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Show (Copyright, ttit. North Amsrleaa Nswspepsr Alliance.! Solitair Waa Napoleon' Hobby ' Napoleon had a hobby. Thla was no Isss than the gams of solitaire. When great events Impended, he would spend Honrs matching ths earda, according to some of Ihoss who were privy ta his councils. Then Is a story thai oa tha sjlght befors ths crossing of Bereslna hs sat ap tin dswa In a futile effort ta wla tba fifty-two points. Whsa ha eauld not prevail over tha blta of pasteboard be tors them up and ordered tha advance. Nero took aa odd bent for a king toward poetry. He wrote long odes and dramatis plsoss. which hs loved te recite whenever opportunity opportu-nity offered Coupled with his poetic po-etic fervor, Nero also thought himself him-self a musician, and. If wa may believe be-lieve ths legend, hs twanged hla blooming lyre whlis Imperial Rome eeethed at hla feet and . crumbled Into ashes. i Now that Turkey has gone dry, ws shudder to think of tha atrocities thst ths Turkish bootleggers will sclU--Ashevllle Tlmea. ' ' ," Murre Picks Own Egg From Among Thousands Tha California murre la by ar tha commonest bird on ths rocks along the coast. It crowds together In Immsnss colonies. Ths bird lays a alngla egg In the open, with no sign of a asst. not even a bit of grass sr a stick ta kssp It from rolling. Its peculiar shape halps to keep It In place, even oa the bare, eloping rock, and If It la accidentally accidental-ly atarted down grade by the movement move-ment of a bird it doea not roll straight, but swings around Ilka a top an Ita own asla and comae to a standstill a lit t Is lower down, writes Wllllsm X Plnlsy In the National Geographlo Magaaiae. Thonaanda of egga, and yet no two alikal Tha combined effect la that of a whole spring flower garden of tints. Soma sclsntlste say that tha wide variation In else, ahapa and color undoubtedly helpe the murre ta recogntae her own. After tha sggs are hatched, the difference In pitch, volume and quality of tha voloee may tell the mother which chick belongs to her. Alan Dale aaya Lendon la full of American aroma. He probably prob-ably meant maauma. Oreen- , villa Piedmont. TheAirAboYO Is Shallow Aa ws ascend from tha earth's serf ace tha air becomes leaa dense, or, aa usually stated, mora rare, and all of Ita componanta daereaae In amount; at thirty mllaa up there le little or no oxygon and tha dena-Ity dena-Ity of the air at that altitude la about one-one hundredth that at the see. level; at fifty raUee the nitrogen ni-trogen ess ess, and there la practically, practi-cally, aa water vapor above five miles, saya 8..E. Tillman ta thai North American . Review. Above twenty-five mllea the air Is to rare to transmit sound and absolute alienee al-ienee there prevails As ths air la very rare at thai altitude, and aa no motea as dust sra there, tha light waves pass almost unobstructed, and there 'la nearly total darkneof and abaenoe of all color; the temperature, tem-perature, too, la very low, probably approaching that of outward apace, thla region la then on of dark, cold alienee. The fact, however, that meteors somstlmes become luminous at ths height of It mllea and more ehows that there le an atmosphsrs et some sort at that height, probably hydrogen, helium or kindred ua-k ua-k nown gaeea. |