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Show Tins BULLETIN RECONSTIUJCTOR .Blue Calendar Promulgated ..Nature, WatpU That Poison Is Present Did you ever eat anything which was blue? - If you did, you are probably1 dead unless you, took the. precaution of having a 'doctor right at hand, a writer In the Cleveland Plain Dealer. : : anWhy. to there no blue food? The swer Is because blue Is natures warning sign of poison. -" The same warning applies to Indigo and violet You And these- colors on the skin of a few flsh, such as wasae, and of several fruits, but only on. the ' ekjn, not oh the pulp or the meat colored that way Methylated spirit Is for a warning, and so is deadly nightshade. 'White sunlight .splits up into a band j of( seven colura, the hues of the rain-, twiw. but few people can see more than five of them In a rainbow. The band i of seven colors to arranged as follows; yellow, green,' bine, fndl-- f lU"go. violet: ' Red, orange, and ye))ow, and those pnMinml , by mixing rtiieiu,, are known ah warm eolfirsThe are seen Insun-- i shine,- Are, blood, flesh, skfn.snd hair. The snine Is true of theblnwl. flesh, skin, and coat of all thk' 'higher anl-- : mala, 'of .the trees In autumn the bar-- ; vest, and the vintasra. There are a few green foods bur Speaking generally, everything which to good to eat or safe , to drink la colored from the red end of the spectrum. as-'-ser- A" 1 I Red.-orang- - -- ; - Hubert D. Stephens, former neiuut,r tfroin Mississippi. w!in has ttcen ; pointed a director of th Reranrtrae ilon Finance corporation. j .;iin . IMot-lc-tla- . - i - U. S. Capitol Flags w There are two flags which fly on the -'.United States Capitol day and night. every day In the year! These' ard' the illags which fly Immediately above the ..mala east entrance and over the west front of the CspltUL. There are two other flags, one over the east front of. the senate wing, the other over ' the east front of the house wing: These .fly the legislative day that 'to,' when (he house In question Is In Antigua Is the most northeasterly port of the West Indies and trie seat of government of. the Leeward Islands. It session. -- saying that New Jersey Is a forcomes aowri from the' time stite' eign : g when Joseph Bonaparte,' of Spain and Naples, after the downfall of Napoleon; sought an asylum In. the United States. ' As an alien be was obliged to obtain, a special act of legislature (o enable him to hold real estate. Pennsylvania refused, but New Jersey consented" arid he established himself In princely magnificence at Bordentown. Hence mein of other states used'humorousl lo declare that the Jerseymen. with their foreign prince, were foreigners. ex-kin- ' . 'Mathias Cans ia Alrpluw Prior to the outbreak of, the World. !!war no airplane onthe western front' was actually armed with "a machine - gun. Rifles, carbines, pistols, shotguns ;and..hsnd grenades were carried by pilots and observers. Ia the spring of l915 all belligerents began to 'mount machine guns to their standard 'two i:iseater recoanolssance aircraft The Fokker monoplane (autumn, 1915) was ithe first eifectlre "fighter" airplane. col-on- . . m t- . Taxpayer tha Goat There to an old case on record where a man was condemned to Stand on the pillory for some offense or other, with rope around' his neck. The plank Ion which he stood was rotten and the offender found himself hanging In . the air almost suffocated before bystanders came to Ms rescue. He nn action against the town . brought for the defective pillory and recov-ere- d damages. j Caaae of Earthquakes Earthquakes are caused by a sadden 'breaking or slipping of rock structures. The earth's crust Is subjected to gravitational stresses by the earth and moon. -- . r St Brsudsns Ils St Dranduns Isle was supposed to have existed southwest of the Canary Islands. It was said to have been discovered by the Irish monk, St. Bran-dan- , and 75 brother monks In the Sixth century, after seven years spent In search of the land of the saints: Each of the various geographers glvec It a different location. The legend had some Influence on (be discovery ol America. When the National Basketball Coaches association held its annual convention In Chicago, the most distinguished man present was D t. James Naisiuith of the University of Kansas, for It was he who Invented the game. He Is honorary president of the association. r To Sow Dragon Teeth reference "to sow dragons' teeth. Is to the classical story of Cadmus,' who slew the dragon that guard- -' ed the well of Ares and sowed some of its teeth. From them sprang up the) men called Spartans: ' who nil killed-eacother except five, who became the1 ancestors or tbe Thebans. Tbe teeth' which Cadmns did not sow came into the possession of the King of Colchis.; One of the tasks which be set Jason; was to sow them and slay the armed' warriors who sprang from them. The I (SerpentHrlns -- Baa oa Slavery ia Eaglaad Colonial Secretary Stanley In 1833 ' Introduced a bill Into parliament pro-- i Tiding for complete abolition of Slav-- , ery. It was Immediately passed. All .children under six and those bora-aftethe passage of the act werej thenceforward free. AH others ceased' to be' slaves, bat were to remain as ap-- ! prentices to their masters for a period! of 12 years. The slave owners were Indemnified for their loss In the sum' of $100,000,900. The system of appren-- J Uceshlp proved unsatisfactory and wa abandoned after four years. ' HE INVENTED IT i f Hat Long Leg d secretary-bir- d I Sant Old Pipes ia Organs The proportions of tin, sine and lead in the different alloys made specially for the various pipes of the finest organs substantially are the same as have been used for pipes of similar tone characteristic by the master organ builders for more than two centuries, just as the formulae for alloys to produce the sweetest toned hells have remained virtually unchanged for over four centuries. i The x 4 I 'a Secretary-Bir- secretaries) Is an. African .bird with Idng legs, standing nearly four feet high. From the hack, of the head and' nape hangs an erectile tuff of long black feathers. ' Around tbe eyes Is orange skin; the bead. and back are bluish gray, the lower surface black tbe tail quills are. banded with black '.and tipped with white.' Tbe r1 f beak Is hooked. ' The secretary-bir- d Cant Rent Dutch feeds on Insects and reptiles and can Dutch housewives'" in Zeeland, with kill the most venomous snakes,' striktheir passion for cleanliness, scrub the Us taloried them with ing repeatedly' painted wooden surfaces of their house- fceL The tong leg together, with the' holds every day except Sunday, and re- bird's habit of leaping back after each1' new nil: pslnt .coatings at least once- aV. stroke: i keeps itfrom being bitten.' was named by ' Columbus In 1493 for Srfnta' Marts de la Antigua, a church to Seville: The Spanish attempted cob onlzatlon Jn 1520 and the. French In year. 1629, but definite settlement was lacking until 1632. when settlers transy ferred from SL Kitts, the mother of tbs British West Indies- - - i Foreigners New-Jerse- by Pope Gregory XIII: Onr calendar Is the one promulgated by Poi Gregory XIII, with tbs counsel1 of the sstronouu?, Clavlus. It was! udopted by the Catholic nations gen-- j erally In the year 1582, by England and. her colonies In 1752, and about the iat--j j ter year by Sweden and Tuscany. The Gregorian calendar Is now prsc-- . tlcally nnlverxiiUy In use. This reckoning was accepted by Russia soon after the revolution of 1917, and by the Greek church In l'.ttJi. In many countries Or regions It ts used, olliclally In civil life In preference to theirs. The calendar In 'use previous to the' Gregorian was that introduced by'Ju-- j llus Caesar In B. CL 46, In which he held the true year to be 305 daysf long. The Julian calendar, therefore provided for a year of 805 days with a! nunth added every fourth year. The actual time required for the earths Jour ney around the sun Is 305 days, A hours; 11 minutes; 48 minutes and 40 second and 14 seconds leu than Caesar al-- ; lowed. But his calendar was sufficient-- 1 ly accurate to work marvelously for generations. Still, by 1582 the error had amounted, to ten full days. The vernal equinox fell upon the 11th Instead of the 21st of March. The shift had unfixed the time of Easter and all the other movable feasts. Pope Gregory XIII therefore ordained that ten days should be deduct-- 1 ed from the year 15S2 to set things right again. This was done In the. clinrch'cnlendar hy calling what would have been the 5th of October, the 15th.l After that a recurrence of the error, wna to he guarded against by omitting! tiie leap year from every hundredth) year except those, centuries exactly dl--. visible by 400. By this system there Is still s' slight Inaccuracy, but It will not' amount to quite a day In 3,000 years. 9 Port (famed . by Columbus only.-tdurlng i . Future of Scottish Life One of the most picturesque features of Scottish life Is that of the Highland games, the annual gathering of (be tartaned . members of the faWater Witches There la no known scientific basis for mous Highland clans, at which the belief In water witches, according to pipers play the traditional Scottish and there axe competitions In it writer in the Cleerland Plain Dealer. tunes ancient the' 'Highland sports and It Is probably a relic" of ancient meth' most The noted of these Is at dances. ods of divination. Forked twigs or near Braemar. the Scottish Balmoral, witch hazel, willow, ash and elder have the king, where royalty atbeen used as well as peach. If water castle of taui been located by this method. It Is tends. not because of any mysterious power acting upon the crntched stick, but beSecond Residence of Hapshnrgs cause the person holding It Is a quick Budapest, 'capital' city of Hungary, observer sad bus had considerable ex- was the second .residence of. the .Haps-' perience In finding water.' Of course, burgs.' : Its gayety to proverbial "and be confused Its this practice should palaces andpubllc buildings line with modern scientific methods of proThe' beauty of 'boulevards. spacious specting" with Instruments based on this city Is enhanced by1, the fact tbat gravitational; magnetic, seismic, elec- the Danube cuts through Jts center, trical.- radioactive or geothermal prin- - dividing" It Into Budrt oh' the one side . Ll ' clples. and Iest on die other.' nt - .. - . - -- Belgrade: The - village. of Titan In Albania has been almost entirely depopulated as a result of a blood fend of long. duration with- a neighboring village. ."For every man of the ' neighboring village killed by the men of Tlgan,' several males of Tlgan were. killed. Many families have lost pll their menfolk, and the populatlon of the .village Is only 20 per cent of what It was ' (0 years ago, when the fevrt : ; Yugoslavia Show Ham of The must ' widely known r;:Ki "Yugoslavia Is the I "Here is the ancient town Split to) with the famous ruins of the palace of the Roman Kmpcror The well preserved huge palace Is a unique example of Roman architecture. Near Split are the ruins or the early ' Christian town of Salona. and a little to the northwest stands the ancient town of Troglr (Trau) with the Lion of SL Mark on the walls of the cathedral and of the city hall, proof of the power of Venice In the Middle Ages. ;! 1 Blood Feud tyewly -Wipes Out Village 1 |