Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 19, 1913, Page 16

AN ESSAY ON NAILS. They ‘Are of All Sizes, Shapes, Varie- ties and Habits. A nail is a short piece of iron which an uses to aim at while he is ham- ing his thumb. h come in various sizes. A tack is a baby nail which is fond of stand- ing upon its head in the dark shen Yyou are tur v trotting around your room in bare feet. trying in vain to lo- cate an electric button. An adult nail is two or three inches long avd comes in boxes which are sent to you by ex- press, upon which you have to pay the charges, which have already been col- lected by the expri other end. Not being able to find the hammer, u vainly endeavor to ex- tract this n from the box. both with and without prayer, until you finally succeed in wrenching the top off the box with su- perhuman strength while your wife looks on with superb disdain. Nails are also used to build houses, as sinkers on fish Ifnes and, when ap- plied internally to the feet. to promote and foster lockjaw, Th come in v quantities in hardware and department stores, but when you want just one to drive into the bathroom wall during your wife's absence to hang a razor strop on you might as well look for a needle in a haystack or a squave deal in a state legislature.—1 TURKISH VENGEANCE. It’s a Perilous Matter to Endanger the Life of a Sultan. Within two weeks after the assas- sination of Mahmud Shefket Pasha, the grand vizier of Turkey, thirty-two men were put to death for taking part in the conspiracy. According to Tur- kish custom handed down from the time of Mohammed, there is no limit as to the number of lives that may be taken as a penalty for the murder of one man. Even those interested in the remotest degree are liable to the sultan’s vengeance. It is not so much the number the ruler of Turkey is au- thorized to put out of the way, but rather where the line is to be drawn. The Turks have a story of one of the earlier successors of Mohammed whose life was only endangered be- eause of a rock falling down a decliv- ity near which the sultan was riding with his retinue. Half a dozen of those in charge of the trip were put to death as an ordinary matter of course, then half a dozen more who might have remotely known something about the facilities afforded bv the road for s, company at the | il and others of its kind | Eilling the sultan. Kinally all the mem- bers of a secret club or lodge were. or- dered executed because it was ascer- tained that one of the responses to a password was “Will you roll down the stone?” Despite the protestations of the club | members that the words had no signifi- cance at all with respeci to the sultan or the sultan’s trip aloug the road, they were ordered to the scaffold. They numbered 118 in all and died bravely, assuring their executioners to the vers last that they were innocent. Later a eunuch who fold how the falling of the rock was merely an accident was also put to death for daring to say so.—New York Sun. FACTS ABOUT BABIES. Seme That Surprised and One That Pleased the Professor. *1 never knew before ! had one’ said the professor of o his bachelor assistant. closely ! how our sciense could be appked to a baby. I bave been astcunded at the following tjnst true conclusions: 1 “As two similar bedies v in weight | as the cubes of their din s, | tind | that a baby two feet long shouid weigh | Just about one-sixteenth of a man five | feet high: aiso that. as the surfaces of two similar bodies vi as the square of their dimensions, n haby as before would have about one-sixth the sur- face of the'man. So the extent of sur- face proportional to weight in the baby is vastly greater than in the adult. In fact, a square foot of the baby’s skin would shield just one-third the sub- stance of what a square foot would on an adult. “Arguing from this and knowing "that the rate of cooling of a solid de- pends on the extent of surface, 1 found that a baby got cold quicker or warm quicker when exposed to a fire than a man; also, as any living body is high- er in temperature than the surrounding air and has to lose heat continually— the rate of loss depending on the sur- face—it is readily seen that a baby. in order to keep up normal temperature, has to furnish more beat in proportion to its weight than man, and therefore has to eat more in proportion to its weight than man. To prove that a baby gives out an enormous amount of heat, keep the heat from escaping by wrapping a beavy blanket around it. In a halt an hour the temperature under the cover will be almost unbear- able to the hand, and the baby will be found covered with sweat. “The same knotty problem comes up when the baby is bathed. 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The baby suffers wmuch worse on account of that same big proportion of surface. “But 1 find one encotraging thing in this peculiar geometrical problem of the human form I'tind that if & dress Is made for my little daughter two feet high and oue for her mother five feet high. it talkes only one-sixth the cloth to do it. ‘although the dresses were made in exactly the same style.” —Lawrence Hodges in Chicago Rec ord-Herald CARELESS WITH GOLD. Any Old Thing Serves the Klondikers For Holding Nuggets. Persons who are accustomed to ob- serve the exireme carve with which bankers handie gold would be aston- ished by the lax methods of the men who risk their lives for the precious metal in sparsely settled regions where it is mined. In the log ns in which Klondik- ers live' it has to take its chance along with boots. cooking utensils and pro- visions, 2 to be transported by the most expeditious route. Any re- ceptacle, it seems, is good enough te hold gold. Old tobacco cans and fruit and vegetable cans stand full of nug- gets on the shelves. and gacks of gold dust are flung upon the foor. Oun one occasion a little pack train of three mules brought to Dawson City $120,000 worth of gold in com- mon sacks. over which the mule driv- er. acting on his own responsibility, fastened a bit of sailcloth, lest a mule falling on a rock or against a branch should accidentally rip open a sack and spill the contents. The whole lot was thrown with other goods into the packer’s office and left there until the following morning. At another time $40,000 worth was sent down on one horse. The packer in charge did not know who had given it to him and there was no sign of ownership attached. Tt was identified by the fact that within the larger sack of dust was a small sack of nug- gets. The bags are not sealed, but merely tied with a leather thong or a bit of twine.—Chicago Record-Herald. RAINMAKING FALLACIES. Nature’s Processes Too Gigantic to Be Imitated by Man. Warm air is like a sponge. It will suck up a lot of moisture and carry it without spilling- any. But if warm air, well loaded with moisture, is sud- denly cooled the sponge is squeezed and the moisture falls out as rain. Many years ago some hopeful gen- tlemen went to one of our arid regions and exploded a lot of dynamite on the theory that the concussion would mix the strata of warm air near the earth with the cooler strata above and so cause the necessary precipitation of moisture. There happened to be light showers about the time of the experi- ments. which encouraged the experi- menters, but didn't convince anybody else, The fact is that nature’s rainmaking machine is too gigantic to be affected by the puny efforts of humans—at least by any methods so far discovered. Nature pumps the moisture laden air up into the -cold regions of the upper atmosphere with a wheel a thousand diameter. When this tre- mendous wheel of air is revolving nor- mally it hoists millions of tons of wa- ter vapor to an elevation where it can no longer be carried in solution and bso falls in rain. When the wheel is off adjustment it is as futile to bombard the sky with dynamite as it would be to fire popgun corks at the side of the latest Dread- nought.—Kansas City Star. Red Water. Apropos of the *“red water’” seen in and about salt lakes Mr, F. Whitteron writes that in all the samples exam- ined by him (at Geelong. Victoria. Australia) the color was wholly due to a curious little organism, either oval or round. and equipped with two small flagella or lashlike’ extensions. When examined under a microscope the bodies of these minute specks of living matter are seen to be intensely pigmented with a red coloring matter. When the brine becomes saturated the oval form changes to a circular shape. When such a brine begins to crystal- lize the resulting salt has a reddish tinge, and Mr. Whitteron suggests that each organism may be the nucle- us about which a crystal forms.—New York Post. How It Impressed Her. A young woman from the interior saw the Atlantic for the first time re- cently at Cape May. As she stood on the windy beach. gazing dreamily out over the vast blue expanse of tum- bling water. her escort said to her: “So this is the first time you’ve ever seen the sea. eh?” “Yes. the very first time,” she an- swered. - “And what do you think of it?” he asked. ; “Ah.” she said, with an ecstatic smile, *“it smells just like oysters!”— Exchange. Important Question. “George dear.,” began a bride while on the way to the station for the honeymoon, “1 want you to answer me just one question. and then I shall feel sure of you." *“What is it, darling?"* “If you knew that I loved you as much as you love me. would you love me as much as 1 love you?"'—London Answers. . 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