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The Pelham Journal.
Entered December 3rd. 1 H 02 , at Pelham, (>a
an second. class mall matter, under act of Con
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Little Walter was eating lunch when
he gave his arm a sudden shove, and,
splash, down went his glass of milk.
“I knew you were going to spill
that,” said mamma angrily.
‘‘"Well, mamma, If you knew,” que¬
ried Walter, “why didn’t you tell me?”
—London Answers.
An Angry Elephant.
A sentinel in the menagerie at Paris
has had a curious experience with one
of the largest elephants. The sentinel
was very conscientious and always re¬
quested the spectators not to give the
animals anything to eat, which seemed
to displease the elephant in question to
such an extent that he several times
sprinkled the sentry's head with water
from his trunk. One day a H$stander
offered this particular elephant a large
cake. The sentinel interfered, as
usual, and the elephant promptly dis¬
charged in his face a violent ensued, stream of
water. fV go- 1 -"-' >augh but
the SBBtBR'i"L.i /idg calmly wiped his
face, stood on one side and continued
as watchful as before. Soon after¬
ward he found It necessary to repeat
his admonition, but no sooner was this
uttered than the elephant laid hold of
his musket, twirled it round his trunk,
trod it under his feet and did not re¬
store It until he had twisted It into
nearly the fonn of a corkscrew. Then
he gave a snort at the discomfited
sentinel, as If to say, “Now I hope
you’ll mind your own business!”
A Neighing Cock.
Camden says the Thames was once
called the Cockney, and therefore a
cockney means simply one who lives
on the banks of the Thames. Wedg¬
wood says a cockney, or cockerney, is
one pampered by city indulgence, in
contradistinction to rustics hardened
by outdoor work. There is. however, a
legend, almost too good to be true—
namely, that a Londoner who had
never before slept out of sound of
Bow Bells had occasion to go into the
country and was detained all night,
lie was much disturbed by the lowing
of the cattle, the grunting of the pigs
and other sounds of country life, which
he could not understand, and in par¬
ticular he was frightened by the crow¬
ing of the cock. In the morning. In
respouse to the farmer’s inquiries, he
said the sound of the wild beasts had
kept him awake. Just at that mo¬
ment the cock crowed again, and the
Londoner said: “That’s the one! He’s
been neighing like that for hours!”
Since then Londoners have been called
cockneighs or cockneys.
The Python.
Contrary to general belief, the py¬
thon or boa constrictor rarely attacks
people and is looked upon very differ¬
ently by the people from the hama¬
dryad and cobra. The python will
take up his abode in a neighborhood
and will not disturb anything except
the henroosts. These he disturbs very
much, as be has a great fondness
for chickens; also for a stray dog or
small goat. I know of one case, how¬
ever. in a floating house where a py¬
thon attacked a woman and, contrary
to the preconceived idea, did not crush
her in his folds, but attempted to
swallow her, commencing with one of
her feet. When she was rescued her
foot and ankle were badly lacerated
by the snake's teeth. The Chinese kill
the python to make medicine from the
liver, which has a high repute among
them. They also use the dried skin
for medicine. Any Chinese drug shop
in Siam will have a number of python
skins for sale.—Medical Journal.
THE PELHAM JOURNAL, FRIDAY, OCT. 2, 1308.
Too Well Imitated.
It is no easy matter for a violin mak¬
er to rival the famous Stradivarlus in¬
struments, but this an American maker
did, aud did so effectively that experts
pronounced his violin a genuine Stradi
varlus.
The successful man was the late
George Gemunder, a famous violin
maker of New York. His remarkable
ability as a preparer of violins was
known to many a distinguished player,
such as Ole Bull, liemeuyi and WI1
helinj. But he made, so runs the story,
his greatest success at the rails expo¬
sition of Eiffel tower fame. To that ex¬
hibition he sent an Imitation Stradiva
rius and to test its merits had it placed
on exhibition as the genuine article.
A committee of experts carefully ex¬
amined the instrument and pronounced
it a Stradivarius. So far Mr. Gemun
uer’s triumph was complete. But now
came a di^culty. When he claimed
that it was not an old violin, but a new
one made by himself, the committee
would not believe him. They declared
he never made the Instrument and pro¬
nounced him an impostor. He had
done his work too well.
Can’t Twiddle Their Thumbs.
The gorilla and chimpanzee, which
belong to the higher order of apes,
have many points of resemblance to
man, but there Is one thing they can¬
not do—that is, twiddle their thumbs.
In the goriljit the thumb, la short and
does not reach much beyond the hot
tom of the first joint of the forefinger.
It is very much restricted in its move¬
ments. nnd the animal can neither
twiddle his thumbs nor turn them
round so that the tips describe a circle.
There are the same number of bones in
the hand of a gorilla as in the hand of
a man, but the thumbs of tlie monkey
have no separate flexor or bending
muscle. This Is why a monkey always
keeps the thumb on the same side as
the fingers and never bends it round
any object that may be grasped. In
the gorilla the web between the fingers
extends to the second joint, the fingers
taper to the tips, and there is a callos¬
ity on the knuckles on which the ani¬
mal rests when walking on all fours.
Fickleness In Penmanship.
Speaking of check signatures and
forgery, a downtown paying teller re¬
marked: “One of the most peculiar
points in our business is one little com¬
prehended by the public. I mean the
embarrassment caused by the man
whose signature Is seldom the same, or
nearly so, two weeks in succession.
“This fickleness is not intentional. It
is in almost every case temperamen¬
tal. The man guilty of it is generally
nervous and not infrequently is greatly
lacking In stability of character. At
times you, as a layman, would hardly
believe it possible that bis signature
on two different checks was the work
of the same hand.
“Of course we come to know these
cases in time, and there are always
certain characteristics in a person’s
handwriting which the expert can de
tect and which go far to convince.
Nevertheless the changeable signature
is a nuisance and involves an added
peril.”—New York Globe.
How Men and Women Face Death.
How do men and women face death
when the sentence is pronounced by
the doctor? A medical man tells us
his experience. Tell the man of higher
type and greater intelligence, he says,
that he is facing death and he begins
to fight, demands a consultation, talks
about going to specialists and fights
grimly to the finish. Tell a woman
the same facts, and she lies back to
await her fate. All women are fatal¬
ists. On the other hand, tell a man
that he has one chance in a thousand
to recover if he will undergo an opera¬
tion, and he will trust to his own
strength and endurance rather than
undergo the knife. The woman will
choose the thousandth chance and sub¬
mit to the operation with astounding
calmness.—Woman’s life
Burning Witti Curiosity.
A certain famous authoress who is
much worried by unknown correspond¬
ents has taken her revenge In a some¬
what eccentric fashion. She received
a letter from a woman informing her
that the writer had named her last baby
after her and requesting the authoress’
views on her choice. She received a
thick envelope, heavily sealed, with
this inscription: “Not to be opened till
baby’s thirtieth birthday.” Now the
mother Is worrying herself day and
night as to the contents of the envel¬
ope.
Lines by a Sick Poet,
Mr. William Watson, when ill in
London and attempting a dinner for
which he had no appetite, scribbled
these lines on a scrap of paper, which
he threw to his attendant:
Strange sauce that's mingled with the
meat.
Strange meat that’s mingled with the
sauce—In vain.
I eat and, wond’rlng what and why I eat.
Long for the porridge of my youth
again.
—London Chronicle.
Quite Clear.
Masquerader (explaining who he Is
supposed to rcpT>sent)—I’m that fellow
fought tb/v-hetti* * what do you
it, you Ti scat. What’s his name
says all abou;' ft-l mi if him In hls great book.
You remember, every one took him for
the other chap until they found he
couldn’t be; then they knew he wasn’t
Think 1 look the part?—London Sketch.
Going Some.
“Was his auto going very fast?”
“Your honor. It was going so fast
that tlie bulldog on the seat beside
him looked like a dachshund.”—Hous¬
ton Post
Woman the Tougher Sex.
Although tuen, as they run. are per¬
haps muscularly stronger than women,
their Inability to withstand the ele¬
ments and their reliance upon clothes
place them considerably below the so
called weaker sex in the matter of un¬
clothed toughness. ’tVomen wear clothes
for ornament Men use them as pro¬
tective covering, A group of men ma¬
rooned clothelcss on an Island in the
temperate zone might be expected to
die off In a month from drafts and
colds and rheumatism. The health of
women similarly placed would suffer
little from the enforced exposure. The
act appears to be, therefore, that in
everything but muscle—in vitality, rug¬
gedness, character, disposition, brain
power, etc.—woman is the tougher, not
the weaker, sex —Kansas City Journal.
A Xantippe Outwitted.
An Englishman of Lymiugton bad
the misfortune to live In a continuous
quarrel with his wife, who was a mod
! ern Xantippe aud threatened in case
j s ^ ie survived him to dance over his
grave, it was her lot to outlive him,
| but k w as not so easy to carry out
1 ber threat. The husband had the pre
! cai ition to make an injunction in his
will requiring his body to be buried in
the sea near his residence and without
ceremony. The injunction was com¬
plied with.
Succeeded.
“No, sir,” said the stern parent, “I
cannot give my consent—at least not
now. Before I will think of confiding
my daughter to your care you must
succeed in doing something.”
“Oh. I’ve done that. I succeeded in
kissing her last night after she had as
sured me that I never could until you
had given your approval.”
Expensive.
“No; I’ve decided never to accept
friendly advice any more.”
"Why not? It doesn’t cost you any¬
thing.”
“Well, I’ve found out that it almost
invariably costs you your friends.”—
Tired of mm.
At a trial In Scotland a iMy got into
the witness box to be exan.;ae-A when
the following conversation took place
between her and the opposing coun
sel:
Counsel—How old are you?
Miss Jane—Oh, week sir, I am an
unmarried woman and dinna think it
right to answer that question.
The Judge—Oh. yes; answer the gen¬
tleman. How old are you?
Miss Jane—Weel-a-weel, I am fifty.
Counsel—Are you not more?
Miss Jane—Week I am sixty.
The Inquisitive lawyer still further
asked if she had any hopes of getting
married, to which Miss Jane replied:
“Week sir, I wlnna tell a lee. I hln
na lost hope yet.” scornfully adding,
“But I wldna marry you. for I am sick
and tired o’ your palaver already.”
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Psychology of Broken Jaws.
It might be a bit of a strange fact,
but you would be astonished to see
the broken jaws which are presented
at free institutions on holidays—elec¬
tion day, New Year’s day and the
Fourth of July. A great number of
fractured Jaws are the result of quar¬
rels among the very lowest classes. It
surprises me that the number of bro¬
ken Jaws Is not on the increase on ac¬
count of the heated newspaper discus¬
sions that we are constantly having
on various topics of the day. It has
been said that were It not for the
mouth nine-tenths of the gossip and
the misi-ulef of the world would be
prevented. And very often were it
not for the mouth there would lie no
broken Jaws.—D R BreiinJHcb In New
York \f r> In". ?