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THE FOREST REPUBLICAN
U pntllthed rery WVtneaday, by
J. E. WENK.
Otilsniu Smearbaugh & Co.' Building
KLM STREET, TIONE8TA, I'.
Trm, . - . tl.BO per Year.
No nhcrlptlon received for a ahm.. - .
thn tDr month. "or' period
tWeapooilenc nollelted from all r
routry. No nolle will b kTi.. 0f
eonimualcatlon. k, of "Troon
The treasury officials gay a paper dob
lar Inst rive years arid ft silver dollar a
hundred yen. The retention of the or.
dollar and two-dollur bills in tho tre',,,
has forced about $13,000,000 of vor
into circulation above the ubii '
'mount.
TIhto is only one linr ...
,. , . null now m
operation in this conn' , . ,
,,,, , , -ry, nnd it is mak
lng onlythe coarsest , - , ,
.. ... . mds of crash towel
ling. It has been
.7. . , . loRinjr money for yenrs,
04 its products , . . J . .
. come in competition with
thoso lmpo' , i . , , 1 ...
nnd Irela
...... imiiii iici lllllliy, feUUIlUO.
nd.
h; E,,i,,nn the electrician, who is
jnself very deaf, in reported to have in
vented an appliance which will enable;
dent people to hear without, difficulty. It
is a little instrument which is worn in tho
ear out of sight. It is a sort of artificial
car drum and intensifies every noise.
A Toronto (Can.) Globe subscriber,
"writing from Smith's Falls (Ont.), says:
"Having seen in your columns an item
representing that there are in the State of
tSeorgia six brothers who measure thirty -eig-ht
feet six inches and weigh each over
"200 pounds, I submit, the following us a
production of Ontario, and of the county
of Lanark. We have eight brothers here
by filename of Coade, who measure in
their socks fifty-two feet four inches, ami
weigh 1,720 pounds, or an average of SIS
pounds each. Thotallo-it is si x feet seven
inches, and the shortest six feet four in
ches. Tho heaviest weighs 277 pounds,
nnd the lightest 105 pounds."
The Russian papers announce the
emancipation of the Russiau serfs. It
appears that the peasants on the estates
of tho foreign convents in Transcaucasia
' were until quite recently the serfs of tho
dioceses of Jerusalem nnd Constantino
ple. This' abnormal situation has at
tracted the attention of the authorities,
and since last summer the enfranchise
ment of these serfs has been in progress
in the governments of TIrlis and KuUis.
The Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre
possesses more than 0,000 serfs, and the
Patriarch of Constantinople, as represent
ing the convent of Ivesky on Mount
Athos, hns about 500 more.
, A social oracle says: "All women,
should aim at being bright conversa-'
tionalists, not startling or wonderful, but
amusing, refined and especially light of
touch. Long stories are usually intoler
able bores, and a serious, slow, heavy
way of looking at matters in general is
an infliction. Grievances of any sort are
best kept hidden; a sprightly acquaint
ance with the affairs of the da', a flatter
ing anxiety as to others' opinions, ab
sence of slung or mannerisms, of boastful
egotism, or self-depreciation, tact, tact,
above all, tact these make the agreeable
hostess, the woman one wishes to find at
home in one's round of calls."
European ingenuity in the construction
of destructive instruments was perhaps
never so active as at the present time,
and past successes ouly stimulate to still
greater achievements in this line. In
England and other countries, in order to
overcome the rifled mortar a short gun
with a relatively short range guns have
been invented having a length of fifty feet
and a range of eight to ten miles. The
thickness of solid armor plates has also
been increused until the Italian Ironclad
Italia, has thirty-six inches of armor on
bc hides and carries four oue-liuu Jred-ton
grins, which throws shells of two thou
sand pounds a distance of ten miles. Not
satisfied with even such monstrous guns,
the same government contracted two
years ago with Krupp to build for them
five forged steel breech loading guns of
125 tons each, fifty-five feet lung, and a
projectile of 2,500 pounds.
A paragraph recently printed in a New
York newspaper said that the first labor
strike in this country of which record is
preserved occurred among the factory
girls of Dover, New Hampshire, in 1827.
The girls paraded the town with a flag
and a brass band, and the employers
quickly yielded to their terms. In reply
to this paragraph a correspondent of the
New York L'ommerrUU AJ cert iter writes
that the cordwainers (shoemakers) of
New York city went on strike in Novem
ber, 1H00. They, were indicted for con
spiracy to hamper trade and extort
money, and were arraigned before Mavor
Do Witt Clinton aud Sessions Justices
Mesier ail'-l Carpenter, composing the
"Mayor's Court." Mr. Sampson and Mr.
Colden defended them, and on the other
side were District Attorney Kiker uud
Thoiuus Addi Lwinet. The jury le
turned a verdict of guilty, und the
ktlikcrs. Were fined oLc dollar each, the
mayor Mjyoi RailclijT, who had eoem
iato otiue pending (he proceedings), ia
pacing sentence, remarking that the ob
ject of the trial aud 'sentence was to ad
mew'sh, not to punish.
YOL.iVIII. NO, 52.
THE BEST IN LIFE.
The Wealth that proves the best for man
Is that contentment sweet,
Cpon whoso prcnenee there's no baa
No Mintring wronjr, or cheat;
That dozlgps not tho wurlilly eye,
Like illy-gotten gold,
Nor leaves him, as the time draws nigh,
The future to unfold.
Thst ftauty' best whose Sources spring?
Within the heart that's pure;
Whose fountains into being bring;
Tho glories that endure;
The strengt hening sympathies that wake
Hojio in earth's fainting ones; ,
Whose constant daedfl of mercy make
A life of benisons.
And Love is best thatdeoply flows,
And owns no narrow bound;
That spreads its perfume as the ros.
To gladden nil around ;
That makes its home a Paradise, ,
With beauty and content.
While Truth grows brighter to tho eyes,
And peace and joy are blent.
William B. Davidson.
OFFICE WORK.
r)T MLT CCRHT.
"You may come In in the morning, if
you please," he said at length. "Eight
o'clock is the hour we usually begin busi
ness." He spoke slowly and almost con
strainedly; perhaps it seemed to him that
he should hardly be so addressing her.
Bhe stood but a moment outside the wal
nut railing; tall, slight, pale, with a
dignity beyond tho years that her coun
tenance oetokened. Her face was like a
delicate flower for an half-hour there in
the dusk and grind of the great office.
He saw, moreover, that her attire was
neat and wholly befitting a lady.
Then she turned to go.
"Thank you," she said, simply. "I will
come at eight."
And immediately Bhe seemed to have
vanished.
He whirled about sharply, and looking
out of the great window saw her descend
ing the steps to the street. She turned
her hesd neither to the . left nor
to the ri?ht, but facing straight ahead
passed briskly from tho place and from
his sight.
He remained at the window looking
out even after she was gone, but, lost in
thought, saw naught of the city's uproar
and warfare.
Two persons, the only others present
in the office nt that moment, exchanged
fiances anu smueu nair contemptuously.
These were Price, the manager, and Miss
Allison, the copyist. Price was a distant
relative of the proprietor, and loved him
none too well. Margaret Allison was
jealous of her own position and fearful
of unother woman clerk being hired.
Duval Fraser still stood looking out of
the window, and Price, leaning over to
Miss Allison, w hispered sneeringly:
"The blonde god is easily affected."
They often called him "tho blonde
god:" he was tall and elegantly fash
ioned, with a golden head of ideal con
tour. He was, indeed, a handsome man,
and young for the position he occupied,
the Western representative of an Eastern
business of millions and millionaires.
The copyist, a sharp-featured brunette,
forgot herself at the words of Price, the
manager, ana tittered audibly.
The sound recalled the head of the of
fice. He came away from the window,
and picking up a scrap of paper from his
private desk brought it over to the mana
ger's. 'This is the handwriting," he said,
very slowly, "of that young lady." He
laid it down before his assistant, "She
will be here to begin work in the morn
ing; we shall not be so rushed then. I
wish you would show her what to do.
Let her attend to those 'statements' and
anything else that is pressing." lie
turned away then and took his hat to
leave. At the door he pause 1,' as with
an afterthought.
"Her name," he said, "is Rose Madi
son." Then he went out.
Miss Madison was punctual. At eight I
uuiuck. mac Keen -iiarcn morning sue en
tered the office of Duval Eraser and was
pleasantly received. It was less of an
ordeal than she had anticipated. The
DiacK-eyeu copysist was gracious to her
new co-worker beyond conception, and I
Price seemed kindly . disposed to the
strange young lady. When Duval I
I.- . . , . . . , . ., t
r rawer arriven uc ten o Clock mere was a
slight young form perched upon a high
stool at a dusk that hail been hitherto
unoccupied; there was a delicate face
bent earnestly over a great account book,
a busy pen in a small, frail-looking hand.
He went over and spoke so kindly that
the pale face grew scarlet and the'small
hand trembled at its work. 1
And so Rose Madison began a life of !
"office-work," such a life us, twelve i
months earlier, she would have laughed i
at as absurd in connection with herself. !
She hardly knew how the first d:iys !
went the days of her initiation. It was I
nil so new, so stranire. At night she was I
curiously exhausted, and it sometimes !
seemed dilficult to reach home such a
home a.s it was, a boarding house attic. !
But she managed somehow, and then
the office grew more familiar. I
And Price, the manager, grew quite !
friendly. He was an older man than the '
proprietor; he might have been forty. I
perhaps a trifle less. He had a dark j
face, whose hardness of features was onlv I
relieved at momenta by a good-humored j
smile. A heavy beard concealed the i
lines of a mouth that might have ap- I
peared vindictive had one judged by the !
bitterness of speech iu which" iti owner i
occasionally indulged. j
Kose .uaaisou suia to nerself it must be
that Richard Price w as under some reut
obLigatiuii to .Mr. Duval Eraser, else he
never would have shown . fetich resent
ment such disposition to"run down" his
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TIONESTA, PA.,
employer and relative. And when he
spoke, as he came frequently to do early
in the morning or at noon hours, when
Eraser was absent, disparagingly, almost
sneeringly, she feit a sense of singular
annoyance and strove not to listen, but
to attend the more closely to her work.
But Miss Allison, the black-eyed copyist,
was an ottentive hearer, and Miss Madi
son could not escape the conversation of
tho two. It displeased her more and
more as the days went by, even beyond
concealing.
Nearly two months hud passed, when
one morning Rose Madison experienced
singular circumstances. Uichard Price
took a holiday and Miss Allison went
home ill tit noon. Duval Eraser remained
in the office the entire afternoon, and
Scarcely any one came in.
At three o'clock she nlways remem
bered that day and that particular hour
the "blonde god" arose and came over
to her desk.
"You work very hard, "he said, slowly.
lou must get very tired, every day.
Rose had hardly lifted her eyes, but
the motion of her pen had stopped.
"Yes," she said, quietly, "it is very
hard. I am sometimes very tired."
"I want," ho said abruptly, after a
moment's pause, "I want to ask you a
question. When vou first come into the
office Price seemed to take a great liking
to you. Lately he seems changed, or
something seems to have happened.
What is the matter?"
She lifted her eyes then and looked in
his face, t '
"I cannot tell you," she said.
"You do not know or suspect!"
She was silent. He watched her with
an interested look. Perhaps he was
thinking how delicate her face was, with
its beautiful deep-blue eyes, its silken
soft frame of chestnut hair; how gentle
and how refined her speech.
He remained silent for a space, then
spoke.ngain, even more considerately.
"Would you not like would it not be
a rest for you to go to some place of
amusement this evening? I should like
to take you, Miss Rose."
She did not answer for a moment; then,
in a low voice:
"I thank you, Mr. Fraser, but I could
not I could not have at once a busi
ness and a social acquaintance with the
same gentleman."
"No?" he said, as if surprised. Then,
"Perhaps you are right."
She fouud herself trembling now from
the effort of the little speech. Perhaps
he noticed this, for he withdrew, and
walked rather aimlessly about the place.
"I think,"-he"said, "I think I know the
trouble with Price." And then he turned
and lookod at her with a sudden mean
ing a something in his look that star
tled her and set her heart to throbbing,
and brought a gray mist before her eyes.
She would not have felt any different
had he said : Price is jealous of both of
us."
Her head seemed in a whirl. She was
glad when he urged her to close up her
books and desk and cease work for the
day. He closed the office earlv and thev
went out together. It seemed as if his
road lay toward her home; and thither
he walked with her. They talked as
they went of indifferent matters; but
when the house was reached she spoke
with an abrupt bitterness.
"this is the place I live in the attic.
Once I lived in a mansion."
He lingered for a moment.
"Yes," hesaid, "I knew it." But his
tone of gentle compassion, tinged with
regret, seemed to irritate her.
"However," she said almost sharply,
"I neither require nor desire pity. Good
night."
The manager's holiday seemed not
to have agreed with him. He
came to the office next morning
in a decideedly unpleasant tem
per. The black eyed copyist was still
absent, and upon Miss Madison fell
double her usual amount of work.
Duval Eraser appeared distrait, and
everything seemed at sixes and sevens.
As the hours passed the condition of
things grew worse. Richard Price be
gan to mutter and find fault and finally
to grumble openly. Miss Madison evi
dently was not pleasing him.
"You have done this all wrong," he
said, turning savagely upon her. "The
addition of that column is absurd.
Haven't you any sense?"
Duvnl Eraser's blonde head was sud
denly lifted from behind his desk. He
nse and came over to the corner where
Iiss Madison sat and took the great
sheet from the pale young worker. After
a quick look he turned to the other man.
"Miss Madison's work is not at fault,"
he said, quietly. She makes fewer mis
takes than any one we have ever em
ployed. She has done even-thing as she
should."
Rich ird Price had his face lwnt down,
but that which he sneered in reply came
with horrible distinctness to the ears of
both proprietor and clerk:
"Of course anything she does is all
right."
Duval Fraser wailed hardly an instant.
He stepped close to Price.
"Vou will apologize to Miss Madison,"
he said, in a low voice.
Price did not answer. He was appar
ently busy with his figures. His right
hand played carelessly with the wrench-
siiapeu iiauu-stam; wiin wiih ii all ac
counts were stamped "Paid."' !
"I hope you heard me," said Eraser,
sternly.
What happened next, happened so j
sw iftly und was, w ithal, so shocking that ,
oue could uot describe eiaitly Low it j
came about. '
It Wa,S like the Hash of uu vr. Rch- j
aid Price turned upon the other vith an
oath, atid would hu.c nlruck hiui iii the i
tuce with the Laud taui, but Rum-I
.Madiixm, who hud sprung from her scut, i
darted between tlu- two and received 'he
blow upon her own head. S'le fdl with- .
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WEDNESDAY. APRIL 21. 1886.
ont a sound. A tiny stream of blood
trickled out of the chestnut hair, and over
the marble forehead. '
Two weeks later she opened her eyes
and looked around her in her wondering
way. The first thing she fully knew was
that she was lying ill in bed in her boarding-house
attic. The next thinax she re
alized was a scent of heliotrope, which
drew her attention to the fact that there
were beautiful flowers in the room. The
third and last thing was thw face of
Duval Frazcr looking down upon her.
Then she again lost consciousness. But
it came to her the following morning,
and he was there again.
And many other mornings he was
there, until she grew stronger and able
to sit up.
Then, "You see," he said, "I told you
I knew Price's trouble. Beside, I did
him a favor once, and he has never for-
i gotten it. It is the way of the world. I
I hope it will not be my way, ever. Price
has left the city." he continued, as if
anticipating her desire to know.
"It is a lesson he will not forget. And
well, I am just as glad he is out of the
way; it might irritate me to see or hear
of him. I do not want to bo irritated at
present."
"No?" said Rose, feebly, with a faint
smile.
"No," he repeated soberly, "fori have,
something very important on my mind ,
something to achieve."
lie suddenly reached forward and.
took her hand. But she tried to draw it
away.
"Rose," he began.
"No no, no," she answered. "I don't
want to be pitied."
"No," he acquiesced. "I remember
you neither require or deserve pity. But
then this is different.' Rose, I love you,
shall we be married?"
And she did not say him nay.
The United States and Their Names.
Maine takes its name from tho Province
of Main, in France, and was so called ia
compliment to the Queen of Charles I.,.
Henrietta, its owner. New Hampshire,,
first called Laconio, from Hampshire,
England. Vermont from the Green
Mountains (French, verd mont). Massa
chusetts from tho Indian language, signi
fying the country about the great hills.
Rhode Island gets its name from the
fancied resemblance of the island to that
of Rhodes in the ancient Levant. Con
necticut was Mohegan, spelled originally
(iuon-eh-ta-but, signifying "a long river."
New York was so named as a compliment
to the Duke of York, whose brother,.
Charles II., granted him that territory.
New Jersey was named by one of its
original proprietors, Sir ' George
Carter, after the island of
Jersey in the British Chan
nel, of . which he was governor.
Pennsylvania, as is generally known,,
takes its name from William Penn, and
the word "sylvania," meaning woods.
Delaware derives its name from Thomas
vest, Loraiie ia ware, governor oi vir-
gima. Maryland receives its name from.
.. ,uuui V H tli H. A.. , ilcUilClM XHAI lift.
Virginia got her name from Queen Eliza
beth, unmarried, or virgin queen. The
Carolinas were named in honor of Charles
I., and Georgia in honor of George II.
Florida gets its name from Eanuuas de
plores, or "Feast of the Flowers." Al
abama comes from Greek words, signi
fying "the land of rest." Louisiana was.
so named in honor of Louis XIV;
Mississippi derived its name from that
of the great river, which is, in the
Natchez tongue, "The Father of
Waters." Arkansas is derived from the
Indian word Kansas, "smoky waters,,
with the French prefix or "ark," a bow
Tennessee is an Indian name, meaning
"Tho river with a big bend." Ken
tucky is ulso an Indian name "Kain-tuk-ae,"
signifying "at the head of tha
river." Ohio is the Swanee name fcW
"The beautiful river." Michigan's name
was derived from the lake, the Indian
name for fisli, weir, or trap, which tho
shape of the lake suggested. Indiana's
name came from that of the Indians. Il
linois is derived from the word Illini"
and the French affix "ois," making
"Inbe of Men. " Wisconsin s name is. t
said to be the Indian name for a "wild,
rushing channel." Missouri is also aa
Iudiau name for muddy, having refer
ence to the muddiness of the Missouri
river. Kansas is an Indian word for
smoky water. Iowa signifies in the In
dian language "The drowsy ones," and
Minnesota "a cloudy water."
An Odd Will.
When I was a boy, I heard of a lawyer
who wis called out in the middle ofa.i
cold w inter's night to draw up the will of A
an out larmer wm uvea some tnree mues
away, and who was dying. The mes
sengers had brought a cart to convey tho
lawyer to the farm; Hnd the latter in duo
time arrived at his destination. When
he entered the house, he was immediate
ly ushered into the sick-room, and he
eveu requested to be supplied with pen,
ink aud paper. There was uoue. in tht
house ! The lawyer had uol brought any
himself, and what was he to do Aur
lead pencil f he inquired. No; they hud.
none. The farmer was sinking fast,
though quite conscious. At last the legal
gentleman saw chalked upon the back of
the bedroom door column upon column,
of figures in chalk. These were milk
"scores" or ".shots." He immediately
a-.ked for a piece of chalk, and then,
kneeling on the floor, he wrote out con
cisely iqiou the smooth heart list o.ia the
lust will uud testament of the dying man.
'1 he f.uiuer subsequently died. Tho
L'.'ui thstoue-tt ill was sent to the prin
cipal registry iu Loudon, with special af
fidavits, and was duly proved, the will
Lvug depobiu-'.i in the urchives of th
registry. 1 may itic-utiuu that the law
does itot stale upon wlnat. tllauce ot'
with what instrument a will must bo
written.
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$1,50 PER ANNUM.
SWIMING FOR HIS LIFE.
STOEY OF A SOLDIER'S DuAHX IHOOD
US' CHAHLESTON BAZ.
The Mistake of Battery One of th
Confederate Transports Sank by
Confederate Guns.
From Sestos to Abydos is a full Eng
lish mile, as the crow flies. . Between
the.se two points Leander accomplished
that swimming feat which secured him
both a place in history and the heart, if
not the hand, of Hero. Lord Byron, un
mindful of the tragic fate of the luckless
Leander, attempted and achieved the
same feat without the inspiration of love,
but from a consuming thixst for noto
riety, which was at once the passion and
the plague of his eventful life.
We have a swimming feal to commemo
rate that was prompted neither by gal
luntry nor ambition, butbvan instinctive
love of life. What it lacks of the halo
of romance is more than compensated by
the truth of history.
It was the night of the 30th of August,
1863. For several days the Twentieth
South Carolina and the Twenty-third
Georgia regiments had been scoring at
Battery Wagner on Morris Island. So
heavy and continuous was tie fire of the
enemy's fleet and battery on this outpost
that it was necessary to reb'eve at short
intervals the regiments on duty at that
point. A small wooden stciimer bearing
the formidable name of Sumter was em
ployed in the interchangp of troops be
tween the main land and the several forts
and batteries that protected Charleston.
These relief expeditions of the Sumter
were carried on after nightfall, as a need
ful precaution against the long-range
guns of the Yankee fleet. On the occa
sion referred to one, Pat McCarty, a gal
lant son of Erin, went over as a courier
from headquarters. A fresh breeze blew
from seaward and cloud-racks overhead
obscured the starlight, and betokened
foul weather in the next twenty-four
hours. The Sumter made her run to
Morris Island without accident or note
worthy incident. Probably four hours
were occupied in the landing of the re
lieving regiments, and in the embarka
tion of the two South Carolina and
Georgia regiments, beside about fifty
sick and wounded soldiers who were or
dered to the hospitals.
About nightfall the steamer with her
human freight crowding hold and deck,
set forth to convey the Twentieth Caro
lina regiment to its camp on Sullivan's
Island. To avoid the sand bars the ves
sel must needs make a circuit and strike
a certain channel, and approach Fort
Moultrie somewhat from the direction of
the Yankee fleet lying inside the bar.
Tho commandant at Fort Moultrie,
suspecting that the unknown craft might
be a Federal vessel attempting to pass the
blockade, ordered a gunner of Captain
Kirkley's battery to open fire.
In a moment a solid shot went boom
ing past the Sumter. In another minute
the second shot was fired, this time fall-
iag short of tlie s
neur enoUp.h to gpla
steamer, but striking
ash the water on her
crowded deck. In vain did the Sumter
attempt to signal the fort. The next
time Captain Kirkley, who was a famous
shot, was ordered to fire himself. Ha
did it, however, under protest, as he as
sured his superior officer that the
steamer was not an ironclad, and could
not therefore belong to the Federal fleet.
This third shot struck the Sumter at the
water line, knocking a hole ia her as
large as a hogshead.
Almost immediately the steamer began
to till and settle. The consternation on
board was, of course, fearful and ia hot
haste tho boats were lowered and
launched. In the midst of the uproar a
large number of the best swimmers
plunged into the si a and struck out for
Sullivan's Island. Among these was our
hero, Pat McCarty. According to his
subsequent statement he rose from his
bath in a state of mental confusion.
As well as he was able ho aimed at a
dim light which he thought was beam
ing on Sullivan's Island. With lusty
strokes he gradually neared tho light
until ho found himself almost under
the port holes of the Ironsides,
the monarch of the Yan
kee fleet. no was well nigh
exhausted when he made this startling
discovery. With little knowledge of his
bearings he struck off in an opposite di
rection, intending to reach Fort Sumter.
AV'ith a stouter heart than the most illus
trious Ca'sar, when he was buffeted by
the waves of "the yellow Tiber," he put
forth his utmost strength, but the incom
ing tide swept him from his course.
AVith all his heart and hopes ho would
have fallen a prey to tho sharks had it
not been for an occasional sand-bar,
w here he could stop and recuperate his
failing strength.
After one or two of these stages he
discovered that in stopping his legs be
came cramped so as to disable him for
swimming. Rallying his energies for a
final and desperate effort he was success
ful. He lauded, however, on James
Island, .far away from his original desti
nation. Iu his anxiety to esi aje the
farthest sweep of some refluent wave that
might bear him back to the sea he scram
bled not less than a hundred yards up
the sandy beach. Here he was found
half dead, but by the timely use of
whisky aud other restoratives he wa.-. en
abled to relate his singular adventure.
According to McCarty's soberest estimate
he swam, not less than four miles, thus
distancing the English lord and tho
Clopii: swain. i'iiaJfptUi TLm,i.
A itrw torpedo boat recently built at
London by Yarrow & Co., has attained
the reiuarh.ab!e speed of 2-1.0:27 knots or
H. M miles per hour. This is belie ed
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TO KKN3.
I watched' the shadows of the nigfct
Crush out the day on left and. right,
Till with the birds' last linrnriag croon.J
The shadows deepened, and the moon
Rose sad and white.
P.oe sad and white tbe moon, and pale;
About its h(ad a misty veil ;
Or was it, like a sainted soul
Blcssod with a heavenly aureole.
Pure, radiant, frail?
Pure, radiant, frail tb mist appears,
" Tis rain," I thought. In after years
I found that, in our lifetime's night
An aureole's faint, hoavenly light
Betokens tears.
Julia K. Lippman, in the Indrpendtnt.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
There is generally more than three feet
of lumber in a wood yard.
"I'm well backed with silver," as the
looking glass said. Materiek.
Shear nonsense Trying to cut the hair
of a bald-headed man. hirhers Gazette.
A great many "beats" can always be
found in the heart of a great city. Ba
ton Bulletin..
The man that don't advertise is a fooL
The man that does is wise and soon
grows wealthy. Ekianmtile Arpi.i.
"Why aro great men melancholy?"
ask3 the Sweet Singer of Michigan. We
feel sad because there are so few of ns ; so
very few of us. LynnUnion.
No matter how great a man's descrip
tive powers may be, they utterly fail him
when his wife asks him what kind of a
bornet some other woman had. Nmi
Haven yew.
ONK CACSJS FOR GRAT1TODK.
He walked the floor with his howling heir
And madly moaned, as tho rocking chair
Ott barked his sensitive shins:
But yet he cried, with a grateful air,
"I'm thankful that you're not twins!"
She "William, when are we goingto
be married?" He "Not till your father
takes me into business, Sarah. I don't
want to take you from your home until I
can support you by good, honest toll."
Tid-Bits.
Why docs a young man embracing his
girl at the garden gate just as the old
man approaches, remind you of a lovo
scene at the theatre Because ho is hug
ging his girl before the footlights.
Piicijic Jenter.
"Whom shall our girls marry?" asks a
New York editor with considerable anx
iety. Out here the experiment is being
tried of having our girls marry our boys.
The scheme certainly will bear investiga
tion. Ente l ni iJJak.) Bell.
Snicks came home when supper was
over, und his wife said: "My dear, you
would never make a good batso ball
player." "Why, my love;" said he.
"Because you are not good on the homo
run," was the reply. Boiton BaJjet.
Nitro-glycerine is mentioned among
the remedies for epilepsy. Tho article
does not say how it is to be administered,
but probably you give the sufferer a
quart of it internally and then hit him
with a baseball bat. Somervillc JownaL.
"How did your lecture catch on at Sac
ramento ?"osked Jenkins as he met Bibber,
the orator. "Immense, my dear fellow.
Had to put out a sign, 'Standing room
ouly.'" Indeed! You surprint; me." "Yes,
but don't give it away. Some one moved
the benches out of the hull before I got
there." California Materiel:
HOOM FOE A. DOZKX MORS.
'Twas near our college campus,
1 cannot tell you where.
There dwelt an aged gentlemen
With tbirteeudaughters fair.
I called upon the youugest.
And sat with her one night,
Till ptttcr came aud found us
Id tho moraiiiu' early light.
Do you think ho raised a rumpus,
And kicked mo through the doorf
Oh, no: "Coma 'round again," he said,
"Aud brin a dozen more."
Queen's Colrye Journal.
Photographing the Eyes of tho Dead
A Paris physician calls attention to an
account of a recent attempt to observe in
the retina of a murdered girl's eye the
imugo of her unknown sliver. He said:
"It's all nonsence to expect that this
thing can be don1. I have knowu of a
dozen experiments, all of whi -h failed
from the very nature of the thing. All
there is to it is this: Tho brilliant coat
of the retina has a color due to what is
known as visual purple, und this color is
to some extent visibly impressed by
li'-ht. When in ro'.lcri! we tried a care
ful experiment on a horse. We gave the
animal atrophine an 1 placed a negative
of my own photograph over his eye. It
was then kept in a dark room for hix
hours. This was followed by exxsing
the retina to the picture in broad day
light for a few moments. Tho result
consisted of three, dark patches repre
senting my chin, nose an I forehead. It
was un absolute failure as far as produc
ing a recognizable likeness is concerned.
Origin of Outs.
De Cuudollu states that oats will per
sist longer when sown by themselves
than almost any other plant. The origin
of the plant he locates in eastern Kurope
and Tartary. Cats played a less inijiort
itnt Hrt in the earlier history of the race
than either wheat, barley or rye. Au
cient civilization was the product of a hot
country. Oats did not come into im
portant use till the stronger civilization
of northern Europe found theirt to be a
necessary article of diet. In our own,
country, out standi the third cereal iu.
importance. The crop of libl was 5S'.,-e-U.OUO
bushels, against 133,OO(0OO iu
lS4t. Over eighty per evut. of the crop
was grown in th- couaioaratively small
apace cut oil by a fine drawn tarouua
the sunt hern boundary of J'eiinsYlvuuiii
ot tho middle ol V'ebr: fcskn and theu
iioitu to the Brilisli liriu.