Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 24, 1911, Page 8

French Matches. ‘What is the explanation of the French match? Well, on every box there is printed the legend, *‘Manufac- tures of State; Contributions Indirect.” ‘While you are struggling with the French match you are paying taxes. 1 do not knmow the exact amount of the revenue raised by the French mateh, but a French friend assures me that the atrocious badness of French matches is due to the determi- nation of the government to compel smokers to use ten matches instead of one. There was once a contractor who secured the contract for making the state. matches. He was a conscien- tlous: ‘contractor. = He made good matchés, He made matches that struck on the box. In consequence the revenue fell off. The government was enraged. They warned the con- tractor that his contract would be can- celed unless he forthwith lowered the quality of his matches. . According to my friend, the object of the contractor now is to make matches so vile that the whole population of France is forced to spend half its time trying to make them burn.—London Opinion. Bear Lake’s Black Bass. “The only black bass water I know -0f where the black bass are really black,” said a man who makes fishing tackle and tries it out on waters al- most everywhere, “Is Bear lake, in the weslern corner of New York. It lies high awmong the hills of Chgutauqua county, near the Pennsylvania line. It has no Inlet and no visible outlet. A peculiarity of Bear lake is that it has no shallows. There is no gradual slope from its shores into deep water, but they pitch off at angles so acute as to be almost perpendicular, giving the im- pression that the water of the lake fills an immense pit of great depth. The lake ix almost round and only a mile in diameter. Owing to its odd formation and unusual depth, Bear lake has the appearance of a vast pool of black ink. In those depths are black bass which are sald to be natural to that water, plentiful, large and full of fight. Black bass elsewhere are not Dblack at all, but of a dark olive green, but these Bear lake black bass are Dlack.”—New York Sun. When Bathtubs Were Curiosities. The British Medical Journal asserts that a century back the English were a dirty people. England can hardly have been worse than the French. In 1713 Jean Baptiste de la Salle publish- od “Les Regles de la Bienseance et de la Civilite Chretiennes,” a manual for the guidance of yeuth which has run into over fifty editions and is still in orint. We are told that “for the sake of cleanliness it is well to rub the fac every morning with a white towel in order to remove the divt. It is not ad- visable to wash with water, for this axposes the face to the chills of winter | and the heats of summer.” This pre- went. continued to appear in the mane THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER al until the edition of 1782. A similas work, “La Civilite Nouvelle,” publish ed in 1667, warns children that “to wash the face in water injures the evesight, brings on toothaches and colds and engenders pallor.”—London Chronicle. Initials as Pen Names. Greatness has sometimes disguised itself under initials. About the middle of the eighteenth century there was published a book entitled *“The Miscel- laneous Works, Comical and Divert- ing, by T. R. D. J.S. D. 0. 8. P. 1. L. This pompous array of initials hardly succeeded in concealing the personality of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, dean of St. Patrick’s, in lIreland. A more effective disguise was adopted by Ar- thur Sykes, the author of an “Inquiry into the Meaning of Demoniacks In the New Testament.” The author takes refuge in initials, styling himself And this is the interpretation: "“The Precentor and Prebendary of Alton Borealls, in the Church of Salisbury.”— London Standard. Willing, but Not Anxious. Ministers sometimes observe some curious phases of human nature among persons soliciting their services in the performance of a marriage ceremony. “Will you take this woman for your wedded wife?" asked a clergyman of a would be bridegroom. “Yes; I'll take her,” remarked- the man in a half dejected tone. “but,” he added, with surprising frankness, “I'd rather it were her sister.” The Woman Question. “Yes, I have just finished a treatise on the single tax. Next I shall grap- ple with the woman question.” “Consult me, old fellow. I grapple with a fresh one every hour.” “How is that?” “I am married.”—Satire. Expensive Instruction. “Experience,” said the ready made philosopher, “is the best teacher.” “Yes,” replied the man who has had troubles with Wall street, “‘but you're so llable to go broke paying the first installment on tuition.”—Washington Star. A Souvenir. 0Old Gentleman—Have you any hair the same color as mine? Barber—Do tleman—No; I want a small piece tc give to a lady.—I.ondon Opinion. An Artist. Swe—You sald you were going te marry an artist, and now you're en- gaged to a dentist. Flo—Well, isn't he an artist? Ile draws from real life. There are no tricks in plain an¢ simple faith.—Julius Caesar. “T. P. A. P. 0. A.B. L. T. C. 0. 8.} sion, it would be dry. Sun. v @ 8 1509 <., | ed steam before it condenses Is a dry you requlye 1t for a wig, sir? Old Gen igas. Ice feels wet if the temperature | moist if there were no air. Tuning the Furniture. “Before a piano tuner can get good results he sometimes has to tune up the general furniture as well as the piano,” said an expert tuner. ‘‘The other day I was sent for to tune & piano that had not been out of the factory six weeks. It was a fine piano. but every time I struck a note a noise like -a battery of tin pans let loose sounded through the room. ‘1 worked all morning without making any improvement. Finally 1 examined the rest of the furniture, and pretty soon I discovered the cause of those jangli chords. A cabinet filled with old brass plates, platters and pleces of armor stood against the same wall. * One leg was shorter than the others, and every time I struck the piano keys the vibrations caused a slight tipping of the cabinet and ‘set the brass contents a-jiggling. 1 point- ed out the uneven legs to the planist. “‘What you want is a furniture mender, not a piano tuner.’ I said. “They got one in to add an eighth of an inch to that short leg, and the plano sounded sweet and true.”—New York Andalusian Girls. Despite their attractions Andalusian girls only .marry after very long en- gagements, sometimes lasting ten years. One girl who has been engag- ed four years has a lover who comes from a distance twice a year to see her, and yet he has never once men- tioned matrimony. He lives with his | mother and no doubt keeps ber, for Spanish mothers have great influence over their sons. When at last a mar- riage takes place the bride has often to reside with her mother-in-law, to whom custom requires her to be most subservient. Ixtremely devoted to their own mothers, Andalusian girls are in no hurry to marry should their doing so require them to live at any distance from their old home. On the other hand, they do not appreciate having to wait ten years, but, as they say, “No hay remedio” (there is no remedy).—Seville Letter. When Vapor Is Dry. Mr. M. Mott-Smith points out in Sci- ence a popular misconception in the supposition that aqueous vapor and ice are wet. They are in themselves dry and become wet only when they turn to water. “So dry is aqueous vapor that it will dry any moist object that it comes in contact with.” Superheat- of the hand is sullicient to melt it. As ice it is dry. Another misconception is that the air can be either moist or dry. 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