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^ASPARAGUS HAS A LINEAGE
Homans Held Vegetable in High Es
teem Many Tears Before
Christ.
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Of all food plants there is none which
has been so long known or been pos
sessed of so distinguished a lineage as
the asparagus. Its records reach back
almost to the beginning of authentic his
tory, and it is mentioned by the comic
poet Cratinus, who died about 426 B. C.
The Romans held the vegetable in high
esteem. The elder Cato wrote a work
which is still extant, "De re Rustlca.’*
and it treatB at length of the virtues and
proper cultivation of asparagus. Pliny,
i? his natural history, written about
6^ A. D., has much to say about it. He
feelingly observes: "Of all the products
oc your garden your chief care should be
asparagus,” and he devotes several
i chapters to its many good qualities and
the best methods of raising it He as
serts that the soil about Ravenna was so
favorable to its production that three
heads! grown in that district had been
known to weigh a Roman pound. This
pound seems to have been about equal
to 11 ounces in our day, so it would ap
parently have taken four of the stalks
to have reached a pound of our weight.
The asparagus being essentially a
southern plant, It is possible that the
stock growing in Italy was of a more
vigorous growth than that of our north
ern clime. It is found all around the
shores of the Mediterranean and
branches off into four or five distinct
species besides the one ordinarily used
for edible purposes.
WON BY ORDINARY TALK.
Lack of Arm Gestures and Conversa
tional Tone Wins Heart of
Doubtful Maiden.
Congressman William H. Jackson, of
Maryland, was engrossed in discussing
with a number of colleagues the deca
dence of oratory, says the New York Her
ald. “Sane people are not emotional,**
declared the congressman, “and the con
versational delivery of speech carries
as much weight wlth^ an InteUlgent
audience as does the effort of a declaim
er who Indulges in brilliant periods with
an arm-swinging acompaniment.*’
“You are right,” said a listener, “and
your statement reminds me of a young
lady who had two suitors. Both men
had about the same advantages and
prospects, but gossip declared that the
girl would decide in favor of the man
who was a lawyer, for he knew bettor
how to present and win hie ease. Gos
sips erred; the lawyer was rejected.
Later it was learned from a friend in
whom the betrothed had confided her
reason for her choioa.
“ ‘Harry is convincing, but John In
Just as $qnvtnefitg'«Ad doas not have to
more Jtfs armt.evpry time he wants to
any something.*”
iic bee ranch in trisco
Public School Principal of Const City
! u Harvests a Third of a Ton
of Money a Season.
1 There is m bee ranch with moire than
1,000,000 bees in the heart of one of the
densest residence districts of San Fran
cisco. It is owned by Philip Prior, prin
cipal of a public school, and is In the
little back yard of hi* home, 'For ten
years he hta kept his bees there, has
harvested about a third of a ton of
honey each season and hae been at no
[ expense for food fo his interesting end
Industrious pets. Although it is a dis
tance of two and one-half miles from
the Prior bee ranch to Golden Gate parx,
the bees make" the trip there, collect
loads of .honey and get back to the hive
■ . a_ _•»_— a._-_a_ _ _ i_■ ■ _a. in..
1U iwu uiiuuvuo, uiaaiu§ ■ wniwtp’une
flight at the surprising,rate of 150 miles
an hour. Mr., Prior has demonstrated
this by haring an observer watch cer
tain bee-favored placea in the park and
exactly timing the arrival there of bees
he purposely sprinkled' with flour as
they laeued from a hive. He has also
kept time on the abaence of the whitened
bees.
BIG PROFIT IN BATHHOUSE
Average New York Seashore Resort
Receives Nearly $2,000 a Day
for Rooms Alone.
If you doubt that the nickel and quar
ter business doesn’t pay, consider the
money-making propensities of the aver
age seashore bathhouse around New
York, and make over your opinion. A
representative bathing pavilion has
1,500 hath compartments. It costs 20
cents to rent one. On a medium hot
summer’s day some $800 we derived
from renting these rooms, for the com
partments are used in the course of the
day by about 4,000 persons. Bathing
suits rent for 25 cents each. Thers
would be 8.000 of them for such a pavil
ion, which means $1,000 a day if half o!
them are rented once; and it is fair to
assume that three-fourths of the 4,000
bathers pay five cents for the use of a
comb and brush—$150. A total of near
ly $2,000, to say notmng or the proceeds
from restaurant, bar, barber shop and
Indoor baths.
Italy’s Emigrants.
In the past 30 years Italy has sent
more than 2,000,000 persons to the
United States, says the World’s Work.!
A number of these have returned in the j
course of time, taking with them care- j
fully hoarded savings. A very large
majority have remained in the United
States.
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Japs Drink Much Water.
A gallon of water a day is drunk by
every Japanese who practices, as nearly i
all do, the gymnastics known as jiujitru.
Cuba’s Population.
The population of Cuba is now over
1,685,000, which is an increase of more
than tern per cent slaoe 1800.
MARK HANNA'S COURTSHIP
Sew, When a Young Grocer, He
Wooed and Won the Daughter
of Daniel Rhodes.
Nearly 38 years ago Mark Hanna
was just starting on his business ca
reer as a grocer in Cleveland. He
was poor, plodding, and to the casual
observer a very every-daj sort of young
man, says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Daniel Rhodes was one of the rich
coal owners of the state. He bad one
daughter, Gussie, the very idol of his
soul. Around this lovely girl the
brusque old father had wreathed all
the sentiment, all the hopes of his fu
ture existence. Everything was to be
(Tone for Gussie. Mrs. Rhodes, her
fond mother, wa3 a joint idolator at
the daughter’s shrine, and the doting
parents had dreams of a rich, influen
tial suitor, a splendid marriage and a
brilliant social career for Gussie,
when, as usual, the unexpected hap
pened. Gussie Rhodes met and loved
the obscure, poor young man, Mark
Hanna. Mr. Rhodes was astounded
when the daring young grocer called
upon him and asked for the hand of his
daughter. He refused absolutely to
grant the young suitor even time
enough to beg. He said "no” curtly
and sharply, and when he saw his
daughter he tried to scold her, but in
stead he took her in his honest arms
and begged her not to think of ‘'this
unknown man, Hanna.” He said he
never, never could‘consent to such a
choice for his child.
tiussie Knoaes toia ner ratner, witn
many a reassuring embrace, that she
would never marry without his con
sent, and she added: "But, papa dear,
I shall never marry any man but Mark
Hanna." , ...
Then she promised her father not to
see her lover or write to him for a
year at least. She kept her promise,
and in the course of a few weeks, ah
though she never audibly murmured,
and was sweetly gentle and loving to
all about her, she grew pale and wan.
She neither ate no slept. The old fa
ther was at his wit’s end. Some one
proposed a foreign tour for that change
of scene which is supposed to work
wonders in heart affections, and,
presto at a few hours’ notice, father,
mother and daughter were on board
On Atlantic liner.
For nearly a year the "change of
icene" prescription was faithfully pur
sued and the patient, always cheerfully
submissive, gentle and charming, ob
viously grew frailer day by day. Al
most in despair the old man brought
his child home again and one mon
tog he gathered the courage to ask
her If she till cared for Mark Hanna.
"Why, father,” she replied, "I shall
-Iways love Mark; I told you that,
you know, a' year ago."
.Poor old "Uncle Dan" Rhodes! That
eras a bitter day for him, but he we|i
equal to the occasion. Bending for the
obscure young man, he said to him:
"Mr. Hanna. Qussie loves you, that Is
my only reason for accepting you as
her future husband. You are poor. I’ll
fly it so Qussie can Uve as. she has
been accustomed to and . I suppose I
mp!st see yetcmirry, fier-’ * l'' - 77
'Ngr the eomlng young man cast ever
so silgh. a shadow of his future great
new on the opportunity of the present
“Mr, Rhodes.” laid he; “I most grate
fu—*y accept the gift of your daughter’s
love. To marry her is for this world to
become a paradise for me, but I cannot
make her my wife unless she will bo
eoutent to live as my means will enable
u4. I can neither accept aid nor per
mit my wife to accept It from any
So Mdk Hanna and Gussie Rhodes
were married, ana the bride went from
her father's big house to live in a tiny
little cottage, where with one maid of
all work, she was as happy as a queen
fqr some years.
LINE OF CASTE IN ENGLAND
The American in That Country Soon
Becomes Conscious of Its
Restrictions.
What is it, at bottom, that makes
the English atmosphere so difficult
for an American to breathe in freely?
It is, 1 believe, that he feels himself
in a country where the dignity of life
is lower than in his own; a country
where a man born in ordinary cir
cumstances expects, and is expected, to
die in ordinary circumstances; where
the scope of his efforts is traced be
forehand by the accident of position;
where he is handicapped in all cases
and crushed in most by the superin
cumbent weight of caste, convention,
“good form” and the deadening artifi
cialities of an old society, comment* a
writer in the North American Review.
That unconquerable buoyancy which
infects the American air like a sting
and challenge, and braces every Ameri
can with the inspiration that he has a
chance in life; that there are open op
portunities, unreser red possibilities,
no battering at locked doors, no floun
dering in blank alleys; that here, in
short, it is the man himself who
makes his career—is sometaing which
the English have so utterly lost as to
be incapable of realizing it
For Purifying All.
Pure breathing air can now be main
tained in a small closed space by the
use of machinery. The device consists
of a distributor, which, by the action of
clockwork, drops sodium peroxide into
water at regular Intervals, a cubical
steel box and a ventilating fan. The
sodium peroxide is decomposed by the
water with liberation of oxygen, ab
sorption of carbon dioxide and destruc
tion of the other toxic products of res
piration. A refrigerator is also sup
plied to counteract the heating effects
of the chemical reactions. The com
plete apparatus weighs about M
pounds.—Detroit News-Tribunsk
ODD FANCIES ABOUT BEES.
Old-Time Belief That Honey Was of
Celestial Origin and Other
Queer Notions.
In these days of scientific bee cul
ture, when bees are trained to pack
their honey in pound boxes ready for
market, and are as much under the
control of the beemaster as sheep are
of their shepherd, it is difficult to
realize what quaint delusions prevailed
only a few centuries back in every
thing relating to the hive and its in
habitants, says the Chicago Daily
News. The sources and composition
of honey were subjects for many in
genious speculations. One old writer
affirms it to be “made of the ayre.
most of all at the rising of the starres,
chiefly the dogge shining out early in
the morning,” although he admits him
self in doubt as to “whether it be the
sweate of the heavens or a certains
spittle of the starres or a juyce that the
ayre purgeth from himselfe." This be
lief in the celestial origin of honey
runs through all the old treatises on
apiculture, from the time of Virgil
downward. It was supposed to be a
kind of manna from heaven, and its
quality depended greatly on the favor
able or unfavorable juxtaposition of the
stars at the time of its descent
Although the existence in each hive
of one bee much larger than all the
others was generally recognized In old
en times, this was believed to be mere
ly a ruler or king over the rest That
the large bee was actually the mother
of the whole colonv never seems to
have occurred to dKySBe until recent
times. This king bee is very fanci
fully described as having “a lofty pace
and countenance expressing majesty,
end a white spot in his forehead glis
tening like _a diadem."’ in each hive,
hlso, there were "subordinate govern
ors and leaders and captains and
colonels, marked by crests, tufts or tas^
sels on their heads, some yellow, soffTe
murrey." Among various other duties
It was the king's part to go out each
evening In search of any bees that had
not returned to the hive by sunset, and
to show them the way home. j
From the earliest times honey ap
pears to have been held in extraor
dinary favor as a universal specific for
human Ills. As a hair restorer it was
largely recommended, rubbed in plen
tifully night and morning, and if dead
bees were dried, pounded and worked
op into a thick paste with the honey.
Its hair-producing capabilities were
much enhanced. This mess had to be
plastered on the bald places of the head
ever night, with infallible results in
the morning, if one may credit a cer
tain fifteenth century writer. For
weak eyes the same authority says tq
take a handful of the heads of bees,
burn them, and mingle the ashee with,
honey gathered in the dog days. The
•yes were then anointed liberally wltb|
the mixture, and clearness of vision
was the invariable reward. „
In the old days .the situation of a
beehive was a matter of prime Impor
tance. It was to be placed always on
the south side, of a stream of water,
and. never in a place, where there worn
echoes, as an echo was very Injurious
to bees. A little gravel was to be putt
down in the neighborhood of the hives,
as in windy weather the bees needed,
small stones to carry about in their
flight as counterpoises. The baskeeper
was recommended to shave and keep
his head close-cropped, long hair on
head .or face being extremely offensive
to his charges, and in attire he was to
avoid anything of a red color, as this
was detrimental to the bees.
CURIOUS WORMS OF NORWAY
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They Gather in Great Numbers Form
ing a Serpent-Like Mass
When Migrating.
The Sciaras, of the genus Tiplux, a tiny
wormlike creature which is found ia
the forests of Norway and Hungary dur
ing the month of July or early in August
gather in huge numbers preparatory to
migrating in search of food or for a
Change of conditions. .When setting out
on this Journey, says Nature, they stick
themselves together by means of some
glutinous matter, and form a huge ser
pentlike mass, often reaching a length
of between 40 and 50 feet and several
Inches in thickness. As the scaria is
only on an average of about three-thir
ty-seconds of an inch in length, with no
appreciable breadth whatever, the num
ber required to form a continuous line
of the size above mentioned is incal
culable. , ,
Their pace is, of course, very slow,
and upon meeting an obstacle, such as
a stick or stone, they either writhe over
or around it, sometimes breaking into
two bodies for the purpose. A celebrated
French naturalist says that if the rear
portion of this snakelike procession be
brought Into contact with the front part
the insects will keep moving round In
that circle for hours, never seeming to
realize that they are getting no further
on their Journey. If the portions be
broken in two the procession will unite
In a short time. When the peasant meets
one of these processions he will lay some
obstacle In front of It. If It passes over
It It is a good omen.
The Leopard of the Snows.
When we look at the leopards in a
menagerie our minds instinctively tune
to pictures of the hot tropics and the tor
rid lands of the equator. But there are
leopards that love the snow, and never
willingly descend below the levels
where snowstorms occur in summer as
well as in winter. The New York Zoo
lo#ical park possesses, at present, a
beautiful specimen of the “snow leop
ard,” whose home is among the lofty
mountains about Thibet. Thousands of
tanned skins of the snow leopard are
carried to Shanghai for sale, but the liv
ing animal is rarely seen away from his
cool mountain home.—Youth’s Oompaa
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