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TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, DEC, 2, 1891,
$1.50 FEIt ANNUM.
Rep
est
Germany la determined to "lake a fins
bowing at the World's Fair.
I ' I
: 'The liothschilds aro predicting, tlial
France alone will have to pay America
nearly $10,000,000 in gold for wheat
this year.
i A frost insuranco company is being
formed In France, and it promises to be
uccefiil venture. It is estimated
that tlio loss to agriculture by frost la
Franco is about $15,000,000, and thu
company rvill in suru against this.
A part ; the 15,000 annually appro
riatd by Congress for agricultural ex
ertnicnts iu each oi the States is applied
iu Michigan to determmo whether or not
tho light, suudy pine barrens of the
northern part of tlio Stuto can be culti
vated profitably. Thus far, asserts the
' fow York lnt, experiments do not jus
tify tho State authorities iu advising far
mors to occupy these large tracts for ag
ricultural purposes.
' According to tho San Francisco Bulle
tin tho census report will show theso fig
, urcs concerning fruit trees in California:
"Of almond trees thoro were during tho
census year 330,4(51 bearing trees and
405,464 not bearing; of fig trees, 140,
778 bearing and 231, .ICO young trees;
lemon, 32,137 benriug, 121,252 not
bearing; ornugc, 523, l'JO bearing, 1,-
641,400 not beariug; olive, 2J9.411
bearing, 233,843 not bearing."
1 A remarkablo career iu tho touching
professions was brought to a close a few
weeks since, learns tlio Bent in Trail
tueriyt, by the resignation of Miss Lucy
D. Bliss from the principalship of tho
Plain Primary School, Stockbridge,
Mass. Miss Biiss began teaching iu
town when sixteen years old and taught
continuously, with tho exception of ono
year, for about fifty-four years. Threo
generations of Stoekhridgo have begun
thoir school life under the instructions of
Miss Bliss.
' The NashvillB (Tenn.) American pub
lishes a summary of the cost per day of
koeping convicts at some of the princi
pal peual institutions of tho country.
The daily nvorngo cost in twenty-two
prisons is 45 C5-100 cents. The cost at
the Virginia Penitentiary, which has 905
inmates, is tho lowest, being 18 73-100
cents. Albany Penitentiary and Sing
Sing Prison come text in the order of
cheapness, tho State of New York being
at an expense each day for each convict
confined iu thitu of about thirty cents.
Tho cost at the Nevada Stulo Prison iu
Carson is niucty-sevou ceuts per day, the
highest in the list.
The carp may now bo considered a
New York fish. Tho Mohawk and othor
streams of Central New York are full of
earn, somo of them wclilima- ns much as
fourteen pounds. During the lust nine
years tho Kirklund FishStockiug and
Protection Society has placed 383 Ger
man carp in thu ponds and streams of
tho town of Kirkland, N. Y. The Sec
retary of the Society in a recent report
says: "Wo have demonstrated that carp
can 1x5 successfully propagated in this
country, and with proper caro can be
made a valuable source of revenue to the
cultivator and a heap and daiuty articlo
of food for all classes." A giant carp
was taken through tho ico of the Mo
hawk above Uticu last wiuter, and the
mill-pouds in the valley where young
carp have been placed aro already afford
ing excellent sport.
Shipowners are much concornod about
tho report of General O. M. Poe, of tho
United States Engineers, that the waters
of the great lakes are becoming lower
every year. Tho following figures for
five years show the gradual fall: Juno,
1886, Lake Ilurou was 583.13 feet
above the sea level; Juuc, 18S7, it was
582.38; Juno, 1888, 5S1.79; June,
1889, 581.04; June, 1890, 581.01;
June, 1891, 58 J. 40. The mouth of June
is taken because the water is then at its
highest. Iu February tho minimum
depth is reached, uudtho shipowners ex
pect to fee many exposed pluccs -iu that
mouth next year. Tiiey are, of course,
more troubled about tho rivers empty
ing into the lakes thau ubout those
water themselves. The Sault Caual
now shows u depth of fourteen feet
four iuches ouly, aud at G rosso Pointe,
the entrance to the Djtroit Hiver, inauy
vessels have grounded this seasou ou ac
count of tho low water. Iu the old days
of Bhallow bouts aud tint-bottomed
steamers tho plummet was still used, but
uow that their places have been taken
by vessels with deep holds, thu state of
the water is a matter of gravo considera
tion. General Poo says that the rain
fall in tho lake country during the last
five years has beeu below tho normal,
and that this accounts for the low water
tlie likes. The shipowners, who
eso great bodies of water by
' -ins, are hardly reassured,
' " whether ill
to build
"WHEN MY SHIP COMES 1N.
"When my ship cornel In, runs the young
man's song,
"What brave things shall I do
With the strength of my wealth and the
Joyous throng
Of friends stout-hearted and truel"
Be watches and waits 'neath storm and sun
By the shore of his life's broad sen,
And the days of his youth are quickly run,
Yet never a sail sees he.
"My ship has gone down!" in soberer strain
Sings the man, and to duty turns.
He forgets the ship In his toil and pain,
And no longer his young hope burns.
Yet again by the shore he stands grown old
With the course of his years well spent,
And gating out on the doop behold,
A dim ship landward bent!
No banner she flies no song are borne
From her decks as she nears the land;
Silent with sail all sombre and torn
She Is safe at last by the strand.
And lot To the man's old a has brought
Not the treasures he thought to win,
But honor, content and love life-wrought,
And he cries, "Has my ship come InP'
.If. A.deW. IIotf,Jr.,in Harper1 tWeekly.
MALCOLM'S IDEAL,
BY ANNA SHIELDS.
"She must be tall, Bab; sho must bo
graceful as a willow branch, with eyes
of midnight darkness, classic features,
hair liko tho ravon's wing."
Bab, who was stirring cake, looked
up at tho deep window-seat that
separated tho old-fashioned kitchen trora
thu garden beyond. Seated there,
swinging one foot id'y, sat Malcolm
Hoyt, describing the future Mrs. Malcolm
as she existed in his youthful imagina
tion. "Well?" Barbara said, presently, after
a glance from the tall boyish figure and
frank, handsome face, to a smalt mirror
that reflected hair of burnished bronze,
tho true auburn, and numorous freckles.
"Weill Tall, dark, classically featured.
Any other perfections?"
"Accomplished, of course. Sho must
dance like a sylph, siug like a nightin
gale, draw, play ou the piano "
"Make cake?" suggested Bab, vigor
ously stirring her batter.
"Why, no Mrs. Hoyt will not need
to make cake, I thiuk. Not but whnt
it is very jolly to know how," he added,
hastily, "but Mrs. Clark might resont
any invasion of her c?pe:ial depart
ment."
"Yes, I see," said Bab, dryly. "You
don't want your wife to be a kitchen-maid.-'
Malcolm blushed furiously; lie was
not quite twenty-one, and had not for
gotten how to blush.
"I don't mean that at all," he (aid,
and then laughing heartily, added,
"don't you think we are talking con
siderable nonsense, Bab?"
"I don't know," said Bab, slowly.
"You say your father wants you to mar
ry, and as you are in quest of a wife,
you might as well have somo idea of
what you would prefer."
"Just like choosing a necktie," said
Malcolm, "though I thiuk I should feel
more interest iu tho necktie. By tho
way, what is your ideal, liab?"
"I haven't considered," said Bab,
bending her face low over tho pan into
which sho was pouring the cake.
I "Nonsense!" said Malcolm,
j "As if a girl ever lived to be eighteen
without an ideal."
Then Bab violated tho truth with a
flaring voice, aud blight eyes, for she
1 laid
I "My ideal doesn't sit on kitchen window-sills
aud talk nonsense, at any rate."
"You don't know what he might do
under sufficient provocation," said Ma'
colni, teosingly. "I have seen Steve
Hale look longingly at my perch within
the last teu minutes."
"Stephen Hale!" cried Bab, scorn
fully, and lifted the pan to carry it to tho
' room beyond, where the tiro was lighted
In summer.
I Her heart was swelling with indigna
tion. She was only a farmer's daugh
ter, she told herself, and Malcolm Hoyt
! was heir to a magnificent estate and tor-
tune, college bred, and could marry in
aristocratic circles. But to think she
! jould look at Stephen Halo, her father's
i "help," a man who could not read I It
was insulting, little Barbara thought,
ind she took an unreasonably long time
to adjust t'-e cakepan on tho oven-bars,
' tnd pile on fresh wood iu the stove.
I "Good-bye!" shouted a cheery voice,
presently. "I'm oil to tho postollice,
but I'm coming to tea to eat some of
that cake.
"I've a great mind to scorch it,"
thought Bab, spitefully. "I would too,
If it wasn't father's favorite."
'I do believe she is fond of Steve,'
thought Malcolm, as ho swung himself
into the saddle. "She blushed as red as
a peony when I mentioned him. I sup
pose it would bo what my father calls a
suitable match, but she's a thousand
times too good for him. Why, she's as
good a Latin scholur as half our col
lege fellows, aud she sings so beauti
fully, that it is a burning thame she has
had nothing but a concertina to accom
pany her voice." Then his reverie took
another turn, and he thought; "I won
der if father is ill!"
It was the nineteenth century, and
Mulcolm was an ouly child, deuied no
indulgence from his iufancy, but he
never thought of his father as thu "gov
ernor" or the "old man." His mother
was but a memory, for when he was five
years old, her golden-haired beauty wai
hidden under the daisies. Ha liked to
think his great, blue eyes aud crisp,
bloui curls were like those in his
mother's portrait, but imagination was
more potent thuu actual memory iu le
ralliug her.
"I wonder if "father really is ill!" he
thought, jogging along slowly, "lie
seems so anxious to have me settled.
And that meaus iuurru?iV llesuciu. to
think 1 will weary of de.i"ld home, ii I
have OO fiuly ties tu bind-'i there."
quisitc, graceful and accomplished be
ing he had endeavored to describe to
Barbara. It was odd that even with
this mental vision before him he thought
what a home Bab would make of the
stately pilo that was to be bis inheri
tance. "There is not much that is home-like
about it now," ho thinks, "for Mrs.
Clark is ton old to fuss much, and I im
agine the servants havo it all their own
way. But how Bab's little trim figure
and red hair would lighten up those big
gloomy rooms."
A week later, ho is on his way to New
York, to visit his aunt, to see society,
and) by his father's express desire, to
find a wife.
Heart-whole, fancy free, he mingles
with the guests who gather at Mrs.
Markham's, his aunt's; escorts his pretty
cousin Mabel to opera, theatre, concert;
dances gracefully with ono belle, takes
another out to supper, makes himself
agreeable with a third on a sleighing
party, escorts a fourth for a promenade,
and so on sixth, seventh, eighth, num
bers indefinite, coming under his care
pro tern., but not one stirring his heart
ns Bab's cordial greeting did when be
returned from college.
Bab ! There is scarcely a frolic of his
lonely childhood that is not associated
with Bab. How many times has her
mother called him in from snow-ball
fighting or coasting frolic, to eat crisp,
hot doughnuts or gingerbread! How
many candy-pulls has he had with Bab at
one end of tho sweet, sticky mass and
himself at the other!
Bab is not his ideal. That was tall,
stately, brunette! Bab is short, merry,
brown-eyed and with hair of burnished
bronze that Malcolm irreverently calls
rod! And then, although thero is no
foolish pride about Malcolm, ho has cer
tainly moved in more cultivated and ro
ll und social circles than Barbara ever
saw. He wonders how Bab would look
in clouds of tulle, her round white arms
circled with bracelets, her glorious hair
starred with gems, and mentally decides
that she would look "jolly!"
A letter from home reached him in
the middle of November.
"Dear Mr. Malcolm: 1 think I ought to
write you about your pa. He won't com
plain, and he ain't to say sick, but he's pin
inz. and very weak. Barbara Croft is here
evrirv dnv. reads to him. ainiza for him. olavs
chess and brines bim all sorts of good things
she cooks to please his appetite. Hue's
the best eirl in the world I ' 'think,
but she ain't like your pa's own. He frets
for vou. though he won't sav so. aud I think.
Mr. Malcolm, if you'll excuse the liberty of
my saying so, the time is coming when you
will be glad II you come home to cneer mm.
"Your obedient servant.
"Mart clabkb."
"My dear old dad I" thought Mal
colm, tearing down stairs with the letter
in his hand. "Ho is sick! I was afraid
he was last summci, and hero I've been
fooliuj away for months while he has
been fretting for me!"
His remorse was deeper than his neg
lect warranted, but ho loved his father,
tho ever induhrcnt friend of his life, his
one tie in tho dear old homo. And so,
making graceful apologies to his aunt,
he started at once for Dcerfield.
Mr. Hoyt was in the library when ho
drove up to the door, and through the
window Malcolm could roe the ruddy
light from the grate, the deep arm chair,
tho figure of his father rccliuing there.
But, pausing on the porch, he saw more.
He saw that tho dear face was hollow-
eyed, haggard, fearfully chaugod. He
saw a trim littlo figure bending lovingly
over the sick man, coaxing him 'o eat
tho dainty luncheon on tho table beside
him. Aud ho saw Bab more than onco
draw back to hide quivering lips aud
eyes filled with tears.
"How good sho is," Malcom thought,
"to leave her bright home, to comfort a
lonely old man." And he stepped soft
ly, not to disturb the pretty scene, and
went to the back door to send Mrs,
Clarke to give notice of his arrival.
He was diappointcd when he went in
to fiud bis father alone, but he forgot all
else in his sorrow at finding such t
chango in him.
"Why have you not sent for me be
fore?" he asked, reproachfully.
"I knew you were enjoying your
visit, my dear boy. Your letters were
liko (fleams of sunshine; Bub rea l thein
over and over to me, but I would not lot
unv one write but myself, for fear of
troubling you."
"But you were lonely?"
"Yes, very lonely, though Barbara
has been very kind. Sho is the gentlest
of uurses, the most patient of com
panions," then, a little wistfully: "Havo
you no news for me, Malcolm?"
"None, but what I have written!"
"I so wish to see you settled in your
home, before I mean, soon."
"Married! But if I fail to find my
ideal?"
"Ah, wo all fail in that."
"But father, you would not have me
marry without love?"
"Noverl"
"I saw nobody I loved
York."
"But, nearer home?"
iu New
"Your tea is ready, Mr.
Malcolm,"
said Mrs. Clarke at tho door,
and Mal-
culm obeyed the summons.
The subject was not renewed as father
and sou sat far iuto the night conversing.
Thero were man gutters needing super
vision, and again Malcolm reproached
himself that all tho care of the estate
had fallen upon bits father's feeble
bauds white ho was plcasure-seekiug.
"But I will never leavo him again,"
he said to himself us he assisted his fath
er to his bed-room.
A whole week passed busily, and there
came a few days of warui weather, such
as November finds often iu her dreury
weeks. Barbara was ii the garduu,
walking up and down, thinking.
Of what ? Of Mrs. Clarke's announce
ment a whole week before that had sent
her skuriyiug home like a frightened
rabbit. Was Malcolm so engrossed with
his idea that ho had uot eveu one hour
for his old playmate? It hurt her to
think so, ind she misled, too, the daily
cure sho had voluntarily assumed during
hm A
"lue !" iUe thought,
What happened next was a cruaehinr
of gravel under quick foet, and a voics
saying:
'Bab, I have come to see why you
have deserted my father."
It was so sudden that Bab crimsoned
as she replied:
"He does not need me, now that you
are at home."
"He asks for you every hour. But,
Bab, I did not come onlv on filial duty.
I came to say somebody else needs you,
longs for you, loves you I Bab, darling;
won't you come to the old homo for life!
Won't you be mine, dear, my wife my
darling?"
She could only answer by shy blushes,
by vailing the soft, browu eyes to hido
their happiness. But Malcolm was sat
isfied; and when she askod, presently:
"But your ideal, Malcolm?" he answered,
triumphantly:
"Sho is here in my arms, Bab my
first aud only true love." JVt York
Ledger.
American Pearls.
Not all the pearls .come from the
Arabian seas or from tho South Pacific
islands. A considerable supply is de
rived from a mussel found in a number
of American rivers. When Do Soto
mado his expedition westward from the
Florida coast he found that the Indians
possessed an abundance of pearls taken
out of the rivers. The Tennessee is
particularly prolific in these pearl mus
sels. They are also found in the rivers
of Texas and other States. Sugar Hiver,
in Wisconsin, recently attracted much
attention on account of its pearls. Al
though most of tbem are white, they
are found in various colors, such as pur
plo, pink, golden yellow, bronze, green,
gray, black and all the intermediate '
shades. Somo combine two colors, as a
deep metalic purple, over whfoh plays a
lovely pink-red light that seems almost
to stand out from the surface of the .
pearl. Another will be of a rich gray j
tint, with greon reflections. Still another
is black with dark purple. In brilliancy I
of lustre and fairness of texture they can- :
not be excelled. In variety and richness
of coloring they surpass tho Oriental '
pearls. Quite a number have been sent
to Europe, where they have found a '
ready market at good prices. Single (
specimens have sold at $2000 and more.
When a number of theso pearls are ar- I
ranged together iu a brooch with small'
diamonds to throw out their colors the '
effect is superb. Something over $100,- '
000 worth were found on the banks of
Sugar River within the limits of one 1
small township lost summer. Hew
Orleunt Picayune.
The Cowboy's Quirt
St. Louis sends out every year about
30,0U0 whips of a peculiar character
known as the quirt. No one but a cow- .
boy, a wild Westerner or Mexican has
any use for such an articlo, but a-.vny out '
on the plains it is indispensable, as it an- ;
swers the purpose both of a whip and a '
life-preserver. A quirt is a solid leather i
whip, with the handle loaded with shot
and so heavy that the thickest skull will j
yield to a blow from it. Missouri holds
a practical monopoly in the manufacture
of this curiously named article, St. Louis !
making the most and others coming out
of the State Penitentiary nt Jefferson
City. At least 350,000 leather whips
are made in St. Louis or near to it, and
it is often asked where they all go to. i
As a matter of tact, this city stands nl- ,
most alone in this manufacture, for while
light buggy whips aro made iu vurious
places, leather whips are not made in
large numbers outside of Missouri, al
though there aro factories in New York,'
Philadelphia aud Wo3t Virginia. One
reason why St. Louis holds the fort is
that this is one of the cheapest, hido mar- i
kets in tho world, and instead of buying
tunned leather the plan here is to buy
green hides and literally make the whip!
out of raw material. Ht. Louii Glubi
Democrat. Heniiiif One's Self Speak.
"It is a singular thiug," says a phy
sician, "that a man does not hear his
own voico exclusively through his ears.
The prevalence of throat deafness is a
proof to the laymen of the connection
between the ears and throat, and this in
ability to hear one's self speak just as
others hear us is another instance. Iu
some peoplo this peculiarity is very
marked, and in my case, if I speak iuto
a phonograph and let tho machine grind
out the touuds again, I don't recognize
the voice at all. In regard to singing,
the varying ability to hear one's self with
the ears pluggei up with cottoa mikes
itself evident, for whilo oud member of
a chorus will only hear tho blending
harmony, or discord, another will hear
little beyond his or her vwn voice, and
makes occasional bad breaks in conse
quence. I know a mau who used to
sing a very fair baritone, but whose voice
is now ouly adapted to the weakest
falsttto. Yet he doesn't realize the
chauge, and I believe ho honestly thinks
he sings as well as ever. This apparent
impossibility may be a dispensation of
Providence to prevent men with excep
tionally ugly voices beiug driveu to
suicide. L'hirayo Harold.
Fairies iu All Countries.
Below I give a list of the names by
which the fairies have been known iu
the various countries: Fairies, elves,
elle-folks, fays, . urchins, ouphes, ell
maids, ell-women, dwarfs, trolls, horns,
uisses, kobolds, duendes, brownies,
k necks, stronikarls, fates, wights, uu
diues, nixies, salamanders, goblins, hob
goblins, poukes, baushees, kelpiesr pix
ies, peris, dijiuns, genii aud guomes.
St. Lou it Jlepullic.
The Earth and Mau Compared.
If it were possible for mau to con
struct a globe 800 feet in diameter, aud
to place upon any part of its surface an
atom one-four thousand three hundred
aud eightieths of an inch iu diameter aud
cue oue-huudred anj veutieth of an
inch in height, it would correctly denote
the proportion In in li-'ara to the earth
i upon hicb. ' d. Imuh lis-
SCIENTIFIC AMi NDUSTRIAL.
A pneumatic shoe sole is sew.
Sydney, New South Wales, has a 12,
000,000 electric light. I
A company has been organized at
Grand Rapids, Mich., for the manufac- ,
ture of paper matches. .
Many metals, such as gold, silver and I
platinum, are now caused to volatilize '
by means of the electrio current. j
Concentric wiring for electric work
is rapidly gaining ((round, it being re- i
garded as safer for lighting purposes than .
the two wire system. ' I
The new system of transmitting '
power by means of compressed air,
which was recently tried in Offenbach,
showed a loss of but thirteen per cent. -iu
the daily output. j
The recent losses by fire in the cargo
of ships carrying cotton has shown that
Cottonseed oil, when held in the cottoa !
bn the outside of the bait, rapidly oxi
dizes and generates spontaneous com-'
bust ion.
A disinfectant which combines cheap--
I oess with general worth is found in
permanganate of potash. One ounce will
1 make a bucketful of disinfectant. It is
, a crystal and can be kept in this state un
til ready for use.
j The Cambria Navigation Company, of
Wales, has recently build for one ot its
' coal pits a ventilating fan which is
1 claimed to be the largest ever construct
ed. Under favorable conditions the fan
' will deliver 500,000 cubic feet of air per
minute.
As an antidote for a consumptive ten
dency cream acts like a charm, to bo
used instead of cod-liver oil. Also aged
people, invalids, and those who have
feeble digestion or suffering from dull-;
1 ness as well as growing children, will be
1 greatly benefited by taking sweet cream
in liberal quantities.
An ingot of nickel steel weighing
more than twenty-five tous has been cast
1 in the Homestead Steel Works, and it is
to be rolled .into a single armor plate for
the United States monitor Monterey.
' It is the largest of tho nickel steel ingots
yet cast in the mill, but nn effort is to ba
' made to cast an ingot to weigh more
, than fifty tonj.
France is fortunate in possessing 1102
mineral springs, of which 1027 are
turned to account, and Algeria has forty
, seven in me. Of the total in France 319
are sulphurous, like that of Amelie-les-I
Bains; 354 are alkaline, such as Vichy;
135 are ferruginous, for instance Orez
j za, aud 219 aro of various sorts, some
containing common salt, others sulphate
! of sodium, and a third group sulphate
of lime.
A California physician has invented
an attachment for gas burners to stop
the flow of gas automatically when tho
gas is blown out. The device accom
plishes its purpose by means of the ex
pansion and contraction of a liquid in a
hermetically sealed receptacle, so that
when tho gas is extinguished the contrac
tion of the liquid operates leverj which
control a safety valve, thus closing and
shutting oil the ga.
The Prussian Government has made a
report upon its buildings struck by light
ning between 1877 aud 1886. Thero
wore 53,502 buildings used ior official
purposes iu Prussia; 264 of these were
struck, or one-half of one per cent, per
thousand annually. Of the total num
ber, fifteen only were fitted with con
ductors, and only ono of these escaped
injury. Generally the conductors were
found to bo either dangerous or useless.
Iu six they were not touchel.
Maps Used as Trumpets.
A man can be more politely insulted
in Paris than in any city in the world.
A gentleman who uudertook to speak in
public there recently expressed himself
iu such a low tone of voice that the
audience were unable to hear him. He
was lecturiug upon a geographical sub-
irf. unit r(,tiitt itf A mm, A i.itlt. thi-pe
feet square had beeu generously dis-
tributed.
1i-Rntlv one nf thn sodience rolled
his map iu the form of a very long at
tenuated lamplighter, inserted the smill
end in his ear aud turned the other end
toward the speaker. It was rathor a
ludicrous performance, but not a laugh
was heard among the polite assemblage.
Iu two minutes, however, ever, map in
the audience was turned into an ear
trumpet, and the speaker saw himself
confronted with a sort of mammoth por
cupine, whoso uearost quills almost
, touched him. He at ouco spoke louder.
'eio Yurk J'elajram.
A Straugo Fish.
The receeding tide left a fish en
tangled iu the weeds at the head of
Cache slough, at Dixon, Cal., one day
lust week, aud it was captured, but tho
most experienced fishermen in this
vicinity cannot say positively to what
species it belongs.
It was apparently a youug fish aud
weighed eight or nine pounds. Tho
muzzle projected over the mouth, tho
nostrils were situated ou the uuderside
of the muzzle, tho gill opcuiugs were
lateral in fact, so much of iu descrip
tion tallied exactly with that of a young
thark. It also has a double row of teeth
and a long black tongue. No one there
abouts seems to know whether or uot a
shark has a long tongue or ever visits
fresh water. San Prancitco ICzautiutr.
Gorgeous Palace of un Empress.
The Empress of Au-itrin's new palace
at Corfu ha cost six bundre 1 thousand
dollars. The bill for tho wood carvings
in the Pompeian suite of seven rooms,
which is the greit feature of the house,
amounted to fifteen thousand dollars. It
may be hoped that the Express will be
more satisfied with this abode thau she
was with a villa she built a few years
kgo in the neighborhood of Vienua, for
alter it was finished she took a dislike to
the place, and has never lived there, al
though upwards of four hundred thou
sand dollars had been expended ou thu
houae uud grounds. Oncc a- Wick,
'A JAPANESE AMUSEMENT.
WKESTLINC 18 THfl LEADING
SPORT OT THE EMPIRE,
A Contest Between the Typhoon and
She Stone Giant In Yokohama
Excitement Amonjr Spectators,
Wrestling is the leading sport in
Japan. In the big cities the wrestling
ground is square and surrounded by two
roped galleries. Women occupy the up
per tier. The ring is about twenty feet
in diameter and raised about two feet
above the ground floor. It is strewn
with sand and surrounded by a dmlblo
embarkment of bags of straw. It is cov
ered by a toof, decorated with lanterns
and flags and supported by four slanting
red pillars.
A contest between tho Typhoon and
the Stone Giant in Yokohama was wit
nessed recently by a correspondent of
the Seattle Pont-Intellijencer. The
wrestlers were accompanied by frieuds
and several coolios carrying lacquer
boxes containing tho costumes for the
ring and toilet articles. They aro fa
mous wrestlers aud were dressed Iiko
noblemen. Whilo undressing they
talked together in a friendly manner,
smoked cigars and drank imported beer.
The ring costume consisted of large silk
handkerchiels with fringed edges tiod
aronnd the loins. They were immense
fellows solid, broad aud muscular, but
not tall. The Typhoon was about four
feot and seven inches in height, and the
Stone Giant was a littlo more than five
feet. Both had straight, thick, jet
black hair dressed in the o'd-fashion
style, and the barbor bad great difficulty
in fixing the hair firmly at tho nape of
the neck. When noblemen, who pat
tronized them, entered tho dressing room
they jumped up,niakiug tho joints crack
and stretching their limbs.
At the sound of a drum on tho tower
at the entrance to tho grounds the wres
tlers put on velvet aprons and several
belts, tokens of former victories. With
pendent arms, preceded by the four
judges and followed by a filo of other
wrestlers and several attendants, they en
tered the enclosure and marchod around.
The spectators had reached a high pitch
of excitement. They shouted loudly,
clapped their hands, and wrapped on tho
balustrades with their fans. After tho
parade all seated themselves around the
ring, the opponents facing each other.
Each of the judges stepped to one of the
poles and squatted down. The attend
ants placed a bucket of water and a ves
sel containing salt on the top ofthe em
bankment. The wrestlers took off their
aprons and belts, jumped iuto ring and
truck many athletic attitudes that caused
applause and enlivened the betting.
Refreshing themselves with a drink of
water and a pinch of salt, thjy squatted
on the sand, facing each other as a kiud
of salutation, aud then rose with their
arms extended and their fingers bent to
catch hold of each other. Then they be
gan to stamp the ground and repeatedly
rushed at each other to get a firm grip.
Stone Giant's only endeavor during tho
whole fight seemed to be to press down
his oppoucnt by his weight, aud to push
hiui out of the ring. But tho dark olive
body of the Typhoon always injinagoJ to
struggle away from the lump of flesh
that threatened to crush him, aud ho
tried to improve his grip at every op
portunity. At last ho seized his op
ponent by the leg rnd made him hop
backward. The spectators reared with
laughter. They had got near tho em
bankment. Stone Giant once more threw
himself on the "dwarf," as he called
him, angrily, and almost succeeded iu
bouncing him over the line. Tho two
judges nearest them stood nt the line,
for as soon as one stepped over it tho
match was over.
I Typhoon becatno euraged, but all his
twisting, wriggling, pushing, an 1 other
tricks were of no avail against the 2't')
1 pounds. So they fought for twenty,
, thirty, forty minutes. Typhoon was
cettiusf tired. Several times ho wa
pressed to the ground, nud it became
more auJ more d'lnc,l!t to ''o1'1 l,lcJ
! other, as they perspired freely. During
all this time their movements had looked
somewhat theatrical; it seemed as if they
had learned to pose for and exaggerate
every situation of the combat. B-.it uow
they were in dead earnest, and they
wished to come to a close. For an in
stant Stone Giant lost his foothold, ami
Typhoon, getting all his strength to
gether, lifted him up from the earth ami
hurled him over thu emliaiikiucut. It
was a marvelous acrobatic feat.
The judges rose aud tho manager pro
nounced Typhoou to bo the victor. The
spectators got up from their seats,
shouted, and threw presents into thu
ring. He bowed and bowed ugaiu, put
ting both hands ou his knees. .Many
scraps of paper tame flying down from
the tiers iu which tho presents of sums of
money were announced aud the addresM-s
where ho could scud for them. Attend
ants picked them up and Typhoon
inarched otf with his suite.
j Muiuniilb-d Indians.
I Dr. W. M:ow, uf Pendleton, Ore
gon, who is the guc-.t of Dr. Calvin J.
I Morrow, of this city, has with him a
I couple of mummified bodies of Indians,
fouud by him ou Long Island, an island
in the Columbia H ver, which was used
. as an Iudiau burying ground in centu
ries gone by. One is the b dy of an age I
aborigine all twisted a id gnarled, llo
was probably fifty or sixty years of a'o
when ho died, and has the appearance of
having died of starvation, which probt
bly accounts for the prosei vatinu. The
other is thut of a child, who was proba
bly about eight years old. Physician
who have examined the bodies cannot
account for tho preservation of tho bod
ics,as thero is uo evidence of auy attempt
at embalming, and the moccasins iu
which the feet of the old Indian aiu en
cased seem to have escaped the ravage
of tune even belter than thy body.
Leziwjlon (Mo.) InteHijennr.
The greatest hi
riding record it. 7 13
aud ouo-halt hours.
ili. lance bicycle
miles in tifiy lour
NEVER GIVE UP.
J
Krrer give op I It Is wiser and better i
Always to hope than once to desjuilr; '
Fling oft the load of doubt's cankering fetter.
And break the dark spell of tyrannical
care.
Never give opt or the burden may sink yon;
, Providence kindly has mingled the cup;
And in all trials or troubles, liethink you.
The watch-word of life must be, never
give up P
Never give up I There are chances and
changes
Helping the hopeful a hundred to one;
And, through the chaos, high wisdom ar
ranges Ever success, if you'll only hope on.
Never give up I for the wisest is boldest,
Knowing that Frovidenoa mingles thecup
And of all maxims, the best, as the oldest,
Is tho true watch-word of "Never give upf
Never give upt Though tho graps-shot may
rattle,
Or the full thunder-cloud over you burst;
Stand like a rock, and the stor.n and the
battle
Little shall harm you, though doing their
worst ,
Never give up! If adversity presses,
Providence wisely has mingled the cup;
And the best counsel in all your distresse?.
Is the stout watch-word of "Never give
np!"
Martin F. Tupptr, in New York Weekly.
HUMOtt OF THE D.W.'
Benjamin Franklin wa the original
lightning calculator.
Crops that grow by the electric light
Wild oats. Dotlon Journal.
"Ask poppor," said thu fire-cracker
fine when a match was suggested.
That money talks I don't deny;
To me it always says, "Cloud-by."
fucfr.
It is odd enough that burglars take
such risks in a safe opeuiug. Jlillimore
American.
The head waiter reminds one of mat
rimony. He is a high menial, it will bo
remembered.
A stingy man can be relied upon to
keep everything but his promise.
Elmira Gazette.
"Capital punishmcut," as the boy said
when the school-mistress seated him with
the girls. Bazar.
A man finds tho poorest companion
ship when ho "entertains a suspicion."
Waeh ington Star.
Your friends may not know mucli, but
they know what they would do' if they
were in your place. Atchiton Ololie.
Stranger (brightly) "Fine dayl"
Chronic Grumbler " Ye-es locally
probably raining somowherc." I'uci."
Now is tho time when the sin-ill boy
of the family is caught poaching on. his
mother's preserves. Baltimore Aineri
tan. All animals have their good points,
but for abuudauco of the sumo none can
compete with tho porcupine. Te&ii
bijtiny.
It isn't so much that a man objects to
pay tho dabt of - nature; it is nature of
the debt that trouble him. lhatoit
U'rantcrijit.
The peacock may not be inclined to
gossip, but he loves to spread a highly
colored tale about tho neighborhood.
Elmira Ouiette.
A man can always keep himself iu
good credit so long ns he doesn't ask
for it. Paste this in your hat and dodgo
tho fatal request. Puck.
"If I were only iu politics," mused
the car-horso as he started up tho hill,
"what a lot I could do with the pull I
h a ve . " Haiti more A in trica n .
"I don't look liko a very formidable
fellow," soliloquized the houest milk
dealer; "and yet I'vo madu lots of
bigger men take water." Life.
Blinkers "Hello, Wiukers. I hear
you married a woman with an independ
ent fortune." Wiukers "No-o; 1 mar
ried a fortune with an independent
woman.
Mudgo "I hear that Thinning's girl
has induced him to give up his cigars."
Yabsley "H'mh! That's more than auy
of tho boys could Clo."InJiauajiolu
Journal.
Peoplo who are constantly saying
"what is due to society" often forget al
together what ii due to themselves, to
say nothing of what is due to tho b itcher
aud baker.
"Sir," said tho tailor, "my suits talk
forme." "But, my dear sir!" expostu
lated tlio customer, "can you expect mo
to bebevo statements made out of tho
w hole cloth." Baltimore American.
He "You say you love me, but can
not be my wife. Is it because I am poor?
There are better thiugs iu this world than
money." She "quite true, but it takes
moucy to buy them." JSntoit Jm l-jct.
TUB HA1.0 MAM KKJOK KS.
I love the crisp, cool nutu-itu d iy,
Th"y fill my soul wit'i nloe.
For I lien in pe icj 1 go my ay
Witu not a tly on me.
01. Ian "KeiMjmbcr, my son, to al
ways keep your expenses w ithin your iu
come." Young-uu "lint a belter plan
than thut. I propose bringing my iu-
come u j) to my expenses.'' I ii.ii..-oh
Jijuraa .
"Diugiiss is a mail of expensive'
habits, is he uot, Shadlmllf" "Yes.
1 in; Jss's habits since 1 have been ac
quainted with hint have cost me lao",
without counting a cent for iuterest."
Cii'-no TriO'iim.
He "I wi-di you would sing that de-.,'
old song, "Backward, Turn li H-k .u J,
O Time, in Thy Flight." Swet ,tiiii
.41 ...l.rl.f IUl. I11..II,... Ill, I.U till .ill -
but I w ill turn the clock bacii if that will
do." Attc Yurk Pitu.
"Does his in-anity ussuaio a violent
form.''1 luipiired the physwiau.' "No,
ir," responded the relative iu char ;c of
the iinfortuuule man, "Imt he'sal.vavs
helping himself to u hati llitl of so:iu'
Hung or oilier whenever he pr -s i pel
nut stand. lie imagine lie's a polnu
luuu . ' ' t U t'-U'jo I I'ibuiLe,