Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 2, 1910, Page 13

e tory. e Submitted to the Touch. “1 suppose all of us have our little vanities,” says James Hamilton Lew- is of Chicago. *When 1 was a mem- ber of congress I was called out into the corridor by a stranger who asked, *Is this Colonel James Iamilton Lew- is? “‘Plain Mr. Lewis, at your service,’ I replied. “Well, Mr. Lewis,” he replied. ‘1 was so struck with a speech you made in the house last week that 1 went to the document room to get a copy for my- self and for another friend. They charge five cents for a copy, and I haven't a cent of change. Can you let me have the money to buy two copies? “Now, 1 had not made any speech, and they do not charge five cents nor any cents at all in the document room: but I gave him the dime he wanted. and reproached myself afterward for my stinginess. Such an artist at flat- tery ought to have had a quarter, at least.”—Chicago Record-Herald. How Romans Took Their Food. The Romans reclined at their ban- quets on couches, all supporting them- selves on one elbow and eating with their fingers from dishes placed in the center of the table. KEach was sup- plied with a napkin, and knives were used, though it does not appear that every one was supplied with one. Nothing, it would seem, could be more fatiguing than to partake of a repast in such an awkward posture or less conductive to neatness, it being almost impossible to keep the hands clean even with water supplied by the slaves or to prevent the food and wine from falling on the clothing and the draper- ies of the couch. This manner of eat- ing disappeared during the dark ages so far as the couch was concerned, but the peculiarity of taking food with the fingers from a common dish con- tinued afterward for more than 1,000 years. He Wanted to Know. There was a small crowd at the soda counter when a tall man rushed in and pushed an empty bottle over the drug counter. “Acid!” he whispered, excitedly. “Ten cents’ worth of acid, and quick!” The soda water crowd began to sit up and take notice. “What’s he going to do with that acid?” demanded one. “It's a secret,” answered the drug clerk, “Nothing unusual, I hope.” “Well, rather.” “What! You mean to say he is go- Ing to take that acid?” “Oh, no! Listen. There is a silver wedding at his house tonight, and he is going to test the presents as fast as his friends bring them in.” And then and there they voted him the meanest man in town.—Chicago News. The Inspiring Bagpipes. It was at a seaside resort, and alpng the board walk came marching a band ot highland bagpipers in full costume. They were tremendous fellows, but their music. to my untutored ears, was like the squealings of forty stuck pigs. Yet I have never heard strains to com- pare with theirs for arousing a desire to die for one’s country. I think bag- pipe music must have been fashioned back in the old days by some demon of perversity out of the whistle of ar- rows, the clash of claymores, the neigh- ing of war steeds and the shrieks of the dying. When I hear it I think of the wheel of fortune, the car of Jug- gernaut, the mills of the gods and the inquisitorial rack and screw. It whirls along with a cyclonic rhythm that sets the feet to tramping and the blood to boiling.—Robert M. Gay in At- lantic, A Scandal Spoiled. “Of course he and his wife seem de- voted to each other now,” said the jealous Miss Gaussip, “but do you think she will always be so true and all that?” ““Well,” replied Miss Kidder, “I have reason to know that only last night he had occasion to set a trap for her.” “Ah! Do you know, I suspected something”— “They more than suspected. They knew there were mice in the house.”— Philadelphia Press. The Lamp of a Man’s Life. Dr. Holmes said the lamp of a man's life has three wicks—brain, blood and breath—and to turn down any one of them makes the other two go out. The wounds a man will survive and even disregard so long as his head, heart and lungs are unhurt bave long’ been one of the wonders of war his- ' The Burden of Golf. Ghlfer (with a full bag, looking for a caddie)—I say, my friend, do you hap- pen to know of any one who”’— Near- sighted Villager (testily)—No, I don’t. ‘All the folks round here does their own umbrella repairin’.—Puck. i Cutting. Young Wife—How fortunate I am in possessing a husband who always stays at home in the evening! Bosom Friend—Yes: your husband never was much addicted to pleasure. Not Impressed. Bobbie—Pa says you're a self made man. Visitor (proudly)—Yes, my boy. I am. Bobbie—Ain't you sorry now you didn’t let somebody else help you? —Boston Transeript. Suggestive. Mary (aged six)—Uncle Charlie, 1 wish you many happy returns of your birthday, and mamma said that if you gave me a dollar not to lose it.—Lip- pincott’s, e e P = et b e A AT li y Warned. A man who was writing a telegram at one of the long tables in the West- ern Union building was asked in Ger- man by one of two men who stood near him where they could find out how much a telegram to a certain place in the far west would cost. The man volunteered to make the inquiry. did so and returned, saying that they might send a message of ten words for a certain price and that address and signature would not count. After as- suring himself that the men could write he walked away, but was stop- ped at the door by one of the stran- gers with profuse thanks. *I have been in the city only a few days,” he said, “and was told on shipboard and since T landed that everybody would try- to swindle me. I spoke to two men today. and both did me a favor. I no longer have any fear.” “That’s right' said the man. “but, just the same, look out for the third man.”— New York Tribune. She Loved His Tomb. An immensely wealthy widow who gave yearly hundreds of thousands to charity decided to personally inspect some individual cases of deserving poverty herself. One of her agents brought before her a poorly clad wom- an, saying: ‘“Here is a poor old woman, a very decent sort of person. Her husband used to go about with a dancing bear. This creature, though usually very tame and gentle, one day threw itself on its master and ate him up.” “Alas, my good sir,” the old woman broke in, “since that moment the poor beast and myself have been without a home!” “What! The beast!” asked the wealthy woman. “Is it the same that devoured your husband?”’ *Alas, my good lady, it is all that is left to me of the dear lamented one.”— New York Herald. . Sleep. The first sleep is the sonndest—after the first hour the intensity of sleep slowly dim shes; hence the value of forty winks after dinner in quickly recuperating shattered powers. Tem- perature and vitality are lowest at about 2 a. m., so that two hours’ sleep before midnight are worth four there- after. Nature has no rule as to the length of sleep, except that men need iess than women, since women are the more sensitive creatures and a wn- man's heart beats five times more in a minute than a man's. Sleep should be just so !ong that when you wake in the morning a stretch and a yawn only are neces$ary to land you in a daytime of bounding vigor. As to early rising. it is comforting to hear Dr. Bryce say it is a habit that has gone far to wreck the constitutions of many a growing youth.—London Ex press. He Met His Match. The Russian marsha! Svvaroff was famous as a jester and was fond of cenfusing the men under his com- mand by asking them unexpected and absurd questions. But occasionally he met his match. Thus one bitter January night, such as Russia only can produce. he rode up to a sentry and demanded: “How many stdrs are there in the sky ?” The soldier. not a whit disturbed, answered coolly: “Wait a little, and I'll tell you.” And he deliberately commenced count- Ing, “One two, three.” etc. When he had reached 100 Suvaroff, who was half frozen, thought it high time to ride off. not, however, with- out inquiring the name of the ready reckoner. Next day the latter found himself promoted. . Gypsies and Death. The custom of placing the property of the dead in their graves has always been followed by the true Romany gypsies. It is due to some old tradi- tion of {ll luck attending the possession of an article whose former owner is gone, and much valuable property is buried in this belief. There is also a sentiment amcng gypsies against the possession of anything that has be- longed to a dead person, because it serves to remind the living of the de- parted and inspire in them a dread of death. The custom of burying their property with gypsy dead dates from the earliest history of the Romany tribes. Odd Superstitions. In England there is a superstition that if a bride and groom eat peri- .winkle leaves together they will love one another. Should he after mar- riage prove recalcitrant here is a way to win him back: Take a piece of the root of a wallflower and a partridge’s heart, roll them into a ball and make the man eat it. If you want to know whether your lover loves you, crush some bleeding heart. If the juice s red, he does; if it is white, he does not. His Mistake. They were in the thick of their first quarrel. 4 “I thought your tastes were simple,” said the husband. “I didn’t expect to find you such a high flier.” “Yes, you did,” she answered. “You knew all about my being a high fiier, as you call it, but you thought I'd be dirigible.” Golf Stick and Scythe. “Your boy Josh is something of an expert at golf.” “I reckon,” replied Farmer Corntos- sel discontentedly. *“But he can’t make two licks with the scythe without foo- zlin’.”—Washington Star. Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.—Henry Ward Beecher. e e apem e S43 5 His Discipline. “Pop, you must take this child in hand. I have had about all that I can stand. She has no notion'of minding me; it is time you took her across your knee.” “Send her to me,” said Pop, with a frown. *‘It won't take me long to tone her down.” But how could he punish bher, tell me, do, when she looked at him with her oyes of blue? Looked at him in the same glad way that her mother did in ihat faroff day when she was his sweetheart and he her beau. How could he strike her I'd like to know? But still he took her upou his knee and at once was lost in a Teverie that carried him back to a shady street and a little maid whom hLe used to meet, a blue eyed maid whose connt- erpart now sat on bis knee with a beating heart, waiting for him to for- get those days and pucisb her for her wilful ways. Mom peeped ia through the half closed door. They were playing jacks on the parlor floor, playing jacks and quarreling, too, just as two children are apt to do. She frowned, it was more than half caress, *I will have to punish them both, I guess.”—Chicago Record-Herald. An Arab Legend. “There is none so poor but there is one poorer.” i A poor Arab spent his last bara on a handful of dates and went up on a high cliff to eat them and die. As he threw the stones over a lean hand shot out below and caught them. “Ho!” said he. *“Why do you catch my date stones?" “Because, O brother,” answered a weak voice, 1 have not eaten these three days, and Allah has sent these stones to save my life.” “Praise be to Allah,” answered the first man, “for he has saved me also, for here is one poorer than L.” And both men went into the city. First Test of the Air Pump. The first public test of the air pump was in 1654 by its inventor, Otto von Guericke, in the presence of Emperor Ferdinand of Germany. Guericke ap- plied tit carefully ground edges of metallic hemispheres, two feet in di- ameter, to each other. After exhaust- ing the air by his apparatus he at- tached fifteen horses to each hemi- sphere. " In vain did they attempt to separate them because of the enor- mous pressure of the atmosphere., The experiment was a great success. . THE REX HOTEL THOS. BAILEY, Prop. 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