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VOL. IIX. NO. 40.
TIONESTA. PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRDARY 2, 1881
$1 50 PER ANNUM
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It Is said that a largo proportion of our
tandard silver dollars are hoarded by
Chinamen on the Pacific coast to take
horn vith thorn when they return to the
OJesAial kingdom.
Mr. Mercier, tho Alaskan explorer,
ays that r-r0 miles from tho mouth of
the Yukan river is a place where a gigan
. tic glacier is about eighty feet abovo tho
"surface of the water, sixteen feet deep
nd.fifty yards wide. On the surface of
this frozen stream is a bed of nntodilu
vian forest remains, six feet deep. The
Ire from tho glacier is constantly bond
ing vcr and breakaofl.
The territory embraced by railroads
thirty years ago had the Mississippi
2?iref for its western boundary as fnr
eouth as Louisiana, the western bound
ary o'f that Stat then being tha limit.
The area covered was !if)7,000 regular
mllcs or 531,000,000 square acres. Now
every Btate and Territory is accessible,
and tho extent covered Is 8, 580, ,000
equaro miles, or 2,291,300,000 square
acres. '
I How great and varied are the resources
cf some of our railroad corporations may
"bo iudged from tho statement that a
"Western compnny has completed ar
rangements to establish a weather service
over its entire system similar to that in
use by the Federal Government. Trains
will be equipped and operated according
to the weather reports, which aro to le
made from stations along the line to tho
headquarters of tho road. Those re
ports, it is expected, will aid materially
in tho safe shipment of live stock and
perishable goods.
The products of Florida Industries,
with a population of 805,000, amount in
alue to a little over $41,000,000. Here
is jlist of the products of her indus
tries : Vanilla, poultry, peaches, cow
peas, honey, swine, sheep, alligator
bules and teeth, . strawberries, nursery
trees, brjeks and artificial stone, moss,
beef, cotton seod, sponges, oyBtcrs, fish,
turtle, cigars, vegetables, corn, wheat,
t3,Ytobacco, hay, fodder, hides, milk,
utter, limes, lemons, pineapples, pin
irs, grape?, oranges, arrowroot, wine,
orses, mules, cattle, wagons, plows,
'ar, molasses, ice, lumber, cotton,
1 r, naval stores, etc. So says tho
'Ida Dispatch.
he New York Commercial Advertiser
rks editorially: "Tho industry of
ng" sea island cotton along tho At
:c coast which began with favorable
pects a few years ago, has turned out
.e nearly, if not quite, a failuro on
count of low prices. The fibre of
ais kind Of cotton is much longer than
hat of the ordinary staple. In the
meantime the price . of the products
manufactured from it has remaked sta
tionary or has been raised, eo that the
loss falls wholly on the planter, and
there h danger of the industry dying
out. Such an outcome would be so
liously felt in this city, which receives
the bulk of sea island cotton' shipped
from southern ports."
The experiment of taking the jacket
off an 8-inch gunwns successfully per
formed at tho Washington navy yard a
- short time ago. Such a thing was nevei
rflfiuirerl unci np.r iiftum nt.prl in fblt
country before. Large steel guns are not
made in one solid piece now as the
formerly were. The groundwork of t
cannon is one long tube, of not more
than one-half the external diameter thai
tho finished cannon will have. This tub
is strengthened by jackets and hoops
which fit the tube so closely that the
joints are firmer than a solid casting
would be. These jackets are simply
other tubes of larger bore pressed ovei
the inner tube. They are pnt on red-hot,
and iu the cooliug shrink so tightly as to
be equal to a solid piece of metal.
The editor of the New York Sun Bays.
A correspondent wants to know which
city, New York or Philadelphia, manu
factures the more goods in amount. New
York does. This marvelous metropolis
ranks first among the manufacturing
towns of the United States, as she dos
in so many other respects. Philadelphia
used to lead in manufactures. The last
census showed tho relative position of
the two great cities :
AViw I'orJc PhilaiUlpha,
Number of estab
lishments 1!,3: 8,507
Capital f 181,20J,:ij) $187,143,857
Average number of
hands emuloved. 2-7.:S53 185.527
Total amount of
wages tlt7,O"i0,021 tM.'-'tWJOC
Value of materials. f-'KN, 4 Jl.O'.U tl'J!, 155.477
Value of produc ts. . J47J.'.l:iU,4;i7 t:e4,34S,U35
In other words, with about $11,00),-
000 less capital invested than Philadel
phia, and with about 42,000 more work
ing men and women, New York pro
duced in l&bO about $473,000,000 of
goods from $288,000,000 of material!
while Philadelphia produced $;124,000,
CO") fjom $199,000,000 of material.
THIS LIFE.
This life Is like a troubled sea,
Where holm a-weather or a-lee
The ship will neither stay nor wear,
But drives, of every rock in fear.
All seamanship in vain we try,
We cannot keep her steadily;
But just as Fortune's wind may blow
The vessel's driven to and fro.
Yet, come but Love on board,
Our hearts with pleasure stor'd,
No storm can ouerwhelm,
Still blows in vain
The hurricane
While he is at the helm.
Dibditi.
THE MATE'S STORY.
HOW CHINESE PIRATES WERE KEPULSED.
In 1875, owing to the wreck of a Bos
ton brig in the China Sea, I was left in
Hong Kong 111 pretty bad shape. After
I had carried a flag of distress, as you
might say, for two weeks, an English
man offered to let me work my passage
to Liverpool, but as I was about to ac
cept it I ran across a countryman who
had a berth for me. One of the largest
trading houses in Canton at that time
was composed of three Americans, and
they owned two small steamers and three
or four sail craft. These vessels were
employed in collecting goods from tho
Various islands to the southeast, nnd some
J of the voyages extended up the Yellow
pea as 1 ar as lengcaow. Just at that
time the firm had come into possesion
of a new steamer, nnd she was about to
make her first voyage. There had been
troublo with piratical craft, and the
steamer had been fitted out to take care
of herself. She carried two six-pounders,
twenty American cavalry carbines, a
score of revolvers, and was fixed to
throw hot water over boarders. Her
compliment of men was fifteen, of whom
the cook, steward, and three firemen
wero natives. All others were Ameri
cans and Englishmen. The supercargo
was an American, who could rattle off
the Chinese, language as well as tho best
of 'em, and the Captain and some of the
others could "smatter" more or less. j
Our first voyage was to be up the Yel
low Sea, nnd we carried a loud. pi Ameri
can and English goods. Tlio cargo well
deserved the name .of "miscellaneous."
There were muskets, fish spears, sole
leather, tinware, looking glasses, cali
coes, buttons, stoneware, lamps, fish
nets, groceries, axes, and almost every
thing elso you can think of, and the
supercargo also carried money to pur
chase what wo could not trallic for. We
were to pick up in exchange whatever
foreign markets called for in Canton,
which included teas, rice, several species
of nuts, dyestuffs, roots, barks, skins,
etc. '
I was in luck to secure the place' of
mate, for Captain TabQr was a splendid
follow and tlio crew wasone which could
be depended on. We hud three or four
men who understood the handling of the
six-pounders, which had been sent over
from tho. United States, and with the
supply of small arms at hand we felt our
selves a match for anything except n
regular gunboat. We got away in good
shape, rait up between the coast and the
Island of Formosa, and then steered to
the northeast to letch the Lioo-Kioo
Islands which are seven or eight in num
ber, and deal in ginseng, 6arsuparilla aud
other medical roots. We stopped a day
at Ke-Lung, which is at tlio northern end
of Formosa, and almost opposite Foo
chow, on the mainland, and while here it
was noticed that the native members of
of our cre.v were very thick with a lot of
suspicious characters who were hanging
about us the greater part of tho di. Tho
supercargo overheard them discussing
our voyage and making many inquiries,
and when he spoke of the matter to the
steward that pig-tailed gentleman ex
plained th t all our natives were related
to the strangers who had been hanging
about, and of course the latter took an
interest in them.
I didn't know Chinese character as will
as some of the others, and was therefore
somewhat surprised to hear the Captain
and supercargo discussing the impudence
of the natives aboard boloro we had left
Ke-Lung by fifty miles. The firemen
had given t tie engineer trouble, and the
steward had a certain sort of impuden e
iu his obedience to commands. I did
not know until now that a gang of
twenty or more of the fellows at Ke-Lung
had attempted to induce thu Captain to
give them passage to the isluud of
Tseeusun, which we meant to visit. They
had offered big passage money and were
willing to put up with any accommoda
tions, but he mistrusted them, and firmly
declined to have one of them aboard.
The steward and firemen were soundly
berated by tho Captain and threatened
with irons if any more trouble occurred,
and there thu mutter was dropped. At
the close of the second day we dropped
anchor off a small island to the south
west of Tseeusun called Kung wall.
There was no harbor, but the depth of
the water enabled us to get within a
cable's length of t lie beuch iu a compar
atively sheltered spot.
Captain Tabor had traded at this inl
and a year before, ami he kusw that the
natives were all right as long as they
were kept in awe by a superior force.
There was u trader on the island who
had a large fctock of roots, ami after a
palaver lusting two (lays and nights the
supercargo finally ma le a hurguin with
him. It was ol. served by the Captain
that some change had come over the mi
tives, for 011 his previous trip they had
been eager to cloe a bargain at any
figure named. The natives iu our
crew had beru permitted to go adio e,
aud a doen or so of thu leading
men of the island had c uie aboard
and inspected us. It was niht of the
second day before a tradu was agreed
upon. On tho following day we were to
bcain lauding aud receiving good
There was a big crowd of natives on
shore opposite the steamer, and they had
canoes, catamarans, and dhows enough
to have emb iiked HOO people. Just be
fore night closed in we sighted a largo
junk coming down from tho direction of
Formosa, but gave her no particular at
tention. At about 9 o'clock she camo
jogging along at a tramp's gnit, and
dropped her mud hook within '200 feet
of us. I gave her a looking over with
the night glass, and as only five or six
men could be made out on her decks, it
was natural to concludo that she was a
trader.
I'cing in port, with fair weather for
tho night, the crew might expect that
only an anchor watch would be main
tained. The men must therefore have
been somewhat surprised when Captain
Tabor invited our five natives to go
ashore, and spend the niht with their
friends, and announced to the rest of us
that we should stand watch and watch.
The cook was tho only native who did
not go. He declared that ho had enemies
ashore who would kill h'm, and he wi s
therefore allowed to occupy his accus
tomed quarters. There wero ten of us
besides him, and soon after the junk an
chored, the guns were cast loose and
loaded with grape, the firearms brought
up and made ready, and the engineer
was instructed to keep steam enough to
permit us to move. Tho cable was ar
ranged for slipping, and then five men
turneuWn "nil standing," and the other
five of us stood watch, lie fore this oc
curred the Captain said to me:
"Mr. Graham, this may be going to a
good deal of trouble for nothing, but tho
man who deals with these natives has
got to be prepared for ony emergency.
I will therefore head the second watch.
Keep your eye on that junk, and permit
no boat to come aboard under any circumstances."
I distributed my men over the vessel
to tho best advantage, and reserved to
myself the right to act as a free lance.
That is, I went from one part of the ves
sel to another, and kept one eye on the
junk and the other on - the beach. All
was quiet up to half-past eleven o'clock,
when I made two discoveries in quick
succession. The' cook had prepared a
large dish of coffee for our use during
the night. We had a largo urn on a
stand intone.-corner of tho dining room,
and a lamp underneath kept the coffee
hot. The same thing is in use in Amer
ican hotels and restaurants. I was on
the point of entering the cabin to secure
a drink of the beverage when, as I passed
an open windo v, I heard the cover of the
urn rattle, and then caught the footsteps
of some one in retreat. It could be none
other than tho native cook, I argued, but
I did not go to his quarters to verify or
disprove my suspicions. I entered the
cabin, turned up the light, and carefully
examined the urn. The rascal had cer
tainly "dosed" it. There was a giayish
powder on the cover and on tho edjro of
tho urn, ana in his baste he had spilled
some on the floor. A look insido showed
numerous bubbles on the surface of
the'' liquid, but these broke and dis
appeared while I was looking. The rascal
could have but one object in his actions.
I arranged the can ao that no one could
securo a drink, aud then started to noti
fy the Captairi. As I passed along the
deck I looked for the junk, and in an in
stant ?aw that she had decreased the dis
tance between us. Tho tide was setting
in, and she was either dragging her
anchor or had purposely raised it and
allowed herself to drift. The Captain
was up as soon as I touched his arm. and
when I reported my suspicions of the
cook and the junk he replied: "Call all
the men nt once, but make no noise.
That junk has got fifty men in her hold,
and tho natives on shore are in with a
plot to capture us. Take a pair of hand
cuffs and have the cook secured in his
berth."
After I had called the men I went to
make a piisoner of the cook, but he was
nowhere to be found. Ills object in re
maining aboard up to that hour was to
drug our coffee and note what prepara
tions wo were making. When ho got
ready to go ho probably swam to the
shore with his news, but ho could have
reported little more than the fact that he
had drugged our coffee, which all who
wero awake at midnight would probably
makcuso of. When the men had received
their orders we paid our attention to the
junk, and one of the guns was quietly
rolled across the deck and trained upon
her. When the night glass was di
rected to the shore we could make out
th it many ot the nitives wero moving
about and evidently geiting ready for
some expedition. There was no question
now but what we were to be attacked.
We had a good pressure of steam, plenty
of hot water, and tho hose was attached
and a man as-igned to take charge of it.
It was an hour and a half after mid
night before there was any decided move
011 tho part of the enemy. Tho Captain
of the junk could not have had a night
glass, and perhaps ho reasoned that we
ere as badly off. lie kept paying out
his cable foot by foot until ho was so
closo onto us that I could have tossed a
biscuit aboard of him. Owing to the
M-t of Mie tide or some cross current, he
dropped down to us stern first, while we
lav broadside to th beach. 'he tcrn
of tho junk was pointed amidships of the
steamer, and our gnu would lake his
whole deck ut every di-charge. At 1
o'clock two men left her in a small boat
nnd went ashore, and 1 hen forty or liftv
n rm cd men came out of the hold and
t iok their stations on deck. A few hud
muskets, but most of them canicd
kni vei'und a sort of hand grenade. These
bomb are tiiltd with a villainous com
pound, which is let loose as they are
broken, and the fumes aro more to be
dreaded than a bullet. Their plan, as
we kolved it, was for an uttack on both
sides of us at once. A fleet would come
out oil us from the khore aud the junk
would drift down on us nt the same time.
We had the 1 ablu ready to blip, bent the
engineer to his post, and then waited.
At about half j ast one. while the tide
had yet half an hour to run, we saw the,
shore boats make ready. At leest 200
natives were ready to come off. They
knew that tho co.k had d nigged or
Eoisoned our coffee, and therefore sent a
oat in advance of the fleet to see in
what shano wo wero. The boat camo up
vary softly and rowed t-.vice around us
before the. Captain hailed and let them
know wo were wide awake. Some sort
of signal was given from the boat, and
tho fight opened at once. Just the mo
merit we saw the people on the junk get
ting ready to drift her down upon us we
gave thent the grape from the six-pounder.
They were not pistol-rhot
away, with most of the men crowded aft,
and I verily believe that tho one dis
charged killed or wounded twenty men.
I was at the gun with two others, and a
man armed with a carbine was near us.
He fired six or seven shots while we were
loading, and three or four musket shots
were fired at us. Our second shot drove
all who were left alive below hatches,
and. believing that the carbineer could
keep thorn there, we ran tho gun to the
starboard side to beat off tho boats.
It was high time. While the first dis
charge of tho gun had done for a score
of them, they were a reckless and des
perate lot and would not retreat. They
were provided with bombs, spears, blow
g'ins, and muskets, nnd the man who
was to sprinkle them with hot water had
been shot dead at their first fire. As
soon as we got our gun over, some one
picked up the noz.lc of the hoso pipe and
turned it loose on every boat within
reach. But for tho hot water the fellows
might have carried us by boarding for
two hundred to ten is big odds. Such
scroaming aud shouting and shrieking as
they indulged in when tho boiling hot
water spattered over their half-naked
bodies was paniemoniuin of itself, and
all tlio time we kept playing on them
with the guns and the carbines. The fight
could not have lasted oversovenor eight
miautes, and as soon as they began to
draw off I ran my gun to the port side,
loaded with shell, and sent the missile
right through the junk's stern. Half a
doen fellows rushed out of the hold and
jumped overboard, and I gave her two
more. When tho third was fired thore
was an explosion, probably of a barrel of
powder, which lifted her docks thirty
feet high and split her wide open. She
sunk right there before our eyes, and the
wails ot the wounded wretches who float
ed about for a minute or two were dread
ful to hear.
Captain Tabor felt that such treachery
as the natives had shown deserved the
severest punishment, and we turned
both guns loose on the village, and fired
riorty or fifty shells. When daylight
came not a human being was in sight.
Portions of tho junk had been driven on
the beach, and the natives had fled and
left everything behind them. The sharks
were probably attracted to the spot by
the sounds of firing, and they certainly
had a rich feast. I never saw them so
thick before nor since, and as they fished
up the bodies from the bottom around
us three or four would seize and tug at a
single 1 no nnd quickly tear it to pieces.
I was sent ashore with a flag of truco,
with four armed men to make it re
spected, nnd on the sands I found the
bodyofono of our firemen, and not fai
off that of our cook. After some hard
work: I induced the head man to come in
out of tho forest and talk to me. His
name was Wung-IIang, and a more hum
ble man I never met. He had laid it all
to the people on the junk. The natives
among our crew had conspired with the
fellows at Ke-Lung to secure passage
aboard and overpower us. When this
game could not be worked, owing to the
refusal of tho Captain to take them, they
followed on after us in the junk, and
found a cheerful co-operator in old
j Wung-IIang, the trader. He denied
taking any part in tho affair personally,
and added that ho did his best to dis
suade his people from making the attack.
His loss, according to his own figures,
was sixty odd killed, while almost every
one elso was wounded or scalded. Five
men got ashore from tho junk, which
had nearly fifty men aboard of her.
We were in a situation to take every
dollar's worth of goods tho old rascal
had in his store-houses', but Captain
Tabor had no intention of blasting his
prestige in that fashion. We hold, tho
trader to tho contract already made, and
landed our goods nnd put his aboard.
j He had been soundly thrashed, and like
1 plenty of other men under the same cir
cumstances he respected tho thrashers.
He suppl ed us with the best of pro
visions, detailed natives to do all our
work, and wheu we were ready to leave
he supplied us with five natives, and
gave l aptain Tabor full power to decap
itate them at the first signs ot disobe
dience. During th'j next three years, or
until I severed my connection with the
steamer, wo got around to the island
about once in six months, and old Wung
Hang always had a good bit of cargo
ready for us, and would deal with no one
else. Xeio York Sun.
A Fair Report.
The following report of the financial
standing of u gentleman, furnished a
friend by Abraham Lincoln, is probably
more leliable, suys Youth' ('miiniiiinn,
than many of the reports furnished to
day by some commercial agencies. His
estimate of th! value of thu wife and
baby will strike the ordinary father as
being very fair:
" ours of the lllth instant receive !. I am
well acquainted with Mr. , ami know his
circuiuslau es. Kiist of all, hu lias a wife
and haty. Together they ought to be worth
liny thousand Uohursto any man. Hwondly,
hu bus an oilii e in w hi h I limn ia a talilo
worth 0110 dollar aud liftv cents, arid three
chain worth, nay. one dollar. Jjit of all,
there is in one corner a large rat hole, w hich,
will hear looking into.
Itespe -tfiiUy yours, A. Lincoln.
A Michigan ex soldier lias decliued to
receive his pension any longer bo
cause he has got well. It is rumored
that he will be given another pension
now ou the ground of insanity. (.',
TWO INVENTIONS A WEEK.
THAT 13 THE AVERAGE FOR WTJ.ICII
ONE MAN SEEKS PATENTS.
Millionaire Went Inslionon and HI
Peculiar It ion Mra. Went Inghnuaa
and Her I.avlnh Kipriiilittircn.
Edison has, in the opinion of many,
been c lipsod by tho versatility of a
Pittsburg genius, says a letter from that
city in the Chicago Tribune. Tho one
name that ismoro familiar, perhaps, than
all others in tho patent office at Washing
ton City, is that of Mr. Ueorgo Westing
house, tho millionaire inventor whose
wonderful workshops make up at least
one-twelfth of tho industries of this city.
His air-brake mado him famous several
Tears ago. Hut it is since then that his
inventive mind has been more prolific.
For the last year his patents taken out in
the government otlico have averaged two
a week allot them of tho most valuable
kind. ( f a man whose ability to invent
can stand such a constant drain; whose
inventions require tho constant employ
ment of 5,000 men to manufacture;
whoso profits from his various patents
have swollen to between $'1,000,000 nnd
$,OHO,000 in a decade of years many
interesting stories can bo told.
Last week one of Mr. Westinghouse's
clerks, John Sprage by name, struck a
novel idea to break the intensity of tho
incandescent electric light. It was to
simply havo tho egg shapod globe made
of heavy wavy glass. Mr. Westinghouso
happened to notice the experiment,
' I 1 1 .1 f .1.
quicaiy recugnieu mu uumy 01 ine con
trivance, nnd gave Sprago 1,001) for his
idea. Of course in this way Mr. Wests
inghouse has bought up n number of
small patents which appear to tho public
as his own, but the great majority of
them are evolved in his own brain. His
most important inventions nrointhrco
lines viz. : the air-brake for locomo
tives and switch and signal apparatus,
safety appliance for natural gas, high
speed engines and dynamos for the man
ufacture of electric-light. Tho King of
Belgium recently sent Mr. Westinghouse
a bundle of parchment stamped with
gold and scarlet seals and bound with
yards of tape, in which the inventor
found himself titled for .life as "Sir
Knight Ocorge Westinghouse," he being
knighted for tho many lives saved
through the instrumentality of his air
brake. Workshops to make the brako
arc maintained in Pittsburg, Paris, and
licrlin. Almost every railroad operating
in the I'nited States, Europe.on the Con
tinent, in the countries of the Orient or
the Occident, pay Mr. Westinghouse a
royalty for tho use of his way of utilizing
air. It will thus be seen that his profits
from this sourco are princely. No other
man in the I'nited States can show tho
name of every railroad on the pages of
his ledger as debtors.
Mrs. Westinghouse is ono of thu re
mat kable women of Pennsylvania. Sho
spends money with n lavish hand to at
tain her happiness. Among tho pur
chases her husband ouco made was a
cream-colored hocso with beautiful
white mane and tail. Mrs. Westing
house went into ecstacies over the ani
mal. She wanted a mate for it. Nono
could bo found iu Pittsburg. So she
hired a trustworthy man and sent him
out to search for the mate of tho cream
colored horse. Ho was to tracl until he
found it. This took him a year, but ho
came back with tho exai t mate. ' No
prettier team was ever seen on the streets
of Pittsburjf than those two horses. A
bhort time afterwards one of them died.
Mrs. Westinghouse's gricf was uncon
trollable. She engaged a taxidermist at
an extravagant price mid had her dead
pet stuffed. Hoofs of solid silver were
placed upon his feet, and the whole,
fastened to an elegant mahogany bed,
now btands in the stables beside the live
mate. They tiro there today and can
be sei'n by visitors to llouu wood, the
name of the inventor's splendid palace.
It is reluted of Mrs. Westinghouse that
on another o casion nhe wn conspicuous
in an equally prodigious expenditure ol
money. It was while she was summering
at the Kaaterskill Hotel, 011 the top of
tho mountains, that she gave a splendid
reception. It was over at last and she
was about to reliie in the morning whe 1
she was struck by tho weary, ha.'uurd
looks of all the servants who hud been
compelled to do extra work on her ac
count. Her generous heart responded,
and she felt for her purse to rewurd them.
It hail been left in her room, and so go
ing to the clerk of the hotel she reqius
ted the loan of $1,500 until morning. ' I
have only pot $i,10 here," replied the
clerk. "Well, give me that," said the
dashing MOinan. And this whole mm
she is reported 1 1 havo thrown atound
among tho servants.
There is at present being built at Pull
man, III., a magniliccnt private car for
Mrs. Westinghouse. She travels a great
deal, and her husband proposes to have
something for her that will outrival in
elegance the cars of Pullman, andcr
bilt, or Gould. Only tho other day Wil
liam Timmius, a laboring man, invented
a new kind of brako for railroad trains.
Mr. Westinghouso offered him f 75, 1100
for it, but the shrewd lilt le Kntdisliuuni
held on to his contrivance and expects
more.
His Preference.
Somehow or other I don't think I'd
care to be the prettiest girl in the world,"
he remarked.
Sho "Why uot?"
lie "Heeauso I d rather be next to
the prettiest." Sijtimj.
The London l.anct t records the case of
a girl who had attacks resembling delir
ium tremens f rom tho act of chew ing tc i
leaves. Seimr bslieves that iniiiiy per
sons could be cured of their dyspi p ia
ami of palpitation of the hear, by dis
continuing the use of this favorite bev
raire.
TO MY WIFE.
rVTiv need you care, dear wife, or heed
! The passing of your early grace f
What thoiiRh the lilios supersede
The springtime roso.s of your faisat
What though the aiuro of your eyes
Has mellowed to a softer blue?
The fairest tinti that duck the skies
Are caught from twilight's fading hue.
Why should the rlenad fruit regret
Its summer bloom, howo'er so fair?
Why need you sigh, though Time should sot
His crown of silver on your hair?
The sweetest fragrance of the rose
Is from its fading petals pressed,
And Nature spreads her earliest snows
Above the flowers sho loves the best
What care we for tho vauishe.l years,
Rave for the fruit their summers brought:
What care we for our fallen tears,
Save for the rainbows on them wrought;
Why should we mourn tho joys we shared,
Orsoe them perish with regret,
Since on the fruit our hearts have fared,
And memory keeps tho rainbows yet?
What though our winter time has come,
Aud summer's buds and blooms expire?
Love hath an ever radiant home,
And bids us welcome to its fire.
Ho dwelt with us through all the spring;
We sheltered him from summer's heat;
Now at his hearth we'll sit and slug,
And let tho wintry tempest beat.
Lee O. Harris
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
Fine language Ten dollars and costs.
The timo when the cold water party
largely predominated During tho flood.
Call.
If every man was ns big as ho fools
thore couldn't be standing room in this
country. .eminui Independent.
A man is like ara'orboeause you can't
tell how sharp he can bo until lie is com
pletely strapped. Uantville Breeze.
Tho greatest reformer of tho ago was.
tho inventor of tho bustle, which has
re-formed nearly every woman. Phila
delphia Jerald.
An, exchango observes: "We owe
much to foreigners," from which we
infer that tho editor has not paid his
hired girl. Aiew llacea jW.
Tho epidemic of pugilism is calculated
to mako tho weary newspaper reader wish
that even the baseball season might coino
Agan.w-P,'itlnddphiit Tim".
A writer says that "kind words are
never lost." How is it whon your wife
puts them in a letter and iiivcs them to
you to mail? Ihirlinylon Free J'les.t,
The question of the hour may hold
Much mad contention in it,
But, is reduced, w hcu all is told,
To moment and to minute.
t Nifiingn.
A Maino minister was recently treed
by a bear and kept there for an hour.
Ho says he will never preach a long ser
mon again in his life. liurliinjton Fre
l'rtt.
Why, Chawley," drawled Gusdo Flip
kins to his chum, C. Percy Oiddibraino,
"whore's your watch?" "Oh, 1 couldn't
stand it," ho rcp.ied, "tho beastly tick
ing shattered my nerves." Tid-Uits.
Mrs. lligsby My husband just detests
cabbage. Why do you suppose he is so
prejudiced against it.' .Mrs. lllobson I
imagine ho takes too much of it in his
cigars, my deor. Jlirliiitjlon Fret l're.
Doctor "What ails you, sir?" Patient
"I don't know, doctor; I have such a
hu.zing sound in my cars all tho time.
Would you like to look at my tonguo?"
Doctor "N'o, never mind; bring your
wife around some day; I'd like to look
at hers." StntrmiKiit.
"Would you say tho poultry is very
tender or the fowl is ery tender?" asked
the Ixtnrding house mistress of one of her
victims tho other day at dinner.
"Neither," was the reply. "What,
then, would you say." "I'd say the
chi. ken is mighty tough!'' camo from
tho boarder with emphasis. statmman.
king Kalakuua's kingdom.
From Mr. F. S. Poole, of St. Louis,
who has for many years been eng tgod in
raising rice in tne Sandwich Idands, I
got a glimpse yestorday of King Kala
kaua and his king lorn. Everybody will
remember the M ir that was mado whon
the Sandwich Island monarch traveled
through this country several years ago.
King "Calieo'jfc w as on every tongue.
Mr. Poole tohffne that King Kalakaua,
although once very wealthy, has been so
open hamicd 'ud prodigal that ho has
lilUe money left. He has I 11 reigning
lor fouit. eu or fifteen y,- irs. and w hile a
man of some aluliiy he bus not been able
to hold his position except by tho con
stant expenditure of money. Tliey have
elections on the i-l mds, compare 1 with
which those in tho I 11 t d States are
tame. Thu islanders aro natural orators
und will cIim us, the isu s of the day by
the hour from any point of vantage,
whether the he id of a siiar barrel, a
table or a door lcp. They move largely
011 tin; impulse of the moment andean
be swaved under cxeiteiiicut for any
hide. The king lorn i divided between
the "iu" und "outs," that is, the Ad
ministration and the unti Administra
tion factions Willi tho exception of
tho treaty xxith tho I idled Slates, the
Sandwi. h' Islands have a protective tariff
often per (cut. against ull countries.
.V '0 ) ui i 'I ri'iHht.
Momentous Herds.
What spil.-i ill Inlin e steal unawares
Wlieiever In CIS conic.
And tii- II"' mini. I. si laaiii and scares
The luuiB't ti-liiij;diiiiibl
U e had oiiu iniiiulu ut thu K'''e,
li. tore thu others 1 uine;
To 11101 row I' would U- too lute,
Aud lew would he llm oluuiH
1 I'K'rd ut hr. sin- ii'un e. 1 ut lue;
A llm time s.ed hv ;
' llow warm It I- t xUv,'' wild she;
" It lisilvs likn lam," bitid I.
Cr arurv.