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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2210, 29 August 1910, Page 8

SUICIDE OF CHILDREN. From January ist' to September fstb, 1890, 62 children, 46 boys and 16 girls, commuted suic’dc in Berlin. Ol this number 24 had attained the age ol 15, 14 their 14th year, o their 13th, while y were only 12 years of age, and i had not attained the age ol 7. In 1:1 c-ft of the cases the immediate cause for the act remains a secret, but it is supposed to have been due to exceptional se v erity on the part of servants or teachers. TWO OF A TRADE. A visitor at a restaurant noticed that the titer invar ably put the coppers into his oiislcoat pocket, anti whcii giving out hange lie was alwajs a penny or two short, i ith the natural consequence that the guests j .adc him a present ot the small change, j . hen our visitor came to settle his account j tis manoeuvre was repeated ; but he said ‘ > the waiter: "fust leel in your waistcoat | > eket!’’ to which the astonished garqon | eplied with a smile : “ Been a waiter your.:if sometime, 1 suppose ?" 1 HISTORICAL TREES. •);; the road from Therapia to Bttyukdere, . n Ihe Bosphorus, there stand in a beautiful I leadc.w seven splendid plantations of imj icusc size. They have been several times : truck by liglrffting, split down the middle, j ind in some cases part of the trunk has been i mu .-.timed by lire. Nevertheless, they are j uill fresh and vigorous, putting forth fresh | leaves and branches every year. Under ! heir shade Gcoffery de Bouillon, Duke of j Lorraine, encamped in the year 1096, with j t portion of his suite, when on his way to rescue the holy places from the thraldom of I die Saracens ; and popular belief attributes to this circumstance the wonderful vitality j if these " Holy Trees." JOSH BILLINGS’ PHILOSOPHY. Tiik most valuable thing in this world iz ■ime, and yet people waste it as they do , waier, most ov them letting it run full ahead, ; am! even the most prudent let it drizzle, i The devil himself, with all his genius, j always travels under an alias. This shows i l lie power of truth and morality. [ A sekret is like an aking tooth—it keeps vs uneasy until it iz out. I have larnt one thing, hi grate experience, j and that iz, I want az much watching as my j p.abors do, 1 1 lie only way to learn sum men how to Jo ouny thing iz to do it yourself. if a dog falls in love with you at first sight it will do to trust him ; not so with a uan. One of the hardest things to do is to be a /rood listener. Thoze who are stone deal succeed the best. if yu don’t know how to lie, cheat and steal, turn yure attention to pollyticks, and I learn ho v. RECENT RESEARCHES ON SUNLIGHT. Tint researches of Professor S. P. Langley, 'he distinguished American astronomer who recently paid a visit to the Old Country, have largely increased our knowledge of the solar lad I,alien. These researches were made on an exceptionally good site, namely, Mount Whitney, in Southern California, a mountain 15,000 feet high, and situated in desert tracts where the air is remarkably clear. The chief results of.his observations arc that pristine or extra-terrestrial sunlight is bluish, or, in other words the sun, il seen beyond the absorptive atmosphere of ! the earth, may appear blue. Moreover, the total loss of radiation by absorption of the atmosphere is nearly double what was formerly believed. Solar radiation, according lu Professor Langley, is capable of exerting over one horse-power per square yard of the normally exposed surface, or of melting a shell ol sixty yards thick over the surface j of the globe annually. It is probable, he remarks, that the human race owes its existence and preservation even more to the heat-storing action of the atmosphere than has been believed. A NORWEGIAN PILOT. " Did you ever come across a Norwegian .•Mol ?" 1 asked, cliei ishing a sailor’s venera .ion for the indomitable courage of these orihern sea-dogs. ’* Did I?” he returned hh warmth ; " I should think so. Why, mly last year, bound for Christiansaud, I ■lllO, bare iu a dense fog that had lasted .•.early all the way across. Knowing I 0:1 ;in to he pretty close ashore, I stopped engines and blew the whistle; but not a \ ard ahead could I see, and as night set in J don’t deny I didn’t like it. Suddenly I h- ird a voice—' Do you want a pilot, sir?' ami, looking over the side, there, sura em.ll.dl, was a pilot boat. Well, the fog was as thick as a wall; but no sooner was die fellow on board, than—' Full speed 1 Starboard her helm !’ and away we went for the rooks. After steaming ahead for 1 bout half an hour the roar of the breakers became deafening, and I could see absolutely nothing—nothing but the fog. * Hard 1 port!’ the pilot sang out, and hard a-port il was. Close to us the surf thundered among the rocks ; but a moment later we were in smooth water, and were brought to an anchor as handy as if it had been clear da) light." The captain here walked away a lew paces to get a better look at something forward, when, returning, he added—" Sir, you may go to the length and breadth of this world, but for hardiness and skill you will not beat the Norwegian pilot !" This warm encomium recalled a reminiscence of my youth, which at the time made a vivid impression upon me, and which, though it vis absolutely nothing to do with the .piescnt visit to Swe.len, I cannot refrain irom mentioning. Imagine a stormy winter’* •lay, with a pale blue sky, a dark-blue, turbulent sea, and a ship with close-reefed topsails. The gale howled in the rigging, ballooning the narrow strips of and rap-rapping the running gear against the •pars with wearisome monotony. Under )iu- lee. as far as the eye could reach, I retailed the iron-band coast of old Norway, vhcre the waves, leaping unceasingly igainsl the black rocks, hurled jets of white mam high into the air. From out among iiese granite boulders a small craft appears, bowing at first only a sprit-sail with a red I.ripe down the middle ; but when it draws rarer we can see that the b rat is covered .■ah a deck, is broad of beam, clinker-built, ,nd pointed fore and a f t —shaped, in fact, ;kr a gull. There are but two hand-mi 1 i.ard. The pilot -yellow-bearded, b.o.ad'louldercd, with a sou’-wostur on his bead -stands by the mis! ; his son, a mere lad, ns ho.ci of the tiller. < >nr ship ha- 1-e -a I mpt close-hauled, labouring heavily iu tin mgh sea, and presently the boat is to wind■ard a short distance oft. With his hand r.nly on the tiilcr, the boy is kef niy inching his chance, and the next moment ms us dangerously near; then a rope is hj own ; is defily caught by Iho pilot, who ■s it round Ids waist, and the boat again beers off. There is a moment’s suspense ; big wave approaches ; as it rises it lifts ilia mu), craft on its crest to a level with onr Aging ; in that instant the pilot jumps, and i.nds safely in our inizzen shrouds. The id meanwhile has promptly luffed, and lone in his nutshell, now lost to sight, now : 1 red aloft, he nmakes his way sturdily to rards shore : but on board the frigate we I 0014.- fhat " All’s well!” —CornluUilujculnt

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