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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1904)
- . . . . . . . aOY PREACHER IN ENGLAND. } , % Earnest and Eloquent , He Has Made a Great'lr \ presalon. The boy preacher 18 creating a great impression , says an English paper. He occupies n tent pitched on n piece of waste land just without Honowa : Station , London , amidst broken bottles I' ' and rusty Undo Lawrence Dennis Is . ' . a handsome , olive . skinned all ] , with long ringlets ] , born of an American , . " . . ncgresB and a French Canadian. He . ' , : . ' seems to have halt no regular educa " ,1 ; ' , ; " tlon , yet he posseses a remarkable command of languages His address Is no parrot.lIke repetition of phrases learnt from others , and his self , pos ' session Is entirely distinct from "Bide , " I . . . . . . ' " .I - ! 1 , t , . . , , ( " ' " 7' \ The Boy PrGache He preached on Sunday on charity. I What struck the observer most was the fact that amongst those who somewhat . . I what nervously "held up their hands" ' ' , , Y , and came forward to prove their n1le- . ' . . , . ' glance to Christ , were many lads of "I 'I twelve or fourteen years of age They may have meant It or not , but the impression . pression left was good. Starting : a Race In Missouri. ' : : < . , , , The starter of the running races at - Joplin Is a big black negro He has created much amusement ! In getting the horses off. A half dozen or more attempts were made when the negro's patience be. came exhausted Most of the jockeys were negroes , and as a final warning to one who persisted in snapping the rubber before the others were ready he said : "Nigger It you does dat again I'll come out dar and knock you off dat boss , " and he exhibited a good sized stick attached to the end of a . . rope which he commenced to unwnd ! 4 , J 4' ' The exhibit of the sUck hall Its effect. ' - -Joplin News-Herald. , Smoke Surprise. In the top of a shallow pasteboard box cut two holes each about an Inch In diameter , and place over each an arranged lamp chlmnoy. Stand In one bole a candle cut long enough to pro. , " " = > . / 1t % , ' . ; to. . " I ' , : - , . . J ! jecl haIr an Inch above box. Light : candle and then hold over other lamp chimney some burning "touch paper " dipped In a solution of saltpeter. The smoke Instead of rising , will go down one chimney and , after It has filled the box , will rise through the other. - . . Japanese Animals Domesticated. Japanese birds build their nests In . the city houses : wild fowl , geese and. ' . .J ducks alight In the public parks and , II . 41 { ' wild deer trot about the fltreets. - - EASY TO SHARPEN PENCIL. - Simple Contrivance of Englishman Does Work Well. As simple as It seems , the task of properly sharpening a pencil Is by no means a universally understood one. Few persons who have not given time and pains to the matter can really acompllsli this In a perfect manner. An Englishman has patented . ed In his own country anti more lately In this land a unique contrivance wlllch should render the sharpening process extremely simple. But an American has gone him one better and lJy applying practically the same - : : : . 0 : : : ; I' - t principle with the addition of an en. tlrely new Idea hopes to solve once and for all the wi.ole problem of sharpening pencils , be they hard or soft , long or short. The above iutis- tratlon shows the operation of the uffalr. The pencil Is Inserted Into a shank , which allows the to.he-sharp. ed end to protrude on an Inclined plane , tapering from the exposed lead to the periphery of the wooden casing at such an angle as will best serve the needs of the user. An ordinary knife is then used to shave off wood and lend along the plane. The : . > s and lead dust fall In a receptacle which Insures a tidy performance of the sharpening proces3. _ Real Meaning of "Boodle. . " Late American dictionaries acknowl edge "I.1Oodle" as a word. Dr. Murray quotes from an American paper of 1884 : " 'Sinews of war , ' 'soap , ' and other synonyms for campaign boodle arc familiar. " There , however , "boodle" Is xplalned as meaning only "stock . in . tratle , " kinship with the Dutch "boedel " a man's stock of busi ness or household goods , being highly probalJlo Perhaps "boodlo , " meaning a crowd or pack as In the phrase , "the whole boodle ( or caboodle ) of them , " is the same word In that sense "bud. dIe" Is found In the early seventeenth century. No doubt It Is only a coinci deuce that there Is an old Scotch word " oddle" or "bodle , " meaning a two- penny piece and derived from the name of the mlnt.master Bothwell. Loose Wire Does Much Damage. A trolley cable three.quarters of an inch In diameter became slack and sagged across the railroad track at Hudson , N. H. It caught an engine moving at full speed just under the headlight. Strange to say It did not break hut instead tore up telegraph poles for some distance and finally knocked a house off Its foundations The train waR hated : with Its driving wheels still revoh'lng Invalid's Teacup. U rAn r All In val hi's teacup has n. depression In the saucer In which a small cube of lighted charcoal may be placed. By this means the contents of the cup can be kept warm for some time. The cup Is raised on feet to secure a ell" culatlon of air - - . - " - . , - - . . . - . - - - . . " - - . . . - . - - , . . - - - . . - - . - . . CURIOSITIES Oil' THE lEA. Showing How ! . , Oysters . t.tach. Them. . selves to Foreign Objects. The facility with whIch oysters at t.ach themselves to leather Is shown by the picture of a chlld's shoo very well covered. The oyster growing out of the bowl or an old clay pipe has the appearance of a purr of smoke just Issuing and Is a veritable till of nature's sculpture accompllshelt beneath . neath the soa. These arc but a few or many interesting specimens of oyster . attacllment dredged up from oyster beds , yet they give a complete demonstration of the realllness of this bivalve to attach Itself to anything , A Child's Shoe Covered With Oysters. . . . Oyster Fastened to a Pipe . Bowl. and show , besides , some of the curl- . osltles that are to he found beneath the surface of the water.-Montreal Herald. OF ALL AGES AND NATIONS. Philadelphia Man Has Vase Covered With Valuable Coins. Edward Huusch of Pholadelphla , has just completed , after twent.three years of toll , what Is from many standpoints the most remarkable vase In the country. The now completed piece Is covered with four thousand coins of all nations and ages andrP ? ' resents in actual money $7G,000. There are Spanish coins ot Pizarro's time rubbing edges with American coppers ; crude African money , bolts and bars , that might have been used hy savages as weapons with good ef. feet , soldered besIde the fat silver coins of ancient Greece. Other African coins there are In the shape of Horseshoes , fashioned as If the more handily to permit physical strife for their possession , which experience had proved unavoid- able. Sicilian spoon money and Javanese . nese oblong coins , the Nuremberg tiny speck of gold , the smallest coin In the world , only an eighth of an Inch In diameter : the Japanese bars and forks that passed as bullion when the world was younger : Roman money that tke Caesars may have touched , shell money of untutored seashore t.rlbes-not one space or history has been left unrepresented on this unprecedented . pl'ecedented vase.-New York Herald. Century Old Cartoon. A cartoon from a papyrus In the British museum represents a lion and an ass playing at draughts the "war gamo" of the period This Idea Is con- tLnually used by cartoonists , and It Is surprising to find It to be 3,000 years old. It has been suggested that there are only five hundred humorous stf' , : es , upon which all other stories ti- 1 ? Tt ? The War Game are based. It would ueem as If the I Ideas for cartoons were also strictly : limited , and that the cartoonists ot the . days of the Pharaohs had much the same Ideas as those who today are dealing with modern warfare and modern political sltuatlonfJ. . _ - " " " - - - . . . , . . _ - , _ . . . + - - . . " AN OLD SMOKEn" DREAM" - - . Forbidden Tobacco , He Yet Ehjo'i 'It' In His Sleop. 1 i "It bas been eighteen yeArs since 1 : was told to break loose from tobacco , as over . indulgence In smoking wall , about to knock me oU'l ' , " said a. J. . Manson of Chicago. "From that day , though so dear a lover of the weed , I haven't put a cigar or pipe between my lips , and yet , strange as It may sound , on numerous occasions I find myself puffing out huge clouds of smoke drawn from the most fragrant Havanas that ever were given to sol ace mankind "Theso smokes , let It bo umlorstoOlI , come In my dmems , but the enjoyment they confer Is as solid and substantial as In the old days , when the indulg ence was a reality. Curiously enough , too , the visions always present a group of friends. I can sec thom puffing . fing away vigorously. I catch the aroma ttcy blow forth : I hear their conversation as In the old days , and a . the whole utmosphere Is of tobacco. Yet despite these vivid pictures , awak . cuing brings no desire to resume the ancient habit , and so I expect to cotl- tlnue dreaming of smoking to the end of the chapter without ever butting It In practice " ' . . Pearl Diver. I . _ : ' . , L - , r ' \ t I -L , If f t , I ' + ! I 't , ' P ; - r . The Persian pearl diver fills ears and nose with cotton and compresses his nostrils tightly with wooden pinch. ers. Between his teeth ho carries a long knife as a means of defense against sharlts. The : basket for the oysters hangs about his neck lie does not dive at all lie Is let down Into the water and pulled up again The Church Cats of Naples. There exist In Naples cats which live entirely ! In churches. They are kept and fed by the authorities on purpose to cat the mice which Infest all old buildings there. 'l'he animals may often be seen walking about among the congregation or sitting ! gravely before the attar during time I of mass. , . , . . . . ' . . , , . . " icllasd , 1 - . . Because of a Nose. I. . , Rae : G J These companion coins bearing the laces at Antony and Cleopatra recall that statement of Pascal's that the 1113- tory of the whole world would have I been changed had Cloopatra's nasa : been longer. z I j . . . Y ; . . " " , " "b'iio > mis. " .