Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, February 20, 1920, Page 5

Free Westinghouse Electric Sewing Machine Grangeville Electric Light and Power Co. COTTONWOOD, UEC US Ue Ue SAanananlanante Sha | Rubber Threaded INSULATION. Find Out What it Means for YOU x! of life while frozen COTTONWOOD BATTERY & WELDING SHOP P. H. DYE AND WM. BUETTNER, Proprietors eastecedeedeteceseetetedecente PEASANT LIFE IN ROUMANIA An interesting photograph of the > an industrious, happy people, toward establishing a prosperous country and living their old peaceful life. GERMANY RE-ESTABLISHING INDUSTRIES _ who, now that the The interior of the annual exposition at Frankfort-on Main, German) resumed now that the war is over, Germany is making rapid strides toward reestablishing its industries. % A$ may save the life of an Armenian ae Book | DID NOT NEED LARGE PIECE Shopper Advises Patient Clerk She Wanted Only Enough Linoleum to Cover Canary’s Cage. The day was hot. the hour rapidly approaching closing time, and the salesman thor- oughly worn out and tired. Still, he was a good salesman, and the customer before him—a lady faultlessly attired in next year's fashions— had all the ap- pearance of being a really liberal purchaser. Cheerfully, therefore, he unrolled and re-rolled plece after piece of In- oleum for her inspection, But all te ho purpose. Nothing, !t seemed, could satisfy her hypercritical taste. “I'm extremely sorry, madam,” sald | the salesman, “but I'm afraid *I've | shown you all the Iinoleums | have in stock, Of course, 1 can get some more up from our factory; and if you care to call again tomorrow—” “Yes,” broke in the customer, “per- haps I'd better leave it at thi You see, I want quite a small design—some- thing suitable for the floor of a | canary’s cage.” PURITY OF NATURAL ICE | Common Notion That Manufactured Article Is Best Shown to Be Fallacy. The common remark that natural ice Js not so pure as the manufactured kind is somewhat of a fallacy. Practi- cally 99 per cent of all the impurities are cast off by wature in the process of freezing. The remainder of the tm- purities that are included In the tce die in transportation. Sometimes, of course, even in a healthy flowing stream, nature slips up and a germ does get locked up in an ice crystal, but this is usually the finish of the troublesome germ, for though the cold does not often kill him the fact he can not roam about and search for food brings on starvation. Some germs die quickly, others live a week, while =| laboratory tests show that the typhoid | germ lives longest—its maximum limit ‘ in ice being placed at three months. Since natural ice is usually stored at least ninety days before it is shipped to market, the matter of its purity need not be doubted, Many tests of natural ice have shown that it Is far more pure than the city water of most communi- ties —Floyd W. Parsons in the Satur day Evening Post. | = ROR IIIIES BACON HAD A RELAPSE. The customer eyed the rash- ers keenly, “I tell you, madam,” pursued the shopman, “that bacon 1s as right as you are.” “I say it's bad,” persisted the customer, “How can that be?" he rea- soned. “Why, it Was only cured last week!" “Well, all I can say then,” she concluded, as she turned away, “is that it must have had a re- lapse."—London = Tit-Bits. Origin of the Loving Cup. The origin of the loving cup Is hazy Some investigators have asserted that its beginning was the wassall bowl, be- longing to festivities antedating the Christian era, and that on the advent of Christianity the custom of wassail- ing assumed a religious aspect. The monks called the wassall bowl the “pocalum caritatis” (loving cup). The ceremony of drinking from one cup and passing {t around was observed at the Jewish pascal supper and on other notable occasions, Live Near to Others. Work the mine of your own home. Dig deep into the affection of the wife and little ones. Spend more time tp their company. Talk with them more. Read to them and lIsten while they read. Discuss the world’s big ques- tions with them. Precious meta! here. And don't be too busy to get better acquainted with the velghbor young folks. Tire man who lives near to the heart of others, Hves long, well and happily. Smaliest Component of Matter. An electron ts the smallest known component of matter. Scientists have weighed and measured electrons, and can even estimate thelr number. But they haven't seen them. They are too tiny to appear upon the microscopic field, of them could be crowded Into a cuble centimeter. Sea-Serpent Myth Exploded. Between 1844 and ‘4 there were many reports of sea serpents ha been seen off the coast of Canada, It | chanced, however, that a creature de- seribed in wonderful terms ashore In the Orkneys, and some of the bones of the vertebral column were sent to a London scientist. He was able to declare positively that the anl- | mal in question was nothing more aor } | tess than a huge shark. although the microscope reveals | objects so minute that 125,000,000,000 | '|MANY FAIRIES IN GREEN ISLE idea That the Gnomes Have Die appéedréd 18 Declared Yo Be Altogether Erroneous. There still are fairies in Ireland, de- clares the Ulster Folklore, which ex- ilains by saying: To many, perhaps, this statement will be really news, Of course, anyone who has never taken any Interest in the matter at all knows that In the days gone by there were plenty of them from one end of the green isle to the other—are not their old haunts, the thorn bushes, their raths, forts, coves and souterraines still to be found in every corner of Treland just as they bave existed since time out of mind? But it has been the general belief that the fairies themselves long ago, in one fashion or another, had for- saken or been driven from their se- eret places, the last hegira being Placed at as modern a period as the middle of the nineteenth century—the night of the big wind, in fact when they were all supposed to have been blown Into the sea with the exception of a few that landed tn Scotland. The error of that belief, however, has been scientifically ascertained in & series of investigations pursued by Miss Elizabeth Andrews, F. R. A. L, for a decade or so. “The belief {8 geveral,” Miss An- drews ya, “that these little people were at one time very numerous throughout the country, but have now disappeared from many of their for- mer haunts. At Ballynahinch I was told they had been blown away 50 years ago by a great storm, and the caretaker at Killevy said they had gone to Scotland. They are, however, supposed still to inhabit the more re- mote parts of the country, and the old people have many stories of fairy vis- Itors and of what happened tn their own youth and in the time of their fathers and grandfathers.” WAS PIONEER IN WIRELESS James Bowman Lindsay, Scottish En. gineer, Has Not Been Given the Credit He Deserves. Little ts heard about James Bowman Lindsay, and much about wireless te legraphy, yet the career of the one and the history of the other are insepara- ble, says the Christlan Science Monl- tor. Upwards of sixty years ago Bow man Lindsay operated a system across the River Tay, a distance of one and a half miles, Just above the bridge the construction of which ranks as one of the most notable feats in engineering. His efforts failed to attract attention at the time, however, because of his retiring disposition, but the history of electrical research records few names more deserving of respect than his, He was a ploneer in the application of electricity for heating and lighting purposes and bespoke a great future for it. Apropos of Bowman Lindsay, as he was familiarly known, it is interesting to note that his energies were not wholly directed to the advancement of the mechanical arts. He was a In- guist and as such started out to trans- late the Bible into many different lan- guages. Seven years’ labor was ex- pended on the task, and the work was far from being finished when it had to be abandoned, The Bible, tn incom- plete form, may still be seen In the Albert institute, Dundee, Scotland. It lies open in a glass case and shows that the method employed was to di- vide the book into the requisite num- ber of columns and in each column place the words in English and their equivalent in each language into which they were translated. Dangerous Counterfeit. The most expert means of counter- felting American greenbacks has been discovered by the state police in the Adirondacks lumber camps, where $29. 350 and $100 notes were being dupli- cated. Banking experts have pro- aounced them the most clever counter- feits in existence. The information now in the hands of the state police is to be turned over to the United States department of jus tlee, The secret of the device is a ma chine which Is capable of splitting the thin note paper on which American uotes are engraved and permitting the face and back of the note to be stripped from each other, Waxed pa- per Is then laid over each half of the note and a solution applied to trans- fer enough of the original ink to the waxed paper to make ap exact dupll cate of the note. The waxed sections to which the ink has been transferred are then pasted to the opposite halt of the good note and in this way two | bank notes exactly alike are produced. Malines Carilions The carillons of Malines have never teen heard so much and to such splen- ‘lid effect as of late. The truth is that Malines has undertaken to get together | a sufficient sum of money with which to present to St. Quentin a new caril- lon, the Germans having seized the bells of the French town. So every carillon of Malines has been ringing and pealing. There have been carillon concerts, one of the performers on the | bells of the cathedral of St. Rombaut | being the bell ringer of St. Quentin | himself. The hymn which he played | embodied the motifs of the “Marseil- laise” and the “Brabanconne. All Busy. “What's your wife doing?” “Preserving waiermelop rind.” “go?” | louisville Courier-Journal. “And the kids are enthusiastically supplying her with the material.”— Farmers Now is the time to look over your machinery and order all the repairs you need, as delays are dangerous. 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