Counting by Knot*.
It was the custom of the Aztecs to
keep their accounts by means of
strings. The numbers were indicated
by knots. A single kuot was ten. two
single knots twenty, and sc on. The
hundreds were indicated by doub
knots. The color of the string indi
' cated what the numbers referred to.
Soldiers were red, gold yellow, silver
white and corn green. This method Is
still in use on the sierras of the Argen
tina. where the herdsmen keep tale of
their charges in a similar .way. Sev
eral strands depend from one. the tirst
of these strands being reserved for
bulls. tbe*next for cows, tbe milk and
dry being differentiated; the next for
sheep, aud so on. Knots Were proba
bly amoug the first methods of man to
record figures—the knot or the mark on
a bit of stick. In the Euglisb hop gar
dens the tallyman (generally the local
school master i goes around with the
tally and its mark, and the most civi
lized Chicagoan still ties a knot in his
handkerchief when be is asked ‘to be
aure to remember/*—Chicago News.
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A Constant Sufferer.
“Is your mother n suffragette, Rob
ert?”
“Yep. she's always suffering. If it
sin't with her slices or het corset it s
because somebody that owes her au
invitation had a party and didn t ask
her to it.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
The Root of All Evil.
As a general thing when a man and
his wife fall out over money it is a
sign that he has it and she wants it. or
she has it and he wants it, or neither
has it and both want it.—Galvestou
News
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