Fun, Facts and Filosophy

ARE THE BIBLE FIGURES WRONG_OR DID NOAH LET HIS GRANDPA DRO.WN?

Grab this one, folks !

We found it in the "Kiwanis Magazine."

If this gentleman's figures are correct-and they certainly look sound and substantial, then Methuselah died the year of the Biblical flood, because the flood see,ms to have taken place just 969 years after Methuselah was born, and the Good Book says he lived to be 969.

But read it for yourself :

"The Fifth Chapter of Genisis says: 'X'Iethuselah lived a hundred and eighty-seven years and begat La,mech.'

"'And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died. And Lamech lived a hundred and eighty-two years and begat a s,on. And he called his name Noah.'

"Thus we see that Noah was Methuselah's grandson. In the Seventh Chapter, llth verse, we learn: 'In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month the sa,me day were' all the fountains of the great deep broken up and the windows of Heaven were opened.'

"I took a pencil and tablet and put down 600, Noah's age when the flood came. Under this I put 182 which was Larnech's age when Noah was ,born. To this I added 187, which was Methuselah's age when Lamech was born. The sum of this is 969 years from the birth of Methuselah to the flood.

"This is also the age of Methuselah as given in the Bible verse given above. It suggests the very obvious,conclusion that Noah left his poor old grandfather at the age of. 969, out in the flood to drown."

Woodcraft

There was an old trapper named Who knew the norfh woods like

He knew that black bass

Never sought the tall grass

And that woodchucks won't sn,ap

Cook a book. at a hook.

He knew that a quail wouldn't quail, When a rabbit was crossing it's trail, He knew why gnats sting

And why doodlebugs sing

Which is more than they'll teach vou at Yale.

TWO OF THEM PERHAPS?

The motor purred softly and surely as the car sped the country road, just as the moon rose. along

He kept both hands on the w'heel, and eyes to the front, as all good drivers should.

Suddenlythe engine, wheezed, coughed, slowed downstopped.

"It's dead," said the young man seriously.

"Well, it has plenty of company," she remarked, icily, and she may have been right.

Poor Skunks

It's funny how these humans get sot in their ways. If thoy believe a thing, it's so, in spite of all proof to the contrary. Hank lost that there pipe of his'n three years ago last November. He swore a railroad President he'd been guidin' had stole it. But he backtracked over seven st,iff portages to look for it anyhow. When he found it there was four dead skunks lyin' dead beside it. Fixiation or €nvy, he says.

The Recentness Of Bathtubs

Time maked a lot of changes in our views.

Instances: the luxury tax now in force makes one wonder, sometimes, jtrst wrhat luxury is. Take the bathtub. The State of Virginia laid a tax of $30 a year on all bathtubs in 1843. But while pursuing the history of bathtubs, some ot'her wonderings are raised. The medical fraternity denounced the bathtub as dangerous, in 1842, the year the first one was built, and said they were bound to result in the whole category of zymotic diseases. As a result of pressure by the medical fraternity the Philadelphia couniit i" t8+l considered an ordinanc! prohibiting bathing between November lst and March l.5th. And in 1845 Boston made bathing unlawful except on medical advice. Now, some seventy-five years later, bathing is not considered a serious calamity.

(From a letter in The Decorah (Iowa) News)

WEBSTER'S IMMORTAL WORDS TO THE FLAG

"When my eyes shall turn to behold for the last time the sun ,in lleaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored garments of a once glorious union; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a lone rent with civil fueds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glances rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and h'onored throughout the earth, still full high.advanced, its arms and trophies stream,ing in their original luster, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable in,terrogator;r as, "What is all this worth"? nor those other words of delusion and folly, "Liberty first and union afterward;" but everywhere, spread over all in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds as they float over fhe sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole lleavens that other sentiment, dear to every true Amenican heart-Liberty and Ijnion." (Daniel

Webster.)

The Latest

Four and twenty Yankees, feelin' mighty dry, Went across to Canada, g'ot a case of rye. When the rye was opened, ihe Yanks began to singT'ell with Mr. Volstead, and "God save the King."