Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1906 — Lifting With the Fingers. [ARTICLE]

Lifting With the Fingers.

Did you ever aee a man lifted from the floor with the Index fingers of four or five persons? it is not hard to do if tin* effort is made with perfect unanimity. Five persons can very easily raise a man with only seven fingers if the subject is not too heavy. Let two persons stooping down place their Index fingers uuder the feet. Two others, with one finger each, will raise the elbows. A fifth will raise the chin with one finger—total, seven fingers. When all are in readiness let each take a long, full breath, and all together, “One, two, three, raise!” When the effort to be put forth is only of short duration there is considerable muscular force In the fingers, and It Is not strange that the united power of seven fingers should overcome the dead weight of a person of 150 to 100 pounds. "1 can t understand what you see In that Miss Ridgeway.” “She always has the beautiful Mrs. Sparkslelgh for a chaperon.”—Chicago Record-Herald. Troubles daily seem- to thicken, Life's a melancholy song. # Half the world is always kickin’ Cause the other half does wrong. —Washington Star. The new fe leral inspection law practically puts a government inspector in every farmer’s dooryard. If every sheep, hog, calf, steer and heifer be not properly bred, fed. loused, bathed and kept spick and span there may be trouble.