' THE FOREST EEPDBLICAN b MUh4 very Wetawtay, kf J. E. WENK. Offloa In Bmaarbauj a A Co.'i ulldini KLM ITJin, TIONUTA, Trm. ... tuo ptrTtir. Ra nkanlptlms noT4 far at wis Mrloa Ikon tkrf tnontb. Correspondent wHen rra al mi f tht ennriry. N d.lIc wUl U Ukaa iuiitmii oaunonlutlou. RATXS OF AOVERTISIildl :publican. On 8qnara, one inoh, on insrtioa.. W On. Square, on. inch, on month..,, I 00) On. (Square, on. inch, three month... ft 00 On. Square, one inch, on. year... ., 10 00 Two Squares, on. year 15 00 Quarter Column, one Tear... ., 80 OJ Half Column, on. year . SO 00 One Column, on. year. ... 100 'HI Isgal ariTrtiterant tea oeiU par Um each In Mr t loo. Marriage and death notloe grati. All bill, for yearly advertisement eoDe4 VOL. XXVI. NO. 27. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 25, 1893. 'S1.50 PER ANNUM. quarterly, i .mporary advertisement i be paid in atl ranee. Job work ouh oa delivery. Tjit : Tlio United Slates hovo for each 100 miles of railway twenty locomotives, seventeen passenger cars nml 714 freight earn. In tho production of iron oro Michigan rntikn first. Ilor product in nearly one-half uf (ho total of tlio en tire country. Homo of the richest gold nml silver mine in tlio world aro in Japan. From thoiu oro to tlio valuo of 8250, 000,000 has been extracted. Onltling has succeeded in adding nn electric appliance to the gun which bram his iiitnip, which makes it pos sible to tiro tlml weapon 5000 times a in i ii ii 1 o. Tho Rational linuk of Italy, likotho. Bank of England, manngestho finance of tho Government. It is a practical monopoly and has branches in every largo city. OIUcerH Hiid soldiers of tho Frcncli army will henceforth have a metallic pluto fastened to their collars foi identification. A aimilar ache-mo i being considered, for tho benefit ol miners. Tho New York Recorder avers that Kansas farmers have reaped moro wealth off the earth's snrfaco in grain than has been dug out of its interioi in precious metals in tho same time in all tho States and Territories west ot her. Tho wool crop of California, for 1802 is given by Thomas Dcuigan, Son A Company, at 112, 521, 000 pounds. Tho heaviest yield during tho past decade was in 1883, when it reached 40,848, 600 pound. Tho crop has not since that date fallen below the yield of last your, except in 1891, when' it wag but 20, 013,470 pounds. The ctyp of tho ftasent year is expected to exceed that of 1802 by some millions of pounds. Some experiments in military bal looning havo just been made in Franco. Fiv balloons were released from tho Esplanade des Invalidcs in Paris; the aeronauts in charge having boon previously instructed to pass over a rndius of twenty miles of country sup posed to bo held by an enemy, and then to descend us closely as possible to Combs la Villo. Ono of the balloons descended within 'a milo of the desired plue audtwo others at anoint some what more distant from it. Reports from tho recruiting station of the United States Army in Boston and from the recruiting station of tho Murine Corps- in tho same city show thut at both btatious an unusually largo number of men havo presented themselves the present summer as re cruits. It is suspected by tho Xew York Tribune that the closing of mills in New England and the discharge of thousands of workinguueu havo led to the enlistments. The recruits ulsoaro of a bettor class than usually present themselves. Tho farmers of Saratoga County, Now York, regard the golden rod as a nuisance, exceeded only by the Canada thistle. It iills tho uieadows, chokes out tho grass and ruins tho pasturing. That the "pesky stuff", hud value whs unknown until a man recently arrived from New York and arranged with several agriculturists for the purehaso and shipment of the tlowers. Ho is to furnish boxes specially made to preserve the golden rod's freshuess during its seven hours' journey cityward, and hopes to reap a profit from sales on the street and at tho florists' stands. Tho American Agriculturist ob erves: "In nearly every county ono r more fairs are held each autumn. Farmers and their families should en deavor to spend one or more days at these annual gatherings. There iscer Uin to be something of greut interest rud benefit to every branch of farm jng. In fruit or vegetables, if auy (hing of merit is observed, rind out (ho name and price, test it for next jeasou. Follow the sumo with gruin lr other products of the fields. Talk pith the producer, if possible, and ob tain valuable points or hints that will aid in future labors. Look over the improved breeds of stock, and decide whether a thorougbred animal could be used in your neighborhood with profit. Tho machinery and imple ments will receive their sliuro of atten tion. You will usually meet many o' your friends, and make uew oiks, um: thus udd another link to the evidenci of why you should attend tho fuirs both local and State. Tuke something with you to exhibit, ami whether yoj obtain a premium or not, you buv uided in the display and success of tli4 exhibition, ana iu the future, liy tliii course, be luore deeply interested." WHEREVER YOU ARE. ' Wherever you are this time of year, O, my lost love, who was fnlse as fair, When the cry of the whtppoorwlll falls on your ear, And the mown hay scents the air, I know you must think of the night we stood Under tho syaenmore tree alone, Wlillo our volns ran riot with life's warm flood, And my heart raailn its passion known You must think how I cnllod you my lovo, my own, Wherevor you are, Wherever you nro on nights like this, Iiiko sweet in your gall, or like gull in your wine, You must taste that clinging and tender kiss, That first mad kiss of mine. How timid you were, and how fond you wero ! How you trembled and clung 'twlxt your love and fright When you heard a bird In tho sycamore stir, And I gathered you close and tight ! God ! but It must all haunt you to-night, Whorevor you are. Wherever you are, yon must recall How the young moon rose as I hold you there ' How I watched a star from midsky fall, And my wish took the form of a prayer. "Whatever you ask will come true," Xou said, with that smtlo that ensnared all mA j And yet you were speaking a lie, you knew And I never shall pray again. Xou must think of tho wrong you did me then, Wherever you am. -IBa W. Wlleox, In Frank Leslie's Monthly. lli OPPORTUNITY. BT LOUIS fclfczg. HERE was one sen tence that Deacon Chandler had nevcH omitted from his prayers sinco he was converted and began to pray in tho little wooden church on. the hill. It was this: "Send , to Thy servant, oh, Lord, some great opportunity fVr doing good." Strauge as it may seem, his prayers had never boon answered. The sea sons rolled around with their accus tomed regularity and brought increase to his flock and plenty to his store houses, and as yet nothing unusual had happcuod. Still tho worthy man prayed on until "Deacon Chandler's opportunity" had come t' bo almost a byword with not a few. of the younger members of the congregation. And when he aroso at each meeting, and with bowed head uttered tho familiar petition, his eldest son, Tom, away in the back part of tho room, was mim icking his father, to the intense amuse ment of a few unruly boys who were bis companions. Tjm Chandler was a bad boy. There was no denying that. Tom's mother wag the last one to admit it, but even she was forced to own sorrowfully that "Thomas was a little wild." Deacon Chandler in his own family laid down the strictest rules, and they wero fear fully followed by all except the eldest. Tom was incorrigible. He chafed un der tho homo restraint, and his natu ral wiiiluess found vent in various petty misdemeanors, which soon won for him a bad name iu his nativo vil lage. Iu vain his mother besought him to mend his ways ; in vain his father placed him nuder closer re straint and visited upon him more dire penalties. It was no avail. Ono night Deacon Chandler entered his home with a stern look on his face that boded no good for whoever the culprit might be. His wife looked up from her sewing as he entered. "Where's Tom?" he said shortly. "I don't know," was tho reply. "Why is anything tho matter?" Before ho could reply tho door opened again and the subject of their conversation came in. Ho was a tall, well-built boy of eighteen, but his youthful face was already marked with the lines of dissipation and in his handsome brown eyestherc was a dare devil expression that spoke volumes to one who understood it. "Well, sir?" was Deacon Chandler's greeting. "Well?" came in insolont tones from tho boy, who remained standing. '.'You aro found out." Tho stern notes of tho father rang in the mother's ear liko a deathkuell. "You may as well confess." "There is no need if you havo found me out," replied tho boy defiantly. "Perhaps you would like me to tell. Are you proud that you uud your gang have been detected stealing-fruit from Mr. Dean's orchard, and that unless 1 settle you will be arrested ? Can you offer any excuse for removing the gates from half a dozen houses iu town and making a bonfire of them in my orchard lot?" Mrs. Chandler looked hurriedly up at her son. "Oh, Tom, it isn't so? Say it isn't so," she implored. lint he was silent. Then tho deacon continued : "I shall settle to save your brothers and sisters from disgrace, but from this night you are no sou of mine. 1 disown you." A slight pallor spread over the boy's face as ho opened his lips to reply. "All right, father. If you hud dealt more gently with me I wight have been a different boy now. I own that I took tho apples and helped to burn the gates. But there," ho burst out suddenly, "what does it matter? 1 won't stuy to disgrace the family any longer, I've been ready to go for some time." And he glanced uround the comfortable room contemptuously. When he finished speaking u mother's hand was laid on his arm and a mother's voice, pitiful in its borrow, laid JT "Don't go, Tom. Your father don't mean it. Ho is very angry bocauso you mako him so much trouble. Ask him to forgive you. I am sure ho will if you will only try to bo a better boy." "Never 1" sternly interrupted tho deacon. "Ho is no son of mine, and my house is no longer his homo. Oo ! Do you hear?" "You need not toll mo twice," re turned the boy. "Good-bye, mother. I'm going," and beforo they realized it tho oldest sou had passed out of homo life forever. After that lifo wont on about as usual at tho Chandler farm. The deacon still offered his accustomed prayer, only thero was no Tom to make fun of him, for sinco that night Tom Chandler had not been seen. Deacon Chandler was still wait ing for his opportunity ind still won dering, too, how a chance so earnestly desired was so long withheld. Others all about him were doing great things toward building tip tho kingdom, yet, search and wait as ho would, nothing ever camo in his way. So tho timo wont on for eight or ten years, until one day Deacon Cljbdler awoke suddenly to the fact that his wifo was slowly dying. His love for liiB wife was one qf the things that no ono doubted, and when he noticed how palo and thin she had become he spoke to her at onco in an unusually anxious way. "Is there anything I can do foe yon, wife?" ho Bskod. "No I don't know as there is." "Is there anything you want?" Her eyes tilled with tears. "Shall I toll you?" she whispered. . "Yesdo." Sadly and firmly she told him, then the whole pitiful story. "I want my boy. I want Tom to como back to me. He was my first born, and I cannot forgot how I loved him when ho was a bitty ifr my arms. Yes, audTwhen he grew to bo a boy I loved him still, and my love could havo saved him. But you yon were so hard and cold with him. Conscious of your own virtue, you could not pity his infirmity and bear with him, as I would have . done. - No, hear me out," -as ho would have spoken. "You havo always prayed prayed to the Lord for somo opportunity to do some great good, and when it was hero, in your own sou, you neglected it. Yoii might havo been more gentle ; you might have led him out of his evil ways, but you would not, and all these years my heart has been aching for a sight of my son my eldest born." The words cume sharp and fast now and euded in a smothered sob. The deacon was surprised. Never before hud his w ifo questioned his wis dom or censured him for what he did. But the mother love so strong in her had welled up and filled her heart to overflowing, and sho must bo heard. Her words had their effect, too, for Deacon Chandler saw, as he had never seen beforo this, his mistake and tho hypocrisy of the fervent prayer he had so often breathed out to His Heavenly Father when ho was an unmerciful nay, even cruel parent. How he had prayed for an opportunity of doing good, and when it camo let it pass nay, threw it away willfully. Ho was a man of few words, and those Jie spoke now carried healing balm to the heart of the woman who had so loved her wayward boy. "I have boen wrong, wifo. Can yon forgive mo?" "Oh, freely!" she answered hiin. Ho read iu her wistful eyes tho un spoken wish and answered it. "I will find our boy and bring him home," ho said. "And no matter how sinful he is or how ho has fallen you will bring him homo to his mother?" "I will. " And sho was satisfied. ' To those who wish to loaru all things are. plain, and Doaoon Chandler traced his sou, by constant effort, to a small Westeru'city. Of .the fact that he was thero ho became convinced, but could learn nothing more. A week found him standing in a railway station of tho city of C., inquiring of tho by standers if they knew Thomas Chan dler. "Know Thomas Chandler? Waal, I reckon I do," drawled ono loafer who was warming himself in the sun. ' 'Can you tell mo where I can find him?" asked tho deacon. "Waal, I kinder reckon about this timo or day he's ter bo found over to the Seuter House." Having learned where tho Sentor Houso was, Deacon Chandler wulked slowly up the main street of tho well kept western city. How should he find Tom? Ho infe red, from the manner o? the man with whom he had jiint talked, that his on was still the wild young man ho had turned from home so many weary years ago. But it did not matter. He had promised the mothur and then was not hero his opportunity ? He would see that he grasped it now and would save hia son at any cost. His meditations wero cut short by tho gilded sign directly in front of his eyes and he saw iu large letters Seu ter House. He was almost nshamed to ask this geiitlemenly fellow about his erring son, but he did. I "I uiu a stranger here, sir," ho bo- gun. "Can you tell mo where I can ! liud Thomas Chandler?" "Yes, sir," answered the brisk clerk. Then ho turned to a boy who stood near and said, "iio and liud Mr. Chandler." Tho boy sped away on his errand and Deacon Chandler waited. Then ho heard steps, u man's surprised voice called, "Father," and ho looked up and t.uw his son. But where was the sinful, dissipated uiau he had thought to see? Hero was a well dressed uud prosperoiiK-lookiug man, holding out his hand to him and bid ding hiin welcome. Aud it was Tom. That was tho funny part of it. "Come, father," and ho lead tho vld man away to a privato parlor and closed tho door. "Don't you know me, father? I would know you any where" "Yes but it's so strange," gaspod tho old man. Tom laughed good naturcdly. "Oh, you mean that I am not whot you expected to find? Well, hordly, judging from eorly indications; but, father I must say it" and tho man's eyes grew moist "all that 1 am I owe to mother." "God bless her, Tom," henrtily re sponded his father. Then after a pause, "Can you forgive me, my sou, for my harshness?" "Thero is no moro for mo to for give than you," returned his sou. "I havo lived all theso ycors to learn, and I think"! may safely say now that I am an honest man. This houso is mine and, God willing, I moan in tho futuro to bo an honor and not a disgrace to tho old home." Ho, after all, Deacon Chandler's opportunity was a wasted one, for now thero was no need of any effort on his part in his son's case. Tho opportun ity had come to him in his son's youth and he had neglected it. As it happened, everything had turned out right, but tho chances for that had been so few and for another and moro painful ono so many that ho could only thank God that ho had taken into his own hands tho most successful working out of Deacon Chandler's opportunity. New York Mercury. What Every Man Is Worth. An interesting exhibit nt tho Na tional Museum shows tho physical in gredients which go to make up the average man, weighing 154 pounds, says tho American Analyist. A largo glass jar holds the ninety-six pounds of water which his body contains. In other receptacles are three pounds of 'white of egg, a little less than ten pounds of pure glue without which it would bo impossible to keep body and soul together 431 pounds of fat, 81 pounds of phosphate of.lime, one po ind of carbonate of lime, three ounces of sugar and starch, seven ounces of tlouride of calcium, six ounces of phosphate of magnesia and a littlo ordinary table salt. Divided np into his primary chemical elements tho. same man is found to contain uine,ty-scvcn pounds of oxygen- enough to tako up, under "ordinary at mospheric pressure, the spoco of a room ten feet long, ten feet wide and ten foot high. His body also holds fifteen pounds of hydrogen, which.un- uor vue Bame couumons, wouia occupy somewhat more than two such rooms as that described. To these must be added three pounds aud thirteen ounces of nitrogen. Tho carbon in tho corpus of tho individual referred to is represented by a foot cube of coal. It ought to bo a diamond of tho same size, because the stone is pure carbon, but the National Museum has not such a one in its possession. A row of bottles contain the other ele ments going to make up the man. These are four ounces of chlorine, 3J ounces of rlourino, eight ounces of phosphorus, 3J ounces of brimstone, 2 J ounces of sodium, 2 J ounces of po tassium, 1-10 of an ounce of iron, two ounces of magnesium and three pounds and thirteen ounces of calcium. Cal cium, at present market rates, is worth 8300 an ounce, so that tho amount of it contained in ono human body has a money valuo of 818,300. Few of our iellow eitizens realize that, they are worth so much intrinsically. A Chip of the Old Block. A Trinity professor and his young son were dressing together ono morn ing not long ago when tho futher thought ho saw a chauco to inculcate into his son a few good ideas. He looked out of tho window and saw tho small boy who lived next door to them working hard in tho garden, aud this was his opportunity. "Henry," he said, "look at Walter Jonos working out thero iu tho garden. He's been up since 5 o'clock this morning, milked the cow and brought the milk over here. Xow, there's a boy for you." Tho boy mused for a minute or two, then looked up at his father and suid : "l'apa, do you see Mr. Jones over there? Ho'a been up since 5 o'clock w, irking hard in tho garden, planting corn and peas. Now, there's a man for you." And tho professor as ho tells tho story says thero was just u twinkle in his son's eye. Hartford l'ost. . About Somo Ituro tie ins. Tho Sultan of Turkey has an emer ald of 300 eurats set iu the handle of a dagger. He has the richest collection of gems and regalia iu the world. There is a twin crystal of emerald in St. Petersburg seven inches long, four broad ami weighing four and one-half pounds. The diadem of the Russian Empress Anna contains 25iiti large diamonds and a ruby valued at 800,000. The cutting of the Kohinoor occu pied thirty-eight djjys with steam power uud eost gl"!"" ' The Regent required two years and cost 825,000. After tho first discovery of the Bra zilian diamond mines, 1110 ounces ot diamonds were shipped to Portugal iu one year, uud tho price fell to 8-J curat. Shorn Hair. Keeps ou (Growing. Mrs. H. E. Credle, the clever keepei of the bourdiiig-hoiisu iu the Howard building, on South Front street, has I curiosity u lock of huir that hai glow n to several times tho length it was when severed from the heud. II wus sent to her by u friend two years ago, and was then only ubout 1 J inched long. Since then it has grown con stantly and is now over a foot long. It is in vigorous growth and has a live look. Newborn 'X. C. Jouruul. Tllli TOOTHSOME POMPANO. A FINNY MORSEL THAT TICKLES THE CALIFORNIAN'3 PALATE. It ('nine Originally From Japan, IJiit Is Caught Now On tho Pacific 'ont Three Ways of Cooking M. V THAT aro pompano, any- Wa?? V To begin with, pompano in California are liko the snakes in Ireland. There aro no pom pan. The real pompano, the genu ine, simon-pure article, only swims in the warm wuters of the Gulf of Mexico. Tho delicious little finny morse 1 that is sold in San Francisco fish markets under that name is really tho Btronia tcUB simillimus, or "butter fish," but he is a thousand times more appetizing thau the real article, and whether you call him pompano, butter fish, stroma teus simillimus or Bimilia similibns curantnr, he's tho finest littlo fish that over sizzled over a fire of hot coals or followed tho soup ou a menu card. Originally the poiupano, as wo call him to save trouble, came from the Japanese coast. A little school of them strayed too far from" shore and got caught in tho great Japan current, tho gulf stream of tho Pacific, aud event ually brought up in Monterey Bay. How long ago this took ploco no one knows, but H was not until 1870, or thereabouts, that tho fishermen began to find stray pompano in their nets. Only a very few at first, Vint California seems to have suited tho Jupancso strangers, and the number has been steadily increasing from year to year, and now they are only forty cents a pound. When tho Monterey fishermen began to catch them first each man caught so few it hordly paid to sell them. So a sort of co-operative scheme was adopt ed. All the pompano caught on Mon day, no matter by whom, became tho property of Giuseppe, to have, to hold and dispose of at tho highest murket rates. Tuesday's catch went to Felip. The pompano "corner" on Wednesday became the property of Luigi. Thurs day Antono had his innings, and so ou, each fisherman in timo being entitled to tho entire catch of all tho fish. This system seived n donblo purpose. Each fisherman, when his day came, had enough pompano to insure a good pro fit on the sale and it kept prices at ono figure, as it did away with competition. All that is past now. Every one catches enough fish to market for him self, and pompano can be had for 375 cents a pound. Although the pompano supply still conies from Monterey and Santa Cruz, the toothsome littlo lish is caught at other points, but theso are either too remote or tho supply not sufficient to mako it pay to market them. From Santa Barbara and Santa Monica the good news comes that dowu there, too, the price of pompano is steadily fall ing aud the supply is increasing. At Santa Monica the now what f that tho railroad has thrust a half milo or moro out to sea seems to have pene trated into tho "stumping ground" of tho pompano. They swarm around the end of tho wharf, and tho Santa Monica summer girl abandoned every thing, even flirting, for tho fascinating sport of pompano fishing. They bito readily, uud thero is not only tho fun of catching them, but the subsequent uud greuter joy of eating them after ward. Pompano should bo cooked in three ways broiled, in the pan or en papil loto. Done the first way they aro de licious. After the second fashion they are better still. But en pupillote well, words fail to convoy any udequute idea of the epicurean joy ot eating pompano en papillote. Tho latter method of preparing tho fish is sim plicity itself. Tho pompano should be placed iu the pun and cooked us usual until they lack but a few brief moments of being done. Then remove them from tho pan and wrap them quickly in white paper thoroughly buttered, ouch lish in u separate sheet, place ou tho fire for a moment more, and then well, if auy one doesn't know what to -do then, codfish balle would be too rich for him. San Fran cisco Examiner. Proeess ol Making Postage Stumps. Every part of postage-stamp making is done by hand. The designs are en graved ou steel, 200 stauipsou asiugle plate. These pluses aro inked by two liicii, ami then uro printed by a girl aud a man on a largo hand press. They are dried as fast as printed and then gummed with a starch paste made from potatoes. This paste is dried by placing the sheets in a steam fanning niaehine, and then the slumps aro sub jected to a pressure of 2000 tons iu a hydraulic press. Next the sheets are cut so that each one contains 100 stimps, after which the paper between the stumps is perforated, and after he!u.' pressed tho sheets aro tiled away. Jf a single stump is injured tho whole sheet is burned. St. Paul Pioneer Press. A New Story of (Jeer ire Washington. Here is a new story of the Father of his Country. Washington's head gar dener was u iiiuu from some European kingdom, where he lia I worked ill the royal grounds. But coming to Amer ica, he left his wile behind. Home sickness for his "glide" woman's face soon began to prey ou him, and Wash ington noticed the anxious eye and drooping spirits of his servant. Final ly the man went down to the river and declared his intention of shipping to the old country, when who should come up and lean over tlio side of a new lv-arrivi'd vessel but his wile. The kind -hearted (ieuel'iil had secretly sent for the woman, aud she untoi lunntel v surprised her loving husband iu one of his tits of despondency. Philadel phia Times. St'IEMirif AM) INDUSTRIAL. There aro electrij railways in No Zealand. A Paris medical journal declares jaundice is, or can be, cured by eating nothing but lettuce and lemons. Doctor F,. M. Hale, tho climotolo gist, states that Bright's disraso is most common in New Jersey, uud least frequent in Virginia. Experiments made at a cancer hoR pital in New York havo convinced tho physicians that tho virus of erysipelas injected into cancerous tumors causes them to disappear. In tho museum at Cambridge. Eng land, is the skeleton and stuffed skin of an adult hybrid between a lion and a tigress. This, with several distinct litters by different parents, was born iu the sarno menagerie. It appears that the camel does a good deal of harm in Egypt, by eat ing the trees as they arc growing up. Already tho massivo Cairo enmol is a typo distinct from other camels, sur passing all in its cumbrous, massive proportions. Somo investigations carried out by Doctor Alexander A. Houston, of Ed inburgh, respecting the number of bacteria in the soil at different depths from tho surface go to provo that the micro-organisms become less and less abundant as the depth from tho sur face increases. Extensivo draught will causo tho snail to close its doors, to prevent the evaporation of its bodily moisture and dry up. Theso littlo animals are pos sessed of astonishing vitality, regain ing activity after having been frozen in solid blocks of ice, and enduring a degree of heat for weeks which daily crisps vegetation. Tho common purslane, which growi enywhero as a weed, produces more seeds than any other plant. One sceii pod, by actual count, has 3000 seeds, and as a plant will sometimes havt twenty pods, the seeds from a single year's growth may, therefore, numbei (30,000. There is no instance of simi lar fruitfulness in any other plant growing in this country. The Biblo fixes the creation of life in successive periods, tho creation ol the higher order of animals iu tho last period, and immediately beforo the appearance of man. According tc Moses, the order in which living thinge appeared was. Plants, fishes, fowl, land animals aud man. Science, from a Btudy of fossils in tho rock foundii lions, has independently arrived al the same conclusions. Telophonemeter is tho new word naming an instrument to register tho time of each conversation at tho tele phone from the time of rintriug up tho exohange to tho ringing-oil signal. 3uoh a system would reduce rentals of telephones to a scale according to the' jervice, instead of a fixed cleirgo to a business firm or occasional user alike. The instrument has been constructed it tho invitation of tho (ierinau tele phone department and is to control the duration of telephone conversa tions uud to total the time. Space for a fort on a hill near Lon don is beiug cleared of tree stumps by iu electric root grubber or stump puller. Tho dynamo for supplying the current is ubout two miles from the hill. The current is taken by over head wires on telegraph poles to the motor on tho grubber carriage. By means of belting and suitablo gearing tho motor drives a capstan upon which are coiled a few turns of wire rope. A heavy chain is attached to tho tree roots, and as tho rope exertn its force the roots coma up quietly ono after the other. Tho Oldest Trees. The Soma cypress of Lombardy is, I believe, tho oldest tree of which there is any authentic record. It is known to have beeu in existence in 42 15. C. There are, however, many trees for which a vastly greater antiquity is claimed. Tho Senegal baobabs somo sf them are said to bo 5000 yearsold. The bo tree of Auiiradhapurii, in Ceylon, is perhaps the oldest specimen of another very long-lived species; it is held sacred upon the ground that it sprang from it branch of the iden tical tree under w hich Buddha reclined for seveu years while undergoing his apotheosis. This oak is well known lo be along liver, ami there are speci mens still standing in Palestine, of which the tradition goes that tliey itrcw out of Cain's stall'. The haw thorn, again, sometimes lives to be very old ; thero is said to be one iu tido Cawdor Castle of an "immemorial '." Tlio cedars of Lebanon may mentioned, and there are, u. lo Dean Stanley, still eight :divesof ( let hscmanc standing, also be or ling of the "w hose gnarled trunks and scanty foliage w ill always be regarded as the mo-.t affect ing of the sacred memorials in or about Jerusalem." Notes and (Queries. III Northern Alaska. Juneau is the most northerly stop ping place on the regular Alu-iku ex cursion route, uud w hile it is not sii'li-i-ieiitly near the pole to meet the mid night sun, there is time at this season of tho year for a goo 1 deal of light work. What most troubles strangers is tc know when to go to bed. 1 he sun i apparently unw illing to puss tin 1 leave.1 its halo behind. Twilight waits for dawn, or if tie r, is an interval between 1 have not .lis covered it. It is not ditli.'iilt to re el ordinary print at 11 o'eloel., and sit ting ou tho deck at midnight lie- ship keeps Sau Francisco time) w itehiu' tho shadows cast upon tin- sniootu water, md the snow-capped peak" at few miles' distance is not uueonilort juhlu with au overeat. Sau Fianei.c j Hulk-tic. TWO MEN. One was a king, and a whin domain He ruled ns his sires had done , A wooden hovel, a bed of pnin. Belonged to the other ono. Tho king was ill and thi world wis sad But the monareli languished, tho mouarnb died, Tho beggar was siek unto dentil, tint ho had No one to wateh at his low bedside. Then under the miustor tho king was laid, While o'er him the marbles were piled : But a shallow grnvil In tho Holds was made, By careless hands, for Poverty's ehlld. But now thero aro thoso who profoundly do elare, If you opened the tomb and tho grave, You could not distinguish, whatever yout care, Tho dust of the king on 1 the slave. Charles Noble Gregory. HUMOR OF THE HAY. A good all-around man Tho man in tho moon. Penury is very often tho unexpected wages of the pen. Puck. Prosperous barbers aro even shaving checks now. Pittsburg Dispatch. For a spin on tho road tho proper thing, of course, is a "top" buggy. Boston Courier. A man who is in society and wants to keep in must be continually going out. Statesman. Money may bo tight, but thero's no reason for its getting paralyzed. Philadelphia Times. All men are born equal but somo are born more equal to tho emergency. World's Fair Puck. The fellow who doesn't think at all usually sets np for a freo thinker. Cleveland Plain Dealor. Silenco is golden, but you havo never realized how golden until you have to buy it. Atchison Globe. While vacation always begins with a V it always ends with a scarcity of them. Baltimore American. Some of these banks aro carrying the early closing movement altogether too far. Baltimore American. This is tho season of tho year in which you can get what you do not want real cheap. Texas Sif tings. When a parliamentary division ends in a free fight both tho eyes and nose are apt to have it. Lowell Courier. If you want to make suro your ad vico will be taken have it engraved on your umbrella handle. Troy Press. If it could only be put up in bottles "general humidity" would make a fair brand of gluo. Philadelphia Bocord. Experlenee is a teacher raro Aud one whom none may snub ; Sometimes she works with manners fair, But mostly takes a club. Detroit Free Tress. Tho alligator grows as long as ho lives. And ho sometimes lives as long as ten or twelve feet. ---Chicago Dis patch. "A well-earned rest," said Fogg when ho was given the particulars of Stixby's cromatiou. Boston Tran script. Johnnie "Papa, aro despots hap py?" Pappa "I don't kuow. Ask the hired girl." Kate Field's Wash ington. Of courso tho report of tho serious illness of Queen Victoria is not true. Her health is pledged too frequently. Boston Herald. Proctor "Well, it's only a step from tho sublimo to the ridiculous." Lenox "Ah, if it wero only a step back again." Vogue. Tho Eton jacket is ono of tho most absurd-looking things iu the world before a pretty girl puts it on. Shoo and Leather lleporter. Tho Baltimore police wero paid in silver dollars last week. And yet silver dollars for coppers is not a good ex change. Boston Globe. Landlady "Let me help you to tho Saratoga chips." Mrs. Newbuarder "No; I'll try tho toothpicks. They seem to bo of softer wood, I think." Tho Elizabethan ruff will be in voguo in the full and the fellow w ho attempts to kiss a fashionable girl will "get it iu tho neck." Philadelphia Kecord. Ada "Why does Clara speak of George as 'her intended?' Are they engaged?" Alice "No; but she in tends they shall be." Brooklyn Life. 1 dreamt I dwelt iu niarnie halls , I felt at ease, with life content, Till Ian y broulit III Ian Hur l's calls , ll- cmue, ulu, t"g-'t the rent. llatTalo Courier. Bridget "There's a limn nt the gnto with pigs' feet, mum." Mistress ''Gracious, Bridget, send him around lo the dime uuimuiii. " New York Ik-eorder. Beloved "Papa says he sees no l-euboii why we shouldn't be married." Lover (ecstatically) - "I'll u he- wum't pinched iiithutlast deal utter all. "--Detroit Tribune. "If there is any more of this oscil latory conviviality," said the littlo Itostoii girl at tin) children's party, much shocked, "l shall withdraw." - Chicago Tribune. A lady reader wants to know il we believe ill cures by "laving on hands." We do, maduuie, wo do mo-, fer vently. Hut a slipper or pine shingle is better. --Galveston cv. Policeman .to hand-organ limn) "Have you a liei lie to play? ll'n. t, vou must accompany inc. " Sienor Moiikauiu "Witha pleasure; what will you sing':'' New York Ne.-. We go to -I" -l tilt'-. I lile i-ial llig'.its I'.lnil 1 by llie eili,' ire , At- ia : lo ,v ir.l in a'aai ; v u .t'v' up Au 1 '.;-. aa I --a - - . aa I mcv. Villous i uy Jon: n -.1. Ma" "I'liat Miss Jumper is .lie a 1 fully ma ioiiline, iu her ways." "vVhat docs she. do?" Mac "Oh, 1'vo steu her get oil' the car before it stopped, witlio.it lulling." Chicago lutr-Oooau.
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