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? 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URRAY, V S VETERINARY SURGEON AND DENTIST Registered and Graduate ^Veterinary Surgeon. ^Office : Commercial Stables, Tillamook, Ore. Both phones S. ISAACSON, VETERINARY SURGEON AND DENTIST, Todd Hotel, T llamnok Formerly wftli the army transport Dta. Gradu te of Ontario V'-tertnarv College, el.ee 'VI