The Gate city journal., April 21, 1910, Image 2

I
generation become the academic speecfl
of the next. We are always rt»d y to K e l l u e a W e r e V e n e r a t e d * » y t h e A n »
admit this after a change has been
c i e n t e — C'fiunae In M i d d l e A i m .
completed, but the purist in speech
That truly was the golden age of
I always disputes it while the change is cats. The slayer of a cat in Egypt j It Is possible to accommodate com-
1 going on. An interesting case in point was punished severely, but when the fortably 306,000 persons in the New
♦ w Is the rapid growth in what Is con felines died from natural causes they York hotels at one time,
sidered good English of a phrase con were carefully embalmed and laid
The highest masts of sailing vessels
Some politicians had better practice fined for many years to the*mouths ol away to become mummies. Herodotus are from 160 feet t0 180 feet high, and
the
vulgar.
The
use
of
the
accusative
writes of great numbers of pilgrims— 3pread froin 60,000 to 100,000 square
the S O S .
for the nominative case after a vert on one occasion 700 , 000 — going annu-
canvas
Germany wans to borrow $120,000,- Is a notorious fault of children and ally to the city of Bubastis lo attend j
Mrs.
Helen Troy of Auburn, N. Y..
000.
But Is she sure that wil! be adults of Imperfect education.
Pas' the festivals of the cats.
| has been received into full membership [
ents and teachers have to battle stren
enough?
Even to-day in Cairo there remains |
Six Nations. She has devoted
uously against the “ It’s me,” “ It ’s a vestige of this ancient veneration, i of . the
,
. .
.
.
"Is It possible for the course of true him,” “ it ’s her,” of childish speech
,, j the last 14 years to study and rese
research
for money is appropriated to feed all |
love to run smooth?” asks a woman And you often catch adults careful
regarding the Iroquois traditions.
the hungry cats of the city, while the
writer. Not In the fiction we read. about other things, even such refine­
pilgrims to Mecca do not fall to p ro-' If requires many hands to clothe
ments as the use of shall and will oi vide for the cats they encounter on the New York women and some women
Again It has been demonstrated that the subjunctive moods, calmly taking
their Journey.
outside of the city, for there are 1)6,162
a wireless telegraph outfit Is an In­ you Into their confidence by making
The Greeks and Romans were also employee in the metropolis working
valuable thing to have on a sinking some statement strictly “ Between you
fond of cats. When the rats migrated 1 on women’s clothing and their yearly
ship.
and I.” Theoretically these are alike from Asia and invaded the granaries output is valued at $261.049.287.
A junior league of the New York
There are no Americans moving out unpardonable, but there has been a of Europe relief from the plague was
os a result of Senator Poirier’s dis­ growing disposition of the phrase “ I t ’s found in the cats which were import- State Association opposed to Woman
me”
to
rise
above
the
others
from
the
ed. Then, too, the Norsemen had their j Suffrage has been formed at Albany
covery that Alaska is Canada's by
muck of vulgar speech to the author cats, and so well did they think of with Mrs. N. H. Henry as president. ; a
right.
ity of literary writing.
We do not them that’ they incorporated them Into The membership Is said to have reach- Ji-
Peary and Cook have demonstrated know how to explain this, unless it be their mythology. Tw o cats draw the ed already the neighborhood of one
that the principal products of the Arc­ by the analogy of the French phrase chariot of the goddess Fridja.
hundred and to include young women
tic regions are meteorites and gold “ C'est mol." That may have grown
Then came a change and in the mid­ of every social grade in Albany.
up In precisely the same way, although dle ages, says the Baltimore Am eri­
bricks.
Germany’s first complete flotilla of
we believe that the mol Is called a
Wives who palmed off foundling ba­ second form of the nominative. The can, the cat was looked upon as a turbine torpedo boats was commission­
bies on their husbands would be angry same fiction will probably be employ­ thing of evil. The day of witchcraft ed last month. It consists of 11 ves­
if the husbands tried to deceive them ed when It conies to be received in the prevailing, every sorcerer or sorceress sels of the newest type built in Vienna, ;
made it a point to be accompanied by Germania and Sehichau yards. Those
that way.
English grammars and dictionaries
a cat, preferably a black one, which buik ln the two flrst.named establish-
In the meantime the phrase has beer
One of the troubles about getting
resulted in many of the little animals ment3 have attained a speed of over
along without meat Is that there are making its way In the best literature being killed because they were so
knots.
Besides Parsons turbines,
first cautiously In the speech of lr
so few other things to eat, if one
feared.
|
three
types
of German turbines are
responsible characters and finally with
doesn’t like prunes.
In the Flemish town of Spies there represented ln tbe flotilla,
the authority of the writer himself. We was a “ Wednesday of Cats,” in the
In the Comptes Rendus of the Bio­
One of the fortunate features in the remember it distinctly in Kipling and second week of Lent, which was orig­
logical Society of Paris, M. Picard
case of Paris Is that nobody will be more vaguely in Stevenson. Finally inated ln 962 by Baldwin III., count
gives an account of a useful wasp
Justified in saying the city Is “ rising tomes an English professor of phll of Flanders. On this day each year
and Nigeria. It Is
ology. named Jespersen, with a plea It was customary to fling cats fr o m , found , ln Senegal
Phoenlx-Uke from its ashes."
.
,
. , .
.. ,
,
... .
,
, . one o f the burrowing w-asps, and feeds
for full acceptance of the phrase on the the
top of a lofty tower, and many of
,
1
Its
larvae
on
a
species
of
tsetse
fly.
Down in Mexico they have sentenced ground that “ It ’s I ” has become pedan the animals were killed. It Is said
an American railroad conductor for tic, while usage has made “ I t ’s me” t that this custom continued until 1868. In view o f the part played by many <7/
st>eeies of the latter in spreading dis­
contributory negligence.
Let’s send perfectly sound locution.
The question as to the origin of the
ease, this wasp might prove a useful
them an American baggageman.
domesticated cat has frequently been
ally to those who are fighting malaria
H IG H LOCOMOTIVE SPEEDS.
raised. There Is but little doubt that
in tropical countries.
It is reported that eggs are smaller
the firsc race of cats were wild, but
than they used to be. This makes P r e s e n t M e t h o d t i n y V e t M a k e G u o i l they were undoubtedly well domesti­
China now possesses 6.300 miles of
S l i n t v i n K A g i l i li s t M o n o r a i l .
more work for the investigating com­
cated before the middle ages and cer­ railways, of which only 1,930 are man­ # 6 7 1 , 3 2 2 . 5 0 0
J. P ie r porvi. M o r ^ i h .
mittee. Let no guilty hen escape.
The high speeds which are predicted tainly before they were Imported Into aged by the Chinese. The management
for the Brennan monorail lead one Europe. At what period, however, none of the remaining 4,370 miles is divided
The discovery in New York that J. Pierpont Morgan controls nne-c
The salary of a general in the Nica­ naturally to compare them with the can tell, so it Is generally assumed among six foreign powers, as follows:
:he wealth of the Cnlted States, through his railroad, banking, In rir“ !
raguan army is 20 cents a day. That best that the ordinary steam or elec that the Egyptians, whose works have Russians manage 1,077 miles. Belgians
and industrial connections, has caused financiers to look upon the “ ColoF
is one of the disagreeable results of trie locomotive on double rails can do, been lost in the ages, are responsible 903 miles, Japanese 702 miles, Ger­ o f W all street" as a close rival lo John D. Rockefeller. Many have expra
having an army composed entirely of the London Globe says. It seems prob­ for giving the cat to the present time. mans 684 miles, English 608 miles,
the belief that he w ill become the most powerful capitalist on earth,
generals.
able that the monorail will eventually
There are yet extant many races of and Frenchmen 400 miles. When the total wealth controlled by Mr. Morgan Is estimated at $9,176,308,423.
beat the double rail, but Its capabil­
railways now being laid down in China diagrams show how this is distributed.
“ Hip and bust lines are coming Into ities still remain in the region of wild cats, from the Nubian of northern
are finished, the total length of China’s
Africa
to
the
bobcat
of
western
Amer­
style again,” snys one of the authori­ prophecy, while the locomotives to
railway system w ill amount to 8,000
ties on fashions.
Stout ladles will which we are accustomed have proved ica, but the link between these animals
pear, since In the new channel!
miles.
agree that the world is growing better themselves by actual running tests. and the domesticated variety Is diffi­
water reaches the sea by a more
It is perhaps worth recalling that
cult
to
locate,
if
It
does
at
all
exist.
jected,
and brighter.
ual descent and with a gentler cun
Ana their records show that they may
the
art
of
baking
loaves
came
to
Eu­
Nor is the cat considered as a pet
New mud-fiats w ill fringe the shots
yet make a good fight with the new­
rope quite late In history. Flat cakes
If King Albert of the Belgians tries er traction, backed as they are by alone. It has a commercial value, for
a distance of 50 miles. Eventual!
the skins have been found to make were baked even in the earliest times,
to turn over the Congo country to
is probable, a brackish lake, 50 tl
wealthy companies and enormous vest­
but as late as the beginning of the
Great Britain, we may discover why ed Interests. Speeds of sixty miles an excellent gloves for women, while the
miles long, will be formed, into i !
nineteenth
century
loaf
bread
was
corn-
hair
or
fur
also
has
a
value.
While
the Germans have been so fierce about
the seepage of the Hardy river j
hour maintained over fairly long dealing in catskins is not extensive j paratively unknown in many parts of
To keep the rivers of the country
building a navy.
stretches of line are common to most ln this country. It is a trade that has the continent
In 1812, for instance, free from snags and other impediments flow; and serious disturbance
good railways; a speed of seventy miles grown to considerable proportions in when an English
captai
ordered to navigation the government main­ plants and animals over an a
The treasurer of a Pittsburg church
Is reached in almost every express southern Europe, where cats are bred loaves to the value of $5 in Gothenbur
several hundred square miles
tains a fleet of thirty steamboats and
recently embezzled $28,000.
We say
run. and short bursts of eighty and for the purpose.
ensue.
the baker stipulated for payment in ad spends $500,000 a year.
without fear of successful contradic­
ninety miles an hour are frequent on
Cats are, primarily, divided into two vance on the ground that he would
tion that a man who does a thing of
A railroad in Pennsylvania is exper
HORSE S T IL L I N DEMAN
the four leading lines of this coun­ classes, the long-haired and the short- never be able to sell them in the city ln,entlng
wlth tleg made o i old
that kind would not hesitate to put
try. An experiment made in Ger­ haired. To the latter class belong if they wert left on his hands.— Lon -1
a counterfeit quarter in the contribu­
cut to the right length and anchored In S jiU e o f M o t o r - C a r C r a i e 1|
many some years back showed that it most of the cats that one sees, and I don Chronicle.
F r i e n d I < N o t F o r g o t t e n .|
tion box.
with the broadest side upward in rock
was possible to maintain a speed of they are known as just "common” cats.
Petroleum has been introduced into ballast.
There are marked signs o f a
The new rails are clamped
Most gratifying progress has been anything between eighty and ninety In the long-haired Class are the Per- medicine with beneficial results, and
of interest in the horse. That
on them by steel fastenings.
made by the movement for children's miles an hour for long stretches, but sians and Angoras, the aristocrats of jf a Paris contemporary be not mis-
ful creature has never been wjj
Officers
of
the
new
battleship
South
In
this
case
the
line
has
to
be
spe­
playgrounds In the large cities. Of the
the family, which are highly prized informed the properties of petrol are
forgotten, not even when the
Dakota,
which
is
equipped
with
tur-
cially
cleared
and
unusually
powerful
nine hundred cities in the country
because of their magnificence, th e ir , limitless. It is claimed, says the Lon -1 -,
,
.
. . . ,
for motor cars was at its height
locomotives
have
to
be
employed.
The
plumed tails being one of their great- don Globe, that from the resldua!s of bine engines, says there is absolutely flesh and blood and a high ordl
which have a population of five thou­
no vibration of the fire control masts,
sand or more, over one-third— includ­ real difficulty in the way of very est marks of beauty.
crude petrol a chemist has succeeded
intelligence when added to beauty!
ing most of the largest, where the need high speeds Is that for long-distance
The raising of this breed of cats is ¡n extracting butter. It is said that! a difficulty always found in the recip claims that the smoothest ruq
_
.
__ . '
,
. rocating engine driven vessels,
Is tho greatest arc now maintaining tournevs where traffic la great there extensively practiced in this country, butter
can be made from a base of
machinery cannot hide. But
must be constant stoppages, and al and there are dozens of catteries where nitrogen and carbon, but that the resi
supervised playgrounds.
Petrol driven street cars, seating
though it Is possible to accelerate and the animals are as carefully attended duals of petroleum produce these ele- forty-eight passengers and capable of have been times during the past|
or five years when many lovers i
At least one American railway has decelerate the speed very quickly after as though they were children. They ments in greater proportions even than j a sPee<l of ten miles an hour, are sup-
horse must have desjiaired of hill
a record to be proud of. In ten years each stop— especially with electric have individual quarters, are groomed milk.
It is further claimed that this Pan ting horse cars in Karachi, India, ture. Those times, fortunately, t
it has carried one hundred and ninety- traction, as our underground lines each morning, fed with the choicest artificial butter is better than the nat-! without necessitating the expense ol
passed, never to return.
four million passengers without caus­ (show— the discomfort to the passen­ morsels and their every action is ural. The color is said to be a little ©hanging the system into an electric
In New York the market for I
ing the death of one of them. That Is gers of such rapid changes of 3 peed watched.
darker than that of dairy butter.
*lne-
harness horses has not been
is
very
great
If
pushed
beyond
a
cer
a higher distinction than the road
Fulwood’s Rents, the little Hoiborn
A statistician has figured out that tlve since 1906, says the Pcovldj
W ontnn and C iv ic G row th .
could gain by running its express tain point.
No fact in connection with the an­ court leading into Gray's Inn gardens, | last year’s broomcorn crop was so Bulletin. The prices are high, bull
trains a mile or two an hour faster
T o K,Ken i » i - S n i k e u S u b i i i n r l i
nual meeting of the Massachusetts which will be largely rebuilt, former- \ smal1 that each. American fam ily can supply Is painfully inadequate to f
•linn those of its rivals.
Federation of Women's Clubs has been ly possessed the privilege of “ sanetu- have but one and one-seventh brooms the demand. The revival in inti
more significant than the uniform tes­ ary,” and hence became a notorious this 3 ’ear, without allowing for busi- in road racing In Providence,
Yonug men from distant lands are
timony from all the New England resort for fraudulent debtors and still ness houses, corporations or munici- there are now two d rivin g cluhsl
coming in Increasing numbers to the
an attractive speedway at Roger f
States as to the share that women now more unpleasant characters. Yet this »alkies.
United States for an education, and
have in conserving forest
preserva­ dingy due can boast of many glor-
a Scotchman, Mr. John Lowden, has Hams Park, where the members i
clubs consisting wholly of foreign stu
tion, in diminishing undue hours of ions memories.
r rancis Bacon lived invented a “ smoke tintometer,” which, in their fascinating sport, Is
dents now exist at twenty leading col
labor for women and children, in fight­ here in “ Fulwood’s House“ and vai lt ls thought, may be of use in pres­ ably only one instance in many
leges and universities. These clubs,
ing for pure food laws, in protecting sed his fut nit tit e at Ct.O. a huge price ecuting cases of “ smoke nuisance." It renewed enthusiasm with which!
the total membership of which is about
natural beauties from defacement by 011 V,a!i |ler 0 '
two thousand, representing almost
t.''e
Ch'b consists of a tube with a single eye- man of means and leisure is retuq
advertisers and in inducing educators an . e 0,1 ©be and Oates Club met in p|ece and two object openings. One cf to the fast roadster.
every lnml under the sun, recently held
and taxpayers to stand for progressive t it reign o
tat e- II. and here stood these Is clear, but the other contains
Xnr is the demand for the horse|
their third anual convention at Cor­
policies in education. The social, lit­ Squire's coffee house, from which sev- a revolving diaphragm in which are fined to those who desire speed,
nell University. The presence of these
. five
„
. ,
,
.
erary and more sent ¡.mental aspects of eral numbers of the _ Spectator
young foreigners is Incidentally of no
1
1 were
«e te
eirc]es,
one of , clear
glass
and severe winter, with its snowdrifts!
Westminster Gazette
women’s club life still go on, and dated.—
small benefit to the American boys
,
. , ..
.. . ,
the other four of tinted glasses corre- uneven roads, ill-fitted for motor f
should, the Boston Herald says, but
pat o
e . o. e prize, which i sponding with the standard tints of a has caused exceptional activity if
with whom they come In contact.
they no longer monopolize the atten­ was awarded to Selma Lagerlof, will scientific “ smoke chart.”
In examin- markets for carriage, wagon and (
tion
A Georgia nmn w ho has for a num­
be , i! 1,1).!i <,' h S‘,yS (!‘e Tinies ° f Stock ing smoke-defiled air the diaphragm is horses.
Woman, whether she votes or not, ls holm
to he purchase of a house on turned until the tinted glass coincides
ber of years been experimenting in
Draft horses are also in de^
floral culture has succeeded In pm im ­
This demand evidently ls regard^
me, an dlh ere l i e ceTtiin phases oM i" horn.’ This is situated beautifully near J“ e ^ fe a r T t e r t ure' The * varlou th!’° Ugh permanent, for Am erican entet
ing a black rose, and, more wonderful
having to do with healtn, protection < f the banks of the River Mellanfrykan. are syateinatlealy numbered, "so that is now devoting much money
still, he claims that by mixing three
Inexpensive and common chemicals he
^
J * * ? Ü - a glance suffices to «
degreeof * > ~ , n g *
, . th
,
Is able to grow black cotton.
His
Water compartment and diving hell virtue and increasing love of the beau- stead, which Is severely plain in archi i .
State Agricultural College, undel
e
achievement is hailed as a boon by peo­ hood tested with success.—C assieri tiful in nature and in art. in which lecture, but large and comfortable. It [
direction of Prof. C. F. Curtiss.|
the woman of Intelligence, leisure and came into the hands of the family
Archibald Sharp
described at a re-
ple who are capable of recognizing Magazine.
of the judges of draft horses
patriotism
can
do
niuen.
through
her
grandfather,
who
was
a
cent
meeting
of
the
Institution
of
Auto-
boons when they appear. With black
last national horse show in New j
H
o
p
e
.
----
regimental
clerk.
At
his
death
It
was
mobile
Engineers
In
London
his
sys-
cotton it will no longer be necessary to
is attempting to develop a
I l l * St « l o o f H u n t .
“ A ll Is over between us." said the
inherited by Eric, whose children were ,em of air-springs for road vehicles.
use dyes that are often damaging to
American variety o f this breed.
“
And
your
husband
is
a
yachtsman?”
born
there.
Through
reverses
the
es
A
»
applied
to
the
saddle
pillar
of
a
bi-
the wearing qualities of the fabrics to emotional youth. “ She despises me."
ing
with Shires and Clydesdale
’
“ le s . Indeed, and aw fully enthusias- tate passed Into the hands of strangers cycle, the apparatus consists essential-
“ Has she sent back your letters?"
which they are applied. Socks made
British breeds, and using only
"Yes.”
tic about it. He has a nice boat of from whom the Nobel prize winner ly of a vertical cylinder with a plstcn
o f black cotton are expected to be
colored animals, Prof. Curtiss pi
"Then cheer up. If she really de hl® own
t
"'H rescue lt. and her Joy at being or plunger, made to work air-tight by
much more durable than are those
evolve a draft horse o f that
Is
lt
a
centerboard
boat?
able
to
do
so
Is
shared
by
her
country
a
specially
constructed
“
mitten,"
and
splsed
you
she
would
hold
onto
your
which now trickle through the chan
Gray is desired, for those that f
“
N
no.
From
what
I
hear
It
must
men."
supporting
the
weight
of
the
ride.
The
letters
to
be
read
in
court
or
used
for
nels of commerce. This one item would
that color are popularly
and
he
a
sideboard
boat.
Cleveland
Lead
The
demolition
is
now
being
pro-
same
device
has
been
applied
to
motor-
the
amusement
of
her
friends.”
—
Wash­
make black cotton well worth while.
scientifically considered better al
* r"
._________________ reeded with of Nos. 85, 86 and 87 Fet cycles, and experiments have been
And If we can have black cotton, what ington Star.
endure severe heat than thoae of J
x » i Meant for Him.
tel lane, three old, gabled buildings made with a light motor ear. On the
Is to prevent the experimenter from
llr«*N kliiu II C ientl?.
colors. The experiments that thef
producing red and blue cotton? The
Farmer— Hi. there! Can t you see
Z
h ,Were 0ri5’ nally
part of the front fork of a heavy motorcycle the
"S ir, your son has just joined a col­
ernment and private citizens are! Tl* Hc
time may !>e near when we can have
that sign. “ No Fishing on These 1 -'rnard s Inn. which was founded in "life " of the “ mitten" covered
from
lege fraternity. These college fruteml
ing in Vermont to improve the
by 11
calico that has never gone through the
Grounds?"
fifteenth^ century.
Fetter lane is , 2,000 to 5,000 miles, but on a hack
ties----- ”
gan. an allround horse o f g re a t» * r Ko
print mills. As soon as this shall have
rman—Co’se
I
k
ln
s
e
e
1?
"
6
“
f
,he
moar
Interesting
thorough
"P
'ln
g
fork
it
was
only
equivalent
to
Colored
Fisherman
“ Never mind breaking it gently.
fulness, are further evidence oi|
been brought to pass, perhaps Burbank
signs. I s culltd J, boss, but 1 ain’t ao, re® ” ,he c,ty’ T h ree hundred 1.000 miles.
The effect of the air
What hospital Is he at?"— Louisville
enduring nature o f the revival
or some other w,..,ng experimenter
Ignorant
as
ter
fish
on
no
grounds.
~
tar®
J
1
was
called
Fewtor
lane
springs
Is
described
as
luxuriously
Courier-Journal.
terest in this fine animal. Lovd
can l>e Induced to get ostriches to con­
I m flshln’ ln de crick.— Driftwood ‘
, ' e word
Fewtor
meant Idle person or comfortable.
! 1 AO f o r
V*
n . t_ J ___a t . .
the horse have again come into j
loafer.
It
was
indeed
in
those
dava
sume food that will result in the grow­
I m l r i d l i r S t r a m i.
own and they are likely to have I
ing of feathers of vat Ions brilliant
After a man has known a few je «,.
^ and defaulter"
"Ah, sir, we do enjoy your sermons.
cause than ever before for thelif
hues, and from that It will be but a r e n t e d
^
- m e n . he doesn’t
^
the ancient . " i d tt
control" u “ * S
«».
At the cleverness n f m iorw ir
— homes stand at the Hoiborn *»nri
Ie
Colorado miration and affection.
step to the Easter egg which shall be **Ths»v >rn an l n s l r n , . t U .
beautlfuly colored when the hen has knew what
■“ ~
ao S
S
r
*
r
“ - s * —
» «
sin was until you came u ° r OU1
H e r S p e c ia lty .
___________________
.nd Challoiwr. - t o
-
* “ **
" I lb « old on..
done her part. We face a future that the parish."— Sacred Heart Review.
"N o one can make such good i
is full of promise.
We do not admire a dog sheared to a P,(,t in connection with the war be- r»_ re°ni qUwnC^f 0t V1*8 chan*e. says m y w ife can.”
He is a wise poet who annexes him ^<'p^'‘S‘1
' n, 8 lion
Surh a do« always '" < * 0 King Charles I and his pa - Ha Dr. D. T. MacDougal. are somewhat
“ In that respect she stands
L ivin g launguages grow and changa self to a girl with a millionaire t* reml” ‘1* “ » ° f a boy ten yeara old rnent- ’“ ’ ’’c P "M M y hanged more than momentous. For one thing, the ho re
reme, eh?“ — Kansas City Times.
by usage, to that the aolealsina of one m
wearing curia.
two hundred and fifty years ago — which form erly ran many miles up­
stream, affecting both the Colorado and
j London Standard.
Men may come and men may |
the Hardy rivers, w ill probably dlaan. women’s tongues go on forever