THE FOREST BEPUBMCAH I. pnbllnhul viry Wednesday, by J. S. WEMK. OlMoe la Bmearbaugh & Co.'s Building EtM STREET, TIONE8TA', Ps. ' Term. ... $ I. DO per Year. No .iitmcrlpttons receired for a shorter period limn thre innnUis. CofTMponrtniir olleUed from ill parts of tho r nni.try. No notice will be Ultra of anonymous coram unlcallon.. . ' CYPRESS. I. Moonlight, and lore, and aingnolla trees; A bore, gray house on a lonely hill; A river below, with tlio swoop of seas; An air of stillness, so Htrangoly still Po still of trouble or strife or stir, I heard my honrt 01 it boat for her. . if. Hor lover and she and tho cypress trees; And I r A lono by tha black lagoon A place of ghosts and of mysteries . Lalio lillos uphold to tho loveless moon; The darkness ilnin by the sword of cay And ondor tho cypross troes hidden away. IIL Hor wondrous hair! Hor eyes were as largo As torch-lost, door's, that feeding in moss, And toeing tho light in the huntsman's bargo, Lifts, up it head and comes wading across, Wide-eyed and dazed, ond reaches its hoad Trusting and reaching and so, shot doad! IV. " The cypress is secret as death," said I, "And Death, he is dearer to me than gold," 8o the CTnrom n-orul. t. i a t v Have many and many a secret to hold For why did she turn to tha wood and the wave And look and look as in dead love's grave? Chicago Current. WANTED, ADRESS SUIT. A nCMOKOL'B STORT FROM TI7E GERMAN. "By Jove! that mlsorable Uilor is enough to drive a man entry," cried Judgo Henry Winkler desperately, not knowing whether to curso or laugh. lie juiced the room as ho spoke, like a caged animal, l'oor follow! Jlis anger was not unreasonable rts ho strodo up and down the limited spneo, his hair dressod and perfumed, and attired ia shining patent hnthcr boots, linen faultlessly luundried but thero our description must cense, and wo must not further di lato on the bridegroom's apparel. Yes, lienry Winkler was to bo married at 13 o'clock, sharp, to his adored Aurelia, in one of tho most fashionable churches. Tho tailor had promised him to deliver his dress suitot his apartments at 10 o'clock, and now it was quite 11:30, and Mr. Winkler stood arrayed in spotless white and there were no signs of a swallow-tail anywhere 1 Do you know what I would do?" ventured an officious groomsman, who had como to escort the judge to church. "I would just put on my morning coat and start at once. I do beliovo that this will be the very best thing you can -do just now." "Bring mo a hatful of Inst year's hail, but pray do not mention my morning coat, nor put in a plea for my trousers," cried Winkler, laughing wildly. "Ono can see the sunshine through my coat; and leaving out such trifles us stylo and cut, my trousers, which were black ten years ago, are now of such a hue as to be totally indescribable. Man is always a laughable object when he is getting -married, even at his best; but if 1 array myself as you suggest I am half afraid that Aurolia would say 'No' instead of JYcs' when wo meet at the altar." 'But what is to be done?" urged the groomsman. "What can you doV It is getting lato. Did you not say that the tailor saidlO o'clock. See, it is 11:30," criod Charley Held, nervously. "He certainly said 10 o'clock," the judge answered, solemnly. Weil, suppose we send for your dress suit?" taid Charley. "What nro j ou dreaming of?" returned the judge. "It would take more than an hour for any messenger to get from here to tho tailor 6hop." "You are right," sighed Charley. "But toll mo what was your reason for order ing your wedding'clothcs so late? They should havo been hero a week ago. Why were you so foolish?" . "I wus foolish to trust to that beast of a tailor. I always put off things until the very last inomeut, and now 1 am to be punished, 1 suppose," and Henry Winkler thre w himself into an arm-chair. "Look at my new dress suit," said Charley Hold, smoothing his coat down iu front of a long dressing glass. "Doesn't it fit me wclU Oh, I was smarter than you, judge, for my dress suit was ordered in good time and sent home aiweek ago. I had it made ex pressly to wait ou you." "Your lecture may be vcrv amusing," groaned the judge, "but it fails to keep mo out of this muddle." Suddenly the judge bounded up from the arm-chair, grasped the astonished Charley by tho shoulders, and looked at him fixedly, while he cried: "But you can help mo if you will, old fellow. I see that you can be of the greatest assistance to mo in this,, tho most threatening moment of my exist ence." ' "I," answered tho surprised friend. "What on earth can I do to help you now? I cannot see my way." "But you will see your way. Look in the glaBS, ray dear boy. See how we stand as much alike in figure as two peas." "Well, whnt of that?" asked Charley, as t,ho judge devoured his figure with his large brown eyes. "Don't you tee, my dearest friend, how you run help me? Why, you muBt lend mo your dress suit so that I can hurry und get married," the judge said, impetuously. "What could Mr. Held do! He gave one long, despairing glance at his tall, file figure in tho t;lsa, and thought of tho charming Bertha, whom he, as best man, was to escort to tho altar. Alas! he hud contemplated this pleasure for weeks, and now he wus to be undressed, like u naughty boy, in the middle of the day! Ho wus angry with himself that ho hud strutted before the glass aud called the judge's attention to his dress Suit, but some ono had to suffer, ovl- YOLIVIII. NO. 20. dcntly, and so Charley resigned his new clothes to his enraptured friend. It took Judge Winkler but a moment to slip into the dress suit, and Boon he had arrived at the church, escorted by tho faithful Charley, who had donned the perforated morning coat and tho despised trousers. Winkler was the happiest of men, and Charley one of the taddest, as ho walked up tho aisle with the lovely Berth i on his nrm, at whom ho dared not look, ' for fear she would break off her engagement with him. An hour later tho newfy-raarrlcd pair went in tho cars steaming- away to Grccnwald, where they were to pass their honeymoon. The judge had bribed the guard to give them a separate carriage. He had thrown off his overcoat and sat with his arm around his wife, pressing her tight against Charley Ilcld's dress coat. "My dear husband, did you not as sure mo that you never smoked?" tho newly-wed spouso demanded. "You arc certainly right, my little darling." tho judge replied; "I . never smoke." "Well, what is that in your coat pocket?" the girl asked, smiling. "It is nothing but my note-book," the judge answered. "A note-book, indeed," cried Mrs. Winkler. "I will bet anything it is a cigar-caso." About half a minuto later the vounor wifo had thrust her nftnble fingers In her husband's pocket and had drawn out a real, true cigar-case, and such a cigar case all embroidered and perfumed, anu Dcanng on its bhclc this inscription: "To my dearest." Casting an angry and astonished look at her husband, Mrs. Winkler said: "What made you deny tho fact that you smoked? Did you think I would bo displeased! But tell me," she added, in a changed voice, "who embroidered this case for you?" "Now I am in a predicament," the judge thought to himsolf, and laughed nervously, at which his wifo eecmod to regard; him with increased displeas ure "This cigar cose belongs to a friend of mine," ho stammered. "This is a pretty tale," cried Mrs. Winkler, and she drew out of tho side of tho card-case a perfumed, pink-hued note, folded in a lover's knot. Tho cars stopped for a while, and Judce Winkler left the train that he might procure some fruit for his bride. While the judge was absent his wife utilized his absence in perusing the note, which ended with, "Your always loving Bertha." This capped the climax. Hero she was on her wedding tour, just beginning life with a man who could deceive her so shamefully. She was almost wild with anger and pain. When Judge Winklor returned with the lunch his wife would not speak to him. She had taken another seat and refused even to look at him. As the train approached a second stopping placo Judge Winkler, ulmost beside himself, exclaimed: "Au relia, you must listen you must answer me! Speak, aud let me hear how I havo had tho misfortune to offend my soul's idol!" Aurelia seated herself opposito her husband. She looked him straight in the eyes and said: "I intend to leave you at the next station." "Great heaven! you surely do not mean what you say. Tell me. I imploro you, what has happened and how I have offended you!" Judge Winkler cried, now thoroughly ustonislied. "I shall leave you and return to my parents in Berlin," tho young wife said, bursting into tears. "What for? What have Idone?" asked the bewildered judge, "You are a hypocrite, a traitor, a fiend. You have brokcu your poor wife's heart and made a miserable woman out of a trusting bride," tho girl cried, weeping bitterly. "My dear girl, calm yourfclf tell me what is the matter. Only speak, I beg you," said the judge, trying to calm A u relia's exoitement. "Dearest love " he began. "I am not your dearest love," cried Aurciiu. "It is your 'always loving Ber tha,' who 1b your dearest love, you vile wretch." "But I have no 'always loving Ber tha,' " echoed tho judgo. "You must be crazy, Aurelia." "I wish to heaven I was crazy; then I would be deaf to your villainy," cried Aurelia. "Here, take your lovo letter and let me go," she said, .handing him the rose colored note. The judge glanced at the note, and, laughing wild ly, he 6truck his forehead with his open hand. .. . . v "I Bee it all now!" he cried. "This, of course, came out of the cigmvease, and the cigarcaso came out of Charley's pocket. My darling wife, I have com menced our married life wrong by con cealing Bomethiug from you, whichper haps, I should have acknowledged at the beginning. That Wretch of. a tailor failed to send my wedding clothes home in time. My packed trunk had been sent to the cars, and an old, torn suit was all I hud in my rooms. - This is C'harloy's coat; the cigur-case is Charley's, anl the 'ever loving Bertha' is also Charley's thank heaven 1" . . "Then, iny dear husband, I am your only lovei" demanded Mrs. Winkler, smiling through her tears. "You certainly are," the happy Judge declared. Aurelia kissed the cigar case as well as her husband. "i'ou must always recall this event," she said, laughing. "And you must re member this, that a husband should never conceal anything from his own dear wife." "And you must remember this, my little wife," returned the judge, "thut a wife should never search her husband's pockets." The young ife acknowledged her fault. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1885, "It shall never happen declared. Will flhe keep her word? it Chicago Inter- Ocean. again," she WO doubt SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Disease germs are probably much less affected by extreme cold than might be expected. Experiments have been re ported to the Glasgow philosophical eocioty in which 120 degrees belowzcro was insufficient to stop processes of pu trefaction. A remarkable property of tho ice plant is its absorption of salt, a fluid ex uded by its leaves having been found to contain about thirty-three per cent, of sea salt. For this reason it is suggested that tho plant may be advantageously grown on lands made unproductive by an excess of salt. Professor Young says when you con sider the brightness of the sun's surface you find it to be about 150 times a; bright as one of our calcium lights, and about four times as bright as the bright est of the points in one of our electric lights. The electric light is very bright, but the solar surface ia about four times as bright as that. Recent investigations show that at Hockst-on-the-Main, while aniline is poisonous, none of the men employed in the aniline works who became ill died, and those who hove been engaged in the magenta house eighteen years, though reddened with the dye even to the inside ot tne mouth, wore not la baa health. . Men employed in lead works, accord ing to the London Mining Journal, who eat largely of fat meat and other fatty matters, are much less susceptible to lead poisoning than others. At an es tablishment on the Continent, where a great deal of work was done, there were the usual attacks of poisoning, but a change in the food cheese, butter, bacon, pork, lard and similar articles being thereafter the principal diet soon put an end to the attacks, and no one was troubled with lead colic for moro than fifteen years. The free use of milk is said to have the same effect. Tho wood of tho cork elm is heavier nnd stronger than that of the white elm or slippery elm. It is close grained, susceptible of fine polish, and useful for agricultural Implements, wheel stock, bridge timbers, etc. It is quite distinct in form from the other elms, and deserves to be planted largely for ornament and use. ; It ranges from Southwestern Ver mont through Western New York, On tario and Southern Michigan to Iowa, and South through Ohio and Central Kentucky, reaching its best development in the southern peninsula of Michigan. Tho ordinary dwellings of the Japan ese are not firmly attached by founda tions to the earth, but rest loosoly on squared stones or boulders buried in the ground, the result of which is to par tially prevent the transmission of mo mentum from earthquakes. An English man has made an improvement on this plan and rests the house at each of its piers upon a handful of cast-iron shot. Ihese shot, of the size of buckshot, so increase the frictional resistance to roll ing that the house is practically astatic, and the motion is in most earthquakes only about one-tenth of what it is out side. The new process of sugar-making brought forward in Berlin by Trobach is purely chemical, differing materially from the mechanical process now in use. This method dispenses with crushing and pressing altogether. Tho cane is cut into slices by means of muchinery, and tho water extracted from it by alco hol vapor, which having an affinity for tho water, absorbs it, but leaves the saccharine in the dessicated cane; this is then treated with liquid alcohol, which extracts the sugar, and afterward the sugar is extracted from the alcohol, or the alcohol from tho sugar, by filtering through lime and chalk. The effect, it is said, will be to cheapen the cost of sugar. . How Arabs L1t WItliontMucu Water. How is it that Arabs contrivo to live in tho waterless deserts of that much-talked-of-region. They are, to begin with, abstemious in their habits, and know every crevice and hollow in the hills where water will collect. They re gard this fluid more, perhaps, in the light of a luxury than as a necessity, aud use it with wonderful economy. They would never think of wasting it on the exterior of their bodies, and consider that once in forty-eight hours is often enough to replenish the inner man. General Colston tells us that , when Bedouins. came to his camp water Woul be offered them, but oft-n bo refuse with the remark that the visitor had drunk yesterday. By cultivating this habit of abstemiousness they are able to cover immense distances, which would be impossible for a European, unless he were accompanied by baggage animals. Ciamlert' Journal, Tho Age or Niagara Falls. Mr. Bakewell, an eminent English ge ologist, gave personal attention to the problem as early as 1840, and, from every thing he could learn at that time, esti mated that the fulls had receded about a hundred and twenty feet in the forty years preceding. He recurred to the problem again in 1810, 1851, 1850, and was each time confirmed in the belief thut the apex of the horseshoe fall was receding, on au average, three feet a year. On the other hand, Sir Charles Lyell, upon his first visit, iu 1811, "con ceived" (upon what basis he does not tell us) thut at the utmost the rate could not be more tbau one foot a year, which would give us thirty-five thousand years as a miuimum time. But as it appears ' tne result or tne recent survey is to con firm the estimate of Mr. Bukewell, thus bringing the period down to about teveu thousaua years. Science. Lit ft IN i'LlllUUAI LANK. A VISIT TO TRB HAUITTS OF tOV- DOW S CBIMISAL CLASSES. "Petticoat lane" and tlio People Found 'Mitre One man mho la Alna). Protected from Harm. One of the very worst districts of Lon don (probably the very worst, now that Hatten garden is no more), writes a Lon don correspondent of the St. Louis. Pott Ditpatch, is that long, narrow lane, with its neighborhood, known to the initiated as "Petticoat" lane to the uniniated as Middlesex street. The dangerous classes of London and Paris differ in one most essential respect from the same kind of people in Ameri ca. Probably the very worst slums of New York contain no creatures whose criminal genealogy dates back beyond one or two generations. London, on the contrary, was a great city prior to the discovery of America. Its slums reckon their age by centuries, while the inhabitants are the result of long generations of depravity, and could, were it fashionable in those localities to keep a family tree, trace their descent in crime back from father to eon for many generations. Petticoat lane has one fea ture peculiar to itself. That is the great Sunday market from which Bag Fair takes its name. On week days the neighborhood is nearly deserted, at night almost equally so. The crim inal tendencies of Petticoat lane are not of a noisy or demonstrative sort. This ia the great criminal manufactory of the world. Here the most dangerous thieves, housebreakers, and murderers graduate nnd serve their apprenticeships, live, and die. Many of them are utterly unknown to the police save by name and tho effects of their life work. Scores of them have never been seen by mortal eye other than their "pals." Here the Fagins of London society ply their trade. In all appearances Middlesex street is one of the quietest streets in London. Occasionally, however, a knot of villainous-looking men will gather in some cor ner of the street, talking in low tones, and in a language as unintelligible, to ordinary mortals as Sanscrit. At night the whole neighborhood is dark, silent, and deserted. Now and then the sound of a scuffle is heard in one of which the dark, blind alleys, leading nowhere, with which the neighborhood abounds. Ere the police can reach the spot all is again silent, though frequently the blood stained sidewalk is a silent witness to what has happened. But few lights ap pear in the windows, and no suspicious character is ever seen issuing from the doors. Into the houses which lino each side of Middlesex street, and fill the courts and alleys within the arms of that great cross, no one save the inhabitants or the police in trios and quartettes have ever set foot. Yet, stay, there is one person who is always wel come, and whom the vilest and most murderous ruffian would protect with his life, nnd that is the doctor. Tho inhabitants of London slums have learned that in tho epidemics which now nnd again almost every year, in fact rage with the fury of the plagues of old among the denizens of those filthy and over crowded houses, a doctor is a necessity. When wounded and bleeding, as the re sult of some unholy midn'ght raid, the modern Bill Sykes flies, like a wounded stag, to his covert, death will surely en sue unless a doctor can be persuaded to. take the case in hand. It is a religion with London heathens the only one they know, save the honor that exists among thieves to protect the doctor. Protected by two policemen in uni form and a detective in plain clothes, tho writer of this article once made a pilgrimage through all that was visible of five of these houses. They were not the worst, for into those nothing short of force could gain admission, but they were very bad. In two of them the police showed a large trap in the floor. It was so built as to be quite invisible. At the touch of a spring in the wall some dis tance off the slab flew downward, dis closing a well, whose depth we had no means of ascertaining. A stone de scended in silence for many seconds, and then came a loud splash! The fiendish contrivance is for the benefit of spies. A person entering a house whom the inhab itants suspect, or wish to be rid of, is enticed on the invisible slab. But Middlesex street on week-day, and the same thoroughfare on Sunday, pos sesses stronger points of difference than Broadway, New York, when a procession is passing, and when it is not. For many months, thaugh as well acquainted with the neighborhood as is sufe for a non-resident to be in its week-day dress, the writer was not aware that this great fair was held in those parts. At lust I did hear of it, and the following Sab bath beheld me divested of the garments of respectability and arrayed, pro tern, in those as nearly resembling disrespecta bility as I could fashion in clean mate rials. ... There was no need of a police escort this time. "Thero is safety in numbers," says an old truism, beside which, on Sunday morning, picked constables, the flower of the force, are distributed through the fair at intervals of fifty yards. I arrived at my destination at 8 :H0 a. m., and found pandemonium in full swing. Up the nnrrow roadway are placed stalls three deep, on which are to be found every kind of salable article from meat to mouse traps. Petticoat lane is devoted to general merchandise, and the cross streets to sccoud-haud clothing exclu sively. The stolen goods of. the week from all quarters appear in tempting ar ray. Every species of merchandise, I food, clothing, books and live stock. every style of clithing, from a priest's j surplice to a seedy frock: coat, from a duchebs' toilet to a child's pinafore, may be seen ou these stalls. And the crowd I the inotly cosmopoli tan crowd 1 who throng and surge on the narrow footpath, forming a solid, $1.50 PER ANNUM. moving moss of humanity. Human rots who vegetate underground for six days of every week emerge on the seventh for ono single hour like moles in wet weather, with a coin in their skinny hands, to purchase the necessities of life. At 12 o'clock sharp all Sunday fairs close by act of parliament. As the mel odious bells from various churches chime the hour of noon there is a general stam pede. Barrows are wheeled away, stalls nre cleared, merchants vanish with their goods, and the surging crowd melts like the mists of a summer morning or clouds before the rising sun. The whole pic ture vanishes in five minutes, like the scenes in a panorama, the tavern doors (closed by law during Sunday morning) are thrown wide open, and rag fair be comes a memory of" tho past until next Sunday awakes it into fresh activity. Lakes of Solid Salt In Asia. Yar-oilan means "the sunken ground," and no word can describe tho general ap pearance of the valley of these lakes. The total length of the valley from the Kangruali road on the west to the Band-l-Dozan, which bounds it on the east, is about thirty miles, and its great breadth about eleven miles, divided into two parts by a connecting ridge which runs across from north to south, with an average height of about 1,800 feet, but has n narrow, which rises to some 400 feet above the general average. To the west of this ridge lies the lake from which the Tckke Turcomans from Merv get their salt. The valley of this lake is some six miles square and is surrounded on all sides by a steep, almost precipi tous, descent, impassible for baggage animals, so far as I am aware, except by the Merv road, in the northeast corner. The level of the lake I made to be about 1,430 feet above sea level, which gives it a descent of some 400 feet from the level of the connecting ridge, and of some 950 feet below the cencrul plateau above. The lake itself lies in the center of the basin, and the suuply of salt in it is ap parently unlimited. The bed of the lake is ono solid mass of hard salt, perfectly level, and covered by only an inch or two of water. To rido over it was like riding over ico or cement. The bottom was covered with a slight aediment, but when that was scraped away the pure white salt shone out below. How deep this deposit may be it is impossible to sav. for no one has yet got to tho bottom of it. To the east of the dividing ridge is the second lake. from which the Saryke of Penjdeh take their salt. The valley in which this lake is situated is much the larger of tne two. 'lue valley proper is itself some fifteen miles In length by about ten miles in breadth. The descent to it is precipitous on the north and west sides only, the eastern and southeastern end sloping gradually up in a succession of undulations. The level of this lake is apparently lower than that of the other. I made it out to be some eight hundred feet above sea level. The salt in this lake is not so smooth as in the other, and did not look so pure. It is dug out in flakes, or strata, generally of some four inches in thickness, is loaded into bags, and curried off on camels for sale without further preparation. Sir Peter jAimwen. Men Who Drag Carriages. Trot, trot, trot, along the smooth, sunny, but bamboo shaded high road, I have a little leisure now to observe these astonishing rickshaw coolie. They wear the enormous traditional mushroom Chinese hat, suitable in case either of beating rain or fierce sun, under which are tucked their hard-plaited pigtails for even a coolie would feel himself dis graced were ho minus a pigtail. They are bare-footed, bare-legged, bare-armed, and wear just sufficient rags to savo themselves from the charge of indelicacy. Their skins are sallow, their Mongolian faces are pinched, their stature is small, their limbs seem attenuated and loosely put together. And yet theso demonical looking wretches, to call whom "breth ren" is indeed a heavy demand on our charity, throw themselves forward into tho shafts and drag their carriages with their passengers, who may be ten or may be twenty stone, not at a walk or a shuffle or an amble, but at a good round trot of about six miles an hour. They neither flag, pant nor perspire, but keep up this pace for two or three miles at a stretch. Would not tho most renowned Euro pean athlete or pedestrian be but a feeble coney in comparison? Moreover, these coolies have to content themselves at the end of their journey with five cents a cent is a fraction less than a half-penny. They exult if they receive ten cents, and consider the donor an utter fool if he cive8 them fifteen cents. Cornhill Mug azint. A Plague of Monkeys. Tho natives of Benares are suffering the results of monkey worship. The li censed beasts plunder right' and left, they invado cake stands, and make raids in fruit stores, and no man may say them nay. The Brahmins of Benares have at last decided that the monkey must go. A pious old rajuh offered an asylum across the river in the grounds of his pal ace. They were deported thither in boat loads. But they only took it as a duy's picnic. For a steady life they preferred the town. So v. he a the shades of night began to fall they went down to the wharf, where boats were always plying to lienures, and without showing any tickets or any nonsense of that kind deadheaded themselves home again. Then the Brahmins sought to make a contract with the English isilway com pany to convey theso descendants of liuuuman, the moukey god, to Sahuruu poor. They wished to send 10,000 to betritt with. And the company is consid ering the question, but incline to de cline it. RATES OF ADVERTISING. On Square, ot. Inch, one innertlon. t 1 00 One Square, one Inch, one month 8 00 One Square, one Inch, three months. t no One Bqnare, one Inch, one jrnr 10 O0 Two Squares, one yesr 15 00 Qnartcr Column, ono jor BO 00 Hitf Column, one rear M 00 One Column, one year..... 100 BO advertisements ten cent. i.r line etch li ertlon. Marriage and death notice gratia. All bills for yearly adrerttsemeatt collected qor. trrly. Temporary aurenUoinenla anil be paid In ad ranee. Job work euh oa delivery. BOW IT HAPPENED. Once on a time a beauteous maid Of figure most divine, L Of craceful carriage, high-tonod airt Just cut out right to shine, Had for a husband, such a man As women most do crave A million dollars and a cough. And he her abject slave. nv , , Tie true he wasn't very old, Nor either very young, But he was strong in solid cash, ', And very weak in lung. He furnished all that wealth could buy, A palace for a home, Her summers, where she might select Her winters all in Borne. The rarest jewels, finest silks, And viands fit for queens, All these and more were at command, Because he had the means. But strange to say, the girl refused The proffer of his hand With haughty scorn, and wed a lad Who kept a peanut stand. l'knvol You think this strange) Well, so do all, Until they've been told why That poet was to get a prize, Who told the biggest lie. Merchant- Traveler, HUMOR OF THE DAY. Sound a sleep A Bn ore. Generally (w)reckless Careful sea captains. "It is not always May," sings a poet. You are very right; it is sometimes must. A rosebush is thought to be exceed ingly modest, but yet it wants the earth. The only muffs which have not been packed away for the summer are the base ball muffs. It seems a little- singular that a man's face is generally the longest when he is himself the "shortest." Chicago Ledger, In the morning, cool and early. Ere it's time to rise, ,, -,,) , What a blissf ul, sleepful season, , Were it not for flies. ' ' .'.''' Merchant-Traveler. . A little miss noticed the gold on her aunt's teeth, and exclaimed in flattering admiration: "Auntie, dear, I wish I had copper-toed teeth like yours." Boston Beacon. It is remarkable what a difference there is in the sensation when you get a letter enclosing a ten-dollar bill and when you get one enclosing a bill for ten dollars. Somertille Journal. Wiggins predicts a very mild winter. This shows where the professor lacks in tact. What this country demands just now in the prophecy line is a winter cold enough to freeze the tail off a cast iron dog. New York Graphic. MOOfT-BUBNT. ' One moonlight night a happy boy Of cherries stole a pailful. The farmer quickly turned his joy Into a sorrow baleful. And while he roared, it came to pass, A settled fact the boy learned, ' That being tnnned by moonlight was For worse than being sun-burned. Life. A piece of laundry work Now, then," said the captain of police to the janitor of the station homio, "give the prisoner a bath, and when that is done, let him be handcuffed and sent off to the jail." "In other words," remarked the janitor, "you desire the prisoner washed and ironed and sent off?" "Pre cisely," and it was done. Boston Courier. THE BVOIENB Of KISSKS. "Chawley, dear," said a lovely maid, As thev sat in the house one night, "It's unhealthy to kiss the doctors say, Ho, of course, it cannot be right, Not right" "Well, darling," spoke the noble youth, As the color mantled high, "I never thought being kisaud to death . buch a horrible death to die. Let's try." Approaching Earthquakes. The earthquake shocks which were felt last week over a wide area in York shire remind us that an authority on tha subject of those phenomena, M. Delau nay, of Paris, is of opinion that next year will see the recurrence of upheavals of the earth's cru6t in an intensified form. M. Delaunay is a prophet of evil, but unfortunately all Lis prophecies have hitherto come true. His specialty is earthquakes, and be predicts them only too surely. In 1877 ho announced that that year would not concludo without disturbances of the earth, aud as a mat ter of fact, two frightful catastrophes on the coasts of South America followed. In 1883 M. Delaunay again pointed to approaching earthquakes, and soon after the volcanic eruptions ia thuluilian archipelago occurred, by which thous ands of human beings lost their lives, and hundreds of squuro miles of terra fiima were engulfed by the sea. Toward the end of lust year M. Delaunay once more raised his warning voice, aud tho earthquakes in Spain proved how well founded were his warnings. Cuite re cently he has prophesied very severe vol canic disturbances for 1880. Having acquired a well-merited notoriety in foretelling earthquakes, some weight ought to be attached to M. Delaunay's utterances. He affirms that next year thete natural phenomena will be of a very intense character, and that they will show themselves either when the earth is under the direct influence of a planet of ths first rank, such us Jupiter, or' under thut of a group of asteroids, or at a time when suu aud moon are near est to our planet at the same time. Jiull. The issue of religious works of all kiuds by the Presbyterian bourd of pub lication lust year reached over ".20,000,000 copies, and by the Baptist society during th same time 3'4,U8U, 010 cople.
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