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THE liEE HUNTER.
HOW HK TRACK THK HO.VEY
BfctflTO Hit NUST.
Cutting Down a Tree and Smoking
Out tlie Ineecte Stings Tbac
Must b Borne A Xrj
luc Situation.
There is much bee hunting all over
this country wherever woods abound, but
among the backwoodimea in the great
pine forests of the South it is a favorite
recreation. These men, who livelj chiefly
by hunting and are not given to sus
tained exertion in any other direction,
whether in pursuit of deor or wild tur
keys, or, indeed, of any kind of game,
are always on the lookout for bee trees,
and nothing but actual sight of the
quarry in immediate quest will deter
them from folio wing a bee discovered on
the wing.
la South Carolina there lives one of
these men named Uoge, who is a very
old man now. The writer was hunting
with Hoge one day many years ago,
when he suddenly, without a word of ex
planation, clapped spurs to his horse and
shot off through the forest at a break
neck pace. The best thing to do in the
circumstances was to await his return to
the spot he had started from, for the
forest was to him tue very reverse of a
trackless wilderness. He never got lost
in it. When he csme back, something
more than half an hour later, he ex
plained that he had gone off in pursuit
of a bee tbac had loaded up with honey
and was bound for its ttee.
In the autumn the pine forests are
carpeted with a thousand wild flowers of
various hues, but gold and purple are
the predominant strides. Toe flowers
furnish rich feeding for the bses, which
are consequently very abundant. They
build their nests in hollows of the lofty
pines, seldom less than forty or fifty feat
from the ground. When the bee has
filled itself up with honey, it makes oi
for its nest as straight as it can go;hence
the common saying, a bee line. It you
can follow it at that time, you are sure
to find the tree in which its swarm has
its store of honey. But it is not such au
easy matter to follow it through a for
est, for several reasons. The chief of
these are his rapid flight and the diffi
culty of keeping such a small object in
view in a forest where there ore violent
contrasts of light and shade, and where
trunks and branches of trees are likely
to intervene at frequent intervals.
Consequently success is by no means
certain even when the conditions are
favoring.
When you have found your tree, the
real sport of the pursuit, the robbing of
the tree is often delayed for days and
sometimes weeks. The next step is to
make up a party. This usually numbers
four or five, and includes at least two
good axemen, for the tree, in nine cases
out of ten a large one, must invariably
be felled, and the labor involveJ, as
anybody who has tried it will testify, is
by no means slight. The party sets out
with a cart laden with axes and vessels
to hold the honey, usually about noon or
in the early afternoon. While the axe
men are cutting at the tree, other mem
bers of the party busy themselves in
kindling a fire with ligbtwood knots and
in gathering a good supply of green
grass or pine leaves for ues to be here
after described.
As a rule there is only one hole by
which the bees make their way to and
from the cavity within the tree, and the
first thing to do after the tree has fallen
is to stop this up. That is a wise pre
caution, for otherwise the bees are apt.
to make it difficult for the hunters to
get the honey. When, therefore, the
tree is about to fall, one of the party
who has had some experience in that
particular direction takes a hand full of
grass or some other loose and compressi
ble material and stands by to plug the
hole as soon as the tree is upon the
ground. He must be quick about it,
too, for the bees are made very angry by
the shock of the tree's fall, and will
come out in force without delay with
their stings ready for business. When
the hole has been plugged, there is a
buzzing in the hollow of the tree for all
the world like the indistinct roar of a
distant infuriated mob.
Having successiully imprisoned the
pugnacious little honey gatherers in
their own house, some of the blazing
brands are brought from the fir alreidy
made and placed against the tree be
neath the hole, more fuel is put on, and
whea a cheery blase has been started it
is smothered with a covering of the
green stuff previously gathered, to make
a dense smoke. The smoke stupefies
the bees and renders them comparatively
harmless.
When a good smoke has been raised,
the axemen are again called into request
to split the trunk opea in sections, so as
to give access to the honey. Before the
hollow is cut into, however, the plug is
S inanity taken out of the orifice so as to
t In the smoke, and if that is success
fully done the bees are not likely to be
troublesome when the comb is exposed.
Sometimes, though, the smoke does not
go in, and then when the first section of
the trunk is split oft the bees come out
in a perfect cloud and settle down on
the first hunter they oome in contact
with.:' They will swarm over his' head,
face, neokr, shoulders,: and bands, form
ing a complete; firing, : crawling, and
inteusley irritating envelope. He must
be a man of uncommon self-oontro' to
nmsin immovable in such circumstances
for many minutes. And yet his only
salvation is to keep as still as a statue,
for should he squeeze one of the insects
between his neck and his shirt collar, for
example, he would inevitably be stung,
and if one bee stings when they are
swamting on yon in that way then every
individual In the family Is likely to sting
also. To attempt to brush them offia
certain to provoke them to sting, and
the eonsenuenoss In such an event are
really very serious. While thus swarmed
upon, the wtltter has been compelled to
remain immovavle for at least a quarter
of sn hour in real agony of irritation
from the crawling of tha inseots. ::
'' Two or three bushels : of loaded comb
are sometimes taken from one of these
trees, and the honey is always ot superi
or quality, It also has in tne fall of the
year a peculiar flavor imparted to it by
the forest flowers, whloh renders it muah
more palatable than, tha honey of thi
domestio bee.Ato York Timet, : .:
: The Staten Island Rapid Tranii Com
pany's earnings are at.the rat of 300, -000
a year. ?'-v,;" V
C'.wp sold fer thtrty-f ; t cents each
r ?f , "', Tesss, as other day.
Animal I.ansjnare.
There is a great deal in the papers late
ly about a certain professor learning: me
Simian or monkey tongue, writes On. S.
C. Maskell. Isn't it an acceotel fac:
that ail animals have language? D they
not understand each other, and our lan
guage, toot Such every-day animals as
dog and cat utter expressions of joy and
grief, of want and content. All we teed
to do is to separate the sounds and asso
ciate them with words; indeed, this has
been done by many lovers of animal pets.
Right around the corner is a Dutch do
that is, one that understands only the
German language. His mistress tells him
to "go home" in German, and he makes
tracks; but it she commands in English,
he stands aod looks in surprise. Asked
in German if he is hungry, he whines out
"yes" as plainly as lie can.acoompanyin;
the word with the lifting-up of botii
fore-paws, a way he has of begging. IIj
will shake hands if a German asks him,
but will pay no attention to an English
request. Ho I have seen a dog put on a
very silly look and hang his head if his
mistress addressed him in Gcrmtn when
he was only trained to understand Eng
lish. A dog can ba tiaigat two or thrao
languages at a time ; so can a horse, or
even a cat, and probably make attempts
to speak it.
Some persons are much moro success
ful than others in interpreting aoiins!
sounds usually those (vho miko tliu
most of their ets and live with them al
most day and night. Children are es
pecially successful in this direction. A
brother-in-law of mine has a shepherd
dog that has been brought up with his
two little boys, and it is surprising ho.v
much he understands. Told to go -'out-doors,"
he goes; if -'down cellar" he
stands by the Cillar-do.r until it is
opened for hiin; if "up stairs to wake
the boys." away he bounds with a winuj
of delight, and never stops until he is
in the thirJ story, on the be I, and his
nose thrust in the boy's faces. He knoivs
what the word "die" or "dead" mejas,
for if the bjys cry out "Die, She;). Uj
dead," he stretches himself out motion
less, closing his eves and drawing up his
feet; nor does he show sign of reaoima
tion uutil he receives tie signal fro.n his
young masters. So if Simian tongue cm
ba understood and translated by menus
ofthe phonograph, I be ieve there an;
still greater revelation; for those whe
study out the language used by our do
mestic animals, for what is a chattering
monkey, for instauce, compared with tlu
noble horse? Xiio York TrAune.
Anotlior Myth Smashed.
One after another all our chcrisha t
myths are explode i. Tae Colossus of
Raodes is now smashed by two dis
tinguished iconoclasts. M. BsrtiiolJi
goes at the great brazen statue of an
tiquity with his hammer and chisel ba
cause it is alleged to ba bigger than tha
statue of Liberty whic.1 overlooks our
harbor, and which the desi?uer thereof
does not mean shall be overlooked whe.i
gigautic works of that kind in ancient,
modern or mythical history are talkel
of. And no New Yorker will babrojght
to balieve that the .mcieut Raodians ever
looked upon the like.
Next cjmes AC. Eiffel, the engineer ot
the tall tower in Paris. He coufessai
that if the Colossus was what it is
claimed to have been neitaer ha nor any
otner modern ea ,'ineer could hive sot it
up. Thererore and tne logic is com
plete ao such Colossus was constructed.
It is absurd to say that thosa old, igno
rant hsatheas, without steam or any of
our modern engineering appliances,
could have accomplished what our gre is
modern engineers and architects nave
done.
And yet there are evidences here an 1
there on tae fa::e of the eartn the Pyra
mids, Stonehenge, taa obelisks, t.u
Colosseum, the im nensa arcaitectura of
Egypt and Gi-eena,the iio.uiu re nnas"
in the way of aqueducts and roads
which are reminders that thara we.-j en
gineers, araniteats, desiguers and sculp
tors even before tne days of Mtf. EiJul
and Bartholdi, and possibly tn it tuey
possessed marvelous mechanical mavis
which now are among, the lost arts."
Nea York Adoertiwr.
The Largest Three-Jtaster Afloat.
The new ship Ditton, built at Milfor 1
Haven, England, for R. W. LayUn I &
Co., of Liverpool, hit sailed fromCir
diff, Wales, for Riode Janeiro wit.i
cargo of coal. Sue is stated to ba taa
largest three-misted sailing shipali.it.
The dimensions are: Lsugth be;waei
perpendiculars 331 feat, length of dac c
about 33!) feet, beam forty-two feat t'.irai
inches, depth of hold twanty-sevea feat,
draft when loaded twenty-tour feat, reg
istered tounage 235 J, dead wjight 45U J
tons. Her accommodatioa for o Hears
and crew is right a-nid ships an I tha full
width of the snip, thus giving her a con
siderable length of proiuaaade desk, af
ter the style adopted ia steamers. Oa
this deck, Just forward ot the mainmtst,
is a chart room and wheelhouse, the lat
ter provided with two wheels. There is
a second wheelbouss under a steal turtle
back right aft, and this has telagrap lie
commuuicatioa with the upper dee'e.
What answers to the forecastle in ordin
ary vessels is used in the Ditton for lock
ers, stores, and pens for sheep and pigs.
The accommodatioa for both officer and
men is very extensive, the same buing
fitted up with every modem convenience.
Between the men's quarters and the offi
cers' rooms there is a sail room, capable
of holding three sets of sails, and a store
room. There are separate rooms for the
men for the two watches, each being
certified for twenty seamen. She is un
der the command of Captain Stap. Pic
ayune. Kaolin.
Kaolin is the Chinese word given to
the clay from which hard porcelain ia
made. This material is found iu soma
1 edvanosi stage ot
decomposition, the feldspar, their most
! important lament having lost the great-
; p: "u" " "7 r"
verted into a kind of earth. By agita
tion in a large quantity of water it dis
solves readily; the refuse, composed of
quartz, mica and undecotnposed feldspar
sinks by its own weight to ta bottom
of the tank, while the kaolin is carried
into other receotacles from which- it is
I removed and dried for use. In this state
it is very white, and though - not so
plastic as ball clay, contains a little more
alumina and less iron,, which accounts
for its resisting much better the action
of the fire,' . . r
' Pottery is divided byemlnsnt author
ities into tbrte classes. , The first is that
of soft pottery, which may be scratched
by irno. The seoond are hard opaque
potteries, which cannot be scratched oy
iron The third are hard potteries, but
tr?r!acent-'JAi!at!ia MeoortU - ,
WOBDS OF WISDOM.
A man rnnnot be truly eloquent if he
knows not how to listen.
Tact can afford to smile while genius
and tuleot are quarreling.
Both courage and fear owe much to
the armed neutrality of prudence.
The seeming length ot a sermon is
generally proportioned to its needs.
It is expensive economy to make a
part of the truth suffice for the whole.
The balloon route to the top of Olym
pus has never been successfully traveled.
Virtue and laziness may live together,
but they are not usually on the best of
terms.
All that is wise has been thought
already; we must try, however, to thiuk
it again.
Money aod property are a costly kuife,
but do not use it to hurt, but to distrib
ute bread.
Beware of the vicious man who pro
poses to reform his life oa the instal
ment plan.
It's a good rule never to dn for the
sake of gain what one wouldn't do for
love or duty.
Don't worry your brain about the man
iu the moon, but study the man in your
own overcoat.
If a man could gain the whole earth
it would begin to shrink as soon as he
had possession.
The only thing that walks back from
the tomb with the mourners and rclu-.i
to be buried is character.
I The I'holas.
j There is a small species of bivalve
1 shell having the remarkable faculty of
boring into the hardest rock. It is one
, of the greatest wonders known to the
concholngist. Gro.it olocks of granite
I and marble, that havo fallen overboard
I or been sunk in fouuderc 1 vessels, have
i beeu found, years nfteiward, completely
j honeycombed by these curious little
I borers, they themselves being imprisoned
I iu the cavity, obtaining their food from
I tho water that Mowed in and out. Many
1 explanations have been given as to tho
method by which they bore into suci
i extremely hard rocks.
! Tho shell is known to contain nragon-
ite, aud some suppose '.hat constant trie
i tion enables tho shell to subdue the rock.
Others, ngaiu, are of the opinion that
tho shell secretes some corrosive fluid
which dissolves tiie rock and enables the
creature to bore its hole. Some of tho
most interesting samples of its work
known to the scientists may be seen in
the pillars of the Temple of Serapis,
Italy. There the land became submerged
long enough for the shell to do its curi
ous work. After a lapse of ages the land
has now risen, and the holes with their
empty shell arc plainly to be seen, the
marble pillars being comparatively
permeated by them. These and other
exhibitions of its work have caused
Pbolas to be celled "tho shell miner,"
and curiously enough, it is furnished
with a lamp a rich blue-white light
that shines out all over the entire body.
Some remarkable experiments have been
made with the shells of Pholas. It ap
pears that they aro equally luminous
whether dead or alive, wet or dry. One
scientist who was testing different sub
stances, in view of obtaining light with
out heat, put one of the shells in a jar
of milk and use it to read by. In clear
distilled water the light shiues with un
diminished brightness for years. Placed
in boney, the color of the light is turned
to a light green; even then, however,
tue shell continues to give a good light
for years. Farm and Fvrtiide.
A Submarine Forest.
For a long while past many settlers on
the East coast have labored under tbu
impression that at a portion of the Bay
of Plenty, opposite to Whakatano, a
forest of totnra is actually growing under
the sea. It has been pointed out in our
columns that the so-called trees were
probably only a variety ot coral, known
as horn coral, which grows in a branchy
form, that the Maoris and settlers might
mistake for a submarine forest, but uutil
July 6th we have not had an opportu
nity of inspecting a specimen ot this
submarine growth. A piece was deliv
ered at our publishing office, with one
of the tops of a branch twig tied to the
upper part of the stem received.
The speoimea received was divided at
the lower part into three brunches about
thirty inches in length, and tho upper
twig, which had beeu broken off and
tied on, was about eight inches in length
and branched with tiny feathery sprays
somewhat resampling a tree, but for all
that it is only composed of born coral,
which appears to have been dead some time
before being drawn to the surface. On
the top of the twig was coiled in grace
ful folds a good sized starfish, and all
along the branches of the coral wore
clustered a large number of ascidians, a
species of small jelly fish. There were
also several shellfish belonging to the
crenetta, together with several barnacles,
and at least one species of annelid. As
good specimens of the starfish are not
easy to be obtained we have handed the
coral tree, together with all the crea
tures clustered upon it, over to Mr.
Cheeseman of the museum, where it will
be prepared for exhibition. -Yen Zia
land Herald.
Danger in Canned Meats.
A German physician, who has been
making investigations as to the effects ot
time upon canned meats, expresses the
opinion that preserved meats, hermeti
cally sealed, may remain wholesome for
a year or more, but after the lapse of
longer periods of time there is danger in
thsir use. To guard against the sale of
such meats which have been kept in
stock beyond the period of safety, be
suggests that the date of the sealing of
the package be indelibly stamped upon
it. This U a wise suggestion that should
receive due consideration by those who
are interested in legislation aimed to
guarantee the purity and wholesomeness
of food articles; and if it ia favorably re
garded all canned goods should ba
brought within the scope of any law
that may be enacted in accordance with,
it. With the date ot sealing plainly
stamped upon each package, dealers
coula indulge to no deception aa to the
age of food articles,: and consumers
themselves would be made responsible
for the results of their use,' r Ther have
been comparatively tew oases of. poison
ing by the consumption of stale canned
foods, but the canned goods business is
growing so rapidly that it would ba well
to safeguard the people m much M pos
sible ia that particular. Wis.
PAUAN1N1.
1
This Goulna Waa Eooaatrla aS Whlmstaal
to a Graat Digram.
There was undoubtedly something of
tha charlatan about Paganini. Thomas
Moore says be constantly abused his.
powers; "he would play divinely, and
does so sometimes for a minute or two;
bnt then oome his tricks and surprises,
his bow in conversions, and his enhar
monios, like the mewings of an ex
piring cat." Mystery had great charms
for him. For a long time he puzzled
the best violinists by tuning his instru
ment ia different ways, and as he al
ways took particular care never to do
this tuning within hearing, many of
his feats on the platform appeared inex
plicable and impossible. Violinists
implored him unavailing! j to show them
how he produced huetfeetfi. He would
get a little group together, begin to
play, and just as he reached the iHUicuIt
passage everyone longed to see done he
would peer into the faces of his listen
ers, suddenly stop, Mid exclaim, "And
so forth, gentlemen I Mystery, again
surrounded li is repetoire. He very
seldom played any other musio than his
own; and although he occasionally
took part in a quartet or a concerto by
one of the great masters, he made Bo
effect with it. He u-ed to say thai if
he playod auothor oomiocrM work he
was ob.iged to arrange it to suit his
peculiar btyle, and it v a: loxs trouble
to write a piece (or himse f. If by any
obanoe he did play a classical wurk he
invariably took nueh liberties with it as
enabled him to display his powers in
tis own way. Publisher sougbt to
purchase his compositions, but
he set such au exhorbilaat prica
on them that treating with him wa out
of the question. No doubt, ho .lid this
designedly. At his concerts he was al- i
ways earn i ul nevor to allow any other I
violinist to see his music on paper; and j
when he did practice. winch was so dom
in latter life, it was always in private. '
There was a strong suspicion of quack
ery about all this; yet, as one of his bi
ographers hue oaid. the extraordinary ;
elfect of his playing could havo had its '
source only in his extraordinary genius. I
If genius be "the power ot taking intin- (
ite pains," be certbiuly showed it iu a
wonderful degiee. Fetis toils us that
he was knosvn to have tried the samo
passage iu a thousand dill'oieut ways
during ten or twelve hours, and to ba !
completely overwhelmed with fatigue j
at the end of the day. Iho word dilli
culty" hod no place in his vocabulary.
The most intricate music of the day was
but child's play to him, as a certain
painter at Parma once found, much to
his chagrin. The gentleman discredited !
the common belief that I'aganiui could i
get through the most difticut music at j
first sight. Ue posseted a valuable j
Cremona violin, which lie otlired to ,
prosent to the virtuoso if he could per- I
form, straight off, a manuscript con- !
certo which he placed before him.
"This instrument is yours," said he, "it
you can play in a masterly manner that
ooncerto at first sight.
"In that case, my friend," replied
Paganini, "you may bid adieu to it at
once," which the painter, according to
the bargain, found he had to do a lew
minutes later. "rayauiniciia," in
ComlUU.
Thumtar Hturni.
A German periodical gives statistics
concerning the frequency of thunder
storms in various regions of the world.
Java has thunderstorms on the average
97 days in the year; Sumatra, bo; II iu
dostan, 66; Borneo, 54; the Gold Coast,
52; Kio de Janeiro, 51; Italy, 3S; West
Indies, 30; South Guinea, 32; liuenos
Ayres, Canada, and Austria, 'li , Uaden,
Wurtemburg, and Hungary, 22; Sile
sia, Bavaria, and Belgium, 21; Holland,
18; Saxony and Brandenburg, 17;
France, Austria, and South Russia; Id; j
Spain aud Portugal, 15; Sweden and
Finland, 8; England and the high ;
Swiss mountains, 1); Norway, 4; Cairo,
3. In East Turkestan, as well as iu j
the extreme north, there are almost no ,
thunder storms. The northern limits
of the thunder storms are Cape Ogle, '
northern part of North America, Ice- 1
land, Novaja, Semelja and the coast of
the Siboriati ice oca.
I.ltararjr Wlvas.
' Can you recall more than a single
instance where a man of letters married
a literary wife ?" asked a Chicago writer,
the other day. "Browning? Yes. I
know another instance which comes
pretty near it, I do not think the fact
is generally known, bnt James V hit
comb Biley, in the early days of his lit
erary career, waa a most ardent admirer
of Ella Wheeler, the poetoss of passion,
and a favored suitor for her hand. Both
of the young people were poor, how
ever, and neither had attained a national
reputation at that time, although both
had written some very charming speci
mens of verse. I do not know whether
Ella ever intended to marry tbeyoung
Boosior poet or not, butldokuow that
young Biley was nearly heart-broken
when their cordial relations were sun
dered." Hearth and Hall.
Jamaa Uordaa flennatt and the Impa.
This is one of James Gordon Bennett's
prime stock stories, as he relates it :
When Irving was playing iu "Faust"
in this country, he made it very real
tstio by employing a large number of
upernumaries who alternately ap
peared as augels and then as imps of
aarknesa. One of the grand scenes is
where the imps of darkness descend.
At a signal from Mephisto the imps be
gin to Doaniper aud get down below
through a trap door. Many hod gone
lown below when a big, fat, 5U-oent-a-oightimp
started down. He was too
large fcr the trap door and got stuck,
tu vain he tried to push himself down.
An Irishman in the gallery leauod for
ward and said :
"Thank God ; hell's full !"
Ulovea.
The chief snpply of oloves is obtained
from the islands ot Zauzibar and Pemba,
where the olove tree was introduced in
1830. Trees ten years old should pro
luce twenty pounds of oloves. Trees
if twenty years frequently produce up
ward of 100 pounds each. The yield
this season will be in excess of any
previous year.
A Pittsburgh widow has had three
ansbaods, each of whom was over six
leet tall She is a favorite with high
nen.
Vanderbilt's
Cheek a BO Xronirar la Wall street, taaa the ward
KMr.KO. 8aandera,a proalaeat earaenier aal
taUdarot Aabora. X. T, kamoag ale fallaw ett
taaa. H aaya under data ot Aug. 4, IStlt
"I Pin My Faith
M Hani's aaimaparllaa Waaueiet I aaa ear eae
ajrakaana,' or Tan dews, '1 ear 'Co. Just lake a
totOeof Hood kaPMBarola aad R will erlng roa
tut all mat.' la aaary work I aometanas art
ml aad Ktttaad, eat a day or twoof Mood's aara
tarUlaauka ate feel wU. ( aav aaaa saojeet ta
aieiaallanra at Bswaasattaaa St av araaa aad
(Met. A vary law aoaaaot 1 -,- y i" ,
Hour Ca rear aril la)
and aw ae hart aaa waaa aaarkai aMaaaelr.
Bfosqatta Bttaei
Numerous remedies have been pre
scribed for mosquito bites, but a Ger
man writer says thatoidinary soap is as
good as any of them. He always car
ries a small piece with him on his
oonntry excursions and in cae of a bite
makes a lather on the affected part aud
allows it to dry on. The burning is at
once relieved and all pain soon disap
pears. Should it return, as sometimes
happens, it is only necessary to repeat
the application.
OrmlllTln. ta All.
The high position attained and t"-ennlTersa
acceptance and approval of the pleasant liquid
f rnlt remedy. Syrup of Fig-, aa (he muat excel
lent laxative known, illustrate the value of
the qualities on which its success is based and
are abundantly gratifying to the California
Fig Syrup Compatj.
Henry Cook, a Nnrwic'i (Conn.) tailor, has
n beard seven feet 1vu inches long, though he
is onlj five teet nix inclcs lull.
W ill l- lul, i 0 a Kinlah.
At lone as tue I'ght la-t among the wal1.
p.iper mauuTac: uror-i, tue D'Uelity Wall Rt-
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l'hllK(h liia, vi'l the ll.e l ublic tlie aelvar
lage ot ILe i.ioj. in i ii c-. S u yet thl Iroiu
them llh e 1. Mill lot I- iwocent hlaint'" fur
tampjegot iLcil' t'ihl.luu auu IMttlvn tcu.
1,1 Us.
In n lifetini" of eighty yours the human
heart heats .'IlKI.OO'i.ooo times, an average ot'
seventy beats a minute.
J. S. Parker. Kre'lonli. V fiavs: "Shai:
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