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PA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1887. $1 50 PER ANNUM Twenty-five years ago there were but two places along the Jersey coast of any Importance Long Branch and Cape May. Then the total valuation of the seaboard was less than $7,000,000, while tho last report of Comptroller Anderson gives the astonishing valuation of over $100, 000,000. aLJ .. . . Epaulettes, abolished by law in the French army in ISSl, were restored re cently to the shoulders of French sol diers. Tho removal of them caused great dissatisfaction in the army, and their restoration, which is credited to General Boulanger, has increased his y popularity in the army. i Anew departure in the ways of women is the formation of a fire brigade. Ac cording to the London Fireman, this has been done by a thousand girls employed in a Liverpool cigar factory. They are well officered and drilled, and at a recent blaze in the factory turned out ,lto a niifi," and did most effectual work in ulig the flames. One of the secrets of success on the partdf French cooks is that they measure ingredients with 'the accuracy of a pre scription clerk. Every one knows that it is impossible to make domestics measure anything for cookery in this country. The French nurses are also very careful in administering medicines, to give prop cV sized dose and at time directed. Bicycles are to be utilized in the French army. The War Minister, after witness ing trials of bicycles, tricycles and veloci pedes, has c hosen the first of these ma chines as the mast uicful model. A cer tain uumbcr of infantry soldiers in each corps will bo trained to ride the bicycle, in order to carry dispatches when ou active service, and thus leave the cavalry free for other dutv. After banishing beer the Prohibitionists of Iowa are now making a crusade against cider. In Des Moines receutly the Prohi bition spies seized a keg of cider belong ing to one Jacob Hucglin and accused him of violating the law in having so -- deadly an agent of intoxication in his possession. As it was not strong cider, he believed ho was not violating the law in using it. But the justice of the peace . declared the fluid to be intoxicating and ordered it to be destroyed. The head of the keg was accordingly knocked in and and the contents poured in the street as a warning to all other offenders. T An army officer says that small as our ' army is, there is an excessive percentage of desertion from it, although the men are far better fed aud paid than any other soldiers iu the world. The reason is that a great uuiuber of men enlist for the pur km) of being sent out West, and then de serting. This class is very large and ex ceedingly hard to deal with, as it is next to impossible to apprehend them, owing to the general feeling throughout the mountain regions that they have escaped from a kind of slavery. Another class liable to desert consists of young men of irood family who have become dis sipated, and eulisted iu a moment of de lair. But the strangest class is that of the chronic deserters. "Only three Presidents before Mr. Cleveland," kiys the Washington Star, ''have had the pleasure of celebrating their semi-centennials while in that office. There were James K. Polk, Franklin Pierce, aud Geu. Grant. James A. Garfield would have been fifty years old had Guiteau's bullet been a month later in concluding its fatal work. Presi Cleveland has the advantage in years of many of his predecessors. Washington was fifty-seven, when he was inaugurated, John Adams sixty-two, Jefferson, Madi son, and John Quincy Adams fifty-eight ; Monroe was fifty-nine, Jackson sixty-two, Van Buren fifty-five, and Harrison sixty eight. Gen. Grant was the youngest aud Harrison the oldest of the Resi dents." The Michigan Legislature has made a law giving a reward of one cent for each sparrow killed in that State, the expense to be made a county harge and payable by village or town clerks. "This," says the Culticator, "will probably thin out what has become in mauy localities a great nuisance. The sparrow; in North ern States live chiefly in cities and vil lages, where they can find shelter, and are especially destructive to grain and fruit near the snburbs. In Spring they eat fruit buds when nothing else offers, and thus do greater damage than at any other season. With a reward of one cent for each one killed a profitable business might be done in killing them, and the experiment in Michigan might well be repeated elsewhere. The sparrow breeds rapidly, and one of its worst offences cou ists iu driving uway the n.iiixe birds muck Kore valuable ihu itself." WAITING. ferene I hold my hands and wait; Uor care for wind, nor tide, nor se; I rave no more 'gainst time nor fate, For, lol my own shall come to me. I stay my ha-ste, I make delay, For what avails this eager space! I stand amid the eternal ways, And what is mine shall know my face. Asleep, awake, by night or day, . The friends I seek are seeking me; No wind can drive my bark astray, Nor change the tide of destiny. What matter if I jitand alone? I wait with joy the coming years; My heart shall reap where it has sown, And garner np its fruit and tears; The waters know their own and draw The brook that springs on yonder height; Bo flows the good with equal law Unto the soul of pure delight. The floweret nodding in the wind Is ready plighted to the bee; And, maiden, why that look unkind? For, lo, thy lover seeketh thee. The stars come nightly to the sky, The tidal waves unto the seaf Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high, C..:i keep my own way from me. John Burroughs, in Albany Journal. SEWING RAG CARPETS. BT HELEN FORREST GRAVES. It was a small, unpainted house, stained an indescribable hue by the suns and rains of half a century, a row of stiff, Lombar dy poplars in front, and beneath the win dow s, in a narrow bed, outlined by strips of Ijoard, blossomed four o'clock., "youth aud old age," and gaudy African mari golds, which seemed to hold up their or ange torches with a distinctly defiant air. Green paper shades veiled the windows, and a knocker, with an eagle's head, hung in the upper centre of the door. Every one has seen such houses along the country roads where the Queen Anne craze has not yet penetrated, and orchids and Japanese foliage plants are un known. Miss Fossett and her niece, Mary Ann, eat in the little front room sewing rags for a carpet. A bright wood fire crackled and snapped in the air-tight stove, for al though the sun shone bright on the Afri can marigolds and four-o'clocks, there was a keen wind blowing, and the dead leaves were carried in all directions. The l-ul was asieep among tne balls ot rags wuicu maue a parti-coiored mountain in one corner of the room, and the wooden clock ticked shrilly on the shelf alongside of a case of dried butterflies and a plaster ui pans parrot wun a broken beak. Miss Fossett was elderlv and soare with a false "front, which did not in the least match her back hair, and spectacles, Mary Ann was slight and gracefully rounded, with dark, solemn eyes, and lips redder than wild raspberries. To Miss Fossett everything in the world was subsidiary, just at present, to the fin ishing of the carpet sewing. To Mary Ann there was nothing in all the universe wnicn was actually impossible. There is just this difference between sixty and six teen. "I was a-calculatin'." Miss Fossett droned on, as she drew the swift needle tn and out, "to get this one carpet wove aiore snow-iall, but 1 true it 11 be close shave now. I didn't know, if I could get my spare chamber carpeted, but that the school-ma'am might come here to board; and three dollars a week is three dollars a w eek in these times." "Yes, I know, aunty," said Mary Ann; "and why shouldn't she come? We shall soon have the carpet ready for the loom, and, in the meautime, why shouldn't she be satisfied with a rug or two laid down by the bed and in front of the bureau?" "Haven't you heerd (" said Miss Fossett, stooping to regain her spool of linen thread, which had rolled away under the cat's snug resting-place. The school ma'am's going to be married, and the new teacher Eliab Kay he boards to hum. I don't b'lieve he'll get along better than MissMarston did, if he is a man-teacher." Mary Ann's eyes lighted up. "To be married?" said she. "Yes," nodded Miss Fossett. "Who is she going to marry, Aunt Fossett?" "Our next neighbor," said Miss Fos sett, grimly. "Mr. Fairweather?" "Yes, Mr. Fairweather. It beats all!" Miss Fossett added "to think you shouldn't a heerd it afore now ! Why, she's goin' to hev a dove-colored silk dress from Bridgqort, and a store hat, trimmed with stuffed birds anil a real brochuy shawl ! Must ha' laid up a sight o'money, I should s'pose." Mary Ann was silent. It was a question whether or not she heard the stream of idle chatter that flowed uninterruptedly from her aunt's lips. For herself shgtwed away, and uttered never a word. John Fairweather to be married to Alda Marston! The news had fallen like a thunderbolt into the peaceful serenity of her heart. In novels she had read, many a time and oft, of the duplicity of man, but the fact had never come so near home before. The two women sewed diligently at the carpet-rags until dust. Miss Fossett had no idea that any one could desire rest from so delightful an occupation, and Mary Ann scarcely knew what she was doing. A sort of stupor seemed to numb her senses. " Guess we'd better stop a spell now," said the old lady. ' Jut you run out to the well aud fill the tea-kettle, and I'll set out the apple-sass and doughnuts and riz biscuits. We won't hev no regular meal, being there's such a hurry with the lags." Mary Atui stuck Lit atcdlc into odk of the red-flannel leaves of the housewife, which was fashioned like a miniature book, dropped her thimble into her pock et and vanished. She did not go straight to the well though. She stole up the winding wooden stairway first into her own room, where the yellow glow of the sunset yet lingered, and took two or three dried rosebuds and a sprig of scented geranium from a little box in the corner of the table-drawer. Looking at them for a moment, she opened the window and flung them out into the grass below. "I have been a fool long enough," said she to herself. And then she went forth to the well and filled the tea-kettle, listening vaguely as she did so to the melancholy "cheep cheep" of the crickets in the stone wall. "Mary Ann!" a veice uttered. Mary Ann started so violently that she had nearly dropped the tea-kittle. It was Miss Marston who had come un expectedly up the path, with a bunch of colored maple-leaves in her bands. "Oh, Miss Alda, how you startled me!" "Took me for a ghost, ch?" said Alda Marston, laughing. "But I wanted to see you, Mary Ann. Goodness me," in tently scrutinizing her face by the last fading gleams of daylight, "how pretty the child is growing I I don't blame John for being bewitched about her." "Did you want anything?" said Mary Ann, bridling up a little. "IwantiwM, child," said Alda Mat ton, in the pretty, domineering manner winch, being a "school-ma am," she had naturally acquired. "Can you help me with my sewing a little, this week: " "I am afnud I cannot," said Mary Ann, with her face turned awav. "Oh, Mary Ann and I had counted on you!" "I cannot !" frigidly repeated the girl, .Miss jiarston stood silent a minute or two. But you haven t congratulated me yet, Mary Ann," said she, coaxingly. Mary Ann withdrew herself spasmodic ally from the light touch of her hand. "I m sure I hope vou will be very happy," said she. ".No, I don't either; I don t hope anything of that kind!" And she fled away, sobbing and hold ing tight to the tea-loettle, whose spout dripped all the .way in a most lachry matory fashion. The kerosene lamp was lighted, when she reached the room where the balls of carpet rags were piled up. John Fair weather himself was leaning against the woouen mantle arch with his elbow in dangerous proximity to the case of dried butterflies, but her aunt was nowhere to be seen. "She has gone upstairs," the young man explained, in answer to Mary Ann's bewildered look, "to get a bag of hops for old Mrs. Hubbards' neuralgia, Are you ill, Mary Ann? Y'ou look so white and weary." With gentle authority he took the tea kettle from her hand, and set it on the stove, Mary Ann helplessly regarding him the while. How tall and straight and handsome he was ! How pleasant shone the light from his genial, hazel eyes! How dearly she had learned to love him 1 And now it must all be undone again 1 Was it not almost wicked to allow herself to look ad miringly upon the face of the man who belonged to Alda Marston? With these thoughts in her heart, it was no wonder that her expression crew a ingiu as an icicie. t?ne paid no need to his question. "Miss Marston was out by the well just now," said she. "Y'ou will find her there." "Miss Marston, eh?" said Mr. Fair- weather, with provoking equanimity "That reminds me you haven't told me yet what you think of our family arrange ments? W ere you surprised?" Mary Ann looked at him in amazement, almost in anger. "Of course I was surprised," said she "But," gathering all her presence of mind, "I don't know why. It is no busi ness of mine!" "But it is, though," said John Fair weather. "It has only driven me, a lit tle sooner than otherwise anticipated, to ask you to listen to my suit. Miss Alda must not imagine that she is the ouly jK'rson in the world who can get mar ried." Mary Ann drew herself up. "Mr. fairweather, said she, "I must beg vou to remember vourseii. We are not Mormons here. Neither are you any relation to Bluebeard. In this country a man can have but one wile: ' Mr. Fairweather looked puzzled. "An indisputable fact, "said he. "But I know of no one who is contradicting it." "How how dare you insult me by such words as this?" cried poor Mary Ann. "lou, that are engaged to Miss Alda Marston !" "But I am not engaged to Miss Alda Marston." "Mr. Fairweather!" "I am not, indeed," he said. "Dear little Mary Ann, do not look at me w ith such incredulous eyes! Miss Ald.i Mars ton is affianced to my father. She is to lie my step-mother, next month; and as I would naturally, under the existing cir cumstances, prefer a home of my own, I want you to be its household angel !" "Not another word was spokeu. M iry Ann's soft .. yes.brimming over with glad tears, were lifted to John's face. She stole toward him and hid her crim son cheek against his shoulder; his aim tightened itself, in the most natural man ner in the world, around her waist. Aud wheu Miss Fossett came down stairs with the ba ; of hops, the two were busily engaged iu picking up the balls of carpet-rugs which bid rolled away in every direction. "It waa the cat, aunty," explained Mary Ann. "She w as asleep, in the very middle of the balls, and whea he gut up aud stretched herself " tother no " Rfiul Mim Fossett there's work around !" said Miss Fossett And after John Fairweather had gone home with his stepmother-elect (Mary Ann wasn't the least bit in the world jeal ous of Mis Alda Marston now), the girl crept out in the dew and starlight to pick up the dried rosebuds and the scented geranium-leaves. "Oh, what a fool 1 was!" she whis pered softly to herself ; "and how happy I am at last!" She helped Miss Marston with hei dresses, after all; and when the rag car pet was sewn and woven in rainbow stripes, it occupied the place of honor on Mrs. John 1 airweather s dainty little kitchen floor. "Isn't it pretty, John?" she cried, the first day it was laid down. "The prettiest thing I ever saw m my life," said Mr. Fairweather, looking straight into his wife's face. And Mrs. Fairweather laughed and blushed, and said : "Now, John, don't be a goose!" Sat urday Right. Usefulness In Old Age. Suppose, then, says the New Tork Home Journal, we agree to call no man old till he is past sixty-three. Let us set down the names of some of the illustrious people of the world who have prolonged their days of usefulness after that age. We shall make a table of them, and begin it with those who have died at seventy that is to say, with those in whom the springs of life have not stood still till they have had at least seven years of old age. It will be found, however, to be far from exhaustive, and every reader may find pleause in adding to it from his own stock of information : Age at Death. Age at Death. 70 Columbus ; Lord Chatham; Pe 80 Plato; Words worth ; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Kent; Thiers; Wm. Cullen. 81 Buff on; Edward Younsr: Sir Ed ward Coke; Lord Palmerston. 82 Arnauld. 83 Wellington; Vic tor Hugo ; Goethe 84 Voltaire; Talley rand; Sir Win. HerscheL 83 Cato the Wise; Newton; Jeremy Bentham; Benj. Franklin. 86 Earl Russell; Ed mund Hailey; Carlisle. 87 John Wesley. 8 Michael Angela ) Sophocles. 9 Titian. 100 Fontenelle. trarch: Coper nicus; Hoallanza ni; Boerhaave; UaJU. 71 Linneus. 72 Charlemagne; Samuel Kichard son: Allan Ram say; John Locke: .decker. 73 Charles Darwin; Thorwaldsen. 74 Handel: Frederic the Great ; Dr. J en ner. 75 Haydn ; Dugald (Stewart, 7ft Bossuet. 77 Thomas Telford; Sir Joseph Banks Lord Bekconsfield 78 Galileo ; Corneille. 79 W liliam Harvey Rob'rt Stevenson ; Henry Cavendish. Gardening The Chinese Under Difficulties, are a very industrious people, and nothing is allowed to go to waste that can possibly be utilized. As the Empire of China is the largest on the globe, and contains nearly half of the entire number of the human race, the necessity of economy is very appar ent. They not only cultivate the land, but all of the lakes, ponds and marshes are gardens in which aquatic plants, suitable for food, are largely raised. Among these the water chestnut is pre eminent, and is said to be of a very palatable and wholesome nature. In a narrative of Lord Macartney's Embassy to China, it is related that His Lord ship's attendants, in passing through a part of that Empire, saw a man culti vating the side of a precipice, and, on examination, they found he had a rope fastened around his waist, which was secured at the top of the mountain, and by which he let himself down to any part of the precipice where a few yards of available ground gave him en couragement to plant his vegetables and his corn. The whole of the cultivated spots, which were at some distance from each other, appeared to be not more than half an acre, and near the bottom of the precipice, on a hillock, he had a little hut, where he supported a wife and several children in this hazardous manner. American Agricul turist. A Useful Monkey. A very valuable monkey is the chacma of Africa. When young, this baboon is very teachable, aud is often kept by the Kaffirs as a domestic animal He takes the place of a dog, growling when a stranger comes near; and if it becomes necessary to defend his master's property, he is much stronger than any dog. The chacma easily learns to blow the bellows of a smith, and to drive horses or oxen ; but his greatest use in that coun try is to find water. Iu the hot season, when the earth is parched, and springs and streams are dry, the owner of a tame chacma takes him out to hunt for the water they all must have. The intelligent monkey seems to know what wanted, or perhaps he knows by his own feelings w hat to look for, and he goes carefully over the ground, looking ear nestly at every tuft of grass, and eagerly snimiiir the breeze on every sul Whether he scents it or not is not know n, but if there is water in the neighbor hood, he is sure to find it. It may be a deep spring, in which ;isc lie sets to wor k digging down to it ; and it niay bo a certain very juicy root, which often serves instead of water. He gets that out also; and let us hope he has his full share of it, to pay for his work. St. Su?ulit. A Mis-Take. A gentleman who had but a slight ac quaiutance with a young lady and was in doubt whether she would accept a present from him, sent her some caramels with the following note: If this to a Mis Proves aiuisa, The candies take As a Mis tuite. Curl Fi tt'tL "Cats are -i--iBILL XYE DISCUSSES PIE. 1 SETTLING A OASTBONOMIC POINT RAISED BY FOUR DRTJMMER3. Some Ilemark Upon the Relation Between Hotel Proprietor and Commercial Traveler. I am in receipt of the following letter. CoscoBniA., Kan., March 22, 18S7. Mr. William 'ye: Knowing that you are a friend of the traveling man, we do not hes itate to ak your opinion or advice as to what course we should pursue in a matter of vital imrortanoe to us. The proprietor of the Hallibert House, Red Cloud, Neb. , the leading hostelry there, insists upon cutting one pie in sixteen pieces, which only gives one sixteenth of a pie to the commercial man. We have re monstrated with him about this, but without awail. What shall we do about it) Pleas advise us. Y'ours amitatively, WillReed, Harrt Hicks, Gkoroe Thompson, E. C Lindsay. eeplt. AsnEviLi.E, N. C, March 29, 1887. Jfessrs. Iieed, Hicks, Thompson and Lind say, at large. Gentlemen: Your favor, dated at Concordia, Kas., 22d inst., is now in front of me as I write. I hate to come in be tween the commercial man and the hotels in a case of this kind, especially in order to monkey with relations that are really strained; and yet something ought to be said at this time or we may easily foresee that the overworked American pie will at length be compelled by reason of brain fag to abandon the proud position which it now holds relative to our interstate commerce. I would like to treat this matter in a way to insure harmony between the trav eling man and the hotel, if possible; and yet I must confess that I cannot refer to pie in a purely unpartisan spirit. Pie, I may truthfully say, seems to lie nearei my heart at times than anything else within the great realm of groceries. I know that commercial men are prone to ask too much of the hotels at times, and thus they inflame the proprietors. I have known of many such instances in which the tourist was clearly in the wrong: but the outrages were always per petrated by traveling men whose early lives had been passed in obscurity. They were men who knew how to catch a train or tell in a rich Union-Depot tone of voice how many goods they sold in that town, but they do not adorn society very much. These are the exception, however. They are men who represent small houses, and sleep on four seats in the day-coach, with their feet on the velvet collar of the un assuming capitalist who sits in the ad joining pew. But I was a traveling man once for two weeks, and I have always sympathized with those who followed this business for a livelihood. For some years I had yearned to be a commercial man with a sorrel traveling-bag and a bold signature. I intimated to several large concerns that my services could be secured at a nomi nal figure, but there is nothing so puffed up or so egotistical as a prosperous busi ness house, and so they continued to struggle on without me. Finally I went on the road in the inter ests of a preparation that would take an old pair of second-hand lungs and brighten them up so that a man needn't be ashamed to dress up in them and wear them into the best society. People say that traveling men are too forward and too bold, and ought to do a little more of the blush-unseen business, but I found when I was on the road that I had to be bold, especially at the hotels, for the clerks were bold, the porters were bold, and the dining-room girls were also in several instances extremely so. If I did not demand the best chamber I generally got tea-chest No. 6 5-8, with no knob on the door, and when I would punch the button on the denunciator it would fall off with a low tremulous sound and roll under the bed. Speaking of door-knobs, reminds me of a hotel man in Washington Territory who had a novel way of keeping these handles clean at a slight expense. He has knobs on all doors and they are so arranged that they may be easily re moved. He has two sets for the house one set being white and the other a dappled bay. When one set gets soiled he removes the knobs, placing them in the soap dishes of the various rooms, where the guests rinse them off thoroughly in a vaiu attempt to get a lather out of them. After they are dried the proprietor replaces them on the doors and the toiled set go into the soap dishes. This hotel is now called the door-knob chop house, and with the slippery elm towel adopted there a polish ia given to the guest which he might therwbe never secure. Gentlemen, in conclusion, I hardly know what to say, unless it be to add that whatever you may decide to do to ward the purification of thisgreat pie evil, provided you do not actually endanger human life, you may safely rely upon me and couut me in. l'ie enters into the life of every true American, and an unfair di vision of pie will certainly lead to oien hostility and possibly intestine war. Do not trust the man who robs you of your lie in order that he may thrust it into his ow n corrupt system. The tendency of the uge seems to be toward the centralization of pie. This is bound to make the thin man thinner aud the fut man fatter. From statistics now in my hands I have ascertained that we have euoiigh pie in America, if properly distributed, lo give to each adult, exclu sive of Indians not taxed, one-eighth of a full-grown pie and still leave one-sixteenth pie for each child of school age. Geutlemcn, this letter is already too long. I can add nothing more unless it be yours, trulv. Hill Sy, in .V Yuri KvrlJ. The saddest case of intoxication oc curred ou Wall street rcccnth. Money trot tilil. JJralc t MufJulnt. PEACE. Winds and wild waves in headlong hug com motion Scud, dark with tempest, o'er the Atlantic's breast; While underneath, few fathoms deep in ocean, Lie peace, and rest. Storms in mid-air. the rack before them sweeping. Hurry, and hiss, like furies hate possessed; While over all white cloudlets pure are sleep ing In peace, in rest. Heart, O wild heart! why in the storm-world ranging Flit'st thou thus midway, passion's slave ami jest, When all so near above, below, unchanging Are heaven, and rest? London Spectator. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Canada will soon thirst for peace if she goes to war on codfish. Goodall's Sun. A subscriber wants to know if men make much out of journalism. Yes, dear friend, much more out of it than in it. Sew Haven Xeics. The wolves in Minnesota have chased a lawyer twenty miles over the snow, and the local press denounces them for unpro fessional conduct. Goodall's Sun. Since Professor Proctor has figured out that the sun is 1,200,000 times larger than the earth a great many people now want the sun instead of just the earth. Puck. This is the timo that rippUng bird songs wake A tender rapture round the pla-shin, nils, And man now doth his very test to shake The chills. , , Puck. Boston Mamma (to little boy) "Wal do, dear, why do you make so much noise?" Little boy "It must be becau I am Hub-bub, "mamma." Aifie To-rk Sun. It is astonishing tow much scorn, in dignation and contempt a woman can put into two words. If you do not believe k just listen while she'speaks of some one she dislikes as "that man." Boston Glolx. APRIL FOOL. When Uncle Sam and Johnny BuE ' Walked out one morning cool, John pointed to our coast defense, And shouted "April fool." Dansville Breeze. Brown "Why don't you spread youi umbrella?" Coles "Well, to tell you the truth, I'm afraid some one in ttu crowd will recognize it." Brown "Then why do you carry it?" Coles "Afraid some one will call for it while I'm out." Life. Little Nell: "I caught.sistcr Maud en gaging herself to another young man lasl night, an' she hasn't sent off the first one yet." Little Kitty: "Ain't that nice; did vou tell on her?" "No ; she buyed me off." AVhat did she do?" "She said if I'd keep quiet she'd give me one of 'em when I grow up." Tid-Bits. The Bible of India. From an article on "The Veda" by W. D. Whitney in the Century, we quote as follows: "The name Veda has grown to be a familiar one in the ears of this gen eration. Every educated person among us knows it as the title of a literary work, belonging to far-off India, that it is heW to be of quite exceptional importance by men who are studying some of the sub jects that most interest ourselves. Y'et there are doubtless many to whose minds the word brings but a hazy and uncertain meaning. For their sake, then, it may be well" to take a general view of the Veda, to define its place in the sum of me i s literary productions, and to show how and why it has the especial value claimed for it by its students. "The Veda is'the Bible of the inhabi tants of India, ancient and modern; tho Sacred Book of one great division of the human race. Now, leaving aside our own Bible, the first jiart of which was in like manner the ancient Sacred Book of one division of mankind, the Hebrew, there are many such scriptures iu the world. There is the Koran of the Arabs, of w hich we know perfectly will the period and author; the A vesta of the Persian 'fire worshipers,' or followers of Zoroaster; the records of ancient China, collected and arranged by Confucius; and others less conspicuous. All arc of hiirh inter est, important for the history of their re spective peoples and for the general his tory of religions; yet they lack that breadth and depth of consequence that belongs to the Hindu Veda." A Test or Bats in India. The rat threatens to be as destructive in the Neilgherries as the rabbit is in Australia. The hills are overrun by them. The fields of the ryots are honeycombed by them. On estates hundreds of tea trees have been uprooted by them, and bushels of coffee may bo gathered that bus been picked by them. Growers of potatoes and vegetables have had their crops de stroyed by them, and residents and visit ors have exjM'ricncrd what a pct they have become iu the houses. It is sug gested that the breeding of such birds as the cairle, the hawk and the owl, which prey upon ruts, should be encouraged. At present the Neilgherries Game Association offers rewards for the destruction of such birds. J'all M.ill Uuetle. From ltoardlng-House to Palace. Mrs. Mackay, the w ife of the California millionaire, who spends her time iu Paris amid foreign scenes of grandeur and haughty halls of light all iu her silk attire," fotmerly kept a boarding -house in Virginia City, Nevada. A man who used to take meals at her table told me yester day "that it was the best boarding-house there was in the diggings.'' Yt'i York As every thread of gold is valuable, so u cciy moment of time.
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