The Elevator, as Far Back as Archimedes

1920

Ancient Elevator

The earliest mention of a device in any way resembling the modern elevator may be read in Vitruvius, who describes a hoisting machine invented by Archimedes. The elevator of the second century B. C. was worked by ropes coiled upon a winding drum by a capstan and levers.


Antiquity of the Emerald

The emerald has been known since early times both in Europe and in certain parts of the Orient, where its attractive color and rarity have endowed it with the highest rank. Its name may be traced back to an old word which appeared in Greek as smaragdos, mentioned in Greek by Theoprastus 300 B. C.


Values

Mrs. Peavish says that, although she would be the last to knock Mr. Peavish, sometimes she feels as if she would give twenty years of married life for ten years in widow's weeds.— Dallas News.


On Life's Journey

We should rather be life's good comrades than its passionate lovers, neither easily offended, nor imagining evil, yet not taking its affairs too lightly. Let us hold Life faithfully by the hand, loving it through fair and ill repute; as good travelers, grumbling little, praising much, and sharing sun and shadow and wayside inns. — Exchange.

—Bedford Gazette, Bedford, Pennsylvania, January 2, 1920, page 3.