THE FOREST REPUBLICAN U pabllihed awy Wednesday, by J. E. WENK. Ottioe ta Bmearbaugh A Co.'i Building ELM 8TRIKT, TIONESTA, Tfc Twrnt, 1 1. BO per Year. Wt wS i tlm rMdred for a shorter period Hui tatva monilia. Ocniiuiiaiiia odetted from al parts of lha anavarf. Pa aatloa wlU ba taken of anoejraoiu anainikulliaa. RATES OW ADVKWTHIIIO. Oaa Pqaara, aaa toeh, aaa aiaarttaa. 1 1 Ona Sqnara, ona Inch, oaa month. t One Square, one Inca, thrae moatas. .... Ona Sqaare, one liien, ona year ! Two Sqnarra, ona jear. 1 Qnartar Column, one jear to Ualf Colomn, ona jaar o Ona Column, ana year .......WO 00 Letral adranlaaaMata tn anta par Uaa each ra aartloa. ktantafe ea4 Seatk aatioaa fiatla. AH btna far yearly tdrmVmmti esneetaa' aw. tarty. Temporary aovertlaeMBta auiat He paU U ad ranee. Jok wark-caaa aa aaliyary. FOREST REPUBLICAN. VOL. XX, NO, 51. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, APIUL 18, 1888, Sl.50 PER ANNUM. The entire dairy interest of this coun try represents a capital live times ns large at tlio entire bank capital of the country, or 3,000,000,000. Mr. Andrew Carnegie, tlio millionaire iron manufacturer, says thnt Pittsburg la In clangor of losing her supremacy as tho Iron centre of America. It la stated that the business of tho London poslolllco is of such magnitude that the prevent Postmaster-General has saved $ 1 .1,001) a year In scaling wax and twine expenses alone. An 'Englishman baa discovered tho aneicnt porphyry quarries, where tho Romans obtained tho stones nsCd in their famous buildings. Tho quarries are ninety-six miles from thcN'ilo, and 8030 feet abovo the level of tho sea. The furnishing of gold and silver bars for manufacturing purposes Is a growing business at tho Government assay office .. in New York. During tho past year those bars, to thevaluo of 10,000,000, liare been sold for use in arts and manu factures, an inoroaso of $2,000,000 over any previous year. There is a groat store of gold in Coroa, but an entiro lack of proper mechanical devices for mining. The production of gold last year was ft, 000, 000. The main object of tho Corean Embassy to this Government is understood to be to inter est the citizens of this country in the de velopment of Corean resources. The probable cost of the Nicaragua -.Canal has been placed at from $50,000, N 000 1o $05,000,000. Commander Tay lor, of our navy, has already doubled . this estimate, ' while ' tho experience gained from do I.cg-ops'n undertaking shows that this sum may be variously increased to three or four times as much again. '- Herman Clark, of Now York, one of the contractors for the new Croton Aquo duct, proposes to build a tunnel in the metropolis for rapid transit 150 feet un derground, from a point ucar tho Astor House to Fleetwood Park, a distance of about , eight miles. From tho down town terminous branches would exteud to Brooklyn and Jersey City. - Says the New Y'ork Jeweler' Review: "The manufacturing jewelers of Paris ' are subscribing largely on all sides, for advertising purposes reintroduce the wearing of jowehy. the commissioners have already collected fifteen thousand francs ($3000), and the manufacturers at least another like sum. A certaiu sum must be paid to the Parisian journals." Here's a pat illustration of the way that Southern real estate has been ap preciating lately, observes .irwr'i UVri'y. General J. T. Wilder, ono of tho bravest of I'nion soldiers, ono who has mudo his homo in tho South ever since the war cuded, invested 130,000 in Knoxville building lots a year ago, and now he tells out at a profit af over $10, 000. The study of Volapuk has at last com menced in earnest in this city, announces the New Y'ork 7mj. It may be well to cote that this artificial language is reguloriy taught in the commercial schools of Paris and Vienna, is used by great commercial hoWs in London, and, in the opinion of able philologists, is admirably adapted for purposes of foreign trade. Inspoctor Byrnes, of New Y'ork, who Las a personal acquaintance with fifty burglars, says that not ouo of them will have at much money at the end of a career of fifteen years as a mechanic who - hat worked for $3 a day. They may make a big haul now and thou, but it goes to tho gambling table, aud uo man it oftcner bard up for a dollar than a first class burglar. liaising money for public works iu China is no joke to Celestial ollicials. The late terrific floods in the Empire having been caused by a breach in the Y'ellow Hiver, twenty million tads (about thirt o million rive hundred thousand dollars) must be spent on repairing the damage, to, to provide the necessary funds, all provincial officials' salaries will be stopped for a year. Tho editor of tho Crigg County (Da kota Territory) Courier cullt attention to the fact that Griggs County coutuins loom enough to seat the entire popula tion ot tho globe in armchairs within its limits, allowing every person a space of thirteen square feet. The county has au area of 720 square miles, or over 20, 000,000,000 squure feet, aud the world's population is 1,500,000,000. The actual population of the county is 3000. i - The visit of the Suit in of Morocco to Algiers in order to communicate by cable with his representative at tho Madrid Conference isau event of some historical importance, declares the Argonaut. For years the Sultan opposed tho layiug of this t uble, as' ho did not wish to brin ; Europe any nearer to his domain. I( is kfifty years nearly siuco a Sultan of Na'roceo has deigned to set foot in Tan- si.uiiiirt (nu n lwtlllltntl liv ttm THE DYINO HOUSB. Rhe la dead; her house is dying; Hound its long-deserted door, From the hillside and the moor, Swell the autumn hrcexis, sighing. Closer to Its windows press Pine-tree boughs In mute caress; Wind-sown seeds in silence come, Root, and grow, and bud, and bloom; Year by year, kind Nature's grace, Wraps and shields har dwelling-place. She who loved all things that grew, Talked with every bird that flew, Brought each creature to her feet With persuasive accent sweet; Now hor voice is hushed and gone, Vet the birds and bees keep on. O, tho Joy, the love, the glee, Sheltered onoe by that roof-treel Song and dance and serenade, Joyous Jests by maskers played; Passionate whispers on the stairs, Hopes unspoken, voiceless prayers; Greetings that repressed love's theme, Partings that renewed its dream; All the blisses, all tho woes, Youth s briof hour of springtime knows All have died Into the past. ' Perish too the house at last I Vagrant children come and go 'Neath the windows, murmuring low; Peering with impatient eye For a ghostly mystery. Some a fabled secret toll, Others touch tho soundless bell, Then with hurrying steps retreat From the echo of thoir feet Or perchance there wander near Quests who once held revel here. Borne live o'er again the days Of their love's first stolen gate; Or some sad soul, looking in, Calls back hours of blight or sin, Glad If her mute life may share In the sheltering silence there. O what cheeks might blanch with fears, Had walls tongues, as they have ears I Silent house with close-locked doors, Ghosts and memories haunt thy floors! Not a wob of circumstance Woven here into romance E'er can perish; many a thread Must survive when thou art dead. Children's children shall not know How their doom of joy or woe Was determined ere their birth, 'Neath this roof that drops to earth, By some love-tie here create, Or hereditary hate, Or some glance whose bliss or strife Was tUe climax of a lire, Though ita last dumb witness falls With the crumbling of these walla T W. lligginson, in Atlantic Monthly. KATE'S ESCAPADE. "You know I'm always doing queer things," Kale said, "but last winter I fairly outdid myself." What did you do?" This in chorus from the group seateS around the blaz ing wood nre. "I stole a horse!" she replied with perfect gravity. "Stole a horse!" echoed the chorus; "tell us nbout it, Kate." "Very well," she said. "Bring me my knitting, Jack, will you, please? 1 hate to have my tongue my only busy mem ber! Can't find it? Well, never mind; come sit down aud I'll rind it myself." While Kato is searching for her knit ting will you not allow tho chorus to be presented to you! We, tho chorus, are Kate's guests at her charming old home stead in Sussex. We are not all sopranos and altos by any means; there are an equal number of extremely agreeable tenors and baritones. For Katy, the doer of "queer things," never demon strated her queerness by inviting a lot of women to spend October with her in a country house only to leave them to lan guish before each other's eyes. Nor did shu trust to such men as the town might offer; she imported her own specimens, and whosoever received an invitation to "Morniugsido" could rely upon the choiceness of the specimens. This had been so in the days when Kate was entirely "fancy free," and lived at "Morningside" with a chaperoue as charming as she was useless, and now that the grand old place had a master as well as a mistress, the same rulo of agree able pairing off was still adhered to. Which proves, does it not, that Kate was a gloric.us exception to the rulo of aver age young married women, who, being 3uile content with their own life cavalier, ream not that other maidens may sigh for other companionship than his? This was our first October at Morning side since Kate's marriage, and on tlio particular evening whereof 1 write we were seated in a semi cir le around the blazing logs. Kate iu the middle, and Jack, her husband, very near her. When the announced her last esenpude a miile might have heen seen hovering about his lips, amused at iir-t then melting gradually intooneof extreme tenderness, which said quite as plainly as words that Kate's story wot one of interest to him. " Do you believe in the depravity of inanimate objects?" Kate inquired when bhu joined us again. " I do. I am will ing to swear that I left this knitting ou yon Icr table. I found it in the library under a chair, wliero it had deliberately hidden itself a ay from me." "It must bo feminine," said Hcrry, casting a reproachful glance at I. aura, "and therefore bound to be a ag gravating as possible." "1 knew very well you would chase it, Kate," said I aura, calmly. "Imagine its disappointment if you hadn't. Kate," said Jack, smiling saucily at 1 aura. "My dear," uid Kate, "don't you know they uevcr run away except liny are mnially certain of being chased?" "Is knitting They I" asked Jack, graveiy. "No, but women are. You know what 1 mean " " Hut the story," fail Laura,"whj d'd not f.iu' y the tin u the conversation had taken. "Of cour..;, tlie story I" we txclaiine 1 togetlity. "Well," said Kate, ett!ing l.ere!f comfortably iu her chair. "Wilkuuw I speut winter before last in Cost ,n. xnd being thoroughly tired of hot"! life, mi. il not caring to take a house, of riy own, 1 went to a l.imo boarding house 1 need not describe it ; you know that by t juio mysterious ruling of the uusccu fans a boarding-bouse la nothing more nor less than a rallying ground for widows, and mine was no exception to the rulo. There were widows in every stage of bereave ment nnd every stage of mourning; from tho indisputable hue of real grief to the delicate tint of questionable sorrow. Of one only shall I speak, Mrs. Otis. From my arrival to my departure Mrs. Otis was constantly on the watch for me to do 'queer' things. And I did my best to gratify her desire; I never disappointed her if I could help ill When I failed to furnish her with a weekly morsel to roll under her tongue tho was positively of fended, and looked upon it as a personal affront. Yrt in spite of my genuine efforts to be useful to her as a moral wherewith to adorn her many tales of feminine idiosyncracics, she never ap peared specially grateful to mo. In fact, wo were so mutually antagonistic that, although no open warfaro existed bo twecn us, it was evident enough that we were not friends. One of tho bright young girls in tho house spoke of Mrs. Otis always as my ' particular enemy.' T!ut enough of thnt. She has since mar ried, nnd had I longed for revenge I couldn't have had sweeter." And Kate laughed musically. "Why?" we clamored. "Because the married the man she didn't want. Hut no more of her now. Y'ou know no one can live in Boston without becoming tainted with literary and intellectual ambitions, and I was no heroic exception to that rulo. That winter Browning was the idol worshiped. He has ever been my idol, aa you know, and from my enthusiastic study of hit vigorous poetic philosophy of lifo-I was deemed fit to conduct a Browning class. We met at tho house of a charm ing w oman who was such a sufferer that herouch was litcrnlly her home. Sho lived, in one of the loveliest houses I have, ever seen, one of the loveliest lives I have ever been brought in contact with. But there was this disadvantage, as far as I was concerned, her home was some eight miles from the city, and most ide dly re mote from the vulgar convenience of a railroad. Consequently I was obliged to drive over. Onaery cold January after noon I was waiting impatiently for the conveyance that was to take me to W . I was ready, warmly wrapped in furs and prepared to defy the cola, and I did not relish being kept waiting by the livery man. I was just getting in a little tem per when my pilgrimage to the window was rewarded by the sight of a sleigh drawn up before the door. I didn't recognize the driver; it was not tho one I was accustomed to have, but, of course, it was my conveyance, so I ran down stairs and out to the sleigh and got in. 'Drive me to W ,' I said, 'aud you may give the horse his head, for 1 am late now.'" "The driver touched his hat, bent down and tucked me iu snugly, and off we went. I needn't have said anything about giving that horse his head; he took it; he spun along over the crust like a Russian steed. I noticed his superiority to the slow animal that had dragged me over the same route a week pievious, and so pleased was I with the change that I re marked it. " 'This is a better horse than the other one,' I said. ' 'I don't know,' he said, doubtingly. 'Somo likes the other best "'Impossible!' I exclaimed, remember ing the 'other.' " 'I like this one best, though they go well together, so they can't be so very different,' he said, somewhat as if he re sented my noticing the difference. " 'Go well together!' I echoed. 'How could that be?' " 'All the doctor's horses are fine animals,' he continued. " 'Ah !' 1 said. I didn't care to enter into a discussion with the driver, but something impelled me to say: "Your master knows how to select a horse, of course, being in the business.' " 'No one better, Miss. The doctor never gets taken in in a horse trade.' " 'Your master it a horse doctor l' I suid. "Tho well-bred, English-looking driver actually turned his head and looked at me! Jn an instant no bad re covered himself and answered me: " 'No, Miss, he ain't.' "His tone was to aggrieved that I was sorry I had wounded his feelings aud hastened to make amends. 1 know how sensitive servants are to any apparent disrespect to their master, and although tho master in this case woa but a livery stable keeper, who was known as doc tor, I didn't want to lower his dignity in tho eyes of his servant, so I said : " 'Veterinary surgeon, I believe horse doctors are called; it is the same thing.' "lie made no reply, though ho still looked aggrieved, aud we whirled along in silence. "We met various people whom I knew. They stared slightly as they bowed to me, aud even smiled more thau was nece-sary. " 'They think it is my own,' I said to myself, meaning thedecidodly swell turn out. "When we reached Mrs. Staniford foril't 1 told the driver to take the horse to the stables and be at tho door iu an hour. Let me tass over tho hour spent Iu discussing mat line urumaiic poem. polled by too much telling: 'The King and the ISook." At the cud of that hour my driver was wailing for me, and we were soon whirling along ngaiu toward the city. When 1 I cached my whilom home I gave the muu a little "tip," und told him lo come for me tho next week at the same hour, and to tell the doctor, his master, thnt I wanted the same horse also. Then I went into the ho ise, aud in-tcad of going to my room 1 weut into the drawing room. 1 was so full of my enjoyable drive that I wanted to talk about it. A group of the ladies in the house were gathered around the open tire and I joined them. They had been talking as I entered, but as 1 drew near they cca-cil sxaking. .Mrs. Otis was one of the group, and seated next to her was a big fellow who stared at me mote ihau 1 vu joyed. Hut I was too full of my drive to rescut it. " 'Such a drive" I exclaimed raptur ously. "'1 should think sol said Mrs. Otis, wiih a pecuiiar inflection " '1 uiii going to have that horse and drive every ko-k, I contiuu d. Indeed ' s.ti. I Mrs. Otis with the sitmu in . lion ' 'Y'S 1 I. .Id the mtn to lull the doc tor that 1 w mb d it regularly. I 'id you tve-r bear oi an) thing liwr ulisiird. ihut man a icaliy hurt that 1 alio ild call Lis master a horse doctor! veterinary sur geon does sound better, I suppose. " 'I should think sol' murmured the bigfcllow with abroad smile. "I can tell you I was indignant at hit impudence, but Mrs. Otis spoke before I had a chance to petrify this audacious fellow with a glance. "'Dr. Mainwaring naturally would not be looked upon as a horse doctor, or even a veterinary surgeon by his ser vant," sho said sweetly. "It is possible, also, that tho servant found it hard to understand how a lady could speak dis paragingly of his mastcr't profession when availing herself of his equipage.' " 'His equipage I' I echoed. 'I don't understand you, Mrs. Otis. Please make yourself clear.' "But she did not have an opportunity. The strange young man rose and said with great courtesy, though his mirthful face contradicted his grave words: 'I am Dr. Mainwaring, nnd I am charmed if you are pleased with my horse. I like his gait myself, and 1 am proud that an accident should have made it possible for Miss Lovcring to judge it.' "It all lla-hed over me then. I had taken the wrong horse. " 'Do you mean to say that you didn't really know that it w asn't your horse?' said Mrs. Otis, a little later, after every thing had been satisfactorily explained. "'Of course Ididrt!' I exclaimed, indignantly. 'Do you think I am in the habit of stealing horses T " 'I didn't know, she replied. 'I knew you were in the habit of doing ex ceedingly queer things.' " 'I don't call stealing horses queer things,' I said." "Did you ever see Dr. Mainwaring again f asked Laura. "Yes," taid Kate. "Yes," said Jack, looking at her quiz zically. "She fontrived many a meeting after that. I know, I was theie." ''Hut," said Berry, ' his name was Mainwaring." "So is mine; John Mainwaring Gray is my wholo name," Jack replied. "h," we exclaimed in contented chorus, glad to know that Kates adventure-had ended in a romance. Tlio big clock in the hall struck 12. "Midnight," said Kate. "To bed, girlies, or your roses will not bloom to-morrow. Good night." "Good night 1" wo cried, trooping up the wide old fnshioncd staircase. Laura lingered a moment behind tho rest; Berry had some difficulty In lighting her bedroom candle. When she ciuna into the room we shared together I was look ing out over tho meadow glittering with frost under the light of the harvest moon. "I'm sorry the story ended that way," she said, emphatically, rubbing one of her fair hands vigorously and suspiciously with her handkerchief. "There is al together too much nonsensical romance about, any way." "Is there." I asked dreamily, turning away from tho sight of the fairy meadow bathed in the pale splendor of the moon. Louisville lime. Electrle Street Railways. One of the most successful examples of an electric street railway is that at Scran ton, Pa., designed by Charles J, Van Depoele, of Chicago, which has been in daily operation since December, 180. It is four and one-half miles in length, of standard gauge, laid with steel rails, and its passenger equipment consists of seven handsomely finished Pullman cart, each propelled by a 15 horse-power electric motor, which stands on the glass-enclosed front platform and is geared to the for ward axle by the familiar mechanical do vice of sprocket-wheels and steel chains. The motor stands about two feet high and occupies a space perhaps eighteen inches sq tare. The car can bo ruu at a speed of fifteen miles per hour, if re quired, and in its regular work ascends grades of nearly .'150 feet per milo with great facility. The machinery is nearly noiseless and quite unobjectionable in every espect. It is stated thnt the cost of running at Scranton, using for fuel the waste coaldust or "culm" from the anthracite mines, which can be had in almost inexhaustible quantity at the nominal price of 10 cents per ton, is about one dollar per car per day, or a trii'e over one cent per car mile. The economy over animal power, the cost of which in New lorkaud Boston is reck oned at something over ten cents per car mile, is very apparent. Similar electric railways are in opera tion at Appleton, Wis., and St. Catha rine, Ontario, which are driven by water power at an almost nomiual cost. In many instances natural power may be thus used with the utmost advantage, as it is by uo means necessary that the fiower should be in the vicinity of the iueof tho railway. S ritmer. Airicitu Burial Habits. A New Guinea boy was seized and eaten by one of the many crocodiles that prey upon the coasts of the island. His sorrowing parents slew the offending monster, and, rescuing the half of their beloved son which was still uneaten, they grecdlv devoured it in their grief. When 1 their kindred die they haug them up or ! lay them on a framework of bamboos for the sun to cleanse the bones of t'esli. : While this is going on they watch near ' the corpse, and at intervals, when their 1 grief becomes too much for them, they i visit it aud smear their bodies till over ; with the juices that are dropping from ' the dead body. When decay has done 1 its work the bones are cleaned and some of them buried, while others are worn I as ornaments by the survivors, ami tho I skulls decorate their houses. Iu other I tribes the bodies are buried in a sitting posture up to the neck, and a vessel is placed over the head. In these cases lhe skull alone is prepared for ornament, th" rest of the body being left beneath the soil. Literi Q.il Courier. Ilought a Husband. The lady in Washington who bought a husband for $100,000 in consideration of h s devoting the whole of every even ing to the game of whist, will probably I not nave many liniiuiors. ijiii u sue i docstwe any, the husbands will proba bly forthcoming, especially if the other brides, like this one, are seventy years old. Kveu supposing sho should i iive to play whist teu years more, that ' would only lie :(,li"iO evenings, including s-uiohivs, and the rate of pay would be about ii.-lO per uiht not bad wages, ; even for a good whUt plaver. Hyoch. Household affairs. A Ilcclpe Tor Corn Bread. One cup sour milk, one cup sweet; Ono good egg, that you will beat; Hnlf a cup niola-ws, too, Half cup sugar add thereto; With one spoon of butter new, Salt and soda each a spoon, Mix up quickly and bake it soon, Then you have corn bread complete, Hnst of all corn bread you meet It will make vour boy s face shine, If he Is like that hoy of mine. If you have a dozen boys, To increase your household joys, Double then this rule I should, . And you'll have too corn cakes good . When you've nothing nice for tea, This the very thine will be. All the men that I have seen, Say it is of all eakes queen; Good enough for any king, That a husband hnnie can bring: Warming up the human stove, Cheering up the hearts you love; And only lyndali can explain The links between corn bread and brain. Get a hubnnd what he likes, And save a hundred household strikes. How Beef la Made Tender. As a prominent beel-dealer of this city was showing a reporter over his place of business in Faneuil Hall market the other tiny, he discoursed interestingly on the best method of preparing beef lor the family or the hotel table. "It is not generally known," said ho, "that meat kept for a day or two is vastly superior to that which is absolutely fresh. Here is s ime beef," he c Dtiuued, as ho lifted a cloth-clover from some loins of meat in the bottom recesses of the cellar, "which has been kept by me nearly three weeks for oue of the most famous 'steak' houses in this City. See what a difference there is between this meat and that upstairs, which has just come from Chicago. This looks dark and rancid and a'inost unfit to eat, yet it is vastly superior to that which has just come in. The average family man will not buy meat that is not absolutely fresh and bright-red in color, but the knowing hotel man wants his beef three or four weeks old, providing, of course, that he can get a beef dealer who will keep it that length of time for him. You may have noticed that the steak which you order in a first-class restaurant in the city is usually much more tender than that which you pur chase from your provision dealer nnd have cooked by your wife at home. Per haps you have wondered why it is so, when your have always been very partic ular to order the very freshest nnd ten- tlercst beef that your butcher had in ttock. without regard to the price. Well, the reason is that the dealer knew right well that your family would make a great 'kirk' if he sent home beef that had 'rotted' for a week or two and had be come nice and tender, and would declare that he did not keep fresh meats. They would, in that case, be perfectly right, but beef cannot be perfectly fresh aud be tender at the same time, lo be really good, this variety of meat should be kept in a refrigerator for at least ten days or two weeks. Iu that time, however, it loses its bright, rosy color, and turns a dull red. 1 lie hotel man to whom referred, and whom this beef is intended for, will not take beef from me unless it is at least three weeks old, and if, at times, there is a short supply of beef in the Boston market, and I find it impos sible to keep beef for him as long as he desires, I am compelled to go outside and purchase ' old ' beef somewhere in the market. In the future, when yo i want to buy a real tender piece of beef, do not be afraid to purchase a piece that has been kept lor two or three weeks, you will find it greatly superior to fresh beef, despite the fact that it may not looK quite so inviting oeiore it is cooked. 1 do not intend to give hotel business secrets away, as a usual thing, but I would like to have people learn that they i must not blame the provision dealer if, when they order their beef to be perfectly fresh they fail to Und it as tender as they expected when it is placed on the table." lSiMlon JL-ruul. Useful Hints. Never leave the cover off the tea canister. Clean piano keys with a soft rag cupped in alcohol. Egg stains on silver can be taken off with table salt and a wet rag. When diess silk becomes wet pat it between the hands to dry quickly. Apples that are not properly looked after will decny in the barrels very lust Leather chair scats may be revived by rubbing them with well beaten white of A spoonful of fine salt or horse radish will keep a can of milk tweet several clays. Suits of lemon will take spots out of linen and also remove stains from wood. Never wash bronzed lamps,chaudelic-rs, etc., but dust them with a feather brush or a soft woolen cloth. Mix stove polish with soft soap aud coffee to give a bright luster, aud avoid tho dust from polishing. Hubbing a bruise in sweet-oil and then in spirits of turpen'ine w ill usually prevent the unsightly bl.ick-aud blue spots. A very thin coat of what is known as French picture varnish will restore c hro inos aud oil paintings to their origiual brightness If ribbons need renewing wash them iu cool suds, mudo of soap, aud irou when damp. Cover with a clean cloth und irou over it. Put tea and coffee away iu air-tight receptacles as soon as they are brought to the house. They lose mui h of their flavor by standing uncovered. Mildew may be removed from linen by rubbing upon the damaged spot common yellow toap and sifting upon It koiiiu starch. Hub in well and expose to the bright sunshiue. It has been stated on good authority that if salt be sprinkled on the Moor be fore putting dowu the carpet the buffalo bug will not harbor there. The experi ment cau be easily tried. To set the color iu black or dark ho siery, calicoes, cambrics, etc., put a large t abli'Mioonf ill of black pepxr into a pail of water, aud let thuartu les !ii iu soak for u couple of hours. A pretty addition to a i losetlcsa room can be made by putting up two pieces of scantling in a convenient corner, fasten ing iu some bunging pegs and draping it with pretty hanging of chintz or MudriS cloth. LIFE IN ENGLISH JAILS. THE STSTEM op oovEiunMro A BRITISH PEiaON. Tlcketa of Ifav for the Industrl- tnta iirid Well bcliaved, liut the Treadmill for tlio Vnrnly. Better methods prevail in English prisons than formerly, and crime in hngland lias been gradually decreasing in recent years. Lnglish prisons are divided into two "kinds "convict prisons" and "local prisons." Convict prisons rre used for confining persona who have been sentenced to a term of five years or more; local prisons for those whose sentence is shorter. Of convict prisons there ate now ten in Great Britain, and of local prisons fifty five. In all thee placca there are two feat urea which do not exist in the American prisona. These are the tread-mill and the HotridnLr of prisoners. The tread mill is a curious surviving relic of old fashioned Knglish methods of prison discipline. "The large wheels of tho tread-mill, ' says our nutuorny, "nre surrounded by wooden steps running tho length of the wheel. The men are sep arated from each other by partitions, and each one catches hold of a horizon tal bar, and continues a slow tread from one step to another; all, of course, step ping together, nnd, as it were, kicking away the steps from under their feet." By this process wheat is made into flour, which iu duo time is baked into tho bread which is used in the prisons. Flogging is resorted to in the Knglish prisons when it forms part of the sen tence of tho judge, or when it Is applied to a prisoner who has proved obstinate, or who has flagrantly disobeyed the prison rules. The crimes for which men are usually sentenced to be flogged, as well as confined, are assaults upon an oiheer while in discharge ot nis duty, and robbery with personal violence (com mitted by garroters or highwaymen). Such criminals receive from twenty to fifty lashes, half at tho beginning and half ot the end of the term of imprison ment. A careful account is kept of the pris oner's conduct nnd industry throughout his term. For the first nine months of his imprisonment ho is kept in solitary confinement, working by himself, and not allowed to speak to any one. After that ho works with his fellow-prisoners, and under certain restrictions is permit ted to talk and associate with them. If the prisoner gets 1l good marks for a month for two years he is placed in what is called tho third grade; and if his re cord is equally good for the next two yeurs he reaches tlie second and then the first grade. He then becomes entitled to a shortening of his terra and is set free on what is called "a ticket of leave," by which is mennt that while ho is nt large, he is under the eye of the police and must behave himself and roport himself regularly nt stated times until the expiration of hia ticket of leave. "l he cells in the Knglish prisons," tays Mr. Fny, "are constructed on quite different principles from ours. They are much larger, are roofed with a brick arch, and are well lighted and ventilated. The light comes from a window seven or eight feet from tho floor, which is three feet wide by thirteen inches high. The doors are solid and about two inches thick, instend of being grated like ours; to that one who walks along the corridor outside can only view tlie interior of the cell by moving a slide and looking through a small peep-hole." The Knglish prisons are far more strictly guarded from the intrusion of the public than our own. It is hard for anyone, who has not some special business in them, to gain admittance. ho stringent, indeed, is this rule, that even the governor of the male department of a prison is not allowed to put a foot in the female department of his own in stitution. Over all the British prisons a single officinl it placed, called the surveyor general. Not being governed, as our prisons are, by a multitude of comm's tionert and other officials, greater unity and consistency is pre-erved in the management of criminals. Ycu'Ii's Coin pan im. A Chinese Epistolary Custom. A Secretary of tlie Jupaneso Legation tells me, writes Frank G. Carpcntci from Wahingtou to the .New York Wot, that the Chinese .Minister is a very fine poet, and that the poetry he writes ought to rank high iu literature. The writing of poetry is quite common among the more cultured men in the ( cle-tiul na tions, nnd it is even customary to write letters to friends in poetry. The rule iu such cases is that when one re fives a letter iu rhyme, he must answer, pre serving iu his letter the same rhyme and metre. A few days ago Mr. hhiro AUa bane wrote a pleasant epistle of this kind to one of the Chinese Legation, and 1 think it was to .Mr. Mine. .Mr. Mine re sponded, as etiquette) leqiiire l, and .Mr. Hiiro's letter fell into tlio haiuls of the Chinese Mini-tcr, and lie wrote a letter to the Japanese frcrctary. compliment iug him on his effort. These facts will be surprising to the people who come ill contact with the ( elei-tial nutions only through their cooks und washerwomen. The ti nth i that tlie members of tlie Celestial I Legations ut Wu -liington are a different order of beings. J'liey uio made up of in n of old families, und us a 1 rule they are men of tine culture und ex traordinary attainments. .Many of them peak Knglish. and they display rcmark I able iutelh ctu.il aud o ml tastes. HaMIs of the Salmon, .Mr. lleniy Nice, one of the most ex perienced li-herm n of this coast, has iishid lor salmon in all tho prim ipal j stit'ums of Ibis coust. and put up '.', immi rases last Mar. lie ha- had ii'Mily ' twenty ye n s c perience it h the salmon ' and says that the idea that they all die alter -pawning is im orrvct. 1 Iu his j tagg' d salmon after tpavv mngund found I tin iu ei. me back iu two or 'hreo yeais. 1 tie long h"ok nose ami ferocious teelli which Miliu m d velop ufti r coming iiitit fresh w iter he -ays are to ai l them in digging nests iu the gravel and iu light ing, and ulter u lime the hook sloughs oil and they leiurn to the s.-a und renew theii age. ns n were. ' r'i,,d ('( ,- Hoii-U nurserymen ale doing a, large busiuess iu shipping souug trees to t ult foruia. THB SAILOR OIAU Wbsn the wild gaeae war flying To Flanders away, I clung to my Desmond , Beseeching him to stay ; '. Bnt the stern trumpet sounded The summons to tea, And afar the ship bora him, Mabouchal Machraet And first he sent letters. And then he sent none, And throe times into prison I dreamt he was thrown; ' Bo I shore ray long tresses. And stained my f aoa brown, And went for. a sailor From Limerick town. Oh I the ropes cut my fingers; But steadfast I strove. Till I reached the Low Country In search of my love. There I heard how at Namur His heart was so high That they carried him captive, Refusing to fly. With that to King William Himself I was brought, And his mercy for Desmond With tears I besought. He considered my story. Then smiling, tays he, "The young Irish rebel For your sake Is free." " Bring the scarlet before us. Now, Desmond O'Hea, Myself has decided Your sentence to-day. Tou must marry your sailor With bell, book and ring. And here is her dowry," Cried William, the King. Alfred Percival Graves. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Stage whispers are frequently hard in mail coaches. If you want to know what a sliding scalo is try to handle a wet fish. Under the hammer the nail. Which nail? Why, your thumb nail, of course. " Witness, did you ever see the pris oner at the bar"f" "oh, yes; thut's where I got acquainted with hiin." At a railroad crossing near tho depot in Adrian, Michigan, is a sign bearing the words: " Prepare to Meet thy God." " What kind of tobacco is this? " asked the customer. " Long cut or fine cut?" "Connecticut," replied the dealer. A Kansas City real estate agent wns cut on the cheek recently, and the Philadel phia Cull suspects it muBt have been with a cold chisel. Stranger (to Washington hotel clerk) "Will you direct mo to the barroom l" Clerk "Yes, sir; follow the proces sion." Ejioch. "Two knots an hour isn't such bad time for a clergyman," smilingly said the minister to himself just after he had united the second couple. "Three scruples make a drachm," is taught By teachers to their pupils; Yet drains, if they're too often sought, Won't add unto your scruples. Judge. Beggar "Help! Won't you choke the dog off, officer? He's killing mel" Orticer "Choke him off, brute! What do you take me for? I'm an officer of the S. P. C. A. Tid. Silt. There was once a young man quite unique; For forty-four tongues he could spique. Hut one day for fone lie put them in one. And he christened thnt one "Volapique." M i.s7iiou Crilic This is tho toast which tho modest irisiiiuitii uiuim iu luu j-.uui'v.nnsi-T-oaaw 1 1.. ....I. ... k .. ..1 ...TS'K . . . "Here s to you as good as you arc, and here's to mu as b id as I am ; but as good as you are, and as bad us I am, I'm as good us you are as bud as I am." "Good evening, Mrs. Ownhair; how did you like the entertainment lust even ing?" "I was delighted." "And how did you like the olio;" "I beg your pardon, Mrs. Smith, but we use only the best creamery butter." Boston Tran script. "George," asked the teacher of a Sunday-school class, "whom, aboveall oth ers, ahull you wish to see when you get to heaven?" With a face brighteningup with unticipation the little fellow shouted: "Gerliuh." iWnt Christian HtyUter. London Trti'h sums up the record of Osman Digna, the famous Arab chief, as follows: Killed, six times; fatally wounded, three times; severely wounded, four times; troops totally dispersed, nine times; permanently discouraged, three times; escaped, once. Judge (ti juiy) "Have you agreed upon a verdict f Is the prisoner guilty or not guilty of theft, us charged in the indictment!" Foreman "Wo have not yet reached a verdict, you honor. I missed my pocket-book in the night, aud I would respectfully ask that each juror be searched." AVie York Nun. The rooster would be it much more popular bird if he could only be induced to feel that there is no rea1, vital necessi ty for his reporting his whereabouts be tween midnight und ;l a. m. We know that he is ut home, iu the bosom of his family, io are we, but we don't get up in tho night to brag about it. llm- title. Don Ateuogeues complains bitterly of the conduct of his son. He relates at length to an old friend all the young man's escapades. "Vou should speak to him with In niiicss to call him lo his duty," s.iys the frietid. "Hut he pays not the least attention to what 1 say. Ho listens only to the advice of tools. I wish you would talk to him." M'.i-icun "Sir," sa d the prisoner, "I did rot pay this man for mv refreshments, be cause I know nothing of the value of money. I never pay my d bts. ,lm a child of genius.'1 "And what is your age!" asked the justice. ''Forty-two yeurs." "Then it is time you were weaned,'' and his Honor gave him thirty days away fioiu the botile. Ac York A't'rt. "That ton of coal looks to me about twohun lred pounds short," said a faniilv man, "und by thunder weighed. Thi; way some dealei s cheat is wh ked." it weighed, he said to his all nirht, weighs about I'll have it 1 of these coal After he had wifii: "It's a hundred Iiounds over. "II. iw niu li mil you iave to pay for lhe extra weight, .lohnf" "Nothiug. That's their mistake "-- ir. 7 tiKi of many Europeans, liL-
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