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HOUSE. FARM AND GARDEN. The Economics of the Kitchen and the Barn. Woman on Farm Dairying.—Dairy ing should be promoted to a greater ex tent, and while I would in no wise de preciate these extensive factory enter prises, I believe they cannot surpersede the necessity, nor should their existence furnish an excuse to avoid the trouble of farm dairying. If, from any pretext, our farmers should abandon the custom of producing sufficient amount of but ter and cheese for the consumption of their families, a short period of time must prove the fallacy of the schemes. Farmers’ daughters generally take too little interest in household matters. Cooking Cranberries.— Tn the first place select ripe fruit and remove all defective berries. The pelected fruit must then be thoroughly washed through several waters ; one washing is not enough. To every pound of fruit add one pound of sugar. Put them into a preserving kettle over a slow fire. Do not hurry the process of stewing. To prevent the berries from sticking to the kettle, stir them frequently with a silver spoon. When done, turn them into a dish, and set aside to cool ; after which they may be used for pies, tarts or sauce. When for sauce, mash them fine through a cullender, and put them into small molds suitable for the table, having first rinsed the molds in cold water to prevent the berries from stick ing. Hens Hatched in July aro said to make far better layers than those born at any other season of the year. Early hatched chicks commenco laying in September and continue until cold Jan uary weather, when they discontinue until spring, On the other hand, when hatched in July or August, they begin in February and continue until October. July chickens will average 50 to 75 more eggs yearly than those hatched in March. A contributor to the Country Gentleman writes.: The light Brahmas have always fowls ; but with great reluctance I am obliged, after three years trial, to place the Partridge Cochins at the head of the list. As layers they excel any Asiatic breed I have ever known, and as market fowls they have no equal. Thoy are very hardy, mature early, and make short-legged, yellow-fleshed, heavy breasted fowls. Now That the Flies Have Become Thinned Off by tho return of cool weather, the tidy housewife rolls up her sleeves and wasli-rag in hand joyfully cleanses the paint of her dwelling from the filthy specks that have haunted her all summer long. And this is tho way au unexceptional housekeeper does it : I wet the door or window-frame all over with a cloth that will not drip. Then I go back to tho place where I began and wash the whole over very quickly and easily, then use a clean dry cloth. I should not think of mentioning this, but the other day I saw a hired girl of considerable experience rubbing hard and long upon a door, and sighing be cause fly-specks were so hard to wash off—simply because she did not think to put the work “a-soak. ’ Not long be fore I saw a man undertake to clean, and greatly injure, a painted piece of furniture covered with the marks of last year’s fly-time, by rubbing a coat of soap all over it and then washing off' soap and paint and dirt together. Cold water alone would have cleaned it bet ter. Soap always injuries paint more or less. Visit to a Dairy Farm in Holland. Most of the vehicles and the more com mon implements of the farm aro of the rudest and most primitive sort, such as no one of us would think fit for use ; yet everything indicates that the work is well and promptly done. The cheese making is carried on in a dark-looking old room, and the apparatus is probably the same as has been in vogue on the farm for 200 years. At the same time everything was scrupulously clean, and the product bears the highest reputa tion in the local market, which is a large one and is frequented by the wholesale dealers. ' I do not know enough of our own manner of cheese making to say wherein the Dutch system differs from it; but I do know enough of the quality of.the article when brought to the table to consider the Dutch cheese well entitled to its higher price. So far as I could judge, there is nothing in the cattle, in the forage, nor in the process of manufac ture which should prevent us from making the same article, and supplying our own markets with a kind of cheese which is now imported very largely. Irrigation With Liquid Manure.— There is no doubt that the experience of the last two or three years will lead to a very early use of some method or other of irrigating crops grown upon land of more than ordinary value. Market gardens, lawns, private gardens, dairy farms on which soiling crops are grown, all will, before long, be brought under some system of irrigation, not so much with water as with fertilizers in a liquid form. When it becomes a ques tion of crop or no crop upon land that must pay interest on a cost of several hundred dollars per acre, to say nothing of repaying the costly labor laid out upon the crops, and that the saving of the crop depends upon a supply of moisture which is withheld by nature, it is certain that an immediate solution •will be found in providing means for supplying the needed moisture. Be sides, manure already dissolved is im mediate in its action upon plants, and is at once absorbed by the roots. By irrigation with weak solutions of manure, crops of rye grass are contin ually grown upon some English dairy farms which amount in the aggregate to thirty tons per acre during one season, and an aggregate growth of 100 inches has been thus procured by making sev eral cuttings.— Agriculturist. Wintering Bees. —After arranging all the frames in a proper manner, the brood as near the center of the brood chamber as possible, I cover them up with a woolen blanket which is lined with muslin. Small strips are laid under the blanket to allow the bees a passage over the top of the frames. The second coyer is a straw mat lined with a double thickness of a coffee bag. The straw mat is of the size of the old fashioned honey board, completely cov ering the brood chamber. On the top oi the straw mat in front and behind, I lay two one-inch straps and on these straps the cover of the hive. I use the Langstroth hive exclusively. The woolen blanket and the straw mat re tain the necessary lreat and keep the table, while at the same time they act as an absorber, and the air passing directly over the mat dries up the moisture. We know that the old fashioned straw hive is the best hive for wintering, and with my straw mat arrangement I have the principle of it. I had not a square inch of moldy comb in any one of my hives, no dysentery among my bees, and I lost none. With- out the second story on, the hive is easier uncovered, and every one of us knowns that the handier we keep our bees the oftener we look at them. This done with discretion is very beneficial. Bee Journal. ANTIQUITY OF MAN. Five Hundred Thousand Years at Least —Speculations of Mr. Alfred Russel Wallaee. In the issue of Nature for Oct 2, Alfred Russel Wallace indulges in some speculations on the probable antiquity of the human species, which may well startle even those who have loug since come to the conclusion that 0,000 years carry us but a small way back to the original homo. In fact, in Mr. Wal lace’s reckoning, 6,000 years are as a day. He begins by complaining of the timidity of the scientific men when treating of this subject, aud points out the fallacy of always preferring the lowest estimate, in order to be “ on the safe side.” He declares that all the evidence tends to show that the safe side is probably with the large figures. He reviews the various attempts to de termine the antiquity of human remains or works of art, and finds the bronze age in Europe to have been pretty accurately fixed at 3,000 to 4,000 years ago, the stone age of the Swiss lake dwellings at 5,000 to 7,000 years “and an indefinite anterior period.” The burnt brick found sixty feet deep in the Nile alluvium indicates an antiquity of 20,000 years; and her fragment at seventy-two feet gives 30,000 years. “A human skeleton found at a depth of sixteen feet below four buried forests, superposed upon each other, has been calculated by Dr. Dowler to have an antiquity of 50,000 years.” But all these estimates pale before those which Kent’s cavern at Torquay legitimates. Here the drip of the stalagmite is the chief factor of our computations, giv ing us an upper floor which “divides the relics of the last two or three thou sand years from a deposit full of the w mamalia, many of glutton, indicate an Names cut into this stalagmite more than 200 years ago are still legible ; in other words, where the stalagmite is twelve feet thick, and the drip still very copious, not more than a hundredth o*f a foot lifts been deposited in two cen turies—a rate of five feet in 100,OCX) years. Below this, however, we have a thick, much older, and more crystalline (i. e., more slowly formed) stalagmite, beneath which again, “in a solid brec cia, very different from the cave of earth, undoubted works of art have been found.” Mr. Wallace assumes only 100,000 years for the upper floor, and about 250,000 for the lower, and adds 150,000 for the intermediate cave earth, by which he arrives at the “sum of half a million as representing the years that have probably elapsed since flints of human workmanship were bu ried in the lowest deposits of Kent’s cavern.” Oakey Hall on Love and Marriage. Oakey Hall thus describes love and marriage in his lecture on love, marri age and divorce: True love purifies the heart, emancipates it from the slavery of passions, and makes man and woman strong, noble and courageous. A man falls in love just as he falls down stairs. It might be an accident, probably it was, or it might be a misfortune which lasted all through life. How inexpressive was that phrase “paying attention,” as if that did not belong more to marriage than to courtship, and the phrase was not infrequently heard in former years, which was immortalized by Mrs. Pod snap, “Bless me, they have gone on their bridal tour to become acquainted with each other.” If it were possible to have a preliminary bridal tour, under proper escort, and tho young couple had experience of the annoyances nec essarily entailed by a trip of that char acter, and if they were familiar with the tempers and dispositions of each other, the wonder would be, not that there are so few happy marriages under the arrangements of modern society, but that there were so many. Marriage was not a partnership. He did not wish to be understood as saying that alone, for it was a cold word. Marriage was a companionship. Driving home from the business cares, as Disraeli used, they would find that tho old individuality was gone, that anew companion ship existed; and as the best illustra tion of the idea of marriage, he would go back to the time of Lord William Russell, who was represented at his trial by his wife, and of all the pictures which hung in the historic temple, there was none so attractive and beautiful as the picture of Lady Russel 1 in companionship with her husband, not only in the court room, but in tho prison, and in bis last moments. And, if they asked for a definition of true marriage, it was compressed in the word companionship. Who Can Most Easily be Spared? Young men, this is the first question your employers ask themselves, when business becomes slack, and when it is thought necessary to economize in the matter of salaries. This question is an swered in an American journal to our satisfaction. It answers the question who can best be spared this wav : The barnacles, the shirks, the make-shifts, somebody’s nephews, some body’s good-for-nothings. Young man, please remember that these are not the ones who are called for when responsi ble positions are to be filled. Would you like to gauge your own fitness for a position of prominence? Would you like to know the probabilities of your getting such a position ? Inquire with in ! What are you doing to make yourself valuable in the position you now occupy? If you are doing with your might what your hands find to do, the chances are tetf to one that you will soon become so valuable in that posi tion that you cannot easily be spared from it; and then, singular to relate, will be the very time when you will be sought out for promotion to a better place. Be content to grade among the men who can easily be spared, and you may rest assured that nothing will “ s pare ” you so certainly and so easily nromotion. Gen. Schenck’s Little Joke. —The English of to-day are most severely, prosaically practical and commonplace. Gen. Schenek, our minuter to England, having had as a fellow-passenger on the outward steamer a son- of Ben Holliday, of overland stage fame, thought to make a joke on a gentleman named Christmas, whom he met soon after landing in En gland. Said the general: “I think I met a relative of yours on the steamer, judging fromhisname--aMr. Holliday.” “Ah i” said Mr. Christmas, meditatively, “ I think not. I never heard of a rela tive by that name.” Afterward, Mr. Schenek told the story at a dinner-table, and the guests each glared at his neigh bor, and no one saw the joke. At last, out of very civility, tne host, a noble lord, feebly lauglie 1 and said, “Ah ! yas ; very good, general. Ah, were they, ah—related, you know?” Kate Field on Woman Doctors. The American Register bases its ar guments as to women’s unfitness for the medical profession upon the assertion that they cannot possess equal power with men because "their physical inferi ority limits the use of the brain. At the same time, the Register speaks of women as men’s rivals. If women are so inferior there can be no rivalry, for rivalry pre-supposes equality. There fore, why should male physicians be troubled at the appearance of “odious” petticoats? Is it because they are not quite sure about woman’s natural infe riority? But I deny that all physicians are opposed to lemale practitioners. That many entertain a great prejudice against them is true, and ought not to excite wonderment. No one likes to have his business interfered with. Pad dy, the Irish laborer, hatps Ah Sin, ac cuses him of every vice under the sun, and swears that the Chinese pig-tail has come to take the bread out of his chil dren’s mouths. One corner grocery does not adore the next corner grocery. One prima donna is not the bosom friend of another prima donna. The world is fully acquainted with human nature’s little weaknesses, and when it wants a judicial opinion about Ah Sin, corner grocery No. 2, or prima donna No. 2, it does not go to paddy, or to grocer or prima donna No. 1. The larger part of medical practico is among women,. consequently there is danger that wo men may prefer to be treated by their own sex. As the Register declares men to be “selfish,” they can be forgiven for turning their backs upon female aepi rants. All, however, do not. Some of the most enlightened doctors of my ac quaintance are ever ready to lend assist ance to struggling female medical col leges. One with whom I recently trav eled was more than generous in his es timate of woman’s capacity for medi cine, and a well known physician of New York has recently given the strongest possible evidence of his sentiments by becoming engaged to a young American woman doctor, who, not able to pursue his career in her country, studied nnd took an honorable degree in Paris. Physicians are slandered when it is claimed that, as a body, they are opposed to women as “rivals.” Famous Trees. Individual trees, planted by famous men, are still to be seen by the pilgrims who visit their homes and haunts. In the last century, there was quite a fash ion for planting willows. It is said that the first weeping willow seen in England was sent to the poet Pope, as a present, from Turkey, by his friend, Lady Mary Wortly Montagu, and planted by him in his garden at Twick enham. It is the famous Salix Bahy lonica of the Psalter, upon which, on the banks of the Euphrates, the weep ing daughters of Jerusalem hung their harps. Garrick planted two willows on his lawn, beside his Sliakspeare tem ple ; in the midst of a thunder storm, which destroyed one of them, the pious and devoted widow of the great actor was seen running up and down, exci tedly, crying out, “Oh, my Garrick! Oh, my Garrick !” The willow, known as Dr. Johnson’s willow, at Litchfield, was blown down long ago ; it was said, in the Gardener’s Magazine, to have been planted by him, but it is more probable that his admiration and talk of it de veloped the legend of his planting it. At the time of its destruction, it was 13 feet in girth. Pieces of household furniture and snuff boxes were made of it; and slips from it were planted, by hie admirers, throughout the neighbor ing country ; an offset of the old tree was planted on the same site. Thomas Moore tells us that, when Byron first went to Newstead abbey, from Aber deen, at the age of 10, he planted a young oak in some part of the grounds. He had a notion (or thought lie hadl that as it flourished so should he. Six or seven years later, on revisiting the spot, he found his oak clicked up with weeds, and almost dead. The First Element of a Home. I never saw a garment too fine for man or maid ; there was never a chair too good for a cobbler or cooper to sit in ; never a house too fine to shelter the human head. These elements about us, the gorgeous sky, the imperial sun, are not too good for the human race. Ele gance fits man. But do we not value these tools of housekeeping a little more than they are worth, and sometimes mortgage home for the mahogany we would bring into it ? I had rather eat my dinner off the head of a barrel, or dress after the fashion of John the Bap tist in the wilderness, or sit on a block all my life, than consume all myself before I get a home, and take so much pains with the outside that the inside was as hollow as an empty nut. Beauty is a great thing, but beauty of garments, house and furniture is a very tawdry ornament compared w T itli domestic love. All the elegance in the world will not make a home, and 1 would give more for a spoonful of hearty love than for whole ship-loads of furniture, and all the upholesters of the world could gather together. .A. REMEDY THAT WILL CUBE CONSUMPTION. Will those who have been long afflicted with Consumption take courage. Please read the following: Columbia, Henry Cos., Ala., March S, 1873. Messrs. J. N. Harbis & Cos., Cincinnati, O. pea* Sirs— I want you to send me six bottles of Allen’s Lung Balsam. Since last May I have bought and taken about twenty bottles of the Lung Balsam tor a disease of the lungs of thirteen years’ standing. Before that time I had bought used nearly every lung remedy and your Lung Balsam is the only thing that has given me permanent relief I believe that it saved my lie last spring when I commenced its me. I do not expect anything will cure me entirely, but the bal sam keeps me up so that I can attend to business. It gives me immediate relief, and I am greatly im proved in genera) health. I remain gratefully yours, D. D. POOL. YVluit better proof of a good remedy for Consumption do yon want 1 Hayes’ Station-, Ala,, April 7, 1873. Messrs. J. N. Harris & Cos. Gents:— l take great pleasure in writing you to say thatl received the Allen's Lung Balsam. I used it according to directions, aud it has done me great good. It is the best medicine I ever used ler colds and coughs, and I know it J follow the directions it will cure my consumption. With these few remarks, I remain, yours truly, WATSON GRAVES, The Lung Balsam never fails to do good for those afflicted with a cough. It is harmless to the most delicate child. It contains no opium in any lorm. It is sold by medicine dealers generally. CAUTION. Be not deceived. Call ffor 'alles’s'.ldxs'bal- sam, and lake no other. Directions accompany each bottle. J. N. HARRIS & 00,, Cincinnati, Proprietors. Sold by all medicine dealers, Bradlaugh and Jenkins in New York. Mr. Jenkins (“ Ginx’s Baby”) was not so desperately bad as the bulk. He had a “ highly intelligent ” audience to hear him, and those words are used in New York to describe five or six gentle men with high foreheads and as many ladies. When the house is one-third full it ceases to be “ highly intelligent.” When two-thirds full it is “large and fashionable,” and after that it gets to be a dense crowd, or a perfect jam. Jenk ins had the highly intelligent thing, and, rather than to speak to such a handful, I’d invite an idiot asylum and a deaf and dumb school to fill up. Brad laugh was injured, I think, by the litho graphs he brought from ’ome and strewed the town with. They represent the gentleman as he appeared at Exeter Hall, with his left foot on some iron scroll work that runs round the plat form, and his left hand is raised in heavy argument fashion. The picture in a moment tires you with the attitude. In every shop window there he stands balancing on one leg, and the thing be comes so painful that after a dozen blocks there isn’t anything about you you wouldn’t give to get that man’s leg off that spike and put that menacing fist into his paper pocket. It has tor mented me so that I don’t dare look in show windows. The boys are singing the song of “ Saw his leg off.” It would be a mercy if they would. — Mrs. Burnham in St. Louis Republican. Eating Without an Appetite. Tt is wrong to eat witLowb on oppotito, for it shows there is no gastric juice in the stomach, and that nature does not need food, and not needing it, there being no fluid to receive and act upon it, it remains there only to putrify, the very thought of which should be suffi ccnt to deter any man from eating with out an appetite for the remainder of his life. If a tonic is taken to whet the ap petite it is a mistaken course, for its only result is to cause one to eat more, when already an amount has been eaten beyond what the gastric juice is able to prepare. The object to be obtained is a larger supply of gastric juice, not a larger sup ply of food ; and whatever fails to have any efficiency towards the cure of dys peptic diseases. The formation of gas tric juice is directly proportioned to the wear and tear of the system, which it is to be the means of supplying, and this wear and tear can only be the re sult of exercise. The efficient remedy for dyspepsia is work— out-door work— beneficial and successful in direct por portion as it is agreeable, interesting and profitable. Opinions of the Press.— The Texas New Yorker says : “An old Scotch phy sician once said to one of his patients : ‘ Keep your feet warm, your head cool, and your bowels open, an’ there’s little * ilse ’ can harm ye. ’ This aphorism is full of wisdom, and expresses exactly what Dr. Walkei’s California Vinegar Bitters will do for you. We speak of what we know from nearly two year’s practical experience in the use of this indispensable family medicine. Its of fice is to attack a lazy, torpid liver, and impart new life to this vital organ—a proper flow of Wile and a prompt dis charge of effete matter. A good diges tion and appetite are restoted to the sufferer. Pure blood, the ‘life of the flesh,’ is secured, and the patient soon feels himself a walking electrical bat tery. Good health is more precious than fine gold—Vinegar Bitters restores it, and is, therefore, above price. The man who discovered it is a philosopher and a benefactor of his race.” Wb see that Procter & Gamble's Extra Olive Soap is beooming very popular in our city, its quality we know is superior, and being nicely perfumed we are not surprised that consumers prefer it, and that it has a large sale. Chappkd hands. face, rough skin, pimples, ringworm, Bait-rheum, and other cutaneous affections cured, and the skin made soft and shiooth, by using the Juniper Tab Soap, made by Caswell, Hazard * Cos., New York. Be certain to got the Juniper Tar Soap , made by us, as there are many imitations made with common tar which are worthless.— Com. The liver is more frequently the seat of disease than is generally supposed, for up on its regular action depends in a great meas ure, the powers of the stomach, bowels, brain and the whole nervous system. Regulate that important organ by taking Simmons’ Liver Regulator,andyoupreventmost of thediseases that flesh is heir to. A case of chronic rheumatism of un usual severity, cured by Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment, is noticed by one of our exchanges. A large bunch came out upon the breast of the sufferer, and appeared like part of the breast bone. Used internally and externally. The sweetest word in our language is health. At the first indication of disease, use well-known aud approved remedies. For dyspepsia, or indigestion, use Parson’s Purga tive Pills. For coughs, colds, sore or lame stomach, use Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment. PEERLESS CLOTHES W RINGER Why take pints of nauseous flu *1 remedies fo agre, when a few doses of Shalleuberger’s Pit is will cure you at once. No sickne3S, and no purging. THIRTY YEARS’ EXPERIENCE OF AN OLD NURSE. Mas. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup Is tbs prescription of one of the best female physi cians and nurses In the United States, and has been used for thirty years with never felling safety and success by millions of mothers and children, from the feeble infant of one week old to theadnlt It corrects acld’ty of the stomach, relieves wind oollc, regulates tbe bowels, and gives rest, health and comfort to mother and child. We believe It t be the best and surest remedy in the world In all eases of DYSENTERY and DIAKRHCKA IN CHILDREN, whether It arises from teething or from any other cause. Full directions for using wiil accompany each bottle. None genuine unless the facsimile of CURTIS & PERKINS is on the outside wrapper. Sold by all medicine dealers. THE HOUSEHOLD PANACEA, AND FAMILY LINIMENT Is the best remedy in the world for the following complaints, viz.: Cramps in the limbs and stom ach, pain in the 6tomach, bowels or side, rheuma tism in all its forms, bilious colic, neuralgia, cholera, dosentery, coids, flesh wounds, burns, sore throat, spinal complaints, sprains and bruises, chills and fever. For internal and external use. Its operation is not only to relieve the patient, but entirely removes the cause of the complaint. It penetrates and pervades the whole system, re storing healthy action to all Its parts, and quicken ing the blood. Die Household Panacea la purely Veg eta'leand all healing. Prepared by CURTIS & BROWN, No. 5315 Fulton street, New York. For sale by all druggists. A COUCH, COLO OR SORE THROAT BROWN’S (Requires Immediate attention, and BRONCHIALtshouId be Checked. II allowed to TROCHES (continue. Irritation o the r ' J& I Lungs, a Permanent Throat COUGHS ; affection. or an Incurable and : Lung Disease is often the re- COLDS. (suit. BROWN’S BRONCHIAL TROCHES Having a di ed influence on the parts, gives im mediate relief. For Bronchitis, Asthma, Ca r.iaan, r xsuumvK and Throat Diseases, 1 koch ks nre used a tvai/s with good success. SIMJKRS A.M) PUBLIC SPEAKERS Win find Troches useful in dealing the voice when t.deii beiore Singing or Speaking, aDd re lieving the throat after an unusual exertion of the v*,cal organs. Obtain only” Brown’s Bronchial Troches, ,r anil do not Lake any of the worthless Imitations that may be offered. 8 Id everywhere. CHILDREN OFTEN LOOK PALE AND SICK from no other cause than having worms In the stomach. BROWN’S VERMIFUGE COMFITS will destroy worms without Injury to the child, being perfectly WHITE, and free from all color ing or other Injurious Ingredients usually used la worm preparations. CUItTIS <fc BROWN, Proprietors, , No. 5815 Fulton street. New York. Sold by druggists and chemists, and dealeia tn medicines at twk.xty-fitk c.k\t * hot llf iMmiEillm l)r. J. Walker’s California \ in- egar Hitters are a purely Vegetable preparation, made cliioily from the na tive herbs found on the lower ranges of the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor nia, the medicinal properties of which are extracted therefrom without the use of Alcohol, 'rue question is almost daily asked, “What is tiie cause of the unparalleled success of Vinegar Bit ters?” Our answer is, that they remove the cause of disease, and the patient re covers his health. They are the great blood purifier and a life-giving principle, a perfect Renovator aiwl Invigorator of the system. Never before in the history of the world has n medicino keen compounded possessing the remarkable qualities of Vinegar Ritters in healing the sick of every disease man is heir to. They are a gentle Purgative as well as a Tonic, relieving Congestion or Inflammation of the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious Diseases. The properties of Dr. Walxer’s Vinegar Bitters are Aperient, Diaphoretic, Carminative, Nutritions, Laxative, Diuretic, Sedative, Counter-Irritant, Sudorific, Altera tive, and Anti-Bilious, n. n. McDonald Si co.. Druggists and Gen. Agts., San Francisco, California, and cor. of Washington and Charlton Sts., N. Y. Sold by all Druggists and Dealers. Geo. P. Rowell & Cos. conduct an agency for the reception of advertise ments for American newspapers—the most complete establishment of the kind in the world. Six thou sand newspapers arc kept regularly on file, open to inspection by customers. No reading-room, how ever complete, receives one-twentieth of this num ber. 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