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TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1886. $1.50 PER ANNUM. mm Bills for irrigating tho arid lands of the West by a system of artesian wells has been pending in Congress for a number of years. But the recent drought in Texas hns taught the rangers there not to wait for Princes' favors, but to go to work themselves, and a large number of wells have been bored with good results. It is predicted that before long the great flocks and' herds in Presidio and far Western Texas. will be watered by arte sian wells. Woman is rapidly winning her way in the English civil service. Acording to the Lond'm Times the extension of the Hold of women's work in twenty-five years is remarkable. The census returns show that while in 1861 there were only 1,031 women employed in the civil ser vice, there were in 1881 no fewer than 7,370, and the numbers, owing to the growth of the postoflicc system, are now much higher. The women clerks and accoun(ant.,had in the same period risen from 404 to 0,414. It is a curious fact that of all the pursuits the employment society recognizes as suited to their cli ents, hair-dressing is the only one which the census returns show to be passing out of women's hands. An instructive instance of woman's de votion to a man in difficulties is furnished by the case of the convict, Bendit, in Chicago, just convicted of embezzle ment and sentenced to the penitentiary for three years. Ho was engaged to be married to two young womcn.and though he magnanimously consented to rclcaso one of them, both insisted on becoming his wife before his hair was cropped. Ho married one, and tho other was pros trated with grief at what was really a good deliverance. As a background against which to place this picture of female fidelity it may bo mentioned that in Justico Duffy's Court in New York, one day recently, there were warrants is sued for the arrest of twenty-four hus bands for abandoning their wives, which elicited tho remark from the worthy Jus tice that "half tho women in the country hould not get married." The stylo in summer nats is peculiar each season," said a prominent hatter on Broadway to a reporter for tho New York Mail and Express. "One summer every body who is anybody wears a fino Mack inaw straw hat, and next year a high white stovepipe is all the rage. It is cither straw, Derby white or stovepipe white that takes tho lead. Now, this season tho high stovepipe white hat is all the go. Of course, the others are worn some, but I mean the stylish, swell peo ple wear them. I think straw hats would be more popular if they were high priced. Thoir cheapness is rather a drawback,bc causo anybody can buy them. I don't say that tho white stovepipes are any cooler than black silk hats, but they are far more nobby as far as style goes than straw or tho low-crowned Derby. High price and style is what makes the fashion. High top hats will never go out of fashion in mv iininiiin Tim kIijuia ltt often , . j V'Jl'll--". M. " ' ' changed, in fact nearly every year, which, of course, necessitates buying new ones to keep in style. Look back to tho ear liest times when hats were made and the inevitable high top has the preference. They give a majestic look of strength and manhood which the low crowned does not. Tho hat makes the man; if not his brains, at least his style." It is a rare thing that a steamer arrives from tho Isthmus of Panama without bringing some witness to extravagance and incapacity in digging tho caual. One of the latest is A. P. Smith, formerly of Salem, Mass., who says that he has walked over tho whole course of fifty four miles. Tho portioa of the canal completed is upon tho Eastern side, and is eleven miles in extent through a level country mainly of clay formation. Here is a specimen of the work done, in Mr. Smith's words: "One of the many stupid expedients which tho canal com pany adopted for holding the mud was to put up an ordinary wooden fence, fastened with bamboo withes and stakes. Of course in a little while the pressure of the half-liquid mud became too great for the weak barrier to withstand, and down came fence, mud and all into the canal again, to be once more dredged out at an enormous expense. A yet more curious state of things exists at places further in shore where other cuts have Jioon made by several different contract ors. There have been no specifications in these contracts as to what shall be done with the earth after it has been ex cavated. What is tho result of this omission ? The contractors simply load it on handcarts and run it back a little way in the cut which they have made and leave it there. The consequence is that all this earth, all these stuuips and stones havo to be excavated all over again, to tho immense profit of tho contractors. IF WK HAD BUT A DAY. We should fill the hour with sweetest things. If we had but a day; We should drink alone at the purest springs, In our upward way: We should love with a lifetime's love in an hour, If the hours were fow; Wo should rest, not for dreams, but for freshnr power To be and to do. ON ROSE DAY. "I do believe this is rose day," said Infant, standing on the top step of tho veranda in delight. "I know it's soap-boiling day," as serted her twin sister, who had been bap tjzed Mai-ilia Victoria when she was bap tized Infanta Isabella, nearly fifty years before. These twins entered tho world at a period when flowery, daring names were the extreme of fashion, and pre vious to the great rebound to plain and strong Ann, Elizabeth, Mary, Hannah, Jane, and their various c mbinations. Infant enmc very near being labelled Lovey Lucilla, and she felt thankful for her escape, and even attached to her di minutive. Belle would never have suited her (she was not belle), while Infant did not shame her (she was more or less an in fant at any age). Sho was slender, blue eyed, and smooth-skinned, so smooth that wrinkles could scarcely make their indentation. And it never ceased to bo appropriate for her to wear her hair in a braid down her back, tied with ribbons the color of tho dress she wore. Infant herself could not separate the gray hair from the blonde, nor did she care whe-her it was all blonde or all gray. She scamp ered over a fence and swung in the cherry trees. Her long tranced girlhood never ended; and tho slow life of the farm, simple as grass and wholesome as new milk, kept up the illusion that time was eternity. In their neighborhood these twins had been tho Baldwin girls when they first toddled into meeting, when they went off to be educated at an expensive school, whon they came back to paint and play on a grand piano, when their parents died and they took charge of tho farm : and the Baldwin girls would Erobably bo their title when they should ccomo contemporary with all living grandmothers. Occasionally Infant felt a shock from tho growing power of young children. It was so astonishing to see a creature who was a baby but a short time ago, shooting aloft, long-armed and long legged, and announcing itself in the teens. Such phenomena did not aston ish Hilla, however. She resented them. ' Though she had tho. -ame fair complexion and comely mako as her sister, a deadly drop of add had brcn added to her na ture. Her shoulders were bent. Sho loved to hear pcoplo talked about, and to lift the corneis of her nose with scorn. She felt abused by much that had hap pened to her on this planet, and jet too insignificant to her own personality to take it out of the human race as she de sired to do. The frcidom.ease, and scope of mature, unmarried womanhood were in no wise appreciated by her, because she lived entirely under the little zenith and horizon of her own skull. These .traits made Hilla an uncomfortable house-mate, especially in winter, when tho twins were snowed in with their books and trim house keeping. Still, Infant loved Killa's sourness along with Killa. There was strong diversion in be ing scolded, and she always felt such a delicious warmth around her heart when she made it up with Killa and gave her a handsome present, or took double turns at the cooking. Killa was very parsimonious, and felt bound to distort herself with aged gowns and long-hoarded hats. But Infant felt unhappy in any color except that tint of gray which has the thought of wino in it. On this very roso day, though it was early in tho morning, she wore a clinging gray dress of that light wool texture called shally by tho dry-goods dealer in Jersey Ceutre. And a good background it would make for all tho roses Infant could hang upon it. Nothing made Killa lift the corners of her nose higher than Infant's flower days. But as Killa would bo lifting her nose anyhow, and could really scent no harm in these silent festivals, Infant continued to observe them year after year, and to afford her sister that triumphant sense of superiority which we all have upon bo- holding others absurdities. There was crocus day, when the first flowers broke the sod and made heavenly beauty in the dark spring. Infant decked herself with them, and put them on the dinner tablo. More abundantly satisfac tory, however, was lilac day. It took a critical eye to discern the exact date. If the lilacs browned about the edges,then, alas! lilac day had slipped past. They were not to be gathered too soon, either, if their full soul of fragrance was to be enjoyed. On lilac clay Infant walked under burdens of lavender bloom. The walls, the pictures, breathed lilacs. An I at nifjht she went to sleep crushing her face into a nest of bunches, so that she had lilac dreams, and drew the sweetness into herself, like an Eastern woman ab sorbing roses. But the best day of all was rose day. Before it arrived sho had always ready a Siosy of poems from Keats, Wordsworth, lean Ingelow and Whitticr, and read them in the morning while the dew was on tho world. The Baldwin girls culti vated a great many roses. Killa could hardly miss fiom her rose-water and home-made attar and rose preserves the heaps which Infant cut for her nonsense. There was not a nicer day in the year than rose day, if Killa would only abstain fiom boding s ap on that date. The sisters had inherit ed seventy-rive thou sand dollars apiece, but they made their own soap every spring of refuse fats and the lye of wood ashes. It could have buev made cold in tho cellar, if that way had not been too easy for Rilla. She held it a movable festival, like rose day, and no one will ever guage the degree vt sat isfaction she felt ill haling her flower wreathed sister up to the vile-smiling caldron to keep the stirrer going while she set about other duties. Killa honored pioneer custom and her grandmother's memory by performing her soap incanta tions in the oldest, mouldiest, most com pletely shattered garment she possscsscd. This was a red wool delaine, so abased from its ruby tono that tho drippings of the lye gourd could find little remaining space to burn or spot. They boiled soap in a huge iron kettle in the chip yard. The blue wood smoke would envelope Killa and her tarnished tatters as she ladled and tested, until she looked witch-like to passers along the road. Her unhappy victim, the slim woman in gray, with a rope of roses wound spirally around her from head to foot, a burden of roses on her bosom, and roses studded thickly along the band of her hat, sat on the corded wood as far as Killa would allow from tho soap, alter nately inhaling their odor and rejecting the alkali steam. If Infant had to stir the soap, she would have a long-handled stirrer. The hot sun, beating on the chip yard and her huge hat, smote also the roses, and amidst their dying fragrance she had sad thoughts on the disappoint ments of life. So there was nothing but the morning of rose day which Killa did not spoil. But this fiftieth anniversary Infant felt a sudden uplifting of courage within her self when her twin announced the soap orgy- j. "My soap-boiling .will not come any more on roso day," she put forth, strongly. "And I think I will pay Enos Kobb's wife to make up my share of tho fat and lyo after this, Killa." "I would," said Killa, sarcastically, "particularly as Enos Kobb and his wife and children don't batten on us already. Give them tho piano and tho best parlor chairs and the solid coffee service while you are about it." "Why, Killa, I didn't propose to give her my share of the soap. But it would be cheaply got rid of that way. Yes," exclaimed Infant, with sudden reckless ness, "I would rather buy soap, and pay out money to have this dirty stuff carted, off, than ever smell it again while I live. Let us mako a new rule, and give our fat and ashes to the Robbs. They hnvo farmed for us ever since father died," Infant pleaded, "and whatever you say, Killa, I know you have the greatest con fidence in them." "Tho poor-house wagon is never going to call for me," said Killa, decidedly. "You can go and build a fire under the kettle, while I carry some more water to pour on the ash hopper. That lyo is strong enough to bear up a settingof eggs, but we may need somo more a little weaker." "Killa, I am as firm as the ash hopper itself. You can't shake mo any better than you could our brick smoke-house. I won't help make any more soap espe cially on rose day," added Infant to her self. "I don't see any sense in it." "But you can see sense in spoiling dozens of good roses to load yourself up with liko a mad Ophelia. You feel ab:ve all the associations of wash day, though tho Princess Nausicaa didn't." "Oh, Killa, I don't feel above anything. I merely feel under that soap kettle, and as if it would crush my soul out, as the shields crushed Tarpeia.if I didn't throw it off." "Well, I am going to make soap," said Rilla, whitening with intense disapproval of the liberty her twin proposed to grasp. "You are not a minor, and if you were, I'm not your guardian. But if you propose to go to yourself and leave mo to myself, we both know what be longs to us, and it is easily done." This time-worn hint, which in her girl hood used to startle and distress Infant so much, made but the slightest impres sion on her hearing now, as sho leaned over tho veranda railing to look at tho roses. There were such abundant stacks of them: the might cut and pile them into a pyramid almost as tall as herself. Such smooth, sweet tea-roses, such crim son vclvet-petaled Jacqueminots, blush and white so fragrant you would be will ing to drown yourself in a sea of their scent; yellow roses piercingly delight ful, Prairie Queens creeping all over tho front of the house, old hundred-leaved varieties, having always in their depths a reminder ol grandmothers chests and loner, long past days. There were eight een distinct families of roses, each fam ily a mighty tribe, marshaled before In fant on lawn and dewy stretch of garden. It was rose day. Sho would not let her bcH think of anything else. Killa would not conio to the embow ered dinner tablo which Infant prepared so carefully, and to which she called her sister exactly as the clock struck 13. Killa turned her back on Infant's sev eral approaches, and dipped lye with a savagely noisy gourd to quench Infant's voice. Slugs and ants in tho roses, and even mildew, were no drawback at all to roso day compared to Killa. Habits of endurance become proof armor to one's sensibilities in the course of life, how ever; so Infant wandered off and ab sorb d tho beauty of that day almost as completely as if she did so with Killa's approval. Thero wi.s a tremulous heat over tho meadows. Tho huge and strictly tended gard' n was a world by ilself. lleyond that stretched their or chard, having a run of clear water wind ing through it, all thickly tufted a'oug the margins with mint. Infant stepped upon the spongy lichens of the fence and rested her urms on the top rail, while she looked ulong tho nar row country thoroughfare. The sweet green world was dear enough to be pressed in her arms. Mingled mint and rose scents were satisfjing. The iiolile strength of their Norman colts pasturing in the stock meadow wm beautiful to the eye. Infant loved to hear the pound ing of those tufted fuct, and to note the brilliant blackness or gray dappling of tho young creatures' coats glistening in the sun. But who should come suddenly riding along tho road, as if he had an appoint ment with Infant, and meant to keep it the moment Bhe set her foot on the rail, but the Honorable 1 ruman Condit, who many years before rode as instantaneously out of her sight? Sho knew him in a flash, although his hair showed gray around the ears, and much experience had added unspeakably to his personal ity. He was on a Londit horse, evi dently riding around to look at his old neighborhood. There was a great tribe of tho Condits, all well-to-do, high- headed people. The Honorable Truman had been the local smart young man ol his generation. JVfts sent to tle State Legislature before his thirtieth ywr, and afterward he went West, where, Infant heard, ho did treinendoiflthings. Sue was suddenly conscious that her rose-studded braid was not wound up in a decent lump as she wore it before her class of young lAdics in Sunday-school. She felt contemptible and out of her place in the human procession, although the Honorable Truman turned his horse straight into the fence corner to shake hands with her. "Pretty nearly tho same Infant Bald win," he remarked. "And how is Rilla? Is sho as hard on you as she used to be?" "Oh, Killa was never hard on mo. She is quito well, thank you. You're comine up to tho house to mako us a call and take tea, aren't you?" "I thought I would." Infant looked anxiously at the wester ing sun. She hoped Rilla would have the cold soap cut into cakes and boxed, and herself bathed, clothed, and in her right mind, before tho Honorable Truman Condit rode up to their door. "I want to have a talk with you first, though," he added. "And my way is to go right to tho point. Why did you never marry?" "Come to that," retorted Infant, a sparkle breaking through her face, "why did you marry?" "In tho hrst place, because you wouldn't have mo, and in the second place, because I found a very good wife where I went. I've been a widower now several years, and the boys are settled. I'm loose from business for almost tho first time in my life, and back here to look at the old neighborhood before spending some years abroad. Your never marrying has revived certain things. Maybe you've forgotten." Among her other thoughts, Infant was conscious of recollecting how often she had wished to go abroad if only some happy friend could go as a cushion be twixt Rilla and her. She unfastened with a furtive hand the rose rope wound about her, but, unwilling to let so many precious roses go, gathered it into loops on her arm. "Did you ever know," pursued the Honorable Truman, "that Rilla told me you were going to marry one of tho Pier son boys?'' "No!" Infant cried out so suddenly that the horse started. "Weren't you engaged to one of them?" "I never was engaged to anybody ex cept you," she retorted, burning hotly in tho face, "and I did not admire tho ex perience when you dropped me and went off. And I don't yet, though you do lay the blame on poor Rilla." It was six o'clock when Enos came riding his plough-horses to tho great barn. He had turned off early on pur pose to intercept Miss Infant and find out what changes were to be made. In fant hastened up to the orchard, while the Honorable Truman hastened to the same destination by tho road. She saw him leading his horse up tho avenue, and felt impatient at Enos Robb's interrup tion. "Sudden doin's up to the house," said Enos, wiping his forehead with the back of his hand. " 'Pears liko Kiss Kill's made up her mind about Brother Sander son at last." r "Is Brother Sanderson at the house?" inquired Infant. "He is, for a fact, u4d tho license and tho preacher with him. Now what I want to know, and what I ought to been consulted, Miss Infant, seeing how long I been here, is this what's you and me going to do -afterward? Is it an inter ference?" "Enos," said Infant, with a gasp, "this is almost as sudden to me as it is to you. But considering Killa's firm character, do you think she would let any new person interfere with heres.tablishVplans'i" "No, I don't," replied Enos, grin ning. Killa was standing before tho dresser in her room arrayed in the stiffest silk. Sho looked with composure upon her twin, who shut the bedroom door, and hurried up to embrace her. "It was the best boiling of soap I ever had," said Killa, warding the fading roses away from her silk. "Klla dear, you might havo told mo what you meant to do this evening. But I am so glad! I couldn't bear the thoughts ol leaving you before, but nosv I can." "1 saw Truman Condit come into the yard with you," said Killa, "He's grown fat. It must have agreed with him to go West." "This has been a great roso day," said her twin, undoing all traces of the day's festival, and piling them carefully in a waste-basket where they could mako no litter. I havo said yes to Truman. "Won't you let mo kiss you, Killa?'' Tho aequisceut nip which Killa gave Infant took up a world of forgiveness which Killa never felt "And you think, dear," Infant ven tured, "we'll ever wish we hadn't. We've lived so long with each other. Truman L'ondit. and Brother Sanderson a u really, vtraugers to our ways." "lthii(ik," replied Killa, with decision, "thut i;olher Sanderson will never have a roeoday while ho lives on my farm: and when I say it is soap-boiling day, it will be soap-boiling day, and Brother Sanderson will stir the soap. HarperU Batwr. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Coals of the same chemical composi tion do not always give out the same amount of heat. This fact has puzzled chemists for a long time. From recent experiments by Dr. Par sons, the conclusion is reached that the germs of ordinary infectious diseases can not withstand an exposure of dry heat of 2ii0 degrees, or an exposure of five min utes to boiling water or steam of 212 de grees. Photography, it is claimed, is to be still further advanced by the use of the air brush. In this device a little holdct is charged w-ith India ink, and, by a bel lows operated with fqot jjcdalajftcr the manner of a sewing machine, t'hfluid is blown upon a faintly outlined portrait, the result giving a picturo superior in many respects to the best crayon drawing the whole operation involving only a few hours' time. A simple test of the quality of leathei belts is thus given by the London Me chanical World: A small piece of the belt is cut out of tho strap and put into vine gar. If the leather is thoroughly tanned and of good quality it will remain unal tered, and even show, after some months, only a somewhat darker color, while if it has been insufficiently prepared with tan nin the fibres swell and are converted into a gelatinous mass in a short time. A new substance, lanolin, is prepared from the wool of sheep. It has great combining and absorbing properties and will be extensivoly used as a basis for ointments. Though a fat, it will com bine with CO per cent, of its weight of water, but 45 per cent, of wool consists of this fat. Though a new discovery under the present civilization, it is not new under the sun, as it is mentioned in ancient writings of Ovid, Herodotus and other Greek and Roman writers. The apparent remarkable enlargement of the filament of an electric incandes cent lamp on becoming whito hot is ex plained by the fact that when some of the nerve ends of tho retina of the eye are excited bv light the excitement ex tends to some degree to the neighboring nerves. Thus a narrow white-hot wire or thread affects, especially from a dis tance, more nerve fibres of the retina than really receive the light rays,and tho sensation is that of a largo wire. This is the phenomenon called irradiation. It has long been necessary to meet a part of the demand for ivory for artistic and industrial purposes byn artificial substitute, which has in most cases been obtained by injecting whitewood with chloride of lime under strong pressure. A new method has baen displayed at tho Amsterdam Exhibition, in which the bones of sheep and waste pieces of deei and kid skins are used. The bones are for this purpose macerated and bleached for two weeks in chloride of lime, then heated by steam along with the skin, so as to form a fluid mass, to which are added a few hundredths of alum; the mass is then filtered, dried in thcair,and allowed to harden in a bath of alum, the result being white, tough plates, which are more easily worked thau natural ivory. Pyramid Lake, Nevada, which has no outlet, is nearly forty miles long by from fifteen to twenty miles in width. It hns an elevation of 4,000 feet above the level of the sea, and is 2,247 feet lower than Lake Tahoe, the, principal source of its main feeder. Great Salt Lake, on tho eastern side of the Great Basin, is the only larger lake on the wholo plateau. It is seventy miles long by about thirty wide. The elevation of tho Great Salt Lake is also about 200 feet greater, which shows, as do many other things, that the grand interior plateau has a slight inclination or dip to the westward, ami also to the southward towafd the Colorado River. Lake Tahoe is smaller than Pyramid Lake. It is only thirty milos long by from eight to fifteen miles in width. Pyramid Lake is larger than the Dead Sea, which, according to the surveys of Lieutenant Lynch, is a trifle over forty miles long, with an average breadth of only eight or nine miles. It is much larger than the Sea of Galilee, which is only sixteen miles long and five or six miles wido. The Social (iiudo in Prison. There is no place in the world where Hlieae is such a ejistlnct. datei location society as in jail, says Detective Mc Cullough, of St. Louis. I found that out when I was cultivating Mr. Maxwell's society and pumping a confession out of him. " The aristocracy aro tho fellows in for murder. They, us a rule, mu'n tain a dignified reserve, and are addressed as Mr. So and-So by the other prisoners. On the other hand, they call their fellow prisoners John or Bill. The next grade are tho professional crooked men. There is a great rivalry between them and the murderers as to which really form the crcme do lu crcme, and the consequence is a coldness exists. They speak of each other's crimes in a slighting manner and deprecate one another's villany. The lower class are represented by the sneak thieves, tho tramp crooks and amateurs. They are looked upon with contempt by those who have progressed further in crime and not associated with. On their part they recognize their unworthiness and ure meek and lowly, esteeming it a great favor to do the boss criminals seime little service. There is an unwrit ten law establishing these grades and it is never violated. A young man iu Gainesville, Flu., sent seventy-live cents to a fellow in .New York York who udvertised "How to make money fast." lie receiwd (run the New Yorker the valuable informa tion; "Tuke a paper bill and mako it fast to something with paste." nos soLia Faraoeisus savs that the herb called Rot Solis is at noon, aud under a burning sun. filled with dew, while the other herbs around it are drj. Bacon. Thou lowly herb I The lesson thou canst teach, my heart would learnt For the road is hot, The centre of my being a dry spot. I hurry and I burn, Till by the way-sido here I thee discern, Where thou dost hold and gather to thy breast One cold sweet drop, While I am so opprest. Low upon my knees I pause To watch thee nourishing the dew that fell In one still hour whon heaven blost eartb With her cool kiss. In that hour of bliss Behold a sacred birth 1 Wllat voice could tell, As whispers this cool drop, The body's mystery, The spirit's prop? Ye who have gladness known, was it a toy Broken with years and cast away? Or does it live, a coolness in the heat, A resting-place for other woary foot! Is it a song for those who cannot sing, Turning as this flower has done, Even in the burning sun, The sadness of remembered joy Into a grace no living joy can bring? Annie Fields, in Harper's HUMOR OF THE DAY. A rural guide says: "Cuttings root easily now." So do pigs. Tid-Bits. "That won't go down with me" said tho skeptical man as ho looked at a pill. Carl Pretzel. Dr. Mary Walker is a living illustra tion of the well-known fact that clothes do not make tho man. Pvek. "Tho circus is one of the oldest diver sions known to man," says an exchange. So is a circus joke. Burlington Ere Press. A cheeso factory is to be started at Caraccas, South America. Tho natives will then live, no doubt, on Caraccas and cheese. Pittsburg Ch ron tele. For luck he carries off the palm, Than Lucifer he's prouder. Who gets tho solitary clam That's served up in the chowder. Boston Courier. Sam Jones, iu speaking of converting hard-hearted newspaper men, says he couldn't touch a Chicago reporter with a ten-foot nolo. He ought to havo tried a 10-ccnt cigar. "Washington Critie. Many a homely girl who docru't believe at all that osculation will euro freckles is ready to try the experiment, nevertheless, just to convince a superstitious young man that thero is nothing in it. iSomtr tille Journal. Tho poet who asked, "Oh where can rest bo found?" had never visited the store of a merchant who never advertises. If ho could once see ono of this mer chant's clerks he would not ask such a child-like question Lynn Union. "What is that Bicycle Man doing, father. Seel ho has Jumped Forward from his Wheel and is putting his Face to the Earth. Is he Kissing it?" "No. my son; the Man has his Ear to tho Earth. Ho is Listening. Ho thought ho heard Someting Drop." Burlington Eree Press. It is singular how ono can be deceived in things. A scientist hus discovered that a flash of lightning is not instantaneous, but has a duration of "from 1-1000 to 1-10000 of a second." This is a differ ence, of course, but it is hardly enough to give a man time to dodgo the flash. Eorristown Herald. Queen Christina, in a few short yearo, may bo seen at the chamber windov, with only ono sleeve of her dress on, ges ticulating violently at a boy in the back yard and shouting:,- "Here, you bad boy, Alphouzo Elonzc Amndoo Montpen sicr Maximilian Carlos Phillippo Alberto Miguel Padrillo Memancz Santillos Quin tana Zorillla! come right in out of that wet grass or I'll give you such a lesson as you won't forgot in ono while t" Washington Post. Dr. Holmes says that on "horseback a man's system becomes clarified, bo cause his liver goes up and down liko the handle of a churn." Dr. Holmes is half right just about half right. If ho should ever get on a native Dakota pony that had inherited a bad disposition he would he surprised to find himself climbing up toward the bluo vault of heaven making frantic efforts to clutch his liver, which would be going on ahead of him like tho handle of a churn that had tried to agitato a couple of gal lons of nitro glycerine. Estellim BM. He Didn't Want the Earth. He said he had no wisli to be opulont, with a bunk-lok rotund, ami distended ami corpulent; but he didn't wish to live H'e the primitive Quakers, or butchers, or bakers or candle-stick makers, but in a fine brown-stone surrounded by statues, and sot in a lawn of bum. forty-soven acres. Applause for dear clothing was not wnrth the winning, he desired no wardrobe of purple and linen; but he didn't wii-b to go attired like a sailor or dress in a uni form suit like a jailor, aud all that ha wished wo some two dozen changes mnde up in good style by a fashionable tailor. He wished no rieh viands to gladden his pen ties, or to coddle hi stomach like chrurji uysieptica; but he wished a cuisine and a Freueh cook to cater, a professional ex port, no common place w aiter, no statu esque, lioardiui;-house, imbecile bungler to scatter his chaos of pie and potato. He wished no simill army of liveried depeud unts, no uiiil'ci iiiel Jaekies uud cringing attendant: but he didn't w i-h to live hka a Ueiiuitor miser, but in plentiful leisure as better and wiser; unit some tweuty -i-tanU aud forty good waiters would luuku life worth living for him uud Kliui. XynH I'aivn.
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