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WHY Men Become Bald.

"Dld you ever notice what classes OF
men are most commonly balds" asked an
expert hair-dresser the other day. THAT
thlow; good deal of lig hit ON the causes
of badness. People give all kinds of
explanations for it-dissipation, cutting
the hair too shot, letting it grow too
long smoking, drinking strong coffee,
worry, wearing high hats, wearing low
hats, wearing your hat indoors, not
wearing it outdoors, late hours and .
hundred other things. Now you will
notice that there are no classes of men
more frequently bald than retail sales
men, bookkeepers and office clerks in
certain lines OF business. Why should
badness affect them more than others?
Because they habitually stand or sit
rearly every evening under gaslights.
Bookkeepers always have strorg light
right over their heads or just in front OF
them. So do clerks who have to work
at night. Retail statesmen sell goods at
night directly under two powerful burn
ers, and most of the time their heads are
not more than two or three feet from the
flame. The artificial heat dries ont the
hair. makes it brittle end unht althy and
finally kills it at the root. If you will
pass your hand through your hair after
you have been standing under gaslight
for few moments you will see at once
how it is. Although you may not have
noticed the heat on your head, your hair,
if you've got any, will be hot to the
roots. You'll be surprised to observe,
too, at what a distance from the light
the hair will absorb the heat. Now there
is nothing so bad for the hair as getting
it dry. That is why the use of water on
it is so in 'urious-because it evaporates
so readily and takes with it the natural
oil of the hair. Your hair should be
moist all the time and with the oil th.t
is secrctcd by the little cells at the roots.
When the oil is continually and rapidly
dried out, as it is when the head is kept
heated by gaslight, the cell dr. es up and
the hair fal Is out. People who sit under
the gaslight should wear some kind Of a
cool, non. conducting hcadgear to pro-
tect themselves. I have an idea, too,
that after the. electric light has been in
universal use for q generation or two,
badness will be as scarce rs it was before
gaslights and night. t.work got common
together Mew York Mail and Egpress.
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Healthy and Unhealthy Occupations.

The first place among healthy ocoupa-
tions is held by ministers of religion,
the death rate of this class being 55j.
Next we have gardeners and nursery
men, who stand at 509; farmers and gra-
zicrs, 631; agricultural laborers, 7Ol;
schoolmasters, 7lS; the other trades
which follow closely on these being gro
GERS, coal merchants, paper manufactdr-
ers, lace and hoiscry manufacturers,
wheclwrights, ship builders and ship
wrights and coal miners. The figures
of mortality of all these trades is under
775. Cn the other side, that of unhealthy
occupations, the first place is held by
the trade; which are concerned in the
manufacture and distribution of intoxi-
ing drink, which, as is well known,
entail many temptations to use it to ex-
cess. The list of unhealthy occupations
is headed by the class of inn and hotel
ser, ants, whose figure mounts up to
2,2O5, being nearly double that of the
medical profession. The highest place
next to them are held by the
general laborers and coster mon
gers, hawkers and street sellers, the
former class with 5000, and the latter
with 1879. 1t is probable that both are
largely made up Of broken men, the
wrecks of other callings. Innkeepers,
publicans, spirit, wine and beer dealers
follow with figure of 1881 and brew
crs with ! ,3G1. In support of the belief
that thcs. high rates OF mortality are
chiefly due to alcoholic excess, DR.. Og'c
has compared with them the mortality
assigned to diseases of the liver. the
organ through which such excess chiefly
declares itself, and has obtained results
which are entirely in harmony with those
of the trade returns. Next to the trades
concerned with alcohol. the highest
rates are furnished by occupation, which
involve the breathing of dust-other
than coal dust especially of sharp
and gritty character, Or largely COM
posed of mineral matter; next. those in
which there is expo ure to lead poison
ing, as with plumbers, painters and file
makers. The carthenware manufacture
ers, who are mu:.h exposed to mineral
dust, have figure of l,742; flemakers,
who work upon leaden cushion, reach
1867, and plumbers and painters, who
are also exposed to lead, reach ,sO2.-
Cann,Jers's Journal.
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HinllOO Heads.

A Hindoo writes to the Phrenologicn'
Magazins as to the relative size of ths
heads of his countrymen as compared
with those of Europeans. He says: "All
the Hindoo heads l have had the oppor-
tunity of measuring by tape measure
come near to or about twenty-five inches,
and in some cases more, in circumfer.
ence." The writer goes on to give his
view of the difference between the Eng.
lish and the Hindoo, and the reason OF
the latter's sub. .,ection. The native, he
considers, has less of those qualities that
give energy, force, resistance, enterprise,
hopefulness and caution, while he has
more of those that lad to passive obedi-
ence, reverence, respect for authority,
submission to what appears to be the will
of heaven, and in general to religious in
fuenccs, than his conqueror.
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Worship or Ancestors.

During the first three weeks in April
the Chinese held a prolonged ''All
Souls" festival in honor of their dead an
cestors. Family parties are arranged for
days outing at the graves of their de-
parted sires. They walk many miles,
bearing stores of good things, such as
roast ducks and fowls: and cooked fish.
They provide sometimes roasted pig,
for which the more economical substi-
tute q pigs heal with the tail in his
mouth, which is symbolic of the whole
animal. As the de;.d ancestors care only
to smell the offerings, the family enjoy
On excellent feast on their return home.
Worship of ancc tors permeates Chi
nese life, affecting the most trivial details
OF every day. 1t is the most conserva-
tive of inhuen c., for it compels the
Chinese to look backward, instead of for
ward, and oblige, him to stop and think
If a proposed act may not offend the
sp rits of his fathers. He may be a
Buddhist. or a Ta vi t, or a Confucian,
but his first duty is 10 worship his an
cestors. ~-"sr
Even the service ofthe Empire must
give Nay to this act o: f;ialreg 1t
IS the one thing in china which takes
precedence Of everything else. The most
important Government officer may ne
elect his official duties with impunity
while engaged in some ceremonial asso-
ciated with this wo ship. Should his
father or mother die while he is in Office,
he is obliged to retire from public life
for many months.
A Viceroy of Canton was notified that
his grandmother had die at Pekin. An
Imperial order summoned him to attend
her obsequies and to remain in mourning
for one hundred days.
Being person of dignity, he required
a large retinue to attend him. He char
tered special steamer at cost of ten
thousand pounds to lvey him and his
suite to Taku. Sea-sickness so disgusted
him with the ocean that he embarked at
Shanghai, sent his baggage on the
steamer. and journcyed the rest OF the
way b. land to horor his grandmother's
remains.
Yet the man who thus honors an au-
cestorneed not even wear mourning at
daughters death, much less interrupt
his daily businc on account of such an
event. Youths Companion.
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is Major, I couldn't sleep till I'd set mat
-.

is Major, couldn't sleep till I'd set mat
ters right"
By this time the fellow had turned SO
that I could see that he had no weapon
with him, and I began to think that /
had been little too fearful. However,
I got up and stepped out into the centre
of the tented area, and then said:
$50 ahead, sergeant. I'm all atten-
tion.n
Without further preliminaries he went
on:
;'Of coarsc you know me?"
Il think have good reason to remcm-
Der you, sergeant. "
"And you remember the last words
ever spoke to you in the old yearsz"
81 have not forgotten them"
"Well," he said, with palpable burst
of feeling, them wo. ds have been haunt
ing me ever since met you at the hotel
in Jefferson. Wher was ordered to re-
pot to Major Cochrane I never thought
of you. The old affair had almost gone
from my mind: but when saw your face
knew you, and when you looked up at
me I was troubled. hoped you might
not remember me. If you did not l
meant to hold my tongue. But couldt
act hide myself Howsumever, held up
till tonight But after we'd done sup
per kept watch of your movements, and
made up my mind that you were going
to look out for me. But Major, don't
let it 90 no fu,ther. I'm too old a soldier
now not to know that the harm l sutfcrsd
ut Smelling was of my own making. l
don't bear the old grudge any longer,
and tell you the truth when l tell you
that you did me good turn that time.
know how l was going on, AID 1 know
that another officer in your place would
have shot me. So, you will take my
hand and cry quits of all old memories2"
never gave my hand to a man more
readily, nor more ohcerfully; aud | doubt
if in all this Western wilds there was a
more scciable and Jolly party than we
made on the following day. AS an in
dividual, I was particularly happy; fol-
I am free to confess that there were
few moments of that first night in the
wilderness freighted with about as much
dreed and uneasiness rs man woul care
to experience. But, as l remarked to
the Sergeant on former occasion: Calls
we'll that ends we'll" And our tramp
of four weeks continued so pleasantly
that the end might have been longer de-
ferred without complaint from U.s.
Chicago Times.
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Pemmicnn, the Food OF Arctic TraV'

The meat, cut in long fakes from the
warm CARCASS of the buffalo and dried in
the sun, is afterwards beaten into shreds
by fails upon a floor of buffalo hide on
the open prairie. The hide is then sewed
into bag, the meat jammed in, the top
sewed up all but one corner, into which
more meat is crowded, and then the fat,
which has meanwhile been tried, is
poured in scalding hot, filling every
crevicc. A species of cranberry is often
added with the meat. The whole forms
bolster-shaped bag, as solid and as
heavy as stone, and in this condition it
remains, perhaps for years, until eaten.
Each bag weighs from 100 to 12O pounds.
Cnc who has tried it will not wonder
that it was once used in the turmoils of
the contests between the Northwest and
Hudson Bay Companies to form re
doubt, armed with two swivel guns.
There are two ways Of preparing this,
one called "rub.a boo," when it is boiltd
in a great deal of water, and makes a
soup; the other more favorite di.h is
rousseau" when it is thrown into q
frying pan. fried in its own fat, with
the addition, perhaps. of little salt
pork, and mixed with q small amount
of -four or broken biscuit. But some
times, when philosophers are hard put to
it, and forced to take their meal in the
canoe, the ptmmican is eaten raw;
chopped out of the bag with hatchet,
ami accompanied simply by the biscuit,
which has received the sobriquet of ''ked
River granite" These wonderful OBJ
jects, as large as sea-biscuit, ar at least
three quarters of al inca in thickness,
and against them the natura lists geo.
logical hammer is always brought into
requisition.
But the "infidel fish," as rousseau is
termed, is by comparison with the others.
palatablc, though it is even then impos-
sible to so disguise it as to avoid the
suggestion of tallow candles; and this
and the leathery, or india-rubber, struc-
ture Of the meat are its chief disqualiti-
cations. But even rousseau may lose its
charms when tlken as steady diet three
times day for weeks, especially when
it is s.rved in frying pan, and, break
fast or dinner over, one ,es the remnants
with the beef or pork all hustled to.
ge:h:r in the boiling kettle; the biscuit,
broken bannocks and unwashed cups
placed in the bread-bag; the pates,
knives and forks tossed into the meat
dish; and all, combined in the ample
folds of an old bit of gunny cloth, which
has served daily at once as dishcloth and
tablcclo:h, thrown into the canoe to rest
until the next meal, when at last Billy
finds time to wash the dishes the table
cloth never.
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Letter Mail Long Ago.

The interesting Post Museum at Berlin
has lately received noteworthy addition
in the shape of letter cover dating from
last century. The letter was sent from
Philadelphia to the great grand father of
the late possessor of the cover. The
cover bears the postmarks Of Philadel-
phia, London, Calais, Brussels, the
Hague, Amsterdam and Hamburg, so
that the route adopted in those days was
evidently q very circuitous one. 2 The
date of the missive is between 1760 and
1889, but the actual year cannot be de-
termined, as tie cover gives no date.
The cost of transmission was no less than
five thalers-twelye schilling of Neck
lenburg money, or eighteen mark ninety
pfennig ofsmodern German money.
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Noted Book Pedllers.

Mark Twain and Brete Harte had their
first association with literature as humble
canvassers.
Jane G.. Blaine began lie as book
agent in Washington, Penn, selling a
Life of Henry Clay"
The poet Longfel!ow was a book agent
before his verses began to attract the at
tention of the public.
Jay Gould made his first money ped
ding books in the rural districts OF
Central New York when mere boy.
Rutherford B. Hayes footed it all over
Southern Ohio when a mere lad getting
subscriptions for Baxter's "Saints' Rest. /"
Daniel Webster paid his second years
tuition at Dartmouth by acting as local
agent in Merrimac county, N. H., for De
Tocqueville's "America."
When Napoleon Bonaparte was a
Lieutenant in the army, and unemployed
at Paris, he canvassed o suburban
Partisan reimbursement for work en-.
titled "L'Histoire de la Revolution"
General Grant, after his resignation
from the army and before his ventures on
the Dent farm, took part of the territory
of general agent of Putnam's to dispose
of Irving's "Columbus.'
George Washington; while surveying
Fairfax county in his youth. canvasscd
for Bydcll's american Savoys: How he
May be Tanned by the Weapons of Civ
ILL ation," and sold over 300 copies in
Alexandria, Va.
Bismarck, when at Heidelburg during
the winter vacation, having his allowance
cut short by his father, the Baron, can
vassed for Biumenbach's 'Aufgeschichte
die Wes.elgung i'll der Spiegeleisen.'-
New York Graphic.
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The Gait Of Fast Horses.

An interesting statement has recently
been worked out, showing the distance
a trotting horse goes at each second at
various rates of speed. Maud S., when
she covered a mile in s.Os3, travelled
Al 1-3 feet per second. At a 2.2O gait
a horse travels 81 81 feet per second.
At a 2.25 gait he travels 36t feet per
second. At $50 gait he travels 35 is
feet in the same time. At 81 gait he
travels "a 6 feet; at 2.4O gait the dis
tance travelled is 33 feet; at a 2.45 gait,
80 feet; at $50 gait, 81 III feet; at
2.55 gait. 80 1-16 feet. VAIN going
mile in three minutes he travels over
80 1-S feet per second; at $40 gait,
ga feet; at a $40 gait, 26 2-5 feet; at
$50 gait, IS II feet; at $40 gait "a
feet; at $50 gait, 23 feet, and at 400
gait, % feet per second.
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1t Is UnlGcky

To be struck by lightning on Monday.
To sit on q buzz saw in motion on
Friday.
To break the mirror your wife's moth
or gave her.
TO fall down stairs with the parlor
stove on Tuesday.
To speculate with other peoples mon
ey, and get caught.
To get wet when you fall overheard
while boating on Thursday.
TO sec bill collector over your right
shoulder on Saturday.
To see bulldog over your left shoul-
der in your neighbor's orchard.
TO see your ovcrcoat over either
shoulder as you pass out of the shop OF
your uncle.
To spill salt in the coffee of the man
who has the carving knife.
To be one OF thirteen at table when
there is only food enough for six.-Tid
Rjt,
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The Mouse and the Hare.

A Hare who was Seeking his Dinner
in Stubble one day came across Field
Mouse and thu. Addressed him:
"WelI, well, but who on Earth ever
heard of y,u Before2 l wouldn't be as
Small and Helpless as you are if I could
live in Idlcness all my Days"
At that moment the Shouts Of Men and
the Barking of Dogs were heard and the
Hare began to tremb'e and gasped out i:
They are Hunting for Me, and | feel
that shall Certainly be Captured" !"
"Iery likely" replied the Mouse:
"NNhile |, who am so Insignificant and
Helpless, will be run over and left Tn.
noticed"
MonAI..-The Greater the Size OF the
Gaae che more the Anxiety of the Hunt
er to Secure it, a Drayman sleeps un-
disturbed O. Nights; the Congressman
must lie Awake to checkmate the Plans
of his Enemies. Detroit Free Press.
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BARTER.

'.Give me the gold from off thy hair,
The rose upon thy ch ,eks that lies,
Thy singing voice that everywhere
Makes laughter in the trembling air,
The young JOY in thine eyes"
"What will you give to me. oh, say,
Thou gray old man with restless Wings
For loves eatrarcing morn of Of May,
For dawn and freshness of the day,
And life that leays and sings"
'Lo! will MAKE thy footsteps slow
Across tho flowers that bend and wave;
And for thy gold will give thee snow,
And silence for thy laughter low,
Darkne s, a grass-grown grave"
Boston Transcript.
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Consistency.

He always stays so late-that stupid Brown!
Twas half past ten, know.
Last night before he took his hat
And Thought he'd better CO."
1 thought so too, but only said
Good night" and yawned behind my fan
And wondered how the other girls
Could entertain that sort OF man.
Three months later; same man, same gtrt.
"Don't hurry, Ed; it isn't late.
That clock is los too fast.
It's only twelve; I'll let you stay
Till twenty minutes past,
E. Sylvester, in Judge.
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J.B. Wells, of Red Bluff, CAL, cut
down sound oak, and four feet from
the butt, in little cavity in the heart OF
the tree, were five small and healthy
frogs. They were little off in color,
but all right.
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Many a man asks girl to share hi.
lot when be owns no lot.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-01

For this season of the year the business done
by Indianapolis roads in the week ending Jan.
30. must be gratifying. We find that total of
70, 459cars were received and forwarded at this
point; of this number ID. 787 were loaded cars.
In the week preceding there was total of 10,
$685. of which number 1875 were loaded cars,
showing an increase last week of 1,4l2 loaded
cars. The corresponding week 1885, there
were 12,437 loaded cars handled at
this point-an increase this year of
1850 cars An examination of the train records
shows an increased movement of grain eastward.
more especially to Baltimore and New England
points. Through live stock traffic eastward was
lighter than the week preceding. West-bound
tonnage is assuming larger proportions, and in
the month we enter to-day promises TO largely
increase as many of the Western merchants are
now East purchasing their goods North and
south roads are doing good business for winter
months There is still quite heavy move
ment of grain and provisions to Southern
points Local traffic has improved somewhat,
but is still light outbound Large receipts of
grain swell the in bound business quite hand
somely. Freight men are of the opinion that
the business of this month, should the roads re-
main solid, will be the largest of any month in
some years. Below is given the number of cars
received and forwarded at this point in the week
ending at IL o'clock. Jan. 80, as compared with
the corresponding week last wear:
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The st. L., X. G. g. G.

ST. Louis, Jan. 31-The ST. Louis, Kansas
City & Colorado railroad, the 500, 600. 600 mort
gage of which was filed here yesterday, will run
directly west from ST. Louis to point in Bates
county Missouri, thence southwesterly to the
southern tier of counties in Kansas, through
which it will pass to Trinidad. Col. In case a
traffic arrangement cannot be made with the
Kansas City. Fort Scott & Gulf from the point
of intersection of the two roads, by which the
st Louis. Kansas City & Colorado can get con
necton with Kansas City. spur will be built
from point in Henry county to Kansas City.
While this road will be parallel with, for a con-
siderable distance, and become direct compel
itor of the Missouri Pacific for certain business.
1t will open up a new country in great need OF
railroad facilities, and will be strictly ST Louis
line
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Terre Haute. are also interested in the enter
prise. The ST. Louis Globe Democrat,
of the 2Sth, in speaking Of new
railroad enterprises. says of this:
"a st. Louis project which has been kept a pro-
found secret and prosecuted quietly. until it is
now virtually assured success has an impor-
tant place. The projsct referred to is the st.
Louis, Kansas City & Colorado railroad. which
will give a direct route from St Louis to Kansas,
and which the projectors claim will be twenty
eight miles shorter than any otheY line. The
st. Louis Kansas City & Colorado is now an as
sured fact. the only delay being the necessary
adjustment of right of way matters with a few
parties who are holding out for exorbitant
prices. which the company decline to pay. The
settlement of these right of way privileges will
be the signal for the commencement
of work. for, as quiet as the mat
ter has been kept everything is in readi-
ness for the active prosecution of building
OF the new line Not only has the engineering
part of the work been prosecuted vigorously, un-
til 1t Is now in comprehensive shape, but q large
number of ties have been ordered and the first
lot of steel rails purchased Besides the St.
Louis capital in the company, it is backed by
Springfield, O., capital and Messrs. Potter Drew
and Crawford, of that city, have been in ST.
Louis since Monday for the purpose of aiding in
bringing about settlement with landowners
who persist in obstructing their way. The gen.
tlemen who are at the head of this project are
averse to giving details until all difficulties are
adjusted, but assert that work on the ST. Louis,
Kansas City & Colorado will be commenced with
the opening of spring. The new route will par
alel the Missouri Pacific's Kansas City line, and
Will come into direct competition with that road.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 3L-Secret meetings were
held in Jersey City to-day, by the engineers,
firemen and brakemen employed by the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company. They assembled
for the purpose Of discussing the relef-fund
scheme recently adopted by the company.
While the details of the proceedings could not
be learned. it was ascertained that both meet
ings adopted resolutions protesting against the
scheme, and to bring the matter to the notice of
the supreme officers of the Brotherhood of Lo-
connective Engineers. The men understand that
it will be compulsory for them TO join the relief
fund. and that they will forfeit all sums paid
into the relief fund if discharged from the COM
panyS service.
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law Without Lawyers:
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A Compendium Of Business and Dc
IL. B., member Of New York Bar.