THE FOREST REPDBLICAN b plbUh4 mij Wdaday, ky J. e. WENK. Offlo la Bmrbaugh A Co.' Bull ding L sttlUtBT, TIONK8TA, M RATES Of ADVERTISING. Om Sqnara, en. Inch, on. innrtlos ...$ IN Oa. Sqn.re, on. Inch, ne month I M On. ftqurv, on. Inch, three month. M One Bqnira, an. Inch, on. jew 10 M Two CqnanM, on. jnt If M Q win damn, .n. feu ............ MM H.lf Colnmn, on. jew WW On. Colnmn, on. jrnr IWW Lfti adratlMaants ton cents ft lit cb bk Mrtlon. tuntt. ud Mth notlen (rrmtU. All hill, for TrlT .r!ertleinTOt. oli.etel ra lorly. Temporary .ilTertlMment. unM te put lij Jo. work nit m delivery. EPUBLICAN Term, I. BO ptrTctr, OnrrmpoiKlenc solicited frwa al puts the VOL. XXIII. NO. 49. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1891. $1.50 PER ANNUM. uniwni R OREST The cigarette !r an illegal luxury for youth in twonty-nlne States. I A Census of tlio Provinco of Quebec, Canada, conipnred with the returns of 1881, shows a great exodus of the popu lation. j The University of Geno, Italy, has es tablished an academy for scientific travel er. It proposes to teach students how, to obsorve and investigate all phe nomena. The Hew York World estimates that "in Westorn Nebraska from 8000 to 10, 000 people aro on the, rergo of starva tion, and in New York City about 20,- 000 families are evicted every year for uou-paymout of rent. But more corn is produced lu this country thnn 80,000, 000 people could consume and the land lords of New York pocket over 70,000, 000 rent per annum." A spark from a locomotive On the ' Southern Pacifio Railroad In California caused the burning of a wheat crop. The company being sued for damages showed that the fire was caused by a locomotive of the Santa Fa Company, lessee of the road, and the United Stutes Court sus tained the position that the lessor was not liable for the acts of the lease, which tho New York Commercial Advertieer hails as an important principlo, of wido application. -. . . . . .j Many women arc finding congenial em ployment in the various libraries which have been established in nearly all the cities and towns throughout the country. The work is eminently suited for them, declares tho Now York World, and they have been found suited for the work. Mrs. Caroline Le Conte has been ap pointed State Librarian of South Caro lina. She is nn accomplished student, a residont of Columbia, and is the first woman to hold such a position in the Stute. . If there is no law upon the ' statute books to' prtWEiit a same person irom being dragged from home, declared in sauo on the authority of two physicians, and left to the chanco of mocting an up right judge, to savo him from incarcera tion in a lunatic asylum, it is time, in eista the Now York A'ewt, that one should le passed. How easily a man may bo got out of the way in' New York has re cently been shown in the case of a well-to-do citizen, and the fact is not credit able. Tho existing statute on tho sub ject evidently requires overhauling. The Uuitcd States has now become the greatest iron produciug nation of tho world, having produced 9,202,703 gross tons of pig iron in 1890, against about 8,000,000 gross tous produced in Great Britain, an excess of about 1,200,000 tous, or fifteen per cent. It has been at tained by the most astoundingly rapid development of a vast industry which the world has ever secu, our pig iron product having increased from 4.04 millions in 1885 to 9.20 millions in 1S90, an 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 cent. ' - J'-'- Says the St. Louis IbpvHies We think vo have some bitr rlmfches here in merit's, bu of them have a seating .MClty of over 1500 persons. Com pared with some of the big churches of Europe ours are but as mole-hills to mountains. Scale. Bt Peter's Churcb, Rome 54,000 Milan Cathedral .87,000 St Paul's, Homo 32,000 fct. Paul's, London 35,600 fit. Petiionio, Bologna 21,400 Florence Cathedral 84,800 Antwerp Cathedral 24,000 St. Sophia's, Constantinople 23,000 St. John's, Latoran 22,900 Norte Dame, Paris 21,000 Pisa Chuthedral t3,000 St. Stephens', Vienna 12,400 St. Dominie's, Bologna 12,000 St. Peter's, Bologna 11,400 Cathedral of Vienna ... 11,000 Ht. Mark's, Venioo 7,000 Spurgeon'a Tabernacle, London 7,000 Dr. Hall's, the great church at Fifth avenue, New York, but 2,000 That tho Chilians, who have been dubbed the Yankees of South America because of their business enterprise and stability of character, should have a revolution on their hands has disap pointed and even shocked their well 'wiaheis in this country, admits theew York Tribune. But the trouble seeins to have sprung not from tho lawlessness or unrest of the people, but from the un patriotic course of a few politicians, especially Seuor Bulmaceda. The Chil ians have advaueod too far in tho path of civilization to make it either possible or probable that they will revert to the .ate of chronic iusurrectiou which has tmracterized so many countries of Latin jnerica. After they have taught some oliticiuns a salutary lesson order will lubtless be restored, uud the people '.11 m;uiu resume the industrial aud com (irciul pursuits iu which they have so ually distinguished themselves iu the t. OUR KWD OF A MAN. Not ait Apollo with snow-white hand A trifle austere, nor yot too bland; But a heart of gold all through and through, And tender and sympathetic, too Our kind of a man I Ah, one who, walking the world's broad ways, Rons little to blame and much to praise; Has cheer and smile for the weary throng And bold con torn pt for th. bitter wrong Our kind of a man I Yea, one who, Ignoring baser ends, Llveth for home and the good of friends; Where, self forgotten, broad manhood lies, Aator in the glory of the skies Our kind of a man I Who not for theories but for deeds, Christ's own apostle, with love for creeds. The world's brave prophet, after God's plan. In healing and teaching he loads tho van Our kind of a man! E S. It. Thorn p ton, in Frank Leslie's. AN EVICTION FIGHT. ' BY LUKE SHARP. This is tho story of the house of Ma ginley, its building and its wreck. A the present moment Maginlcy him self is in Montana. lie mado his money in Australia and then came home to Ire land and foolishly built a house on a land lord's estnto. It was built where labor and material were cheap. Stones cost next to nothing; in fact, tho land around produced little else, and so Mnginloy spent 1500 in building a nice two-story house with a slate roof upon it. Maginlcy was in America. Times were bad. Ilia boys had not been ablo to make any money in tho Scottish harvest fields. They wanted an abatement ol the rent, but that tho landlord refused to grant. The money was subscribed and was offered to the evictors by tho priest of the parish, the celebrated Fr. Mac Fadden. It was refused as being offered too late, and tho command was given that the eviction must proceed. I ar rived on the ground just at tho end of theso negotiations. Tho police refused to allow me to pass down the road near the house to bo attacked go I struck across the fields, keeping on tho outside of the police cordon threatened every now and then when I approached too near that line and at last took up a po sition on the hillside, just outside tho line of policemen and fucing the end of the house whore I could seo what was going on on both sides of it. - I w'11 now mention a little incident which, aitlfough trivial in itself, goes to account for XYin nAtwWtti .hich the police are regarded in Ireland. Wheu I took up my position as near to the out sido lino as I was permitted, the police man near Ahere I stood thought it would be the con-Act thing to stand in frout of mo so that I could not see what was go ing on. I moved up tho hill a little and he moved upiin frout of me. I moved down and he again moved down in front of me. i 'I don't think you have any right to do that," I said. "You move on," was his answer. My own impulse at the moment was to hit thn ninn nnrns. rli funo irif'i ttiv im I brella, but I realized the futility of do ing this to a man armed with a rinc, so I called to an olticer, who was standing near by, inside the cordon. "You cannot get inside," said the of ficer, anticipating the question that was usually asked him. "I do not want to go inside," I said, 'but I want to know if it is any part of this man's duty to obstruct my view of what is going on I" "Not at all," was the answer of the officer. Then addressing the man he or dcred him to keep his place and I bad no more trouble with that man. The fact is the police are over-zealous in their du ties aud get themselves disliked not to put it too strongly. Although there were so ninny people around the line kept by the police the si lence was most intense. Tho house showed no signs of having anybody in it, yet everybody knew thnt a number of young men were locked inside and were going to defend the place as long s they were able. Here a certain comic element was in troduced. One of the officers of the constabulary looked as if ho had just come off the Savoy Theatre stage after playing tho part of arj officer iu the "Pirates of Penzance." He was a fine looking man with a heavy mustache and he had one eyeglass stuck in his eye. This, which dcusn't look at all bad on Piccadilly, seems rather comical out in the wildg of Donegal. He strode into the open space before the house and with his one eyeglass cast a look up and down the house as it judging the best place to attack. Then he walked a few steps further with that pompous stagey air of his aud again glanced up and down that house. Finally he walked down to the other corner and gave the same glance. It looked rather ridicu lous when you remember that only five boys were iu that house aud this of ficer had at least ISO armed policemen at his back. Nevertheless he examined the house as critically as if Napoleon were defending it, (and the Old Guard.thst might die but never surrendered were going to take part in the conflict. Wheu he stood back a man with a crowbar ad vanced to tho corner of the house aud drove his crowbar in 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 and he flung it with a viciousness that I have never seen equaled at the man with the crowbar. The stone went wide of its mark. The uext came closer. The third, with deadly accuracy, hit the man and keeled him over, while the blood spurted from his cheek where the stone had struck. His comrade pulled him back iuto line. The head and shoulders disappeared from the secoud story window and a cheer went up from the ciowd of peasants who saw what bad been done. Magtuley's house is situated ou tho hillside. The maiu body of policemen were ou the side above the houso. Af ter tho repulse of tho crowbar man a numbor of police 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. Instantly there was a shower of stones from all that side of the house knocking down a couple of tho policemen, but one managed to secure his place on the roof. He Taiscd a hatchot whioh he had in his hand and struck the slates, which flew oil in a doscn pieces, rattling down the roof and falling in a shower to tho ground. Blow aftor blow was struck. Those inside, being unable toliit tho man on the roof, began flinging stones at tho crowd of po lice outside. Then tho police, seized with a sudden frenzy, began to throw stones back at those iu the house. This, I was told, was against the law, and it has been denied that the police throw stones; nevertheless they did it, and did it with a vengeance. In a very short time every window on tl .1 side of the houso was riddlod. The police threw with an accuracy and vigor that was ad mirable, looked at from their point of view. When the man on the roof had smashed a sufficiently large hole in it two or three more policemen with arm fuls of stones rushed up the ladder in spite of tho missiles flung at them and began throwing stones down the hole in the roof at those inside. Then a body of police took another ladder and smashed in tho panclca sash of one of the upper story windows, giving the ladder one or two swings as the sash gave way from its impact. Placing the ladder on the window-sill, a dozen po licemen, with great ninibleness, 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 hatchet pulled out a handkerchief and began to mop his brow. The rain of stones from the police stopped and silence again intervened, only broken by a low wail from the peasants on the hill side who knew the "boys" inside and knew what their fnte would be. In a very short time the door looking out on tho hillside was opened and twenty or thirty police marched out with five ill clad lads ranging in age from sixteen to twenty-four. Tho first prisoner who came out had a fearful cut on his 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 the road. The police were very much excited, and when some of the English ladies, who had been wringing their bands and crying as they looked at tho scene, tried to pass dbwu tise road to say a word of comfort to the prisoners, 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 the young men was the son of Ma ginlcy, who was oil in America. The rest were neighbors' boys from the im mediate locality, and their relatives and friends stood ou the hillside crying, as they saw their hands held up while the steel handcuffs were clasped upon thorn. Thirty or forty policemen completely surrounded them. Nobody was allowed to approach them or speak to them. The constabulary formed two doublo lines on each side of the young men. The order: "Forward, march," was given, uud the regular tramp of the troups echoed down the hard road. Then an officer of the law wont 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, becauso if a spark of fire is left alive the eviction is not complete. He searched the house to see that no domestic animal was inside. A dog is a domestic animal and if left inside of the houso invalidates the evic tion ; a cat is looked on by this wise law as a wild animal and docs not matter. Coining out the officer handed the 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," and as he gave the earth, "there are your lands." This was accepted by the agent, and thus the house that Maginlcy, who is iu America, built with his own mony, becomes the property of the land laud, who never expended a cent on the bouse, aud never expended a cent on the land. Thus ends the story of the House of Magiuley, its buildiug and its wreck. Detroit Free Tret. The Invention of Spectacles. Old Roger Bacon is generally ac credited with the invention of spectacles, at least of the pattern now used by per sons of failing or defective eyesight. It seems to be more than likely that his work in this direction, as early as 1292, originated the custom of wearing glasses, at least in the western nations. Alless andro de Spino, a monk of Pisa, has also been credited with the same discovery, but his pretensions or rather those cf his adherents, for he has never been heard to say a word ou tho subject him self are disputed by students who think Salvinus Armatus was the real father of the spectacle. But as both these bene factors flourished later than Bacon, and as be is known to have mentioned the work, they are probably much in the positiouof the gentleinau who invented the telephone after another had shown them the way. Chicaqo Herald. A Faculty Prairie Dogg Lack. Pr. Wilder has made an interesting note relative to prairie doifg. They seem to lack nuy euse 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 cio'.'S experimented with walked over tho e luua of tables, chairs aud other pieces of furniture, and seemed to be greatly urpricd wheu their adventure eui'ee Jn a full to the ground. One dog fell fr) ' a window-sill twenty feet above a gratVpuyumeiit. As. l'uit Jvuraai. COTTON IN THE ORIENT. IBRIOATIOTT THE SECRET OP ITS STJOOKSSFTJIi CULTURE; now the Crop is Raised lit the Vai lcy of the Nile The 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 when they saw it. Even down to this day the Nile 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-sced mummies arrived in New York en route to the 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 Timet told of the arrival in this port of a large cargo of Egyptian cotton shipped from Alexan dria, to be worked into fabrics in New England mills. It consisted of 2150 bales, was valued at about $350, 000, and was by far the largest impor tation of the kind ever made into this country. Persons who are interested in the trade 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. He began buying a lot of fifty bales; 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 prohably keeps it out of other mills. In Egypt itself there is no manufac turing of the cotton. The product is exported to be mado into cloth and that is the last the producer generally sees of it. Two kinds of cotton are produced one white, the other-brown. The wh"ite 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 Ali. Ex periments were made with the seed from plants growing wild, and cotton was produced of a character good enough to warrant a rapid spread of its cultivation throughout Lower Egypt. Very high prices were realized for this early pro duct. A Frenchman named Jumel, a mer chant, brought about the next step in the development. Ile"nported the seed of Sea Island cotton from Florida and devoted much care to its culture.' His trouble was well rewarded, for his experiments were highly successful, aud tho new grade of cotton he secured was a great improvement on that formerly raised. Oue result of his enterprise was the giving of his name to Egyptian cotton which is called either Jumel or Mako. Tho latter name is that of a planter who, previous to the Jumel experiments, had raised cotton on an exteusive scale. In the beginning the cultivation wa9 a monopoly farmed out by the Govern ment, but later ou tho fellahs secured the right to become planters. There was a boom in tho industry when thnt privilege was granted. Methods employed were rudimentary then, and they are tn.il! far behind tho time. Primitive tools are used, such as an American planter would regard as beneath contempt. There has all along been one factor in the case, however, which the peasant understood thoroughly. Ho knew how necessary ir rigation was to cotton-growing in his tountry.- They have two methods of cultivating cotton in Egypt, one known as "Mes gani," the other as "Bali." In tho for mer the fields are regularly irrigated with Water pumped from the Nil aud carried over the country in cauals. In the lat ter the fields are thoroughly saturated before the planting takes place. 4 After that the plants have to get along with out water until the Nile rises. Then pumps are set at work and tho fields get their needed supply of moisture. In Up per Egypt the Mesgaui system is gener ally followed. Directly the Nile inundations are of no benefit to cotton, although for a long time a notion prevailed that the overflow would serve to fertilize aud irrigate the fields. Experience showed, however, that too great floods often meant that cotton could not bo raised. So weirs or dams were provided to carry off the sur plus water iuto canals. Planters have more or less difficulty from the fogs uhVh prevail in September and October to the detriment of the crop. When the British took hold of Egypt they went to work on vast improvement designed to extend irrigation. A great deal of money has been expended on these works, which are expected to prove of lasting benefit to the planters. There is some doubt whether the area under cotton cultivation can be extended very greatly. In the delta about 1,000, 000 feddaus, or acres, are in use for the crop, or about one-third of the total area under cultivation of all sorts. Oue estimate is that the limit of the crop is about 100,000 bales in excess of any year's yield so far recorded. Further up the lie, to be sure, the system of irri gation may be perfected, and perhaps that region may increase the total pro duction more than i at present ex pected. Nearly half the Nile delta, which was cultivated centuries ago, is unproductive now, because the water supply for three months of the year is none too large for the fields in use. To get much bigger crops it is estimated that storage reser voirs will have to be constructed, capable of takiug iu from 20,000,000 cubic me ters to 80,000,000 meters a day. Eveu the smaller figure ea' Is for' a flow of 8000 feet per second. The crop for l&bJ-90 Joined vut to be betfer tharl the- unfavorablo condl. tions indicated that it Would be, Th Nile was unusually low, and the wcathei was not all that could bo desired. Sys- , tcmatie irrigation produced a good ef- leer j nevertheless, and the season proved to be fairly prosperous. Jfme York Timet About Glass Eyes. "Good glass eyes come high," said at occulist recently. "Cost a big price, do they?" "Yes, the good ones do." "Then there is a good deal of differ Once?" "Oh, yes. They range all the waj from fifty cents to $ 50." "Is there such a big demand foi them?" "Larger than most people suppose. The fact is that many people get along so well with a glass eye that not one per son in ten suspects the fact." -"Some of our friends may be wearing one of these solid visual organs and we do not it?" "Precisely. I'll bet thnt several peo ple in this city with whom you are ac quainted are wearing glass eyes and tho lact has always escaped your attention." "Tell me something about the busi ness, doctor." "In the first place the greater share of glass eyes, bo jailed, are not glass. The best quality of artificial eyes is manufac tured in America by a process which is kept absolutely secret. These aro the lightest and best and will last longer. The Germans also make a flno artificial eye. The best eyes are made of stone. Tho German article is cheaper than tho American. The veining in the foreign eye is not so well marked." "What makes the trade profitable?" "I'll tell you. One-eyed men are likely to be rather scarce, and one would think that having once stocked up they would buy no more. But this is not the case. An artificial eye gets to be a nuis ance after it has been on duty for two or threo months. Another one has to bo purchased. This explains tho reason for the lively trade in these articles. There'll always be a trade in them, and 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 (N. T.) ITetet. Lobbyists In England. In England lobbyists are called parlia mentary lawyers, and they are upheld by some people 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 some of them a great deal worse than our lobbyists are as a class. They are supposed simply to argue before parliamentary committees, but what is to prevent them from argu ing with the individual members of the committees? In the House of Commons of Great Britain are some of tho most disreputable scamps in England. They frequeut the gambling houses and the low saloons, and they are just as pur chasable by an unscrupulous "parliamen tary lawyer" as any member of Congress is in this country by a lobbyist. If thero were statistics In existence they would show, without a shadow of a doubt, a greater percentage of corrupti ble members of the House of Commons than of tho Houso of Representatives. The British lobbyist is at any rate a luxury fully as expensive as oue of ours. A number of years ago it is said, that the enormous sum of $410,000 was paid the parliamentary "solicitors" for one rail way bill that never got into the House of Commons at all. There is a story of an other British "lawyer," "who being re tained to nppear before a numlicr of dif ferent committees at 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, in order, as ho 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 were known it would be found that mauy lob byists prey upon the credulity of their clients and that they pretend to do a great deal of bribing, where in reality they do but little. Washington Star. Profits In Mild Animal Breeding. One of Barnum's big tigers died re cently at Bridgeport, Coun. The ani mal was given its breakfast aud iu tho hugo piece of meat which formed a part of its meal was a small bone which got stuck in the animal's throat, and before it could be removed the tiger had chocked to death. The carcass of the dead tiger was sent to the Barnum museum at Tufts College. The same night that the tiger diod 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 and tho owners of tho show value them at $15,000. Iu speaking of the matter Mr. Barnum said to a reporter : "I have offered my purtucr, Mr. Bailey, $100,000 for the first baby elephaut born iu Philadelphia, aud it will be worth every dollar of that amount. Our gains by the birth of wild animals among those iu the menagerie of our show aro annually about $50,000 greater than our losses by death of animals. Wathiwjton Star. A Primitive Turkish Hath. The Alaskans, as a rule, are not par ticularly fond of bathing, but some of them like occasionally to indulge in a sort of Turkish bath of a priruitivo character. Kor this purpose a number of long sticks are driven iuto the ground j in a circle four feet in diameter, being thereupon drawn together aud tied at a point six feet from the bottom. A small tire of wood, with stones, is lighted iu the middle, and the heat U kept iu with the blankets spread over the framework. When ouly the citdcr aro left and tho stones aro well heated, the bather lakes a seat inside aud proceeds to perspire. Woiliiujton Star, SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A gun machine measures 1-1000 of an lnch London, England, hag an underground eloctrio road. Cold weather Increases a locomotive's Consumption of coal. It is thought that telephones tend to bring fill deafness when one ear is used to tho exclusion of the other. The great majority of cases of deaf ness are hereditary, and due to the too close consanguinity of the parents. The business men of Galveston, Texas, have organized a stock company for tho establishment of the ramie industry ia that State. The London (England) General Post office was saved $3000 last year in the sick-leave account by the substitution of electricity for other means of lighting its buildings. Celluloid in solution is now being ex tensively used as a lacquer for all kinds of fin metal work and as a wood varnish with results that are sai I to be superior to the old methods. Add carbon to pure iron and it be comes steel. Add hydro-carbon to iron, and steel 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 electrio balance has been devised, in which the placing in the pan of the object to be weighed closes an electric circuit, and a moter carries tho weight out on the beam until the equipoise is established, breaking the circuit. With the 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 Ilik one, Japan. The plant grows on moors and hillsides, and could be cultivated. The fiber is strong and glossy, and several silk factories aro said to have found it to in no way inferior to silk. In a new mnchino 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 aparatus (of which there are two) is sarrUd by the cutting head and gums the blanks after tbey are in position to be folded in the die, the gum being fed from the reservoir by special devices. " ' Parnaclcs on Whales. Lighthouse Keeper Israel, who was in town yesterday, says that the bpst exhi bition of whales occurred right in front of the lighthouse the other 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 tack heuvily on the ocan, so as to thresh off tha barnales that cover their under sida It is a flat barnacle, rayed in gray and white streaks from a small central hole. This variety of barnacle coming from colder northern waters "gets sick," in nautical phrase, in the warm southern waters wheu the whales come to breed, aud an easily shaken off by a little effort. Tho Captaiu said that the right whale never ventured Into these waters unless hoavily loaded with barnacles, when they would be lhaken off by breaching. In tho old whaling camp opposite Ballast Poiut, on North Island, whales have been found so thickly encrusted with barnacles that they bad to be skinned on the under sido before a knife or ipado could safely bo used to cut up tho blubber. San DUyo (C'uf.) Union. The Queer Costa Cica Dogs. The Costa Ilica Iudiau dogs are pecu liar from the fact that they can't bark najurally. These dogs are big, slouch ing, light-colored beasts aud are evident ly related to tho coyotes, although as puppies these dogs soou learn to i in i La to the bark of other dogs, which are kept to teach them to bark, the sumo its oue canury bird teaches another to sing, while the coyote domesticated never learns to bark until the third generation. These Costa Hican dogs would bo of lit tle seivico as watch dogs, eveu if they were wanted for that purpose, but it would go hard with anyone who intruded on premises where these silent brutes ruu at large. Without warning he would be pounced up3n immediately aud torn to pieces. But theso dogs are not kept for household protection, for few of then owners have much of a house hold to protect. They are used chiefly for hunting the puma and jaguar, the two fierce aud destructive members of tho tiger family, which are so numerous in the mountains aud the reedy plains of Central America aud especially iu the southern province of Costa Kica. Jr'oreU and Stream. Iusecls aud Cold. Entomologists have determined that the severity of winters is not destruc tive to insect life. Larva) may be frozen stiff, and yet they will revive with the return of the warmth. Bumblebees aud butterflies are often met with in the arc tic regions. Discaso microbes are even more tenacious of life. Wutchmurth and Verna found that they could I e subjected to cold forty degree below zero, be powdered with a mortar, and yet be cap able of trausiuiltiug diseases. Vliicuyo Timet. AN AIR CASTL.K. I buflt a house In my youthful dream In a sunny and pleasant nook. Where 1 might listen the whole (Icy long To the voice of a gurgling brook; A cottage with wide and airy rooms, And broad and shining floor.- A botme with the hidden charm, of horn, And the freedom of out-of-doors. Fair morning-glories climb and bloom At will by the eastern oaves, And on the doorstep and window sill The roses shake their leaves; And fair old-fashioned lilac toss Their purpW plumage high. While honeysuckle, drop their sweet On every passer-by. Down at th end of a pleasant path. Is a group of evergreen trees Pine and hemlock, and spruce and fir, With their spicy fragrances; And, sweetest picture of calm content That mortal ever saw, Under a low-bonghed apple tree, Is a bee hive made of straw. I have pictured it all a hundred times I shall do it a hundred more But I never shall own the pleasant horn With the roses over the door. Never a dream of mino came true; It is Fate's 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 iuto the heritage Which is else denied to me; I have but to close my eyes to find ' My Eden without a flaw The home, the garden, the apple tree And the bee hive made of straw. Elizabeth Akert Allen, HUMOR OF THE DAT. The pickpocket has his business at his fingers' ends. Epoch. It takes two to make a bargain ; but only ono of them gets it. lucl: A man never fully realizes the wealth of information he doesn't possess till his first child begins to ask questions. El mira Qazttte. "It don't pay to be kind to pets," said Johnny. "I filled the goldfish globe up with milk one day,and the fish all died." llarper't Bazar. "Are you acquainted with this?" ask od Banks, as he displayed an unpaid note to its maker. "No," replied Kyting, "I never met it." thick. Boggs "Ilicks seems to a well-informed man." Foggs "Yes, his wife is Secretary of the Homo Missionary So ciety." 2feu York Herald. A barking dog cannot bite, but the trouble is that he is likely at any time to stop barking and take a piece out of your leg. Somerville Journal. Tomdik "Do you know to what breed tho Dog Btar belongs to?" Mc Clnmmy "No; to whnt?" Tomdik "The Skye." Cltieayo Inter-Ocean. The young man sadly counts his cash. And Muds, to his great sorrow. His sleigh ride's left him scarce enough To hue a cab to-morrow. Waihinqton Star. Namby "Sho is very rich; do you suppose ho had a tender feeling for , her?". Hooks "Of course, of course, a legal-tender feeling." Aie York Uer i alt!. Frightened Femalo "Lenv the I house, sir?" Unabashed Burglar "Oh, 1 wasn C going to take it ouly the sil verware and jewelry, mom. Pleasant evening, mon." Daiuwille Breeie. Hard on tho Nerves: He (discussing electrocution) "I thiuk decapitation is the worst death. I don't thiuk I could meet it calmly." She "No; you would probably loso your head." Yale ItecorU. How oft a vapue presentment Of coming ill depress sus, When if we'd but look back we'd find 'T'is breakfast that distresses us I tuck. "Tommy," said an anxious mother to her boy, "your uucle will bo here to dinner to-day, aud you must have your face washed." "Yes, iua, but s'posen he don't come. Whut then?" Texat Si f tinge, Harry "I seo it stated, Miss Dora, that London la lies arc always in terror of being sun-kissed. That terror docs not extend to this couutry." Dora (shyly) "Well, it depends outho sou." Chi cago Inter- Oeean. Patrolman "They've just took a floater out of the river with a cross marked ou his forehead with a kuife." Chief "Start ritjht out and arrest every man that isn't ablo to write his name." Indiannpolit Journal. "Do you frequently pen this sort of thing?" asked the editor of the poetic contributor. "Oh, yes; very frequent ly." "Well.why dou't you pen thcin so that they canuot get away aud stray around like this" Liqht. At a Workiugmeu's Congress: Door keeper (to stranger) "What are you f A possibilist, Oucidist, solutiouist, Marxist, Eupist, Dlauquist or collect iyisti" Stranger (taken aback) "I I'm a machinist." L'lticagj Xw, Since every dog will have his day. Pray, Towstir, taKe tuine own; But be content with that, wu pray, Aud leavu lUeui-ht alone. II ashiiujton lnt. "I noticed that a tramp left the house as I camo over the hill," said the farmer. Yts," replied his wife, "ho left tho house, but he managed to get away with about everything else in sight. Muyhu he'll come back after the house later ou." Washington J'unt. As one by one our idols fell Aud we of heroes were bereft Our grief, of oourw, we u.usln'to quell liy thinking there were others l..l; But now the tidts of sorrow swell L'ueheekiHl, and deep's our melancholy. There never was a William Tell, And Vallouibrosa's lead ss wholly. A'ne Yuri i'tvu. Mild Old Gentlemau (gouded ti mad ness by next room lodger) "Good gracious! What art y u pounding the furniture in that way tort" Idle Party "Trying to kill time." Mild Old Gen tleman (after deep thought) "Well, I suggest that you also try to der,lcu the ound." American Uivctr,
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