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VOL. XXIII. NO. 49. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1891.
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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,