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" U4n Ilk A. HEIR,
ARTIST AND DESIGNER,
STUDIO ROOM, NO. 10 MASONIC
TEMPLE
Teacher of Painting and drawing in all
Its branches including free hand, oblect,
perspective and mechanical. Pupils In the
In Public schools can take lessons after school
hours, to those pre'erring Lessons at houses
will be given. Portraits painted in the finest
styles. Satisfaction guaranteed.
For those Ohlecting to sitting a photo will
answer Old pictures carefully copied. All
kinds OF
DRAWING AND DESIGNS
made in the most careful and artistic manner
Terms reduced and very moderate.
RBPBREFCB.-H.S 5. McCOMB, X. X. Rob-
FsoN Il Co.. and J. Il. TAsTUM, M. d.
seDg3-8m
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BROKERs.
Elliott. Johnson E. Co.,
BANKERS AND BROKERS,
WILMINGTON, DEL.

We have on hand $4,000 TOR good hrs. mort
cages In sums Of 800 70 90, ,O0O.:.
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FoR SALR.-30 shares Union Hatlsnul Bank
sshares First National Bsuk.
Philadelphia, New York and San Yrapcisco
stocks and bonds bought and sold and
carried on margin.
Telegraphtc quotations received eonstau utly
and furnished. Trade dollars bought,
LOYAL SiOCkS AND BONDS,
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n X. ROBINSON d CO..
BANKERS & BROKERS
n. Il. Cor. FOnrsh and Market.
WILMINGTON. DEI.AWARF.

US. FOURS FOR SALE.
FOR SALR- 80 shares Union Bank Stock.
SILVER BOUGHT AND SOLD.
Philadelphia, Now York and Boston stocks
nought ana sold on commission. Every iaeil.
sty afforded for persons to sell or west in
stocks or bonds. tot1G-iy
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NeTICEs.
Consolation for con,um n.,v.)

The physicians of the Consumption NJ
pital, England, acknowledge that with h
Liver OIL, In any form, they have moi cps
two per cent. Of their patients, whereas. ny
these Hypo- Phosphttes they have cured eev'd
ty.nye per cent. PhyMcians have prescni
O,OO packages Of viisiized l'hosphs ~
all forms OF nervous diseases, vltslixln0
debiliiated, PREvEHTING and curing ooor,i
y. CROSBY, s6s Sixth Ave-, N /
For sale byz JAMES BELT,
Cor. 9th and Market Su., Wilmington. N
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WAN TED.

"AN"ED. "A situation ms a mllle'I
w Twenty years experience. Apply W
WILSON, WOOD & Co.
mh2S'ti Wilmington, Del.
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IN local securities bought and sold.

U. y. Government Bonds bought and sold
or exchanged at current rates.
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NOllcE.-All persons are forbidden ;
Az trust any one on our account wttl
OUT written order from US. GEORGE h
VERNON h SONS. ,.II.u
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"ANTtD.-A woman TO keep house Oh \
w iarm. Address, J. GROVES,
mfD Std 2tws Ch-istiana p. O.
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TIIANfF Of EOuRS-DLLAWA WAX T.
~ X WESTERN RAlLROAD.--Com-
mencing Monday, Feb. "a, 1879. Trains will
run IA iOllows'
leave Wilmington 7l5 a. m, 1880 a. m,
80 pm.
Arrive at Avondale, S5S II. m, IL 81 noon.
Arrive a. PomerGy, 20 a. H., 10 Pm
Returning leave Pomercy, lo4u IA. IN. I SO
y. m.
Returning leave Avonda!e II II noon
Op. IN.
Arriving at Wilmington, s a. M, 2 ID p. m.,
S00p. m. ID. CONNEIIl-, Supt.
CuhS.tG
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y A%s,saa 45 sae5 %F 5'"SF a.
mh3I.lt 422 Il. FOURTH STREET.
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WILMINGTON Lon
~ ASSOCIATION now offers new stosI
Tor sale. The tirst payment may be made
any time to the Secretary,
mh-' I'm GEO. G. NJ ARlS,
bOl Shipley Street, Second hoor
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DHI !ELPylA. ffE rxoEnH-
I WILMINGTON AND 1%
BAL.Tl lore RAILROAU,

NOVEMBER 10. 1873.
Tfans will leave Wilmington rs follows =
For Philadelphia. and intermediate stations
Us, 80, 10 10. q. m. 2 20. 30, TO, 10 p. III
Philadelphia (Express) % 8 50. a. M.
Philadelphia and NewYork, 7O6237, 8 30 a.
m, IL 35. II 80, 8 48 p. IN.
Baltimore and intermediate 5tations,S 80 AIN
Baltimore and Bay Line, 70s.
Baltimore and Washington 1851, 2 10, SO
u. IN. II 81, l 04, blS. 10 20 p. IN.
Trains lor Delaware Division leave ,Gf:
New Castle 9l5 u. III. II 05, $50 y. m.
Harrington and Intermediate stations, . 10
a. m, l 05 8 30 D. m.
DeImar intermediate stations 3 10 a. m. ! Of
p. m.
SUNDAY TRAINS
Philadelphia and intermediate stations 8 10
H., 8 On, 8 80 p. IN.
Philadelphia and New York, 2 w, 8 IS. u. IN.
Baltimore and Washington IL 81; 2 ~. d 80.
I'm.
For further information passengers are re
ierred to the timetables posted at the n.pot
nov20- II. r. KENNFY. Sunt
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"ANTED.-A girl for general housewort
w and plain cooking. Apply at
mh.S3t* 81 MARKET STREET.
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NOilCE.-Thote having unseitIed !
4 counts with Drs. Shelp and Wins
~ ,ne nrin or personal, VIII please call M
Street. mboa III
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Sighting a Cannon.

In olden times a quartermaster's sergeant
might squint his left eye along a field-piece and
have it fired with the hope Of hitting some
thing somewhere. Now, however, the sighting
OF a cannon is more difficult to do than the so
luton OF problem in comic sections to shool-
boy. Six instruments must be used in France
before the word fire Is given. The anemome-
ter measures the force and velocity Of the wlnd.
The pressure of the atmosphere is taken by
means Of barometer. The sights are grad
uated with the pressure of a certain figure, and
OF course a change must be made If the pres
sure Is greater or less. Next a hydrOmeter
gives the amount of moisture in the atmos-
phere. The degree of dampneSS materially af-
fects the resistance offered to the flight of a
cannon ball, although to meet one of them you
would not expect it would mind dampneSS or
any thing else much. A planchette Is used
where the object fired at Is out OF sight A tele-
meter, or range-tinder is employed to ascertain
the distance of objects fired at, and finally a
thermometer gives the temperature. as the
sight marks that would be all right in warm
weather are too cold for firing in cold weather.
After all this Is done, we presume it does not
require more than half dozen men to tell the
gunner to fire. 1t must make them mad after
all their calculations are made to find that the
ball does not go within a mile of the object
fired at, or what Is more probable to find that
the enemy has moved Off one hundred miles or
so while the figuring is going on. The French
army will have to provide each cannon vita a
college Of technology to do the sighting
Bi1l1ltQTltOu Democrat,
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The WangOsteen,

must not OaAit the tree which bears the IA
nous fruit OF the East known as the mang0S-
teen. II is not tail nor is 1t particularly hand
some. Ii is only some twenty feet In hight and
has spreading branches instead OF the single
TUFTS that adorn the trees that have just de-
scribed. But the fruit Is the prince OF the tree
fruits OF the world-the apple, the peach the
orange, the pomegranat9, none OF them can
fiaVoIS OF all these fruits you are only begin
ming 10 approach 1t, Externally, 1t has the ap-
pearance of a small apple that has been par
TALLY baked or has become very brown in the
sun. On cutting 1t you ind an external husk
harder than the rind OF an orange and three
times as thick. When you have penetrated this
husk you lind mass OF Snow-white pulp and
you need no Instructor to tell you that this is
the edible portion or the mangoSteen. 1t meltS
In your mouth like an overripe peach or like
snow on the surface OF a river. Its flavor Is q
combination OF sweetness and slight acidity
which you can no more describe than you can
tell how a violet smells or a canary sings. l
think / have tasted nearly every fruit that
grows on the globe, and uuheSitatingly award
the prize OF excellence TO the mangoSteen. At
this distance OF time and place my lips moISten
when / think OF the mangosteenS that Solaced
the heat OF Java and made the life OF the island
more agreeable than 1t would otherwise have
been. II this fruit grew In the garden OF Eden
can well understand why Adam and Eve wept
AT thelr expulsion; perhaps IL was the mangos-
Teen which the serpent offered for the tempta-
llon OF our Ilrst mother, and II so, 1t is easy to
understand why she fell from grace.-[ Cores
lJOf0t7tCe or I'hiiGs Times,
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The Queer Conklings.

1 have made some inquiries In New York
about the ConklingS, and they seem to be
queer. In GeneSee, where they came from origi-
naly, they tell all sorts of ridiculous anecdotes
about them. 1t appears that there are three
sisters and two sons. The sisters live sort Of
hermit life, and two OF them, l think, did not
marry. They say Conkling'S brother, Fred,
thinks he ought to be senator, as he Is alto
gether bigger man than Roscoe. The old
man, Judge Conkling, father of Roscoe, must
have been curiosity. was told that some
gentlemen called to see him at Utica ON one occa-
sion, preSumlng that he was staying at his
sons Office. COnkling entertained them with
considerable grandeur, Supposing that they
had come to see him. He was not SO cordial
Wnen he found that they were in search of the
old man. The judge was found in little house,
away down the street, and in a small ROOM
and when he heard that they had called on
Roscoe, he exclaimed: '.That is all you come to
Utica for, to see Senator Conkling. You did
not think me worth calling on first" The old
fellow was jealous, and wanted the attention.
On another occasion Judge Conkling was called
on to make speech, and was introduced to the
audience as the father of Hon. Roscoe Conkling.
At this the old fellows cOuntenance fell, and he
began to stumble in his speech, and seemed to
lose all heart in what he was going to say; and
after the meeting he belabored that man fierceiy
for having introduced him as the father of his
son, instead OF the judge himself. They tell me
that Conkling on one occasion wanted to con-
suit his father On point Of law" said Grosev-
nor, 1.-The father being the best lawyer OF the
Two. 90 roscoe began the letter to h,s father:
ZION. AlIrea CQpkling, Utica, New York-My
uear SIR instead CT saying: MY dear 1ather
give me some informal ion. Geo Z. II. eros.
IpTO1. in Cincinnati CslyD rJ1e,,>Tt.
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The Whist Revival.

1t is little singular that the increased inter-
est in whist which has, In the past two or three
years, shown itself in this country, has received
such slight notice. Silently, and without any
apparent cause, this game Of cards has assumed
that place In popular estimation which was re-
kindred games. Perhaps the change may be
best Indicated by contrasting public taste In this
respect as it was six or eight years ago with
what one finds it to be at the present time
Then 1t was the exception to find, say on rail-
road train, four persons, willing to play game
OF cards, who knew, or had any desire to know,
how to play whist. The game was looked upon
as one which demanded a degree of thought and
attention which few cared to give, and hence
those whist-playerS making a journey of any
length, whose eye-S1ght did not permit them to
pass the time in reading were forced to accom-
mOdate themselves In the matter of ard-play-
ing to the feebler efforts of their chance aSsocl-
ates. At the present time, however, under Cir
cumstanceS such as those just mentioned, it is a
very common thing to find that the game first
suggested Is whist, and that out OF several
groups of players fully half of them will be en-
gagged in this diversion. Possibly, partial ex-
PLANTATION of this revolution In sentiment Is to
be found In the loss OF interest that euchre has
sustained. That game, In the efforts made by its
friends to uphold its popularity, has undergone
several transformations, and the forced intro
duction OF the "joker," or '.best bower into the
scheme was desperate but unsuccessful at
tempt to revive tagging interest. For time,
the efforts seemed promising, but the triumph
was short one, and now the apathy in the pub
lie mind, as regards euchre, Is too deeply rooted
to be shaken of by meretriciOus devices Euchre
had little real worth upon which to sustain It's
self, and is now so thoroughly doomed game
players will be acquainted with it other than by
namely. Y. Times.
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The Postman of the Desert.

The village OF Damer, which lay almost at
my feet, is the point at which the Arabs eX-
press courier, after nine days and nights
Journey across the deserts, delivers up his mail.
The wild Bedouin who performs this dangerous,
solitary and fatiguing journey enters the two
centres OF Eastern clV1lZatf0n, between which
he furnishes a means OF communication. For
him the fragrant gardens and well-Stocked ba-
Zaars OF Damascus have no attraction; or per-
hapS he fears that he might be seduced by
them, and avoids the temptation. Be that as 1t
may, he StotS on the verge OF the desert, at
either end OF his route, and swings on his little
dromedary to and fro over its arid wastes catch
Ing such snatcheS of rest as he may at the scat
tered GASES and widely separated wells, where
he stops to refresh his camel. With the cop
perry sky scorchtng him by day and the change
less blue above him at night, rarely knowing
the shelter even of an Arab tent, carrying with
MIN the dates and rice sufficient to last him for
ms Journey. exposed to perilS from thirst and
sand storms and predatory Arabs, to whom the
Meet animal he rides Is sore temptation, he Is,
without doubt, the most bizarre and excep-
uona poStman In existence. One wonders
whether he has really ever fathomed the mys-
lery OF MS occupation, or found out why he
should thus be kept constantly oscillating be-
tween the opposite margins OF the desert with
a bag; whether he knows what is In the bag, or
IL ne does, can form any conception why people
are doing In Bagdad, for he can never have ex-
perienced the sensation OF wanting either to re-
ceiVe or TO send letter. 1t is probably with
he ministers to this morbid craving for impart-
ing and receiving useless Information. Then,
again, what opportunities for profound reflec-
ton he enJoyS Rarely exchanging word with
hidden dangers always on the alert, and yet
never varying the eternal monotony Of sky and
deSert-the mystery OF existence must present
the problems which civilization has failed to
fathom In an entirely new light TO him, forever
perched ON the back OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Goods MQHdzifP,
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Mistakes Of Nature.


Two OF the most marvellous specimens Of the
genus homo have been discovered In Morgan
county, KY. They are two boys named James
and Henry Elan, aged respectively eight and
twelve years. These boys talk nationally, are
ordinarily intelligent, but are peculiar In hav-
ing no hair on their bodies and heads. Their
skin is covered with heavy scales like fish. At
the elbow, knees and foot joints the skin is very
thick, resembling the skin OF an alligator. They
never perspire, but turn right blue when they
get heated. They take to water as naturally
as fish, but, strange to say, can't swim. They
dive and crawl along the bottom with great
activity and delight. They cannot walk
bare footed, their feet cracking open, and
have to wear shoes all the time. Their
eyes are large and round, not almond-shaped and
the lids are very red. They never wink, and
sleep with their eyes wide open, and are always
in motion when asleep. Their features are said
to be very good and regular. They have to keep
their bodies greesed when not In the water.
When the body becomes dry the skin cracks
open. Their heads are covered with scales In
lieu OF hair. The boys handle snakes with i'm
punity and delight, frequently quarreling over a
single reptile, but satisfied when each has one,
and snakes have no anttpathy to them, but fol-
low them like dog does his master. The mother
OF these monStrOSit1eS has borne eight children.
The eldest, daughter of sixteen, Is beautiful OF
form and features. and the other children are
not at all peculiar. She cannot account for Ma
lures freak In these cases. They are expected
to be In Mt Sterling shortly, when our scientists
will have an interesting problem to S0lye.IM
Sterling Democrat
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The Question Answered Loudly in
Nevada.

An item stating that negroes never sneeze has
been going the rounds OF the press. Last even
ing a Chronicle reporter demanded of Mr.. George
w. Jackson, while that gentleman was improv-
why is it. George, that you don't sneeze?"
"'Cause amt got no call to" replied the old
gentleman in some surprise.
did you ever Sneeze, GeOrge?"
"Did evan sneeZe?" cried the aStoniShed Mr.
jackson. "Well, you heah me. sab, dis ole
horn O. mine Is a Snorter when 1t has business
on hand"
When it was communicated to Mr.. Jackson
that the press OF the country was asserting that
the African nose is deficient in sternutatory
10 show how groundless it was he hobbled out
OF the barber shop and returned with a pinch
OF Snun, which presently resulted in an eypl0-
sion that created the impression In the neigh
borhood that some old machinery was being
broken up with giant powder cartridges at the
Con. Virginia works
Dat shows whae youah noospapahs mount
TO-" said Mr.. Jackson as he wiped his eyes
Then he requested the reporter to look upon the
back Of his coalblack hand.
see heah, i" he said, tapping over the knotty
old paw and disclosing the lung colored palm
'.whahs the science man dad Kin explain dat
fnominum?" inquired Mr.. jackson, proudly
and he further conflded to the reporter the
pleasing fact that the soes of his feet presented
the same inexplicable popularity. He also re-
lated test that had been made in ST. Louis
some years ago OF the blood of a white man. a
negro and bullock, which had resulted in the
utter cOnfOunding OF scientists. who had been
able to discover no difference between the fluid
held in the respective tubs. Mr. jackson con-
filmed all his statements with a final sneeZe.
which caused a man being shaved to jump up in
his chair and cut a cash in his jaw against the
racer"
Oars blood fer to prove what SEE" was the
pleased observation of Mr.. Jackson.-( Virginia
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Hindoo Care of Life.

In the early dawn next morning we drove to
KairO, place of twelve thousand Inhabitants,
along a fine road with Sheltering trees.
The town stands on the high bank of river.
From the top of the collectors house there Is an
extensive view over rich, well-timbered coun-
try. There are many monkeys, some very large,
and, though they injure the crops, no one mo-
Tests them. This care OF life in regard to the
lower creation is principle OF Hindoo religion
more strictly observed than that Of care OF their
fellow-creatureS, outside the circle OF their own
family connection. Within that circle they are
wonderfully kind HindooS of high caste never
take life. Some are strict vegetarians and
in order to preserve life will frighten
away fish from parts of river where
they have reason to expect English Off
GERS to come in quest OF them. Even
the much-abused money-lender refuses all adj
vanceS to the fishermen. On one occasion 1
came upon an extensive inclosed park with
shelter sheds, maintained by a native banker
into which horses no longer fit for use were
charitable received and fed, that they might
wear out their lives in qutetness And yet female
infanticide is undoubtedly too common, sixty
four females to one hundred males, being not
an unusual proportion in the population. A
native judge explained this to me by the great
desire among the lower class to interfnarry
with the higher, a lower man being ready to
pay a needy man Of the higher order large sum
OF money to induce the son of the higher rank
to marry his daughter. But when the lower
man has no money, as Is too often the case, the
female infant is apt to be neglected and allowed
to die-TNinetee1lfh CenturU
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The condition OF women and the cailaren seem
the hardest feature OF this life among the Alps.
But in crossing the mountains from Martigay 10
Chamouni saw one John Anderson. Ny Joe''
and his old WIFE, going down the hill to church
and the hill Of life together, hand In hand, and
though it was sight that brought tears 10 my
eyes it did my heart good and was better than
any sermon the most eloquent preacher could
have preached TO me that day. II was Sunday
morning and we were leaving the littleidull town
Oh Martigny Out greatly improved in cleanliness
and every civilized and civilZing aspect and COM
Tort during the last five years. and we met many
OF the peasants in their clean Sunday dress COM
ing down from their little hamletS in the higher
valleys OF the mountains to the ''Grand village
for their holy day and to church. Among them
was one old couple, olderin looks tan anybody
We ever see in our country. A woman whom /
saw in New England last year at the age of 1Os
years would have looked young and fresh beside
them. Their faces were the color of leather but
they were serene and happy, and turned kindly
and lovingly towards each other as they stepped
slowly and tottertng down the hill Their
shoulders We're bowed under burdens both had
long borne, but one could see in their faces and
the close clasp they held, each OF the others
hand, that they had been borne together. Their
poor old bodies were twisted and bent far out of
the upright OF LIES vigor, but the leaning was
towards each other, and there was touching
expression of tenderness in the manner in which
they walk together, and waited sometimes each
for the tagging step OF the other, in whose way
lay the rougher places, as beautiful as the love
OF Praxiteles and Phryne, or Pericles and Aspa-
sia- II was promise to. me that better time
would come to woman, even In these valleys
1t may be in the ages when these glaciers shall
have disappeared melted as the Nor de Glace is
doing, sinking away, they tell us, at the rate OF
loot In eighty days, and In the ages yet to come
When their beds shall have gathered moss and
SOIL and been converted into green pasture land
10 supply the needs of these poor people, but
come 1t will and come it must like dear Rob
bic BuInS'S time, when 'Brithers all shall men
DE, ;" Tor II Is need OF the civilization towards
which we are advancing, and Imam cannot retari
II any more than he can the glaciers 1iow
fCOr. Detroit Post.
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What is too small to be seen. people are gen.
orally apt TO regard with contempt or indiffer-
ence, as OF no practical consequence. This is
one ofthe groSSeSt OF popular errors. There is
not only profound scientific interest in the
realm OF microscopic life, which is every day
becoming deeper as It's organisms are viewed
from the standpoint OF evolution, but they
have a significance in the economy of nature q
usefulness to man, and value in the indus
trial arts, OF which but few glimpSeS have as
yet been popularity obtained To the inquiry,
OF what service are those SwarmS of tnfiniteSi-
NAL objects which are revealed only through
the microscope? do they SubServe any other
purpose than to amuSe infatuated micrOScop-
ists?-the reply is, that their operations in ma
that their influence on man and other organisms,
as we'll as on the air, the water, and the solid
earth, Is nothing less than enormous Although
we do not see these 1ntiniteSimal creatures at
work, their proceedings are none the less real;
and though their operations are infiniteSimal,
the aggregate results are vast and in the high
est degree important. 1t may be shown-1.
That, as food, they feed greater number Of
beings than any other kind OF organisms; 2.
That, as scavengers, they eat more refuse than
any other group OF organisms; 3. That, despite
their minuteneSS, their fossil remains are much
greater in bulk and OF far more consequence
than those OF large QuadrupedS and serpent
like monsters, such as the mastodOm, megath-
eTium, plesiosauruS, tchthyosauruS, etc. 4.
That, as builders, they have produced immense
structures which far SurpaSs in size all the CO.
statements will be presently given; but mean
time ii may be remarked that such grand re-
suits redeem the study OF mlcroScopical objects
uVp thai nettinass which is often imputed TO
T.-lfrGt ". S. Barnard in Pop,t.,.. $3.50
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