Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 29, 1906, Page 4

The Sonnet Writers, The fashion of sounet writing was at its helght in the sixteenth century, when Rousard, the French “prince of : poets” In his own country and genera- tion, wrote over 900 sonnets, a total which appears only to have been ex- ceeded’ by Gomez de Quevedo, the| Spanish Voitaire, who is sald to have written over 1,000, Fortunately for sonnet lovers some of the best poets have been prolific sonneteers, Petrarch, who created the classic model which later poets imitated, wrote 815. Cam- oens s respousible for 352, Sir Philip Sidney wrote 108, Spenser 88 and Dante 80. English sounets were first written by Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-42) and Henry Howard, earl of Surres (1517-47), and the first appearance of any in book form was In a rare publi-| catlon briefly known as “Tottle’s Mis-' cellany,” the full title being “Sougs and Sonnettes written by the Right Hon- oure Lorde Heury Howard, late Earle | dpeare, Milton, WordSworth aad Ros- | yOU ! settl.—London Standard. | A Bright Recruit, \ Lieutenant (examining soldier)—What - should you do If you met an enemy on ! the fleld of battle? i Soldier—Shoot him dead, sir. Lieutenant—Right. And what should you do if you met a whole battalion of ] the enemy? Soldier—Shoot them dead, sir. \ Lieutenant—You couldn’t by yourself. | You should fall back and give warning. What should you do if you met a cow belonging to the enemy? Soldier—Shoot it dead, sir. Lieutenant—Wrong. Soldier—Fall back and give warning, { sir. Lieutenant—Wrong again, You should ratch hold ot it by the horns and bring It into camp. Now tell me what you should do if you met me In the field. Soldler—Shoot you dead, sir. of Surrey, and other.” The greatest Lieutenant—Rubbish! I'm not an en- do. Soldler—Fall back and glve warning. Lieutenant—Wrong, stupid! I'm not @ battalion of the enemy. Soldler—Well, then, I'd catch hold of you by the harns and lead you inte camp. Lieutenant—You— —Lustige Blatter. ‘wWerve nours In winter and rourtees in summer was a fair average day's 'work, but in Lyons in 1571 the print. ers worked from 2 o’clock in the morn- Ing till 8 or 9 In the evening. In other trades the working hours were often j from 4 in the morning till 9 at night or from 5 to 10. Workers in the same metler generally lived together in the same street, but the maitre artisan had his own maison. The ground floor was his shop or workshop: above was his bedroom, which was also the sit- ting and eating room; a small room ad- Joining accommodated his children, and above was a garret where various commodities were stored. — Brisson's sonneteers of our language are Shak&‘emy!, I wear the same uniform as “Work and Workers.” TMger @ vuliure of the Sea. If the “killer” whale Is “the tiger of the sea,” as the writer of an Interest- Ing artlele In the September Windsor has it, the orcas surely are the vultures of the ocean. In connection with whale catehing the author of this Interesting patural history article tells of the fol- lowlng Incident: Some years ago a whaler In the northwest had killed a large whale and had the animal along- slde when It was attacked by a school of orcas. They doubtless were half starved and, crazed by the scent of blood that extended away a long dis- tance, probably followed It up llke hounds, Immediately attacking the whale. The men, with spades and lances, cut and slashed at them, in- flicting terrible blows, yet desplte thig the orcas literdlly tore the whale from the ropes and cacrled it off. This cer- tainly shows that the orcas, together with a very falr share of Intelligence, are also creatures of extraordinary courage.—Dundee Advertiser. MAIL ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY. — Copyright 1906 - 4 The House of Kuppenheimer o 3 MONEY CHEERFULLY REFUNDED tures. Conspicuously Strong- est Clothes Values Most comprehensive stock in the world of Stein-Rloch and B. Kuppenheimer clothes. Beautiful new creations in Suits, Over- coats and Trousers brought out for the holidays at $15, $18, $20, $22, $25 & $30.00. This is what they are: Plaid effects, Worsteds, Silver Grey Worsteds Club Check, Grey Diagonals, Silk Mix- Stylish up-to-the-minute suits and we guarantee them. Special offerings on fur lined coats, of ABSOLUTE SATISFAC- TION ASSURED which we havs a few left, is ‘the attrac- tion of our store. 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Headquartérs for Lumbermen’s Supplie%Whole- sale and Retail. - [+ “Lay eggs,” piped a small boy. before | | servation it looked as though the wid-| A A Patented Plant, “One plant at Jeast has been patent- od,” said an Inventor. “It is the Abrus precatorius, alias paternoster pea, allag weather plant. John Nowack took out the patent. The weather plant is still delieved by many persons to foretell the weather. John Nowack was sure it did so, and he put it on the market along with -an Indicating apparatus, guaranteeing It to foretell for forty- elght hours In advance and for fifty miles around fog, raln, snow, hail, earthquake and depressions likely to cause explosions of fire damp. Alas 'for poor Nowack! The experts of the bureau of agriculture took up his pat- ented plant. They proved that the movements of the leaves—to the right foretelling rain, to the left foretelling drought—were not caused by the weather, but by the light. And they proved that the plant’s famous down- ward movement, which was supposed to foretell earthquake, was caused by an insect that punctured the stem, causing the leaf, naturally, to droop. That is the only patented plant I know of, and Nowack lost money on it Buying Birds to Free Them. Birds are often purchased in the bird parket at Lucknow, India, in_order to be set free again. This is done by Hin- doos as a work of merit and by Mo- hammedans after certain rites have been performed ‘as an atonement, In Imitation of the Jewish scapegoat. It is essential that a bird used for this purpose should be strong enough tv fly away; but that does not induce the cruel dealers to feed the birds, or to refrain from dislocating their wings or breaking their legs. They. put down everything to good or bad luck, and leave the customer to choose a strong bird, if he can find one, and to go away If he cannot. The merit obtained by setting a bird free is not attributed to Deity, but it Is supposed to come in a large measure from the bird itself or from its attendant spirit, and hence birds of good or bad omen, and es- pecially kites and crows, are in much demand and are regularly caught to be sold for this purpose. " The 01d Greek Divorce Law. A clergyman was railing against @i vorce. “We ought to have the divorce law that was enforced in ancient Greece,” he said. “If that old Greek clause was tacked to every separation, I am persuaded that divorces would fall off 60 to 70 per cent. This law was that when a man got a divorce he could not under any elrcumstances marry another woman younger than his ex-wife: An Innocent law, a brief law, not much to look at, but how many divorce suits would be nipped in the bud if all husbands knew that after the separation they could not marry younger women than the wives they had cast off!"—Philadelphla Bul- letin. Water on the Veldt. ‘Water 1s sometimes very scarce and precious on the South African veldt, according to a writer, who says: “In our veldt cottage we had no well, only large tanks, and about August our condition usually became desperate. If you washed your hands you carried the precious fluid out to pour it on some thirsty plant or vegetable; the bath water the same, part of it being first saved to scrub floors. Cabbage and potato water was allowed to cool and then used for the garden or to wash the dogs in first, so that these waters did three dutles.” Enthusiast to the End. An enthusiastic French physieian, while dying, made careful observa- tions of his condition, detailing his symptoms to his son and attending physician in order that they might make a record of them, At the very end, when he was on the point of pass- ing away, he surprised the friends at his bedside by saying, “You see I am dying.” Helped Out. The Father—So you think you can support my daughter? The Suitor—I'm quite sure I can, sir, if you will help us out. The Father—I'll help you out all right, all right! Whereupon the sultor dashed madly down the front steps with the father a close second In the race.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. A ramous 0la Bullding. Evensong was held the other day on the site of the ancient oratory of St. | Gwithian, one of the many Irish saints who descended upon Cornwall In the fifth and sixth centuries. In & waste of sand near the Godrevy lighthouse, which marks the eastern horn of St. Ives bay, lie what are regarded as the remains of the oldest Christian build- Ing in England. The nave bul with sand to the level of the plain and through & grass ‘covered hillock over the demolished altar protrude a few rough stones, During a stormy night of 1828 the sand shifted and revealed the lines of a structure about forty elght feet long by twelve feet wids, with a priest’s doorway, a small win. dow, traces of stone benches and an altar of masonry now gone as the re- sult of the building being forthwith used as a cowshed.—London Globe. Some of Them Do. The master had been giving a class of youngsters some ideas of adages’ and how to make them. Presently he sald: “Birds of a feather—do what?” anybody else bad a chance to speak. The Leading Part. Twynn—I hear that Skidmore has led the Widow Weeds to the altar. Trip- let—That is what it 18 called for polite- ness’ sake, but from my post of ob- . otherwise perfectly safe. in a wild state have a bloom on their. ate News of the W ofldB‘y Wire Domestic--Foreign--Financial--Social--Political and Commercial . % Inns In Hungary. Wayside inns in Hungary generally rejoice In very quaint titles. This one was called the Dropperin and had the usual sign outside—viz, a long pole with a wooden ring and a gigantic wine bottle suspended from it. The system of keeping the scores Is primi- tive, but practical, The regular cus- tomers and the innkeeper each have a bit of wood called rovas, with the name of the person written on it, and every liter of wine consumed is marked by each making a notch on his re spective bit of wood. When the score 1s paid off, both the rovas are burned. Consequently you hear the peasants in- viting each other to Ingyonroviasmo- ra, literally drink on' my “knotch stick,” which sounds most comical.— “Wanderings In Hungary.” ~ Cruel. A cashier in the financlal district of New York, on being advised by his physician to take a vacation not long ago, wrote the agent of a South Amer- lcan steampship line as follows: “As I am thinking of taking a“trip to South America, please advise me immediate- 1y with particulars relative to rates, ac- commodations, and 8o on, to and from the .various parts usually visited by tourists at this season of the year.” The answer came by special delivery, marked private and confidential, “One of our steamers will sall for Valparaiso next Wednesday; shortest and quick- est way out of the country.” A Test For Seasickness. - Many people have a genulne curios- ity to know if they would be sea sick in case they should take an ocean voy- age. An easy way to put the matter to a test is to stand before the ordinary mirror that turns in its frame and let some one move it slowly and slightly at first, gradually growing faster, while you look fixedly at your own reflection. If you feel no effect whatever from it the chances are that'you can stand an ordinary sea voyage without any qualm. . War From a Thumb Bite. Perhaps the most portentous If in- nocent incident in the proceedings leading up to England’s war with King Theodore of Abyssinia was—a thumb bite. The British consul was practically a prisoner at his court when Mr. Stern, a British missionary, called upon the “king of kings.” The first mistake of the Englishman was to seek an audience immediately after the king had dined too liberally with his court. The second was his choosing as interpreters two utterly incompetent men. The inefficiency of this palr so angered the dusky monarch that then and there he ordered them to be beat- en. Mr. Stern, “unable to bear the sight, turned around and bit his thumb.” Now, he was not aware of it, but to bite the thumb Is in Abys- sinia a deflance and a threat of venge- ance. The quick eye of the king caught the innocent menace, and he had the missionary also beaten. From that sprang the war, the defeat of the forces of the king and his death by his own hand in his ruined city of Mag- dala.—London Standard. . . The Eternal Wilderness. We still have our ‘“unmanstified” places. And there shall come to us a wilderness here and another there where now there Is none, for every- thing moves in circles, which is not at all a new discovery, and the man wao today laments a dearth of the wilder- ness may live long enough to find him- self one day wielding an ax as dull as the pen he now bewails with—and for- ty miles from a grindstone. We shall not remonstrate with the writers who are picturing us going to eternal smash for want of: tall timber. Thelr work is not without its good effect in staying the denudation of our nearby recrea- tlon grounds, and we are content to watch the wily old wilderness creeping up in the rear of the advancing army of invasion, reaching out with sure, si- lent fingers 4nd reclaiming her own, building anew her razed stockades and unfurling to the winds her defiant ban- nerets.—Recreation. Many a SHip For the Farmer. “Raising wheat Is no easy task,” re- marked a farmer. “One year I had 500 acres of as beautiful wheat as ever lay out of doors, It stood breast high, and it seemed good for forty bushels to the acre. That meant to me a profit of $7,000. I had the teams and barvest ‘hands engagedl and expected to begin cutting on Monday. On Fri- day afternoon there came out of the northwest a greenish gray cloud. Fol- lowing a heavy rain, the hail fell. In ten minutes the wheat was fiattened to six inches from the ground. We.cut a little of it fov hay. The remainder rot- ted on the ground. The mortgage on the farm was foreclosed, and I hired out by the day to support my family. Do you wonder that the wheat farmer 18 not boastful of his crop until he has 1t in the grynary?”—Outlook. Deception of Wild Birds. Falcons—hawks, the largest specles— can compress their features and look very thin if they think It necessary to do so. As to the owls, they can hump Into any position they think most suit- able. It Is useless to look for these self preserving traits In any of the family kept in zoological collections, for the birds are so accustomed to see large numbers of people passing and repassing or standing in front of them that they treat the whole matter with perfect indifference. They know that at a certain time their food will be brought to them and that they are The raptures plumage, like the bloom on a bunch of grapes, which 18 ‘not so often ‘seen when in captivity. ¢ A Native Atrican Food. f The native food of the Malunda coun- try, in southern Africa, comprises ma- nioc and that alone. It is a plant par- ticularly adapted to wet, marshy sofl, says the author of “In Remotest Ba- rotseland.” It takes two years to arrive at maturity and while growing re- quires very little attention. The root when full grown Is about the size and has very much the appearance of a German sausage, although at times it grows much larger. One shrub has several roots, and the extraction of two or three in no way impairs the growth of the remainder. When newly dug It tastes like a chestnut, and the digestion of the proverbial ostrich can alone as- similate it raw, but when soaked in water for a few days until partly de- composed, dried on the roofs of the huts and stamped it forms a delight- fully white soft meal, far whiter and purer than the best flour. Then it is beaten into a thick paste and eaten with a little flavoring composed of a locust or a caterpillar, which the na- tives seek in decayed trees. Another way of eating this native luxury Is by baking the roots after soaking them and eating it as you would a banana. George Eliot’s Savonarola. Bavonarola is one of the most strik- ing characters in George Eliot's great historical novel “Romola,” the scene of which is in Florence and the period that of Savonarola’s career. The idea of writing the book occurred to the novelist while on a visit to Florence, and on a second visit to the city, In 1861, she began to carry out her proj- ect. The subject and design were for- elgn to the author’s genius, but she spared no pains in making a thorough study of the locality, the people and the literature of the Italian renais- sance for the purposes of her story. In her own words, the work “plowed into her” more than any of her books. She began it, she says, 4s a young wo- man and finished it as an old woman. Her picture of Florence and Savona- rola Is undeniably Iimpressive, and some critics declare “Romola” to ke George Eliot's greatest novel and the character of Savonarola one of the finest delineations.—Pearson’s. Size of Heads. The average adult head has a cir- cumference of fully twenty-two inches. The average adult hat is fully six and three-quarters size. The sizes of men's hats are six and three-fourths and six and seven-eighths generally. “Sevens” hats are common in Aberdeen, and the professors of our colleges generally ‘wear seven and one-eighth to eight slzes. Heads wearing hats of the sizes six and three-eighths and smaller or being less than twenty-one inches in circumference can never be powerful. Between nineteen and twenty inches In circumference heads are invariably very weak and, according to this au- thority, “no lady should think of mar- rying a man with a head less than twenty inches In circumference.” Peo- ple with heads under nineteen inches are mentally deficient and with heads under eighteen inches invariably idi- otic.—London Young Woman. Safest Place In Trains. “I have one rule for my family when they travel,” said the conductor of the suburban train, “and that is for them mever to ride in the rear coach or the first one and, preferably, not in the coach next to the last or first. The rea- son for it is so obvious that I should think the foremost and last cars of a train would have scant patronage from anybody who reads of railroad acei- dents. If there is a smashup, those are the coaches that suffer. It seems strange that some kind of a buffer is not put behind the locomotive tender and at the rear of the train. How many lives would be saved by a device of the kind one has only to study the statistics of railroad accidents to fig- ure out for himself.”—New York Press. Lifting a Kettle of Hot Water. Some time when the teakettle is bub- bling and boiling on the kitchen range 1ift it quickly by its handle and set it on the open palm of your other hand. This sounds like a very foolhardy thing to do—as if your hand might be blis- tered In a twinkling—but you will ind that you can hold the teakettle which has just come from a roaring fire for some time without hurting you. Try it and then see If you can tell the rea- son why you are not burned. Be sure, however, that the water is boiling strongly before you make the experk ment, 4 A Kippered Pastor. A French Protestant pastor was the guest of a Scottish preacher at a manse. One morning kippered herrings ‘were served at breakfast. The French pastor asked the meaning of “kipper.” His host replied that it meant“*to pre- serve.” On taking his leave next day the French pastor, wringing his host's hand, said, “May the Lord kipper you, my good friend.” s Postage Stamps. Postage stamps are peculiarly liable to become septic and to convey deadly germs, says the British Medical Press and Circular, a fact that cannot be too | widely known to the public who find in {ita popular substitute for sticking plas- * Never Missed It. Teacher — Who discovered Amerfea? 8mall Boy—Dunno. Teacher—Why, I supposed every boy in school knew that. Small Boy—I didn’t know that it 'was lost. B el Somewhere. | “Pardon me, madame. I think I - haye seen you somewhere.” & _“Very likely. I go there very often.” "