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Exceptional Fall Sfocks
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Departments
Especially Coats, Suits, Furs, Silks, Dress Goods, Shoes,
Underwear, Carpets, Millinery, Blankets, Etc., Etc.
Lincoln
Nebraska
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Shooting Stars.
Astronomers estimate that about
150,000,000,000 of shooting stars reach
this earth In the form of meteorites or
dust every year. Of course shooting
stars in reality are not stars at all;
they are little cosmic particles, often
weighing much less than one ounce
and composed mostly of iron and car
bon. Most of them travel around the
sun In the same fashion that comets
do, following very flattened elliptical
trajectories. Sometimes it happens
that the trajectory of some of these
bodies cross the trajectory of our own
earth. If the little meteorite and the
earth get to that point at the same
time they naturally collide. These
planetoids are not luminous In them
selves. So long as they fly through
ether (which is utter nothingness) there
is no friction ; therefore no heat and no
light. But as soon as they enter the'
atmosphere with which our globe is
surrounded their speed is so great that
the friction against the air immediate
ly lights and volatilizes them. New
York World.
mouth-should beopened when per
forming such operations as' lifting a
weight, running upstairs, stepping into
a railway carriage, and the like. You
may add years to your life by this lit
tle precaution.-London Globe.
That Would Do. '"'
"If you want to find out who Is boss
here start something." "
"All right. I see your clock isn't
going." New York Press.
Corrupted freemen are the worst of
slaves. Garrick. ' : .
Train Your Breathing.
. "If one learns to breathe properly
when young be finds the benefit of it
in middle and old age." said a physi
cian. "You will notice that when a middle
aged man gets into a train be holds his
breath and then grunts loudly as 'he
sits down. This ls- stupid practice.
It throws a terrific strain on the heart
and may even burst a blood vessel. In
the lungs or the brain. Many of those
sudden deaths we hear of are due to
holding the breath while making a vio
lent effort. Only the trained athlete is
usually free from this fault. Athlete
or not, every one should practice easy
and regular breathing. If it cannot be
managed, with closed month then the
Pickled Steel.
"To: keep the, iron and steel used in
building big ships from rusting." said
an engineer, "is a matter of supreme
Importance. The admiralty is very
particular tint every piece shall be.
painted the moment !t is ready for
building purposes. But the steel plates
form a hard black surface, called 'mill
scale, in the process of manufacture.
This clings tenaciously to the plate,,
and If it is covered with paint and
afterward the plate gets damaged
then the scale peels off, taking the
paint with it, and leaving,. the, steel
bare. The plate is then liable to rust
corrosion, a serious danger to the ship.
"We therefore remove every trace, of
scale before, painting the steel , plate.
It is put into a bath of dilute hydro
chloric acid for a few hours, which
loosens the scale. , The plate is then
brushed with wire brushes and wash
ed with a hose. This is what we call
'pickling steel.' "London Answers.
;Tb"ErsTrohe returned home, and his
wife greeted him thus:
"Hello, you beauty! That's right
knock all the ornaments off the man
telpiece!" jp knocked them all off. .1,.
The second returned and on going
into' his house fell against the piano,
whereupon his wife said:
Yv"Go on; get a chopper and smash It
up!" .
, , He did so.
The third returned, and on going up
stairs his wife said:
v "You miserable wretch, fall down
stairs and break your neck!" '
Needless to say, he paid for the sup
per. London Spare Moments.
The One That Chose to Pay.
. Three men had been out on a spree,
and on the way home, late . at night
they made a wager that the one who
did not do am his wife told him should
pay for a champagne supper the fol
lowing night. .?
' The Antiquity of Man.
It has been known during a long
time that in western Europe man ex
isted during the glacial epoch. We
now know that the great ice age con
sisted of different glacial times sepa
rated, by interglacial times. In glacial
.times the snow line dropped 3.000 or
?4,000' feet below its present level in
the Alps, whereas in interglacial times
it lay about 1.000 feet higher than at
present. Thus the temperature seems
o'tt&ve been higher in the interglacial
periods than it is now. There is abun
dant evidence, in the opinion of Penck.
that man existed during the beginning
""the last - glacial epoch. There is
some reason for thinking that at least
20,000 years have elapsed since the
last glaciation and that the man whose
jawbone was found in 1909 near Hei
defberg lived 200.000 years ago. Scien
tific American.
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Improving on Shakespeare.
-"In a Jacksonville court." said a
FjOftdf congressman, "a lawyer quot
ed Shakespeare Who steals my purse
steals trash' to a deaf judge.
'-What's that?" the judge demanded.
" ' "Who steals my purse steals
trash," the lawyer repeated. " 'Twas
something, nothing; 'twas mine, 'tis
his and has been slave" ' "
"'Louder! I can't hear you 1 said
the judge irritably.
" "Who steals my purse," ' repeated
the unfortunate lawyer, ' "steals trash.
'Twas'" . '
"'Can't you speak up?" growled the
deaf judge.
"At this point the crier thought it
time to Interfere. He bent over the
judge and shouted in his ear:
" 'He just says, sir, that anybody
what steals his pocketbook won't get
nothing.' " . .
The Wheel Track to Eternity.
Time is the most important thing
In human life for what is joy after
its departure? and the most consola
toryfor pain, when time has fled. Is
no more. Time Is the wheel track in
which we roll on towards eternity,
which conducts us to the Incompre
hensible. There is a perfecting pow
er connected with its progress, and
this operates upon us the more bene
ficially when we duly estimate It,
listen to Its voice, and do not waste
it, but regard it as the highest infinite
good in which all finite things are
resolved. Wilhelm von Humboldt.
Question Too Personal.
"I had a mighty queer surprise this
morning," remarked a local stock
broker. "I put on my last year's
suit and in one of the trousers' pock
ets I found a big roll of bills which
I had entirely forgotten."
"Were any of them ( receipted?"
asked a listener who seemed to be a
pessimist.
And the temperature dropped Im
mediately to a point where every
body felt comfortable.