Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 11, 1912, Page 6

HOW SOME: PEOPLE SLEEP | The Japanese stretches himself on & rush mat on the floor and puts a| hard square block of wood under his head. Chinese beds are very low, scarce- ly rising from the floor, but are often carved exquisitely of wood. The inhabitants of the tropics often curl themselves up like monkeys at the lower angle of a suspended ham-| mgck and sleep very soundly that way. The Russian likes no sleeping place‘ GRAIN OF SAI:T WILL HELP Btories of Importance of Signals Ex- aggerated by Writers—Some Yarns Are Made Readable. { A story has been going the rounds of the papers lately to the effect that |the several clubs of the big leagues have been trying-to emulate the early example of the Athletics in studying out the signals of the other clubs. It 1used to be the opinion that Connie Mack had his men trained so that they were constantly watching for the s0 well as the top of the big soap- ! slightest indication of a signal on the stone stove in his dwelling. Crawling out of his blistering bed in the morn-||ngide facts thus discovered were of in- A. G. Davis of Dennysville, Me., | part of the other players, and that the Ing. he delights in taking a plunge in! ¢stimable value to the Athletics, It is | OWnS the “freak cow here pictured. a cold stream, even if he has to break tow contended that many of the other | The animal has four hoofs, each one . through the ice to do so. leams are doing the same thing, and | of Which i8 no less than twenty-two In Lapland the native crawls, head | hat it is as much a part of the educa- | inches in length, and so badly twist- and all, into a bag made of reindeer tion of g haseball player to be alertand | ed and contorted that the animal cam skin and sleeps warm and comfort |keen to discover the other fellows’ | only walk with difficulty. When a ¥ able within it. signals as it is to play the physical | calf she developed ungainly hoofs, The East Indian, at the other end part of the game. Which grew as she became older; and, Y of the world, also has a sleeping bag There is a good deal of bunk about | though the horny growth was fre- Its purpose is to keep out the mo- |y thig signal stuff and wonderful sto- | quently pared away, it returned again Bquitoes rather than to keep its oceu- | ries of ingide play and all that sort of | and again, until at last the owner gave pant warm. thing, says the Milwaukee Sentinel. | Up trying to effect any improvement - c er ushe Unquestionably a good deal of the | in the creature’s anatomy, and began AGES THAT ANIMALS ATTAIN |routine of baseball is done after some | to take her round to local fairs and i fignal, but there is not nearly so | exhibit her as a curiosity. The hoofs Undoubtedly the longest lived ani{much of it as some writers try to | are of a deep green color, and closely ‘ ] mal on earth is the whale, its span|make the public believe. Neither is | resemble a lobster in conformation. cash on Dellvel of existence being estimated by|there very much opportunity to grab Cuvier at 1,000 years. The next|off the signals of another team. BIGGEST OF THE MAMMOTHS«: largest animal, the elephant, will, un-| It does very well to write press —_— | 3 L der favorable conditions, live 400|pgent stories about this sort of thing, The skeleton of a mammoth just set| It alWays pays (O Walt fOI‘ the O]d Re- years. and it must be admitted that they are 1p at Stuttgart is the largest ever dis- . (1) . b » ® The average age of cats is 15 years; | reasonably readable, but most of them covered. Bones were found in the dilu- llable, 16 '\ earsin bUSlneSS, Stl” read y of squirrels, 7 or 8 years; of rabbits,|want to be taken with a large size | yial deposits of the river Murr, in . 7; a bear rarely exceeds 20 years; a|grain of salt. Swabla, and months of work since then to serve you at bottom prlCCS, Wlth wolf, 20; a fox, 14 to 16. Lions are! . have been rewarded by the obtaining . comparatively long lived, instances| and removal of a nearly complete skel- better goods than the ou-tslde peddler having been recorded where tpey‘ Rare Brotherly Affection. eton. The great size iz indicated by reached the age of 70 years. 3 the fact that the skull weighs nearly Pigs have been known to live t In willing the residue of his estate J three-fourths of a ton, while the up- the age of 20 years, and horses to 6o,| “© Di8 brother, the late R. W. Peebles 2 ), z i .| per foreleg is four and onme-half feet but the average age of the horse is ?oll‘ictl;or. :é pum;n,’ ;}xp;’esfed th;’?k; long. The specimen is remarkable for ’ 25 to 30. Camels sometimes live to hoad efisred )l?ntiveelx? l:‘:’: :;]\:ie r:l ;:b the great length of the legs, the gen- R the age of 100. ted that h {;’ a t al ’ foll gwéd eral lightness of frame, and for the Eagles occasionally and ravens fre ‘.3 2 e. 2 'no always lollo shortness of the curved tusks—Iless [ ] a quently reach the age of 100 years his brother's advice. thar eight feet long. It seems to rep- and swans have been known to livq resent a transition type between the P 300 years. A tortoise has been known| Proper Course of Life. ° | most ancient mammoth and' the fleet~ to live 107 years. A man’s purpose of life shouid be| ©F 8nd smaller modern elephant. like iver, which born of @) S i Irwin’s Promising Son. lhous:n;l‘l'ltrtle“rillls inv:;se mountaius; Germany’s Heavy Bqdm Arthur Irwin, the scout of the and when at last it has reached its Germany’s naval budget has i Highlanders, has a son who is des- manhood in the plain, all its mighty| C¥€ased in nine years from:194,600,00¢ tined to shine on the' diamond one of current flows changeless to the sea.— marks to 434,000,0})0 marks, while BEM'D‘", M|NN_ these days. He is working in the out- H. W. Beecher. the anmual expenditure on the Ger: field every day and promises to be # 2k . man army has risen from 677,000,000 elever player in time. 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