THE FOREST REPUBLICAN ti pabllihed rrtrj Wtdactdsy, kf J. E. WENK. Offio In Bmeaxbaugh A Co.'a Building XLM BTEKIT, T10NBSTA, T. Trmi, ... tl.BO par Yar. M Hibwrljrtlotu recelTe for ihort Mrio4 than thres months. Oorrospondenc olleltad from al mtU f the Country. N nUc will Ukta of aoarmou raniuanlutlou. RATES OF ADVERTISING. On Squire, en Inch, on. Intertlon .;. IN Out Sqosrs, on. Inch, on. month I OS On. Sqnr,OB Inch, thrw mootlii. Ob. Square, Inch, en jiu 10 00 Two Squares, on. year WW qurter Column, ent jmt W 00 Hslf Column, on r to 0 0. Colnmn, on rear MO 00 11-11 adnrtlMBienti tta cent fn Ut uca ht Mrtloa. Msrrlsfes and d.atb aotlcn irrsttt. All Will for vcsrlT sdvertfsemMits eol'fcted qnt terlf . Temporary adrertUeai.iiU mull to paid lb tdr.nce. Jok work tart oa dellverr. For PUBLICAN. VOL. XXIII. NO, 25, TIOJfESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 15, 1890. S1.50 PER ANNUM. According to tlio Chicago Globe, over $100,000,000 of Government 4t per ceuti. will mnturc next year. The American eagle flops it wings to hear tlint New York dentist hits the 1ciutir operating ou the Czar of litis sio. Over 60,000,000 acres of Government land aro yet vacant in New Mexico sub ject to entry under pre-emption, homo itend, timber -culture nnd dcsert-lnnd laws. Undo Sam's loan of ships nnd other naval apparatus to such States as desiro reestablish a naval battalion as a part of the militia has first been accepted by Massachusetts. Tlio Iioumanian Government has of fered prizes to tlio architects of oil na tions for the best plans for its now assem bly and seniito chambers. Tho first prizo for each building is 13000; tho second, (1500; third, u'00. Tho villugo of Mokcna, III., about for ty miles south of Chicago, passed an or dinanco requiring tho Rock Island llail road to placo a flagman at tho principal crossing, nnd the company complied, but refused cither to tako freight or passen gers until tho ordinance was rescinded. Germany has ono doctor to 1500 of population; Franco one to 31C7; tho United Kingdom ono to 1231; but tho United States ono to COO. That says a good deal for tho doctors, comments tho Now Orleans Timei-Democrat; for tho average American is longer-lived than any of the nationalities named. Where tho Argentines.. havo failed as amateur bankers, says on English jour nalist recently returned from Buenos Ayres, properly qualified men of Eu ropean experience might achieve a great success. With even moderately good politics, and moderately sound banking tho Argentine, crisis might be solved in year or two. Without them it can only go from bad to worse. e... -i Tho Prairie Farmer docs not tako much stock in the suggestion of a cou tractor of Chicago, to pump out the lako front after building a coffer-dam around 800 or 400 acres of water. To build tho world's 7air in tho bottom of tho lake would be unique; tho project is feasible, of courso, but who wants to go down tweuty feet below tho watei lino to seo a great exposition? There would be con stant dread of a possiblo inbreak of the waters! If so, what then? A great scare and loss of life. The world's fair will not be held ou tho bottom or the top of Lako Michigan. The Spenler of London has made a study of novel heroes. Out of 192 of these gentlemen that came out bctwecu October and Juuo last it is discovered that ighty-Uvo stood six feet, whilo many were cveu taller. Compared with those of tho nine mouths preceding last October the heroes of tho period in ques tion nlinw .n iiiercaso iu height averag ing three-quarters of an inch per hero. It is observed that lady writers show ti marked tendency to make their male characters tall. Tho reading publio would willingly allow some of tho fair novelists tho right to leugtheu their he rocs to any extent if they could only bo induced to shorten their stories. At a place called Fort Fine, in or near Natal, South Africa, a local chief re cently summoned a native doctor to ut teud his wife, or ono of his wives. What tho ailment was is not known, but the remedy prescribed by the doctor was human fut. Like some of his profession in other parts of tho world, the doctor was a plump man and t!io chief prompt ly ordered him to bo killed and adminis tered to the illustrious patient. This was done and the chief is now awaiting his trial at Maritzburg in consequence. "For its own credit," comments the Timet-Democrat, "it is to be hoped that British law will deal mercifully with this potentate, who seems to have a practical sense of justice as well as a dtoll vein of humor." The Shot and Leather Reporter says: "A noticeable thing about the statues found in our museums of art, and sup . posed to represent the perfect figures of ancient men and women, is the apparent disproportionate size of their feet. We moderns are apt to prououueo them too large, particularly those of the women. It will be found, however, that for sym metrical perfection these feet could not be better. A Greek sculptor would not think of such a thing as putting a nine inch foot on a five-aud-oue-httlf-foot wo man. Their types for these classical marble figures were taken from the best forms of living persons." The Reporter goes on to show that a well proportioned woman of ten feet three inches in height should have a foot teu inches long and should wear a No. 6. Courage, fuir sisters of Chicago; it is true that your ftet are big, but they are chtssical feet. -Ol DISCONTENT. A BALLAD WITH A DOUBLE) BKFRAIit. (t Is not In man to be quite content, You may fill his cup till It overflow, STou may pay him his due, yes, cent percent, But he'd rather have this or that, you kaow; Or be somebody else, like so-and-so And fortune's favors may pour and pour, And the zephyrs of fame propitious blow, But tho average man wants something more I Indulge a man to the top of his bent, In love, war, politics give him a show, And when he wins he's sure to repent He'd rather have this or that, you know 1 To Congress ho no longer wants to go Or the c'rl he used to love and adore. Won and his wife, snems a little slow And the average man wants something more ! Not the winter alone brings discontent, Though he bitterly growls at the frost and snow The seasons to worry him all are sent, And he'd rather have this or that, you know. When the mercury's high he wants it low; Some feature or other he's sure to deplore; The pessimist pine for an unknown woe, And the average man wants something more. envoi . The harvest lacks something whatevor he sow,; And he'd rather have this or that, you know; Tou may give of nil things good galore, But the average man wants something more. Hepburn Johns, in Pittsburg Dispatch. MISS VASSAR'S DIAMONDS. I1Y LOIS GREY. The marriage of Miss Vassar was of the sort of which people talk. It out raged that sense of fitness which the world nnHiiejMen Ml strnnplv in retrnrd tn ! the marriage, not of itself, but of its frienr's. A few, to be sure, objected that nothing could be fitter. Miss Vas sar, if not quito in her first youth and not what ono might call pretty, had inherited all the millious of her father; Louis lladctsky had no millions whatever, but he was young and the handsomest man in town. Whatever might or might not bo (aid, Helen Vassar was happy. Her gentle, sympathetic eyes had certain depths now adays that mado Leslie lladctsky think her almost good looking. Leslio spent much of her time in the largo Vassar country house now. This was natural. Sho was Louis's adopted sister. At this instant she sat lazily watching Helen givSig orders to her maid for the toilet she would wear that night. Miss Vassar's invitation had been out three weeks for her great ball. A small gold-bound cofltr was open before her, and from the delicate, scented satin of its lining tho liquid fire of dia monds, the living whiteness of pearls, de tached themselves. The new maid moved about silent and obsequious. "You are careless," said Leslio in a moment in which the woman left the room. "How long havo you had that person? You lock up nothing and you really know nothing of Clcmcnce." "She came excellently recommended." Leslie shrugged her shoulders. She was a tall girl, dark nnd slight, almost to thinness, which did not prevent her having arms and a throat so beautiful that, when in a ballroom people followed her with their eyes. Her glance was deep and a little restless. She had mag nificent hair and hands nnd feet that rivaled her throat in beauty. Never theless no one spoke of her as pretty. "I feel defrauded that Louis cannot come to-night," said Helen Vassar, tak ing up tho thread of an interested con versation. "What business so urgent that ho must ubsolutely leave town to day?" "You may be sure it is urgent. Of course it's unfortunate." "How firm you nre in your allegiance to Louis," smiled Louis's betrothed. "You would question nothing ho might do. You aro exemplnry brother and sister. You are very devoted." "Very devoted," said Leslie. Tho maid had re-entered tho room. Sho had a note which she gave to Miss lladctsky. The latter opened and read it through. She was rather silent for awhile. Then she got up and with somo passing excuse went out. A half hour later she returned, dressed for the street. "Will you let mo havo the brougham? I have thought of something I want in town. I shall have timo to drivo in and back before dinner." "Can't I send some one?" asked Ilelen. "No, I prefer to go myself." "Just as you like, of course. Nat urally, ring for the brougham whenever jou please." It was a crisp autumn afternoon and the horses traveled rapidly. When they reached town Miss Rudetsky stopped at a large shop and bade the coachmun wait. She walked through the crowded aisles leisurely and finally issued into another street through an opposite door. Then (he began to accelerate her step. She walked about teu minutes and stopped at length before a bschalor apartment house. Sho took the elevator and rang at a door. It opened almost simul taneously and she eutered a large room with partly drawn curtains. Louis closed and doublo locked the door again. By this time Leslie. had become accus tomed to the seeming obscurity. When Louis turned she saw his face distinctly. A tremor seized her knees and hands. She sank into a chair und fastened her eyes upon him. "Tell tho whole truth," she said. "Something horrible has happened. I have felt the catastrophe cowing a long time." He had thrown himself down beside her. His beauty was defaced like a Greek god prone in the dust. He begna iu broken phrases, which il lumined the situation for tlio listening woman as flushes of lightning illuwiues a black landscape. Leslie never spoke. Tho last carriage rolling away from Miss Vassar's ball faced tho lato rising moon. The day had been cool nnd tho night had a warning of winter. There were sounds of closing doors, of moving footsteps, about tho great house for a half hour or more. On tho landing of the first floor Helen said good night to her guest and tho women separated and went to their rooms. Tho last light wag extinguished after a time nnd every thing sank into silence. Tho creaking of n door woke no echo iu the wido hall. A window at the end of it admitted moonlight cloistcral in its whiteness. It just touched a softly step ping figure dressed in black. In black, of course. How could one tell what trick a stroy moonbeam falling on white might play? Miss Vassar slept behind locked doors. But between her bedroom and the hall was a small boudoir. There was moon light enough here also. Enough, at least, to see one's way to the curious cnbinotof inlaid Japanese woods that stood in one corner. A fragile thing in appearance, but not fragile in reality, unless you hap. peneu to know tho mccUauism of its sec ret drawers. When you did, what moro easy than to touch a spring and assist the hinge that noisclcsiiy turned, exposing the in distinct contour of the woll-known coffer behind? Tho box was light of weight, despite tho value it represented. But thore swift, dexterous fingers had no thought of carrying It. Already they had pressed tho secret spring lock that opened it and lifted the padded tray. Just then tho moon passed under a cloud. But thcro was no possibility of mistake in tho touch of those cold chained stones, slipping, like a snake, against the palm. This was the wonderful Vassar necklace, enriched, in three successive generations, by gems scarce anvwherc to be matched Tho tray was replaced, the coder put back, the hingo turned. The Japanese cabinet stood in its corner as if no alien touch had violated it. The dark figure, in the light of the reappearing moon, glided from the room as noiselessly as it had glided in. "That wretched woman has been sen tenced to ten years in tho penitentiary." For days Miss Vassar had been op pressed as with a weight. Even the preparations for her approaching lnar riaire seemed scarcely to arouse her. She had taken a liking to the neat little French maid so short a time in her ser vice before she ht.d been arrested for tho theft of the Vassar necklace. Even now, with every proof of her guilt, she could not, apparently, convict her iu her own mind or appease ncr regrets. "I thiuk you nro morbid," said Leslie Radetsky, quietly. "What is to prevent people from getting their deserts in this world? ' 'How cruel you look when you say that!" exclaimed Miss Vassar with a note of pain iu her voice. "Well, some one who knew something of phraseology, physiognomy all tho rest of it told me once that I was cruel Cruel, unscrupulous," added the girl with a smile. "Uuscrupuloug when 1 had an end to gain. "Don't sny those things," exclaimed her friend, as before. "You are always saving them latterly. Why? "Ah, why, why?" cried the girl with a shrug ol her beautiful shoulders. Was sho really changed? she asked herself a little later as she went down iu the wide grounds. Sho had slipped on a thick jacket and walked with a rapid step over tho frozeu snow. The winter day was breathless and clear. The icy stillness seemed to cool her head and hauds. Oh, this foverishness that would not go out of her veins 1 But, outward ly, was she not perfectly calm? Sho hud grown hard. Of course. Hard, bitter, reckless; all the rest of it. She gavo a low laugh in the silence of the empty, leafless alleys. How could one help that? It was cither to do that or to go mad, perhaps ! Sho stopped abruptly with a light trembling of the limbs. She had heard an approaching stop. It was Louis. He had left his trap nt tho gato aud was walking up through the grounds to the house. "I thought I should moet you here," he said. His voice shook and his pallor struck through all her bewilderment with a sort of terror. "Do you know that that woman has been seuteuced to ten years ten years imprisonment?" "Yes, I know." "God iu heaven, and you say that so quietly? What nro you mado of ?" His eyes hung upon her with a species of re volting curiosity. "I am made of stud that can face tho consequences of iu actions," sho said in a low voice. "That does not shrink and shrivel like a poor coward like you." "If I have lost my soul, 'tis becauso of you!" cried tho mau us one dis traught. "Did I make you forge a check to save yourself from bankruptcy? Did I make you, when the crime was ou tho eve of discovery, throw yourself un my mercy and ask mo to help you? How was I to help? Was not I as poor as you? I did what I could. I committed a crime in my turn to save you. To allow you, scott free, to marry u rich woman who loved you. To allow you to cast anchor in a safe harbor for tho rest of your das." "And the crime you committed con demns me as it does you," he cried with a shaking voice. "The first weakening of my conscience came through you us well, though you may deny it. Who was it urged me to speculate, urged me to strain out of my obscurity? Who was it llattercd my vanity into thiuking that I was made, intended for tho brilliant tri umphs of lile? You! You have been an evil star to me. A millstone hung around my neck. That my eyes might never rest on you agaiu would be a wish too intense for realization !" He hud gone from her and at last she saw him us he was. This cowuid, this beautiful weakling, too pliant to resist temptation, too nerveless to abide by his misdeeds, wits the creature she hud loved with a blind adoration all her life, who, scarcely a ycftt younger than herself, had been almost ns A son and a brother in one. And was there a nearer love still and it dearer lovd yet, sd deep hidden in the secret recesses of conscioilsdBss that even the heart that harbored it had Hot recognized its presence? It was nil over now. There was ono thing left alone, and that was ever fiiendly. She went back into the Uotlse and wrote two letters. Ono was addressed to Helen Vassar. It accused her, Leslie Iladetsky, of the theft of tho Vassar diamonds, She wanted the money for her own personal uses. No noed ever to nsk what those uses might have been. That would never be discovered. The French maid was innocent. Steps might be taken at onco for her liberation. Suspicion had, of course, been purposely thrown on this woman. Who elso knew where Miss Vassar kept her diamonds who but the new maid nnd Miss Vassar's friend, tho adopted sister of the man she was to marry? Miss Vossnr had wealth in super fluity. Whnt sho had regretted was not tho loss of her diamonds so much as the guilt of a young girl who had impressed her as innocent. Well, that young girl was now absolved. It was true that the adopted sister of her betrothed bore the guilt iustead. But she loved the brother, and for his sake, perhaps, she would drop the veil over a crime expiated as sins could alone be expiated, it was said. Such was the substance of the first letter. The second was written to Louis. "You nre safe, unless you speak your self, which, though you are a coward, I do not think likely. Helen will not seek to know ono detail of my deed. She is noble and Quixotic. She noed never discover that tho necklace passed on to you and was severed and the stones scat tered nnd sold. The French girl is safe, too. I am going where disgrace doos not reach. Strange! I loved you. Can you understand that, I wonder?" Both letters wero found by her side. The room was filled with the odor of bitter almonds and she held tho little vial still clenched in her stiffening hand. Louis lladctsky and the heiress were married abroad a year later. The young man had been for mouths at death's door with a fever of tho brain. They now live in Paris. He has aged and broken rapidly. His health is pool and he has strange hallucinations. But after so ghastly a shock, what more natural, thinks his wife. She cares for him with a wonderful devotion. But there is a sadness in hci face and a curious shadow lingers there at times. Kete York Mercury. Prattled With Her Fingers. A peculiar family attracted the atten tion of the passengers on a Brooklyn Bridge train the other morning. The entire family were deaf and dumb. It consisted of the father, a man ap parently twenty-eight years old, who looked like an industrious mechnnic; the mother, a handsome, neatly dressed woman of about twenty-flve, and a beau tiful child, a little girl under three years of age. It was the child in whom the pas sengers seemed to take the greatest in terest, the little "tot's" actions causing many fricudly smile. Young as she was the child could talk in tho deaf nnd dumb language with ap parent ease, and when her parents, who wero conversing in their peculiar lan guage, mentioned anything that pleased the childish fancy she would laugh and clap her littlo hands, much to tho delight of all who saw her. She was a very shy littlo thing, how ever, and would not leave her mother's side for a moment. An elderly gentle man spoko to her, but she hung her head to one side, looking at him with a bash ful expression in her eyes which appar ently said: "I don't know you, sir, and couldn't speak to you if I did." York Herald. The South's Population. The Manufacturers Record, of Balti more, says: Notwithstanding tho fact that immigration has added over 5,200, 000 foreigners to our population during tho last ten years, none of whom have settled in the South except in very rare cases, and that the great industrial de velopment of this section, with its at tendant Southward trend of men und money, only commenced a few years ago, tho South makes a lino showing of popu lation in 1800 as compared with 1880. Tho preliminary census report gives the population of Southern States as fol lows: is.). Alabama l,5'.o,tK)0 Arkansas . 1,12,000 1SS0. l,2f,50f e(,5SJ 2rtU,4'. 1,54J,KSC l,ff48,(UK l'J,!H U;t4,(HS 1. INLAW! 1,h;iw,75( 11115,57! l,51'J,5iii r.iH,4.".; 1,543, KM l,0yi,74k norma ikih.uou Oeorgia . l.tUO.WH) l,K7(l,0OU Kentucky I.ouUiana Maryland Mississippi North Carolina... Mouth Carolina... Virginia West Virginia.... 1,115,000 1, 00,001) l,W,OIX) 1,I1I0,(KKJ 1,1M7,000 1,700,000 774,0(10 leiinessee. Texas , 175,000 l!,tt4,ou0 18,l,33t The Largest Perfect Diamond. About tweuty companies are engaged in diamond mining iu South Africa, on of which has a capital of $50,000,000. They are nearly nil under the contiol ol the De Beers Syndicate in London, which is limiting the production and in creasing the price. During the month of February, 1B90, there were shipped from Kimberly 130,077 carats of rough and uncut diamonds, valued ut $l,wi!,. 700. In the mines they uro found scat tered through the blue earth iu sizes ranging from 150 carats to the size of a piuhcad. The largest perfect diamond ever brought from the Cape is the "Im perial," owned by a syndicate aud said to be worth fl, 000,000. Next to it comes the "Stewart," of 28t( carats, which wus found iu the Vuul Hiver in 1S72. It was an inch and a quarter in diameter, of a light yellow, variously supposed to be due to vegetable secre tions, the decomposition of fluid, or changes effected by action of heat. Xeu) York Slur, QUEER CHILIAN HARNESS, THIS ACCOUTREMENTS OT A TRANS ANDEAN CARAVAN. A nrlrtle Which in Both Whip and M lizzie H Iff h-CiiNh lotlod Raddle Knormon) Wheel Spnra. Our little caravau consisted of six mules ono for me, one for Benigno, one for the baggage, two spare animals in cose of accidcut, and tho "yegua mad rina," or bell mule, which nil the others followed. The general order of march was the "madrina," the spare mules, and the baggage mule in tho van, followed by Benigno, who drove them on with his lasso, and chased them back into the path when they wandered away. A short distance behind Benigno, my mule stepped along at a rapid walking pace, rarely breaking into a trot, und that only when he saw that the others -were getting too far ahead. As for the accou trements, they presented some special details worthy of notice. The bridle of both mules and horses in the mountain districts of the Argen tine and of Chili is provided not only with a bit and curb, but also with a semi-circulnr metal guard which covers the lips, and serves the double purpose of protecting the nose of the animals in case of a fall or slip in going up hill, and at the same time preventing them from drinking when they are fording streams. This Chilian bit is a formida ble engine against which no animal can rebel. The reins are generally made of twisted strands of untanned leather, finely plaited in round lengths which are joined together with rings, whilo at tached to the bridle is a leather lash two yards or two yards and a half long, which takes the place of a whip, and which you whirl round ns you would whirl a lasso, and thus deal very effica cious strokes across tho fiauks of recal citrant beasts. This long lasso-lash is especially useful when you meet another troop of mules, or when you have to spur and "whoop" your way through one of those herds of n thousnud or fif teen hundred horned cattle which are constantly being driven over tho mountains during the summer months, nnd crowd tho narrow path in an often alarming manner. Tho saddles used nre the high-cush ioned Chilian or Mexican models, or, more commonly, a series of superposed skins and cloths arranged somewhat in the ame manner as the "rccado" or sad dle of the Argentine "gaucho first of nil, a cloth or some sheepskins, then a leather saddle, then a peaked wooden frame called "bnstos," to which the stir rups are attached, and the whole held in placo by a belly-band, and then over this two or three more sheepskins aud a saddle-cloth, held in position by means of a broad surcingle. This surcingle is not provided with buckles, but simply with rings and thongs, which are tied with running knots, nnd so can be more read ily loosened and tightened while the vari ous elements of the saddle are being re composed an operation which has to be done from time to time during the day's march, especially when tho road is pre cipitous. The stirrups are simply heavy wooden shoes or sabots, always curiously carved, and an excellent protection ngaiust tho bowlders and thorn-bushes which line the mountaiu track. To tho inexperienced eye this equipment may seem primitive and cumbersome, but in reality every detail of it has its reason and use. Indeed, as a general rule, we may bo suro that usages consecrated by long tradition are not to be sueercd at. Even those enormous wheel spurs have their raison d'etre, which is not to hurt the horse or mule no spur is moro harm less but to assist the rider to sit in tho saddle with ease and cling moro closely to his horso. A Chilian does not feel his equilibrium complete unless he wears a pair of these big spurs, which are so ter ribly embarrassing when he dismounts and walks on terra firm a. As regards the baggage mule, bags, trunk), and all sorts of luggage are piled up on his back on a pack saddle, and tied on with long thongs of uutauned leather in such a manner us to bulnnco well. Now, as the baggage mule tro.s on in front, free to err a little from the path and snatch en passage a sprig of vegetation, it often happens that ho abuses his privilege and runs up hill or down hill some distuueo. Then ho has to bo driven back to the road. All this ends by disturbing the equilibrium of the cargo, and then the "arricro" gallops up to the baggago mule, dismounts with agility, and throws his "poncho" over the animal's head. As long as his head is covered with the "poncho" the niiilo remains still, aud recourse to this method of blindfolding is had each time the mule is loaded, and each time that tho baiauee needs to be re-established during tlio day's march. In fact it is one of the lit tle incidents of mountain traveling that amuses the novice, for the aspect of a mule with his head wrapped up iu a "poncho" has a certain elemeut of com icality. Uarper't Magazine. A Dog That Slifiiuls Trains. The Olobd-Democrat had a story some time ago about a baboou that had beeu taught to turn switches, but that animal is equaled by a do iu this city that signals trains. The dog's owner is tho watchman at the Gruvois road-crossing of the Oak Hill Railroad, and finding the animal could be taught to do almost auything but talk und eat with a fork, Bhowud him how to curry the Hug, and now when a train comes ulong the dog runs out with the flugstutl in his mouth aud wuves the flag up ami down, if not us well us his master, at least well enough to give notice of danger. Of course the watchman dots not leuvo his post, but is always ou hand to render assistance, but the dog seems to under stand the business and to take pleasure in it. American sea captains ure complaining of tliu absurdity au i the inconvenience of u recent eilicl of the Russian Govern ment whereby no ballast cuu bit dis charged iu ltufsiau ports. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A ptimp chamber weighing bUOU pounds has just been cast at Pittston, Penn. Chicago is preparing to fend great qtiontities of milling machinery to Chins to be used in the gold mines. A horsfl power is a power capable of raising ;i.,U0U poutins nvoiroupois through the space of one foot in one minute. A Frenchman has invented portablo tablets, by nibbing at which one may sustain life indefinitely, without the use of any other food. An English engineer proposes making double shell boilers, maintaining n pres sure between them. By these means he calculates that a much higher pressure can be carried than is possible even with the coil boilers already iu use. Tho London (England) tower is so far on its way to becomo nn accomplished fact that a site of 300 acres has been pur chased. One-half of tho ground will bo used for the sito of the tower and the other half will bo laid out iu pleasure grounds. Mustard oil is being manufactured in Germany for lubricating purposes. It is Baid to be unallected by cold above a temperature of about fifteen degrees Fahrenheit, and does not readily become rancid or form fatty ncids likely to at tack mctul. At least a dozen nctors and actresses in England are practising their parts by aid of the phonograph. They have thus, as ncarlv ns possible, the same oppor tunity as the audience of judging of the correctness of the emphasis and lulloc tion used iu any given passage. A new method for ventilating rail way carriages and preventing dut from entering with tho air has appeared in France. The air is mado to traverse a receptacle containing water, which cools it and relieves it of dust, after which it Goes throuirh another filtering before entering the carriage. An engineer of Manchester, England, is introducing a novely iu paper, viz., paper Dlchalts und toolhamlles, which are enid to be practically indestructiblo nnd much cheaper than wood or malle able iron hafts. Placed under a steam hammer, although they can be flattened, they cannot be split or cracked. An invention by winch writing can be transfesred from paper to irou is tho work of a Boston man, who has invented a bard iuk with which ho writes (back ward) upon ordinary paper. That paper is placed in a mould, melted iron is poured in, and when the hardened iron is removed it is found that, whilo the heat burned away the paper, it did not affect the ink, but left the impression of the writing. This is a scientific description of what happens when you light a lire. The phosphorous on the match is raised by friction to a temperature of 150 degrees Fahrenheit, at which it ignites; it raises the temperature of the sulphur (if it is a sulphur match) to D00 degrees, when the sulphur begins to burn; the sulphur raises the heat to 800 degrees, when the wood takes up the work and produces n temperature of 1000 degrees, at which the coal ignites. Tho First Express Package. The first express package carrier was a rather consumptive-looking young man of the name of Harnden (his given uamo has escaped my memory), who in 1836 instituted the business in New York city by calling on bankers, brokers and merchants with a carpet bag and solicit ing the carrying of money und other val uablo packages between that city and Boston. Like all new undertakings, it was not long before n competitor up pcarcd in the person of Alvah Adams, who selected Philadelphia us his objec tive point, and who adopted the same tactics as Huruden. James lloey, who is now a prominent figure in "The Adams Express Company," and a re puted millionaire, was at that timo a young Irish boy employed to sweep out a teu by fifteen ollice on William street, west side, between Wall and Pine, und to deliver and call for packages which became too largo for the carpet bug. The business grew rapidly, tho trunk took the place of tho carpet bag, suc ceeded by iron-bound crates strongly padlocked, which had to give way to box cars on truck wheels, for the convenience of transfer from the New York mid Providence line of steamboats to the Boston nnd Providence railroad, llarn deu continued tho eastern route and Adams the southern. Later ou a con solidation took place under the present title, nnd Harnden's express was merged into the Adams Express Company. Chicago Tribune. A Deer Kills a Rattlesnake. James Milton, who has been stopping up at Bowtnau's dam for u week or more, (chronicles a western paper), says that while out huutiug in Dcadhorsu tl.it , ou Canyou Creek, ho witnessed a novel spectacle. While walkiug along looking for gamu ho suw some distuuee uhead a deer bounding up und down iu the Fame truck. The motion wus so peculiar that he forgot to shoot, but kept udvuuciug. The animal at last saw him and dai ted into a thicket. Bcin.-r curious to kuow what the animal had beeu doing he ap proached the spot un i found u rattle snake almost beaten into tho ground. The deer was evidently killing the reptile when he first discovered him. l.lectrle Butter Making. An interesting application of electric ity to the dairy industry has beeu made in Italy. Tho Couut of Ass.ita, whose buildings ure fitted up with electric light, bus connected his dairy plant with an electric motor of twelve hurse-puwer. This machine drives a Danish separator and a Dutch churn of considerable si.-, churning being conducted at the rate ot 120 to 100 revolutions per niimite, the butter being brought iu from thirty to thirty-five minutes, in tiae grains, which, it is now recognized, enable tho maker to produce the finest article. IN THE SHADOW, y Drear is the night with its wnreriug light, And the moon is nnder a cloud, Each planet afar the wraith of a star Gleams pale In its mist-woven sh roud, Love I Bo wan In its chilling, white shroud I Weary the feet on the desolate street t That bear mv burden and me; ' , My comrades are gone, and I am alone, To think of heaven nd tnee, Love, To dream of heaven and thee I Hungering I in my loneliness sigh For thee and all that thou art. For the lovelight that lies In thy glorious eyes To cheer my famishing heart, Love, To cheer my desolate heart I Vain the desire! Hope's bright beacon flr3 Burns dimly In life's autumn rain. While I walk these lone ways nnd long for the days That will dawn for me never again, Love, The days that will dawn not ngniu! M.M. Folsom,in Atlanta Constitution.' HUMOR OF THE DAY. A certain class Know-It -Alls. A good suggestion "Let's go tt church." Mail and ExprcM. Might not misfits be prevented if tho proper measures were taken? A preferred creditor One who ncvof presents his bill. Terat Sifting). The ills of life nre often easier to bear than tho stock market. Tents Xit'tinjs. "I'm not tall," said the saving littlo man, "but I'm never short." Boston Uerald. It is easier to live within your iucomo than to livo without one. Doston Courier. "Why does Mr. Lank go so often to fish?" "Ho expects to gain flesh." J&'Ston Courier. Whoever ig head of the ship state, tho farmer fairly, represents the tiller. l'ltiladtlphia Times. To tho mind of the anti-monopolist there is no such thing us a perfect trust. -Detroit Free l'ress. "Now, just let me givc J'ou il rent er." "Thanks, no. I've iv ute for a Jog." Aeie York Herald. A very huge percentage of people out live their usefulness at an early age. HetUlle (HWi inaton) Journal. Money is a noutor thing, A tact which naturo balks It should be classed as feminine. Because, you kuow, it talks .Veie Yorh Sun. "Sho is not pretty. You said she was as pretty as a picture." "Oh, well, I meant nn umateur photograph." -Vc'ffl York Sun. "How much docs that fellow owo you?" "A cool thousand." "Ah! Cool but not collected, eh?" Biwjltain ton Leader. "I can't go to jail," said a funny va grant. "I have no tune." "lue court; provides that," said the Judge. "I givo you teu days." Proof that a man is really near-sighted : AVhcn he finds it necessary to look ut nn elephant through u magnifying glass. Fliegtnde Bladter. Mrs. Brown "I wonder who wroto up this accouut of the President's car riage?" Mrs. Malaprop "Somo hack writer, of course." Harper's Bazar. Waiter (very gravely) "I hope, sir, you'll remember tho waiter." Customer (coolly) "I havo a locket. Give mo a lock of your hair." V Intrantigcant. Pupil "Why does the nvoirdupois system have no scruples?" Prof. Hod-, der "Because, my boy, it's used to weigh coal aud ice." Harper's L'tzar. Let us then lie up and doing, With a heart tor any fate; Still achieving, still iiiriiin;.', Catching ti.-h or cutting twit. H'ashinijtuii Star. ".Time, will you go for a sail to-day 1" Mr. Toodles asked his wife at the sea side. "Why, certainly, Timothy. What is it, un uuctiou or a sherill'sl" Philadelphia Times. Gazzaiu "I seo that the Gorman Government thinks of milking North-Al-tmce-Lorraiuo an independent duchy." Maddox "Of course if it wero Duchy it wouldn't bo so Freuchy." JLirpe-r't I Bazaar. Now let the women do our work, Aud lot us cook the liiu.li. For now they wearour laundrled shirt, Aud we we wear their su.-li. Ashland (H is.) I'ress. "Sir. Fogg, having had the misfortune to full into tho fountain basin of tho hotel at a watering place, finds on his next week's bill the following eutryj "To ouo cold bath, t'lujenda BlaetUr. "A half-ticket for this boy, plcaso.i "How a half-ticket? Isn't be twelve years old?" "Oh, no, only eleven." "Oh, then you want a whole ticket, for only children under teu go for half." Fliegende Bluet ter. He attained the proud title of Mr. And she plM-letl to be mora tluu a sr. So they stooj ut the ultar, Ami lio'i did he t alter Wheu he beuto'cr and solemnly kr. tiujlftt'ii .'jiresi, "Here's u first-class marking ink !" (Writes on a piece of liueu: "iudeliblo Ink.") "Aud here, Indies and gentle men, I've got a spletnlid prep nation for washing out stains." (Proceeds forth with to wash out tho above words). Flifjend Blaettir. "Yes," said tlio camper ou Lake Wash ingtou," 'we ue these ferns for fuel 1 1 a grcatejtent ; they buru utmost like timU r. It is my opinion that everything iu this country is full of pitch.'1 "Including the hills," replied the slumber. S-MLtio (Washington) Journal. "Have you bourde.l long ut this house?" inquired the new boarder of tiio dejected mu silting next to him. "About ten years." ! don't see how you can stand it. Why h iveu't you K it long u'O?" "Mo other plac to j;o," mid the other dismally. "Tug L-udlaay tuy wile." ChUajo Trihuit,
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