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Aal don tjou lornet It. fl EI IB 1 FRKEMAH WHOM THE TRBTH MASKS FREE AND ALL ABE ELATES BESIDE." 8I.SO and postage P year In advance. VOLUME XXIX. A L,"'..iit i. too inert. , EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1S95. NUMBER 3S. i--"-.-;.""-- JSrif.- . . . fY A t.C ' aff 111. JAsTcT HASSON, Editor and Proprietor. :: HUNTING inting Office N,w piare to iiet your 3?RINTIHG jAii'torily executed. We ' ' f ltl hufiArtthla . wv ltn't ! ay but tr"' . lirir.it l'ruv " ii PFat Presses end New Type" to turn nut J-nVPrintinij o aripttn in the rINfcST r-VI.E ni at the yer? MlU l1 material l used and .osts for it.seif. We are pre- apriut on tlie sliortes, notice 3, FEtV.HAMF., .sHaki- Taiw. Bill Heads. -jMJ-TlTEMP.NTS F.SVEl.Ol-KS, . ClKi'n.AKS. W'EDDINO AND anSS l'AHl? t.'HKCKS. N'OTKS, K EUT" 1:,,sn WOKK, LrtER a nii Note Heads, and Hi and Taktt Invitations Etc. a pnnt nythini fnini th smallest ywt 'i-itinif ('aril to the largest k oo short notice and at the BtMt P.r-ax)nat)le Rates. famlri;i Freeman F.rF.NSlU'nO. J'ENX'A. syenhiterto women. JVa. I. ire! Ave., San Francisco, T l3, I $02. o, Dear friend of women : A;en my baby was born, rars zgo, I rot up in six 1 Far too soon. Result: f the womb. Ever sinca kca miserable. :ried even-thin : doctors, iies, apparatus ; but grew ecu' J harJ'y stand ; and x:. witnout support waa ss;j.e. At hit I siw an advertise- - of Lvdia E. riukham'a ?;:. Confound, anJ de- " to try it. T tie effect was :;n- Since I took the '. bottie ray womb has not r.e, and, thanks only a, 1 am now well, livery -I woman tjit vo'-r -x-J is. It 'Sscure." 'A-Detw-Her. 0.I.. A JAI 1 f "VKtitle Hieilian IHLLOHAIR )enewer J-s.o( mi,y yers, should be an "r;-"'n l' tt. UiM-t nkei.tl.-al. that -?..-'IV!"n'-""- Ttxme who bae MliiR 1:enKWIR know that tii, ; 1 , " r J"icies are not 5 -aw-'JoW the case: restore rT f r fad u'r; pre- : '1 11 "'ft. 1-liant, lua- 11 vt grow lung and reduced tta e cf Its U-'orate . 1 t v'lr UP ,bn natural oil. -ckingham, Dvw j .WHISKERS '1 . iirwion, U more eon- rt-jon u,n any oUer. .-".ersT isTi-ur 7 Sted agents "W rr,H with KERl BARRY. . f. svr. ',nl'. ftith luv 1. .7 - - " : no EHm. ra tia.TluBt A h,u I. Kf ... . . I'r'b.n . T- tlADIO C A r- 1 w ... n THAI wnixo c rt. o I L. Y , WORKS SUCCESSFULLY." CLEAN HOUSE WITH SAPOLIO nevw wants ta learn, but the reads that Old) honesty CHEWING TOBACCO is the best that is made, and at ONOE tries it,' and eaves money and secures more satisfaction than ever before. A. VOID imitations. Insist on having the genuine. If your dealer hasrxt it ask -rr to get it for you. 110. FHZER A BROS.. tonkimD. Constipation Demanila prompt treatment. The re sults of neglect may be- aerions. Arold all harsh an.l drastic ' purgatives, th tendency of which is to weaken the) towels. The best remedy Is Ayers Tills. Ueiug purely - vegetable, their action is prompt and their effect always beneficial. They are) an admirable) Liver and After-dinner pill, and every where endorsed by tha profession. " Ayer's Tills are lughly and univer sally spoken of by .xhe people about bere. I make daily use of them in my practice." Dr. I. E. Fowler, Bridge port, Conn. i " I can recommeml Ayer's Pills ahov all others, hains long proved their valne as a cathartic for myself anil family." J. T. liens, Leithsville, Pa. " For neveral years Ayer's Pills Lave been used in my family. We find them an Effective Remedy for constipation and indigestion, and are never without them in the bouse." Moses Grenier, Lowell, Mass. ' I have nsel Ayer's Pills, for liver troubles and indigestion, during many years, and have always found thein prompt and eiVU ient in their action." L. Smith, Utica, N. Y. " I suffered from constipation which assumed such an obstiuat form tbat I ft-ared it would cause a stoppage of the) lowels. Two lioxes of Ayer's Iills ef fected a com pleto cure." D. liurke, bai-o, Me. " I have nsed Ayer's Pills for the past thirty yearn and consider them an in valuable family medicine. I know of 110 lK-ttr Tt-modv for liver troubles, and have always fouuil them a prompt cure for dysp.-iia."' Jauies Quinn, HO Middle St., Ilaitford, Conn. "Having l-en troubled with costive eess. which seems inevitable with per sons of sedentary habits, I have tried Aver'a fills, hoping for relief. I aiu Efad to say that they have served me etter than any other medicine. I arrive at thLs conclusion only failldal trial of their merits." Samuel T. Jones, Oak St.. Kostou. Mass. Ayer's Pills, rKKPABKD BT Or J. C. Ayer 6l Co.. Lowell. Mas-. Sold br U Uealera la atedlrf. PIN KOLA : CKEAM : BALSAM -roat tnll .mmatlon anJ tor .Fllima. t;onump tlves will tnvariaMy iierive teneDt rmm li use. aa ll uuicalv ibates me kouku, endert exictora- nature ID ret tori njr wasted tlatnei . . 1. . I.nra Iw r- centiKO of tr-oe who gopiwsa ineir to ! coosomption whA are nnlv saner Inir Irotn a ehrnnto eoia ord.oseaweou.b. . tarrn J-or raiarrn - ., , niie DertMttle- Plno Halsan-,r ai lm: trial. "lr!LY BK.THKKS,66 Warren St. New Vorlt nov.lOtMly. m Steel Picket Fence. CHEAPER THAN t WOOD v n 11." i- I U X vX m A .....as: Tabotrt-WrtHrrewltOat. rTbli 1 i. ,1. wu.uir. .--- o"". P""1'," TAYLOR . DEAN. ,201, 203 A 20S Market St. ' PrtUaarak, Ta.. jach JMa. THE TOWER OF BABEL. To Bo Reproduced In Miniature for the Atlanta Pair. 'e-tuM of the Coming Exposltlom That WU1 Be Interesting; and Instructive to Tlaltora of All Ages and Calllnfra. The Smithsonian Institution is pre paring a miniature model of the Tower of Uabe 1 for the exposition of Atlanta. It will be in all resteets, so far as pos sible, a faithful reproduction of the famous original. The latter was the greatest of the many magnificent tem ples of Habvlon, being one hundred and forty feet high. That does not seem much compared with the Washington monument, but people in those days were not accustomed to tall structures, and the ancient capital of Assyria was situated in the midst of a vast plain, where there were no natural elevations to serve for comparison. The model in question, says the Washington Star, wi'l Ik" rive feet eight inches square on the first story. When it is stated that the first story of the actual Tower of Ilabei was seventy-two feet square, a notion will be given of the proxrtion. The original building was constructed in diminishing stories, each one being a smaller square than that beneath. This was a common style of architect ure in Assyria, and from it evolved the Egyptian pyramid. The stories for the model are square wioden frames of dif ferent sizes, so made that they may be superposed one upon another. These frames, after being put together, will be faced on the outside with a veneer of plaster of paris, which will imitate the sun-dried bricks of which the tower was composed. The building of the model is under the charge of Dr. Palmer. The work, however, is Superintended by Ir. Cyrus Adler, who has made an exhaustive study of the historic Tower of UaWl. Mechanically speaking, the most diffi cult part of the job is the casting of the plaster of paris that is to imitate the bricks. Every brick on the exterior of the structure is represented and this is accomplished by making a single mold, in which the little bricks are labori ously indicated. From this mold many easts are made, and so the whole sur face is covered. ' The Babylonians had no stone, and so they were obliged to employ for all their buildings such sun dried bricks. They did not under stand the use of molds for the purptise. Naturally, structures of such material soon crumbled and did not last very long. The Tower of Babel stood upon an elevated platform of earth six hundred feet square. This was surmounted and retained by a wall of -bricks ten feet high. Both platform and wall will be represented in the model, which will be qnite an imposing affair when finished. The stories will be painted in different colors, to imitate the orig inal building, according to descriptions given of it in Assyrian literature. The first story was black, in honor of Saturn; the second story of orange, for Jupiter; the third story red, for Mars; the fourth story covered with plates of gold, for the snn; the fifth story white, lor Venus; the sixth story dark blue, for Mercury, and the seventh story covered with plates of silver, in honor of the moon. The old Babylonians were worship ers of the sun, and knew a lot aliont astronomy. The Tower of Babel was an observatory from which the priests grazed upon the stars in the heavens, drawing portents from thein, pre sumably for sale at so much a portent. The model will have no windows, for it is not known whether or not the orig inal edifice possessed any. NoImnIv, ar. yet, has lieen able to discover how the houses of the Assyrians were lighted. It may be that all the light required for this mighty temple was admitted from the top, which was presumably open to the sky. The stairs were on the outside, and not on the inside of the building. They also will be shown. In fact, no detail will be omitted that may help to give a notion of the exact appearance of this wonderful edifice of antiquity. CURIOUS TREES. Heveral That Are Valuable, Oljfantlc and Historic. The largest orange tree in the south is a gigantic specimen which grows out of the rich soil in Terre Bonne parish, 1 Louisiana. It is fifty feet hig-h aud fif teen feet in circumference at the base. Its yield has often been ten thousand oranges per season. The "tallow tree" of China has a pith from one inch to two feet in di ameter, according to the size of the tree, which is composed pt a greasy wax, which is so highly volatile that it often catches fire spontaneously, consuming the tree to the very ends of its roots. The largest oak tree now left stand ing in England is "Cowthorp's oak," which is seventy-eight feet in circum ference at the ground. The oldest tree in Britain is -Parliamentary oau. Clinstone park, London, which is Vnown to be fifteen hundred years old. in The largest apple tree in New York Ntate is said to le one stau.ling near the town of Wilson. It was planted in the year 1H1 5, and it is on record that it once yielded thirty-thr ee barrels of apples in a single season. There are four hundred and thirteen species of trees found growing within the limits of the United States. The curiosity of the whole lot is the black Iroi.wood. of Florida, which is thirty per cent, heavier than water. Well dried black ironwoixl will sink in water almost as quickly as will a liar of lead. The "life tree" of Jamaica is harder to kill than any other species of wood growth known to arboriculturists. It continues to grow and thrive for months after being uprooted and ex posed to the sun. Clearly FrorML Forty years since, "Porte Crayon" was down on Alltemarle sound, and told a native that there were men with mouths eight inches wide. The native declared that was a fish story; Porte re proved him for his incredulity, and pointed out that deductions from known facts proved this statement. "We know," he said, "that oysters must le eaten whole; we know that there are oysters eight inches across the minor dimension; therefore, there must be mouths eight inches wide to take them in, or the beautiful chain of harmony in the universe in broken." NEW GAMBLING WRINKLE. How Some Jolly Fellows Seek to Moo the 4ot(lefia of Fortune. There is new form of gambling much affected in clubs and barrooms nowa days that even the board of trade will find it hard to put a stop to, says the Washington Post. Everyone is familiar with the electric fans which in the past few years have proved such a 1rk.ii in torrid weather. They are shaped like a propeller and have four, five or six blades and are incased in wire cages with large apertures. By touching a lever at the" back the machine can be started or stopped at will, aud while in motion the velocity is something' tre mendous. Some wide-awake genius not long ago conceived the idea that the electric fan could lie utilized as an excellent means of wooing the goddess of -fort une and put the suggestion into operation in this wise: A six-bladed fan was stopped and each of its blades marked with a num ber. Then six slips of paper were marked with similar numliers and six jolly fellows drew a slip apiece. The number on the slip corresponded to the number on one of the blades and it was decided that the blade that was nearest the jierpeudicular wire at the bottom of the cage covering the fan vhen the latter stopped revolving sh mid win the pot. . The latter con sisted of six dollars, put up equally by the ha) f-dozen players. Then the fun' began. The lever would lie turned on and as quiclaly off and the fan would revolve like lightning, slow down and stop in half a minute. There was no ."kitty" to be fed as in poker, no per centage of split, as in faro, aud no rake off for the house, as in other gamws. It was a pure luck affair and the heaviest loser was not more than five dollars out at the end of an hour's whirling, while the excitement had been as in tense as the most devoted gambler could desire. Next day each one of the six introduced the electric fan to his friends in its new guise as a spinning jenny aud now the game has spread all over town. The interest in it is heightened a good deal by having a blank blade, .vhich when it stops at the winning wire constitutes a jack pot and necessitates the players put ting up an extra stake, just as in poker So from a one dollar ante in brokers' offices to whirling for coppers by district messengers the electric fan is being brought into requisition with general hilarity. THE LARGEST LENS. The Splendid Achievement of an Amer ican Manufacturer. The Clarks have accomplished what has long been regarded as an impossi ble thing, and tme which no European manufacturer of lenses could be induced to attempt. This is the making of a jer fect h-ns of more than three feet across the face. No one but this American manufacturer ever thonght of exceed ing the twenty -six-inch lenses which are in use at several observatories on lioth continents, one at the naval ol servatory at Washington, through which Mr. Hall discovered the long sought satellites of Mars and many double stars. The higliest power was supposed to be reached when the Lick telescope in California was put up with a thirty-six-inch lens. The difficulties to be met in the production of a perfectly clear lens of great size are so many that the European observers who have wanted anything above the twenty-six-inch lens have had to take the reflect ing telescope, which has a concave mir ror. It requires, of course, a much larger reflecting telescope to get the same amount of light and the same magnitude of object. The making of this forty-one and a half-inch lens, says the New York Com mercial Advertiser, is regarded as the crowning work of Mr. Alvan Clark's life. It is probable no larger lens will ever be made. Under existing condi tions a larger telescope than the Yerkes the telescope of the Chicago university observatory for which the lens is made would lie of no great value. To increase the magnifying power is at the same time to Increase the obstructions to clear vision. When the object is magnified the atmospheric agitation is increased to such a degree that distinctness is virtually sacrificed when the object glass is larger than forty -one and a half-inches. It is doubtful if the Yerkes will be 8113 more useful than the Lick. Some day it may be possible to remove the ob stacles to clearness in the ease of a powerful lens, though the only reason for suggesting it is that Prof. Tyndall was able to construct a glass by which the blue of the atmosphere was dissi pated in looking through a deep sace. If the Yerkes glass answers expecta tions it will enable an experienced ob server to catch occasional glimpses of the Mars canals, which, though drawn firmly on the Vatican maps, are vague and wavering and almost imaginary through any. glass. They can be seen at all only by the trained observer. The great telescope will lie most useful in the study of double stars, which is now a matter of special interest to mauy observers. Vanished New Hampshire Forests. In New Hampshire, originally, two great belts of white pine occupied the valleys of the Merrimac and Connecti cut which contained some of the finest timber in New England. This mag nificent forest has long since disap peared, a few scattered remnants only remaining. Specimens have been known which were more than two hundred feet high aud six or eight feet in diameter. As the w hite pine seeds very freely, the site f the ancient for est is indicated by many tracts of vig orous saplings, which in thirty years are available to cut for pail and fish barrel staves, box boards and awen for small building timber. Springing up, as it does, on so many worn out aud abandoned farms, it has made industry and wealth possible to many parts of the state which otherwise would have been wholly deserted. It is estimated that southern New Hampshire contrib utes at least twenty:five million feet of dimension timlier each year for small frames for houses and barns in that section, thus displacing that much spruce framing timber. Ancient Cartoona. The ancients enjoyed cartoons just as we do. and lniked satirical fun at each other by pictures. The walls of Pompeii when dug up were covered in many cases with chalk cartoons of local happenings and with scenes from comic plays. . A TOUCH OF KINDNESS. The Tramp's Humane Inipaise Hi-ought Hint No Krward. He sat slouchingly upon the end of the park bench, his head hanging list lessly over his breast, says the New York World. There was -complete de jection in his attitude. An old hat re sembling a piece of "culls" in a rag shop lay on the ground, where it had fallen from his head. On one foot was an old felt slipper and on the other an old riding lioot, with the top cut off. His trousers and coat Were of a dull, mottled gray that comes from hard wear and dust. Twice he had been moved on by the 'sparrow cop" aud he had made his way to a liench that was secluded and shaded by a tree. He had gone to sleep. In the tree the sparrows hopped and twittered in the shade of the foliage. Suddenly through the branches came twisting a tiny featherling, striving hard to make its tender wings bear up the weight of its liody. It failed and fell on the graveled walk at the old tramp's feet, stunned and breathing with difficulty. Something caused the tramp to open his eyes and they lit on the little sparrow. He looked at it stupidly for a minute, then, drawing his hand across his forehead, he leaned over and picked it U" tenderly. He gazed at it in a wonuring- way and then glanced up at the branches of the tree, where the mother bird fluttered aud chirruped in fright. He drew the bench a little closer to the tree and climbed upon it. That put him within reach of a lower limb. He laid the little bird carefully on a forked branch and, with a strength surprising in one so feeble, he drew himself up and sat on the limb. Above him, within reach, he saw a nest. It was tipped over so that he could see in it two downy bits of birds like the one he had. He gently placed the bird he carried in the nest, let himself down to the ground, drew the bench back to its original place and turned to go just as a "gray coat" called out to him: "Come, now, get on. You've been around here long enough!" DANGER IN THE USE OF SLANG. Eaportenee In Itrooklyn Shows Peril In the Word "Rata." A new illustration of the dangerous confusion that often is created by the prevalence of slang is furnished, says the Brooklyn Times, by an incident re ported in this morning's news. A pro fessional rat catcher went to a fashion aide club the other evening, and at midnight he had bagged fifty rats. With the fifty living rats in a bag for this professional scorns to kill any rats on the premises he left the fash ionable club and started home. Then appeared an unknown policeman, who said: "Where are you going?" "None of your business," answered the rat catcher. "So that's your swag," said the policeman, sarcastically, tapping the bag with his club. "Nary swag," said the rat catcher. "What have you in the bag, then?" Here we come to the first crisis of the story, for the reply was "Rats." The policeman then punched the professional for what he, perhaps reasonably, regard ed as his impertinence. Moreover, he grabbed the bag and thrust in his in quiring, official hand. Here comes the second crisis of the story, for at least seven rats grabbed that hand. The policeman yelled, and shook off the rats, and. the other forty-three leaping from the bag, the street was soon full of rats. The poor policeman, with rats to the right of him. and rats to the left of him and rats in an indefinite vista before and behind him, tied into the night. This is not the first time that slang has indirectly created confusion in the world. The rat catcher had no sus picion that, the policeman would take his explanation amiss. This is the trouble. The slang that creates dis aster is generally used unwittingly. May the present picturesque warning be heeded. A VALUABLE PfctftfLE. The Accidental ood Fortune of a Hun ter In India. Precious stones are still numerous in certain districts of India, anil occasion ally a fine gem is found by a sports man or traveler. A young English of ficer, returning from an unsuccessful hunt on the estate of a petty chief, picked up a stone which lay in his path, and idly threw it against a rock. It broke in a dozen pieces and out fell a brilliant pebble. The Englishman picked it up. looked at it, and was about to throw it away, but changed his mind. "I'll keep it," said he. "as a memento of a day's hunt when I didn't shoot so much as a rat." Some days later, in Bombay, while having his watch repaired, he showed the stone to the jeweler, and asked its worth. "I'll give you twenty pounds for it," said the jeweler, after a careful exami nation. Had he offered -a shilling he might have been told to take the stone aud keep the shilling, but the offer of twenty pounds aroused the officer's suspicions, so he responded, with a laugh: "I dare say you would give me that aud a trifle more, but I'm going to take it to England." He did so, and sold his "pebble" in London for $15,000. A WONDERFUL AUTOMATON. It Took Ita Inventor Twenty-Seven Yours to liulld It. In the year 1770 the most wonderful automaton that has ever been con structed was exhibited at Exeter ex change, London. This automatic wonder represented a country gentle man's house, and was of such intricate and elaborate construction that no one disputed the claim of the exhibitor when he declared that he had worked twenty-seven years in perfecting it. It showed the regulation English country house, with parks, gardens, cascades temples, bridges, etc., besides over one hundred appropriately clad human figures in the gardens, on the bridges chopping wood, and at various building operations. In the park were several deers moving naturally about and four horses and a coach following the me andering road. Besides the above the figures of Ikjvs were seen fishing from the bridges, while a boat load of ladies and gentlemen regularly rowed across an enlargement in the brook, much to the consternation of the natural-looking figures of geese and ducks which were paddling about in the water. The whole of these animate and inanimate figures were inclosed in a space only four and a half feet square. DEFECTIVE GOVERNMENT There la an Absence of Uniform ity In Our State Laws. Wide Differences and Conflicts Met ween the Codes of the Various States Some I'otnta oa Which They Differ. One of the most serious defects in our mode of government is the absence of a uniform system of laws. The laws of the United States are, of course, su preme in every state, but the subjects with which they deal are strictly limited by the federal constitution, and everything which lies ouside is within the jurisdiction of the several states. Acts permitted by local laws or toler ated by local sentiment may be of such a character as seriously to complicate the relatious of the United States with other governments, and yet may be wholly beyond the control of the gen eral government. The attack upon Italians in New Orleans in 1SU1 and many anti-Chinese riots in western states are instances in point, says the Youth's Companion. Each of the forty-four ttates has its own code of laws, to which at every session of its legislature large additions are made. There are wide differences and conflicts among the laws. Business practices which are permissible in some states are forbidden in others. Offenses which are visited with heavy penalties in one state ane not punished at all in another state adjoining; and sometimes a house which happens to lie crossed by a state line is in request, liecause certain acts which would lie illegal at one end of it are legal at the other. Marriage and divorce laws vary widely. Marriage relations forbidden in one state may be entered into under the more lax laws of another, and the parties to them may resume their resi dence in the state from which they -came. A husband may desert his wife, and after living a short time in another state procure a divorce, and sometimes it is possible to conceal knowledge of the proceedings from her until the de cree of divorce has been granted. There. are no means of reconciling these conflicting and contradictory pro visions of law except by agreement among the states. An attempt has been made in this direction through the appointment by the several states of commissioners who meet in annual conference-to consider measures for pro moting uniform laws. New York took the initiative in 1MK), and other states have followed its example. Probably thirty states will lie represented at the conference in Saratoga, this month. The conference has no powers be yond discussion and recommendation. It recommends no law until it has lieen approved with absolute unanimity at two meetings. Business forms were first considered. A uniform law for the acknowledgment and execut ion of ileeds was adopted; then one prcscrili iug the form of a seal; then statutes as to wills and their probate. Legislation as to the weights of the bushel or barrel was next considered. There are now variations which pro mote confusion aud fraud: for example, a bushel of oats is thirty pounds in New Jersey and thirty-two pounds in New York. The conference has recom mended the aliolition of days of grace; proosed a code concerning bills, notes and checks; and considered other ques tions of business law. All the states appointing commission ers expressly directed them to deal with marriage and divorce. Touching the first, the conference has recommended that some ceremony, or formality, or written evidence, signed by lioth parents and attested by one or more witnesses, be required in all marriages; and that stringent provision lie made for their immediate record, however solemnized or entered into. Regarding divorce, it was hopeless to seek agreement concerning causes and methods, but the conference recom mended that no divorce be granted un less the defendant is domiciled or has been domiciled within the state where the action is brought, or has lieen per sonally served with process within the state. This would put an end to the stealthy procuring of divorces in other states than that in which the parties reside. Few as have lieen the recommenda tions of the conference, those that have been adopted by state legislatures have lieen fewer. The work of securing uni formity in state laws must lie slow aud difficult, and partial at the best; but as the reasonableness of it comes to be understood, the commissioners will lie reinforced by a strong public sentiment. THE LATEST NOVELTIES. Am'mintm pens possess all the desir able qualities of steel pens, with tlie additional advantage that they do not corrode. The latest use for tin foil is to pat it down on gas fixtures in barrooms. It looks shiny and pretty when it is fresh, and it keeps off the flies. White bi.ackkekries were a curi osity brought into Ainericus, (la., by a farmer. They were identical with the ordinary blacklierry in form and flavor. A sign put in the Philadelphia trol ley cars a few days ago .requests pas sengers to "remain seated until the car stops, and then got off in the direc tion the car is moving." A newspaper has just been started in Loudon, which is printed on a postal card. The first number has four illus trations, a comic tragedy, a few jokes and puzzles and some advertisements. A Topeka. newspaper alleges that preparations are making in that town for a wedding at which the bride will wear bloomers. She is said to be an exceedingly emancipated type of the new woman. Hurled Him I lee p. The lieadle in a rural district in Perthshire had liecome too feeble to perform his duties as minister's man and grave digger, anil had to get an assistant. The two did not agree well, but after a few months Sandy, the leadle, died, and Tain mas had to perform the last service for his late partner. The minister strolled up to Tammas while he was giving jthe fin ishing touches to the grave, and casu ally remarked: "Have you put Sandy weel down, Tammas?" "I hev that, sir," said Tammas, very decidedly. "Sandy may get up, but he'll be among the hindmost." MYSTERY OF A MAINE ISLAND. A Hermit EnRllahman Who Ended His Misery hy Cutting Ilia Throat. "Some years ago, up at North Haven island, on the Maine coast," said a New Yorker, according to the Sun of that city, "I came across a mystery that haunts me still. A bare rocky point juts out into the sea on one side of the island, and the first year that I visited the place there was a rude cabin on the rock. Having gone out there from cu riosity one day, I found a man in shameful rags trying out the oil from the refuse from a fish-canning factory. When I came to examine the man his appearance astonished me. He was an extremely handsome, well-made Eng lishman of forty or thereabouts. His hands, soiled with the material he worked in, were small and well shaped. When I tried to draw him into conver sation he at first answered in monosylla bles, and was almost sulky in his reserve. He gradually thawed, however, and I found that he spoke rare and lieautiful English, that of a well-read and well bred man. Glancing into the door of his cabin, I could see perhaps a score of well-thumbed volumes in library binding-. His reserve was such that I could not ask him about himself, but I left the island deeply interested in him. "1 turned up at North Haven the next year.and one of the earliest things I did was to go out to the point in search of my acquaintance. The rock was bare again, and there was no trace of him and his cottage. I asked aliout him of some persons I met on the island, and here is what I learned: He had come to the place mysteriously some years before, having lieen dropped by a schooner. He found work at the fish cannery, but later quit the place, built his cabin on the rn-k. supplied himself w-ith food chiefly by fishing, and ob tained from the factory the privilege of trying oil from the refuse. From the product he obtained a 1 ittle ready money for tobacco and other luxuries. At some time between my two visits -his cabin was discovered to be on fire late one night, and, hurrt-ing down, his neighlnirs saw him amid the flames dead, with his throat cut. The fire had so seized upon the hut that his body could not be removed until it was nearly consumed. He was buried and no so lution of the mystery was discovered. Life had evidently liecome insupport able to him, and he had taken the way of suicide as the easiest one out of mis ery." AN AMERICAN TRAIT. Whatever I Done Is with AU the Knarjty Foeaesaed. When E. S. Martin, in his comments on "This Busy World." described w ith accuracy that intensity of energy and excess of zeal which overtrained the Cornell crew and led to their inglorious defeat, he pointed, says Harper's Weekly,- to a trait of American char acter which must be estimated and understood by anyone who undertakes to set forth the existing conditions of American life and development. As Mr. Martin truthfully says: "It has lieen said of politics in tnis country that it is war. In the intensity of business comix-tit ion there seems to lie a grow ing sentiment that business is war." This merely means that the American pushes every principle to its ultimate logical conclusion, but this is one of the keynotes of American character. It may lie a good trait or a bad one, but it is essentially and exclusively an American trait. It is probably the out come of those conditions of freedom under which we struggle and conquer or fall, but it exists in no other country. In this country alone has the principle of business competition lieen pushed to its utmost. Then, when the limit of competition has lieen reached, a struggle equally fierce has developed the principle of combination, and pools, and trusts, and syndicates, aud traffic agreements have shifted the scene and scale and scope of the contest. The principle extends alike to great things and to small ones. We play the game for all there is in it, whether the game lie politics or poker, railroad management or college athletics. It may wear us out, but it does not let us rust out. It may interfere with our growth in sweetness and light, but it is not a trait of weaklings and deca dents. Above all it is evolution, the development of natural causes lying down deep at the roots of our national life. It is a movement we have entered on, to which we are fully committed, and which we could not check if we would. AILING JUST A LITTLE. The Ladlea Took No Further Interest In the lnfant'i. Ileal: h. She had a seat in a Michigan avenue car, with a baby in her lap. all bundled up in an old shawl, says the Ix-troit Free Press. A woman next to her with two small children seemed to have con siderable curiosity about that baby, and, after trying several times to get a sight of its face, she said: "Haven't you got your child bundled up a gHsl deal for this weather?" "But I have to keep him warm. ma am, was the reply. "For what reason?" "The doctor told me to." "Then the poor little thing; is ailing?" "Just a little ailing, ma'am just a little. He's got measles with the mumps atop of it. but the doctor says he's growing " No one heard the rest of her words. There were four or five mothers and six or seven children in the car and there wasa stampede which took them all out and evorvbdy else as well. When the car rolled on again the woman with the baby looked at the conductor inquir ingly and asked: "Has anything broke down or blown up or run off the track to scare em all out?" To Manufacture CJIasa 11 pe. A new method of manufacturing glass pipe has lieen discovered which prom ises to revolutionize that iudustry. It has hitherto lieen found impossible to mold large glass tulies of any great length because the glass would -cool while runniug into the mold, an.l the structure of the tube was not homo geneous. The new method consists of using a mold with a movable pistou. The piston is just enough smaller than the outer shell of the mold to allow for the thickness of the tulie to lie made. The piston is placed the l it torn of the mold and as the molten glass is poured in the piston is forced upward by hydraulic pressure. Pipes are made by this process in sections six feet long and are used for sewers and water pipes. SMOKEJACKS AND CAPS. An Increaaln- Number Coming Into View I'pon the City's Houaetopa. "It seems to me." said a New York citizen recently, "that there is a very striking increase in the nutnlier of chimneypots and smoke jacks and smokeeaps visible in the city. The chimneypots are mostly of the con ventional form, like a slightly tapering cine with the top cut off; the smoke jacks and caps are of various heights and styles. I suppose the object of all these things is to improve the draught of the chimney. I don't know w hy we should have more of them now than we used to, whether it is on account of some difference in the construction of our chimneys, which makes thein nec essary; whether we are not satisfied with a draught that would have satis fied us years ago, and want the chim ney to draw better as we want and ex pect to have everything better nowa days; or whether the construction in these days of many higher buildings has made such changes in the air cur rents and atmospheric conditions gen erally as materially to affect the draught of many chimneys; but I know there are more chimney pots. "This last idea aUmt the breaking1 up of the air currents an.l that sort of thing seemed at first to account in some measure for the greater numlierof the. newer ehimneyiots; but when I come to think of it I rcmemWr that in Ixm ilon ridingalong a viaduct on trains g. ing in or out of the city, I looked down on I should say hundreds of thousands of chimneypots in districts where hun dreds of acres were covered with small houses of unvarying uniformity iu height. There wasn't any deflect ion of currents here, but I doubt if there was a chimney without its chimneypot, a thick -stubble of chimneypots, an.l a mast fascinating sight it was, too. and a fascinatingthought tothink of the myri ads of people that dwelt lieneath them. "Our chimneypots have not yet by any means attain.nl that striking ef fect. They are still greatly scattered; but, with the smoke jacks and the sinokecaps, they are now sufficiently numerous to add to the citj- a feature of pictures.jueness.' SPORTS AND PASTIMES. Two lU'XDEEIi ASH FIFTV pounds of flesh is what Dr. W. . Grace carries from one wicket to another every time he makes a run. The Maine mackerel fleet has had lia.l luck this year. The Portland seiners took but 5.0tl barrels of fish, as against Jrt.Ooo last year. Two big sturgeons, one weighing 2O0 pounds and the other 150 jxiun.ls. were caught at tine haul of the net by a fisherman at Pultneyville. N. Y.. lately. Bakox Hi risen, the Jewish million aire, has just leased the shooting on the estate of Cardinal Vaszary, prince primate of Hungary, which extends over 77.IMKI acres. A r.EM'iNK mountain trout measur ing 20? inches long and weighing 9 pounds was caught near Iurango, Col., a few days ago. It was caught with a seven ounce rod and a No. C hook. An English captain named Burke, serving in Bengal, W ho went liear hunt ing in the mountains lately, was at tacked by a lieast he had wounded. His servant went to his rescue, when the boar carried them lioth over the side of a precipice a thousand feet deep. LAUGHS. Jaspar "Currv is the architect of his own fortune, is he not?" Jumpuppe "Yes; and when he built it he did not provide it -with any exit." I'ui-k. IlF.yiiFscAT IX Pace. Over the grave of the cannibal king they in scrilied w ith trenchant" pen this epi taph: "Write me as one who loved his fellow men." Life, In the F.Mi. Driver of "Bus (to con ductor, whom he has called upi "Jim, the ol' pent liehind's just fell hoffl" Conductor "All right. Bill. 'E'spaid 'is fare." Tit-Bits. A Distinction. "Are abbreviations proper?" asked the young woman. "It depends. replied her mother, "on which you have reference to the Eng lish language or a bicycle costume. Washington Star. She "I'm afraid that it is not me that you're after, but that it is my money you want." He "How foolish in you to say that. You know very well I can't get your money without first get ting you." Boston Transcript. FOREIGNERS IN THE CITIES. In Cincinnati and Milwaukee about sixty-nine per ceut. of all foreign pop ulation are of German birth. Over one-fourth of the entire popula tion in New York was born either in Ireland or in Germany.. New York city contains one-fifth of all the Bussians in this country and one-fourth of all the Italians. It is said that in the Italian colonies of New York there are hundreds of persons w ho speak no English. Ciiicaoo has only twenty per cent, of its population of native birth, the rest lieing foreigners or their children. Milwaukee Is really a foreign city, only thirteen per cent, of its popula tion lieing native born American pa rentage. MANUFACTURING PRODUCTS. Color a no has 17,007 employes in its factories, making1 annually a product valued at t '-!,4SO,-05. In Arkansas 15,y72 persons are em ployed in manufacturing who turn out a product of a-.22.CYJ.179. California has S3.042 employed in its manufactories, turning out an annual product of 13.4(13,996. The factories of Missouri employ H::.1.H9 hands, the annual output being valued at $324.5'.1.99S. Nkvaiia has r.20 persons, said to lie engaged in manufacturing, and thir annual product is l,I0.iio3. OCR immigrants from Italy, Bohemia, Hungary and Russia rarely engage in any line of manufacture. Iowa Laikea DlaappeaLrini. There is no longer doubt as to the gradual disappearance of the smaller lakes in northwestern Iowa. It is only of late that the phenomenon has at tracted general attention, and but re oeutly have people liecome interested iu the preservation of these natural bodies of water. Whether anything; can lie done to check the process effect ing; their extinction Is a problem worthy of serious consideration. V 4 a," i S t :4 wr T
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers