THE FOREST EEPDELICAN la pobllhod rrerj Wednedr, by ' J. E. WENK. OtHoe la Smear ban gli & Co.' Building ElJheTRKKT, TIONESTA, Pi. RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Square, one Inch, one Insertion. I 1 M (in Fqnare, one loth, one month...., I 00 One Square, one Inch, three month... ..,tr- i ) One Square, one Inch, one year . 10 00 Two Sqiiftrre, one year 11 00 Quarter Colnnin, one jcar.. ...... ............ 10 00 Half Column, one year M 00 One Coiumn, one year ............100 Ov l.rsjiU advertlKi'inenta ten cent per line each In aertlen. Marriage ami death notlrea gratia. All bill for yearly adrertiaementi eolleeUd anar trrly. Temporary adTenlaeineBU mnit be paTu In advunee. Job work eaah on daUverw. wmwmmt. Term, tl.BO per Year. No tnbscrlptlon received for a tborter period tbn three mnntlia. Correspondence aolielted from all parts of the country. Jio notice will ba taken of aoonjrmoiw nnmunlcatlons. VOL. IX. NO, 4. TIONESTA. PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1887. $1 50 PER ANNUM There is one convict to every thousand inhabitants in this country, and one con vict laborer to every fifty persons in the country engaged in mechanical pussuits. The 4.'5,277 convicts engaged in produc tive labor performed in ono year services to the value of $28,750,000. The average age of those who enter college is now seventeen. One hundred years ago it was fourteen, and it will be doubtless nineteen ere long, for our wisest educators affirm that a youth of sixteen seldom knows the value of study, and the older students do the best work. A silk colony has been established in Florida under the auspices of the "Women's Silk Culture Association, which is said to promise good resnlts. It is thought that many invalids who go to Florida for their "health might like to engage in silk cult ure as a light and pleasant occupation. The California Legislature has appro priated $15,000 for the improvement of tfcc Yosemito Valley. New trails will be .faW""1 and the mountain streams will be stocked with fish, that tourists may have the pleasnre of fishing with the hope of catching something. The mountain trout can only be caught by an Indian. It . is his secret. The United States Supreme Court has handed down a decision that an insane person who takes his own life does not "committ suicide," and that life insur ance may be recovered even though the policy may provide that it shall be void if the insured person shall die by suicide ; self -killing by a lunatic person. is bylaw to be regarded as an accidental death. In speaking of the "anaesthetic bullet,' which is said to have been invented re cently by a German, and which will render wounded men unconscious for twelve hours, the Portland Press says that "but ono thing is lacking to com plete the usefulness of this original prin- . i xi. i - e rrn.- n . - r uipiu miuu tu b oi w in. auu niies noiu which these bullets are to be fired should J)e furnished with needle-pointed bay onets through which hypodermic injec tions of morphine may be administered - to the soldiersC,tho enemy who may fall in the way ofGerman bayonet .charge." President Chauncey M. E"epcw is test ing the various methods for heating and lighting the cars of the New York Central Ifculroad's linea-without danger from fire in the event of accidents. Experiments are being made with electric lighting ma chines, stored-up gas and hot-water ap paratus, and doubtless some efficient, . practical system will grow out of the in genuity expended on these essays. A rain has already been successfully run from Boston to the Grand Central Depot, in New York, thoroughly heated for 240 miles by the Martin steam-heating ap paratus and lighted by electricity. "The most expensive human hair is sil ver gray in color and is worth $100 an ounce," says a New York dealer. "Most of the human hair used in our trade," he adds, 'iv imported from Bohemia and France. It is not uncommon for a Bohe mian woman to cut eight inches of hair from her head every year. Peddlers ex- change finger rings and other articles of personal adornment for these clippings. Tho use of hair restoratives and the gen eral lack of vigor on the part of Ameri , can women destroy the value of American hair.. Drab shades of human hair are more expensive than brown or black." Patti says ', that she is called the "Queen of Song," not because she is the greatest singer, but because she has many gifts. She enumerates them as follows: "I pass for pretty, that's one; I am tolerably graceful, that's two; I am a good dresser, that's three ; I have a way with me that's piquant, that's four; 1 like my public, that's five; I have a good voire, that's six ; I know how to sing, that's seven; I always know my music, that's eight; I act fairly well the roles 'given me, that's nie. AVhnt more do you want in a singer?" And an enthusi astic public hastens to answer: "Noth ing, dear Patti, except a repetition of flome, Swuet Home.' " Grave doubts have recently been cast on M. Pasteur's success in curing hydro phobia. The weight of English scientific opinion is now adverse to his treatment for anthrax in cattle. His method in both these cases is the 6ame. By inocu lating the virus of a specific contagious disease from one starving animal to an other, he claims that at length the poi son is so weakened that if received by inau only the harmless symptoms of the disease will appuur, and that the body will be protected agaiust future attacks, the disease never occurring twice iu a lifetime. The theory is beautiful, but it has not been successful in practice. A FRIEND S HAND IN MINE, LADS. Sometimes tis May, lads, She Ay soft and bright; We sing on our way, lads, With brave hearts and light But May cannot last, lads; With great clouds rolled, The skies are o'ercast, lads, The world turns cold. A friend's hand in mine, lads, A kind hand and true, In rough ways and dark days It help a man through. We've small gifts to give, lads. A poor purse to show, But what man can live, lads, With naught to bestow? A word of brave cheer, lads, A warm grasp and strong, Bents all your gear, lads, To help hearts along. A friend's hand in mine, lads, A kind hand and true, In rough ways and dark days , It helps a man through . Do what you can, lads, And do it with might; God isn't man, lads, To judge by the sight. Pence pounds outweigh, lads, When wills are right good, And, oh! to hear Him say, lads, " He's done what he could." A friend's hand in mine, lads, A kind hand and true, In rough ways and dark days It helps a man through. Frederic Langbridge. THE BOX IN THE CORNER. It is some years since I was station master, baggage-agent, telegraph-operator and ticket-seller at a little village near some valuable oil wells. The station-house was quite a distance from, the unpre tentious thoroughfare that had grown up in a day, nnd my duties were so arduous that I had scarcely leisure for a weekly flitting to a certain mansion on the hill where dwelt Ellen- Morris, my promised wife. In fact, it was with the hope of lessening the distance between us that I had undertaken these quadruple duties. The day hud bec;i gloomy, and toward the afternoon ominous rolls of thunder protended a storm. Colonel Ilolloway, the well-known treasurer of the oil company, had been in the village several days. About one o'clock he came hurriedly into the office with a package, which he laid upon my desk, saying: "Take care of that, Bowen, till to morrow. I'm going up the road." The commission wus not an unusual one, and my safe was one of Marvin's best I counted the money, which footed up into the thousands, placed it in the official envelope, aliixedthe seals, and deposited it in the safe. As I turned away from the lock, a voice at the door said: "Say, mister, can you tell me the way to the post-ofiice?" A sort of shock went through me at the unexpected presence that seemed to have dropped down from nowhere, and I replied, irritably: "You could not miss it if you tried. Keep straight ahead." Soon large drops of rain came down then faster and more furiously, until the air was one vast sheet of water, and little rivers leaped madly along the gullies and culverts. Forked lightning kept pace with the pealing thunder, and heaven's own artillery seemed let loose. Anything more dismal or dreary could not well be imagined, and gradually the loneliness grew oppressive. Every strag gler had lied to shelter, and the usual idlers had deserted the platform. But I resolutely set to work at thedry statistics of the station-books, with an occasional call to the wires, which were ticking like ; maa, so nerce was the electric current. I T ..ma t! .,,.! 1. 1 1 o JH.-U1 jiyu u cioui. wiicu u lOIlir freight train came lumbering by, switched off a car or two, then dragged its slow length onward. This created a brief di version, then once more was deserted. The next passenger train was not due till ten o'clock. I lit the lamps and re signed myself with questionable patience to the intervening hours. An agreeable interruption came in the form of my supper, which was brought in a water proof basket by a sort of jack-at-all-trades whom we called Jake. Shaking himself like a great dog, he '"lowed there wa'n't much more water left up yonder nohow." "I hope not, indeed," I said, glad of the sound of a human voice. "Jake!" I called, as he left the office, "come back as soon as you can I may want you." I had a vague idea of dispatching some sort of report to Ellen that I had not been entirely washed away," and ob taining similar comfort as to her own fate. I little thought I should really need him. I think I am not by nature more timid than other men, but as the dis mal evening closed i.i I took from my 1 desk two revolvers kept ready lor pos sible emergencies, mid laid one upon the desk where I was making freight en tries, and the other on the table where the electric battery stood. At inter . vals a fresh package for the night ex press was brought by some dripping . carrier, who deposited it, got his re ceipt, hung about for a few moments, ' then hastened away to more comfort ' able quarters. I Still the rain poured in torrents. It ' must have been nearly nine o'clock when a wagon, hurriedly driven, sud denly stopped ut the platform. In a mo ment the door wus thing open, and I saw ' u small ambulance well known about the village. Two men sprang out, and, with the aid of the driver ami his assistant, j proceeded to lift out a box which from its dimensions could contain only one kind of freight, to wit, the remains of a hu man being. Carefully placing this box in a remote corner of the room, near other boxes awaiting transportation, the driver and his man returned to their wagon, while the two strangers approached the desk td enter their ghastly freight. They wore slouched hats and were very wet. They produced a death certificate of one John Slate, who had died at a farmhouse sev eral miles away, of a noii-contngious com plaint, and was to be shipped to friends down the rond. This was all. There was nothing singular about it, and yet, when the door closed upon the strangers and I was again alone, or worse than alone, a feeling of awe came over me. Clearly the storm had somewhat unstrung mc. Only one hour till the 'train was due, after which I could turn in for the night. A louder peal of thunder 6hook the house, and fiercer flashed the lightning. Minute after minute went by, and each seemed an age. The roar and din of the elements only deepened the gloom inside, where tho uncertain kerosene darkened the shadows. Suddenly, to my overstrained nerves, the ceaseless clicking of the wires seemed to say: "Watch the boxl Watch tho box 1 Watch the box !" As a particular strain of melody will at times repeat itself in tho mind, and obstinately keep time to every movement, till one is well nigh distracted, so this refrain began to en chain every sense: "Watch the box! AVntch the box ! Watch the box !" Ti." now my depressed spirits were due only to the solitude and the storm. No sus picion of evil or danger had tormented me. Peering more closely into the dingy corner I saw only ho ordinary pine box, with what seemed to be a square, paper, or placard, on the side facing me. Prob ably the address, bungingly adjusted on the side instead of the top, or else a stain of mud from the late rough ride. At all events, I was not curious enough to ap proach more nearly the ghostly visitant. Then minutes had crept by, when a mulllcd noise in the dark corner distinct ly sounded above the pelting rain drops, while, as if to mock at my quickened fears, the wires continued their monot onous warning: "Watch the boxl Watch the box! Watch the box 1" I did watch the box, and as by inspiration I grasped the situation. There was indeed a man in the box, but not a dead one. A living man, who had boldly lent himself to a plot to rob or murder me, perhaps both. I remembered the straggler who had surprised mq while at the safe, several hours before. lie had doubtless followed Colonel Ilolloway and witnessed the money transaction. Quick and fast flew my thoughts in the startled endeavor to grasp some plan of action. Single handed I was no match for any man, hav ing recently recovered from an attack of malarial fever. This one in the box (if indeed there were one must mean to se cure his prize before the train, was due, and escape the consequences. lie must have accomplices, and these were doubt less on watch, waiting either to give or receive a signal. At least it was not probable that he would undertake the job alone, and the fact that he had con federates had already appeared. Perhaps the sight of my pistols had de layed the attack. Perhaps some part of their plan had miscarried and caused de lay. At all events I must bo cool. I fancied I saw his eyes through the dark patch on the box. I was almost sure he was slowly lifting the lid. There was no help near, and much might be done in the time still to elapse before the train was due. Quietly walking to the battery, I feigned to take a message. Iu reality I sent one to the conductor of tho on-coming express, as the only device whereby I could secure assistance, and this would doubtless be too late. Yet it was all that I could do iust now. With every sense on tho alert, I arose to secrete my keys if possible, when the door burst open, and Frank Morris, my future brother-in-law, rushed, in, followed by a huge dog that was Ellen's special pet and attendant. "Confound you !" said Frank, splutter ing about, and shaking himself as vigor ously as the dog. "I'll be flowed if ever I go on such another fool's errand as this." "Why, you are pretty well 'blowed now,' I said, with a poor attempt to be funny, but immensely relieved. "I never was so glad to see anybody in my life!" and I meant it. "There it is," he said; "make much of it," as he cleverly flipped a little white missive over to me. "Such billing and cooing I never want to see again. Reg ular spoons, by Jove! , Can't go to sleep till she knows you haven't been melted, or washed away, or something. And t'ato must come along to see that her pre cious brother doesn't get lost. Ugh! Lie down, over there, old fellow!" Then tome he said: "Here, help me out of this wet thing." But I was engrossed, just then, and ridding himself of tlicoffendinggarment, the broad-shouldered young athlete strode about in mock impatience. "Heavens! what a night!" he ex claimed. "What time does your train pass? Ten? Just three minutes. 1 guess I'll stay; but we'll have that young dam sel floating down here if she doesn't hear pretty soon. Hello, Cato!' What's the matter?" as the dog gave a low grow l. "What's that in the corner, Bowen'" The dog continued to growl and look suspiciously about as the young fellow rattled on. "That," I said, "is a deed man." "Humph!" he laughed. "Jolly good company for such a night. I bay, Bowen, you've, jjot a nice toy there," and he took up the pistol thai I. iv on the table. .Mean while I had scrawled on apiece of paper, which I quietly placed near the pistol: "The man in the box is a burglar, rendv for sn attack." "Oho! that's thegnme!"hesaid, aloud, nnd instantly strode across the room, as Cnto sprang np nnd barked furiously at the box. Simultaneously the top of the box flew up, nnd uttering a shrill whistle the man sprang to a sitting posture, while through the wide flung door the other two ruffians appeared with pistols cocked. At once there began a deadly struggle. The dog had leaped upon the box and knocked the "dead" man's pis tol out of his hand, as Frank shouted, "Tsho, Catol" unwilling that tho dog should tear him to pieces, but wishing to keep him at bay. "Your keys!" yelled tho other men; "or by heavens you'll drop!" Instantly closing in, man to man, the fierce struggle went on amid shouts, curses and pistol shots. "Call off your cursed dog!" screamed the "dead" man continually. Tho encounter, which had occupied scarcely a minute, was at its deadliest, both Frank and I endeavoring to disarm rather than kill, when the whistle of tho train sounded, and in another moment the conductor and his men were among us. "Seize that scoundrel 1" shouted Frank, breathlessly, indicating the man in the box. "Here, Cato!" and tho obedient animal unwillingly retired, but continued his savage growls. At this juncture my man fell heavily to the floor, wounded iu tho leg, and utter ing groans and imprecations. It was quick work to secure tho men, and Jake, who opportunely reappeared, was sent to summon tho village police. Some of the passengers, impatient at the delay, had got wind of tho adventure, and now crowded into the station in no little ex citement. The box was found to have a false side piece, next tho wall, which was easily pushed down by the man inside, for greater comfort in his cramped posi tion ; and there were beside a number of air-holes. It was the moving of this side-panel that caused the muffled noise I had heard. I was questioned in all possible ways, nnd tho curiosity of the passengers was fully gratified amid the clamor of the prisoners who continually swore at each other. "What did you wait so long for?" said one of them glaring at the "dead" man. "What was your hurry?" retorted the other, sarcastically. It was plain from the quarrel which ensued that the sight of my pistols, and my evident uneasiness, together with tho effect of the fearful storm, hnd unsettled the fellow's plan and robbed him of his presence of mind. While puzzling as to the safest course, the sudden entrance of Frank and the dog had precipitated tho catastrophe. The men wero conducted to the County Jail, and I was the hero of tho hour, although I could not claim much credit for personal valor in tho matter. Was it fate or Providence that befriend ed me? But for my presentiment, or whatever it was, I should have urged Frank's immediate return to my anxious betrothed. But for her loving anxiety he never would have come down on such a night. But for the dog ono of us must have been killed. And first of all, but for the instinctive sense of danger the telegraph wires would never have spoken a warning to my excited fancy; and this manifest feeling of apprehension, though I strove hard to conceal it, held the man in tho box at bay. The practical result of tho episode was a more .commodious station-house, and more men on duty. My salary was raised; but eventually I gave up the sit uation because my wife could never feel satisfied to have mo perform night work after the fearful experience I have related. As to Frank, ho is not backward with explosive English whenever tho subject in mentioned, and no amount of persua sion could ever reconcile Cato to tho old station-house. ZYaiik Leslie's. An Ancient New-Mexican City. To the eastward of Socorro, New Mexico, two prospectors a few days ago accidentally stumbled upon indications of ancient ruins projecting above the shifting sands of the plain. A careful examination convinced them that be neath their feet buried in the desert sands lay the ruins of an ancient town. Turning to with their shovels to explore their find a few hours' work brought them to the floor of a small room in the form of a parallelogram. The Socorro JSullioii thus describes the relics un earthed: "They found the remains of several human beings, several handsome vases carved with geometrical tigures in different colors, stone axes, hammers, pieces of cloth apparently manufactured from the fibre of yucca, several strings of beads, seat-hells, arrow-heads, an abun dance of fragments of obsidian quartz, and an incredible quantity of pieces of broken pottery, including several with a blue glazing. Only in one other instance have we ever heard of this color and quantity of ware having been discovered in this Territory, and that was at the ancient pueblo near the Santa Rita, in this country, and it indicates that the Spaniards had lived in New Mexico be fore the extinction of the race who in habited this ruined and buried village." The miners do not know whether they tapped the best or the poorest spot iu their buried town in this lirst excavation. They have, however, resolved to con tinue digging. They are of the opinion that they may be able to unearth a cabi net of curios the sale of which will bring them more coin than they would make in the same time at prospecting for precious metals. Virginia, City (Ate) L'tttrprixe. An HgricnltorHl exchange informs us ut what "time in the mooii to plant corn." In this section fanners prefer to plant j their corn iu the earth. PUiUidetpltia Cult. B'A MOUNTAIN OF MARBLE. THE FAMOUS QUARRIES OF CAR RARA IN TUB ALPS. Getting Out Immense Masses of Itrauttfitl Whtto Marble Men Who Work in the Quarries. The city of Carrara nestles under tho protection of its mountains, the Apuan Alps, a comer of the Apennines. Some of these, rising to the height of 7,000 feet, overshadow the north of the town, while to the right and left they arc softened down to hills, richly clothed with fir, chestnut, olive trees and vines in a de scending scale; to the south is a gap of nbout a furlong, through which winds the River Aven.a, and beyond the six miles of intervening country tho blue Mediterranean can bo seen. The quarries are one of the sight s of tho world, occupying three or four descend ing ridges, which unite in the lofty Monto Sagro. They have been worked nt latest from the timo of tho Emperor Augustus. From then until now all the best marble has been obtained from them. The mountains of marble in some places seem to rise almost perpendicularly ; high up their sides are the quarries or "caves," as they are locally called, presenting from the town the appearance of patches of snow which refuses to be melted by the sun, while sometimes it seems as though partially dissolvod snow had begun to slide down tho mountain side. To see tho quarries, and tho mode in which tho "cave man" works, says a writer in the London 'J rapine, ouo must bo up with him in the morning, and fol low him to his toil ns I did. We were just in time to see a lingo cor ner of marble, weighing about a hundred tons, forced from tho mountain. Round it men have driven a chain of holes with crowbars, shaped at the point liko a chisel. Bv strikincr the surface and dex- j tyfously turning the bar at each stroko a hole is soon formed about three leet into solid rock, thus isolating the desired mass as much as possible. Into these holes gunpowder is placed by a boy, who in variably performs his task with a lighted cigar in his mouth ! Clay is then rammed in, a train laid and a warning shout raised. We betake ourselves to some such shelter as an overhanging rock or small cave; the foreman gives another shout, applies tho match to the train and runs for his life. A few moments of anx ious waiting the whole mountain seems to shake, thunder and groan in agony at having to give up its treasures a cloud of dust a rumble of falling pieces we creep out in time to see two masses of marblo tumbling over the last ridge on their way to tho valley. The explosive power in this instance had been nicely calculated tho huge mass had been just loosened. Sometimes the moving force of tho charge is under estimated, then tho whole block topples over, often to pound itself into hundreds of pieces iu its headlong course down the ravine. Being too heavy nnd largo to be moved entire, it is divided in the simplest way, a row of holes bored across it (a line chiseled between them), plugs of dry wood driven into the holes, water poured upon thonfcindin time, tho wood haviflgswollen, the block cracksacross and through. Men then go to work upon each half with a hammer and chisel until they arc made tolerably square, huge cables or chains nro fastened around them, and they arc lowered by short stages from ledge to ledge to the wagons waiting below. Tho "cave" men are Surely almost as primitive and hardy in their habits ns their historic namesakes ; many of them live in tho hamlets among the hills, six or eight miles from their work; they leave their homes at daybreak, each equipped with a pair of thick boots which are never worn at home, a gourd slung by his side, to be tilled at tho mountain jst ream he passes, a hunk of coarse bread under his arm, possibly an apple in his pocket. On this food he ex ists during the day, earning about two shillings, and working much harder than a steak-fed English navy. Iu the even ing at home ho sups on a mash of meal, mingled with oil and flavored with the never-failing garlic; meat ho seldom if ever tastes. On Festa days only does he drink anything stronger than water; then ho will spend as much and even more than he can afford upon cheap wine. Almost every Festa brings with it a quar rel, and the evening its inevitable result a stabbing affray. Of the 20,000 inhabitants living in Carrara and its immediate neighborhood, about (5,000 are "cave" men; tho town is entirely devoted to the marble commerce, marble stares you in the face everwhere, the walls, roads and paths are made of it, the floors of the house are paved with i it, everything that can be is hewn out of marble, from a perfect copy of the Venus j to the common "bathing tub," as a local ; advertisement has it. Countless t opic" of the antique are sent out from the 4110 studios iiml find their way to the various art markets of Europe and America. Oc- casionally a good original statue or bust ( is executed, but the greater number of I sculptors devote themselves to rcpro- din ing copies either of the old masters, popular modern examples or chiseliu sepulchral monuments. An Eye to llusiness. A good story is told of an Omaha doc tor. Some years ago he, became engaged in a tight with another man, whom he finally knocked down with a heavy china pitcher. The man received an ugly scalp wound, which the doctor sewed up. One would naturally suppose that the victim would not be called upon to pay for tho surgical attendance, but il is a fact that .he doctor pn sentcd a bill for $20, and what is more he gel the money. TIiiti 'j nothing like having a., eye U business. -I Ouo.lui Htr. WINGS FOR HOME. My heart hath taken wings for home; Away! a way! it cannot stay. My heart hath taken wings for home, tiorall that's Iv.'st of Greece or Rome Can stop its sway. My heart hath taken wings for home, Away ! My heart hath taken wings for home, Oh, swallow, swallow, lend the way I Oh, little bird, fly north with me, I have a home lieside the sea Where thou canst sing and play My heart hath taken w ings for home, Away I My heart hath taken wings for home, Hut thou, Oh littlo bird, wilt stay; Thou hast thy little ones with thee here, Thy mate floats w ith thee through the clear Italian depths of day; My heart hath taken w ins for homo, Away! My heart hath taken wings for home, Away I away I it cannot stay. One spring, from ltrunellosehi's dome, To Venice by tho Adrian foam, Then west ward be my way, My heart hath taken wings for homo, Away I Dennis F. McCarthy. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Ono aero enough Especially if it be a tender corn. Siting. An exchange says that when ono is caught in n burning hotel ho should keep cool. It is a great truth. Judge. "Say, do you think it's true that red headed girls are quick-tempered?" "Urn nh supposoyou ask one of theiu about HV'l'ittHburg Dispatch . Pretty School Teacher "Thomas.stato some of tho beauties of education." Thomas (oldest boy in school) School ma'ams. Aew York Hnn. "Do you rectify mistakes here?" asked a gentleman as ho stepped into n drug store. "Yes, sir, we do, if tho patient is still alive," replied tho urbano clerk. "Another terrible washout," remarked Semaphore. "Where?" asked the superin tendent. "IXiwn at the Chinese laundry." And the superintendent said he did hate a fool. lSurdettt: The biggest woman in the world is in a Philadelphia dimo museum. She weighs 7-17 pounds. This lady had a husband once, but she sat on him nnd the neighbors were obliged to bury him betweeu two sheets of paper. liurlington Free Presn. A Chicago man swallowed a $1,000 United 8tatc3 bond to save it from a burglar, and tho comptroller has refused to issue a. duplicate to him. Wo don't see why tho comptroller could bo ex pected to do otherwise. The Chicago man is in 11,000. lioMon Post. A Washington paper says the Presi dent has not altered any iu his manner since his marriage; that when ho is in introduced to any one lie simply shakes hands, bows, smiles, speaks a few words, and passes on. There was a rumor going round that ho twisted bin friend's arm, threw a back somerset, and yelled de fiantly. Life. (osinopolitau San Francisco. San Francisco has many admirers and but few haters, writes Edward Robert in the New York Post. In some respects it is the most interesting city in America to visit, whatever it may bo to live in. Tho interesting features are varied and many, and all visitors are Impressed with the unlikeuess of the place to any othel American city. Every nationality seems to bo represented: China in one quarter, Italy iu another, Germany here, Franc there. You can dine irt the restaurant ol any country as inclination prompts, served by an almond-eyed Celestial or by a courteous Frenchman; and if tired ol wandering in quarters that apparently are not in America at all, you have but to turn the corner and walk a block to find everything as American as heart could wish. I think, and indeed know, that 1 should never enjoy living in San Fran cisco, and I am equally sure that my visits to it will never bo otherwise than agree able. Tho city, like Paris, for instance, has a liveliness and buoyancy that quick ens one's sense of enjoyment; and then, too, the climate is invigorating, and one sees more (lowers sold on tho street corners than he has been accustomed to in our staid old Eastern cities, that would be shocked, 1 fear, if they had to coun tenance all the gayetiesol' San Francisco. It is far from beingan eminently propci place, this city of which 1 write. Many of its people go to church, but as many more do not, and the places of amusement have the most liberal patronage. There are vast numbers of underground concert and beer saloons, where the air is hot. nnd foul, and from which one hears boister ous music and shouts of noisy applause. Such places are called "dives;" and their presence gives to Sail Francisco many of tho characteristics of mining towns in Colorado. The theatres of the city, are as a rule, dingy in appearance and unat tractive, the only exceptions being the Ha M w in and the Alcanr, two play houses where one feels at home and is able to enjoy much comfort. Hut the plays presented at all tho theatres arc equal to those given in the East. Speei Ileal ions Necessary. "Look out !" exclaimed a mail over whose face a harder was moving his razor; "you are cutting off my mustache." "You didn't tell me not to cut it," the barber replied. "With me a m.in must always specify. "All right," said the customer. hen the barber had finished the man arose from the chair, approached the ar tist and gave him a violent kick. "Look out! you are kicking me ! yowled the barber. "You didn't tell me not tit kick you. With me a man must always speci fy," said the customer."
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