Show an officer of 0 the he american government called one day at the whito white Hou seand introduced a clerical friend from new england to the president mr president said he be allow roe me to present to you my friend the rev mr F mr F has expressed a desire to hive sonic some conversation with you and I 1 am happy to be the mea means ns of introducing him the president shook hands with mr F and desiring him to be seated took a seat himself then his having assumed a patient appearance lie he said 1 I am now ready to hear what you have to say oh bless you sir said mr F 1 I have nothing especially to say I 1 merely called to pay my respects to you and as one of the million to assure you of my hearty sympathy and support my dear sir said the president rising prom promptly ply his face showing instant relief and with both hands clasping that of the visitor 1 I am vry glad to see you indeed I 1 thought you had come to preach to me at a young ladles ladies debating club the following question was lately discussed chic which gives a girl most pleasure to heard herself praised pr alsed for ar to hou haax another girl r un run down the meeting aing dismissed without a de cission some interesting experiments have recently been made with falling bodies it is stated for instance that a car of booked rock could be dumped into the shaft of a mine a mile deep without injury to a man standing directly underneath der neath the reason is that the anek would never reach the bottom but would lodge in the sides of the shaft on timbers that protruded a few inches at intervals that is the rock would not fall straight since these shafts ore cre exactly vertical in the experiments conducted two round metal balls were dropped into the center centera cent erf f a shaft by burning threads by which they were suspended so as to give them no la motion it was tried to batched the balls in a box of clay in in the bottom of the shaft neither of them was caught one ball bali was never fou found ad afterwards the other was found in the east wall of the shaft only a few hundred feet below the surface the explanation la Is that the earth is revolving from west to east which gave the ball an eastward component in ia its fall because a particle on the surface of the earth is traveling at a higher rate of speed than the one nearer the center although at the same angular velocity according to a german s scientist cleat an im mail als have been dIstri distributes butel over the worldly world worl dby by the oscillation ol of its ats axis which has changed the in various riou lands each ol of the 30 odd million wage earners of the united states loses on an averitte averit average ge nine days each year through sickness at an average cost of 2 a day A halcyon is a kingfisher and halcyon days are so called because it was supposed that the weather was alway peaceful when thi the kingfisher was breeding bleeding the hawksbill hawks biH bill turtle from which commercial tortoiseshell tortoises bell ot of high grade crade is obtained is extremely plentiful along the northwestern coast of western australia A municipal home or rather tene ment house for destitute widows with small children has bien been opened in havre by the official bureau of f charity the philippine bureau of 0 agriculture has begun a thorough study of the banana botanically and commercially and has collected banana plants irona all over the world the witch tree of nevada is so luminous that a person standing near it can read ordinary pilot easily after dark the tree itself can be seen ifor for a mile on the darkest night A rhinoceros rolls in the mud because little insects get between the folds of its skin and worry it if it gets its body covered with mud loud they are unable to reach the skin an education scheme which has been under way in slam for 20 years has led to the laying of the foundation of Bangkok first buil building dingi for arts medicine and engineering great quantities of oregon spruce have been shipped abroad to make aeroplanes aeroplane aero planes i for the warring nations the price of the wood has accordingly jumped from to a jhc thc thousand mand feet Js Is ice any colder in winter than in summer most poopoo sup sn pose not clicy understand that ice is ico ice and cannot bo be any cold er eror or wamer 1 it n a alimo thermometer m ef 0 r I 1 is S baij bij r in n ice in III summer it will indicate thirty two degrees if you throw a piece of ica fee into boiling water and leave it there until it is at al most gone what remains will still bo be at thirty two degrees decrees ico ice can never lie bo gotten above that temperature but while ico ice can never bo be warmed above thirty two degrees it will go as much below that as tile the weather does an iceman delivering deli ico fee one zero day in january was wag asked whether his ice wa any colder than injury in july lie ile thought not but as a matter inetter or of fact a alece of summer ico ice if lie ho lad had lad had it would have been something of a foot warmer wanner for him as it would have been thirty degrees warmer than tile the all air of the bottom of his wagon |