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Wittithe Long Bow
Horns"Scientists" Wrestle With This. Problem and
Give an Explanation More or Less Satisfactory.
"scribe" of the McHinnville, Ore., News says that
Am Shaddeu, living northwest of that town, has a cow
that can "wiggle her horns."
But this accomplishment of his cow is not the result of
inventive genius. It appears to be natural. It was discov
ered last summer in flytime. As the cow would switch her
tail violently her horns would flop quite perceptibly. Scient
ists have diagnosed her case and have come to the conclusion
that there is an understanding between the nerves of the
cow's spine permitting the two extremities to act in unison
and to wigwag sympathetically.
If these facts are not 'exaggerated there would seem to be
no reason why Mr. Shadden should not have one of the horns
fixed with a reed so that the cow could reach up and blow
her own horn. There are various stories afloat about a cow
reaching up and biting off the end of her own horn, but
we have always felt some doubt of their truthfulness and
so have not printed themunless with an interrogation point
standing for the query, "can such things be?" Our cow
has never wagged her horn at usbut cows, like people, may
reasonably be expected to differ. Some people wag their
ears.
The Maxbass, NV D., Monitor brings the details of the
function held the offiee of the Independent elevator last
Monday. Manager Randall invited the Maxbass Four Hun
dred to a pink tea and terpsicorean swarry. The exterior
preparations consisted chiefly in sprinkling the driveway with
sand, as a canopied approach was considered a little too
antiquated for a five months' old North Dakota town. The
interior decorations consisted of a large and varied assort
ment of past, present and future calendars, portraying scenes
and objects in which the principal characters showed some
lack of sufficient attire. However, such trifles were easily
overlooked in the joyousness of the entire day. There was a
pretty warm dance in the evening, lightened up by a vocal
and piano duet between Dr. Collinson and Cliff Sowle, which
drove some of the guests out into the cold. Attorney Lunke,'
who was watering his team at a well several blocks away,
hurried over and said he thought it was fire.
At high midnight the peanuts were opened and candy and
ice water served. A grand old time was had.
Showing how history is made to lie without meaning to
do anything bad, the Miller, S. D., Sun digs up the fact that
the speeches supposed to have been made by Sioux chiefs at
the time of securing signatures to the opening of their reser
vation a few years ago were claimed later to have been due
to the genius of white men.
The Miller Sun interviewed an old Indian from Crow
Creek and asked if his people held any traditions dating back
to the discovery of America by Columbus. He said none
existed and that until the children learned of it at school they
knew nothing of Columbus nor of American events later, if
located far from them. Exaggerated views of Indian tradi
tions and knowledge exist. Yet the historian of the future
coming upon the speeches of these red orators in the news-,
papers files of the northwest is likely to think he has made
a great find and the people will accept them as veritable un-
less they both get hold of a file of the Miller Sun preserved
by the- South Dakota Historical society. And if that society
is not preserving a file of the Sun it is losing a whole lot of
good, bad, indifferent, but always interesting, history.
-A. J. R.
A BALL OF FIRE.
CAMILLLightning"in
E FLAMMARION has written a book"Thunder
and which he describes some of the
phenomena of electrical storms. Of the action of a ball of
fire in Paris he says: "It was in the Rue St. Jacques, near
the Val de Grace. The fireball burst into the room from
the chimney, knocking over the paper guard in front of the
fireplace. In appearance it suggested a young cat gathered
up in a ball, as it were, and moving along without using its
paws. It approached the tailor's legs as if to play with them.
The tailor moved them away to avoid the contact, of which
he naturally was in teiTor.
"After some seconds the globe of fire rose vertically to
the height of the man's face as he sat, and he to save him
self leaned quickly back and fell over. The fireball con-
tinued to rise and made its way toward a hole which had been
made at the top of the chimney for the insertion of a stove
pipe in the winter, but which, as the tailor put it afterward,
'the fireball couldn't see,' because it was closed up with
paper.
"The ball stripped off the paper neatly', entered the chim
ney quite quietly and, having risen to the summit, produced
a tremendous explosion, which sent the chimneypot flying
and scattered it in bits all over the neighboring courtyard and
surrounding roofs."
MIGHT DREAM HE GOT IT.
iil WANT a dollar extra this week, George," said the
|fe 1 new office boy to the bookkeeper.
"What for the bookkeeper asked.
"Overtime. I dreamed about my work last night."
%$m$ False teeth for horses are made in Paris.
Saturday Evening,
"Jye nature'* walks, shoot tolly an It Oka.*
Am Shadden of Oregon Boasts a Cow that Can Wiggle Her
THE
THE
THE
PUZZLE PICTURE.
Find the coal man.
Curios and Oddities
'TIs passing straagal'
A NEED IN AMERICA.
chafing dish, an American variant on the alcohol
cooking-lamp, had a short-lived popularity. Hardly
anybody uses it today. And no wonder, considering the
price of alcohol.
To make a 6-cent ragout on a chafing dish requires about
14'cents' worth of fuel. To stew a 30-cent chicken costs
about half a dollar.
With alcohol at from 50 to 75 cents a quart, the chafing
dish naturally has no chance. It can be only a luxury, an
ornamental luxury and even as an ornamental luxury it is
dying out.
In France and Italy the alcohol stove is used everywhere.
It is thoroly safe. It gives a superb flame. It will boil a
quart of water in five minutes. Its heat may be regulated as
nicely as a gas stove's. It is, indeed, superior Uy far to the
chafing dish that America conjured out of it.
But the alcohol stove, with all its virtues, would not en-
dure if it were not for the fact that cooking alcohol sells in
France and Italy for 15 cents a quart retail.
If alcohol for cooking can be sold abroad at such a low
figure, it could certainly be sold so here.
There is a fortune waiting for the man who will put on
the market a good alcohol stove, and a good grade of cheap
cooking alcohol,
HOW THE ESKIMO SMOKES.
explorer, looking out of the club window at the driv
ing snow, said this weather reminded him of the
Eskimos.
"No man is fonder of tobacco than an Eskimo," he
said, as he lighted a cigaret. "The Eskimo depends for his
tobacco solely on the white man. For a pound of it he would
sell his oldest son.
"It is odd to see an Eskimo smoke. He chops his to-
bacco fine and mixes it with chopped willow twigs, so as to
make it go farther. Then he cleans out with a picker of bone
the small stone bowl of his pipe, and then he plucks a lock
of hair from his deerskin suit and rams it down in the bot-
tom of the pipe bowl, so as to prevent any of the finely
chopped tobacco from escaping into the stem.
"Finally he lights the pipe and smokes it in a swift
series of long, strong puffs, so that there may be no waste.
Each puff is inhaled deep down into the lungs, and the first
puff's smoke is still streaming from the nostrils long after
another puff has been started. There must be, you see, no
waste. There must be none of that vain combustion of to-
bacco without benefit to the smoker which goes on con
tinually among us.
"Often the most experienced Eskimo will smoke so hard
and fast that tears will stream from his eyes, he will cough
violently, and sometimes vertigo and nausea will se'ize him.
TEN-FOOT BEARDS.
middle-aged, fat man, after the barber finished cut
ting his hair, unrolled his beard, and lo, it touched the
floor. It was over five feet long.
The barber, as he shampooed the beard, said:
ic pin this spinach up with hairpins into a mass six
inches square. I know a man with a nine-foot beard who
wears it in a bag. About five inches shows from his chin,
and then the beard vanishes under his collar as an under
ground river vanishes under a rock.
"Why are there so many men who desire to have beards
of unusual length? Men are often vainer than women when
**it comes to the matter of a long beard. I know some twenty
men who have tried to raise long beards for years, but only
three of them have succeeded.
"The average man can raise a one-foot beard, but not
more than two or three men in a hundred can raise a nine or
a ten-foot one."
"Right you are," said the other, regarding his own river
of hair complacently.
"But what I say is," complained the barber, "what
good are these long,* nasty messes of coarse spinach after they
are grown1?"
"What good," saidlthe
middle-aged man, "is that bristly,
mud-colored toothbrush that grows out of your upper lip?"
WnjJ^jpTPOCOMPENSATE?
Mrs. LightfootOh, wait a minute, Mr. Sharpdon't drive
yet. My husband ig still on the green.
Mr. SharpNever mind, I'll risk it. For if I do bowl him
over, why, I'm ready to replace"him any timet
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IN#THE WILLIAM
Trying the Safety Razqt
Ed Pierce in Grafton Record.
GOOD DEAL is-being said these days
days in the advertising pages of the
magazine^ regarding the safety razor.
From what I have heard about them I
believe that their intentions are good,
but I wish at1
THE STROKE LETT} A PATH FLUSHED WITH
BRIGHT, BED NOISE.
this time to state my own
experience, which can be used as ad
vertising matter if the makers of safety
razors care for it, otherwise it can be con
sidered null and void. After a busy week of
duck-shooting, without attending any regular services at a
barber shop, I made airangements to shave with a safety
razor. A safety razor resembles a pair of scissors in one
respect only it can be bought at a hardware store also at
a drug store it can also be borrowed. I secured permission
of a friend to use his safety and he sat on a bale of hay and
caused my hand to be unsteady, giving me much pain and
anquish, and what I said will not appear here in person and
I hope it will not appear elsewhere. I steadied down finally
and got a happier slant on the razor and it did its work bet-
ter and with less noise and fewer vegetables coming from
audience. After I had been over the ground thoroly, I
washed up in a pail of sparkling alkali water from the horse
trough, wiped the safety on a quiet piece of horse blanket
and returned it to the owner, who carefully tucked it away
in the bureau drawer of his rubber boot.
eggs with Spanish toast is a new breakfast dish
from Harper's Bazar. Take a cup of thick tomato,
slejfred with two slices of onion, minced, and ljalf of a green
pepper, and spread on buttered toast. Have ready a kettle
of violently boiling water, and into the middle of this drop
qniokly an egg from the shell. Be careful not to let it go in
gradually, but -suddenly and all together. The motion of the
water will make the egg Tound, like a ball, with the white
perfectly concealing the yolk. Lay one such egg on each
piece of toast and serve at once. A little vinegar and salt
added to the water will season the egg.
Eggs on anchovy toast or minced ham are equally good.
Boil hard as many eggs as will be needed and remove the
yolks without breaking. Cut some small pieces of bread,
tdast them, and spread with anchovy paste or with deviled
ham either comes in little cans. Make a depression on each
and put the hot yolk of the egg on each piece. Chop the
white of the egg fine and mix with a cup of white sauce and
pass this. Arrange the toast and eggs on a round platter
with a pile of watercress in the center.
CLOTHES MAKE A KING.
Scandinavian universities it is customary for the
students to exchange visits and when the students of one
university drop down on another university .town en masse
it fe the custom to quarter them on the town very much as
the delegates to a religious convention in this country are
entertained by the members of the denomination. This story
is of a visit of students of another university to the city of
Copenhagen. The young men were quartered as usual and
-lo and behold some of them were quartered in the court itself.
King Christian was doing his share toward making the stu-
dent visit pleasant. Among others assigned to the .court was
Mitchelllet us call him Mitchell for short. Mitchell
had the honor to dine with the king Mitchell took Prince
Alexandra, now queen of Great Britain, in to dinner Mitch
ell sat vis-a-vis with the now dowager empress of Russia and
Mitchell drank toasts and told stories and had generally a
splendid time. Needless to say Mitchell retired to his
sumptuous room in the palace elated but dazed. Notwith
standing he slept well and in the morning was aroused by a
rapping on his door. Still half asleep Mitchell murmured,
"Come in," when the door opened and a tall splendidly uni
formed gentleman arrived. To the sleep-beleaguered Mitch
ell the uniformed and medaled stranger seemed one of state
and what was his horror when this magnificent personage
beuit forward and seemed in the act of removing Mitchell's
boots. Aroused in an instant to the situation, Mitchell
sprang from his bed and seized the foot wear. "No, your
majesty," he panted "No, sire, I cannot permit you to black
my boots."
SOME OP TAWNEY'S PAST.
ORLANDO SMITH, representative from the
Punxsutawney district, and "Jim" Tawney of Minne
sota, chairman of the committee on appropriations, have dis-
covered a bond of friendship stronger than that created by
the fact that they are both members of the house. They
discovered it while sitting at lunch a few days ago.
"Where did you come from in Pennsylvania?" asked
Smith, looking at Tawney with his eyes half closed.
"The same place that you once honored with your pres-
ence," said Tawney.)
"Well, I'll be dinged! Are you the 'Jim' Tawney that
used tp play in the Reynoldsville band?"
"That's me," said Tawney.
Then Smith marveled that his Minnesota friend should
have known the fact so long without mentioning it to him.
"Oh, well, Smith," explained the Minnesotan, "it is not
always safe to refer to a man's past. I thought probably
that you wanted to forget the time when you played the
irfto horn and I tortured the flat cornet. But, say, those
were great days for Reynoldsville, weren't fr55"""^
watched me pro
ceed. It being
morning I used
Pear's soap, of
which I made a
large dish of head
strong lather,
which I applied
to my face in
handfulls, having
no brush or other
conveyance. Aft
er softening up
my beard I grasp
ed the razor firm
ly in my right
hand and drew it'
down with a
Spencerian stroke, watching
myself in the
hind end of a tin
pail. The stroke
left a path flush
ed with bright,
red noise. The
man on the bale
of hay acted as'
tho he was at a
show and had got
in on a comple-
ary ticket.
His laughter an
noyed me and
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liiiiHHP^iqpipi
January 13, 1906.
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"That was a very touching case, that Jones divorce case, wasn't itf"
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