SHE'S WELL EDUCATED. A Wttntnti Whn t:n l.ciirnril l-:iiflr.'ly hj t'Hri-fnl LImI.-uIiib. Tin' woltilri fvil ill vrldl un lit (if itltnill fm nltii'M in ilit- ciin ii nf iiimnis who luiW' liwt tlirliKt'iif mimi'cf tliririiiittutil funi f itiim, or of other vlinn f:d i Itii P lmvo not 1'i'i'ii fiTl ly (lrvcloiu'd, him long Ineii n mutter of rrtniirk, hut It Is not nh in- the ontiiili' nliwrvw who njiprp v ..ir llit' of nature for the benefit of the tii fnltnimten. The nuflVr rrs tin nipehi s if ten ii))irer'lnte thin ful ly, m.il in M i.ie IiicIiiihih, nltel yoniH, flinv. to ili ml ko inueli uoiin their lie iuln (1 fiieultien us to lie iifruiil of n change, pven if they li.ive the ehiinee of one. An ilhiHlriitinii of thiit In gixrn by A wmmui in Hioolilvn who never lm lemiM il to reinl or writt. In no wiiy roulil one iIim over thin i neept l;y Iter own iiilmieiou or hy jiuttiiiK her to a ilireet test, for she is one of the lient I'll ueiiteil women in the country, ennver wnt with ):itiftiiiKe, nrt, lileniture mitl nil the rmreut tipim of Ute day. She is rich, too, nml eoulil ufTortl all the setv iees of the best teaehers if she Vut ehosp to li'iiin to veiul, l.ut che refuses to ilo so. When this woman was n ehilil, her I'lirentH lived f.ir from sehools, so idie had no rhanee then to learn to rend fir write. As n mere ehilil she be-all to win her own living, mid auain the chalM-e for seliooliiiK slip d nwuy. Then she married and the eansof a family took up her time. Uy the time the Im liii ? wtiv oil her hands, lier htishand had ermvn rieh, and thru she le(jnn her nal eilueiiiinn, and now, as a widow, she i I'litinui s it. Her eonijinnions read to l-i r ami talk with her aUnit nil the ti tiiea wliieh interest her. Y iiw of sueh wi il have i i il her nihil with a rieh tre:;Mire of km .vledie, and there is not li j :i'e of a 1 1 ok that has hei n read to In v that she i net familiar with. Her stores of knew leil(.'e are nt her instant roinmaitd. Why will she not learn to rend? Heeai.M', fhe says, she fears that this wonderful memory, whieh is now stieh n treasure house to her, mljzlit he impaired if she were to do nnythitif; to weaken the ilemamls upon it. What sueh n memory ran do is well illustrated in the ease of n tailor of this eity who enmint road or write. Ho is prnl.alily the most widely known mnn in his business here, ns for many years he has done lmsim ss w ith New York'i flii men nnd polieemen. Almost every man of these two bodies has dealings with this tailor, nnd eneh month be tween the first nnd the tenth days he visits every station house nnd engine and truek house in this city to rnlleet his dues. lie has acquired considerable wealth, nnd it is said of him that in all the years he has denlt with the firemen nml Milieemen he never wns known to make a mistake of n cent in nny man's iieeount, nil hough nil his records of transactions have lieen kept in his head. Now York .Sun. WHEN GRANT WAS POOR. A Time In 111 f nrrvr Wlien He Nrrilpil tin- Wlirrrwitltnl. (Jenernl W. II. L. Haines, one of thP leaders of the! San Francisco bar, at n meeting of the California rommanileiy of the Military Order of the Loyal Le gion, told the following story about (ieiir ral (Jiant. It was told years ngo to (ii m ral Uarnes by Captnin Richard L. Ovilcii, once n clerk in the office, of tho United States quartermaster nt San Francisco, mid General Uiirues recently copied it from Captain Ogdeu's diary. It was that when Grant resigned his commission us captain, lit the age of 88, beli.g then in Oregon, he went to San Francisco on his way home nnd proisent cd to Captain Ogdi n u certificate of per diiui service on a court lnuitial amount ing to about (-10. The certificate was in correctly drawn, and Grant with a look of despair asked Captain Ogdeu'8 per mii'siun to sleep on the lounge in the hitter's office, saying ho hud not a cent to hia name. He slept on tho rickety ofiico lounge, and Ogdon agreed to cash tho certificate personally and to send it back to Oregon for correction. Graut had expected to buy passage for himself to Now Y'ork iu the steerage, hut Ogdeu went with hiru to tho Paeifio Mail steamship oflico uud procured for him a I cabin passage piisn, or what was the Iieurest to it the steamship company I ' could give, for Grunt hud to pay his 9 railroad fare ucross tho isthmus. This, however, left him (15, and Grant wan very grateful. The diary quotes him an saying to VCuptuiu Ogden: "This isa great luxury Witl what I did not expect, arid I am in looted to you for it. The prospect of ver being ublo to reciprocate is cer tainly remote, but strange things hap pen iu this world, and there is no know iag." Pittsburg Dispatch. Is of thm Congrmlonal Library. . Ifooiidcd in the year 1800 by the mod set appropriation of $5,000 ' 'for the pur . thane of such books as may be ueccsMury for the use of congress at the said city of W'ashingtou, " this collection has grown, notwithstanding the ravages of two fires, to the present aggregate of 740,000 volumes. The acquisition of the Jefferson library iu 1816, the Force Historical library iu 1805, the Smith boniau library iu 1807 and the Toner collection in 1883, all constituted spe cially important and valuublo accessions to its stores. And by the enactment of the copyright luw of 1870, followed by the international copyright act of 1801, this library becuwe entitled to receive two copies of all books, periodicals and other publications cluiuiiug the protec tion of copyright in the United States. A. K. Spollord in Century. tit-nerved Credit. ' ''2 may lead u wild life, "said Jig gers, "but I'll tell you one thing I take care ubtmt the people my boys as sociate with. " "I know you do, " said Hawkins. "I've observed thut you spcud very little time wiili '( in yourself, old man, and I honor jou for " Harper's Jiiuar. SUBMARINE CABLES. , The ll!llintlr Knrnnntrrril In Hi-nillng 31rnsf4 nt a rrnfltnble Mprrd. While siibnini ine cables can now be made of any length and ateompm:.!ively small cot, great, tlifllcultics are still en countered in sending messages nt n commercially prolltablespei d, nnd ther iliflleultles incrense with the lene.thi.' the line. In long cables there is ,i trim blesoine retardation of the olei trii! cur rent, due to the fact that the Insulating cover of the eopp-r strands becomes it self olei'triflcd, nnd this surface charge delays messages by preventing the cur rent nt the beginning of nny signal from rising rapidly to Its maximum nnd again In mi rapidly dying out. Tho consequence; of this is that while from 400 to (100 words a minute can be sent over a land line, the maximum spot d on an Atlantic enble is somewhere about 112 words a minute. Before the "siphon rei'order" and Lord Kelvin's "curb sender" were invented, the maximum speed wns eight or ten words per min ute. Curiously enough, the more perfi ct the cable's insulation may be the greater is this retardation, nnd slight leaks in this covering often iiuTeae for the time the line's working capacity. The corrosive action of the salt water is ac tive at sueh points, however, ami will soon cause a break in the cable. Professor Silvanus V. Thompson of the Key al society of F.tiglaiid has In vented it system of cable construction by wliieh he expects not only to increase the capacity of tho present lines, but to make praetieal le the covering of the 8,000 milcswhich separate Hawaii from North America. His plan is to make a cable with two separate conductors in closed in the same armor, so as to form a complete circuit, mid every loo or Kid miles he will intreduce stretches of cable with three such conductors, the third beini; u wire of high resistance, the purpose of which is to net as n sort of artificial anil protected leak. One end of this third wire will be connected with the positive conductor nnd the other with the negative one. Hy this device the statin charge on one wire will neu tralize that on the other, nnd all retarda tion will be avoided. The expectation is to multiply four or five times the number of w ords now sent over Atlantin cables, to increase to 70 or 80 tho 12 words per minute that could lie sent over n single core cable to Hawaii, uud rnise from 15 to 75 the words sent from London to Capo Town. New York Times. NO BLOOD SPILLED. Hut th Duel Was Fought, and Everybody Wan Siitifli'd. Everyone who knows anything about Major Winton knows that he is without a spark of physical cowardice. That is the reason that, he incurred no risk in telling tho story that follows: "Kight after the w ar I went to Texas and formed a business partnership with a rough but brave and big hearted native. We leased and stocked mi extensive cat tle ranch, hired our cowboys anil estab lished a little community of our own. My partner superintended affairs at tho ranch while I did the dealing, the pur chase of supplies included. This took me to the nearest market, uud, as it wns too soon for the prejudices between tho two great sections of tho country to bo entirely allay id, I wns very careful to talk nothing but business. "Unl one day in the hotel an cx-colo-ncl who had taken on extra steam at the bar so persistently attacked my political principles and so clearly aimed his gen eralities at me that I retorted angrily. This was what he wanted. Ho handed mo his card, and within half un hour two of his friends waited on me, pursu ant to the code duello. To gain timo I referred them to my partner und hurried back to the ranch. Ho was delighted at the prospect. It would be a great pieco of advertising to bowl the colonel over, and at the same time it would insure me against like troublo in tho future. But by principle and training I win ir revocably committed against tho duel. "It was difficult for mo to make my partner comprehend any such moral blus, especially as we hud fought off eattlo thieves together, and he knew thut I had nervo und was a dead shot. He himself, when aroused, was recognized as one of the most dangerous men in the southwest. His ultimatum wus that we must meet, but with it was a positive assurance that no one should be hurt The affair came off, and after throo ex changes honor was satisfied without u drop of blood. My partner had simply told the colonel's seconds that they must load with blank cartridges or settle with him. They hastened to choose tho blank alternative, and in time the colonel and I became fast friends. He confidentially admitted to me afterward that ho reck oned he'd lost his shooting eye and must keep out of trouble. "Detroit Free Press. Realism In Literature. "The movement for realism in litera ture has given to tho best current fiction verity and value as a reflection of the times that the novels of no other era possess," writes Droch in The Ladies' Home JouruuL "This is not Baying, by any means, thut our novelists are great er than auy of previous epochs. But never before oould a reader of fiction ac cumulate a vivid, true and varied pio ture of so many sides of human nature, so many conditions of actual lifo. It therefore broadeus the horizon of a ju dicious reader iu a way that books of travel never did. It ought to ami often does broudVu the sympathies of the reader so that the nreiudieea of china I and nationality are broken down, uud uiere is a more ciiarltuble judgment of hummi nnture which can't help being 'different.' " ' Wl7 Ilia Bat Stuck. . , Tommy (inquiringly) Mamma, is ills huir oil iu this bottle? Mamma No, thut's glue. Tommy ( nonchalantly ) Then I ex oct that's why I cau't get my hut off. Chicago KcourU. A ItlnitiMi Made nt ltnbhir. A Hindoo nanied Buvn Lnehmnn Dnw Is attracting the Interested nttetitioii of tho London medical profession. Mr. Dass is n Yogi, nnd if nil Yogis are like Mr. Das the ordinary treatises on un utoliiy must be subjected to revision. He was exhibited to the Students' Anatom ical society of St. Oeorge's hospital nnd Introduced by the lecturer us "un unu sually complicated specimen of the In dian Yogi ii Hrahnmn, namely, of a Very high easti who gm s through cor tnin religious exercises with a view of qualifying himself better for paradise." These religious exercises seem to take n physical form, nnd Mr. I)as, a little, dark gentleman, sat upon the tnhle nnd proceeded to exhibit a selection from the 81 nhnormul positions which he has put in 40 solid years In learning. He seemed to have ligam uts of the gnttn pen'hn persuasion, while his joints evidently work on nil bearings. He formed his legs into n crnvat and tied them n limit his neck. He hopped nbont on one hand nnd strolled nhout jauntily on bis knees, a position whieh is said to greatly assist thonpht, though the thoughts of n white tnnn in such u position would hardly befl'r publica tion. Ho folded his legs tig'.iMy around his body nnd stood thoughtfully on his fingertips for several minutes, in which posture he declared he was nhle to re main for seven days. However, us the medical students did not w ish to carry out this particular experiment to its bit ter end, Mr. Dass prooecilcd to tie him self up iu a knot, mid to go to sleep on one leg liko n flamingo. Then sitting down suddenly he brought the soles of his feet together, his knees being ill such mi unite angle that nothing short of complete dislocation could have made the performance possible. The lecturer einleavoieil to follow his movements on un extremely suggestive looking skeleton which ho had by his side mid finally came to tho conclusion that Mr. Dass had no ligaments nt all. Loudon Graphic. The l'nnil-f't (if .ftlntlnlan. The pandects of Justinian, the most complete body of Komaii laws ever col lected, were supposed to be lost, but ill 1 1!), when Amalfi was taken mid plun dered by the I'isans, a privato soldier found a copy which ho sold to an officer for a few pence. Thevaluo of thediscov cry was soon apparent and the precious Volume was taken to Pisa and stored iu the eity library. When Pisa was stormed by the Florentines, In 1415, the precious Volume was enptured and taken to Flor ence, where it was placed in the library of the Medici. Skilled Nursing. Skilled nursing is now regarded as of quite as much significance as expert medical attendance. Those whose moans Will permit of It generally employ train d nurses, and between tho professional lissistant cf tho physician iu tho home mid hospital treatment for various ail ments the old conditions of tho sickroom Imve almost passed nwn v. Baltimore Herald. Free Trip to Niagara Falls! fc: ,-3ES liHefte ;,; WE will furnish transportation from lleynoldsville to Niagara Falls and return over the B., It. & P. It'y, and two days' board at Hotel Imperial, one of the leading hotels at Niagara Falls, to the person who will secure the largest number of Gash Subscribers to T1IK STAR before June 15th, 1H'.)7. Subscription price to be 1.00, strictly cash in advance. See partic ulars of this otter elsewhere In this issue of THE STAK. 0. A. BTKPIIKNSON, Kd. and Publisher. Shortsightedness. To waste your money on vile, dirty watery mixtures. inuioundod by inex perienced poisons, when you have the opportunity of testing Otto's ('nr.. free oleliaige. Why will you continue to irritate your throat mid lungs witli that terrible hacking cough when the Itoyn olds drug More w ill fui nlsli you a free sample hottlo of this great guaranteed remedy':' Hold n bottle of Ottos Cui-e to the light mid olworvo its I) lull iful golden color and thick. In uvy syrup, j Largest packages and purest goods. Large bottles nl'c. and 2"n Transportation of Bicycles Fres on the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Pennsylvania Itallrond Company announces that on and nfte;' April 7, 1 bicycles will In- checked by baggage agents and carried In the haggago cars of the company, when necoinpnnleil on the sanio train by the ow ners, five of cist, provided the pass eiiffor presenting a bicycle for earrlngo has no haggiigo: otherwise tho bicycle will In- charged for at regular rates. This ai iniigoii-.eiil applies to all the lines of tho Pennsylvania llailroad System east of Pittsburg ami Ki le. ft Only Fine Footwear Should hp worn, to tin exclusion of everything inferior. We leave our shoes to tell their own story. They form a series of foot notes on ease and ronifort, as it were, and make the whole subject so clear that even the careless cannot miss the point they present. Just look at our goods. Note the shape and style. Consider the qual ity and wear. Compare the I shoes with the prices. J here s j only one conclusion possible, whichever way you view it. I J. K. Jolmston's Slioe Parlor. i M HANAU'S i Ladies' Capes and Jackets. Children's Coats. Ladies' Capes, regular price 4.00 and 5.00, at 2. M). Ladies' Capes, regular price s.-i.oo, i'.oo and 7. on, at s.'UU) and :?.Ml. Ladies' Capes, regular price t;.M to 10.00, at J-O.OO and ti.OO. Jackets, 1he same reduc tion. Child's ('oats, regular price $2.00, ;.00and 4.00, at1.2.r and 2.00. 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