! RATES OF ADVERT. 3IHO. One Sqnare, oil Inch, on Insertion.. 1 (in Square, one Inch, on month.. ........ 0 Cine Square, one Inch, three mratha. ne Fi)urc, one Inch, on year 10 o Two .Square, onu year..... II M (Quarter Culnran. one year V 0 Half Column, one jcu ............. M On Column, one rear ..! 0 Isl kdrertlaementa ten eeat ' or line .aefcla ertlOD. Marriage and death notice (rati. All bllla for T .tarry adTertuemeat eoDce4 qaar trlr. Temporary adTartUememla mam. M BJd !o ad ranee. Jo work ah ea delrrary. THE FOREST REPUBLICAN U pobllihtd rmj Wtdnoadar, by J. C. WENK. OU: in Brae-nrbaugh & Co.'a Building ELM STREET, TIONESTA, fa, Term, SI.BO par Year. So iiibwrtptlntis r-elr for a hortr period limn lbrc tuontlia. Oorr!ODlnc aolie'tnl from all part of the ennatry. Mo tioilca will b uao of anonjmooa oumumalcatlona. VOL. XYIII- NO. 51. TIONESTA, PA.. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14. 1886. $1.50 PER ANNUM. He In Kughuid it is a crime for a marriage coremotiy to be performed except be tween the, hour of 8 a. m. ami 12 M. A till has been introduced in parliament mnking it lawful to solemnize marriage between 8 a. m. mid 4 r. m. A nurseryman tf I'nion county, Penn sylvania, claims to be able to prow ap ples without cores. This theory is to bend the twig when the size of a small cider, and insert the top in the ground. When the top takes root sufficiently cut it oil neir the butt, mid stake it up per pendicularly. An inquisitive American in Kugluml risked n member of the Prince of Walts' household what the prince read. "Noth ing," was the answer. The American was incredulous, but the Englishman went on to say that the prince never opened a book or a newspaper. Compe tent secretaries read everything that the prince should know and the result is re nted to him in condensed form. A white gorilla is on view at the Royal aquarium at Wc-tuiinster, London. "Whether the animal is a true specimen or a highly developed ctoss-brecd is a ques tion for the naturalists. -Its height is about twenty-six inches and its nge prob ably three or four years. The whole of its body and limbs, both arms and legs, arc almost free from hair, and it has no tail. The animal is very gentle and af fectionate, clasping its keeper around the nrck and ki--ing him like a child. It drinks from a tumbler and has a most intelligent manner. It is housed in a large, handsome cage or chamber, with an entire glas front. Captain Harry E. Union, of Philadel phia, late of the United States mint, has in his possession a shovel which for seven years was used for no other purpose than transferring the silver coin of the realm from a drying pan into boxes. By con stant uso of the implement about an inch ond n half was worn from its blade, thus rendering it useless for raising precious metals. During the seven years of its use, according to a calculation made by the chief clerk, Captain Union, handled the almost fabulous sum of $5)32,000,000 with that shovel. Tin? captain purchased it from the government for twenty-five cents, and is now using it in his coal bin. It is reported that a young pike which was recently sent from Holland to Paris packed in ice showed signs of life on reaching its destination, and that not withstanding it had been three days out of water, andfro7.enstitT.it was resus citated, and is now swimming about in a tank in the Trocadero aquarium. Which goes to show, says Ilir)'$ ll'.c.i'y, that the theory of Benjamin Franklin and others that animuti n maybe suspended by freezing and restored by thawing at any time suiting the purposes of the operator a theory heretofore supposed to have been whimsically conceived may have something in it after all. "Like many other public men," says the Philadelphia TthyntiJi, "John B. Gough made money easily and spent it freely. During his lifetime he earned hundred of thousands of dollars, but his whole fortune is estimated at less than $75,000. He haves a hoa-e and 200 acres of valuable ground about sis "miles from Worcester, Mass. This was . his 'farm,' and here he rested during the breathing spells in hi busy life. His library is one of the finest in the country. It is valued at f 20.000, but it is doubtful whether it would bring that amount at public or private sab'. Some of the books were highly prized by the great orator. Among them were original sketches by George Cruick-hauk, which he could have sold a year ago for several thousand dollars. Beside his farm and library Mr. (lough owned lands and mortgages which yielded him a small in come. ''It was down in Yirgiuia," says veteran in the Lewiston Journal. "1 was placed on guard over a barn and was taking it easy when a lieutenant came along, probably to see what his guard was doing. I ought to have saluted him, but I didn't. Soon I saw a large, nice looking man coming toward me. He wore a nice uniform, and I noticed as he approached that he wore a lieutenant's traits. I wasn't going to pay uuy further attention to him, but when he tame quite near to me 1 saw that there were two stars inside those btrups. I jumped up and presented anus us quick ly as I could, for I saw that it was Major General Hancock. 'Never mind '.ut for me,' said he, with a wave of his hand. 'I don't care anything about it, but always do it for the little fellows.' lie parsed on. I suppose the lieutenant 1. ad reported me, mid he came down to sec about it." WHAT THE EARTH THINKS. I am threatened with a comet. With the all-absorbing sun; Told that I shall slowly burn out? As my own fair moon has done; Warned of coming continuations Thnt will seize me unaware: Can I fear aunibilutiou, After what 1 daily heart Felted constantly w ith hailstones, Fiercely shook by hurricanes, Thrown by w hirlwimLs topsy-turvy, Nearly drowned by constant rains, Growled at day and night by thunder, Pierced by lightning everywhere, Nipjied with frotits, until I scarcely Know if I am round or square. Out all night in freezing weather, Under tropic suns all day, Dug and struck with plow and shovels, Scratched with harrows every way. Beaton down for strwts and highways, 'lolloped over day and night, With steam engines burned aad scalded, Kept in a continual fright. Deeper wounds than the I suffer I am mined and Lored and hit, Torn by dynamite and powder, Blown to pieces bit by bit. I've seen comets without number, And they always keep their iphero; It is mau that makes me tremble Restless, curioua man, I fear. For I know some day or other lie will find a stronger "force," Wondrous chemicals discover, And the end will be, of course, I shall have my shattered remnant blown away like aoy feather, Yet I have one consolation Probably we'll go together. Lillie E. Barr, in Harper's Weekly. AN OPPORTUNE WITNESS. "Well, I'm might v glad to get home !" said Mr. Briscomb, emphatically. And be climbed out of the buggy, with beaming face, and hurried up the front walk: while the hired mnn, who had driven him home from the station, turned into the lane with a flourish and rattled down toward tlio barn. Anybody might have bem glad to get back to so cozy a homo and to so unmis takable a welcome. A big dog came bounding around the corner of the house to meet him, pranc ing around him excitedly and making frantic attempts to lick his lace. Mrs. Marks, the housekeeper Mr. Briscomb was a hopeless bachelor paused in her preparations for supper to smile uud nod from the window; and tw young persons, who were sitting on the front steps, jumped up hastily, took charge of Mr. Briscjmb's satchel, and dragged a chair out on to the porch and pressed him into it. J 1 c: were Mr. Bnseomh s hoarders iuth Haines, who had come from the next county to teach the district school ; and Horace Bennett, who was surveying for the new railroad and buying land t.ierefor. It was whispered that most of the sur veying had been done in the neighbor hood of the school-house, the children bearing witness to the fact that the young surveyor was a very frequent visi tor, ami that hardly a day passed that he : was not on juind to walk homo with the i teacher. j "Well " said Mr. Briscomb, rcmov-j ing his travel-staiued hat and w iping his j forehead. Aud he stopped short, and appeared to fall into a reverie. His companions were silent. They were not quite sure which would be the more appropriate sympathy or congratula tion. Mr Briscomb had been to a point sev- er."l miles distant, to receive the money left him by a brother who had died six months ago the six months h iving beeu consumed by a slow and sure system of probating. "He was worth m re thau anybody thought." said Mr. Briscomb at last abruptly. "He left Martha and the boys more than they cau ever use up if they trv; and he left me six thousand dol lars." The surveyor and the little school teacher looked at each other breath lessly. To them, working hard for their modest earnings, and more thau appreciating the value of money, it seemed an overwhelm ing amount. "I've got it right here," Mr. Briscomb Continued, tapping his breast pocket, "and it's worried me all the way home. You see. I don't kuow what iu the name i ,1 . . : t VI louncs lo uv. niiiiu. I "That's the last thing that would trouble lue," said Horace, briskly; aud Uuth laughed, as she always did at , Horace's sallies. "There's the bank," Mr. Briscomb went on, musingly, "but I'm afraid of banks. And there's the railroads; 1 sup pose I might take stock in some of them, j But I aiu't partial to railroads, either. I guess I'd better keep it by mo till I've looked around a little," he concluded, rubbing his chiu disturbedly. "Where will you keep it '." suid Huth, wonderingly. "Well, I've been thinking about that," Mr. Briscomb res Kinded. looking at the porch tlocr with contracted brows. "1 thought of the back of the old wctlee, and the iuside of the straw tick, and the clock case; but I've come to the conclu sion that they be the first places unv body'd lojk. ' Finally 1 thought of the wry thing. There's a loose board up i" the floor of uiy room the northwest corner just room for a box under it. 1 can put my trunk over it, and there it is. Nobody'd think of going there." "Nobody but me," said Horace cheer fully. " 1 should know exactly where to At which Huth luughedaj Briscomb smiled absently. .in, and Mr. He was very fond of his boarders; ho often wondered bow he could have thought th old house cheerful before they came, and what ho should do wheu they were gone. "I'd better pet it off my mind," he said, rising, "I'll go and do it now." And he went into the wide hall and up the stair''. "He ought to invest it at once," said Horace, disapprovingly, "He'll always be uneasy while he has it on his hands." "I amufraid so," said Huth, looking after him regretfully. And then the conversation drifted to less pra( tical subjects than that of Mr. Briscomb's money, and was carried on iu a rather lower tone. It was of Mr. Briscomb's money that Uuth was thinking, however., as she sat in her window that night, looking down ; the sleeping road and listening to tne chirp of n belated cricket. She had heard a slight jarring sound from the next room her host's; and her thoughts had flown immediately to the loose board and Mr. Briscomb's inheri tance. She sat motionless, with startled face listening intently. A soft step crept down the stairs she heard it plainly; and the front door opened with a creak. Uuth felt "her heart beating fast ond her hands trembling; but she arose to her feet and leaned far out of the window, straining her eyes. A tall form stepped softly to the ground and made its way through the yard with a careful stealthy movement. But at sight of it, Uuth gave al sigh of relief and laughed softly to hersef. She stood watching the proceedings of the ghostly figure until it turned and came toward the house until the front door closed softly, and the stairs creaked under an ascending tread. I Curiosity, perplexity and amazement j h :d filled her face in turn, to he followed by regretful pity. "Poor man!" she said to herself com passionately. ' "It will worry him into his grave, at this rate." School closed, a week or so later, for one of those untimely vacations which district school committees are fond of decreeing; and the surveyor drove Huth to the station she was to go home for the holidays. These two had come to an understand ing. Uuth wore a ring on the proper finger, ond all their conversation of late had been upon one subject which was, upon how little a young couple of ex tremely modest wants could safely start out together. They had not yet succeeded in bring ing the probable umount within the nar row limits of Horace's salary, although their feats iu this direction had been mqr velous; but they had not dreamed of losing courage. 1 shall begin cutting rags for carpets as soon as I get home," said Huth, cheer fully, as the train came rumbling in. "Dear me! what will mother say?" She shook her handkerchief from the window as the train moved off, and leaned forward to catch Horace's parting words: "I'll be here to meet you. of course." With that assurance still in her ears. it was no wonder that, when she stepped off the train, two weeks later, and looked arou nd with an eager smile, the sight of the deserted little station should have tilled her with something like dread. Xobodv wasin sight except the station master, and he was tipped back in a chair against the door, half asleep. Huth walked to the edge of the plat form, and looked anxiously up aud down the road. There was a.cloud of dust in the distance, aud she watched it with a lighteued heart But the wagon which lumbered up . slowly and stopped before her was not ; Mr. Briscomb's nor was the tall young rouutrymau who stepped out awkwardly, j the person she had hoped to see. She j recognized him as a neighbor of Mr. i Briscomb. and her fears returned. Going down to Briscomb's, am t your said the young man, hesitatingly. "Want to ride"? I can take you down as well as not." Huth climbed into the wagon silently. Why had Horace not come? Something must be wrong. "Heard about that surveyor fellow?" her companion ol s Tved, as they drove away, and he looked at her sympatheti cally. , About what" said Uuth, clutching th.i edge of her high FCit, tremblingly, i 'It was the day after school let out," ! said the young man, obviously divided : between pity for her distress and ' . c . , i r ....!;.... Jus en- iovment of telling a startling story. "Briscomb went to mill that day, and the surveyor (Bennett) he went out to Crawford"; he said he wanted to telegraph to the railroad company about something orother. Well, when Briscomb got back you know he had a lot of money willed to'him lately? well, he got to thinking about that money, aud he went to see if it was all right. " Ha kept it up in his room, under the floor, with a trunk over it. Well, the money was gone? The trunk was just as he'd left it, but the money wasn't there." He paused to note the elici t of this an nouncement, and stared at Ids compan ion iu astonishment. For there w as something like amuse ment in her face. "Well," the said, eullulv. "What did he do?" "He told the neighbors about it. If you'll believe it, he hadn't thought of suspecting uubody of taking it; he al ways was good-natured. He thought it must have beeu ruts that tarried it off. But we thought right away of that surveyor, aud when we found out that " Briscomb had been simple enough to tell him where he kept it, we was pretty sure it was him that took it. So we went out to Craw ford two or three of us and got out a warrant and arrested him. We didu'l expert to find the money on him, oi course; and it wasn't. But there ain't I doubt but what he's got it somewhere Anyhow, he's having his trial now, out to Crawford, and the chances are nil against him. We do things up quick out this w-ay," he concluded, with an ail of satisfaction. Truly, this little school-teacher was a strange person. The amusement had died out of her face, and a profound in dignation had filled it. She grasped his arm eagerly. "He did not take it!" she said, scorn fully. "I know where it is this minute. You must drive me out to Crawford im mediately !'' She snatched the whip from its socket as she spoke and touched the horses lightly. The Crawford court-house was filled to overflowing:. The triul. coming as it did into the midst of the sleepy summer days, when excitements were few, had proved j fa rr-rf n ntt rant a gTcat attraction It was an exceptional trial, too. The plaintiff had been unwilling to prosecute, and had seemed troubled ever since at having been led into doitig so. The prisoner was the most honest-looking of voung men, and behaved remarkably, as an innocent person would hove done, and the evidence against him was verv slight, and purely circumstantial. But in spite of these confusing facts, the vast majori ty believed in his guilt, though rather against their wills he was such a frank looking fellow. Mr. Briscomb was sitting with down cast eyes and a troubled expression. Horace sat, with his head in his hand, looking weary and hopeless, and the j plaintrtr8 counsel was demanding of the jury, for the twentieth time, why. if the prisoner had not taken the money, he had come to Crawford upon the day of the robbery upon an obviously trumped up errand i t'lenrly. he had come to place the money in safe hands; his accomplice wns probably in their midst. The door opened suddenly and forci bly, and a young girl, with a flushed nnd eager face, came hastily in. At the sight of her, Horace raised his head, and his face brightened. She gave him a swift smile, unmindful of the astonished observers, aud made her way to Mr. Briscomb's side. "You buried it yourself, under the locust-tree!" she cried, grasping his coat front, and shaking him a little in hei eagerness. "I saw you. .You were walk ing in your sleep, of course; but I didn't know it then. You came down, the night you came home with it. and dug a place under the locust tree and put it in !" Poor Mr. Briscomb stared at her in be wilderment; the" spectators looked at each other, aud whistled softly; the plaintiffs counsel looked disgusted. There was a solemn pause, which the plaintiffs counsel broke by demanding, testily, that the evidence of "this per son" be taken in the proper way. But nobody seemed to hear him. "I used to," said Mr. Briscomb at last, slowly "I used to walk in my sleep every night regular, and do queer enough things. But I did think I'd got over it." Somebodv in a corner of the room clapped a timid pair of hands, and the I next instant the room resounded with the cheers of a delighted crowd. How a committee of three was ap pointed by the judge to go and prove the young lady's remarkable statement; how that committee returned in triumph, and presented Mr. Briscomb with a small box of deceitfully-modest npp"arance. amid the enthusiastic cheers of the spectators; how, for a confused period, everybody appeared to be congratulating even-body else : and how Mr. Briscomb drove home in state, with the surveyor and little school-teacher on either side of him, and relief nnd happiness beaming from his go d-humored face these were the chief topics in Crawford for a week, after which Mr. Briscomb's money was forgot ten. But Horace and Uuth had substantial reasons for remembering it. It was Mr. Briscomb's money that smoothed the way to their marriage.a few months later, and that built the snug little house they called home. Emma A. Opper. The Alligators Wore to Blame. "I noticed some cattle here in Jack sonville.aud thought that, aside from their leanness and diminutive size, there was , k; !., i;., K,. !,, ...! i- j ? ;i i .... ,i.i....t.. SlUUlrll UT suuir tunc, UUL11 4 uiiurnn discovered there were some of them miuu tails; others looked as though thev had about half of that useful appendage cut off. In a country where mosquitoes are as plentiful as thev must be here 1 should think it no less than downright cruelty for people to treat the poor creatures in this shameless manner." My remarks were greeted with a roar of laughter. "Bless your heart, my young friend, the people don't do that; it's the alli gators."' "Alligators'." said I. astonifficd. "Yes, the alligators." "How can that be?" "i h, thev gral them when they are feeding in the water." "And bite off their tails, I suppose"' "Yes, thev do. You see they creep up so quietly that the cattle do not notice their approach, aud the tirst thing the animal is aware of is a jerk iu the rear, lie tri-s to get away, but it is of no use; the harder he pulls the tighter the alligator holds ou, until the uppcudjgr u-ives wav, uud the conquenr si:ns oif happy." ' "iiighly interesting sight, I should think." "Well, rath-r, as the question of ownetship is oftt-u h'ghh di-pu!e.!. thon "h 1 never saw a case et in wbh-ii the cattle cuine ill vh toriuu-." 77.. IN ALARMED HUMORIST. BILL NYE STRICKEN WITH FEA-R OP HYDROPHOBIA. THE die Feasibility of Living Without Dogs Tapering off on the Prev alent Canine Fancy. I take occasion at this time to a.k the American people as one man, what ure we to do to prevent the spread of the most insidious and disagreeable disease Known as hydrophobia? When a fellow being has "to be smothered, as was the case the other day right here in our fair land, a land where tyrant foot hath never trod nor bigot forced a chain, we look anxiously into each other's faces and in quire, w hat shall we do? Shall we go to France at a great ex pense and till our systems full of dog virus and then return to our glorious land, where we nwv fork over that virus to pos terity and thus mix up French hydropho- b;a .;th the navv-blue blood of free-born . . " American citizens? I wot not. If I knew that would be my last wot I would not change it. That is just wot it would be. But agaiu. What shall we do to avoid getting lm- prPn.nated with the American dog and then saturating our system wuu me aueu dog of Paris? It is a serious matter, and if we do not want to play the "Desdcmoua" act w e must take some timely precautions. What must those precautions be? Did it ever occur to the average-thinking mind that we might squeeze along i;cg existed for years after being de tor weeks witnour. a uogl uoie mim prived of dogs. Look at the wealthy ol I our land. They go on comfortably j through life and die at last with the I unanimous consent of their heirs dog- less. Then why can not the poor gradually taper off ou dogs? They ought not to stop all of a sudden, but they could leave off a dog nt a time until at last they over came the pernicious habit. I saw a mau in St. Paul last week who was ouce poor and so owned seven varie gated dogs. He was confirmed in that habit. But he summoned nil his will power at last and said he would shake off these dogs and become a man. He did so, aud to-day he owns a city lot in St. Paul, and seems to be the picture of health. The trouble about maintaining a dog is that he may go on for years in a quiet, gentlemanly way, winning the regard of all who know him, and then all of a sud den he may hydrophobe in the most vio lent manner. Not only that, but he may do so while we have company. He may olso bite our twins or the twins of our warmest friends. He may bite us now and we may laugh at it, but in five years from now," while we are delivering a humorous lecture, we may burst forth into the audience and bite a beautiful young lady in the parquet or on the car. It is a solemn thing to think of, fellow citizens, and I appeal to those w ho may read this, as a man who may not live to see a satisfa tory political reform I ap peal to you to icfrain from the dog. He is purely ornamental. e may ioe a good dog, but we ought to love our chil dren more. It would be a very, very noble and expensive dog that 1 would ogive to feed with uiy only son. I know that we gradually become at tached to u good dog, but some day ho may become attached to us, and what cau be sadder than the sight of a leulling citizen drawing a reluctant mad dog down the street bv main strength and a portion of his pantaloons? il mean his own, not the dog's units. M"This joke will appear in book form. The book will be very readable, and there will be another joke in it also, oed ti.) I have said n good deal about the dog, pro and con, and am not a rabid dog abo lilionist, for no one loves to have his clear-cut features licked by the warm, wet tongue of a noble dog any more than I do, but rather than see hydrophobic be come a national characteristic or a lead ing industry here, I would forego tho dog. Perhaps all men are that way, how ever. When they get a little forehanded they forget that they were once poor, aud owned dogs. If so," I do not wish to be unfair. 1 wai:t to be just, and 1 believe I am. Let us yield up our dogs and take the affection that we would o'.herwiso be stow on them on nie human being. I 1 have tiled it, anil it worKs wen 1 here are thousands of people Hi the world of .... , . both sexes who arc pining and starving for the love and money that wo daily shower on the dog. U t!i dog would ie Kinn enougn io icfrain from introducing his justly cele brated virus into the person of those only who kiss hiui on the cold, moist nose, it would be all right; but when a dog n,e mad he is very impulsive, nnd he may bestow himself oa ua obscure man. Sol feel a little nervous myself. Bill Sj'', V'?. Ul.lt. The Prisoner. I sit ami watch the rain div fall, 1 Kaw out at the dull :ray skie, I onlv .tt raiu cloud' 'ul!, ill- wat h the ji!iofy unsU that rise. I do unt turn niv brad to s. e The uai r ov ioi.iii that holds me here; I watch the raiu and Imu' t I e V'ur li oiu my pi l-i'ii rojai ho drear. V.'iiy. laughter waits for me out there, Audlifstrtv clasp of loving liaiMs, And merrv iicjs aud faces lair ('.ml I 1 lid', b.-euk my prison bauds. Hat hfi-e 1 p ile, as une iu Lau, I'oi hidden Lv tlio fat to loaiu, Vnt lthnt tabard taller man ihull euJ niv cniy trousers home. Uuruetie, in iVoo.l.ya Btl'jlt. In (iei'uviuy dog- are to be carefully trained at the various garrisons and sent oat uith sentinels placed at isolated io ordi r to g laird agriust suipri&n. TO A DANDELION. Little mimic of the sua. Hiding in the fragrant traja, Have you any kisses won From the pretty maids who past When the sun slips down the west Some fair girl shall come in quest Of the secret which you lock In your tiny golden breast; You shall hear an airy knock, And a question, What o'clock? At the very verge of night, When the suiuraertwilighf breath Makes you dizzy with delight, Dance in happiness to death ; When the peaceful moon shall peep Down from the star-lit skies that weep Tears of sweet, delicious dew, Tender, gracious eyes shall keep Quiet company with you, 'Neath the heaven's cover blue. Ah, you dainty, snowy ghost, See what bliss your wisdom brings! Tell me, pray, what angels boast Such a rephyr for their wings! Just because the hour you tell She repays your magic well! Wafts you off to paradise; Bounds for you a gentle knell; Lights your journey with her eyes; Would that I were half so wisel Frank D. Shermnn. Hl'XOR OF THE DAT. Teacher "What is the hottest place in the United States?" Pupil "A hor net's nest." "What is you name, little girl?" "Min nie." "Minnie what.'" " 'Minnie Doa't' mamma calls me." A bank cashier seldom goes off until he is loaded, and then he makes tho re port. Lovccll Citizen. A sermon always seems short to thr woman who wears "a new bonnet to church for the first time. Nei York Journal. Which causes the most young men tc attend meeting the bell of the church orthebellc of the village! GoodalPt Sun. "There's plenty of rcom at the top," il the motto of the hotel-clerk, who always takes great delight in skying a guest. I'tick. An actor, unlike other men, can some times build up a most excellent reputa tion out of a very bad character. Bottom Transcript. Old jokes may raise a laugh at times, but writers who are sage Make now ones, for they Know that jokes ar oiwavn bad-in-age. Boston Courier, In uncient Home a bundle of staves was an emblem of authority. Nowaday nothing short of a whole barrel will help . , F, . a mau into a place oi power. jwsivh Transcript. "Here Johnny, what do you mean bi taking Willie's cake away from bimi Didn't you have a piece for yourself?" "Yes, but you told me I always ought to take my little brother's part." Fal met Juitrnal. "And now, my dear brethren, what shall I say now?'' thundered the long winded minister. "Amen!" came in sep ulchral tones from tun absent-minded deacon in the backofjthe church. Jianibler. A father was very much annoyed bj the foolish questions of his little SDn. "Johnny, you are a great source of annoy ance to "me." J'What'sthe matter, pa?' "You ask so many foolish questions. I wasn't a big donkey when 1 was of youi nge." No, pa, but "you've grown a heap since." They tell iu Louisville of a citLten ol I that town wno went io jew iui. ic i cently and lived ut one of tho most ex j pensive hotels there. He stayed four days and asked for his bill. "Fifty-one dol I lars," said the clerk. "Guess again," 6aid tho Keutuckian. "You haven't sized , niv pile yet. I've more money than that." Boston iW. THE STYLE. Pear madam, exeusg nie I pray, Your hair is all going a.stray, It badly wunts oom'oiiig b"hind. And it's waving about iu the wind. She answers iu scorn, I declare, "With a sutf rii. guild tp -lutfy air, And savs, with a lemonade smile, "I aiu just iu the heighr of the style." Hotto, Budget j Cardinals. According to an exchange, the pope i appoint s a cardinal iu a consistory, the I chief ceremony being the delivery of the : scarh t hat. w ith the words: Ksto Car : din.ilis, Be a cardinal," and the digni tary so created is thereafter presumed to ' be a brotlur of the chief pontiff. At first j the cardinal's hat had three scarlet knots, fringes or tassels on each side; , these were increased to live, while arch bishops had four of purple color, and I bishops three, of green material. During the. lo-st two centuries, however, bish i ops have worn four gseen ones, and pre ' hues, abbots and jirclionotaries three of j purple or liu k. Their dress consists of a red ou a:ie, or ca-sock, with a ciue- lure with a tassels of gold, r-d cups and i stockings, a rochet and a large clouk, ' witlum ermine cappa in winter. Kvery J cardinal h:u his chaplain, who wears a purpje soutane and cincture, a surplice I uud stole-like scarf, with which he siip j ports his muster's miter w hen not actuul i lv worn. V.'h n the pope officiates, or I iii a procession, the caruiuals wear white 1 damask mitres, red shoes, and if bishops, j u cope; if priests, a chasuble; if dra ! cons, ti dalmatic. In times of penunee ! the color of their rot. 's is velvet ; and oi j a few particular da vs. rose instead of red. Their dress ol state when not en ' gaged in sacred functions consists of a ! huge purple in.it'.. !e called the i ro.'i.i; ou i less inis'i t . ut o Casio:;.-, of a mantelet, ' or sh n't c!o:dv. through which they put tic ir anus, aud worn over the loclnt, i v. i.i'c o er this ;, a, morett i, or tipj?.. isiiowiug ouiy til' i 'e.ia of a pec to- ! I IT' S-.
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