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VOL. XXII. NO. 30.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, JAN. 22, 1890. Si. 50 PER ANNUM.
' An inventor nnmcil (). L. McClclliin,1
f Philadelphia, has succeeded in repro
ducing artificially tho light of the glow
norm. Tim production of this illumi
inint means tho utilization of energy
without material wnsto nnd without
heat.
Tho rapid decrease, in tlir number of
kangaroos is beginning to attract tho. at
tention of scientific societies in Australia.
From collective reports of tho various
slock inspectors it was estimated that in
18N7 thero wcro 1, SSI, 510 kangaroos.
In 1SS8 the numher fell to 1,170,3SO, a
' decrease of 711.1. '50.
Senium chemists have discovered in
the cocoanut n futty substitute for butter,
ami now""ihu I'nited States Consul at
Mannheim, Germany, reports that the
new product has begun to be manufnc
tured on a large scale in that city. A
s.iuglc factory produces (1000 pounds of
it per day, worth in the market fifteen
cents a pound.
An ancient ntid remarkable clock lias
been recently set up in the reading
room of the municipal library at. Rouen,
Franco. A single winding keeps it. rim
ing fourteen years and some odd months.
.It. was constructed in 1(S2, underwent
.nllerntions in lSlli, was bought by the
-ity of Rouen in 18:tS, and has been re
cently repaired and set going.
The glowing belief that consumption
is contagious promises to lead to many
embarrassments. The people of South
ern California, which has hitherto been a
place of refuge for consumptives, now
declare that I lie invalids must be excluded,
since they spread the disease among the
origiuul settlers. Similar results, though
in a lesser degree, have been observed in
the Adirondack, Is. Y.
Sixteen students of the Military Aeade.
' 'V of Medicine, in St. Petersburg, have
i'i i n expelled for attending a funeral ser
ice of M. Tehornichcwsky, the Nihilist,
who died recently. For some time the
authorities have been investigating what
they believed to be n plot against the
Emperor. The result is that several per
sons who were supposed to lie connected
with the plot have been expelled from
t'.e capital.
An interesting fact in connection with
the steamship City of Paris is that her
total horse power under a heavy load is
20,fi00 more than all the power in the
jr.at manufacturing titles of Manches
i Lowell and Lawrence, Mass., com
bined, and thirty-three per cent, more
lil.in the power of the great engine whitdi
was operated at the Philadelphia Ccnten-ei-d
Exposition in ISTti, which was con
sidered at the time tiie wonder of the
France is going to put on an increased
lav upon strong liquors as a means of
decking their sale as jnuch as possible.
The present, Ministry is very much in
earnest in the mutter, and means to carry
through the reform while the country is
in a good huiiior over the success of the
exhibition. The Germans will be sufferers
by the taxation if it becomes prohibitive,
for they manufacture most of the liquor
which is chunk by the Belgians, and the
poorer classes in northern France.
According to the calculations of tho
Paris police, 5,000,0(1(1 provincials and
1,500,000 foreigners visited the Exhi
bition. The foreigners included :i(!0,00ll
Euglish, 225,OlM B rians, ItiO.OIH) tier
mans, (ill, 000 Spaniards, .12,1100 Swiss,
88,000 Italians, .'12,000 Austrian, 7000
Russians, tiOOO Creeks, Turks and Ru
manians, :1500 Portuguese, 2.10'J Scandi
navians, 8000 Asia'ie-i, 12,000 Algerians
mid other Africans, 1(0,000 North Ameri
cans, and 2.1,000 South Americans.
The feeling between the French mid
the Germans lo.-cs none of its bitterness
as tinio rolls on, and it occasionally
"crops out in the nin.-i unexpected dirce-
tions. I pon the occasion of the recent
isit of the German royal party to Con-
V : , ' , . .
mii, iimijikt turn- ,v.-i n large: neer oi ves
sels of all nations at anchor at Stainboul.
In honor of the event, the ships of every
nation' except the French were decked
out with all the bunting at their com
mand. Tiie French vessels were doubly
conspicuous by the entire absence of tings
of any kind in their rigging.
M. de Quart rcfagc, the leading French
ethnologist, in presenting the second
part of his "lniroduction to the Studv of
the Human Races'' to the Academy of
Sciences, lias given ail interesting sum
mary of his gener il conclusions with re
gard to the origin and distribution of
mankind. Neglecting the minor differ
ences, lie estimates that there are no
fewer than, seventy-two distinct races in
the human smcies. All tluse ilccr-,,,!
branch frivol three fundamental types
the black, fellow and the white
which. had then i-rigin at the great ecu.
tral mass ot Northern Asia, which is thus
the cradle of mankind. Representatives
of these different types and tho races
which sprung from them are still to be
found then'.
THE LANE.
They met adown the green old lane,
As evening stalked with lengthened shade;
no was a sturdy country swain,
And she a Blmple rustic maid,
Song he: "I thrust my plowshares deep,
Each day, in yonder fields of corn;
Then, wenricd wit h my labor, sloop
Till i-oeks crow at the gates of morn."
Wang she: "My housewife duties done.
from yon green meadow where
browse
they
On clover sweetening in the sun,
I homeward drove my gentle cow."
Quoth he: "And so I've met thee, lass,
Which haps not oft on week a-ilny;
Sometimes to church I see thee pass,
Pressed in thy Sunday riblwns gay.
'Such time, sweet maid I've looked on
thee,
With love, from under eyelids shy,
Half wondering if a thought of me
Stirred in thy breast while passing by.
"Fair is my cot by yonder stream;
Complete but for a housewife's carei
If not to thee to bold it seem,
Sweet Mary, I would havo thee there.
"So when the morning-glories blow
On Sun. lay next, if thou'll agreo, '
Together let us churchward go,
Ami there, O, let us married lx.
"Now let me fetch Willi thce,I pray,
From meadows green, thy errant klnej
Sometimes the restless creatures stray
Beyond the imstures boundary line."
Quoth she: "Thy cot Is fair indeed
But sooth, I know not what to say;
Come with me where my cattle feed,
And I will tell the by tho way."
Across the meadow lands besprent
With daisies, open-eyed like stars,
They, hand in hand, together went,
And let the cattle through the bars.
The cows, they wandered down the lane,
As eveuing stalked with lengthened shade,
While, far leliind, the happy swain
Strode with the blushing rustic maid.
Mayhap there will a wedding be,
When pious folks at chureli convene,
The like of which they seldom see
Bown in the heart of country green.
One meadow, then, their kim will feed;
Anil they, content, shall rise each mora;
She, busy one, to sew and knead,
And he to labor in the corn.
T. Dumas, in Atlanta Constitution.
A BLUE PRINT,
Everything was bright and cheerful
and wintry and cold ubout Dr. Bcbus's
strictly limited family sanitarium up in
Hie Saranac woods. The snow was bright
and the sky was cheerful, and the air
was wintry ami most
cold.
people's feet was
Dr. Rebus himself might be described
m the same way. He was overwhelm
ingly bright and cheerful when you
came nud chillingly wintry and cold
when you inquired iuto the extrus in his
bill, at the end of your stav.
Most of the strictly limited family were
... ....on, ,m max. one December day.
1 hose who didn't driw out were driven
out by the doctor, who told them that
they had come there for the Saranac air,
and the Suramin air they should have.
I hey got it. too. It was the principle
article of diet at the doctor's table.
There were only six of us, U told.
I hree aged persons sat wrapped up in
furs on the sunny side of the verandah,
drawing in the Saraivm air through res
pimtors. Jack Collins was off, sleigh
ridiug .Miss Udie Prendergast, the pretty
daughter of the agedest. 1 was loafing
around the front door, and wondering
why 1 wasn't whero Jack was.
Jack and I were (except Miss Be'.le)
the only people who were not up there in
a tubercular or bronchial capacity. There
was nothing the matter with our lungs or
ourbrouchs. Wo had a little trouble
that had sent us into temporary retire
ment ; but it had pretty nearly blown
over.
I had about concluded to get my guu
and go and shoot a moose for supper
an idea that had often occurred to me
during my stay, but that I had never car
ried out wh-u I oliservcd two young
men approaching iu a sleigh. They were
.o.M.Mg uoin tiie station, and I gazed
"I' interest. Their sleigli
.... .. i ine uoor, and they got out
.....-me., ngeus waked up aud stared
blankly. ),. U,.bus and Mrs. Rebus and
jui-s jieinis came out on the vcranduh aud
-e.uueu upon them. Miss Rebus had
been n sweet thing when ringlets were
the go, aud she hung on to the riuglets
ami thought sho hung on to the sweet
ncss.
i looked at those, two men and felt that
.iiouiuKleK them with trreat comfri
One of them had a guitar in a green baize
uisicr. J lie other had a
tripod.
camera and a
While they were unloading their instru
mi ms oi torture and their gripsacks, I
saw Jack coming sneaking around from
the back ol the house, old Prendergast
linn, loo.
"Hi, there, yon Mr. Collins!
my darter;''
where
Know, sir, ' said Jack; '-dou't
juu. ivcjust come in from a walk.
mi your dnvin' gloves on, eh'f"
couguct tDcoldgcutlcmau; "where's my
J III .
Here I am, Papa," said Relic, coming
up from toe other side of the house; "I've
jusi occn to the village after the mail."
"Arter hitiW a a a-h!" said the aged,
relapsing into his respirator. Relle took
him away and smoothed him down, and
f?ave him a paper to read. It soothed
thu aged.
Then the new-comers man hed up, and
we were nil introduced. The murderer
with tho guitar was Mr. Jagworth. The
awiussiu with the camera was Cohce.
"Int'rest'd iu cameras';" inquired Cohce
of Jack, who was studying the accordion
pleats of the machine.
"Don't know how to play on it," nid
Jack.
''Why, tint's a photographic machine,"
said Cohce.
"Ain't that a concertina!" asked Jr.l
"Thafa the bellows." said Cdiee.
"Goes by wind, docs it?" Jack in
quired. "I'll explain it nil to you some time,"
said Cohee, in a pitying way. Then he
turned to me.
"Intrestd in photography? First
rate chance hero for good subjects,
cangnt a fellow with his arm around
girl, in a sleigh, as we were coining up.
(tot 'em from behind driving like fun.
Say, doctor, send down totlic station for
our trunks, will you?"
Lp to this time Jack and I had . had it
all our own way with Miss Relle Prender
past. Perhaps Jack had more of his way
than I had of mine; but I was playing a
waiting game. I am waiting still; but
mat is all right.
Now, however, all was changed. Jag
worth s old man, it seemed, had made
two or three millions out of hair-oil.
Cohee was his particular friend. They
owned me nouse, to all intents and pur.
poses. Tho Rebus family bowed down
ami worshiped tliem, and old man
Prendergast, 'With one foot and a half in
tho grave, actually chucked his lovclv
daughter at Jagworth's head. And
what seemed to me most remarkable was
that Jack, although Relic seemed to take
kinaiy to Jagworth and his guitar,
actually hung on to Cohce just as Coheo
hung on to Jngworth. I did a solo act
iu this concert of admirable happiness,
and passed most of my time sitting on
the front fence.
It was photography nil day, nnd Jack
was taking lessons of Cohce. He was
uncommonly stupid about it, nnd spoiled
most of the plates Cohee let him develon.
Jagworth hadn't much to say for himself;
he just hung about Relle all day, and in
me evening he played the guitar until
the whitewash began to drop down in
flakes off the ceiling.
1 was pretty near ready to die when
one night I heard there was to in: a va
riation. Cohee had got some flash now
der from New York, and he was going
to take us by flash-light. lie got his
inrce-iegged machine set up in the par
lor, wnere we young folk were left to
ourselves, now, as much as we pleased.
There were Jagworth and his guitar, and
Hello, and Cohee and Jack and Miss Re
ims, who was making a sort of a dead
(and buried) set nt Cohee, and I was
there, too.
first he darkened the room and
flashed up the light, and took Relle
standing before the white mantelpiece,
looking too pretty for any use. Ami
Jack sat there, handing him his plate
holders, as much as if he liked it.
could u t have dono that. I was out of
it ; but I couldn't have done that.
Then he took Jagworth, standing ut)
with his left hand on his hip and hU
rignt hand on the head of his guitar,
like the goddess of music. Then Miss
Rebus began to curvet, and he had to
nine ner. unit made mo tired, using
the same camera for Hello and Miss
Rebus, and I went upstairs to bed.
I tic next morning we were gnthered
in tho parlor, in our strictly limited
family way, waiting for Cohee to develop
tho flash-light pictures. Pretty soon he
came out of his dark-room, which was
the hall-closet, with a dead wasp in his
uair. no looked puzzled.
"I can't make it out," ho said; "I've
got Miss Relle all right ; but there aiu't
a thing on nuy of the other plates ex
cept one, aud I can't make out what that
is. However," he continued, -I'll take
a blue-print of il, and see how it looks.
I guess I focused a littlu wrong."
He printed the blue-print, and brought
it iu, and we all helped him wash it off.
lilue-pniits are whitey-ycllow first you
wash them in cold water, aud they turn
blue, like a baby.
It came out after a while, and we all
saw what it wa-. There was the mantel
piece. There was Jagworth, standing
up, with liis arm around Miss Rebus.
Jack had given Cohee tho same plate
holder twice, the same way. I kept that
blueprint.
"O Mr. Jngworth!" said Miss Rebus,
"How could you take such an advan
tage!" "Young people will be young people!"
said Doctor Rebus, smiling.
"Well, I wish I may die if I ever "
said Jagworth, aud there language failed
nun.
Rut language didn't fail old Prender
gast.
"Lemme get out of this!" he shouted:
"I have becu grossly deceived. Lemme
get out of a house where such goings on
are allowed. This is a healthy sani
tarium I This is a nice Don Joou you've
piayea on my innocent darter and me.
Make out my bill I'm going by tho ten
o'clock train. You, Relic, go and pack.
I'll git the sleigh. Make out my bill,
you manoovriu' cobra!"
Hello cried ; but it was no use. Tho
doctor said he wouldn't have any one iu
tiie house who had so reviled a revelation
of innocent and natural affection. The
doctor was proud and easy sinee he had
seen the photograph. It came iu handy,
the following spring, iu the brcach-o"f-promise
case.
Iu half-an hour the sleigh was at the
door and Relle in it. Jack ami I went
out to say good bye. Jack stayed longer
than I did. He seemed to have more to
say.
Old luau Prendergast was iuside, set
tling Dr. Rebus's bill. As 1 have hinted
before, this was not what you might cull
an off hand job. They were wrangling
over cue nurd item -'use of respirator,
$7.27" when Joe, the driver, came iu
to say that if they waited two minutes
longer he couldu't catch the train, and
there wasn't another until nine o'clock at
night. Mr. Prendergast dumped down
his money and started for the door. On
his way he met Cohee. "I guess you
needn't bother to hurry, Mr. Prender
gast," said he; "I've taken another
photograph. If you will look out of the
door, you'll just get the subject instan
taneous effect in the distance."
I have a blue print of that photograph.
too. It shows the sleigh goiug off at
full speed, headed for the dnot, aud
Jack aud Relle arc in it. I have the
photograph framed with tho wedding-
cards of Mr. John Coddiugton Collins
aud Miss Isabelle Prendergast. luek.
Moiite.unia, Ga., boasts of a dog 1
'with
Ijxowctl developed feet."
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIKS.
MM.ET SAfC'B FOIt llOAST Tl'ItKEV.
Put over the giblets of the turkey nnd
Ihc livers of two or three chickens to
boil. Cook them slowly for an hour nnd
a half) then strain off the liquor and add
it to tho gravy in the dripping-pan ns
soon as tho roast turkey is taken up.
Mix these gravies well together; add a
tablcspoonful of flour for thickening, and
cook fivo or six minutes, stirring all the
time. Let the livers bo separated from
the other grblets nnd minced fine. Put
them in a saucepan, and strain the gravy
over them. Stir it for five minutes longer
after the liver is added.
KSC'AIjIjOPKD CAVI.TKLOWER.
Cookn good-sized cauliflower in plenty
of water for half an hour. At the end of
this time drain nnd separate it into flower
ets. Put a layer in a deep white earthen
pudding-dish and sprinkle it with salt,
pepper and a few bits of butter, and a
tablcspoonful of grated Parmesan cheese.
Moisten this layer with cream sauce, then
add another layer nnd sprinkle with
cheese, and finally with fine breadcrumbs
and a few bits of butter. Pour over all
enough rream sauce to moisten it well
and bake it in a hot oven for twenty
minutes. To make the pint of cream
sauco used in this rxilo melt two tnblc
spoonfuls of butter in a saucepan with a
tablespoonful of flour, and when mixed
add slowly a pint of cold milk nnd boil
ut once.
rfMPKINTlF..
There ore so many makeshifts iu these
days that it is well once in the year to
remind housekeepers of tho rich, well
made pics of the days when people were
less impatient to be through with their
work and took time to do it properly.
The first essentinl is a good, sweet field
pumpkin, which is better than any squash
for this purpose. Pcd it nnd cut it in
pieces and cook it very slowly for four or
five hours, with only water enough to
prevent its burning. This slow cooking
makes the pumpkin rich nnd sweet.
When it is done mash it and strain it
through a colander, and to two cups of
strained pumpkin ndd slowly four cups
of boiling hot milk, half a teaspoonful of
salt, two tablespoon fuls of ginger, one of
cinnamon, one of mace and a half nut
meg. Rent well five eggs; stir them in a
ciqi of cream and add with sugar enough
to sweeten the whole. I.iue tin pic
plates with plain pastry, brush it over
with the white of an egg, crimp an
ornamental border of puff paste around
the pie and till it with the pumpkin
custard. Rake the pies in a moderately
hot oven till they are (inn iu the centre
nnd brown. Xeto York Tribune.
JIOrsEIIOI.D HINTS.
For bilious colic soda and ginger in hot
water. It may be taken freely.
To remove tar rub thoroughly with
clean lard and wash with soap and warm
water.
Nervous spasms are usually relieved by
a little salt taken in the mouth and al
lowed to dissolve.
When the eyes are tired and weak, if
they are bathed in slightly saline water
they will soon become soothed.
Rent whalebones can be restored and
used again by simply soaking iu water a
few hours and then drying them.
Use Turkish towels for the kitchen as
well as for bath towels; they wear well,
wash easily and requires no ironing.
Heartburn may be relieved almost in
stantly if half a teaspoonful of table salt
be dissolved iu wiueglassful of cold water
aud then drunk.
Sleeplessness caused by too much
blood in tho head may be overcome by
applying a cloth wet with cold water to
to the back of the neck.
Make bed comfortables for cvery-day
use of domestic gingham instead of
calico. It only costs a trifle more, will
wash better and wear as long again.
A French cook tells us that a niece of
dry bread, tied in a bag aud placed in
the water while cabbage is boiling, will
prevent the unpleasant odor which usual
ly arises.
Sometimes a vanilla bean is thrown
iuto the tea pot with the green and black
tea, and after the boiling wider is poured
in there is a delicate aroma of vanilla as
well as tea.
Nothing is more soothing for burns or
scalds than to pour tho white of an e""
over the injured place. It is easily pro
cured and is more cooling than sweet oil
and cotton.
Children need four suits; one for very
best, one for second best, and two for
the wear and tear of every day. To get
ou with a scantier supply is poor
economy as a general thing.
Re sure and put your clothes pins in
hot soap suds at least once in two weeks,
and let them boil; after which they may
be taken out, dried and put away iu u
bag, ready for use on next wash day.
-Nothing more surely shows good
breeding than reliued table intiuuers,
and you can uevei teach your children
these while habitually ranting off an oil
cloth table-spread or a slovenly linen
one.
lo clcau a carpet thoroughly, throw
damp salt upon it and tlicu sweep it
briskly, and it will be found that all the
coloriug will be vastly brightened; or if
the carpet has been well swept, go over
it afterward with a clean cloth aud clear
salt water, and the result will be almost
as good.
Deserted Capitals 1 it India.
One of the strangest things in India is
the multitude of dcertcd capitals. There
are three old Delhis, three successive
capitals of the East, ail close to each
other, all south of the present city. One
of the three is Tugluckabad, a marvelous
city on the hill, roofless and absolutely
deserted, but solid aud gigantic. Thu
second is Ferozeb.vl, with a handful of
inhabitants. The third is the old Delhi
of Kutub, who was born a Turkish slave,
aud died Emperor of India. His name
still survives iu the finest tower iu the
woim aim iu uio omesi mosguo HI ludia. J
wise wonns.
Ifc who has neither friend nor enemy
is without, talents, powers, or energy.
It is better to sacrifice one's love of
sarcasm than to indulge it nt tho expense
of a friend.
A beautiful woman pleases the rye, n
good woman pleases the heart ; one is a
jewel, the other a treasure.
It is always a sign of poverty of mind
where men are ever aiming to appear
great, for they who are really never
seems to know it.
Sometimes it is hard to tell whether a
man is firm in principle or simply obsti
nate; but the man himself never ex
presses nny doubt.
When we are most filled with heavenly
love, nnd only then, are we best fitted to
bear with human infirmity, to live above
it and forget its burden.
Tho art of putting the right men in
the right places is first iu the science of
government; but that of finding places
for the discontented is the most diffi
cult. Laziness grows on people; it begins in
cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The
more business a man lias to do the ntorc
lie is able to accomplish, for he learns to
economize his time.
Expensive Siamese Funerals.
Siam is tho land of cremation. It
costs more money to die there than to
live, nnd the funerals of Congressmen,
which arc paid for at extravagant rates
by the Government, cost but little in
comparison with that of a Siemese
noble. Whcu a King dies in Siam the
whole nation takes part in the funeral,
nnd 1, 000, 000 nnd upward is some
times spent in the turning of the royal
embalmed body iuto ashes. The last
Queen who died nt Rangkok was seated
in a golden urn for a number of months
after her death, and the foreign mer
chants iu Siam bought thousands of dol
lars' worth of goods from Europe and
China for the King to give as presents to
those who came to the funeral. A great
temple or palace with roofs covered with
gilt paper was built as her bier, and the
funeral-car was overlaid with pure gold
and set with jewels. The car was six
stories high and it was surrounded by
tiers of golden umbrellas. All the for
eign diplomates attended the binning,
and there was a tiger fight, a lion dance,
and a tournament among the celebrations.
The King lighted the fire at six p. M.,and
he gave presents of gold and silver as
well as a dinner to the most noted of the
mourners. It took a full week to per
form the ceremonies, and at the close the
ashes were taken in a royal barge nnd
strewn upon the waters of the Menam
llivcr.
Every man iu Siam has as good n
burning as his puree will buy. but few
are able to undertake the expense of
building a palace in which to be burned.
The average cremation takes place ou a
pile of wood laid erossways, aud after it
is over the hones arc gathered up and
tied up iu a rag to bo kept its relics.
The most horrible of funerals are those of
the very poor of Bangkok. The bodies
of these are taken to a temple known as
the Wat Sah Kate. Imagine nn inclos
ure of many acres, filled with bushes aud
whispering palms, at the feet of which
arc piles of coffins, and along the roots
of which skulls arc lying. Enter this
garden path ff you dare. There mo no
men to stop you, and you wander in and
out through the trees, snarled at by lean,
hungry-looking dogs, until nt last
you come to a number of low brick
buildings. Here you will meet a lean,
toothless, parchment-skinned old hag
who has hair as white and stiff as the
bristles of n Chester white pig, and who
smiles at you through her toothless
gums, aud witli long, withered fingers
beckons you in. Vultures by the hun
dred sit upon the trees over her, aud as
you go in you hear the snarling of dogs.
You look toward them, they arc lighting
over the half-eaten bodies of men, and,
the vultures swooping down, flap their
wings and attempt to seize a part of the
prey. Reside the bloody corpses are a
mars of half-dried skulls and the odd
legs aud arms of the day before, aud the
old woman laughs through her toothless
gums as she points you to them. Some
of the Buddhist believe that their
chance of nirvana, or heaven, is better
in case they give their bodies to the vul
tures, and some of these bodies have
been dedicated in this way. Others are
those of very poor people, who can not
afford the cost of cremation. Ihbrca
Times.
Ancient Kmlialmintr.
Iu view of modern progress iu em
balming, desiccation aud other methods
of preserving the dead for an indefinite
time, it is interesting to note that it has
been estimated tint more than 400,000
human mummies were made in Egypt
from the begiuning of the art of embalm
ing until its discontinuance in tin: Sev
enth Century. There were three grades
of embalming. For preserving his rela
tive in the most approved style the Egyp
tian had to pay 122S; iu the second
grade the operation l ost ubout ,'(75; the
third method was so cheap as to be con
sidered "within the reach of the poorc-l
citizen," and involved th" pickling of the
body for some days, and then a boiling iu
bitumen. These mummies are devoid of
hair ami eyebrows, aud are black, heavy,
dry and very hard to break.
The Other Side of Hie World.
If we want to find a country whole
nature has turned things topsy turvy
that is, according to our notions wo
ii. ust go to Anstialiu. Many things are
reversed iu Australia. It is summer then:
while i' r winter in America. Tries
tin il their bail: matend of their leaves;
fruit has thu blone or kernel outside;
swans arc black ; there is a species of lly
that kills aud cats tho spider, and a fish
called tho climbing perch wallcK deliber
ately out of the water, und, wish the aid
of its lias, climbs thu adjaceut'trees after
the iusfcis that infeit them. When to
this wc add that molt of tho birds have
no song and the flowers no odors, it is
easily seeu thul it is the other side of the
Vi'.old iu moic senses than one.
TAKE CARE OF YOUR EYES.
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE PRESERVA
TION OF THE EYESIGHT.
Vnrioiin Ways In Which the V.ycn Are
Injured Ol lirr Disorders Often
Canard My Kye Strain.
There is no factor of the body of
which we have so little knowledge, for
which we have so little gratitude, and
which we so shamefully maltreat us the
eye.
We heap abuses upon muscles and tis
sues of microscopic dimensions from the
cradle on, yet at the very first indication
one of them gives of sinking under the
strain, it or its Creator is loaded with re
proaches, and we wonder what on earth
eyes are good for if we cannot use thero,
and why they do not last as long as we
need them.
Attention was directed to the subject
recently by a nmrvelously skillful opera
tion performed upon the eyes of a pool
man iu the Ophthalmic Hospital by Dr.
F. H. Royntou of this cily. In a talk
with the doctor, who is a philnnthrophist
as well as a scientist, some valuable
points were gathered in regard to the mat
ter. Tho public conveyance as a rending
room is one of the foremost sources ol
damage to the sight. The eye demands
absolute steadiness of both light and
position in the object upon which it rests.
Not only is the motion from a train itscll
constant, hut the pitching and tossing nt
the stations and curves, and the constant
interception of objects outside and in be
tween lights artificial and natural, pro
vide a whole army of Philistines before
which the most Sanisou-likc eyesight
must quail.
The ferryboat offers still more serious
objection, as the paddle-wheel vibratior
is still more constant and excessive than
that of a train, where the road-bed i
good. Many scientific men even go si
far us to say that it is the motion of tht
oeeau steamship upon the nerves through
the medium of the eye that produces sea
sickness. One should ccaso using the daylight
the instant it has commenced to decline,
even though it seem sufficient for the ac
complishment of some certain task, for
tlnugh artificial light is bad, dying day.
light is infinitely worse.
A strong sunglare falling directly upon
the eyes, as in a long promenade, may be
injurious to weak eye muscles or seusi
five retinas. A small parasol, or the lint
tipped over the eyes, should be made u
protection. The foundation for mud.
future eye trouble is laid by the culpable
negligence of nurses in leaving the eyet
of their little charges exposed to the sun':
direct rays.
Ono needs but to wear u veil to dis
cover when it is removed that something
is wrong with the eyes. When the veil
is simply a plain gauze ono an added
strain is put upon thu sight by the inter
vention of the veil haze. The effect ol
the dot is more quickly injurious, as it
affords a near-by object to distract the
eye from thoso more removed. The
"muscle of accommodation," ns it is
called, lying back of the lens, is con
tracted when vision rests upon a near ob
jeet, aud relaxed when being exercised
upon one at a distance. ( ne can imagine
the effect upon a piece of rubber ot its
being continuously pulled between the
fingers, but one can scarcely realize the
damage done the still more delicate eye
muscle.
Specialists cannot but be sorry for tin
necessity of so much night work by men
whose work begins about twilight. Witb
care, however, the most harmful effect!
may be avoided. A powerful and deal
steady light should fall upon the papers
over the shoulders. The crescent shade
is a great help. Ceiling lights aro al
ways too high. Bracket lights are din
ami flickering. The drop light iu front
of the eyes is baneful.
Quite recently the influence of the eyes
upon the general health has been attract
ing the attention of specialists, and gen
oral practitioners are recognizing the
manifold serious effects upon the whole
system of faulty eyes, either from bolt
malformations, acquired weakness, or auj
deviation from tho normal standard oi
disturbance of muscular harmony or bal
a nee. It is being established beyond u doubt
that many cases of sick headache, pcriodi
oil headaches, a large number of hvsteri
ful or otherw'se nervous unbalancings,
many cases of epilepsy, aud other seriuw
functional disorders may ho traced to eye
disorder as the predisposing cause, need
ing but some species of over exertion
sight seeing, concentrated attention upon
a speaker, latent gazing at music or clost
study to precipitate the onset, and pro
duec, an invalid iu whom the eye is the
last factor to be accused of the mischief.
Often the innocent stomach has tc
bear the consequences of this sly inischicl
maker, when in reality it bears the same
relation as effect to cause-. Cases ot
nervous wrecks, of worn-out, tired
barked men and women ami dyspeptics
owe their suffering to eve strain, and tht
time is coming w hen many eases of e atar
act will be attributed to malformed eyes
Xttv lel'l' St'.tt.
A Prolltable Tree.
The opoponax tree is not only a very
pleasant but a profitable one to the ladies
of Charles on, S. C. There are a score
or nun i: of ladies iu Charleston who
actually get all f.w'ir winter dresses from
the opoponax .lees iu their gardens. A
young lady i ho has a tree in her garden
lias already realized t?2;i from the sale ol
the floiier ., ami her neighbor, who has a
younger tree, has bought a handsome
winter cloak from the proceeds of bet
tree. The flowers are made up iu tiny
buttonhole bouquets, and are given to
the cook's son to sell. lie sells them at
five cents a bouquet, and no trouble
in disposing of them to northern tour
ists who pass through the city. Ctinju
The city of St. Petersburg, which does
not count 1,01)0,000 inhabitants, t:oii.
sunies each day 10,000 bottles of wine,
1,500,000 quails of beer, and 1,1100,000
glosses of an nk'i.-hul kuowu uudcr the
name of vodUi. a
1
CLEAR THE WAY,
Men of thought, be up and stirring
Nij;ht and day;
Bow the seed; withdraw itae curtain;
Clear the way ;
Men of action, aid and cheer them
As ye may.
There's a fount nliout to stream;
There's a liht about to lieam;
There's a warmth about to glow;
There's a flower about to blow;
There's a midnight blackness changing
Into pray;
Men of thought and men of action,
Clear the way.
Once tho welcome lipht lias broken.
Who shall say, ,
What the unimnKhied glories
Of the day;
What the evil that shall perish
In its ray!
Aid the ihnvuin ;, tongue and pen;
Aid it, hopes of honest men;
Aid it, penx and aid it, type;
Aid it, for tho hour is ripe;
And our earnest must not slacken
Into play
Men of thought and men of actiu,
Clear the way.
Charles Macka
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A German Count Eins, zwei, drei!
Goiug to work with a will Contest
ing it.
The scientist says nn absolute vncuuro
cannot exist, nnd yet the dude lives.
Music hath chnrms That is when put
together in the proper proportions.
Dniixrille Jlneze. ;
The easiest way for a good wife to get
along pleasantly is to practice what hel
husband preaches. Atchison Globe. ,
When a cashier goes to Canada his em
ployer's face and his own accounts are the
long nnd short of it. Chicago Kem.
In milking a cow always sit onthcsid
furthest from the cow nnd near n soft
spot iu the pasture. Miliraulce TSluff. .
Some men's affairs don't get straight
ened out until about the same time they
do themselves. Tii rliivjlon Free Press.
"I only charge you a fair price," sht
said, in Robinson objected to paying fiv
dollars for a buttonhole bouquet. Taw
lee Wade.
One reason why nn expert fisherman i
so silent at his sport is because he to
waiting for a catch with baited breath.
Jlaltimure A nterican .
Parrott "And so Mrs. Gadabout is
really forty years old? She doesn't show
her age." Wags "No; she keeps it to
herscl f . " Mn f .'' H 'eekly.
Tile man who drives a fast horse may
find it an expensive luxury; but he seems
to have no difficulty in "raising thu
dust." Youkert statesman.
Whene'er you step into a room
And conversation eeases,
You won't. te wrong if you presume
You havo been picked to pieces.
f Viiiiilfjihitt Press.
"Don't you get frightfully tin-d of
jour work (" asked the. monkey of the
hand-organ. "Well life is a good deal
of a grind for me," replied the organ.
Time.
The picture of the three-year-old King
of Spain is on all of the new Spanish
nostage stamps; so that child is liable to
receive his share of licking after all.
Time.
"To look nt you, Jonsou, no ono would
take you for a humorist." "No?" "No.
And hanged if they'd think you were a
funny man to read your jokes, either !"
Jjit'ni:
Old Gentleman ' Harry, I am dis
gusted with you. It seems to mo you
have no will of your own." Harry
"Ah, yes, but, eh can't you make ouo
for me." Kearney Enterprise.
Hotel Clerk "You wouldn't imagine
I am nervuus; would you?" Guest
"Well, 1 should hesitate to ejaculate!
Why, I think you've got more nerve than
a book agent." Xnp York Journal.
"Collecting silver spoons is a new
craze," remarks au exchange. Yes, and
collect ing towels, blankets, the roap and
other little trifles, is nn old craze with
dishonest people who patronize hotels.
Hotel Unutte.
The man who sighs, "How soon we
arc forgotten," hits only to leave thu ho
tel without paying his bill to find out
how sadly mistaken he is. Vuyoit fnrn
luiluittrial Acirn. Wrote to you, eh'.
Si to Orleans J'icaiiute.
The Professor of a California State
university has invented what he calls
"indestructible leather." A pair of
shoes made of leather that will never
wear out ought to last a teu ycnr-old
school boy at least six weeks.
It is not love tuat makes Lint moan,
Nor yet, that he is ali alone.
No gi iff in his mind is gnawing.
It is uot poverty's sad dart,
' i'is not remorse lugs at his heart,
Jlis porous plaster is drawing.
I'hicttio Heratit.
Fend! son (arguing in defence of hit
favorite theory that personal beauty il
i:ot woman's chief attraction) "I Con
tend that beauty has nothing to do witl
a young w oman's chief chances of getting
a husband. I'll leave it to any marriet'
woman iu the loom if it is uot so. JJos
ion Trannrijit.
A Chinese Pill.
If you wish to see u medical curi
osity," says a Cincinnati paper, "step
into Appiaiser Kliinper's office in tho
Goveimu' iil building and ask him to
show you a Chinese pill, lie lias a dozen
or so of them. They are ns big as largo
marblt s, in fm-l, they are just the size of
crab apples, and are coated with a seini-Ir.imnar-'nt
sugary substance covered
w ill: llowera and gilt letters. Souio of
tiieiu .have this sweet covering broken,
and you can see beneath the pill proper,
black ms a ball of India ink, aud tho
very thought of masticating that mass iu
order to get it down is an ciueiie. Rut
it must take an unusual amount of moral
couriigo iu a Chinaman to tackle a pill."
New York State is reported to have
produced last scasou 2,08,845 pounds
of honey, being exee-eded ouly by Ten
nessee with ,UI0,tiStf pouuda,