FOREST REPUBLICAN Y 1 Pbllbe4 srarj Wadsetter, ay J. E. WENK. Offlo la Bmearbaugh A Co.'a Building Uf iTM ST, TIONKSTA, T. Term. . tl.SO pr Yar. Ottrreapwnca aollelted fram all aarta af th. Over thirteen hundred trado journals re now published in tho United State t A cominerciiil orerau believes that Maino is destined to becomo the centre of the paper and pulp industry. Statistics go to show that the mule population of tho civilized world is full ing farther and farther behind tho fo lualo. Franco is now trying to Induce Brazil to enter into a reciprocity treaty similar to that recently entered into with tho United State". Tho Liverpool Journal of Commerce is informed that thu engineering world will shortly be stiirtlod by the appcuanco of a new engino which will rcvohitioniz inotivo power. A fow days ago, soliloquizes tho T . j . . . rifnamjir, rtmcricau uoomers wero nil headod for Cauudn. Now Canadian boodlors fro coming across tho border Boodliug is a bad rulo that works both ways. A weighing machine has been invented which weighs cars at tho rate of six per minute, tho cars being moved along tho track. A device automatically records tho weights ou a piece of tape similar to that used ou tho ticker machine. Whilo Hats aro becoming increasing popular in Franco among people of mod orato meaus, people in a corresponding position in Germany are as anxious to live in houses of their own, nud a com pany lias just beeu formed in Bjrltu to enable them to do so. The nativo population of Alaska has decreased 8000, or ovor twenty per cent., in ten years. Tho came, laments the St. Louis Republic, was tho usual ono edu cation by association with whi'o people and the attempt to assimilate tho highly developed vices of civilization. Says tho San Fr.uiciscj Chronicle: Over ono hundred of the Moscalcro Apaches iu Now Mexico havo asked that lauds bo set apart for thorn in severalty. Quite rcccutly an extensive allotment of this sort was made iu the Southoru part of this State. This is the orrcct solu tion of the Indian problem. Give then tho sumo privileges a the whito man, aud do more, and let them siuk or swim There has lately boon organized in Englnnd a rent guarantee company, the business of which is to insure landlor.lt against loss by b:d tenants. In order to reduce its risk to a minimum it makes i business of keeping landlords informed as to the standing of tenants, and for c consideration they are supplied with in formation which often enables tho;n t keep undesireable tenants out of theii houses. Two new Atlantic liner.-, to bo COO feet long and faster thau anything afloat are guaranteed by tho builder to be ready for sea early in tho spring of 1S0TJ. They will bo almost as long us tho Greit Eastern, though not nearly so wide. They will have quite as much engiuo iyer as that uufortuuutu steamship had, butVjt will bo so compact aud ccono mized tVt it will not occupy one-third as much sm) nor bo ouo-quartor tin weight of ICS old paddle and gvirew engines. It is difficult to estimate, confesses the New York Xetei, tho amount of money that has been left iu Europe this year by American tourists. Taking all the ex penses Into considcra'iou, however, the passugos out and home and the average sum disbursed on tho other side, tuc aggregato cauuot bo far fro.u $75,000, 000. All of this has to bo paid out of the products of labor in this coun try, and if it is not returned in tho shape of tho gold paid for our wheat, petrole um and other articles, it will represent the cost paid by this country for tUr pleasure of its citi.ens abroad. In no other department of the World's Columbiau Exposition, perhaps, will be seen a greater diversity of exhibits thau in that of mines aud miuiug. Not onlj will there bo a dazzling array of dia monds, opals, emeralds and other gems, and of the precious metals, but a most ex tensive collection of iron, copper, lead, other ores, aud of their product; of coal, granite, marble, satidstouo and othci buildiug stone; of soils, salt, petroleum, and, indeed, of almost everything, use ful or beautiful, belonging to the mineral kingdom. How exteusive tho mineral exhibit from other countries will be, it is yet too early to kuow, but the indica tions are that it will surpass uny that ha heretofore been made. However that may be, there is uo doubt that the mineral resources and products, not ouly of this country us a whole, but of each Stute aud sectiou, will be of the most complete aud representative description. Chief Skill, of thu Department of Mines aud Mining, is confident that this will bo the ic mil uf thu pluus which he is pursuing. For VOL. XXIV. NO. UBTWEKN THE C1ATE3. Between the gates of birth and death An old and sa'ntly pilgrim passed, With look of one who witneswth The long-sought goal nt last. "O thou whom revwent foot have found The Mutator's footprints In thy way, And walker! thereon as holy ground, A boon of thoe I pray. "My lack would borrow thy excess, My feoble faith the strength of thine; 1 need thy soul's white silntliness To bide the stains of mine. "The grace and favor else denied May woll be granted for thy sake." So, tempted, doubting, sorely tried, A younger pilgrim spake. "Thy prayer, my son, transcends my gift; Nopower is mine," the sage replied, "Th? burden of a soul to lift, Or stain of sin to hide. "Uowe'ir tho outward life may seem, For pardoning grace we nil must pray; No man his brotber can redeem Or a soul's ransom pay. "Not always age Is growth of good; Its years have losses witli tLeir gain; Against some evil youth withstood Its bands may strive in vain. "With deeper voice than any speech Of mortal lips from man to man, What earth's unwisdom may not teach The Spirit only can. "Make thou that holy Guide thino own, And, following where it lauds the way, The known shall lapse iu the unknown As twilight Into day. "The best of earth shall still remain, jAod Heaven's eternal years shall prove That life and death, and joy and pain Are ministers of Love." John O. Whittier, in the Independent. AUNT MEllETABLE'S VISIT. BV AMY llANDOI.rlt. "It's all very well for them to invito mo to go and visit thoin down in York Stato," suid old Miss Mehetable Bevis; "but, of course, they know thnt I won't come." "Of couree l"' snarled Mr. Bevis, who did not believo in anybody but himself. "Why should they wnnt you, Mehetty? You ain't very young, nor yet you ain't very attractive." "In that case," said Mobctnblc, not Mlbout a liugcriug vestige of spirit, "I'm surprised, Brother Kcuben, that you nnd Betsy tolerate me hero." "Wa'l," said Farmer Bevis, slowly taking tho pipo out of his mouth, as if this were a new and unconsidered ques tion, "you're my sister, Mehetty, and you've a natural claim on me. Of course I ain't goiu' to see none of my kith aud kin turned on the poor-houso. And I don't deny, mind, Mehetty," ho made haste to add, as he saw tho indiguuut color mounting to her checks, "but thnt you earn your victuals. You're a smart worker, Mehetty, and n'.wnys was. And Betsy is glad, with her big family, to Lave some one to help around." "1 should think so," said Mehetable, "Why, Kcuben, you could uot hire any body to come hero and do tho work I accomplish for four dollars a week, let mono tuo boanl ana lodging I" "What's all this got to do with the question t What I meant to say was that Brother Ben's faslunable city daughter una ncr iiusDaml can t tare sib jut plain loiks like us. "I am sure they enjoyed their visit here," observed Mehetablo, knitting away as if her needles were electric wires, "auu nouung coum be more cordial than the invitation they cave mo to return it. "City folks are always smooth spoken, said Mrs. Bevis, a lantern jawed, fadod-eyed, bluc-uosed woman, witu tier face eternally tied up in .yellow silk pocket-handkerchief, and a most aggravating way of singing her son Unices through her nose. "I'm glad I charged em a good high price for granny's old spinuing-wheol, since you woman t lot me ask no board-money." -l s.uouia tuink not," taid Miss Mchetublo. "Keuben's own brother'j daughter! Board, iudecd." "Of course, Mehetublo will do as she pleases about visitin' 'em," said Mi Heuben Bevis, working diligently away at ner "Fool's Utilise" quilt pattern. "But it wus very pluin that they ouly asked her because they thought it was a duty. Aud if Mehetable goes off and leaves us just now with tho quilting and the peach-butter and thu apple butter all at ouco ' 'Well, whnt then!" said Mehetablo. knitting away foster than ever. Mrs. Ue vis tossed her head. "In that case," said she. "you needn't be surprised if we hire some ono else in your pluce. And, of course, you won't expect to come back to free board and lodging here." Miss Mehetable laid down her work. "Before this morning," said she. crisply, I hadu't made up my mind. Now, I have. I shall go to Mrs. Walter Cherryfleld's. If matters have come to such a pass that I can't go aud co.ue when I choose, but must drudge ou dnj by day like a (lave, why, thuu, it's time I knew it." 'You and Betsy never could asrree," groaned lieubeu Bevis, with a lugubrious countenance. "Hain't my fault," snapped Mrs. lieu- bon. "There uiu't uosaiutiu the calen dar could stand what I've stood with Mehetty's temper." "Guess you d better patch up a peace." urged Mrs. lievis. "Hired htln is dread ful scarce, Betsy and, as for you, Me hetty, "taint long one would put up with your oiu-muHly ways as Betsy does. But the "littlo rilt within the lute"' once split apart, was past mortal power to mend. Betsy took herself and her neuralgia sulkiug out of the room. Me hetable quietly but steadfastly adhered to her resolution and Mr. Heuben Bevis at lust lost his temper. "Wa'l, Mehetty," said he, "go your own way. lint you'ro us contrary u piece as ever I sat eye ou, and I don't kuuw how I aud BvUv ever uot juuu t 27. TIONESTA, with you all thes. years. PVaps It", best we should pait now but don't you come back to mo for food and atelter that's all I" "I shan't ask you for even that much, Heuben," said his sister, quietly rising and putting up her work. "But we'ro brother and sister after all, nnd after ten. years of steady work for you and youivSJ i u b nine rauicr navo pnrioj in good win ana amity." "That's bosh I" said Bevis. crufflv. "You've had your own way, and I hone -..'n ha i. - t i ' j i, nut. ib puj. uen. m nio long run. Mehetty went slowly to her room. packed her trunk and dressed herself In an antique debeive dress, cut in the fashion of full twenty years ago, with a shirred poke bonnet, thick calf-skin boots and pale-blue cotton gloves, whilo under her arm she carried a green giu- gnam umbrella, thriftily patched with material or a darker emerald. "1 11 settle the question nt once," she murmured to herself, "whether or not they are ashamed of their old Aunt Mo- hctablo, from Deer-Horns, up In Maine 1" And then, wishing Reuben and Betsy a pleasant good bye, which neithorof them saw fit to notice by word or look, she went straight to tho stage-office. Lawyer Dark ley rushed out of his office as she stepped briskly by in her snueakino- now boots which, as tho errand-boy re marked, sotto voce, "was every bit as good as a baud of music," and smiliugiy accosioa aer an -i t - - - . - ansa Biiem i -jiiss lievis, are you leaving town without any more definite instructions as to "Hush!" said Mehetable, abruptly. -not a worai res. i will -vrite iu day or two. Remember, Mr. Darkley, everything is confidential between us." The lawyer nodded, and retired once moro into his littlo den, and Miss Bevis hurried on to catch tho afternoon stage Mr. nud Mrs. Walter Cherryfield wero Having a little evening reception that bleak November night. Miss Mehetablo Bevis had not been ignorant of this fact; in truth, Mrs. Walter had mentioned it incidentally in her last lottor to Doer- Horns; and she marched up the steps looking curiously at the brilliantly lighted windows. "And now we shall decido this mat ter," she said to herself, "as to whether my city cousins are glad to sco me." Yes, Mrs. Cherryfield was at home. Hie waiter looked dubiously at tho strange guest, so ualike the faucv figures mulllcd in soft white garments that made incin seem like floating clouds, that came ana weut from satin-lined carriages close to the curbstone. Ho would call her, no suia, it the may would step into a side room and wait. It was Mrs. Cherry fie'd birth-night, and "Jfo," said Mehetable, "I will eo iu to her. Stand aside, my good man, if you please!" Mrs. Cherryfleld's face flushed up with unmistakable pleasure at this unexpected apparition, as she hurried to meet the visitor from Deer-Horns. "Aunt Mehetty," she cried. "Oh, this is a surprise, indeed 1 lam so glad to see you. Here's Walter, and here are my girls I And now you must let me in troduce you to my friends. This is Mr. arrenton, the artist; you knovI told you about him last summer and Miss Briginago, who wrote tho volume of poems you liked so much and this is Miss Stallenkarup and Miss Do Vauren but what a thoughless cieature I am! Let mo take you up to my room to re move these heavy wraps 1" "No," cried cheery Walter Cheery field. "Up to your room, indeed! What for, Alice! Aunt Mehetablo shall tako off her things here, and then we won't lose a bit of the fun. It's like a whilf of the fresh mountain brcere to see Aunt Mehet ty's face again and I'll lead oil the Vir ginia reel with her myself 1" Whilo the girls clustered around her, eager to introduce their friends, anxious to make her wholly and entirely at home, so cordial nud sunny, that Miss Meheta ble scarcely knew whether to laugh or cry. i .. -ncuuen saia your invitation was a mere matter of form," said she in a choked voice. "That you didn't want to sco me ! But I guess Reuben ain't such a good judge of character as he thinks himself." And then the umbrella, poke-bonnet and clogs having been removed by tho trim little maid-servant with tho bluo ribbons in her hair, Aunt Mehetty was whirled dowu tho center by Walter Cber ryfleld in genuine country stylo. Aunt Mehetable stayed a month with the Chcrryfield8. She drove in Ceutral Park, looked with awe-struck eyes at the smoke-crowned serpents of the elevated road gliding above her head, aud wan dered through the aisles of the Metropol itan Museum. She went to see the obelisk, was taken over Brooklyn Bridgo aud when she went home to Deer Horns aud tried to think of them all.she felt as if her braius had beeu chopped up into very fine hash. "But if I'd be tho President's lady herself," Miss Bevis always added, "the Cherryfleld's couldn't have made a greater fuss over me!" She hud not been at tho village hotel moro thau two days before her brothel Reuben drove over in his fuuuy littlo one-horse buckboard. "Mornin'," suid Reuben, succintly "Heard ye had a nice time at Alice's." "I never enjoyed myself so much iu all ray life," Miss Mehetablo auswered, with spirit, "nor never was treated bottor!" "Humph!" said Reuben. "Wa'l, Betsy don't seem to get aloug with the hired help we've employed ; und so, as we concluded you'd be glad to get homo agaiu, I've fetched tho buckboard for you." "Much obliged,'' said Mies Muhotuble; "but this is home." k Reuben stared arouud tho room? "Why," said he, with lobster eye of amazement, "this 'ere must cost you a dollar a day, at the very least !" "About that," said Miss Mehetablo, serenely. "Hut I calculate, Brother Heuben, that I can ulford it. I didn't tell you, did I, about those Leudvillo bonds I took just to accommodate Lean der Jama's widow, before the went Wvt, 1 held uiy tongue buul iu, fur Republican. PA., WEDNESDAY, I was afraid I had done a foolish thing, but they've quadrupled in value, and Lawyer Darkloy has just sold 'em out and invested thirty thousand dollars for me in government stock. So I can liv pretty much as I please." Hcubeu involuntarily took off his slouch hit a sort of tribute to the heir. ess of all this wealth. "Well, I do declare tor 'tl" said he, "8ome folks have all tho luck. Why, Miriam Jarvis wanted to sell me them bonds at par, and I told her I'd havo nothing to do with such wild-cat stuff, not at no price." "And," added Miss Mehetable, with a secret satisfaction in tho too perceptible changes tf her brother's flint-like face, "I've made my will, and l'vo left It to my niece Alice and her girls. I llko to think that honest and friendly folks will cojoy it when I am gone." Reuben Bevis turned silently and went out. And whf n he related the story to his wife, ho added, with true matrlmouial courtesy : "It's all your fault, Betsy. You must up and quarrel with her when there wasn't no occasion. Women is such blamed fools I" "Everything Is always my fault," an swered tho despondent Betsy, bursting into tears. "There never was a woman so tried as I bo I" New York Ledger. The Spread of Consumption. Intererting investigations of the theory that railroad cars aid in spreading pul monary diseases by means of baccili com ing from consumptive passengers, which lodge in the dust of cars, have been mado by Dr. W. Prausnitz, a German pliysician. A few months ago, the doctor, with the aid of a patent instrument, collected a lnrge quantity of dust from tho floors, wnlls and cushions of cars which had been used by consumptives on their jour ney irom iierlin to Italy. This dust was injected under the skins of seventeen guinea pigs. The animals were killed i ten weeks later. Twelve of them, upon examination, were found entirely healthy. ! whilo only five showed slight symptoms of tuberculosis. As confinement undoubtedly affected the lungs of the animals, tho doctor I comes to the conclusion that railroad , railroad cars, if properly cleaned at the end of each journey, will play no part in j spreading tho disease of consumption. Dr. Prausnitz will now conduct a similar series of experiments with tho , dust collected from the floors and walls j of street cars, and especially such the ' floors of which aro covered with hay or ! straw in winter, a practico which still j largely obtains in many cities of the Em pire, j In Berlin, the doctor thinks, new con clusions will be reached, not so favorablo ' as those arrived at in the cose of steam I passenger locomotion. Straw, as a com municator of diseases of the mucous I membrane, especially when such floor covering is impregnated with the expec torations of passengers, Is well known. The doctor's experiments on this point will be watched with interest. St, Louis Stur-Sayingt. First American Water Works.' John Christopher Christensen, a Dan. ish Moravian, built the first water works in the United States iu 1763 at Bethle hem, Penn. The machinery is thus de scribed in an early print. It consisted of three siuglo-acting force-pumps, hav ing u caiiuro oi iour incucs ana an eightecu-inch stroke, which were worked by a triple crank aud glared to an un dershot water wheel having a diameter of eighteen feet, nnd two foot clear in tho buckets. The total head of water was two feet. On the shaft of tho wheel was a wallowcr of thirty-three rounds aud gearing into a spur-wheel of fifty two cogs, attached to tho crank. Tho three piston rods were attached each to a fraino or cross-head working iu grooves to give them a parallel motion with the pump. This cross-head was of wood, as wero also all tho parts contain ing the grooves as guides. At first theso works were capablo of ruising tho water to a perpendicular height of scveuty feet, but afterward were so arranged that the power wus in creased to 114 feet. As late as 183'i the primitive affair continued in full operation. Gum wood was used in the construction of tho first rising main, because it was strong enough to resist tho groat pressure at that point, but the remainder was com posed of pitch pine. Thirty-six yours after this main was laid lead pipes wero substituted, nnd in 1813 iron ones wero introduced nud served the purpose until tho works were rcpluced by thoso of moro modem palteru. Detroit Froe Primitive Pottery. The primitive potters kncided clay by huud and baked the articles undo from it in tho sun, but they wero very porous I ana fragile. Thou it ocuurrcd to tho ' potters to subject them to tho action of the fire and thus Increase their consist ency und resistance, but the wares still remained porous, which led to the dis covery of making thoin impermcablo l7 covering them with a glaze. The early glaze was, however, hardly more than a varnish, and tho whito enamel glazo ol the present day has been uttained by a long series of experiments too intricate to detail iu this column. Pottery which is coated with this en amel in by tho Freuch called faience. In Italy it is known as majolica, because tho methods employed by the Italians wero imported from un island of thul r ame. I'h iloileljih iu Heord. Asiatic Plieusants Iu Oregon. It is said that tho Asiutio pheasants that were imported aud set freo iu tho forests of Oregou some years ugo, havo fully justified tho hopes of their impor ters by the rapidity with which they have multiplied where they have not been mo lestcd by hunters. Theso birds ure of very gorgeous plumage, and We excellent I game fou ls, being strong uud hardy, of : lurye size and very good eating. Striu. ! gent laws have been passed to ptol 'ct ' thvw lium pot hunters. W(.' (.'.(i, OCT, 28, 1891. CAPE COD CRANBERRIES, HOW A taOriTABLD BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED. Morrlment tu tho Huts Occnplod by the Pickers Process or Making Cranberry Hog. Writing about cranberry eulturo, a j Sandwich (Mass.) correspondent of tho ' York Tribune, sayss in tne early evening, when tho pick ers come in from the bogs tired and wet, it is a picturesque sight to see men and women, somo in blight colors and others in faded grays that have become artistic, group themselves about tho camp fire looking with longing eyes nt tho huge pot of coffee that is simmering on the bright coals of a wood fire. The even ing meal is nono the less enjoyable that it is served in a tin dipper, and the bread or simple cake is eaten from the hands that have toiled all day rescuing the beau tiful berries from the damp and dirt of a bog. They sleep well, and aro up early at work on tho lines laid out across the bog, for as they are paid by tho measure and not by tho day, they aro free to be gin the day at any hour they please. Many bogs aro near the village, and tho pickers return to their homes. But those a half dozen miles distant have their camps and their littlo communities. Frequently wholo families shut up their houses and move into shanties built oa tho edge of a lujgo bog. Cranberry land should bo selected with three distinct objects in view: First, to havo good drainage; second, good sand; and third, a good natural supply of water to bo used in flowing for frosts and for killing tho destructive fire-worm. When a swamp is found that has thoso requirements the brush and trees aro cleared off nnd burned. Tho top sod is turned over and tho tree stumps taken out, the land levellod and drained by deep ditches dug in the plot arollud the edge and through tho centre. This work having been completed, the bog is ready for sand, which should be of a coarse quality put on evenly over the entire surface, from four to six inches deep. Tho bog is now ready for tho vines, which nro of various varieties, the early black being raised to a gieatcr extent than any other. The vinos are cut off old bogs and are set out from twelve to eighteen inches apart in reg ular order, by meu who work ou their knees with an iron paddle, pushing tho vines down into tho plot, which fur nishes moisture for the plunts whilo rooting. The sand keeps the heat of tho sun and warms the plot underneath. This combination of heat and moisture makes the vine thrive as it never did in a natural state. It takes four seasons of constant euro to allow these siugle vines to cover over the spaces bctweeu the settings. Under favorable circumstances a crop may bo expectea at tne end ot this time, varying from 100 to 1C0 barrels of fruit per acre. One of the most expensive parts of cranberry eulturo is keeping the bog free from weeds nnd marsh grasses which grow freely in the moist, warm sand, and if allowed to remain in many cases obstruct tho growth of tho vines, and in some cases destroy the bos. This work of caring for the vines is done by men and women who work with hoes among the settings the first season, after which tho labor is done with tho hands, as the runners which begin to grow must bo disturbed as little as possible Ihe cranberry grower s prospects aro uncertuiu unless ho can preveut the rav ages of tho fire worm, which is liable to destroy a crop iu tho spring unless tho bog can be flooded with water. This has to be done twice in a seasou if tho worm appears. Otherwise the fruit is destroyed and tho foliage looks as though a fire had passed over tho ground, leaving the vines a reddish brown color. Another thing to be care fully guarded agaiust is early frosts in spring when tho fruit is setting. This is also offset by flowiug tho bog with water. The grower, having escaped tho frosts and fire worms, begins on September 10 to gather the crop. The bog is lined off In rows with twine, and tho pickers, men, women ana cuiuireu, oi ail uges, gather the fruit from tho vines working along the bog on their knees. Most of the berries are picked by hand, but a machine is sometimes used which scoops tho berries from the vines. An average picker, with the hands alone, can pick thirty measures of six quarts eich a day, for which they receive teu cents per measure or three dollars. With tho assistance of the machine as high as ono hundred measures havo been picked iu a day. Tho hand-picking does not destroy the vines as much as the luucuiuc, uud is therefore preferred. Tho original cost of tho land used is about $25 per acre, and the cost of cou- etructing the Ijo is usually uot moro thau $300. The yield of 1UI) barrels of berries to the acre is uot uncommon, aud theso will sell at an uveraje price of a barrel. Some years thu price rises to $1(5 uud over. Tho cost per barrel for picking is uot over $1.07, und the barrel uud commission for market ing not over 80 cents. The co.st per acre of bog is about Ir'W a year. It is a most interesting sight to tho city people ou tho Capo, who drive ubout iu September now aud then, to come out on the edge of a largo cranberry bog, wuere may oe seeu liumlre Is of men, women und children scattered over tho purple-green field, some ou their kuuus, others standing still, others emptying their measures iulo bright new barrels; women with old-fashioned poke bonnets aud ineu with bright red Annuel shirts. Here is a group conversing, there boys aro ruuuiug ubout or pestering frogs iu the ditches by the side of the bog, uud yonder u smart little fair-haired girl u j,utheriug flowers near the durk mass of woods that iuvariably skirts tiie cran berry bog. Tho hum of voices and the quiet of the woods lend u charm to a sceue of life aud industry that means great profit to the bog-uwucrs und food nnd clothiug fyr Ue couiiug wiutvf lor the toilers. S1.50 PER ANNUM. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Ccffee acta as a germicide. Electric pleasure-boaU are successful. An automatic electrical pump has ap peared. A process for photographing in colors has been patented in London. It is estimated that the coal strata un derlying Colorado exceeds 30,000 squaro miles. To make,cloth thot is used In lining shoos waterproof, use oiled silk or heat the linings in melted paraffin. A station of the maritime zoology of the Johns Hopkins University has just been opened nt Port Antonio in Jamaica. A society has been formed at Berlin for Ihe purpose of co-operating iu as tronomical and meteorological re searches. A mining corporation in the copper region of upper Michigan will sink the deepest shaft in tho world over 4000 feet, at least. 3'inute electric lights are successfully used in dentistry, making the very small cavities visible when they would other wise escape notice. By a recent npplianco to kitchen ranges the refuge from tho kitchen Is thoroughly dried, converted into char coal and used as fuel. Although diamonds will stand a Tory high temperature when held in vacuum, the admission of air causes them to burn almost as readily as coal. A recent invcution used Iu factories enables any person iu any part of tho factory to stop the main engiue by simply pushing an electric button. Edison is now at work on an eloctrio motor to replace the ordinary locomotive. It is designed to take up electricity from n central rail aud to develop at least one thousand horse power. The French have planted works at Havre, France, for utilizing tho ebb and flow of the tido to work turbine wheels to generato power for the dynamos to supply Paris with light. Small cups are now being used with great success by oculists for tho cure of long-sighted uess and kindred diseases of tho eye. Tho cupping restores tho cir culation and strengthens the tissues. A new invention by which it is said that the stamps on 40,000 letters can bo canceled in an hour is on trial in tho New York Postoffice. It is operated on the rotary system, and is run by electricity. A new treatment for yellow fever has cured every casa of this disease in San tiago de Cuba. Tho principal port of the new process consists In placing tho patient in whai. is termed a "polar" room. In establishing tho longitude of Mc Gill Collego iu Montreal, Canada, by means of the telegraph, it was found that it took tho electric current 1.05 seconds to cross the ocean and return, a distance of 8000 miles. At tho naval exposition in London, there is a colossal electric lamp, con structed by the admirality. It givos a light equal to that of 6,000,000 candles, nnd is placed in a model light-house, fifty-six meters above tho ground. Notwithstanding tho assertion that there is no auimal life in Death Valley, tho Government surveying party has found 200 varieties of mammals aud six ty varieties of reptiles, specimens of which have been forwarded to Washing ton. There aro said to bo no moles In Ire land. Mr. C. I. Trusted, of the British Naturalists' SocUty, has never seen a mole-hill in that ccuntry, and an ac quaintance of his at Belfast, a naturalist, Bays, "It is a fact that moles do not e.v'ut in Ireland." Progress In electric roads can be seen from tho following: In 18S5 there wero only three iu this country. Now we have 325 roads, with 4000 cars. The comparative cost per cr mile is 18.12 cents, while lor horse cars we havo 18.1(1 cents and for cablo 14.12 cents. Electric welding has now become al most universal in large establishments, Ihe use of a flux U unuecessiry. Elec tricity is now used for making forcings, augurs, railroad spikes, ball bearings, uud many other urticles hitherto mado by nana or by expeusivo machinery. A fall of about thirty feet between Lake Superior and Lake Huron at Sault Ste.Murie give probubly one of tho great est water powers in the world. It is to be utilized ou the Canadian side by a race uud on the American side bv a canal 1000 feet wido.aud giving 200,000 horse power. Professor Karl Myer, wha Is conduct ing the Government experiuieuts for pro ducing ruin artificially, has invented what he culls a "sky bicycle." It is a torpedo-Bhupcd balloon, to which is sus pended a machine similar to the frame work of a bicycle. Curious puddlewheelt produce the propelling power for tiie apparatus. Sink or Swim Egirs. "Hi, there! These egirs don't swim," exclaimed a man in a Milwaukee rostau rant one day last week. He had been trying to float somo soft boiled eggs iu a glass of cold wuter. "They don't swim Well, supposiu' they dou't?" replied a waiter, who had come to find out whut the man wus yell ing ubout. "Thut's what's tho matter; supposiu' they don't. I'll tell you what's the trouble pretty quick. Do yuu uotico that egg) It sinks to the bottom ker chug when put into cold water. Now, my wife is just us good a cook as thore is iu this town, aud she suysthut an egg that will siuk iu cold wuter like that ut ter it bus been sott-boiled is jest ubout ready to hatch. Sh I Cuu't yon hour a peepf" The eggs thut could no swim wers exchauged fi r others that wero lcd, while a number of other customers who had soft-boiled eggs spoiled gluskes ol cold water to find out whether their egu's wero siuk tgg or swim rgya VVc'j NAT IS Or ADVKWTIMWO. M tqaara, ma tach, 9c. latartloa ...I af Om Sqaara, ana lath, n. nonth .7. I M Oaa 8jaara,aaa Inch, thr months......... (M Oa. (qun, ma Inch, on. year 1.IC Two Sqaaraa, on raar U Qaartar Galon, ea. rear MM Bill Column, oaa raar M MM OssOaaaan, oaa raar ... MM Lftl tdnrtlMMBM t easts ft Um saafc av tartlOB. Marrlagea ud Mth aotlcat gratis. All kill, for yearly alrrtl.menn eallaetcal IK ierlf. Temporary MlTertU.111.nM null a patt 14 HfUW Jak work eaak n delivery. DOWN THE STREAM. Love I It began with a glance. Grew with the growing of flowers. Broiled in a dreamful trance, Reckoned not tba passage of hours; Our passions flood rose aver, , -v Flowing for hor and me, Till the brook became a river. And the river became a sea. Grief I It began with a ttord, Grew with the winds that raved; A prayer for pardon unheard. Pardon in turn uncrave 1; The bridge so esy to sever. i The stream so swift to bo free, Till the brook became a river, And tho river became a sea. Life? It tegan with n si-li, Grew with the leavp thnt are dead; Its pleasures with wings to Hy, Its sorrows with limbs ot lead; And rest reinaineth never For the wearier years to be. Till the brook shall become a river, And the rivor become a sea. Kobert Lord Ilovyhlon.- TJCM0R OF TIIE DAT. "The ould dart" Cupid's. Fuel. A paying busiucss Settling your" debts. All Is fair in war; but it is often only' half-fare in a railway war. When a spider crawls ir.to his holo he means busiucss. Picayune. One never realizes the co t of exper ience fully until he goes to law. How to gut a musical car Tako lotfl: of quinine. New York Journal. Must have that "tired feeling" Tho' cartwheel. Philadelphia llecord. Ups and downs of poverty Tiio rag ged edges of your collar aud your trous ers. There are tricks in all trados, partic ularly horse trades. Binjltamton Itipub lican. Kammercr "How do you feci when a man strikes you?" Hammerer "I feel for him." Fuel. When a man begins to blow you mny . know ho is trying to take tilings by storm. Gahetlon Seici. "Oh, mamma," exclaimed littlo John nie, "tho trees in our yard are getting ! bald-headed!" liinghimton llepublican. Tho oratory of some men uny not movo mountains, yet it often succeods in making a big bluff. Walicld Standard. "The shoemaker who breathed his last" should not be pointed to as a man' of phonomcnul lung power. Washing ton Star. Mrs. Steptin (calling upon Mrs. Solder, the plumber's wife) 'And how is Mr. Solder" Mrs. Solder "Oh, he's meud ing slowly." - , She "I suppose in Bohemia "ovr.T one is Tom, Dick and Harry?" He A "Well, yes; but Hills nro rather moro numerous." lit ooilyn Life. Wo may boast about our rcfinod civili zation; but when a man doesn't 'in n to look ut a dog tight, it is sate to bet that he is either blind or deaf. Fuck. However uiueh we feel of wuj From saying things wo di'eaf, We tliul it hurtle r still to know Tiie things to leave uusuit1. ludije. "What was the collect this morning?" nsked papa, desiring to sco if his son re membered anything of tho church ser vice. "Foreign missions," rcturu3d Tommy. Neie York Jlirnld. "Good nature or amusement, among the people of tho earth," writes an iu habitant of Mars, "is tx pressed by a movement of the mouth which exposes a portion of tho skull." VwA: Traveler "What is that tall chim ney for? Someone putUug up a fac tory?" Citizen "Naw. That's Jim Bisboe's well. Cyclouo turned it iusido out." -Indiiinajiolit Journal. A street-car driver in Toledo recently ran over a young lady and she was thrown to tho gioui.d. lie was prompt ly tired by the company for knocking dowu the faro. Ueii nice Crescent. ""A" hur are you goin.-, iiiyinvtty inal 1?" "I'm goin' to Kun-lHy-a.-lioo1, hii," she si-id. "Uuu 1 go with you, my piviiy inai iY' ''We've uad our pieuie, km t sir," slu said. .eiv York tiemld. "Remember, my sou, that tiie owl's reputation for wisdom is not tine to his staying out all night. Jt is rather duo to the fact that ho has too much ten e to -Btay up ull uight uud day too." In lian ujiulit Journal. Watts "I dou't approve of 'iis idea of burying every eminent citi.t'ii with a brass baud." Potts "H would uot bo so bad, though, if they'd bury a brass bund with every eminent cili.-'ii." Jniiinnai'olu Journal. Maud "What are you reading?" Piui mie " 'A Man Without a Country.' li'a such a painful story." Maud (looking drearily up and dowu thu beae.li, ''It isn't half as painful as a country without a uiuu." Lhicaijo Tribune. "Why is thia boat backing up.'" ake I tho pa-seuger ou tho steamer. "Oh," said thu mate, "thu captain's wife aud baby aro ou board, and t'.io baby wouldn't go to sleep until he'd "ecu tho eugiues reversed." -Win York Sun. M idain is nt the draper's, in the act ol selecting material for a ue.v uivss. "No, that is not the kind of thin; 1 want; it is too bright too loud. My Iri-'ian.l is very ill uud I should Uku something a littlo quieter sty half mourning." A.e Petit Jlluatre. Sway buck "Hello, Jaysmilii! Whit d'nl that straw hat cut you?" J lysmitU "1 gave the clerk u tive-doHar note for that hat. Swuyliac t ttucie lul tu-i) "What" Jaysuiilh "An I he :;avu mo back four dollars iu change." Pit'iJiu y Chronic'v-Telegraph. Husband (newly inarrieli "D.in't you think, love, il I wt ro to smoke it would upoil the curtains'" Wife -'Ah, you ure really the 111 L uii-cl isli and thoughtful hushan d to bo louu I any where. Certainly it woul I." 1 in than I "Woll, theu, Ukelui. tin tain, doivu, " iap.
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