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VOL. XXIV, NO, 30, TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOV, 18, 1891,
1.50 PEIl ANNUM.
!' The United States Is the first nation In
the world's history to have three cities of
vor okillion each.
' Vessel agents and mariners on the
Qreat Lakes are urging the establishment
of a branch hydrographio office on tho
lakes to look out for the vast maritime
Interests centered there.
The movement in favor of Roman in1
toad of Gothic typo is rapidly gaining
ground in Gormuny, notes tho Chicago
Herald. Many medical anil scientific
periodicals are- printed In Roman charac
ters.
' In tho course of an interview with a
icpresentativo of the Paris Eclair, on the
opening up of African territory, Mr
Stanley declared that tho center of Africa
teemed with riches, which, bowover,
could not be utilized before the construc
tion of railways, but this construction
would be easy.
, -
f Cotton production In tho United
'States has increased 280 percent, during
the last twenty-five years, while the con
sumption of cotton products throughout
the world increased only 117 per cent,
The natural result bos been, comments
the Philadelphia Record, that the price
of Vie product as well as the wages of
the workmen have beeu rcducod.
California bos a law that is meant to
prevent train wrecking, and it seems to
be pretty elloctnal. It provides that any
person who places dynainito or any ob
struction on any railroad in the State, or
does anytbiug with the intention of
wrecking any passenger, freight or otber
train, or attempts to rob a train, shall
be guilty of fclooy, punishable with
death.
' Laboucbere, editor of the London Truth,
ays in the article on "English Royalty,"
Which ho contributes to the forum, that
ho does not think that the popularity of
the Prince of Wales has permanontly suf
fered from the baccarat scandal. "The
general feeling was," he writes, "that it
might be well for him to so arrauge his
amusements as to manage to keep out of
the law courts.'
Ilore's another exasporuting develop
ment in the working of the Chinese ex
clusion act, discovered by tho Chicago
Herald. A Chinaman in jail in Tucson
gave an explanation of tho attempted
exodus of Chinese from Mexico into the
United States. Ho suid that one Ohlua
man who was recently arrested for ille
gally entoring the Uuitod States from
Mexico and was takou to Sun Francisco
had first seat homo all his savings ol sev
eral yean' woik in Mexico and then de
liberately crossed to tho United States
that he might be captured and sent horns
to China at tho expeuse of tho United
States.
Tho growth of tho Argontioo Rcpub
Ho in the past thirty years has been re
markablo. According to rccout statistics
the population of tho republlo Is now
4,000,000, as against 1,850,000 in 1861.
There are now 6,000,000 acres under
cultivation, whore in 1861 there were
but 490,000, and while in that year
there were but eighteen miles of rail
road In the country there are now over
5000 mile in operation, and 6000 more,
Including the great transcontinental
route, In courso of construction. The
publlo debt has grown pretty vigorously,
too, however. It hus increased from
117,000,000 to 1613,000,000.
Says the New York Mercury: The
English exchauge are just now busily
engaged In suggesting ways of making
Tillage life attractive and keeping rural
young men aud women at home. There
as here, tho cities aro drawing away
from home the sinew aud bloom of tbe
countrj and agricultural life suffers by
the change. This was the experience of
Italy after Homo became a great city,
and all France is suffering uow because
Paris ha a world of amusements to offer.
It begin to look as if the teudency of
population to the towns were irresistible,
and as if the world must prepare to ac
cept the fact that far.a life is becoming
discreditable in the eyes of tho energetic
of both sexes.
Say the How York Uerald; "Copio
of the Government weather chart were
issued yesterday to the Normal College,
the Cotloge of tha City of New York and
to Qftoou grammar schools, in order that
pupils in the schools of this city should
receive some general instructions in mete
orology. The idea is a good oue, and it
should be adopted iu the public schools of
11 cities where daily weather chart are
'.sued by tho Governmeut Weather
Bureau. For ail studcuts of geography
nd physical geography a knowledge ol j
tmosphoriu laws aud movements is In
dispensable. But this knowledge can be
btaiued ouly iu a vuguo aud fragmentary
ay without tho use of charts showing
bi actual daily progress of cyclones and
'ones across tho coutiuent, and
1 over tho adjacent oceans,"
A RU9TIC BALLAtX
The pine-tree grew id the wood,
Tapering, straight and high;
Stately and proud It stood,
black-green against the sky.
Crowded so oloee, it sought the blue,
And ever upward it reached and grew.
The oak-tree stood in the field.
Beneath it dosed the herds;.
It gave to the mower a shield,
It gave a home to the birds.
Sturdy and broad, it guarded the farms,
With its brawny trunk and knotted arms.
The apple-tree grew by the wall,
Ugly and crooked and black)
But it knew the gardeuer1 call,
And the children rode on iu book.
It scattered lt blossoms upon the air,
It covered the gronnd with fruitage fair. '
"Now, hey," said the pine, "for the wood!
nve witn tne rorest band.
Our comrades will do you good.
And tall aud iitralirht mi mi .f.-j n
And he swung his boughs to witching
ouno,
And flung his cones like coins around.
"Obol" laughed the sturdy oak;
"The life of tbe field for me.
I weather the lightning-stroke;
My branches are broad and fren.
Grow straight and slim in the wood if you
Will,
Give me the sun and tbe wind-swept hill.''
And the apple-tree murmered lows
"I am neither straight nor strong;
Crooked my back doth grow
With bearing my burdens long."
And it dropped it fruit as it dronned a tone.
And reddened the ground with fragrant
cneer.
And the Lord of the havest heard,
And he saidi "I have use for all,
For tbe bough that shelters a bird,
For the beam that pillars a hall;
And grow they tall or crow tliov ill.
They grow but to wait their Master's wlll.
Eo a ship of the oak was sent
For over the ocean blue.
And the pine was the mast that bent
As over the waves it flew.
And the ruddy fruit of the apple-tree
Was borne to a starving isle of tbe sea.
Now tbe farmer grows like the oak.
And the townsman is proud and tau,
And city and field are full of folk
But tbe Lord has need of all.
And who will be like the apple-tree
That fed the starving over the sea
Charles II. Crandall, in St. Nicholas.
A LOST BABY,
"Well, good-by," said Aunt Jobson.
"and come to see us soon. I've had a
delightful visit. I bade ffood-bv to
grandpa, didn't If Kiss tho baby for
me. My good man, tbat hamper is lo
go into tuo carriage. Fasten tho pad-
iocic, ana Dirng tne Key to me. Well,
good-by again."
And Auut Jobson stepped Into the
coacu after tue hamper, which contained
those things thut would not go into the
trunk.
"Remember me to the Wilsons J"
shouted Uncle James.
"Why, dear me, how jou scare met"
"I didn't say that!" yelled Uncle
James. "I said remember mo to the
Wilsons!"
"Be sure to kill somo of usf Of
course it would," said Auut Jobson,
who to the best of our belief had mis
understood every word that was said to
her during her visit, though she never
admitted that she was hard of hearing.
"Well, we really oi 'ht always to be
prepared lor anything."
"I hope I am."
And the carriage diovo off, and the
Jones luinlly went indoors, and Mrs.
Jones, tho mother of an infant who for
It age four months was tho most
beautiful, accomplished, charming and
good tempered creature known, pro
ceeded to tho nursery at once.
1 he nurse having acceded, babv had
for once been left in the care of it
great-grandpapa, a venerable gentleman
of eighty, who had been teen religiously
ensuing it up ana aown with tbe regu
larity of machinery, at the luft private
view tuken of the pair by baby's anxious
mamma.
Now grandpapa sat reading his Darjer
and no baby was to be seen.
Mrs. Jones glanced bedward and
cradle ward; both resting places were
empty. She fancied that she knew that
none of the family had the child, and a
little chill ran up her back.
"Uranupa, she cried, quite sharolv.
"where is baby?"
"She went to sleep be-e-autifully. mv
dear," suid grandpa, complacently, "and
I put her down somewhere." lie also
glanced at the bed and at the cradle and
then slowly about the room. "I don't
know just where I put her, but on some
couch or cradle," he said, slowly, "aud
it was certainly in this room."
But wherever it was, buby was not to
be found, and after a frantic search of
the premises the terrible fact that baby
was miasiug was conclusively arrived at.
Mamma fainted. Pipa hurried to the
station house. Aunt Maria went into
hysteric and Uncle James rushed wildly
along the streets asking all the strangers
whom he met if they had seen a baby
four mouths old in a long white dress,
with coral around its neck, go-by.
It was really a terrible thing that had
happened to tbe Joneses, aud if they
temporarily lost their senses who can
wonder at itf
Meanwhile, quite unconscious of the
trouble which hud bt fallen her relatives
so soon after her departure, Auut Jobson
was driven to the pier whence the bout
she desired to tuke started daily. It
already lay at the dock uud its hands
wer9 hurrying the luggage on board.
Two of them seized Aunt Jobaon's
trunk.
"And this hamper is mine," said the
old lady; "can't you take that at the
same time aud save me the trouble of
watching it any longer?"
One of the men put his hand out
toward the handle of the hamper as she
spoke, touched it, then paustd.
"Is there a cut in there, uiu'umf" he
asked.
Whotf" said Aunt Jobson.
"I say, got a cat in theref" answered
tbe man in a stentorian bellow.
"A cat?" cried Aunt Jobson, "No,
of course not."
"Then what have you got In there I"
shrieked the man.
"None of your business," Said Aunt
Jobson,
"But I say It It," said the man. "Just
listen, Bam, There's a young un la
there, as I'm a living mad. Just listen;"
"So there is," said Sam;
'Why don't you take tbat hamper ou
board!" said Aunt Jobsor..
"Cause I won't, that's all," said the
man; "Cappen, I say, Cappenl"
The captain, who was nearly by, turned
and advanced.
"What's the matter!"
"This old lady has got baby In that
basket thing," said tho man, "and I'm
not going to be hauled into a thing like
tbat."
"Tbore is a baby in the hamper, by
Jove!" Mild the captain.
Meanwhile everybody but Aunt Jobson
heard piteous wnils proceeding from the
hamper, She for her part heard nothing
until, with a voice he might have used
in a gale at sea, tho captain demanded
hef keys.
"My keysf" cried the irate old lady.
"No, indeed I I am from the country,
but you can't play such a trick as that on
me. I know what city thieve are very
well. My keys, indeed."
"My time is short," said the captain.
"I must be off in ten minutes. I'll give
you ovorto a policeman unless the trunk
ia opened,"
"Mo to a policeman f" cried Aunt
Jobson.
"No, I'll give you to oue I Hero!
Police 1 Police 1"
But not only the captain of the boat
and the bystanders, but the three guar
dians of the peace who just then ap
peared on the scene, heard the shrieks
that came from the hamper. Publio
opinion was divided, but only as to
whethor Aunt Jobson intended to steal
the child or murder it, That there was
a child in the hamper every one knew
but tho old lady herself, and despite her
prayers, entreaties, two of the police
took the hamper between them.
One of tbe policemen offered his arm
to poor Mrs. Jobson and they proceeded
in a procession to the station house.
There Mrs. Jobson, having been de
spoiled of her keys, the hamper was
opened and from its nest on the top of a
pile of linen was lifted a red, very tear
ful, furiously indignant infant ia a white
dress and embroidered sbawl.
Mrs. Jobson's ears were dull, but hor
eyes were a sharp as ever. She gated,
uttered one awful shriek, then another,
and finally went off into hysterics, which
would have been harrowing to the souls
in private life but which produced no
effect whatever at a station house.
Mr). Jobson did not hear what was
said, but she knew hcrsolf under arrest.
She had seen a mysterious infant removed
from the laggnge, and she felt that for
some reason that she was In danger of
imprisonment. Never having boon in a
station house before, visions of an un
derground cell, chains and a midnight
execution rushed through her mind.
Probably, the real picture of a dirty
room, destitute of chairs, and already oc
cupied by some inebriated female would
not have consoled her greatly, aud, with
a wilder shriek than she had yet uttered,
she threw herself on tho floor and be
came spa-modic. Nobody was in tbe
least affected but the baby, who believ
ing tbe performance to have been ar
ranged for its amusement stopped crying
aud began to crow as it sat upright in
the arms of the very tallest and broadest
policeman.
Meanwhile preparations were being
made to convey Mrs Jobson into tho in
terior of the premises, and things were
looking badly for that lady, when the
door opened and a man's face, pale with
suspense and suffering, was thrust in.
"I m here again, you see," said a voice
quite flattened by misery. "Has any
thing been heard of the baby? Her
mother begged me to mention that she
had been vaccimted ou tho left arm
hih so thut sho can wear short sleeves.
I hope"
But there the speech camo to an enl.
A cry of joy completed it, and the man
rushed forward and snatched tho buby
from tho policeman's arms, aud stood
shaking lroni head to foot with his ef
forts to keep the tears back a useless
one, for in a moment they pattered down
hot and heavy on the little, round, bald
head of that comical, useless, precious
thing that he pressed against his breast.
The mm was Jones the child was
Jones's missing baby.
Then he explained to all present how
the clothes bumper, with the cover up,
hud been stuudiug in tho nursery. How
baby's greut-grundpapa, not being used
to the care of infants, hud luid the sleep
ing child in what he supioicd to be a
new fashioned cradle. How, afterward,
the lid had fallen to. - How Aunt Job
son had locked it without looking in.
How being deaf, sho had not heird the
iufunt's cries wheu it had a.vakuued, aud
be explained to Auut Jobson that this
was the buby she hud so ofteu suid was
the image of its papa, though she had
not recognized it whou produced from
her bumper.
Nobody believed him. The clerk at
the desk suid he had a ruiud to send
them both to court, but that, though
this was all very suspicious, thut they
might go tins tune.
They were only too glad to go. Jones
knew what agonies of suspense those at
home were enduring, nud bewildered
Aunt Jobson fled as from the presence
of the plague. Xeu York Telegram.
The pest of rats has become so formid
able in many parts of Brazil thut snakes
are being educated to exterminate them.
Every well-regulated household now has
its pet boa to tuke the place of a cut iu
battling with the vermin.
The works of Thackeray aro said to
sell more largely ut the liocAb'llers and
to be in greater demand ul the iiumnys
now fc.HU ever before.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
China Is to have s silk-mill.
Iron is to be mado at Chattanooga by
an electrical process.
M. Glammarian, the French astrono
mer, declare that the climate of Europe
U growing colder.
Redcnt researches show that person
having a tendency to gout improve more
rapidly by abstaining frord fruit;
ThO largos t steam hammer in the1
world is in this couutry. Its weight 1
125 tons; and is used in forging armor
plates for our new navy.
Besides the large planets which re
volve about the sun, over 250 others
have boon discovered and citalogued,and
science is daily adding to this litt.
The idea of establishing an observa
tory on Mount Blanc, Switzerland, has
been abandoned. The ice was tunneled
100 feet without reaching the rock.
A Parisian olectrician has succeeded
in forcing violets by the aid of his bat
tery, and recently sent a bunch of these
fledglings only four hours old to the
Empress Eugenio.
Peter Johnson, of D asset, Minn., thinks
he has discovered the long lost art of
tempering copper. He and Nile Nolson,
machinist, want to organize a company
to build a factory in Minneapolis. The
new process will make copper as hard a
steel.
It ia customary now to mount electrlo
light projectors on rails running ath wart
ship, usually over the bridge or forward
end of the poop. Tho rails are sunk so
as to bring them flush with the deck.
When not in use the projectors are run
in board and protected better from the
weather.
As instances of longevity in birds
while in state of captivity, Naturt re
ports the death of a European crane
which had livod nearly forty-three years
in the London Zoological Gardens. This
is exceeded, however, by tho caso of a
black parrot which died in 1884, after
having lived fifty-four years in the Re
gout's Park.
The monthly buliotin of food and drug
inspection of tbe Massachusetts State
Board of Health shows that milk is now
alarmingly poor in that State, being
fifty-three per cent, below the standard.
In 157 out of 263 cases milk dealer
were found to have adulteratod the pro
duct. This state of affairs will undoubt
edly increase the infant mortality largely.
It is claimed the steamer Majestic is
the most economical coal burner of any
of tho Atluntic "high fliers." She burns
220 tons of cml a day, shows 19,500
horse power, and mukos an average of
over twenty knots, or twenty-three miles,
per hour throughout the Atlantic passage.
There are only two other ships that have
reached this speed, namely, the dupli
cate ship tbe Teutonic and City of Paris.
But there are a few other vessels that
come near this speed.
A Prussian engineer, it is said, has
devised a new plun for building a
subaqueous foundation, which, if it
prove effective, will greatly simplify and
cueapon one of the most troublcso-ne and
expensive engineering operations. His
plan is to drive powdered cement by
means of a powerful air blast into the
mud, or sand at the bottom of tuo water.
Tho cement immediately sets under tho
uction of the water, and tho bottom is
converted into a solid stone.
The French Aro Thrifty.
A chiffonier who carries on his curious
occupation in the Montpurnasso quarter
yesterday found among a heap of refuse
small packet containing bonds payable
to bearer to tho amount of $2000. Noth
ing was on the packet to indicate tho
owner, but the chiffonier is apparently a
man of the strictest integrity, and ho
formulated inquiries in the quarter until
he discovered the owner. Tho bonds
belonged to a man of the name of Dory,
an employe of the Louvre. This is but
an instance of tbe wealth of Franco at
the present time. Nearly every French
man or woman has his or hor actions or
shares. Thrift is imbued iu almost
every living soul in Paris, and save,save,
save is the universal ciy. Djcimal parts
of actions can bo purchased in all under
takings, from Government stock down
ward, even at a prico as low as $1.
Hence an inducement is held out to tbe
working and poorer classes to save by
the accumulation of small sums. The
principle is au excellent one, no doubt,
but it has its drawbacks in the creating
of a mean and narrow-miu led commun
ity. There is nothing opeu or generous
about tho Frenchman of tho present day.
He is always thinking how ho can econ
omize his sous and "Jo" his neighbor in
the process. Even the washerwomen of
Paris are afflicted with the craze, and
the who has aiu issed the greatest amount
in petit actions, at they are termed, is
counted the best among her fellow.
Truly, these French ure a marvelous
people. Chicago Uerald.
Cocoa Cultivation.
Until within a few years the cocoa ex
ported from Brazil was obtained exclu
sively from wild trees in the forests, but
recently its cultivation hus been systemati
cally begun. The farming of this pro
duct is very simple, involving no more
work than is necessary to keep down the
weeds. During the tirst years bauauu
plants are grown between the rows to
shade the young planU. The trees will
produce on an average itft-er- the third
yeur 200 fruits, with from thirty to fifty
nuts each, and a plantation of 50,000
trees would yield 550,000 pounds of
nuts. A plaututiou of cocoa trees is an
inheritance for tbe children of a family,
as it produces from fifty to eighty years.
Themandioca.or "manioc," grows every
where iu Brazil. From it is mado the
tapioca of commerce, and muudinca meal
is the chief farinaceous food of tho lower
cluutes. It affords an excellent starch
for laundry purposes. So prolific is it
that a farm of twelve acres will produce
80,000 pounds of tapioca. Tho meal is
beautifully white, uud in tho intuiior of
the Country it is tho iuvuri itilc accom
paniment of bluck beans an 1 pork outhe
far.uer's tublo, Watliimilvii tf'r.
QDJJ IN GULF WEED.
OTJBIOTjrS ANIMALS THAT TRAVEL
I WITH A OBEAT CUHBENT.
A Little Fish's Protective Itcecm
MancO to the Weil Floating
Weed Crowded With Life.
It is surprising what Curious Creatures
live id gulf weed; Not the least extra
ordinary of these Inhabitants Of the float
ing alga which are borne on the current
bf the Gulf Stream Is a little fish that
make its oast in the weeds. For it own
protection from enemies, it is made so
like the weeds themselves, being Orange
colored with white spots, that one cannot
detect the scaly animal without actually
taking handful of the vegetable stuff
in which It seeks shelter and scrutinizing
it. The fish builds its nests by binding
together bunches of the gulf weed with
long, sticky, gelatinous strings. Its eggs
are not lata in a cavity, but are distri
buted through the mass, Its very fins are
finger-shaped, counterfeiting the form of
the Weed-fronds. They are more like
hands thad fins, and are actually em
ployed for walking through the seaweed,
rather than for swimming. The fish util
ise them also in putting together its
nest.
I The great Gulf current, in its courso
northward along the Atlantic coast and
around the great circuit that forms with
its eddy the famous Sargasso Sea of
marine grasses, carries along with it au
endless stream of lifo iu connection with
tbO gulf weed which floats upon it in
"windrows." Tho weeds, of varied
kinds, bring with them from the tropics
1 creatures multifarious, conveyed by the
mighty river of warm water through the
midst of the cooler ocean. Most of them
die when the cooler latitudes are reached,
and thus it happens that tho lurvtc of
many forms are fouud ou the shores of
Nuntuckct and elsewhere In pluces to
which the adult animals are unknown.
They never live to grow up.
The floating gulf weed is literally
Crowded with life. One cannot pick up
a piece that does not carry many shrimps
or prawns of different kinds as passen
gers. There are crabs, too, small and
bigger, which mostly Imitate the grasses
in their coloring. Of smaller Crustacea
there are numerous species, such as the
so-called "sea fleas" and barnacles.
Burnaoles are Crustacea which have un
dergone a "retrograde metamorphosis,"
as it is termed, hsving been free swim
mers in tho early stage of their existeuce.
They, too, take passage on tho seaweed
rafts and voyage to the laud of nowhere,
seeking thoir fortune.
Iu the gulf weed, also, is an infinita
number of molusks, somo with shells,
and others without any. Among tbe
latter are tho "sea slugs," resembling
the garden slugs, dovourers of plants,
which are true mollusks also. Another
mollusk often picked up among the gulf
weeds Is the beautiful argonaut, a cophul
opod, oelebratod iu the mythic story. It
is only tho female argonaut that is in
teresti.ijr, the male has no shell, and is
Very small comparatively.
There are lots of curious marine worms
nmong the gulf weed, such as the "sea
centipedes," abundant in tho West In
dies which have long detachable bristles
that sting tho hand like nettles wheu tho
animal is incautiously grasped. These
worms hide in crevices of floating drift
wood. The latter floats until destroyed
by the boring of the ship worms that
attack it, meanwhile affording a lodg
ment for barnacles aud httlo cruUacea.
Small fishes follow the pieces of drift
wood as tbey aro carried along by the
current, feeding upon both Crustacea and
barnacles, while many seubirds skim
about, depending for their meals upon
tho sumo small animals. There is a spe
cies of crayfish, too, found in the weed
tbat makes a curious clicking noiso with
it claws.
What most people call tho "fruit" or
"seed pods" of the gulf weed are nimply
little air ressels designed for the purpose
of keeping these ii tcrusting vegetables
afloat. Microscopic creatures called
"brivzoa" weave around the air cham
bers a delicate lacework, which often
remains in shape after the vegetable
matter has decayed awuy and disappeared,
thus forming exquisite filamentous cap
sules. However, these are ouly a fow of
the passengers that journey by the path
of the Gulf Stream on rafts of drifting
weeds. Xea York Sun.
A Mountain of Glass.
A mineral discovery of uucs mi valuo
is reported from Kamouruska, in lower
Canada. It is stated that an entire
mountain, composed of silicates, other
wise knowu as vitrifiublo stoue of a purity
certified by the provincial engineer to
average ninety-eight er cent., has beeu
found. This material Is used for the
munufucturo of the finest glass, and it is
believed to exist nowhere else ou tho
American continent in such purity. Tho
Provincial Government has beeu asked
by u deputation to guarantee four per
cent., interest for ten years on $100,000,
if a local company subscribe thut
amount, to develop the new industry,
uud has promised to consider the request
if the priucipal municipality concerned
is prepared to take a fuir fhare of tho
risk. Aem York Commercial Adotrtitcr.
Au Apple Without a Coro.
A funny little story wus heard on tho
street the other day. Two small childreu
were standing on the sidewalk, one
busily engaged in munching a rosy
cheeked apple, the other looking on with
longing eyes. At length she could
stand it no longer, and bcan: "Suy,
Mamie, gimme a bite."
"Nav ," drawled out tho industrious
Mumie.
"Ah, Mamie, giuimie a bito."
"Naw," again retorted the selfish
child of the streets, to whom the eating
of an upplo was au event.
"Well, will yer gimme the core?"
"There ain't goin' to be no cure to
this upplo," was tho wonderful reply to
tho last timidly exprunsod hope of thy
WiSB! WORDS.
Tou laugh at somo people; others
at you.
A voman is spoilt after sho becomes
jealous.
The applo you mustn't have always
looks the sweetost.
Words hurt moro than blows and heal
more than balsams,
Discontent istne want of self-reliance;
It is infirmity of will.
Truth sometimes walks slowly. False
hood takes long strides.
Peoplo who have nothing to give are
the only cheerful givers.
A lie is one degree worse than the sin
which it tries to conceal.
People do not grow in graco by look
ing at tho faults of others.
Love and seasickness can't be well do
scribed. They must be felt.
When trying to outwi. others tuke caro
that you don't outwit yourself.
We lose tho peace of years when wo
hunt after tho rapture of moments.
Men philosophize with you In your
distress, but it is the women who con
sole. That man's end is easy and happy
whom death finds with a weak body and
strong soul.
The best acquaintance a man has is the
Stranger who knows neither gool nor
bad of him.
The longer a man has been dead tho
less positive his friends are that he is
with the angels.
How much tho men admiro a woman
who does not expect a man to be better
thau men can be.
Many men prido themselves ou being
self-mado. In some cases tho workmea
did not know their business.
Wheu a man is near his ninetieth year,
like o'erripe fruit ho is liable to fall from
the tree of lifo at any moment.
There are too many peoplo iu tho
church who won't march unless they can
be at the head of the procession.
Wnen an honest man insures tho house
in which he lives, his insuranco is a lot
tery in which he hopoi to draw a blank.
Cranberry Culture.
Tho cultivation of cranberries ho be
coras oue of the most important indus
tries of Cape Cod, Mass., and a number
of those who are engaged in it havo
becomo weathly through thoir enterprise
In the reclamation of formerly worthless
lands and their appropriation to this use.
Tho original cost of tho land used for
this cultivation is about twenty-fivo
dollars an acre, and tho expenso of con
structing a bog is ordinarily not more
than three huadrod dollars. A yield of
one hundred barrels of berries to the acre
is not uncommon, and these sell at an
average price of seven dollars and fifty
cents a barrel, whilo in some years the
price rises to sixteen dollars and over.
As the cost per barrel for picking is not
much over one dollar and fifty cents and
the commission for marketing not over
eighty cents, it is apparent that tho pro
ducer secures a haudsomo profit.
The gathering of tho crop generally
begins about the second week in Septem
ber. The b )g is lined off into rows with
twine, and tbe pickers, men, women and
childreu of all ages, gather tho berries
from tho vines, working along tho bogs
on their knees. Must of the berries are
picked by hand, but a machine is some
times used which scoops tho berries from
the vines. An average picker with tho
lmiuls can gather one hundred and eighty
2 uurts a day, for which be receives three
ollars. Vrttnk LeilU Wtekbj.
Suicide of a Sparrow.
A s parr o sat on tho limb of a tree
near tue fountain in City Hull Puric tho
other noon aud twittered. A dozou
ragged newsboys turuod their attention
to tho lonely little bird.
"Hully gee 1" suid one; "where" me
shot. Seo me pick him now, Socky."
Taking a beaushootcr from his pocket
the boy aimed at the bird. Tne pebble
whistled a few inches from it. Tho spur
row broke off in the middle of a note,
fluttered its wings and took to a higher
branch. The bird wus youug and could
not fly fur.
Tho samo boy tried again to hit tho
little bird, and six other boys had by this
time got their beansh loters drawn on the
bird. Tbe pebbles flew thick and fast
around tho sparrow, driviu it from limb
to limb. Then it tried to eludo the young
sters by flying over the fouutuin. The
boys followed.
Back to tho troo tho sparrow went,
with tho pebbles truui a dozou bjan
hooter after it. Fro n tree to foun
tain, and from fountain to tree flow the
bird with the boys iu pursuit.
The sparrow made oue liual laborious
effort and fluttered over the fouutuin. It
circlod over the water a second or two,
and then dived into the water and was
drowned. The littlo bird's persecutors
looked at each other iu a u u-i-neut.
"Hully gee!" siil the spokesman.
"I'm blowe II" SI. Luuii Htir-txtyin-ja.
What a Madera (inn Can Do.
" Unless ono is actually brought into
buslucss relulious with the great science
of modern warfare, it is tilli.'ult to coni
ccive of tho terrible power of tbe latest
and largest guns. TIumo engine) of de
struction, wei'hi" 110 tjus, hurl a pro
jectile ot solid hteel Mxtccti inches iu
diameter uud neirly four feet long nt a
velocity of 2 7i fe.:t a second. Whou
tested recently, one of tlne guns sent a
shot through twe ity i'lchct of Hteel ar
mour, eight iurhes of iron, twenty feet
of ouk, live feet of granite, eleven feet
of concrete and three feet of buck. Com
paratively, a luomotivo weighing 200,
000 pouuds would h ive to s,)!!! along the
tracks ut the r ite of LJ5 miles au hour
to strike u blow eipi il tj that projectile.
Think of the l.i ui'i nr i,Mt 11 u rail
road collision w.i tj t ie train spec U
tttoug at the iu' ' o! t urty .nil' s u:i hour, I
aud cue iu ly c.iu-i i! I In- destructive-
nous of muigfii uidiuiiice. Button '
Trawler. I
BEDTIME.
Tla bedtimes say your hymn, and Md
"Good night,"
"God bless Mamma, Papa, and dear ones
all,"
Your half-shut eye beneath your eye-ildi
fall,
Another minute you will shut them quite.
Yen, I will carry ynu, put out the light,
And tuck you up, altho' you are so toll I
What will you give me, Sleepy One, and
call
My wages, if I settle you all right?
I laid her golden curls upon my arm,
I drew her little feot within my hand,
Her rosy palms were joined in truthful
bli,
Her heart next mine beat gently, soft and
warm.
Sue nestled to me, and, by Love's com
mand, Paid me my precious wages "Baby's kissf
Lord Hoitlyn.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
The family tree cannot be depended on
for board. lnduinapoli Journal.
"Hus he no aim in life?" "Oh, yes;
but he's never had a shot at it." Fucle.
Solomon was a great jurist, but he
didn't believe in splitting heirs. Epoch.'
Dentists are not all farmers, but they
live off the achcrs just the same. I'itti
lurg Dispatch.
Hope builds a nest in man's heart
where disappointment hatches it brood.
Texas Siftinys.
It bos been discovered that music
comes out of a barrel organ in staves.
Washington Star.
Although a girl likes to own a man's
love, sho never likes to own her own.
li'eit York Uerald.
It is suid tho Czar never shaves, but
most people know ho has had many a
close shave. IHtttburg Pott.
Ween they say the bride's costume was
a dream do they mean to imply that it
was an illusion? ISotton Oasetle.
"How's business?" asked ono pick
pocket of another. "I manage to keep
aiy hand in," was tho reply. Eioch.
Some duties aro best performed by
deputy. When a man is bearing stocks,
ho doesn't like to carry them himself.
I'uck.
Woman uses powder as a defence
against Time; but tho old fellow isn't
scared away by tbat kind of ammunition.
Puck.
Queer things happen sometimes. An
Ohio man recently opened a jewelry store
and got six years for doing so. Jevtleri
Weekly.
"Gunpowder blue" Is a new color.
The girl who meets her match dressed in
that will be sure to go off. Sa Orleani
Vieaytine.
Character is like tho grand old cathe
dral bell. Reputation is the brass tin
tiunabulum of the loud mouthed auc
tioneer. Dallas News.
Pudley "By Jovo! What a tall fel
low Jones is." Dudley "Don't seo it,
old muu. He' always short when I meet
him." Boston Bulletin.
The barber man that shaved my beard
In looks seemed buta dunce;
Yet must he be a wondrous man
To work two chins at once?
Mercury.
Turkey red is made from tbo maddei
plant, which grows in Hindostun. It is
probublo that the madder it gets the
redder it becomes. .Ycm Orleans Pica
yune. Brine "Have you read SmartellicVs
now novel?" Jones "No; what's it
about?" Brine "Well, it's about 475
pages long, as fur as lean judgo." Ohi
eago Neics.
Bilsnu says tbe difference between
himeclf and his wife is only a difference
of terms. She calls herself strong
minded and he ca'.ls her headstrong.
Detroit Free lrcss.
Ethel "Are you making a collection
of souvenir spoons?" Jack "Well-er-no,
not exuctly. But I havo the photo
graphs of uli my old sweethearts."
Uvuiekeeier's Weeily.
"I cannot imagiue why you should
discourage hiiu. Ho seems to be a young
man of steady hubits." "Yes, thut is
bo, mamma dear. Aud batchelorhood is
one of them, I think."
Jones "There's something strange,
eveu suspicious, I should say, about
those two womeu." Brown "How's
that?" Jones "Why, etch paid her
own fare." American Grocer.
It is proposed ia nil seriousness to pre
serve the dead by nickel plating. Should
this custom prevail tho most plelwiau
of posterity will bo able to point with
pride to their polished ancestors. .Ucr
cury.
Visitor (in Jones's room at if p. u.)
"That youug lady in the liouso across
the way sings like a bird." Jones (un
kindly) "Well, tot altogether. You
sec, a bird top ingiug at night." Ut
troit Free lrets.
Jelby "My dc.ir, wheu Iain dead and
gouo, I do hope you will not wrap your
self in crepes and other bluck things to
how your grief." Mrs. Jelby "That's
just like you, forever domineering iu all
things, even as to my attire ufter you
have ceased to trouble me." Detrjd
Free Press.
The following inci leut occurred iu a
Medford school ; A class in gra n n-ir wis
reciting, and ono of the youugtv boys
was asked to compare "sicit." Hj be
gan, thoughtfully. "Sick," pause 1
while his bruin struggled wit;i the prob
lem, then finished, triumphantly, "S ci,
worse, deal." ISmr.
Our Oldest Occupied Ihvlliii,-.
Kiliun Vuu Keussclaer's housj in
Rensselaer County, opposite Albany, X.
V., is sail to be the oldest iiih-ibilo 1
dwelling house iu the Unite I States. It
is of brick uud has a guin'orel roof. Two
portholes, out of which the early Van
ltensschiers shot at Indians, pierce the
front walls, uud a little plato in tliureir,
set up by tho Albany (' nmemorativo
Society, khovvs thu edilice to have been
elected iu IGii.