[Franklin E. Denton in The Current.] The morning clomb the East as young as Jere There came io warning of the final day. Hurried the hours, the sun plunged to bi Drenching the West in blood! Outsprang the But shang their aspect for the grief di- 1 shriveled as if leaves! Rich provinces were a The roasting nations robed the shri eka! The emerald Andes of the oceans writhed Above the clouds in their green agony. ghastl r, a stupendous Wonder upon Its And all the universe was peage and joy! For Discord is Time's timate, But Concord, daughter of Eternity. WASHING TON MONUMENT, The Cost, Appearance and Coustrue tion=lu the Elevator, [George Alfred Townsend.) It is a majestic thing to stand below and look upon this wonderful shaft, which has, even at the top, the extent of a considerable: house, and at the base is, 1 think, sixty feet square. It has cost about $400,000, but more than a fifth of this was spent fixing the old foundations, so as to render it sure that the weight of the shaft could be supported. One almost regrets to see this monu- mont finished when he thinks of the musical clatter mode by the innumeras ble workmen with their woolen mallets and cold ehirels cutting away at the The “Anvil Chorus’ was hardly wore pleasing to the ear. The monu ment is not situated on very high ground. It is probably not more than forty or fifty feet above the tide. But it sim the very eve of Washington, ine losed by all the hills, and there are some beauti tiful effects from this noble shaft, which is, 1 think, over 500 feet high. As you go into Washington from the north you can sec this shaft, now rising behind the capitol, which is on a hill, and the monument is about a mile further off. Yet the shaft clearly rises to the eye above the dome of the capitol when the passenger is some two miles off from the domo. The shaft is seen to move nearer and nearer the dome, and finally stands right behind it, like a tall man looking down on a kite. Slowlythe shaft passes. off <..to ‘the left; and scems to be working through the airr It is all made of a very nice quality of American mar sle from a little way out of ‘Baltimore. This monument marks rather a new era in the build.ng of great shafts. No other shaft now existing ‘that 1 know of was constructed by the aid of steam. When this monument was be- lune very like A courageous seems to grow The supports at the e straws. It goes up carrying the prodigious about sixteen feet long the crane seems to feel in the wet hydraulic cement iY disponsd al if Hi 58 it i Jpn mn, ancient path. And then The bright orb« sparkled, and the great sun (Chicago Tribune. While the steam’’ are ringing consumpt with a New York reporter he gives an interesting glimpsé of what he is after and what he thinks are his chances of success, What he desires to socom- plish is, to de away with theintermedi- ary ; ; steams ‘engines and dynamos ‘are now used in the pro- duction of electricity, and to procure that powerful force directly from the fuel as electricity is now gotten from tho combustion of zine in the battery. In consequence of the complicated methods by which the combustion of coal is this now converted into electricity much as it should, We now, as agent cost ten times as is well known, from coal but one-fifth to one-tenth part of the power it contains. Edison reports that he has found no trouble in obtaining a slight current of electricity directly from the combustion of fuel, but he has struck.as yet an in- superable barrier to further progress. Before this barrier his experiments, like the similar successes of Jablochkoff and some German investigators remain mere laboratory curiosities. He will give himself five years ‘to unlock this secrot of nature and will think himself lucky if he succeeds in that time. The description Edison gives of the happy results that would flow from the realization of his dreams of cheap elec tricity justifies his enthusiastic declara- tion that the inventor who succeeds in getting at it will do the world the great- est material service yet rendered to man. The unscientific world, he says, has no conception of what sucha discovery would mean. It would put an end to boilers and steam engines; it would make power about one-tenth a» cheap as it 8 now il would able a steamship to cross the Atiantic at a nominal cost; it would enable ever) poor man to run his own carriage It would ial world. motor for all kinds of work want is some means of current cheaply Now it costs ten times as much as it onght to. When we discover the short cut from the com- bustion of coal directly to electricity we can heat and light houses, do all the cooking, move all kinds of - machinery, vehicles and boats—do all the world's work, in fact, for almost nothing com pared to what it now costs us. There is a i time coming for somebody. ere is another possibility in this possibility of cheap electricity which Edison does not refer to. Babbage, the great English mathematician and philos. opher, predicted that if a Wer Was ever discovered which could be cheaply distributed from a common center to the houses and shops ui the working classes it would completely revolutionize the tendency of steam to mass capital and labor in great factories and swarming hives of industry, *The de serted village would” live again The efficiency of production gained by the consolidation of multitudinous home f , home shuttles, home shoe- borichies of the old regime into the steam-driven mills of to-day bas been paid for at a ruinous social price. Happy v have been ‘swallowed up . In y factory towns, and the division of labor has been carried so far that every laborer is but the fractional om of aman. I sheap electricity will do all that Edison claims for it on the urcly material side, and will, as Bab- an prophesied, reduce the inflamma- tory evils of our con industrial centers, ita discoverer will certainly do the world the most important material sor- vice yet rendered unto men. revolutioniz the indusirial The electric motor is the ideal What we producing the Gentlemen at Larg-, [Boston Bu gat.) We have among us a class of men who deserve neither our commiseration, sym- pathy Bok pay: who are miserable by choice, and of no value in society. We allude to those who have lived a iife of nurions celibacy, antil the propert pri by niggardly savings a yr mortifying deprivations hovers over them by day and by night in visions of distrust, disquie and fear. These are they who never listen to the petition of the widow nor the ery of the orphan, whose charities end where they began, at home, if he may be sald to have a home, who has no feelings in community with the world nor its families, We Lave one such in our mind's eye at this moment; he is a man who neither indulges in the vicious nor the innocent pleasures of the age; his life is as lar and monotonous as an eight-day clock; he is punctual in waking and rising, punctual in lying down and sleeping, punctual at ast, punctual at his most di in making a return. leaves the city in the fo avuid ha tusntioty having Where Indigestion Begins, [Detroit Free Press) Indigestion is often set up at the earliest and, to the d light~ est meal of the da which ha plo ably confines himself to h stisp but- with very lighl Ap with a very y¥ Ogg, Or a fat bacon, the whole moistened with a little tes. In the word just used “moistened,” probably lies the *‘predis- ing couse.” The food, when only alf is moistened with a sip of tea to expedite its departure to the stomach; to insure its digestion, be it ever so simple, the food must be yi mationed and receive dur- process moisture from the saliva. Bey Food should be swallowed without ex- trancous aid in a liquid form, and ought never to be washed down. A sip of tea may be taken between the bites, but not when there is food in the mouth, of which a fair quantity ought to be dis- posed of before the tea is even thought of. The tea itself, by being slowly sipped, receives its share of the saliva is rendered more digestible. And this assertion is borneout by the fact that many persons. whe cannot digest milk when gulped or drank down quickly, readily do so when it is slowly sipped. The habit of taking one's breakfast in the manner recommended is wo yay easily acquired that, after the first trial, no inconvenience will be felt; in fact, the food will be enjoyed and the pleas ure of the meal greatly increased. In- discretions committed at the dinver- table are credited as the cause of many dyspeptic attacks, but probably more may be traced to the pernicious habit indicated and indulged in by so many persons at breakfast and tea Progress in Common Schools, (“Bill Arp” in Atlanta Constitution. } But 1 suppose this is progress, and it takes more learning to do this genera tion than it used to, and so they must be loaded heavier. Cobe wouldn't take a long shoot at a squirrel for fear of straining un, but we must shoot pow, strain or no strain, | was in hopes ther reform in LL i Bil. and we wold leave ut i Lod + letters and say t see why I, aba we have got ADO 8 HOLL AS Rix plow as good as plough \ I remember when 1 when the way to oud was to bu ward buziizzard a rd (card) buzzard, Mrs, Arp says that when she was a cl Al Was a long time ago) an old-fashionsd carpenter was working for her father, and she wanted to play with the footadze and the carpenter said she utight if she onuld spell it. She tried several ways, bat he said no, that the way to spell adze was a d izzard e But our little chaps are happy now. They go a mile and a half to school and carry their dinner and they eat some al the first recess and the rest at noon, and come home hungry, and ransack the cupboard and closet. 1 go out to meet them most every evening for their ab rid of some things was called izzard and ped | uzzard out sil } jiadi (13 sense makes me lonesome, and | wish | was a boy again that | might go with them. | look forward to Saturday and Sunday as proudly as they do. Chil dren are a great trial and a source of constant eare and anxiety, but they are a blessed comfort, too. An Author's Peculiar Way. y {London World.) For the life of him, Stepunigk could not work regularly and methodically as, for instance, Anthony Trollope was won't to work. Like all men of nervous temperament, he is more in the vein at some times than at others, and, though the reverse of a desultory worker, he writes by fits and starts. But the fits are of frequent occurrence, and when be finds one coming on he places him. self under what he calls the regime litteraire. po to bed at midnight rises at 2, and plies his pen without surcease — save for refreshment, which he tastes as he Writes until noon. Then he sleep: for about three hours, when he again sets to work, and, until midnight, gives himself only one or two short 8 of rest. This goes on for five or six days a week, or until the task he has set him self is accomplished; and while it is in progress he drinks enormous quantities of tea and coffee, ohe as black asthe other, Like all conscientious men of artisti feeling, he does not find writing easy He writes slowly and polishes with y enre; there are whole chapter of is “U round Russia which were written and rewritten six times, and even then sent to the printer with re luctance, so far from perfection did they soem. What the Baby Was Thinking. [Boston Transcript.) «As 1 came by the station pp saw a baby in its carriage t was amusing to see the little thing watch the locomotive as it rushed past and until it was out of sight. 1 won. der what the little darling was think. of. ‘ogg That depends. If it was a girl, she was thinking “splendid,” “just too lovely for anything," or something of that sort. If it was a boy, he might have been mentally constructing a smoke-consumer or patent coupler, but probably was considering whether it was best to invest in the road's com. mon preferred stock, its first, second or bonds, its equipment wvens, land-grant eights, or ear-trust Mrs, Fi | Sprang { TET | Goterminm FLORIDA SULPHUR POOLS. ‘Natural Phenomena in the Poninsus lar State Explsined, ra nile ig Times-Union, tha o Apalachicola Tribune explains great smoke which has been puzzling observers for y and which could be seen on any clo ay ascending from the vicinity of Ancills river, in Florida. Various efforts have n made to discover the voleano, while, on the other hand, some have concluded that the smoke came from the | camp-fires of some remnant of the Semi- pole Indians, The Times Democrat ex- tion threw no light upoh the mys , the tall grass, dense un- Saifrowin impeding the progress of the cu One Capt. Asher is the hero who ar- rived in Apalachicola, with the follow- ing information, which puts out the Florida volcano, and the romance is lost of the poor Seminole lingering in the | land of his fathers. At the same time ' it adds to the attractions of the lovely land of fruits, flowers, and wonders. Perhaps from the sulphuric pools came the healing virtues which laid the foun dation for the legend that in Florida flowed the waters of eternal Jouth. Capt. Asher was in search of palmetto logs on the Ancilla river when he de- scried the smoke or cloud from a point in the distance. Remembering the many reports he had heurd about this smoke, he determined to un- earth this mystery, if possi ble. Ro, calling his crew to- gether, and picking up their traps, the sarty pursued their way in the small Ponta up the Ancilla river. They trav. lex] mp the river, or creek, for it hardly deserves the name of river, for miles. Afrer ascending from its mouth twenty- five or thirty miles, he judges, he was brought to an abragt halt by a rock bar rier in front. Upon investigating he | found that the river ended and was lost | underneath the ground. Seeing that the smoke became more distinct at this point, an | seomedd straight shead, he had the boat hauled up to the in Floruia Mi as being of the rocks Aan oOrGinary dwel taining Lahier describes so Wns large ner ing and apparently bollow, co water. He de then as being of a flinty appearance, and when | struck with an iron or steel instrument | to emit thousands of sparks. A mile or | two further on were seen numerous rocks that were formed into round basing, their sides being smooth and beautifully polished. Mr. Asher sprang upon the top of one of these basins As his foot came in coniact with the flinty substance a hollow sound was emitted from the rock. Calling for a pole, and it being handed to him, he placed it in the center of the basin. What was his surprise on drawing the pole to the top may be easily ed when he discovered that the rock, bein hollow, was filled with a strong sul- phuriec water. Pursuing their way thyough the bog, sometimes up to their knees, again on bard ground for some distance, then again scratched and braised by the underbrush, and fighting musquitoes that seemed 10 resent this intrusion of their dominion, the little party bad a hard time of it. Presently they came to where the river issued from its underground covert and pursued its way onward, to again disappear in the bowels of the earth. Mr. Asher states that every few hun dred yards those pools would make their appearance, and from them would issue white, misty clouds that would ascend heavenward, seeming in the distance to be clouds of smoke. He stated that the water in these pools was as clear as crystal and filled with beautiful fish, both fresh and salt. He caught a t many of the fish, and attempted to drink some of the water, but it was unpaiata ble nauseating to the smell taste. He spent several days wandering around these points, and he says he never before thought there was such a place in Florida. He discovered several rocks that he presumed would have answered very well for houses, being quite as large, hollow, and the walls as smooth as wy He appeared to think it very strange that these monster rocks should be found in such a low, flat, marshy section. He says that the rocks are separated by a distance of 200 feet, and rear their black, grimy heads to heaven from a level plain of marshy soil. There are no indications of there having been a hill, much less a volcano, in this rection, and the smoke or cloud seen so often is simply the vapor risiag from the sulphuric pools. ribes much Dress Reform for Men. War Pail Nail Gaeta, Now, to my mind the dress, not of the time of William the Conqueror, or of the seventeenth contury, but 08 Jat 100 years ago, was the most suitable and most wanly that was ever worn by the male ation of these islands. revert ha to it, we should get rid of two incon. venient and ugly Jurtiohs of our attiro—namely, ey the almost equall Job Office “| And Have YourJob Work CHEAPLY, NEATLY AND WITH DISPATCH. Now is the Time to Subscribe FOR THE “CENTRE DEMOCRAT,” The LARGEST and CHEAPEST Paper ir Bellefonte. ONLY:$1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE. f 4 i ET
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