THE FOREST REPUBLICAN U psbllihed Ttry Wednetr'.ij, ay J. E. WENK. Offloe in Bmearbaugh eY Co.'e Building KUt ITKirr, TIONISTA, T. Term, . . tl.BO ptrTttr, RATS 8 OP APV1WTI8IMO. Mwra,aMfaieh.m.lBMrttM If M Itm, aaa taeh, me neat Z. IM On Saaan, eae Inck, tares Booths.. Oe Bqaaie, eae Inch, ana rear NH Two Bqaaree, ore vear tBW Charter Oeraain,aM rear..... esse Half Colusa, oae rear tSeY ON (Mnu, oa. year ......... Legal eeverUeoBWola In eeata Us Mh a sertioa. Marriages aad aaata aotieee gratia. All alllt fof yearly tilwMwnU eePeetei eaaa lorlj. Temporary .dT.rUMB.Di. et ee aU aeraaea. Jek wora: -aaaa ee eeUTary. f OREST UBEICAJNf. He nbeerlpllotit recelrea. far a abetter Mrtoe Ibmi tarre months. OorrMponlitnr raltcltMl freia al aerta ef th VOL. XXIV. NO. 24. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT, 7, 1891. S1.50 PER ANNUM. vnunuy. ne Deuce WUI M Ukea ef u aeajmeui REP Tlio price of plntinum lnw advanced fully 100 per cent., owing to its in creased uso for electrical purposes. Tlio cheapest railway faro in tlio world will be Unit on tlio Central Lon don liailroad, ou which thcra will b tlireo workmen's trriinn daily, the fart for sis miles being but two cents. It appears that the Wyoming Legisla ture, which recently imposed tax of $2 on bachelors, was elected by woman's suffrage. 'This is significant," observes the Now York Commercial Advertiser. A cycling corps has been added to tho equipment of tho Salvation AriViy, an nounces tho New York Commercittl Ad vertUer. Fifty young moti have been re quested to volunteer to travel for three years on wheels. Tho tunnel that will connect Butlet Valley, Ponn., with tho bottom of tin mammoth Ebervalo vein will be, thinks the New York Times, ouo of tho great est engineering feats of tho ccutury. It will open an utmost inexhaustible sup ply of coal, and will servo as a drain for nil tho collcries iu that vi cinity. A good illustration of tho 'expansion, of tho world's trade during tho last thirty years is r.lTorilc.l by tho produc tion of petroleum in tho United States. Ill 1859, 81, OUU gallons were produced in tho Pennsylvania and New York oil fields, and in 18J0, 089,029,088 gallons wcro ei ported lrora the various States which now produce tho oil. If tho Swiss keep on making railroads everywhere, exclaims tho Now York Indejiendent, tho diligence will soon be a thing of the past. Their latest achieve ment is tho construction of a railway from Vico to Zormutt, through Staldeu and St. Nicholas. Tho next step will be to make ono up the Itiffolbcrg, and then thero wiil bo no excuse for any trav eler who fails to look upon tho preci pices of tho Mutterhorn. A new kind of stamps will soon be Introduced in tho postal telegraph ser vice of Russia with a view to securing tho inviolability of tho privacy of letters. Tho new stamp is printed ou very thin paper, and caunot bo used again if it is onco put upon a letter. When used wet and taken oil tho cuvolopo it leaves an iudeliblo impression upon the spot where it was attached, so that if a uow stamp is put upon tho same spot tho im pression of tho first stump can bo seen through it. So great is tho demand for silver dimes, that they aro turned out now at the rate of 100,000 a day. No loss than 3,170,477 iu silver dimes havo becu struck off in tho past three years. For this purpose, status tho Detroit Fret Fret, all tho no current silver coin is being reworked, notably the silver half dollar, which is a clumsy pocket-pieco and very unpopular. The novelty banks which the dime saviugs institutions aro sending oat is supposed to be answerable for tho suddea demand. Tho three miuts of Philadelphia, New Orleans and Ban Francisco are kept busy supplying the wants of the people in this line. There is no doubt, states the Detroit Fret Pre, that tho world's fair will bo somewhat influenced by European poli tics. With Germany aud England iu close friendship aud Ilussia allied with France to offset tho power of the drel buud, thero is very sensitive and jealous feuliug in all quarters, aud our commis sioners will need to use infinite tact iu order to briug till these countries to tin point of making generous exhibitions at Chicago. Of Engtuud wo are certain, aud probably of Germany; but Frauce seems coy, und it is not unlikely that Russia will need a degree of persuasion to induce her to i0 justice cither to her self or to the tai. John Lickeuheim, of lMc)"" County, Kunsus, who was a seou-t and f ght in Kansas as early as 1S55,' md L.tlt the first log cabin iu Kiley UoC'utyiySlien in Kansas City, Mo., a few u'""' ujo, gave lu his reminiscences, some k of the rapidity with which that city bus replaced nature. "I never thought," lie said, "such things could bo possible ou tho ground I used to camp ou. When I was here lust, sums twenty -five yeurs ago, this was all unbroken sod about here. Why, I used to camp a few years before thit down iu tho hollow iu tho center of tho city, utid I have watered my horso lots of times at a spriug on Troost uveuue. Dozens of times I havo fought tho Indians or tho forces of Gen eral Price uloug Kaus.ii City's river front. Ou one occasion Price with his 40,000 men threatened to drive us bluo coats into the Missouri and the Kaw at this point, but wu wcro reinforced and he had to beat a retreat. Iu 18ti'J tho old Missouri hud its arms spread all over the ground where the Uuiou Depot now sUuds, aud I Uocd to ii.U uyrva there." DO RIGHT, i aaaaaaw Do right! I And let the tools laugh on. .. To-day they're here to-morrow (rone; Wbale they with folded arms survey, Tread duty'a path and clear the way, Be brave; though long and dark the night, Morn always brings the glorious light; Ijook up, and fair ambitions flame Rhall light you on to wealth and fame. Fight on ; the world shall know your name. v Do right Dorlght! And bear proud folly's scorn, Their night shall be your waking morn When laurels crown you; such as they Will feel the touch of cold demy. When grateful thousands bless They'll feel cold want and sore distress Bo battle bravely; fight to win! Fear not the strife; heed not the din; J Bear well the cross the crowu to win; Do right 1 B. J. M'Dermott, in New York Newt. A CIIIP, Jo Taliaferro's father was poor, his father had been poor before him, and bis grandfather back of him again. It was in bis great-grandfather's days, and through his great-grandfather's hands, that the money had slippod away from the family. Since then no ono had bad the energy to replace it. "It was too much trouble," said tho Taliaferros, who pronouncod their uaino "Tollyver." Jo's father did make a half-hearted effort, lie wandered from his home in Alabama up North somehow, and ran away with old Snyder B. Simes's daugh ter and only child. Snyder B. Simes, lumber merchant, was a Muine man who had mado his pilo himself and meaut to keep It. IIo burned his daughter's let ters unopened and made a now will. "If my money's to bo spent in riotous living, I mean to spend it myself," he said, buttoning up his pockets. Mrs. Taliaferro burst into tears when sho first saw her new Southern home; then she got up and put on an apron and began to clean the house. This she con tinued to do until tho day of her death She never learned to adjust herself to her surroundings, nor that it is some times a good woman's duty to ignore dirt. She washed and scrubbed and cleaned, and was finally swept out of this world on a sea of soap-suds another martyr to tho great cod of cleanliness, She left oue little boy behind her,' named Jo, to the care or, more prop crly speaking, '.o tho neglect of his lamer. -do you see mat mam ' said the su perintendent of the great Brookvillo glass works, which Northern capital had lately planted in Brookvillo Couuty. Al nbama, "do you see that man?" he was pointing out Jo's father. "Well you will never see him doing any more than be is now. Nobody ever saw him work. lie eats, drinks, clothes himself, has a roof over bis head, and not a cent in his pocket. Now, how docs ho do it? And there aro a dozen like him about here, I tell you, the mysteries of Paris are nothing to tho mysteries of Brookvillo And as we can never permit our minds to dwell ou a subject without hearing Iroin it again within tweuty-four hours, that same day tho superintendent re ceived a letter from Jo. The spelling was dubious and tho baud writing shaky, but thero was noth ing dubious or shaky in tho spirit of the composition. "Mister Superintendent: I wud like a Plao in yor employ. Jo Toll v. "P. 8. Taliaferro is to long and quar." The superintendent laughed as he tossed this evident result of anxious labor in the scrap basket. The next week he recived a fac-simile of that letter minus the postscript, to which he accorded a similar tieatment, but when he saw those same straggling characters on an envel ope iu his mail the third week he opened it with au amused curiosity. "Mister Buperiutendant: I wrot you 2 Letter aud hav uo auaar. I wod like to be in yor employ but I kant wait I mus git a job. Please sir ausar and oblig. Jo Toi.LT." Tho superintendent's hand with the paper iu it hovered over the scrap basket. Then he drew it back. At bis cull a weak kneed young man cume in from the outer office. "Have you room for another boy out there?" the superintendent asked. "You have. Well, then, write to this appli cant and tell him he may come on trial." For the first few weeks Jo Tolly was like a new bom puppy out iu the world with his eyes shut. "You must look about you, Tolly," said the head clerk. "Now, I started out with no money, no education, no backing, and heie I am, all by keeping my eyes peeled." The clerk with the weak knees struck in: "Look at me," he said. "I've been a sober, honest, Industrious, God-fearing man for fifteen years, and not a cent to show for it." Jo turned bis long, ruddy face and big, innocent blue eyes from oue to the other and said nothing. He rarely talked, and when ho did, it. wus with a deliberate slowness which barely escaped a drawl. Put bo pondered ull that he heard iu his heart, apparently; for gradually his puppydom fell from him aud he became a satisfactory fixture iu the ollice. The Brookvillo Glass Works wero a close corporation. They had bought up two thousand acres about the site se lected for their works. Their laborers dwelt in their cottuges built on their laud; they bought from tho company store, and lived under laws of their di rectors' making. But there wus a Naboth's vineyard in tho ceutre of the settlement. The troublo was that old Colonel Jay respected his ancestors, and refused to listen to any proposition regu;ding their sale; for the "viueyurd" was a family buryiug-grouud this t.n.. v The superintendent vainly re, -escnted to him that tho bones should be ckreiully removed. "They are eurth to eanh by thisVime, air." said Culoud Juy, wilu slatdiMu 'When I soil that ground, sir, I sell them. Bo you will not mention it again, if you please, sir." After that, t o superintendent, who expected a pistol in every Alabnma pocket, did not care to opon the subject again. "Ain't you ever goln' to sell, Colonel Jayt" asked Jo. He had paddlod across tho creek which separated the glass works from the old man's house, and was Bitting on his porch with him in the twilight. No, sir. Nor I ain t ever going to accommodate again, neither. I told those Dixes they might bury their little babby thero, and what did they do? Laid it right on great-grandaunt Liza. I went and told them they'd got to take that babby oil. But it wnrn't pleasant. I won't accommodate again. 'And you ain't ever goin's to sell, Colonel Jay?" Look hero, Jo, said the colonel, testily, "how old are you? Eighteen years. Well, I guess you romomber me as soon as you remember anything. Did you ever know me to change my mind? That ground ain't-ever-to-be-disturbcdl" Joe turned his full blue eyes on the colonel. "How about when you die, Colonel Jay?" he asked in his most deliberate speech. I be colonel was staggered and showed it. If I wero you," Jo went on, now looking over the wator, "I'd til that whilo I was able. There's a whole acre there, and thero ain't but one end of it in graves. I'd sell it all under a doed that would make the man who bought it keep tho grave end nice and cloan, and the gross cut and porhaps flowers." Colonol Jay rose from his chair. "Boy," ho cried, "you're right! Why didn't I think of that?" Then bis face foil suddenly. "But who'd bo fool enough to buy?" "I would," answered Jo, stolidly; and if I don't pay you a hundred dollars for it in a year's time, you can take the ground back and all the improvements on It." What tho improvement meant, the whole works soon knew. "Jo Tolly's store" was the talk of the place. It was little more than a shanty, but the laborers soon learned that the shanty had goods of better quality and lower prices on its shelves tnan the com pany's handsome storehouse had on theirs. 'It ain't very pretty outside, but I tried to have it good in," said Jo, mod estly, looking at the well-stocked walls. "I spent all my money there." The money referred to was a small sum which he had gotten by auctioning off tho worn-off roof which covered him, and the bit of land on which he stood. The rest of the tract had been sold al most to tho very d)oi step long before. There had been no oue to interfere in his reinvestment, his father having per formed tho first uracoful act in his worthless life bv steppinjr out of it at this opportune time. "Don't spend it all in shoestrings and rock candy, Tolly," the superintendent had said. "Put it in bank aud try to keen addiuz to vour bank-book. That's the wav." "Yes, sir," said Jo, submissively; but at the same time it was not his way, nor did he follow it. At first tho Tolly store was only open at night.and Jo waited on tho customers after hours, but as the business grew a small boy kept store by day and was as sistant to the proprietor at night. "I shouldn't think you'd dare, Jo; shouldn't, indeed," said tho weak-kneed clerk, who came to Inspect bis enterprise by stealth and after nightfall. "Why, I wouldn't even like the chief to see me come in here. And how can you sloop risht next to those graves?" "Hike them," said Jo, showing the first sign of interest. "I'm getting real fond of thorn. I like Aunt 'Liza, and I fcol like I knew Aunt Jaue. 'Pear friends, repent; no more delay, For death will come to take no nay; Be always ready, night and day, 1 suddenly was suatcue J away. I fed just like she was saying it tome every time I read It. The head clerk he of the "peeled eves" also paid Jo a visit ; but he came in bv broad dayliirht aud examined everything. IIo lauehed a stood deal, and looked at Jo's placid face curiously. "You're bucking against a big con cern. boy," he said. "I tell you you'll have to work like an ox and kick like a steer." Jo. smiling his usual rather stupid, slow smile, listened to each ono and said nothing. As vet the superintendent had said nottiinir either, but that came. One day, as Jo was passing through his othce. ho stopped him. "Tolly." he said, earelessly, "how much do you hold your land atl" "What do you think it's worth sir," mquircd Jo, respectfully. "Not much." "I'vo got my store built and paid for out of it," Jo went on, as tnouga caicu luting aloud. "I've paid for my laud tho busiuess is srrowiuir, aud "You take a week to think it over in," said the superintendent, hastily. On that day week Jo entered the suoeriuteudeut's office and stood before his desk. "Well, Tolly," said tho superiutennd eut, "what is iti" "It's ten thousand dollars," said Jo When the superintendent had a little recovered he knew that he was a very angry man, anil at the same time that it behooved him to walk carefully. "The directors couldn't consider such a price," he said. "It wouldn't be worth it to them." "No, sir," said Jo, meekly. "I kuow it ain't worth much to anybody but me." Then it was that tho superintendent iuve Jo very clearly to understand Unit I he coosidervd biiu infringing ou the rights of the company in whose servlci he was. The boy looked so puzzled that he melted somewhat. "You don't undersUnd me." "No, sir," said Jo. "I thought 1 owned the land." "So you do," said the superintendent, reassuringly, feeling now on sure ground; "but not for all purposes." "I thought I could put a saloon on it If I wanted to," said Jo, in a depressed voice. The superintendent's hair almost stood on end. A grog-shop in the midst of his works? He could hardly conceal his dismay. "Tolly," he said sternly, "you must choose between the office aud your shop. No man can serve two mas ters." "Yes, sir. You are very kind, sir," said Jo, looking gratefully at him. "I was thinking my cleik wasn't doing as well as he might if I had my eye mora on him." "And I assure you, gentlemen," said the superintendent, reporting to the board of directors, "when that boy left my office I did not whether it was as a fool or as having mado a fool of me." "Call the lad in," suggested one of the directors. "Let us see if we can make anything of him." Jo came in at once on being sum moned. He did not even tarry to take oS the apron which ho wore in his shop, or to brush the flour from his coat. These adjuncts helped to heighten tho ruddy innocence of his appearance as he entered. IIo faced the curious eyos of the waiting board with a disarming guilelcssness. "Did you want me, sir," ho asked of the superintendent, and the slow motion of his lips was almost foolish. But had those lips only been formed to say "ten thousand" they could not havo repeated it more persistently when the question of barter was opened. 11 is slow-moving blue eyes looked with open, childish appeal into the assembled faces. "I do think it s worth that to mo, sir, don't you?" ho asked of the most urgent speaker; and that gentleman suddenly collapsed. There was one director who took no part in the controversy. He sat in his chair rubbing his hands together and watching the scene from his keen, deep set eyes. Every now and then his spare frame was shaken with silent laughter, As the door closed on Jo's retreating figure he gave way to spasms of alternate laughter and coughing. "Oh, dear, dearl" he chuckled, wip ing his eyes, "to have that fool look on the outside of his head and all that horso sense on the insidol" "Then, sir, you think him playing a game, ao youi asKea tno superintend ent. Playing? He's played it! Hasn't he caught us iu just tho trap he started out to?" The old man went oS in another par oxysm of laughter. What did you say the lad a name was," he gasped as he recovered. "Jo Tolly," answered the disgusted superintendent, "or, rather, that's what he ca..s himself. His real name is T-a-1-i-a-f-e-r-r-o." . "Taliaferro Joseph Taliaferro. What was his father's name?" "Joseph, also, I believe." "It's him. As sure as my namo is Snyder B. Simes it's him 1" cried the old man, rising to his feet excitedly. "Where's he gone? Where's he gone?" Ho rushed from tho room, his thin legs wavering under him, followed by the bewildered superintendent. When they returned, Jo Tolly, divested of the flour and apron now, was with them. "Gentlemen," said Mr. Snyder B. Simes, "allaw me to present my graud son to you, formerly of the firm of 'Jo Tolly,' now full-fledged partner of the lumber firm of 'Snyder B. Simes & Grandson.' The Tolly store is closed, gentlemen. We that is, my partner has decided that it is more advantageous for our present busiuess to be oa agreea ble terms with this Brookvillo Glass Works Company." Here Mr. Simes, shaking with laugh ter, broke down again. "Oh, boys, uiu't ho a chip of the old block?" he cried. Vani Ledie'i. How a Kiug Keeps Cool. Although one may not keep cool, it is some satisfaction to read how others manage it. Thero is tho King of Siain, for instance. He is said to have iu one of his country palaces a wonderful pavil ion. It was built by a Chinese eugineei as a refuge for tho King during the ex treme heat of summer. Tho walls, ceil ing and floors aro formed of pieces of plate glass an inch thick. They are so perfectly fitted together with a trans parent cement that the joiuts are invis ible and no fluid can penetrate Ihe pavilion is twenty-eight feet long and seventeen wide, aud stauds in the middle of a hugo baiiu made of beautiful colored marbles'. When the King enters the pavilion the singlo door is closed aud cemeuted. Then the sluice gates are opened aud the bnu is filled with water. Higher and bigucr it rises, until tho pavilion is covered and only tho veutilators at the top connect it with the open air. When tho heat of the sun is so great that the water almost boils on tho surface of the freshest fountains this pavilion is deliciously cool. And this is the way tho King of biuin cools himself oil iu hot weather. It souudi very delightful. A Uiant Sunfloiver. There is growing oa East Walnut street, near JeHersou, a sunflower that has attracted much attention ou accouut of its great size aud beauty. The stulk has now attained the height of fourteen feet, aud the plant is crowded with forty five separate aud perfect blossom. As this inaguiticeut bunch of flowers leans toward the rising sun fresh from its dewy bath, tho giant plant testifies elo quently to the fertility of the soil of the Uwirks. Kansas should send to Spring field for her floral emblem. ;i iiigulU (Mo.) Veijwcmt. PIGS FOUiND THE WEALTH. HOW A CELEBRATED OOPPEB MINE WAS DISCOVERED. A Michigan Boardlnff-IIoua Keepnr Found the Animal Hooting and. Squealing in Vine Ore, "How was the Calumet and Hecla discovered? you ask. Here, Captain Duncan, you tell this man what he wants to know." Thus appealed to the broad-shouldered, smiling faced man whose spirit pervades the great copper mine, stepped up to the little group waiting for dinner in the hotol at Calumet. "It was pigs," he said. "Pigs?" I exclaimed incredulously. Pigs, and no mistake," returned the captain. Back in 1863 an exploring party came here to try to find copper. They bnilt a shanty to livo in, and of course, they brought some pigs. One night the pigs were lost. The boarding-house keeper started out to find them. After a long search he heard the pigs rooting and squealing, but he could not see them. The noises seemed to come from down in the earth. Next morning a paity of men went back to the placo whence the noises came, and after a search they found a pit ten or fifteen feet deep. The mouth was covered with bushes, and the growth of the trees about the sides gave every evidence that it had not been used for centuries. There the pigs were content edly rooting among broken pieces oi rock. "A rudo stone hammer and some charred sticks give evidence of earlier explorers who had evidently gone away unsuccessful. The hammer was of the same kind as the other implements, which had been traced back to the days of the predecessors of the Indians whom the French found in possession of the lands the Indians who built the mounds and who over-nn tho whole country from Mexico to J.nlf? Superior, where got copper for their imple ments and utonsils. Tho mound-builders, like tho explorers who had discov ered the ancient pit, looked for copper only in masses, as it had been deposited in fissure veins and in tho lava flows. The huge chunks of virgin copper weigh ing many tons and the smaller masses hanging in the rocks like metal icicles were the only kind known to the an cients.aud the moderns had been assured by the learned geologists that copper could be fouud only in rocks formed from lava. "But the pigs had turned over pieces of rock formed by the action of tho water aqueous rocks and in these conglomerates there certain was copper. This seemed a find indeed. But when the matter was reported science scoffed at the explorers, saying thut the copper conglomerates found were simply a freak of nature and that money would be wasted it an attempt should bo made to work thorn. So Mr. HuVlbut, who owned tho lands, continued to give his attention to the Huron mine, which was working the lava flows. For the money he borrowed for the Huron he gave to Quincy Shaw, of Boston, the lauds on which the conglomerates wcro found. Mr. Shaw soon began to work these rocks, and from these beginnings tho richest, the most staple aud the belt promising copper mine in the world bus been built up. The Calumet and Ilocla is a myste rious corporation. Owing the greatest mining plant in the world and spending money lavishingly in experiments, im provements and elaborate machinery, the company allows none but its own em ployes under ground and guards the de tails of all its affairs with a jealousy that piques curiosity. The company owns thousands of acres of land from which it takes the wood considerably over one hundred cords a day which in summer, feeds its extensive battery of boilers, coul being used only in winter. As the res inous wood cracalos in the fierce beat it L'ives oil a pungent odor. No lauds arc sold, but the employes of the compauy lease the surface right of their lots and can sell out to the company at a fair val uation for improvements and lease. The compauy has built au enormous school house, and the towns of Culumet aud lied Jacket eujoy a good degreo of civilization. The very larg number of educated men employed iu the various mines makes an excellent society, which has close connections with New York aud Boston, where the mines havo theii financial headquarters. Saturday, July 18, was pay day, and the various miuei disbursed iu cash $2'J0,000 un enormous amount of money to flow into the littlo towns about Portage Like. The people in Houghton aud Hancock buy Calumet and Hecla stock as they would make a deposit of money iu the savings bank. At the present rate of output President Agassiz reports there is work in sight fur seventy years to come. Tno company is increasing its capacity so as to about double its present output, or to work out the ore iu sight in about thirty-five years. The machinery for the Ked Jacket shaft now being put iu place will cost tho compauy $1,500,000. Like ull the other machinery operated by Ihe Calu met and Hecla, it is built to staud for ages. The granite on which it rests comes from Massachusetts aud the cast ings from Philadelphia. Tho great cn giue in the central power house has a greater power than the two Corliss eu gines which were the wonder of the Ccu tenuial. From a depth of 4200 feet it hauls trains of ore aud dumps them on cars to be taken to the great nulls ou Lake Linden, where the ore is crushed nnd the rock portions are washed away by successive washings until copper par ticles as fine as flour are deposite 1 ou tho washing tables. A new pumping engine, with a ca pacity of 50,000.000 gallons a day, has just been put in place, aud after the water has been used it is again elevated by huge wheels having a diameter of fifty two feet, and is allowed to flow into Ijike Liuileu. Hix days iu the week and twenty-four hour iu the day the opera tions of this great iniue ure curried ou. Detroit TtAmuc SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A Troy (N. Y.) electric car cost . $10,000. Water power runs the Dover (N. II.) electric plant. Harvard College Is having constructed the largest and finest photographic tele scope in the world. The electric light plant at the palace of Vienna is to be extended so as to make a total of 4000 incandescent lamps. A resident of Evart, Mich., has in vented a device whereby brakes applied to a locomotive will operate eveiy brake on the train. A new Swedish glass is claimed to have important advantages for mierocope and other fine lenses, giving greatly in creased power. A chair propelled by electricity from a storage battery placed beneath the seat is the latest luxnry for the invalid. One charging will last for fifty miles of travel. The telephone between Paris and Lon don having been so successful it is pro posed to connect Brussels and London. For that purpose a cable will be laid between Ostend and Dover. A Frenchman has invented an im proved method of telegraphing so that it is practicable to transmit 150 words per minute on a single wire. The mcseago when delivered from the machine is typo- written. Artificial grindstones, which outwear by years any natural stone known, aro made of a mixture of pulverized quartz, powdered flint, powdered emery or co rundum and rubber dissolved by a suit able solvent. Owing to tho rapid destruction of tho pinions, tho running of armatures at 1000 or more revolutions per minuto is being done away with. Slow speed motors, with a normal speed of 400, are now considered the best practice. The longest shaft in the world iu one piece, or in any number of pieces, is in the Washington Navy Yard, Washing ton, District of Columbia. It is i inches square, 4G0 feet long, and trans mits power to traveling cranes. It runs at 160 revolutions per minuto. It has been estimated that one ton of coal gives enough ammonia to furnish about thirty pounds of crude sulphate, the present valuo of which is about 12 per ton, and there being 10,000,000 tons of coal annually distilled for gas, no less than 133,929 tons of sulphate, of the money value of $1,607,143, are pro duced. The question why 'a piece of solid iron floats on molten iron has been satisfacto rily answered by Dr. Auderson and Mr. Wrightson. The cold metal is really heavier than the molten, and when first placed in the latter it sinks by virtue of its weight; but growiug warmer it ex pands, and thereby becoming specifically lighter it rises to the surface. After a time, however, it again shrinks and melts into the fluid mass around it. Some of tho most prominent iron founders are introducing a new and sim ple pructico in order to secure strongei castings, the method in question consist ing in placing thin sheets of wrought iron in the center of the mold previous to the oporatioa of casting. This method was first resorted to, it appears, in the casting of thin plates for the ovens ol cooking stoves, it being found that a sheet of thin irou in the ceutcr of a quarter-Inch oven plate rendered it prac tically unbreakable by fire. History of Lighthouses. The history of the lighthouse goes back to the time whoa your neighbors didn't fling things into your back yard. It is claimed that Virgil had knowledge of a lighthouse, and that be stilted that ono was placed on a tower of tho temple of Apollo, on Mount Leucas, tho light of which, visible far out at sea, warned aud guided mariners. It is even said that the colossus of Rhodes, erected 300 year befoie tho birth of Christ, showed from his uplifted baud a signal light. But the famous Pharos of Alexandria, built 2S5 B. C, is the first light of uudoubtcd rcc cord. Other lights were shown from towers at Ostlu, ltavcnna, Apamea, but the lighthouse nt Coruuna, Spaiu, is be lieved to be the oldest sea town. This was buill in the reign of Trojan, aud iu 1634 was reconstructed. Euglaud and Frauce havo towers built by their Itoman conquerors, which were used us light houses, and they are to day marvels iu the art of masoury. Chicago Herald. Preserving Iron From Uust. The beautiful ironwork so much in vogue nowaduys, is generally finished, on account of its susceptibility to rust, with a coating of black lacquer, or so uc other preparation, which is not only in appropriate but gives to the metal au unnatural appearance. A clever French man, who was au expert in metal work, showed us such a s.mple and ctluctive way of preserving it from rust, that it is worth remembering. The only material required is a cow's horn (tho toy trum pets sold iu tho shops will answer the purpose). Heat tho irou aud rub the edgo of the horn over it th.it is ull. II the horn smokes a little us you rub it ou ycu will kuow that tlio irou is hot enough. This will cause tho horn to melt, aud au imperceptible coating will bo left upon thu irou that will ullord complete protection from the damp for a year or more ou out-door work. On in door ironwork it will lost indefinitely. Haw York Tribune. A Foot-Meusurln Much I no. A Baltimore man has receutly takou out patents for a machine that takes the measure of a foot just us the famillur ap paratus used by the hatters measures uud draws a diagram of a mau's head. Thu priuciple of the machine is the same, a series of roovublu pins eoufonniu:; t) the outline of the foot and registering the shape thus indicated. It is rather a coincidence to nolo iu this connection that the diagram mado by a hat-iueasur-iug machiuo iuvarinbly resoluble au old shoe. -iVets I'tri Jvuruai, THI OOLDEH-ltOD' ' There's gold in th miner's chect Fast lookad with a golden key; And a sold moot rare in a woman's hair And fold hi tha aamis at - There's a tawny gold on the wheat's Hike! length Wbr it's breeae-trawl MMowt nod, But never a gold so full and freaw Ah, me Nona, nona like the got b-n ro I. There's gold on the maple's branch That gleams on an autumn Ina, And a golden crown when tha sun dtee down While the shadows turn and flee; There's a wealth of gold In the pointed leaves Where the willow atrews the ao I, But no such feathery filagree. Ah, me ' None, none like the goMen-ro I. There's gold in the dawn's faint streaks That glint on the poplar tree. There's gold in the mine, an 1 in lees of wine. And gold on the bumble-liep. But by the plumes of its knightly creet, Where the wild wind ridt rough-shod, There Is never a gold so fair to see. Ah, me None, none like the golden-rod. Ernett McUuffey, in Arkantav Traveler.' HUMOR OF THE DAY. A work of art Selling a picture.' Pud. The demonstration of canine joy be gins at tho end. Button Courier. An ico bill may be ccol, but it is not always collected. Wathinglon Star. No man can be a hero to his vsloV-" Ileros have no uso for such attendants. Puck. An ardent swain goes to court pre pared to plead his own cause. Detroit Free Prest. If life really were a poem, it is doubt ful if nuy one would be averse to It. Detroit Free I'reiii. Belle "This mirror is simply per fect." Bess "Ah, I see. It flatters you." Yankee lilade. The spoon craze pervades tho water- ing places. It takes only two to make a full set. Boston Herald. When a firm winds up its business it is only reasonable to suppose that it has been running down. Detroit Tribunt, Qucricus "What is Mrs. Moneybag ges's position iu society V Cynicus "Why, it's capital." Washington Star. She "Why do you shudder and shut your eyes when you see a hammock?" lie "Because I've been there." Morn ing Journal. Ever since Rebecca went to to the well watering-places have been great resorts for ladies with matrimonial aspirations. Chicago News. There is no affliction without its com pensating beuelit. The deaf mute is a stranger to tho trials of the telephone. Boston Transcript. A distinctive feature of this season's hats for tho ladies is an exceptionally low crown. Not so the price. It is as high as ever. Detroit Free yVcs. Theatre Manager (to departing specta tor) "Be pardon, sir, but there aro two more acts," "Yes, I know it. That's why I'm going." Flit ende Blaet ter. "Tho Eastern sages believe that thore is a sign ou each man's forehead thut tho angels may read," he whispered softly. "What is yours?" she answered. "To let?" Aeu York Herald. Philanthropist "You say your brother treated you with marked disre spect? In what way?" Tramp (wiping his eyes) "Went to work in my pres ence." JVew York Herald. At supper the other evening Feblo witte rather brusquely bade the table gill give him Bouie sauce. He got what he asked for, but, somehow, did not seem, to relish it. Detroit Free Press. "I say, waiter," exclaimed au impa tient customer, "I've been hero a full hourl" "I've been here since seven this moruiug," answered tho waiter. "Tirc somo, uiu't it?" Philadelphia llecord. Tho Muiden "I hope you noticed, Mr. Himer, that it was your book thut I brought out here to read." Mr. Jtimer "Yes. 1 also noticed that you fell fast asleep over it." Mmufy'i Weekly. "We have no uso for bear stories," said the oditor. "Our readers demand somethiug spicy." "Well," said tho mau witu the manuscript, "this story is about a ciuuumon bear." ludianajiolis Juurnal. "You couldn't get steaks as rare as you liked them at your late board iug house, eh?" said the old boarder to the new. "Well, it'll be rare enough you'll get them here, let me tell you!" Detroit Free Pnn. "Ureut Scott!" exclaimed the world the other duy us she wiped the perspire tiou oil the North American Coutiueut with a point luce cloud. "Did any one ever have so much trouble with -a suu before?" I.ije. One occasionally reads of the discov ery of the petriiied reuiuius of human be ings. Is this to be token us indicating thut there may have been those iu days of yore who succeeded iu makiug them selves solid ( iJetruit Free Pren. A JeiTersou avenue young man who has money enough to do the tm uuicr resorts uud conscience enough to llirt with every girl he meets, went iuto a Woo Lvard avo imu jewjlry store last wee.i where he knew one ol the clerks. ' 1 w ant three rings, lady's size," he slid. "Ah," smiled the clerk, cuuuiuly, "going to have u circus, are you!" Detroit F,xa "How ure you gcttiug on with the )iano?" asked Alphouso of his best litf oved Matilda. "Oh, very well; I can see the great progress lu my work." "How is that!" "Well, the lainily that lived next door moved a.v iy within a week alter 1 bei'au to practice. The next people stayed a month, the uext ten weeks uud the family there now h ive remained ueai ly six mouths, " ) i!.U blade. s
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