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(Vtfuiuuuicauonii. rap 'a i ( I WONDER It I this night, at set of sun, Should find my raeo was nearly run would I havo earned the glad "Well tftVmo?" I wonder. Would I look back at dear onos hore? Would I go onward without fear? Would there bo time for any tear? I wonder. Would it then bo so strangely sweet Whore loved onos wait their own to greet, 'lhat are would pass with winged feotl I wonder. Would all the countless trials sore Perplex tno never, never morel Would hoartut lies, failures, all be o'er? t wonder. He says, "TJntr-Uie weary rest," Unto the frinp-dlras home so blost; And so to b'm I leave the rest , No wonder. Boston Tramcript. TWO DOZEN BUTTONS. Betty jdulicd. Now, why she should have, vfchod at this particular moment no Too on earth could tell. And it was lv. tho moro exasperating because. John nad just generously put into her little shapely hand a brand new ten-dollar bill. Ana hore began tho trouble. "What'6 the matter?" he said, hisfneq falling at tho faint sound and his mouth clapping together in what those who knew him foiit Httlo called an obstinate pucker. Ny what is it?" . Betty, wfc;f had just begun tgf chango the sigh into a, merry little laugh rip pling all owr tho corners of .tho red liDS stopped suddenly, tossed hjr head, and, with u small jerk no way conciliatory sent out the words: r. ' . 'You needn't ipsinuate, John, that I 'am ulwavs troublesome." "I dida't insinuate who's talkingof insinuating?" cried ho, thoroughly in censed at the very idea, and backing away a few steps, he glared down from a tremendous height, in extreme irrita .itioB. "It's yourself who is forever in ;; . inflating and all that, and then for you ' to put it on mo it's really abominable." . rhe voice was harsh, and the eyes that foc-keit down into hers was not pleasant to behold. , "And if you think, John Fcabody, that I'll stand and bavo such things said to mo; you niiss your guess that's all !" cried Hetty', with two big red spots com ing in hot cheeks, as she tried to draw lior littlccrcct figuro to its utmost di- mensions. "Forever insinuating! I J guess you wouldn't have said that before 1 married you. Oh, now you can, of ; course!'" ' "B-idn't you say it first, I'd like to rfcnow?" cried John, in great excitement, (drawing nearer tho small creature he palled "wife," who was gazing at him jwith blazing eyes of indignation; "I f can't endure everything 1" I ''And if you bear more thun I do," cried Betty, wholly beyond control now, l"whv. then. I'll rivc un." and she trave a bitter little laugh and tossed her head I again. i' And hore thov were in the midst of a ' quarrel. These two who, but a year be fore, had promised to love and protect , and help each other through life. "Now," said John, and he brought ' his hand down with such a bang on the ' table before him him that Betty nearly : skipped out of her little shoe only she i controlled the start, for she would have liod before she had let John see it, "we fcvill have no more of this nonsense 1" f His face was very palo and the lines ground the mouth so drawn that it would save gone to any one's heart to have .Seen their expression. "1 don't know how you will chango or help it," sid Botty lightly, to hide er dismay at the turn affairs had taken, m sure! and she pushed back the light, aviug hair from her forehead with a ncyV indifferent gesture. That hair that John always smoothed when he petted her, tired or disheart ened, and called her "child." Her ges turo struck to hii heart as ho glanced at ' her sunny locks, :iad tho cool, indifler , ', tat face underneath, and before he knew 'it he was saying: "There is no help for it now, I sup I .. pose." i V "Oh, yes, there is," said Betty, still in that cool, calm way that ought nof'to havo deceived him. But men know so little of women's hearts, although they may live with them for years in closest . friendship. "You need not try to en - dure it, John Peabody, if you don't wan: to. I'm sure I don't cave!" "What do yon menn?" Her husband grasped her arms and compelled the merry brown eyes to look up to him. , "I can go back to mother's," said Betty, piovokingly. "She wants me any day, and then you can live quietly and to suit yourself, and it will be bet ter all around." Instead of bringing out ft violent pro- s. testation of fond affection and remorse, which sl o fully expected, John drew himself up, looked at her fixedly for a long, long minute, then dropped her arm, and with white lips said tilowly : "Yes, it may be better as you say, bet ter all around. You know best!" and was gone from the room before she could recover from her astonishment enough to utter a sound. With a wild cry Betty rushed across tho room, first tossing the ten dollar bill savagely as far as she could throw it, and flinging herself on the comforta ble old sofa, broke into a flood of bitter tears the first she had bhed during i her married life. I "llow could he have done it! Oh r what have 1 said i Oh, John, John 1" The bird twittered iu his litUe cage " iveriuthrt window among the plants. Betty iviuerryeied liko s Mash how John aud bhe bdjlii!eu the seed-cup that very i morning; how he had laughed when she tried to put it in between the bars, and wheri she couldn't rrach without getting upon a chair he took her in his great arms and held Iter up, just like a child, that nho might fix it to suit herself. And tho "bits" he had said in his tender way, they had gone down to the depths of her foolish little heart, sending her about her work singing for very gladness of spirit. And now 1 Betty stuffed her fingers hard into her rose cars to sliut out the bird's chirping. "If he only knew why I sighed," she moaned. "Oh, my husband I Birth days nothing will make anv difference fvnow. Ob. why can't I die?" How long she stayed there, crouched tlown on the old sofa, sho never knew. Over and over tho dreadful scene sho went. realizing its worst features each time in despair, until a voice out in the kitchen said : "Betty!" and heavy foot balls proclaimed that sorao one was on the point of breaking in upon her unin vited. .ietty sprang up, chokins back her solii, and tried with all her miirht to couiiiose herself and remove nil traces of her trouble. ThV visitor was the worst possible one she coLld have under the circumstance. Crowding herself on terms of tho closest intimaiy with the pretty bride, who wit h her husfyand, had moved into tho village a twelve-month previous, Miss Elvira Simmons had made the very most of her opportunities, and by dint of making great parade over helping her in some domestic work such as house-cleaning, dress making iind the like, the maiden lady had managed to ply her other voca tion, that of news-gatherer at one and the same time, pretty effectually. She always called her by the first name, though Betty resented it: and Bhe made a great handle of her friendship on every occasion, making John rage violently and vow a thousand times the "old maid" should walk. But bhe never had and now, scenting dimly, like a carion afterUs own prey, that troublo might come to tho pretty little white house, tho muke-mischicf had corao to do her work; if devastation had not already commenced. "Been crying!" she said, more plainly than politely, sinking down into the pretty chintz-covered rocking-chair with an energy that showed that she meant to stay, and made tho chair creak fearfully. "Only folks do say that you and your husband don't live happy but la 1 1 wouldn't mind I know tain't your fault." Butty's heart stood still. Had it come to this? John and she not live, happy! To bo sure they didn t, as she remem bered with a pang the dreadful scene of words and hot tempers; but had it got ten around so soon a story in every body's mouth? With all her distress of mind she was saved from opening her mouth. So Miss Simmons, failing in that was forced to go on. " An' I tell folks so," she said, rock ing herself back and forth to witness the effect of her words, "when they git to talkin'; so you can't blame mo if things don't go eusv for you, I'm sure!" "You tell folks?" repeated Betty, vacruely, and standing quite still. "What? I don't understand." "Why, that the blamo is all his'n," cried the old maid, exasperated at her strango mood and her dullness. "I say says J, why thero couldn t no one live with him, let ulone that pretty wife he's got. That's what I say, Betty. And then I tell 'cm what a queer man he is, how cross, an " "And you dare to tell people such things of my husband?" cried Betty, drawing herself up to her cxtremest height, and towering so over the old woman in tho chair that she jumped in confusion at the storm she had raised, and stared blindly into tho blazing eyes and face rosy with righteous indignation her only thought was how to get away from the storm she had raised but could not stop. But she was forced to stay, f6r Betty stood just in front of the chair and blocked up the way, so who slunk bask into the smallest corner of it and took it as best she could. "My husband!" cried Betty, dwelling with pride on the pronoun at least, if they were to part, she would sav it over lovingly as much as she could till the last moment ; and then, when the time did come, why, people should know that it was John's fault "the best, the kind est, the noblest husband that ever was given to a woman. I've made him more troublo than you can guess; my hot temper has vexed him I've been cros, and impatient and " "Hold!" cried a voice, "you're talking against my wife!" and in a moment big John Peabody rushed through the door, grasped the little woman in his arms and folded her to his heart, right before old maid and all. "Oh !" said Miss Simmons, sitting up straight and setting her spectacles more firmly. "And now that you've learned all that you can." said John, turning around to her, still holding Betty, "why you may go." The chair was vacant. A dissolving view through the door was all that was to kc seen of tho gossip, who started up the road hurriedly, leaving peace behind. "lletty," said John, some half hour afterward, "what was the sigh for? I don't care now, but I did think, dear, and it cut me to the heart, how you might have married richer. I longed to put ten times ten into your hand, Betty, and it galled me because I couldn't." Betty smiled and twisted away from his gritsp. Bunning into the bedroom she presently returned, still smiling, w ith a bundle rolled up in a clean towel. This she put on Aicr husband's knee, who stared Ht hen wonderingly. "I didn't tnean," she said, uppinning the bundltJ "to et it out now, but I shall hav? to. Why, John, day altei to -morrow is your birthday.-.- "So 'tis," said John. "Gracious! has it coma around so soon?" "And you, dear boy," said Betty, shaking out before his eye a prettT, brown affair, nil edged with silk of the bluest shade, that presently assumed the proportions of a dressing gown; "this is to be your present. But you must he dreadfully surprised. John, when you get it. for oh, I didn't want you to know it!" John made an answer ho thought best. When he spoke again he said, perplexed, whilo a small pucker of bewilderment settled between his eyes: "But I don't see, Betty, what this thing," laying one finger on the gown, "had to do with the sigh." "That," said Betty, and then she broke into a merry laugh, ttat got so mixed up with the dimples and the dan cing brown eyes that for a moment she couldn't finish. "Oh, John, I was wor rying bo over those buttons. They wern't good, but they were the best I could do then. And I'd only bought 'era yesterday. Two whole dozen. And you put that $10 bill in my hand, I didn't hardly know it, but I suppose I did give one little bit of a sigh, for I was so provoked that I had not waited buying thein until to-day." John caught up tho little woman, dressing (town and nil. I don't think they have ever quarreled since at least I have never heard of it. The "Tree ruzzle." The "tree puzzle" that follows is one of the most ingenious trifles of the kind now current: 1. What's the social tree, 2. And tho dancing tree, 3. And the tree that is nearest the sea 4. The dandiest tree, 6. And the kissable tree, 0. Aud the tree where ships may be? 7. What's the tell-tale tree, 8. And the traitor's tree, 0. And the tree that's the warmest clad? 10. The languishing tree, 11. The chronologist's tree, 13. And the tree that makes one sad? 13. What's the emulous tree, 14. The industrious tree, 15. And the tree that nover will stand still? lli. The nnhealtliiest tree, 17. The Kgyptinn-plugue tree, 18. And the tree neither up nor down hill? 19. The contemptible tree, SO. The must yielding tree, 21. And the tree that bears a curse? 2-i. The reddish brown tree, 'J3. Tho reddish blue tree, 24. And the treelike an Irish nurse? 23. What is the tree. That makes each townsman fie? 2G. And what round itself doth entwine? 27. What's the housewife's tree, 2. And the fisherman's tree; 23. What by cockneys is turned Into wine? 80. What's the tree thnt got up, 81. And the tree that was lazy, 3 And the treu that guides ships to go forth! :t:i. The tree that's immortal, ill. Tiw trees that are not, Sj. And the tree whose wood faces the north? 30. Tho tree in a bottle, 37. The tree in a fog, 33. And what each must become ere he's old? 3'.. The tree of the people, 40. The traveler's tree, 41. And the sad tree when schoolmasters hold 13. What's the treo that has passed through the tiery heat, 43. That half-given to doctors when 111? 41. The tree that we offer to friends when we meet, 45. And the tree we may use as a quill? 4(5. What's the tree that in death will benight you, , 47. And the tree that your wants will sup- nlvil 4S. And the tree that to travel Invites you, 4'.. And tho tree that forbids you to die? ANSWERS. Pear. ) Tea. Hop. Heoch. Spruce. t Tulip. I Yew. 25. Citron. 20. Woodbine. 27. rlroom. 28. Basswood. 2!t. Vine. 30. Rose. 31. 1 Satinwood. Kay. Peach. Judas. Fir. Pine. Pate. Weeping-willow. Ivy. Spindle-tree. Caper. Hyiamore. Locust. Plane. Medlar. t India-rubber. Sago palm. .1 ' I Damson. Chestnut. Lilac. Honeysuckle. I Aloe. S3. (H)olin. 33. Arbor-vitse. 34. Dyewoods. 35. Southernwood. 30. Cork. 37. I Kinoke-tree. ) Hazel. SS. Elder. !. Poplar. 40. Wavfaring-tree. 41. Birch. 42. Ash. 4:1. Coffee. 44. Palm. 45. Aspen. 40. Ueadly night shade. 47. Breadfruit. 48. Orange, 4'J. Olive. Great Suit Lake and tho Dead Sea. Great Salt Lake is a shallow body of water, its average depth being a little more than three feet, while in many parts it is much less. The water is transparent, but excessively salt; it contains about twenty-two per cent, ot common salt, slightly mixed with other salts, aud form ing one of the purest aud most concen trated brines in the world. Its specific gravity is 1.17. The water so buoyant that a man may float in it at full length upon his back, having his head and neck, his legs to the knees, und both arms to the elbow, entirely out of-water. If he assumes a sitting posture, with his arms extended, his shoulders will rise above the water. Swimming, however, is difficult, as the lower limbs tend to rise above the surface, and the briuo is so strong that to swallow even a very little of it will cause strangulation. The waters of the Dead Sea, on the other huud, are nearly black, and contain much sulphur aud bitumen, as well as salt. It is also very deep, vsry'.ug from thirteen feet near the. uouth end of the lake to more then p,300 feet in the northern part. Its btuovancy is quite equal to that of the (jiieat Salt Lake, for travelers say that a uihn cau float prone upon the surface for hours without danger of sink int.'. aud ioJ a sitting position is b'ld bieani-hijjh ' above the water. Inter- HEM EDI KS FOR INSOMNIA. B.DVICB FROM SLEEFLEaSSESS. Hair rillon to be) Frrfrrd to lonilivrn. Vnrlou .TIctltod f Cooling the Hrain. When I was a student, says a writer in the New York Sun, I suffered much from sleeplessness, and, after trying many remedies, I hit upon this one: I dis carded my feather pillow for one of hair. Tho effect was wonderful. 1 slept soundly the whole of the first night, and have never since, except when feverish, been so wakeful as I usually was before. Al I hough feathers are excellent for prevent ing the dispersion of the heat of the body, so much fault has been found with feather beds thnt they have quite gener ally gone out of use, and it is strange that feather pillows have not been sent after them. Feathers in pillows are open to the same objections as feathers in beds, and even their chief virtue, that of keep ing up a high temperature, is a defect in a pillow; certainly when one half of the head is kept at blood heat by being buried in feathers and the other half is exposed to the air, both halves cannot be at the most favorable temperature. A hair pil low docs not get warmed up to an un comfortable degree, because it rapidly conducts away the heat imparted to it by the head. Since hair pillows are not yet in common use, it might be supposed that a person accustomed to the use of one would either have to take it with him every time he was to be away from home for a few nights, or suffer consid erable inconvenience. But fortunately hair bosters are more common, and if the pillow is thrown-aside tho bolster will raise the head probably as high as is good for the sleeper. If a hair bolster is lacking, the end of the mattress may be raised high enough to make a com fort ablo head rest by putting the pillow under it. According to most, but not all, medi cal writers, wakefulness and mental ac tivity depend on the circulation of a large quantity of blood through the brain, and the flow of blood must be lessened before sleep can come on. I have obtained special benefit from drawing the blood to the muscles by means of a brisk walk or a quarter to half an hour's vigorous performance of light gymnastics just before going to bed. The majority of cases of f'-ep-lessness occur among persons who use their muscles but little, and for very many taking more exercise is tho best remedy, bleep can sometimes be brought on by simply warming the body, especially the feet; the drowsiness caused by sitting in a warm room is an instance. The blood may be drawn to the skin by a cold shower or sponge bath, followed by rubbing with a coarse towel. Getting out of bed for a feiv minutes when the air is cool will often bring re lief. I have lain awake half the night and then, after being up long enough to mix and drink a lemonade, have fallen asleep at onco on going back to bed. Perhaps tho lemonade should have part of the credit. On hot summer nights a cold bath will reduce the bodily temper ature so as to admit of sleep. If the skin is not wiped quite dry, tho evapor ating moisture will incrsase the cooling effect. A light lunch just before going to bed relieves the brain by drawing the blood to tho stomach, and, tho inclina tion to dose after a meal is explainable in this way. Diminishing tho cerebral circulation by compression of the carotid arteries is advised by sorao physicians. Lying on the back with a doubled pillow placed against the back of the neck so as to tip the head forward will effect this, and Dr. J. L. Corning has invented an instrument in the form of a collar for the same purpose. In view of what has been saiu aoout circulation of the blood, coldness of the feet is a natural accompaniment of sleeplessness, and one means of cure may be made to serve both ends. Bathing the feet in hot water is such a means, but after a few hours a reaction is liable to set in, which will send the blood from the feet to the bead and cause the sleeper to awake. It is better to take advantage of the reaction which follows a coid foot-bath with vigorous rubbing of the feet, both in the water and with the towel. The stimulus thus given to the circulation in the feet will lie more Ccrmaneut. I have found walking just cfore bedtime beneficial, and when I do not wish to go outdoors 1 raise my self sharply on my toes to the full stretch fifty or more times. A paragraph has recently been in circulation to the effect that a continuous low noise favors sleep; the sound of water dropping on a brass pau has been prescribed by a physician with good effect. The explanation seems to be that a simple monotonous impression quiets the brain by occupying it to the exclusion of mote varied and interesting, and therefore stimulating, impressions. On the same principle are the devices of counting forward or backward, imagining sheep jumping one by one through a gap, etc. ; but they are open to the objection of causing one portion of the brain to be exerted in order to control the rest of it. If tho hygienic measures which have been described fail to induce sleej), probably some form of disease stands in the way, and a physician should be em ploved to discover and remove it. So porific drugs should bo regarded as a last resort, for, unless skilfully used, they produce a stupor rather than a re freshing sleep. I )o not take a narcotic or nostrum at random localise somebody says it is good to make you slep; one narcotic is injurious where another is beneficial, and the chances are that you will choose one which will do you more harm than good. Uutl rijik floors are padded rinks will dot be popular with fat men. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A Georgia inventor has invented a fireproof cotton bagglDg, the use of which will very much reduce the insur ance rates on cotton. It is called "anti plilogan," and is said to be cheaper than the jute or gunny-bagging now used. To test the purity of water there has been found no better or simpler way than to fill a clean pint bottle three-fourths full of tho water to be tested, and dis solve in the water half a teaspoon ful of the purest sugar loaf or granu lated will answer cork the bottle, and place it in a warm place for two days. If in twenty-four to forty-eight hours the wntcr becomes cloudy or milky it is un fit for domestic use. It has been proved beyond all doubt that waters which circulate or stand in lcaien pipes or vessels not only take up particles of lead through mechanical action due to friction, but attacks the metal because of the affinity of several of their constituents, the result being gen erally lead carbonate. Minute quantities ot lead introduced into the system must rank among the factors of anaemia and defective nutrition in large towns. The electric light is being used to light bakers' ovens. A great difficulty has al ways existed among bakers to get a light into their dark ovens, so that the progress of baking might be observed. 1 wo in' candescent lamps, driven by a Victoria Brush machine, are placed inside an oven where the temperature ranges from 400 to 500 degrees Fahrenheit. Tho oven door contains a sheet of plate glass, through which the whole of tho oven is distinctly visible. The bafc er now never need burn his bread or pastry. Considering its extent. America is better supplied by the clouds than Europe and Africa. In the tropics of the old world the annual rainfall is about seventy seven inches, whilo in tropical South America it is 155 inches. In the eastern United States it is forty to fifty inches; but west of the one hundredth meridian to Sierra Nevada it is mostly twclveto six teen inches. The annual average of Great Britain is thirty-five inches ; that of France twenty to twenty-one inches; but about the Alps it is mostly thirty-five to fifty inches. Farther from the coast, in central Germany and Russia, it is only fifteen to twenty inches. Tho moistest climate known is in India, at Cherrapon- gec, where over a small area the yearly fall of rain is more than 610 inches, or ubout fifty-one feet. The process of swallowing food in serpents is painfully slow and somewhat peculiar. For how is an animal without limbs or molars to swallow its prey, which is often much larger than its own body? Thus the boa-constrictor seizes the head of its victim with its sharp, re curving teeth, and crushes the body with its overlapping coils, then slightly un coiling and covering the carcass w ith a slimy mucus, it thrusts the head into its mouth by main force, the mouth stretch ing raarvelously, the skull being loosely put together. One jaw is then unfixed and the teeth withdrawn, by bem pushed forward, when they are again fastened farther back on the animal. The other jaw is then protruded, and then re fastened, and thus, by successive move ments, the prey is slowly and spirally drawn into the gullet. Fighting in the Desert. The manoeuvres of the British in the desert preparing for the enemy, are thus described by Cameron : "Continually does the column halt, .dismount and prepare to meet the enemy, and 'on these occasions there is always a race between tho mounted infantry and guard regiments as to who shall bo first in square. The formation finally adopted is this: Square. Camels kneel ing ami tied by the legs. (Square. "Thus an enemy charging cannot get in among tho camels without being en filaded by one or other face of the squares." Proud to Call Hiiuselfa United States Farmer. Senator Williams, of Kentucky, is proud to call himaelf a farmer, and he thinks there is no higher, honorable call ing. He is a stanch friend of the agri culturists, and during his term lias done vigorous battle for every measure that has come before tho Senate for their benefit or relief. He says: "After nil, give me the country raised boy. The boy who runs barefooted and stubs tho nails off his toes and gets stone bruises on his heels grows up in the simple, un affected ways of life which make him tho better man." Wtmhingtun Mar. In married life there should be svin pathy companionship. Tho husband aud wite mould ue true irienus ami comrades, without a thought of gftting the better of each other. They should join hands at tho altar with the idea of being made one. There can be no true love where the thought of mystery enters the mind. You may find ecstatic joy in the dizain i if hope, but it take money to go to market, Chicago Ltdyer. DISAPPOINTMENT. My tree of life In springtime promised well, The buds of faith and hope were full and fair; The blossoms with rich fragrance filled the air, Making my pathway sweeter whero they fell The fruit appeared; I watched its growth with care; Dark clouds of doubt and fear hung o'er my tree; "Your fruit's In danger," oft was said to me; That it might live to ripen was my prayer. In autumn time, my fruitage gathered in, Perfect it seemed, and to myself I said; "How poor the fruit when faith and hope are dead! Mine has escaped the withering blight of sin." At length the fruit I tasted, and I found, Forgetting works, I now must bear tho pain; That I had watched and waitod long in vain; What looked so fair was bitter and unsound If I could live again my past life o'er, It should be one of earnest work and love; And He who plants the tree then from above Would bless the fruit; I should need nothing more. ' II. Cnayden. HUMOR OF THE DAY. The sack is an appropriate coat for a rejected lover. Hatchet. No matter whether bonnets have little birds on them or not, the amount of bill is always the same. "Papa's pants will soon fit brother," is tho first line of a new song, and yet it is said there is iio iiierai y-' or musica.N genius in this couutry. HJiemiun. "Pickled walnuts are introduce! at dinner now," says an exchange. When ever you are introduced to a pickled walnut its not etiquette to shake hands, I believe. Brooklyn Time. Among the Esquimaux you can buy a seal-skin sack for two iron hoops and a ten-penny nail; but then it takes a seal skin sack to buy a ten-penny nail and two iron hoops. New York Keict. A young man gazed at his mother-in-law's two trunks in the hall, and sadly , remarked: "She has brought her clothes to a visit, would that she had brought her visit to a close." Drake' Magazine. " Use your fork, Johnnie! Have you forgotten so soon what I told you about using your fingers?" "AVell, mamma, fingers were made before forks." " Yes, they were; but not your fingers, my son." We believe in giving every man a chance in this world, but a man in tho act of sucking an egg which nu old hen set on four weeks last summer, should be speedily told of his rashness. Thru States. "'"io one asks: "Is it dangerous to eat l.w going to sleep?" SVe think not. We have heard frequently ot per sons doing that. But if you are afraid to risk it perhaps you had better cat af ter you go to sleep. Pittshtr'j )emorat. "Are you going to the party this even ing, Maud?" "No, I guess not; I'm afraid that horrid Smith girl will bo there." "Oh, no, she won't; sho said sho wasn't going." "Why not?" "Be cause she was afraid you would be thero." Boston Post. Josh Billings was asked: "How fast does sound travel?" His idea is that it depends a good deal upon the noise you are talking about. "The sound of a dinner horn, for instance, travels half a mile in a second; while an invitation tew get up in the morning I have known to be three-quarters of un hour goin' up two pair of stairs, and then not hev strength enull left to bo heard." f omen have a happy faculty of utter ing pleasant things of each other. "Why, dear," said ono to a friend, "do you know that young Smith and Laura Jone have quarreled, and now a great gulf separates them?" "Yes," replied tho other. "They lire in the same position as her ears. A great gulf separates them, too." The worst that it is that Laura's mouth is not so large after ull. Boston Gazette. " A pound of jumps!" and I looked in sur prise At little black Itoso with her shining eyes. "A pound of jumps! my mother said A pound of jumps, and she nodded her head. " But my dear, we've flour, und sugar in lumps, t And peanuts, but never a pound of juinis. " With wulnuts and chestnuts and corn thai pops " "Oh, oh! I forgot! it's a pound of hops! " Wide Awake. The Bone Industry. The bone industry of the country is an important one. The four feet of an or dinary ox will make a pint of neutsfoot oil. Not a bone of any animal is thrown sway. Many cattle shin bones are ship- fied to Europe for the making of knife uindles, where they bring if-l'l per ton. The thigh bones aie tho most valuablo, being worth $S0 per ton for culling into tooth brush handles. The foreleg bones are worth $30 per tou, aud are made into collar buttons, parasol haudlcs and jew elry, though sheep's les are tho btaple foi parasol 'handles. Tho water in which the bones are boiled is reduced to glue, the dust which comes from sawing the bones is fed to cattle and poultry, and all boues that cannot be used as noted, or for bone black, used in refining the sugar we eat, are turned into fertilizers and made to help enrich tho soil. As regards waste, it is the story of the pig. Nothing is lost except the iwrue&l. '.7ii,'c !i'hu i'rtti. 1 L J
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