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* oratb, ertinfip the oil rt t £3 . ed. . Another Expl@auation. - 2C A correspondant of theo Roockester Demo- , gions recently, said that in the Bradford district there were esti- mated to be \800 derricks, with wells put down at a cost of $400,000 each, all of which, cost 80,000 suckers the cool sum of $820,000- 000.\ The Elmira Advertisst shows that there are now about 11,000 wells in the Brad» ford field and in the entire active field less than 14,000, which shows, said the Adver- tiser, that the Pomocrat is 'only about 786, 000 well¢ out of the way. - But possibly our neighbor's correspondent mosnt 80,000 wells, which would leave it only 66,000 out of the wity. - Eighty thonsand multiplied by $4,000 gives its grand total of $820,000,000, which would be only $264,000,000 imore than the | wells cost $4,000 a picce. - The Democrat must have obtained its figures at the City bank. ' « =s -- ty-. , In a Worse A%x. Old CGenorgl Stapluke, a +woll-known gen- tloman of Arkansas, a Justice the other day, judge in his military - \*Judgo I am greatly in nced. of money. My health is very bad and I am unable to work. In fict I don't think that I am going to live very long. Now, I want you to lend me a thousand dollars for a year. I do not desire to give security, as I want this to be a transaction between two friends.\ _ v Tho judge roflected a minute and said: ''You say, Clenoral, you want the money for a year? | Suppose you were to die before is}??? migzzey was refunded, what would become of me?\ _ \That is not the question my dear judge. What would become of me is the question. If I dio before the money is repaid I'll be in & worse fix than you, and you'll have no \tause for complaint.\ , . «'That's a fast,\ replied the Judge, \here's a check for the money.\-Tesns Siftings.. motes oma je rence In (@- Darwin's Last Years. [Professor Wallace in the January Cenilury.] None of Darwin's works has excited greater interest or work bitter controversy than that on man; and the correction of the numerous roprints. and of a final enlarged edition \n 1874, was found to be so laborions a task as to convince hin that any such extensive liter- 'y works as those projected and announced six yours proviously must be finally abandon- This, howover, by no means implied cossntion from work. Observation and ox- porimont where the delight and relaxation of Darwin's life, and he now continued and supplemented those numerous ressarches on plants we havo already referred to A now edition of an earlior work on the Movements of Climbing Plants\ appeared in 1875; a 'Insectivorous Plants\ in thick volume on ‘ tho samo year; \Cross and Solf Fortilizsation\ ho Forms of Flowers\ in 1877; the in 1876; \Movements of Plants,\ embodying much and his remarkable original research, in 1880; little book on \Earth Worms\ in 1831. \This last work was highly characteristic of the author, In 1837 he had contributel to the Goological society a short gainer on the for- mation of vegotable mold by the agoncy of worms. - For more than forty years this sub- joot of his carly studies was topt in view; case involving and, eftor saluting the way said: exporiments were made in one tho koeping of a field untouched for thirt cars-and every of portunity. was taken of caly ccting facts and making frosh obsorva. tions* the final result boing to elevate one of the humblest and most despised of the ani- mal creation to the position of an important agont in the préggmfiian of the earth for the yso af higher animals and of man, t pproached the Supreme know it all. into a seat, and says that he wants treat- ment. The doctor parts on his own eye glass- t es, looks at his tongue, feels of his pulse, sounds his chest, and then draws up to his full height, and says: \Same old sto friend. No use trying it. corpse, like you are doing by degrees, if I sat down in my office and didn't stir. ° | have fresh air; you must take long walks, and / brace up by staying out doors. make a drug store of you, think I was a smart man, but my advice to you is to walk, walk, walk.\ . that's my reward. about my business. advice? . Take long walks cvery day, several { ti tion.. that; but walk more. much as you do now. it. h to York Sun, What Parflyzed the Doctor. Scene: Office of a pompous doctor who Enter a tired man, who drops 7 . 3 ty, my Men can't live without fresh air. I could make myself a* fou must } - Now, I could and you would Patient-But, doctor- Doctor-That's right. Argue the question; Of course you know all Now will you take my mes a day, and get your blood in circulzs- Patient-I do walk, doctor. I- . 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