THE FOREST REPUBLICAN Ii pnbllahed evcrj We Inesday, by J. E. WENK. Office 111 Bmenrbnugh & Co.'a Building, ELM BTllKET, TIONKSTA, PA. RATE8 OF ADVERTISING. One Bin", one lnPD' one l,rton J? One Pqnere, one Inch, one month w One 9qnre, one Inch, three monthi w One Sqnsre, ono men, one year..... - Two 8qnre, one year Qnerter Column, one year - Half Column, one year One Colomnjone year. lw w Terms, tl.SO per Year. Legal notlcee at entabllfhed ratef. Marriage and death notices gratia. All bill for yearly sdvertlnemcnti. ea" I"" terty. Temporary advertisements muet be paid In advance. Job work cash on delivery. Ko enbiicrlptloni received for a nhorter period tliftn throe month. t'orrnnpondmicn nolicltefl from All part of tho country. No notice will be takou of auonymoiu coramuulcationi. VOL. XVI. NO. 52. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY. APRIL 9. 1884. $1.50 PER ANNUM. yL J M . CJIU LRU L .IL . U r FOnOIVE AND FOHOET. Were we but generous, kind end forbearing, Boon would this earth bo an Edon of flow ers. Then would the frowns we are constantly wearing Be lost In the laughter of happier hours; Then would a holler light Make life's dark pathway bright, Chining whore anger nnd discord have mot; Thon would all warfare onaso, Angola would whisper "Tence!" If we would only "forgive and forgot." When a loved friend we have thoughtlessly wounded, Let us not seek his forgiveness alone; Owning our error, witli courage unbounded) Ohl let us earnestly strive to atone; Conquer ou, pride, and then Hold out our hand ngain, Bure that our fripnd will respond to us yet; Then will he haste once more Knowing our wrath is o'er Eager as we to "forgive and forget." E'en 'mid the children so artless and loving Often the voice of dissension may rise; Angels look earthward with faces reproving The glances of anger that flash from their eyes! But ere the night descends, Lot all the tumult cuds, Innocent kisses and tears of regret Mingle with gracious words, Teaching the warbling; birds Childhood's sweet lesson, "forgive and for get." Friends that are dearest may cruelly grieve us; Bitter resentment but adds to our pain; Let us be merciful soon they may leave us, Let them not reek our forgiveness in vain. Though we have suffered long Under a cloud of wrong, Vbey who have wounded may comfort us yet j Tongues can but idly preach, Only kind actions teach Life's noblest lesson, "forgive and forget." ' Fanny Forrester, in Cassell's Magazine. AN UNKNOWN FRIEND. Half -Moon was a new mining camp in a deep canon at the bead waters of the Gunnison. Ono of that adventurous class known as " prospectors " had, in tho full of 1881, wandered through that country, following a burro which boro upon its back all his worldly wealth, and had brought into winter quarters iu tho valley of the Arkansas such promis ing specimens of brittle and ruby silver that many, seeing tucin, wero induced to go in tho spring to spy out tho land. And so it happened, on a March night in 188!J, that a dozen cainp-tires were brightly burning, a dozen tents were dimly outlined iu tho shadows and open ings of tho stunted pint'9, and forty or nftv men. in trrouns of from three to six. wero gathered around tho lires smoking their evening pipes and relating their ex periences and wonderful linds of tho year before. Among fifty men brought together from every part of tho world, in a wild country, by a purpose born, to some ex tent at least, of sellishhess and greed, some nro likely to be found in whom brutishncss predominates. There were several such in tho camp at Half-Moon Bill Lewis had seen nature in all her majesty, moods and aspects for more than thirty years; had traversed the country from tho Missouri to tho Pacific shore ; lunched on the highest summits and camped in the deepest gorges. A nd yet his depravity was immense I He had been convicted of a dozen crimes, and committed an hundred others without conviction. Thero was another man or rather boy in that camp; but ho could not bo seen that evening around any of tho fires, lie had como into the gulch, in a crowd of seven, who had been on tho trail some twenty days together, and Hill Lewis was another of tho seven. His name was Zeno Brown. His comrades hud failed to catch or comprehend his first name, and he had come to bo called "Little John." He would have been remarked any where in a mining region as ono wholly out of place. Ho was light, delicate and fragile though seemingly in good health before coming to the gulch und was illy fitted to meet tho vicissitudes of a moun tain lifo. He might have been born for an artist or poet, or both; he certainly was never intended for a miner. In coming into the gulch the party had an unusually serious trip. The trial was illy defined ; tho snow was deep and soft, they had been compelled to unpack their animals a score of times, and to sleep in wet clothes and wet snow. For all this, however, most of them cared but little. They were not invalid tourists, and they had crossed tho range too many times in bad weather to be much troubled by one trip more. But with Little John tho case was dif . ferent. Ho had never before been thus exposed, and was evidently not sustained to any considerable extent by a hopeful spirit, and he had succumbed. Ho lay in his tent in his rough blanket bed, sick, prostrated, exhausted. They had been talking of him around tho fire when some one, coming from a tent in a grove near by, said : " I think Little Johu'llgo up to-night. He's crazy now, an' thinks he's in Ohio; an' keeps talkin' of his mother." Bill Lewis, before silent and sullen, started up at once. " I'll go see the kid," he said. He went, and all followed in wonder. Tho bed was warm enough, and soft enough. But it and its surroundings were terribly rough for one like him in his condition. The palo face amid the shaggy blankets, lit up by a tallow cuudlo burning in a can; tho saddles, ropes, kettles and tools scattered around among tho bushes upon tho earth floor all to gether formed a scene weird and Impressive "Pnrdsl that yer kid must bo saved. " said Bill Lewis. ''If you follorg have a mind to turn in an' help well an' good; but anyhow, that kid's going to bo saved for his mother ?" It was thirteen miles east over tho range to the nearest cabin. Tho summit was nearly fourteen thousand feet in height, and upon it a storm was raging. Tho spurs to tho north and west were ut terly impassable. Tho only way out was down tho gulch by tho Bamo route over which they had recently come in. Al though by this trail thero would be no 8lorm, there was worse. There wero slides, precipices, and difficulties innum erable. Beside, it would only lead into tho broad valley of tho Gunnison. Tho range must yet be crossed to tho east be fore a railroad town could bo reached or tho advantages of shelter and medical at tendance secured. They believed tho boy would die before morning. How, then, could ho bo saved t "Bill, seeing their questioning looks, answered them : "See here, pards; the boy ain't near so sick as ye think ho is. He's tired, wore out, an' tcetotallv discouraged: but he's young, ain't burnt out with whisky ! an' in my opinion's more homesick than sick. I've seen them feliars before. If we can make him understand there's a chance of his gittin' home, he'll hang on so we kin git him home. I'll rig a litter on lialaam (Halaam was Bill s burro), an' we'll take him down the valley to Taylor Creek. A couple o' you feliars kin then cross tho range by Brush Creek trail to Copper Creek, an' git more feliars thar, an' meet mo an' the kid on the summit of Red Mountain. Ther's an empty cabin at timber-line on tho west o' Red Moun tain, an' meet me thar an hour by sun to morrow. If yer hustle yer'll git thar. Yer ought ter fetch up by midnight on tho summit." It is useless to attempt to convey an idea of what this plan involved. Ihcy wero ready in an hour. Bill rigged a litter upon his burro, as Indians do, and in it placed Littlo John. At 11 o'clock tho procession started down the gulch. There were two men beside Jill 1. While ttieso went forward and flicked out the trail, Bill attended to the itter. Their progress was slow and their mishaps many, but without serious accident they reached the valley at day light, and at 12 o clock were at Taylor creek. Little John was no worse. He was partly conscious and had been mado to understand that he was going toward homo. Bill's assistants were to leave him at this point, and he delivered a last injunction. "Now, pards, let's have no hitches. I kin mako tho cabin in five or six hours easy enough, an' shall stop thar an hour to rest an warm. If 1 kin mako the next two miles over tho summit the thing's done. If it's quiet-like, niebbe I kin mako it. If it storms God help us. You must be thar at tho summit at mid night. If the snow's drifted bad, Ba laam can't mako it, an' we'll have to carry the boy. When you git thar, if it storms, hunt 'round, an' yer'll find me an' Balaam an' the kid somewhrfr in the snow. Now git; an' an' if you ever loved yer mothers don't you fail!" The two departed ; reached and passed the summit before daylight had faded, and at six o'clock were in the timber of Copper Creek on tho eastern slope. In a few minutes more they were in a snug cabin by a glowing lire, telling their story to four fearless, big-hearted miners. They all knew Bill Lewis, and thought he could win if any man could ; but they had littlo hope of finding Littlo John alive. They all, however, willingly made ready to set out. They had eight miles of comparatively easy trail, which they thought they could do in three hours, leaving them two hours in which to climb tho two miles from timber-line to Bed Mountain summit. Without great difficulty they reached the foot of the slide in the time proposed. Ono by one they crawled up the fearful winding way. Not a word was spoken. No ono had heart to speak or breath to spare. Even minutes seemed long in a time and phice like this, and it seemed au ago before they saw tho top, aud, oh, how long before they reached itl They had hitherto been warm enough. But when they turned tho summit the cold west wind chilled them through. There was no snow falling, but the wind was driving and swirling tho recent snow in small cyclones of horrec around their shrinking forms. In a moment they had abandoned every hope. There was no Bill Lewis there. There was no council held; there was no time for that; but instinctively every man rushed forward for some slight shelter. Onward they went, at times easily and rapidly over tho hard, old ... . t' -.i tj snow, and men struggling mrougn ueep drifts, until, half a mile from the summit, they saw something dark in tho snow ahead. It could be nothing else. But were they alive or dead? Good, faithful Balaam! no man shall abuse thee more. Brave Bill Lewis! Thy sins be forgiven thee ! Bill had worked his way up from the cabin by tramping tho snow in front of Balaam, a hundred yards at a time, and. going over tho ground several times until the animal could pass through, and then repeating for unother hundred feet. This he had done in biting blast and blinding snow, never faltering, never despairing, for six loner hours. Bill's greeting was characteristic: "Well doue, pards! I know'd you'd come. The kid was better at the cabin; but whether alive or dead now I don't know. Look an' see." Little John was alive and warm. "Now, pards, there's six of you. Ba laam's pretty nigh played out. Bhoulder the ends p' them 'ero poles, on' strike for Caspar's cabin first trail to the left after ye striko timber. Balaam an' I'll go back to tho cabin, an' come over in the morn in You kin wait for me. I'll come for I've learnt sumthin' at that thar cabin, an' I'm goin' to see this thing through 1" ihesixmcn took up tho litter, and Bill and Balaam went back to tho cabin at timber line. The next morning was a bright ono on tho eastern slope of the main range. Low down on tho big timber, nestled in a warm nook, with an eastern and southern exposure, was a miner's cabin. Already tho water was dripping from tho roof-logs which overhung the front; the pile of mineral specimens on tho rude shelf be side the door sparkled in the sunshine; the dog basked upon the chips; tho bur ros rubbed their necks together at tho watering-place; the firo was snapping in the rude forge, and a miner was heating and pounding his drills and picks. Other men were sitting on tho shafting timbers which were piled around, smoking then pipes and talking of the sick boy who lay within. Littlo John had already made his way to these stranger's hearts. He was not delirious now. But he was palo, and wore a hopeless look that was pitiful. No one cf them thought he had yet come out from under the dark shad ow, and there was a sadness in their faces and a hush in their voices. After a few hours Bill came. The miners proposed to go to the railroad station for a physician and such delicacies as mining camps do not afford. Bill accepted the proposition in regard to tho delicacies, but insisted that he himself would be tho nurso and physician. Under his rough but gentle care the boy rapidly improved, and at the end of tho week Bill called the two Half-Moon men out for a littlo talk. "Ilev yer got any plans 'bout this kid t" Both answered that they had not. They left everything to him. " This kid wuz clear-headed at the cabin on t'other side, an' him an' me talked. We've talked here. An' you see, he wuz a clerk or sumthin' in a bank, back in Ohio, an' there wuz money stole ! They took him up for stealin' it; but somehow they couldn't prove it on him, an' had to turn him loose. But many people said ho stole it all the same, an' ho couldn't bear the disgrace, an' so come to the mountains, Hid mother's poor. What he got in the bank wuz all both on 'em had. Binco he come to P'eblo he's found out who did steal the money. But he hain't got a shiner to go back with an' set himself right. That's how he's here. "Now, pards, Tve got nineteen thousand odd in tho Lcadville bank, paid in on my Belden sale. I hain't got a pesky relation in tho world, an' if I git my, hands on that money I'll likely blow it nil in. So I'm going to send that kid home, an' give ten thousan' to his mother. The balance is a big enough stake fur me; an' then, ye see, if I do a good thing for his mother may bo it'll count again the infernal meanness I did to mine ! So we'll tak him down to Hayden's, an' ono o' you can stay with him an' t'other go up with me to Leadville an' get some money an' a draft I've got her name and whar she lives an' then we'll come back an' send him home, an' send the draft to his mother. D'yer see ?" Three days afterwards they put Little John in a sleeping car, with a ticket and fifty dollars in his pocket, and on the samo day a draft for ten thousand dollars was mailed to his mother in a letter of remittance signed "An Unknown Friend." A Peculiar Weed. A curious kind of weed which grows in tho Arkansas valley has often proved misleading to sportsmen. It is shaped like a ball and varies in size from one foot or less in diameter to five or six feet, some specimens, being as tall as a man. It grows upon a small stem, which is, however, stout enough to bear the mass till it had ripened and dried, when a puff of wind will blow it over and snap the slender support. Then it is that every gust of wind sends it rolling over tho prairie, bounding over bushes and rocks with the greatest elasticity and lightness. When tho wind is strong and high these tumbling weeds present a most peculiar appearance as they bound from rock to rock, and iu more than one instance hunters have mistaken them for bisons and felt considerable irritation at the impossibility of bring them within rango of their guus. A Dangerous Experiment. A new aud dangerous development of mesmerism was displayed tho other day at Paris to an admiring and sympathizing public by a well-known mesmerist, who, at tho same time, is a lion keeper in a certain menagerie. A beautilul young girl, on whom tho mesmerist generally practices, was brought into a ciije of lions, and, after being thrown hto cataleptic sleep, was submitted to the most frightful ordeals. In one of these the head and arm of tho girl were put into tho mouth of tho lion, which hud previously been infuriated by lashes from its master's whip. But the apparently dead body did not excite the animal's appetite. At the end of the scene the girl was released and went smiling away, while the mesmerist earned rich laurels. Pall Mall Gazette. A Hint of Unseen Danger. They were in the parlor and she was playing the piano and singing the new song. "Oh, Where have the Old Folks Gone?" He wanted to be funny and said: "Guess they've gone to bed by this tirao." "Don't you be sure ubo,ut that," answered the charming girl; "pa may be out in the back yard at this moment ettiug the dog loose," LoatH Cititen, NEWS AND NOTES TOR WOMEN. Grenadine curtains edged with antique laco are suggested for country houses. French fashion plates for spring show bouffant effects in the drapery of dresses. Tho trains of rccently-mado French dresses measure nearly two yards and a half. Suits for tho spring are made with the peplum, each point being finished with a tassel. Of all the things that man possesses woman alone takes pleasure in being pos sessed. .French patterns imported for the spring trade appear in artistic English designs. The small bonnet is still in high favor, and each dress should have ono to go with it. A female cowboy that is to say, a cowgirl has been discovered in New Mexico. A woman's heart, like the moon, is al ways changing; but there is always a man in it. A Paris novelty is a wrap of silk or cloth with a border of fox tails arranged as a fringe. Parisian women are powdering their hair and arranging it a la Mary Stuart in tho evening. Sleeves expand above the armsize at the shoulder, and puffs are added on top of the sleeve. Mantles and dolmans made of camel's hair shawls have gone out of fashion and are now seldom seen. Chenille trimmings in all shades and styles are the most popular trimmings for dress goods and wraps. The newest handkerchiefs have just tho faintest suggestion of hem, and are mado of plain white linen. Bonnet strings are now never tied un der the hair and tho back. They are tied in a bow directly under the chin. Sometimes aefellow feels lonely, and would liko to have some nice young wo man to tell him how lonely he feels. . Susan B. Anthony is writing a book containing her observations on the position of woman in European coun tries. Servant girls in Germany who remain in the constant service of one family for forty years receive a medal from the em press when the case is made known to her. The empress of Austria's health has failed very much of late, and 6he has been suffering severely from, rheumatism and sciatica the penalty of rough out door exercise. All female medical students in Russia are compelled to reside in a house pro vided by the authorities, and to bo at homo before nine o'clock in tho evening, because they are suspected to have Nihil ist proclivities. The most fashionable gloves are those made of tan and grey undressed kid, in mousquctaire style. Lace or button gloves are now seldom worn. GIc vos are now never drawn up over the sleeve, but arranged at tho wrist in wrinkles. Polonaises made very long and fitting perfectly will be as much worn this sen son as they have been during the past. They will be worn over chamois scin waists. Bands of feathers will bo the trimming most used on these polonaises. Miss Nina Batchelor, of Kentucky, who, besides being the most beautiful woman in Paris, where her red-gold hair and dark eyes make a wonderful social sensation, is proclaimed by her professor, M. Saintpieyrc, as a future 6 tar of the first magnitude in oil-painting. A recruit enlisted as Elisha B'arton at a Chicago recruiting office, and , all was well till he came to the medical examina tion. Then he objected, and it came out that the lusty chap was Mrs. LVzzie Bur ton, who had taken that method of ac companying her husband, who had that day enlisted, to the tented lieVd. A woman has been tending n switch at a railroad junction near Macon, Ga., since 1802, having succeeded her hus band, who was switchmun for ten years previous. She is at her post from six iu the morning till 6 in tha evening, and during the whole long period of her ser vice has never misplaced a switch. She is sixty-two years old. Princess polonaises of plain velvet are made with full pleats in the back and a pointed basque in front. This displays advantageously the front of a skirt ol broche velvet, or a satin skirt that has rows of sabre fur down the front. When worn in the street a sable collarette and large cuffs are added, and a band of sable trims the velvet bonnet. Mrs. Sheridan, wife of General Sheri dan, is a great favorite in Washington. She lives on Sixteenth street, near Scott Circle, in a house which vas presented to her husband by the Chicago club, of which he was a member. Her afternoon receptions are always well attended, and, unlike tho majority of people, she has plenty of sunshine in her pretty parlor. She is very affable, making strangers feci comfortable, at the same time being rather dignified. A White House Boom. A room iu the White House is decor ated iu the style of tho thirteenth cen tury. It contains also a Japanese screen, tho portraits of Grant and Van Huron, a piece of tapestry showing Gutenberg reading aloud from his first block-letter Bible, und furniture of cherry wood. When, after the lapse of a century or two, the decorative artists of that period starch for specimens of nineteenth cen tury decorations, they will doubtless find thutlves a tiille puzzled, on entering this room. 7' fa Current. ROMANCE OF TELEGRAPHY. CtTBXOUS IWCIDEWT3 121 COlHfEO TIOK WITH TELSaBAPHISO. The none Alphabet as nsed In Ex tremity Some odd Adventures of Telegraph Operators. The delicate Instruments of a telegraph office arc not indispensable to communi cating by telegraph. Tho Morse alpha bet may be rend by those familior with it by hearing, sight, taste and feeling. Its dots and dashes maybe expressed by any thing that will make a sounder, by a stick waved in the air, or by a light in the dark. There arc some curious instances of tele graphing without key, relay and sounder. About twenty years ago Colonel J. J. S. Wilson, of this city, then an active tele graph superintendent, was on a tour in the southern part of this State. It was a season of floods. Large portions of the country adjacent to the Ohio and Missis sippi rivers were inundated, and the wreckage had included the washing away of many miles of poles and wire. It be came necessary to communicate with a point on the Missouri bank of the Missis sippi river by telegraph. The fertile in vention of dblonel Wilson directed that a locomotive be run to the Illinois bank. Mounting the foot-board he grasped the valve and soon tho shrill screams of the locomotive whistle were heard by the lis tening operators on the other shore, whist ling out Wilson's message in tho long and short sounds of the alphabet familiar to them as that of their primers. Commun ication was kept up in this way for sev eral hours. A train on a western railroad several years ago met with a terrible accident miles from any station. Among tho pas sengers was a young telegrapher. His ready mind took in the situation, and climbing the nearest polo it was an easy task to cut tho wire, and using the two ends as a kev send a messasre for help. To receive the reply was a more difficult task. Here again the young man s mven tion stood in good stead and spurred him on to an exhibition of nerve that is rarely met with. Admonishing the distant ope rator to send slowly, he placed the cut ends of the wire upon his tongue, and by the strength of each shock to that den cate member made out the letters until the message was complete. That young man's sense of taste was destroyed ana returned only in a weakened degreo after two or three years. A rich citizen of Ban Francisco owes his life to his knowledge of telegraphy acquired many years ago. Wandering over Southern California as a prospector, he was captured by a band of Mexican desperadoes. They carried him to an abandoned hacienda, and with mocking cruelty set him at their table to feast before, as they told him, they killed him, 1 he prisoner recognized among his cai tors an old campanion, also an operator, who had gone to the bad a little time before. The recognition was mutual but neither dared to address the other, The captive's quick wit improvised sounder out of his knife and fork, and whilo to the others ho appeared playing with them, his cry for assistance was read and understood by his old-timo comrade. They formed in this way a plan of escape which was successfully carried out. 4 The United States government in several of its lighthouses have the lan terns arranged so as to emit long and short flashes of light, which lorm certain letters of the telegraphic code. This is a method of distinguishing tho beacon, which is easily understood by a little practice. There happened to bo an ope rator on board of a small coasting schooner which was cast on a Florida reef in such a position that escape from the ship and aid from the shore were both out of the question during the night of the wreck. Throughout the long hours of suspense he kept up communi cation with another operator on shore by means of a laatcrn, and word of hope, of sympathy, and encouragement passed back and forth until day dawned and made rescue possible. Chicago Inter Ocean. Church Fires. The Chronicle states that nearly eight hundred churches an average of about eight per month have been destroyed by fire iu the United States in the past nine years. According to the lire tables of the above-named journal, there were one hundred and nineteeu churches de stroyed during tho year 1882, at a loss of $072,170, and a loss to insurance com panies of $312,280. Among tho princi pal causes ascribed for these fires are de fective flues and heating apparatus and incendiarism. The incendiary is no re specter of buildings, and not only bears his flaming torch through the thorough fares of our large cities, but also appears at Intervals in our smaller cities and ob scure country' towns. Churchss, and particularly those located in country towns, are too often built of the cheapest and weakest material, and present strong temptations to tho inherent lovers of tires and easy prey to tho fire tiend. Church societies owe it to themselves to pay more attention to the building of their edifices as well as to the prevention of fire. Scientific American. Musical Mention. "Now. what do you think of my piano solo?" asked an enthusiastic and con ceited young musician of an elder. "Wasn't it great?" "Yes, very great. Beethoven would have given a great deal to have heard your playing." " Do you really think so?" exclaimed the young pianist iu his delight. "I really think so. Beethoven was deaf, you know." The young musician's pleasure all oozed-out tif him and he felt crushed. Ilvoxier, WITH HUSKY-HAUGHTY LJPS.OH, SEA 1 With husky-haughty lips, Oh Seal Where day and night I wend thy snrf-txat shore, Imaging to my sense thy varied Strang sat- eestions, Thy troops of whlte-maned racers racing to the goal. Thy ample, smiling face, dashd wlta tM anarklinir dimDles of the sun, Thy brooding scowl and murk thy unlooa hurricanes, Thy unsubduedness, caprices, willfulness; Great as thou art above the rest, thy many tears a lack from all eternity In thy content (Naught but the greatest struggles, wrongs. defeats, could make thee greatest no less could make thee), Thy lonely state something thou ever see s and seek'st;, yet never gain'st, Surely some right withheld some voles, la huge monotonous rage, or iroedonv lover pent, Some vast heart, like a planet's, chain' d and chafing in those breakers, By lengthen' d swell, and spasm, and panting bretah, And rhythmic rasping of thy sands and waves, And serpent hiss, and savage peals of laugh, ter, And undertones of distant lion roar (Sounding, appealing to the sky's deaf ear but now, rapport for once, A phantom in the night thy oonfliant for once), The first and last confession of the globe, Outsurging, muttering from thy soul's abysms, The tale of cosmic elemental passion, Thou tellest to a kindred soul Walt Whitman, in Harper't Magazint HUMOR OF THE DAT, A man skilled in forging. A black smith. Christopher Columbus was one of tho first men to "go West." Siftingt. While rummaging in tho garret last night we came across an old diary of ours bearing tho date 1884. Philadelphia Call Every affliction has its blessing. The man with a wooden leg never knows what it is to have rheumatism in that ankle. Chicago Sun. No, my son, the great talker is not necessarily a mathematician simply he causo he understands how to multiply words. Botton Transcript: By rubbing a cat's back in the dark you can see tho electricity fly, and when the cat claws your hand you can feel tha shock. Philadelphia Chronicle. Speaking of feats of strength reminds us that we saw a Fort Wayne man knock down a horse and two cows the other day. He was an auctioneer. Hoosier. Old Lady "Only think, ono mission ary for 10,000 cannibals!" Young Lady "Mercy! they must have terrible light appetites or awful big missionaries !'' Puck. Sho went into a store to buy som toilet soap, and when tho clerk was ex patiating on its merits, about made up her mind to purchase, but, when he said "it would keep off chaps," she remarked that she didn't want that kind. "What influence has the moon upon the tide?" asked the professor. The class wag replied that he didn't know exactly what influence it had upon the tied, but that it had a tendency to make the untied awful spoony. Burlington Free Prees. "If there's anything I loye, it's roast goose," remarked Fenderson, as h passed up his plate for a second help ing. "It does you credit," said Fogg; "there's nothing 60 beautiful as affection among the members of a family." Boston 1'ranscript. There is said to be an old gentleman in this city so fond of music that he can not keep his foot still. Only the othei night a young man began to serenade his daughter, and the way the old fellow's foot didn't keep stiu is reported to be a caution. Pittsburg Chronicle. "Bread!" exclaimed a Yassar College girl. "Bread! Well, I should say I can make bread. We studied that in our first year. You see, the yeast ferments, and the gas thus formed permeates every where and transforms the plastic material into a clearly obvious atomic structure, and then " "But what is the plastic material you speak of?" "Oh! that is commonly called the sponge." "3ut how do you make tho sponge J" "Why, you don't make it: the cook always at tends to that. Then we test tho sponge with the thermometer and hydrometer and a lot of other instruments, the names of which I don't remember, and then hand it back to the cook, and I don't know what sho does with it then, but when it comes on tho tabla it is just splendid." Chicago Herald. A School In Tunis. We visited a college for young boys in Tunis, (North Africa) writes a correspond ent. The class-rooms were small, without windows, and lighted from the entrance door only. Littlo benches a foot high were used for desks, the scholars and teachers sitting on the floor. They all studied aloud. Each scholar in reciting took his seat directly in front of the teach er, and within easy reach of his rod, both continually swaying their bodies back and forth. Most of the professors were quitd young men, with very intelligent faces. French is considered very essential iu the education of boy? Tho poor girls are not educated at all, very few being ublo to read. Wo only heard of three who had this accomplishment, and these wero tho daughters of tho secretary of the bey. The women spend their time in making (heir clothes, drewing and bleeping.
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