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VOL. XXIV. NO, 31, TIQNESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOV, 25, 1891.
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The sun never sots on the toil of the
United States. When it is 6 o'clock at
Attoo Island, Alaska, it is 9:36 o'clock
a. m. the next day on the eastern coast
of Maine.
The Secretary of the Muino Board of
Agriculture reports that more than sixty
cr cent, of tho population of that State
is engaged in agriculture, with nn an
nual farm product of over $20,000,000.
The United States lends the world in
the number and extent of its libraries.
The public libraries of all Europe put
'togolhor contain about 21,000,000 vol
umes; those of this country contain BO,
000,000. Devotees of superstition will take a
.genuine professional pleasure, believes
tha Chicago Neics, in noting the alliter
ative character of tho names of tho un
fortunate politicians, Daltnaceda, Baril
las, Bog ran, Barrios aud Boulauger.
I According to statistics gathered by a
well known commercial agency, tho
business failures for the first uino months
Vf tho year 1891 exceeded thoso for the
same period lust your by 1247, and in the
amount of liabilities by $36,000,000.
1 Referring to tho confession of a Chica
go lightning-rod man that "education
among farmers had destroyed his busi
ness," the Western ltuval expresses faith
ia the same eycopener as destined in
duo time to givo quietus to "many other
frauds."
It. N. Bauer appliod, tho other day, to
Judge Paschal, at Uvalde, Texas, for
naturalization papers. Ho admitted that
be was a socialist, and the judge sat
down and wroto out an opinion that
socialism was unconstitutional, and re
fused to grant the papers.
Dora Pedro is reported to be deeply
disappointed by tho emphatic refusal of
tho Brazilian Congress to grant him
leave to live in Brazil. The ox-Emperor's
devotion to that country is touching,
and visitors say that the tears come into
his eyes every time Brazil is mentioned
in his presence. All that ho nsked wa
the privilege of dying in Brazil and this
hud been denied him.
It is alleged that in India and in Eu
rope the motives for suicide are not sim
ilar. In the former country they are
anger, disease and grief, grief being tho
chief cause of suicide among women;
whereas in Europe the motives are main
ly alcoholism, love, misery and fear of
punishment. It is curious that tho
proportion of suicides among Parsees is
great when compared with the smallness
of the community.
As a result of tho increased interest in
agricultural colleges, Michigan has lost
fourteen college professors since May 1.
At least fifty per cent, of tho graduates
of the Stato Colloge at Lansing follow
agriculture as a profession. In support
of tho beliof that the colloge has greatly
benefited the farming interests of Mich
igan, it is assorted that its experiments
in the lino of insecticides alone havo
been of ton times greater benefit to tho
farmers of the State than tho entire cost
of the college. "
The London Laneet denounces as
false the doctrine that abuudunt hair is
a sign of bodily or mental strength in
man. It says thut despite the Samson
precedout the Chiuose are mostly bald,
yet they form the most enduring of
races. The average mad house furnishes
proof thut long aud thick huir is not a
sign of intellectuality, Tho cosily
wheedled Esau was hairy, whilo tho
mighty Cumr was bald. "Long-hairod
men are generally weak and fanatical,
and men with scant huir are the philoso.
pbers and statesmen and soldiers of tho
world."
Horseflesh as an articlo of food is hav
ing a boom just now in Germany. In
Borliu it has recently treble I iu price
and costs almost as much now as boof.
In what its advantages would consist il
it should become as expeusivo as beef it
is hard to see. Hitherto horseflesh has
bcn popular on account of its cheapness,
through which many peoplo have bcon
able to purchase meat who otherwise
could not have afforded it. Its cheap
ness has also allowed many conscience
less dealers to double their mouey ou
sausages and other minced viauds of un
known composition. It is noticeable thut
, a certain amount of sentiment still at-
taches to the horse iu Germany, to the
Vdctrimout of his valuo us an udiblo nni
t Vial. A cavalry officer is being strongly
censured for haviug sold to the butchers
'lis war charger, ou which he had ridden
t Sedan. "Perhaps," muses the Chicago
rald, "when America begins to pour
V droves of swiuo into Germany the
ible horse, whom it is little less than
Duibaliam to eat, will again assume his
ght position in the Teutonic mind. It
Id be a great thing for the American
' i ould die to save the honor of
THANKSOlVlNCJv
The golden grain Is garnered
Onr store-houses o'erflow
O'er prairie broad and elty mart
The wind, of fortune blow.
No loam, from distemper
No rust the wheat to blight
Thanksgiving to the Father
Who has blened n day and night.
No pestilence i. near ue
No sound of war is heard
Fence tinkles In the shepherd's bell,
And rusting lies the sword.
The brook, rush on right merrily
The song-birds seem to say,
"Praia. God for every blemlng sent
On this Thanksgiving Day !"
Friends who have long been parted,
The dear old homestead seek,
To chat of pleasures that are past,
And of the future .peak.
All home once more, with hearts aglow
They gather round the board.
And cry in concert, fervently,
"Thanksgiving to the Lord I"
All selflshnea. is put to flight
The wretched poor may feast
On dainties that they seldom touch
For this one day at least.
And e'en the felon In his cell
May taste of dainty fare
Oh, God is gracious! Shout His praise
Thanksgiving everywhere!
Francil S. Smith.
A THANKSGIVING BURGLAR
"One o' butter, two o' sugar, three o'
flour'n four eggs," soliloquized Aunt
Hepsie Barber, as sho measured out the
ingredients for tho children's favorite
cup cake. "Seems like that rule is like
a verse of poetry, it runs off so glib; but,
my I it ain't nothin' to the way the cakes
go off after the children gets a holt of
them. Let's see, now, how many tinsful
did I bake last Christmas! Six, as I'm a
livin' woman, an' afore night their faces
was all puckerod down with, 'Oh, Aunt
Hepsie, ain't there no more patties?' as
doleful as if they hadn't had one apiece.
It does beat all how much children cau
hold, an' not hev au explosion. Now, I
sot out to have enough this year, but I
d'no's I hev. One good thing, that
rule's sure true blue, like indigo cali
ker, an' not light's a fe thcrone time an'
flat's a pancake another, like some rules.
"Rules is like folks sometimes, an' not
to be trusted; they're all 'nice an' pinlcky
onct or twict, au' next time ye see 'em
they're way off the handle, an' you've
got to get acquainted with em' all over
again. That Widow Jenkins, now, she's
that sort well, Marion ; here you are at
last, an' right glad I am to see you,
too."
DUSTED AND AUIIANOrj) KVF.nVTHINO.
"I expected you would be, Aunt Hep
sie, aud I should have been here earlier,
but company came last night and I could
not get away.
A bright-faced girl had entered and
was tuking oil her wrappings as if per
fectly at home in tho farm-house, and
perfectly sure of her welcome. Sho was
of middle height aud a graceful build.
Her face was a very pleasiugone, though
just where the charm was one could
scarcely determine, whether in the
bright, expressive eyes, the warm, sym
pathetic smile, or the winning expres
sion, but at all events it was there, if
somewhat beyond analysis, and Mariou
Ainslie was a charming girl, with the
faculty of attaching warm friendship to
herself from young and old.
"Uncle Jerry's folks came and stopped
over on their way to Watertown to spend
Thanksgiving with Eli," she explained.
"They anted me to an too, but I knew
you needed me, aud I can go there au- I
other time." !
"Laud sakes. child, you needn't n ;
stayed for that." Auut Hepsie turned
quickly around from her baking, "i
could a found soma one else to help nu
through."
"But some one else wouldn't have
been me, would it, auutie ?" The gir.
came and laid her bright head on tho
elder woman's shoulder. "Aud then, j
too, Thanksgiving isn't quite the same .
to me anywhere else but here." '
"No, Marion. nob:dy can fill you'
place," tho bony old hand, withered au I
worn in service for others, smoothed tlv
satiny black hair caressingly. "If yo i
was really my own darter, I couldn't se
more store by you."
A crimson flush overspread the so.
brunette cheek.
"You haven't heard anythmg from
Jack, have you, Mariou i"
"No, auntie, not a word," sho
sighed. "Just a year ago to-duy, aud
it seems like ten."
"What was it, child, that set him oil
so?" asked Mrs. Barber gently. "I've
always wauted to kuow, but I thought
when you wanted me to hear it you'd tell
me."
"Why, Auut Hepsie, didu't you
know?" The girl ruined her head with a
look of astonishment. "I supposed of
course that be hud told you the whole
foolish story, or I should have sjiokeu of
it long ago."
"Not a word, dearie. He only came
in one duv, his face all white uud set, to
t-
tell me that he was going, au 1 that all
women were flirts and deceivers. I
thought for awhile that you had mtt
tened him, but I've put two and two to
gether since and changed my mind."
"Why, you know, auntie, I was in
timate with Dolly Jenkings about that
time"
"There, I knowed that tormented
widdor had something or other to do with
It," interrupted Mrs Barber energeti
cally. "And she kept telling me of the at
tentions which Jack was paying her or)
the sly, and intimating more thud she
really said, until at last I taxed Jnck
with it, and you know.how quick Jack
is, auntie?"
"Yes, ready to go off the handle at a
minute's warn in' an' then too proud to
own that he's in the wrong."
"And be wouldn't give me a word of
satisfaction as to whether she had told
the truth or not, only that if I had com
menced distrusting him so soon we might
as well part first as last, witu other
speeches which cut deeper still. Oh, it
was so hard, Aunt llespio, when I loved
him so. He accused mo of being jeal
ous, but it was not so. I only thought
it best if ho really cared for her, to have
the matter sottlod rightly before it was
too late."
"My poor little girl; and that widder."
with detestation in every tone, "she's
been after him thicker'n mush ever since
she took oil her mournin', an' all her
grievance is that he would have nothing
to say to her.
"Yes, I know that, now that it is too
late, Aunt ilespic, but there's no use cry
ing for spilt milk," a bright tear trem
bled on the long eyelashes, "and I will
try and not spoil my Thanksgiving with
tears."
For the next few hours tho discussion
of the measuring, weighing and boating
predominated In the large kitchen ana
spicy odors filled each nook and cranny,
penetrating to the dicmg-room, ana even
to the parlor beyond.
"Seems sorter useless to make pumpkin
pies when Jack ain't here to eat 'em,"
remarked Aunt Hesplo disconsolately,
"'pears like there never was a boy loved
pumpkin pies like be does."
"Perhaps that young minister who is
visiting Horace will eat Jack's share,"
suggested Marion. "Ministers usually
have a pretty fair appetite for good
things, I've noticed."
"I n'poso now Horace will be anxious
to show off his relations iu pretty good
style to his college lriead,"rejoine 1 Aunt
Hespic, reflectively. "When he toid
me he was coming, he said, laughing
liket 'I've been bragging on your cook
ing, auutie, and I want to show Sammy
Holland what a real Thanksgiving in
the country is like.'"
At length the cooking was all done,
the big turkey dressed aud ready for
stuffing, and the raws and rows of pie
and rich, plummy cakes, the pan of
doughnuts and the heaping platter of
cup cakes and anothor of jam tarts sug
gested a large gathcriug ou the morrow.
In Jack's room alone, no preparation
was to be made, for Aunt Hepsie would
use the room for no one but its owner;
but Marion went in there with a lonely
fetling in her heart, the song dying upoa
her lips as she did so.
She lingered about the little dreeing
table, absently pushing ia the pim
which spelled "Jack" upon his piu
cushion,and thiuking of him with sus'i
longing that Juck coul 1 not have re
mained augry with her could he hive
seen her hungry eyes.
Suddenly a thought camo to her sho
would prepare Jack's room, too, as if he
were coming with the rest, aud wit i
nimble lingers she dusted and arranged
everything in the host possible order,
pinning a spray of dried ferns and suiu.ic
upon the window curtains that tho close
ness might be dispelled by tho clear,
keen air of a perfect November day.
The window opened out upou the broad
verandah, and Jack had often climbed
its supports and goue to his room and to
bed without awakening the family, wheu
ut home.
She would have been his wife" now,
had he not goue oS in such hasty, un
reasonable auger, and she sank on ber
knees by the bedside when all was done.
"Oh, Jack, come back. Come back to
me," her heart cried out, and if spirit
voices can become audible to each other,
Jack's spirit must have heard the earnest
appeal wherever he wus.
The house began to till with a merry
crowd of relative! at au early hour oa
the morrow, for a Thauksgiving dinner
at Aunt Hepsie's was a treat to young
and old. Mrs. Barber herself looke i
careworn and old.
"COMB BACK TO ME!"
"I guess I was too tired to sleep well
last night," she said, us she baste i the
turkey, "for I Weptturuiu' au' twistiu' all
night long, na' Idreimedo' burglursau'
Iujuns, an' along toward morniu' I de
clare if I didu't imagine some oue
sneukiu' arouud the house. I wus too
tired to get up au' see, uu' I dropped off
to sleep ugjiu, au't must been a Urea a
with tho rest ou't, for there's nothing
missing, an' thu silver spoons sot right
on the diuiug room table."
"If unyoue liaci come in for plunder
they would have looked for silver first of
all, so you iuu-t havo beeu dieaiuiug,
I auutie. rooliod Mariou. smiling. "But
I
what shall we do with the children until
dinner's ready!"
"Send them upstairs to play," said
Aunt Hepsey. "Here comes your Cousin
Horace and his friend, and a proper, fine
young man he looks, too."
A moment Inter and Marion was mak
ing hef company bow to the youug
clergyman and As she carried his overcoat
and hat into the hallway, she gave the
children permission td go into the
chambers.
"And please don't be rude or noi9yt"
she said, warningly, "for Aunt Hepsey
has a headache this morning." ,
"We won't. We'll be still as mice,"
said one of the flock, confidently as if
it were a possible state of things at a
family merrymaking.
1 1
"PEMIAPS lin's AHMED."
The young minister was just explaining
the difference between a spiritual aud a
merely intellectual belief in Scripture,
when a frightened trio of children came
scrambling down the stairs.
"Oil, Aurt Hepsie, there's a burglar iu
Jack's room ; there is, and he's asleep on
the bed."
"A burglar. Oh, ray susl Then I
wasn't a dreaming after all."
Mrs. Barber was setting the table, and
she fairly turned pale with nervous excite
ment. "Don't get frightened, auntie, I'll go
up and rout them out. Give me the
poker," and Horace started up the stairs
hurriedly, with his formidable weapon.
"And I, too." Uncle Drake, a jolly
old fellow of immense avoirdupois,
caught up the tongs. "I'll pinch him
while Horace belabors him."
It is needless to say they were fol
lowed by an excited retinue of specta
tors, at a safe distance, however, for
there wus no telling what the presumably
savage intruder might do when alar.nad.
"Perhaps he's armed," suggested the
young minister, norvousty. He ha I pro
vided himself with aa umbrella, ns he
brought up the rear.
The burglar must have bejn in a
sound slumber not to have hoard the con
fusion of whispering voicos at the door,
but there was nosouud within the cham
ber Uutil Horace opejei the door and
peered cautiously in, the poker in hand
in defensive readiness.
"Jack Berber, you villiao, if you
haven't been up to your old trio'ts of
climbing in the window." Horace's voice
cime floating down the stairway in a
peal of surprised laughter.
"Juckl My Jack! Weill never,"
erica Aunt iiepsie, pusning ner way
through the crowd and rushing up the
stairs.
Mariou, at tho first sound of Jack's
name, bad divined in a moment just
what had occurred, that Jack had come
on the early morning train, aad not wish
ing to arouse the family, had crept up to
his room wiudoff iu the mo mlight, and
as sho had so obligiugly left it opjn,had
found no troublo in getting in quie'.ly,
and trembling and blushing, she re
treated to the kitchen to think it over,
aud compose herself for the meeting
with him.
They had parted in auger, and she
scarcely knew how to raceive him now.
Last night in her loneliness and grief she
would nave rushed iuto his ar.ni aud
have shown all her delight aud desire to
uudo the post; this morniug s le was
more self-reliant, and sue wisely re
solved that a little of the concession at
least must come from Juc'.., since he had
left her so cavalierly and so unkindly
without just cause.
She was standing there still, bilanciu
the fork with whic i she had just turnel
the turkey, idly iu her hand, wheu an
arm stole round her waist uud Jack's
voice, very humble uud loving, whispered
in her eur: "Will my Miriou forgive
uud forget?"
All her pride vanishol at once uuder
the spell of the dear, familiar vcici, aud
tuniiug, she shed happy teirs of re
joicing on her lover's shoulder.
"And why haven't you wr.ttei to mo,
Jack?" she asked reproachfully, after
a few moments of happy converse.
"I did, Mariou. I wrote you a long
letter asking your forgiveness for the
miserable part I had tukou in thit
wretched quarrel, but I uever received it
word in reply, uud of cjurse I suppose 1
you wereaugry and unforgiving to.vards
me."
"How could I answer it d'r Jac'.t,
when I never received it; no, not ouo
line from you in all this weary ye ir."
"If I could only havo known it, but
not hearing made ine so angry that I
determined that you or no o ie else should
know where I was, or auything about
me.
"You foolish, hot-tempered Jack,"
said Marion, softVy, "but how did you
chuuee to come home, dour?''
"I could not keep away," suid J.ick
simply. "As Thuuksgiving drew near,
the attraction towards tho old home be
came too strong to ba resisted, au i uow
thi.t I have you agiiu, I'm not goiug to
let you go, and i propose tint we be
married this very day. I'll go for a
minister ilireflly after dinner, uud we'll
make il 'Hi-niuiYtu wor.l r';uiem
'"Well, ns for that, there's no use o' stir
rin'out of the house for a minister." Aunt
Hepsie had come in to look after her ne
glected dinner, and stood regarding them
with a beaming face. "Young Mr. Hol
land is a minister, and I don't doubt but
that he'd be glad to have a ceremony to
lortsf got in prlctice on, you Know."
"All tho better! we'll be married before
dinner then, and have a wedding dinner
as well as a Thanksgiving feast. Just I
let ntd brush sip my hair a bit while Mar- -I
ion takes oil her kitchen aprdd.
The great brown turkdy was all interest
ing witness of a surprisingly impromptu
cereinoriy a half hour IrttCr. The guests'
were not informed of what was going on
until they were all gathered arovind tho
table in their several places. Aunt Hep
sie, at the head in hor best cap, and Jack
and Marion at her right, Mr. Holland
coming next. He officiated in a partic
ularly happy manner for a comparative
amateur, and never had a jolliar Thanks
giving dinner been served in the old farm
bouse' than Upon this occasion, made
memorable by the presonco of a burglar in
the house, and the subsequent ringing of
wedding bells. Laduf World.
The Greatest Bell-Canters.
The Russians and the Chinese are be
hind the rest of the civilized world in
many things, but bell-founding is not
among the number, for the bells manu
facture 1 by both nations are not only
the largest, but among the best of those
made by any nation. It is said that
before the great fire by which Napoleon
was driven out of Moscow there were in
the churches that city 1706 bells, each
of which exceeded 15,000 pounds in
weight. The capital of China, Pekin,
is, according to Father Le Coinpte, not
far behind, as in its temples there are
seven bolls, eaoh exceeding 120,000
pouuds, and a great numbor of less size.
The giant bell of the world is in Mos
cow; it is poetically denominated the
King of Bolls, and is nineteen feet nod
three inches high, and its circumlerence
round the rim is sixty feet aud nine
inches. Its weight can,' of course, only
be estimated, but, by the least calcula
tion, it is 443,732 pouuds, and its value
as old metal exceeds $300,000, not con
sidering the gold and silver, of which
there is a considerable quantity, which
enter into its composition. This bell,
when rung, required forty men to ring
it, the clapper being swung by means of
two long ropos, with twenty men at each.
The great bell at St. Ivan's, in Moscow,
Is forty feet and nine inches in circum
ference, its thickness just above the rim
is sixteen inches, and its weight is com
puted ut 127,830 pounds. The bells of
Pekin have been mentioned, but next to
them is the great bell of Viennn, which
weighs 40,200 pounds. After these are
many smaller, yet of considerable size.
A bull of Olmutz, Bohemia, and a bell
in Rouen, France, are about equal in
size to the Vionna bell; the bell of St.
Paul's, London, weighs 38,470 pounds;
the bell of Westminster, 30,350; that
of St. Peter's, in Rome, 18,600. Several
of these bolls are souaded only on very
important occasions. The St. Paul bell,
the Vienna bell and the boll of St. Ivan's
are tolled only at tho death of royalty;
the bell of St. Peter's tolls at the death
of a Pope. Cincinnati Commercial
Qatttte. Tiro Interesting Thanksgivings of a
Han's Life
1. Age twenty Watching
coming out on his upper lip.
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2. Age forty Watching the hail
conrng out ou the top of his head.
Judqe.
A Drastic Remedy.
Au amusing caso bus just been tried
ut Kasuu, iu Russia. A wonmu of the
nuine of Oatcliukine was summoned be
fore the iuili'0 on the charge of beating
a cousin of hers, named Kuia.ef. But
the accused hid a complete answer to
the indictment.
" My cousiu gave me leave in the pres
ence of witnesses," she suid to tho judge,
"to trounce him well if ever he broke
the solemu promise he gave me at church,
tojiivo up smoking altogether."
Kuiazef could not deny this. His
austere relative had come upou him una
wares wheu enwieathed in a cloud of
smoke. Tao judge acquitted the
prisoner, but udmonished her not to luj
ou to nurd iu the future.
Tho colored people of Georgia are
prosperous and gradually acquiring
wealth. They return tiftoeii per cent,
more of property this year than they did
Ust. They have returned 1 1, ia0,735
wurih ut tux ible property,
the hair
WISE TT0RP8.
Love's work is always noble.
Love finds its greatest joy in suffering.
There shall no evil happen to the just.
The less we have the more it costs IM
to be proud.
Time is a true physician, for it buries
all its patients.
Write this down: You can't make
yourself happy.
Many a man in the swim feels like A
fish out of water.
It's only the self-made man that the
child is father to.
The heart, not the hcod, is the real
master of the man.
Ia the court of love a thorough pros
ecution wins most cases,
Environment may modify character,
but it can not change it.
Conviction means nothing until it ex
presses itself in conduct.
A bad man is uncontrolled by his fear;
a good man by his love.
Truth hides from those who do not lovo
it well enough to seek it.
All the reasonings of men are not worth
one sentiment of women.
If people do what is right, in time
they come to like doing it.
To find out what a man really is, find
out how he treats his euemy.
The hardest battles wo have to fight
are those we light with ourselves.
Married couples seldom settle boforo
grounds of complaint come to the sur
face. Public spirit, a genuine interest in all
questions of national or social impor
tance, is as essential a part of true wo
manhood as of true manhood.
There is no moral disease without a
cure. The law of soul and of tho universe
is one law. Antidotes grow beside the
poisons in the moral world, always.
Miles of Unman Bones.
Two prospectors recently visited tho
Island of San Nicholas, off the Ventura
coast, with the purpose of taking up
land. They have returned, says tho
Ventura (Cal.) Fru Pri, discouraged
in the original idea. They have fouud
the land on the island, which is four
miles wide by twelve long, utterly bar
ren. On the western side sand is about the
only thing scon, and this has been blown
from the bench cloar to the top of tho
island, seven or eight hundred feet high.
On tho other side of the island (the cast
side) they found human bones for a dis
tance of five miles along the beach. They
were very thick, and looked as if it hail
been a graveyard. They also discovered
the remains of human bodies on the
ridge, which runs lougthwise through
the island. In some places two skeletons
were found close together, as if they had
been buried in the same gravo. The
wind had blown off what covering of
soil had been thrown over them and it
looked quito ghastly. Bones were thickly
strewn along this ridgo for upward of
t ree miles. From appearances up
ward of three or four thousand Indians
must have been buried there.
A shanty vhich hid been built on the
west side wus found buried clear to the
roof in sand. Thero are now about two
thousaud sheep on the island, aud from
a sort of rough grass they seem to keep
fat. The party went iuto a cave whicu
afforded nn Indian woman, the sole oc
cupant of the island, a home for seven
years. It seems that when her party wai
leaving the island she jumped overboard
aud swam ashore in the night. Years
went by before she was taken oil.
Four Curious Plants.
In the United States Botanical Gardens
at Washington, D. C, are four very
curious pluuts, to which the Pott of that
city alludes as "Nature's Hoax," the
Mother-in-Law Pluut," the "Lover's
Plant" and the "Scottish Attorney."
"Nature's Hoax" grows wild in Austral
inn forests. The seed lodge about five
feet from tho ground in decayed trees
and the plant puts out leaves in the shapo
of heads of deer or elk. Many a hunter
has been fooled by the plant. "The
Mother-in-law Plant," or "Dumb Cane,"
is really the Delfunhachia seguiua picta.
An auctioneer being unable to rattle off
the botanical term called it the "Mother-iu-luw
Plant," because of its queer quali
ties. The peculiarity of the plant is this,
that if a man takes a bite of it his power
of speech is taken away uud his tongue is
apt to bo paralyzed for a week. Hum
boldt's articulating muscles were paru
lyzod for eight (lays by this plant. A
specimen of the mimose rudica is called
the "Lover's Plant," bec iuse if a girl bo
really in love this plant will curl up at
her touch, if not, not. Superiutendeut
Si litb, of tho Gardens, has facetiously
termed the creeper the "Scottish Attor
ney." The latter is credited with engag
ing himself in a case and absorbing every
thing of value iu it before quitting it,
and that's whut the ptaut does.
teceutrlc Benevolence.
Thero resided at Seymour, Conn., near
Hartfoid, a few years a o, a very eccen
tric man named John II. Tinguo. Ho
had un income of over $1UO,000 a year
from his seal plushes, una was a bachelor.
Ho iHcd his money as free as water.
When lie visited a tuir or benevoleut en
teituiumunt, wiiich ho did when any
occurred, ho would leavo $00 ut tho
various tables. II is purchases he would
distribute to straugers or children. Ou
oue occasion ho olfered $50 to any young
la Iy wiio would bring him a string con
taining 30U0 buttoos, each button being
a different pattern.
After paying $5ll for the first string
others arrived, aud rather than disap
point tiie youi:g la lies he coutiuued to
luy the same uiuoiiiit for each string
brought. As a resjlt of this whim four
laru oaken cases stand to-day in the
Hrieutttiral room of the (,'upitol in Hurt,
toid tilled Willi strings of bullous, each
bearing the' im ue of the lutributoi.
' " v"rk i.
SUNDOWN.
Now sky and wood and upland '
Are drenched with crimson rain;
The mellow clink of cow bolls
1. coming up tha lane.
Now arrowy .wallow., cheepin?.
Thair circling comrailes bttiU
While piug-a-pang-a-piug-a
Goes the milking-pail.
Now duck, come waddllug homeward.
And geeae, in .ingle fil;
And chicken, fly to branding '
Or top the old wool-pile.
Now bats loave barn-yard crannies,
And dusky grow, tho vale:
While swlsh-a-swasts-a-swUh a
Goes the milking-pail
Now katydid, wax testy, ,
And crickets whisper "sleep !" i
And audden .park, of fireflies
Pulse through tho shadowy deep.
Now dimmer grow the meadow,
Vined wall, and zig rail;
While frith-a-froth and homeward
Goes the milking-pail.
-George Cooper.in Harper's Yonmj People.
HCJI0R OF THE DAY.
Many handkerchiefs are moistened by
sorrows that never occur. Tcxa Sift
ingt. Dentists are not all farmers, but they
live on the achers just the same. Pittt
lunj Ditpatch.
It would be hardly fair to call a jack
leggod lawyer a limb of tho law. Neio
Orleans 1'iaijune.
An acceptable third party movement
Leaving tho young couple by themselves.
Lowell Courier.
Some weak-kneed husbands with very
large wives are not nblo to hold their
own. Galvetton Ntwt.
The debtor is tho fellow who isn't at
all anxious to have his creditors hurry
on his account. Rochester Post.
The ownership of the modern house is
usually shared between tho baby, the
nurse and the hired girl. Chicago Inter
Ocean. "I see that a tapir escaped from a
traveling menagerie in Franco recently."
"H'm. Sort of a runaway match?"
Puck.
"Mamma, why do they put tho pic
ture of au eagle on dollars?" "To show
that money Hies, my dear." Baltimore
American.
Marriage is a diviuo institution, but it
is hard to divine some people's reason
for ever having entered it. Boston
Transcript,
A man never fully realizes how much
of a sponge he is until ho slip3 down iu
a puddle of water and mops it all up.
Richmond Recorder.
Yon seldom see a man so honest that
he says to his wife, "Where did I leave
my hat?" He usually says, "Whero did
you put it?" Atchison Ulobe.
Here is the tomb of Hitter Dill,
Wild nature was his tutor;
The citizens taw tit to kill
Him with a sevon-shootor.
iKasiiiiyfou Star.
When i young mau and his best girl
get into a swing by themselves it is re
markablo how they will mix up oscilla
tion with osculation. Buffalo Re
press. "What are you marrying hor for, Jack!"
"Her intrinsic worth nothing else, I
assure you." "What is that?" "Oh,
nbout a half-milliou or so." Kansas City
Times.
Wool "What do you go to church
for!" Van Pelt "To set nn example to
my children." Wool "Are they
troubled with insomnia?'' JVefe York
Jlerald.
"Why do you keep that old candle on
your desk?" "Well, you sec the eloctric
light gives just sixteon-cuudlo power,
aud some time I may want seveutecnl"
Puck.
Be up with the lark at the dawn of the day,
All wise mannree thi. is rllit;
Itut they also a;ree that 'tis folly to stay
With thut frolicsome fowl all night.
WngUinytoH Sttir.
"Poor littlo soul!" said Uncle George,
gazing at the baby. "Why poor?"
asked the proud futher. "Nature has
given him a black eye to sturt with," ro
plied George. Harper's Bazar.
They're having a picnic iu the woods.
"Oil, " pupa," exclaimed little Fritz,
running up with a chestnut burr iu his
haul, "look! I've fouud tho erg ot a
porcupine I" Fliejcn lt Illai lter.
"I suppose that Tom will receive some
thing handsome when his rich uncle dies,
lie has only to show a great respect for
the old gentleman." "Not so much re
spect as expect." Boston Transcript,
Little drops ot watr
lu a ramy spell
Make you wUii yuu hu lu't
lu.t your new umliiell.
It'djf.oifim Star.
Whether it is due to the multiplicity
of ruin machines at work iu this country
1 mil unprcpurud to say, but so many
aerouauts aro falling from tho skies iu
these days that it is positively reckless
to go out without au umbrella. ittroit
Free Vra.
Teacher "Try to remember this:
Milton, the poet, was blind. Do you
think you cau reme.uher itf "Yes,
ma am. "Now, what wus millions
great misfortune?" "Ho wis a poet."
American Grocer.
Mrs. Cuiuso "I love to hear the song
of tho birds." Cuiuso (severely) "Tho
oue which furnished the feathers lor that
hat of yours will never slug a,'aiu."
Mrs. Cumto "ll never did sin,'. Those
mo chicken feather." .Ve-o .-! Sui.
W.iy Not : Elderly but Well l'reseived
Wido.v (in business) "This is an em
ployment agency, is it not f M inagiT
"Jt is, ina'aui. What can I do for
you?" "I wuut a bright, 'ctivc,
callable young m.iu for a U po .niter. "
Chuaijo Tril.uat.
'No, Bobby," said his mother, "one
piece of pie is quite enough for you."
"It's funny," resnonded Bobby, with an
iujuied air. " You say you au- anxious
fur i i -J? to U iru to eat properly, ail yi I
you won't even give me h chance I j pr"
lice." Wathiiijt"! UUjut