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Tell-Tale Finger-Tips.

The seat of that invaluable quality,
tact, is said to be in our fingers. Hence
psychologists as well as psychologists
are said to devote special attention to
The study of the human digit. Mr..
Francis Galton pointed out years ago
that the delicate lines in our finger.
lips may become means of identifying
persons, since these lines vary with
every individual, and remain the same
all through life. M. Fere, the French
savant, has gone a step further, and,
after number Of experiments, has
come to the conclusion that not only
the lines themselves, but the way in
which people touch and handle OBJ.
iects, reveal their character and apti.
tudes. Thus, by causing a number OF
persons to take up a ball Of soft putty
he has at once obtained the lines by
which he identifies, and the impres.
sion, more or less strong, by which he
can tell whether PERSONS capsbili.
ties lean towards professional or an
artistic Observation-Disclosures Gazette.
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War Caused by One Word,

In 1854 Polish nobleman became
obnoxious to the laws of his country
by reason of q crime, according to
London Answers. He fed to Sweden,
whereupon John Cassimir, King of
Poland, wrote to Charles Gustavus,
King of Sweden, demanding the ex-
tradition of the criminal. The King
Of Sweden, on reading the dispatch,
noticed that his own name and titles
we're followed by two etceteras, while
the name of the King of Poland was
followed by three. The missing
etcetera so enraged the King of Swed-
en- that he at once declared war
against Poland. This was carried on
with great bitterness until 1860, when
a peace was signed at Olivia, near
Dantzig.
A contemporary writer, Kochowsky,
poured out his lamentations on the
war in these terms: GLOW dear has
this etcetera been to us! With how
many lives have these two potentates
paid for these missing eight letters!
With what streams of blood has the
failure of few drops of ink been
avenged!" In Article 8 of the treaty
it was explicitly laid down that the
custom of shortening titles by "etcet-
Grafton" should hold good, but for the
future each Of the two parties should
give the other three etceteras.
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Mr.. schoonoyer,s Lively Time.

At Waverley, Ohio, while Tom
Schoonover was crossing the field Of a
neighbor, he was pursued by an infur-
lated bull. The chase began about
the middle of the field, and, although
Schoonover put forth superhuman ef-
forts to reach the fence, he was struck
in the rear by the bull and thrown
bodily fifteen feet high, coming down
on his feet in the middle of the pond,
comparatively unhurt.
On facing his bullship, that stood
for an instant looking in the direction
of the man, what was his consterna-
tion to see perched upon the bovine's
back wildcat vigorously doing his
best with claws and teeth to sever the
vertebre of the bull. The next mo-
ment the bull wheeled, and the last
seen of him was when he dashed into
dense wood in the hope, doubtless,
of ridding himself Of his enemy by
coming in contact with the low limbs.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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lane is built on each side of the road,
extending we'll up to the carriage
track but not close enough, of course,
to prove any inconvenience to travel
ers. Two long bars of thin boards are
then fitted to slide across the highway
when the cattle are to be driven
across, and then back again, out OF the
way of travel. A bent rod of iron
connects the two ends of the bars, 80
that both can be slipped across the
road at once, the bend in the rod per-
mitting it to rest upon the ground so
that the cattle can pass over it. To
operate this takes but moments time.
American Agriculturist.
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Harvesting Beans.

Wherever benns are grown largely
they are grown cheaply, and with far
less labor than is put on this crop
when grown in small gardens. Proba-
bly, in nothing is this saving of labor
so great as in harvesting. 1t was al
ways the most back-aching work of our
boyhood to pull beans, which was al
ways left for the boys to do, because
the work of pulling is really within
their power, and the boy, being small,
did not need to bend his back so much
as a full grown man would do. 1t does
us good even now to think that the
great bean crops of the country are
mostly harvested by horse power.
The bean harvester consists of sharp
cutting knife drawn by two horses
s.raddling the rows and running just
far enough under the soil to cut the
root without pulling the stalk down
and running over it. Then the beans
are forked into windrows Or heaps and
left to dry out. 1t does not pay to
rake them together, as the bean pods
need to dry before being heaped up,
and if rake we're used they would
shell badly. The beans stand up after
they have been cut, but the moisture
from the root is cut off so they dry
quickly. 1t is the best way to harvest
beans even in the garden. Make hoe
sharp enough so twill cut off the bean
stalk just below the surface, and yet
lecve it standing. It is at least for a
change easier than bending down to
pull the beans, as used to te always
done,
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Violet Perfume.

It would appear as if the cultivation
of the violet for its perfume alone will
shortly be numbered with the things
of the past. Violet perfume is now
produced by chemical means, and the
result quite supersedes and surpasses,
it is said, in quality and persistency,
the flower itself. This latest discovery
in chemistry has been made by two
Germans in Leipzig, and the import
ance of it may be measured by the fact
that many thousands of pounds have
been offered for the patent. Already
this substance has been sold at con-
siderable reduction upon the cost of
the perfume made from real violets,
and SO intense is the odor in its con-
centration that the manufacturers sell
only ten per cent. solutions of it. This
ten per cent. solution has to be again
diluted hundredfold before it is fit
for sale to the public. The perfume
of violets is not, we are told, the only
instance in which chemical science az
applied to perfumery has triumphed,
and though some of the other chemi-
cally made perfumes are not so re-
markable in their similitude to those
actually extracted from flowers, they
nre of sufficient Importance to greatly
limit the use of flowers they initiate.
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Early Corn is Best,

Millions of dollars worth of corn is
lost every year from failure of corn
late planted, or planted on too poor
ground to mature it's crop. This soft
corn has some feeding value, but more
for ruminant animals than for the hog,
which gets most of it. But even when
put to the best use the nutrition is not
in the soft corn as it is in the fully
ripened grain. Not even remastication
can get out of soft corn what is not
there. Even in the arid West, where
corn dries up prematurely, the earliest
planted corn fares best. When the hot
winds come, which wither the immature
corn to almost nothing, the corn that
has formed ear and grain has so much
saved beyond even the power of the
hot winds to wholly dissipate. Hence
we always advise the early planting of
corn. Even if the frost nips the blade
just as it is pushing above the surface,
there is vigor enough in the root to
send out new shoot. It is rather
more serious if the frost catches corn
when it lis five or six inches high. Then
the frozen leaf has often to be clipped
off before new growth will start. Yet
we have seen corn even thus frozen
down mature better crop than that
from corn planted after the frost was
over. The root has been growing even
while the top was frozen. Hence,
though such corn would never have
quite as big stalks as that which grew
without interruption, it would have
large and well-filled ears. Most of
the stalks would have suckers, and
these also would be we'll cared. Early
corn always has more grain than late
in proportion to it's stalk growth.
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Reminded of tie Debt.

Bishop John P. Newman (Methodist)
visited South Onondaga, N. Y, on a
recent Sunday, in which town he was
pastor of his first church fifty years
ago. He made an address, in which
.he told how he was obliged to walk a
Pnine-mile circuit and speak at four
services every Sunday, until member
of the congregation took pity on him
and raised enough money to buy him
a horse. "The horse had short legs, "
said the Bishop, land had long legs;
consequently 1 could by turns either
walk or ride without dismounting.
The salary for a years service was
s1OO, and," said the Bishop, you owe
me S. Of that money yet"
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4 RefutatiOn.

A story has travelled lately about
stenographer writing 402 words in
one minute, but the first question
that suggests itself is who is able to
anunciate 4O2 words in minute for
the stenographer to write? Clergy.
men, in delivering sermon, average
perhaps ninety words per minute; po'
iitical campaign speakers, 110. AS
rule, senators in debate don't talk
faster than $50 words minute, and,
in spurts, they seldom reach 22O. In
fact, very rapid readers find difficulty
in uttering intelligibly 275 and 300
words in sixty seconds. .-Kansas City
Star. CO.,
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Dairy Notes.

Each year it seems that a larger
number of dairymen and farmers are
beginning to believe that it is better
to have their COWS or part of them,
come fresh in the fall, and to give
them their vacation or dry season be.
fore calving, in the hottest months,
when the pastures are most likely to
suffer from drought. Later, when
fall rains have renewed the growth in
the pasture for a few weeks, the COW
will give nearly if not quite as much
milk as she would have given when
fresh upon the watery early grasses of
the spring, and the milk will be
richer, that is, contain a larger
percentage OF butter fat and other
solids.
She will go to the barn in good con-
dition, and upon good, early cut hay
with a grain ration, or upon ensilage
and grain, she can be kept well up in
production until spring, when she will
again increase her flow.
To those who send milk to our cities,
the larger price paid during the win
ter months should be great induce
ment to adopt this practice. To those
who make butter or cheese at home in
their own dairies, there are many
things to recommend this plan. It is
easier to protect the milk and cream
against excessive cold in a properly
built dairy room than it is even where
ice or cold spring water are plenty,
to guard against the effects of hot
weather and frequent thunder show
ers. Good winter-made butter, like
winter milk, usually commands the
highest prices in the market, and no
ice is needed in its transportation.
And not least is the difference between
performing the labor of the dairy
worl. in q room kept at comfortable
temperature, and doing the same when
it is impossible to keep cool enough
to be comfortable.
It is easier to raise q calf during
the fall and winter, when there is
comfortable barn and an abundance OF
skim. milk to give it for the first six
months, than it is to raise it when
the milk sours before it can be
skinned, and when the little animal
must be tethered out in the hot sun
and tormented by flies and mosqui-
toes. Then in the spring it can be
turned to pasture, we'll grown, strong
and vigorous, in just the condition to
profit by the succulent grass of the
pasture.
Of course, those who supply milk or
cream to butter or cheese factories
must try to have their milk while the
factory is running, but if the farmers
of neighborhood should be able to
furnish the material to keep it running
during the winter, there is no good
reason why such creamery or factory
could not do its work as we'll then as
in tie warmer weather.
Such change, however, would be
of the most importance to milk pro-
ducers for the city, who lose much
during the summer months by having
surplus which the contractors are
not willing to pay for, and then lose
again in winter by not having as much
as the consumers are willing to pay
for.--American Cultivator, 49,
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Battles of the American Revolution.

The following named battles may be
considered twenty-five of the import
ant encounters during the Revolution.
ary War: Lexington, April 10, 1775i
Concord, April 10, ITS; Ticonderoga,
May 10, 1775; Crown Point, May 10,
ITS; Bunker Hill, June II, ITS;
Long Island, August 27, 1776; Harlem
Heights, September 16, 1776; Fort
Washington, November 16, 1776:
Trenton, December 26, 1776; Prince
ton, January 8, 1777; Oriskany, Aug
ust 6, 1777; Bennington, August 16.
1777; Brandywine, September II,
1777; Germantown. October 4, 1777;
Saratoga, October II, 1777; Mon.
mouth, June 2S, ITS; Stony Point,
July 16, 1779; Savannah, October 8,
1873; Charleston, May -, 1870; Cam
den, August l6, 1880; Kings Noun
tain, October 7, 1880; Cowpens, Janu
ary II, 1871; Guilford, March 15,
1881; Eutaw Springs, September s,
1881; Yorktown, October 10, 1871.
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Pin Making.

Of pins it is said that some of the,
large department stores often order
100 cases at time. Each case con.
tains 1OS dozen papers and each paper
holds $50 pins, SO little use of the
multiplication table will show what an
immense thing even the one order
means. The yearly output of pins
from the largest factory in the United
States, it is claimed, would, if placed
end to end, reach three times around
the world.
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NOVEL HAY GATHERER.

shown in the illustration and needs no
explanation. A horse on each side OF
the windrow attached to the ropes will
gather up an enormous mass Of hay
and pull it into the barn floor, where
the conditions are right. There it can
be taken care of by the hay fork,
human muscle not being called upon
for any part of the work. If desired,
the side uprights can be carried
above the rail, as we'll as those in the
rear.-New England Homestead.
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How He Earned It.

"Here," said the city editor, "is
note to the cashier requesting him to
increase your salary SIS week"
'"Thank you very much" said the
new reporter. ''May ask what par
ticular piece of my work has pleased
you?"
"In writing up the fire last night
you didn't say that the inmates were
caught like rats in trap I believe
that such heroic self-denial should be
rewarded. "-Cleveland Leader.
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|R.I.P.A.N.S]
Packed Without Glass.
TEN FOR FIVE CENTS.

This special form Of Ripans Tabulesis prepared
from the original prescr1p ption, but more econom-
iS R SSS res ss9 gSSss av % %ssns The
DIRECTIONs.-Takeo one at meal or bed
time OF whenever you feel poorly. Swallow 70
whole, with or without q mouthful Of water.
They cure all stomach troubles banish pafnt
induce sleep Rrolong LIE: An Invaluable tonic:
Best Spring Medicine. No matter what's the
matter, one Win DO you good. One gives reliet-
cure will result X directions are followed.
The nvecent packages are not yet TO be bad 6f
all dealers, although It Is probable that almost
any druggist win obtain supply whenreQuested
by 2 customer 70 DO 80 but In any case angls
age paid. 70 any address for Ave cents IN stamps
forwarded 70 the RipaIp Chemical Coz Nc. N
Spruce "a, New York. Until the goods are thor.
cughly intr cduced to the trade, agents and ped.
dlers will bs supplied at price witch VIII allow
them fair margin Of profit, viz, I dozen car.
cartons) for sl.S2-by mail for elSa gross 72o
cartonsS for sso!a. Is gross 9,soo cartonO Tor
800. Cash with tho order IN every case, and
6eiRht or eIpref2 CHARGES Mt the huYerSn co4t.
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A horse, which up to the last was
called pony, died at Burlington,
Kan, recently at the age Of forty-one.
The owner, DR.. Manson, had had it in
his possession for thirty-nine years,
ever since he bought it from the Sac
and Fox Indians. New York Sun.
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No Feuds or Rifles Wanted.

A large colony of Kentuckians is
about to take up its belongings and
come out to California to settle and
grow up. That's all right, good peo-
pie. You are heartily welcome. But
please leave Kentucky feuds and rifles
behind, will you!-Cacramento (Cal.)
Record- -TTnion
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A Labor-Saying Hay Gatherer.

On farms where the hay fields are
level and lying adjacent to the barn,
it is now sometimes the practice to
take a stout rope and with horse at
either end, "rope" windrow of hay
right into the barn floor without the
use of hayrake or hay rack. A plan
less likely to have mishaps attending
it is shown in the cut. The con struc-
ton of this implement is plainly
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Shake Into Your Shoes

Aliens Foot.Ease, a powder for the feet; 1t
stantly takes the sting out Of corns and bum
ions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of
the age. Aliens Foot ot-Ease makes tight-ht-
ting or new shoes feel easy. 1t is O certain
cure for sweating, callous and hot, tired, ach-
ing feet. Try it to-day. Sold hy all druggists
and shoe stores. By mail for 25c. in stamps.
Trial package FREE. Address, Allen s. Olm-
Rted. La Roy N. u.
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Pasturins Cattle Across a Highway.

Many farms are so situated that the
cattle must be driven across high
way to pasture. This almost always
affords trouble. The cattle will break
away up and down the highway to feed
by the roadside, instead of crossing
the road directly from the pasture gate
to the lane leading to the barn. A de-
vice is shown herewith that may prove
of assistance in such cases. A narrow
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8eware of Ointments for Catarrh That
Contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the sense Of
smell and completely derange thewhole system
when entering it through the mucous surfaces.
Such articles should never be used except on
prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the
damage they will do Is ten fold to the good you
can possibly derive from them. Halls Catarrh
Cure manufactured by F. j. Cheney. g. Co.,
Toledo, o., contains no mercury, and is taken
internally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces Of the system. In buying
Halls Catarrh Cure be sure to get the genuine.
1t is taken internally, and is made in Toledo,
Ohio, by F. J. heney q 90. Testimonials free
~ Sold by Druggists; price, Toe. per bottle.
HALLS Family Pills are the best.
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Pea Vines as Manure.

If pea vines can bo plowed under
while green, it may pay to make this
use Of them, provided there is some
crop to use up the fertility they supply.
But if they are at all dried, the vines
should be cut and put up for winter
feed. They are rich in heterogeneous
matter, and are especially valuable to
feed with corn stalks, which are de-
Gcient in nitrogen.
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There Is q Class of People

Who are injured by the use Of coffee. Re-
Gently there has been placed in all the grocery
stores new preparation called Grain-O, made
of pure grains, that takes the place Of coffee.
The most delicate stomach receives 1t without
distress and but few can tell it from coffee.
1t does not cost over one.qCarter as much.
Children may drink it with great benefit. ID
cts. and IS cts. per package. Try 1t. Ask foI
Grain-O,
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Springfield, Ill.,, is built on five and
one-haE square miles of ground, and
has 10000 population, who owe $9O2,-
$50 and own S5, S37, 495.
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The French colony in New York
City numbers 10,535, the largest of
any city in the United States. The
next largest is found in New Orleans,
b710.
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SureIy She Was Right.

A school teacher lately put the
question: "What is the highest form
of animal life?" ''The giraffe!" re-
sponded a bright little girl in the
class.
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Florida and the South.

Southern Railway, the most direct route.
Operating double daily service. New York
to Florida and the South year round; The
South. New York office, 2Il broadway.
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New Orleans. Mexico and California.

Reached from New York via Pennsylvania
feet service to New Orleans, Mexico and the
Pacific coast. Tourist car the year round
from Washington to San Francisco. New
York Office, 27l Broadway.
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MRS. ELLA M'GARVY,
Writing to Mrs. Pinkham.

She says:-I have been using your
Vegetable Compound and find that it
does all that it is recommended to do.
I have been a sufferer for the last four
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Hail broke forty panes Of glass in
the Sandown IN. H. meeting house
windows in one afternoon storm.
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Ihave found Piso's Cure for Consumption
an unfailing medicine.-F. r. LOTT, l3O5 Scott
St. CoYington, Ky, Oct !. 1894.
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What 500 VIII Buy.

3mos course in Woods New York School of
Business and Shorthand, Tuition, Books, Board.
The unlimited possibilities Of securing good
positions F. E. WOOD, 5th Ave. and H5th st.
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years with won
trouble, weak
back and excre-
tions. I was hart
ly able to do my
household dutie
and while about
my work was .
nervous that
I was mser- %
able. I had
also given M
up in des-
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ness after first days use of DR.. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. 81 trial bottle and treatise free
DIR, R. H. KLINE, Ltd, 831 Arch St., Phila., Pa.
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Every Person Has to Use Soap.
Why not use the best? Dreydoppel's, the
only real and genuine borax soap, for all pur-
poses that soap is to be used. Dreydoppe]
soap, full pound bars sold everywhere.
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
leething, softens the gums, reducing tnfamma-
lion. allays pain, cures wind collie. 25c.a bottle
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Vacant Stores in New York City.
There are over 10000 vacant stores In
New York City.
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If faffiictedwith sore eyesuse DR.. Isaac Thomp-
1n's Eye-water Druggists sell at25c. per bottle.
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was persuaded to try Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound, andto-day,
I am feeling like new woman
Mrs. ELLA McGARvY, Neebe Road
Station, Cincinnati, 0.
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R00FING Sssss Rasssiss s esSsslssss Ssfss r.
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pair, when