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Show fHE RICH rOTTNTY REAPER RANDOLPH. UTAH mountaineyed people, rambling story reveal to us the fact eers and people with ears as large that the ancients were just as much as pillows. interested in freaks of nature as Dr. E. Washburn Hopkins, emeri- the average circus-goinAmerican is tus professor of Sanskrit and com- today. parative philology at Yale univerOne Is reminded of the GENERAL INTEREST IN .one-legge- PEOPLE QUEER g Monstrosities Can Always Command Attention. big-lippe- d sity, who Is vice president of the American section of the International School of Vedic and Allied Research, points out in the article referred to, The Epic View of the Earth, that the stories about these queer people sometimes are based on facts, while others are travelers tales distorted. The epic referred to, the Mahab-haratwas probably composed about .200 B. C., but Is made up of stories that had been handed down from even older times. Mahabhara-t- a means the great war of the the people of India, which took place probably in the Twelfth century B. C., but the epic contains In its one hundred thousand stanzas much material which is not directly connected with the great war, a mere eighteen days battle. The epic is really an encyclopaedia of information presenting the philosophic, social and ethical ideas of ancient India. The colorful epithets applied to the various tribes described in the course of the long, The public Interest in freaks of nature which makes it still profitable to maintain circus sideshows where various malformed, queerly distorted unfortunates are exhibited to gaping crowds is an interest of long standing, says the following article from the New York World. It goes back not only to the courts of medieval kings where dwarfs and hunchbacks furnished frequently cruel amusement to bored nobles and their ladies. It is also to be found even before the Christian era. It has recently been demonstrated that this insatiable curiosity concerning human beings of unusual shape, coloring or habits is of very ancient origin. In the quarterly Journal of the International School of Vedic and Allied Research it is revealed by an expert Sanskritist that the ancient inhabitants of India referred in one of their early scriptures to such monstrosities as three . DONT KNOCK "Americau novelists roast American life. Hence they are called said Gene Tunney whose Interest in literature has recently been pronounced genuine by a famous nov elist. If they lived abroad, the uncharitable bounds, theyd find lots more to roast I know an American painter who went to live In a French village. I met him one day in Paris and asked him how he liked French. village life. Fair, said he. "Have you called on any of your neighbors? No, he said, but Im going to If I miss any more of my wood.' d a, Bha-rata- s, women from Africa, featured in a great circus, when one reads of the who use their Karnapravaranas, ears as coverings. It might be supposed that this is a reference to a tribe whose ears were naturally very large, but Professor Hopkins draws our attention to the fact that the folk mentioned in the old epic have evidently survived to our own day. He says: I myself saw near Madura some individuals with ears so distended by heavy earrings that an English official with me exclaimed, Why, they might use their ears as large-eare- d pill-low- s. The mark of Cain referred to In th Bible has been supposed by some to have been a tribal mark, tattooed or burned on the forehead. Such a mark on the men mentioned in the epic may easily have been in the shape of a glaring eye in the center of the forehead to Inspire terror in their enemies, just as the American Indians painted themselves grotesquely before going into battle. The Election Bet Former Mayor Thompson was talking to a Chicago reporter about the citys empty treasury. It's unique, he said. The rich city of Chicago is in as queer a fix as the chap in the hatters. A chap in a hatters, after hed tried on nearly every hat in the place, said he wanted a finer, softer quality of felt. But this line, the hatter said. Is really very superior, sir. You really cant do better than this. The chap examined the hat again. No, he said. Its not tender . enough. You see, Ive got to eat it. Detroit Free Press. The three-eyepeople mentioned in the epic might seem to give some credibility to the theory that the pineal gland in the human brain is the remnant of what once was a third eye. Certain reptiles do have the structure of an eye in the pinea' gland. But Professor Hopkins suggests that the third eye of When one doesnt know what not folk may have been to say, dont say anything. these three-eyeThat comes nearest it a sectarian forehead mark." d d VOICE TOO STRONG if MERICAS ONLY REFINER OF OFFERS.... GERM PROCESSED OIL That weak little fellow we met says hes a ventriloquist and can throw his voice. Dont you believe It his voice is too strong for him to throw. Catching It Either Way That fellow Dubleigh has got a scared, sneaking look. Has he been In any position to do any crook work here? asked the president No, grinneJ the manager I know the answer to his actions. His wife has ordered him to demand more money, and the poor fish knows hes lucky to get what he does. Cincin iatl Enquirer. 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