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TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1887.
$1.50 PER ANNUM.
Although 0T,7f0 people die every day
on the glolw, yet there are 100,800 born,
so there teems little reason to fear that
tho supply of voter for future elections
will run short.
An American who happened to ace a
man murdered in Havana waa detained
ten months "in jail as a witness, and the
judgo then' decided that it was a case of
sclf-dcfcnso. Cuba, observes tho Detroit
Fret Prea; is one of tho plnccs whero a
blind man gets along the best.
Drummers practice a scheme to cir
cumvent that clause of the Intcr-Stato
law rotating to charges for excess of bag
gage When the drummer's baggage ex
ceeds 100 pounds he buy several tickets
to his placo of destination. On theso he
checks his baggage. Then ha sells the
tickets ho doesn't want, and of course be
is ail right.
''Long John" Wentwort, the noted
Cliicngoan, ex-Congressman and ex
Major who is erecting a $20,000 monu
ment for himself in Itoschili .Cemetery,
Iirs decided to put no inscription on the
stono. "Everybody ' will want to know
who is buried there if they see no name,"
he says, "and my memory will thus be
kept green by the curiosity of future
generations,"
The King of Cores has become tired of
he cares of royalty, and has sent a mo
siiorisl to tho Chincso government asking
it to abolish the kingly office and substi
tute a Governor-Generalship in Us stead.
; The noble families are constantly engaged
, in plots with Japanese and Chinese ad
venturers, and the King is said to bo in
s country is so poor that there is no profit
in ruling it.
Money is now abundant for .speculation
in railways and lands, but the supply
must gradually diminish under the pres
ent prodigulity. When the pinch and
ramp come, a they most assuredly will,
hen look out for the crash. The vast
el estate speculations of 1830 were the
tuso of tho smaahup of 1837. Like
Jthe breakdown of 1857 was caused
the wild real estate speculation of
- 5 and 1850. In many cities and many
dons the brake should be put on at
be survivors of the Greely expedition
now six in number. General Greely
hicf of the Signal Service j David L.
inard is Second Lieutenant of Cavalry
fort Walla Walla, Washington Ter
ry; Julius R. Frederick Is sicka.rvi
fome in Indianapolis ;
T uenry jiieaeroccK is a messenger in the
Agricultural . Bureau at Washington;
Maurice Connell is a private in tho Signal
Corps at San Francisco, and Francis
ljry is a sergeant in the Signal Corps at
I'ew York.
" Tho freaks of lightning aro inexplica- (
bio and apparently irreducible to any
sort of system by silence. A thunder
storm passed over Binghnmton. Two
boys were in the same bed. One was in
stantly killed, the other not injured. At
Stamford, Connecticut, twelve or fifteen
years ngo, three boys took refuge in a 1
barn. They sat close together in a row. 1
Tho centre ono was uninjured, the others
.killed. In a tent a sido show to a cir- '
cus were a number of persons, black '
and white. The tont was struck. Every I
negro was killed and not a singlo white
person.
There has boon received at the Interior
Department, from the Philadelphia Mint,
tho first of tho peace medals struck for '
the use of the Indian. Bureau. It has .
been a custom since Buchanan's Admin- '
istration to present these medals to de-
serving and faithful Indians who have
aided tho Government in suppressing out
breaks or by iuflueuclug their friends to
curry out the wishes of the Government, j
The medal is oval in shape, half an inch
in thickness, and three inches in its
longest diameter. It bears on one side a
representation of a very trustful settler
shaking hands with an Indies, with a
tomahawk and pipe crossed underneath.
The obverse side bears the bust of the
President, who is supposed to present
. the medal. The medals aro bronze, cost
ing tho Government fifty cents apiece,
and silver costing $0 apiece. The latter
are given to chiefs and head men.
Up to this time the Indian Bureau has
been presenting Indians with medals
bearing President Arthur's likeness, thus
economically using up an old batch of
medals on hand. The new ones received
from the Miut bear an excellent likeness
of Mr. Clevelund, whoso somewhat ro
bust neck and rounded bead make him
an excellent subject for medallion work.
The view is, of course, a profile, and his
. head, a Washington correspondent says,
seems to fill out the medal more symmet
rically than that of any other President.
Grant's head upon these medals was the
next best, and Fresideut Garfield's fol
lows a close third. President Arthur's
profile was too refined for a medallion ar
tist to do it justice upon a die for a mint,
while Lincoln's head was the most unfit
of all. In the latter's time a ring was
passed through these medals so that they
could be suspended from tho neck
late years they have been put up !
THE PRAIRIE FIRB.
Over the nndulate prairia
I rode as the day was done;
Ths west was aglow but to northward
A glare like the rising sun
Seen through the eddying ea-mlsta,
Broke on the darkening night,
And a cloud of smoky blackness
Shut out ths stars dim light
I fait the sweep of the northor
But a deeper, deadlier chill,
Btrnck to my heart r m instant
With It presage h and 11L
Then I drew the cin hter
And looked to stirn. id rein,
As the nort.iern glare grew brighter
And the gusts gained strength amain,
Then, as we hurried southward
Brighter, nearer and higher
Like lambent serpents heavenward
Writhed up each flaming spire;
Leaping across the benches
Where the grass was thin and dry,
Rolling in flery surges
Where the reeds stood rank and high.
A drifting whirl of cinders,
A chorus of blinding smoke,
A roaring sea of Are
Arrows the plains it broke I
From the pools the wild fowl darted
To circle the lurid sky;
From his lair the scared deer started.
And swept like a phantom by.
On, toward the distint river,
Wasted by weeks of drouth,
Like a shaft from (he sungod's quiver
We sped toward the murky south.
To halt was death ; and far distant
Lay life and safety and rest;
The air grew hot and each instant
The foam fell on counter and breast
Nearer each moment the fires swept,
Thicker the red sparks fell;
Higher the roaring flames leapt
With the blast of that fiery hen
I felt that we soon must stifle
In the rock of that merciless hail,
And I dropped my heavy rifle
In the midst of the narrow trail.
But bravely my trusty courser
Kept on In his headlong flight -
Though his labored breath grew hoarser
Tilt the river gleamed in sight,
A plunge through the thickset border
Of withered gram and reed.
And the waters of the river
Laved the heaving flanks of my steed.
Up to the brink of the river
Swept the waves of that fiery sea,
With pulses and limbs a-quiver
I could neither stand nor fleet
I ukw the flames tower heavenward
With dim eyesand failing breath;
Then all around was darkness
A faintneas and gloomlike death)
When I woke the flames were racing ,
Far westward o'er bluff and hill;
My faithful steed waa grazing
On the banks of our guardian rill;
And I offered thanks to heaven,
Where the stars shone clear and bright,
For the safety and mercy given. .
To us on Unit tearf ul night
" " Captain C. W. Hall, in Dakota Bell.
MULLIGAN'S GHOST,
"You, Muldoon, you'd better hitch up
the crittors, and take them bass of corn
to mill. I jest wsnt you to remember
mat oiu j.ytio am t got any call to take
his toll out of this here lot. He owes me
for a barrel of meal sence last giindin'."
"It's moighty Into it is to go to mill
now, Misther Bell," Pat Muldoon an
swered. He was a tall, gowky Irish lad,
with none of the national nnickness and
humor visible in his long, solemn face. "It's
purty nigh the sunsettnr now, I'm think-
in'.- It's four nnlo to mill, and I'll bo
com in' buck Ions afther the dark."
"It ain't long past four o'clock," said
the farmer, "and I'd jest like to know
what's the dark goin' ter do tor you! It
saves time to send lute; and then I reckon
you'll come back a heap quicker fur old
Mulligan's ghost at yer heels."
Farmer Bell laughed derisively as he
spoke, for in all that neighborhood he
was probably the onlv individual who
did not believe implicitly in Mulligan's
gnosi.
"Anyway, Muldoon," he laughed, "ef
he does come up with vou. vou'll under
stand his lingo, for be was Irish too, as
well as you, aud ghosts always talk in
meir moiner tongue, niavoe, too, as
you're a countryman, he'll be willin' to
tell you whar he hid all his money, fur
not a aune nas turned up. Ask nun, Mul
doon, when he comes floatin' up ter
you
Muldoon shivered, and could not even
smile at the farmer's uproarious mirth.
"Aod I'll be afther takiu' Lion, sur."
he said, as he turned to obey the orders
ol his employer.
"You'll be after doing no such thin?.
Old Lytle complained of the dog last
time you took him.' He raised Cain
among tin old woman's chickens. You'll
not untie '.he dog."
Muldoon 's heart sank as he hitched up
the mules, with, Lion s impatient bark
ana nowl as a discordant accompani
ment, lie was aa immense mastin, and
accustomed to follow the boy wherever
he wtnt. Muldoon felt that the dog
would be company and protection in the
droary ride he was about to lake through
the ghost baunted forest, for he believed
Hit v in the ghost.
It was not a very Ions- ride, but it lay
through a barren stretch of pine woods,
rising into hills, which descended into
dark ravines thickly grown up with un
derbrush and gloomy magnolias. Half
way to the mill stood the Mulligan farm,
the only vestige of human habitation on
his road. Terrible stories were told about
that tumble-down cabin, and most of the
superstitious neighbors would go a mile
out of tho road to avoid passing the
place.
Old Mulligan had come there some
years before. A morose, silent old man,
who held no intercourse with his neigh
bors, and lived entirely alone. He al
ways seemed to have plenty of money,
and though no one was ever invited into
thehouxe, they ull knew it was furnished
ouly with such things as were absolutely
necessary. The moody old, man's lan
guage, when v did speak, ft as that of au
educated man, '- '" -Miirli
threadbare, w'
It was oio of those men who, when the 1
master failed to appear for two days,
summoned up courage to knock at the
door. No answer, and not a sound to be
heard.
When tho men, thoroughly alarmed,
effected an entrance, they found old.
Mulligan dead, by his own hand an evi
dently premeditated act, for he was care
fully dressed in a new suit of black broad
cloth. On the table near was :)0, wrapped
in a paper on which was written t "This
will bury mc. Lay me under the oak
tree in the yard."
lhis was all. Not another line or
writing was found in the house, and not
another cent of money, though it Was
well known he had made good crops and
spent nothing. His furniture was of the
meanest, yet many valuable books were
found, Nothing, however, was discovered
What would help to reveal who he renlly
was, ana where he came from. If he
had friends and relatives, they did not
answer any of the advertisements put in
the county newspapers; and, as no one
in that county was willing to buy the
property, saddled as it was with a ghost,
tho farm went gradually to ruin. If it
had not been for the ghost, the very name
of the man would have perished from the
memory of tho community.
Muldoon would have given much to
avoid tho house, but tho only wagon
road in that vicinity led directly in front
of it. When he arrived opposite it,
with a kind of rimid curiosity ho pulled
up, and took a long look at the desolate
scene.
The afternoon sun was shining brightly,
but it did not seem to bring warmth to
the cheerless place. Fences were rotting
on the ground, and overgrown with
briers; the doors and shutters of the
cabin had fallen, and looked like eyeless
sockets, through which you could see the
weed-choked fields beyond.
A sudden impulse came upon Muldoon
to peep in tho cabin, .and see how. every
thing looked there. It is an impulse
which frequently moves cowards to meet
something dreaded half way.
An' I'll jest be afther takin' a little
peep," Muldoon muttered, as ho sprang
irom tno cart, nis neari oeuuog wuu
nervousness. "The sun is shinin', and
maybe if I see wid my two eyes that
there's nothin' in there, I won't be so
scared coniin' back."
As he stepped on the porch, the rustle
of the dead leaves under his feet gave
him a strong inclination to take to his
heels and fly, but he forced himself to
enter the cabin and look around. Noth
ing there, but lizards skurrying over the
leaf-strewn floor, and cobwebs covering
wall and ceiling. The floor was rotting,
and the chimney had fallen in.
Where the brick hearth once stood,
there yawned a black gulf ; and Muldoon,
gazing down into its deaths, Heard a
sudden stir, and two fiery points of light
seemed to spring from the darkness.
The bov cave a wild shriek, and dashed
out of the cabin in long leaps, which
quickly landed him in his enrt. As for
ltrnnrlv and Whiskv. the two wretched
old mules, if the lash gave them time for
thouirht between Mulligans ana tne
mill, they must have felt that a wild-cat
waMutheir backs.
"It Yas tho ghost pcepin' out av the
hole," Muiaooir iiitiag'it. "An', howly
Moses I how will I pass" tnv Jo-night
and pit home aloive?''
The miller was furious at having corn
brought at that hour to grind.
"I've got through gnndin', and old
Pell knowed it," he grumbled. -"It's
jist his dratted meanness hatin' to send
early he's so 'fraid of losiu' a minute in
tho twelve hours. I aint a-goin' to start
my mill at this hour, not fur the President
of these United States. There, Pat,
dump that corn out, and take this here
bag of meal. Ef he'll send Monday, he'll
git the rejjL He's bo plaguo-takcd
mean ! It'll teach him a lesson when he
has to make two trips to mill."
Muldoon obeyed, but it seemed to him
an ago before he got the corn out and
the meal in. It was nearly twilight now,
and would be almost dark before he
reached the Mulligan farm.
"Ef Bell don't drive the beotenest old
critters," the miller said, examining the
mules. "They're plumb broke kown,
jest comin' four mile. Look here, Mul
doon,! the ghost chases you, you won't
have a chance. Jim Collins says as how
it follercd him two mile, and it was tho
tearinest race he ever tuck, and he wos
on Grey Eagle, too."
"And then how may the ghost look,
Misther Lytle 1" asked poor Muldoon, his
teeth beginning to chatter.
"Oh, I ain't never seed it; but heaps of
folks says as how it changes, sometimes
white and sometimes black !"
"And, Misther Lytle, I'm terrible
scared," Muldoon said. "I see somethin'
dreadful by tho chimney like ghosts'
eyes, ail fire. Please, sur, let one av the
b'yscomo home wid me! '
""There ain't a one on the place," the
miller said. "It's Saturday, uud they all
went visitiu'. So you seed somethin' did
you? Well, Pat, jest whip up them crit
ters, and ef they're spry you'll git past
Mulligan fore dark. There's a moon,
too."
The miller was as firm a believer in the
ghost as poor Muldoon himself, and he
felt for the lad as he saw him trying to
push Brandy and Whisky into unusual
speed. But in spite of Muldoon's efforts,
it was nearly dark before the haunted
house was reached. The stars shone,
however, and the young crescent moon
threw its feeble beams ou the dark pines,
but there were weird shadows quivering
over the road.
"1 wish I was back in old Oirlund,"
Muldoon muttered, as he neared the
dreaded spot. "The Banshees are da
cent spcrits, and jest cry out. They
don't thry ter choke the loife outer a
poor innocent lad, as they say the ghosts
do in Ameriky. Ho wly Moses 1 What
is that"
lie was opposite the house. There
was a loud rustle, and something heavy
seemed to strike the ground, and then to
his panic-stricken ears came a sound of
heavy breathing. He glanced back, and
saw a long, dark figure bounding across
the door-yard from the house.
"The ghost, the ghost!" he yelled; and
what with blows rallied upon them, and
the boy's terrilic yells, tho astounded
Brandy and Whisky, for once in their
lives, ran away; but looking back, Mul
doon could see a dark figure bounding
alter the cart. It leaped up behind,
sprang upon him, and the poor lad lost
yjusciousness.
Brandy aud Whisky a-gul-w
road ns ef Ole Scratch
day, "and when they cotno up thef was
that young ljtot a-layin' in the bottom of
the cart like dead, and ole Lion he wor
a Sittln' on top of hint;
"Ydukee, the dog broke his chain
somehow, and I reckon he got tired when
he run as fur as Mulligan's, and thought
he'd stop on the porch and wait till
Muldoon got back. He's got sense like
a human being, Lion has.
"Well, Muldoon he says as how he
seed fire-eyes in a hole in Mulligan's
hearth, and he's sure it was the ghost I
aint scared ofghosts. and I reckon there's
a nest of wild-cats thar. I'm death on
them varments, sence they killed my
chickens, and Ira goin' this very mornin'
to rout 'em out."
Farmer Bell did not find the wild-cats,
though it was evident some wild animal
had made its lair in the hole, but in
searching under the fallen bricks and
earth, was found a metal box. Forcing
it open bank-notes to a large amount were
discovered, little injured by the danip.
Farmer Bell gave Muldoon a part of
the sum, as he had drawn attention to
the place where the treasure was found,
"Ould Mulligan's ghost, he gave mo
two starts," he said the other day. "One
kilt me entirely, and took my sinscs
away, but t'other has give me a start in a
good business. Ef I'm ever a rich man
it'll be thanks to Mulligan's ghost."
Youth' Companion.
. Slaking Mnslc-Boxes.
The chief industry of Geneva, Switzer
land, is the manufacture of music-boxes,
Thousands of men, women and children
are employed in the factories, oue oi
which wee visited by a young American,
Mr. Lee Meriwether. An attendant in
vited him to take a seat. He did so,
and strains of delightful music came
from the chair. He hung his hat on a
rack and put his traveling staff in the
stand. Music came from both rack and
stand. He wrote his name in the visi
tor's register, and, on dipping his pen in
the ink, the music burst forth from the
inkstand.
Tho manager of tho factory explained
the process of making music-boxes, a
business which requires patience and
nicety. The different parts are made by
men who are experts in those parts, and
they do nothing else, year in aud yeat
out. The music is marked on the cylin
der by a man who has served several
years of apprenticeship. Another man
inserts in the marked places pegs which
have been filed to a uniform length.
The comb or set of teeth which strikes
the pegs, and makes tho sound, is ar
ranged by a man who does nothing else.
The cylinder is then revolved to see thnt
every peg produces a proper tone. The
most dchcatework of all is the revising
of each peg' It is done by a workman
who has a fcobd ear for music. He sees
that each peg is in its proper place, and
bent at the correct angle. When the in
strument is in its ci.se, an expert exam
ines it to seo that the time is perfect
and good. Tho best workmen, those
who mark the cylinder and adjust tho
pegs, earn a dollar and eighty cents a
day, after serving an apprenticeship of
ten or twelve years. An ordiuary work
man earns a dollar a cjay. ' -
The Use of Paper Bags.
"The days of the market baskets are
nuhhcrcd," said a basket dealer to a
New York Sun reporter. "Tho pnpet
bag is running it out for good. There
used to be a time when every family had
a market basket, which was carried ou
whenever supplies were 4o be purchased.
When a man goes to market now ho
doesn't take a basket along. At the first
stall where he makes a purchase tho
marketman asks, 'Largo bag or small
bag?'
"If the man is on a regular marketing
tour .he says: 'Large bag.' Tho dealer
Kuts the purchase in a handsome manilla
ng three or four feet long, which will
hold as much as any ordinary
market basket. The bug is made
of . exceptionally strong paper, and
will hola the weight of anything
you can put into it, including a
half a peck of potatoes. When tho lost
purchase has been deposited in it the
buyer has the dealer to tio it up. This is
quickly done, in such a manner that a
nice cord handle is furnished, and no one
would ever guess that the bag contains
marketing. It looks more like a bundle
of dry goods. Every Saturday evening
you can see men going home on the cars
with these nice bundles who would never
dream of carrying market baskets. Ono
day I saw an aristocratic carrier turn pule
with rage as a big shad, wet and glisten
ing, forced its way through the paper and
fell on the floor of an elevated car. Tho
fish dealer had neglected to wrap the wet
fish up in brown paper before putting it in
the bag, and tho wutcr had weakened the
bag until the shad broke through.
Market baskets are very cheap now."
Origin of Honeymoon.
It may not be generally known that the
word "honeymoon" is derived from the
ancient Teutons, and means drinking for
thirty days after marriage of metheglin,
mead, or hydromel, a kind of wine made
from honey. Attila, a celebrated King
of the Huns, who boasted of the appella
tion, "The Scourge of God," is said to
have died on his nuptial night from an
uncommon effusion of blood, brought on
by indulging too freely in hydromel at
his wedding feast.
The term "honeymoou" now signifies
the first month after marriage, or so much
of it as is spent from home. John Tobin,
in "The Honeymoon," thus refers to it:
This truth is manifest a gentle wife
Is still the sterling comfort of a man's life;
To fools a tormeut, but a lasting boon
To those who wisely keep their honeymoon.
Th JijMKh.
Fanning Coder Difficulties.
In a narrative of Lord McCartney's
Embassy to China, it is related that his
lordship'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 arouud 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 encourage
ment to plant his vegetables and his corn.
Tho whole of the cultivated spots, which
were at some distauco from each other,
appeared to be not tnore than half ou
aere, and near the bottom of a precipice,
on a hillock, he hifcl a little hut.
ALL ABOUT TILE TEETH
A DfiNTISTd TALK ABOUT HVlfAtf
MOLARd.
Construction of the Teeth Women's!
Teeth More Delicate Than Those)
of Men Care of the Teeth.
A leading Chicago dentist has been
talking about human teeth to a Tribune
reporter. He said s "To begin with, of
the five superior cavities of the head, the
mouth is by far the most important be
cause into it goes the food by whidn w
sustain life. Of all the constituent parti
of the mouth the teeth play the mdst im
portnnt part in preparing the food for the
nourishment of tho body. In mastication
different teeth are employed for different
purposes. The front ones, or incisors as
they are called, are to bite or tear off the
mouthfuls of food. Tho back teeth, the
biscuspids and molars, or teeth posterior,
are to grind the food into the pliable
mass ready for swallowing. Now ths
teeth, as a rule, arc neglected even by tho
most careful persons that is, neglected
from a standpoint ol puro Science
and the reason ot this is that they
don't seem to understand that the
strongest of outer substances will
give way to persistent friction. The
construction of the teeth is made up, in
gross, of two parts soft solids or animal
tissues and calcareous salts, such as car
bonate and phosphate of lime, magnesia,
and traces of other earthy salts. That
portion of the tooth above the gum con
sists of a dense substance known as
enamel, which is at first touch within
four per cent of being as hard as stone.
The philosophy of caring for the enamel
of the tooth is very simple. It amounts
to this : that if this enamel this strong
substance is by persistent cleansing pre
vented from becoming perforated by the
acids left from the food, the bone of the
tooth cannot possibly decay, and if the
dentine remains sound the nerve chamber
cannot bo reached by air, food, acifls, or
other foreign substances all of which,
are prime causes of that fearful infliction,
the toothache. Not tired yet t Well,
the dentine is the principal body" of the
tooth, containing about seventy-two per
cent, of calcareous matter, and, being just
so much softer than the enamel decays
much more quickly once it is reached.
The next resistant of tho tooth is the ce-
mentum, which covers the root In tho
interior of the tooth is an artery, which
contains the moss of soft tissue known as
the nerve. The ide entertained by so
n any people that the slaying of the nerve
oi a tootn win put an end to all
pain, so far as that partlculai
grinder is concerned Is erroneous. A
exposed pulp of course will ache, and to
stop it, it must either be killed or shut out
from the air and all foreign substances.
The latter effect is secured by filling up
me cavuy. nut oi course ine nerve can
not stand this, and that is the reason why
many dentists kill it. This course is not
to be commended, however, because it is
so apt to lead to ulceration, which will
bring on more wain than ever for the
natient. The more workmanlike plan
is to construct a bridgo at the cavity and
iwt-the filling go in after that. The nerve
will then be'alio'Ked freo play, beneath
the bridge, ' . rr -
"The teoth of wemen are much softer
than those of men, there being less cal
careous matter interspersed about the soft
solids. Nearly two-thirds of my patients
are women and children. The teeth of
the young decoy faster than the old,
because of the smaller amount of lime
salts they contain. For this reason too
much care cannot be given to the teeth
of children. Every child should be taught
to hold its teeth of the first importance,
and the proper care of them should be
instilled into its mind contemporaneously
with the alphabet.
"It is just as possible to build up the
teeth by nourishment as any other part of
tho body. The simpler the diet the
belter for the teeth. It is the outsido of
all the grains, of all the cereal foods that
contains the carbonate and phosphate of
limo and traces of other earthy salts
which nourish tho bony tissues and
build the frame of the tooth up. If the
teeth of children are not furnished with
the pabulum that they crave they cannot
bo built up into a permanently sound
and healthy condition. The teeth of
each generation are weaker than those of
the preceding one, which makes the out
look fur the future an exceedingly gloomy
one. Fine sets of teeth are nearly always
inherited, and you will very rarely see a
parent who owns' a handsome set of
grinders who has not thoroughly imbued
his or her children with the principle
that their molars are of the first import
ance to them. The consequence is that
the teeth of the entire family
are objects of wonder to the
entire neighborhood. Oatmeal is one
of the best foods for supplying tho
teeth with nourishment. It makes the
dentine and enamel strong and able to
resist all forms of decay. The same
beneficial lime-salts abound in wheat
meal. Baked beans, a'so, contain much
excellent nourishment for the teeth, and
for this purpose cannot be partaken of
too of cen. No; I have not heard that
the people of Boston are famous for their
grinders, but I shouldn't wonder if they
were. A man who eats baked beans four
or live times a wee isn't likely to have
much the matter with his teeth.
"Tho teeth should be thoroughly
cleansed, not less than three, and if
possible, five irsix times a day more if
you like. Without this, the particles of
food will adhere and their acids eat into
the enamel. Good soap is about as good
a dentifrice as I can recommend, and in
brushing the teeth the movement should
bo up aud down from the gum and not
across, as is tho customary manner. Care
should be taken, too, to brush carefully
the grinding surfaces of the teeth."
Spoke From Experience.
"Don't you think," observed Riche
lieu, "tlwt it would be a source of im
provement to have a friend who would
tell us of our faults, and at the same
time allow us to point out his own de
fects f"
"No, I don't," said Aramiuta, de
cidedly; " I speak from experience, too,
for my best friend aud 1 once tried it."
" Why, what was wrong about it 1"
" Weil, you see, we haven't spoken to
each cither for two years 1" ptlroit
t're Freti. I
He who seems
than he is, is ux-'
pot to himself more
1n he seems.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Unusually low water In Lake Constance
has been bringing to light many valuable
nd interesting relics of the prehistoric
lake-dwellers.
A HuftsW engineer says that he has
discovered a process of reducing petroleum
to the form of crystals, whicn may be
easily and safely transported to any dis
tance and then reconverted into liquid
form.
The addition of sugar to mortar greatly
Increases its strength. It is supposed
that tho wonderful Roman mortar, hard
aftdf 3,000 years had passed, owed its
excellence to the addition of saccharine
matter.
The steam power of Great Britain is
estimated to perform the work of more
than 400,000,000 able-bodied men, which
must nearly represent the labor capacity
of the entire human race without the aid
of machinery.
Dr. Vulpinn has reported to the Paris
Academy of Sciences that during the
epidemic of yellow fever lately prevailing
In Bio Janeiro, of 0,524 persons inoculated
against the fovcr, only six died, or less
than one per thousand, whilo the pro
portion of deaths among those not treatea
was ono per cent.
A late observer, Mr. E. Sanford, re
ports having Blade a common snail carry
load of i ounces tip a perpendicular
wall, its own weight being but a quarter
of an ounce. A snail weighing a third
of an ounce drew a load of seventeen
ounces on a horizontal table, and sup
ported four ounces while crawling on the
ceiling. It even climbed a thread with
another snail on it back.
It is said that a Baltimore man has in
vented a foot measuring machine which
ho fays measures accurately every in
equality of the foot, adapts itself to the
curves of tho instep, and overcomes the
dimculties heretofore encountered in oo
taining a godtj fit. The machine repro
duces the shape and size of tho foot on a
diagram, with the diameter and circum
ference of the various parts.
Dr. Davenport, the ' atifi'.yst of the
Massachusetts State Board of hVMth,
makes some returns that will bo of intetw.
est to all. Out of twenty advertised cures
for the opiumhabit, all but one contained
opium. A marvelous cure "double
chloride of gold," contained no goldl A
large number of "temperance drinks"
were also examined. All contained al
cohol, and one as high 44.3 per cent.
The majority contained over 20 per cent.
A preparation analyzing 41.0 per cont.
was claimed by its manufacturer "to be
a purely vegetable extract."
Dr. Oscar Lenz, the eminent scientist,
has lately returned to Europe, after travel
ing on foot across the Atncan onunem,
through regions literally recking with
marsh fevers, agues, and small pox.
During the entire journey ho enjoyed
perfect and robust helth, and on not
singlu oooatiinn felt the need of medicine,
remediul or preventive. TUU immunity he
attributes almost entirely to his correct
diet and habits. Haw fruit he eschewed.
All water used was first boiled. Not a
drop of ulcoholic liquor passed his lips.
Rice, chicken, and tea formed his staple
fare. He avoided bathing in cold water,
exposed himself as little as possible to
iBerxinK? Jln0- n1'88 of night, and dressed
entirely in flannel." ,.
As crabs approach old age and no
longer increase In size, their shells, which
in youth were shed frequently to accom
modate growth of body, are ofteu re
tained several years, and.thc creatures be
come liable to fall victims to the strangest
sort of parasitism. Barnacles and all
sorts of marine growths collects upon tho
shell, nnd in many cases almost com
pletely hido the crab. . A remarkable ex
ample of this may be seen in the British
Museum, where has been placed an old
crab of tho edible species, with some
half-dozen oysters of large size fixed to
its back, which load, ever incre ising,the
old crab was doomed to carry to the end
of its days. Another curious specimen
preserved is that of a hairy crab, which,
though not larger itself than a walnut, is
saddled with a sponge as big as a man's
fist.
Chinese Doctors.
A Chinaman who wishes to -become a
doctor does not go through any special
training or spend money in buying
a practice. He has only to purchase a
pair of spectacles and gather some herbs,
a few spiders, and some snakes, which
he places in bottles in the window of his
shop. Tho bottles arc his advertisement;
they tell all who are in need of healing
to come to him. His favorite prescrip
tion is a horrible pill compounded of
parts of snakes, wasps, centipedes, toads,
and scorpions ground small and mixed
with honey. Another pill, supposed to
l.n nf avtrimi-ilinuMf ..tliixwu in 'nuns ni
extreme weaaness, is matte ui tno uoni-a
of tigers. The belief in Its merit is
based on this strange piece of reasoning:
Tho tiger is very strong; the bone is the
strongest part of the strong animal;
therefore a pill of this must be pre
eminently strengthening. These facts
speak eloquently as to the state of medi
cal science in China. Tile lamentable
consequence is an excessive mortality.
It is calculated that DD.OdO die daily, and
this number is, of course, largely in
creased during an epidemic, which is no
uncommon visitor.
An Almost Human Appeal.
Edwin Emory, of East Baltimore, hud
an experience of the sagacity of tho dog
yesterday. On his way down South
Broadway a smull dog ran up to hiin.uet
in a strange maimer. Tho little fellow
jumped on him aud lic ked his hands and
occasionally unappca ami women.
Thinking of hydiophobiu, Mr Emory
kicked the dog, "which then ran in front
of him, and posing in a begging position,
began to beut the air with his fiout legs.
Mr. Emory insisted ou having nothing to
do with the dog, but it lexaled tho act
several times. Finally, just ns he was
going to knock the persistent little beg
gar with sufficient vigor to last for all
time, Mr. Emory discovered a large pin
sticking in the foot of the dog, uud,
with humane instinct, he K...k htm iu his
arms and pulled it out. As soon as re
lieved, the dog manifested his thanks by
licking Mr. Emory's bands, and then dis
appeared as fust as he came. Jialtimuit
Su.
Gordon dimming likened an African
jungle to a forest of li-h hooks relieved
by au occasional it- h of penknives,
Of the struggle ot toward hlghta
above,
The stronger this truth c o
home to me.
That the universe rasts c
r-1.1 tho shoulders of
Love
A love solimitless, deep ifvi lroad
That men have renamed it and called it God.
And nothing that oer was born or voIvnd,
Nothing created by light or force,
But deep in its system there lies dissolved
A shining drop from tb great Lov
Source
A shining drop that shall live for aye
Tho' kingdoms may porUi, and stars may dio.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in Independent
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
Fogg says his bed is a young one, as
it has only seen four springs. I'ttet. .
Tho chicken is a fretful animal; every
once in a whilo it is getting into a stew.
Merchant Traveler.
A young society lndy calls her partner
at a recent dancing party Indian, because
he is always on her trail.
A man recently escoped from a South
ern prison on a load of cotton. Tho
papers stated that ha got out on bale.
Life.
"My affection, dear maid, from you cannot
range,
My heart, like my pocket, can never know
change."
Tid-Bits.
Recent develoomcnts would seem to"
indicate that eve a mind-reader finds it
impossible to reaTi a woman's mind.
Botton Pot.
Some old dinner customs still prevail.
The Romans used to recline at tlic.r ban
quets, and the habit of lying at ptllic
dinners still prevails. Motion ISuurlin,
The hunETV trnmo admitted o iar '
1 he teed, behind the pajy lak'h,
Presents tliniiileSBi-B known
t tjifjrtain promptness and "lJisrroh.,,
" Hitings.
When a man buys a tract of Arizona
land through a real estate agent and finds
it notbiug but sand, he is entitled to no
sympathy. He gets only his just desert. '
Chicago Tribune.
Boarder " Seems to me this chicken
must be rather a peculiar breed." Boarding-house
Keeper" It is not so tender
ns it ought to be, I know, and I can't
imagine why, either. It's a genuine-
Plymouth Rock." "My I my 1 Camo
over in the Mayflower, chl" Otiuiha
World.
Soft-hearted Old Lady (when she heard
the story and assisted the applicant):
"Dear me 1 Ah, poor man I you must in
deed have gone through dreadful trials."
Tramp: "I b'lieve yer, m'um, an', what's
wus, u',. I m al'gys convicted," ,
Punch. . "'..
WISE WORD'
Wrinkles are the tor
To make pleasure,
them.
"k "maaJde gr
own will. ' - ,
Nothing is so fearful V tad con- t
science. P j
Passion Is a bad counselor, and gener- i
ally a bad speaker. " ;
He that, has not a character is not a ;
man; ho is only a thing. -j
Genius follows its own path and reaches '
its destination scarcely needing a com- . " j
pass.
When one has no good reason for doing
a thing, he has one reason for lotting it
alone. . " x .
No man preaches his surmon well to
others if he does not tir.-t preach it to his
own heart.
Tho worst prison is not of stone. It
is a throbbing heart outraged by an in
famous life. " - .
Nothing is ever done beautifully "duch
is dono iu rivulship, not nobly, wn V.,toJ-'
done in prido. -
A happy marriage is a new beginning
of life, a new starting point for happi- x
ness and usefulness.
What it is our duty to do. wc must do
because it is right, not because, anyono
can demand it of us.
He that does a baso th
friend burns the golden
their hearts together.
Nothing has proved in
ti.rr In real for a
thread that tio
i! fatal
: r lifo tin.
duo preparation for ano'
' UI1im,,)y ,utake of the itturc aud ..
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No man ever lived a i .
lit lifo Wliohftll
. woman's hive,
.'!, and guided
-rid, but woman
1 and niuselo
love and loveli-
and act a part
' a; tho iHiitom j
, . miiig to re-
vy itself oue j
not been chastened by
strengthened by Iter co ;'
by her discretion.
Manilas subdued the
has subdued man.
have won his victoi-K ,
uess have gained her
It is hard to pets
long, for wheu trutb '
nature will always I
turn, and peep out -
time or another.
Nervous
"Finely-bred, Int. !
a trainer recently to
New York M'tU and I
nervous. They are 1
quick to take alarm. ,
seems to them, iu lie
terror, necessary to i
harm, from somethir
stand. That is w
bolt aud run away,
awful sugj-.stiuns si i
their minds. It i
white paper in tin
nervous horse a ya
front of a baby i
dragon ready to ti.
on a bycycle, som
flying devil with,jf
however, he ln-coijf
objects, he is ei.W
thtni. Therefore,
at anything muse,
it; let hiiu siiielf
seuaitive upper '
lie uiuy not lr
continue
I your hoi
horses," sa
i'!er for f
-i, "are of
. l to no"
a U. tO do
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