Leave Fighting Dogs Alone

1915

Let the dogs fight it out. A Nebraska court has held that a man who voluntarily attempts to separate two fighting dogs cannot recover damages from the owner of the dog by which he is bitten.


Cause of Sleep

What causes sleep? Some have thought that it depends on a flow of blood to the brain resulting from a recumbent position, but you have seen that the brain contains less blood during sleep, and a person can lie down for a long time without sleeping. Repeated observations on the displacement of the blood pressure from the brain to the extremities during sleep gave basis for the thought that sleep is due to cerebral anaemia.


Their Days of Comfort

We have come to the belief that the happiest ones in the world are those who, having experienced wealth and the intolerable bother of keeping to a certain standard of fashion and high living, lose their money and are then able thoroughly to enjoy the ease and comfort of poverty and privation.


What "Penny" of Nails Mean

The terms ten-penny, etc., as applied to nails came from the number in a pound, pronounced pun. Nails of such a size that it took 1,000 of them to weigh four, six, eight or ten pounds were popularly known as four-pun' nails, six-pun' nails, eight-pun' nails and ten-pun' nails, respectively; and in the course of time, four-pun* nails, six-pun' nails, etc., were gradually corrupted to the meaningless four-penny nails, six-penny nails, etc.


Considering the Ant

A sapper of effectiveness is the habit of thinking ourselves busy, says the Nevada Post. Its confusion of thought is a certain preventive of accomplishment. The ant which frantically runs up a grass stem and then runs down again is doubtless racking his nervous system with the idea that he is busy, but he is gathering no food for the colony.


Double Lack of Understanding

One half of the world, dissatisfied with what it has, can't understand how the other half can be dissatisfied with what it hasn't.


Optimistic Thought

Let it content thee that thou art a man.