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VOL. XXIV, NO. 12.
TIONESTA.'PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 18M. $1.50 PER ANNUM.
I Emperor 'William wants to nationalize
tho German railway. Ha would tike to
see tho chango made boforo next your.
l '-fifth of tho ton million families in
Francx havo no children. As many more
have only ono child, and of tlioso who
have as many as rcvcu children tho uuin
bcr is ouly 230,00(1.
During 181)0 thcru wero built In tho
Unltod Stales 8500 churchos; ministers
to the number of 4900 wero ordained,
and a membership, in all denominations,
of 1,01(0,000 added.
There ia a vast amount of private
wealth iu Chili, and tho aristocrats nro
lavish in their expenditures.. Many of
the private residence, in Sintlugo are
veritable palaces and are m.iguilloeutly
furnishcdv .
Tlio arid lands capablo of culti vatiou
aro estimated nt 100,000,000 acres by
Major Powell, of the United States Geo
logical Survey. They can bo cultivated
only through irrigation. At present the
sitos for reservoirs and irrigating ditches
aro withheld by Congress from settlement
or wile.
r It must bo a sharp surprise, surmises
tho St. Louis Sttir-Sayingt, for villages
that have nestled at the base of a mount
ain for years to bo suddenly ingulfed in
hot lava which pours from tho mountain's
top. That U what happened in Armenia
tho other day. Inhabitants and real es
tate in that neighborhood havoboth suf
fered from the mountain's debut as a vol
cano. k In spite of tho lack of faith in certain
juries In New Orleans, observes tho Chi
cago Uerahl, tho peoplo there keep up a
custom which is indicative of the deepest
respect for tho courts. Visitors to the
city are apt to cucouutcr chaius stretched
across Important streets and t radio sus
pended thcreou. Inquiry brings the an
awor that tho streets are closed becauee
they lead by tho courts oind tho courts are
in" session. When ccurts adjourn the
chains are tossed aside and tralllc goes
on again.
The doctors am fond of tolling pa
tients, asserts tho San Francisco Chroni
cle, that any particular symptoms which
they describe aro tho work of thoir im
agination, but a recent case has shown
they aro liablo to error. A womau who
baa just died ia Bridgeport, Conn., waut
ed the hospital physician two years ugp
to recover a set of falso teeth which sho
declared sho had swallowed. An opera
tion showed tho stomach to bo empty,
but the doctors told her the teeth had
been found. A post-mortem examina
tion showed sho had lived two ycurs
with the falso teeth iu her gullet.
Only about twenty-five United States
ships, exclusive of tho reveuue cutters
and tho training squadron, are now in
commission, but it ia estimated that Ave
years hence there will be forty-nino ships
available for active sorvico, and that of
these only threo or four will bo of the
antiquated types that now make up the
bulk of the navy. Before that time ar
rives, however, there will be a vast change
In the make up of various squadrons.
Tho Asiatic squadrou iu particular will
have got itself a nev out lit. Several of
the vessels on that station have been kopt
there for years past chiefly because they
wero unlit for the voyage homo acrost
the Pacific. .
Tho rage for high buildings in Chi
cago is increasiug rather than abating in
intensity. More tall structures pierce
the sky thau are to bo seen iu any othor
city, but they are few in comparison with
tho others that will rise iu a compara
tively short timo at tho present rate of
construction. Every olllce building now
aday must run from fifteen to twenty
stories high, aud new ones are. being
projected almost dally. Where this rage
will stop uo ouo cau tell. The in in who
puts up a twenty-two story building will
be beaten by the next one, and so on,
until we may yet have buildings which
tower above the clouds, with occupants
enjoying sunshine and fair weather while
the rest if us are slushing around iu the
rain aud fog below.
The grasshopper plague is apparently
to have a successor iu a caterpillar
plague, notes the Chicago Herald. Re
ports from British Columbia state that
swunns of these pests aro appeariug
along tho railroad lines, cavering the
tracks ind giving evidence of phenome
nal numbers that bode no good to tho
season's agriculture. Tho cablo reports
a liko phenomenon iu Bavaria, where
men, women and children are engaged
fighting caterpillars. Like grippe, it
may be that this newest torment is to
seize Europe and America simultan
eously. Scieuce o Iters no means of ef
ficient resistance. Thu ravages of the
locust are still visible iu Kansas and
other Western States. Tho American
farmer will have a so. ry year if a visita
tion of caterpillars is to be added to
grasshoppers,
THE STARRY HOST.
The cquntless stars which to tint human eye
Are fixed and steadfast, each In proper
place,
Forever bound to changeless points In
space,
Rush with our sun and planets through
the sky,
And like a flock of birds still onward fly:
Returning never whence origan their raco,
They speed their ceasolc. way with
gleaming face,
As though God bade them win Infinity.
Alf, whither, whlthor is their forward flight
Through endless time and limitless ex
panse? What power with unimaginable might
First hurled them forth to spin In tireless
dance?
What beauty lure, them on through
primal night,
Bo that, for thorn, to be is to advancer
BihnpSWihlingy in the Century.
OLD HUNDRED, ft C, AND
----THE JOTCLH.
BV AMOS R. WKM.8.
Old Hundred's real name was P. T.
Simmons. "Just P. T;" ho always in
sisted. "They don't stand for anything.
Father and mother ran out of names
when they camo to me, and gave me ini
tials." So tho village wag dubbed him
Old Hundred, for short, and the name
adhered.
For Old Hundred wos ono of those
dried up little men who might be con
sidered twenty if some inconvenient dd
ladies did not remember holding themin
their arm just forty years ago. Ho wore
a dainty juveuila mustachc.'walked with
a smart swing, ulthough one might no
tice that his heels came down rather
stiffly, and played games among the most
frivolous at the church socials.
He was a tailor, an excellent ono, by
tho way, and his apprentices had by this
time ceased to grin and chuckle when
their master sprang down from his cross
legged position ou tho table every morn
ing precisely at ten, as B. C. passed on
her way to tho postoflice, after tho mail.
He would jump down, snatch up his hat
iu an absont minded, blushing way, and
remark that the mail nust be distributed
by this time. If the apprentice had
ceased to smile nt this sort of thing, you
way be sure that it bad become an old
story.
Iudcod, Old Hundred had beon court
ing B. C. for a long, long timo. Aud
that was too bad, because B. C. deserved
a better fate, a wore vigorous lover. No
one could toll when Susy Bennett was
first called B. C. If oue could have told
that, you sec, it would have given somo
clue to her age. Susy was a dear old
girl, however, with kind, laughing eyes,
aud a Bhrewd little brain of her owu.
It wasn't her fault if she was getting up
startliugly near a very rheumatic forty
without ncttiug Old Huudred.
For whin a matt has gono through
forty years with a sueaklng desire for
matrimony Ululating bis heart all the
whilo, without the grit aud maulincss to
say so when given opportunity by tho
proper pcrsou once, twice, daily, Cupid
despairs of him moro thau of the most
rabid mysogynist in Bachelor loin. There
is such a tiling, yon know, as a heart
which is too soft for thoso daiuty little
darts, which merely nurses them as a
feather pillow would.
Ouo day tho ancient twaiu wore stroll
ing back from the postoilice at 10:30
A. M. ; with tho incipient courtship-air
wmcii jiau uccu peiruieu so long ago.
Sho was smiling at him,, bravely and
hopefully, aud talking bright nothings,
while his feather-pillow of a heart
fluttered drowsily.
Suduenly there flashed around the cor
ner and bore straight down upon them
Will Davis aud Lucy his young wife, on
their bicycles, oil for a day's holiday to
gether, if one might judge from their
bundles. Upright they were, noiseless,
swift, graceful uud full of life iu every
movement and in every ilutteriug gar
ment, glittering eyed, with handsome,
healthful faces.
Old Huudred aud B. C. turned to gaze
admiriugly after them.
'How finely Mrs. Davis rides!" mur
mured Old Hundred.
"And how exceedingly graceful Mr.
Davis is!" resided B. C. ruther sharp-
"I've often thought that I should like
a wheel," said Old Hundred, with, of
course, no perception of her anuoyanco.
"Aud I should cd joy oue very much."
added B. C. s
"You!" Old Hundred blurted out,
before he thought. Ho took mcutal
credit to hinuolf for not Mulshing the
seuteuce!
"You can get tricycles now-a-days for
almost nothiug," said B. C. slyly, "and
of course that is the ouly whocl you would
think of at your time of lifo, Mr. Sim
uious!" "Hum!" said Old Hundred, aud
"fluml" said U. C.
Now dou't expect to be treated to a
lover's quarrel. Our sod at o couple had
got far beyond that dangerous stage of
courtship. Yet as they parted somewhat
grimly, "I'll show biui!" muttered B.
C, aud "I'll show her!" muttered Old
Hundred. An! that very afternoon the
heart of the villago bicycle agent was
made glad by an order for a lady's safe
ty, and au order for a safety for our
doughty tailor.
That was ou a Monday, aud our nar
rative calmly skip, a mouth at this point,
calmly and mercifully.
Frym timo immemorial it had becu
Old Hundred's habit to call on B. C. ou
Sunday evouiugs. At the begiuniug of
his courtship, tho hand of tho feather
hearted tuilor had quivered suspiciously
in the operation of shaving for this' iin
portant occasion. In the adjustment
of his necktie his cluuuines. had beeu
phenomenal for a tuilor. His steps up
the broad walk which lid to B. C.'s
frontdoor had been noticeably unsteady.
B. C. had coyly seut the servant to usher
him iu, and often, with au affectation of
careless iitdiffereuce, received iiim with
out rising from her chair.
AU that had long beeu changed, but
this particular night seemed to ropcatthc j
experiences of old. Old Hundred's toi
let was accomplished with blundering
slowness. And why does tho odor of
liniments follow tho fiery lover from his
room ? And why does he groan as he
bends to reach tho gate-latch? And
what has become of his brisk, swinging
gait up tho board walkl And why does
not B. C. recoivo him, smiling, at the
door? Why does she remain in that thick
paddud arm-chair, and stretch her hand
out to him so slowly? And what is the
uso of using cologne whoro arnica has
been?
"Miss Bonnet," said Old Hundred, af
ter a few wandering remarks (he al
ways Miss-ed her) "didn't I notice a
bicycle stunding in tho hall-way?"
"Why, Mr. Simmons! Didn't you
know that I could ride?'' asked B. C.
with a radiant smile.
"Is it possible! Why, wo must hnvc
a rido together!" cried tho astonished
tailor.
"Together, Mr. Simmons! Can you
ride, too?" iuquired B. C, with real
amazement.
"Of course I can! That is urn cr
in act, Pm learning. And I'm get
ting on wclH excellently well, Mr. Spoke
tiro says, for a man of rriyer I should
say, excellently well. But hbw.didymi
learn so soon?" Old Hundred nsked" art"
miringly.
"Well, I can't say that I am through
with my apprenticeship yet," confessed
B. C, with a charming blush, "but Mr.
Spokctirc says he hardly has to hold the
machine at all, ami he thinks I'm doing
better than most girls do who are many
years youn that is, that I am doing
very well, I need to bo helped into the
saddle."
"So do I," admitted tho tailor, hon
estly .
"But once iu, I havo absolutely no
trouble, providoil the road is smooth and
level, and Mr. Bpoketiro just keeps his
hands on the machine, to kind of steady
me, you know."
"I still find it a rather difficult task to
dismount without letting tho whool
fall, that Is, Miss Bennett."
"Why, do you? The last timo Mr.
Spoketire helped mo out ho said I was cs
graceful as a young girl. Mr. Spokctiro
is so nico."
"Miss Bennett, we must go out to
gether next week, and as soon as possi
ble! Or rather about Saturday, eh?
We'll both bo in better trim by then,
you know."
"Without Mr. Spokctirc, Mr. Sim
mons?" "Of course. What do wo want with
that contemptible little dandy?"
B. C. smiled happily at tho tailor's
manifest jealousy, yet smiled rather un
easily and fearfully. However, sho
agreed, with many a misgiving, and the
next Saturday afternoon was fixed for
the adventure.
Many a time during the following week
Old Hundred and B. C. regretted their
precipitancy. But B. C. was clear grit,
if sho was approaching that awful for
tieth birthday, and the little tailor hud
been roused by the Spoketire hints to
somewhat of the ardor a lover should
havo.
Saturday dawned perversely fair, with
roads outiagebusly perfect, ar.d the after
noon saw our hero and heroine trundling
their wheels through the villago out to
the Middletou Road. "We ir not ride
through town," each eagerly agreed,
"because peoplo might laugh," which
was very true.
The Middletou Road was an excellent
stretch for the purpose, iu prime condl
tion, and littlo frequented. Old Hun
dred aud B. C. walked out of sight of
the village, chutting gayly, avoiding all
mention of the wheel. At leugth it bc
came impossible to denyjhat tho right
spot had beeu reached, and with Bet
faces they placed their bicycles iu post
tion.
"You must help mo on, you know,"
said B. C, with a rather pale face, but
brave withal, "Mr. Spoketire thinks it is
still necessary!
"Oh, yes! Why to bo sure!" stuttered
the little tailor, looking awkwardly
around for something to leau his bicycle
aainst, and at last laying it down clum
sily in the middle of the road.
B. C. sprang into the saddle with
feint of girlish sprightliucss, and the
poor tailor's weak muscles were unablo to
prevent a most portentous s'.vayiugof tho
wheel.
"Mercy on us?" shrieked B C,
"Don't let mo take a header bei'ore I
start! and oh, Mr. Simmons, I shall be
so grateful, if you' only hold on to the
machine for a few steps, just until I get
started I"
"Certaiuly," grunted Old Huudred,
whose every muscle was taxed to hold
the whool upright.
B. C. started, tho perspiring tailor
trotting after, both hands clutching the
raddle spring contributing so materially
iu his awkwardness to the dilliculty of
the steering that the agonized maid iu
front soon cried back to him, "That
will do. Thanks. Now mount and
catch up!" aud away tailed B. C, stag
gering all over tho road.
Old Huudred trotted back to his
wheel, picked it up, aud glancjd despair
ingly after tho retreating safety. How
could ho ever catch up? But that query
was merged iu a greater one. Could ho
ever mount?
He made three attempts, each failure
being hidden iu a thicker cloud of dust,
and inscribed iu a deeper rent. But
what were clothes to a tailor? There
was Miss Bennett's uusteady form just
disappearing over tho edge of tho first
little hill. Ho must catch up with her,
or be her laughing-stock forever. Luck
ily, a small boy just came sauntering by,
to whom he gave ten cents, with full di
rections, and was assisted off iu much
better shape than poor B. C. had been.
"Oh, that I were safe iu my shop, sit
ting cross-legged on the table!" thought
Old Hundred. "That bicycles hail never
beeu inveiitcd I That Miss Bennett were
not ss fond of them! How smart she is?
Who would havo thought it at her age!"
But just here a rut upset the train of
his thoutrhts, and all but upset himself.
The small boy, left behind, was chuck
ling with amusement. How clo: the
ditches seemed, Bnd how fearfully deep!
The machine, to tho tailor's apprehen
sion, seemed insanely bent on plunging
over the brink. His arms were pulled
almost out of their sockets. Perspira
tion blind od his eyes. More and moro
wildly with each rut swayed tho crazy
bicycle, and whirled Old Hundred dizzy
uriun. no came to the brow of the little
hill, which seemed a fearful declivity.
Old Hundred clinched his teeth and
pushed back hard on tho pedals, throw
ing on the brake with all his might.
Just then he struck a loose stone, lost
control of tho wheel, and with closod
eyes ran directly toward the side, and
upset. i tie littlo tailor rolled over ana
over down tho hillside gully, and lay on
top of his wheel nt tho bottom.
Slowly Old Hundred rose, and found
to his intense relief that ho had broken
no bones. To his equally great relief ho
discovered that be had broken tho bicy
cle One pedal projected from the
crank at a most astonishing angle.
A gay laugh rang out a few yards
farther down tho ditch, nnd to I thero on
its bowldcry side sat the stout-hearted B.
C. ; at her feet her tricky wheel !
A nappy light sho no in her eyes.
".My wheel is broken!" said she, point
ing to a handlo-bar bent back some forty
degrees.
s"And mine, too," said the smiling
tailor, showing the disaffected pedal.
"Isn't it too bad 1 I in afraid we 11 have
to go home."
With some toil tliey hoisted their bi-
cylcs to the road agaiu, and set out for
tho town, trundling them happily.
And then it was that the tailor spoke
these memorable words :
"Susy," said h.S and Miss Bennett',
brave old heart knew what was ap
proaching. "Susy, you see how very
unsteady thoso bicycles aifseparatet
"Very," said B. C, tremblingly.
"But suppose, Susy, pne were to take
two bicycle, liko yours and mine, and.
put a couplo of axles across, and a box
on top, with two seats and a cover, what
would that be, Susy?"
"A family carriage," said B. C, look
ing downward with a smile.
"Yes, Susy, and it wouldn't tip over,
but would run smoothly and safely, and
wouldn't it be nice, Susy?" and Old Hun
dred tried to trundle with one hand, that
ho might uso tho right arm for auotber
purpose, but it wouldn't work.
"Wouldn't it be much nicer, Susy?"
Yes, Susy thought it would.
And so B. C. and Old Hundred walked
happily back to town along that Middle
ton Hoad henceforth blessed to them
both, trundliug the fateful bicycles,
which alone had been equal to the ending
of that long courtship.
Near town, Spoketire whirled smartly
up, aud dismounted at sight of them.
"Hud accidents, I see. Too bad.
However, I can soon straighten that
out."
"Wo bavo decided, Susy and I, Mr.
Spokctirc," said the bold tailor proudly,
"to sell our wheels, and wo want you to
act as agent. We'll leavo thc! at your
shop. You see, Mr. Spoketire, we have
decided, Susy aud I, to set up a tamily
carriage." Yankee B'adt.
Keen aro tho Shafts of Ridicule.
Brave heartshave flashed out of lifo
from the diu of mauy a field of battle,
tho record of whose courago could Dover
transcend the daily lifo of many a womau,
forced to keep a steady front turned to
ward tho legion of annoyances that
marshal bcliiud an inadequate income.
A pretty woman, forced to go looking
like a dowdy because sho canuot a'Jord,
or is not sufficiently selfish to wear, flue
aud expensive clothes, is a sight to earn
the plaudits of such as appreciate hero
ism of the unwept aud unstoried kind.
It takes more strength of character to
face ridicule than it does to face a battery
of Gatliug guus. A sueer pierces deeper
than a bullet. A blow that only reaches
a physical nerve center does not tell like
the blow that buries itself iu the soul. I
cau dodge a shell, if tho Lord has given
me a level head and a moment's time,
but nothing is going to help me whou
my enemy rakes me with the light artillery
of scorn and contempt. If we but kuew
tho iusido history of the mm who goes
dressed in seedy clothes, or tho woman
who wears old shoes and rusty gloves,
wo shoiUd perhaps uu-'over, when some
of these shabby folk meet us on the way,
as commoners do when royalty rides by.
Chicajo JJentld.
Cleaning Car Wheels by Stud Blast.
A very cllicieut application of the sand
blast is made in clcauiug newly-cast car
wheels in the New York Car Wheol
Works, Buffalo, N. Y. When taken
from the soaking pit the wheel is rolled
into a small chamber, where itstauds in
a vertical position. The tread of th.
wheel stands ou rollers which are moved
by gearing, so that the wheel is slowly
revolved without ((hanging its position.
A flue, iuto which cinders are fed by a
chute leading from a biu above, leads a
blast of air against the face of the wheel,
which is then reversed. Tho cinders
used vary from the size of a grain of
wheat to much larger, uud are used over
and over. With this apparatus oue man
cau clean twenty wheels in three hours
aud a half, including tho time consumed
in rolling them to and from tho ma
chine. Tho cost is less thau hand labor,
and the clcauiug is better done. -Vtio
York Journal.
No Fireproof Buildings.
There is hardly a new hotel or business
building iu New York but that is adver
tised as fireproof, au 1 yet a leading
architect told me'tho other day that such
u thing could not exist.
"They may bo fireproof to all extents
and purposes," said he, "but if iullaiu
muble material be iu them aud it gets
aliru the irou girders and beams will so
t-xpaud that they will lit thu floor almvu
dowu. When one floor falls'iu au uou
beamed building they all go, and then
the side walls full. The ruin is usually
more complete thau it is in au ordinary
building. We do not build those iron
fireproof fronts any more, because ia case
of a tire they fall forward an I demolish
the building c,ru tuu stioet, " Ai'
Wiik, Uirald.
A MILITARY EXECUTION.
THX FATE OF A TOUNO OFFICER
IN MEXICO.
Shot to Death for Drawing a Pistol
Upon His Superior Ofliccr "(Shoot
Straight at My Heart.''
The following particulars of the recent
execution of Lieutenant Estuperron, a
young Mcxicau officer, arc given by a
Timet-Democrat correspondent : Monterey
and the State of Nuevo Leon has been
the theatre of many military tragedies,
but tho shooting of Salvator Estuperron,
second lioutenant of the Mexican Cav
alry, was the saddest that has ever dark
ened the annals of the State. A brief
history of the event which led to this
morning's execution is necessary to a
proper Understanding of the case. Last
December a company of tho Thirteenth
Regular Cavalry was ordered to do
special duty atCadercyta, a small town
on the Gulf road. Tho compaay was in
command of a first lieutenant and tho de
ceased. A dispute arose between the
officers, and Lieutenant Estuperron fear
ing, as his friends say, that his life was iu
danger, drew his pistol, but did not
shoot at his superior. It is claimed that
he snapped the pistol, but it missed fire.
For this offense he was placed under ar
rest aud tried by a geucral court-martial
and sentenced to death.
There were extenuating circumstances
admitted, and tho case was carried to
the highest Federal courts. Pending a
decision the first ofliccr of tho company
was shot dead in the portals at Mon
terey by one of the soldiers, and tho
soldier, while yet the smoke was
curling from his weapon, was shot
down by the captain of the company.
Whether these deaths affected the par
doning power or not will never bo
known, but the finding of tho court was
approved, and powerful personal appeals
by persons intimately associated with
President Diaz were unavailing. Tho
death wafKUt was signed and carried in
to execution. That the - officer was ad
mired by tho peoplo and dearly loved in
bis regiment was well known by the au
thorities, as the precautions taken by the
commandant of the department were
atnplo proof.
The timo of tho shooting was kept a
profound secret until the night before the
execution. The cathedral clock chimed
four. There was a sharp buglo call, a
hurrying of mustering feet, quick com
mands and rapid evolutions and in a few
moments the garrison fell iuto line. The
gate lit the rear of the barracks was
opened, and the Thirteenth Cavalry in
full marching order on foot, issued forth,
followed by thoir baud with muffled in
struments. The Fifth Cavalry followed,
and then tho Fiftli Infantry. They
formed a square, three sides of which
consisted of tho representative regiments.
The fourth was the wall of the barracks.
Tho general commanding the departmeut
and staff took up a position in tho centre.
When the troops halted the commanding
officer called, "Attention?" "Fix
bayonets!" He theu announced the sen
tence, and added:
"If auy man moves in the ranks oi
gives any expression of sympathy with
the prisoner or fault with thu sentence
he shall be committed toprisou from one
to five years, depending on the gravity of
tho offense."
The silence as of death fell upon the
soldiers and tho few spectators who were
allowed to be present. Afar off the
church bell tolled the knell for tho dy
ing. The early sun just gilded the
mountain peaks that rise liko giant senti
nels around the historic city, and one's
thoughts went back to tho dull gray
morning long agi), when au American
soldier knelt upon his colliu and met a
bloody death almost on tho same spot.
Great whito wreaths circled tho higher
hills. It is now 4:45. From out of the
gate issued a company of the Thirteenth,
at its head a prisoner, and by his side a
priest. With a firm tread aud a proudly
lifted head he marched, never faltering
or halting, but with a bright smile upon
his face, he looked the least concerned
of tho party. Ho halted at a small
marked elevation tweuty feet from the
barracks wall. His company filed past
and formed iu front, four lines deep.
Two lines advanced, halted, aud one
still advanced. There were six men iu
each line. The tiring party thus con
sisted of six men in tho front line within
tcu feet of the prisoner, aud the second
line within fifteen feet. Tho other two
liucs formed a reserve. The death knell
tolled unit the clock struck 5. The offi
cer advanced to bandage tho eyes of the
prisoner, but tho latter waived the offi
cer aside aud said :
"I have looked too often iu the face
of death to fear him now."
"It shall be as you wish," said the
captain, as he took his place at the left
of the firing party. Taking oil his hat
the prisoner surveyed tho assembled
troops, looked once at the suu-tipped
hills, ami said to the firing party:
"Shoot straight for my heart, but do
not strike my face. Adieu," Aud
bringing his bauds to the position of
"attention," he awaited the end. Thero
was a slight flush of tho captain's sword.
Tho guus came to, "Ready!" Another
flash. "Aim!" The blade bops. Six
sheets of flame dart toward t..j prisoner,
who sprang into the air with three bul
lets in his heart. The surgeon took
his wrist. The captain gave a quick
command, a soldier stepped from thu
rauks, uud placing his n.lc to the pris
oner's head, tired. Iu less thau fifty
seconds from the drop of thu sword
Lieutenant Estuperron was dead. Thu
bugles sounded. The troops tiled pa it
the body ; it was put iuto a colliu and
the grim tragedy was over and as
brave a mau us ever buckled ou a sword
hud crossed to thu "bivouac of tho
deud."
During the past year there were over
5,000,000 pieces of matter withdrawu
from the mails because of iucorrcct or
insufficient addresses.
The persecution of Hebrews on the
Island of Corfu is sr. id to havo been
plauued by Russia.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDlSlIUAL.
Paris has electric calm.
Aluminium is $1 a pound.
Electric boats are being made.
Sanguinite, a new miueral, contains
iilver, arsenic and sulphur.
A waterproof paper has lately beon In
vented that will even stand boiling.
Metals are found to corrode much
faster when in galvanic connection than
otherwise.
The metal in a five cent nickel piece Is
worth aliout half a cent, and fifteen
cents will purchase copper enough to
make f 2 worth of cents.
Tho Frankfort (Germany) Electrical
Exhibition will be furnished with lights,
and its machinery will bo operated from
a distance of 107 miles.
The first known weather rocord was
kept by Walter Merlo for the years 13.17
to 1344. A few photographic copies of
the original Latin manuscript now in
tho Bodleian Library have just been
made.
Among tho anomalies reported con
cerning tho past winter is that the
weather in Iceland was the mildest re
membered. There was not, wo aro told,
a flake of snow, Dor a single hour of
frost.
A now spool factory in the town of
Alpena, Mich, turns out 80,000 spools
daily. Last year tho twenty-three mills
in the town put out 202,000,000 foet of
lumber, 52,000,000 laths and 33,000,000
shingles.
There was recently exhibited in Dub
lin, Ireland, a new burner for lighthouso
use, possessing twice the illuminating
power of the largest burners now em
ployed. It is calculated that this new
burner, iu connection with a specially
devised system of lenses, will transmit a
light equal to about eight millions of
candles, which far exceeds the most pow
erful light at present used.
Iron pipe is now welded by electricity
at tho Columbus (Ga.) iron works. Co
lumbus is the first city In the South in
which this new Bystem has beon em
ployed." - The managers of the Iron works
expect to effect- considerable saving
over the old method, diich weld taking
about seven seconds. From the time of
finishing one weld until the completion:
of tho next takes about one minute. This
includes clamping the two pipes, ad
justing the position of the machine, weld
ing aud taking out the pipes.
An ingenious machine is used in Eng
land for prepuring telegraph post arms.
These arms are usually made from tho
best selected English oak and vary iu
length from two feet to four feet. They
are in the first case planed on tho four
sides by means of a special planing ma
chine, nnd then sawn to tho exact length
required by means of a double cross-cut
sawing machine made specially for the
purpose. The arms are then passed on
to the shaping machine, which rapidly
nnd effectively does its work. The ma-
. chine is quite self-contained aud has tho
driving shaft placed overhead and sup
ported upon standards fixed to tho main
! bed. The arrangements for dealing with
the various lengths of arms have been
carefully worked out. At tho official
test of tho machine tho wooden anus
were finished ut tho rate of three per
I minute.
m
I A Caucasus Chevalier.
I Tho Caucasus is full of highwaymen,
who make the roads unsafe But there
are also knights of good order there, of
whom tho highwaymen are in terror.
The Listok of Till is reports an interest
ing illustration: A merchant of Ti His
mado his way to a neighboring city to
purchase horses. He had a large sum of
money with him. Iu the district of
Bortchulinsk he was assailed by three
Tartars, who tied hint to a tree. One of
them held a dagger over his head, while
the other two unbuttoned his garment
aud made ready to steal what he had.
But suddenly a mau on horseback ap
peared from behind a hill. As soon at
the robbers sighted him they called out,
"Sha 'au halir!" (Sutau comes), and
mounting their horses, disappeared iu e
moment. Tho man on horseback freed
the unfortunate merchant and told him tc
mount and resume his journey. Th
merchant offered a huudred ruble bill to
his liberator, but tho latter disdain i'ully
docliuod to accept It. "If thou hast
many of these things," he said, "endow
the jioor aud hitfe the rest. Shatro does
not want thy money. Uo thy way, anil
include Shatro in thy prayets to Allah.'
Lotion Transcript.
Queer Mechanical Playthings.
Among tho babies' toys from Japan at
the National Museum is a mouse that
feeds from a bowl when a little bamboo
spring is touched, lowering his head aud
long tuil iu quite a lifu-liko manner.
Another is a small cylinder, into which
oue blowt through two small reed tubes,
three balls of pith being kept bobbing
iu a bit of cage over the cylinder by the
breath, while a cut iu ono of tho tubes
produces a shrill whistle. Another is a
little mau that is made to jump up a long
stick by a bamboo spring, and still
another is a wooden gemlemau who rides
along between two wheels, being at
tached to the axle with a heavy base.
A toy jinricksha is oue of thu more ex
pensive playthings, showing a foreigner
being uiawu iu a baud bugy by a uative
between the shafts. Further devices for
toy purposes are kaleidoscopes, boxes
with glass toiw tilled, like cupboardi,
j with various household utensils iu miuia
l ture aud bags tilled with shot for tossing.
- Watliai'jton Vir.
Teeth ut the Ancients.
Tho cyclopedias tells us that "arti
ficial teeth" came into fashion about ISO
years ago, but in spite of cyclopedias the
fact remains that skulls have been found
in Etruscan tombs datiug as fur buck as
I tiOO years before Christ, in which there
j are most inU restiug and instructive speci
mens of dentistry iu geuerul aud artificial
I teath iu particular. Sin fruncitco AU
1 mmiutr.
IN CAMP.
Skyward Pino, that saw it all,
Whisper never what thou knowestt
Many, many things befall
When the coaxing moon is tall
Through the tender shade thou thfoweet.
Blame not ma, O Pine, too soon !
I ye all beguiled me to It !
Had ft not been night and June,
With the plne-brenth and the moon,
I had ne'er been bold to do it.
Ah, her forehead was so white
Where that soft ray camo and kissed her;
When the happy heaven's light
Lingered with her as of right
As of sister with a sister !
All our little camp asleep;
Only I at midnight waking
Waking to the moon to creep,
Kiss her silent brow and keep
Lips aye holier for that slaking.
She, O Pine, will never know
Never blush amid her laughter.
She Is nothiug poorer so,
I so rjch as who shall go
Dreaming it forever after!
Bi Chariot F. Loomis, in Scribner.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A milo is tho centipedo of distance; it
has 5290 feet. Washington SUir.
There's millions in it Tho United
States Treasury. Washington Star.
Tho rolling stone gathers no moss ; but
it manages to keep on top, for all that.
The xylophone player is tho fellow
who makes the "woods ring." Statct
man. A man can call his body an earthly
tenement, and yet object to being called
a flat. Vucl.
It was a mean artist who suggestivoly
painted a dairy in water-colors. Rich
mond Recorder.
Tho houey beo deserves recognition as
kind nature's sweet restorer. iilmint
(JV. F.) Uiuette.
Though somo women have golden
hair, others havo but' plaited hair.
Jeaeller't Circular.
It is probable that many jolly dogs
will have barks on tho sea this summer.
iVdie York Herald.
A manufacturing dentist often shows
his teeth without smiling or opening his
mouth. -lib"1 York Journal.
Iron is good fer the blood, but no
man likes to have it diknittiatered in the
form of carpet-tacks. l'uck.
A mau never realizes until he lias mado
a fool of himself what a laughter-loving
world this is. Atchison Ololie.
Ho "Miss Sharpe has a very fine
voice." Sho "No wonder. She grinds
It so much." Detroit Free Pre.
Don't uudcr-rute modest ability. Tho
needle has only ono good point; but wo
couldn't get along without it. Puck.
The good artist is known by his work,
but the poor artist is obliged to grow hU
hair long to be identified. Sfatetnym.
"Is there uuything brilliant about
Prozcr's writings?" "Yes tho start
between tho paragraphs." Chicago
Uerald.
Frank "Stella's fuco is her fortuno!"
Tom "Yes, but she's given too many
certified checks to time." At'ia York
Utrald.
"Blitturs began lifo as a school
teacher." "Really?" What a preco
cious littlo baby he must have been."
JVtia Fori Jfnn.
There's nothing liko sticking to a
thing wheu you apply yourself to it, as
the fly said when it alighted ou tho fly
paer. Texnt Sijtimjt.
Little Kitty (who is doing the honors
and wishes to be very pompous) "Will
you have chickiug or muttiug, Mr.
Brown?" Harvard Lamfioon.
No, Ethel, you are mistakeu. The
phrase, "a literary treat," has no refer
ence to tho settiug up of books by tho
printer. Indianajolit Journal.
"Tastes differ," said Muglcy. "Good
thiug they do," put in Bottleton. "II
they didn't squills and strawberries would
tasto tho same." co York Sun.
Jack Withcrspoou "Why do you sing
all the time." Jim Westhall "To kill
time." Jack Withcrspu-.n "Yotl have
a good weapon." Princeton Tiger.
Somo peoplo are born musicians,
others achieve music nnd others live next
door to the man who hopes to play the
cornet in the villuo band. ft'imi'm
(-V. Y.) Uautte.
Young Wife "Wo are told to 'cast
our breud upon the waters.'" The Brule
"But don't you do it. A vessel
might run against it aud get wrecked."
A'di. York Herald.
Mistress (trying ou oue of her new
gowns) "Noruu, how does this dress
-.orau, now noes tins uress
oruh (without looking up)
-y well, mem. I found it a lii'le
lor the arms." Chinvo TrihuLe,
filing to turn out thU gas," said
lit?" Noruh (without looking
'Not very
tight under
'I'm go
the old man, volutin; iuto Ins room v. aero
sat his daughter and her young man.
"Thanks," said thu iiuubashed young
man, "I was just goinj to do it myself."
Union UrraUl.
"Dou't you think," said ono of tho
doctors, 'hut it would be a good i lea
to have the study of medicine carried ou
under the supervision of the Govern
ment?"' "1 suppose," replied tho other
doctor, thought fully, "that it might lu
turned over to the interior departmt ut."
Ntio York Po,t.
Tiuuniiis "I cr you know, I was
talkiug to I called on Miss Laura last
night." Mr. Figg "Yes, 1 know you
did the fourth time iu one week, 1 be
lieve. Why don't you come aud live
with us, aud be done with it J" Tmi
uiins "Thut'i just what 1 wauled to see
you about." Vhmoi , Journal.
The Moravian Mission in Greenland
consists of six stations, in t.vo groups,
and of nine missionaries. I'mhr rhcir
-hui gu are I tiilS persons. The rest of
the itieonlaiiders ale cured for by Lu
therau brethren of the Church of Dou-murk.