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TnfiotM** Alisha. June 26. 1926.
t’OTERAK SHOW MAH SEES FIN
ISH OF CIRCUS AND MINSTREL
New Yohk.e-There is one man, at
iedst, u . w tiofa- the oldtime -wagon
train circus carried a grater thrift
han cue live-ring shoes' oi (tfcdayv
He is fc'rfeh"Runnels, wpti played un
der the tent in 'many countries before
being a participant m the first circus
venture oi P. T. Bgrnum. •
Back in t89S,M ‘‘Tcm Thumb,’’* "a
giant elephant that killed riine per
sons while with tb& Barrrum-shcrw ano
iatier *aw placed ih tlie' Brens Zoo,
only to be'electrocuted because of his
continued-,liMocioiisnesjsr attacked anti
seriously mjured Bwunellfr.
Ilia circus life fended; ihe veteran
turned Co , the stage-and 'vaudeville,
where work was iesa strerrucus. To
lay he is a cripple end* is in retire
ment.
“In the old’days, the young served
ipprerrtscesnips m the proper school*
and worked: ap-to good plates;” "h*
-am...it They .were-the days-.ot -the cir
n* family w hem-one generation after
jraottwr rollowett the'proressivth. Now
'King's -are dieeuent; .people: _>$£.. drift
iai«.
“Every day*I see the circus deterior
ating;-v. The same-thing is true- oi
minstxUey.. iangerdtfive we- -any
oaptomime. Tfie ci-reuses- are drop
oiqg away-gradually.”
Runnels stgrteti in the circus game
vher>. *oe.fvas live-years old* appearing
in ipacttonaipie sketches with Madame
VfaCartig show in Scot tod. 'ife -was
,h« thid’ memaer of a troupe com
posed of His father and brother. Later
he! brbke mho riding and .appeared
with Hrwvr-r & Cushings’ show in
London.-performing before-the royal
family. .
Then he traveled sueeessively with
several shews in England, Ireland,
IVAles, Spain and Portugal, where the
kiflg witnessed the performance. He
toured Russia and Prussia, and then
wetit ti>:Fs|-is. .
The oid.lli. B. .Leat circus*, which
was located on Fourteenth .street in
New York, had his services- for three
years. ■ H*i **a& at Nibid’s-in 1820 and
1821, playing in “The Black. Crook.”
He; played, Veith JBarnum off and on
foe 14 years: In. 1876 he went to
South. Anxeu?ica«-.wh*xe.he.haA nianjr
exciting - expewr.cci- '•asatreg^ 4 he
Andes twite BrdtherairBhow .'f,.
The oldiCkJapee- &, Bailey -circus was
hid nexvConsnectnon--anti so .ore. down
the line until he was injured by; "Tom,
Thumb."
“Barmnu was :u quint' .®d'. reserved*
man," RuqneJ» said,. ‘‘Wf.-never, saw
much, of him,, ttceususe ■ ufc- didn’t mix
with the- i>er£prmer«».i. Ife; would.uit-,
tend the show auit then .leave. Essen
tially he was a .husine&a maitr—andn
good tme.
"Bailey was a great.shoiv maim lie
was a good mixer,, and at .the same
time was very strict. .He. liked .people,
who loved their work;.. Once he. had
confidence in a naan-he would do. any
thing for him."
A -LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.
, In IXTfh the average length of life ,
| in the United States was 41 years.
| Sleeping cars for third.-Class, pas-,
sengers on railroad* ar»*. furnished -in
Japan.
Building aldeks made from lime and |
sawdust are being,-made in the_EasU..
An African chieftain :has.' been'
1 found who oossesses 50 white slaves, j
A substance resembling- wood -. is1
I now being made from -pipe tree leaves.!
I A railroad -2,000 miles long across ^
! the Sahara desert is now being con
The Deerfield river, in. Vermont,
falls 2,000 feet in its 80. miles of
length.
1« a little more-, than two--years', a
sealed bottle, floated 8,400 miles across
j the Pacific. -
j Graphite, from whidh, lead pencils
are made, was .first.discovered.in Si
beria in 1842. -
Defective eyesight* , of1- . pupilft’ - in
schools cost taxpayer's $130,000,000
annually.
Dug up after-f2,0Q0' years, a, clay
tablet describing■ the, fall of Nineveh
has been found. ..
On the airplane trip around'-' the
world 18,200 gallons of gasoline were
used.
Elementary and secondary, educa-,
, tion in the United tSates in 1020 cost
'$64.16 per nupil. .
j Feats rivaling those-of ski jumpers
: are said to be possible ..with a,, new
roller skate just made,,-..
To put a train on -its .track in *-ttig
station requires the moving of-from
| 20 to 60 levers.
I Silk has been shipped frum- Yoko
haina to New York in 13 .days, boats,
trains and airplanes- being used.
Sixteen-hour airplane service be
tween New York and San Francisco
seemo likely within a few years.
In going to New ..York from San
Francisco, the Panama canal saves
ships. 7,8,73 miles over the oldinonte.
The' Enfoti Trust -Company’.‘j-"build
ing in Cleveland is the second largest
office building, in the world.
A large clock in an English church
was stopped through jackdaws build
ing their nests in the works.
The 'round-the-world flyers were ih
the air 320. hours on the trip.
More accidents occur in baseball,
than any other form of athletics.
Colorado has the greatest average
altitude- of any State in the .Union, ■
Air Englisfc-mare 3-wheeled, ;iautc
runs 80 miles on a gallon of gfi^alin'e.
1 An average of 21 acidents as minute
occurs iu the United -States,. .
Radiation is the source :o.t life and
the means whereby life ie maintained,
according to thehtheflsgarpf Georges
LLakhovsky,. laid be loth- thflt.- A cademy
of Sciences reeenilyU-.-by -.Professor
d’Arsonvat » Life, ht. contends, ends,
when the vibration of rays is inter
rupted. He cites in support of. his
theory the sense of direction, m mi
Larson &
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FREIGHTERS
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Between- MeGfcatii andl Ukfootna
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Connecting Carrier of Alaska Rivers Navi
gation Company
tvj
graory the sense in direction of mi
gratory birds. He says insects, larvae
and plants on which these birds live
send out rays into space just as all
living: matter does. . The birds, he
says, are supplied with'organs vhich
allow them to. receive these -rays jgst
as the antennae ef a wireless post in
tercepts waves or as the human eye
takes in waves of light..
Rochester, N. Y.-r-Vuco Perovich,
Alaskan slayer, who was serving a
life sentence in Leavenworth prison
and gained his temporary liberty after
Mrs. ora French Williams, society
leader, learned the history of his case
and went to Leavenworth peniten
tiary; obtained a writ of habeas cor
pus and brought, him here. The
Unity Society purchased a barber
shop for him.
Petrovich, has taken, the name of
Charles I’etrocick. He is well liked
in his neighborhood. He has a four-.
chair shop, and his customers are re-,
ported to include former Attorney
General Daugherty and other men. of
prominence. He learned the barber
trade in Leavenworth.
Perseverance
Judge John S. Partridge said at a
dinner in .San Francisco
“The lives of criminals often .make
me think that, this would he a great
world: if men persevered in doing
right, as zealously as they persevere
in doing wrong. .
“There’s an anecdote ahout this
wrong perseverance. A. judge was
traveling to California,,and a man ac
costed him in the smoking compart
ment.one evening.. Somehow or other
the maruhatLeontrived. to fill .himself
up with liquor, and for two, solid hours
he bored the judge with the story of
his home life, which was very un
happy.
“Well,, tfta next morning- this tnatv
accosted the judge again. He was
pale and listless and red-eyed now,
and he said, in a far-away voice:
“ ‘Judge, l told you a lot of secrets
about my poor wife, last night. They
were sacred-things, and-.bughthnever
to have been, disclosed. Don’t let ’em
go any further, .will you .judge?’
“ ‘Oh, that’a all right,’ the judge
laughed. .',.‘I'saw . the condition you
were in, and didn’t listen* to-, a word
you said.’.
“The man went off :with a .sigh of
relief, but that-evening, drunker than,
before; he-tackled the judge again.
‘“Now,-theh, durn < yen* buttons,
judge,’ he!-began* ‘you said you didn’t
listen to me last night, so -now- Fin
goin’ fo’.teh -you the wbdle story of
my wretched—hie—marriage all over
again.’ ”
FEMALE OF SPECIES MORE
AGREEABLE THANJMALE SEX
Seattlei-^Feminine dispositions have
won a scientific decision-lover the
masculine variety at thea. University
of Wasbirtgton.
> Compilation of answers'-ioi a agups
tionnainc circulated. among sociology
students by Read Bain, lecturer? uia
closed that the. female of the species
is more-agreeable- than.the male. Bain
said, “This is true because the girl
has a better disposition than the boy
originally,, but she has had so much
training in makisg herself agreeable
that she develops positive adaptation
toward ordinary annoyances.”
PIONEER
SHOP
Machine, Black
smith and
Sheet Metal Work
All Kinds of Repairs
Stoves Built
and Repaired
Robt. E. Lowrie
Tokotna, Alaska
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Tale of Two Cities.
Ira Nelson Morris said one evening:
in the smoking room of the Aqui
tania:
“We Americans roast each other
too much. This is a bad thing to do,
especially in the presence of .foreign
ers;
“A Chicagoan ■«« upstOra ?.hHow
countryman in the lounge of it foreign
hotel and said:
“ ‘You're a New Yorker, aren’t
you?’
“‘Sure am, brother,’ said the New
Yorker, heartily. ‘Shake. Put it
: there!’ And he held out his hand.
I ‘How did you spot me, brother?’
“But the Chicagoan ignored both .
the question and the extended hand.
“ ‘Do you mind taking your feet oil'!
that chair?’ he said, coldly. ‘My wife I
would like to sit down.’ ’’
The New Androcles.
General Hugh Drum, apropos of the :
war, in the Riff, told a story in Wash-1
i'ington the other day.
“It seems,” he said, “that a young
French 'lieutenant, serving in Africa,
found it,lion.-that . was. laid up with a
thorn in its foot,'.and, like Androcles,
took .the thorn .out..
“Well, the lion .was.so grateful that
it ran over the list of officers in the
young lieutenant’s ’•egiment and de
voured them all, so that in a few
weeks the fortunate young mim.found
himself promotod.-to a .colonelcy*,',1
" Culver City, June £4.'—Rex-, famous
film star horse, is reported dying.
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