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delicate mainsprings. i
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QMICK TO FEEL THE EFFECTS OF j
HEAT AND COLD.
So Sensitive That Thoy Will Succumb
Just an EHsily to Freezing or Sunstroke
as Will a Man ? Costs SIS to Put a
Mainspring In Fine Swiss Watcliea j
"Mainsprings are very mucli likf
people," remarked a New York watch- ,
maker recently to a writer for thf
Star. "They are as susceptible to ex- '
tremes of heat and cold as human be- '
ings. When the thermometer is hovering
around the freezing point or danc- j
ing away up in the nineties the sensi-1
tive little mainspring will succumb
just as easily to freezing or sunstroke j
as man.
"During the hot weather of the past j
month I have received over four hundred
watches which required new j
mainsprings, and other jewelers have
had as many or more timepieces which" j
needed similar repairs. You see, this |
uncertain piece of mechanism is sup- :
posed to be adjusted to meet the yari- i
ous degrees of temperature, but when !
the changes are great and come sud- !
denly there is nothing that can prevenl !
them from snapping. Many are madf
in Switzerland of the very finest qual i
ity of steel, absolutely flawless. Yerj
often the watchmaker can detect a bac
spring ueiorts puiuiift xi/ tu t? iraiti. [
either by its color or the softness o.' |
its spring. These have been too tight j
ly tempered in making, and instead oi 1
being subjected merely to a red heal i
the lire has been brought to whit* 1
heat, thu9 weakeniug the strength o :
the metal.
"The finest watches that are handlec j
by reliable dealers in the United State:
rare put through a 'cooking and freez !
ing' process before they are sold, fo: !
the purpose of testing their reliability j
in all temperatures. The watch is firs ,
placed in a little metal box, which i:
made air tight. Then a strong ga: ,
flame is turned on the under surfac* 1
of the box, and is kept there for one o: i
i-TT-rt lirmra on tlio is an llf?' '
at the end of that time that it could no
be touched with the bare hands.
From this it is immediately takei ,
and put into another metallic box :
which is buried in a vessel containing
ice. There the costly watch is allowe( I
to freeze for an equal length of time
when its treatment ceases, and the ex
amination is made. If during this ex :
cessive test the watch has ticked mer
rily on without deviating a fractiona 1
part of a second, it is put back in th< '
case and marked 'guaranteed for tw< !
years.' The mainspring is the firs !
piece of mechanism .that succumbs t< \
the test. If it survives nothing nee< |
be feared.
"Mainsprings are, however, abou j
the only part of a watch that a jewele;
; cannot successfully diagnose. Thej
can guarantee any of the numberlesi
little wheels or pivots or balances tha
go to make up the anatomy of th? <
watch, but the mainspring has as yet !
baffled the most skillful makers o: j
watches of all countries. It is not sc j
much the severe extremes of th< i
weather that prove fatal to the spring '
as it is the process of changing fron j
meat to cold, or vice versa.
j "Many people who have been the ;
k possessors of new watches but a shorl |
time often come to me much annoyed, j
ftMV declaring that they have paid a large |
price for their timepieces, and the j
3g mainspring has broken after only s
m wppk's use.
" 'That is nothing,' I tell them.
TFe jewelers have them snap in our
cases before the watch has even been
shown for sale.' Others imagine that
they might have wound their watches
too tight, but this does not harm it. I
It is rather the jerky, hurried wind- j
ing that will eventually tell on the
temper of the metal. Besides, every
good stem-winder has a stop placed in
the stem that prevents the winding of
a watch too tight.
"The cost of a new mainspring is
1 small. It is the putting them in, the '
labor expended, that costs. It costs '
from ?12 to $15 to put a mainspring in
the finest Swiss watch, while in a '
cheap American make it costs only
from fifty cents to ?1.
I A gentleman purchased a $25C
watch from me about a year ago and
shortly after he left New York on a
tour around the world. He returned
about three weeks ago, brought his
watch back to me and paid me this
compliment: 'Here's a watch,' said
he, 'that I paid you $250 for a year
ago, and while I was traveling around |
it lost three minutes. You guaranteed j
it and I want you to make it good.'
The watch was placed in my window
with this card beside it:
"'This watch lost only three minates
in a year in a tour around thf
world. Price, $275.'"
"Did you sell it?"
I. U.UJ 9. 1? |
ton Star.
Battles of the American Revolntlon.
Tlie following named battles may bf
considered twenty-five of the important
encounters during the Revolutionary
War: Lexington, April 19, 1775;
Concord, April 19,1775; Ticonderoga,
May 30, 1775; Crown Point, May 10, j
1775; Bunker Hill. June 17, 1775; j
Long Island, August 27,1776; Harlem
Heights, September 1G, 177G; Fort
Washington, November 16, 1776;
Trenton, December 26, 1776; Prince- j
ton, January 3, 1777; Oriskany, Aug- ;
nst 6, 1777; Bennington, August 1G, |
1777; Brandywine, September 11,
1777; Germantown. October 4, 1777; ;
Saratoga, October 17, 1777; Mon- :
mouth, June 2S, 1778; Stony Point, |
July 16, 1779; Savaunah, October 9, :
i-77o. "vr..v io i7sn- r!om. I
Egflgff X I I 1/ f V"t?liV.7lVUj -'4.UJ XM, * I WV, VULU
KB den, August 1?>, 1780; King's Mounmb
tain, October 7, 1780; CoAvpens, Janu|||
ary 17, 17S1; Guilford, March 15,
||p 1781; Eutaw Springs, September 8,
H| 1781; Yorktown, October 1(J, 1781.
Has Keiiiiiuled of tlie Debt.
s|k Bishop John P. Newman (Methodist)
iB? fisited South Onondaga, N. Y., on a
j||| recent Sunday, in which town he was
gfH pastor of his first church fifty years
ago. Ee made an address, in which
|S|^^he told how he was obliged to walk a i
rmiie-mue CUUIUI auu o|.?c<in. ui ivui
services every Sunday, until a member
of the congregation took pity on him
anil raised enough money to buy him
a horse. "The horse had short legs,'"
said the Bishop, "and I had long legs;
consequently I could by turns either
walk or ride without dismounting.
The salary for a year's service was I
?100, and," said the Bishop, "you owe
me $b of that money yet." ?
A CURE FOR BALKY HORSES.
fclectrlcity Has Been Put to a New and
Novel Use.
Electricity lias been put to a new
and so far Kuccessful use, that of conquering
a balky or lazy hor3e. In
one case a very high-spirited and valuable
animal, but extremely vicious
and balky, was cured in one hour with
the aid of a three-volt dry battery,
says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
The officials of the Western Pennsylvania
Humane Society were notified
some time ago that Thomas Piod?
? ? A maIam ?"? n M oi r\ /? fLo /I Y?T7
gexa, uj. AMtiuii, ?uo usiu^ vuo vuj
battery on his horse, which was as bad
as a valuable high-bred horse could
be. Superintendent Thomas M. Porter
investigated the case, and Friday
he gave Rodgers a hearing before
Justice William Griscom, of the place.
Rodgers said his horse was worth
$1000 to him if he could be cured of
balking and one or two other vicious
habits. He had offered $500 to any
Dne who could manage the animal, and
at last consulted Dr. T. C. McNeil,
the city veterinary. The doctor advised
Rodgers to try electricity, and
he bought a three-volt storage battery,
and by means of three wires connected
each side of the bit and the crouper
with the battery. The horse was
hitched to a road cart, and at first refused
to move, standing with all four
feet in a braced position.
J [Mr. Rodgers then had the wires connected
to the battery, which was
placed in the cart, and at the first
push of the button the horse jumped,
? 1 it ? J1
enortea ana men muveu on. rjwu
day for a week lie went through the
same lesson * and is now the pride
road horse of Avalon and never balks,
bites or kicks.
That was the testimony brought oul
at the hearing, and as the veterinary
and 'Squire thought three volts was
not a sufficient shock to hurt the animal,
Rodgers was discharged.
Superintendent Porter had a similar
case some mouths ago. He found
that one of the rich suburban residenters
was using the fluid batterj
on a lazy horse in cultivating his sum.
mer garden. After several unsuccesful
attempts to catch the gardenei
using the horse, he was at last rewarded
one bright, sunny morning bj
catching the gardener weeding th?
lin+ntn natrli with the horse hitched
rvv4"v x""
to a liarrow, and, after introducing
himself aud informing the man wlij
lie visited liim, lie was shown the
contrivance.
Strapped to the backhand was ?
small fluid battery with wires running
from it to the martingale aud crouper.
A sponge was fastened to the wire al
each place and kept moist by the heal
of the horse's body. When the ani*
mal got tired it would stop, and, bj
pressing two buttons together, the
circuit was formed and the horse
would move on for several hours.
Porter tested the full strength of the
battery on himself, and found that the
sensation did not go above his elbowe
and that the voltage was only a fraction
over two. He said he thought it
was better and more humane to use a
small amount of electricity on a horse
than to whip it, and was satisfied it was
not a case of cruelty. He has written
to several of the best known horse
doctors in the United States, asking
their opinions on the subject, and is
waiting for their replies with a" good
deal of interest.
War Caused by One 'Word.
In 1654 a Polish nobleman became
jbnoxious to the laws of his country
by reason of a crime, according to
London Answers. He fled to Sweden,
whereupon John Cassimir, King of
Poland, wrote to Charles Gustavus,
King of Sweden, demanding the extradition
of the criminal. The King
of Sweden, on reading the dispatch,
noticed that his own name and titles
ivere followed by two etceteras, while
ihe name of the King of Poland wasj
followed by three. The missing
etcetera so enraged the King of Sweden
that he at once declared war
against Poland. This was carried on
with great bitterness until 16G0, when
a peace was signed at Oliva, near
Dantzig.
A contemporary writer, Kochowsky,
poured out his lamentations on the
war in these terms: "How 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 a few drops of ink been
avenged!" In Article 3 of the treaty
it was explicitly laid down that the
custom of shortening titles by "etceteration"
should hold good, but for the
future each of the two parties should
/riiTfi n+Vlor fVll"0A dtrtpfPTftS
ji.e v-v.
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 importauce
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 a considerable
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 a 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 ae
applied to perfumery has triumphed,
and though some of the other chemically
made perfumes are not so remarkable
in their similitude to those
actually extracted from flowers, they
are of sufficient importance to greatly
limit the use of flowers they imitate.
A Kefututlon.
A story has traveled lately about o
stenographer writing 402 words in
Due minute, but the first question
that suggests itself is who is able to
enunciate 402 words in a minute for
rhe stenographer to write/ Clergymen,
in delivering a sermon, average
perhaps ninety words per minute; political
campaign speakers, 110. As a
rule, senators in debate don't talk
faster than 150 words a minute, and,
in spurts, tbey seldom reach 220. In
f.ict, very rapid readers find difficulty
in uttering intelligibly 275 and 300
words in sixty seconds,?Kansas City
Stac. .. 2 ?
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Pea Tines an Manure. f;
If pea vines can bo plowed under l)
; tririle green, it may pay to make this t:
| ase of them, provided there is some a
j crqjrto use up the fertility they supply, o
! But if they are at all dried, the vines c
j should be cut and put up for winter j]
feed. They are rich in nitrogeneous f,
' lL -1 ? _
1 mailer, IIUU are eDjyci;j.ai.ij (Uiuauic i/v JJ
! feed with corn stalks, which are de- 8
j ficient in nitrogen. f,
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Pasturing: Cattle Across a Highway. ^
Many farms are so situated that the
i cattle must be driven across a high- F
I way to pasture. This almost always ^
| affords trouble. The cattle will break c
! away up and down the highway to feed ^
! by the roadside, instead of crossing ^
I the road directly from the pasture gate
j to the lane leading to the barn. A de- ^
' nee is shown herewith that may prove ^
: of assistance in such cases. A narrow
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GUIDE FOB CATTLE. t
j lane is built on each side of the road, j
! extending well up to the carriage j.
: track but not close enough, of course, g
j to prove any inconvenience to travelI
ers. Two long bars of thin boards are ?
! then fitted to slide across the highway E
! 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, so
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
j operate this takes but a moment's time.
?American Agriculturist. 1
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Harvesting Beans. {
U UCIOVOI uci.ua OiD ^iuuju lai^wy ^
they are grown cheaply, and with far r
less labor than is put on this crop v
when grown in small gardens. Proba- 1
bly in nothing is this saving of labor i
so great as in harvesting. It was al- t
ways the most back-aching work of our _
boyhood to pull beans, w^ich was always
left for the boys Vo 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. It 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 a sharp
cutting knife drawn by two horses
straddling the rows and running just 3
far enough under the soil to cut the ?
root without pulling tne stain aown u
and running over it. Then the beans 8
are forked into windrows or heaps and a
left to dry out. It does not pay to *
| rake them together, as the beau pods t
I need to dry before being heaped up, ^
j and if a rake were used they would *
| shell badly. The beans stand up after t
! they have been cut, but the moisture a
I from the root is cut off so they dry r
quickly. It is the best way to harvest
( beans even in the garden. Make a hoe
; sharp enough so it will cut off the bean
| stalk just below the surface, and yet {
i ler.ve it standing. It is at least for a *J
shange easier than bending down to 1
j pull the beans, a3 used to le always c
i done. j
Early Corn la Best. T
Millions of dollars worth of corn is a
lost every year from failure of corn f
! late planted, or planted on too poor t
: irrnnml t.n matiirA its (>rnn. This soft \
; corn has some feeding value, but more
' for ruminant animals than for the hog,
: which gets mo9t of it. But even when
I put to the best use the nutrition is not
j in the soft corn as it is in the fully
j ripened grain. Not even remastication
can get out of soft corn what is not
i there. Even in the arid West, where
; corn dries up prematurely, the earliest
j planted c:>rn fares best. When the hot
| winds come, which wither the immature
j corn to almost nothing, the corn that
j 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 surfaoe,
there is vigor enough in the root to
send out a new shoot. It is rather
more serious if the frost catches corn
; when it is five or six inches high. Then
| the frozen leaf has often to be clipped
i off before a new growth will start. Yet
I we have seen corn even thus frozen
down mature a better crop than that
from corn planted after the frost was
over, rne root nas oeen growing even i
| while the top was frozen. Hence, i
j though such corn would never have i
| quite as big stalks as that which grew ]
j without interruption, it would have i
large and well-filled ears. Most of t
J the stalks would have suckers, and i
| these also would be well eared. Early t
I corn always has more grain than late
in proportion to its stalk growth. t
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Turkeys. 6
We occasionally read of turkeys that i
, weigh fifty or sixty pounds to the pair, t
and of even heavier birds having been f
sold, or sent as a gift to the President i
or some other public official. a
Does it pay to grow turkeys of that t
| size or nearly approachiug it? In Bos- t
: ton market birds of even fifteen or c
twenty pounds weight, when dressed, i
| though ever so nicely fattened, cannot I
[ often be sold excepting at a discount
from the prices that prevail for birds c
j of half those weights. They may be t
i sold sometimes to be placed upon the f
table at some public banquet, where c
they are meant to be looked at and ad- f
mired rather than eaten. Restaurants c
and hotels may buy them to serve up r
to their customers, when they are of- c
of o tytiaa q 1 itfla Tialnw t.via rpmi. i
; iwvu ..v c - " D? .
< lar quotations, but the customer who
wants twenty pounds of turkey for his (
i family dinner at Thanksgiving time or c
other time, usually prefers to have it c
| in two birds than in one, and he will ?
I pay a few cents a pound more for it to i
! have the smaller birds. i
Can the larger breeds be grown at i
less cost per pouad? This is doubt- 1
I
reriltCTTOilJ I lil M l-UihUilM I l.l.ui.uran |
al, to say the least, though perhapB it
as not been fairly tested. It may be
rue that the bronze turkey, which is
large breed,, is more hardy than some
f the smaller breeds, as its advocates
laim. It may be that when ranging
a the field, and finding moBt of its
ood in the insects there, it costs no
aore to grow the large bird than the
mt.ll one, but when it comes to be
attened for market, the grain required
o make a pound of flesh upon one
arge bird will be enougn to matte a
iound upon two smaller birds.
What is desired for our markets is
hat the farmers should grow turkeys
if eight to twelve pounds weight when
Iressed, well fattened, and with good
enier meat upon them, instead of a
ombination of hard muscles and cords
hat might be very desirable in a
Iraught horse or a working ox.
Some turkey growers do not think
t is necessary to feed grain but a
reek or two to the turkeys before killng
them, allowing them befdre that
ime to range for all their food, but
hose who have a reputation for sendng
the best birds to markets, say that
wo months of liberal feeding is not
oo much to make the turkey what it
hould be for the table. The Rhode
island poultry men, whose products
l ? i-t- _ \ i.
tave a reputation as gooa as me ueau,
ometimes buy turkeys, gee se or other
loultry by the carload in other States
>r iii Canada, and feed them for the
aarket about two months before killng
them. By this time the fowl are
upposed to have been naturalized, so
hat they are sold as Ehode Island
loultry, at a little higher price than
Vestern or Northern poultry.?Boston
Dul tivator.
A Labor-Saving Hay Gatherer.
On farms where the hay fields are
evel and lying adjacent to the barn,
t i3 now sometimes the practice to
aka a stout rope and with a horse at
sitlier end, "rope" a windrow of hay
iglit into the barn floor without the
ise of hayrake or hay rack. A plan
ess likely to have mishaps attending
k is shown in the cut. The con strucion
of this implement is plainly
NOVEL HAY GATHERER.
hown in the illustration and needs no
xplanation. A horse on each side of
he windrow attached to the ropes will
;ather up an enormous masB of hay
nd pull it into the barn floor, where
he conditions are right. There it can
ie taken care of by the hay fork,
luman muecle not being called upon
or any part of the work. If desired,
he side uprights can be carried
bove the rail, as well as those in the
ear.?New England Homestead.
Dairy Notes.
Each year it seems that a larger
lumber of dairymen and farmers are
>eginning to believe that it is better
o have their cows or a part of them,
:omt3 fresh in the fall, and to give
hem their vacation or dry season boore
calving, in the hottest months,
vhen the pastures are most likely to
luffer from drought. Later, when
all rains have renewed the growth in
he pasture for a few weeks, the cow
irill give nearly if not quite as much
nils as she would have given when
resh upon the watery early grasses of
he spring, and the milk will be
icher, that is, contain a larger
>ercentage of butter fat and other
lolids.
She will go to the barn in good conlition,
and upon good, early cnt hay
vith a grain ration, or upon ensilage
ind grain, she can be kept well up in
jroduction until spring, when she will
igain increase her flow.
To those who send milk to our cities,
he larger price paid during the win,er
monthe should be a great inducenent
to adopt this practice. To those
vho make butter or cheese at home in
heir own dairies, there are many
kings to recommend this plan. It is
iasier to protect the milk and cream
igainst exceesive cold in a properly
>uilt dairy room than it is even where
ce or cold spring water are plenty,
o guard against the effects of hot
veather and frequent thunder showjrs.
Good winter-made butter, like
winter milk, usually commands the
iigbest prices in the market, and no
ce is needed in its transportation, \
\.nd not least is the difference between
performing the labor of the dairy
York in a room kept at comfortable
emperature, anddoingthe same when
t is impossible to keep cool enough I
n V?i? (viinfnrtalilp
It is easier to raise a calf during ,
,he i'all and winter, when there is a
:omf'ortable barn and an abundance of
ikiir. milk to give it for the first six
nonths, than it is to raise it when
he milk sours before it can be
ikimmed, and when the little animal
nust be tethered out in the hot sun
md tormented by flies and mosquioes".
Then in the spring it can be
urned to pasture, well grown, strong
tud vigorous, in just the condition to
>rofit by the succulent grass of the
mature.
Of course, those who supply milk or
jream to butter or cheese factories
? ? i ii. ?:n. -L:i~ xi..
nust try 10 nave meir uiuu. nuue iuc j
actory is running, but if the farmers \
>f a neighborhood should be able to
urnr.sh the material to keep it running
luring the winter, there is no good
eason why such a creamery or factory
:ouM not do its work as well then as
n the warmer weather.
Such a change, however, would be
>f the most importance to milk prolucers
for the city, who lose much
luring the summer months by having
t surplus which the contractors are
lot willing to pay for, and then lose
igain in winter by not having as much
is the consumers are willing to pay
'or.?American Cultivator,
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No Feuds or Rifle* Wanted.
A large colony of Kentuckians is
abont to take np its belongings and ?'
come out to California to settle and ^
grow up. That's all right, good peo- ppie.
You are heartily welcome. But "
please leave Kentucky feuds and rifles e
behind, will you!?Sacramento (Cal.) a
Eecord-Union.
Surely She Ws? Right. C
A school teaoher lately put the ai
question: "What is the highest form a
of animal life?" "The giraffe!" re- 5
sponded a bright little girl in the *
class.
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How He Earned It. ^
"Here," said the city eclitor, "is a a
note to the cashier requesting him to
increase your salary $5 a week."
"Thank you very much," said the
new reporter. "May I ask what particular
piece of my work has pleased
you?"
"In writing up the fire last night T
you didn't say that 'the inmates were ^
caught like rats in a trap.' I believe I
that such heroic self-denial should be j
rewarded."?Cleveland Leader. t
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Mr. Schoonover'n lively Time. j,
At Waverley, Ohio, while Tom ^
bchoonover was crossing tne neld ol a a
neighbor, lie was pursued by an infur- n
iated bull. The chase began abont n
the middle of the field, and, although j
Schoonover put forth superhuman ef- a
forts to reach the fence, he was struck a
in the rear by the bull and thrown u
bodily fifteen feet high, coming down p
on his feet in the middle of the pond, w
comparatively unhurt. h
On facing his bullship, that stood J
for an instant looking in the direction j,>
of the man, what was his consterna- s
tion to see perched upon the boyine's
back a wildcat vigorously doing hia
best with claws and teeth to sever the
vertebrae of the bull. The next moment
the bull wheeled, an?d the last
seen of him was when he dashed into
a dense wood in the hope, doubtless, n
of ridding himself of his enemy by
coming in contact with the low limbs, e
?Cleveland Plain Dealer. 4
Tell-Tale Finger-Tips.
The seat of that invaluable quality, |
tact, is said to be in our fingers. Hence ~
physiologists 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 fingertips
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 a number of experiments, has
come to the conclusion that not only
the lines themselves, but the way in
which people touch and handle ob
jecta, reveal their character and aptitudes.
Thus, by causing a number ol
persons to take up a ball of soft putty
he has at once obtained the lines by
which he identifies, and the impression,
more or less strong, by which he
can tell whether a person's capabilities
lean towards a professional or an
artistic career.?Westminster Gazette, i
Springfield, HI., is built on five and
one-half square miles of ground, and
has 30,000 population, who owe $902,350
and own $5,837,495.
What 8100 Will Buy.
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Vacant Stores In New York City.
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New Orleans, Mexico and California.
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I have found Piso's Cure for Consumption i
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Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That ^
Contain Mercury, ?
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smell and completely derange the whole system 2when
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can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh ?
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It is taken internally, and is made in Toledo, ?
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Hall's Family Pills are the best. ?
Every Person Has to Use Soap. ?
Why not use the best? Dreydoppel's, the ?
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soap, full pound bars, sold everywhere. ?
There is a Class of People |
Who are injured by the use of coffee. Re- 5
cently there has been placed in all the grocery ?
stores a new preparation called Graln-O, made ?
of pure grains, \hat takes the place of coffee. ?
The most delicate stomach receives it without %
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It does not cost over one-quarter as much. 1
Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 v
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Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous- V
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Florida and the South. Ji
Southern Railway, the most direct route. ?
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children ~
leething, softens the gums, reducing! nfiammalion,
allays pain, cures wind colic.25c.a bottle. i
If afflicted with sore eyesuse Dr. Isaac Thomp.
3on'sEye-wnter.Druggistssell at25c.per bottle.
HALL'S"^
Vegetable Sicilian I !
HAIR RENEWER h
Beautifies and restores Gray ||
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A fine hair dressing. m
R. P. nail & Co., props., Nashua, N. H. D1
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A horse, which up to the last -was
illed a pony, died at Burlington,
Lan., recently at tne age 01 torty-one,
'he owner, Dr. Manson, had had it ir
is possession for thirty-nine years,
ver since he bought it from the Sa<
ad Fox Indians.?New York Sun.
The French colony in New Yori
ity numbers 10,535, the largest ol
ay city in the United States. The
ext largest is found in New Orleans,
710.
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~MS. ELLA H'GAEVY,
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loes all that it is recommended to do,
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y able to
ras persuaded to try Lydia E. Pink
am's vegetable Compound, and to-day,
am feeling like a new woman.?
ras. Ella McGabvy, Neebe Eoad
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