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Sir Francls Bacon, one of the
world's greatest thinkers, had grea
admiration for the Book of Job.
“That excellent book of Job,” he
called It. And then he suggested that,
it it be. carefully studied, it will be
found to contain a wonderful knowl
edge of natural philosophy, writes
Bruno Lessing.
The reference to the minerals in
the earth, Bacon thought, proved
that Job was a great mineralogist.
There s really something plausible
in this thought. Of course Job could
shave known nothing of the present
theory of geology, namely, that the
earth was bullt up by one layer piling
upon another layer. But his famillar
ity with minerals and metals and his
reference to wheat crops and his bellet
that there was heat underneath the
earth's crust, it in so well with what
we know today that it must be admit.
ted Job at the very least, was a clear
thinking man.
Old Hebrew Monarchy
The kingdom of Judah was given to
that part of the Hebrew monarchy
that remained after the revolt of the
ten tribes in 975 B, C. It comprised
the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, to
gether with some Danite and Simeonite
cities, and had Jerusalem for its cap
ital. The kingdom of Judah was ruled
over by twenty kings, and lasted until
588 B. C., when Nebuchadnezzar cap
tured Jerusalem, destroyed and plun
dered the temple, and carried the In
habitants into captivity. When Baby
fon fell under the conquering arms of
Cyrus, that monarch permitted the
Jews to return to their homes and re
build thelr temple. From that time
the Jews remained a subject nation
and were ruled over successively by
the Persians, Macedonians, Egyptians
and Romans.—Kansas City Star,
Not Hard to Please
A prisoner was in the dock on a seri
ous charge of theft, and, the case hav
ing been presented to the court by
the prosecuting counsel, he was or
dered to stand up.
“Have you a lawyer?” asked the
magistrate,
“No, sir."
“Do you want a lawyer to defend
your case, then?”
“Not partickler, sir.”
“Well, In these circumstances, what
do you propose to do about the case?”
came the next query.
“We-11-11,” answered the prisoner,
yawning extravagantly as if wearied
by the whole performance, “I'm willin’
to drop the case far's I'm concerned.”
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=Ur site, gt‘otth Chaldees is
mentioned in the Blble as the original
home of Abraham, R
In the collection are plgmy women
In flounces, frills or accordion plaits,
and wearing all sorts of good-luck
charms, consisting of the heads of
lons, bulls and frogs.
Four or five thousand years ago chil
dren learned grammar and arithmetle,
Teaching tablets were unearthed, upon
one of which was Inscribed “The Prop
erty of the Boys' School.”
Another exhibit Is a plece Intended
to be inlaid In a casket. Upon It is a
beardless figure with long halr, resem
bling a modern type of intellectual,
Tablets were fourd on which (in the
form of 12 columns) the accounts of
a factory run by a temple were re
corded. The temple received wool
from farmers for tithe or rent, and
distributed it to women slaves for
weaving,
A strict account was kept of the
welght of wool issued, of the amount
and quality of the cloth returned, of
the measurements specified, and of the
names of the persons to whom pay
ment was made, all of which was In
dorsed by recelving officers and wit
nesses,
Payments were made in food, which
varled according to the production of
the worker. An old woman got no
more than a child, Death and sick
ness were noted, so that pay in the
one case inight cease, and in the other
be suspended.
“Pennsylvania Dutch”
Is Language Mixture
During 1683 a systematic German
Immigration into this country began.
In the fall of that year a party of
Mennonites, the “hook-and-eye people”
now living all over the country, came
from the German city of Crefeld and
landed near Philadelphia upon land
owned by William Penn, upon whose
invitation they came, Conrad Berco
viel relates in the Century Magazine,
Some time later they founded German
town, six miles above Philadelphia.
Shortly afterward, in successive waves
of almost equal numbers, they came
one after the other and settled in all
parts of Pennsylvania. At the time of
the Revolution one-third of the popula
tlon of Pennsylvania was of German
birth or descent. Soon mixing with
the Dutch that lived there, they formed
a virtually new language, more or less
a compilation or corruption of the two,
which is known today as Pennsylvania
Dutch.
THE MONTICELLO MMDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1925.
splder a scarlet or yellow dot on
its stomach, which lurks ua,ufiz
and sticks and in hollow stumps.
cording to Alexander Petrunkevitch,
professor of zoology at Yale, recog
nwum«mludlumma
on spiders, the bite of this particular
specles of Insect Is deadly to man.
Reports at the Museum of Natural
History show that the Indlans were
aware of the deadly nature of these
splders and used the mashed spiders
as polson for thelr arrows.
The “black widow,” known to sci
entists as the Latrodectus Mactens, is
found chiefly in the South and in the
West Indles and other troplcal coun
tries, mithough It occurs as far nerth
as Pennsylvania, and lwm::_huo
been found in New Ham De
troit News,
Perfect Tribute
In the old days newspaper reporters
covering metropolitan local assign
ments all wore firemen's badges with
a speclal Inscription, “Admit within
fire lines only.” The understanding
was that they entered burning bulld
ings at their own risk.
A veteran police and fire reporter,
much beloved by all the fraternity,
dled suddenly in one of the big cltles.
A cub reporter, delegated to pick out
an appropriate floral tribute, declded
to make It a masterplece. At the fu
neral the most conspicuous thing was
his enormous floral piece of white
roses which covered the casket, It
was made In the shape of a fireman's
badge and attracted somewhat startled
attention. For spelled across it In
vivid red roses was the warning:
“Admit within fire lines only."—
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Nature’s Limitations
A whale can “get away” with an
fmmense body, because the water
buoys up most of it. The indefinite
Increase in whale meat that one whale
can accumulate is, however, stopped
by another thing, the limitations of
his digestive tract. He simply can't
catch and digest enough food to fill
up the ocean with one animal. In
sects meet their Waterloo in the
growth competition because their
breathing apparatus is faulty. They
have no system of forced draft breath
ing, like vertebrates, but must depend
on the diffusion or drifting of air into
the simple tubes that open into their
bodies. Hence even the gigantie in
sects of past geological ages, with
wings a foot long, could not grow
bodles thicker than a lead pencil.
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An unnamed explorer is quoted In
the Berliner Tageblatt as speculating
on the relative happiness of men and
hippopotamuses, Other animals, it ap
pears, have their troubles.
“Many a bellever In the transmigra
tion of souls might like to be a mag
nificent bird of paradise fluttering from
twig to m the tropic heavens
when he to earth,” he says
“But oh, how soon he would find him
self in somebody's roaster or adorning
the Sunday-go-to-meeting hat of some
fat provincial lady!
“The great wild beasts, though they
live in glorfous freedom, suffer. Lions,
leopards, tigers, elephants, eagles, have
a hard life and a constant search for l
food, and many of them are destined
for the lead of the human—or Inhuman
—hunter's rifle. Let us say nothing of
the slavery of domestic animals, which
are eaten in return for their services
to men. gt
“There is only one free and for
tunate beast, whom man leaves In
peace because his skin 18 useless, his
flesh repulsive, and hunting him dan
gerous. That is the hippo. He can
spend his life in philosophic calm, live
it out to the end, and grow to be a
couple of centuries old—so at least
learned men say.”—Lliving Age.
A Family of Z’s
Some persons have a queer, not to
say a perverse, humor in names, and
when they happen to be parents they
often inflict on their offspring names
that are a lifelong embarrassment, A
writer In the Boston Herald recalls the
case of a man pamed Zurlel Cook,
who, having been cursed with an out
landish name, determined that all his
children should suffer with him,
Zuriel Cook married Polly Lombard
at Henderson, N. Y., early in the Nine-*
teenth century. His large family of
children were named as follows: Zu
rlel, Zeresa, Zerema, Zelnus, Zephro
nia, Zerodia, Zedina, Zegotus, Zelora,
Zethaniel, Zeruth, Zelobus, Zedella and
last of all James.
It is falr to presume that James
was a posthumous child. If Mr, Cook
had lived the boy would probably have
been named Zephaniah or Zerubbabel,
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