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The French refine lo do honor to Ex
plorer Stanley, because they sny he is I
hero for rcTcnno onlv.
Birmingham, AU., )im Increased In
population 707 per cent, since 1880. If
New York had grown nt a like rato its
population would now ho ten millions.
The railroad companies of the coun
try are borrowing great deal of money,
and tho Chicago Fun asserts that they
find leas difficulty In getting it than they
CTcr did.
Among the items in the agricultural
appropriation hill Is an appropriation of
(2,000, to bo li vd lo investigate tho
natural history of and remedies for de
stroying the cottonboll worm.
Tho Washington Wir announces the
remarkable fact that the population of
Gottysburg, J'cnn., by the new census is
3,051, just nineteen leas than tho num
ber of t'nion soldiers killed in tho battle
there.
At the meeting of the National Coun
cil of Education one of the speakers said
that not twenty-fire years hence ho ex
jvectcd to see boys and young men knock
ing for admUsion into Vasar and other
young ladies' seminaries.
The Detroit Fret Pre IkmuU that in
case of war with a foreign nation this
government could raise fire men to ev
ery one she had in the Civil War.and that,
probably, without resorting to the draft.
Financiers say that sho could also raiso
"0 now caoicr than she could raise a
dollar in 18(0.
Financier Henry Villatd predicts that
in Are years there will not be a " steam
locomotive on any railway in tho United
States, and that all kinds of machinery
will 1)0 driven by electricity. IIo says
that great discoveries are at hand, and
speaks so positively that he is supposed
to know just what the discoveries aro.
. Says the Detroit JVt Preu: "Soldiers
wiU drink and soldiers wilt play cards.
After fighting tho idea for a hundred
years Vnclo Sum has at last recognized
the fnct and opened 'cantvons' within the
' posts. The soldier can now got his beer
at cost, and cards aro furnished him to
play with. Ho is also to hare pool and
billiard tables, and will have no excuse
for visiting saloons."
Owing to the fact that tho lands of the
West are being rapidly taken up, a Denver
paper predicts the abdication of the cattle
king and the extinction of the cowboy.
Of the latter is said: "The cowboy, with
rattling spurs, his leather trousers, his
broad-brimmed hat and his defiant swag
ger, will soon join tho stago-drrvor, tho
hunter, tho scout, tho trapper and tho
mountain explorer in tho procession that
moves reluctantly to tho quiet, pea :eablo
commonplace ways of life."
A statement of tho debt extinguish
ment of our country since the war never
ceases to bo impressive. - It reflects not
only tho growth, but, exclaims the Bos
ton Advertiser, tho patriotism and pros
perity of our peoplo as no other statist!
. cul exhibit dqes. Tho mere fact is Btart-
ling that tweuty-flvo years ago, less than
a - generation, tho public debt was
$2,750,000,000, entuiling an annual in
terest cbargo of $151,000,000, and it is
now only $031,000,000, aud tho interest
charge is but $29,500,000.
Advices from Florida to the Atlanta
CviwlUutivu slate that tho excitemout in
tho phosphate fields is intense. There is
- much dissatisfaction over tho news from
Washington that all the phosphate lands
will be claused as mineral lands, aud that
those who have taken homesteads mutt
give thorn up.' Many persons have been
stukiaVrjut claims, and when the proper
papers como from Washington there w ill
be a greater upheaval than Oklahoma
ever saw. Lawyers and business men
have been staking out claims, and at least
5000 ejectment suits have already been
filed. The value of the projHirty involved
is at least f 16,000,000, and the homo
steaders will hot yield to the Government
"without a stubborn flight.
Tho Milwaukee Wivviaiit gives credit
. to Sigvald Qvulo for leaviug $1,000,000,
constituting tho bulk of his estate, t)
endow a Stutv hospital for cripples.
Hat it doos not give ere. lit to him alone.
It declares that Mrs. Qvulo ri!o is eu
titlod to public pruiie and gjatitudo, be
cause, with full knowledge of tbo effect
of her acfr,she signed tho deed conveyiug
her husband's property to trustees for tho
purposo named. And so she is, agrees
tho Chicago Timet. Sho deliberately
f:hose to second tho humane and philan
thropic wishes of her husband, when
sho might havo defeated them and se
cured much wealth for herself, aud to
bestow upou her two soul by a former
marriage. As the adopted citizen who
madu the bequest t s"t a noble exam
ple for nutive A.CJ3iS of wealth, so
his wifo, also a Scandinavian by birth,
has set a noble esauiple for native Amer
ican bain.
V1LLANBLLE.
The rose must die, tho' love says Not
The flower was thine, the words were mine,
Among the mists of long ago.
We watched the dying afterglow)
The winds sighed softly thro1 the pine
Ihe rose must die, tbcf love says Nol
W pledged our love thro weal or woe,
My lips to thine thy hand in mine,
Among the mists of long ago.
The waves, with restless surge and flow,
Intoned with harmony divine
The rose must die, tho' Jove says No I
We both have suffered even so;
And mem'ry sighs by love's cold shrine.
Die rose must die, tho love says Nol
Among the mists of long ago.
Sanborn Gove Tenney, n Belford.
A COMPOSITE ROMANCE.
. Tns LETTEB-CAnniKn's stout.
There is one family on my neuto that
gives me more trouble than all of the
others put together. Not that they ever
complain of mo or compel me to walk to
the top of a five story building, but I
can't make them out. I don't usually
bother my head about the people to whom
t deliver mail ; there is something so sin
gular about this ono family, howover,
that I can't help taking particular notico
of them.
They live in an elegant stono houso on
Kenyon avenue, and consist of a middle
aged gentleman, John Godfrey by name,
his maiden sister and his daughter, a girl
of seventeen.
Mr. Godfrey, who is a wealthy rail
road man, has a hard, stern look, and his
sister doesn't appear to bo any too
amiable, but tho daughter has fairly won
my old heart. She is. as handsome as a
picture and site always had a smile for
me when she came to tho door (the
maiden aunt answers my ring now), and
how her face would light up when I
handed her a letter addressed in a round,
manly hand to Miss Nona Godfrey, and
postmarked C
At first, when sho and the servants
stopped coming to tho door, I couldu't
understand It, but I havo arrived at the
conclusion that tho maiden aunt always
takes the mail in order to prevent Miss
Ncna from getting her letters. During
the time Miss Ncna camo herself I
brought her a letter postmarked C
nearly every day. Since then I have de
livered only two for her, and the maiden
aunt's fuce has worn such a satisfied look
as she took them, that I am sure the
letters are from some young man Miss
Ncna is in love with, and her father and
aunt are trying to break off tho match.
I met her on the street ono day a short
distance from the bouse, and she stopped
as though to speak to me. She changed
her mind, however, and passed on with
a pleasant "Good morning," but I noticed
that her lips quivered as she spoke. I
think she wanted to ask me something
about her letters. Poor girl I I wonder
how it will end
II. THE MESSENGER BOYg STORT.
Las' night 'bout 7 o'clock I had ter
take a message up on Kenyon avenue. It
was fer Miss Ncna Godfrey, an' w'en I
rung th' bell a young lady corned to th'
doo I axed her if thcr' was a answer
an' sho tule mo to come in an' she would
see. She then went inter the parlor an'
tore open the message, an' we'n she read
it she turned as w hite as a sheet, an' I
thought she was goin' to faint. Jcs'
then the boss rame inter th' room an' he
said to her, awful stern:
"W'at'a the matter I Who's tho telo
gram fromt'
She didn't answer an' he said: "Let
me see it," but she turned quicker'n a
flash an' threw it into the grate we're a
fire was buruin', an' it blazed up in a
second.
Th' old gent started for her, look in'
awful mad. Jcs' then he seed uie an' he
axed whii was I waitin' fer. I told him
th' answer, lfe said ther' wasn't nun
an fer me to clear out. I didn't wait
fer him to tell me twice. I'll bet,
though, ho talked mighty sharp to his
daughter after1 I'd gone.
I sees a good many funny things
carry in' round messages, but I never seed
auythin' like that before.
III. TDK TKI.EOKAl'U OPERATOR S STORY.
Something rather out of the common
happened at our office last evening. The
following message was scut from C :
Vim Nuiia Godfrey, l'tt Kenyon avenue:
Come at ouee If possible. V. ill is vary low.
Iik. Otto Hohmipt.
The mrssago was delivered to Miss
Godfrey, and about 9 o'clock the lady's
father came into tho office. Tho clerk
having stepped out for a roomeut, I got
up to wait on him.
Mr. Godfrey wanted to know if we
had a copy of tho telegram that came
for his daughter that evening. I told him
that I was acquainted with the content,
lie then wanted to know if I would tell
him what was in it. Ho said that he was
not at home when the ruewue rame;
that his daughter had goue out and left
the message for him, but that the ser
vants ksd nWaid it.
As Mr. Godfrey is a well known citi
rcn I complied with his request. The
contents of the telegram bad an entirely
dilfonut effect upon him from what 1
expected. Initr.d of being surprised or
shocked, it seemed to make him very
angry. Ho recovered hiniaelf quickly,
however, and with a curt "Much
obliged" Lo walked out. I wonder who
Will M
IV, T1IS COJiUCCTOM'i STOKT.
There was oue incident ronuerted
with the accldcut to my ttain lost night
that I did not give to the reporters.
A young lady boarded the train at
It whom I recoguiied as the daugh
ter of John Godfrey, oue of the stock
holders of the road, hlie had a ticket
for C , and I noticed when I stopped
at her seat that she was jale aud agi
tated. After the accideut sliewas one
of the fit st to get clear of the wreck,
and did not appear to be injured.
Luckily the engine was uot disabled,
the accident having been caiued by the
rails spreading just as the ba'ge car
passed over thorn, and I determined to go
to C for assistance. I was consulting
with the engineer when Miss Godfrey
touched me on the arm and begged ear
nestly to be allowed to ride on the en
gine to C . It was a case of life and
death, l ho said.
She appeared so distressed at the
thought of delay, that I told the engineer
to take her with him. She was up in the
cab in an instant,and they "pulled out"
at once, so that ono of my passengers at
least arrived at C nearly on time.
V. THE DETECTIVE BTORT.
A dispatch was received at headquar
ters last evening from R , requesting
the department to send a man down to
the station and arrest a young woman
who was on tho 10 :40 express from the
East. I was detailed for tho work.
I waited around the station until near
ly train time, and then heard a rumor
that there had been a wreck down tho
road. I investigated and found that
such was the case ; in fact the accident
had occurred to tho very train I was
waiting for. I obtained permission to go
on the relief train, and when wo arrived
at tho scene of tho wreck I commenced
to look around for the young womnn.
As I could find no ono who answered
to tho description sent, I made Inquiries
of the conductor and learned that the per
son I was after had gono up to C on
the engine that brought tho news of the
accident to tho city. It was after three
A. M. before I got bock and made my
report, and they decided not to do any
thing more about tho matter until they
heard again from It.
The accident was a costly ono for the
railroad company, but a lucky one for
the young woman. Had it not occurred
she would have spent tho night in the
station houso.
VI. TIIE DOCTORS STORT.
For the last threo weeks I havo been
tending an old schoolmate of mine. His
name is Will Holbrook and he has been
very low with brain fever. Ho was at
one timo quite well off, but lost every
thing by an unlucky speculation, and
was forced to accept a clerkship with
ono of tho firms with which bo had for
merly done business. A too steady
application to his duties, coupled with
great depression of mind, brought on
his illness, which has threatened to ter
minate fatally more than once.
I noticed just before ho gave up how
badly he was looking, and one evening
when he called at my office he confided
everything to mo. The loss of every
thing he possessed was naturally a heavy
blow to him, but it was nothing in com
parison to what it had brought with it
the breaking oft of his engagement
with the woman he loved.
Her name was Nena Godfrey, and they
bad been engaged for about a year. As
soon as her father heard of the change
in Will a affairs, he wrote to him, giving
him to understand that he could do
longer regard him as a future son-in-law.
On learning, however, that Miss
Godfrey's heart was unchanged toward
him, Will determined not to give her
up, and to make evory effort in his power
to regain his lost fortune as quickly as
possible.
When he was taken sick I hid him
brought to my house, and during his de
lirium, he would keep asking for Nena;
then he would imagine that she was
with him, and would implore her not to
leave him. Late yesterday afternoon he
became so much worse, and begged so
piteoudy for her to come to him that I
sent Miss Godfrey a telegram, and about
eleven o'clock in the morning I was in
formed that she was waiting for me in
the office. I went to her at once.
She attempted to rise as I entered the
room, but sank back on her chair as
though completely exhausted, I at
tributed this to perturbation, and hast
ened to quiet her fears about Will.
She insisted upon seeing him without
delay.
Will seemed to bo conscious of her
presence the moment she knelt by his
bedsido and took his hand. Ho became
more composed, and at last sank into a
doze, still holding her hand. This lasted
until midnight, and then he opened his
eyes ana 1 saw tuat no would iivo. lie
spoke her name in a whisper, and tried
to raise her baud to bis lips, bne made.
no sound, but gave him a look of love
and tenderness that he understood at
once, and he closed his eyes again as
though bcr mere presence was all ho
asked. After he had lost himself, Miss
Godfrey looked up at me, aud the ex
pression on my face told her the glad
truth. The next instant she had fuiuted.
I carried her into the adjoining room
and called my wife. She came to my as
sistance at once, and, after we had
worked over Miss Godfrey for a few mo
ments, she opened her eyes and said,
with a faiut smile:
"I am sorry to make you so much
trouble, but I think mr arm is hurt, and
that is what made me faint. The train
on which I left K met with au acci
dent, aud I guess that I have not escaped
uninjured.
On making an examination I found
that her left wrist was sprained and the
forearm considerably bruised. Although
suffering intense pain, the plucky little
woman had managed to keep mu in ig
uorance of her injuries until sho kuew
whether her lover would live or die.
did cvei thing for her that my skill sug
gested, and then forced her to take some
rest. A couch was arranged for her in
the room adjoining Will s, and, al
though sho obtained but little sleep-
she was up every hour to look at hiin
and ask how he was her condition this
morning was much hotter than I had ex
pectcd.
Shortly after daylight some ons rang
the cilice bell, and when I opeued the
door I kuew instinctively that the man
landing before me was John Godfrey
He stepped iuto tho office, told me his
name, aud ooked if Ins daughter was in
th. houM. I tol I him that sho was, aud
he requutcd Lie to send her to him
Whatever his fucliuga toward me were
he did not show them.
I weut to Miss Godfrey aud informed
her that her father was waiting to see
her. bha tremblod for a& iustaat, and
then closed hef lips 6cf her firm liltlo
mouth and went to him without a word,
I had placed her arm in a sling, and tho
pain and emotion she had lately under
gone had left their marks on her face. I
was sure that the sight of her would
move hef father td pity.
What took place during tho interview
I did not learn. It lasted for over an
hour, and then I was called. I was not
unprepared for the scene that met my
gaze. Hena was holding her father s
hand, and Mr. Godfrey a eyes showed
that ho had been shedding tears. Ncna
turned to me with a happy smile.
"Fa thor has forgiven us," she said.
Detroit Fret Preu.
An Eccentric Lord In Colorado.
The familiar form of Lord Ogilvio has
not been seen this week in the vicinity
of tho Victoria notel, where he makes
his headquarters during recent visits to
the city. According to report Lord
Ogilvio is spending a brief vacation at
Los Vegas, N. M., to test the benefit of
the mud baths and to get rid of the de
bilitating effects of tho races. In speak
ing of this remarkable character, for all
who know Lord Ogilvio will agree that
he has capacities of a high order, a gen
tleman said yesterday: "I have never
known Ogilvio to go to bed while paying
his periodical visits to this city. Thirty
minutes sleep in a chair each twenty -four
hours is about all his system seems to re
quire and he awakens apparently as re
freshed as if be had slept all night. Ho
is only twenty-eight years of age and first
dropped into Denver about ten years ago
on a visit to the mountains with his
father. Tho elder Ogilvio took sick at
at the Windsor Hotel, and died after a
brief illness. Tho remains wero sent to
Scotland for buriul in tho old family
vault. Ogilvio is remarkably well read
upon subjects, and when at homo on his
ranch, near Greeley, he spends the main
part of his time poring over books. He
is peculiar, ono of his peculiarities being
his manner of dress and the odd-looking
plaid vest by which he is recognized all
over the West. That vest,' said he to
me ono day, 'is patented, and no other
man in tho world can wear a vest just
like mine. I have a contract, duly signed
with the firm in England manufacturing
the material, that it is never to bo dupli
cated except at my order.' Tho vest is
of immense dimensions, and when
stretched at full length extends nearly
to the knees of tho wearer. Its only or
nament is a huge steel watch chain, which
is also made upon a pattern peculiar to
itself. Ogilvio dresses plainly, but always
wears a flannel shirt with high collar,
starched perfectly stiff and fortified by a
high cravat of pongee silk.
"I have visited him at his ranch," con
tinued the narrator, "and it would bo
difficult to imagine a more royal welcomo
than is accorded by Ogilvio to his friends.
He lives in the enjoyment of all the good
things that might be desired, and takes
special prido in his herds of blooded
horses and cattle. I was surprised at the'
extent of his wardrobe. Ho showed me
at least fifteen trunks full of clothing, all
mado by Poole, the London tailor, and
not one suit in tho lot has Ogilvio ever
worn. I'll venture to sny that he has 150
complete suits of clothes on band. Take
him all in all, he is the strangest con
glomeration of oddities to he found in
the Stato of Colorado." Denver Newt.
"It's a Shop, Sir!"
I had an experience all my own in
Lock & Co.'s hat store, in St. James
street, writes Julian Ralph in an article
on London, published by llarper't
Weekly. The aged proprietor displnys
ancient bonnets aud caps in his window,
which is kept scrupulously dusty. Not
ing this, I said, "This must be a very
old store indeed."
"Store?" said tho man. "It's no
store at all ; it's a shop, sir. I call a
store a place for the salo of a miscellane
ous lot of goods; but this is a shop, Bir.
You ought to be moro careful in your
use of terms."
If that was rudeness and I do not
know how great he considered his prov
ocation it was the only rudeness I ex
perienced from any shopkeeper. Biit I
learned from that incident not to say
store. And before I left England I had
swelled my iulex expurgulorius to the
extent that I seldom used tho following
words: Guess; yes, sir; glass (for
tumbler); railroad; horse car; cents; fix;
store; or pad of paper. "Block of pa
per," they said, when I at last got them
to understand that I wanted a pad.
"Guess" and "fix" are pure American
isms, aud are to be used or not as you
want to attract curious attention or to
avoid it; but the most difficult thing for
many Americans in England was to
avoid saying "sir" to a strauger who
who addrossed them or to an old gentle
man. "Yes, sir," and "no, sir," over
there are ,the verbal iusiguia of a ser
vant. Mysteries of Amber.
Amber has only recently como to be
understood. The ancients regarded it
as altogether mysterious aud even magi
cal, says the Washington Star. They
found that it was rendered electrical by
friction so as to attract light substances,
and our word "electricity" comes from
the Greek name for amber, which was
"electron." A favorite puzzle with them
was how the insects so frequently fouud
inclosed in amber camo to be so situated.
I have myself seen a chunk of very
transparent amber in which a small liz
ard with five legs was enc od, looking
as if it might have been alive yesterday,
though doubtless it had been dead foi
thousands of years. Tho mystery of this
sort of phenomenon is easily enough ex
plained when it is understood that am
ber is actually the fossil gum of an ex
tinct kind of cone bearing tree. In the
process of hardening it imprisoned the
flies and other creatures preserved in tho
chunks of it that are found to-day.
The finest specimen of amber iu Eu
rope is a cup wade of that material, now
at the Brighton Museum, England . Am
ber now is worth from $i to $50 s
pound, according to its quality. The
moat important uses made of it is foi
meerschaum and other pipes.
A CRUSTACEAN COLLECTION
AN EXTftAOaCT WAHT EXHIBITION
OF OBABS AMD &OB9TX&S.
"Trllobitea" Twenty Million ot Years
Old A. Forty Pound Lobster
The HI a Coooannt Crab.
The most wonderful exhibition of crabs
and lobsters ever seen in this world will
be placed on permanent view in Wash
ington as soon as the Smithsonian Insti
tute gets its new building. At present
the collection is stored away out of sight,
for want of space to show it properly. In
this exhibition will bo displayed for the
instruction of tho nation members of the
crustacean family that were actually alive
during the earliest geological epoch
twenty millions of years ago.
These "trilobites," as they are called,
were contemporary with the earliest
creatures that lived ujon the earth. They
are taken out of the rock to-day as per
fect as when they were inclosed in the
shelly mud 200,000 centuries ago; the
cry facets of their eyes are as distinct as
in lifo. If you like you may find any
number of thoir direct descendants in the
horseshoe crabs on the sea beach. The
horseshoe crabs, Indeed, may fairly be
cillcd the oldest creature in the world,
being but a slightly modified trilobite,
and thus representing the very most an
ciont family that anything is known
about. In comparatively modern times
only 18,000,000 years ago some crus
taceans attained gicat size. Frogs in
thoso days used to grow as big as men
are now, and thought nothing of hopping
two or threo blocks' distanco at one
jump; it was the ago of things gigantic,
and a lobster-like creature, Bix feet in
length, called the "ptcrygotus," prowled
the watery shallows then in search of
prey.
It is not so very many years now sinco
lobsters were captured weighing as much
as forty pounds apiece. There is ono
such in tho Smithsonian collection, three
feet long in tho body and with claws big
and strong enough to crush your clenched
fist. Unfortunately the business of lob
sters has been carried on for a century or
so past with so much eagerness that nil
the big ones pretty nearly havo been taken
and eaten.
To find a giant crustacean to-day you
must go to tho eastern shore of Asia,
where disports himself tho enormous
Japanese crab, which has claws which
spread twelve feet. Even tho crabs of
Rider Haggard's fancy did not attain the
dimensions of this Asiatic realty. One
of tho most extraordinary of tho Smith
sonian's specimens is a "cocoanut crab"
a tremendously powerful looking crea
ture, so big that when tightly folded up
it will fill a four-gallon glass jar. This
is the crab that climbs tho cocoanut tree,
and after plucking tha fruit tears off tho
outer husk with its mighty claws and
then knocks in tho shell in one of the
"eyes," subsequently digging out the
meat with tho long and narrow pair of
I incers provided by nature for this pur
pose. - This cocoanut crab inhabits tho
islands of the Indian ocean. It accumu
lates surprising quantities of tho picked
fibers of the cocoanut, which it uses as a
bed ; tho flesh is very good to eat, and
under its tail is a mass of fat which some
times yields as much as a quart oV limpid
oil. Among other strange crabs in the
Smithsonian collection is a smaller va
riety of this samo species which lives in
a burrow at tho root of a fruit tree.
Then there is tho "painted crab" of tho
West Indies, which is a land animal; it
used to exiBt there in countless numbers,
and indulged annually in a migration to
tho sea coast, moving always in a compact
army. During such migrations they wero
caught in great numbers and so have be
come almost extinct. A crab from tbo
Barbadoes is remarkable for its swiftness
in running, which has given it the name
of the "horseman crab." Tho "dorippo"
is a species of crab quite plentiful on the
Bhores of the Adriatic, which has two
logs on its back a great inconvenience,
since, if turned bottom side up, it can
run just as well that way.
One remarkable, crab in tho Smithso
nian collection is entirely covered with
what looks like whitish moss, but is in
reality something between tho vegctablo
and the animal. All crabs of that va
riety have a coat of this sort to render
them indistinguishable by their enemies
and unrecognizablo by their prey. An
other kind of crab is always covered en
tirely with growing sponge, save only
his eyes, antenna; and the tips of his
claws. He hides in crevices whero
sponge grows among tho rocks, and be
comes as much liko them as ho knows
how. A crab from the Pacific coast is
invariably fouud with sea anemones
growing all over his back and legs.
Another from tho same region has largo
tubes with which it sucks water iuto its
lungs by way of breathing. Still an
other California crab has a very neatly
made snuff-box underneath its body for
holding eggs, which closes with a snap
fastening just like a real snuff-box. A
crab with a long beak aud legs that
look like straws is also from the Pa
cific. One of the fiercest crabs known is
plentiful on the coast of South America.
It is also culled tho "rock crab"and hides
in crevices among stones. It is captured
generally by dropping a hook on tho end
of a string into its lair, when it will seize
the hook in anger and permit itself to bo
hauled out by its own grip, which is so
strong that the claw will still bite pow
erfully after it has boen pulled off from
the animal. A funny crab is tho "mess
mate," which one finds iu oysters; it
does not harm the bivalve, but merely
lives in the shell with it aud feeds upou
whatever tho oyster gets to eat. t'iuayo
Timet.
Tho government statistician of New
South Wales has estimated the population
of Australia at the beginnlug of tho cur
rent year to be 3,78(1,798. This is an
increase during 1889 of 113,995, or 3.10
per cent. The population of New Zealand
is now (120,279, an increase during tho
year of 12,899.
Columbia is tho wealthiest of Ameri
can universities, and Harvard comes
next.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
The population of the world doubles
Itself every 360 years.
A new deposit of zinc ore has just
been found near Bloomsburg, Penn.
The strawberry contains 90.52 per
cent, water and 9.49 per cent, dry
matter.
A Philadelphia syndicate has just
struck a solid mass of native copper in
Michigan.
The baryta deposits on McKellar's
Island, Canada, are now being worked.
Experts pronounce this to bo tho finest
deposit in America.
Along tho shore of Hudson Bay there
has recently been discovered gold, sil
ver, copper, soapstone, mica, plumbago
and lead, besides iron ore.
Paint the tongues of your fever pa
tients with glycerine, says a physician ;
it will remove the sensation of thirst and
discomfort felt when the organ is drj
and foul.
The object-glass of the Lick telescope
in California has an area of 1018 square
inches. The next largest, that at Pul
kowa in Russia, has an area of only 706
square inches.
To fill up cracks in a boat, melt equal
parts of pitch and gutta pcrcha iu an
iron pot; thoroughly mix by stirring.
Make up in sticks and melt into th
cracks with a warm iron.
With tho view of testing the rapidity
of electric welding, twenty pieces ol
one-inch common round iron bars, with
rough ends, wero recently welded to
gether by two men in thirteen minutes.
Blacksmiths can start a fire by pound
ing violently a rod of soft iron, first
spreading on tho anvil n layer of pow
dered coal dust. This is a good illus
tration of tho conversion of force into
heat.
Several of tho larger machinery-making
concerns of tho North ore so crowded
with work that they aro now obliged to
refuse orders. There is a very urgent
demaud for electrical machinery, espec
ially. It is claimed that wall paper can bo
mado in such a way that tho passages of
low tension elcctrio currents will heat it
moderately warm to tho touch, and dif
fuses throughout the room an agrecablo
temperature.
Tho conclusions reached by modern
meteorologists are that cycloucs of great
intensity am ascending spiral whirls of
wind having a rotary motion in a direc
tion in tho northern hemisphere opposite
to tho movement of the hands of a
watch.
Photography has apparently dis
proved tho thoorios of tho old-school
meteorologists who maintained that
lightning never turned back in its path.
An examination of lightning photography
shows that a flash not only turns back
sometimes, but tangles itself into a kind
of knot.
An excellent thing to soften leather is
castor oil. Tha leather should lir.it bo
washed and softened with warm water
and then wiped, and while still damp
well oiled and tho oil rubbed in. A lit
tle carbolic a-dd in the leather will deter
rats or mice from gnawing the leather.
After the oil is soaked in a finishing may
bo given with any of the shoe polishes
now in conrnon use.
Stature of Various Nations.
According to tho investigations of the
Anthropological Committee of tho British
Association, recently reported, the mean
stature of the Germans does not rise
above five feot.fivo and one-eighth inches;
while the Swiss average is a littlo
greater, being five feet, seven and four
fifths inches. The English are the tall
est race among men, their average height
being five feet, ten inches, the working
classes included, outside of which tho
average stature would amouut to only
five feet, nino inches. Tho Norwegiaua,
however, are, at least, their equals. Tho
Danes, Dutchmen and Hungarians aver
age five feet and eight inches; the Swisa
Russians and Belgians, five feet and seven
and four-fifths inches. The Frenchman's
meaq stature does not rise above fivo feet
and five and one-eighth inches. In Ger
many there appears a decided difference of
size between the inhabitants of the South
and thoso of tho North; for example, the
Hanoverians and Bavarian' in favor of
the former. The smallest of all European
nations are tho Italians and Spauiards,
who show a mean of only five feet and five
iuches. AVhilo, as mentioned, tho work
ingmcn of England evince an average
superiority of bodily size, in France tho
other classes exhibit a mean measure by
nearly an inch exceeding that of tho
laboring population. CourUr-Jvurnal.
A Grateful Pickpocket. "
When John Murphy was arraigned at
tho bar in the Court of Gcuerul Sessions
roccutly be had no money with which to
pay a lawyer. The chargo was grand
larceny he had stolen a watch. Law
yer Coatello was assigned by tho court
to defend him. Mr. Costullo did his
best for the man, aud succeeded iu pro
curing a short sentence of two years aud
nine months for him.
As he was led away Murphy turned to
the lawyer and said : "I thauk you for
what you have done for uie. I cannot
do auythiug for you now, but just as
soon us I get out of prison you shall have
the first yellow clock I get." The yellow
clock is, in the parlance of thieves, s
watch, and Murphy is a professional
pickpocket. .iDM J
fLli"i".
Bismarck Caps Von Moltae's Sentiment
A'ounglaily one day requested Mollis
and Bismarck to write a few Words iu
her album. The M.iilial took up the
pen first and wrote: "Falsehood paj-MMi
away; truth remains. Von Multkc,
Field Marshal." After reading what
Moltke had written, Bismurck look th
pen aud added the following "1 know
very well that truth prevails iu the nut
world, but iu the meantime a Field Mar
shal himself would be powcrli H'iml
falsehood in tis world Von lnmii W,
Chancellor of th Empire. "JS'en X'jri
H'erM.
MEARTS-EASB
Heart's-ease Is better than wealth, yon know, I
Or than fame or culture; so let us go
To find the bights where heart' s-eose must;
grow,
Binco we crave It so. - j
Hien we wandered through many a pleasant
land;
The journey was sweet, hand clapped In
hand; .
But we found not the heart's-easa w had .
planned
On those highU so grand. ,
And I asked of one whom I saw below,
Had he seen tha flower? lie answer "ITo;
But I should think heart's-mse ought to grow
In the heart, you know."
So I looked down into my heart; behold f )
It was full of heart's-ease, yellow as gold;1
As much as the happy heart could hold;
So my love I told.
And Into his heart he looked to w 1
It was full to the brim as full could b
Of purple heart's-eaM in bloom; ah, met
How dull were we I
"But I don't like yellow," I murmured low; '
"I like purple better; don't yonf O, nol
"I do Uke yellow," he said; and to '
We exchanged, you know.
I carry his heart's-ease in my hand; I
He carries mine; do you understand! '
Each is safer; better than we had planned
Is heart's-eaM JanJ.
And this Is the moral I've pointed so;
If the sweetest of heart's-ease you would
sow,
In somebody else's heart let it grow,
If you'd like to know.
Alice jr. Jlollin, in Indcpciulcnt,
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A freak of fashion Tho Dudo.
Rough on the old man His wrinkles.
If all flesh is grass mummies must be
hay.
A fur rug should always bo laid down
side up.
Sickness is Nature's way of saying
"I told you so."
Who are the contracting parties! Girls
that lace. Epoch.
Other gamo is losing ground, but tho
deer always keeps up his lick.
A joko is novcr good until It is cracked,
and not always then. Tlaj.i119ton Star.
"Is your cook French?" "No; Ameri
can. Sort of Pan-American." llarper't
Bazar.
When the green man comes to town
and drops his yellow metal ho deports
very blue. Pud.
AU things come to him who waits; so
he shouldn't kick if bud luck comes
amongst them. Puck.
Black "Say, White, can you tell me
what alligators esti" "White "AU
Uve ones do, I believe." Life.
Tho woman who is cold to all but gold
nuirht to hava tha arctic circle for an ai-.
gagemeut ring. Botton Gazette.
How doth the little busy bee
Improve the passing hours .
In gathering up tho sweets of life,
And dodging all the sours I
Puck.
Tourist Do we stop hero long enough
for luncheon!" Brakcinan We do, un
less you insist on eating a whole sand
wich. Life. .
First Mato "Well, sjr, things are go
ing smooth now, sir." Captuin "Yes.
hut is because several of tho suitors havo
Teen ironed." Lippineoll't.
A flirting woman can cnuso more
trouble to mankind than a devastating
army, but she is very much nicer than
tho devastating army, after all. Somer
title Journal.
There's Another Leap Year Coming
"Why don't the youug men marry I"
queried her young sister. "I supposo
they are not asked," absently replied tho
brido of 1888. Pucl:
Hostess "Mr. Fccjce.let me help you
to some of the roast beef." Reformed
Cannibal (with a wistful, retrospective
nigh) "No, I tank you. Me vegetarian
now." Chicago Tribune.
"What are you reading, my dearl"
asked a member of the Chicago Literary
Society of her daughter. "The autobio
graphy of Thomas Jefferson, ma." "Who
wrote it" Au Torh Suit.
"I'll be a sister to you, John," said she,
And then h. rose and kissed her.
"I've always felt I'd like," said he,
"To have an elder sister."
-Vr u J'orfc Sun,
Medical Profossor in Charge of the
Dissccting-Itoom "Gentlemen, may I
ask what you did with the subject when
you retired?" Medical Studeut "Wa
laid it on the table," Burlin gton Fret
l'reu.
First Kentuckiun "How did Colonel
Strutter get bis military title, do you
knowt" Second Kentuckian "Yes;
when he was a young man he used to
drill holes iu a quarry." Detroit Fret
Preu.
Pay-day I with gold was ''',
Sunday still I chiuked my "tin;"
Monday I but silver had,
Tuiwtlay blew my nickel In:
Wednewlay my last "ooper spun,
TliurUy borrowed 011 my "brass;"
Frtilay, when I got a duu,
lrou pierced uiy soul, aiiul
lick.
"The cruiser Phihidclphi.1 made nine
teen kuots an hour. By tho way, par
son, what is your best time?" The Chi
cago minister thought a moment. "My
boot I thiuk was sixteen. But theu
threo of them had never been married
before, aud, of course, their inexperience
ranted soma little delay." PiitHttpiM
Timet.
A Farm Without Whip
There is a beautiful farm just back of
Occuu Hprius, .Miss., owned by Mr.
Parker Earle, who, very wisely, ailoVs
no uo man ou thu pla -e to use a w hip
on any of thu stock. It is said Unit there
is but oue old whip ou the furui, prob
ably a relic of Mime oilier owner, but
tha old whip is uot uwl, aud the furia
does well and the aiiimaia work with a
will and never feel thu lash. Kiuduesi
ran ruu anything, even a farm. .Vvj
Or'uan Vayun..