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NEW LEADERSHIP!
It appears that we are rapidly approaching a climax in po
litical affairs in Savannah.
It is regrettable indeed that Savannah people as a whole do
not take a more active interest in the political affairs of their
community. Many critics have said that our populace is entirely
disinterested in public matters; that they sit supinely down and
permit a few self-seeking politicians to preempt the prerogative
and the rights which belong to a free electorate. Thus it happens
that the rights and privileges which were handed down to us by
bur forefathers have been lost to the people by their own in
difference.
If the people themselves are indifferent to their own affairs
they cannot expect others to guard their interests and certainly
they have no right to complain when a professional politician
exercises dictatorial powers.
Many critics of Savannah have said that we are in a rut.
That criticism cannot be questioned, and particularly must it be
admitted when the impeachment is applied to political affairs;
and if it be true of political affairs, it must be true of all of our
affairs. A community which does not guard its rights, weeps for
its privileges in vain. It has been said, and with truth, that one
of the greatest needs of the City of Savannah and Chatham coun
ty today is a political upheaval. There is a gentle stirring be
neath the apparently placid tide of local politics. Could this gen
tle ripple possibly presage the coming of a vigorous flood, a ris
ing political tide with unpredictable strength and consequences?
Rumors are whispered—is a climax impending?
Certain it is that the whole nation, as well as this particular
community, is imbued with a spirit of political unrest. There is
a feeling of acute resentment against political trickery, as it is
often practiced, and the callous disregard for the rights and wel
fare of the every-day citizen.
Out of a vigorous and energetic campaign it is possible there
might grow political leadership of a desirable type; men capable
of leading and directing the strength and the fighting spirit of
our people in such away that the aftermath of the battle will
see the dawn of a better day.
EAGLES OVER ETHIOPIA.
Haile Selassie 1., Conquering Lion of Judah and King of
Kings, surrounded by his family and the imperial treasure, is on
his way to Palestine on a British cruiser. Il Duce’s imperial
eagles carry Roman civilization to the heart of Ethiopia with ma
chine guns, bombs and poison gas. The world marches on.
The League of Nations with its sanctions, its internal jeal
ousies and dissension, tried a colossal bluff and failed. The de
fiant Mussolini, flouting the league and its individual members,
can sit back and wait for the next move. The British, with the
headwaters of the Nile in Roman hands, sit atop a powder keg
in Egypt as the Nationalists prepare for a plebiscite intended to
throw the foreign yoke from the land of the Pharaohs.
The end of the Ethiopian adventure leaves II Duce stronger
than ever at home and abroad. The Italians bask in his reflected
glory. Again Rome has defied the world—in the eyes of a people,
mad with imperialism and drunk with power, the return of the
ancient empire appears at hand. Like a boastful prizefighter,
Mussolini sneers at Britain, flirts with France—and Hitler, also
enjoying the fruits of a successful bluff, faces the Reich’s tradi
tional foe across the river Rhine.
That the British lion has lost prestige, there is no question.
Mussolini scared the British fleet out of the Mediterranean. He
laughed at sanctions, the British-sponsored answer to his inva
sion of Ethiopia. He chased the Negus Negusti out of Africa’s
last independent kingdom, penetrated the British sphere of in
fluence along the border of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. And now
Italy is indignant at the British for daring to supply the fleeing
King of Kings with a warship for his escape to Palestine. It
have been so much more like the days of Augustus Caesar
if the Ethiopian monarch, dragging chains, could have been
marched through the streets of Rome in a revival of the ancient
Roman triumph.
The boon of European civilization is to be visited upon the
savage Ethiopians. The slaves will be freed so that they can work
for the Italians at a few cents a day. The proud barbarian will
be tamed, bathed and introduced to the diseases of civilization.
“Better 50 years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay,” wailed
Britain’s imperialistic Victorian poet laureate, Alfred, Lord
Tennyson, many decades ago but his vision was myopic, his per
spective distorted and he could not have foreseen the Europe of
today. His smug, tight little British mind could not have grasped
a conception so fantastic as that of a third-rate power like Italy
in the role of a Roman eagle screaming defiance at the British
lion. British imperialism in those days was not prone to naval
displays, sanctions and other such childish bluffs. The elegance
of Anthony Eden could not serve then as a satisfactory substi
tute for the bark of British guns.
The future of the League of Nations, like its past, promises
to be futile and inglorious. Woodrow Wilson’s dream, dying a
slow death since Versailles, is passing rapidly into the limbo of
forgotten things. Who, unless it be Mussolini’s Teuton prototype,
Hitler, dares defy the supremacy of the Roman eagle?
Not Britain, certainly—her day to call II Duce’s bluff passed
when Badoglio’s legions penetrated the Lake Tana region. The
British have a habit of protesting while there is still time for a
bluff in the international poker game. After the winning player
has raked in tht chips, as Mussolini has done in Ethiopia, it is
usually more convenient for the British lion to stop roaring and
accept things as they are.
Britain faces again the days of the first Bonaparte; how long
uuUl the second Waterloo?
—Miami Tribune.
-WORLD AT A GLANCE-
A FEW IFS AND ANDS
By Stewart, Veteran Political Observer
ON G. O. P. CONVENTION
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, May 7—The fact
that Gcv. Alf M. Landon of Kansas
undoubtedly will start with a plur
ality of votes at the Republicans’
Cleveland convention doesn’t at all
prove that he finally will get a ma
jority, presidentially nominating him.
He wil’ fall short of the nomina
tion on the first ballot.
He never may get as many votes
subsequently as he probably will get
the first time.
STEWART’S VIEW
Certainly he will get no accretion
from Senator William E. Borah’s fol
lowing.
But neither will Borah get any ac
cretion frem Landon.
After that maybe Landon will pick
up Knox’s and some other strength
and oe nominated.
But Landon is too conservative for
the Borah-Ites and others. Perhaps
these will swing to Senator Arthur
H. Vandenberg, who is not so progres
sive as Borah, but more so than Lan
don or Knox—and he will be nomi
nated.
IF ALL FAIL?
There is considerable speculation
among politicians as to who the Re
publican vice presidential candidate
may be.
It is impossible to tell until the
presidential candidate is chosen.
If the agricultural west gets the
All Os Us
By MARSHAL MASLIN
By MARSHALL MASLIN
In the honeysuckle vine over the
door a pair of bush-tits made tneir
home. The bush-tits aren’t much
larger than humming-birds, but their
love of home is as great as the eagle’s.
Tney are tiny things that travel
about, after the nesting season, in
bands of twenty or more and keep up
a continuous chirping as they take
their short flights from tree to bush
and bush to tree. But they retire
from merry society when tney raise
their families and it was thus with
these bush-tits over the door ,ln the
honeysuckle vine near the little oak
tree.
Tney made their nest—of grass and
cotton and bits of spider web—and
hatched two tiny creatures from two
pink eggs. You can imagine how
they had worked over that nest.
They spent three weeks in building
it, and even after the brooding was
under way they continued to put in
improvements. T-en the babies were
hatched and food had to be brought.
All day long they foraged and fed,
those wide mouths. Tnis was hap
piness.
Then came tne bluejay.
Now, the bluejay has his virtues.
He is brave, he is intelligent, he is
gay, blue color across tile green of
the woods. But nature made him a
thief and a murderer. Tnrough no
fault of his, you understand, but
that’s what he is.
And Mr. Bluejay saw this mild and
gentle domestic scene and perceived
the possibility of death and rapine.
He came down to a branch of the
oak, examined tne situation, then
boldly ripped open the small home
and carried away one of the children.
The bush-tits cried and fluttered and
appealed to heaven, but rescue was
WILD DOG KILLS DEER
FREDERICK, Md., May 7 (TP)
The finding of a slaughtered white
deer has spurred on the hunters of
Western Maryland in a drive to free
the woods of packs of widl dogs.
The dogs have been rving the sec
tion of forest aroun Frederick kill
ing deer. The albino was the leader
of the herd of deer —a snow white
animal with a red streak down its
back.
Its death lent new vigor to the
polishing of guns in the drive to rid
the section of the wild dogs.
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first place on the ticket, the indus
trial east will get second place—with
qualifications. • •
For example, if Borah were nomi
nated for president, Representative
James W. Wadsworth of New York
(an ultra-conservative) would be an
impossible running mate with him.
But he would fit Governor Landon
very well; would even squeeze by
with Senator Vandenberg, as to an
unknown—who knows?
• * •
ONE VIEW
Among other vice presidential can
didates spoken of on the Republican
ticket has been Gov. Harold G. Hoff
man of New Jersey.
Governor Hoffman apparently has
been “queered’’ by the Haupmann
case.
Writing to a friend of mine (Strick
land Gillilan, the broadcaster) the
governor says:
“I have done my share of kissing
the babies and waving the flag, but
whenever I have been faced with the
necessity of what seemed to be a
vital issue, I have always done the
thing that my heart told me was
right, and such a thought always has
been accompanied by the decision:
“ ‘To hell with the votes; they'll
take care of themselves.”
“Participation in the Hauptmann
case, which is considered so bad that
even my best friends tell me about
it, followed one of these decisions,
and I have a deep and abiding belief
that time will prove I was entirely
right in the matter.”
not at hand. The lady of the r-tm
tried to frighten the bluejay away,
but back he came, as boldly as be
fore, and soon the small father and
mother had no more duties to attend
no more responsibilities upon their tiny
selves.
What happened then? ... I don’t
know, but a man who knows birds
more intimately than I do told me
that those bush-tits made another
nest, laid other eggs—more tnan be
fore —defied that blue-winged squawk
ing death and raised another family.
You’re Telling
Me?
By WILLIAM RITT
Haile Selassie ought not be too
angry with the League of Nations
which he thought would save his
country. The league really does feel
sorry for him.
• * «
The, weather bureau has a bal
loon whicn will ascend twenty
miles to record weather changes.
That will be a big help—knowing
what the weather is twenty miles
above us.
♦ ♦ *
An optimist is a fellow who fig
ures that tne masts of those thirty
eight new battleships Great Britain
plans to build will afford just so many
more roosts for the dove of peace.
• • *
There’s danger of warfare in
the Orient, again. China and
Japan have just signed another
treaty.
* • •
Those Wall Street fellows never
seem to know when winter is ended.
We see by the newspapers that stocks
have been on the toboggan again.
* * ♦
The New York City anti-noise
campaign must be a huge success.
You now can hear the thunder
during a storm.
* • ♦
Max Scnmellng says he knows the
right method to use in fighting Jbe
Louis, the Detroit knockerout. How,
Max? With a ball bat or in a suit
of armour?
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By WORTH CHENEY
QUITE APPROPRIATE in adver
tising slogans, we think, is this one
seen in the display window of a
beauty shop:
“Many a Bachelorship Has Been
Wrecked by a Permanent Wave!”
• • •
CIVILIZATION HAS penetrated
the desolate Sahara desert. As evi
dence, one now can find gasoline
filling stations spotted irregularly
along the trans-Sahara highway. Fur
ther evidence might be found in this
tragic story which indicates that the
natives have some knowledge of mod
em business methods.
A native operating one station in
the interior was expecting a new
supply of water. So certain was he
that the water would arrive on the
following day that one afternoon he
agreed to part with the supply he
had on hand.
It was wanted by a passing motor
ist. His drinking supply was exhaust
ed and his car was badly in need
of water. The native realized his des
perate need of water, so he told the
motorist he would have to pay for it.
He demanded $1.50 a quart for the
liquid, so precious then to the autoist.
The latter protested, but to no avail,
so he paid tre unscrupulous native
and went on his way.
Two d?ys later the truck carrying
the water arrived at the station. It
had been held up by a sandstorm.
The attendant was not in sight.
Investigating, the truckman found his
lifeless body in front of the empty
water tank. His tongue was parcred
and Ids mouth dry. Death, they de
termined, was due to thttst.
THIS, ACCORDING to a lawyer
. friend, actually happened:
, A defendant in a burglary case,
about to go on trial, was warned by
1 his attorney that he must be careful
in his replies when he was cross-
i examined by the prosecuting attor
ney. He impressed upon his client
that a good way to avoid getting
caught up in his answers would be
1 to say that he didn’t remember.
The hour for the cross-examination
arrived, and the defendant was re
membering too well the advice of his
attorney. To every question of the
prosecutor he was answering: “I don’t
remember.”
After several such answers, the
prosecutor saw through the man’s
game, an then began to pepper him
with questions so fast that it left
the defendant dizzy. But to each
query re gave the same answer: *T
don’t remember.”
Finally, exasperated, the prosecu
tor shouted:
‘‘Where are you now?”
“I don’t remember.”
‘‘What do you remember?”
‘‘l don’t remember.”
The prosecutor turned to the judge,
who was hearing the case without a
jury.
“Your honor, the defendant seems
to rave a failing memory. I suggest
that you award him a five-year schol
arship in a memory course at the
state prison, and since de dose not
even recall his name, I suggest that
he be given a number.”
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test
1. What is “Black Damp”?
2. Who is the present governor of
Michigan?
3. What are the first two names of
H. G. Wells?
Hints on Etiquette
When entertain mg at a restaurant
the host or hostess srould arrange
beforehand for a table, and make
plans to pay the check in such a
way that guests know nothing about
the financial transaction.
Words of Wisdom
There is no refuge from confession
but suicide, and suicide is confession.
Webster.
Today’s Horoscope
Persons bom on this day are ideal
istic and artistic, but do not find it
easy to get within reach of their
ideals. They try to carry everything
through with a rush.
One-Minute Test Answers
1. A term used by miners to de
scribe the conditions of mine air when
it contains a sufficient quantity of
carbon dioxide to extinguish or dim a
light.
2. Frank D. Fitzgerald.
3. Herbert George.
A ROUNDEL OF REST
If rest is sweet at shut of day
For tired hands and tired feet,
How sweet at last to rest for aye,
If rest is sweet!
We work our work not through the
heat:
Death bids us soon our labors lay
In lands where night and twilight
meet.
When the law dawns are fallen gray
And all life’s toll and ease com
plete,
They know who work, not they who
play,
If rest is sweet.
—Arthur Symons.
NEVER TESTED
“Excuse me.” said the dear old
lady, “do those tattoo marks wash
off?”
“Can’t say, lady,” replied the old
salt. “Tve never tried.
My New York
By
James Aswell
♦M I HHHt 4 8 041 »«♦»»+♦♦
(Copyright, 1936. Central Press
Association.)
NEW YORK, May 6.—Children and
savages (it might be put “and other
savages”) make the best picture per
formers. This has been demonstrat
ed so often in late years that the
adult practitioners of celluloid strut
ting are beginning to blush and feel
a bit silly, when any tot from ‘six
to ten can out-act them all over the
lot.
Perhaps the movie moguls were un
wise to let the moppets have the rein
they have enjoyed the last few years.
The public, soon or late, will wake
up to the fact that there is about as
much “experience” and “art slowly
mastered” in the success of a film
magnificoe as in the process of diges
tion.
The art of making faces before a
camera is a natural art. You have
it or you haven’t it; but as you grow
older you pick up self-consciousness
and the soft life and rich food of
Hollywood tend to make you less con
vincing. Soon you admit, In the pri
vacy of your Spanish villa in Holly
wood Hills, that it’s not a rare trick
or one that can be much improved.
There is, notably, Miss Shirley Tem
ple. Her screen emotions are as in
geniously and convincingly portrayed
as Garbo’s. What has she to learn?
What can experience teach Shirley
that she doesn’t already know about
acting?
And take the case of tnat amazing
little girl named Benita Granville,
who steals the sh'iw in “These
Three.” She’s thirteen. She plays
along with Miss Merle Oberon and
Miss Miriam Hopkins, whose ages are
certainly not great, but just as cer
tainly not included, with the pub
licity releases from their studio.
Benita Granville has twice the fire,
the sureness, the lack of tricks ana
mannerism, the convincing fervor:
twice the skill and the knack of her
future sisters of the lens.
In short she acts with the burn
ing awareness of children and sav
ages. She is magnificent. She makes
her elders seem a little stuffy along
side her, a little camera-conscious.
Here is one of the most intelligently
made and nearest adult pictures of
the decade. Benita Granville, aged
tnirteen. runs away with it. I doubt
that she will ever be able to get
across a truer performance. There
ought to be a lesson in this.
The lesson, if any, may be this:
the art of the motion picture, where
tnere is any art at all, has for its
repohltory the skull of the directors.
Good direction accounts for nine-
t c nths of the first-rote pictures, and
given good direction, Freddie Bar
tholomew can send the picture of a
flesh-and-blood human being across
the screen as effectively as Walter
Huston or even Charles Laugnton.
But professionals in many fields like
to give an air of mystery and im
mense difficulty to what they do for
fees. Lawyers write in a prose so
prolix and high-toned with polysyl
lables that if they wrote a no-tres
passing sign you wouldn’t be able to
see the farm behind it. Doctors scrib
ble prescriptions in sinster Latin ab
breviations. Professors, incapable of
earning money, write sucn profound
definitions of it that the politicians are
dezzled to prostration.
The adult motion picture stars had
better have a core. The veil of mys
tery and occult glamor about their
guild is trembling. Every time Mickey-
Rooney walks before tne cameras and
wows audiences with the fidelity of
his miming the veil gets a bad shake.
If he can do it at his age, what’s all
this bother about tne time and fierce
concentration Paul Muni needed to be
worthy of stardom?
The film grownups had better start
yelling for the romper roles them
selves. People already suspect, from
a single sample, that the Dionne
quintuplets could put Bette Davis in
the snade with a few thousand more
feet to show their full talent.
ONE MINUTE PULPIT
For there is nothing hid, which
shall not be manifested: neither was
anything kept secret, but that it
should come abroad.—St. Mark 4:22.
Today is the Da
By CLARK KINNAIRD <
Copyright, 1936, for this Newgpajr
by Central Press Association
Thursday, May 7; Morning sta i;
v enus, Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter. Ee
nlng stars: Mercury, Mars, Neptuie.
Full moon.
Scanning the skies: Most inters
ing paenomenon connected with Mer
° ccaslonal transits over [
InnnH Sk SU “ ‘ DOTH
K «. T hese OCCur onl y wben
€ pla ? et ls J? ear one of its nodes
at the time. The earth, in its orbital
revolution, passes through the line
° f tb ® Podes of Mercury about May
8 and Nov. io of each year. It is
only near one of these times that a
transit can occur. The periodic times
an £ the earth ®re such
l h < e translts are generally re-
Peatef 1 I] ? » cycle of 46 years, during
wheih eight transits occur in Mav
si * November. The next tran '
sit is due Nov. 11, 1940
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Frank “Gary” Cooper, b. 1901
cinemactor. . . . Richard Walton
Tully, b. 1877, dramatist— “The Bird
of Paradise,’ ‘ etc. . . Archibald
MacLelsch, b. 1893, poet’ . . AlfSd
E W. Mason, b. 1867, English n™.
Ist. •
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May 7, 1774—William Bainbridge
was born in Princeton, N. J., which
he ran away from at 15 to become a
sailor. Within four years he was
commander of a sailing-ship, and he
was only 22 when he became a cap
tain in the Navy and began scoring
more victories over the British than
any other naval commander In his-
May 7, 1812—Robert Browning was
born in a London suburb, gifted
equally as artist, musician and writ
er and as drinker. The last was the
only talent he inherited from his
father. The old man, Robert used to
relate, would become Indignant over
being offered water to drink: “Water
Y Or *’ a;hln & purposes, I be
lieve, it is often employed, and for
navigable canals I admit it to be in
dispensible; but for drinking* Robert.
God never intended it.”
May 7, 1833—Birthdate of Johan
nes Brahms, one of the three greatest
compose™. He was set to playing the
piano before he could reach the ped
als, so he could help his father pick
up a few thalers an evening playing
dance tunes in Hamburg’s red-light
district, and when he was only 14 he ’
began composing. Critics of his time
recognized his genius, and to the con
temporary public he was chiefly
memorable for his eccentricities. He
was addicted to trousers too tight
and t 00 Short, never wore a collar,
and like Scientist Albert Einstein,
scored socks.
May 7, 1915—The British liner Lu
sitania was torpedoed and sunk off I
Kinsdale Head, Ireland, by the U-20,
and 1,195 persons went down with ’
her.
One, Robert J. Timmls, came back'
all the way from the bottom. ThA
force with whch the ship settled into
his grave knocked hm loose from the
wreckage to which he was pinned
3nd clear of the ship Itself and he
rose to the surface, to be rescued and
to tell the tale for many a year after
wards in Gainesvile, Texas, his home.
Surviving today are 10 of the 36
deck and engineer officers aboard
the Lusitania that fatal day.
FIRST WARLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY
20 Years Ago Today—lt was dis
closed in London that the cost of the
war to Britain had passed the $25,-
000,000-a-day mark. By comparison
it was costing Italy $4,600,000 a day:
Siberia and Belgium, $3,000,000 a day
between them—all of it advanced by
the Allies: Germany $16,000,000-a-day,
Austria-Hungary $9,000,000 a day.
These ratios prevailed until the end
of the war.
Incidentally, about the same time, '
it became known that the Krupp
works had earned a profit of $32,000,- ,
000 in 1915.
(To be Continued)
IT’S TRUE
France’s Louis XIV spent 14,000,-
000 francs for one costume, but
never took a bath.
Well today any Tibetlan who wash
ed from the day he is bom till the
day he dies, is a freak.
“Robinson Cruso” was first pub
lished as a newspaper serial.
One of the rulers of France issued
a decree that no more than; 600
francs might be paid for any lady or
gentleman for a pair of silk or lace
panties.
When Lyman and Charles Gilmore,
Californians, applied for a patent on
a flying machine, in 1898, ther pe
tition was rejeected oh the - ground
that that the device had to do with
perpetual motion and a craft ■with
out a ballcon couldn’t fly.
Both women and men wear their
hats in church in Holland. 1
A corba’s bit is harmles to anoth--
er cobra but poisonous to everythng
else. Take our word for it.
Queries, reproofs, etc., are wel
comed by Clark Kinnaird.
Factographs
The famous horses of St. Mark,
large bronze statues near the cathe
dral In Venice, have eld positions in
four cities. They were brought to
Venice in 1204 A. D. from Constanti
nople. Napoleon carried them to
Paris as trophies of his Italian cam
paign. After his defeat in 1815 they
were returned tc Venice, but during
the World war they were removed to
Rome to safeguard them.
** * i
Purple was the first dyed color to
be fixed on wood and linen. It b* s
been regarded as the royal color for
centuries. Discovery of purple !»«
been attributed to the Phoenicians
and its origin is placed at Tyre, j
No person is under legal obligation |
to accept more than 25 cents in nick
els or pennies as payment of a debt.
According to the laws governing le
gal tender, silver coins are legal Wi
der for amounts not exceeding slo>
whole minor coins, nickels and pen
nies are legal fender for amounts up
to 25 cents.
A split infinitive is one in which
an adverb is introduced between the
word to and the verb form, such *•
to healthily laugh. ;/