Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 2, 1910, Page 16

I Origin of Confetti. The history of confetti is rather curi- ous. Several years ago a large print- ing works in Paris was turning out im- mense quantities of calendars, through which a small round hole had been punched to receive an eyelet for hold- ing the sheets together, A heap of the little circular scraps of paper cut out by the punch accumulated on a table, and one of the machine men amused himself by scattering a handful of them over a working girl's hair. She immediately snatched up a handful and threw them in his face. Other girls followed her example. and the first confetti battle began. The head of the establishment came in when it was at its height, and. being what the | Amevicans call a “smart man," he at | once realized that there was “money in it." e ordered special machinery. placed large quantities of the nesw ar-! ticle on the market, made a fortune and created a new indus The Ways of Moles. Among common animals few have been less studied in their life history than the mole. An English natural- ist, Mr. Lion Adams, says that under the “tor * which the mole constructs above the surface of the ground will always be found a series of tunnels running out beneath the adjacent lield. A curious feature al- most invariably found is a perpendic- ular run penetrating about a foot be- Jow the bottom of the uest and then turning upward to meet another run. A mole is never found in his nest, al- though it may be yet warm from his body when opeucd. Guided by smell and hearing. a mole frequently locates the nest of a partridge or pheasant above his run and. penetrating it from below, eats the eggs. The adult mole is practically blind. but there are em- | bryonic indications that the power of | sight in the race has deteriorated. Too Empty. Bonney (morning of the second day out)—Come, old boy. let's go out on deck. DBreakfast won't be served for half an hour yet, and a brisk walk on an empty stomach will do you good. Klabber (feebly trying to cmile)— Take a walk oo yours, if you like, chappie. Mine is—is eatirely too empty.—Chicago Tribune. A Bird’s Barbed Wi ences. There may be seen aloag the road- sides in Central America a brown wren about the size of a canary which builds a nest out of all proportion to its ap- parent needs. It selects a small tree with horizontal branches growing close together. Across two of the branches it lays sticks fastened together with tough fiber until a platform about six feet long by two feet wide has been constructed. Op the end of this plat- form uvearest the tree trunk it then builds a buge, dome shaped nest a foot or so bigh with thick sides of inte:r- woven thorns. A covered passageway is then made from the rest to the end of the platform in as crooked a man- ner as possible. Across the outer end as well as at short intervals along the inside of this tunnel are placed cun ning little fences of thorns with just space enough for the owners to pass through. Ou going out this opening 1s closed by the owner by placing thorns across the gateway, and thus the safi- ty of the eggs or young is assured.— Harper's Weekly. The Purist Lost a Sale. “I've just happened to remember that my wife told me to get a tin pan that will go under the icebox. Have you ar “No. be shoved under the icebox. that do just as well?” *I think not, young man. My wife is a bit particular about my getting the exact thing that she tells me to but we have some that can Won't get. 1 presume 1 can find it at some other store. Good day, sir.”—Chicago ‘Tribune. Horse Sense. During a beavy downpour of rain an Irish farmer sent his boy to a distant field to bring home a borse. Some time elapsed. and the messenger returned without the horse. Father—Didn't Oi send ye for the horse. ye gamoch? Is your head in your brogues? Little Boy (drenched to the skim— Sure, he was standin' in shelter as dry as ye loike. Bedad, be knows more than the two of us. There’s guilty of saying that all manufacturers are alike? manufacturer’s. acknowledged to have best. this be? a Difference No counterfeiter has ever produced a perfect dollar bill. ever equaled . Parke Davis & Co Quality Divide men into classes—druggists, physicians, preachers, manufacturers, etc. No imitator has Would any man anywhere under the sun be druggists are alike, all physicians alike, all preachers alike, or that all Just ‘as there is a difference in men, so there is a difference in the medicines made by different For years, in practically all our prescriptions, we have been dispensing preparations made by Parke Davis & Co., the largest and best equipped laboratories in the world for the scienti- fic preparation of high grade pharmaceuticals. This is one of the main reasons why doctors prefer to have us fill their prescriptions because there is no guessing about Parke Davis & Co’s. remedies, they are always the same, always the And the nice thing about it is, they cost no more than inferior makes. You would be surpprised to know also that we fill many prescriptions by mail. And why may Just because we know how best. Try us once and you will come again. The Gity Drug Store Where Quality Prevails. Antiquity of Shorthand. Shorthand Is apt to be lovked upon as an essentially modern art. The predecessors of Pitman—Byrom in the eighteenth century, Mason in the sev- enteenth—are dim and distant figures beyond which it seems useless to ven- ture. Cicero dictated his orations to his freedman, T. Tullius Tiro, and was inconsolable when temporarily depriv- ed of his services, He complained in a letter to a friend that, while *Tiro takes down whole phrases in a few signs, Spintharus (his provisional sub- stitute) only writes in syllables.” We need not, however, suppose that the “notae Tironianae” were actually in- vented by the freedman in question. As M. Guenin points out, the Romans created very few of the arts of peace, contenting themselves, as a rule, by copying from the Greeks. M. Guenin, however, indicates the banks of the Nile as the cradle of the art.—T. P.s London Weekly. A Benevolent Censor. A trio of young ladies spent some weeks last year at an out of the way village in the mountain region. They found the village postmaster a quaint old character, whose ways were as orl- ginal as they were startling, so that the daily trip to the postoffice becamé a real event. *ls there any mail for us, major??! asked one of the young ladies as she appeared at the window one morning. “No; they ain’t a thing for you all thi_s mawnin’, Miss Mary,” was the re- ply. *“They wasn't nothin' come for you but a letter that looked like adver- tisin’, an' so I opened it, and sure enough it was jest some advertisement about somethin' or other, and I says to myself, says 1, ‘Now, Miss Mary don’t want to tote such stuff as that home with her, and so I throwed it in the waste box."”—Youth’s Companion. Snuff and a Crook. Robert Pinkerton once told a story of his father, the founder of the de- tective agency, which illustrates the elder Pinkerton’s caution. A noted criminal was detained in Pinkerton's Chicago office. The elder Pinkerton left the room and when bhe returned took the precaution of bolding a re- volver in front of him ready for use. He saw the criminal standing by the door with a snuffbox he had picked up from Pinkerton’s desk in his hand. “This is good snuff,” affably re- marked the crook as be took a sniff. “For the eyes or the nose?’ asked |, Pinkerton. who knew that the crook ' had intended to blind him in an effort to escape. “Well,” remarked the criminal, “I'm | sorry to say that the nose gets it this |: time.” Appius Claudius. - Appius Claudius, surnamed Caecus’ (the blind), ‘was a Roman statesman who lived during the: third cenmiy “be: fore the Christian era. He was & Ro- man censor, 312 to’ 308, and con¥ul. | 307 to 296. He commenced the Ap plan way ‘and completed the Appian aqueduct. From his Roman juris- prudence, oratory, grammar and Latin prose date their beginning. He #bol- ished the limitation of-the full. right of citizenship to. landed proprietors. In his old age he is said to have be- come blind, whence his cognomen “Caecus.” works in both prose and verse, of which almost nothing is known. No Pure Water. Owing to the extremely solvent pow- ers, pure water is never found in na- ture, the nearest approach being found in rainwater, which, as it is formed in the upper regions of the atmosphere, is the purest that nature supplies, but in descending it brings with it what- ever impurities are floating near the surface, which in the neighborhood of ‘cities are always numerous; hence per- fectly pure water is hardly to be found, even the artificially distilled being only approximately so. Where to Begin. “Look here,” said the reforming hus- band; “we must have things arranged in this house so that we shall know Jjust where everything is kept."” “With all my heart” sweetly an- swered his wife, “and let us begin with your late hours, my love. I should very much like to know where they are kept.”—Stray Stories, A Boomerang. “Call that art!” exclaimed a would be critic, pointing to a painting in a studio. *“if that daub.is a work of art. then I'm an idiot!" “The latter part of your statement,” rejoined the artist calmly, “would seem to furnish conclusive proof that.it is a work of art.” Rivals. She—John. is a very considerate sort of fellow, isn’t he? He ithe rival)— Oh, yes, very! He has that keen tact and loving sympathy which a chauf- feur. displays toward a helpless crip- ‘ple.—~Life. Blank Verse. Poet—You published a poem of mine last week. You pay according to the kind of verse, don’t you? Editor—Yes. George, give the gentleman a blank check.—Judge. » A Good Reason. “What . makes you think, sir, that I will not be able to support your daugh- ter?” “Well, I haven’t been able to' my- self.” . Tightly Tied. " “That man’s money is all tied up.” “Poor fellow! Can’t get‘at'it, eh?” ““Oh, yex. All he has to do is to untie his money bag.”—Judge. — —al - | 1 2 72 oA e S = e He was the author of’ Finding Mark Twain by Faith. One evening a few years ago Brander Matthews and Francis Wilson were dining together at the Players club of New York, when the former made the suggestion that they write a letter to Mark Twain. *But.” objected Mr. Wil- son, “we don't know where he is,”* for it was at a time when Mr. Clemens was away traveling somewhere. “Oh,” saild Professor Matthews, “that does pot make any difference. It is sure to find him. 1 think he is some place in Europe, so we had better put on a five cent stamp.” So the two sat down and composed a letter, which they ad- dressed to “Mark Twain, God Knows Where.” Within three weeks they received a reply from Mr. Clemens which said briefly, *He did.” The letter had been sent by the New York postoffice to Harper & Bros., thence to Chatto & Windus of London, thence to a bank in Vienna and from the bank to the small town in Austria in which Mark Twain happened to be staying.—Book- man. He Got Badly Left. Experiences ot a correspondent of a Nuremberg paper go to show that the German adulteration laws are drastic He says: “A French friend sent me four bottles of burgundy. After pay- ing the duty 1 was informed that all wine coming from abroad has to be analyzed. As my consignment includ- ed two kinds of wine a double analysis was necessary, and for this 1 paid a fee of §9.2 received first a certificare attesting that my wine was pure and. second. the case in which the bottles were sent. 1 was also informed rhat two bottles bad been required to form the basis of each analysis and that consequently there was no wine left. I am natural- ly grateful to the state for the precau- tions taken to guard my health, but I cannot help thinking | am entitled to the empty bottles. Surely these were not also analyzed.” Got His Receipt. He had run up a small bill at the village store and went to pay it, tirst asking for a receipt. The proprietor grumbled and complained it was too small to give a receipt for. It would do just as well, be said. to cross the account off and sv drew a diagonal pencil line across the book. “Does that settle it?” asked the cus- tomer. “Sure.” “An' ye'll ag’in ?” “Certainly not.” *Faith, thin,” said the other coolie, n' I'll kape me money in me pocket.” “But 1 can rub that out,” said the . gtorekeeper. ¥ “I thought so,” said the customer dryly. “Maybe ye'll be givin’ me a re- ‘ceipt now. Here’s yer money.” niver be askin’' for it As the end of a week 1§, THE MARKHAM HOTEL F.S. LYCAN & CO., Props. St. Paul COLLEGE OF ST. THOMAS "y Under the control and directiod of Archbishoy A Catholic Military College, situated in the be‘;gt(iefl:lngfid extensive grounds near the banks of the Missi44ipi. Ranked by the War Department among the ten military colleges of the United States distinguished for discipline and e {ul_mental, moral, and rel . 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