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Thursday, November 27, 1930
THINGS WORTH
KNOWING
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Three-fourths of Denmark’s ares
is farm land.
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A new metal stopper for medi
cine bottles has a spoon attached.
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A volcanic eruption in the East
Indies recently destroyed six vill
ages and killed 1,000 people.
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Many of our motor roads follow
old Indian trails, which in turn
followed the paths taken by wild
animals seeking water holes.
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A method of making artificial
pearls by lining glass balls with
irridescent fish scales was invented
by a Frenchman, about 1680.
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Although only about a dozen
different kinds of cheese are made
in France, the cheeses go by some
250 local names in different parts
of the country.
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Practically 50 per cent of the
total number of voters in the
United States are women.
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About twenty asteroids, or small
planets are added each year to the
astronomer’s catalogue.
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Japanese children are engaging
in a dental hygiene campaign.
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There were 929 women medical
students in the United States last
year.
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The magnetic poles are more
than 1,000 miles away from the
geographic poles.
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Many of the mysterious fires
that break out on farms are due
to spontaneous combustion, gov
ernment farm experts believe.
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Young bats, past babyhood, are
“hung up” by their hooked claws
while their mother ^oes out to
hunt for food at night.
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California’s gold was never
worked tor mined by the Indians.
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A Japanese meal may include
as many as seven kinds of sea
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Films are used for teaching pur
poses in 15,000 educational insti
tutions in the United States.
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Norway is to have a floating fish
meal factory, which will cruise
along the coast and gather up fish
scraps from factories to make meal.
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A big sea fish known as the elec
tric ray has the power of disabling
its enemies by giving out a strong
electric shock. ,
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African elephants show a ten
dency to what might be called
“right-handedness,” since their
right tusks are usually worn down
by digging more than the left.
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The only important copper mines
in eastern United States at pres
ent are at Ducktown, Tenn.
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It is estimated that more than
700 different kinds of exotic birds
are alive in zoological gardens and
private collections of the United
States.
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Cut Com Stalks Now
Removal of cornstalks from the
field for subsequent shredding, en
siling, or biiming is one of the
most effective means of controlling
the European corn borer, says the
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
To control the pest by this method,
the stalks must be cut at ground
level, thereby leaving no stubble.
Standard com binders do not cut
closer to the ground than 5 ov 6
inches but the farmer may now
buy, at small cost, a low-cutting
attachment for four makes of corn
binders, or he may make this at
tachment himself. He may also
make a low-cutting hand device
according to instructions given in
Miscellaneous Publication 56, either
of which may be made at little
cost. Low cutting is particulc”' ,T
important if the corn is left in the
field until late in the season be
cause the bdrers work downward in
the stalks.
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plan to make one or two out-of-
doors play suits for the younger
children this winter, to wear, like
overcoats, oter their regular cloth
ing. The Bureau of Home Eco
nomics will tell you how.
GbR, tfcCOKMICK, South Carotin*.
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ARE YOU
SUPERSTITIOUS
* *
BY FRANK ELLIS, JR.
Virtues of Ringe
T HE rings and screws of coffins
have long been supposed to pos
sess certain virtues. There are two
things in use to prevent the cramp,
viz., a ring of sea-horse teeth worn
upon the finger, and fillets of green
periwinkle tied about the calf of the
leg. or wherever the cramp usually
comek. This'seems the more strange
because neither of them has any re
laxing virtue. They are more likely
to act upon the spirits in the nerves
than upon the substance in the nerves
themselves.
In England a man who had epileptic
seizures was recommended to try a
ring made of 20 sixpences collected
from maidens, not necessarily of his
own age. He outlived the fits, which
he attributed to the magic power of
the ring. *
The superstitions connected with
marriage rings are various. In order
to secure protection against diaboli
cal arts, a ring of cane or of straw,
or one made from the nail of a horse
shoe was placed on the finger of the
fiancee. Sometimes the ring was
blessed by passing It three times over
water. As many as four or five blessed
rings w’ere placed upon the finger of
the bVide-to-be. Another custom was
to place a ring under the feet of the
couple during the marriage ceremony.
The first few drops of a barrel of
wine were often poured over the ring.
(©, 1928, Western Newspaper Union.)
ARE YOU
SUPERSTITIOUS
?
BY FRANK ELLIS, J R.
Legends of Rings
I T has been believed from eariest
times that rings, enriched with cer
tain precious stones of occult virtue,
were supposed to influence the actions
and character of individuals, and
many are the superstitions to the won
derful effects produced by these
charms. Solomon’s ring gave him di
vine powers by which he acquired in
credible • knowledge and triumphed
over all obstacles. The wedding ring
of Joseph and the Virgin Mary was
an object of adoration.
Legends in connection with rings
Were introduced from Asia and
Greece. The power of invisibility was
accredited to a ring worn by an an
cient king. Rings once constituted
the principal means for the preven
tion or cure of cramp. They were con
sidered more effective if formed out
of the screws or nails taken from cof
fins. A special ring was worn to cure
each Individual disease. Superstitions
connected with supposed cures of epi
lepsy, etc., by charmed rings still exist
In our country.
On which finger the wedding ring
should be worn was long the subject
of learned discussion; on the first fin
ger, a haughty disposition; on the
third finger, love and affection; on
the fourth, a masterful spirit.
In Sweden, girls place under sep
arate pots a ring, a coin, and a piece
of black ribbon. If the ring is turned
up the girl will be married; if the
inonev, she will get a rich husband;
and if the black ribbon, she will die
an old maid.
A gold wedding ring rubbed on a stye
is considered a good remedy. To wear
a ring engraved with hearts pierced
through with darts shows a girl’s
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Custer Sacrificed to Graft
F OR more than fifty years hundreds
of writers have sought to solve the
mystery of Custer’s massacre. They
have searched the battlefield In vain,
have pawed over letters and records
throughout the West and have plied
Indian survivors with questions. Al
ways they have been on a cold trail.
New York and Washington were the
places to search. Custer was sacri
ficed to graft!
Gen. George Armstrong Custer, U. S.
A., and the 225 men who died with
him, were destroyed utterly because
Custer had discovered the most
colossal conspiracy, probably, in the
history of the w’orld. He had discov
ered a conspiracy which, at that time,
was costing the United States gov
ernment as much as $20,000,000 a year
in loot. Nor was that all of It.
When Custer went into action to
break up the ring he signed his own
death warrant. Very soon repeating
Winchester rifles began to flow to the
Indians of the northern plains country
by the boat load, up the Missouri
river. The Indian department, rotten
with the conspiracy, through licensed
agencies, was copartner in the sell
ing. •
Accompanying the boat loads of
rifles went more than 1,000,000 rounds
of ammunition. The Indian depart
ment, steeped in crookedness at the
time, through grafting agents, was
giving the sellers protection. Big
profits were taken on all of these
death-dealing machines by the post
traders who were paying tribute tp
the clique.
Agitators were busy among the In
dians for months, stirring them up,
getting them excited, preparing them
for war. In a little time 5,000 of them
w r ere “off the reservations” and on
the warpath. They were armed wdth
the best repeating rifles ever manu
factured up to that time. They had
more ammunition than the 5,000 war
riors in the field could lug into battle.
Nor did Custer, who w*as sent
against them with a handful of men,
know their strength. Why? Simply
because the conspiring Indian agents
were reporting them on their reserva
tions. And Custer’s men were armed
with obsolete single-shot rifles; wea
pons that had been used in the Civil
war, now ten years ended.
Gen. Phil Sheridan, in his official
report of the battle, gave a clew to
the situation w’hen he wrote:
“It now becomes apparent that the
hostile forces had been augmented by
large numbers of young warriors from
agencies along the Missouri river and
the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agen
cies in Nebraska, and that the Indian
agents of these agencies had . con
cealed the facts of the departure of
these warriors, and that in most cases
the agents continued to issue rations
as though the Indians were present at
their agencies.”
A pretty mess of affairs.
Sitting Bull, Gall and those other
Sioux chieftains, as much victims of
the conspiracy as Custer, because they
did not know what it was all about,
had plenty of help from men at the
agencies.
Custer had been told that not more
than 1,000 Indians were on the war
path. Old Indian fighter, he had often
wldpped Indians when outnumbered by
them five to one. So he dashed to the
strike. The Indians, knowing he had
been informed that a party of about
1.000 was on the warpath, left a trail
such as 1,000 Indians might make.
He followed it, riding boldly to his
doom. The battle of the Little Big
Horn was no battle at all. It w T as a
slaughter. Merely a shambles. The
Sioux were so thick that only a part
of them could crowd near enough to
wet their hands in blood.
(©. 1929, Lester B. Colby.)
Enthusiast Has Long
Been Termed Fanatic
Once, being carried away by the
impetuous rush of his feelings, the
eccentric and famous Rowland Hill
exclaimed: “Because I am in earnest,
men call me an enthusiast, but I am
not; mine are the words of truth and
soberness. I once saw a gravel pit
fali in and bury three human beings
alive. I shouted so loudly for help
that I was heard at the distance of a
mile; help came, and two of the suf
ferers were rescued. No one called
me an enthusiast then; and when I
see eternal destruction ready to fall
on poor sinners, and about to en
tomb them irrecoverably in an eter
nal mass of woe, and call aloud on
them to escape, shall I be called an
enthusiast now?” It Is strange how
we can be called “enthusiasts” when
we are enthusiastic about religion
and yet not “enthusiasts” when we
happen to he enthusiastic in other
matters. Men can he very inconsist
ent in their arguments.—Exchange.
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SAID TO BE FROM ABERDEEN
A professional actor was coaching a
dramatic society.
“You must infuse more expression
Into your voices,” he said. “Why, I re
member an actor who could so read a
menu as to make his audience weep.”
There w’as a moment’s awed silence,
and then one of the amateurs re
marked : “He must have read the
prices.”—Stary Stories.
Lovely Present
“Where did you get that lovely
walkingstick?”
“It was a present from William
Kruger.”
“Who Is he?”
“I don’t know—but is all engraved
on the gold knob.”—Hamburg Hum
mel.
Better Light
She—I’m putting up a better light.
When the light Is dim the gentlemen
are apt to get rather bold.
He—But that light is worn out. It
won’t light at all.
She—So much the better.—Lustige
Blatter.
He Was Willing
Judge—You attacked this man on
the street. Can you deny it?
Accused—Yes, I can, Your Honor, if
you think it will help me any.
NOT WELL KNOWN
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“Bill knows his onions, all right.”
“Yes; but doesn’t know ’em well
enough not to eat ’em.”
Yes, Sir!
With family spats
Confined to the feet
Married life
Will be complete.
Foggy Excuse
“I’m sorry Reggie’s so late in bring
ing me home, mother. There was a
dense fog, and his car was held up.”
“Why, it’s a clear, moonlight night,
child !’*
“So it is. I must have been think
ing of some other night!”—Humorist.
What, Indeed?
“Don’t see any more stuff like Spar-
tacus to the Gladiators.”
* “Eh?”
“What’s become of all those fellers
that wrote for the old Third Reader?”
A Friendly Word
Jasper—I haven't a good word for
that feller Jim.
Dexter—Well, they ain’t much good
said about him. But I’ll say one good
thing about Jim, he wasn’t always as
mean as he w T as sometimes.
Positions Altered
Hattie—Oh, Evelyn, did he propose
last night? Tell me what it was like!
Evelyn—Oh, it was very simple.
When he began he was on his knees,
and when he finished I was on them.
TO STOP HER
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Teacher—“Why should we put a full
stop after the sentence, ‘The woman
said she was going after him with a
stick’?” Pupil—“Why—er—to keep her
from going too far.” *
Just Try It!
A sweet young thing at the show
the other evening Insisted on repeat
ing each joke aloud, to the discom
fiture of her escort and the mHd an
noyance of the people seated neaitiy.
The worm was hound to turn, and
did, after one of the characters' had j
remarked, “I think tiie weaker sex is:
often the stronger sex, because of the!
weakness of the stronger sex for the
weaker sex.”
“There,” said the sweet young
thing’s hoy friend, grimly, “repeat
that one.”
Truth in Ads
“I never smoke no cigarettes.”
The famous player said;
But they had him on the signboards,
Recommending Shanghai Reds.
Facing Death
Returned Explorer (boastfully)—
Yes, gentlemen, I have faced death in
a hundred forms.
Little Perkins—Really! Doctor or
undertaker?
Ea?y to Please
“That hat makes you look ten ysars
younger.”
“Then won’t do. When I take
It off I shall look ten years older ”
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