TEE FOREST REPUBLICAN Is paWlitied T.rj Wdns.daT, f J. E. WENKi Cfflos In Smear baugh A Co.'a Building KLM iTRIBT, T10NBSTA, Fa, Tar ma. ... f l.BO par Taar. nhMrtntlon. nclTirf rot a shrtr Mrlod thn thr month. Cnrrr.ponnn nollelted tram all Mrti f the "i.ntry. N Mile, will b lUn oraattijmoui nvniucdoaUoa. RATES OF APVEHTtSIHO. On Sonar, n. Inch, on InMrtlos ...$ IN On. Sqnare, on. Inch, on. month I M On. Sqnar., on. Inch, thro, month... ...v. 1 OS One Sqain, n. Inch, on. rear MM Two Sqnarea, on year II M Vo.rter Column, on. year M Hair Column, on. rear MM On. Colnmn, on. yr lttOt LtJ adv. lament, tea cent ptt II. MA lax Mrtloa. Marrt.fe. and death aotlc. gratia, All kill, for yearly arfwrtlnnnrnti eoUKted .no terly. Temporary advcrU'.m.nU mull K. paid ik adTanc Jot work caah an d.llrary. Forest Republican. VOL. XXIII. NO. 42, TIONESTA, TA., WEDNESDAY, FEH. 11, 1891. $1,50 PEll ANNUM. It is said that ovor thirty-eight thou land copyrights hovo boon grunted to American authors during tho past yenr. Tho amount of rsul literature put forth ia not it Hied. An Austin-Hungarian exhibition is to Se hold iu Pari, in 1892, under tho aus pices of tho Aintro-IIiingarian Chamber )f Commcrco in tho French capital. If ;ho. project come to Anything, the ex libition will probably bo transferred to London in 1S93. California comes to the front with an .tivention that will be a great boon to 'ruit-growers, predicts tho Chicago Pott. !t is au cluctric frost alarm and consists f an accurate dial thermometer, elcc irlcally conuectcil with a boll and switch in such a manner that the bell will ring when any desired tcmperaturo ia reached. A census bulletin tells us that there re 140 religious bodies iu the United States, not counting tho lare number of independent churches which do not ac Itnowlodgo the authority of any denomi aatiomd organization. The increase in icct, declares tho Cincinnati Enquirer, bos been something remarkable Binco tho Sawn of our national history. A writer in the North China lterald,ot Shanghai, asserts that tho climate of Asia (s growing col Jer and its tropical animals tre slowly retreating southward. In proof of this ho quotes evidences, his torical and referential, of the former sxistence of elephants, tigers and leopards in China. Tigers and leopard uo, however, not yet extinct iu China ind are common enough iu Corel. The '"""jy grew ,ry where s the Chica ntion to thi 1 "cloture," light In utter iuty of accents, or lets than the The word is an .from the French .ous with the Eug demaud for tho nd tho stifling oi r debate- it all that il erious Gallic term. intry the entire world, rested in tho preservation .cos which form unique . certain portions of Call i agent of tho Laud Office jcen making an investigation nut some of them are in danger, iportance of Government actiou vent further destruction of the ias Is therefore apparent. There C75 of the giants now standing, tin gest being ovor thirty-throe feet in imetcr. Not one of them cau bo died. Tho origin of tho National Marino ind at Washington is most curious, sarly a hundred years ago, alleges the jw York World, a Yankee Captain kld .ppt'd a strolling troop of musicians on e shores of the B.iy of Naples and ought them to this country. From is handful of Italians tho baud was do doped. Tho dosccudants of these olen Italians aro now. amoug tho ealthiest people of Washington. Soma them are prominent lawyers, and ti have their names connected with best known hotels and tho largest estate offices in tho capital city. he Church of Eoglauc, as shown bj mplote roturns of the revenue report rder of Parliament, is tho wealthiest ch in Christondom. T.ie incomo of ecclesiastical commissioners is ubout ,750,000, nearly one-fourth of which derived from tithes. The Welsh tithes Id about $20,000. The gross annual ue of benefices for twenty-ouo coun j is $10,000,000 which is distributed ong 6800 clergymen, giviug them an ago of a little over $1500 a year, ere are parsonages,' however, and (er itiuis to bo added, which bring up annual average to about $2000 a r from cndowm:uts alone. Of tho 1,000,000 thieo-Liurths uru derived m tithes. Tb Boston Cultivator estimates that re'thuu half tho railway track in tho rlds on this continent, and nearly half the whole is in the Uuitcd States. This .portion may or not b3 kept up, as a and Africa are begiuuiug to shorten ir long distances by using steam horses the ircj track. Iu the p;ist four ycara ,000 miles of track huve been laid in erica, aud iu the United States 30, miles of this, while all the rest of tho rid built only 24,000 miles. Railroad Europe cost an average of $115, 00C r mile. Hero the average cost is $60,. 0, aud this is about the rate elsewhero. es of fare are, however, lower iu tope than here, the denser population 'iigUtei expense. for running the roadt OL.OAMINO, Th setting sun has dropt below the sandy reach; Th laggard rooks come home, belated, from the beach; Hera In the garden-beds the flowers do their eye, And twilight's soft wan mist across the wood land lies. Oh, it not this most sweet of any time or hour, Aftor the garish day, and ere the night clouds lowert Tit at thoogh Nature's self should paus upon her way, Gray-clad and pilgriui-llko, to meditaUi and pray. . JACK TEMPLE. My first piquant encounter with Jack Teniplo was when I was about seven years old. He said the Bostona was the fastest boat on the Ohio. Aud I stood out for tho Daniel Boone. Th Boone had given a dinner at which my father and mother wero invited, while his wero not. On these facts we each based our conclusions on the com parative speed of the different boats, and tooth and nail rolled over in the dust to maintain them. We wero picked up variously by old Cerberus, who was picking his banjo at one end of tho hotel gallery, and by a journeyman shoemaker aud" a telegraph operator playiug chess at the other end. This they did with divers words of scorn nt tho kicking boy. To this day I believe that if we had keen left alone I would have whipped j for although small, I was active. Shortly after wo moved away to Wash ington where my father spent one year iu getting a consular appointment which ho held for six years. Thou we came back to our village life. John Templo was now a beautiful youth, strong limbed, broad-shouldered, with a head like a Greek god. To these physical perfections ho added a charm of manner as captivating to his fellowaaaa to tho op posite sex. Underneath this 'lay a tenacity of purpose which mado him invincible. lie was adored frankly by all girls of the school of which I speedily found my self a member. Among these he scat tered his attentions according to his royal pleasure. Those who received them were elated ond grateful. Those who did not patiently waited their turn. . Although younger than tho others I held their barn-yard acceptance of John Temple's attentions with silent scorn. "I'd hato to run after a boy," was my inward comment. But I was soon singled out as tho one he most delighted to honor. I was younger than the others. Thus might on older boy play with a child, for the years had not greatly increased my stature. Eut while tho other girls sued for his attentions I only accepted them. That I made no response encouraged him the more. When a class was callod John Temple always went out first. As he walked by ine he would sav, and ho had a teacher- defying way of talking under his lips, "Kitty, come Bnd sit by me." Thcro are plenty of ways iu which school boys can show their chivalnus considoratiou for girls, and these John Templo always showed to me. It was thoroughly understood thnt I bad a champion; that there was always some one looking out for Kitty Black. As I was not permitted to (,o to pur tics where there were boys, au arena remained where John Temple could be contented for by others. At school I was supreme. As I moved, his fate followed mo. When I achieved any honor, no one was so proud as ho. There was stolen word here, a pressuro of the hand there. When we pluyed, and no one was so heedless and reckless as I, a protecting arm always stood ready to keep me from harm. . Never did I show any signs of ray con quest, although 1 wos fully aware of its value ia the eyes of others. Never was I jealous ; I was too confident, too as sured for jealousy. I often wonder now if I cared for him then. I do not know ; but I do know that I lived and fed on bis preference. It may have been only vanity. For three years this lasted, deepening constantly, aud was a matter of general comment at school. John Temple was always a matter of comment. Dashing girls from othor towns came and bid for John Temple's smiles, lie gavo theiu now to one, nod now to another. Mean whilo I pluyed tug and rau races, but no one ever succeeded in winniug away any thing that was mine. "Are you going to marry Kitty Black when she grows up?" one of the older girls asked. "Yes." "I'll bttTyou don't." Til bet I do. I'll bet you a gold ring thut when Kitty Black is eighteen years old she will be my wife." The school buzzed with his bet. I was not supposed to know it. But I did, and gavo no sign, boon after I was sent to boarding school. My father had heard with great displeasure of the uffuir, ond did not choose that such thoughts should be put in my head. Then he moved away from our old home." I was not back again until after I had gradu ated. It was in summer a summer of culm starlit nights. The town was full of young peoplo who had put school behind them, and now pressed forward eagerly to taste the cup of joy which lifo presents but once. Among them was John Temple, even more triumphant than of old, for he wore the all-couqurring uni form of a West Poiut cadet, lie had no rivals. When he appeared, others re tired, lie took by right, and caused no jealousy. Such was his complete domin ation. It was while the gayety was at its height that I came. I saw him first at ou evening party., Humor had engage! him to a youug girl of the town ho had won him by years of devotion, lie hud SwvtiwKfr !. ta gay and bnndsomo Southern girl. He was bending ovor her when I first saw him. He pretended be did not see me at first. I nin not a person that chal lenges the attention of tho room. But I knew that he did see me, and with that subtle quiet understanding that never had needed signs between tis, I kuew he would be at my side presently. His devotion to tho girl grew even more marked, but I was not surprised when, although I was deep in conversa tion with some one else, I felt him take my hand. He drew it in his arm, "Come," ho said, nud led me to the long gallery whero up ami down we paced id tho moonlight all the evening. As we passed tho long open windows I could seo within, Tho girl to whom John Temple was suid to be engaged had left Hi dancers and two kind girl frionds Wero trying to screen her unhappincss and tearful eyes. The gay visitor to whom he had been all devotion was laughing still in hard struined tones, nnd looking nbout with wondering eyes; youth is hard and ro morsclots, I felt no pang. I enjoyed my triumph. This was the beginning. When I was not present John Temple repaired his omissions nnd paid court right and left. But when I was present I was nil in all. Wo sat out dances and paced the side walks, wandering up and down- tlje block with that freedom which village life allows. "He can't propose toh,cr, because he's engaged to Edith," I heard a voice say one evening. "That wouldn't bo a straw in his way," was tho reply. I heard both indifferently. I saw Edith grow paler aud thinner, and unhappincss settle on her face like disease. I pitied her, only her pretea sions to John Templo seemed absurd. Ho was mine if I cared to havo him. Ono evening I was luto at a dance. When I came in John Templo was the center of a group of girls. There was a laughing dispute among them. 'But I have documents," ho said, and pulled from his pocket a time stained card. "Years ago I knew there was a time coming when you would deny your ages so I took precautions to get thcro then. I guoss I'm equal to the arithmetic." There was a cry and hands flung up to seize tho card which he quickly re stored to his pocket. "Who would have thought you could havo been so sly," one cried. "What a base advantage of innocent confidence," exclaimed another. Well as I knew him, thnt he could jo long and secretly cherish such a little scheme was a revelation. Ho disentangled himself from them and came to me. After a few languid whirls he said, "Let us leave this." And as usual we went out on the gallery wbcro we sat down on a bench beneath tho viues. John Temple had never made love to me. He treated me with an air of pro prietorship as one might care for a rare vase, or something too delicato and precious for common use. It was so different from the free and easy relations of young people even when they are in love, that it had an unique and most ugreeable value. "You will always be young to me, Kitty," he said, as we sat down. "Iu my thoughts you are still a fiery little child." "Are you going away to-morrow?" he asked after a silence. "Yes." "You must not go. I cannot let you go. You always eay so long. Ah Kitty, you won't go?" "There are others." "There is only you, Kitty. Did you ever know that years ago I inado a bet about you?" "Yes, I heard of it." "The time is up, Kitty, the gage was a ring. I have it here. But I want you to wear it. Where is your dear littlo hand. Yours? Mine. I can't remem ber tho day when I did not claim it." I began nervously to pull off my glove, warm and clinging from his stroug grasp. "Where is the ring? I put it here." Ho begau to probe the traditional waist coat pockets. I turned over the long glove stripping it from my hand now half revealed. "Yo god3," he laughed loudly. "I had forgotten. Lauva Goldeu wears that ring. It is Laura's haud that is mino." She was tho Southern girl. How, I know not, but a diamond bau blo that I had borrowed from my aunt changed its place aud then I tore oil my glove. Tho ring donccd in tho moonlight, but my heart stood still, stunned by the brutal blow. "You never woro that riug before,"' he challenged. "I only got it to-day." "What does it mean?" "Thut there is some one at homo want ing me back." "You said you were goiug to Muys ville." "I om for a few days only." "You havo outwitted me." My heart hud grown steadier. I could now ask as well as answer. 'Now tell me why you have taken tho trouble during ull these years to play this little game?" "When you wero a littlo girl you humiliated me. I suid then I would be revenged and I never relinquished my purpose." My inability to understand such vln dictiveness brought my head to the aid of my heart. "Do you feel satisfied?" I usked, not without malice. "You huve outwitted me, I said be fore," he answered sullenly, uud I could have told him but for an instiiut'i mis calculation, he had tho reward of bis years of effort. "Enough of this," I suid. "You havo had your littlo game and I mine. Let us go iu." 'Kitty, you are not going, you can not." Ho bent upon me all the fervor of his eloquent eyes. "Oh, can't If" I got up. "There is that between us viii'ch has never beyu. said," j 'The rest is silence," I answered, and my airy gown slipped through his hands. I saw him after I went in with his head bowed id his hands, "Take me home, Aunt Betty, I'm tired," I pleaded with my gay maiden aunt. As we went out I saw John Tern pie come in by the window, and as wa closed the gute his blond head was droop ing over Laura Goldcn's shoulder, "Here is your ring Aunt Betty, it hurts my finger. But you can't tell how I en joyed wearing it jus once." "I didn't know you were so fond of diamonds, Kitty." "I am on occasion. This was an oo casion." "Well, I'll leave it to you in my will to remember it by." "Never!" I shrieked. "Never! I never want to seo it again' And I sobbed myself to sleep. Tho next day I went to Maysville, ten miles away. Tho third day John Templo came up and drove by the house, waving his hat out of the carriage window. It was a "protected spree," Aunt Betty wrote me. I never saw John Temple Again. When ever I heard of him, he was still treading on women's hearts and being fed by de votions. We never either of us mar ried. Last week I learned he was dead. Ho hnd been thrown from his horso on the plains and was killed. He had been drinking. Long since I lost tho power to core. I can ouly wonder at the prodigality of na ture, who can creato bodies like that of John Temple, so beautiful, so gracious, so full of clifinn, aud then loave them to perish as should misshapen creatures, by neglecting to provido them with a soul. ' Epoch. What an Iudlan Can Stand. To show what an Indian can stand when he has to, I may tell of an incident which happened during the winter I was with them. Toward evening on a very cold winter day, when it was snowing just a littlo and drifting a great deal, an Indian came to the log houso wifh a jug half full of whisky and with his rifle. I imagine that the jug had been entirely full of whisky when he started, and by tho time he got to the houso he was in rather a jolly condition. The lug and the rifio wero taken away from him, and ho was ordered to get to his wigwam as as quick as be could before darkness came on. lie left, and was supposed to have gone" to the camp, but early next morning his squaw appeared at the houso and said he had not coiuo home that night, and as the night was cold she had been auxious about him. Then the search for the lost Indian began. ' Ho was found in one of the sheds near the barn under a heap of drifted snow, and th 3 chances are that the snow that was above him had helped to save his life. The searchers for the Indian had gone in different directions and it was his own so, im w who, with true Iudian in stinct, had tracked him out, and she was alone when she found him. Appar ently tho Iudian was a frozen corpse. Sho tumbled him out of the snow bank and' dragged him down to the creek, where a deep hole was cut iu the ice for tho pur pose of watering the cattle. Laying the' Indian out on the snow, shs took tho pan that was beside the hole, and, fill ing it repeatedly, dashed pailful after paiful of ico watsr over the body of tho Indian. By tho time the other unsuc cessful searchers had returned she had her old man thawed out and seated by the fire wrapped up in blankets. Thcro is no question that if ho had been found' by the others, and had been taken in tho house frozen as he was, he would have died. Detroit Free Vrett. ' The Music of Chiueso Speech. There is iu China not only nn iutimato association between music aud poetio i' speech, but aho between music and speech generally. The Chiueso being a inonos) ll'ibic language, depends to a great extent upon uiusicnl intonatiou to convey meaning. If you listen to tho conversation of your Chinese luuBdrymen you will discover that their ordinary speech is almost as musical as the recita tivo sccco of the Italian opera. Many words iu tin Chinese language take from three to six different meanings according to intonation. These intona tioiiB, as Dr. 8. Weils Williams forcibly urges, have "nothing to do either with accents or emphasis." They ure distinctly, musical, and it is much to be regretted that Dr. Williams was unable, for obvious want of the musical talent, to studv themi from a musical point of view, as it is all) out :mpos;b-e to convey u clear uuder- slauaiug ot tlieir nature by description There seems to be mauy variations, but generally there aro four cf these intona- tious, or shing, named and defined as follows: One, ping shing, or "oven tone"; two, shaug shing, or "rising tono"; three, k'eu shing, or "declin ing tone ; and four, jun shing, or "en tering tono." Century. Prayer Anion? the Mongols. Ou the tops of all the houses were littlo prayer wheels turned by tho force of tho wind, a simple urrungcuieut like an ane mometer placed ou them catching the air and so keeping thnm iu motion. In the hands of most of the old men and women wero bronze or brass prayer wheels, which they kept continually turning, while not satisfied with this me chuuical way of acquiring merit, they mumbled tho popular formula "Om maui peme hum," the well-known invocation to Avulokiteshwariui, the would-be sav ior of tho world. Century . An Owl Kilts a Dog. In a Main street window iu Pawtucket there is a fine specimen of tue cat owl, alive aud apparently ugly. It was caught above tho Diamond Hill Iteseivoir in rulhor a curious manner. One of the resi dents iu that vicinity was iu tho woods with his dog, a Gordon setter, when the owl attacked tho do, cutching it by the throat. The owl succeeded in killing the dog, but it benk or talons were caught iu the dog't hirlr uud its capturo was easy Froi Utncel(. .) Jvurmtl. SOME ENOKi OUS SALARIES. BIO WAGES tHAT SEEM TO SB PAID FOB V2EY LITTLE EFFORT. Why It ii That Corpopotlrtnsi Pay liargi- Hum to Those Who Mail' atfe'l hem The President's Salary, Chaunccy Dcpcw has always been very retirt-ut us to his salHfy as President of the New York Central, but others who appear td be familiar with his incomo say that he certainly receives from tho New York Central $75,000 a year and that he makes from his outside legal practice au additional $25,000, making his total income $100,000 a year. This may seem an exorbitant sum to pay to a man whoso career by most folks is thought to be one of unalloyed pleasure. Hut Mr. DcpcW does not receive tho $75,000 from tho New York Central in remuneration for any severe manual strain on his part, but for his comphensive knowledgo of tho affairs of that company and his ability to direct tliexn with tho least possible friction. Mr. Dcpcw's office from early morning to late at night is filled with all sorts of people with all sorts of questions, and the man who receives tho big salary he does must be able to answer them most satisfactorily, and always in the in terests of the New York Central. Then take some of the salaries of other New Yorkers: II. B. Hyde, President of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, re ceives $50,000; James W. Alexander, the Vice-President, $40,000, and John A. McCall, tho Comptroller, $25,000. R. A. McCurdy, President of the Mutual Insurance Company, receives $50,000, nnd II. A. Grannis, the Vice-President, receives $30,000. W. II. Beers, Presi dent of the Now York Life Iusuranco Company, receives $00,000, and Dr. Henry Tuck, the Vice-President, $30, 000. John It. liegeman, tho Vice-President of the Metropolitan Insurance Com' pany, receives $35,000. D. O. Heald, President of the Home Fire Insurance Company, gets $35,000, nnd John W. Murray, the Vice-President of the German-American Company, $35,000. Then look at some of the salaries paid to the chief officers of bauks and trust companies. Frederic P. Olcott, Presi dent of the Central Trust Company, re ceives $60,000; Richard King, President of the Union Trust, receives $50,000; General Louis Fitzgerald, President of I the Mercantile Trust Company, receives DWU.UUt); John A. Stewart, President of the United States Trust Company, toddl ;s along with $50,000, and Colonel W. L. Treuhohn, President of the American Surety Company, receives $20,000. President Williams of the Chemical Bank, and President Perkins of tho Importers nnd Traders, each receive $20,000, and the average salary of other bank Presi dents in New York is from $10,000 to $15,000. There is a long string of such salaries, and the general opinion is thut the men earn their money. The interests of these vust company are all under the minute observation of the commanding officer. These interests ex tend over all the globe und require the greatest judgment and tho most skilful knowledgo of affairs. Mauy of these officers, by their keen knowledge of af fairs of state and nations, save their com. panics annually ten times the salary they receive. They are provided against al most every system of the blackmail by reason of their vast experience in the conduct of their companies and earn their salaries many times over. Up iu tbo dry goods district tho big men of the Claflin Company, Tefft, Wel ler & Company, and other firms of that calibre, receivo on an avciage $5000 to $10,000 a year. There are several excep tions where buyers nud others run their U'lcomes up from $10,000 to $20,000 a year. This is in tho dry goods jobbing branch, because iu the ihy goods com mission branch the nverago salary of au employe is from $2500 to $5000 a year. There are exceptional people who receive $7500. All of these people earn their money, too. The vast experience neces sary to buy goods successfully and to keep in touch with the vast competition of tho present day is certainly worth n liberal income. Then the selling of goods re quires an extended acquaintance, much personal outlay and the temperament of a diplomat. Looking over these few facts and fig ures the salary of tho President of tiio Uuited States conies iu for consideration. The President receives 50,000 a year, and from the day he enters tho White House until the hour he leaves it very few men can tell how hard he earns his money. There can bo no adequate rule of compensation applied to his case. Tho vust army of orlice holders and oflioo seekers who besiege him ought to make the place worth $500,000 a year at tho least. But possibly the compensation for the place is eked out by its great honor und the hurrahs und cheers which greet tho President, no matter how un popular he may be, wherever ho goes. The salutes of the great cruisers, the hauls playiug "Hail to the Chief," tho great personal honors show u the holder of tho office, no doubt are intended to make up the compeusutiou, which can not be represente i by hi salary of $50,. 000 a yeur. The Cabinet officers re ceive $8000 a year. Senators uud Cou. greosmen receive each $5000 a yeir. Governor Hill receives $10,000 u year, und the Senators and Assembly men re ceivo $1500 a year. Ouu has o ily to look ut the difference iu tliu figures re cti v eiFby men i iT "piTiTtir-rtfe -nrtrd -1-) : . iso paid tl men who reach the pinnacle in busiuess life in New York to observe the great difference and to wonder ut it. Tho wonder is that men of the personal abil ities ut the brad of the National and State Governments .should consent to ac cept the salaries paid to them. Hut then coines the universal statement thut the huors of the places held by them, in a measure,- must make up fur this vast difference in the pecuniary compensa tion. Ac it Yurk Sun. The Lehigh Valley Hailioud owns tho longest freight house in tint I " n i t I States. It 10 Mtude lat JSiill do, -N V. ! lis leui-lh is 150 feet. I SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A luminous crayon has been invented. Electric motors ore being Introduced on the underground railway in London. Somo interesting exjerimcnts have re cently been mado iu Denmark in fellies trees with gun cotton. Attempts are now being mado to per fect a system of preventing incrustation in boilers by means of electrical action. A naturalist claims to havo discovered tho only fresh-wnter sharks known, in Laka Nicaragua and the river approach to it. The British Admiralty engineers aro conducting experimental ninety-six-hour runs of boilers undir forced draught at Portsmouth. Sir John Lubbock kept a queen bee for fifteen years, a test proving her eggs to be just as fertile at that age as they wero twelve years before. The largest barometer yet made has been put in working order in the Saint Jacques Tower, in Puris. It is forty-one feet fivo inches high. Experts say that us far as fireproof floors are concerned nlternate layers of plank nnd cement form tho most impene trable of constructions. A sawmill foreman has invented a do vico for keeping gum from tho rim of the baud saw by causing a spray of water to constantly play on the blade. Au electrical furnace ias been pat ented in England which is said to havo given excellent results in the series of tests to which it bus been subjected. An important manufacture of butter from cocoanut-milk is growing up in Germany. Cocoanuts for tho purpose are imported in largo numbers from India. Crcosotcd wood has been found to have such excellent lasting qualities that its economical properties havo suggestod its use for permanent haulage, roads, shaftways, etc., in collieries. There is ns yet no satisfactory machine forcutting cornstalks in the field. Sclf biudiug reapers are used in somo locali ties to cut the smaller varieties of corn, but for large, fully matured sorts these do not work well. A line of electrical omnibuses is about to run from Charing Cross to Kings Cross in London. One of them, handled by the managing director of the company, lately conveyed the Lord Mayor from Euston to the Mansion House. Professor A. J. Cook, speaking of tho food of bees, remarks that the carbohy drates are sufficient for the life of the in sects, but that they must have nitrogen ous food to support them during tho pro cess of reproduction. The former they derive from the honey of plants, the lat ter from spores, grain, fungi and bee bread. The respiration of insects has been tho subject of study by M. Contejean, who has found that, contrary to what takes place in vertebrates, the movement of inspiration as passive uud that of ex piration active. Tho nir is driven from the body by o contractilo effort. Hence, when the insect is wounded, the flow ol blood occurs at each expiration. Tho re spiratory movemeut is not interrupted by cutting o'Tthe bend, nor by tho absorp tion of curare, which produces au imme diate ce-,:ation iu man. Effect of W ind on Trees. Trees which grow in exposed situations have their tops always leauing away iu tho opposite direction from tho prevail ing winds and tho casual observer con cludes that the branches have been bent by the constant pressure of the wind and retained their position. Now, although such trees havo tho appearance exactly of trees bending under a gala, still it is not prcssuro iu that way which has giveu them their shapo. The fact is, thoy hav blown away from tho blast and not been bent by it after they grew. Examination of the branches and twigs will show this. Wo hardly realize the repressive effects of cold wind upon tree growth, which it purtially or altogether arrests, accord ing to its prevalence. Conifers show the effect of this more distinctly tliuu othei trees. Owing to the horizontal habit ot growth of the branches, they point di rectly to tho teeth of tho gale from what ever direction it comes, and cannot, like the oak, lean over und grow in tho op. posito direction, hence coniferous trees growing iu exposed situations produce good, long branches on their lee sides, whilo ou the windy side tho brunches re tain their rigid horizontal position, but muko comparatively littlo growth, which is simply suppressed. Example: I measured the branches ol a Nordinuuu's spruce, growing iu a posi tion fully exposed to the north and south. One brunch on the north side of the tree had fifteen annual nodes or growths, aud was seven feet long, und its opposite had the samo number of nodes, but was nearly two und one-half feet longer, all the lateral branches being proportionately pjng uud well furnished. The (JarJen A T h i i tceii l'o u ii d K 1. 1 re. "Yes," said a Main street hardware dealer ti u Cincinnati Timet-SUir re porter, "that is the largest knife it America. It was made to order bv firm iu Gennauy. One nmu did tin wholo job, and it took him just a year." Tho kuifo iu question is known to almost every person iu Cincinnati und perhaps for ono hundred miles around It has fifty-six blades aud is u chest ol tools iu itself, containing unythinr from u slender toothpick or a cigui punch to a p iir of scissors or a hand saw. The handle is of tortoise she! uud tho immovable pin ts arc gold plated. It weighs thirteen pounds and u modest card says: "For sale, $500." A Town Willi Hut One Man. A town iu England, Hkidduw, Cum berland, stands unique us a township ol one house nnd one solitury male udult in hubitaut. This man is deprived of his vote becuu e of the fact that there arc nc overseers to make out u voter's list, und UJ church or public building ou whicl publish one if uiude. A'no York Juur- t. SONQ OF THE BULLET. It whiiwd and whistled along the blurred And rad-bleut ranks; and it nicked the star Of an epaulette, as it snarled the word War! On it sped and the lifted wrist Of the ensign-bearer stung, and straight Dropped at his side as tbo word was hissed Hatel On went the missile smoothed the blua Of a jaunty cap and the curu thenof Cooing, sweet as a dovs iir jht eo- Love I Pang sanj on ! sang Hate sang War Sang Love, in sooth, till Its ne?ds must cease. Hushed iu the heart it was questioning for Peace 1 rJomes Whiloomb Riley. DUM0R OF THE DAY. Tlis supremo court A youth's first wooing. A good thing to have arouud Uie hou?3 A fence. Statesman. "Is Mr. Robinson a siuglo man?" No; he has a twin brother." Life. A comb may show its teeth, but it never gets its back up. liinrjhamton UepuoUcan. Tho favorite worker is the Chicago Post. "I draw the fisherman said plant of the political famous itchiug palm. lino right here," as the when ho got a bite. I'itMurg Chronicle- Telegraph. Customer "Is tho manager in? I want to buy some doors." Hoy "Yes, he's in but he's out of doors." JVeio York Herald. A lawyer defending a burglar used as an argument in favor of insanity the fact that the burgular left $10 in the safe, Vanseille Brttze. Age comes to every man, but fato Is kind to woman fair, For when she reaches twenty-eight She stops right then and there. Cape Cod Item. Father "Another bad report from your teacherl I hope next time you will do better." Son "That's right, papa don't lose your courage." Flieqtndi lilaetler. Patient "Thnt medicine you gave tah for my cold, doctor, cured mo entirely." Doctor (in surprise) "Did it? Well I believe I'll try it myself. I can't get rid of mine." Visitor "I suppose your daughter Is busily preparing for her wedding?" Mother "Yes; she is up to her room now, destroying all her old letters." Household Monthly. ' The Duke of Norfolk, who was much addicted to the bottle, asked Foote, tho actor, in what new .character ho should go to a masquerade. "Go sober," was the instant reply. Chicngo Ntuit. "I'm saddest when I sing," I said; 'Twas little Maud I said it to. She sighed aud raised her pretty head And spoke "There's others just like you P New Yurk Herald, "How does it happen that Dr. AVorld ly performs the marriage ceremony for so many old maids ?" "Oh, ho always asks them in an uudiblo tone if they are ot age, and they all like him." Ari York Herald. Fashionable Young Lady "Papa, what would you do if you found out I was going to elope?" Father "Why, I'd stand outside thn houso nnd hold tho ladder for your Iljmeo." Xeio York Journal. "If you wish in the world to advance, Your merits you'rn bound to enhauee, You iiiimt stir it and stump it, And blow your own trumpet Or, trust me, you haven't a ehauee." The newspapers are forever speak ing of "the blush5"" bride.") Well, when you reflect upon the ind of hus band not a few of the brides marry, you cannot wonder that they should blush. Histon l'rtiitteritt. "What kind of n physician is Dr. Scalpel?" "Splendid! I never saw his equal. His diagnoses aro wonderful. He makes a dead suro thing of it every time." "Docs he? Well, I goes I won't have him." Boston Tranterij't. Salesman (showing samples of wall paper to youug couple) "Here, now, is a pattern with a beautiful chocolate back ground that '' Youthful Hrido "Oh, Herbert; thut will jijst suit me! Ym know I ulmost live ou chocolate." ( Ciigo Ti iliune. "Five years ago," began the stranl, to Wentniau, "I sought thut woman to , my wife. 1 believed her to be congenial light-hearted una beautiful. Has our married life been pleasant I Nol'' "Why not?" usked Wentman. "Why not? Becauso she declined to marry me, of course!" American Grocer. j A lOOO-Milo Circuit. i Tho most remarkable wire ever known, it is suid, is tho Cambridge, Mass., Sun I Francisco time circuit," which was iu operation iu lSs71-2. The wiro extended from the Cambridge Observatory to San Francisco, bj way of Boston, Spring field, Hartford, No v York, Buffalo, Chi- i c-ago und Omaha, returuir.5 .uver the 1 same route to Chicago, then to' PittaV burj;, Harrisburg, New York, New Ha, ven, I'rovKleuce, Uostou aud into C bridge. I The observatories were "looped iu' each terminal, forming a complete ! ciiit lis 5 3 miles ia length. .Vko i IJUi mil. Talking Fishes. ' S, A Paris scientist has published the ro suit of his researches ou ihe suhlr, t of I tuikiug fishes. He says that every tiih 1 in some way or other talks to a 1M1 of ih same kiud. Herrings cry like me roach grunt like pi;,rs, uud tench niaki noise like frogs, Cunger eels bark 1:1 codfish hiss. Lobsters und crati scream when they are boiled, nud i'ar soles have a way of communicating t fact of their stuleiios to liuiers at 'esta rants. London Tid liitt. joiio.aac.ta, iu jnpali 1. , - ; j3'."J Horn suu 1 1 uciecy, J i
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