THE FOREST REPUBLICAN b jrobllih & trery tVlnedy, bj J. Z. WENK. Offlsa In Bmearbnueh & Co.'a Bulldljig KLM STHKET, TIONESTA, Pa, Trnn, tl.BO per Year. -nMnP0V-'',,r? '""" U P of the There has been interesting inquiry by Professor Virchow as to tho relative num ber of blondes and brunettes in tho Gcr man Empire. Tho statistics embrace as many m (l,7.'58,S27 school children. Of these more than one-half belong to tho mixed type, and of the remainder about two-thirds belong to tho puro blondo and one third, to tho puro brunetto typo. In tho mixed typo gray eyes and dark hair are 'he commonest form. Among tho Jewish children thero are threo times as m ny brunettes as blondes. Thero was a break in an electric light '-wire in a St. Paul hotel the other day, and Superintendent Brojkwny, in order to expedito mutters, went with his work men to repair it. "You must be care ful," said a looker-on, "or we'll have a coroner's inquest right here." Crock way smiled, seized tho dead end of ono wire with one hnnd and tho lump wire with his nippers, and full dead. The full forc'j of tho current, which he sup posen. had mt been turned on, had pasjr.d through his body. The zebra is truo grit. Tho annual trimming of tho hoola of one of these animali took pluco retently at the Phila delphia zoo, In tho early morning before tho visitors began to como in. The w-br never yields, even when cast down and firmly bound. Leather straps were placed about each foot, and the four . feet drawn together. A bar of wood tied in the mouth and a number of men seated upon the zebra's body completed the de fense against the animal's efforts tu scrape, which did not cense during tho operation. Tho misshapen hoofs caused by tho wooden floors were then sawed oil. Inquiry among the New York insur ance men has elicited tho fact thut none of tho companies insure against earth quakes. If fire results from ati earth quake in an insured building, however, the policies are paid. Manager Dune, of tho Niagara Insurance Company, said : ''The nearest wo come to earthquakes are cyclones and hurricanes. Our company and the Continental as well have a special insurance contract fur them, but we only Insure, as a matter of course, in certain tpecitied territory. I hardly think thut this branch of the bus ness will last very long, however, as only those who are pe culiarly liable to loss from wind storms insure against them. The money to be made from insurance is in the generality of the risks. Do I think it probable thut insurance companies will include earth quakes in their ribks in the future? Well, hardly. I don't presume we'll have an other shaking up in the timo of the pres ent generation. If earthquakes were general, however, I see no reason, why property should not be insured against them the same as hurricanes. I never heard of such insurance companies in countries where earthquakes are com mon.'' We read in Frank Tlie'n HVdy that "musical taste, which is nothing else than a love for good music, has made grcut progress of late in the United btates. Good music is now better ap preciated here than it was twentyand even ten years ugi. Thut, however, this love for good music is in itself a proof thut operatic ventures ought to be financially successful, is quite another matter. It seems to become more und more evident that artistic success and financial results are not in the same direction, the second decreasing with tho increase of the first. Of this, the Italian, the German and the American opens have ulike furnished decided proof during the past season. The fact is as it should be, and it only repeats what has been experienced in Europe. Opera in Europe is, as a rule, not profitable, and the best theatres could not afford to open their doors if they had no oth r resource than that af forded by the sale of tickets to the pub lic The chief theatres of Europe either possess resources of their own, a:i inde pendent income, or receive an annual subvention from constituted authorities. Without this assistance the production of grand opera, with all tho expenses connected therewith, would b j absolutely impossible in most cases, and the oper atic season would close at its inception. The Milan Seala, which has acquired so much artistic importance thut a new opera or a new singer are not sine of suc cess unless they have passed its ordeal, receives a subvention of net less than f 40, 00U a year, and the season does nut last over three months. Most other theutjes are assisted in the same way. the difference being only in the sum they receive yearly und in the giver, whether a municipality, a petty prince or an Em peror. This is especially the case in Italy and in llci many, where opera is produced for its own sake, and not for love of lucre. The BuyreutU Theatre could not . huvo produced Wagner's operas without the assistants of the late King Ludwig." VOL. III. HO. 27. ONLY. Only claud in the summer day, Aad the oak in the shadow bowad low Its head, Wail the bird in iti branches with bosom ml, Sang from It nest a soft lu'Iaby. Only a flash of lightning at even, From a cloud that had hovered all day In' sutht i And the oak lay shattered, struck down in ! itamic;ht; I rtuf. tli. .tin ;r.: . --.i I ' " wjau, n.iu mu,iu(j, lion waiu heaven. Only a cloud in the heart of man, Yet the strong frame bowed down 'neath the chill and gloom. Till his spirit bad whispered, "be brave, for soon Success shall crown each purpose, each plan '.' Only a flash: a gleam of death 9 rod So vivid, so brief, like a dream that is o'er; The body is dint, shall be dust evermore, But the soul set free rises up to God. Francis Foute,ia Boston Traveller. UPPER FIVE. Why I left the Pullman car Borneo at 11 o'clock at night at a water tank in Middle Arizona will also explain why, although 1 am not yet thirty-five years old, my nervous system is shattered, my health wrecked, and even my mind so effected that now and then my ideas get uncoupled in a curious way and go run ning wild all over the division ana break ing into sidings wh tj they have no bus iness to be. The doctor suys I must have had a bad full some time nnd perhaps taken too much bromide of potassium since, but I know better. It is all on nc count of " upper rive." I was a cond ac tor on the Southern Pacific system at the time it happened, and my run Was from Tucson, An., to Los Angeles. Old tour ists w ill remember my car. It was the Grenada. Most men say the business is a dog's life, but I own I rather liked it. A leeping-car is a proscenium box in the theatre of life. 3 ngle acts of every body's little drama are continually played before me. l'eople become naturally unreserved and communicative on a train. You get down beneath the surface, their peculiarities are laid bare, their oddities stund out like bumps, you see their hopes, disappointments. pre,u dices, likes and dislikes, and feel before the end of the division as if you had known them for yours. This was par ticularly true of a cur load we carried out of Tucson one certain day in August. I remember we had a bridal party ou board, two or three drummers, a couple of stock men from '-the Nation,'' and what I especially recollect a portly old gentle man named Bliss nnd a widow named Paxton. who was traveling with her in valid daughter, a young lady of about twenty. Mr. BIis was not in good health him self, aud was full of querulous complain ing. He hud a dusty voice, little eyes, with large pads of fat under them; "and I can see him. sitting exactly in the mid dle of his seut. growling and gasping, with Iub collar unbuttoned in front and the two ends sticking up like horns on each side of his face. Mrs. and Miss Paxton were, on the contrary, accom plished travelers, and m ide the best of everything. The mother was a pleasant, grave, old-fashioned ludy, and the daaghter, a sweet-faced, "hollow-eyed, patient little feather of a girl, who could not have weighed above eighty or eighty-five pounds at the most. The weather was scorching. The des ert of white sand was simply a big re flector that threw the sun back into tho lower air until, when it stirred, it was like a breath from a furnace. Every body was tattooed with thj fine black cinders and hoarse with the dust. The bride was a sight to behold, and the cat tlemen swore like pirates in the smoking room. Bliss cursed the management of the road, root, tree, and branch, and grimy perspiration pour -d olf him iu streams. Toward night the heat was still excessive, and I believe it was about 9 o'clock when the porter began to make up the berths. The Paxtons hud section five. There is a difference of opinion among travelers as to the (omforts of lower and upper berths in summer, und a good many hold that the uppers are the best, us being nearest the ventilating windows. This was the view the ladies took of it, and when t!;e berths were made up I lifted tho invalid girl iu my arms into upper five. I remember he iringher say good-night to her mother, and telling her she would sleep well. About half an hour later, old Bliss came tottering and swaying into the smoking room, whera I was counting my tickets. He was furious. His berth was lower seven, next to the Paxtons, and he wanted to know why the upper berth had been let down. "There is nobody in it," he sputtered, "and it is all foolishness to make it up. It just makes mine as hot us a bake oven." I explained to him that the rules re quired ad disengaged berths to be made up to accommodate possible local travel. "But nobody's going to get on in this desert," he insisted, testily. "Why can't you just push thut one up?' "I can't do it,'' I replied a little net tled, "unless you pay for it." He abused the road, myself, and every body else incoherently for a while, but the upshot of the matter was he paid for the upper berth, aud asked in a surly voice that it be put up at once. By thut time I was pretty mad, and hurrying back into the cur, I parted the curtains, unhooked the two wires that hold the upper berth doivn, seized it by the edge, uud with one violent push swung it up in place. I beard the spring kicks cli' k, thiew the curtains together, and returned to the unokicg-room. Meantime Bliss and one TIONESTA, PA, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 27. 1886. of the cattlomen had got into a political discussion, and it was near 11 o'clock before tho old fellow became too indig nant over tome statement aa to the civil service to continue the argument and went staggering and puffing out. He returned almost immediately. "Conductor," ho wheezed, with a sort of forced calmness, "I thought I bought that upper berth in my section f" "So you did." I replied. "And you told me you pit it up?" "Yes, sir." "You did no such thing'." he ex claimed, suddenly bursting into a rage, "the infernul thing has been down all niuht, and is down now, and my berth steaming like a sweat box. (jive me my money back 1" "You looked into the wrong berth," I replied. "I put that upper back my self and nobody's touched it since." "I looked into section seven," he said, furiously. "I don't believe you ever touched it." "I just want to show you that you don't know what you're talking about," I answered, leading tho way back into the car. "Here is your section. See." At this I threw back the curtains and stopped dumbfounded. The upper berth was down, and, what was more, the wires did not appear to have been touched. Bliss started to say something in reply, when I felt of a sudden as though a bul let had gone through my heart. A hor rible thought had Mashed across my mind, too quickly to be shuped in words. Tho blood came throbbing through my neck in slow, bursting waves, and more like a machine than a man I stretched out my arm aud opened the curtains of section live. The upper berth was shut. I had made a mistuke. In a hideous, moving tomb, swung like Mahomet's colliu. between heaven and earth, I had buried the girl alive! For a moment it seemed as though the arteries of my throat would burst; my heart beat with quick, sharp pang; my skin had all the icy contraction of a sudden plungo into old water. It was then that a "sort of secondary intellige ce seemed to work within me, and, while my senses reeled with fear and horror, impelled me to push up the berth in the aid man's sec tion and get away. I scarcely knew what I was doing, but Bliss noticed noth ing and grumbliugly crawicd into his berth, while I hurried out to the plat form. Why did I not open upper five? Be cause I realized instantly that the victim was long before dead. In a sleeping car space is economized to the utmost ex tent. The swinging berth fits into space like a ball iu a socket. The elasticity of the mattress and the slight figure of the girl alone made it possible for me to close it with her inside. I gave one hag gard look at my walch. An hour on a half had clasped. She must have died in the first three or four minutes. I stood on the steps and tried to think, but I could not control mv min 1 Iu swift detileit pictured to me the dis covery, the bluckened corpse tumbling from the blankets. the stiff fingers clutch ing at nothingness, the mother's shriek, the consternation of the passengers the excited theories, the quick conception of tho truth, the search, the denunciation, the awful machinery of the courts, the prison ! By a violent effort I surveved tho situation from several standpoints. They all led to one conclusion flight. There was but one time when I could have taken the benefit of the accident that was at once, when I made the dis covery and I realized the impossibility, of explaining my hesitation. These things passe 1 through my mind like fla lies of lightning. There was not an instant to lose. Mrs. Paxton might at any moment awake and call her daugh ter. Just then the engine slowed up a trifle. I saw indistintly in the gloom that the ground was level, swung off, aud watched the dim outline of the train, carrying its burden of sleeping life nnd silent death, grow faint and fainter aud disappear into the night. The pluce where I lumped was near a water tank. I presently made it out and walked wide around it to avoid a possible watchtnun. I knew the lay of the land in a general way and that I could not be far from the little town of Mohawk Sum mit. To get out of the country the quickest way possible was my dominant thought, und old Mexico suggested itself at once. I realized that I mu-t avoid the railroad with it accompanying tele graph lines, and I started, as nearly as I could !udire, southeast. As I walked along I cut the gilt buttons off my coat and vest and threw them away. I did the same with my cap and tore" the gold braid from around the brim. 1 sha'.l not go itito the details of thut night, nor the many davs and nights that followed it I was fuil of wild regrets at the course I had taken and saw a million defects in my plan. 'With agony I realized that my flight destroyed the theory of innocence. I could see a do en ways thut I might have remained upon the car now that it was too late. M v iournev south was through innumerable hardships, and the ever present and sick ening' apprehension of pursuit. In the camps where hunger drove me it seemed to me thut everybody looked strangely at me. If a man turned his head mv heart bounded with panic. Twice I was lost .on the arid, saire grown plains, and once I wandered without water and burning with fever for two duys. I hud $ ''4 in my pocket when I jumped from the train, but when I finally made my way to Guuymas I had less than fifty cents. Then I was for' ed to come into town und go to work. Tan und tatters ha 1 pretty thoroughly disiruised me. but I was still huunted with tho fear of ar ress. It was a long time before I could look at a newspaper at all, and when I finally plucked up courage to open one it was with the giugerly caution of a per s iii who lifts a garment expecting to find a hnake underneath. I had a terror of -ee ug the details of the tragedy in print, aud, I believe, much as it might have aided my escape, I would not have had the moral courage to read a paper con taining them. After a good many months a great longing seized me to see my own country again. The adobe houses and the foreign chatter to which I could never train my tongue were on me like a nightmare. SI was miserably pour, but managed to make my way to Paso del Norte. On the other sido of the Hio Grande is El Paso, the American town, and, although I never ventured over, tho sight of vis itors of my own nationality delighted, excited and frightened mo by turns. I hung about the place, living from hand to mouth, until one day a great event happened. At the end of the main Rtreet is the principal curiosity of the town the old cathedral. It is a venerable pile, built time out of mind, and falling into de liberate and respectable ruin. The white stucco that once covered the walls has peeled off in places and given it an air of picturesque dilapidation, and inside are curious ethnics of Saints and the cru citied Christ. Iu a word, it is the objec tive point of all touristsand visitors. I was in the place one afternoon in August, half dozing on one of the old carved benches, when a party of ladies and gen tlemen came in. Back of me was the holy-water urn, and they were inspecting it when I looked up. At the sight of one of the ladies I felt as though" I had received a galvanic shock. 1 tried to rise, but could not. I shut ray eyes and opened them again to find her still there. It was no hallucination, no apparition; it was Miss Paxton. "Why, mamma," Iheardher say, "the gentleman is unwell, I believe." "You are Misg Paxton," I gasped. "Yes, sir," she replied, with a little start. "Who was on the Southern Pacific train going to Los Angeles a year ago.'" "Yes. sir." Then she suddenly turned and said in a low voice: "Why, I be lieve its the conductor who ran away with the company's money that night. "Who ran away with the company's money?" It was a construction of my flight I had never thought of. I con trolled my impulse to shout out, and said : 'Were you not in upper five that night?" "Let me see," she replied. I think I was. Yes, I remember; I was in it for a while, and then the jolting made me sick and I crawled down with mamma." I rushed out of the cathedral like a mad man. I seemed to walk on air. My past life appeared as vague and un real to me us the fabric of a dream. I laughed aud cried, und went along the streets talking to myself. That night I slept on the other side of the river. Perhaps the reaction was too much for me, for I have not been very well since, and the fits of nervousness have puiled me down to what you see me to-day. It seems as if there were chords twanging and quivering through me now and then, and that is when my ideas get side tracked and wild trains go sailing over my mental railroad. But maybe that's the bromide. San FruncU o Chronklt. A Remarkable Well. I One of the attractions of Lemoore, as yet but little known, although iu the future it may become famous, is the ; artesian well of the railroad company, sunk for the purpose of obtaining water to the locomotives. When first tapped ' it attracted but little attention ; however, I a few months since its medicinal qualities began to be talked about, it proving to to be highly impregnated with iron and i sulphur, and now it is all the rage there. ' In fact, it is claimed that its continual . ue will effectually do away with the de- ; sire for ardent spirits. If such be the case, unnumbered millions of gallons of ' it could be beneficially disposed of in almost any quarter of the globe. A peculiarity of the water is thut you can drink immense quantities of it, whether overheated or not, without feeling any injurious effects. A story is told of it thut a gentleman who had for twenty yeurs been so seriously affected wiui dyspepsia that he could keep no solid food on his stomach, uud. who, being a man of means, had spent thoiisuu.Ja of dollars w ith doctors aud at various noted springs in a vain attempt to euro himself, was induced to try the water, and after several drinks -was greatly elated to rind that ho could re tain soft boiled eggs aud similar food. In a few days his ioy knew no bounds when he discovered he could with safety eat meat, vegetables or whutever his ap petite might crave. Ho reMdes in San r rant isco, and ever,' week has a quan tity of the water shipped to him. An other gentleman iniormed the writer that he hud for year; been troubled with nervous sick headache, but that since he had commenced the u-e ef t: is wonder ful water, of which he drinks a large (uantity daily, hi-afflictions had entirely disappeared, and he now enjoys perfect health. Many other like o currences were related, but space forbids mention. If the weil belonged to a private indi vidual it is more thuu lik -ly thut a sani tarium would be erected, which in time would undoubtedly beco ne a famous re sort for the udlii'ted. As t'ol. Sellers suvs, "There's millions in it." Tactrt ', (Dak.) Tldimj. Figuratively peukliig. Astronomy is 1-derful Aud -rertiui; J. The arth .'i-voive around the sun. Which makes a year 4 you. The m'Kin is dead un i can t r-5 By law oi pny.--!( great. It's 7 whtre Uie stars a.lve Do nightly wiutil-4. If wat- ht al Proviiii-nee be-!t, "With ood uU'Utiouh fraught. Did not i;eep up its irruuil lei;a AVe Huoa would com to u. Astronomy is l dorful. but a i i mj 4 1 man ',' crasp. and that is why I d ttter y no inure. li. C. Dodje. $1 50 PES ANNUM. vrm-r ni? tftittt? irtv I HE WHIPS A PACK OP HED SKINS IN AHIZONA. A Hnntor's Sr-ory of His Strnxrcln With a Band or Hon ilea A Plucky Stand. The Silver City (Ari.) Enterprise has fouud E. C. Montgomery, who had a fight with Indians a few weeks ago, and learned his story of the remarkablo af fray. The Indian slayer was clad in a looe fitting blue shirt, tight fitting, plainly made trousers, over the bottoms of which came the tops of his heavy boots. His hair and beard, of medium length, were sprinkled with gray, though the owner was apparently only forty years of age. Small of "statuel neatly built, quick in speech and motion, bo gave an impression of being wary and dangerous in combat. He proved him self au intelligent gentleman, a good conve sationaiist, evidently truthful, and devoid of a swaggering or. boastful spirit. In the course of the conversation that followed, aud in response to numer ous questions Mr. Montgomery to'.d his story about as follows: "I am a hunter, and the scalps of ani mals I kill are paid for by Arizona. For mountain lions I get $25, and for bears $10, I have been on the frontier sixteen years. Thee scars you see on my body were made by Indiun arrows when I was acting us scout in a war waged upon Indians by McKenzie. The place where I had this recent light was in Arizona, twelve miles from the reser vation and about forty miles from Clif ton. I was thoroughly familiar with the ground having hunted there about four years. I was going along a trail with my horse and pack mule, on which wero provisions aud animal scalps, in tending to reach water and make a stand ubout two o'clock. I was near my destination when I saw a fresh Indian trail. Apparently there was a party of three or four, with a horse. Soon I saw another, and concluded I was in for it, and that there were Indians behind me and others waylaying the trail. I led my horse up behind a swell, where bullets would pass over him. and the mule fol lowed. My dog was growling all the time. Then I began picking my way along a ridge, protecting myself as far possible and watching. Soon two In dians, about: two hundred yards away but some distance apart, fired at me. I tried to return the fire, but they disap peared. At that instant my dog gave a sharp growl. 1 wheeled, and as I did so I saw a big burly fellow, who was trotting for me, apparently thinking I had been shot. I felt a burning sensa tion in my right ear, the ball passed so close. Aa he was attempting to put another cartridge in his gun 1 threw up my rifle, saw his breast through the sights, elevated the weapon, aimed at his head and crashed his skull just above the eye. He tumbled forward upon his gun, doubled up. He was between me and the horses. I had found where tho In dians were, and saw that the animals must be moved. As I ran toward them I passed tho Indian, who hud been straightened out by the dog. I took my hunting knife, circled the neck, and twisted the head off. In going to the horse I was shot at several times. When the horse and mule had been moved 1 sneaked back and waited, fearing that the Indians were all around. I waited twenty minutes and heard no sound. Then I took the head, partially exposed myself, and waved it above ray head as high as I could reach. They arose and shot at me. I saw the outline of the form of one as he sank again. I fired, and he stumbled forward and lay there. The other fellow was not game. 1 did not see either again, und when an hour had gone I stole away and then begun a journey. I would go half a mile, tie up, pick my way back to prevent them slipping on me, aud then travel again. I kept that up until daik, then unloaded the mule and made a flying ride, using m ile and horse alternately. At daybreak I came to a white man's ranch and rested. From thei: I went to Clifton. It was a good squme fight, and I won. Luck was with me when they hud the drop ou me, and after thut I was even. Yes, I was excited during the tight, but I could shoot betu-r than I couid now, as I had been keyed up tight for twe ty minutes, but when I feit that I hud got away from the gang I hud to get down from my horse, bathe my head aud lie down a tew minutes. Two hours of suc h sun peuse unnerves a man. S, I did not have a Wmi lu ster rifle. Thut's a good saddle gun, but when a man leads the life 1 do one shot is all ho wants, and he needs a better gun t:iun a Winchester. I hud one of the luiter kind in a tight with a bear once, and while I was trying to remove a shell thut hud lodged the bear mutilated me so thut 1 couid not sit in the saddle during tho next six weeks. I had a Sharp of -ni-calibre in this tight. I am g'ung to wait until that scalp is thoioughly tanned, and then write its record upon it and give the ornament to my sister, who has two others that 1 took yeurs ago."' Americans Buying Estute in Europe. , Weuithy Americans are following the example of Mr. Winans, the Baltimore millionaire, in the purchu-o of important estates in Kuropeon countries. Lately two islands. Loppen aud Kalven, in the north of Norway, were purchased by an American for the sum of $ Vl!l11. which was considered a very small amount for the property, as it alt rds good s; oiting ami fishing opkrt'.i!iit!cs. Loppen is about eight miles, and the smaller is and three mile- in ciicumfererue, and the shooting consisted of pyper, snipe, ptar migan, wild geese and wild fowl of every description, while in addition there was any amount of sea tiuhicg. The l:in:.ta . was beautiful in summer, and t he s: e:n i y , very grand. Auiient e-tatcs aie alu ! rapidly coming i,n the market in l.ug j and. ,su, JruH.ifO Civuu.le. RATES OF APVERTtSIWO. On Sqotre. on Inch, ore Imertion. ..I 1 OS On .Sqnnre, on Inch, on month. ........... I 00 One Square, one Inch, three months, CO On Siur, one inch, oe year 10 no Two Hqiieri i, one yetr IS 00 Qnnr'er Coinmn, r,nr em M 00 Half Column, one jar ................ M 00 One Coinmn, one rar ....l"" Leral advertisement ten cent er line each In sertion. Marriage and death notices gratia, All bill for yrlv adVenuetnratt eollectod qnar. ' 'T r. Temporary aclverUfmau mart b paid in ad ranee. J ok work ah mi daUrarr. LIFE'3 COMMON GIFTS. Life's common gifts themselvea rroew Oh bless the power that wills it so I Behold yon clover wet with daw Only a few short weeks ago. Keen scythes laid low the fragrant store) And lo, it cheers again the eye Thus is repeated o'er and o'er, The beauty of the earth and sky. Our child's soft kiss, the love-lit eye The tender words that morn and night Ne'er fail us can it be ws prize Them ail too little, hold tham light I Great Nature, may we learn of the The worth of simple things to know; Trize more the grace of purity Than aught of empty gaud and show; Nor mourn with eye tear-wet the while, "Our bles-incs vanished e'er we knew Their value Oh, dear kiss ! oh, smile I Oh, clover blosoms wet with dew !" Springfield Republican. HC3T0B OF THE DAT. A young man of polish The boot black. A climbing plant with tendrils isn't half so annoying as a mosquito with ono. P.'aLiMphUil'alh An exchange tells about a sailor who was tried for assault. He turned out to : be one, too. Burlinyton Free Press. -is "Garments without buttons" are ad vertised. They are not the kind bach elors are looking for. Philadelphia Call.' "There's plenty of room at the top," . as the champagne remarked when it flew to the dude's head. Botton Transcript. It's pretty hard luck. In summer we have horseflies, aud then again in winter we have snow flies. Burlington Fre Prist. . Of thebruUe-producing skating rinks The country is bereft. But the orange peel with its curious kinka Wa still have left. Merchant Traveler. "Women can do a great deal of talk ing with their eyes." says a Philadelphia editor, who has evidently stepped on beauty's dress in a crowded ball-room. Omaha WorLi. "You don't know Dr. Af Why, it was he who just passed us." "What! that man? He looks like a corpse" "Well, yes. I always take him for one of his patients." French Fun. The Abbe Liszt, one of the greatest pianists the world ever produced, died poor. There are a good many people in. this country who seem likely to die poor pianists. 6irin'jntld Uniun. It has been pretty generally admitted that every man is the architect of his own fortune, but it does seem that soma men would have done better to have let ihe job out. Kansas City Sivib. Judge "Have you anything to say be fore the court passes sentence upon youF" Pr.soner "Well, all I got to say is, I hope yer honor '11 consider the extreme youth of my lawyer, an' let me oil easy." PwL A cat thut disappeared twenty years ago through a trap door in the floor of a freight house at Ansonia, Connecticut, was found there on Monday by workmen who were tearing away the building. Contrary toexpectations,it was not alive. Xorhstuirn llt raid. Fogg hud said the meanest thing any man ever was capable of saying. When Mrs. F. left him alone in the house the other evening she remarked : "You won't be lonely, deur? "No," ho replied; "I shan't miss you at all. The parrot, you know, is here." Button Transcript. A Big Volcanic Ware. The Krakatoa eruption which, two years ago, devastated a large part of the island of Java, was aided in its deadly work by a volcanic wave, one hundred and twenty feet high. Incredible ai seems this stupendous assertion, it is sup ported by a reasonable inference from two or three facts. At the Marak stone quarries there is a hill one hundred let high overlooking the sea, ou which the resident engineer hud erected a large brick houBe. This massive building wa rsed to the ground by the volcanic wave. It washed away the walls us neatly as if they hud been sliced off with a knife, leaving nothing but the murble floors, which rested on the strong foundations. The English chapluin at liaiaira, who explored the devastated district, met a Javanese la borer, one of the survivors of the deluge. On the fatal day, as he was working in a rice-field, a long way from the sea-coast, he heard a noise. looking around, he saw "a great black thing a long way off coming towa:d us." Tt was very high," he suid, "and we soon saw that it was water. Trees and houses were washed away as it came along. Not far off was steep, sloping ground. We ran toward it and tried to climb up out of the way of the water. It was too qnick for mo-t of them. Many were drowned almost at my side. I managed to get a long way up. T) water i ame very near me. I looked back and saw the waves wiibh the peopio down, as they tried to scramble out of tiie way. There was a general rush t climb up in one particular place. Tl caused a greut block. Many got wedged together, and could not move. Tbeu tiiev strugg'e I and fought, screaming and crying. Those below tr ed to makt those above them move on by bitii,j their heels. For a few minutes thii was a great struggle, then all was over 'no after another they were ail washed down by the rushi.ig waters, bouie .-f those washed d" u dragged others with thctn. Manv were high enough up to have escaped, if they hail not been drag ged down by tho death grip of their emu pun ions. " ! ifty thousand souls perished. lie forty aeie field in Daw sou Couuty, Nebraska, yielded 2,''JO bushels of wheat.
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