The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 1720, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1909 Page: 2 of 4
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NOVEL ILLUSION OF COINS
THE DAILY LEADER
Excellent Pastime Can Be Demon*
strated at the Dinner Table
with Napkin Rings.
VERNOR & ABNEY, Pub*.
LAMPASAS,
Place four coins in the positions
shown at the top of this diagram, and
OBJECTED TO BEING SHOCKED
Parisian Purveyor of Snails Went Too
Far in His Efforts to Prevent
Petty Larceny.
ALARM CLOCK CAUSES,HAVOC
Electrifying shop wares to prevent
larceny is an ingenious practice in
Paris. A man who sells snails near
the Bourse found that gourmets in
passing frequently "pinched” a hand-
ful of them and disappeared. He had
a brilliant idea, and connected the
wire baskets in which the snails are
offered for sale with an electric bat-
tery in his shop. When a genuine
customer came along he cut off the
curx-ent. The snails themselves were
permanently electrified without appar-
ent harm. Anyhow, they did not ob-
ject audibly, and they seemed just as
good to eat after the treatment as be-
fore, when* boiled and seasoned. But
a party of schoolboys passed the shop
and "pinched” some of them. They
had no sooner done so than they set
up howls which brought a crowd. In-
quiring bystanders touched the snails,
also, and similarly yelled. The cur-
rent was not strong enough to kill
the snails, but transmitted a shock
which made the shocked persons
Creates Much Amusement -for Passen-
gers on Street Car by Sounding
at Wrong Time.
There was once a nice lady who
Went down to the store and bought an
alarm clock so that she could wake up
early in the morning and her children
wouldn’t always be late to school. The
man at the store was very polite, and
he wound it up for her and set it off,
and it made a most terrific racket. The
lady said she’d never be able to sleep,
through that, so she bought it, and the
man put it in a box and wrapped it up
in paper.
The lady started for home and got
into a car. The lady opposite her had
a little fox errier on her lap with a
pink ribbon on his collar. He was sit-
ting there just as quiet as a Teddy
bear. Next to her was a lady with a
little boy who
Coin Illusion.
attempt, or challenge some one to at-
tempt, without measuring, to move
the single coin down in a straight
line until the spaces from C to D on
either side exactly equal the distance
from A to B.
It must drop as far as is shown in
the illustration, which seems to the
unaided eye to be too far. q
This excellent illusion can be
shown as an after dinner trick with
four napkin rings.
PALACE OF TEE PPECIDEPT,
V CPA PEL TEPPC, F/PAUCO
|i\ usual interest, done by a local artist,
IgA Gabriel Barraca.
§f|\\ The zocalo, or central park, adjoins
|||l| the Cathedral, and is the airing-place
111]} for society on the warm summer even-
|!f// ings. Here one may see the Spanish
Ml/ women in their quaint and beautiful
WJJ costumes, wearing the characteristic
// black and white mantillas so becom-
/ ing to them, , and one feels that this
is the old life which has not yet given
way to the foreign influences of the
larger cities of the plateau.
In the courtyard of the Cathedral,
lin„ and under its very eaves, is a great
gambling pavilion. Here the inherent
anza gambling propensities of the race
feet’ have full play. Men, women and
j children, rich and poor, sit., side by
. the side for hours, playing their game
when with bits of glass and kernels of corn.
3 ex. The penitent,'' coming from prayers,
■ dis- hies himself to ’^he game; the game-
irvel- pter who has lost his all has but to
Eng- steP acrds^ tty court to enter the
It is church and bSeech the aid of his
iders patron saint in nis next venture,
ither While cotton, sugar cane, tobacco
3 ma- and coffee are the principal products
i the of the surrounding country, oranges,
gines almonds and bananas of the
finest kind grow here in abundance.
The peak of Orizaba is several miles
.s’ distant, but it seems fairly to over-
u shadow the place. There has been
eating a little
round cake. The fox terrier was watch-
ing his hand go up and down to his
mouth, hoping there would be some
left for him. That was why he was so
A GOOD THROW
car was broken by a sound—a loud,
insistent, penetrating sound. It Came
from the package the lady was hold-
ing. It was the alarm clock, which
was going off as hard as it could.
Then the little dog jumped to his feet
and barked furiously at the package,
and the little boy was so frightened
that he dropped his cake, which rolled
to the middle of the floor. Then like a
flash the dog jumped from the lady’s
lap and gobbled up that cake in about
three-quarters of a second, whereat
the little boy wept long and loud.
Meanwhile the clock kept on unweari-
ly and all t.he people in the car turned
round and stared, till the lady had to
untie the strings and unwrap the par-
cel and turn off the alarm.
SCENE OP TEE VELA CANAL
By Marie Louise Ward
Pictures in the Alexander Museum.
In the afternoon we went to the
Alexander museum, a very beautiful
building between two gardens, which
was once the palace of the Grand
Duke Michael Palovitch, and made by
Alexander III. into a national museum
of arts.
The pictures are all of the modern
.Russian school, some of them very
fine, and among them many by Vere-
schagin—scenes of the war of 1812
with Napoleon and a number of his
small oriental paintings.
After looking at them we walked to
the Alexander Memorial church, built
over the spot where he fell, which is
preserved under a canopy of bronze,
the rough paving stones upon which
his blood was spilled looking very
pathetic among so much gold and
mosaic.
The church, which cost 30,000,00
rubles, is most gorgeous in color, the
interior being entirely of mosaic, and
in the sanctuary, into which I was al-
lowed only to look, the silver cande-
labra and the icons are most costly.—*
St. Petersburg Letter to Vogue.
The clock
stopped ringing, the dog stopped bark-
ing, and the boy’s mother gave him
another cake, so everything was
peaceful again.
BICYCLE RUNS COFFEE MILL
Illustration Showing Ingenious Mam
ner in which Kansas City
Grocer Gets Power.
My brudder said girls didn’t
A bit about the way to frow;
But anyhow I frew Ins ball,
An’ now it can’t be found at all.
know
A Kansas City grocer lias an in-
genious arrangement by which he
grinds coffee for his customers and
gets healthy exercise at the same
time. When considerable coffee is to
be ground, be props
There’s lots of things ’at boys don’t know
About how little girls can frow.
I guess I frew it up so high ^
It’s losted somewhere in the sky.
Poor Relations.
"If the people who are perfectly
frell able would take care of their poor
relatives,” said the curate at Trinity,
"the church wouldn’t have so much
care on its shoulders. Did you see
that woman who just went out? She
is starving—actually starving. The
doctor told lier that the partial loss of
her eyesight is due to the lack of
food. Well, her husband is a -Wealthy
Englishman, so wealthy that I am go-
ing to see a lawyer about writing him
a letter that will bring him to his
senses, I hope. He is a member of a
prominent family that would hate
SUCU Exposure as I shall threaten it
with unless they take care of this
wife of his. And did you see the poor
wretch who is waiting outside in the
anteroom for me to give him money
for a bite to eat? His brother is a
wealthy broker at No. 61 Wall street.”
—New York Press.
his bicycle up as
Quakers' Meeting.
The players in this game kneel upon
the ground on one knee and rest their
hands upon the other knee, twiddling
their thumbs all the time. The one at
the head of the line asks the others:
"Friends, did you hear of Brother
Obadiah’s death, and how he died?”
The answer will be: “No, how did he
die?” Then the leader says: "With one
finger up, with one eye shut, and with
one shoulder awry.” As he speaks he
must suit his actions to his words, and
the company must follow suit. Should
any one fail to do so they must pay a
forfeit.
Eicycle Furnishes Power,
shown in the illustration, connects its
rear wheel by pulley to the coffee
grinder, and stations a boy at the
hopper to pour the coffee in, says
Popular Mechanics. He then mounts
the bicycle and begins to tread slow-
ly, as if climbing a steep hill, then
gradually increases his speed and
bends low over the handle bars until
the coffee mill is fairly humming.
Foundation of a Government.
A government founded upon any-
thing except liberty and justice can-
not and ought not to stand. All the
wrecks on either side of the stream
of time, all the wrecks of the great
cities, and all the nations that have
passed away—all are a warning that
no nation founded upon injustice can
stand.—Robert G. Ingersoll.
Like Weeds in a Night.
“Of course children outgrow most
youthful vocations,” said the observer.
"Little girls grow too tall for cash
girls, little boys spring up out of the
size of bell bops in a night or two, it
looks like, but the most pathetic
specimen of sudden and untimely out-
growing is the flower hoy who sells
roses in the downtown Italian cafes,
who one season stands hardly'higher
than the table, looking at you so wist-
fully out of big, sad Italian eyes that
the money comes out of your pocket
of itself, and the next season towers
over you like a football player, all the
sympathy you felt for the infant
flower seller crushed by his gigantic
size.”
1 How State-Rooms Were Named.
When they ipst had steamboats on
river they had no
m board. Later a
Mceived the idea of
named for the
TO CARRY DYNAMITE SAFELY
the Mississippi!
sIeepihg-i;oonis| c
bright captain c<
having the rooms
states through which the boat passed.
This proved such a success that trav-
elers always made a rush for the
rooms named for their awn states
and much consequent trouble arose.
Finally the state names were dis-
carded, but that was the beginning
of the stateroom. On some steamers
to-day the name “Texas” clings to
one room, but it is the room where
the crew eat and travelers are not
particularly interested in it.
Agent in Oregon Uses Method Ulus,
trated to Deliver Explosives to
Customers.
A dynamite agent in Salem, Ore.,
uses the method here illustrated in
Devices for a Sore Foot.
The sufferer from enlarged joints,
better kn'own as a bunion, usually is
in great discomfort in hot weather.
There is a device that will give relief
by protecting the bunion from rub-
bing of shoe.
This is a simple piece of leather cut
and bent in such a way that it fits
smoothly over the portion of foot
where the bunion is. The casing is
lined with soft felt and an opening is
provided for the enlarged joint, while
the surrounding leather holds off the
shoe. The protector is so shaped that
there can be no rubbing from a bad
fit
SHver Lining.
Wife (reading) — Here’s another
case of a bachelor going wrong. The
cashier ol a bank, aged 40, has been
sent to the penitentiary for 25 years
for embezzlement
Husband—Well, he’s in luck.
Wife—Why, how do you make that
out?
Husband—He’ll have a quiet, peace-
ful time of it until he gets out—then
he'll be tuo old to marry.
Hauling Dynamite,
delivering the explosive to his cus-
tomers, says Popular Mechanics. He
finds the motorcycle~and its attendant
truck an easy and safe means of get-
ting rapidly over the ground. It is
hardly necessary to state, however,
that he does not attempt to break
speed records.
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 1720, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1909, newspaper, September 24, 1909; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth911047/m1/2/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.