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Show TOE BULLETIN Thimbles, Ancient Device, Long Known to Old World SPECIAL TO INTERIOR DECORATORS HOUSE WIVES CONTRACTORS Decorative Sanitas per Yard 2 well-to-d- $2.50 For 12 Yard Bolt A REAL BUY ; . sharp-pointe- d GRANITE MART bell-lik- "Popular Southeast Department Store" 1080 East 21st South . Phone Hy. 210 . "9" ''IN'SUGARHOUSE forget-me-no- 2EZE3: TEXACO SERVICE STATION 1 th East and Hollywood Ave. Hi! T'1"'1 BRAKE SPECIALIST Lx--.: y.:- a MARFAK GREASING yUUHfi. 1 V yAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAl Ik 1 a Jean Renee H 53 CREATIVE Ik 1 10 1" t School of Dancing ll ts mill-lik- HIRSCH'S 1 Thimbles did not ctnie Into general Divers In the tropics avoid the manuse In England until the latter part ta, holding to the traditional story that of the Seventeenth century. The lit- ..the giant ray will engulf a man and tle device was known to the Egypslowly devour him. Such, however, tians and Romans, for articles of a seems' to be mythology. The manta similar pattern have been found among ,1s dangerous when wounded, and can Egyptian ruins, and the Romans, ac- ;be taken only by harpoon after a hard1 cording to Seneca, performed the 'battle of several hours, says Popular "find the little pea" trick with the Mechanics Magazine. brass or bronze ancestor of the modThe cow fish has a coat of armor ern thimble. consisting of hardened scales which The first machine-mad- e form a bony box from which the Jaws,) thimbles were turned out In Holland In 1683, by fins and tail can be moved freely. The, John Lofting, a Dutch Inventor to name Is applied because of. small horns whom the patent waa granted. Silver in front of its eyes. The porcupine and gold were the material! first em- .fish Is one of the most grotesque members of the finny tribe, being of olive o could afployed and only color and spotted with black dots. ford to buy them. Later when they were made of cheaper metal, prac- 'Armed with spines, It is tically everybody used them. The difficult to handle without being inname which the Dutch first gave them, jured. Like blow fish, which also are translated literally, meant "finger-hood.- " found In the gulf, porcupine fish are The Engllah, however, soon supcapable of Inhaling air or water to ' a balloon-lik- e form "thumb-bell,own their appearance to name " plied of enemies. e derived from the frighten of the shape little article and from the early pracAlthough a small fish, generally runtice of wearing it on the thumb to ning about six or seven Inches in size, the bat fish looks the least of any like ward off the point of the needle. a fish. It appears to be a toad, but has About 250 years ago the quaint cusscales and a spinous dorsal tom sprang np of Inscribing posies spine-lik- e fin. and Inside the thimWhile the dram fish Is not exactly a ble aqd it Is said that In those days the thimble served the same tender queer specimen, Its powerful jaws hold e a set of teeth with remarkpurpose as the engagement ring of today. Leather thimbles were at one able crushing force. Schools of drums, from three to four feet in length and time introduced, out soon proved themselves unsatisfactory. weighing from 40 to GO pounds each, can make short work of a small oyster reef. When young they are striped like a zebra. Later they become a dusty "Eureka' Exclamation of color. A large female wiU lay 6,000,000 Delight, Authority Says eggs. The story concerning an ancient philosopher and the exclamation. "Eureka," follows: Roman Emperor Let Month Eureka (Gr., more ccrrectly, rjeure-kof November Retain Name I have found It) : An exclamation If the Roman senate had had its of delight at having made a discovery; originally th.it of Archimedes, the way November would be Tiberius. The senate, in the time he ruled the RomSyracusun philosopher, when he discovered how to test the purity of an world, proposed, as his birthday Hlero's crown. The tale Is that Hlero fell In that month, to honor him by delivered a certain weight of gold to giving It his name. Julius and Augusa smith to he made Into a votive tus had had months named for them, crown, but. suspecting that the gold and the senate thought Tiberius, who succeeded Augustus, equally deservhad been alloyed with an Inferior metal, asked Archimedes to test It ing. But he declined. Perhaps be had The phil(op!uT did not know how a sense of humor. "No, Conscript to proceed but. In stepping into his Fathers," he said, "what would you do If we had thirteen Caesars?" bath, which was quite full, observed Tiberius that some of the water ran over. It evidently was looking and wisely, too, for the line of ahead, immediately struck him that a body must remove Its own bulk of water Roman emperors lengthened out to more than thirteen. Thus It was that' when it Is Immersed; silver is lighter ," than gold, therefore a poundwelght of the month retained Its old name, the ninth. silver will be more biilky than a n Our own ancestors poundwelght of gold, and would consequently remove more water. In this called It the wind month. They knew what they were about, for It Is a month.' way he found that the crowd was deficient In gold; and Vitruvius says: of raw, cold winds, although In this: "When the Idea flashed across his latitude, we often have In November stretches of mild, pleasant weather. mind, the philosopher Jumped out of the Still, It Is the month when people 'Ileure'ka! bath, exclaiming, Ileure'ka!' and, without waiting to batten down the hatches; stop all the dress himself, ran home to try the chinks and crannies by which the cold might enter; to see that the fuel pile experiment." is high ; to get out heavy clothes, and Sun Spots Vary to prepare for the winter which Sun spots vary widely in size from blasts and Its flurries of small and very inconspicuous ones to snow announce. Cincinnati ' Enquirer, multiple spots that string out to a length of 100,000 miles, according to a Fish's 26 Million Efts writer in the New Tork Herald The ling, the most prolific of fool Tribune. The average sun spot during maximum activity is about the fishes, lays over 20.000,000 eggs during1 size of a spot that would be produced if the spawning period, while the herring the earth, 8,000 miles In diameter, were only averages 36,000. The turbot Is used as a projectile and shot into the the second most prolific fish, averaging sua While the sun spots look black on 9.000,000 eggs, while the cod cornea a photograph of the sun and when next with 5,000,000. All this seems! viewed directly, they are actually quite contradictory when one considers thej millions of herrings landed annually brilliant, and only appear black because they are so much cooler than the compared with the number of other fishes. The reason is that all the surrounding areas of the sun's atmosphere. Measurements made at Mount eggs laid by these fish do not come Wilson give the approximate temper- to maturity. 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