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THE WORD “SHIP”;
From Digging, Out th« Trto Trunk For
tho Primitive Boat.
There i* no doubt of the evolu
tion of our great modern Whips
from a floating log on which' our
earliest ancestors sat astride-and
with hands and pole navigated the
entail streams, and just as surely
has- onr word “ship” come from
the first improvement of that prim
itive xraft. The etymology of the
Jortird tells us of the evolution of
the craft.
.-When the superior mind of our
Aryan ancestors conceived the idea
of hollowing out the floating log
and thus decreasing its weight,
adding, to its buoyancy and better
fitting it for their transportation,
they 1 bad to find a word to express
what they were doing, so they nat-
■uW used a root that im;y under
stood, which was “sknp.” This root
signified the,idea of digging, hol-
Jowing out and scraping. That is
what they did to make their boats,
and the “skap” became a noun to
designate the boat.
That root “skap” has Bred and
grown during the 10,000 years and
more that have passed 6ince it was
first used to give a boat its name,
and after the breaking up and di
vision of the Aryan race it followed
all of its broadiy divided branches
to their new homes to be used in
all of their tongues.
The Greeks have the root in
their word “skufes,” meaning
iiollow cup, and the Latins have it
In “acabere," signifying to scrape.
In those languages, as well as in
Sanskrit, it ia in many words of a
similar signification. It came to
the English through the Teutonic
type, “skepa,” meaning a ship, or
vessel, or what was hollowed out.
In the middle English it was
“schip,” and Chaucer used the
plural, “shippes.” In the Anglo-
Saxon it was ‘-‘scip,” while the Ice
lander made it “skip” and the Dane
“bikib.” The old high German had
“seif” and the German “sehiff.”
So we see the change through
the century of centuries has been
•light, the same sound with the
same signification having gone
from father to son through all of
the generations, giving us the same
word when we speak of the Lusi
tania as our Aryan ancestors used
when they spoke of the floating
log that they had "
ging and
ROCK SALT.’
A TIPSY DUKE’S PRANK.
ence of
a certain
a popular li
the people
adventure of
the time of
in Paris, when
issession of the
Tuileries. The hero of the incident
eogeiy acted upon tho theory that
a poor excuso is better than none
and sometimes better than a better
one would be.
He was an inquisitive person,
end, regardless of the danger, he
hastened to the Tuileries at mid
night to see what was going on.
At the gate he waa stopped by two
revolutionists of ominous appear
ance. “Why do yon not wear a
cockade, citizen? Where is your
cockade?” they asked. |
A mob gathered about him and
demanded fiercely, “Citizen, where
is your cockade?”
Dcsangiers took off his hat, turn
ed it around end around, looked at
It on all sides and then said in a
tone of mild surprise:
“Citizens, it is strange, very
strange 1 I most have left it on my
nightcap.”
, Th. Balloon Flth.
A Berlin journal, Prometheus,
contains a letter from Africa, in
which the writer describes a fish
which is known to the native* as
the fabaka. It makes its appear
ance in the Kile at high water time.
The creature might properly be
named a balloon fish. Its whole
body, with the exception of a part
of the underside, is covered with a
thick layer of a jellyKko substance.
On the uncovered part there are
many sharp prongs. When attack
ed the fiSh rues to the surface, in
hales air until its body assumes al
most a globular form, then turns
upon its back, leaving the protect
ing prongs upward in the water.
“Ksh and man alike know how
sharp >hesc are and'what painful
wounds‘they can inflict, and they
give tho balloon fish a wide berth.”
Sviwrt the Poet Woe Hoppy.
Bjornson, the poet, was once
asked on what occasion he got the
greatest pleasure from his fame as
a poet.'
His answer was: “It was when a
delegation from the Right came to
my house in Christiania and smash-
led all the windows, because when
they had thus attacked me and
were starting for home again they
'felt that they ought to ling some
thing, and sb they began to sing
•'Yes, wo love this land of ours?
They conld do nothing else 1 They
'had to sing the song of the man
whom they had attackedl”—Lon
don Chronicle.
It Reveals to Ue e Piece Where Ones
a Bea Existed.
Salt under ground! It seems a
strange thing at first to find salt
among the rocks deep down in the
earth. What does rock salt tell us?
It reveals to us a place .where once
a sea existed. The water has since
flowed away, leaving some salt be
hind. We know that ordinary salt
exposed to the air soon gets damp
and then becomes quite fluid, but
rock salt away from air and sun
keeps firm for ages.
Rock salt is found in various lay
ers of the earth’s crust. Some of
the spaces of underground water
are called “seas,” but, in fact, large
as they were, they often did not re
semble tlid^seas” we have now, be
cause they were much shallower. A
few were fairly deep, however.
Then, again, these ancient seas
were sometimes so salty that no
animal could live in them and only
a few plants.
Such sgns, in fact, were mostly
“dead,” nnd this accounts for the
masses of salt deposited along their
bottoms. But we find also signs
of rough water in the numerous
pebbles of the layer where the salt
is found uniong hard red gravel and
brown quartz.
Germany once had a tolerably
deep sen, not very salt, and the bot
tom surface of it shows coral reefs,
There are signs in it of great fishes
armed with strong teeth, enabling
them to crush the shellfish upon
whicli they fed.
These swarmed below the 6ea in
thousands. North England and the
midlands have the Keuper beds,
where the “seas” wore always shal
low and where wo can trace the
marks of raindrop filterings and
sun cracks. The rock salt is often
in a layer 100 feet thick. It is sup
posed that one part of these seas
was separated from another part by
a bar of sand, over which the waves
toppled only now and then.
In the cutoff sea evaporation
went on through the ages, and of
course a deposit of salt was formed,
while the occasional overflow from
ontside replaced the water which
had evaporated. But really this is
not known for certain. It is only
clear rock salt that contains the
minerals we find in our present sea
water—bromine, iodine and mag
nesia. -
Generally this salt is notjnixcd
with fragments of a different sub
stance, but is in columns of rough
crystals. Now and then there is
found a layer of rock salt, wijfi one
of marl ana shellsunder it, succeed
ed by rock salt again, showing that
for a time a change had taken
place.
Upon the land near these shallow
salt seas lived some singular ani
mals, unlike thoso of our earth in
tho lateT centuries of its history.
There were remarkable reptiles be
longing to the frog or batrschian
family. One of tho species was the
size of a small oz, with peculiar
complicated teeth and feet which
left prints on the earth so exactly
liko the Impressions of the human
hand that geologists gave it a Latin
name, meaning “the beast with tho
hand.” Another strange creature
was a sort of lizard with a horny
bill and feet resembling those of
the duck. It had somewhat the
appearance of a turtle, it is sup
posed. Then there were somo
warm blooded animals about the
site of a rat, which had pouches
in their cheeks and preyed upon
«nall insects. — 8t. Louis i '
Democrat.-
Globc-
Mermalde and Mermen.
The dugong, a species of whale
found abundantly in the waters of
both tho great oceans, but especial
ly off the coast of Australia, in the
Pacific, is believed to hsve furnish
ed the slender basis upon which all
mermaid and mermen stories have
been founded. Its genersl length is
from eight to twenty feet, ft has
a head much resembling that of the
human species and breathes by
means of lungs. It feeds upon sub
marine beds of seaweeds and when
wounded makes a noiso like a mad
bull. Long hair in the female spe
cies and hair and beard in the male
add to the human resemblance of
the head and neck. The flesh of
this species of whale is used for
food and is said to have the flavor
of bacon, mutton or beef, accord
ing to the parts of the body from
which the meat is taken.
"Gon. to tho Oovil.” •
“Gone to the devil” has nothing
Satanic in its history. It has been,
traced to n tavern in Fleet street,
London, known by the sign of the
“Devil and St. Dunstan.” As it
supplied good food and drink, it
had a large clientele and was called
the “Devil” for short. "Gone to tho
Devil,” read a notice at many an
office when the occupants went to
dinner. Unhappily some went
there too often and stayed too long,
until at last when their patrons
left them “Gone to the devil” be
came a synonym for the neglect or
the loss of their business.
Th. Story of How Mrs, Connolly Bi
enne Lady Mlehaol.
In former times there used to be
a certain Duke of Richmond, then
lord lieutenant of Ireland, who be
longed to the hail fellow well met
species. With bis boon- compan
ions it was his almost daily habit
to go to a certain fashionable inn
at Bray, kept by one Michael Con
nolly. There much wine was con
sumed during his incumbency of
the lord lieutenancy, and many,
and wild were the nights that the
little inn at Bray witnessed. Con
nolly had a reputation as being the
best cook in Ireland, and it was
said his wine was the best to be
found within the confined of the’
Emerald Isle. The Duke of Rich
mond said so, and he ought to have
known, as he had eaten tons of the s
ono and imbibed tons of the other.
Connolly’s cooking and Connol
ly’s wine were popular themes of
conversation with his lordship, and
he was not niggardly with his praise
of either. Wine is a great leveler
of ranks, and so it fell out one
night that the duke, carried away
by his admiration for Connolly^
talents in kitchen and taproom,
committed an egregious, amusing-
mistake. The night in question
had been an even more than usual
ly wet one at the inn at Bray, and
the duke, the innkeeper himself
and all of the duke’s companions
were lost to all sense of either pro
portion or the eternal fitness of
things.
Therefore no one thought it
strange when the duke sent for
mine ho6t and, after a speech of
praise of his viands, the way in
which they were prepared and es
pecially of his wine cellar, hade
him kneel. Then, striking him
across the shoulders, he said, “Rise,
Sir Michael Connolly!" And Sir
Michael rose amid the rapturous
applause of those present. It
seemed quite the proper caper then,
but the next morning, os it came
back to still further jar the aching
head of the duke, it boro a some
what different aspect, and the prin
cipal question that agitated tbo
ducal mind was how he wss to get
out of the scrape.
Connolly was summoned and, in
the faint hope that the ceremony
had made no impression, asked if
he remembered aught that happen
ed the night previous. Sir Michael
did and manifested a disquieting
determination to bang on to his
newly acquired title. But, as have
lesser and greater men before and
since, he fell a willing victim to
bribenr and finally agreed not to
press bis claim to knighthood. The
price was heavy, but not too high
to pay for the suppression of a
tale that would make his grace of
Richmond the laughingstock of
London, and so the duke wai turn
ing, satisfied with his morning’s
work, when tho late Sir Michael
dashed his self congratulations to
the four winds.
"Yis, your grace, I’ll keep quiet,"
he said as he jingled tho price of
his title in his pocket, “but,”
thoughtfully—“but it will tako
more than the likes of me to keep
my wife, Lady Michael Connolly,
quiet about the matter.” And it
aid. Michael was right. She was
Lady Michael to her friends from
that day on and always laid claim
to tho title. The duke was the
laughingstock of London, as he
bad feared, but a reformed man as
veil, for be dared take no further
risks,—London Tatler.
A Ono 8icf«d Chase.
In an English paper appears the
following amusing anecdote: Some
servants were exercising three
horses end some of the hounds
from the Hunt kennels when an
inmate of tho district asylum ap
peared on tbo scene.
“Eb, sic bonnio dogs,” exclaimed
the man, who was supposed to be
daft, “sic bonnie dogs. And what
dei keep they for?”
It was explained to him that they
were kept for bunting the fox.
“An’ sic bonnie horses. Are they
for hunting the fox tae?” He was
told that they were, whereupon he
aaked the value of a horse and a
dog, too, and, having been in
formed, he next wanted to know
the value of a fox when caught. - ■
“Oh, about tehpcnce,” was tha
iply.
"Mercy mei, tcnpcncel” said the
dsftie. “Three hundred pounds
chasing tenpcnce! Let's awa.”
A Crack In ■ Pises ef Mstsl.
A crack in a piece of metal is
irevented from, extending farther
•y the well known meant of drill
ing a hole where the rent ends.
But when the holo is not bored on
just that spot tho crack is apt.to
continue beyond the hole. A scien
tific journal recommends moisten
ing the cracked surface with "petro
leum, then wiping it and then im
mediately rubbing it with chalk.
The oil that has penetrated into
the crack exudes and thns indicates
with precision where the crick
j stops.
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