III FOREST REPUBLICAN U BtbUtki rmj Wn4k, ty J. E. WENK. Offlo la Btneubanfh A Co.'a UuflUn(f un mm IT, tionssta. r. Torms, ... fUeprTtr. RATIS OF ADVCRrtSINOl One Fqoar, oiia inch, on lntmrt!oa. , On 8qnw, on Inch, on month. . ., M On Hquara, on Inoh, tur8 month. . 9001 On tiquara, on Inch, on ;r.. . , 10 W '1 wo Hqurs, on year , 18 00 Quarter Column, on yar,. . .. BO 0C ltalf Column, on ymr , , ROW On Column, on jwur . 1OOA0 I?al dTrtiuwit tn eats par itM ch inMrtkm, j Alan-lares and death notloM g-rasta. J JbORE PUB ICAN. ntanyim raetTc rat t aktw Mrloa t tkr vi.nUift. OormpendnM! wIletM In U carta f th tonnWy N. ..Uo til k UkB uniaoul All bin for yearly advertisements VOL. XXVIT. NO. 4G. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAltCII G, 1895. S1.0OPER ANNUM. qaaruriy. 1 .mporary aareruwmc M paid In adrano. J Job work cash on dl'vtry. j RE Spain puts out 8,000,000,000 "wrkl ht year. . i Berlin has so slums. Even in tha poorest quarters the streets are paved with aiphnlt, nnd are kept faultlessly olsan. Tho holding f Pure Food Exhibi tions in nil our large cities is doing a great work in calling attention to the immense benofit to mankind conforred by tlio plucky, engnoious men who hare first produced a pure article, and second, made nil the world want to buy it. Evidenco is accumulating, states the New York Mail and Express, that Marshal Ney was not shot, as tho . Bourbons ordered, but that ho was really the American schoolraanter who dwelt in the Carolina after tho fall of Napoleon. His alleged preservation is attributed to the connivance- of Wel lington. A wide-Bwako member of tho South A l i . T , , .nunirniinu jjcgisiaiuro Has mailo a profit of $75,000 on a shipment of onions to the miaos in Western Aus tralia. He probably had had soino experience of the wint9 of people on freshly opened gold fields. His ex- amplo lias been followed by n number 01 other enterprising traders, and no- cording to Inte advices there is quito a smell of onions about the famous Coolgardie fields. By the time Alaska is ready for sot tloment its rosonrcea will probably bo much improved, which is far better than to have a great wave of immi gratton to destroy them. Tho Siber ian reindeer taken- to Alaska are in oreosingrnpidly, and this doraostioated animal will be an invaluable help to settlers. If the waste of Osh and game along the coast could bo stoppod, the Chicago Herald bolieves, tho big Ter ritory would be in excellent shape. Tho famous Berlin professor, Tir chow, is a most outspoken opponent of the Darwinian theory as applied on the Continent to tho doBoent of man from a lower order of creatures. At the International Anthropological Congress Bt Innsbruck, of which asso ciation ho ia tho veteran President, tho Now York Observor Btatcs that ho again pourod out his vials of wrath and acorn on tho advocates of this thoory. He claims that Darwin hira eelf originally abstained from apply ing his theory to tho dosoent of man, and that only later tho npo thoory woe adopted. "Men might as well havo invented a theory of the descent of man from a sheep," continued Vir chow. Ho regards tho problem in volved na ono that can nover bo scion-. tifically solved. Tho Board of Supervisors of tho Boston Poblio Schools has reported in favor of vertical, instead of slant, handwriting. Tho report states that tho adoption of vertical handwriting in a number of European schools has proved to bo a remedy for various physical defects, and thut it has the indorsement of a number of interna tional hygieuio congresses. The Board therefore makes these recom mendations: "That vertical penman ship be introduced at once into a cer tain number of schools designated for that purpose, and that it bo permit ted in all of the aohools. That all pu pils, in writing, face tho desk so that lino joining tho shoulders shall be parallel with tho front edge of tho desk. That all paper used in teaching writing be ruled with a single line, as for ordinary correspondeuoe." , A Vienna scoundrel named Shapira has been working a green goods swin dle on tho greedy and credulous of that city with great auocoss. Ho has improved on the American game very j-decidedly. His schome is to sell only genuine notes. Of course the buyers had no trouble in working them off, and soon his wares came into great demand, and he received orders by the soore. All meetings for the delivery of the goods were arranged to take place at solitary spots on the frontiers. When the orders were for small amounts, Shapira allowed them to go, aa baits for more business, but when tho sale was large, the transfer would no sooner bo consummated than polioemen would appear and arrest the parties, confiscating all the money. The awindlera would be held, but the swindled would be allowed to go, as having suffered enough by losing their money. The police, who were confederates of tho swindlers, would then return the money to tho office of the firm. Some of the dupes caught on to the scheme, but they were afraid to complain, as they were criminally connected with the transaction. When rumors of his crooked work reached the ears of the authorities, Shapira absconded. Ho whs arrested recently j jn Rotterdam. I i WHICH f Whloh are tho hands we love the best, Those that nre folded between our own, Or tbosa that move us to strange unrest By feathery touch that ls'qulokly flown? Which, ah, whloh, do we love the best, Hands oaresslng or bands carcase:? Whloh nre the eye we most adore, Thoio refloating our evary thought, Or those who glanoei our hearts Implore, Whose Are will neither be tamed nor taught' Whloh, ah, which, do we lova the beat, Eye adoring or eyes adored? Whloh Is the heart of benrts w prize. Thst which sways with a passionate power, Or that whloh yields us a saorlfloe, Oontle and gonerous, day and hour? Which, of all, do we hold above, Iloart most loving or hearts we love? The Century. AN OLD MAN'S DARLIXO. A TE SOMEB3, my old school mate and dear friend for years after we entered upon our lives as matrons, invited mo to spend the summer with her at Star Point, a little sea-coast vuiage, name from a peculiar conformation of jagged rook points w h i o stretched into the ocean in the shape of a mammoth star. Kate had lost her husband and only child of contagions fever during the winter, and I was alone during i do BDsonoe oi my nego lord upon a business trip to Germany ; so we were desirous of avoiding the crowds at gay watering places, and spending summer in seclusion and comfort. Stur Point, Kate wrote me in June, after she had been thore three woeks, was almost a solitude, where we oould aew, read, writo and chat without fear of intrusive visitors, and where sea air oould bo enjoyed without the necessity of ton or a dozen changes of dress in one day. So one July morning found ns sauntering along the little atrip of beach between two high rocks, talking quietly. As we stood looking out upon the water, calm and sunny, rolling in with curling waves, there passed us the prettiest trio 1 have ever seen. The central figure was an immense dog, black and shining, with long ourung nair. . upon each, aide of him was a golden-hairod boy, of three years old, dressed only in a close-fit ting suit of scarlet flannel, whloh loft the round white arms and leers bare, The little chubby feet pattered by the side of the groat dog, the little hands Holding fast to his Bhaggy blaok Bides, till with a merry shout the boys piungoa into tne water, and swam out i nr., . i rum snore, xney wcro Buoyant as lutlo ducks, sporting in tho waves. und evidontly at home there, but the groat clog watched them constantly, r,eady to catch either, if the onrling goiuen nair snouid Bin K lor a moment. "Did yon ever sea anything pretty?" I cried. "1 knew you would say bo," Kate answered. ''I have seen thorn every morning. 'Iney live in tho cottage you aco beyond that great rock, with a young mother as pretty as themselves. and nn old man, who I presume is thoir grandfather. liut tho occupants of the cottage were nearer than Kate supposed, for as she ceased speaking, a suppressed chuckle bemud ns made ns both look round with a start, to face the pretty young mother and the venerable old man, who said respectfully : "Beg pardon, ladies, for laughing. but," and a broad grin spread over his wholo face, "those are my boys. This is my wife, Margie." Margie blushed and dropped a eour tesy. "John is ao proud of the boys," she :.l .-J . . Bmu, n apologizing i or ner nus band's tone. "Well he may be," I said ; "they are beautiful children. Are you not afraid wnen tney are in tne water? "Oh, no ; Rover goes with them al ways, and they were taught to swim as soon as to walk. "Tho ladies are wondering, Margie, now you are my wiie, and not my daughter," said the old mau. "You can tell them while I go down to the nets. I'll bring the lads in, if the ladies will rest after their walk. " Margie half bashfully led the way to the oottage, and gave us eaoh a seat in tho neat sitting-room. When we were near the house we saw that it was a pleasant Bized dwelling, made by throwing two little cottages into one, and the furniture and appointments proved that the oocupants were in easy oircumslanoes. With true coun try hospitality, Margie offered us fruit, cake and milk, and Kate, while eating, delicately led the conversation back to the point where John had left it. "Well," said Margie, blushing prettily, "John seems always to think that it looks odd for mo to be his wife, when I am but twenty-four and he has turned seventy; but nobody that knows him oan wonder at it You see, my father lived in the half of this cot tage, when it was two .houses, and John Martin, that - is my husband, lived in the other half. I was but a bit of a girl wnen my mother died, and I used la go with father and Unole John, as I called him then, everywhere. They were both fisher men, as all the men are around here, and both made enough money to live on in comfort. But twioe a week we took fish to market at M , where the train stops, four urilea inland." Kate nodded to signify that she knew the locality mentioned, from which point we had been driven in a sub hired Bt the town, to Star Point. "You may have notioed," said Mar gie, "a large brick house on the light K m of the road, just after you loave the town? We had both notioed it. "Here father and Uncle John al ways stopped to leavo fresh fish as wo went to town, and I was very often in Vited to Btay all day to play with the children, Anna and Frederick Hall. I must toll yon here, that my mother was not from this part of the country, but had lived in Philadelphia, and had come to Star Point for her health the summer ahe met my father and married him. She had a sister living in rnuadolphio, and whon 1 was ten years old, my aunt wrote to father to send mo to her for a few years, that I might nave an education. When Mr. Hall hoard of this, ho made arrangements to send Anna also, and lor six years we were at boarding' school in the city, my home being at my aunt's during tho holidays. She was very kind to me, and I was very happy, but I was very glad to come home again to fathor, Uncle John and the sea. I can never tell you how I fretted for the sea. Bnt in the six years that I had boon away, fathor had grown very feeble, depending more and more upon Unole John, and grow ing weaker ovory year. "So it was that I began to carry the fish to M , and we started a little cart and pony for tho journey to and iro. l was young, and when Fred Hall, who was only five years oldor. began to smile at me, and find excuses for lingering at the cart, began to bnng.orders to tho cottage for partio nlar fish on days that were not market days, nobody found fault. 1 was but a poor fisherman's daughter, it is true, ami his father was a wealthy manu facturer at M , but wo were all equals in position, for this ia a primi tive place, and I never knew anything about high and low, or money making one better than another, exoepting wnue l was In Philadelphia, rut tuougn jrrea nan was young anu nan Dcen to college, though he wore handeomo clothes and had money, I never cared for his fair whiskers and bright face as I did for Uncle John's white hairs and gentle voice. I never thought of love. I only knew that I was happy with Unole John, and mis erable away from homo. I was seven teen when, ono morning, I went with Uncle John to fish from a rock we oall the Camel a Baok hereabouts. There were but fow who fished there, for it is a dangerous point, though the fish are plenty in the hollow beneath it. You Bee, it was a high arohing rook. and hung over the water, which was very deep direotly under it. To pull np a net or a line, one must almost hang over the edge of the rook, and below the waters Buck tho fish down, bo that it requires a strong arm to pull them in. "Uncle John and I, however, often fished there, though he never allowed me to pull the fish in. But npon this particular day Fred Hall joined us as we wero going across the sands, and Unole John kept a little aloof. He thought we wero lovers, and never kept very near me whon he fancied Fred was courting. And I did not un derstand then why this vexed me. On this day it nettled me mora than ever, and whon I folt a strong pull at mv line, instead ol calling Uncle John to help mo, I leaned over the edge of tho rock and trie I to land my own fish. For a moment I succeodod in holding the line, then there was i audden Btrong jerk, and losing my bal ance, I went over tho Camel's Back into the water. I could swim, but iu falling I struck my head against a point of the rock, and lost my con Boiousness. "Fred stood still and Boreamed. but dear Uuolo John, never thinking of his own danger, ran round the rook, aud, at the base, plungod into the deep water after me. I cannot tell how we escaped, but I was dragged ashore by Uncle John, and Fred had sense enough to run to the house for the pony and cart. It was many days before I oould go for fish again, but in thoso days I knew that I loved John Martin, that for his sake I oould leave all the world, if it would make him happy. But I knew. too. that he looked upon mo as a mere child, his old companions daughter, and I blushed at my own presumption in thinking he would ever love mer. 'I did not know then that John Martin had once been a gentleman of wealth and standing, had traveled in Europe, had studied in foreign col leges; but I did know that he waa un like any of the other fishermen at Star Point, even my own father. He first taught me to speak correctly, avoiding all the provincialisms of the people around us, and he would tell me of sights abroad, that I supposed he had read of, instead of haviug seen them. Once ho told me that a false ove, a false friend and sudden loss of worldly wealth had first driven him to Star Point,' but that he had found rest and peace here, and hoped to die here. I never asked him any more. ' 'I was getting well of my injuries. when my father was taken suddenly very ill, and for two years I nursed lm, through a gradual decline of his wholo system, till he diod. When he died there came a desolation into my life beyond even my orphanhood. "I must leave Star Point. My aunt wrote me to come to her, promising me a loving wclaome and a home. red Hall, iu the face of the approach ing separation, asked me to be his ifo, but John said nothing. Day af ter day I lingered, keeping with mo tho woman who had attended to our uuse after my father's illness required all my time. Day after day I saw John, .tn tin pale, sad face, his tender, subdued manner, and he never spoke the words to keep me beside him. "With a breaking heart I felt that I must go. Tho stilling city, the rou- iue of fashionable life at my aunt's. le exile from home aud the ooean, all rossed upon me, and Fred urged his nit whenever he oould. "Weary and heart-nick, I wen one day to the Camel's Bock to bid fare well to tho sea, for I had resolved to go away the next day. I was standing on the edge of the rock, when, looking down, 1 saw John Martin at the base, Bitting npon a rook, his head bowed npon his hands, his wholo frame con vulsed with deep sobs. "I knew thon he loved mo. I can not tell bow I knew it, bnt I was sure then, as I am now, that he was weep ing for me. It took me bnt a moment to skirt round the rock and stand be side John. I never thought about be ing nnmaidonly or bold. I never re membered that he had not spoken one word of love to me. I only knew" that the coming separation was breaking his hoart as well as mine. I knelt down beside him, and put my arms about his neck. un. John, l said, don t let me go I Keep me with vou. ' 'Margie, little Margie, he said, 1 would gladly keep you, if I oould.' "Ihen he looked in my face, and said : " 'No, no. I am an old fool, dream ing, mad I Tho child cannot love me. "But I do love vou," I said, cling- ing closer to him, "and you love me. And now nobody can tako mo away." "But, Margie," he said, very .grave ly, "there is but one way you can stay. You must be my wife, or I can not keep yon here." 1 know it, John, I said. "Your wife 1 To oook for you, sew for you, love you I" "But Fred Hall?" "Fred Hall!" I said, contemptuous ly. "He is nothing to mo, John. You are all the world." "Your aunt?" "She can adopt somebody else." "You see," said Margie, laughing and blushing, "I was doing all the courting, bnt there was a look in John's eyes that told me he was plead ing against his own heart, and that he lovod me even whon, for my sake, he thought it right to send me away. "He insisted npon my going to Philadelphia for a year, to test my own heart, and then, when I was homesick and wretchod, he came to me. "He knew then I loved him for all my life, and be loved me, dearer even than he had loved the woman who was false to him in his youth. So we were married, and came to Star Point, to the home where I was born, and where I hope to die." Here the sound of laughing voices reached ns, and looking out, we saw the golden-haired twins, all glowing and driping, coming over the sands, one astride of the black dog's baok. the other upon his father's shoulders. The old man was prancing like a horse, the dog barking and trotting beside him, and the twin boys shouting end laughing till the air rang with their merriment. Wo rose to go, thankina Margie for her story, and firmly conviuoed that there was one woman in the world wno, ior true lovo a sane alone, is an old man's darling. New York News. Four Feet ot Snow In Eight Honrs. "I have aeen four foet of anow fall in eight hours," said Conductor Cobb, of the Maine Central, Thursday, "and yet it was so light that you could wade through it just as you can through water. "It was in tho Sierra Nevada Moun tainsa sort of frost-like snow tha. falls in the night, burying everything. Twelve feet away from another man yon can just see him, with a sort of halo around him aa though somewhere the sun was shining through the storm. In these storms it is impossible to tell direction or distance. One is simclv lost when only a short distanoe from oamp. "la the morning we walked down 'nto town. One man went ahead breaking the snow, whioh oame nearly to his armpits, as he moved through He would tread nntil tired, when he would drop to the rear and some one else would lead the procession, As we walked into tho valley it grew less, and down below in the town there had been no snow and all tho timo the sun or the stars had shone. Such a enow goes like the dew disappear. evaporates. " Lewiston (Ma. ) Journal. A Bcmarkuble Family, a protty little farm"hfgh proiiy mtio larm high np among tne mils oi (jainoun Uounty, Alabama, 1000 feet above the sea, lives a most remarkable family. Their name is Sadler. The family consists of a brother and four sisters, and tho youngest has already turned her ninety-first year. The oldest is several years more than a oentury old. Nona of them has ever married. The Sadlers were born in the Old Dominion Stato. In 1831 the family moved to Alabama and Calhoun County, about fifteen miles east of Annison. Two years later they became possessed of the property on which they now live, aud there erected a log house, which domi cile they have since inhabited con stantly. Years ago tha father aud mother died, the former at the age of ninety-one, the latter at the age of seventy-live. Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times. Coin Dies Destroyed. Sledge-hammer blows, delivered by powerful employes of the Miut, on Wednesday destroyed the dies iu use during the last year. There were 51:4 iu all, aud of theso 71 were for double eagles, 97 for eagles, 32 for half eagles, 4 for quarter eagles, 12 for dollar pieces, 21 for half-dollar pieces, 50 for quarter-dollar pieces, 36 for ten cent pieces, 80 for five-cent pieoes, and 108 for one-ceutpiooes. The dies are steel, and to destroy them it be-r comes necessary to heat them almost to whiteness. Then they were taken from the fire and placed upon an an vil and two blacksmiths with sludges struck them upon the face. Philadel phia Times, THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. 8 TORIES THAT ARE TOI.D BT THE FuBJlT MEN OF THE PRESS. There Is No New Womnn-Rtlquctte vs. Cynicism C. O. D. The Dis tinction, Etc., Etc. Npw woman? Oh, Mess you, sho isn't now, Though shs's called so, nt Hnv ratn, She shops Just the same as tho old ones do, And asks it ber hat's on slralRbt. Bhe's as curious as other women are, And a big hat wears at a piny, And Bhe always steps ofr a trolley car With her tace turuod the other way. New York tress. BtTERSTrnoy. Toet (with Ma "What floor is the editorial department?" Elevator Boy "Thirteenth." Poet "Good day." Puck. ETIQUETTE VS. CYNICISM. Novice ' 'When a man and a woman become engaged, which one is it proper to congratulate?'' - Cynio "Neither. " Chicago Reo ord. HIS ATTENTION DIVIDED. Mrs. Jones "John, you didn'tkeep your eyes on the preacher all the time." Mr. Jones "How could I? I had my umbrella with mo." Life. THE DISTINCTION. Teacher "What is tho difference between victuals and viands?" Scholor "We havo victuals on wash days and viands when we have company." Detroit Free Press. A FAMILIAR EXPERIENCE, Plugwinch "Tell you what, old man, if I'd my life to live over again I'd marry money, wouldn't you?" .enpeck (decisively) "No, sir I Money talks I" Philadelphia Life. OIT, TESI CEHTAINIiT ! "Now, you will have to ask papa for his consent," said Miss Willing to her accepted suitor. "Oh, yes I Certainly 1" replied Jack Coy. "Of course 1 Er has he a tel ephone at his office?" Puck. O. O. D. Willie "Marjorie, you have re turned my written proposal marked C. O. D. Tell me, what does it mean?" Marjorie (blushing) "Why why. 0. O. D. means, Call on Dad." Truth. VANITY. Maude (at the piano) "I do hate theso finger exercises. I think they're just horrid. Edith--"Why, I think they're love ly. lhey do show off one s rings to euch advantage, you know." Boston iransoriut. END IT ALTj. Cholly Chumpleigh "Miss Coldoal, our friendship has lasted a long tune, If I should ask you to marry mo will you promise to think it over?" Miss Coldoal (rising) "Yes, Mr. unumpieign, x snouia tuinn it was ' er, at ence." A WAT THEY HAVE. Mrs. Hicks "Dick was sick all night, and, as a consequence, Mr. Hicks is ill in bod from worry aud loss of Bleep." Mrs. Dix "Where is Dick?" Mrs. Hicks "I sent him after tho doctor." Puok. A SUPERIOR. ATTRACTION. First Small Boy "Come over play in this mud-puddle." and Second Small Boy Nope ; you come over and play in this one." First Small Boy "I wont. Tho water's dirtier in this puddle than it is in yours. "Judge. HER IGNORANCE. A five-year-old, who went to school for the first time, oame homo at noon, and said to his mother, "Mamma, I don't think that teaoher knows much?" "Why not, my dear?" "Why, she kept asking questions all the time. She asked where the Mississippi was." Philadelphia Life. VERY UNFORTUNATE, Whimsicua "I always knew that thirteen was an unlucky number I Jol liutis gave an awfully swell dinner at Del's the other night, aud there were just thirteen at table." Flunsious "Well, what happened?" Whimsious "What happened? Why, I wasn't invited I" Life. THE MYRTERY. First Depositor "I suppose there's no telling how the bank's money went?" Second Depositor "Oh. vest That has all been cleared up. There's only one thing that isn't clear, now." lurst Depositor "What is that?" Second Depositor "How they cams to leave any assets. "Puck. A TLAl'SlDLE EXPLANATION. "What do you Western people mean by 'rounding un" cattle?" asked tha Boston girl. And the Chicago girl, who would not admit that the didn't know it all, replied : "Oh, that is a sort of slang term for the fattening of them of course, that makes them round in out lino, you know." Cineiuuati Tribuuo. White clothing is cool, because it reflects tho heat of the suu; black clothing is warm, because it absorbs both heat aud li-'ht. Ir rou bedsteads are safe during a thuudrr slorin, because, being good conductors, they keep tho electricity i Irom tts body. ' I SCIENTIFIC AXI IXDUSTRI.IL. Arterial blood is red because it has just boon punfiod in tho lungs. I ho oyo is Dot sensitive to cold be cause it is so well supplied with blood vessels. Ihe eea-nottlo stings its prey to death by means of a poison socrcted in its teutaoles. A recent industrial innovation Switzerland is tho manufacture floor mosaics from wood pulp. The Board of Health of Tekonsha, Mich., has ordered the dogs and cats killed belonging to families afflicted with diphtheria, Action of son water has bo loosened the joints ol tho aluminium torpedo boat recently built for the Fronoh Novy that it is in danger of falling to pieoes. The Secretary of tho North Caro lina Health Board cites many instances oi towns which had been almost uninhabitable from malaria beooming an rignt when pure water was intro uucod. Frofessor Williams, of Edinburgh after a period of investigation reports mat tne danger ol tuberculosis spread ing among human beings is very much greater from the milk than from the nesh of oows. Ono of the balloons recently sent up Dy r renon scientists with automatical ly registered thermometers and ba rometers reachod a height of ten miles, when the thormometor registered 110 aegrees below zero. A German scientist eava : "Tha ova should never be rubbed save with tho elbow, ' meaning that it Bhould never be rubbed at all, for the reason that this most delicate organ should al ways be handled with tho utmost gen tleness. The eyelids close involuntarily when xne eye is threatened in order that this organ may be protected. If a man had to think to shut his eyes when something was thrown at them he would be too slow to save the eye irom injury. To prevent the spreading of conta gions diseases through the telephone tne l-aris i' aoulty oi Medicine recom mends the use of a speoially prepared antiseptio paper. Diphtheria is said to be one of the complaints most easi ly propagated by telephone. Iron, through its usa for electrical purposes, seems to have developed new quality, majnetio fatigue. In tests made of transformers lately in London to ascertain the open cirouit loss, it has been found that tho loss tnsreosed steadily for tho first 200 days until it reached a fairly constant value of forty per cent, moro than at starting. Tho rapidity species of insects with which certain move is something truly astonishing. The oommon house fly is known to mnke GOO strokes per second with his wings, and the dragon fly 1500. In the caso of tha fly the GOO etroks bauses an advance move ment of twenty-sevon feet. These are figures on ordinary flight, and it is believed that tho fly is capable of in creasing both tho strokes and advanoe movement sevon-fold. It is now well established, as a ro suit of tho studies of Le Coute, Hunt, Spencer, A. Agassiz and others, that tho winds and ocean curronts very largely determine tho position and shape of oircular coral islands, or atolls. In the case of plants, besides the action of gravity and of light, thoir shape is doubtless iutluoncod by ourronts of air. And those physical causes have also a potent influence in determining the plautlike shape of fixed animals, liko sponges, polvna and all animals whon symmetry is ra diate. Kussia Has Larh'e Cavalry Forces. A German paper states that the cre ation of tho new Russian army corps in Poland will load to the concentra tion of such masses of cavalry a i are found in no other army in the worl.l. In the Government of Warsaw there will bo three divisions of oavalrv, three regiments of Cossacks, and oor- responding batteries of horso artillery. This great mass of cavalry will face the German frontier and have its centre at Warsaw, its right resting on Piotz and its left ou Lublin. It is re ported that some timo ago secret maneuvers were held in the Govern ment of Wilua to test the possibilitv of handling such masses of cavalry, with the result that tha commander-in-chief expressed an opinion that no troops could stand beforo them. This may bo true, says the German critic, but how can such numbers bo marched about any country and fed altogether? Haudling them would be an easv mut ter compared with tho commissariat officers' work to provide food. Chi cago Hcruld. Care ot the Ears. A prominent physician says that more than half of the ear trouble from which people suffer during the cold weather can be traced to the habit of jickiug tit tho eurd with tho fingernails or hairpins or some other hard substance, which irritates tho delicate iusida of tLo eur. Instead ol this injurious "picking," tho ears should bo washed out with warm water and a littlo good soap, and thor oughly dried after tho ojeratiou. If tho ears ore seusitivo a littlo cottou may bo put iu before going into tho open air, though this is apt to make them even more sensitive. In ex tremely cold weather before venturing out a good way to clean tho ears is to wrap tho corner of u. towel uroiiu.l the linger, and with a little cold cream carefully wipe out the auricle. It will remove every particle of dint und will really protect tho ears from tlio coin, uui ii can scarcely I'o recom nu-nded for ro.'ulur us-, New York meudoi World, ANOTHER SPRINCi, If I might see another spring I'd not plant summer flowers nnl watt I'd havemy crocuses at once, My leafless pink mezerons, My ohlll-volned snowdrops, choicer yet, My white or azure violet, Loaf-nested primrose j anything To blow at once, not late. If I might see another spring I'd listen to the daylitflit blnls That build thoir nests an J pair and sing, Nor wait for mntoless nlgbtlngale j I'd listen to the lusty herds, The ewes with lambs as white as snow, I'd And out music in the hall And all the winds that blow. It I might seo another spring Oh, stinging comment on my past That all my pnst results in "if If I might see another spring I'd laugh to-dny to-:lay is brief j I would not wait for anything ; I'd use to-day that cannot last Be glad to-day and slnsr. Christina r.osseltU JIl'XOK OF THE DAT, Gossip puts two and two together and mokes whatever Bum it desires. Cobblers report that business with them is monding. Hartford Journal. A man's second lovo is generally worth moro money than his first. Puck. In striving to get ahca 1 of others look to it that you do not fall over yourself. Puck. When Cupid breaks the ioe between two people, he never puts up the dan ger signal. Puck. Nobody can help noticing tho short comings of the man who is always be hind time. Dallas News. The man who "has his price" will be very careful about showing his cost mark. Cleveland Plain Dealer. 'They sell water in Cairo." "How interesting I And do they have tha milk ticket system, too?" Puck. The would-be meddler with "green goods" is reminded of his youthful ex periences with tho sour apple. Puck. The difference between a man and a horse is that the hitter nover goes on a race track untd after ho's broko. Statesman. The older a man is when he gets married the sooner ho commences tak ing his lunch a noon downtown. Atchison Globe. Fred "Was that a Boston girl von wero talking to a minute'hjjo?" Ar thur "Yes. Didn't you heik mo sneezing?" Life. v A drop of ink may command tho aK tention ol uundieds. Particularly if it is on your polishod shirt front. Hookland (Mo.) Tribune. Weary Waggles "Dera 'aev'ral eonrses I'd liko to persoo." Tiredy Wot er doy liko? ' Weary Waggles "Dinner courses." Syracuse Post. "Does your daughter siug?" asked Mrs. Jinglegilt. "No," replied Mrs. Oldfan. "We have taken great pains in educating her not to." Washing ton Star. Customer "What in the world is that unearthly howling overhead?" Clerk (smiling) "There is a pain less dentistry establishment upstairs, eir. " Statesman. Tough "I want a dozen eggs, an' I wants 'em bad, Bee?" Grocer "Go to that grocer ucross the street. Everything he keops is bad." Phila delphia Inquirer. Editor "Iu writing up tho foot ball gamo why do you say it was hotly contested?" Reporter "I don't sea how it could bo otherwise, whan it was played on a gridiron." Norris towu Herald. "Hero," said tho now missionary, hero are somo traots and sermons. translated into your nativo language." "Thanks," yawned tho Kins of Ebwpka, "By the way, have vou a ranslation of 'Trilby?' "Indian apolis Journal. "This may be justice," ?aid tho de feated defendant, "but it strikes ma ns being a protty fishy verdict." "Thut hows that it is justice, retorted tha pluintiff. "One of the most conspicu ous features of justico is her scales." Harper's Bazar. "It is wonderful what progress has boon made in the way of machinery," remarked Mr. Figg. "I ceo that thoro has been a machino invented that cau make a complete pair of shoos in six teen minutes. Why, that is oven fast er than Tommy cau wear them out." Indianapolis Journal. A (Juceti'a Curious Ways. Madagascar's Queen, according to all accouuts, has mauy curious ways uud traits of character. Slio is always dressed in tho latest l'arisiau style. Her private expenses arc met by a fund called tho "hatiiin,"1 to which all who como iuto the presence of her Majesty are required to contiibutoa five-fruuo piece. It is the duty of tho youngest member of tho royal family to present a hat, iuto which the ooin is dropped. Moreover, whenever tha Queen travels tho inhabitants of all tho towns and villages she visits are expected to contribute to the same fund either iu money or kind. She is very fond of games", particularly of lotto and billiards, mi. I nho Hatters herself she can tly u kite higher tliau anyone of her mibiccts. ninVi.r,, Herald. Wood 1'nlp Tubiuir. Tubing ma.lo from wood pulp js oomiug into use for uudcrgruuud purposes, owing to its hi;;h electrical ri'sistauco and its freedom from tho action of earth-return currents which seriously injure gm .nd water pipes iu cities where ehvtrie oars use the ground to complete their circuits, it is also freo from diflieulties duo to expansion and coutruetiou. Ctica"o Herald. 0
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