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CURIOUS FACTS.

Lawn is fine linen bleached on the
lawn instead Of the ordinary drying
[ ground.
As a leaper the kangaroo is ahead OF
all. 1t readily jumps from sixty to
seventy feet.
The first finger is sacred to Jupiter,
and is supposed to indicate the nobler
elements of character.
Five hundred thousand men are es.
timated to ride in the elevators OF
New York City every day.
The public executioner of Austria
wears a pair of new white gloves every
time he carries out a capital sentence.
In Chinese the letter 81" has 145
ways, of being pronounced, and each
pronunciation has a different mean
ing.
The London and Northwestern Rail-
road passes through nor than half OF
the ffty-three counties of England
and Wales.
Most of the school states come from
Pennsylvania, where there are large
slate duarries. Some come from Vef-
mont and Ohio.
An odd collection is that of n Ut
the county officials of Maine, who hts
gathered feathers from almost every
kind of bird that flies.
Only ~one-fourth of the American
shipping is engaged on the high seas,
seventy-seven per cent. being river,
lake and coasting trade.
The Chautauqua salute, waving q
white handkerchief, was first given 1T
the request of Chancellor Vincent, us
a greeting to a deaf mute.
A man who died a short time ago 81
Berlin, N. Y, left a dairy which hu
began when eighteen years old and
continued for ffty-two years.
A French priest stationed at Jeruss'
! lem has been the fortunate finder OF
'ta talent of the time of King David. y
It was unearthed in his doorysrd.
A French fisherman who threw hip
line into the Seine Canal, near st.
Dennis, on December 90, got hold OF
a package containing 17S railwa,
bonds worth 1922, 00O.
Growing blackberries and mush.
rooms, by law, are not private prop.
erty in England. One may be prose-
cuted for trespass on land where they
grow, but not for theft in taking
them.
During the Franco Prussian var the
Germans fired 80, 600, 600 rifle cart.
tridges and s63. 900 charges of artil.
lery, killing or mortally wounding
n, 900 Frenchmen, showing that 400
shots are required to kill or mortally
wound one man.
The statue on the dome of the Capt..
toll at Washington represents Free
dom. It is nineteen feet six inches
high and weighs / 1885 pounds. 1t
was modelled by Thomas Crawford, an
American sculptor, who died in 1857.
1t was put in position in 1866.
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Hnod'c Ds1lc cure all liver ills, bilious
htOON . L AhAS ness, headaches. Csc.


It has been said that a woman's
dress not only typiies her subject con-
dItion, but characterizes her individ-
ualism as well. Allowing this to be
true and accepting it from the philo-
sophical standpoint, we are forced to
believe that individualism must oft
times blush at her own caprlce-at her
own tickle, frivolous and imperfect por-
trayals, as she drags herself from one
extreme to another, offering at each
evolution some absurd and contradic-
tory pretense. TITS an age of progress
sion; tits an age when intelligence
should precede and prevail over vanity,
when women should possess the out
ward appearance of at least reasonable
beings. But clad in the manner which
extremists of fashion decree that we
should be clad, with sleeves like the
wings Of angels and trains like the tail
Of a kite, with hats bedecked with the
stuffed bodies and wings OF slaughtered
song birds, and No. 8 feet damned into
No. 8 needle-toed shoes, is 1t a wonder
that individualisn would feel at least a
little cramped, and at times blush at
her own -caprices
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The Secret Of Digestion.

1.-THE secret of digestion is modera.
lon," said an old man the other day,
rho at seventy-eight has the COM
lexion of q girl and the relish for
God of a schoolboy. SIT seems absurd
o me that persons should suddenly
discover that many articles of food
lpon which our ancestors lived to q
reen old age are extremely detri'
mental to health and longevity.
ave never considered what I ought to
at, but I have made it a rule of my
ife to always leave the table wanting
ust a little more.
81 did not leave the home roof,
which was on q farm, until I wa:
nearly thirty years old, and it was my
iabit from November to April to eat g
piece of mince pie every night Just be-
ore going to bed. 1t was rather 6
mall piece, but I invariably took il
md do not recall ever having ever
BAD dream in consequence.
"And I think, too, that digestion Il
ike salvation-to be worked out in
iividually. We are not all Baptists o.
Methodists, why must everybody be
vegetarian or some other food crank
When I got away from the mince-pi'
country, missing it, I took fruit in it
place. A friend who saw me eating al
lpple one night hurled at me the olt
aw: Fruit is gold in the morning
liver at noon, lead at night Non
,ense!' I cried, and retortsd Will
mother provery, What Ii one man
neat is another mans poison and Nv
continued to eat something, usual,
lruit, every night of my life
York Times.
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Accommodating Landlord.

A correspondent assures us that he
never knew that 1t was possible forian
innkeeper to be too accommodating to
his guests until he went down to Nova
Scotia recently, and put up at a pleas
ant little hotel in the country. The
landlord Of this hotel laid 1t down as
one Of his principles of action to give
people q little more than they asked
for-to be extra accommodating" as
he termed 1t.
The landlord brilliantly illustrated
his adherence to this principle the very
morning after our correspondents ar
rival at the hotel. The guests had to
go away on the seven o'clock train that
morning, and asked the proprietor to
call him at six. The guest went to
sleep In the calm assurance that he
should be aroused at the proper hour.
He seemed hardly to have fallen into
a sound sleep when he heard a terrific
pounding at his door. He sprang up,
wide awake.
whats the matter?" he called out.
-Four O'Clock! Four o'clockr' came
the landlords voice the other side of the
door; two hours more to sleep!"
1t is needless to say that the guest
slept no more that morning. The land
lords anxiety to be extra accommo-
dating" failed Of its mark that time.
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Economy Of a MILK Diet,

Aside from the physiological con-
iderations the economy ofa milk diet
Is not the least among its advantages,
rs compared with beef. In the for
ner there is no bone, as in meat, nor
waste in trimmings, and, though the
amount of bone in meat varies it is
rarely less than eight per cent. in
the neck and brisket of beef, for in.
stance, it is about ten per cent, while
in the shins and legs it amounts to
pne-third or even one-half the total
weight. Again, milk requires no
cooking, hence is always ready for
consumption at a moments notice,
and without being subjected to waste
and shrinkage. The ordinary per.
centage of loss in boiling beef is TWEEN.
by per cent. ; in baking. twenty-nine
per cent, and the roasting process in
~volves fully thirty-one per cent. ; true,
this loss arises partly from the evspo-
ration Of water, as well as the melting
down and escape of fat, and the
destructive action Of heat-whatever
loss, however, is thg$ occssioned, has
40 counterpart in milk. -BOston Gull
kyAAoR.
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PonnIarity of EmbaIming.

The idea of earning q livelihood out
Of the making of mummies Is not one
10 commend itself at first glance to the
Female mind, and the CHASTITY associs-
tons of the occupation are to many IN
superably repellent. But embaimln9
has for many reasons established ltseli
In popular favor. 1t is the only sure
neans of preventing the spread OF con
lagious diseases, through TRANSMISSION
by the undertaker's ice-box or assist
knts. 1t is a preventive against pre-
nature burial in the case of q catalep.
tic subject, as the first incisions and
Injections of the embalming fluid are
likely to induce signs of life If any re-
main. Another favorable feature is the
possibility of shipping bodies q long
distance with convenience. 1T Is MOI
generally known that throughout this
country large numbers of women have
adopted embalming as a profession,
md the head college of embalming has
b large proportion of women graduates.
Far from showing any horror or limit.
pess for the business, women are SAID
30 be peculiarly def and efficient in
the duties involved, which in a general
way consists only in opening several
pf the large arteries, pumping out the
blood and injecting preventative fluids.
Many of the women graduates have
been trained nurses who saw an oppor.
tunity to make more money than ct
their former profession. One advan'
tage of the art is that it is easily ac'
huired. The prospectus of the College
bf Embalming sets forth that "past ex-
berience has demonstrated that a com.
blete mastery of the science OF body
preservation in all its branches cannot
be obtained in the short space of two
pr three days, and therefore the length
bf time required to learn the process
hay extend from one week upward,
according to the aptitude of the stu.
lent" When the student has proved
lis or her ability to conduct the opera
lion of embalming under different con-
iitions in a satisfactory manner a di-
ploma is granted, and the ordinary
length of time required for graduation
s two weeks. -Chicago Record.
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HUMOR OF THE DAY.

A Jack of all trades-The Wester,
burro.
About the most trying loop-hole Of
the law is the Puck.
The we'll bred man who works in 9
akery is a loafer. Troy Telegram.
1t is the thunder of the man in need
that everlastingly ours the milk o
human kindness. -Puck.
When a man e e that he Is being
driven to despair he ought to get out and
walk.-Yonkers Gazette.
By all odds the finest attraction at
the Worlds Fair will be the American
girL-Baltimore American.
knowledge is power. except in the
case of the man who knows he u
whipped. indianapolis Journal.
Pluck will tell. Many a man moi
able to write his own name has made
his mark in the world. New Orleani
Picayune.
Hicks-"Bitson, they tell me, ii
quite an athlete" Wicks-"Yes; hi
last feat, I hear was to run up a board
bill. "-Boston Transcript.
'That Smith girl has cast an awfu.
spell wei Charlie, He" 81 sup
! pose so; she was a typewriter for sew
eral years. "-Inter-O Ocean.
1t seems easy enough to name 9
baby, unless by some extraordinary
| chance the baby happens to be YOU
own.-Someryille Journal.
It b impossible that there ar q
good fish in the sea as aver were caught,
II the kodack pictures that AshermeI
bring home are tsue to hSa-Puok
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A NEW E A OF LIFE.
IN GOOD HEALTH AT SEVENTY
THREE YEARS OF AGE.
Miss Cornwall's Wonderful Recovery o
Health---Became Well in Two
Months After an Illness of
Sir Years.
From the Register, Ne,o Raven, Conn.

From the Register, Neao Haven, Conn.
In this rapid age of ours when so many
men and women are old at fifty, one who
has lived t~hree-quarters Of a century, and
then, after debility and suffering, regains
health and vigor, must be regarded with q
| feeling akin to wonder. A New England
lady has been found who has had this re-
markable experience.
In the family of Clarence Williams, a Che
shire farmer IN the Meriden road, Cheshire,
| Ct, lives Miss Cornelia Cornwall, a lady
| seventy-three years of age. For several
years Miss Cornwall's health has been de-
| elining very rapidly, caused by a general de-
| bility. Her friends feared that the respected
lady had not long to live; but a kind Provi-
dence directed the aged lady, and In a news
paper advertisement Miss Cornwall read
about DIR. Williams Pink Pills-a few boxes
of which she procured at once, and with the
result that Is best told in her own words.
"About six years ago. Miss Cornwall be =
gan, my health commenced to fail. I suf
fered from loss Of appetite and pains in diff
ferent parts of my body. My condition
| gradually grew worse until my limbs were
1 apparently unable to bear my weight, and 1
could no longer go up stairs without the as
sistance of some one.
~ consulted physicians who prescribed
medicines for my blood. These 1 continued
to take for several months, but without any
effect. The sense of feeling in my lower
limbs seemed to be leaving me, and 1 began
to fear that it was hopeless to look for a cure.
l was still suffering terribly from the pains
through my body. when l CHANGED to read
the story Of n cure that had been effected
with the use of DR.. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People. 1 discovered that the town
druggist here had none on sale, so I sent
Immediately to the headquarters in Sohenec-
lady, N. Y, and secured two of the boxes of
the pills.
Last December I commenced using the
pills regularly, and a month after 1 had been
taking them, 1 felt greatly benefited by their
use. The feeling in ny limbs came back
again, and In two months l was able to go
about the house as l had been accustomed to
q year before. Now, as you can see. / am
enjoying good health. The pallor in my
face was removed by the pills. A number Of
my friends in the nelghborhood were com.
planning OF symptoms somewhat similar tc
my own, and 1 recommended that they take
Dr.. Williams Pin Pills. They did so, ant
they tell me that they have been very much
benefited by their use. l still continue tc
take the pills, though there is not so much
of the blood, 1 consider the DIR. Williams
Pink Pills a wonderful medicine"
Pin Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be
sent post paid on receipt of price, $50 cents a
box or six boxes for 81. 50-they are never
sold in bulk, or blythe 1907 byaddressing DR..
Williams Medicine Co. schenectady. N. Y.
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The coon MANS ORDEAL


zen Minutes OF Devotion Under the H'"''
Distressing Conditions
The worshipets at the Church o,
the Ascension in auburn, II. l., nau
a novel experience one Sunday aItel,
noon. The pro essional hymn hau
been sung, the white.robed youus
clergyman had finished his eXhorCa,
ton TO the dearly beloved breth'en,
the responses were over, and prayers
commenced when d tardy Iarishlouer
arrived. As he walked down one
aisle ne did not notice that ne was
followed by a companion. Wheh .ne
parishiOner stopped and bowed us
mead IN prayer his companion con
tlhued It's demure tread onward ~.
ward the chaucel Once or twice IL
stopped as the organ sounded the
"amens," but when progress was re-
lsumed the course was still onward.
By a nimble leap the wanderer
ahdei on the platform leading TO the
;hancel, and there revealed itself as
. tigcr-striped kitten about SIX
months old. The kittens n tne
~clergyman's eyes met. The hcrrllled
clergyman with great effort coatn-
ued to read on, while the uncoh-
cerned kitten, with tail erect anu
ears pricked, ga ed on him with IN
tcrest Giving him a wink she passed
On to the chaucel, entered the sane
luary, and with a bound reached inc
hllar. Not content with this she
Ieaped to the bishops chair aud tneh
let about adjusting herself to the
surroundings by washing her face.
The sound OF the clergyman's voice.
however, S etued irresistible to her,
tnnd, jumping over the brass chaucei
rail, she leapcd to the seat in front
Of the reading desk at which he was
kneeling. With the clo-e of the COL
iect ''Lighten Our Darkness" the
CHOIR, the congregation still kneel-
Ing, sang an anthem. This interval
gave the dominic his coveted oppor-
tunity to make a lunge for the cat
Puss was happily purring very loud,
but, seeing the attempt on her ]
trty, a nimble Jump saved her from
the clergyman's grasp.
With the close of the anthem came
the resumption of prayers and also
tine renewed perambulati0ns or
pussy. She remounted the seat be-
hind the clergyman, and to his nor
ror he felt her gently testing the sta
bility OF his robe, apparently feeling
her ground for a leap The only
place to leap was the clergVman's
back. The kitten eyed her victim
critically and was about to leap when
she was startled by the terrific yelp
of a dog which had somehow got into
the choir stall.
The kitten now turned her atten
tion to the organ, and peeping around,
saw her enemy. Her enemy saw her
at the same time. Each gazed in
tently in an apparent effort to hypno-
tie the other, but the experiment.
was cut short by the dog, who, with
a leap and yelp, made for the cat and
but for the vigorous scrambllng of
the bassos the two would have had
an argument In full view of the
clergyman and congregation.
The dog was held and the cat van
ished just as the swelling sound of
the final 'amen" brought the wor-
shippers from their knees, many of
whom were entirely ignorant OF the
fearful ordeal through which their
pastor had gone during the space Of
ten minutes OF prayer.
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Napoleon was a most cruel horse
man, and changed his mount fire.
Iquently during battle. At Waterloo,
however, he rode only the famous
"Marengo." Another celebrated war
horse of the great C0rsican was
"Austerlitz Napoleon always IL =
sisted that his horse should lie white
or gray. Twelve we're killed under
him. He was ono carried quite
| within the enemy's lines, where he
narrowly escaped capture, by a mad
charger. Napoleon's runaway, it is
only fair to confess, wa; caused by a
terrible wound that gOaded the poor
steed to uncomfortable madness.
Men lose their heads from pain; why
may not a horse?
For a dumb com Blatant of unQual
fed savagery W unjust go to the camp
of those masters of warfare-the
French of Napoleon's day. One of
the Emperor's aides, Capt. de Nor.
bot, owned a mare named 'Lizette, "
noted In peace OF war for v~iciousness
under certain ~rovocation.i ~rf. ~
Once, with her master on her back,
she was surrounde by Russians. A
huge g%renadier made a lunge at Mar
bot with his bayoEet, but LiIette dis
patched him with tigerish ferocity,
using only her teeth. Afterward she
backed off, clearing with her iron
heels a space among the Russians
pressing on her TANKS, then wheeled,
dragging down to death beneath her
hoofs an officer as she did so, and
darting through the aslonished
crowd to a p ace of safety In that
brief encounter she killed two Russ
lans outright and CRIPPLED several
others with her heels, and it all came
from a cruel bayonet thrust that
aroused all the poor creatures latent
frencV.
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. Il OF WISDOM.

The man who knows the least shows
t the most.
The man who leans on his blessings
mnnot walk straight.
The easiest thing for a fool to do is
20 tell how little he knows.
A mistake is apt to attract more at.
iention to us than a virtue.
A watch and a man to be any good
must have some ego" to them.
Good fortune sometimes comes to us
N very shabby-looking carriage.
The man goes to bed tired who
pends the day looking for an easy
place.
Who knows how to measure the size
ST a lie and to tell whether it is big or
little?
1t is a singular fact that the blunt
nan is apt to make the most cutting
.emarks.
Only those whose sense of duty is
tbnormally developed love all their
'elatives.
The fellow who makes the most
rouble for the average man is inside
ais own coat.
The best and cheapest thing the
world has ever known is charity, and
yet how few possess it.
The man who has no confidence in
womanhood is utterly unworthy of the
confidence of womankind.
Hatred always Injuries the n who
harbors it far more than it does the
one against whom it is directed.
If the world owes you a living it
will never pay you the debt unless
you hustle around and collect it.
If you will honestly try to mend
-four own faults you will have little
time to find fault with other people.
The hornet, like the gossip, would
not be such a bad thing to have about
If it wasn't for the sting in its tail.
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-
A Few Observations.

A widower with seven children
stands a better show matrimonially
than a widow with me
A good young man in town found a
verse In the Bible to repeat as a
proposal of marriage to his girl, and
she found a verse in which to accept
Such good people miss lots of fun.
II a poor family has a rough wood
en- bench out in the yard, it Is usual
ly crowded with children having a
good time, but in rich mems yards,
the fancy settees and rustic. chairs
are never occupied.
1t Is said of a girl who never has
any beaux that in the evening she
lights pieces Of punk and fastens
them to the porch. ANY one driving
past concludes that she is surround
ed by young men smoking cigars
Atchison Globe.
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Making Cloth Water.P Proof.

A Correspondent asks for q recipe for
making cloth waterproof. There is
surely no better method than putting
half a pound of sugar of lead and half
q pound of alum in a pail of soft water,
stirring it often until it becomes clear,
pouring it off into another pail, and
putting the cloth or garment into it,
10 remain there for twenty-four hours.
The material should then be hung up
10 dry without wringing. 1t is said
that garments thus treated will keep
the wearer absolutely dry in the heavi-
est rainstorm; the rain simply hangs
in globules upon the cloth. Water
proof cloth is more healthy to wear
than rubber goods. Chicago Record.
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Drusilla-'I hear you are poor. I
think we will have to break our rela-
tons" Ten Broke-"T have broken
all of mine already. New York Her
aid.
Milkman (apologetically) '"The
milk is a little blue this morning"
Mrs. Housekeeper-'1t must be think
ing how everlastingly poor it is get
ting. Troy Press.
Jinks-"Don't you think that the
intentions of French duellists are more
honorable than is generally con
ceded?" Filkins-"Oh, yes; as a rule
they aim high. brooklyn Life.
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unrinened Tomaknea.

Professor Massey, of the North Caro-
ina Experiment station, writes that
when frost is imminent he gathers the
green tomatoes, wraps them separately
In paper (old newspapers will answer),
and packs them in boxes, which are
stored in a place just warm enough to
be secure from frost, the object being to
keep them and not to ripen them. Then
as the fruits are wanted a few are
brought out at q time and placed in a
warm position where they will ripen
in a few days. In this way he has kept
his table supplied with sliced tomatoes
to midwinter.
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when John came into the room looking
ready for action.
John contented himself at first b,
simply denying the arguments. But
Martens superior loquaciousness wal
rapidly getting the best of him and he
was gradually drawn into the meshes Of
reason. That was all the schoolmastel
| wanted. He could reason a bull into
frog any day, if the animal only fol.
lowed tha process oil illogical deductions
so by and by John found himself lis.
:ening with his hands folded, his rea'
Ton silenced, and more than half con.
rinced of the probability of the whole
thing.
'And ye say it'll all take place on
Thursday at 5:34 p. m. ?" asked tn,
pld man. Marten had not said it, but
he answered:
Precisely. The unerring calculs
lion of science"
'Maybe it'll only strike one corne.
Of the earth and leave out Stockton.
bugh and the farm?" he asked timidly
lgain.
"That is difficult to say" replied
Marten, thoughtfully. "Our whole
| planet is sure to sustain q terrible
shock, and it will be felt all the world
over. There is a chance-a small
.hance-that we might escape with ouI
lives here; but everything else il
doomed"
That night John and Milly wer.
locked in a long embrace before they
took leave of each other. They were
both heavily oppressed, and though
John entertained a s~neaking scepticism
If the whole thing, he really believed
that before the end of the week the
earth might be a broken waste, with
nobody and nothing alive on it.
"fYou will come over on Thursday,
John, won't your" asked Milly in a
trembling voice. eve can die to-
gether, if we can't live together, can't
we, John?"
'In be here, Milly, by 4 o'clock,
and God may prove him yet a liar
you see if He don'tl" said John as he
went of.