| Summary: | Newsletter of the North Dakota School for the Deaf. THE NORTH DAKOTA BANNER mind* and a sort of get in touch with Colonel Bullion. Who knows but that he has just read it himself and is thinking of you at this moment!” Hence it was that the next morning found the Reverend Henry lingering about the portals of the massive office building in which Colonel Bullion attended to business, and sure enough along about eleven o’clock the impressive figure of the colonel was to be seen making its way through the crowded highway. “ Why, Bill, how arc you?” said the Reverend Henry, extending his hand, as Bullion entered the corridor. “Morning,” said the colonel, glowering at him darkly, and trying to' get by. “You don’t seem to remember me. Bill,” said the Reverend Henry. “Do you not remember that I married you to Josephine.'1 “Remember you!” roared the. colonel. “Remember yon? LM give ten thousand dollars if I could forget'you. You are, mv most persistent nightmare. When I t hink of what I got for that two-dollar bill I gave yon thirty-live years ago for tangling me up for the rest of my aatur-ral life, you ought to thank your stars I don’t jump on your do; 1-blasted neck. Get out of here!” And the Reverend Henry went back to his flock. — Harper * Weekly. ^ ^ ^ ^ The Japs make, a paper cloth that washes like linen. The last census gave, the United States forty-seven frog farms. Billiard balls will crack in winter if kept in loo hot rooms. The Italian government makes £15,- 000,000 a year out of its state lottery. Beer-drinking races produce largefooted women—see Germany and Eng-aod. Rice paper has nothing to do with rice, it is made of the inner hark of the breadfruit tree. The British government runs a eoepa factory, supplying the needs of its 70, 000 sailors. Among mammals only the giraffe, porcupine and armadillo are mute; they have no vocal chords. Royalties have unlabeled champagne bottles on their tables,so as not to afford a free advertisement to any wine firm. The landed gentry of Great Britain spend on fox and stag hunts four and a half million sterling a year—$60,000 a day. — Sd. If out <£xjjeidthx«s \o ft** ^S'owtlt pole ^CCORDING to the New York American, there are soon to be four expeditions on the way to the South Pole. The American says: There are many reasons why the South Pole will probably he reached next summer. Indeed, it would not- be surprising if it were reached in an automobile sledge. In many ways the South Pole and the Antarctic continent are more interesting than the North Polar region, more accessible to man, more mysterious in the possible secrets which may bo revealed and of more practical value to mankind. Lieutenant Shackleton was astonished and puzzled to find a warm wind blowing from the South Pole. The unexplained phenomenon has aroused scientific speculation as to the likelihood of a “warm oasis” on the Antarctic continent— and the extraordinary possibility of a new and entirely unknown race of people. Some surprising facts about the South Pole are as follows: The South Pole is situated on land in the midst of a great, continent, while the North Pole is in an ice-covered sea. The South Pole is on a plateau 10,000 feet high, while the North Pole is at the sea level. It is winter at the South Pole when it is summer at the North Pole. It is night for six months at the South Pole, while it is day for six-months at the North Pole. There are no known inhabitants in South Polar regions, like the Eskimos iu the Arctic regions. Warm winds from the South Pole have led to the theory that there may be human beings in some hidden oasis. There are no South Polar bears to lake the place of the North Polar bears. There are no large land mammals at the South Pole, as there are at the North. All the South Polar animals live by the sea. None of the South Polar animals are found at the North Pole. Seals are larger and more numerous at the South than at the North Pole, and quite different. Gigantic penguins, weighing as much as 100 pounds, live in countless Hocks at the South Pole, and are unknown at the North Pole. The most ferocious animal in Antarctic regions is the Killer whale, which is not found in Northern waters. The only vegetation near the South Pole consists of low forms of moss and lichen, while flowers and plants are abundant in the Arctic Circle. The South Polar regions were once wanner than now, while the North Polar regions were formerly colder. There are very high mountains near the South Pole, upward of 15,000 feet high, while the North Pole, is in a flat region. Glaciers at the South Pole are far lar- ~ gor than at the North. One South Polar glacier is as large as France. There is an active volcano—Mount Erebus—near the South Pole, and none near the North Pole. There is no time of day at the South Pole, as all the meridians of longitude meet there. It you stood at the pole and swirled your arm round it would pass through twenty-four hours in a moment. — Selected. «*r ®cei£ jHttutcs (Eligible. Those who hope to get jobs with the census bureau mustn't he afraid of work nor too proud to try other things than clerical .service. According to the circular issued by Director Durand, four classes of work are required: operating, card punching and card tabulating machines; ope rating typewriters, adding machine s and the like; manuscript tabulation and other clerical work, and subclerical work, such as messengers, watchmen, etc. The census bureau wants it distinctly understood that it will not employ a clerk who isn’t willing, if necessary, to work at punching or tabulating cards, on a piece work compensation. No person may expect to get a census job if he is an habitual drinker or afflict-ed with consumption. Deaf mutes, however, are perfectly eligible for examination, and if such pass, will probably receive employment. Only one person from a family will be permitted to enter the census work.—The Minn?- apolis Journal. A * A The success of most undertakings, whether large or small meaus unlimiled enthusiasm, hours of hard work arid a grim determination to conquer in spite of the discouragements that rise like mountains before ns. This is particularly true of our work with the deaf and. the individual who expects to reach the goal by any other road will find, at the end of the journey, that failures and disappointments are his reward.—The School Helper (Georgia).
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