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Why Do Women Have the Blues More Than Men ?
Are not women naturally as light-hearted, brave, and hope
ful as men?
Yes; but woman's organism is different from man's.
Women in perfect or good health are rarely victims of this
S3'mptom.
Women nearl' monopolize the blues, because their peculiar
ailments promote them.
When the female organs fail to perform their functions
properly, when the dreaded female complaints appear, there is
shown nervousness, sleeplessness, faintness, backache, headache,
bearing down pains, etc., causing the dreaded " let-me-alone"
and "all-gone 'feelings.
When the woman does not understand what the matter is,
and her doctor can not or will not tell her, sbe grows morose
and melancholy ; that's the blues.
" I am happy to say 3-our Vegetable Compound has cured me.
' My sullermg ever month was dreadful. The
l ! .r gave me morphine to ease the pain, but nothing
in cure me; and I was obliged to spend two or three
il i in bed. Now 1 have no pain at all.
" I can work harder, and be on my feet longer, than
I have lor years. I cannot praise your medicine enough.
! ;i:n ulad to tell ever' one that 1 was cured by Lydia E
Pin J:iam s Vegetable Comp jtind. Our druggist says there
is a great demand for your medicine here."
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amount allotted to ca. tm" A T TXT"
anv-!ye list of taxable as JJ1. A. JAliNU,
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GALUTZIN' PA.
later fiJlm me with as. f I yJJ. D M J
' eland, t!2S,- I wan,
Delaware Still Clings to the An
cient Institution.
It 1 Used a ft Means of Preventing
Crluiiuitls) fruia Outnltle IxMilluf;
lu the Htftte An FfTwtlve
Kemedy for Ctiuie.
SINGULAR DISCOVERIES.
The. present law relating to tlm
hipping post in lk-lavare is tliattl.e
punishment of wliijipiiif shall 1k iu
llictfd publicly, by strokes on t lie bare
back well laid on." It shall 1m' done
by the sheriff or his deputy, r by a
constable. The whipping Hist and
pillory shall lie in or near the jailyard
of eaeh county. Women are e'inpU-l
from whipping. The wliipping- of
1'iiitors is left to tlie discretion of the
court in each case. Whenever -or-ioral
punishment is a part of I lie jul;
lnent, the day for its execution inns.
Ik? fixed in the sentence. Whenever :i
convict, at the same time, receives
several sentences of whipping, the
court t-l.all so graduate them that uu
dT all of them he shall not re-eive
more than CO lushes, nor stand in the
pillory more than ne bour.
Whipping- is inflicted a.s a ptmi.-li-iiient
for the following crimes: At
tempt at joisiiiiif.', mayhem, highway
and house roblery, setting lire to oili
es, vessels or stores, burglary, lar
ceny, cmliez.lemeut, making forjred
plates, obsti iictin railroad trackr-.
etc. The pillory is generally a,l,ed as
a further punishment, or else line or
imprisonment.
"Hut why," asks the outsider,
'since whipping- was abolished in the
'nited States laws in ls'.Kt, ami even in
the navy in ItfaO, docs Delaware
cling- so fondly to it? Is she wiser
than the rest of the country, or simply
more uncivilized 7" Well, it would
hard to explain, to the average out
siler, whose idea of the whipping jmsl
is made up o? a tortured prisoner, a
gory cat-o'-nine tails, ami a moii
of brutalized sjicctators, the easy-go-i:ig
indifference of the average IMa
warean altout the whole thing. The
large majority of the citizens of Dela
ware, indeed, have never so much as
seen the whipping post, and those w ho
Lave, have never Ih-cii heard to com
plain of any brutality in connection
with it. The movement for prisou rc -form,
now active in the state, has no
condemnation for the whipping xst;
it fixes on overcrowded cells ami idle
prisoners a.s far greater "auses for
complaint. Many would approve, in
deed, an extension of the punishment,
so as to include Ihe crimes of prize
fighting, cruelty to children and ani
mals, and wife-beating-, now punisha
ble only by fine and impi isonmem.
The. reasons for this general ao plies
cuce are rooted in (1) the past history
of the state, (2) its geographical misi
tion, and (3) the ronscrvative charac
ter of its inhabitants. They may l
briefly stated as follows:
1. Delaware has always had a largv
free negro Hipulat ion. Now. iln- nc
'ro is given to fie fit larceny, and he
docs not greatly mind Wing impris
oned for it. In some cases he has
lieeu known to commit -tty offenses
ut the approach of winter, with The
avowed desire of getting a. home in jail
until spring. This tendency can be
f itccessfnlly combated only by (nrir
:il punishment, w hich he docs not hke
r.nd avoids if (Missible. The whipping
Mist. has solved this problem for Dela
ware justice during the past, and its
value is established until some licttci
: ulst it nte can lie devised.
2. IV law a re is a small agricultural
state, lying lietween the large cit ies of
Philadelphia and Italtimore. It is a
natural haven of refuge for criminals
from Ih1!i cities, anil wouM be ovcrrrn
with thieves and small offenders if Un
qualify of IVIaware justice was no;
bitter to their taste. The whipping
post is an altomination to the criminal
roni outside. He gives the state :i
clean berth on its account. One fang
of bank burglars did M-lec-t Wilming
ton as a field of operations s ime yeais
ago. They were caught arid soimdlv
whipped. They had no difficulty, lie
mg exjiert-s, in breaking out of t he old
fashioned jail at Newcastle after
wards, us easily as they had broken in
to the bank; but the whipping
rankled in their mibds; and they left
on record their determination never
again to enter the state wher gentle
men in their line of business were
whipped like slaves." Whereat al!
Delaware chuckled! l'riscilla I'on
ard, in Outlook.
MUST NOT SHAVE WOMEN.
Ieelslun Keisrhetl ly a ( nnernwot I'rnin
luent lllnilu ll:trtrft.
A strange incident occurred in liom
liay recently. A monster lucctiugof
Hindu Ijarbers was held for t lie puriosi
of considering t he quest ion of I lie impro
priety of shaving the heads of Hindu
willows, and thereby distigiiriug them
for life. Almut 10O harlicrs hav ii:g a.-;-sembled,
one of them, named Habajee
More, read a pamphlet in M ilnatli. in
w hich hestateil that the barlMrs of old
were happy and contented, b'it latterly,
as though a curse had descended on
their heads, trade hod 'alien otT ami
they had lecoine jioor. Tlie curse could
only be accounted for by the fact that
they were committing a great s)n by
shaving the heads of oorj inm.cenl
widows, thus depriving them of their
liest ornament, it w as against I he I! bi
ll u script ures to deprive a widow of her
hair, ami doubtless it was th- curses of
Ihe widows that had lowered t heir call
ing. The mi'etiiig IherciijMin unani
mously resolved that no barlx-r should
shave a widow's head, and that if he did
so he should le exconpiiunicnted.
The Minister Itlnuurr.
The Xew Yorkers arc telling one an
other of a go.nl joke on lirv. John Wes
ley Brown, rector of St. Tli.jmas" church,
previously rector of St. Haul's in that
city. His jiart in the ceremonial of the
Hagct-Whitijey wedding was to read the
service. Either he had marked the
w rong place in the prayer liook or the
finging disconcerteil him; at any rale
the wedding party was amazed to iiear
his rich, full voice utter the words: "I
am the resiirrtctio and the lifcf"
"Heavens and earth!" ejaculated
Bishop Hotter, in a whisper liehiud him.
The rector at once awoke to the fact
that he was reading the burial service,
aud, after one breathless second, he
proceeded with the pro-ier ritual.
V.'tule That Wat u VslusMc Contribu
tor to Science.
A very strange thing hap tend to
the prince of Monaco's t-tcam yacht
Hrinccsse Alice, near the island of
Tcrceira in the Azores hist summer.
The prince has devoted his yacht to the
study of the ocean and its inhabitants,
and many imortaiit facts have thus
Ih-cii gathered for science. On the oc
casion referred to a sjwrm-w hale, or
cachalot, alw.ut 45 feet long, was har
pooned by some fishermen, ami in it.s
dying struggles it made direct, for the
I'rincesse Alice. If it- liad struck the
little yacht tlwe coiiseipie.iices might
have lecn very serious, but just- when
l In' collision seemed inevitable t he
whale dived, and coming up on the
other side of t he yacht, t urned Uon it;
back in tlie death-agony. At this in
tant the Ixxlii-s of three gigantic
ccphaloods the. class 1o which cut
tletishes lielong were ejected from
tlw whale's mouth. These were se
cured by a lKiat from the yacht, ami
later the bodies of a nnmlier of curious
inhabitants of the sea were found in
I In whale's stomach. The ccphalo
jmmIs Ix-iong to a new sjn-cies. Oilier
captures Ilia! ihe whale had made were
so interesting as to lead Mr. .1. Y. Bu
chanan, the naturalist, to remark in a
recent number of Nature: "Tlie cach
alot which was killed by the whalers of
Tcrceiru almost under I In- ki--l of the
l'riinf.sse Mice sit-ins a.s if it hail l'-evn
guided in tli' I nrsiiit of its food by a
desire to devo.ir nothing but animals
whii li. up to t lie prevent, are com
pletely unknown."
VERY SHOCKING FISH.
Inhabit t he Mediterranean and I'ossras)
I'ai-uliiir Al Irilxiten.
Many M-opIc know of the electric eel
of South America, but there are com
paratively few who have heard of the
toriH'ilo or electric ray of the Mediter
ranean sea. This curious fish, accord
ing to the New York "Journal, is aiiout
the size and shape of a large frying
pan. with a stiort ami exceedingly
broad handle. It is llat and swim
horizontally in the water.
The torpedo, which is found practic
ally in the lUivof i iseay and t he shores
of tin' Mediterranean sea, is so called
'.M-cause of ils liatut. of giving elect ric
shocks. such shocks are feeble, as a
rule. not greater than those from a small
electric battery. If I lie fish is enraged,
however, it is capable of giving a much
more Miwerfid sIhm-U. It uses t his cu
rious vvc:iou to stun the small fishes
and animals on which it preys, thus
making the victim insensible previous
to dev nuri ng it. It is a. very sluggish
lish ami will lay for hours buried in I lie
sand a few fed from t he shore in shal
low water. Electricity is much talkiil
of as a medical aivnt nowadays, and
for such uses is s-Hikc n of as a new dis
covery, but in Ihe days of Caesar this
natural electricity was much used for
llit: same purjmst and physicians of
t he 1 ime a p plied it to I he leg or arm of
a ersoii suffering from rheumatism,
rout or nervous diseases, the patient
keeping his hand or foot, on the ti.-di
as long as it was jiossible to War the
shocks. This was said to have Wen an
excellent remedy.
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
It flan I nderpone More Changes Than
Any Ot her.
English haJ chuiged more than any
.tb-r langiuig-e. rcgariltsl merely as a
Teutonic iangu.-uv. It is farthest re
moved from the parent stock. It is
i lestviided from t be Ka ton. w hich i-sthe
parent of bm ticrman and Dutch, and
a.s it. were the gra ml pa ren t of Lng
lish. Hut Wside.s the Teutonic art
which is the ground work of the lan
guage, it has suffctcd all t I'.e effect s nf
ii lcnglhy IComan oieu pa t ion. This
has had a great influence on the l:n
g n age and has introdut-cd many words
nto it. It must. M' rcmcmWrcd also
that. French was for a long jM-rioil the
oPicial lai.iruage of tlw country. This
had an even greater effect on the
tongue. Fin. illy it has not entirely
lost all traces of (he early Celtic occu
pation. This combination has pro
duced the imst varied, rich and flexible
laiu-uage that exists.
ircck has changed leafd. Anyone
who wishes to satisfy hill. self of the
l rulh of this statement need only take
down four authors, like Herodotus.
I'lutarch, Anna Coin uiena and Trikupi.
He will find, if lie can 1 1 ajislate one.
I hat he can translate the others: and
this though they wrote rcicctively
L"0 years Wfore Christ, and 70, 1,110,
and 1.SI.O vears after.
African Tree r.vln..
In Africa there exists a tree-era h
whii-h has a trick of crawling up a
ciM-oanut tre'. biting off half a dozen
bunches and then crcep!r liw n again
backwards. The theory is that the nuts
arc shattered by the fall, and I he crab
thus enjoys a hearty meal. Now Cue
natives try to stop these depredat ions,
which often ruin the cocoa nut crops,
and take advantage of the fact th::t
the. lower Krtion of Ihe crab is soft
and sensitive. When they are heard in
the tree the native climbs half way up
the tree and drives in a circle of pikes
made out of thorns. The consequence
is when the crab comes down lie en
counters the thorns, and. suposing
that, he has reached the ground, he lets
go, and is so crippled by the fall that he
is easily dispatched ami eaten in his
turn.
A Hairy lloy.
The greatest curiosity of western
France is a modern Esau, in the htsoii
of I-rf-on Fernerixl. the nine-year-old
son of well-to-do arent living in the
little village of Yimlieq. The lny was
Wrii in May, lSsf., and from the day of
his birth has Wen covered with a heavy
growth of curly, straw-colored liar.
Several attempts have Wen made to
remove this queer hirsute growth, but
so far all such attempts have Wen in
vain. The Imiv dislikes very much to
W called "the hairy I toy," and even his
parents are said to W very sensitive
on the subject.
CiillTLE CHEEK.
Nature docs nof capriciously scat
ter her secret. as golden gifts to lazy
M-ts and luxurious darlings, but im
poses tasks when she presents oppor
tunities, and uplifts him whom shf
would inform The apple that she
dryly drops at. the feet of Newton is i
but a coy invitation to follow her U )
ihe sta.rs. Whipple. J
Characteristic Scenes and Inci
dents of the New Town.
HuM 11 n jc Times In the Colorado Kl dorado
Mui Ii Activ ity In Ileal Kstate
and All Kind of
Itiwiiieaa.
Cripple Cni'k is made up almost en
tirely of small frame buildings occu
piil by saloons and gambling houses.
Mcrchajidisiiig Ls overdone, I should
say. I saw one gna-ery store where
Li clerks were at work, (innvrii-s, drv
goods, clothing, etc., are so id very rea
sonably, but Wcr is sold at two gla.-sscs
for a quarter; whisky, the same price.
A gambler is a.s good :is anyhodv in
"ripple Creek and a saloon keeper Wt
tcr. The town, however, is not
"tough." You do not s-e men in Ihe
strccLs carrying pistols, but the gam
bling games are wide ojk-ii. Cripple
Creek is in the same county (El l'a.so)
with Colorado Springs, where no liquor
can la- sold. ( Monulo Springs, how
ever, has live stock exchanges, t".vo of
which are kept om-ii day and night,
like a retaursi nt. Tb-se excha litres
are always nouiliil. and tJic Colorado
Sirimrs M-oplc, alUioiigh so gol alut
liquor, have no hesitancy in robbing
the unwary by selling them worthless
stocks.
Cripple Creek ha-s electric light. ga
and waterworks. Tlw water comes
from an artificial lake on Hike's I'eak,
which is only Hi miles away. At night
the town reminds you of the Midvvav
at the world's fajr. The main street is
five blocks long-. There are three other
business streets of alxiut eipia h ng1.li.
A corner lot on this Wt street. l.".xl2o
bet. sold lately for Sls.eoo. A leal es
tate Itooui has lieen added to flic mining
lom and tlie result is pandemonium.
It is said that at this season there
are from ::o to 4u ilea t lis daily at Cripple
Cni k from pneumonia, largely due to
cxjiosiire. Visitors are tillable to find
proper accommodations, and. if a man
who is not acclimated lakes pneumonia
from cxjiosure. he Ls jire.lt y apt iodic.
Hundreds of men kes-p bachelors" hall"
in cohl riMiius, and live on impro-rlv
ciHiktil fiM-l. As tlif altitude is very
high a great many of the tendcrfect
die.
While I was in town I Jieanl a man
offer Jl.lu a month for liet-k riN.ru in
the of ice of ihe l'alace hotel, theonly
briek buildinir in Cripple Creek. The
offer was indignant ly refused. It.s
that were worth $l'l Uirce months
niro are now ln-ing held for $;;.ii;hi. A
fool is Win -verv minute.
From t lirii- to fi v hours are required
to get a chance to inquire at the M-t.
ottice for mail: from 2imi to ";oo men
are in line constant ly at the jwist ofliee,
and the xst. olhee is full of mail that
has never Wen distributed. Everylaaly
is crazy alanit. everything. This is the
rule at. Cripple Creek.
There an- over a thousand incorjio
ratiil mining companies in Cripple
Creek, and of this numWr less than
15 yield a return on the investment;
jierhaps you know t hat gold mines are
not producers, but actual consumers
of I he world's wealtJi. In other words,
more money is Seiit in gold niinimr
than is obtained from it; every dollar
in gold dugout t.hc ground costs a good
many dollars. It is said that aWut CO
Criiile Creek mines shift ore, but only
15 ay ilividends; into the olJier 15
mines money is la-ing ourel like wa
ter. Over a thousand eomanies have
1h-i'Ii iucorMrati'd, but. only 15 pay
iliv iilemls; t here area t housand of ot her
"claims." which are prolutbly worth
less. 1 heart! it estimated that ihere
are .I.ihmi men in the district eariiintr
wages, ceri.iinly 4.5ihi of them n-ceivc
their Kiy not. from what is prlu--l
in Cripple Creek, but from fols who
send money then". Thomas Barton,
in Atchison tlloW.
Hired Swain.
A curious custom prevails in some
provinces of Holland during ! he carni
val season. Yoiint' women of the woi i
ing class, especially ilomcst tc serv ants,
who have no sweet hearts of tlicTr ow ii.
are in tin- habit of hiring "followers"
for tln-ir Sunday out. or for the whole
cf carnival criod. These lovers are by
no means to lie had very cheap. Often
two or three maids will club together
and share a lover among them if he
comes too exja-nsive for one girl. This
temporary lover has many duties to
1-crform. Of course, he must W eood
looking and well dr.'ssed. and an efh
cient and indefatigable dancer, "tit to W
M'cn wit!' any when'." he must likewise
possi-ss giMtil i-oimTsat ional Hvvcrs.
Besides receiving a variety of valuable
presents from his "girls," hi' is "found"
by them in victuals and drink. If a
young woman can afford to engage a
"sw ain" all lo herself, so much t he Wt
t r. for t he hireling often develops into
a real lover, and ult imately into a hus
band. It can thus In-said that, in some
ilisl ricts of Holland, t he girls do all the
wooing. Buch fur A lie.
A Kaltyle Hero.
The easy-going Ivabv les push democ
racy to extreme limits, living on fa
miliar and tqu.il terms with I heir eat tie
and their swine all occupyiiiir the
common dwelling. A fine, hardy race
of great bravery and many noble t rait s.
they yet resemble the Arabs in their
want of honesty. A story is told of a
chief of theirs. Mokrani. which makes
us think the days of chivalry are not
yet gone. When, worsted in the Fra 1110
Cerman war in 1171, the French had to
withdraw their troops from Algeria,
and thus a grand oja-ning was left for
insurrec'ioii. Mokrani would not rcWl.
a.s Sic had pledged his word to the Al
gerian governor that there would If no
rising against the French authority till
the wsir was over. Even when a cace
had I teen made, and he was thus re
leased from his promise, he gave -H
hours" notice to the French of his in
ttiition to commence hostilities against
them. Verily, he was a hero, and he
died a hero's death in the thick of bat
t It. West m in si er Keview.
- Tralinu riant.
The baited trap is an imitation of the
d.onea or Venus fly trap. This singular
S4einien of the plant world presents
to unsuspicious insects a drop of honev
like jelly, and when the victim descends
to sip he finds himself seized bv the
tieacheroiM leaves of the insectivorous
plant which surround and strangle
him on the spot.
EVEN SILK IS ADULTERATED.
Taanate or. Iln ma Silica to Ole
It Wright.
Some improvements in the treatment
of silks are announced. Ordiuarilv silk
is "weighted" by d -o-Mtiiig tauuate of
tin on the filter; the material receives
a lth of tannic acid and then another
f jH-rehloride of tin, a rcetitiou of
this Wing made until an increase of
the weight amounts to from 15 lo M
:r cent.. Wvoud w hi. h it is not con-sider.-.l
safe to go in the case of silk
intended to W dyed light shades or to
W bleached. K.-ii iitlv ai.crman invent
r has brought foiward a procss ia
which silica is tlw weighting airer.t.
In carrying out this method, says the
Ielroit News -Tribune, three steps are
d.t-erii-ed. First, tlw silk, raw or in
auy stage of manufacture, and cither
la-fore or after dyeiic. is worked for
an hour in a bath of pcrchloride of
tin; then, after s.jueeziiig and wash
nijr. it is worked in a vv arm -olatiu of
water glass or so'uhle silicate of soda
f.-r alMiut an !mii . followed by washiuir.
having also Ih--;i previous v- pase1
through.-! sohiti. nof pho.ihate of soda.
The ojieralioii 1 ,ay In- rejN-ate.l again
and again, with no harmful effect on
the tiU-r or on the sulec.jii. nt dvcing,
and in five oja-rations the silk may be
ilicre:i-iil "m Weight some 1-m to 120
IT cent. The silk is now soi.ed. rnd,
if already dyed, is cleared in an eruul
ioU of olive oil ami acid.
SAVED BY A WORD.
Knowledge f a Malrl Term Proved
t sef nl to an Ameriean Abroad.
Thi-re are more advantages in a musi
cal education thau most of us think,
remarks the Washington Host. A cer
tain physician here in town, who is
just home from Europe, says: "I
never appreciated the advantages of a
musical education utitil I went into a
barWr shop in Italy. Nolaxly aWut
the pla-e sjHike a word of English. I
was stretched on a tik k that parsed as
a chair aud swathed in a towel. The
barWr made
au impressionist sweep
from the upjer cheek to the lowerchiu.
tiee whiz! how it hurt. My mouth
and eyes were full of lather; 1 didn't
i.novv a word of ItaJian. I yelled. Ine
barlier seemed to pause for a niomi lit.
Perhaps he w a.s ga! hering st rt-iii't Ii for
a new onslaught. You have heard that
a drowning man can tliiuk 50 years
in a second. 1 thought w hole libraries
r.nd dictionaries. Not a word of 'tal
:an. The razor was raised again. Sud
denly I retneiulicred a word that I
had s-cn on mv daughter's music, and
had asked the meaning of.
"Adagio! adagio!" 1 yelled. I -n
ii! digio!"
"Si. signor." said the I artier, and ::iy
life w as saved.
DANGEROUS FIRE RISKS.
I n.uriurr -nmanli A.k High K.U for
Ntlur of 1 brio.
The marine store business r a risk
wh'-h most i omjuinies prefer to avoid.
A dealer may have stuff on Lis premises,
consisting of tags, old dnrses, ainl the
like, which is protuibly uuilli sevcial
thoiisauds. yet the insurance couijauici
will refuse to insure the stock at any
priii. In t he i-ase of an ordinary house
holder, meet of these articles would W
insured without a demur us household
goo Is.
LumWr yards and sawmills are not
regarded by insurance companies with
a very favorable eve. The stock ot a
IumiM-r yard was once insured at a
moderate premium, but when a small
saw mill was built on one portion of the
premises, tip weu' insurance eonqtany
rates. Ov. ing to t he addi t iou of t he mill,
where the premium Wfore was some
thing like f-1. altout "Fri was required,
and t'-is favor was only to W granted
ou the strict condition that no timWr
was to W stored within 15 feet of the
ill.
HARD SKULL SAVES HIM.
Mexican Kecelvea a Volley of Ifulleta In
the Head and Urea.
A Mexican was condemned to d-'ath
for stealing a can of kerosene, remarks
the Buffalo Express. He was taken out
by a party of soldiers, received a volley
oi" bullets at close range, and was left
for dead. As soon as the soldiers had
gone he sprang to his feet and walked
to the City of Mexico, many miles a way,
where he entered a hospital. The doc
tors found three ritle bullets imlxilded
in his skull, but he was not fatally in
jured. Now tin am horitiesof the town
which ordered him executed want him
back iu order to shoot him again.
But he objects. He argues that if sub
jcted to the discomfort of execution a
Miond time his health might lie great ly
endangered. there is logic in that.
The man's plea ought to hold good.
It is a serious menace to a man's health
to W taken out aud shot, and the fel
low who survives the experience ouce
should la spared a second eXHtsure,
in order that he may come to the states
and go the rounds of the museums as
the man with the iron skull.
THE WEIGHT OF WOOD.
I .bit gum is very heavy wood, a cubic
fiol weighing 52.iS jonnds to the cubic
foot.
Yellow pine, w hen green, weighs .13 I
Miiiids to the cubic foot; aud when
dry, ."vM.
American clatny is one of the heaviest
v oods know n, weighing S3.1S jtunds to
t he cubic foot.
White pine, when green, weighs 3i.oJ
xMinds to the cubic foot; when sca
soiwd. '.ti.50.
Live oak. when green, weighs 7s. 71
jae.inds to the cubic foot ; when well
sca-ond. ".f.75 jtounds to the cubic foot.
T'w Wst ash wood weighs 5s jtounds
th:-e ounces w hen gneii to tlie cubic
bad. and 5'i aniids w hen dry.
Wc!l-driid ligmim-vitae is said tola
nmo'io-the heaviest of woods, weighing
Miunds to the c ubic foot.
To go Wyond the latundsof moder
ation, is to outrage humanity. The
greatness of tin human soul is shown
by knowing how to keep within projier
IkiuihIs. So far from greatness con-
sistiiir in going Wvond the limits
really consists in keeping within them
i ascai.
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The greatest results in life are usu
ally attained by simple means ami the
exercise of ordinary qualities. These
may, for the most jtart, W summed up
in these two common sense and perse
verance. Feltham.
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