r THE FOREST BEPOBLICAH J. E. WENK. Oftloa la Bmearbangh ft Co.'a Building hji mm, noNMTA, r. Tarms, ... tl.BO parYaar. ratoertptloa. netlvrt far 1 krtar Mrlod tasa three months. rates or APYiBTuma; On Sqnat-a, one Inoh, on. inswrttoa..! 1 On. Square, on. inoh, on. month . . On. Bquare, on. inch, three month.. . J On. Bquare, on. inoh , on. year J Two Square., on. year 19 Off SnarteT Column, one year.... ........ N w alf Column, on. year. .............. W rj On. Column, on. year lOOBf Legal adTrtiMinenta ton cent. p- Ha aach InMrtlon. Marriage, and death notice, f rati All bill. foryrly adv.rtfnementeolIt. quarterly. T.mporary advertisement. IBM b. paid in advance. Job wontcash an d.limr. - Forest Republican. vorraapendmc MllelM mm U Mrt. f tha nntry. N.a.Uc. will k UkW ( unimom VOL. XXIV. NO. 51. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1892. .50 PER ANNUM. .onntrv owmanlcillou. Chicago has become tho third ninnu. factoring city in this country. Professor Jolin Fiske declares "that there is not a competent scientific man in the world to-dny who is not an evo lutionist. " With the reduction of the hours of labor in England during tho last sixteen j Bars crime has beeu reduced forty seven per cent. A trustworthy statistician has ascer tained that the gross amount raised by taxation in France is greater than that of any country in which authentic figures re forthcoming. Twenty-two acres of land are needed to sustain a man on fresh meat, while the same amount of land under wheat feeds forty-two people, unher oats eighty eight people, and under tho plantain or brea 1 fruit tree over 6000 people. The mortality from measles in England is said to exceed anything that can thus far be attributed to the influenza. There are 13,000 deaths from measles annually in England and Wales, and the mortality has increased greatly during the last decade. Tho official census analysis of the Cape Colony of South Africa discloses the fact that out of a total white population of 376,987, only 250,213 are ablo to read and write. Tho number, however, in cludes 31,237 persons under uino years of age. John Maley, after staying twenty years in the West Virginia Penitentiary for the murder of his wife, will soon be released, proof of his eutiro innocence having come to light. Now, in what way, asks tho Atlanta Constitution, can Malcy be compensated for this mistake of justice. The riches of India caunot be esti mated and scarcely iiuaginjd. The wealth of decoration lavished upon tombs, temples, etc., testifies to the fact that for hundreds of years the ac cumulation of treasure has been going on until at tho present it is stated that the gold and other ornaments now lying idle in that country are estimated to bo woath $1,250,000,001). Dr. Krug, a German scientist, claims that he has discovered how to ma'.te an eatable and nutritious cake out of wood. His method consists in transforming the cellulose into grape sugar, a substance assimilable by the animal organism. The biscuit is made by adding to this about forty per cent of meal of wheat, oats or rye. Phosphates and all the bono ele ments may also bo introduced. This bread of wood glucose is intended to be fed to cattle, for which it will take the place of oil cukes and other feeds com posed of industrial wastes. Says the San Francisco Chronicle: That the German Emperor has a tender heart under all his martial sternness is shown by the pnrdou he granted to a de serter from the German army who was captured on his return Jo the Father land. The application that touchelhim came from the little daughter of the prisoner, who appealed to him on her father's birthday. For an autocrat who has retained bis warm sympathies there is always hope. Napoleon or the great Frederick would have tossed this little girl's letter into the waste basket, i 1 Many Eastern drug stores have adopted the precautionary measure of having two persons attend the prepara tion of any prescription containing pois onous drugs. The Medical Record calls attention to tho Harris murder trial in New York City as an illustration of tho importance of this check, because "if a single clerk received the prescription, ptepared the capsules and delivered them it might readily have been claimed by the defense that a mistake had been made by the druggist. As it was, the diuggist was able to go on the stand and testify that an assistant had also read the prescription and seen the amount of morphine which it called for properly weighed and dispensed." The little island of Navassa, which lies in the Cariboean Sea, about thirty miles from Hay ti, is of small account in itself and geographically considered; which is probably the reason why its acquisition as part of the United States territory by the mere act of Presidential recognition, as very briefly announced in one of President Hayes's messages, at tracted little public attention at the time. Latterly the island has been chiefly notable as the scene of a riotous out break by laborers in 1889. Commercially its only value is in its rich phosphate de posit. In a diplomatic sense, however, its acquisition may easily prove to have been an event of utmost importance, since it has given the United States a foothold in the West Indies a most do uble section of the globe, at times, in to have a stopping place, THE 1.ADY OF' TEAR9, Through valley and hamlet and city, Wherever humanity dwells. With a heart too full of Infinite pity, A breast that with sympathy swells, She walks in her beauty immortal. Each household grow, sad as she near., Bnt she crosses at length every portal, The mystical Lady of Tears. If never Shis vision of sorrow Has shadow..! your life in the past, You will meet her, I know, soma to morrow Bh. visit, all hearthstone, at last. To hovel, and cottage, and palace. To servant and king she appear, And offers the gall of her chalice The unwelcome Lady of Tears. To the eyes that have smiled but in gla d neon, To the aouls that have basked In th9 sun, She Mem. in her garments of saduem A creature to dread and to shun. And lip. that have drank but of pleasure Grow pallid and tremble with fears, As she portions the gall from her measure, The merciless Lady of Tear. But in midnight, lone hearts that ore break ing. With the agoniced numbness of griof, Are saved from the torture of breaking, Bv her bitter sweet draught of relief. Oh, then do all graces enfold her; Like a goddess she looks and appears, And the eye. overflow that behold her The beautiful Lady of Tears. Ella AVbeeler Wilcox. DELIVERED FROM EVIL BY HELEN FORREST ORATES. S supper ready. Naomi! VM "No, it ain't I" brought with him a breath of the 1.J . ' u luiu uuioiud uir M into the room Ml where his sister l WAR irnninrr Thn I'M yUQS people were Ml alike tall, well- iii i u shaped, swarthy complexioncd, with regular features, and large, gipsy-black eyes, where the jetty ugnu seemea to swim at every breath. A very old woman, cowering over the stove, had the same strange eyes, al though her hair, under its close-frilled cap, was bleached snow white, and her skin was tho color of old parchment. "What ye got?" the crone demanded. as young Pole flung a bunch of birds on tho table. "Something for breakfast, granny," said he. "I've been hunting iu Callet Woods. Not much luck, tho leh. I sav. iitKiuu, i wisn you u nurry un suurier." "What fort It ain't supper time yet, nuu i ve goi an mo towels to do yet. -jo, uoincr me towels! 1 want to go over to Skene s Corners to night and see juiss oiuari s new piano. "Humph I" Naomi ironed way with redoubled zeal. "MiBS Stua's new piano, indeed I I wish Miss Stuvt was lurtticr, ana ner new piano, too! But you're like all the rest, Dave a newface turns your head. Hessie Holt and Wr poor little parlor organ am t much ac count now." "En I What ye talkin' 'bout. Who's Miss Stuart? Is Hessie Holt's organ out o' tune ag'in?" crooned out tho old woman by the fire. "Granny don't know," said Naomi. "I guess she's the only one that don't. Miss Stuart, granny? Why, she's the latest fashiou at Skene s Corners. She's the new schoolma'am. Ask our Dave if you want to know all about her. Ask any of the young fellers 1 ' "Ask John Classonl" added David, angrily. "Naomi's jealous that's what ails Naomi." Naomi compressed her full red lips and ironed resolutely on. Tho old grandmother fell into a sort of doze and nodded over the stove. David Pole took the lantern down from its nail against the chimney-piece. "If I can't get my supper here," said he, "I'll get it over to Classon's. I'll look arter the cattle first." "You'll get it hero if you wait till supper timel'' sharply spoke Naomi. "I don't choose to wait." "Then don't." David Pole bit his lip. "An' I'll take care to lot John Clas son know what a sweet tempered sister I've got," said he. "John Classon nothing to me," re torted Naomi. "And never will be, I guess." Naomi uttered a vexed exclamation her over-heated iron had left its triangu lar impress on a fringed, red-bordered towel. "Somethin's burniu't" squeaked granny, starting from her doze. And in a moment Da id was gone. "He can do as he pleases," thought Naomi, vindictively. "Ther's nothing but cold pork and pickled beets for supper, anyhow. Perhaps they'll have something better at Classon's. Mirandy's good cook." She put the tea steeping in a little earthenware pot; she took the irons off the stove, put away th clothes borso, and began, in a spiritless way, to set the table for the evening meal. The clock had just struck six, and granny was stirring the homely brown sugar into her first cup of tea, when a gentle knock sounded on the warped panel of the outside door. Naomi rose to answer the summons. A beautiful young woman, with red gold hair, large light-blue eyes and a complexion as delicate as a roseleaf, stood there, wrapped in a scarlet and black plaiu shawl. "Miss Pole?" she suid, hesitatingly. Naomi inclined her head stitHy. "Yes," said tbe, "that is my name." "I am Eda Stuart." Again Naomi bowed frigidly. "And," hesitated the new school teacher, with a smile that might bavo melted the earthen ware Chinaman on the lid of granny s teapot, but which produced no sort of etft on h omi Pole, "I've started out to visit a sick pupil Louisa Ledyard and I'm afraid I've lost my way. I hadn't any idea it would grow dark so soon, and I must be back by seven o'clock, for I expect some friends to try a new piano that I have bad sent mo from Bostou. Your brother has half promised to como, Miss Pole. Won't you accompany him?" 'David isn't at home," said Naomi, with a sidewise glance at the road down whi:h her brother had strodo some ago. "And I don't care nothin' about pianos." Miss Stuart colored, and shrank back. She felt as if this hard, handsome bru nette had slapped her in tho face. "Perhaps, then," said she, "you can tell me the nearest way' home. It's quite dark, you see, and," brushing some white, needle-like particles out of her face, "It's beginning to snow." "Keop right along the path till yon come to the old stone tavern," said Naomi, indifferently. "Then turn to the right, and it ain't more'n half a mile, or maybe three-quarters 1" The bright-tressed girl still lingered on the doorstep. "I am not very well acquainted with the roads around here," said she. "If you could send a boy to show me?" "We don't keep no boy,"iaid Naomi. "And we've no one to send." Again Miss Stuart recoiled. "Good-evening 1" she said, gently. "Good-evening I" And Naomi banged tho door shut. As she sat eating her supper,and help ing granny to fresh supplies of home made bread and butter,i sudden thought darted into her mind. In giving Miss Stuart the directions for nuuing her way back to. Skene s Corners, she had forgotten tho young stranger's total ignorance of the neigh borhood characteristics. It was true that the regular road branched off to the right of the ruined pile which had once been an old stone tavern ; but there were was also a dis used thoroughfare which led through a dismal swamp, towerd a long abandoned stone quarry, across a rotten corduroy road, which had nearly sunk into one of these frightful, quaking bogs which sometimes appear in dense and swampy woods. To one unaccustomed to the local topography, it might be perilously cosy to stray off into the weed-grown and de serted track, especially when everything was whitened with fast falling snow. Naomi sprang up and went to the door. She looked out, with one hand held above her her eyes. "Am I losing my wits?" she thought. "Of course I cannot see half a dozen rods down the road; It's dark as pitch, and snowing into tho bargain. Let her go her own gaitl I ain't responsible I" A sudden light blazed in her eyes, as if Satan '8 self had flashed a lurid bomb shell across her soul. John Classon, her own "steady company," had been dazzled at least so spoke the tongue of popular rumor by the glitter of Eda Stuart's sea-blue eyes. She, the late belle of Skene's Corners, was quite out of fashion now! Eda had danced every dance at Squire Marbury's corn-husking, and Naomi had sat by among the wall-flowers, her heart swelling with secret anger. Though Naomi hated the beautiful blonde, she rose up again and reached down the lantern that David had re placed on its hook by the kitchen chim ney. "Oranny," suid she to the dozing old woman, "I'm going out a few minute:." "Eh What?" shrilly questioned granny. "Be you a-goiu' to see the new forte-pianLv? B you bewitched arter the new schoolma'am, too?" Naomi muds no reply. She lighted the lantern, bunded a shawl around her head, and rusted out into the frozen darkness. It was snowing hard now; the wind rustled the pine ti with a mournful sound, and bad neaOy blown out the faint beacon of Naomi's lantern until she sheltered it with her shawl. She gained some distant by climbing nimbly over a stone wall and traversing a stubbly meadow, instead of following the windings of the road, ana presently arrived, pauting for breath, at the ruined stone tavern. She held the lantern high above her head and looked around. Nobo;ly was visible. She called aloud, "Miss Stuart 1 Miss Stuart!" No answer came. For one second she hesitated ; than, changing the lantern from one hand to the other, she stasted on a run down the disused track until she came to the spot where here and there a partially sub merged log betokened the former traces of tlie corduroy road. Was that something white that moved against the dazzling whiteness of the storm? Once more Naomi called : "Miss Stuart 1 Miss Stuart!" "Oh, is that you? Do come here and belp met" a terrified voice answered. "I stepped on a broken log, and I think the grouud must be swampy bore; the log seems to be sinking in. But I've got tight hold of a young birch tree." Naomi sprang to the rescue. Eda had already set her feet upon the doomed pot. Iu another moment the rescuer would have been too latet With a strength at which she herself afterward marveled, Naomi seized Eda around the waist and lifted her out of the morass. "Do you know," she gasped, "that you have been standing face to face with death? Do you know that you have wandered out of the road into the Shak ing Bogs?" Eda s face, in the glimmer of the lamp light, was very white. "And you have saved me!" she ex claimed. "Oh, how can I ever find words to thank you?" "Never uiiud that now," said Naomi, in the old, brusque v,ay. "Let us make haste back to Skene's Corners. It's snowing faster every moment, and your feet are wet in that awful morass. Look. Here's where fou missed the right road. Of course you couldn't be expected to know that this old track was closed up long ago, and I didn't remember to tell vou. There are the lights of Skene's Corners now. Can you see them glisten ing through the snow flurries?" I nut jou nre coming wttn mei ' I "No. I must hurry back to granny, But" she hesitated and flushed deeply "you will kiss me just oncd to show that we are friends?" By way of answer, Eda flung both her arms around Naomi Poles neck, and showered a score of fragrant kisses on her cheeks, lips and brow. "Friends," sho cried, passionately, "forever!" "It's high timeyou were here, Naomi,' petulantly uttered old Granny Pole, "when hero has John Classon been a sett in' half an hour before the fi re, waitin' for you to come back I" John Classon colored a little as he held out his broad, sunbrowned hand to Naomi. "You see," said he, "Dave came ovei to our house to sco my Cousin Hessie, and and I thought it would be a good chance to tell you what I've wantod to tell you so long. Can't you guess what it is, Naomi?" If was Into when Dave camo home. Grandma Pole had long been abod and asleep, but NuJmi sat before tho dying fire, thinking. "tlullo, Naomi! you up?" was Dave's off-hand greeting. "I've got news for you. I've engaged myself to Hessie Holt, and if the crops turn out good next year, my wife shall have ns good a piano as Miss Edith Stuart I" Naomi held out her hand ; the limpid black deeps sparkled in her eyes. "I'm awful glad, Dave," said she. "I'm sorry I was so cross with you to night; but my heart was so sore. I thought Miss Stuart had charmed John Classon's love away." "And hadn't she?" "He has never thought twice of her, Dave," spoke up the exultant girl. "Ho cared for me, and me only, and. to-night he asked me to be his wife." The brother and sister talked late and lovingly together, whilo the clock ticked behind its screen of asparagus and the snow built up feathery barricades against the outside of the window panes; and when Nioimi laid her head on the pillow her last thought was that of gratitude that she had listened to the trumpet call of conscience and hastened to Edna Stuart's rescue. "For after all," pondered Naomi, "she was no rival of mine, and and I think it's likely I shall be married before she is." And as she repeated her prayers, one phrase lingered sweetW in her drifting dreams: "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evill" Saturday Night. For Patty and Folly. When Washington returned to Phila delphia, after his trip to the East, in 1789, he stopped at Uxbridge, Mass., and was entertained at the home ol Sam uel Taft. The old homestead, with the great oak before the door, remains yet in possession of the family, preserved in commemoration of the distinguished vis itor. Washington was so well pleased with his reception and entertainment at Ux bridge that he wrote the following letter to Mr. Taft, which is carefully preserved in the family. "Hartford, Nov. 8, 1799. 'Sir: Being informed that vou have given my name to one of your sons, and called another after Mrs. Washington's fam ily (Dandridze), and being, moreover, very much pleased with, the modest and innocent look, of your two daughters, Patty and rouy, i ao lor inese reasons send each ot these girls a piece of chintz; an i to Patty, who bears the name or Mrs. Washington, and who waited upon us more than Polly did, I send rive guineas, with which she may buy herself any little ornaments she may want, or she may dispose of them in any other way more agreeable to herself. "A. I do not give these things with a view to have it talked of, or even of its being known, the less there is mid about the mat tor the better you will please me; but that I may be sure the chintz and money have got safe to hand, let Patty, who, I dare say, is equal to it, write me a line, informing ma thereof, direct 1 To the President or the United States, at New York.' I wish you and your family well, and am, your humble servant, U. Washington." Something About Cocoa. All over the civilized world peoplo drink cocoa, and yet few, I venture to say, writes Fannie B. Ward, kuow how it is made. On a scraggly bush that looks like underbrush the long bean-like green pods grow that contain the "nibs" from which cocoa is made. These kernels resemble in size and general appearance the kernel of an almond. They are first spread out in the sun to dry, where they are raked over and over by barefooted colored girls that walk over them with utter disregard to their future use as a beverage on an English or American break fast table. After it is well sun dried it is put up by the buskel in coffee bags and shipped all over tho world. The after process of making it palatable coa sists merely in scorchiug it brown in an oven, grindiug it and mixinu it with some substance that will allow it to bo worked into cakes suitable for sale in the markets, but the famous brands one buys in American groceries are no better than the beverage uiado by grindini; the drv and scorched nut between two stones in a West India mountain side camp und ooiung it in goat s mux. bkeptical cooks may doubt this, but the "proof of the pudding is in the eating." A Story of Equine Friendship. Astorr of a remarkable iiislnnna nt equine friendship comes from Portlaud. One of a pair of horses belonging to the horse railroad company was sold, where upon his mate, a blind horse, refused to be comforted and so pined away that the uenerai .Manager went to the new owner of the other steed and asked for the loan of the auimal for a visit to the ataldn As soon as this horse was put in his old stun, ine uunu norse showed signs of Kteuc delight and at once hei-nn to r. cover his appetite and his health. The owner oi me oiner norse, seeing the love of the blind one for his friend, bought him, too, and now drives dow n town with a span. I,ewiston (Me.) Journal. ))) t UK fcA V All h&. CANOES MADE OTJT OF LOGS AND SKINS BY ALASKAN INDIANS. ' Snrpri.Mtf Skill in Shown lit Their Construction Tho Implement. That Arc Uod-liulllln a Kniak. NO people in the world are more dependent upon boats than ttro the natives of southeast Alaska. (, They live in a region where the coast line is brokeu into many channels, straits and harbors by the numerous isl ands of the Sitkan archipelago. The land offers little to reward the skill or perse verance of the hunter and supplies of food and other necessaries must be drawn from the sea. Accordingly the one thing of joy, of delight and of infinite use to the inhabitant of that part of the world is a caroe. Existence, indeed, would be a sad problem for him were it not for this adjunct of his owu creation. Upon its construction ho lavishes the best of his thought, the height of his manual skill and his tireless patience. The result is the fashioning from a single log of a lit tle vessel which challenges admiration for its fine outline, its seaworthiness and its strength. So says a report about to bo issued by the United States Fish Commission writ ton by Captuin J. W. Collins. The author goes on to remark that the In dians of the Sitkan region, in modeling their canoes, have apparently by intuition solved successfully the difficult problem of least resistance, buoyancy and requisite stability qualities essentially necessary in a working boat, but the proper com bination of which has often put to the severest test the constructive skill of the most experienced white man. All the tribes of that region use dugout canoes, the size of which varies from teu feet to more than thirty feet in length. Before the introduction of iron tools the making of a canoe was a work of enormous difficulty. The halchets were of stone and the chisels were of mussel shells ground to a sharp edge. It re quired much time and labor to cut down a large tree for the purpose, and it was only the chiefs, with a number of slaves at their disposal, who attempted such operations. Their method was to gather round a tree, as many as could work, and these clipped away with their stone hatchet until the tree was literally gnawed down. Then to shape it and hollow it out was a tedious job, and many a month would intervene between the felling of the tree and the finishing of the canoe. The implements used at present are axes and steel chisels. Fire is employod to assist in excavat ing the canoes. A small trench is first dug lengthwise through tho middie, and enough chips having been made for the purpose, they aro kept burniug at one end of the boat. When the wood at that end is charred enough to make the working of it comparatively easy, the fire is transferred to the opposite end and the workmen proceed to excavate tho part that has been burned. This process is repeated over and again until the bulk of the interior wood has beeu removed. It would not be safe to use fire too lonir. for in the lost stages of the work the craft might be ruined by being burned through. The final process in the forming of the little vessels consists in spreading out its sides, so that it may bo made wide enough to insuro the necessary stability. For this purpose tho canoe is steamed by filling it one-third full of water and then putting hot stones into tho water, the canoe being covered with cedar mats to prevent the escape of the steam. When this process has been continued long enough the gunwales aro forced apart nnd thwart sticks are inserted to hold them in proper position. After this tho boat is painted or otherwise ornamented. The great war canoes formerly made, which were sometimes as much as sixty feet iu length, are no louger built. One of them is exhibited at the National Museum. In tho cold regions of the far North, where timber or bark is difficult or im possible to get, boats of skin nru almost exclusively employed. To provide ma terial for them the native hunter relies upon the seal, the sea lion and the wal rus. Many patterns of such craft are 'utilized in the fisheries pursued among the Aleutian Islands and elsewhere on the Alaskan coast. Mostly they nre of two types the "kaiak," employed by the men, and a heavier and safer woman's boat, known as the "ooiiinl:," and used for transporting females aod freight. The kuiak is the most seaworthy small boat iu existonce. It is covered over, save only for a hole in which tho voy ager sits, tho garment which covers him, itself waterproof, beiug fastened around the rim of the manhole in such p. manner as to exclude the water. Thus flotation Is perfect, and even when the boat turns upside down, as not infrequently hap pens, the owner is able to quickly right it with his double paddle. Larger kaiuks with two or three manholes are used for fishing and for capturing whales aud tea otter3, when one man must manage the canoe while another throws a spuar or harpoon. The frame of a Itniak is composed of light pieces of driftwood ami small withes, which are fir.nly lashe.l together with sinews, so as to stitfeu the whole fabric. It is said that recently rattan was used to some extent for the purpose, this light and elastic material beiug ob tained through trader.-. Onrc made, tho frame is covered with the untanned skins of sea lions, which have beeu freed from huir. These hides are drawn over the skeleton of the boat, deftly sewed, properly secured in place while they are wet and pliable. Tho entire boat, top and all, is covered, except the inauholo or manholes. When thu skins dry they contract so as to bind the frame linnly and are as taut as the parchment of a well-strung has- drum. Then the na tive smears the hole over with thic'v seal oil, which hceps the water out of the pores of the bin for a long period. A Ctasaua fn.n.) inau roasts and eats cats as li 0Sl,l m.'nl. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Thunderstorms occur most frequently at sunset. Harvard Observatory has photographed the new star near Chi Aurigac, recently discovered in Scotland. Chronographs aro now bsing mndc that are capable of measuring to the ten thousandth part of nn inch. Careful investigations show that in ordinary flames charged with common salt the yellowness is due to too free me tallic todium and not to tho underom posed molecules of chloride of sod um. Between forty and fifty species of bac teria have been found in normal milk and cream. This large number is due to the fact that milk is apt to collect any species of bacteria that may be floating in the air. Cyclones originate in tho Tropics, and nre chiefly found in five localities: Tho West Indies, Bengal Bay and the Chinese coast, north of the equator, and in the South Indian Ocean oil Madagascar, and the South Pacific, near Samoa. A Frenchman has perfected an inven tion by which managers of theatres can ascertain on first nights in a practical manner the fecliugs of the public. Tho contrivance is an automatic npplajdcr, set in motion by a five-centime piece. A special train of five cars, constructed entirely of steel, is on exhibition at the Chicago & Northern Pacific station in Chicago, 111. It is claimed that the cars neither cost nor weigh more than the old style, while being practically indestructible by fire or in a wreck. A professional nurse in Frankfort, Germany, who allowed a surgeon to cut away a piece of her arm to place in an open wound on the body of a wealthy patient, is suing the surgeon for dam ages on the grouud that he took too much fiom her arm in the operation. A recent series of elaborate tests made of the dust in various portions of the streets of Naples, Italy, show that the sections of the city which are the clcau est are the healthiest; and by the mere inspection of the dust the degree of ill ness pertaining to each locality could be readily determined. From many experiments made on the condensation of steam in wrought-iron pipes when exposed to the open air, it is found that one pound and six ounces of steam per square foot ot pipe's surface is condensed per hour when the difference in tcmperaturs between tho steam and air is 200 degrees. Professor Duner, of Germnny, has dis covered that the revolution of the sun as shown by the movement at its equator is once for twenty-five days and twelve hours of our time, while at or near its poles the revolution may be only once in forty-six of our days. This would only be possible with a movable and gaseous surlaco like that of the sun. Some Speed Makers. Some curious facts are brought into prominence by a correspondent of Cycling, who has been at the pains to draw up a comparative table of the rates of speed in different modes of loco motion. The express train, of course, stands pro-emiucnt. Man has as yet discovered no way of getting about faster on the earth's surface. It will be a surpise, however, to many to learn that the safety bicycle, of which so much is beard nowadays, only occupies in this list tho seventh place. The fastest time in which a train has been known to travel a miio was forty nine seconds nnd a fraction; to accom plish the same distance the fastest bi cyclist, who has hitherto ridden, took two and three-quarter minutes, or just about three times as long. Au ice yacht has traveled a mile in one minute and ten seconds, a ruuniug horse iu one minute aod thirty-five and a half seconds, a tor pedo boat in one minute and fifty seconds, a steam yacht in two minutes and twelve seconds and a fractiou, and a skater on ice, with a favoruble wind behind him, in two minutes and twelve seconds and rather a large fraction, A little way after the safety bicycle conies tbe ocean liner; tho oarsman is much slower, taking five minutes and forty seconds to travel a mile, and the slow est of all is the swimmer, who requires very little short of au hour to perform the same journey. Fox Terriers Guard 1he Elephants. Tbe visitors to the Central Park menagerie in New York City, often wou der why fox terriers are always to be found in the enclosures with the ele phants. It is simply because if they were not there tho ruts, which are many aud large, would eat off the feet of the elephants. The elephants are chained, and when they lie down they can't keep the rascally rodeuts from gnawing their feet. So a fox terrier is kept iu with them wlnse business it is to see that the rats are kept away, and to kill as many as possible. The elephauts appreciate the dog, too. Aud lately the ruts have begun to gnaw holes in the thick, hide of the rhinoceros. So a terrier was placed in with this beast, and in one night killed tweuty-scven rats. Hats, by thu way, are one of the greatest pests which the keepers have to right. Bostou Transcript. Plants I.ivluj Without Earth or Water A number of plants have the singular power of living a long time without water, and without any connection witli the earth. Dr. Torrey found a root with some signs of life iu a herbarium long after it was collected, and hence we have Lewisia rediviva. The Ho.se of Jericho is a plant not distantly related to tho wild carrot, which draws itself out of the ground and rolls into a ball, driven by the winds and then spreads, roots and grows under the first rainfall. In Mex ico, Arizona und Texas, is a club moss which also dries into a ball, aud is old in curio stores as the "Kesurrection plant." It develops iu earth or water after a six months' drying, just as well as if nothing had happened. New York Independent, i A MORNINO SUMMON! Upon the onter verge of sleqp X heard A little sparrow piping in the morn; Unto my very heart the sound wa. born.; It seamed to me a something more than bird, Even Nature's self that touched me with s word: While tbou sleep'st on, I have not done my duty. Awake, oh man! Of all this gift of beauty Lose not one grain. Tbe forest deejis in stirred Vith morning, and the brooks are loud aflow.'L Perhaps it was a dream, but this I know, Behind me, as I passed into the sun, Whether to me or each one to bis mate, I heard the little sparrows one by one Piping in triumph at my garden gate. Arch.Lampman.fn Youth' Companion. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Well-worn The old oaken bucket. The most remarkable man ot his age Methuselah. Life. How little and dricd-up tbe cheese ap pears to the rat after ho is caught in the trap. New York Herald. A man never forgives until bo has had a chnnce to get even and has improved the chance. Atchison Globe. When you open a window on the rail way train tho first thing to cat;h your eye is a cinder. Boston Bulletin. ' " You can't punish a man for his evil in tentions, nnd he often gets himself into a mess through bis good ones. Puck. The fellow just out of tho lock-up is the fellow who thoroughly enjoys tho "freedom of the city." Columbus Post. Littlo drops of water, Little globes of grease, Make the soup we pay for At fifty cents apiece. We never realize tho valuo of a jewel uutil we try to pawn it. Come to think of it, we don't then. Indianapolis Journal. A dentist in a Western city is named Leggo. As a usual thing, however, ho will not do so until it is out. Texas Sittings. It is the man at tho "little end of tho horn" who does the work that blares out elsewhere to tho admiration of tho crowd. Puck. The man who has one of those calendars with a leuf to tear off every day has one thing to live for nnyway. Somervillc Journal. Weary Watkins "If you had a hun-dred-doilar bill what would you get first?" Hungry Higgins "Arrested, I guess." Indianapolis Journal. I love to sit upon the fence And whittle it all day; . Because it is my neighbor's fence, And he has gone awav. Puck. A misanthropist once said to Dr. Jobart, "Never believe more than one half of what people tell you." "Yes," Jobert roplicd, "but which half?" Soir. The woman who sent her color-blind husband out to match some cloth, just fainted in an ecstasy of happiness nt the hint his labors gave her for a combina tion suit. Wooden "3o Spender i3 dead. I wonder if he loft his wifo anything?" Bulflnch "Oh, yes; a great plenty." Wooden "Why, what?" Bulfinch-.. "Nino children." Boston Courier. Bunting "I saw a sight to-dny which did my heart good." Larkin "What was it?" Bunting "A plumber get ting a prescription compounded at a retail drug store." Seattle Soundings. Gussie "Don't you think The Man Without a Country' is just as sad as it can be ?" Tessie "Ye-es; it's very sad indeed. But I think the country with out a man would be a good deal sadder; don't you ?" Boston Post. "You must give up that horrible gum," said b'', "Because if you don't, you mayn't marry me." Then the crystal tears gathered in her bright eyes of blue, And she sobbed, "X shall marry no man but chew.1' Indianapolis Journal. She "I don't see how you can love me auy longer. You are the most de voted husband iu the world." He "Well, my dear, why should't I bo ?" She "Because I disgrace you every time I go out wearing such au old bat." (Sequel a new hat, of course.) Buffalo Exprcrs. "Never tell nieayaiu," said u gentlc rcau with a swolleu lower jaw yesterday afternoon, "that a woman can't drive a nail." "What do you kuow about it ?" inquired an inquisitive friend. "I had a tooth filled this afternoon and my den tist has a gill to wield the mallet. Great buzz-saws She could drive spikes into au iron-clad." Chicago Newf. Tramp "Please give me soinetliiug to eat? I've not bad u warm mouthful in a week." Mr. Manhattan "I'll give you a ticket and you cau get a plats of nice hot soup." "Hot soup !" he howled. "Haven't you got auything else ? This makes the fifth plate of hot soup I've had iu thu last hour. It's not healthy to put uo much soup iu(o an empty stom ach." Texas Siftings. ,'Now, there is a story I don't believe," said Colonel Yergcr as he laid aside an ex change. "What story is that, Colonel ?" asked Gus tie Smith. "Why, the paper says that t'otopaxi can sometimes be heard 500 mile-4." "You don't believe it V "Of course I don't believe it. I'll but there isn't a singer in the world that can be heard half that far." "ButCoto puxi if a volcaiio, Colonel." "Is it ? I thought it was one of those Italian fel lows that go about with Patti." Texas Sittings. A Famous Stick. The w -lking stick with which l'rinco George of Greece rescued the O'zurowitz of Kussiufrom his Japanese assailunt has been muguiliceutly mounted with gold ami precious stones, and inscribed "To Prince George, for Valor," by ordei of the Czar, who bus sent it with his com plimeii's to iU owner iu Athene, Pica. VUUf
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