THE FOREST REPUBLICAN la MbltakH tvery WrtaMdaj, ky J. E. WENK. Cfflo In Smear bangh St Co. 'a KuHdlut 1UI ITMIT, TIONMTA, T. Torm. ... (uopwTtar. RATI 3 Of ADVERTISING! One Square, on inch, ona insertion..! 1 Ofl One Square, one Inch, one month. . I 00 Ona Square, one inch, three month. , B 00 One Square, one inch, one year 10 Of) Two Hquare, one year 15 00 Quarter Column, one year 80 OG Half Column, one year DO 00 One Column, ona year . . 100 AO Local advertisement) ten cent par liava each insertion. Marriages and death noticed (fratla. All bills for yearly advertisements coDeeM quarterly. Temporary advertisement sens be paid in advance. Job work cash on dellrery. Forest Republican. VOL. XXV. NO. 39. wnanlcMiaa. 7 " TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, JAN. 18, 1893. $1.50 PER ANNUM. 'Sir George Trevolyao, Prlmo Minister Gladstone's Secretary for Scotland, gay wa may read books, but wo mutt read newspaper!. Thoro la said to be a distressing Amount of lunacy in Iroland, the number of cases per 100,009 of population hav ing increased from 249 in 1880 to 355 in 1891. The demand for Porcheron horses for export is so great that the purity ofhe breed is threatened, and stud-book has been started in Franco by which the pedigree may be preserved and the race kept up to the standard. About the lost logging that will bo flone in Michigan, Wisconsin and other lumboring States, according to tho "Woodworker, will bo that of reclaiming the millions of feet of sunken loirs which now lie in tho streams of those States. There are fourteen colored female teachers in the public school service of New York City. Two private kinder gnrtens and several day and evening chooli nre also supported by colored women. These ore all taught by colored teachers. The colored women in the public school service of Brooklyn ap proximate tweuty. In tho other citiea there nre very few colored women teach er. It may be of interestJjjSlia supporters of tho early closing movement to know that, according to a littlo pamphlet is sued for the guidance of commercial traveler, 632 towns in the United King dom recognizo tho early closing move ment in some form or another. Thcro is no early closing day in Liverpool. In Manchester thoy close on Wednesday at two. Glasgow is marked as a town where they close duily at 8. General William L. Cabell, of Dallas, Texas, sends to the Baltimore Sun a rotter of the surviving Generals of the Confederate Army, compiled from the most reliable data to be had to October 1, 1892. The number of general of ficers of all grades appointed and com missioned was 498. Ouo hundred and two rose to the rank of Major-General ncd twenty-one rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Geueral. General Joseph E. Johnston, ix Major-Qenerals, and twenty-two Brigadier-Generals are re pted dead since January 1, 1891. One hundred and sixty -six Generals survive. The Hartford (Conn.) Medical Asso ciation has adopted a resolution depre ciating the to Ued medical contract system. The growth of this system, notes the New York Tribune, has been great during the last few years. In Hartford alone there are twenty socie ties which provide their member with medical attendance for a small annual fee, ranging from fifty cents to $3. One society got the doctor to bidding against each other, and finally secured the ser vice of a doctor iu good standing for 37 1 cents per capita. T.ie physicians who go intothW sort of thing claim that it i remunerative and that their con nection with a society brings them out side practice. The iuperstition about the number thirteen being unlucky is put to multi plied test in the new tweuty. five-cent pieces, notes the Now York Sun. On one sido of the coin there are no less than ten repetitions of the number thir teen. There are thirteen stars, thirteen letters in the ccroll held iu the eagle' beak, thirteen marginal feathers in each wing, thirteen tail feathers, thirteen purallol lines iu tho shield, thirteen horizontal bars, thirteen arrow heads in ouo claw, thirteen leaves on the branch in the other claw, and thirteen letters in the -words "qunfter dollar." There bam't aecined to be anything unlucky in the thirteen original States nor in the thirteen stripes on the flag, and now it remains to be seeo if the man who gets bis pockets full of these new quarter dollars will be unlucky. The President baa received a letter from William Host a Ballon, of New York, urging him to ask authority of Congress foi the issuance of invitationa to the varioua marine Nations to join with the United States in appointing delegated to an international confereuce for the amelioration of the condition of animal in ahipment and quarantiue: to formulate and recommend international laws for the punishment of steamship officer for cruelty of aulurih at sea and to make steamship companies liable to damage to shippers for wanton destruc tion of and injury to animals in transit; to recommend new quarantine regula tions to replace those which at present require the cruel slaughter of cattle in quarantine beforlthey have recuperated from long voyages aud while still suffer ing from seasickness; and to suggest ways, means and regulations by hich the lives of more than ten million dollars' worth of animals now auuually destroyed t it may b avd. LOVB MUST BE WON. Love b not free to take, like tun and alrt Nor give away for naught to any one. It It no common right for men to share Like all things precious it is sought an J won. Bo If another It moM loved than you Say not, "It it unjust," but says ' she Baa earned more love than I it Is her du, If when I deserve more it will come to me." But If your longing be for love indeed I'll teach you how to win it a sure way; IO re and be lovely, that is all yon need, And what you wish for will be yours some day. Susan Coolidge, in Household Companion. THE TO FL0WR& BY IIBl.ffN FORREST OHAVR8. 70 W beautiful, Lilyl It seems aa if 1 could almost smell the fra grance. I wish we could afford to keep them." . And little Mary Melbrook stood glee- fcM 'ul!y on 'ipt0 ? ex- amine the delicate little bouquet ot wax lilies of the valley that lay on the table a chubby child of seven years. "You will be aure and take good care of Agnr while I am gone, Mary," said the thoughtlul elder sister, glancing toward a worn lounge on which reposed the pale, alight form of a girl of thir teen. Agnes Melbrook was a cripple; yet you scarcely pitied her when you looked upon the happy serenity of her sweet, pale face. He who "tempers the wind to the shorn lamb" bad given Agnea Melbrook patience to' bear her affliction and Lily herself sometimes envied her young sister the unruffled peace of her daily life. Lillian Melbrook had been left solo guardian and protector of her two sis ters at the age .of eighteen, and she had unhesitatingly assumed the charge. Dr. Melbrook died suddenly, and on the investigation of his affairs, they proved to be so embarrassed thtt Lillian found hersell obliged to toil for he daily bread, and now was the timo wbon her accomplishment proved themselves of use. "My dear," said the head partner of the great jewelry firm of Gold & Jett, "you may bring as many of your wax flower here as you please, and I'll sell 'em for you without a cont of commis sion. You needn't go to thanking me now; I ahould be a cold-hearted old fellow, indeed, if I weren't willing to do a much as that for Roger Melbrook' daughter." . Lily looked very pretty as alio ped through the frosty October sunshiue, with glowing cheeks and fresh lips (lightly apart, to put ber little bouquet on exhibition. She waa small and plump, with peach-red cheek, hair of the real flaxen gold and loft gray eyes, whoae appealing glance apoke to you with an irresistible charm; and her sim ple dress of tome drab worsted fabric, trimmed with bars ol scarlet velvet ribbon, set oil her beauty with artistic contrast. "I ought to have five dollars for this little bouquet," thought Lily. "Lot me ace two dollars for rent and and a dol lar for more wax, and I shall havo two dollars left for Mary cloth coat. Only two dollars oh, if wo were only rich again I" Lily sighed involuntarily. It was very bard to live upon the Blender wages of her work; and a woman fightiuir the battle of life alone strives at a fearful disadvantage. But she thought of Agnes, uncomplaining and serene upon her couch of suffering, and of little Mary, eager in her studies, that she may ono day be able to teach, and thereby "help Sister Lily," and re solved to harbor not one repining thought. All of a sudden, as she 'glanced up ward, a familiar face seemed to flash across her vision a dark, bronzed fane, with pleasant hazel eyes, and a puzzled, balf-recognizing expression. "Major Draper!" she murmured, look ing around almost bewildered. And then, as the tall form, borne uncon sciously forward by the crowd, seemed to pause and hestitate, she drew the vail over her face and darted down a bide street why, she could hardly have told herself, except that Major Draper bad known them in the days of their prosperity, and Lily Melbrook over sensitive, perhaps shrank from meeting bim again. "I thought ho had gono to Spain!" soliloquized Lily, with throbbing heart. "I am sure some oue told us he was liv ing in Madrid 1" The crimson flushed softly over Lily's cheek, as she remembered the note she had found, in Major Draper's handwrit ing, among her deceased father's papers a note asking for permission to woo Lily Melbrook as his wife aud the copy of her father's reply. Dr. Melbrook had discountenanced the whole thing with out once submitting it to his daughter's decision. "Lily was too young he did not wish such things put in her head. Major Draper, though unexceptionable In every respect, was too much Lily's senior he must beg respectfully to de cline the honor," etc. "I was only sixteen then," thought Lily, "and yet Major Draper could not have been more than thirty, and he was very handsome, and winning in his mauners." Aud Lily thought for one fleeting mi- ment how pleasant it would have been, !wuiu iug, w aui;u LMujji-r . wjic, nave : offered a luxurious home little Mary. to Agues ami "How foolish I am to build such ab- urd castles in the air I" was her reso lute ultimatum, and she carried her tiny bouquet to Gold & Jett's aud came home again to the dingy house in the second rats itrttt, rtolvd. to drtaut bo more nrv r r lj visions of what might have "I don't thick I'll settle on the brace letto-dsyi. Theturquois is so pretty that really I can't decide between that and the topaz." Miss Fontaino sauntered gracefully toward the door, with her fathei and Major Draper in attendance. "Upon my wjrd," said Mr. Fontaine, with a grimace expressive of relief, "I begin to think you never could tear yourself away from tho contemplation of those trinkets, and it grow late. What now, Helena?" For the spoiled beauty had paused again in front of the glass show-cases. "Oh, papa, see thoce lilies of the val ley In wax I Aren t they exquisite, with their tiny bells and deep green leaves! They are just what I want for the draw ing room etagere. How much are they?" she questioned, turning to the clerk "Five dollars, ma'am." "Papa, buy them for me ! And oh, papa, wouldn't a wreath of them, under glass, be lovely for a wedding present to Stephnnia Wyllysl Where do you get them?" " 1 uoy are made by a young lady, an acquaintance of Mr. Gold's, ma'am," said the clerk. "Any ordor you may choose to leave " "Yes well, tel! her to make a circu lar garland, large enough to be an orna ment to a parlor table. And I must have them by Wednesday, without fail." "Certainly, ma'am," assented the clerk, entering the order in a portly manuscript volume. "I'm so glad I thought of it," lisped the lady, turning to Major Draper. "I was so puzzled what to give Stepbania. Come; I roUIy think I am through now." And she entered Major Draper' car riage with the step of a queen, quite unconscious that the gentleman himself appeared bored and anxious, in spite of Mr. Fontaine s efforts to entertain and amuse him. Helena Fontaine was handsome, in her haughty, Cleopatra-like way a golden haired gift, with a dazzling complexion of snow and carmine, almond-shaped blue eyes, and lips as velvet-fresh as the heart of a fiery pomegranate flower. And Helena Fontnine had always had her own way through life, and now that she bad settled id ber royal mind that she would like Angus Draper for a bus- band, she no more thought it possible for her to be thwartsd than she deemed it possible for the sun to rise in the west. "I like him oh, ever so much better .than Frank Falkland or Felix Downes," thought Ueleua, the evening she met him at the first of a series of tableaux vivanu, "and I'll have him!" So Mr. Fontaine, having been given to understand his daughter's new freak, invited Major Draper to dinner, and drove with him in the Central Park, and surrounded him with the most delicate attentions and invisible snares of cordial hospitality. Angus Draper's nature was too per ceptive not to see through the flimsy strategies. He smiled moodily to him self. "What matter it?" he mused. "If she likes me, I may as well marry ber as any one else. I never saw but one whom I really fancied, and she " But there Angus Draper's soliloquies Invariably stopped. It was nearly a week subsequently that Miss Helena Fontaine sat in her dress ing room, the victim of a very bad tem per. "It's too bad!" pouted Helena, as she jerked the the curl papers out of her magnificent golden hair. "I wish he'd propose, if he's going tol I wonder how long he's going to be about it, and I missing the best chances ot the season ! Angclique! Her maid appeared, with a startled air, at the imperative peal of Miss Fon taine's little silver bell. "Yes, mademoiselle 1" "Have Gold & Jett sent home that wreath ot lilies ot the valley?'' "No, mademoiselle." "Send papa here!" Mr. Fontaine obeyed bis daughter's summons. "Papa," began Helena, frowning un til ber pretty forehead looked as if it were quilted, ''that wreath has not come home from Gold & Jett's, and Stephauia Wyllys is to be married to morrow I" "Well, my dear, I don't really seo what we can do about it." "But I do! You must go there at once, and if it isn't done, get the young woman's address, and hurry her up." "But Helen, I am particularly en gaged " "I can't help it; I must have the flowers 1" Mr. Fontaine knew better than to in cur any more decided demonstration of his daughter's wrath ; he turned away without a remonstrance. "Draper," he said to the gentleman he met at the club rooms, "I wish you would get them wax flowers fcr Helena. She has quite set her heart on them, and I haven't time to attend to the business. They will give you the add less at Gold & Jett's." "I shall be very happy to oblige Miss Fontaine," said Major Draper, mechaui cal ly. He sauntered into Gold & Jett's. "No, the wreath ordered by Miss Fontaine had not yet been sent. Taey were very sorry the young lady was generally more punctual." "WDat is the address?" "Number Grow street, second tloor." Angus Draper bad got nearly half way ! to Grow street before be recollected that ne had forgotten to ask the young per- ion f name "Very awkward of me," deliberated the Major, "but I suppose I can ask for the wax-flower maker." No. Grow street was a rusty red brick house, with that forlorn look about it which so plainly individual) zus most tenement houses. A clump little irirl was nursing a co delusive boon. IomaI baby on the step. To ber Major Draper addressed himself. "Docs a young person live'here who makes wax flowers?" he asked. ' "Oh, yes, sir; that's Aggie's sister. It's the second floor, sir; the last door as you turn to the right." Major Draper thanked bis small infor mant and ascended the oil cloth stairs. The next moment he tapped at the "last door as you turn to the right." "Come in," a soft voico answered and he found himself in a neat, though scan tily furnished room, where a girl of eighteen sat at a table busily engaged in making waxou blossoms, while a young girl lay on a lounge beyond, busied in some light needta work. Lily Melbrook glanced up, expecting no mora dignified guest than the land lord ; but her cheek grew scarlet t "Major Draper?" "Miss Melbrook, can it be possible that this is you?" Explanations followed, and more ex planations still, and somehow the wreath of lilies of the valley was entirely for gotten 1 We think it will hardly be necessary to relate all the conversation if we give the closing sentences. "Then I may take you away from this life of toil and privation next month? Oh, Lily, if you but knew how I have pi nod to call you my wife! And Agnes and little Mary shall be as dear to me as if they were sisters in very truth 1" Whatever Lily said, she didn't say "no," and Major Draper weut back to Miss Fontaine's with tho lilies, which were fortunately remembered just in time. "You've been a long timo," com mented Miss Fontaine, rather ungracious ly. "What was the price?" "The price I" Major Draper felt him self flush. "I never thought of the price. Anything nothing. The fa:t is, Miss Helena, I have this morning met, in the manufacturer of these wax flowers, a very dear friend." "Indeed I" "And I shall hope soon to present ber to you as my wife." Helena Fontaine's surprise was a very genuine, if not a very agreeable sensa tion, but she retained sufficient presence of mind to congratulate Major Draper rather coldly. "And it's ill owing to Stephania's lilies of the valley 1" sobbed Helena, when the Major was gone. "I wish I never had thought of them!" xes, it was all owing to the lilies of the valley, and Lily Melbrook thanked heaven for it, in her pure young heart. New York Weekly. Universal Lovo ol Flowers. "Flower missions" aren't popular with hard-headed men; they seem al together too fanciful and seutimental to be of any use to the people whom they endeavor to reach; but they aren't. Toe idea that the more poorer and more crowded a class of human beings are the lost they care for anything but food and drink, comes handy to anyone who wishes to close his heart and pocket against appeal from all sorts of missions; but so far as flowers are concerned, I've recently learned that it doesn't work. Not long ago I brought into New York City, writes John Habberton, a great cluster of common gaiden flowers to give to a friend ; I had to pass through one of the worst parts of the city, and just at that time nnd near me, there was a street fight, an organ grinder with a monkey and a breakdown of a wagon loaded with apples; yet I soon found my handful of flowers the principal at traction. Men and women looked ad miringly and longingly; a drunken tramp braced up and walked beside me, and soon I found myself followed by scores of street children whose manners would have been creditable to a model Sunday-school, "Gimme a flower, mis ter?" asked one after another. In two or three minutes they got the whole lot, and, instead of fighting over thorn, those who got none clustered peacefully and admiringly about the lucky ones. Then I began to look around me, and in the windows of two blocks of a tenement-house street I saw more flowers than are on all Filth avenue. Once A Week. The Feeding Habits or Serpents. Since the month of Augnst of 1885, the Garden of Plants, of Paris, baa been in possession of a South American boa which bas been the object of some in teresting observations on the part of Mr. Vaillant, especially as regards its ali mentation. This serpent is at least twenty feet in length. From the time of its reception by the gardeu up to tho ead of the year 1891 it has taken food thirty-four times, that is to say, on an average of five times a year, the interval between its meals varying from twenty-eight to UQi days. The animal regulates its ovn meals, manifesting its hunger by a characteristic uneasiness. Its food has almost always consisted of goats of small size, although on three occasions it has taken rabbits, and on one occasion a goose. The largest animal that it has swallowed is a kid weighing twenty-six pounds, repre senting about a sixth of its own weight. It is well known, however, that ser pents are capable of swallowiug animals almost as large as themselves, aud at the menagerie of the museum, a few years ago, a horned viper was caught in the uct of swallowing a French viper, its companion iu captivity, which was a little larger than itself. The horned viper diii not appear in any way to suf fer Ircra its meal. As for the digestive function, that is relatively rapid, for the residua of it are generally evacuated at a single time, After each meal, and at the end of but a few days. Scientific American. Hide's Money in Turtles. There is more mouey iu a Texas turtle than iu a Texas steer. It costs nothing to raise a turtle, ami ho weighs, when full gruwu, from 400 to B5U pounds. and bells for moie money per pouud than a steer. The herds of turtles at Aran sas Pass, their principal grazing ground, show no diminution. Atlanta Journal, SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The diamond drill is pointed with black diamonds. All twisted boring tools are said to be of American invention. A cure for lumpy jaw, says Secretary Rusk, is iodide of potassium. In a recent parade in Youngstown, Ohio, the search lights were operated by threshing engines. An enterprising scientist has discov ered that a liberal use of soap is a sure preventive of the cholera. Steps are being taken to establish tele phonic communication between Den mark and Sweden, under the sound. It is said that a little tungsten added to pure aluminium obviates all difficulty from attacks by water, salt or otherwise. A new signal telegraph consists of electric lights for the signals and a key board that works the lights according to the Morse system. Some recent investigators claim that the sweetness and fragrance of the very best butter is due to a certain beneficent species of bacteria. At the present day most heavy tunnel work ia done by machine drills, driven by compressed air, which also serves to ventilate the works. Aluminium sheets will make a much more durable and satisfactory roofing than sheet copper, now generally used in valuable buildings. Electricity will be successfully applied to railroad locomotives within the com ing twelve months, all claims to the con trary notwithstanding. The electric street cirs of Albany, N. Y., are provided with an automatic de vice that shows the name of each street just before it is reached. Adulterated rubber is a recent discov ery. A dry farina flour is mixed with milk of the rubber tree, after which it it smoked and dried by the usual process. Chlorine gas, decomposed from sea water by means of electrical machines, is employed for disinfecting the hold, storeroom, etc., of vessels of the Italian navy. Some of the English pumping engines perform work equaling the raising of 130,000,000 pounds one foot high by the consumption of one hundredweight of coal. Wonderful Improvements iu iron and steel making are promised, which will greatly reduce the cost, and increase the use of these metals in all of the indus tries and arts. Joseph B. Strauss, ot Cincinnati, claims to have perfected an electrical signalling device by which a fireman at a large nozzle can communicato with the man in charge of the fire engine. It is proposed to erect an electric over head road trom the Chicago Postofflce to the Exposition grounds, to transmit the mail ata high rate of speed. The road will be built over the tops of the houses. The facility and speed with which temporary field telegraph lines may be constructed and operated is shown by General Greely, who tells of a corps working for the International Boundary Commission, which set up and took down a telegraph line thirty-five miles long in three days. An English firm is introducing an in genious safety device for uso in electrio generating plant. When tho current in any circuit is too great, a compound metal strip bends till it breaks a mer cury contact. There is also a small wiro fuse so that no sparking takes place. The mercury contact is under oil. Discovered the Art of Canning'. A paper in Philadelphia lately printed a tale ubout a party of American travel ers digging in the ruins of Pompeii and finding jars of figs which had beeu sealed up during the first century of the Chris tian era; and the figs were just as fresh as when cauned 1800 years ago. Prob ably the figs were placed by some French man or Yankee who saw a chance to make a few dollars or francs out of the gullible sightseers. Canning fruits in hermetically sealed jars is quite a modern discovery, made by one M. Appert, of France. In 1808 be persuaded the French Government to test his preserved soups, meats and fruits in the navy, aud all were such a success in long voyages that in 1809 he received a handsome bounty or prize for bis discovery, which was soon given out free to all who might wish to try preserving fruits and vege tables in jars or cans. M. Appert's pam phlet was also translated iuto English and published in this country by a book seller in Wall street, New York, in 1812; aud this little work became the guide aa well as foundation of an industry which has become of late years of immense im portance and value to the peoplo of all civilized countries. New York Tribune. The Seuae of 1'oucli. A curious scientist, who has been giv ing careful attention to the matter, says that man' lenso of touch, or foeling, resides almost wholly in the skin and in those parts of the body, as the lips and the tongue, that are most exposed, while some of our most important organs, the heart, for instance, and the brain, are quite insensible ti touch, thus showing that not only are nerves necessary for the sensatiou, but also the special ead orgaus. The curious fuct was noticed with the greatest astonhhiueut by Har vey, wbc, while treating a patient for an abscess that caused a lurge cavity in his side, found that, when he put his fingers into this cavity, he could actually take hold of the heart without the pa tient Leing in the least aware of what he was doing. This so interested Harvey that he brought King Charles I. to the man's bedside that "he might himself behold and touch so extraordinary a thing." In certain operations a piece ot tkiu is removed from the forehead to the nose, and it is stuted that the patient, oddly enough, feels as if the new nasal part were still in his forehead aud may have a headache iu his not. New Ot Wm Picayune, THE OCEAN'S GRAVEYARD. THE SARCM6SO SEA. THE CENTER OF ATLANTIC) CURRENTS. An Immense Area ot Water Which Is Covered With Floating Wreck and Other Si range Objects. POIl several years pnst the Hydro graphic Bureau nt Washington has been trying to acquire a more intimate knowledge of the movements of the waters of the ocean and a great number of bottles, contain ing messages and securely corked, have been dropped overboard by vessels. Many of these have floated thousands of miles before they were picked up, and, while some were washed upon native and foreign shores, others have found their way into the great Sargasso Sea. From the courses taken by tlic-e different bot tle it has been found that the ocean curronti movo around in a vast circle. Those which were dropped overboard on the American coast took a northerly course, while those on tho European side floated toward the south. Bottles dropped overboard in tho North Atlan tic started toward the northeast, and those from the African and' Spanish coast floated almost directly west until they reached the West India Island;. The general directions of the currents were thus ascertained, showing that the waters acted upon by winda and cur renta circulated round and round like a pool. In all pools floating objects are quickly cast outside of the revolving currents, or they are carried with them in their circular route for some time, until they are washed nearer the centre or side of the pool. The bottics that were forced outside of the currents of the ocean were cast upon the shores of some coun try, but those which were worked toward the centre eventually found their way in the calm waters of the Sargasso Sea. Here they remain peacefully until picked up by some vessel, or until some storm cast them back into tho great pool. Vessels very rarely visit the ureat sen in the middle of the ocean, but occasion ally they are driven there by storms or adverse winds. Strange sights meet the gaze of the sailors at such times. Won derful stories partly true and partly false have been told by sailors return ing from a forced trip to the vast Sar gasso Sea. The surface of the sea is covered with floating wrecks, spars, sea weed boxes, fruits, aud a thousand other innumerable articles. It is the great re pository or ttorehouso of the ocean, and all things which do not sink to tho bot tom or are not washed upon the shores are carried to this centre of the sea. When one considers the vast number of wrecks on the ocean, and the quantity of floating material that is thrown over board, a faint idea of the wreckage in the Sargasso Sea may be conceived. Derolicts, or abandoned vessels, fre quently disappear in mysterious ways, and no accounts are given of them for years by passing vessels. Then suddenly, years later, they appear again in some well-traveled route to the astonishment of all. The wrecks are covered with mould and green slime, showing the long, lonesome voyage which they have passed through. It is gcuerally sup posed that such derelicts have been swept into the centre of the pool and remained in the Sargasso Sea until finally cast out by some unusually violent storm. The life in this sea is interesting. Sol itary and alone the acres of waters, cov ered with the debris, stre'eh out as the vast graveyard of the ccean, seldom being visited by vessels or human beings. Far from all trading routes of vessels, the sight of a sail or steam vessel is something unusual. The fishes of the sea form the chief life of these watery soli tudes. Attracted by the vast quantities of wreckage floating iu the sea, and also by the gulf weed on which many of them live, they swarm around iu great num bers. The smaller fishes live in the in tricite avenues formed by the seaweed, aud the more ferocious denizens of the deep come hither to feed upon the quan tities of small fish. In this way the sub marine life of the Sargasso Sea is made interesting and lively. The only life overhead is that mado by a few sea birds, which tccisioually reach the solitudes of this mid-oc-au cemetery. A few of the long flyers of the air penetrate to the very middle of the ocean, but it is very rarely that this occurs. Some have been known to follow vessels across the cceuu, keeping at a respectful distunce from the steru. Other birds have been swept out to sea by storms, aud have finally sought refuge iu the Sar gasso Sea. Still others, taking refuge on some derelict, have been gradually cur ried to the same midoceun scene. There is sufficient food floating on the surfuce, or to be obtained from the fishes which live among the forests of seaweed, to support a large colony of birds. It i surmised that many of those fouud iu the sea have inhabited those regions for years, partly from choice, aud partly from necessity. Birds swept out there by storms would not care to venture the long return trip to laud, and finding au abundance of food and wrecks on which to rest and rear their young, they might easily become content with their strange lot. Just how far the stroug-wiuged sea birds can fly without resting is all conjectural, but it is doubtful if many of them would undertake such a long journey seaward with no better prospects ahead than dreary wastes of water. Detroit Free Press. A I luatiii Hotel. A strange craft recently launched at Bath, Me., for use in Florida, aud which will shortly be iu New York, is the flostiug hotel, J. S. Danforth. It is in tended for service on Florida rivers. It has three keels, is 123 feet long and thirty feet lit am, aud draws twenty-live inches of water. It will accommodate seventy-live persons and will be the floating home of hunters and lisheriuun who visit Florida. New Orleans Piety uu. REMRMBER. Remember, when the timid dawn encloses Her magio palace to the sun's bright beams; Remember, when the pensive night reposes Beneath her silvery veil in tender dreams; When pleasure calls thee, when the heart It light, When to sweet fancies shade Invites at night, List through the deep wood ring Sweet voices murmuring Remember I ' Remember, when Fate's cold hand baa broken For aye the tie that bound my life with thine; When, with long years an 1 exile, grief un spoken, Despairing heart and blasted hopes arc mine, Think of my sad love, think of my last adien; Absence and time are naught when love is true. Long as my heart shall bent Ever it shall repeat ' Remember! Remember, when beneath the cold ground lying. My broken heart forever is at rest, Remember, when some lonoly flower ft trying Its petaU soft to open on my breast, Thou wilt not see me, but my soul, set free, Faithful in death, shall return to thee, Then hark to the sad moans If a deep voice groans Remember I Alfred De Musset. HUMOR OF THE DAY. In the soup Meat. Pretty well off The leaves. A blind man The shutter manufac turer. A man of might is too often a man of wont. Puck. Horse sen;e seems to consist in the ability to say "Nay." AU work and no play makes Jack a dull old millionaire. Puck. The spur of the moment is about as dangerous as the pistol that isn't loaded. Truth. 'What makes Rustler so round-shouldered!" "Oh, he's trying to make both ends meet." "Eyes operated on at two dollars a week," as the cook said when she wa' paring potatoes. Dansville Breeze. If strict Ideas ever come. That Boston lady had 'em. She never said "chrysanthemum," She slid "chrysanthe-msdam." Life. "She is very distant in her manner." "Distant! Why, her disposition is so freezing that sho is constantly taking cold from it." Old Lady "If I had your face do you know what I would do?" Beggar "No'm." Old Lady "I'd wash it." New York Herald. "It is dreadful, Maria, that you always will have the last word." "Please, ma'am, bow am I to know that you have nothing more to say?" By the way, isn't it a little late for Lieu tenant Peary to sturt for the North Pole? Is it generally understood that the pole are closed. Boston Herald. Is be a business man Of course; And constant aro bis labors; Ha iu a village lives, mi 1 tends The business ot Ins neighbors. Yankee liln le. He "Is this tho first time you've ever been in love, darling?'1 She (thought lessly) "Yes, but it's so nice that I hope it won't be the last!" Tid-Bits. Barbers, it in not be denial Are honest follows 'mt Wuene'er they chance to cut your hiJe They try to hide your cut. -fuck. "There, miraiia," said the small boy as be gazed at the dromedary, "that must be the camel that had the last straw put on its back." Washington Star. Knowitt "Animals aro naturally of a quarrelsome disposition. As the poet says, dogs delight to bark and bite." Howitt "Yes, uud even the oyster of teu eets into a broil." "I've been working hard all day," said the music-teacher, as he eutere.l the parlor of his boarding house. "Well, now you can play a while," replied C'ub tiisou as he vacated tho pinuo-stool. Judge. The llusbimd "You're not economi cal." The Wife "Well, if you don't call a woman economical who saves her wedding dress for a possible second mar riage I'd like to know what you think economy is." Mercury. He wrote a story, very short, "Accepted, taints a lilt " , But it was very, very Inu, Bt'tore tliey pi inteJ it. Detroit Free Press. Suitor "Madam, I lovo you!" Wid ow "That's au old story." Suitor "I adoro you!' Widow "A hackueyed phrase." Suitor "I cannot live with out you and wish to marry you." Wid ow "An original idea ut list; yes, I like that." Mercury. Mr. Wado, a husband who deserves canuuiz .ition, once men' tone 1 to his wife a t runic circuui-tauce that ho h id read that day in tho newspaper. A passenger ou a transatlantic steamer had fallen overboard in mul-ocean, aud had never been secu aain. "Was lie drowned?" asked Mrs. Wado. "Oh, no; of course not," said Mr. Wa le; "but ho spraiued his aukle, 1 believe." Argonaut. Five 1'illi at Ilea liis iu a Century. A French paper amuses its readers by employing tho servir.'s of a distinguished arithmetician, in order to discover the number of persons who die iu a oeuuiry; his i .tlcti'aliou cm'jnio's the whole world. Hu has taken a- a bas'n the number new living, and thus irnvw at the conclusion that the number of deaths in the whn'o wm Id during a ivutury amounts to -1, 517,500,1100. Pretty fig ures tlic.-i', but only within the means of Kotlibchil ls to tuko into duct consider. tiou a to their luvuuiu.
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