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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-10
WHAT A WORK is MAN
The Human Body the Most Wonder
PuI Thiuo In the World

The Human Body the Most Wonder
full Thing In the World.
Human beings are of all sizes, but the
tall man is less common than the short.
Only one in every 208 exceeds the
height of six feet For every foot Of
stature a man should weigh from S6 to
80 pounds, proportion that is not the
lot of all in these hurrying, scurrying
days. An average sized man weighs l40
pounds; woman 125 pounds Curious
ly enough, the mean weight and height
of lunatics are below those of sane peo-
pie Another unexpected thing in this
respect is that negro's skeleton weighs
more than that of an Englishman.
The vitalizing power is the blood, a
drop of which takes but % seconds to
go the round of the body There passes
through the heart once every three min
utes an amount of this precious fluid
equal to all that is contained in the
body. The mileage of the blood oircula-
ton reveals some astonishing and un-
dreamed of truths. 1t is estimated that,
assuming the average speed of the heart
to be 50 beats a minute, the blood
travels 207 yards in go seconds In 9TH
er words, miles an hour, 1853 day.
or $3.50 per year.
If a man of "a could have one single
blood corpusole floating in his blood all
his life, it would have traversed in that
period no less than $3.50, 808 miles.
The average weight of the brain Of an
adult male is 8 pounds 8 ounces.
of a female pounds s ounces. The
woman's brain begins to decline in
weight after the age of 80, the man g
not till ten years later According to
high authorities the nerves, with their
branches and minute ramiications con-
Meeting with the brain, exceed 10. 900. =
900 in number
The palms of the hands and soles Of
the feet are composed of cushions of fat.
in order that sudden jolts and violent
blows may be successfully resisted and
no injury done to the muscles and bones
underneath The muscles-of which
the tongue monopolizes land bones
Of the human structure in combination
are capable of more than / 200 different
motions.
The teaching of experience indicates
that accidents are far more likely to CO.
cur to the right leg and arm than to
the left. Further evidence of this fact
is supplied by the makers Of artificial
limbs. They dispose of many more ap-
pendages to the right side of the body
than to the other Statistics show that
in 81 cases out of 100 the left leg is
stronger than the right.
If a man could move his legs proper
tionally as fast as an ant he would
travel not far from 800 miles an hour
London Mail
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-10
Not a Coward After All.

An army surgeon tells story of an
officer many of you know. It was before
Santiago. The surgeon, going to the
front, came upon the young officer, sit
ting beside the road, trembling like a
leaf and whittier than the dead men
around him. At sight of the surgeon be
began to talk.
"I'm coward. Pm coward. I'm
a coward" he said. II knew I'd run,
and did. Oh, Lord, wish you'd kill
mel I'm disgraoed forever. just got
scared. knew would. I was going
along all right, not thinking of any
thing but getting at the dashed Span
iards, yelling to my men to come on
and running ahead as fast as I could,
when all of a sudden l stubbed my toe
or something, and then can't remem-
Der being scared, but must have been,
for came galloping back here, sick as
a dog. Oh, 1 feel SO awfully gonel I'm
a blanked coward, and / wish / was
dead. Oh, Lord, why don't somebody
shoot mef I've got such an awful gone
ness right here" And he put his hand
to his stomach. The surgeon gave him
quick look and caught him as he
plunged forward in a faint Where the
awful goneness was a Mauser bullet
had found its billet. They carried the
wounded man to the field hospital, and
he chuckled all the way.
"Oh, myl Oh, my - he said over and
over. 81 wasn't scaredl I wasn't soar
ed" And then he would laugh delight
eddy. II wasn't scared l was hit
was just hit / amt a coward after
all. Nv Washington Post,
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wnmen and Portra,ts.

eft is curious fact, said an expert
enoed New Orleans photographer, THAT
it isn't the handsomest women who
make the handsomest pictures. Why is
it? Well, beauty nearly always owes
her charm to something beyond the
reach of the lens-to her complexion,
her hair or the vivaoity Of her express
sion. Very few such women have regu
lar features, and when they are repro
duced in plain black and white they are
at great disadvantage. Their photo
graphs are generally unsatisfactory and
are really not correct as likenesses. On
the other hand, woman who is re-
garded as homely may have singularly
perfect lines. but attracts no attention
through lack Of color and animation.
"I'll cite you queer instance: A
dozen or so years ago Maude Brans-
oombe was the most popular model in
the United States for Photographic art
studios. Her best pose was as nun,
and her pictured face was strikingly
beautiful. Thousands upon thousands
of people have raved over her loneliness,
but the real Miss Branscombe, whom
had the pleasure of knowing, was de-
mure, pale little woman who would
never in the world attract the slightest
attention in a crowd. Without doubt
she was passed unnotioed by many a
person who treasured her portrait as a
marvel. New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-10

Of all curious animals which man
has come across and studied probably
none can compare with kind of rat
found in the Rocky mountains. Though
for long time we'll known to trappers
and lumbermen. it is only lately that
any naturalist has studied these peculiar
little beasts.
Although called a rat this little ami
NAL is larger than an ordinary rat, with
body eight inches long. 1t is very
pretty creature, with soft gray fur and
a squirrellike tail, easily tanned and a
delightful pet. The trappers long ago
gave it the name of the trading rat, Z"
from it's curious habit of never stealing
anything without putting something in
its place.
Two young women camping in the
highlands of Wyoming left the lid of
their cracker box off one night. In the
morning all the biscuits were gone and
the box was filled with an indesoribable
mixture of chips, scraps of leather,
sticks, bones, dried beans-in fact, ev-
erything movable near at hand.
The trading rat builds very beauti-
full nest, sometimes two feet in height,
and is very clever at storing food. 1t
has violent fancy for anything of a
bright red hue. -Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-10

Major Lawrie is the hero of an inter
esting superstition. Before Atbara he
discovered in the ventilator of his he'll
met an energetic spider, which came
out in the evening and, having had his
supper ON flies, returned to his hiding
place. Perhaps, remembering the story
of Bruce and the spider, the major left
his new friend unmolested and went
into the Atbara fight with him. Men
were killed all round, but Major Lawrie
escaped without scratch. At Omdur-
man he commanded battery and again
was unwounded Meanwhile the spider
slumbered in the helmet, waiting for
the ridiculous human oommotion to
cease that he might come out and kill
flies for supper.
When the hurly burly was over,
Major Lawrie packed various articles
to be sent home and among them the
helmet and the spider. Too late, he re-
memb ered that he had sent his little
friend on long voyage without any
larder In great tribulation he hastened
to London, opened the helmet box, ex-
pecting to find the spider corpse, and
was rejoiced to see him alive, and even
vigorous. Stranger still, on the way to
England he 1--WE beg pardon-she) had
produced two young spiders Public
Opinion.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-10
As She Heard 1t.

After the new servant had been in.
stalled in the home of a New Jersey
housewife the day finally came when
the privilege of ''going OUT had to be
decided on. This fell on Thursday, to
which the mistress assented.
"You may go today, Bridget" she
said, land every other Thursday"
"All right, ma am, replied Bridget.
The next week on Thursday surprise
was great at Bridget's coming from her
room all logged out for another after
noon out The mistress rebelled and
asked her if she remembered that she
was to go out only every other Thurs
day.
Certainly / do, ma am, certainly
Didn't you say l could go out that
Thursday and every other Thursday
that Thursday and every Thursday aft
erwardP'
"No, mol" replied the mistress. "That
Thursday and every second Thursday
thereafter. .
"Sure you didn't say SO. You posi-
lively told me that Thursday and every
other Thursday. OF course that means
every Thursday
Bridget won.-New York Sun.
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JuggIers of India.

Two men-one old and emaciated,
carrying native drum; the other young
and we'll fed, Enthusiastically gowned with
an overskirt of colored handkerchiefs,
and multitude of bells which jangle
noisily at his slightest movement; long,
ragged hair; altogether hideous figure.
The drummer begins weird tomtom-
ing and the other man an incarnation.
Then he extends "supra"-a bamboo
tray used by all natives-on which any
one who pleases places large handful
of rice and the same quantity of grain.
The two ingredients are thoroughly
amalgamated, so that it would in the
ordinary way take hours to separate
them.
Now the fantastic man with his tray
begins He turns round slowly, gradu-
ally quiokening his pace (the drummer
also keeping time), faster and faster in
a giddy vortex, the tray at times almost
out of his hands, yet SO cleverly handled
that not a grain falls out. 1t Is very
trying to watch, but in couple of
minutes both stop simultaneously, and
the man shows to the wondering spec
tators two little heaps-one of rice and
the other grain-at different ends of the
tray, which in his sickening gyrations
he has been able to separate by some
extraordinary manipulation. Pearson IS
Weekly.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-10

The workman often eats his lunch on
the same bench where he does his work.
The Office man turns his desk into a din.
ing table. Neither gets the out Of doors
exercise he needs, neither takes the prop
err time for eating. 1t is small wonder
that the digestion of both is out of order.
In such cases DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
come to their assistance by aiding nature
in taking care of the food.
The cause of nine-tenths of the sickness
of the world is constipation. From this
one cause come indigestion; disorders of
the stomach, liver and kidneys; bilious
ness, headaches flatulence, heartburn,
impurity of the blood and the serious
complications that follow To begin with,
constipation is little thing, and little
thing will cure it. The pleasant Pellets
are tiny, sugar-coated granules. They
will perfectly cure the worst case of con
stipation and indigestion. If the druggist
tries to sell you some other pill that pays
him greater profit, just think of what will
best pay you.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-10
NobOdy's Mother.

There is story told on one Of the
circuits. which may or may not have
seen the light Of print already, of how
not long ago very young barrister rose
to examine one of his witnesses with an
unacoountably hazy notion Of her iden-
tity. II think that you are the prison
er's mother?" he began.
Certainly not, sir. was the unex-
pected answer.
Turning hurriedly to his brief, he
thought he had found the reason for her
evident annoyance. "Ah, yes" he con-
tinued. 81 see, you are the proseoutrix' 9
mother?"
Certainly not, came her reply. still
more emphatically.
''Then whose mother are your" he
demanded, almost in despair, and she
fairly boiled over with Indignation as
she retorted: "Nobody's, sir. am a
single woman. st. James Gazette.
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wiling to share the Honor.

Patient-No, doctor, there isn't any
particular pain, but somehow feel as
if were going to die.
Doctor (who has been called out of
bed at Q o'clock in the morning)-Let
me feel your pulse. (After moment)
Have you made your will?
Patient (alarmed) NO, but
Dootor-Who is your lawyerP
Patient-Mr. Studds. Why, doctor,
do you think
Dootor-Then you had better send for
him. Who is your minister?
Patient (still more alarmed)-Rev.
Mr.. SANITY. Am L
Doctor think he had better be sent
for.
Patient (badly frightened)-Oh, doc
tor, do you really think I'm going to
die?
Doctor-No, 1 don't. There's moth
ing at all the matter with you, but /
hate to be the only man who has been
made a fool of tonight. -Liverpoo Mer-
cury.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-10
His Sfgnafure.

An elderly man stepped into a big
hotel the other day, accompanied by his
wife, and asked for room. When the
polite clerk gave him a pen and placed
the register before him, he looked visi
bly, embarrassed, but he took the pen
and bent over the book as though he
had nerved himself to some desperate
task
He started to write and then stopped
and began to think. The clerk, of
course, didn't know what the trouble
was or else he would have volunteered
his services. After a painful pause the
ruralist started in to scratching some
more.
After the expiration of fully five min
utes the farmer threw down his pen
with sigh of relief, wiped the perspira-
ton from his brow and rejoined his bet
ter half, who had been waiting in the
lobby during the ordeal. The clerk was
curious to see a signature that required
such an unusual length Of time to exc
cute. The clerk is solemn man, but he
nearly went off into fit when he saw,
in big, round script, this legend:
"Me and Maria London Tit Bits.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-10
Beginning the Year

with pure. rich, healthy blood, which
may be had by taking Hoods Sarsaparilla
you will not need to fear attacks of pneu
monia, bronchitis, fevers, colds or the
grip. A few bottles of this great tonic
and blood purifier, taken now, will be
your best protection against spring hui
mors, boils, eruptions, that tired feeling
and serious illness, to which weak and
debilitated system is especially liable in
early spring. Hoods Sarsaparilla eradi-
Gates from the blood all scrofula taints,
tones and strengthens the stomach, cure:
dyspepsia; rheumatism. catarrh and every
ailment caused or promoted by impure Oh
depleted blood.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-10
4 MISTAKE IN THE BIRD MARKET.

A Persian in the market place
eLonged for and so took home wren.
Yes, his was but common case,
Such always are the ways of men
Once his, the brown bird please him not,
Almost he wished it would take wing
He loosed the cage door and forgot
The dark. unsinging. lonely thing.
Night came and touched with wind and dew
Alone there in the dim moonshinel
A rose that at the window grew
And. oh. that sudden song divine
His children started from their sleep
Their orient eyes with rapture lit
Their pale young mother hid to weep:
Their father did not care whit
He only heard the impassioned wall
From that small prison overhead.
"My wren is but a nightingale
I'll wiring its noisy throatP' he said
Sarah Piatt In Century
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-10

dined the other day at a restaurant
where the dinner is served to the ac-
compartment of an orchestra. We had
"King Cotton" with the oysters and
rag time with the soup. Then the or
chestra slid into that always beautiful
intermezzo of "Cavalleria Rusticana.
They played it much more slowly than
/ remember ever to have heard it be-
fore. The head waiter fdgeted and
gnawed his lip There was misery in
his eye. At last he disappeared in the
direction of the musicians, and a mo-
ment later the intermezzo began to gal
lop along, presto, prestissimo, and at
the end Of 1t the orchestra struck up
two step. The head waiter came back
relieved.
"We can't have slow music here,
madam" he said to me when / asked
him about it, "We'd never get through,
and wants to get off early. People eats
too slow when they plays slow music. y
And when I looked around saw that
knives, forks and spoons were moving
to the tempo of the twostep. Everybody
was hurrying. The head waiter knew
what he was about. Washington Post.
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Society rs a Reformer.

Swearing is growing less, decidedly
SO, writes Edward Box in The Ladies'
Home Journal. CAL students of men
agree in this view, just as excessive al
ooholic drinking is falling into disuse.
The principal reason for the decline Of
both excessive swearing and drinking is
that men are getting more and more
careful to refrain from any habit which
places their self control in peril. So
oiety is constantly growing more i'm
patient with man who lacks equipoise,
while the keener demands of business
necessitates men being more moderate
in all things. The basis of the change
may be more material than spiritual,
but the change is taking place irrespec-
tive Of the character of the basis or mo-
tive -
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-10

A Curious Case of SOmnambulism
The modern novelist is very prone to
found his plots on the doings of sleep
walkers and hypnotists, but, as usual
truth is stranger than fiction, and
his efforts are outdone by actual occur.
rences. Here, for example, is true
story from France of gentleman miss
ing from his bedroom packet contain.
ing more than $4,000 worth of bonds
The thief could not be traced, but short
ly afterward the mistress of the house,
who had taken the robbery to heart even
more than her husband, was taken to q
doctor, for she was suffering from nerv-
GUS prostration.
The doctor, firm believer in hyp-
notism, was told of the robbery and.
putting two and two together. hypnotic
ed his patient and extorted confession
from her that she had taken the bonds
and buried them in the garden There.
upon search being made, they were
found, but the lady is as yet quite igno-
rant of the fact that she herself was
the person who hid them. Chambers
Journal
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-10
Making 1t Effective.

"I'll give you 80 days in the work
house, said the judge. II ought~to
give you six months.
"Thanks for the olemenoy, said the
culprit.
"No olemenoy at all, assure you.
am afraid II you staid that long you
might get used TO it and not mind it. f"
Indianapolis JOuEnal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-10

Is at all times to attend to the comforts of
your family. Should anyone of them
catch a slight cold or cough, call at once
on Wells s. Son, Columbus; E. D. Prick
lit, Mount Holly; W. G. Jones, New Egypt;
Edw. W. Rossell, Pemberton, and J. H.
Leeds, Rancocas, sole agents, and get a
trial bottle of Otto Cure, the great Ger
man remedy, free. We give it away to
prove that we have sure cure for coughs
colds, asthma, consumption, and all dis
eases of the throat and lungs Large sizes
Soc and 25c.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-10

Dorothy has baby brother who has
recently been Ill with the coming
through of his first teeth. The badness
of baby head has caused Dorothy great
anxiety. She stood at the mothers knee
one day, gently patting the little head.
"Be careful, Dorothy" said the
mother. "You know poor little brother
is sick. He is cutting teeth. F"
Dorothy patted the bald head reflect
lively. Mamma" she said, Twill it
make him sick when he cuts his hair?
I'm afraid he'll have tough time. -
New York World
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-10
"For Violin or Piano.

From the classical period we have
received the most noble work which had
been composed for the violin, work
which will always remain the Kohinoor
of violin literature -Beethoven's con-
certo. In spite of this the master had
occasion to write on the title page the
words, ever saddening to the violinist,
Concerto For the Violin or Piano.
another proof of the old lack of suffi-
Gent number of worthy performers, for
only in view of such a want could
Beethoven have made the work practical
BILE for pianists. Musical Courier.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-10
Weeds.

Old Folger-I've got letter from
my son out west.
Golfn-So? what's Tom doing nowT
Old Folger-That's what l can't
make out. He says he is engaged in the
destruction of weeds. Now, that may
mean he's smoking good many cigars
or that be is trying to induce some
widow to make a second venture or it
may simply mean that he is doing farm
work. Boston Transcript.
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A Wonderful Crenture.

The polyp is the most remarkable
longitudinally into several parts, each
will become perfect animal. Trembly
turned them inside out and they ate and
enjoyed themselves as much as ever. He
slit two longitudinally, placed the
halves together, and united them into
two animals He divided two transverse
ly and created one with two heads. He
pushed one down the throat of another,
third down the throat of the second,
and thus formed creature with three
heads
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They Destroy His Works.

In China the faith in heredity is so
strong that when "habitual crimi
nall is captured they not only cut him
into small pieces, but put all his sons
and grandsons to death. The Celestials
evidently believe that faith without
works is dead.=Boston Globe.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-10

In Manitoba you can turn a furrow
stone as large as your fist. The earth,
for a distance down from three to five
feet, is a rich, black loan. made by
centuries and centuries of decaying veg
citation.
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Where Early Planting Is Desirable

II tell well meaning but perhaps
not yet perfectly persistent young friend,
who asks me about it, said Mr. Stay.
bolt, THAT there is no such thing as an
incubator that will hatch out eagles
from dollars while you wait; that the
only way indeed in which money CROP
can be raised is by the most careful and
constant cultivation, and | venture to
remind him, being young and with the
world yet before him, that this is q
crop in which it is desirable to begin
planting early in order to produce the
best results New York Sun.