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VOL. XXIII. NO. 50. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, APItlL 8, 1891.
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Eastsldoin New York City is th
most densely populated district in tho
world, China not excepted.
. The Sultan of Turkey lives in con
stant dread of assassination. Ho never
leaves the grounds of his pulnco except to
go once a week to a neighboring mosque.
Once a year bo pays a visit to Stnmboul,
but his route is never known in ad
vance. A shipment of fifty-two natives of
East Africa arrived at Hamburg, Ger
many, tbo otbor day, and will enter tho
ervice of tho Wocrmaun Lino of steam
ships as fireman. This is aunounced as
the first experiment in utilizing a sctui
lavago people in this kind of labor.
One can appreciate tho r .'action at
tained by the modern scienco of Wall
street ruruor-raongering, soliloquizes the
Now York Commercial Advertiser, when
ho learns that the leading railroad
manipulator of Wall street was shadowed
on his recent Southern trip by a spy in
the pay of tho "bear" combination, whoso
duty it was to telegraph his employers
any unfavorable nows about tho health of
the tourist.
The Indian Territory is not, protests
the San Francisco Chronicle, as often
supposed, chiefly inhabited by red men,
Tho total population of the Territory is
about 108,000, aud of this number 107,
000 are whites. It is only a question of
titno when a demand for a State Govern
ment will uriso, aud there will be trouble,
for all tho lan J iu tho Territory is held
by tho Indians, who are not citizens of
the United States, although they hold
the realty. Tho complication promises
to be a pretty one.
One of tho queerest problems with
which a municipal government ever had
to struggle, thinks tho Chicago New; is
bow confronting the city officials of Lon
don. According to the authentic re
ports that metropolis is responsible for
tho death of 8000 persons run ovor by
horses and teams during the last year.
As the traillc in tho Loudon streets is
constantly growing there seems to be no
show of an abatement of this mortality
and the "Mayor and tho corporation"
ore scratching their heads desperately to
discover somo way out of tho difficulty.
Tho lake marino is undergoing great
changes, notes tho Boston Trantcript.
Sailing vessels nro fast giving place to
steamers, aud tho new steamers are
larger than their predecessors and are
steel. In 188(5 tho net tonnugo on tho
great lakes wus G34.653; in 1890 it was
826,300 tons, while the valuation of
vessels rose from $30,697,450 to $58,
128,800. Whereas in 188G there were
but 21 propellers on tho lakes of over
1500 tons, in 1890 the census expert
found 110. Thcro were (5 stool vessels
afloat on the lakes in 180(1, now thcro
are 08, valued at $11,904,000. Of tho
lake marino 1153 were steam vessels,
and 902 used sail power alone, or were
employed as barges.
"The census returns show one feature
of American lifo which is not encourag
ing," laments the S.ia Francisco Chronicle
"They prove that with tho exception of
France thcro are more childless married
women in New Kngland than in any other
part of tho world. One-fifth of 4w na
tive married women iu Massachusetts
have no children, whilo throughout all
the Eastern Status, where population is
most dense, small families are tho rulo.
This means that the increoso of popula
tion by birth is not keeping paco with
immigration, and that the children of
foreigners a e outnumbering the progeny
of ratives, as the percentage of childless
married women of foreign birth in this
country is only a little over half that of
Americans.
According to a report of tho Statisti
cian of the Department of Agriculture
about one- tenth of our agricultural prod
ucts is exported. The sum is, however,
made up from a very few articles. These
aro cotton, tobacco, meats, breadstuffs
and cheese. Seven-tenths of the cotton
product goes to foreign markets. All
other articles except those above stated
when put together are but three per cent,
of the export. The exportation of to
bacco is not increasing materially or so
rapidly as home consumption. Moro
cheese could bo sold if its reputation for
quality Bhould be kept up uud there were
more disposition to cater to fastidious or
peculiar foreign tastes. Butter exports
could be made larger if they were of bet
ter quality. Our great American crop
corn U chiefly consumed on the spot,
noc more than oue-ixth, it is said, going
beyond the boundary of tho county in
which it is grown, and only two to three
per cent, being now exported. Nearly
two-thirds of this crop is produced in
seven States Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska,
few others producing more than is re
quired at home, and the larger portion
having a deficiency to be supplied by
those seven States.
LOVE'S PARTlNdi
He stood before her, and his eyes
As summer stars shone bright and fair;
Tbo twilight deepened In the skies
And leaflet stir was In the air.
Within his own her pretty hand
Lay, soft and sweet as summer rose)
Iler pensiv. brow, by sephyrs fannoil,
Flushed crimson as the evening's close,
Be stooped like some gay cavalier
And kissed the lips of blushing red
Be saw within her eyes the tear
That told of merry hours how dead,
"My love, you may not weep for me,
Though darkness lingers whore I stray
Be brave and true; my love for thee
Will fling a lightness o'er thy way."
They stood till darkness, creeping down
Veiled all the land In somber gloom;
Bis hand caroused her tresses brown,
His Hp upon her soft cheek's bloom.
Thcra, as the moon danced o'er the hill,
And starlight flickered on the stream,
And one lone chirp awoke the still
The holy calm of their young dream.
Be stole another parting kiss
And sadly passed, nor dnrel look back;
Be knew that partimrs oft like this
Left tears and sorrow iu their track.
The leaflet rustled at his feet,
And one sweet voice came singing low
"O heaven, be kind; until we meet,
(Juard my true love, where'er he go."
T. F. Rowland.
HOW I SAID 'TES."
UT AMKI.tA II. BATIK.
My godfathers and my godmothers in
toy baptism called mo "Olive," and they
lived to be heartily ashamed of themselves
for it, for never was their a child with a
more mistaken name. A belligerent stato
was my normal condition. I do not ra
mcmbcr my nurses, but I have grace
enough to pity them. The mildest of my
teachers considered mo "unruly," and
you can ask Geoffrey what ho thought of
me a year ago. Now it is different. I
have found my master, and I believe I
rather liko it. This is how it came
about
Geoffrey had asked mo threo times to
marry him, and three times I had said
"No," in tho most decided manner.
But that never made tjie least difference
to him. He only laughed and said I
would know my own mind better next
time.
"I suppose," I said, "you mean to ask
mo once a quarter)"
"Is that enough!"
'Too often, a grent deal, sir!"
"Well, then, wo will say once in six
months, Miss Olive."
And then ho walked smilingly nway,
and began some nonsensical talk with
father about Doctor Koch and his be
wildering theories.
This last asking was just at tho begin
ning cf warm weather, and father, who
thought Geoffrey's opinion infallible,
asked him where ho would advise us to
go for tho summer.
I had made up my mind to go to Long
Branch and I said so, very distinctly; but
Geoffrey proposed some out-of-the-way
Elace in the Virginia mouutains. Then
e painted it in such glowing colors that
nothing would satisfy father but a per
sonal investigation. It was all Geoffrey's
doing, and I told him so at tho railway
station.
"It is your doing, sir," I said, "and
I shall remember you for it."
"Thanks, Olive," ho replied; "thcro
is nothing I fear but forgctfulness."
I wauled to speak unmistakably to him,
but the train moved, aud I felt that it
would be only waste material.
At the end of the second day we got to
our destination. It was a pretty place: I
must acknowledge that. Naturo had
done all she could for it, but art and
civilization had passed it by. Tbo men
wore simply "frights," and the women
wore well, none too good for tho men.
The houses were log-cabius, through
which daylight peeped and tho wiud blew
as it listed. But there was, of course, a
big white hotel there always is. I bavo
no doubt if we had gone to Stanley Fulls
or Guthrie wo should have fouud a hotel
and proprietor the institution is ubi
quitary. Wo procured" rooms, aud my
trunks were, with some difficulty, got up
tho hill and tho flight of wooden steps
into tho hull.
"I suppose," I said, with a resigned
look at father, "thcro is no use in taking
thcra upstairs. 1 can have no use for my
dresses here?"
"As you like, Olive," ho replied, in
one of his meek and mild ways; "as you
like, dear; that gray thing you have ou
looks pretty well, uud it does not show
the dirt."
After this remark, of courso,I had every
trunk, bonnet-box and satchel taken up
stairs; and the noise aud confusion, aud
even the occasional bad word their size
and weight called forth, were quite grate
ful to me.
"It is not my fault," I explained. "If
people will build stairs like corkscrews, 1
am uot responsible."
In this amiable mood wo took posses
sion, and I think, if Geoffrey had known
what I was thinking about it, as I did up
my hair and put ou my whito evening
dress, he would have lost a trifle of his
self-complacency that is, if men ever
do make a loss of that kind. The first
thing that pleased me was the supper.
It really was good, particularly the ber
ries and cream, which ure a specialty
with me.
"But, sir," I inquired, "are there auy
Christians here besides ouiBelves?''
"It is to be hoped so, Olive. I saw a
little church in the vulley."
"Pshaw, father! I did not meau
church Christians; I mean society Chris
tians." "Ah, tiey are different, aro they?
Well, what do you think of Augusta
Pennington for a Christian?"
"Augusta Pennington! Is she here?"
I asked, amazed.
"No, she is nut, but her brother lives
within two miles, and he has a daugh
ter about the same agu as yourself. .Mrs.
l'uuuiugtou wrote tbeiu we should be
here to-day ; they will doubtless cull iu
the moruing."
t WcU, I did not care if they did. The
drosses lit my trunks wore sufficient id
inspire any woman with fcomfortublo as
surancoi The next morning 1 made a
beautiful toilet, but neither Mr. nor Miss
Lucelles called. Just after Supper I
heard ft little stir nnd bustle oh the stairs,
a rippling laugh, the rustlo bf silken
robes, and, leaning on her father's arm,
Miss Lucelles entered. She was beauti
ful; I saw that at ft glance) tall ftnd
polo and lady-like, reminding you of a
fair whitd lily. Wo soon struck up n
friendship a girl's friendship I mean.
Somo ono has said that there1 is ho
friendship between the sexes, and somo
ono is mistaken, I think, for the world
holds no safer friend for a woman than
an honorable- man. A woman's friend
ship is very likely to be tho result of
convenience, Contiguity, or of being, ns
my father rather snecringly remarked,
"tho only Christian within hail of each
other." Mary showed mo all her drosses
and told mo hor secrets, and -I returned
the compliuicut, mindful of Burns's ad
vice to still "keep something to mysel'
I wadn.l tell to ony."
Life settled down into an unexciting
but endurable routine. Mary and I Vis-itcd-each
other aud arranged our next
winter's campaign, for I had invited her
to pass the cold wenther with mo in New
York. Ono day, in the middle of one of
theso pleasant chats, a servant came in
and handed mo a card. Tho name on it
roused at onco all the antagonism in my
nature. It was, "Geoffrey Gardiner."
Now it so happened that the existence
of this gentleman was tho ono thing I
hud kept back in my confidences with
Mary. So I had now to explain who and
what ho was. I wanted her to come into
the parlor with me; but no. sho would
go home first and dress; but sho prom
ised to bo bock to tea.
I disliked Geoffrey, yet I was glad to
see him. My mental faculties were rust
ing for want of attrition. Father would
not quarrel with me, and Mary was my
ouly face card. I could not throw her
away. Besides, I rather liked to see his
great, handsome figure in tho room. He
was so full of lifo that he seemed to
vitalize even tho chairs and stools; they
tumbled about and got out of the way in
the strangest manner. I told him about
Mary Lacellcs, and worncd him that ho
would lose his heart. Ho gravely told
mo ho had nono to lose.
Imagine six feet two inches of man
hood without a heart!
We waited tea for Mary, but sho did
not come till quite dark, uud we had our
tea. She said she had been detained by
company, but I knew better than that.
Sho was dressed with reference to candle
light effect, and would not loso its in
fluence on her first appearance. I never
saw her look so lovely; her rose-colored
dress, with its broad shimmoring bands
of whito silk, wonderfully enhanced her
charms. Geoffrey looked delighted, und
she gave him tho full benefit of both her
upward and downward glances.
When tea was over, I left the room a
few minutes, and when I camo back,
found Geoffrey and Mary sittiug opposite
each other, with the chess-board be
tween them as an excuse for flirtation.
Tho move h? been so rapid that I was
astonished, and a little angry, too; and
father did not improve matters by
whispering, as I passed his chair:
"Checkmated, Olive!"
It was not a pleasant evening for mo,
nnd it was the beginning of many un
pleasant ones.
"How it camo let doctors tell," but I
beguu to like Geoffrey just as soon as he
begun to liko Mary. I called up pride
to the rescue, but it did not help nie
much, and I suffered a good deal in
watching Geoffrey's attentions to Mary,
and listening to her prattle about him.
I thought her supremely silly, aud I told
her so. She was astonished at my
petulance, but I don't think she sus
pected tho truth. Ouly father did thut,
and ho looked so: "Servo you right,
miss," that I lunged for him to be a
woman for an hour or so, that I might
talk back to him.
Ono day, after Geoffrey had been a
month with us, a riding party was pro
posed' to the top of tho mountain.
Father and I, Geoffrey aud Mary that
would be the order, of course ; nud I was
prepared for that; but thcro is a last
straw in every burden, and my last straw
wus this incident: They were mounted
und waiting for mo, when Mary dropped
her glove. From my window I saw
Geoffrey pick it up, put it on tho baud
laid so confidingly iu his, and then kiss
it. After that I wus uot going to rido
for King nor Kaiser. I scut a positive
refusal to all entreaties, aud us soon us
they were out of sight indulged iu u
good refreshing cry. I cried myself to
sleep, and woke about dusk with u new
born purpose in my heart which com
forted me wonderfully, tho key-note of
which was: "Sho stoops to cnuquui."
Yet I did uot dress nguin. I knew they
were to like tea at Mr. Lucelles 's; so
I threw my dressing-gown around me,
aud taklug a novel iu my hand, I ordered
a cup of strong tea and went into the
sitting-room. As I wutked iu ut one
door. Geoffrey wulked iu at the other.
"I came to take you to Mr. Lacelles's,
Olive," he said.
"How tlo you propose doing it, sir?)
For unless you bind me hand aulfoot,,
and get a couple of men to tote me there,)
I really dou't thiuk yo'i will succeed."
'I could, carry you myself."
"Could you? I don't thiuk you would;
enjoy the journey."
"Will you daro mo to do it?"
"Not to-night. 1 should like to iusurc
my lifo first."
"Olive, you have been crying."
"I have not, sir," indignantly. "And
if I huve, what is that to you ?'; reproach
fully. "A greal deal. Oh, Olive, you teas
ing, provoking, bewitching little mortal !
How often must I tell you I love you?
How ofteu must I ask you to marry
mci"
"It is not six months since the last
time, Geoffrey."
"I t'ou't cure; it seems like six years.
Aud, oh, Olive, you know that you lovo
me."
"I do not."
'You huve loved me ever since you
were eiyht years old,"
'I have not.
''Now yod must fake hie forever ot
leave ma forever to-night, 1 have asked
you three times before."
"Four times, sir."
''Well) four times, then. Odd num.
hers nrd lucky j here is the fifth time.
Yod know what I Want, Olive your
promiso to be mine. Is it to be? NoW
of never I"
I suppose every one has a good angel.
Miuo must havo been at his post just
then, for a strango feeling of humility
and gentleness came over me. I glanced
up at the handsome fnco till aglow with
lovo's riivinM light) at the eyes full of
gracious entreaty; at tho arms half
stretched out to embrace mo. Yet prido
struggled bard with love. I stood up
silent and trembling, quite unublo to
acknowledge myself vanquished, until I
saw him turn away grieved and sorrow
ful. Then I said:
"Geoffrey, como back; it is now."
That is tho way I snid "yes," and I
have never been sorry for it. If I live to
the age of Methuselah, I shall never bo a
meek woman; but still I suit Geoffrey,
and I tako moro kindly to his authority
than ever I did to paternal rulo. Father
laughs with sly triumph nt Geoffrey's
victory, nnd he sent me as a wedding
present a hnndsomo copy of "Tho Tam
ing of tho Shrew." The Led'jer.
Locks on United States Mail Touches.
"It is a very risky thing nowadays for
a mail agent to interfere with tho lock
on tho mail pouches in his care," said
Assistant Postmaster Gaylor, as ho han
dled a burnished copper lock which lay
upon his desk. "This lock makes it
practically impossible for any interfer
ence to go undiscovered. Examine this
loek, and you will see that each timo
you turn tho key, the register moves up
one number. I lock it on the number
1234. Now you unlock it. Sco, tho
number is now 1235. And you cannot
get it back to the first number, do what
you may. All our locks begin at 1 and
stop at 9999, giving them a lifo of ser
slve of thirty-threo years. AVhen tho
last number is reached the lock will not
work any more unless it is sent back to
the factory and 'upset.' This fact was
unknown to tho route agent who ran be
tween Altoona and narrisburg in 1881,
when the lock wns first adopted by tho
Government. He had no difficulty in
procuring a key to open the lock, and
figured that he could manage to go
through the contents of his pouch, and
by the use of a turning table, which ho
took in the car with him, be could soon
send the numbers flying till he would get
back to the number charged agaiust him
on leaving tho postofiibe at Hurrisburg.
It was mail lock No. 102, registered out
on No. ta. After going through tho
contents of tho pouch and getting a good
swag ho placed his lock in tho lathe
aud commenced to turn. It didn't take
very long to make 9000 revolutions on
the lathe, but when the lock refused to
go pass 9999 the fellow got frightened
and, throwing his booty down on the
floor of the car, ho jumped off and took
to the woods. This was a warning to
others, and we scarcely ever hear of any
attempts to tackle this lock. It is the
best kind of a protection against so-called
honest fellows who dou't mind stealing
a few hundred if they risk nothing fel
lows who are in positions of trust. It
simply keeps watch, aud if one of the
men acts dishonestly, it just tolls on him.
That's all. But it tells every time and
can't bo bribed." Aew York World,
Books One Never Heard Of.
Thcro is no doubt that there nrc hun
dreds of books in circulation to-day ol
wiiich tho general literary public has
never heard books which have sold intc
the hundreds of thousands and brought
their authors aud publishers mints ol
money. Theso books aro sold by sub
scription and never penetrate into the
cities. They aro sold to country families,
sometimes a hundred in a single small
village. Not long ago I came ucross the
list of a subscription publishing house
which printed the number of copies sold
of tho books ou their catalogue. The
figures were amazing. Of twenty-eight
books not ono had sold less than 50, (IOC
copies, and several had exceeded 300,
000. Yet I had never heard of one ol
tho titles to the books. I recall the
manuscript of a technical book on ma
chinery being handed in onco iuto alarg
publishing house. The firm declined it,
uud it met tho samo fate at four othei
houses. Finally the author sent it to s
large subscription house, and they
suapped at it. The publishers who had
resected the manuscript laughed. Bui
they lived to havo the luugh turned on
them. I saw the author's royalty state
ments on thut book about a year ago,
which showed a totul sale of 70,00(
copies of that book in three years! Aeu
York Commercial Adoertiner.
A New Dynamite Gnu.
Louis Gathmauu, a maker of mill ma
chinery, exhibited in Chicago, recently,
a cannon of his invention, which, he
says, is to be tested iu tho presence o.
United States army officers at Fort Sheri
dan within a fortnight under instruc
tions from Wur Department officials a!
Wnshiugtou. The weapon is nine uud t
half feet loug, and is designed to bt
discharged in rapid succession thousands
of times without becoming overheated,
tbrowiug shells three feet long, fillet:
with dynamite, iiitro-glyccriue, or auj
other high explosive, a distance of tivi
miles, tho projectile exploding by th
concussion wheu it strikes the- object
The chief novel feature is tho use ol
liquified, carbonic acid gas, delivered au
tomatically along tho entire length of tin
bore ut the instant of discharge, not on!
us uu absorbent of the heut geueratcc
but as a "cooler" after tho churgo hui
left the gun.
By another new device pneumatic pres
sure is produced with the use of powder.
Mr. Gathmauu claims to huve ulrcad
made satisfactory tests with a smal
model. Should the invention prove t
success, ho expect thut the existing sys
tems of coast defense particularly woulC
be revolutionized. Hail and i'.ii.
QUEER FISH W.0J1 JAPAN.
fiMGHTf HUED, BOtfBLB TAILED,
BCALELE33 CBEiATf BE9.
Tholr Long Journey Over Land and
BcH--Thd Cans They Travel In
AqnnHuirt I'isll.
Hundreds of beautiful flub sold,
silver, yellow, orange, fed, black and
greon swimming lazily aroilnd Within
their glass-lined prisons. Some of them
have journeyed half around the globe to
finally find a temporary abiding place in
the store of the New York aquarium
dealer, behind whoso windows they are
displayed. This is what the dealer says
of themt
"We are having a big call since we
got in this last consignment from Japan.
In that country the breeding of queer
and handsomo fish is brought down to a
very fine point. May be it has taken
them hundreds of years to do it, but
they beat the world in ono thing, any
way, and that's in the raising of queer
fish. Dealers send all the way to Japan
to get them. It took over seven weeks
for this last lot of ours to reach us. Six
weeks of that was tho trip by ship across
tho Pacific to San Fraucisco.
"The living fish are put up by the
Japanese in twelve-gallon tin cans. They
look something like small editions of the
ordinary American milk'can. In each
100 fish are placed, with water enough to
almost, but not entirely, fill the can.
The cans are now inserted in wicker
baskets filled with straw, and in tho top
of each are punched a number of small
holes to admit air. On tho trip across
tho Pacifio tho water is occasionally
changed by tho steward, but on tho
journey by rail across tho continent the
shaking tho cans receive when going
around curves and over steep grades
keeps the water plenty fresh enough. In
fact, though you may not know it, fish
cau bo kept nlivc almost indefinitely iu
an aquarium, without changing the
water, by your simply taking care to
occasionally shako up tho water by run
ning your hand through it quickly from
side to side. The movement makes tho
water fresh nguin, somo of the outsido
air getting into it.
"In the lot just received thero are 300
Chineso carp. They aro little fellows,
of a silvery green color, iridescent in
certain lights. None of them is a year
old yet, and in sizo they run from two
to sis inches. They are much more
beautiful than the German carp, which
are already well-known in this country.
Ualiko the German fish, which havo
nearly straight stomachs, the bread bas
kets of the Japanese fish project down
ward considerably. In fact, they have
well-marked 'bay windows.' They aro
thus very plump looking.
"Their tails and fins arc cxtrordinnrily
long nnd fringe-like. Many havo fan
tails, or double tails joined at tho top.
In some cases such a fun tail splits apart
as tho fish grows older, with tho result
that tho fish gets two separate) tails in
stead of one. This overplus of tails,
however, seems to cause no inconveni
ence. Tho little carp apparently propels
himself along just as happily with two
tails as he might with ono.
"We have also received 300 Japanese
scaleless fish. In color they aro much
like gold-fish, but oro absolutely desti
tute of scales. Through their bodies are
symmetrically marked nnd apparently
glisten with scales, if you catch ono you
will find it as soft and mushy as a polly
wog. There are no scales, ouly skin and
so thin is it that you can easily see
thiough it and pick out with the naked
eye tho heart and other internal organs.
The scaleless lish occur with fan tails,
and eAhlbit the beautiful, long fringe
like fins so . characteristic of Japanese
fish. The Chineso carp and scaleless fish
are tho most interesting, of course, but
I mustn't forget several hundred gorgeous-tailed
Japanese gold and silver fish
just come to Land. They aro haudsomo
iu form and of far brighter colors than
the ordinary goldfish bred in America.
"They havo beautiful double tails and
long, dolicato fins liko tho Chinese carp
nnd scaleless fish, aud ulso aro plump,
with stomachs of aldermauic tendencies.
Their colors aro exceedingly brilliant.
Though iu Japan they are bred in varieties
containing shades of blue and green, wo
havo ouly received combinations of red,
yellow, silver aud back. Hotels, restau
rants aud other public places where
aquariums nro ofteu placed find the
Japauese fish, with their brighter colors
und curious' forms, fur more artistic than
tho ordinary American gold and silver
fish. "Private keepers of aqiiariiims,too,
like them. The prices for aquarium fish
show great variety, running for singlo
specimens ull the way from live cents up
to more that! $1. For the scaleless fish
aud tho Chinese carp we charge $ 1 each.
Fiuo examples of the gorgeous tailed
Japanese gold aud silver lisli bring us iu
the same price. Ordinary American gold
fish aro woith ton ceuts each, while other
American lish, such as sticklebacks
which, by the way, can be mu le to breed
uud build nests iu tho aquariums sun
fish, rockfish, etc., are sold at from rivo
to ten ceuts each. Pollywogs fetch a
nickel cadi. Sometimes wo have small
alligators in stock. They run iu price
uccordiug to size. We usk $3 for one
lj feet long, whilo out) "J feet long wo
sell for $5." Sue York Sun.
A Movable Boulder.
Thero has been discovered about half
a uiilo weit of the "Bargytown Ledges"
a twilling stone of about live tons w?inbt.
It has always beeu regarded as a boulder,
aud from the way it is poised ou tho
rock beneath it no one could see why it
should not rock. Hundreds have tried
to rock it in vain, und the surprise of
the uiuu who first felt it move under
pressure may bu imagined. It moves
hard, of couise, but it moves, the tinder
informs us, round us if it was placed upou
a pivot. It has been carefully examined,
and, while it looks like a boulder, sev
ei.d allege that it must be a ceremonial
stone set there by some prehistoric race.
This rotk is cieating gieut interest
among the boulder laintun of Kasleru
C'ounetUvUt. Xortcith (Cjuh.) UulUlui.
SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL.
Sawdust is used Instsod of hair in
mortar. .
Petroleum wells havo been discovered
among the coal beds of Alabama.
It is reported that French inventor
is manufacturing paper from ho) vines.
A machine for making shoe strings out
of paper is a recent Philadelphia (Penn.)
Invention.
A Cincinnati (Ohio) child has been re
claimed front Idiocy by tho operation of
craniotomy.
A torpedo net constructed of inter
locking steel rings is soon to be put to
practical test.
If the sun were a hollow air bull, it
would tflkti 1,3:11,000 globes tho size of
tho earth to fill it.
Dry ropes immersed for four days in a
bath containing twenty grains of sul
phite of copper to a quart of water art
for somo timo preserved from the attacks
of animal parasites aud rot.
The Hungarian Minister of Commerce
has under consideration a plan for tho
fastest train in tho world, to bo ruu on
an electric railway, nnd to carry passen
gers from Vienna to Budapcsth, 15(1
miles, in two hours and a half.
The principle of tho compressed paper
car wheels, which aro so widely used
throughout tho world, is applied iu
France to tho manufacture of pulleys for
power transmission. Tho pulleys nro
said to bo very light, cheap aud service
able in every respect.
Forty-three vessels were built lost year
in San Francisco, Cul., of which seven
teen were schooners, fifteen propellers,
six sloops, threo steamers, one barken
tine and one ship. The total tonnago
was 11,071.47 net, which is largely iu
excess of the previous year.
A new rolling mill in tho Krupp
Works at Essen, Germany, is probably
larger thsu any other iu tho world. It
will roll plate about twenty-eight inches
thick and nearly twelve feet wide. Tho
rolls aro of steel. Each pair in thcii
rough stato weighed 100,000 pounds.
Pyrogranito is a new brick, of Iiussian
origin, thut is being tried by English
builders. It is made from a combina
tion of fusiblo and infusible clay, and is
strong and hard, resisting a crushing
force of five and one-half tons per square
inch. It takes a high polish, and the
clays may be mixed to give a great Va
riety of colors.
A patent has been granted for an elec
trical drill for oil wells. The devist
consists of a series of motors in tandem,
connected iu such a way as to make one
motor. Tho design has been to get the
power within a six-inch diameter, so that
the entire mechanism, which much re
sembles a common boiler, can be low
ered in the well nnd'tho power cau benp
plied at the bottom. Tho drill bits aro
firmly fastened on the rod, which is
worked rapidly in nnd out of a cylinder,
tfter the manner of a piston rod.
Mighty Small But .Mighty Expensive.
"What do you supposo is the most ex
pensive part of those iucandesceut elec
tric lamps which we see burning in that
thop window .'" asked an electrician.
"You would naturally supposo it
would bo the gluss bulb, or perhaps tho
brass fittingj for screwing it iuto tho
socket, but yoj would be wroug. Those
two little pieces of platinum wire, so fiuo
that you cau hardly perceive thorn, which
pass through tho glass stem up in tho
base of the lamp, to which the fine car
bon filament is attached, enter moro
greatly iuto the cost than any other part
of these now almost indispensable elec
tric lamps."
"Whj don't they use some other metal
than platinum for this wirei"
" Because platinum is the only metal iu
which the expansion and contractiou aro
the same as iu glass, uud a gtc.it fortune
uwnits the man who can produce a cheap
metal or alloy in which this valuable
property of platiuuiu can be preserved.
"The cost of platinum nt tho present
market price in Loudon is 20 per ounce,
or about tho samo as gold, aud the
amount used for this purpose alone has
grown to bo enormous. This demaud,
together with tho increased cost of
production, has caused thu prico to ad
vauce about 100 per cent, in eighteen
mouths. In each sixteen cuudle-power
lamp there are from four to eight grains
of platinum. If six grains are taken us
tin average, one ounce will bo used in
eighty lumps. Based ou tho increased
use of incandescent lights within tho
last two years, it is safe to state that tho
demaud for sixtccn-caudle power lamps,
or their equivalent, iu the year 1891 will
bo 10,000,000. This means a demaud
for 125,000 ounces of plutiuum, which,
nt the present price, w ill amount to con
siderably over $2,000,000 for this item
uloue." Washington l'ust.
His Impudence lost u Wulclt.
General Bligh and his wife happened
to arrive at a Yorkshire inn when there
was ouly just so much in the larder us
was sufficient for them, ami, of course,
they bespoke it. homu sporting gentle
men presently arrived, aud on hearing
what had happened, asked who was the
guest. "Au Irish officer," said tho
lundlord; whereupon one said: '-Ob, if
he's Irish, a potato will do him. Hi re,
tako my watch up to him"' (a very hand
somo gold one) "aud usk him what's
o'clock." The inquiry had, doubtless,
somo impertinent igiiiticaiice in those
days, which it has now loat; ut all events
it brought dowu the General with the
watch iu his hand uud u iiislol under each
arm. "I am come," ho tuid "to tell
you what o'clock it is. Whose watch is
this?" Everybody Inutcned to deny any
knowledge of it whatever. "Then I
havo mailo a mistuke," said the (i.-ueral,
"in Uik company. received an im
pudent message, which 1 came down ti,
resent, but 1 find I have como to the
wrong room." Thewulch, which would
huve paid the dinner bill (ill y tunc, over,
"he kept to his death, ami lelt it by
will to his brother, the Dean ol Llpliiu. '
Afjoaaul,
. THE MAN OF OUR TOWN. )
There was a man In our town
Who would not advertise,
And so, with mo, you'll all. ngreo
He was not extra wise. v
But when he found his cash decrease.
With all his might and maiu j
He set to work to figure up, f ,
And make an increase plain. ' , I
Says ho, "My cash must not decree. C
It poiueth me full sore;
For lo, instead of getting less,
It should be getting more.
Experience has taught mo this:
The man who would be wise ,
Bhould advertise by night and day, 1
And I will advertise."
And soon this man of our town
Began to advertise;
And so, with me, you'll all agree
That he was very wis?;
And lo! the gold poured swiftly in.
It overflowed the till;
Since that timo he has advertised
Is advertising still.
Montreal B'iciicss. :
IIl'MOn OF THE i.vr.
Tlard to beat Your way. ,
Manual labor Compiling a textbook.''
' Ringing words "Will you marry
mo?"
A friend indeed The old-fashioned
Quaker.
The cup that cheers not inebriates
Hiccough. Tho absence of soft water is no excuse
for drinking hard. Terat Sifting.
Is the man who is always on tho fenco
opposed to barbed wire? ltam't Uom.
Everyone who goes up the Pike's Peak
Railway travels iu cog. St. Joseph Xeiet.
Woman "Can't you find anything to
do?" Hungry Higgins "Nothiu', 'ccpt'
work. ''Indianapoli Journal.
Lithographer "What color will you
havo your bill beads?" Merchant
"Dun color." Buffalo Exprc. . "
"That man has a wonderful memory."
"IIow does he show it?" "Ho never
leaves his rubbers in a restaurant." .
"It's nil very well to talk of writing
for posterity," sighed tho poet; "but
posterity isn't editing any magazines."
The Boston niaid refused his haul
Because ho knocked, and sho
Inquired, "Who is knocking?" and
Ho answered, "It is me."
Judye, i
Bolle "Now, isn't that too bad 1 I de
clare, it's enough to provoke a saint 1"
Nell (maliciously) "How do you
know?" Somcrville Journal.
"Did tho grocers make anything on
sugar?" asked Larakin. "Yes," said
Broker Margin, "those who had any
sand did." Ronton Commercial Rdlctin.
"To what do you attributo your
longevity?" asked tho investigator of a
ceutenariun. "To tho fact that I never
died," was the conclusive reply. Razar.
Husband (during a spat) "You had
hotter shut your mouth; tho fool-killer
is around." Wife "I don't cure; you've
got your life insured. "Men'i Outjitttir.
I rather like to break a bill
I'm generous, you see.
But oh! I take it very ill
Wheu'era bill breaks me.
VMewja News.
Thero is nn antidote to every poison,
excepting tho poison of malicious gos
sip. The ouly remedy against t'aat is
to poison the gossiper. Somtnillc Jour
nal. Miss A. -"Who is that dignified geu
tlemun we just passed I" Mr. B. 1 Ono
of the profs." Miss A. "Wl.ai .:.aie
you cut him?" Mr. B. "Force of
hubit." Yale Record.
Garrulous Stranger on a Train "My
wife's name was Wood. What was
yours?" Crusty Old Bachelor "I guess
miu -'s uamo was 'wouldn't.' 1 didn't
get her." Washington Star.
Bridget "Is it the feller she's tryin'
to make thiuk she's rich that's iu the
parlor?" Thomas "Naw, it's the fel
ler she's tryiu' to inuko think she's
' young." MuiiDcy'a Weekly.
"We live in penitential tenl
Our whole lives through," exelaiuiel the
seal,
"For in our covering of hair
A sort ot Hicquo-clolu do wo weur."
Washington Post.
Peddler "Do buy theso eyeglasses,
sir! They're us strong as iron and you
cuu't break them. Why, I've betn
thrown to-day out of tinea houses, aud
not a single jrlass was smashed."
Ji'liigcndt! lilucttcr.
A vegetarian clias.sl by a hull
Km-uirvJ; tli.n thus uiinit-.l, to him did
fcay :
"Is this your grntiludo, yen .reat bi fooly
From this ou I'll eat bent' three tunes a
day !''
Imtje.
Aunt Rachel "Yes, I like him well
enough, Jcrushu; but how did you ever
happen to marry a man a head shorter
than you are(" Niece "I had to
choose, uuutie, between a little man
with a big salary and a hi ;.uau with u
little salary." L'hicajo Tnlnine.
TUo rose an I lily, ti lo by side.
Were in a bouijuet -nt;
"Ah!" the lose t-xeluinieti, "your fair tost;"
And tli ) lily taij, i-our o t.v l-j
Hut you i'hiii..i i orrow utiht from me,
For t haeu't got a scent."
id: I.V i;.
The following is au excellent lesson iu
physiology, in w hich some of your read
ers and the Jackson Township .eholan
might bu interested. The question
kcd by the teacher was: "lu what
part of the body is the liverf ' und .ho
was a good deal surprised when tu-j tall
boy replied: "Sou'-h of the lungs."
Jlicrttutrii (I'cnn.) Kiiteiprit,:
Proprietor of Livery Stable "Elevca
carriages at six o'clock iu the moiniiu.'
What iu the world do you wantot.-j
tnuiiy?" Mr. llillus (iu a tremendous
rugo) "Just got a telegram frum .Mis.
llillus. She's ou her way h.iiuo from a
trip east. Shesaj s, ' Meet inc at ! p a
ut six o'clock in the m.u uipg.' q lM re
aro eleven dep., is here. .Mr-. l;.l!u:
shall bo met with a carii i-je a'
o'clock to-morrow umi i.inj, b, j- !,-, il"
It costs u tlvuso uud IjII" .ft.., .j J,,.
iune, J