THE UNTAMED KIOWAS
INTERESTING INDIANS TO FIG
URE AT THE WORLD'S FAIR.
Relics of a Tribe That is Rapidly
Disappearing -The Order of the
Dog Soldiers—Feats of
Dolls on Horseback.
The exhibit of the Smithsonian Insti -
tution at the World's Fair in Chicago
will include a display illustrating the
manners and customs of Kiowas, who
are the most interesting of all the Indian
tribes in the United States. Originally
% they were, perhaps, the wildest,carrying
a their raids from their home in the Indian
Territory as far south as the City of Mex
ico aud as far to the north as the present
State of Washington. They are tamed
now and rapidly dying off, so that it will
not be long before their lands will be
open to the invasion of a horde of boom
ers. What renders them chiefly remark
able is their extreme conservatism.
While other aboriginal nations have
mostly adopted the white man's ways
and more or less of his costume, the Ki
owas are much the same intelligent sav-
ages that their forefathers were when
Columbus discovered America.
One of their peculiarities is their
method of burial. Their cemeteries are
up in trees. A frame work of 3trong
withers is constructed among the
branches, aud on this the bodies of the
dead ure laid, each warrior wrapped in
his blankets and with all his property
about him. No survivor would ever
venture to U3e anything that had be-
to a person defunct for fear lest
the latter's spirit should haunt and de
stroy him. At the lisk of the lives of
himself and his party Mr. Mooney, of
the Bureau of Ethnology recently pro
cured one of these burial platforms,
taking it down from the tree in which it
was built. Also he brought away a lot
of bones that were found on it, and the
whole will make a feature of the exhibit
referred to.
There was oue curiosity of the Kiowas
for which Mr. Moouey would almost have
been willing to give his own head, but
neither he nor any other white man has
been permitted even to look upon it. It
is a bag containing the palladium of the
tribe—all the grand medicine parapher
nalia, etc. Not least important of the
conteuts of this sacred receptacle are
300 scalps of white men and Mexicans,
taken in war or by murder. Also there
is the outfit of the famous sun dance, in
which the young braves acquire their
title to warriorship by passing luriats
through strips of flesh in their breasts
and bucks, fastening the other ends to
the saddles of their ponies and causing
the lutter to tear the ropes loose at full
gallop. Among the things which Mr.
Mooncy did secure are a tomakawk that
has killed six men and a spear with a
long steel point which has slain twelve
persons in fight, wielded by the big chief
who owned it.
The most interesting battle trophy ob
tained, however, is astandaidof war be
longing to an order of knighthood
among the Kiowas, which is ailed ths
Order of the Dog 3oldiers. It is a stall
six feet high, wrupped spirally with ot
ter skin in strips, and ornamented with
eagle feathers and bells. When the tribe
fought one warrior was chosen to bear
this standard. He was always the
bravest, because he was pretty sure to
be killed. His duty was to rush as far
as possible to the front and plant the
staff in the ground, at the same time
fastening himself to it in such a manner
that he could not leave it. He carries
with him a broad strip of tanned leather
with a slit in one end of it through which
he put his head, while through a hole in
the other end ho thrust the staff as he
planted it in the earth. Thus he stood,
bound to his post and immovable, while
the fight raged around him. Under no
circumstances was he permitted to lift
the stuudard, although a fellow warrior
might release him. "No retreat," was
the motto of these fierce wild men. ■
Like the Comunches, the Kiowas lived, 1
as they have nlways fought, on horse
back. Consequently when on foot they
are awkward and bow-legged. The very '
dolls of the little girls usually ride. '
teach female child in the tribe has her
"doll stick," as it is called. It is a
stick of wood, on which is mounted and
set a-straddle three or four doll bubies,
securely fastened. Sometimes each doll
has a little saddle beneath it. Oue of
the doll sticks secured by Mr. Mooncy
has four doll babies on it. One repre
sents a woman witli a pappoosp on her
back, another is a miniature warrior
carrying a shield with a scalp attached
to it, a third is a girl and the forth is a
boy. Some of the bigger dolls, which
do not ride, are very elaborate iudeed.
There is u warrior doll two feet high,
with long hair that evidently once be
longed .to a dog, a shield with a picture
of a buffalo painted on it, a quiver, a
bow and arrows, a hair brush and two
wooden spoons attached to his belt
The face of the doll is made of buckskin,
with the features marked upon it. Sucli
a one the little Kiowa girl does not carry
in her arms, but in a sort of cradle on
her back, because that is the way in
which she will carry her own children
when she has them.
Very interesting are the gatncs
played by the Kiowas. The boya are
very fond of tops. They are always
whip tops, of the same shape as those
used by Caucasian youth, with pegs of
bone. These adolescent savages are
wonderfully expert in making them
whirl and take great pride in their skill
at the sport. Another form of amuse
ment is throwing with wooden lances at
a target made out of a withe bound in
circular shape with a network of raw
hide strips. Counts are made according
to the distance from the bull's-eye of
the mesh in which the lance sticks. The
boys also play a sort of shinny with a
leather ball stuffed with deer hair. Still
another favorite spot is the throwing of
smooth bones plumed with feathers
along the ice in winter. Among the
men the most popular game is played
with strips of woods variously marked,
which are thrown upon the ground,
counting according to the marks that
fall uppermost. At this much gambling
is done for horses or other property.
The great women's game is called the
"game of the two dangerous Rivers." It
resembles backgammon somewhat, the
moves being determined by the throwing
of five sticks. When a player's throw
lands one of her pieces in one of the
s.treams marked across the checkered
blanket she must return to the starting
point. Among other Kiowa curiosities
obtained by Mr. Mooncy is the parapher
nalia of the "mescal feast," which is a
semi-religious celebration. The Indians
sit around a fire on their haunches, each
one holding a fan before his eyes to
shield them from the heat, while they
take turns in tapping a drum aud rat
tling a dry gourd monotonously. At the
same time they keep chewing the root
of a sort of cactus, which produces a
stupefying effect, pawing each piece of
it quickly through the flame before put
tiug it in the mouth. The scene at such
a festival is described as being exceeding
weird.
The Kiowas mix their tobacco for
smoking with sumach leaves that have
been boiled in grease. When they have
bad an unsuccessful hunting trip they
revenge themselves upon the bad spirit,
who is resposible, by shooting arrows at
him into the air from a bow made of
buffalo rib. They make wooden flutes
for serenading the young women, which
produce very melodious notes. Formerly
they cooked their food in leather bags on
heated stones, but now they have
adopted the pots and pans of the white
man. Their spoons, however, are huge
implements of wood, the bowls holding
about a pint. They say that their hun
ger could never be satisfied by eating
with the wretched little spcons the I
whites employ.
How Deep Does the Earth Quake?
I lie Mississippi Valley has recently
experienced an earthquake shock which
for severity has not been equalled for
years, an incident which revives interest
in the query: llow deep docs the earth
"quake" when nature shakes her crust
as the cyclone does the circus tent?
At Virginia City, New, the groat earth
quake of 1879 was not noticed by the
miners in the deeper portions of the
Comstook mines. The famous earth
quake at the same placo in 1874, which
shook down chimneys, fire-walls, etc.,
and cracked every brick building in tho
eity, was merely noticed by some of the
miners working in the "upper levels,"
but did them no damage, not even shak
ing down looso rocks and earth. The
station men in the various shafts felt it
strongest, and tho deepest point whore it
was noticed was by the ninth station man,
who was on watch at the 1100-foot level,
which is, of course, 900 feet below tho
surface. Ho said it felt liko a faint
throb or pulsation of air, as though a
blast had been firod above, below, or iu
some indefinite direction. In some of
the Virginia City mines the shock was
not felt at all, not even by station men
iu the shufts. The Gold Hill News,
commenting on this curious fact at the
time, remarked that earthquakes seemed
to be of electricul character, coming from
the atmosphere, and not from the depths
of the earth.—[St. Louis Republic.
Old European Churches.
Tho oldost church in the Continental
Europe is the Church of Stn. Maria in
Trastevere in Koine. In the year 221,
Popo Caliixtus I. obtained permission
from the Emperor Alexander Servius to
build a church. This church, it is said,
was tho first that was made public in
Rome. It underwent a number of re
pairs, nnd was rebuilt from tho founda
tion in 1189. If the foundation is taken
into consideration it is the oldest. There
is, however, another old churoh in tho
same city which lias not been built over.
It is St. Clement's and is reputed to be
on the site of the house of St. Clement;
it was built in 417, and its primitive
style is still preserved. Tho Mosque of
St. Sophia, Constantinople, was origin
ally a Christian church, having been
built in 325 by tho Emperor Constantino.
It was dstroyed by fire in 404 and was
rebuilt upon the same foundation in 415,
and destroyed about 530, and rebuilt in
532. Wlion Constantinople was captured
by the Moslems, it was converted into a
Mohammedan Mosque. In Spain, the
Cathedral of Zaragoza is said to have
been the Temple of Diana, and was con
verted into a church after that city (the
first in Spain) professed Christianity un
der the preaching of St. Jamos. As lie
suffered martyrdom in the year 44, this
places the Cathedral of Zartigoza in the
tore rank, but tho authenticity of its
antiquity is defective. In England it is
claimed for the Abbey Church of the
Abbey of Glastonbury a great antiquity.
Tradition snys that tho church was foun
ded by Joseph of Aramathea. It is,
howevor, in ruins, as are its two com
panion chapels, St. Joseph's and St.
Mary's, both of which were built in
1140.—[Boston Transcript.
Au Intruding Turk.
The 11 Turkey " of diplomatists and
map-makers means, not the land of the
Turk, buttliose lands—Ureek, Bulgarian,
Servian, and Albanian—in which their
enemy tho Turk is still encamped. On
no spot of Europe, on no spot of the const
of Asia, is the Turk really at home. He
is everywhere a foreign intruder, a burg
lur who has thrust himself into the houses
of other men. While other conquests
have in time changed into lawful posses
sions, either by the conquerors assimilat
ing tho conquered, or the conquered as
similating the conquorors, tho Turk ro
nmins us much a stranger in Europe as he
was when he first came in, more than live
hundred years back. And so it must over
bo as long as tho Turk remains a Turk;
for no Mahometan ruler can, without cast
ing aside the precepts of his own law, bo
coino what a ruler is bound to be towards
the subjects of other religions. It is his
first duty as a Mahometan to keep men
of all other creeds—the Christian in
Europe, the Fire-YVorshipor in Persia,
the Hindoo in India—in bondage to tho
men of tho dominant faith. He therefore
cannot reform: promises of reform made
by the Turk are in their own nature
worthless. They are nowhere curried
out, unless when the Turk is afraid to
break them uuder the eyo of more power
ful Europeans. To talk of a " Turkish
government " is therefore a more diplo
matic conventionality. There is 110
"Turkish government." The objeot of u
"government" is tho protection of its
subjects; and that the Turk doos not
give. The so-called " Turkish govern
ment " is an organized system of brigand
age with a chief brigand called u "Sultan"
at its head.—[Forum.
Carrier Pigeons After a Journey.
The carrier pigeon when travelling
never feeds. If the distance bo long it
flics on without stopping to take nourish
ment, and at last arrives thin, oxhausted
and almost dying. If oorn bo presented
to it, it rofuses to eat, contenting itsolf
with drinking a little water and then
Bleeping. Two or three hours later it
begins to eat with great moderation, and
sloeps again immediately afterward. If
its flight has been very prolonged the
pigeon will proceed in this manner for
forty-eight hours before recovering its
normal mode of feeding.—[London i'id-
Bits.
THE LADIES.
LUDICROUS SCENE IN A HAREM.
European ladies are often invited to
visit the harems of the rich Moors in Mo
rocco, and some time ago one of the in
mates —a beautiful young girl—fainted
at the sight of one of the lady visitors
removing her gloves. The young lady
thought she was removing a thick skin
from her hand, and the sight frightened
her so much that it was some time before
she could regain consciousness.—[New
Orleans Times-Democrat.
WOMEN AS LABORERS.
The women in mountainous portions of
Germany, writes u correspondent, seem
to do a greator proportion of the manual
labor than any we nave heretofore seen.
In the Swiss Rhine valley we saw women
pulling lurge four-wheeled carts, well
loaded, but in Wurtemburg we have seen
them breaking stone for the road. More
than this, in Bavaria we have seen a
woman tugging manfully at a heavily
loaded hund-cart, while her lord and
master wulked in the rear and serenely
smoked his pipe. But whore are the
men? In the arm}' ? Yes, the best of
the young men are in the army just at
the time when tlioy are ready to bo useful
in the common vocations of life. In the
army they are apt to contract habits of
idleness despite the performance of rou
tine and other military duties, which
leads them upon their return to civil life
to select the " snaps," us it were ; to
choose the light end of the log when there
is n heavy end. Aud the woman? Oh,
she is used to it.
STORY OF A BLIND AUTHORESS.
Aii eldorly lady, with a striking face
partially concealed behind a white veil,
attracted considerable attention at the
Union Depot the other evening, snys the
Pittsburg Dispatch. She was accom
panied by a pretty maid with dark eyes,
who attended to all her nccdß. The
woman wus Mrs. Helen Aldrich De Croix,
a blind authoress of some note. Slio
said sho had 110 home, but was now 011
her way to Canton, to visit friends for
awhile, and from thero she would go to
Fort Wuyne. She has just completed a
history of her life, and among her works
is tho novel "Foreshadowing."
Mrs. De Croix is a woman with a re
markable history. She is now seventy
three yeurs old, and wus born in Roches
ter, N. Y. According to her story sho
wus married forty-six years ago, in New
York,to a Frenchman named De Croix,and
while returning from church in a curriage
the horses ran away, and her husband of
only a few minutes was thrown out and
killed. She escaped unhurt, but tho
shock and her grief were so great that she
was attacked by a sovero fever. After
six weeks of suffering she arose from a
sick bed with lior eyesight gone. Since
then sho has traveled extensively and
makes her home wherever it suits her in
clination. She lias devoted her lifu to
literature.
OOWXS OX APPROVAL.
They were lunching at the Richelieu
and talked louder than they intendod.
One was exquisitely begowned, and the
other was congratulating her 011 her ap
pearance.
"But it must have been very expen
sive, that gown," sho said.
"Didn't cost 1110 a cent," said the other,
witli a smile.
"Why, what do you mean?" quoried
the other.
"Why, I took it ou approval. Don't
you understand?"
"I do not."
"IV hy, I wont to Fiold's and picked it
out, nnd they sent it home for approval."
"It satisfies you?"
"Perfectly."
"Then it will cost you somothing."
"Not a cent. It came yesterday. I
am going to make some calls to-morrow.
I shall wear it and to-morrow send it
back."
The other didn't reply, and the beauti
fully begowned one continued:
"It is n perfect dream of a scheme.
Whenever oue wants to be a little swell
one can do as I have done, and without
cost. To be sure, one mustn't go too
often, and once in a while one must buy
a gown. But doing us I, yes, and us
many others do, for the price of one
gown one can have the use of several.
Only one must be careful not to commit
the error a friend of mine did."
"What was that?"
"Why, sho took a gown and kept it for
several days. Of course, gowns sent 011
approval are not expected to be worn.
But the clerk who received it and found
in tho pocket a lady's card case, at least
have hud his suspicions aroused that the
gown had been worn. I don't know what
word was sent back with tho case,
but I do know that sho doesn't give Field
the benefit of hercustom any more."
W licreut both laughed heartily, and
calling the waitor, ordered two pieces of
pie.—[Chicago Post.
A ZULU WOMAN'S MANSION.
Tho Zulu woman is tho architect and
builder of tho Zulu house, and tho style
of architecture is known in the colonies
as "wattle and daub." It looks like an
exaggerated beehive, for the Zulu mind
has this peculiarity, that it cannot grasp
the idea of anything that is not round or
elliptical ill form. There aro 110 squares
in nature. To build her house tho wo
man truces a circle 011 the ground four
teen feet in diameter, and gotting a num
ber of long, limber branches, she sticks
them firmly into the ground and then
bends the tops over, and ties them with
fibre obtained from the numerous creep
era, or "monkey ropes." Then she twines
thicker creopers in and out of these
sticks, ull round tho circle of spaces,
about twelve inches apart, and then tak
ing wattle (a kindof coarse grass or reed)
she thatches the edifice, leaving a small
hole at the top for a chimney and another
hole three feet square for a door. In
front of this she builds a covered way,
extending outward about tliroo feet, and
tho exterior of the house is finished by a
coating of "daub," or mud. She then
soeks the nests of the white ant, and,
digging them up, obtuins a quantity of
white clay, which she beats to powder,
dries, and then, mixing it with water,
kneads it until it is quite smooth. This
sho spreads all over tho ground inside
the hut and beats it carefully until it is
quite lmrd and frco from cracks. This
floor a good housewife will scour twice a
day with smooth stones until it is like a
pieco of polished marble. The fir-place
is near tho door, and is simply a ring of
this clnjr to confino the embers in one
filace. Tho other necessaries found in a
lut uro a bundle of spear shafts, some
tobacco drying and sevoral bunches of
millet bunging from the roof. Grouped
round the walls are the three nmasi (a
species of sour milk) jars, the native beer
jars and open jars holding grain. Of
course tho dense wood smoke rising coats
tho roof, millet and tobacco with soot,
and loug "fingers" of it hang in tvery
direction; but the floor will bo clean
enough to eat on, nnd HH long as that is
so the social Mrs. Grundy of the Zulu is
satisfied.—[Ladies' Home Journal.
ENGLISH WORKING WOMEN'S DRESSES.
The evening classes and mutual-im
provement institutes have opened their
doors for the winter, and I write to you,
as a practical educator in popular art, to
ask if there is no possible forco, educa
tional or artistic, which could be utilized
for the amendment of the hidcousness of
our workingwomen's style of dress? Let
ine at the outset say that I do not want
to advocate any of the so-called "na
tional" forms of attire, since that would
only be shifting the inelegance from one
shape to another. What Ido want to
"know is why the charwoman, the factory
hand or the flower girl should always be
in uniforms of such supremely unpic
turesque ugliness, while the district nurse
(who would bo unfettered by any partic
ular hospital garb), the respectable do
mestic servant or the underpaid girl type
writer on their comparatively little
higher earnings, can always look neatly,
and generally, indeed, tastefully dressed.
I have used the word "uniform" ad
visedly. Who is not familiar with the
dress of shabby black or rusty brown of
the char or washer woman? With it she
either wears a shawl of dirt-colored dingi
ness, folded into a triangle and tightly
drawn ucross her chest, or a shapeless
jacket and a crape bonnet. To this she
may have added some shabby flowers,
but the bows and the foundation are in
variably of the funereal muterial. The
factory girl's gayly colored velveteen and
feather hat bids fair to develop into a
national characteristic of dress. For
the price she pays for it she could buy
at least three simpler and moro bocoming
hats; but the solo variation she allows
herself upon the particular shape and
style lies in color ami the amount of tin
sel ornaments loaded on to it. Her outor
wrap is either a brown ulster, made of a
rough-surfaced shoddy, with what are, I
believe, technically known as "sling
sleeves," edged with velveteen, or else it
is a half-long jacket, tight over the chest,
too long and too largo at the waist, and
fastened with about four enormous but
tons. The flowerseller's hat resembles
that of the factory girl in shape, only it
j may be of straw or crape; but it is her
| brown shawl,with a dingy, sandy border,
J that is her exclusively distinctive fea
| ture. Give to any of these classes a
j sufficiency of money to buy now clothes,
j and it will be found that she only pur
! chases a more expensive specimen of her
1 particular style*
Dress of this description has not even
the merit of convenience for its wearer's
special vocation. It is excessively liable
to damage by mud and bad weather, and
its utter colorlessness is the chief reason
that an English crowd is always such a
depressing, joyless spectacle. We read
much of the tyranny of fashion upon the
middle or upper classes, but it is really
not so exacting as it is among those who
wave to work with their hands. They
have evidently neither the taso to deviso
better things nor the strength of will to
break away from the old forms, so that
there is room indeed for a dress-reform
crusade in this direction. And improve
ments can be effected by tact and good
example, as may easily be soen from the
members of the Hon. Maude Stanley's
Working Girls' Club in Soho, who very
soon after joining begin to manifest a
marked amendment, not only in manners,
but in dress.—[London (Eng.) Graphic.
FASHION NOTES.
Tweed and shawl capos are very popu
lar.
Importers are exhibiting some very
pretty wool delaines.
Scotch tweeds are making their ap
pearance in every possible color and
pattern.
The large shaggy chocks are many of
them made up with a gored seam on the
front and sides.
A lace the color of the green-yellow
- marigold comes in wido edgings. A now
! pattern has openwork wheels rolling over
lit.
j Hose face powder consists of rich
starch, seven pounds; rose pink, half
dram; attar ot roses and santal, two
drains each.
One of many pretty dresses seen re
cently had a white leather waistcoat, the
skirt bordered all around with leather
about an inch wido, worn with a gray and
black check open jacket.
Evening shoes are being made of suede
leather to match the dress trimming, and
lurge bows of satin ribbon of a comple
mentary color are pinned 011 with small
buckles or fancy buttons.
A very pretty way of relieving the
excessive plainness and 41 drawn-back "
look of a smoothly fitted skirt is to leave
each breadth open at the bottom to the
depth of about six inches, and to fill in
with piaitiugs of another material.
The most effective party dresses this
season are severely simple. If a woman
has a good figure, andean trust her dress
maker for a perfect cut, the loss trim
ming she has on her gown the better.
The pieces under the arm fit the slender
figure like a glove up to the sleeve, but
the front is cut away deeply and filled in
with beautiful old lace, which forms the
only trimming of this perfectly simple
toilet, which could not be worn, however,
by every one. The sleeves ore small and
are made of mousseline do soie and lace.
A Three-Eyed Calf.
An Aldernoy cow belonging to Samuel
Woods, of North Union Township, gave
birth to a female calf that has ulmost
two heads. The head has an enlarged or
double appearance, as though two heads
were grown together. Away around on
each side of the double head is a perfect
eye, and directly in the centre is another
eye. The centre eye is well formed hut
is sightless. The nose and mouth also
run together, and the culf has that kind
of a mouth sometimes spoken of that
runs from ear to ear. It is misshaped,
hut double. The regulation number of
ours, feet, etc., are properly nttuched to
the calf, and it is lively and will from all
uppearanccs live.—[Uniontown (Penn.)
Standard.
Use for the Fifth Wheel.
The fifth wheol for a coach has found
its place at lust. On the tramway at
Brussels, Belgium, they have cars (Trams
deraillables) which are fitted with a fifth
wheel, so that they can easily he inudo to
leave the rails and ho replacod upon
them, and their use is said to be increas
ing. The fifth wheel is placed in the
fore part of the car, and can be raised by"
means of levers, so that the other wheels
are free to leavo the rails whenever there
is an obstacle 011 the lino of route. In
order to replace the car on the rails, the
conductor uuclamps the guide wheol, and
the other wheels are thus made to reguin
j the rails. —[New York Telegram.
Ov>rc*vp !y Cur p. "*•
The introduction of carp into the
water near San Francisco by the Cali
fornia Fish Commissioners has not
been productive of good results. The
newcomers are called water hogs, and
are considered a scourge in many
ways. The demand for them in the
market did not last long, and when
the demand ceased the breeders quit
the industry and turned the flsh into
the nearest water courses, where they
flourished, and thence spread until
now they infest all of the tide sloughs
adjacent to San Francisco Bay.
Winter floods carried them to the
marshes and left them landlocked.
They have multiplied so largely that
they may spoil the sport for the mem
bers of shooting clubs that have pre
serves of natural water and planted
feed for ducks in their ponds. The
carp have bred-by thousands in the
ponds and have almost destroyed
the grasses. In the Suisun marsh
myriads of flsh have destroyed the
feed. In the tulc swamps up the
bay and along the San Joaquin and
Sacramento rivers vast shoals of carp
may be seen. One club is consider
ing the advisability of draining its
ponds and keeping them dry for a
6eason to kill the flsh.
A Church Flooded with Honey.
During the early summer a swarm
of bees built in the loft of an Episco
palian church in Tulare County, Cal.
Not long since an extremely warm
wave swept over the State, and the
wax giving way beneath the torrid
heat, the honey flowed in st reams to
the floor. It required a good deal of
expeuse to remedy the damage.
Mr. Child's Latest Little Jest.
The speed of bees, says a writer,
has been greatly overestimated, but
the man of experience knows t hat the
rapidity of the part opposite the bee's
foresight is a stern reality.—Philadel
phia. ledger.
One-third of London's crime is committed
on Saturday nights.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Tliomp
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Tho cultivation of prunes in California is
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The mineral products of Chili last year ag
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Chinese events ure said to be tending to
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As mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely dcraugo the whole sys
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tho good you can possibly derive from them.
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