J. RATES OF ADVERTIStMC Una S'inare, ona Inch, one Insertion. ..I 1 00 Ona Square, ona Inch, one month............ 1 00 (ma Square, one Inch, three m mi the. 0 One Square, one inch, ona year 10 of Two Square, ona year 16 00 Quarter Column, on" year. W 00 Half I olnmn, one jior. ............ M ao One Column, one year ............loa to Lecel advertisements ten carta ,n Uaa eaeh la crt Ifir. Marriage and death notices gratia. All bills for yearly advertisemente eoflretfii quar terly. Temporary advertisementa maa a pala ia advance. Job work eaaa on delivery. THE FOREST REPUBLICAN I published every WeclniMday, hjr J. E. WENX. Ottlse in BoiearbniiGh & Co.'a Building KIM STUEICT, TIONESTA, fa. Terms, tl.BO per Year. No rahMriptlnni received for a horter period than three moutha. O.irraspon.U-nco solicited from alt parts of t)n niry. No nolle will be tnkaii of anonymoini oomHiunir.atlon. VOL. XVIII. NO. 45. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 3. 1886. $1.50 PER ANNUM. .Edward Oondby, nn English otuti-.-ticinn, him been figuring up the cost of the Franco-German wiir, the Kusso-Tiirtc ish war, the Russian conquests in Asia and tho French operations in Tunis nnd Tonquin, ami puts tho figures at $2,787, 500,000. ! The new marriage license law in Penn sylvania bus proved n bonanza to New Jersey preachers ' living near tho State line. Hundreds of Pennsylvania couples nvoid tho publicity and expense of a li cense by crossing tho river to have th(! knot tied. There was a novel affair in Paris lately. Two French women entered into a con test to determine which of them could talk fastest. A common friend was ap pointed umpire, and tho sum of $200 was to go to the victor. For three hours they read from a novel, and during that time the victor succeeded in pronouncing 390, 3 1 1 words. Her adversary came in u bud second with 20:S.r(0 words. Coral jewelry is daily becoming more costly, owing to tho diminished supply of tho material. Tho fisheries this year have been unsuccessful. Few persons are aware of the extent of the coral trallic. Naples alone employs five hundred ves sels and live thousand men in this fishery. The Naples merchants export $2,000,000 worth yearly to India alone, to say noth ing of exportation to other places in Asia and Africa. There was a (ire in New York city last year for every forty-two buildings, all told, 2,170 tires, with a total lo-s of $:), 780,28:1. Twelve persons were killed at fires; twenty-three fatally injured; 102 seriously and 1(10 slightly. Altogether there are 101,102 buildings in the city, exclusive of sheds. The number of buildings uptown has increased, and the number downtown decreased, as largo structures take the place of many small ones. In 188:5 there were l!!ll alleged fireproof buildings in New York. At the end of 1885 they had increased to 622, whilo the buildings that are over four .stories high had increased from 8,251 to 14,100. These facts nre con tained in the annual report of the fire department. AVeoad in the Morula U raU that "the eyes of the Northern mill men are turning eagerly to the comparatively virgin fonts of the South, and heavy sales of timbered land are constantly be ing announced. If the ravenous saw must be fed, and no better and cheaper building material than wood can be de vised, then the people of the South should not dispose of their heritage for a mere pittance of itsactual value. These huge tracts of yellow pine can be con verted into yellow gold, and should not be sacrificed as a worthless possession. We should make the most of our oppor tunities, and not yield too readily to the pressure of greenbacks. These huge areas of undisturbed trees are daily en hancing in value and iiiirtanee as the supply in tho North and West diminishes. It is idle to talk of tho 'inexhaustible'' forests of the South, when Mr. Little of Montreal, an authority on the subject, estimates that the saving capacity of the North is sufficient to consume the mer chantable pine of this State in less than a year. The South possesses mines of wealth in her noble forests, and they should not be disposed of carelessly, and without a full appreciation of their true and real value." The Chihuahua (Mexico) Enterprie reports the discovery of some remarkable ancient ruins on a hill or mountain four leagues south of Magdalena, in Sonora. The hill is about 700 feet high, and half way up there is a layer of gypsum which is as white as snow, and may be cut into any conceivable shape, yet sufficiently hard to retain its shape after being cut. Iu this layer of stone are cut hundreds upon hundreds of rooms from (5x10 to 10x18 feet square. So even and true are tho walls, floor nml ceiling, so plumb and level, as to defy variation. There are no windows in the rooms, and but one en trance, which is always from the top. The rooms are but eight feet high from floor to ceiling. The stone is so white that it seems almost transparent, and the rooms are not at all dark. On the walls of these rooms are numerous hieroglyph ics and representations of human beings cut in the stone iu different places ; but, strange to say, all the hands have five fingers and a thumb, and the feet have six toes. Charcoal is found on the floors of many of the rooms; implements of every description are to be found. The houses or rooms are one above the other to three or more stories high, but be tween each story there is a jog or recess the full width of the room below, so that they present the appcaance of large steps Jeadias up the mountain. Tho Indian women are coming hourly to tho front. At a lato meeting of the Presbyterian synod of Dakota, the Indian women reported having raised $500 for missionary work among their own people last year. This was more than nil tho money raised by their white sisters in three societies. Lawrence Barrett, tho actor, has been talking to a reporter, and gives to the world the information that he is now a vegetarian. It appears that he met a" physician who told him that Americans ate altogether too much underdone beef, and ruined their lives tlwreby. Barrett at once determined to leave oft beef eat ing and, although the struggle was hard, he has finally conquered, and says he be lieves the vegetable diet has improved his voice. Professor C. II. Hall thinks that "tho farmer is in need of a higher education the disciplined mind and a larger amount of information as a means of self-protection, that he maybe able to defend himself and his against the sharks and humbugs which so often entangle him. What he wants is ability disciplined, and knowledge widened, until he is able to measure aims, forecast results, and thwart the purposes of his unscrupulous foe. He wants to bo drilled so that he may be able to meet the intellect of the knave on the road, of the scoundrel on the street corner." Washington seems to have two very successful bill collectors. One of these rides a home-made tricycle of peculiar build. If a man doesn't pay he sits on his machine in front of the house, and gazes mournfully iip at the windows, bill in hand. "The Tricycle Man" is well known, and his machine always at tracts attention, so lie has little trouble in collecting even the most hopeless bills. The other semis in his bill in a big en velope! that has his name and vocation printed on it in large type. A man doesn't like to get these great circus poster en velopes anil so pays up. A leading Northern physician calls at tention to the fact that one of the most common and fatal forms of disease at this season of tho year, especially if the tem perature is above tho freezing-point, is pneumonia. The illness results from ex posure to violent changes in the atmos phere, such as are experienced on going from overheated rooms into the damp, chill air outside without sufficient protec tion iu the form of wraps. Men aro tempted to leave oil overcoats when called to go short distances, and women neglect to put on the same weight of gar ments for a brief walk which they are accustomed to wear under ordinary cir cumstances out of doors. This folly is too apt to be indulged in by persons who room in one house and take meals in an other. "It is only a step," they say, but that '-step" may bo long enough to pro duce a thorough chill, which induces the conditions favorable to disease. Another danger, particularly to women, lies in the thin-soled shoes worn without rubbers. Ladies clothed in heavy furs and woolen are frequently seen upon the wet streets shod with light foot-gear, regardless of the fact that the extremities are the parts which should be best protected. These common means of defying the simplest laws of health keep the doctors busy and increase the mortality statistics of cities. A naval officer, iu speaking of an as sociate, said the other day to a AYa.shing ton correspondent: "He is a good fel low, buthe is a Coburger." When asked to explain the term he replied: "There is a certain class of men in the navy who have always held soft berths, and whom it seems impossible to dislodge. They are official favorites, and we call them Coburgers.' There are scores of them in the navy department here. I know of one who has attained the rank of full commander, and whose boast is that 'he never stood a watch.' He was graduated from the naval academy near the close of the war, and promotion was actually so i rapid that his boast is the truth. He has j been floating round Washington ever since I can remember, and will probably ' be here when I am gone. There is a J choice assortment of soft things in con ' uection with the judgc-advocate-gencr- al's bureau; Judge-Advocate-General Hemey himself has a pretty easy time of I it. He is only a captain in the marine ! corps, but his total sea duty is very small. He has been so long in Washing i ton that people have almost forgotten his i real rank. I knew of auothercase which ! is even worse. A certain officer, now I stationed at the League Island navy yard, hasn't been more than twenty-four hours' ride from Washington for the last sixteen years. The navy department here ! is full of just such people. How do they ! manage it? Petticoat influence. lean ' mention live women iu this town who can keep me here until I'm a rear admiral if they only said the word." LOVE'S CALENDAR, The Rummer comes nnd the Rummer gees; Wild flowers are fringing the dusty lanes. The swallows go darting through fragrant rains, Then all of a sudden it snows. Dear Heart, our lives so happily flow, Bo lightly we heed the flying hours, We only know Winter is gone by the flowers, Wa only know Winter Is come by the snow. T. B. Aldrich. THE WRECKERS. A sailor's STOUT. Speaking about sharks, alligators, pi rates and such, may be I can interest you in an adventure which occurred so re cently that all the particulars are yet fresh in my mind. I am a sailor man, and I am as honest s the general run of them. I was in New Orleans, knocking around for a berth, when one day on the levee, at the foot of Canal street, a man with a blink to his left eye seems to take a great shine to me. He invites me to drink with him and to join him ftt dinner, and, when he believes the time to be ripe, he says; "You looks like an honest chap, and I don't deny that I've taken a liking to you. How would you like to ship with my captain? "And who may your captain be?" I asked. "Captain McCall, of the schooner Glance, and I'm saying to you that a better man never gave orders from the quarterdeck, and that a better vessel than the Glance was never put together." "And what may be the voyage." He looks hard at me a long time before replying, and then draws down his left eye and whispers: "Come aboard and see the captain. He'll be glad to shake hands and tell you all about it." I must own to my confusion that I am a drinking man, as most sailors are, and that this chap with a blink to his eye had mo half-seas over before we left the saloon. We had another drink or two before reaching the schooner, and when we went aboard I was in no condition to judge of men or things. I remember of meeting three or four men and of drink ing again, nnd then all memory was gone. When I came to my senses the schooner was in the Gulf of Mexico, heading almost north, and the hour was 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Stiff and sore, and thoroughly fright ened to find myself at sea, I crawled out of the close nnd ill-smelling forecastle and made my way on deck. The crew were all there, including the captain. There were five white men, two negroes, and I made the eighth man. There was a light breeze from the southeast, and an island was in sight off to the northwest. A single look satisfied me that we were headed for Cliandclour Bay, on the Mis sissippi coast. I was greeted in a pleasant fashion by ine men, ami tne captain uecKoned me into his cabin, poured out a still glass of grog, and said : "You'll feci better after drinking it. It's good grog that puts heart into a sailor man." "Will you tell me what schooner this is, and how I came to be aboard of her?" I asked, never minding his soft ways and the liquor he had placed under my nose. "Why, man, have you gone clean daft?" he calls out. "You came to me for a berth on the Glance, and I, Captain Mc Call, signed you for a trip to Santa Rosa island and return. You were sober enough when you signed articles. Come, down with the grog, and wish us a suc cessful voyage." "Captain McCall, I never signed with you!" I says, looking him straight in the eye. "And if you are bound to the north east, why are you holding to the north?" "Tut, tut, man ! I am not used to such talk aboard this vessel. Go on deck and do your duty, and if you dare talk mutiny I'll put a bullet through your head." With that I turned nnd left him, nnd to say that I was in a .rage would hardly describe my feelings. My sailor's instinct had shown me that I was on a wrecker, and such wreckers are no better than pirates. I had been duped aboard to make up the complement of men, and if they discovered that I was not hand and heart with them they'd have little habitation in taking my life. I went forward to the bows, and pres ently the mate joined me. He was the man with the blink in his rye, and I laid all the trouble to him. lie spoke very softly, but I was so bold and bitter that he soon flew mad ami abused me in the foulest manner, and finally ordered me on watch under pain of being placed in irons. It would have been foolish to resist, ami I took my place among the men and turned to for duty. The schooner held on, passing between the East and West Cliaudcleur islands about dark, and holding to the north. Soon after night tho wind fell, and final ly there was a dead calm. We were then opposite the Middle Chitndclcur. and only four or live miles away, and as there was a current setting us to the cast the an chor was let go, an anchor watch set, and the rest of the crew were privileged to turn in. The captain and mate retired to their staterooms, and, as the night was pleasant, the rest of us held the deck. As I stowed away myself forward for a smoke and a think, one of the white men came over to me in a rather cautious way, bunked down beside me, and whis pered: I "Come, comrade, the better face you put on tho matter, tho better it will be for you. There's no question but they made I you drunk to get you oil this voyage, and : as for your .signing articles, that's all bosh." "What sort of a voyage is it?" "For what we can pick up." "And what made you ship; ' "Well, I was obliged to dodge the law for a scrape I gut into at Mobile." "I sliall leave her at the first chance." "That's your lay; but keep quiet. The captain and mate are bad men, and won't stop at murder to hush your talk. If there is a chance for a break depend upon me to go with you." "How far to the north do we go?" "We shall cruise among the islands, and perhaps along the Alabama coast. Take my advice and do duty and keep your eyes open." With that he left me, and after finish ing my pipe I slept until about 2 o'clock in the morning, when we got a slant of wind from the Gulf, and the mate called ns to up anchor and make sail. We crept along at a slow pace, and about sunrise had the Big Chandeleur is land under our beam. During the afternoon we ran down to the northern end and came to anchor within a few fathoms of a coasting schooner, which was then lying a wreck on the rocks within a stone's throw of the beach. Her masts were gone, bulwarks stove, and the beach was covered with wreck age. It was plain that she had come ashore in a gale, but in the tail end of it, and the sea had not broken her up. Long enough before we came to an chor, although I was at the wheel of the Glance, I saw a man on tho wreck mak ing signals. It seemed to me that the captain and mate placed themselves pur posely in my line of vision, to prevent my seeing the man. and we had not yet begun to take in sail when the mate took the wheel, and the captain sent me into the hold to look up some spare oars for the yawl. I was rummaging around down there for half an hour, tho oars being only a pretence to keep me off the deck, and when the captain finally called me up the sails were down, the anchor in the water, and several of our men were aboard the wreck, having taken our yawl to convey themselves across the space. I was not allowed to go aboard of the wreck, but was ordered to remain on the schooner to help receive cargo which the others broke out. The yawl presently made her first trip, bringing a load of ropes, chains, and sails, and these trips were continued at intervals all day. AVhen they came to break out cargo the yawl brought us flour, hardware, grocer ies, and clothing, some damaged and some in good shape, and the mate bore a hand to help us on the schooner. There was no knocking off for dinner, and from the way the men were rushed it was plain that the captain feared discov ery and was in a hurry tr. get everything out of the wreck and be off. We had a bite to eat as we worked, and at sunset we were piped for supper. This we ate on our decks, and my friend of the night before, who gave me his name as Bill, planned to take a seat near me. I had worked hard and without grumbling, and captain and mate no longer felt sus picious of me, or at least showed no signs of it. There was an opportunity now lor a few words with tne man Bui, and I asked him if it was a case of salvage. "Wuss'n that'." he whispered back. "Wasn't there a man one of the crew on the wreck when we first came up?" "Yes." "Where is he now?" "Knocked on the head and thrown to the sharks I" "Do you mean that he was murdered?" "That's just it, matey! While you were below tho captain and mate rowed oil to the wreck. We all saw a man aboard, but none of us have seen him since. Had he been allowed to live on it would lflvc k''en a case of salvage. With him dead, what's to prevent our captain from owning all he can get. "And you talk as coolly as if only a dog had been thrown overboard!" "Hush! If there is the least show for escape I'm oil with you this very night! No more now wo are watched !" After supper the yawl was sent off again, and we worked until about 11 o'clock. Two-thirds of tho cargo had been transferred, and our captain meant to hang right by until he had secured everything or a shift of weather drove him away. There had been a fair breeze all day and it still held, coming from the south-east. There was doubtless a smart surf on tho other side of she island, but n c,r side the water was quiet enough. When the crew turned in tho man Bill was left on deck as an anchor watch. The man lopped down iSi-'ck, some without a thing between them and the planks, and in half an hour their snores were hearty and continuous. Then I cautiously rose up and joined Bill. The yawl was towing astern, with the oars on the thwarts, and I was determined on escape. To my surprise I found him eager and anxious to go wilh me. While captain and mate both appeared asleep, we dared take no risks. If we got away in the boat it must be bare handed. Any attempt to look up water, provisions, and tho mast and sail might upset our whole plain. While Bill walked the deck whistling to himself, I drew the yawl under the stern and slid down the painter. In a minute or two he came after me, and then cut the rope and pushed us off. We at once began to float to the northwest, and in a quarter of an hour were out of sight of the schooner. It would not do to use the oars yet, however, and we were waiting to increase our distance, when all of a sudden tho waters around us grew alive with sharks. I have sailed iu most seas and have seen a sailor's share of sliarks, but never before nor since did I witness such a congregation of the voracious monsters. They seemed deter mined on destroying us, and every minute dealt the boat such thumps that we looked to aee the planks crushed in. They jumped half their length out of the water at the gunwale of the boat, and twice the head of a shark rested on the seat iu the stern lor several seconds. We realized that we must make some demonstration, even at the peril of being overheard on board the schooner, aud, getting out the oars, we punched and jabbed with all our might. As soon as tve got well out from the land the wind bore us along at a faster pace, but the sharks were not to be left behind. If there was one there were 200. They bit at the oars and splintered the blades, and if the men on the schooner had not been over tired they must have been awakened by the row. We had drifted perhaps two miles when a terrible thing happened. We two sat on one thwart, Bill minding one side ami I the other, lie was bending over the rail, punching every shark within reach, when I heard a scream, and turned my head in time to see him pulled overboard. A shark had jumped far enough out of water to seize him. There was a terrible commotion in tho water for a few minutes, every fish anxious to se cure a morsel, and for a time I was en tire neglected and driving along alone. By and by three or four sharks came after me, but they no longer attacked the boat, nor did the number increase. AVhen I had got my nerve back I put the best oar over the stern and sculled away, keeping to the northwest, nor did I rest beyond a few minutes at a time until daylight came. I was then entirely i.ut of sight of the schooner, and making a good pace of it. I saw half a dozen coasters on the bay, but made no signals. The Louisiana coast was in full sight, and I preferred driving ashore to being picked up. I knew how the coasters felt toward wreckers, and if I were picked up, my story would probably land me in the courts. Soon after noon I fetched the shore in a bit of a bay. but I soon realized that I was no better off than out at sea. I was hungry and thirsty, but there was neither fresh water nor food. I sculled all around the bay in search of a creek, but found none, but toward evening a smart shower came up, and a gallon or so of fresh water was caught in the boat. It was full of filth when I came to drink it, but it relieved my burning thirst and put new life into me. Shortly after that I found a dead duck floating on the water. 'I did not stop to investigate its condition but stripped off a part of tne leathers and cut out ana ate a large portion of the raw meat. As the shores wero dense canebrakes, through which I could make no progress. I tied the boat up for the night and went to sleep, but darkness had only fairly set in when the mosquitoes came down upon me by the million. Sleep was out of the question. Indeed, within an hour I was obliged to scull the boat out into the bay against a smart sea rolling in, and hold her there by hard work to keep from being devoured alive. Whenever I would let up for a few minutes, over come by want of sleep, the boat would drift back and ' the pests would attack me, until I found them in my mouth. After midnight the wind came up so briskly that the mosquitoes could no longer come out of the swamp at me, but a new danger arose. I had no thought of alligators until, as the boat rested against the reeds, a monster reptile rose up and clashed his jaws over the stern. In two minutes there were three or four swimming about me, and others were thrashing around in the swamp. From that time until daylight I had to shout, splash the water, and keep moving from one end of the boat to the other to frighten my enemies away, and it seemed as if I lived a mouth in those few hours. As day broke the wind changed off the land, and I drove with it out of the bay. I was hardly out before an oyster schooner picked me up, and in a couple of days I was safely landed in New Or leans. AVhen the captain asked for my story I offered him the yawl as a free gift in place of any explanation, and he accepted it, and did not ask another question. New York Sun. The Maple Sugar and Syrup Trade. At this season of the year maple sugar is abundant. In order to ascertain some thing about this product, a reporter for the New York Mail and Express called on one of the leading operators in that city. He said that the sale of maple sugar in New York aggregates over a million of pounds each year. His house this season alone handled 200,000 pounds. "AVhat becomes of so large a quan tity?" "It is retailed by grocers and confec tioners as maple sugar. But the larger portion is boiled dow n into maple syrup by manufacturers, who supply it to grocery stores. Tho can stvle of pack- , ages has been made attractive by means 1 of very handsomely decorated labels, which add to the present neat appear ance of fancy grocery stores. The manu facturiug of syrup is confined mainly to Chicago and this city. For the past five years there has been arteat demand for maple syrup as a delicious table food. ! More and more fladt has been used every year. Why? Because it is far better I than molasses or cane syrup for buck ; wheat, wheat or other cakes, of which ! you know a large quantity is consumed. It is more delicious and suitable to the palate than the cane product, because it neither sours on the stomach nor clogs. The time is not far distant when tho maple syrup will be used by every family and every restaurant and hotel." "How do confectioners use it?" "They use more maple sugar than syrup. They buy the pure product, and make it into candies of various varieties, for which the sugar is very suitable. The price of maple sugar in cans ami tubs is about two cents per pound higher than cane sugar." The blissful elasticity of spirit which a self-made man is supposed to possess, is despondency itself compared to that clas tic buoyancy of soul w hich permeates the being of the street Arab who has learned to play a tune on the mouth organ. Cliiemjo Ledijer. ENSIGN EPPS, THE COLOR-BEAREH Ensign Epps, at the battle of Flanders, Sowed a seed of glory and duty That flowers and flames in height and beauty Like a crimson lily with heart of gold, To-day, when tho wars of Ghent are old And buried as deep as their dead com manders. Ensign Epps was the color-bearer No matter on which side, Philip or Earl; Their cause was the shell his deed wu tha pearl. Scarce more than a lad,' he bad been a sharer TTp t day in the wildest work of the field, Hu was wounded and spent, and the tight was lost; His comrades were slain or a scattered hose, Cut stainless and scatheless out of the strife lie had carried his colors safer than life. By the river's brink, without a weapon or shield, He faced the victors. The thick heart-mist He dashed from his eyes, and the Bilk be kissed Ere he held it aloft in the setting sun, As proudly as if the fight were won, And he smiled when they ordered him to yield. Ensign Epps, with his broken blade, Cut the silk from the gilded staff, AVhich he posed like a spear till the charge was made. And hurled at the leader with a laugh, The round his breast, like the scarf of lore, He tied the colors his heart above, And plunged in his armor into the tide, And there, in his dress of honor, he died. Where are the lessons your kinglings teach? And what is the text of your proud com manders? Out of the centuries heroes reach AVith the scroll of a deed, with the word of a story Of one man's truth and of all men's glory, Like Ensign Epps at the battle of Flanders. John Boyle O'Reilly, in Outing. HUMOR OF THE DAT. Justifiable homicide Sleighing girls. Citizen. If a man is to die by inches ho wants to be tall. New York News. A snow-plow is like a bad habit A good thing to cut adrift. Boston Bui hit in. Jones "Can you always tell a fool?" Brown "If he doesn't ask too much. What would you like to know?" Bing hamton, Bepidil'waii. They are going down to dinner: He "May I sit on your right hand?" She ' 'Oh, I think you had better take a chair." Ho did. Pari News. Dio Lewis says that hot water will cure all complaints. In that case im provident men ought to be extra healthy, for they are always in it. Entering tho asylum for inebriates, he asked: "Do you treat drunkards here?" "Yes, sir," "AVell, I'm one. Where's yer bar?" Chicago Newt. An exchange says the "fall of the ska ting rink has come." AVell, it is time. The rink has caused enough falls in its time. New York Graphic. A brass band has been organized among the employes of a Columbus car riage factory. They are said to be musi cal felloes. Ohio State Journal. An Eastern physician has published a work telling how to prevent scars. A treatise on minding one's own business, most likely. Chicago Ledger. In regard to modern languges it is said that the Chinese is the most difficult. We find this out when we try to explain to our Chinese laundryman that a pair of our socks is missing. Sifting. Billy's little sister had fallen and hurt her nose, and she cried a great deal over it. Hearing his mother tell her to be careful lest she'd spoil it next time, ! he said: "What's the good of a nose to her? She never blows it." ! Every man is the architect of his own ' fortune, they say, aud it needs but a glance I to convince the most skeptical that some j men don't know aiiy more about arehitec I ture than a hen knows about artificial in i cubatiou. Merchant Traveler. . Man in a carriage (to a farmer in the field) "That corn doesn't look as though 'you'd got mor'n half a crop." Farmer in the field (to man in a carriage) "Don't expect to. I'm working it on shares." I mean you won't get much to the acre." "Don"t expect to; only got half an ai re." AV OPTIMIST'S LAY. The buttercups that gemmed the vak. In summer's golden hours are tied; The wiid rose, red, tho primrose pale, The hyacinth all, all are dead. No more nt morn in beauty's pride Their tinted ntals they unfold :.cent. the lireeze; they drooped and died When chill winds swept across the wold. But. why should we their loss deplorn. Why spend our time iu vain rugretd AVheu organ grinders to our door Come daily with "Sweet Violets."' Boston Courier. Four Vul uahlo Instruments. A correspondent states that a wealthy person who was devoted to music died lately in Paris leaving behind him four stringed instruments, all made by Stradi varius, which could with difficulty be matched. One violin, dated 17:57, the year of the maker's death, was his last work, and was named by Stradivariua the "Swan's Song.' Its owner pai'j 17.000 francs ($:J,400' for it. A sreomt violin, dated 1701, was purchased for 12. 750 francs i$2..r50i. The viola dated 17!S was bought for 10,(100 franca (;!.MI(I), and for the violoncello, made iu Mi'.H!, l he owner paid 17.500 francs l $;l,50ii. Duly authenticated docu ments altcH the origin of each instru ment, --fjjidtin Times.
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