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TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT, 14, 1891.
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BUlanlCallOU.
General Miles disapprove of the plnn
to consolidate State militia with tha
regular army.
Adobo residouces aro becoming popu
lur in Southom California, from tho fact
that they aro conlcr la summer and
warmer la winter than ordinary resi
dences. Contrary to time Immemorial custom
tho Gerraau Emperor has resolved that
liia oldest eon, while a minor, is not to
accept tho patronage or presidency ol
any social or philnuthropio association
whatever.
When American farmers do business
tvlth Europe, brags tho Philadelphia j
Jtecord, they do it on a large scale. It
will take $100,000,000 to pay for tho
wheat which Franco will this year bo
compelled to sccuro from this couatry.
Now Russia, following tho examplo of
England, Germany, Franco, Austria,
Belgium and Switzerland, has adopted a
magazino gun for tho armies. "Th
United States has yet to fall in lino,'1
comments tho Now York Mail and Ex
press. Tho Treasuiy officers ntSan Francisco
have rejected papers presented at that!
port by Chinnmeu seeking admission to
tho country, as certificates of identifica
tion issuod by tho Chincso Government,
in compliance! with Section six of the Re
striction Act adopted nino years ago.
This section provided that all Chincso,
other than laborers, to be permitted to
enter tho country, should show a Gov
ernment certificate properly identifying
them. Chinamen havo not attempted to
avail thomsulvcs of this provision until
within tho last few months. Tho iort
officers tuspectod that tho papers offered
wero forgeries, and have since accer
tntnod that such documents, forged and
bearing an imitation of the Imperial teal
of China, have boon sold to Chinamen
coming to this country for from $250 to
(300.
L. J
The rapid, tho startling growth of the
debt of Canada, states tho Neo England
Wagatinc, which has increased from
$78,209,713 in 1S70, to (238,000,000
In 1800, with a population almost at a
tandstill and a stagnant trade, has struck
calm, impartial observers with the idea
that thore has boon something wrang in
the government of a peaceful young
Slate of enormous extent and great nat
ural resources. Of course, a large por
tion of this debt was incurred for tho
construction of railways, improvement of
sauals, and similar political and commer
cial works; but tho results or returns do
not compensate for the vastnesj of tho
now debt, with its oppressive load of in
terest. Thoy freely comment upon the
fact that while the United Status have
reduced their debt from $39 to $16.80
per head in twenty years Cuuuda has run
up her's from $21 to 817.
A young student at the Nichols Latin
School at Lewiston, Mo., who goes under
tho name of Lewis P. Clinton, is really
Bomayou, King of tho Bassa tribe in the
outhwestcrn part of Africa. Tha tribe
occupies a territory running back over
the Kong Mountains, 600 miles In length
and 200 miles in breadth, with an outlet
to the sea. In his boyhood Somnyou had
a strong desire to learn the English lan
guage, S3 that ho might trade for his
peoplo. With this determination he ran
sway from his trlbo and finally found
his way to this country under the care of
I missionary. Ho is not only a good
English scholar, but has shown average
ability iu mastering Latin, Greek, matha
mntics, and other studios. Ho contem
plates a courso in Bates College, after
which his plan is to go back to his peo
ple, not as a ruler, but for the purposo of
establishing a civilized colony and do
vothig his llfo and otiorgy to tho intsr
tuts of his ponplo, educationally and re
ligiously. " Soma you defrays his cx
pcuscsat school by locturiug.
oi The FVuch earned long ago an hon
treitnblo distinction by their success lu the
read tmcut pttho blind, and the figures
Socictut tho rtyeut anuual meeting of La
Paris fia d'Astriauce pour 1m Aveuglosin
this rcsptilly sustains their roputalton in
tions of th.ct. Tho two principal institu
mologiquo ' s city are tho Cliuiquo Opthal
L'Ecola Brai. do Quiuzo YingU and
tho preservative, the former devoted to
tight, and tho lua or the restoration of
tho hopclussly blister to the instruction oi
iu 18S0 the Cliuiijd. Since its creation
treatment 108,793 puuio has had under
portion of cures has Mieuts, and tho pro
did figures of uinoty-tlwVtachcd tho splen
the expensos iueurrod iif, per cent., whllo
not oxeceded seventy francs each case has
1S. The Ecolo Braillo Inn, or less than
crcditablo account to give of Is an equally
blind boys and girls uro oduoi'solf. Tha
breadwinners, not only for thoi tod to be
but iu mauy cases for their pareuiiiselvas,
relatives. While at the school the'-s un 1
only earn enough to pay for their inc not
teuance, but aro able to contribute- toiiu
savings batik fund which is used to slui a
them iu business, A
v I
"IF WK MIGHT."
1 If we might, oh If we might
i Tttra baek the Wheel, of time, my friend,
tcv-ntgh;
If to the vale of childhood we would go
, And climb again from thorn warm doptht
, bplow
To thlt stoop hilside; live from day to day,
The peat just at we lived it once, oh nay
Would you he glad to treat the pathway
o'er.
The tame old steps again, no lest, no more?
If we might, yea, if we might
Turn back the whirling wheels, my friends,
to-night,
And slowly wind from youth to middle age,
The tangled road; if every blotted page
W aniiM ith it n .. .1 la uA 1 . ,.
In life's book akip all the grief and paln
Would you be willing then to live thorn o'er.
The backward years
that can return no
more?
'If I might, oh, if I might,
Perhaps I would, perhaps I should to-night;
I am not wise. Old friendships were so true,
Old loves so sweet, and, even if I knew,
I must have all the sorrow, all the pain.
For love's dear sake I might go back again,
The thorny pathway to my willing foot
Would not be hard, I think it would be
sweet"
But, if the spring, ah! If the spring
Lead on to summer; if the autumn bring
The winter tnowftakee, if the joyous ehlmo
or wintry bells ring In the blossom time.
hy would you live again the same old year,
Knowing another spring will soon be here?
The dead May violets rather should you kiss
And aey, "Next year they will be sweet as
this."
Aad If the life, ah, if the life
We live on earth, so full of restless strife,
So full of joyful love, or blessed peace
Is beautiful, why should you wish to cease
The onward journey? Do not wish again
To live life over, even without the pain,
For oh, my friend, when life's last sun is set
The bright next day Is Heaven, do not
forget.
Juiia II. Hay, in Botlon Journal.
"NONA."
Count Raymond Do Villcmere awoko
from his lethargy und recognized his
physitian who was lcoking at him
sadly.
'Saved again I" said the potiont,
smiling as he turned his head on the
pillow.
"My poor fellow," sighed the doctor,
and as his hearer opened his eyes wide
in wonder he added :
"You aro a brave man, and it is my
duty to tell you the truth."
"WclU"
"You have all tho symptoms of
Nona."
"What's that" asked Raymond.
"A fatal malady," replied the medical
man; "you have recovered from tho
lethargy, and will be conscious for three
hours, but, at tho end of that time, death
will como suddenly, instantaneously."
"Bother 1" suid the Count.
"Be brave, my friend; arrange your
affairs, you have just time. Now I will
leave you. Good-by."
Ten minutes later, Count do Villcmere,
clad in a flannel dressing gown was
calmly making his toilet. When he had
polished his lingcr-nails, and given the
lust touch to his moustache, he lighted a
cigar, and casting a heart-broken glanco
at the box, the contents of which he
should never finish, he threw himself
upon a couch and reflected. He was far
too brave to fear death, and yet ho found
his situation an unpleasant one. Tho
day before he had been seized with a
violent illness and believing that his last
hour was come, had sent for a notary
and a priest, and had burned his letters.
Then he had fallen into i heavy sleep
from which he had not expected to
awake. Now ho felt like a condemned
man, who, after having hopes of pardon,
suddenly finds himself on the scaffold.
Outside- his window was heard the
ceaseless rattle of vehicles in tho Champs
Elysees, and every one seemed full of
joy and health in the bright June sun
light. He himself felt vigorous and en
ergetic, and he could hardly believe that
to-morrow there rould be a lugubrious
procession, a heavy jolting hearse lead
ing the way, then prayers and droning
hymns around his grave. Yet, it was
true, in a few hours, his joys, sorrows
and affections, his whole life would be
forgotten. Stretched comfortably upon
the sofa, he finished his cigar, and in
imagination lived his life BRuin. Long
forgotten events of his childhood were
recalled, then his various love affairs
from the age of fiftceu to twenty-five
years, and more distinctly than all, the
first few months after his marriage. He
remembered every detail of those honeyed
moons. Ah, how happy he and Odette
had been 1 He had loved her madly and
with a fierce jealousy which mado thorn
both laugh.
And it had ended in a quarrel, a rup
ture caused by his mistake, and an act of
rash folly on the part ol the beautiful
young countess. Ho they separated by
mutual couseut, but they cou tinned to
love each other in secret, and although
they affected indifference and passed
each other with cold bows on the Boul
evarde or at balls, they did uot deceive
their mutual friends.
The thought of dying without seeing
his beloved one again was more than Ray
mond could bear, aud tho studiod cold
ness so long persisted iu seemed unneces
sary now that he was about to be sep
arated from her by dejtu. What harm
would one step towards reconciliation do
him, even if she mado no movement in
response I
Ho seated himself r.t his desk, hur
riedly w.-ote a brief message, rang the
bell, aud seut his valet to the telegraph
office. Then he looked at his watch,
he had two hours more to live.
"She will havo just time to come," he
said, but then he wondered vhether sho
would come or not. Would that fond
farewell touch her heart, or would the
dignity of au offended woman be inex
orable even to the laslt The agony of
suspei
suspense was now added to the anxiety
wuicu lluyiuoud de YilUiuea iu
spite bf his gentlemanly self-possession,
counted the minutes as they passed. Ho
wrote a long letter to his mother, anil
the act brought tears to his eyes. It
was hardly finished when a ring at the
front door bell mado him start, and a
few seconds inter the door of his room
opened and a servant announced :
"Madame the Countess de Villcmere."
He stood up and turning pale, ex
claimed :
Odette!"
The young woman, however, stopped
In the doorway, and with a frowning
glance said coldlyj
"This is a senseless joke."
"A jokol" ho exclaimed. "What do
you meanf"
"You sent me a dispatch saying that
you wero dying, and I find you sitting
up writing. Good day, sir."
She turned round and was leaving
him, when he said :
"Listen, Odette; let mo explain, I en
treat you. Soo, road this letter only
look at it once I"
Ho handed her the lcttor he had just
written to his mother, and when sho had
glanced at the first page, she said :
"Thca it is truo. Oh, my poor darl
ing!" Too next minute she had thrown her
self upon his neck and burst into sobs.
Long they stood there, clasped in a
close embrace which seemed to contain
their regrets for their few months of
happineis and their remorse for their
wasted years. At last they sat down,
hand in hand, struck dumb, over
whelmed with sorrow. But the Count
recollected what was duo to the dignity
of his noblo ancestors, .one of whom, his
grandfather had whistled an air from
the Indcs Galantes as ho mounted the
scaffold in '93.
"Bah I" said Raymond, with a smile.
"I hnve nothing to complain of; I ought
to feel thankful for being allowed to die
of a malady which will be tho fashion
to-morrow" but Odette stopped him
with a glance of roproach. Womon are
not fond of such iorny.
Then they talked of the past in low
tones, as if they wero already in a funorai
chamber, and in spito of themselves they
Fmilcd at tho thought of the day gone
by. 'When tboy glanced round tho room
many a trifling object servod to recall
some ovont which occurred before thoir
marriago. A hunting scene hanging on
the wall made thorn hoar onco moro tho
merry "Hallalis! Whoop 1" piercing the
November mist, and thoy spoko of their
long rides sldo by sido over
tho dried leave of tho forest.
Somo tiny dusty fans on tho
mantel carried them back to a cotillon
dancod togothor and to their flirtation
under the exotlo plants in tho green
house. Then they wandorod in fancy
along tho green, cool pathways of tho
Bois de Boulogne, lunched in tho Chi
nese Pavilion, and carno back by the
Champs-Elysees to tho busy, bustling
city, parting for a few hours only, im
patient to meat again (after tho tiresome
club and the five o'clock tea) at tho
opera, or, still better, to pass a quiot
evening together at hor home.
Raymond and Odette were eo busy
with their reminiscences that they lost
all sense of time, and of the catastropho
which had brought them together again.
A ring at the front door roilaed them
suddenly, and they looked at each othor
iu acute anguish.
"Moniseur, Doctor Darlois," said a ser
vant as tho door of tho room opened,
aud the new comer exclaimed in amaze
ment. "Whatl Up? And I camo to"
"To what?" asked Raymond do Villo
mero. "I camo in ordor to report your
death," said tho physician.
"Thanks for the attention, Doctor,"
said the Count with a smilo, and Madame
de Villemere exclaimod anxiously,
"He is cured then?"
"Evidently, Madame. It Is very
strange, the Echo de CUnique of lust
week gave a most conclusive article on
Nona. However, I am sincerely thank
ful, quite delighted"
.The good man was glad, of course,
but yet at the bottom of his heart tboro
was a tiny grain of annoyance.
The Couut whispered in his wlfo's
ear:
"Shall we ask hira to ditto with us
this evening, dear!" From th French
in Epoch.
The Blae Sky.
Every ono admires and talks of tho
bluo sky, but how many havo observed
not only that tho sky is sometimes of a
deeper or richer bluo than at other times,
but that its changes of tint ocour In a
more or less regular way?
Such is tho conclusion of M. Crova,
who has reported to the Paris Acadomy
of Science the result of his systematic
observations of sky colors from December,
1S89, to December, 1890. .
He finds that the sky is most Intensely
blue in December, January, March and
Suotember, and paler in July, August
and November. Observing tho chauges
from hour to hour, he found that it was
more deeply blue in tho morning than
during the beat or midday. This indi
cates that, since tho doepost color is
seen, generally speaking, in tho coldost
months and during the cooler part of tho
day, heat is aa important element in
determining the depth of tho sky color.
Youth'i Companion.
To Straighten tho Eye.
Any squint or cast in tho ojo can be
curod without the expense of going to a I
physician or an oculist. It is only
necessary to get a pair of spectacles with
plain gloss in and to color tho center of
one of the lenses black. Tho cyo will
naturally make an effort to look straight
ahead all the time, aud after a few days
the effort will be imperceptible. With a
child a cure can bo effected in a week, :
and with a grown person a month will
suffice to remedy tho wort cose. Wear
ing smoked glasses is the btut possiblo
safeguard for weak eyes when in a strong
li ;Ut, and even these will help to get ltd
of a "cast" by strengthening tho eyei
und relieving them from uuuecetsary ex
ertion, Pttrvit Free Freu.
scientific and industrial
There Is no way to bend wood better
or cheaper than by steaming.
Recent experiments show that with
propor appliances ordinary gaslight can
be used in making photographs.
Fahrenheit at first ued alcohol in
making his thermometers. Ho was lod
to use mercury after experimenting with
boiling water.
By a recent appliance to kttchc
ranges tha refuse from tho kttchon is
thoroughly dried, convorted into char
coal, and used as fuel.
At tho naval exhibition in London
there is a colossal elcctrio lamp, con
structed by the Admiralty, which gives a
light equal to 6,000,000 candles.
Jupiter is larger tbon all tho other
planets and satellites of the solar system.
The sun is a little moro than 1000 times
largor than Jupiter. But Arcturus is
030,000 times larger than tho sun.
A philological statistician calculates
that in tho year 2000 there will be
1,700,000,000 people who speak Eng
lish, and that the other European lan
guages will bo spoken by only 500,000,
000 people.
A scientific observer publishes a pam
phlet to show that the European jaw is
narrowing through the lesser severity of
its labors that accompanies civilized
food. The lower jaws of the later Eng
lish are smaller than those of ancient
Britons or even of Australians.
To the inhabitants of the moon, it
there be any such beings, the earth ap
pears sixteen times larger than the sun
and of a blue color. That the aurora
boreals is the tail to tho earth like tho
tail to comets, and as seen from the moon
streams out behind our globe in a bright
and beautiful trail.
The rste of growth of corals is diffi
cult to estimato. At the meeting of tho
Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila
delphia, Profossor Hellprin exhibited a
specimen of Porites astrceoides which
had been taken from an anchor cast in
the autumn of 1885. He estimated that
the annual amount of increase was
scarcely one-twentieth of an inch.
The latest plan to improve the draft of
the furnaces of ocean steamers is to in
crease the height of the smoko pipes.
The new steamer Scot, of tho Cape Mail
Line, Is provided with smoke pipes 120
feet high above the grates, being the
loftiest pipes ever put into a steamer. A
draft of three-quarter -inch water pressure
is thus obtained, all the steam needed is
easily secured, and the use of fans is dis
pensed with. Her speed is nineteen
knots.
Bombay has the greatest picco of solid
masonry construction that tho world has
seen in modern times. For years past
the water supply of Bombay depended
upon work known to be defective, in
volving the possibility of a water famine.
A consultation of eminent cngineeis was
held, under the direction of the Govern
ment, with the result that a large dam
was determined on to inclose the water
shed of the valley which drains into the
sea south of Bombay.
At Sophia experiments have been made
in the last four weeks to ascertain tho ac
curacy of tho rapid-firing cannon recently
received from tha Gruson Works iu
Magdeburg. At a distance of Su'OO feet
a target representing (wo field cannon
and ten men was almost completely de
molished by twenty-five shots. A line
of thirty wooden soldieis, lying six feet
apart, so that only tho heads wero in
sight of the marksmen, rocoived twenty
six loads of chain shot and nine of shrap
noil. Twenty of the chain shot and forty
one pieces of shrapnull struck fourteen
wooden soldiers.
Wonderful Growth of Hectrlc Travel.
Only twelve years hove elapsed sinco
the first crude suggestions of the practi
cal working of an electric railway wero
mado, and four years ago a list of a dozen
would comprise every such road in the
world in even pasmbty successful opera
tion, whatevor the method of application.
The first large commercial electric rail
way was, aiter many difficulties and dis
couragements, opened in the early purt
of 18o8 at Richmond, Va. ; and sinco
that demonstration was made, the indus
try ha! grown uutil there aro now
in operation or under contract, on tho
gonoral lines laid down at Richmond,
uot less than 350 roads iu the United
State, Europe, Australia, and Japan, re
quiring moro than 4000 cars and 7000
motors, with moro than 2(300 miles of
track, a daily mileage of nearly 500,000
miles, and carrying nearly a billion pas
sengers annually. Fully 10,000 peoplo
aro employed ou these roads, and thoro
has never been an authenticated report
of death on account of the electrical pres
sure used. Over $50,000,000 aro in
vested iu this industry in this country
alone The Forum.
A Mooso Horn G rafted Into a Tree.
Something of a curiosity Is on exhibi
tion in a show wiudow at D. J. lien
uessy's. It consists of a very largo
moosA horn grafted into tho base of a
truo. It has been iu that position for
years, as tho treo has grown around it
so as to got such a grip on it thtt cut
ting the wood away is the only moans of
separating tho two. It was found uoar
tho Kitty O'Brien miuo o:i tho High
lands, south of tho town, by Tom Gor
don. It is evident that at somo remoto
period a huntsman was chasing the mon
arch of tho woods, who, iu runuing
away, was caught in a tree, and iu try
ing to extricate himself tho horu was
broken off. Itutte lntcr-Mn unlain.
For tho King's Pleasure.
In ancient records wo find mention of
four-wheeled carriages drawn by mules,
to convey iu vessel, set apart tho water
of a noted river, for the uso of a king
then engaged iu battle; for nono other
would the royal eutleiiiau accept as a
beverage, and even that uot only until it
huil been boiled in silver vessels, in such
princely maimer rumbled tliu watur-curt
withersoever it iniUt please his Highuesc
to travel. llurpcr't Wetkly,
. "FESTIVAL OF THE DEAD,"
0TJBI0U8 CELEBRATION OF THE
JAPANESE.
Decorating Shrine in Honor of tho
Jcpartel Food Offerings Scud
ins; Back the Ghostly Visitant.
Lafcadio Hearn, in a paper in the At
lantic, called "At tho Market of the
Dead," thus describes the festival, to
supply the needs of which tha market is
held!
From the 13th to the 16th day of July
is held the Festival of tha Dead the
Bommatsuri or Bonku by some Euro
peans called the Feast of Lanterns. But
in many places there are two such festi
vals annually J for those who still follow
the ancient reckoning of time by moons
hold that the Bommatsuri should fall on
the 13tb, 11 and 15th days of the sev
enth month of the antique calendar,
which corresponds to a later period of
the year.
Early on the morning of the 13th,
new mats of purest rice straw, woven ex
pressly for tho festival, are spread upon
all Buddhist altars and within each but
suma or butsudan the little shrine be
fore which the morning and evening
prayers are offered up in every believing
home. Shrines and altars are likewise
decorated with beautiful embellishments
of colored paper, and with flowers and
sprigs of certain hallowed plants always
real lotos flowers when obtainable, other
wise lotos flowers of paper, and fresh
branches of shikimi (anise) and of miso
hagi (lespedezaj. Then a tiny lacquered
table a zen such as Japancso meals
are usually served upon, is placed upon
the altar, and the food offerings are laid
on it. But in the smaller shrines of
Japanese homes the offerings aro more
often simply laid upon tho rice matting,
wrapped in fresh lotos leaves.
These offerings consist of tho foods
called somen, resembling our vermicelli,
gozen, which is boiled rice, dango, a
sort of tiny dumpling, eggplant, and
fruits according to season frequently
uri and saikwu, slices of melon and
watermelon, and plums and peaches.
Often sweet cakes and dainties are add
ed. Sometimes the offering is only
O-sho-jin-gu (honorable uncooked food) ;
more usually it is O-rio-gu (honorable
boiled food) ; but it never includes, of
course, fish, meats, or wine. Clear water
is given to the shadowy guests, and is
sprinkled from time to time upon tho
altar or within the shrine with a branch
of misohagi : tea is poured out every hour
for the viewless visitors, and everything
is daintily served up in little plates
and cups and bowls, as for living guests,
with bashi (chopsticks) laid beside the
offering. So for three days the dead
are feasted.
At sunset, pine torches, fixed in the
ground before each home, are kindled
to guide the spirit-visitors. Sometimes,
also, on the first evening of the Bom
matsuri, welcome fires (mukaebi) are
lighted along the shore of the tea or lake
or river by which tho village or city is
situated neither moro nor less than ono
hundred and eight fires; this numbei
having some mystic signification in tho
philosophy ot Buddhism. And charm
ing lanterns are suspended each night at
the entrances of homes the Lanterns of
the Festival of the Dead lanterns of
special forms aud colors, beautifully
painted with suggestions of landscape
and shapes of flowers, and always
decorated with a peculiar fringe of paper
streamers.
Also, on the same night, those who
have dead friends go to tho cemeteries
and make offerings thore, and pray, and
burn incense, and pour out water for
the ghosts. Flowers are placed there in
tho bamboo vases set beside each haka,
and lanterns are lighted aud hung up be
fore the tombs, but theso lanterns havo
no designs upou them.
At sunset on the evening of the 15th
only the offerings called Segaki are made
in tho temples. Then are fed the ghosts
of the Circlo of Penance, called Gakido,
the place of hungry spirits; and then also
are fud by the priests those ghos.8 having
no other friends among the living to care
for them. Very, very small these offer
ings aro like the offerings- to the
gods.
Upon the third and last night there is
a weirdly beautiful ceremony, more
touchiug thau that of the Segaki, stran
ger than tho Bon-odori the ceremony
of farewell. All that tho living may do
to pleuse the dead has been done; tho
time allotted by tha powers of tho un
seen worlds unto tho ghostly visitants is
well-uigh past, and their friends must
send them all back ugaiu.
Everything has been prepared for
them. In each home small bouts made
of barley straw closely woven havo been
freighted with supplies of dainty food,
with tiny lanterns, and written messages
of faith aud love. Seldom moro thau a
foot in length are these bouts; but tho
dead require little room. And tho frail
craft aie launched ou canal, like, sea,
or river cuch with a miniature lan
tern glowing at the prow, aud inceuso
burning at the stern. And if the night
be fair, they voyago long. Down all the
creeks and rivers aud canals these phan
tom fleets go glimmering to the sea; aud
all the sea sparkles to the horizou with
the lights of the dtad, aud tho sea wind
is fragrant with incense.
But ulosl it is now forbidden fu the
great seaports to launch the shoryobuue,
"the bout of the blessed ghosts."
l'turls Tuke Tours for Their Health.
Although turquoises aro the most sen
sible stones, pearls are thought to bo tho
most human, since like their owners
they get sick aud re juiro a complete
chuuge of air and climute. Not loug
go a ludy weut into a local jewelry
home with a magnifieeut set of earls
that were losing their lustre and begin
ning to look dead. "These pearls are
Bick," said the jeweler, upou examining
them, "und unless you take or send them
to a decidedly different climate at ouce,
they will become worthies." They were
seut off, uni within a mouth were us
brie lit and pretty a they hud ever been.
iWtt Xvrii W'vrU,
WISE WORDS.
The worst of slaves is ho whom passion
rules.
The anticipation of evil is the death ol
happiness.
The goal of yesterday will be the start
ing point of to-day.
True merit, like a river, tha deeper il
is, the less noise it makes.
Who ever heard of a pure thought or
noble deed originating in a saloon?
Love is a blessed wand which wins the
waters from the hardness of the heart.
To give heartfelt praise to noble ac
tions is, in some measure, making them
our own.
The scholar, without good breeding,
is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic;
the soldier, a brute; aud every man dis
agreeable. We seldom condemn mankind till they
have injured us; and when thoy have,
we seldom do anything but detest them
for the injury.
If you havo built castles in the ait
your work reed not bo lost; that U
where they should bo; now put founda
tions under them.
Haste and rashucss aro storms and
tempests, breaking aud wrecking busi
ness, but cimbleness is a full, fair wind
blowing it with speed to tho haven.
Let any man once show tho world that
he feels afraid of its bark, and 'twill fly
at his heels; let him fearless face it, 'twill
leave him alone, but 'twill lawn at his
feet if he flings it a bone.
A New Locomotive.
The St. Paul Railroad is building two
engines which promise a revolution in
locomotive building. Theso engines will
consume their own smoke aud will have
no smokestack. They will bo fitted up
with an electrical headlight, placed
immediately iu front of the boiler,
thus giving tho engineer an unobstructed
view of the track ahead. The driving-
wheels will be larger than on ordinary
locomotives, and are intended for greater
(peed.
It is hardly possiblo to overestimate
the value of the discovery of a smokeless
locomotive, if the plan shall prove a suc
cess. To think of riding in a car with
out being exposed to a rain of soot and
cinders when tho window is opened, or
being choked half to death with smoke
when going through a tunnel or a snow
shed, is something almost too good for
even the imagination. Railroad travel
ing would be a positive pleasure under
luch circumstances.
Nor is this all. The smokeless and
cinderless locomotive does away with the
danger of burning up wheat fields a
thing which occurs many times every
year with the present style of engines.
Spark arresters have becu invented, but
they do not do their work perfectly, and
every summer tho railroad companies
have to pay for fires caused by sparks
from their engines.
Again, where railroads run into cities
tho vicinity of tho road is contiuually
smeared and grimed up by the smoke ami
eoot fro il tho passing and repassing
locomotives, and tho housowifo w,ho
hangs out her week's washing often has
occasion to do anything but bless tho
present style of engines. This evil will
bo cured by the adoption of smokeless
locomotives.
Every railroad in tho United States
ought to adopt these engines if they
prove a succoss, and if they seem unwil
ling to make the change tho law should
land them the necessary stimulus. Tho
comfort and convenience of tha peoplo
should be considered before tho extra
cost to the railroad companies. Han
Francitco Chronicle.
A New Milking Maohlno.
It seems, at last, as if the problem of
obviating the necessity of hand milking
has been solved. The moans is an air
pump in combination with tho suitablo
appliances. Along tho stalls a metal tubo
commuuicating with tho air pump runs
in a channel prepared for it. At tho
outside of each stall division thore is a
"switch" by which a brunch tube of In
dia rubber is brought within tho range
ot the force transmitted through tho tuba
in the channel. The switch is a very
ingenious part, aud by merely being
pressed down for half au iuch the brauch
tube is turned "ou," while by the switch
being raised half an inch the current is
turned "off" the branch tube. The
oranch tubo at its other extremity sub
divides into four, each of which is tipped
with a section of a cow's horn furnished
with an Iudia rubber lip. Theso four
horns with tho Iudiu rubber "lips" uro
placed over tho teats of the cow, und u I
horo closely to tho udder by tho suction
communicated from the sir pump, and
tho milk is thus rapidly drawn from the
udder. The machine, also, tho inventors
point out, follows tho natural method of
the culf in drawing tho milk from tho
udder, for every stroke of tho pump is
followed by a distinct pulsation of lesser
force at the furthest cud ot tho brauch
tubes. A'ea York Telejram.
Graftim; Teeth.
Much has been written of lute about
skiu-gruftiug, and a Heading physician
has even succeeded iu truuspluutiug a
mustache to tho upper lip of a woman.
But there lire scvurul local deutists who
havo met with remarkable success
in e-aftiug teeth. The process is kuowr.
as iiupluuliug, uud should not bo con
founded with eitlitr transplanting or re
planting, both i f which have beeu doue
for years. Iu implanting a tooth tho
gum may have entirely healed over, iu
luet a tooth may bo implanted years after
its predecessor has beeu removed. With
the aid of cocaiuo the operation is uot at
tended with uuy great amount of pain.
Tho (ruui is thoroughly saturated with
coeuiue und uu iucisiou is made exposing
tho jawbone. A socket is then drilled
into tho bone, and a tooth, after having
been placed iu an antiseptic solution, is
fitted into the socket aud tightly bound
iu its pluco. The wound heuls quickly,
and iu two weeks the grufted tooth pur
takes ot u'l tho uuturo of a perfectly
natural tooth. I'hiljJcljjhiii JUourd,
THY BE3T DBLIOHT. r
When thou who loveet well thy kind
Despairing one ahull chance to And,
Be their relief thy best delight.
And lead them forth from doubt'
night,
Beyond the miasmatic breath
dark
I
Coursing along doubt's vale of death, ,
To tunny hills where rotes Hoom
And faith's dmr light dispels tin gloom
Where they shall hear the chorusing
Of all the sweetest birds that sing;
And sweetest brooks that ever sung,
Since brooks, and birds, and time v
young
Shall purl and sparkle In tho light
Succeeding unto sorrow's nightl
Then ever shall a voice for thoe
Sing hopo-iuspiring minstrelsy
Far sweeter thin the singing hoar J
From any brook or any bird
In happiest glen of all the world, '
And like the brooks that joyous purlej '
In Eden when the earth was youug
And all the stars together sung I
And dost thou doubt, and point to men
Who bless and ore not blessed again,
But live In grief, and grieving dio
Of much bestowing charity ?
Perhaps not here, yet in some c!iin
Ferhaptnot now, yet some good time
Of God's sure years, shall greet the eyo
That moistens here with sympathy
Scenes bright as those the seer of eld
Entranced on Fatmos isle beheld,
'
When full the radiant glorias shono
From gatos, and temple, and the Throne I
Aella Qreene, in Boston. Transcript.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
In chains Links.
A probate court Flirtation.
Down with high prices Eider.
Worse thau suspense Electrocution.
Lift.
The great literary trust Tho hop
that itr.'ill be accepted. . " -"
"Lovo is blind," but jcalou-y sees
more than really exists.
To err is huaian, to forgive, divliu);
But Justice says; "We can't remit tbe One."
iKCfc.
An abandoned bern is not half so bad
as an abandoned farmer. Lowell Cou
rier. "This is a very wet country. What
do you raise here chiefly?" "Umbrel
las?'' Puck.
"I am feeling my ground," said the
man who slipped up in his own door
yard. Xfathington Post.
Poet (in newspaper office) "Have you
an efficient staff?" Editor "Perhaps
not; but I havo a very effective club."
Pud.
George "Maude, do you lovo me far
myself alone?" Maudo "Of courso 1
do; but how many of you are there, any
how?"
The fact that brevity is the soul of
wit may expluin why some of our bright
est peoplo ure so unremittingly short.
Washington Star.
Muud "I wonder why they call it
the augry sea?" Webb "Perhaps bo
cause so mauy peoplo persist iu crossing
it." Boston Post.
Blanche "Did you part owing to a
misunderstanding?" Rosalie "Good
ness me, no ! We understood each other
too well." JuJye.
"Sir, how dare you disagco with
me?" said the cannibal, Kndi.ruatitly, to
the missionary whom he had Jtjst ii; al
lowed. Washington Star.
How is it that the same weather which
makes your collar shrink from public
gaze brings your battered cuffs down
over tho kuucklcs of your hands J Pud.
The man who fix)ls around u mule,
Ijou uftt'r he's forbid
Although he limy not kuow it all,
Will kuow mure than lie ill I.
i'hiladflji'iiit Times.
Merritt "Sho doesn't seem to get
much good out of her money." Cora
"No; sho spends it iu getting things
which sho says aro too good tJ wear."
Jlltl'Jt.
The difference between the amuse
ments of uu 1 .'cadiau shepherd aud
modern political! is, utter all, only tho
difference between piping lays and lay
ing pipes. Our So-iely Journal
lie forgets not to boast what he does for hij
brother.
Procuring him victuals an 1 p'.lf;
Though it's uot half so imrd to lit1.; for un
other, Ho tiuJs, as to bog for himsolf.
Jwl jc.
First Hon "There comes the woman
to drive tit r tit of her garden." Second
Heu "Yes; aud she's picking up a stone,
too. Let's fly out quick." First lieu
"No, no; stay her.!." Second Heu "Hut
she"s aiming right for us.'.' First lieu
"Yes; aud if tu move wo might get
hit." Liverpool Porcuane.
In a battle, a soldier was wou i lel in
tho head by a j iveliu. Tiiu surgeon ex
amined the wound and tul 1 tho man
that, us the weapon ha t not touche I his
brain, there was every prospect of his
recovery. "Had I p.iisesied uny brain,"
said the soldier, "I should uot have beeu
iu the battle." .liyjuaut.
"(Hi, yes; he's quite u re.narUablu
man. Ablo to concentrate his miud ou
one particular subject, no matter how
great the crowd and confusion aiumi 1
hiui. His power o; a i-i.M.-ti.i.i is simply
wonderful." "What is uis special branen
of science!" " Kleptomania I believe
they call it." Wasliiifjlo i iW.
Things one wo.i.d have said differ
ently: A young la ly was calling lor
tho first tiino up m acpcinitan. vs.wlioso
friudship alio was exceedingly i;la I t.
cultivate, aud bjtore whom she wwlie I
to uppe.ir as udvanUgo nnly as possible.
lliU us sho vitli.lre.v L;i'.iccfiiily frj.n
the parlor, ! exclaim:!, cordially,
while shaUin.; the h in I ol lu r hostess;
Hear Miss i! do e mi.: aud seo
le so hi, uud don't Kl.iy as lou ;u 1
have duuc !"(,". .'lu.-t i..v..
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