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J. - i - B1 W II !i ...... .-i Vi .vlccWrd wf to convict af:cr he has efvJ ' ' r risoiruieul, und- iA legally" vmcrwa, p'.ir. the Boston Tmti 'bat family which is becoming ! , r-; -iiI1f known In called in Paris, parisites; in .Xlormaby, bacilli; 'prrmv nnd in Ireland, microbes. Women arc 'fxrHuded from the gallcric! of (he Japanese Parliament "because," tji.yg n Japaueie liowisp'pc'rV A'thoy might nirtv . 71)1, tliR.-ilcbite to lurth-jr li.i'i'.iieiU auftntioft intlii errlplt-ev" 'i The? Chicago TYmx allege that s of the missionaries' 6f : the Vorth. Jud cnofnrftlce riv tlioir luiuds groW f'r' .l in b:trtiziii5t'ttie!nvrt who are itucking 'to tho "gospel becaOsfl' of their labon. . . . ...... , 1 " : r,.J A UiUL.lu Kngluud stole .j .piecs' of literature valued at less thna sliilfing and was sentenced to threo months in jail. Then, when s hostile mob ad vanced upon the temple of justice, the sentence was annulled and the child set free. A writer in the Southern Farm makes a strong argument in favor of female phy sicians for women. He says that certain specialties were in the bands of women practitioners in all countries and all ages until comparatively recent times. In support of his position he quotes from the Old Testament. According to the St. Louis Republic the Japanese Consul at San Francisco, Cal., appeared before the Trades Council to ask that no boycott be made on the Japanese houses. Ho said that Japan ese workmen would never affect Ameri can labor, and that instead of sending their earnings home they spent them vith Caucasians. - The Philadelphia Inquirer is scared and is trying to scare others over the re ported discovery of bacteria in imper fectly refiued sugar. It declares that samples show au analysis that 250,000 of these dangerous creatures are con tained in some qualities;' but whether this is the census of a pound, of a ton or of a cargo is not stated. The farmers in the Northwest who burned nearly all tbuir hardwood timber when cloaring land have now cause to regret it. A Michigan paper gives a caso in point. A man at Rivcrton is selling hardwood logs to mill mcu at good prices, and supplying what is un marketable to his neighbors who have cleared oil their land and are forced to buy fuel. The Atlanta Conttitution learns that "the Mormons in Utah are still receiving now members from all over the world. They stick to thoir old-tituo religion and live up to thoir faith as closely as the Federal authorities will permit. They have no intontien of moving to Mexico, and instead of abandoning their mission ary work, they are pushing it more ac tively than over. They expect several largo parties from the South. The New York Sun believes that no one in New York who has not been out in the far West cau understand the lone liness of those Minnesota farmers who have written to Mayor Grant to send them women for wives. There are re gions on tho plains iu this couutry and in Canada where men go mad from lack of human neighbors, where kitteus cau be old for $5, where almost the ouly wo men are Indian or half-breed squaws, and whero bachelors tame wild birds and try to tamo wolves for company. ays tho New Orleans NeiB Delta: From all over tho section of Louisiana which is devoted to the cultivation of cotton comes tho news that the planters are preparing to decrease tho acreage of that staplo and diversify their crops to a greater exteSt than heretofore. This de termination iAthe result of the low price for the flee 3 staple tho present Tins it. a , :-e nioe on the part season, of the planters, us nothing tends more to keep the farmer poorer than the one-crop sys tem. If the low price of cotton has had the effect Indicate! a'.iovn, it has at least taught the plautura wholesomo lesson. Accordiug to London Truth the order against extravagance in the German Army has led to the resignation of nearly all the wealthy officers, and tho Emperor now has no regiment at Berlin or Pots dam which cau afford to entertain "dis tinguished foreigners" in tht old fashioa. Formerly, a foreign guest wiio huci vis ited the barracks of a crack regiment was iuvariubly invited by the ufticcrs to dinner; but now there are no ent- aain meuts, and the Emperor has tardity dis covered that he had better not fcavo tneddlod iu the mutter, for all the ltiw sian, Austrian and Italian visitors leave Berlin exclttiining ut the poverty of Prus sian btiicers, to the iniinite uiorlilicutiun Of Ili Majesty. t OUR 9 PR I NO-TIM E9. ftTin spring Pome to wk her own lo ther all rise at ber words? ., Is the little fledgeling's ton Hweet as was the parent bird's? When one mora the streamlet roam Io the robins all come borne? Here's a nest upon bough, But there come no bird to claim; , Has she made a new nest cow? If from tome far land we came t We should all the borne neet know, Even were It filled with snow. There are blue eyes that we miss In the flush of violet time; Borne thing lacking In the bliss Of the bird-bells' sweetest chime; In the heart ar many spot B acred to forget-me-nots. If perchance youth oornoth back Through soma treasure on your knee, Still the heart will provs a lack. Lovely though the child may be; For if it so needoth you, You still net d your mother, too. Sometime will the far-off springs Come back with those later ones' There will be no missing wings, There will be no missing tones, - All the joys, but dearer grown. Of the spring-times we have known. Hilary A . Maon, in Frank Leslie' . THE TRAVELING RING. At the unearthly hour of 3 a. m. the discordant Alponhorn wakes the guests of the Hotel Kigi-Kului to give them an opportunity for seeing the sunrise. The hotel is on the very summit of the mountain, and iu front of it stands a platform. You can see the sunrise as well and better from the window ot your own loom, but there is an extra charge con nected with the use of the aforesaid platform, and you would feel as If you were swindling tho management out of the admission fee if you were to see the spectacle from any other point of ad vantage than the one provided for the purpose. But this is neither here nor there. Miss Viva Merrick, of Chicago, hur riedly donned a morning gown and hastened down stairs at the sound of the horn. Ragged patches of mist rose lazily from a lake of bluish fog that filled the valleys; rugged tops and sharp crags rose in bold outline, like coral reefs upon a sea of floating dampness. Everybody, including the young lady, felt uncomfortable. The greenish half light that precedes day would make the rosiet complexion appear pale, dull and lifeless, and rob any face of its beauty ; it was therefore quite unselfish in Captain Percy Demp ster, R. E., on leave from India, to offer his greatcoat to Miss Merrick as a pro tection against tho icy wind thut blew sharply from the glaciers. But ho was a gentleman, and would have done as much for any lady, young or old, pre ferably, of course, the latter, otherwise he would have tendered his coat to the young lady's aunt first. As usual, everybody full better as soon as the first rays of the sun bad gilded the edges of the long-stretched clouds. As the captain looked for his overcoat he could not repress the ejaculation, "By Jingo, what a pretty picture!" and he dropped his singlo eyeglass to see better. Frau Professor Holtzbicker began to rha(sodize, "Yes, eet, ees wonterfool, v. outerfool, shplentit, grossartig, wirk- lich gar zu nett!" because she thought he meant the sunrise. But he didn t. Miss Merrick's head just peeped out of the captain's greatcoat, her cheeks all aglow with the rosy light of the newborn day. Her eyes shone and sparkled with pleasure, and the crisp morning breeze scattered a few stray locks of golden huir that had iound their way from under tho dainty traveling cap. Greuze or Fragonard or Jacquet could not have wishea lor a better model. If there is any man who finds fauit with the captain for taking advantage of the coat incident to introduce himself, then let hi neighbors watch that man. It was not accident that placed Demp ster at the ladies' table at breakfast, but the "Herr Ober-Kellner" (bead waiter). CousKlerution two francs. Miss Merrick's vivacity aud (sprit formed a refreshing contrast to the primness of her maiden aunt, and the young officer found her more charming as their ac quiautance progressed. What difference does it make whether one goes from Luzerne to Intcrluken and thence to Zurich, or vice versa! Hardly any under ordinary circumstances. But if it is a question of keeping in the com pany of clever little lady by reversing a proposed route it makes all the diller- ence in the v. oriel. And that is why the captain feigned pleased surprise that the intended line of travel of the ladies should coincide with his own plans, which it did not. But, as everybody was pleased, It did not matter thut he changed his route. The summer passed very ugreeably to all, and left a deep impression upon the captain. First he dropped his single eyeglass for good, in deference to the common sense ot Miss Merrick; next he abjured brandy and soda as a concession to the aunt's temperance principles; then he became solitary and taciturn when the young lady was not around, and, ultimately, ho contracted the dungerous habit of look ing at the moon long alter everybody had gone to sleep. No one could have called Miss Merrick a flirt, but womanlike, she thoroughly iuderstood tho subtle art of keeping h r adorer in hot water by being alternately coy and cold. Which showed that she liked him, or ti e would not have teased him. At Scheveniuueu, iu Holland, tl: whole Vluir came to a climax. It wa during au early morning stroll donu to Vie bench. They sat down iu a use old wiekerwork chairs, bey diwuwd the morsels of couple of gossip that are repeated every season about somebody or other. Suddenly both grew silont. He begnn to draw figures in the sand with his cane and she beat a tntoo with her dainty slipper while gazing out upon the sea and the outgoing fishing boats in sin ab stracted manner. The captain spoke first. "About a year ago," he said, "I picked up a ring in Simla, India, which bears on its inner surface the initials V. M.,' which are your initials." 'Miss Merrick listened in mute surprise, which changed to aston ishment when the captain took a ring with two dinmonds from his pocket. He next took her right hand, which hung by her side, with his other hand. Hers was a very pretty hand, and the most pleasant thing about it, to the captain, was the tinniest suspicion of a responsive touch. What he had to say as he placed the ring upon her finger was so interesting that she did not interrupt him. They returned to the hotel long after breakfast time. Before entering, the captain said: "By the way, darling, why did you look so surprised when I placed the ring upon your finger? I should think that you must have expected something of the kind all along." Miss Merrick had forgotten all about the incident in the pleasurablo excite ment of the captain's proposal. But now she took the ring off: her finger, examined it carefully, and spoke; "Per cy, dear, don't be offended, but this has always been my ring. I lost it five years ago in Newport, R. I., and I can tell it to be the same ring by a tiny flaw in one of the atones, aside from the initials." And now comes the strangest part of this narrative, to wit; Tho story of the wanderings of Miss Merrick's ring. It took two years to ascertain all the facts about it, but the captain insisted upon establishing a clear chain of evidence, which would begin with Miss Merrick and end with himself, or rather with both. The loss of the ring had first been no ticed by the young lady on her return from a shopping tour in Newport, whero she was spending the summer. She would hardly have suspected that the elegantly dressed man who had assisted her into her carriage bad deftly slipped the ring off her finger while doing so. It was Handy Bill, probably the most ex pert pickpocket and sneak thief in Amer ica. Mr. Twygg, the celebrated detec tive, happened to see the theft because he had been watching- the man. Unfor tunately, Mr. Twygg's business in New port was of so delicate a character that lie could not allow his presence to be come generally known by arresting Handy Bill, and therefore 'did not molest him for the present. Some two weks latter an opportunity offered for a con fidential chat with the thief, the outcome whereof was that he delivered the stolen rinir to the detective and left town the morning following. Mr. Twygg carelossly put tho, trinket into his pocket and returned to New York. One day not long. after a Russian de tcctive called at the office of his Ameri can conlerree. Paul Sergiloff s mission to the United States was to deliver cer tain documents to the Russian Minister and to eathcr information concerning a Nihilist agitator sojourning in Canadu. It so happened that his hrst point in prospect was Newport, wnere trie itus siun envoy was spending part of the sum mer. As Mr. Twygg searched for ai match in his pocket with which to help the Rus sian to fire for his cigarette, he iclt Miss Merrick's ring. What could bo more natural than that he should askliis visitor to delivef it up to its fair owner, or that Scroilofl should courteously assent! But Miss Merriok had left Newiiort, and iu the excitement incident upou tho recept of a ciper telegram recalling him to Russia at once, tne iuian lorgoi 10 leturn the ring to Twygg, ;and carried it with him to St. Petersburg. One morning they iound him there. dead, in a narrow alley. A bullet wound in his temple showed the manner of his death, and tho cause for it was evidenced by tlia circumstance that the entire front of his) vest had been partly cut and partly torn away. The deed was done by Nihilistsianx. lous to secure certain papers, that Scrgil off was supposed to carry in his inner vest pocket. A few months later the murderer and some brother Nihilists were) arrested aud underwent the farce of a Russian trial for political offences. The onurderer wus banged and his comrades went to Si beria. To one of them he had given the ring before being executed. What fearful days and weeks and months of weary travel those were for the unfortunates destined for the lead mines! The exilo who had the ring concealed in his boat managed to escape between two stations. ' No peu can describo the adventures and hardships of the fugitive journey throuch a country in which the natives hunt escaped exiles as they would wolves no word" can do justice to his-sutiering as he traveled alone through the vast solitudes. On the edge of the Khirgiz-Steppe he joined one of the largo caravans of et caiwd convicts thut coutieuully travel eastward. It is easy for an exile to obtain assist ance in Sutnarkuud, or, for that matter most anywhere in Central Asia, although it is, or rather was extremely difficult for traders to enter the territory. In Samarkand the ring left the hands. or rather the boot, of tho owner, uiid was traded for an outfit that would dis guise its wearer into a dervis. The new possessor of the circlet was a Fcrsiau mercbuut traveling to Herat. Everybody from Khiva and Buckhara and Samarkand aud Tashkeud and even to Teheran gees to Herat, and that is why there is always such a thieving rab ble thei-j in spite of a strong British gar iison. And one fine moruiug somebody snatched the 1'eriiau s leather pouch ' The bietcbaut set up a great hue aud cry and the thief was captured after s long chase by a young mule driver from Jelal labad. Overcome with joy at the return of his valuables the Persian presented the young fellow with the ring. Would it be possible for a good-look ing mule driver to wear a diamond ring without exciting comment sometimes. Mrs. Dudley was the first European lady who saw it, and told young Am brington about it. Two days later the pretty widow wore it. Old "Indians will remember the scene up Simla way that terminated the en gagement of the two. Ambnngton received his letters and presents back. They made nearly a car load. Ho reciprocated by packing her tendor missives, etc., into an envelope. Ambington always was a fool, and with in threo years after coming into his estate he had acquired the reputation of being the most gullible spendthrift in the service. But ho had had a most sincere admiration for Mrs. Dudley, who was really a charming woman. Hor actions in public were, however, uch, occasion ally, us to give rise to unpleasant remarks. But she was simply thought less. One day Captain Dempster mado a re mark to Ambrington to the effect that the latter was neglecting a sweet girl in England for the sake of a woman who could not begin to compare with her. Ambrington was nearly drunk at the time, and he made a scone. Next morn ing his friend received his deputies, and they met early on the following day, pistol in hand. There they stood facing each other, each ready to kill the other. One, two, three fire I I Two shots rang out almost simultane ously, and Ambrington reeled and fell. They thought at first that ho had been mortally wounded, but he wasn't. The bullet had squarely hit a ring in his watch pocket, and had driven it into his chest with such force that it broke one of his ribs and imbedded itself in the muscles. Of course after one of the combatants had been hurt they were in honor bound to be good friends, in token whereof Amorington eventually gave the ring to Dempster. Miss Merrick, or rather Mrs. Dempster, has an extraordinary influence over him, and even expects to make something out of him eventually. Pitttburg Bulletin. Remarkable Group of Mines. A group of old Spanish or Aztec mines has recently been discovered at Las Placitas, about twenty miles from Al buquerque, New Mexico. An extensive system of underground work has been brought to light. The mineral discov ered, while not of the highest grade, is rich enough to pay handsomely and runs generally from $50 to $60 to the ton. But what is more interesting is the fact that tnese explorations have developed unmistakable evidences that the work on these mines, which was performed, no body knows how many centuries ago, was-brought to a summary conclusion by an earthquake or general upheaval of some sort. Not only all the mine work ings, smelters, turnaces, etc., were buried under some fifteen feet of earth, but there has also been found, on the same level the ruins of what was once an aqueduct for bringing water to the camp from a sourco about ten miles distant. The camp of Las Plactias is ou the east ern slope of the bcandia Mountains,nbout twenty miles from Albuquerque, and promises to become one of the most in teresting fields of arrheological research yet discovered in that country. CAwoyo Herald. Loujrcvlty of Toads. Some toads have- a peculiar gift of long life without sustenance of any kind, and with a very small supply of air; but the alleged instances of their being found embedded in solid stouo or the heart of a tree, with no possible com munication with the externul world, are declared upon good scientific authority to have doubtless arisen from error of observation. Experiments iu connection with tho so-called antediluvian toads show that toads cannot usually survive even a year when deprived of food and uir. Tho toad has been known to live thirty-five or forty years, and it is thought to attain a considerably greater age ; it has been so fur tamed as to come and feed from the hand, and it seems to be capable of attachment to man. From their fondness for iusects toads make ex cellent traps for use by the en tomologists, who may thus procure rare beetles and nocturnal insects which they could not otherwise get, as the toads can easily be made to disgorge them. Gardeners often put them into hot. houses to destroy ants and other insects and lurvte. St. Louit Republic. The Value of Sleep. General Lord Wolseley, England's leading soldier, is a man of simple and absteminous habits, and is au emphatic advocate of sleep. When he is his own master ho goes to rest between 10 and 11 and is up before 0. He is a sound sleeper and can sleep at almost auy time and under any circumstances, which is, no doubt, one great secret of success, for in war, as iu politics, the man who cannot sleep might as well retire from the running.. "You cannot put in your tiino more prc'Uubly than in sleeping," Lord WoUeley tiys, and the saying is one thut may well be taken to heart by all hard workers. As long as you can sleep you can always renew your strength. It is whou sleep fails that your balance at the bonk of life is cut oil. Iiet I'iinyt. A City Paved With Gold. "This is the city of streets paved with gold," boasts the Folsom (Nev.) Tele graph, "as is proved by the fact that on Monday moruiug after the big rain sev eral specimens were picked up in the streets where the raiu had washed away the mud and gruvel. One nugget, found in front of the Telegraph Build ing, wus valued at $!i. After every heavy ruiubtoriu there hid searchers for the precious inelul and good finds are reported," CAN LOOK DOWN ON MEN. THE MISSOURI OtRL WHO 13 EIGHT FEET HIGH. She is Young and SHU Growing A Country Girl Who is Away Above Common People. Mies Ella Ewing, late of Scotland County, Mo., is without doubt the big gest woman, at least in point of height, who has honored New York with her presence in. many years. In fact it is doubtful if ever a woman of her altitude has ever been seen on the streets of this city. In short although this term may seem out of place as applied to the sub ject now in hand Miss Ewing is just eight feet in height and is still grow ing. She is eighteen years old and has all the manners and simple graces of a young girl not yet from school and still undecided as to her proper position in the makeup -of society. A reporter of the World called on Miss Ewing at her home. As she entered tho neat parlor the writer arose to meet her and tried to acknowledge the introduction grace fully. Miss Ewing, in true Western style, gracefully extended her hand and said she was glad to meet him. And aa she clasped the writer's No. 8 hand in hers there was an opportunity to make a quick comparison. Her hand Is about twice as big as that of an ordinary man, and the forefinger is just three inches in circumforence. "I am very glad to meet you," said the young girl, as she beamed about three feet down toward the reporter, "and shall be very willing to talk with you if you will not go away and call me a freak and a lot of other horrid things. You 'know' I am not a freak, but just a plain, simple, little country girl, not yet out of school. I do not like being looked at like I was a wonderful and rare animal of the mioceneor plioc'ene period dug up by accident and put on exhibition. Oh, no, I do not object to letting you stand under my arm, but mind you, you men always think yon are bigger than you really are." And so it proved, for when she ex tended her arm straight but horizontally the reporter lacked almost two inches of being as high as it was. Id other words the lower surface of tho young woman's arm is just six feet from the ground and the reporter had two inches to spare, aa ho was only a pigmy five feet ten inches in height. An amused smile played on the young girl's face as she noticed tho look of amusement which the disparity in size caused. Mies Ewing, who knows little about the ways of the effete Eastern stylo of civilization and expresses a woeful lack of interest in the same, preferring to go back to her home on the old Scotland Couuty farm, where she has a lot of fine ducks and chickens and horses and just the nicest pair of calves you ever saw, told the World something of herself. The first thing that happened to her, she said, and her mother corroborated the statement, washer birth eighteen years ago. There was nothing unusual about her childhood until she reached the age of eight years, when she began to show a painful ambition to occupy a great deal more cubic teet of space than little girls of her age are rightfully entitled to. But she did not give this much thought at the time because she grew gradually, and it gave her advantages which other girls of her age did not possess in being able to reach up to the high shelves in tho pantry where all the preserves and jams and fruit cakes were kept. Miss Ewing is very reticent about her size and would not give the size of her waist. It, however, is about twice as big as that of two ordinary sized men. It takes twice as much cloth to make her a frock as is used by one of her smaller sisters. Her hands ore very large, enor mous in fact, but they are shapely and the flosh is soft and smooth. Miss Ewing's features ttio of course large, but they are by no means bad. In fact, she is better lookiug than the aver age girl. She has a mouth full of pretty, even teeth, which are actually small, but her mouth is large. This is not a defect, however, for it is a S)ft, laughing mouth and the lips are red as a life of freedom iu the couutry and plenty of fresh air can muke them. Her eyes are blue and good natured and she does most of her laugh ing with them. Sho has a wealth of browu hair, has this girl, for nature has dealt bountifully with her in almost every respect. "Klla is a mighty good girl," said her mother, who is a regular "old-fashioued" woman, looking up from her knitting over her gold specs. "She can get up as good a meal as any woman in the couutry if you give ber tho things to get it with. 1 wish I had some of her nico light buttermilk biscuits this minute," and the sweet old lady laid her knitting on her lap and sighed a far-away sigh, as she allowed her thoughts to wander to her quiet little farm home in Western Missouri, where the horse and cows and chickens and ducks are waiting for her return. "And there ain't no girl in the coun try that can hold a coniile to her wheu it comes to flinging the suddle on the horse aud galloping iuto town," said the father. "When thut little girl wunts anything from tho store iu town sho don't ask me to stop ouo of the hired men to go and fetch it, but just catches one of her ponies and saddles him und away she goes like a streak of lightuiug, khe aud her pony." The repo.ter ven tured to think thut it might take a pretty big pony to carry her aud said so. "Oh, no," said the "little girl," as'her father hadcblled her, "I ouly weigh 275 pounds and that is not too big a load for my pony. And I am very loud of horseback riding, too." "I suppose," asked the reporter, "you must have some difficulty iu (lulling a bed large enough for you sleep in f" "Oh, no, I sleep iu just an ordinary bed, like other people du. How do I luauageV (juitu easily. jtuouhad mutter, and you see I have never been used to sleeping auy 01 her way, so you see it does not make much dirfeicuce." SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Berlin will not permit an electric road". Donver, Col., will have a mineral palace. Cork covering for steam pipes has proved very successful in England. Many of the explosions in flour mills have been traced to electricity generated by belts. In Denmark the life-saving stations are all supplied with oil for stilling tho waves in storms. A new bag machine both cuts and ews the bag, and thus saves the labor of fourteen operators. It takes about three seconds for a mei sagc to go from one end of the Atlantic cable to the other; this is about 700 miles a second. In welding pipes by electricity, it has been the usual practice to employ inter nal mandrels to prevent collapse or change of circumferential ontline. A large body of antimony has been Found in Inyo County, California. Tiie owner says he has iu sight bowlders of the metal weighing from two hundred to three hundred pounds. It is a val uable find. Miss Frye, a school teacher, has dis covered a method by which better tiles can be made than have ever been made before. She has a patent and is likely toon to turn from school teaching to financiering. The exhaustive experiments atSalford, Dear Manchester, Eneland, with a view of ascertaining the most efficient method of purifying sewage, has resulted in the recommendation of an electrical system as the most satisfactory. Small articles made of malleable iron are now finished and polished bright by being placed in revolving drums with curriers' shavings, from which they emerge with all of the rough edges smoothed and tho surface highly pol ished. A secret chemical powder introduced abroad, when sprinkled over the top of the coal in a newly made fire cements the upper part of the fuel together and causes the coal to burn at the bottom aud throw the heat into the ' room in stead of allowing a large part of it to go up the chimney. A process has been recently invented by which iron may be copper, the sur face of the iron being protected by a layer of melted cryolite and phojphorio acid. It has been found that if the ar. tide, when immersed, is connected with the negative pole of a battery, the cop pering is done more rapidly. By a new process waste leather scraps are steeped in a solution and subjected to a hydraulic pressure to mould them into railway brake shoes. The leather shoe weighs 4 J pounds against 21 J pounds for iron, and it will wear threo times as Ion". Such, at least, is the claim of the compressed leather men. A permanent and durable joint can bo mado between rough cast-iron surfaces by the uso of lead to make a very still putty. This will resist any amount of heat, and is unaffected by steam or wa tcr. It has been employed for mending or closing cracks in cost iron retorts used in the distillation of oil and gas from cnnnel coal. High fimnels seem to be growing more and more popular among the build ers at the yards of tho British navy. The Mersco has had hers doubled in height while those of the Blake are not less tha fifty or sixty feet, reaching as fur up as the tops. It is said that the result, as far as appeuranccs are coucerncd, is any thing but pleasing. - The Curve of Health. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has made a discovery. It is that of the law of the curve of health. "It is a mistake," ho says, "to suppose that the normal state of health is represented by a straight horizontal line. Independently of tho well-known causes which raise or depress the standard of vitality thero seem to bo, I think I may venture to say thero is a lhythmic undulation in tho flow of vital force. The 'dynamo, which fur nishes the working powers of conscious nets and action, has its nununl, its monthly, its diurnal waves, even its mo mentury ripples, in tho current it fur nishes. There aro greater and lesse curves in the movement of every day life a series of ascending aud of d scendiag movements, a periodicity du pending on tho very nature of tho foroi at work in tho living organism. Thus we have our good seasons and our bud seasons, our good days and our bad uiiys, life climbing and descending in long 01 short undulations, which 1 have called the curve of hcuith. Froui this fact sprint: a irreat proportion of the errors of medical practice. On it are based the delusions of the various shadowy systems which imiKise themselves ou the lgnor ant and half-learned public as branches or 'schools of science. A remedy take at the timo of tho ascent in the curve of health is found successful. 1 ho tf.mo remedy taken whilo the curve is iu its uownward movemeut proves a failure So long as this biological law exists, so long the charlatan will keep its hold ou the ignorant public. So long us it ex Ists, the wisest practitioner will be hub! to deceive himself ubout the effect of what he culls, and loves to think are, his remedies." A I'rlucely Tip. A gentleman accompanying two ladies entered one of the fashionable rcstuu runts near -Madison Square one eveniu recently and were ushered to a tub! "Are you the man to serve me?" he said to the waller who came to tuke hi orde "Yes, sir," was the reply, whereupon five dollar bill changed hands. The luncheon was admirably served, theglo of satisfaction never leaving the waiter' face. Yet most waiter will tt.l you that it is not the occasional large fee fiotu stranger which pays him so well us ti steady tell or liltc u cent tip from tl daily put ron ot his table. That be. come au actual iueomc .Vt V 'J I '. A DREAM OF THE SEA. I farmer lad in his prairie home Lay dreaming of the sea: He ne'er had seen It, but well he kneiv Its pictured image and heavenly hue; And be dreamed he swept off iu water) blue. ' W ith the winds a-blowlng free, With the winds bo fresh and free. He woke land he said: "Tho day will come' When that shall be truth to me;" But as years swept by him he always found That his feet were clogged and his hands were bound, . Till at last he lay in a narrow mound. Afar from the sobbing sea. The sorrowing, sobbing sea. Ob, mnny there are on the plains to-nigh8 That dream of a voyage to be. And have said to their souls: "The day will come When my bark shall sweep through the drifts of foam." But their eyes grow dim and their lips grow dumb, Afar from the tossing sea, The turbulent, tossing sea. Albert Bigeloio Paine. HUMOR OF THE DAY. A closing remark "You shut up!" When doctors disagree tho coronor takes thi) matter up. Epoch. The pot must have been boiling when tt called the kettle black. Puck. It is strange, but the dregs of a pot of 'red paint" are always blue. Kea York Uerald. It's not always the little things that tell. Sometimes it s her big brother. St. Joseph Newt. Painters are not of a military turn generally, yet they stand by their colors. Texat Siflmgt. The way-station master always has an unflagging interest in through traius. Wathnigton btar. . Hotel Porter "Art you a guest of tbo house!" Mr. Gruff "No; I'm paying for what I get "Pucl: "Your wife seems vexed." "Yes. Sho went out to match some ribbon and found it at the first Btore." Life. When a dressmaker down't give her customers fits, the customers give the dressmaker fits. Louisville Journal. The difficulty in' this cold world is that too many fellows want to stand with their backs to the fire. BradfordRecord. "Men need moral courage moro than they do higher foreheads. " This is true. Cows have high foreheads. Chicago Newt. Johnny is a smart boy. When he was asked to define moustache he instantly replied, "It's a bang ou tho mouth." Kjxch. The faults of our neighbors would be less conspicuous if our own virtues were not quite so glaring. Milwaukee Sentinel. Don't laugh at your wifo when sho tries to stone the hens. She may ask you to help hor stouo the raisins. El mira Gaiette. Thero is a good deal ot speculation about astronomical studies, but tho astronomer seldom gets rich out of it. Binghamlon Republican. Auntie "Johnny, you never hear your papa uso bucu lauguago." "No; and I take mighty good euro that ha doesn't hear me.' llttrper'i Bafir. II ib name we never sen, although In print he has a mighty mission; . For Ini's the dark, mysterious, "Well-iuformod politician." Judge. Feeblewitte deems it "au exemplifica tion ot the fitness of things that love which is without bounds should make of life a never-ending spring. DUroit Free Prei. "I see that quite a number of our younger verse-writer3 have fuken to writing their songs iu antique English." "That is quito an appropriate setting to their ideas." Culler "Aud this is the new baby?" Fou.l Mother "Isn't ho spleudid?" Culler "Yes, iudeed." Foud Mother "Aud so bright. See how intelligently he Lreathes." Chicago Seice. How hard it is. in tliesu uu!iHvy day?, To keep beyond the liuo ot r'aleliood's spell, Since e en a proverb, old ami hullovreJ says. That Truth lies at the bottom o( a well. Lift. Editor's Wife "Sanctorum, you look disgusted; uuythiug gone wrong i" Edi tor "Yes; misled the mail, and my typewriter is sick!" Editor's Wife "Too bud to miss mulo und female the same duy!" Argosy. Priest "Well, Dennis, you're mar ried, I hear. I'm very glad uf it. How do you und your wife get alung to gether?" Deuuis "Well, jer riverence, Oi t'ink we get along bciht togither whin we're apart." Ilottuit CoitrUr. "f is folly to spend life hoarding U( i;o!J With intention (roui comitwivo to lock it; For, us wise men remarked hi tlio past, w are told, Nj shroud was e'er uiudu with a . x-Uot. Milwaukee .VHtjuef. "Look, Adolph. Your tailor's sitting over there." "Don't attract his atten tion.'' "Ain't you getting on well to gether?" "Yes, but I dou't wntit to em barrass hiui. lie owes me receipted bills for two suits of clothes." t'.'wjtndt L'Uutter. The Thermometer. Hero of Alexandria, who lit-"! about 130 years B. C, is said to have lieeu the inventoi of an instrument for injuring tho heat or cold of thu atmosphere, which instrument coutimi ;. in uso until about the close of the sixteenth, century. It was then reduced to a more convenient form by oue Suiic'onio, 1111 Italian, a:id was afterwards considerably improved, especially by Fahrcuh. i:, who, iu IV.'i', affixed the graduated Kc.do and uil i-l other details which e'ui.ily t-mded to) render the thermometer the iuslriitieu of practical utility u hieh il ne.v is." St. 1UU Ht public The shail fiiiiu;.' ii duhy iu Con Uetlieut is thtcalcncl w:ti lU-.uiiou.
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