On. in tor in Advei'tiKintf IlntoN. Tte Urr. and rel'ani. rirculatloB of the :w bbia commends It to tb. favorable eomideratluu of advertiser wnoae lavors "III l-e inserted at ta. following low rate : 1 Innb.SMmea .....I I.H linen, montb...... 2 o 1 Inch, a uootbs. ......... S.M I I neb i year a wi 1 Incbea niontbu......................... 6.00 Slnebes.t year............................. l().io I Inches. 6 niontbi .. Suu S Incbea. 1 year J uo i eolnmn, montbs.... lo.vt W eolnmn. 6 dobUii w oo W column I year...... Sft.ao . column, 6 mootbs.... .......... ......... eooa I column, I year... Ti.uo Business Items, first iDMrrtloa, Hie. per line amtteequent Insertions, ac. per line Administrator's and (Kxectitor't Notices..? M Auditor's Notice X.ftU J'tray and similar Notice X 00 sfHeaolution or proceedings ol any eorra tlon or society and communication deslarnad to call attention to any matter of limited or indl vidual Interest mast be paid for as adrertlsmenis. Hook ano Job Printing of ail kinds neatly and eseaioasiy executed at tbe lowest price. And doa'tyoa forget it. .la PBklialMHl.Wrfhljf at iBEUBBVRU, AJ1BBIA CO., PF.9IIIA., BY J A MLS tt.liA.SM, Guaranteed Circulation, - 1,200 Knbarrl flon Rale. fln,nii, 1 WMk IaaH IHflrfvRM do lo II not ll wumn uimiiii. ., do tlx II nut ll wuhin ti uiuntii. 2 uu ao do II m.t aiJ wlihin the yeur.. 3 25 arTo pnonj midiDK outside of the count cents additional per jrear will bo cnamad to paj pueuute. ar-in no event will tne ahove term he de i arvel troni. and those who don t oonsult tnelr own interest t'T payiuji In advance must not et Loot to be ulaeed tne (Mie loo tl nit .a those wbo JAS. C. HASSON, Editor and Proprietor. "HB IS A rRKEXAJT WHOM TBI TRUTH MAKES FRKK AUD A IX ABB SLAVES BEWDZ." 81. SO and postage per year In advance. ... IX! I UK " J ear-Pay or your itauer hetore too atop It. If stop I trgf rri V V TTTT livuuuiust Mooe but ncalHwaKi do otnerwloa. i VUlilJ M A A V I I H..n i oe a mnw-lite is too short. I " w T A A a tht time forward. EBENSBURG. PA., FRIDAY. FEHRUAKY 3. 1S93. NUMBER 5. don't !0 Men, Boys and Children OF CAMBRIA COUNTY ! Go to GANSMAN'S, ALTOONA, PA., for your Clothin- where you have the largest selec' ion ami best goods for the least money. MEN'S SCITS tt.'M ;.) $.s..M) to......l.Vii. ' 1(YS- si'ITS 2..n :$.7.- 5.1 ll I ti 8.U. ClllLDUKX'S si:iTS kh:. l.rai 2.511., n ft.ui. Men's, Boys' ami Children's OVERCOATS at equally low prices. Come at once ami get FIRST CHOICE of these Greatest Bargains, a- .a. ist s nuc .A. iisr , lariat n-.tliier. Hatter aril Furnislicr, IMS Eleventh Ave.. .UTilMA PA- M .R. DEW , NslfMHSB. WANT i 1 Inve wagons, nii'-rt-'it', sunvvs. Hii;h praiK1: as li.lit, stro.iv. sttlisli. l? IvJiitifiiliy llni'.iicJ as innJi-niitvl manui'.ii !i;iv can priiJiue. Built on h. .n -r by uit-r. f' lii'j exporit'iite. Ii-Miosty is our policy; prompt siiipnu'.-.t ur specially. We want to know you. Write us. Costs y. u not!iim;. May Ieat1 to business by and by. SenJ fi r our catalovue. It is free to every r-.-aJer of fiis paper. Einn- hamtoii Wav;'on O Bintrhamton, "BUILT FOR Seeing is Believirlg.,, And a good lamp must be simple; when it is not simple it 13 not good. Simfr. Jieautiful. Good these w words mean much, but to see " The Rochester " will impress the truth more forcibly. All metal. tough and seamless, and made in three pieces only, it is absolutely wrand unbreakable. Like Aladdin's of old, it is indeed a "wonderful lamp," for its mar velous light is purer and brighter than cas lisht. I sotte r than electric light and I-nnk ft.r this stamp Trnt Rochester. U the l.impdealer hasn't the ernni n Rocbt-stcr. nod the style you waut. send to us tor our pcr illustrated catalogue, aoi we will send you a l.imo safely bv express your choice ot over 2.000 ancties from the Largat Lam Stare to the World. ' JtOCIIUSTiat LA JfU CO., 42 1'urlt.Plae, New York. City. "The rXe " I HAY-FEVER OLD HEAD KM Vreiwn. TtnlmU not a liiniii, mvff 50c trill r klu atmurottl. Jiehitnst me the rre. i rv firtirjfiixi or f'tl iy vhhi au rtci)i vj prim. ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warren Street NEW YORK. v. . BITTERS rinnblalac IttOj with riBK TEfirrTABI-R TllKS. qalralr aaa roBplrtelr I'LEASSM aa4 llMKU'HtS TUB BUWB, (julrkras thsartloa of the LJrrr aa lilUorj. (Iran th niBiplr x laa, atakra tax sk la aaaoot h. 1 1 dMM aot lojars the trth, raaH heada-h. or proJurrcnn-stlpatloa-ALLOTUUt I BOS MKIUISES IC PhyKctana and Dnvcfints onrjmbKn ncianend it IB n 8 Rrnom. c M.Hoo. Mix.. "y"" " I r .nm-n. Hnmn'n Irtm IIiIt m a lnal.lw umto !. . nrirliuur Urn l.loal. and n-m.Tin U Uiiua ainpcnarit dM ix burl tlaa Imlli." Ha. R. M Iirirn.t, Rrnll, InJ.. sars: "I h imrnM Br.i.'l Iron liitbrM iu ol of tiinua aa1 l.kmd duw. al lwn a and , baa pnTrJ thnuirllT tita-'tn'. Mu W v Braa.S. MrKt..N-wrIn.l . - Hni.o'1 Iron Uillo rli- 1 iwi in ol i.lnnd rxHmimf. anl I bxartlly coniuK-nd it In tli'm Rmlini a ttl.rfl iurilir. , . . JIm. W. W. Monahak. Tuannnl.ia. Ala . nn- I hi. boo troutUl from rbilillioud oitb Iioourr J.i.d and wninrwm on my liuxtwn ImKiIw of Kroan' Iron liittnra alfttHl a rt-l cum. I -AD not .waa too Oia-bly of Uua valuauW UJOi:iIM. " Grautn haa abrTTrado Mar and tnwil tl tfn on oravptw. Take aitSM-r. "l by BUOM ttttl;AL lO, BALTIMOKt. MS. I HE NEW WEBSTER Successor of tho L'nabf Wjfed. A GRAND INVESTMENT fnr tl.e rni'y, t li N-tiI or tlte 1 Jbrmrr. Tho workZJf rntUinn r'Uief aver ten )'ur, aiioi tliun ia iMintlrexi ellUrlai ) !rra hiA.inir lACftt mploCMt. anl over HMi.iMrt) np, nll brfor tho tlra copj was pi lntel. 60L0 EV AtL BOOKSCL1ER3. . A Parni Met f rritui n iiltl.tratlrma, l'-!'Cttii'niulrttf-tc.. ai-tit fi. Iiy til pun4ij-lknt. l'Hutln U n.-.-.l.-.l in nn ha.-ini; a ili. lionf fy. l-bot'Kiili'! r.-i i i i, n t,f a foinnitiyev .1 ll. I. .iiuiti of WcW. r are V.-init iiiHrkrtrd mhIc .i iiuMiiiiuffl. ftu I v miftreprtMuutallon. GCT TH Z BEST, liiteriaiioii.il, wlm h l-ari tho Imprint of C i C. MERRIAM . CO.. PJBLISHKRS. pplhr'll r.. fcr a.. ij. j. x DONALD k. IHJFTON, Al niHMKY AT LAW, Kstmisi sa, Pika I" lK)c lUipeia HuaM,lcoUr street. I WEBSTER'S - j INTERInATIONAL J V DICT10wARVy A Af .f 1W J A3h N. Y. BUSINESS." mW (mXW cgx more cheerful than either. Rochester." or jnrtU r. Applied into the mUril it i tuna, aiuiv inntmntarvn. neu 50c 130U BUSHELS OF POTATOES o. V. Rramiii.k. Fair Io, Kat Pi, With ! joiiPl rirPowrll't arrfs tAj Krrtlllxrr sot" Potatoes, ou lJ ru-ruH of ian.l, lie ,iii i ,:S(i0 bUMliela SlllOOtll, BIHMi KiZfll )IUtH!M. Wliur quantity o' rcrtlliy.fr anil finality ol lanil U coiisidi-ri'il, thlM is liirccst rrip of MtalM-i ever mined In the wrll. Why not ra.sa 11 -ro.i of potato? We fan U-ll yiir ow to ilo IU and how to prvoiit Irtv Kot Bud tiilKtit. htiui4 i two-Mni t la in pa for Uook of 1 pulses. W. 5. Powell & Co., Chemitrt! Pertilizer Manufacturers, Baltimore. Aid. Policies written at snort DOMea to th OLD RELIABLE ' ETNA" ssa otajrr t'trat Clauta CoissptssssMu T. W. DICK; ; ? tlf.ST fOK THE OIaID HARTFORD' VI T. 1794. Eneniinonr..faiy l. 188i. Mountain Ifoiise SUP, SHAVIHG PARLORI CENTBE STREET, EBENSBUEG. 'I'HIS well known and Ionic established Sharma; 1. I'arlor now Ineated -n tleotre street. i paiia the livery Miil.la ul O'llara, liayls av Luth er. here the hnstneps will leearrle.1 on In lh luture. SHAVIM:. IIAI K tlTI 1Ni , AMI IIAMI'liiMI dune In the t,eatext anil must nrllplH- miiiir. t'lrau Towel a .eclally. ta.lioie waited on at tbelr residence. JA.MKS 11. M ANT. iTopnetx T. W. DICK. ATTOKNKY-AT-I.AW . ,.. .i Kf.at'tt, l'V av-Sieehtl attention to n-ren claims fnr I'l B- slum ItowBty. ele. ebl- awu 'rtEHF0v S&LDinHE SCKATCIIIXG A 8IIAKK. A Submarine Diver Has Some Re markable Experiences. The Sing-alar t'ondnrt ol One of the Ter rora of the lee A Queer Method of OeAtroylii; sea Lawjen." I rocollect a shar that pave me a consiuVrable shut-k, Ra3's a wriUr for CliaiuWrs Journal. I hal ln-en en irafrcil in blowing: up a reef of rot-Ui so as to enlarge a little harbor nn the eoast. 1 1 was my tlnty to make the hole-uiul put in the charge of tlynr.tnite. 1 lie eharpe was espliHled in the eveninjr after we left tff work. On poinjf down every morninfr I was aecustometl to fv over to a eertain letljre which was al ways a fool rettinp place for lobsters. Morning after morninif I had invariably found a pair or more of thest ' erusta eeans, whieh I sent to the surface in a basket. n the morning to whieh I now refer I walked straight to the ledre and ran my hand carefully along- its lower side. I. was surprised to find my hand scrap iiir w hat I took to lie the rock; but I was surprised still more when. I ob served niy hand gTopirjjr within a fwt of the mouth of a frrcat shark which had retired to rest In this cave. The shark must have been as much alarmed as I was, for it made one spring from its resting place and disappeared in the dark wall of ocean. The shock to me was jrreater than 1 could have lx'lieved, and even yet I do not care to think alMiut it much. It is hardly necessary to say that I did not return to that lede for lobsters for some time. On another occasion a birr fellow came alonjrside me where I was workinjf. I stopped, of course, and stepped back quietly to let him pass. Hut hedid r.ot. lie came nearer. I then thoutrlit he was curious, but soon found that another fcclinjr than curiosity was moving him. As I retreated he still advanced, until I found myself jammed up ayainst the rock. I could retreat no further, and yet the brute came tin determinedly. Hut instead of approaching' me with his lonr nose for you don't see his jaws he turned his side and leran to rub up against me. I had a small "jumper" in my hand, which I held with the p. tint outwards against his skin, as I did not wish to have his rotisrh skin scoring against my dress. It was something' like what a cow would be rubbing against you. The iron on his skin was, however, the very thing he wanted, as he fywiii pave me to understand. I was kept there at least half an hour STnti-hhiir that monster w ith the sharp irm. lie took it like a pig. bending' his 1 xly ami turning over on his side so as to present, a fresh surface to the juniper. I sup pose h- must have felt easier for the operation, for jtftcr some time ho moved away. I h:id one or two further visits from him on following day:;, on ea.-h of whieh I was obliged to s:-i-at -1; him for a time. 1 think he ni"st have recognized me as a kindly and effectual S'.-ratcher. I imagine he was suffering from some paruMt ical or skin disease, to which he may have fallen a victim. Otherwise I might Ik in that scratching liillet still. One of tho boys who worked in the Ixiat once inserted a charge of dynamite in a sheep's head: the charge was of course attached to the battery by wire. After we had "knocked off"' he threw in the shit-p's head. In alut ten seconds the head was "taken in" by a small shark. In ten seconds more there was an explosion and fragments of shark were ubundant. In certainly less than a minute afterwards the sea was almost alive with sharks contending for a relic of their deceased kins-shark. This ejerienoe was. however, obtained from the surfaeo. anil what I pride my self most on is tffat see these creatures from ttfluw. ECHOES OF VANISHED DAYS. Kenan In Ilia Old A-e ( lira pared Youth to the Vanished AUsa tls. The lcautifu allegory, of which so pathetic a use wan made by M. Kenan in his "Ueeollcctloim of My Youth." says the Cincinnati Commercial Oazcltc. is thus translated, the translation Wing written by C II. lMtman, and revised by Mine. Kenan: "One of the most popular legends in Brittany is that relating to an imag inary town called Is, which is supposed tihave liccn swallowed up by the sea at some unknown time. There are sev eral places along the coast whi -h are p tinted out as the site of this imaginary city, and the fishermen have many strange tales to tell of ,it. According to them, the tips of the spires of the churches may Ik seen in the hollow of the naves when the sea is rough, while during a calm the music" of their Im-IIs ringing ont the hymn appropriate to the day rises above the waters.' I often fancy that I have at the Ito'ttoni of m heart the city of Is; with its bells call ing to prayer a recalcitrant congrega tion. At times I halt to listen to these gentle vibrations, which seem as if they came from immeasurable depths, like voices from another world. Since old age began to steal over me, I have loved, more especially duriiijf the re pose whieh summer brings with it, to gather up those distant echoesof a van ished Atlantis." Condemned to Heath Thrloe. Hans Nielsen, of CVipenhagen, has hal "lhe probably uniuue. experience of lu'ing sentenced to death three times, according to the London News. Such is the lenity of Danish law, or rather the indisposition of the authorities to proceed to extreme measures, that this notorious criminal has already been re prieved twice and relegated to prison for a long term. It was in prison that he committed hi last offence, for he murdered one of his jailers. Nielsen bepan his career at the age of eightr.by setting fire to a farmhouse, and it is doubtful whether he haa ever earned" an honest penny in the whole course of hia existence. He was formerly a resident of Ltondon. Million for IVefenae. Since the' war of 1ST0-71, twenty-two years, military expenditures of France have lieen lifteen milliaids three hun dred and sixty-eight mill ions of francs, or altout :i.soi.(HK),tKK. This sum is ex clusive of the five milliards paid to t;er niany as an indemnity, of the sum ex pended on the nary, ami of the amotsnt used iu building" tratejrie railroads and the payment of military peiikioasi. DON'T BE TOO POSITIVE. The I tank Depmlt at Hnalneaa Man Thought lie Had Made. "Don't be too positive," said a busi ness man to a Boston Herald writer. "1 used to be. I am not now quite so sure about thintrs. You would natural ly think thaf one's life in business and other avenues of its devious course tends to make a man careful, not to say conservative; but it does not as a rule. To most men experience serves as a stern light rather than a head light. "Take a case of recent tjeeurrenee. A friend of mine who is in business on North Market street recently thought he had made a deposit of one hundred and fifteen dollars in his bank. I say 'thought;' he himself was cock sure he had made it. "His bank book had been left with the bank for settlement, and my friend merely made out a slip and handed it in to the teller. - A few days later when he received his bank book 'settled up,' iM-hold you, that deposit was not en tered. He at once took the book to the young man who was teller on that day and said: " 'You have not credited me with one hundred and lifteen dollars, my de posit of such a day.' "The teller obligingly looked over his slips and book, and said he: 'I have no entry of it, neither do I remember a deposit of such an amount.' "Then arose a dispute. My friend was positive he had made that deposit He was going to have it credited or he would know the reason why. He felt aggrieved; in fact his feelings were venomous. "The bank held a special board meet ing to consider the matter. They de cided they could tlo nothing. The tel ler had always borne a good reputation. Could my friend remember whom he saw in the bank the day he uiade his deposit? "'Oh, yes,' he said; I will swear I saw So-and-so as I entered the door. '"Hunt him up, then,' said the bank people; 'see if he remembers seeing you.' "The person could not recollect such an event. "Said the bank people: 'Can you rec ollect who else was near the teller?' " 'Oh, yes' said my friend; 'that young man, pointing there, "But that young man merely smiled, and suavely said that he had no remem brance of the occurrence. "My friend was angry; he grew war like. He consulted a prominent lawyer in Boston. The man of law said, lacon ically: " "You have no redress. The bank's word is as good as yours (5o slow. Are you sure yon made the depsit? We men do queer things at times. Look altout your desk and olliee.' "Suffice it to say that the hundred and fifteen dollars did not turn up. My friend in the interim grew still more positive, '(tome two weeks elapsed. One day. going through an old overcoat hanging in his olliee. he found the deposit slip, money and all. Tableau! Imagine his feelings. Ketractions were in order, lie went to the bank and explained all in a very crestfallen manner and vowed contrition to the teller. "Now he ltcmouns the sad fate that should have caused him. a shrewd busi ness inan, at his time of life to lose eon tldcnco In himself and his actions. Hit favorite aphorism to-day is: 'Don't be too putative." WHAT THE VOICE SHOWS. I pper Note of the lier;lter haraeter. latle of Savage Trlbea. Man inherited from his immediate an Cestors, the apes and monkeys, a voice or eonsiderablu altitude, In which thf lower tones were almost unknown, says Nast's Weekly. The monkeys chattereo. b their fellows from tree to tree in i.iirill head tones, the natural vocal ex pression of a weak and timid race, in whose physical formation the luad had Wgun to hold an iir)xtrtant place. The upper notes of the register were char acteristic of the first men, as they still are of savage trilies and peoples and of the half civili.w 1 in "tnbers of m odern ubiety, whose voices have never been subjected to discipline. The voices of country people accus tomed to ma-'nifiVent distances and con versation at long range are, if not keyed higher, ofteuer used in the upper ranges than thise of the city people, who feel obliged by the necessities of good breeding to moderate their tones. When a man is self-contained he uses the middle ami lower tones of his voh-e; when angry the voice mounts gradually to the head. If the gentler sex would oftener licar in mind the eulogies of Shakespeaiie and Sott of that voice gentle and low which is an excellent thing in women, th.-y would inore rarely have occasion ti wonder why they have ceased t3 lie nttra -tive. The music of the Chinese, Japanese, and of all wild triltes is keyed high and sung usually . in falsetto, the lower notes being obtained by drums, tom toms, or some other instruments of the kind. Although their songs are far from agreeable to the ear, they still think they sing, an illusion shared, it must Ik confessed, by a considerable numltcr of persons in the most refined modern society. . Queer Old Virginia. NtaM. Virginia laments that the unsenti mental authorities at Washington have interfered with the old-time spelling of the historic names of her counties and towns, and changed Burnt Ordinary to 'i'nauo, l'owhatan to I'owattan, New port's News to Newport News, Char lottesville to Charlotteville, and com inittctl other outrages on the estab lished orthography. Uut the "Mother of President." may find consolation in the fact that she still has Culpepper, which no northern writer attempts to spell without consulting a gazetteer, w hile OceMuan, Dinwid.lic, 1-Muvanua, Fauquier and Appomattox remain un ntcrfcred wi tlx. t'nloa Hatter. . "Thanks," remarked the star boarder to the landlady at the table, "but I don't care for union butter." "I don't understand you, said the landlady, with an unctuous smile of doubt. "No?" responded the loarder, pleas antly. "'In nnion there Is strength,' you know." Detroit Free Press. "Mamma, I wonder why George Washington never liked to go swim ming'." Mamma "I guess he did when ' lui was a little boy." Ralph "No, tie didu't, or he'il had to told a lie. BUILT A RAILROAD ON FAITH. The Plueky Ternaa Who Hnllt the Arkansas fmu Koad IMd Oood laaarter In;. From South Texas came a man who built six hundred miles of railroad with a five-dollar bill and faith, and the bill was a borrowed one. He moved up from Corpus Christi to San Antonio with all of his potMessona heaped on a two wheeled cart, according to the St- Louis Olobe-Deinocrat. He got a charter to build a railroad from San Antonio to Arkansas Pass, lie graded a mile of it, throwing a great deal more than one shovel of dirt with his own hands. The receiver of another road loaned this in defatigable builder enough old rails for a mile of track. In a distant part of the state was purchased an old engine which had been condemned six years before and sent to the shops to be wrecked for scrap iron. Two old cars were picked up somewhere else at a bargain. And that old engine, drawing those old cars, steamed into San An tonio. On engine and cars in bold let ters were painted in lamp-black: 'S. A. and A. P." With one mile of old rail track and with the equipment of the old engine and two old cars Uriah Lott started the Arkansas Pass system. There haa been some tall financiering in the history of railroad building in this coun try, but there Isn't anything which for dazzling pluck quite approaches tbe story of the building of this six hun dred miles of road in South Texas. To the one mile of track three were added three miles by a dicker for some second-hand rails which a street car com pany had bought from a narrow guage company. On this basis a credit was made with a Pennsylvania rolling mill for ten miles of rails. When they ar rived there wasn't money enough in the treasury to pay the freight. But it was got somehow. Ten miles of track gave foundation for bonds which built forty miles more, and so the system grew into Its present proportions. This man who built the Arkansas Pass system rode from San Antonio to Chicago at one critical period in his enterprise without a cent in his pocket. He had transportation, but he hadn't anything to buy food, and he went through hungry. A TROUBLESOME RIVER. Destruction, Caused by the Yellow River of China. The St. Petersburg Gazette referring to the latest inundation of the Yel low river in northern China, which will again bring a population of more than a million upon the point of starvation, points out that these frequent ox peri odical calamities are the work of man rather than of nature. Many centuries ago the Chinese interfered so much with the stream as to compel it to change its course and dig a new bed for itself. But this bed tho current has never grown truly accustomed to. It will de posit its immense quantities of sediment carried down from the mountains in the most unsuitable localities, forming shallows and barriers which, when an unusually large mass of water rolls down, will overllow and break through Its dykes and inundate the - fertile grounds along the river bod. So it haa been for centuries past, and the living generations are experiencing again and again that the sins of the fathers are being visited with most terrible cruelty upon remote descendants. It is doubt f U.1 whether the river could lie turned back into its old bed, lying dry at pres ent. But, if it could, the old bed has been changed so much in the course of centuries that even there, in its old, natural and wonted haunts, the cur rent of the river might not become tran quil, but be forced to produce periodical inundations as it does in its present course. GRANITE COLUMNS, . flow the Hard Stone la Turned Into hhape. Granite for columns, balusters, round posts and urns is now worked chiefly in. lathes, which, for the-heaviest work, are made large enrrugh to handle blocks, twenty-five feet long and five feet in di ameter. Instead of being turned to the desired-size by' sharp cutting instru ments, as in ordinary machines for turning wood and metal, granite is ground away by the wedge-like action of rather thick steel disks, rotated by the pressure of the stone as it slowly turns in the lathe. The disks, which are six or eight inches in diameter, are set at quite an angle to the stone and move with an automatic carriage along the lathe bed. Large lathes have four disks, two on each side, and a column may be reduced some two inches in di ameter the whole length of the stone by one lateral movement of the carriages along the bed. The first lathe for turning granite cuts only cylindrical or conical columns, but an improved form is so made that templets or patterns, may be inserted to guide the carriages, and columns having any desired swell may be as readily turned. For fine grinding and polishing the granite is transferred to another lathe where the only machinery used is to produce a simple turning or revolution of the stone against iron blocks carrying the necessary grinding or polishing materi als. A Bird or Krll Omen. The pigeon is considered to be essen tially a bird of death, says the Fancier's Journal. Thus if a white pigeon set tles on a chimney some one of the occu pants of the house will pass away ere long, but should the bird enter and perch upon the table it is considered a less portentous omen and to testify sick ness. There is a widespread belief through England that no one can die happily on a bed in which there is even a single pigeon's feather. There is a similar superstition about par tridge feathers and there is an old say ing that he who is sprinkled with pigeon's blood will never die a natural death. Ilnanaslnc Itlrd Small But IMacky. Notwithstanding their diminutive size, pugnacity is one of the most con spicuous traits of humming birds. Even kingbirds and the boldest hawks are afraid of them, being compelled to re treat befttre the impetuous assaults of the tiny warrior, whose boldness is only equaled by the lightning-like rapidity of his movements, thus baffling any at tempt at resistance on the part of the more powerful adversary. The lance like thrust of the needle-like beak is usually directed at the eyes of the ene my. When two or more individuals of either sex happen near the same spot, spirited and often violent conflicts are ainMat certain to ensue. I-LAHGEST IX THE WORLD. A Mammoth Search Light at the Columbian Exposition. It Haa a Power of 160,000,000 Candle and It Ulara Caa He Sue at a Ulataaee of Slaty Mile oa a Clear Nlcht. At the world's fair ground the other night the scientists in charge made a test of the search light, which is to il luminate Jackson park and large parts of the earth adjoining. The vast elec tric light is perched on the high tower of the transportation building. It is a wonderful thing, this great light whose rays can be seen sixty miles away and which can locate a man from ten to twenty miles distant, according to the power of electricity that is on. The light is the largest and strongest one in the world. It was made by Schuckert fc Co., of Nuremlterg, Ger many, and it has leen brought to this country by lYof. Fred XV. Tischendoer fer, a mechanical and electrical expert. He brought the immense light to this country expressly for the world's fair, and it will lte on exhibition until after October 21, when it will be taken down until the opening of the fair next year. The light is what is known as a four foot reflector that is, the great masrni fying glass, through which the rays are thrown to such a distance, is four feet in diameter. The direct power of the light is 150, 000 candles, without any glass whatever. With the big glass, however, the power is magnified to 100,000,000 candle power. The carltons used in the radiator are twelve inches long and one and a quarter inches' in diameter. They are fastened inside the lamp merely with two up right pieces of steeL The lamp itself is operated on a sort of carriage something after the manner of a Maxim gun. It can lie turned in any direction and can be tilted so that the rays will ascend straight up. This big search light has only been in Chicago a few days. It was made expressly for exhibition at the fair by the German firm. The test was a grand success. Under the searching rays every portion of the fair grounds could be as distinctly seen as in the broad rays of the sun. The Columbian guards en circling the grounds could easily be dis rned as they paced their beats. When the full power of the light was turned on the city of Chicago could lie viewed distinctly, though the nip-ht was anything but clear. Prof. Tischen doerfer claims that on a perfectly clear night Michigan City, across the lake, would lie perfectly visible. He also claims that, on such a night the rays from the lamp could be seen by persons sixty miles away. NEWSPAPER EXHIBIT. Mornlnjr and KrenlriR Journal Will Ite Printed In Maehlnerr Hall. Publishers of the big newspapers in Chicago have been discussing for some time plans of an exhibit they will make at the fair. It is as good as settle.' now that lioth a morning and an evening paper will be issued in machinery hall every day. The papers will Ik printed on presses sent to the fair as exhibits, and it is possible that they will be printed on paper made on the exposition grounds. This exhibit would enable persons who have not witnessed the in teresting process of producing a great daily newspaper tosen;T4?ry feature of the work, from the - manufacture of paper to the delivery of the story of the events of a day to sulscrilers. The morning paper a.t the exposition will be an intepesting Journal in many respects. It is probable that each of the big morning dailies will contribute one page to it. This page will tie an exact duplicate of the corresponding page of the paper that contributes It Each paper will send to Jackson park one of those pulp molds known as a matrix, and from this the metal plates will be cast and tho papers run tiff in full view of spectators. On other pages of the paper ofUcial announcements will be made. JAPANESE ART WORKS. Chief lve Aaanred That Japan'a Beat Painting Will Be Here. Tegima and his tall secretary, Yamlte, who represent the Japanese commission in Chicago, attended a meeting of the fine arts committee T?entiy. Tegima never comes around unless he hits an announcement to make from the mikado of Japan. .Tegima told Chief Ives and the art committee that the artists of Japan would make a fine display of paintings and sculpture work at the fair. This announcement caused Chief Ives to look at the litvif fellow sternly. The Jap never winced, but repeated the statement. It surprised Chief Ives, for Japanese artists have never shown any of their paintings at great expositions. Their displays in this line have always ltecn in the form of fantastic decora tions. Tegima speaks English welL "We are going to show our best paint ings," he said, "and want all the space we can get. And statuary, also, and many fine carvings, all very Iteautiful, will Ite brought over. Americans jll be the first to see them." Tegima then told the committee that Japanese artists were now ready to be gin decorating their Bwction of the' art building. He said the royal artists had made their designs and were now pre pared to transfer them to the building. Colombo Defendant. The duke of Veragua, the descendant of Columbus, who has promised to visit America as the guest of the nation next year, has received the famous order of the Golden Fleece from the queen re gent of Spain. The decoration was given to him, Spanish papers say, as a recompense for the little attention paid to him during the Columbus celebra tion in Spain. The (.olden Fleece is one of the most famous orders in Eu rope, and is worn, as a rule, by members of ruling families. They Want Kxettement. The emigration of the English agri cultural population into the towns is attributed by T. E. Kebbel, among1 other causes, to the dullness of village life. The old feasts, the fairs and the games have for the most part disap peared. Thus, while there is vastly more cricket played in England than fifty years ago, it is not played by the same class. I n the old day-long match es on the village greens the elevens w ere mostly made up of laborers. They Art) cm) Jit) longer. A FIERCE BATTLE WITH GEESE. Peculiar Kxperlenre ol a Tioga Muah roona Hunter. An interesting and rather peculiar battle, says the Philadelphia Times, was witnessed the other morning by a numU-r of jiersons who were driving along the old summer road, in the Twenty-eighth want. In a field lying on the north side of the old thorough fare and east of Harris' Bellevue truck farm an aged German was gathering . mushrooms, and while peering altout the pasture for the toothsome fungi, in a stooping attitude, a flock of "Gander bill" geese strutted under a post and rail fence from a neighboring pond and marched with their necks extended at full length toward the stranger, who at first paid no attention to their hissing, but continued- every now and again to reach down and pick a mushroom. He soon learned to his sorrow that the geese were considerably alove the average flock for l mid persistency and determined fight One old gander acted as leader, and, after .marshaling his forces into position, led on to the fight by lxtldly attacking the intruder and striking hira a stunning blow on the nose, lief ore he could recover from the effect two of the geese, one from each side, flew at his face, each taking hold of an ear anil holding on with hull-dog tenacity, while they battered his head and face with their clipped wings. The sharp points of the cut feather stems brought the blood from his cheeks and forehead at every flap. He jumped and pranced around like mad, wildly gesticulating and muttering cries and curses in German. Two others of his feathery assailants flew upon his back and began pecking him on the head and neck, while the others took hold upon the legs of his trousers anil his coat tails and tugged till they fairly di-aptf-ed him to a swampy part of the field, where one of poor fellow's feet sank in the slipjH-ry mud and he fell backward in the slime. A man in one of the passing wagons hurried to his assistance, armed with a bean pole snatched from the truck gar dens. Be arrived just in time to pre vent the enraged geese from killing their victim. Even the blows from the tough cedar bean pole for a time had no effect on the geese, and it was not until five of them, with their necks broken, lay quiver ing on the grass that the poor old Ger man, his face covered with blood and his clothing with mud, could be deliv ered. He was led out to the old Summer road, placed in the wagon, and kindly driven to his home in Tioga. The only reason that can lie given for the unu sual liehavior of the geese is that a rag picker who resembled the German in appearance altout a week ago carried away several goslings that belonged to one ot the geese. PROGRESS IN RAILWAY BUILDING Advanee Made In the t'nlted State and ireat Britain. Great Britain and Ireland have now altout 20,000 miles of railways, of whieh a little over one-half are double tracked. Their capital stock and debt amount to the enormous sum of 5;oo, 000,000. The net earnings were last year a little over 4 per cent- of tho capi tal invested and the gross earnings were for last year almost $410,000,000. , The railway system of the United Kingdom is practically finished, says the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telejrraph. Nothing in the way of new railroad" construction la going on worth mentioning. A little over KH1 miles of new road were added, and a part of this was an exceptional matter. The picture presented in these few figures is that of a finished coun try, fully developed in all parts and re sources. Now turn to the United States. Our mileage now amounts to 171,000 miles, more than eight times as large as that of Great Britain. The gross earnings last year amounted to over a thousand millions of dollars. Ihiring this time there were railroads of a total length of nearly 4,000 miles constructed. In other words, every three or four years we build as many miles of railroad as the total numlicr that suffices the E.ngs lish, Scotch and Irish people. And the American task is not done by any means. The growth along exist ing lines can well Ik? imagined when It Ls considered that the English railways serve a population of ss,00,000, or one mile for every l.HH) inhabitants, while our 170,000 miles serve for 00,000,000 of people, or one mile for .'500 inlmbitarUs, THE WORLD'S. OPQ COUNTRIES. The Egyptian is taxed fifty cents oa the palm tree that grows in hi garden. Thk average depth ot bund in the African desert is thought to be thirty to forty feet Thk natives in Vera Cruz do a large trade in fi reflies, which they catch by waving a b'aziug coal at the end of a stick. The insects fly toward the light and are captured in nets. A XriiHER of remarkable figures of hammered silver, representing men. women and animals, have been exhumed from a peat bog in J utland, Denmark, and placed in the National museum at ; Copenhagen. ' The highest place in the world regu larly inhabited Is the Buddhist town of II aine, in Thibet, which, is 16,000 feet above sea leveL The highest inhabited place in the Americas isatGalera, Peru, 15,635 feet above sea level. A DOXKEV named Miratnbo was Henry M. Stanley's chief reliance when pass ing through one of the most savage dis tricts of Africa. At the explorer's word of command, he would bray in the most stentorian manner, to the great alarm of the natives. Decree of Cold In Montana. "Everything goes by comparison out in Montana," said the president of one of St Louis big silver mines. "Once a well-known character named Mack ay was asked by a lady visUing the west if the weather did not occasionally be come intensely cold. Hi. yes, he replied, 'it gets right sharp here sometimes.' 'Well,' persisted the lady, 'how cold does it getv " 'That depends, he answered, evas ively. 'Now, to-day is what we miners call a one-shirt day. When the weather gets colder it's a two-shirt day, and when the blizzards come there are three-shirt days. The lady was much mystified until I explained to her the habit of the miners of put ting on one or two shirts above an other, according to the temperature." WIDOWS OF INDIA. After Their Ilaabaoda' IX-ath Thee Are Subjected U Mmb Worrlanent. Among the many sad things connect ed with the lives of worueu in India, nothing is more pitiable than the state of the poor little widows, says the Youth's Companion. A child-wife, only six or seven years old, is regarded by Iter husband's family as the cause, more or less direct, of his death. She is treated at liest with dislike,, and often with great harshness and severity. Therefore the death of a young wife liefore her husband is the cause of great rejoicing among her friends that she has thus escaped widowhood. They are convinced that the gods have favored her, and that she has lieen advanced a degree in the great series of births and deaths through which every Hindu passes on his way to final tterfco tion. The prayer of every little girl before marriage and of every little girl and woman after marriage is that she may never liecome a widow. ine preservation of a husband's health is a matter of the greatest im portance, and on a certain day of tin year a special religious ceremony is ol served with this end in view. It is em phatically the "Women's Day,"' and oc curs altout the middleof January, when the sun is believed to turn northward. Offerings are made at the temples, money is given to the priests, pilgrim ages are undertaken, fastings under gone, and vows performed for the pres ervation of a husband's health and life. When he is ill the wife removes her jewels, puts on coarse clothing, and de votes herself to prayer and austerities. If he dies her woe begins. TRAGEDY IN REAL LIFE. Sad Mistake of lloraethlef Hunter oa the Klo (,rande. "The most pathetic scene I ever wit nessed," says J udge K. L. Cawthorn, of Texas, in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, "was a third of a century ago, but it is as plain to my eyes to-day as it was then. We had been bothered by horse thieves down on the frontier, and you know what that means in a w ild coun try. A crowd of us started out after the scoundrels, and just before we reached the Kio Grande we saw two horsemen off to the left who acted sus- piciously. After them we went, and it was a pretty race for awhile till they disappeared In-hind a clump of trees. We had shot to stop them, and when we got in sight of them again we found that one horse had l-en shot and they had deserted him, while ltoth were rid ing the other. They were evident! V Mexicans a man and a loy and the man showed fight, turning and firing at us, finally hitting our deputy sheriff. Wc gained on them rapidlv. and pres ently a well-directed fire sent them all in a heap. "When we reached them the Mtoy' was kneeling in front of the dying Mexican, sobbing and moaning as if her heart would break, while her hair, which had fallen from her cap, fell ,be low her waist. It was a case of clojte ment and they had taken us for her fa ther's servants, while we had ltecn equally stupid and had taken them for horsethieves. When he began to gasp she drew a little pearl-handled revolver, and liefore anyone could think of stop ping her placed the muzzle under her ear and fell into his arms a corpse. No, we never heard who they were. We buried them and went after the horse thieves." Vigilant Chemist. Adulteration is bad and sanitation is good, but some of the results shown by vigilant inspectors and clever chemists in their efforts to show the frightful dangers that surround us and rundown offenders against sanitary laws are very funny. A wholesale and highly respect able grocer was tried in a London court a few days ago for selling tartaric acid adulterated with lead. The acid was used in making lemonade, and the lead in it got there from the vessels in which it was manufactured. The prosecution showed that the tartaric acid contained .(HK120 per cent, of lead. The defense showed that In order to get a twentieth part of a grain of the poison into one's system it would be necessary to drink lemonade every day for six months at the rate of 2jo bottles a day. The ex perts added gravely that before the twentieth part of a grain could be taken in that manner the experimenter would die of dyspepsia. The charge was dis missed, but to satisfy the sanitary offi cials the judge agreed to "state a case," presumably as a warning to other evil doers. Klepluuit aa Financiers. The penny-in-the-slot machine has been adapted to the use of the elephants at the Manchester zoo. When a visitor gives the elephant a penny the ani mal drops it in the fclot and gets a bis cuit There is no use in trying to de ceive the animals by half-pennies. Those despised coins are always flung in the face of the giver. The other day a visitor gave a baby elephant a num ber of half-pennies in succession, but all were thrown back. The animal was then given two half-pennies at the same time. The creature's demeanor changed. For more than five minutes he held the two coins in his trunk rubbing them together and seeming to be pondering deeply. At last he dropped the two half-pence in the box together, with the result that the combined weight gave him the desired biscuit, at which he gamboled about in a manner w hich ex hibited extravagant delight A LITTLE MIRTH. - St. Peter "Won t you walk in?" Boston Spinster "Ik Browning here?" Kate Field's Washington. "Papa," asked the small boy, "what is dignity?" "Dignity, my son," re plied the father, "consists principally of a tall hat and a frock coat" Buffalo Express. - "Mr. Scbcgoinb. was very affable when I called on him." "You must have struck a tender chord." "No; I paid a bill." "That's what I meant; a legal tender chord." Washington Star. Mrs. Jacksox-Parkk "My. it s after one o'clock. I believe I'll retire." Mr. Parke "I guess I'll wait The bur glars ought to lie along inside of an hour, and I do hate to lie aroused after I have once gone to sleep." Indian apolis Journal. "Who held the pass of the Ther mopyhe against the Persian host?" de manded the teacher. And the editor's Ixvv at the foot of the class spoke up and said: "Father, I reckon. He holds an annual on every road in tho country that runs a passeuirer train."
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