, FOREST REPUBLICAN fa pbllhed im; Waaaeadav, J. R. WENK. Offlos in mrbugh & Co.'a Building kLM mturr, tionmta, r. Terms, ... tl.BO pcrTwr, RATE 8 Of ADVEWTISIWq 9 faare, eae taeh, eae laaartloa I at Om Sqaare, Me Inch, ana month .7. I M Oaa q,oraa Inch, three nonths. IN Oaa Bqam, aaa Inch, ana year If at Two Rqnarae, on rnr . t M Qeertar Oerama, aa, year MM Half Column, oaa rear ..............a MM Oa ColaBn, ene rar (MM Lfl a-TrtlaeaBU lea eeata ft Uaa aasfc ta aertioa. kT arrlsfe aaa aaath notice art tit. AU knit for TrlT adTrrtlermita oollectet lerlf. Temporary adTcrtliemente moat be paM Ni aires. Jea work eaik aa dearer. Republican. ttrropnuene tolleltel tram tl a-rt af th VOL. XXIV. NO, 23, TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPT, 30, 1891, $1,50 PER ANNUM, .EST The population of India is bolloved t liavo increased in ton years from 225, . 1 UU0.OUO to 285,000,000. J.'Asorvant in London was dismissed for refusing to wear a cnp. She brought suit, and tho courts sustained hor on tlio ground that sho had not refused to obey a Uwul order. f The Franklin Club, a Natlonall it con corn at Clovoland, Ohio, demands that tho city shall assume control of all va ennt lands within its limits and cultivate cabbages and potatoes to be given to tho poor. ' United States Minister Phelps has liopes of inducing Baron Krupp to ex hibit somo of his immonso guns at tho Chicago Kxposition. Baron Krupp hos itntes, for ho nays it will cost him $250, 000 to make nu exhibit cruditablo to his establishment. I ; Nearly tho entire $15,000 required for tho Princeton memorial to young Frod Brokuw, who lout his life in a heroic eu deavor to save a domestic from drown ing at Elbcron, N. J., has bceu sub scribed, and John Lyman Faxon, the Boston architect who plannod the Albert Dodd and Brown halls at Princeton, has offered to design the momorial gateway t the entranco to tho athletic grounds free of chargo. A young woman in Cincinnati de termined to die and made all of tho es sential preparations, including a letter of instruction to a friend enclosing tho money for hor burial. Sho thon changed her mind about tho suicido and tried to recover the money. Tho friend was obdurate aud insisted upon keeping it until tho specific purpose for which it "was given had bcon accomplished. Tho courts decided that tho friend must return tho moncv. The Canadian Pacific Railroad, an nounce tho New York Telegram, has ordered fifty new locomotives and 1500 box cars. It will require ten trains daily for seven mouths, it is said, to move this season's crops in Manitoba and tho Cana dian Northwest. With equally abund ut crops on tho American side of tho line the New World is prepared to keep the Old Word from starving, notwith standing the failure of tho grain crops in India and Russia. Tho Russian press censorship is not only very rigorous in regard to letters posted in the country, but is extended to letters in transit. An English corre spondent complains that letters in courso of transit from Persia to Great Britain, and vice versa, are frequently tampered with while passing through Russian terri tory, being sometimes cut open, some times detuined and sometimes d on toyed. Tho British Government has bean re quested to interfere. Over 30,000 head of ucat cattle and 6000 horses and mules died of starva tion and pestilence lust year on tho lower Amazon, ubovo the delta. The annual floods were higher than usual, and tho small farmers owning the animals could not afford to hire tugboats and barges to transport them from tho narrow ridges betweon tho numerous channols of tho river, on which tho stock was so un expectedly imprisoned, to the upland ten miles or more back from tho valicy proper. Thrco cburitablo ladies in Chicago havo started a movement which prom ises, predicts tho Sao Francisco Chronicle, to be of great help to working girls. It is a lunch in a fine cafo, all the materials being furnished at cost, with a reading room aud parlor attached. Although it has been in existonco only a few weeks, it is crowded at tho noon hour aud the membership is large. Ten cents a month gives a girl all the privileges of the rooms. Such a place for working girls who live in cheap lodging or boarding houses is both home and social club, and """tn-9soclation will probably do more real good than many pretentious chari ties that spend a hundred-fold mom money. Tho absurdity of tho German laws ngaiust tho importation of Amoricao pork was shown in a recent issue of the AUgemeine litick Corresoondens. Tho paper, after relating the vain attempts of tho merchants of Berlin to induce the Government to withdraw the prohibition against the American meat, declares that the law is constantly evaded. American meat is sent to llollaud aud Denmark packed iu ico. Iu those countries the meat is smoked aud forwarded to Ger many as "Dutch" or "Danish" meat. Recently more than 20,000 packages of such American-Dutch meats were offered for sale iu tho markets of tho German capital. The jouruul quoted above de clares that the Americans have offered to sell meats in tho Berlin markets at forty threo to forty-five pfennigs, or ten to eleven cents a pound. At present, adds the New York Tribune, German meat is much dearer than that. LIFE AND DEATH, "I feign beyond the bourne of fato ami timet Through all the present I echo of the past; All things but God are in my leash; I climb, From star to star and quenoh thera all at lant; I blast the blooms of promise with a breath" Vaunts Death. "I am the spirit in matter the All-searohor I'm driven like surf by one deep, moving force; Even In tho grasp of Death my hope 1 nurture; Easwathlng love Is both my end and source; Peace is my handmaid and my thrall Is strife" Chants Life. Craven iMngstroth Detts, in Independent HE GOT JNAT BRUGES, Mr. Portman Brown was a prosperous, elderly gentloman, of quiet ways and flxod habits. A small circlo of familiar friends supplied all his social needs, he concerned himself little with tho rest of humanity, belonging to the class who can live sldo by side in the same street with a fellow-creature all their lives without so much as knowing thera by sight. Among Mr. Brown's fixed habits was a yearly tour But ho did not tako it, liko most poo plo, in the summer months, but in tho early spring. Regularly, as the first week in March came round, ho wont abroad. A common-place tour, in beaten tracks, following tho usual routiue of travel in steamers and trains, and lodg ing at palatial hotels. No adventure had ever broken tho uneventful record of these tours for over a quurter of a century; no more exciting incident tliBn an unusual overcharge at some hotel had come within Portmau Brown's personal experience. In 18 , when March came round, he mado the usual preparations for his yearly tour in his usual way. On tho evening before his departure, an old city friend, Mr. Goldsmith, dined with him at his house in Harlcy street. When about to leave, Gold smith drew a small case from his pocket. "I brought this with me on tho chance that you wore going to Caunes. You will do me a great favor by giving it into my brother's hands there. It con tains a brilliant of such raro value that I could intrust it to few. It will give you no troublo, being so small ; there will be no risk, as no ouo will know you have such a thing with you." 'Anything to oblige a Mend," said Brown, lightly. "I would take the Koh-i-noor as a traveling companion uudcr the samo circumstances." The two men were standingat tho study window, the blind of which happened to bo up. While in tho net of placing the case in his pocket, Brown's eyes wandered to the street. At tho moment tho light from a lamp in front of the door struck on tho faco of a mnn who was-passing or had been standing there? a peculiur dark face, with straight black whiskers. The man moved on. Brown dicw back hastily. "None of your people knew that you were giving me this commission 1" he inquired of Goldsmith. "Not a soul, my dear fellow; tho matter is entirely between you and me. My head clerk alono knows of the exist ence of the brilliant.'1 "Whut is ho like!" "Liko you, like me. Respectability itself I Whataro you thinking of?" "Has ho whito whiskers?" "Grey as a badger's white even I But, bless my soul, what is the matter? What do you mean? Have you seen aoy one?" "A man was standing thera by tho lamp post as you handed me tho jewel case, He was apparently looking at us, and might have heard what we said." "Then ho must be iu the street still," said Goldsmith, throwing up the win dow and putting his bead out; Brown did the samo. Tho night was bright. Not a soul was to be seen anywhere the etrcot was quite deserted. "A neighbor or a neighbor's butler. Ho has gone into some house." Gold smith withdrew from theviudow. "In any case, no one could have overheard, nor, I should think, have eeeu us. As for my clerk, Travers, I boast myself an honest mau, but I don't hesitate to ac knowledge that he is the houester of the two. Your imagination is pluyiug you tricks. I didn't know you were givee that way. Perhaps you would rather not take charge of tho brilliant?" But Brown would not hear of this. Already shamefaced over his hasty aud somewhat ridiculous suspicions, ho dis missed them abruptly. "Not for worlds would I give upytho charge," ho said. "I'm net such a fool as I seem. The man probably is ono of the new neighbors; there are a good many newcomers in the street." Portman Brown set out next morning for Lucerne via Brussels aud the Rhine, staying a few duys at Ostein! on the way. Ho took his place in the undeniable com fort of a first chus carriage in the express to Brussels with a mind as free from care and uneasiness as nn elderly geutle inau ever possessed. A life of plain, un diluted proso hud, up to this, kept his imaginative fuuulties in complete abey ance; lunatics, bypuotists, murderers, etc., as possible fellow-travelers, had never entered his mi ml. As a rule, iu deed, his fellow-travelers no more excited hi interest or notice than his near neighbors ut home, Ou this occasion he was just conscious, in leaving the station at Osteud, that n elderly couple were tho other occupants of the carriage; he merely gave a pay.'ig gluuco from his newspaper at the ny a stranger who got in at Bruges anus-it dowu ou the opposite seat. V Nearly an hour ha .passed before Brown laid down his yVspuper, and when ho did he was horrif to see iu the traveler who got iu arues the dark-faced man who hudt. fed bis suspicions wheu he stal led froi ViJou. , At B'mpseU Brown dodged the dark faced man. Never within the wholo course of bis experience in foreign ports had Brown passed a more wretched night; the morning found his norvos in a sad state. Ho, who had never before known himself the possessor of nerves I The fidgety man who made fussy arrange ments about starting by the first train for Lucerne, and whoso eyes had a Way of Casting furtive not to say apprehen siveglances around, was strangely un like the self-satisfied, phlegmatic Briton who had arrived tho evening before at the Throo Kings. Tho success of his manoeuvre in leav ing Brussels mado him repeat it. and. be sides, lie was in a perfect fever to got to the end of his journey, and rid himself of the charge of tho diamond. His spirits rose considerably as the hour of the train's departure drow near without any nppearunco of the "shadowor" in the station. Brown remained on the platform until tho last moment, then, with a fervent sigh of relief, ho entered tho railway carriage Tho train was just moving off when tho door was sud denly opened, a breathless porter dashed iu a handbag and parcel of rugs, fol lowed by a still more breathless traveler. Tho door was shut, the engine shrieked tho lost departing signal, the train moved from Bale station. In ono cor ner sat Brown ; in another the farthest on the opposite side sat the man with tiro black whiskers! The position in which Brown now found himself might well have appalled the bravest. He was alone in a railway carriage, with a scoundrel who had fol lowed him from London. Brown had utterly abandoned surmise since last night and accepted each Idea as an abso lute certainty. Tho objoct In this scoun drel's viow was tho capture of tho valua ble diamond, which was at that very moment on Brown's person. A long journey lay before them, and Brown was unarmed. At this review of the situa tion his heart sunk; ho drow back in stinctively into the cornor. His eyes suddenly met those of tho other man; a deep flush suffused his faco, which scorned to find reflection in the other's. Brown hastily took up Baedeker and affected to read ; the man opposite simul taneously did the same. A transparent uuroality on both sides. Brown's fur tive glances iuvariably caught quickly withdrawn though thoy were those of the other man levelled on htm. While this wcut on, tho slighest change of posi tion, the least movement in the oppo site, corner, mado Brown sturt. Might it not herald the approach of danger? A spring, a rush, the attack I Tho tension was terrible; to remain inactive almost impossible. Brown had an inspiration, as a man in extremity sometimes has. Though he was not armed, ho would prctcud to bo. That jnlght do something; produce hesitation, or delay, at least. Accordingly, he de liberately assumed a bold, even threaten ing domeanor. Costing a truculent glance across the carriage, he plunged his hand into his pocket, affecting to grasp an imaginary revolver. To his intense delight tho ruse took immediate effect. The man opposite gave an un uiistakablo start, md shrank buck into his corner. So far, so good. But how lo keep up tho pretence? What to do next? At this crisis the whistling of the engine suddonly distracted Brown. Good 'heavens I Ho had forgotten tho long tunnel 1 They wore coming to it now I His eyes, with a quick, involun tary movement, sought the lamp. It was nut lighted 1 Entrapped I Doomed! Tho wildest thoughts rushed confusedly to his brain. With a shriek tho train plunged noisily into tho tunnel, into darkness. The din and rattle outside contrasted sharply with the silence within the carriage. Crouchod in his corner, Brown, his hear ing sharpened to agonissiug acuteness, listened for a stir, a rustle, the sound of human breathing drawing nearer to him. Every moment fancy detected a step, a stealthy, cat dike, movement. His imagi nation, after the neglect of a lifetime, was now taking ample reveugo. Un controlled aud uncontrollablo were its wild flights. Every railway murder of which he bad ever heard flashed upon him with all the ghastly details. The spring upon the victim, the struggle, the death-stroke, the body thrown out on tho rails. How idly he had read of these things happening to other men! But now to realize himself as tho victim; his, tho body! Absolute pauic seized upon him; hardly knowing what he was do lug, he tried softly to open the door. It was locked, however. Ills movements must have been heard, there was a stir at the other eud of the carriage. The fatal moment had come, tho assassin was a lvuncing to the attack. In the extrem ity of his terror Brown sank swiftly on the floor and crawled under the seat. For what length of time he crouched there, half stifled, scarcely daring to breathe, Brown knew not. Agony can not measure tirno. A sudden aud ex traordinary rush of air mado his heart first stand still, and then sent the blood coursing wildly through his voius. The fur door was swinging open 1 Some thing had happened! Aud what? His struiuing ears detected no souui but the ouUido rattle and roar of the train through tho tunnel; within all was silence. He remained listeuing in in tense excitement and amazement until tho hope which had hardly dared to stir iu his breast grew iuto vigorous life. He was alone in tho carriage? He was saved I Deliverance had come miracul ously why aud bow he kuew not! Tho tuuuel was coming to au end ; liu;ht began to stream iuto the carriage. Cautiously aud slowly Brown peeped front under the seat. He was quite alone. The man hud disappeared. Tho fact of his escape) was, at the time, enough for Browu. Afterward, iu thiuking over the adventure, ho sur mised thut the mau, deceived by his (Brown's) attempt to turn the handle of tho door, had followed in supposed pur suit. At the station, just outsido tho tunnel, Brown alighting almost l::foru the Uaiu had stopped changed his phtCo for ono in a crowded second-class com partment. A few hours later the brilliant was snfely transferred from his chargo into that of Goldsmith's brother at Lucerne. Tho rest of his tour whs uneventful; ha neithor heard of nor saw his perse cutor again. Brown's adventure made quite a sen sation On his return to London. He was the hero of the hour in his circle. Whother or not ho rolated the circum stances exactly, as here set forth, need not bo mentioned. His friend Jones, among others, gave a dinner party in his honor. Brown, with his usual punctual ity, was the first of the guests to arrivo. "By the way," Jones said chafungly to him, as tho two stood chatting to gether on tho hearth-rug, "you must look to your laurels to-night, Brown. Do you know Leroy, your neighbor in Uarlcy street? "Never saw tho man in my lifo. What's the joke?" "A rival adventure! In Switzerland, too, and culminating in a tunnel not sure that it wasn't tho Oltcn one also!" "Dear me! What an extraordinary coincidoncel" "In his case it was a lunatic, not a robber, no was shadowed at hotels and trains. You must hear the story from his own lips; he's dining here to night. The climax is terrific. Shut into a railway carriage alono with a lunatic, aforesaid lunatic armed with a revolver. A long tunnel, an extinguished lamp, tho lunntio crawling in the darkness to the attack, an escape by tho skin of the teeth. Leroy has sufficient presence of mind to open the door and pretend to get out, in reality crawling under the scat instead. The ruso saved his life. Ho supposes that he fainted in tho sti fling air, for, when ho was next con scious, tho train had left Oltcn and ho was alono in tho carriage, from which all traces of the lunatic had disappeared." Jones was so engrossed in telling the story, he did not remark its curious and startling effect on Brown. Just then the door was thrown open, aud tho footmau announced "Mr. Le roy." Jones, springing forward with effusion to greet the new comer, led him gush ingly up to Brown. "You two must know each other," ho said. And they did. Tho recognition was instantaneous on both sides. AYith a gasp, Brown stared in speechless wonder on the man with the black whiskers, while Leroy stared back aghast on en countering the gaze of the lunatic I London lYuth. Ducks as Fire Extinguishers. Once at a large house in the country the chimney took fire. The flames Bpread to the woodwork in different parts of the house, and although the fire was extinguished nt each place it caught, it still burned in the chimney, aud from time to time spread in some other direc tion. The fire grew hotter and hotter, and threatened to burst the chimney. It was hard to reach, and there seemed no way of putting it out. The gentleman who owned the house was fend of fowls, and possessed some valuable ones. A bjy who stood by looking at the fire saw the danger, .a bright idea struck him. He ran to the duck pen and startled the sleeping ducks by seizing by their legs as many of tho largest as he could carry. Tho ducks squawked vigorous protests, but were hurried off. A ladder was called for, and before any one realized what he was going to do, tho young fellow mounted to the roof, and mado his way to the chimney. , Flames and smoko were pouring out, but the boy went as near as he dared, and by a' dexterous motion tossed a duck down the narrow shaft. It disappeared, fluttering and squawking. Tho flames subsided a little, and the smoke grew denser. The boy threw down another duck, and after a minute another. Tho cloud of soot and dust carried down by the flapping wings of the ducks smoth ered und checked the fire with such good effect that the advautago gained was easily followed up, and the fire soon put out without further damage. Uarper's Young People. Sonp-Bubblo Parties. Soap-bubble parties aro decidedly popular. And if you intend having one, here is a pretty idea for you. Of course the bowl stands on a table; over the bowl build a largo arch of flowers; have it high enough and broad enough that the soap bubbles can flout uuder it. There aro partners in blowing Uubblcs, and together they must stand or full curry off the first prize with honor or tho booby prize with iguomiuy. Tho ladles select their pipes from oue basket, the gentlemen theirs from another, and tho gentle maiden recognizes hor hero by her colors, which will adorn his pipe. When the contest begins the fuir dame blows a bubble, aud her knight attempts to blow it under the floral arch; thou the knight takes his turu at tho pipe, while his companion tries to waft tho frail bubbles uuder tho flowers. Tho prizes aro awarded to tho couplo who blow the best bubbles and succeed iu getting tho greatest number of them through tho triumphal urch. Xctt York Advertiser. Queer Names. A gentleman iu Boston has mado a collection of odd names, and hiui some curious oues ou his list. Here are a few: (Sapphire Guunybag and Macey Murcy Mercy Massey, of Boston; John Fun duuhigligeubergcr, of Philadelphia; Applepie Johuston, of Pittsburg; Echo llalfuose, of Chicugo. Dickens gave queer names to his men aud women, and often took great pains to find a name to suitably lit somo char acter. It is said that he found most of them in old London dictionaries. This : is probubly true. Truth is alwuyi stranger than fiction. No story you read can bo more wonderful thau the story some friend could tell you if he would. lltrer't Young PtoyU. TREES TURNED TO STONE. : WONDERS TO BE SEEN IN ARIZO NA'S CHALCEDONY PARK. Amethyst, Ae-nte and Topas fines I'lar Through the .Severed Trunk TlmHtono Treo Drlclgo. Some years ago, writes Charles Fred erick Holder, a party of pioneers was passing through Arizona, and ono night the cook, an aged colored man, who pre viously had never been out of the moun tains of Virginia, went out from camp with his axe tofind wood. It was not long before the old man ran across sev eral fine logs that looked as though they mti'ht have been washed to the spot by a flood, being partly buried. Up went the axe, and the next second it Sow from tho astonished cook's hands into a blazo of glory, as tho sparks .might bo termed. Tho old man without delay made for tho camp, expressing tho opinion that some body had "hoodooed" his axe, " 'case it has struck fire outen a tree." Investigation showed that the trco was of stone, aud naturally had caused a shower of sparks when struck. Upon further investigation it was found that tho travelers were in an ancient forest, where huge trees were lying about in every conceivable position. Since then the forest has acquired it national repu tation and is known as Chalcedony Park. The sito of this ancient forest Is in Apache County, Arizona., and it is a park in a past sense only. Trees are here on tho surface and beneath the ground, all prostrato and broken in some way, yet presenting a more wonderful appear ance than living trees would in the same place. Tho trunks lio in every conceivable position, as if some cataclysm had broken them up and turned them to stone. Some are broken off short and are of largo size veritable giants; others still retain al most their full length, and represent trunks ono hundred aud fifty feet long and ten feet in diameter, so perfectly preserved that the vety texture of the wood is seen." Some, lying flat upon tho ground, appear to be solid, yet are broken up into very tine sections re sults produced by alternate seasons of heat and cold, dryness and moisture. Some project from tho soil at an anglo of forty-five degrees ; others look like old Spanish cart wheels cut off for uso but abandoned. From a hill in the park a good view of these fallen giants can be obtained. Ouo especially attracts attention, haviug been prostrated when growing. It is about 200 feet in height, with a diameter of eight feet. A small section of this monster would weigh several tons, and an estimate made gives the weight of trees in sight at 1,500,000 tons. The various points iu tho park havo been given characteristic names; as, for instance, Amethyst Point, where pieces of this gem are especially Doe and nu merous; Agato Hill, famous for its re markable agates; Fort Jusper, Stoue Tree Point, tho Cart Wheel aud Natural Bridge the last mentioned representing a most interesting specimen, well worth a long journey to see. In the park is a small canyon or arroyo bed about sixty feet wide and forty-five deep. Over this a giant tree fully ono hundred and twen ty feet long is suspended, and, now, ng atized and as hard as rock, it forms a natural bridge over the chasm upou which people pass. The tree bridge is about four feet through at its largest diameter and is very ornamental, gleam ing and scintillating in the suulight where tho bark has been chipped away, exposing the many hucd stone. The ac tual spau of this remarkable bridge is about fifty feet, while on either side near ly fifty feet more can be traced. So perfectly aro these trees preserved that the botanist, with his microscope, can trace the cells, and it has been deter mined that some of them are allied to tho attractive Napolle Island pine that forms a feature of Southern California gardens. Other trees here are allies of the red ce dar. Many interesting facts have been deduced by the botanists, one being that the climate, when tho trees were alivo, must huve been milder than at present ; the rings of growth are still shown so perfectly that they can readily be counted. Tho question thut arises iu the mind of those who contemplate this scene of wonders is what caused the destruction of the trees? Au examination ol tho country in the immediuto vicinity will suggest the volcano as a cause. Vol canic action has played au important purt in the history of the couutry here. Not far away are lava beds so fresh and distinct thut they might have been formed in modern times. The ground from which many of the trees project in Chulcedony Park is made up of volcanic ashes and scoria. This iu turn has been covered with twenty or thirty foot of sandstone, which is well shown iu the canyons and gulches, where sections uro laid buro. The convulsion which took place so long ago was undoubtedly due to some volcano in the vicinity that sud denly becaiuo active, throwiug out mil lions of tons of ashes and other matter that, rettliug down upon the forest, had destroyed it. home of the trees had been buried standing; others were hurled to the ground by the eruption und buried, but all were killed, and then iu all prob ability heated silicltied waters forced their way up through tho cracks and crevices ami gruduully tho woo.ly fibre was repluced by silica. Unless tho Government can buy tho park it will soon bo dwnuded of its curi osities, as the sections of trees, so beau ful und attractive, have a decided value, when used as table-tops, tilo, etc., ami wheu poli-hcd make many objects of great beauty, so that many tons of tho tuuks have bceu taken a way from the purk, and several companies are said to be especially inleroted iu its products. The World's Hicst (junten. There is au immense anleu In China that embrace an urea of 50,11110 sipiaru mile). It is all meadow land und is filled with la'ic-, poo ls and cauili. Altoicthcr it is as lai 'e as tho .States of New Yuj und lYiiuyivania combined. sE?fTIFIC AD industrial. j A wood-carving machine is success ful. j Terrorlto is more powerful than dyn amite. A pound of phosphorus is sufficient to . pit 1,000,000 matches. j A Swedish cavalry officer has invented ! i horseshoe on which the calks and clips ire changeable. A street railroad to be operated by motoM run by fuel oil will soon bo in operation near Prague. The Philadelphia mint has installed in Eddy electric motor of twenty-five aorse-power, which is run by wires from he street. It is estimated that twenty thousand norse-powcr will be required for the ilectric lighting plant of the Columbian Exposition. Observation step-ladders are to bo used in the Belgian artillery, the ob ject being to enablo a etimmander to better direct the fire of his gunners. Tho Michigan Central Railroad has in jse a new machine that docs the work )f 300 men in scraping the dirt dumped ilongtide of the track to tho edges of the fill. A spring has been discovered in Sreenvillcj, N. II., which contatus au tlmost phenomenal amount of lithium, tven more, it is said, than the famous ipring at Londonderry. Watch crystals are inado by blowing i sphere of glass about one yard in diam jtcr; after which the diksaro cut from t by means of a pair of compasses having i diamond at the extremity of one eg- A devico has been invented by which in engine may bo stopped on any loor of a building by simply pressing i button, thus making an electrical xmnection with tho governor of the en jine. A toilet brush is made of two halves which are hinged and arc detachable, jne half being tho brush and tho other lalf the mirror, whilo in tho space be ;wecn is a comb, a tocth brush and a iratton-hook. Tho Munich Pooller Physical and Op tical Institute havo constructed for the Chicago Exhibition an enormous micro icope, manipulated by the aid of elec tricity. It has a magnifying power of 11,000 linear perspective and has cost l8750. It is stated that Dr. Lchner, of Augs tnirg, Germany, has solved the problem )f manufacturing artificial silk. The fabric is said to bo superior in lustre to latural silk, and cannot be distinguished from it; aud that a limited company is x be constituted to work the invention, f this is true, and Is found to bo thoroughly practicable after a fair trial, it will revolutionize the whole industry of producing and manufacturing raw ilk. Mr. n. Darwin, of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, has do visid a "cup micrometer" for measuring the rate of growth of a plant. A thread is attached to the upper end of the plant ud passes over a pulley. .To its lower end is fastened a weight, wli descends is the plnnt increases iu height. The amount of its descent is a measure of the vertical growth of the plant, and it is obtained very exactly by means of the micrometer in question. In a pnper read to the French Acidemy of Sciences, M. Colin discusses the action of cold on animals. The rabbit endures cousidcrublo cold. Adults huve lived iu ordinary hutches suspended from the branch of a tree or standing on a heap of snow, and thdSt temperature has only been lowered about one degree in five or Bix duys. when tho outside temperature varied from ten to fifteen degrees U. Other individuals havo lived in per feci health for two mouths in cubical hutches, completely open on ouo side, wheu thu temperature ranged from ten degrees to twenty-fivo degrees. Sheep nnd pigs ore ulso able to live through severe weather, but thu dog aud horse are killed by it. Checking Couching aud Sneezing. Dr. Brown-Sequard, In ono of his lec tures, dwells with great etuphuxis on the importance of general knowledge iu the matter of checking coughing uud sneez ing. He states that coughiug can be stopped by pressing on the nerves of the lips iu the neighborhood of tho uosiv, aud sneezing may bo stopped iu the same way. Pressing iu the neighbor hood of the ear, right in front of the ear, may stop coughing. It is so also of hiccoughiug, but much less so than for sneezing or coughiug. Pressing ver.r hard ou tho roof of thu mouth is also u means of arresting a couh, and the will itself is often found to be a wonderful proveutivo. Dr. Brown-Sequard points out that in addition to thu many ordi nary reasons why people should know these simple facts, there aie conditions under which this knowledge may prove of tho greatest value. Iu bronchitis and pneumonia, or auy acute ulTcctiou of tho luugs, hacking or coughiug may lead to serious results, und the ability to readily mitigate or arrest them is of thu highest importuuee. Cli 'unjo Xrtct. A Burial Pond. A romurkablo freak of uuturo is found among tho hills of Delaware County, N. Y., iu a sunken lake covering about threo acres of surface, which lies between two parallel ridges not far from the New York, Ontario aud Western Railroad. The wholo surface of the lake is covered with a thick growth of moss, whose stems extend to au unknown depth, but certainly further thau the unu can reach. Each tuft of the moss is of a different color from its neighbor, s that thu sur face looks like that of u beautiful colored carpet. Iu walking over the velvety sur facu, thu foot sinks dowu a few inches without encountering the water, which is ut least two feet below the surface. Near the shore, iu a finv places, tin? i water comes to the top. 'the buried ! pond is a wonderful natural curiosity. ! Motion Truhncriyt. WE AND THE WORLD. The world is the same as it used to be, But there have come changes to you and to me, There Is just as much right and as little ef wrong, There is just as much summer and sunshlaa and song. But we oh, we look throngh our tears aad our care, And we fancy the fields are all cheerless and bare. And we say of the picture, "How sadly deranged f But it isn't at all, It is we who have changed. The birds sing as sweetly, and brooks as they flow Are babbling the songs of the glad long ago, The butterflies dance in tho meadow to-day, And the children are laughing about in the hay. Our ears havo grown dull and beJimmed is the eye, And we mtss all the beauty of earth and of sky. We are shut in ourselves; wore we not we could seo That the world Is the same as it used to be. Nijcon Waterman, in Chicago Herald. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Tho love of show is a sort of pomp adore. A commanding prcsence-The subpoena. Puck. A day-scholar Tho pupil of the eyo. Puck. Old age tells ou one and so does youth. Vallat iVcwi. Cupid is cx-officio a member of every archery club. Wanhington if dir. The knife-grinder ought not to be out of work in dull times. Picayune. It takes an unusually good swimmer nowu-duys to float a loau. LSoston Herald. firrnniro as it seems, a collector's work is dun While it is doing and when just b.'KUti. Juthje. A cobbler would not be laying a heavy wager if he staked his awl. Detroit Free Pres. There should bo naught but admiratiou for au athluto's big feat. Detroit Free Preu. A good man must stand ou his dignity when he has nothing else to stand on. Picayune. Women may not bo deep thinkers, but they are generally clothes observers. Texai Sitings. Making both ends meet when tho head of tho family foots tho bills. . Wathington Star. After peoplo tako a spin it is quito natural for them to ieul liku a top. Pittsburg Dispatch. If ignorance is bliss, tho wonder is why so many people complain of beiug miserable. Atchison Glohe. "This is very well put," remarked tho editor ns ho dropped the poem into tho waste basket. Washington Mar. Georgia has a woman train dispatcher. Every small boy knows of n woman switchteuder. Vashinton Mar. After a man passes forty tho greitcst hero in the world to him is the unu who became famous after fifty. A'.chison Globe. The reason why u fly is generally mon arch absoluto of a bald head is because there is uo heir appareut. I'hiUJcljiltia Times. "Would you permit me to read you my last poem, my dear young lady?" "It it is, your lust really, certainly." FUe gende Ulaettcr. "Iu getting through a failure success fully," says old Mr. Cuiurox, "u good deal depends ou a mau's lie-abilities." Wanhington Star. Tho world owes us a living, yet no man can collect the debt unless he pulls off his coat aud takes it from thu world's hido. Texas Sif tings. "What do you sell a pound of tobacco for?" "Cash," was tho laconic answer. "How much for a pound!" "aixtocn ouueos."- Vhiliuldiihiii Times. Tho only objection to the self-made mau is thut iu so many cases ho has failed to put himself together so as to work noiselessly. Wasumton fust. It is about as easy for a beginner -to keep bis seat astride a bicycle as it is for a veuturosomo youth to rido the trick donkey at a circus. Detroit Free Preu, How doth tha littlu huzzy he.i Improve each shining minute? Go seureh tht- littlu lial un 1 sje ltho's not buzzing iu it. Uvirott J'rre I'ress. At 0 A. M. : Tommy (yuwniug) "A river must huve a good time." i)ick "Why?" Tommy "Bjcuusu it doesn't have to get out of its bed." Loin-U Citi sen. Brown "I say, doctor, what will happen to a man if ho drinks about four (piarts of water iu thu moruiug.'" Doc tor "Cuu't say, certainly. But I cau say what has happuuud to him." Chi c iqo A'eixt. "if I wero to commit suicide," said Gus do Jay to his father's physician, "What kind of a verdict would tho cor woncr bwiug iu?" "Justuinble homi cide," was thu emphatic reply. Wash inton Freninq .Star. Merchant "I missed you from tho store yesterday afternoou." Clerk "Yes, I wis dowu to thu Y. M. C. A. rooms leading u pruy cr-uiectiug." Mer chant "Is that so. How was tho um piring" iiiiighitmtoii Leiidtr. Papa "Sou tho spider, my boy, spin niug his web. Is it uot wonderful? Di you reflect that, try ui hu may, no man could spin thut web?" Joliuny " What of it! See mu spin this top. Do you reflect that, try us he may, no epidcf could spiu this top?" A't'io J'wi eii. Don't you think byo-byu is rather a Silly soil of expressiou for ncduto folk liku us to uso when wo part;" bhe asked as she stood iu thu door of his office pra puratory to her shopping tour. '-It do pen.ls, my dear," her husband replied, "ou how you spell it, I meuu b-u y, b-u-y.'" Washington PoU, X
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