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Show Wth?Vay Copyright, int. Norm Aniertsas . -vSWlppr AllUMICe.J Battlo of Bunker Hill Fought in 1775 The halt I of Bunker hfll wa fought In 17T. Fw uoodler bl-t)e bl-t)e hve been fought In. all tb world's hlatery. The British In Boston vndir Oea-eral Oea-eral Oaae had 1. men. Colo-! Colo-! 'William Preeoott. with lioa picked Americans, had " fortified Bunker and Breed a Mil. .Tree American froopa under Oener4 Putnam arrived before tha Brlttah attack. Four thousand Brttlah Infantry In-fantry wara detailed . to capture Bunkar hill. Twtc tha British advanced halfway up tha hill, to bs rapuisad by tha muaket fir of ttos defender - Had tho A marl cans boon reinforced rein-forced at thla tlma thatr victory would hava baan aaaured- But no halp cam a- By tha ttma tha British Brit-ish atartad for a third assault tha llttla band In tha redoubt had baan raduoad to 00 act Its man. Thaaa fought deaperately till tnetr pow-dar pow-dar wan all rona and not until fur-thar fur-thar realatanee was nsalaaa did Pranrott ftra tha ordar to ratraat. Tha Brlttah wera too axhauatod to parsua and tha Amarican troopa -ra- tired to Camhrldce.' A literary erltlo le a person who caa find a meaolna la ltt-w erature that the author didn't know waa there. Oerelaad Tlmea. Special Patron Of NaTigation Between eeventeen and elahteen hundred years aao there was a very holy bishop In Italy aamed Blmo. He waa canonised net Ion after his death, and beoame very popular ameaa the sailors on the Mediterranean, Mediter-ranean, eapeelally during etorma. Kventually he was known aa ths special patrea of navigation. Mia name Uvea aoffadaya chiefly chief-ly because of aa electrical ap- Searanre oalled (L Rlme'e Fire, or t. Elmo's Usht. This Is either a ball or fire or a brush or star of light, sometimes seen, eeperlally In eouthem ellmatee, during thunder-storms, thunder-storms, at the tope of mssta spires or ether pointed ebjecta luls often socom Denied by a rushing? hissing noise, and la ef the same nature ss the light caosed by electricity streaming from points connected with an electrical machine. When the war Is paid for. think what a alee time Congress Con-gress will have with the new' , sources of revenue. Roanoke World News. Vulcvn Is God of Fire in Mythology J Vvlran la In elaeslc mytholeay the sod of fire, the patron ef black, smiths and workers In rostsls. ana the armorer of the Bods. He WSJ ths son of Jupltsr and June, or, according ac-cording to eome eecounta. of June alone. Owlna to hla weakaeee end lameeeee. be Incurred the dlspleaa-ure dlspleaa-ure of hta mother aad waa cast ay her from Olympua. After dwelllna for nine yeara with Thetis and Kurynems In a f rotto beneath Oeeaaua. Vulcaa re-urned re-urned to Olympua but wee cast out a second time for areaumma 4o side with hla mother la a SurJ; between her and Jupiter, tie .fell en the Islaad of Lemnoe, and there aet up hie forfea; but afterwaraa removed them to the voleenle snds ef Llparl. near Sicily, whore he foraed the thunderbolts ef Jupiter and other marvelous Impleaiente. Vulcan waa aometlmea caued Hulciber and Lemnlua A Frenchman rede a velocl- ' pede dewa the stairs ef the Eiffel Eif-fel tower, but It Isn't eleer whoee ehoeta ahsorbere hs waa advertlelna'. Plttabura: Sua. Whittinfton mo! Story of His Cat ' - The fame of Lord Richard l"Dlck") Whltttnaton. who la ths latter part of the fourteenth aad early part of the fifteenth1 eentury waa mayor ef London, la due mainly main-ly to the popular romance ef which he became the hero. Aorordlns te thla leveed, the lad Whlttinrtoa went to London and found employment employ-ment aa a erullloa. To the freight ef an sutaolna veesel ha contributed contrib-uted hie est, which waa antd for a laraa sum In Barbery. When the ahlp returned te tandoa he heard the Bew bells eoandlna, esillns; him to ths faturs mayorship. He fe-oelved fe-oelved the artee of his oat, parried hie war fair. and. living happily, rose to the honored poet of mayor. There ta however, no foundation for thla tale, ner for the aoeoe-ite of bis belna mads a knight and f his kumiaa the kiss's bonds for larae sums dns bins. A J-year-old sari la writing '-son- hlta" Most of ths sons; . bits sound as thouah they had bean written by a 1-year-old. Plttebura; Sua. Horrible Death - ' Br Torture Breaking oa the wheel waa a korrible mode of nuttlaa te death by torture formerly In uss la kJu-rope. kJu-rope. The condemned criminal was first faeteaed to two pteoee of wood la the form ! Aadrew'e eroee. with ble lege and arme extended, and had the bonea of his shlss snd thighs and of vhs fore end upper srms broken wtth blows with a bar of Iron. After that he wae attached te a small earrlags wheel balanced bal-anced ea ,a etake. and allowed te surfer In this posltlm till be dlel. eometlmes eevetal days after the breaking of hie llmbe. Later the punlehmeat waa BO far mitigated that the criminal waa nut to death by a final blow on the breaet aplne or neok before being expoeed en the wheel, and sometlmee be was strangled stran-gled before even the breaking of bis limbs took place. The torture a aa laat used la Prussia about lei. "Hairdresser Tells ef Otl tw-' tw-' vestment" says a headline. Probably hoping for a permanent perma-nent wave of preepertty. Dallas Dal-las Journal. ; , BUroack. Symphonies, . Plovers' Egrys i It aeoma that It waa the euatoni i af 1mar-h'e frlende in honor hta birthday by profu- elite of plo-; plo-; rare egg of wh left he waa Inordinately Inor-dinately fen. On ana partleular Mrthdny he received eereral hundred hun-dred olovere ear and a armpbony whirl had been ompod tn bla honor ny Oeaala. a eempeear ot M "ete. Thereupon Vttwnarek waa 1m-pn4 1m-pn4 to break Into verve in ak-newtdgment ak-newtdgment ef the vm phony. The aurpert nt the vera waa to tprM hla uratttud for tha atusle whtrh had coma e htm with th plor !--' era but 1ncMnta)) ha tni what ni. tata of mind would bar bn had he, Inatead ef rfllvtng aeveral hundred plovere egei and ana arm phfifir. rrlvM eoveravl hundred fmpaaate and eaiy ena plover g. , |