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Show faytheWay Copyright. !?, North Asnsrleaa he we pa ptr Alliance. Deril FUh It m ; Shy Creature "Valla ftahertnea smutat Tlctar Hugo and ether wrlttn at fiction by tell In a of terrific- be U lea with riant tferllflih, usually sndins by eislalalna: how the flah reached ana af Ita ia;M arms abova tha water anS wrapped It around tha boat, breaking- tha craft In two. Pro-feeeor Pro-feeeor Mareld Heath, department of oology, Stanford unlvaraity, California, Cali-fornia, atataa that thla la phyelc-ally phyelc-ally Impoaaibla. Professor Heath dcacrlboa tha octopus aa belnsj "of a any and rattrtng diipoaHlon." Tho daVllflah ha a no bonaa nor atruetura of any kind. It cannot wim, but can only float on tha watar or propel Itself on tha floor of tha ocean by weans of faateo Ihg Ita suckers on a rock and pulling pull-ing tteelf along. ICech of tho algnt tentacles la covered with cup shaped suck era and thaao form a vacuum whea fastened aa ob- China without a government can hardly bo aakl to hare da-(arlorataM da-(arlorataM much. Danrar Timed Races in Days Before Christ Knew Crude Oil The oil Induetry had Its birth In the United Atatee about Hit. when crude ell was analysed and a welt was drilled at Tltusvllle. Pa. ' But eur Indiana and the races before them knew crude oil. Thoueanrie ef yeare before Christ, uskylonla and Chaldesa masons used It m semlllould form for oementlng the bricks ef their towering walls, sars the aclentlflo Americas, end It waa used la building the pyramids. nwroajvaiio winiioni wen from which three eubatancee (asphalt, aalt and oil) were pumped. OH . from natural springe In Sicily wai 1 uaed In lamps In the temple of Jupiter, Ju-piter, la Home, and tho wealthy IN 1 lumlnetde their homee with It. The ancient Chinese and tha Persians used It for light and heat, and It . enters Into the preservatives of the Egyptian emoalmera Lots Of trouble can b dodged, but there 'a no war to escape the fallow who tells what ha did on hla vacation. Norfolk Ledger Dispatch. Dis-patch. Mrt. Arnold Rearming Belle in Philadelphia The wlr, of Benedict Arnold, the traitor, who sought refuge In England, En-gland, was a reigning Fhlladelnhla belle and the toast of the British ofheero while their army was In thst eltr. Watson, la his "Annals. "An-nals. ssvsr "The extrsvsgance of Arnold produced the went of money and probably the predilections of ths wife, for whst was splendid In the British army Influenced them both to forget borne and country for a great but lliuelve hope." Aa account tn the London Bpee-tator Bpee-tator In ltt said that the two eons of Arnold, James R. snd Wllltsm F-. thea middle agd men. were living liv-ing In Knglsad and that each ef them received a pension of II pounds a year from ths British government. Luther Burbank ought t discover dis-cover some wsv of crossing a street with saf My. AshsvlUe Times. Mythological Story ' . Or Cypress Tree Ths story mythology tells of ths cyprees tree Is thst O'rparlssus. son of Teiephus, while hunting one dsy. socldentally killed one of Apollo's fsvorlls stsgs. Hs became so flll-d with remorss st ths mlshsp thst hs begged Apollo, his desrest friend, to put him out of his misery. The god compassionately mstsphorsad him Into a tree. Hence Its name. Its flersl meanings srs despair, sorrow sor-row or mourning. Cypress wood wss used In the construction of ft Peters galee at Rome. After lie ears uas. they were tskea dowa. comparatively new. to be replaced by brass. Cypress Cy-press wss ssld by son-is to hsve bssn ths wood the croes was made '-om. whlls many refer to the mrgS-lal as csdsr. snd othsr writers kuatrt thst It wss hews from osk. But ths sspen is ths mors generslly se-repted se-repted ss the wood used for ths cross of ihs eruclflsloa. . Annther prnhlem le whether an elephent takes the peanut on ble owa arrount or just to please the child. Boston Herald. Her-ald. Great Pron . Clastic of Italy The famous Itsllsn prose work, the Pecsmeron, wss written by Boccseclo IllU-llTtl. It consists ef lot tales, ten of which sre supposed to have been told each afternoon for ten daya. by a party of young people of both eeaee teeven women and three men) asaembled st s country bouse where they had taken refuge during tbe plaaus st Florence In 1S4I. I The Decameron Is the great pros ,lu. Ill IlelvU enS K. Wuh fnr many generations tha modal for Italian Ital-ian wrltera. Ita Influanc upon Eu-roraai. Eu-roraai. llteratur ha bn profound a nd 8hak spra and M her au t hora hava taken th plots of Mveral of lhir dramas and atorlta from It. Tha Btbla has han tranalatad Into avary Hrln Umruag xcpt Amartran vnd Hnrlk Van Isoon la at work on that. Bt. rnl Plana.. Pla-na.. Honors for Inventor of Counting Machine Th thlrfl cntannia of tha birth of Hla la Paacal. "ona of th Intal-1ctual Intal-1ctual summit a of humanity, waa rcnttr ctahratd tn Franca. Pava-aal Pava-aal was an admirable writer, a penetrating pene-trating pbiloophr. and a marrelou arientlst. Ha waa bom Juaa It, HZ, and died at tha as of It. PaacaJ la aald to hava been tha flrat man who aver made a counting ma. rhina that would worn perfectly and accuratelM. H waa then a very difficult diffi-cult and complicated thing to count, aa tha decimal monetary aratem had not yet been Invented. Young Blaiee undertook to keep hla father's account ac-count a. It waa than that ha conceived con-ceived tha Idea of making a counting machine. He worked on It te yeara. Aa there wera ho gear ay at em In thoe days, he area obliged to make all his ptecaa himself out of Mock of metal, filing them to tha right aha7b and else. Ha averrame all dirndl ilea and obtained a Mm pie machine which made It poaaibie to make very rom-plicated rom-plicated ealcutaflone. All counting maohinaa uaed today' ara baaed on this sauna artnolpla. 'A rvforrner la on who thfnka wma ahould rhew colored shoe and uae tha natural biark -leather as Oow mad . Saiti moc fun. |