THE FOREST REPUBLICAN la published erery Wednesday, hf J. E. WENK. Ofiloe in Smearbaugh & Co.'ts Building KtM STREET, TIONESTA, Fa. Term. - $1.00 per Year. No anbacrtpttnns received for a shorter period I linn tbr mnntha. Oorrmpomlence solicited from ill part of (lie ountrT. No notlco wUl be taken of anonymoua cnmmunlcatlooe. RATES OF ADVERTISING. One 8qnare, one Inch, one Intertlon... f 1 00 One Square one Inth, ona month I 00 One Square, one Inch, throe mnntbJ. 1 M One Square, one Inch, r.ne year a aa Two Squnrra, one year if go Cjuarlor Column, one year. at 0 1 1 ill r Column, one year 00 One Column, one year .....IN M Legal advertisements ten eeate .n Una eaefc la ertloD. Jtarrlnee and death notice, gratia. All bill, for yearly edvartuementa eUe4 naar. torly. Temporary adTertinamenU meat be Data la advance. r Job work cash on dallrery. r! o torn VOL. XVIII. NO. 31. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18. 1885. $1,50 PER ANNUM. tClrC) (1 mm 3 l.i1M)1lirH) WHEN EVEN IK a COMETH ON. When ovmlng comelh on, Blower and stntcllvr In 11m mellowing sky The fane-like pnrple-aliadowod cloud, arlao; Cooler and balmier doth the soft wind bikIij Lovelier, lonelier to our wondering eye. The a rtenlnjr lnnrltrnpo pecnis. The .wallow, fly Bwirt through the radiant vauli; the field-lark cries Ills thrllllnc awort fireuoil; nnd twilight band. orml.ly illeni e cro-s Hie far-otT land. When evening comelh on. When evenln; conicth on, reepcr and droamlrr khiws the Numbering dell, Darker and drearier cproailK the brliitllng wold, Blner and heavier roll the hill, that awcll In moveless wave, apa'.nat the alilmmerini; gold. out from their haunt, llio Insect bordea, that dwell Unseen by day, eomo thronging forth to hold Their fleeting hour nf revel, and by the pool Soft pipings rise up fioai the gruao. cool, When evening comcth on. When evening comcth on, Along their well-known path, with heavier tread The .ml eyed, loitering klne minted return; The peaceful sheep, by unseen e hepuorde led, Wond bleating to tho hills, so well they learn Whore Nature's hand their wholesome couch , hath spread. Abd through the purpling mist the moon doth yearn; Fale.gmi'.'c f.TiH.nco, dear recurring dream, Soft with the falling dow full, thy faint beam, When evening comcth on. When evening cometh on. Loosed from tho day'a long toil, the clanking team. With haling Flops pas. on their Jostling ways, Their gearings glinted by tho waning bea ns; Close by their heel, the he drill coillo strays; . All slowly fudlng In a hind of dreams, Transfigured specters of tho shrouding huzo. Thus from lire's field tba heart's fond hope dith fade, Thus doth tho weary spirit seek the .hade, When evening comctu on. When evening cometh on, Across the dotted Molds of gathered grain Theaoul of summer breathes a deep rcpoje, Mysterious murmuring mingle on tho plain. And from tho blurred and blende 1 bralto there How The undulnting ochocs of some strain Once heurd In paradise, percliauco who knows? But now tho whispering memory endly strays Along tho dim rows of tho rustling liiaUj When evening conicth on. When evening comcth on, Anon there spreads upon thts lingering air The musk of weedy slopos aud grasses dank, And odors from far Bold., unseen but fair. With accut of flowers from many a shadowy bank. Ob, lost Llyslum, art thou hiding there: Flow, yet that crystal stream whereof I drank, Ah, wild-eye-.! Memory, fly from night', dospairt 1 by strong wiugs droop w.tU heavier weight of care When evening cometh on. 'When evening cometh on No sounding phrase can stt the heart at rest. Ilia settling gloom that creeps by wood nnd stream, The bars that lie along the smouldering west, The IhII and lonely silent trees that seem To mock the groaning earth, and turn to Jest Vhls wavering flame, t litis agonizing dream, All, all bring sorrow as tin clouds bring ruin, And evermoro life's struggle eoo.iicth vaiu When uveuing Corne ll on. When evening cometh on, Anear doth Life stand by the great unknown, in darknes) reaching out her sentient hands; Philosophies and creeds aliko aro thrown Beneath her feet, and questioning fltu s.ands Close on the brink, nnfearing and alone, and lists tho dull wave breaking on the sands, Albeit hor thoughtful eyes ore lllled with tears, 8o lonely and so sad the sound .he bears When evonlng comcth on. When evening cometh on, Vain sccma the world, and vainer wise man's thought. All colors vanish when the sun goeth down. Fame's purple mantle some proud soul hath caught Ko better seems than doth the earth-ataioed gowB Worn by foment. All names shall be forgot. Ileal h plucks tho star, to deck his sable crown. The fair enchantment of the golden day Far through the vale of shadows melt away When evening comcth on. When evening comcth on, Love, only love, can stay the sinking soul, Ana smooth thought s racking fever from tho brow; The wouuded heart I.ove ouly can console. Whatever brings a Oalm for sorrow now, bo must it oe while this vexed earth shall roll. 'Take then the portion which the gods allow. Dear heart, may I at last on thy warm breast fcluk to forgetf ulnvss and silent rest When evening cometh on f Robert Burnt ll'isuii, 'i tlarpir't, IN A BOTTLE, It was a beautiful duy la midsummer, and the hulf-n hundred-odd cabin pas sengers od the good steamship Nautic were listlessly lounging about tho deck. They were already nine days out from Liverpool, and owing to un unfortunate accident, which had occurred early on the voyage, only ha f the distance to their port of destination had been ac complished. The accident had been attended with no danger to the precious human freight, but the monotony of tho voyago was be coming unbearable, and the passengers were beginning to gruinblo. Every artilice hna been resorted to to relieve the tedium of the slowly moving days, and now they were literally at their wits' end. C harades, mock trials, skettles, aud amateur theatricals', had in turn been resorted to, but now, with their faces turned longingly toward home, they lounged about the deck, aud bemoaned their sad fate. A particularly discontented group leaned against the pott-rail, amidship, composed of two young laches, showily dressed, two young men who looked rather jaunty in their seini-snilor dress, a stoul, red faced, coarse-looking man, and an equally stout, red-faced, und coarse-looking wuuiun. The two latier were called "papa" and "mamma" by the niu.peiing young ladies, uad deferentially addressed as Mr. aud Mrs. Calo by tho young men in serai sailor dress. They were venting their indignation against the steamship, and the combina tion of untoward circumstances that had delayed their voyage. standing a little apart from the group was a slim, pale faced girl, in a dress of quiet-gray, unrelieved save at the throat, where a bit of cherry-solored ribbon was gathered into a prim bow. This wa9 Elsie Annabel, nnd she was mnid nnd companion to tho Misses Gale, who were named respectively Agnes and Eunice. She took no part in the conversation, but thero was a sad and wistful look in tho gray eyes, as she turned her face toward the western horizon. "It's outrageous!" cried Papa Gale. "Shameful 1" echoed his wife. "It's killing me!" sighed Miss Eunice. "Iam really faint with ennui!" chir ruped Mi-s Agnes. "It's dcucedly unfortunate!" chorused tho young men. "If something would only happen!" continued Agnes. "I tell' you what?" cried tho elder of the young men, addressing Miss Eunice, in particular. "Well?" interrogated thatyoung lady, with a listless attempt at interest. "Let's write letters to our friends, en close them in bottles, and throw them overboard. They're no doubt consider ably worried over our long absence, and as it's impossible to tap the cablo and telegraph them a message, we'll make old oceun's wave our letter carrier." "Pshaw, Hob!" retorted Miss Eunice, shrugging her shoulders. "How scnti mcntul you are! As though a letter put itito a bottlo and thrown into tho sea would ever reach anywhere!" "I've read somewhere, "said Rob Cnr rinston. "that ship-wrecked sailors often send messages to their friends that way. "We're about as bad as ship wrecked, why enn'twe?" Let's ask iho captain!" said Eunice: and sho walked toward that ofliccr, who was mooch lv pacing up and down tho bridge. 1 he others followed. "Yes. Miss," answered the contain. when Eunice had asked him about tho possibility of the bottles being washed ashore. I've no doubt they'll each land somewhere. Tho sloward will furnish you with bottles if you desire to make the experiment." lucre was something novel in tho idea, and every empty bottlo on shin- board was soon brought on deck. Everybody, young and old, began to write letters everybody except Elsie Annabel. No waiting kindred anxiously ex pected her return, and tho only real friend she had ever had, handsome Guy Chalmers, was lost to her. Iwo years before she hod enra?ed herself to tho young artist, but they had quarreled, and separated in anger, as lovers will. Sho was too proud to ask his forgive ness, and ho was too stubborn to ask hers. Gradually they had driftod apart, and finally lost all sight of each other. Elsio sighed as these thoughts of the past surged through her mind, and she sighed a bitter, quivering sigh. I'apa Gale was a rich pork merchant. and. in hi9 rough way, was kind to her. llo paid her liberally for the service she rendered ia polishing up the some what neglected educations of his two daughters, but they were selfish and ca pricious, and her Jot was not, by any means, a happy one. The steamship s deck now rang with joyous laughter and merry jest, as the passengers prepared the messages that they confidently hoped would be wafted shoreward. All sorts of letters were written, read over laughingly, placed in their frail re ceptacles, nnd cast into tho sea. Even the sailors became Interested in tho experiment, and sent out messages to waiting friends, or anxious sweethearts, ia dear America. Have vou written your messsge yet. Miss Annabel?" asked Agnes Galo, halt ing for a moment besido her maid, as she leaned over tho rail and watched tho tightly-corked bottles, as they bobbed up and down. ".My message : ' cried Elsie, with a guilty start, for sho had just been think ing of Guy Chalmers. "All eh really -I have no one to write to!" "No one?'' persisted Agnes. "No!" was tho low answer, and El sie's eyes dropped. "That's too bad!" said Agnes, cora miseratingly. "Everylody is sending out a message If 1 were you I'd just write something and send it olf at ran dom. You could sign your name and address, and perhaps someone would find it who'd bo anxious to know who you are and would write. That would be romantic!" "I've uo taste for romance !" answered Elsie, but she nevertheless procured a bottlo, and after a moment's thought, wrote on a piece of paper. "Itf Mlu-Ol'KAV, os Ktkamkr Nantic, Aug. 12. An accident whicn happened to our propullor has delayed our voyajre, and wo are nine days out from Liverpool. The Captain says wo are just half way between that port and Mew xerk. Everybody is well. ''Kl.MK AXNAISKI., "C'ai-o of John llald, Ksij., "Walnut Hills, t'iiiciiiiiati, Ohio." She placed this simplo messago iu a bottle, corked and scaled it, and tossed it overboard. The bottle was particularly long necked, bright green in color, and her inexperienced hand had smeared the whole top with red wax. She stood watching it a longtime, but finally it disappeared, and with a weary sigh sho turned and went below. The Natttic ultimately reached New York, and Mr. John Gale hurried back to Cincinuiiti, to attend to his pork. Kob Carrington aud hiscousiu, Arthur Stevens, bade the .Misses Galo farewell, and secretly promised to correspond with them. The Gales had boon home nearly a month, when one morning a hired hack camo slowly up the long carriage road which wound through the rich pork packer's extensive grounds, and, when It linally reached the house, the door opened, and a young man leaped lightly to tho ground. lie inquired of the servant who an swered his ring for Miss Elsie Aunabel, and the man showed him into the back parlor. Elsie was considerably surprised when told that a gentleman wished to see her below, but sho went down, and timidly approached tho back parlor. She halted for a moment on the threshold, ond the gentleman, who had been idly drumming on the window, turned. At the sight of his face sho reeled, and would have fallen had he not sprang forward and caught her in his arms. "Elsie, my darling!" he said, holding her very tightly. "Have you no word of welcome for me?" "Oh, Guy!" she murmured, as her eyes met his; "Have you really come back to me? I have been so lonely with out you! Forgivo mo for my cruelty I" "It is I who have oometo ask forgive ness!" said Guy, leading her to a scat. "After wo parted, two years ago, and I got over my stubbornness, I tried to find you, but you had disappeared, leaving no trace behind you. I was inconsolable, and reproached myself for my harshness, because it was all my fault. Finally, however, I grew moody and cynical, but I could never bring myself to think of you with aught but love and tenderness, Six months "after you disappeared my old uncle died, and left mo his heir. Since that time I have hunted for you, far and wide. Last summer I took a run along the coast in my yacht, stopping at every port. Two weeks ago we were lying off Cape Breton, in a dead calm. One of the sailors called my attention to a bottle that was drifting "by us. I fished it up with a scoop net. It was sealed, and all gathered around to see what it contained. I broke tho neck, and found this little note;" and he produced from an inner pocket the identical message she had written on board the N antic, in mid-ocean. "You can imagine my joy at tho strange discovery of your hiding place, and, a breeze spriniring un. 1 or dered tho yacht put about, and we ran into Halifax. I have come to you as fast as steam would carry me, to ask your forgiveness, and assure you that I have never ceased to love you." What answer she made him can but be imagined. Anyway when Pipa Gale returned to dinner ho heard the whole story, and declared in his hearty way that he'd give away the bride. Accordingly, as soon as a suitable trousseau could bo prepared, the two, so strangely reunited, were made one. Tho Misses Galo otliciated as brides maids, and Bob Carrington and his cousin were the groom's best men. Papa Gale, true to his word, gave the bride away, and tho great pyramid of flowers which occupied the centre of the banquet table was crowned by the iden tical bottlo that was responsible for the happy event. Revolvers Going; the Rounds. A country merchant stopping at one of the Chicago hotels the other day asked the clerk to direct him to the pawn-shop region of tho city. The diamond wearer and bell jabber looked up in astonishment, and was about to send a porter up stairs to look after the guest's baggage, when tho latter re marked : "Oh, you needn't look so scared. I don't want to pawn anything, and will pay my hotel bill. I am a hardware dealer and want buy some revolvers." The country merchaut went down to South State and Clark streets and made the rounds of the numerous pawu-shops tt be found there. He bought several dozen revolvers of all sizes and values and piled them in a carpet bag, which he had brought along for the pur pose. "Yes," he said, in response to the in quiry of the Chicago Herald reporter, who had followed him. "I buy all my revolvers in this way. I have been on to the scheme about a year. I never come to Chicago but what'l save enough on the revolvers I buy in tho pawn-shops to pay my hotel bill, and sometimes my incidental expenses. I can buy these goods a great deal cheaper than I could new ones, of course, and out where I live I can soil them for almost as much. There's a queer thing about this revolver trade. A country boy never thinks of coming to Chicago without a revolver in his pocket. He has heard so much about the wickedness of Chicago, you know, that he really thinks it wouldn't be sfe. And, beside, no young man in the country thinks him self really a man unless he has a revolver. When they comeheie to Chicago on busi ness or a visit, or looking for a job, nnd they run short of money, the first thing goes to the pawn thop is tho revolver; and they go for a 6ong, too. One day I was in the pawn shop at No. State, when a fellow came iu and pawned a re volver for $1.50 that he had bought of me a month before for $'.). On my next trip I bought that gun for $'1..V), aud sold it within a week for $S. Shouldn't wonder if I could make two or three more turns on it before it wears out, aud if I don't somebody else will. There's a continual drift of revolvers in that way. We sell 'em in the country, in tho city tho pawnbrokers get them, aud then we buy them back again. Four-fifths of the revolvers sold are in the country towns, aud the smaller the town the better the trade in proportion. Tho trade in the cheap revolvers has about played out." The Caroline islands number 500, big and little. SAVAGE SEA ELEPHANTS. MARINE MOXTSTERS THAT BITE OFF ASH TKSOW HOCKS. A Panther Story-Tale of fi Rattler A Cnle Collie ifllce Swallowed ! an Oyster. "Did you ever meet with a sea ele phant, captain?" "Oh, yes. Up 'round Hearing's straits I've often seen them, and they are tough fellows, too," replied Captain Gilderdale to the reporter of tho New Haven Areics. "Aro they hard to kill?" "No; it's easy enough killing 'em, but when they are dying they kick up a great fuss.' AVith their little short teeth I've seen 'em bite off a piece of rock as big as a spittoon and throw it at a man with fearful force. I found ono on a reef one day, and as we needed some more oil I ordered tho boat stcerer to make for the gully way in tho rocks where he was. We came right up to him, put an iron into him and hauled him after us into clear water. "Then 1 got into the bow right under his nose, when he grabbod the bow of the boat in his teeth and tore away a streak fore and aft. Ho bit off the ends of three lances, and another he snapped out of my hands and tried to throw it at us. Once he made a snap at me with his head, throwing me right into the boat on ntv back. 1 picked up a hatchet, and with my'two hands buried it in his head up to the handle. It killed him outright. "He was twenty-five feet long, and gave two dozen barrels of oil. We mado blanket sheets of his blubber, cutting it into pieces threo feet sriuare. Then pierc ing a hole in the centre of each block and running through a spun-rope we mado a raft of them and towed it to tho shin. The usual way to kill a sea-elephant used to be to run right up to him, hit him un der the jaw with an oar, which would make him raise up his head, when we would fire right up through his mouth into the brain." A San Francisco Chronicle correspond ent from Upper Soda Springs, at tho headwaters of tho Sacramento river, tells of an adventure of a gentleman who went out to camp at the Lick. As ho was upon his hands and knees peering through a low breastwork of brush and rails, to his surprise and horror he saw within three feet of him a largo panther wnica was creeping stealthily toward an opening in the small triangular-shaped lnclosure which partly concealed his body. The hunter's first impulse was to draw himself up on his hands and knees and grasp his rifle. He thought that though probably haying scented him the panther had not seen him until this movement attracted the beast's attention for she sprang back a few yards and be gan grinning and snarling in a most familiar though exceedingly diagreeablo manner. To draw his rifle to his shoulder, take aim and fire was but a moment's work, and the deed was done. One shot, thanks to 6teady nerves and a sure aim, was all that was required. The creature measured seven feet, and tho vicious looking claws and head, with its glaz ing eyes and carniverous teeth, were not at all pleesant to contemplate. "I was riding along tho road when my horse stopped and showed signs of fright." said a Chambers county (Ga.) man. "I looked and saw what I supposed w-as a log between twenty-five and thirtv feet iu length. Knowing my horse was very much afraid of snakes, I examined to see if there could be ono of these rep tiles near the supposed log, when the fact dawned upon ino that the object was a huge snake. I alighted and threw a stone at what I then know to be a snake, striking it near the head, when it jumped his full length, twenty-five or thirtv feet. As soon as he got still I couuted eighty nine rattles and several buttons on his tail. I met a gcntlemau afterward who told me his snakeship had beeu seen neat the same place for fifteen or twenty years, and he had counted as mauy as 18 X rat tles on his tail, and that when he opened his mouth he exhibited his fangs, ubout six inches long." A friend of mine owns a beautiful Scotch collio that looks after a herd of fifty Jersey and Holstein cattle daily, says a writer in a Western paper. The cattlo are on a large farm near Elgin, and every morning after milking hour the cows are turned loose on the public road. As they wander along towards the river, stragglers are kept in line by the collie, and during the day he watches their movements so closely that a cow cannot get away from the herd. 11 they wade out luto tho stream he makes uo attempt to follow unless one should show a desire to cross to tho op posite side. Then the collio swims out and convinces the erring bovine that she'd better return whete she belongs. On sunny or cloudy days that herd" is seen returning homeward by live o'clock with no other guardian than the collie. Two little mice have achieved immor tality, so to spc.ik, at Vi'niiestaple, Eng land. One evening since two or three oysters were put away iu un earthen pun. Duriugtho night a couple of young ro dents found out tho dainty dish nnd in serted their hungry months within the open shells of otic of tho bivalves. In the morning they were f tun I fast, held by thu closed shells of the oysters and of cotttse quite dead. The oyster con tinue 1 its lirm hold on thu intruders, and the trio were at once immersed in spirits, and will indue course be placed in the loe d museum. A citizen of Bochcter,Minn., has com pleted u monument made from btoret gathered from all parts of the United St.ites. Jt is about six feet high and four feet in diameter lit the lia.se. I contains stones from Dearly every Stale iu -lie I nioti and from the highest peak in the Kotky mountains. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Tho flowering plants and ferns of Cey lon, according to Dr. Trimcn, embrace 1,072 genera, or 3,219 species. There aro also 403 varieties, of which some may provo to be distinct species. In Southern Russia vineyards are freed from phylloxera by planting hemp near the infected vines. Tho parasites are attracted to the hemp by its strong odor, and the roots prove to" be poisonous to mem. A peculiar black paper of Siara and Burmah, made from tho bark of certain trees, is used very much as are slates in in Europo nnd America. The writing upon it may be rubbed out by tho appli cation of betel leaves, just as slato writ ing is erased by means of a sponge. Tho Orient i fir. American states thnt plush goods and articles doed with nni line colors, faded from exposure to light, will look bright as over after being sponged with chloroform. The commer cial chloroform will answer the purpose very well, and is less expensive than tho purified. A French surgeon has a method of dressing wounds by which their healing Is hastened and the pain made to disap pear lmraeutaieiy. it consists in the ap plication of compresses wet with a de coction of thirty parts of valerian root in one hundred parts of water. The treat ment is of no avail in deep wounds. A "Bound-deadener," consisting of elastic air-cushions to close the external orifices of the cars for the use of me chanics and artillerymen, has been in vented by Dr. Ward" Cousins, of Liver pool, England. Boiler-makers and other worKmen subject to hearing constantly loud and sharp noises are frequently made deaf thereby. This new invention may render city noises less troublesomo to nervous people. Messrs. McCook and Bell's observa tions of the action of corrosive sublimate on a species of ant in Nicaragua ard ex ceedingly interesting. As soon as one of the ants touches Ihe white powder, it commences to run about wildly and to attack any other ant it meets. In a couplo of hours round balls of ants will be found all biting each other, and nu merous individuals will be found bitten completely in two. The utility of tears to animals in gen eral, and particularly to those which aro exposed much to the dust, such as birds which live amid tho wind, is easy to un derstand. The eye would soon be dirtied and blocked up had not nature provided this friendly, ever-flowing stream to wash and .refresh it. Avery little fluid is nec essary to keep the eye always clear nnd clean. But here, again, we must admire tho wondrous mechanism which works the human body; for it is to bo observed mai, wuen inrougn some accident or hurt tho eyeball has need of more water than usual to cleanso it, nature at onco turns on a more abundant supply of tears. Water-Grabbers. Owing to the system of land piracy, Nevada has been regularly swindled in every real estate transaction in which her interet8 were coucerned. The man wha bought forty acres of land contiguous to a spring, river or lake, had the actual possession nnd enjoyment of perhaps 10,000 or 20,000 acres adjacent thereto without the latter costing him a nickel. The reason is obvious. So long as the buyer holds a good title to the hind bor dering on a stream he is monarch of all he can see beyond and around that stream. The owner of forty acres upon which exists a epriug thus has a free range, or pasturage, of several square I miles, an 1 tho Stato is out of pocket by the operation. In illustration of this evil we can cite one case out of a thou sand. In a certain township there are about twenty-five thousand acres of land, but only two springs. At $1.25 an acre this township ought to realize for the State the aum of $:il,250. But the land pirate knows that by buying up the land immediately surrounding the spring he practically becomes the owner of twenty five thousand. IIo therefore buys the smallest subdivision which the law per mits, that is, forty acres around each spring. For these two smalt tracts he is allowed twenty years iu which to pay the balance. That for which ho ought to pay sfj 1,250 he gels for if 100. In other words, the State has been sailing these water grabbers, mainly consisting ol a rieli and powerful syndicate of cat tlemen, her selected lands ut a rate less than half a cent tin acre. Virginia City (iYisB.) Enterprise. Corks, Straw aud Wooden Ware. "We beat the old world at cuttincr corks, says a Chicago dealer, bat it is rather strange that America should im port tons of straw. Yet wo do every year buy straw in Germany in the form of bottle-covers. These covers cost eight dollars per 1,000, and they are haud made. They cannot bo made for one fourth the sum in this country, until somebody gets up a machine to do it with. Wo import something like 100, 000 of theso covers every month. All of these littlo tinfoil caps" for wine and soda bottles come from Paris. A New York firm has tried to compete, but they can't do it. Wo have IIMl.OOO ut tho depot, just arrived from l'aris. They are shipped ii- hermetically scaled cases. "i5nt this country leads iu wooden ware. Perhaps you don't kuow it, but the best woodcu ware maker in tho i nucu mates carried on Iniuness iu Chicago for twenty-five years, lie i;i now over in M.thigau, in thu timber country, making faucets, buiiL's. bun" Starters, wooden shovels, corlc 1 i-iv..i I and vinegar measures and funnels, each out of one piece of wood without joint or seam. As for bungs, Cincinnati might properly be called tho biin!rtowuf America, as there are made ull the bungs used in this country. Ouo factory there ships 200 barrels of bungs every day." Chicago Herald. IF I WERE YOU. Why did he look so grare? she asked, What might the trouble be? "My little mnid," he sighing said, "Suppose that you wore mo. And you a weighty secret owned, Tray toll ins what you'd do?" "I think I'd tell it somebody," Said she, "if. I were you!" But still he sighed ami looked askance), Despite hor sympathy. "Oh, toll ma litLlo maid," he said Again, "if you wore mo, And if you loved a pretty lass, Oh, then, what would you do!" "I think I'd go and toll hor so," Paid she, "If I were you!'' "My little maid, 'tis you," he said, "Alone aro dear to me," Ah, then, she turned away her head, . And ne'er a word said she, But what he whispered In her ear, And what he answered too Oh, no, I cannot tell you this; I'd guoss, if I were youl Chamber's Journal, HUMOR OF THE DAY. An important period tho dollars and cents. The ono betweon Beats tho world The tramp. Waterloo Observer. impecunious A one-legged man will never bo troubled with wet feet. Brooklyn Times. What is tho difference between a paper dollar and dollar of silver? Never mined. Boston Transcript. Of a man suddenly struck dumb It may be said that his melancholy daze has come. Washington Hatchet. A "duck ol a girl" must bo very close ly watched, or ten to ono she'll go off nnd marry some qunek. Chicago ISun. Baseball is older than wo thought, as a squint at history has mado apparent. Tho Emperor Dominitian occupiod his loisure in catching flics. Chicago Ledger. Girls in search of materials for crazy quilts are advised to apply to the rail road companies, because they throw away thousands of old ties every year. New 1 orb Journal. Civilization is making gratifying pro gress in the Congo country, A few years ago the inhabitants ate white per sons raw ; now they roast them. Wash ington J!rullictin. The man who has to endure all the agonies of solitary confinement is tho clerk who works for a firm that does not advertise. It's the next thing to being buried alive. Maple Leaf. Little cricket on the hearth. Little children full of mirth, Little breezes blowing long, Little onions smolling strong, Little lovers in the dark, Little kisses hear them spark. Chicago Sun. Customer (entering unexpectedly) "So, sir, I've caucht you putting water in the milk." Milkman "Yes or no no, that ia, sir, I'm only washing it. You don't s'pose I'm going to serve my customers with dirty milk, do you?" Chic iyo Xeics. hobson's choice. A thief on his trial rofusod to be sworn. "Of whnt use," queried he, "will my evidence be If I tell the whole truth, I shall get the Old Nick; If I tell what's not true, the old Kick will get me." Century. Melancholy. There is a deal of "moping melancholy and moonstruck madness" in the world, about two-thirds of which I attribute to disordered liver. There is, of course, much melancholy which results from sullicicnt cause, but when one takes the majority of the cases and examines them, he will find that a little dieting, some lemon juice, and a pill or two will make tho sunshino just as bright as it ever did to the patient, and ho will wonder that his liver had such power over his in tellect. Y'oung people in love aro given to fits of meluucholy, but in these in stances the cause of the trouble is a supersensitiveness of the peri cardium resulting from excessive youth aud redundant verdancy. A littlo age and a littlo ripening always work a radical cure vtith these patients. I think it is oxtremely foolish for people to let themselves become melancholy, even though there be some causa for it. There is a blue sky above us all, and a bright sun; the fields grow golden harvests of fatness; tho rivers run clear and sparkling; tho flowers bud and blossom along our paths, and the birds ting cheerily all the day. There is life tverywheie, nnd joy aud gladuess, if we will only look for them, und insist upon having our just dues, and if we neglect them, we are sinning against ourselves, our friends, and the good acd wise Creator, who put us here to make the world better, and not fill it with sighs and tears, bad blood and bile. There, my dears, you want to brace up. Mrs. JJrotcn, in MerclmiU- Traoilcr. Fruit All tho Year Round. Florida is tho land of fruit as well as of flowers. A paper of that Stato says: "Commencing with January, we have strawberries theu until late, in June. Japan plums from February. Mulberries are lipe iu April und last until August. Pineapples ripen in Juno und last nearly i.ll tho year. Wo have guav.is from July until Into thu next spring. Of the vai ions berries dewberries, blackberries ami buckle berries almost any quanitity. Peaches from May 1 until July. Melons from June until lale in the fall. Oranges thu best of thu kind from October until tho next June, with Unions and limes, persimmons, p.jiuegrauUc s, grape fruit aud grapes. The to'i.l number of flowering plants now kni vu in I'rilish North America may be catimated at about M.UUO species agaiust, 10,000 iu the L rited States.
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