THE -FOSESI REPUBLICAN It pabllihta tnrj Wadnodar, kf J. E. WENK. 03Bo In Bmearbnugh A Co.'a Building EJt rJTvSKT, TIONMTA, n. Tarms, . tl.BO pr Yr. Ha nkMrlptlmi wealTe fof a ahertar jtrlod than thrf mnntlia. Gorrnpondem solicited frem al parts f fha 01U1U7. Ma natlca wlU ba taken of unnmi oatmaaleaUoaa. RATI Or ADVERTISING. On. Sqimn, ene Inch. on. Insertion $ ai O. Sqnare, on. Inch, en. month .. t M On. Square, oa. Inch, thru, month.......... I M Oa Square, en Inch, on. fear 10 M Two Squares, on fetf It M Oaartar Column, on. year , MM Bell Colomn, on. rear fO 00 On. Column, on. year IMOf advertisements ten MiU pet Una each la. eeruoa, V arrlagee and death notices irratle, All kills for yearly adTertlsnnenta enHseted qno. terlr. Temporary edrertltemeD La auat t. paid lit adraaee. Job work caak on delivery. REPUBLICAN. .bORE VOL. XXIII. NO. 15. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST C, 1890. $1.50 PER ANNUM. The railroads of tliig country hare killed only S823 persons during the past twelve months and injured 26,309. The Chicago Sun avers that the erec tion of electric light plants is of such common occurrence in tho South as to ccaso to be of general interest. There are mora social clubs in Denver, Col., asserts the New York World, than in any other city of the country, not withstanding the fact that Philadelphia baa been called the city of homes. . Steps have been taken to establish in St. Petersburg, Russia, a society for the Insurance of crops against climatic mis haps. The Agricultural Society of tho metropolis has initiated tiie movement. An international beauty show was opened at Rome, Italy, lately, with im posing ceremonies, but, the beauty not Vjcing up to the standard, the Indies were savagely hissed, and the exhibition had to be abandoned. The National Horse Breeder thinks peo ple who are talking about the coming of the twe-tniuute trotter will bo interested iu learning that to trot mile in the time named a horse must get over the ground at the rate of forty-four feet in a second, which is a trifle fast for a t lotting gait. "The business tact ot women has again been demonstrated," says tho New York Sun, "in the mutter of taking the cen sus. "Women who were appointed as enumerators aro said to have done their work better and moio carefully than the males. When another census comes to be taken the women will hsvo a better chance." The Hartford (Conn,) Times remarks: Horses don't last long in New York city. The pavements are very trying to their feot. ' Soma give out in six months, while others last - ns many years. Tho average life of street-car horso is alout two years. Many partially disabled ani mals find thoir way into the country, and often recover and become of good service on farms. It is noted by tho Now York Sun ns something remarkable that a Maryland colored man dreamed he was to die the next day, and sure enough he died. '"When a Pacific Islander wants to die, he sits down and dies himself: Just naturally dies by force of will. He is more likely to be three days about it than one day. Then one of the difficul ties in bringing African slaves to the . coast is that they will turn their tongues back into their throats and go off like lambs." " The Tonquin pirate who recently cleaned up (50,000 as ransom for the re lease of the three captive Frenchmen has, observes the Ban Francisco Chronicle, evidently become enamored of the lucra tive business. He now offers a standing reward of f 100 to tho native who will deliver a Frenchman into his hands or (20 to one who will warn him that troops are approaching. ' Iu a country where a coplie works the whole year round for (5 this noble reward ought to insure the enterprising pirate a rush of business until he has made living in the interior of Tonquin too expensive for the Euro pean. Tho Boston Cultivator believes that "men of purely scientific training are ot less assistance iu practical affairs than . their education would suggest. Tho man of science lias little faith iu new methods or new inventions. He is seldom-an originator. His kuowledge is that of tradition. He frequently scouts at new ideas as impracticable, because they are not recognized in books. The inventor seldom travels in the same road with tho scientist. The inventor needs to leave the beaten path and press on to t i the unexplored forest of possibilities. He is often handicapped if he endeavors to conform to rules already laid down by pure scicuce. Few college-bred men have proved inventors. Original . thought, bold action, patient persistence, knowledge of nature's laws are prime factors in tho -successful career of the inventor.'' The Philadelphia. Press enumerates these instances to prove that modern commerce has curious ellects on price and on the lives of animals: Camphor has goue upin this country from iixty to ninety cents a pound because it is wanted in Europe for smokeless pow ders. Rubber has advauced from fifty five to ninety cents a pound because so much of it is wanted iu electrical opera tions. Copper, besides being wauted in telegraph, telephone and electric light wires, has advanced because sulphate of copper has been found to be the only sure cure for phyloxera. Young male elephants ate being hunted out in Africa ' because their tusks make billiard balls, and this, faster than any other demand, is likely to extinguish the elephant. Tle fa.icy for alligator leuther is iifakjng alli gators extinct; tho muskrats multiply and honeycomb the levees, and hence a great Mississippi flood. MEMORIES. When twilight's hash Is drawiug nigh And thwart the blue the shadows lie, Fond mem'ries cluster thick and fast Around the dear old buried past; 'Tis thnn I dream of rosy hours, Faith, hope and love In wooded bowers, And merry voices low and sweet, And convene fraught with Joy complete. Still brighter visions round m .ling. When song birds brown are carrolling, How that we pledged our hearta' pure vows Beneath the apple's crimson boughs, And strolled the roodlands through and through For clovers red aud vi'leta blue. And smiling, laughing lily bells. The pride ot moss entangled dells. These vanished years they come and go, Like spectres gliding to and fro, Across my weary, songless path That lies along life's aftermath; But soon, beyond the sun-kissed hills, When freed from earthly cares and ills, I'll meet the loved and brave of yore, And yearn the perfect past no more. Philadelphia Telephone. TflE LINEMAN. HT EUMA A. OPfEB. "The lineman's coming 1" shouted Sammy. "Yes, sir, it's the lineman 1" cried little Molly, in wild glee. And their Aunt Eunice, who had come to the door quickly and with heightened color, saw Sammy's bare legs and Molly's red stockings flying down the road. "What is it, Eunice?" said Eunice's brother's wife, Mrs. Abncr Lane. "Tu children saw the lineman, Mr. Miles," said Eunice, rather faintly. "Do tell I" said Fiducia, smiling. Tho lineman lived in the next State, when ho was not on the road. Two or thr?e times a year he and his associates passed through Ridgeville, inspecting the telegraph wires, and repairing them If need be, and he always put up at Ab ncr Lane's. He was an old friend now; Fiducia put out her best preserves for hitn, Ab ncr talked politics with him, and Eunice Eunice put on her best dresses and rickracked aprons for him, and with them a sweetly-welcoming manner. It wss more than remored that the young lineman put up at Abner Lane's becauso of Abner'a pretty sister, Eunice. The lineman arrived, with Molly on his shoulder and Sammy grasping his coat tail. "Real glad to sec you, Mr. Miles real glad 1," said Fiducia, warmly. . "Eunice 1" Then Eunice came and shook hands, with a conventional observation no matter what, since it was faintly uttered, and since the lineman grew red to his blende hair and struggled ineffectually over his reply. "Abner 11 be pleased enough," said Fiducia. "Much work to be done here, you find I" "Considerable," said the lineman, get ting his anxious blue eyes as far up as Euuice's collar-button. "Stoke's at work a'ready, down street." "Have you shot any more wild turkeys down home?" said Sammy, between his knees. "How's that little girl that had measles and whooping-cough together!" said Molly. "Real glad I made that raised cake yesterday I I recollect how you like it, Mr. Miles," said Fiducia. Among all of which the lineman con trived to murmur: "Miss Lane, you're well !" aud Eugene to admit that she was. Indeed, she looked so, with her bright dark eyes and raised color. Abner came just before supper. He was not alone. The tall, stout, black- haired, florid faced-man who followed, him appeared to fill the doorway solidly. "Surprises dou't come singly 1" cried Fiducia. "Silos Baldwin! Mr. Miles, Mr. Baldwin. A sort of cousin of mine," Fiducia explained to tho lineman. 'Mr. Baldwin sent a great laugh into the room apropos of nothing, kissed Fiducia, and took Eunice by both hands. "Blooming as ever!" he said, with blunt gallantry. Abner was glad to see theJincman. "You generally get around with the ground-hog, don't you!" ho - said, not poetically, but heartily, as he helped the liucman to ham and eggs. "Before I'd staud being coupled with a ground-hog 1" said Mr. Baldwin jovially. He was one of those humorously jolly persons who make irresistible jokes, keep a roomful of people in good spirits, and carry all before them without an effort. All the Lanes liked him. All. And for that reason the lineman did not like him. Mr. Baldwin who, it seemed, lived five miles away, and had run over for the fun of it sat next to Eunice, and had a familiar and proprietary air. "You get handsomer every day, Eunice," he avowed. "Don't know what you're coming to." The lineniau had thought so, but would he have dared to say it to Eunice! Never I "Now, l m fretting: old old and fut. Too fat to be real captivatiug." The lineman agreed with him. But did Eunice? "How are you getting along over there in your bachelor shall! Abner inquired "Oh, I'm lonesome as a dog," said Mr. Baldwin, emphatically. "Lone- somerl" He handed Eunice the biscuits, looking at her. 1 he lineman grow red and white by turns. "Possess your soul in patience," said Abner, jocularly. The lineman could only stare. He had hoped that Abner liked him, and liked the thought of mm in a certain conuec. tidh. Ah, he had hoped that Eunice did, too. Now he was all at sea. Worse, he was racked by sharp fears. For it was Eunice who most bewildered him. Why had she so confident, so familiar a manner with Fiducia s Cousin, Mr Baldwin laughing at his joke aud re spondiug to his sallies? With tin lineman Eunice had always been shy, as the lineman had been with her. There was one explanation. Some secret understanding, then, was between her and Fiducia' fat Cousin. "Got the new cider-mill done vet!" said Mr. Baldwin, shoving back his chair. "Supposing yon and I take a walk down that way, Eunice! Come, get your bunnitl" The lineman s heart thumped, and the color rose in his boyishly fair face in im potently rebellious misery. He lifted piteous blue eyes to Eunice. She returned his look like a sympa thizing angel though she was somebody else's angel she said, with dropped eyes: "Won't you go, too, Mr. Miles!" "Go 'long I" said Abner. But Mr. Baldwin stood tall and black and all-pervading and formidable. He was taking Eunice's shnwl from the lounge and putting it yes, putting it atound her, with some bold pleas antry. The lineman had got timidly to his feet, but he sat down again, a little pale. "- "I'm feeling kind of tired," he mur mured. "I guess I won't." And Eunice and Fiducia's cousin went off together, the tones of bis jubilant, heavy voice floating back. "Real good, jolly feller, Silas is," said Fiducia, picking up the dishes. " now ain't he?" "Seems so," said the lineman, mechan ically. "lea," said Fiducia. "Good luck hain't spoilt him. He's made out of that grocery over there well, goodness knows how much; but I guess he's rich!" Yes, Mr. Baldwin wore the air of prosperity; the lineman had noted it. And he he was a lineman. "Yes, wo think considerable of Silas," Fiducia concluded. "Eunice, now he and Eunice are real cronies." "So they be," said tho lineman, husk- ily. Once, somewhere back in that brightly hopeful past of which nothing now re mained but cold ashes, he had felt cer tain that Fiducia favored him. Nobody favored him now ; he supposed the tiuth was that nobody ever had. He was forlorn, miserable, sick at heart. Ho had not fully known the depth of his affectionate, big heart till now; and now he had guaged it only to feel that sudden death say from lightning or an explosion would be quite welcome. Everybody was not against him. Sammy and Molly were sitting on his lap, and pulling his chin hither and thither and chattering; and while Ab ner did the barn chores and Fiducia washed the dishes, the lineman told in teresting anecdotes to the children in a forced and hollow way. But escaping at last, he put on his hat and wandered out in the early dusk. He felt that to witness the serene re turn of Eunice and the fat grocer would be more than he could .calmly enduro at present. He walked up the street; Eunice and Fiducia's cousin had gone down. The edge of the spring evening was pleasantness itself The cherry trees made white clouds in the air; the yards he passed gave forth flowery odors; a robin poured out ts cheery evening call. In another mood the lineman, who was warmly appreciative, would have thrilled with happiness; but with his sod, honest blue eyes on a far tree top, he lagged along without a clear realization of any thing. He found himself presently at the spot where Stokes had commenced work that afternoon. His ladder was leaning against the high pole, and his portable tool-box, on wheels, was standing near it. . It was locked, but the lineman had a key, and rather aimlessly he unlocked it. The condition of the pole and the tools lying ready in the box made clear the amount of work Stokes had done, aud what he intended doing next. His colleague reflected. He had as great a dread of going back to Abner Lane s and encountering Eunice and his rival as his manly heart had ever known. If he found something to keep him if he could tell them he had been at work he might stay here till pitch dark and then go back and go to tied, and get the repairs finished to-morrow aud loave Ridgeville to-morrow night Ridgeville till his next' trip and Eunice forever. Yes. With something remarkably like a sob in his throat, the young line man put on Stokes's spiked "climbers," filled his pockets with hammer and nails and gloss insulators, and climbed the ladder. He was not feeling very clear-headed, somehow or other, and it was getting dark. What was the matter with the "climbers?" They did not seem to "bite." But he left the ladder and mounted the pole. Even before he bad held tho possibility of falling in keen dread, whiTV his muscular agility, however, rendered most remote; but now he felt as though, a fatal tumble would be rather pleasant thau otherwise. The lineman was in a desperate mood. What next occurred, though, was not the result of recklessness. How did it happen? The lineman could not have told them then or after. He ncarcd the lowest crosspiece and threw his right leg over it. The grasp of his hands might have been un wittingly a weak one, for the lowering of bis body as he hoisted his leg over powered it. His hands slipped, with astingiug sen sation, and his head began to reel. He was falling falling in awful truth, as he had once seemed to fall in a night mare; and in half a minute he lay sense less and motionless on the green grass of the roadside. It was to the lineman like the scheme of a sarcastic fate that tte first sound he should hear, oa regaining consciousness, should be the loud voice of Mr. Bald win. "Hello I" Fiducia's cousin was shout ing. "Just as I told you! He's coming to already, chipper as you please!" "You call that chipper?" Fiducia's agitated tones demanded. She was rubbing the Jiueamau's fore head with camphor, tie saw that tht lamp On the table Was lighted, "Wal, he ain't hurt bad) that's tin point," said Abner. "It's that tunk OB bis head knocked him under." "He'll come round," said Mr. Bald win, cheerfully. "You've been keeled over for half an hour," he remarked to the lineman. "You can be thankful you are here. A man going along there in a wagon saw yon lying there dead that's what ho reckoned and picked you up and brought you back, knowing this was where you was putting up. Land alive 1 You might a' laid there all night. Eunice I I do believe that girl's a sniveling. Eunice, march yourself here I Your fel ler's all right right as a trigger 1" Fiducia remonstrated; but Eunice came. That was all the liueman was conscious of. Was it'by preconcertion! Abner and Fiducia and Mr. Baldwin somehow got out of the room Fiducia gracefully, Abner awkwardly, the at grocer !um lcringly; and the lineman was alone with Eunice. In spite of his jarred lameness he sat up sat up and groped for Eunice's hands. Yes, Eunice had been crying. "Eunice," said the lineman, "let me hold yonr band just this moment, while I I tell you. It was my own fault get ting my head bumped, and I deserved it. I was just a coward, Eunice. I wasn't man enough to face what I knew I'd have to face. I didn't want to come back here and see you and him together. I didn't feel as though I could stan' it. So I went to working on tnat pole and fell down, just as I'd ought to. There I I wish you well, Eunice. He's a good man and he's rich, and and you'll be happy- I know you will. There, I won't say no more. I was kind o' des perate, Eunice; but I wa'n't trying to kill mysely. No, I I'll live right along!" Though she was crying again, Eunice did not take her hands away. They seemed to nestle in the lineman's. "What do you mean?" she cried, half indignantly. "Do you mean Silas Bald win?" "Why, yes," the lineman stammered. "Silas Baldwin!" said Eunice, with amazed eyes on the lineman's upturned face. "I've known him all my life. He's about forty, Silas is, and he's a married man, but his wife's off visiting her folks in Illinois. He runs over here oftener now 't he's all alone." Then Eunice removed her hands to wipe her tears. "Wal," the lineman gasped, - dazed, humiliated, strangely happy, "I've been a tarnal fool!" The lineman got well, though it was discovered that he had fractured one of his ribs. He said he was glad of it; he took it for a judgment upon him. Besides, being nursed to recovery by Eunice was far from being an unpleasant state of affairs. He and Eunice were married as soon as ever he was able to be, and Sammy and Molly, in high feather, stood up with them. The tall, silver lamp, presented by Fi ducia's cousin, Silas Baldwin, and his wife, was the finest of the wedding pres ants by all odds. Saturday Night. Stanlej's Wooing. The story of Stanley's wooing is grad ually being disclosed. He first met Miss Tennant when last in England, and for awhile was received with the same cool ness which usually characterized the lady's reception of attentions from gen tlemcnt. But the indomitable courage, energy and wonderful powers of descrip tion possessed by the explorer gradually won the heart of one who possessed sim ilar traits in so marked a degree, and when Stanley managed to pluck up suf ficient courage to propose she fainted with mingled delight and excitement. She promised to wait until he returned from his next African trip, and insisted that their engagement should be kept secret. The letters which have passed between "Stanley Africanus" and Miss Tennant, if they ever see the light of publication love-letters of eminent persons are now included in the printer's prey will be truly curious stories, for no doubt the explorer told more to his lady love than he will ever confess elsewhere of the awful tribulations of his march through the African swamps and forests. His brother explorers were aware of their commander's love story, and many a tree in the strange lands visited has "Dolly" deeply cut into the bark. The natives used to think it the sign of the whito chief's fetish aud often prostrated them selves before it. In one of his letters Stanley wrote such a harrowing account of the sufferings of his band and gave such a vivid picture of the death of a gi gantic negro slowly swallowed by a huge serpent that Miss Tennant swooned after reading it. Commercial Advertiser. Smuggling; Jewels From Mexico. Commenting upon evidence in a re cent smuggling case tried in San An tonio, Texas, District Attorney Evans told his experience in the trial of men charged with bringing goods across the border without having paid duty. "The Government," he said, "might as well abolish the duty on jewelry and precious stones, so far as its value along the Mexican border is concerned. Great quantities of such are brought Into this country, but it is very seldom that duty is paid upon them. Of course, the smaller an article is the easier it is to escape detection. Fine jewelry and pre cious stones are safely smuggled on this account, and quite a number of the smugglers are known to the Custom house officials, who, however cannot be detected. "Men and women almost known to have jewelry in their possession are stopped and searched, but nothing duti able is revealed. A thousand dollars' worth of precious stones might be hid den under a plaster. False pockets in clothes and wearing apparel are common. I do not believe that as many precious stones as formerly are brought from Mexico, but there is plenty of Mexican jewelry smuggled into the United States." Chicago Herald. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The average speed of elevators is 22t feet per minute, ' Carriages to be run by gasoline wit soon be seen iu London. Lithographic stone and lead are being found at Marble Falls, Texas. Plumbago in large qunntities has been found near Hoffman's Mills and High Bridge, Hunterton, N. J. An electrical fan, to keep Up a lively circulation of air in cars lighted by elec tricity, has been invented. Two aeyf cotton mills have just been projected in South Carolina, one of them to be operated by water power. A London genius has invented a hoi water apparatus to warm piano keys, so that dainty fingers may not be chilied. Wood pulp is now being used as the basis of a plastic compound to serve as a substitute for lime mortar in covering and finishing walls. Lead poisoning among Jacquard weav ers in a Swiss factory has been traced to dust from leaden weights used to carry the thread of the yarn. An improved brontometer which indi cates "the instant of each lightning flash and the beginning and duration of a thunder clap" is on exhibition in Lon don. English experts having found that forced draught is straining the boilers to an alarming extent are now turning their attention to improving the natnrul draught. Rich and plentiful deposits of tin and silver have just been discovered in Chero kee County, east of Canton, just forty miles from Atlanta, Ga. The tin ore, as docs the silver, assays very rich. A Swedish inventor named Thomson has make a quick-firing gun which can discharge twenty-four shots a minute. At tests made recently a target, nine inches long and six inches wide was hit by every shot. The adjustable steam dock at Key West, Fla., has been finished, but so far the contractors have not found a suitable vessel for docking, and is this was part of the contract final payment has been withheld. The Pennsylvania Railroad is experi menting with a shaking grate ou its freight engines, and the result is said to be satisfactory. An engine equipped with a grate ran over five days without clogging, and the fire continued brisk. No blower was needed. From a report of tho meeting of the Berlin Anthropological Society it is gathered that the cat is called in Chinese "Mao," which seems an excellent ono matopoeic word. The cot is also called "Woman's Slave," which goes to show that the celestial old maids are as fond of their furry friend as their European sis sere. la China soapstone is lagely used in preserving structures built of sandstone and other stones liable to crumble from the effect of atmosphere ; and the cover ing with powdered soapstone in the form nf paint, on some of the obelisks in that sountry, composed of stone liable to at mospheric deterioration has been the means of preserving them intact for uuu Iredsof years. The use of nitro-glyceriue in cases of emergency instead of alcohol is recom mended by an English physician. A irop on the tongue rouses a fainting man, indit may restore life in case of appar ent death, as from drowning. It has quickly relieved headache, heart pains and asthma, and stiengthened weak pulses in fevers. It should only be used under advice of a physician. A locomotive working under a pressure at 140 to 165 pouuds to the square inch aiay move a railway train at a velocity of iixty miles per hour, which one is apt to think of as a wonderful speed. But it is slow compared with tho rate of motion of the projectile from a modern great gun. Such projectile flics at the rate of 1365 miles per hour, impelled by a pres- ture of 35,000 to 40,000 pounds per square inch. - A Frolic of Fashion. A prominent dealer in leather, from London, says that never before was there such a craze in London for queer leather ts at the present time. He says also : "All kinds of skins, from the tough, thick hide of an elephant to the thinner, tenderer frogs, are pressed into service to meet the demands of the fashionable. Some of our shops are stocked with a mpply of fancy articles that are made from the skins of all sorts of beasts, rep tiles and fishes. These singular objects are exhibited in the windows, where their appearance proves a great attraction to the crowds. Made up into various ar ticles are yellow pelican skins, lion and panther skins, buffalo skins fish skins, monkey skins, and the coverings of al most every living thing known. They are Unned and sometimes dyed with dif ferent colors. I think it looks hideous to see a pretty girl walking along the itreets swinging a porte-monnaie made of the sculy skin of a boa-constrictor. But it's fashion, -ou know, and reminds one of the old story of beauty and the beast." Commercial Advertiser. Famous Old Giants. At all times and in all countries, ssys the Irish Timet, kings and nobles had a fancy for including among their retainers either a giant or a dwarf, sometimes both. Frederick the Great had his corps of gi gantic grenadiers ; and in the Tower of London may be seen a lance aud some enormous armor of sixteenth century work, which, doubtless, belonged to some giant, knight or trooper of the king's body guard. James I. had attached to his person a porter named Walter Par sons, commonly called the Staffordshire giant, a handsome, brave, and strong young man, who had begun life as a farrier. His height was seven feet, seven inches, and his portrait exists, engraved by Glover. Parsons lived on into the reign of Charles I., and was succeeded by another giant, William Evans, two inches taller than bis predecessor. WONP'ERS OF FIREWORKS. JAPANESE LEAD THE WORLD IN MAKINO PYROTECHNICS. Kami lie That flaVfl ftnnfl Nothing KIm) for a Hundred Year Bal loons of Many Kinds. The use of fireworks of all kinds be comes more universal every jnr in this country. Exhibitions are common at tliri winter resorts in the South, while iu the North fireworks are used at toboggan and snowshod carnival and by summer excursionists. All the firecrackers used in this country come from China. They are shipped in sailing vessels that land at New York. Although wo surprise the Oriental races in our knowledge of chemistry and mechanics we have never been able to compete with them in practical pyro technics. In this field they have de veloped skill that is well nigh mir aculous, and are as much our masters to day as they were at the time of the in vention or introduction of gunpowder in Europe. Long before that event the Chinese were enjoying firecrackers, from those no larger than a match to the mon strous ones which weigh five prunds apiece bombs, Roman candles and Bengal lights. At the same time the Japanese were developing their wonder ful system of day fireworks into a fine art. Of the two races the Chineso were by long odds the first in point of time. Their annals show that the familiar fire cracker was known to the people of the Flowery Kingdom at leant 1150 B. C. On the other hand there is no direct proof that the Japanese were able to manu facture fireworks of any sort prior to 1040 A. D., some twenty-ono centuries aftcrwarl. But the Chinese seemed satisfied with what little progress they made in tho early age, and have never gone beyond what they then accomplished. The Jap anese, on the contrary, have kept up ex periment and research to tho present moment. In discussing tho remarkable success of his countrymen in this industrial act a member of the Jnpancso Embassy nt Washington said recently: "The se cret of our prosperity is not as simple as might be supposed. In the first place we have a trade system something like the guilds of Europe A good fireworks maker brings up one or more of hi: sons to follow him in his profession, and teaches them every little trick or discov ery he has made or that has been handed down to him by his ancestors. There are many families at home that have been firework makers for more than a cen tury." The baloons are always of moderate size, the great majority being about six and but few exceeding ten fee .n length. They are made of a strong and durable tissue paper, are printed in colors and usually retouched with the brush by the artisuns of the East before they are at lowed to leave the workshop. So far ns shapes are concerned there is almost end less variety. The commonest kinds are those which imitate the domestic animals Next to these iu popularity are the shapes of birdB, fish, fruits, reptiles and dragons. Beyond these and much less economical, if not less popular, are human figures These are of all sorts, rouging from a daimio to a grotesque head. It is difficult to estimate the number of shapes tamed out by Japanese pyrotech nists. One concern in Ycddo keeps over twelve hundred different kinds on hand, while another house in Yokohama has a stock of two thousand varieties. Theso balloons are so weighted as to always keep a natural position. In some cases they are specially weighted with fine pieces of metal held by a slow burning fuse. As the latter is consumed it re leases from time to time a weight. As this is liberated the balloon will spring upward as if alive. With two leaded fuses the movements of a fish are beauti fully imitated. Corresponding to these five trails are what may be called smoke trails. The trail is charged with some inflammable substance like pitch, which is so treated as to give out great volumes of heavy dense black smoke, ' which fall slowly away from the balloon and leave a long, wavy line in the air to ludicate the vary ing currents and eddies in the atmos phere. Some very expensive balloons have trails so arranged as to give lines of smoke in two, three, and even four colors. New York Press. A Lncky Shot. A few days ago as James Knight, of Shelter Point, near Nanaiino, British Columbia, was workiug In the woods close to his own house and barn, he heard a series of squeals from a litter of little pigs which were running about the gar den. Going in the direction of the sounds he discovered a panther of very large projxrtions carrying off one of the pork ers. Running to the house with all pos sible speed, he secured his gun, his dog in the meantime chasing the marauder, which took to the trees. Tukiug aim at the beast, whose glistening eyes shone through the foliage and whose growls made it impossible to mistake bis where abouts, he brought the animal down, pre venting him making a dying charge by a well-directed shot into his brain. This brute, and several others of his kind, with the assistance of the bears in the neighborhood, have latterly m&de consid erable havoc among the smaller domesti cated animals, aud it is proposed ere long to organize a shooting purty with the ob ject of exterminating them. Victoria (1). C.) Colonist. Adjusted the Gift to Her Mouth. Ahmed Effendi, the former Turkish Embassador in Berlin, when entertaining company, was in the habit of distributing sweets among the ladies present. Or one occasion he gave a certain lady tw or three times as much as the rest. She, vain of her triumph, got an interpreter to inquire the reason of bis preference. "Because her mouth is twice as large as that of the other ladies," was the reply. Argonaut. SYCAMORES IN BLOOM. Like flame-wing'd harps the sed blooms h'o Amid the shadowy sycamore. The music of each leaflet's sigh Thrills them continually, The small harps ot the sycamores; Small birds innumerable find rest And shelter 'midst the sycamores. Their songs (of lova In a warm aoft nest) Are faintly echoed esst and west By the red harps o' the sycamores. The dewfall and the starshine make Amidst the shadowy sycamore Sweet delicate strains; the gold beams shake The leaves at morn, and swift awake The small harps of the sycamores. O sweet earth'f music everywhere, Though faint as in the sycamores: Sweet when buds burst, birds pair; Sweet when as thus thero wave in the air The red harps of the syeamor??. M'ilfi'am Sharp, in Harper's Magazine. HUMOR OF THE DAY. The ground-floor Stiwdust. A good buy-law Collect on delivery. A drawing-room The dentist's office. A two-foot rule Stand oa your own pins. An old flame The light of other days. Everybody's business is nobody's busi ness except the busybody's. Do not think you can cultivate a man's acquaintance by giving him an occa sional dig. The paper that says something mean about you is never lost in tho mails. Atchison Qlobe. Poor Fishing. First Boy "Did you jatch anything?" Second Boy "Not until I got home." San Francisco Wasp. Ono thing of Noah must be &tid Nor will the truth be strained: Without a doubt ho knew enous'a To go iu wh?n it rained. Hay rns. Bobby "How did you manage to get tho bowl of cream?" Tommy ""Told ma I saw the cat put her cose in i(V'' Epoch. . One of tho healthiest professions in tho world is that of signing wills. Expectant heirs will readily confirm this statement. Puck. When you come to consider the drunk rd, there isn't much difference between, tho ideal and tho reel. Binghamton Leader. Do not try to take off your hat to a woman on a rainy day; if she carries an ambrella sho will take it off for you. . Boston Bulletin. Tho men who become suddenly rich remind us of the whales. They no sooner get to the top than they commence blow ing. States nan. "Now, Johnny, you know whnt a noun is, do you?" "Yeth urn." "What is Jerusalem?" "An ejaculation, mum." Harper's Basaar. The young man just out of school ad vertises for a "position;" but after six months of hustling he is mighty glad to get a "job." Puck. The latest distinguished horse on tho turf is named Semicolon. It roust be rather difficult to bring him to a full top. Boston Herald. "All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest." All we wear is frayed Just wheu we would be neatest. iW. , Hostess (to young Spriggins, M. D.)- "Dr. Spriggins, will you have soma of the tongue?" Dr. Spriggius (ubscnt- aundedly) "Oh cr let me look at if, please. Chatter. It is nonsense to say that thero to nothing new under the sun. Tho man who owns an ordinary fountain pen finds lorae new trouble with it every week.- Somerville Journal. Polite Passenger "Pardon me, sir I Can I sit down in this seat?" Old Sour boy "Woll, I presume you can if you try hard enough. I didn't have any trouble." Boston Times. Sho (enthusiastically) "Oh, Georgel don't you thiuk the greatest joy in life is the pursuit of the good, the true aud the beautiful?" He "You bet! that's why I'm hero to-night." Burliiujton Free Press. Little Ethel went to church with her grandmother, aud for tho first time put ten cents in the contribution-plute. Leaning over she whispered very audi bly, "That's all right, grandma! I paid for two." Judge One morning in a gar.teu be l The onion aud the carrot Baid Unto a parsley group: "Oh, when aliall we tlireo meet ai;ai:i. In thunder, lightning, or in rHin'" "Alasr' exclaimed iu tones of luilti The parsley "In the soup." 1'hilaiUljihia lye- . ' The baseballist's business is picking up, the foot-ball player's is rushing, tho aeronaut's is iu the air, the dry-goods teller's is rip-tearing, the hackiuau's is driviug, the washerwoman mui.ages to scrub along, and the bunco-mau finds plenty to "do." iVt. The bucket shop known us "Tho Sockdolager" failed yesterday for tho seventeenth time this month. The causo of tho suspension is stated to have been that a customer was, by an oversight of a clerk, allowed to wiu $3.50, uud de manded his money. Judge. Odd Souvenirs. . Many capricious New Yorkers are hav ing souvenirs, such as ladies' slippers and locks of hair, covered with a thiu de posit of silver and displayed iu their homes as mementoes. The sulutaucus of the articles thus treated are not injuriously affected, and they attract considerable at tention wherever shown. .4rMf. A Curious Ear of Cora. An ear of com ou exhibition at Sun Luis Obhipo, C'ttl., is described as being iu the exact form of a human hand; the wrist, palm, thumb and fingers being all perfect. It is covered w ith small graius to near the tips of the finders, which aro bare prongs of colw, giving the liuud th appearance of beiug clad in a mitt.
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