Show aad a ad I 1 I 1 M MI why uncle sam Is building a new noahs ark akst uncle sam is building a real noahs ark in the city ot of washington true it Is never expected to make a voyage but it will mill bo be located on the banks of the potomac not far from the water mater so that with a little structural modification it might CT istl S be set afloat ln in case of necessity necessia essit JM ZT Z T p J i the ark mill a be 90 teet feet long and 33 35 feet wide mide or beam as laviga tors would say it will be ot of two stories or docks decks and built expressly fa for the accommodation of animals ni mals aa which il ilch will mill include monkeys mon kes flogs dogs ca cats mice rats rabbits guinea pigs horses chi chickens chens calves ind and go boits its the affair will mill be in some respects very nery superior to noahs cole ccle berated craft inasmuch as the plans require that it shall be fireproof and excellently ventilated and lighted in short it Is to be as sanitary a structure as possible in order that the animals maa ma be kept healthy and comfortable this government ark is designed tor for scientific purposes it s to be built in obedience to an act of congress which became law lam august 13 1912 and aich requires the public health service to investigate the di diseases eases of man aan the contract for or its construction ins has been let for or it the ark were called a sanitarium for heists beasts and birds such a tem m would cold not be much amiss inasmuch as the inmates are to be subjected there in to hospital treatment there is to be no vivisection on board the ark no operations of expert mental surgery the patients will iiii be treated as kindly and carefully a as I 1 11 f the them were mere human but only in some instances TV mill ill they suffer from diseases in other cases as with mith many guinea pigs and rabbits they will mill be used merely for testing the tha potency and gurlt auriti of antitoxins and Nac vaccines cines sold in inter state traffic lc here Is a jolt for the old oad fashioned farmer HE old fashioned farmer m who lie gov governed arned his planting by the movements of T THE the moon will mill receive a jolt from a bulletin just issued by the department of agriculture declaring that neither the moon nor the planets have the slight est effect on weather meather conditions and therefore cannot have an effect on J ra tam planting plant i 3 our corn in the full TO lad of the moon a rule regarded as little V COR short of sacred in many rural communities muni ties is en entirely tirel disproved according to the departments department s bulletin all weather meather changes depend on temperature differences the bulletin sas the temperature as we know qa constitutes of itself a most important weather meather factor another and equally important weather factor is rainfall put but to obtain rain it Is necessary first to evaporate water from the surface of the earth and this as eNe everyone rone knows requires heat still another important m weather eather factor is the direction and force of the wind and this too requires heat for the winds minds will mill not blow blom anle unless S lite die temperature is different at one place from what it is at another any more than the air will mill draw drair up a chamne where here i there is no fire in it since then the heating of the earth and its atmosphere to different tern pera ture is the real cause of the winds minds and of all weather meather changes it bollons folio vs that the moon and the planets can affect the weather xe ather onia so tar far as they supply heat the amount of heat sent to the earth hi all the planets and b the mo moon on is insignificant in comparison to the amount that comes from the sun alenco he nee vve me could not expect the moon or the planets to appreciable appreciably affect the weather meather since they do not supply heat the one thing that causes all our weather meather changes governments oldest bible Is in supreme court HAT is known as the oldest bible in the keeping of the government Is W WHAT the volume preserved ed in the clerks office of the supreme court since giboo every chief justice who mho tool took oath used it with the exception of chase I 1 all members of this same court are arc sworn in on it as well m ell as all lawyers as t who mho tra tr cases before this august W tribunal daniel webster however homeier is said to be an exception ec eption to thih thib rule for or nhen the time cime came for administer ing the lie oath to the great statesman za 17 1 the clerk of that dan dai a air cardnell Cald nell mell irl nas as so much impressed b the tame fame of N webster ebster and so anxious to hear him begin his bis speech that he forgot the usual ceremony emons the book is 13 a nery iery small one just five file and a halt half inched ache long by three and a halt half inches mide aide the binding Is bright red morocco leather nah the vord T ord bible in tin gold letters on the back but this binding Is preened pre ened li tile the black leather cohering Nering co chich has been fashioned to fit snugly and slipped over cier the original backs so hard has been the veit meir of over a hun bull ded sears of 0 use that 11 of these covers coders have haie been vorn norn and discarded disc aided contrary to the belief ot of mot moat people the do not take their oath on the bible of the supreme court As aa a rule thea use one of their on but as there is occasional occasion all a time ahen the incoming executive forgets the needed volume the clerk of the supreme court almas ahas keeps a nev nen bible on hand if this is used it is immediate presented to the ife of the rien new president forty souls were lost for the want of straw JUDGE W A WATSON one of virginias new represent representatives athes lues iines in a town called b the unique name of jennings jenning s ordinary this odd title is derived from the tact fact that in colonial das it vas mas customary to call a tavern or inn an when nhen procuring a license tor for same and the L namo name of 0 jennings ordinary or jen jell F I 1 osoli 1 I I 1 e inn has come dorn domn the leara want 08 mith ith its quaint old english sound like most members from the old I 1 dominion the judge has a large con of colored people and knows some borne good stories of 0 their peculiar pec ties among the most popular lions eions of that section of the country Is the 9 annual summer camp meeting at religion and nater melons aro are both liberally dispensed mith vater mater melons largely in the majority the colored bitters after i elks of seeking religion often tall fall into a trance when the feel them the are saved and necessitates having haung the ground spread with straw but one night the dacon hati hal looked upon the melon nhen it vas nas red too long and in his duty in tins this respect so no sister I 1 got ligion for tear fear of falling on the bare ground this rattled the preacher rising with mith the moon shining on his ebony countenance he shook ills his fit fist at the erring deacon exclaiming lou oi donl done failed ailed in ill 0 o duty and now dere is fort souls couls lost hero here tonight for maut buit tr er iv |