rice, and shot it; taking its bill for a model, he invented a hulling
machine which has revolutionized the rice business. A war between France
and England, costing more than a hundred thousand lives, grew out of a
quarrel as to which of two vessels should first be served with water.
The quarrel of two Indian boys over a grasshopper led to the
"Grasshopper War." George IV. of England fell in a fit, and a village
apothecary bled him, restoring him to consciousness. The king made him
his physician, a position of great honor and profit. Many a noble ship
has stranded because of one defective timber, when all other parts were
strong. Guard the weak point. No object the eye ever beheld, no sound
however slight caught by the ear, or anything once passing the turnstile
of any of the senses, is ever let go. The eye is a perpetual camera
imprinting upon the sensitive mental plates, and packing away in the
brain for future use every face, every tree, every plant, flower, hill,
stream, mountain, every scene upon the street, in fact, everything which
comes within its range. There is a phonograph in our natures which
catches, however though
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