THE FOREST REPUBLICAN b pbUth4 trmy WdiaT. fry J. E. WCNK. Offloo la Bmaarbangh A Co.'a Wall ding MLM fTSXrr, TIONKSTA, Fa, Trm, ... UOiwTir, Mlri'imlh mill llmllh. - . foeling Ntrong nnd On Sqnara, oue inch, 6i'it "L On. Hquarv, on. inch, on. month. ." On. Square, on. in oh, three month. On. Hauere. on. inch. on. TMT.....I PUBLICAN 10 ocr Two (Squares, on. yar IS 09 Quarter Column, on. yu ..... WOO Half Column, on. yur SO 00 On. Column, on. yaar. . . 100 10 Lf.l adTrtiiwmita ton enti per each inMrtion. ntaerhrtlm. rndnt fw a aktr three mcntha. Oorrwpondmx Mltaltet from tart. f th .otnitr,. N. ((He win UkM ( unimtiii Marriage, and death notice. rm All bill, for yearly adTerttnemonw qnarterly. Temporary advertlsmnwat be paid in adranoa. Job work -cash on delivery. VOL. XXV. NO. 42. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8, 1893. S1.50 PER ANNUM. Forest Re Rudyard Kipling say American, do not know how to enjoy a good rest. 'General Dryhonccforth" Is what they are beginning to call the Government rainmaker. The Uoston Cultivator observe that "young men are coming to tbo front in every department of business, io politic and in literature," The people of California are protest ' lag against the drop-a-nicklo slot ma chines as lesscuing tho supply of their smallest current coin. , China has a sccrot society to which it is a capital crimo to belong, fiiwmay be the reason, suggosts the Now York Tologram, why it has thirty millions of members. In addition to a rocking horso, tho young King of Spain gets $750,000 a year at salary. It is a fat job for the fat little rascal, comments the Atlanta Constitution. Tho Army Gazette of Vienna an nounces au addition of 3000 mon to the peace standing of tho Austriau army. Tho measure is commented upon as indicating that the Emperor of Austria is disposed to follow tho policy of the perman Emperor. Oeology predicts that m 18,136 the osrth will be coaled and, it might be said, vested with loo. Tho cheerful view to take of this, according to the Sau Francisco Examiner, is that tbeu the cholera microbe will cease from troubling and the vellow fever irerui bo In the late Church Congress at Folke ttoae, England, one of the clergymen said that the clergy could only fully un derstand the wants of tho working classes by living among them, living as they did, eating the same food", and sur rounded by the same influences and thus acquiring real sympathy and compassion for them.' The Vermont State Board of Agricul ture reports that during 1891 there were sold in that State 1764 farms, of which 252 were of the class known as aban doned farms. Most of the purchasers of these farms, says tho Now York World, were, as was the case in Massachusetts, young men born in the State who be lieved that these farms properly handled would make better homes than could be secured in the Far. Wcs, and bring la fair living. The Cherokee Commission, which has just concluded an agreement with the Pawnee Indians for the cession to th United States of 283,000 acres of land, bears this emphatic testimony to the good influences of education among these people: "The Pawnee schools aro well attended, and the older and un educated Indians are manifesting an in terest therein, not common to Indians generally in that thoy defer to the judg ment ot their educated and English speaking young men. In our councils they would submit matters to their judgment and be guided by them." The HarrUburg Independent says that the glory, lu!ciousuc9, richness of flavor and solidness of tho old varieties of Pennsylvania apples aro becoming luxurious more in the memory of the oldest Inhabitants than in the appetising enjoyment of the epicures of the present. The famous Raniba, Imperial, Gold on Pippin, the delicious Komau Knight, rich in its cider-producing fragrant juices; the unrivalled Bjllertowur, tho odor of which perfumed the palate long after it was eaten; the mellow Smoke house that had poetic qualities in its flesh, though its name was unsavory; the Greening, which retained its flavor during the eutire winter, as did the Grindstone all these were, anl are still In degrees, peculiarly Pennsylvania .apples, each of which had a taste peculiar to its variety, but they are be coming extinct.' The report now going the round?, in which it is stated that Northwestern New Mexico has been without rain for two years, that nearly one hundred thousand cattle have perished and that the water courses are dried up, is all a mistake, declares the New York World, As a matter ot fact, tho northwestern portion of New Mexico is one of the very best watered sections of the whole Rocky Mountain region. It is traversed by several rivers and is essentially a farm ing and fruit growing couutry, San Juan County last year produced 500,000 pounds of peaches, 250,000 pounds of apples and at least 100,000 pounds of other fruits. This is a good record when it is considered that the orchards are yet young. There are farms there which produced 500 tons of alfalfa hay. It has not infrequently happened that so great has been the rainfall that the roads between Junction City aud Aztec have been impassable. TH CHILD-GARDEN. In th ehfld-gardan buds and blows A bkxnom lovelier than th. rose. If all the flowers of all th. earth In on. garden broke to birth, Not tb. fairest of th. fair Could with this tweet bloom oo-npara; FT or would all their shining be Peer to its lone bravery. Fairer than th. rote, I sayt Fairer than th. suo-brlght day In whose rays all glories show, AU beauty is, all blossoms blow. What this blonom, fragrant, tender, That outbeamt the rose's splendor Purer Is, mora tinct with light Than the lily's flam, of white? Of beauty hath this flower tfle whole And its name tb. Human Soul I While beside it deeply shine Blooms that take it. light divine: The perilous sweet flower of Hope Here its hiding eyes doth ope, And Gentleness doth near uphold Its healing leaves and heart of gold; Here tender Angers push the need Of Knowledge; pluok the poisonous weed. Here blossoms Joy one tinging hour, And her. of Love the immortal flower. R. W. Gilder, in the Century. LOVE AM) LUCRE, AURA," said Mr. Cyrus Merive!e to his wife, as be drew a close fitting pair of kid gloves over his large, fluffy fingers, 'Jack Hoburtonhas been paying consid erable attention to our Catherine of late, and I shouldn't be surprised if something came of it." "I hope so," returned Mrs. Merivalo, languidly, "for he has lots of money, people say." "Oh, Hoburtoo is a bright young man and will make his mark yet, there is no doubt about that, and he may be able to help us out of our miter able debts," said Mr. Merivale. The speaker went to the window and for some time stood contemplating the the landscape, "The painters have been working on Robertson's house," said he, finally, "and everything looks brand new." "Yes," said Mrs. Merivale, "and it make our place look simply wretched. You must borrow some money,Cyrus,and get things fixed up or we shall bo so cially ostracised." "I will see about it," said Merivale, in a dojected tone, "but I don't know where I can got any. I wish Kate and Jack were married ; they might help to keep up appearances." The keeping up of appearances hod been Mr, Merrivale's lifelong hobby. This and tendepcy for risky specula tion had kept him poor, but ho lived in anticipation of future opulenoe and pos sessed the cordial sympathy of his wife, so things were not as bad as they might have been had the domestic tastes of the couple been less harmonious. As their daughter Kate grew in years and stature she became so decidedly beautiful that the parents' hopes grad ually centered in her. She had many admirers, but Jack lloburton was the favorite. Jack was a steady young man, good-looking, well-educated and the possessor of a nest egg that in tho minds of Kate's worldly parents would be sure to hatch unbounded wealth. The parents were gracious and paved the way to an excellent understanding be tween the young people, so the next winter when Kate went away to board ing school and Jack went to seek his fortune in the great West, matters were eminently satisfactory all around. "Yes," said Mr. Merivale to his daughter, "Jack lloburton will make a model husband,. one that will tend to elevate the family station. That's how it always should be. I would be very much pained to have you marry anyone poorer than ourselves." "Why, papa," said Kate in reply, "I am not going to marry Jack because ho has little money. I am going to marry him because I love him." "That's right," laughed her father, "but the money is a requisite that must not be despised, for without it love would be a very tame affair, indeed. If Jack were below you in worldly station there would be a grotesqueness about love that would soou destroy it. Io marriage the social equilibrium should always be maintained." About two years after Tack's engage ment to Kate, and a year previous to the proposed celebration of the nuptials, Mr. Merivale startled the bosom of his family one day by suddenly entering their midst greatly flustrated and per spiring from every pore. He threw him self into a chair, and after prolonged sileuce that nearly frightened the mother and daughter out of their senses in formed them that at lost "the goal was in sight." "What goall" they cried. "At last," said he, "wo shall rise to our proper station. Henceforth we have no need to envy Robertson. The credi tors who have dogged me for the past ten years shall be relegated along with bills s marked 'paid' back to their miser paid' back to their miserly level. In fine," he added, "we are j "Explain, pray explain," they gasped. "It's the Arapahoe mine," said he. "We are worth a cool hundred thousand and people will think it a million." The news of Mr. Merivale's sudden acquisition of wealth spread rapidly and Eeople exaggerated the reports, as he ad anticipated. New friends sprung up on every side. Wherever Kate ap peared the was more than ever the centre of attraction. Mr. Merivalo began to plan changes on grand scale. A lot was purchased next (0 Uobertion's and preparations were mado for the erection of a magnificent mansion. There- were to be carriages, servants, gravelled walks, horses, dogs, fountains in short, all the attributes of aristocracy. One day, after a long interview with his wife, Mr. Merivale summoned Kate. "I wish to talk with you about that fel low lloburton," said ho. "You do not suppose, now, that he will try to hold you to the engagement, do you!" he inquired, nervously. "What!" exclaimed the daughter, reddoning; "do you mean that he should forsake mo because we have been for tunate!" "I mean," returned tho father, more coolly, "that since our circumstances have materially changed we should regu late ourselves accordingly. My principle is the same as I have always endeavored to inculcate. No one should ever marry below his or her station. Our station has risen and those who wero once our social equals are ni longer so. Person ally, Hoburton is an estimable young fellow, but I must insist that the pro jected alliance be broken off at once." If Kate gave her fathor a look of scorn il was .lost on him, for he continued ithout looking up: "You have always been a dutiful daughter, and I have im plicit confidence in your obeying my wishes. We have a social status to main tain. It would be 'flying in the face of Providence' to disregnrd the advantoges which our altered circumstances present. This you would be doing were you to marry a poor man." "Why, father," exclaimed the daugh ter, "Mr. Hoburton is by no means poor. He has, as you know, over (10,000, and with the assistance that you might now afford be could easily add to it." "Ah," said her father, "you forget that while he has (10,000, you will have ten times that. He is altogether too many rounds in tho ladder below you, and the sooner ho is informed ot the change the better for all concerned. No, no," said he, interrupting her as she was about to continue the argument. "I can never consent to the marriage. I should commit a flagrant breach of duty were I to allow the equilibrium to be thus dis turbed. After you have thought the matter over candidly you will see that my position is the only one tenable." The daughter sat for some time after her father had left the room, over whelmed with grief at his proposition. She thought of Jack struggling along in tho West to prepare for her a home, and tho idea of abandoning him just because her fathor had acquired wealth was not to be tolerated. Even if she had not loved him so dearly she could not be io base. Sho wont to hor room and poured forth her grief in an agony of tears. Finally sho gathered up sufficient courago to writo to Jack, and in a wretched tear-stained scrawl sho con fessed her lather's disapproval of the marriage. While sho was penning this letter, full of endearments and protesta tions ot constancy constancy she de clared that would endure evenlif hor father "should acquire ten millions" tho pa ternal Croesus was soatod in his private office, writing a loiter of a contrary sentiment. Mr. Merivale wrote two letters, one to Mr. John Hoburton, politely requesting the discontinuance ot attentions to his daughter, the other to Mr. Joel C. no button. President of the Ampahoo Min ing Company, Dotrvor, Col., stating that he would havo tho pleasure ot calling upon this official tho following week on business rtlating to his mining Interests. Mr. Merivale arrived in Denver on a Thursday aftornoon and took apartments at a hotol. Early in the evening, while inspecting bis person in the mirror after tho com pletion of a careful toilet, ho was startled by a knock upon the door. Ho opened it and stepped back in unfoigned aston ishment, for who should bo stauding there but his once prosumtive son-in-law, youug Jack Hoburton. "I saw your name iu the register," said Jack, "and have taken tho liberty to seek an interview." "Step in," said Mr. Merivalo, rnd with cool pomposity he ' waved him to a chair. "Now," said be, as he seated himself, "my time is precious. I suppose you wish to confer concerning your unfor tunate relationship with my daughter, but upon that point I have nothing more to say than what I expressed in my let ter. I have duties to perform as a parent that you doubtless understand, and I hope you will not dwell upon a point that must necessarily be painful to us both." "I did call for the purpose you sug gest," said Jack, "for I hoped that after all the circumstance wero made known you might possibly not be so much op posed to our union. In the first place, you know, Kate and I love each other, and in the second placo, I have acquired sufficient property to maintain a wife." "Yes, yes, all that is true, no doubt," broko out Mr. Morivale, " but 'suffi cient' is ouly a relative word. My daughter's prospect are not what thoy were. I believe I made you aware of that in my letter, did I not!" "Yes," replied tbo young man, con tinuing his argumentative manner, "but my prospects are good. I have made some money and what I have is safely Invested." A frown settled over Mr. Morivale's brow, and he rose and walked rapidly up and down the room. "The subject annoys me," said be, "and 1 must beg you to close this interview. I have al ways considered you a promising young man, and if 'thing were different I would say, marry my daughter and re ceive my blessing, but as it is, never, and I must ask that the matter cud here." He opened the door and Jack took leave, the perfect picture ot a broken spirited youth. When well into the hall, however, he broke iuto au uproarious tit of laughter. The next morning, on repairiug to the office of the Arapahoe Mining Company, Mr. Merivale fouud the Preaidout absent and took a seat iu the reception room. Aftor he had waited for some time the I door suddenly opened and Jack Hobur ton entered. Mr. Merivale rose to his feet with an angry scowl. "Young man," ho blurted out, "I cannot havo you follow ing me about like this. What do you mean!" The office boy stood staring at the two men with eyes and mouth wide open with astonishmont. At a motion from Mr. lloburton he disappeared into a side room, where he sat for some time with eye and ear alternately at the keyhole. Mr. Merivale," said Hoburton, "you aro laboring under a mistake; this is my place of business. I had no intention ot following you, although, to be sure, 1 ex pec tod to meet you here in accordance with your letter ot last week. Here it is now," said ho, picking out a bit of correspondence from a pigeon-hole. "D.do you mean to say that you aro Joel O. Hoburton, President of the Arapahoe Mining Company!" cried Mr. Merivale. "Why, yes," replied Mr. Hoburton: "I am that individual. People back East refused to call me anything but Jack, and as that seemod to be an im provement on my right name I let it go at that." "And you must be rich, then!" in quired Mr. Merivale, rather rod in tho face. "1 have been quite fortunate," re plied Mr. Hoburton, "fori own the con trolling interest in the Arapahoe mine, as you may learn on investigation ; but things can be evened up on the score. 1 love your daughter, and if you will give us your blessing I shall try to maintain the family station." Though somewhat chagrined, Mr. Merivale made no further opposition and the nuptials were'finally celebrated amid all the pomp and dignity apposite to such an occasion. House Plants and Health. An interesting experiment was recently performed at Harvard University, say the Boston Herald, for the purpose of finding out just bow much carbonio acid is exhaled by plants at night. A. num ber of plants were put into a gloss case trom which all air was excluded except such as bad first pasted through a chemi cal which freed it from all traces of car bonic acid. A constant stream of purified air was made to flow among the plants all night, and pass out through another chemical which absorbed what carbonio acid the air had taken from the plants. By testing the second chemical It was easy to find how much caibonio acid had been discharged by the plants during tho night. It was found that the amount was much less than had been supposed. The quantity of gas given oil by a room full of plants is actually loss than would bo geuerated by a can dlo burning the same length of time. It is proved then that to far as car bonio acid is concerned, plants, Instead of being harmful, are on the whole bene ficial, sinco during the day thoy holp to purify the air by absorbing from it the carbonic acid which is so harmful to people In regard to the kind of plants, though, a little care should be used, especially if any person in the bouse is very susccptiblo to odors. Heavily scouted flowers in a sleeping room are apt to cause headache and sleeplessness, and to a sick person a strong odor is sure to be disagreeable. Aside from this con sideration, house plants are desirable wherever they will thrive. Onr Degenerate Littlo Too. The whole history of the organism boars testimony to the marvelous per sistence of parts in spite ot contumely and disuse. Take, for example, tho pres ent position of the littlo toe in man. We know not the condition of this digit in prehistoric man, and have but little in formation as to its state among savage tribes at the present day, but we do know that in civilized peoples, whose feet are from infancy subjected to con ditions of restraint, it is an imperfect organ "of .very function shorn Except to act as a basis for a corn. In one per cent, of adults the second and third joints hate anchylosed, in three per cent, the joint between them is rudimentary, with scarcely a trace of a cavity, in twenty per cent, of feet the organ has lost one or more of it normal complement of muscles. But though shorn of some of its elements, and with others a9 mere shreos, the toe persists, and he would be a bold prophet who would venture to forecast how many generations of booted ancestry would suffice to eliminate it from the organiza tion of the normal man. Popular Sci ence Monthly. Care of Street Trees. Street trees sometime need pruning. If, however, they have been originally well selected a small knife will be all that is necessary for a few years to re move an occasional branch that starts out in the wrong place. There is rarely any necessity of cutting off a large limb. Is this necessity ever does come the limb should be cut off close to tho trunk and the place smoothed over and painted, so that the wound will be ultimately covered with healthy bark. We have often explained that wherever a stub is left this must inevitably die, aud as the trunk grows about it there will be a plug of rotted wood where the branch originally grew, and tho disease will eat inward and downward as the water soaUs in from without. After street trees have attained mature size pruning is rarely needed beyond the occasional cutting away of a dead branch or the re moval of oue which interferes with an other. Garden and Forest. A Talking Watch. M. Sivan, a Geneva watchmaker, ha informed the Society of Arts of this town that he has forwarded to Berne, with the object of taking out a pateut, a sample of a repeater watch which apeaks tbo hours and tho quarters instead of striking. The mechanism of this watch is an ingenious adaptation of the phon ograph. Le Tribune de Ueueve, UNCLE SAM'S STAR GAZERS WONDERS TO BE SHOWN AT THE WORLD S FAIR. A Gigantic Image of the Kim Spl. dors' Wrbn lor TnlcHcope Sup plying at Nation WHh Tim. ' OVERNMENT star gnzem, says I a Washington letter to theBos JJL ton Transcript, have been hav ing a great time moving into the new National Observatory, which is the most beautiful building for astro nomical purposes in tho world, situated on the heights overlooking Wsshington from the northwest. Naturally, the transfer from one place to another of in struments so delicate that a finger must not ordinarily be allowed to touch them, lest their adjustment bo spoiled, is at tended with no small difficulty. But the article which required the greatest care in its removal was tho object lens of the famous Equatorial telescope. Until the lenses for the Lick Observatory In California were made, this was the largest one in America, being 26J inches in diameter. It cost $30,000. This precious thing was wrapped in the soft est of old linen sheets, packed in a box between mattresses, and conveyed in a sprng wagon at a funeral pace over four miles of road uphill and down, reaching its destination safely. The new obser vatory will havo eight telescopes, two of which the public will be permitted to use for amusement, one of these having a rive inch and the other a 9-inch gloss. The exhibit of the Naval Observatory at tho World's Fair will include a five inch telescope, through which visitors to the exposition will be allowed to gaze at whatever is most interesting in tho heavens both by night and by day. It is also intended to sho. v a picture of the sun on a large scale, a pencil of rays be ing thrown through a Ions by a mirror forty feet into n dark room. In this camera obscura a huge image of tho orb of dny will appear on a screen, showing the tremendous flames which leap 7000 miles above its surface, and also the so called "spots," which are llcry chasms capable of swallowing up hundreds of such planets as the earth at a gulp. At noon each day the astronomers in Wash ington will drop a time ball five feet iu diameter on tcp of the main building at the fair. The astronomers of tho Naval Ob servatory hove looked all over the world for spiders' webs. Such gossamer fila ments spun by industrious arachnids are utilized in telescopes for cross-lines ex tended at right angles with each other across the field of view, so as to divide the latter into mathematical spaces. Threads of cobweb are employed for tho purpose because they ore wonderfully strong for their exceeding fineness, aud also for the reason that they aro not affected by moisture or temperature, neither expanding nor contracting under any conditions. Specimens were ob tained from China, because it wns im agined that the largo spiders of that country would perhaps produce u parti cularly excellent quality of web. How ever, it was fouud that the belt web U spun by spiders of the United States, such as are plentiful in tho neighbor hood of Washington. Accordingly, ex peditions are mado enrly in June each year, to get from the fencas nnd f.arns hereabout the cocoons of the big "turtle back" spiders. Each coc ion is oinposed of a single silken filameut wound round and round, though there are apt to be some breaks in it where Mistress Spider left off work for a time. Attempts have been made to use tho cocjous of spiders like those of silkworms, and exquisite fabrics have been manufactured fro-u them. Unfortunately it was fouud im possible to make the industry a commer cial success, owing to tho combative in clination of these creatures. When kept together they will always goljblo caivi other up iu a short time, the linal result being a single very large and fat spider aud one cocoou. The rive-foot time-ball to bu dropped at the World's Fair will be ma.lo of can vas on a steel frauo. It will be wound up each day to the height from which it is to fall, and it will be set and electri cally connected iu such a manner that the breaking of the circuit at l'l noon will release it. Tuo touch of a button at AVashiugton will instnutuueously transmit notice of the hour over 350,000 miles of wire. Wuen the button speaks the whole country will listen, and the baud of 70,000 eieeiic clocks all over the United States will poiut to the cor rect minute and second. Treatment ol CoHee. Guatemalans belict-c there is no better coffee than that raise! ou their own plantations, aud Central America h.is ot late years acquired a high reputation in the markets of the world, it is us ual for wealthy Guataiuu'an to inalco sure of good coffee in traveling by tak ing along a store of their own. A loug glass tube, several inches iu diameter, but tapering to a funnel at one end, is tilled with ground collee, aud through the moss is poured cold water. A strong solution of coffee slowly drips from tho narrow end ot the tube, and this liquid is carefully put up in air-tight vessels, to bo warmed up iu small quantities and drunk on the journey. Ne.v Yurlt Wit uess. lied of 1'eut in Canada. There is au enonuoui bed of peat on a Canadian islaud in tho Bay of St. Law rence, and the penppi of that part of the world are begiuuiug to use it as fuel. It has oue peculiarity, however, which cost the discovers something to find out. When cut aud heaped iu Jargu ma-ses it undergoes a process of fermentation which heats it often to tho point of spontaneous combustiuu. Wueu it takes tire the whole interior of the mass seems to heeoinu alow hi once, aud uo water can put it ou'. If dried iu single block or very stnUI piles uo phenome non of this kni'l is nutieecl, ul u a liiel is liitle inferior to coal. Buiitou. 'j'rau-script. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. I & new Iran. Ul uiitumi w un ucvu truck in Ohio. ! In Europe there are rather more than 100 women to 100 men. The death rate in this country from i tuberculosis, or consumption, is on the A I 11 I 4 I decrease. The apple contains a larger percent age of phosphorus than any other fruit or vegetable. Out of a total of 513 known species of animals in Africa, 472 of them are to be found in no other country. A 2000 horse-power electric locomo tive has just been finished at Baden, Turich. It is the largest in the world. Over the whole world the proportion of the sexes is about equal, but in sepa rate parts of the world it varies greatly. An Englishman has invented a new system of electric mains whereby one wire of the present three-wire system can be saved. An Austrian engineer proposes to carry passengers from Vienna to Pcsth, Hun gary, by an electric locomotivo at tho rate of 123 milet an hour. Tho Victoria Railroad Bridge over tho St. Lawrence at Montreal, Canada, is two miles long, cost over $5,000,000, and contains 10,500 tons ot iron and 8,000,000 cubic feet of masonry. An electrically controlled machine which will effectively stamp 30,000 let ters iu an hour is one of the interesting inventions that has been adopted in the United States Postofflco Department. Th united capacity of all the plants now in operation in the world for re fining copper by electrolysis amounts to nearly one hundred tons of copper de posited per day of twenty-four hours. Many years since, apples were packed In barrels from which limo had just been emptied. On opening them in spring, they were nearly all sound, while the same variety not thus packed was badly rotted. II. Devaux has been making experi ments with the sense ot taste in ants, in course of which he found that while fond of sugar they dislike sacchariu, and even refused sugar when mixed with saccharin. Dr. Murray, of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, estimates the mean height of the land of the globe to be 1900 feet above sea levol. Humboldt's estimate placed the same level at only 1000 feet above high water mark. By the transfusion of artificial or chem ical blood in her veins the lifo of Mrs. Louise Christian, of Lyon Mountain, N. Y., has been saved. She bad been very ill for a long while and was apparently about to breathe hor last. What is claimed to be the largest wire nail machine ever built in the United States was finished recently by a Green point (N. Y.) firm, and shipped to a nail concern at Everett, State of Washington. The total weight of the machine was 12 tons, and it is capable ot making nails weighing a half-pound each at the rate of one a second. Nails- of auy desired length can, however, be manufactured by simply adjusting the feed. A comparative estimate, made by an English engineer, as to the cost of train lighting by gas, oil and electricity, in dicates that oil varies from one to two cents per lamp per hour, coinprcs9e 1 ga9 costs one cent per lamp per hour aud electricity one-half cent per lamp pet hour, while the cost of plant was about five per cent, less for electricity than fot gas. This will be a welcome piece of news to railroad companies. The su periority of the electric light in giving more uuiform illumination and not foul ing the air commends it, irrespective of any question of expense. The Stormy Petrel's Endurance. During a recent trip across the At lantic the passengers on one steamer had a vivid illustration of the endurance ol the stormy petrol. Shortly after the ship left the Irish coast two or three of these birds were sighted at the stern of the ship. Oue had boen caught at some previous time, and its captor tied a bit of red flannel or ribbon round its neck and let it go. Tho bit of red made the bird very conspicuous, and it could be easily identified. That bird, with othert that could not be so easily distinguished, followed the ship clear across the ocean. Hurely, during the day time at least, was it out of sight, and if for an hour or two It was lost to view while feeding ou the refuse cast overboard, it soou reap peared, and the last seen of it was with in a few miles of Sandy Hook, when it disappeared, perhaps to follow some outward-bound steamer back to Ireland. When the fact is considered that the ship, day and night, went at an average speed ot nearly twenty miles an hour, the feat performed by the daring traveler can be better appreciated. When or how It rested is inexplicable. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Strange Canyon. Goorge W. Dunn, the veteran natur alist of California, has returned to Ban Francisco from a strange canyon iu tho Tantillos Mountains. Lower California, where he went recently to secure some rare plants, nolauasaud seeds of the blue palm. He says that the cauyou has uever to his knowledge before been explore! by white men, aud that its declivities are altogether mure rough aud frightful than any he has seeu ou tho Pacific const, though bu has traveled much. About tvo thousand Cocopah ludiaus were there gathering the fruit of the palms and pine nuts. They reached it, as did Mr. Dunn, by going down the almost perpendicular sides of the Tuutillas Rauge. The drop is f -4 ) feet in three miles. Dead Indian ponies aud horse skeletons lined the way. The formation from the bottom of the terrible canyon to the saw-toothed backbone is cleau and pure granite. Along the cuuyou is u tumbling cascade of pur" :uouutaiu water, and on either side f jr miles are groves ol the pretty blue palm. Boston 'i rautcript. ' WHICH WAS RIOHTT A small, clear brook set out one day To search for the dark bine sea; It babbled and spnxklrd, it rippled and sang; And cried, "Just look at me; For I have started, dear neighbors and frionds. To And my father, the Seal" "Oh dear little brook P orgel the bank. As the stream slipped tinging by "I beg you most earnestly give It np; lr yon'U wait, 1 will tell you why r But th. brook would not listen, and ran away Beneath the smiling sky. "Ob, where are you going, you gurgling brookr Asked a pollard-willow tree, Wbtoh leaned where the brook formed limpid pool. Its tresses green to soo -Tra going, dear malam," ssnr th. brook, 'To find my father, the Sea." "O dear, small brookr' cried its pollard friend, "Great danger will meet you this day; There's an awful thing which will swallow you up Before you go half the way 1" "I don't believe it," rippled the brook, j "I'm going, for all you say P1' And the brook and the pollard both were right, As you will presently see; For a great dark river hurried along, And swallowed the brook, and its merry song; And carried it off to Sea. Annie L. Hannah. HUMOR OF THE DAY. A yard stick The clothes pole. Never too old to lenrn The ancient classics. Measuring a vessel's speed is a knotty problem. Boston Courier. The monetary question Con you set tle that bill to-day? Omaha Wold Herald. The trouble with tho lynx eyed de tective is that he sometimes drops some of the links. Puck. She "How do you pronounce C-h-i-c-a-g-ol" He (of St. Louis) "Guilty." Detroit Free Press. A girl gives her lover a mitten, wo suppose, because a pair is out of the question. Binghamton Leader. Macy a man who couldn't train de cent dog properly confidently undertakes the training ot a child. Puck. There are a good many successful lion fighters who will run at the sight of a hornet. Indianapolis Ram's Horn. The woman with the new sealskin sacque is just as anxious for cold weather as the plumber. Pittsburg Dispatch. Ah, very fair, in leed, is sb?, 1 his maiden fair by me adored ! .' But it's very plain to me Bhe's dearer than 1 cau atf jrd. -Puck. . When a lady "condescends" to do something, she can only preserve hei self-respect by doing it very badly. Puck. Inquisitive people are reminded that the rhnn n-hn llnnmi.') . 1, - - j v. ...jia luu urjau ua s . the one who brings out tbo music f t 3 t...i. r U Many unkind things aro said of tho telophone, but one of its redeeming fea tures is that you can't lend money luruugu ii. ruiittueipnia Uccord. "Sure, Pat, the wather's terrible close to tho idge o' the boatl" Yis; an il the toido rises six inches more we'll botb be drooned." Yale Kecord. "It's all very well," said the gravs digger, "to advise a young man to begin at the bottom, and work up, but in my business it ain't practicable." Life. Binks "I rea 1 a curious article, th other day, advocating a tax on beauty." Jinks "Good idea. They won't hav much trouble in collecting it." Quips. "A joke's a joke," the horse thiof said lieu they led him 'neutli the tree; "Hut you fellers seem iu dead earnest; While you're a-striugiuj; me." Puck. An Irishman has written a stroug ar ticle in favor of cremation, and says thai cremation has one great advantage: il will prevent "dead" people from being buried alive. Truth. Orr E. Eutle "I hear that Ned Bird say has giveu up his bachelor apart ment." Marlboro "Yes, he hai changed his bachelor quarters for a bet ter half." Brooklyn Life. Mrs. Snaggs (as she removes hei wraps) "I h I a lovoly time at the dif ferent stores thij afternoon." Suaggs "There you go talking shop again I" Pittsburg Chrouiclo-Telegraph. Duinsqulzzle "Young Timberwbeel has a suit of clothes for every day in the week." Skiiugullet "1 never see him wear but one." Duinsquizzle "Yoi, that's the suit." Brooklyn Life. Tug Captain "Boss, the boat's workiu' very badly uow, au' we ought to do somethiu' about it." Tug Owner "She won't work, eh? Well, theu, dock her, seel" Philadelphia UecjrJ. TIia military man was once A u.to to us all. The football player now it is W huge carnage we recall. Wanliiiitfton Star. Ihikutio "Speaking of stor.ui, I once saw hailstones as larre " Uaswell (in terrupting with a sneer) 'Chestnuts!" Dukaue "Oh, bigger than that! A large as horse-suestuuts." Pittsburg Chronicle. Mrs. Snystcr do Puyster 'Hensselaer, that Miss Westlaudi you pay such assid uous attentions to betrays ucythiug bul a refined training." Hensselaer "Ah, mother, she it a rough diau.oiul!'' Mrs. Shyster de Puyater "Theu you ought to cut her." The Jewelers' Circular. In the State of Maine the yield of po tatoes varied greatly from fifty bushels per aero in the older portions of the State to 250 id tun lei tile Aroostook, region.
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