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PROGENITOR OF WHALES AND
LIONS. ‘ ‘
Kings of Sea and Land Said to Have
Sprung from Same Source. |
As every one knows, or ought to
know, the whale is not a fish, but
mammal, and zoologists have long
pondered and disputed about its fam
ily tree. In Eocene times the ances
tors of mammals were beginuning to
take shape somewhat like those of to
day, and to lose the grotesqueness in
herited from their reptilian progeni
tors. To be sure, animals wer: ver’
different from those of today. Horses
were no larger than dogs and had
five toes, while cattle-like tinoceras,
twice the size of an ox, with six
horns, tush-like teeth and five toes,
cropped the heritage of Wyoming.
Along with these peculiar plant feed
ers there dwelt some very primitive
flesh eaters, to which Professor Cape
gave the name of Creadonta.
* The acene shifts to modern times.
Professor Fraas, of Stuttgart, Ger
man;. i 8 delving in the rocks near
Cairo, Egypt. He is getting out huge
jaw bones that have been petrified.
't'he jaw bones are those of whales,
and the rocks near Cairo were, in
Hocene times, the seashore. The pro
fessor has studied his whale jaws and
compared their teeth with other fossil
teeth. Now he tells us in a recent
“Abhandlungen” that these tceth of
ancient whales are like those of the
ancient carniverous creodonts. From
this he argues that in Eocene, or ear
lier times, some primitive flesh eater
took to an aquatic life. From these
old times to the present whales have
been becoming more fish-like. It is
hard to believe that the ravenous lion
and inoffensive and toothless whale
of today had a common ancestor, hiut
vet they both have the same tastes
for blood, only the whale swallows his
food whole.
German Factory Life.
Work commencesg in Germany at
6, 6:30 or 7 o'clock in the morning
and usually stops at the correspond
ing hour in the evening, writes John
Callan ©O’'Laughlin in the World’s
Work.
The workman has a quarter of an
hour for breakfast, from an hour to
an hour and a half at noon for dinner,
and a guarter of an hour in the after
noon for tea. Sometimes, and in
some factories, the breakfa.< period
is not authorized, sometimes after
noon tea is omitted. The average
length of the day's work is tem hours.
In the textile industry it may be a
quarter of an hour longer.
The care of women and <hildren
has concerned the state far more than
the hours of the male workers. Night
work for women is prehibited, nor can
they remain in the shops after 5.30
on Saturday afternoon or on the eve
of a holiday. The law fixes the maxi
mum of the woman’s working day at
eleven hours, except on Saturday and
the day preceding holidays, wwhen it
is compulsory, and women with house
hold cares may claim an exira Lalf
hour.
Stuck in His Mind.
John’s father had taken him to
one or two lectures on animal mag
netism.
The boy had listzned each time fo
the opening sentences and then gone
out.
“Johnny,” said his father, a few
mornings afterward, “how does it hap
pen that you come downstairs earlier
now, when I call ycu, than you useu
to do?”
“I guess it’s because your voice car
vies a greater magnetic insistence on
self-suggestion than it used to,” ans
wered Johnny, rubbing his eyes.—Chi
cago Tribune.
The Aztees opersted bellows for the
forges in the old Mexican copper
mines by opening them with thae
hands and pushing them together with
feet. ;
The Swiss military authorities a:‘ej
pbout to adopt kheui for soldiers’ uni
forms. |
A LONG-FORQQ:I_"TEN CITY.
Gremada Occupies Site of Ancient
City of Tanagra in Greece.
Gremada is the name of the modern
city in Boeotia, Greece, -which occu
pies the site of the ancient city of
Tanagra. The old town was a rich
and luxurious place, greatly renowned
for the cock” fights that were given
there. It had the honor of being the
birthplace of Rorinna, the great poet
ess of the fifth century before Christ,
and perpetuated her memery by a ma
jestic tomb, on which she was repre
sented five times crowned, in remem
brance of the five victories whicl: she
had gained in the lyrical contests
with Pindar. Despite: this: compara
tive celebrity it appeared destined 1o
the eternal sleep of forgetfulness,
when, after more than twenty-two cen
turies of silence, chance drew to it
the "attention of archaeologists. ;
In 1879 the inhabitents f the ne'gh
boring village, while digging in their
fields exposed to view some tombs
which the French have assigned to
the nineteenth century before the
Christian era. The dizcovery of these
first sepulchers was ithe cause of ex
ca)vaticms, during which a quantity
of other tombs were discovered, all
situated along the roads which lel
from the walls of Tanagra in the di
rection of Thebes, Chaleis, Harnia and
Plataea.
Among this mass of tombs,belonging
to several centuries, the most interest
attaches to those of the fourth cen
tury before the Christian era, on ac
count of their contents. It was in
these particularly that the statuettes
known today under the mname of
“Tanagra figurines” were for the
most part discovered.—Chicago News.
No Gentleman Wanted.
Before Lawrence Hutton embarked
on the troubled sea of authorship—
thanks to an ample inheritance, in
what may be termed a literary steam
yacht—he was for a short time engag
ed in the produce business on West
street, New York.
While the work was not particular
ly congenial to a young man of his
temperament and ambitions he threw
hims2lf into it with energy, if not ex
actly with enthusiasm, and as he was
always careful to remove his: kid
gloves before he arrived in sight of
the war:zhouse, and never put on any
airs of mental superiority, his hearty
and op2n manner won him many
friends among the consignors and cus
tomers of the firm by which he was
employad.
One morning he was standing in his
shirt slezves in the doorway superin
tending the loading of several trucks,
when an unmistakable specimen of
the up-State agriculturist stopped in
front of the store, glanced up at the
sign, and ask:zd first for one and then
the other members of the firm. -Hu.-
ton explained that one was dzad, the
other out, told who he was, and asked
if he could be of any service.
“Well, yes, guess .you could,” re
plied the man. *“What can you tell
me about Jones & Robinson on the
next block?”
“Why, I don’t know that 1 can tell
you very much,” said young Hutton.
“They’re in the same line of trade
that we are; take consignments from
farmers and sell to the marketmen
and retailers. Of course as competit
ors we don’t have any direct dealings
with them, but they have a gocd rep
utation in the trade for straight and
honorable dealing, and in fact I think
you’'ll find them both perfect gentle
men.”
“Well. that’s just what I thought,”
exclaimed the gratified ranchman.
“Now, I ain’t no gentleman myself,
and 1 don’t want to do no business
with no gentleman; and hereafter I'm
goin’ to send all my truck to you!”
An English inventor claims to have
found a process of making flannelette
garments non-inflammable and at the
same time antiseptic.
The half vear's production of coal
in Germany reached 58,825,000 tons,
or 2,326,060 tons more than Jast year.
Indians’ Nose Breathing.
Sir James Crichton Browne thinks it
unnecessary that children should be
taught to breathe through the nos
trils only, and maintains that they
cannot do so under the siress of act
ive exertion. Lendon Hospital thinks
otherwise. Among the North Ameri
can aborigines, at a time when they
were capable of extraordinary physi
cal exertion, the precept to “‘shut your
mouth” was enforced upon the young
by the most severe discipline.
Catlin founded upon his experiences
among the American tribes a curious
hook upon the subject. After depict
ing open-mouthed men and boys in
every variety of ugliness and stupid
ity, he says that he vefrains from giv
ing illustrations of tne fairer sex, and
would only remind them, while coun
selling them to be careful about clos
ure of the mouth at night, that “idiots
asleep cannot be angels awake.”
Sir James declares that not all nos
trils are sufficiently wide to permit of
breathing being conducted through
them to the exclusion of the mouth;
but it is certain that nothing would
tend more than breathing through
them to promote their development.
Second Wind.
“Second * wind,” a term so often
mentioned by athletes, is thus ex
plained: In ordinary breathing, we
use only the central portion of our
lungs, the cells at the extremities not
being brought into play. This is the
reason why those who are not in
training, when they have run a com
paratively short distance, scon begin
to gasp, and, unless they are regolute
enough to persevere in spite of this
choking sensation, are forced to ston;
but if they pecrzevere thz gasping
gradually subsides, and they acquire
what is known as ‘second +wind.”
When the second wind is fully estabe
lished, the runner does not again lose
his br-ath, but can run m comfort for
long distances. The fact is that, on
starting, the extremities of the lungs,
from the person’s inattention to fuul
breathing, are temporarily out of con
dition, and..thae. .aoninel.ammeimmrinaam
supply enough air to meet the in
creased circulation induced by exer
cise. By degre>s, however, the ne
glected cells come into play, so that,
when the lungs are in full working
order, the circulaticn and respiration
again balance each other, and second
wind is the result.
" storing an Automobile.
The value of an automobile may be
either enhanced or greatly depreciat
ed by the manner in which it is stored
away for the winter. It is desirable,
after a season’s use, to have the ma
chine put in a shop and thorcughly
overhauled. The body should be
taken cff and the machine and con
nections should be properly tighten
ed and adjusted, and the oiling sys
tem woverhauled and cleaned out, no
old oil or grease being allowed to re
main in the car during its term of
rest.
The machine should invariably be
jacked up off the ground, to take the
weight from the tires. Tires will last
bztter if they are entirely deflated,
while in many cases it is advisable
to remove the tires from the wheels
entirely and relieve them from all
strains, placing them in a room for
winter storage where there is a
steady temperature of 60 degrees or
more. Under these conditions the rub
ber will retain its resiliency and be
in good shaps for future use.—Coun
try Life in America.
The Bird’s Superior Eye.
The sight of.birds is extraordinary,
and the simple fact that the eye of a
hawk or a pigeon is larger than their
whole brain gives some idea of what
their powers of sight must be, and of
how easily they can fly hundreds of
miles if they have marks to guide
them, Very little attention has yet
been given by eye surgeons to the eye
of the bird and other animals, from
which so much is to be feared.—Lon
don Mail.
A Prince's One Fish.
T read recently that Prince Arthur
of Connaught had had a day’s salmon
fishing in Scotland and had caught
only one fish. Amn admission of this
sort is quite contrary to piscatorial
ethics. A mere commoner would not
have been expected to make so bold
an announcement. He would have
called it ten at least, or if he had
been tied down to a single capture by
the presence of eye witnesses his fish
would certainly have assumed noble
proportions.—Black and White,
(At49-'O4)
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