THE FOREST REPUBLICAN b pabllahed rr Wdadar, kf J. K. WENK. Offloe la Bmearbangh A Co.'a Bull ding tLIt mUSKT, TIONRSTJL, ft. Terms, . . tl.BO pr Year. RATES OF ADVERTISING. On Squre, ene Inch, on. intertlo ...I 1 M Ob Sqnara, on Inch, an. month SM On. Sqamj., on. Inch, thru, month. IN O. Sqaire, n Inch, en year 10 M To Pqn.rM, on fur rter Column, a. jft MM Half Celnan, on. rr MM Ob Colnmn, om 7w 1MM lt .) tdTertlMBunt ta mi jwr U ck h Mrtloa. Mfrlf d deth notice. gratis. All kill for vi-srly il wtlwmrnt eolit4 qtf tirly. Temporary sdvertlaement niort t ptU Uk 4ace. Jo work CMk b d.llT.rj. b OREST PUBLICAN. It?' htrvity ractfTt far krtr rlo4 tn tare months. OtirroKn(lene lollelted frm B wta f tht country. N ntlc trill ba taken ofTnomimoiil VOL. XXIII. NO. 49. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1891. S1.50 PEll ANNUM. RE Tlio cigarette Is an Illegal luxury for youth in twenty-nino States, A census of tlio Province of Quebec, Canada, compared with the returns of 1881, shows a great exodus of tho popu lation. j The University of Oeno, Italy, has es tablished an academy forscionttllc travel ei. It proposes to teach students how, to observe and investigate all phe nomena. The New York World estimates that "in Western Nebraska from 8000 to 10, 000 people are on the, verge of starva tion, and in Now York City about 20,- 000 families are evicted every year for J non-payment of rent. But more corn Is produced in this country thau 80,000, 000 people could consume and tho land lords of New York pocket over $70,000, 000 rent per annum." A spnrk from a locomotive On the Southern Pacific Railroad in California caused the burning of a wheat crop. The company being sued for damnges showed that the fire was caused by a locomotive of the Santa Fo Company, losseo of tho : road, and the United States Court sus tained tho position that the lessor was not liable for the acts of tho lesse, which tho New York Commercial Advertiser hails as an important priuciplo, of wido application. Mnny women arc finding congenial em ployment in tho various libraries which have been established in nearly all tho cities and towns throughout the country. The work is eminently suited for them, declares tho New York M'orld, nud they have been found suited for tho work, lira. Caroline Le Conte has been ap pointed State Librarian of South Caro lina. She is an accomplished student, a resident of Columbia, and is the first woman to hold such a position in tho 8tato. . If there is no law upon the statute bnofa-to' "prevent a same person iron being dragged from home, declared in sane on tho authority of two physicians, and left to tho cbauco of meeting an up right judge to save him from incarcera tion in a lunatic asylum, it is time, in gists the New York Xeas, that one should bo passed. How easily a man may be got out of the way in' New York has re cently been shown in the case of a well-to-do citi.ou, and tho fact is not credit able. Tho existing statute ou tho sub ject evidently requires overhauling. Tho United States has now become the greatest iron produeiug nation of tho world, having produced 9,202,703 gross tons of pig iron in 1890, nguiust about 8,000,000 gross tons produced in Great Britain, an excess of about 1,200,000 tons, or fifteen per cent. Ithus been at tained by the most astoundingly rapid ' development of a vast industry which the world has ever seen, our pig iron product having increased from 4.04 millions iu 1885 to 9.20 millions in 1890, nn in crease of 5.16 millions or 128 per cent., during which period the British product increased only from 7.42 to 8.00 million tons, or about 7.8 per ceut. . Says the St. Louis JUpvMc: We thiuk vo have somo bir churches here in mcrica, bu of them have a seating w-jucity of over 15(H) persons. Com pared with some of the big churches of Europe ours are but as mole-hills to mountains. Stat: St. Peter's Church, Rome M.OOO Milan Cathedral 37,000 St. Paul's, llomo i itt.OOO St. Paul's, London 35,000 Ht. l'etrionio, liologna 21,400 Florence Cathedral 34,300 Antwerp Cathedral 84,000 St. Sophia's, Constantinople 23,000 St. John's, Laterau 22,0d Norte- Dame, Pal is 21,000 Pisa Chatliedral 18,000 St. Stephens', Vienna 12,400 St. Dominie's, Bolojna 12,000 Bt. Petor's, Bologna 11,400 Cathedral of Vienna . 11,000 St. Mark's, Venice 7,000 Spurgeou' Tabernacle, Loudon 7,000 Dr. Hall's, the great church at Fifth avenue, New York, but 2,000 That the Ciiiliaus, who have been dubbed tho Yankees of South America because of their business enterprise and stability of character, should have a revolution on their bauds has disap pointed and even shocked their well wishois iu this country, admits thoew York Tribune. But thu trouble seeirs to have sprung not from tho lawlessness or unrest of the people, but from the un patriotic course of a few politicians, especially Senor Balmaceda. The Chil ians have advanced too far in the path of civilization to make it either possible or probable that tliey will revert to tho 'ate of chronic insurrection which has haroctcrized so many countries of Latiu .merica. After they have taught some oliliciutis a salutary lesson order will )ubtless be restored, and the people Ml again resume the iudirslriul and com ercial pursuits iu which they have so 'iially distinguished themselves iu tho t. OUR KIND OF A MAN. lfot art Apollo with mow-whlto hand, A trifle austere, nor yet too blnul; But a heart of gold all through and through, And tendor and sympathetic, too Our kind of a man I Ah, one who, walking the world's broad ways, Boos little to blame and much to praise; Has cheer and smile for the weary throng And bold contempt for the bitter wrong Our kind of a man I Tea, one who, Ignoring baser ends, Liveth for home and the good of friends; Where, self forgotten, broad manhood lies, A star in t he glory of the skies Our kind of a man I Who not for theories but for doeds, Christ's own apostle, with love for creeds. The world's brave prophot, after Oo.l's plan. In healing and toaehing he loads the van Our kind of a man I E. S. L. Thompson, in Frank Leslie's. AN EVICTION FIGHT. H? LUKE RIIARP. This is the story of tho house of Ma ginley, its building and its wreck. A the present moment Maginley him self is in Montana, lie mado his money in Australia and then came homo to Ire land and foolishly built a house on a land lord's estate. It was built where labor and material were cheap. Stones cost next to nothing; in fact, the land around produced little else, and so Maginley spent $1500 in building a nice two-story house witu a slate roof upon it. Maginley was in America. Times were bad. His boys had not been nble to make any moucy in tho Scottish harvest fields. Thoy wanted an abatement of the rent, but that tho landlord refused to grant. The money was subscribed and was offered to the evictors by tho priest of tho parish, tho celebrated Fr. Muc Fadden. It was refused as being offered too late, and tho command was given that the eviction must proceed. I ar rived on tho ground just at tho end of these negotiations. Tho police refused to allow mo to pass down tho road near the house to be attacked so I struck across the fields, keeping on tho outside oi tue ponce coruon threatened every now and then when I approached too near that lino and at last took up a po sition on the hillside, just outside tho line of policemen aud facing tho end of the house where I could seo what was going on on both sides of it. - I will now mention a little incident which, although trivial in itself, goes to account for Xih VwitrnV-T'th ..which the police are regarded iu Ireland. Whc took up my position as near to tho out side line on I was permitted, the police man near lliere I stood thought it would be the corract thing to stand in front of mo so that I could not see what was go ing on. I moved up tho hill a little and he moved up an front of me. I moved down and he again moved down iu front of me. "I don't thiuk you have any right to do that," I said. "You move od," was his answer. My own impulse nt the moment was to hit tho man across the face with my urn- I brelln, but I realized the futility of do- ing this to a man armed with a rifle, so l caueu to an oiueer, wuo was siuuuiug near by, inside the cordon. 'You cannot get inside," snid tho of ficer, anticipating tho question that was usually asked hhu. "I do not want to go inside," I said, "but I want to kuow if it is any part of this man's duty to obstruct my view of what is going on?" "Not i:t all," was the answer of the officer. Then addressing the man ho or- 'dcred him to keep his place and I had no more troublo with that man. The fact is the police are over-zealous in their du ties and get themselves disliked not to put it too strongly. Although there were so mnny people around the line kept by the police tho si lence was most intense. Tho house showed no signs of having anybody in it, yet everybody knew that a number of young nieu were locked inside and were going to defend tho place as long es they wero able. Hero a certain comic clement was in troduced. One of the officers of the constabulary looked as if ho had just come off the Savoy Theatre stage after playing the part of an olllcor iu the "Pirates of Penzance." He was a fino looking man with a heavy mustache and he had one eyeglass stuck in his eye. This, which dcesn't look at all bud ou Piccadilly, seem rather comical out iu tho wilds of Donegal. Ho strode into the open space before the house and with his one eyeglass cast a look up and down the house as if judging the best place to attack. Then ho walked a few steps further with that pompous stagey air of his and atuin glanced up and down that house. Finally he walked down to the other coruer aud gavo tho same glance. It looked rather ridicu lous when you remember that only five boys were in that house and this of ficer had at least ISO armed policemen at his back. Nevertheless ho examined the house as critically as if Nupolcou were defending it, fund the Old Guard that might die but never surrendered were going to take part in the conflict. Wheu he stood back a mau with a crowbar ad vanced to the comer of tho house and drove his crowbar iu between the stones. At the same instant appeared the head and shoulders of a man from out one. of the second story windows. He had a stone iu his hand aud he fiung it with a viciousness that I have never seen equaled at the man with the crowbar. The stone weut wide of its mark. The next came closer. The third, with deadly accuracy, hit the man and keeled him over, w hile the blood spurted from his cheek where the stone had struck. His comrades pulled him back into line. The head and shoulders disappeared from the second story window uud a cheer went up from the ciowd of peasants who saw what bud been done. Maginley's house is situated ou thu hillside. The muiu body of policei were ou the aide above the houu. AX tcr tho repulse hf tho Crowbar man a number of polico picked Up a ladder and placed It on the edge of tho roof. Then very nimbly three or four police men ran up the incline. Instnntly there was a shower of stones from all that sido of the house knocking down a couple of tho policemen, but one managed to secure his place on the roof. He raised a hatchet whioh he had in his hand and struck the slates, which flew off iu a dozen pieces, rattling down the roof and falling in a shower to the ground. Blow aftor blow was struck. Those insido, being unable toiiit the man on the roof, began flinging stones nt tho crowd of po lico outside. Then the police, seized with a sudden frenzy, becran to throw stones back at those iu the house. This, I was told, was against the law, and it has been denied that tho police throw stones; nevertheless they did it, and did it with a vengeance. In a very short time every window on that side of the houso was riddled. Tho police threw with an accuracy and vigor that was ad mirable, looked at from their point of view. When the man on the roof bad smashed a sufficiently largo hole in it two or three more policemen with arm fuls of stones rushed up the ladder iu spite of the missiles flung at them and began throwing stones down the bole in the roof at those insido. Then a body of police took another ladder and smashed in tho panclcss sash of one of the upper story windows, giving tho ladder one or two swings as the sash gavo way from its impact. Placing the ladder on tho window-sill, a dozen po licemen, with great nimblcness, rushed up the ladder and entered the house. Another dozen or more quickly fol lowed. Tho men on the roof ceased throwing down stones. The man with a hatcuct pulled out a Handkerchief, and began to mop his brow. Tho rain of stones from the police stopped and j silence again intervened, only broken by j a low wail from the peasants on tho hill side who knew the "boys" inside and knew what their fate would be. In a very short time tho door looking out on 1 tho hillside was opened and twenty or ' thirty polico marched out with five ill- I clad lads ranging in age from sixteen to twenty-four. Tho first prisoner who I came out had a fearful cut on bis face until it presented a most hideous aspect. Another had his hand completely smashed, and as the boy stood on the , road-he held his hand out from him and the blood streamed from it as if it were ! poured from a teapot, forming a great ! slowly coagulating pool on tho road. The j police were very much excited, and when some of the English ladies, who had b;en wringing their hands and crying as they looked at the scene, tried to pass down the road to say a word of comfort to the prisoucrs, the police, shoved them back with some degree of rudeness, al though for that they were checked by their officers, who explained to the ladies that they would not be allowed to have a word with the arrested men. Ono of tho young men was the son of Ma ginley, who was off in America. Tho rest were neighbors' boys from the im mediate locality, and their relativos and friends stood ou the hillsido crying, as they saw their hauds held up while the steel handcuffs were clasped upon them. Thirty or forty policemen completely surrounded them. Nobody was allowed to npproach them or speak to them. The constabulary formed two doublo lines ou each sido of the young men. The order; "Forward, march," was given, aud the regular tramp of the troops echoed down the hard road. Then an officer of the law went to tho ruined house, picked up a piece of broken slate and a handful of the earth near the house. He went inside to see that the tiro was trampled out, because if a spark of fire is left alive the eviction is not complete. He searched tho house to see that uo domestic animal was inside. A dog is a domestic animal and if left inside of the houso invalidates tho evic tion ; a cat is looked on by this wise law as a wild animal and does not matter. Coining out the officer handed tho piece of broken slate and the piece of earth to the ageut of the landlord, saying, as ho gave the slate, "There is your house," und as he gave the earth, "there are your lands." This was accepted by the agent, and thus the houso that Maginley, who is iu America, built with his own mon y, becomes the property of the land land, who never expended a cent ou tho house, aud never expended a cent on the land. Thus ends the story of tho House of Magiuley, its building and its wreck. Detroit Free Press. The Invention of Spectacles. Old Roger Bacon is generally ac credited with tho invention of spectacles, at least of the pattern now used by per sons of failing or defective eyesight. It seems to bo more than likely that his work in this direction, as early as 1292, originated the custom of wearing glasses, at least iu the western nations. Alless andro de Spino, a monk of Pisa, has also been credited with tho samo discovery, but his pretensions or rather those cf his adherents, for he has never been heard to say a word ou the subject him self are disputed by students who thiuk Salvinus Armatus was the real father of the spectacle. But as both these bene factors nourished later than Bacon, and as he is known to have mentioned the work, they are probably much iu the position of the geutlemau who invented the telephone after another had shown them thu way. Chieujo Herald. A Faculty Prairie I)og Lack. Dr. Wilder has made an interesting note relative to prairie doys. They seem to lack miy scute of height or distance, owing, it is thought, to the nature of their ordi. nary surroundings- -a flat, level plain, destitute of pitfalls of any kind. Sev eral tl'i;s experimented with walked over tho e les of tables, chairs and other pieces of furniture, aud seemed to bo really 'uijnibeU wheu tueir adventure 0 eiu'ec1 hi a fall u I fell fr J a wi - ' a trai-V. iwv in a fall to the ground. O'io dog indow sill twenty feet above a j;rtti.v pavement. Jicit. lurK Jvuriott. COTTON IN THE ORIENT. 1reioation the secret op it3 successful Culture. Bow tho Crop i fin I sod in the Val ley of the Nile Tho Story of the Industry. Surprises have been coming out of Egypt ever since outside barbarians picked up intelligence enough to recog nize that which was odd wlion they saw it. Even down to this day the Nilo country has continued to send forth strange things, and every-day things put to unusual uses, and curious things to be used for most prosaic purposes. It was not very long ago that shiploads of all that was left of sacred cats and a job lot of run-to-secd mummies arrived in New York en routo to tho fertilizer factory. That was certainly putting what had once been objects of veneration and affection ate care to strictly utilitarian uses. And now Egypt stands as the source of sup ply of shipments to this country of what has always been considered a peculiarly American product, at least in its best forms. A few days ago the Times told of the arrival in this port of a large cargo of Egyptian cotton shipped from Alexan dria, to be worked into fnbrics in New England mills. It consisted of 2150 bales, was valued at about $350, 000, and was by far the largest impor tation of tho kind ever made into this country. Persons who are interested in the trado say, however, that a good deal of Egytian cotton has been coming here from Europe in the shape of goods manufactured in English and Continen tal mills. One American manufacturer began to experiment with the Egyptian product three years ago. Ho began buying a lot of fifty baleB; now he gets 2500 bales in a lot. About twenty owners of cotton mills in this country are said to be using the imported article. To handle it they have to use combing machines and that fact probably keep3 it out of other mills. In Egypt itself there is no manufac turing of the cotton. The product is exported to be made into cloth and that is the last tho producer generally Bees of it. Two kinds of cotton are produced one white, the other-brown. The wlute is the less valuable of the two, as the staple is shorter. Cultivation on a large scale began in 1821. in the reign of Mahomet AH. Ex periments were made with the seed from plants growing wild, and cotton was produced of a character good enough to warraut a rapid spread of its cultivation throughout Lower Egypt. Very high prices wcro realized for this early pro duct. A Frenchman named Jumel, a mcr chant, brought about the next step in the development. lie ra ported the seed of Sea Island cotton from Florida and devoted much care to its culture.' His trouble was well rewarded, lor his experiments wero highly successful, aud the new grade of cottou he secured was a great improvement on that formerly raised. One result of his entsrpriso was the giving of his name to Egyptian cotton which is called cither Jumel or Mako. Tho latter name is that of a planter who, previous to the Jumel experiments, had raised cotton on an extensive scale. In the beginning the cultivation was a monopoly farmed out by the Govern ment, but later ou the fellahs secured the right to become planters. There was a boom iu tho iudustry when that privilege was granted. Methods employed were rudimentary then, and they are svill far behind the time. Primitive tools are used, such as an American planter would regard as beneath contempt. There has all along been one factor iu the case, however, which the peasant understood thoroughly. Ho knew how necessary ir rigation was to cotton-growing iu his Country. They have two methods of cultivating cottou in Egypt, ouo known ns "Mes- gaui, the other as "Bali." Iu tho for mer the fields are regularly irrigated with Water pumped from theiNiie aud carried over the country in canals. In the lat ter the fields are thoroughly saturated before tho planting takes pluce. . After (hat tho plants have to get along with out water until tho Nile rises. Then pumps are set ut work aud tho fields get their needed supply of moisture. Iu Up per Egypt tho Mesgaui system is gener ally followed. Directly tho Nile inundations are of no bcnellt to cottou, although for a long time a notion prevailed that the overflow would serve to fertilize and irrigate the fields. Experience showed, however, that too great floods ofteu meant that cotton could not be raised. So weirs or dams were provided lo carry off the sur plus water into canals. Planters have more or less difficulty from tho fogs whkh prevail in September aud October to the detriment of the crop. When the British took hold of Egypt they went to work on vast improvements designed to extend irrigation. A great deal of money has becu expended ou these works, which are expected to prove of lasting benefit to the planters. There is some doubt whether the area under cottou cultivation can be extended very greatly. In the delta about 1,000, 000 feddaus, or acres, are iu use for the crop, or about one-third of the total area under cultivation of all sorts. One estimate is that tho limit of the crop is about 100,000 bales iu excess of any year's yield so far recorded. Further up the Nile, to be sure, the system of irri gation may be perfected, und perhaps tbut region may increase the total pro duction more than it at present ex pected. Nearly half the Nile delta, which was cu'.tivuted ceuturies ago, is unproductive now, because the water supply for three mouths of the year is none too large for the fields iu use. To get much bigger crop! it is estimated that storage reser voirs will have to be constructed, capable of taking iu from 20,000,000 cubic me ters to 50,000,(i('0 meters a day. Even the smaller figure calls for a flow of tfoOO feet per second. The crop for 16bJ-9U turned vut to be better thari the1 Unfavorable) condi tions indicated that It Would be. Tht Nilo was unusually low, and tho wcathei was not all that could bo desired. Sys tematic irrigation produced a good ef fect; nevertheless, and the senson proveii to be fairly prosperous. iVpr York l imes About (loss Eyes. "Good glass eyes come high," said at occulist recently. "Cost a big price, do they? ' "Yes, tho good ones do." "Then there is a good deal of differ ence?" Oh, yes. They range all tho wot from fifty cents to $50." 'Is there such a big demand foi them?" 'Larger than most people suppose. Tho fact is that many people get along so well with a glass eye that not one per son in ten suspects tho fact." "Some of our friends may bo wearing ono of these solid visual organs and we do not it?" Precisely. I'll bet that several peo ple in this city with whom you are ac quainted are wearing glass eyes and tho fact has always escaped your attention." "1 ell mo something about tho busi ness, doctor." 'In the first place the greater share of glass eyes, go jailed, are not glass. The best quality of artificial eyes is manufac tured in America by a process which is kept absolutely secret. These arc the lightest and best and will last longer. The Germans also make a fino artificial eye. The best eyes aro made of stone. Tho German articlo is cheaper than tho American. Iheveining in the foreign eye is not so well marked." "What makes the trade profitable?" "I'll tell you. One-eyed men aro likely to be rather scarce, and ono would think that having once stocked up they would buy uo moro. But this is not the case. An artificial eye gets to be a nuis ance after it has been on duty for two or three months. Another ono bus to be purchased. This explains tho reason for the lively trade in these articles. There'll always be a trade in them, aud a good one, too." "How is it wo don't notice a glass eye in some men?" "Because they know enough to keep still about the matter and wear the best eyes obtainable. In this way, if you no tice anything at all peculiar about their optics you imagine they save a squint or are cross-eyed." Buffalo (iV. T.) News. Lobbyists In England. In England lobbyists are called parlia mentary lawyers, and they are upheld by somo peoplo who really do not know much about them as a class infinitely su perior to our lobbyists. Maybe they are as a class better than some of our lob byists, but there are somo of them i great deal worso than our lobbyists are as a class. Uicy are supposed simply to arguo before parliameutary committees, but what is to prevent them from nrgu- ing with the individual members of tho committees? In tho House of Commons of Great Britain are some of tho most disreputable scamps in England. They frcqueut the gambling houses and the low saloons, and they ato just as pur chasable by an unscrupulous "parliamen tary lawyer" as any member of Congress is in this country by a lobbyist. If there wero statistics in cxistenco they would show, without a shadow of a doubt, a greater percentage of corrupti ble members of the Houso of Commons than of tho House of Representatives. The British lobbyist is at any rate n luxury fully as expensive us one of ours. A number of years ago it is said, that the enormous sum of 110,000 was paid tho parliamentary "solicitors" for one rail way bill that never got into the House of Commons nt all. There is a story of au other British "lawyer," "who being re tained to appear beforo a number of dif ferent committees nt the same hour of the same day, having received a num ber of guineas for each attendance, was found by a friend reposing uuder a tree in the park, iu order, us he said, that he might do equal justice to all his clients." Perhaps tho cunning of our lobbyists was an inheritance from the old country. If tho truth wcro known it would be found that many lob byists prey upon tho credulity of their clieuts and that they pretend to do a great deal of bribing, where iu reality they do but little. Washington Star. Profits iu Wild Animal Breeding. Ouo of Barnum's big tigers died re cently at Bridgeport, Conn. Tho ani mal was given its breakfast uud iu tho huge piece of meat which formed a part of its meal was a small boue which got stuck iu the animal's throut, and beforo it could be removed the tiger had chocked to death. The carcass of the dead tiger was sent to tho Barnuui museum at Tufts College The same night that tho tiger died there was quite an addition to the family of animals at the quarters. By the law of compensation a lioness gave birth to four beautiful cubs. They are living aud the owners of the show value them at $15, OUO. Iu speakiug of the mutter Mr. Barnum said toa reporter: "1 have offered my partner, Mr. Bailey, $100,000 for the first baby elephant born in Philadelphia, and it will bo worth every dollar of that amount. Our gains by the birth of wild animals among those iu thu menagerie of our show aro annually about 150,000 greater than our losses by death of auiiuitU. Wahiiujlon Mar. A Primitive Turkish Hath. Tho Ahuskans, us a rule, are not par ticularly fond of bathing, but some ol them like occasionally to indulge in a sort of Turkish bath of a primitive charac ter. Vor this purpose a number of long sticks are driven into the ground iu a circle four feet iu diameter, being thereupon drawn together aud tied at a poiut six feet from the bottom. A small tiro of wood, with stones, is lighted iu tiie middle, uud the heat is kept in with the blankets spread over the framework. When only tho citdeis aro left and thu atones are well heated, the buther takes a ieat inside aud proceed, to pciopiro. Wtuhii'lftw Si?, BC1ENTIF1C AND INDUSTRIAL. A gun machine measures 1-1000 of an Inch. London, England, has an underground elcctrio road. Cold weather increases a locomotive's Consumption of coal. It is thought that telephones tend to bring fill deafucus When one car is used to the exclusion of tho other. The great majority of cases of deaf ness are hereditary, and duo to the too close consanguinity of tho parents. The business men of Gnlveston, Texas, have organized a stock company for the establishment of tho ramie industry iu that State. The London (England) General Post- office was saved $3000 last year iu tho sick-leave account by the substitution of I electricity for other means of lighting its buildings. I Celluloid in solution is now being ex tensively used as a lacquer for all kinds of fine metal work and as a wood varnish with results that are sail to bo superior to tho old methods. Add carbon to pure iron and it be comes steel. Add hydro-carbon to iron, and Bteel itself becomes so extensively modified that its properties are not recog nizable. Thus steel may be as soft as pure iron. The following is recommended as a sure way of finding where a crack in a piece of metal ends: Moisten the surface with petroleum, then wipe it, and then immediately rub it with chalk. The oil that has penetrated Into the crack ex udes, and thus indicates where tho crack ends. An electric balance has been devised, in which the placing in the pan of the object to be weighed closes nu electric circuit, and a motcr carries tho weight out on the beam until the equipoise is established, breaking tho circuit. With tho emptying of tho pan the weight re turns. Gum arable, which was once univers ally used, has become very scarce and dear, and a substitute for it is being made from starch, which is subjected under pressure and at a high tempera ture to the action of sulphurous acid. The product, after neutralization, is soluble and extremely adhesive. A substance having all tho essential qualities of silk has been made from wild hemp by Neymura Sakusaburo, of Hik one, Japan. The plant grows on moors and hillsides, and could bo cultivated. The fiber is strong aud glossy, and several silk factories aro said to have found it to in no way inferior to silk. In a new muchino for making paper boxes the cutting mechanism is so adapted as to be reciprocated directly over the folding die, at each corner of which is a folder to operate its corner section. The gumming apurutus (of which there are two) is carried by the cutting head and gums the blanks after they are iu position to bo folded in the die, the gum being fod from the reservoir by special devices. Darnncles on Whales. Lighthouse Keeper Israel, who was in town yesterday, suys that the b"st exhi bition of whales occurred right in front of the lighthouse tho othor day. Half a dozen whales of from thirty-five to forty feet in length were playing for an hour, or breaching, as whalers call it. This is running out of the water exactly as a fish docs and falling lack heavily ou the ocean, so as to thresh off the baruules that cover their under aids It is a flat barnacle, rayed in gray and white streaks from a small central hole. This variety of barnacle coming from colder northeru waters "gets sick," in nautical phrase, iu the warm southern waters wheu tho whales come to breed, and ar) easily shaken off by a little effort. Tho Cuptaiu (aid that the right whalo never ventured Into these waters unless heavily loaded with barnacles, when they would bo shaken off by breaching. In tho old whaling camp opposite Ballast Poiut, on North Island, w hales have been found so thickly encrusted with baruacles that they had to be skinned on the under sido before a knife or lpado could safely bo used to cut up thu blubber. Han Dieyo (t'al.) Union. Tho Queer Costa Iticn Dogs. The Costa Rica Indian dogs are pecu liar from thu fact that they can't bark naturally. These dogs are big, slouch ing, light-colored beasts uud are evident ly related to tho coyotes, ulthough as puppies these dogs soon learn to imitate the bark of other dogs, which are kept to teach them to bark, the same as one canary bird teaches another to sing, while the coyote domesticated never learus to bark until the third generation. These Costa Rican dogs would bo ot lit tle set vico us watch dogs, even if they were wauted for that purpose, but it would go hard with anyone wuo Intruded ou premises where these silent brutes run at lurge. Without warning he would bo pounced upon immediately ami torn to pieces. But theso dogs uie not kept for household protection, fur few of their owuers have much of u house hold to protect. They aro used chiefly for hunting tho puma aud jaguar, the two liereo uud destructive members of thu tiger family, which ure so numerous in the mountains uud the reedy plains of Central America and especially iu tho Boutheru nroviucc of I'osta Rica. Forest I and Stream. I n sec Is and Cold. Entomologists have determined that thu severity of winters is not destruc tive to insect life. Larva! may be frozen stiff, uud yet they will revive with tho return of the warmth. Bumblebees uud butterflies are ofteu met with iu the sre tlo regions. Disease uiicrubts are even more tenacious of life. Wutchmurth und Veruu found that they could le subjected to cold forty degrees below zero, be powdered w ith a mortar, and yet be call able of transmit tiny diseases. C'x'ayu Timet, AN AIR CASTLIS. 1 built a house In my ytnithf ul clream In a sunny and pleasant nook, Whero I might listen tho wholo rty long To the voice of a gurgling brook; A cottage with wide atxl airy rooms, And broad and shining floor A house with the hidden charm of home, And the 1 roedom of out-of-doors. Fair morning-glorio climb and bloom, At will by the eastern aves, And on the doorstep and wimlow sill The roses shake their leaves; And fair old-fashioned lilac toss Their purpto plumage high, While honeysuckle drop their sweets On every passer-by. Down at the end of a pleasant path. Is a group of evergreen trees Pine and hemlock, and spruce and fir, With their spicy fragrances; And, swoetest picture of calm content That mortal ever saw, Under a low-boughed apple tree, Is a bee hive mado of straw. t have pictured it all a hundred times I shall do It a hundred more But I never shall own the pleasaut home With the roses over the door. Never a dream of mine came true; It is Fate' unbending law. I never shall see the apple tree, Nor the bee hive made of straw. But yet, In the airy realm of dreams Where all my riches be, I enter into the heritage Which Is else denied to me; i I have but to close my eyes to find My Edon without a flaw f The home, the garden, tho apple tree And tho bee hive made of straw. Elizabeth Akers Allen. HUMOR OF TIIE DAY. Tho pickpocket has his business nt his fingers' ends. Epoch. It takes two to make a bargain; but only ono of them gets it. 2'uci: A man never fully realizes tho wealth of information he doesn't possess till his first child begins to ask qucstious. El mira Gazette. "It don't pay to be kind to pets," said Johnny. "I filled the goldfish globo up with milk one day, and the fish ull died." Harper's Bazar. "Aro you acquainted with this?"askod Banks, as he displayed an unpaid note to its maker. "No," replied Kytiug, "I never met it." I'uck. Boggs "Hicks seems to a well-informed man." Foggs "Yes, his wife is Secretary of tho llomo Missionary So ciety." New York- Herald. A barking dog cannot bite, but the trouble is that he is likely at any time to stop burking and tako a piece out of your leg. iSomenille Journal. Tomdik "Do you know to what breed tho Dog star belongs to?" Mc- Ulammy "iNo; to wuat! tomans "The Skye." Chicago InUr-Qcmn. The young mau sadly counts his cash, Anil finds, to his great sorrow. His sleigh ride's left him ocarce enough To hire a cab to-iuorrow. llVmiiiufmi Star. Namby "She is very rich; do you suppose, ho had a tender feeling for her?''. Hooks "Of course, of course, a leual-tendcr feeling." Aete York Iter- , ;'.'. ! Frightened Femalo "Leava the i house, sir?" U'labashed Burglar "Oh, I I wasn't going to 'lake it only the sil verware and jewelry, mom. Pleasant evening, nion." Daiuti'ille Breeze. Hard on tho Nerves: He (discussing electrocution) "I think dceupitatiou is tho worst death. I don't think I could meet it calmly. " She "No; you would probably lose your head." Yale lleeorU. How oft a vaprue presentment Of coming ill depress s us, When if we'd but look baric we'd find 'T'is breakfast that distresses us! I'uek. "Tommy," said un anxious mother to her boy, "your undo will bo hero to dinner to-day, aud you must have your fuce washed." "Yes, ion, but s'poseu ho dou't come. What then?'' Texas Hiftinijs. Harry "I seo it stated, Miss Don, that Loudon la liesarealwuysin terror of being sun-kissed. That terror does not extend to this country." Dora (shyly) "Well, it ucpeuds ou the son." C'ii cajo Inter-Ocean. Patrolman "They've jut took a floater out of the river w ith a cross marked ou his forehead with a knife." Chief "Start riht out aud arrest every man that isu't ublu to write his nuuic." Indianapolis Journal. "Do you frequently pen this Bort of thing.'" usked the editor of the poetic contributoi. "Oil, yes; very frequent ly." "Well, why dou't you pen t hem so that they cannot get away aud stray around like thisf" l.'niht. At a Workiugnieu's Congress Door keeper (to strauger) "What are you? A possibilist, tiuesdist, solulionUt, Marxist, Kupiot, Blanquist or collect ivistf" Stranger (taken aback)--"I I'm a in ichinist." t'iicagj .V,n. Sinew every do will have his day, I'ray, Towser, tniio mine own; But tie eoutenL Willi that, wupruy, Aul leuvo tin-niLTht alone. it ashiiiijtoa l'tst. "I noticed that u tramp left the houso us 1 came over the hill," said the farmer. Yi.s," replied his wife, ho left tho house, but he managed to get away with about everything else iu si.;lit. Maybu he'll co. ne Hack after the hou.se later on." --- Washington l'ut. As otm by tine our HoU fell -And we ot hcroe were iireft, Oiuvnef, of course, wo sought to uurll by thnikiu - tlieru were otlK-r leU; lint imw Hie tldis of sorrow swell 1 lielle.-ked, Ulul deep's our lll -llliiclloly, There never wusa William Tell, And ViiUouihrosu's leull -ss wholly. -Vce i'urk fViii. Mild Old tientlemnu (goaded tj mad ness by uext room lodger) "Hood gracious! What are y ti pounding the furniture iu that way tor?" Idle Pally "Trying to kill tune." Mild Old (Jen tlcuiuii (alter deep thought) "Well, I suggest that you also try to dei ileu the sound." Aauiiian O'veir,
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