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VOL. XXIV. NO, 20,
TIONESTA, TA., WEDNESDAY, OCT, 21, 1891,
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Men of science any that the chemist
Will dorohmto coming inventions.
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.' 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 '