THE FOREST REPUBLICAN U pibllihed every WktdJ, kf J. E. WENK. Offloe la maarbaugh & Co.'a Building mji mm, TioKMTA, r& Terms, . . tl.BQ prTr, Oorre.poi.rten nollelted from al Mrti ef in. RAT IS OUTADVERTISING. M gMM, m teeh, 0B iBMrtloa 4 IN Om Sqaare, oaa Inch, an month I M Oaa Sqaara, .a. Inch, thra. months. M IN Oa Bqasra, aa lnth, ana yew . la at Two Bnaras, ona y I M QaartrCalamB,eB. year........ MM Ball Column, oa. y.ar ............... MM Oaa Cehnan, aa. yaar .............. 1MM ttyal adr.rtlam.au la ee.U per Uaa aaaa k MrUoa, MarrKfM sad dth nolle rtU. AH kill, for y.rly (rivntlatainits eallacted terlf. Temporary adT.rtlMBMaU Boat a. pal I4 UrUM. Jak work auk aa dUvery. Forest ;PUBLICAN. VOL. XXIV. NO. 21. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPT, 1(5, 1891. S1.50 PER ANNUM. Re J. Russinn explorers are endeavoring to extend Russian influence In British In dia. g . . ' f the 9"0 languages spoken In tha "world, thore aro about 750 into whiob no portion of tlio Holy Scriptures lias jot bcoa translated. 1 A bur of aluminium in its natural statt Is worth about $5, but whon properly treated and made iuto biilanco springs for watches its value readies 250,000. In the autograph collection of the lato Dr. Rallies, just sold in England, was a lull set of signatures of tlio signers of the Declaration of Indepeudouco. This brought $1250. Theln'.est plan for civilizing Indians is to try to uiuke soldiers of them. It is aid that six full companies have been enlisted out West, nnd seven nioro com panies are to bo raised. The wild na tives are reported to be e.'llcieut as cav alrymen. ' Russia is now rapidly constructing tho longest railway in tho world. It is 4785 miles long, nenrly twico tho length of tho Canadian Pacific, aud runs from Miask, on tho eastern sido of tho Urnl rango, to Vlnddivostok, on tho Sea of Japan. This roa.1 will make Euglaud 's position in India very insecure. Tho curious fact has just been brought to light in Kentucky, learns tho Now York Ptt, that from 1857 to 1800 tho State loaned money to individuals. Tho in to rest from this sourco amounted to S16.128 in 1857, to $21,170.38 in 1S53, to fi2C.523.10 iu 1S50, nnd in 1860 to f 21,3C3.y8. Tho Stato Auditor's report for theso years shows that many promi nont Kcntuckians availed themselves of this mcaus of rolicf from "the stringency of the money market." Tho loans were all called in 18C1, aud singularly enough, both principal aud lutcrest were paid in every instance. New Orleans is at last to have a paid fire -department, announces tho Now York Post, tho city having boon always dependent on a volunteer service A particularly commendable feature of the ordinanco bestowiug this long-dctayed boon on tho inhabitants is tho provision that the officers of tho Department shall hold their positions during good behav ior. The appointment of the Fire Com missioners and of tho Chief of tho De partment is a prerogative of the Mayor. To this, tho New Orleans l'imcs-I)emo;rat objects strenuously, holding that it will make tho Department subject to the evils of political influence. Tho Illinois Legislature found it easy enough to pass tho law providing that 'no person, Arm, or corporation shall employ any child under tho ago of thir teen in any store, shop, factory or man ufacturing establishment by tho day, or any period of time greater than one day," without a certificato issued by tho Board of Education that tho labor of tho child is the only means of support of "an aged or infirm relative." Tho enforce ment of the law has not, however, been found so easy, Icarus tho Now York Pott. No one appears to bo chaigcd with this important matter, and as a consequonco the employment of chillren uuder tha prohibited age goes ou the same as ever. Driving a speedy horse is so ploasant and healthful a recreation, siys Uarper'$ Weekly, that onu is not surprised to learu that Robert Homier has spent $000,000 of his ample njssans iu following the ad vice his sc'vmi gave him thirty-five years ago.- lyticaioucy nus ueeu uscu in acquiring l e, latest trotters In this country, and consequently iu tho world, aud among his pets have been numbered such equine kings aud queens as Dexter, Edwin Forest, Jo) Elliott, Rarus, Maud 8., and Suuor. No speedier collection of horses thanj those ou his furm at Tar rytowu hasevr been gathered anywhere, and it is doubtful if there ever will be agaiu, for few' person, possess Mr. Bon ner's taste for fast horses, or the mean: to gratify it so fully if the taste existed. According to the Washington corres pondent of thu St. Louis Olobe-Democral "the supposition that there is a large emigration from Japau to tho United States ii without foundation. Instaud ol 20,000 Japaueso belug here, us is oftco stated, the uuuiber is probably less than 4000. For the decade beginning witfc 1801, wheu a solitary subject of tht Mikado ventured to come to tho New World, tho immigrants numbered 218. For tho two ilecudes ending Juuo 30, 1890, V'. figures ludicatoau immigration 2491. louring, tho eleven months cud ing May 31 of this year, 001 Japuous landed on our shores. Thu increase from year to year ha,s been but (light, and il no greater for the yeur that remain ol the century, tliere is liltlu danger of the presence of a 'horde of Japanese,' so much feared by some labor agitators. Tho immigrants iu 18H0 numbered 101; in 1887, 2i0; lia 1888, 4U1; 1880, aud iul80O, On." THOROUGH. One and only must thy purpose bo, Whole and decldnl : From giant foroo but pygmy deed wouldst Were It divided. Thou must at onoe thy choice forever makes For strife or pleasure: Must choose the kernel or the husk to tak Itepent at leisure. Home seek for poarla, others for bubbles mere, On life's sea cruising: Complain not if the bubble disappear 'Twis tlilne own choosing. From the Swedinh of Count Snoitsky. THE COOK'S REVENGE. On the 8th day of September. 1868. at 7 o'clock iu tho morning, with tho (Jape or Uood Hope boating almost due east and 700 miles away, wo sighted a ship dead Ahead. 1 was second tnato of the English brig Lord Clive, and wo were bound from Australia to Liverpool witn wool. It was my watch which you must unow was the port or captain s watch and we wero within two miles of tho Granger when tho morning mist cleared and we sighted her. She was a small, square rigged vessol, driving slowly off before tho western wind, and she did not show a square foot of canvas on any of her masts. I took the glass and went .uott, aud my wonderment increased. ITiere was one man aboard of her, but only ono as far I could see. Ho was pacing the quarter deck, and had his face turned toward us. Thoro was uo signal of distress flying, and vet it was plain enough that something was wrong there. I descended after a long look, and just men uo captain came on deck.. We had about a five knot breeze, and we wore not long in overhauling tho stranger. Her wheel was lashed, and as wo came upon her starboard quarter wo still failed to make out more than tho one man. We were near enough to soo that he was a Portuguese, aud evidently ono of tho crew. The namo of tho ship was. the Threo Brothers, aud she bailed from tho Cape. Wo all immediately remembered seeing her nt Sidney, and of her having left two weeks before wo did. She was loaded with wool to be taken on at the Capo by the liners comiug down from India. Our captain hailed as we swept past her, but tho sailor waved his baud to signify that nothing was wanted. "Thero is something very queer thore," said our captain a. we got clear of her, ' 'and I propose to investigate." We luired up a coup'e of points to bo clear of her and threw the brig iuto tho wind. I was ordered to take two men aud pull off to tho stranger, which was drifting along at tho rato of about two miles an hour. Wo had a boat down and wero till in a minute, and in nuother ten we should have been up with her had not something happened. The Portuguese stood looking at us for halt a miuute as wo approached. Then he disappeared and I suddenly caught sight of a musket barrel over the-rail. I was wondering if my eyes deceived me, when the viliain fired and one of my men pitched forward on his face, shot through tho back, and breathing his last within five minutes. The sailor thou stood up and warned us by gestures to keep away or he'd servo out another, aud you may guess that we lost no time iu returning to tho brig. What had occurred only deepened tho mystery. Thore was a ship, evidently in tho best condition, but without a sail set and in charge of only ono man. Instead of pursuing her voyage she was drifting like a log. If in distress she showed uo signal anil one of our men bad just been murdered while we were on the way to oiler our services. It was a pretty tough nut to crack, but our captain was de termined to find the kernel. We hauled back on our course and again overtook the ship and this time we ran down so close to her that one could have pitched his cap aboard. Every man of us was lookiug, but wo saw ouly that Portu guese sailor, lie had five or six muskets piled up on fbo cabin skylight aud he turned his back ou us as we swept past. Tho decks were clear nnd in perfect or der and the sails had been neatly stowed and furled. "What's the matter? What has hap pened? What do you want!" So the captain shouted at the man, but he paid not the slightest heed. Wo ran ahead of her about a mile and then luffed up aguiu, and as the ship came drifting down tho captaiu said - "There's been some awful doings aboard yonder craft. It hasu't been mutiny, because there'd be more meu about, but I'm thiuking that man has somehow made way with every other foul t It's our duty to solvo tho mystery if we can, but we don't waut any more murders. Mr. Piper, you will pull oil to him again and try to get aboard. Take a musket with you, and if ho fires at you try and kill him 1" I went off, with two moro men, hold ing the boat across the drifting ship. When she was within musket-shot, the Portuguese begun blazing away. I could only see th top of his head above tho rail, as the ship had high bulwarks, and I don't suppose my bullet even whistled in his ears. He had a terrible advautago of us, but I had determined to make a dash and board him, wheu his third shot struck one of my men in the arm and crippled him for life, and within fifteen seconds he fired again aud knocked my hat oil my head. There was iuteuse excitement aboard the brig wheu we pulled back. Every man of us now Mt that the Portuguese was tho solo survivor of some awful tragedy, and that he meaut to fight to the death to keep us from board ing the ship. ' We were more than full handed on the brig, there being four meu who had paid the captain a few dol lars each and were working the buluuee of their passage. If we fouad the ship without crew enough to work her we eonld take her iu and claim a pretty lump of salvage. This fact had iti influence on our captain, uo doubt, though I be lieve lie would have stood by her until the mystery was solved to satisfy his own curiosity. It was now decided to send out two boats, and after rummaging around wo armed ourselves with throe old muskots and a revolver all tho firearms the brig could boast of. The first matt took one boat with three mon in it, and I took the other with an equal number. We planned td mcnance him, so that he would fall into confusion, And we lay on our oars nnd let the ship drift down to tis. I was to hook on to hor bows, while tho first mato kept the sailors busy aft; but wo didn't know how much dovil there was in him. lie dividod his stock of guns lorward And uft, and his first bullet killed a man In the mate's boat. My boat had hooked on to tho forechains, ami I was thinking we had a clear way to the dock whon he upset a pail of boil ing water over us from tho rail, and alt of us wero forcod to leap into the sea to ease our torments. The trio of us werd terribly scalded and one of tho mon en tirely Ion the sight of his left eye. We had not only made another failure, but here was another dead man and more wounde l. Our crew was now for bearing away and making no further attempt to board tho stranger, but the captain tried out that bo would stand by until he had lost every man and his own life, too, be fore he would bo defcatod by a single man. Wo had to furl everything to keep iu company with the ship, and for three hours the two crafts drifted along almost within musket shot. Then we were ready for another attack. We had constructed three bullet-proof shelters along the port rail, and the idea was to run down alongside tbo ship and shoot the Portuguese as we passed. We made sail and ran down, but only to find that the wily villain had himself constructed a shelter and our bullets could not reach him. He gave us three shots while within rango, and though he hit no one, his shooting was uncomfortably close, nnd proved that he was a good marks man. Tliere was but ono other way to at tack him, and wo put that off until late in the afternoon. We wanted wind and sea to go down and we had our wish. Along about 4 o clock the breeze dropped almost out of sight, while the sea was without a whito-cap. Wo had made a heavy grappling iron, and the idea was to lay tho ship aboard. When all was ready we bore down on her, and this was a move tho Portuguese could not check mate. Uo had to remain behind his shelter or expose himself to our bullets. We ran alongside, cast our grapnel, and the two crafts drifted side by side. Our captain thon gave the signal, and five of us ma Jo a rush over the ship's rail. In doing so we wero exposed to the sailor's tiro, aud ho shot tho carpenter through the heart. Ho had time to firo only onco, however, but when the four of us piled or. to him we found him almost our niutcb. Had not holp come I verily bo- lievo ho would have gained the victory. Ho seomed endowed with iho strength of a giant, and his fierceness was that of a wounded tiger. While ho was being bound he got a sailor's finger between his sharp teeth and bit it clean off, and not ono of us escaped without bruises. Wheu wo had dually secured our man we began the work of clearing up the mystery. Not a soul could wo find aboard the ship, nor could we at first account for tho absence of the crow. Then one thing aud another was brought to light to tell iu tho horrible story. She had left Syd ney with fourteen men. Thu liend of a Portuguese had murdered each aud every mau by moans of poison in the rum. lie was the cook. A week out of port she had met with heavy weather and been obliged to lie to aud ride it out. This was how she camo to have everything snug nlof. It was while she was riding out tho galo that the captain had some trouble with the cook. Just what it was no one but the Portuguese knew. He claimed to have been brutally assaulted without cause, and to revenge himself he poisoned a demijohn of rum kept for the captain's use. Some of this rum he claimed, was afterwards served out to all hands without his knowledge and tho entire crew wero thus killed off. What the real facts wore could never bo brought out. As we found no blood or other evidences of murder in the or dinary way, we had to accept the sailor's statement about the poison. lie had dragged every dead n an on deck and thrown him over, and wheu the galo ceased the ship had taken her own way to come about and go driviug off. The villaii had no idea as to where she would bring up, uud he didu't care so long as he was not overhauled. After a great deal of hard work we got both crafts to Cape Towu, and there the wholesale munloror was turned over for trial. Ho told the story of the poison ing as coolly as you please, and I shall never forget his statement of what fol lowed after the liquor was served out. "Captain ho fall down and cry out and die!'1 explained tho fiend. "Then the mato ho roll over and scream aud go dead. Then the sailors call to Ood to save 'em, but all go dead in one-half hour I" "Then what?" was a9ked. "Then I laugh hat ha I hat and throw cm all overboard I Some sink and some float away 1" I was present when he was executed. During all his trial and imprisonment he never expressed the slightest regret for his awful crime. There was a demsnd that hv be hung alive in chains, but cf course uothlug of the sort could be legal ly done. He wulked to tho gallow's with suuliug face, bowed to the crowd gathered to see him dio and shouted so that all could hear: "I kill seventeen men, and you kill ouly ouc hal ha! hul" M. (JuaJ, in' Xei lork World. Chicago aud Milwaukee are to be connected by au elevated electric rail- ; way, the trams ou which will run 07er a mile a minute. The projectors hope to have the road iu running order by Jauu- i ary 1, 1803. : Norway is wealthier iu oickle ores thau any other Kuropeau country, but ouly two mines me now working. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL, T Paris Is soon to be lighted,' as to it ' streets, almost entirely by electricity. A cubic foot of aluminum weighs 157 pounds. A cubic foot of copper wciglis C58 pounds. The most recent steel mils have a higher percentage of carbon and the steel produced is harder, Sorao remarkable experiments in talk- ino- with mnnknva hv nfri nf a nlinnn. o j- j - I graph are made public. At Wilkesbarre, Penn., tho electric lights and long days have reduced tho price of gas from 1.80 to $1.00 per thousand. Pennsylvania makes fifty-two out of every 100 tons of rolled iron in the United States, and sixty-nino out of every 100 tons of steel rails. Professor Gardner has decided to go to Africa to engago in tho uncongenial but scient;fic Btudy of the language of monkeys in thoir native state. In tho Island of Cuba great progress has been made in establishing electric light plants. This is notably the case in Havana, where the central station has a capacity of 6000 lights. A military forco ou the march seems to suffer less from what is popularly known as sun-stroke than civilians walk ing our crowded streets or engaged in mercantile and mechanical pursuits. Some plants appear to be able to grow and develop in total darkness. A com mittee of the Royal Horticultural Society has been told of hyacinths that developed colored flowers, although prevented by some accident from comiug above tho ground. One of the London street car compan ies has in use an automatic "starter." Two powerful spiral springs, fastened to the front axle, are wound up through being applied to tho car's stoppage, so that whon it is desired to go ou again they are capable of starting it. The great Homcstake Mine at Lead City, South Dakota, uses powder to blast the ore. When tho ore is crushed, it is thon stamped into powder and washed over a quicksilver plate to catch the gold. Moro than 1500 men aro em ployed, with a pay roll of $100,000 a month. The Chinese Government is about to begin tho manufacture of steel, and blast furnaces on the Cleveland principal, ca pable of turning out 100 tons per day, are being erected nt Han-Kow. Besse mer and Siemens-Martin plant, bar rolling mills, etc., will also be put up at tho same place. A pneumatic chisel has been intro duced into a stone-cutting establishment in Germany. It resembles in appearanco a syringe, which the operator holds with both hands, and as he lets it slido over the surface of the stone or metal tho chisel chips off splinters and particles. Compressed air, acting on a piston, im parts a rotation of from 10,000 to 12,000 revolutions a miuute. An ingenious apparatus has been intro duced to prevent the wheels of electric and other street cars from slipping. It consists of a revolving brush connected with the forward axle by a belt. As the axl ; revolves it sets tho brushes in mo tion, clearing a path for tho wheels. There is also operated in connection with the device a box which allows the escipo of a sufficient amount of sand or salt without the slightest waste. Aa Electrical Voting Math I no. In the "Braisserie Flamaude" at Brus sels there is exhibited an election ma chine, invented by M. Moreau, a Belgian engineer. The remarkable apparatus looks like a grand piano. In place of the keyboard there are two rows of but tons, similar to those used for electric doorbells. If an elector wishes to vote, all he has to do is to press one of the buttons. Above tho buttons tho names of the candidates are a teu.'for esch but ton one name. As there are many elec tors, especially in Belgium, who cannot read, Mr. Moreau has constructed his ma chine in such way that a photograph (picture) can eventually appear along with the names of the candidates. Below the button rows a box is found contain ing the elect, icul numbering or counting machino. Every button registers tho names by ones, tens, hundreds and thousands. The electrical current is un der the box. As soon as tho elector steps on tho platform, which is part of the ap paratus, the electrical current begins to play. Against fraud and repeating tho inventor has also guarded iu making it impossible for ono elector to press twice at the same buttou without tho intermis sion of several seconds. To vote ugaiu he must step from tho platform, then wait a few seconds, after which pause he again can ascend it if tho ollicers al low it. Tho secrecy of tho ballot is guarded by a screen which shields the whole apparatus. After election timo is over the box is taken out of tho machine and the result is found as tho votes were already (added) counted by the machiue. AVie i'orb liuurder. Acrosg the Arctic at Two Miles a Day. As we have fen, the objects from tho "Jeaunetto" drifted in threo years from the Now Siberian Islands to the west coast of Greenland. If we assume that they required ouo year for tho drift southward from latitude eighty dogroes north, on the eat cx-ast of Greeulaud, only two years remain for the rest of the journey, aud this requires a speed of uo more than two nautical miles iu every twenty-fcr hours. This does uot seem too high a rato when wo remember that the "Jeandlte" drifted at tbo same speed during tho last lia.f year of her drifting, aud that in the last days before she sank she drifted uX much higher speed, which sometimes reacliod even eight nautical miles every twenty-four bourn. It cauuot theiefore bo considered prob- ! able that wo should reach open water ou ' this side of tho Pole witlva two years ' after our start from the Siberian side; and if wo take provision, for rivo year j we may considri tha'. we have au uui-le luargiu. Wwi, QUEER FOREIGN TIDBITS. REPTJLSIVin FOODS THAT TICKLE UNCIVILIZED PALATES. Drinking Bumper of Train Oil Carried Ants' Kftffa Turtle Batter Koaxt Monkey, With Oliestnnta. At a dinner once of the Acclamation Society in London were offerod all the strange and new dishos, evon horse. A roost monkoy filled with chestnuts was declared to be delicious; tho fawn of fallow deer was described as good. Buffalo meat was not so highly com mended. A red doer ham was not very succulent. A sirloin of bear was "tough, glutinous, and had besides a dreadful, half aromatic, half putrescent flavor, as though it had just been rubbed with asafctida nnd then hung for a month in a musk shop." Tho host fish of tho Adirondack ii seldom tasted except by those who have spent a wiuter in tho North Woods. They are delicious fried. Thero is a European fish ns little known as this, the marena, -caught in Lake Moris in the province of Pomerauia, also in ono lako in Southern Italy, very good. There are two birds known in Prussia as tho bustard and the kaminel, the (ormer a species of small ostrich, onco considered vory lino eating, tiio latter very tough, except under exceptional conditions. The eating of the past included, under the Romaus, the ass, the dog, tho snail, lea hedge hogs, oysters, asparagus, veni son, wild boar, sea nettles. In England, in . 1272, the hostess offered strange dishos: Mallards, herons, swans, crane and peacock. But the peacock was of old a right royal bird which figured splendidly nt tho banquets of tho great. Our Saxton ancestors were very fond, like the Spaniards, of putting everything into tho same pot; and we read of stews that made the blood boil. Travelers tell us of dining with tho Esquimaux on a field of ice, whon Iallow candles were considered delicious, or they will find their plates loaded with liver of the walrus. They will vary their dinners by helping themselves to a lump of whalo meat, red aud coarse and rancid, but very toothsome to an Esquimau, not withstanding. If they would sit down to a Greon lunder's table they would find it groan ing under a dish of half putrid whalo's tail which has been lauded as a savory matter, not unlike cream cheese, and the liver of a porpoise makes the mouth water. They may finish their repast with a slice of reindeer, or roast rat, and drink to their host in a bumpor ot train oil. Iu South America tho tongue ot a ica lion is esteemed a great delicacy. Fashion in Siaiu p-escribos a curry of ants' eggs ns necessary to every well ordered banquet.' They are not larger, the eggs, than grains of pepper, aud to an unaccustomed palate have no particu lar flavor. Bejides being curried, they are brought to tnblo rolled in green leaves mingled with shreds or very fine slices of pork. The Mexicans make a species of bread of the eggs of insects which frequent the fresh water of tho lagoons. The natives cultivate in the lagoon of Chalco a sort of carcx, called tonte, ou which tho in sects deposit their eggs very freely. This carcx is mado into bundles nnd is soon covered. The eggs are disengaged, beaten, dried and pounded into flour. Penguins' eggs, cormorants' eggs, gulls' eggs, the eggs of the albatross, turtles' eggs are all subservient to the table. The mother turtlo deposits her eggs about 100 at a time in tho dry sand, and leaves '.hem to bo batched by the genial sun. The Indian tribes who live on the banks of the Orinoco procuro from thorn a sweet and limpid oil, which is their substitute for buttor. Lizard egs are regarded as a bonne bouche in the South Sea islands, aud the eggs of tho guana, a species of lizard, are much favored by West Indians. Alligators' eggs are eaten in the Antilles, uud resemble bens' eggs in size and shape. Neu York 1'rett. Suiithcrncrs Excel In lIorsMiinnslilp. The Southerner has been in the saddle constantly for many generations, aud to day boys and girls alike ride the colts in pasture, with ouly a stick to guide them. In the North theso conditions and habits ceased long ago. Hiding is a mere fash ion of very recent origin, though it has acquired such an impetus that it may have come to stay. The Southern seat is practically the same as the true military seat; aud ex cept that the bridle hand is wont to be held u trifle too high, which is a habit caught from the high pommel or roll ot blankets or other baggage in front of tho soldier, this seat, wheu not exaggerated, is, all things considered, tho best foi road-ridiug. and perhaps would enable a mau to do a greater number of things iu the saddle thau any other ouo style. And though the English pigskin is perhaps a neater and more available rig, the South erner is, iu gaits aud style aud kuowledgo of road work, by far the best model for us to copy, as his saddle-beast is the best for us to buy.llarjitr't Mwjatim. His Secret of Longevity. A Rutheuiuu, 121 years old, is living in the town of Belgorod, Russia. His name is Bogdau Nitehinorenko. Ho is still hale and hearty, ouly his heaiiug is somewhat impaired. He ascribes his old uge to his manner of living. At the age of twenty-five ho became ill, and as there were uo physicians iu the neighborhood, a Tartar practitioner, or "wisn man," was engaged to cure him. l'or three weeks he was under thu Znakhar's treat ment until his health was restored. Part -ing from him tho Zuukhar told him :hut if he wished to live loug he mus Lever eat uny old or stale food. For fear lest ho full sick again, Nitchinoreuko ob served this rule scrupulously. He ate nothing but spring lowl, veal or lamb; and uever touched a piece of uwat of an old auunal. Eveu garden fruit he ate ouly wheu it was quite youug and fresh; he uever touched canned or pickled food of any kind. i'icatuHt, SELECT SIFTINGS. Paper linen defies detection. A novelty In men's hats is a fae-slmils of the stve-pipe" mado of straw. An aged traveling scissors grinder has died in Indiana, leaving an estate valued at 21,000. In California there is a spring from which risos such noxious gas that one whiff of it will extinguish life. A Philadelphia woman has just dis charged a debt of three cents, which she had owed for forty-three years. William Woodward, of Baltimore, now ninety years old, has been a Sunday school teacher for seventy-two years. A piece of crown land on Pall Mall, London, has just been loased at a rate based on a selling price of $2,500,000 per acre. Near Parkoisburg, W. Va., rccontly, a young woman jumped Into the rivet and brought to shore two men who were drowning. It is said that the five loading hotels at Saratoga, N. Y., tako in au aggro gate of (2,000,000 a month during the busy season. The hailstones which recently foil at Arkansas City, Ark., wero about tho shnpe of a common soda biscuit and nearly as big. A fifteen-year-old Virginia school girl recently wrote a poem which contained 250 lines, each Hue commencing alter nately with M and R, and from which the letter I was entirely omitted. A "bcrdash" was a name anciently given in England to a sort of nock dress, and tho person wti3 mado or sold such neck dresses was called a "bcrdasho," henco the prosent term "haberdasher." Dr. Hazard, of Alleghany City, Penn., has orgauized a league for tho extermin ation of tho sparrow. Each member must kill fifty birds. The doctor hopes to see the destruction of 750,000 birds in Alleghany County in the next threo yesrs. A man with ono of tho most curious propensities lives in Shelton, Conn. 1 Iu has acquired an nppetite for livo bull frogs, and swallows them with tho samo ease he would swallow tho most dainty morsel that over was cookod. His namo is John Stowe. A sequoia tree Iias been found iu King's River canyon, in tho Nevada mountain rango, whoso original diameter exceeded forty feet, but has been re duced by firo to thirty-nioo foot. This is larger thau any of tho gigantic trees discovered in California by seven feet. The finest display of gold or silver plate tho German Kaiser saw on his recent trip was in Amsterdam, where ho was dined by the Queeu Regent of Hol land. The service, which is worth $150, 000, was originally made in London for Willinm and Mary, but was carried to Holland aftar that king's death, over a century ago. Brown, a stepson of J. M. Shaw, of Lafayette, Ga., is said to be cut out for a snako charmer. Ho is not afraid of rattlers. Whon he finds one, if it is in tho right po.iition, ho will scizo it with his naked baud by the nock just below the head. If it is not, ho will whip it uutil it is cowed, aud puts its head under its body. The Eagle as an Emblem. In ancient mythology the eagle was believed to carry tho souls of the dying to their abode on Mount Olympus, and was culled tho Bird of Jove. Tho eagle was first taken as a symbol of royal 'power by the ancient Etruscans, who bore its image upon their standard. Iu the year 87 B. C, a silver eaglo, with expanded wings, poised ou thu top of a spear, with a thunderbolt held in its claws, was adopted as the military stand ard to bo borne at tho head of their legions by the Romans. At the time of Hadrian a golden euglo was substituted for the silver one. A two-headed eagle was adoptod by the Byzantine emperors as a symbol of their coutrol of both tho east aud tbo west. The double-headed eagle of Russia was adoptod ou tho mar riage of Ivan I. with a Grecian princess of the eastern empire; that of Austria was first used wheu the Emperor of Ger many took the title of Roman emperor. The national standard of Russia bears a black eaglo, that of Poland a white one. Napolcou I. took a golden eagle for his standard, model ot pure gold, and bear ing a thunderbolt, ufter tho pattern of the eaglo ot the Romans. This standard was disused under thu Bourbons, but was restored by a decreo of Louis Na poleon iu 1852. The eaglo was first used on American coins iu 1788, on cents and half cents issued from tho Massachusetts mint. It was adopted in tho plan of a national coinage as a dosigu upon nil gold coins and ou tho silver dollar, half dollur und quarter. The design of the eagle was at ono timo suggested for the national Hag, but was abandoned. De troit t'reo J'reu. Supplying Cold Air. A corporation has been organized at Kansas City, Mo., for the purpose of supplying cold air throughout the city through couduits. The projectors of the scheme are confident of its success, and will sell fresh air to auy part of thu city ami remove tho impure atmosphere at a very low cost. Tho work of laying tho mains will begin at once, and prob ably by next summer too company will be ready to supply tho fresh air. iu tho winter hot air will bo sent through tho pipes. lloiton Triinserijit. Catching it Nebula. Tho recent improvement in photog raphy and its uao iu a&trohoiuy lm proved most valuable to tliu study id that science. A dry plate can be ex posed fur a suitable length of time iu thu telescope, and the ima thus ohtaiued will contain the details of a nebula, eveu ! where tho amount of light would be , imperceptible to tha naked e; J, thus i producing au image fur mure useful and I liicurate than could be obtained by a Urawiug. 1'hU'idi. 'fJtia liccord. AT THE BIND OF THE ROAIX !. At the bend of the road you waved your -hand, . A token and sign of a last adlen, And tha twilight fell on a lonely land, And over my soul a sorrow new; ' And you turned into the world from me Who watched you with eyes whose hot tears flowed, The cruel world which I could not sea That just begins at the bend of the road. And a trouble dropped on the silent land AVith the darkness unstayed by a moon or star For my hope and my love, nnd the light hand in hand. Followed you Into the futuro afar, Pollowel you faiu as the heart that n-Jnt, Tho heart that linsaroJ bsneath its load As Into the greats wide world you wont, The world that begins at the end of the road. ro-niht at the bond ot the road I stand And a year has flown and many a day, And the twilight falls on a lonuly land. For my love and tho lij;ht of my hopo dulay; I hear the far sound of forgetful strife, Ami a fear forlorn doth my soul forbodo. What hast thou dono with my lover, my life, O, world that begins at the bend of the road I .1. W. llellaw, in Detroit Free IVess. HUMOR OF THE DAT. The bed of the river should be covered with winding sheets. Life. Tho mercury enjoy a sunny climb now-a-days. liinghumton llepublican. Every dng has his day, but it is a menu cur that will bark at ni ;ht. Life. Good laws aro of little avail when bad men nre depended upon to enforce them. Texitt Sift iw it. Gummey "Bunting is right in tho swim." Gargoyle "Yes; and ho fluds it diilicult to keep his head abovu wa ter." JhJ'JC "Well, llardup, did you succeed in raising anything on your promise to payf" "Oh, yes; I raised a smile." UttUimort) American. Oh, yes; thero is a skeleton iu tho closet iu every family, but it is so com mon n thing that we muko no bones ot it. llotun Trantcript. "There uro somo unpleasant icatures in this business," muttered the photo grapher ns ho surveyed a row of his pa trons. Baltimore American. Sarcastic yoll after a dudo in loud,, plaid trousors: "Say, get them chloro formed quick, or dey'U ring out tho paytrol." Philadelphia Jleeard. "Please givo mo a glass of soda water without any suds on it," was the order a small boy gave at a local drug storo the other day. liinghumton Leader. "When I marry," explained tho lieu tenant, "my wifo must havo sufficient dowry for mo to support her both iu stylo aud comfort." t'li&jendu Jilaetter. "Chicago? Chicago? Oh, yes; that's tho namo of a place on the Illinois Con tral Railroad." "Indeed I Which sido of tho track is it ou?" Detroit Fret I'reu. Justice "Whnt's tho churgo against this prisoner?" Officer O'Fagun "Dis- sayin' ther perlace, yor honor. Ho put ther sound soide av his apples ou ther outsoide. " Yale Jiecord. "That b'y av moiue '11 make his mark in tho wurruhl," said au Irishman. "Ho will that same," replied his neighbor, 'if it's only by puttiu' 'is fut in tho mud." WathingUm l'ott. Tho tuft-hunting American young woman of fortune, when shu reaches the ather side of the water, exclaims, iu tho language of tho turfj. "Put up your d u k es. ' ' Boston 7 ran script . Iu Australia they use eggs for cur rency. Wheu thu Government wants to work up a strong money market it sim ply fails to redeem its circulation for a few weeks. Vantville Ifreete. Tho most trying circumstances under which a boy can bo is wheu auother boy is iu tho alley winking at him aud hia father is offering him a nickel to carry la a pile of wood. Texa$ biftimji. Briton "If you ara such a rampant American, I should think you would re main where Americans are most appre ciated." Amcricau "I do in LouJou sud Paris." Kate Picld'e Wtuhinjton. A Chicago mau has invented an elctric drill with which ho proposes to bore a hole to tho center of thu earth. Maybe ho will decide to boro clear through tho earth, and make a whistle of it. -Yew Yvrk Sun. Lady (to tramp) "This is tho third time you havo called hero to-day." Trump "It is true, madam; but lam suro you wouldu't waut u muu to get along with any less thau tL.'eu mo-ts a day." Cape Cod Item. "This," said the showman, "is the largest elephant iu the world. He cuts eighteen bales of buy at ouo mouthful, an' never takes no exercise ow iu' to tho expense of tearin' dow u tho buddiu' to get him out of it." Judge. Tlio time when the Northmen ravugod the coasts of Great Britain, i.'erni my and France is called the "barbaric ui;e." These same nations now shell thuvilluges of tbehulpluss natives of thu S iut'.i Pa cific isles iu the uume of "i.iviliz ilion." It all depends upou whose tiger is loose. Vi.''u U lube. Attorney (to wituess) "What is your uge, .ill" Old Beau "What has that to do with the cute I" "I iusiit upou an answer." (After a pause) "I was just live e u.i old at tho Jieakin' out of tho war." "What war!'' (With cxtremu le uetanee) "The lil.akhawk war." Vhi-ajo 7'iihuiie. "What wonderful progress thu scienco of opties has uiudu iu the past tju ye.iri! The diilicult complaint, astigmatism, myopia, hyperopia, ormetropU r.u 1 oth ers, have been found." "There is ouo thing I cau't understand." "What's thati" "How they found out their names J" Jetctlet t' Circular,
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