Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 27, 1911, Page 3

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1911. GREAT NATURAL BRIDGE. Justice Marshall Called It “God's Greatest Miracle In Stone” The great Natural bridge. which is one of the natural wonders of the United States, overlooks the James river valley, being on the western slope of the Blue mountains. It is just about the center of the state. It approaches Niagara in grandeur and eeds it in height and awful mys- It is a single block of lime- stone, with many shades of color. The walls are smooth, as if cut with chisels. and there is no sign of dis- Dlacement. The visitor follows a tumbling cas- cade down a deep fissure in the moun- tain under some of the largest arbor vitae trees in the world and, turning down a line of steps cut into the preci- pice. suddenly finds himself by a swift stream in a dark canyon and the great e far above him. hington when a surveyor for Lord Fairfax visited the Natural bridge and carved his name, where it may still be seen. The original bridge tract was granted by King George IIL to Thomas Jefferson in 1774 After he was president Jefferson visited the place, surveyed it and made the map with his own hands. Jefferson spoke of the place as *“a famous place that will draw the attention of the world.” Chief Justice Marshall wrote of the b stope.” Henry Clay wrote of *“the Lridge not made with hands that spans a river, carries a highway and makes two mountains one.” FOOT OF THE BEE. Strong Claws and Flexible Pads For Rough and Smooth Surfaces. The seeming miracle of insects walk- ing monchalantly on a ceiling is ex- plained by Tickner Edwardes, chair- man of the British Beekeepers' asso- ciation, in his book on “The Lore of the Honeybee.” Insects owe such pow- er, it appears, to an ingenious device which is well illustrated in the foot of the bee. She has a pair of short, strong dou- ble claws, which will take her securely over all but the smoothest and shiniest surfaces, and it is with these claws that bees form themselves into dense clusters and knots and cables within the bive, holding hand to hand, as it in all directions. But when is nothing for the claw to hold by another part of the foot comes into This is a soft, flexible pad. h is always covered by a thick. oily exudation. In walking the bee puts her feet down three at a time, the pads adhering instantly they come into contact with the smooth surface. At the next step the other three pads come into play, while the first three are stripped off. But each foot is capable of attaching and detaching it- self independently of its fellows. this case. we learn, “the strip- is accomplished by downward pressure of the claws of the same foot.” Saxons. Szxon is from *“seax,” a sword, and so the “Men of the Sword.” In the early days the Saxons took for them- selves such names as “Bloody Ax,” “Skull Cleaver,” * “Death’s Head,” names which in no way belied their original character. The “berserker Ta of the old Vikings spread death 1 destruction all around the coasts which they haunted. and by the terror of their name they led the Christians ut into their litany the prayer. iver us, O Lord. from the fury e Northmen.” Very terrible were o p of 1 these old Saxons, and to this day the | most dreadful of all the people on the face of the earth, when they are thor- oronghly roused. are the descendants e same Men of the Sword.—New York American. End of Altruism. Because he was too soft hearted to ask his poverty stricken landlady to buy new rugs for his room the altru- istic young man bought several small U and spread them over the floor. Immedm!el\- after the nest sweeping day she presented a bill for the week's nditures: Items—Room rent. brea laundry and beating rugs, 2 fas cents. lo!" said the altruistic young a *What does thl: mean ?” “Just what it says.” she returned. folks must cover their floor with rugs they'll have to pay for ng em. that's all. 1 can't afford it for nothing.” d from that moment altruism lost a disciple.—New York Times. Persian Ware. True porcelain was never produced in Persia, but hard paste porcelain in Tersian forms and styles of decoration was made in China for the Persian | market. Wine ewers with powder blue glaze and gold overglaze decoration, small vase, and bowls with bronze luster glaze and designs reserved in white are found in collections of Per- sian ware, but these are unquestion- ably of Chinese origin.—Argonaut. Homelike. Mamma—Why are you hiding from rour little brother, Lizzie? Lizzie— Ob, we are just playing. I'm the lady of the house, and Tommy is the butch- er come with his bill.—Chicago News. Woman’s Intuition. Mrs. Crabshaw—I can't understand why I didn’t see those faults in you before we were married. Mr. Crab- thaw—It's quite plain, my dear. I don’t possess them.—Judge. Property has its duties as well as its rights.—Thomas Drummond. e as “God's greatest miracle in | { | | their customers come back, Da Vinci’s Writings. Although Leonardo da Vinei was a voluminous writer. he never published a single line during bhis lifetime. After the master’'s death in France his manuscripts were taken back to Italy. His heirs proved unworthy, and the precious writings were grad- ually dispersed. Loose pages were often detached and were either given away as relics or stolen. No attempt was made to publish any of hix treatises. except that on painting, for more than 300 years after his death. This was partly owing to the great difficulty of deciphering his handwrit- ing. Da Vinci was left handed and always wrote in oriental fashion, from right to left. Besides this, his orthog- taphy is peculiar to himselt. He ab- breviates some words and joins others together and employs neither stops nor accents.—London Chronicle. Gold That Blackens. Blackening of cuffs and shirt fronts by the rubbed off gold is a matter of much annoyance to jewelers when thinking they have bought brass. the peck as well as on the fingers | is frequently discolored by fourteen | carat, eighteen carat and. some say. | pure gold. An expert says that even | in the case of pure gold this colora- tion of the skin is not due to any par- ticular properties of the metal, but, rather. is the result of chemical changes in the body or, rather, in the perspiration and natural oil of the skin.—Exchange. A Privilege Usurped. “I understand Casey, the contractor, is having trouble with his wife,” said i Mr. Rafferty. “What about?” inquired Mr. Dolan. “I think it’'s a kind of jealousy. Casey came around with a black eye that she didn’t give him.”—Exchange.” A Fishy Romance. Mabel—So Jack Miller didn’t marry Miss Herring after all? Judith—No. She rejected him. Mabel—How did Jack take it? there was as good fish in the sea as were ever caught out of it and went | after Miss Salmon. The skin on | Judith—Oh, he said | THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER The Moral. “The persistency with which children see in a fable some other moral than the one which it is intended that they shall see is often distressing.” remarks a Philadelphia instructor of the young. “I had recited to one little boy the story of the wolf and the lamb and had followed it up with the remark: “‘And now you see. Tommy, that the lamb would not bave been eaten by the wolf if he had been good and sensible.” “‘Yes, I understand.’ said Tommy. ‘If the lamb had been good and sen- | sible we should have had him to eat!’"” | —Lippincott’s Drawing the Credit Line. Tailor—I must have cash down for your wedding suit, Mr. Parks. Cus- tomer—But haven’t I always paid my bills on the minute? Tailor—Yes, Mr. | Parks. But remember that after this 1you won't have the handling of your | own money.—Boston Transcript. { Part of the Game. “How'd you like to sign with me for | life's game?" inquired the young man. “I'm agreeable,”” replied the girl. | “Where’s your diamond?’—Louisville Courier-Journal. Vulgar. | “When ordering champagne some people are not satisfied with the pop of the cork.” “Think not?” “No: they think the waiter ought to also sound a gong."—Kansas City Jour- | nal. | Women and Youth. She—A woman, vou know, young as she looks. fortunately she isn't always as young as she thinks she looks.—Exchange. | Explained. | “What do those letters stand for?” asked a curious wife of her husband as she looked at his Masonic seal. “Well, really, my love,” he replied nal. 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