CORE AND ELECTRICITY.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 179, 20 October 1903, Page 2

CORE AND ELECTRICITY.

ffae DesadSy "live Wfcee" Enoini fffi I*&ia* Conakry aa a "Thunder ; j ©emS Liarhtnlns Striae.** Near the center of the city of Setou? theTe is a beautiful marble pagoda that was brought from Peking- about 1300 bj r one of th>e Mongol queens "who came as a bride to Corea. Her people at that time wexe shaking the "whole known world, and, under leaders like Genghis, Kublai and Tamerlane, were upsetting all the thrones of Asia, so that Corea still speaks of them with. bated breath, and the smallest children know them bj name, says a writer in Outlook. The marble pagoda, still stands, a silent witness before the world of the great Mongol conquerors, but past its s-fcony ear whiz&e® an American electric car every ten mimitea at ten miles an hour, regardless of all the Mongol shades. Along this main street of Seoul, one of the oldeat streets in the "world, stretch -western wires charged with something that detfiea all the curiosity of the east to pronounce upon. A few days ago a broken strand hung temptingly from one of the poles, and the far east determined to get hold of it to investigate, with. the result — one live wire, on© dead man. A government notice "wa* posted up: "If anyone is caught foolmg wii*hs these thunder and lightning string* left him be padded." . . „«

Selling: the Wind. "^

It seems incredible, but is neV'Srtn'e* less a fact, that? as late as the year 1814 an old woman named Bessie Millie, of Pomona, in the Orkney islands, sold favorable winds to seamen at the small price of six pence a vessel. For many years witches were supposed to sell tJie wind. The Finlanders ajid Laplanders made quite a trade by selling; winds. The old women, after being well paid by the credulous sailors, used to knit three magical knots; the buyer was told he would hare a good gale when he untied the first knot, the second knot would bring a strong wind, and the third a severe tempest. At one time winds -were sold at Mont St. Michael, in Xormandy, and arrows were sold at the same time to charm away bad storms. , •;'

A Distressed Community.

According- to the official report of the Ottawa, Kan., druggists, for March, it took S2 gallons of whisky, 88 gallons of alcohol, 38 gallons of wine, 14 gallons of gin. 23 gallons of brandj-, 4gallons of beer, 3 gallons of ale and 4 gallons of malt to cure the ills of that distressed community. The liquor was wanted for a multitude of disease*,. ranging from ingrowing toenails to appendicitis. One honest' fellow signed! ■up under the "mechanical" clause of the constitution. He said he needed four gallons mechanically — he jrasgo-. ing to hare a "barn raisinV^s*,*..^