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THE CKOSSIXQ OF THE nRIDQB.
Have) yoti ever heard the story
now Tin: XpsWtt crossed tho
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1OWI1 0 v nrowc iat-ka v
liound the curves of Smnkv i:i,w?
j -0 -.
You reii,et,,l.er the biK trestle ' "''
Just 11ns of e.-irev's mill ;
Twenty miles, about, from Sha on,
And as far from Smoky Hill. ' ,V,"
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nu a nine in I"npihthey sav
Aii.l 11 s not .1 yard-stick lc-s
Jilfly feet above the creek, too;
iii.n.-. near as 1
can guess.
Ami
jll-t as Titll C:imp rminrl ll.ft
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And saw the bridso ahead
He felt tho track va pivin- like,
And knew t!i- ra ls ha I Bi.rcad.
Down prn.lo at that, and thirty miles
J liat, was her common run
A bri.lo tot nrtv yards nheal,
O, I : e 1 vea ! what could bo done !
Like jnriKl in-millstones bouneod the cars
Aloiifj the sleepers' eibls;
Tim ha-! no t ime to think of wife,
Of babe, or .self, or friends.
The fireman
thou-dit.
Jumpwd, but quick as
Tim Neshitt took It In
The bridge is ttraisfht, there la a chance
For life if he .should w in.
Am w'h mighty jerk he threw .
The throttle njien wide
And said a prayer and Lady Bees"
Tent on her crazy ride.
Dreadful !
You might have seen the
wood
And nails and glasses fly.
And
ppunters, torn from Drtdffe
and
And clamps from every tie;
While Lady Bess" just flew across.
And Tim Just hold his breath
while hair the passengers had swooned,
And half were sure of death.
But ere the seared had time to rray.
Or broken wheels to stand,
Tim Nesbitfa train had crossed the
liridgo.
And wo were safe on land.
I reckon that no other man
That runs upon tho line
lias pot a watch as big as hla.
Nor anything so fluo.
For on one side's a picture like
Tho creek at Smoky Kidge
And on the other's writ. "To him
Who ran across tho bridge."
Detroit Free Tress.
STAG.'KG IN THE FOOT HILLS.
Some Aapceta of a Itntinln Part of Onr
Expansive Country.
The name of Deadwood, a citv that is
Still in tho "wild West " in spite of the
rapid improvements thirty years have
seen west of the Mississippi, ia familiar
to many people who know nothing
whatever of it except that it lies some
where in the miniug region.
Traveling- from the F.ast, it can tie
reached within one hundred miles ly
rail; the remainder of t lie distance mnt
be taken by stage. The railroad ends
at Buffalo Gap.
Six horses, carrying a stage coach
with three scats in it, await the Dead
wood traveler. If there are more than
six passengers, and any of them are in
clined to obesity, there is apt to be a
lack of comfort.
If it is dnring; tho spring or nntnmn
rains, there is much jolting and careful
driving, and ierhaps some seasickness
among the passcngprs.
In the bitter winter weather, warm
wraps, furs and heated soapstones are
necessary.
Perhaps the ride is most delightful
in the autumn, when there is a golden
morn, and lazy winds anil a cloud of
purple haze in the West.
Tho one hundred miles are traveled
in thirty-six hours or thereabout. Kvcry
ton miles the horses are changed, and
every twenty miles the drivers change.
Tho stations are simply large barns
where the horses am kept. Those nre
as well trained, and enter into their
task with as much ppirit find seeming
delight as the horses of the lire depart
ments in cities.
They grow to le familiar with every
step of the journey find know their
driver as children know a parent.. The
coach stops for meals at regular sta
tions three times a day.
Qnit an excited interest is visible at
all the towns pnssotl through. The
coming of the stage, with its palloping
horses, its air of mystery end restles
ness, and tho charm of knowing it has
come from the ontside wotIiI, which,
like liasselas in his valley, every one
envies to be in occasionally-, is quite an
event, in tho lives of the village people.
Crcsar, in his commentaries, speaks
cf the inhabitants of inner Gnnl gather
ing around tho merchants when they
came to trade, and asking questions in
nnmerable. The merchants were often
tempted to exaggerate and sometimes
to invent stories of the outside world,
which temptation they often yielded to,
and were eagerly believed by tho Cauls.
So tho stage-coach driver after an
swering many questions to suit himself
amid the admiring pare of tho popn
lace, with a flourish of his w hip, a w ord
to his horses, is gone.
Gone for a wild ride over dangerous
roails, now winding along a mountain
path, now between rocks, now along a
rier bank, and again out into the level
mesa-like stretch, that seems to reach
in infinite distances on every hand.
The drivers rind their work to possess
a strango fascination. No stage driver
ever feels content to go back to the
me life of a town dweller. Each one
them has his reputation and is known
bv his peculiar characteristics all along
the route.
In the lower part of the Eage, tinder
the seats, is a place for baggage, much
like the hold in a ship.
Tho trip is worth taking, especially
in spring or antnmn, when the di '.ver is
glad to give a share of his seat for at
least a few hours each day or night.
Peadwood is a very pretty town hem
med in by mountains.
It is in the extreme western part of
Dakota, not far from its boundary line.
It is only 250 miles from Yellowstone
Talk, and is surronnded by mountains
npon every hand. Some valuable gold
sn.l silver mines are located near the
town. .
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He Was an Honeat Man.
A Virginia farmer who owned a fine
calf was asked recently by a friend what
he would take for the animal.
" Six dollars," was tho reply.
The very next day the friend rushed
over to the farmer's house in a flurry of
exoiternent.
The train killed your calf j'ust now,"
gaid he.
15y gosh!" exclaimed the farmer,
tho railroad must pay me S15 for that
calf. I wouldn't have taken $25 for
him."
It developed, however, that it was a
Lt.nx, and tho farmer still hulds tho
calf at $6. I Baltimore Sun.
" .
"HE IS A FBSSMAN WHOM Tit TRT7TW U1IH fill. A WT1 ATT. A TI V cT.ATTtS wwarnw
EBENSBURG, PA.. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 10,
HISTORICAL POINTS ON DOGS.
Influence of Man on the Canine Species.
The wonderful variation in size, ap
pearance and intellect of dogs must
strike every one who rememlers
that this great variety came orig
inally from three or four species of wild
dogs.
There is now preserved in an English
museum a little dog of the terrier kind
which was about two years old at its
death. It was exactly five and one half
inches long, which is j'ust the length of
the nose of a German ltoar hound in
another part of the museum, measnred
from the corner of the eye to the tip of
the nose. So great is the difference
that one can hardly realize that they
probably had a common ancestor.
The original wild dogs had very much
the aspect of wolves erect ears and
bushy, flowing tails.
It is thought by many that the dogs
most nearly approaching them in ap
pearance are nearest them in point of
development, and that tho breed
closely related are shepherds, but an
examination and comparison of the
bones, and particularly tho sknl s,
shows that among tho principal breeds
the line of descent is: First, wild dog;
then Danish dog hounds, pointers;
terriers, pugs, spaniels and pet dogs
in general come last.
The influence of man over all natnre
is most markedly shown in jtet dogs.
They are, as a rule, small, with tail
curved upwards, ears drooping, but
sure signs of domestication.
Besides, the teuitxTauient and dis
position aro wholly changed, whereas
wihl dogs are natural hunters, the pet
dogs being wholly ignorant of the wiles
cf the chase.
A pug would probably 1 as much
surprised at the sudden appeannce of
a rabbit as bunny would lie at the png.
The prol (ability is that loth would run
as soon as they saw each other.
The varieties have been so long bred
that they would never return U orig
inal specic'3 again, even if left to run
wild.
That they aro closely related to
wolves and such animals, however, is
shown by the fact that they will breod
with them and also by the taming of
wolves taken very young. They be
come gentle and affectionate.
A wolf w help when young, if sudden
ly menaced by a master, will cringe
and beg off just as a dog does when be
thinks he is going to be whipped. They
have many other traits w hich indicate a
closo relationship.
Not only are wolves capable of do
mestication, but on the other hand dogs
often escapeand lx.coiuo wild.
A case is related of a greyhound who
concluded she would take to the
woods. After a year or two sho was
captured and brought back. In a few
months she presented her master with
some, pups, lint, as soon as tht'y were
ablo to take care of themselves she left
them and again ran away.
Threo of tho pups stayed at home
and became good citizens, but two
partook of the mother's nature and ran
away to join her. They at last became
so destructive to young animals that
they wero hunted Sown and shot.
Puppies get their eyes o;en on the
tenth or twelfth day, reach their full
growth at the end of the second year
and are very old at ten years, very few
of them reaching the green old ago of
twenty. Although their lives aro short
they are full of interest.
The devotion of a dog for his master
is phenomenal. He will stick to him
whatever lw his fortune, stand any
amount of abnxe, and love his master
with a forgiving spirit in spite vf
everything.
Bleeping In Church.
A physician who was asked for
reasons why people became drowsy in
church and if there was any remedy
for chronic cases, said that the drowsy
feeling in church was often due to bad
construction, to overheating and to the
general quiet and composing sur
roundings. " I have often," said be, " advised
patients of mine who are troubled with
insomnia to try a quiet church where
tho preacher was not too energetic in
his manner, and in most cases the
result has been gratifying.
' Tho poor man who has lieeome
almost wild through want of sleep gen
erally obtains relief and falls oil into a
gentle and refreshing slumber.
Many people suffering in this way
take a ride in a railroad train for
relief and often get it, but nothing has
succeeded so well as the Sunday morn
ing service in a quiet church.
"If those people, however, who do not
need to sleep in church and do not
want to would drink very strong tea or
coffee before going to church they
might find it effective, but by no means
healthy.
" W hy do von see the baldheads
nodding most in church? Because the
old are more susceptible to the in
fluence of such surroundings.
"The women seldom go to sleep,
because they are so dressed that to
sleep would e almost impossible. If
the men would lace themselves up
tight they might keep awake, too,
but, in the words of General Knicker
bocker, 'They cawn't do it, you know. "
Philadelphia Record.
Ood'a lint liift to Man.
Life is of unreckonable valuable to
the man, whether lout or prince, who
reposes on the love of woman, and he
most honors himself (and so adds to his
worth) who acknowledges his depend
ence on the source of his highest happi
ness, to wit:
Woman, oven woman, who did give
ear to the voice of the serpent, more
snbtle than any beast of the field; who.
saw that the tree was good for food,
pleasant to the eyes and a tree to be de
sired, and who has ever sinco borne
with enblimo fortitude her penalty of
multiplied sorrow.
Truly her seed hath braised the ser
pent's heat! in fulfillment of the curse
laid on hor first Ivguiler. And though
tho ground leaecurs.-d, though it bring
forth thorns and thistles to goad and
sting tho man, though he eat bread in
the sweat of his face till he return to
the ground, be shall yet. Lord God,
find compensation in the woman Thou
gr.vest to bo with him, and of whose
love it lias been greatly said, "All
other pleasures are not worth ita pains."
Detroit Flee Tress.
Reading the Future,
Bay, are you a fortune teller?"
" Yes, Miss, that's my business."
" You can read the future, cant
you?"
"As clearly as I can the past."
" Well, I'll bring around my ' future
to-morrow. I wabt you to read him, ao
I can tell If his affection Is Incerft."
Chicago Bambler.
MODERN ILXURY.
What American Kxtraracance TTti. pro-
vlflrri ft.r the llvdrooiu of stChlld.
From tho point of extravagance,
nothing exceeds that of the bedroom of
a child, a little girl of 9.
" The floor is inlaid and in the1 centre
is a carpet of thickly-piled Wilton,
pearly in ground, overstrewn with
roses. The ceiling was painted. A
lattice apparently half shuts it in, and
over it climbs wild roses.
In the centre the sky appears. One
trailing branch has wandered ont
across the blue, and around the roses
on its stem a swarm of butterflies flut
ter, making, in fact, the central orna
ment of the ceiling.
The walls are hung with pale gray
silk, brocaded with rosebuds. The
woodwork is white mahogany, beau
tifully carved. The mantel has fes
toons of roses carved in relief above
fire-facings of white onyx.
Just outside the brass fender-rim is
a cushion of bine velvet, where the
little feet are warmed. Tho furniture
is of white mahogany.
The ljetl haa a half canopy, and on
its outer edge two doves are perched,
and from their leaks on each side,
are garlands of carved wood, carried
over to the guardian doves perched on
the posts. These garlands confine cur
tains of silk bolting cloth, thin as
a fairy web, embroidered with roses,
pink and yellow, dropping their
petals from fold to fold. On tho led
is a spread on w hich roses seem to have
been thrown in careless luxuriance.
The mirror reaches to the floor and
is set Wtween two chests of drawers.
It is framed in composition ornamented
with cream and gold, and almve is a
panel modelled in relief, in which a
mermaid romln r ut her long hair.
Off this chamber, the appointments
of which cannot bo enumerated, is a
dressing-room lined with white
enamel tiles. Here is a porcelain bath
and marble toilet, on which are laid
the superb silver mounted toilet
articles, and where a maid ia in
attendance.
Just what this little maid can have
when fche is grown, her indulgent par
ents have not yet considered. N. Y.
Hail and Express.
A Modern Mexicans Tows.
A correspondent of the Cleveland
Leader writes of Lerdo, a town which
has grown up within the last twenty
years, and is increasing in population
every year. At present it numbers
probably 800 souls.
The - best of Mexican towns seem
shabby to Amerioans, so that the ng
line s of this Mexican slab town fe'oea
without saying.
All its houses and pnbiic edifices are of
one story. The sod being loamy, the
adobe brick w alls are guttered by the
rains.leaving them ragged and insecure.
Muddy canals wander in and out among
the gardens, which latter are the only
redeeming feature amid universal ug
liness. But such gardens, with almost entire
absence of tasteful culture, where w ill
you find their equal? I secured a
bunch of mission grajes, the first of
the season, which filled completelv the
crown of my tall hat. Ton's of
them, just ripening, hung from the
vines.
Figs grow everywhere in profusion.
Watermelons this is June camo into
the town by the cartload. The brown
natives were feasting on green corn.
Hedges of rose bushes girt tho plaza
in dense thickets that required constant
trimming. At the back of a bench
where I chanced to seat myself, three
kernels of corn had beeu dropped
by accident, and their stalks, eighteen
feet high, towered over my head like
shade trees.
A couple of hotels, or attempts at
them, sundry commercial houses, four
mills and a telegraph office, with beer
at throe shillings a glass and no news
paper, will enable the reader to " size "
the place without further description.
Fine Writing and Good Writing.
Just as people of little experience in
Poclal life are sometimes dazzled by a
lavish display of jewels, ko young writers
are apt to inUtake for fine writing a
flyle In which long words, foreign
phrases, nnd gorgeous figures are used.
A clear, direct, simple form ot expres
sion is far tetter.
A young college graduate, a reporter
of a weekly paper in a rural Ity, thought
no doubt that he had thine some very
"fine" w riting when he handed the follow
ing to the editor:
' Our flourishing and prosperous
young city was last evening the scene of
the mo.! tli-.-istrous conflagration it has
Vet witiiesiil.
The devouring e1emert first broke
out in the mercantile establishment of
Horner A-Co., which magiiifico:i etiifleo
it consumed before its progress Could be
arrest el in the slightest degree.
Our knights of the hook-and-ladder
respondisl nobly to tho clangor of the
alarm-bell, anil essayed manfully to
combat tho mighty element of flame and
darkening smoke, but their utmost en
deavors wero unavailing in rescuing the
1(U lding from the annihilating and In
cendiary flames, for there is uncontro
vertible testimony that the widespread
conflagration was the Immediate result
of dlatiollcal incen liarlsm.
"Theperpet raters will yet be "overtaken
by the sure and keen arm of the law,
whose majesty they have thus outraged
and offended.
"The aggregate los Is In excess of
four thousand dollars."
The editor put the reporter's manu
script aside, and wrote the following,
which appeared in the next morning s
paper :
" The dry-goods house of Horner A Co.
was burned to the ground last night, the
flames having ma le such headway be
fore the alarm was given that the engine
company arrived too late to do more
than keep tho fire from spreading to
other bunildlneH.
" It Is thought that the buildings were
Bet on fire.
" The loss Is about four thousand dol
lars, partly covered by insurance."
Youth's Companion.
What Wood Wool la, and Ita Ue
The French Scientific journal La Na
ture describes and Illustrates a machine
for inakirg a product which is coming
into favor In various different employ
ments under tho i:ame of wood wool.
As Its name Implies, this material is
simply wood cut Into such fine shavings
that tt answers many of the purposes to
which wool la commonly applied.
Although it was at first intended
merely as a packing mnterlal It was soon
found that It had a much more extended
field of usefulness. It Is employed for
stuffing mattresses, as bedding for cat
tle, for the filtration of liquids, etc.
It is elastic like horse hair and le beau
tifully clean in use.
The wood used by preference Is BIga
fir, and the machine will produce, witn
out any necessity for skilled labor,
more than 1,500 pounds of "wool" pec
day of tea hours. . ,
81. SO and
1SS6.
DERIVATION OF FAMILIAR WORDS.
How the Words nianfcet. Caterpillar, Fen
ny, and sterling Were Coined.
" Yorick " write to the New York
Sun, as follows:
" Some words of our language in
common use puzzle us when we seek
their derivation, and the pages of
neither Webster nor Worcester, so far
as I can discover, afford ns any help.
' The derivation is curious of the
common word blanket. When Ed
ward III ascended the throno of
England he immediately declared war
against Franco, and shortly after pre
pared to invade her territory. But the
sinews of war were wanting and so the
monarch appealed to his loving sub
jects. ' English money bags, however,
were not so plethoric aa they have be
come since, and little coin, compara
tively, was in circulation. The people
loved their young and valiant king,
and the war was a popular one.
' The English raised large quanti
ties of wool, which they sent to Flan
ders for manufacture. It was deter
mined to devote the wool crop of that
year toward defraying the expenses of
the expedition. After the more val
uable ortion had been used there was
a quantity quite unfit for the Flemish
looms. This was lHight up by one
Sir Thomas Blanquette, who had it
woven into a marso but warm material,
and patriotically presented it to the
King as a contribution to tho comfort
of the soldiers and as a covering for the
horses of the nobles and knights.
" This material was named Blan
quette, or Blanqnet, from the name
of the donor, and we now spell it
blanket.
Caterpillar. Many New Yorkers are
perha ignorant whence the prst, which
was coultated by that other j(est tho Eng
lish sparrow, derived its name;. At(out
the time of the soi-disant virgin Queen
a kind of cake, composed of flour,
honey, and spice, was ia high favor;
they were called " rates. In The
Taming of the Shrew " Petrnchio pans
npon the name of his prospective
bride:
My super-dainty Kate.
Tor dainties all are Katea. Ao.
" The purveyor of thia dainty waa
called, from the name of the confec
tion, a cater," or more recently in a
wider signification, "caterer."
' " The insect in question was a de
structive raider on the wheat which fur
nished the flour to the cater, and
hence it was called a " eater-pillager."
It does not require much ingenuity to
see how eater-pillager " became
' eater-pillar."
" Perhaps some of the good people of
Wall Street would like to know the
origin of the words jenny and sterling.
" It apjwara that there lived at one
timo in Germany a braco of Iteggars,
pretended cripples. Hoth these adven
turous beggars are said to have once
formed a part of the Council at Dant
rig, but to have subseqnentlv lost
prr-prrty an.l l(oon snbjectod to tho
severest privations.
The oldest of these lame gentle
men, known by the namo of Thomas
Penny, was exceedingly disliked by
the people, and on one occasion in a
grand row he was literally thrown out
of the window into the street, by which
he bsoame a veritable cripple. It was
timftly reported of him in Dantzig
that he had there displayed an im
mense amount of copper coin, but so
badly executed in the mint as to have
given rise to the nickname of Penny's
monej , an appellation which we are
aware' has been retained to the present
day.
" To this we may add the origin of
the term sterling to complete the
primitive descent of pounds aa well aa
of pence. In the time of Richard
money coined in the eastern par .i
Germany came into special request in
England on account of its purity, and
waa called Easterling money, as all
the inhabitants of .those parts were
called Easterlings.
" King Ed ward I established a certain
standard for the silver coin of England,
but no gold was coined until the reign
of Edward UI. who. in the veer 1329,
caused several pieces to be eoined
called Florentea because they were
coined by Florontinea. From the name
of the purer coinage, called Easterling
money, came the term sterling, aa ex
pressive of a standard purity.
" In tho reign of Charlea H certain
traders brought a quantity of jyold
from the coast of Guinea. The King
caused it to bo coined into pieces
which were called Guineas, from
the country whence the gold waa
brought." . , i
They Staked the Preacher.
A gentleman from Dakota tells ns
how the fund was starte 1 for
building the first Methodist church
erected in Bismarck.
The town was young and was practi
cally in possession of the gamblers.
Faro banks and all sorts of gambling
schemes were run openly and without
fear.
One large gambling establishment
was situated in a large tent near the
eentro of the town, and thither went
the Itev. Mr. Bull, whe had como to
Bismarck to establish a Methodist
church.
Mounting a poker table in the
middle of the thickly crowded tent,
Mr. Bull proceeded to speak for Christ.
At once the busy gamblers laid down
their chips and turned to jeering the
preacher, some of them even pelting at
him with whatever came easiest to
band.
Presently the slender form of Dennia
Ilannifan, tho I kiss gambler and feather
weight champion of the placo, arose
and moved toward tho preacher.
"Hold on, bora," said Dennis, "thia
is no way to troat a stranger. I know a
thing worth two o' this."
At this Dennis took off his hat and
passed it around among the gamblers,
who each put in a chip. And, taking
up this strango collection, Dennis
walked np to the table, dumped the
hatful of chips upon it, and said:
" There you are, stranger, thut'a for
yon."
"But," aaid the clergyman, "what
am I to do with it?"
"Woll," replied Dennis, " it's yours,
and yon can do what yon please with it.
You can cash it or buck it, just as you
like."
" Buck it?" said the holy man; "what
is that?"
Why, play it in yon know; bet it 0O
one of the games."
Mr. Bull preferred to "cash the ehipa
in," ao he went to the proprietor of the
place, got $47 for the chips, and with
that sum began the fund which built
the Methodist church, in which a flour
ishing society now worships. Chicago
ewa. . .
postage per year. In advance.
NUMBER
TH t VALUE OF SLEEP.
TanK ot JTer'ect bi'Rritnn Energy by
Nightly Kest,
The restoration of energy, which sleep '
alone can afford, is necessary for the i
maintenance of nervous vigor, and I
whereas the muscular system, if over- j
taxed, at lat refuses to work, the brain
under similar circumstances too fre- j
qnently refuses to rest.
The sufferer, instead of trying to ra- i
move or lessen the cause of his sleep-
lessnesa, comforts himself with the hope i
that it will soon disappear, or else has '
recourse to alcohol, morphia, the brom- j
ides, chloral, etc. j
Valuable and necessary aa these rem- !
edies often are (I refer especially to the
drugs), there can le no question as to '
the mischief which attends their fre- i
quent use, and there is much reason to
fear that their employment in the ab- j
sence of any medical authority is large
ly on the increase. !
Many of the "proprietary articles"
sold by druggists, and in great demand j
at the present day, owe their efficacy to
one or more of these powerful drugs. '
Not a few deaths have been censed by j
their use, and in a still larger number '
of esses they have helped to produce '
the fatal result.
Slerplewsness is almost always accom- ;
panied by indigestion in some one or :
other of its protean forms, and the two ;
conditions react upon and aggravate
each other.
If rest cannot bo obtained, and if the
vital machine cannot l(e supplied with
a due amonnt of fuel, and, moreover, !
fails to utilize that which is supplied, ;
mental and bodily collapse cannot bo
far distant. The details of the d own-
ward process vary, but the result is
much tho same in all cases.
Sleeplessness and loss of appetite i
are followed by loss of flesh and
strength, nervous irritability, alternat- '
ing with depression, palpitation, and ;
other derangements of the heart, es
pecially at night, and many ot those :
symptoms grouped together under the '
old term "hypochondriasis."
When this stage has been reached, ,
" the borderlands of insanity " are I
within Measurable distance, even if
they hav not already been reached.
IFortnightly Review.
OTJB WORLD A8 IT LOOKS IN SPACE. 1
a Oraphle rMrrlptln of the PI -net en
Which We I.lva, aa It Would Apprir
o a Observer Well dat ed for lxok
lng at It. j
If we Imagine an observor eontemplat-
Ing the earth from a convenient dis- i
tanee in spare, and scrutinizing its fea- ,
tures as it TeH before hlru. we may ;
suppose him to be struck with the fact
that ll-K,ths at Its surface are covered
with wafer, and that the land is so un- j
equally distributed that fr, ra one jtnlnt
ot view bo wou'd see a hemisphere I
almost exclusively oceanic, while nearly
the whole of the dry land Is gathered in
the opposite hemi here.
He ml;ht observe ihat. the great Ore- :
ante area of the Pacific and Antartic j
oceans Is dotted with Islands like a
shallow pool with stones rising above its
surface as tr Us general depth w re
small In comparison with It.s area.
He might tlno notice th.it a mass or
belt of land surround: ivu h xilri, and
that the northern ting sends off to th
southward three vast tongues of hind
end of mountain chains, terminating re- t
epectively iu South America. South ,
ai'ii -a and Australia, townrds which foo
bler and Insular processes are givea i
off by thv Antartic Continental ma-s.
This, aa somo geographers have oh- !
served, gives a rudely thr.'e-riMed ns- ;
pect to the earth, tnough two of the 1
thretj ribs are crowded together nnd form '
th Eurvp-Asian muss or double c.mtl
nont w hile the third Is tsolaied iu the :
ample continent of America, i
He might ai-i ob.-.cne t.iat the north-
era ginile is cut across, so that the ,
Atlantic opens by a w ..if !ce into the
Arctic sea, while ihc l'acihc id contract- '
ed towards th- north, i ..t confluent i
with the Anta: tic ocean. The Atlantic ;
Is also relatively deeper ami io.-s ciicum- j
be red with. lsl.,nls than tie l'acllic, j
which has th-s higher ri lgs near its :
shores, constituting what come is.t rs ;
to th I'aclflc eonbt of An et tea have not
Inaptly cnllod the "back I the werl ."
whllo the wider slopes faco ihc narrower
certii. i - to which, for tiii- reason, tho ;
grettor part of the drainage ot the laud
is pour- d. t
The Pacific and the Atlnntio, though i
both lr prvasitii.s cr fiattentugs ot the '
earth, aro d.fTei ont in age, character ani
conditions ; and the Atlantic, ti.ottgh the '
smaller, is the elder, at.d lrom the geo
logical point of vie, in some resj-ecta
the moro important of the two.
If our imaginary observer had the
means ot knowlag anything of the rock i
formations of the continents, he would
notice that those bounding the North
Atiantio are In ceneial of creat a;e.
tome belonging to the Laurentlan ays- i
tern. On the other band, he would j
see that many of the mountain ranges '
along the Pacific are comparatively new, !
and that modern igneous action occurs. I
In eonueotiuu with them. j
Thus he ruiuht be led to l-elieve that j
the Atiantio, though comparatively nar- j
row, is an ol :er feature ot the earth's
surface, while the Pacific belongs to
more motloui tim"s.
But he would note In connection with
this that the o'dest rocks ot the gceat
continental masses are mostly toward
their northern ends, and that the bor
ders of the northern ring of land and
certain tidgos extending southwards
from It constitute tho mo-t ancient and
permanent e evalious of li.o earth's crust
though now greatly surj sssed by moun
tains of n.ore recent ao nearer, the
Equator.
An observer looking at the earth from
withou. vtoi.li notice that tho ni.irins
of the Atiantio and the main lines of
direction of Its mountain chain- are
north-east and south-west, and north
west and south-east, as if some early
causea had determined the occurrence of
elevations along great circle; of the
earth'a surface tangent to the polar
circles. Sir W. Dawson.
"' Makes a Cood Point.
General Manager Callaway, cf the
Union Pacific, in conversation with a
reporter of the Omaha Republican, re
marked that there are two kinds of
railroad men and grievance committees.
" The one is represented by respect
ful argument, and is usually met
with respectful attention and con
sideration. " The other is represented by the
big headed fellow who comes swagger
ing into your office with his cigar at an
angle of forty-five degrees in front, and
hie tile at an angle of forty-five degrees
behind.
" Ue presents his ultimatums
with great vigor and lack of dignity,
demands an answer in twenty minutes,
and, when he gets it in a twentieth ot
the allotted time, walks off, remarking
aa he recedes. 'That settles it.
" The latter is the representative of
brute force, and require to be dealt
with on an entirely different basis from
the man who respectfully presents his
claims, be they reaeouabl or othei
wi." ..
Aclvortisingr Jint .
The lar an4 rrllaMe nfrenlatton m the ?.
Biua FaaaMAW commends It to tb. faro-ar.'. co
Idnratlnn f adrarttiiers. wboe Mvorl will b 1B
"d at tae following low ratal :
1 fnen. s tiraos 1 M
J " Tnfntb 1
1 t months &
4 year a aa
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1 montbt .. a
8 I year lion
col'n moDtba.... ten
H " ( mnntbi -m no
H 1 year HAry.
S tnoBthi....... mnn
1 year mxo
Bo1ne Item. Brt InserrinB 10 m,i i . reli
W '-Ticnt Insertion hr. tt Una.
AOm'TiFtrator and Exerator'a 5otlees t M
Andlln,', ntlM, m
Strar and rlmllar Notlcea l.aa
fcV krtoiutton or prtreif1n of e-nvee . ,.
or otSWy, anrf roawtinioiirmi Amgnrt In - " -"tn
lion f any wmttrr of hmitrd or mdirtdua' r
.ion s RiiTini oi an ainon near it inn elTV
oaily execnted at lowed i rlcea. lo"ii'tr- "-rat
it.
1 n 1 .
APPETIZERS.
A Wonderful Kwmtil.nea,
Guilollard t kes a promenade in fha
salon, in com puny with a young painter
who has a picture on exhibition, which
has lieen commended by the committee.
"Show me," said the former, "your
picture that Las secured honorubls
mention."
" There it is," said the artist "tor
trait of a women."
" Very, very fine as to execution,"
sid Guibollard. "but how the devd
did you come to choose such an ugly
model?"
" Indeed, sir, this is my mother," re
plied the artist, coloring, quickly.
" Your mother!" xclHiiiied Guibol
lard, with confusion. " Pardon, mon
sieur, I am stupid. I ought to ba
perceived it at a glance. You are aa
alike as two peas I" From the French.
The Paatnr'e Pap.
A chorister of a country church lately
made a sad mistake in the choice of
tune, there lciiig a long slur in it,
which came directly upon an unfortu
nate word, which produced a startlint
effect, namely:
"With reverence let the saints appear.
And liow-wow-wow lefoie tho 1-n.ril.""
The clergyman's little wisaet pup,
happening to catch the note, snng out
bis treble pipe, started the sqnire's old
Towser'a full bass, and in an instant
the w hole oso of dogs set up such a
chorus that Handel's hailstorm would
have dwindled into ninstard-sewd in
comparison. New York Journal.
I
fits nonhts IHape-lled.
There's a rathor corpulent druramat
whose route runs through Gardiner,
and one day a friend of out (who did
not then know bim)Kst In-side him at
the table of the Sidney House, at Cap
itol Island.
He mailed for a piece of lemon pie,
and when it was brought lo him said:
" la this lemon pie, Mrs. Sidney?"
" Yes," said she blandly, "it's lemon
pie just like the other throe piece
you've eaten."
He laughed, and so did onr friend,
but Lad no further doubts alwnt it
being lemon pie. Gardiner (Ma.)
Journal.
e
Dwdl.h H-niptnmi,
Yasser," said old farmer Slikena,
" thet loy Joshua Lcz bin to town two
days, an' Tin denied f be don't black
his 1mm its three times a w eek, stead o
grenriu' 'em, and he wants mi to moke
Lis shirU so they'll button Lind side
Li-fore.
"The other day I went into the born,
and blamed cf I didn't ketch bim
brushin' Lis tlothes with all the keel
possible.
" He's jist got to le an out an' oal
dood." Merchant Traveler.
Mill In Want.
D Papers: "It is remarkable how
tltrsc tailors do tako a man in."
Bagley: "That's their business, my
boy. lhey d it with their tape line."
" No, 1 "don't mean that. 1 saw a
sign the other day that n-ad: 'If von
want a good suit, come in here. 1
went in."
"Well?"
" I still want a pood suit-" Phila
delphia Call.
How He Made Hlnurlt at Home.
A Harvard professor and his wife
weri guests at a reception in Ijondon.
which had leen given in their honor.
A hundred men and women had been
invited by tho hostess to meet thm.
But there were no introductions, and
the Harvard professor amused Limself
inring the evening bv talking t Li
wife.: Harper's Weekly.
A V-ratUe (Renins.
Mand: "Mr. Allronnd is a sort ot
universal genius; isn't he?"
Malel: "Yes, Le is exceedingly
clever. "
Maud: " He is something of a lawyer
and aomethinc of a musician. What is
his profession ?"
Maliel: "Well, the lnwyers call Lira
a musician, nnd the musicians ctdl his.
a. lawyer." Rambler.
An Exact Calculation.
Mr. "Blodgett (carpenter) : "Me, me!
Mrs. Barton, what a big 'omen your lit
tle girl's going to make!"'
Mrs. B. : "No, Mr. Blodett. I be
lieve she'B goin' to lie slender like ni
ton remember I was jiortly when I waa
her age."
Mr. B. : " No no, Mrs. Barton;
never. That girl, as large around as
she is now, would have to prow tea
feet to be as blender as you. L.fe.
Why the l.ruirr Heated.
"Why are you lying there doing
nothing?" osked a in-tlestrian of a far
mer whom he snw stretched at full
length.
" Because my lny-rake is a little
out of sorts," was tin reply.
Your rake a little out of sorts?'
asked the other- " What ails it?"
"It's cuttii g its lsiom-t-th."
ruck.
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The Certain Winner.
Impudence m iv w in in a trial heat,
but when the Kna fide race is run
ability ia prettv certain to iocket th
gate money. Chicago LeJgc-r.
nrr Wedding Mrtld.
A pious old lady recently act as
wedding presents a pair of fiatirons, a
rolling pin, end a motto worked oa
car,Uoard reading:
" Fight On." Bangor (Me.) Coa
incrcial. .
v-
Hlnt to Marriageable Glrla.
He: "Mis Elaa, do you play on the
piano?"
She: " No, 6ir; I can't play a single
njte."
He: " Elsa. I love you."
The White Hobm Itaihw. ' ""
The ono baby that is said to have
been born in the White Hou was
christened "Henry Walker," i now 4-J
vears old, and lives in Montgomery
Ala.
His mother, a niece cf President Tolk.
waa visiting her uncle when Henry waa
born.
" " A Clav Explanation.
How did you come to fad down?"
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