Wright Brothers National Memorial, North CarolinaEast, Omega G.
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Wright Brothers National Memorial, North Carolina
East, Omega G.
Wright Brothers National Memorial (N.C.); Wright, Orville, 1871-1948; Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912
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1910 WEST THIRD STREET.
DAYTON, OHIO.
Ancient Warriors.
Before the invention of gunpowder a battle was little better than a
group of hand-to-hand conflicts. Stout sinews and muscles were then
valued, and the strong man was especially esteemed. William Wallace was
the Scottish chief, not only for his patriotism but also because he had
a giant’s strength. Once when attacked by five men, he killed three and
put ...
Parrot Chorus.
The traditional “fish story” has many varieties, to which it seems only
fair to add the following, even though the fish in this case was a
parrot. Doubtless its narrator, an American artist, designed it to be
“taken for what it is worth.”
He was very fond of knocking about in out-of-the-way quarters of the
world, and once left ship with a ship of comrades, in order to explore a
Central American wilderness. During the cruise of several months, the
entire ship’s company had devoted their leisure hours to singing to a
parrot. The sailor had also lost no opportunity of teaching the bird all
the nautical phrases they know.
When the artist and his comrades had bidden the bird and the sailors
good-by, they plunged into the heart of the tropical forest, and after
great exertion in accomplish- ...
forsaking all others, cleave only unto her, so long as you both shall
live!”
The minister paused for the response. The groom hung down his head, and
was silent, but the bride, in a staccato tone, exclaimed, “Yes, sir.
I’ll see to it that he does all that.”
It was evident who would rule in that household. But a Scotch clergyman
once married a groom who insisted upon promising to obey his wife. The
clergyman, while traveling through a village, was requested to officiate
at a marriage, in the absence of the parish minister. Just as he had
told the bridegroom to love and honor his wife, the man interjected the
words, “and obey.” The clergyman, surprised to find a husband willing to
take a promise usually made by the wife alone, did not heed the proposed
amendment.
He was going on with the service ...
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