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Show fcg By the WayBh I (Copyright. Ull. North American Newspaper Alliance.) Ants Used as Regular Food Supply The honey ant le ao called fmm car-tain car-tain of the wlnglrse Individuals becoming becom-ing ao many honey pots, their abdomens abdo-mens being distended with honey fed to them by the normel workers. Including In-cluding both dwarfs and majors. It Is found from the Oarden of the Oods In central Colorado, to New Mexico. It ereete mounds six or asven Incnee srrose. and two or three Inchee In height. In the shape of a truncated cone. In the interior Is ths "honev chamber" or a rough dome roorM vault or flsure. the honey bearers u0 In a large colony clinging by their reet to the roof. Their yelW bodies are etrelched along the celling, their swollen, round, amber colored abdo-mene abdo-mene the else of currants hanging dThe honey"' l obtained la the night time by the workers which go In long nrooeaslone to some distant acruboek bearing nectar producing aalla. TM workers return with distended abdomens, abdo-mens, and leed the honey bearers with the neclsr. The honey re thus etored. ss bees etore their honey, for food in winter or ttmee of famine. A elmllar habit has been acquired by v"oue re. laird kinds of ants In tha dry Plalne and deeerts of Mexico, where these snts sre dug up by the people and utilised as a regular food aupply. and In South Africa and Central Auatralla. Aa educated man Is one who ran think up a workable alibi for , speeding. Baltimore Sun. . ( dler etruck him with a ahort stick as switch. The word "gantlet." a a here used, not the meaning usually given It that of en Iron glovs Is simply a corruption of gantlope or gatlope, and la derived from the Swedish gat-lopp, gat-lopp, meaning "running down a lane. Some etymologlets. howsver. derive the word from the (ierman gsaeenlaufen. which means "running the lane, and others from the Dutch gangloopen, having the aame meaning. , Marriage Preceded By Probation v ' In most of tha Nyaealand trlbea. I Africa, permanent connubial life Is t preceded by a term of probation, which can ba broken off at will by either party. When the woman hee finally made up her mind to etay. shs punctuates her decision by kneeling when she addreeeee her husband. As a rule, ehe will Inaugurate thla change In their relations by a llt(le coupe de theatre. Hhs will chooee an occasion wben chsncs has brought together a goodly number of people, ane-ehe sees her husband atandlnc among them. She will then welk rlaht up ts him. kneel down before- him. put aome trivial question, or glvs some unimportant unim-portant piece of Information, wait for the reply in a kneeling nocture, and. after this has been given, get up snd oln the others. By thus humiliating lerself. she has taken possesion of her husbsnd. . In some tribes as. for Instance, that of the Wsngonl, where probation la not required, the gtrle will postpone kneeling until after marriage, writes Hana Coudenhove, in Atlantic Month. ly. . In this three-mile liquor squabble, squab-ble, our government takee the view that It le better to Irritate Oreat Britain than to Irrigate the United tatea Norfolk VU-glnla-PUot. Sailing Record for All Time Made in 1851 In test the Flying Cloud made the run from New York to Ran Francisco In eighty-nine- dVe a record that had never been equaled by anil or steam up to thet time, and ha - remained the record for aall for all time. Her beet day's run wss 174 mtlea. which at that time exceeded by forty-two mllee the beet steamship record aver made oa the Atlantic. ' The Witch of tha Wave, Andrew Jackson, Honquah, Conquest. Purprlee. Game Cock, Sovereign of the Seas, and Red Jacket are only a few of the namee that shone with particular brlghtneea among the galaxy of American Amer-ican Bailing ehlpe that made the run from New Tork to Ban Francisco, during dur-ing the gold fever, within ninety and one hundred days Horte Hor Invented in 1692 Tbe Enrllahman, Jethro Tull la lOt, Invented his "Horse Hoe," aa he called TuU'e machine wss designed to s-sist s-sist the ledoui plants by loosening the earth, destroying srraae snd weeds, snd st the same time throwing about the plant the fresh soil. With s pair of hres snd Tail machine ma-chine one man eeated behind bis team, eras she to do he work of a doaea men1 with the ordinary hoe. About the time thet Tull rave the world his "Horse Hoe." a Spentard. Lresootelio. Invented tae first aiaciiiae (or sowusS graia Arnold Fought Like , Dsmots for Americans Heptember 1. 1777. General Bur-gome Bur-gome of the British fought the Americans Amer-icans at Bemla Heights. The battle, though deeperete. waa indeclelve. The Americana had now succeeded la cutting cut-ting the line of communication between be-tween the English camp and Lake Champ aln. and the Jtrltislj soldiers were Buffering from sctual hunger. October t a eecond battle took place. In thla the British were defeated Tha hero of the day on the American side wea Benedict Arnold, who later became a traitor to hla country. He fought like a demon, while General Uatee kept safely to headauartere. After the battle Burgoyna retreated to Sarllia. While he and hi. offlcere were elttlng la a tent, trying to decide what le do, a cannon bell came through the well and passed directly overthelr heeds. Thla e bowed them thet a quick declelon would be In erder. A few houre later the Amerl-cene Amerl-cene came marching Into the Bri Ish cemn to the tune of "Yankee Poodle, and when It w.e all over .General Ratea reappeared and officially ao-eeptcd ao-eeptcd the sword of General Burgoyna. rwm't let your daughter wees "bumpere" at the dance. Make-her eet onions New Orlcaaa Tlmee-Incayune. Tlmee-Incayune. . - Culprit Forced to "Run Gauntlet" The coetem of punishing a eulprlt by forcing him to "run the gauntlet" la seld to hsve orlglneted In the Thtny Teere' War lllll-ltl. and to have seen adopted by Europeea armlee as a mode of punishment. The culprit, stripped to the waist, waa obliged to rue repeatedly between two llnee of soioiara facing aaeh outer. Sack asi- " a |