Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 19, 1917, Page 5

AN EMBROIDERED CEILING. Jt Once Graced the Chinese Imperial Palace at Peking. One of the most beaatiful and elab- orate pieces of embroidery ever exhib- fted in New York was the ceiling of the council chamber of the imperial palace at Peking. This ceiling was formed of yellow silk of heavy quality that much resembled faille in the weave. The back wus of a greenish blue, woven in a small diamond pat- tern. The total measurements of it all were twenty-one feet six inches long and nineteen feet six inches wide. The design with which it was em- bellished was an imperial dragon in the center and four others, one in each corner. Encircling these a groundwork was formed of cloud pattern, and dis- persed were small bats and other sym- bols. The cloud effect was worked out in blue and purple and -the bats in pink. The dragons were largely gold work, and a threefold line of gold sur- rounded each part of the design. The story of this ceiling and how it came to New York includes a small part of Chinese history and custom. It was in the imperial council chamber at Peking that the envoys of the va- rious nations met in 1902 to settle the Boxer difficulties. At the close of the mession a representative of the emper- or courteously informed them that the contents of the chamber were consid- ered profaned by the presence of for- eigners and that they were therefore at liberty to divide among themselves the chamber’s furnishings. In this manner the ceiling fell to the share of the American envoy.—St. Louis Post- Dispatch. HE KNEW A GOOD PLAY. The Sagacious Canine Didn’t Even Have to Read It. One day 1 brought to my rooms in Twenty-third street a box of old man- uscripts. Death and Trap, a bulldog and fox terrier, stood by and looked on idly while I as idly looked over the plays. Suddenly Trap flew at a heap of manuscripts and seized a printed book. We tried to get it from him. He dashed about the room, under and over the bed. The landlady opened the door. Out went Trap, nearly upsetting my land- lady. My brother Sam and I rushed after the dog. Trap headed down Twenty-third street direct to the Ly- ceum theater, play in mouth. In and out among cabs and cars, pedestrians and jehus, that wonderful dog went directly to the box office of the theater. Frank Bunce, the business manager, beheld him. *“What has he got there?" said be. “A play,” said I. *“Does he ‘want me to read it?” saild Bunce. “If you please,” I replied. *“Teke it up- stairs to Mr. Frobman,” said the busi- ness manager. *Twas dome. Frohman read it. He accepted and produced it. The play had been written twenty years before -for my father by Madison Morton and Robert Reece. They called it “Trade.” Frobman christened it “The Highest Bidder.” The play was a great suc- cess and started both Dan Frohman and ‘myself on the waters of prosper- ity.—Edward H. Sothern’s *“The Mel- ancholy Tale of ‘Me.”” A Useful Storm. Professor Cleveland Abbe, the Amer- ican meteorologist, was generally cred- ited with being the father of scientific weather forecasting. The possibility of predicting the weather was first considered at an international confer- ence at Brussels in 1353, but the nec- essary impetus to the movement was given in 1854, during the Crimean war. by a violent storm in the Black sea. which caused havoc among the allied British and Freach vessels. One French warship was wrecked, and in conse- quence of this disaster the astronomer Le Verrier (the co-discoverer of Nep- , tune, appropriately enough) was com- missioned by the French government to investigate the meteorological con- ditions at the time of the storms.— ‘Westminster Gazette. Then He Drifted. “Miss Uppson—Mildred,” sald the poor but otherwise honest aad ambi- tious young man, “I bave paddled my own canoe for years and feel sure 1 can support you. Will you be my wife?" “Nothing doing in the canoe line,” replied the haughty maid. “If you had sailed your own yacht for years I might have considered your proposal.” —Chicago News. Anxious to Save Him. “What are you doing there?” “Figuring on the upkeep of an auto- mobile.” “You can’t afford to buy an automo- bile.” “I know it. I'm just getting up some data with which to convince a friend of mine that he can’t afford to buy one either.”—Birmingham Age-Herald. Weather or No. “Now tell us,” sternly demanded the young legal Iluminary, whose brow overhung like the back of a snapping tartle, addressing the cowering wit- ness, “what was the weather, if any, upon the afternoon in question?’— London Saturday Journal Doubts Heredity. “Do you believe in heredity?” ero." “Why not?” “Look at the cheap skates that had great ancestors.”—Detroit Free Press. Too Long. Edith—Haven't you and Jack been engaged long enough to get married? Ethel-Too long! He hasn’t got a eent left.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. WONDER ISLAND- OF HISTORY. The Story of Sicily Is a Compendium of Medieval Romance. Sieily’s history is as vivid and ple- turesque, as ferocious and creative and destructive, as mythical and intensely practical as the stories of all the rest of the world put together. And in beauty of nature, of climate, or man. and of beast, the island is a i today. whether or not it was ever the workless, painless. passionless elysium where our first ancestors enjoyed all the good things of life without having to toil. Nature itself, now in the guise of the misunderstood gods of old, now in con- vulsions or in quiet fertility that sci- ence has made plain to us, weaves its mysterious shuttle through and through the highly colored fabric. And men—such men!—tower above their fellows in the story like Titans— Pindar, Aeschylus, Theocritus, Thucy- dides, Archimedes, the two great Hie- rons, Cicero, Verres. Diodorus. Hamil- car and Hannibal, Roger the Count and crusaders Richard of the Lion Heart and Louis the Saint of France, Charles of Anjou, Frederick II., the “wonder of the world,” and Garibaldi Even this partial list reads like a compendi- um of ancient and medieval romance and chivalry.—National Magazine. Geographic CURIOUS FRENCH DUEL. When Man and Wife Tried to Settle a Dispute With Swords. Charles Coypeau, Sieur d’Assouci, a French poet and musician of the sev- enteenth ¢entury, relates in one of his “Adventures” that his father and mother were one day engaged in a dis- cussion upon questions of law when a dispute arose between them with regard to the precise signification and bearing of a provision in Justinian’'s code with respect to the rights of brothers. Ultimately the quarrel waxed so furl- ous that the disputants lost all control of themselves, defled each other to single combat and proceeded to settle their difference and determine the mind of the anclent legislator by a fight with swords. ‘This singular duel took place in their son’s presence. Coypeau pere was an advocate by profession and a mem- ber of one of the French parliaments. Madame was exceedingly diminutive and had to wear exceptionally high pattens to approach the ordinary stat- ure of women, but she was fierce and domineering in temper. The combat appears to have been a drawn battle, and the sense of Justinian remained as obscure and debatable as ever. As Blind as Love. As the German. army approached Brussels in August, 1914, it was re- ported that the invaders might shell the city. In a high state of alarm the Chinese minister went to see our min- ister, Brand Whitlock, to see what Whitlock meant to do in the event of bombardment. “I do mot believe there will be any assault,” said Whitlock. *“My infor- mation is that the authorities will sur- render Brussels to avoid any possibil- ity of damage. Bt if there should be an engagement, and the Germans should use their heivy guns, I shall hoist the flag of my country over this building, and I shall call upon my fel- low countrymen to come here for safe- ty and protection. I advise you to do the same thing with regard to your people.” “But, Mr. Whitlock,” murmured the Chinaman in his polite but labored English, “the cannon—he has no eyes!" —Saturday Evening Post. Castle Garden. Castle Garden was built by the Unit- ed States in 1807 from the plans of Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Williams, C. E., and was called Fort Clinton. In 1822 it was ceded to New York city; in 1824 it became a place of amuse- ment and about 1826 got its present name; in 1845 there were Ethiopian minstrels there; in 1847-9 theatrical companies played there; in 1850 Jenny Lind sang there; in 1855 it was closed as a place of amusement, and the com- missioner of emigration took it as an emigrant depot; in 1870 it suffered from fire, and on July 9, 1876, it was burned to the ground. It was rebufit at once. Ip 1892 the depot was moved to Ellis island, and Castle Garden re- verted to the city, which in 1896 open- ed an aquarium there. Our First Battleship. The first American battleship was the old Texas of Spanish-American war fame. She was authorized by con- gress in 1886 and was completed six years later. The original battleship was little over 300 feet long and had a displacement of 6,315 tons. The pres- ent day Texas is 554 feet long and has a tonnage of 27,000 tons. The old Tex- as ended her days as a target for navy practice.—Exchange. Late Repentance. “You should never take anything that doesn’t agree with you,” admon- ished the physician. ‘The patient glanced around ruefully at his wife. “If T had always followed that rule Lizzie, where would you be?”—Chicago Herald. Plenty of Practice. “Have you any special qualification for this job you are asking for in our establishment as floorwalker?” “QOh, yes, sir! My twins have just been teething.”—Baltimore American. Panama is rising three feet in each century. 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