1 TEE FOREST BEPDBL1CAN b pabllsh.4 crtrj Wadanday, ky J. E. WENK. Offlo In Bmearbanth ft Co.'a Building tXM STRUT, TIORKSTA, ra, Terms, . . . .bo ptrTMr, fltnbKrtptloM relTf lot 1 skortar Mrlod Ihi Itar. months. Oormapondtnca toilettes fram al part, af th conn try. Ne n.Uc. wtU ke lakaa of unrmoua nmm unteaUona. RATES OUTADVERTISING. On. Sonar., til Inch, em. InaerUoa IN Om Sqaara, en. Inch, en noath I M Ob. Square, lock, thro, months. ... in Oa. Squirt, ea. Inch, d. rear 1 M Two Sqoaree, or. rear If M Quarter Col am u, ra. year MM Half Column, on. rear MM Oi. Colomn, en. tw IMM 111 idnrtlMBMnt. tea esU net Uae Me lav Mrtloa. llerrl.goi and teeth notices aratte. All kill, for yearly ariertlitnenta cllrte4 qc tarty. Temporary advertisement. Boat k. pus Ik aaranee. Jok work atk an dellrery,. t Republican VOL. XXIV. NO. 4. TIOWESTA, TA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1891. Sl.50 PEll ANNUM. FORKS Twcnty-thtce Slates now have Bu reau of Labor find Statistics. One of the largest manufacturing con cerns in Brazil say that American ma chinery is superior to anything made in Europe. firadtlreet's state, that there are in New England half a hundred stock farms, whore twenty years ago there were prac tically none, and in California the brood ing of fust horses has becomo almost a craze. In 1890 the largest number of Italians arrived in the United States in any one year, being 62,001, of whom nearly eighty per cent, must be classed as un skilled; in fact, 15,235 stated to tho in spection officers that they had no special . gainful occupation. Tho New York News predict that this will be an exceptional year for .'mnlgra tion. The figures for a recent month in dicate a larger influx of foreigners by twelve or fifteen thousand than we had duriug the same period in 13!)0. Tho Italians predominate. A citizen of St. Louis makes a good living by renting turtles to restaurants for advertising purpose). Ha gets (3 per day for each, and they are always in demand. They are left outside tho door tho duy before turtle soup is servod, and create a run the next day for tho soup, but they are not in it. A recent writer suggusU that tho sciences might receive new names that would be self-explaining, llo would give us bildloro in place of ornithology; fishlearning instead of ichthyology; plantloro for botany; sturloro for as tronomy, etc. Some of these are occasion ally used already, nud there is no good reason why wo should not adopt all of them. A Mew Orleaus paier reminds the Italian press that twenty-two English tnd American v tourists hare been cap tured by brigands in Italy during the lost fifteen years, and of this number nine were murdered because they could, pay no rausom. Tho Italian Govern ment movad not a hand in any one case, nor did England or America make any thrcnts. Herbert Spencer opposes socialism be cause ho says that it turns back progress and is a foe to personal freedom. Com . pulsory co-operation, ho thinks, would result in a society like that of ancient Peru, whore the peoplo in groups of 10, 60, 100, 500 and 1000 were ruled by officers, tied to their districts, superin tended in their work and business and made hopeless toilers for the support of tho Government. The British Medical Journal, in an ar ticle commenting on a case of hypnotism described iu a New York paper, insists that England shall pass laws to prevent tho reckless practice of hypnotism in Great Britniu. The article expresses re gret that reliable information is at hand that several physicians of standing' are ' traveling in England under assumed names nud practicing hypnotists upon all applicants, regardless of risk to health and life. An Euglish etigiueer of hlal standing in a recent paper on our ucv' navy said that iu general workmanship an I iu many dutails tho now ships built in this country were equal to Euglaud's best, and that the armament of the battle ships were more powerful thar tint of any ships of the same class bvilt in Europe. In con cluding his adfe3 ho declared that the work of tho American contractors was worthy o' study by all Englishmen iu terested 'n subject. tjc Gopuau press is not allowed a gcial r,te on its telegraphic corre .pondenre, the Government making no liseriiviluation. Iu all other countries pre3i dispatches are transmitted at greatly reduced rates, but Dr. Stephen, Director of the Germau Telegraph, re cently declared that ho saw no reason whatever fur favoring the newspapers thus. As a result of his illiberal policy, notes the Chicago Pott, the press messages of Germany constitute ouly 1 J per ceut. of the total traffic, and the German newspapers arc aruoug the dullest on earth. A groom's light to wear a moustache has beeu tried in England, with the court's decision iu his favor. When Mrs. GrimshawV ('room was engaged he was smooth shaven but after a cold ho grew a inmi'tacUi by his doctor's ad vice, whereupon Mis. Criiusliaw ordered liim to shave or go without notice. The Judge held that tho detuaud was un reasonable. If he had been a house servant, weuiug powder and white silk lockings, suggest the Boston J'ran t(ri)i(, lie might have beeu required to shnve; but a griom was au outdoor i -vant, nul .a nioustaclio was a uatu protccliou againsr the weather. T. plaiutill got if ii duumgei. LIGHT. What does the Mind man, blind from In fancy, Note in the vistas of his sleeping dream J Living in darkness 'neath light's glowing stream. What can dreams show him that would lovely be? Loud would he sing, joy-brlmmlng, suddenly To know the blessing of day's faintest gleam Brighter than bright dream pictures then would beam Life's radiant beauties In his vision free. And would not we, reposing Iu the gloom, Dreaming In shadow, reft by death of right. In awe-struck joy and wonder wake to see, Like the day breaking into sudden bloom, About us burst the rolling sea of light That gilds the white shores of eternity? H. K. Mnnkit trick, in the Century. MISS MLL0WAY. BV CARRIP. A. UIUFFIK. Miss Dilloway looked the back doiir of her small house, and hung tho key in plain sight near t lie kitchen wiudow. How f.ir tho safety of her good and chattels was ensured by this simpf) net she never stopped to tamsid; but? noth ing would have induced her to leive the door unlocked. On her way down the .narromrcpravcl walk she stopped to pull A w;od here and there from the najwer-bed, anal to pick up an obnoxious piece of )apcr which had somehow f'juud its waft- into the midst of the lloweils. She Btonight ened a young Bnlm rtf Gilead tnee, and tied it more securelylo the smlill stick which served ns a prop; tlfcrn, ckmiugthe Cnte carefully behind ljer, sho walked briskly down the village tjtreet. Sho had walked rather timidly alcng the platform of tho little railroad sta tion, and was about to enter thewafting room when sho was nccosUid byu man standing near, who was chicking asoli-, tary trunk.-' "Wal, wal, Miss Dilloway ! Goin' on a journey?" "Not much of a one," she 1 answered, , curtly. "Wal, go right in, and I'lhtbe in ima minute." Ho soon appenred at tho tidket-oftice window, curiosity written nil over liis face. Miss Dilloway noted it. "I want a ticket to I'reston. How' much is it?" she said!. 'Oh, to Trcston! Eighty-fire cents. Let tno ceo; got any relations up that1 way?"' "No. Can you change five dollars?'' "Oh yes twenty-five, if you say so! Wal, didn't Ezry's folks movo up,'Pres ton way, or nigh there 1" "No; they moved to Ciar'mont. How soon'll the train go?" Old Mr. McQuestion lenued forward and looked out through the otHco window at the clock on tho wall. "Iu 'bout fifteen minutes. Hetdown; set down ovcrthcro in the rocking-chair, and mako yourself comfortable. 'Taint every depot that's got a rocking-chair. Ahem! Goin' to be gone long?" "No," answered Miss Dilloway, with a slight smile, rather enjoying the situation. "No? H'm h'm! Wal" m mo goon nmu . luiuiMij niu notsnnu me inorner was so aucctea by Ins to be gratified thaf morning. A call 1 death that Bhe never rallied after the baby from the baggage-room necessitated hisl.came. Tho littlo fellow seems to bo hurrying away, and the ten o'clock J wholly alone in the world." a .1 1 ; Innn Lira 1 1 1 In M i. e. I .t 11111 T 1 1 accommodation soon bore little MisM Dilloway out of sight and hearing In two hours' timo she was standings before a large brick building, over the ,j massive door of wnlch were the words: "Home for the Friendless." She trembled , a little as she ascended the grnuite steps, and waited a little timo before sho rang; tho bell. A white-capped servant .showed Ucr into a suiull reception-room. It stunned as if her nervousness increasednvith every moment's waiting, and when a tall, serious Indy came slowly into the 'room. Miss Dilloway wished very much indeed that she were safe at home. "You came to see our littleioncsJ"' said the lady, with a smile whichdrove- all the stern lines from her face " Ye-es ; I did como to get one tot adopt ; but now t 1 in here, I don t know that I'd ought to." " Pcihaps you can tell better after seeing." " Yes, yes, I suppose; I can. You see I made up my mind rather suddenly. Mr. Thornton, our minister I como from Rentham preached a most power ful sermon lust Suuday from the text, Whoso shall receive one such littlo. child,' and that sermon Ins been haunt ing me ever since, tie naci just como from a visit to Boston, where lie saw an orphan asylum; and ho said it made his heart ache to see so many littlo children who never knew what it was to have n mother's kiss on their foreheads." Miss Dilloway wiped a tear from her; eye, aud went on "And then he said, if the Lord was going to ask us by and by what uso we had made of the talents He had given us, he didu't see why Ho shoulu't ask us what use we'd made of our homes, es pecially those folks who had beeu given houses bigger than they needed. Ho asked them if the people didn't think it wasn't burying rooms, as the mau buried the talent, to keep them shut up; and he urged them to open their hearts and homes to be mothers and fathers to some little waif who didn't have uuy parents. "Then he capped it all by saying that he and Mrs. Thornton had just adopted a live-year-old boy from that very nsy lum. They've got seven already! Hut that's like Mr. Thornton; he ulways practises what he preaches. "Well, when I tat down that afternoon with my Bible und hymn-book, I couldn't get my mind off tlmt seruion. When I heard it, it didn't seem as if 'twas meant for me, but fur married folks; but some how the thoil'rllL of Abbv'a rhnmlwr 1111. stairs Abby a my sister who died lu&t ar kind of worked its wuy iuto my ud, and I wondered if the Lord would 'o lue, 'Cynthia Dilloway, have jou . hut rociu 'jf yours hid iu a uupkiuf 'Then I thought of j, cen fuli ot provisions, andmoie fflRn enough in tho bank to take care of ' ji if I ,ved to be a hundred ; and befor , l kncw jt, 1 aloud, 'I'll do itt jpn Rlve 0De of thoso poor things a hoin' 4) n,i r gUcf,9 i cnn 1)0 a kind of a mothc , to jt jf i , B oUj maid I "It surprint nn, j,nw mucj, company just tho thour- nt f hiving a littlo girl around has b en, for I made up mv mind, of course, i4 should bo a girl.' Since then I'vo ' JEen 0( getting ready and we',1, here I am!" Hy & ,ia timo littlo Miss Dilloway was wiping the perspiration from her face. She ' ,,H talked an unusually long time tw her. 'My friend," said the matron, who ' m been listening with interest to her ,story, "I am sure you will be blessed iu snaring your nome witu one oi Hon s tin. fortunate ones. Como with mo and let me show you my 'family.' " She led the way up a broad flight of stairs. Miss Dilloway soon found herself in a large room, which contnined so many children that tho first sight of them almost took her breath away. She had expected to see a dozen or twenty, pcrhnps, but hero were surely a hun dred. How could she choose from among so many. Ovor in tho corner one of the older girls was trotting a baby. Miss Dillo way wms very fond of babies, snd sho stopped instinctively to speak to this one, It looked up into her sweet face con fidingly, and then held out her small arm toward her. She 'took it eagerly, and, "pressed the little form close. k'I da love babies so!" she said half- fipologetically, to the matron, who was looking on with a smile, "i often say to the folks at home that I don't envy them their husbands, their big houses, or their rick-rack, as they csll (heir ornaments nowadays; but I do envy, them their babies. They seem to thiuV ' ;ucer, I don't see why old maids . '-'n't lovo babies ns well's married folks." "Why not adopt a baby." Miss Dilloway had intended to adopt au older child, aud the suggestion that the shmild take an infaut took her so much by surprise that she hastily re turned tho baby to its young nurse, and sat down in a chair. Then a strange thing happened ; the baby's lip began to quiver; tears gathered in its eyes, and its arms were held out again nppcalingly to Miss Dilloway. She took it instantly, and asked the matron : "She ain't more'n six months old, is she?" "Ho was just seven months'old vester- fday." "He! Is it a boy?" she almost screamed, looking at the child as if he wero to blarao for not being a gill. Tho baby seemed to realize that an important moment in hiB young life had nrrived. Ho patted Miss Dilloway's check with his fat palm and then snuggled dose to her sido. Miss Dilloway cleared her throat. "Well, I never liked boys very much after thcy'ro grown up, but if I should tnkc this ouc, I guess I shoul i get used to his ways before that timo. Do you anything about his parents?" "Yes. They were very nice people. Tho father died only eight months ago, jutt3 uiiiuwuv a uuuu was maua up from that moment, and early in the nf noon Mr. McQuestion, for the first tune in his life, lost his voice as littlo Miss Dilloway got off the truin with a baby iu her arms. Of course the people of Rontham wero surprised. It seems a very amusing thing to some of them that Miss Dilloway should adopt a baby, but those who knew her well and loved her, commend ed her worthy act aud rejoiced in her new happiness for happy she ccituinly i'was. It was certainly a beautiful sight to see Miss Dilloway with the baby in her arms. The child crowed, cooed uud was unmistakably very fond of his foster parent. Donations of slips, stockings and sac!ts for baby's wear came iu almost daily. One thoughtful ucighbov sent n cradle. Childrcu came iu with toys in numerable. Miss Dilloway held council with the mothers iu the neighborhood ns to the merits of anise aud the demerits of soothing syrup. Advico was freely given, but ofteu of such a contradictory nature that poor Miss Dilloway was puzzled. Nevertheless, baby grow and prospered, and made suushino iu tho lit tle old lady's heart. One day, about three months after baby's advent in ltenthain, n very un usual souud rang through Miss Dillo way's dwelliug. There were one, two, three clangs of the brass kuocker on the seldom used front door. When, with baby in her orms, she opened the door, sho faced a tall, well built man of substantial appearance in moro senses thau one, with streakstof gray in his hair. The man glanced at tho baby and said, without ceremony : "I guess I've struck tho light place. This is Miss Dilloway, ain't iti" Tremulously, holding tho baby very tight, and with an awful forebodiug at her heart, she auswereil: "Ye es. Will you walk in?" "Well, yes, I reckon I will, seeing I've come ull this distance to see the lit tlo fellow. There, now, dou't get scared! I've no notion of taking him from you. I shouldn't know what to do with him if I had him." Miss Dilloway's face continue! to ex press astonishmeut. "Well, well," said the man, "I guess I'd better introduce uiytelf. I'm Reuben Russell, late of Miuuesota, at present of nowhere iu particular. I got to Preston three days ago, aud went to work the first thiug to hunt up my uiecc Clary. I didu't know she was dead until I reached the place where she used to b.Kucl. I hadn't heard from her for over a year, and 1 was pretty well taken aback wheu they told me of her death and her hus band's, so nigh together. "But I was more taken aback when I heard sho'd left a baby, and that it had been sent to an asylum. Clary Dayton' baby, my novvy or grand-nervy- -in an asylum 1 "I traveled pretty quick to tho place, and I don't know whether I was glad or sorry when I lie.ird it had beeu adopted. Anyway, what I came here for's to sco the littlo chap look round here, sonny and to mnko some arrangement with you about hisboard or whatever you call it. I don't want Clary's child to be living on charity." "But it isn't charity, sir, it isn't charity I Y'ou see it belongs to me." Miss Dilloway said this with a half-vindicative nir. "I had tho papers regu larly made out." "Well, by and by, when he grows up, he'll have to be educated, and clothes bought for him. I'll start. him a bank account. What's his name?" "I I've always called him 'Baby.' '. haven't thought of any name yet," an swered Miss Dilloway, not just liking this "look ahond," when this bit of hu manity in her arms would need education and boy s clothes. "Land o' liberty! Clary's baby with out a name! Well, well. Ahem! Wh what do you say to calling him after me Reuben?" "I don't know that there's any objec tion," said the little woman, somewhat meekly. "Well, you think it over. I've got a little business down this way that needs looking after, so I shall probably bo round hero for a nay or two, and 1 11 come in again." Mr. Russell's business must have re quired more "looking after" than he at first supposed, for it detained him in Rontham more than a week. There seemed to bo an hour or two in each day, however, when it did not require his attention, aud these were spent iu "looking in to see how Clary's baby was etting on." . -nuld not have got on at all if Miss Dillowa " 'd not bec: present to inter fere, when fc...gerbred horses and highly colored BUgar soldiers found their way from Mr. Russell's pockets to baby's mouth. Something was brought for baby's amusement at every visit a jumping-jack, a rattlo or a woolly sheep uutil Mr. Russell and his small grand-nephew became very good friends. Mr. Russell returned to Pres ton, and was gone just two weeks. At tho end of that time he might have been seen one afternoon going toward Miss Dilloway's residence, boldly pushing a handsome baby carriage before him. He was hardly seated in Miss Dillo way's small sitting-room before he cleared his throat and began : "I've been thiukiug a good dcnl since I loft here a fortnight ago, Miss Dillo way, and I found I'd become a good deal attached to to the baby; and nhem! it struck mo that, as you're alone in the woild, and I'm alone, and as tho baby seems to kind o' belong to both of us, it wouldn't be a bad idea to made one family. What do jou say?" Perhaps what one of the neighbors said a short time after may throw some light on Miss Dilloway's answer. "She's sixty, and he's sixty-fire if he's a day; and it's too ridiculous to see them together with that baby!" Youth' I Companion. Pineapple Julco for Diphtheria. "Nature bos her own remedy for diph theria," says a Chicago man. "It is nothing more nor less than pineapple juice. I declare that I have found it to be a specific. It will cure the worst cose that ever mortal flesh was afflicted with. I did not discover tho remedy. The colored people of the South did that. Two years ago I was engaged in lumber ing iu Mississsippi. One of my children was down with diphtheria, and the ques tion of his death was simply the problem for a few hours to determine. Au old col ored man, to whom my wife had shown some kindnesses, called at the house, aud laying bo heard of my little one's ill ness, urged me to try piueapple juice. The old fellow declared that in Louisiana, where he catno from, ho hail seen it tried a million times, and that in each caso if had proved effective. So I secured "a pineapple and squeezed out the juice. After a while wo got some of it dowu tho boy's throat, and iu a short time ho was cured. Tho piueapple should be thor oughly ripe. Tho juice is of so corrosive a uutuie that it will cut out the diph theric mucus. I tell you it is a sure cure.'' A Curious BluutltT. )n most of the map3 iu uso In our schools and offices may bo fouu.l in tlie northwest part of tho Stato of Colorado a settlement indicated, called Golden City. Some of the maps even have a road leading to it. This, says G'otJ thifaitc't Ueiyrnjihiral iltjtzint, is a curious iu3tauce of the blunders that get into maps aud stick there. As a matter of fact there is no settlement in the whole region for miles around. It is iu the midst of the Colorado Bail Lan Is, an uninhabited wilderness. When this region was first explored some one dubbed this spot Uo'iliuCity ou account of the weird and fantastic shapes of the rocks iu that remarkable country. Some can less inapmaker altered the name to Golden City, presuming, possibly, that it was a mining cump, uud Goldeu City it remains to this day. Manhattan SjIJ fur $25. According to popular tradition the Island of Manhattan was sold iu 1021 for the sum of $25. The conclusion one would naturally jump to would be that iu the light uf subsequent events the sum was a ridiculously small price. But let us suppose that j:25 had been placed out at seven per ceut. interest in tho year 1624 aud bad been allowed, to compound up to tho year 1881, how much would it then have amounted tof Something iu the neighborhood til $1, GOO, 000), Oillj, Is the Islaud of Manhattan north much more thau that to-day ti'tarmactHliwl Jim. SUMREASURY DEFENCES. SAFEGUARDS SURROUNDING A NATIONAL MONEY CHEST. The Knb-Tronsury In New York City Is as linpregnnblo as a Fortress Its Armament. The Sub-Treasury has walls of granite, fight feet thick; it has floors of marble nud steel, walbuof iron and stone, arches and ceiling of solid masonry, window casing3 sheathed with iron, stairways of the samo material, and a roof of granito so Well made that cannon balls could do no more than chip it here and there. Bcsidesstickiug out of the roof at different points are iron turrets, built to withstand a storm of bullets or any kind of on attack, and with littlo oblong port holes, where rifle muzzles might bo stuck out, and bigger holes for tho ugly noso of a lightning Catling gun. Tho millions of tho peoplo aro well enough guarded, and if that big building, with its Corinthian architecture, had been built for no other purpose than to hold wealth it could hardly havo been made more strong or better calculated to resist an attack. Once o, week, and sometimes oftenor, when tho weather is damp, a colored man makes a special trip up the granite steps to tho third story. Ho passes through two barred gateways, tho doors of which clank with echoing sound very much like doors in a prison, aud ho en ters tin arsenal room. In the hours hn is there he cleans, polishes and oils 100 breech-loading forty-five calibro car bines, 100 forty-fivo calibro Colt's re volvers, threo five-boro and one eight bore Gatling guns, and sweeps tho dust from off 22,000 rounds of ammunition. On this floor the windows all have re cesses two or three feet deep, nud tho world can bo shut out by double iroi shutters, mado of i-inch boiler iron. Tho windows are about four feet square, and as he pointed them out Superinten dent Boltgcr talked in a calm, cold blooded way of defence. "Each window," he said, "has, you Bee, nn oblong portholo just big enough for tho muzzle of II rida to rest in and still give one a chance to sigiit it. No r, each window recess will hold two men who are protected and nblo to pick off whom they like. In every other win dow there it what wo call a swinging bonnet. By detaching a pin this ar rangemcnt swings so that it hangs out side tho window. Two men can sit in. side and cither shoot with rifles and re volvers out of the portholes or drop hand grenades from n round hole in the bot tom. It's all very simple, you see, but it would prove very effective in caso the necessity nrose." On tho Nassau street sido there arc ten portholed windows, and eleven bonneted windows. But that isn't half, and that is but child's play compared to the other arrangements for defence. In the iusido roof of the Piue ami Wall street porches there are several boles, as big around al most as a baby's head. Any one can sco these holes from the street, and they look as harmless as possible. But inside the building, and clustered closely around these orifices, aro boxes and boxes of pear shaped hand grenae'es loaded with shot. Superintendent Bott ger wcut on in his calm way: "These are boxes of hand grenades of two, threo and five pounds. There nre 1500 of them atouud here. If a mob were to collect on tho stuirs down thero all wo would havo to do would be to drop a Ive-pouud hand grenade, and well, thero is do use speculating on the result." That's for defence, and it's complete enough, for what mob could stand agaiust hand grenades? Up in tho littlo turrets, where two and threo men can stand und work aud feel as safe as if they were at home, there are enough portholes to command any point, and up in the big turrets, where ten men can work with rifles and Catlings, tho houses for blocks nrouud can bo com manded. Every window is grated, every skylight is protected, and you see noth ing but stoue, iron and steel, and before you get through you unconsciously foci us if you wero not in New York, but iu some place so remote from civilizing in fluence that to live meant to battle con stantly against an armed enemy. The protection which tho money vaults have consists of four doors to each vault. Tho outside doors arc time locked. Every door ha9 besido its sixteen steel bolts a special mechanical contrivauco which holds them shut when the door is locked. It isn't any kind of an inviting outlook for any thief,, for, as Mr. Hale Enid, "a man or a mob of men might bet ter begin operations at tho outside, for I honestly believe that if it came to a ques tion of days, they would get iu the vaults sooner than if they attempted the doors." Down below, tho vaults whcro the heavy gold and silver bars aro kept, aro reached by a flight of winding iron stain. That is well protected by steel doors, and besides, a man couldn't carry away a big bar of gold very well without attracting some attention. The simplest way to make au attack on tho Treasuiy would be in broad daylight, when busi ness was at its height. That would in volvo less labor, but it would probably be as unsuccessful as any other attempt would be. In regard to the inside protection the protection of tho money from the men who handle it. Thero are two keys to each of the upper vaults; two mcu hold tho combinations aud ca?li man but a substitute. Wheu it is uecessery to put in or take out any money the two men go in together. They do not go in to watch one auothcr it would not bo fair to say, for both urc men of integrity nud to bo trusted, but they go to guurd agaiust mistakes, to prevent possible errors, aud iu order that as good caro as ! possible may be taken of tho money iu their keeping. There are five watchmen roamingubout the Corinthian interior every night, uud every hour five "all rights" are sent iuto the oflico of tho Mercautilo Trust Com pany. If ut uuy time they are miesed they never have been yet there will bo a cunloii ot police aiuuutt lo una out why. Yci York i)'un. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Metal shingles are here. Copper is melted by electricity. A railroad car registers tho condition of the road. A saw has been designed for cutting iron, mild steel or other metals of fairly large sections. All the bridges over the Eric Canal ot Rochester, N. Y., arc to be operated hereafter by electricity. There are now 1034 compound loco motives at work or building, 623 being in England, 330 in Germany and eight in North America. The steam-hammer used In forging the armor plates of Bethlehem, Peno., has a plunge equal in weight to 125 tons. The anvil that receives this blow weighs 1400 tons. To prevent the evaporation of water in fire pails it has been suggested that fif teen to twenty drops of oil will form a coating sufficient to obviato the diffi culty. There has been invented a machine for cutting tubes of pa par for pill-boxos. Tho operations are all automatic and the work is said to bo rapidly per formed. Proprietors of the Pullman car inven tion report that paper car wheels havo run 400,000 miles under their cars, whilo the avcrago running power of an iron wheel is but 55,000 miles. During magnetic Btorins earth current on the British lines of telegraph have been known to attain the streugth of forty milliamperes. This is stronger than the usual working current. American shoe machinory has been in troduced into Leicester, England, aud has created considerable interest among tha manufacturers. A writer in a Man chester paper says that "Americans aro miles ahead" in shoe machinery. Fish are attracted by the electric light the same as insects and birds, and it has been found that the placing of an electric lamp of high power in tho sea, even at a part not frequented by fish, causes mem bers of tho lluny tribe to flock in grcut numbers. Lima (Ohio1) oil is being used success fully in a number of Pittsburg mills and factories. Rolling mill owners favor it because it docs not o:.ii?.:7.e tho iron, and for that reason it is thought tliat natural gas will soon be superseded by it. The oil is shipped from the field in tank cars, and a movomcnt is on foot tojtuild a pipe lino to that city. Dr. Arniand Jcannoutot, a young phy sician of Paris, is tho latest in the field as a consumption cure discoverer. His cure is by inhalation. His apparatus consists of a small tubular brass boiler, connected with a brass pan with a lid. When in operation, from under the lid escape vapors which spread about the room, one of the parts of which is prus sie acid. An ingenious Frenchman lias discov ered a process of recovering tho tin con tained in the wash waters of silk which have been weighted, and he has accord ingly received fiom the French Society for the Encouragement of Natural In dustry the prize allotted for tho utilization of residual substances. It is estimated that Lyons nlone will effect au annual economy of $150,000. Wrestllnj iu Japan. Ono of tho greatest, if not the great est, amusemeul in Jupati is to go to see me wrestlers. Wrestlers may be found in almost every city, and they travel iu companies through the provinces. On their reaching a country town a huge circus-like booth is built of straw mats, sufficient to hold nn audience of ono or two thousand ; criers are sent round the town, and a four or five days' perform ance is begun. Tho wrestlers aro mostly big men, nud the swells among them look as tall as Patagonians nud ns bulky as Daniel Lambert. In ordinary Japanese wrestling, where a competitor inty lose if he is pushed or thrown outside tho ring, weight is au impnrtaut factor. The meu aro usually matched in pairs, and they are called upon by an usher, who announces their names according to a pre-arranged programme. Two names being called, the men walk up tho op posite sides of a circle, about twelve or fifteen feet iu diameter, muike. . out by a band of straw. Here they pause, smack their hands, stretch their muscles, put up their hands heavenward as invoking a deity for success, look at each other, turn rouud aud tuko a drink. Tho next timo they advance they may squat dowu In front of ca;h other, make a few grim aces, stamp their feet aud make a feint or two; but usually it will end by their getting up, turning rouud aud having a second drink of water. This stamping, slapping, feintiug, grimacing may bo re peated half a dozeu times, uutil, ono hav ing irritated the other, there is a sudden spring sud the two aro locked together iu the tussle. If u favorite has won half the audience rise, yelliug with delight; hats, tobacco pouches, purses, fans, coats, silken sashes and all in inner of things go flying through the nir toward the victor. (Jomiturriui A-hertiner. About lilnt'lers. Glaciers are composed of frozeu snow uud not masses of clear ice as is sup posed by tuo-c who have never seen them. (In the surface, there is line, powder-like snow, below that it is courser, nnd beneath all is a thick stratum crushed and squeezed together by the pre.-siire of the mas above. The contour of the mountains is well adapted for keeping the accumulations of snow aul wheu thu mass is coagulated sulli ciently it beyim to How out in the form of a tongue. At the surface tho lee moves faster thau below where frictiou retards it. Iu souiu cast s glaciers move a few inches iu u day, but iu others they movo several fi t t. iu thu same time. Looso rock and debris of varying size collect ou the suilace nf the glaciers, and this is carre I down the mountain siiiu until it valley is leached, where thu ice melts, leavi'i the iU Iiih to cover tho surface of the land U-'ttvn Trautcript. SILENCE AND SOLITUDE. Cods ot the desert! Ye are they Wo shun from childhood's earliest breath; Our passing joys are but your prey; Ye wait the hours from birth to death. Over soft lawns where blossoms sleep, Under warm trees where love was born, ' I set your haughty shadows creep. And wait to meet ye there, forlorn. Afar on ancient sands ye rest, Carven in stone, where ancient thought Wrapt ye In terrors shapes unblest. Dreadful, by might of ages wrought. But not alone on Egypt's shores Sleeps the great desort : everywhere r Where gladness lived and lives no more, There Is a desert of despair. Strange messengers I Your brows of gloom Haunt every creature born of earth; Ye follow to the darkened room; Ye watch the awful hour of birth. Ye show the lovely way-side rose. Whose antique grace is born anew, Toeyesof grief. Grief on ly knows How tender Is tlie sunset's hue. Gotls of the desert! By your ban! Through the sad waters nre we brought Into a high and peaceful land Todrink of fountains else unsought. Annie Field, in Harper's Magazine, HUMOR OF THE DAY. A scft snap Tho baby's bite. A trunk line "Handlo with care." Bound to fill a drunkard's gravo Tho sexton. Puck. Tho man who deems his house his cas tle has the moat in his eye. Death is a wonderful mimic. Ho can take anybody off. Biny'iamton Leader. One of the greatest of home comforts is the shirt which isu't mado at homo. Pud. If you want to flatter a man, toll him he cau't be flattered. Philulelphiti Timo. A stroko of mlsfortuno Tho ono we havo all along been using against Yale." Hansard Lanioon. Tho fact that riches have wings may be tho reason that they enable a man to "fly high." Waihingtnn 1'oat. Tho colleges are not quito gono daft over athletics. They are still in posses ion of their faculties. Puck. Thero is nothing a man enjoys more thau cottiftlaining of his great responsi bilities. IndiatMjvlU Journal. "Ia your teacher n big man?" "Strap pin'," murmured Johnuy, as he" uncon sciously felt of tho soro spot. llartani Lampoon. Judge "What do you do during the week?', Tramp "Nothing." "And on Suuday?" "Then I take a day off." 2'exat Sit'tiny$. Teacher "How would you describe Henry VIII. of Eugland?" Student "I would describe him ns a professional widower. " Harper's Bazar. Before you start out to attain ft seat on the highest pinnacle of fame bear iu mind tlint it rims up to a pretty sharp point. Indianapolis Journal. Tho men who do not agree on ony pos sible poiuts of doubt nro tho oues that seem to find tte most pleasure in each other's society. Wanhinyton Post. Alone tho shore the city girl Will soon tm making freckles, Aud to the hot?! her pupa Will ante up the shekels. L'laak Jlctietr. "Some people," said a clever observer, speakiug of nu ovcrsen3itivo friend the other day, "leave their feelings lying around for other peoplo to step on." Boston Traveller. They woro talking about trees. "My favorite," she said, "is the oak. It is so noble, so niaguificcut in its streugth. But what is your favorite?" "Yew," he replied. Pittsburg J)ipatch. Thero is a man iu Atchison who ia always good aud kiud and thoughtful of others, but ho never gets any credit for it. Ho is so homely that people seem to expect goodness of him. Atchison (K.ut.) Globe. How hard it is to b'jlievo a man after we havo beeu lying to him ourselvei. It has sometimes happened that an habitu ally untruthful man has kept up his reputation nfter death by lyiug in state. Te-rat Siftings. Metamorphosis: An cniinout surgeon says that with four cuts and u few stitches ho can alter a man's face so his own mother would uot know biiu. Any news paper can do that witli only ono cut. Clictlnnd Plain Dialer. "Clara became old almost iu a moment the other night." "Nonsense!" "Not at all. Shu was sitting in the parlor with her young man when her father en tered. Her youth departed immedi ately." Ncut Yor'c Sim. "Like a wornnu!'' "f.ilto a man!'1 Hut ilisrnmin it who can? Lt-t's to truth nil lioiii'io render. Own, if wo would ha precise, l'Wery weakness, every viea All ui o of out' i.miii: jii gender. -Puck ,,What did thu lawyer siy to you, Bridget?" "llo axed mo did I know thero was brass enough in mo face to make a good sizid kettle, nnd I told him, shure, thin there was sauce enough iu his tongue to till it, the ould haytheu." Chicago Acir. "For ull we know there really may be a uiau iu the moon," suid thu lcathei drummer. "Thero is," said tho hard ware drummer, who naj still iudignaut over huviLg been sent to tho top floor. "I leaned out of my window aud had quite a talk with him last uight." In dianajiolit Ju'ti iia'. Don't Sleep With Open Mouth!. "Do you know why so mauy jwople get deuf us they grow olderl" said a doctor. "It is because they sleep with their mouths open. Auy mau or woman who docs this persistently for yours will finally grow deaf. But that is uot the only disadvantage of so sleeping. It u tlio cause of a si oie of iilleciiuus of tlio tho throat ami lungs, not to apeak ol altering." V r Orltans It nu Dtiimcrat.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers