. Highland Echo 1915-1925. minuteor two, then smiled and murmured—Thank goodness theyre cursingand swearing worse than ever. A WOODEN WEDDING A real wooden wedding tookplace in Washington, N. C. recently,when the Pine-Oakes nuptials werecelebrated. Here is the cast ofcharacters:The groom—Walter bride—Miss Ade OakesThe best man—Robert L. BirchThe bridesmaid—Anna Lee LaurelThe ceremony was performed byRev. Oscar T. Wood. The bride andgroom left on the midnight trainfor Hickory, N. C, to spend a weekwith the grooms aunt, Mrs. E. Lady: But why do they make theapartments so smal
. Highland Echo 1915-1925. minuteor two, then smiled and murmured—Thank goodness theyre cursingand swearing worse than ever. A WOODEN WEDDING A real wooden wedding tookplace in Washington, N. C. recently,when the Pine-Oakes nuptials werecelebrated. Here is the cast ofcharacters:The groom—Walter bride—Miss Ade OakesThe best man—Robert L. BirchThe bridesmaid—Anna Lee LaurelThe ceremony was performed byRev. Oscar T. Wood. The bride andgroom left on the midnight trainfor Hickory, N. C, to spend a weekwith the grooms aunt, Mrs. E. Lady: But why do they make theapartments so small? Real Estate Agent: That, Madam,is so the tenants will have no roomfor complaint. Cecil: I dont like that piece thatthe orchestra is playing, its no good. Elsie: How do you know its nogood? You never composed anyj musical pieces. I Cecil: No, and I never layed an egg either, but I sure know whenone is no good. He: Darling, my heart is a see-thing volcano. She: Say, thats luck, the fur-nace isnt working What Is Air? BEFORE 1894 every chemist thought he knew what air is. Amechanical mixture of moisture, nitrogen and oxygen, withtraces of hydrogen and carbon dioxide, he would was so much oxygen and nitrogen in a given sample that hesimply determined the amount of oxygen present and assumed therest to be nitrogen. One great English chemist, Lord Rayleigh, found that the nitro-gen obtained from tht air was never so pure as that obtained fromsome compoimd like ammonia. What was the impurity? Inco-operation with another prominent chemist, Sir William Ramsay,it was discovered in an entirely new gas—argon. Later came thediscovery of other rare gases in the atmosphere. The air we breathecontains about a dozen gases and gaseous compounds. This study of the air is an example of research in pure and Ramsay had no practical end in view—merely the dis-covery of new facts. A few years ago the Research Laboratories of the General Electric
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