Show A why uncle sa sam in Is building a new noahs ark W ASTI INGTON uncle sum is building a real noahs ark in tho the city ol 01 washington E JT true lt it le Is beeer ped expected to 1 make a but it will ae located on the banks of tho the Io potomac tomac not far from the water so that avith with a little structural modification modin catlon it might bo be act afloat in cuso case of necessity sity UA 1 the Q ark Q N III bo 90 Q feet long Q and aa 35 feet wide A or beam as navigators would say it will nill bo be of two stories or decks docks and built expressly for tho the accommodation of 0 ani nials flitch will nill include inon monkeys keo dog cats mice rats rabbits horses chickens calves and goats the affair will bo be in some re aberts very superior to noahs celebrated craft inasmuch as tho plans require that it shall bo be fireproof and excellently ventilated and lighted in chort it Is to bo be as sanitary ft a structure as ros possible sible in order that the ani animals nials may bo be kept healthy and rind comfortable this government ark Is designed for scientific purposes it Is to bo he built in obedience to an act of congress NI which ilch became law august 13 1912 and which requires the public health service to investigate the diseases ot ni man an the contract for its construction has been let for if tho ark were called a sanitarium for beasts and birds such a term would not be much amiss ILa inasmuch as tho the inmates are to be suba subjected acted therein to hospital treatment I 1 f there is to be no vivisection on board the ark no operations of mental surgery the pati patients cuts will mill bo be treated as kindly and carefully as if they were human here Is a jolt for the old fashioned farmer T THE LIE old fashioned farmer who ho governed his planting by the mo laments of the D v oom all a jolt from a bulletin just issued by tho the department of agriculture declaring that neither the moon nor the planets have tho the slight est eat effect on conditions and therefore cannot have any effect on planting plant your corn in the full of tho the moon a rule regarded as little short of sacred in many rural communities muni ties Is entirely disproved according to tho the departments bulletin all weather change changes depend on temperature differences the bulletin says tho the temperature as we ue know constitutes of itself a most important weather factor another and equally important weather eather factor Is 13 rainfall TO IV r it N but to obtain rain it Is necessary first to evaporate water from the surface of the earth aad aad this as overdone knows knos requires heat still another important weather factor Is the direct direction iou and force of the wind ind and this too requires heat for the winds will ill not blow unless the temperature Is different at one place from what it Is at another any more than thy thu air will P ill draw up a chimney where there Is no nei bre in it it then the heating of the earth and its atmosphere to different temperature temperatures pera tures ture s the roal cause of the winds and of all weather changes it follow that the moon and the planet can affect the weather eather only so far as they supply heat beat the amount of heat beat sent to the earth by all the planets and by the moon Is insignificant in comparison to the amount that comes from the eun sun hence AN we e could not expect the moon or the planets to appreciably affect the weather since they do not supply heat the one thing that causes all our weather changes fort r souls were lost for the want of straw i W A J 11 WATSON VATSON one of virginias new representatives lives in a J town called by the unique name of jennings ordinary this odd title Is derived from the fact that in colonial das dabs it was vms customary to call a ro r R E S 3 10 0 boult L S aim 1 FUR dri AMT OB J L S twi tavern or inn an ordinary when procuring a license for same and the name of jennings ordinary or jennings inn has come down the years with its quaint old english sound like most members from the old dominion the judge has a large 1 constituency of colored people and knows some good stories of their peculiarities among tie tle most popular institutions of that section of the country is the annual summer camp meeting at which roll religion glon and watermelons are both liberally dispensed with watermelons water ater melons lately largely in ia the majority the colored sisters after weeks of seeking religion often fall into a trance when they feel they arc are saved and this necessitates having the ground spread with straw but one night the deacon bad looked upon the melon when it was as red too kug and neglected his duty in this respect so no sister I 1 got glon ll 11 for fear of falling on the bare ground this rattled the preacher rising with the moon shining on his ebony countenance he shook his fist at the erring deacon exclaiming you done failed in yo duty and now dere Is forty souls lost ahre tonight tor for want er straw r governments oldest bible Is in supreme court HAT Is known as the oldest bible in the keeping of the government la Is W WHAT the volume preserved in the clerks office of the supreme court since 1800 every hief justice who took oath used it with the exception of chase all rn members embers of this same court aro are uv dworn on in od da it as well as all lawyers who try cases before this august tribunal daniel webster however Is said to be an exception to this rule for when the time came for administering the oath to the great statesman the blerk lerk of that day a mr caldwell was so much impressed by the fame of webster and so anxious to bear him begin his speech that he forgot the usual ceremony five anda half inches long by three the look took la is a very small one just and a halt half inches u wide ide the blis billing ding Is bright led morocco leather with the word dible bible in tiny gold letter letters on the back but this binding Is preserved by the black leather covering which has been fash lone to fit snugly and slipped over the original backs so bard hard has been beca the wear ear of over a hun dred years of use that 15 of these covers have been worn and discarded contrary to the belief of most people the presidents do not take their oath on the bible of 0 the supreme court As a rule they one of their own on but as them there IP IF occasionally a time when the incoming executive forgets the needed volume the clerk of the supreme court always keeps a new bible on hand if this is U used sed it Is immediately presented to the difo ifo of tho the new president im VA |