THE' FOREST REPUBLICAN U pb!lihe4 every Wednesday, ay J. E. WENK. Offlo In Bmearbaugh oY Co.'s Building KM STRUT, TIONI8TA, Fa, Terms, . . BO pw tmrnr. He mbMrlptlons receive fat 1 shorter period than three tnanths. Oorrwpondence Mllelted from t parte at the country. Na reilce will !e Ukn ( unrmoiu ouianlcUas. RATS 9 Or APVEWTI8IMO. MMra,MlMk.mlMrtlM ... If) M ifMit, m. laeh, rat Brata J. t Om ftqMT. estt lock, three b out ha. . I W On Bqaare, a Inch, ana year MM Te Bqoarea, ana year ... fltt Qurlr CMamn, fu sees Half Oelosu, oae year ................. OH(Um,mrw .....mm. Let! s4vertleeaeatt tea tnli fat eertloa. Marriages ud death aetleea gnus. All kill, for yearly eflverttwaieiite eaUeeted ma. terlj. Temporary advertise nan la BUM ke aald m linm J.k work nk M delivery. Pore REPUBLICAN. VOL. XXIV. NO. 24. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT, 7, 1891. &1.50 PER ANNUM. ;st The prico o( plntlnum has advanced fully 100 per cent., owing to iU in creased use for electrical purposes. Tho cheapest mil way furo in tho world will be that on the Central Lon don Ilailroad, ou which there will bi tbroo workmen's trains daily, the fart for six miles being but two cent. It appears that tho Wyoming Legisla ture, which recently imposed i tar of $2 on bacholors, was elected by woman's auffrngc. "This is significant," observes the New York Commercial Adeertiter. A cycling corps has been added to the equipment of the Salvation Army, an nounces tho New York Commercial Ad tertittr. Fifty young mon have been re. quested to volunteer to travel for three years on wheels. Tho tuuni'l that will connect Butlci Vttlley, Fcnn., with tho bottom of tin mammoth Eborvale vein will be, thinks the Now York Timet, one of tho great est engineering feats of tho ceutury. It will open an almost inexhaustible sup ply of coal, and will serve as a drain for all tho collcrios in that vi cinity. A good illustration of the 'expansion, of tho world's trade during the last thirty years is afforded by the produc tion of petroleum in tho Unitod States. In 1851), 84,000 gallons wero produced in tho Pennsylvania and New York oil fields, and in 1810, 083,029,908 gallons wcro exported lrom the various States which now produco tho oil. i . i If the Swiss keep on making railroads everywhere, exclaims tho New York Indejvndent, tho diligence will soon be a thing of tho past. Their latest achieve ment is tho censtruction of railway from Yicgo to Zormatt, through Stalden and St. Nicholas. The next step will be to make one up the Riffulbcrg, and then thero will be no excuse for any trav eler who fails to look upon the 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 the privacy of letters. Tho new stump is printed on very thin paper, and caunot be used again if it is onco put upon a letter. When used wet and taken off tho ouvelopo - it leaves an indelible impression upon the spot where it was attachou, so that if a new stamp is put upon tho same spot the im pression of the first stamp can be seen through it. So great Is tho demand for silver diuios, that they aro turned out now at the rate of 100,000 a day. No less than 53,176,477 in silver dimes havo been struck oS in tho past three years. For this purposo, states the Detroit Fret Preu, all tho tin current silver coin is being reworked, notably the silver half dollar, which is a clumsy pocket-piece and very unpopular. The novelty banks which the dime saviugs institutions aro sending oat is supposed to be answerable for the suddeu demand. The 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 Preu, that the world's fair will bo somewhat influenced by European poli tics. With Germany and England in close friendship and Russia allied with France to offset tho power of tho drol bund, there is very sensitive and jealous feeling in all quarters, aud our commis sioners will need to use infinite tact ia order to bring all these countries to the point of making generous exhibitions at Chicago. Of England we are certain, and probably of Germany ; but Frauce seems coy, and it is not unlikely that Russia will need a dogree of persuasion to induce her to i0 justice either to her self or to the hu. , ' V John Lickenheim, of Riley- County, Kunsos, who was a scout aud f Mght io Kansas as early as 1855, ,ud hlt the first log cibiu iu Riley UoC'utyivhen in Kansas City, Mo., a few a'a- gave in bis remiuisceuces, some iejt of the rapidity with which that city km repluced nature. "I never thought," he suid, "such things could be possible on tho ground I used to camp on. When I was here lust, some twenty-five years ago, this was nil uubroken sod about here. Why, I used to camp a few years before thit down iu the hollow in the center of tho city, aud I hnvo watered my horso lots of times at a spring on Troost avenue. Dozens of times I have fought tho Indium or tho forces of Gen eral Price along Kansas City's river froiit. Ou one occasion Price with his 40,000 men threatened to drive us bluo coats into the Missouri and the Kuw at this point, but wu wcr.j reinforced and be had to beat a retreat. In I860 tho old Missouri hud its arms spread all over the ground where the Uuiou Depot no.v Uud, aud X Uaod W fi.U u there." CO RIGHT.; Do right! f And let the tools laugh on. .. To-dy they're her tomorrow gone; While they with folded arms survey, Tread duty's path and clear the way, Be brave; though long and dark the night, Morn always brings the glorious light; Look up, and fair ambitions Bams Shall light you on to wealth and fame. Fight on; the world shall know your name. .. , Do right Do right! And bear proud folly's scorn, Their uight shall be your waking morn Whon laurels crown you; such as they Will feel tha touch of cold deoay. When grateful thousands bless They'll feel oold want and sore distress Bo battla bravely; fight to win! Fear not the strife; heed not the din; J Bear well the cross tha crown to win; Do right) B. J. M'Dermott, in New York Newt. A CHIP, Jo Taliaferro's father was poor, his father bad been poor before him, and his grandfather back of him again. It was in bis great-grand fathor's days, aud through his great-grandfather's bands, that the monoy had slipped away from tho family. Since then no ono had bad the energy to replace it. "It was too much trouble," said tho Taliaferros, who pronounced their name 'Tolly ver." Jo's father did make a half-hearted effort. lie wandored from his home in Alabama up North somehow, and ran away with old Snyder B. Simes's daugh ter and only child. Snyder B. Simus, lumber merchant, was a Maine man who had made his pilo himself and meant to keep it. lie burned his daughter's let ters unopened and made a new will. "If my money's to be spent in riotous living, I mean to spend it myself," he said, buttoning up his pockets. Mrs. Taliaferro burst into tears when she first saw her new Southern home; then she gut up and put on an apron and began to clean the house. This she con tinued to do until the day of her death. She never learned to adjust herself to ner surrounaings, 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 the gre.it god of cleanliness. She left one little boy behind her,' named Jo, to the care or, more prop erly speaking, to the neglect of his lather. "Do you see that man!" said the su pcrintendent of the great Brookvillo glass works, which Northern capital had lately plumed in Urookvule County, Al abama, "do you see that man?" be was pointing out Jo'a father. 'Well you will never see bim doing any more than he is now. Nobody ever saw him work, lie eats, drinks, clothes himself, has a roof over his head, and not a cent in his pocket. Now, how does he do it? And there are a dozen like him about here. I tell you, the mysteries of Pans are nothing to the mysteries of Brookviile And as we can never permit our minds to dwell on a subject without heariug lrom it again within twenty-four hours, that same day the superintendent re ceived a letter from Jo. The spelling was dubious and the haudwriting shaky, but there was noth ing dubious or shaky in the spirit of the composition. "Mister Huperintendant: I wud like Plao in yor employ. Jo Tolly. "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 fuc-simile of that letter minus the postscript, to which he accorded a similar tieatiuent, but whon he saw those same straggling characters on an envel ope iu his mail the third week he opened it witn an amusod curiosity. "Mister Buperintendant: I wrot you Letters and ha v no ansar. I wod like to be in yur employ but I leant wait I mus git a jytu. i inuM air wuiar sua oung. JO TOIXT." The superintendent's hand with the paper in it hovered over the scrap basket men he cirew it back. At bis call weak kneed young man came 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 fow weeks Jo Tolly was like a new born puppy out in the world with his eyes shut. "You must look about you, Tolly," said the head clerk. "Now, I started out witn no money, no education, no backing, and here I am, all by keeping my eyes peeiea. The clerk with the weak knees struck in: "Look at me," he said. "I've been a sober, honest, industrious, God-fearing man lor ntteen years, and not a ceut to show lor it." Jo turned his Ions', ruddy fuce aud bier, innocent blue eyes from one to the other and said nothing. He rarely talked, and when be did, it. was with a deliberate slowness which barely escaped a drawl, But he pondered all that he heard in his heart, appurently; for gradually his puppydoui fell from him aud he became a satisfactory fixture in the otliee. The Brookviile Glass Works wero close corporation. They hud bought up two thousand acres about the situ al lotted for their works. Their laborers dwelt iu their cottuues built on thci land; they bought from tho company store, and lived under laws of their di rectors' making. But there was a Nuboth's viucyard in tho centre of the settUment, The trouble was that old Colonel Jay respected his ancestors, aud refused to liiteu to any proposition rega:ding their sale; for the "vineyard" wus a luuiily buryiug-grouud this lim-.. v The supcriuteudeut vainly re, -esented to bim that the bones should be cVrefully removed. "They are eurth to earth by thi sir," said Culouui Juy, wiUi UatuliU,., "When I tell that ground, sir, I sell them. So you will not mention it again, if you please, sir." After that, t e superintendent, who expected a pistol in every Alabama pocket, did not care to open the subject again. "Ain't you ever goln' to sell, Uolonol Jayt" asked Jo. lie had paddled acrots tbe creek which separated the glass works from the old man's house, and was sitting on his porch with him in the twilight. "No, sir. Nor I ain't ever going to accommodate again, noither. I told those Dixes they might bury their little babby there, and what did they dot Laid it right on grcat-grandaunt 'Liza. I went and ' told them they'd got to take that babby off. But it warn't pleasant. I won't accommodate again." "And you ain't ever goin's to sell, Colonol Jay I" 'Look here, Jo, said tbe colonel, testily, "how old are yout Eighteen years. Well, I guess you remember 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 askod in his most deliberate speech. The colonel was staggered and showed it. "If I were you," Jo went on, now looking over the water, "I'd fix that while I was able. There's a whole acre there, and there ain't but one end of it in graves. I'd sell it all under a. deed that would make the man who bought it keep the grave end nice and clean, and the grass cut and perhaps flowers." Colonel Jay rose from his chair. "Boy," he cried, "you're right! Why didn't I think of that?" Then his face fell suddenly. "But who'd be fool enough to buy?" "I would," auswered 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 What the 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 than the com nanv'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-stockod walls. "I spent all my money there." The money referred to was a small sum which he had gotten by auctioning off tbe worn-ou roof which covered him, and the bit of land on which he stood, The rest of the tract had been sold al most to the very daor step long before, There had been no one to interfere in his reinvestment, his father having per formed the first graceful act in his worthless life bv stepuinjr 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 and try to keep adding to your bank-book. That's the wav." "Yes, sir," said Jo, submissivoly; but at the same time it was not his way, nor did he follow it. At first the Tolly store was only open at night.and Jo waited on the 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 the weak-kneed clerk, who came to inspect bis enterprise by stealth and after nightfall. "Why, wouldn't even like the chief to see me come in here. And how can you sleep right next to those graves ' "I like them," said Jo, showing the first sign of interest. "I m getting real fond of them. I like Aunt 'Liza, and I fcol like I knew Aunt Jane. " 'Dear friends, repent; no more delay, For dtyith will noma to take no nay; Be always ready, night and nay, 1 suddenly wu snatched away.' I feci juBt like she was saying it to me every time I read it. The head clerk he of the "peeled eyes also paid Jo a visit ; but he came iu bv broad daylight and examined everything. He laughed a good 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 one and said notlunsr. As yet the superintandent had said nouunor either, but that came, One day, as Jo was passing through his office, ho stopped bim, "Tollv." he said, earelessly, "how much do vou hold your land at?" "What do you think it's worth sir," inquired Jo, respectfully, "Not much." "I've got my store built and paid for out of it." Jo went on, as tnougn caicu iating aloud. "Pve paid for my land the business is crowinir, aud "Vou take a week to think it over In," said the superintendent, hastily On that day week Jo entered the superintendent's office and stood before his desk. "Well, Tolly," said the superintennd eut. "what is it J" "It's ten thousand dollars," said Jo When the superintendent had a little recovered be kuew that he was a very aiiirv mau. aud at the same time that it behooved bim to walk carefully. "The directors couldu't consider such a Dilce." he said. "It wouldn't be worth it to tlicm." "No, sir," said Jo, meekly. "I know it aiu't worth much to auybody but me." Tbeu it was that tho superintended iave Jo very clearly to understand that coiuidervd Uiiu iufiinging ou rights of the company in whose servics he was. The boy looked so puzzled that he melted somewhat. "You don't understlnd me.w "No, sir," said Jo. "I thought 1 owned the land." So you do," said the superintendent, reassuringly, feeling now on sure ground ; ut 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 workB? He could hardly conceal his dismay. "Tolly," he said sternly, "you must choose between the office and 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 clerk wasn t doing as well as ha 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 tbe 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 off tbe apron which he wore in his shop, or to brush the flour from his coat. These adjuncts helped to heighten the ruddy innocence of his appearance as be entered. He faced tbe curious eyes of tbe waiting board with a disarming guilelessness. "Did you want me, sir, be 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 have repeated it more persistently when the question of barter was opened. His 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?" he 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 hu head and all that horse sense on the insidol" "Then, sir, you think him playing a game, do your' asKea the superintend ent. Playing? He's played itt Hasn't he caught us in just the trap he started out to?" The old man went off in another par oxysm of laughter. "What did you say tbe lad s name was," be gasped as be recovered. "Jo Tolly," answered the disgusted superintendent, "or, rather, that's what be ca..s himself. Uis 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 name is Snyder B. Simes it's him I" cried the old man, rising to his feet excitedly. "Where's he gone? Where's he gone?" Ho rushed from tbe 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, "allew me to present my grand 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 business to be on agreea ble terms with this Brookviile Glass Works Compauy." Here Mr. Simes, shaking with laugh ter, broke down again. "Oh, boys, ain't he a chip of the old block?" he cried.- tfVank Ledie't. How tins Keeps Cool. Although one may not keep cool, it is some satisfaction to read how others manage it. There is the King of Siam, for instance. He is said to have in one of his country palaces a wonderful pavil ion. It was built by a Chinese engineei as a refuge for the King during the ex treme heut of summer. Tbo 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. The pavilion is twenty-eight feet long and seventeen wide, aud stauds in the middle of a huge basin made of beautiful colored marbles'. When the King enters tli6 pavilion the singlo door is closed and cemented. Then the sluice gates are opened aud the bfn is filled with water. Higher and higuur it rises, until the pavilion is covered and only tho veutilutors at the top connect it with the open air. When the heat of the sun is so great that the water almost boils on tho surface of the freshest fountuiut this pavilion is deliciously cool. And this is the wuy tho King of Sum cools himself off iu hot weather. It souadt very delightful. A Giant Sunflower. There is growing on East Walnut street, near Jefferson, a -sunflower that bus attracted much attcutiou on 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 magnificent bunch of flowers leans toward the rising sun fre-th from its dewy bath, tho giant plant testifies elo quently to the fertility of the soil of the Oauirks. Kansas should souj to Spring lield for her floral emblem. Httrinyluid PIGS FOUND TUE WEALTH. HOW A CELEBRATED OOPPEB MINB WAS DISCOVERED. A Michigan Boardln(t-Honn Keeper Found the Animal Hooting and Squealing in Fine Ore), "How was tbe 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 hotel 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 bailt a shanty to live 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 place 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. Tbe 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 tho lands the Indians who built the mounds and who over-run tho whole country from Mexico to l.Ve Superior, where tLvy got copper for their imple ments and utensils. The mound-builders, like the 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,and the moderns had been assured by the learned geologists that copper couid be found only in rocks formed from lava. "But the pigs had turned over pieces of rock formed by the action of the water aqueous rocks and in these conglomerates there certain was copper. This seemed a And indeed. But when the matter was reported science scoffed at tbe explorers, saying that the copper conglomerates found were simply a freak of nature and that money would be wasted if an attempt should be made to work them. So Mr. Hurlbut, who owned the lands, continued to ifivo his attention to the Huron mine, which was working the lava flows. For the money be borrowed for the Huron he gavo to Quincy Shaw, of Boston, the lands on which tbe conglomerates wero found. Mr. Shaw soon began to work theso rocks, and from these begiunings tbe richest, the most staple aud the best promising copper mine in the world has been built up. The Calumet and Hecla 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 owu em ployes under ground and guards the de tails of all its affairs with a jealousy that piques curiosity. The compauy owns thousands of acres of hind from which it takes the wood considerably over ono hundred cords a day which in summer feeds its extensive battery of boilers, coul being used only in winter. As the res inous wood crackles ia the fierce beat it gives off a pungent odor. No binds are sold, but the employes of the company lease the surface right of their lots and can sell out to tbe company at a fair val uation for improvements and lease. The company has built au enormous school house, and tbe towns of Calumet and lied Jacket enjoy a good degree of civilization. The very large number of educated men employed in the various mines makes an excellent society, which has close connections with New York and Boston, where the mines have theii financial headquarters. Saturday, July 18, was pay day, and the various mines disbursed iu cosh $290,01)0 an enormous amount of money to flow into the little towns about Portage Lake. The people in Houghton and 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 for seventy years to come. Tne company is increasing .ts capacity so as to about double its present output, or to work out tbe ore iu sight in about thirty-five years. The machinery for the Hed Jacket shaft now being put in place will cost the company $1, 500,000. Like all the other machinery operated by the 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. The great en gine ia the central power house has a greater power than the two Corliss eu gines which were the wonder of the Cen tennial. From a depth of 4200 feet it hauls trains of ore and dumps them on cars to be taken to the great mills on Lake Linden, where the ore is crushed and the rock portions are washed away by successive washings until copper par ticles as fine as flour are deposited ou the 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 wuter has been used it is again elevated by huge wheels having a diameter of fifty-two feet, aud is allowed to flow into Lake Linden. Hix days iu the week and twenty-four hour in the day the opera tions of this great uiiu(j are curried uu. Detroit Tribune, SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A Troy (N. Y.I electric car cost 110,000. Water power runs the Dover (N. H.) 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 Tented a device whereby brakes applied to a locomotive will operate every brake on the tram. A new Swedish glass is claimed to have important advantages for microcope 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 luxury 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 Dovor. A Frenchman has invented an im proved method of telegraphing so that it Is practicable to transmit lou words per minute on a single wire. The meseage when delivered from the machine is type written. Artificial grindstones, which outwear by years any natural stone known, are made of a mixture of pulverized quartz, powdered flint, powdered emery or co rundum and rubber dissolved by a suit able solvent. Owing to the rapid destruction of the pinions, tbe running of armatures at 1000 or more revolutions per minute 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 In one piece, or in any number of pieces, is in the Washington Navy Yard, Washing ton, District of Columbia. ' It is St inches square, 4C0 feet long, and trans mits power to traveling cranes. It runs at 160 revolutions per minute. It has been estimated that one ton of coal gives enough ammonia to furnish about thirty pounds of crude sulphate, the present value of which is about 12 per ton, and there being 10,000,000 tons of coal annually distilled for gas, no loss than 133,929 tons of sulphate, of the money value of $1,607,148, are pro duced. Tbe question why 'a piece of solid iron float on molten iron has been satisfacto rily answered by Dr. Anderson 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 growing 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 the most prominent iron founders are introducing a new and sim ple practice in order to secure strongci castings, tho method in question consist ing in placing thin sheets of wrought iron in the ceuter of the mold previous to tbe operation of casting. This method was first resorted to, it appears, in the casting of thin plates for the ovens of conking stoves, it being found that a sheet of thin iron in the center of a quarter-inch oven plate reudcred it prac tically unbreakable by fire. History of Lighthouses. The history of the lighthouse goei back to the time when your neighbors didn't fling things into your back yard. It is claimed that Virgil bad knowledge of a lighthouse, and that he stated that one was placed on a tower of tho temple of Apollo, on Mount Leucas, the light of which, visible far out at sea, warned aud guided mariners. It is even said that tbe colossus of Rhodes, erected 300 yean before the birth of Christ, showed from his uplifted hand a signal light. But the famous Pharos of Alexandria, built 235 B. 0., is tbe first light of uudoubtcd roc cord. Other lights were shown from towers at Ostia, Kavcnna, Apainua, but the lighthouse at Corunua, Spain, is be lieved to be the oldest sea town. This was built in the reigu of Trojan, and in 1634 was reconstructed. Kugland aud France havo towers built by their Komun conquerors, which were used as light houses, and they are to-day marvels iu tbe art of masonry. Chicago Herald. Preserving Iron From Rust. The beautiful ironwork so much iu vogUe nowadays, is generally finished, on account of its susceptibility to rust, with a coating of black lacquer, or so ue other preparation, which U not only in appropriate but gives to the metal au unnatural appearance. A clever French man, who was an expert in mutul work, showed us such a s.mplo and effective way of preserving it from rust, that it is worth remembering. The ouly material required is a cow's horn (the toy trum pets sold in the shops will answer the purpose). Heut the iron aud rub the edge of the born over it tint is ull. II the horn smokes a little as you rub it ou you will kuow that tho irou is hot euough. This will cuusu tho horn to melt, and an imperceptible contiug will be left upon the irou that will afford complete protection from the (lamp for u year or more ou out-door work. Ou in door ironwork it will lust iudefiuituly. Hew York Tribune. A Foot-Heasurin Machine. A Baltimore man has receutly tukou out patents for a muehiuu that takes the measure of a foot just as the familiar ap paratus used by the hatters measures au l draws a diagram of a mau's head. The priuciple of the machine is the same, a series of movable pius conforming tj the outline of the foot aud registering tho shape thus indicated. It is ruther a coincidence to note iu this connection that the diagram made by a hut-measuring machiue iuvariably rviutublus au old shoe. Aets JVi JvurtuU, - THE aOLDEK-nODC ' There gold in the miser's chest Fast looked with a golden key; Jtn& a gold moat rare in a woman's hair And (old In tha sands at saa: . There's a tawny gold on the wheat's lithe length Where it's breese-towed billows nod, But never a gold so full and freew Ah, me None, none like the goMen-ro4. There's gold on the maple's branch That gleams on an autumn lea. And a golden crown when tha sun die down While the shadows turn and flee; There's a wealth of gold In tha pointed leaves Where tbe willow strews tha sod, But no such feathery filagree. Ah, ma ) None, none like tha golden-rod. There's gold in the dawn's faint streaks That glint on the poplar tree, There's gold in the mine, and in leea of wine) And gold on the bumble-bee. But by the plumes of its knightly crest, Where tha wild wind rides rough-shod, There is never a gold so fair to see; Ah, me None, none like the golden-rod. Enuit McOaffey, in Arkantaw Traveler.' IIUMOB OF THE DAT. A work of art Selling a picture.-1 Pud. The demonstration of canine joy be- ' gins at the end. Button Courier. An ice bill may be ccol, but it is not always collected. Wathington Star. No man can be a hero to his valoi. ' Ileros have no use for such attendants. Pack. , An ardent swain goes to court pre pared to plead his own cause. Detroit Free Prett. If life really were a poem, it is doubt ful if any one would be averse to it. Detroit Free Prett. Belle "This mirror is simply per fect." Bess "Ah, I see. It flatters you." Yankee Blade. Tbe spoon craze pervades tho water-,,.. ing places. It takes only two to make a full set. Boiton UeraXd. When a firm winds up its business it Is only reasonable - to suppose that it has been running down. Detroit Tribune. Querlcus "What is Mrs. Moneybag ges's position in society?" Cynicus "Why, it's capital." Washington Star. She "Why do you shudder and shut your eyes when you soe a hammock?" He "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 Newt. There is no affliction without its com pensating benefit. The deuf mute is a stranger to the trials of the telephone. Boston Trantcrijit. A distinctive feature of this season's huts for the ladies is an exceptionally low crown. Not so the price. It is as high as ever. Detroit Free Prest. Theatre Munager (to departing specta tor) "Bej pardon, sir, but there are two more acts," "Yes, I know it. That's why I'm going." Flieqcnde Blaet Ur. "The Eastern sagos believe that there is a sign on each man's forehead thut the angels may read," he whispered softly. "What is yours?" she auswered. "To let?" Aits 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." New York Herald. At supper the other evening Feble witte rather brusquely bado the table gill give him some sauce. He got what he asked for, but, somehow, did not seem to relish it. Detroit Free Preu. "I say, waiter," exclaimed an impa tient customer, "I've been here a full hour!" "I've been here since seven this morning," answered the waiter. "Tire some, aiu't it?" Philadelphia Record. The Maiden "I hope you noticed, Mr. Kiiner, that it was your book that I brought out here to read." Mr. Kimcr -"Yes. I also noticed that you fell fust asleep over it." iluntey't Weekly. "We have no use for bear stories," said the editor. "Our readers demand something spicy." "Well," suid tbe man with the mauuscript, "this story is about a cinnamon bear." lndianapuli Journal. "You couldn't get steaks as rare as you liked them at your lute boarding house, eh?" said the old boarder to the new. "Well, it'll be rare enough you'll get them here, let me toll you!" Detroit Free Preu. "Urent Scott!" exclaimed the world the other duy as she wiped the perspira tion oil the North American C'ontiuout with a point lace cloud. "Did auy one ever have so much trouble with a sun before?" l.ije. . One occasionally reads of the discov ery of the petrilicd reuiuius of human be ings. Is this to be tuken as indicating that there may have been those iu days of yore who succeeded iu uiakiug them selves solid f Oetrvit free Press, A Jclfersou avuuue young muu who has money euough to do the summer resorts aud conscience enough to flirt with every girl he meets, wuut iuto a Woo I urd a va line jewalry store lust ttec.c where he knew one ot the clerks. ' 1 wuut three riugs, lady's size," ho suid. "Ah," smiled the clerk, cuuuingly, "goiug to have a circus, are you?" Detroit Fii iVc'M. "How are you gettiug on with the fiiauo?" aaked Alphouso of his best be oved Matilda. "Oh, very well; I can see the groat progress iu my work." "How is thutl" "Well, the luinily tint lived next door moved n.vay wituiu a week after 1 begau to practice. The next people stayed a mouth, the next tea weeks aud the family there now have rcuniuvl near ly si mouths," J'uiAi hUde,
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