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VOL. XXIIL NO, 32, TIOESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3, 1890. S1.50 PEK ANNUM.
Ttnly, it is announced, is strongly op
posing emigration.
The President of tho Mormon Church
himself admits that tho days of polygamy
nro numbtjl.
It ii nn interesting fact, remarks the
Atlanta Constitution, thnt of 1335 acts
passed by tho recent Congress, 1081, or
more than four-fifths, wcro for pensions
to individuals.
An English experimenter, E, T. Chap
lin, has given an account of hypnotizing
a lnying hen, and Inducing her In that
manner to sit on a silting of eggs until
seven of them had hatched out.
Tho Manufactured lleeorcl claims that
"tho agricultural pofsibililies of tho
South aro greater than thoso of the bal
ance of the country all combined, based
on the nggrcgilo values and ou actual
profili to producers."
Five years ago thoso who enjoyed
bowling on "ten pins" in and abcut New
York city certainly did not number more
than 5000, says the Nctr York Timet.
To-day, if a census would be taken it d
doubtful if less thau 20,000 patrons of
tho alley would be counted.
The Indianapolis (lud.) Hain't Horn
sayi: "An erratic old gentleman in
Now York recently went hence nnd left
n large fortuno to be expended in teach
ing people to eat with their forks. Hud
he left one-half of tho sum to provido
something for them to practice on, his
memory as a benefactor would have
lasted longer."
A Chicago inventor claims to have pro
duced a machine for picking cotton that
will do the work in tho Southern fields
for ono-tonth the present cost. Tho pres
ent cost Is estimated nt nearly $100,000,
000 a year. It follows that if this ma
chine will do all that is chimed for it,
the saving effected will bo not much less
thou $90,000,000 a year.
Great preparations are being mado iu
Australia for the forthcoming Austra
lasian Fcdoratiou Convention, iu which
nil tho Australian colonies of Great Brit
ain will bo rojn-cscnted, and the meeting
of which will bo the first step toward a
natioual organization that is intended to
include all those colouies in one power
ful uniod represented in a federal pur
ulent. Lawyer Simon Stevens says thnt when
he sold the Mariposa grant for General
Fremont the latter rc.Vujd $1,237,500.
He urged tho General to put $1300,000
iuto a trust fund, "lie was at first in
clined to listen to me, but Sirs. Fremont
was full of ideas that it could be invested
by him in speculation, where it would
. yield him untold millions, nnd she car
ried tho day."
The fact that tho French colonists in
Algiers show increasing fecundity, wbilo
the French in France are steadily fulling
off in that respect, suggests that the
mother country is overcrowded and the
social system unfavorable to marriage.
The cry is again raised that tho Latin
raoo is dying out, which, asserts the
Y'ashington Star, tho fact recorded iu
Algiers and Latin-America do not bear
out. Another reason for decadence in
population is the early army nge nnd
long military service exacted, which,
with other causes, prevent tho multiplica
tion of the population.
"It is singular," declurcs Frank Ii
lie's, "that the riso in silver threatens to
seriously affect Christian missions in for
eign lauds. When silver was worth
twenty or thirty per cent, less thau it is,
an American dollar was obviously worth
in the debased silver coinage of foreign
countries twenty or thirty per cent, more
than it is now. In other words, the rise
in silver has brought tho currency of
silver lauds pretty nearly to an equality
with that of couutries banking ou a gold
basis. It is said that the Methodist Mis
sionary Society will, by reason of tho
rise in silver, require a special appropria
tion of $20,000 to meet the increased
cost of exchange iu India, and that all
other religious missionary societies will
bo seriously affected. "
It is interesting to know that wheu the
new naval vessels nro completed tho ef
fective force of the United States navy
compared with the Europu navies will
be as follows: United States, forty-two,
of which five will be battle ships and ten
other aiuiurcd vessels; England, seventy
six armored, 21)1 utiarmored; France,
fifty -seven armored, 203 unarmorcd ; Rus
sia, forty-nine armored, 119 iinurinored,
nnd Germauy, forty armored, sixty
five unarmorcd. "lint the comparison
with these greatest powers of the world
is uore flattering, admits the Washing
ton S((ir, thau that with the smallei
naval powers, such as Holland, Spain,
Italy, Turkoy, Chiuu, Sweden and Aus
tria; for we are surpassed by them all
even with tUe new ships added.''
Revelation.
Brain-weary, heart-weary, soul-wear y
I sit me down to-night;
And dnen dwp enfolds me
As the dark engulfs the light.
This dally toil and struggle
Doe It not far out-weigh
The little grains of gladnes
We pick up, day hy dayP
Not for myself I sorrow,
My lot is heavenly bright
In contrast to the many
That throng my thought to-night.
Bo much of toil and troublel
Bo much of needles pain I
Bo much of wasted riches
Of hand and heart and brain I
i strive to put It from me,
This puzsle old as Time
Of unrewarded virtue,
Of thriving, hnppy crime.
I glance about for something
To turn my thoughts' sad strain;
My eye falls on the Cereus
That wreathoa my window pane.
8o gaunt and grim and ugly
In Its torturous twisting there;
So full of thorns, so graceless,
Devoid of all that' fair!
"Fit symbol," muse I, sadly,
"Of our twisted, thorn-streim lives;
All barren, bent and wasted.
Where hope alone survives I"
But even as I whisper
These words of rebel gloom,
A strange, delicious fragrance
Pervade my lonely room;
And starting up in wonder,
I trace the perfume's sourco
To a bud upon the branches
I had scorned as mean and coarso!
I wateh it, wonder-stricken,
The clasping leave unfold,
And reveal its matchless beauty,
So pure, with heart of gold I
I feel its mystic message
To my very being' core,
And the burden that oppressed mo
Is gone to come no more!
Could ever sweeter token
Or surer answer come,
Than this perfect, stainless blossom
From its strange, unsightly homo?
A flash of ruvelatlou
Enlighten all my soul;
The clouds of doubt and darkness
Forever from me roll !
My heart swells up In gladness,
In gratitude and love.
In faith and trust, implicit.
To the Father-heart abovol
I ki.ow, past all distrusting,
That from our pain and strife,
Will bloom in perfect beauty
A glorious after-life I
-Deulah Ii. Stevens, in the Housewife.
A DETERMINED WOMAN.
BY. MAUHKK BI.IKGSBY.
In one of the back settlements of
South Carolina, in the days which ren
dered the name of Marion, and other he
roes, forever glorious in the annals of
their country, dwelt a brave and devoted
family of patriots, named Hart.
Abijah and Abigail Hart were scarcely
past the prime of life, although thevhad.
been blessed with a largo family oi "chil
dren, only three of whom, however two
boys nud a girl had survived the com
mon ills incidental to childhood.
The elder sou would have been two
and twenty had his life been spared ;
but eight months before ho had fallen
an inuocent yictiiu to tho rage and mal
ice of the Tories, who swarmed in pred
atory bands throughout this section.
Upon these murdering wretches, who
had thus wantonly deprived them of
their eldest born, at a time when ho
might have been of inestimable service
to them, the father and mother,
and only remaining sou, Silos, now in
his nineteenth year afterward tho cel
ebrated Indian fighter of Hardin County,
Kentucky swore to be revenged, when
ever and wherever nu opportunity should
offer to wreak their vengeance.
Leah, their second eraaining off
spring, was a beautiful aud warm-hearted
maiden of seventeen, and tho affianced
bndo of Randolph Darcll, a brave young
officer, at one time upon the staff of
General Marion.
Young Darcll was iu tho habit now
and then, whenever he could mako au
excuse to obtain a futlough, of paying
a flying visit to Gum-Tree Parru, the
humble, though comfortable, home of
the Harts.
Ou one of these occasions a party of
seven mounted Tories pursued him near
ly the the entire distance from the Ameri
can camp to the residenco of the Harts,
he, however, contriving to elude them iu
a piece of woods just before reaching the
farm.
Au abrupt bend in the road had fav
ored him, and the Tory rangers, not
dreaming of this adroit mcve on the part
of the flying fugitive, dashed furiously
on till they came to tuo farm-house,
where they tumultuously demanded of
Mrs. Hart, who wns standing in the
door-way, if she had soon a horseman
pass by who wore the uniform of au
American officer.
Tho woman shrewdly surmised who
the officer might be who would be com
ing alone iu that direction, and promptly
inquired if tho horse he rode was a sor
rel one. To her seemingly careless ques
tion the Torrios promptly gave an affir
mative reply.
"Then he has rid into the swamp yon
der, by a cartpath that leads on to the
Beechknoll road," answered the quick
witted woinau, with an admirable pres
ence of miud, and an apparently cool in
differenco to tho subject, which carried
instant conviction to tho minds of the
Tories, who again spurred on in supposed
pursuit of tho fugitive; but, to their
great disappointment, the curt-road pres
ently terminated iu a bog, and, on a care
ful examination, they discovered that no
other horse-tracks had been left there
but those of their own f.;iimals.
"lie must have tulien to the thicket,"
aid the leader, after fully satisfying his
mind on the subject. There is no use at
nil in beating the ground further, for he
has had amplo timo already td escape.
We may as well make a virtue of neces
sity, and go back and see what is to be
got of the squint-eyed old woman at the
farm-house in the way of catiblcs. Dut
isn't she a big one in size, though!"
"And uglier-looking than sin, thun
derin' light!'1 added one of the men.
Tho Tory horsemen now Wheeled about
and retraced their way to the farm-house,
which Was only a short distance just as
Randolph Darell was on the point of
emerging from the wood; but luckily he
discovered thorn in season to escape their
notice, by abruptly retreating back again
under cover.
Alighting once more at the door of the
farm-house, tho Tory leader ordered Mrs.
Hart to prepare dinner for the party, and
bestir herself.
"How can I give you dinner when
I've nothing to cook?" retorted the resolute-looking
woman, angrily. "I should
need a full larder to satisfy a half-dozen
such dirty rascals as you are."
"Silonce, woman 1" thundered tho
Tory, in a commanding voice, "and do
our bidding." "1 11 soon give you some
thing to cook," ho added, leveling his
carbine as he spoke, and bringing down
a plump turkey gobbler that was strut
ting along under cover of the garden
wall. "There, now, go and pluck that
tine follow, my beauty, and don t belong
about it, or we might be tempted to serve
you in the same way.
Leah, who had shrunk timidly into a
corner, started up in alarm when she
heard this threat, and made her way out
to the spot where the bird had fallen.
Randolph Darell, alarmed at the shot,
was just on tho point of dashing out of
his cover to go to the rescue of the
females, when he saw bis affianced rush
out, nnd bear the turkey hastily to the
house.
In a moment ho diincd the cause of
the firing; and not npprchending any
immediate danger to his sweetheart, so
long as the Tories were only anxious to
appease their appetites, he went back to
his cover.
The quick eye of the Tory leader took
in tho graceful outlines of the fair girl's
figure, as she rushed from tho house.
"By tho beard of King George!" ho
exclaimed, admiringly, "who 'ould 'ave
hexpectcd to see such a h angel in petti
coats 'ere. Come, my lass, and give
us one kiss ' from the rose-bud of a
mouth."
"You dnre to lay jour cowardly hand
on my Leah, cried the enraged mother.
doubling up her great, bony fist, "and
1 11 strangle you hko a cut I
"Why, you squint-eyed old beauty,"
retorted the Tory, mockingly, "I took
you for a hangel, but I find you are
wickeder than a she wolf with whelps!
The rest of the gang laughed boister
ously at this weak attempt at wit. Then
turning to Leah with a gallant smile,
the Tory inquired how long it would
take to pluck and cook the fowl.
Leuh answered iu a modest tone of
womanly anxiety, thnt it would require
at least three hours to serve it to their
liking.
"Hut," sho added, in a tone of con
ciliation, "we have a piece of roust
pork nud some cold potatoes and corn
cake in tho pantry, if they will answer."
The hungry party, who had been sonio
hours fasting, declared that the articles
named wcro good enough, nnd that they
would forego the turkey on this occa
sion for her sake.
Y'lih great alacrity, but with au anx
iously beating heart, Leah spread the
homely board, and brought forth tho
promised viauds, which sho laid out
temptingly before them. Shcthen placed
what chairs and stools the house afforded
around the table, and politely invited her
unwelcome visitors to be seated.
Complying with her iuvitatiou, tho
Tories carelefc-dy stucked their cabines
near an open window, and, seating
themselves at the table, fell to, greedily
devouriug the repast.
Mrs. Hart, in the meantime, with a
heroism superior to her sex, had watched
her hungry guests till sho saw Bhe was
not observed by them, when she slipped
out slyly from their midst, and, noise
lessly approaching the open window, sho
succeeded in drawing out threo of the
carbines before her little game was dis
covered. The moment the Tories perceived the
deadly purpose of the giantess, the three
nearest the window sprang to their feet
in terrified astonishment.
"Stand back!" she cried, in a threat
ening tone, presenting one of tho loaded
carbines with an uir of resolute determi
nation. "The first villain of you that
stirs a step, I'll shoot; aud tine first one
that touches another mito of that pork
I'll blow his bruins out!"
Without heeding her blaring eye, or
her stern verbal warning, the Tory leader
sprang fearlessly toward the stack of
arms; but before he could reach them
there was a report of a carbino, and tho
advancing ruffian fell to the floor, while
the slug, which had passed entirely
through his body, struck another in the
temple, who was seated at the table, kill
ing him instantly.
A third, rendered desperate by the try
ing situation, made a reckless attempt to
get possession of one of the carbines, and
instantly paid the penalty with his life.
Throwing the second empty carbine
aside, Mis. Hart caught up the third
oue, with which Bhe now covered what
remained of the terrified party.
There were but four left, and not one
of tho four dared to move a finger.
"Leah, blow the dinner-horn !" cried
the mother, in a tone of resolute triumph.
"It is sate now to call iu Silas aud your
father. "
Tho young girl, half-terrified out of
her wits, promptly obeyed the maternal
command, aud a long, winding blast
echoed and re-echoed through tho inter
vening woods.
She had left the house and joined her
mother on the outside before she essayed
to blow it, aud as she lowered the horn
from her lips, now rendered colorless
from her recent fright, her anxious eyes
were bent in the direction of the distant
corn-field, where her father und brother
aud a fuituful negro servant were at
work, although u narrow belt of timber
stretched between theiu,
She uttered a quick exclamation of
joyous pleasure, for at that moment she
saw all three strike out of the wood and
start on a rapid run toward tho house.
Hearing the first shot that had been
fired and then alarmed by th other two
which had followed ill such rapid sue
cession) they cailght up their loaded car- I
bines and Started On a run from tha hold
where they were then at work.
The moment they had quitted the tim
ber they saw at A glance, by the several
horses hitched to the fence and the bel
ligerent attitude of the heroic giantess nt
the window, pretty nearly how matters
stood at the house, and they all three
sent up an encouraging shout to tho
women.
Just at this point they heard the ring
ing sound of a horse's hoofs in an op
posite direction, and, turning suddenly,
Leah beheld her lover dashing furiously
toward the house. This additional l en
forcement, coming lo opportunely, yet so
unexpectedly, filled the heart of the timid
maiden with increased confidence.
"Oh, motherl" sho burst out, excitod
ly; "Randolph is coming seel He is
just leaving the wood. Isn't it lucky for
him to come just at this time, when we
had no reason to expect him!"
"I expected him," said Mrs. Hart,
with quiet assurance. "I knew it was
he the Tories wore in pursuit of, and I
was determined to outwit then, if it lay
in the power of a woman to do it. Every
thing has turned out for the best; for
had Lieutenant Darell ridden straight
here, instead of lingering in the wood,
as ho did, he would doubtless have been
captured, and perhaps murdered before
our eyes. So you see, my girl, the ways
of Providence are better than our ways,
for they always turn out for tho best in
tho end."
In another moment Randolph Darell
had alighted at their side, and iu the
next, the blushing aud happy Leah was
enfolded in his manly embrace.
While the lovers were thus pre-occu-pied,
Abijah, Silas aud the negro ar
rived, fearfully excited aud wholly out
of breath.
Silas recovered first, and was about
to shoot down one of the Tories, wheu
his mother resolutely iuterfei?d.
"Don't shoot thorn! Leave them to
me, Silas. I will mete out their puuisii
meut to them. We haven't forgotten
Ebcn's murder yet, and shooting is too
good for 'em. We will just hang them
like a pack of dogs, the whole cowardly
kit of them. Get the clothes line, Leah;
we can afford to cut it on such a right
eous and heaven sent occasion !"
Rnndolph shuddered, for he under
stood tho determined character of the
woman and knew that she would not be
loug in putting her terrible threat into
execution. Nor, indeed, was she; for
within the ensuing hour, in spite of their
prayers and protestations, the bodies of
the four Tories went dangling from tho
nearest tree. And thus at the hand of a
resolute and heroic mother, was the death
of a beloved son simply and satisfactorily
avenged.
After tho Tones had hung a sufficient
time, they wero cut down aud tumbled
indiscriminately, with the other three,
into one commou grave.
Shortly after this event, Leah nnd
Randolph Darell were happily uuited in
wedlock; and soon after the close of
our glorious Revolution, the wholo
family emigrated to Hardin County,
Kentucky, where they could have, as
Mrs. Hart expressed it, more "elbow
room," if less civilization. A'eie York
Weekly.
A New Puzzle.
A new puzzle has been sprung upon
the inoffensive people of this weary
world. It is an innocent-looking affair,
nnd an inexpensive oue withal, but more
deadly than "pigs in the pen." This
latest brain-raking device consists simply
of three columns of figures, arranged thus '
ill 1
'. i
8 3 8
6 5 5
7 7 7
9 0 0
Nov , the point is to add together any
six of the above figures and make the
total 21. Philadelphia IUxrd.
Trade in Cast Off Teeth.
A medical statistician estimates that
the citizens of the United States are car
rying gold to the value of $500,000 in
the recesses of what ought to bo their
teeth. There are no people on tho face
of the globe who have such bail teeth aud
who speudso much money upon them as
the Americans. No doubt the habit of
hunied feeding and the wholesale con
sumption of sweet dishes have assisted
much toward this end. But is it not a
mistake to Biippose, as says the medical
statistician, that false teeth set iu gold
are buried when their owner shuffles oil
this mortal coil? If this is the custom iu
America, it is not so iu England, or why j
the numerous advertisements offering to
to buy old artificial teeth! The old teeth
are not bought to use again, as some
nervous people fancy, but simply for the
sake of the gold. Popular Protider,
He Enjoyed tho Puss.
Great men do not always writo in tho
grand manner, but Crowfoot, tho llluck
foot Chief, was uot w ilting in this le
aped. He received a perpetual pass over the
Canadian Pacific Railroad, and in ac
knowledgment of his thanks sent tho
following letter:
"G reat Chief of the Railway : I salute you,
O t'hiof. O Kieat, 1 am pleased with rail
road key, optmuig road Iroo to mo. The
chains and rich coverings of vour name
writing, iu wonderful power to open the
'w. .uoioNuttMul your ciiiMinmh,
lbuvedoue. CiiowKoor."
THE ATHLETES OF JAPAN,
WONDERFUL HTUSCTJL A R DEVELOP
MENT OF HER WRESTLERS.
Thelf Heroic Mode of Training The
Itath la All Itnportf. in Herculean
Coal Miner.
The Japanese contortionists have an
international foputatioUi On every
country road of Japan you will find
bands of three little boys, ranging in age
from sis to fourteen, and these boys will
twist themselves into more shapes than
the india-rubber man of the American
dime-museum. They will wrap their
toes about their heads as they lie on their
stomachs, and will look out of their
almond eyes as they frame their faces
with their ankles. They will turn their
heads around so that they seem to be set
on their shoulders wrong side first, and
will bring themselves into so many
positions that you can hardly believe
that they have any bones in their bodies,
and you feel that they are hardly human.
Among the best developed men I have
ever Been are the laborers of the Takas
hima coal mines, who work all day
underground, and whose labors are
carried on in a network of passages of
more than fifty miles in length, which
extends under the sea about one of the
islands of western Japan. These men
carry great loads. They work from dawn
until dark, and their daily hot bath and
their rice diet give them muscles of
which any turner in America would ba
proud.
Tho Japanese consider the bath and
gymnastics of such importance to health
that they have introduced them into the
training of the soldiers of their regular
army. The soldiers of Japan are put
through a full set of exercises every day.
They swing dumb-bells, jump on the
parallel-bars, and go through the sovCrcst
of physical training. The bath-rooms are
one of tho institutions of every barrack,
and the soldiers are required to bathe all
over once a day, nnd they have to tnke
hot baths three times a week. Their
diet is rice instead of hard-tack, and
they have an allowance of six cents per
day for other food.
The profc3siona' athletes of Japan are
the great wrestlers who seem to be of a
different race from the ordinary Japauese,
and who have a system of training very
different from that of John L. Sullivan
or Jake Kilrain. These raon believe in
tho accumulation rather than the reduc
tion of fat, and they ore great, tall fel
lows of six feet or more, and weigh from
two hundred to three hundred pounds.
They train themselves largely by pound
ing and by beiug pounded by their fel
lows. They have great strength of neck,
and they increase this by butting against
oue another with their heads and strik
ing their opponents in the chest, so that
the noise is that of a batteriug
rnm. They butt nt wooden posts
with their shoulders, pound their flesh,
and stamp the earth with their feet. I
saw an exhibition at which about a hun
dred of these wrestlers contested, during
a visit I paid to Japan a year or so ago.
Tho wrestlers came iuto the room entirely
naked, with the exception of a belt about
the loins. Before beginning, they made
the earth shake with their stamping, and
they glared at each other like demons.
They made many false starts, and when
they grappled, their muscles stood out
like ropes uponi their great arms, aud it
was a battle of tho giant3. They have a
wonderful strength of wrist aud fingers,
and now and then one would grasp his
opponent by the belt, and, lifting his
three hundred pouuds high in the air,
would throw him over his shoulder, and
he would fall ou the earth with a terrible
thud, while the umpire would raise his
fan and yell out the Japanese word foi
victory. The most noted Japanese
wrestlers have as grcnt reputations as
thoso of our prize lighters, and the
profession of wrestling dates back to
the beginning of tho Japauese history.
The rules of the ring nre quite as rigid
as those of tho Marquis of Queensbury,
nnd there are forty-eight falls which can
be made. Tho very best class of the
Japauese people patronizes these wres
tlers, aud a rich mau often has a party ol
them como und wrestlo at his receptions
for the entertainment of his guests. Some
of the most noted statesmen aro patrons
of wrestlers, and ono of tho cabinet min
isters of the Mikado was not long ugo
nicknamed the "Wrestler." Tho wres
tling goes on in both its public exhibitions
and at private entertainments without the
aid of betting, and so fur the tnusculni
exhibitions of Japan have not becu cor
rupted by the vice of pool-selling. 2'eu
York Ledger.
A Ghastly Talisman.
"Better thau a rabbit's foot."
"Better thau finding a horseshoe."
"Or a four-leaf clover."
So spoke a number of hangers-on al
tho police court yesterday.
"What are you referring to," asked a
friend.
"To a bit of hangman's rope. It's the
best talisman iu the world. Every crook
carries a piece. It's for good luck. About
evert third crook arrested has a bit ol
rope In his pocket. He would rathci
lose a thousand dollars thau past with
that piece of rope. If he did purt with
it hii luck would turn. The Sergeant
a'.waya returns it when the crook geti
out of jail aud demands his property.
Uelivti Free Prenn.
Seamier Steel Runts.
Mr. Hcslop of Leeds, England, has
devis-.d a method of forming steel boat
without a seam by ono operation. Tin
melal plate u5c I is one-sixteenth inch
thick, nnd of oval shape. It is heated
in a tu.-uace aud then molded in a die
to tho req.iired form by hydraulic pres
sure. Three dies are employed to gaiu
tho form by degi oes, and thus preserve
tho metal from ci ickiug or buckling.
Tho boat is then pol'shed, aud fitted up
with uir-tight comp.i.tiueuts aud other
necessaries.
Footpads are becomiug bold und auda
cious iu London at night, some going f
far as to "hold up" cubs.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A mid nt Alpena, Mich., makes goa d
manilla paper from pulp of tamarack.
An Iowa court has decided that a
meteor belongs to tho person on whoso
land it falls.
Montana claims to have tho largest and
finest jasper quarries in the world, re
cently discovered.
A new gun has been perfected by Signor
Ouidolli, of Lucca, which will fire sixty
four shots a minute.
For every fifteen yards we descend into
the earth the temperature increases about
ten degrees Fahrenheit.
Tho fastest ship in tho French navy
now has a speed of 19.68 knots per
hour without engine strain.
An Italian savant claims that in
jecting a current of electricity through
milk delays its souring for several days.
A new system of ventilation, never be
fore used on ocean steamships, is to be a
factor of the two new vessels now being
constructed for the transatlantic service
of the Cunnrd Line.
A rich bed of coal has been discovered
in the Russian Amoor province of Siberia,
on Usuri River. The quality of the de
posit is said to be equal to that of the
best English product.
It is the opiuion of noted specialists on
diseases of tho nose, throat and lungs
that one baby in every three has a growth
in the nose that obstructs respiration. It
is due to covering up the head.
One of the steel saws at the Washing
ton Gun Foundry recently cut through a
piece of gun-carriage metal four inches
in width by five iuches in thickness iu
twenty minutes. The saw is of English
make.
Two chemists nre experimenting at
Freeport, Pcnn., with the view of pro
ducing carbon points for electric lighting
from natural gas. It is said that by
burning the gas in a specially prepared
furnace pure carbon is obtained, but as
yet at a cost too great for practical pur
poses. A twonty-two-iuch iron pipe which
was recently exhumed after beiug buried
in the earth for fourteen years, at Lassen,
Cal., came out as good as new. Tho
pipe was coated with nsphaltum when it
was put into the ground. This may be
taken as a good test of the preservative
virtues of nsphaltum.
An old sea captain's argument is re
called nt the completion of the race be
tween the steamships City of New York
and Teutonic. His was the view that
tho City of New York would win tho
eastward passage and the Teutonic the
westward, because the vessels nre evenly
matched, and one is better adapted to
English and the other to American
coals.
The Buffalo (N. Y.) fire department
has lately received a novel fire engine
which has excited much interest in that
city. The carriage is constructed en
tirely of papier mache, all the different
parts of the body, wheels, poles and the
rest being finished in the best possible
manner. While the durability and
powers of resistance possessed by this
material are fully us great as thoso of
wood the weight is, of course, much
less.
A new machine has been designed for
tho excavation of sewer trenches. The
material in this system of excavation is
handled but once, and the operation is
continuous, a line of loaded buckets
passing out nnd a line of empty ones re
turning to bo filled nt tho same time.
Ordiuury excavuting machines require
the empty buckets to be returned over
the saino line over which the full ones
nre sent out, and it is cluimed thnt for
this reason the now machine can work
more rapidly and cheaply.
Tho six-inch ordnance riflo which suc
ceeded iu demolishing the British armor
plate at Annapolis is capable of hurling a
projectile through 10J inches of wrought
iron placed 1000 yards from the muzzlu
of the gun. The power of the eight
inch gun is 16 3-10 inches, same dis
tance, aud of the ten-inch" gun twenty
one inches, samo distance. The twelve
inch projectile will pierce twenty eight
inches at a distance of 3000 yards. The
thirteen-inch guns, which will be pro
vided for the battle ships, are capable of
demolishing the heaviest armor.
Scollop .Shuckiuar Houses.
When a fishing sloop's hold is filled
with scollops the Captain at once sets
sail for the "shuckiiig" house, either in
New Suffolk, Mattituck, Sag Harbor,
Southold, Pccouic, Grcenport or some
other bay side town ou Long Island.
"Shucking" is the vernacular for taking
the shells off tho fish. A shucking
house is a rough boarl building, heated
by a log fire. Along one side extends a
shelf ou which the unopened scollops aro
piled.
Tho shuckors are young men and
women, and tho work uffoids ample
opportunities for flirtation, us each young
mau cuu work at tho elbow of his sweet
heart. Facing tho shelf tilled with
scollops, each "shucker," armed with a
stout bladed kuife, dexterously opens
tho scollops, propping the edible tidbits
iu a pan and brushing the shells iuto
traps at their sides.
Tho shuckers work with amazing
rapidity. Ono turn of the wrist com
pletes tho operation. There uro from
seventeen to twenty ono hundred scol
lops in a gallon, and an expert
"shucker" will score a gallou iu
an hour und a half. They tire
pr.id sixteen cents a gallon for open
ing the scollops, which are ut oner
packed in stone jars or new tubs aud
shipped to market by train. Scollops
uro a big source of income to the people
of many Loug Island towns that before
the discovery of the shellfish iu 1'econi i
Bay idled through the winter months.
Ae York Herald.
Jones "I dou't think you ought tc
go uioiiud saying that ltohiusou is tin
biggest cowurdalivc." Brown "Why,
he shows in every way he's afraid of me.'
J jues "Sol Well, your juatitiuble."
LEAVES.
The leaves, so brilliant before they wera
hed.
How changed they seem when they cover our
dead I
Bilently fallen with pathos of tears,
How like they are to the vanishing years! ,
What precious, consoling thoughts they tar
spire,
In hearts now as still as a broken lyre I
Under the leaves and, though sadly laid
there,
With a trust as sweet as an Infant's prayer.
Under the leaves and the shadowing trees.
Their requiem lung by the moaning beeza, 1
Under tho leaves and th" moon's tender
light,
Under the stars of the soft, jeweled night.
Under the loaves and the sun's splendid ray,
Prophetic sign of eternal day,
Under the leaves and the dear summer flow
er, Fragrant with memory of happy hour.
Beneath tho autumnal and storm-swept sky,
Yet peacefully resting where pansies lie,
Under the leave and tho white, vestal snow,
Emblem of pureness the nngels know.
Under the leave an i the blossoms of spring,
There awaiting our risen Kiug,
Undor the loaves aud tho sweet song of blra.
Can lova be lost that was deeper than words?
O'er the sad, dead leave, oh, do not grieve
long,
But breathe a prayer that shall blend into
song;
For under the leaves, though tho mortal lie,
How grand !s tho soul on high !
There, through eternity's cycles untold,
The love that was true shall never grow
cold.
And there, nt last, by the beautiful stream.
May our love and life be like a sweet dream.
The Interior.
, W.
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IICMOR OF THE DAT.
Noah's arc The rainbow.
Each addition to oue's kindred is a
relative gaiu.
A fiery temper gives ndverso criticism
a warm teception.
The cat has nine lives, and spuuda
them nil in vocal culture.
Oue way of gettiug along iu this world
is to walk. Detroit Free Prets.
There wasn't enough of tho Swiss revo
lution to go round. PiUsb'try Chronicle
Jelcgroph. Tho crab may not be 03 good eating as
the lobster, but it does very well on a
pinch. Elnxira OatctU.
Ted "I'm going to run him a raco
for Dolly's hand." Ned "Then it will
be a sack race for ono of you." The
Mreci'$ Spor'..
She "Why doesn't Mr. Mulling gs
out into society more?" He "Because
society is always out itself vhen Mullius
begins calling."
"Well," said the baseball captain,
"our cake is all dough?" "How do you
account for it?" "We haven't a good
batter." iluntt't WceHy.
Fred "What is the matter? You look
positively ill." Tom "Negatively ill,
you mean, isn't it? My best girl has
said no to mo." Muniey't Weekly.
The oldest inhabitant is an interesting
personage; but he doesn't niuko half as
much noise iu his immediate locality as
the youngest inhabitant does. Pueh.
Tho man who thinks he knows it
Upon his nose may take a fall;
But ho who sometimes is in doubt, .
May rind that weakness helps hiiu out.
I 'tick.
Politeness generally pays. A gentle
man who gave up his scat to a lady on
an elevated train, Afterward found out
that she had been robbed while occupy
ing it. Puck.
We are rather at a loss to know why
sunlight is so often described as "gold
eu." The "silver" moon is accounted
for by coming iu quarters und halves.
Verk shire Neva.
"How long has your daughter been
practicing on the piano?" "To be exact
site began ono mouth before our neigh
bor went crazy, and he's been iu the
asylum a year." Fi'uru.
The Obliging Peddler "If you don't
stop talking to mo about your wares I
will whistle for my dog." "I have aomo
most excellent whistles, sir; just try ono
or these. " Flicgende Illttetter.
Landlady "Mr. McOiunis, may I ask
what you are trying to tiud iu that cream
pitcher?" Boarder "I am trying, Mrs.
Irons, to rescue an unfortunate lly from a
watery grave." Chicago Tribune.
Willie took his father's razor and his shaving
cup
To shave himself Inst we -k;
Tho doctor charged a liver when he sum: J tho
gashes up
Iu little Willie's cheek.
"Humph," remarked a youn' man,
"my cigar has gone out." "Well, that
settles it," replied his room m ate. "I
was wondering which of in it be,
myself or tho cigar." Wa&'tiuyto;i
Pout.
Grocer "What's that about the dozen
eggs you bought this morning?" Brown
"They wcro nil bad except ouv, and
I've called to see how much extra I owe
you for tho good oue." - York
Hun.
"This bell," said a well meaning sex
tou, wheu showing the bellry of uu in
teresting village church to a party of
visitors, "is only rung iu case of a visit
from the lord bishop of tii; diocese, a
lire, a flood, or uny other such calami
ties." London Figaro.
Travers "Mow much lire t!ics:
trousers!" Tailor "Twenty dollars,
sir." Travers "And you s.iy you ic
quire a deposit from strangers! ' Tailor
"Yes, sir." Travers (warmly) "Al
ready 1 feel myself growing ir.limuo
with you." AV.-o Yur'.-$un.
Briggs "I want to gut sonic sailed
neckties." Astonished t'leiU Soil-.. I
neckties, sir f Soiled, did y.m siiy!"
Briggs That's what. Wheu you call
upou a girl four times u week and she
ui ikiug a ciazy quiit, you will uiuicr
stand that a in. in has sz"l t bu , ucclviics
at job lot price or sosji.nd payment. ''
Clothier and F'ii'iit.iher,