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The Penn's Grove record., 1896-07-17

The black snake that regularly milks
the cows on Longswdmp farms, in
Berks county, has again made its SUM
mer appearance. 4
Charles Adams, of Friedensville,
caught a big wild cat in a trap.
With a razor Elmer White, of
Gainesville, Mercer county, took his
own life.
Thomas Brennan, a well known
Pottsville tobacconist, fell dead while
sweeping his sidewalk.
Charged by three little sisters, at
Lebanon, with a vicious offense, Isaac
Houser has been arrested.
A charter was granted to the Star
and Crescent Fruit Jar Company, of
Philadelphia, capital so, 00O. 5
A train at Pittstnn cut to pieces
Joseph Kurt.
An Altoona merchant, Hiram ID.
Rhoades. dropped dead from sunstroke.
A German firm may purchase 250,-
900 school states annually from Stat
ington.
Two little wildcats are the odd pets
Of Mrs. Helen Link, residing near
Reading.
Edward Heidler, who was in Erie
Jail as the murderer of Levi Kreider,
escaped.
V. ii. Walker, a reporter, walked
from Lebanon to Philadelphia in Sc
hours on a wager of $50.
Although two weeks have elapsed
since the Pittston mine caved in upon
58 men, the rescuers are still hundreds
of feet from the bodies. l
r. F. Blakeslee has been appointed
postmaster at Blakeslee.
Young Charles Toohey was drowned
in the canal at Harrisburg.
Lightning killed James Beamen, a
farmer at Mahantomgo near Shamokin,
Lockjaw caused by stepping on a
rusty nail killed Mrs. William Fox, of
Elysburg.
Farmers of Luzerue are usIng creo-
line very successfully in destroying the
army worm.
While bathing in the %Schuylkill
river at Shoemakersville, young Caloni
Reber was drowned.
Heat overcame William A. Deibert,
engineer in Il Pottstown mill and he is
in a serious condition.
A pistol shot wound in the hand
produced lockjaw, causing the death
of Frank Jones, of Bethlehem.
A plank, which he was saving in a
mill at kennett Square, struck AlonzO
Taft. causing speedy death.
When attacked by a tramp, Mrs. G.
F. Henderson, near Mercer, badly
scalded him with a kettle Of water.
George Mlrdisch, the Pitt-ton wife
murderer, is so i'll he may not live
until the day set for his execution.
Little John X. Dengler, son of John
Dengler, of Obey, Berks County, was
drowned while bathing in a miilpond.
Young John E. Deysher. of Read
ing, who was shot with q blank cart
ridge by Elias Hassler on the Fourth
of July, has died of blood poison. ,
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nnshinc,s Heroic Deed.

In 1861, at the very beginning of our
civil a n young lad named William
Barker Gushing entered the navy as a
volunteer officer, though he had pre-
yiously been through the Naval Acad-
envy at Annapolis. He was only 10
ear old, but n drawer or more reckless
sailor never grasped a cutlass or stood
by a gun. Never q fight but he was in
the thick of t., eve a battle but Cush-
ing's name was mentioned in orders.
He dared do anything that man dared.
One dark night, at Plymouth, N. c.. he
took a boats crew and, stealing quiet,
ly away, he crept up beside the Con-
federate ram "Albemarle" ald, taking
the chances of almost certain death, he
sank her by a torpedo fired from his
steam launch. Then he fought at Fort
Fisher with great bravery, and, what Ia
ever rarer, he used sound judgment. Sc.
curing for his command all the fruits Of
the vlctory.-St. Nicholas.
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Chinese Treatment of Children.


However little liked the Chinaman
may be by his white neighbors, / have
at all times found that the Chinese had
at least n good and praiseworthy
Quality-the kindness shown by all Of
them toward their children. The poor
est parents always seem able to ave
enough money to array their little ones
In gay garments on New Years day or
other holidays. The children in turn
seem to be remarkably well-behaved
and respectful toward their elders, and
rarely, If ever, receive corporal punish
ment. They seem very happy, and
apparently enjoy their childhood more
than most American children. On al
most any sunny day the fond and proud
father may be seen at every turn In
Chinatown carrying his brightly attired
youngster in his arms. Other little
tots, hardly old enough to feel quite
steady on their legs, toddle about with
infants strapped on their backs. They
do not appear to mind this, and 1t does
not seem to Interfere with their child
ish pastimes. About the time of the
Chinese New Year Chinese children
are particularly favored, and the fond
fathers deny them nothing. The little
one always appear to be well pro-
vided with pocket-money to buy toys
and candies.-St. Nicholas.
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SIausoleum in a Tree.

One of the most curious mausoleums
IN the world vas discovered the other
day in an orchard at the village Of No
ebdenitz, in Saxe-Altenburg. A gigan-
tic oak tree, which n storm had robbed
Of it's crown, was up for public auction.
Among the bidders happened to be a
Baron Won Thummel, scion Of a fam
lily of ancient lineage that has given
the world Of literature one charming
poet and the Fatherland many distin-
guished statesmen. The Baron, who
lives on a neighboring estate, had rid
den to the auction place quite acciden-
tally. Finally the tree was knocked
down to him for 200 marks. Upon his
arrival at the castle he told an old ser
want of his purchase, describing the
tree and its situation. The old servant
said he remembered attending the flu
neral Of a Bardon Thummel seventy OF
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-07-17
Foreign Briefs.

A case of Asiatic, cholera is official
ly reported in the City of Dantzig.
The British war ship Blenheim, at
the close of the naval maneuvers in
England, will convey the Duke and
Duchess of York to Australia.
The returns issued by the London
Board of Trade for June show an in
crease in imports of So $50, 900 and
an increase In exports of $13, 659, 600
during that month, as compared with
June of last year. 8
Forty whites and 100 Zulus have re-
pulsed a strong force of Mash mas In
Matabeleland, killing 25 OF them.
Disastrous floods have occurred on
the west coast Of Japan. Three thou
sand houses have been destroyed, and
there has been great loss of life. 4
Adyices in Paris say that the French
have proclaimed n state of siege i'll the
disturbed portions of the island of
Madagascar.
The International Telegraph Con-
'entiou' |" n"ufeS,' i"S 49,
taru Gov cahlear,ms in code n and
on,n,r;as homnnd Erron.
paoa;s n~omnina r.a,ao 70 oo,,
nv Crete ard hold the island agains
Great BrItain's tenure of Cyprus and
Egypt. The Greek Government has
become alarmed at this, and Is en-
~deavofing to induce the Cretans to
accept the terms Of the Porte. b
The Toxic correspondent of the
United Press. writing under date of
June 26, thus graphically describes
The seismic wave which recently visited
he northeast coast OF Japan:
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Leaving the highway by a pretty lane,
we are presently in a most magnificent
wood, a vast cathedral of nature. Its
columns are tall dark trunks of elm
trees, supporting leafy, i~ntersecting
arches Of golden green; Its nave and
transepts are carpeted with the softest
moss, In which a football is silent; It's
screens are of hawthorn and honey
suckle; Its chancel is strewn with the
growing v~iolets; and Its chapels are
adorned with rhododendrons and ivy.
Through and upon 1t all floods the soft
ened sunlight; over our heads sings a
vast choir of birds; and around us the
melodious hum of the bees sounds like
soft organ notes. Here and there ia
the woods we come upon handsome,
russet-plumaged pheasants strutting
about, rabbits hopping f~earlessly across
the clearings, and squirrels scamperins
from tree to tree.-St. Nicholas.
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oneer Facts Ahout colnr..

According to information given by a
German officer to the Horse Guards
Gazette, an experiment was recently
made in Europe to determine what
color in a soldiers uniform is the least
conspicuous to an enemy. OF ten men
two we're dressed in light gray uni
form, two in dark gray, two in green,
two in dark blue and tive in scarlet. All
were then ordered to march off. while
a group of officers remained watching
them. The first to disappear In the
landscape was the light gray, and next,
surprising as 1t may seem, the scarlet!
Then followed the dark gray, while the
dark blue and the green remained visi-
BILE long after all the others had dis
appeared, Experiments In firing at
blue and red targets. according to the
same authority, proved that blue could
be more easily seen at a distance than
rod
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eighty years ago, and that the body
had been buried in a 1,000-year'old
oak, belonging to the parsonage. In
vestigation clearly proved that the or
chard had once been the property OF
the village church. and that at one side
OF the old oak was an iron shutter,
rusty and time-worn, that the people
OF the town had always supposed to
have been placed there By some joker
or mischievous boys. The iron shutter
proved to be the gate to the mausole-
I'M of Baron Hans Wilhelm Won Thum-
mel, at one time Minister of the State
OF SaXe-Altenburg, who died In 1924,
and wished to be buried 'in the
1~,OO0-year-old tree he loved so we'll"
In the hollow of the rec Baron Hans
caused to be built a sepulchre of solid
masonry, large enough to accommodate
his coffin. The coffin was placed there,
as the church records show, on March
3, 1924, and the opening was closed by
an Iron gate. In the course of time a
wall of wood grew yer the opening,
which had been enlarged to admit the
workmen and the coffin, and for many
years 1t has been completely shut, thus
removing the last vestige of the d
use to which the old tree had been put
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Victor Hueo,s Youthrnl Work.

Victor Hugo, the great French poe:
and novelist, is famous everywhere. He
began his literary career at the age Of
10. At 10 he drew up his first novel in
two weeks! The Academy at Tou-
louise crowned two of his odes that he
wrote at II. At 20 his first volume Of
poems was so good that he received a
pension of 5000 from the French Gov
eminent; and you are all aware how
he came to be n of the greatest, as
well as one of the most popular, of the
French poets. His patriotism was as
great as his literary gifts. His life is
one Of the most interesting in the lit.
erary annals of France. l saw his fun.
eral in Paris, in May, 1885, when he was
followed to the grave by a %concourse
of sorowful people. The procession was
miles in length. Few emperors or sue
cessful generals have had a more i'm
posing burial, nor was ever mar laid
to rest who was more deeply, truly
mourned than this grand and gifted
Frenchman.-St. Nicholas,
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Pennsylvania
--ItemS

In a fire at Treichlersville 5000 CT,
CARS were burned.
Lebanon will hereafter have annual
ity teachers Institutes.
Little Joseph Kline was drowned al
Mahanoy City while bathing.
Black worms are eating the hay crop
at Forty Fort, Luzerne County.
The estate of the late Rev. A. S.
Lelnbach, of Reading, is worth $780,,
600.
Eight members of Joseph Rauck's
household at New Columbia are ill with
diphtheria.
Hazelton is to have a new reservoir
with a daily pumping capacity 2,5OO,-
900 gallons.
Burglars who visited the home of
Rev. Father Brehl. at Pittston, were
shot at and they fled.
There are in Berks Country 1854
children who are affected by the COM
pulsory education law.
When handling a supposed empty
revolver Charles Schnader, of Birds
boro, was dangerously shot
Three women have been elected di-
rectors of the Montgomery Cemetery
Company at Norristown.
An Allegheny County jury convicted
Ida Sidney of murder In the second
degree for killing William Steel, her
negro lover. 3
There are in Berks county %, 1888
men lab e to military duty.
1t is reported that Pennsylvania pig
iron men will join in forming a pool at
Philadelphia.
While on his way to work at Schuyl-
kill Haven William Reed was cut in
two by a train.
Mine Foreman Henry Smell. of Ire
mont, was seriously injured at the
Lorberry Colliery.
A splinter which ran in his foot pro-
duced lockjaS and killed Ralph Smith,
the little son of j, ?. Smith, Lebanon.
The names of liquor license lndorsers
at Reading will hereafter be published
by the Total Abstinence Union.
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An instrument for measuring the
amount of impurity in the air of a room
or shop was shown at the Zurich In
dustrial Exhibition recently. 1t con-
sisted of a glass bulb containing a red
liquid which turns white on contact
with carbonic acid gas. The liquid in
the bulb was kept from the air, but
,nce in every 100 seconds a drop, drawn
automatically from the bulb through a
bent tube, fell upon the upper end of
a stretched cord and began slowly to
descend the cord. If the air was foul
with carbonic acid the drop turned
white at the upper end of the cord, and
the purer the air the farther the drop
descended before changing color.
Alongside the cord RAJ a scale, like that
Of a thermometer or barometer, indl-
the degrees of impurity OF the
atmosphere.
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d. DR.. James Weir, Jr., who has studied
strange Inhabitants of the Mammoth
Gave in Kentucky, says that the cele-
brated blind fish from that cavern,
when placed in illuminated aquaria,
seek out the darkest places, and he be-
lieves that light Is directly fatal to
them, for they soo die II kept in a
brightly lighted tank. The avoidance
of light seems to be a general charac-
t~eristic of the slghtless creatures dwell
ling in the great cave. Doctor Weir
has seen an eyeless spider trying to
avoid the light, and animalcules from
the waters Of the cavern hiding under a
grain Of sand on the stage of his MI
croscope. He thinks the light in these
cases Is in some manner perceived
through the sense of touch.
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"Ah," he said delightedly, al SEE
you have my latest book of poems with
YOU"
"Yes," she replied; 81 keep it here"
''Indeed7'
"You see," she went on, ''the color of
the cover hsrmonizes so beautifully with
the furnishings OF the room!'-Tash.
iugton Star.
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CARPETS,
FURNITURE,
FEATHERS,
BEDDING,
K
QUlLTS.~
FARMERS,
MUTUAL FIRE ms. co. OF
SALEM GOuNTY

OrFIcE-HEAD OF MARKET ST., SALEM.
THIs old and reliable Company of 80 years
i standing continues to insure all kinds OF
property, not extra hazardous, in town or cOpn-
Try for any length OF time not exceeding five
years at as low rates as will pay losses and ex-
penses. 1t insures against hre or lightning or
damage by either. Its losses are promptly adj
tusted and paid. Its funds on hand are ample
70 meet all probable loss, being larger than at
any previous time Of its existence and steady
increasing, while its reserve assets are Of a
character N amount to surely meet all losses
however extraordinary, and cannot be frittered
away by unfortunate Investment or defaulting
officers.
Directors-J0seph w~addington, VIM. B. Car
pepter, Charles Hires, Josiah Wistar, David II,
Grler, Q. ii. S~innieksOn, Woodruff Petit, Bar
clay Griscom, Quinton p. Harris, Chas. W.
Casper. J. Howard Sinnickson, John s. Elwell,
Richard Bassett.
Executive Committee - W. B. CARPENTER.
PRESIDENT Joseph Waddlngton, Woodruff
weekly, on Seventh day, at Il. NJ.
Secretary and Treasurer-WOOdnntt Petit,
to whom applicants may be made In relation
70 any business connected with the Company,
at the Office Of the Company, 1888 Broadway,
lhead Of Market street, } or at his residence, 80
=. Broadway, Salem.
In addition to the above the following per.
sons nave been elected Agents and Surveyors,
R. NJ. Hitchner, Elmer.
George b. Grier, WoodstOwn.
Josiah Snmmetll, Upper PENIS Neck.
Asa G.. Turner, Penn,s GrOye.
Daniel ID. Hitehner, COhanSey.
j. F0rman SlnnieksOn, l.. r. Neck.
John Hitchner, Alloway.
Joseph b.. Liyezey, Berkeley,
David ID. Griscom, Marlton, Nj.
George r. Morrison, Salem.
Ii. A sitRTssr,
I'm, d. C~ARPESrER, President.
Petit. bac'y and Treasurer.
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On the western coast Of the northern
island Of New Zealand immense de-
posits of magnetic iron sand are found.
The sand is brought down by many
streams from the slopes of Mount
Egmont. The cliffs consist of a mix
ture Of ordinary silica sand and iron
sand, but the waves sweeping the beach
carry the lighter silica sand away, leav-
Ing an almost pure deposit of iron sand
fourteen feet in depth. Furnaces have
been erected by which the sand Is
smelted and formed into pig iron.
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Marvellous Measurement.

At the recent "conversazione" Of the
Royal Society in London a. pendulum
instrument was exhibited, intended to
record the slightest tits and ~pulsations
of the crust of the earth. 1t was as
serted that this instrument would rem
der observable a tilt Of less than n
three-hundredth Of a second Of arc. In
other words, If a plane surface were
tipped up only SO little that the rise
would amount to a single inch in a
thousand miles, the instrument would
reveal the tiltinRl
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Plants.

That such plants as Venus fy-trap
actually catch and squeeze to death
flies and other insects alighting on
their leaves has long been known, but
the discovery is comparatively recent
that the plants digest the softer parts
Of their prey by e Of a peptic fer
ment secreted by the leaves. These,
then, are real instances of plants feed
ing upon animals.
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BRYAN AND SEWALL
The Democr attic Nominees for Presi-
dent and Vice President.

1t was on the fifth ballot that VIM.
Jennings Bryan was nominated for
President by the Democratic National
Convent on, The stampede for him
began during the taking of the fourth
ballot.
The full vote for Bryan was $50.
After the fourth roll-call the Penn
~sylvania delegation filed out OF the
hall for consultation.
Bryan emblems began to blossom
out on the floor and in the galleries.
The dark horse had plunged into the
race so late that there were no por-
traits of him to be found in the city
large enough for convention purposes.
William Jennings Bryan, of Lincoln.
Neb., was born in Salem, Marion
county, ILL.,, March 10, 1860; attended
public school until thirteen years of
age, spending his vacations on :he
farm; IN the fall Of lS75entered Whip.
pie Academy, at Jacksonville, I'LL. en-
tered ILLINOIS College, jacksonville, in
1877; completed a classical course and
was graduated with the highest honors
in 1881; attended Union College
OF Law, Chicago, ILL.,, for two years,
during which time he was connected
with the office of ex-senator Lyman
Trumbull; began the practice of his
profession at Jacksonville; removed to
Lincoln, Neb,, October l, 1887, and
became a member of the firm of Tai
bot & Bryan; never held an elective
Off e prior to HE election to Congress;
was elected to the Fifty-second and re.
elected to the Fifty-third Congress as
a Democrat, receiving 13, 7S4 votes,
against 1854 votes for Allen W.
Field, Republican; S63 votes for r. w.
Maxwell, Prohibltionist, and 2,409
votes for Jerome Shamp, Populist.
The Democratic National Conven-
ton completed Its work in Chicago by
the nomination of Arthur Sewall, of
Maine, for Vice President on the fifth
ballot.
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NEWS THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
North, South, East, West.

Robert P. Blanc, of New York city,
left his will and $4,000 with his daugh
ter and killed himself with gas at a
hotel.
Frederick B. Schenck, cashier of the
Mercantile National Bank, New York
city, has been elected president to sue
ceedWilliam Il. st. John, the %silverIte,
who resigned.
Frank Tilford, of Park 4 Tilford, has
been elected president of the New Am.
sterdam Bank, New York city, to sue
coed George f. Wyghoff, who was shot
by a crank.
A section of sewer at Peoria, Illinois,
caved in as a re ult of n storm. Alex
ander Madison was killed and William
Hayward and John Yates seriously in
jured.
A Nassau despatch says that the
American schooner Robert j. Barr,
from Philadelphia, coal laden, is ashore
near Bimini, Bahamas.
The mutiIated bodies of Mrs. II. r.
Richardson and her daughter, Ethel,
wer found at their home in Monticel-
10, near Santa Barbara, California.
The women had been killed with a
club. While resisting arrest on sus-
picion of having been the murderer,
Cyrus Bernard, a former gardener of
the Richardson's, was shot and killed
by a deputy sheriff.
A race track in Minneapolis, upon
which a female bicycle race was to
have been given, was wrecked by the
audience because the management
failed to keep their promises. The
people demanded the return of their
money, and failing to get it, stopped
the race and destroyed a portion of the
building. 3
because MS ''hotel' was one room
short of the legal number a New York
liquor dealer was held for trial.
Through trains with a single fare are
to be run from the Battery, in New
York, to the annexed district, in obedi-
to popular demand,
After a two years trip around the
world. accompanied by his wife, ex-
Judge ] eicester Holme, of New York,
has reached San Francisco, Cal.
William Molles, formerly of Chicago,
ILL.,, was dangerously stabbed at mid
night in the street in Toledo, O., by
Thomas Hennesy, who was arrested.
The body of q mar about 40 years
old, with a pawn ticket in his clothing
the name OF Lloyd, was found
on the beach at Coney Island,
N. Y.
At the trial of Police Commissioner
Parker. in New York city, President
Roosevelt explained why Parker was
called n liar, and denied that he
threatened to prefer charges against
Chief Conlin.
Henry Ii. Bliss, step father of Mrs
who WAS acquitted of mur-
der, is being tortured by lawyers in
New York city in supplementary pro
ceedings in an effort to make him pay
his debts. 4
Four boys all under IA years old
were fined in a New York Police Court
stripping wood and metal work from
dwellings,,
Five new piers for the accommoda-
lion of ocean steamers are to be built
on the North River front in New York
south of Eleventh street.
William II. Sutton, formerly en-
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HUSBAND AND WIFE IN ACCORD.

"Women must consider it a dreadful
fate to be an old maid" mused Mr.
Chugwster.
"They do, Josiah" said Mrs. Chug-
water, "What terrible sticks they do
sometimes marry to escape itP'
And Josiah rubbed his chin and said
nothing. Chicago Tribune.
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It was formerly believed that cat
from, when subjected to long-continued
shocks and Earring, became Crystal
lized" and brittle; but Mr.. A. q. Outer
bridge, Jr., Of Philadelphia. has re
Gently shown, by a series Of expert
ments, that instead of being weakened
cast iron Is really strengthened by re-
peated blows and conclusions.
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would rather see a man even a
mIser, than to see him without any m
bItlon at all N this world.
Keep your hand on your p~ocketbook
when you neal u man insisting that
"busIness is business
They who have light in themselves
will not revolva as satellites,
The world owes no man moro than
one living.
A life of pleasure makes ever the
strongest mind frivolous at last,
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An invention calculated to terribly
mice and rats is described In Popular
Science News. 1t consists Of q metallic
cat, which, being covered with lumin-
ous paint, shines In a dark room with a
mysterious radiance which, the inven-
tor thinks, will be more %effectual than
traps, or even genuine cats, in Kidding
houses Of rodent pests.
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A

Priscilla $50 old Winter has mar
ried May2"
Budd-"What q c~uriousiy ASSORTED
coupled"
Prunella-"Not at all. It's a perfect
match. He has twenty millions and she
has twenty years.."-New York Herald
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Three bIg bald eagles attacked a
groctr's clerk at Seabr"ok, n. H., one
day las week and were maullng NM
badly when help arrived. The birds
were beaten off aud they es-
capped.
If the entire population OF the
world ia considered to be l,InO,NUO, 600
The brains of this number at human be-
lngs would weigh 1922, 7l2 tons or as
much MS ninety SIX lrunclads oil the
ordinary SIZE.
The true way to lie humble IS not
to stonp Till Won are smaller than your
sslt. int 70 stand ut Sour real height
against some higher natnfe that snail
show you what the real smallness Oh
your greatest greatness is.