TDK FOREST REPOBLICAH U publlihei rrsry W.daei4j, fey J. E. WENK. Offlo La Bmoarbangh & Co.'s Building I-M rriUUCT, TIONJS8TA. T. . Terms, ... f I.BO per Yar tnMrtrtfn raetlve few a th.rtar Mrloa tnnn tnr months. Onrmmimc. soMcltcd from a Mrt f th. f.nrtrv. Noretlc will b. Uko of kararmoiu RATES OUTADVERTISING. Ob Squr, heh, on lootrtkm .f t C. SqMM, on Isch, on. month M On Sqaar,. Inch, thre month. .. I M Oat Sqntr, n Inch, on year Two Ctqnaraa, on year II 99 Co.rl.r Colnmn, on year MM Hlf Column, on yr MM On Colnmn, on y 1MM Lof J dvrtieiiU la sent ft Um ok Mrtlon. VuntM ud ath aotlc (rati. AU hill, for ywrly uWertlMmrnt eot'octed qo trlj. Temporary adT.rUMm.nt must a pU fab adune. Jok work a aa dalrrary. Forest republican. VOL. XXIII. NO. 41. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4, 1891. S1.50 PER ANNUM. In one California county (Inyo) there were 1800 red to 600 white skins. 1 Captain Meade, of the United States Navy, says that in peace times we do not get the best natives in tho navy, and that no wages, however high, will bring us the best. Englishmen are to have "an auto matic railway library," which meaas 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 tho all-important coin "Into tho slot." The Commercial Advertiier 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 needs 'a minuter plenipotentiary at Berne about ns much as Constantinople needs an en voy extraordinary in Iceland. According to the 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 uamo on the door, for $13. It is a dummy, made, out of sheet iron, and is for tho use of people who want to sot up ofilces and mnke a spread of themselves. They give outsiders a feeling of confidence. Toor 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 termons in barrels they send them to cut iyi much as $3 a .omlon dealer offers lots at this price, en in "a large, bold, ring more. i-.i.ii.. xby, the victorious rival i Wade Hampton, will bo among a remarkably largo ncn under fifty years who (he next Senate. Senator- . is only thirty-six Delegate . xted as Senator from Idaho, is jrty. Other Senators fifty years under arc: Wulcott, forty-two; fifty; Higgius, fifty; Spoouer, .even; Aldrich, forty-nine; Petti , forty-two; Daniel, forty-eight; n, forty-five; Faulkner, forty-three, i Kcmia, forty.-two. ; Very few people realizo how much tho flautist has done for mankind. To 'ncntion one thing only, the 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 ft, says a writer in the Globe-Democrat, You see none of the helpless, mumbling old men and women that you formerly did. This is not be cause people, do not attain tho ago their parentAand grandparents reached, but becausehe dentist has prevented some of tho most uupleasant constquonces of advancing years. Men of seventy no lougor either look or fool old, bocau.e they are not deprived of nourishing food at the time when thoy need it most. Estimates have been mado showing that the average length of lifo has been In creased from four to six years by the general use of fatso teeth, and this does not appear in the leiv.it extravagant when oue thinks of the diHoreucu in the nutri ment accessible to one with a fine set of molars and oue condemned to gum it through his declining years. . At a recent meeting in Berlin of tho Geographical Society, Chief Forest Master Keasler called attention to the ex travagant wasto of timber in the United States. Among other interesting details Mr. Kesslor spoke of the tremendous de struction of forests in the United States during recent decades of years. Quoting from the tenth ceusua, he stated that iu 1880 the 25,708 saw wills then m opera tion converted 4120,000,000 worth of raw timber stock into various kiuds of lumber, and he asserted that nt the same rate there would be no good-sized Umber loft in forty years, llo spoke of the enormous waste of wood through foiest tires, which are the result, for the most part, of carelessness or a desire to clear land for cultivation, aud declared that the planting of new forests, which has of late years received some attention in the Eastern States, cannot begin to offset the waste of forests. lie said that there is every reason to fear that America will soon bo a country impoverished for tree property. Mr. Kesslcr made the striking comparison that, while tho United States bad but eleven per cent, of its area covered by fomta, the empire of Oer muuy has twenty-six per cent, of its entire area so covered. Mr. Kessler said that the reckless destruc tion of forest trees iu America and tho iuditlereuce manifested by Americans in the restora tion of forests is a menace, not aloue to '-K ..nt threatens i ' THK Portof pleasant dreams, I I Bailed In the good bark Fancy Down the still, 4 river of sleep, From the land St deep Deoember To a port thiit the sunbeam keep; While the gla t winds fallowed after, And sang with a happy eest, And I heard them croon o'er the infant moon, As It lay on the night's broad breast. And the ijort of the good bark Fancy, A port that the sunbeanis keep, Is called Pleasant Dreams; like an opal it gleams O'er the strange, dark river of sleep. There, flushed with the wine of laughter, The voyager sings queer sons, And, borne in a car of the sunset, Ride oft with the elfin throngs Up, up through the rosy cloudland. Where the round little mistmen stay, To the stars abloom in the cool, soft glo.m Of gardens far away. Ther an non 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 th rose. Oft from the fields of sorrow, To the brink of the river of sleep, Wan toilers oome, and, restful, They sail on It waters deep; Till clear through the gate of sundown The past, like a beacon beams, And love, sweet mariner, anchors In the port of Pleasant Dreams. Ingram Crockett, in Frank Leslie' t. THE PIONEER'S FAMILY. I was a boy only eight years old when my father moved into the hill country of Western Minnesota. He was known to all the pioneers about as "Big Dave," and to the Indians as tho "Iron Man." He was six feet tall, weighed 210 pounds, and, at forty years of age, was perhaps tho strongest man in the United States, and certainly one of the most fearless of men. Mother was above the average 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, aud, as a fahiily, we were able to take care of ourselves. We had been settled about six months when father set a trap for a bear which bad 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 tho trap. All along the border at that time there was peace, but the red man was jealous and Bulky, 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 tho fellows who got the bear showed their contempt for father by dragging the 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 aud hunting knife. We followed the trail right into the village, and there found the meat being cut up, while tho pelt and trap were Dear by. "Where is the thief who stole my bear!" shouted father, as we came to a halt within lour feet of the crowd arouud the meat. No one answered. "I say he is a thief I" continued fathtr, " nnd if you will point him out to me, I will pull his cars! Let that meat alone) It belongs to me!" A dozen of the bucks began to growl and murmur, and father handed me his rifle, threw down his kuife and hatchet and cried out: "There was more than one thief! I saw 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 take 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 were all stout and supple young men, and every Indian in the vil lage gathered around to see the fun. It was fully expected that he would get a good drubbing, and the four advanced with mischief in their eyes. "You just keep out of the way and don't get frightened," said father to me, and just then the four rushed in on him from four sides. For an instant he was hidden from Bight and there was a great hurrahing, but the next thing we saw was the body of an 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, and finally gave Jthera a fling, which rollod both of them iuto the ice cold waters of the creek. "Have you six men here!" demanded my father, as he turned to the chief. "If bo, 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 6f excite ment, and as the chief named six of his best men each stepped forward with a whoop. Father wo smiling and con fident as he spat on his hands, and he told me that I need have no fears. At a given signal the six Indiaus made a rush. They got hold of arms and legs aud body, but with a mighty wreuch father shook them off and then took the aggressive. There was neither striking nor kicking iu the struggle, but the way he did twist those redskins about made the crowd dizzy. In two minutes he was victor, and the chief came forward aud slu nk his hauj, and theu aud there gave him the titUof "The Muu of iron." Ever udiaris held him in the toy oue ul ly honored. I got a title at th tame time father did. If I was scared while in the village I was at least determined not to betray the fact, and so it happened that they dubbed me "The-Boy-Who-Stood-Fast." In April of tbe next year I cut my foot while chopping and was laid up for sev eral weeks. This wa 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 at the rear of tbe house. Ore warm, pleasant day about the end ot th. month, and about mid-aftcrnoon, I was aroused from a light sleep by hear ing some one open the door. I lay fac ing it, and I saw a strange white man enter and look around. He was a rough, evil-looking man, and I knew that he was a jtranger in the neighborhood. I suppose that he believed us all in the bush, for he leaned his rifle against the logs and walked over to a chest in which father kept his papers and which was the storehouse for articles of. personal wear which T'e never used. A report had got abroad that father had brought money into the country to buy land. 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, while my shotgun hung on its hooks ten feet awuy. 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 he broke the blade square off about two inches back from the point. He was cursing and growling and still at work when I heard mother's footsteps outsido. I was close to the logs, aud in turning the corner of the house the path led over a rocky surface. I knew she'd walk right in on the man, and I realizod that ho might kill her, but I suddenly became so weak that I could not lift 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 stood look ing each other in the face. Then moth er suspected what sort of a fellow he was and what he was there for, and she sprang at him. He had the broken hunting 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 bis hair and the other clutching his throat in no time, and then came bumpt bump 1 bump! as she knocked his head on the puncheon floor. It wasn't over three minutes from the time she entered the door until she had him tied hand aud foot, and it was only after that op eration that she looked over to me and asked : "Harry, are you awake!" Well, we had the fellow snug and fast. The blow mother gavo him almost smashed his nose, and ho bled like a stuck hog. She choked him until he was black in the 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. Sho carried mo to a chair, got a rest for my foot, and then left mo to watch while she went after father. I sat there with my shotgun in my bund., 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 changed his tactics, and became as huinblo as a dog. He tried to make us believe that he thought our cabin the home of his uncle, and that he was after a deed which his uocle was illegally holding. Every border neighborhood made its own laws in those days. Father called in a couple of neighbors to consult over the case, and as a result the 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 he nsver did. In those early days the country was full of game, and wolves, bears, pauthcrs and wild cats were numerous. The panthers were our greatest foes, as they sought to kill everything in the line of live stock, and we lost several head by them. On one occasion when 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 homo. Guided by the bell, I discovered him ou the further side of a glade or opening, about ten rods across. I had just come to the edge of the glade, and hud opened my mouth to call 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 he got his feet and came dishing straight at me. Tho panther was fairly on his back, but the motion gave him enough to do to hang on. The pony dashed for a big beech with low spreading liuis, aud at two jumps he was relieved of his burden and tho panther rolled to tho ground within four feet of me, screaming out in a way to lift my heels oil the ground. I ex pected to be attacked, and ou this oe cosion had no weapon with me. The beast had got more than enough, how ever. One of his eyes were put out, his shoulder broken, and be must have been badly bruised up. He rolled arouad for a while, screauiiug in pain and auger, uud theu slunk oil without having seeu me. It was in connection with a pauther that I saw my father perform a feat which is recorded in pioneer histories. 0 day in October Kie n:l I were out I --" x..hid to pluck. tome wild grapes, and, comfhg to a spring on a hillside, father knelt down to quench his thirst. He was hatdly down when a large malo panther sprang on him from a limb about ten feet above the ground. The yells of surprise father gave reached my ears and I hastened my footsteps. I came up to find him bat tling barehanded with tho beast. I had my gun, but, for fear of killing father, was obliged to stand by as a spectator. Father had leaned his rifle agaiust a tree, but, owing to tbe activity of the pauther, could not reach it. He had a hunting knife in bis belt, but declared afterward that he totally forgot its presence. The panther snarled and father shouted, and thsy seemed to be whirling in a circle most of the time. Tho real situation was this: The panther aimed to spring a id pull father down, but father ducked and dodged, and at every opportunity got in a kick or a blow. Had the 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 flung 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! Get my gun 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 the neck and the tail, and carrying her to a rock thirty feet away he beat her on the stone until she was dead. The 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, and he was not laid up for even a day. Scio York Sun. Fbysical Peculiarities Induced by Various Occupations. A carpenter's Tight shoulder is almost invariably higher than his left, in 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 bold himself in that way. The right arm of a blacksmith, for the same reason, is almost hypertrophiod, while ike left arm, from disuse, become atrophied. A shoemaker is almost always round shouldered from continually bending over the last between the knees as he sews and hammers. The head of a bricklayers' laborer is held aloft with a haughty, self reliant air, from his habit of carrying a hod on his shoulder and looking above him as he climbs up the 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 tice this before the glass one cau see that tho muscles in the cheeks are stretched more than ordinarily, nnd the mouth is extendet 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. Tbauk heaven for that 1 Cowboys and cavalrymen are usually bowlegged. But all bowleggcd peoplo aro not cowboys for which they should be grateful. Detroit Free Preu. Sonoma's Savon Moons. There have been ninoy explanations offered in times past as to why the name of Sonoma was given to this valley by the native tribe of Indians, who, upon the advent of the white man over 100 years ago, peopled this section of the country by thousands." Of courso we all know that Sonoma valley in nboriginee meaus "Valley of the Moon," 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 Indian who has resided on the old Nick Carrigan ranch for muuy years, and who was au old man when General Vallejo settled in Sonoma fifty years atio, and must now be something over 100 years of age, he stated tho reason the valley was called Sonoma was because it had "hcep mucbee moon," (translated iuto good English, manymoous). Fur ther inquiry developed the fact that be tween the town of Sonoma and the Bella Vista vineyards, a distance of four or five miles, the moon, when it is full, can be seen by the traveler to riso seven times in succession over tbe mountains in the east, owing to their peculiar for mation. This phenomenon has bt en wit nessed by mauy old residents in the early evening at the rising of the full moon. This, no doubt, has been ob served by the Iudiaus, aud hence the name, "Valley ol the Moon." Sonoma (Cul.) IntUx-Tribune. Between the North and South. The Mason and Dixon line runs along the parallel of latitude thirty-nine de grees and forty -three minutes, twenty-six degrees and three miuutes, separating Peunsylvauia from Maryland. It was drawn by two distiusuished English sur veyors, Charles Mason aud Jeremiah Dixon, who began their work iu 17t53 and finished it iu 1707. Tho line is marked by stones set at intervals of live miles, each having the arms of Lord Baltimore engraved upon oue side and those of the Peon family upon the other. Besides these large stones set to mark each fifth mile, smaller stones were set at the eud of each mile, these having a letter P engraved upon one side aud a letter M ou the other; these intended as initial letters of Pennsylvania and Mary laud. All of these stoues were engraved iu Englaud. The Mason aud Dixon line was not the line separating the free and the slave States. The line settled ou iu the compromise of lte'O wus thirty-six degrees, thirty minutes. The iluson and Dixou line as tliowu above, run along Itlie parallel nt thirty-nine degrees, forty- ;gold and silver goods HOW JEWELERS' MERCHANDISE IS MADE B7 THJ3 TRADE. Valuable Sweeping Making the Al loys Wonderful Ilttle Bawa Mow Kings 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 the dust over before it is bought. The people who purchase it are glad enough to take it at that rate unsight-unsren, 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 aro sold by them to jewel ers in turn. "I buy from the refiners or from the assay office the gold and silver that I use, getting it a' ways perfectly pure that is to say, twenty-four carats. Then I make my alloys for myself, putting the desired proportions of gold, silver and copper into one of these little three-cornered earthen pots and melting them all up to gether with fire. Tho copper I use is like what I have here in this box. You see it somewhat resembles shot of differ ent sizcB. The copper is chemically pure and when being prepared is poured from the smelting pot held at some height into 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 illoys and cant in iron molds. Thus prepared tho ingots are flattened out under a powerful roller to .the thickness desired. From these slabs the pieces, of sizes needed for one purpose or another, are cut off with a big machine-knife. Of every new de sign that is brought into a manufactur ing jeweler's shop a pattern is made of Einc or copper, so that when something of the tamo kind it ordered all the work man has to do is to lay the pattern upon the tittle slab of gold, traco its outlines on the metal and afterward saw out the article. Such sawing is done with what isgcalled a 'pierce saw,' which has a blade like a fine wire and no thicker, with little, teeth. These saws are cheap, costing only eighty cents a gross, but the 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 arouud 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 be 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, until 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 want six rings, each with a one-carat diamond. In conveying tho order the dealer includes tho six one carat diamonds in a piece of paper folded up, written on , the outside the brief directions that th . 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 come to me directly for work, and, although 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 hav '".ken to selling hair brushes and other tides which compose toilet sets, with oucks of sterling silver richly chased. People generally are not aware how this chasing is'done. The ignorant imagine that the designs in silver on the backs of the cainbs and brushes are stamped on with dies, but as a matter 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 requires the greatest skill, and it is for this reason, rather than for the value of the metal that goods of this sort cost so much." Obesity Cure. Never eat more than one dish at a meal, no matter what that dish may be, and a person may consume as much as tho stomach may bear, and satisfy the appetite without the least reserve. Nev ertheless, nothiug but the one dish should be taken; no condimcnu, no soups, nor supplementary desserts should be allowed. This system was recom mended by the author of the note to a lady who was slightly obese, and who put it into practice with the bust results. The lady observed that she suffered no inconvenience whatever from this diet, aud the result obtained by severel otheis may bo well understood, as she found by her own experience that tbe partaking of only one dish, whether it be meat, fish or vegetables, brought on a sense of satiety much sooner than if sho hud par taken of a variety of dishes, wheuce the effect of a relative abstinence. J'Uurmn ceutiod U 'unite. InHultiou or Ingrain. Ingrain is a term used iu connection with textiles dyed before being woven. The advantage of such textiles is that they can be washed without thereby dis. cburgiug their colors. The cotton cloth called Turkey red uud the red marking cotton are what is culled ingrain. There are also double and treble ply inruiu carpets. JJutton Cultivator. I Breathe through uo-ie instead of mouth, specially when go;ug from anu jjoij 'o or uiiml airt SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Germatj makes hollow cast-iron bricks. Twenty-one electrical clocks are run ning at Marshalltown, Iowa. Small drills can be 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 States 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 roc by welding it and drawing it into fence wire is oue of the recent successes of electric welding. Those lands, which in Continental Europe arc dsvoted to tho grape and produce the best and most costly wine are remarkable for the great amount of phosphoric acid they contain. The most astouishiug novelty in Paris Is a calculating machine, invented by M. Bolle, of Le 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 Iuch of tho United States Navy, has recently mndo a valu able discovery in the shapo of n compo sition that will prevent tho 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, anil 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 hand lamp hitherto used, light but powerful glow lamps are now affixed to the top ol the helmet, leaving the bauds 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 battoiy and testing instruments, and carries two persons. In North America the phalangida;, 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 service 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 front the cupolas to the flasks, and carrying the wheels to and from the soaking pits has been in troduced. The work is done 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 cupacity of 400 car wheels per day, and about 130 tons of metal can bo bandied in six hours by the new system. Six Hundred Feet or Frost ! For mauy years scientists have been perplexed over the phenomenon of a certain well at Yakutsk, Siberia. As long ago as 182S a Uussian merchant be gan to sink this noted well, and after working on it for three years, gavo it up as a bad job, haviug at that time sunk it to a depth of thirty feet without getting through tbe frozen ground. He com municated these facts to the Russian Academy of Sciences, who sent men to take charge of the digging operation at the wonderful well. These scientific gentlemen toiled away at their work for several years, but at last abandoned it when a depth of 382 feet was reached, with the earth still frozen as bard as a rock. In 1844 the academy had the temperature of tbe soil at the sides of the well taken at various depths. From tho data thus obtained they came to the startling conclusion that the ground was frozen to a depth exceeding tiOO feet. Although it is known to meteorolo gists that the pole of the lowest known temperature is in that region of Siberia, it is conceded that not even that rigorous climate could force frost to such a great depth below the surface. After figuring on the subject for over a quarter of a century geologists have come to the con clusion that tbe great frozen valley of the Lena Kiver was deposited, frazeit just as it is fouud to-day, during the great grinding up era of tho glacial epoch. St. Loui Jiepublic. Cut Off the Fair Patient's Wig. There is a story told of a young physi cian of this city, who was connected at one time with tho Emergency Hospital. It has caused many a smile at his expense. He had not been long stationed at the hospital when a woman was brought iu suffering from a severe scalp wound. The blood was welling out in great jets and was fast dyeing her golden curls a rusty red, and the doctor was engaged in hastily clipping her hair, when his pa tient exclaimed, "Oh, doctor, don't'.-' Thinking he might have hurt her, ho said: "Ob, never miud; that's all right." "No, it's not," responded the lady with sonio warmth, "for you are cutting my wig." And so he was. Watfungton W. The World Supplies Emrluud' llerbaire English fanners ransuck the world fur herbugo plants. Italy has yielded a variuty of rye-grass loug naturalized and universally prized in our country. From the fur-off shores of New .e.tluud are brought large quantities of tiie seed of the Dactylisglomerata or cocksfoot grass; aud timothy grass seed or meadow cats tail, as well as the seeds of the fescues, come in tuousHuds of bugs from America. Alsike, a hybrid clover, is imjioruil from Canada aud Sweden; white mid red clover seed from Austria au 1 Fvauce. iknlvrx Cultivator, WHEN THE NEW WEARS OFF; Ha was a youth, and she, a maid, ' Both happy young and gay, They loved and life to tham was fair As one continuous May. Th croaker saw this happiness, ' ' And said, "Ah, love is blind; Yonr're happy now, but care will comet When the new wears off, you'll find." They marrie1,and then their life grew rlob - With calmer, riper joy; They were aa man and wife more fond Than when aa girl and boy. v Their "friends' could not endur the sight, And said, with worldly wit, "It will not b to bright and fine ; When the new wears off a bit." j Ah, well th new wore off, of court, And then, what did they find? An oldness which was better far. For love is not so blind As selfish care, and loving hearts New joys will always meet, So, when the new wears off, they'll finl Old love the more complet. -Hlrtle K. Cherryman, in Free Preu. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Give uo 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!" "Breathe V'Life. A yonng man shouldn't strike his moustache when it's down. i If a courting match is not declared off it must end in a tie. Picayune. 'Tin a rmitiful Afflintlnn. T fai- . t When farmers have coro in the ear. -I Jxtdgii i Married people, it is said, live longer than single ones. It seems longer, any way, to many. Botlon Traveller. ' It is always good to look on the best . side of things; but if you are buying them it is safer to look on both sides. Don't heap coals of fire on jour enemy's head. Remember that coal is $3pcV' ton. Economy is wealth. TrofPreu. As down the wall the convict slid, . , i" When be for freedom made a break, n murmured in tne naaow mu "Excuse the liberty I take!" Patient "Jehosaphat! You've drawn the wrong tooth." Dentist "Well, it 1 will cost you only two dollars for an arti- , ficial one." Atuiiuy'iWeeklt. For all tbe doctor long have tried Not oue of them s found out yet The point of death exact and true i UM wnat about tiie bayonet" 1 Philadelphia Timet. ; "Just iee that trombone player. Hla face is red as a beet from blowing hard."- , "Yes; he certainly ought to knew what . Is meant by strains of music." Bottati j Uerald. "Did you tip the waiter!" asked a liner in the House restaurant of a new comer. "No; but I felt as if I'd like to tip him over and then step on him." Wunhington Pott. TBE FINISHING TOTJCBKS. H went o'er his speech Bom two hour after, And put in oarentheses (Hear I) (Cheers) and (Laughter), v Ordinarily we are not in favor of lynch law, but here comos a chap who has produced an instrument which looks like a piano, but hiddon away in tbe inside are six violins, two 'cellos and a couple, of violas. Pitttburgh Chronicle. Mrs. A. "How do you like our new neighbor!" Mrs. B. "I never met such ' iu ignorant woman as she is. She can't talk about anything but paintings, books ' and music. She doesn't know a word uf gossip about anybody." Manhattan, 'lecher (in geography class) "no'' many inhabitants has Alaska!" Pupil "About 35,000." What proportion these are white!" "About ono-seven' "Of what color are the reuiaiutf (After some hesitation) 'Don't ' They never wash." Chieago Tribw A Western man who was to through tbe East, in passiug a mer beard the driver say "Abandon t rect progression to the straight th ward, and deviate by inclinatory berrant! dcxtrogyration into a d incidence." It was an amateur II farmer saying, "Gee, Buck," to his of oxen. Farm, Field and Stocimat Miss Wellalong "What a spitef tie thing that Miss Youngly Is! would you believe it, Mr. Candot, told mo the other day that I was be) ning to look old. Now, you dou't th any ono would take me for being okt you Mr. Candor!" Mr. Candor " V? one might just for a moment, but ' tainly not after he had heard you t liotton Courier, k A Pet Wasp. We have heard of training alme everything, but we were surprised wbj we read in the Christian at Work eot time ago of a lady taming a wasp. Hit fouud one on her window which a peared to be dead, but it wa ooh chilled by the frost, and when sho tool it upon a pieco of paper aud put it l,i tue nre, as soou as it becutuo warm flew to the window agaiu, where stayed all day. The next moruin" was again chilled, to it ciuijj not ma ana she put it near the str" where it did as it had done g fore. So she coutiuued t la morning for some days, j , sho won surprised to tiad that. ou her shoulder instead of goj window. She put her liu.f head and it crawled upon it. i time she began to feed it wit apple, pear, aud after that it to tbe lady many times durim and tho two became great Chicago Leilytr. A Largo (lock. One of the largest clocks iu is the great Parlimeut llou usually called the Weatiuinst in l.oudou. The dials are '! (iimueier. The depth of the w weights U 174 teet. WeijJ minulo hand, two cut.; leull leet ; luss uhm.i Ui dials, lw The large bell ' ten small ouea four t1 , . li ' V
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