———— Belletonte, Pa., January 12, 1 91 / GREED MET PROPER REBUKE | i or defective population may be divided Incident on Street Car a Case of Righteous Retribution and Some / Embarrassment. The day was stormy and the car carried only a limited number of pas- sengers. The Woman Who Saw spied a shining coin glistening on the floor. just ©. front - ° . fashionably dressed woman who might have posed for a “Daily Ilint From Paris,” so fault- less was her get - n, despite the rainy day. Everytl bespok. affluence and 12ckless cxpenditurc, and the ne- cessity {0 add to her probable store of ready money was not apparent, However, she was eyeing the coin as a cat does a mouse, ready to pounce on it at the first favorable oppor- tunity. Simultaneously the gaze of a dapper elderly gentleman, seated next the Woman Who Saw, lighted upon the glittering object. It would have been an easy matter to have stooped and possessed himself of it, but the eagle eye of his fellow passenger fol- lowed his every movement, betraying her desire to appropriate the coveted prize. After a few seconds of irreso- lution he reached down and literally grabbed the lucky find. closed hand he took one glance at the his face, and his fingers closed tightly again. This was too much for the well-dressed woman, who could’ re- strain herself no longer; greed took possession of her, and leaning for- ward she addressed the finder in icy accents: “Pardon Re, sir, that belongs to me. I just dropped it.” With a courteous bow the gentleman replied: “Permit me to restore your property, madam,” and he placed in the immaculate gloved hand, now eagerly extended, a shining tobacco tag. WILL ATTRACT THE TOURIST City of Guayaquil Making a Bid for Travelers Who Delight in the Picturesque. Ecuador will soon be ready for a Opening his | i established. Again, patients, TO SOLVE PROBLEM Effort Will Be Made to Find Out How Best to Deal With the Men- tally Afflicted. The handling of the insane, epileptic into three parts. The first is adequate prevention or diagnosis in the early stages. The second is provision of physical equipment, such as buildings, plants and ordinary hospitals. The third is making as useful and happy as possible the lives of permanent in- mates. Indiana has done much along the lines of institutional equipment and the demand now is for a rounding out of the work by more attention to the other two needs. It is suggested that laws providing for the voluntary admission of patients be enacted, and that psychiatric wards or buildings be instead of being kept in dismal idleness, should be employed. Their labor could con- tribute materially to their support as well as make them more cheerful. To this end it is suggested that the indus- trial farm colony idea be developed as against the congested, circumscribed institution. The problem of the mental defec- tive is regarded by many as most con- fusing. Probably this is because of | lack of complete information. There- fore, it has been recommended that the next legislature provide for a commis- sion, with liberal support, to go into the whole subject so that relief on an i adequate scale may be promoted. Se- treasure. A peculiar expression crossed i greater business with the world and : for the tourist. Guayaquil, the coun- try’s chief port, is now undergoing a thorough sanitating. Streets are be- ing modernized, and otherwise the city is improving. The ancient capital of Ecuador, Quito, lies nearly 300 miles by railway from Guayaquil. A few tourists have used the new railway “along the roof of the world” and vis- ited the interesting old city. Guayaquil lies up the Guayas river 60 miles from the ocean, so the average ship passenger does not even secure a passing view of the second port of im- portance on the west coast of South America. However, on clear days, when the ship is not many miles from shore, it is possible to sight Cotopaxi or Chimborazo, the former sending to the sky a smoky column from its snow- white cone. Northward 840 miles we sight the foliage-bedecked islands in the Bay of anchor near the entrance to the world’s greatest canal. From a Great Diary. Evelyn, the great diarist and cour- tier, is blind to many things which his readers would gladly have had him notice and record. He tells us nothing of the condition of the mass of the people, rarely speaks of poor persons or servants, rarely mentions the clothes he wore or the food he ate, never, at any rate, with that pleasure of memory un- ashamed which gives such details the smack of life in Pepys or Boswell. He never gossips; tells us little of his neighbors’ vices, and nothing of their follies; would assuredly not have recorded, if there had been any such matters to record, his wife's jealousy of his attentions to her mind; gives no such touches of rude veracity as that of Pepys’ sister, for whom a hus band must be found at once as “she grows old and ugly,” or that of poor Mr. Pechell, “whose red nose makes me ashamed to be seen with him, though otherwise a good-natured man.” Famous Polish City. To the tourist the most interesting building in Galatz is the Church of St. Mary’s, which contains the tomb of the celebrated Cossack chief, Ma- zeppa, whose intrigue with the wife of a noble at the Polish court and his dire punishment (being bound naked to the back of a wild horse and set adrift on the desert) have been im- mortalized in Byron's poem. The tomb is supposed to have been rifled of its remains by the Russians dur- ing one of their several descents upon the city, for the memory of Mazeppa is execrated by the soldiers of the czar, inasmuch as he became an ally of Charles XII of Sweden. He died of poison in the same year that Peter the Great defeated Charles on the field of Pultowa. The H. C. of Living. “Dis heah cost 0’ livin’,” observed Mandy Morgan, “is gittin’ somethin’ awful! Would you believe me, a sin- gle ham done cost mah husband six months in jail?”—Puck. Justifiable Suspicion. Announcement that there is a short- age of chorus girls arouses the suspi- cion that the supply may have been cornered by a bunch of Pittsburgh mil- Jiopaires. i about 40 or 50 seconds. -yer. ‘one of several receptacles, gregation, education, treatment and de- velopment are proposed as aids in eliminating the mental defective from society. The belief is that there should be mental as well as physical exami- nation of all school children, so that unfortunates may be detected. The entire subject calls for action in so many quarters that it is difficult to point out exactly what the legislature, at its forthcoming session, may accom- | plish. But it is apparent that the ex- tension of the industrial farm colony system is possible, not only for epilep- tics, but also for those adjudged in- sane and for mental defectives.-—In- dianapolis News. RELIEVES PAIN OF ANGINA Mechanical Exercise, Such as “Stretch- ing,” Said to Be Valuable in the Treatment of Disease. The terrible pain of angina pectoris can be relieved by simple mechanical exercises, without medicine, accord- ing to Dr. Samuel Constable of Lon- don. The New York Medical Journal describes how he applied his method to a suffering fellow practitioner : “At once he got his friend to ‘grasp the top bar of the bed with both hands, letting most of his weight fall on the now, _glrongly stretched arms for about 40 seconds. After a short rest he re- peated the process some five or six times. Result: Immediate cessation of all pain in arms and some relief of the chest. “Doctor Constable now got him on the floor to grasp the bar at the end of the bed with both hands behind his back, bending forward at an angle of about 60 degrees, the chest thrown for- ward and the head back, thus sub- jecting the muscles of the affected | area to strong tension. This he repeat- Panama, and shortly thereafter drop | area fo strong PD ed some half dozen times, each lasting Result: Im- mediate cessation of all pains in the chest, the sense of constriction com- pletely vanishing.” This was repeated about every two hours for several weeks and “on no occasion,” says Doctor Constable, “did the stretching fail to give immediate relief.” The New York Medical Journal sug- gests that dietetic and hay fever asthmatics try these or similar stretch- ing exercises for relief from their par- oxysms, Double Meaning. “Well,” said the far West mayor to the English tourist, “I dunno how you manage these affairs over there, but out here, when some of our boys got tied up in that thar bankrupt telephone company I was tellin’ yer about they became mighty crusty!” “Oh m “Yus; they didn’t like the way the receiver was handlin’ the business no- how.” “Indeed!” commented the earnest listener; “then, may I ask, what they did?” “Sartinly; 1 wus goin’ to tell They just hung up the receiver.” —Exchange, Oil From Various Sources. During the last year, in Germany, about 662,250 pounds of oil were ob- tained from sunflower seeds, and this year promises a rich crop of poppy seed. Attention has also been drawn to the high percentage of oil con- tained in cherry and plum stones, which are usually thrown away. Ac- cording to the statistics of 1900 there were 22,000,000 cherry and 70,000,000 plum trees in Germany. Large quan- tities of fruit stones were collected by school children last year, but great quantities .were thrown away or de- stroyed owing to the difficulty of ex- tracting the oil from them. Machine Sorts Coffee Beans. A curious German invention is a ma- chine for sorting coffee beans by color. Each bean passes into a strong beam of light, which it reflects to two sele- nium cells, and these, by electric con- trol of a hopper; deposit the bean in The ac- tion depends on the different reflective powers of the differently colored beans, by which varying resistances to the electric current are successively pro- duced in the selenium, 1 WROTE OF YANKEE POLITICS Briton of the Eighties Who Had No Qualifications as a Critic, Was Humorous. | 1 | i don Memories” in Scribner’s, recalls a period in the early eighties when he was a contributor to the London Sat- urday Review, at that time, under the editorship of Walter Pollock, a journal of marked distinction. Such names as Lang, Dobson, Gosse, H. D. Traill, W. E. Henley illuminated its columns. Mr. nected with the staff of the *Satur- day,” as the Review was familiarly called. “I may confess frankly now that it was great fun for me, an American of the Americans,” writes Mr. Matthews, “to say my say about American topics | in the columns of the most British of British periodicals. About American politics I rarely expressed any opinion, because that topic had been for years in the care of one of the oldest contrib- utors to the paper, although his long service had not equipped him with knowledge of the subject. “Pollock called my attention once to an article on American affairs in the current number and wondered wheth- er it was not all at sea in its opinions, and I had to answer that I had count- ed fifteen mistatements of fact in the : first column, whereupon he shrugged his shoulders and explained that he was powerless, since he had inherited that contributor from the preceding editors. “I was told, although 1 forget by whom, that the ancient light who thus devoted his mind to the misunderstand- ing of American politics was G. S. Van- ‘ables, otherwise unknown to fame ex- cept as the man who had broken i Thackeray’s nose.” SEEM TO BE FEWER BLONDES | Observers Have Noticed That Darker Types of Females Are Beginning to Predominate. t A silly little story came out of St. | Louis the other day to the effect that | increased cost of peroxide of hydro- , gen was causing the girls out there to | quit bleaching their hair, and, as a con- | sequence, fewer blondes were to be ; seen. The bleached blonde is one of ! the lay figures of the joker; or, rather, | of the joker who cannot keep ahead of | the times, because she has been the | target of humorous shafts ever since | the Spanish-American war. Serious- i ly, though, aren't there fewer blondes { than formerly? How many genuine | yellow-haired girls have you seen in | the street cars in the last month? Very { few; and to one girl with light eyes i and coloring you will see a half-dozen | brunettes of varying shades. We'll leave it to the sociologist to establish’ the relationship between the number | of immigrants from southern Europe, { where the people are mostly dark, and | the growing scarcity of real blondes. The sociologist no doubt can present all sorts of interesting theories, but we are confronted with a fact. daily journeys on one car line covering a period of 11 months one observer has failed to decry a single blonde that he would be sworn was genuine; and he is a person of fair eyesight and partial to the light ones. What's the answer ?—Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. And With Winter Here. The toiler at the next desk but one has been a source of continuous annoy- ance to this department ever since food prices started soaring last month. He insisted daily that there was no high cost of living, and proved it by quoting the prices he paid for meat and pro- duce at his grocer’s. For instance, he asserted frequently that for ten cents he gould get “all the steak he and his wifd@icould eat.” We retorted angrily that Yy men starved their wives, but most them had the decency not to brag about it. For it is no pleasure to a man with a $30 grocery bill to hear the ecstasies of one with a $10 food bill. But he gibed on blithely, wotting not of the future. And now retribu- tion has come, and here is where we laugh: His grocer has been declared bank- rupt, and the obnoxious toiler at the next desk but one faces the problem of dealing with a middleman with some business sense.—Kansas City Star. ere Eggs Not a Necessity. Why eggs? Breakfast on the conti- nent of Europe has gone its way in peace for many years with nothing more than coffee and rolls. Even in heavy-eating England a rasher of ba- con and a bit of tea is quite all right, without eggs, for breakfast. Samuel Pepys seems to have got along with- out any breakfast, could do half a day’s work ‘vithout a bite. In fact, breakfast, as a regular meal, is a re. cent institution. It's the two or three soft-boiled that are here objected to as particularly tautologic. One's enougu, and the second is mere absent-minded- ness. There are a lot of little things ‘that go to make up the high cost.— Philadelphia Ledger. i i Decreased Cost of . Living. The cost of 1,000 candle-hours of light a century ago was about $2.50 when the candle and sperm oil lamp were the only available illuminants, The coming of kerosene cut the cost to $2, and along toward the latter half of the nineteenth century the same amount could be purchased for a dol- far. Competition between kerosene and gas further reduced the cost until in the last quarter of a century a thou- sand candle-hours cost less than 50 cents. - With the present efficiency of the electric lamp the cost of the same fnit is about ten cents, or one-twenty- fifth of the original cost a century ago. Brander Matthews, writing his “Lon- | Matthews was the only American con- | During | | 1 | | BURGLAR WAS U™-TO-DATE Discussed Burglar Hypothesis and Sociology as Well as Literature With Victim. As a burglar raised the window, Miss Helen Gemmill, daughter of M. .J. Gem- mill of Wilmette sat up in bed. It was 4:30 o’clock in the morning. “Nice evening,” said the burglar. “It’s morning,” said Miss Gemmill. “Are you a regular burglar?” “Yes, miss.” “Then all 1 have to do is to sit here and ask you questions about yourself and trade while you burgle the room?” “Yes,” said the burglar, “folks ex- pect that ever since they begun to put these burglar sketches in vaudeville. With the young, pretty ones, like your- self, we burglars have to discuss the burglar hypothesis and sociology. We can’t get near the results that we get out of the old girls. Where is your money?” ‘1 haven't any. How do you treat the old girls, as you call them?" “Aw, we just stick pins in their feet and they tell where the money is hid pretty quick. Haven't you got any jewels?” “No, they are in the safe deposit vault. I see your flashlight isn’t work- | ing well. You will find matches on the bureau. And please tell me—do you think Bacon or Shakespeare wrote the latter’s works?” “I think Spencer wrote them. Isn't there really anything available I ean take here?” “I'm sorry; not a thing,” said Miss Gemmill, “Well,” said the burglar as he retired through the window, “I'll have to take i your word for it, but I certainly wish | you were an old girl, because 1 need the money.” The burglar also entered two other Wilmette homes, but encountered per- sons awake in both, which caused him | to retire.—Chicago Tribune. POINT IS “GETTING STARTED” Like Birds, Human Beings Find the Beginning of a Task Always the Hardest Part of It. A writer who understands birds and bird life tells us that pigeons and other similar birds can fly for hours at a time without seeming to weary, “out when they are made to rise from the ground and fly five or six times in quick succession, they will refuse to rise again and will remain on the ground panting with open beak.” Fly- ing is not specially difficult, but start- ing is the hard part. Once in the air, they can go on for hours, but it takes the most energy to get into the air in the first place. Whether this had been true about pigeons or not, it is very true about folks. For many of us, getting start- ed is the hard part. We hold back as we used to do when we were about to go into the water for a swim. Once in, it was hard to get us out again, but getting in seemed almost impossible. We had to learn to take the plunge; then the hardest part was over, and we thoroughly enjoyed the sport. Taking frequent starts wears men out just as it does pigeons. Watch children whose parents are always sending them to new scnools: see how broken their thinking is. If any of them would only keep going, they could stand it far better, and they really would be able to get somewhere. Continually starting again uses up anyone. And the life that is to be lived must not be judged by the diffi- culty experienced in starting it. Ris- ing from the ground is hard, but flying is not hard. Don’t be afraid to start to do right, or to be helpful in the home and active in school work. Get a good start, and then keep on.—Ex- change. England’s Great Arsenal. Though the vast arsenal of Wool- wich is at our doors, few of us who sleep in London have any real sense of its colossal presence, its immense sig- nificance, the tremendous force it stands for. Its origin dates back to other wars, but when the present war began its workers were only 14,000 in all, without a woman in the number. Now there are 17,000 women and 50,060 men. That is not all. Notwithstanding its fierce reality Woolwich is a symbol rather than a geographical expression. To that center of the Thames, 314 miles by 2%, with its numberless workshops, its endless avenues and its 120 miles of internal railway, there radiate the activities of scores of as- sociate factories round about, so that 30,000 workers more, chiefly women (97,000 in all), are feeding this almost fathomless reservoir. Woolwich is a great mechanical octopus with arms that reach over, across and around London and the country about it.—London Times. Watch for Big Rubber Ball. If the plans of a Texan inventor go through, motor vehicles will soon be equipped with a huge rubber ball, pro- jecting out in front. And its purpose? Oh, it just gently bumps the careless pedestrian instead of knocking him senseless or dead. What matters it that the ball will be more than a yard in diameter when puffed out to its capacity? Of course you think that the rubber ball safety guard bounces the careless pedestrian to one side, allowing the automobile to proceed on its way. You are wrong. It is intended to envelop the victim in its folds. But that is not all. It operates the brake automatically when a careless man sinks in its expanse. This is accomplished by means of a compressed air arrangement.—Ex- change. Cliff fell. ‘safety stopper. violently explosive. HUMAN NATURE NOT CHANGED Incident of Ethiopian History That Bears Some Testimony as to the Matter. Itlanersa was a pious king of Ethi- | opia. He built a temple to the glory of Amon of Napata under the overhang of a great cliff. than dedicated before the shelf of the Itlanersa lost interest in that particular god. But the piety of his successor, Sen- ka-amon-seken was of more tenacious | fiber. He rebuilt the broken walls, cleared away the dust and stones and put his name on the foundation rocks beside that of Itlanersa. He was, how- ever, no better judge of the behavior of cliffs. New flakes fell off and put the temple out of business. Not until four centuries later did a king rise in Ethiopia who thought enough of Amon | of Napata to restore the sanctuary, and then he did a half-way job. The Egyptian expedition of Harvard uni- versity found that out when it was prowling through the temple. Back of the stones were altars and statues just as Senka-amon-seken had caused them to be replaced and the unviolated names of the founder and first restorer. We have recited this tale because, if it were changed a little, it might be a story of our own times. Men stiii build with love in their hearts, but give up when accident happens. There is still unwisdom in the consideration of the chances of disaster. Folks are content to clear away a little dust and : let the most of it stay. The kingdom of Ethiopia has faded from the earth, ' but human nature has so little altered that Itlanersa and Senka-amon-seken and the unknown ruler of four cen- turies later might be born again and have the company of their exact likes. —Toledo Blade. PAID HIGH MONEY FOR STEAK First That Was Brought to Circle City | Caused Keen Competition Among the Miners. Probably the highest price ever paid for a beefsteak was that charged at! The first steak | Circle City, Alaska. that ever reached that town is said ‘to have sold for something like $48 a pound. There were ten pounds of this | steak, which was shipped 250 miles to ‘Circle City. ‘precious bit of meat reached the camp ‘the miners turned out in a body to see it. It was placed on exhibition, and ‘attracted as much attention as if it were the rarest of gems. Everybody ‘wanted a piece of it, and the prices |! offered were such as would have re sulted in a mining-camp quarrel if it i ‘had not been for the discretion of the owner, who decided to raffle the steak | (off for the benefit of a hospital that Bishop Rowe was trying tO establish | for the miners at Circle City. Bids were started at $5 a pound and : rose briskly to $35. Finally, in order | to avoid complications, it was deter .cents to $2.50 for the privilege of draw- ! ing for a slice. ‘tickets had been sold, the drawing be- gan, After $480 worth of and, to the relief of those in charge of the sale, no trouble resulted Danger in Handling Gasoline. The publication of the National | Safety Council, in a recent issue, gives | some instructions to those who are making use of gasoline, which, it says, should be kept and used only in small quantities, and used only by experi- enced employees who realize the dan- ger in using this volatile fluid and know how to handle it safely. Gaso- line should be handled in small safety cans, equipped with safety gauze and Gasoline is exceeding: ly volatile and will vaporize when ex posed to the air at any temperature ‘down to 15 below zero. This vapor is nearly three times as heavy as air, and when mixed with the of air becomes The vapor will ig nite from any open flame, even from a spark of static electricity from a human body, a spark from an emery wheel, or from a sufficiently heated surface. The gasoline vapor, being heavier °than air, will natu- rally seek a lower level, and if confined proper quantity ‘where there is poor ventilation, will sometimes remain in an explosive con- dition for months. No Worry; No Weight, “Jim” Rice, popular coach of the Columbia university crews, has a new recipe for keeping thin. Rice had been putting on too much weight to be comfortable for the last few years Recently an old friend met him at a football game. “You're looking ten years youngei and 20 pounds lighter,” said the friend “I've taken off 18 pounds,” said Rice. “and I'm as hard as nails. Never felt better.” “How did you get your weight off?" he was asked. “Stopped worryin’,” he announced, “I've made up my mind that if I can’t win races without worryin’ I can’t win with it. So I quit and took on a little exercise, rowing at Saratoga last sum mer, and off comes the weight. Its partly the exercise, but mostly the lack of worry.” Carrier Pigeons for Army. Fifty carrier pigeons have been pre sented to the signal corps of the Unit ed States army on the border by the American Carrier Pigeon association, It is intended to take a number of them to Mexico and dispatch them to Columbus. Atmospheric conditions on the border have rendered both ground and wireless telegraph unreliable, and the use of pigeons is to be given a thorough trial. It was scarcely more | When the owner of the | HAVE MANY STRANGE BELIEFS i rr British Soldiers in the Trenches Con. fess That Superstition Has a Strong Hold on Them. Of all the superstitions in the British army—and they are many—the most popular has to do with the Jar that contains the ration of rum. German bullets, the men have it. swerve In- stinctively towards the nearest rum jar. A few stray shots have helped to strengthen the superstition, and the conviction holds firm that the man who carries the rum jar runs a double ‘risk of being hit. Mascots and talismans hold an im- portant place in the soldier’s life. One man used to carry in his pack a ros- ary that he had picked up in one of the streets of Ypres. One day his leg was fractured in two piaces by a large piece of a trench mortar benib, but in spite of his suffering he refed to be taken down to thc dressing sta- | tion until his rosary had been pro- | duced. “If 1 don’t take it with me,” he said, “I'd get hit again on the way ! down.” Nearly every man at the front has a mascot of some sort—a rosary, a black cat, a German button, a lucky ! elephant, or a weird sign—which is supposed to keep him safe. Their superstitions, too, are many in number. One man is convinced that he will be killed on a Friday; another ' man would rather waste a dry—and therefore vuluable—match than light , three cigarettes; another will think himself lucky if he can see a cow as he marches up to the trenches; a fourth will face any danger, volunteer , for any patrol, go through the worst at- tack without a qualm, simply because he has “got a feeling that he will come through it all unhurt.” And he gen- erally does. GIFT WAS NOT APPRECIATED . Soldier's Wife Certainly Chose a Most Unfortunate Time to Send Those Fish to the Camp. “For a long time,” said the fat plumber, “I have been trying to lccute the most unlucky gink in the whole world.” “And now—" “1 have found him at last.” The thin carpenter showed curios- tity. | “He is a soldier down on the bord- er,” the fat plumber continued. | “Do you mean that you think all of | the boys down there are to be pitied?” { “1 should say not!” | “Then you have to furnish a dia- | gram with your joke.” | “This particular soldier is wealthy | | 1 and has everything he wants, back home.” “And still he is unlucky.” “Yes. He wrote to his wife, one day, and told her she ought to do something for the boys at the front.” “Yes—" “And the wife immediately bought | 500 fresh fish and had them shipped to i the border.” | “That was fine of her.” | “Now comes the unlucky part.” “I have been waiting for that.” { “On the very day that the consign- i ment reached the company the wom- 'an’s husband happened to be assigned | to duty in the mess tent—" “Y og" { “And blamed if he didn’t have to clean every one of those 500 fish.”— Youngstown Telegram. tr ————————— Takes Place of Toothbrush. A novel patent granted recently was for a substitute for the tooth brush. The device consists of a little water- proof cap fitting over the end of a finger. Attached to it is a brushlike surface of fabric, specially designed for cleaning the teeth. A flexible band attached to the cap encircles the hand and supports the cleaner when in op- eration. It is claimed that this cleaner, being more flexible than the stiff-backed brush, can clean the teeth more thoroughly since it can be fitted into each small angle of teeth and gums, ————————— The Holy Carpet Returned. The ceremony of receiving the holy i place in the presence of the prime min- ister, representing the sultan, who is indisposed. The pilgrimage was ac- complished this year without any un- toward incident. There were about 30,000 pilgrims this year, including 5,- 000 Indians, 2,000 Egyptians and 18,000 from the Hedjaz.—Cairo Letter in the London Times. . Giant Apple. A remarkable apple was shown at the Royal Horticultural society’s hall, Vincent square, Westminster, England. A small apple tree taken from the ground and placed in an ordinary flow- erpot bore one apple only, but that ap- ple was 16 inches in circumference and 5% inches in depth. It is named after the secretary of the Royal Hor- ticultural society, the Rev. W. Wilks. Ship Sunk by Codfish. Codfisk sank a ship en route for Gibraltar the other day. The schooner Ponbrook was taking a lot of dried fish from St. Johns, N. B., when, owing to heavy weather, water reached the cargo, which then swelled sufficiently to open the vessel's seams and sink her. A Norwegian ship rescued the or and landed them at the Azores. Mr. Pester’s Suggestion. “Just a thought in passing,” said old Festus Pester. “If we are so petty and picayunish that we must have a 2l6-cent piece, by all means let the contemptible coin be adorned with the head of our poetical fellow townsman, Tennyson J. Daft.”—Kansas City Star. carpet on its return from Mecca took ; *
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