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PUBLISHERS' NOTES. 

 Health Under^wear. 

 Most of the underwear used during the 

 past thirty years has been made of a mixture 

 ■of cotton and wool. At first the proportion 

 was from 60 to 75 per cent of wool ; but this 

 has been gradually reduced, until now the 

 majority of underwear is made entirely of 

 ■cotton, while much of the so-called mixed 

 underwear does not contain more than 10 

 per cent of wool. Thus it happens that the 

 public, without being aware of the fact, have 

 been gradually changing from wool to cotton 

 underwear, very much to the detriment of 

 their general health and comfort. A re-ac- 

 tion has now set in, and woollen underwear 

 is again coming into general demand. In 

 England and Germany the use of all-wool 

 underwear has increased more than twenty- 

 fold during the past three years. There 

 has also been a considerable increase in 

 ■this country ; but so skilful have manufac- 

 turers become in adulterating wool by the 

 mixture of cotton and other substances, that 

 it is difficult for the public to know whom to 

 trust. The time, therefore, seems favorable 

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Type-writing Contest. 

 The public will remember the series of 

 challenges issued about six months ago by 

 the manufacturers of the Remington, Cali- 

 graph, and Hammond writing-machines. 

 Nothing resulting from challenges, the Ca- 

 nadian Shorthand Society of Toronto deter- 

 mined to take the matter up, and arranged a 

 tournament open to any operator on any 

 machine in the world, the terms of which were 

 so absolutely fair that the failure of certain 

 machines to compete must be regarded as 

 an admission of their inferiority. Ten opera- 

 tors (five of whom used the Caligraph, and 

 five the Remington) took part in the con- 

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 below. On general writing, law evidence, 

 and commercial matter. Miss Mae E. Orr 

 won the gold medal for the championship of 

 the world. Mr. F. E. McGurrin won the 

 silver medal in the same class. On the 

 memorized sentence, ' This is a song to fill 

 thee with delight," Mr. T. W. Osborne won 



the silver medal. After deductions for errors 

 were made, it was found that Miss Orr had 

 made 4,935 points, — 98.7 words per minute. 

 Mr. McGurrin made 4.756.5 points, — 95.11 

 words per minute. After deducting errors 

 from the memorized sentence, ■ This is a 

 song to fill thee with delight,' it was found 

 that Mr. Osborne of Rochester had written 

 630.7 words, — 1 26. 14 per minute ; Mr. Mc- 

 Gurrin wrote 613.3, — 122.66 per minute. 

 The contestants were, Miss Mae E. Orr, 

 New York City, Remington ; F. E. McGur- 

 rin, Salt Lake City, Utah, Remington ; T. W. 

 Osborne, Rochester, N.Y., Caligraph ; Miss 

 M. C. Grant, New York City, Remington; 

 G. A. McBride, Ottawa, Ont., Caligraph; 

 Miss Mamie G. McManus, New York City, 

 Caligraph ; Mrs. A. J. Henderson, Toronto, 

 Ont., Caligraph; Miss Maud Berry, Toronto, 

 Ont., Remington ; T. M. Snyder, Pottsville, 

 Penn., Remington ; A. J. Nichols, Youngs- 

 town, O., Caligraph. 



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