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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gers until tho ordinance was rescinded.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.
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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
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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 .
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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,