Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1924, Page 65

; THE SUNDAY ST WASHINGTON, Giant Classes of Deadly Jellyfish Silent Actors in Trdgedies of Sea Washington Scientists, Who Have Been Touring Countries Infested With Large Sea Nettle, Learn of Moving Story of Filipino Youth Whose One Agonized Cry Preceded Quick Death in Arms of Marine Slayer—"Ghosts of the Sea,” as They Are Called by Natives of Tropical Coun- tries, Lie Qusetly in W ait for Victims to Reach Their Tentacles. appalling story of how & ung sea diver was captured a giant jellyfish and slain by the monster's poisonous tentacles while a group of terror- stricken friends stood helpless on the shore has been brought to Washing- ron from the tropical Philippine Is lands by Dr. Paul Bartsch, curator of department of mollusks of the Smithsonian Institution. Tt 15, perhaps, one of the most ghastly deaths on record and definitely places ntly harmless jellyfish, wl smaller but blood relatives wbound in the Chesapeake bay and Potomae river, in the class of iran-killing denizens of the deep and makes it an even more ominous foe than the dreaded octopus, because its destruction is instantaneous. The tragedy occurred while the an expert swimmer and a diver. and a group of re enjoying an hour's sport vopular Philippine resort. Having finished their swim, the young vying for diving honors. the unsuspecting victim's turn dive. Poising himself on the springboard, he plunged deep into| the water. 1 \ minute later he came to the sur- ' face a few feet away, his head trap- ped in the awful tentacles of the zhostly jellyfish. He gave one plerc- ng scream before the creature shot . thousand streams of deadly venom Into his brain—and sank back wrapped in the slimy arms of his executioner. Death me an instant after the big sea net- ad Injected its fiery poison into his head. i By an unfortunate stroke of fate the voung man had come up squarely be- hieath the motionless umbrella of the ellyfish. Had he not been a strong wimmer and fought for a brief in- stant to free himself his head, it is would never even have come he surface, quickly docs illing jellyfish destroy. Hundreds of Washington swimmers who have ventured into the waters of the Chesapeake bay and the lower Potomac river know what it is tol “fire” of the sea nettle. Local however, are pygmies beside 1= giants of tropical seas, and were Washington victi; of the nettle to multiply thetr temporary discomfort a hundredfold, scientists say, still they could mot measure the mo- 2= voung man rofessional ends w 1 were o aid, sbove the man- mentary agony of the voung Filipino ended his| | 1 I | before death mercifully carthly pains forever. ® ok R % JDE: PBARISCH, accompanied by Lewis Radeliffe, assistant United States commissioner of fisheries, re- returned from tour of coun- es that are infested with fhe giant sea nettle. So painful is the sting of even the smaller variety that it was necessary for him to wear heavy hip boots to protect himsel? while ha was making observations in Flor- 1da waters recently. The jellyfishes were so numerous in the inlets 7d along the coasts of Florida. he said, that oft- times it seemed that he was walking in large bowl of gelatin rather than along an inhabited shore lime. On one occasion his assistant, Mr. Radcliffe, was attacked by a large sea nettle and polisoned so badly that he ordered to bed for forty- «ight hours, suffering untold agonies before the venom that was injected into his system was overcome. Although 99 per cent water the jelly- fish is a highly organized animal with most complex nervous system, and, ding to Dr. Bartsch, all species “re more or less venomous, their degree of poison depending largely upon size ither than anything else. Experiments &h that there is 80 little sub- in them, however, that il one is iced on a plece of blotting paper and for a few hours, mothing will re- but a slight stain, are many different species, but ar: they are eimilar. Their ped like an open umbrella, m the «dge of which hang innumera~ tentacles. Tt Is In these ghastly arcs that the jellyfish carries its poi- Zach tentacle is packed by thou- a was tance Milk From Cocoanuts. IT is a little known fact tHat nearly | all the elements of a food suffi- t to nourish one and maintain him in vigorous physical condition are to be found in the nuts of the co- coanut tree. Moreover, it furnishes such by-products as vinegar, alcohol, mugar, cattle feed and fiber. When dried the meat of a cocoanut tree is a valuable article of com- merce. 1t Is known as copra. From this cocoanut ofl is made. Copra contalns a very large percentage of oil, an ol that, In its constituents, bears a close resemblance to cow's milk. But attempts to emulsify the oil—that is, to divide the particles so as to cause the product to resemble the milky character of the output of the cow—have singularly failed in the past. Yet chemists Lave felt that here, indeed, was an oil that would vield a valuable substitute that could be shipped to any part of the globe. Thelr efforts have proved successful in one proces Roughly, this process consists. in mixing skimmed milk with the cocoa- | nut oil. A chbmical method, protect- ed by patent, has, it is sald, enabled . e THE GIANT JELLYFISH, SHOWI! NG THE LONG, POISONOUS TEN- TACLES HANGING FROM THE UMBRELLA.LIKE BODY. ®ands of little cells, capped by a sharp but invisible knife. Once a foe comes within reach they work automatically In an instant the tentacles have em braced the unfortunate creature, wheth- er man, beast or fish. the flesh of the captive with tiny holes. A traction of a second later the stored- up venom has entered these little wounds and before the trapped creature has had an opportunity to fight back it has been paralyzed The shock of the venom from the larger variety, such as killed the Fili- pino boy, is as severs as that caused by a high charge of electricity, and, as in the instance cited, the paralysis may re- sult in instant death. This remarkably formidabie system of poisonous darts, lLowever, is mnot wholly for purposes of defense. With it the jellyfish, a carnivorous animal despite the fact that it is well nigh devoid of substance, obtains its food. It dines wholly upon fish and small crustaceans. Inconceivable as it may seem, the jellyfish shoots its darts out with such force that they will not only pierce the skin of a man but actually break through the shell of a small crab or similar creature. Termed by super- stitious natives ‘ghosts of the sea,” they li» quietly in wait until a fish swims into their tentacles. Like a flash they hate closed upon it. Helpless, the creature is dragged up to the sea uettle's numerous mouths, which hang from beneath the umbrella, and is devoured at will. Not infrequently jellyfishes attack and eat each other. Thelr only other known enemy is the loggerhead turtle, which destroys and consumes them by the thousands every year. Apparently the loggerhead is fm- mune to their venom, for he rushes bold- Iy into a school of them, gobbles down his fill and swims away. The only pre- caution he has been seen to take is to close his eyes as he oharges, these probably being his only vulnerable part. * k% % CTENCE has borrowed a name from mythology with which to dis- tinguish the jellyfish. Every child per- haps remembers the ancient tales of Medusa, who had serpents instead of hair, and was finally elain by a Greek hero. Because the jellyfish has a num- ber of tentacles, comparable to the Medusa by scientists. this amalgamation to be effected. Skimmed milk in itselt is no in-| ferfor food. It contains casein, a very caslly assimilated proteid food; vitamines, and milk sugar. Skimmed milk and cocoanut ofl are combined into whitish milk or emulsion by the use of a stabillzer, which Is found in raw sugar. This stabilizer keeps the tiny particles of fat from reassem- bling. Varlous types of milk can be pro- Auced as desired. There is thin mil and rich milk, and half cream ang full cream; or even a thicker cream. The product not only resembles milk, | but it tastes like milk, and s sald| 10 be even more readily digested than the pure cow-given product. It keeps as well as milk and already has been introfluced to the public in.ice cream Like a flash the | | knives leap from their sockets, plercing Were it possible for one to wander leisurely about the byways of the ocean, one might see strange-looking {little trees 2nd stubby, though beau- |tifully colored, bits of flowers. At least, they would appear to be plants. Tut | examination you would £na these bits of “vegetation” to be buby jellyfish, {instead of buds and sprigs. The stor of how the sea nettle reproduces its specie Is one of the most interesting in all the books of sclence An egg, dropped on the floor of the ocean, s the Inception of most spe cies. This egg fastens itself securel t0 @ large rock or similar marine for- mation, and soon produces the “trees” or “fowers” described. They even have tiny roots. like any species of vegetation. Soon lttle at the ends of the branches and in due course of time drop off. as the rosebud or any other flower might But soon after these buds drop off they swim away as full-fledged young Jellyfishes. There is another method of repro- duction, however, that is hardly less remarkable. In this case the egg is set free in the water, instead of being deposited on the bottom. Eventually it evolves into a pear-shaped larva. which swims vigorously about by means of furry little fins that work Iike 6ars. Finally, the larva, too, fas- tens iteelf to rock, becomes quite large soon afler Its period of qulet begins, and in a little while breaks up into small diske, which grow to be giant sea nettles. These glants thrive by the millions along the coasts of North America. Some of them attain a body diameter of seven or elght faet, with tentacles that medure as much as 100 feet long. Fishermen call them “sea blub- bers” in the north. In tropical Amer- {ican waters similar giants are known as “Portuguese men-o'-war.” The latter are perhaps the most polsonous of all jellyfiehes, and it is believed 1t was that kind of monster that de- stroyed the Filipino boy. W% 0% % "HIOUGH mighty warriors of the deep may carefully shun the lair of the giant sea nettle, thers is one little fish that ekes out a precarious fairy story creature, it is called a |eXistence from within the protection i ipa¢ only a day or two previousl of its deadly tentacles. Forever on Copyright by Bachrach. ers you to make @ microsoopic | its guard that it does not touch one of those terrible electrodes, it hovers close up under its unusual pro- tector’s umbrella. = Scientlsts Who hkave watched this strange little fish, say it is highly amusing to see it maneuver back and forth -when it wishes to enter or depart from its home behind the fatal arms of the nettle, It only leaves when it must have food. Then it tacks back and forth, darting here and there at lightning speed, but always with the greatest care, until it is free from its poison- ous nest. Then, having eaten its fill, it returns in the same careful manner, apparently fully aware that it would find swift and certain death should it even brush one of the ton- | tactes. Back in those ages when our west- lern plains were the bed of a great |sea the jeliyfish thrived in the height of glors. Fosxilized re- {mains may still be found the |Tocks of that region, together with the skeletons of other inhabitants of the deep. One of the most recent discoveries of fossilized wea nettles in that sec- tion was made by Dr. Walcott, secre- |tary of the Smithsonjan Institution. He found a whole area littered with |them and picked them up on the | bare ground. The rocks in which they | had been fossilized were once mud, | | deposited there by the sea ! in ! As the ! centurifes marched steadily by these {rocks were exposed to the relentless | “wear” of rain, wind and ice. | In time the sea nettles, now in their !fossilized stuge, were freed by na- | {ture. o carefully, however, did | | nature preserve them that many | which were found a short time after | | they had been washed from the rocks still plainly showed the little intes- i tines through which the food of a fel- iyfish passes. i These mummies now rest by the | scores in the National Museum, mute | | but indisputable evidence of Ill')!fi: {primitive days when our land was | |once the ocean's floor. g il O An Unconventional Sequel. | { ] BY J. A. WALDRON. HEY had ! and Ted, quarreled, Justine| and this was lhal | way of it: Justine was pretty. | She was more than pretty. | Yot there is hardly a young woman | who s simply pretty whose ey will not take on new brightness or| a provocative glint when any pre- i uds appear | Sentable young man tells her, either |8€St that man. !in graceful phrase or by a glance of | {Lis own. that he thinks her charm- | |ing. And Justine, an orphan, with means of her own. was her own mistress. She had as companion anl aunt, but the aunt spent most of her | time here and there plaving bridge, | and was good to Justine because ' { Justine was good to her. Ted, a handsome, strapping fellow, had a somewhat selfish conception. | Girls had always looked at him in a way that was eloquent of admira- tion. And he liked it. Yet when arn other young man looked at Justine Ted stralghtway went into a gente. fury. And, to tell the truth, Justine had a grain of joalousy herself. | Justine and Ted were engaged Engagements are made. Engag ments are broken. And both tragedy and comedy resu One evening he had Justine at the opera. They both drew admiring glances. Ted resented the way in which a chap looked at Justine without noting how Justine had looked at the chap. It had been rumored that the young man K |been engaged to Justine before T Limself had consummated that some- times inoperative preliminary. Ju tirie had told Ted she hadn't cared for the fellow. “Then why should she have looked at him?" thought iTed. After the first act of the opera Ted reopened the question. Jus r minded him that he had just gazed with unmistakable approval upon oung woman who had fnvited silent | praise. And she reminded him also | ef had found him at luncheon with her! dearest friend, Elinor. | “That is the fourth time you have.| | mentioned a perfectly innocent en- counter,” he replied. “When a chap meets a girl friend at luncheon time !iwhat else can he do2* What else, indeed 1ip curled, “Well, T shall tell you right now that T would do it again In the cir- cumstances. And wait @ bit. Do you remember that you asked me to luncheon at home, and cautioned me !nuz 1 must be there on the minute?" “But I've explained all that” “Not altogether. In my desire to see you I was walting for you a quarter of an hour before the time. As 1 looked out I saw you come up lin Osmona Henry's car. He was driving and you sat happily with E'm.” i ¢y OU'VE forgotten that T had gone | shopping in a hurry in order {to meet you; that my chauffeur col- lided with another car and so injured mine that he had.to have it towed to the garage; that I was hurrying to get a tax! when Mr. Henry came {along and insisted that he be per- mitted to take me home.” * “Oh, well! No doubt it was so. But the fact compels me to say that iI think Elinor is a very pretty !young woman, and more than that | T think she is a very reasonable one | ‘“More reasonable than I am, you think? “[ decline to answer that question.” “Which is equivalent to answering I release you from your engage- Justine's pretty | What is there in an opera when | such a colloquy happens with half of jthe music still to listen to? | Tea drove Justine home. On the way they had a word or two togeth- er about the weather, discussed the | opera briefly as connoisseurs, and were as polite to each other as diplo- mats are assumed to be. Ted assist- ed Justine out and saw her up the l'ml ‘with a chilling ceremony, which ‘was unemotionally responded to. The ~good-night” was as metallic as an anclent phonograph record. This really ought not to have hap- pened, for Justine was more fond of ! aw: | | {had waited. . 0, JANUARY 6, 1924—PART 5. - - TOGO HEARS OF DINOSAUR’S EGGS Wallace Irwin‘S»L:etters of a J'apanese Schoolboy. To Editor The Star who know hew to eat In the French language BEAREST SIR:—I wish tell you a slight conversation I walked into yestidy while riding on & Se trolley hoping to hear some American intelligence which I could use to make a thought out of. I am slightly frightened from what I heard, so I shall write it. Setting on seat benext to me were a serial looking gentleman wearing a hat. I knew he were owner of a axtremely high-power brain, because he had no hair on his eyebrows, which gave him more room to think in. He were read- ing a news-print and getting very heated about what he saw there. “Remarkabilious! Remarkabilious” he holla softly, while looking at print. “O Mr. Sir*" I narrate. “What great phenomenal do you see on that page that make you otter such a nolse?’ “It are two wonderful for words!" he v 807" T require. “Perhapaly . Cal. Coolidge have been making another speech. The little chatterbox!” “No. It are more scarcer than that,” he nudge. “Be Frank with me, Mr. Sirl” T de- feat. “‘Weil, then,” he pronounce, “this here News Print report that a party of Americans has went to the wild end of Mongolio and dishcovered some din- r's eggs.” sme whiches?* T ask to know. “Dinosaur’s eggs,” he encore distinct- ually “How much did they pay per doz.?” are next question for me. “How could T tell those”" he snarrel. “Them gentlemen what find these eggs were Scientists. No, indeedly. They are too busy to spend money. They travel here and there with shovels for to dig up things they require. & what they find they keep. ‘I think my Cousin Nogi are & scien- tist,” T amputate. “Last Satdy p.m. he dug up a palr of shoes under my bed and ho kept them very 0. K. “I are not prepared to talk Japansee statisticks,” ollicute that man with ews Print. “‘But are this not wonder- ful about them Dinosaur's Eggs?" “I shall not tell you until I know more.” This from me. “Well, 50,” he dictate. “Those Sctent- ists found them eggs on a vacant lot in ‘the midst of a desert 411908 miles from Philadelphia. They was laid 700000000 yrs before the birth of Wm de Mille and has been there ever since.” “If o is trath, and maybe not” I bounce out, “how.did those Scientists know they was Dinosaur's Eggs?”’ “Ah!" he breathe. “That are the cute point. When they broke one (1) open they found it cantained a dinosaur chicken inside ft!! “Where you say they found those eggs?" 1 ask to know. “In suburbs of Mongolia, 611241 miles from Sailt Lake Ci *x %8 $4GQHUX!" 1 bobble. ting s0 much praiseworthy in papers those Scientists should be in- vestigated by Congress.’ “You are talking garbage” snug- szackly!” I divindge. “But I tell you one (1) thing, last Frydy p. m. I | SNz “THEN ONRUSH MRS. DINOSAUR.” payed for and dld not eat, thank you. For this did I obtain praiseworth from News Print? Answer is, No!" ¥Where did you find this curio phenomenal?” he wish sarcastly. “On a plate in Rising Sun Cafe & Bean Restaurant,” I tip off. “There it stood before me, price .035§ with Boston Brown Bread .06§ extra. “How you know it were a Dino- saur's Egg, then?” he revamp. “Did you meet its mother?” “No." I ping. “But met its child, which were inside. And I are willing to bet my bootwear that this Egg were lald & cackled for 700000000 yrs. before Hon. Hiram Johnson dishcovered Europe.” “I are Man, “that vou do not reelize what a Dinosaur ix “For that prica I would not tell annybody so much.” T dib. “A Dinosaur,” he lecture, species of vermiform which grew 100 yrds long in the Bicarbonate Coal Forests of the Up- per Jackassic Period. They was a kind of swollen Lizards and they are a1l dead now.” “Not o0, I reverse. “I met sev- eral last night while dancing.” “You are wrong, as usual,” 1 “were a he “Instead of get- i bump. *“Those Dinosaurs were mnot |allowed to dance. To heavy. ¢ they should start a wolf-trot in Nebraska thers would be earthquacks in Ire- land. So they spend their time in great simplicity, eating nut coal off from anthracite palms 111 ft. high. “Think of that pre-hysterical forest willing to wager 2c.” say | kangaroos | Think with your mind, and umagine Mother Dinosaur, singing like a train of cars and scratching in swamps, hoping she will find some choloe bid-tit like a shark, maybs, or a small hippobottomus, with which to foed her tender brood, the largest of which is only 20 ft. long. Are that not a unspiring ploture?” “Wm Grifith have stldom did any- thing so unnatural” I confest. “O tell me 6 or § more fax about Din- osaurs. Otherwisely I shall fold up.” * % * % SHEN arrange your brain for more miracles,” he pronounce. “Umagine sunrise coming up over that old time soft coal plantation where cvery branch wave s the breeze. Then Father Dinosaur jump Lappily to top of Rocky Mts., elavate his kneck 87 ft, commence flap his front paws and shoot out a loudish crow resembling several steamboats whistling tune: “How could it?" 1 throw back. | “That Dinosaur were a 4-footed |squadruped. He wers not a bird, | were it?” | “Truthfuliy, he were not.” say Man | with News Print. “But that wers so !long before Darwin that nobody knew | ezackly what he was. But let me In- {form vou what shall happen nextly: | When Hon. Mr. Dinosaur discontinue to crow & several palm trees had fell |down from the nolse—what happen “Then outrush Mre. Dinosaur with roble axpression of motherhood on her sweet but brainless facs. Bhe are triumphal. She are happy. She are cackling. She have just lald a 6 eER’ ‘Nothing like that could happen ir America nowdays,” he report. “Not so sure,” I submerge. “Have you ever tried to sleep in & New York hotel?”" “Why cannot you keep your mind away from Tammany Hall?" he growell. *T are talking Sclence, and if you do not like it you can put it in vour shoes.” “Howeverly that may be” I clasp tightly. “I cannot see the usefulnes: in all those educated Scientificks go- ing all way to Mongolla and back again to here just for puppose of tringing one (1) doz. eggs which cannot be sold for fresh, even in delikittensen stora When price of food are getting more ambitious every day, what nurshment do we obtain from more 2nd hand dairy producks?” “Japaness boy,” hissy Man, while doubling up paper, "I can tell vou somathing more about Dinosaurs would stop a Mexican revolution.” “I, kindly to do so!" I deplore. “So sorry.” He arise uply whil« jangling bell with his selfish hand “This are my corner. Too sad that I cannot go on forever."” now? | Excitements! Sounds resembling | 'a family of ash-cans falling out of | | Woolworth Pldg. and hitting a Sinn | aishcoverad a Dinosaur's Egg what Iiin ancient times of very old fashion! Fein parade Hon. Car stop, while he walk out. looking like a lame menagerie. Hoping vou are the same Yours truly HASHIMURA TOGO (Copyright, 1924.) LARDNER STIRRED BY WATER BILL Amount of Charge Somewhat Surprising‘ to Him editor: Well its kind o around our town as aquite New Yrs, eve was lest than wk. ago and they's still celebration will take place on the 20th. which will be the dth. anni- Versary of the day when Prohibition went into effect and everybody stopped drinking. Supplies is all ready beir 1aid in Ted than she had thought she could ever be of any young man. although he had ungraciously com- pared Justine with Elinor, still had Justine ¢n his heart as well as domi- nantly in bis mind. Worst of all, he was about to go on a journey. Justine cried herself to sleep, after poignant rumination. “He will write if he doesn't call before he goes 3, she said to herself, shail forgive him. The dear fellow Ted did not sleep at all. {good deal of sickness. Tho next big | And Teq, | 1 | | | | i otfor this occasion and the popular taste seems to run to straight scotch a |88 it is said to act quicker and the a|Price is a whole lot lower than a ¥r. p.m. till thers bed time why a per- ago. For inst. you can get Dawson | for $50.00 a case and Buchanan for $65.00. The both of them comes from the same powder works and is made of the same explosives but the Buchanan label costs more en acct. of print- ing it in 3 different colore. I been busy ducking the constable that comes around every couple days trying to serve a subpoena for me to show up as a witness of something I never seen. 1t seems like last summer some time, why the boy that was driving what I laughingly call my car had a collision with another guy and I did not have a very good view of the accident as it occurred on Long ‘and T [rgland and I was in Atlantic City at the time 'getting acquainted with Luis “I shall 'Firpo, but any way my insurance Co. see her early tomorrow, before I £0,” sayg they would pay for the repairs | he thought as he tossed about, “and {¢5 the other guy's car but he says beg her pardon.” Justine’s maid, Susan, | no, he must also have $10.00 per day ordinarily as |for every day he was without a car, amiable as malds ever are, fOr SOme ang the insurance Co. squawked and time had disclosed a sour disposition.'sngs is what they are having the In fact, her mental habit as to seti- guarrel about it. mental matters was cynical. Her lover had jilted her. Personally if I charged $10.00 per day for every day of my life that The morning after the quarrel Jus- |y peen without a car, why somebody e rose earlier than usual and Wasiywould owe me $109,500.00 in round preparing for her bath when a ring called Susan to the door. While Jus- tine was luxuriating in the tub Susan leisurely returned with a card. It was Ted's. “Ot course, you asked him to walt,” said Justine, fluttering with joy. - miss. He seemed in a hurry. At least he hurried out when I told him it was impossible to see you.” “$-u-s-a-n!” Justine sobbed. Then she blazed: “What stupidit “Me stupid, miss? Well, whoever would see a gentleman in her bath, Td like to know!" Susan sniffed re- belliously and left the room. * % % K AlLMosT immediately the telephone rang. “See to that, Susan, and hold the wire!” cried Justine, leaping from the tub and throwing a robe over her shapely body, careless of dripping water. el “It's the same gentleman, miss. I know by his voice.” Justine snatched the receiver and waved Susan out. The mald, curious, lurked by the door, apparently re- gretting that she was not able to be as near both ends of the wire. She caught snatches of this: “But T am sorry! I was in my bath, dear! I should have seen you if you She . is simply dense! .. And Il you forgive me for last night? . . . You must go to- morrow? . . . What do you mean by ‘now or never'? Of course T promised to marry you! . . . Today! . . . What will people say? . . . Go down to the city hall will you In an hour? . . Oh! Oh! . . Of course 1 care more for you than what peop! may think! . . Yes, I am nervous. sitting here with water dripping! ... It I must, yes! ... Doesn't that prove 17" Ted came for her in an hour. Justine returned home the next after- noon a bride. ACopyright, 1926y numbers. But what they want me for a witness is a misery to me unlest they think I will spring a few of my gags and keep the court rm. in a uproar. Well the kiddies kept insisting on a radio so we had to come acrost with one for Christmas, and now from 3§ son that wants to get any work done has to wear ear muffs indoore. The little ones thought at first that {vou could broad cast into the ma- chine as well as hear through it, so they spent the most of one day mak- {ing up a song to sing for the bene- {fit of there cousins that is scattered {around in different parts of the coun- try. The song is as follows: Yes, we have no pajamas, we have no pajamas tonight. We've got some night dresses, ‘We've got some mattresses, And sheets that are snowy White; And there's 2 blanket so vellow For each little fellow, But yes, we have no pajamas, we have no pajamas tonight. | The above is suppose to be a com- {ical song, but after vou have heard {it 6 or 7 times per day for a couple | wks. it begins to Paul. | Well one of the few other incidence | which my readers may be in a fever |to hear about is In regards to our last water bill. Now we don't have much company and hardily any of them drinks water and as far as the family is conserned why the younger men- bers genally always quenches there thirst with milk and they ain’t none of them got the habit of dashing up to the faucet every little wile and washing there hands. Well any way the water Co. sends there bill around once every 6 m | “WHAT THEY WANT ME FOR A WITNESS IS A MISERY TO ME UNLEST THEY THINK I WILL SPRING A FEW GAGS AND KEEP THE COURTROOM IN A UPROAR.” {so last mo. the bill come in for the | water used between Mav and Novem- | ber. The amt. of the bill was $164.30. v goodnese, we must be clean.’ “We will be if you pay :hat bill." 1 say: Everybody that heard the remark |laughed. Well any way we called up the water Co. and made a squawk and they sent a man over to look at the meter so the man looked at the meter and took it all apart and put it together again and went back {to the Co. and and the Co. called up and says we can't find nothing the matter with your meter, but the man that read the meter made a mistake. “I thought so.” says the Mrs “Yes,” savs the water Co, “the right amt. of the bill should ought to of been $1,643.00.” Well that Is all they is to the story only that we still owe them for & mos. water bill and are libel to keep on owing them and I suppose they will come along some of these days and shut off the water but we can get along for a wile by using Canadian ale for the bath and to wash dishes, and for beverage purposes they's always coffee, tea and milk. And if the worse comes to the worse, why Manhasset bay is right acrost the st. and makes fine drink- ing water after you have plcked out the salt. RING W. LARDNER Glass Building Brick. LASS-FACED bricks with con crete backing have been more or less used in various parts of the country. They secem to be superior to any form of tile or glazed brick as a lining for tunnels, swimming pools or bathrooms; for the inside walls of garages, engine houses, prisons, meat markets and other structures where perfect cleanliness is as desirable as difficult. They are heat and cold resisting, and declared to be everlasting, requiring no paint or other treatment to preserve thei: appearance. For shops and factorles the concrete-backed glass brick would seem an almost 1deal material The construction of the brick is as follows: To a glass facing, one- fourth inch thick at its thinnest part, is attachied a well-proportioned con- crete back. The concrete backing is attached to the glass front by three separate means, each entirely suffi- clent to secure the union of the two materials. First, the cement on the concrete adhercs to the glass; sacond, both ends of the glass face are re- turned by greater than a right angle, thus imprisoning the concreto mass; third, a dovetailed rib of glass traverses the entire length of the back of the facing, at once strength- ening the glass faco and also securing it to the concrete body. The glass face is one-sixteenth of an inch larger all around than the concrete body, thus meking it possible to be a sood mortar bond, notwithstanding that the mortar between the faces of the glass may be almost entirely pressed out. The glass bricks are 1ald in exactly the same manner as are any other finished brick.