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Where Pearls are Found.

They are found from Texas to Ohio.
St. Clair County, ILL.,, and Rutherford
County, Tenn. are good places for them,
but the largest ever found on the con-
tinent was near Salem, n. J., a number
of years ago 1t was about an inch across
and it sold in Paris for g, 900. Most of
them are very small and sell in lots for
small sums, but one large one pays for
the time Along the Ohio river all the
boatmen and fishermen are in the busl-
ness, especially boys. They wade along
the flats and scoop up the unios with
their hands, while others have regular
arrangements for hauling them up by
the quantity. The best are perfectly
round and white, with rich orient. The
next shape is the pear. Some are per-
feet all but one side. and this can be con-
cealed in the setting.
Small pearls for use In onyx need not
be perfect, as they are half hidden in the
setting, SO the imperfect ones have a
value as well. The best pearls the
round ones, are those found in the man.
tie of the animal. You see, the pearl,
either in fresh OF salt water, is merely
the result of the animals attempt to pro-
tect itself
The great naturalist Linnaus thought
he had dis 'overed plan to cause pearls
to grow, which was to initiate the par
asites already mentioned. The pearl
mussels were taken from the water and
the shells bored, then placed back and
left for four or five years. The Swedish
government paid him 81, 800 for the idea,
but it did not prove a success. The
Chinese have done well with the pearl
oyster. They sprinkle sand over the
beds when the oysters or mussels are
open, and also put little images in the
shells that soon become coated with a
pearly luster. These can be seen at the
Central Park Museum. In Japan a
similar plan is adopted with the unio-
hyria.
1t would be hard to deceive dealer,
but spurious pearls are made SO skill
fully that it is extremely difficult to tell
them. For years q bogus pearl manu-
factory was carried OF at Murano, lit
tie town near Venice. The forms were
made of glass, while the iridescence or
orient was produced by quicksilver but
they were chiefly used as beads for the
peasantry. Finally. the French took up
the busine:s, and noticing the richness
of fishes scales, they used them to pro-
duce the luster, and with great success.
| The dace and the roach were the fishes
used. In Italy the smelt is taken from
| the Tiber, and its scales yield an ex-
tremly rich secretion or mucus that can
| be used for the purpose but to the eye
accustomed to the real pearl these imi-
tations are so much dross, and [ can
| hardly better express the difference than
| to say that the spurious ones seem deal
and devoid of the blush and sparkle that
1 a. Al Nl,o
latter needs no artistic adornment to set
it off. Held in the hand and subjected
to the closet scrutiny it appears the
| hest
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-11-03
THE WORKSHOP.

A c1srERN four feet in diameter will
hold ninety-four gallons of water to every
foot in depth.
PAPER MACHE is made from paper pulp
without sizing; sometimes clay, chalk
and other pigments are used.
A SUBMERGED steel tube forty feet be-
low the surface is the latest suggestion
for the crossing of the English Channel.
PL1NY tells us that Dedalus invented
the saw. The earliest saw-mill of which
we have mention was built at Madeira in
1920.
SOME of the largest mirrors ever manu-
factured were recently made for the
Grand Opera-house at Paris. They
measured As by 50 feet, their weight
being 1900 to 1900 hundred pounds
each.
NEWLY painted rooms are very un-
pleasant for several days, but if a hand
full OF hay is strewn on the floor upon
which is sprinkled little chloride OF
lime, after a couple of hours the offen-
sive smell will have entirely disappeared.
To MAKE sand paper, crush glass
sizes coat good quantity on Manila
verized glass over it. Sometimes two
to the paper. .-...
A GOOD cement for stopping joints,
such as around chimneys and the like,
may be as follows white lead, as sold in
the keg, mix with enough pure sand to
make a stiff paste that will not run. 1t
grows hard by exposure and resists heat,
cod and water.
AT THE Paris mint medals are bronzed
by boiling them for quarter of hour in
| the following solution Pulverized verdi
| girls, 500 grammes; strong vinegar, l60
| grammes water, litres. An untinned
| copper boiler is used, and the medals are
separated from each other bI- bits of
glass or wood.
A NOVEL kind of wire betting has been
brought out by an Austrian. The wire
is wound on spindles, the diameter of
which is as small as practicable, and it is
detained therefrom in the form of a long
spilal spring (the number varying &C.
| cording to the power transmitted) is laid
in groove on the pulleys. The method
| of transmission is reported to be cheap
and effective.
CAR wheels made Of paper have been in
use for some time. Now comes a car
wheel made of sawdust, which is an abun
dant waste product in saw-mills of the
West. The Lunsbernaan describes 6
model wheel, consisting of an iron rim o
seven inches outward diameter by half al
inch thick, fitted with well-propor
toned hub, the space between being
filed with pine sawdust, pressed in 81
solidly that we are ready to believe tn,
assertion that pressure of twenty thre'
tons applied to the hub failed to develop
any sign Of weakness.
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A Swindler DiSgraced.

There is a man in New York whose
dinner could not have digested very well
or afforded him much solid comfort. He
dined at hotel and ,ok his meal in
good style. After laying in a liberal
supply of what he fancied and running
up a substantial account, his check was
handed to him. Instead of paying the
amount marked on it he furtively put it
in his pocket and attempted to pass out
the door IN an unconcerned manner,
without bestowing the customary atten-
ton on the official who sits at the receipt
of custom. Had the greedy and we'll
fed person been mindful of the fact that
two detectives are kept on constant duty,
lurking for just such patrons as himself,
his course would have been different
AS it was, his passage to the street be-
came a very different affair from what he
had intended it to be- Instead of being
allowed quietly to chuckle over having
swindled the hotel out of the price of
his dinner, he was brought to halt by
one of the detectives and made to give
an account of himself. His stammering
apologies did him no good, and only
served to stimulate his captor to make a
conspicuous example of him. Calling
To LIS all anOtHef eHploye Vi the uouSe,
the detective caused the wretch to
"walk Spanish" to the doorway, at
which point he kicked him into the
street, amid the applause of the bystand-
ers, who by this time were informed as
to the why and wherefore of the transac-
ton. In demoralized manner the de-
tected and disgraced "diner out" landed
Oh the pavement and skunk away with a
view of reaching place where the gaze
of his fellow men would not be SO con-
spicuously directed at him. 1t would
have been quite as legal to have had this
fellow arrested and convicted of swind-
ling the hotel, but the moral effect of
thus boosting him into the street was far
more impressive on the bystanders than
years imprisonment in jail would bavr
been. -Philadclphia Times.
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HIgienic Value of Mirth.

But, aside from all this, mirth has an
hygienic value that can hardly be over
rated while our social life remains what
the slavery of vices and dogmas has
made it. Joy has been called the SUM-
shine of the heart, yet the same sun that
calls forth the flowers of a plant is also
needed to expand its leaves and ripen its
fruits and without the stimulus of ex-
hilarating pastimes perfect bodily health
is as impossible as moral and mental
vigor. And, as sure as succession of
uniform crops will exhaust the best soil,
the daily repetition of a monotonous oc-
cupation will wear out the best man.
Body and mind require an occasional
change of employment, or else liberal
supply of fertilizing recreations. and
this requirement is factor whose omis-
sion often foils the arithmetic Of our po-
itical economist.
To the creatures of the wilderness af-
Fiction comes generally in the form of
persecution and under such circumstan-
ces the notifications of the vital pro-
cess seem to operate against its long con-
tinuance well-wishing nature sees her
purpose defeated, and the vital energy
flags, the sap of life runs to seed. On
the same principle an existance of joy
less drudgery seems to drain the springs
of health, even at an age when they can
draw upon the largest inner resources ;
hope, too often baff1ed, at last withdraws
her aid the tongue may be attuped to
canting hymns of consolation, but the
heart cannot be deceived, and with its
sinking pulse the strength of life Gibbs
away. Nine-tenths of our city children
are literally starving for lack of recre-
alton not the means of life, but it's OBJ
ject, civilization has defrauded them of
they feel want which bread can only
aggravate, for only hunger helps them
to forget the misery of ennui. Their
pallor is the sallow hue of cellar-plant
they would be healthier if they were
happier. would undertake to cure g
sickly child with fun and rye-bread
sooner than with tidbits and tedium. =
DR.. FeJiC L. OSWALD.
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Reckless MOSby.

Although a guerrilla, Mosby was E.
brave man. He would run risks and
take chances which he would not order
his mou to take. He was in Washing
ton three different times during the war;
in Baltimore four or five times, and in
more than a dozen instances he pene-
trated the Federal lines for information.
Near NIiddletown he was. once cut off
by Federal cavalry who held the pike
in both directions. When ordered to
surrender he drove his horse over the
stone wall and got away through the
fields. Three bullets pierced his cloth
ing, his horse was struck twice, and an
overcoat strapped to his saddle was
clean cut away by bullets. One day
while he was eating dinner in the Lu-
ray valley six Union cavalry walked in
on him. They did not know him as
Mosby, but rightly conjectured that he
was a guerrilla. As they attacked him
he shot two and dashed through win
dow and made off with one of their
horses. He was orce captured in
Washington while on a spying expedi-
ton, but feigned drunkenness and made
a dash for liberty while on the way to
the Provost Marshals Office. At that
time he had plenty Of proofs on his per-
son to have convicted him as spy
Near Warrenton he one night rode with
twenty-four men full upon a Federal
reserve picket of at least a hundred
men. Both sides stood staring at each
other for o moment and then Mosby
called out
"Did any of them mules come this
way ?"
Haven't seen any," was the reply.
"Cuss the critters-they stampeded
on u.s." growled the guerrilla, as he
turned his men and rode away.
Some of his men had blue overcoats
on, some wore citizens clothes, and no
one could say that they did not belong
to the Federal wagon trains Virginia
letter..
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THE MARKETS.

CINCINNATL-FLoUR-Sp Spring patent So ESQ
s0 ss 0o@s 2 fa1sy ass 81 25s7 81
S. 9o@6 20. GRA1N-W Wheat-Choice Mediterranean
red 81 45 No. hard red, 81 A; No. red, 81 As;
white shelIed, 7oc.; No. 2 yellow, es1Sc; No s
mix ear. 57@6le, oa,s-No. white, 471ac.; No
81 y. Hogs-Common, 81 so@5 IS; fair to good,
S5 s5@6 25 Whisky, 81 1s. GRocER1Es-Cofee-
nea ES s19d 2s1or 121s Jav: 1sS2zi
Rice, i@sc. per 16 DAIRY Butter-Farcy cream
cry, S7@sse choice dairy. 2sc; good to prime Cen
Chickens. large, 81 oo@2 rs; prime old hens 50 5o
ducks. duck u So@2 90; geese, IS oOgS 90; turkeys rs
maPe SIS sbS9s sSe e
i isc shoulders. ssse. EMUHf ni AND % sIEs
Northern, 50 OO@3 so per brl. Sweet potatoes
Prime Western, 50 50@2 rs per brl. Potatoes
Prime Early Rose, 81 10 per bush. and s. oo@3 10
NEW YORK.-Flour-Commo to good extra,
s. 5o@6 80; good to choice, sc 6o@s co; white
spring, 81 26@1 40; No 2 do. 81 s7@1 a.: No:
red, 81 rs; No. do, 81 4214; No do, 81 49; No.
red, 81 524gl 52ss; No. white, 81 e Con- m
7l2sc; No. 2 whi.e, 75@75Mc Oats Western
MIXED Ia sSS4se %S white western S995se Me,s
LoUISvILLE.-Fou : Extra family, Sc DOG
90. Wheat, 81 40g1 AZ Corn-No white,
DO 'i mixed, 47e hye1No e. 81 IS. sugar-cured @ Hs
hams 1lAc Whisky, 81 13.
PHILADELPHIA.-Fl Flour-Ohio family, 81 6215
@s o.; St; Louis extra 9 s family and caoise s. Is;
IS co. Lard, 1214c. Whisky, 81 l6.
ST. LOUIS.-Wheat-No mixed, 81 4514; No.
red, 81 52s4a1 52as; No: 8, 81 80; No. 4, 81 81.
Corn 64]4c. Oats, 45c Rye, 81 osH. Whisky.
CHICAGO Wheat = No. Chicago spring,
81 341a cash; No. 8, 81 81 Corn 62Kc Oats, 44ssc
Flaxseed. 81 43@1 As. Pork, SIC 75@17 CO.
INDIANAPoLIs-whea = Steady at 81 42@
42}a. Corn, 641aa65c. Oats, 44@46c
BALTIMoRE.-Wheat No. winter red, 81 441S
| al 445a. Corn-Mixed, 6S5z96SAc. =
TOLEDo.-W -Wheat-No. red, 81 Az Corn
No. 2, 65c.
LIVE STOCK.
CINCINNATI.-CATTLE- 50 O0@2 rs
ers'. So so@4 is; good to choice oxen, 81 ooa4 IS
stockers aud feeders s9 504 0O calves, 50 0093 00
| Hoes = Selected butchers' and heavy shippers
q sh Sc s@s
| as 80; stock hogs, 81 25@6 90; pigs. SO 1894 rs
SHEEP-Common to fair, 81 5o@3 75; good to choice
"a 0o@4 80. LAMBS Good to choice, s4 oo@4 rs.
| CHfCAGO.-Cattle - Inferior and far natives
00G2 75 good to choice cows and heifers. s3 500
| 90. Hogs-Common to good mixed packing, IS 81
| @6 35 light or bacon grades, IS se@6 10; good Il
| NE YoRK.-Dressed Beef-Texas and Colorsd,
Hoss-Good live hogs, IS 2ses s71S per 10 l6s
city dressed, ss 00CSs 80.
INDIANAPoLIs;- Shipping cattle, s. 0,
$s O0@4 IS. Hogs Packing hogs, s5 s0@6 90
common grades, s5 4O95 80. =
EAST LIBERTY, Pa Hogs = Philadelphia
fair Workers, IS Oo@6 10. Sheep and lambs, 8 COG
| 8 10.
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PREVIOUS to tine invention of the mule
for spinning cotton few operators could
spin it to 200 hanks to the pound, $40
yards making hank. At the same time
the natives of India were spinning cotton
to fneness of about 800 and 400 hanks
Since the introduction of the mule
the Messrs. Houidsworth, of Mancnes-
ter, England, have succeeded in spin
ming 700 hanks from a pound of cotton.
Within short time 10000 hanks have
been spun from a pound, but the thread
was too fine to be woven. The thread
from this single pound of cotton reached
in length 4, 770 miles. The finest cotton
yarn is spun in England and made into
lace in France.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-11-03
WHY We Die Early.

Some of the reasons why men catch
cold and find premature graves
Living nine-tenths of their days in the
house; breathing house air bleaching
ip the house, and getting thin and sallow
in the house. Sitting down to eat, tired
and perspiring, and then wondering why
nothing "touches the right spot" and
ones food seems to do no good
Soaking and scrubbing oneself to death
in daily hot baths.
Taking health paper and trying to
live up to its directions.
Going to bed hungry. Getting crazed
with an idea that it is unhealthy to eat
nights.
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Public School Discipline.

There is in the public schools too much
of this military drilling which forbids q
Sred and restless child to change its po-
sition and rest from cruel constraint.
It ia sometimes absolute torture to a del
icate child to maintain the stiffness and
stiffness enjoined by the foolish teacher.
A moderate amount of freedom of move
ment can not be productive of disturb
ance to well managed school. The
teacher who thoroughly knows his bust
ness and is born to his work is never an
unreasoning martinez. .-Ne,D York I1'i
bune.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-11-03

IT Is learned from private report
that on the southern seaboard OF the
Chinese province of Kwantung are found
wild silkworms which feed on the cam
phor tree, and whose silk is utilized in a
singular manner. When full grown, the
caterpillar is cut open and the silk ex-
tracted in form much resembling cat
gut. This substance is subjected to a
hardening process and made into fish
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RE>CUED FROM DE 1TH.

William J. Coughn, of somerviile Mass, ''In
the fall of 1876 was taken with beedngs of the lungs,
followed by severe cough. lost my appetite and
flesh, and was confined to my bed. In 1877 ad-
mtted to the hospital The doctors said had hole in
my lung as big half dollar. At time a report
went around that was dead. gave up hope, but a
friend told me of DR.. WILLIAM HALLS BAIsAM THE
LUNGS. got bottle, when, to my surprise, COM
menced to feel better, and to-day feel better than for
three years past. write this hoping every afflicted
with diseased lungs will take Dr. WILLIAM HALLS Ball
SAM, and be convinced that CAN BE CURED
can positively say Il has done more good than all til
other medicines have taken since my sickness"
GOING wEST-Do You want to learn all about Dakota
the wonder land-its crops climate and people? Send
sl for 4O-co weekly newspaper mos. Land laws and
map Of Territory. fs Herald" Alexandra, Dakota.
BB- GARFIELD and Family. elegant engraving, l9x24
Sent for "a stamps. Sheehy Co., 30 Barclay ST., N Y
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Set baclr AZ Years.

81 was troubled for many years with Kidney
Complaint, Gravel, etc.; my blood became
thin was dull and inactive; could hardly
crawl about was an old worn out man all
over could get nothing to help me, until got
Hop Bitters, and now am a boy again. My
blood and kidneys are all right and am AZ ac-
tive as a man OF 80, although ! am 72 and 1
have no doubt it will do as well for others of
my age 1t is worth trial.-( Father. )-S,m-
dan Mercif7U
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IHE Southern States possess chicken
syndicate. Six firms virtually control the
poultry market. The combiued capital
is $50, 900. Their agents receive 5 per
cent. for purchases not only of poultry,
but eggs. butter and sausages. The
quarters are at New Orleans, Savannah,
Charleston and three places in Tennes.
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"1T may be months, darling, before

"IT may be months, darling, before
we meet again" he said, squeezing her
hand as if that were his last; "mount-
aims. and valleys will divide us, forests
and prairies, perhaps the river of death
itself. Can L do anything more than I
have done to make you cherish my
memory and keep your love for me un-
changed?" "Oh, yes," she exclaimed,
choking down the sobs, "buy me box
of tortoise-shell hair-pins before you
START
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Restored from a Decline

NORTH UREECE, N. l., APIH 70, 1ooo.
Dr.. R. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y: Dear Su'-
I feel it my duty to write and thank you for
what your "Golden Medical Discovery" and
"Favorite Prescription" have done for my
daughter. 1t is now five weeks since she began
their use. She is more feshy, has more color
in her face, no headache. and is in other ways
greatly improved. Yours truly,
MRS MARCEL,LA MYERS.
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1t is no vile drugged stuff, retending to be
made of wonderful foreign roots, barks, ETC.,
and puffed up by long bogus certificates of pre-
tended miraculous cures. but a simple, pure,
effective medicine, made of well known valua-
BILE remedies, that furnishes its own certificates
by its cures. We refer to Hop Bitters, the
purest and best of medicines. See another
column.-RepaLblican.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-11-03

For aristocratic households, dogs are
now provided cushions of plush, consist
ing of a center mat with raised border,
which is stuffed with wool and has an
outside covering of velvet or plnsh, on
which design in crewel work is seen.
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In ORDER to hear distinctly an echo of
one syllable the observer must be sixty
feet from the surface which reflects the
sound. For echo of more than one the
distance must be over one hundred
foat
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PURE CoD Liver On made from selected
livers, on the sea-shore, by Caswell, Hazard &
Co., New York. 1t is absolutely pure and sweet.
Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all
others. Physicians have decided it superior to
any Of the other oils in market.
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BY CONTRACTING a severe Cough and Cold,
was compelled to give up my daily work and
keep to the house. A neighbor recommended
me to try bottle of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup
it was procured and used !; to my as enlistment
relief was instantaneous.
EDw. w. CLAYTON, Waverly, Md.
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lets !" do not render the bowels costive after
operation, but, on the contrary, establish a per-
manently healthy action. Being entirely oege-
table no particular care is required while using
them By druggists.
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: "GoLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY" CIrade-
mark regstered) is not only sovereign remedy
for consumption, but also for consumptive
nlght-sweats, bronchitis, coughs. splitting of
blood, weak lungs, shortness of breath, and
kindred affections of the throat and chest. By
druggists.
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IT HAS been found by practical expert
ment that the weight of very heavy
clothing diminishes the respiratory ca
pacity of the lungs from twenty to
twenty-five per cent. .,..
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A HoLYoKE, MASS, exchange alludes
to the cure of D. o. Judd, ESQ.,, U. s.
Supervisor of Postal Card Mandatory,
who was cured by st. Jacobs Oil of
rheumatism and neuralgia. Bridgeport
(COn,a. Standard.
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WARMERS Safe Kidney and Liver Cure.

CHICAGO, says the Indianapolis Her.
aid, contains more active energy, more
live eenterprise, bigger newspapers
and bigger liars, and more of them,
than any other city in the Union.
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Mr.. GEORGE DRAKE, 4S Oak street,
Indianapolis, Ind, suffered terribly with
water rheumatism. He used st. Ja-
cobs Oil and was entirely cured.-N.
Y Spirit of the Times.
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A COLORADO town is called Jamfull.
It's motto is, Preserve us ALL" and its
children are all saucy.
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If you have scrofula, don't fail to use " DR..
Lindsey's Blood Searcher." Sold by all drug
gists. It will cure you.
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ers' Cough Syrup" use it in time, you will
avert bronchial and pulmonary affections. 25
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LYDIA E. PINKHAM's Vegetable Compound
strengthens the stomach and kidneys and aids
digestion.
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Flies and Mosquitoes.
15c. box Trough ON Rats" keeps house free
from flies, bed-bugs, reaches, rats, mice, &c.
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An Item for the superstitious.

A great deal has been said of the late
President Garfeld's superstitious feel
ing in regard to the number 42, and how
he was always figuring out dates, ETC.,
SO as to sum up or make up that num-
ber. Here is serious coincidence,
which, perhaps, no one has noticed:
James A, Garfield was:
Born, November 10
Elected, November 2
Shot, July 2
-.. Died, September 10
-
It will also be noticed that there are
two 19's and two 2's in this series of
dates.-P0te7sO7a Press.