r V THE FOREST REPUBLICAN U pibUibH tttj Wda.sday, ky J. E. WENK. Offlo la Bm.arbaugh A Co.' Building MJI STRIBT, TIONK8TA, T. RATES OP ADVCRTiaiNfM , Fore EPUB. On. Bqoare, on Inch, on. Insei tluu. On. Ronare. on. inch, on. month ... on., iH i.... aJ Ml... 009 CAN On Hsiimr imm Inch. three months. On. Square, on. Inch, on. yar 10 09 Two Squares, on. year Jjj 00 Qnartor Column, one yaaf.. ....... Half Column, on. year............... 80 W On. Column, on. year ,..-. lOOtw Loftal adTertl5ments ten cent par UmI arh InMrtion. I Mrri(ri and death notices gratis. All bills fory.arly advertisements colleens quarterly. Temporary adverUsements mus b. paid in advanoe. Job work cash an d.UT.rr. . : Trmt, llJOptrTur. VOL. XXIV. NO. 4G. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1892. Sl.50 PER ANNUM. unjncm ST ' About 400 people are annually killed in Chicago, 111., at grado crossings oi railroads. Spain has been steadily making a de ficit for fourteen years past, and what is worse, seems to be making a bigger one each succeeding year. The German Government is preparing a bill to regulate emigration. It is in tended chiefly to restrict the activity of agents, who will te prohibited from carrying emigrants at the expenso of foreign Slates. Californium expect that within a year or two their State will become noted as a ceotie for the cultivation of flowers for perfumery purposes, and thus become a rival to France and Germany, which have monopolized this business heretofore. i .. The country that has the cheapest coal, declares the Saa Francisco Chroniclc,can depend upon winning the race for manu facturing supcrmacy. Statistics show that the average prico of bituminous coal per long ton at the mouth of the pit in the United States is $1.12, while in Great liritain the average is $1.60. The llnal accounts of tho Paris Expo sition have been made, and the results shown are exceedingly satisfactory. The total receipts, including tho amount of $5,000,000 received from tho State and municipality, was estimated at $8,000, 000, but the actual income was $10,000, 000. The receipts from admissions were $1,400,000 greater than was expected, while the expenditures were $1,500,000 less than the estimated outlay. The flriug of the Miontonomoh's big guns without damage scores another naval triumph for tho United States, is the boast of the San Francisco Examiner. Several of the English ships carrying large guns havo found that the discharge oT their own batteries was the greatest danger they would have to fear in action there being a certainty that a few rounds would send the vessol to the bot tom. The Miantonotnoh will evidently be able to hurt something elso thau Itself. Tho inventor of the "whalcback" steamer, Captain MuDougall, of West Superior, Wis., thinks that histype of vessel will make a raoro formidable man-of-war than anything afloat, especially for coast and harbor defense. lie has bad a number of pictures made of his idea of a belligerent whaleback. They are to be so constructed that in action they can bo entirely suiumerged, except a small turret aud the bow. In the bow are to be stationed two heavy guns, one of which can be run out and fired, while the other is drawn back for loading. The tcsscI has been patented in this and all foreign countries. A chivalrous man is trying to awaken a little interest in Mrs, Columbus in this anniversary of the discovery that made her consort famous. Ho tells us that she was a Miss Palestrello, which Is in finitely more distinguished than plain Mrs. Columbus. Her father was a navi gator, and as a girl she made many haz ardous voyages in company with him. She possessed a fine education and was a brainy, ambitious womau. It may be possible that she suggested tho Western excursion to her lord and master, and spurred him on to his discovery, like plenty of other good wives to whom the husbands one their fume. Says the GossipperMn the New York World: "One who witnessed tho fire drill by Tiffauy fc Co.'sclqiks during the recent blaza which threatened the great jewelry store tells me it was one nt the best specimens of human mechanism he ever saw. At the tint Bigu of fire the store was cleared of customers and the clerks took positions assigned them in practice. At the first signal the heavy iron shutters were closed, next tho hose was uncoiled, and at the third command the jewelry was deposited in the various safes, lucre was no confusion, no con flicting orders or excitement. This ad mirable drill undoubtedly saved the firm from a heavy loss, as, had a panic taken place, the result may easily be imag ined." This has bueu a grout season for sport in the hunting regions of the New Eag Isnd States, announces the New York Sun. One taxidermist in Bangor has re ceived fifteen moose hea ls for mounting this season, all of them being unusually large and fine. A fur buyer in Farm ington who returned a few days ago from a purchasing trip among tho trap pers of Maine, New Hampshire, and Ver mont brought more thau a score of bear skins, a great number of fox skies, in eluding a very fine gray , thirty beaver, bout as many fisher, a quantity of otter, sable, coon, and rat skins, five or six bunked mink, and us tuauy skunk. Ha. bought about two thousand muskrut skins in New Hampshire. The uuiiuals bad been lulled this season. THE STATION DESPAIR, We must trust the conductor, most surely ; Why millions of millions before Have made this same journey securely And com. to that ultimate shore. And we, we will reach it in season t And ah, what a welcome istherel Reflect, then, how out of all reason To stop at the station Despair I Ay, midnights and many a potion Of trouble and sorrow have we, As we journey from ocean to ocean, From sea unto ultimate sea, To that deep sea of seas, and all silence Of passion, concern, and of care, That vast sea of Eden-set islands Don-t stop at the station Despair! Go forward, whatever may follow, Go forifard, friend, led or alone; Ah, me, to leap off in some hollow Or fen, in the night and unknown, Leap oft Ilk. a thief; try to hide you From angels, all waiting you there! Go forward I whatever betide you, Don't stop at that station Despair! Joaquin Miller, in St. Paul Globe. A WINTER WOOING. ENEVIHVE Chamberlain is too silent," remarked Hal Balkan. "When she comes into a room I feel as if I wanted to shake a secret out of her perfect mouth ; but, as she is very dainty and very beautiful, I don't really do it." The youtg woman who sat near him as he spoke, painting, and who could not quite compare with a great beauty, thought that Balkan was showing off, being irritated by Genevieve's apparent indifference, and was trying to console himself by grumbling at her, although he would have been very critical of any one elso who dared to do so. This young woman, who could reflect intelligently, was, nevertheless, a perfect child in guilclessncss. She was the sort of girl who would remain sweet and naive as an old woman. Nellie Featherly looked round at Bal kan in a moment, and said' "Now there is nothing mysterious about me." 'You! I should think not 1 You are so fearless, straightforward and amus ing." "You have not quite enough illusion about me, I think," pouted Nellie, over her satin scarf, which was just bursting into flower and leaf. "You have made me out just one of the ordinary, useful, toss-me-osidu kind of women, and, al though you arc right, I do hate to hear the fact repeated." "I don't care what you think of your self, or how you construe my apprecia tion of you," answered Balkan. "I am perfectly content with enjoying your traits and sitting near while you paint." Ncllio went on busily, with a dozen pretty motions, and a rather dissatisfied expression of countenance. Whether it was her work or his words which an noyed her, Balkan was not quite sure. "That's exquisito and no mistake," he went on, peering over nt the drawing board on her knees, upon which the satin was stretched. "Oh, please don't say pretty things," Ncllio cried. "Somehow you seem in sincere to-day." "U My dear Miss Featherly, I should not hesitato to tell the truth rather than prevaricate. To be quite honest, I would tell you tho truth about anything in the world you could ask me; though with others I might be as silent as Gen evieve, instead of confessing to actual ities." "If I ever want to ask you anything I will remember this," tho young amateur rejoined, with a smilo into Balkan's earnest lace. Cecil Morton sauntered across the room during the little pause ensuing, and said that the day was too pleasant to stay in the house. Why not goto walk before diuner? The young people, eight in all, were visiting some dear old coun try gentleman to whom Nellie was near ly related, and who had asked them for a week of sleighing and other winter sports, the snow being in better condi tion than for years past. That evening they were to go sleighing by moonlight, and it was super-energetic for Morton to talk of walking. But we all know how these restless people of energy and mus cle rout us out of lazy tete-a-tctes and fireside luxury. Neither Nellie nor Bal kan wished to be stigmatized as loth to exercise, so they rushed out of the par lor to find the ethers and get wrapped up for a cool ramble; while Cecil Mor ton smiled to himself in a mirror, think ing of the commotion he could affect at will. Nellie and Genevieve paired off, in tentionally, as the group left the hall door ten minutes later. Something agitated Nellie's beautiful friend, as the former was able to discover thiough girl ish intimacy. Genevieve's faro looked calm and pale as she said in a low, tragic voice to the girl beside her: "My heart is almost breaking. I am so surprised and so wretched. To think of it! I have never loved before, aud every oue always on his knees to me. And now, the very oue who absorbs my thoughts cold, cold!" "Doa't be silly, Oeu. You're so fired up at fludiug any one you can become romantic over, that you are as blind as a hickory nut, besides being dreadfully awkward when he's around. Moreover, Hal Balkan is perfectly splendid so handsome and so manly! I dou't won der you like him tremendously ! And the idea of his not coming uuder your spell! Why, I just know lie thinks you are irresistible. I kuow tou are iu his mind" 'You love me, and try to tlrnk aie u vanquisher of all hearts," murmured Genevieve. "But my former conquests have not beeu nil-convincing, because Mr. Balkan is really the ouly true pc on of enviable position and menus w hom cD I ever met in our seti There seenis td be1 a thousand foolish bachelors to one real hero." "I think Hnl is a fine fellow," Nellie again admitted softly, resting her hand upon Genevieve's arm for a few stepsj then stopping her and letting the Others catch up with them. "How far north wo seem?" sho then exclaimed. "I am sure tho Arctic Sea is over that hill of pines by the meadow. This exhil arating atmosphere makes me feel as if I were somebody else. Oh, we are ex plorers! Is that a Polar bear or a snow drift!" she concluded, pointing to a white-banked gnto post by tho cattle lane. . Cecil Morton tried to shuffle the little pcrty in such a way that ho would come next to Genevieve; but she evaded him by sheer force of desperation. And as luck would have it, -l Balkan came up to her with his fine, irty good cheer, and asked her to walk, ith him As far as a wide-spreading elm. considerable distance down the hlgll d, and Nellie Featherly heard him sa it. Genevieve was willing, and they started off at a huge pace which the rest tried to imitate ; but not too well, as cvoryono of the girls thought that Balkan wanted to proposo to his companion, and deter mined to let him have a chance. At last the two figures in advance stopped under tho delicate tracery of the great baro elm tree and seemed to be talking earnestly. Then a cry went up from Nellie Featherly, for Genevieve had sunk to the ground, evidently in A f.iint, and Balkan kneeled at her side. 'The walk was too rapid for her," exclaimed Nellie, off-hand. "Oh, Mr. Morton, why must you always bo asking us to go for constitutionals; they'll be the death of usl" And Nellie whom no one had ever seen really provoked be fore, gave him a cross glance, and then went on a run, accompanied by tho re proved Morton, toward hor friend, while the others followed more or less ardently. As faithful Nellie ran sho discerned n strango black cloud rolling towards them all down the sno,vy road. Soon the mo tion of two praucing horses became ap parent, and as Nellie reached Genevieve's prostrate form in tho middle of the road, over which Balkan was bending in absorbed dismay, tho plucky girl realized that a runaway team was in full swing at a fow yards' distance, and quite un observed by anyone but herself and Cecil Morton, who shouted to Nellio to have a care and jump aside. . But this Nellie never thought of do ing. On she ran, beyond Gonevievo whose danger was so immenent aud what could she do to avert tho danger? In her muff was a bait of snow, which had been reduced by careful manipula tion under Morton's instructions to an icy consistency, capable as her teacher had explained, of killing anybody, if rightly aimed. It is by no means easy to swerve the direction of a maddened horse. But one of these was running away because the other wauted to, and he yet retained some common sense. At any rate, Nellio drew forth her icy bnll in a twinkling, and hurled it, by good luck, at the saner horse for they were now clofo nt hand with splendid vigor and true aim that it hit him on the nose. Ho plunged aside, slipped on the hard crust of the old snow beside tho road, and keeled over, carrying his rampant mate with him into tho ditch. They were a powerful team belonging to Nellie's uncle, aud were dragging an empty wood sledge. Their driver was hallooing in the distance, as he ran wear ily along. Nellie pondered a moment over the success of her defence and gazed at the quivering limbs of the foe, and then turned back to Genevieve, pantiug. The girls were on the bank at the other side of the rood. Meantime Balkan had but just looked up, realized the peril, and caught Geno vieve in his arms, while Morton threw his weight wildly upon tho young man's struggling shoulders. It is always in some such way that a person weak in emergencies assists the real actors. Ho swiftly did the ruuaway horses pro ceed that it seemed only an instant since Genevieve had fainted. Now all tho girls swooped down from their perch helpfully aud surrounded their pale friend, whose swoon was so much in earnest that she hud not stirred an eyelash. Nellie seized Balkan's hand told him che must speak with him in stantly. "Did you offer yourself?" she severely demanded, when sho had led him, per emptorily, out of hearing of the others. "No," ho gasped, gazing blankly, as a mau does who is confronted with more Greek than ho is prepared for. "Didn't you propose?" exclaimed Nellie, in the same indignant tone, which showed Balkan he was a criminal, which ever way he pleaded. "Do explain?" he quavered, gently. But Nellie was off to Genevieve with impertinent haste, kneeling down at her side, calling for soft snow from uuder a drift and rubbing tho beuuty's temple and lips with it, whilo sho explained to Mortou hew to get Oeuevievo's hands warm; much to his sutisfactiou, for sho did not object to his coveriug them with hisses. Tho teamster came up, and Nellio fouul time to mold him for his stupid ity. The horses were uuhitched from the sledge, aud the young people undertook to drag Genevieve home, which the stout poles at the sides of the conveyance As sisted them to accomplish, as the girls could take hold und propel, whilo the young men drugget the cumbrous con cern. The fair invalid was pillowed on muffs and covered with newmarkets.and was pleased to revive nicely. It was tirst sunset and then deep dusk when the catafalque slowly reached home. It may be supposed tba'. dinner was a little lute that evening. Nellie came into the parlor beforo the others, lookiug lovely iu still another of her fashionable frocks and Balkan was wuitiogfor her ready to pouuee. "What did you mean?'1 ho whispered. Nelbe's eyes, which looked big and bright because1 she had been trying hit to herself) filled again with tears. Slie edged away into the anteroom And he followed. "I meant,'1 she replied sottd voice, "thnt when you love her, and sho loves you, and when you corao out into tho backwoods and have plenty df Oppor tunities! and When we are all looking ori from a respectful distance, it Is.perfcctly stupid of you not to offer yourself td Genevieve, and I should havo fainted and died both if I had been id her place. Sho showed great self-control hot to have died. You had no business to stipulate the tiec, anyhow, for of course she would expect everything to be settled before she got thore. Oh, of course, you think me outrageous to meddle with you and talk right out as if I were a novel, without respect of persons and open secrets, but I'm nobody in par ticulnr, you know, and seeing that I love Genevieve, I wilt put my finger into her affairs if I like to. And I'll just add this that I'm going to arrange to havo you both driven by the coachman to night in the big sleigh while we are portioned oil to little cutters. The driver's scat is way up." "But my dear Miss Featherly Nellie" 'Now, don't bo disrespectful. Of course I can only ask for an outward show of respect after telling you to offer yourself to my dearest friend, whom wo all know you are hoping to win, but that show of courtesy I stipulate for." "But how can I ask Miss Chamberlaiu in marriage if I love you?" Balkan squeeezed in desperately. Nellie sat down ou the arm of a chair and looked up nt him aghast, blushing and, appculing. "Oh, you can't be in lovo with me?" she said, breathlessly. "I wish you would not bo bo scornful. You ought to have known it. Months ago I was crazy about Genevieve, like the rest; but only for a week, for then I met you. A man doesn't sit staring all day at a girl unless he loves her. While I stare at you your utter indiffer ence to me is something appalling, but I had hoped to win you in the end. Then you take mo by the throat, yank me in front of somebody else, with orders, martial iu their haste, and now cast mo into a perfect sea of premature ness; for, of course, you'll spurn my un heralded revelation. But I'm as obsti nate as you are, and love you I will, by Jove!" Balkan sat down on tho other arm chair, and being trim as a marble statuo for dinner, and not having time to brush his hair again i' he tore it a little, thrust his thumbs into his pockets and glared at the fire. A feint rustic of heavy silk at his el bow mado him feel exultant. "If she consents to it, you might pro poso to me in tho Russian sleigh, then." He turned, and hei superb eyes met his. He caught her hands and studied her face with blissful care. "I thought I was of no account," she murmured, all of a tremble; and was suddenly kissed in a way that made her feel that for the future sho had some one to guard her against all harm, and give her all the happiness she could wish for. New Orleans New Delta. Found Mastodon Tusk. The tusk of a huge mastodon has been discovered at Darlington, ten miles north of Crawfordsville, Ind. The find proves to be much better than was at first thought, and promises to be one of tho finest ever made in this country. The tusk was discovered in digging a well at the resideucc cf George Lynch. The tusk was struck by tho drill, and so per fect did the ivory seem to be that they decided that it had a commercial value und concluded to dig it up. They dug down to it, about twelve feet under ground, and found that the tusk that they had struck was at least twelve in ches in diameter, and even on tho out side was almost perfectly preserved. Tho men have already unearthed about four feet of the tusk and have found no sigu of an end either way. Judging from that already in view, the tusk is about fourteen feet in length, aud tho findcru are confident in their belief that the skull and other bones will be found in a like state of preservation, as the whole is sub merged in living water aud covered with clean, pure sand. Several geologists of this and other cities will make every ef fort to get it out and mount it for the college museum. St. Louis Republic. Redeeming Florida Land. It is not generally kuown that thou sands of acres of land under water in Florida are being gradually restored and used for planting sugar rnue and rice. Hamilton Disston, of Philadelphia, the well known manufacturer, has been in terested in the reclamation of laud is Florida for many years. I saw him recently at the Fifth Avenue Hotol and he said that the State gave the company half of the land it restored. 'Have many acres been redeemed?" "Already several hundred thousand acres have been deeded to the compauy," he said, "and tho work is still going ou. We have a sugar cane plantation con taining ten thousand acres. The land produces the finest cauo iu the world, and seed cane has to be used only once in a number of years. About six thou sand pounds of sugar are produced pel acre, for which we usually get four cents a pound. "It is only a question of time when nearly all the overflowed lands iu Florida will bo recluimed, and sugar aud rice wilt be produced in great quantities." New York Herald. Voices to Order. A knowledge of the physiology of the human lurynx has inude it possible to supply artitleiul voices to persons who have been deprived of the one nutura gave them, and a number of cases exist where the cavity has been opened, and a lurynx made of suitable material with rubber membranes has been imertcd, ana become practically useful iu speech. New York Journal. THIS HUIUIY IN CUICAlii). THS WESTERN METROPOLIS A BCBNB OF CONSTANT BUSTLE, All the Business nt 1.1 to Goes nil at HtgH Pressure "Kxproa" Kleva- tnrs and Hwltt Onlile Cars, t have spoken of the roar and bustle snd eucrgy Of Chicago, writes Jrlliari Halph id Hftrper's Magazine. This is most noticeable in the business poitinu of the towu, where the greater number of the men are crowded together. It seems there as if the men would run over the horses if the drivers were not care ful. Everybody is iu such n huiry and going At such A paco that if a stranger asks his way, he is apt to have to trot along With his neighbor to gain tho in formation, for tho average Chicigoan cannot stop to talk. The whole bilsi ncss of life is carried on nt a high pros sure, and the pithy part of Chicago is like three hundred acres of New York Btook Kxchnrige when trading is active. European visitors havo written that there are no such crowds anywhere us gather Dn Broadway, New York, And this is true most of the time ; but there is one hour on every week-day when certain It reels In Chicago ore so packed with people as to make Broadway look deso late and solitudinous by comparison. That is the hour between half-past rive ind half-past six o'clock, when tho famous tall buildings nt tho city vomit their inhabitants upon tho pavements. Photographs of tho principal corners and crossings, taking nt tho height of the human torrent, suirgest the thought that the camera must have been turned on some little-known painting by Dore. Nobody but Doro every conceived such pictures. To those who are m the crowds, even Chicago seems small and cramped; even her streets that connect horizon with horizon seem each night to roar at the city officials for further an nexation in the morning. In tho tall building) nrc tho most modern and rapid elevators, machines that fly up through the towers like glnss balls from a trap at a shootimi contest. The slow-going stranger, who is con scious of hnving been "kneaded" along the streets, like a lump of dough among a million bakers, feels himself loaded into one of those frail-looking baskets of steel netting, and the next instant tho elevator boy touches the tiigger, and up goes the whole load as a feather i s caught up by a gale. The decent is more simple. Something lets go, und you full from ten to twenty stories as it happens. There is sometimes a jolt, which makes the passenger seem to feel his stomach pass into his shoes, but, as a rule, the lucchunisin and management both work niarvelously toward ease aud gentleness. These elevators are too slow for Chicago, and the managers of certain tall build ings now arrange them bo that some run "express" to the seventh story without stopping, while what may be called accommodation cars halt at tho lower floors, pursuing a course that may be likened to the emptying of the chambers of a revolver iu the hands of a person who is "quick on the trigger." It is the same everywhere iu the business dis trict. Along Clark ctreet are some gorgeous underground restaurants, all marble und plated metal. Whoever is eating at one of the tables in them will sec the ushers standing about like statues until a customer enters the door, when they dart forward as if the building were falling. It is ouly doue in order to seat the visitor promptly. Boing of a sym pathetic and impressionable nuture, I bolted along the streets all the time I was there us if some one on tho next block had picked my pocket. Iu the Auditorium Hotel the guests communicate with the clerk by electric ity, and may flash word of their thirst to the bar-tender as lightning dances Irom the top to the bottom of a steeple. A sort of annunciator is used, und by turning an arrow und pressing a button, a man may in half a minute order a cock tail, towels, ice-water,stationcry,diuner, a bootblack, und the evening news papers. Our horse-cars in New York move at the rate of about six miles un hour. The cable-cars of Chicago make more than nine miles an hour iu towu, and more than thirteen miles an hour where the population is le-is dense. They go iu trains of two cars each, nnd with such a racket of gong-ringiug and such a griudingand whir of grip-wheels as to make a modern vestibuled train seem u waste of the opportunities for noise. But these cars distribute the people grandly, aud whilo they occasionally run over u stray citizen, they far more frequently clear their way by lifting wagons uud trucks bodily to oue side us they wh.rl along. It is a rapid uud a business-like city. The speed with which cattle are killed unil pigs are turned iuto slabs of salt pork has amazed the world, but it is only the ignorant portion thereof that does not kuow that the celerity nt the stock-yurds is merely an effort of the butchers to keep up with the rest of the town. The only slow things iu Chicago are the steam railway trains. Harper's Magazine. Took Her Without Arms. One of the strongest ca-es of lovo nnd devotion which has ever taken place iu Ohio was exemplified recently iu Kill buck Township by the marriage of Alwiu Nitschc, u German, uged thirty-two years, and Miss Lillie M. Lowe, uged seventeen years. Nitscho wai a devoted lover of Miss Lowe in 1N!)0, when sho was only tifteeu fears old, ami when she met with the horrible accident while driving a mowing machine, iu which she was thrown before the cutter-bur and both arms were cut off. Shu lin gered lietweeu life ami death for a long time, but eventually got past danger. She feared her lover would desert her on account of her utllictiou, u.-id lliis gave tier much uneasiness; but she misjudged him, us he renewed his vows alter she got her artificial arms, and was more devoted than ever, and (lid everything possible to lighten her sutlvnu. Suu t'ruuci&eo Call. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Electric elevators increase. Thero's nn electric hammer, llecerit experiments have shown that liquid oxygen is magnetic. Steam locomotives are to bo tried on the Chicago (III;) strcot lines. The best isinglass dissolves completely In hot water.lcaving no visible rt'tidonm. Tha joweler has drills so small that they can bore a hoi. only one-thousandth of an inch lu diameter through a pre cious stone. Tho globulnr brass lantern, hitherto iu uso for military service purposes, is to be superceded by a folding lantern for use in tents. There is a new sanitarium iu the Rivi era of Italy for the inhalation of ozono for the cure of most weaknesseJ,particu lariy tuberculosis. The best material for hardening and tempering ninllcab'e iron and steel i;ood is said to bo leather cinders, made by burning waste leather. Children are not numerous in Franco. Out of 10,000,000 families in the Ke public one-fifth havo no children at all and another fifth have one child each. The star Sirius, which is shown to bo about double the size of our sun, emits from forty to sixty fold more light than the sun, owing to its matter being much more diffused. Iiecent explorations in the district of Sonora, Mexico, show that the coal de posits in the San Marcial Valley will amount to fully 60,000,000,000 tons anff It is of excellent quality. Dr. Koch's lymph, according to tho results of the experiments communicated to the lost meeting of the Berlin (Ger many) Society for Internal Mcdic-ine, seems to have proved untrustwojty, even as a means of diagnosis for tuberculosis. A French inventor has attached a tiny lucandescent lamp to an ordinary pencil for use by reporters and others having to take notes at night. The light is not affected by rain or wind. The battery is carried in the pocket, tho wires pass ing down the sleeve. A novel method of testing thecondition of a horse's feet is to attnch one termi nal of a light battery to the bit and tho other to the shoe. If the foot is im properly penetrated by the nails the ani mal will squirm under the test, but will give no token if there is no irritation. The natives of Madagascar formerly followed the moon iu determining time, but since the influx of missionaries tho Queen issued an edict that tho Christian year should bo followed. But in com mencing the year the first year the date of the first day was set some tune in October and November. The red color of the markings on Jupiter is believed by Mr. Barnard, tho em'nent astronomer, to be an indication of their age, the spots or markings (other than the white spots) being dark or black ou first appearances, but afterward becoming red. The great red spot seems to be no exception to the rule. The success of tho cxistiug electric railway in London, England, has given an impetus to the movement lor loco motion of a similar kind. For considera tion during tho forthcoming session of Parliament there aie no fewer than five bills which propose either the construc tion of new electric railways or tho ex tension of lines already authorized. A Coloralo rain has dovised e-i elec trical machine that successfully operates iu placer deposits of gold that could not be profitably worked by the sluice methods. The method employed for SAving tho gold is that of collecting it by means of the electric current, so that it forms an niiiulgum from which the precious metal may be easily sepal .ited. An Ingenious Ituhber. ICuhn, the great German naturalist, informs that iu the year 17 SMI some monks who kept bees observing that they made unusual noio lifted up the hive, when an animal flew out, which to their greut surprise for they nt first took it to be a but proved to bo a death's head hawk moth, und ho re i em bers that several, some years before, had been found deal in the bee houses, llubcr also, in Ib'Jl, discovered that it made its way into his hives uud those of his vicinity and robbed them of their honey. In Africa, we are told, it has the same propensity, which the Hottentots observ ing, in order to monopolize the honey of the wild bees, have i educed the colonists to believe that it inflicts a mortal wound. This moth has tho faculty of emitting a remarkable sound, which Huber sun poses may produce an effect on the bees somewhat similar to that produced by the voice of their queen. As soon us ut tered, t!iia strikes them motionless, uud then the moth is enabled to commit with impunity much devastation iu tho midst of myriads of armed bauds. Cossel'y Magazine. Singular Capture of a Swan. John Jordan brought a largo whit, swan to Pendleton the other day, and tells a queer story as to how he got it. While near his house, on East Birch Creek, he saw souse eagles chasing the swan in tho uir ubove hun. The unfor tunate bird, iu its anxiety to escape, flew direc tly over tlieyoung man's head, aud with a quick spring he managed to seize aud bring it down, the disappointed eagles Hying away. Portland Or egouiuu. A Famous Maxim's Origin. Tho famous maxim about two blades of grass growiug where one grew before has beeu attributed to many prominent men, and amoug others, especially to Lord Pulmerstou. It really occurs for the first time in "Gulliver's Travels;" "Whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass grow upon a spot of ground where only oue grew before, would deserve better of mankind aud il l mure essential service t; las country than the whole race of politicians put to ethcr." New Yrk Recorder, JEB'S HORSEHAIR SNAKE.' Jebtook a horsehair every day and rushedj down to the lake, -Hj And threw it injmd watched to see it change! into a snake,1' ! He'd seen little snakes In puddles thaV looked like horsehairs, so I Flo thought all horsehairs .would be snakes if they had time to grow. . i Every time It rained thrt highway gleamed' with temporary lakes, . All perturbed with writhing horsehairs which had been turned into snakes; They looked like .nukes, they looked like hairr, and Job he aid the rain Had turned the horsehairs into snakes 'twas" easy to explain. Bo he put horsehairs in the lake and watched Irom day to day . To see them turn to wriggling snakes and swim and crawl away. But though he gniwl intently with eyeballs tense and strained, The horsehairs still were horsehairs and as horsehairs still remained. Perhaps we all are murh like Jed beside life's sheltered lakes We watch for harmless horsehairs to turn into noxious snakes, The hissing vipers of tho soul, thoserpents of the brain, Arc mostly fangloes horsehairs and will evep so remain Sam Walter Foss, in Yankoo Blade HUMOR OF THE DAY. A tumble-down affuir A wrcs' match. Texas Sittings. "Tho great heir of fame" "Lo, tho Conquering Hero Comes." The chief attraction about a miser is his charming hoirs. Texas Siftings. When a mau takes a fatal step ho is sure to put his foot iu it. Pittsburg Post. Advice from the Century Dictionary,' pago 4908. "To pop the question. See pop." Life. An "ice jam" is anything but a sweet thing to tho Maine logger. Boston Commercial Bulletin. It is profitable to kuow one's self; but there is money in knowing just how others rate us. Puck. "Asimplo look is all I crave," said he. "Gazo into yonder mirror and; "' it," said she. New York Journal. "Cecil Van Dunse gavo mo a piece of his mind to-dny." "I noticed you weren't as brilliant as usual." Truth. When a man resolves to be good and patient the next pair of shoes he buys are suro to piuch him. Atchison Globe. Setting a broken neck is a great feat of surgery. Still it doesn't quite come up to putting a head on a man. Boston Herald. The world is full of men so en raged in saying "Amen" that they fail to sco tho contribution basket. ---Atchison Globe. The man who can't keep up with tho procession in this world mustn't expect to enjoy the music of the band. Elmira Gazette. Unwed "What U this scrveant-girl question I hear so much nb Mitt" Benedict "How mauy nights nriy I havo off" Boston Post. "Do you know, I don't think much of Mnwson!" "You don't have to. You can size Mawsou up iu two seconds." Brooklyn Life. An unpledged legislator may havo "a head of his own," but other men aru making desperate efforts to get his ear. Columbus Post. Why Two Friends Parted: "Oj, say, I know a good thing I'd like to put you on to." ."What is it?" "Ice." Indianapolis Journal Of all the fools who leads the van? If it wure put to vott I think he'd bu the silly m in Who jumps to catch the boat. Judge. Debtor "I can't pay you anything this mouth." Collector "That's what you told me lust mouth." Debtor "Well, I kept my word, didn't Ii" Texas Siftings. Judge (after the jury has acted against his judgmeuts iu acquitting a man) "Give this man his liberty, but watch your coats and umbrellas.'' Kiiegendo Blaetter. Things one would wish to express dif ferently. "Well, good-by, Miss Smith. Tell thu others I was very furry not to fiud any oue at home u--:i a except you a." Punch. There are people who havo lived to old age for no other reason apparently than because they have never been ablu among the multiplicity of diseases to de cide which oue to die of. Boston Tran script. D'Aubique "M'ss Diguett was iu to see my color studies yesterd ty, and said she liked them immeusely. What au artless littlo creature she is." Sinuick "That's what makes her liko your taint ing." Boston Post. Mr. Getup (of the iinu of Getup & Howell) "Where in thunder is that worthless office boy? Have you sent him anywhere?" Mr. Howell "Yes, confound him! I've just sent him out to liinl auothcr jo'-." Chicago 'Frit. me. Undertaken aro candid people. A gentlemuu railed at an establishment lost week ami ordered u:i outfit for a fuuer.il. "Dr. Blank sent me here," ho suid. "Oh, yes," said the undertaker, "Dr. Blank semis us all his Work." London Tid Bits. 'You don't seem to be as friendly with youug Wilde as formerly, Maude." 'No; I ilia trying to cast him out of my thoughts. Hu is unworthy." "Do you find it bard to forget him?" "Well, the more 1 see of him tho less, I think of him." New York Pres. "What are you doing iu my hou-c?' asked a mau w ho surprised a burglar ut his unlawful work. "Your house!" ex claimed tho burglar, us bu commence 1 ouco more to put silv.r spoons iu hU pocket. "You seem to iiuugiue that don't kuow the title to this properly '' in your wife'sname," Brooklyn Life.
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