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Kansas jack rabbits have appeared this season in the eastern markets. They mat be very good eating, but as he sees them stretched up for sale the eastern tenderfoot is at loss to determine whether he is looking upon the body of small calf or very large cat.
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London Architecture.

Not long ago an English architect was heard to make curiously suggest i've remark Conversation had turned upon the manifold dangers to which VIC expose ourselves by travelling in rafl- way carriages ''Thc great rule said this architect, lis never to look out of the window until you are good ao miles from London. Otherwise you rist seinn the Crystal palzs.s ''
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-21

One would not wish to be trouble some, but really did anybody see that airship which. is said to have travelled from San Francisco to Cleveland in three days?
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-21

There is q species of pine tree which grows i'll California and is known as the giant pine which is the largest of the pine genus, often rising to q height Of 200 feet, with . trunk go to 80 feet 1T, girth.
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If congress shall appropriate some money to pay them, there will be an opening in tho United States navy Tor fine young Americans out of employ mont. Some of the forts along our coasts are without defenders.
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Mlstai1en Identity.

JETFERsoNvII-LE, Ind, Oct. 23.-- While Mrs. Joseph Howard of Washing ton county. was preparing to take the supposed remains of her husband home for internlent letter arrived from him saying that he was ill Nashville. Two weeks ago he mysteriously disappeared and the remains of mlrdered man found i'll lhe Portland canal were identt fled us theaa af Howard.
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Too Weak to Hold It.

Charles-Uncle, I want you to try this limburger. Itwas imported all the way from Germany, each pound care. fully wrapped in tinfoil.
 Uncle JosL >Goshi Air you sure they didn't have to do it up in b'iler iron?-- Indianapolis Journal
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HOW SHE WAS LEFT

A St. Louis Lady Tells Her Story.
 ST. LOUIS, MO. =" For over two years I have been trou bled with malaria, kidney and liver disease and impure blood. In the winter was taken sick with malaria and inflammation of the stomach, which left me weak, nervous and sleepless. be- gan taking Hoods Sarsaparilla and after using ten bottles, and also Hoods Pills l can eat and sleep and am stronger. :" MINNIE BLoTEvoGEL, 4s15 North 20th St.
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The latest and ono of tho most sweep ing trusts iii America is said to be the 6racker frust, otherwise called the New IT Biecs,it ecg pane We'll we
 F ' III fhair stu6 Ihorq is plenty
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Just the one word "Coal'' ought to be enough at this time of year to bring you in with an order. By this time everybody In this town ought to know the kind of coal we sell and the way we handle 1t. We don't know of anyone who ever bought coal of us who was dissatis- fled either wish the quality, price or method of delivery. If there is such q man in existence we would like to see him.
 We guarante satisfaction. EDGAR BREWSTER & Co.
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CHRIS MAS!

The holiday that much for the children the world What transports of ecstac and what flights of rapture eventu 25th We grow again. our purse strings faxed heart frightened witnessing these delights The question might well be asked there man with son so deprive joys easily gained Especially he condemned when consider the truly remarkable values now offered at the
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Electric Vegetables.

In India grows the electric planU, Nor
Philotacea electrica. II leaf of this
plant is broken off the hand that does so
Immediately receives ah electric shock
equal to that produced by an induction
coil. At distance of six yards mag
netic needle is affected, and will be
deranged if brought close to it. The
energy of the plants electrical inhu-
ence varies with the time of day. All
powerful about 2 o'clock in the after.
moor, it is absolutely gone during the
hours of the night, and during rain
the plant loses its influence. No shock
is felt in breaking the leaves at those
times, and the needle is unaffected.
Birds or insects never alight on the
electric plant, their instinct warning
them of their danger in doing so.
Where it grows none of the magnetic
metals are found-neither idon, CO.
bait nor nickel-thus proving that the
electrical force belongs exclusively to
the plant. s
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Love in Guatemala,

If writer in the Chicago Inter-
Ocean is to be believed, the laws of
etiquette in Guatemala are excessively
strict. All love affairs, it appears, are
carried on by stealth. "The would-be
lover, denied admission to the presence
of his inamorata, frequents the street
in front of her house and spends most
of his waking hours in pacing the pave
ment and gazing rapturously at her
window, while she snugly ensconced
behind her bars, pretends to ignore
him, though secretly delighted to have
a suitor and anxious to show him off
to all her acquaintance. In Spain
this courting in public at long range
is known as 'plucking the turkey; in
Guatemala, as in Mexico, it is called
playing the bear Always it is con-
tinued for months; sometimes for years,
and maybe without success at all. The
result does notdepend upon the wishes
of the girl, but upon the will of her
parents. After while they make in
quiries into the young mans charac-
ter, prospects and social standing, If
reports are satisfactory, the senorita's
father or big brother scrapes up an ac-
quaintance with the suitor at the club
or elsewhere and invites him to the
house. But never, never, for one mo-
ment is he allowed to see her alone, or
to walk or drive with her. As to mar
riage, civil as we'll as religious cere.
mony is insisted upon by the Govern.
ment. By law the civil ceremony must
precede that of the church and by GUS
tom the latter is most tedious and
lengthy affair. Some little contrast,
isn't there, between all this amatory
red tape and the free and easy method
of the young people of the United
States?"
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Funerals in OIden Times.

Americans awakened more quickly
than the English people to the follied
of burdensome and expensive funeral,
and in 1921 Judge Sewall noted the
first public funeral without scarfs"
in Boston. In 1741 the provincial
court of Massachusetts, enacted that
''no Scarves or Gloves, except six pail
to the bearers and one pair to each
minister of the church or congregation
where any deceased persons belong,
no wine, rum or rings be allowed tc
be given at any funeral upon the pen.
atty of ESQ.," The law must have beer
dead letter, but it certainly had its
influence in curtailing expenses, as
various newspaper notices show. Still,
this century, New England funeral
was a pompous affair, and it must, be
confessed, far from being in all re.
spects a gloomy affair. Hawthorne
says:
"Look back through all the social
customs of New England in the first
century of her existence, and read all
her traits of character and find one oc.
casion, other than funeral feast,
where jollity was sanctioned by uni.
versal practice"
New England was ever present at a
New England funeral to solace and to
cheer bereaved mourners. All drank
before the procession to the grave, and
many drank after. Nearly all the
itemized funeral bills I have seen un.
til this century were large in items of
rum, whisky, lemons, loaf sugar and
spices. Spiced cider was a favorite
drink at funeral. When a beloved
minister Glanced to die, his church, or
more often the town, outdid itself in
liberal liquid provision for the funeral.
Nor were town paupers forgotten in
death. A barrel of cider or two or
three gallons of rum were supplied by
the town as the final item of expense
for the ''town poor"
Judge Sewall spoke of visit to his
family tomb as an lawful yet pleasing
treat" No less plainly do the entries
in his dairy show that every funeral
he attended was to him a treat-a
great social treatment. He served
readily and officially as pallbearer at
thirty funerals, and in every case but
one received scarf, ring and gloves.
He could not attend one funeral lest
he should hear the burial service OF
the Episcopal Church, which, he said,
was "a lying, very bad Office; makes
no difference between the precious or
the vile. Chicago Record.
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yentilating the Stable.

A low stable cannot be so ventilated
as to give pure air and an even TEN.
perature; there is is not room enough
for free circulation. The ventilation
chutes commonly used are about one
foot square inside. In these the fric-
ton is 80 great and they are 80 liable
to be obstructed by spiders webs, etc.,
that but poor current is created. In
stead of being twelve inches they
should be not less than three feet. As
the area of these chutes is as the
squares Of their sides, the one has nine
times the area of the other, with only
three times the side surface for fric-
ton, and the danger of obstruction is
reduced to the minimum. But the
cupola or projection above the build.
ing is the most important part of all
ventilators. As an almost general
rule, this is built with Slated sides
like the shutters to blind. The build.
ers have only thought of keeping the
rain out by so arranging that the water
would run to the outside, and never
for moment thought that twice as
much air would be forced in on the
windward side as could escape on the
lee side. Any one who has such top
to his barn or stable must have noticed
every time it rains or SHOWS, with any
wind, even a moderate one, that the
floor under the cupola has a pile Of
snow or is wet. This shows that in.
stead of taking air out of the stable OF
barn it is forcing it in, and if he will
stand under the ventilator when the
wind is blowing he will find strong
downward draught. The cowl used on
hop kilns works we'll on small build
ings, but it is too small for large
stables, and costs too much money if
made large enough for large barns or
stables.
On one other point much discussion
has taken place. Shall the ventilat-
ing trunks so to the bottom of the
stable, or simply through the ceiling!
have given much thought and obser-
vation to this subject, and while it is
theoretically just right to have the
trunk 60 to the floor, practically !
would not lose the room to have it
done. If this device be put on its top
the least breeze will, by flowing around
the cupola, cause a strong upward
draught in the chute and will take all
the foul air out; if we get that out,
pure: :air will find its wayin. No stable
was ever SO tight that millions of feet
of air could not get in if we made
place for it by taking the foul air out.
Any dairyman or stock keeper who
will keep his stables clean, use plenty
of absorbents and bedding to take up
urine and smell of the manure and
take the foul air out, will have no
trouble, and needs to be to no expense
to get pure air in.-J. S. Woodward,
in Rural New Yorker.
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To Cure Snoring.

DR.. E. J. Birmingham, Chief Sur
geon of the New York Throat and Nose
Hospital, states for the benefit of those
who suffer from snoring that it can be
cured. 1t is usually caused by some
obstruction in the nose, which makes
it easier for person to breathe with
his mouth open when asleep. Some
times the removal of the obstruction
does not stop the snoring, the habit of
breathing through the mouth having
become too strong. If the patient is
unable to break the habit without as
sistance, a small strip of celluloid is
placed between the lips and teeth and
tied by string around the neck to
prevent its being swallowed. This
corrects the habit in q short time,
when it's use may be discontinued.
The most common cause for obstruc-
tions in the nose is the enlargement of
the tissues, caused by catarrh of long
standing. Polypi are easily removed.
Enlargement of various bones of the
nose is common, due to neglected
colds. The septum is the bone divid-
ing the two orifces of the nose. If
this partition is so bent as to obstruct
the orifce, it is sometimes necessary
to fracture it and set it straight.
Sometimes enlarged tonsils partially
close the nostrils.
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Earnings of Some Women.

One of the pioneer women doctors
in England, Mrs. Garrett Anderson,
at one of the jubilee congresses spoke
of the earnings of successful women
as running from $1,000 to $4,000 per
annnm. The London Woman says the
highest sum is one seldom reached,
however. On the other hand, the
New York Evening Post says that
$4,000 may be very large sum for q
female physician to earn in London in
a year, but there are a number of New
York women doctors who can point to
twice that sum as the result of their
professional labors for twelvemonth.
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Lost Her Tresses While She Slept.

To go to bed with glossy locks of
brown or yellow and to arise with
them white is an experience which is
at least not entirely unheard of. But
to go to sleep with luxuriant tresses
and to wake up with head shaven
and shorn and entirely without knowl-
edge of how the calamity happened
that is something new.
That is the experience which Miss
Emma Weitz, of st. Louis, has had.
She was the possessor of most brill
liant auburn hair and most profuse
locks. She went to bed on Monday
night with her hair in the customary
nocturnal braid and she awoke on
Tuesday morning to find that she had
only boyish crop left. She had not
been disturbed at any time during the
night and there was no trace of her
missing hair.
The family is divided in its theories
to account for the loss. Emma's
father has never admired her hair,
and has always objected to the way
she wore it. But he denies that his
we're the shears that clipped her braids.
Emma inclines to think that burglar
made way with her valuable posses
sion, but no other valuables in the
house were disturbed. And everyone,
even the heart-broken loser of the
hair is utterly unable to account for
the fact that the shearing took place
without her knowledge.
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are six inches long. Notches are cut
to receive these on the upper edge Of
the outside frame and the lower edge
of the outside slat of the inner frame
A piece Of tin may be tackled over tc
prevent their getting out.
To operate, pour into the hopper o
box or basketful of potatoes, then give
q vigorous shake or two by taking hold
of the upper end of the hopper. This
will send the potatoes rolling down
the incline, where they will be separ-
ated. Two men can unload and sort
1000 bushels day as they come from
the field. The material for making
the sorter will not cost over S1.50 at
the outside. If it is desirable to sort
the seed from among the small pota.
toes, the stats may be set closer, and
cloth may be tackled around the side
to prevent their dropping through the
larger spaces at the sides thus made,
or additional Stats may be used.-New
England Homestead.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

Let friendship creep gently to a
height; if it rush to it, it may socI run
itself out of breath.
The fear that our kind acts may be
received with ingratitude should never
deter US from performing such acts.
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which
the least shadow intercepts, while ad-
versity is as often as the rain offspring.
The time is flying this way on rapid
wings, when the only thing that can
prosper in this world is righteousness.
Life is continually weighing us in
very sensitive scales and telling every
one Of US precisely what hisrea weight
is to the )"st grain of dust.
The eat duty of life is not. to give
pain; and the most acute reasoner can
not find an excuse for one who volun-
tarily wounds the heart of fellow
creature.
All great men are brave in initia-
tive; but the courage which enables
them to succeed where others dare not
even attempt is never so potent as
when it leads to entire self-forgetful-
ness.
How mankind defers from day to
day the best it can do and the most
beautiful things it can enjoy, without
thinking that every day may be the
last one, and that lost time is lost
eternity!
Be deaf to the suggestions of tale
bearers, calumniators, pick-thanks or
malevolent detractors, who, while
great men sleep, sowing the tares Of
discord and division, distract the tran
guilty of charity and all friendly So
ciety.
Wear your learning. like your watch,
in private pocket, and do not pull it
out and display it merely to show that
you have one. If you are asked what
o'clock it is, tell it, but do not pro-
claim it hourly and unasked, like the
watchman.
Honest and discriminating praise
never really makes any one vain. It
encourages fresh efforts; it gives new
vitality and vigor; it is pleasurable
stimulant, not an intoxicating drug.
There is far too little of it in the world
for the worlds good.
The way of life is by no means smooth,
but let US not make it rougher than it
is. The world is not all we could wish;
but, if it goes wrong, let US not spend
ourselves trying to make it worse.
Rather let us make it little smoother
and little pleasanter by our disposi-
ton, manners and deeds. If men in
general are out of sorts, there is the
more need of our being in sorts.
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Paper Piping.

The experiments being conducted in
Italy with pipes made of paper are at
tracing universal attention, The ma.
terial used is cellulose paper, soaked
in asphalt. The pipes are said to be
impermeable, capable of resisting
heavy pressure, not subject to the or
dinary deterioration and not affected
by the action of electric currents. II
the continued use shall confirm the
expectations warranted by the practi-
cal tests, it is probable that the under.
ground pipe making industry will be
revolutionized, providing the cost Of
manufacture does not forbid market.
No thoroughly effective remedy for
rust and wear, caused by ground cleo
trio wires, has been discovered, unless
indeed this may prove the one, and a
relief from these evils will be eagerly
embraced, even if radical change in
construction and material of the pip
ing is necessary.
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Discoveries In the Kara Sea.

In these days of travel it is interest!
ing to observe that there are some
places on the face of the globe which
are still unexplored. NJ. Nossiloff,
the Russian explorer, has arrived at
Tiumen from the Kara Sea. He has
made important discoveries connected
with intercourse between Siberia and
Europe, especially direct waterway,
which is considerably shorter than the
older one, and is not affected by the
sea ice. NJ. Nossiloff also announces
that he has investigated the hitherto
unexplored Yalmal Peninsular.
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Blanching and Storing Celery.

When celery is grown in rows, earth
ing up is accomplished by first pulling
four or five inches of the soil about the
base of the plants to hold the stems in
place. Then with plow the earth is
piled up to within few inches of the
top, the ridge being finished with a
spade. When sufficiently blanched the
celery is ready for use. Some varie-
ties are planted in beds six or eight
inches apart both ways. Boards are
placed around the beds when the celery
is to be blanched. The foliage is so
thick that nothing more is needed to
exclude the light. Where the crop is
wanted for winter, no blanching is
necessary, as this process will be ac-
complished when in winter quarters,
whether kept in field or cellar.
Winter preservation is often unsat-
isfactory and usually attended by more
or less loss, says L. F. Kinney in Bull
letin "A, Rhode Island experiment sta
tion. If left in the field, set in trenches
in rows, having the tops about on q
level with the surface of the ground,
then cover gradually with some mate
rial like straw or leaves, increasing
the amount as the weather gets colder.
This method answers very well where
large quantities are grown but small
lots can be kept more satisfactorily in
cool cellar, if there is no furnace or
fire heat of any kind. Tightly pack
the celery upright in boxes six or seven
inches wide and four to six feet long,
putting four inches of sand OF loose
earth in the bottom before beginning.
Set the boxes on the cool floor and in
two or three months the celery will be
nicely blanched and ready for use.
If large quantities are to be kept in
cellar, place board little narrower
than the height of celery nine inches
IRON the wall farthest from the eD-
,txance. In this space pack the lunches
s0f celery as described for the boxes.
When this is full erect another board
trench nine inches from the first and
10 on until the whole space is filled.
The space must be left between the
rows of celery or heating and decay
swill take place. No earth or sand is
used between the punches. Simply
corer the bottom of the cellar with
three OF four inches for the roots to
rest in. 1t is indispensable in field,
spit or cellar that no water goes to the
stored celerp. A temperature just a
little above freezing is most satisfac-
tory for the cellar.
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Chinese Coins.

The treasures of the Smithsonian
Institution have recently been en-
riched by fine collection of Chinese
coins, said to be more complete than
any other in the world. 1t was be-
queathed by G. B. Glover, formerly of
the Chinese Imperial maritime GUS
toms. The collection represents the
coinage of China from no B. c., to
the present day, including many spec
linens of those peculiar pieces used
both as coins and religious medal
molds of divers shapes, notes both
governmental and private, and those
coins of foreign countries struck from
time to time for commercial use with
China, such as the "dollars" of Eng
lish, Danish, American and Mexican
manufacture, as well as the entire
series of the coinage of the Annamese,
Japanese, Koreans and the Mahome-
tan cities of China itself.