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The woman with the striped woolen
shawl tied round her chin took
from her mouth the last sample of
calico she had been chewing and
oarefully Inspected It to see If tha
color bad run, says the Chicago
Mews. It had not, but she was not
entirely satisfied.
"I'm In no rush." she observed to
the storekeeper. "I reckon I'll look
around for a spell afore I settle on
It. 1 may git better suited."
The woman went, nevertheless.
"She's like Clay Hulbut," remarked
Washlngt ?n Hancock." Clay was
one of them fellors alius wanted to
look around fer a spell afore he ga^re
np any of his good money. I reckon
Clay never bought a thing or
made a trade the first time of askIn'
In his bull born days. He had
an Idea he'd git better suited somewhere
else whatever it was he dickered
for."
"Seems to me like hoss sense not
to Jump at the first thin' 'at's offered."
said Hoi Raker
"That's what Clay said when Silo
Peters ofTered him $2 for 11.75,"
said Hancock. "Slle had a bet up
on it. Clay come Into the bans to
ee If he couldn't git a chattel mort|ege
blank for less'n five cents, which
was what the recorder wanted to
Charge him, an' Slie told him that
he eouldn't let any go at less'n 15
cents or two for a quarter. 'I've
got some |2 bills here that I'll let
you have cheap, though. Clay.' ho
says. 'They're a leetle might wors
an' I've more o' them In stock than
1 need. If you'd like to take about
60 of 'em ofT my hands, you can
have em for $87.50.' An' he handed
out a hunch with a paper band
pasted around them.
" Hoems like that's reasonable
enouch ' unvo <'i?
, J ? , unci SlUUJ 1 n
awhile. 'Tell ye, though. there
ain't no hurrytn' rush about this. I'll
go over to the Drovers' bank an' sea
what Keating Is offerln' 'em for. If
lie can't make a better flgger I'll
come back and take these. Yott
keep em to one side fur me.'
"Then he went over to Keat ng
an' ast him wuat he was selling $2
bills for In lots o 60. That's the
honest truth."
"If Keating was alive now, he'd
bear me out," said Hancock. "You
can write to Sile Peters If you like,
an' ast him If It wasn't so. He's in
Mt? Joe now. If he hadn't moved
away since I last hea:d of h'm.
"1 remember standln' behind Clay
at the ticket seller's stand < ne time
When the circus came to town. 'How
are you a-sellln' tickets today?' say*
Clay. v
" 'Two bits gen'ral admission an'
reserved seats 60 cents,' says tha
feller. 'How many do you want.'
" 'That the best you can do?' say*
Clay.
" 'Beln' It's you, I'll make It half
a dollar fur reserved seats 'an 25
cents general admission,' says the
feller, wlnkin' at me.
" 'Well,' says Clay, puttln' up hla
weasel, '1 reckon I'll look around a
pell fust.' "
"That's all right." maintained
Baker. "Of course there's such a
thing as pushln' It to fur, but suppasln'
Kufe, here, bought h!s good!
from the fust drummer 'at come
along 'thout lnqulrln' round to see
what the others was a-sellln' an'
what they charged. If you want to
buy a cow, you'd look around a spell,
too, wouldn't you?"
"Not If you come to me an' told
me the (>nw ??"'' ? -?- "
... w i-w ^ vu u (JV/V W ttH K 111(1 &Q
gentle an" young an' a good milker
n' worth the money you aat fer
tier," replied Hancock blandly. "Clay
would come to town after groe'riea
en' put In the hull dny lookln'
around an' then go home ihout 30
much as tlllln' his m'lasses jug. He
put off buyln' his seed p'taters till
It was too late to plant 'em, even If
there'd been any left to plant. Most
gen'rnlly he'd pay two prices for
what he could have bought at half j
price If he had the gumption to snap
.t a bargain.
"He was over 30 years old afore
he got married, he was so blame pernickety
an' partlckler about th'
kind o' gal he wanted. He'd go
round and set up with fust one an'
then another an* flgger on what
kind o' ..omen they was likely to 1
fee an' how much money they had,
n' how good lookln' they was. an'
then he'd drive over to Tarkla an* ; 1
Bee what they had there, but he 1
couldn't never make up h'3 mind an' 1
the further he got in the woods the 1
crookeder the sticks was until fin'ly
there wasn't nobody left but l^evy
Boattck's gal Belle.
"1 reckon Helle Bo3t'ck una about
the homeliest critter that was ever 1
raised on corn pone. She'd been
give up to be a old maid fur ten I
years afore Clay seen her. Her '
folks was poor as cistern water, too.
An' Clay might have had a'most any- '
body when he rust started out If he'd
made up his mind an' etuck to it. '
They got on tol'rable well together 1
though?'bout aa well as a heap o'
other married folks."
"Why didn't he look around a
while longer?" asked the store- '
keeper. "He didn't have to take
her, did he?"
"He d'dn't take her," said Hancock,
"tthe took him. It was the last
Chance she bad V 0be knowed It." 1
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THE MARINER'S COMPASS
Influences that Draw It from Its Allegiance
to the Magnetic Pole.
Nothing in the navigational equipment
of a ship has been the subject
of more anxious scientitic research or
receives more Jealous care than the
mariner's compass, says the Windsor
Magazine.
The popular notion of the compass
needle always pointing north and
south is?well, more Inaccurate than
even popular not.ons usually are.
Even under the most favorable conditions
there are only certain places
upon the surface of the earth where
the compass needle does point north
and south, and it Is quite safe to say
that such conditions are never fouud
on board of any ship.
But we must go further and say
that no more unfavorable position
could be found for a compass than
on board a modern steamship, which
Is a complicated mass of steel, all
tending to draw the compass needle
from its allegiance to the magnetic
pole of the earth, warring influences
which must needB be counteracted by
all soits of devices which hedge round
the instrument by an invisible wall
of conflicting cu rents of magnetism.
And as if this were not enough
there are now huge dynamos to be
reckoned with, producing electric currents
for all uirts of purposes on
board. In the midst of these mystic
currents the poor little compass
needle, upon which the mariner depends
for his guide across the trackless
deep, hangs suspended like one
shrinking saint surrounded by legions
of devils.
Do \ou Know.
That pearls are measured by the
"grain." Three and one-half grains go
to a carat
That for a fingernail to reach its
full length, an average of seventwelfths
of an inch, from 121 to 138
days of growth are necessary.
That 4 o'chick in the afternoon Is
the rainiest hour of the twenty-four.
Less rain falls at uiglit than during
the hours of light.
That during the past three centuries
more than two hundred different
systems of shorthaud have been
devised. Pitman's was tirst published
In 1840.
That it takes fifty of the Chinese
edible birds' nests to weigh a pound
and the price per pound is about $40.
That February holds the record as
the month in wnch most children are
born; June us tnat in which there are
fewest births.
That the sloths never drink; rabbits
and parrots very rarely drink. A
parrot lives fifty-two years without
drinking a drop oi water.
That the largest room in the world
under one roof and unbroken by pillars
is in St. Petersburg. It is G20
feet long by loO feet in breadth. By
daylight it is used for military displays,
and a whole battalion can completely
maneuver in it. By nicht 20.
000 wax tapers give It a beautiful appearance.
The roof is r. s ngle arch
of Iron.
Chinese History.
Chinese history dates back to 2637
B. C., when the people were tnade up
Into clans or tribes and were ruled by
a sovereign who was chosen by bis
subjects as the one most worthy to
rule. This was lollowed by the feudal
system, which continued for nearly
twenty centuries and was similar to
the feudal system in Europe In medieval
times. By 403 tt C., China was
divided into seven great states and
each s'ate was conten ting for the
supremacy. In 221 B. C.. the king .f
Tasing was victorious and he assumed
the title of Hwang Tl, or Emperor.
This enterprising and far-seeing ruler
decided that as there was but one sun
in the heavens so that should be but
one ruler in China, and with his
reign the present imperial form of
government was founded. The reigning
dynasty dates from 1643. The
great wall was erected in 214 B. C. It
is about 1500 miles long with a
breadth of twenty-five feet at the base
and fifteen feet at the top. The ..eight
varies from fiften to thirty feet.
Gymnastics of the Eye.
1, too, see that painting and sculpture
are gymnastics of the eye. its
training to the niceties and curiosities
of its function. There is no statue
like this living man, with his infinite
advantage over all ideal sculpture,
of perpetual variety. What a
gallery of art uav. ! here! No man
nerist made these varied groups and
Hivoruf) r?rlcri?%oi ?
.ov ? fjiiiiu omfsui ngiiica. ui'iB
is the artist himself improving, grim
and glad, at his blowk. Now one
thought strikes hiui, now another,
and with each i loment he alters the
whole air, altitude and expression of
his ..lay. Away with your nonsense
of oil and easels, of marble and
chisels; except to open your eyes to
the witchcraft 01 * ternal art, they
are hypocritical rubbish. ? Ralph
Waldo Emerson.
An Adxenturer.
The skyscraper has at last reached
the limit,
"You are quite a traveler, I hear?"
remarked the man who lived 011 the
ninety-sixth floor of the Skyhy hotel.
" V no " > II
<co, It|?iiru IUV 1114% II W IIO II t'U
an the I36tli lloor. "though less than
10 years old 1 have already visited
bver floor of this building."? Kansas
Ulty Times.
Fores of Habit.
An Atchison man niarrloa a schoolteacher,
and he says that for three
jroars whenever the school bells
would ring she would act up like the
tiorses at the fire department when
the fire-whistle blows. ? Atchison
Ulobe.
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CURIOUS MISSOURI FARM?
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No Fence* Required?Wheeled Vehicle
Never Upon It.
Within sight of the town of Jasper.
Mo.. In the Ozarks, a rattier has
a farm which probably Is unlike any
other In the world.
This farm occupies the table land
on the summit of a ridge and Is enOloaed
with a. fence which no animal
has ever broken through. It does not
rlee above the surface of the farm,
hut falls sheer from the adge a distance
of many feet. The man who
bomeateaded the tableland had a
bard climb up the perpendicular cliff
to reach the comparatively level summit.
At one point a ledge extends out
. * 1--1? - - *
m mn mtues unj aiong in? race or
the cliff at an upward grade. By following
this ledge and making use of *
occasional points of rocks and of
shrubs growing In the fissures the
discoverer pulled himself to the sum- *'
n It and found a surface well covered
with soil and a luxuriant vegetation.
Gradually he Improved the. ledge
until he conld carry up tools and "
seed. By blasting and drilling he
cleared a narrow trail up which he a
was able to take first some pigs and *
then a cow. Later on he took up a a
horse. c
And that to-day Is the condition of "
the curiously protected farm. No "
vehicle has turned a wheel within 11
Its limits of palisades. The live 11
stock has multiplied and oonsumes *
the grain raised. Some atones
thrown across the trail completely
fence In the hogs aad cattle. Whea 11
the farmer has stock to veil he drives *
the animals down the private trail b
and strikes .the road to Jasper.? w
Kansas City Star.
n
Books Returned After Venrs.
cc
With the best system and careful
watching books go astray, but It Is
hard to write them ofT as entirely
"lost." since they have a way of
turning up that is only paralleled by
the cat of lyric fame.
The other day at the desk of one fr
of the oldest city Institutions, the r?
Philadelphia library at Locust and '
Junlj>er streets there' was returned 11
by a fair borrower, a book that had *c
been cut a little over three years. 1
Fortunately for the borrower, no 81
fines were exacted and after she had 11
gone tne question as to whether the 8
woman had not established a record,
was asked. *
"No. indeed,** said the librarian. ^
"We have' In the library several volumes
that were held ten. fifteen and
twenty years, and one book that was
returned to us after being gone for ^
over a century! It lu one of a valuable
set of the classics, and after
succeeding In hiding Itself so long,
finally turned up In Holland, where nJ
Its label declared Its lawful place of ^
abode and the honest finder lost no
time In forwarding It tn PhiioHoi.
-- ? . t Li
phla. Yes. we have bookB out still ^
longer, and I hav- not ths least ^
doubt that some o. .aem will yet fLnd ^
their way back to our shelves."
I>eejH?Ht llootcd of All Hates.
The age long hatred of th? white ^
race tor the black, yellow and other
colored races Is by no means one- ^
sided. It Is fully mutual. Years ^
ago Livingston observed that
'There must be something lu the appearance
of white men frightfully
repulsive to the unsophisticated natives
of Africa; for on entering vlllages
previously unvlslted by Europeans.
If we met a child comlug n<
quietly and unsuspectingly toward *?
us. the moment he raised his eyes w
and saw the men In 'bags' he would ?*
take to his heels In t n agony of ter- et
ror, such as we might feel If we met
a live Egyptian mummy at the door
of the British Museum. Alarmed by w
the child's wild outciies, the mother ln
rusnes out of the hut, but darts back
again at the flrj glimpse of the fearful
apparition. Dogs turn tall and nl
scour off In dismay, and hens. W
anaiiuuuiiiK ineir cnicnens, tly 10
screaming to the tops of the houses."
The same is true, though perhaps In b?
a lesser degree, of the other colored
races.
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Where the Tips Go. ?
"Bet 1 can teil you something you ar
don t know about the tipping system ^
In the cloakrooms of some of the
large cafes." remarked a midnight
diner to his wife
"Why?don't the small boys Just oc
pocket all they ?et?" Inquired she. 00
"Pocket! Their uniforms are r~
made without a s^gn of a pocket so gc
that none of the tips can find a lodg- ro
ing there; those boys get nothing but
a salary which is paid by a man who on
has purchased the cloakroom prlv- be
lege for as high as five thousand a cc
year. The tips are all turned in to m
him. You can imagine what the ta
privilege Is worth when he can ay fr
down ?hat sum for the rl.jht." | til
I fit
The Donilnee'a Fall. i yc
A CartliaRe mltlster Jokingly told
a friend an laterv.ew would cost him by
ten cents. The latter pretended to do
take the matter serloi.sly and pre- in
rented him with ten pennies. The th
minister then arose to protest and na
while rising his chair skidded and he
stumb'.ed. And uow the friend la
teliuR everyone he meets, how upsot
the minister was a* having, to refuse j,e
a contribution.?Kansas City Star. jjr
In;
The man who borrows may not be wl
able to wehr better clothes than the ha
man who lends, but he usually does, an
Just the same. ar
ar
It takes a good many years of , co
strenuous experience to enable a , *n
man to profit by the knowledge he *<
acquired at college. k ho
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A ORKAT K*mrRANCB kiA^W.
k Reoord-Rmkixx Rid* Aloag tk(
Old But? Pe TnUi.
When we come to talk a ho at modsm
endurance races for sport or f?i
>eif. the present riders can ecaroey
held a candle to P. X. Aubrey,
vbe used to do some Kreat stunt* on
he roof of a oroncbo. In 1850 hs
nade a bet that be could cover the
11st a nee from Santa Ke, N. M., to InLeps-ideaeo,
Mo., over the old trail
a eight days. It la 7 05 miles beweoa
the twe points as the freight
sxaraas travelled It, and hf that
t?ute en a wager of fl.OlHi Aubrey
ras to rMe.
He succeeded la winning, making
tie destination, tbe Jones House li>
dependeace, three hours before the
xplratloa of that time. During thto
lis hrst ride he killed n number et
erses, the death of one when with
d twenty-five miles of Council
Irove, compelling him to wnlk to
bet plaoe. carrying his saddle on ht?
ack where be obtained another anltal.
This feat of Aubrey w?m regarded
s the greatest ride ever made by
nyone in ancient or modem times
nd h? became the hero of tbe inIpleat
border town. Independent*.
rtisrs be was feted and made the
en of the day. Hla fame spread
troughout the enCre West, Includkg
California, where he was well
sown.
Although people marvelled mnrih
t the wonderful endurance of the
lan and tbe remarkable time In
'bleb be had made the trip, still Aurey
himself ras not at all satisfied
lth It. He determined to break
lat record, and the following season
isds another wager of 95.000 In
old that he would doAlt. He nc>mpllshed
his record-breaking dash
:roea tbe plans In the marvellous
me of only five days and thirteen
ouru.
His objective point woe the same
?tel to which oe had ridden on his
irmer trip. On this ride when he
?aohed that hostelry he was perfect
exhausted and In fainting condlon.
his horse quivering from head
? foot and white with feam. Aurey
was lifted from the bach of the
ilm&l by his friends and carried
ito hla room in the bouse. where he
y in a complet atupor tor two days,
x horeea. which previous to starting
on Santa ?e h&d been stationed at
uitancos varying from twenty-five
fifty miles along the route fell
Hul under him, so terribly fast had
) forced them on.
He possessed a beautiful mare,
ellle. a fpvortte nnmlal, noted for
teed and endurance, but she expired
the end of the first 150 miles. On
s laet great trip ho rode day and
ght. stopping only long enough to
ap irom nis tired animal and Bprlng
i to a freeh one. He made more
an two hundred miles every twentyur
hours, and all theeileep he took
but three hours during
entire flTe days.
Diet for Sleeplessness.
Dr. WtUlam Btevens *ays that InrninlA
le not a Jlaeaee Itself, but
t? effect of an unhealthy condition
' body or mind. When the cause
removed the Insomnia may be M?ct?d
to disappear.
Kvery physician has had stubborn
iwm of K which would not yield to
ly treatment, and for which a
Minge of air or of scene may be
Pessary. But such cases aa these
tonM not occur, and do occur only
beo the sufferer has neglected prelations
that ehould have been taki
woen the trouble first mode lt1f
manifest.
Insomnia results from cause3
blch can be removed If attended to
season. i'be moet common raues
found In the digestive organs?
tber unsuitable food causing somavas
a feature of Indigestion, or Intfflcieut
food causing patient
be kept awake by hunger.
There are lew things which can
> universally recommended as diet
r sleeplessness, since what will
;ree with one man will disagree
Itb another. Hut two things which
ay almost always be recommended
e lettuce and celery.?L<ondon
rv/iAJ.
On the Ocean Bottom.
aminK Inside a submarine en the
ean bottom you would be no more
nsc'.ous ot the enormous water
essure without than If you were
time to sleep In your own bed. You
ight remain twenty-four hours uiir
water without coining np, using
Liy the natural air supplied by the
ot without feeling the Uest un snTortable.
If you wished, you
tght remain down four or Are days,
pplng the air tank, as yeu seeded a
peta sapply of air. In the tueanne
you would bunk ?tct tl># torpe eg
ana torture yourself by letting
>ur Imagination loose to your
art's content., or yon mi^ht read
' eleotrla light, or pkay oard* or
onlm>e? or checkers, th* oook aervg
you with coffee or cantver] U^dr*
ai ?an be heated on an electric fur.
toe.?Ht. Nicholas.
IW'i Itad Poiete.
*1 have been hearing of the busy
e until I ana tired of It," saya
ake Watson. "A bee work* durK
the anmmer and then roots all I
nter use a plasterer. And a bee |
h had habits. Go Into a vineyard
d you will nnd bee drunkards
ound bursted grapea. The drunkd
bees sip the Juice until they heme
full, and then fall to the ground
d sleep off their debauch; a drunk,
d bee knows enough sot to ge
with a jag.
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GIFTS TO THE POPE.
So Many Received That No Place Can
Be Found for Them.
The occupant of the see of St. Peter
ia frefuently the recipient of strange
gifts.
Some time ago ptjesent -of lions arrived.
These are fortunate animals,
and the Pope at considerable expense
has had them secured in large dens.
In which they can ramble at will. All
they desire Is free run of the gardens.
Another remarkable gift, according
to a Paris contemporary, was a colossal
group In iron of St. X. driving back
Attlla from the city of Z. The names
are purposely omitted because our
oontemporary does not wish to Identify
the diocese which in an inoppor
tune moment of generosity forced up
on hie Holiness thin damnosa haeredlt&a.
which now reposes, coverd with
met. In the Vatican gardens.
Such gifts Innumerable are conitantly
arriving from all parts of 'he
world, and no place can be found for
them among the marbles, the an
tlbues and the paintings of Michael
Angelo, Raphael and Pinturlcrhio In
the palace of Bramante. Possibly the
motor ear will find a place beside the
nameless saint who turned back "the
courge of God" from the unnamed
Goat a Friend of Man.
The problem of clearing off cut-over
?ond In Northern Wisconsin has been
preally simplified by the Introduction
af Angora goats. The Angora goats
do not pull up stumps nor cut down
itandlng timber, but they clear off
rush and young trees. James B. Carroll,
of Alma Center, says that they
have enabled him to clear his land
ind keep It cleared at a cost of only
fire dollars an acre, el! puts thein
Into a five-acre lot. and lets them stay
In It till the entire piece is clean.
They will girdle and kill young trees
?our and five inches in dlnmeter, and
they like brush better than grass.
Their wool is valuable, and they are
?ure breeders, though they do not
multiply as fast as sheep.
For lo these many years tho goat
haH been a favorite butt of the comic
cartoonist, who has shaken with
laughter while depicting him in tho
act of chewing up a tin can or devour-*
Ing the family wash as it hung on the
line. The goat may have done these
things when he was forced by man
to live In the environs of populous
cities. The goat loves freedom. His
natural home Is on the edge of the
wilderness. Evidently It pays to put
him where he belongs.
Fisherman's Shrewd Trick.
"I hud great luck fishing In California
last winter." sighed a business
man, as he scraped with his penknife
the frozen mud and slush from his
trousers ends. "I wish 1 .was there
now. The waters of the Pacific were
very clear where 1 did my fishing, and
by the advice of a Dutch uncle. 1 lowered
by a cord over the side of the
boat a well corked bottle half tilled
with grasshoppers, worms and water.
There were a dozen boats fishing
on all sides, but none of them had
my luck. 1 landed three fish to their
one. You see. those tempting insects,
struggling in the transparent glass,
were visible a long way in the clear
water. They excited the fishes' hanger
and drew them to mek in shoals."
?Kansas City Star.
King of a Cocoanut Isle.
Unheralded, a monarch arrived in
the city recently when King William
of Teuroa disembarked from the
steamship Mariposa. The king, who
prefers to he known by the plain
American title of W. J. Williams, is
the sole owner of the island of Teuroa.
of the Society group. In the South
Seas. Although without army or
navy, unless his own arsenal and
canoes may be conslderd such. Williams
is more absolute than any reigning
European ruler, as he Is the sole
owner of the island, which is covered
with a valuable cocdanut grove. Williams
says that within ten years his
principality will be supporting over
50,000 bearing cocoanut treeB. Sau
Francisco. Cal? Dispatch to Seattle
Post-Intelligencer.
Worthy Guardian of Flock.
The proverbial sagacity of the shepherd's
dog is well known, and a striking
example of this was seen in f'ul
ter the other day. A (lock of sheep
was being driven along the road, and
In passing the village the shepherd
entered one of the shops for a moment.
In his absence a motor car
came up. but in a twinkling the dog
was forward and had the sheep
cleared to the side of the road for
the car to pass, the same as if his
master had been there.--London Mail.
Fate of the Spanish Woman.
Evelyn Mitford, writing in the
Queen, says that the women of the
lower classes in Spain do not make
calls nor read books, and have no
"parties" in the American sense of
the word. They do their household
work anil go to church, and that Is all
there is of life to them. Their hus
bauds arc very jealous of them. an.,
they grow old and weary before ihetr
time.
Ta-? DA??IUHU1m
vn r uaaiUIIIUCb.
I have just had an inviUitinn to an
electrical tea to be given by a woman
doctor," said the bachelor gin.
"I'm looking forward to it and wtadering
what Is going to happen to us?
whether she will give us a little battery
and let us entertain ourselves,
make the tea on an electric stove, or
just electrocute tfc>? bunch of us."
Another Disciple of Fletcher.
"Johnny." spoke Mrs. Lapsllng, in
a tone of sharp reproof, "you shouldn't
bolt your food In that manner. You
must learn to plagarlze your victuals."
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ODD USE FOR BREAD.
Watch Factory Uses Forty 2-Pound
Loaves a Day.
Perhaps the most novel os? to
which 1 read 1b put may be Been In
the great factories of the Elgin Natlonal
Watch Company at Elgin, 111.,
whore more than forty loaves of
fresh broad are required etch day.
Supt. George E. Hunter of the watch
factory, la qvoted as saying:
"There la no secret regarding tha
use of bread In this factory, tutd- 1
am willing to tell all I can couserru
lnr It TiV? *v.~ ...it?. ? -
- .vu1 mo cm do'l uuit!8 in
t>?o history of watch ranking It has
been tlio custom of watch'makers to
reduce fresh bread to the form of
dough. This Is done by the steaming
and kneading. They then use
thlg dough for removing oil and
chips that natnrally adhere, In the
oouree of manufactures, to ploceg as
small as a part of a watch. There
are many parts of a watch that are
bo small as to be barely visible to the
naked eye. The oil Is absorbed by
this dough and the chips stick to It.
and thore Is no other knows substance
which can be used as a wiper
without leaving some of Its particles
attached to the thing wiped. This
accounts for the continued use of
bread dough In the watchmaking Industry.
The Elgin National Watch
Case Compsn^ uses something over
4 0 B-pound loaves a day. or about
24.000 pounds a year.?American
Pood Journal.
Cat's Peculiar Fad.
There la a cat In a grocery store In
Columbus avenue whoso fad Is to
ride dogs. This cat. medium-sized
male., striped and wlso looking, ambushee
himself behind a barrel or
box, watching for a dog. When one
comes along the cat makes a flying
leap and lands on his back. Of
course the dog la greatly alarmed,
and starts off on the dead run, usually
yeplng as he flies along. The cat
crouches down on the dog's back,
holding on with Its claws. He rides
a block or two, then Jumps off and
trots back to hlr store. He has been
riding dogs for more than three
years, and no one knows why h?
does It. Perhaps It Is the desire of
a rush or that speed madness that
p.ometlme8 seizes on automoblllsts.?
New York Telegraph.
Rnnke Den In Hollow Tree.
Alexander Huston and his hired
n.nn while going to work on the Huston
farm, near th - Allegheny county
line, saw a large black snake on an
oak tree. The next day the hired
man took his pistol along and seeing
the snake again, mounted the tree
and shot It and another whlcl crawled
out of the hollow trunk. Believing
that there might be more snakes In
the old tree trunk, a Are was started
below and In a short time the snakes
crawled out In such large numbers
that the mau up the tree descended
In a hurry. A vigorous flght ensued
u,nd when the contest was over the
men had eighty-five dead snakes
measuring from one and a half to
over nine feet in length.?Greens
burg Dally Tribune.
Castaway Sailors.
Sailors cast away on uninhabited
Inlands in temperate regions hnvs
managed to subsist for long periods.
Thus, the crew of the Caroline,
wrecked cn Ducie Island, in th?
Souht Pacific in July. 1883, lived
there quite comfortably until taken
off In May, 1885; while .ho survivors
of the whaler Essex were three years
and four months on the neighboring
Henderson Island before belug rescued.
World's Ore Mountains.
The world contains at least four
mountains composed of almost solid
Iron ore. One Is in Mexico, one in
the United States, another in India
and a fourth In Africa, Just below
the Soudan, and there have been reports
of such a mountain existing In
Siberia.
Nerves and Tobacco.
The members of the fair sex have
nerves as well as their husbands and
brothers, and if tobacco Binoke at'<
rds a grateful solace, why should
they not be equally entitled to this
boon along with the men??Good
Health.
Matrimonial Complaints.
Nlne-tcntbs of the unhappiness of
people who Imagine they have contrived
to marry unhappily Ib purely
of their own making. The world
would not go right with tliein whetbe.
they were single or married.?
Penny Magazine.
Think Highly of Wine.
In Suabla Wine Is considered an
Important article of diet and a help
li restoring the strength of the
sick. In 1906 the food given by
the city to sick persons Included 13.f?00
portions and 4,f>51 litres of
wine.
Slinking Hands.
The custom shal lng hands can ha
traced to the d,i\s of tha or,,.
Israelites. and was Intended to signify
peace, to swear friendship, to
promise alliance or to give security.
Coral Galore.
Fronting the coast of North Australia
Is the Great Harrier reef, the
largest coral reef In the world* II
I over 1,000 miles long and 30 mlleg
wide.
A duck of a girl can make a goose
out of any man.
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