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was most marked and In due time,
with proper nursing and plenty Of
water to drink, he fully regained his
health. The case was such an unusu.
al one that 1t was reported to the
medical journals and did much to con-
vince the profession that cold water
was good for the fever patient.-Wil-
mington Journal.
ORIGIN OF 10. X"
Various explanations, none very
positive, are given in words of refer.
ence of the origin of 20. K, so much
used In American life. Nearly all
agree that the letters came into vogue
through misspelling of "all correct"
though one account connects them
with the initials of the Indian chief,
"Old Keokuk," as he was familiarly
called. But as rule no confidence Is
expressed that the bad spelling can
be traced to any particular person,
though 1t has been attributed to
President Andrew jackson, John ia
cob Astor and others. Congressman.
elect j. Warren Keifer, of the Seventh
Ohio district, Is very certain, how
ever, that 80. K" in its current use,
is Buckeye product. In paper pub
lished in the Ohio Archaeological and
Historical Quarterly, last July, he
gives the story of the first use of so.
K" which attracted attention and
spread the sign of approval far and
wide. According to this explanation
the occasion was a great Whig meet
ing In the hotly contested campaign
OF 1910, and the place was grove
near Urbana. An enthusiastic farm
er from jackson township. Champaign
county, came to this convention, bar
bacue and procession, for 1t was all
three, with wagon on which he had
rugged broad platform. Above the
platform he had stretched rude BAN
ner, bearing the inscription in large
capitals, "rhe People is OIL Korrect,"
or as some said, "The Farmer is OIL
Korrect." First the Democrats made
much of this incident, as evidence of
the uncouth and ignorant support
which Harrison depended upon, Later
the Wings, under the lead of an en-
thusiastic tavern keeper named DAN
iel Leifel, whose place of business was
just west OF Springfield, defantly ac-
cepted the 80. X" badge and made it
a campaign symbol Of good fellow
ship. Ever since the letters have
been in current use as unique and
very distinctive American abbrevia-
tion, part of the shorthand of
speech, 80 to speak.-Scioto Gazette.
A BIG TURTLE.
Capt. George Gourley and Albert
Stafford, of Santa Barbara, caught a
monster sea turtle in the ocean near
the pleasure wharf of that city Tues
day. Still alive the big animal speci.
men was hauled to the pleasure wharf
and made fast with ropes. Its esti.
mate weight Is SUI pounds.
Stafford first saw the turtle while
rowing in small skiff. 1t was entan.
gled in seaweed and seemed to be
asleep. Stafford went ashore and
found Gourley and the two put out in
sailboat. They managed to gaff 1t
in one of the fippers and throw ropes
about it so they could bring it to the
pier. The turtle made fierce resist.
ance.
According to a classification OF
Prof. Dodge, of the High School of
Santa Barbara, the monster specimen
is Sphargis corlacea, or leather.
backed turtle. When it was hauled
to the wharf there we're number OF
small fish known as remoras attached
to it.-Los Angeles Times.