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Show Fixing a Funeral Date. To show how Implicitly people of a generation ago trusted in the "Farmers' "Farm-ers' Almanac," the following story was told by old Dr. Hunt, who for many years faithfully served the townspeople of Weston, Mass. One of his patients had departed this life, leaving a sorrowing spouse, whom Dr. Hunt tried to comfort. In tho course of making tho burial arrangements, ar-rangements, he asked when sho desired de-sired to havo tho funeral. "Walt, doctor," said sho; " we must have It on a pleasant day." She hurriedly hur-riedly searched the almanac, and tho day was set. - |