i NOT SELF-SLAUGHTERERS. i Mid Scnrplona lo Not Commit Sal. elite, ah linn Ileen Nuppoaeri. Writing to Nature I'rof Kay Lnn Veatcr says: "The letter of Edward 8. Jllohlen on this subject Is extremely In (teiwiMnp. It appears that he, like Krthcr individuals who have Imagined that they have witnessed tho suicide iof scorpions, have fallen into tho er iror (so eoinmon in tho Interpretation jof biological as distinguished from abloloplcnl phenomena) of stating his inferences and beliefs as though Ithey were observations. Tho 'Instance yrhieh ooi'iirrvtl beforo my eyes' (to juote his words, which remind ono of (the old herbalist, Gerard) was simply jthat of a snulto biting itself when im prisoned in a j;ir of water. That the .blow was 'deliberate,' 'intentional,' and of 'suicidal purpose' is pure ipooii 'la t ion, and nothing occurred before Mr. liolden's eyes to warrant his en tertaining such a notion. Had Mr. IHolden been aware that tho poison of (the rattlesnake has little ornoelTcct upon unoth'T rattlesnake nor upon tho individual from which the poison Is j furnished h. would probably have ' Tiecn less reudy to conclude that tho I bite was one f suicidal purpose, lie ' would then perhaps have inquired ns to the depth to which the bite pene- trated into t'.io tissues of the snake 1 nd how far .vieh a superficial bite as ; ib snake can it. (Met uiku a, part of its ' pwn body is HVely (in the absence of ; ny piiso ious net ion) to be seriously 1 injurious t tho snake. In this ease, as In that of the scorpion confined in a fiery circle (experimentally studied !both by li.yhclf and by I'rof. Ilourne, iOf Madras, und reported on in tho pro- 1 iceedings of the I.inmean society and the Koyal society), the spasmodio Struggles of rn animal artificially eon- ,finel and tortured have been, us we j 'clearly demonstrated, mistaken for j efforts at self-destruction. The biting ( of its own body by the snake may ho ' justly compared with the 'biting tho dust' attributed to men who die in a 1 hand-to-hand struggle or to tho biting I of their own hand or arm by unhealthy I children when suffering from a par- oxysm of linger." j A SCHEME THAT FAILED. j An Austrian J:l!tor Who Cried Wolf I : Wolf!" Whrn Tm-ro Wat No Wolf. ' The Kleine Zeitung relates a story of the Austrian censorship of the press, 'The editor of a small provincial print -was either in great difliculty to find a fit subject for his leading article, or else was too intent upon other busi ness or upon pleasure to provide one. The last moment had come, und the editor was in despair. Ho tortured his brain in vain, when he was suddenly inspired by a happy thought, nnd dashed off the following lines: "After carefully perusing tho leading article written for the present number by ono of the ablest of our contributors, we have arrived at tho conclusion that it maybe misirterpreted by the author ities and regarded as an attack upon the government. We ourselves con sider It to be perfectly innocent, but oswcf unwilling, for our readers' sake, as well as for our own, to have our newspaper confiscated, we have ery unwillingly, though, as we think, prudently, resolved to withdraw the article. This must serve as tho apol ogy to our readers for the blank space In our present issue." The journal was published in the evening, and the sly editor, after performing this smart little piece of stratagem, left the office in high good humor with himself. As soon as he arrived in tho office on the following morning a clerk came up to him with a doleful expression and said: "llerr Kedaktor, the paper is confis cated bv the police!" "For what rea son?" said the astonished editor. "For I malicious ridici.le of the institutions! of the Austrian empire by the omission i of the leading article," replied the man. i MONKEY WORKMEN. i Apea That Tomm-m the Knowledge of Pottery Making. An extraordinary story is told by the London Daily News, which states that Dr. Maogowan lately returned to Tient-sin, bringing with him, among other curious discoveries, some partic ulars of a race of Manchurian monkeys inhabiting the mountain region of the Great Wall of China. They are said to know how to make pottery; more re markable still, they are represented us having made extraordinary progress in the art of making wine. A recent edi tion of the odlcial history of Yungping states that lately a large body of im migrating monkeys passed a certain village in crossing from ono mountain t another. The boys of the village clapped their hands and shouted at the spectacle, und tho monkeys, being frightened, Hod, taking their young in their arms, but dropping in their llight a number of earthen vessels, some of which would hold a quart. On open ing these, .tho villagers found they contained two kinds of wine, a pink and a green, that had been made from mountain berries. It is affirmed that the monkeys store this liquor for uso In the winter when tho water is all frozen. Dr. Macgowan cites other in dependent testimonies to similur facts, including a Chinese account of mon keys in Chekiang who pound fruit in stone mortars to mako into wine. Head of liurtleu In China. Chinamen have such regard for beasts of burden, such ns an ox and the mule., that they make companions of them when alive and never uso their meat for food when they are dead. These animal usually live in tho same building with their masters, but in a separate apartment, which is especial ly devoted to them. They are not re quired to eat at the family table un less they wish to, and meals are served in their rooms without extra charge. They are expected to report any in civility or Inattention on the parts of servants to the muster of the house. A pair of oxen can reside In tho house of Uielx master und enjoy all tho privuey they would have in a stall of their own, and a sensitive and retiring mule U never in any danger of being intrud ed upon. THE HACIT O" DRUDGERY. ftomo Advaiithgr anil Othrrwlao of Ilav Insj IMfttlngiitiitKMl Itrnther. Since my brother Mundanus has be come rich nnd famous ns the author nnd autocrat of tho bootjack trust, I have been very strongly tempted to stop working for myself and arrange with him for my support, says a writ er in Seribner's. It may bo that I shall conclude that the habit of drudgery Is too firmly (InimI on me to be thrown off with impunity, so that perhaps I shall elect to go on working; but. if I do It will be in tho nature of self-indulgence, maintained for moro personal ease, against my conviction of what is Just ond right. For my argument is. nnd It Is con ceived on general rnd impersonal grounds, ami founded without preju dice on dispiissi.nrite observation, that a comfortable maintenance without work is a very moderate set off to any ordinary man for the inconvenienco nnd detriment of having an Immoder ately successful brother. The reason lies in the incorrigible tendency of so ciety to measure brothers by the same standard. When they are little society puts them back to back and observes which is tho taller. When they aro grown it piles their achievements or renown or Incomes up side by side, and remarks which pile is bigger. Mr. Rockefeller's or Mr. As tor's in come may run up into the millons, without making anyone think tho worse of my capacity; but ever since it became known that Mundanus was gett ing fifty thousand dollars a year (largely payable in Hoot jack stock, ns I happen to know, but the public doesn't), it has been imputed to me as a fault, and somewhat of a disgrace, that my in-takings were not so large. However conscientiously a man may have used tho talents given him, nnd whatever progress lie may have made in life, if it be his misfortune to have a meteoric brother v. ho has sailed con spicuous where he has had to plod. and r.rri'.vd glorious where he has sweated in patient aspiration, the slow-gaited man is bound to suffer as 1 do. by dis paraging comparison with his oeupod fellow of the same brood. ENGLISHMEN NOT LOVABLE. A llrltou t'iilW Them Aecre!ve, l"ur I'rnuil and Uypoerltlcul. The editor of the Times appears to have just discovered that tho French detest the English ns bitterly, if not more so, than they do and other neigh boring uation. says London Truth, and in a leading article on Saturday that paper astonished the world with a la bored attempt to account for the can so of this dislike to us. Hut the reason is a very simple one. We English are by no means a lova ble race. We have many admirable qualities. We are a hardy, praotical, persevering people; but these ore not in themselves sympathetic properties. We are aggressive, solf-ussortive, purse-proud and hypocritical. We are apt to sing panlms nnd pick pockets at one and the same time, nnd our neigh bors, not altogether unjustly, there re, resent the over-righteous tone that we adopt in criticising them and their concerns. Wherever the Englishman goes he has the fatal influence of spoiling even the most rdmple of characters. A few Ilritish tourists will make the inhab itants of the most inexperienced prov ince shrewd, suspicious, grasping and dishonest. This is within the common knowledge of any who have traveled in little-visited lands, and a considera tion of this phenomenon will enable us the better, perhaps, to understand why o.ir neighbors, and more cspt-cially the Fr.-.'.ch, so heartily detest v.s. It is i.lso a curious faot that whenev er there are any general elections to bo hel l in the great republics the most popular policy is to twist the tail of ti'ij I'.riti.di lion. It would be instruct ive a.i a subject for the dull season to discuss the question: "Are we English really much superior to ull other na tions?" I think we are. but apparently our neighbors think otherwise; ami it might bo well, therefore, to discover whether we nra mistaken or whether they are stupidly prejudiced. DEVOTED DOUS. They Sarrlllced TlieimclTea for Tbelr I.I t tie MWtrem. A writer in Our Animal Friends re lates a story of two fox-terriers, Tan and Tally, which belonged to a physi cian in southern California, und were the playmates of his little daughter Mabel. They had been her compan ions from her babyhood, and she was now five years old. On the day in question she and they were frolicking in the garden, when the little girl's ut tention was attracted by a peculiar noise in a bush at her elbow. She peered into the branches to seo what had made the noise. Instantly tho head of u snuke reared itse'.f before her, and the sound of its rattles was repeated. Mabel stood t..s if fascinated. The gardener, at work not far off, screamed to her to run, and hurried tu fast us he could to her rescue, liurry us he might, however, he would have been too lute but for tho dogs. They saw the little girl's danger, and threw themselves between her und it, worrying tho snake, till the man could come up ond kill it. They were quito aware of their own danger; again ond again, wdien camping out with their master, they had shown tho greatest terror at tho sound of a snake's rattles; but they could not see tho child in jured. When tho mother came in answer to tho shouts of the gardener, she found Mabel safe, but both dogs were already in tho agouies of death. Bllffhtly DinVrrnU An English lawyer, Mr. William Wil lis, was once rather amusingly Inter rupted in a speech. In addressing a political meeting, Mr. Willis found an opportunity of re ferring to Charles Dickens' character, Dark is, and of exclaiming "Barkis U wllllnT , "No, no," shouted a worklngman in the audience, "it aint 'Barkis is willin', 1 but 'Willi U barkiaT Want to Sell Exhibits. General A. B. Ncttleton, ex-Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, aiul Colonel Alex 1). Anderson, as attor ncys for nearly two thousand foreign exhibitors at the World's Columbian Imposition, had a hearing before the ays and Means Committee of the House, ami the Finance Committee of the Senate, Tuesday. They asked, first that during the brief remainder of the exposition period they be al lowed, under regulations and limitation to be fixed by the Treasury Depart ment and the Exposition management to sell goods for current delivery, and second, that for customs purposes the appraisal of goods sold to be reduced fitly per cent. They urged among other considerations these : The deterioration from transportation and exposure, has materially reduced the stliing value of many of these exhibi ted goods, but the appraisals for cus toms purposes are fully up to the in voice value. The bulk of the goods to be soul under the proposed legislation is of such a character as not to enter into competition with articles of American manufacture. Similar action was had after the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1S76. A bill to carry out these purposes has been introduced into the House by Mr. 1 Uirborrow. Something to Kumember, if you're a weak or ailing woman: I that there's only one medicine so sure to help you that it can be yuitrmttil. It's Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. In building up over-worked, feeble, delecate women, or in any "female complaint" or weakness, if it ever fails to benefit or cure, you have your money back. It's an invigorating, restorative tonic, a soothing and strengthening nervine, and a safe and certain remedy for woman's ills and ailments. It regulates and promotes all the proper functions, improves di gestion, enriches the blood, dispels aches and pains, brings refreshing sleep, and restores health and strength. Nothing else can be as cheap. With this, you pay only for the good you get. ' We Live Too Eapidly. THAT IS THE OPINION OK A JAVANESE GIRL AT THE FAIR. "At home we are happy and live our lives slowly. Here people live lives in one day." Thus spoke Ejot, a Javanese girl who is visiting the World's Fair, in response to a repor ter's desire to known how she liked Chicago. Her ready perception of chief points of difference between oriental and American life stamps Ejot as a person of discrimination. She speaks patronizingly of our insti tutions and laments our bad taste, but thinks we may improve in this respect as the "country is young' "America is large, strange and cold," she said. "The climate seems to me to affect the people and make them rough and noisy. I never heard so much noise in my life. In my home we do not make great noise. The ladies are the most beautiful things in America, but they are very strange to me. They always want to shake hands. Then they kiss each other. I do not like that. In my country we only kiss our mother and sisters. Their dress is beautiful. Their form is strange. "I will some day get an American lady's dress and put it on just to see how I look. Xo one will ever see me with it on. I should be ashamed. I !o not like the men in America. They are not polite." Harried. On Friday, September 15th, at the parsonage of Tiinity Reformed church, by Rev. C. H. Brandt, Mr. Herman Altenhoff and Miss Lizzie Zoeller, both of Wilkes-Barre, Fa. An Open Letter to Women. Laurel Ave, San Francisco, May 18, 1892. " Dear friend of women: "When my baby was born, five years ago, I got up in six days. Far too soon. Result: falling of the womb. Ever since I've been miserable. " I tried everything: doctors, medicines, apparatus; but grew worse. "I could hardly stand; and walking without support was impossible. "At last I saw an advertise ment of Lydia li. Piticiams Vegetable Compound, and de cided to try it. The effect was astonishing. Since I took the first bottle my womb has not troubled me, and, thanks only to you, I am now well. Every sunenng woman should know how reliable your compound is. It is a sure cure." Mrs. A. Petwiter. AlldruguItU " " imiivi 111 cnnnueiire, . LtVU li. I'lNKHAM MllU. Vnufftr EmuMT Co., I.vkn, Mai. Q . LivrPUlM, eo etotM. r" J Buckeye Drills, Richmond Champion Drills, rar 1 IV,1ohc.v is "very so buy whnt Imiilcmviit you miiy wquii'v, lit I lac very low sric?c?s :aia2 ISfcca'al c5uis wc sh&'c otfka'ifi:r. 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Ki it) one who tukc. hold now and works will surely iiml .'peedlly increase their earning; ther ran .be no ueitiou about it; others now ut work are doinjr II, und you, reader, can do the same llils ii the best paying business that you have ever had the chnueo'to itecure. You will make a t'ravc mUiake it you (all to give it a trial at ouce. If you grup the situation, and act quickly, you will directly llnd yourself in a most prosperous business, at which you can surely make and save l.irjiesumi of money, l'he rrbu'lls of only a few limiM work will often equal u week's waR'S. Whether you are oldor youui:, man or woman, it nukes no dillereuco, do as we tell you, and suc cess will meet you at the very start. Neither experience or capital necessary. Those who wor for us are rewarded. Why not write to day for full particulars, free ? K. O. A I.LKX & CO., Vox No. 440, Auguita, Ma. t Pa. Improve our stock by getting a setting of Barred or White Plymouth Rocks. Eggs from fine birds at. $1.50 per 13, or $2.50 per 26. Address, W. B. German, ItUllville, x t Pcnna. i
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