Counting Votes

A diagram 15 inches long by 5t iüphes high ia divided by vertical linea inií 100 equal spaces, numbered coDsecufively at the top, eTery tenth line being drawn more heavily than the rest and marked by more conspicuous figures. Thirty spaces are then divided off by horizontal linos, numbered at the sides as 100, 200, etc., up to 3,000. The diagram will theu contain 3,000 squares, and is known as Borwick's self couuting register. In counting votes or tallying parcela a mark is made f or each vote or parcel in one of the squares, beginning at the top and left hand, and working to the right. The figures at the sides show at any time the number of hiuidreds registered, and those at the top the excess over the last hundred. If each vote is marked as soon s called, and only a single mark entered in a square, of course error k impossible. Pbknstxvania court stenographers have to take this oath : " You solemnly swear that the testimony which you shall take in this case shall be the truth, the ■wholo truth, and nothing but the truth." Tliis would seem to do away entirely with the necessity of sweariug witnesses. There is a family of persons named Rudisill in York Oounty, Pennsylvania, whose ages aggregate 450 years. They are aged respectively 94, 92, 90, 88, and 86 years.