THE FOREST REPUBLICAN Is piblltkr mtj Wtdaendaj, k J. C. WENK. 0o (a Rmearbaugh A Co.'a Buildlns IM mil ST, TtONMTA, Pa. Terms, . . . tl.8Q prTar. RATKS Of ADVEHTI8IWO. tfaara, aa. raeh. nt laaartloa n4 1 19 6m Bqaara, M lack, .11. moatk ...T. I One qaara, ea Inch, thrw month......... IN Ob Sqaare, a. Inch, .n. rear M Two "qaar, ort. fwr . II A qa.rtar Oaraaaa, .a. yaar MM Halt Oolnan, ea J ar MM 0 Oelastn, ea. jea ......mm VMM Uftl adr.rtlMai.nM la eaaU ft Uaa MM kv Mrtloa. Kinlifft ul iMtk a.tlcM gratia. AU kill, for jr.rlr aAertl.rmniU MHet4 naa terlr- T.mporarj adTertlnia.ata bidM . paM Ml aaraace. J.k w.rk-aik tm aellvarr. Forest Republican. eonnu-y. N. n.Uc. will ke Uk VOL. XXIV. NO, 20, TIONESTA, TA., WEDNESDAY, OCT, 21, 1891, $1.50 PER ANNUM. or aaeajmout Men of science any that the chemist Will dorohmto coming inventions. . - . .' Canndinu newspapers express disap pointmcnt nt thw suprisingly small in crease of population shown by the cen BUS. Statistics go to show that the male population of the civilized world is fall ing farther and farther behind the fe male. t Dr. Dawson, one of the English com. toissioners appointed to investigate the fur seal question, has expressed tho opin ion that tho seal is an animal that cannot bo exterminated. : The magnitude of the Chautauqua Orient is illustrated, remarks the York Commercial Advertiser, by tho act that the entering class, which is to pursue a threo years' course, coutains the uames of 15,000 students. The holplessness of an Asiatic in time of peril is proverbial, observes the 8an Francisco Chronicle, but this trait was robubly never shown more conspicu tsly than by tho Japanese who allowed wifo to be swallowed by a boa con tor. Tho fellow was a woodcutter, osteal 'of using his axe on tho rep tile ho fled and sought help. When he returned his better half had wholly dis appeared within tho snake's maw, but tho crowd lacked tho nerve to attack the reptile and it escaped. j A satisfactory test is said to have been xnade of a new machino designod for use ru railroads to clear away wrecks, whoso simplicity and power nro such "that a small boy would not have tho slightest difficulty in pulling bu cngino or car out of a ditch" with its aid. It is tho in vention of a citizen of Newton, Mich. It has been put to a practical uso as a pullor of stumps, which it is said to ex lirpate as easily as a clawhammer pulls tacks. A stock company is to bo organ ized to put tho machino on tha market. ; Widespread interest has been aroused iu tha subject of cruelty to animals at sea, declares tho Now York Press, by the exposures of Mr. William Ilosea Ballou. Tho Montreal Star states that ho aroused discussions in tho Canadian Ministry as woll as on both sides of tho Atlantic.and gave rise to a question of international importance. Here is a British newspaper which indorses his attitudes toward British sea captains. Tho English Gov ernment promptly took hold of tlio charges mado by Mr. Ballou and is fer reting Allt tlin ntTnildnra lni':n n-a tta o..K jects. Frauk Babbitt, tho Boston traveler, lays horse-car conductors tho world over are woll informed and affable as a rulo. Frank Vincent, the grc.it South American tXDlorer. sara hn hn. fumwl ivnmltn j.. grange lands rnoro courteous than men. Mungo Park hud, of course, one exper ience at least which must have led him X an opinion similar to Mr. Vincent's. Hit what is ono to thiuk of those travel s', asks tho Atlanta Constitution, wheu s. French Sheldon declares that the tiv i m vera kind and tho native wo en she met in Africa forbidding and rVuol, while Lady Florcuco Dixey has EuivncTioro man onco that slio could traveiyil round tho world unmolested but for her own sex? A mile from the villago of Divlght, III., on tho Chicago and Alton Railroad, is the model stock farm of Mr. Prime, son of tho He v. Dr. Iromeus Prime, onco of tho New York Observer, It coutaius some 800 acres, is in a high state of cul tivation, and is one of tho show places of the county. It is not uuuxual for trains containing several thousand sheep from California to bo switched off hero, landed and recruited by a few days of rest and pasturage on tho furin before beiug delivered over to the cattlemen in Chicago. Primo's crop repWts, mailed t Dwight, are quoted iu every large city between Now York and Ban Francisco, and tho gentleman wbo semis thorn out is equally famous for his hospitality. Says thu New Orleans Picayune: JoJin Doo owns a farm iu New York on the bank of tho Niagara River, and he makes an honest penny now and then pasturing cows for his neighbors, Richard Roo has also a license from him to hitch his row boat on the bunk, with incidental right of ingress and egress through tho pasture. Some weeks ago Richard lost his chain and improvised a rope of hay with which to moor his bout. Now, Ebonezer Dick's cow, pastured iu the ' lot aforesaid, ii fond of bay, uud smelling tho fragrance of the extempore rope, she waded iuto tho river, climbed iuto the boat, chowed up tho rope and lloatod down the stream over the falls, where she met au untimely death. Tho boat was also pulverized en routo to Quecnstown. Has Ebcuezer Dick any right of action for tho loss of his cuw? If he has, of whom can ho re cover? Has Richard Uoe auy remedy for the loss of his boat, and if so, against whoail Will some one please auawerl TO A CLOUD. I tTnder the the bending fnotintaln sides I lay, with half-shut, dreamy eyes, I In th. i wee tout mnr t.h nt nrin,. When little cloud came, so soft and white, It aesmed but a fleecy streak of light, Or the flash of an angel's wing. I had marked the mountain's fitful mood, Itatall head wrapped in a flume-red hood, Or ita base in a misty shroud; But through all ita cliffs where sunbeams played, And in all its shifting light and shade, There was nothing like the cloud. So fair, so far, it seorne J to float, With the airy grace or a white-winged boat, And the deep-blue sky for a soa, It might have been that an angel crew Were voyaging the distant blue With the Pilot of Galilee. 0 winsome ship of the upper son, My f ottered thought looks up to thee, In thy supernal pine, And longs thine airy decks to tread, Thy cloudland-chartod course to thread Through realniB of trackless space. In vain docs blinded science guess The texture of thy dewy dress With earthly mechanism! 1 view thee through a notlier glass, And make thy borrowed beauty pass Through Fancy's fluer prism. But ah I no cloud-compelling Jovo Will hear tho prayers I brent ho abovo To stay thy wayward flight; And while I strain my yearning eye. Thy trailing banners through tho sky Are bidding me good-night. William Met Sims, in Lippincotl. A WIFE'S TRIUMPH. HT 8HIHI.EY BHOWNE. 'I don't deny but what I was considera bly surprised to hear of Joe's marriage," said Mr. Ailesbury, sitting in his wheeled chair in tho sunshine. "I didn't know's ho had no such idee iu his head. But everything happens for the ben, and the old place is clean run down for want of a nice etirnu' housekeeper. Berenice Stubbs charges a dollar an I a half a week, and wants the washin' put out, at that. Things didn't go this ero way in the life time of my secou l departed no, nor yet while my first was hvin'. I'm williu' now tc. confess that I was sort o' turnin' over in my mind tho idee of ask ing Pantheon Jones's widder if she'd any objections to sharo my solitary lot; but this marriage o' Joe's puts things in a different light. I wasn't sartiu but what he was going to be an old bachelor. I do hope his new helpmt te can riz bread and dunning cakes, and soft soap. Bere nice Stubbs never mado soft soap. She was fairly ruining mo with bar soap boughteu nt the store. And thorc's all my two deceased pardncrs' calico gowns upstairs, in tho blue paper trunk, wnitiu' to bo trade patchwork of. Of course j she'll be handy with tho needle, or Joe wouklu t hev selected her. And Mr. Ailesbury chuckled at tho prospect of "the good timo coming." "Is this my new home, Joe?" The brido stood iu tho clenu-scoured. whitewashed kitc'.icn, looking nrouud in a bewildered sort of way. She was slight nud small, with large blue-gray eyes, and a delicate complexion, llor travel ing dress was of the softest pearl gray, and sho woro daintily tilting gray kid gloves, and boots so tiny tint it almost seemed as if the grass of the door-yard, like the harebells of Sir Walter Scott's poem, must have "risen elastic from her tread." Her stalwart husband, stand ing beside her. looked down with beam ing pride on her miniature beauty. "Why, yes, pet," said he. "Isn't it like what you had fancied?" Tho brido laughed hysterically. "Not iu the least," said she. "But I dare say I was absurdly fanciful." "I guess," said old Mr. Ailesbury, "that Mrs. Joe had better change thut fiuicky dress for something plainer, and help Berenice Stubbs with tho supper. Berenice is sort o' plagued with neuralgy to-day." "She's too tired to do much to-night, lather, sum Joe. "Tired I What's sho done? I don't call it hard work to go ridiu' in the rail road cars. Do you?" Bcrcnico Stubbs, a hard-faced female with a waist like the town pump, and sharp, twinkling eyes thatched with sparse white lashes, regarded Mrs. Jo seph Ailesbury with scant fuvor. "Don't look a bit as if sho could worry through a day's wash," suid sho. These small folks is powerful wiry sometimes," said tho elder Ailesbury. 'My first dear deceased wasn't no taller than Mrs. Joe but my ! what a haud she was to turn oil work." Wheu Mrs. Joe came iu from tho gar den ufler tea with a bunch of clover pinks iu her hand, her futher-iu-law was ready to accost her. "Now you're here, Mrs. Joe," said he, "to sort o' see to things, I've told Bere nice Stubbs she can go home for a half a week, and I'm curious to find out what sort of a housekeeper you'll make." Mrs. Joe looked helplessly at her bus baud. "I daro say she'll turn out a capital housekeeper, father," suid he. "But you wou't liud out about it at present. I'm goiuf' to tuke her to Weliaud Fulls to see Cousin Simeon Ailesbury. Her mother used to know Cousin Simeon years ago." "Whut, all that way i" croaked' the farmer. Joe nodded. "Traveling's dreadful expensive." "Well, it coots something," admitted Joe. "Aud you'll have to stop overuight at Some tavern." "Yes." 'It seems to me," growled tho oil man, "that ull this n a rcueless waste of money. You'd both of you a ileal better settle down and n to work, I didn't go mooning around the country when I married iny dear deceased rii t, nor yet my dear decea-ed second. Liu; is made for work, not for pin v." "Time enough for that, faftur," said vthe reckless Joe. "A tuuu Uoeu't get married ordinarily, bftener than onoe in a lilo-tttno. " Mrs. Joe drew a long breath of relief wnen sue found licrself out from under tho farm-houso roof. "Joe," said she, "I'm afraid I'm going ui no an awiui disappointment to your father." "As long as you'ro not a disappoint ment to mo," ho retorted, laughing, "it doesn't so much signify." "There must be a deal of work In that hou8e-four cows, a hundred turkeys, a flock of sheep, a poultry yard full of Leghorn fowls, butter, eggs, cooking, washing, baking, scrubbing " "How do you know all this?" asked he. "Miss Stubbs told mo. Oh, Joel why didn't you marry Berenice Stubbs?" "Look In the glass, little girl, if jou wanr. uiut question answered. "But I am so useless. You should have seen Miss Stubbs look nt me when I said I didn't know how to make broad, and that I never had done a washing in my life." "You'll easily loam, Ellie," "Do you think I shall, Joe?" A little cloud, "no bigger than a man's hand," caniu over tho penrly frankness of her brow. "Did your mother wash and bake ufjl brew?" "Presumably she did. But I don't re. momber her; she died young." "Was she your father's first dear de ceased?" Joo nodded. "What was tho other one liko?" "Tall and pale, with a cough, and a habit of taking wintergreen-scented suuff." "Would you like me to take to win tcrgreen snull?" she queried. 1 Ho laughed. "It hardly seems, dear, m it you could belong to the same race as thoso two poor, pale, drudging woman," said ho. "Do all farmers' wives dio early, Joe?" Joo did not answer. Ho was un folding the paper to read the latost news by telegraph. Cousin Simoon Ailosbury was the vil lae doctor, a pleasant old man with a bald head and a genial smile. Ellen Ailesbury mado friends with him at once. "You ore very like your mother, child," said he. "She always reminded mo of a little mountain daisy." Ellen's lip quivered. "I am glad you speak so kindly to me, doctor," said sho, "for for somehow since I came to the old farm-house I feel as if I were a fraud." "A fraud, my dear I" The bright tears sparklod now. "I was brought up to teach," said she. "I can do nothing about the house. And Joo's father seems to expect mo to be tho maid-of-all-work. Of course I can learn. I'd do anything to please Joo. But it's hard to think ono is such a disappointment." "Humph I" said Dr. Ailesbury, "I'll speak to Joe about that." And that afternoon whoa Ellon and Mrs. Dr. Ailesbury wore gono to look at a pretty cascade in tho woods, tho old man had a long talk with his cous in's son. At the end of the week Joo went back to tho Ailesbury farm. "Well, I'm glad yo've got' through gallivanting," said the old man, with a long breath of relief. "AU tho farm worlt is behind, and Berenice Stubbs ain t worth half what she used to be. I hope your wifo is prepared to take right hold of tho butter aud tho poultry au.l " "No, father, sho isn't," said Joe, val iantly. "Ellen isn't very strong, and she has never been used to the hardships of farm life." "What did you marry her for?" snarled tho old man. "To bo my companion and friend, father, not my drudge aud servaut." "Your mother warn't above work." "My mother was dead and buriod, sir, nt the ago of thirty worn out, as all the neighbors tell me, by tho hardships of her life. Your second wife, too, was a victim of the Moloch of work. I don't intend to lay Ellen in the churchyard at tbeir side." Mr. Allesbury's brow darkened. "I won't have no ouo iu the house who don't earn their board," said he. "Very well," said Joe. "We'll rent tho little Barrow house down Locust Lane. It will be handy to my work at tho carriage factory, aud Ellen shall have a strong servant to help her with the home." Old Ailesbury started up forgetful of his infirmities. "Joe," said he, brandishing his crutch, "if you've been such a fool as to marry a mere wax doll " Just hero his foot slipped; he fell, a dead, heavy weight, his head against the sharp edgo of tho table. The sentence vus never finished. "A month I" cried the old man, In a cracked voice, "a month siuco I had that fall! Then I must V been out of my mind. I must havo had a fever." "Well, I guess you just have." said Berenice. "Aud who took care o' me?" "Mrs. Joe, to be sure. Night an! day. I ain't no baud at nnrsin' sick people, aud there was a hutl week some ono had to sit up all night with you." "Hut that slim, pale-faced cretur never done it ?" "Yes, sho did. She said you was Joe's father, and there wus somethin' about your eyes nn forid, as you laid asleep, tlint reminded hor o' him. And tho wouMu' leave you a minute." "Uod bless her!" said the old man, turning his face away, with a curious thrill ut his heart. "Joe," said he, when his son came in a few hours liner. "I've beeu very sitki" "Yes, father." "And they tell mo I nearly died." "Tliey tell you the triuh, father." 'The doctor says if it hadn't been for your wife I'd 'a' beeu under ihe church jsrd sod by now." "I believe it i so, futher." ' Joe, she's an angel l" "Don't I know it, sir?" "Joe, I'm sorry I said all them thlnga about her. Do .you suppose, Joo, she'd stny here if I'd hire a gal to do all tha rough work?" "We hate planned, sir, to move into the Barrow cottage, and" "But you mustn't do that, Joe. I can't feel to lot htr go," urged the old man. "All tho luck would go out of the house, onco the door closed on her. Ask her to stay, Joe. Tell her " The door opened softly. EUIo her self came in. "Father, do you want me to stay!" she whispered. "God knows that I do, child I" "Then I'll stay." That self-same evening Bcrcnico Stubbs was engaged to remain perma nently as house-worker and general fac totum. "Yes, I'll undertako all that," said she. "Mrs. Joe mayn't know much about housekeculn'. but there's lot's hn. sides housokeepin' in the world. Mrs. joe can ao tnings i can t. And Ellie took her place as quocn of the little home kindom. "Your wife must be a wonderful ner. son, Joe," said the squire, next week. "Your father is never wearv of slnuintr - -j o tr uer praises, ana Berenice Stubbs never heard a word in her disfavor. And of all the ncoole that I know, vour father and Berenice are the hardest to pleaso. rray, is Mrs. Joe an enchantress?" "Well, I rather think she is," said Joo. Fashion Datar. Ninety Miles an Hoar. A mile in 3D 4-S seconds or at the rate of over ninety miles an hour is the fast est run ever made by a railroad train. This unparalleled feat was accomplished the other day on the Bound Brook rail road between Neshaminy Falls, Penn., and Langhorue by engine No. 206, drawing two ordinary coaches and Presi dent McLeod's private car "Reaaing," which is equal to two coaches in weight. Other miles were reeled off with speed as astonishing as this crack mile, and at the second of the "fly" the world's record was broken. The fastest mile was scored in 39 4-5 seconds. The fast est five miles in threo minutes, 21) 4-5 seconds. Tho fastest ten miles in seven minutes, twelve seconds, averaging forty three seconds per milo. The occasion lor this race against time grew out of some good natured chaffing that took place at Judge Green's dinner to tho Formers' Club at tho judgo's residence in Easton. William M. Sinirerlv was telling Mr. McLeod, the Presidontofthe Reading Rallrond Company, that for thirteen years ho had been making it a diversion to time fast railroad trains, and that be had rarely traveled faster thau fifty seconds. The result of the conver sation was that President McLeod mado preparations for yesterday's speed trial and invited Mr. Singerly and a number of friends to ride on the train, consist ing of an engine and three cars. The engine was No. 200, of the Wootten pat tern, burning antbracito coal. It has five feet eight inch driving wheels, and is one of the ordinary patterns of fast engines in use on tho Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. It was built at Read ing, t'eun., and stands to-day as a tri umph of the skill of American mechan ics. The locomotive was handled by Engineer John Hogao, and the fires were looked nfter by Oscar Feshner. Washington btar. Sago. Tho native name of sago palm in Bor neo is "rumbiah." Thoso palms grow from twenty to fifty feet, generally along the banks of rivers and in swampy land. There are two kinds Molroxylou Loevis and Molroxylou Rumphii. Tho latter is especially favored by nature by being nuturally protcctod from its incossant enemy and devourer the wild pig. It is armed with strong long spikes, and in cultivating sago nothing but good strong fences will keep out these bur glars of tho forest, for whore they are bent on sago it takes a good deal to stop them out. 3ago is a leading feature iu Borneo; seven-eighths of the supply to Europe comes from that country. Three trees supply more nutritive matter than an acre of wheat, aud six trees more thau an acre of potatoes, Tho sago is obtained from the heart of tho palm in tho following manner; Just befoio the terminal spike of tho inflorescence appears, which grows to four or five foot in length about six or eight years after planting, the palm is cut down at the root, divided into lengths to suit the manipulator, each length split in two, wheu the pith is scooped or dug out with bamboo hoes, a thick skin or rind only being left. The pith is placed in mats over a trough or cauoe by the waterside, and, water being constantly poured over it aud troddeu out by the natives, a rough separation of tho starchy matter from the pithy wo dy matter is arrived at, aud tho former runs oil into troughs below, while the latter remains on thu mat for pigs, etc. The raw sago is sold to the Chinese, who put it through many washings and send it to Singapore aud theuco it fiually reaches Eughiud. 2'cu York UerM. Tho Old l'ulut Brushes. "What becomes of all the old paint brushes?" I heard a curious individual ask a New Yoik painter of prominence recently. The answer was a revolution to me, as it will be probably to many readers of tho ltepublic. "They are gathered up here in New York," was the reply, "by one individual, who visits all the shops regularly and buys then on the same principle that the rag-picker buys old rags. Ho takes them to his shop, souks them in a chemical prepara tion ana bleaches them, ile then sells them to the tooth-brush manufacturers, who make theui up Into tooth-brushes of the finest and most costly brand. " The Uossiper doe not tell this story for tho purpose of make teeth cleaning unpopular, and he hopes that ladies with beautiful teeth will continue ou the best of terms with their tootli powder and the little machine with which they apply it. St. Louis liijiubtic. GREATEST OF VOLCANOES THIS 13 MATIN A LOA IN THH SANDWICH ISLANDS. It la tho Most Important of-Modern Volcanoes) A Great lliver of IjAva lOO Feet Deep, On a recent mnp of Hawaii, the largest Island of the Hawaiian group, are a num ber of blnck marks, some narrow and some very wide, extending from a com mon confer in the interior to many points of the compass, some of them reaching the sea, forty to sixty miles away. These marks represent tho areas that during this contury have been cov ered by lava, flowing from the greatest volcano in the world. In 1887 Mauna Loa gave two terrific displays of tho most intense volcanic activity. Tho average interval between the eruptive periods of the volcano is about eight years. Mauna Loa, which menus "Tho Great Moun tain," is by far the most important of modern volcanoes. Several years ago Captain C. E. Dutton, of the Ordnance Corps in our army, made a careful study of the Hawaiian volcanoes. He says that a moderate eruption of Mauna Loa represents more material than Vesuvius has emitted siucc tho destruction of Pompeii. Tho great lava flow of 1855, which extended iorty-five miles toward the sea, with an average breadth of 4 miles and nu average depth of 100 feet, would nearly have built Vesuvius. Tho flows of 185'J and 1881 wero little less. The first eruption in 1S87 lnstcd two weeks, and the molten lava flowed for twenty miles down the gentle slope of the mountain, its lower edge entering tho sea. In this way Hawaii is grad ually growing, the great lava floods en croaching upon tho sea and enlarging the coast line. Although all tho twelve islands that form tho Hawaiian group are of volcanic origin, it is only in that island which gives its name to tho group, and which is larger than all tho rest put together, that volcanic energy is now displayed. The greatest number of Mauna Loa's lava flows have beep, towaid tho northeast or northwest coast of the island, bat tho stream of 1887 reached the southwest coast. Unlike most other volcanoes, tho streams of melted matter which roll down Mauna's Loa's sides do not issue from its summit, but from great fissures iu the side of the mountain, sometimes thou sands of feot below its top. Tiie main axis of this stupendous mountain mass is about seventy-five miles lung, and the mountain slopes very gradually toward the sea on all sides. Instead of being a cone, which is tho usual form of a vol cano, Mauna Loa is a great domc-liko elevation. The reason is that the out pourings from the bowels of the earth which havo formed it have been iu their molten stato so completely liquified that they could spread over a largo surface, while the more solid matter issuing from Vesuvius and many othei volcauocs re mained near tho place of veut, ami con sequently built up the mountains in tho form of peaks. Mauna Loa is nearly 14,000 feet high, aud the ascent along the most accessible route to tho summit can easily be made ou mules. The slope of the mountain is so gradual, that it takes, along the usu d route up the mountain, twenty miles of travel to gain an altitude of 0500 feet. It bus beeu observed that the great erup tions of Mauna Loa have generally been preceded by intense activity at the sum mit orifice the emissions there, how ever, never overflowing tho great lav walled basin in which they are conlincj. After tho main eruptions there is perfect quiescence in all parts of thu mountain. Captain Dutton's theory is that witiiiu the mountain an accumulation of erup tive energy aud material is constantly in progress, which "at first seeks an outlet through the summit orifice; but at tho accumulation goes ou the mouutain itself is ruptuifd." Tho lava is discharged, and the volcanic energy is for tho timo being depleted. Eleven years ago a great stream of lava for some months poured down the volca no's northeast slope mid advuueed stead ily over the plaius, some of them ulmost level, to the coast, some forty miles away. It was making straight for thu pretty village of Hilo, and tho inhabi tants concluded at lust that there was no hopo of saving their town. Iu tho last days of its flow its progress was much less rapid, but still it kept pushing on at a rate of 300 yards a day. All the port able property in tho town was packed up aud tho peoplo prepared to move at a moment's notice. Tne stream of lava split iu two long arms and appeared to bo about to encircle thu town. The two branches had reached tho outskirts of the town, when suddculy, without any premonition, tho flow stopped and the movement was not renewed, (Sold thtcaite't Geographical Mi', nine. Great Britain's Finest Flock. What was once ouo of the liuest (locks of sheep in Oreut Jlrituiu has recently boen dispersed .It belonged to the -Marquis of Bristol, uud was one of tho old est, as well as best, So-.uii lowu Hocks in existence. Its register bus been kept for eighty-four years. Some of thu ewe lambs sold for nearly twelve dollars each, und ram lambs for about thirty-three dollars. Some of tho ycariiuj ewei brought over twenty dollars each, und a number of older e-ves gold for nearly fifty dollars each. O.io of the rams brought about ouo hundred uud seveuty five dollurs. The flock brought about fifteen thousand dollars American Dairyman. A Historic Sandstone. Pawneo Rock, on thu old Santa Fo trail, isau immense pile of historic sand stone in Barton Comity, where the Paw nee Indians used to gather, uu 1 rumor Bays thut iu its shadow they made their last stand in a bloody battle against Cuu cusiuu encroachment, lint greed of gaiu has been the ruination of an intcroiing landmark, and U is being ipiarrie 1 ami sold at $1.50 a loud. l'UUbutj l)U- SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Bottles are made by machinery. Bethlehem, Penn., has tho bisccsl hammer. j Chicago is about to add to its attrac- tions a steol chimncj, 250 feet high. j Electricity is now being made to Scfv for use of headlights on locomotives. I Eye blinds and dark stables are said to be the greatest cause of blindness in horses. A locomotive Is running on the Chi cago and Alton road which consumes itt own smoke. It has been calculated that 100 laying hens produce iu egg shells about 137 pounds of chalk and limestone annually Henry Curtis Spalding claims that tho Idea which Greatbead utilized in his pat ents for tunneling really originated in America, A French amateur photographer hai mounted a camera on a kite, and gets remarkably clear views from a hoight of 100 to 150 feet. Papier macbe oil cans which are now being made are very durablo, and im pervious to any spirit or oil likely to bo used in a machine room. An expert electrician asserts that au electric train making 125 miles an hour would require 7000 feet iu which to come to b standstill. A physician iu Cmcow, Poland, has made somo remarkable cures of cancer with a new medicine called cancroin. Its ingredients havo not been made pub lic. An English physician, Dr. Lennox Wainwright, affirms that a mixture ol menthol and carbonate of ammonia has proven to be the host remedy for hay fever. It is used at smelling salts. Steel is now being used in the con struction of largo chimneys. Its woight is about one-third that of a brick struc ture of the same conducting power, and much economy in space is secured. A hotel in Hamburg has been built entirely of compressed wood, which, by the pressure to which it is subjected, it is tendered as hard as iron, as well as absolutely proof against tho attacks of fire. A light and compact form of rolled steel or iron columns has been placed on ' tho market. They c insist of two i beams bent longitudinally at right an gles and bolted together with a small I beam between them. j The high price of coal on Moxican railways has resulted in the adoption of a novel typo of compound engine and locomotive, and a consequent saving of twenty-five per cent, iu coal is obtaiuod with only a slight increase iu weight. Delicate elcctro-maguets are now suc cessfully used in optical surgery for the removal of pieces of irou or stocl which have entered tho eye. The attractive power of tho magnet causes such par ticles to be drawn to it, aud they adhere when tho magnet is diuwn. Tho lnrgest gasometer iu tho world is new being bu.lt for a London com pauy. Its diameter will be 300 feet, and tho height 180 feet. Its capacity will bo 12,OU'i,000 cubic feet and weigh! 2220 tor.. It will take 1200 tons ol coal to fill it with gas. j Ti e use of tho search light on nava! vcs'jls when ou blockudo duty i3 beiua severely criticised, as it has been showii 'hat they servo to show tho position ol a vessel when sho would otherwise be invisible, thus making uu uttack with torpedo bouts possible. I A novel idea iu the ruuniug of street cars is that recently suggested and tried i near Richmond, Vu. Eight heavy springs are used, which are connected to : the axles by suitable gearing. A wind- I ing engine will bo built ut the ends of the liues, which is four miles long. Some of the monstrous cranes usud iu the Buldwiu locomotive works at Philu- ' delphiu lift a big locomotive as easily as ' a mother does a buby. Each of them saves tho labor of 150 men uud does ' awuy with the necessity of huving a com- ' I plicated system of trucks for shitting thu locomotives. I A lato invention, tho cushion car j wheel," is described us being n thick rub- ' ber bund placed between tho tire and ' j centre of the wheel, ami which acts as u cushion, absorbing ull vibrations. The rubber is so attached as to make any ' danger from a hot box or from corrosive , l action an improbability, ' A now Swedish glass is claimed to have important advaulugu for microscope uud other lino lenses, giving greatly in creased power. The chief improvements over other liue glass cousists iu tho addi tion of phosphate and chlorine, which impart absolute transparency, great hard- j ueas and suspectihility of tho liuest iol- ' ish. i An Electrodo iu the Stomach. Herr Ei.'ihoru, a medical electrician, has devised uu electrode lor entering the stomach so as to enable thu operator tc tend a current of electricity from thu in terior of the body to the exterior, ol vico versa. Tne electrode consists of a fine wire, which is inclosed iu au iudiu- I rubber tube, terminating in a capsule. Tiie capsule is perforated so as to allow ' tho current in the wire to escape to the stomach, while preveutiug the wir from touching thu coats of tho iattu-. Tho patient drinks some water and kwallows rthe cawulu like a pill. Tht other electro lo is applied to tho skin u the ordinary way. ImwIoii Ulube. I Raising Poultry in Cuba. Poultry is, lo some extent, raisod in Cuba. Iu the streets of Havana may be seen some of tho worst-looking speci mens of poultry one could imagine, liv iug, as most of them do, ou the refuse matter about the marketplaces. Tuero is a lack of tho bright red comb and healthy, cleanly appearance of fanu rithed stock. Ou a few of tho planta tions may bu found some of our lo.miii" breeds. There is a field for this indus try, rightly managed, iu this section of tha country. American AjricultuiUt. . OVIR THE RANGE. Over beyond yon mountain range. That dim, blue, spreading line. There lies a country wondrous strange A country that is mine. r Von may have crossed that highest peaky But, prithee, tell it not; The spell mny vaaixh It you speak Of that enchanted spot. When I was young and full of dreams. And watched tho red sun set, I thought I caught the golden gleams Of rounded minaret. Of tower, and of tapering spire, Reflected In the skies, -Then thought I (thought lit by desire)' Beyond some city lies. When twilight faded Into night, Anil o'er the heated earth -. Blew Southland st'phyr, cool and light,' Which waked new drennvt to birth, And on the breeze a fragrance flow That lingered in tho air, ' This sweet conclusion thou I drow The Land of Flowers is thero. J Now youth has gone my other dream j Have faded Into naught; But with the goldon sunset streams Still llvesone youthful thought; y And fairyland my musing fills 1 It may not, may not be But yet boyond that range of hills I will not go to see. '- Flavel Scott Mines? HUMOR OF THE DAY. A catch phrase "Sick 'em!" I1 ? A flagging industry stoppiu;j train. Baltimore American. Gay circles naturally indulge in rounds: of pleasure. Baltimore American. Tho forger is nlway? careful to got S good name. Bingh union lltpublu-an. Man needs somebody to syiuputhiwj with him even In his meanness. Gal teiiton Nats. Potago stamps bought of a druggist generally go from pillar to post. Xcm York Journal. Tho fanner who hides his light under abus'iel incurs the risk of needing anew barn. Lowell Viil. Cora is weVi proviflcu Witil ca.. , talk doesn't amount to much, it's toe husky. Ioieell Courier, A Western farmer recently threslreo 1200 bushels of wheat and two tramps i ono day. Boston Bulletin. "I have a misgiving in this affair," the father said when ho gavo wy the brido. BaUitnire AmericJi. Bcssio "Aren't the breakers lovely!" Milhcent "Yes, but I'd. rather t'jey were brokers." Brooklyn Life. Tho most popular rending nov,;adayi are the cereal stories from .llussian sources. Roclicster Post- Ejyra:,. "Avoid the very nppcar.vaoo of evil does not mean that you rr4,ist cover up your rasculity. Ualhis ( Z',j) Jfemt. When a genealogies! tree has manj branches the decenihnt should keep shady about it. Acw Organs Picnyune, "Your views meet with my approval, said the customer, us he bought somi photographs from a dealer. JVe Yorl I Journal. I Never disturb a contemplative man. J It is never safe to approach tco near a j train of thought when it is iu motion. Itichmond lUcordtr. I Jessie "I don't see how a woman cai i kiss a man who chews." Jack "Slu bus to tuko out her guin first, of course." j A'ew York JJrrald., "This circumstance adds weight to till step I um about to tuke," remarked tht convict, us he glanced down nt his chain aud ball. Baltimore American. First Fisherman "What luck an you haviug over there?" Second Fisher man "First rate; the harder it raius tho drier I get." Xe,o York Herald. "I see Jack ami Mollio have made up ngain. Why was tho engagement ever broken)" "They had a quarrel as to which loved the other most." Life. Shakspere iu tho Kitchen : "Let every mau get his dessert, and which of us shall 'scapo whipping?" sadly remarked tho cream to the eggs. Baltimore Ameri. dm. Hay Fever Victim "D.ictur, can't you tell mo how I can find relief froai this constant inclination to sneeze ?i" Physi cian "Yes, sir. Sueeze." Chicago Tri lune. " "I canuotseo why I do not get along better, I ain not ouo of thosu fellows who want tho earth, cither." "No; what you want is the suud." Indiaiiapolii Journal. (Juilter "I suppose, Fakes, you havo tho entree to ull the theatres;" Fakes (the critic) "Yes; but, you see. I usu ally give them a roast in return." Bos. ton Pout. "Well! If that isn't the me mest trick I ever heard of!" "What?" "They have scut un ossified man as u missionary to the Cannibal islands." Jn lianapolie Jjitrnal. Bilkius "After nil, the country is tho plane. How different from the city I No dint, no noises, no everlasting grind of business." .lilkins " Vaas; but abovo ull, no duns." Grip. Hy uud by some brilliant iuvector will gel up a traveling carria;. for the uso of di-liugui.shed nu n, t bi propelled by the force now wasted in shuViug hands en route Philadc'p'tis Tia t. Tommy "Paw, what are 'wings of tho wind.' Thu w iu. 1 dues not have real wings, does it?" Mr. I'igg "No. That is merely a poetic expulsion for side. whUkeis." Indiana, v! is Ju'tntal. "i ki -,1 her; why ilioso pouting lipsj I ki-.! her only uuet.. If fault it Kan, 'tias miiall indeed." All, nmr, slun-1,-1 sighted dunce, A In cannot see .su ouls Uvuuso You only kissed iei- ullee. Oinahii Ju'e. Papa "I understand, daughter, that new suitor of yours is a basebail celebri ty!" Daughter '-Ves, pi a, he is tho j-'ieatcst short stoji in the coiiuiiy." Pa I a "Short stop, eh? Well, 1 !' lie will remember his sicciih " "m)i you." BoUu I '
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