Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1888-09-21
Skill Of the Hands

Sklii-ct the Hands /
We hear great deal abouf n, won
dcrful precision and accuracy Of nochin.
cry in these day, and Of c.ur,, i
wonderful; but tho dcsro3 Of oc,u.acv
to which tho humap hand can be trained
is cquaIly wondetiA.
P.ayiug-cards 40 required TO b, cut
with tho sides quito mraIlcI to each |
other, becau,e il pacI, he trimmed H.
a machine slightly gll.ratonornlt,,a
the other, aud they com ulrnel "snd
for ond' in dealing, tile exec, in width
Of some cards over other. At the ond Of
the pack will be double tile variation in
any ono card which would facilitate
cheating, very minute variation boins
percoptiOlo The men who t9st these
cards for this make coIIpcrs Of their fin
ger and thsz9 and Ly passing them
along frou,as w to the other, detect
a difrcrcnsin th between tho two
ends whicbrt Is diih5ut to measure by
any other means,
There are men employed in factories
where dried yeast is made, whose nu.i-
ness it is to put the t iuto packages
weighing certain amount each. It's
on tablein front Of them in a largo
plastic mass, and there arc tho scales
for weighing it. But the men do not
use the scac+ Thoy simply separate
from the mai with their hands a hump
Of it and puI up, and you may choose
at random put it on the scales, and
it will wcigH exactly the right amount,
the scales b am Just balancing
Whero Il irgo numbers Of eggs arc
handled and shipped to market, there
is a process knowa as "candlciog' eggs,
which consih pts in taking them into tho
hands, usualy two eggs in each hand
at time, pd holding them up before
a lighted candle. The light shining
through THIN reveals TO the practiced
eye tho cx ct condition of the contents.
But somabf tho men soon get SO that
they do nd need to u3o the candle, tho
mere contct OF their hands with the
shells deAtiag tho condition of tho
egg just infaIlibly and much moro
quickly. A. they distinguish in that
way not f1erey eggs which arc dccid-
edly bad but those which arc just
barely Inning to lose their freshness.
Hero II three different ways in which
extreme q i'll Of the hands is shown by
persisten4 raining: First, in detecting
slight diff rences in magnitude; second,
in weigh a lastly, in texture or
e'harsSe,tfy handled. -LAuer-
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- Sal fetal Baldness
u custom of several races. .
inc LONG eospital says. ito produce
ar'inelal ar dpess by shaving the head.
nc ohinq han is perhaps the best ex-
ahlpie oh Flis. He shaYes the hair from
tho forehI Iad and temples, and leaves
only cTd liar patch, which he allows
TO groWnfiuto tail. The Andaman
Island ers have almost the entire sur
lace OF thdscalp, as thoroughly as the
imperfect Implements at their command
will allow them. Formerly they used
chips of bTken hiut for this purpose
but since tle arrival of Europeans upon
their islands they can indulge in tho
luxury of shave with a piece of bro
ken glass. 1t is said that wife take, a
peculiar pleasure in shaving tho head
of her husband. Towards the close of
the fifth century shaven crown BEGAN
to be regarded, both in the east an the
west, as necessary marx of the sacor-
iotal caste; and the barber's razor was
required to cooperate with tho bishops
hand 10 cPnstituto the priest. Two
nodes Of shaving th' clerical crown
.ho circular an tho somicircuiar--ca camo
nto u'c; but who were the inventors
# them' History, with blameworthy
'arelessnes5 has neglected to record.
fhe Roman clergy We a preference to
he circum shave which wa, and is
performed by making bald a small
ound spot on the very crown Of the
iead and eaviag it eacirclcd by halr.
The Scottish monks on the other hand.
doptod the somicircu ar mode, and
havod the foreport Of the head from ear
0 ear, IN the form Of crescent"