THE FOREST REPUBLICAN Is pabU.fc.4 every Wadaetday, fry J. E. WENK. Offlo In Bmsarbaugh A Co.'s Building RATES OP advertising; One Square, one Inch, one insertion.. I 1 (W One Square, one inch, one month .... IM One Bquare, one inch, three month.. . S 08 One Square, one inch, one yeai 10 00 Two Squares, one year 15 00 Quarter Column, on year...... 80 00 Half Column, one year.. ............. 8J W One Column, one year 100 Oil Legal advertisements ten cents per Un each Insertion. ' Marriages and death notices gratis. A 11 bills for yearly advertisements colleoted quarterly. 1 emporary advertisements miN be paid in advance. Job work cash an delivery. Forest r TJBLICAN XLM tTBIBT, TIONKSTA, Tt . Terms, SI.BO ptrTiir, We talwerlpttens netivet for a tt.rtar Mrlod tk.iy Urea months. Ortrrn.poiKl.nc. ollelted frem al Mrtg f the VOL. XXIV. NO. 42. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEB. 10, 1892. 1.50 PER ANNUM. "Miniry. nm r;ic wui M Uka ( ui aaoaymou. . ep i- ,' In the reign of Quoon Victoria Eng land had fifteen wars. J The enormous growth of the city of London is shown by the fact that its present population is given at 5,670,000, or considerably greater than that of Faris, Berlin, Vienna and Rome com bined. Thcro are 630 authorized guides iu tho Alps. Ono hundred and ninety-four of them have taken a regular course of in struction in their profession and have re ceived diplomas. Thirty-five of them are between sixty and seventy years of age and six are over seventy. Equatorial Africa promises another treasure to civilization, announces tho New York lrcss. It is a much scooted plant, tho branches of which carried about the person will frighten away mosquitoes. The smell of the plant is noithcr uupleasnut nor unhealthy, but no mosquito will venture within its range. To use the phonograph for recording tho chatter of monkeys and to attempt from such a record to evolve the lan guage of the simians is something which in the opinion of the San Francisco Chronicle out-Durwins Dirwin. With such methods as these we ought to gut hold of tho missing link before the cud of the century. Sig. Henri Bosquet, of Buenos Ajres, Argentine Republic, says there are ;uuio sixteon men to oue woman iu that very interesting South American metropolis, and that any newly arrived, fairly good looking candidate for matrimony can readily have a choice of fully fifty eager swains. Buenos Ayres was once some thing . of a cowboy capital, and has evidently not yet passed the frontier period of woman worship. Why cannot, asks the New Orleans Picayune, some able designer get up a representation of tho cngle that looks something like that glorious bird? The spread-wing idea is unnatural and ab surd. It is only becauso of its antiquity that it is tolerated. An eaglo that would spread its wings and legs ,in an attempt to symbolize peace and war deserves to be shot. A fine design of an American eagle at rest, perche 1 on a crag or limb of a tree, would not bo a bad one for our silver coins. A man by tho name of George IIulco, at New Haven, Conn., was named as an executor in a will. When the will was probated two witnesses, through an hon est mistake, swore that he was dead, and the court had an order to that effect en tered upon the records. A ehort timo afterwards Hulco turned up all right, but he has been declared to bo legally dead and is si in law until the record is changed. This cannot be done without reopeuingthe case, which will cost some money. This, Hulco declares, he will not pay, and as no ono else has any in terest in the matter he will probably re main legally dead as long as bo actually lives. The depreciation of farming lands in England has gone to fur, asserts the Boston Cultivator, that in many localities they are worth only half what they were twenty years ago. The low price of wheat, and competition with other countries in meat and other fool products, is responsible for much of this decrease in price, though part of it is duo to a succession of bad seasons. The United States now leads all competitions la wheat production. But it is certain that after a few mora years American increase in population will take all the wheat we can grow. When that time comes, not only English but other wheat growers will sharo in the increased prosperity of farming that must every where prevail. Tho cousus bulletin giving the popula tirn of Texas by minor civil divisions shows some wonderful percentages of in crease of populutiou, uotes the Louisville Courier-Journal. The increase over 1880 in the whole State was 613,774, equal to 40.44 pur cent., which is itself a healthy percentage, though quite in significant compared to the growth in population of some of the counties. Only sixteen counties slio.v decreases. Armstrong Couuty shows an increase of 2345.16 per cent.; Childress, 4600; Colliugsworth, 5830; Hardeman. 7708; Randall, 6133.33, and Floyd, 17,533.33 per cent. The effect of these uiugnitl cent percentages is somewhat impaired by giviug the figures upon which thoy are based. Armstrong, for example, hud only thirty-one population in 1880 aud 944 in 181)0 an imtnensu relative but very moderate positive iucrease. Child- i'lfrcased from twenty-five in 1880 A PARTING GUEST. Dear world, how shall I say farewell to thee As from thy friendly house I go at last? Let me not like an unloved wanderer be From thy door cast.' No, I have been a little while tby guest; Still there are light and music, down thy halls The laughing recognition of a jest Rises and falls. Thou hast with love and bread my wants supplied. And hurried on my hours in joyous flight; But longer with thee now I cannot bide I come to say good-night; But leave not other friends who need thee here Give me thy hand and I am quickly Bono; Tby lamps will light me with their genial cheer Until I meet the dawn. feeIUI Nicholson, tn the Century. A MIDNIGHT ASSIGNMENT. HEN Sandy Gra ham, stone mason and bailie.kicked Fergus Cameron down the back stair of his home on tho Lochee Road, of Dundee, and shied a bag of onions and a clothes line whero his big font could not reach, he was au unconscious factor in one of the prettiest romances that ever cast a fragrance over the life of a newspaper man. This was the cause of all the trouble. Fergus Camerou was tlio ten-shilling-a-week clerk at the salt pans. One and one made two during the day, but one and one in the evening leprcented only one, for while the former might be bags of salt, or pounds, shillings or pence, tbe latter were the mutually sympathetic hearts of Fergus Cameron and Maud Graham, tho pretty daughter of tho Dundee bailie. Now, the average Scotch bailie is a much bigger man, in his own estimation, than the President of the United States. A chief magistrate of our nation might allow his daughter to marry an ordinary book-keeper; but a President of the United States is no criterion in estima ting a uiau chosen to till the chair once graced by such illustrious characters as Donald MucTavish and Sandy Jamicson. Shades of Nebuchadnezzar 1 who so great as a Scotch bailie? You may have heard of the Scotch bailie, but I knew one. It was long ago, but tho awe-iuspiring influence of a personal acquaintance with him bos not yet departed. Ho was a newspaperman, so be said, claiming the title by virtue of part ownership with his wife and Kirsty Buckley, a crabbed old maid, in a newspaper and magazine depot. All in all, he was a great man in tbe town. Examination day always brought him to school, and on such an occasion ho gen erally stood with tho Latin book upside down. "Excuse me, Bailie," our teacher would remark in his meekest way, "ex cuse me, you have the book upside down." "Sir, don't you think a bailio can rend Latin upside down?" How we prayed that a kind Providonce In much love and mercy might mako of us bailies and newspaper men. Do you wonder that Fergus Cameron was kicked downstairs, and that a bag of onions aud a clothes-line hastened his departure, and that three weeks later he stood upon the deck of an Atlantic liner, gazing with tearlul eye on the fast fading shore-line of the land of blue mist and purple heather? An American youth would bave been happier under the circumstances, for he would have had Maud Graham with him; so little respect has an American youth for the exalted office of a Scotch bailie. UK FOCOnT TnK BLAST. Cameron arrived iu Kew York with a few dollars in his pocket aud fewer friends by his side. He spent the first night iua cheap lodging-house on West street, aud iu tho morning set out to find an old friend of bis father. The prospects of employment at his own occu pation were by no means bright, but an acquaintance on tbe part of the old man with the city editor of a morning paper opened for him the door of the newspa per kingdom. Into the humblest posi tion went Fergus Cameron. Naturally bright, well educated, and with uo end of capacity for work, he cheerfully aud manfully faced his new duties with a calm determination to turn the battle tot life into victory, and be a bigger man than a Scotch builie. His was tho old, old story of success and failure, of fail ure and success, but his application to business and the excellence of bis work carried him into the good graces of his Superiors iu oliire. The star that ruled - ideas lut might have fated him "-hearteuing, Jit its ad- Fergus Cameron was in tho West, plow ing his way toward a country village. A midnight assignment had fizzled out, his only horse had stumbled into a ditch and broken its leg, and bis choice lay between death in tho snow and a struggle toward tho village. Every minute was like an eternity ; he seemed to be drug ging the world at his heels. Mind weary and body-sore he fought tho bitter, blinding blast until overtaxed nature gave up tho battle, und be sank iu the snow. FF.no 1'S CAMERON B1TRFKI8BD. Two weeks later Fergus Cameron awoke from the torpor of oblivion and saw the world of light again. From the large beating stove in his bed-room a cheerful fire shot shafts of light over the soft rugs on the floor. The surround ings were strange; what did it mean? He lny there looking drowsily about him, aud slowly recalled the incidents of his terrible .battle with tbe storm, wondering to whose hospitality he wai indebted for bis salvation. His dream ing was pleasantly disturbed by the en trance of r graceful female figure. Who was it? Cameron rubbed his eyes wondering if it was a new phase of his delirium. Another rub; another look; were his senses playing him false? By his bedside stood grace and goodness personified iu bis old sweetheart, Maud Graham. They are married now, and all the trials of the past are forgotten in the sweet bliss of the present. Old Bailie Graham's views have broadened consider ably since he failed in business and crossed tbe ocean, and no one is more willing to admit that his handsome son-in-law is a much more important person than a Scotch bailie who can read Latin upside down. I'he Journalut. An Island of the Dead. Tho captain of a coasting vessel that lately put into Guaymas, Mexico, tells a Btory of a strango discovery made by him when his vessel had been .driven off her course some weeks ago. He sighted an island not down on any of the charts. He scut a boat ashore and the men re turned nnd said thnt no one lived there, but there were many bouses ana evi dences that at one time the island had been inhabited. The captain himself then went nshoro and found that tho island had undoubtedly been swept by a scourge of some kind, which had carried oil every living being. There were nu mcrous huts showing thnt nt ono time the pluco had been thickly inhabited, but not a living thing could be found. An investigation showed that tho former residents had died in suc'a numbers that they had not been buried, but the skele tons were lying around the island wber ever the people had ucen when death had overtaken them. In ono but were the remains of seventeen people, whilo iu many others skeletons were found iu trreat cumbers. They had been dead for such a time that the bones were be ginning to decay. There was little to show what kiud of people they were. but it is supposed that they belong to some of the numerous islaud tribes which were so abundant on this part of the coast fifty years ago. AVi Orleans Picayune. Giants' Bones Unearthed. Tradition tells us that somewhere along a ridge iu the southern part of this county, there lies buried "twenty mule loads of gold." This treasure is sup posed to have been placed in some iso luted spot by the early inhabitants of the land possibly the mound builders. A week ago some one in meandering abVut a cuvc which is formed by an over-chtl of this ridge, accidentally found a coin, upon which could only be distinguished tbe letters "A. D." This exciting his curiosity, and kuowingof thetraditioual treasures, led him to make further ex ploits. Securing a pick he began dig iring and soon unearthed the skeleton of ; a bumnu body, which was described to I our informant as being extremely large The jaw-bone was large enough to place over tho iaw of an ordinary man, aud the arm-bouo was over two inches longer than of men above tho medium size. Not being satisfied with this Hud, dig ging was continued until the second, third and fourth skeleton was unearthed, which equalled iu size the first one dis covered. ATtu Florence (Jfo.) Lender, A Contractor's Little Scheme. A local contractor has a peculiar method of keeping tab on a gang cf Italian laborers working uuder him. The men are known only by numbers, and to keep truck of the doings of each in dividual is a matter of considerable diffi culty. They are all apt to sneak oft when the foreman's back is turned, and sit down for a rest. The unique plan of the contractor iu question is devised to put au end to this lazy practice and the consequent loss of time. In the morning before the gang goes to work each man's number is printed in chalk on hit trousers. When the men knock oil work in tbe eveuiiig the chalk marks are inspected, aud if auy are found to bo -- Kt lli,,d. the unfortunate Italian -"niber WISE WORDS. ! It Is sometimes hard to distinguish in nocence from bluff. Contentment is not knowing anyoni who has anything bettor than you hnve. Every man it trouble feels that hu friends are not as indignant as they should be. Nearly any man will spend $100 worth of time to got thirty cents worth of re venge. Men arc like littlo boys; they all liko to have a great big rag tied around a lit tle sore. The man who can win tho reputation of being able to lick everybody saves himself lots of fights. There is one thing you can always de pend on a man doing, and that is the thing ho wants to do. Men and women are tho only things ever created that the nearer you get to them the smaller they get. There is ono thing in which the poor man has tho advantage of a rich man; ho knows who are his iriends. When a girl who is engaged to bo married tells of her engagement, it is a very good sign that she was never eu gaged before. Every woman believes that if her hus band could be married to some other woman for a week ha would know how to appreciate her. Marriage seems never so much a fail ure to a man as when something goes wrong at home that he can't possibly blame on his wife. It makes no difference how worthless a man is; his mother thinks it no sacri lege to delude the best girl iu the world into marrying him. Wo heard two young men discussing boarding-houses. "At tho place whero I board," one of them said, "the homo influence is better than the nieais." Young people usually talk so much to each other when they are engagod that by the time they are married they have nothing loft to say, and begin to invite others in. A New Story of General Grant. I was told a good story about General Grant, the other day that I never saw in print, writes the Washington coi respon dent of the Courier-Journal. It will be recalled that early in the war tho New York Fire Zouaves were a crack regi ment, commanded by Colonel Ellsworth. Every man in the ranks had been a fire man, and it was confidently believed that Ellsworth's command was able to put down the war without assistance. The Colonel was a young man, hand some, gallant, burning with military ardor und thirsting for military fame. He was as much the idol of the North as Ashby was a few months later the idol of the South. The Fire Zouaves were the first troops to march into Alexan dria, Va. Their Colonel was at their head, and after tho town had surren dered Ellsworth saw a Confederate flag flying from a hotel. Instead of ordering a squad to remove it ho bolted into the house, ascended the stairway, went out on the roof and cap tured tho flag; descending he was con fronted by tho landlord one Jackson who shot him dead. Jackson himself was then shot to death, and the affair created more sensation than considerable battles a few years later. After tho war a daughter of Jackson secured an ap pointment in one of the departments here. She was u modest, diligent and capable young woman, and discharged her official duties acceptably. In tho course of time a super-loyal gentleman was put in charge of the bureau in which she worked. Nosing around, he soon discovered the antecedents of the young clerk and dis charged her. She was friendless aud penniless, and as a last resort went to the White House and called for General Grant. He received her, and she related her story to the silent man. Without saying a word he took a piece of paper and wrote: "The war against men is ended, and my Administration shall not begin one against women. Restore Miss Jackson to her former clerkship instant ly." This was addressed to the loyal bureau official, 'aud tho youug laly is yet iu the public service. That was au ex hibition of chivulry that Dariois or Francis I. might have euvied. Twenty Dined Off Oue Potato. George W. Scott has brought into tho Telephone office a half-dozen of the largest sweet potatoes ever raised, per haps, in the country. They are "new issues," and tbe six weighed fifty pounds. The largest oue was given by the editor to a family iu which there were eighteen members the husband aud wife and sixteen children ull of whom were great lovers of potatoes. Sunday they decided to have it for dinner. It was fried a part of it at least and was amply enough fur all the family, be sides a married daughter aud her husband who were speudiug the day there. The remaiuder of tho mammoth potato was made up into potato ponu and furnished dessert euough for the wbolo crowd and to spare. Tahkauth (Indian Territory) Telephone. Cracked Opun a Mountain. One of the Twin Sisters, north of Mount Baler, near Whatcom, Washing ton, was observed at 11:30 a. m. emit ting a huge volume of smoke, which arose apparently to the height of 1000 feet. Smoke was soon lifted to tho north and disappeared. About 2:30 r. u. a column of smoke also urosu from .Mount Buker, and other mountains showed the same phenomenon. A rent was observed ipjfie uiuiu sister whicu has never ap r veil before, and which was apparently I irtcr of a mile long, running from ' i) of the mouotaiu toward the base. ..uiouutaiu has neve' "!' ' ' top being a r A MAGYAR RESTAURANT. PICTTJRESQTJE SCENES IV A IIUN. GAHIAN EATINO HOUSE. Tho 'Wonelerously Appetizing Odors From tho National DIhIi, jIu I j as Mad Revels to Gipsy Music. Like all largo cities, Buda-Pesth has beautiful hotels, on which we need waato no words. When we arrivo in a strango town we do not go in search of those things which it has in common with other municipalities, but we look for those things which are distinct and pe culiar. We will then take advantage of the beautifuj evening not to visit tho National Theatre, whore the Hungarian language is usod (which, unhappily, wo don't understand), or the New Opera, which strives to compote with tho opera houses of other cities, but to enter a Hungarian restaurant iu tho courtyard of a house, where somo dusty oleanders form a sort of garden, covered with an awning. Peculiar, wondorously appe tizing odors of the kitchen greet our nostrils, for we are hero on the classical soil of the Hungarian "gulyas," which the Viennese pronounco "gollasch," and the Hungarians "gujaasch." What is, then, a "gulyns?" Meat roasted in a peppery onion sauce. But what a stupid definition that is is I It is like sayiug that an opera by Mozart is a combination of sounds. One thing, however, is beyond dispute if there is a Hungarian heaven, "gulyas" is suro to be eaten there. 'Gulyas," then, is a concoction of onions, pork, meats of all sorts, and paprika (red Hunguriun pep per). But who can praise in fitting lan guage its savoriness? Whocuu describo with adequate eloqu9nco tho blood-and-marrow-penetrating strength of the paprika, this boasted national product? Who can praise sulflcently the pungent pepper with which tho "gulyas" is seasoned in such abundant measure that the stranger who eats it feels something dissolve inside of him?Stars danco before his eyes, and the perspiration breaks out upon his brow. But this excesdvo pun gency is tempered and enriched by the potatoes cooked into a mealy liquid and the little dumplings known as "nokerlu." In "gulyas," as in music, there arc in finite variations possible, but the key note is always tho paprika. With tho "gulyas," ono or mora bottles of fiery Hungarian wine are drunk. Ho, hoi Hungarian brother 1 Eljenl As an accompuuimorit to "gulyas" and paprika belongs gypsy music!. Ouo of tho many bauds, whose chief is a local celebrity, installs itself in a corner of .the room. In foreign countries ouo sees gypsies of questionable origin. Often they are Bohominns, or even Ger mans (in Hungary they are called Schwooh), who in meretricious huzzah costumes exhibit themselves to their guests. But in Buda-Pesth such play ing at gypsies would not be practicable Here the brown, brawny fellows, with their shrewd, deep dark eyes, nnd their mustaches, show themselves in all their native picturcsqueness. Their clothes present a mixtureof peculiarly Hungarian and European costumes; on their heads they wear small round liats with turned- up brims. The men play without notes and it is asserted that the majority of them do not know ouo uoto from an other, but play by ear, if not to nay by instinct. Tho leader of tho baud plays the first violin, turning constantly with nervous alertness to the right and to tho left, and the others simply accompany his melody with all sorts of variations An important role belongs lu cvory gypsy baud to the cymbal-player, who with two littlo hammers beats a kiud of big zither. According as tho leader with nervous, almost convulsive motions belabors his fiddle, tiie others file away after him, until they work themselves up, just as ho doe, into a musical de lirium. Long-drawn, plaiutive, melan choly, sighing tunes alternate with sud den, unbridled bursts of joy. Liko tho clever psychologist that hu is, the leader of the gypsies instantly pinks out somo quiet patrician in tho audience, to whom he addresses the music. Itoldly he places himself iu front of him, sticks his fiddle almost into bis face, and pa. forms first tearful tunes, which mako the listeuer gaze with a serious intent ness into space; then tho gypsy accel erates the tempo uutil be reaches tho du lirium,which kindles such an intoxicating ecstacy iu the patrician that, with a half smothered "Jail" ho grabs bis head. When the playing is at an end bo says not a word, but pulls from bis big leather purse a bank-note of considerublo value, and spitting on tho back of it, pastes it ou the gypsy's forehead. Not so quiet is the scene when the whole company have been wrought into ecstasy; thou soaio oue present is apt to tear a bill of a high denomination iu two, give oue half to the gypsy aud rtick the other half into his pocket, surrendering it only when the gypsies have given the company their fill of music. Frequently a strugglo for cx isteuce arises between tho musicians and the carousers. It has happened many a time that tho gypsies, when they huvo earucd money euough, have vanished one by oue just us the company bad been seized with a desire to dunce. To guard against this contingency each ouo of tho baud hud to pull olf ouu boot and keep tho other, pluyiug with one foot bure. The coutiscatud boots were Hung into tho cellar, and only surrendered when tho dance and jollification were at au cud. This ingenious procedure does uot ex press, perhups, a high degree of mutual confidence; but practical aud effective it is, which is.after all, tho main considera tion. Uiirper't Manatine. Some of the Euglish gus meter inqiec tors are beiug provided with uniforms, because heretofore, according to a Brit ish contemporary, "au undesirable per son if urmed with a luutcru und a uofu Look, was able to guiu access to domes tic quarters." The Mormon leaders in Suit L.iko using a fuud of V'!', it l SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. I Steam pipes are made of ramie fibre. Blotting paper is made of cotton ragl boiled in soda. Scientists say that a grasshoppor has its ears on its forelegs. A man breathes about eighteen pints of air in a minute, or upward of seven hogsheads in a day. A company has been formed in Chicago, 111., to manufacture a metallic substitute for wooden railway tics. According to a statistician of small things, the human heart In a lifctimo cf eighty years, beats 300,000,000 timos. The interesting fact has developed in the case of table glass that the much-admired iridescent film is slightly soluble in water. An underground hydraulic power dis tribution plan! is being talked of for Berlin, Gcrmnf- Such systems have al ready been sucVfessfully used iu England. A torquoise mine has been discovered near the town of Ibrahim Olga about fif teen miles from Samarcand. This is said to be tho third turquoiso miuo found iu Central Asia. The larcest animal known to exist iu tho world at tho present timo is tho rorniial. which averages 100 feet iu length; tho smallest is the mouad, which is only 1-12,000 of an inch in length. There have been many collisions at sea which havo seemed wholly unac countable, and it may be suspected that they have proceeded from tho not un common inability to distinguish between green and red lights at night. It has recently been discovered thnt in a cubic centimeter of milk, two hours after removal from tho cow, there nro 9000 microbes, and in twenty-five hours theso have increased to over S,UOO,uuu Their number is enormously increased by elevation of tcmporuturo. Theso mic robes are harmless, and by many scien tists are supposed to even aid digestion Field flasks of aluminum instead of the ordinary glass flasks are being introduced experimentally In the uerraan army. They appear t8 be servicable aud strong, and should they fulfil their promise the whole army is to be supplied witli them In addition to their greater durability the metal flasks are much lighter than those of glass, their weights being re spectively 450 aud 500 grams. Arc light carbons frequently possess characteristics of the diumond, to which in composition they strongly approxi mate. The pieces of uuburued carbons which are thrown away are very often found to contain very hard, sharp ends, which will cut glass, and tho mischiev ous street Arabs have discovered this fact and use the pieces for defacing windows and doing other destructive work. A comparatively new system of con struction, the iuveution of Mr. Monier, is being applied to the building of houses, bridges, fortifications, reservoirs, sewers, etc. It consists of a network of iton rods covered with comtfnt concrete, aud thi most remarkable feature in connection with it is the great strcugth of the con structed material, relatively to its weight. It is also claimed that tho material is perfectly fire-proof and cheaper than any other at present employed aud that space is considerably economized owing to tho comparative thinness of matcriul em ployed. A Fine Game Preserve. The Rev. N. M. Jurney, of Leesvillo, N. C, has associated a number of gen tlemen with him, and they have esta' lished in Carturet County ono of tho finest game preserves in North Carolina. The gentlemen who own the preserve are only worth $18,000,000 in tho aggrcgute. They have purchased 8000 acres of laud, and have posted it, to bo used exclusive ly for their own hunting. This large tract of land is a vast forest, and it cou tains the fiuest fresh water pond in thu State. This pond is three miles long.au 1 from a hundred yards to a half milo iu width, and abouuds iu Usb. Iu the for est there is an abundance of duer, wild turkeys, wild ducks, wildcats, quail, squirrels, etc. Forty-fivo dour were killed on this tract alouu lust se isou. Mr. B. N. Duke, of Durham, N. C, is President of tho compuuy. The company is erectiug a handsome lodge to cost $3000,aud will stock their preserve with game of all kiuds. They will uls; sow grass, peas and gruiu for tho beuelit of doer, turkeys, quail, etc. -Ysia Orleans Timet-Democrat. Water Purified by Electricity. The Webster method of purifying waste water by means of electricity has been tested by Dr. Fermi in tho Hygie nic Institute, ut Miuich, Gjrma'iy. During the course of thu experiments it was fouud that the water became purine I in about fifteen minutes, tho organic substances being reduced by about one half, and the suspended substances be iug precipitate 1 to the bottom. The smell of the wuter wus perceptibly im proved. While tho results of the tests show that electricity do;s uot ut the present tune realize tho ideal of water purifica tion, it hus two groat advantages; first, that very little irou is precipitated and its removal is not so ditlicult us in thu case of puriticutiou by chemical meant, aud, aecoud, thu dissolved organic sub stances, which are uot prccipitale I by any of the known chemical methods hitherto employed, are ut least partiully removed by thu electric current. I'hiU dilphia JUcord. The Largest Usui I'd. James Browu, who lives near Healing ton, iu Braxtou Couuty, W. Vu., has probably tho lurgest beard iu this country. He is six feet iu height, ami bus neither shuved uor trimmed bis beard or mustache for thirty years. Thu ends of bis mustache extend beyond bis fingers' ends when his arms are out stretched. Ho carries his wonderful beard uud mustache braided aud tucked iuside bis shirt, but docs not hesitate to l'iw them to any oue who may desire to MY MOTHER'S HAND Buch beautiful, beautiful hands! They're neither white nor small, Andyou, I know, would scarcely think That they were fair at al). I've looked on hands whose form and baiT". A sculptor's dream might be; Yet are those aged, wrinkled hands Most beautiful to me. Such beautiful, beautiful hands! Though heart were weary and sad. Theso patient hands kept toiling on, That the children might be glad. The tears well forth, as, looking back To childhood's distant day. I think how these hands rested not Whilo mine were at their play. Buch beautiful, beautiful hands 1 They are growing feeble now. For time and pain have left their work On hand and heart and brow. Alasl alosl how near the time Of pain and lossto me, When 'neath the daisies, out of si-jbt. Those hands will folded b?. But, ob, beyond the shadow land. Where all is bright and fair, I know full well theso doir old hands Will palms of victory bear. Where crystal streams through endless years Flow over golden sands, And where the old grow young again, I'll clasp my mother's hands. HUMOR OF THE DAY. China has a revolution alio samco South Americau man. ISottm Herald. A locomotive travels better and a man worse with a headlight. Columbia Post,. The detoctivo, like the du le, shauld bo catchy iu his makeup. Uinjhamlon lbpublican. How could a critic ever become fa mous, if there were no minor poets t3 fluy? Puck. The successful politician must be sharp enough to cut all the people who expect favors from him. Puck. "How did your friend becomo a Col onel?" She "He married a Colonel's widow." Boston Beacon. Put h handle to a man's name, even if he is a crank. A crank without a handlo is of little usa. Boston Transcript. "A simple look is all I crave," said he. "Gazo into yonder mirror and you'll get it," suid she. Xew York Jour nal. It is said that in Philadelphia, when a comedian gets off a gocd thing, tli3 cur tain often "drops" before the audience docs. Corporal (at the inspection) "Thrtt fellow looks as plump aud lat as if all tho cooks iu the town had fallen in love with him." It's the woman who has a brown plush sacque ou who can quickest tell a seal skin when she sees it on auothcr woman. Texas Siftintjs. f The kungaroo is a funuy auimal. It has four legs in all, but two of its legs aro longer than its fore legs put together. Elmira Gaeettc. Some papers make it the ' "grip," others the "grippe." Still a spoil of it is bud enough no matter how taken. Philadelphia Times. A "If I were a minister I should hato to dine at a banker's table. M B "Why?" ' A "Thiuk of three days of gracol" Yale liecord. If college men would only tickle tho world as they do their foot ball op ponents, the rest of us would never get a goal. New York Herald. How goodlookiug somo of us would be could we only live up to tho photo graph which wo regard as a perfect like ness! Boston Transcript. "Oh, mamma!" cried Willio, on see ing a zebra for the first time, "do como here and see this poor little convict pony." Uarier's Youni People. Don't pen missives to your best girl Ou postal curds. She may havo a sus picion that you do uot care two cents for her. Uitio County .Standard. Marriage seems never so much a fail ure to a man us when something goes wrong at homo that he can't posdbly blame ou his wife. AtehUun O'lu'j.: When Htrephou. hearing in thedurk A step, kuvj liriilget llapliuYs kis, He evidently luiasod his mark liy having failed to marie his Miss. luck: A hermit and a tramp present about the same general uppearance; the dis tinguishing feature is that one is a re cluse, tho other a wreck looso. i'nijn County Xtandaril. "My hair," mused Yuu Stuythe, us ho carefully consigned his two remaining wisps to their appointed places, "re minds uto most painfully of a fool uud his money." Life. There are lots of them iu tho worl 1 at the foot of tho procession who believe they are at the head, though they admit thut tho procession is going tho wroug way. .l(7u'i UloU: "Did you ever notice how sometimes tho earth seems to smile ut the suuT1 said tlio poetic young woiuuu. "Ob, yes," hu answered. "The suu's au old ilume of hers, you kuow." Siidso "When Jijlilots inado his de but as a star the auilieuco went wild; thu encore was terrific." llcrdso "Iu which scene wus iti" "The otic in which hu was beheaded." Xeu York JItrald. "I've lost my situatiou," remarked a youug man who had beuu working for a Fifth uveuue firm. "Isthatsol" "Yes; tired." "Why; I uuderstood that you woikcd in a lire-proof building.'1 Pitttbitnj Chronicle. Tommy "What is a 'running ac count (' Pa says it's un account luci . chunU have to keep of customers that i:ru in thu liabit of running awuv from paying their bills." luc-le "That's ouo definition of it." Tommy '" there another?'' lucle "Yes. Am uing account is, iu some instance , . account that gets tiled out runn uftcr a while, aud thfu it h"-"" I .Uiiiduj ublittUoU. "- "
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