:Tlie Forest Republican Ii published evory Wednes lay, by J. E. WENK. Office la Smearbaugh & Co.' Building I ELM STREET, TIONESTA, TK. rVormm, " n l.oo Pop Yoar, No subscriptions received for a sbortor (period thnn throo month. Correspondenee aoliolto.l from nil parts of itho country. No notion will b3 taken of anonymous communications. RATIS OF ADVERTISING I ORE On Square, on Inota, M In Ilia. ,f One Kquare, on. Inch, en. month.... IN On. Square, on. inoh, time month. . - f M) On. Hquare, on. inch, on. yew.... ., 109 Two fcquiirs, one ynr 1ft 00 Quarter Column, on. ynr, WOC. Half Column, on. year.,..,-: WOO On. Column, on. jar.- 100 rtO Lofal advertlaemsnti test enti pa AM each lanrtioaL 1 ICAN. Marriages and daath aotioai graM. Ail bill, for yearly advertisements eoi quarterly. Temporary adyertnemaate I VOL. XXVIII. NO. 3". TIONESTA, FA., WEDNESDAY, DEC 18, 1895. S1.00 PER ANNUM. b paid la adyanoe. 1 Job work oah on dalfvsry. f REPTJB J -4 Am, They figura it out that Englnnd spends 900,000,000 a year for drinks. Onr army is amply provided with Brigadiers, thero being no less than eixtaen. It takes 3300 barrels o! flour a week Xo make the bread of Glasgow, Scot dand, ard most of it goes frcm the United States. F. W. Putnam, of the Teabody Ma scum, Boston, denies that the mound builders woro in any way related to the Indian tribes of the ootintry. A Japanese priest defines "Shinto isin" as the "worship of the Emperor and other great mon of the Notion." It is the most prominent religion of Jajn. The United States has all kinds of climate, from that of Sahara in the sandy deserts of Arizona to that of the Amazon in South Florida and that of Greenland in Northern Idaho and Montana. The Chicago Chronicle says: "The tigns continue to multiply that the new comrneroial era which is to make the United States the richest and most powerful Nation of the globe has already begun. The manufacturers of the country ore rising to the occasion bravely, and are making an energetic and a winning attempt to secure a footing in the foreign market." It is surprising that the great river which Frofessor Cell claims to have discovered in Northern Quebeo should liave received no name from the na tives. The Afrioan tribes lowest in in telligence have names for their rivers, bnt it may bt that the Esquimaux named this stream the great river be cnuse of its mnjestio size. When ex plored it will probably add another Arctie route for tourists. In no other oountry in the world is there to much money appropriated by Government and douited by private oitizens to the causa of education as in the United States, boasts the Do iroit Free Press. And as a result there were gathered during the past year into our school, colleges and universities 15,520,2GB of the youth of the land. This is equal to nearly one-fuurth of our entire population. Several eminent German physicians are agreed that in about tun per cent. of the oases of supposed idiocy among children the alHiotion is caused by an abnormal growth in the canal back of the nose. This growth, soldom visi ble, is indicated by the nasal speeoh and defective hearing of those afflict ed; the month is kept nearly always open, and the little sufferer makes scant or no progress in school. Noth ing but an operation by a skilful sur gecn will effect cure is assured. a cure, but then a A noted ex-burglar is employed as a private detective in one of the larg rsi retail dry goods stores in New York, and a member of the firm says that the ex-convict's aervioes are in- valuable. lie was engaged on account of his wide acquaintance with shop lifters. Already hi has shown a re markable adaptability for his work. He in almost continually walking about the store, keeping a close watch on the entrances. A number of professional shop lifters with whom he is acquaint ed are aware of the position ho holds and consequently keep away from the building. Mr. Sam Helier, of Raloigb, N. C, knowing that there was no limit to the weight of first-class mail packages, order jd a box of shoes, weighing 125 pounds, sent to him by mail. With only a 2-cetit stamp affixed. There . were on the box when it arrived $10 worth of postage due stamns. Theri were fifty of the deuomiuatiou of fifty jents, for which he says he can ob tain from the dealers $1.25 each, and fifty of thirty cents, worth seventy five cents each ; so by this calculation be makes 60. This is tha heaviest package of the kind which ever passed through the mail in Raleigh. The BostonTranseript's "Listener" grows extremely aesthetio in his crit icism of the modern iron building. Says he : "A large building is going up in Boston in which a great weight is apparently being supported by col umns 0 slender that they must surely be crushed. But no one need be alarmed at least not at present, These columns are not of stone, but of iron encased in u 'composition' o stone, decoratively treated as if it were stone. Every one of these grueefu fibers for the details are throughout beautiful is a monument to a lie, They are so brazenly false to their purpose that common laborers, pass ing by, are struck by thpir unfitness, sud comment opon.it," eorta cf the poad. All the mills In the world are grinding gold grain, All hearts In the world like my heart must be fain, For my foot goes In 1 1 mo to a holiday meas ure, And the bird in my bosom Is singing for pleasure. know not what end to my wandering shall be, Or what fairy prince rldos a-soeklng for mej He may be a gallant In gralthing o( gold, Or a graybeard who tarries for young maids and old. Meanwhile I go tramping the merry world over With the flower of my heart folded close for my loveri Folded safely and close till my prince comes to claim The bud long asloep, and the flower turns a flame. Meanwhile I go tramping, a masterless maid, With flowers blowing for me In sunshine and shade, While popples, red poppies, sea-poppies of amber And a wreath for my head of .all wild vines that olambor. I am one with the world and the flowers tn the corn, And I and the world laugh aloud In our soorn At the bedesmen who quarrel its meadow lands over While there's roses on bushes and honey tn clover. -Mora Hopper, In Black and White. THE LASTCIIAPTKR IN MISS WITTEMORE'S ROMANCE. Stl, W. HALL. I3S WITTEMORE was giving a small garden party at her oountry home. There was nothing unusual about it exoept that she was to meet, on this oc casion, lor the first time, the fiancee of her orphaned niece. Maud Buchanan, young lady of beauty and wealth to whom Miss Wit- tomoro had been, for many years, mother. Although Maud's fiancee was a count (Count Kanolky, a young frenchman of .Polish ancestry), there was but a slight fluttering of the wings of society. ; For those who were interested in couhts had gone abroad to seek them ; and those of Mitis Wit temore's set who remained had met counts before and had found them to be like all the rest of mankind, good and bad mostly bad. There was a largo attendance at the garden party, however. There always was at any function given by MiBs Wittemore. She was an old maid it is true, but she was the sweetest, most lovable and youngest old maid in all Christendom. And besides, there was about her the atmosphere of tbat most interesting thing, a romance in real life. Indeed, Miss Wittemore, iu ;hcr day, hid been the belle of all Amer ica ; she had been, aud still was, a very rich woman, and she was of the very innermost social circle of New York. She was an old maid. Yes, Bhe laugh ingly acknowledged the fact herself. But her friends considered her such more because they thought she would eventually become a prim, old, un married woman, than beoause she was really so very old. No one oould have criticised the pink other complexion, the lustre of her hair, or the brill iancy of her eyes ; and her figure, her bearing, her manner, were royal. Old Colonel Tom Appleton used to declare tbat she had received an aver1 age of a proposal a day for over ten years. And there was probably some foundation for the statement. The frank old soldier was alleged to know more about the rich girls of New York than nil the young fellows in town put together. Having no daughter of his own, he maintained that he had a right to be father confessor to all of them. But it was darkly hinted that the Colonel based his statement more on bis intimate knowledge of the ao tions of bis friend and boon compan ion, Charley Thornton, than on any thing else. And Charley was noted for but one thing that was bis life long devotion to Laura Wittemore. Bat that is part of the roinauce. The story is short and not so very unoommon. Laura Wittemore when a vouug girl had spent several sea sous abroad. During a winter in Paris she had met a voting Frenohman, who, although untitled, was of an excellent lamily and a Lieutenant of Eugineeis in the trench army. 1 hey had loved each other at first sight and soon be came engaged. She bad returned to America for the season preceding their appointed nuptials. lie had resigned his commission in the army and be come an engineer on the Panama Canal. There was a long period of correspondence between them, fol lowed by a period of silenoe on his part the conventional percurser of an estrangement. One day she received information that he ha become an embezzler. A year later the news came that he had become a swiudler in a South Ameri can State. Later, through the alleged kindness of friends, she had learned of his continued degradation, until at ! tst she heard of him no more iu any way. The average woman would have speed ily forgotten such an experience. Not so with Laura Wittemore. The men who believed that she was like the or dinary run of women (there were uiuuy such men) aud proposed, with tho de lightful hope of winning a celebrated beauty aud a fortune ut the same time, got a. curt "N)'1 for au - answer. And lew of tbeut ever had the com-iix to meet her again always excepting Charley Thornton. His was a case of such blind devotion and such courage that even Laura Wittemore respected it ; and in time he became, not her ac cepted lover, but her tolerated ad mirer, and he was quite satisfied with the role. People said it was because be was the poorest of her admirers tbat she gave him the nnusual privi lege. It seemed a trifle cruel. His case being hopeless, it appeared as if sue were making the situation all the more tormenting. Ihe years rolled co. Miss Witte more never mentioned the name of her recreant lover, but there was no one who did not believe, who did not know, in fact, that she still believed in him, still loved him. She was waiting for him to come back to her. All women have faith in the men they love. Hers was an nnusual example of the faith of a perfectly organized woman. In the meantime she changed but slightly, A gray hair or so appeared above her temples and she bad oo casional lapses into melancholy. Dur ing these she was usually rather dis tant to the everfaithful Thornton. He, naturally, would be thrown into the depths of despondency on such oo casions. But his friends agreed, to a man (and even to a woman), that these were the most hopeful signs he could desire. And they instilled this idea into him to such an extent that he took anvantage of one of these melan oholy periods and proposed again It was for the last time. The result was quite the usual one, but more de cisive. She said, "I think, you might spare me a repetition of this," and left the room. And then Thornton, in his turn, gave up all hope. After that Miss Wittemore seemed to interest herself in bat one being her niece, Maud. It was the night of the garden par ty. The gathering was interested in the little romance tbat was culmina ting that evening, mainly because rumors of a somewhat disagreeable nature had preceded the arrival of the count. Bnt every visiting foreigner, in these fin de siecle days, is regarded in America with more or less suspi cion ; and, by virtue of that fact, he had found, from pure sympathy, many admirers and supporters. Daring his stay in New York, before his trip to the country for this gardea party, he had made no better friend than Char ley Thornton, The fact that he was engaged to tho niece of Laura Witte more may have accounted for this. Or Thornton may have been careless and unsophisticated as usual. At any rate they wore everywhere togeth er which militated very much in favor of the count. Still retaining some of the rights of a "friend of the family," even though he had aban doned all pretensions to the band of tho hostess, Thornton was at tho count's side when he was presented to Miss Wittemore. He saw the varying expressions of surprise, terror and de termination in her face. He, perhaps he alone, heard her gasp almost inar ticularly, "Raonl!" For the first time in his life he was brilliant enough to divine the truth, and by cleverly over turning a table loaded with flowers he turned silence into confusion, sus pense into laughter, and climax into anti-climax. It was a feat very far re moved from the heroio ; but it was successful. Miss Wittemore, leaning upon the'arm of the imperturbable Count Kanolky, was enabled to escape from the laughing throng, while Maud Buchanan helped the supposedly un fortunate Thornton to resoue the flowers. Miss Wittemore and the count strolled away to a remote corner of the lawn. They bad the appearance of being old friends or old enemies. "So," she said, opening the conver sation when they had reached a seat under an old shade tree, "so you have dared, Raoul, to come even to my house and under an assumed name, as the fiance of my niece?" "Yes," he laughed, with a shrug of his little, half stooping shoulders, "I have dared. It is but a little triok in the game. It is nothing. You see it was very convenient to leave France just when I did. 1 needed money and thought it would be as well to take it from Americans as from others. And I could not ask a better opportunity than being introduced as the fiance of your niece." "You do not mean," gasped Miss Wittemore, anxiously, "to marry Maud?" "Well, not now," he answered. "I did intend to, until I discovered that you were a feature in the game. Then it became too complicated a mat ter to bother with. All I want, you understand, is money." "You have sunk so low as that?" "Ob," he replied with a disagreea ble laugh, "I have sunk much lower than that. In fact I am improving my situation daily. As you see, I am the fiance of a beautiful aud rich young girl. I will release her. But yo'u must help me in return. I want money. I have obtained notes from one of your set. You understand. I must not be interfered with, or every thingshall beknown." "You dare to threaten me, then, with the exposure of your own in famy?" "Certainly. That is a card that r. -ver fails to win with women. Not knowing that you were the Miss Witte more of whom Maud spoke so often, I did not suppose it would be necessary to use it. But it is a cud I always carry, where I laugh up my sleeve. Ami it will serve my purpose now very well. You would not care to have another chapter adde I to your story, would you? And you f-rtaiuly would not care to send jo ., uieoe through the world covered with tho tame mantle that has been such a wor titication to yourself." Miss Wittemore wus silent a moment aud looked wearily at the grass at ber ft et, as a blu-.li of shu'n.' , an I ih-4H -i ua.1 wver Let iiic, finch was lb.- man, then, to whom shohai been true all tehse years. Money, she said finally, "money then, is your only object?" The only obioct I have in the world," he answered. And from whom do yon expect to get the money?" From one of your smart Ameri cans, one of your friends. In fact, Mr. Thornton. 1 understand tbat ne loves you. Ob, what a fool he is! Why, he did everything I suggested. I was engaged to your neioe. mat was all that was necessary for him to know. I unfolded my scheme. I talked mines in Brazil. I wanted a partner. He was only too glad to be of service to me. Ma, na I "How much," she asked, anxiously, "do you eipect to get from Mr. Thornton?" "I have his notes," he answered, coolly, "for 875,000." "Will yon let me have those notes if I give you tbeir full value?" "Too late. They are being nego tiated O, I have to be quick. To morrow I realize on them and to-morrow I sail for Brazil." "Do yon know that suoh a sum will probably ruin him?" "Perhaps," he answered. "But what do I care? He is not the first man I have rained, and he will not be the last. And you will let me do it. You will not expose me, or " he pointed menacingly to Maud, who sat eugaged in conversation with Thorn ton. "Raoul," said Miss Wittemore, suddenly, "if I do not reveal yonr true character, if I permit you to swindle this poor man who has never harmed you or any one else in this world, will you go away and find some way out of this, so that she will never know?" "I will," he answered. "Nothing conld suit me better. We will make a compact, an agreement to swindle. Yon and I who have been lovers. Ha, ha, it is too good 1 To-morrow Count Kanolky will be suddenly called to Brazil, and on the way he will dis appear, lie will oe waBneu over board, quite accidentally. It is a trick I have used before. Mr. Thorn ton can go to work as a clerk, and Maud will be a tearful but beautiful bride that was to be. She will wear mourning for me, of course. Other wise you would have to tell her. How charming I It is agreed?" It is agreed," said -miss witte more. Some ten days after the garden party Mr. Charles Thornton sat gazing blankly out 01 tne winuow oi nis ciuo. He already felt uncomfortable, as though ho bad no right to be in suoh a place, for he had just realized that he was not only a ruined man, but without the experience necessary to make a living. Count Kanolky had been accidentally drowned at sea. The money he may have had with him had undoubtedly been on his person and would never be recovered. Even though it were, Thornton would have no claim against the man's estate. He was vaguely running over in his mind the few men to whom he might apply for some sort of work, when a note was handed to him. It had been a long time since Miss Laura Wittemore had done him the houor to write to him, but he knew at a glance that it was from her. Wonderingly, but hurriedly, he opened the note. It re lated, very simply, the fact tbat Miss Wittemore had told him never again to ask her to marry him as she wished to square a long acoount by asking him to marry her. It is unnecessary to say that he went immediately to her to teil her of his poverty. And it is quite as unnecessary to say that she did not seem to be at all disappointed at this confession of bis, and finally succeeded in convincing him that she had a great deal more money than enough for both of them. New York Truth. The Constable's Perquisite. A marriage took plaoe in the office of a well-known Justice of the Peace a few day ago that, while a most im pressive oeremohy to the contracting parties, had a very humorous side for the spectators. The couple were evi dently from the rural districts and were both seemingly covered with con fusion at their having to stand np be fore the four or five present. After the form had been read, the blushing pair standing hand in band, the mag istrate announced in a serious tone that, as it was the custom for the con stable to kiss the bride, she would pre pare herself for the osculation. The constable stepped boldly out and, being a good looking young fol low, the young woman seemed not averse to being bussed. All doubts of the propriety of the aot were soon Bet at rest, for the husky groom stepped before her with air of deter mination upon his faoe that showed it was life and death to him. He gave his hands an imaginary washing and said : "Squire, this yere lady b'longs to me now an' what she did afore 1 took her aiu't my business, but if this con stable is willin'. I'll give him a dollar and call it off." The server of writs signified his as sent and the jealous couutryniuu paid the ttinouut. Columbus (Ohio) Dis patch. A Curious an J I'lt JreKtiuj; Helic. A curious and interesting relic of the old days was unearthed in tier muntowu a few days ago. Johu Bou hage, a contractor, who is uuitiu,' iu a new sewer, discovered a pick of curi ous design imbedded ufteeu feet under the ground. Jt wus covered with rust, aud, after cleuuing it off, the date 1772 was clearly discernible. The pick, which is consequently 123 years old, wits presented by Mr. liouhage to '. Mart"l, of oinr ille, who displays n witn iM .', -.'.: " 1 --.New York .Virld. THE MERRY SIDE OP LIFE. BT0RIKS THAT ARE T0I.TJ BY THK FUNNY MEN OF THE PRZ83. To the Highest llldder The Latent Cut Well Provided Me Number One She Was the Loser, Ktc, Jnhn Bull h is a snorty chap, Despite his ynehting flukes; For e'er among our heirses Ho still "puts up his duke?."' Puck. WELL PROVIDED. "Why, Professor, you have two um brellas." "That's all right. I eipect to loso one of them." SHB WASN'T. Younger Sister "What does spirit uelle mean?" Elder Sister (contemptuously) "Thin." Puck. THB LATEST CIT. "Mrs. Outfit and her husband seem to be divided on the subject of her bicycle suit." "Yes; so is the suit." Detroit Free Press. LIE NUMBER ONE. "Now that we are married, Hettie, we will havo no further secrets from each other. " "Then tell me truly, George, how muoh did you pay for the ring?" Puok. ENTITLED TO CONSIDERATION. Hotel Clerk "Sae here, now, yoa uove on off this veranda." Jonas Deadbeat "Ain't dis yere place for guests o' do 'ouse?" "Exactly." "Dat's all right, den de oook's jos limine a hand-out I" Chicago Bee ird. SHE WAS THE LOSER. He "And now what are you cry ing about?" She "Be be because you don't love me any more." He "But you don't lova me, either." "I know I don't ; bnt, then, I never did I" Indianapolis Journal. WHAT CONSTITUTED TIIE INSULT. "Are these tho photographs I or dered?" asked the customer. "Yes, sir," replied the photog rapher. "They're paid for, I believe?" "Yes, sir." "All right. Wrap them np. Thanks. Good mor say, do you think I look like tho photographs?" "Oh, yes. Tho likeness is excel lent." "riuy, will you do me the favor to some out with me into tho alley? I'd like the privilege of building a face Dnyou like that." Chicago Tribune. IIIS ONLY WAY TO ESCAPE. On his hard pallet tho prisoner of Zenda tossed iu high fever, muttering incoherently. The doctor shook his head the doc tor's heal. "You'll havo to double the guards," be whispered cautiously. "Inasmuch as to 'whyfore?" asked the Duke of Strelsau, frowning heavily. "Because," returned tho doctor, glaucing about tho dungeon, "your prisoner has evidoutly boon exposod :o the measles, and bofore morning lawns he is certain to break out." Suyiug which he entorod the visit in his c.tll book, with tho usual addi tional charge of royalty. llockland Tribune. NOT TO I1B DECEIVED. Yesterday afternoon Bobby burst into tho house in a state of high ex sitement. His bands and clothing were smeared with a liberal amouut of some sticky substance, and his face wore a glow of triumphant satisfaction. "Say, Mamma ; those new people across the way don't know much t" he exclaimed. "They've got a sign on their front door that says 'paint'." "Aud you've beon getting into it I You ouUt to bo ashamed of yourself I" jaid Mrs. Norris, severely. "That sign was put ap to warn people to keep away from it." "Yes, Mamma," persisted Robby, with the enthusiasm of a richly rewarded scientific investigator; "but it wasn't paint, aud 1 knew it. It's varnish I" fuck. A MVSTEllIOl'S POWEIt. "You don't believe thee storias sbout'women bein; uuman uiaguets do you?" Dora asked. ".Some of them aro mighty attrac tive," David said, looking at her keenly. Dora blushed. "I don't meau that," she said. "I mean their doing such great tilings lifting half a dozen men ami all those tlicks. Do you believe it?" "Well, 1 dou't kuow," David reflec tively answered ; "I saw a woman to day she wsu't more than tivo feet high, and slight at hat 1 saw ber just lift a finder it was right iu tho street, crowds of people around ber she raised her tinker and aud " "Well, for pity saUes, what?" ox claimed Dora impatiently. "Don't bo so long about it." "I don't go so far as to say she bad electrical powers," David pursued calmly; "I won't undertake to explain what it wus, but this much I can vouch for, for I saw it with my own eyes tho moment she raised that little liu ger it had a duiuty pink nail ou it a heavily loaded street cur that was passing came to au instant stop." But Dora, with heightened color, declared that if over another woman lived who was inurrie.l to so mean a inuu, all she had not to say was that the piUv4 Uvf. llyckluud Tribune, SUIEXflFIC AXI) INDUSTRIAL. Electricity is likely to be adopted to run Brooklyn Bridge cars. Silver is cleaned at the shops by pressing the piece against a rapidly revolving wheel made of Canton flan nel in many plios. They are making a chain at a Bel gian factory to be twenty-five miles long. It will hardly bo able to sustain its own weight, 680 tons. St. Louis's new City Hall hag been declared unsafe by reason of blow holed in cast iron columns, and the cost of alterations will be heavy. A technical congress at Zurich is trying to secure uniform methods of testing the strength of building ma terials for this country and Europe. The diatoms, singlo celled plants of the seaweed family, are so small that 8000 of them laid end to end scaroely suffioe to cover an inch of space on the rule. At present England, Holland and Belgium all use Gieenwich time. The legal time throughout Germany has recently been defined to be exactly onehour fast on Greenwich time. A oomplete skeleton of a mon, or diornis, the gigantio oBtrich-like ex tinct bird of New Zealand, and of the New England sandstone, has just been discovered in a New Zealand cave. The penny-in-the-slot telephone does not please the drnggists of Chi cago, and most of them positively re fuse to have it. The telephone, as it is, is too useful to their customers. The world's Bupply of copper in 1891 was 319,391 long tons, of which North America supplied 175,290 tons. The United States continues to be the heaviest contributor to the English market. A new alloy, known as "gold steel," is said to be moeting with favor among Sheffield manufacturers on account of its beauty nud durability. It is a composition of bronze and aluminum, and is peculiarly adapted for cutlery. A pneumatio vehicle tire carrying materials for its repair in its interior has been patented by Messrs. J. F. and E. P. Forbes, of Halifax. The ma terials are in the form of slender strips, filaments, rings or the like, and arranged so that they may be drawn outward into a puncture of the tire. A steam pipe capable of resisting very high pressure has been patented by a Glasgow engineer. It consists of a copper tube around which is wound steel wire, espeoial care being taken to insure perfect contact between the two metalf. Soldering is effected by immersing the whole in a fusible al loy whose melting point is above the temperature of the superheated steam. A Nail iu the Snake's Tail. William Reidy, residing near Liver more, tampered with a rattlesnake on bis ranch a few days ago and came near losing his life for his fun. Iteidy's children had seen the snake enter a hole in tho ground and told their father. Tho hole was not suffi cient depth to hide tho reptile's en tire body, and several inches of his tail protruded. Reidy piuioned his suakeship with a stick, aud then pro ceeded to drive a nail through its tail, with the expectation that the snake would sting itself to death when it found it could not get away. Mrs. Reidy held the suako's tail down with a stick while the nail-driving opera tion was going on, but the snake did not like the proceeding and drew its head from the holeas quick as a flash. The woman screamed and dropped the stick, aud the snake was free to double on itself, which it did, and darted its fangs iuto Reidy 's hand. The snake glided away and Kuidy hastened off to hunt a doctor. He started toward Livermore on the run, and had gone two miles when he reuched the ranch of a man named Cuuuiughaui. The latter hitched up a team and put the whip to his horses to hastcu the in jured Roidy to a (loot jr. The hanl was rapidly swelling and was very painful, and by the time Dr. Gordon was found Jthe bitten member bad swollen to several times its normal size, and the swelling was reaching fur up the arm. Heroio treatment stopped tho work of tho poison, but he still has a very bud baud and arm, and will have oause to remember the rattler for many a day. Han Fraucisco Chronicle. tj To Prevent folat' liliiriit. The so-called blight of potatoes is due to a fungus which penetrates the plant all through, from the 1 envoi downward iuto tho roots, aud then into the tubers ! there, causiug tbe black rot of this plant. The germs ot the fungus come in the air or tuey may be iu the soil. Iu either case they begin their mischief on the leaves, ou which the fine, silky threads of the plant may be see a by a common mag nifying glass. Then is the time to de stroy tho purasite, which is doue by spraying the plants with a solution of four ounces of copper sulpliato (blue vitriol) in two gallous u water; six ounces of lime is slacked iu tho smi'i quantity of water; the two liquids aro then mixed and strained, and a gallon more ot water is added; the liquid i' then sprayed on the leave?. If half a teaspoonful ol pans treeu it added aud stirred, the liquid will kill tie.' po tato beetles ut the sumo tuno. New York Times. A llelic.ilo 0ieruliini. A surgeon of the FreiuJi tfo.spitil in San Frauoisoo reaeutly poro:n id a very delicate surgical operation. The patient was sutt'eriiii; from u com pression ol tho spiual cor I, received iu au elevator accidcut which ea'lso .1 complete puralvsis of the lower i w" of the body. The nir j ou in couro removed the lust dorsal i u I first lira bar vertebrae, iu couueuuiou with t'.iu spiuou . processes. Th ; 0;Jl'atiJU was eutiryly nuouissful. I.OVE'3 SEASONS. Full flowered summprlics upon the land, I kiss your lips your hair and then you' hand Slips into mine; In, wetwo understand ' Tlin ly, if sweet. The roso leaf i'lifctS -jlor fades lint dies The sunlight faues, tue summer, bird like, fti'S; There comes a shado across your wistful eyes Is love so sweet? The flowers are dead, tho land is blind with rain. The bud of beauty bears tim fruit of pall, Can any note revive the broken strain? Is love so sweet? The world is cold, and death Is everywhere. I turn to you, and In mv heart's despair Find pence and rest. We know, through fou. or fair. That love is swoot. Pall Mall Gazette. II I'M OR OK THE KAY. A preferred creditor One who never presents his bill. Texas Sittings. Anxious Versifier "Do yon pay for poetry, sir?" Exasperating Editor "Yes; but this is verso." Soinerville Journal. Taylor "Can your stenographer write as fast as you can talk?" Naylor "Sure I Why, she can write as fast as she can talk I" Puck. Jack "Well, I called on her father last night." Tom "Ah, what did he say?" Jack "Xot a word. He fired mo in profound silence," Softliegb "Will you marry me? I would die for you." Miss Pert "Well, then, get your life iusured iu my favor." Philadelphia Record. "Why do yon suppose they always represent Cupid us a boy?" he asked. "Because ho never arrives at years of discretion," sho replied. --Houshold Words. Jones-j'Tve always been sorry for one man who didn't have an opportun ity to see much of the world." Brown "Who was that?" Jones "Poor Atlas; he hal it ou his back." Truth. "Bigbee has a nerva." "Why so?" "I threatened to sue him for those ten dollars he owes me," "YeB." "And he asked me to sue him for twenty dollars and givj him the other ten." Puck. Johnnie "What's the diiTerenoo between a visit aud a visitation?" Pa "A visit, my sin, is wh.'n we go to see your grandmother ou your mother's side." "Yes." "A visita tion is when she come3 ta sea us." Tit-Bits. Featherstone "I wonder if your sister realizes, Willie, that during the last month I have giveu her tun pounds of candy," Willie "Of course she does. That's why she is keeping her engagement with Jim Burling a secret." Harper's Bazar. Hicks "I hear that .Miss JiUer has thrown over Dr. Pulseleigh." Wioks "Yes; but ho will have his revenge. He has sent a bill for 3150 fifty visits at 3 eaoh that he has rua.lo her dur ing the past year. His next move will be to sue, not her, but her father." Boston Transcript, Mrs. Slimson (severely) "Willie, this lady complains that you have been fighting with her littlo boy, und wants you to promise never to do so a.-faiu." Willie (to lady) "You needn't be afraid, ma'am. Your boy will keep out of my way lifter this." Harper's Bazar. Muggins "Do yon think smoking is injurious?" Burins "Wei , I know a muu who smokes 1500 a day a day and " Mnggius "Impossible! Fifteen hundred cigars a day I Buhl" Buggins "Who said anything about cigars? I referred to herring." Philadelphia Record. First Italian Count "Why, my dear follow, where have you been for the last six months or so?" Second Italian Count "Over in Ameriua hunting heiresses." First Italian Co nut "Did you bag anything?" Second Italian Count "Yes; my trousers. " Soaierville Jourual, A Blind Surgeon. When Dr. James R. Cocke, of Bos ton, Mass., was two months old both of his eyes were ruined by a blunder ing doctor, who administered a wrong medicine. Since then he has been to tally blind, lie is now thirty-two -years of uge. He locates a disease by his seusitive touch, au I he tells the color of goods iu the same way, singu lar as it may appear. A la ly, who had eight or teu samples of dress goods, each about three luetics square, handed them to Dr. Cocke the other day, and he at once told accurately the color aud even the shade of color of each, and selected the samples of the best quality. When handed several Na tional bunk and Government curreuey bills, he at once told the denomination of each and the color, whether ijreeu or tilii'-k. Ho tells tho 3Jiuplexiou of a persou by toueliiu the skin. It is difficult to bclicva that a Mini man could do this, but h" is seen t y do it, aud accurately, too. Hartford Times. (inly Bird l nil stica'i'U. Our barnyard fowl, mys the Chi cago News, is th'S only species oi a largo family of birds thtt h is been truly domesticated. Iu its wild stata this bird had ulrea ly to a great ex tent lost tho power of flight, iniii its winis only to e.-capo from its four footed pursuers i.- to attain the brauches of th i tr vs iu which it sought safety in thj lil.;ut tune. With this measure of los oi tho flying power tho creature itieiiuiouel the habit of raugiu over a .vi L- lield aud thus was made more lit for tlo iusticu tiou. Moreover, iu their wil lei uass lite the so birds dwelt iu m vs estab lished eoiuutuuitios tlu'i ' wiuir44 bpccio-3.
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