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Facts on Advertising.
The advertisements in an ordinary num- ber of the London Times exceed 2,500. The annual advertising bill- of one London firm sre said to amount to $200,000; and three others are mentioned who each annually expend for the purpose $50,000. The ex- pense for advertising the eight editions of the "Encyclopedia . Britannia " is said to have been $15,000.
In large cities nothing is more common than to see large business establishments, which seem to have an immense advantage over all competitors, by the wealth, expo- rience, and prestige they have acquired, drop gradually ont of public view, and be succeeded by firms of a smaller capital, more energy, and more determined to have the fact that they sell such and such com- modities known from one end of the land to the other. In other words, the establish- ments advertise ; the old die of dignity .- The former are ravenous to pass out of ob- scurity into publicity; the latter believe that their publicity is so obvious that it cannot be obscured. The first understand that they must thrust themselves upon public attention. or be disregarded; the second, having once obtained public atten- tion. suppose they have arrested it pernia- nently; while. in fact. nothing is more char- acteristic of the world than the case with which it forgets.
Stephen Girard, than whom no shrewder business man ever lived, used to say: I have always considered advertising liber- ally and long to be the great medium of success In business, and the prelude to wealth. And I have made it an invariable rule too, to advertise in the dullest times as well as the busiest : long experience having taught me that money thus spent is well laid out; as by keeping my business continually before the public it has secured me many sales that I would otherwise have lost.
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Capacity of Cisterns or Wells.
Tabular view of the number of gallons contained in the clear, between the brick work for each ten inches of depth :
Diameter
Gallons.
2 feet equals
19
3
66
44
3%
.6
60
4
.6
78
4%
97
5
122
51
148
6
176
207
-
240
275
8
313
81
353
9-
396
10
482
11
592
12
505
13
827
14
.6
959
15
1101
20
1958
66
3059
66 ..
Peas
Buckwheat"
48
66
Flax Seed* ** 55
66
461
30
25
6935
..
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Brilliant Whitewash.
Many have heard of the brilliant -bcco whitewash on the cast mad of the Posi- dent's hose at Wa-linson. The follow-
ments : Take i: of Rice Un-
siacked lize. slack it
cover it during the De scri to keep in the
stesso. Strain the E t: h a fine
Take a long narrow bottle, such as an okt- forhioned Eau-de-Cologne bottle, and put sieve of struiner. and .a prek of. ter : three pounds of :c. botled to ·hot ; half into it two and a half drachms of camphor, and cleven desrlans of spirits of wine: a thin poste. and st :::. s poand of powdered . in. and . a pound of clean =2 when the camphor is dissolved, which it will readily do by slight eritation, add the following mixture: Take weter, Line then bancise it over a slow dre. in a small kettle within a lasre one Etel with water. Add five gallons of hot water to the mixtase. stir it well. and let it stand a few days cov- cred from the dir . drachms: nitrate of potash (=sitpetre) thirty-eight grains: and mariate of ami- monia ( -al ammoniac) thirty-eight grains. Di-solve these salts in the water prior to mixing with the camphors ed spirit : then shake the whole well together. Cork the It should be 'it on richt bot: for this ' bottle well, and war the top. but after- purpose it can be kept in a kettle on a ' wards make a very small aperture in the cork with a re 1-hot needle. The bottle may portable furna . It is said that about a pict of this mixture will cover a sanare . then be hung up, or placed in any stations- vari upon the outside ofe hon-e if proper- 'ry position. By observing the different
Is applied. Brz-bes more orlessmimiy
required. It answers as well as oll point for word. trick of stone, and is cheaper. It retains it- brilliancy for many years. There is nothing of the kind that will compare with it, either for inside or outside
Coloring matter mar be pat in and made of any shade you Spanish brown
stirred in will take :: pink. mose or wes deop according to the quantity. A delfrate
tinte of this is voor p
Finely pobresited common coy. well mixed with Spanish brown. : color. Yellow-och in meter yel- low wash. bh: chrome 20:s farther. and make, a color centrafr esteemed prettier. :
In all those cases the darkness of the shales ! the glass and coiled torrther in s spiral
of course is determined by the quantity of
coloring used. It is dimesi to make rules. i up to the top of its lodin , and remain because tastes are different. I: would be , there till the weather is set !!. 1; if we are
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best to try experiments ca a shinyte and let 1 it dry. We have been told that sterc must not be mixed with lime. The lime de. stroys the color, and the color has an effect on the whitewash, which niskes it crack sad poel. When walls have been badly smoked, and you wish to have theci & clean white. it is well to sneeze intro plenti- fully through a las into the water you use. before it is stirred' in the whole mixture. If a larger cattier than five gallons be wanted, the same proportion should be ob- served.
How to get a Horse out of a Fire.
The great dificulty of getting Horses from a stable w Sere sur:c anding boff linvare in a state of coadamailen, is well known .- The plan of covering their eyes with a blan. ket will not always succeed.
A gentleman whose bor-es have been in great peril fruta rach a cause, having tried
' in vain to save them, hit upon the expedi- ent of having them harnessed za though go- ing to their usual work; when, to his a-ton- ishment, they were led from the stalle without dificulty.
The Chemical Barometer.
appearances which the materials assume. as the weather changes, it becomes an ex- cellent pronosticator of a coming storm or of a sunny sky.
Leech Barometer.
Take an eight ounce phial, and pat in it three gill- of water, and place in it a healthy lecch, changing the water in summer once 3 week, and in winter once in a fortnight. and it will most accurately pro mnosticate . the weather. If the weather is to be Ene. the leech lies motionless at the bottom of form : if rain may be expected. It will creep
to have wind, it will move through its habi- tation with amatin : swiftne-a, and sebiom goes to rest till it begins to blow hard : if a remarkable storm of thunder and rain is to succeed, it will lodre for some days before almost continually out of the water, and discover great unea-iness in violent three. and convulsive-like motion+ ; in front es ist clear summer-like weather it Hes constantis at the bottom: and in show se in raitv weather it pitches its dwelling in the very mouth of the phial. The top -hould be cov- ered over with a piece of muslin.
To MEASURE GRAIN IN A BOX .- Find the number of cubic feet, from which deluct ore.Arth. The remainder is the number of bushels-allowing, however, one bu-hei extra to every 224. Thua in a remainder of SAA there would be 25 bushels. In a re- maiuder of His there would be 450 bushels. &c.
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VALUABLE RECIPES.
VALUABLE RECIPES.
[The following recipes are vosched for by several who have tried them and proven their virtues. Many of them have been sold singly for more than the price of this book .- Pcs.j
HORSES.
RING BONE AND SPAVIN .- 2 OZ. each of ; or twice a day. This is a remedy of great Spanish Nies and Venice turpentine; 1 07. cach of aqua ammoni and cantorbiom : K The enre will be materially Lastened by taking a table spoon of sulpher in a half pint of milk, daily, until the care ly affected. oz. red precipitate; 1. oz. corrosive sabli- mate ; 13 14, lard. When thoroughly pul- verized and mised, boat carefully so as not to barn, and! pour off free from sediment.
For ring bone, rub in thoroughly, after removing hair, once in 4 hours. For spar- in, once in Of hours. Cleanse and press ont the matter on each application.
POLL. EVIL .- Gum arabic :: ox ; common potash 1 oz ; extract of belladonna ig dr. Pit the gam in just onon the water to dis. solve it. Pulveris the pota-hi ant mix with the dissolved gum, and then put in the extract of belladonna.and i: will be ready for n-c. Use with a syringe after having cleansed with soap suds, and repeat once in two days till a cure is affected.
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ScoUR .- Powdered tormentil root. giv- en in milk, from 3 to 5 times daily till cured.
GREASE-HEEL AND SCRATCHES .- Sweet oil6 ozs .: borax 2 oza .; sugar of lead 2 ozs. Wash off with dish water, and, after it is dry, apply the mixture twice a day.
CHOLIC IN HORSES .- TO & rt. of warm water add 1 oz. landanum and 3 ozs. spirits of turpentine, and repeat the dose in about " ofan hour, adding > oz. powdered aloes, if not relieved.
BoTs .- Three doses. 1st. 2 ces milk and 1 of moinsrem. 20. 15 minutes after. 2 qte. warm Fage tes. 3d. After the expiration of 30 minutes, sufficient lard to physic .- Never fails.
MISCELLANEOUS.
PILE --- PERFECTLY CURED. - Take flour of sulphur 1 oz .. rosin 3 oz4., pulverize and mix well together. (Color with carmine or cochincal, if you like.) Dose -- What will lie on a five cent piese, night and morning, washing the parte freely in cold water once
SURE CURE FOR ConNE, WARTS AND CHIL.DLAINs .- Take of nitric and mariatic jacids, blue vitriol and sale of tartar. 1 0%. each. Add the blue vitriol, pulverized. to either of the acida; add the sait- of tartar in the same way ; when done framing. add the other acid, and in a few days it will be ready for use. Por chilblaine and corus apply it very lightly with a swab, and re- peat in a day or two until cured. For warts, once a week, until they disappear.
HOOP-AIL IN SHEEP .- Mix 2 ozs. each of batter of antimony and mariatic acid with 1 oz. cf pulverized white vitriol, and apply once or twice a week to the bottom of the foot.
COMMON RHEUMATISM .- Kerosene oil 2 O2s .; neata-foot oil 1 oz .: oil of orzanmm X 0z. Shake when used, and rub and Leat in twice daily.
VERY FINE SOAP, QUICKLY AND CHEAP. LY MADE -Fourteen pounds of bar soap in a half a boiler of hot water ; cat up fine; add three pounds of sal-soda made fine; one ounce of pulverized rosin ; stir it often till all is dissolved ; just as you take it off the fre, pet in two table-spoonfals of spirits of turpentine and one of ammonis: pour it in a barrel, and fill up with cold soft water; let it stand three or four days before using. Te is an excellent soap for washing clothes, extracting the dirt readily, and not fading colored articles.
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VALUABLE RECIPES.
WATER PROOF FOR LEATHER .- Take lin -! seed oil 1 pint, yellow wax and white tur- pentine each 2 ozs. Barzundy pitch 1 oz., meit and color with lampblack.
To KEEP CIDER SWEET .- Put into each barrel. immediately after making, 1 1b. ground mustard. 2 oz. salt and 2 oz. pulver- ized chalk. Stir them in a little cider. pour them into the barrel, and shake up well.
AGUE CURE. - Procure 13 tablespoons of fresh mandrake root juice. (by pounding) and mix with the same quantity of molas- ses, and take in three equal doses. 2 hours | It will give a good polish over oil or grease. a part. the whole to be taken 1 hour before the chill comes on. Take a swallow of some good bitters before meala, for a couple of weeks after the chille are broken, and the cure will be permanent.
CURE FOR SALT RRECH OR SCURVY .- Take of the pokeweed. any time in sum- mer : pound it : press ont the juice: strain it into a pewter dish: set it in the sun till it becomes a salve-then put it into an earth- en mug: add to it fresh water and bees' war euficient to make an ointment of com- mon consistency : simmer the whole over a fre till thoroughly mixed. When cold. rnb the part affected. The patient will al- most immediately experience its good ef- fects. and the most obstinate cases will be cured in three or four months. Tested .- The juice of the ripe berries may be pre- pared in the same way.
FELONS .- Stir 1 oz. of Venice turpentine with % tea-spoonful of water. till it looks like candied honey, and apply by spreading upon cloth and wrapping around the finger. If not too long delaved will cure in 6 hours. A poke root poultice is also said to be a sure remedy.
WATER PROOF BLACKING AND HARNESS POLISH .- Take two and a half ounces sum shellac and half a pint of alcohol, and set in a warm place anti dissolved: then add two and a half ounces Venice turpentine to neutralize the alcohol : add a tablespoon- ful of lampblack. Apply with a dne sponge.
MosQuitos .-- To get rid of these tormen- tors, take a few hot coals on a shovel. or a chating dish, and burn upon them some brown sugar in your bed-rooms and parlora. and you effectually banish or destroy every mosquito for the night.
CHEAP OUTSIDE PAINT .- Take two parts (in bulk) of water lime ground fre, one part (in bulk) of white lead Ground in oil. Mix them thoroughly. by adding best boiled lin- seed oil, enough to prepare it to pass through & paint mill. after which temper with oil till it can be applied with s common paint brush. Make any color to snit. It willla-t three times as long as lead paint, and cost not one-fourth as much. IT Is SUPERIOR.
CURE FOR A COUGH .- A strong decoction of the leaves of the pine, sweetened with SUPERIOR PAINT-FOR BRICK HOUSES. - To lime whitewash, add for a fastener. sul- loaf sugar. Take a wine-glass warm on zo- ing to bed. and half an hour before esting. three times a day. The abore is sold as 3 phate of zinc. and shade with any color you ' cough syrup, and is doing wonderful cures. choose, as yellow ochre, Venetian red, etc. ; and it is sold at a great proit to the manu- It outlasts oil paint.
--- facturers.
How to Judge a Horse.
A correspondent. contrary to old maxims. undertakes to judge the character of a horse by outward appearances. and offers the fol- lowing sagrestions, the result of his close observation and long experience :
If the color be light sorrell. or chestnut. 1.i- fest. lery and face white, there are ---
marks of kindness. If he is broad and full between the eyes, he may be depended on se a horse of good sense, and capable of be- ing trained to anything.
As respecta such horses, the more kindly you treat them the better you will be treat. ed in return. Nor will a horse of this de- scription stand a whip, if well fed.
If you want a safe horse. avoid one that is dish-faced. He may be so far gentle as not to scare ; but he will have too much go- shead in him to be safe with everybody.
If you want one that will never give out. never buy a large, overgrown one.
A black horse cannot stand heat. nor a white one cold.
If you want a gentle horse. get one with more or less white about the head; the more the better. Many persons suppose the parti-colored horses belonging to the circuses, shows, &c .. are selected for their oddity. But the selections thus made are on account of their great docility and gen- tieness.
Measurement of Hay in the Mow or Stack. - It is often desirable. where conveniences for weighing are not at hand. to purchase and sell hay by measure- ment. It i- evident that no fred ruby will answer in all cases. as it Would require more cubic feet at the top of a Crow than at the bottom. The general rule adopted by i those who have tested it, is to cable feet of wohl Timothy hay, as taken from mow of
If you want a fool, hat a horse of great bottom, get a deep tay. with not a white hair about him. If bi- fire is a little dish- ed. so much the Wo ??. Lit no man ride, bottom of stack. The rule may be varied such a horse that is not au adept in riding i for upper part of mow or stack according -they are always trichy and unsafe. tto pressure.
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TWENTY YEAR CALENDAR.
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Almanac or Calendar for 20 Years.
CB
A
G
F
ED
CB
A
GF
E
1864
1865
1866
1867
1868
1869
1870
1871
1872
1873
D
BA
G
F
E
DC
F
E
D
1874 1875 1876 1877
1878 |1879
1880 1881 1852
1.883
1 8152229 Sun.
Sat.
Frid'y.
Thurs .!
Wed.
| Tues.
Mon.
2. 9 16 23 30
Mon.
Sun.
Sat.
Frid'y.
Thurs.
Wed.
Tues.
3 10 17 24 31
Tues.
Mon.
Sun.
Sat.
Frid'y.
Thurs.
Wed.
4 11 18 25
Wed.
Tues.
Mon.
Sun.
Sat.
Frid'y.
Thurs.
5 12 19,26
Thurs.
Wed.
Tues.
Mon.
Sun.
Sat.
Frid'y.
6 13 20 27
Frid'y.
Thurs.
Wed.
Tues.
Mon.
Sun.
Sat.
7.14 2128
Sat.
Frid'y.
Thurs.
Wed.
Tues.
Mon.
Sun.
Jan. and Oct.
1
B
C
D
E
F
G
May.
B
C
D
E
F
G
A
August.
C
D
E
F
G
A
B
Feb., Mar., Nov.
D
E
F
G
A
B
C
June.
E
F
G
A
B
C
D
Sept. & Dec.
F
G
A
.
B
C
D
E
April & July.
G
A
B
C
D
E
F
EXPLANATION .- Find the Year and observe the Letter above it: then look for the Month. and in a line with it and the Letter of the Year; above the Letter find the Day ; and the figures on the left. in the same line. are the days of the same name in the month.
Lesp. Years have two letters ; the first is used till the end of February, the second during the remainder of the year.
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ONEIDA COUNTY.
ONEIDA COUNTY.
ONEIDA COUNTY, named from the Oneida Indians, who owned and inhabited this and some adjoining counties, was formed from Herkimer, March 15, 1798. Lewis and Jefferson were taken off in 1805, and a part of Oswego in 1816. In 1801 a part was annexed to Clinton County, and in 1836 a part was an- nexed to Madison County. . In 1804 a part of Chenango was an- nexed. The County lies near the center of the State, is about one hundred miles from Albany and contains 1,215 square miles. The central part consists of a broad valley, nearly level, extending east and west, and from it the surface rises into a broken and hilly re- gion. The highlands occupying the south part are arranged into ridges extending north and south, the highest summits on the south border being from six hundred to one thousand feet above the val- ley of the Mohawk. North of the central valley, the surface rises abruptly to the height of eight hundred to twelve hundred feet and spreads out into a nearly level plateau, broken only by the ravines of the streams. The east part of the central valley is drained by the Mohawk, flowing east, and the west part by Wood Creek which flows west. This valley affords a natural pass from the Hudson to the great lakes, and is the lowest pass through the great Appalach- ian Mountain System.
The Mohawk River rises upon the north border of the County and flows in a southerly direction to Rome, thence south-east to the east border of the County. Nino Mile Creek and Lansing Kil are its chief tributaries from the north, and Sauquoit and Oriskany Creeks from the south. Black River flows across the north-east corner of the County, and West Canada Creek forms a part of the eastern boundary. The head branches of the Unadilla and Chenango drain the south border, and Oneida, Wood and Fish Creeks, the western part. Oneida Lake extends for several miles along the west border
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ONEIDA COUNTY.
and is the only large body of water in the County. There are sev- eral small lakes and ponds in the extreme north-east corner.
The rocks of the County present a great variety of geological formations, including nearly the whole series lying between the gneiss, which covers the north-east part, and the Hamilton group, outcropping upon the southern hills. The Trenton limestone, Utica slate, Oneida conglomerate and Clinton group, have received their names from being so distinctly developed in this County. The use- ful minerals are not wanting in this County, but consist of the len- ticular clay iron ore of the Clinton group, bog ore in the swamps near Oneida Lake and magnetic ore in the north-east part. Mar! and peat have been found in some places. Water-lime and gypsum quarries have been worked to some extent. A great variety of building stone of excellent quality is found in different parts of the County and is extensively quarried. Mineral springs are found in several places and will be noticed in the towns where they are situ- ated. In the north-east part, the soil, which is derived chiefly from the disintegration of the primitive rocks, is light and sandy, and produces scanty vegetation. This region is more sparsely settled than other parts of the County, and is capable of supporting only a small number of inhabitants. The central valley is one of the most fertile portions of the State. The soil consists of a fine quali- ty of sandy and gravelly loam and alluvium, finely tempered with lime and gypsum. The highland region, south of the Mohawk, has a soil composed of clay and sandy and gravelly loam, and is best adapted to pasturage.
The richness and diversity of the soil in this County render it one of the best agricultural regions in the State. Agriculture is the chief occupation of the people, the principal branches of which are grain raising in the valleys, and dairying and stock raising upon the hills. Hops are largely cultivated in the towns in the south part. The manufactures are extensive in Utica and in the villages along the Sauquoit and Oriskany Creeks.
The County is a half-shire, Rome and Utica sharing in the Coun- ty buildings and business of the courts. The County Seat of Her- kimer County was originally located at Whitestown, and upon the division of the County the records were retained by Oneida. The act erecting Oneida County directed the first courts to be held at the school house near Fort Schuster (Rome), and required the Court House to be built within one mile of the fort. By an act of April 6, 1801, Thomas Jenkins and Hezekiah L. Hosmer. of Hud- son; John Thompson, of Stillwater, and Dirk Lane, of Troy, were appointed to locate the Court House and Jail of Oneida County. These buildings were completed several years afterwards, and the courts were held here and at Whitesboro during many years. The Court House and Jail at Rome were burned about 1848, and re-
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ONEIDA COUNTY.
built within three years. . The Clerk's Office was removed to Utica in 1816, and the academy at that place was used for holding courts for several years. A new Court House was built at Utica in 1851-53. The first County Officers were: Jedediah Sanger, First Judge ; George Huntington and David Ostrom, Judges; Jonas Platt, Clerk ; William Colbraith, Sheriff, and Arthur Breese, Sur- rogate. The Court Houses and Jails at both places are well built and conveniently arranged. The Clerk's Office is a fire-proof build- ing, located at Utica.
The County Poor House is situated upon a farm of 120 acres, about two miles south-west of Rome. The building is a substantial brick structure, the main portion of which is three stories high with two wings two stories high. It was erected in 1860 and is capable of accommodating five hundred persons. There is only one struc- ture of the kind in the State that surpasses it in accommodations. There is a chapel in connection with the institution that will accom- modate about two hundred. The insane patients occupy a separate building and receive the best of care. The products of the farm in 1867 were as follows: Seventy-five tons of hay, six of corn fodder, 1,050 bushels potatoes, 285 bushels corn, ten of beans, 75 of onions, 260 of beets, 105 of carrots, 170 of turnips, 11 of peas, 6 of par- snips, 2,415 heads of cabbage, 1,935 pounds of pork killed, and 2,- 530 pounds of beef. The stock upon the farm consists of three horses, one yoke of oxen, sixteen cows, four yearlings and thirty swine. During the year, $777.79 were received for strawberries, and 8145.92 for vegetables raised in the garden of the Poor House.
The total expense of maintaining the poor at the County House for the year ending November 1st, 1868, was $34,851.52.
Number of paupers at the Poor House, Nov. 1, 1867 .. 272
Number received during the year. 656
Born, during the year
Number discharged. 4
Number absconded. 32
Number died. 28
630
Number remaining Nov. 1, 1868 238
The number of children in St. John's Orphan Asylum sup- ported by the County . 61
Number in St. Vincent's Asylum
42
Number in the Utica Asylum. 32
From a report to the Board of Supervisors of 1868 we find that the number of dogs taxed in the County last year was 4,467; the number of sheep killed or injured by dogs, 520, and the damages allowed for such sheep, $2,874.54 This must be acknowledged a very moderate supply of mutton for such a number of dogs.
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ONEIDA COUNTY.
A number of public works center in this County and pass through it. The Erie Canal extends through Utica, Whitestown, Rome and Verona. The Chenango Canal extends south from Utica, up the valley of Oriskany Creek, through New Hartford, Kirkland, Mar- shall, and a corner of Augusta, connecting with the Susquehanna River at Binghamton. The Black River Canal extends north from Rome, along the valleys of the Mohawk and Lansing Kil, through Western and Boonville, connecting with Black River above Lyons Falls in Lewis County. The Oneida Lake Canal extends west from Rome to Wood Creek, and along that stream to its mouth. This Canal is now closed. The New York Central Railroad extends through Utica, Whitestown, Rome and Verona. The Black River and Utica Railroad extends from Utica north, through Marcy, Tren- ton, Remsen and Steuben, to Bootville. The Rome, Watertowni and Ogdensburg Railroad extends from Rome, north-west, through Annsville and Camden. The Utica, Chenango and Susquehanna Valley Railroad extends south-westerly through New Hartford, Paris and Sangerfield, to Sherburne, Chenango County. This road has recently been put in operation. The Utica, Clinton & Bing- hamton Railroad extends through New Hartford, Kirkland and Marshall ; it is now open to Oriskany Falls.
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