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ITopo and the sun are like as one Both largest when they rise; Tbry shrink alike from morn till noon, As life grow old nnd wise. With what unlxniniled liopo the boy Begins liia worM-carter! How wondrous larp;o and bl ight with jo Ho risinc; suns aiieo.rl But ns tho mil prows loss nnd Ipsa, Ami paler H thoy climb Tho vm a it sky, an we ennCiM The cold (li coita of timo. Our boyhood hoca will shrink and fade) Ah boyhood drifts nwny, And one by one to rent are laid Tho failures of the day. And yet thu sun at noon that turns It downward course will row and trow,' Till in the we t it rol's a'nl h'ir.is. An large as half a duy ro. So, as wo hear that other sphere, Tho early hopo revivor, That all wo thought wan ours hero May be, in other lives. Ihirpcr'a Weekly. LEFT BEHIND. It was 10 o'clock of a July morning, nnd tho largest fraction of humanity hud ticcn some hours earning its daily bread. Tho idlers had just risen from tho break fast table. To this latter class belonged tho young man who leaned lazily on the piazza railing, and looked absently out on Lake Winnipake. Beside him in a huge chair, sat n little woman rocking to and fro, willi nu untiring movement, nnd with deft lingers plying in nnd out nniong blight silk and Crewels. She was idle, too, in her woman's laborious way, but there was n lack of repose in her in dolence that made it restful toturnugain to her brother, who stood in statuesquo inaction, looking into tho still water below. "What are you going to do, to-day !" the little woman asked. 'Nothing." 'There's a great deal going on, and very nice sort of people, too. Do you see that pretty girl down there nt tho landing?" The one with red F "Yes, don't you think she's pretty ?" "1 hadn't thought of it." "Well, she is remarkably. "Wouldn't you like to meet her ? -1 could easily mnnngo it." "I'm not particular. Is she worth while ?" "Ben, you exasperate mc. Do you take an interest in anything ? " "I don't do anything else m Wall street. I'm off duty now. I believe in resting in a philosophical sort of a way." "Well, 1 suppose you arc tired, poor fellow 1 1 know how you leci. 1 am tired myself most of the time." "Tired! I look like it," laughed the young man. "I'll tell you how it is; I simply want niv liberty. It ctocsu t pay this dancing nttention on half a dozen giiis w hom you never sec again." "Oh, we ll, don't, then." Ben Adams at twenty-one had per formed his social duties with great zest, Four years later ho was still heart whole, and beginning to take a purely fraternal interest in blushing debutautes. lie danced less and went to the opera alone, or with his friend Rutland, u confirmed bachelor of twenty-nine. With entire resignation young Adams ncted as usher nt many fashionable weddings, and with out a sigh sawCutharine, Kuto and Kitty led down the aisle by other men. And so he approached his thirties and within a vear of them leaned idly over the piazza ruilinsr at Lake Winnipake, and declared to his sister that "Kobinsou Crusoe was tho luckiest fellow of his ac ouaintance. dive me a desert isle for a summer sojourn. What would refresli a man liko troing back to savag ery!" "I don't think it would be enough of a change to benefit some I know," lnuirhed his sister. "Well, Ben, all 'cansav is. vou are very different from what vou use to be." In the meanwhile the boat below pushed oIT.iiih' us followed it with his eyes, chiefly . it would have been more trouble to look another way. The voung lady in the sternSvas Miss Joseph ino Vail, and tho bov at tho oars was her .twelve year-old. brother. Josephine was a young lady of views supported by more or less logic and Ify what some thought an extremely pretty face. Her enemies but she had none would have said that while she despised conventionalities no one was more annoyed when obliged to disregard them, and while she re sentcd the protecting limitations of her sex. she was mate willing to accept the attentions based on the theory of their existence. Her father said one day: " Nothing would take the kinks out of Josephine like settling down with a good husband." The young lady took it in high dudgeon, and went away meekly to wonder it it were true. On this par ticular July morning Josephine accepted her brother Tom's services as oarsman, not because she was not perfectly able to row herself, but because it would keep Tom out of mischief. " Don't rock the boat, Tom. It doesn't frighten me, but I can't read." There was a pause. "How near the bank, in the shade, Tom." Another long pause. "hay, sis," uid Tom ut length, "now we're ".IV, I'll tell you where we're "Where you're going : W ny, you re going to take me out for a row." "Not much. I'm going two miles about to see some fellows who ure camp ing out." "And going to take me t I think you arc mistaken, sir, Givamathosa oars." "No you don't. Leave 'cm alone and sit still." "Tom, turn this boai iiwtnntly, or I'll . What'll you do I Como now; you sit still or I'll " "Tom, there's tho Desert Isjand just ahead. Don't run into it. Bo careful; you're going straight toward it." "We might land there," ho said, blandly. "To bo sure we might," said his sister, glad of anything to divert him from tho first scheme. "All right, just as you say." Tom turned his boat toward the great rock, which lifted its broad back out of tho water. It was fitly called tho Desert Isle, for its few square feet of surface supported not so much as a blade of grass or a bit of moss. ' Hop out," saut Jom: "l vcgoi to see to the boat. I guess you can climb up to the top easy enough." 'Of course I can," sain josepnine; as if I needed your help, you little monkey." In a moment sho stood at the top of the rock, and in another moment a de risive laugh came from IhjIow. 'Good-by ; I hope you will enjoy your self. I'll see you later." Plato says: "A boy is tho most vicious of wild beasts." Plato and Miss Vail were of one opinion on that point. Sho looked about her and took in tho situation. She was monarch of about twenty-live feet of rough gray rocks, the sides of which descended abruptly to the water. Perched Jiigh on this pcdCstal, her figure stood out against the sky in bold relief. A book and parasol were her only aecessoiies, for by some happy inspiration she had clung to these. The sun was high in tho heavens, but its hot ravs were mercifully tempered by a soil breeze on the lake. Josephine seated herself, raised her pnrasol and opened her book. She faced the probability that at least two hours of noonday solitude were before her. Tho philosophical courso of action was to make the best of it. But what a situa tion to bo discovered in 1 Sho remem bered with satisfaction that a largo party had gone on a picnic to-day, and tho dowagers left behind were not given to boating at high noon. Sho tried to think how siio snouia laugh it oil if anybody should see her, but under the most cheerlul aspect sue seemed to herself a little ridiculous spec tacle. To bo ridiculous in a good cause had in it an clement of heroism, but tho present situation was one of unmitigated absurdity, and Josephene. Vail always felt, the heroic ratlier tlian tne comic to be her forte. Once tears of real vexation started as her head began to throb in sympathy with the hot pulsation of the air about her. An hour had dragged its length when Josephene suddenly lifted her head and listened paiutully. A man s veice sing ling nnd the splash of oars, nnd, yes, in an instant, a boat swung siowiy arounu the bend. One man bat iu it lazily singing. "It's that base creature who watched us oil this morning. It's a type I detest. And to think he should see mo here! It's really more than lean endure." The girl looked with envy on the tortoise which slipped easily from the base of the rock into the water as lie nearu. vue tua turbing sound of oars. "I hope he'll have the good taste to suppose I came here of my own free will. Ho wouldn't think of interfering with me. I hope. 'What! I believe he's com ing straight townrd me!" Josenhene turned the leaves of her book with nu interest that grew every moment more intense. But at length decency required some recognition of the nearing boat. The young man was row ing now as if he had renewed interest in life. He wus soon nt tho base of the rock. "I beg your pardon," he said, a3 he raised his hat; "can I be of any service to vou?" "You are very kind, sir. You find me in a verv absurd c.undition." "You have evideutly been shipwrecked. Are vou the sole survivor (" "No, not shipwrecked, but' put ashoro and abandoned by my cruel tyrant of a brother. To tell you the truth, sir, I am the victim of a practical joke. My little brother has left mo here while he goes farther up the lake to visit sonio friends who are camping there. "I beg vou will make uso of my boat, then, to return. I will como up to you in ono moment." Leaping out of his boat before Miss Vail could say a woru lie arew u up on alow shelf of the r6ck and quickly reached her side. "Let me help you," tho young man said, with such a firm 'assurance of good breeding that she made no resistance or attempt at independence, but accepted the proffered aid in a quiet, matter-of- course way. "Y'our boat! your boat, sir!" she sud denly cried. It was too late. The rising breeze drove the water with such force against the rock so as to dislodge the boat, and before Adams could grasp it, it was gayly tilting about, a half dozen yards away. The two looked at each other a mo ment and theu laughed, though both were conscious of its being questionable taste. Adams sobered and said: "Can you ever forgive me. Miss " "Miss Vail; I am Miss Vail." "And I am Mr. Adams. Can you bo magnanimous enough to forgive nio?" "That is the question 1 should ask you." "Ah, you evade mine. At any rate I bhnll never forgive myself. A worse bit of bungling 1 never saw. The truth is, Mis Vail, I have had very little experi ence in rescuing fair ladies. You are the first whoso life I have tried to save. I am no hero, as you see." Th genuiat aauoyaaca of htr compan ion roused tho compassion of Josephine, and she began to talk to him with a des perate cheerfulness and acceptance of the situation. "What a cold-blooded little villain that brother of yours must be, Miss Vail, to desert you in this fashion. I supposo wo must throw ourselves on his mercy when ho 'comes back. How are you going to account for me? Consider me your man Friday." Beneath their light talk ran an under current of more or less bitter meditation on tho part of each. Miss Vail shuddered to think what a good story this would make to circulate among her lnends, while Adams foresaw how it would add to the conviviality of the club. lie began with the fervent wish that he was out of the scrape. He ended, I am glad to con fess, by ceasing to envy Kobinson urusoo his desert isle, and considering his own far preferable. I here was a brecziness about this girl that made him forget tho mounting thermometer. She had a way of going to the point, and, moreover sho had a point, two things which Ben Adams told his sister he appreciated in a woman. In short, by dint of making the best of it. Miss Vail and Adams were both able to express honest suprise when a boat appeared in the distance, and in taking out his watch, Adams found it to be 3 o'clock. "Now!" was all Josephine said, but there were conflicting emotions in the monosyllable. " IIullo-o I" shouted a shrill voico across the water. " IIullo-o!" called Adams back. Blank astonishment wiped all expres sion out ot loins lace nt nrst, iut a broad grin finally made its appearance. " You re a great one, Jo," he muttered. "I'd like to know where you wouldn't find a beau. Did he drop down out of tho clouds?" "Hush, sir; you have been a very naughty boy." As they rowed home Adams devoted himself to cultivating the acquaintance of tho young scapegrace. lho latter proved very approachable, and Adams found no difficulty in persuading him to go fishing the next day. When they were home at last, Jose phine took her brother into her room and turned the key. "Tom, vou've treated me very badly to-day. What would you give if 1 would not tell father? You wouldn' like to be sent back to the military school, you know." "Say, sis, I'll tell you what," and the little wretch gave a wink of immense sat isfaction; "if you won't tell on me, I won't tell on you. Honor bright." "Mrs. Adams," said Mr. Ben Adams to his wife at their wedding reception a year after. "Don't you think we might af ford to tell people how we met; I never knew a secret kept better. I nearly ruined myself buying up that precious brother-in-law of mine. You see, I thought on your account I wouldn't let him tell. I didn't care; I liked it. I had no business to, you say? But I liked it, nevertheless. Here are Rutland and his Mary. Let's tell them the story. They know we're going to Lake Wrinnipake for our honeymoon." Saved by an Albatross. The Sidney (Australia) Telegraph says: A singular story has been related to us by the master of the bark Gladstone, which arrived there from London. While tho vessel was in latitude forty-two degrees south and longitude ninety degrees east, a seaman fell overboard from the star board gangway. The bark was scudding along with a rough sea and moderate wind, but on the alarm of "man over board " being given, she was rounded to and the starboard lifeboat was lowered, manned by the chief officer and four men. A search for the unfortunate man was made, but owing to the roughness of the sea he could not be discovered; but tho boat steered to the spot where he was last seen. Here they found him floating but exhausted, clinging for dear life to the legs and wings of a huge albatross. The bird had swooped down on the man while the latter was struggling with the waves and attempted to peck him with its powerful beak. Twice the bird at tacked its prey unsuccessfully, being beaten off by the desperate sailor battling with two enemies tho water and the al batross both greedy and insatiable. For the third time the huge white form of the bird hovered oyer the seaman, pre paratory to a final sw$op. The bird, eager for its meal, fanned its victim with its wide-spread wings. Suddenly a thought occurred to him that the huge form so close to his face might becomo his involuntary rescuer. Quick as thought he reached up and seized the bird, which he proceeded to strangle with all his might. Tho hugo creature struggled with wings and pad dies to free itself. In tho contest the sailor was beaten black and blue and cruelly lacerated, but .ho held his own, and slowly the bird quivered and died. The carcass floated lightly on the waves, its feathers forming a comtortable sup port for the exhausted man, who had so narrowly escaped a lingering death. But another danger awaited him. Ho was not much of a swimmer, and tho excite ment of the extraordinary conflict began to tell upon him. Ho was faint and grew giddy. But with one arm around the albatross' body, under the wing, and one hand clutching the bird's feet, tho sailor awaited his chance of rescue. Presently he heard his comrades shout from tho boat, and in a few minutes more was safe on board the bark, though a good deal shaken and exhausted. Our great thoughts, our great affec tions, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they cannot separate from our consciousness, shall follow it wither soever that shall go and are of their Da tura divint sad immortal. AMONG THE JERSEY COWS. VISIT TO A MODEL PEWUSTLVAJTIA STOCK riKU. Butter Which Nell at Fifty Cento A Found Twrnly Com Worth more Than -i,000 liach. "Gath," in the Cincinnati Enquirer, gives the following account of his visit to the stock farm of Joseph C. Sibley, nenr Franklin, Penn. Franklin is surrounded with the der ricks of oil wells, looking like skeleton church spires, to the number of scores and hundreds, and most of these are still pumping a small quantity of oil per diem. Overlooking the tower on the op posite side of French creek is the Pros pect Hill stock farm of Joseph C. Sibley, perhaps the most complete in all its ap pointments now in this country. Con nected with it in different tracts are about six hundred acres of land, and it has a race-course used by the county ag ricultural society. Near the gate going in is tho creamery, which manufactures two barrels of cream into butter in about forty-five minutes, and this butter is sent all over the country at fifty cents a pound. On .the top of the hill is the barn, which is of an octagonal or almost circular pattern, and contains the entire herd on two floors. From the cupola of tho barn, which gives the ventilation, descends a pole, around which is a wind ing stair connecting the two floors. In the center of each floor is a large open space, and the circle of cattle faces this in stalls, their heads all appearing above the stalls, and the troughs at their knees. Behind this row of cattle is an open cor ridor, also circular, around which the second .p-reater circle of cattle stand at their stalls. On the upper floor a portion of this second circle is devoted to the cows with calves or about to calve. The cows in calf are generally kept dry where this is possible, so that the calf can get the full nourishment; but it is exceedingly diffi cult in some cases to dry the Jersey cow, as the tenacity with which she makes milk is the great secret of her value. She is the most wonderful butter-making ani mal known to man. Other kinds of cat tle run to beef, but the Jersey so assimi lates her food that tho globules which might make beef flow in her milk, and hence the extraordinary production of some of these cows, and their high prices in a country where the chemist has been at work with butter, and has given us various forms of wagon grease and coal- tar instead of the Aluerney produce. The importation of Jersey cattle into the United States began about seven years before the war. It has gone on with such enthusiasm that we now have about 21,000 Jerseys, either imported or born here, every one of which is register ed in the Jersey herd-book, that is now assuming the proportions of a library. The Jersey cattle by which general name is meant cattle of Jersey, Sark and Alderney improve in this country over their condition in their native islands, and they make more cream and butter, and thrive wonderfully. They are dis tributed over the entire country. They are generally of a fawn color, with rather dark gray or blackish faces; the cows are very gentle, and the bulls vicious. I was interested in two things in this stable. In the first place the cream separator, which is run by a steam en gine, revolves with enormous rapidity, and the cream flows out of one spigot and the skimmed milk out of another. Then I observed the apparatus for cleaning cows, which are carefully washed and brushed once or twice a day by means of brushes operated by the engine. The cow, calf or bull is brought forward and tied to a post, and from above these brushes are brought to her body, and carefully raise evory hair. The cattle liko it, but their tails have to be tied up in a bag, for not long ago one of the brushes tore out a tail. The temperature iu the barn is kept at fifty degrees the year round, regulated by the thermometer, and the barn is lighted with the Brush light on every flopr, and at midnight is as bright as day. A storage battery is kept near the engine for this purpose. The light used is the ordinary gas bracket and small lamp. At Prospect Hill farm the barn is eighty eight feet in diameter. There are thirty-two cattle on the inner rows and forty-six on the rear rows. The engineer has fifteen-horse power. Tho food given the animals is boiled and mixed, partly oats and partly ensilage, or leaves of corn plucked when tho ear is full of milk. The cattle like this food very much, and it improves their butter. The Jersey cow can be relied on to make one pound of butter a day; many of them mako sixteen pounds a week, and some of their performances are almost fabulous. By the .machinery used at Prospect Hill it takes thirty-live minutes only to separate the cream from the milk of forty-five cows. The separator is a Swedish patent. In one hour from the commencement of tho milking the cream is in the creamery and the skimmed milk is being fed to the calves. Mr. Sibley snys that tho keep of his cattle in the winter is some where be tween twenty and thirty cents a day, but that for a portion of the year they do not cost ubove eight cents a day. There are about thirteen men employed on tho herd farm, and the cost of running it is about $17,000 a year. At Prospect Hill there are forty-tivo milch cows, producing not less than ono pound per diem of butter, while a good ' deal of thu milk without being skimmed is given to the calves. There are twenty cows in the stable that 'i,000 apiece would not buy. The czar of Russia owns personally 220,000 square milt of territory in Si beria, yielding the small annual rent of $150,000, not much or 140,000,000 aorta. SELECT S1FT1NGS. Total abstinence, even for boys, was a thing unknown in England early in this century. Bavonf tho French word for soap, is ascribed to Savona, the place at which it was first manufactured. Among the Goths, Iberians and Moors the licking of the thumb was regarded as a solemn pledge or promise. The pearls and emeralds worn by Cali gula's wife were worth $1,000,000, but Bhe was not usually attended by privato detectives. It wa3 formerly customary in England for the sick to wear a kerchief on the head, and a certain virtue was attached to the custom so that in Cheshire tying a kerchief on the head and drinking a pos set was a remedy for everything. The Musurgia, printed in 1050, tells of a speaking-trumpet invented by one Kacher, who read a litany from a convent on the top of a mountain standing at tho foot of it two Italian miles off. This is the first telephone of which there is any account. The earliest statute against the em ployment of playing cards bears date in the reign of Henry. VIII., nnd is entitled, "An act for the maintenance of artillery and the debarring of unlawful games." In fact, it is simply intended to encourage archery. North America was called Mexicana in an English almanac published in 1747, and South Amerisa, Peruviana. The provinces of Mexicana were New Spain, Florida, New Albany, New England, New Franca, or Canada. The islands were Newfoundland and California. Tho captain of a coal steamer, which loaded at Cardiff, Wales, missed his dog, and sailed in grief without him. When, thirty-one days later, his cargo was dis charged at Constantinople, the spaniel was lound in a little cavity among the coal, where he had survived his long fast. Though too weak to stand, he was restored in a few days by careful feeding upon small quantities of bread and milk, repeated at short intervals. WISE WORDS. We must have a weak spot or two in a character before we can love it much. The beggar is the only man in the uni verse who is not obliged to study appear ances. That each thing, both in small and in great, fultlUeth the task which destiny has set down. Good taste rejects excessive nicety ; it treats little things as little things, and is not hurt by them. Be at least as polite to father, mother, child, as to others; for they are more im portant to you than any other. Treat everybody with politeness, even those who are rude to you. For remem ber that you show courtesy to others, not because they are gentlemen, but because you aro one. Young man, don't forget that nil the people are watching you, and most of them are more ready to charge your account with something bud than some thing good. Never pronounce a man to be a willfu niggard until you havo seen the contents of his purse. Distribution, you must re member, should be in accordance with the receipts. The hours we pass with happy pros pects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition. In the tirt. instance, we cook the dish to our own p petite ; in the latter, nature cooks it for us. It is not a question as to whether any man may or may not have objects of beauty; it is not required that any man should make himself a hermit in the desert. A man has a right to wealth and all that it produces, but no man has a right to hold them selfishly and shut others out from their enjoyment. Beautiful Harbor. One graud picture gallery Sydney pos sesses and sulliciently enjoys its harbor. Let none who values his place iu any Australian heart munner that he never heard of Sydney h irbor, or hint that it has any equal in the world. When I first sailed on it a gentleman gravely assured me that, with all its sinuosities, this harbor, had a water-front of 2,800 miles. Deduct about two thousand and you will be nearer tho fact. DoJuet a proportion ate amount of enthusiasm and you still have the sober truth that this harbor, with its green promontories und islets, its bays and nooks and beaches, stulded with shining villas, is of a beauty that never wearies tho eye. As, during many months of the year, fair weather may be counted on, there aro many picuies on the wooded shores and so much room that none need jostle each other. On Sundays there aro many excursionists, but little bathing, the sharks being a sufficient police force to keep all bathing inside the palings and hoses provided at various spots, with scrupulous separation of sexes. AT. 1). Couicay. One of the most interesting and valua ble features of the Johns Hopkins Univer sity library is the newspaper bureau. A trained editor and a staff of assist ants read all the representative dailies and mark superior articles upon economic, political, social, educational, legal and historical subjects. These are afterward clipped, arranged iu newspaper budgets, and kept iu large envelopes or obiong boxes, which are marked with labels. The lists of subjects includes everything of value that finds its way into the columns of the press. Bui let iu boards are covered daily with the best clippings from the latest papers, arranged uudor the leading heads of suriant topics. I TUB- HOMP OC THR ?;OtIt- BT TnS AUTHOR OF TJIK STAB SPANOIJID BANNER. The correspondent; sending tho following pnom to the A'eir York Observer, remarks: ''I have never een It in print, but obtained it through a manuscript copy of a friend at the author, Mr. Francis 8. key, and feel sure I can vouch for its authenticity,") , Oh, where can the soul find relief from its woes, i A refuge of safety, a home of repose? Can earth's highest summit or deepest hid vale Give a refuge no sorrow or sin can assail? No, no, there's no home! There's no home on earth, the soul has no home. Can it leave the low earth, and roar to the) sky. And seek for a home in the mansionson high Iu the bright realm-, of blits a home shall be given, And the soul find a rest in its Home of tho Heaven. Yes, yes, there's a home! There's a home in high heaven, tho soul has a home. . Oh, holy and happy its homo shall bo there, Free forever from sorrow, from sin and from care, And the loud hallelujahs of angels shall riso To welcome the soul to its home of tho skies. Home, home, home of tho soul I The bosom of God is the home of the soul! HUMOR OF THE DAT. Under a cloud An umbrella. The man who "found his level" was a carpenter, of course. Boston Bulletin. The best hand to hold in the game of life is that of your best girl. Waterloo Observer. Ono good thing may be said of the pawnbroker he sticks to his pledges.--iromerville Journal. A Vermont man has been married six times, and he's the citizen they always get to go first in a bear hunt. Buston Post. It doesn't speak much of the size of a man's mind when it takes him only a min ute to make it up, Xeu York Graphic An English paper says that American are good listeners. Our invention of the telephone proves it. Xeto York Journal. It seems strange that a man should hurt himself when he drops on a sido walk. Down is so soft, you know. Sitings. Every affliction hns its blessing. The man with a wooden leg never knows what it is to huve rheumatism in that ankle. Chicago Sun. A linen shirt was first worn in Eng land about tRe year 1250. There was a mail in our office yesterday who had on that identical shirt. llockland Courier. A fashion item declares that the long train is going out of fashion.. Let'em go. This is the kind of departing train that no oue will ' care if they do miss. Statesman. "There is a species of lizard that can throw off its tail at pleasure." In this it resembles the writers of serials for the story papers, albeit the lutter throw off much the longer tails. Norristoxttn Herald. When a young man lays siege to a young lady, and insists upon her con senting to become his wife, she cannot but confess that ho is "a man after her own heart," however heartless she may appear. Chicago Sun. An iceberg 110 miles long was seen by the steamer Norseman on her way from Liverpool to New York, and perhaps the Arctic regions and the north pole, in order to avoid giving us any further trouble, are coming down here. Chicago Times. , "My dear," said Mr. Muckleham to his wife, " those hams I bought the other day are so badly spoiled they cannot be eaten." "What a pity," his wife re plied. " Guess we'd better send them out to tho charity hospital." Arkaiuaui , Traveler. As somewhat of an inducement to ama. fours we take this method of announcing that everyone sending us a poem on "Spring" this year will receive a pound of dynamite done up in a beautiful sheet of colored tissue paper. Now is the time to get up clubs. Chicago Xetot. A loving father at Clayton, N. Y., in his anxiety to marry oil his daughters (fifteen in number) as quick as possible, has killed his dog, taken the locks off his doors, and hung ropo ladders over his dooryard by the dozen, and still his pro vision bill is as large as ever. Bismarck 'Tribune. The pleasurable part: An Austin man, who has just got out a book of poems, met Gilhooly, and the following pro ceedings were had: "Did you read my new book?" "Oh, yes, I read it." "How did you liko it?" "My dear sir, I assure you that I laid it aside with a great deal of pleasure." Tcjco Siflinys. " If you don't marry me," he exclaimed, "I'll take myself out of this hated world and I'll haunt you as long as you live!" Said she: "It will bo more resectable than vour present haunts. Please stand a little further off. 1 never could bear tho smell of alcohol so soon alter tea. Bos ton Tiamu'rijit. ( "All this bard wood you export," the English tourist asked the Indiana lumber man, "all this maple and beech, you know, where does it go f" And the man told him that mott of it went direct to Scotland, where it was worked up into bo 1 1 and churns and paper folders from th ' .."tors of Burns' cottage and the home of.nr Walter Scott." And the tourist urist . said "Haw," and wrote something in note-book. Mlaickeye. Over 500,000 rose tiees are annually imported into this country from England, France and Holland. i
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