THS FOBEST REPOBLIM , U pabUehef every Wedaetday, ay S, J. E. WENK. OtBo In Smaaxbauga eY Co.'a Boll ding blm 1-ntxrr, TiomnTA, r. rates or ADvcRHstnae One Square, one Inoh, one insertIo.t I' n.. Rnnan nna Inch. on. month . . 9 V CAN. One Square, one Inch, three month... One Square, one inch, on. jr.ar Two Squares, one year Quarter Column, one year... Ball Column, one year.. Hnlnmn. IMH TMf . . rf .' Leiral adT.rtU.mmit. ten cent, per U eaoh Insertion. Marriages and death notice, gratis, i All bill, (or yearly ad vertisemente colleowj quarterly. Temporary advertwemente nnN be paid in advance. Job wgr;--caah an delivery. Ttrmt, $1.80 ptrYttr, He tntMertritiens nc1t4 fat ikecter Mrlod th tkri month. Oormpondone tollelted freia si Mil. t tti VOL. XXIV. NO. 50. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, APEIL G, 1892. 1.50 PER ANNUM. aaeayaous Mnuuctueaa, FOREST i , t REPUBO " - 1 t I Many Georgia farmers are dropping the culture of cotton for that of tobacco. It ii gonorally believed that the Rus sian Government maintains spies all e ver tho world who keep It posted about the operations of tho Nihilists. ' ' In most of the countries of Europe the manufacture of salt and tobacco Is con. trollod by tho Government. The Swiss Government now proposes to buy up all tho match works of Switzerland and make their manufacture- a Government monopoly.-y ' ' ' t Genoa is preparing to celebrate the fourth centenary of the discovery ; of America, by an Italian-American Expo sition, the aim being to strengthen the friendship and iucrease tho business re lations between the native land of Col umbus and that discovered by hint. Now that they are beginning to realize the eileot of outside competition in Eng. land it is amazing, declares - the Ameri can Dairyman, the number of dairy schools that are springing up in all direc tions, and most, if , not-all of . them, -itinerant at least for a part of tho year. During the English Protectorate over Egypt irrigation has been extended in almost every direction, thus increasing the agricultural productions to a won- dcrful extent. Last year Egypt raised 400,000,000 pounds of cotton, or nearly one-fourth of tho cntiro quantity con sumed m Groat Britain. . It is stated that . Japan rice is now shipped from Japan via the Canadian Pacific Railroad to Chicago, a distance of 7000 miles, at aotal cost of eighty cents per hundred J5uuds, while it would cost, if shipped! via San Francisco, thence by rail, $1.31 ; the cost from Japan to Chicago vis. the Canadian route being less than from San Francisco by rail to to Chicago. i i The Chicago Post exclaims: "As the world moves, and as surely as the sailing vessel replaced the galley, as the swift locomotive took the place of the post horse and stage ciieh, as the trained lightning displaced the courier, so will coal, cumbrous, costly aand grimy, give place to some more perfect, more ethcral essence, evolved from itself, distilled from its liquid essence, cr it may be to that kindred invisible agent that springs forth spontaneous aud perfect at the touch of the drill." Pasteur, the French scientist, has an eye of wonderful power. ' A visitor to his "menagerie," in Paris, where he has gathered various kinds of animals for experimental use, saw the chemist quell j with a glance a fierce Spanish mastiff which for bis ferocity hud been muzzled and chained. Pasteur had the brute brought before him, and looking the an imal straight in the eye fearlessly took off his muzzle and removed bis chain. The dog cowered at the glance, then fawned upon Pasteur, licked his hand and finally lay submissively before bun. Among the numerous petty principal ities of Germany is tho Grand Duchy of Saxe-Coburg Gotha. The whole popu lation is less tuun 200,000, and it very - existence would be scarcely known, but for the eccentricities of the Grand Duko who takes paius to let his hostility to the reigning house of Germany be known on all occasions. He, however, has uo children, and his heir apparent is the Duke of Edinburgh, whose wifo is sister of the Czar of Russia, and at heart an Intense Russian, especially in her dis like of everything German. The possi ble complications are interesting an illustrating the inSuonce of personal prejudices in the politics of Europe. M. M. Cowley, a pioneer in the North west, who for many years dealt in furs with tho Calispel, Spokane, Cceur d'Al ene, and Columbia River Iudians, and is one of the beat informed men on all matters pertaining to the tribes in the Northwest cays that the Iudians ara dying oS rapidly. "Take the Cceur d'Alenes, for instance," he says. "I was among them for a longtime. They have a magnificent reservation and fine farms and good houses, but the houses are killing thein. They can't stand roofs. When I was located on the Spo kane River, there were immense bands of the Coeur d'Alene, Calispel, Spokaue, and Columbia River Indians about there. . They were engaged steadily in hunting and trapping all kinds of wild animals. I bought black and si'vergray fox skins of them at $1.50 aud 3 apiece, 500 martins a year at $10 each, fisher, grizzly, black bear, beaver, and other kinds of kins without number. Then the whites had not encroached on them, and they were robust aud healthy. It is a mis take to try aud civilize them. They must be wild or they are nothing. K We keep on civilizing them, we shall have uo Indians. Apparently this is something the Government will not uu del stand." n Well read that book, we'll sing that tarJgt But when? Oh, when the day are long) When thoughts are fr and Votes clearj i Some happy time within the year. The days troop by with noiseless tread, , The song unsung, the book unread. We'll sea that friend, and make him feel ' ' The weight of friendship, true as steel; Some flower of sympathy bestow, Jlut time .sweeps on with steady flow, Until with quick, reproachful tear, We lay our flower upon his bier. And still we walk the desert sands, And still with trifle, fill our hands, While ever Just beyond our reach, A fairer purpose shows to each, ' The deeds we have not done, but willed, Remain to haunt us unfulfilled. Boston Journal, LOVE AND WAR. EAR Sf'-t a o Judge. Jesse Phillips, of Hillsboro, 111., was a dashing and successful Union soldier. He is now a steady-g o i n g and level-headed jurist. Judge Jesse was a practicing law yer when the war broke cut ; that is, he was a lawyer, but ho wasn't practicing a great deal, for be had not yet convinced the public that he could untangle legal knots equal to the dusty, musty old fellows who haunt ed his chosen court-house. But he was a live, energetic young man, and when the first call for ninety-day men came in 1861, Company II, of the Ninth Illinois Infantry, was commanded by him, and was aa proud of its handcome young cap tain as he was of his very respectable soldiers. ' When tho regiment was or ganized a little strife arose between rival candidates for the command of major, and while those most favored for that position did not share in the strife or its attendant temper, their respective friends were almost painfully in earnest. Just at the time when the situation was much strained, Captain Phillips got up ou a cracker box and made one of the best speeches the assembled soldiers had ever listened to. He advised union, har mony, mutual trust and unwavering fealty to the Government, and advised against jealousy, bad temper and extrava gant words. Even in a day of much speechmaking it was the perfection of timely oratory, and it won the union and harmony he had so well pleaded. It won more. It gave him the ofllce, aid from that day until the summer of 1863 he wore the rank and honored name of major. Two years later, long after tho niu. ty-day men became three-years soldiers, Major Phillips was promoted to the rank of Colonol, and one day, while the Ninth with others of the Government troops, lay in Corinth, Miss., a detail in force was sent accross the line to Florence, Ala., with instructions to destroy some cotton and woollen mills in that city which had been busy for a year or two making clothing for the Confederate soldiers. Colonel Phillips was in com mand, and so well did he do the work that, although quite a strong body of Confederates was posted to defend tho town, be won the fight after au hour of sharp coutesting and . drove the last Johnny Reb out of Florence. Then the mills were destroyed and a detachment of Union soldiers held the town. But in that sharp afternoon encounter Billy Neul, a fellow-townsman of Colo nel Phillips and a member of his regi ment, was badly wounded and went into the hospital which was established at Florence, and into which the disabled from both armies were admitted. For the good women of the town turned sisters of charity and ministered to all sufferers, regardless of the color of uni form worn. And one of Billy Neal'a first visitors, after Federal con trol was assured, was Colonel Phillips. A few days later the Colonel came again and aat by his old friend while the ghastly duty of amputation was per formed, strengthening him with his sympathy and cheering him with the kind words of an old friend. The Union force was soon afterward withdrawn from Florence, but the patients remained in the hospital there, and so strong was tho Colonel's attach ment for his unfortunate friend that he several times went back to the Alabama town to see him. At length the Con federates came back and occupied the city, throwiug out pickets and holding the place with all dua formality, but with no great force and with no intention of making a fight to bold Uagainst superior ' numbers. And the first time after this reoccupatlon, occurred when Colonel Phillips announced his intention ot going to see Filly Noal, his brother officers ad vised hira to forego the visit. The boy was i'l good hands and doing well, they argued. The women of Florence were aa attentive to him and those of the North as to tbose of the South and it would do no good to go there aud chase the Johnnies out. But he was going. He pulled his slouch hat over bis eyes and started for permission to go scouting with 200 men. He swore quietly as be went about it, and those who see these signs in Judge Jesse Phillips to this day know be means what he says. The Ninth was mounted infantry at this time, and if the dashing Colonel didn't take 200 of the best riders and the best, fighters it was because he didn't know who they were. They went across the Tennessee River aud came dashing up at the town aa fiercely as the Assyrians whin they came down line a wolf on the fold. The simile euded there, however, for Colonel Phillips and his men took the town beyond a doubt and spout a day there visitiug comrades in the hospital and reuewiug such socialties as had been formed during the Yankee occupation of the previous months. Some of the shrewd soldiers noticed that the handsome Colouel seuted a , WHEN? heap more interested tn bn bf the yodng women nurse than in poor Billy Neal, and when they mounted to ride back they felt like chaffing him about it. But you can't chad Jesse Phillips much, and never could. The Confederates didn't tare much about Florence, Ala., just then, anyway, so they let the Federal have it, and did hot soon regarrison the place. All tho summer and fall of 1863 the Colonel took occasional trips across country, with the ostensible object of seoing Billy Neal, even continuing them long after that young man had got well and gone home, If the army was busy th Colonel was all contentment, but when the troops lay around with out employment simply watching, he would fuss for a day or two and then announced that he was going over to Florence to see Billy. Nothing could break him of the habit, and nothing could satisfy him when he reached the town but a visit to that same kind-hearted girl who had forgotten all North, all South, in the greater problem ot suffering men. He didn't talk about her much, but his associates knew he would give up one of his coal-black eyes any day for the privilege of possessing her. And it didn't seem uureasonable to expect ha would win her. She received him kindly, she treated him well; she really appeared to love him. The Confederates had been gradually creeping back into Western Alabama. They seemed to want the river and the good towns up there, and Major Falken burg, Who was in command of their forces at Tuscumbia, sent over the river and stationed two companies of men in the town, meeting with no sort of opposi tion. The Union forces were massed at Decatur now, and all through the fall the two opposing forces relaxed the rules of war s little and traded coffee and tobacco, bread and meat, and such little things as did not give combative aid or comfort to an enemy. Big stories about Major Falkenburg came up to Colonel Phillips's cars from tho soldiers who talked about the Johnnies, and there was no evidence wanting that he was a big man where he was known. One night in October, as a private in the North Illinois Mounted Infantry was swapping truck with a Confederate, he was informed incidentally that the com mander of the Confederate forces was going to get married. . "Who is your Msjor Falkenburg going to marry?'' demanded the Northerner. "Oh, a Miss Charity Blank, at Flor ence She's a regular stunner. No nuther such a woman iu all Alabama," said the admiring Johnny. The information diiftod up through tho various grades of loyal blue aud finally fell on the ears of Colonel Phil lips. ' "Fires of Tophetl" raved the Colonel, "she shan't marry him," with a rising in tlection on the lost pronoun, expressive of the unfitness of such a fate for Mis Charity Blank. But what about it? He had nothing to say. He walked around his tout and tried to think of something else; tried to forget this, tried to see some way through it, triel at last to stop the banns. The marriage was announced for Wednesday night at 8 o'clock, and this was Sunday. He fussed around till he got permission to go out with another detail of 200 men, for it was well known the Confederates were again in Florence. Tuesday afternoon he started, mado a masterly detour, and just before sun down faced straight for Florence. He struck a patch of canebrako about mid night, for the march had never been abated for darkness. Here he hid bis men and there they stayed all night, all day Wednesday, aud just at dusk they crept out, six milos from Florence, and pulled for the town. The surprise was complete. It still lacked an hour of 8 o'clock, and when the rattle of musketry which told of flying Confederates had died away the Federals were in com mand., . They threw out pickets and surrounded a good portion of the residence district, particularly the home of old Judge Blank, whore Colonel Philips had often visited. It wasn't as light as a house of wedding ought to be, but the Colunel dismounted and knocked at the door. Just what he meant to do nobody knew. Maybe he will tell by - now, but, having driven away the doughty M;jor, be had little fears he could win the Major's charmer. : Judge Blank himself answered the summons at the door. Ilis colored help bad grown too strong to work since the Federals came down. He wasn't very well dressed, and he was a good deal frightened. But the familiar figure of Colonel Phillips reassured him. "Why, Colonel," he said, "is it yout Come in." "It is I," said Phillips grimly,going ic. . They entered the parlor and sat down. The Judge apologized for not appearing in fuller dress, and after his apology was accepted conversation flagged a little. There was nothing in the rather strained relations of Southern and Northern to make them specialty soc iable vet thev I J had frequently met on cordial terms, and did so again this tune. But It scon hap pened that theie was nothing more to talk about, aud then Colonel Phillips re vealed the secret of his preoccupation by asking: "Where is Miss Charity!" "Charity t" said the father, a little furprised aud a little inclined to culti vate a twiukle iu his left eye. "Oh, she's married." "Married!" shouted tho Colouel, leap ing to his feet. "The dickens!" "To whom are you referringl" asked the old man, sober in an instant, but carefully polite. "Ob, to no one certainly not to her. Who married her?" "Rev. Dr. Brown, of the First Bap tist" . 'No; I mean to whom was she mar ried J" Colonel Phillips was getting very augry. "To Major Falkenburg, of the Con federate Army. They left for Tuscumbia lust uight right after the wedding." The Federal officer was an extremely augry, an awfully chagrined man, lie could have prevented that marriage, but Some fiend sent him the news that the ceremony would occur Wednesday night instead of Tuesday. He raved around for a time a really pitiful object, for he did love that little girl, and he knew he was worthy of her, but he could not undo the work of the past day and night, so When the passion of disappointment had exhausted him he led his men back to camp- for all the world like the King of France, who with Twenty thousand men marched dp the hill, then down again. The happy Major of Confederate gray had a hint that Phillips would rob him if he could, and to ho had announced the wedding for a day later than it was really to occur, and immediately after the ceremony he and his bride rode horseback to the Tennessee River and hailed the ferry man. But Yankee caution had long before driven ferry boats from the river, and no one re. sponded. There was no bridge then as there is now, and there was nothing for it but to hunt up and down the bank for a skiff. To add to their trouble the canebrake was so thick and tangled they had to abandon the horses and croup along the water's edge through the damp and the dark till way past midnight be fore their search was rewarded. When they finally found a skiff and got aoross the river not a man in Tuscumbia would receive so dilapidated-looking a couple, and it was broad day before they could get either food or lodging. But they were married and are yet, Rotting gray and fat together in a pleasant Southern city, resigued to everything in life, even to the final vanquishment of Major Falkenburg and his brave legion. Colonel Phillips and his men returned to camp and two days later, while the offi cers were basking in the sun, a flag of truce approached tho picket lines. Major Clements was Provost Marshal of the region at the time and he went out to meet the messenger of some sort ol peace. He found it was a hireling of Major Falkenburg, bearing a great bas ket with about two bushels of wedding cake which Mrs. Charity had baked with her own hands aud sent him her parting shot in the campaign. The messenger was recived with all courtesy, was entertained as became a belligerent in the time of temporary cessation ol hostilities and was given safe conduct out side the line when formalities had been complied with. Then Colonel Phillips, making the best ot a bad matter, shared his cake with his command and was bet ter liked than ever. That was a long time ago. The foe of Confederate major came home in du season, honored by service and sancti fied by wounds, and after some years ol patient, honest work won a high place at the bar, which he has never sine dimmed by any act unmanly. Yean ago he married his choice of all women and lives with her yet, laughing with her now and then when some old com rade chaffs him about his raid into Flor ence or his bushels of wedding cake. Chicago Herald. Early Marriages of Royalty. A glance at the pages of history re veals the fact that early marriages have long been the fashion among earth's royal personages. Here are a few instances- Queen Victoria was married when she was scarcely twenty-one, and the Prince of Wales espoused Princess Alexandra beforo he was twenty-two. The Emperor of Austria took to wife the radiant Elizabeth of Bavaria when he was not yet twenty-four years old. The present Czar of Russia was twenty-one when he gave his hand to Prineess Dag mar of Denmark (who was two years his junior). King Humbert of Italy was twenty-four at the time of his marriage to the fair Marguerite of Savoy (then a girl of only seventeen). The present King and Queen of the Belgians were one eighteen aud the other seventeen at the time of their wedding. And tho late King of Spain, Alphonso XII., was very little older when, he formed hi brief, bright union with his charming cousin, Mer cedes. He was only twenty-two whon he married his second wife, the present Queen regent. And it was at tho same age that the present Emperior ot Ger many was united to Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-UoUteiu-Augustenburg. The unfortunate Prince Rudolph of Austria was twenty-two at the data of his ill starred union to Princess Stephanie of Belgium. Chicago Post. An Example pf Scientific Serenity. , Dr. Richet, the famous physician who died quite recently at Paris, gaveluring the course cf the disease which carried him away an example of scientific seren ity, the equivalent of which can he found only in the biographies of ancient philosophers. During the few days of his pulmonary congestion Dr. Richet was constantly attended by his son, a professor ot physiology at the Paris faculty, aud by another .doctor, a frieud of his. He did not cease making to his comosnions a lecture on the evolution of tne disease from which he was suffering. it. i . A i i : ,1.- iiu kept ueaunuiug uui uumyjaug tuts symptoms, and predicting the course of the disease and its possible complica tions. At every new step of the inva sion of the organs Dr. Richet defiued it with great precision. On the last d y, when he bad hardly auy vitality left, he told them: "When the phenomenon which you have just ascertained has oc curred, every chauco is lost, and death is only a question of seconds. In fact, you see, 1 am going to die. I am flying." These were his last words. Boston Transcript. HI California Dam. Some of the biggest dams in the world aie in Califoruia. The Merced dam is sixty feet high, with a capacity ot 5,500,000,000 gallons, spread over 650 acres. 'the sweet water dam, near San Diego, is ninety feet high, and has a capacity of 6,000,000,000 gallons, cov ering 725 acres, and the Bear Valley dam is sixty feet high, with a capacity of 10,000,000,000 gallons, covering L 2250 acres. New York Commercial Ad vertiser, WITH A SPONGING VESSEL. HOW A N IMPORTANT FLORIDA IN- DUSTRT IS CONDUCTED. The Men Work in Pair, a "Hookpr'' and a "ScnUor"Orcat Dexterity and Knduranoo Required. "TV CTIVE life on a sponging ves- scl begins about 8 A. M. in fine weather, all hands being then called by tb cook to prepare for the labor of the day. After the men have dressed and washed, coitee is served to them, and when that is disposed of they turn thoir attention to mending any cars, poles or boats that may need re pairing. Breakfast is served about dawn, and finished before it is light enough to begin the work ot the day. In summer the men are often in their boats at 4:30 a. m., and searching for spongos as soon as they have light enough ti distinguish one species from another. Two men work in each boat, and while one sails it tho "hooker" lies on his chest near the bow and closely scans the depths below through his water glass. This apparatus consists of an ordinary wooden pail with a piece of glass in the bottom. It is kept as deeply buried in the water as the "hooker" can keep it with one hand without putting its rim under. The sea being usually clear tho man can descry sponges fifty feet below him, and, if he is experienced, can distin guish the various species at a glance, each having somo peculiarity of eye or forpi to mark it from its cougencrs. On noticing a valuable sponge the "hooker" signals or calls to the "sculler" to stop the boat, then takes hold of tho long iron-pronged polo which lies in "chocks" besido him, lifts it over his shoulder with the right hand and sinks it to where the marine growth he desires is fastened. If the prongs get under the sponge the "hooker" gives his wrist a peculiar inward and upward turn which may looson the bunch immediately, or ho may have to work at it a long tiino be fore bringing it to the surface. The poles used for gathering sponges vary from eighteen to forty-fcur feet in length, and while pliable and well balanced are difficult to handle in tide ways and deep water. They are gener ally placed in "chocks," lengthwise the boat, about five feet of them being in front of the "hookers." These men must, therefore, lift the remainder over their shoulders by main strength, raise tho further end almost perpendicularly in the air, and send tho hooked end down to the sponges as promptly and directly as they can. AVhen a sponge is toru from its home and friends it is placed in its natural po sition in the boat to allow tho blackish fluid called "gurry" to flow away, and to prevent tho bunch from being injured in shape and texture, for shape has much to do with its sale, tho roundest and most even bringing the highort price. Spongers usually work with the tides and take every advantage they can of cur rents and shoals. As soon as a boat is loaded, the scul ler lifts an oar as a signal to bis vessel to come up. The cook, who has chargo of the vessel while tho crew are at work, promptly responds to the signal, and ou coming up to tho boat receives its load aboard, each bunch being carefully placed upwards along the railing. The cook is kept busy aboard tho veisel, for he must not ont only prepare the meals and arrango the sponges on deck, but he must also sail bis craft in such a manner that he writ be able to keep in sight of all his crews, which may number from two to nine, and respond promptly to their signals of "boat full; take us aboard." About 12 o'clock the chef sails his craft as closely as he can to the center of the widely scattered boat crews and blows a long, loud and mellow blast on a punctured conch shell to announce that dinner is ready. This melodious call is answored by an immediate cessation ot work, and within fifteen minutes every boat's crew is aboard. After washing themselves carefully, they sit down to an appetizing meal. The hbor of the after noon is similar to that o& the morning, and is comprised in sculling, "hooking," or in vain efforts to find uurkclable sponges. The "sculler" only uses ono hand at a time and can rest that at intervals, but the "booker" can have nochuuge except fb transform ono form of arduous labor from his chest to his arm, and as that is done by the same set of muscles he is often so weary at the close of the day that he can neither sleep, eat nor think calmly about any matter. The constant leaning with his chest on the gunwale of the boat while searching for sponges through the water-glass produces blood "boils," which often burst while he is tugging at a refractory bunch, and tho steady use of his right hand iu handliug a heavy pole causes the veins ou his bi ceps and neck to swell and become so sore that he cannot bear to be touched. Some become so inured to the labor af ter a while that it does not cause them auy great inconvenience for a few years, but the majority have to fiually relinquish it for something less ard uous. Even tho "scullers," whose lot is sup posed to be an easy one, are not as happy as one would imagine, for their coustant standiug iu the hot sun, and the using of their arms give them severe beadachea and necks aud faces that re semble boiled lobsters in hue. The spongers work as long a it is light euough to enable them to see tho growths ou the bottom, then return to the vessel. The vessels engaged In spongo gathering in Florida work over three separate long stretches close to the western and southern coasts of the Htato. The most northern grounds extend from Cedar Key to Apalachee Bay ; the second from Cedar Keys to Anclote, aud the third from Biicaj-ne lUy to Key West. The best grouuds raugu from five to fifteen miles from the mainland, aud have a depth of water varying from two to seven fathoms. This proximity of the grounds to harbors of refuse mukes sponging comparatively safe, even in the sluruiiMt weather. Detroit Free Pre, SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Parsley is poisonous to many kinds ot birds. There are 365 electric roads in this country. . Ocly nine per cent, of all operations in amputations are fatal. Conch shells, when ground, enter into the manufacture of porcelain. Electricity is to be applied to the flour milling interests in St. Paul, Minn. Ammonia as a motive power is coming into use on various street car lines. France' latest torpedo boat made twenty-three knots and a half in a bad sea. Good peat in Germany furnishes a col lulose which is valuable to paper makers. The phonograph la now used in hospi tals for the purpose of studying the auditory characteristics of pulmonary dis ease. The Liverpool (England) Elevated Railway will be worked by electricity, using motor cars instead of separate locomotives. An Antwerp (Belgium) inventor has patented a system ol ventilation by com pressed air, for use in tho holds and cabins of vessels. A recent English invention is a screw propeller in which the blades can be ad justed fcr maneuvering or can be feathered for running under sail. Four tons of grapes to tho acre are said to take from the soil three pounds of nitrogen, twelve pounds of phos phoric acid and forty pounds of potash. In calming the ocean by means of oil, it has been found that petroleum and mineral oils in general are indequate for tho purpose, and that train oil is the most effective. The heaviest freight locomotives built nowadays weigh 115,000 pounds and their tenders loaded weigh 64,000 pounds. Passenger coaches weigh 50, 000 pounds and the palatial Pullmans run up to 95,000. Dr. Valentini, of Konigsberg, Prussia, who has met with phenomenal success in the treatment of typhoid fever, gives his patients all the water, milk, etc., they can drink. He says the fluids eliminate the poisons in the system. The first ingot of nickle steel to be used for the manufacture of armor for the United States Navy was cast iu a mold weighing fifty-six tons. Tho ingot weighed 60,000 pounds. This armor plate will be used on tho Maine. A snake moves by means of the rib and the scales on the abdomen, to which each rib is attached by a set of short muscles. These scales take hold of the surface over which the serpent may be passing, and in that manner aid the creature to glide, olten very rapidly, around tho jtrunks of trees and along the smaller branches. Machinery !s now made for the manu facture of all kinds of casks and tubs, so that no handwork is required. Flour barrels are mado in this way for six cents each, and other kinds in proportion. If butter firkins sell for forty cents each, it seems as if the business of making them, where lumber is cheap, might be profitable, if the cost of shir meut was paid by the purchaser. A Norwegian farmer has invented a curious lock in which the bolt is released by a stroke irom a pendulum bob. The pendulum, invisible from the outside, is moved sufficiently by blowing sharply several times through a hole iu the door, but the puds of air can be given at the proper time only by swinging a key pen dulum, previously adjusted, to vibrate in unison with the lock pendulum. Air plows, V-shnped contrivances, to be pluced ou the front of engines of fast express trains, are the latest scheme tn get more (peed by overcoming much of the natural resistance of the air to the front of the locomotive. The plow ex lends from a few inches above the track to tho top of the smokestack, the sharp ld:e, of course, in front. "Shoveling fog" is a common expression among rail road men, but piowing wind is a new thing in railroad agriculture. Saved From Suicide by His Do?. An intelligent pet dog owned by Louis Schmidt, of Camdetn, N. J., bos prevented him from committing suicide. Schmidt is just recovering from a serious attack of typhoid fever, which left him very nervous and subject to fit pf mel ancholia. He was seized with one of those spells Monday night, and while his wife was asleep stole to the kitchen. Here he procured a rope, and, making a noose, tied one end to an iron hook iu the wall. Then procuring a chair he adjusted the rope, and kickiug away the chair swung himself olf, as he thought, into into eternity. But, unknown to Schmidt, his faithful dog had followed him, and instinctively knowing some thing was wroug the intelligent animal weut back into the bedroom whining pitifully. Finally be awoke Mrs. Schmidt by tugging at the bed clothing and rub biug his cold nose in her face, and she followed the dog dowu stairs as soon as she missed her husband. There sho found him bunging lrom the hook. She managed to cut him down in time to save his life. Philadelphia Times. An Epidemic of Heliotrope. We are about undergoing an epi demic of heliotrope aud the green tints; we are going to have it bad. The trouble will ruu its full course; it will be something like tho yullery greenery craze that struck us ulong with Oscar and his loug locks somo ten years ago, and is directly traceable to the prevalence of the seventeenth century stylus in decoration, aud we era sorry for it, for thote delicate colors which looked well aud were charming against the fresh painted faces of the court beauties of Louis XVI and the powdered wigs and silken attire, white stockings and laces, would show to horrible disadvantage a"uiut our modern dress and honest j complexions. The Upholsterer, OOLD IN THE STARS. IA meteorite recently found contained: gold in ite composition. Several cientiflo, men of considerable note corwider thi. aa. proof positive that there is gold in. the stars.! Ho, poor folks all over the earth) Have you heard it, tho beautiful news, To relieve you from poverty's dearth. And to save you from poverty's bluest A meteor felt in the West That was striped with auriferous bars, And scientists therefore have guessed That there's plenty of gold in the stars. Then away with all hunger and woe, And away with all sorrow and want, Let your spirit exultingly flow While you join In the glorious chaunt, Ob, why be with sorrow oppressed? There is gold in Arcturus and Mars, In the Dipper, the Twins and the rest There is plenty of gold in the stars I O, ye toilers with sensitive souls, Who are chained to a tedious grind. Now the burden away from you rolls And is left in the distance behind. Cast the shackles that bound you away And forget the disfigured scars ' You can soar aa you will from to-day, ' There is plenty of gold in tho stars. Oh, ye slaves to the rigors ot fnte, Who live but to struggle for bread, ' v Whose love has been curdled to hate Till ye sigh for th9 peace of the dead; Bid good-by to the era of wrong, , Bid good-by- to the pitileM bars Behind which ye have struggled so long, There is plenty ot gold in the stars. Let us hear of injustice no more. Nor of riot surrounded by dearth; ' God is merciful now as of yore. And has never forgotten the earth. Ye who grovel in poverty's ditch, Look to Jupiter, Venus and Mars; They are nearer by far than the rich, v And there's plenty of gold in the stnrst k George Horton, in Chicago Herald." HUMOR OF THE DAY. Half a loaf is bettor than a railroad sandwich. " 1 " " , Time works wonders. That is becauss he never docs any loaliug. Truth. Man wants but little here below, and as a general thing he's getting it. Bing hamton Leader. It is considered by many people ex tremely forward for a young man to send a girl a valentine in leap year. When the tired mother asks hor hus band to take the baby ho is apt to an swer, "I don't mind." Union County Standard. Police Captain "Did you catch that murderer last nighU" Detective "No but I dreamed I had a clew." New York Weekly. Tho writer who taxed his ingenuity never know what a low valuation the editor would put upon the property assessed. Truth. Bjenkins "Isn't Bjoncs a very liberal man?" Bjohnson "Yes; I don't know how many times I have heard him give himself away." Lowell Citizen. Jack Spratt took anti-fat, His wife took anti-lean, And so betwixt them both They struck a happy moan . Detroit Free Pres.. Nothing Like a Change: She "Since my return from tho south of France I'm another woman." Sarcastic Friend "How delighted your husband must be." Fun. Bilious "I sleep in feathers, but I be lieve it's not healthful." Tofluut "What's that; look at your spring chicken see how tough ho is." New York Herald. Everybody knov a woman is hard to please. She likes the maUimomal harness, but doesn't like to be hitched up with a man who is strapped. Bing haiutou Republican. Gave It Up aud Guessed It: "What does a volcano do with luval" asked Freddy. "Give it up," replied bis father. "That's right," said Freddy. Harper's Young People. The proposed fast mail trains from New York to Chicago will have ono serious drawback. They will land the London comic papers here several hours earlier. Chicago Times. Cora "Why do you think Attorney Jimpsou is destined to become a Supromo Judge?" Dora "Ho says he has de cided I am the prettiest girl ho ever saw." New York Herald. Teacher of Physiology "What in gredieut which is highly essential iu the composition of the human body does sugur possess!" Pupils (iu one voice) "Sand." Pharmaceutical Era. Haughty Lady (who lias purchased a stamp) "Must I put it on uijselii" Stamp Clerk "Not necessarily. It will probably accomplish moro if you put it on tho letter." New York Herald. "Sir, you have iusulted me. I here by challenge you to a duel with pistols. My name is Hare." "Indeed! Then you'll have to wait till I have procured a shooting license." Koluer Tugeblatt. Passenger (in a railway car) "Can't you make room there? All the other seats are full." Twoseats "Uo along; cau't you see that I am sick!" Passen ger "What's the matter; trichinosis?" New York Sun. Serious Artist "I think you kuew the model for this figure poor beggur, deaf aud dumb." Light-huartod Friend "1 know used to sit at corner of street. Deaf and dumb! By Jove, you've rcado a 'speaking' likeuess of hiiul Wonder ful !" Punch. Johuny "Where are you going?'' Tommy "Home. Don't you bcaruiaw acalliu' me?" "Thut's nolhin'. Sho called you two or three times before." "Yes, but she's out at the peach treo now cuttin' ollau ultimatum." luduua polls Journal. "There go the Spicer Wilcoxes, mammal I'm told they're trying to know us. Hudu't wo better call?" "Cer tainly not, dear, if they're dyiug to know us, they're not worth knowing. The only people worth our knowing are the people who don't waut to know us I" I ) t
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