THE FOREST REPUBLICAN tl pabllihe. ttj WdBdty, bf J. E. WENK. OfflQaln Bmtublllfh A Co. 'a BnllAIn MLU ITHJtiT, TIONMTJl, r. Tft'rms), . tl.oo prTir, HbMrfrtlimi rMlre4 tat k ikrtr Mrlo tb.i thru month. Oormpondcnr MUeltM from Mrt f tht eon n try. No node wUl ukm of uoirmaui waaiunnlctuoa. j The population of Greece is increasing rt a grentor ratio than that of any othor European country. Lunacy appears to havo increased in Scotland to a startling extent. In 1858 there were B824 lunatics on the registci of the Lunacy Commissioners, but now there are 13,598. The British Government proposes to build a very extensivo barracks at Hall fax, which, in caso of war, would be oc cupied by troop? on their way to India by way of the Canadian Pacific Hail way. Tho sito for these barracks has already bcon selected. One of tho greatest modern Industries, assort tho San Francisco Chronicle, is the product'on of boct sugar. Its crea tion has given employment to a vast Dumber of persons, and has so cheapened sugar that it is within tho reach of the lowest-waged workman. Tho farm products of Vermont this season will realize 130,000,000, which, declares tho New York Commercial Ad vertiter, is tho best year's showing for the Gieen Mountain State farmers since tho war. Improved methods of culture aro largely credited with the prosperity. lj . , The civilized nations of the earth have agreed to co-operate in taking a photo graphic chart ot tho heavens. Some twenty telescopes are to work four years, and will result in mapping proba bly twonty-fivui millions of stars; with longer exposures probably two thousand millions could ba photographod. An expert (Hoard't Dairyman) says: "Tho cow is wiutiiug her way into tho hearts of tho Southern people. One In stance in proof thereof is the first con signmeut of cheese over received in St. Louis from Arkansas, which reached that market lately from tho Grand Prairie Dairy Company, at Stuttgart, Ark." Tho project of domesticating tho Si berian roiadeer in Alaska promises well, thinks tho C stoa Trtmncripi. Captain Hcaly, of the revenue steamer Bear, pur chased several deer of tho Siborian na tives during his receut cruisa and biought four to Alaska. There is littlo doubt but that they will thrive, as the moss upon which they food is plentiful in Alaska, and that climate is almost identical with that of Eastern Siberia. Canada giv.s to its geological survey only $00,000 a year, while, contrasts the Chicago Herald, tho various geologi cal survey in our own country absorb nearly $1,000,000 auuually. Yet Can ada makes a tine showing with this modest sum. Tho annual geological records aro in part records of original discovery and research, and, with their fine maps and photogravures, ar as in teresting as niany bojks of travel. Can ada coutaius the largest unknown areas ot tho Amcricau continent. Savage or hnlf-ctvilizud princes often prefer death to exilo in a foreign coun try. Malictoa, the King of Samoa, jumped overboard wheu tho Germans took him to the Gilbert Islands, and was not rescued with bis own cousent. Three chiefs of the Comoro Islands, off tho East Afripau coast, were taken away from home three mouths ago on account ot tho revolution which they headed agniust the French. They wero very uu happy on board ship, and when the ves sel reached Obock they tried to jump overboard, and were placed in iron to prevent further suicidal attempU. It is said that a few years ago some ot the members of foroign legations lu Washington gave tho police no end of trouble Tli3y knew that they could not be punished for auy ordinary misde meanor, aud frequently raised a row on the streets. When arrested they had to be released as scon as identified. Fi nally tho police tried a new dodge. Tliey had a few sluggers loatlug around the station, who made it a point to pitch into tho foreigners, aud give them black eyos and bloody noses. This quieted the riotous members of the legation, and for louie time past they have given tho po lice very littlo trouble. Californium now engaging in the cul tivation of pruues fiud tho profits vory tempting, being about one dollar a tree, or $100 the acre. This rate increases as the tree grows older until the fruit each year is worth almost two dollars. Ex Secrttary of State Thomas Heck hai given up everything else to engage in tho cul Mvutiou of tho prune. ThePajaro Laud nd Fruit Company was recently formed r the purpose of raising this fruit in rge quantities. It has bought 600 iros of luud in Pajuro Valley, aud will ant au orchard of French prune trees, ley will be from four to six feet in ight when put into the grouud. The pek of these trees is to be two years old d the grafting one year. Nuxt year ey will begin to yield fruit. The av- to life of a tree U thirty year. Forest VOL. XXIV. NO. ELIM-IN-AH-DO. 'T Was In the baenrs of the Smyrntotea That we heard the lingering call, Witt It mellow, musical, bell-like notes, And Its rhythmic rise and fall. It soared o'er the camel-driver's shout, And the bale-bent porter, angry flout "OO JC-ltm-fn-aa-tfo" There were the figs of Omoorlooy Largo and luscious and bursting ripe; And from a cafe near there blew The tempting scent of the water-pipe; Hut Tireh's grape would have hung la vain Upon the vines had we heard that strain "OO E-lim-i'n-ah-dor' Amber, clear as a prisoned ray Of the morning sunlight, was forgot; Rug, rich with the hues of dying day. From the looms of Persia, lured us not. While the motley Smyrna world swept by. We hung on the sound of the witching cry "OO -fim-n-an-fo" Then out of the jostling crowd he came With hi. crook-necked flask and his clink of glass; As keen of eye and supple of frame As a Lydian pard we saw him pass Saw him pass, and aliove the roar Caught the lilt ot bis call onoe more "OO E-lim-in-ah-dol" Who can measure melody's power? It sways the soul with the same strange spell On lovely lips in a lady's bower, Or those of a vagrant Ishmael. And still floats back, with its thrilling bars, The strain from the Buiyrniote bazars "OO "E-lim-in-uk-do!n Clinton Scsllard, in Atlantie Monthly. DOROTHY'S DIAMONDS, AT IIEI.KN FOHHE8T OHAVB8. "You can't bo in earnest, Dotty I" said Ralph Imray. "Hut I am in earnest," protested Dorothy, his wife. "Why shouldn't I be in enrnest?" Mr. Imray laid down the pen with which he had been following a long column of figures. He was a bank ac countant, and sometimes eked out his small salary by bringing home the books of neighboring firms to post after his regular-day's work was over. Ho looked intently at Dorothy. Nor was bIio by any meaus a disagreeable object to behold, as sho sat by the shaded lamp, stitching away at a piece of yellow China silk which emphasized her purple-black masses of silky hair and the jetty light other long-lashed eyes. Some people, to judge by appearances, are bom kitchen-maids; others arc princesses. And Dorothy Imray, albeit her father was a master carpenter and her husband a bank clerk, was one of nature's aristocrats slim, taper-Angered and swan-throated, with a delicate com plexion aud a profile that leuiindcd one of a Roman cameo. "Why shouldn't you be in earnest?" repeated Hnlpb. "Because, Dotty, there's a fitness in all things. A poor inau's wifo has no business to wear dinpionds." "iff . Clifford wears tUeral" petulant ly retorted Dorothy. "And Job Clif ford doesn't get any higher salary than you do." "Hut her father is a man of means, Dotty." "Aud Luclla Dixon has tho loveliest lace-bar I She showed it to mo yester day." "Dixon and I differ materially in our financial ideas, observed Imray, shrug ping his shoulders. "If a man owes money, I, for one, don t regard It as a very smart thing for his wifo to bo flaunting arouud in costly jewels. Come, Dot, give up the idea. Twenty years from now I may be able to give you uiamonds." Dorothy pouted. She sewed away with little, swift jerks of the needle. "Twenty years from now I shall be an old woman," she uttered. Mr. Imray laughed. "I'll risk that," said he. "No, Dotty, if my wife were to come out in a pair of diamond ear-rings, my employers would be quite justified iu scrutinizing my ac couuts. The topaz ornaments I gave you at our wedding were good enough for you then. Why can't you be con. teuted with them now ?" Dorothy answered not a word. The needle seemed like a sciiuetar in the lamplight; the rose red lips were tightly coniprested; and ltalpb resumed his pen, with a sigh. Dotty had "got into society" lately, and the little home had never recovered its pleasant old-time aspect since. Mi-s. Job Clifford and Luclla Dixon were her models now, instead of kind Aunt lihoda and tho rector's pretty young wife. The next day Mrs. Dixon called, dressed in a fantastic combination suit, with a French hat, and a real lace scarf twisted loosely around her neck. "Well, Dorothy," began she, "What did he sayt" Mrs. Imray 's pretty face gloomed over. "Just what I expected,'" said she. "Of course he won't give me the dia monds. I might have known that be forehand." "Don't be discouraged, dear," said Mrd. Dixon, with a furtive glance. "I cau suggest a plau. Are we quite alone?" Dorothy looked surprised. "Yes," said she. "Bridget has gone to market, and there is no one eUe on this floor." Mrs. Dixon drew her chair close to Dorothy's sofa. "Listen 1" she whispered. "How much money have you?" "Twenty dollars of my own," Djr othy answered, "and forty that HalpU left to pay the ageut our rent. That's sixty. And there's fifteen that Aunt lihoda sent mo to match her old broc aded silk with." "Seventy-five!" said Mrs. Dixon, ex ultiugly. "Dorothy, you shall have vnur iliHtiwtiitlM 1' I 33. TIONESTA, . "It's Impossible 1" breathed Dorothy. "But It is possible, and I'll tell you how. Come closer, dear; not a soul must know of this. Dixon has helped a shipping merchant on tho docks to get his cargo in Dixon knows a man in the custom house, you see and ho has given us a poiut. There was a Brazil schooner came in last night, laden with bananas. Tho captain has friends in the diamond mines up among tho moun tains." "You don't mean " Mrs. Dixon laughed a shrill, excited laugh. "It's really quite Interesting to visit thoso odd little foreign vessels," said she. "I'll take you there, dear, if you'd like?" "Is that tho way you got your dia monds, Luella?" "Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies," merrily retorted Mrs. Dixon. "You havo tho same chance that I did. It's tho duties on these luxuries that makes the cost. Captain Sazeda is in a hurry to get back to Hio Jancrio. If wo go at all we'll have to go to-night." "But it's Ralph's late night at the bnnkl" hesitated Dorothy. "All tho better. He mustn't know a word of it- Men are so ridiculous about such things. I never would havejbreathed a word to you if I had supposed you would betray mot" "I won't! I won't!" cried Dorothy, her cheeks flushed, her dark eyes spar kling. "Oh, Luella, do you think my poor littlo seventy-five dollars will buy anything fit to look at? "Great bargains are sometimes ob tained in that way," nodded Mis. Dixon. "But, good gracious, is that eleven striking? And me due at my dressmak er's at half-post ten. I must go, Dor othy. Remember I'll call for you at seven. Not a minute before dark, you know. Sazeda will send up the cabin boy to show you the way. Put on your waterproof, Bnd wear your oldest hat and veil, and mako some excuse to Bridget. Miud, sharp seven!" All day Dorothy Imray went about her occupations like one in a dream. The strange, f antastic nature of tho ad venture appealed to the romantic side of her being. She longed for diamonds as a desert wanderer loans for cooling fountains. She could toll Ralph that she had hired them, that some of their relations up in Canada had bequeathed them she could make up any sort of a story to pacify him. The rent must wait. Aunt Hhoda would surely be in no haste about her black brocaded gown ! And Dorothy fell to thinking in what shape tho stones precious sparklers from far Southern mines should be set. Seven o'clock came a raw. smoky twilight, filled with fine, drizzling rain ami D.n-otoy and Mrs. Dixon wero picking their way along tho narrow, half-lighted streets on the edge ot the wharves, where the wind was full of saline odor;, and the crowded masts and smoke-stacks seemed to overshadow them like sorao outlandish sort of forest. A stunted lad in tattered garments trottel along in front of them, whistling as he went, and now and then casting a backwnck glance to make sure that they bad not lo?t their way. Presently he plunged into a crazy old house which seemed to balance itself on the black tides below. Mrs. Dixon followed so did Dorothy Imray, after one startled glauce around. They descended a flight of ruinous stuirs, crossed a rude gangplank, and found themselves on a stupenduously dirty vessel, smelling of tnr and onions, aud rocking back aud forth with the swell produced by the ferry-boats that came aud went at intervals.. A humpbacked little man in tarnished velveteen sat on a bucket turned upside down, holding a lantern which he swung toward a cabin door beyond. "Ha, Giacome!" he uttered, "Zs sig nora she come to see ze parrot an' to cockatoo ! She is welcome. Walk zat way, please." And Dorothy and her friend descend ed into a low-ceiled, dirty place line! with cages ot number less shrieking foreign birds, and a jocund-looking young man with a mandolin slung around his nock was leisurely picking out a tune by tho light of a smoke-blackened lamp. Ho looked at Mrs. Dixon, who nodded her head, whilo Dorothy stood trembling and a little sea-sick at her side. He laid down the mandolin, bowed uot uugiaccfully, to Dorothy, and clos ing tho doors with vigilunt care, opened a shallow cigar box which lay on the table. All at once the air seemed to flash into scintillations of light. Dorothy started back with a slight exclamation. Not a loud word was spoken as, guid ed by Mrs. Dixon's advico, Dorothy selected five mauy-faceted stones aud laid down her little roll ot baukbills. Her heart beat loudly, her pulses seemed to race in a mad scamper through her veius as she thrust the diamonds into the bosom of hor dress. She did not hear what Sazeda was sayiiig the murky cabin sauiu before her eyes. "1 m ufraid you feel the swell ot the waves, dear," whispered Mrs. Dixon. "Let us get out as quick as we can." In the same instant a curious expres sion passed across Suzeda's handsome surdouio face. Tho cigar box vanished as if by magic the captaiu disappeared also. "A custom house fellow," whispered tho little huuehback, madly swingiug his luuteru to aud fro. "All ashore I Quick, siguoras!" He thrust the cage of a drooping white macaw into Mrs. Dixon s hands. She nodded shrewdly, and pusho I Dorothy across the plauk toward tho stairs. Iu her baste, however, the young woman stumbled. "Quick," cried Luella "quick! Whut's the nutter with you?" "I'm I'm afraid I havo sprained my ankle," wailel poor Dorothy, growing white and sick. "Oa, Luella, wait Aud that was all sho reiuoiubeied. 4 "Diamonds, my dear diuiuou Is?" echoed Auut Hhoda. "Just cut glass, TA., WEDNESDAY, and nothing more. Bright pebbles that one can pick up anywhere." "But Mrs. Dixon " stammered Dor othy. "Don't talk, dear," said Aunt Rhoda, with a wave of her hand. "Ralph made me promise not to let you get excited. But I think it's best to tell you tho whole story at once. They've cut and run, the lot of 'em Dixon and his wifo, that Sazeda fellow and all. They palmed off a lot of those false jewels on people who supposed they were buying smug gled diamonds, and the ship was found deserted the next day. Where did we find yout Why, fainting away all alone on the dock steps. I had followed you. I had come in that morning, and was in the next bedroom all the time that wo man was putting her falsehoods down your throat. "And I knew, in Ralph's absence, that it was my business to look after you. Bridget was with me, and together wo got you home. Much that other woman cared whether you lived or died! Sho has loft you to your fato. No, Dotty, do; don't look so grieved 1 It was a falso step, but the Lord has mercifully preserved you, and now we'll wipe oil the old scores and begin again." And Dorothy had just enough strength left to press ber lips to Aunt Hhoda's withered hand. "Ralph," she said, when she was quite recovered, "if ever you are able to buy me any jewel! " "Which I certainly shall do, dot, ono of these days." he gaily interrupted. "Don't let them be diamonds. I hate diamonds I I never want to see one again. Turquoises, amethysts, whatever else you please, but not diamonds 1" "Well, it shall be as you pleaso,"said Ralph. "Your bright eyes, love, are all the diamonds I want!" "Oh, Ralph," sobbed Dorothy, "how good you ore to met How I love you!" What Becomes of All Old Hat ? What becomes of all old hats ? " We have about 200 old hats strewed along under the counters and in tho back room," said a South Clark street hatter. "From ten to twenty-five tramps come in daily and ask for a hat, yet our refuse supply seems undiminished. The tramps aro glad to see cool or rainy weather at this time of tho year. They know that it will drive in the straw hats, and they will tall heir to them. After these straw hats have done service all summer the tramps wear them all winter. For a summer hat the tramp gets tho cast-off winter hat. He reserves the fashion. A great majority, however, take their old hats home and lay them up for a rainy or a snowy day. Some people will wear a straw hat two sea sons, but tho great majority give them to tho poor. We send a lorre number to the charitable institutions. A great many nats are lert to be called tor. If not called for within thirty days we give them away. Sometimes sharpers attempt their littlo Fames on us. A small man loft his hat here, buying a cut-off crown hnt. The one he left was nut of shunn had lost its gloss and color, and .was worthless, ne did not say that he would return for it, nor did he say that he would not. Wo put it aside, but wheu he called for it we could not find it at the moment. He then claimed that it was a good hat and demanded $5 for it. We made a thorough search, fouud the battered tile and handod it to him. Seeing that his scheme had faUoi ho threw the old hat into tho street." Chicago Timet. Providers of Free Lnncltes. The free lunches of upward of 800 saloons in JNew lork are furnished by one concern. A lunch of ham sand wiches, herrings, baked beans and crack ers and cheese is furnished at $1 per day. The price ranges all the way up to if 50. A 50 lunch comprises a big tureen of soup, cold lamb, roast beef and corned boef.four or five big baked pike, chicken, clam, oyster, surdiuo or Brio cheeso sandwiches, varied daily; lobster and chicken salad, and olives, pickles, lettuce, etc. Everything is of the best. It takes ten cooks the better part of the night to get the lunches ready for fifteeu wagons to distribute early in the morning. The solids are placed in baskets and the liquids in earthen jars. When tho lunch is delivered at a saloon the at tendant hands back what is left of tho previous day's delivery. That is part of the contract. The "cold pieces" are sold to keepers of cheap boarding houses. The average price paid daily by the customers of this fir.n is $15. It pays both tho caterers aud the saloon keepers. A first-class saloon canuot be run now without au appetizing and well served free lunch. Au elegant establish ment not fur from where I live never made any money until a few months ao. when a couple of enterprising young fel lows took hold of it and set out a free lunch fit for an epicure. Business picked up with a rush and the new proprietors aro getting rich fast. Jfttt Orloant I'it Curiosities About Gold. Gold is' so very tenacious that a piece of it drawn iuto wire one-twentieth of au inch iu diameter will sustain a weight of 500 pounds without breakiug. Its malleability is so great that a single grain may be divided into 2,000,0;)0 parts and a cubic inch iuto 9,523,009, 523 parts, each of which may be dis tinctly seen by the naked eye. A grain and a half of gold may bo beaten into leaves of ouu inch spiare, which it iutcrsectud by parallel lines drawn at right angles to each other aud distance ouly the ouo-huiidic 1th part of an inch, will produce 25,000,000 little squares, each of which may be distinctly seen without the use of a glass. The surface of any given quantity of gold, occording to the best authorities, may be extended by the hammer 3l0,ltti times. The thickuess of the metal thus extended appears to be no more than the SUN. 020th of an inch. Eight ounces of this woudurtul metal would gild a silver wire of sufliuieut length to extend en tirely arouud the globe. lUhooolh Hun day Herald. PUBLICAN DEC. 9, 1891. ON STONEWALL JACKSON. A NORTHERNER'S ESTIMATE OF I1IS CHARACTER AND CAREER. Intercut Inn Views ly Itv. Henry M". Field, 1). I)., on the Confederate Iioatlcr, Published In "Harper." Rev. Henry M. Field, D. D., the well known Northern divine, has an nrticlo in Hurper't Mmjaxine on the life and charac ter of General "Stonewall" Jackson. The reverend writer says: The midsummer of this year (1891) witnessed a scene in tho mountains of Virginia that recalled the events of a past generation. The 21st of July was the thirtieth anniversary of Bull Run, where North and South met in the first real battle of the war, for the engage ments in West Virginia, near the Ohio, hardly rose to the dignity of battles. But Bull Run was a conflict of armies, in which both sides took their first les sons iu war, and out of which came at least one great soldier, who stood so firmly whilo the battle ratted around him that others who were broken and dismayed took courage as they saw his unshaken column standing "like a stone wall," from which he received the name of "Stonewall" Jackson. This was the hero to whom a monument was now to be unveiled in Lexington, where he is buried. Of thoso whoso stood beside him on that bloody day thirty years ago, almost all had followed him to the grave; but the survivors, the shattered wrecks of war, camo from far and near to do honor to him who once led them to battle, and wept with overpowering emotion at the grave of their beloved commander. Tho demonstration furnishes an occa sion for a Northerner to give his opinion of this extraordinary man. The years that have passed have removed us so far from the great tragedy of war, and from the passions it aroused, that we can do justico even to those who were in arms against us; and no one can read the his tory of Stonewall Jackson without recog nizing in him all the qualities that go to mako a popular hero. As a soldier, some competent critics rank him as the first that tho war produced on either side. Not tbnt he was at the head of the largest army, or undertook the most ex tensive military operations, but that with the means that he had he accom plished more than auy other commander. He had made a study ot the can: pnigns of Napoleon, and saw that success lay not merely in having "tho strongest battal ions," but in secrecy of design aud of rapidity of execution. In the latter he outdid even Napoleon himself, training his men to such a pitch of endurance that he could "rush" them twenty-five miles a day over a broken country, across rivers and over mountain?, and fight a battle as tho sun was going down. Nothing iu tho war gave more decisive pi oof of military genius thau tho campaign in the Shenandoah Valley in the spring of 18(32 tho ouly ono which he coad cted absolutely alone, with no interference from those above him where he was pitted not against one army, but four (under Banks, Fre mont, Shields and Milroy), advancing upon him from different quarters, aud outmanoeuvred thcai all, attackiag and defeating each in turo, till he drove them, one after another, out of the val ley, when he gave them all tho slip, an 1 crossing tho Blue Ridge in ono of his rapid marches, suddenly appeared oa tho flauk of McClclhin's army before Rich mond. That decided the Peuinsular caiupaigu, when- he turned north, and by a bold movement thriw himself be tween Pope aud Washington, aud the secoud Bull K m proved lar more bloody than tho first. All this is matter of his tory which it is not necessary to recall, uor to follow the tireless soldier to Har per's Ferry, to Antietarn, to Fredericks burg and Chancellorsville, where ho fell at the very mo uent that the great flank movement which ho ha I csnceived an 1 conducted had struck tho Union Army with a shock from which it reded aud could not recover, but sought safety on the other side of the Rappahannock, which it ha 1 crossed only a few days be fore iu all the confidence of victory. This is n recorl of sontinued success of which it is hard to find another ex ample in our own history, or, indeed, in nny other. Cruel l'niiislmienlg In the Past. In the matter ot puuisbmeuts, we have entered upon a time of greater cruelty than prevailed uuder the Plao tagenets. Men are boiled and women burned for poisoning; heretics are still binned in 15S5 one thus suffered for denying the divinity of Christ; ears are nailed to the pillory aud sliced off for defamation uud seditious words: long and cruel whippings arc inflicted in ouu case through Vest;niuster ' nml London for forgery. An immense number hio hanged every year; tho chronicler Machyn coctiuuully sets down such a fact as that "ou this day XII wero hanged ot iyburu, Vu men and V wo meu." Mariners were hauged at low water at Wapping for olleuces commit ted nt sea; the good old custom ot pil lorizing was inaiutuined with zeal; uud the parading of backsliders in curts or ou horseback was kept up. Thus ouo wo man, for selling fry ot fish unlawfully, rode triumphantly through the town wit i garlunds of fish decoruting her head and shoulders and the tail of the horse, while ono went before beating a brass basou. Another womuu was carried round, a dUtutl in her hand and a blue boo I on her head, for a common scold. A mm was similarly honored for selling measly pork; and aui.tiier, riding with his head to tho animal's tail, for doing something sinful connected with lamb or veal. JJ'irjJtr't Ma a tine. The Huju's Nest. Tho buya bird of India spends his nights catching tire-flics, with which lie plasters his nest. The buya does not kill the fly, but simply attaches it to hii nest by means of a piece of moist clay, tin a dark uight a baya's nest has the appearance of uu elculuc street lamp. Chicago Time. 1.50 PER ANNUM. SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL. Germany lends in paper-mills. Coffee mills are run by electricity. Instantaneous photographs show lip movements. The expciiment is about to bo tried In Chicago of running double-decked street cars. A street railway system, to be operated by compressed air, is to be inaugurated in Leavenworth, Kan. Tho power will also be applied to factories. The phonograph has been applied to tho telephone, so that nny conversation coming over tho wires during tho day may be readily reproduced. Phosphorus is now being made by decomposing a mixture of acid phos phates and carbon by the heat of an i electric arc within the mass. The latest innovation in car deenra j tion is a new material called "sill- chrome." It can bo used also for depot or other interior decoration. On tho eastern frontier of the "Dark j Continent" coal is so plentiful that by lining a snovell ul of clay oil any particu lar spot it may bo reached. But there is no means of transporting it to market. The range of naval guns is rouglly ono mile for every inch of calibre foi gun less than ten inches, but last year a 9.2 inch breech-loading rifle attained a range of twelve miles. The pneumatic gun has fired a dummy shell two miles and a half. It is said that the local steam trains between St. Paul and Minneapolis have all been taken off, being unable to com pete with the electric road, which is running trips every eight minutes, and is expected soon to change to five minute schedule. About twice as much energy is re quired to stop a mjving object as to start it. In order to relieve its horses of a great deal of work, the London Gen eral Omnibus Company has adopted au ingenious device by which spriugs are wound up when the omnibus stops. The amount of energy which is thus stored up in the springs is utilized for starting the vehicle again. A smokeless powder has been prepared at the Newport (R. I.) Torpedo Station which is credited with having given a rifle bullet tho astounding velocity of 28(50 feet pet sjcond. Moreover, it is stated that at a distance of 500 yards the j report of the gun was not heard nor was any smoke visible. Guu cotton pulp is reported to be the base of the powder, but the other ingredients and their ma nipulation are a Government secret. A lake has a wonderfully tempering effect on the climate. Thus, according to M. Forel, the quantity of heat accu mulated in the Lake of Geneva, Switzer land, during the summer of 18S9 was equal to that given off by tho combustion ' of 31,000,000 tous of coal, or the amount ; carried by a coal train 1120 miles iu length. The greater part of the heat is i discharged iuto tho air of the valley dur ' ing the cold season, thus produciug a 1 milder temperature in autumn and win- 1 '"' Dr. Brown-Scquard in ono of his loc I turcs dwells with great emphasis on tho j importance of general knowledge in the matter ot checking coughing and tnei-z-ing. He states that coughing can bo stopped by prossiug the nerves of the lips in the neighborhood of tho no;e, aud sneezing may be stopped the sama ! Wav. Pressillir in tho nniolihnrhnivl ni the ear, or right in front of the car, may stop coughing. It is so also of hiccough ing, but much less so than for sneezing or coughing. Pressing very hard on tho roof of the mouth is also a means of ur- ! resting a cough, aid the will itself is often fouud to be a wonderful preventive. A Church Built or Coral. Tho Seychollas Islands, which arc sun- posed by many to ba tho sito of tho Eden of the Old Testament history, form an archipelago of 111 islands, uud are situated about 1400 miles cast of Adu.i, and 1000 miles from Zmzibar. They 1 rise steeply out of tho soa, culminating in the Isle of Mahe, which is about 3000 I fcef above the level ot the ocean, and is j nearly the centre of tho group. All these islands are of coral growth. The beaches which surround thtiu are the moit I beautiful in the world, and aro of whito culcereous sands iuclosed iu coral reefs of the most subtile aud varied structure. Tho reefs form a sort of wall arouud the island, aud wheu the sun's rays fall stunting on the sands tho shore reflects here aud there light-tinted rainbows of the most exquisite shades. Tho "houses aro built of a rpccles of massive coral hewu iuto squaro blocks, which glisten like white marble aud show themselves to the utmost advantage in the various tiuted green of the thick tropical puhns, whose immense feru-lilio leaves give pleasant and much needed shade. The palms grow as hicrh as 100 feet aud more, overtopping b jdi the houses and the corul-built church. They liuo the seashore uud eover tho mouutains, forming in mauy places extansivo for ests. Uuiton Ulil. Bucou Adjourns a Legislature. It is related that one winter wheu the Kentucky Legislature was iu u dead-lock and had passed a sleepless uigLt iu ses kiou, the morning fouud them still in au obstinate uud ugly inood. All efforts to adjourn were severely put down. Soou after the breakfast hour arrive 1 a mem ber from the Big Sandy couutry went to one of the fire-place iu the ancient hull aud laid ou the hickory coals a piece of bacon that he had found iu a pocket tuudwich. The appetizing o lor grad ually tilled the room; the siz.liug was a cheerful sound suggesting home, ease und comfort. The members began to stir confusedly in' their chairs. The hostile side looked at each otiur sheep ishly aud wistfully. They could i't help smiling, aud at last broke into a lau,'h. Au adjournment was move 1 by seveial uud uric I unanimously. They say politics is swayed by phrases, but u bit of Kentucky bucou did the busiuess this time. Cincinnati Tiinii-Stui: RATES OP ADVERTISING." One Square, one Inch, one insertion . . I 1 09 One Square, one inch, one mouth .... 8 00 One Square, one inch, three month... ft 00 One Square, one inch, one year 10 00 Two Squares, one year IS 00 Quarter Column, oneyear...... 8009 Half Column, one year... ............ 60 00 One Column, one y ear . 100 09 Le?al advertisement ten cents per Una ach Insertion. Marriage, and death notices gratis. All billsfor yearly advertissments collected quarterly. Temporary advertisements matt be paid in advance. Job work cash on delivery. - . CHORES. ' Jed Dorcum always used to say When we asked him to come and play With us boys down to Harry Afore'a, I've gotter stay and do the chores." No recreation would he take For all hts wealth.in jolly rake; No glad fun in or out of doors. He had to stay and do the chores; We drove a woodchuck in the wall But Jed he paid no heed at all; A circus passed through Lower Town But busy Jed, be couldn't go down. The elephant went tramping by And shook the earth and touched the sky;' The tiger howl, the lion roars, Jed stays at home and dees the chore. Much like Jed Dorkum are we all Who long for great things and do smallj We moil among the trivial sods Within the gardens of the gods, While the dark clusters hang above Rich with the juice of life and love. We cannot reach and pull them down, These fair pomegranates of renown; Whose Juice life's early hope restores, For we must work and do the chores. Above us sternly loom forever Tho mighty Mountain of Endeavor, And whoso on their summit stand. Looks on the sun-kissed table lands. We grasp our mountain staff to climb Their sky-enshrouded peaks sublime, Up where the crystal torrent pours And then we pause to do our chores. We start with courage in the heart To try the endlessness of art. In hope that we may speak some day The word the 8pirit bids us say. But ere we speak the word aright The shadows come and it is night. Put out the light and clos-i the doors, For good or ill we've dona our chore;. Sam Walter Foss, in Yankee Blade. HUMOR OF THE BAY. Cast irou Quoits. Ursidedown Tho moustache. A feast of reason To entertain t idea. A corner lot The "gaug" under tho lamp post. The spread of intelligence Not raoro than the aptetito requires. Lost at C The tenor who reached for It but didn't get there. Yonkert Ontette. Men with well knit figure! are seldom worsted in a light." I'itMurjh DUpntch. The girl who has had a fnithless lover ihould ba sharper the next time sho is I cutlass. Lowell Courier. - 1- ., - " Financial cmbarrassmcnt'is tho only kind that ever troupes youug America. lioaton Courier. A ring around the moon is a siL'n ot . rain, and a ring around the eye is a sign The crunk with a theory is lileo a dog chasing his tail it's uothiug new when bo grasps it. Columbia I'oit. "Ah, yes," said Auut Sary, "Jennie's a great singer; some day she'll be a reg' lur belladonna!" Columhut Pott. The ocean wearily exclnlme I, Incessantly I go; I wonder that I don't get corns Upon my uudertow. If the world, as it is, owes everybody a living, tho world ought to get a mort gage ou itself to pay its debts. Tutu Mf'tingi. If men were half as wise in their ac tions as they are in their miuds, tho word "fool" would be out of use. At chiton Ulolie. The peacock may not bo inclined to gossip, but he loves to spread a highly colored tail about the neighborhood. Ulnar a Uatttte. In looking for causes, tho littlo thing under our nose is hardest to see. Just try to cast your eje on the centre of your own moustache. I'uek. "Why is it so much easier to contract debts than to pay them?" "Because we run iuto debt, but usually have to crawl out." A'ei York Herald. Facetious Tourists "Is it true that your cautou is full of idiots?" Merry Swiss Peasant "Yes, sir, ia summer. But they don't stop long." Carruthers "Of what i.se is a family tree, anyhow?" Waitc "Why, to cast one's neighbor s iuto tho shade, of course." Seie York Herald. A Western man says this is a "touU world," and it is his opinion that vtry few who are iu it now will ever get out of it alive. Pharmaceutical lira. Ethel "I am sure now that Gcurgo thinks me au angel." "Maud "What makes you so positive?-' Ethel "Ho asked me to fly with him." A'eio York Herald. "Why do they ring the bell in that railroad station in that style? It sounds like it was tolling." "Probably it is for the passing of tho dividend." llt'ti more American. "Mrs. (l.tirill fell down stairs nud bit her tongue in two." "Poor G.irriil ! If that woman has two tougues, heaven knows what will become of him!" llnr)er' Jim tr. Mrs. Blacklot "Yes, my boy's doiu' well to Harvard. He's siudyin' fer a doctor now." .Mrs. N'extdore "Dear me! Cun't tho doctor do his own ttu.ly iu'i'' lini'on I'oft. Brido (iu anticipation) "I should like to give uiy iiileudc I a littlo sm priso before our marriage. What would you advise?"' Female Friend "Hum! pre sent him with your ccrtilic ite of birth." t'litijimlc llltutttr. ' t'au you help mc?" said tho tramp, addressing the doctor, who was riding past. "Perhaps I can," said liieilocto humorously. "I'm a physician. Wh it's your trouble?" "I think, sir, I nee I a little change most." He got it. Mc a York Ihtu. Joachim, the musician, was liaviu? hit hair tut, und strenuously iuti -tc I t.iat it should irj. bo very short. "Well, sir," said the barber, losing patience, "it you, us a gentleman, don't mind being taken for u fori-igu inusu ian, I'm suiu I dou't care." Chrittiutt Luton.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers