the United Staton
Took It Too.
Some time ago Australia bad a to
markably eloquent and witty taller,
who became not only an M P , bat a
minister of the crown. To him a new
governor made thio maladroit remark.
"I bear. Mr. Jones, you were once a
tailor.”
“Yoe. my lord. I wan"
"And how are you engaged nowF
"Taking your excellency » meaoora."
— I-ondon Chronicle.
Ono Ooeupation Loss.
A visitor at a small resort on the
coast asked one of the meo whom be
saw at tbe village store what be did all
summer.
"Loaf and flab." replied tbe native
What do you do In the winter'" can
tinned tbe Inquiring vlaltoc.
"We don't fl«b"’
.
Favors
^■Rilllcue-1 cm truthfully any I never
■forget a favor. Cvnk-oo— Nothing re
markable about that Tbe fellow we
accept a favi* from seldom lota us for
get it -Philadrlptdx Record.
Why She Drew Up.
Nell (rending man novel»-He ktaoed
her nn tbe foeebeed. The proud beauty
drew herself up. Relle-1 «uprose that
was to get her cheek up to tbe proper
NECK TRUMPETS.
Curious
Silver Musical Instruments
Used by the Hindus.
The Hindus have a number of mu
sk al Instruments for which great an
tiquity is claimed. Of tliese there Is
one that Is very curious, ix-l so much
by reason of its form of structure, but
because of tbe fact that it is played in
a very peculiar manner. It is not a
stringed instrument. it la not a wind
instrument, and it Is not an Instrument
of itercusaiqn. It consists of two small
silver trumpets with a very delicate
apparatus witbin.
When the natives play upon this In
strument they invariably excite the
greatest wonder in tbe foreigner, who
Is perplexed to determine how tbe
player produces the sounds, for he
does not place the Instrument to bls
111», but adjusts it to his neck. For
eigners have thought that a player of
such an Inatrument must be a ventrilo
quist. employing tbe trumpets to con
vey a false impression.
It appears, however, that tbe varia
tlons of tone are produced by the vari
atlon In the quantity of air propelled
through tbe instrument by tbe pulsa
tions of the neck.
Nothing could be more curious, it 1»
said, than to witness a performance
upon this Instrument and to bear the
soft, sweet musical sounds that etna
nate from tbe silver trumpets.—Ex
change.
A STORY OF KITCHENER.
T1 e Disheveled
Dervish Who Was
Captured In the Desert.
Tbe following Incident. Involving
K'tcbener's ability to disguise himself,
wax described by one who served with
the Essex regiment in a campaign
against tbe dervishes:
“I was acting corporal of the guard
over a large number of 'gentlemen of
the desert' whom we bad taken pris
oners. In the course of my rounds a
captive within tbe tent drew my at
tention. and I was surprised to hear in
good English tbe request:
“ ‘Corporal I wish to get out of this.'
“I of coi-Tie reported tbe occurrence
to tbe sergeant of the guard, only to
be met with tbe curt reply:
“ ‘L?t tbe fool stay where he is?
"I continued my rounds and was
again met with tbe request Again 1
reperted tbe matter, and this time the
reply was as curt, but a bit stronger,
so I went on my rounds again. As 1
passed the spot this time tbe voice
from within said:
“ •Say. corporal, you are of the Essex
regiment?'
”1 answered that I was, and the
prisoner said:
“'Well, tell Mr. B. that I want to
speak to him.'
“ ‘What name?’ I asked.
” 'Kitchener.' came tbe reply, and I
at once reported accordingly to the
sergeant.
"He immediately made for the pris
oners’ quarters, and 1 shall never for
ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS.
get that meeting.
Tbe disheveled
Why We Tie a String Around a Finger ‘dervish' was in reality tbe Lord Kitch
ener that was to be. who had been
to Remember Something.
We sfieak of the association of Ideas out spying among tbe enemy and bad
We do not associate Ideas In our mind, apparently been taken prisoner by bls
but we associate tbe mental picture own troops.’’—London Globe.
of things—of forms and colors and
other material qualities. We can form
FAMOUS FEEDERS.
no conception of an abstract quality,
as goodness, except In its association Fetsr ths Groat and Louis XIV. Had
with a material thing.
Fairly Good Appetites.
Every thought must have a material
Louis XIV.. le Grand Monarque.
basis, and It Is retained In our mind could wield a lusty knife at the ban
through association with some other queting board. It is related of this
object, the picture of which we have French ruler that "he would eat at a
retained. There are some things so meal four platefuls of soup, a whole
closely bound up In our existence or pheasant, a partridge, a plateful of
that have been reproduced so often salad, mutton hashed with garlic, two
that no effort Is required to Instantly good sized slices of ham and a dish of
recall them or reproduce them In our pastry, finishing tbe repast with fruits
mind. Our name, our btrthday or
and sweetmeats’’—pretty fair for a
something that we know by heart and king who, we are Informed by one his
can repeat without an effort, are ex torian, dined in public, “and the privi
amples. Moat things require an effort lege of seeing him eat was eagerly
to recall them, and we recall a num sought after.”
No admission was
ber of things and try to find one with
charged, as far as can be learned.
which the thing we seek Is associated
In tbe Bodleian library at Oxford
In tying the string around tbe finger
there Is preserved an Innkeeper's bill
wo associate the Idea, the deed or the
for breakfast eaten at Godaiming, Sur
thing that we want to remember with
rey, by Peter the Great. The czar and
the string or knot. As this Is fre
twenty companions managed to dis
quently seen, we frequently get the
pose of half a sheep, a quarter of a
association between the string and the
lamb, ten pullets, three ducks, twelve
thing we want to remember, and this
chickens, eighty-four eggs, three quarts
serves to recall It.—New York Ameri
of brandy and six quarts of mulled
can.
wine, with salad In proportion. For a
tittle snack picked up at noon Peter
A Visit From ths Bayleys,
and his merry crew got away with a
Tbe servant at No. 1 told tbe servant sheep, five ribs of beef, three-quarters
at No. 2 that her master expected bls of a lamb, fourteen pullets, fourteen
old friends, the Bayleys, to pay a visit, rabtiits and a great quantity of brandy
and No. 2 told No. 3 that No. I expect andTwine. Peter's taste tn tipple ran
rd to have the Bayleys In the bouse to brandy and hot pepper, a harmless
every day, and No. 3 told No, 4 that It decoction for a copper riveted throat
wax all up with No. 1 and that they
and armor plate stomach.
couldn't keep tbe bailiffs out, where
ui>ou No. 4 told No. 5 that tbe officers
His Title to Fama,
were after No. 1 and that It was at
There is a big hearted man editing a
,'iiuch as be could do to prevent him
paper in Iowa who ever tries to say
•»elf from being taken In execution and
iliat It was nearly killing bis poor, dear something eulogistic about every citi
wife, and so It went on Increasing anc zen of his town both during the sub
Increasing until It got to No. 33 that ject's life and at his death. On one
the detective police bad taken up the occasion be was much perplexed to
gentleman who lived at Na 1 for kill know what to say In tbe case of a
tug bls poor, dear wife with arsetd< man. a resident of tbe town for many
.nd that It was confidently hoped and years and an excellent citizen. For tbe
< xpected that he would be executed, at life of him the editor could think of
iie facts of the case were very clear nothing that his friend bad done to
entitle him to distinction. The fol
against him —London Express.
lowing was tbe one fact that the writer
could produce from tbe recesses of his
Flank Steak.
memory as a climax for the eulogy
Tbe flank contains a broad flat mus
that appeared in the paper:
ele known as the flank steak, which It
"Mr. Jones was once prominently
a very desirable piece of meat If takei
mentioned for the nomination as alter
from a well fattened animal. Tbert
nate delegate for the annual conclave
is no waste to It whatsoever. It Is
of the Order of tbe Sons of America.”
oarse in fiber, but very rich in flavor,
and if carefully prepared is a very —Harper's Magazine.
choice cut. In tbln cattle tbe flank
steak is not usually removed, the flank
being made Into rolled roasts or sold
for stewa. A rolled roast of tbe bind
flank la one of tbe most economical
cuts In the whole animal. It is good
to eat. la cheap and contains no bone.—
National Provlsloner.
Thought of Columbus.
Bill—And when you slipped on tbe
Icy pavement and your heels flew out
from under you bow did you feel ?
JU1—Ob. 1 felt like Christopher Co
lumbus
"Why. bow's that?”
•T was a little uncertain Just where 1
was going to land "—Yonkers Statao-
man
Great Will Fewer.
"A man can overcome moot a*y
kind of a handicap If lie ba« tbe de
termination." says a joker. "For la-
stance. I knew a man once who hadn't
R tooth In bla bead, yet he learned to
beat a ba*« drum Iwtter than any
ether man 1 ever knew.”- Kansas City
loornal.
Reeipreeity.
"Did she reciprocate your toafl-
menu?"
"With far too mix h pmiski*. Bbe
«ent me bock «11 my letters."-Waeb
Ington Star.
Spider Tigers.
The lycoeee are tigers among spiders,
and when tbe eggs are Inclosed in tbelr
oac they attach tbe precious parcel to
tbe abdomen and carry It about with
them. During tbe season of maternity
they era exceedingly fierce and con
sider ny evidence of curiosity on the
part of an observer as s direct chal
lenge to attack. When tbe young are
hatched they swarm out over the
mother, and she carries them about
with her for several days. Bo voracious
is their appetite that she frequently
fails a victim to tt. for. It is said, they
have no compunction whatever in de
vouring her.
Curious Bread Law.
There is a provision In tbe British
bread acts of 1822 nod 1KW. which
are still In force, to tbe effect that “ev
ery person who «ball make for sale or
«ell or expose for sale any broad made
wholly or |>artlally of pea« or I*« ns
or potatoes or of any »ort of corn or
grain other than wheat shall cause all
sorb bread to be marked with a large
Roman *M.‘”
t
ARTIFICIAL CAMPHOR.
Man Dees In Two Weeks What Nature
Takes Tws Years ts De.
Who. unless he be a chemist, would
suppose that there exists anything In
common between tbe camphor of the
orient and the turpentine obtained
from tbe piue tree in tbe Occident?
The two substances have no superfi
cial resemblance, tbelr very odors be
ing different, yet. chemically consid
ered. there Is very little difference be
tween them. Turpentine Is composed
of ten atoms of carbon combined with
sixteen atoms of hydrogen, and cam
phor has tbe same com|*onenta. with
the addition of one atom of oxygen.
The beat natural camphor comes
from Formosa, and tbe outbreak of
tbe Russian-Japanese war advanced
the price to such an extent that tbe
chemists of tbe world were called upon
to contrive a substitute. They soon
decided that It would be more practice-
able to make an artificial camphor.
Knowing turpentine to be the sub
stance moot nearly allied to It In chem
ical structure, a series of experiments
on a very large scale was begun. A
detailed history of these experiments
would fill msny volumes. Today from
a determined quantity of turpentine
may be obtained a fourth part of tbe
weight of pure camphor. The success
of tbe experiments was first known
when the odor of camphor iaaued frim
set combinations.
BETWEEN TWO VISITS.
Today man can manufacture in tbe
Ths Great Change That Cams Over the laboratory In fifteen dgys an amount
of camphor which It takes a tree two
Poor Little Fat Boy.
Sir Francis Chantrey, tbe famous years to produce.—Harper's Weekly.
sculptor of Georgian days, whose be
quest for the eucouragement of art la
BRANDED BRIDES.
now famous as the “Chantrey trust,”
is the subject of a very pleasing story Novel Bstrothal Customs of the Na
told in Lady Chatterton's diary:
tives of New Gulnos.
"Last week I met Sir Francis Chan
So far ito proposals of marriage are
trey and Luttrell at Rogers' bouse. concerned. In New Guinea It Is always
Lady Dufferin. Mrs. Darner, Lord leap year, for in that Island tbe men
Lansdowne and Lord Glenelg were consider It beueath their dignity to no
there. After breakfast Chantrey point tice women, much less to make over
ed out a sideboard and said to Rogers: tures of marriage. Consequently tbe
“ 'Do you remember a poor little fat proposing Is left to the women to do.
boy in a common workman's dress who
When tbe ebony belle falls in love
came one morning many, many years with a man she sends a piece of string
ago to take some order about that side to his sister or. if be has no sister, to
boa rd ?’
his mother or another of his lady rela
“ 'Yes, I do,’ said Rogers, ‘for I tives. Then tbe lady wbo receives tbe
thought what a fine head and intelli string tells tbe dusky masher that the
gent look the poor boy had.’
particular damsel Is In love with him.
" 'Well, he is the now celebrated No courting follows, however, for It Is
sculptor, wbo not only goes to all tbe considered beueath a New Guinea gen
best bouses in London, but gives pur tleman’s dignity to waate time In such
ties that people are so good as to call a pursuit. If the man thinks be would
pleasant, where all the highest and like to wed tbe lady he meets her alone,
most Intellectual people honor him
and they decide straight away whether
with tbelr presence. Can you guess to marry or drop the idea.
who It is? Well,’ Cbantrey »tided,
In tbe former case the betrothal Is
•that cabinetmaker's apprentice was
announced. The man Is then marked
myself.’ ”
on tbe back with charcoal, while a
mark Is actually cut Into tbe woman's
A Conscientious Jury.
skin.
On one occasion a native In Kall.
No breach of promise actions are pos
Hawaii, cheated a neighbor out of a
sible In New Guinea, though If tbe lady
small sum of money. Tbe community
Is jilted her friends may bunt her lover
was indignant and determined that tbe
up and "go” for him. On tbe other
guilty party should be punished. The
hand, If the dark damsel prove faith
day of tbe trial came; tjie testimony
less she Is liable to be beaten by her
was conclusive; tbe judge closed hts
betrothed If be catches her.—Pearson's
charge, reminding tbe jury that "It
Weekly.
takes nine to convict,” for a three-
fourths majority was required Instead
Water as Food.
of a unanimous jury. It was thought
In tbe light of certain statistics giv
that the twelve might decide tn tbe en by W. J. McGee iu the World's
box, but tbe Hawaiian likes form, aud
Work tbe old sentence of "bread and
they gravely withdrew to the jury water” does not, at all events, sound
room. They were gone an unconscion like starvation rations. For man and
able time. At length the judge. Impa other animals water Is the leading
tient, sent to find out wbat In tbe food. Tbe average human ration is
world was the matter and discovered some six pounds dally, four and one-
this predicament: All twelve were for balf liquid and one and one-half nomi
conviction, and no three could be ln- nally solid. A pound of grain Is the
ducetFto vote for the defendant.
equivalent of two tons of water used
by tbe growing wheat and a pound of
Mending Screens.
beef tbe equivalent of fifteen to thirty
Few repairs are more conspicuous or tons of water consumed by the beeves
annoying than ugly patches on screen chiefly in the form of feed, and tbe
doors or wludows. When a screen is adult wbo eats 200 |>ounds each of
broken first make the broken place a bread and beef In a year consumes
neat, trim oblong bole with wire cut something like a ton of water In drink
ters. Then from a piece of screen cut and tbe equivalent of 400 tons In bread
a patch two Inches larger than tbe and 4,000 tons in mest, or 4,401 tons
opeulug. Ravel tbe wires for half an in all.
Indi all around this piece and bend the
wires thus left at right angles. Hold-'
Domestic Troubles.
Ing the patch carefully in place, push
Husband-What’s tbe matter, dear?
the bent wires through the screen and
Why do you look so worried?
secure the patch by bending tbe wires
Wife—Oh, I’ve just got everything
back evenly and smoothly. Tbe patch
all ready for Mrs. Meatlelgh's visit.
will be hardly no»Iceable when com
I’ve doue up all the curtains and pll-
pleted—National Magazine.
lowsbams and bureau covers and can
terpieces, and they’re all spick and
The Reason of IL
span.
"Have you seen Joe lately?”
Husbund— Well, if everything Is In
"Why. ye«. I saw the old chap yes each apple pie order why look so dis
terday. And. wbat do you think, he's consolate about it?
going to be married.”
Wife (bursting Into tears)—Oh, I just
“Can It be i»oealble? To whom?"
know as soon as she sees them she’ll
"He'« going to marry Mary Merrie.”
know I cleaned everything all up be
"Wbat! Why. I didn’t know they cause she was coming — Judge
knew each other.”
"They don’t
That's why they're
Reason For Her Talk.
going to l<e married.”—Cleveland Plain
Lola, aged four, was present at din
Dealer
ner one evenlug when a number of
Free lea.
Footpad-Hands up! If you move,
you're a dead men! Professor Yale—
Pardon me. my friend, that statement
la neither logically nor etymologically
correct. Manifestly. If I move I'm a
living man. not a dead man! Be a
little more careful In your use of words.
-Satire
guests were being entertained by her
parents, and during a lull In th« con
versation she bogan to talk very ear
nest ly.
"Why do you talk so much. Lola?”
asked her father
"’Cause I’ve got somethin' to say.”
was the Innocent reply.—Chicago News.
Tha Gallen.
The gallon me»«ore in Canada differ«
elite materially from the gallos in (ho
nited States There tbe gallou meas
ure contain« exactly ten pounds of dis
tilled water, ben* the gallou contains
only 8 33*0 pounds
Milk being bear,
ler than water, a Canadlau gallon of
;allk will weigh 10 31 pound« Where
as la tbe United State« the weight will
be **fl pounds
Didn't Appreciate IL
Mrs Perk-Really, we never know
A Shock.
wbo our best friends are. Peck-That'S
"Now Henry.” she began with a set
true. There'« tbe fellow I woo you Jaw, "I must have 110 today."
away from. Hr hasn't spoken to ate
"All right." replied her husband
etnee.-Borton Tran» rite
“here tt to.”
“Gra<4ou«. nenry"' «bo ev lalmed.
Whet men want lo *nt falsar. It to
Re only employs prejudice wbo co* •oddenlv paling "What's tbe matter?
Chiefly tl>r mold of a man’s furiane
Mptbs will to mu.'. -Ba. »er Lgtte*
make no nee of ressa* <'koto
Are you Uir
M in bls ewn bands - Bocea.
A Baby's Advantage.
A baby 1« « very belpieaa little thing,
bat tt has one adrante*«— tt doesn't
bare to keep sweet while a bore la
trying to estérula it.-Galveston News
FAMILY
RECIPES.
Caustic Answer to an Opponent at a
Political Meeting.
Herndon, hl» law partuer. tells tbe
story of Lincoln's encounter with one
Mr. Forquer. who bad suddenly chang
ed from tbe Whig to tbe Democratic
faith and had been rewurded with a
fat political office. Forquer had there
upon built himself an elaborate home
In Springfield and over It had erected
a lightning rod, the only one In tbe
place and th# first one Lincoln bad
ever seen.
Once at a political meeting Forquer
set himself to "take dowu" tbe pre
sumptuous young man of elongated
stature and ready tongue. "His reply
to Forquer.” says Herndon's informant,
"was characterized by great dignity
and force. I shall never fuget tbe con
clusion of that speech.
*' 'The gentleman has seen fit to allude
to my being a young man, but be for
gets that I am older in years than 1 am
In tricks and trades of politicians. 1
desire to live, and I desire place and
distinction, but I would rather die now
thau. like the gentleman, live to see
tbe day that I would change my poli
tics for an office worth $3,000 a year
and then feel compelled to erect a
lightning rod to protect a guilty con
science from an offended God.’ ’’—.New
York Post.
That Waked Him.
Diffident Ix.ver-Do you know I—or—
actually dreamt that I propound to you
last night. Now—er- wbat can that
Smooth Werk.
Practical Giri (promptly •—
Bicks-Row did Nix manage to re mean?
form that nagging wife of bis? Wicks Mean? Well. It means that yon ere a
-He bribed ner maaeru«r to tell that lot mor«- oenatble asleep than you ere
talking reused wrtnk'ea. — Chicago awake. Freddy!
New«
•e It Dees.
Mlggleton-It look* like rain Ramb
-What k«k« like rain? MlggteM
ftnkan hr surprise, but equal to tbe oe-
rasfcto- A «bower batta la scria*.
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