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All over the state brass bands were playintr, cannon wore tiring-, illumina tions were tflarintf ami four hundred and twenty-s'ven stump sj-Hakers were deliverino; every niyht four hundred and twenty-seven addresses. The har angues were at once "rinpring-, electri-fvinji- masterpieces of eloquence," to ijnote the reporters who agreed with their sentiment and '-tissues f lrir elinjr iniMulacitjv" to iuote the re porters who diil not agree. The four hundred and twenty-seven mass meet ings were each "a grand outpouring of bii aroused people," or "a small, spir itless gathering, of disheartened dema gogues" quoting as lefore. In almost every town rival compa nies of "Jam's iluards," "Smith Han gers' and ''Thompson Continentals." arrayed in uniforms that did not tit, and carrying' torches that dripped with oil, scuttled through dust, splashed through mud, and bespattered them selves with kerosene. They raised flags, serenaded candi dates and escorted all sorts of distin guished statesmen from nowhere in particular to everywhere in general, and back again. Then the newspapers! How they "nailed lies." "exposed conspiracies," "tore oiT masks" and "held up to pul lie execration," proving "irrefutably" that their own side had, and would have, all the virtue and victory, and the other all the vice and vanquish niciil! Our village of New Xicopolis had every requisite for a lively canvass two halls, two newspapers, two bands and two aspirants for every olliee. Moreover the town was so evenly di vided politically that no candidate could reasonably expect a majority of more than three or four votes. As the struggle drew near its end, men Wcame so excited and enthusias tic that business was almost at a standstill. No one thought or dreamed of anything hut politics. The men sjH-nt more time at the taverns than in their simps, and hammered harder on grocery counters than they did on their anvils. The women were divided iiito two classes those who quarreled every time they met, and those who wouldn't sjH'ak to each other at all. Of course yvc loys imitated our cid ers. We attended every meeting, marched in every procession, and got up meetings and processions of our own in our patriotic ardor. We en gaged in ceaseless discussions which were none the l"ss hot and intolerant, liccausc, as a general thing, neither of the disputants hatl the slightest idea of what he was talking alMiuU (oing out on the streets alone was like taking a little promenade on llounslow Heath in the old days of highwaymen; and on the evenings of opposition mass meetings my return from tin pH.st olliee was often in imita tion of the liritish retreat frm Con cord. Now election day was here. We were assured that victory was in the air, and about to perch upon our banner. Victory seemed to le regarded as a bird of some kitid, but whether it would turn out an eagle or a crow eagle for the winners croyv for the losers no one could tell. if my participation in the campaign had hitherto K-en merely sympathetic, I was happy in knowing' that youth, like old age, had on this day its honor and its toil. Though I could not vote myself. 1 could bring indiiTerent or dis abled citizens to the polls with my own . pet colt and buggy. The lirst ballot put into the lx at Town Hall was thrown by old Jemmy 'rant, the lame cobbler, whom I had dragged out of his stall at seven o'eloek in the morning., that he might do his whole duty as a free American and to keep Fred Cran.tall from get ting at him tirst- Fred was active for the hostile tump, and if his slow-paced family horse could not make as many trips as my Knox three-year-old, yet he brought, three times as miteh freight when he did come, lieing provided with a twit-seated Iteuch wagon, while my buggy had room for but one passenger. Fred was a boy of the most irritat ing audacity and enterprise, and he possessed, moreover, the advantage of know ing nearly every voter by sight and each man's political opinions by heart. Consequently he lost no time in aslting for information where to j,'o or whom to bring, while I rt quired a great deal of direction and advice. All day long, the contest went on, until, late in the afternoon, there was scarcely a man in the whole town of New Nicopolis who had not voted; but as ballots liecame fewer the anxiety in creased, for the check books showed almost an equality between the part ies. Even my father leg"an to rtw nervous and the politicians rushed about like lunatics. One of them sud denly ran up to me. "Here, Charley!" exclaimed he. "Drive out on the north road as fast as you can go, and bring in Vanderson at the red house next lieyoud the bridge." I w hirled my horse around without waiting for more. The rest of what ever the politician had to say was lost in the ratllingof the wheels as I dashed down the road at twelve miles an hour; but the colt had gone too far and too fast that day to keep up such a pait, an 1 I soon reluctantly allowed him to take an easy jog trot. Fred Crandall suddenly dashed by with a fresh stce.l, which I recognized as I)r. Parker's new roadster. Thinp-s must le at a desperate pass indeed if the doctor was willing to commit hU. lest hoise to such a hard-driving; Jehu as Fred! Fretting- was of no use, thonph, and I watched him disappear over the next hill with more or less resignation. It was a long road to Vandcrson's, and I had still hal a mile to go when Freil appeared as suddenly as liefore around a turn just ahead He had uo one w ith him, and his countenance in dicnteif the greatest disapfioiutment. He pulled up as we met, and called out: "Where are you poinjr, Charley?" I simply smiled, having no intention of U'traying iuy plans. "Well, don't tell if you don't want to." continued he, "but I know. You're tfoing to Vanderson's." "What then?" I inquired. "Nothing, only your man Isn't at "HB IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE ASD ALL ABE SLATES BESIDE." EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1S93. home. You might as well save your self the trouble of going- any farther." Now this struck me as suspicious. I did not precisely think Fred was tell ing a falsehood, but my brief experi ence of politics had inclined ine to dis trust everything an opponent might say. So I resolved to find out for my self, and told Fred as much. "All right for you, Charley," replied he, driving on offended. "tJo ahead and see what you'll make of it." I reached Vanderson's comfortable looking farmhouse almost certain of proving Fred right and myself wrong by finding no one there. To my ex treme surprise I saw an elderly man near the stable, hard at work oiling a wagon-wheeL "Mr. Vanderson?" I inquired. "The same," he replied, hardly look ing up, I caught my breath. Fred had told me a lie, after all; I am glad to be able to say that I wish I had believed him. "I want you to come to town with me, if you please," I continued, after a minute. He looked at me, quizzically. "Want me to vote, eh?" "Yes, that's it. How did you know?" 'Oh! there was another young man here awhile ago, who wanted the same thing." So Master Fred had been trying to steal my man, had he? I no longer re gretted anything, but solemnly re solved that Vanderson should go to the polls if I had to carrj- him on my back. "lie laid down on me pretty eonsid' ble hard, but I told him it wam't no use. I'm all sole alone to-day, for my son's gone away and there's slathers o' things to do," "It won t take you an hour, Mr. Van derson. The election's awfully close, and we need every vote we can get," I pleaded. "Do, ch? Well, ye can't have mine, young sir," answered he, looking ex tremely obstinate. "Fustly, this wag on's to ile " "I'll help you on that!" exclaimed I, jumping from the buggy and grasping the oil can. "Secondly, the stove's to black," he continued, giving up the oiling to me without protest. "I'll do that, t u" "Thirdly-, the ashes is to sift for mulching the apple trees." "And that, too." 1 iersistel, wondering- how it hapiH-ned that all his joi s should 1 either dirty or dusty. He liegan to show signs of j-ielJing. "If ye can git through in time, p'r'aps I'll go with ye. you ng sir." My oiling of that wagon must have leen a rare sight, and my blacking- of that stove a rarer. I5y the time 1 be gan to sift the ashes my face and clothes were oil where they were m t all stove polish. The ashes combined with the other sulistances and the per spiration arising from my exertions formed a remarkable complexion jhw der. Meanwhile old Mr. Vanderson lighted a pije, seated himself comfortably to windward of my whirling ash dust and talked on aiiout his farm, family, friends and foes until I thought he would drive me distracted. Then he began to ask me questions altout the studies at school, and. finding astrono my to le one of them, immediately brought out his hobby a theory that the moon is inhabited. I' poti this he argued to such an iin ltearable degree that 1 heartily w ished the moon were inhabited by Vander son, vote or no vote, liut 1 had put my hand to the ash sifter and 1 would not look back. I finished the work, did three or four more little jolts which he pointed out, and at last, oily, tlusty and tire.L suc ceeded in getting fairly on the road to town. We drove up to the hall only just in season. The crowd seemed in more suspense than ever and our arrival caused a great commotion. Some ap plauded. ' some cheered and some laughed not a few hissed and a gen eral rush was made into the building. As I hurried my companion through the throng I caught sight of Freil, who stood stat ing- at us w ith a queer mix ture of contticting expressions. With a triumphant glance at him I pressed up to the box, in which, scarcely a second ltefore the clock struck the hour of closing, Vanderson calmly placed a straight ballot which carried the elec tion by one vote for the opposite party! Such a yell as went up! Nothing saved me from Wing mobbed by my friends except that the other side sur rounded me in a dense mass to proffer their sincere though bitterly ironical congratulations. And Fred was the loudest of them all. "Didn't I tell you, didn't I tell you?" he kept shouting. "The son who had pone away was your man. Old 51 r. Vanderson's never voted anything but our ticket for the last forty-five years!" "Sartain true, young- sir!" said the old man, grinning. "Ye never asked me aliout my views, an' I tuk it fur granted ye was one of us. l'.ut if ye ain't much of a canvasser ye're a mas ter hand to work. If J-e'll come out to morrow we'll continue onr argyment consairning the inhabbcrterbil'ty of the moon, an' I'll hav s'more ashes fer ye to sift!" I broke away from him, escaped the crowd, and rushed home like a wild boy. Father sultsequeutly found me buried in the haymow tip to my neck, crying with rage. 'There, there. sonny, never mind, never mind." said he, soothingly. "If you aren t exactly cut out for a politi cian no more is your father, either; and it's a great relief to me that I haven't got to goto the legislature!" l'.nt if I had only ltelieved Fred, or if I had ask cd old Mr. Vanderson a few questions or if, or if. or if! Manley II. I'ike, in Youth's Comrnnion. An KnclUL Trmdltloa. Southampton Fields, known to cu riosity seekers as "The Field of the Forty Footsteps," is a small plat of ground lying directly to the rear of the F.ritish museum, London. Tradition savs that two brothers, sometime dur ing the duke of Monmouth's rebellion, encaged in a deadly duel upon this little piece of vacant ground. Both were killed. When the grass began to grow in the following spring there were forty dead patches iu it. corre sponding exactly in shape and size to impressions left by human feet. Super stitious ieople said that they were the i last steps taken by the brothers liefore exchanging the fatal shots. To this day the place is known by the name Kiveo above. Philadelphia Press. I nc ww mo KIND. A VI tlnc Story About the I-t- rcre- Urjr tVliidonL Speaking of the cabinet officers who -fathered around Mr. Harrison's tabh at the In-ginning of his administration brings V mind the late Secretary Win lom. He was a kind and atfahle pen tleman. and his sudden death was a shock to the country at large and a cause of grief to those who enjoyed his acquaintance, says a writer in the Washing-Urn Evening News. I rem. inU r an incident which showed his kindness of heart and the unosten tatious qualities inherent in the truly great. It was an insufferably hot day in the August preceding his death, and tin sun glared with blind force on the con crete of the open space Itetwecn the west entrance of the treasury and the while house. On the curb of the fountain basin a half grown sparrow was making- fruit less efforts to get a drink of cool water which bubble,! tantalizingly just be yond its rca,-h. Finally it leaned a little Vm far, and, losing its balance, fell overboard. Its struggles were taking it toward the renter of the basin and lieyond rescue. I reached out my open um brella, and just as I was drawing him in I felt a hand on my slioulder and a hearty voice said: "Well done! I'll see that you have a life-saving medal for that." It was Mr. Windom. He was on his w ay to a cabinet meeting, but the af fairs of state ami the country's linanee hail to wait while he assisted at the n-si-ue of the half-drowned bird. He took the ledraggled little creature in his hand, and after smoothing its plumage laid it on the sunny terrace out of harm's way to dry. Then, invit ing me to share his big green sun shade, we walked on to the white house. GERMAN RUDENESS. A Noted Doctor on the t ut-lilvalrlc Con duct of II 14 t'ouutrymrn. Louise von Koltrll, who is Frau von Eisenhart, has written a ltook of "Con versations of Dr. Dollinger," lately translated into English, from which the Daily News of Intl. n has taken ex tracts. Driven into an inn by a shower in o.ie of their walks, he was greatly annoyed by the conduct of some young men. w ho swore at the weather, smoked and called impatiently for Itccr. "Tobacco and alcohol are demoniacal powers." said lnl linger, half in jot and half ia earnest. "Smokers a re barbar ians. . . . The eternal smoking of pijH-s and cigars by our forefathers doubtless helped to bring aliout the short sight which has now leconie. he reditary in tlermany. Tobacco smok ing i.-, the ruin of society und of chival rous conduct toward women." Talking of the (iermaii love of public houses, he said: "When I compare our young men with young Englishmen what a diifcivnee I find! How many spectai-le-w earing, weakly, uncouth, mannerless youngsters 1 see here, while it is a real pleasure only tit hok at tVe boys and students in England, so vigor ous, healthy, well grown, clean and dis-tinguished-hniking in their attractive College dress." At another time he said that if he were a legislator the first law he would introduce in tlermany would lc one for the protection of young girls. England and America were, he said, in advance of t'lermany in the treatment of women. '-For instance," he added, "I hardly think that an educated Englishman would allow his wife to fetch him his Itoots, slippers, cigars and newspapers, as do so many of our countrymen." TURKEY HUNTING IN ARIZONA. The Oroit Slaughter Jut liefore 1 hnk- The Arizona bill of fare is too apt to contain only the items bacon, licans, hard bread, llapjacks and coffee three hundred and sixty-four days in the year. Thanksgiving is the exception, and no dinner is complete on that day without a turkey to remind the miner, prsp.ct.'r or ranchman of the old home in the east. In the southeastern section of the territory there is a creek culled Kio Pricto. ami nicknamed the "Turkey river." It is the only place within altout two hundred miles where wild turkeys alxiuud, but then there are enough of them in the narrow val ley to stork a state. Just before Thanksgiving this valley is iilicd with hunters from every part of the territory, and the slaughter is very great: but it takes place only once a year, and the ranks will lie filled up next spring and summer. Some of ttie hunters come so far that they have t. make "jerky" of the turkey meat in order to get it home. Aminer must Ik" very fond or turkey when he will travel one hundred miles for it, and then lake it in the shape of salted and sun-dried strips and shreds, and usually fried iu a gravy of bacon, grease and Hour. These turkeys are very large birds, as half a dozen are altout as much as a pack-mule can carry out of the valley. Old-timers say that gobblers weighing thirty pounds have been taken out of the Pricto canyon. WELL-KNOWN MEN. WniTRLAW Rf.ii has leen presented with a Sevres vase of great value, by the French republic, as a mark of its appreciation of his services as American minister to that eountry. John S. Dfss. the new head of the Keoiioiuites, has had a stroke of paraly sis. He is getting Itctter. however, and says the society will turn its at tention to manufacturing rather than to farming. Hanker W". S. Ladi, of Portland, Ore., one of the wealthiest men in that state, carries ia his pocket a ten-cent piece which is a part of the first "two bits" he ever earned; that was back in the early '50s. Capt. McKay of the Fmbria has nothing of the seaman about his man ner or uniform, appearing on Itoard his own ship more like a passenger than an officer. He is a short, slightly-built man, with a pale face and black hair, and is as quiet and reserved as a travel ing clergyman. Cook TaIjCott, who died in New York city a few days ago, enjoyed the distinction of having defeated tlen. Grant for the position of county sur veyor of St- Louis county ltefore the war, and but for that defeat Grant's later career would muet proliably have been very different front what it proved to be, ... SI. SO and ZULU MAGIC. Extraordinary Performances of Witch Doctors. rrofeeoor or the Itlsrlc Art la Aitoond t by the Trick of Native Jur Klere In Mouthers Africa. During the Zulu war, says Prof. Kel lar, the well-known magician, in an article in the North American Ueview, I was in South Africa, traveling- north through Zululand. In Dunn's reserva tion, two hundred miles north from Durban, in Natal, I saw a w itch d.tctor levitate the form of a young Zulu by waving a tuft of grass alut his head, amid surroundings calculated to im press themselves deeply upon the most prosaic imagination. It was evening and the witch doctor, who belonged to the class more than on-e descrilted by Kider Haggard with great accuracy, was as revolting- in his appearance as the high caste fakirs had been pleasing. A numlier of fakirs had gathered alxmt our camp fire and I had given them some illustrations of my own skill. They sectued puzzled, but were not specially curious. One of them stole away and after some minutes re turned with their own conjurer, the witch doctor in question. After con siderable solicitation from the natives, the intricacies of which my knowledge of the Zulu language did not enable me quite to penetrate, the conjurer, who at first seemed reluctant to give his consent to au exhibition of his powers liefore mr, took a knob kcrry or club and fastened it at the end of a thong of rawhide altout two feet long. A young native, tall and athletic, whose eyes seemed to Ik fixed upon those of the conjurer with an apprehensive steadfast m-ss, took his own knob kcrry and fastened it at the end of a similar thong of hide. The two then stottd altout six feet apart, in the full glare of the fire, ami ltepan, all the while in silence, to whirl their knob terries altout their heads. I noticed that when the two clubs seemed, in their swift flight, almost to come in contact, a spark of tlame passed, or appeanil to pass, from one of them to the other. The third time this hapjH'ned there was an explosion, the spark appeared to burst, the young man's knob kcrry was shattered to pieces, and he fell to the ground apparently lifelesss. The witch dx'tor turned to the high grass a few feet In-hind us and gathered a handful of stalks alxuit three feet long. Standing- in the shadow and away from the fire he waved, with a swift motion, ex actly similar to that of the clults a few minutes liefore, the bunch of grass around the head of the young Zulu, who lay as dead in the firelight. In a mo ment or two the grass seemed to ignite in its flight, although the witch doctor was not standing within twenty feet of the tire, and burned slowly, crackling audibly. Approaching more closely the form of the native in the tram-e the conjurer waved the flaming grass gently over his figure, altout a foot from the flesh. To my intense amazement the rx-cumltcnt ltody slowly rose from the ground and floated upward in the air to the height of alxuit three fiot, remain ing in suspension and in wing up and down, according as the parses of the burning grass were slower or faster. As the grass burned out and dropptI to the ground the ltody returned to its po sition on the ground, and after a few passes from the hands of the witch doc tor the young Zulu leaped to his feet, apparently none the worse for his won derful experience. WITH A SPIDER'S WEB. Power Could lie Transmitted from Kufliie If itun Kioit ICitouch. 'Science can do some wonderful things," said Samuel Watson, a practi cal engineer, who has been devoting some time to studying the various meth ods of transporting power from the m.v tor to the machine. He read a paper on his discoveries some time ago In-fore one of the engineering societies in New York, says the St, Louis tilobe lK-m.-crat, "It would strike you as rather funny to see the slender line of a spider's web conveying the power from a two hun dred aiid fifty horse-power engine, wouldn't it? P.ut it has Jteen demon strated that such a tiling can lte done. Now- let us start with the m?,t common and general method of transporting power, the ordinary leather licit. Sir KoWrt Hall, an eminent scientific en gineer, has found that the heavy slow running ttelt can, when the conditions are favorable for a change from weight to speed, le made away with, and a light-running, cotton rope may take its place with a greater amount of satisfaction than the belting ever gave. Following up this line of thought it has K-en demonstrated that a rope as light as sewing cotton going at the same rate of speitl as a rifle ball would satisfac torily carry a single horse-power. Now take the extreme lightest line known to the world, that of the spider's web, and the extreme highest-known velocity of travel, which is that of light, and we find that, astounding as it may seem, if a line of spider's web conild be driven at the speed of light, it would salisfac ctorily carry something over two hun dred and fifty horse-power. Sinpular. isn't it? Hut Sir Robert Hall's discov ery in this respect is going to tie of in estimable value in electricity in a very short w hile." Australia I l lr.t. Eight car loads of gitods that were shipicd frotn Australia two months ago have lieen unloaded within the agri cultural building and deposited upon the space assigned to that country. This will be the first exhibit to enter the building, and a the work of instal lation is to proceed at once Australia will have the honor of N-ing the first in piisition. The space assigned to the ex hibitors frtim the antipodes within the agricultural building is on the first floor and just east of the central dome. It is eighty-five by one hundred feet in dimension and well lighted. The ex hibit is to consist of wool and cereals of all kinds and some canned gitods. It is however, with its wool that Australia expects to make the lcst showing. The Slaughter of lllrda. in one consignment recently a feather dealer in London received C,ho birds of paradise, WO, 000 birds of various kinds from the East Indies, and 400,000 hum ming binls. In three months another dealer imported S5o,3tf8 birds from the East 1 ndies. 111 ul , U . postage per year In advance. NUMBER 13. INSURANCE AGAINST BORES. One Form of Imponltlon. at Least. Has louud a llemedy. From London comes news of the or ganization of a Sn-ial I)eniands Insur ance company. The soc iety arise- out of the question that each man and. wom an puts to himself: "How much can I give without seeming shabby?" when asked to give money to objects for wliich they have no sympathy, but to which tradition or some sense of reci procity obliges contribution. There are always restless people altout getting up statues, testimonials, anniversary gifts, from silver dinner services down to quill pens, w hom one wishes in Jericho, but are imiMnvsihle to refuse. To thus lighten these needl-ss burdens of life conies the Sicial D m a nds Insurance company. According to a writer in the Iindon Times this soeietj-. on receipt of a sult scription graduaU'd according to the in come and needs of the nieinliers, will transact for them the whole businesson the cheapest possible scab'. The t ciety will not le afraid of ln-ing called shabby, having no corjntral delicacy of feeding. Memlters (who have paid in their sult ftcriptions) will merely send to the sec retary each week their Mtcial Wgging letters. The society, doing a ready money business, can easily buy in bank rupt stock of clocks, eperpnes, bric-a-brac, silver, liooks. Thus it will lie able to furnish suitable presents at reduced prices. The Indon society pocs far in engag ing a staff of sculptors, phosts, impres sionist painters, in aeouirinp a collec tion of painters" misfits that can lie easily altered to suit the occasion, and other artistic refuse that may lte util ized at reasonable terms. The sultscriplion of a duke, for ex ample, to the Social Demands Insurance company is put at 10 Ks. while a per son of letters would not te charged more than f.s. d. In this country, until the tariff is re duced, the subscription of the rich men ranking with the English dukes would lie approximately $70, while writers would lie proportionately charged not more than f i a year. These sums, how ever, are initiation fees, and engage only the services of the society. Moneys raid out would have to lie subsequcntly reiruburscd. A DIFFICULT JOB. The Mending of the Suspension HrM-ii st N lag-am. The eahlis of a suspension bridge are subjected to great strains, and are therefore firmly anchored to heavy masses of masonry by means of long bars of iron or steel having holes at each end by- which they are Kilted or pinned together. The Engineering News says that one of the bars in the anchorage of one cud of the smaller suspension biidge at Niagara was found recently to be broken. The problem of replacing it was difficult. s'm'c the wires attached to it had to have the same ten sion when it was in piace that they had when the old liar was intact. The new bar was formed of a piece of steel twenty feet long, six inches wide and three-quarters of an inch thick, with a hole in one end and a band Kilted to the other. This band yvas d.signed to pass around an iron bar in the abutment and resist the pull of the wires. When the band hail K-en placed about this pin in the masonry and Kilted to its liar the bar was carefully heated by a womlen fire in a trough Kdow until it had expanded sufficiently to allow the end of the w ire cable to Ik connected with it. As it cooled it contracted until, when it reached its normal temperature, the wires attached to it were strained to the same degree as the others, and, in this way, a difficult problem yvas easily and cheaply solvetL RHODE ISLAND'S ODD CUSTOM. The Klection of lllat-k Governor la the Old Colonial I lay. A rollicking time in Rh.ide Island in the old colonial days was the election of the "Illack Governor." descrilted in the New England Magazine. After the white people had elected the governor of the state, the slaves had a curious custom of pnthcriiip together on the third Saturday in June and electing a black governor. To this ejection the negroes went in fine style, on Narra gansctt papers, with their wives on pillions K-hind them. All were dressed in their finest clothes, with swords and with powdered hair, and often a long false queue lied on la-hind. W hen all had gathered together, the vote was taken by the opptsing parties forming into two long lines, with the respective candidates at the head: the lines were then counted, and the longest line elect ed its candidate. After the election a supper anil dance were given, for which the w hite owner of the newly elected black governor had to pay The last election of a slave governor w as held in lsoo, but the custom of '"Nigger 'Lec tion" day did not die out through New England until many years later. A Man I p a Tree." The following paragraph is printed in several Hritish Indian ps-pcrs: "I'p a tree," wrote a native forest suKirdiuate recently in his diary, "where I adhere with much pain and discomposure while big tiger roaring in a very awful man ner tin the fire line. This is a very in-c-onsid .rate tiger, and causes nie gr-at griefs, as I have Ik-fore reported to your honor. This is two times he spoiled my work, coming and shouting like thun der, and putting me up a tree, and mak ing me K'have like an insect, I am not able to climb .with agility owing to stomach K-ing a little bip owing to bad water of this jungle. Chcnchu mans can fly up tree quickly. It is a very awful fate to me. Even when I do not see this tiger and he dK-s not make dreadful noise, I see the marks of his hoofs and his naiLs on the path!" Loved Ills loK. An old colored man went to jail in Washington last week for the sake of his dog. He had neglected to pay for a license Vi keep the animal, for kill the dog he would not. His explanation was that the dog K longcd to his child, and aKiut the time he was going to pet the tag for the dog his child died. It took every cent that he could iKg or lxirrow to pay the funeral expense-. "And," he said, "I keep the dog tor the sake of the dead child." He promised to get the tag if the judge would give him further time, but, as the old man had not wrecked a bank or done any thing in the first-class order of crime's, he had to go to jaiL i AuvertiKinrrjntCH. The Urreand reliable elrruUtlon ft the BlA Ik li en as cnmmenile it to the tsvnratile ron Mers hod of siertiseri wboe latrora will l (rtel st the tallowing low rsiee : I Inch. 3 Imes .....$ 1 .10 t Inch, S month! H.M 1 Inch, 6 noDibi s.M 1 lorn tyesr b oo t iDohes. t moDtbe.... t oo SlDrbes.i year 10.") S inchee. 6 month 8.00 S Inches. I year S.oo xi eoinmo, 6 month. 10 0b 5 column. 6 months.. - au oo keolDDi I year W W 1 column, s months........................ 40 W 1 column. I year Tfc.oo - Business Items, first Inrertlon, 10c. per Itoe subsequent Insertions, be. ter line Adminipirs tor's and, tif color's Notice.. fl to Auditor's Notices z.bQ tray and similar Notices X00 -Resolutions or proceedings ot any corpora U in or society and eomaiual-atlons dwl-u.d lo call attention to any matter of limited or Indi vidual Interest tnut ! paid lor as adTertismenta. Hook and Job fnntln of all kinds neatly and eieiktusiy executed at the lowest prices. And doo'tyou loncel it. MEXICO NEEDS IMMIGRANTS. People I'rom Northern Kurope Would Set a Valuable Ksample of Thrift There is a rumor to the effeft. that nn effort will K made in Mexico to turn the curri'iit of European emigration from the I'nited States to that coun try. There is room in Mexico for many more Ksiple, but it is by no means as sparsely inhabited a country as many Ami-rit-ans think, says the Ik-nvcr Re publican. In area it is aKiut one-fourth as great as the I'nite-d State's. Its jiop ulation is I-J.ooo.ooo. The same density in the t"niteel State's would give this country altout 4s,ooo.OM), which is but 2.000.000 hss than the census of lsso showed our population tei K' in that year. Mexico ncHds a different kind eif population, rather than an increase-. AKtnt one-half the people are- full blooded Indians, and of these one-half are uncivilized. There are aK nit l.ooo, ooo white's, the majority of whom, eif course', are tf Spanish descent. The remainder, with the exception of a few negriK-s ami Chinese, are of mixed I.IimkI. Probably !.ono,000 of the in habitants have Indian blood in their veins, two-thirds of this numK-r K-ing full blood. The hope eif the country is. therefore, in the pentple who have In dian blood. If they shall not develop to a high civilization the- country yvill altvayslie pove-rned by a small class, compose'd chiefly of, the white's. Fortunately the civilized Indians of full bleKMl are a quiet, orderly people, capable of tK'rformiiig a great deal eif luKir and attaining to proficiency in the me-chanic arts. Juarez, one eif the greatest ef Mexican statesmen and gen erals, yvas a full-blooel. The hybrids, like hybrids gene-rally, are worse- than their paren ts of either steick and have caused a gre-at deal eif trouble. Immi gration of a good class from northern Europe would do Mexico pood. K'causc the immigrants would se-t an example of industry and thrift to the natives. Hut there is not much inducement for immigrants tf the laboring, mechanic or agricultural classes to settle in Mex ico. The demand for laKir doe-s not equal the supply, and the farmers would find but pi Kir markets for the-ir prod ucts. Mexico is a good country for men with money to invest in mining and other industries requiring large capital, but to immigrants yvithout means the field is not inviting. ARE WINTERS COLDER? It Seem So in Kuretpe, While Ours Are droning Warmer. It is often asked, regarding the sea sons, whether they alte-r f nun year to ye-ar, whether there is a rtositive- ehanpe in climate from century to centurj-. The general opinion seems to K ac cording to the New York Pre-ss, that the springs and summers are e-ooler than they were once, and that the win ters are less cold. The re-cords of thermoractrieal oliser vations show that the temperature of the month of May is diminishing, but that the tcmjH'rature of the year, taken together, rather tends to increase?. Taking into consideration a ikthkI of fifty or sixty more years, there has K-en observed an actual diminution of the mean temperature in the climate eif France. Hut observing a longer period comparing, for example, the earliest centuries of French history with the present time no sensible difference eif the seasons can be established. For example, the Roman emperor, Julian, was very fond of living at Paris, ami aKiut A. D. liliO he made several long sojourns in that city. In his Mis opogon he rclate-s that he was greatly surprised one fine morning to se-e the Seine stopped in its course and its waters changed into blocks of marble. Syve see that there yvas at that time, as well as to-day, winters severe cnouph to freeze the rivers, and that the cli mate has not changed much if any. Perhaps the men eif the present time have a more sensitive epidermis than had their hardy ancestors. LIFT YOUR HATS. Neglect to I to So on Meeting a lady Is a llreach of tietetd Manner. "There are two occasions upon which I never will recognize a gentleman, not even my own husband," said a we-11-known sK-iety yvomau the other day to a Neyv Orleans Picayune man. "If he is sitting on a street corner ti have his shin's blacked he might Ktw at me till the crack eif doom, but I would not recognize him. Or if he was coming out of a saliMin." "Did you ever have a man greet you in the street without lifting his hat?" asked a frie-mL "Once or twice, but I never recog nize'd that individual again. One of the lie-st know n clergymen in New Orleans makes a habit of not raising his hat to some ladies he knows. He would not fe-el Matten-el if he; could hear die com ments that are made tin his Kmri.-di manners," "Perhaps he forgets," said a man w ho was ready to defend his se-x. "That is no excuse. I would not ex pert an armless man to lift his hat to me em the street, but nothing less rem Id excuse him. A gentleman has net busi ness to forget at 1 cast the apjH'aranee of giMMl breeding. A woman f-e-K a man has treated her w ith almost famil iar cetntempt who d.K-s not lift his hat when spe-aking to her, and if she has any spunk at all she will never Itow to him again," HER ANNUAL DIVORCE. A Married Woman's Yearly Season of llesplte. "I don't know what I would do," said a very gay marrieel woman to a Phila delphia Time's writer, "if it were not for my annual elivorce." she laugheel. "You perhaps wonder what that is, but it is really the pr-atest of social insti tutions, and I would die without it. I mean the six or eight weeks every sum mer that I can go ayvay and Ik just like a young girl once more, "I love Jack very dearly, but I would got very tiretl of him if it were not for this yearly respite. We are very happy now over our reunion, whereas if lie had seen me every day all summer long he would be wanting to go out every night and h-aving me alone in-ste-ael of lining escort duty. It is a great scheme, and should be adopted by all wives." Poor, clastic wctlding vows, we thought- "Till death do us part" has not the significance it once elid in the giKid old days of our fathers and mothers, when an "annual divore-e-" would have been regarded with holy Lorror. I
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