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VOL. XXIII. NO. 42, TIONESTA, TA., WEDNESDAY, FEH. 11, 1891. $1,50 PEll ANNUM.
It is said that ovor thirty-eight thou
land copyrights hovo boon grunted to
American authors during tho past yenr.
Tho amount of rsul literature put forth
ia not it Hied.
An Austin-Hungarian exhibition is to
Se hold iu Pari, in 1892, under tho aus
pices of tho Aintro-IIiingarian Chamber
)f Commcrco in tho French capital. If
;ho. project come to Anything, the ex
libition will probably bo transferred to
London in 1S93.
California comes to the front with an
.tivention that will be a great boon to
'ruit-growers, predicts tho Chicago Pott.
!t is au cluctric frost alarm and consists
f an accurate dial thermometer, elcc
irlcally conuectcil with a boll and switch
in such a manner that the bell will ring
when any desired tcmperaturo ia
reached.
A census bulletin tells us that there
re 140 religious bodies iu the United
States, not counting tho lare number of
independent churches which do not ac
Itnowlodgo the authority of any denomi
aatiomd organization. The increase in
icct, declares tho Cincinnati Enquirer,
bos been something remarkable Binco tho
Sawn of our national history.
A writer in the North China lterald,ot
Shanghai, asserts that tho climate of Asia
(s growing col Jer and its tropical animals
tre slowly retreating southward. In
proof of this ho quotes evidences, his
torical and referential, of the former
sxistence of elephants, tigers and
leopards in China. Tigers and leopard
uo, however, not yet extinct iu China
ind are common enough iu Corel. The
'"""jy grew
,ry where
s the Chica
ntion to thi
1 "cloture,"
light In utter
iuty of accents,
or lets than the
The word is an
.from the French
.ous with the Eug
demaud for tho
nd tho stifling oi
r debate- it all that il
erious Gallic term.
intry the entire world,
rested in tho preservation
.cos which form unique
. certain portions of Call
i agent of tho Laud Office
jcen making an investigation
nut some of them are in danger,
iportance of Government actiou
vent further destruction of the
ias Is therefore apparent. There
C75 of the giants now standing, tin
gest being ovor thirty-throe feet in
imetcr. Not one of them cau bo
died.
Tho origin of tho National Marino
ind at Washington is most curious,
sarly a hundred years ago, alleges the
jw York World, a Yankee Captain kld
.ppt'd a strolling troop of musicians on
e shores of the B.iy of Naples and
ought them to this country. From
is handful of Italians tho baud was do
doped. Tho dosccudants of these
olen Italians aro now. amoug tho
ealthiest people of Washington. Soma
them are prominent lawyers, and
ti have their names connected with
best known hotels and tho largest
estate offices in tho capital city.
he Church of Eoglauc, as shown bj
mplote roturns of the revenue report
rder of Parliament, is tho wealthiest
ch in Christondom. T.ie incomo of
ecclesiastical commissioners is ubout
,750,000, nearly one-fourth of which
derived from tithes. The Welsh tithes
Id about $20,000. The gross annual
ue of benefices for twenty-ouo coun
j is $10,000,000 which is distributed
ong 6800 clergymen, giviug them an
ago of a little over $1500 a year,
ere are parsonages,' however, and
(er itiuis to bo added, which bring up
annual average to about $2000 a
r from cndowm:uts alone. Of tho
1,000,000 thieo-Liurths uru derived
m tithes.
Tb Boston Cultivator estimates that
re'thuu half tho railway track in tho
rlds on this continent, and nearly half
the whole is in the Uuitcd States. This
.portion may or not b3 kept up, as
a and Africa are begiuuiug to shorten
ir long distances by using steam horses
the ircj track. Iu the p;ist four ycara
,000 miles of track huve been laid in
erica, aud iu the United States 30,
miles of this, while all the rest of tho
rid built only 24,000 miles. Railroad
Europe cost an average of $115, 00C
r mile. Hero the average cost is $60,.
0, aud this is about the rate elsewhero.
es of fare are, however, lower iu
tope than here, the denser population
'iigUtei expense. for running the roadt
OL.OAMINO,
Th setting sun has dropt below the sandy
reach;
Th laggard rooks come home, belated, from
the beach;
Hera In the garden-beds the flowers do
their eye,
And twilight's soft wan mist across the wood
land lies.
Oh, it not this most sweet of any time or
hour,
Aftor the garish day, and ere the night
clouds lowert
Tit at thoogh Nature's self should paus
upon her way,
Gray-clad and pilgriui-llko, to meditaUi and
pray. .
JACK TEMPLE.
My first piquant encounter with Jack
Teniplo was when I was about seven
years old.
He said the Bostona was the fastest
boat on the Ohio.
Aud I stood out for tho Daniel Boone.
Th Boone had given a dinner at which
my father and mother wero invited,
while his wero not. On these facts we
each based our conclusions on the com
parative speed of the different boats, and
tooth and nail rolled over in the dust to
maintain them.
We wero picked up variously by old
Cerberus, who was picking his banjo at
one end of tho hotel gallery, and by a
journeyman shoemaker aud" a telegraph
operator playiug chess at the other end.
This they did with divers words of
scorn nt tho kicking boy. To this day I
believe that if we had keen left alone I
would have whipped j for although small,
I was active.
Shortly after wo moved away to Wash
ington where my father spent one year
iu getting a consular appointment which
ho held for six years. Thou we came
back to our village life. John Templo
was now a beautiful youth, strong
limbed, broad-shouldered, with a head
like a Greek god. To these physical
perfections ho added a charm of manner
as captivating to his fellowaaaa to tho op
posite sex. Underneath this 'lay a tenacity
of purpose which mado him invincible.
lie was adored frankly by all girls of
the school of which I speedily found my
self a member. Among these he scat
tered his attentions according to his royal
pleasure. Those who received them were
elated ond grateful. Those who did not
patiently waited their turn.
. Although younger than tho others I
held their barn-yard acceptance of John
Temple's attentions with silent scorn.
"I'd hato to run after a boy," was my
inward comment.
But I was soon singled out as tho one
he most delighted to honor. I was
younger than the others. Thus might on
older boy play with a child, for the years
had not greatly increased my stature.
Eut while tho other girls sued for his
attentions I only accepted them. That I
made no response encouraged him the
more.
When a class was callod John Temple
always went out first. As he walked by
ine he would sav, and ho had a teacher-
defying way of talking under his lips,
"Kitty, come Bnd sit by me."
Thcro are plenty of ways iu which
school boys can show their chivalnus
considoratiou for girls, and these John
Templo always showed to me. It was
thoroughly understood thnt I bad a
champion; that there was always some
one looking out for Kitty Black. As I
was not permitted to (,o to pur tics where
there were boys, au arena remained
where John Temple could be contented
for by others. At school I was supreme.
As I moved, his fate followed mo.
When I achieved any honor, no one was
so proud as ho. There was stolen
word here, a pressuro of the hand there.
When we pluyed, and no one was so
heedless and reckless as I, a protecting
arm always stood ready to keep me from
harm.
. Never did I show any signs of ray con
quest, although 1 wos fully aware of its
value ia the eyes of others. Never was
I jealous ; I was too confident, too as
sured for jealousy. I often wonder now
if I cared for him then. I do not know ;
but I do know that I lived and fed on
bis preference. It may have been only
vanity.
For three years this lasted, deepening
constantly, aud was a matter of general
comment at school. John Temple was
always a matter of comment. Dashing
girls from othor towns came and bid for
John Temple's smiles, lie gavo theiu
now to one, nod now to another. Mean
whilo I pluyed tug and rau races, but no
one ever succeeded in winniug away any
thing that was mine.
"Are you going to marry Kitty Black
when she grows up?" one of the older
girls asked.
"Yes."
"I'll bttTyou don't."
Til bet I do. I'll bet you a gold
ring thut when Kitty Black is eighteen
years old she will be my wife."
The school buzzed with his bet. I
was not supposed to know it. But I
did, and gavo no sign, boon after I was
sent to boarding school. My father had
heard with great displeasure of the uffuir,
ond did not choose that such thoughts
should be put in my head. Then he
moved away from our old home." I was
not back again until after I had gradu
ated. It was in summer a summer of culm
starlit nights. The town was full of
young peoplo who had put school behind
them, and now pressed forward eagerly
to taste the cup of joy which lifo presents
but once. Among them was John
Temple, even more triumphant than of
old, for he wore the all-couqurring uni
form of a West Poiut cadet, lie had no
rivals. When he appeared, others re
tired, lie took by right, and caused no
jealousy. Such was his complete domin
ation. It was while the gayety was at its
height that I came. I saw him first at
ou evening party., Humor had engage!
him to a youug girl of the town ho had
won him by years of devotion, lie hud
SwvtiwKfr !. ta
gay and bnndsomo Southern girl. He
was bending ovor her when I first saw
him. He pretended be did not see me
at first. I nin not a person that chal
lenges the attention of tho room. But I
knew that he did see me, and with that
subtle quiet understanding that never
had needed signs between tis, I kuew he
would be at my side presently.
His devotion to tho girl grew even
more marked, but I was not surprised
when, although I was deep in conversa
tion with some one else, I felt him take
my hand. He drew it in his arm,
"Come," ho said, nud led me to the long
gallery whero up ami down we paced id
tho moonlight all the evening.
As we passed tho long open windows
I could seo within, Tho girl to whom
John Temple was suid to be engaged had
left Hi dancers and two kind girl frionds
Wero trying to screen her unhappincss
and tearful eyes.
The gay visitor to whom he had been
all devotion was laughing still in hard
struined tones, nnd looking nbout with
wondering eyes; youth is hard and ro
morsclots, I felt no pang. I enjoyed my
triumph.
This was the beginning. When I was
not present John Temple repaired his
omissions nnd paid court right and left.
But when I was present I was nil in all.
Wo sat out dances and paced the side
walks, wandering up and down- tlje
block with that freedom which village
life allows.
"He can't propose toh,cr, because he's
engaged to Edith," I heard a voice say
one evening.
"That wouldn't bo a straw in his
way," was tho reply.
I heard both indifferently.
I saw Edith grow paler aud thinner,
and unhappincss settle on her face like
disease. I pitied her, only her pretea
sions to John Templo seemed absurd.
Ho was mine if I cared to havo him.
Ono evening I was luto at a dance.
When I came in John Templo was the
center of a group of girls. There was
a laughing dispute among them.
'But I have documents," ho said, and
pulled from his pocket a time stained
card. "Years ago I knew there was a
time coming when you would deny your
ages so I took precautions to get thcro
then. I guoss I'm equal to the arithmetic."
There was a cry and hands flung up
to seize tho card which he quickly re
stored to his pocket.
"Who would have thought you could
havo been so sly," one cried.
"What a base advantage of innocent
confidence," exclaimed another.
Well as I knew him, thnt he could jo
long and secretly cherish such a little
scheme was a revelation.
Ho disentangled himself from them
and came to me. After a few languid
whirls he said, "Let us leave this." And
as usual we went out on the gallery
wbcro we sat down on a bench beneath
tho viues.
John Temple had never made love to
me. He treated me with an air of pro
prietorship as one might care for a rare
vase, or something too delicato and
precious for common use. It was so
different from the free and easy relations
of young people even when they are in
love, that it had an unique and most
ugreeable value.
"You will always be young to me,
Kitty," he said, as we sat down. "Iu
my thoughts you are still a fiery little
child."
"Are you going away to-morrow?" he
asked after a silence.
"Yes."
"You must not go. I cannot let you
go. You always eay so long. Ah
Kitty, you won't go?"
"There are others."
"There is only you, Kitty. Did you
ever know that years ago I inado a bet
about you?"
"Yes, I heard of it."
"The time is up, Kitty, the gage was
a ring. I have it here. But I want you
to wear it. Where is your dear littlo
hand. Yours? Mine. I can't remem
ber tho day when I did not claim it."
I began nervously to pull off my
glove, warm and clinging from his stroug
grasp.
"Where is the ring? I put it here."
Ho begau to probe the traditional waist
coat pockets. I turned over the long
glove stripping it from my hand now
half revealed. "Yo god3," he laughed
loudly. "I had forgotten. Lauva
Goldeu wears that ring. It is Laura's
haud that is mino."
She was tho Southern girl.
How, I know not, but a diamond bau
blo that I had borrowed from my aunt
changed its place aud then I tore oil my
glove.
Tho ring donccd in tho moonlight,
but my heart stood still, stunned by the
brutal blow.
"You never woro that riug before,"'
he challenged.
"I only got it to-day."
"What does it mean?"
"Thut there is some one at homo want
ing me back."
"You said you were goiug to Muys
ville." "I om for a few days only."
"You havo outwitted me."
My heart hud grown steadier. I could
now ask as well as answer.
'Now tell me why you have taken tho
trouble during ull these years to play this
little game?"
"When you wero a littlo girl you
humiliated me. I suid then I would be
revenged and I never relinquished my
purpose."
My inability to understand such vln
dictiveness brought my head to the aid
of my heart. "Do you feel satisfied?" I
usked, not without malice.
"You huve outwitted me, I said be
fore," he answered sullenly, uud I could
have told him but for an instiiut'i mis
calculation, he had tho reward of bis
years of effort.
"Enough of this," I suid. "You havo
had your littlo game and I mine. Let
us go iu."
'Kitty, you are not going, you can
not." Ho bent upon me all the fervor of
his eloquent eyes.
"Oh, can't If" I got up.
"There is that between us viii'ch has
never beyu. said," j
'The rest is silence," I answered,
and my airy gown slipped through his
hands.
I saw him after I went in with his
head bowed id his hands,
"Take me home, Aunt Betty, I'm
tired," I pleaded with my gay maiden
aunt. As we went out I saw John Tern
pie come in by the window, and as wa
closed the gute his blond head was droop
ing over Laura Goldcn's shoulder,
"Here is your ring Aunt Betty, it hurts
my finger. But you can't tell how I en
joyed wearing it jus once."
"I didn't know you were so fond of
diamonds, Kitty."
"I am on occasion. This was an oo
casion." "Well, I'll leave it to you in my will
to remember it by."
"Never!" I shrieked. "Never! I
never want to seo it again' And I
sobbed myself to sleep.
Tho next day I went to Maysville, ten
miles away. Tho third day John Templo
came up and drove by the house, waving
his hat out of the carriage window. It
was a "protected spree," Aunt Betty
wrote me.
I never saw John Temple Again. When
ever I heard of him, he was still treading
on women's hearts and being fed by de
votions. We never either of us mar
ried. Last week I learned he was dead. Ho
hnd been thrown from his horso on the
plains and was killed. He had been
drinking.
Long since I lost tho power to core. I
can ouly wonder at the prodigality of na
ture, who can creato bodies like that of
John Temple, so beautiful, so gracious,
so full of clifinn, aud then loave them to
perish as should misshapen creatures, by
neglecting to provido them with a soul. '
Epoch.
What an Iudlan Can Stand.
To show what an Indian can stand
when he has to, I may tell of an incident
which happened during the winter I was
with them. Toward evening on a very
cold winter day, when it was snowing
just a littlo and drifting a great deal, an
Indian came to the log houso wifh a jug
half full of whisky and with his rifle. I
imagine that the jug had been entirely
full of whisky when he started, and by
tho time he got to the houso he was in
rather a jolly condition. The lug and
the rifio wero taken away from him, and
ho was ordered to get to his wigwam as
as quick as be could before darkness
came on. lie left, and was supposed to
have gone" to the camp, but early next
morning his squaw appeared at the houso
and said he had not coiuo home that
night, and as the night was cold she had
been auxious about him. Then the search
for the lost Indian began. '
Ho was found in one of the sheds near
the barn under a heap of drifted snow,
and th 3 chances are that the snow that
was above him had helped to save his
life. The searchers for the Indian had
gone in different directions and it was
his own so, im w who, with true Iudian in
stinct, had tracked him out, and she
was alone when she found him. Appar
ently tho Iudian was a frozen corpse. Sho
tumbled him out of the snow bank and'
dragged him down to the creek, where a
deep hole was cut iu the ice for tho pur
pose of watering the cattle. Laying the'
Indian out on the snow, shs took tho
pan that was beside the hole, and, fill
ing it repeatedly, dashed pailful after
paiful of ico watsr over the body of tho
Indian. By tho time the other unsuc
cessful searchers had returned she had
her old man thawed out and seated by
the fire wrapped up in blankets. Thcro
is no question that if ho had been found'
by the others, and had been taken in tho
house frozen as he was, he would have
died. Detroit Free Vrett. '
The Music of Chiueso Speech.
There is iu China not only nn iutimato
association between music aud poetio i'
speech, but aho between music and
speech generally. The Chiueso being a
inonos) ll'ibic language, depends to a
great extent upon uiusicnl intonatiou to
convey meaning. If you listen to tho
conversation of your Chinese luuBdrymen
you will discover that their ordinary
speech is almost as musical as the recita
tivo sccco of the Italian opera.
Many words iu tin Chinese language
take from three to six different meanings
according to intonation. These intona
tioiiB, as Dr. 8. Weils Williams forcibly
urges, have "nothing to do either with
accents or emphasis." They ure distinctly,
musical, and it is much to be regretted
that Dr. Williams was unable, for obvious
want of the musical talent, to studv themi
from a musical point of view, as it is all)
out :mpos;b-e to convey u clear uuder-
slauaiug ot tlieir nature by description
There seems to be mauy variations, but
generally there aro four cf these intona-
tious, or shing, named and defined as
follows: One, ping shing, or "oven
tone"; two, shaug shing, or "rising
tono"; three, k'eu shing, or "declin
ing tone ; and four, jun shing, or "en
tering tono." Century.
Prayer Anion? the Mongols.
Ou the tops of all the houses were littlo
prayer wheels turned by tho force of tho
wind, a simple urrungcuieut like an ane
mometer placed ou them catching the
air and so keeping thnm iu motion. In
the hands of most of the old men and
women wero bronze or brass prayer
wheels, which they kept continually
turning, while not satisfied with this me
chuuical way of acquiring merit, they
mumbled tho popular formula "Om maui
peme hum," the well-known invocation
to Avulokiteshwariui, the would-be sav
ior of tho world. Century .
An Owl Kilts a Dog.
In a Main street window iu Pawtucket
there is a fine specimen of tue cat owl,
alive aud apparently ugly. It was caught
above tho Diamond Hill Iteseivoir in
rulhor a curious manner. One of the resi
dents iu that vicinity was iu tho woods
with his dog, a Gordon setter, when the
owl attacked tho do, cutching it by the
throat. The owl succeeded in killing
the dog, but it benk or talons were
caught iu the dog't hirlr uud its capturo
was easy Froi Utncel(. .) Jvurmtl.
SOME ENOKi OUS SALARIES.
BIO WAGES tHAT SEEM TO SB
PAID FOB V2EY LITTLE EFFORT.
Why It ii That Corpopotlrtnsi Pay
liargi- Hum to Those Who Mail'
atfe'l hem The President's Salary,
Chaunccy Dcpcw has always been very
retirt-ut us to his salHfy as President of
the New York Central, but others who
appear td be familiar with his incomo say
that he certainly receives from tho New
York Central $75,000 a year and that
he makes from his outside legal practice
au additional $25,000, making his total
income $100,000 a year. This may seem
an exorbitant sum to pay to a man whoso
career by most folks is thought to be one
of unalloyed pleasure. Hut Mr. DcpcW
does not receive tho $75,000 from tho
New York Central in remuneration for
any severe manual strain on his part, but
for his comphensive knowledgo of tho
affairs of that company and his ability
to direct tliexn with tho least possible
friction. Mr. Dcpcw's office from early
morning to late at night is filled with all
sorts of people with all sorts of questions,
and the man who receives tho big salary
he does must be able to answer them
most satisfactorily, and always in the in
terests of the New York Central.
Then take some of the salaries of other
New Yorkers: II. B. Hyde, President of
the Equitable Life Assurance Society, re
ceives $50,000; James W. Alexander,
the Vice-President, $40,000, and John
A. McCall, tho Comptroller, $25,000.
R. A. McCurdy, President of the Mutual
Insurance Company, receives $50,000,
nnd II. A. Grannis, the Vice-President,
receives $30,000. W. II. Beers, Presi
dent of the Now York Life Iusuranco
Company, receives $00,000, and Dr.
Henry Tuck, the Vice-President, $30,
000. John It. liegeman, tho Vice-President
of the Metropolitan Insurance Com'
pany, receives $35,000. D. O. Heald,
President of the Home Fire Insurance
Company, gets $35,000, nnd John W.
Murray, the Vice-President of the German-American
Company, $35,000.
Then look at some of the salaries paid
to the chief officers of bauks and trust
companies. Frederic P. Olcott, Presi
dent of the Central Trust Company, re
ceives $60,000; Richard King, President
of the Union Trust, receives $50,000;
General Louis Fitzgerald, President of
I the Mercantile Trust Company, receives
DWU.UUt); John A. Stewart, President of
the United States Trust Company, toddl ;s
along with $50,000, and Colonel W. L.
Treuhohn, President of the American
Surety Company, receives $20,000.
President Williams of the Chemical Bank,
and President Perkins of tho Importers
nnd Traders, each receive $20,000, and
the average salary of other bank Presi
dents in New York is from $10,000 to
$15,000. There is a long string of such
salaries, and the general opinion is thut
the men earn their money.
The interests of these vust company are
all under the minute observation of the
commanding officer. These interests ex
tend over all the globe und require the
greatest judgment and tho most skilful
knowledgo of affairs. Mauy of these
officers, by their keen knowledge of af
fairs of state and nations, save their com.
panics annually ten times the salary they
receive. They are provided against al
most every system of the blackmail by
reason of their vast experience in the
conduct of their companies and earn their
salaries many times over.
Up iu tbo dry goods district tho big
men of the Claflin Company, Tefft, Wel
ler & Company, and other firms of that
calibre, receivo on an avciage $5000 to
$10,000 a year. There are several excep
tions where buyers nud others run their
U'lcomes up from $10,000 to $20,000 a
year. This is in tho dry goods jobbing
branch, because iu the ihy goods com
mission branch the nverago salary of au
employe is from $2500 to $5000 a year.
There are exceptional people who receive
$7500. All of these people earn their
money, too. The vast experience neces
sary to buy goods successfully and to keep
in touch with the vast competition of tho
present day is certainly worth n liberal
income. Then the selling of goods re
quires an extended acquaintance, much
personal outlay and the temperament of a
diplomat.
Looking over these few facts and fig
ures the salary of tho President of tiio
Uuited States conies iu for consideration.
The President receives 50,000 a year,
and from the day he enters tho White
House until the hour he leaves it very
few men can tell how hard he earns his
money. There can bo no adequate rule
of compensation applied to his case.
Tho vust army of orlice holders and oflioo
seekers who besiege him ought to make
the place worth $500,000 a year at tho
least. But possibly the compensation
for the place is eked out by its great
honor und the hurrahs und cheers which
greet tho President, no matter how un
popular he may be, wherever ho goes.
The salutes of the great cruisers, the
hauls playiug "Hail to the Chief," tho
great personal honors show u the holder
of tho office, no doubt are intended to
make up the compeusutiou, which can
not be represente i by hi salary of $50,.
000 a yeur. The Cabinet officers re
ceive $8000 a year. Senators uud Cou.
greosmen receive each $5000 a yeir.
Governor Hill receives $10,000 u year,
und the Senators and Assembly men re
ceivo $1500 a year. Ouu has o ily to
look ut the difference iu tliu figures re
cti v eiFby men i iT "piTiTtir-rtfe -nrtrd -1-) : . iso
paid tl men who reach the pinnacle in
busiuess life in New York to observe the
great difference and to wonder ut it. Tho
wonder is that men of the personal abil
ities ut the brad of the National and
State Governments .should consent to ac
cept the salaries paid to them. Hut then
coines the universal statement thut the
huors of the places held by them, in a
measure,- must make up fur this vast
difference in the pecuniary compensa
tion. Ac it Yurk Sun.
The Lehigh Valley Hailioud owns tho
longest freight house in tint I " n i t I
States. It 10 Mtude lat JSiill do, -N V.
! lis leui-lh is 150 feet.
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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A luminous crayon has been invented.
Electric motors ore being Introduced
on the underground railway in London.
Somo interesting exjerimcnts have re
cently been mado iu Denmark in fellies
trees with gun cotton.
Attempts are now being mado to per
fect a system of preventing incrustation
in boilers by means of electrical action.
A naturalist claims to havo discovered
tho only fresh-wnter sharks known, in
Laka Nicaragua and the river approach
to it.
The British Admiralty engineers aro
conducting experimental ninety-six-hour
runs of boilers undir forced draught at
Portsmouth.
Sir John Lubbock kept a queen bee for
fifteen years, a test proving her eggs to
be just as fertile at that age as they wero
twelve years before.
The largest barometer yet made has
been put in working order in the Saint
Jacques Tower, in Puris. It is forty-one
feet fivo inches high.
Experts say that us far as fireproof
floors are concerned nlternate layers of
plank nnd cement form tho most impene
trable of constructions.
A sawmill foreman has invented a do
vico for keeping gum from tho rim of
the baud saw by causing a spray of water
to constantly play on the blade.
Au electrical furnace ias been pat
ented in England which is said to havo
given excellent results in the series of
tests to which it bus been subjected.
An important manufacture of butter
from cocoanut-milk is growing up in
Germany. Cocoanuts for tho purpose are
imported in largo numbers from India.
Crcosotcd wood has been found to
have such excellent lasting qualities that
its economical properties havo suggestod
its use for permanent haulage, roads,
shaftways, etc., in collieries.
There is ns yet no satisfactory machine
forcutting cornstalks in the field. Sclf
biudiug reapers are used in somo locali
ties to cut the smaller varieties of corn,
but for large, fully matured sorts these
do not work well.
A line of electrical omnibuses is about
to run from Charing Cross to Kings Cross
in London. One of them, handled by
the managing director of the company,
lately conveyed the Lord Mayor from
Euston to the Mansion House.
Professor A. J. Cook, speaking of tho
food of bees, remarks that the carbohy
drates are sufficient for the life of the in
sects, but that they must have nitrogen
ous food to support them during tho pro
cess of reproduction. The former they
derive from the honey of plants, the lat
ter from spores, grain, fungi and bee
bread. The respiration of insects has been
tho subject of study by M. Contejean,
who has found that, contrary to what
takes place in vertebrates, the movement
of inspiration as passive uud that of ex
piration active. Tho nir is driven from
the body by o contractilo effort. Hence,
when the insect is wounded, the flow ol
blood occurs at each expiration. Tho re
spiratory movemeut is not interrupted by
cutting o'Tthe bend, nor by tho absorp
tion of curare, which produces au imme
diate ce-,:ation iu man.
Effect of W ind on Trees.
Trees which grow in exposed situations
have their tops always leauing away iu
tho opposite direction from tho prevail
ing winds and tho casual observer con
cludes that the branches have been bent
by the constant pressure of the wind and
retained their position. Now, although
such trees havo tho appearance exactly of
trees bending under a gala, still it is not
prcssuro iu that way which has giveu
them their shapo. The fact is, thoy hav
blown away from tho blast and not been
bent by it after they grew. Examination
of the branches and twigs will show this.
Wo hardly realize the repressive effects
of cold wind upon tree growth, which
it purtially or altogether arrests, accord
ing to its prevalence. Conifers show the
effect of this more distinctly tliuu othei
trees. Owing to the horizontal habit ot
growth of the branches, they point di
rectly to tho teeth of tho gale from what
ever direction it comes, and cannot, like
the oak, lean over und grow in tho op.
posito direction, hence coniferous trees
growing iu exposed situations produce
good, long branches on their lee sides,
whilo ou the windy side tho brunches re
tain their rigid horizontal position, but
muko comparatively littlo growth, which
is simply suppressed.
Example: I measured the branches ol
a Nordinuuu's spruce, growing iu a posi
tion fully exposed to the north and south.
One brunch on the north side of the tree
had fifteen annual nodes or growths, aud
was seven feet long, und its opposite had
the samo number of nodes, but was
nearly two und one-half feet longer, all
the lateral branches being proportionately
pjng uud well furnished. The (JarJen
A T h i i tceii l'o u ii d K 1. 1 re.
"Yes," said a Main street hardware
dealer ti u Cincinnati Timet-SUir re
porter, "that is the largest knife it
America. It was made to order bv
firm iu Gennauy. One nmu did tin
wholo job, and it took him just a year."
Tho kuifo iu question is known to
almost every person iu Cincinnati und
perhaps for ono hundred miles around
It has fifty-six blades aud is u chest ol
tools iu itself, containing unythinr
from u slender toothpick or a cigui
punch to a p iir of scissors or a hand
saw. The handle is of tortoise she!
uud tho immovable pin ts arc gold plated.
It weighs thirteen pounds and u modest
card says: "For sale, $500."
A Town Willi Hut One Man.
A town iu England, Hkidduw, Cum
berland, stands unique us a township ol
one house nnd one solitury male udult in
hubitaut. This man is deprived of his
vote becuu e of the fact that there arc nc
overseers to make out u voter's list, und
UJ church or public building ou whicl
publish one if uiude. A'no York Juur-
t.
SONQ OF THE BULLET.
It whiiwd and whistled along the blurred
And rad-bleut ranks; and it nicked the
star
Of an epaulette, as it snarled the word
War! On it sped and the lifted wrist
Of the ensign-bearer stung, and straight
Dropped at his side as tbo word was hissed
Hatel
On went the missile smoothed the blua
Of a jaunty cap and the curu thenof
Cooing, sweet as a dovs iir jht eo-
Love I
Pang sanj on ! sang Hate sang War
Sang Love, in sooth, till Its ne?ds must
cease.
Hushed iu the heart it was questioning for
Peace 1
rJomes Whiloomb Riley.
DUM0R OF THE DAY.
Tlis supremo court A youth's first
wooing.
A good thing to have arouud Uie
hou?3 A fence. Statesman.
"Is Mr. Robinson a siuglo man?"
No; he has a twin brother." Life.
A comb may show its teeth, but it
never gets its back up. liinrjhamton
UepuoUcan.
Tho favorite
worker is the
Chicago Post.
"I draw the
fisherman said
plant of the political
famous itchiug palm.
lino right here," as the
when ho got a bite.
I'itMurg Chronicle- Telegraph.
Customer "Is tho manager in? I
want to buy some doors." Hoy "Yes,
he's in but he's out of doors." JVeio
York Herald.
A lawyer defending a burglar used as
an argument in favor of insanity the fact
that the burgular left $10 in the safe,
Vanseille Brttze.
Age comes to every man, but fato
Is kind to woman fair,
For when she reaches twenty-eight
She stops right then and there.
Cape Cod Item.
Father "Another bad report from
your teacherl I hope next time you will
do better." Son "That's right, papa
don't lose your courage." Flieqtndi
lilaetler.
Patient "Thnt medicine you gave tah
for my cold, doctor, cured mo entirely."
Doctor (in surprise) "Did it? Well I
believe I'll try it myself. I can't get
rid of mine."
Visitor "I suppose your daughter Is
busily preparing for her wedding?"
Mother "Yes; she is up to her room
now, destroying all her old letters."
Household Monthly. '
The Duke of Norfolk, who was much
addicted to the bottle, asked Foote, tho
actor, in what new .character ho should
go to a masquerade. "Go sober," was
the instant reply. Chicngo Ntuit.
"I'm saddest when I sing," I said;
'Twas little Maud I said it to.
She sighed aud raised her pretty head
And spoke "There's others just like you P
New Yurk Herald,
"How does it happen that Dr. AVorld
ly performs the marriage ceremony for so
many old maids ?" "Oh, ho always asks
them in an uudiblo tone if they are ot
age, and they all like him." Ari York
Herald.
Fashionable Young Lady "Papa,
what would you do if you found out I
was going to elope?" Father "Why,
I'd stand outside thn houso nnd hold tho
ladder for your Iljmeo." Xeio York
Journal.
"If you wish in the world to advance,
Your merits you'rn bound to enhauee,
You iiiimt stir it and stump it,
And blow your own trumpet
Or, trust me, you haven't a ehauee."
The newspapers are forever speak
ing of "the blush5"" bride.") Well,
when you reflect upon the ind of hus
band not a few of the brides marry, you
cannot wonder that they should blush.
Histon l'rtiitteritt.
"What kind of n physician is Dr.
Scalpel?" "Splendid! I never saw his
equal. His diagnoses aro wonderful.
He makes a dead suro thing of it every
time." "Docs he? Well, I goes I won't
have him." Boston Tranterij't.
Salesman (showing samples of wall
paper to youug couple) "Here, now, is
a pattern with a beautiful chocolate back
ground that '' Youthful Hrido "Oh,
Herbert; thut will jijst suit me! Ym
know I ulmost live ou chocolate." (
Ciigo Ti iliune.
"Five years ago," began the stranl,
to Wentniau, "I sought thut woman to ,
my wife. 1 believed her to be congenial
light-hearted una beautiful. Has our
married life been pleasant I Nol''
"Why not?" usked Wentman. "Why
not? Becauso she declined to marry me,
of course!" American Grocer.
j A lOOO-Milo Circuit.
i Tho most remarkable wire ever known,
it is suid, is tho Cambridge, Mass., Sun
I Francisco time circuit," which was iu
operation iu lSs71-2. The wiro extended
from the Cambridge Observatory to San
Francisco, bj way of Boston, Spring
field, Hartford, No v York, Buffalo, Chi-
i c-ago und Omaha, returuir.5 .uver the
1 same route to Chicago, then to' PittaV
burj;, Harrisburg, New York, New Ha,
ven, I'rovKleuce, Uostou aud into C
bridge.
I The observatories were "looped iu'
each terminal, forming a complete
! ciiit lis 5 3 miles ia length. .Vko i
IJUi mil.
Talking Fishes. ' S,
A Paris scientist has published the ro
suit of his researches ou ihe suhlr, t of I
tuikiug fishes. He says that every tiih 1
in some way or other talks to a 1M1 of ih
same kiud. Herrings cry like me
roach grunt like pi;,rs, uud tench niaki
noise like frogs, Cunger eels bark 1:1
codfish hiss. Lobsters und crati
scream when they are boiled, nud i'ar
soles have a way of communicating t
fact of their stuleiios to liuiers at 'esta
rants. London Tid liitt.
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