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VOL. XXIII. NO. 13. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1890. Sl.50 PER ANNUM.
In the race for tho possession of Africa,
remark! tho Boston Cultivator, tho Ger
mans soem to be decidedly ahead.
Taxes In Turkey are forty por cent,
higher than in any other country on the
face of the earth, and it is estimated that
the average Hpulution lives fifty per
cent, poorer.
' Charles Dudley "Warner says that the
difference between the "faith cure"
and the "mind cure'' is that "tho
mind euro doesn't require uny faith, and
the faith cure doesn't require any mind."
From careful estimates received from
farmers themselves in every county in
Kansas, the cost of raising a bushel of
wheat in an average crop in that State
fifteen bushels to tho acre is believed to
bo forty-nine cents.
Nineteenth century realism has attained
its culminating point in tho cathedral at
Manchester, England, where tho lato
General Gordon, of Khartoum fame, is
portrayed oa tho stained-gloss memorial
window in the chancel, ai rayed in a
shooting-jacket and knickerbockers.
The Fhilodcldhm Vrj says: "Ice has
sot risen iu Baltimore and to the South.
It has in Philadelphia and tho North.
Coal is really at tho foundation of cheap
ice. Before long it will bo cheaper to
use coal to make ice than to use it in
carrying ire. Jinny people think this is
true now."
The Chattanooga (Tonu.) Timet in
quired iuto tho nationality of the 858
members of the Chamber of Commerce of
that prosperous and go-ahead city. The
result of the investigation showed that
175 of the 388 wcro born in tho South
ern States, while 117 were born North
and thirty-six in foreign count lies.
Within a year the Atlantic Ocean has
washed away a thousand acres of land on
the New England coast, and 500 acres
have been given to tho New Jersey coast
and as much to Virginia and North Caro
lina. "Next year," observes tho Detroit
Free Preit, "the order of things may bo
reversed. What is taken from one point
is given to another."
Among the supplies recently purchased
by the United States for distribution
among the Indians is a lot of soup
amounting to 285,425 pounds. Times
have indeed changed, comments tho
Detroit Free Preat, when tho noblo red
man has so far given way to the influence
of an effete civilization as to consent to
the use of such an article. Twenty
years ago he had no uso for anything but
food, drink, raiment, rrnis and ammuni
tion. But few persons who view a passenger
train as it goes thundering past know
that it represents a cash vuluo of from
175,000 to $120,000. Tho ordinary ex
press train represents from 193,000 to
f90,000. The cngino aud tender aro
valued at $10,500; the baggage car
$1000 j tho postal car $2000 ; tho smoking
car 15000; two ordinary passenger cars
$10,000 each; three palace cars $15,000
each total $83,000. .Many of the traius
which pull out from the depot in New
York city are worth $150,000.
According to tho Boston Cultivator tho
sealskin buffalo niude by crossing polled
Aberdeen cattto on the wild stock, have
a lino, glossy fur, as beautiful as that of
the seal, and much thicker. The hump
on the buffalo utmost entirely disappears
on this .cross, and with it tho shaggy
inano for which buffaloes have always
been noted. Thero are now twelve of
these sealed buffalo, ami the cross promises
to become a successful and valuable
breed. They loso their wild traits and
become so easily domesticated as are our
common cattle uuder like circumstances.
The Hudson's Bay Fur Coinpuuy is giv
ing up busiuess because furs are no longer
to be had, and the sealskin buffalo, many
of which show fur marked like a tiger,
wiUdoubtless become a valuable product
in pCrthorn climes, whero the winters are
too cold for the common breeds of cattle
to succeed.
The Chicago Herald narrates that
an employe of the Louisville & Texas
Railroad at Hawesville, Ky., dreamed that
a switch was misplaced, uud that a fast
train was due. He awoke so deeply im
pressed with tho vision that he went out
to the switch at ouco to see if all wero
safe. Ho found it misplaced, as he had
dreamed. A fast train was nearly due,
which, with the switch as he fouud it,
would have crashed into a train on tho
sidetrack iu which sixty men were asleep.
Tho incident is of interest to hypnotists
and dream student peihaps, but it
throws no new light on the niiuylaced
switch question. Passengers, as a rule,
would still prefer to trust to the man
that is wide awake rather than to the man
that dreams. The Hawesville man's
dream was opportune and truthful this
time, to be sure, but he is just as likely
some other time to dream that the switch
is all right when really it is all wrong.
TO-MORROW. 1
Mad for joy Iu the sunshiny sky,
The lark were singing sweet and loud;
Silent the whit clouds glistened on high.
And the sea gleamed far away like eload.
Brown bees were humming amongst the
brown
And ruby wallflowers; straight and tall
The lily Ufted IU silver crown;
Th tulips laughed by tha mossy wall.
True lovers girl and a boy we strayed
Down the alleys green, with Love for
third,
While dreamily mournful the fountain
played.
Singing a song that we never heard
"Be y as hopeful and blithe as ye may;
To-morrow keeps never the bloom of to
day!" The larks are silent, the sky is gray,
The sea is hid In a chilly shroud;
The blossoms that opened yesterday
Lie torn on the grass in a pallid crowd.
The ruby wallflowers droop in the rain;
The lily has soiled her silver crown;
The tulips hid by the wall in vain
The pitiless wind bent their glory down.
How changed Is the world in a few short
life, how changed! Now 1 walk alone
And hear, while the deathful tempest lours,
The fountain sing as my heart make
moan
"Be y as hopeful and blithe as ye may;
To-morrow keeps nover the bloom of to
day !"
Shirley Wynne, in Onet-a-Wttk.
JANE.
Her name was Jane. Though lris
tory has thrown a halo around the name,
and the lyric muse has embalmed it in
that sweetost of songs, "My Pretty
.laae," we are apt to think of the girl
called Jane as a plain homebodv, useful
but not ornamental. Her sisters, the
Eleanors, Maudes and Rosamonds, gen
erally look to her to keep the house in
order, and see to it that their comfort is
not disturbed, and she is equal to tho
responsibility. She does her duty, and
moro than her duty, if one can do that,
without complaint, indeed, cheer
fully. But complaisant though she be,
Jane usually has a will of her own, and,
when circumstances require her to do so,
makes it known.
Such a girl was Jane Lewis. She had
put the house in order that is, she had
done all those little things which the best
of servants will slight, and which go so
far in making up tho sum of those home
comforts dear to the Anglo-Saxon heart
and was seated in her own tidy cham
ber, sowing. While she was thus en
gaged her two sisters came in. They
had been making a round of calls and
were" very elegantly dressed Jane, in
her pluiu calico, looking almost like a
servant by contrast.
"Aro you making thoso things for
your trousseau?" asked Edith, the eld
est, eyeing contemptuously several gar
ments lying on the tablo at her sister's
elbow.
"Yes," said Jane, with gentle sweet
ness. "Are they not nice?"
"Oh, they are nicely made, I dare
say," said Edith "you always sew nice
ly but if I were going to be married, I
wouldn't put a stitch in for myself, and
I wouldn't have a garment that wasn't
trimmed with the finest lace."
"I too, Ethel," said Julia, who was
the youngest of the three sisters. "When
I am married I shall have my trousseau
from Paris."
"But where would be the use of my
having anything so fine?" said Jane, "as
I know I would have to come back to
plain clothes when the wedding things
are worn out. A costly wardrobe would
not suit tho circumstances in which I
shall find myself when I am married, and
I don't like incongruities."
"Well, I supposo you are right," said
Edith; "but I will never marry a man
who cannot support mo in the style to
which I have been accustomed."
"Pcrhuiis you will not have the
choice," said Jane, looking lovingly up
into her beautiful sister's face.
"What do you mean?" asked the other
shaiply. "You are not in the habit of
saying ill-natured things, Jane, and if
your determination Jo marry a poor uiau
and and one far beneath you in in
spite of the objections of your family "
"Don't say any moro, dear," said Jane,
quietly. "I didn't intend to be ill-natured
at all. I only meant that your
heart will have something to say when
the time comes, and you do not know
what that something will be. When
yours speaks, Edith, as it will in time, I
fancy it will astonish yourself more than
any one else."
"I heard somebody toll Edith she has
no heart," said Julia, laughing.
"I should consider it an unpardonable
offense were any one to tell me that,"
said Jane.
"Oh, it was only some nonsense," said
Edith, her face turning red.
Jane Lewis was going to be married to
a young man of whom her family disap
proved that is, her mother and sister;
and she had been given to understand
that her father was of their way of think
ing. Not that John Wurd was un
worthy he was truly worthy of any
womau's love and of any man's respect;
but he was at least they considered
him so their social inferior.
He was an architect aud building con
tractor; but his father had been a brick
mason, and he himself had served his ap
prenticeship to the trade, stepping up to
the higher rung of the ladder naturally
and with a confidence engendered by his
ervice at the bottom.
In due course of time John and Jane
were married. They went quietly to the
church, one bright morning, accom
panied by the parents and sisters of the
bride and a few particular friends, and as
soon as the ceremony was over, drove to
the railroAVl station and took the train
that was to carry them to a pleasant lit
tle village where they proposed to spend
their honeymoon.
Five years had passed, and John Ward
and his wife, who had begun their
wedded life in a very small cottage, were
living ia a house of considerable sue and
remarkable for its beauty and the com
fortable arrangement of its interior. It
was a model residence, designed and
erected by the young architect himself,
who was already a man well-to-do in tho
world. They had three children, and
were as happy 89 people can reasonably
expect to be.
The only cause they had for any un
happinces was the unhappiness of another
Julia. She had married a man sup
posed to be very wealthy, had sent to
Paris for her trousseau, and there had
been a grand wedding. But her hus
band had turned out to be a scamp, and
after getting all ho could out of his
father-in-law, beside forging his name to
a noto for a large amount of money, had
disappeared.
Edith had fulfilled Jane's prophecy and
married a poor man for love a man of
good family, but feeble character, whom
her father had given a place in his mer
cantile establishment, though he was ill
fitted for it.
While June had lived in a modest cot
tage, neither her sister nor mother had
thought it incumbent on them to keep up
those intimate relations with her and her
family which the natural tics of close
kinship would have seemed to demand.
But she, having regard to her filial duty,
had not let that influence her own con
duct, visiting her old home as frequently
as circumstances permitted, though she
could not help feeling that she was not
as welcome as she should have been. Her
marriage low marriage her sisters chose
to consider it had not only shut her out
of the charmed circle of fashion, but
seemed to have affected her standing in
the family circle as well.
Her mother had treated her with a sort
of condescending affection, but her
father's manner to her bod never changed.
The quiet, undemonstrative old man had
seemed to look upon her frequent ap
pearance among them as a matter of
course, often returning her calls, taking
tea with her and her husband, and stay
ing sometimes until quite late talking
with them, so that Jane was wont to won
der if he ever really did disapprove of her
marriage with John Ward.
The coolness if it may be so called
on the part of tho female members of her
family had, in a measure, disappeared
as Wurd's worldly circumstances had im
proved, though neither Juno's mother
nor sisters could entirely get- over the
fact that his father had been a brick ma
son. When the two girls were married
they affected to look upon him as the
iuferior of their own husbands, though
one was a worthless scamp and the other
a poor,characterless fellow, who had spent
the greater portion of his life thus far
in lounging about and looking hand
some for the delectation of just such
silly women as they were.
One evening John and his wife were
sitting a!onc,he looking over some draw
ings aud she sewing, while they talked
together. It was late ; the little ones had
long be6n in bed, and they were some
what surprised to hear the tinkle of the
door bell. John answered the summons
himself, and returned to the sitting room
accompanied by Mr. Lewis.
"It is rather lato," said tho old gentle
man, kissing his daughter an unusual
demonstration of atlcction on his part
"but I was passing and thought I would
drop in for a few minutes."
"We are always glad to have you
come, papa," said Jane; "and I only
wish we lived near enough to see you
every day."
Sir. Lewis was silent for a few min
utes, and then he asked rather abruptly:
"Isn't that cottage over on the corner of
tho street for rent?" indicating the direc
tion of the corner in question with his
thumb.
"Yes, Mr. Lewis," said Ward, looking
curiously at his guest ; "it has been for
rent several mouths. Nobody seems to
care to occupy it, it is in such a dilapi
dated condition."
"But it could be repaired and made
habitable."
"Of courss at considerable expense."
"What interest can an old house liko
that have for you, pupa?" asked June.
"I was just thinking it might be mado
a very pleasant homo for people of mod
erate moans," replied Mr. Lewis. "It's
a pity it has been allowed to go to rack.
This place belongs to you, John, doesn't
it?"
"Yes," replied Ward. "I bought the
lot with the first money that I earned
over and above my expenses. But I
thought you knew it belonged to me
us, I should say; for what is mine is
Jane's, and what is her's is mine. There
is no division of interests with us is
there, Jane?"
"No, indeed," said Jane, laughing,
"if there were I should be a pauper."
The next moment she regret'ed the
last words, for she saw a look of pain flit
across her father's face. Jane had re
ceived nothing from him, and as he was
believed to be a veiy wealthy man, what
had inadvertently escaped her lips sound
ed like a reproach.
"What I meant," said the old man,
hesitating a little in his speech now,
"was that there is no incumbrance no
mortgage?"
"None whatever," said John, a little
proudly. "The property is ours, iu fee
simple, every plunk, every nail in it."
"That's well, that's well," said Mr.
Lewis. "Every married man should havo
a home of his own, if he possibly can
no matter how modest it may be."
"Your father seems a little odd to
night," said John, when the old man was
gone.
"Do you think there cau be anything
wrong with him?" asked Jane, anxiously.
"Well, it did appear to me that there
was a troubled look iu his face."
"Ob, but John," said the wife, "you
know that he always has a serious ex
pression." "It is something more than serious to
night," said Johu. "But I have been
very foolish to tell you this, my dear; it
will only worry you, aud, perhaps, after
ull, it is merely a fancy of mine."
But Jane had noticed the troubled look
on her father's face, though she had tried
to persuado herself that it was only his
usual gravity a little more pronounced,
perhaps, yet nothing to cause anxiety, at
all events,
About a week after this visit, the min
ister who officiated in the church which
the family attended called upon tho
Wards. This was nothing unusual, but
the hour that he choso on this occasion
was most unusual. It was very early in
the morning, when the household was
just beginning to stir.
Mr. Baxter asked to see Mr. Ward, and
after a short conference with him John
went up to his wife's room. When he
appeared again he was holding Jane's
hand, keeping it in his as he led her
down tho stairs. His manner toward her
was even more gentle than usual, and the
way in which he led her, as though sho
were a little child, seemed strange. She
looked up iu his face inquiringly, and
saw there a grave expression that filled
her with a vague sense of uneasiness.
"What is it, John?" she asked, as
they wero about to enter the sitting
loom.
"Mr. Baxter will tell you, my dear,"
replied John, pressing her hand.
Jane wa sure now that something
dreadful had happened, and she was so
dazed when she entered tho room that
her husband had to put his arm around
her and lead her to the sofa, on which
he gently placed her, taking his seat be
side her.
"Mrs. Ward Jane," ea'd the minis
ter, "you were always a sensible girl
one to be relied on, and wo rely cn you
now your husband and I."
"Yes, Jane," said John, pressing hei
hand.
"O, John!" said Jane, resting hei
cheek against his shoulder and looking
up in his fsco with tearful eyes, "tell me
what it is, tell me don't keep me in thii
suspense."
John looked at the preacher, whe
nodded his head.
"Do you remember, dear," he said,
"the last time your father was here 1
told you he had a troubled look?"
"Yes, I remember," replied Jane
tremulously. "Something has happened
to him. He has met with some misfor
tunehe is ill. What is it ?"
She had lifted her head from her hus
band's shoulder and drew a little back,
still looking in his face. What she saw
there told of worse than illness.
"Oh!" she cried, letting her head drop
upon his breast, "I know! I know I Papa
is dead."
Mr. Baxter quietly left the room, and
John Ward sat silently holding his weep
ing wife in his arms.
After awhile he said a few smoothing
words to hor, and then suggested that
they should go to her mother.
"Yes," she said gently, "that is where
I ought to be. We will go at once."
Mrs. Lewis was overwhelmed with
grief. Frivolous though she had been,
and fond of foolish display, she had loved
her husband how dearly she had never
known uniil he had passed out of her
life.
Edith and Julia had been all the morn
ing in their own rooms, crying and sob
bing intermittently, and looking over
the fashion plates for the styles in which
they should have their mourning made,
leaving their mother alone with her grief ;
and when Jane came she clung to her as
to a stay of comfort.
Much of Jane's time was now devoted
to her mother, who could not bear to
have hor away from her for any great
length of time.
"Ah, Jane, my dear," she said one
day, "little do we think when we are
wasting time on the follies of the world,
how very short life is, and how soon we
may have to part with those we love.
Never, my child, let anything win you
away from the side of your husband ; for
if you do, the timo will come when you
will thing with regret of the many,
many hours lost to you and him, for tho
sake of things that give no real happi
ness." "You need have no fear of that,
mamma," said Jane; "there is nothing
the world can offer that would induce
me to spend an hour away from John
that could be spent with him."
When Mr. Lewis's u Hairs were wound
up, it was found that there was little of
his once considerable wealth left for tho
widow and children. The house in
which they lived was heavily mortgaged
and had to be soid ; but the old man had
purchased the cottage he had inquired
about, the night of his last visit to Jaue,
probably with the expectation of soon
having to give up the more expensive es
tablishment, und this, under the super
vision of John Ward, and at his expense,
was put in habitable condition.
There Mrs. Lewis who had not been
ignorant of her husband's embarrass
ments, but bad paid little heed to his
words when he confided in her took up
her abode, with Edith and Julia and
Edith's husband ; their iuterests and wel
fare looked after by the Onco despised
brickmasou's son. Ken Urlcunt Timet
Democrat. Bologna Sausages.
Bologna sausages of the best kind are
composed of bacon and pea flour, chiefly
flavored with garlic and cloves. And
when the bacon is old, but sound, such
sausages aru both highly nutritious and
wholesome and possessed of excellent
keeping qualities, well adapted to their
most extensive use by laborers, travelers,
soldiers in camp and others who have
not the means of cooking at hand. They
rarely spoil, but being partaken of with
out cooking, there is some danger of
trichina the more if the hogs from which
the bacon was made were fed on garbage
nod the bacon was not well cured before
it'was used. Samaritan.
China t'luy.
The porcelain clays of China differ
from those of Europe in containing a
large percentage of white mica, or, as it is
called, "muscovito," According to a re
cent analysis of M. Georges Yogt, the
"yeouko" clay, a fusible sort, used for
.glaze, consists of 52.9 parts of quartz,
i31.3 parts of muscovito, 13.4 of soda
felspar, ii of carbonate ot lime and 1 of
'hydratad silica. Petuu-Ue clay contains
I no less than 40.6 percent, of muscovite,
) which indeed is a common ingredient of
i the soil in the Flowery Land. Its pres-
jence in porcelain clays evidently helps to
account lor taelrtraubluceacy. iautU i. j
THE HORRORS OF SIBERIA,
A POLITICAL PRISONERS rOTJB.
TEEN LONOr TEAES OF MISERY.
Count TaneowRkl Tells How Tie
Walked SOOO Mile With Heavy
Chains on His Ankles.
Count Langowski, m he would be cn
titled to be called iu Polund, though
preferring plain Frank Langowski, re
sides in Detroit with his wife and two
children. He is very short of stature,
very thick set, very white-haired, though
only fifty-four years old, and very cheer
ful in disposition, notwithstanding his
sufferings entitle him to be known as n
man of many sorrows. He speaks eight
languages, in one of which he detailed
to a representative of the Free Preu the
thrilling story of his life, how for four
teen years he was a political prisoner in
the wilds of Siberia hated, despised,
beaten with stripes, starved nnd frozen.
"It was in 1863 that the Poles re
belled against Russia, " said ho in very
fair English. "I was then twenty-seven
years old, single, and lived with my fa
ther, Count Langowski, on a largo farm
near Warsaw. My father's estate was
large, and ho was one of the leading no
blemen of the Stnte. The rebel general,
Taczanowski, billeted 500 of his troops
upon us, and although our family had in
nowise participated in tho revolt, to re
fuse the levy meant extirpation. There
fore my father acquiesced. Against
these 600 troops Russia sent 3700 men
and sixty cannon. The battle was short
and dceicive, resulting in the killiugand
capturing of the whole 500. Six horses
from our stables that had been pressed
into the service were killed and two of
our men who were driving. The third
man was whipped nearly to death after
the capture and then bayoneted. I was
taken prisoner and soon set out with
hundreds of others on our way to Siberia.
Think of a journey of over 3000 miles on
foot, requiring thirteen months, with
heavy chains on each ankle and chained
by the wrist to another in a gang of one
hundred. That is the way we made tho
trip, most of the time tho weather being
bitterly cold with tho meanest kind
of clothing, and only allowed seven
copecks, less than five cents, a
day for food. At night wc
slept in etapes, long, low log or stone
sheds erected every ten miles along the
way, more often without fire than with
it, always hungry, always cold, nnd al
ways in pain from the galling chains. At
last, after thirteen months of misery, wo
arrived at tho end of our journey to en
counter worse misery still. I was set
to work in the quicksilver mines. Three
months is as long as any human being
can stand it to work in thoso mines.
Many die in tho mines aud many soon
after leaving them. Tho fumes of the
mercury rot the bones, loosen the teeth
and leave the man a total wreck. When
I had partly regained my health after
this experience, I, with others, was set
to digging holes in the ground. The
holes were not designed for any use
whatever, but were dug just to keep us
at work, and it was while thus engaged
that I received my first whipping. I
was too weak to smooth the side of the
hole as the officer wanted it, and simply
told him so. For that I was taken to the
whipping bench, laid on my face and
fastened down by three thongs, one of
which was passed over tho neck,one
over the body nnd one over tho legs, so
arranged that a man cannot make the
least movement. I received eighty blows
with the knout, and was two months and
a half in tho hospital beforo I could leavo
my bed."
"How arc these knouts constructed?"
ho was asked.
"They aro stout leather, the poiuts of
tho lushes heavily loaded with lead, and
a blow from them iu tho bands of a
strong man is as bad as a stroke from
a policeman's club. I have seen mon
killed at the third stroke. After my first
whipping I received another of 125
lashes for calling a soldier a dog who
bad bayoncttcd a prisoner in cold blood.
I was almost killed and it was nearly a
year before I could resume work. Tho
scenes of brutality to be witnessed on all
sides wcro simply frightful. The killing
of prisoners by the soldiers was terrible.
They were under no restraint whatever,
.ind the poor prisoners wero even killed
for uttering the slightest word in protest
against the most horrible murders. Out
of the 90,000 prisoners sent to Siberia by
the Russian Government ut the end of
the rebellion I don't believe 5000 ever
got back alive. And not one of them
guilty of a crime, but simply prisoners of
war. But if the fate of the men was
hard, that of the women was infinitely
more so. They wero whipped with stout
gads instead of the knout that is the
only differenco I was ever able to ob
serve." "How are prisoners fed?"
"They are divided into squads of 100,
with two soldiers, two cooks aud a baker
to each squad. Ono day's rutionsfor the
whole 105 consists of ten pounds of meet,
ten pouuds of barley aud ten pounds of
sauerkraut and two pounds of black bread
per mau. The meat, barley und sauer
kraut aro all cooked in a mess, and while
the soldiers, cooks and baker live well,
all that is left for the 100 is dishwater."
"How long wero you sentenced for?"
"Six years as a prisoner iu chains, and
six years as a prisoner under surveillance.
At the end of six years I was obliged to
support myself, but was required to re
port myself daily to a certaiu officer. I
supported myself by making cigarettes,
and then, ufU;r thirteen years, was given
a passport back to Poland. A man can
not travcthalf a mile in Russia without a
passport. I begged my way from town
to town, and when about half way back
received some money from my sister.
On reaching home I found an order from
the Czar, requiring me to quit Poland
within twenty-four hours on pain of
death. I hud just time to marry the girl
I was betrothed to aud hurried awuy to
Cracow, thence to Antwerp, where a
Polish friend assisted me to America. I
have been hero ten years, and although I
am very poor, nothing on earth would
induce me to leave American soil."
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTSIAL.
Tho climate of China is said to be
growing not only colder but drier.
In the Atlantic Ocean there aro about
eighty-three pounds of salt to every ton
of water.
A revolution in coal mining is ex
pected from tli uso of a machine oper
ated by electricity.
There is a great demand for metal
furniture of all kinds in Australia on ac
count Of the ravages of the white ant.
Galvanized wire netting is being large
ly sold for lawn, garden and shrubbery
purposes, for which it is admirably
adapted.
Tho coldest spot on earth is Verko
yansk, in Siberia, where the mean win
ter temperature is 48. C decrees below
rcro, Centigrade.
As a rule it seems that lepers do not
suffer severe pain, and tho average length
of life at Molokai, Hawaian Islands, is
about four years.
Cable messages arc received by an in
strument known as the sypbon recorder,
which squirts a small jet of ink on a paper
ribbon as the current is made or broken.
There are said to bo at least a hun
dred thousr.nd acres of phosphate rock
scattered through the western part of
Florida. The deposits average ten feet
in depth, and are rich in phosphate of
lime.
Experts claim that if steel ships are
kept properly painted with good paint,
nnd tho plates properly "pickled," they
would last as long as iron, otherwise
they would elcteriorate more rapidly than
iron ships.
Electric traction is said to be fairly
booming in London. Iu a few weeks a
line of omnibnsses run by electricity is to
be started. They will ba driven by
storage batteries, and will have a seating
capacity for twenty-six pas?ngers.
The thistle at the antipodes seems to
attain a most vigorous growth. Its root
penetrates to a depth of from twelve to
twenty feet ; and this root, even when
cut into small pieces, retains vitality,
each pieeo producing a new plant.
A weak galvanic current, which will
sometimes cure a toothache, may be gen
erated bv placing a silver coin on one
side of the gum nnd a piece of zinc on
the other. Rinsing tho mouth with
acidulated water will iucrcxsc the effect.
Tlio greatest electric rnilroad which
has been planned is the one proposed in
Russia, between St. Petersburg and
Archangel, a distance of 500 miles. The
plan is to erect stutions along the route
for the generation of electricity. The
estimated cost is only about $15,000 a
mile.
The projected railroad to the summit
of Jungfrau, in Switzerland, contem
plates tho boldest mountain engineering
yet ventured upon. Tho line, which is
to consist of a continuous series of tun
nels, is intended to rise in a distance of
a little over four miles from an nltitude
of 2800 feet above tho sea to the lofty
heighth of 13,600 feet, with grades of
from thirty-three per cent, to ninety
eight per cent. or practically perpen
dicular. A neat application of electricity to do
mestic uses is a miniature pumping plant.
With the use of no more current than
suffices for a couple of incandescent
lamps, it will pump one hundred gallons
an hour or to, and keep the house tank
full without a particle of attention. These
little electrical devices to lighten labor
in tho household are particularly com
mendable, aud as the electrical light aud
power becomes more widely available,
will doubtless increase in number and
utility.
Tattooing tho BoJy.
Tattooing is by no means confined to
the Polynesians, but this "dermal art" is
certainly carried by them to extent which
is uuequaled by any other people. It
pervades all tho principal groups ol
islands, und is practiced by all classes,
though to a greuter extent by the Mar
quesuns and New Zcalunders than uuy
other. By the vast number of them it is
adopted simply as a personal ornament,
though there are some grounds for be
lieving that tattoo may, in a few cases
and to a small extent, be looked upon
a badge of mourning or a memento of a
departed fr! .d. Like everything else
in Polynesia, its origin is related iu a le
gend, which credits its invention to the
gods and says it was tirst practiced by
the children of Taaroa, their principal
deity.
The sous of Taaroa and Apouvaru were
the gods of tattooing, and their images
wero kept in the temples of those who
practiced the art as a profession, and to
them petitions are offered that the figures
might bo handsome, attract attention and
otherwise accomplish the ends for which
they submitted themselves to this painful
operation. Tho coloring matter was the
charcoal or thecuudlenut mixed with oil,
uud the instrument used was a needle
mado of fish-bone, ami a thread which
was drawn through the skin, after which
puncturing the black coloring matter was
injected with instruments made for the
purpose. To show auy signs of suffering
uuder the operation is looked upon as
disgraceful, and accordingly, iu some of
the islands, while the operation is going
on the youug man undergoing it will lay
bis head on tho lap of his sister or some
young relation, while a number of female
friends will keep up a song, so as to
drown the murmuring which the torture
may draw from him inadvertently, and
that, therefore, he may not bo demeaned
in the eyes of his countrymen who aru
present as spectators. Chicago Herald.
Fish Carried iu a Tornado.
At Swayzue the other day tho residents
were catching fish out ot the pools and
puddles made by a night's terrific raiu.
Later, when tho water suuk iuto the
ground, sunfish und shiners by the thou
sands strewed the grouud. There is uo
Btreuiu within four miles of Swuyzie, uud
the theory is that these fish were caught
up by a small tornado and deposited
where they were found. Indianajiolit
(Jnd.) Journal,
LONG AGO.
I once knew all the birds that rains
And nested in our orchard trees,
For every flower I had a name
My friends were woodehucks, toads and
bees;
I knew where thrived in yonder glen
What plants wcriid soothe a stone-bruised
toe
Oh, I was very learned then,
But that was very long ago.
I knew the spot upon the hill
Where checkerberrics could be found,
I knew the rushes near the mill
Where pickerel lay that weighed a pound !
I knew the wood the vory tree
"Where lived tho poaching, saucy crow,
And all tho woorls and crows knew me
But that was very long ago.
And pining for the joys of youth,
I tread the old familiar spot
Only to learn this solemn truth;
I have forgotten, am forgot.
Yet here's this youngster at my knee
Knows all the things I used to know;
To think I onco was wiso as he
But that was very long ago.
1 know it's folly to complain
Of whatsoe'er the fates deeres.
Yet, were not wishes all in vain,
I tell you what my wish should be :
I'd wish to be a boy again,
Back with the friends I used to Unow,
For I was, oh, so happy then
But that was very long ago.
Eugene Field, in Youth's Companion.
HUMOR OP TUB DAY.
A health resort Quinine.
A summer complaint It's too hot.
An angler fishes with baited breath.
The saddest words of tongue or pen.
Are these sad words: ".Say, lend me ten.n
Receipt for dropping eggs Let go of
them.
A supreme court decision Getting
married. Washington Witr.
Littlo Bertie "Does the sun tan you?"
Little Reginald "No, tho father."
"I always had nn idea you wero his
friend." "I used to be but I loaned
him i?50 once."
"Who wroto the 'Story of a Hansom
Cub?'" "I don't kuow. Some hack
writer, I imagiuc."
It is probably because lovo makes tho
world go 'round that it makes so many
people giddy. Purl:
It is said there are more ways than ono
to kill a cat, but the majority of them
are failures. Picayune.
Corn is nn emblem of peace, but it is
never npprcciutcd until it gets on its car.
Binghamton llepuhlican .
The mercury goes climbing up,
The sunshine slippoth down.
And every soul with cash in hand,
Prepares to jump the town.
Washington Star.
Most creatures aro entirely harmless
when they aro asleep. But tho moth
docs the most mischief when it is taking
a nap. Puck.
In a school-examination on mineral
ogy "Where are diamonds found in
tho greatest nbuudancc?" "At the pawn
broker's." Judge.
We don't suppose there ever was a mau
who did not envy the freedom with which
a barefooted boy gets around on a rainy
day. Atchison I! lobe.
"There's piles of money in our lamp
chimneys." "Why, they break as soon
as you light tho lamp." "That's where
tho profit comes in." Bazar.
"I see that a noted thief out west
swallowed a vuluable shirt stud to escupe
detection." "Sort of diamond in the
rough, ch?" American Grocer ,,
He dealt in horses and cattte and feed.
And he'd heard I wanted a "muloy."
So he wrote: "If a first-class mule you need,
Please don't forget yours truly.
-I.iaht.
"Ho is a very origiual boy, that son of
yours. I think he is bound to riso in the
world." "I don't know. It's a hard
thing to get him to rise in tho morning."
Bazar.
A railroad across the desert of Sahara
is projected. As it does not strike an
oasis throughout tho whole distance it
will not be easy to water the stouk.
Boston Globe.
Wife "What makes you so pale?"
Husband "I just dodged Hardup. If
he had seen me ho would have hit me
hard." "Hit you? What for?" "Ten
dollars." Chicago Inter- Ocean.
Mr. Jason "I saw something to-day
that would make man's hair stand ou
end." Mr. Jason "Gracious! What
was it?" Mr. Jason "A bottlo of
mucilage." Ttrrt Haute Furjireu.
To "kiss but not hMI," though in theory good,
la iu practice a failure, my brothers;
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From one persou's lips to another's.
Kate rietiVu Washintjton.
Mamma "I am tired of your chattor,
Johnny; you had better go to bed."
Johnny "Aro you very tired, mamma?"
Mamma "Yes, very tired!" .lolmuy
"Then, why don't you go to bed V" -Ihaton
Herald.
Because a man who hawks eggs
through the street hawks hawks' eggs
too, it does not necessarily follow that a
uiuu who haw ks hawks, hawks eggs too,
nor that a man who hawks hawks, hawks
hawks' cvgs too Flmire Gazette.
Oritfiu of the Term ".Washer."
Tho word masher is sometimes said to
be a corruption of tho French ma cherie.
Hut this is ouo of tho many iuUuncea of
an ingenious etymology lne surface
plausibility imposes on tho uuscholarly.
Far moro likely is the derivutiou from
tho Gypsy word mashavu, to fascinate by
the eye. Charles G. Lcl.uul, in "Tho
Gypsies," credits this etymology. "Aud
thus it was," he savs (page 10S), "that
Ueso black-eyed beauties, Vv mashing
men for many i;iueiations..th ihafts
shot sideways uud most wantonly, at last
sealed their souls into tlio comer of their
eyes, us you have heard before," And
iu afoot-nole, he explains: "Mashiug, a
word of Gypsy origiu (mashavu), mean
ing fascination by the eye, or talking iu.''
Chicago J'wt,