THE FOREST REPUBLICAN If pnbllt).4 tTrjr Wadneidar, k J. E. WENK. Offlo In Bmaarbaugh & Co.'i Building SLH 8TRXJTT, TIONBJTA, T. . Terms, . tl.BO per Ym He nlncrlptlotii rewlTed for a shatter -Mrlo4 than thrra months. Oorrmponilene aoHelted from B parte of tha enurtry. No neilce wUI be taken of uninwiii n-aiuui-icaUotu. In one California county (Inyo) there were 1500 red to COO white skins. ' Captain Meade, of the United States 'Nay j, say that in peace times we do not I . 1 , 1 .! - 1 1. , ' got tuo uuBb uawves iu mo iiuvj, aim that no wages, however high, will bring us the best. Englishmen are to hare "'an auto matic railway library," which means a case of books fitted into railway car riages. The books will consist of short navels and stories by good writers, and any books likely to tempt tho weary traveler into putting the all-important coin "into the slot." The Commercial Advertiser think that the Argentine Republic has done a good stroke of business by abolishing, on the ground of economy, its embassy at Switzerland. Buenos Ayres neods a minister plenipotentiary at Berno about i9 much as Constantinople needs an en voy extraordinary in Iceland. According to tho Detroit Free Preu, a firm in Now York can make you a great big fire and burglar-proof safe, with a nice landscape and your name on the door, for $13. It is a dummy, wade out of sheet iron, aud is for the uso of peoplo who wuut to sot up offices and make a sproad of themselves. They give outsiders a feeling of confidence. Poor ministers in England have a source of revenue which the Springfield (Mass.) Union charitably hopes will not be accorded to their brethren in this country. Instead of suiting down their old tenuous in barrels they send them to vi eta much as $3 a .amlon dealer offers lots at this price, en in "a large, bold, ring more. Mi .rby, the victorious rival j Wade Hampton, will bo among a remarkably large acn under fifty years who (he next Senate. Senator is only thirty -six Delegate . icted as Senutor from Idaho, is jrty. Other Senators fifty years uder arc : Wulcott, forty-two j fifty; Higgius, fifty; Spoouer, -even; Aldrich, forty-nine; Pctti , forty-two; Daniel, forty-eight; d, forty-five; Faulkner, forty-three, i Keuua, forty.-two. Very few people rcalizo how much tho dontist has done for mnnkind. To mcution oue thing only, tho perfection to which the manufacture of false teeth " has been carried has practically abolished old age that is, old age in tho sense that I used to know it, says a writer in the Globe-Democrat. You see none of the helpless, mumbling old men and women that you formerly did. TIih is not be cause people, do not attain tho ago their parentsand grandparents reached, but because the dentist has prevented some of the mast unpleasant consequences of advancing year. Men of seventy uo longer either look or feel old, because they are not deprived of nourishing food at the time wheu thoy need it most. Estimates have been made showing that the average length of life hits been in creased from four to six years by the general uso of false teeth, aud this docs not appear iu the least exttavagnnt wheu one thinks of the difference iu the nutri ment accessible to oue with a flue set of molars and one condemned to gain it through his declining years. At a recent meeting in Berlin of the Geographical Society, Chief Forest Master Kessler called attention to the ex travogant wasto of timber iu the United States. Amoug other interesting details Mr. Kessler spoke of the tremendous de struction of forests in the United States during recent decades of years. Quoting from the tenth ceusus, he stated that iu 1880 the 25,708 saw mills then in opera' tion converted $120,000,000 worth of raw timber stock luto various kiuds of lumber, and he asserted that nt the same rate thero would be no good-sized timber left iu forty years. II o spoke of the enormous waste of wood through foiest "fires, which are tho result, for the most part, of carelessness or a desire to cleur land for cultivation, und declared that the planting of new forests, which has of lute years received some attention in the Eastern States, cauuot begin to offset the waste of forests, lie said that there is every reason to fear that America will soon be a couulry impoverished for tree property. Mr. Kessler made the striking comparison that, while thu United States had but eleven per ceut. of its area covered by force ts, the empire of Ger many has twenty-six per ceut. of its entire area so covered. Mr. Kessler said that the reckless destruction of forest trees in America and the iudiffcrcuce manifested by Americana in tho restora tion of forests is a menace, not aloue to tha 'Mit threatens For VOL. XXTIT. NO. THB PORT OF PLEASANT DREAMS. I sailed in the good bark Fancy Down the still j j river of sleep, From the lands df deep December To a port tluit the sunbeams keep; While the glal winds fullowod after, And sang With a happy test. And I beard them croon o'er the Infant moon, As It lay on the night's broad breast. And the port of the good bark Fancy, A port that the sunbeams keop, Is called Pleasant Dreams; like an opal It gleams O'er the strange, dark river of sleep. There, flushed with tba wins of laughter, The voyager sings queer sons, And, borne in a car of the sunset, Rides oft with the elfin throngs Up, up through the rosy cloudland, Where tho round little mistmen stay, To the stars abloom in the cool, soft gloom Of gardens far away. There ara nona too poor for a voyage To this port that is centuries old; Where hunger e'er finds a banquet, And poverty revels in gold ; Where, robed in the garb of morning, The earth in new beauty glows, And the amulet of the summer Is worn on the heart of the rose. Oft from the fields of sorrow, To the brink of the river of sleep, Wan toilers cotne, and, restful, They sail on Its waters deep; Till clear through the gates of sundown The past, like a beacon beams, And love, sweet mariner, anchors In the port of Pleasant Dreams. Ingram Crockett, in Frank Leslie1!. THE PIONEER'S FAMILY, I was a boy only eight years old when my father moved into tho hill country of Western Minnesota. He was known to all the pioneers about as "Big Dave," and to the Indians as the "Iron Man He was six feet tall, weighed 210 pounds. and, at forty years of age, was perhaps mo strongest man in the united States, and certainly one of the most fearless of men. Mother was above the averago in height, and weight, and, if she lacked father's strength, was not behind him in nerve and courage. She could shoot a rifle, skin a deer, set a bear trap, or pad dle a canoe, and, as a family, wo were able to take care of ourselves. Wo had been settled nbout six months when father set a trap for a bear which had been prowling around. I went out with him next day to visit the spot, and we found tho bear had been caught, but that the Indians had killed him, and taken both tho carcass aud the trap. All along the border at that time there was peace, but the red man was jealous and sulky, and whenever ho could harrass or damage a settler he was pretty apt to do so. Many of them had visited our cabin, but none of them knew anything about father except that he was a big man. There was an Indian village four miles away, and the fellows who got the bear showed their contempt for father by dragging tho body over tho snow and leaving a plain trail for him to follow. Father was justly indignant, and we at once took up the trail for tho village. I had a light shotgun, while he had a rifle, hatchet and hunting knife. We followed the trail right into the village, and there found tho incut being cut up, whilo tho pelt and trap were near by. "Where is the thief who stole my bear?" shouted father, as we came to a halt within four feet of the crowd around the meat. No one answered. "I say he is a thief!" continued father, and if you will point him out to me, I will pull his ears! Let that meat alone! It belongs to me!" A dozen of the bucks began to growl and murmur, and father handed mo his rifle, threw down hia knife and hatchet and cried out: "Thero was more thau ono thief! I aw by the tracks in the suow that there were" four. Are they squaws or men! If they are men let them lay aside their knives aud come out here. I will tako the four at once!" This declaration was hailed with a shout, and in less than a minute the four who had stolen the bear came to the front. They wero all stout and supple young men, aud every Indian in the vil lage gathered around to see the fun. It was fully expected that ho would get a good drubbing, and the four advanced with mischief in thoir eyes. "You just keep out of the way and don't get frightened," said father to me, and just then the four rushed iu on him from four sides. For an instant he was hidden from sight and there was a great hurrahing, but tho next thing we saw was the body of au In dian sailing in the air, and a second roll ing over aud over backward, and then father gave tho crowd an exhibition if his strength. He grasped an Indian iu each hand and played with them as easily as you can handle broomsticks. He circled them about, bumped them to gether, aud flually gave (them a fling, which lolled both of them into tho ice cold waters of the creek. "Have you six men heret" demanded my father, as he turned to the chief. "If so, let them come forward and seek to put me down. If they can accomplish it I will go home and say no more." There was a general flutter of excite ment, and as the chief named six of his best men each stepped forward with a whoop. Father was smiling and con fident as he sput on his humls, and he told me that I need have no fears. At a given signal the six Indians made a rush. They got hold of arms and legs and body, but with a mighty wrench father shook them off and then took the aggressive. Thero was neither striking nor kicking iu the struggle, but the way he did twist those redskins about made the crowd dizzy. Iu two minutes he was victor, and the chief came forward and shook his haus', aud theu and there pave him the titlev3f "The Mau of Irou." Ever ". Judiuns held him iu the any oue of est 41. TTONESTA, ly honored. I got a title at the tame time father did. If I was scared whilo in the village I was nt least determined not to betray the fact, and so it happened that they dubbed mo "The-Boy-Who- Stood-Fast." In April of the next year I cut my foot while chopping and was laid up for sev eral weeks. This wan during the sugar- making season, and father and mother were necessarily in the bush a good share of the time. Our cabin had but one room below, and my bed was in a far corner. The path from the sugar bush came up nt the rear of the house. Or,e warm, pleasant day about the end ot thi month, and about mid-afternoon, I was aroused from a light sleep by hear ing soma one open the door. I lay fac ing it, and I saw a strauge white man enter and look around. He was a rough, evil-looking man, aud I knew that he was a stranger in the neighborhood. I suppose that he believed us all in the bush, for he leaned his rifle against tho logs and walked over to a chest iu which father kept his papers and which was the storehouse for articles of personal wear which we never used. A report had got abroad that father had brought money into the country to buy Und. While this was untrue, it had found believers, and this desperado had come to rob us. I had not yet been out of bed. Father had his rifle at the sugar camp, whilo my shotgun hung on its hooks ten feet away. I could do nothing to drive the man away, and if I betrayed my presence he might kill me. I therefore lay quiet, hoping that some thing might bring father up The chest had a spring lock, and the key was hanging on the chimney. The stranger did not even look for it, but set about breaking open the chest with his hunting knife. In his efforts ho broke the blade square off about two inches back from the point. He wa9 cursing and growling and still nt work when I heard mother's footsteps outside. I was close to the logs, aud in turning the cornor of tho house the path led over a rocky surface. I knew she'd walk right in on the man, and I realized that he might kill her, but I suddenly became so weak that I could not lilt a finger nor raise my voice. Tho door was a bit ajar, and mother pushed it open and walked in. She had come up to dress my foot. As she en tered the man rose up with a curse, and for twenty seconds the two r.tood look ing each other in the face. Then moth' er suspected what sort of a fellow he was and what he was there lor, and sue spranz at him. Uo had the broken huntiug knife in his hand, and I saw him lunge at her. As he did so she struck him with her open hand fair on the nose a woman's awkard blow, but a powerful one and ho yelled right out as he went down. She had one hand in his hair and the other clutching his throat in no time, and then came bumpl bumpl bump! as she knocked his head on the puncheon floor. It wasn't over three minutes from tho time she entered tho door until she had him tied hand aud foot, and it was only after that op eration that Hhe looked over to me and asked : 'Harry, are you awake!" Well, we had the fellow snug and fast The blow mother gave him almost smashed his nose, and ho bled like a stuck hog. She choked him until he was black in tho face, and it was about ten minutes before he fully recovered his senses. Then how ho did go on He writhed and twisted, raved and cursed, and mother had to threaten to put coals to his flesh to calm him down She carried mo to a chair, got a rest for my foot, and theu left mo to watch while she went after father. I sat there with my shotgun in my hands, and three different times I cocked it aud made ready to fire on the fellow, who was de termined not to be held. When father came up the man chaugad his tactics, and became as humblo as a dog. He tried to make us believe that be thought our cabin the home of his uncle, aud that he was after a deed which his uucle was illegally holding. Evory border neighborhood inado its own laws in those duys. Father called in a couple of neighbors to consult over the case, and as a result tho fellow was taken out, tied to a tree aud then switched on the bare back until his cries for mercy could be heard a mile away. His weapons were retained and he was set free to take the trail for a settlement fifteen miles away. It was expected that he would return some day for revenge, but ho navcr did. In those early days the country was full of game, and wolves, bears, panthers and wild cats were numerous. The panthers were our greatest foes, as they sought to kill everything in the lino of live stock, aud we lost several head by them. On ono occasion wheu our pony was running loose in the woods with a bell on his neck, I went to look him up. I found him two miles from home. Guided by the bell, I discovered him on the further bide of a glado or opening, about ten rods across. I had just come to the edge of the glade, and hud opened my mouth to cull tho pony when a panther sprang on his back from the limb of a tree. His spring almost knocked the pony down, but he was a stout little fellow, and ho got his feet and came dishing straight at me. The panther was fairly on his back, but the motion gave him enough to do to hang on. The pouy dashed for a big beech with low spreading liuis, aud at two jumps he was relieved of his burden aud tho panther rolled to the ground within four feet of me, screaming out in a way to lift my heels oil the ground. I ex pected to be attacked, aud ou this oc cosion had no weupou with me. The beast had got more than enough, how ever. One of his eyes were put out, his shoulder broken, and lie must have been badly bruised ur. He rolled aiound for a while, screaming iu pain und auger, and theu slunk off without having seen me. It was :n connection with a panther that I uw my father perform a feat which is recorded iu pioneer histories. OnA dav in October 4'K nd I were out 1 r.. -hid to pluck E LEPUBLICAN. PA., WEDNESDAY, aorne wild grapes, and, comthg to a spring on a hillside, father knelt down to quench his thirst. He was baldly down when a large male panther sprang on him from a limb about ten feet above the ground. The yells of surprise father gave reached my ears nud I hastened my footsteps. I came up to find him bat tling barehanded with tho beast. I had my g,ln but, for fear of killing father, was obliged to stand by as a spectator. Fathor had leaned his rifle against a tree, but, owing to the activity of the panther, could not reach it. He had a hunting knife in his belt, but declared afterward that he totally forgot its presence. The panther snarled and father Bhoutcd, and th;y seemed to bo whirling in a circle most of the time. The real situation was this: The panther aimed to spring aid pull father down, but father ducked and dodged, and at every opportunity got in kick or a blow. Hail tue beast re mained quiet three seconds I could, have put a bullet into him, but he was mov ing about like greased lightning. Once father caught him by the tail and Hung him ten feet away, but he gathered him self up and was back before I could fire. My presence was known,, and pretty soon father called out: "Don't fire I Get my gnu and stand off a bit and bo ready for this fellow's mate when she comes I" I carried out this order, and there fore did not see the finish of the fight. Father got the panther by the back of tho neck and the tail, and carrying her to a rock thirty feet away he beat her on the stone until she was dead. Tho mate did not show up. The combat lasted fully twenty minutes, and father's home spun suit was cut to pieces, as if with a knife. Ho had thirty eight claw marks on his body, each of which drew blood, but none of them was serious, nnd he was not laid up for even a day. Xe.it York Sun. Physical Peculiarities Induced by Various Occupations. A carpenter's right shoulder is almost invariably higher than his left, iu conse quence of having to use his right arm all the time in planing and hammering. With every shaving his shoulder rises with a jerk, and it finally becomes natu ral to him to hold himself in that way. The right arm of a blacksmith, for the same reason, is almost hypertrophic;), while tVe left arm, from disuse, become atrophied. A shoemaker is almost always round shouldered from continually bending over the last between the kuees as he sews and hammers. The head of a bricklayers' laborer is hold aloft with a haughty, self reliant air, from his habit of carrying a hod on his shoulder and looking abovo hiut as he climbs up tho scaffolding. All good orators have most abnormally wide mouths. This is the direct conse quence of their habit of using sonorous words and speaking with deliberation and correct pronunciation. If one prac tices this before the glass ono cau see that tho muscles iu the cheeks are stretched more than ordinarily, nud the mouth is extended a great deal more than in everyday conversation. Then, too, nature has something to do with it. A large mouth, like a prominent nose, is a sign of power. But all men with big1 mouths are not orators. TbauU heaven for that! Cowboys and cavalrymen are usually bowlegged. But all bowleggcd peoplo are not cowboys for which they should bo grateful. Detroit Free Preu. Sonoma's Suven Moons. There have been many explanations offered in times past as to why the name of Sonoma was given to this valley by tho native tribe of Indians, who, upon the advent of tho white man over 100 Years oiro. peopled this section of the couutry by thousands. Of course we all know that Sououia valley in aborigineo means "Valley of the Moou," but just why that name was bestowed upon it is another question, and one, too, which we believe has never been satisfactorily answered. Recently, in talking to an aged Iudian who has resided on the old Nick Carrigan ranch for ninny years, and who was an old niuu when General Vallejo settled iu Sonoma fifty years ago, and must now be something over 100 years of age, he stated tho reason the valley was called Sonoma was because it had "beep muchee moon," (translated iuto good English, inauy moous). Fur ther inquiry developed the fact that be tween the town of Sonoma und tho Bella Vista viucyards, a distauce of four or five miles, the moon, wheu it is full, can be seen by the traveler to riso seven times in succession over the mountuins in the east, owing to their peculiar for mation. This phenomenon has bten wit nessed by mauy old resident! in the early eveuing at the rising of tho full moon. This, no doubt, has been ob served by the Iudiatis, ami henco the name, "Vulley of tho Moou." Sonoma (C'ui.) Index-Tribune. Between the North and Smth. The Mason aud Dixon line runs along the parallel of lutitudo thirty-nine de grees aud forty-thrco minutes, twenty-six degrees aud three miuutes, separating Pennsylvania from Maryland. It was drawn by two distinguished English sur veyors, Charles Mason aud Jeremiah Dixon, who began their work iu 1703 and finished it in 1707. The line is marked by stones set at intervals of live miles, euch huviug the arms of Lord Bultiuiore engraved upon one side aud those of the l'euu family upon tho other. Besides these large stones net to murk each fifth mile, smaller stones were set at the end of each mile, these having a letter P engraved upon oue side and a letter M ou the other; these intended as iuitiul letters of Pennsylvania and Mary laud. All of these stones wero engraved iu Englaud. The Mason aud Dixou line was not the line separating the free and the bUvo btates. The line settled ou iu the compromise of IsiO was thirty-six degrees, thirty minutes. The Mason and Dixou line as shown above, run along the parallel f thirty-nine decrees, forty- jtlu' FEB. 4, 1891. $1.50 TER ANNUM GOLD AND SILVER GOODS. HOW JEWELERS' MERCHANDISE 15, HADE BY THB TRACE. Valuable Sweepings Making the Al loys Wonderful Mttle Bawa How IUiirs Are Made. "I get sixty dollars a barrel for the sweepings of my floor," said a manufac turing jeweler to a Washington Star re porter. "There is no question of poking tho dust over before it is bought. The people who purchase it are glad enough to take it at that rate unsight-unscen, as the boys say. I sell the stuff to the re finers, who make a business of buying refuse that has precious metals in it and separating it. The gold and silver they get in this way are sold by them to jewel ers in turn. "I buy from tho refiners or from the assay office the gold and silver that I use, getting it a1 ways perfectly pure that is to sny, twenty-four carats. Then I make my alloys for myself, putting the desired proportions of gold, silver and copper into one of these littlo three-cornered earthen pots and melting them all up to gether with tire. Tho copper I uso is like what I have here in this box. You see it somewhat resembles shot of differ ent sizes. Tho copper is chemically pure and when being prepared is poured from the smelting pot held at some height iuto a receptacle full of cold water, which is kept stirred rapidly. Upon striking the water the metal takes the form of these globules. It is much more convenient in this shape, because we can weigh it out readily in any proportion desired. "The silver and gold as we get it is melted up with tho copper in proper proportions for the alloys and cajt iu iron molds. Thus prepared tho ingots are flattened out uuder a powerful roller to the thickness desired. From these slabs the pieces, of sizes needed for one purpose or nnother, are cut oil with a big machine-knife. Of every new de si"n that is brought into a mauufactur ing jeweler's shop a pattern is made of zinc or copper, so that when something of the Bamo kind is ordered all the work man has to do is to lay the pattern upon the littlo slab of gold, trace its outlines on the metal and afterward saw out the article. Such sawing is done with what is.called a 'pierce saw,' which has a blade like a line wire and no thicker, with little teeth. These saws are cheap, costing only eighty cents a gross, but tho work they do is wonderful in the hands of a skilled operator. "If a ring is to be made a strip of gold of the proper width is bent around by a contrivance specially adapted to the purpose and joined with gold solder so artfully that tho placo of juncture can not possibly be discovered. Supposing that a watch chain is to bo produced the melted gold is first made iuto a square bar of the length wished for and' then pulled through a round hole. Still it is too large, and so it is drawn through successive round holes, each ono smaller than that preceding, uutil it is a wire of required diameter. Then it only remains to cut off, bend, solder, and connect the links iu order to complete the chain. The chief part of our business consists in doing stock work' for tho jewelers. They send us all sorts of things to make. For example, they waut six rings, each with a one-carat diamond. Iu conveyiug tho order the dealer includes tho six one carat diamonds in a piece of paper folded up, written ou the outside the brief directions that t h re are to be half a dozen rings, each with a single stone. My business thereupon is to made the rings, set the stones aud deliver the goods as ordered. I should never think of adver vertising myself to the public, because people might be disposed to como to mo directly for work, aud, ulthough I might be paid more for an individual job, I should lose the custom of tiie jewelers, upon whose patronage I am obliged to depend. Jewelers recently have '.ken to selling hair brushes and other .rticlea which compose toilet sets, with oacks of sterling silver richly chased. People generally are not aware how this chasing is'doue. The ignorant imagine that the designs in silver on the backs of the cunibs and brushes are stamped on with dies, but as a mutter of fact they are always made by hammering with blunt tools from the wrong side of the silver, so as to fetch out iu relief the patterns. This process recpuircs tlic greatest skill, aud it is for this reason, rather thau for the value of the metal that goods of this sort cost so much." Obesity Cure. Never eat more thau ono dish at a meal, no matter what that dish may be, and a person may consume as inudi us thu stomach muy bear, and satisfy the appetito without the least reserve. Nev ertheless, uotbiug but the one dish should be tuken; no condimcuts, no soups, nor supplementary desserts should be ullowcd. This system was recom mended by the author of the note to u ludy who was slightly obese, aud who put it into practice with the bust results. Tho lady observed that she suffered no inconvenience whatever from this diet, and tho result obtained by severel otheis uuy bo well understood, us she found by her own experience that the partaking of only one dish, whether it be meat, fish or vegetables, brought on a sense of satiety much sooner than if she hud par tukeu of a vuriety of dishes, whence the effect of a relative abstinence. J'mi imt ceuliail O'Uctte. Definition of Ingrain. Ingrain is a term used in connection with textiles dyed before bokg woven. The advuutuge of such textiles is that they can be wushed without thereby dis charging their coluis. The cotton cloth called Turkey red uud the red marking cotton are what is culled ingrain. There are ulso double and treble ply iuiuiu carpets. H-ituii Cultivator. Breathe through nose instead of mouth, specially wheu go:ug from vtanu ijoi'o l'i nr iiiuht air. : ( SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. GermasT makes hollow cast-iron bricks. Twenty-one electrical clocks are run- niug at Marshalltown, Iowa. Small drills can bo tempered by heat ing over a small gas jet, then dipping in water or oil. There are now 15,000 electric motors in use in the United Slutes distributed among 200 industries. An Italian savant claims that injecting a current of electricity through milk de lays its souring for several days. Utilizing scrap steel rod by welding it and drawing it into fence wire is one of the recent successes of electric welding. Those lands, which iu Continental Europe are devoted to the grape and produce the best and most costly wine are remarkable for the great amount of phosphoric acid they contain. The most astonishing novelty in Paris is a calculating machine, invented by M. Bolle, of Lo Mans. By simply turning a wheel it adds, multiplies or divides any number of figures up to lines of fif teen, and with amazing rapidity. Chief Engineer Inch of tho United States Navy, has recently made n valu able discovery in the shape of a compo sition that will prevcut the adherence of corals, barnacles, or other destructive fauna or flora to sea-going vessels. An Italian claims to have invented a life-saving belt that a traveler can wear continually on shipboard, and which will instantly expand if the person falls into the water, aud will hold him upon the water's surface for forty-eight hours. Some practical improvements have re cently been made in diving apparatus. Instead of the heavy electric band lamp hitherto used, light but powerful glow lamps are now affixed to the top ol the helmet, leuviug the bands of the diver free. A traveling testing room, or ambu lance laboratory, has been in successful use for several months for repairing tho cables of one of the electric lighting companies of Paris. It is fitted with a battdy and testing instruments, and carries two persons. In North America tho phalangidu!, variously known as harvest spiders, harvest men, daddy-long-legs, etc., in cludes but twenty-two known species. France has a list of fifty-nine of this family, and those of other European countries are proportionately large. France is said to be the only country which has made careful experiments with carrier pigeons on war vessels. It now has a pigeon scrvico connecting the fleet and the shore, while Germany, Austria, Russia, Italy, Spain and Portu gal each has a military pigeon service. In a car wheel foundry in Detroit, Mich., a very ingenious system for han dling the molten metal from the cupolas to the flasks, aud carrying tho wheels to and from the soaking pits has been in troduced. The work is dono by ma chinery entirely, a series of overhead trolleys moved by a wire rope connection carrying the ladles, flasks and wheels. The foundry has a capacity of 400 car wheels per day, nnd about 130 tons of metal can bo handled in six hours by tho new system. Six Hundred Feet of Frost ! For mauy years scientists have been perplexed over the phenomenon of a certain well at Yakutsk, Siherio. As long ago as 182S a Kussian merchant be gan to sink this noted well, and after working on it for three years, gave it up as a bad job, huviug at that time sunk it to a depth of thirty feet without getting through the frozen ground. Ho com municated these facts to tho Iiussian Academy of Sciences, who sent men to take charge of tho digging operation at tho wouderlul well. These seieutilic gentlemen toiled away at their work for several years, but at last abandoned it when a depth of IJ82 feet was reached, with the earth still frozen as hard as a rock. In 1841 tho acadumy had the temperature of the soil at tho sides of tho well tuken at various depths. From the data thus obtained they came to the startling conclusion that tho grouud was frozen to a depth exceeding 000 feet. Although it is known to meteorolo gists that the pole of the lowest kuowu temperature is iu thut region of Siberia, it is conceded that uot even thut rigorous climate could force frost to such a great depth below tho surface. After figuring on the subject for over a quarter of a century geologists have como to the con clusion that the great frozen valley of the Lena ltiver was deposited, frozen just as it is found to-day, during the great grinding up era of the glacial epoch. St. Louie llepullic. Cut Off tho Fair Patient s Wig. There is a story told of a youug physi cian of this city, who was connected nt one time with tho Eiuergcucy Hospital. It has caused many a smile ut his expense. Ho had not been long stationed at the hospital when a woman wits brought iu suffering from a severe sculp wound. Tho blood was welling out in great jets and was fast dyeing her golden curls u rusty red, and the doctor was engaged in hastily clipping her hair, when his p.t tieut exclaimed, "Oh, doctor, don't !'' Thinking he might have hurt her, be said: "Oh, never iniud ; thut'sall right." "No, it's uot," respondoJ the lady with somu warmth, "for you are cultiui; my wig." Aud bo he was Waelunyiun Put. The World Supplies Kiu laud's Herbage Euglish farmers ransack the world for hurbago plants. Italy bus yielded a variety of rye-grass toug naturalized and uuiversully prized in our country. From tho fur-oil shores of New Zeulaud are brought large quantities of thu seed of the Ductylisglonieruta or cocksfoot grass; and timothy grass seed or meadow cats tail, as well us the seeds of the fescues, come in thousands of hugs from America. Alsike, a hybrid clover, is import) d I'roui Canada aud Sweden; whim and red clover seed from Austria ua 1 France. JJottvn Cultivator, NATES OF ADVERTISING. OneSqure, B Inch, on Iniertloa 1 ee Ob. Square, ono Inch, one month I M On. Square, .. Inch, three months. . I M Oat Bqture, n Inch, on jear MM Two Sqnarae, ona rear II 03 Qaarter Column, on. yea M Half Column, on rar SO a On Colnmn, on ja f. INN Lf al advertisements ta cant ar llaa aaok l ertloa. Marriages and death aotlc gratia. All allli for year? artfrtlinnts eonvcted qacjt irl. Temporary atlTerUiament nut a paid la, adraaee. Jo work cah on delivery. WHEN THE NEW" WEARS OFF.1 H was a youth, and she, a maid, ' Both happy young and gay, They loved and life to them was fair As one continuous May. The cronkors saw this happiness, ' And said, "Ah, love Is blind; . Your' re hnppy now, but care will come, Wheu the new wears off, you'll find.' They marriel.and then their life grew rich With calmer, riper joy: They wore as man and wife more fond Than when as girl and boy. v Their "friends" could not endure the sight, And said, with worldly wit, "It will not be so bright and flno When the new wears off a bit." j Ah, well the new wore off, of course, And then, what did they find? An oldness which was hotter far, For love is not so blind As selfish care, anil loving hearts New joys will always meet, So, when the now wears off, they'll fin! Old love the more coinplet. -Myrtle K. Cherryman, in Free Preu. HUMOR OF THE DAV. Give no quarter Men who don't tip.' Always worn out Rubber overshoes. A suit for damages The small boy's. "What do you do for a living I" "Breathe!" Life. A young man shouldn't strike his moustache wheu it's down. ' If a courting match is not declared oil it must end in a tie. Picayune, 'Tis a painful affliction, I fear, : j When farmers have corn in tho ear. j Judged T Married people, it is laid, live longer than single ones. It seems longer, any woy, to many. Doiton Traveller. It is always good to look on the best side of thiugs; but if you are buying them it is safer to look on both sides. . Don't heap coals of fire on your enemvjs bead. Remember that coal is $5 piV i ton. Economy is wealth. Troy Preu, As down the wall the convict slid, , . When he for freedom made a break, He murmured in the shadow hid I "Excuse the liberty I take I" : Patient "Jehosaphat? You've drawn t the wrong tooth." Dentist "Well, it will cost you only two dollars for an artl final one. Muntey tweekhj. For all the doctors long have tried Not oue of them is found out yet The point of death exact and true iJut wuat about tne bayonetr Fhiladeljihia TimeJj 'Just ice that trombone player. His" face is red as a beet from blowing hard.". "Yes; ho certainly ought to know what is meant by strains of music." BMori j Herald. ' "Did you tip tho waiter!" asked a diner in the House restaurant of a new comer. "No; but I felt as if I'd like to lip him over and then step on him." Wiuhington Pott. THE FINISHING TOUCUKS. H went o'er his speech Soma two hours after. And put in parentheses (Hoar!) (Cheers) and (LaugTiter). v - Ordinarily we are not in favor of lynch ' law, but here comes a chap who has ; produced an instrument which looks like '. a piano, but hidden away in the iusido , arc six violins, two 'cellos and a couple, of vioht3. Pitttbunjh Chronicle. " Mrs. A. "How do you like our new neighbor?" Mrs. B. "I never met such iu ignorunt woman as she is. She can't talk about anything but paintings, books nd music. She doesn't know a word uf gossip about uuybody." Jfiuihattan, 'Iflcher (iu geography class) "Ho many inhabitants has Alaska?" Pupil "About 35,000." What proportion these aro white?" "About oiio-cven' "Of what color are the remai6 (After some hesitation) 'PU t- t i'hey never wash." Chitayu Trilui A Western man who was to through tho East, in passing a met heard the driver say "Abandon t rect progression to the straight th ward, aud deviate by inclinutory iberraut dcxtrogyrittiou into a ui iccideuce." It was an amateur ll farmer saying, "Gee, Buck," to his of oxen. Farm, Field and Stocknuit Miss Wcllalong "What a spitef tlo thing that Miss Youngly is! would you believe it, Mr. Cuudoi, told me the other day that I was be) uiug to look old. Now, you dou't t. any ono would take me for being old. you Mr. Candor?" Mr. Candor "W one might just for a moment, but tainly uot after he hud heard you tal JJviton Courier. A Pet Wasp. i We have heard of training almc everything, but we were surprised whi we read in tho Christina at Wcnk so time ugo of a ludy turning wasp. Sh, found oue ou her wiudow which ap pearcd to be dead, but it wai oulj chilled by the frost, and when she took it upon a piece of paper nud put it by' the lire, as soon us it became warm it flew to the wiudow ugaiu, where j' stayed all day. Tho uuxt morning, was ugaiu chilled, so it cmil l uot mo' and she put it ueur tho stT" where it did as it hud dono lg fore. So she continued t Iq morning for some duys. I , she was surprised to Had that f on her shoulder instead of goi window. She put her ling head and it crawled upon it. time she boguu to feed it wit upp'.e, pear, nud alter that it to the ludy many times diiiiu; uud tho two became great Cnicwjo l.etlgtr. A Large (lock. One of the largest clocks iu is the great Parlimcut Ib'U usually called the Westuunst ill l.onduu. The dials are ''! diaint-Ler. The depth uf the weights is 174 leet. NVeiji minute hand, two cwt. ; h-ull tert; glass used inilials, twentj The luigo bell lav cant teu suiull tmes four J tio. ( I; t
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