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THE FOREST REPUBLICAN
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An insurance paper hnsbecn collecting J
statistics of sulcido in the United States.
Among the most singular and perplex
ing things is tho fact that "tho classifi-
cation by condition shows a greater pro
portion suicides among the married than
th. unmarried, which is contrary to tho
accepted theory.
.
Tho Lowell Courier asserts that "tho
jelly of commerce is one of tho worst
frauds on tho list of false products. It is
manufactured from anything but the
fruit whoso nnmo it bears, and is colored
to match its name. If you want real good
jelly nialan it yourself or get your mother
to give it to you."
A yearling calf worth $0 became tho
subject of a lawsuit at Fort Worth, Tex
as, a year ago. Tho caso has been tried
sevornl time nnd moved from one jus
tice's court to another until the costs now
amount to about $200. Whichever way
the case is decided it will be appealed,
and tho costs will go on piling up.
There arc other Clovelands in Wash
ington besides tho President's family.
Tho directory gives the names of ten
Clcvelands who are in various walks of
life. Charles Cleveland is a clerk, Chas.
II. Cleveland belongs to the United
States Navy, Cynthia E. Cleveland is a
clerk ib the Treasury Department, David
G. Cleveland is a waiter, Jano Cleveland
is recorded as a widow, Lizzie Cleveland
is servant in a house near the Capitol,
Philip li. Cleveland has no occupation,
while Grovcr Cleveland appears in largo
letters as ' President of tho United
States." '
he torpedo boat as mi engine of warfare
bus not its yet proved an unqualified suc
cess. Tho Intent French e xperimonts
with it failed entirely. A fleet of trans
ports wits to imko a voyage from Toulon
, lo Algiers and return, convoyed by wnr
ehips. A fleet of torpedo bo its was to
attack the. convoy at every opportunity.
The squadron started oil on a gale so
ficrco tho boats could not go to sea, nnd
enrne buck on a night so dark that the
boats could not find a single vcssol.
This would iudicato that tho torpedo
boat must find an enemy accommodating
enough to sail only in fair weather nnd
by daylight, if it is to get a clmuee to
. blow anything or anybody up.
Only seventy years ago a large portion
of tho territory comprising tho stnte of
Wisconsin, with a section of Minnesota,
was sold for $100,000, and the deed is re
corded in tho New York Register's office.
Tho sale was made by Samuel Peters to a
.syndicate, for there were syndicates in
those days as well as in this. The sale
was nrndo in January, 1817, and the syn
dicate was composed of Lewis Ayrcs and
ninety-nine others. It is described as a
largo tract of land in tho Northwestern
territory, containing 8,000,000 acres and
more. It comprised tho greater portion
oflhe land sold in 1707 to Jonathan Car
ver by the Nandowcssies tribe of Indians.
Carver received 100,000 acres. There is
a population of 1,313,497 in Wisconsin
at this date, and tho valuo of tho farm
products is 727i77l),4i)0.
If King ICulakana were to interview
tho editors who are talking about dis
turbances in the Sandwich Islands lie
would very likely ask them to what part
of the world they referred. Wheu tho
King was in this country, a few years
ago, the Mayor of Chicago, in a moment
of aberration, introduced him to the
JJoard of Trade as tho King of the Canni
bal Islands. Kalakaua thought this was
a tolerably good joke, but nny attempts
to mako him known as tho King of tho
Sandwich Islands always tended to ruf
fle the royal temper. When Capt. Cook
discovered the Hawaiian groupo ho at
tached to it the name of an English peer.
A number of .tho names Cook gave to
islands ho discovered have been replaced
on the maps by tho prettier and more
appropriato native names. Hawaii takes
its name from the largest island in tho
group, Tho natives recognize no other
name for the group, and Kulakaua is
known to other governments only as tho
King of Hawaii.
It is an undoubted fact, says the New
York Olaercer, that no instrument in
vented by man, not expressly designed as
a inau-destroyer, has actually crippled
and Bluin more men than the car coupler.
Accidents to railroad employes from this
cause are the most common of occur
lences. It is estimated that iu tho 1'uitcd
'States alone 450 brakemen are killed
every year whilo coupling cars,and thou
sands are bruised, maimed, or seriously
ftijured. The question of substituting a
safety coupler has often beeu discussed,
and numerous inventions to secure safety,
ot more or less value have been proposed
for adoption, but nothing practical has
as yet resulted. The trouble has been to
find a safety-coupler applicable to all
kinds of cars, and one that could be rec
ommended for universal use. It is grati
fying to learn that an investigation by a
committee representing 130,000 miles of
road is now on foot, with the object of
finding a system of safety-coupling that
may be generally adopted. When tho
car stove and the old fashioned link and
pin coupling are ruled out of cxisteuco.tho
dangers of railroading will be reduced by
large degree.
t ORE ST
VOL. XX. NO. 16.
ON AN OLD ROAD.
A host of popples, a flight of swallows;
A flurry of rain, and a wind that follows
Shepherds the leaves In tho sheltered hollows,
For tlie lorest is shaken and thinned.
Over my head are the firs for rafter;
The crows blow south, and my hoarta goes
after;
I kiss my hands to the world with laughter-
Is It Aiilenn or mystical I ml?
Oh, the whirl of the fields in the windy
weather!
How the barley broaks and blows together!
Oh, glad Is the free bird afloat on the heath
er
Oh, the whole world is clad of the wind!
Charles E. Marklutm, in Scribner's.
A GLASS EYE.
BY I.l'C'Y BLAKE.
In tho so-called garden of tho Pension
Bella ViBta at Florence a gentleman sat,
apparently absorbed in the perusal of the
Yetlcttti, with a cup of coffee on the table
before him. Gushing young ladies would
have called him most interesting-looking;
a poet; a man with a history; the hero of
some unhappy romance, nnd other
epithets more or less true. He had in
tensely black hair; a heavy black mus
tache; eyes as blue as a six-year old
child's; and a tall, graceful figure, which
gave him an air of distinction among the
rest of his kind.
It was a tasteless little pretense of a
gurdeu on tho roof, with vines painted
on the stucco of its walls to supplement
the meagre growth of the real plant;
bowers made shady with neacia branches
tied on with cord, and hero and there a
pink or white paper camellia fastened to
bushes which looked far too feeble to
produce authentic blossoms.
Mr. Leonard Winston, the aggregate of
poet, hero and martyr, privately loathed
the vulgar little garden, tho bad coffee
brought him by a pink roly-poly of a
boy in buttons, and the stale news and
feeble wit in the Yeihtta: but he lingered
there iu seeming contentment with them
nil, because he could enjoy unobserved
behind a screen of fur branches tho charm
lent to the place by a pretty girl with tho
bonniest of Brown eyes,nnd the tiniest of
feet in dainty, embroidered Cossack
shoes. Hie sat with an older lady on a
bench in the midst of a meagre parterre
of geraniums iu pots, and seemed to find
much amusement in a letter presented to
her by a vealy-looking boy.
"Listen, Clara, dear!" she exclaimed.
" Did you ever hear of anything so ridi
culous? Gertie writes -.'
"Hut, I Valerie, my dear, perhaps we
have listeners," said Mrs. Marshall, in a
tone which was intended to le sepul
t hi ally low, but which reached Mr. Win
ston's ears as clearly as the girl's answer
of, "No matter if we have. Gertie's
stupidity ought to be published far and
wide as an awful warning to other girls.'
This answer reassured tho involuntary
eaves-dropper, who was hesitating be
tween upsetting the iron table or smash
ing the Bella Vista crockery in order hon
orably to mako his presence felt before
the conversation between the two ladies
took a more confidential turn.
"Well, nnd what horrible sin has Ger
tie committed;"
"She's breaking her he .".rt over, and
wearing the willow for, a man with a
glass eye! Really in love with him, I be
lieve, in spite of her half-joking account
of her despair. She admits that he didn't
carry his flirtation half ns far K3 dozens
of other men one meets in a Feas.-in, and
therefore she had a fancy that ho was in
earnest. It is easy to read between the
lines that sho would have been glad to
give him tho encouragement he did not
solicit. He is said to play the violin well;
an additional honor in hiscasc imagine
the glass eye rolling about in a fine fenzy
when ho fiddles Hall's Cavatina, or some
thing equally sentimental. Hum! he is
coming to Florence; should we meet him,
Gertie wnms us all to be on our guard
ngainst his fascinations, ns his intentions
seem to be 'strictly honorable, but not mat
rimonial.' Sho might have spared her
self the trouble of lhat admonition. A
cork leg if he likes, ornn empty sleeve
they suggest glory and bravery and bat
tles, but a glass eye, ugh! tho very
thought gives ine tho horrors; if ho were
the last man on earth I would not look
at him."
"What u silly child you are! he might
be a most agreeable fellow, and in these
days when they remedy physical defects
so cleverly "
"Perhaps you think I would not be
able to detect the bogus optic. Ha! ha!
I m not so easily imposed upon."
Valerie's childish chatter seemed at '
last to weary her auditor behind the iir
branches, for ho left his coffee and with-
drew, saluting tho two ladies ns ho
passed them, w ho looked after him with j
some consternntiou. '
"I didn't know any one was in that
preposterous attempt at an arbor," said i
Valerie.
"You said you didn't enre," replied ;
her friend. " !
After luncheon the younirer feminine
members of the Pension Bella Vista put
their Kiddy heads toirether in animated i
discussion of the nice-looking, new men j
who hud arrived. j
"lie looks like a poet, or a rwhilist, or ,
something interesting
"What's his naniei"
"Leonard Winston; I read it in the
Strangers Li-t."
''Ho plays the violin like a finished ai
tint, Mr. Bert rum says; their rooms adjoin.-'
"He must have heard the sum and
substance of Gertie's letter when I told I
Clara this morning. I wonder' what he '
thought of it?" suid Valerie Tempest. !
..it ! . it - 1 . .. '
IU is a fine-looking fellow, certainly,
sho continued; "I had n good chance of
judging, for. though he sat nearly op
posite mc nt luncheon, he scarcely "hon
ored me with a glance: therefore I could
study him at my pleusure." 1
This was said with a half-scornful,
half-amused little shrug of Valerie's
pretty shoulders, which made the other
girls liuinli.
"It is something uew for Valerie Tem
pest when the nu n refuse to look nt her."
"What can you have done to offend
this Adonis, child ("
This (itiistion, asked in fun. bt fan. as i
the days elapsed, to bo really a vexatious ' the garlands and crosses upon the con
riddle to Valerie, She, an acknowledged j tessa'a tomb flying about the floor in
beaut v, with an undisputed reputation ' ghastly confusion. Valerie gave one
for w it and cleverness, an exquisite dan- ! piercing scream and tried to free herself
cer, add a charmingly sympathetic voice: i
she, W4b all these attractions, apparently I
TIONESTA,
ignored and overlooked by this new
comer, who. in spite of his indifference.
had awakened in her a far deeper inter
est than she felt in any of her abjectly
smitten ndorcrs. He was impartially
friendly with the other Indies, but seemed
to prefer most the society of an old con
tessa, an invalid who spent most of her
time half buried among the pillows of
her sofa. A year or two previous, nt
Cannes, she had been thrown into a vio
lent paroxysm of fright by her horses
running away, and her nerves had never
recovered from the shock. Mr. Wins
ton had come to tho rescue very heroic
ally in this accident, people said, and the
two had become fast friends, as a matter
of course.
Valeric Teniest began to be seriously
unnnppy over Mr. W niston s marked
avoidance of her; slights of this kind
were novel and bitter experiences for
her, and tho more this man's favor was
withheld, the more she longed for it.
Ho hal bewitched her with his delicious
music, with the sonnd of his voice, with
himself. Under his eyes sho begifn a
violent flirtation with Freddy Harbor
ongh. whom she detested, but it was all
of no avail; not even through the
medium of jealousy was the mysterious
musician to be won over to worshipping
at Valerie's shrine.
As tho warm weather advanced the
poor old contcssa grew weaker and
weaker, and one evening was found lying
dead on her sofa. She was buiied at
San Mininto, on tho hill, a slab in com
memoration of her death being placed in
the floor of tho church. One of tho re
ceivers of the contcssa's bounty was a
half idiotic vendor of straw bruslbs;
among tho funeral flowers was found a
neatly woven broom, which tho poor
half-witted creature had brought as a
testimony of gratitude and affection for
his benefactress.
A few days later Mrs. Marshall nnd
Valerie sat, over their coffee, in the
breakfast-room, flooded with sunshine
and invaded by flies, alone, except for
Mr. Winston, who sat opposite. Ho wns
if possible, more absent than ever, and
instead of looking at Valerie, he seemed
to gaze through her out toward the Fie
solo hills. Perhaps this abstract ion was
not surprising owing to the recent death
of his friend. While Mr. Winston's eyes
were fixed in contemplation of the dis
tant hills, Mrs. Marshall noticed that Val
erie was staring at him with a blank cx
pressiou of amazement that was reallv
alarming.
"Whatever is the matter, child?" she
whispered. Don't look liko that you
frighten me!"
"Look!" the girl answered, in a low,
eager voice, in German. A fly has set
tled on his eye-ball, and he doesn't brush
it off. Do you see? The left eye he
can have no feeling in it. Heavens,! I
see it all now. He has a glass eye ! Come
..... . i. r
"ui, un uiu uuicunv, it is suiiocutiug in
here." 6
Ou the balcony, Valerie continued:
"This man can be no other than Gertie's
flame. She did not mention his name.
but there cannot be two fiddling glass
eyed Englishmen in Florence. He heard
all my idiotic discousre that day when I
read you Gertie a letter. Oh, what a fool
I have been ! No wonder he avoids me.
I wish he would go away and, yet, I
would like a chance to tell him how I re
pent alt those silly speeches."
"Isn't it odd we never noticed that
Mr. Winston had a glass eye till Valerie
called our attention to it?"" said one of
the bevy of maidens which each even inn-
animated the salons of the Bella ViJta.
"It is not so surprising when one re
flects that he never spoke to any of us for
more than five minutes nt a time, and
then usually in the twilight in our en
chanting garden. All his attention
seemed given to the contcssa and his
violin."
I wonder how ho lost his eve?"
W hen he seized and stopped tho con
tcssa's horses that unlucky day nt
Cnunes, the carriage-pole struck him in
tho eye and nearly killed him. Ho is
evidently a very plucky fellow; Mr.
Bertram told mamma the whole story."
Poor Valerie listened with ever-increasing
self-reproach.
That day sho went for a solitary walk,
nud half mechnnically wended her steps
towards San Mininto. There was a chat
tering crowd of people dispersed about
the cemetery, nnd to avoid them she be
thought herself of the quiet of the church.
The doors were locked, but as she stood
before them, hesitating, a custodian ap-
peureu, iiiiu limuuiieu lo ner Dy
il scrii-s
of w inks and w hispers that, though the '
puonc was not admitted to-day, he would
let her in for a small consideration of !
soldi. He would be obliged to lock tlio i
('l;r after her, but when sho wished to
be let out she need only pound on the
door with her umbrella and he would
bring his key.
Valerie liked tho sensation of finding
herself alone iu the great, ornate, cool
"l"'1 of the church, nlthough it gave her
11 l'ttlc shiver of fright to hear the key
turn in the lock, and to know that she
w,ls a temporary prisoner. She stood for
some moments studying the inscription
on the floor iu memory of the contcssa.
adding to the mass of wreaths and !
bouquets already unon it a fniL'raut tea-
lose from the bosom of her dress.
Presently a sound like a prolonged
s's siarticu ner violently. Nhc was evi
deutly not alone. The sigh changed to a
discordant laugh, and from the shallow
of a pillar hobbled forth the half-inad
b oom-cller whom the contcssa had be
friended. Hu seemed to be wholly mad
now; his eyes glared and rolled iu their
sockets horribly, and he began gib
bering and gesticulating to Valeric
made
a frenzied eagerness which
her turn pale with fright.
sllt now uct a hasty retreat to tho
.1 . f..lln 1 -. a. i i
door, followed by the idiot, and rained
a shower of blow s on the solid oak, to
bring the custodian to the rescue. But,
horrors of horrors, I he did not come.
Maybe he had forgotten, and here was
this loathsome creature grinning and gib
bering close in her ear. She knocked
again harder and harder than before,
shook uud kicked tho door and culled
out repeatedly ; but all to no avuil the
crowd outside tho church was too far
away and too noisy to hear her.
Suddenly the maniac seized Vulerio
around the waist, and began to whirl
her about iu a hideous dunce, which sent
li'om tne disgusting creature grip; then,
felt her strength going in a deuth'y j
5t7
PA., WEDNESDAY,
faint, she revived nt. hearing tho sound
of hastily approaching footsteps, and a
familiar voice cried :
'Courage for another moment, Miss
Tempest, and that brute shall havo the
punishment he deserves 1"
In another instant Mr. Winston had
dashed down the steps from an upper
gallery, seized the muttering, mouthing
idiot, and pinioned his arms behind with
a huge handkerchief the delinquent wore
twisted round his neck.
"Don't hurt the poor wretch," snid
Valerie; "he's crazy, and not responsible
for his conduct."
"I'm not going to hurt him, but I
mean to have him just where he cannot
molest you, or any one else again. How
lucky I happened to choose just this
hour for a look at tho mosaics over the
choir. That fellow was capable of fright
ening you to death, nt least."
"Let us get out of this prison ; I think
I can thank you more as you deserve, out
in tho sunshine," said Valerie with a
shiver.
"What's this? the door not opened
yet, and no custodian to come to our re
lease? That hist blow I gave was enough
to awake the dead."
"What can bo tho matter? the man
must have fallen down in a fit. that he
does not come to let us out."
Again, repeated poundings on the door
availed nothing, and Valerie and her
rescuer were forced to accept the fact that
they were prisoners. With tho best
grace possible, Mr. Winston pulled out
a silk handkerchief to spread on the
marble bench for Valerie to sit upon it
was a little better than the cold stone. In
doing so, a little embroidered scrap of a
hand Kerchief Tell from his pocket
to the floor. Valerie recognized it nt
once as hers. He blushed crimson and
hastily put it back into his pocket. She
pretended to be quite oblivious of the
incident, but it set her heart to beating
with intense joy that he seemed willing to
cherish anything that had belonged to
her. How kind and sauvc and gentle ho
hud suddenly become 1 Perhaps it was
their common misery at being shut up
nlone in a cold, ghostly church that
thawed thcstilfncss which had heretofore
existed between them. Whntever the
mysterious influence, Valerie found cour-
nge to broach the painful subject of Gcr- I
tie s letter, ana poured into her compan-
ion's car her great regret at her own stu
pid, childish speeches which must havo
hurt his feelings so deeply.
"Let us forget nil tha't," he said tak
ing Valerie's unresisting fingers for a mo
ment in his. "Listen; I think our jail
er is coining ot last. In my heart I can
not blame the fellow for his carelessness
(except for tho fright you had from our
friend tied to the pillar there); it has of
forded mc the happiest hour 1 have spent
iu Florence."
The custodian, overwhelmed with con
trition, opened the door for the prisoners.
He hud been sent on an unexpected is-
rand; Pietro, whom he had commis
sioned to unlock tho door, had gone to
sleep nnd forgotten all about it, the ras
cal! Valerie and her hero sat in the moon
light looking down upon the Arno.
why dut you not fall in love with
Gertie Ellis instead of waiting for foolish
little met" she asked presently, after one
of those long silences approved of by lov
ers. "Because she has red hair.and is a des
perate flirt, both of which I regard with
the same horror as a certain friend of
mine professes for a man with a glass
eye."
"How cruel of you "
A kiss changed into a smile tho droop
that for an instant saddened the girl's
lips. Frank fslie'.
Flowers Cultivated for Perfume.
One essential principle in perfume is
culture is that all fancy and "improved''
varieties of flowers are discarded, and
the natural, simple, old-fashioned kind
are exclusively grown. The roses grown
nre the common pink ones. The single
wild violet is preferred to nil the larger
artificially developed varieties, nnd not a
double tuberose is to lie seen on any
farm. Only the white jasmine is used,
the yellow and less fragrant variety be
ing cither discarded or unknown. The
jasmine plants are set in rows about 10
inches apart, and are closely pruned every
year. Hoses are grown on the lower ter
races, and nre likewise cut low, and the
ground between tho trees heavily ma
nurcu. Alter me roses nave necn guin-
ered the stem is cut to within a few
luetics oi tno groutid, so as to conserve
f"T the next season the entire vigor of
tlio lmit. During the harvest season
traders or middle men go inrotign the
country every day with wagons col
lecting flowers from the farms, lor which
they pay prices- varying according
to the extent of the crop and the de
mands of the market. Their fragrant
load is hurried to the nearest mauulact
urer and delivered while the flowers are
still fresh and crisp. It is necessary that
the flowers should be gathered m the
morning as soon as possible after the
dews of the preceding night have dis-
appeared. In many cases laboratories are
erected on the flower farm itself, and if
the farm is of sufficient size this adds
very much to its profits. I'lmmlirrni
Journal.
Birds on the Kuini.
Farmers, protect the birds, the insect
eaters, "robins, cutbirds, bluebirds, black
birds, thrushes, orioles, redbirds, wood
peckers and all. Each class has a mis
sion to perform in the economy of nature,
and w ithout their assistance we w ill have
neither crops nor fruits. The martins
destroy weevil, the quails and grouc
family destroy the chinchbug, the wood
peckers dig the worms from trees, and
the others eat worms, bugs and catcr-
Cillars. All do their part. Destroy the
irils of prey, but save your friends.
Ma-ouch um tit I'luwjh mini.
Keinaikahle
Tra nsiiilshion
thcrla.
of Diph-
We are reliably informed that a party
in the Fourteenth Ward of this city took
some clothes that had been employed
about a patient ulllicted w ith diphtheria
and threw them over the chicken coop
tho other evening to air. When the
family came to loi.k into the coop the
uext morning all of its inmutcs were
found dead. The dead fowls had black
marks on their throats in each instauce.
And a w hole brood of young chicks pcr-
ished in th same way. Stlt JstUXeni i
PUBLICAN.
AUG. 10, 1887.
SIXPENCES ON A TOMB
CURIOUS CUSTOMS THAT ARE
SERVED IN LONDON.
OB
Vim u a 1 Girts of Fruit to the Lord
Mayor Why tlio "Lion Sermon"
Has neeu Preached 2fiO Yearn.
In spito of all the reforms and aboli
tions, it is scarcely known how many cus
toms, "quaint nnd old, "still remain in
London nnd are kept up in the city with
sirici nnu punctilious observance and
particularity. For instance, says a
writer in Tinxley't Magzinr, in the month
oi August, in accordance with a very an
rient custom in tho city, tho Master,
Wardens and court of Assistants of the
Fruiterers' Company wait upon tho Lord
Mayor and the Lord Mayoress at the
Mansion House and present them with
a choice assortment of the fruit in season,
including grapes, pineapples, mel
ons, pears, apples, peaches, plums,
apricots and raspberries. Tho gift
consists of twelve bushels of ap
ples of various kinds, which, neatly
packed in clean white baskets and
covered with napkins, were carried by
porters from Firrr'ington Market to the
Mansion House, preceded by the com
pany's beadle with his gown and staff.
On the fruit arriving the Lady Mayoress
took charge of it and placed a bottle of
wine in each basket for tho use of tho
carriers, who were subsequently enter
tained at dinner. In later years the form
of the present has changed, and instead
of apples the choicest fruits of the season
arc now annually offered.
This custom was traced to the old
days when the Lord Mayor for the time
claimed, ns of right, a sample of all the
new fruit which entered tho city, by way
of toll. The payment of this tribute led
to frequent disputes and unseemly
brawls between tho servitors of the
Lord .Mayor and the company, and the
matter was -nt length gracefully com
promised by the agreeable custom which
now prevailed, and " which he (the
Master; hoped would not be swept away
by the bold utilitarian spirit which pre
vailed at the present day." Following
the ancient usage, tho Lord Mayor and
tho Lady Mayoress entertained the
Master, Wardens and Court of the Com
pany at dinner afterward in the Egyp
tian Hall, tho guests numbering o'OO.
Various toasts appropriate to thcViceasion
were proposed and rcspouded to.
In the October of each year we henr of
"Tho Lion Sermon" being regularly
preached. Few think of asking what this
means, and yet there is a pretty story as
sociated with it. It is preached in the
old, quaintly named Church of St. Cath
erine Crce, in Lcadenhall street. This
was the foundation of Sir John Gayer, a
Turkey merchant. On the lilth of Octo
ber, about 330 year3 ago, he was iu the
deserts of Arabia upon business which re
qufred his own personnl attention. By
some means he became detached from tho
caravan, and, while quite alone and un
armed, he was much alarmed at seeing a
lion approaching him. Scarcely know
ing what to do, he fell upon his knees
I nnd asked the Lord to deliver him from
I his perilous position. The lion looked at
j him savagely, but, upon seeing him iu
mis position, alter a lew moments w alked
away in an opposite direction.
The merchant on risingfrom his knees,
made a solemn vow that upon his safe re
turn he would commemorate this provi
dential deliverance by some benevolent
1 net. I pon reaching England he nccord
I ingly left a sum of money to provide for
I this sermon everv vear in iiflilitmn in n
banquet to the parish church of his na
tive tow n, Plymouth, lie also liberally
endowed many other charities, includiii"
rf'l...:...'- it ... ; .. CI
imiiiB uMrsjHiui. i nc "j.ion sermon
has been accordingly preached annually
on October 10 ever since. Last sermon
the clergyman took his text from the 34th
Psalm: "The lions do lack and suffer
hunger, but they that seek the Lord shall
not want any good thing."
And again, a curious Good Friday
observance: At the church of Allhallows,
Lombard street, according to n custom
which has been observed for the last 2ts7
years, sixty of tho younger boys from
Christ's Hospital attended the service,
after which, iu accordance with the will
of Peter Symonds, made in l.VJU, they
each received at the hands of the church
warden, .Mr. Shayer, n new penny and a
packet of raisins. Tho same will also
directs that the clerk and sexton shall
receive sixpence ench, the rectorof Chad
well, in Essex, twenty shillings, and the
poor of tho parish and ward and the
Sunday -school children sixpence each.
A very ancient custom was uNo ob
served at St. Bartholomew-the-Great,
Smithficld. Divine service was com
inenced at 1 1. At the conclusion of the
service an old tomb in the churchyard was
visited (a procession being formed i, when
theHcv. J. Morgan laid twenty-one six
pences ou the tomb, which wi re picked
up by twenty-one elderly females of the
parish. It is stated that an old lady left
this benefaction, and that she lies buried
iu the churchyard, but the exact spot can
not be pointed out.
i The Old Time ' Back Log."
I It will surprise many persons of the
present day to bo told that tho "back
log" of which wo read so much iu old
time stories was a large stone, a Hrous
stone being preferred if possible. This
stone was buried in the ashes, and on top
was placed the "back stick." The back
litono in those primitive times played n
very important part in the economy of
early housekeeping; matches were not
then invented; flint, steel nud tow were
the only means of lighting a lire or a
lamp; imugine for a moment the
"Budget" of to-day thus engaged with
the thermometer ten degrees below zero
in the kitchen. The stone, together with
the ashes w ith which it was covered,
served to retain fire and heat through the
night, and ull that was necessary in the
morning was a little kindling and gentle
use of the indispensable bellows, and a
tiro was as readily made as at the present
day.
Buck stones were not iu much uso in
bedrooms and parlors ufter the beginning
of this century, turf having taken its
place and served equally well, w hile tak- 1
mg up less space. The stone log iu my
possesion und which bclonge.t to my
grandmother, and iu use down to within
a few years of her death, half a century
ago, is at thu sen ice of the Boston to.
cicty if they should think it of sufficient
importance. It is not less than 1-1(1 ve.-rs
u! : - .'.a1 a 'j'ititij-i ijit.
SI. 50 PER ANNUM.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
"At each equinox," says an astrono
mer, "there are about 102 hours that
both poles have simultaneous view of the
sun or part of it; nnd for thirty-four
hours the whole of its disc is visible to
both.
Cotton has been successfully intro
duced into three districts of the Cau
casus, nnd extensive plantations nre to
be established in the vicinity of Erivan.
The Caucasian Agricultural Society will
send agents to study the American sys
tem of culture.
An English mineralogist, Mr. Brycc
Wright, gives the prices of iron in the
form of meteorites ns from $15 or f 20 a
pound to nsmuch ns $00 an ounce. Some
of the Ku-sian meteorites are worth $25
to $:)0 nn ounce, and the prices generally
have trebled in the last few ycais.
By experiments on dogs, M. E. Quin
quad finds that a cold bath increases ten
fold the rate of consumption of oxygen,
double or treble the quantity of air passed
through tho lungs, augment the nmount
of carbonic acid expelled, and very much
increase the respiratory combustions nnd
the production of blood-sugar. Hot
baths havewa like influence, Lut in less
degree.
Experiments nre believed to show that
nteptol, or orthopenot-sulphate, is des
tined to take the place of carbolic acid
as a disinfectant and antiseptic. It is a
syrupy, brown fluid of aromatic odor,
and s.iluble in alcohol, glyccrine,and wa
ter, and is not irritating in ns strong as
10 percent, solutions. As an nntiseptic
it is said to equal carbolic acid, while pos
sessing also the advantage of plensnntcr
odor, more solubility, etc.
Dr. H. W. Raymond lately called at
tention to the reputed connection be
tween certnin plants and metals in tho
underlying soil. Thus zinc violet or
Giimeiroilc'iei), sometimes regarded ns
a distinct species under the nnmo of IV-
ta rn'iimnminaria points out the hills
containing calamine, or zinc-ore, in
Hhenish Prussia nnd Belgium. The lead-
plant, Am'rjiha tuneteeu is believed by
American miners to grow only in locali
ties containing galena, and Eiwgmvm
ornlifiilnim is probably destined to be
known in the west ns the silver plant.
Careful experiments on the sense of
smell in dogs have been made by Georgo
J. Romanes, who has communicated the
results to tho Linnican Society of Lon
don, lie finds that not only thefeetbut
tho whole body of man exhale a peculiar
or individual odor, which a dog can rec
ognizo lis that of his master amid a
crowd of other persons; that the
individual quality of this odor can be rec
ognized at great distances to windward, or
in calm weather at great distances in nny
direction; and that even powerful per
fumes may not overcome this odor. Yet
a single sheet of brown paper, when
stepped upon instead of tho ground, and
aiterward removed, was sufficient to pre
vent Mr. Homnnes' dog from following
his trail.
Heights, under the equntor, from tho
sea to the level of 10,200 feet that of
fierpctual snow nre divided by Meyer
nto eight zones or regions, which he
names from the characteristic plants: 1,
palms and bananas, beginning at sea
level; a, tree-ferns nud iirs, nt 2,020 feet;
8, myrtles nnd laurels, 4,050 feet; 4,
evergreen dicotyledonous trees, 0,120
feet ; 5, European dicotyledonous trees,
8,100 feet; 0, pines, 10,140 feet; 7, rho
dodendrons, 12,150 feet;' 8, Alpine
plants, 14,170 feet. Tho corresponding
zones in latitude, at sea-level, are: 1,
equatorial, latitude 0 degrees 15 de
grees; 2, tronical, 15 degrees 23 de
grees; 8, sub-tropical, 2:1 degrees 34
degrees; 4, warm-temperate, 8 1 degrees
45 degrees 58 degrees; 0, sub-nrctic,
58 degrees 0(1 degrees; 7, arctic, 00
degrees 78 degrees : 8, polar, 78 de
grees 88 degrees. Beyond 88 degrees
vegetation is supposed to be lacking.
The KIngr of Snakes.
Elins Moser of Lynn township, Lehigh
County, Penn., is one of the most trust
worthy citizens of that county. He
owns a big farm, and is a strictly temper
ate and pious man. A few days ago, he
says, he was going along the edge of a
piece of woods on his farm when he saw
the head of what he supposed was simply
a very large specimen of the ordinary
black snake sticking out between the
bottom rails of n fence. Ho tip with a
stone and tried to hit tho head. He
missed, striking the rail above it. The
instant tl:e stone struck, the head raised
up, and the snake it belonged to began
to come out from its hiding place.
Farmer Moser backed away, and section
after section of the snake appeared until
thy reptile stretched over more than
twelve feet of the space between the
farmer and the fence, and still there was
more to come. , Moser had seen enough,
nud turned his back on the serpent uud
started for home. After he had run sev
eral rods he looked back over his houldi r.
The snake was after him and gaining on
him, carrying its head high above the
ground. .Moser mounted a high stone
wall that afforded its friendly presence
just at that spot, and jumped down be
hind it on the other side. The snake
glided up the wall and followed tho
farmer. Moser says he knew there was
no use trying to beat the snake iu a foot
rat e, and to he grabbed a big stone oil
the wall and hulled it at the advancing
monster. Luckily the stone hit the snake
just back of the head and bore it dow n
to the ground nnd held it there. While
the serpent twisted nnd kicked and
lashed its immense length iu vain efforts
to free itself, .Moser piled more stones on
it, nud finally mashed its head. Then ho
hurried home and got his hired man and
his gun. When he came buck thus re
en forced the snake was tlead. It was
curried to the .Moser homestead and
measured. It was HiJ feet long. It had
two broad white riugs around its neck
and was white underneath. All the rest
of it was a bluish black. The head was
long, pointed, and flat. Local natural
ists say it was ti king snake, but no ser
pent of the kind was ever seen iu these
parts before. Ai-i York &un.
An A nt in the Watch.
"There is something w rong with this
watch," said a gentleman to an avenue
jeweler yesterday. ".My w ife wound it
up ull right last night; but it hat
sto-pped." The watchmaker opened the
watch and found a live red ant fastened
betweeu the wheels, struggling for free
dom. When it was released tho watch
resumed its ticking. WtMhiuytoit Hut.
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
On. Square, on. Inch, on. Insertion., I M
On. Sqnare, one Inch, on. month. , OS
On. Square, one Inch, three monttaa.. ....... ) n.
One Pquare, one Inch, on. year , to Of
Two Squares, one year if no
Qnar'.er Colnrao, one rear. .. to 00
lllalf Column, one year M no
On. Colnmn, one jour 100
leal adrertlectnents ten cent, per llnejneti to
rtlon.
Marriage and death notice, rratlf,
All bills for yearly adTertiMmenta eoneeied iroar-
trrly. Temporary alTrluuieot. maai b. PAia rn
advance.
Job work oaah nWrtrr.
SUMMER NOON.
The air is full of honeyed sounds. Th. bee,
Within tlie waxen lily's honeyed cells.
In monotone of mellow measure tell.
His yet unsate.l Joyanc; drowsily
The swnllows spill their liquid melody
As down th. sky they drop, and faintly
swells
Th. tremulous tinkle of the far sheep bells,
While wind-harps sigh in every crowned tree.
Beneath th. beochen shade the reapers lie,
Upon their lips a merry harvest tune;
Knee -deep within a neighboring Straus
th. kine
Stand blinking idly in the clear sunshine;
And like a dream of olden Arcady
Seems the sweet languor of the summer
noon.
Clinton Scollard, in Timet-Democrat.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
Stands to reasan The gentleman who
has the floor.
The pawnbroker is now laving in his
summer stock of winter clothing. Omaha
Dee.
The man who propels a wheelbarrow
sees his work ahead of him all the time.
Boston Courier.
When Mazzini said : "Good counsel
has no price," ho hadn't heard of the
New York bar. Life.
An English writer says: "Tho girl of
England stands alone." That's just the
difference; the girl of America always
has a host of admirers about her. jSomtr
tWe Journal.
A Georgia ghost wears No. 10 shoes.
The most incredulous scoffer must ac
knowledge that hero is an unquestion
able instance of a sole revisiting the
earth. Com merei-U Adcertiner.
A woman will face a frowning world
and cling to the man she loves through
the most bittcradversily, but she wouldn't
wear a hat three weeks behind the fash
ion to save tho republic itself. Wilming
ton (Del.) Star.
Had Escaped. Guest "Have you a
fire-escape in this house?" Landlord
"Two of 'em, sir." Guest- "I thought
so! The fire all escaped from my room
last night, and I came near freezing." P.
S. This should have been printed last
winter.
Only a girl who has run a typcwritei
at $4 a week and finally marries her em
ployer can enter a dry goods store and
paralyze a lady clerk receiving $0 pel
week. It's no use for a millionaire'!
wife to try it. Detroit Five Frest.
BONO OP TrtF. SEASIDE BONIFACES.
Oh, w. sigh for a crimson-like scorcher,
Or the blazing-hot breath of a breeze
Bringing torrid and terrible torture
As it blistors the bark on the trees t
Then the sweltering souls from the city
With a rush all our rooms would soon fill.
And we'd sin a demoniac ditty
As their dollars dropped into our till.
Hotel Mail.
The Acre.
The word acre is from the Latin ager,
Greek agnos, field. The Greek acker
means both field and a measure of land.
Most nations have some measure nearly
corresponding, such as what one plow
could plow in a day. The English
statute acre consists of 4,810 square yards.
The ehaiyth which landn jjn
is twcutj-a--jartls Tung, and a square
h&in will contain twenty-two by twenty
two or 484 yards, so that ten square
ehMns make an acre. The Scotch acre
is larger than the English, and the Irish
is larger than the 6cotch.
The following table shows the values
of other measures compared with th
English ncre:
English acre
Scotch
1.
1.S7
Irish , j0
Austria, juch -A,-
V05
nailen, moreen t.". '.
B.-lgiuin, hectare
Denmark, toendd
France hL tu'v m al'e"
( arpent, common
Hamburg, murguu
Llanover
Holland
Kuples, lnoKfa
Poland, molten
Portugal, gfira
Prussia ml ,,,oreen '
1 great morgen
Ititssin, deeietena
Sardinia, Kornate
Saxony, moreen
Spain, fumi;atlu
Sweden, tiiruneluiid
Switzerland, faux
2.47
5. St
2.41
.m
2.3S
.
3.10
.N
l.Si
1.4J.
M
1.4C
2.70
.'K.
l.M
1.08
1.13
tienu vu, arpent l.iJJ
Tuscany, sacvata l.a
I' nited States, acre 1.
Wui tcinburg, morgan ii-lC
Koiiiau, jneruin, ancient
(ireck, pletliroti, ancient
The German morgen is becoming obso
lete, as (Jermany has adopted the French
metrical system. Nrio York Courier.
Cured by Mud Ilatlis.
A writer in tho Washington Pott says
iu a recent issue: I met Leonard Sweet
yesterday in the office of .Major J. W
Powell, Director of the Geological Sur
vey. "We ure old cronies," said the dis
tinguished lawyer, "I have had a friendly
hand on Powell's shoulder ever since wai
times. '
I congratulated Mr. Sweet on his su
perb health, for it was noticeable, that
while he resembled his old comrade and
friend, Abraham Lincoln, as much a;
ever, he was stouter uud better rounded
out thau 1 had ever Been him.
".Mud and horseback did it," said he.
"I was nerveless, appctitckis, sleepless.
broken iluwn and broken up, tilled with
despair. The doctor ordered me to go
to Lus Vegas, aud I went there and took
twenty mud baths. It was a liltlo un
pleasant at first, but it threw me into
violent peispiiutions uud started the
sluggish machinery anew. It changed
my physical condition radically, aud I
cume out all right.
"Then 1 began to ride horseback as
winter came ou. It was cold exercise. I
put on three pairs of buckskin breeches,
a couple of flannel shirts, a seaiskin cap,
a pair of fur boots uud mittens to match,
and the children used lo shout: 'Hullo!
Santa Cluusl' Yes, I am a well man
now."
A Scholarly Bootblack,
At the boot bine ic stand in the Wind
sor Hotel in Lincoln, Neb., thefollowing
notice may be read :
; Pedal Tegument. :
; Artistically llluiiiiiiauxi uud lubricated:
; for tho :
; lufliitosiinal CoiupaoMition of 10c. per:
I cqtfauun. ;
I art Diet. :
A.