Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 20, 1911, Page 2

{ " A Bird’s Barbed Wire Fences. ' There may ‘be seen along the road- @ides in Central America a brown wren about the size of'a canary which builds @ mest out. of all proportion to-its ap- parent needs. It selects a small tree ‘with horizontal branches growing close ogether. 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 rconstructed. On the end of this plat- form nearest the tree trunk it then builds a huge dome shaped nest a foot or so0 high with thick sides of in- terwoven thorns. A covered passage- 'way is then made from the nest to the end of the platform in as crooked a manner as possible. Across the outer end as well as at short intervals along the inside of this tunnel are. placed cunning little fences of thorns with Just space enough for the owners to pass through. On going out this open- ing is closed by the owner by placing thorns across the gateway, and thus the safety of the eggs or young is as- wured. A Detective Story. I like detective stories; I read them. 1 write them, but I do not believe them. The bones and structure of a &ood detective story are so old and ‘well known that it may seem banal to state them even in outline. A police- man, stupid, but sweet tempered, and always weakly erring on the side of mercy, walks along the street, and in the course of his ordinary business finds & man in Bulgarian uniform kill- ed with an Australian boomerang in a Brompton milk shop. Having set free all the most suspicious persons in the story, he then appeals to the bull- dog professional detective, 'who ap- peals to the hawklike amateur detec- tive. The latter finds near the corpse a boot lace, a button boot, a French newspaper and a return ticket from the Hebrides, and so relentlessly, link by link, brings the crime home to the archbishop of Canterbury.—T. K. Ches terton in Illustrated London News. A Hand at Whist. “That was a remarkable hand you held just now,” said the commercial traveler to his companion at cards. “Pretty fair, pretty fair. But I've held a more wonderful hand than that.” “Really ?” “Yes. Once 1 was playing whist and dealt myself a hand of thirteen trumps.” “Great Scott!” “And the funniest part of the matter is that I only took ome trick.” “Impossible!” “No, it's not. I played last and trumped my partner’s ace. He was a hasty man, and before I could explain matters he lost his temper, and the game broke up in a row there and then. Funny game whist, isn't it¥ My deal. I think.” Wos Is His. iy First.—My wife is my boss. T shall not deny. 4 Second.—She maketh me to lie down behind the bed when swell company comes, and she leadeth’ me behind ber up Main street. Third.—She restoreth my pocketbook after she has spent all of its contents for stylish skirts and theater tickets. and she leadeth me up the wmain aisle at church for her new hat's sake. Fourth.—Yea, though I walk more than half the night through dark rooms with a crying baby I will get no rest. for she is behind me; her broomstick | and her hatpin they do everything else | but comfort me. Fifth.—She prepareth a cold snack for me, then maketh a bee line for an aid society supper. She anointeth my head with the rolling pin occasionally. My arms runneth over with the bundles before she is half done with her shop- ping. Sixth.—Surely her dressmaker's and milliner’s bills shall follow me all the days of her life, and T will dwell in the house of my wife forever.—Urich (Mo.) Herald. Signaling at Sea. The custom of signaling at sea by means of various colored flags is very ancient, and the methed seems to have been brought to a degree of develop- ment bordering very closely on perfec- tion. _h_daqy people have been astonish- THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER ed at the length of messages conveyed In a few moments and with the use of but balf a dozen flags in various com binations, and when the estent of. the language and the complexity of many necessary messages are considered the eighteen flags in the signal flag locker seem very inadequate. Howerver, it must be remembered that the signal code utilizes a sort of shorthand. and many long messages. known to be of frequent occurrence. have been con tracted to a single showing of fugs in a given combination. The number of flags hoisted when a signal is made never exceeds four. With the eighteen flags of various colors, using four for each signal. no fewer than 78,642 com binations can be made. An English Ghost. A Westmoreland ghost used to haunt the shores of Windermere, where the Lowthers from time immemorial have been lords of the lake—the *“crier of Claife.” One tempestuous night In prereformation times ' a ery was heard across the water by the ferry- man at the Nab inn—*"A boat!” The ferryman, against all his cronies’ per-’ suasions at the inn. set out. After many hours he reached the Nab again, his boat dragged down by some un- seen weight and himself with bair on end, a raving lunatic. Soon he died. and every stormy night his wraith was heard in agonized shrieks across from Claife till at last the resident monk of ~ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1911 Furness was sought in his retreat on Lady Holm and persuaded to “lay” the unhappy spirit. which he duly did. Harriet Martineau and others tell the tale.—London Chronicle. The Weaker Sex. d:.‘he young woman had spent a busy y. She had browbeaten fourteen sales people, bullyragged a floorwalker, argued victoriously with a milliner. laid down the law to a modiste, nip- ped in the bud a taxi chauffeur’s at- tempt to overcharge her. made a street car conductor stop the car in the mid- dle of a block for her, discharged her maid and engaged another and other- wise refused to allow herself to be imposed upon. Yet she did not smile that evening when a young man begged: “Let me be your protector through life!”—Life. New Angle on Help. “Why did you inquire so particularly into the wardrobe of that girl you just hired?” asked one of two women who were leaving an employment agency. “To find out how carefully she will guard against burglars,” said the other. “My experience has been that a girl who has nice things of her own will lock up more securely at night and keep a sharper eye out for sneak thieves in the daytime than one who has nothing of value to lose.”—New York Press. 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