This shortening of my life, already far advanced, caused one in my works.

There will be found an appreciable shortening of the epidermal tissues and a marked increase in length of the pith."Physiological Botany, p. 391.]

"Don't you remember how you've said right along that you weren't afraid of ghosts?" "Well, I'm not," said Billie stoutly, while her eyes searched the far corners of the room which were beginning to get very indistinct and creepy in the flickering uncertain light of the fast shortening candles.

We suppose none of our readers are obtuse enough not to be aware of the gradual shortening of their jawbones, a phenomenon especially noticeable in members of Congress and popular lecturers.

BARCHES These are to be used for a meat meal and are made in the same manner as butter barches, omitting the milk and butter; use water and a little shortening of dripping or rendered fat or a vegetable oil; grate a dozen almonds (blanched) and add with two well-beaten eggs, one-half cup of sugar, salt, raisins and the grated peel of one lemon.

"The prolonging of men's lives when the world needed to be peopled, and the subsequent shortening of them when that necessity had ceased.

For this purpose every period of unemployment and of temporary shortening of the working day ought to be used as a time for trade education, by the recently devised and successfully applied "short-unit courses for wage-earners.

D = total shortening at elastic limit, inches.