THE FOREST REPUBLICAN U pnblUhed Try Wednesday, ky J. C. WENK. Offlo) In Bmarbaugh At Co.'i Building MLM mUtET, TIONI8TA, T. Term, mm. tl.BO pr Toar. JU nbMrtptloni received for akertar period lhn tare month. Oorreepondence Mllelted fram eB put ef the eonatry. No notice will be Ukaa of anonymous eraamanlcalloua. RATES Of ADVERTISING. On Boro, n roch, on Ineertlo .$ 1 H On Sqnara, on Inch, n month IN On. Square, erne Inch, thro month. , ( 0 One Square, Inch, an year 10 M T Bqoar, on year tIM Q tartar Column, one yar .' MM Belt Column, on year MM On Colomn, on y 1MM Lr al advertisements tea eenU par U aca la sertioa. Marriage and death notice, (rati. All hllle for yeaHy adrertlermenta collected qnar terly. Temporary adverUiementa muet he paid iti SAraaC. Joh work eaah en delivery. OREST REPUBLICAN. K VOL. XXIII. NO. 17. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUG. 20, 1890. Sl.50 PER ANNUM. Tlio Louisvillo Timet is authority for the statement that nine out of tea crimi nals arc bow-leggod. The Judgo-Advocato-Gcncral, of New York, hna decided that tho militinmon cannot ba compelled to attend divine 'service Tho New Orient) Timet-Democrat as serts, that of tho 088 colleges, with thoir 150,000 students, registered at Washing ton, two-thirds now open their doors to women. Tho Chicago Sun reports, Hint San Antony, Tenia, is tho objective point of a good many capitalists, who see in tho immense water-power near it, immense capabilities for cheap manufacturing. In addition to this, natural gas has bcn otmd in paying quantities, and will be piped to tho city. Tho Italian Prime Minister, Siguor . Crispi, recently gave most extraordinary evidence in tho Chamber of Deputies of his superstition regarding the evil eye. jiguor Imbrinnl, having alluded to Signor crlspi's life nncccssnrily terminable, tho latter fumbled in his pocket, drew out one of tho horn-shaped pieces of coral used in Naples as a counter spell against the "jet future," and openly pointed it at ' tho speaker. "England proposes to follow American example by establishing a criminal court of appeals, moro especially for capital cases, and popular disupprov-.l of recent decisions of tho Homo Office, to which the only appeul now lies, gives much force," remarks the Chicago Pott, "to the argument iu favor of tho reform. There is a general public impression that capital cases arc dealt with too hastily and often unjustly." , Tho London Statint, a recognized statistical authority, places the present , annual production of silver in tho world at.130,000,000 ounces, and presents tho afollowing estimato of tho average annual consumption : T- 1 I . . . iv Ann AAA ijBtl 111 Bri. . . . H 5U1AAIAA OB. Used for European and other taken coinages 20,000,000 oi. Taken for India 30,000,000 ox. Taken for China, Japan and the East. ... 10.000, oOO or. Purchased byVTiited States Government 80,000,000 os. Total . . . k. 1 10,000,000 o. The fact that many of tho natives of Nice are dying of consumption proves ' ' very clearly, .observes the New York Next, the deleterious effect of the rcsidcuco of pulmonary patients in any place. It is only within thciast few years thnt science has demonstrated the deadly character of the expectoration and . the breath of consumptives. Many have flouted this, but tho rcmarknblo number of deaths ou the Itivicra, which has always been noted for its healthfulncss, goes far; to bear out tho theory of tho experts. As Nice, Mentone, San Kemo and other places ou tho Kivicm depend almost wholly upon tourists for their support it will be impossible for them to bar the class which brings them in so much coin. It is a literal case of life and death for them. Fow people arc awaro of the enormous Expense incurred in taking the census. The population of the United States in 1790 amounted to 3,929,214, and the cost of tho census was 614,377. This represents a cost per capita of 1.12 cents. In 1880 the population amounted to 50,155,782, aud the cost of tho census was $ 5,862,752, showingacost per capita of 11.75 cents, more than ten times the cost per capita of tho census of 1790. The amount appropriated for the census of lrSJ frli.OOO.OOO, exclusive of pri u 1 1 ny ' , " iT a v i ng aud binding, to be expended iu gathering so much varied information. Ilenee the eleventh census must bo considerably moro expensive than the tenth census. Tho number of volumes in the census of 1880 were twonty-fouv, as comp: with oue vol ume iu tho census of 1 1 'JO. Ida Lewis, the heroine of Lime Rock Lighthouse, vho has saved the lives of so many persons, receives from the Gov ernment a salary of $750 a year aud two tons of coal. When her father became paralytic Bhe was nWlo custodian of the light for life. In appreciation of her heroic efforts iu saving lives she has a gold medal from thel'iiited States Treas ury Department, tfikVailvcr medals from the State of lthodu IVfuud, one from tho Humaue Society of Massachusetts and an other from tho New York Life-Saving Association. It wus in 1809 that Gen eral Graut presented her tho splendid life boat Rescue, which she now has. James risk, Jr., built a boat-house for it and also sent tho heroine a silk Hug made by Mrs. McFarluud, of New York. Miss - Lewis is a member of Sorosis, aud was prcseuted a gold brooch by that organ izutiou. Sho also has a number of valua ble articles from private individuals, and a token that she much appreciates was a keg of maple sugar aud a box of oatmeal from ft poor uutu iu the West. SYCAMORES IN BLOOM. Like flame-wing'd harps the seed blooms lie Amid the shadowy sycamores. The musio of each leaflet's sigh Thrill them continually, The small harps of the sycamores. Small birds innumerable find rest And shelter 'midst the sycamores. Their songs (of love In a warm soft nest) Are faintly echoed east and west By the red harp o' the sycamores. The dewfall and the starshln make Amidst the shadowy sycamores Bweet delloate strains; the gold beams shake The loaves at morn, and swift awake The small harps of the sycamores. O sweet Earth's music everywhere. Though faint as in the sycamores; Sweet when buds burst, birds pair: Sweet when a thus there wave in the air The red harps of the sycamores. Willi am Sharp, in Harper. A PRISONER OF WAR. BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES. "There she comes now," cried Kitty Coram, standing on tiptoe to peep over the great gate in front of the old brick house. And Gcorgie, hor elder sister, camo flyinutp the snowy path, with checks like roses, brown eyes that sparkled mer rily, and a huge, flat parcel under her arm. "Do I look like the town carrier?" she demanded, jubilantly. "Oh, I have run so fast from the train, to get into tho wood-path before the grand sleigh from OrnnjL-in Hall overtook me. I can't bear Mrs. M-mistnn to put up her eye-glasses at me and drawl out, 'How do you do, madeahl How's your deah awnt?" "Well, Gcorgie, what luck t" "Oh, splendid," the new arrival breathlessly responded. "Seven yards of three-inch deep embroidery on white merino. And we'ro to got a dollar a yard, if it suits." "Seven dollars!" repeated Kitty. "A deal of money, isn't it I But how we shall have to work for it!" "It's a world of work," respouded tho elder girl, clapping her cold hands to re store the circulation and making haste to unfasten tho collar of her black cloth coat. "How nice tho fire looks. Just like a picture. What a blessing it is thut our wood doesn't coat us anything I" "Oh, by-the-way," said Kitty, "old Giles wanted to chop down the big,black oak tree next." "What! The big one on the edge of tho swamp? To cut it down! Is he a Goth, era Vandal?" "Just what I said. It's the only tree in the neighborhood that has mistletoe growing all over it. I wouldn't lose that beautiful old tree for a hundred eollarsl" "Neither would I," said Georgie,drily. "Especially as I don't know of anybody who would offer us a hundred dollars for it." Just at that moment, by one of those strange coincidences which are more common in this world than people have any idea of, old June, the rheumatic servant, came hobbling to the door. "Does Aunty Anne want us, Jane?" cried eager Gcorgie. "I'm going to her directly." " 'Tain't your aunt, miss," said Jane. "It's Mr. Miles, the footman, from Ormistun Hull." Gcorgie turned, with glittering eyes, to her sister. "I told you so," sho whispered. "We're going to be invilcd, after ail, to the party." "And he says," droned on Jane, "his missus wants to know what you'll take for all the dark-green shiny leaves mistletoe, you calls 'em, doesn't you? on tho big swamp oak. They waht it for decorations." A sudden change passed over Georgie's face, such as comes across a landscape when tho sun retires behind a cloud. Kitty froze visibly also. "Tell Mr. Miles, from Ormistan Hall," said Georgio, "to give my compliments Miss Coram's to his mistress, and say that the mistletoe is not for sale." Old Jaue withdrew. Georgia and1 Katy stood looking at each other. "Oh, Georgio, "said the younger, "did you want so much to go? But I told you how it would be; they never had the least idea of inviting us. We don't be long to the enchanted circle." "Yet they brought Colonel Hay here in wild strawberry time to spend the day down by the Moss Hocks," said Georgie, in a slightly tremulous voice. "And they always bring picnic parties here in summer to go over the old house and row on our lake." "We are a convenience," said Kitty. "We are not on Miss Ormiston'a regular visiting list." "But I did thuik that Colonel Hay would have called, after all he said thnt day," softly murmured Georgie. "And so he would., you may be very sure," said Kitty, "if Dorinda Orraiston would have let him. She's a deal too politic Georgio dear, to let him contrast her thirty-year-old complexion and pale-blue eyes with j our roses aud spar kles." "Well, it doesn't matter much now," said Georgio, mournfully. "I dare say he has forgotten us there's no earthly reason why he should 'nt. Now I - must go up to Aunty Anne's aud tell her all my adventures in New York." For old Miss Coram sat up in her room, neatly embroidering flannel for an order from the South. A lady born and bred, yet she saw no degredution iu these bread-earning tasks. "It's hard on the girls," said Bhe. "For their sakeu, I could wish that the Corams had retained somewhat of their old prosperity. But for an old woman like me, it doesn't matter." Meanwhile, at Ormistun Hall, Miss Dorinda was superintending the decora tions of the great saloon parlor, which was to be made a dancing-room of, ou the occasiou of the impending ball. "Spruce boughs and hewlojks are all very well in their way," said she, "but how I do wish I'd thought, when I was in New York this morning, to get some of that 107C1J, shaflawy mistletoe the vendors were selling on Fourteenth street!" "It comes horridly dearl" said Mrs. Ormistan, with the offending lorgnette held up to her eyes. "But the effoct is so lovely 1" "Mistletoe!" repeated Colonel nay, who was half-wuv up a stcpladdcr. draping a United States flag over tho I doorway. "Why, I saw a whole tree full as we drovo from tho station. I could easily get it for you." "Could you?" Miss Ormistan's pale eyes glistened. "But we couldn't think of troubling you?" "It wouldn't ba tho least trouble in the world," said tho gallant cavalier. "I'm a regular cat for climbing." "Yes, but ," Mrs. Ormistan began, when she was checked by a glance from her daughter, who afterward explained her Klicy. "Let him get it, mamma," said fair Dorinda, "it will keep him from flirting with the Fairlie girls, and givo him something to do. Anil he isn't supposed to comprehend how disobliging the Co ram's aro. For all he knows, the tree is in our woods; and the mistletoe will produce such an effect against the pink gray walls!" So Colonel Hay went foraging, with blithe step and careless whistle, little knowing what he did. "I wonder," he mused to himself, as he strode along, "whereabouts those pretty Miss Coiams live? It was some where in this direction that Miss Dorinda took m that summer day. I should like to call on them whilo I'm down nt the Hall. That tallest Miss Coram had a face like the Sistine Madonna. I've al ways secretly wished to see it again. I do hope they'll be at Dorinda's party. Halloa I here's my old mistletoe tree, and the ladder lying under it, too. Well, I should do discredit to my school-boy training it i couldn t climb any tree go ing under such conditions as this!" Like a squirrel he sprang un tho lad der and mado his way into the upper boughs of the tree, clipping bunch after bunch of tho lovely green parasite from the hoary-gray truuk and flinging them down on tho frozen surface of the snow below. It was a most fascinatinir business, for even as he climbed, somo still moro tempting cluster gleamed higher up. The sun, red and round as an orange, poised itself for a secoud on the serrated edge of the woods, and then dipped down, leaving a warm glow where, but now, the level light had streamed and, almost in an instant, as it were, the whole landscape seemed steeped in a sober pur ple. "It's growing dark," said Colonel Hay, to himself. "I believe I'd better come down." At the ssnio moment a clear, fresh young voice a mezzo-soprano of tho most approved type called scornfully out: "I ve caught you, have I? A thief I I wonder Miss Ormistan could countenance such a contemptible action as this 1 Why, do you know I could put you in jail for this! stealing my mistletoe in broad daylight I But I won't have you arrested. I'll simply teach you a lesson. You may stay up in that tree and consider it, at your leisure, until I get ready to let you como down." And, balancing the ladder lightly on her strong, young shoulder, Georgie Coram walked off with the ease and com posure of a nineteenth century Amazon, leaving the gallant colonel transfixed with dismay. "It's the Madonna !" he said to him self. "I'd know that face anywhere and the sweet, full voice! What does she mean? I can't be trespassing, or Miss Ormistan would have warned me. Is it a joke? or docs she really mean to leave me up here to freeze to death? It's too fur to jump, and I don't dare to risk a slido down the trunk. Well, there's no help for it I must just wait here until assistance arrives on the scene. A pretty . predicament! Whew! how the west wind shrieks across the frozen lake I Going to teach me a lesson is she? Well, im learning it I "Oh, Georgie, how could you!" cried the more pacific Kitty, when she heard her sister's tale of triumph. "Why the poor man will freeze! "He needed heroic treatment," said Georgio, her brown eyes shining mirth fully. "The idea of his daring to stenl our beloved mistletoe ! "But I dure say he only obeyed Miss Ormistan s orders I ' pleaded Kitty. "Then he must take tho consequen cos," retorted Georgie. "But it is grow ing awfully, awfully cold smco sunset. and if you'll go with me, Kitty, I'll take the ladder back and let bun come down. See how bright the moon is shinuig. It will be a regular adventure !" "Poor Miles!" suid Kitty, langhing. "He'll have the worst kind of a rheuma tism to-morrow." "I didn't think of that," said penitent Georgio. And, standing under the tree, she called out in her sweet soprano voico: "Miles! Miles! here's tue ladder! You may come down now. I trust that this little incident may make an impression on you in the future!" Slowly the culprit descended. "And, Miles," added Georgie, as his foot touched the top round of the lad der, "my sister and I have brought you a pail of hot coffeo to driuk, so that you won't take cold. I wish you no harm, as I presume you only obeyed your mis tress's orders, but it's time you learned to discriminate between our grounds and those of Ormistan Hall." "Thanks, awfully 1" said a deep voice, as the Colonel drank long and deep of the fragrant fluid; "only I haven't any mistress, and I don't obey any cne's or ders, aud I hudu't any idea I was be yond the limits of the Ormistan prop erty. All the same, I'm sure I beg pardon if I've been trespassing." "It's Colonel Hay!" shrieked Geor gie. "Yes, that's my name," suid the gal lant otiicer. Georgie would have fled promptly from the scene, but more self-possessed Kitty detained her by main force. My sister is under a misapprehen sion," explained she. "Bhe supposed you were Miss Ormistan's footman ; and the tree is really ours, and we have declined to let Miss Ormistan gather the mistle toe." "And oh, I'm so sorry I" faltered Gcorgie. "What must you think of mo?" "That you've done exactly right," said Colonel Hay, melting visibly under the troubled light of the lovely hazel eyes. "Of course I was the trespasser, and I de served all I got and and " "But you aro shivering, " cried Georgie. "Oh, what have I done!" "Perhaps," suggested the artful Colo nel, "if you would allow me to walk homo with you and get a little warm " "Oh I fluttered Georgie, her color va rying enchantingly in the moonlight, "if you only would. Then I should know that you had forgiven mo." Colonel Hay went back to the old brick house with the two girls and sat in the orange glow of the great hickory logs and was introduced to Aunty Anne, and drank moro coffeo and enjoyed him self thoroughly. And when ho returned to Ormistan Hall he carried ail the clus ters of mistletoe with him, as a present to Miss Dorinda. "But you'll never, never tell her how dreadfully I behaved?" pleaded Georgie. "lycverl" assorted the Colonel. "You promise?" urged George. "I promise," reiterated the colonel. Miss Dorinda thought his prolonged nbsence very strange. She thought it still stranger when the colonel strolled over to the Coram place the next day, and the next, and still the next. "I do believe he's fulling in love with that insignificant littlo country girl 1" said she, with a black cloud on her forehead. As for Georgio, she could scarcely understand what it all meant. "After my leaving him to perish with cold that night," said she, with carmine cheeks and sparkling eyes, -"1 should think ho'd hate me!" "I shouldn't," said smiling Kitty. Rnsslan Military Discipline. It is a curious fact in connection with the Russian army that while it had often met defeat, it was never routed; though beaten and driven from the field, it never became a panic-stricken mob. This coherence during defeat was due to its splendid discipline and rigid obedience to orders, which were par amount to all other considerations. A Russian force was moving to the attack of a position impregnable. A superior officer asked the commander where he was going. "To attack the position in front," he answered. "But it is folly madness." "I know it, but I have my orders." "Oh, you have orders; move on, then!" the officer coolly said. This incident takes a good deal of what has always been regarded as exaggeration out of the story that is told of a Russian army surgeon on his professional round. On entering a ward, the officer iu charge gives the command, "Attention I" when each inmate at once takes the position of a soldier. "Tongues out!" is the next order, followed by the instant projection of that member. The surgeon, accom panied by an attendant, then proceeds along the line, examining each tongue and giving directions as to treatment. When tho inspection is over and the medical officer takes his departure, the command "Tongues in!" releases the line from its unpleosnnt and ludicrous position, and "In place rest" allows the men to resume their cots. And yet military writers admit that the soldier who thinks always gets away with the human machiuo in battle. Cincinnati Commercial. An Operation to Help Tiano Players. A public experiment was mado recent ly at Steck Hull, in East Fourteenth street, New York city, in the "liberation of the ring finger." This is an operation which consists of cutting the accessory slips of the ring finger, and the purpose is to give it greater flexibility and free dom of movement and additional strength for playing the piano. The operation was performed on a little girl. A portion of the hand is benumbercd by a spray of ether, coeuine is injected and the slips are cut with a laucet. A dia gram of the child's hand was made before the operation and another after it, and hey showed that the hand, when ex tended as far as possible, was able to reach about an inch further than before, while the ring finger could bo lifted half an inch or more higher. The child said that it did not hurt her, and a few hours later the only external signs of tho operation were two tiny wounds, as of a needle, on each hand, when the baud ages were taken off. Another child, Carrie Bowes, age twelve, was also present. She had her fingers liberated in this way four years ago and gave illustrations, to show that the gain in strength and flexibility was permanent. This was shown by playing the piano, by tho grasp of tho hand ou mechanical instruments and by raising the finger, even when held down by a spring. Onee-a- Week. Water in the Orient. The question of water in the far East is au important oue, and the water-carriers form one of the largest castes of In dia. Both here and in Egypt they curry their water iu skins upon their bucks, and they sell it by the cup and by the skinful. These skin bugs are made of hog skins or goat skins, and the ordi nary skin will hold ten gallons. Water is worth about a cent a skin, and the streets of Calcutta are watered by these men, who sprinkle the water from the skin upon the dust. The street water works of Korea consist of a set of men who go around with buckets of water ou their backs, and in Japan the streets are kept cool by a man who carries two buckets of water fastened to a pole over hit shoulders, and lets the water out through little holes iu their bottoms. Both in Korea aud in Japan the water used for this purpose is takeu from the, gutteis, which form to a large extent the sewers of the city, and the cooling of the air is by no means a puriticatlou it. C'ioc UtraU. A RANCH IN TUE CLOUDS, THE LOFTT HOMS O AM ADVEN TX7BOU3 PIONEER. Raising Crops at an Altitude of 10 OOO Feet In New Mexico Trans portation by Burros. At the head waters of tho north branch of the Rio Gullinas, eighteen or twenty miles above the Las Vegas Hot Springs, Mr. E. II. Harvey, a former Boston merchant, several years ago located his ranch at an elevation the most ambitious perhaps of any farm on the continent. Coming to Now Mexico originally for his health, Mr. narvey, nftcr examining the conditions of the cattle and sheep business on tbo open plains, and those of agriculture in tho lower valleys in which an elaborate system of irrigation is required decided to make his home in the mountains. In a high valley near tho massive precipitous mountain known a; Hermit Rock he laid the sills of his cabin amid the evergreen and pop lar trees, took up under the homestead law a tract of Government land, and set to work to improve it. This ranch is peculiarly isolated, tho only other houses in a wido region about being one or two deserted prospectors' cabins and the works of an abandoned mica mine. Near the foot of tho mount ains tho wagon trail lending from the set tlements comes to an end, and beyond that point a bridle trail is the ouly path to the home of this adventurous piouccr from Boston. Here, literally among the clouds, he has made the wilderness to blossom as the rose. Part of his tillable and hay lands was open grassy park at the time of his coming, and tho remain, dcr he has cleared by cutting down and burning the trees. Tho range of pasture for his stock includes all accessible graz ing spaces up and down the valley. At this high altitudo of 10,000 feet, only 800 feet below "timber line," tho climuto differs widely from that of the plains. Through the summer, during times, it may be, when tho plains below are parched with drought, there aro fre quent showers and often long continued rains in tho mountains, and after clear nights tho vegetation at sunrise is drip ping with heavy dew. Unde : these fa vorable conditions no nrtilicial irrigation is required, and with tho abundant moisture the grass grows thick and high, spangled with innumerable flow ers of great beauty and variety,and there are found many specimens of tree and plant life usually associated with far more northerly latitudes. Tho altitudo of the ranch is too great for tho success ful raising of cofti,but nearly every other agricultural product of the Northern States flourishes. Grain and vegetables, including potatoes, grow abundantly and rapidly, are of fine quality, and attain great size. Timothy grass four feet, and oat stalks six feet high aro not uncom mon specimens of the productive capa city of this ranch. Tho luxuriant growth of forage, and the circumstances attending tho trans- fortation of farm products to market, tave tended to make tho dairy the chief feature of this upland ranch, Mr. Har vey's herd of cows givo a profitable re turn for his care and labor. Tue swift current of a mountain rill turns a wuter wheel connected with the revolving pad dledashers of a cylindrical churn in which is mado the butter that on stated days goes on the backs of puck animals to the market at Las Vegus. There is but one way by which to trans port freight between the ranch and tho town, by "packing," which is effected by means of trains of burros (donkeys). With the garden and dairy products to bo carried to Lns Vegas, or of "store goods to tuko to his home, packed in hampers, the owner starts tho procession of pack auimuls in single tile along the mountain path, and himself brings up the rear on his sure-footed pony, to quicken tho pace of tho stragglers and watch that none of tho burdens shift awry. Bulky articles, us trunks, furni ture, or farmiug implements, are loaded upon a frame like a litter, suspended be tween two burros placed tandem, and in this fashion are curried by the steady, docile little animals over tho windings of the mountain trails, up and dowu steep hill-sides, and across rushing torrents to their destination. The houso is a rude but comfortable structure, with a wide open fireplace, in which the fire of hickory wood or pitch pino crackles cheerfully in tho wiuter time, and on summer evenings as well, for nt these mountain heights tho night air is at all times cool, aud often chilly. Rich milk, vegetables fresh and crisp, the tcudercst and juiciest of beef and mutton all raised upon tho place are features of the ranch faro, and with the hunger thut tho mountain air imparts, tho appetizing effect of. the re past is enhanced by its plain and homely service. Tho larder is helped out accordingly, as the season and hunter's luck may favor, by venison, bear meat, wild turkey, mountain grouse and quuil, and by the delicious black-spotted trout of the Rio Gullinus. Owing to the limited range of pastur age, shecp-ruising on the large scale practised iu the wider purks aud pluius is impracticable, aud iu places like Mr. Harvey's sheep and goats are usuully kept ouly iu sufficient number to serve as a source of food supply for the ranch; the moist, sweet, tender grass gives the flesh of these auimuls a peculiarly fine quulity, compuruble to thut of English sheep on their native sod. The gruss is good at all seasons, but becomes accessi ble only as the heavy snows of wiuter recede on tho mountain sides w ith the approach of summer. Iu these sylvan ranches in the uplunds uu interesting element of danger and uncertainty at tends the raising and keeping of domestic animals, from the necessity of guarding them against the ravages of wild beasts. Colts, calves and lambs ure liublo always to full the victims of a prowling mount ain lion or a hungry bcur; and when a predatory animal so formidable lias once acquired the habit of depending upou flocks aud herds for his food supply, the ouly way to sure the loss of much young stock is to take the aggressive, hunt him down aud kill him. JJarjr'$ Wuklt. KCIEMIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL. Ventilating fans for passenger cars aro now operated by electricity. A syndicate of Illinois capitalists has bought 100,000 acres of manganese lands in Arkansas. Cleveland, Ohio, will push its tunnel under the lake two miles farther, at a cost of $'15 per foot. There are at least 100,000 acres of phosphate rock scattered through the western part of tho State of Florida. Turkish engineers say that the river Euphrates might be made navigable tho year round by an expenditure of $100, 000. South Dakota has a 1500-foot well six inches in diameter, throwing 400 gallons of water a minute. There are iu that region wells 3000 feet deep. Out in Nevada telegraph poles in low places, where water stands in winter, aro suid to have taken root and are covered with foliage. Tho poles aro Cottonwood nnd were planted with tho bark on them. Electricians say there aro moro inqui ries for electrical roads at this time than ever before known. One of the lead ing electric car companies has found it necessary to withdraw all its advertising, on account of the rush of orders. Overhead electric wires should never, 803'S Herr Stemens, have moro than 500 volts pressure; underground conductors, with transformers, uo moro than 200C volts. The transformers and conductor! should, however, bo tested up to 5000 volts. A lignite sugar refinery has been es tablished in Philadelphia for utilizing "blackstrap," the refuse of molasses. Hitherto this substance has been used in making rum, but tho product has always been iu excess of the demand. The in ventors claim that tho process will revo lutionize the sugar industry. It is clar ified through pulverized lignite. Experiments mado in Sweden by M. Sand berg on the strength or metal rails during winters havo shown that steel rails containing over four per cent, of carbon are apt to break iu cold weather. In fact, the result of his investigations points to tho use of rail having less car bon thau this say, three per cent. in countries us cold in winter as Norway and Sweden. Many of the substances usually ap plied for the purpose of rendering fab rics incombustible chaugo the color of the material or stiffen it so much that its usefulness is considerably impaired. An easy and safe way of protecting cur tains and mosquito netting against tiro is to steep them iu a solution of phorphate of ammonia, obtained by mixing u pint of wuter with about three ounces of phos phate. The color and texture of tho fabric remains unaltered. Experiments have been made at Havre, France, with tjjo luminous buoy of M. Dubois. The buoy emits the light (which is produced by phosphuret of calcium) ou reaching tho water, "and as it is very powerful, the sea is illuminated for a considerable distance around. Spectators in the lighthouse at Havre saw tho glare distinctly at a point two snd a half miles away, and it can bu seen for over five miles. Experiments aro also to be made in lighting the chan nel of tho Seine from the Arnfurd bunk to where tho dykes commence, by means of decked boats with masts over six feet high, on which lights nre to bo mounted. Antiquity of tho Spanish Merino. The Romans wore nothing but woolen goods. They had no cotton ; they had a little linen, which was worn as a material of luxury: they had no silk. They cul tivated tho sheep with great care, and some of their richest possessions wcro iu sheep. But there was o no breed of sheep which they cultivated with great care, and by that system of selection which Darwin speaks . of as the source of perfected form of our domestic animals. It was called Turentiue sheep, from Tar entuin, a city of Greek origin, situuted at the head of the Tarentum Gulf. The fleece of this sheep was of exceeding fineness, it was of great delicacy, and the price paid for it wus enormous. Tho sheep were clothed in cold weather to keep them, warm; and the result was that they were tender, aud their wool was very fine. They were a product of Greek civilizution transmitted down to the Romans. Columella, tho great Roman agriculturist, says that his undo, residing iu Spain, crossed some of tho fine Turentiue sheep with somo rums that had been imported from Africa, uud the couscqueuce was that these animals had tho whiteness of fleece of the father with the fineness of fleeco of tho mother, and that race was per petuated. Hero wo see an improvement of tbo stock, an increase of strength uud productiveness given to tho fine wool sheep of Spain. At thut time the sheep of Spain was of imoicnse value; for Strubo says that sheep from Spain, iu the time of Tiberius, was carried to Rome, and sold for the price of a talent (if 1000) a head. In the time of our Saviour, $1000 was given in Romo for Spanish sheep. When the barbarians inundated Italy, theso fine-wool sheep were all swept away ; hut they remained iu Spain. They were cultivated by tho Moors in tho mountains of Spain, which were aluiost inaccessible, aud not reached by the hordes of Huns und other northern bar barians, which had laid waste the greater portion of the Ruiuau possessions. They coutiuued to be nourished there by tho Moors, who very much advanced iu arts, aud further on were found there as tho Spanish Merino. So thut the Spanish Jeriuo, which we now huve, if not the ouly, is at all events by far the most im portant relic thut we have to-day which Las come down to us from Greek und liomuu material civilization. Wo have here a direct inheritance from the ma terial wealth of tho Old World civiliza tion. A'e OrUant liiiut-Democrat. While th(j learned professor was writ ing his great work he was so absorbed that for eight days ho suited his soup with the sand from his writing desk uud never kuew it. Flijendtr iSluMtr. TELLINO THE BEES. In a corner of the garden, on a lazy af terl noon. We heard the bees a-humming (every on was out of tune), And we watched the busybodies as they cUM cled 'bout their hives, And we envied them the happiness and sweets ness of their lives; There was no one near to hear us, there was- no one near to see, Except a bird which sang its prettiest for Rosalie and me And the bees. "There is something I must tell you," I begatt in notes forlorn, "And 1 want so much to tell you ere we part to-morrow morn." To gain fresh courage now I sighed anf waited for awhile. When on the face of Rosalie appeared at wicked smile; And she aimed at me this parting shotbefora she ran away "I you can not tell it me why don't you try and tell it, pray. To the bees?" At dusk I sauntered over to the trysting placet again. "Tell the bees," I echoed slowly, whil a. reminiscent train Myths and queer old legends of a superstitious day Through a mem'ry unretentive coursed its bewildered way. Jubernates says the Aryans held tho bees In holy fear, Lest departed souls should in these littlo creatures reappear; And In his Georgics, Vigil, too but then they only told The bees of death aud trouble in those dark some days of old, And not of love; yet, should the tiny Insects understand And start the wheel of fortune? I resolved to try my hand. Three times I softly rapped upon the hlvo just next to me, Three times I said, in accents low: "I love my Rosalie." Silouee followed; than a rustle, then a voica in tones I knew, A human voice responded: "And your Rosalie loves you." I sprung and caught her, while my lips but then you plainly see That what they said aud did Is known to Rosalie and me And the bees. DclFift C. Lockwooil, in West Blmre. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Not so bad after all Dessert. Gilt frames Prison windows. Sound precautions Fog whistles. Come to think of it, the glacial period was tho original puck age. L'tica Jler aid. Lying is wicked, but, thunk goodness, it is not unfushionable. ProeitCenee Tele gram. Givo a man an inch and ho wants a foot; give him afoot and ho immediately begins to kick. Atchison Globe. "Good morning, judge. How isyour honor to-day?" "My honor is safe, but my digestion is very weak." Puck. Tenderfoot "Say, Mister, how far does your claim extendi" Squatter "As fur as I kin shoot." Yankee Blade. First Pusscnger "Aro ye sick, Thom as?" Second Pusscnger (faintly) "D'ye think I'm doing this for fuu." The Jcatcr. A man whose wife's good looks were the ouly anchor for his love, says: "She is a thing of beauty, and a jaw forever." ' Yankee Jilade. f The man who finds music iu a clar inet is doubtless of the opinion that Apollo was a tootlc-ary divinity. WuMnylon Pott. The man who lies swinging iu a ham- . mock all day long cun generally think up lots of schemes to keep other people busy. Homervillt Journal. Tho man who bgusts that he is always . bouud to speuk his mind would do quite as well if ho would occasionally mind his speuk. Votton Tranterijit. Gauder "How do you account for tho Milky Way?" Wittix "I supposo tho cow jumping over the moon hud' something to do with it." Ihrper't iii tur. There is some satisfaction in knowing that the man who spreads himself out over two seats of a home car counted for ouly oue iu the census. PhihuMyhiit Call. "How is business?" Inquired a friend. "Slow," repeated tho stockholder iu the cemetery association. "But sure," ho added, brightening up. Chieayo Tri bune. Funny, wlien a mau puts on a high hat for the first time, he'll duck his head at a door casing that he couldn't reach with a step ladder. Bimhamton Jlijiub I lean. Thin Old Man (cramped and cross) "This cur ought to charge by weight." Stout Woman (regarding him contemptu ously) "If they did, they'd never stop to pick you up." Judge "Fellow, you are coudeinued to death. Is thee anything you would like to cut before you aro executed (" African Criminal "Yes; tho jud'e." FlUyeiiih) Bl'f ttcr. Jones "I want to huve you under stand, gentlemen, that 1 stand ou my merits!" Smith "I should think you would lose your bulauco pretty ofteu." Burlimjtjn free 1'reM. Census Taker "How old are you, madam?'' Madam "I've seeu twenty Uve summers." Census Taker "How did you come to miss the other fifteen or twenty?" Binijhuinion Leader. "Where did young Browne get his money, papal" "From his uncle, old Sam Hrowu. He iuhcrited everything he has in the world except the final 'o' to his name." Merchant Traveler. Charles " Were you embai i a.-scd when you propofed to Miss Many beaux i" Frederick "No, but 1 confess 1 wus put vut when her father came iu a few JLiuutes later." Binyhamton lieutUiMi.
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