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Twenty pounds is the average weight of cabbages grown in Cuba.

Cork if sunk 20 feet below water will not rise. Grass grows six feet high on pasture lands in Alaska.

Electrical machinery to the value of $75,409,200 was exported by the United States in 1904.

Twelve thousand varieties of potatoes are grown by the "plant wizard," Mr. Luther Barbank.

There is consumed annually in Norway $13,000,000 to $15,000.000 worth of foreign grain. Weight for weigh, pure wood is stronger than steel.

Insects are the cause of an $8,000,000,000 annual loss to farmers in the United States.

The growing of cotton in Peru dates beyond the line of Spanish conquest.

Terra Cotta was extensively used in the construction of homes by the inhabitants of ancient Gaul of France.

It is said by eminent authorities that the North star is estimated to shine with a light 190 times that of the sun.

According to a recent estimate London annually consumes 1.800,000 tons of foodstuffs.

Seaweed in Norway yields a greater revenue than the fisheries-it is used as fuel.

From the miscellaneous garbage of the cities is extracted an enormous amount of grease which ultimately becomes glycerin, axle grease, and the like.

Old rubber is remelted and recast in an almost endless succession of reincarnations. Used photographic films and print paper are burned to extract the gold and silver contained in their emulsions. If no other use can be found for them, old granite building blocks may be ground up for the potash they contain.

From blood is made albumen, commercial fertilizer, and substances used by printers. tanners and others. Hides make leather, and hair is used for making small brushes and to mix with plaster. Bones are boiled and gelatine results, and later the bones do service as knife handles, umbrella handles and as various other "ivory” articles.

Isotherms are lines drawn through places with the same average temperature. Suppose five places have an average summer temperature of 60 degrees, the five all varying in their latitude. They would all be on the same isothermal line, which would zigzag from one to the other across the chart.

Plants give off carbon dioxide just as a man does when breathing. Professor J. R. A. Davis describes an experiment in which a growing

plant is placed in a glass jar just large enough to cover it, the jar being sealed with a greased glass plate. The jar is then put in a dark place for a time. When opened a lighted match plunged therein will be extinguished, showing that the plant has used up the oxygen in the jar. Electrons are the divisions into which the atom, formerly regarded as the indivisible basis of matter, have now been made. Electrons compose atoms.

The French government's monopoly of matchmaking brings in a profit of more than five million dollars a year. All the six match factories are owned and run by the state, twice as many women as men being employed. It is a significant fact that the women working in the government factories receive about double the average wages paid women workers in all private industries. The medical attendance is provided by the state, which also pensions every worker reaching the age of sixty.

In reports of examinations for sanity or insanity, hallucination means a conception of objects which do not exist. An illusion is a false perception of objects which do really exist, while a delusion is an instance of faulty ideas or judg

ment.

Andrew Carnegie was born at Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1837, and is therefore in his seventieth year. He was married in 1887 and has

one daughter.

Many Greek tombs have been recently discovered on the gulf of Taranto, southern Italy. The Greek Philosopher Pythagoras was buried at Metapontum about 500 B. C., and as his tomb still existed at the time of Cicero, who died 43 B. C., it is hoped that it may be found.

The hulls of cotton seed are a valuable cattle food. Cotton seed meal is used for the same purpose and as a fertilizer. Oil is also extracted which is put to a hundred valuable uses. Fully one-third of it is exported, and comes back as olive oil; it is used in the manufacture of soap, for illuminating, and as a substitute for butter and lard. The agricultural department asserts that it is only a question of time and popular education when cotton seed meal will be extensively used as human food.

Old rags, whether of silk, wool, linen or cotton, are used in unnumbered ways. Old carpets are ground and remade into rugs; old wool and cotton make the shoddy from which cheap clothing is constructed; linen and cotton rags make paper and packing.

Postal development in China has necessitated a revision in the spelling of Chinese city names, The healthiest persons are born in the spring.

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The secret of success lies in turning the circumstances that surround you to the best account. Once you learn how to do this, including the self-discipline which it brings about inevitably, you have learned the important lesson; and this lesson perhaps is learned best where opportunities are fewest. In any place a young man can exert his individuality and his most vigorous exertions for his own interests, as long as he respects the rights of others he will be advancing faster than he knows. The best evidence that a person can have of his ability to do well elsewhere is to succeed where he is.-The New York Commercial.

Getting Things Done

By leaving your desk clear and everything up in good shape each night-leaving the work at a definite point-you can take hold in the morning without loss of time. Some people when they start to work in the morning have to go over the entire business of the preceding day in order to find a place to take hold. This results in a loss of energy, as it were, and in a day or a week or a month you cannot get as much work done as would be possible by a better system. Merely keeping busy is not sufficient. You have scen many people who appeared to be always busy-usually in a grand rush-and yet they

did not accomplish half as much as the fellow who works quietly, systematically and steadily. Getting things done is the secret of success in this century, and the fellow who fails to get his task done will be found way back in the everswelling ranks of the "might-have-beens," the "came nears," and the "tried but failed" class of people. Don't be that kind.-Exchange.

Do More Than Duty

Business men are appreciative of the assistant or employe who can do some thinking and remembering for them. The man who must plan and execute momentous enterprises cannot possibly endure around him any one for whom it is necessary to provide reminders. The head of the firm or executive of the company does the origmal thinking; it is the duty of all associated with him to execute. The associate who exerts his faculties, gets in touch with the chief's line of thought, understands his policy and keeps closely abreast of it is a helper indeed.

The clerk, secretary, department head and so on along the line should not only perform with. dispatch and accuracy such routine matters as come within their exact sphere, but should endeavor to do some original thinking, and whenever possible, offer a timely suggestion to the chief. Also, they should be quick to correct inadvertent errors made by those above them, but always unostentatiously. Matters that are to be attended to in the future should be remembered by the alert subordinate. In fact, he should be the memory, the right and the left hand and the ward of small things for his employer. In this way he not only becomes indispensable as an assistant, but he develops the executive faculty. That's the thing that brings its own reward later. -Shoe Retailer.

Little Attentions Count

Did you ever notice how pleased a woman shopper feels when you are able to remember her name and address her as Mrs. Robinson of Mrs. Smith? It is really worth while cultivating the memory in this direction. She's not only flattered somehow she gets an idea that as you have remembered her name, you have also taken an interest in her wants, and will know her requirements. She will at once have confidence in you and rely on you to help her in making her purchases. And how much easier you will find it to sell her the goods! Here's where your work may tell in the way of introducing novelties that have just arrived. You may think that she has no need of them and yet can very easily, in the course of her shopping, introduce the subject by simply telling her that you thought she might like to see them. Such courtesies often result in added sales and grateful, confiding customers.Pen Prophet.

HOW LEAD PENCILS ARE MADE

Despite Their Name, Nearly All of Them Are Made of Pulverized Graphite and Clay
Germany and America Manufacture Most of Them.

The first lead-pencil was made in England almost two hundred and fifty years ago. As a matter of fact, it was not a lead-pencil at all, but a graphite pencil, like those we use today, but which we still persist in calling lead-pencils. Graphite was discovered in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and hardly were the mines in operation than the idea of making pencils was conceived.

As graphite so greatly resembles galena, the German name for which was bleiglanz, it was given the name of blei, or lead. In the early days of lead-pencil-making the graphite was sawed into thin sheets and cut into strips smaller and smaller until they were of a size to be covered with light wooden slips, and thus serve as pencils.

The first pencils created much excitement. The graphite mines of England were considered of inestimable value and were protected by law. But there was great waste-first, in digging, for many of the pieces were too small for cutting, and again in the manner of cutting the graphite, which was so crude that half the material was lost. So, a binding substance had to be invented.

Glue, gum, isinglass and other substances were tried, but the graphite was only rendered hard and brittle and of uneven hardness. Its marks were faint and indistinct, and in those days if the point broke it was quite an undertaking to sharpen it again. First the wood had to be cut

away and the graphite heated over a light to soften it, after which it was drawn to a point with the fingers.

In 1795, Conte, a Frenchman, came on the idea of using pulverized graphite and binding clay. This discovery resulted in pencils of varying hardness, according to the amount of binding clay added, and each pencil was of exactly the same hardness throughout its length.

Soon after this discovery improvements followed in mixing, rolling and sharpening the graphite composition, which was cut into lengths, placed in a warm oven to harden, and finally incased in wood, as seen today.

It was not until 1860 that so-called lead-pencils were manufactured in the United States. Once started, however, the growth of the industry was rapid, and now it is estimated that there are more than four million dollars invested in it. Today American lead-pencils are sold all over the world.

Lead-pencils were made in Germany in early times, and from that country came to America many of the fathers of the pencil industry in the United States, among them being T. Faber, Reckendorfer and Baulzheimer. The center of the pencil industry in this country is in New York City and its vicinity. The daily output of lead-pencils from American factories is estimated at more than five thousand gross.-The Scrap Book.

DON'T WASTE TIME

Are you really living, or are you letting the precious days slip by with nothing in them of interest?

Remember that life is not long and that this beautiful old world is full of wonderful things for those who take the trouble to look for them. Not a day passes but that we do not have a chance to learn something if we keep our eyes open.

The dreamers must wake up, for, while they are building their air castles life is hurrying by. Youth is the time to learn-the mind is eager and plastic.

Keep your eyes and ears open. When you are traveling in the train don't go into a day dream over the new hat you are going to buy; watch the people, they are far more interesting than the grandest clothes that parade the street.

Whatever you do, don't stagnate. Try and learn something from every one you know.

You may work all day and be dead tired by nightfall, but try and do a little reading every

day, even though you may only have ten minutes to devote to it.

Read the newspapers, and such magazines as you can get hold of. But especially read books that are worth reading. Once you cultivate a fondness for good reading, the most delightful world will open to you. If you watch the papers you will see many good free lectures advertised where men and women of the greatest culture are to be found.

Cultivate a fad of some sort that will at least keep you wide awake and interested.

The more you know the more interesting you will be to others. It is only necessary to be intelligent.

Any intelligent face is better than one which has only prettiness to distinguish it.

Men are fond of declaring that girls can talk. of nothing but admirers and clothes. That is not so, of course, and it is every girl's duty to be a living contradiction to that theory.

Chicago Examiner.

Legal Department

In this department will be found many legal subjects of interest to business men and women. Each month we will give, in a brief form, the legal side of vital points of interest to business

men.

An execution is the writ of the court putting into effect the judgment.

Proceedings for taking land upon execution are stricti juris, and no title passes unless the statute is exactly pursued.

Bill of sale of personal property made by a husband to his wife, while living together, and acknowledged before a notary, is void.

Caveat emptor applies to all purchases of land, Let the purchaser beware. Applies particularly to purchasers at judicial sales.

Coverture is the state of a married woman. Femme sole is an unmarried woman.

An executor or executrix is appointed by the testator in his will to manage the estate.

Mortgage is a conveyance by deed of lands by a debtor (called a mortgagor) to his creditor (called a mortgagee) as a pledge and security for the payment of money borrowed, or the performance of a covenant.

Merger estate is the absorption of a lesser estate by the greater when they meet in one and the same person.

Tax deed is the instrument by which the officers of the law transfer the title of the rightful owner, for non-payment of taxes, to a purchaser at the tax sale.

Days of grace are extra days (usually three) allowed the drawer or maker of a bill of exchange or promissory note in which to meet the payment. They originated in the distance of travel consuming delay in presentation. They are being abolished in most of the United States as unnecessary, owing to rapid transit, telegraph and telephone communication.

A draft is an inland bill of exchange. Non-negotiable paper is payable only to the payee and mentions no "order" or "bearer."

To examine a title the county registers or recorders' office should be searched for mortgages -deeds, agreements, power of attorney, assignment of mortgages, leases, surveys, trusts by deed. For forfeited taxes and bonds of tax collector make your investigations in the County Clerk's office-search the County Treasurer's office for inheritance taxes, taxes not delinquent special assessments-bonds of collectors of taxes, Circuit Court for-Mechanic's liens, City and Village Treasurer's offices for Special assessments, Criminal Court's office for-Fines, etc., City or Village Clerk's office for-Water taxes, various courts for-Judgments, notices of lis pendens, assignments of judgments, foreclos

ures, receivers, forfeited recognizances, executions, mechanic's liens (county or circuit). Sheriff's office for-Executions, sales. County or Probate courts for-Deceased estates, deeds with defeasances, wills, trusts, insolvent assignments. U. S. Marshal's office for-Sales, U. S. C. C. A., Circuit and District courts for-Judg. ments and decrees, criminal fines and judgments, petitions in bankruptcy.

The statutes of Indiana provide that a widow, remarrying, cannot convey property inherited from her former husband where there are children by the former marriage. Under this statute it was held that a mortgage given by a woman and her second husband upon property inherited from her former husband is void, there being children by the deceased husband.

Polley vs. Poque, Appellate Court of Indiana. Bill of sale, contract making absolute or conditional transfer of title to goods as security for debt.

An attorney is one empowered by means of a document called the "power of attorney" to act and sign on behalf of another.

Annuity fixed amount, payable each year either in one sum or by installments.

It is a wife's legal duty to abide by her husband's selection of a home and to follow him to wherever he chooses to establish his residence, even though he sets up the matrimonial domicile in the home of his mother.

Birmingham vs. O'Neil, Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Negotiability and transfer of a promissory note. A note to be negotiable that is to pass from hand to hand before maturity without being open to defense on the part of the maker should be payable to "order" or "bearer." It will not be negotiable unless these words or words of similar legal meaning are found in the note.

The rule is otherwise, however, in Illinois and some other states. To be on the safe side, you should take care to examine notes you accept and see that these words are in them. It is not necessary to have the words "value received" in the note, though this is common.

Before accepting a note made out to "myself" be sure the maker endorses his name on the back of it.

"This note is not transferable" should be written on the back of any note given, where the party to whom you are giving it, agrees to hold on to it. This will guarantee his not trying to discount or sell the note.

Signatures in lead pencil are good in lawalthough ink should always be used.

An act of one partner bind all the others.
Contracts made on Sunday cannot be enforced.
A contract with a minor is void.

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