THE-FOREST REPUBLICAN b pnblUhed evrj WtdnexUy, kf J. E. WENK. Offloeln Bmaarbaugh & Co.' Building MLM ITRBirr, T10MKSTA, r. Term. ... tl.BO pr Yar. RATES OF ADVERTISING. On Square, as Inch, on Intertloa $ IN Oae Sqaare, on Inch, na month 1 M One 8qaare,eae inch, thr months la Oa. Squire, ana Inch, ana year It a Two Square, on jm MM Qaarter Column, an year... MM nail Column, ona r MM Oi Column, one year 1MM Lfl advertlament ta eeata pa Ua eaea. h. Mrtloa. Vairlage aad mtk notice gratia. All kill for yearly aiWrtloment collected" qat9 lerly. Temporary adrertlwnMiiU mun t p14 tat atmee. Jot work auk aa delivery. t OREST REPUBLICAN. He nkMrlptloai rat-tlreo" far a ahartar Mrlod thn tore month. , Onrrntpondsnn ollcltM fr.m all airta ef the e-nntry. No neilce will be ukea of aaearmoui nauuunlcatloaa. VOL. XXIII. NO. 48. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1891. S1.50 PER ANNUM. The cultivation of oysters promises to ba as great an industry as that of can ning tomatoes. Some English periodicals criticiso Stanley for a "sacrifice of dignity" in lecturing in America. Tho "sacrifice" lias its compensations. I The Chicago Timet alleges that it ha cost Michigan $220,000, or $11,000 each, to graduate twenty young men from her State milling- school at Hough ton. Railroad statistics show that more ' peoplo are killed while walking on the track thnu from any other cause, which is an argument, thinks tho Mail and Ex press, for euforcing tho laws forbidding this practice. The New Orleans Picayune observes: "Though much is said about tho do cadenco of Now England during the last ton years tho population has increased moro than during any other decade in all its history." Two hundred thousand dollar a ye ar iro spent by the London (England) .School Board In enforcing the atteudauco of children. They are advised, by tho Uoston iranterijit, to try the French plan of gotting childien to school by good lunches. "If you aro going to kill a niau," says an English surgeon of renown, "and wnut to do it quickly and without suller ing, hang him. If tho hangman knows his business, the victim docs not feel at much pain as if shot through the heart or brain. It's all over in the tenth of a second." Tho discovery of tho full text of Aris lottlo's "Treatise on the Constitution of Athens" among a lot of Egyptian papy rus recently receivod by tho British Museum of London, hazards the San Fran cisco Chronicle, will bo of great interest to all classical scholars. Perhaps the next lucky find will be tho lost books of Llvy. Great anxiety is felt in Switzerland concerning the decadence of tlie watch making Industry, which, uext to the textile- industry, is tho mainstay of tho in habitants of the country. The profits rn dwindling down, as tho United 3tatca and England aro every year be soming moro powerful rivals in this field. The demand, too, for Swiss watches is falling off considerably in cer tain countries, notably in this country and in Franco. "Tho machinery now in use by the life saving servico is about as perfect," asserts the Mail ami Express, "a; anything well can bo. Tho crows of tho various stations often perform the seemingly im possible in their brave and well directed efforts. Without their assistance and tho means they have at their command hundreds of 'lives would have been lost on our coast during tho latter purt of December. In view of the heroism shown sud the severe physical labor required of them, our life savers are not sufficiently paid. Thcso men daily literally take their lives in their hands, and we do not sufficiently esteem their services." Pennsylvania is takiug an important - in r direction of better roads; a in tho opinion of tho New une, every State should take, raveling has become so general ,'ect that tho com.nnn high e laud are largely overlooked, in is the vast bulk of traveling orting done, after all, and condition depend to an in jxtcut the comfort and con id prosperity of tho vast bulk jplo. Tho improvement of .ils is a topic that should staud d tho head of the list in every assembly, until we have rsclves at least to an equality juiuus of two thousand years icoverics made by the Stato tnissioner of New Jersey afford of tho deleterious mixtures drink in New York, there is 3d reason for ularm, con few York A' at. According tort, 218(1 samples of food, dairy products were examined year 1890, uud of that num uples were found to be adul Out of lit (5 samples of cream lixty were within tho requirc he law. More than a third of is impure. Forty out of fifty tee were bogus. Frauds were canned Freuch peas, jellies, olive oil. Iu ten l)tsof inua ., uot one was pure; pepper was an abomination, aud of 110 sumples of drugs, such as ate used iu every family, forty four samples were adulterated. Figures like the foregoing possess u lively interest and if u simi'ar condition of the things exist on thiv shie of the Hudson, tho public would like to know the fuct, and ma tho reigvdy promptly uppUvd' LIFE, Our life, our life Is like a narrow raft Afloat upon the hungry sea) Hereon ia but a little space, And ail men, eager for a pla.es, lo thrust each other in the tr-a( And each man, eager for a place, " Does thrust hi brother in tb aa. Aud ao our life is wan with fears, And so the sea is salt with tears. Ab, well Is thee, thou art asleep I Ah, well is thee, thou art asleep I Our life, our life ia like a curious play, Where each man hideth from himself. "Let us ha open as the day," One mask does to tho other say, When he would deeper hide hiuistlf. "Let us be open as the day That he may better hide himself. And so tho world (roes round and round, Until our life with rest i crowned. Ah, well is theo, thou art asleep I Ah, well is thee, thou art asleep I The Path. THE ROOM-MATES. JlT JOI1H 11. RAYMOND. ITonry Iladlcy and Johu Ashton lind roomed together for six mouths, but had never exchanged a word. There was no quarrel between them; they wero not deaf mutes; they were normal, overy-day young men, and one, at least, longed ardently to hear tho other's voice. It came about in this way : Iladlcy was reporter on the Neut-llcrald, whero he had filled a certain round of dry-as-dust assignments for years aud was not much liked by his associates. lie bad a tend ency to drudge; he wore faint "mutton chop" sido-whiskers and turned up tho bottoms of his trousers when it rained. But he was really a capital fellow, and in spite of his prosi'ac exterior he had a littlo romance of his own. lie was en gaged to bo married, and Alice Tyler was a girl of whom any one might well be proud. She was the niece of a friend of Iladlcy 's, and when, hu proposed to her, after a long, despairing courtship, he was astounded to find himself ac cepted. It seemed incredible that such a perfect creaturo could ever be his own, but after he had somewhat recovered from his transports his practical nature asserted itself, and he began to retrench his expenses in preparation for tho event Thus it was that he eventually answered an advertisement for a room-mate. It so happened that the other occupant of the room was also a reporter, nlUiough a very different stamp of man. John Ashton was a meteoric genius. He was a waif from dead and gone Bohemia. His forte was the strange, the odd, and the grotesque, and his startling and unlooked-for strokes had gono far toward making the Chronicle famous. In his field ho was invaluable, and he had long since killed his chance for promotion by merit ing it too much. The Heitt-lkrald, as everybody knows, Is published iu the nfternoon, while the Chronicle is a morniug daily, and Ilad lcy, who had made his arrangements through the landlady, was disappointed, when he awoke early on tho first duy iu his new quarters, to fiud thru his room mate, who had let himself iu sometime during the night, was then asleep iu the littlo alcove opposite his own. lie had promised himself much pleasure from the society of a man whose work ho bo much admired, but the pale, handsome faco and slight form, relaxed iu tho lau guor of deep sleep, prompted him to dress as quietly as possible and slip out without awakcuing tho other. It turned out, to I (ml ley's infinite chagrin, and probably to Ashton's secret amusement, that this was no mere acci dent. Tho former weut to work early In the morning and his duties ended when the big presses threw out the first copy of the last editi-in, at about dusk. Ashton, on the other hand, arose a littlo after noon, lounged about until dark, aud left his desk any time between one and three o'clock at night. Consequently, when ho reached the room he invariably found Iladlcy asleep, and when he awoke he was the ouly occupant. And vice versa. Several things conspired to main tain this fantastic relationship. Their offices were remoto from one another. Their work was essentially different. It did not make common resorts or mutual friends. So it easily chanced thut by day they never met. Such was the curious traiu of events which had carried them through one summer and into an autumn that brought to Hadley many a miserable heartache. A shadow had somehow fallen across. the honest fellow's love affair. It was hard ly to bo defined iu terms; that was the worst of it it was so intangible; so dif ficult to say just what was wrong. There was a change iu Alice. She was silent; she was distraught; her tears came and went liko April rain. Yet sho protested that nothing was amiss, and met his well-meant questioning with an Impa tience that surprised and frightened him; for he did uot kuow very much of wo men, and her asseverations souuded to his ears liko confessions in disguise Above all, he felt a cumbersome unfit ness to cope with the situation. It was like a plow-boy essaying to probo a sen sitive wound, and at length ho feared to speak lest he should precipitate some uu known crisis. Thus it was, when at dusk one autumn day he walked from thj office to Alice's homo to pay one of his customary visits. It was an indolent eveuiug, suave with the spell of Indian summer, aud through the dreamy haze that wrapped tho city even the hum of traffic souuded faint and harmonious, like a choir of giant insects at the approach of night. Ho f.ll into a vague reverie as he walked on, aud when ho stopped mechanically before the house he did not ring at once, but sat down upon a littlo bench just within the gate and masked by lilac-bushes. The narcotic calm of tho scene and hour had lulled him iuto serenity, and night fell unmarked, until, at length, a familiar voice broke in upon his inedita tioiis. Ho recognized it on tho iustunt as Alice's, but it was mingled with deeper tones that w ero unfamiliar to him. Although no words had yet detached themselves front the taugle of sound, it seemed to him that dno voice was utglng and one remonstrating. Presently they came nearer and stopped by tho gate. "Oh, I cannot I I cannot I" somo one cried. It was Alice s voice, and although there was not a jot of the spy in Hadley 's nature, something in the intonation held him spell-bound. "Hut why not?" said the other voice, a melodious baritone low, persuasive, thrilling. "But why notT It was a con ditionai promise; the conditions have changed and that is - " "No; it is not that," broke in the girl. She was speaking quietly, but a pathctbic little quaver ran through her words. "Oh, can't you understand I He is honest and true, and I could not break his heart 1 A moisture sprang on Hadlcy's fore head nnd very slowly he opened and closed his hands. There was pause, and then tho pleasant baritone again : "Are there no rivers in Damascus? What of my heart, Alice?" Hadley heard no more. Something seemed to suffocato him. His breath went no further than than his throat, and the dusky web of lilac-branches danced in black and shapeless phantasmagoria be fore his eyes. He was dimly conscious of a patter of feet, a wave of perfume, and gush of yellow light as the hall door clashed open and shut, and then he knew he was alone again. Alone I A hideous sense of loss, and bitter, hopeless desolation, such as he had never felt and never dreamed of, over whelmed him. He did not think; he did not dare to think. He staggered to his feet, oponed the gate and passed out. To run away, to elude this thing as if it was some sentient, palpable pursuer, was the first impulse that possessed him, and he hurried on, blindly, stumblingly, ho cared not where. How far he walked thus he had no means of knowing, but when he stopped it was on a thronging thoroughfare, before tho window a great emporium, aquiver with electric lights. He drow a long breath and pulled him self together. An illuminated dial that punctured the gloom of the upper air marked after midnight, and a faintness began to assail him, a deadly reaction that turned his knees to water. The careless, alien crowd jarred on him, the barbaric spendor of tho windows smote upon his brain ; he wanted to bo alone, aud prescutly he saw tho open doorway of a cufo and entered. A lew people sat at tables here and there, and on ono hand were tho cur tained doorways of a row of little rooms or stalls. He walked instinctively toward ouo of thcso and drew the drapery aside. A man within, who was musing, apparently, over a bottlo aud a half-catcu meal, t led at the sound, and tho room-mute .ooked one another in the faco.' Ashton was the first to recover him self, and sprang up with outstretched hand. "Why, my dear fellow !" he exclaimed, "Am I indebted to insomnia for this pleasure?" Hadley took his hand absently, but did not ut once reply. What was there about that voice, with its plausible, vi brating timbre, that thrilled him so? "I have been a little troubled," he said, hesitatingly, "aud tried to walk it oil." "Ha! And came in here, I daro say, to drown it in drink, as the proverb goes. My word for it, trouble is tho thirstiest thing on earth. I tried to drown a small sorr .v in driuk once, and wheu I was under the table there was tho sorrow, sober as a judge. But I'll tell you something, Hadley, it won't stand feeding. Tho proper thing to drown sorrow in is mutij.i chops and fried po tatoes. Suppose we put it to the touch. Waiter I" "Hold!" said Hadley, who burned to stopthis badinage, "I am not hungry uot in the least. Let me sit down a mo ment and think." Ho sank into a vacant chair and gazed at the other with a sudden, haggard in tcntness. A thought had just occurred to his distracted mind. Why was not this man, so bright, so versatile, so self contained, so en rupport with tho great world aud its usages why was not ho the very man of all men to give him counsel in this predicament? "Ashton," he said, "I am in distress. Will you give me your advice?" Ashton smiled griiniy "You have come to a good shop for advice." ho said. "My wholo life is more or less a warning. However, if I can be of any service to you, blaze away. Out with it, my boy !" But Hadley did not fiud the story so easy to tell. " am engaged to be married," he said, at length. "Ho! ho!" cried Ashton. "I forsee a stern paient with a prejudice against literary characters." Then something in the other's face checked him, and he dropped his tone of levity. "Forgive me," he said, gently. "What is this trouble of yours? You need not men tion the lady's namo, of course. Make it a hypothetical case." "Oh, no!" said Hadley, "I can con fide iu you. She is the best girl iu the world. Her name is Alice Tyler." Ashton was leaning over the table toying with a glass, but at the words he rose involuntarily aud fixed his eyes upon the other with strange aud challenging regard. Hadley paused for a momeut with a dim and troubled conscience thut he hud touched some hidden spring; but ouly for a momeut, and then, slowly and incoherently, he told his story. Ashton sank back as he proceeded and heard him in silenco to the end. "Do you know this maul" he asked, when it was done. "No," replied Hadley, gloomily. "What does it matter whu he is?" Ashton did uot reply ; ho seemed lost in thought. "Hadley," he demanded, suddenly, "do you really intend to marry this girl? But pshaw?" he continued, "you am too honest to be a trill it. And this fellow why, a thousand to ono he is amusing himself looking for a new seusation, aud has no more uso for a wife than he would have for a bishopric. You must have saved sumo money, huve you not"' "Yes," said Hadley, tatter Surp. sedl "I have a few thousand dollars in bank." "Well," sighed Ashton, "this is a world of fact, but we can t all grasp it Some rued are made1 for homes and some re not. I might have ten times you? income, and the last chapter would find me a vagabond. I tell you, Hadley, you have no real rival. This is a shadow that has already passed, and shadows loave no trace." "What shall I do?" ha asked. "Do? Why, do nothing. For heaven's sako don t distress the girl with questions. I tell you this belongs to the past. For get it. Bury it. Act as if nothing had happened, and all will come right in the end. If I were you I would make it con venient to be away foi a few days. She will miss you, depend upon it, and you can begin. where you left oil. Can t you arrange to go away?" "I think so," said nadley. "When had I best go?'' "Qo to-morrow. You will come back a now man and find her eager to welcome you." Hadley reflected a moment. "I will take your advice," he said. When he returned home, at the closo of the week, from a brief visit to a neigh boring city, he mounted tho stairs with an eager step, but paused, perplexed, in the open door. The room wns dismantled of much of its furniture, and looked baro and unfamiliar. He entered, almost timidly, and read this legend, chalked upon the looking-glass: KEEP WHAT TRAPS OK MINE YOU FIND. HAVE MIGRATED. OONE WEHT. GOOD-BYE. GOOD LUCK) TO YOU. t. A. "It was an extraordinary thing," he used to say in after times, when he and Alice were happily mated. "Here was a brilliant, successful man, with tho world before him, one might say, who pulls up stakes all of a sudden, goes out West, goes to the dogs, nnd inside a year winds up in a dance-hall fight with a bullet through his head. No, I can't say why he did it; he never mentioned it to me, although wo roomed together over six months." Frank Leslie's. Frozen 000 Feet Deep. For many years scientists have been perplexed over the phenomenon of a cor tain well at Yakutsk, Siberia. As long ago as 162S a Russian merchant began to sink this noted well, ani after working on it three years gave it'up as a bad job, having at that time sunk it to a depth of thirty feet without getting through tho frozen-ground. Ho communicated these facts to the Russian Academy of Scienco, who Bent men to take charge of the dig ging 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 'J82 feet had been reached with the "iarth still frozen as hard as a rock. In 1844 the academy had the temperature of the soil at the sides of tho well taken at various depth. From the data thus obtained they came to the startling conclusion that the ground was frozen to a depth exceed ing tiOO feet. Although it is known to meteorologists that the pole of the low est known temperature is in that region of Siberia, it is conceded that not even that rigorous climate could forco frost to such a great depth below the surface. After figuriug ou the subject for over a quarter of century geologists have at last come to tho conclusion that the great frozen valley of tho Lena Itiver was de posited, frozen just as it is found to-day, during the great grinding up era of the glaciul epoch. Chicago llcrald. Marvelous Piece of Mechanism. Another marvelous piece of mechan ism has recently been exhibited in Paris. It is an eight-day clock, which chimes the quarters, plays sixteen tunes, play ing three tuues every hour, or at any in terval required, by simply touching a spring. The hands go as follows: One ouco a minute, one ouco an hour, one once a week, one once a month and one ouce a year. It shows the moon's age, rising and setting of the sun, the timo of high aud low tide, besides showiug half ebb and half flood. A curious de vice represents the water, showing ships at high-water tide as it they were iu motion ; and, as it recedes, leaves them high aud dry ou the suuds. The clock shows the hour of the day, the day of the week, the day of the month and the month of the year. The mechanism is so arranged as to make its own pro visions for long aud short mouths. It also shows the signs of tlie zodiac and difference between sun nnd railroad time for every day iu the year. Button Tran script. Uniting- Alumiuum With Glass. Bradford McGregor, the mechanical expert of Cincinnati, Ohio, has succeeded after numerous expcrimeuU iu uniting aluminum with glass, and he claims to be the first who has done so. A large piece of aluminum w'th a glass tube in the centre was turned in his lathe aud it was impossiblo to detect tho slightest flaw or joint where they camo together. In fact, it appears as one solid mass. Heretofore, no metal could bo made to unite with glass iu which the contrac tion and expansion were the same, and it is claimed this will create a revolution in the way of reducing the cost of incan descent lights as it will take tho place of platiuum, which costs $.'120 a pound, while the new discovery will not cost $10. JScia Orleans 1 lines-Democrat. The Wonderful "Cliaugoublo Flower." During the summer of 1 81(0 the bot anists made a wouderful discovery in I ehuantepec, Mexico, having established the fuct beyond a doubt thut tho native "hiuta" has a flower that changes its color three or more times each day when the weather is favoruble. In the morn ing it is white; at noon it lias changed to a deep red; ut night it is blue, it is even claimed that some individual trees of this species huve a flower that changes to many intermediate hues dur ing the uight. There are only two hours out of the twenty lour, from 11 A. M. to 1 v. M., that tois rarity gives out a perfume. St. Luu.it Kzpubli SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Deposits of mica have been discovered in the northern part of South Australia. A company with 12,000,000 capital has been formed to work a nickel mine in Orcgod. Lead ia the United State amounted to 187,000 tons of 2000 pounds, or a little less than in 1880. Of spelter 68,000 tons were produced in the United States in 18SJ0, an increase of fifteen per cent. A patent has been taken out in France for an electric furnace for the rapid in cineration of human remains. Dr. Ludwig Schreincr, of Stuttgart, Germany, has brought forward a new bleaching ngont, which ho calls ozonin. The production of copper in the United States in 1890 amounted to 278, 610,000 pounds, far exceeding any previous record. An English company is working a silver mine in Bolivia which yields more tuiiii three hundred and sixty Dunces to the ton, while specimens of almost pure silver aro met with. It has been determined that as far as the danger to ships' compasses from magnetic leakage from the dynamo is concerned, it is equally the same whether the ship is double or singled wired. A brilliant black varnish for iron as well as for some other substances can be made by stirring up ivory in shellac varnish. The article to be varnished should be coated when the material is applied. A telegraph operator in Cheyenne, Wyoming, has invented an electric ma chino, to be applied to street cars, for Indicating the numbers of business houses and the names of streets while the car is in motion. Collais, a little villogo near Nismcs, France, has its streets lighted by a 1600 light dynamo driven by a small water fall, and during the day the current is used to drive tho pumps for the village water supply. Statistics collected abroad show that for short distances, as 1000 yards, wire cables furnish tho most efficient means of transmitting power, but for greater distances, as 5000 yards, electricity is by far the least wasteful of all methods. The Dairy Association of Kiel, Ger many, has offered a prize of $750 for an improved method of determining tho amount of futty matter in new milk, skimmed milk and buttermilk without the use of a chemical balance, the results to bo as accurate as those obtained by the gravimetric process. The newly discovered deposits of nickel and chrome ores near Franken stein, in Silesia, are turning out to be very rich. Horr Krupp has ordered tho immediate delivery of 100 tons of nickel ore, twenty tons of which havo already been dispatched from the mine. He offered $400,000 for these mines. Iu the histoiy of railroads it is to bo recorded that the Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad, of Massachusetts, is running a train without n bell cord aud that tho nicr.n3 of communication between con ductor and engineer is entirely arranged by a code of signals passing over an elec tric cable. The entire road is equipped with this signal which works perfectly, mid the coda of signals which can bo transmitted is only limited by tho intel ligence of the conductor and engineer. Every locomotive has power and weight to spare when its train is in mo tion, but is frequently unable to start the same train from a condition of rest. The difficult point is in the adhesion of the wheels to tho rails. To prevent tho wheels from slipping sand is used, but a more modern and effective method of in creasing tho traction is to pass a current of electricity from tho driving-wheels to the rails. A Baltimore and Ohio loco motive has been fitted up with apparutus of this kind. "Chainlng-up" the Hudson. In 1778 a great chain was stretched across the Hudson River at West Point, N. Y., to preveut the passage of British vessels. Lossing, in his "Field Book ol the Revolution," gives a very interes ia j account of this work, of which we ca i quote only the leading facts. The irou of which this chain was constructed was wrought from ore of equal purts from tho Sterling and Long mines, in Orange County. The chain was manufactured by Peter Towusend, of Chester, at tho Sterling Iron Works, in the same county, which were situated about twenty-iivo miles back of West Point, "it is buoyed up," says Dr. Timelier, writing in 1780, "by very large logs, about six teen feet loug, poiulcd ut the ends, to lessen their opposition to the force of tho current at flood aud ebb tides. The logs were placed at short distances from each other, the chain carried over them and made fast to each by staples. There uro also a number of anchors dropped at proper distances, with cables made fast to the chain to give it greater stability." Tho total weight of this chain was ISO tons. Mr. Lossing visited West Point iu 1818 uud saw a portion of this famous chain, and ho tells us thut "there aro twelve links, two devices and a portion of a link remaining. The links, some of which ure iu the museum at West Point, sre made of iron bars, two and a half inches square, and average iu length a little over two feet and weigh about 100 pounds each." Scientific American. A .Mammoth Tree. There is an enormous tree iu the Ocmul gee Itiver swamp, near Abbeville, that rivals the famous giants of tho Cali fornia forest. The tree is of the tupclo gum variety, aud towers above the sur rounding forest of immense oaks. It is evidently of great age, and doubtless was inhabited ty the Indians iu the pre historic age of this country. The treo is hollow ut the huso with an aperture largo enough to admit a tall man. Tho hollow extends upward for a distance of fifteen feet, uffordiug space enough for two stories. The hollow at the base is twelve feet iu diameter. AUxusUU (,(.) 2 '"' A MONSTER BATTLE SHIP. fitdW Otfa NAVY WILL BE REPBE 8ENTED AT 1KB WORLD S FAIB. A nig Structure to be Made In Imita tion of One of the New Coast Lino Vesnols, One of the striking features of "The World's Columbian Exposition" will bo the naval exhibit, a part of which will be the structure itself, which to all out ward appearance will represent the new coast Hue battle ships now being con structed at Philadelphia and San Fran cisco, after tho design of the bureau of construction. The battle ship of 1803 will be erected on piling on the lake front in the north east corner of Jackson Park, Chicago, and being surrounded by water will have the appearance of bciug moored to a wharf. It is to have all the fittings that belong to the actual ship, such as guns, turrets, torpedo tubes, torpedo nets and booms, with boats, anchors, chain ca bles, davits, awnings, deck fittings, etc., together with all appliances for working the same. Officers, seamen, mechanics and marines will be dotailed by the Navy Department during the exposition and the discipline and mode of life on our naval vessels will bo completely shown. The dimensions will be those of the actual battlo ship: Length, 348 feet, and width amidships, sixty-nine feet three inches, tapering to a point at the bow and stern. From the water line to the top of the main deck, twelve feet, on top and in the central position of which is a superstructure eight feet high, with a hammock berthing resting on the same seven feet high, and above these will be the bridge, chart house and the boats. The structure will, as stated before, rest on piles as a foundation. The berth deck, or main exhibit floor, will bo composed of thick planks laid upon the foundation on top of which fhore is to be a substan tial layer of brick concrete. The sides of the hull are to be mado of brick, stopped to give contour, over which there will be a filling of gravel concrete thickly coated with cement. The ends, or stem and stern, are to be "shaped" with iron plates. On the inside of the wall and over the concrete on the berth deck there will be a coating of cement, thus making the exhibition hall firo proof and free from moisture. The main and superstructure decks will have a crown of six inches in sixty nine foct. The dock plank will be yellow pine six inches wide .and two inches thick, the scams of which will be calked. The main deck beams will be steel, and iron tube pillars are to be used to further support the beams. Gutters shaped with galvanized iron aro carried around the boundary of the decks, from which numerous conductors carry the water that may fall on the deck down to scuppers close to tho water line. The turrets aud redoubts for tho eight inch and thirteenth-inch guns are to bo made up of cement on metal lathing fastened to a wood framing and are to havo all the ingenious appliances for operating them. A thirteen inch gun is forty-four feet long and weighs, with its carriage (technically termed its "mount"), 115J tons. The transportation and placing of so much weight upon a structure such as is describjJ beitiif impracticable, tho difficulty of showing what the real battlo ship carries has been overcome by build lLg the gun of cement over n wooden tube to be rilled and fitted with breech plug complete, the finish of tho cement to be such as to give it the appearance of nu actual gun. The eight-inch guns are to he made up in the same manner as the thirteen-inch guns, with two excep tions, which will be bona tide steel guns and mounts, but all the six-inch guns, six-pounders, ouo-pouuders, g.itlings and torpedo guns, with all their mechanism, are to be furnished by the Government direct from the naval guu factories. Tho exterior of tlie entire structure will be painted iu accordance with the nuvy regulations so us to give it the exact ap pearance of a vessel of war. It is thought thut the resemblance will be so close .as to pass undetected except by u skilled expert. The entrance to tho vessel will bo from the pier ut the foot of Fifty-ninth street. Tho eutrauce will be ou tho main deck, thence down companion or hatchways, to the berth deck, where a spacious room, tho wholo length uud width of the vessel, is to bo filled with the naval exhibits. Tho entrance at tho pier will have a register turnstile to record the uumherof visits. The exit will be from unother point of tho structure. The superstiuc tuie will show the cabins, state rooms, mess rooms, galley aud fittings, mess tables for crew, lockers, etc., ulso tha method in which officers and enlisted men live according to tho rules of the navy. It will present, it is said, a con vincing proof of tho statement that the sailors of the United States 'nuvy uro the best paid, tho best fed uud the best treated uicu of uuy navy ia tho world. On the superstructure deck and bridge will be shown the uiunuer in which tho rapid-fire gnus, search lights, boats, etc.. are haudled. On the berth deck will bo shown tho various fittings pertaining to the hull, machinery, orduuurc, etc., iu short, the thousand anil one things thut go to make up the outfit of a ship of war. Eeuch burcnu will have un officer uud Cher repre.eutatives iu control of its special exhibit, aud tho hydrogiahie office, intelligence office aud Nuv.il Academy will bo ulso represented. The traditional costumes of the sailors of the nuvy from 177.i to!81Swillbo showu by junitors dressed iu those costumes. These men will ho speei illy engaged for this purpose, uud about bix iu number will huve charge of the. rooms containing revolutionary aud other relics of the old uuvy. Ou the starboard side of the ship will be shown the torpedo protection net, stretched the entire length of the ves.-el. Steam launches and cutters will ride at the booms and ull the outwurd appearance of a real ship of war be imitated Wuihimjtoit titttr. Muiue's hay crop of the past was estimated ut 1,300,000 tons. vasoa SOME THINGS LOVE HE, , All within and all without mo Feel a melancholy thrill; And tha darkness hangs about me. I Oh, bow still; To my feet the river glideth Through the shadow, sullen, dark; On the stream the white moon ridetb. Like a barque And the linden leans above me. Till I thtnk some things there ba In this dreary world that love me, Even me! Dentl buds are blooming near me; v Shedding sweetest breath around; '. Countless voices rtae, to cheer me, V From the ground; And the lone bird comes I hear it In the tall and windy pina t Pour the sadness of its spirit ,-'- H Into mine; There it swings and sings above mo, Till I think soma" things there b In this dreary world that love me, Even me! Now the moon hath floated to me, On the stream I see it sway, Swinging, boat-like, as 't would woo ma Far away And the stars bend from the mure, I could reach them where I lie. And they whisper all the pleasure ( Of the sky. '. There they bang and smile above mo, TUl I think some things there be, In the very heavens that love me, Even mel T. B. Read, in Analostan Magazine. ' IIUXOR OF TUE DAY. There is a vast difference between liv ng simply and simply living. St. Joteph Wewt. Boldiers sec a great deal of private life, ut they don't enjoy it. Pitltburg Det fatch. The only man contented with his lot ccupies it in the cemetery. Indianapolis Journal. When it is an advantage to ttade posts, very army officer is ready to become a post'trader. Texat Siftinys. Experience has established the foct that lawsuits are more 'wearing on a man lhan any other. Boston Courier. Bho "What would you like being a naval man for a birthday gift?" Ha "A littlo smack." Drake's Magazine. If smokeless powder is followed by gunless bullets, wnis of the futuro will he made easy. Neie Orleans Picayune. The teacher whacked the boy, one day, Who disobeyed the rule. Tho scholars did not laugh or play To Bee that lamm in school. Harvard Lampoon. The man who spends much time in trying to please his enemies is one of the most foolish of spendthrifts. SoinerviUe Journal. St. Agedore "I think Miss Maze is a perfect poem." De Mascus ,lI know It. At least she's a-vcrso to me." St. Joseph Newt. Miss Burdy "Yes, I will bo yours on ono condition." Jack Junior "That's all right. I entered Yalo with six." Yale lltcord. Mike "Why do them falso eyes be made of glass", now?" Pat "Shure, au' how else could they say throo 'em,yo thick-head?" Yale Jiecord. After oue girl has given you the sack and another the mitten, it is time to give up trying to gain your suit on tho instal ment plau. Halifax Critic. Ililow "Look look here, Bloobum per, I wouldn't be a fool if I were you." Bloobumper "No; if you were me you wouldn't bo a fool." Epoch. "Pa, what is un auction!"" "An auc tion, my son, isn place whero a man pays nn exorbitant price for something he don't want uud can't use." Epocii. Life drives us till we're out of bn-ath With striving, beging, giving. We huve to work ourselvos to death Thut we may gut a living. Chieayo sf "Suggest a motto for my new business venture, will you. Miss Agnes?" "What is the business?" "A dairy farm." "Then suppose you tuke'let well nluuo'." The Joter. Quericus "How does your frkud ex pect to derive auy benefit from being elected an honorary member of the foot bull team?" Prettiwit "He's a doctor." Chicago Neu. Wibblo "Yes, I believe in the office seeking tho man." Wabble "I notice that it usually has to seek the boy. At leatt that is the case iu my office." Iinlidiiiijo'is Journal. A l ook agent he came insi !; lie stuck to the nmn hko e,lue, ut. spite of ull hints uud uU and winks, .Nover lott till he got threw. Chicatjo Globe. Giles "I'm glad I let that fellow have the small loan. He seemed overwhelmed with gratitude uud said ho could never repay me." Merritt "That was strange. Ho told you tho truth." Chicago Utws. "You uro the light of my life," she said to him us she told him good night at tho front door. "Put out that light," ' growled her father at the head of tho stairs, uud the trout door slummed. Washington Star. "Let us see, a cynic is a man who is tired of the world, is he not?" the jouug- . language student asked. "No, no, my chihl," replied the knowing tutor. "A cynic is a man of whom tho world is tiled." Miltcauhe Sentinel. Tlii i'1'liinUt sees hut llu roses uf life, 'i'ht thorus meet tho psunt's view, but the sjiimMo iiiiiu with an eye to the lucts Notes an I know hnw to han lltt the two. ' ' l'nltntrihia Veens. "I seo that in the preface of your book you say that it is written to till a long felt want. What do you meun by thatf" "Why, I've been needing a fquaieiucal for the laM eighteen mouth. Don't you cull that a loug-fclt waulf Chieagu JS'ttm. The United Stales Government holds in its vaults u greater amount of gold uud silver than any other Government in tlie world. It is the direct custodian oi $:i,6lW,miO in gold coiu and Lais and 018,000,000 iu silver, i
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