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 of service salvatory to the worker, an English writer refers to the immunity from disease of those who work in the oil-fields:

There is no difficulty in accounting for this. Carbolic acid, one of the most powerful of our disinfectants, is abundantly produced in the oilworks, and this is carried by the clothes of the men, and with the fumes of the oil into the dwellings of the workmen and through all the atmosphere of the neighborhood, and has thereby counteracted some of the most deadly agencies of organic poisons. Besides this, the paraffin oil itself is a good disinfectant.

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OCCUPATION OF THE MIND

A certain boy who was distinctly bad in the Sunday-school class was observed to be one of the best in the industrial class held on Saturday. "How is it," said the teacher, "that you cut up so in Sunday-school and behave so well here?" "Well," said the boy, "here I have something to occupy my mind; in Sunday-school I don't."—, "Journal of the Religious Education Association," 1903.

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Occupation, Slavery to—See.

Occupation, Wrong—See.

Occupations, Comparing—See.

Occupations of Women—See.

ODD BEHAVIOR

Paul Veronese, like many other painters, was given to eccentric moods and odd habits. On one occasion he accepted the hospitality of a family at their beautiful country villa. He assumed great liberties during his visit, claiming absolute possession of his room, allowing not even a servant to enter. He would not suffer the maid to make his bed, and the sweepings of the room were left every morning outside of the door for her to remove. He slipt away without bidding the family good-by. On entering the room the servant found the sheets of the bed missing and at once reported that the painter must have stolen them. After careful search a roll was found in a corner, which proved to be a magnificent picture of "Alexander in the tent of Darius." It was painted on the missing sheets of the bed, and the artist had chosen this curious way of recompensing his hosts for their generous hospitality.—, The Epoch.

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ODD ONE, THE

"As every one who has visited London knows," said a young man formerly attached to our embassy at the British capital, "the number of passengers carried on certain 'busses is limited by regulation.

"Once a kindly Irish conductor, tho quite aware that his 'bus was full, had permitted a young and sickly woman to squeeze in. The 'bus had not proceeded far before the usual crank spoke up. 'Conductah!' he exclaimed, 'You've one over your number, y'know.'

"'Have I, sir?' asked the conductor with affected concern. Then, beginning to count from the opposite end, leaving the complainant until the last, he repeated: 'Wan, two, three, four, foive, six, sivin, eight, noine, tin, 'lefen, twelve, thir—so I have sir, an', be the Lord Harry, ye're the wan. Out ye go!'

"And out he did go."—Boston Transcript.

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ODORS

As each nation has its peculiar cut of dress, so each has its national odors apart from race odor. Esson Third says:

The Korean gentleman carries about with him two odors that are specially noticeable to a newcomer. I once made a journey with a Western friend who had a somewhat highly keyed sense of smell, and I remember his stopping short on the road as we walked along, tapping me on the arm and with a long sniff saying: "There it is again." "What is it?" I asked. "That peculiar smell," said he. I sniffed long and hard, but there was nothing but the fresh morning breeze and the delightful odors of hill and field. "I've smelt it before," said he, "and I'll tell you later when I smell it again."

We tracked that odor for two days, and then we discovered that it came from the black lacquer hat. The odor of lacquer is one of Korea's national smells. The second smell is due to a mixture of garlic, onions, cabbage, salt, fish, and other ingredients, that make up the Korean pickle so greatly enjoyed with their rice. This odor clings like that of Limburger cheese, and follows