t TBI FOREST REPUBLICAN b tblik tri7 WM4y, kf J. B. WENK. ffloet la SiaeMrbaufh Co.'i ufldln; bui rrurr, tioiwta, r Trm, ... SI.BO ptrTwr. W ntwWImi imliri tm stetar n1o4 t tkra nanth. Forest RATI8 OF ADVERTISING ICAN. One Sqnar, m inoh, n lnrtloa..9 JW On. Hqaar, on. inch, one month. ., I 00 On Square, on. in nil, three month.. , 00 On. Hqu.ro, one inch, on yar ...... 10 W) Two 8pire, one year HOD Quarter Column, one year.. 00 Half Column, on year 80 00 On Column, on yar . 100 Legal adTertiMinuta tea cent per U. ana inMrtion. Marriage and death aotlosa gratis. All bill for yearly advertiwmont eoll4 uorrMpendcne mIIOU Im u But f ht country. N tic will Uki a i VOL. XXVI. NO. 33. vTIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 0, 1893. S1.50 PER ANNUM. quarterly. Temporary aaveruseuuuw i b paid in adrano. Job work oaih on delivery. wmaBicua. a 111. fl Malaria is responsible for half the deaths of all mankind, according to an English physician. It is Held that two-thirds of all the rot I da duck produced iu tho world is innilo within twenty miles of Baltimore, Mil. ' Dr. Burueh recently tolit tha Now York Academy that less drugs anil more hygiene ought to be used iu the euro of tho sick. ' A table allowing tho monetary sys tem of tho world has been prepared by Direokir of the United States Mint Trenton. Tho statistics show that the aggregato stock of gold is $8,582,005, 000; silver, $4,042,700,000, and un covered paper, $2,(535,873,000. . It is Muted by tho Chicago ITeruld thnt an American houso has concluded aeon tract for 2,600,000 tons of Japanese coal, to bo delivered at San Francisco in the courso of the next ten years. Hitherto tho coal imported at Ban Franoiseo lias been principally Aus tralian. Tho American Farmer admits that "the New Zealnnders aro more pro gressive than we are. They have puHBod a lnw giving women, married or single, all tho rights and privileges of citizenship. Every womau in Now Zealand is now as good as any other man, and better if sho behaves her self." Tho effect of a newspaper paragraph may be far-reaching iu it legal conse quences sometimes especially in France. 41. Cornet, overseer at the West of France Engine Works, was severely attacked in the columns of a railroad newspaper L'Echo des Chem ist lo Fcr (Eulisb, "Tho Railway Echo"). . Ho took theso criticisms so much to heart that he committed sui cide, leaving a widow and child. The paid widow brought suit for damages against L'Echo, holdiug that her hus band's death waa the direct result of the criticisms in that paper, and the court, concurring in that view, award ed the full amount claimed, ten thou sand dollars, and condemned the news paper in tho entire costs of the action. In his annual report Brigadier-General Carliu, commanding the Depart ment of the Columbia, says that the experiment of making the Indian a soldier is a decided failure so far as his experience goes, and he has reeom mended the discharge of the few Indian soldiers now in his department, less than a company. General Carlin re' ports that there has been a decided increase in desertions during the past year, due, in a great measure, to the unpopularity of the ten year servioe law, and ho recommends the repeal of that law. He also recommends that the small posts in his department be abandoned and the troops oonoentrated at a goneral post at the principal rail road center. The variet ies of sleigh bolls this sea son will be larger than ever, announces the Chicago Herald, and manufactur ers will cater more to luxurious tastes. As one can now pay $50 or more for a whip, so can he give $40 for a body ttrap of bells. For that he oau get a strap covered with Alaska sealskin, with sixty silver, brass, gold or nickel bells, the metal not being, of course, so precious as tho names indicate. Somewhat "cheaper straps f re made of beaver or mink, wool seal, kangaroo, ooze calf or Persian lamb. Or if the pleasure-seeker wishes, he can imitate tha tastes of the Russian, the Lap lander or the Tartar. In foxtail plumes he can find the upright, the drooping and the hanging plumes, or some elegant horse hair plumes, for $30 per pair. That grand being, the American heiress, specially created for the re lief of embarrassed nobles, says the London Speculator, has attained al most to the summit of her ambition, She hus not won a throne yet, though she may, if the Kiug of Bit via is a w ine man ; but she has almost ap proached that surpassing altitude. Ac- cording to the Ball Mall Gazette, Prince Isenberg-Birnsteiuhas been ac cepted by Miss Pullman, daughter of the lord of the diuing cars, and the hereditary prince is not only the eldest son of a mediatised prince, one of the even-horn who might marry a Haps burg, but is himself an imperial high ness, his mother having been an Aus- trian archduchess. At least bo says the Aliuahaeh do (lot ha, which is a final authority. American brides who have only won Colouuas, Borghesos or English dukes, will fuel quite eclipsed and take no further pleasure in dia monds. The passion for rank is cer tainly not confined to England, though here it is so strong that ever, the Queen felt promoted when fclae was saluted Emprebs, LITTLE ALL.AIONEY, Little AU-Aloney's feet Pitter-patter In tbe hall, And his mother runs to meet And to kin her toddling sweet, Ere perchance he fall. He is, eh, so weak and small t Yet what danger shall he fear When his mother hoveth near And Be heats her cheering call "AU-Aloney? ' Little All-Aloney's face It is all aglow with glee, As around that romping place At a terrifying pace ( Lungeth, pluugeth he And that hero snems to lie All unconscious of our cheers Only one dear voice he hears Calling reassuringly i "AIl-Aloney !" Though his legs bend with their load, Though his feet they seemed so small That you eannot help forebode Some disastrous episode In that noisy hall Neither threatening bump nor fall Little AIl-Aloney tear, But with sweet bravado steers Whither somes that cheery call I "AU-Aloney !" Ab, that In the years to come, When he shares of Sorrow's store, When his feet are chill and numb, When his oross Is burdensome, d his heart Is sore ; Would that he could hear onee more The gentle voice he used to hear Divine with mother love and cheer- Calling from yonder spirit shore t "All, all alone !" Eugene Field, In Chicago Record. REGINALD, B EMMA A. OPFEB. RTHTJR CRAIG tossed his cigar away and strolled around to where a red-and-blne ham mock was slnnor be- jlv' ' A I tween two oak VijCJTSJl lawn which was the $3V great attraction of ' the select summer hotel though it was summer no longer ; there was an autumn scent in the soft air. , But Lucy Winslow was staying here still, with her brother's wife and her little nephew ; therefore Arthur Craig stayed on also. She was sitting in the hammock, with little Reginald beside her. Reg inald always was beside her; their fondness for each other waa great. It had been a source of affliction to Craig all summer. He told himself that he wasn't jeal ous of Reginald, but if a fellow could get a chance to see a girl alone once a week or so, it would lie a rehof. Late ly he had particularly wished to see Miss inslow alone. "Hello, Arthur 1" said Reginald. "Oh, Reginald," said his pretty aunt, flushing, "say Mr. t'raig 1 ' "That fellow that was down here to see him called him Arthur, and I'm going to, said Reginald. He was eight years old, and had the blue-eyed, fair-skinned face of a cherub. But no cherub was ever so pert and precocious as Reginald. "Let him, Miss Winslow," said Craig. He dropped down on the grass at her feet and looked np at her. Surely she must know by this time "Say," said Reginald, "you said you'd take me boating on the river again and you haven t. 'We've been several times, haven't we? said Craig. How sweet she looked I "Oh, well, Aunt Lucy's always been along t You said you'd take me, and you got to! "Reginald, dear!" hia Aunt Lucy remonstrated. "So I will," Craig agreed. "Did you read that poem I gave you, Miss lmcy "roup, she read it," said Reginald. "Read seme of it to me. It ain't any good. (Jot a nice cover, that s all. Lucy laughed softly. "It is a beautiful thing, Mr. Craig," she said. "I enjoyed every word of it." "You you saw tho passage J marked?" Craig's face was flushed and eager. "Yes!" Lucy murmured. She looked closely at Reginald's sailor-hat, in her lap. "I'll tell you, Arthur," said Regin aid, swinging his lithe little legs, "if you'd rat her take me down to Murphy's ond buy me two loe-oream sodas choc olute first and then strawberry in stead of taking me out in the boat, w'y, you can it won't make any dif ference to me. "Oh, Reginald!" Lucy begged, with a distressed lungu. "Now, that is magnanimous!" Craig responded. He wondered if his hearty wish that lvcgiuald was somewhero elsi' was apparent? "I think I'll accept that alternative. lout passage marked, Miss Winslow I didn't do it idly. There comes a time iu a man's life when he feels a a love like that fur some womau." Did she know all he meant? Her face was downcast and averted. Reg inald, however, was staring full at him, and Craig's inward chafings intensified. HU.r ..... r. I is .....1... . Reginald demanded. "I got a k'leid oucope, and I'm sick of it. I want i printing press. 'Cuuso you haven't got any, but if you'll buy oue and give me, I'll give you my k'ieidoseope and meube fifty cents or so besides, buy, 11 you do it, Arthur? "I'll think about it. Do you want to run over and see if tho mull is in, Reginuld? I m expecting a letter. Reginald reflected and shook his head "I guess I'll wr.it till byuie-by," he said, "and you can go with me, and -ve'll Hup ot Murphy's. " "Miss Winslow, said Craig, des perately, "I don't know whether yon know whether you have guessod -1 don't know, .Miss Winslow, whether you yon have suspected" "My goodness I" said Reginald, with a high-pitched eight-year-old laugh ; "what are you trying to say, Arthur?'' Craig looked at Lucy. Was she laughing at him, too? His face grew warm with the sudden wretched sus picion that she was. After all, was he not a fool to think for a moment that she could care for him? Of a sudden ho saw matters in a new, a painful light. If she had cared for him, would she not have managed now and then that they might see each other alone? How rarely had that occurred now continually had that little nuisance of a nephew dogged them 1 Had she con trived it? Had she mode Reginald a defense, a guard against unwelcome advances? He was all at once misera bly certain of it. He was warm with mortification, and colli, at hoart with keen unhnppinness. He had been stupidly slow of percep tion, that was all. But that was a thing which could be remedied. He rose from the grass, and looked down at Lucy Winslow with a set smile. "Well. I don't believe I know my self what I'm tryingtosay, Reginald," he answered. "I needn't say good-by to you just now, Miss Winslow, for I'll be here a day or so yet. But I'll bo off about Thursday, 1 guess, ana after a month or so at homo, I expect to go ont West on business that will keep me there indefinitely, I imagine. I shall think of this summer often, and with pleasure, I assure you." He bowed, and turned away. He took himself and his bitterness up to his room. He felt that ever hour until Thursday would be a period of anguish ; and he began to put things into his trunk in helter-skelter fashion. He had half filled it when Reginald walked in, without knocking. He sat down in the largest chair. "Ho? he remarked, sconingly, "that the kind of a trunk you got, with cloth all over it? Mine's got wooden slats on, and tin and brass nails. What's that thing? Opry glasses, ain't it? Say, '11 you give em to me I "Yes, take them," said Craig, wear iiy. Reginald spent several minutes in ex amiuing objects in the room through the glasses, for which ho saw fit to re turn no thanks. 'Say," he observed presently, turn ing them upon Craig, . "she's crying. That s what I come up to tell you. I thought mebbe you'd like to know." "Whos crying? Craig demanded. His heart stood still. "Aunt Lucy's crying," said Regin ald. "Sho began to cry soon 's yon turned round, 'most. I told her somebody'tl see her, bnt she didn't stop, and I wasn't going to stay there and her a blubbering, and 1 thought I'd come up and tell you." Reginald looked up with his angelio blue eyes and his cherubio smile. "Say, I'm going to see what's in that plush box, Arthur. Yon care?" Craig strode from the room. He got down the etairs two at a time, and rushed around to the red-and-blue hammock between the shady oak trees. "Lucy 1" he said, bending over her. "You are not you can't be crying because I'm going away, Lucy?" There was a hot flush in the tearful face she raised to him. "Oh, Lucy," he implored, "don't bo ashamed of it ! If you are crying about me, don't you know I am tho happiest man on earth? I was so cer tain you .didn't care for me, and had tried to ward me off with with Reginald, you know, because he waff torever around. But if you can cry because I am going away, Lucy, then I can finish what I was trying to say to you. You know what it was." Lucy caught a sobbing breath. "But you are going out West 1" she faltered. "Yes, and you with me 1" Craig re torted. Nobody was near them, and he sat down beside her, his hand warmly clasping hers. "How did you know 1 was crying?" Lucy queried, suddenly, after ten minutes of glowing happiness. "Reginald came and told me. Reginald is a trump," sr.id Craig "a jewel !" "There he comes," said Lucy. "Oh, Arthur, he's got your your smoking jacket on !" "It's my bathrobe," Craig re sponded, with the composure of a perfect, all-satisfying beatitude. "I don't mind it iu the least !" Saturday Night. (a For Cooking'. While electricity is trenching so Beriously upon the field of gas light ing, any recent application of gas which leads to an extension of its con-f-umption is of importance to gas pro ducers. Some foreign coinpuuies seem to have done this quite successfully iu at least one direction. At the recent Dundee meeting of the North British Association of (ias Mauugers one mem ber, Mr. J. Balluutyne, of Rothesay, stated that the company had gained uu increase of consumption of at least forty per cent, iu about six years, due to cooking by gas among its custom ers. The gas company furnishes the cookers to its patrons at a rental of ten per cent, of the list cobt price per annum, which charge also includes putting them in, taking them uway and keeping them in order. About eleven per eeut of the customers are supplied. His and other companies have not only found this a profitable part of their market, but it has the added advantage of being nearly a day light consumption, thus tending to equalize the dnuau.i ou the plant. Engineering Record. scrairriFic axd industrial. Clouds are on the average about 600 yards in thickness. Americau tools are far better than those of European make. The largest fish known to science is the basking shark, an enormous but harmless variety. A steel ship has been constructed in Cardiff, Wales, with tho standing rig ging, as well as the hull, all of steel. The largest known specie of night flying insects is the Atlaa moth, a resi dent of the Americau tropics, which has a wing spread of over a foot. Human hair varies in thickness from the 250th to the 600th part of an inch. The coarsest fiber of wool is about one 200th part of an inch in diameter; the finest only the 1500th part. South American ants have been known to construct a tunnel three miles in length, a labor for thom pro portionate to that which would be re quired for men to tunnel nnder the Atlantic from New York to London. Many larva) of beetles and other insects are used for food ; the bee gives honey Bnd wax, the coccus manno and cochineal, the Spanish fly a blistering drug, the gall insects an astringent, and tho silk worm an article of dress. In Japan there are now twenty pub blio electric companies in operation. Further companies are proposed, and there is a considerable demand for electrical engineers. Nearly all of tho companies are conducted by Ameri cans. N A New England firm is introducing an automatio gas lighter for street lamps, which works on the prin ciple of an eight-day clock. It is explained that the only attention the lighter requires is a weekly winding of the clock movement, and that it lights the lamp at the required time and extinguishes it at daybreak. Safety matches that can be UBed without a box are to be placed on the English market by a German inventor. The idea is to tip the two ends of the wood separately with those composi tions which in the ordinary way go one on the box and the other on tho match. To use, break the wood across the middle and rub the ends to gether. An agent of the Suez Canal Com pany has invented an apparatus to split the electrio lights that illuminate the canal into two divergent streams, one sending out rays one way, the other in the opposite direction. This enables ships to approach each other and meet with perfect safety. Formerly the lights blinded pilots so that they could not see vessels coming in the op posite direction. A physician points out that fat people endure most kinds of illnras much better than thin people, because they have an extra amount of nutri ment stored away in their tissues to support them during the ordeal. Moreover, there are many other con solations for persons of abnndaut girth. They are generally optimists by nature, genial and jolly com panions, whose society is universally preferred to that of people with angular frames and dispositions. At a recent State fair an inventor exhibited a machine that he had con structed for converting grapes into sugar and syrup. Experts who wit nessed tho operation aud others affirm that the process is a oomplete suc cess. The experiments were mostly confined to Muscat and other sweet grapes known to carry a large amount of saccharine matter. Heretofore tho diftioulty has been iu granulating grape sugar. But by this new pro cess it is claimed that granulation is perfeot. Tombs ot the Danish Kings. In the resting place of the old kings of Denmark, the Cuthedral of Rokes kild, a reoent visitor notes that there is a column against which a number of monarchs have been measured, and upon which their different heights are recorded. One of them is Peter the Great, and we learn by this means that the shipwright Czar meusured no less than eighty Danish inches, equiv alent to something like six feet, ten inchts in our measurement. Only ouo other of the sovereigns was taller, uud that was Christian I of Denmark, who, according to this authority, was jinst a trifle over seven feet English. The Czar, Alexander III, is about six feet ouo inch, and is about a couple of inches taller than Christian IX of Denmark, aud about four inches tuller than King George of Greece, neither of whom, nevertheless, is whut would be called a short man. It is worth noting that in the same ancient cathe dral where this column is to be seen, Suxo GramuiaticuH, the Danish histo rian from whom Khakcspeure borrowed practically the entire plot of "Ham let," lies buried. London News. Senlng Iu Public Sthouls. The course of study iu sewing iu tho Boston public- schools is interesting fur an amateur of sewing to consider. To read of "thimble, emery, scissors," set off neatly as articles of study, ami and to guze uponapriutud curriculum of "basting, backstitchiug, overcast ing, half-backstitching and combina tion of one running aud one-half buck stitch," is to realize most intensely the advantages Boston otl'ers to her daughters. Iu the fourth year are taught, among other things, stocking darning, straight uud bios felling, whipping and sewing on rulHcs, hem stitching, blind stitching, tucking if not taught previously, gathers over handed to a bund, sewing on hooka and eyes aud buttons, eyelets, loops, and in the fifth year there is a system of dress cutting by which girls uru taught to take measure, draught, cut and fit a dress wnist. Boston 'J.'ian-cript. BIRTHPLACES OF FOOD, THE NATIVE LANDS OF THI VARI OUS CHAINS AND FHUITS. Most of Them Have Kvolvcd From a Wild State The True Home of Indian Corn The Cherry's Origin. THE grains and fruits used rj food by man originated :' 1 different latitudes, and first existed in a wild state some being indigenous to the tropics and some to temperate Bones. As they be came improved and differentiated they were distributed in different countries according to their utility and the iprend of agriculture. It was but nat ural that the first gradual changes from a wild to a cultivated state should have taken place in general in warm countries where the climate and the advanced state of civilization conspired to effect amelioration. For instance, the grape is indigenons to America, and had existed here in a wild state long ages before tho conti nent was disooved by Columbus, but it was first put to practical use in Egypt and Central Asia, to wnicn lo calities its origin is sometimes attrib uted, and whence it was in reality distributed throughout the Western world. A similar remark may be made of rye, one of the less valued cereals, which is a native of the temperate zones, and spread thence toward the South. It is supposed to have been unknown in India, Egypt and ancient Palestine, and, though it was more or less used by the ancient Greeks and Romans, it was from the north of Europe that they received it. Nearly all the grains now in nse are of nnknown antiquity. Wheat was cultivated in eighty-six latitude as far back in the past as we have authentio knowledge. Barley is thought to have originated in the Caucasus, bnt it was known and used everywhere in the most ancient times. Oats, like rye, was unknown in ancient India and Egypt and among the Hebrews. The Greeks and Romans received it from the north of Europe. Had there been an early civilization on this continent the wild oats found here and there would probably have developed into the useful cereal now considered abso lutely essential for the proper nourish ment of horses. This continent u credited with having given Indian ooru to the old world, but this useful cereal was doubtless known in India and China many hundred years before the discovery of America. Cotton woi used for making garments in India al a date so remote that it cannot even be guessed at Tbe fact is mentioned bj Aristotle. The first seeds were brought to this oountry in 1621. In 1606 thecul tnre is mentioned in the records of South Carolina. In 1736 the culture was goneral along the eastern coast of Maryland, and in 1776 we hear of it as far north as Cape May. The use of flax for making clothing is nearly ai ancient as that of cotton, and perhapi more so, plants of soft and flexible fiber having been without doubt among tho first vegetable productions of the ancient world and their practical value discovered soon after the invention ol weaving. The cherry in its improved oondi' tion is of Persian descent and is an other fruit that might have been im proved from our wild varieties had oui civilization been contemporary witl that which preceded Egypt and Baby lon in the valleys of the Tigris ami Euphrates. Peaches, plums and cher ries were all known to the ancient Greeks and Romans. The apple, the most useful and satis fuctory of all tho fruits of the temper ate zones, has been known from tim immemorial. It originated from some of the hardy wild species that are founc sometimes almost as far north as thi Arctic c 'rele. It is a fruit that like, the cold, and is found in the greatest perfection in parts of New Euglund, New York and Michigan, where the winters are severe. As it approachee the equutor it loses its finest of taste, while still preserving its beauty, p. is a notable fact that, owing to care ii the culture, and in part to a preference for the climate, all tho fruits mentioned in this list are found pf better qualit in Europe and America than in the lo calities where they are thought to have originated. The oranges of India, Burmah and Cochin China are abso lutely tasteless and those of Malagi Bcarcely better. Tho best grown it Spain come from the region of Valen cia, where they have been introduced at a comparatively recent date. So ol the cherries, apricots and peaches, which have attained a perfection it Europe aud America of which the an cient Persians never dreamed. AL these fruits appear to increase in size and improve in flavor iu latitudei where tho winter is sufficiently severe to check the growth of the tree anil give it a needed rest. It could not be expected, fur the reasons alleged, that America, in habited until a recent ilutu by savage tribes only, should furnish to the world products that require thousutuU of years of care and culture to give them their perfect development. The potato, however, is an iuvuluuhle boon conferred by the new world on the old. The tomut is also of South Americau origin, and, though it playe a much less important purt in alimen tation, it id uu article of food that Americans would not willingly purl with. As to the fruits in common use, though America has done much to im prove them, there is not one of them of which it can reasonably claim to be the place of origiu. Sau Erancisct Chronicle. In Brazil not one per cent, of the male or female servants will sleep iu their inanter's house. They iuxist ou leaving at the luteht by 7 o'clock iutlii eveuinii nd will not return beforo 7 or b :a the luoi uihk, WISE WORDS. Love gtthiA every time it is tetdeil. Home is the fortress of the virtues. The truthful man is dead.; been dead a long time. The real ruler of the man is within him, not without. The man who throws a stono at an other hurts himself. It is time wasted to argue with a doubt. Kick it out. It's the youngest man who thinks ho has the least time to spare. The whisper of a slanderer can bo heard farther than thunder. There is no good quality which does not become a vice by excess. A woman is seldom quite so happy as when she is thoroughly miserable. Finding fault with another is only a roundabout way of bragging on your self. Some people are kept poor because they will not believe it is blessed to give. The man who is afraid to look his faults squarely in the face will never get rid of them. No man is perfectly consistent. He who is nearest consistency steers the crookedest course. The Ethics of Weariness. In a lecture at Cambridge, England, on the subject of "Weariuess," Pro fessor Michael Foster said undue ex ertion was exertion in which the mus cles worked too fast for the rest of the body. The hunted haro died not be cause ho was choked for want of breath, not because hia heart stood still, its store of energy having given out, but because a poisoned blood poisoned his brain and his whole body. So also tho schoolboy, urged by pride to go on running beyond the earlier symptoms of distress, struggled on until the heaped np poison deadened his brain, and he fell dazed and giddy, as in a fit, rising again, it might be, and stumbling on unconscious, or half un conscious only, by mere mechanical inertia of his nervous system, falling once more, poisoned by poisons of his own making. All our knowledge went to show that the work of the brain, like the work of the muscles, was ao companiod by a chemical change, and that the chemical changes were of the same order in the brain as in the muscle. If an adequate stream of pure blood were necessary for the life of the muscle, equally true, perhaps even more true, was this of the brain. More over, the struggle for existence had brought to the front a brain ever ready to outrun its more humble help mate, and even in the best regulated economy the period of most effective work between the moment all tho complex machinery had been got into working order and the moment when weariness began to tell was bounded by all too narrow limits. The sound way to extend those limits was not so much to render the brain more agile as to encourage the humbler help mates, so that their more efhcient co operation might defer the onset of weariness. New lork Press. A Remarkable Carper. A remarkable autography goes with a damage suit for $5000 filed at Wash ington, D. C. The complaint is against a Washington street railway. The complainant is Henry Johnson, who says he was badly cut and bruised by the car starting while he was getting off. Attached to tho complaint is tho affidavit of Johnson that ho was born in Georgetown on Christinas day in the year 1800 ; was hired out to General Walter Smith, who comminded the militia at the battle of Bladonsburg ; was captured by Captain Patrick, aud was present and saw them burn the Capitol, and when he was seventeen years old he went with Commodore Porter as a cabin boy ou a four years' cruise. In 1824 he went as a footman with his old mistress to meet Goneral Lafayette, and escorted him to Gen eral Smith's in Georgetown ; was with General Macon in Florida during the four years' war with tho Indiuns ; had waited on General Scott, Gaines and Jessnp; lived with General Tutten, and waited on Daniel Webster, Clay and Calhoun when living with Mr. Nicholson at Georgetown Heights. Was with Captuin llerudou on tho George Law, that was burned, and when the women aud children and crew were off ho stood close to Cap tain Hemd'Ui at tho wheelhouse, and he said to him : "You go aud shift for yourself," and he begged the captain to come with him, when he replied : "No ; I must stand by my ship." Then strapping himself to a door he was thrown into the sea and saved, and saw the ship go down with tho captain. Tho Cats Ate tho Cricket. There is a man in Harlem who has a much respected aunt. The aunt is wealthy aud eccentric. She came to live with this Harlem resident, aud having been reared iu the country and having recently omo from there she missed the rural hum of insects uud the agricultural noises of a couutry residence. Being anxious to .please his rela tive and muko her reconciled to city life this Harlem man hired a number of boys to secure crickets for him. He bought twenty cans of crickets aud turned them out to pasture iu his buck yard. For several nights tho cheerful chirping of the crickets proved very soothing to the uged aunt. The various cuts iu the neighborhood soon became aware, of the unusual number of crickets in this buck yard. Cats are fond of crickets, aud now the Harlem man has cuts and no crickets in hit buck yard. He says that all the cats in Harlem have made his yard a trystidj place aud the aunt threatens to move back into the country. New York Herald. THE SILENT BATTLK, flhnll f toll you about the battle Thnt was fought in tho world to-dny, .Where thousands wont down like heroes To death In the pitiless fray? Vou may know some of tho wounded And some of the fallen when I tell you this wouderfnl battle Was fought In the hearts of men. Not with the sounding of trumpets, Nor clashing of sabers drawn, But, silent as twilight in autumn, AU day tho fight went on. And over against temptation A mother's prayers were cast Thnt had come by silent marches From the lullaby land of tno past. And over the field of battle The force of ambition went, Driving before It, like arrows, The children ot sweet content. And memories odd and oldon , Came up through the dust of years. And hopes thnt were glad and golden Were met by a host ot fears. And the heart grew worn and weary And said : "Oh, can it be That I am worth the struggle Yon are making to-dny for me?" For the heart itself was the trophy And prize of this wavering fight ! And tell me, O gentle reader, Who camps on the field to-night? Alfred Ellison. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Kisses are tho coupons of love. Don't be a valet to your hero ; it may disgust him. The most lovsle of dumb animals is a good listener. Puck. After all, the love knot is the top knot on the head of human happiness. Puck. A eynio observes that the most popu lar air with the girls those days is a millionaire. A girl will never forgive a fellow whom sho has jilted for making a suc cess of life. Puck. When a man gets a hearing in court, he is likely to hear something that he doesn't like. Puck. It is the man who wears Congress gaiters who wonders how the shoe string sellers make a living. Bhe told the young man oftentimes She really couldn't love him -. Six feet, be : but five foet, he Of course she felt above him. Detroit Tribune. Solemn Stranger "All flesh Is grass." Deaf Man "Hey?" Solemn Stranger "No, grass." New York Press. The bulldog has a pretty tight grip in this world, though he often escapes trouble by tho mere skin of his teeth. Truth. Gunson "Another increase in your family, eh? Son or a daughter?" Eilbee (gloomingly) "Son-in-iaw. " Kate Field's Washington. "I've come out of this tight squeeze in pretty good shape," Baid the new half-dollar, fresh from tho stamping machine. Chicago Tribune. "Man wants but little here bolow," Hut 'tl this loot tbnt daunts He's sure to get a little less Than the littlethat ha wants. Washington 8tar. Some of the fashionable schools ar making world-wide reputations by teaching the young lady students to spell their names wrong. Galveston News. In tho American Colony: Sho "Is Miss Bond engaged to Prince Sans bou?" Ho "Not exactly. He has an option for ninety days, I believe." Harlem Life. When a woman has quail for dinnei she wants to invite in a neighbor, so the neighbor may know it, but a man doesn't want anybody there but him self. Atchison Globe. Customer (in bookstore) "I would like to get some good book on faith." Clerk "Sorry, Bir, but our rule it to Bell nothing to strangers except for cash." Buffalo Courier. Miss Newcombe ' 'Seems to be rather a good year this for fruit, Giles? Are all your trees as full of appleB as that one!" Giles "Oh, naw, miss, only the apple trees." Judy. He had a sorrel trott inn-horse Which was so pesky slow He named hhn Chinese, after a while. Because he wouldn't go, Detroit Free Press. Von Noodle "D'yer know. Miss Tungbit, thut old duffer Chapwith called me a muff the other uiht?" Miss Tungbit "Indeed Why, I think you more closely resemble a boa. " Brooklyn Life. Jack (who has popped) "It takes you a long time to decide. " Nettie "I know it; aud I've about concluded to wear a demi-truin of white chiffon over white silk and have no brides maids. "--Texus Sittings. Mrs. Billus (after the company had gone) "Johnny, you shouldn't have eiiton those, preserved fruits. They were not intended to bo eaten. They were put on the table to till up." Johuny Billus "Well, thut's what I used 'em for, maniiiia. " Chicago Tribune. Two cabmen a short time ago had a fishing match for half a sovereign aud drinks. Suddenly one of the jarvies fancied he had a bite, tin.!, being over uuxiouH, had tho miat'oituue to full into the river. Ou his regaining the shore, his rival shunted out : " All bets uro off, Jim ; none o' yer divin' in after 'em. " Tit-Hits. Luudgrave i the only one of the old Teutonic titles thnt survives. It was Invented in 113(1 by Louis of Thuriu gia, to distinguish himself from the crowd of tirata who tilled the lleriuuu courts. Mexico's t-tuudiug army numbers 44,0i)O men, or r.bout double that of tho ruit-.'i Mates.
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