Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 20, 1910, Page 8

Creat Northern No. 33 West Bound Leaves at 3:30 p. No. 34 East Bound Leaves at 12:08 p. No. 35 West Bound Leaves at 3:42 a. No. 36 East Bound Leaves at 1:20 a. No. 105 North Bound Arrivesat 7:40 p. No. 106 South BoundLeaves at 7:00 a. Freight West Bound Leaves at 9:00 a. Freight East Bound Leaves at 3:30 p. Minnesota & International No. 32 South Bound Leaves at 8:15 a. No. 31 North Bound Leaves at 6:10 p. No. 34 South Bound Leaves at 11:35 p.m No. 33 North Bound Leaves at 4:20 a. m Freight South BoundLezves at 7:30 a. m Freight North Bound Leaves at 6:00 a. m Minn. Red Lake & Man. No. 1 North Bound Leaves at 3:35 p. m No 2 South Bound Arrives at 10:30 a. m 88 | PROFESSIONAL I CARDS ARTS HARRY MASTEN Piano Tuner ormerly of Radenbush & Co. of St. Paul Instructor of Vioin, Piano, Mando- lin and Brass Instruments. Music furnished for balls, hotels. weddings, banquets, and all occasions. Terms reasinable. All music up to date. HARRY MASTEN, Piano Tuner Room 36, Third floor, Brinkman Hotel. Telephone 535 RS. HARRY MASTEN - - Instructor of Piano and Pipe Organ Graduate of] the Virgil Piano and Pipe Organ School of London and New York. Studio Brinkman Hotel. Room 3, Phone D LENN H. SLOSSON *PIANO TUNING Graduate of the Boston School of Piano Tuning, Boston, Mass. Leave orders at the Bemidji Music House, 117 Third St. Phone 319-2. Residence Phone 174-2. NJRS. TOM SMART DRESS MAKING PARLORS Orders taken for Nu Bone corsets, made to rder, also tailor made suits, coats, etc. PHYSICIANS AND SURCEONS TYR. ROWLAND GILMORE PHYSICTAN AND SURGEON Office—Miles Block R. E. A. SHANNON, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGECN Office in Mayo Block Phone 396 Res. Phone 397 R. C. R. SANBORN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office—Miles Block A. WARD, M. D. * Qver First National Bank. Phone 51 House Jo. 60« Lake Blvd. Phone 351 \R. A. E. HENDERSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Over First National Bank, Bemidji, Minn. Office Phone 36. Residence Pone 72. R. E. H. SMITH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in Winter Block R. E. H. MARCUM PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in Mayo Block Phone 18 Residence Phone 211 INER W. JOHNSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Residence 1113 Bemidji Ave. Phone 435 Offices over Security Bank. Phone 130 DENTISTS R. D. L. STAN'TUN DENTIST Office in Winter Block R. J. T. TUOMY DENTIST 1st National Bank Build’g. Telephone 230 R. G. M. PALMER DENTIST ‘Miles Block Evening Work by Appointment Only LAWYERS RAHAM M. TORRANCE LAWYER Telephone 560 RANK A. JACKSON LAWYER Bemidji, Minnessta H. FISK . ATTORNEY AT LAW Office over City Drug Stor=2 Miles Block BBBBEEEA THE ELECTROSCOPE. . Instrument by Which the: Presence of Electricity Is Detected. . The electroscope is an instrument for the detection of electricity. It depends for its action on the principle that bodies charged with like electricity re- pel, while those charged with unlike electricity attract each other. The ordi- nary pith ball suspended on a silk thread is the simplest form of the in- strument. The most common type of electro- scope is that devised by Bennett in 1787 and known as the gold leaf elec- troscope. It consists of two strips of gold leaf or thin aluminium foil sus- pended from the lower extremity of a conductor within a glass bottle or jar. The upper end of the conductorgter- minates in a ball or a plate in case the instrument is to be.used as a condens- ing electroscope. If a body charged with positive electricity is brought near the knob of the electroscope the nega- tive electricity will be attracted to the knob and the positive repelled to the leaves, which diverge. If now the fin- ger is touched to the knob the positive electricity is drawn off and the leaves collapse, while the negative electricity. is held bound. Removing the charged body, the leaves will diverge again, charged with negative electricity. In this case the instrument can be used to determine the nature of a charge of a body brought near it, as with a posi- tive charge the leaves will collapse and with a negative charge spread farther apart.—Exchange. A STUDY IN FIGURES. Calculations Necessary to Produce the Nautical Almanac. It may safely be said that no one outside the publishing office has read | the entire Nautical Almanac from be- ginning to end, but each figure of the printed almanac is in the office ex- amined twice and read three times. The total number of figures exceeds a million; but, great as that number is, it is trifling compared with the num- ber of figures employed in the calcula- tions, as the almanac figures repre- sent “bare” results only. The moon, for instance, requires for its calcu- lation more than a million and a half of figures, and similarly with other branches of the work, such as the sun, the planets, etc. Contrary to the general opinion. practically every fig- ure in the book is fresh from year to year. The tables from which nearly all the work is calculated have been original- 1y constructed from the labors of the astronomical observer and to a large extent from the observations of the sun, moon and planets made at the Royal observatory, Greenwich. Tele- scopes and other astronomical appll- ances are conspicuously absent, as the work of the staff is purely mathemati- cal and not observational.—London Telegraph. A Legend of Mount Omi. Mount Omi. on the border between western China and Tibet, has the long- est staircase in the world. On top of the mountain there stands a Buddhist temple, around which gather some of the holiest traditions of that religion and which is made a Mecca to the Chinese. To facilitate the ascent of its slippery sides some 20,000 steps have been cut in the mountain, form- ing a single flight, up which the pil- grim toils. Because of its inaccessi- i bility few Europeans have ever visited the spot. but a number of travelers have ascended the stairway and are positive that it is no legendary myth. There is a legend that in earlier times the pilgrim was forced to ascend the mountain without artificial aids until the monks conceived the plan of re- quiring every pilgrim who would gain especial benefit of his journey to cut a single step. Some Consolation. He was a frugal Scot and when the collection plate came round dropped in a florin in mistake for the humble copper. Speedily discovering his mis- take, however, he stepped softly down the aisle and requested the oof gath- erer to give him back the coin, which request was politely but firmly re- fused. A shade of disappointment flit- ted over the northerner’s face as he walked slowly back to his pew. “Aweel.” he said, “it's a loss, but there’s some sma’ consolation in re- flectin’ it's a bad one. It might have got me into trouble anywhere else.”’— London Telegraph. Dickens and His Wife, Commenting on. the unhappy rela- tions between Dickens and his wife, Goldwin Smith wrote in one of his last papers: “It was a common case. Dick- ens had married at a low level, and his wife had not risen with him; otherwise there was no fault on her side. The matrimonial history of writers of works of imagination has often been unhappy. Their imagination turns the woman into an angel, and then they find that she is a woman.” Two Is Company. “Have you ever loved before?” asked the coy maid. “Yes,” yawned the worldly young man, “‘but—never before & chaperon two small brothers and a pet bulldog.’ And then she suggested a trip dowr | the old road to see the stars.—Chicagc News. A Sugar Coated Pill. “How did you persuade your daugh- ter to learn kitchen work?” “By calling it domestic science.”— Pittsburg Post. The way of the world is to make laws, but.follow. customs.—Montaigne. The Landscape Near Jerusa The country abonut Jerusalem Is’es sentially a pale vcountry. . Indeed, 1 sften thought it looked stricken, as ‘if its pallor had come upon it abrupt- 1y, had been sent to it as a visitation, 1 was not sorry that I saw it first under grayness and swept by winds. The grayness, the winds, seemed to me to emphasize its truth, to drive home its reality. And there was some- thing moble in its candor. " Eveun na- ture can take on an aspect of tricki- ness at times, or at least a certain co- quetry, a daintiness not wholly ‘free from suggestions of artificiality. The landscape in the midst of which Je- rusalem lies is dreary, is sad; in stormy weather is almost forbidding. Yet it has a. bare frankness that ren- ders it dignified, a large simplicity that is very striking. The franmie is sober, the picture within it Is amazing, and neither, once seen, can ever be forgot- ten.—Robert Hichens in Century. buarveying Land. - The art of land surveying owes- its origin to the fact that the Egyptians were unable to keep permanent monu- ments on land which was overflowed every year by the Nile. Under such circumstances it became necessary to have some means of reidentifying the various pieces of land. The instru- ments and mathematical methods of astronomy, with suitable modifications, were used by the Egyptians for land surveying. it Far From Upright. ' Reilly ‘39(1 .Coran were “having it out” They had been deadly enemies for years, but neither had offered to lay hands on the other up to now, both of them being somewhat afraid of the issue. i Before they'\'commenccd it was stipu- lated that it was to be a fair “stand up” fight, and with that they started. Coran had it all his own way from the beginning. He kept knocking Reilly down and down again until - that worthy was about sick of it. He turn- ed to the bystanders and said, “Sure, an’ wasn’t it to be a fair, stand up fight?” ~ “It was,” returned an onlooker. “An’ ’ow, thin, ean he be expectin’ me ter foight 'im fairly if he do be knockin’ me down all the time?’—Lon- don Ideals. A sprained ankle will usually dis- able the injured person for three or four weeks. This is due to the lack of proper treatment. When Cham- berlain’s Liniment is applied a cure may be effected in three or four days. best and most remarkable prepara- tions in use. Sold by Barker:s Drug Store. : This liniment is one of the| MR. RENTER _ Have you ever stopped to think that every few years you practically pay for the house you live in and yet do not own it? 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Prices from $1to $15 Leather Goods | Pillow Covers . ‘ : Doilies Table Mats 23 Wall Hangers Endless varieties in hand painted, burnt, air brush, leather ,and vel- vet applique—the most acceptable gift of the season. Prices from 50c¢ to $10 ‘ VVE DACLC Post Cards --- 2 for 5¢ 303 Beltrami Avenue E Cigars “ All the leading well known brands, Do- mestic and Key West, in the five and ten cent goods, put up in fancy Xmas packages of 10 12 25 and 50