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Wonderful Teles Told of Monster Serpents From time immemorial the sea ser pent has figured in story and legend. Fliny, the Homan naturalist (23-79 A. D.) tells of enormous water and land serpents, some so large that whole armies were sent against them. The hardy Norse fishermen gave thrilling stories of sea monsters. Olaus Magnus, a Swedish bishop, wrote of “a very large serpent of length upward of 200 feet and 20 feet in diameter, with a row of hairs 2 feet in length hanging from the neck, sharp scales of dark color, and bril liant, flaming eyes. It attacks boats and snatches away the men by rais ing itself high out of the water, and devours them.” Hans Egede, a Nor wegian missionary to Greenland, tells of encountering, on July 6, 1734, “a very terrible sea animal, which raised itself so high above the water that its head reached above our maintop. It had a long, sharp snout, and blew like a whale.” The oarfish, with a body from 25 to 30 feet long, and al most as thin as a ribbon, is believed by some naturalists to be the creature which gave rise to many remarkable yarns, told from ancient days until now, of “sea serpents.” The silvery body, crossed with dusky stripes, the grotesque head and face, with en larged fins tipped with red. waving above like a horse’s mane, might well give foundation, it Is said, to almost any story. Still no one can definitely <a.v that the sea serpent does not ex ist. Humming Bird Small but Famed as Fighter A man's bravery can never be judged by his size. Frequently the midget has the spirit of a raging lion while the big, hulking 200-pounder has the timorous heart of a rabbit. The same law of nature applies to birds, Kendrick Kimball writes, in the Detroit News. The humming bird, sometimes called the "jewel of the air” because of his flashing luster, is only three Inches In length, but bis courage knows no boun daries. Humming birds are fearless. They will attack a hawk, a crow or an eagle, and against such a nimble ad versary the bigger bird would have no chance. With his rapier bill, which he thrusts into flowers for their nectar, the hum ming bird is capable of dealing an ad versary a sharp prick which would dis courage further aggressiveness. Among themselves, the humming birds tight frequently. Like skilled fencers, they thrust at one another with their long, needle-like bills, ducking and darting so fast that the eye can hardly follow them as they maneuver for openings. Here Endeth the Lesson A thrifty Scotch farmer started off each day by reading a chapter from [he Bible to his held hands. One morning during the harvesting season, he struck the sixth chapter of Chron icles, which consists of 81 verses of genealogical names. He droned on until be came to: "And Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Job jzadak.” Then he paused and looked over the leaf. “Weel, my friends," he said, “they begat ane anither richt down to the end o’ the page and a lang way ower on the ither side, so we’ll Jist leave them to it. Off wi’ ye to yer work.” —Boston Transcript Nature Always Fair How just Is Nature in distributing tier gifts. As a tribute for the gossa oier skin she doles to the true blondes and the Titian blondes, she is greedy in the coloring pigment, for eyelashes uud eyebrows. With the stirring, vi vacious beauty of the Black-eyed-Su san type, she mingled a nice brownish skin, none too delicate perhaps, but which is far more resistant to sun and wind than that of the fairyiike blondes. To the face that Is not per fect in any sense, she adds the body silhouette of a beautiful dryad. In each case, there is sure to be one feature, fact or figure that is nearly beautiful.—The Dance Magazine. First Maple Sirup Maple sugar making is an ancient art entirely confined to the North American continent. Before the ad vent of the white man, the Indian had learned to extract and concentrate the sap of the maple tree. On the ap proach of spring the trees were gashed with the tomahawk, and a wooden chip or spout Inserted to direct the duid drop by drop into a receptacle on the ground. The sap was caught in a bircb bark dish and boiled in earthen kettles. The small quantity of dark, thick sirup thus made was the only sugar available to the In dians and is stated by early writers to have been highly prized. Few Left-Handed People From the meager Information ac cessible on the subject it appears that primitive peoples are as predominant ly right handed as civilized peoples. Any theory which seeks to explain the origin of right handedness must go back farther than civilization. Accord ing to the bureau of American eth nology, there are very few cases of left handedness among the present day Indians. It is supposed by that authority that the Indians were pre dominantly right handed before their contact with Europeans. Royal Splendor That Once Dazzled Europe Europe was dazzled by a display of royal pomp unequaled in the history of pageantry, when Henry VIII met Francis 1 of France on the Field of the Cloth of Gold. For bis entertainment a temporary palace was built at Guines, near Cal ais. covering three acres. No fewer than 2,8(X) tents stood around it to house the knights and ladies of his re splendent train. Their chapel had 35 priests to serve it and for the 20-odd days they were in France 2,200 sheep went to form one item of their menu. There is a picture in Hampton court which will give you some Idea of the splendor of the day. It shows the Great Harry, that giant ship, with her sails of damasked cloth of gold and four royal standards flying from her fo’c’sle, sailing out of Dover harbor. Other ships, bearing Yeomen of the Guard, drummers, lifers and banner bearers, are making ready to follow, and the water is thronged with small boats full of spectators, one of whom is graphically represented in the act of being seasick. The diplomatic results of this mag nitieent display of wealth and power, it i? sad to read, were us near nothing a^ doesn’t matter. I Chairman Didn't Quite Get Idea of Lecture Being a Scot, and therefore a sen timentalist, I have always had un ap preciative eye for good-looking women. As a consequence of many wander ings i thought 1 could give a lecture about the ladies of many lands. 1 gathered a lot of pretty photographs— ladies walking iu Hyde park, dusky maidens dancing in the South Sea is lands, and that kind of thing—and wove a cheery lecture. “Sovereign Woman: Being the Impression of a Man in Thirty-eight Countries.” It went well I delivered it In a Surrey residen tial town. My chairman, who had en tertained me ardently at dinner, said the customary things a chairman is expected to say—information culled from “Who’s Who"—and concluded by remarking, “Now I will call upon our lecturer to give you his experi ences with 38 women in different countries!” The audience roared. 1 Mushed. The chairman inquired in a loud whisper, "Have I said anything wrong?”—Sir John Foster Fraser in London Graphic. Disappointing Tiie big house in the wood had been unienunted for years and was supposed to be haunted. in despair the owner had the place redecorated, fitted with electric light and every possible labor-saving de vice, and offered the whole concern at a very modest rental. Later tie happened to hear that a man had been shown over the house, and in great excitement he rang up the agent. “Is it true some one’s taken that house at fast?” he asked. The agent’s voice was sad. “So far he’s only taken the electric light fittings,” he replied. “Per’aps he’ll come back for the rest” Not Case of Attraction When two small objects are float ing near each other In a basin of wa ter why are they suddenly drawn to gether as if by a magnet? The bu reau of standards says that the weight of the floating particles stretches the surface of the water, forming a dimple when the two par ticles come close enough; the two dimples coalesce into one, throwing the particles together. The action Is due to surface tension, In virtue of which the surfuce is constantly striv ing to reduce its exposed area to a minimum.— Washington Star. Problem Last year 1 asked my best girl to marry me and she refused. I got even with her by marrying her mother. Then my father married the girl. Now what am 1 to myself? When I married the girl’s mother the girl became my daughter and when my father married my daughter she became ray mother. Who am I? My mother's mother, who is my wife, must be my grandmother. Since I am my grandmother’s husband, I am, therefore, my own grandfather.— Vancouver Province. _ Where the Shed Horns Co Why aren’t the woods full of the horns which deer and moose shed every winter? The answer, according to a writer In Field and Stream, Is that they are eaten by rodents. "Many.” says the sport monthly, "have been found partly eaten which have the teeth murks of mice, chipmunks, squirrels, ground squirrels and porcu pines. Horns disappear quickly after they are shed, as few are found in the woods.” Versatile Publishers The Centrolzdat, central publishing house of the Soviet republics, face* a big task In supplying books to the various small nations of Russia In their respective tongues. Most of the books are textbooks, printed to sup ply the demand of the newly liberated, backward peoples for education and knowledge. Six fundamental alpha bets are used to print the 42 dialects: Russian, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, Goth ic and East Gothic. J First Door Knockers Utilized as Weapons ' The decorative quality of door knockers has been gaining in recogni tion and is now held in poular favor, says a writer in Vour Home Maga zine. •'Door knockers," reads Your Home, "were little known in the obscure reaches of ancient history, and their ! development from articles of mere ; utility to objects of art has covered ; centuries. The Greeks considered It a breach of etiquette to enter a house without warning the inmates. Spar tans gave this notice by shouting their arrival, but Ihe Athenians announced themselves by using the knocker, which introduction was doubtless made at the time when doors super seded hangings for purposes of great er privacy or safety. First It con sisted of a rod-like piece of Iron chained to the door, but unfriendly visitors sometimes wrenched it from the door and used It as a weapon of offense against ttie Inmates. It was then that the form was changed to that of a heavy ring fastened bv a strong clamp or plate to the door, thus serving the double purpose of knock er and handle. From Greece the cns tom was transmitted to the Romans and through their conquests to nearly every country of Europe. It was not long before they were very much elab orated, beveled, chased and designed in many variations, of which repro ductions may be found for the door that would be interesting today.” Guinea Fowl Resists Appeal of the Wild Guinea fowls have been domesticated I all over the United States, comments a I scientist of tlie United States Depnrt I ment of Agriculture, and have had [ plenty of opportunities to escape to I i he wild. They have shov n little indication of desiring to do so. and lids seems rather surprising, in view of the fact that they have done so in tome of the islands of tlie West In dies. They were certainly introduced long ago into most of these islands and are now found In a wild state In Jamaica, Cuba. Porto Rico, Domini can Republic, and a few of the lesser Antilles. Where the mongoose Is pres ent it preys extensively on guinea fowl and keeps their numbers much in j check. On Barbuda, in the Lesser An j tiiles. which was made into a sort | of game preserve more ttian 200 years ago, 'he birds sfin nourish. Wild gui nea fowl have been directly Intro duced Into the southeastern states in | recent years, but the outcome of these experiments is not yet known “Fifty-Four Forty" The phrase 'Fifty-four forty or tight” Is believed to have originated with William Allen, who was United States senator from Ohio In 1844, at tlie time of the controversy with Great Britain over the Oregon boun dary. Tills slogan, which helped to elect Polk to tlie Presidency, meant that Great Britain must recognize as American soil tlie whole Pacific coast from tlie northern boundary of Cali fornia to tlie southern limits of Rus sian Alaska, the line of latitude 54 degrees 40 min. north, or else the United States would declare war. The matter was settled by treaty in 1840. without war, by making the forty ninth parallel the boundary line west to the^sland of Vancouver, which was given to Canada. Hia Occupation “1 bear your son has taken up a profession, Mr. O’Casey,” remarked the visitor. "He has, Indade,” rejoined the host. "He's phwat they call a 'cross-exam iner.' ” This was too much for the stranger. “And phwat’s a ‘cross-examiner?’ ” he asked. For a minute or two O’Casey was at a ioss, but eventually be pulled himself together. “Sure, It’s a fellow who asks you questions, un’ you answer the ques tions. an’ then he questions the an swers,” he returned easily.—Montreal Family Herald. Bird’s “Languagen A scientist who has been making a study of the songs uud noises made by birds, says that the African ttncb Seems to bave a vocabulary of about #00 words, und apparently an alphabet of 24 letters or symbols. Instead of singing when it opens its beak, It really makes a little speech of many words. Often the bird will use a word one day and not use it again for many weeks. It wakes up at the same time every morning, and usuuliy makes the same morning speech of about 20 words that lasts 14 seconds, its dafly sched ule varies less from day to day than that of human beings. Juvenile Curiosity Little Maragret had been presented with a splendid toy with wbich she was never tired of playing; In fact, ahe played with It ail day long. "Margaret," remarked her mother, “how is it that you never pluy wirb any of your other toys?” “Oh, let her play with It,” protested the child’s father. "As soon as the novelty wears off she’ll stop.” A few minutes later mother noticed her little daughter examining the toy very closely, and asked what she was doing. "Looking for the novelty that wears ioff," the little one replied.—Pearson’s Ants Never Found at Loss in Finding Water In a thirsty land where, as some times happens in South Africa, a three-years’ drought dries up every blade of grass, the white ants always have water. The reason has been found by M. .Murais, a South African naturalist The ants are water-find ers and well-einkers. On a Transvaal farm while a man’s | well was being sunk the borers came ! upon a tiny two-inch shaft running in to the earth. The ants had been there before them I They had sunk an ant well Co feet deep to where water was to be found. Up and down this shaft, night and day. Water-carrying ants went, each bearing its drop of water. It took each ant half an hour to get down to the reservoir, draw Its water, and bring it up to the nest. Then down again It went. There appeared to be night shifts and day shifts, and the | night ants worked the hardest. It may be true, ns declared by M Forel, the greatest living authority ou ants, that they are creatures working almost wholly by instinct, and only to the extent of about 2 per cent by In telligent or reflective observation; hut when it comes to water finding, their intuition makes them bard to beat. Insect Hunters Giant hunting grasshoppers nearly five inches long, that prey on small animals such as mice and the young of ground-nesting birds, are found in the Congo. They rival the kangaroo as jump ers and can leap a considerable dis tance on to their prey. The hunting grasshopper is not so great a leaper in proportion to its size as the king grasshopper, the young of which, even before its wings are developed, can jump a hundred times its own length Very few men can cover more than twice their own length in a Jump. The hunting grasshopper Is the larg est of all grasshoppers*. Its great front lip hides a pair of jaws as effective as a hay-chopper, and Its appetite mukes it a plague to mankind. POPULAR ST. LOUIS GUEST LAVISHLY ENTERTAINED Miss Ruth V. Minor of St. Louis, Mo., who has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Earl L. Waldron, 2423 Ma ple street, for two weeks, returned home Saturday evening. Miss Minor was royally entertain ed while here and left praising Omaha highly. Mrs. Waldron intro duced Miss Minor with a beautiful pink tea. The following social affairs were given in her honor: Five theater parties, by Mrs. Rhe via Harold, Mrs. Wm. McAllister, Mrs. Jessica Wright, Mrs. Russell Reese and Mrs. D. E. Oliver. Two breakfasts in the park, one by Mrs. Blanche Buford and Mrs. Bessie Peoples, another by Mrs. J. S. Turner and Mrs. Helen Mouton. She was one of the honor guests at Mrs. A. L. Hawkins’ beautiful whist party, Mrs. Oliver’s and Mrs. Murphy’s delightful garden party, and Mrs. Frank Blackwell’s dinner party. She was also an honor guest at Mrs. Theo. Thomas’ birdge party, the Domestic Science Bridge club’s party and the Bridge club meeting at the home of Mrs. Edith Gray. She was one of the guests invited at Mrs. H. Greenfield’s, at the Trus tees’ Helpers club’s picnic. LINCOLN NEWS NOTES Rev. W. C. Simmons of St. Louis spent several days in the city as the guest of Rev. and Mrs. H. W. Botts. Rev. Mr. Simmons preached for Rev. Mr. Botts’ congregation Sunday. Mrs. Kathryn Moore entertained friends at dinner Saturday in honor of Mrs. Alma Wiley of Plattsburg, Mo. The Elks picnic at Lincoln park, Monday and Tuesday, was fairly well attended. Mrs. Kathryn Moore, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Alma Wiley, Miss Anna Johnson and Mr. Gray Wiley, motored to Omaha Sunday, re turning Monday. The Rt. Rev. Bishop John A. Gregg made his offical vist to Quinn Chapel A. M. E. Church Sunday night. Remember the M. W. Grand Lodge o fMasons and 0. E. S. Chapter con venes here next week, August 15, 16 and 17th. W. W. MOSLEY. LEGION’S SECOND BOXING SHOW AUGUST 13, AT COLUMBIA HALL ARENA With the battle clouds hovering about the Columbia hall arena, and the enthusiasm of the “fight fans’’ raring in anxious expectation to be released, the Legion is completing ex tensive plans for launching their “Second Boxing Show” at Columbia hall, next Monday evening, August 13, at 8:30 p. m., offering to the public the following high class card: Main event, Freddie Penn of Oma ha, vg. Jackie Daniels of Fort Crook, Omaha. Eight rounds. Semi-windup, Tuffy Langford of Omaha, vs. Rich Madlock of Omaha. Eight rounds. Four sizzling hot four-round “per lims.” Ringside seats, $1.00; reserved scats, 75 cents; general admission, 50 cents. Comrade Metz Manion is operat ing the “Legion Cigar Store” at post headquarters. This well equipped es tabishment carries a complete fresh line of popular brand cigars, cigar J ettes, tobaccos and candies. 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