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VOL. XXII. NO. 20.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPT 11, 1889. S1.50 PER ANNUM.
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;
! . It ia proposed to reopen the Paris Ex
position next year.
Tho Standard Oil Company is now
acquiring numerous natural gas wells.
After n struggle of eighty years tho
French law has sanctioned cremation.
As nn agent of destruction, the cloud
burst scents to have usurped the place of
the cyclone.
It is estimated that tho country's total
revenue for the next fiscal year will reach
$440,000,000.
Fishermen ou tho New England coast
state that the mackerel are not "school
ing" iu those waters this year.
There arc 45,000,000 people in Mexico,
Central and South America representing
n commerce of 1511,000,000,000.
Itussin, Germany and Austria have
warned the Swiss Government to deal
more harshly with Socialists and Anarch
ists. Tho return of laud grants made in
western Australia shows that ono man
owns and controls nearly 4,000,000
acres.
Annexation to the United States has
become so popular in Newfoundland, as
serts tho Chicago Jhrahl, as to cause
anxiety in London.
f The wholesale merchants of Cincinnati
hitvo started a fund to supply their coun
try customers with railroad tickets. Tea
merchants have subscribed 5000 each.
i Belgium, of till nations, has the great
est density of population, the largest di
versity of occupation, tho most uniform
distribution of wealth and the minimum
of pauperism.
The average annual death-rate iu this
country from cholera, yellow fever, small
pox, typoid fever, diptheria, and scarlet
fever, nil combined, does not reach tho
enormous total of deaths from consump.
tion.
j
Nearly all the suburbun towns ia Eng
laud and'Irelaud aro becomiug absorbed
into tho larger towus. One reason ud
vanced for'this is that workiug pcoplo of
nil kinds obtain higher wages in the
largo cities and are migrating to them in
numbers.
' The sending of fresh troops to Egypt is
not viewed with much pleasure by the
English masses, who consider the country
as n mere trap for simpletons, where death
and pestilence are forever lying in wait.
If it comes to a large levy for an Egyp
tian campaign there will be trouble.
Tho New York Olterccr says that the
number of murders committed in the
United States during the first half of 1SS7
was 807; of 1888, 941, aud of 1SS9,
1547. It is further stated that during
' the!) rst week in July, ninety people were
. yeken down by murderous hands.
i The City of Pisa, Italy, recently wcut
into bankruptcy. Now it appears this is
not, the only Itnliau town similarly situa
ted." News comes from Home that Lodi,
Bosa, Descura, Sicato, Calsanisetta, Suiu
nioute, Paolu, Foteuza, Teranio, Pcscara
ct Curotb have also suspended payment.
. Most persons will be surprised when
they hear that the report of the liailictiy
A'je concerning tho amount of railroad
track laying iuthe United States for tho
first six mouths of 18S9 shown that of the
total number of miles of track laid,
namely, 1523, the South is to be credited
with DOS).
. . mtj&y.i '. i i i
The enterprising citizens who invaded
Oklahoma before the time specified by
law and squatted on choice pieces of
laud, now rind that it is often best to
make hasto slowly. Tho Land Commis
sioner got u list of these trespassers,
known us "signers," and refused to
issue patents to auy of them.
A cuse has just been decided iu the New
rsey Court of Chancery, iu which Vice-
Chancellor Van Fleet holds that a woman's
marriage to licr step-grandson is valid iu
spite of the fact that the Catholic priest
who married the couple, ou learning ol
their relationship, informed them that tin
marriage was void by the laws of tin
Church.
When George Muth, a Ciueiuuati con
fectioner, was brought before Judge
Armsten, of the police court, for selling
ice cream ou a recent Sunday, he pleaded
guilty. The prosecutor suggested that
he regard that pica as a demurrer, am' lita
court accepted the suggestion. The jus
tice said tho use of ice cream was nc
longer to bo classed us a luxury and itg
sale on Sunday could easily be regarded
as a necessity. "No man was ever iueited
..-..I"11 " "i.'nt' 'ee crealn t g home aud
' kll'M .'us wife aud break up the furniture,
uud I have no sympathy with the efforts
of saloon men to mako the law against
them odious by pushing the enforcement
of the common labor law." Mr. Muth
' IIS dysmjiStid, .
SOME DAY.
"They'll all come back again," she said,
That by-gone summer day,
The while we watched the goodly ships
Upon the placid bay.
"They sail so far, they sail so fast, upon their
shining way,
But they will come again, I know some day
some other day."
Borne day ! So many a watcher sighs,
When wind-swept waters moan,
Wttli tears pressed back, still strives to
dream
Of tho glad coming homo.
Good ships sail on o'er angry waves, 'neath
skies all tempest gray,
For quivering lips so bra vely tell : "They'll
come again some doy !"
Some day ! We say it o'er and o'er,
To cheat our hearts, tho while
We send our cherished ventures forth,
Perchance with sob or smile;
And tides run out., and time runs on, our lifo
ebbs fast away,
And yet with straining eyes wo watch for
that sweet myth some day I
Full many a true and heart-sped bark
May harbor find no more,
But Hope her beacon-light will trim
For watchers on the shore;
And those who bide at home and those upon
the watery way,
In toil or waiting, still repeat: "Some day
some blessed day !"
Lucy R. Fleming, in Harper" Bazar.
A FADING PICTURE.
BV OEOllOE n.U.E.
It was a brilliunt day in early summer,
but the outer bliuds on the windows of
tho waiting room of Henry Milford's
photographic establishment were closed
so that the room seemed almost dark
to one just come in from the sun-lit
street. As thc eye crew accustomed.
however, to the semi-twilight, the relief
from the outer glare was grateful. At
one side through an opening partially
closed by a heavy curtikiu a little glimpse
could be had of the operating room, or
stiulo, as jUilforit preferred to have it
called.
Mr. Milford wus busily engaged in pre
paring for the printing of some pictures
wmcu secmel to him to require more par
ticular care and attention than usual, and
it did not please him to bo interrupted,
huh a day for work seldom came to him.
Ft did not allay his irritation any to be
iskcd abruptly, as ho was, upon entering
he waiting room.
"Mr. Milford, can you take a picture
or mel'1
The young lady who asked this turned
ier attention almost immediately to some
xamplcs of Mr. Milford's work hanging
n the walls.
"It is almost impossible to see these, It
s so dark," she said, "but it is so pleas
nt to escape tho horrid glare of the
treet."
Henry Millford was fond of his work,
which he considered urt, and ho had car
tied it to a rare degree of perfection, lie
was very conscientious, too, and in pos
ug his sitters before the camera ho would
alee as much cure and exercise us much
ntelligeuce as could any artist iu nrrung
ng his models or draperies. He was
iroud of his finished work, and always
inpatient of criticism. It was for this
euson, perhaps, that he hud made him
elf somewhat exclusive. At all events,
vhalever the reason, lie would discrimin
itc as he pleased among the many nppli
:auts for sittings. To those whose an
earuncc or mauncrs did not please him,
le would always say that he had too many
engagements to take their pictures. Iu
truth, he had obtained such a reputation
and hud so many applications that he was
almost compelled to select from them.
"I am very busy I do not know," he
replied.
Miss Mitchell, his present culler, was
a little annoyed and perhaps a little sur
prised ns well.
"You si-V Mr. Milford continued,
"Iu this climate of our one has ro few
days iu which he can work. Unfortu
nately, I am compelled to think very much
ubont the weather."
On this particular day there seemed to
bo very little reason for this backward
ness. Indeed, inasmuch as he had made
up his mind that he would really like to
take Miss Mitchell's picture, this pretence
of not wishing to do so was folly ; but habit
was much too strong for him.
"Pardon me!" sliu said. '! did not
know. I thought that this would be
just the sort of day."
"And so it really is." he said quickly.
"If you sit here a lew minutes I will ar
range the room and camera."
He answered with such alacrity and
bis manner had so changed that Julia
Mitchell was surprised more than ever.
She was not sure that she was not fright
ened a little, lie, however, had carefully
studied her und had decided just the pose
which he thought would suit her. lie
was now as enthusiastic as he hail before
been otherwise.
"These perhaps will interest you while
you are waiting," he said, as ho placed
iu her hand several photographs.
'But," she replied, "I ought to make
sour) preparations, too."
"Oil, your hat," he said, "and your
hair. But I wish you would let me take
the first one of you just as you are."
It seemed to him that he could not
quickly enough make the necessary ar
rangements; but at last everything was
ready and Julia Mitchell' wish was grati
fied; at least, four negatives had been
made and she hoped toon to receive a
finished picture of herself which would
pic ve her.
Time went on and Miss Mitchell did
not receive her pictures as promptly as
she had Imped she might. She culled upon
Mr. Milford to urge him to greater haste,
but he met all her complaints with good
humor, yet made very little effort to
please her. In truth, he enjoyed her
visits, and, perhaps, he purposely delayed
the coinoleiiou of her pictures in order
that she might be led iu as often us pos
sible, ller impatience with the delay
rather amused him, uud their talk whs in
teresting to hitu. And so. indeed, it was
to her, although, it may be, she would
not have so acknowledged, if sIio.LasJ.
been questioned. It especially pleased
her when he showed her pictures, from
time to time, as ho finished them. '
There soon came a day, however, whed
he had to confess thut although her pic
ture were not finished, the negatives
promised well.
"I think," said Mr. Milford, "wcBhall
have somo very good things there."
"Oh, let mo see them," Miss Mitchell
answered. "I want to know what I look
like."
Tills was going ahead a little too fast
to please Milford.
"I do not thiuk you can tell," he said,
"I would much rather have you wait till
they are quite completed. There is so
much m the printing, you know."
"Yes," she replied dolefully, "I sup
pose 60, but do let me see the nega
tivos. Then perhaps I shall know just
how much there is in the printing."
Milford demurred, but finally yielded.
She took the negatives and looked them
over critically. When she handed them
back she expressed her gratification with
them.
Milford kept one of the completed
pictures and guarded it with jealous care.
He was, it must be confessed, sometimes
tempted to exhibit it as an example of
the perfection to which his art could be
carried, but this temptation never lasted
long. Ho kept it by him, however, as
much as he safely could. At his break
fast, which ho took in n lonely way in
his apartments, he had it before him at
the table; and, ns often through the day
as he could, ho would hasten from his
studio to steal a parting glance at it.
It seemed to him that il varied in np
pearnnco from day to day. He thought
that he could read iu it of Miss Mitch
el's changing moods. If tho eyes lost
their sad expression, uud were smilinjr.
as they sometimes were, he felt that she
was happy; if they were more sad than
usual he wondered what had happened
to distress her. And sometimes, too,
he would discover it in other signs,
and then he feared that she was ill.
Alarmed at its growing power over him,
and annoyed that ho was so littlo able to
resist its influence, he at lust placed it iu
a seldom used portfolio. He was deter
mined not to look at it again. This de
termination he adhered to for some time,
perhaps a week or longer. In the mean
time Miss Mitchell's visits had entirely
ceased. Milford knew thut there was no
reason why she should call, and he
laughed somewhat sadly as he admitted
to himself that he wished it had beeu
otherwise. llo now resolutely deter
Ttiiued that he would forget her, und that
he would not again look upon the picture;
. but he found himself thinking much more
of Miss Mitchell and of tho picture than
of matters needing' his attention. One
day he took the portrait from its hiding
place aud examined it carefully.
He was startled. It seemed to him
that the picture was less distinct than it
had been. So much was he impressed
that he looked at it frequently thereafter,
und was soon convinced that he had been
right, that it was growing less and less dis
tinct. Though interested more than ever,
and puzzled aa well, he again determined
that ho would think of it no longer,
and replaced the picture iu the port
folio, llo busied himself so successfully
that ho wus able to overcome, in some
measure, his longing for the picture and
its original; but for a few days only.
Then he hastened agaiu to the portfolio.
There could be no question about it; tho
picture had perceptibly faded since he had
last looked at it. It was now barely dis
cernible. "It has almost gone," he said to him
self sadly, "aud she cau it bu that she
is going too?'1
This thought almost unmanned him.
Now ho realized for the first time what
her loss would mean to him; now he
knew how empty would be his life if she
should be taken away.
He was at this moment called upon by
a gentleman who surprised him by ask
ing: "Will it be possible forme to procure
some duplicates of the pictures you re
cently took to Miss Mitchell?"
Milford's auuoyunce wus appareut, hut
he tried to say, politely:
"1 should be glad to oblige you, sir;
but of courso it would not be proper for
me to do as yon ask."
"Indeed! AVhy, may I usk?"
"You can readily see that 1 cannot dis
pose of any duplicates except at the re
quest of tlie sitters themselves."
"Oh, certainly! But I come at the re
ipiest of Miss Mitchell."
"Is she not well, theu?" asked Milford
in quick alarm.
"No; indeed, she has been very ill."
"I will prepare them for juu at once,"
Milford said, uuxious now to be rid of
his visitor as quickly as possible, and
hurriedly making a uote of the order
giveu him.
"At least," he said to himself, "at
least, I shall kuow ubout her."
Yielding to his suddeu panic, he
seized his hat anil rushing from his
studio, with little thought of tho crowd
ing carriages, he ran across Broadway,
und theu, almost disregarding the people
against whom he jostled iu his hurry, he
hastened on to the street iu which Miss
Mitchell lived.
As he ran ho would not permit himself
to tell what it was he feared ; but as he
ueared the house there was tho very sigut
he had most dreaded. That long lino of
carriages could have but one meaning;
aud now he hoped ouly to see her face
once more.
Eluding tho grasp of the attendant at
the door ho entered the house, aud tho
sound of music reached him, music that
he knew to be full of joy aud hope to
others, though to him it seemed a knell.
As Milford turned to go sorrowfully
away, realiziug now the truth, Miss
Mitchell, leaning ou another's arm, canu
out into the hall and bright and happj
faces crowded about her, while luughiug
voices wished her happiness and good
fortune. The Epoch.
President Camel's Luxurious Train.
President Curnot has a particularly
luxurious train in which he trsvels from
one end of France to the other. It con
sists of five carriages, all furnished with
thu greatest elegance and each costing OB
an aywage, 116,000.. .l-m!
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
ITISTS TO HOME DRESSMAKERS.
Surplice waists of thin dresses have the
fullness from the shoulders prettily shaped
into a pointed yoke by drawing ribbon
through a casing made of facing an inch
wide strip from each armhole to a point
lower down on the edge of tho front.
The ribbons meet at tho point of the bust
and arc tied in a bow. Surplice waists
of embroidered muslin have their front
edges straight from the shoulder down,
then edged with a Valenciennes lace frill,
and crossed at the waist line. This
haves a V space nt the top, disclosing
the pretty plain white lawn lining, with
its tiny thread buttons, and above is a
turned-over collar of the embroidery and
lace, which is first sewed on a high
standing collar of the lawn.
Eight or ten rows of shirring around
the waist line arc employed by French
modistes to hold the fullness of blouse
waists of sheer white lawn. The mate
rial then falls two inches below the shir
ring, and lace or embroidered edging,
also two inches wide, is sewed to the
edge of the muslin.
Full straight skirts of lawn arc puth
efed to a belt of lawn, and the ribbon
belt and snsh are then set permanently
outside of this lawn belt. Tho skirt is
put on after the waist is on, mid there is
no ugly opening between the waist and
skirt. A French fancy is a new way of
using ribbons on white lawn skirts. The
skirt is straight, und is deeply shirred be
low the belt, haviug six rows of shirring
done in pairs, leaving a apace an inch
und a half wide between these double
rows. Uibbon an inch wide is then
passed in and out in the spaces between
the pairs of shirring. Courier-Journal.
HFXIPKS.
Stewed Potatoes The French cull
this way of cooking potatoes "a la bonne
bouche." It is a very nice way to cook
the small new potatoes, which are some
times quite cheap, when larger ones are
too high-priced to purchase. Jjcrapc
them ; this may be done quickly by put
ting them in a pail with cold water, tak
ing half a brick and rubbing them vigor
ously with a sort of twist of the wrist,
then finished with a knife and drop into
clean, cold water. Boil, and let them
get cold. Place a quart of them iu a
stewpan with three ounces of butter und
a pinch of mixed sweet herbs; season
well with salt and pepper and shake fot
live minutes over the fire; sprinkle with
minced parsley, squeeze a few drops of
lemon juice over them, aud send to the
table.
Pigs' Feet These are nutritious, and
if you don't buy them ut a restaurant,
where they somehow seem to retain tht
flavor of the farm yard, they are nppctiz
ing and delicate. Let the cleansing pro
cess be a thorough one, first scraping aud
washing, then soaking iu cold water foi
a few hours, and washing and scrubbing
again. Tie each one iu a separate piece
of thin old muslin ; cover with boiling
wnter, add salt, and simmer until tender
about four hours. If you want them
pickled, pour hot vinegar over them, add
ing salt, pepper and whole allspice.
They arc also nice if set aside until cold,
split in two, dipped in a thin flour paste,
rolled in crumbs aud fried iu hot drip
ping; garnish with parsleyandnlii.es ol
lemon. They can be broiled, after which
cover with u sauce made of a teaspoonful
each of butter and parsley, seasoning
with salt, pepper and a few drops of
lemon juice. They may also be dipped
in a batter and fried.
Salt Mackerel Choose a large, fat,
white mackerel weighing from a pound
and :i quarter to a pound and a half;
soak it over night in a large pan
of cold water, laying il skin sido
down. The next morning put it over
the tire iu cold water and let it come to a
boil. Taste to see if it is too salt ; if it
is, change tho water; if not, simmer un
til with u fork you can raise the bone.
Drain olf.the wuter; lay the fish ou a hot,
dish; lift oil' the bone and season with
two tablespoonfuls of cream made hot,
hits of butter, pepper and miuced par!y.
With this serve stewed potatoes. Slieo
cold boiled potatoes iu thin, even rounds;
season each layer with salt, pepper aud
bits of butter as you drop them iuto a
wide saucepan. Cover with cold milk;
tcw fifteen minutes, aud thicken with a
teaspoonful of corn starch wet with cold
milk. If it is baking morning, mold
small llat muffins from the light bread
'.lough, and let them raise fof three
.uarters of an hour; fry ou n griddle on
top of the stoe, using u very little hot
fat. When done tear apart with the
fingers und drop bits of butter inside.
Beef With Macaroni This is au
economical und excellent diiiiier. Buy
a flank steak, costing accord
ing to the market from lifuen to
twenty-five cents. With a sharp knife
denude it of the bits of fat, and then
spread it with a force incut made from
two ounces of uit pork mim ed fine and
fried, crumbled stale bread, a minced
onion fried with the pork, uud a season
ing of salt, pepper uud powdered herbs.
You will need only a cupful of the
dressing, uud the onion should be u very
small one. Lay two or three thiu
slices of fat salt pork over tho
dressing, und theu roll up the
steak, tying or skewering it firmly.
Put a little dripping in tho bottom of a
pot, and when hot lay iu the meat and
brown all around; then set it back ou
the range aud let it cook very slowly un
til perfectly tender, adding little if any
water, but letting it simmer in its ov.u
juices. Toward the last add a cupful of
stewed and thickened tomatoes. Cook
iu another vessel half an hour before, the
meat is done, some macaroni of the
broad ribbon variety; drain it; pit a
layer ti.this ou a hot platter, sprinkle it
with grated cheese; over thisa ladle full
of gravy from the pot, and so continue
until the mucaroui and gravy are all
used. Lay the meat on top, and carve
down through the middle in thiu slices.
What is left is nice sliced cold for tea,
or made into a mince for breakfast with
corn dodgers. American Ajriculturiit.
We exported last year inure petroleum
than eier beiuiv. Il 1 .'.(piHI.I)lMI gallons
of the utimatcd vulue of 4'J.420.bl7.
THE INDIAN MEDICINE MEN.
AltMT SURGEONS ARE OFTEN AS
TONISHED AT THEIR CURES.
They Maintain Their Influence Over
Tribe by Iiicantntions Scenes at
a Council.
The habits nnd customs of some of the
Western tribes are so little known to
the general reader that, perhaps, a de
scription of some of their curious practices
tnny be of some interest. Mr. Paul Beck
With has published an interesting paper
on the Dakotuhs iu the last riiport of the
Smithsonian Institution, aud among other
tilings he remarks that the medicine man
or high priest in invarihly a chief, and
although he maintains his sway by the
use of mysteries and incantations, never
theless nt times shows a power which is
not understood by those outside of tho
cult or brotherhood, aud through a know
ledge of the medicinal properties of herbs
often performs cures that lead one to be
lieve lie is not altogether the charlatan
he is represented. His cures are often
the wonder of of the army surgeons.
An incident in point is cited in the case
of an Indian who one day came stagger
ing into camp with his leg horribly swol
len from n bite of a venomous snake.
The camp surgeon could do nothing for
the sufferer, but he was completely cured
by the medicine man. Another case is
quoted iu which a cataract of the eye was
cured by inserting brass filings into the
affected organ. To impress upon the
mind of the patient the divine nature of
of his medicine, the medicine man adds
to the efliency of his remedy mysterious
pantomimes, contortions of the body nnd
features, always to n drum accompani
ment. If the patient is affected with a
erious ailment, he places a paper or bark
figure on the ground, and, while the pa
tient is held over it, he fires a gun, by
which act the sickness passes iuto the im
age in the ground and is killed by the
discharge of the gun. They claim that
all this power is received from the Grout
Spirit, who confers upon them a spiritual
medicine so powerful that they can kill
at will, resuscitate the dead, and cure the
sick. This spiritual medicine is repre
sented by anything that strikes the fancy,
as a bunch of feathers, a claw, a bird, or
the head of an uniinal.
When a couucil is held, a barricade is
erected in the form of an ellipse, and n
tent is raised nt each end of the inclosure,
one for the high priests or medicine men
and tho other for ten men who have been
selected to keep order nnd conduct the
ceremony, acting ns n sort of police. The
high priest, from his seat in the medicine
tent, appoints four assistants, one bearing
a drum, one a pillow und stick, one a rat
tle, and the last assisting by grunting. A
big drum in the center of the circle is be
ing constantly beaten by several drum
mers. The high priest then speaks to
them of the holy dance which was founded
centuries ago, aud tells them of the power
of the medicine of their ancestors, and
waruing skeptics not to scoff ut them or
their craft, as they have tho power of
thrusting u claw or stone through the
body of any one at will, causing instant
death. Iu proof of this assertion, he calls
one of his assistants to him and points to
ward him with the medicine bug, at tho
same instant puffing nt him with his lips,
whereupon the assistant falls to thegi ound
uppureutly senseless. Then the priest
salaams to the four points of the compass,
nnd invokes the Great Spirit to aid him
aud the other members present in bring,
ing the dead brother to life. The drums
are then beaten aud u frantic dance
is begun, when the lifeless form
gradually return to consciousness and
spits into his hand a mass of froth
und blood, in which is found a
claw or a stone. The high priest now
dances around the circle, uud waving his
medicine bag, blows upon some one else,
who, in the same manner, falls to the
ground sensehvs. The chief continues,
uud the "dead men," reviving, assist iu
shooting others, until the inclosure is full
of howling savages dancing, yelling, uud
shooting each other. The dancing is
kept up in the most frantic manner. Af
ter u certain length of time the four as
sistants, who have been trolling around
the ring faster aud faster, form iu line,
und after advancing and retreating sev
eral times, thrust the instruments i.su.
the hands of others who become theii
successors aud theu take seats, and now
represent the Gods of the North, South,
East and West, the high priest represent
ing the Great Spirit, or AVau-kan-tan-ka.
When a new member is initiated,
he is taken into the council tnt for in
struct ions, which are secret, lie is then
stripped of his clothing, excepting an
apron and moccasins on his fiot. lie is
then painted entirely black except a small
red spot between his shoulders. The
candidate is exhorted to be good, and is
told that his medicine w ill b( correspond
ingly powerful, und he must also give a
feast once a year. If he don not, he
will meet with misfortunes, sickness,
or death. The candidate now receives
the holy claw or stone. The medicine
man, upproaehing him from the cast, de
scribes the course of the sun with tho
medicine, bag, and bowing to the four
points of the compass, mutters au incan
tation, and thrusting the bag toward him
says: "There goes the spirit." 'i'lio
candidate then falls prostrate, and
blankets, skiu, ornaments, etc., uru
thrown as offerings over the candidate.
At command of the high priest the novice
recovers and is presented with the medi
cine bag, becoming a recognized member
of the older. A fter these ceremonies the
feast begins, and the food w hich has been
cooking before the tents of the assistants
is distributed among the people. The
dance lasts from daybreak to daybreak of
the day following, and as these dances
are frequently given iu winter with the
thermometer ultra far below zero, it may
easily be imagined how the candidates
must sulft r, clad as they are iu a cout of
paiut. It is generally understood that the
members of the order have secret signs
and passes, but the penalty of exposure is
so sure aud swift, that none of the secrets
are ever divulged. KUnlijic Amtricuu.
The Shah of Persia sits on u tlnouu of
gold uud gems worth JU,0U0t000.
SELECT SIFTINGS.
Epinach is a Persian plant. ..
Horse-radish is a native of England.
Oysters deposit about 1,000,000 eggs.
A singing mussel if found on the coast
of Ceylon.
The American silver dollar first mado
its appearance in 1794.
A tax upon playing-cards is universal
in Europe, with the exception of Spain.
Fish were created first, and they aro
the lowest and most numerous of animals.
Seals will follow a boat a long distance
in which some one is playing on a bug
pipe. School district libraries were first es
tablished in the Stntc of New York in
1837.
Next to music the weather probably af
fects the animal creation more than any
thing else.
Two hundred and fifty thousand per
sons perished iu Autioch by the earth
quake of 526.
The Stoics lauded suicide ns n praise
worthy action, nnd the Roman law did
not look upon it is a venial crime.
The tendency to suicide is more preva
lent among the educated nnd wealthy
than among the poorer and middle
classes.
The Grecuhindcrs bury with a child a
dog to guide it in the other world, say
ing: "A dog cau find his way any
where." A remarkable cave in Stone County,
Kan., is said to have been explored for
twelve miles, to have two rivers and mill
ions of bats.
High heeled shoes are no modern in
vention; they go back to tho curliest
Henry; and the top piece was often no
bigger thau a shilling shaped like a
heart.
Snails will come abroard just before a
rain, and begin to climb trees aud plants,
concealing themselves on the under-sido
of a leaf if it is going to be a severe
storm.
Mis. James Gallagher, a resident of
Brooklyn, began sneezing the other even
ing, aud she had got the tally up to 2040
times when the doctors finally found a
remedy.
The name "United States of America"
was first applied to the colonies in the
famous pronunciumento for American lih
erfy, the Declaration of Independence,
made July 4, 17715.
When a Chineso girl is married, she
must wait four months before etiquette
allows her to pay her first visit to her
mother; but, after this iuitiatory call,
she may go to the home of her parents at
any time.
At jone factory in the United States
there are manufactured between two and
three tons of postal cards a day oil the
year round. The largest order ever filed
for ono city was 4,000,000 cards, orabout
twelve tons of paper for New York.
Japanese oranges are as different from
our idea of an orange as they can well
be, separating from tho peel almost as
easily us a grape, dividing into sections
ra the slightest pull, each section like a
separate fruit, and dissolving in the mouth
with a flavor of cherries, leaving no pulp
behind.
The native doctors of China are to n
great extent self-constituted. Any per
sou who is in want of a livelihood, uud
who can read aud write sufficiently well
to be able to copy out prescriptions from
a medical book, cau set up iu practice
without fear of Government or other in
terference. Beethoven' Practical Joke
The New York &ua calls to mind tho
practical joke the great composer Beeth
oven played ' ouo evening on his old
friend and master, Joseph Ilaydu, the
famous wheelwright's sou, who became
in 1700 the Kapel-meister of Priuce N.
Esterhazy. "I have just composed au
aria," said Beethoven to Haydn, in the
presence of many princely ladies and gen
tlemen, "and I wonder if you would bj
able yourself to play it at first sight
without stopping." Haydn was some
what provoked ut such an intimation from
his favorite pupil, aud proceeded at once
to play the aria, which at first proved to
be as easy as a beginner's exercise. But
suddenly he came to a point when, every
one of his ten lingers being at once en
gaged on both cuds of the key-board,
there still remained one note to be struck
right in the middle of it. lViuce Ester
h izv's kupcl-iuristcr became us pale as a
sliest, and, to the stupefaction of tho
lool;ers-oti, abruptly left the piano, mut
tering some unintelligible but undoubt
edly stilphurious German imprecation.
JSccthovcu did not mind it a bit, but sat
down at the instrument, played the alia
with the utmost brilliancy, und when he
came to the perplexing point, coolly
struck the awkward middle note with his
nose, amid tlie plaudits and bursts of
1:, lighter of the Prince and his friends, in
which Haydn himself could not help
joining heartily.
Pathetio Story of u Dumb Mother.
One of the most pathetic stories of the
dumb is that told of tho Countess of Ork
ney w ho was married iu 175H by signs.
Shortly after the birth of her first child,
the nurse, with considerable astonish
megt, suv the mother cautiously approach
the cradle in which thu infant was sleep
ing. The Countess wiij evidently full of
some deep design. H iving a-surcd her
self thut the child really s'.cpl, she took
a larg.; stone which u: had hidden un
ler her iihuwl, and, to the honor of tlie
nurse who was fully impressed with au
idea of the peculiar cunning and mulig
uily of "dummies" raised it with an
intention to fling it dowu vehemently.
Before tiie nurse could interpose, the
Countess had thing the stoue not ut the
child, but on the flour, where it made a
great noise. The child immediately
awoke uud cried. The Countess, who
hud looked with maternal eagerness for
the result of her experiment, fell upon
her knees iu a transport of joy. She hail
di.-c ivered that ;ho child possessed tho
tuuio wanting iu hClecli'.-jK(7,--( -
THE THYSTING PLACE.
Westward over tlie pnle green sky
The rosy pennons of mnset fly;
AVestward slowly the great rooks hie,
With cowling and labored flapping;
The bushes blend in a vagueness dark,
Aud the further trees stand tall and stark;'
I hear the rushes wnisper and shake,
As a flutter of wind begins to wake,
And louder grows
In the quick repose '
The sound of the river's lapping.
Still half an hour, by the abbey cliinie!
I come to the tryst, before the time;
I hearken the l iver's rippled rhyme
And the sedge's rust'ed greeting;
And I cheat my heart with feigned fears, -And
sish us I wait (for no one henrs).
To make the joy more rich and vast
AVhen I feel his lips on my own nt last
And hear no axur.d
As the world goes round
Tut the throb of our two hearts meeting.
HUMOR OF THE DA V.
The rule of three One too many.
An I-gluss The mirror. A Glass I
Iu the mirror.
The stepping-stones to success are
"rocks." Life.
It is the bearded lady whose face ia
her fortune. Life.
First in war and first in peace The
letters "w" and "p."
The good die young. This is particu
larly true of chickens.
"Not in our set," as the false tooth re
marked to the old grinder.
A man experiences that "sinking feel
ing" when he falls overboard.
Two heads are better thau one Ou
the shoulders of a museum freak.
No wonder time is so often killed; it
is struck every huur. St. Limit Magazint.
A youth the subject of the rhyme
Spent all his strength in killing time.
. As years rolled on the truth is grim
Time took his turn and slaughtered him.
Merchant Traveler.
There is no reason in the world why a
'baby show" shouldn't be a howling suc
cess. A real lifc-saviug station is ulways
managed by sailors, and not by doctors.
Pic.tyunc.
This is the turning period in the life of
the farmer's boy if there is a grindstone
on the place. Hinihaiiitun Republican.
When n washerwoman changes hei
place of residence one may ask her "where
she hangs out now" without using slang.
When the maiden dona a muslin gown,
And the dog has a muzzle on too,
'Tin then we sigh to get out of town
Aud down by the ocean blue.
litis! un Courier.
Mrs. Parvenu (to the maid) "Now,
Lucy, you may do up my hair." Lucy
"Yes, mum. Shall I do it up in paper
or get a box?"
A hard storm is often alluded to as a
rain of cats and dogs, but a biting storm
is probably when the fall is coufiued to
cauincs exclusively. Hurper't liazur.
A man was arrested the other day for
stcaliug nn umbrella und tried to get oil
by saying that he was trying to lay some
thing by for a rainy day. &ston Post.
The sheriff's notice thus supplies
A moral aud a tale;
The man who faded to advertise,
is advertised to fail.
i'hilatlephia Press.
'Post no bills!'' ejaculated Fleecy,
readiug ihe well-known sign seen in
many parts of the city. "Humph! 1
never do; I always prefer sendiug them
by the collector." Jmhje.
When it ain't rninin' it's bnkin';
When it. ain't ba kin' it blows.
AVueii it dim't blow it'sa-hailiu',
fc'o get in your coal 'fore it snows.
Detroit free Presc.
A I the Jeweler's "But, Max, dou't
you think it extravagant to give $300 foi
a diamond to wear on my hand?" "Not
nt all, my dear; you don't consider how
much 1 shall save ou your gloves."
l'lie'jtiulc Hlitttter.
Herd lies a man who laughed at death,
For many yean, he uuieked her
Some say lie died tin-lack of breath
A ad njjne accuse tile doctor.
AVio York Sim.
"Yuu mii-t stop this smoking during
business hours," said the head clerk.
"What's the matter?" inquired one of the
boys. "Tin! boss says lie can't appreci
ate his five cent cigar when you clerks are
pulling your Henry Clays." Eporft.
Mr. Swallowtail '-Sir, 1 come to con
fes a great w rong I was about to do tc
you and to beg your pardon. 1 was
about to elope i itli your eldest daughter.''
Papa Come again; what wr.s the diffi
culty, my dear fellow? Didn't have
enough money? Let me lend you a couple
of hundred." (' (;) Jl.'ruh.
A ter.ilerfo.it whittled bsidea wood hed.
Whr.i some iMwImyx of Sasafrass City
Canccd a :n..vi v of IicII 'Ih to whin rctmd his
I. -a. I,
And l.elo lii',l on their efforts with pity.
For he t:;nt from his dream ith a beauti
ful -a:i!e
On the demons of earaaB aad bloodshed.
And murmured, "A lniss is us fc.-i.nl as a
idi''
As lie carved the ball out nf the woodshed.
itlliprc' i'o ie.
Voting by Electricity.'
The plan of voting iu assemblies by
mentis of ihe electric current, and thus
avoiding the time lost in making divi
sions, has been before the French Cham
ber of Hepiuies, and a report on the sub
ject was pn -euted by M. Montani. Ill
that report the ndvinhiliiy of emploj
ing a mat hiac which would ind'eaie not
only the total votes pour" or "conlre" a
measure that is to s:iy the ny.'s" uud
'noes"- but ul o tli" number of volun
tary abstemious from voting, as distinct
from the number id' absentees. Such au
apparatus has been deviled by M. l.e
Goaziou. tin every desk iu front of a
member is placed a -null box titled with
two handles, which the memln-r works
w hen legist, ring his vote. Th" right
handle registers his "aw," the left his
j "no,'' and both moved simultaneously
indicate hi- ab-lentiou from voting. Tho
results are priuied by meaus of electro
liiaguels in receiver, ami are visible at u
glance. Provision is made for a member
to recall ulnl cor'vet his vote during thy
lime uilowcd for hv uuruvae, ..