THE FOREST REPUBLICAN la pnbll.hed every Wedneaday, by J. E. WENK. Ottloe In Smearbaugh & Co.'a Building XLM STREET, TIOMESTA, Pa. Terms, ... tf. BO per Year. No .itbecrlptloTie received for a shorter period than three month.. OcrrMpondenee solicited from til part of the eouatry. No notice will be tafcea of anonjmou. comaauDlcaUoni. The introduction of the photo-litho graphic presses in likely to revolutionize the Chinese book trade. Two firms at Shanghai, one English and one native, now issue the celestial classics at a price that causes each individual pig-tail to stand on end with delight. The United States steamer Iroquois is cn route to the Easter island, 2,000 miles from the coast of Peru, to examine and photograph for the Smithsonian institute the remains of an unknown race. It is aid that ono of the islands is covered rith remarkable ruins, and that the pres ent residents are unlike any other people. Out of 7,000 persons examined by the civil service commission during the pas year, of whom about two-thirds were successful in standing the test of capacity required, eighty-six per cent, wore edu cated in the common schools; the other fourteen per cent, had the advantage of fither complete or partial college train ing V "Here lie3 the body of John McLean Ilayward, a man who never voted. Of inch, is the kingdom of heaven." This is the epitaph which a citizen of Wayland, Mass., left behind him, and which, it is asserted, his executors intended to in scribe over his grave. Probably the last tentenco of the epitaph is not based on exact knowledge. In the collections recently taken to Denmark from the cast coast of Green land by Cnpt. Holm are several objects that have excited the astonishment of European geographers. They nre maps made by' the natives. The maps are en graved with their rude cutting imple ments on boards that drifted ashore. They were found among the natives who lives along the shores of a deep fiord, near the most northern point attained by Holm. Only ten or twelve of theso 400 people have ever visited the Danish settlements In South Greenland, owing to a stretch of glacier and ice fields which have so nearly isolated them from the world that their existence was not known until re cently. They had never seen a white man until Holm and Dr. Knutzen came among them. Some of these curious maps, Capt. Holm says, represent quite accurately the contour of the coast, with all its many big and little indentations, along which they live. Other maps give the outlines of islands lying near the coast, and the explorers say they may re produce the shape of the islands with a good degree of fidelity. Some changes have been made in the rulings concerning unmailable matter. The rule has been, for a long time, that candy and cake could not be sent by mail unless enclosed in a tin or wooden box. These articles are very troublesome in the maiL If candy can go by, any kind of candy can go, and candies are sent that melt and run, and defile and glue to gether all the other mail matter in the same pouch -with it. Cake is worse still, and, strange as it may seem, gives the department more trouble than any other kind of mail matter. It is always wed ding cake, and very rich. It not only breaks up, gets scattered through the pouch and leaves great jgrease spots on nil the other mail matter, but attracts tho ri;ts, so that they eat through the pouches and through tho other mail-matter to get to it. Experience has proved, now, that even enclosing cake and candy in tin or wood does not remedy these evils; and consequently a lato ruling de clares cake, candy and all sorts of con fectionery unmailable. This, observes thu Chicago Journal, will break the hearts of a great many brides and brides maids, but it is indispensably necessary. A "Washington letter says that a man named Arnot, who is now employed in the agricultural department cleaning spittoons and brushing desks, w as once a millionaire mail contractor and lived at tho capital in tho highest style. He is one of the most picturesque and striking figures to be found in Washington. His favorite amusement is to pose himself in a conspicuous place, usually against some pillar in the hotel lobby, and watch the people as they come in and out, evidently extremely gratified at tho attention which his appearance attracts. Ho wears a drooping white mustache, which is curled at the ends, and has an aristo cratic nose upon which a pair of g.dd mounted glasses are perched. His black silk hut is of antediluvian style, and nr ntnd it is wound a string of cr.ipe seven inches wide, which gives him some resemblance to Judge Waxem, from away back, about to leave Washington on a congressional funeral trip. His shirt front is elaborately ruflled and starched. He wears an enormous watch fob with an old fashioned seal of the size of a half dollar, und he steadies his statuesque pose with the assistance of agold-heuded cam and a pttleozoie umbrella. VOL. III. NO. 5. THE STORM EACH When quiet broods throughout the blue, Nor breathes tha wood, nor ligps the wave, He hides away from mortal view, Asleep, ad roam, in gome lone cave. But when great storms their fury ven And roar and wreak their pow'r, He soars into the Armament, The genius of tho hour. The hero thus. When Peace presides, Obscureuuknown, he lives his days; Then trumpets, war. Behold, ho rides Of battles king, and crowned with bays I Charles O. Blandcn in the Current- THE ENGINEER'S STORY. BY SUSAN COOMDOE. "This is about it," said John Scott, the engineer, as the train slowly crested long, gradual grade. "You're atop of tho Hocky mountains now, ma'am." Emily Vaughn looked to the left and to the right, and was conscious of a feel ing of disappointment. She had pictured the top of the Rocky mountains as some thing quite different from this. Here were no frowning heights or sudden gulfs, only a wide rolling platta t, some distant peaks which did not look very high, and far ahead a glimpse of lower levels run ning down into plains. It seemed hardly worth while to have come so far for so little. "Really 1"" she said. "But where are tho mountains? They don't look nearly so high as they did yesterday !" "Naturally, ma'am," responded the engineer; "things don't appear so high when you're as high as they are. We're atop, you know." "But there's no look-off, no wonderful distance, as from tho top of . Mount "a'ashington. I confess I am disap pointed." "If's kind of queer," said John Scott, with a dry chuckle, "how folks from the East keep alluding to that 'ore little hill .J if it were the standard of measure ment. We don't think so much of it this way. Why, ma'am, you're about two thousand feet higher at this minute than if you was at the top of that little shuck of a Mount Washington that they all think so much of." Miss Vaughn smiled, but she experi enced a shock nevertheless. The New England mind does not easily accustom itself to hearing its sacred mountain thus lightly spoken against. "Have you ever seen Mount Washing ton?" she asked. s "Oh, bless you, yes!" replied John Scott, cheerfully. "I was raised over to Fryeburg, and grew up alongside of it. I thought it was a pretty big concern when I was a boy, but now " lie closed the sentjpee with a fthortjjfexpressive laugh. Miss Vaughn changed the subject. Sho was not otrondeil'Khe had irrown to like this rough, gwnd-natured engineer in the course of the three d. uuung wnicn, iavorea os a one of the directors of tho road she had several times been privileged to ride, as i now, in fie engineer's cab for a better view of the country. "Have you be.'n long on this road!" she asked. Pretty near ever since it opened. I run uic iniru mrougn train that comsTpretty," observed Miss Vaughn, with a out from Chicago, and I haven't been off little smile. the line since, winter or summer, except U,'I ain't so sure of that. There's three months when I was laid up with .plenty of ladies come over the road ?min. i , " , i since that I suppose folks would say was 'This must look very differently in better looking than she was. But I win cr, saia itnss augnn, noting the I treeless distances and the snow still i .......... r. nn i. . i i i . i . . guiici iii uii inu uiiirr m u us 10 me leit. "You may believe it does! That first year, when the snow-sheds wasn't built, lb was terrib'c. I was running that train that stuck in the snow seven days per hapn you'll rememb.-r about it ; it was in. all the papers. I sha'n't ever forget that, no if Hive to be as old a my grand falher, and he didn't die till he wai ninety odd." "Tell mo aboutit," said Miss Vaughn, persuasively, seating herself on the high side bench of the cab, with that air oi attention which is ao enticing to the story-teller; amusements are few and far between in the" Ions monotony of the wV , M, A . V , -,"0,- lH' hich, Mim Vaughn dearly loved a storv. "There ain't much to tell," said John Scott, with something of tho feeling which prompts the young vocalist to c innhi.n of hoarseness. "I ain't any hand at telling thing, either." Then, won by Miss Vaughn's appealing eyes.ho continued : "We ran all fair and on time till we was about two hundred miles beyond Omaha. Then the snow bean. It didn't seem much at fir-t. The women-fork in the train rather liked it. They all c rowded to the windows to see, and the children hurrahed. Anything seemed a pleasant chnge after the sage-brush, I suppose. But as it went on coining, and the drifts grew deep, and the cars had to run slow, tho older ones began t look serious, and I can toll you that we who had tho charge of the train felt so. "We was just be'. ween two of the fro 1 ing stations, and we put on all the stc im we could, hoping to push thrv g'l to where provisions could bo got at iu case we had to stop. But it wan't no us?. The snow kept coming. I never see it come so. The flakes looked as big as saucers, and it drifts piled so quick that, when we finally stuck, in about ten min utes no one could see out of the win O.OW8. The train would have been clear buried over if tre brakenien and the por ters hadn't' g ue the whole length over the roofs every half-hour, and swept it off with brooms and shovels. We had a lot of shovels aboard, by good luck, or else nothing coul. 1 have sived us from being bun kid U outright lint it was tcniblu hard work, I cuu tell you. Thrc wa'n't no Uioic laughing aiuonj tho pjksencr j TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 26,' by the time it come to that, and the chil dren stopped hurrahing." "Oh, the poor little things! What did they do? Vere there many on board? as there plenty for them to cat?" "That was the worst of it. There wasn't plenty for any one to eat. We had stuck just midway of the feeding stations, and there wasn't a great deal of anything on board beside whot tho passengers had in their lunch baskets. One lady she had a can of condensed milk, and they mixed that up for the babies there was ten of 'em and so they got on pretty well. But there was about five other children, not babies, but quite little, and I don't know what they would hav done if it hadn't been for the young lady." "The young lady 1" said Miss Vaughn, looking up with some surprise, for with the words a curious tremble had come into the engineer's voice, and a dark flush into his bronzed face. "What young lady was that?" It was a moment or two before John Scott answered tho question. "I don't know what she was called," he s:id, slowly. "I never knew. She was the only one on the train, so we just called her the young lady. Sho was traveling alone, but her folks had asked the conductor to look after her. She was going out to some relative of hers her brother, I guess, who was sick down to SaGramento. That was how she come to be there." "Were the children under her care?" "No, ma'am; she was all alone, as I told you; but she took them under her care from the very first. They had their fathers and mothers along three of them had, at least, and the other two had their mother and a nurse girl but some how no one but thcvoung lady seemed to be ab'e to do nn5?with them. The poor little things was half starved, you sec, nnd there wasn't anything to amuse 'cm in the dark ar, and one of them, who was sickly, fretted all day and 'most all night, and the mother didn't seem -to have no faculty, or no backbone to her; but whenever the . young lady came round, that sick young one and all the rest would stop crying, aud seem just as chipper as if it was summer time out door.! and the whole train full of candy. "I don't see how she did it," he went on, meditatively, throwing a shovelful of coal in at the furnace door. "Some women is made that way, I suppose. As soon as we see how things were going and how bad they was likely to be, that girl kind of set hsrstlf.to keep along. She had a mighty gentle?way with her, too. You'd never liave guessed that she was so plucky. Plucky 1 By George, I never saw anything like her pluck." "Was she pretty (" asked Miss Vaughn, urged by a truly feminine curiosity. "Well, I don't know if you'd 'a called her so or not. We didn't think much how she looked after tho firit. She was a slender-built girl, and her face looked sort of kind and bright both to ine. Her voice was as soft well, as soft as a voice ays' journey, ! can ue Ru it kind of sang when she felt a relative of.,.n!,PPy- She looked you straight in the cvts when she spoke. I don t believe the worst man that ever lived could have told that girl a lie iNt had been to save his life. Her hair was brown. She was different from girls in general, some how." frvt--- i thinMrto may say that she was never see any face quite like hers. It was still, like a lake, and you seemed to ' lt"j4 as if Jjyp. was depths to it. And 1 qjti) farther you went down, the sweeter it got. Sho never made any rustling .when she milled. She wasn't that kind." Another 'p"atTse, which Miss Vaughn was careful not to break. "1 don'Mffibw what them children would 'a done without her," went on the engineer, as if talking to himself. Then, with sudden energy: "I don't know what any of us wou'd 'a done without her. Tle only trouble was that she couldn't be everywhere at once. Thcro was a sijjsady in tho drawing room at the endT ie of tho Pullmans. She had weak lufls, and was going out pfo California fj 5ealth. Well, the U,id and the i.r3ught on hemor- , ' m .. it . -i r Lilly 1 nnt wntnri ocuimiu unjr ai tcr wo was biocKaaeuiv lhere wasn t no lilnnlrntii.i a 4k 1 h o uraun'f w- " doctor on bo.ird, and her husband he was mighty scared. He come through to the front car to find, the conductor, looking as pale's a ghost. 'My wife's a-dying.' said ho. 'Ain't there no med scai man on the train?' And when we s:iid no, he just gave a groan. 'Then sh n.u t die,' he said. 'Great heavens! why did I bring her on this fatal jour ney ?' " 'Perhaps the young lady'll have some remedies,' suggested one of the porters; for we'd ull got into tho way already of ttirntngtothc young lady whenever things were wrong. "Well, I went for her, and you never see any one si level-headed as she seemed tote. She knew just whiit to do; and she had the right tuadicine in h r ba;; and in less than an hour that poor lady w.is quite comfortable, aud hcrhuibai d tho most reli.svul man that ever wac. Then the young lady come along to whsre I was standing ther e w a n t nothing for mo to do, but I was waiting, for I didn't know but there mi. 'ht be and said she: 'Mr. Scott, I am growing anxious about the fuel. Do you think there is plenty to last? Suppose we were to be kept horc a week?" "Now, just think of it! not one of us dumb fools had th night of th:it. You see, we was expecting to be relieved from hour to hour, for we had telegraphed both ways, and the snow had stopped by that time, and none of us had any notion it was g'iii; to be t'le job it was to dig us out. Only tho you:g lady had the euo T)fO o remember that it might take longer than we was calculating on. "Says I, if we are kept here ft week there won't bo a shovel ful of coals left for any of the fires, let alone the engine.' " 'Then don't you think,' says she, in her soft voice, 'that it would be a wise plan to get all the passengers together in one car, and keep a good fire up there, and let tho other stoves go out? It's no matter if we are a little crowded,' says she. "Well, of course it was the only thing to do, as we see at once when it was put into our heads. We took the car the sick lady was in, so's she'd not have to be disturbed, and we made up beds for tho children, and somehow all the passengers managed to pack in, train hands and all. It was a tight squeeze, but that didn't matter so much, bocause the weather was so awfully cold. "That was the way I come to see so much of the young lady. I hadn't any thing to keep me about the engine, so I kind of detailed myself off to wait on her. She was busy all day long doing things for the rest. It's queer how peo ple's characters come out at such times. Wc got to know all about each other. People stopped sir-ing and ma'am-ing and being polite, and just showed for what they were worth. The selfish ones, and the shirks, and the cowards, and the mean cusses' who wanted to blame some one beside tho Almighty fpr sending the weather there wVn't no uso focany of them to try to hide themserVcs 8ny more than it was for tho other ynd. Tho women, as a rule, bore up better than the men. It comes natural, I suppose, for a woman to be kind of silent and pale and patient when she's sufferjng. But the young lady wasn't that sort either. She was as bright as a button all along. You'd have sup posed from her face that sho was having just the best kind of a time! "I can see her now, standing before the stove roasting jack-rabbits for the oth ers' supper. Some of the gentlemen had revolvers,and when the snow got crusted over, so's they could walk on it, they used to shoot 'em. And wo were glad enough of every one shot, provisions were so scanty. Tho last two days them rabbits and snow-water melted iu a pail over the stove was all we had to eat or drink." "I suppose there was nothincr for vou to do but wait," said Miss Vaughn. "No, ma'am J there wasn't nothing at al". for me to do but help tho young lady now and then. She let me help her more than the rest. I used to think. She'd come to me and say, 'Mr. Scott, this rabbit is for you and the conductor.' She never forgot anybody except herself. Once she asked me to hold the sickittle girl while she took a sleep. It was mighty pretty always to see her with them children. They never seemed to have enough of her. All of them wanted she shmrjd put them to bed, ana sing to them, Jrmt tell them stories. Sometimes she'd have all five swarming over her at once. I used to watch them." "Well, how did it end?" asked Miss Vaughn, as tho engineer's voice, which had gradually grown lower aud more dreamy, came to a stop. "Eh? what? Oh!" rousing himself. "It ended when three locomotives and a relief train from Cheyenne broke through to us on the eighth morning after we was bTVkaded. They brought provisions and coal, and we got on first-rate after that. Did the sick lady die? No, ma'am. She was living, when I last heard QfWf, down to Santa Barbara. Two yeairago that was." "And what became of your young lady?" "She left at Sacramento. Her brothel or some one wai down to meet her. - 1 saw him a moment. He didn't look like her." "And you never saw her again? You never heard her name?" "No, ma'am; I never did." The engineer's voice sounded gruff and husky as he said this. He shoveled in coals with needless energy. "Are you a married man!" asked Miss Vaughn. The question sounded abrupt even to herself, but seemed relevant to something in her mind. "No." John Scott looked her squarely in the face as he replied. His countenance was rather grim and set, and for a moment she feared that she had o!Tcnded him. Then, as he met her deprecating gaze, ho reassured her with a swift smile. "No, ma'am, I ain't; and I never shall be as I know of," he added. "Second rate wouldn't satisfy mo now, I guess." He pulled the cord which hung ready to his hand, and a long screeching whistle rang out over the plain, and sent the prairie dogs scuttling into their burrows. "This is a feeding station we're coming to," he explained. "Twenty minutes here fur supper, ma'am ; and it ain't a bad supper either. I reckon you'd like to have mo help you down, wouldn't you?" Harper' JUuar. The Elephant. Here is an Elephant. See how Big he is. That long, limber thing in front is not his Tail, because it is at the wrong End of the Elephant. If it were at the other End it would be his Tail. It is not a Rubber Hose, such as Firemen use iu pouring water on tho Man who yells "tire." It is the Elephant's Trunk. lie always carries a trunk wiicn ho travels. But he never gets it checked on the Cars. He kee s it under his Eyes, where he can Watch it. His Trunk was never Stolen, nor burst open by the wicked Baggage Man. Ho keeps his clean shirts and hair brush in hi Trunk. Once a Baggage Man tried to break open the Elephant's Trunk, and the Man's Widow now takes in Sewing. Tho Elephant is a native of Uihkosh. He was caught with a Rope w hile packing his Trunk for a Railroad Trip. (Jliicwju 'J'ritiuiit. Tho total effective force of tho British regular army Is 201,000. 4 $1.50 PER ANNUM. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Exact measurements of the oscillations of chimneys have been made. One near Marseilles, France 115 feet high riI four feet in external diameter at the top reached ft maximum oscillation of twenty inches during a high wind. It is found that the fish traps of tho largo salmon fisheries in the Columbia river, Oregon, are injuring the channel of the river beyond any doub. At Wil low Bar there has formed below the trap, a new liar one-third of a mile wide and three miles long, which up to the present defies removal. The distance ot Jupiter from tho sun is 480,000,000 miles. It is next in bright ness to Venus, and may be seen in the day lime in clear weather from a mounta.n lop. It is about 300 times tho weight of tho earth, and has 1200 t racs the bulk of tho earth. It reflects nearly one-half tho light that falls upon it. One of tho blast furnaces of the Kemble Iron & Coal company at Riddlesburg, Penn., was banked up in November, 1884. After being out of blast nearly sixteen months, it was recently opened for tho Orst time, and the fire found still burn ing. The coke glowed brightly, and on admission of the blast soon beeamo hot enough to melt cinder. The furnace was started with as little difficulty as if it had only been standing a week. The English armor-clad ship Nile, of 12,000 tons, now in course of construc tion, is to have engines of 12,000 horse power, and it is expected that with this power a speed of sixteen knots will be attained. This is by far the greatest power yet possessed by any English ship sflont. The engines of the Italian armor-clad Re Umberto, however, have tho enormous collective power of 19,500 horses, and are greatly in excess of any thing attempted up to tho present time. Professor AVinchclf a comparative trials of tho granites of New England and Minnesota have shown somo surprising differences in strength. Two inch un- Solishcd cubes were taken, nnd crushed etween wooden cushions, tho average strength of Minnesota granite was found to bo 01,272 pounds, or 23,218 pounds per square inch; crushed between steel plates, the average strength was 108,800 pounds, or 20,200 pounds to the squaro inch of surface. A like number of speci mens of New England granite gave an average strength of 60,785 pounds, or 14.75H pounds to the square inch. The interaction of mind and body, in disease, is well set forth by Dr.Haecker, of Leipsic, who states that tickling, which ho styles ft variable, intermittent excitement of the nerves of the skin, produces irritation of the sympathetic nerves, with the result of an expansion of the pupil and a contraction of tho blood vessels, and that the consequent diminution of pressure on the brain, per meated with blood vessels, is so consid erable as not to be without danger; that powerful expiration operates against such a diminution of pressure, and therefore laughter, which is simply intermittent forced movements of expiration, is a de cided remedy for the effects of tickling. A Rope of Refuge. "When I was captured before Peters burg," said Captaiu Richard O'Neill, "I was first taken to Libby Prison. Tho ,Lprison was crowded, and the day after I Tw'as placed in it I was told that we were all to bo searched for valuables. I had $500 in my pocket, and was thinking with little pleasure that this would soon goto swell the Confederate purso,when I noticed a innn in a corner with his back to the crowd busy at some mysterious work. I stole up to him, and glancing over his shoulder saw that he was rolling up greenbacks into small cylinders. 'Hullo!' 1 said, 'what are you doing?' 'I ain't doing nothing,' ho replied, gruffly, looking at me suspiciously. But I saw he bad a rope in his Laud which was larger at one end than at the other. 'Don't tell any one for the world,' he said, for he saw I knew what ho was about. 'I'm in in the samo boat,' I said. 'Well, go and get a rope,' ho said, 'and I'll hido them for you.' "I pressed my way through the crowd to the door. 'My good friend,' I said to the sentry, 'I have lost my suspenders, and I'll give you $5 to get me a rope to tie round iny waist.' 'Greenbacks!' said tho sentry, and in a few minutes brought me one. I took it to my friend, and in two hours he had plaited my $500 into the rope so skillfully that no one could see a ray of a bill. Soon after we were stripped and searched. When my clothes were returned the rope was not noticed. '.My good friend I said to the soldier in charge. .'I have broken my suspenders, and 1 nave nothing but that old rope to tie around my waist; will you not pick it up for me?' 'Take your old ropp, you Yank,' said the Confederate. 'I've uo doubt you have a right to it: only you ought to wear it higher up than your waist, as many a better man has done. ' Ho tossed me the rope, and I tied it round my waist. My friend, who was a sailor, got his rope back s ifi ly, and tho next d iy escaped. My own rope after ward saved my life and that of a Bosto uian named Curtis." A York Star. The Jocular Judge and the Lawyer. While Judge Walton was at work in his chamber at Portland one day a rich and very digniiied lawyer, who may be called Lightweight, came in. The judge said : "Brother Lightweight, why don't you get married';" "Because I c.in't afford it. How much do you suppo-c it costs mo to live now?" The judge said he couldn't guess. "Well, it co-ts mo (i,000 a year just for my own living." An expression of surprise come oi tho judge's face. "Lightweight," said he, "I wouldn't pay it. It isn't worth it." RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Pqnare, one Inch, one Insertion. I 1 00 Ona Sqnare, one Intn, one month I 00 One Pqnare, one Inch, three month. 0 One Pqiiare, one Inch, one jeer 10 o Two Pqnaira, one year If 00 (Quarter Column, ono jear.. ...... ............ (0 00 Half Column, one year ...... M 00 One Column, one jenr we lpal drertl.emenU ten eente j.er line each triion. Marriage and death notice. rratle. All bill, for yearly adrertlMmente flOWed ear lerly. Temporary adrtrUMm.au raiart k MUa in id ranee. Job work e cm delivery. THE DEAD MARCH. Tlay ma a march low-toned and slow.a march for a si lent trend. Fit for tlno wnncloring feet of one who dreams of tho silent denil. Lonely between ths bones below and th souls that are overhead. Here for awhile they smiled and sang, ally in the interspace: Here with tho gras txmoath the foot and the stars above the face, Now are their feet leneath the grass, and whithor has flown their grace) Who shall assure us whence they come, or toll us tin wav they got Veii.y life with them was joy, and now they have left us, wool Once they were not. and now they are not; and this is thj; we know. Orderly ranjj e tho seasons due, and orderly roll the stars. How shall we deem tho soldier brave who frets of his wounds and soars) Are we as senseless brutrs that we should dash at the well-seon burst No, we are here with feet unfixed, but ever as if wit h lead Drawn from the orbs which shine above to the orb on which we tread. Down to the dust from which we earn and with which we shall mingle, dead. No, we are here to wait, and work, and strain our banished eyi. Weary and sick of soil ami toil, and hungry. and fain for skies Far from the reach of wingless men and not to be scalod with cries. No, we are hern to bend our necks to the yoke of tyrant Time; Welcoming all the gifts he gives us glories of youth and prime; Patiently watching them all depart as our heads grow white as rime. Why do we mourn the days that go, for the same sun shines on each day) Ever a spring her primrose hath, and ever ft May her May; Sweet as the rose that died last year is the rose that is liorn to-day. Do we not, too. return, wo men, as ever the round earth w hirls? Never a head is dimmed with gray, but an other is sunned with curls. Sho was a girl and ho was a boy, but yet . there are boys aud girls. Ah, but alas for the smile of smiles that never but one face wore! Ah, for the voice that has flown away like a bird to an unseen slioi-o! Ah, for the face, the flower of flowers, that blossoms on earth no more. Maijazi ne of Art. HUMOR OF THE DAY. A note-orious affair A concert. A school for liars A school of fish. A shocking affair The electric battery. What interjection is of tho feminine gender? Alusl A carpenter may have many virtues, still ho can't get along without vises. I'acifie Jester. "I'll look into this thing," the man re marked when handed a kaleidoscope. Palmer Jovrnnl. When a business house is in a "shaky" , condition, is it proper to speak of it as a firm? l'acf!c Jerter. There is ono thing that cannot be "slow and sure," and that is a watch. Darlington Free 1'renn. 'This is the widow of my discontent," groaned an old miser who married an ex travagant relict. Merchant- Traveler. Among tho "society offenders who might well bo under ground" we may mention tho telegraph, wires. Detroit "Free Pre. It is asserted that Henry Irving fakes snuff. This is prima facie evidence that he is a good enough actor at a piuch. 1'exa Hitiiigi. An exchange asks: What can the Hin doo? Well, almost anything is bettor thun idolirg away his time. Otrman town Iiuleje,iJcnt. Cadmus was the first postman. He brought letters to Greece. Doston Tran tcript. Hoi We thought tho first mala was left in the Gardeu of Eden. Mutton Dulletin. A young physician of New York re- fused to go duck hunting with a party of friends the other day. He s.tid tho ducks were too infernally personal in their re marks when addressing him. Life. THK TWO COULDN'T OO TOUKTHKR. The wintor will be over in a very little while, And the mniiien isn't sad t; are it go, For she coiililn't wear a bustle of tho drom edary Ktylo Beneath a seul-skin dolman, doiiU bei know. lluxton Cnui ier. You may talk about woman living fickl and changeable till you grow tired oj your own voice, but in ono articular she is always tho samo. Sho never gets too old to take an interest in a love story. CUU'ayo Ledger. "Mother," said a little girl to her par ent, who takes a great interest in chari table institutions, "I wish I were an orphan." "Why so, my ileal ?" "lSecausc I should see more of you, for you are all the time going to tho orphan asylum." Doston Journal.. "Iter First Man Kilt." General Casement told me of a Genua, who was slightly wounded in the first ( imagement of the war in which his com mand participated. The man got a scratch on his sei.lp. lb) jumped ul o it i-i v feet in the air and giaMicd his s alp with b ith hands, exclaiming: "Sheriisalem! "Der first man kilt in Gompany D." Xew York 'J'lJiune. Butting His Horse into Submission. There is a colored preacher who lives near Jasper, Ga., who rules his hmso by butting bint. If tho horse is fiacliuiis oi stubborn ho takes the kinks out by do bboiately n iing it by the cars and but ting it sipim-cly in the forchc a I until it falls to its kiicvs. This it generally t'.oci at the second or thiid butt, w hen I lie, old pardon steps behind and drives ahead agoin, Cvnytrt .(.) l-ilid fr'uutKi
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