) THE FOREST REPUBLICAN b pabltfh4 trarj Wedaesday, ky J. E. WENK. Offloe in Bmaarbaugh & Co.'i BuHdlng klm mutrr, tionmta, re. Terms, ... lUOptrTtw. RATES OF AOVf RTllfl Forest Republican J On. 8qnare, on. Inoh, on. Imtrtfairtl . f" On. Square, on. Inch, on. month ,r. M On. Square, on. inoh , on. year W W Two Square., on. year js JJ Snarter Column, one y.ar.... .... alf Column, on. year. ...... JnfJS On. Oolumn, on. jp Legal adT.rtl4.ment. ten cent, pssVtfiat ach Insertion. Marriages and death notice, gratis, AU bill, for yearly advertisement rolieewj quarterly. Tamporary advertisemeuta be paid in advance, ok work cah n delivery. ' tkrw inonth. VOL. XXIV. NO. 52. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1892. 1.50 PER ANNUM. aaraymoat . Ill WMWH, Out of J 10,000,000 souls comprising the Russian Empire, fully 80,000,000 are engaged in Agricultural pursuits. A French compsny is now building a trcet car lino in Tashkend, the Cnpitnl ' Russian Turkestan, where, not very iy years ago, any white man who had visited the place would havo lost hi head. New York contains an average of 37, 675 Inhabitants to the square mile, or fifty-eight to the acre. The population varies from three to the aero In Ward Twenty-four to 474 in Ward Ten. This last, which is at the rate of 303,300 to the square mile, is the densest in thp world. Since 1885 the course of the River Volga, in Russia, has rapidly been changing, until the city of Saratov, onco called the "Goldon Port of the Volgn," is left three miles away from its banks. Saratoy is a well-built city of about 125,000 inhabitants. Its trndc, which was very large, depended mainly on tho river. There were published last year in this country 4C65 books, according to figures just compiled. In this total, which has been surpassed in the last six years only by the number credited to the year 1886, are included new editions of American books and reprints and trans lations of foreign books, as well as original works. In his "Race Prussienne," Quatre "wgaa. maintains that the Prussians are not Oormata." F.thnographlcally they are a different race, gays, but they have acquired the Teutonic tongue, just as the Highlanders have received Eng lish. According to him, the t'-erman is the vassal of the Prussian now , as h. was of the Roman in tho past. A magazine writer has lately demon strated by an elaborate array of facts and figures that it is Impossible for a loco motive to pull a passenger train at a faster rate than about seventy miles an hour. In a short time, therefore, ex claims the Chicago Tribune, if some un scientific blunderer comes along with a locomotive that actually pulls a train 100 miles an hour let him be suppressed. The voice of science has spoken. Doctor Sargent, tho Director of the Harvard College Gymnasium, and an authority on physical training, has for years been making a careful study of the human form. As a result of his in vestigations he has determined upon what would be considered the ideally perfect man from a physical point of view. W. C. Noble, the sculptor, is to prepare a bronze cast based upon these measurements which will be exhibited at the Columbian Exposition. Loyalty to the lost cause dies hard in England, confesses tho San Francisco Chronicle. The death of Mary, Queen of Scots, is still commemorated, and those who hold the Stuarts in veneration may lay flowers upon the tomb of this loveliest and most unfortunate of her race. There is something touching in this reverence, and in- this country we could have more of it with profit, for the number of heroes that wo hold in grate ful remembrance is r sinfully small. . A curious movement of population is noted by the New Orleans Picayune in Illinois. Sixty-nine cars recently left Peoria for Central Iowa loaded with farm ers, their families and household ef fects. The emigrants are mostly from McLean County, 111. There were in all 112 adults and eighty-two children. They said that they were moving be cause their Illinois lands had grown so valuable that they could not farm them with profit, so they sold out and bought lands equally good but much cheaper in Iowa. The Christian population of the world is ascertained to bo about five hundred millions, constituting a third of the in habitants of the earth. It is an interest ing fact, remarks the Atlanta Constitu tion, that the increase within a century and a half has reached this number from only 200,000,000. A year ago the pro gressive nation of Japan revolutionized the Government and adopted a more popular form. At the first election for members of their Parliament it was found that several Japanese believers in Chris tianity had been chosen by popular suf frage. There are dow thirteen Christian Japanese in the present Parliament and many offices ol note are held by Japanese of the Christian faith. In fact, this beautiful country must soon take rank among the Christian nations, and when we consider how cear it may be made to us commercially by the construction of the Nicaragua Canal, as well as by rapid transit across the American con tinent, we may expect our people of the twentieth century to become nearly as familiar with Japauesu as they are with Europeans, IN THE BATTLE. It a trouble binds you, break it; Llfa is often what we make It, , Good or ill and so we take it; f Let not disappointment fret you, If a seeming HI beset you, ' Cast It off, and hopeful get you On your way As you make it, so you take It, In the battle .very day. If your genius slumber, wake it; For our life is what we make it; As w. shape it, o wa take it; If we hunt for care or sorrow, W. shall only always borrow Trouble from a better morrow Every day As w. make it, to we take It Bo the life will run away. If ths heart Is thirsty, slake It; If a blessing offers, take it, For our life is what we make It Joy abounds in happy faces; Pleasure Uvea in rosy plaoea; Let us court the goojly graces By the way; . And we'll take It as we make it In the battle every day. Dig the garden, smooth it, rake it; For the math is what we make it; As you work it, o you take It; Sit not idly hoping, dreaming Wrapt in fancy's futile teeming; Victory does not come by scheming Strike and stay! As you make It, so you take it, If you faint not by the way. M. V. Moore, In Detroit Free Press. HER LITTLE JOKE. ISS JOCELYN is looking out of the window. It is a drenching day, and there is nothing to be seen but the gar den, with its heavy heated roses droop ing under the down pour, and the vil- B V 12 logo street beyond, Issav now fast becoming a rapid water-course. "I call this the dullest place in exist ence," said Miss Jocelyn, half aloud "the very dullest." She does not finish her sentence, but turns to the massive pier glass to look at the reflection of herself a handsome girl in a smart frock. After one glance she turns back to the window with a sigh. "What's the use! One might as well wear sackcloth trimmed with ashes in this place, for all the people there are to see one's gowns.- It was much more fun at school, aftot all. 'Why" sullenly craning forward "if that in't that, frumpy little Miss Blake with Mr. StaVord, aud he is hold ing his umbrella ovi herl She has got his arm, too I I wontyr bow he likos it Poor man I wonder if he ever notices whether a woman is old and plain or young and pretty? "Now he's gone splash iut a puddlo, and she is actually locking up at him and blushing and laughiucy Oil, what a joke. Fancy her blushing . Why she must be forty if she's a day quite forty. And these little curls bobbing about as she goes I "I wonder if hor sister makes her wear her hair like that! I wonder ifshc is in love with him? Poor old soul!''" Mr. Stanford is a curate, but he i a man first and afterward a cleric. Strong, manly, gentle, he plays cricket with theNJ village boys, is ready to gossip for a few moments with the old gutters, is a meui- ber ot the aeuating society as well as the rowing club. - But Miss Jocelyn is young, and is not yet able to grasp more than the fact that she is better looking and better dressed than most of the girls whom she kuows. So to her RutU Blake is a ridiculous fight, and Mr. Stanford's quiet courtesy, which he would extend just as readily nnd pleasantly to his washerwoman, is a "good joke." Sho watches them part at the Misses Makes' little green gate, and thiuks she can see Miss Ruth's upward glauce aud smile at tho tine face above her before Mr. Stanford turns and comes striding and splashing back through the puddles. Then, having nothing else to do, Miss Jocelyn plans a pretty little piece of mis chief, which she promptly sets about carrying out. She has one gift, this handsome Miss Jocelyn; she is very skill ful with her pen, and alter a lit'.le prac tice can imitate almost any haudwriting. And now she remembers that there is in the study a letter of Mr. Stanford's to her father, and her eyes sparkle with de light. "What fun to send poor old Miss Blake a love letter! Perhaps she has never had one. It will be a kindness, positively! How she will blush and simper silly old thing! Well, serve her right! When there are so few young men in a place, what business have old maids strolling about with them under umbrellas. "Miss Cornelia's a lying down, Miss Ruth. She have one of her bad bead aches, and she ivs as how no one is to disturb her. And your tea is ready and waiting, Miss." liuth Blake turns into the prim little dining room, seats herself upoa one of the straight backed chairs and begins to draw oil her brown cottou gloves. She is an odd little figure, small and sum, and dressed lu a hideous autiuuuted plaid, with shades of glaring blue and green; jet her fair hair which the wind and rain have ruttlod and mado to look like a halo about her meek, small face- painful curve of her lips, aud her slightly flushed cheeks, render her appearance not altogether unpleasinp. She euts her simple tea quickly, glanc ing from time to time at a book which she has propped up aguiust the milk jug a book Mr. Stanford mentioned met dentally one day, and which she bus ob tained from the village library. The next moruini Miss Hutu gets a letter. She knows the handwriliug upon the envelope before she ooeus it. VTsr r-s li "Parish matters, of course," she says to herself. "Perhaps its about the school treat." She opens the envelope, unfolds tho noto within and is reading it slowly, when suddenly she utters a low cry, her breath comos fast and tho familiar world about her grows in a moment strango and unreal. For it is a love- letter. Sho is thirty three, and this is her very first. And from such a mm the man whom she has looked up to and reverenced and followed so humbly and modestly ever since sho first saw him t She goes down to breakfast with a flushed face, quiver ing lips and radiant eyes. "Miss Cornelia's just on the ramp this morning, miss," says the little maid warningly, as she meets Huth in the nar row passage that does duty for a hall. Miss Ruth nods and smilos as if this were tho pleasantest intelligent possible Cornelia's diatribes this morning fall up on heedless ears. Ruth answers at intervals, "Yes, dear," and "No, dear," and "I will see to it, sister," as in duty bound; but her heart and soul are filled with one thought thar wonderful letter. After breakfast, Miss Cornelia goes out to visit her district. Then Miss Ruth takes up her pen and writes tremblingly out of the fulness of her heart: Dear Mb. Stanford Your letter has surprised me very much. I scarcely knyw what to say, except that I am most grateful to you. It is so good of you to love me as you say you do. and love has always seemed such a beautiful thing to me, though I never thought that it was likely to come to either my sister or me. But I am very, very glad to have had your letter, and shall always be so, even if you change your mind, for, In deed, I am not worthy of all the good things you sav of me. Still, whatever happens, I shall always feel happy to know that you once thougnt as you nave written. Ana i teg you wiu tnmtf tne matter over wen. Though it seems impertinent of me to advise you, yet I think only of your good. And I am always your faithful friend, HUTH BLiAKE. She reads tho letter over several times, and then shakes her head. How poorly I have said it I" she thinks. "But he is so kind; he will un derstand that I mean well." The curate, when he receives the gen tle, humble epistle, is filled with dismay. He paces wildly up and down his small sitting room. "Somebody has played a cruel, heart less trick upon that poor little woman, and I have to face her and tell her so. I would rather be shot." He drinks his sealding tea in great gulps, nud is glad of the pain it causes him. "But what am I to dot Go and tell woman a kind, gentle, little lady coarsely and brutally to her face, that she has been played with and insulted; that I never dreamed of loving her; that it is impossible for me to do sot Oh, cruel and cowardly! How can I strike a gentlewoman, or ia(ieea any woman, such a blow as that? He rests his head upon his hands and groans, After a while he reads tue letter over again slowly. lie reads between the lines and seems to see a soul laid bare before him, and he realizes how much that means to her. What a new flood of light has been poured suddenly upon that sad, unsclhsu life I And there is no help for either of them. He must do it? Well, then, let it be done at once. Mechanically he takes his hat down from its peg and goes out into the street, walking with his head bent down, see ing nothing, hearing nothing until he is close to thu little green gate; then "child's clear, high voice reaches his ear "My g annie made it, she says, "Ain't it pitty!" Mt's a I beautiful doll," a gentle voice answers. "Is it good baby?' Wtfily dool," the child says, tucking tho rag YJoll under one chubby arm. "Dive mea wose, please." Miss Rutnlucks one of the few re maining Juneroses, one of the prettiest, and puts it into tho little outstretche! hand. As she turns to look after the child Miss liuth sees him aud pauses shyly. Something has to be said, so ho comes forward. v "What a lovely evening?" he exclaims, though he scarcely knows whether it raius or whether tho sun shines. "Yes," she answers. "Won't you were you will you come in?" He follows her iato the house with au intense longing lor aumothiug, however dreadful, to happen to him, and save him from what is to follow. Ruth takes him iato the dining room. He ieels vaguely that his task is becom ing more ditlicult. In the bare, chill little drawing room he could have said his say better. But 'she brought him straight into the sanctuary ot her homn, and again he feels oddly that her life lies open before him. There is her work lying folded togeth er. What a tiny thimble! He glance down at her small bare bauds. She has taken off her ugly gloves. What a bit of a woman for a strong man to fight! What a gentle life to be marred and shattered by a bitter shame ! Still Mr. Stanford does not speak, but stands there before her, lookiug very pale. His back is to the window aud she cannot see his face well, but the light shines full upon hers. "I did not show uuy sister your letter," she begins hesitatingly. "I thought I had better wait that perhaps you would change your ruin J, thiuk dilfer cntly about it all, and then it would be best that only we two should know." Sho does not say a word about changing her own niiud. She Btaods there before him, a sweet, fair woman, in spite of her old fashioned gown and her oddly arranged hair. She looks ut him with smiling, stead fast eyes, aud bids him take or leave her as pleases him best. And his courage to hurt, wouud, perhaps kill her, fails him. Iu a moment his resolution is taken. He strides hastily forward. "Huth, do you love iue(" be asks, holding out his linuds. Aud the calm of her face breaks up as she sinks iuto his Knuf, "Oh, so mif 'i so much!' t'uv almost sobs. "But I am not worthy of you. You should marry somo one ever, ever so much better and younger and prettier than I. Do you know," hiding her ashamed faco and confessing it as sho would have conlcsscd a sin, "I am thirty-three." "And I am thirty-four," ho answers. "Dreadful isn't it?" When Miss Jocelyn hears the ncws.sho goes away suddenly on a visit to some friends. Three years havo passed, and Laura Jocelyn is older, sadder, wiser. She has loved and suffered, and learned to sympathize with others. But she has never seen Mr. Stanford or Ins old maid wife again. When she returned home the marriage was over, and they were gone to his new living. "This was the worst thing I ever did," she says sadly to herself. "I will go and confess, aud tell him how sorry I am. Whnt a horrible thing to have ruined two lives!" So sho goes on her penitent errand to the small town forty miles away. On getting out of tho train she asks the way to tho vicarage, and walks there slowly. A child s laugh startles her from her bitter musings, and she looks up and across tho swectbriar hedgo that is in bloom at her side, for it is July again. She sees but dimly an old-fnshioned garden, a quaint, rambling house, for that is Mr. Stanford himself standing so close to her that she could almost touch him. And who is that lady, the pretty little woman in the dainty gray gown, her fair, wavy hair knotted close to her head, and her eyes shining with happiness? With a gasp Miss Jocelyn recognizes her. That is nol that was Ruth BlflKC. "Now let him come to me," tho little woman cries gaily. "Harry, you are spoiling the child. Let him come to hie mother." Ruth stoops down and holds out her arms, and a tiny figure in white rushes wildly for a little distance toward her, and then totters unsteadily, and finally sits down plump upon the grass, the per formance being hailed with a shout of laughter from the father, echoed more softly by Ruth. Under cover of their mirth Miss Joce lyn steals away. She has received for giveness unasked, and she has the sense to see that to apologizo to either of these two happy, blessed people would be an impertinence. Boston Globe. Frogs' Le's Are Dainty. It is not a hundred years since Dr. Kitchener, in his quaint old book, "A Cook's Oracle," gave among culinary curiosities, with "roasted horse and lizards in hot broth," "fried frogges." Yet a dish of frogs' legs is to-day a dainty dish that almost any one will ap preciate. It has been estimated that over 40,000 frogs' legs are used in New York in a single season. When it is remem bered that they seldom sell for less than fifty cents a pound, it will be seen that they are no inconsiderable feature of our markets. They will be in market in the spring time, being in prime condition in the latter part of April and in May. The only part of the animal used is the hind legs. The finest quality of frogs' legs come from Canada. They are brought to market skinned and ready for use. All that is necessary is to twist off their .laws. Sprinkle them with salt and pep per to broil them; dip them in sweet oil, squeeze over them a few drops of lemon juice and lay them on a broiler. Broil them very carefully, about five minutes on each side, until they are a very deli cate brown. Tbey should be served with a maitro d'hotel butter. A more familiar way of cooking frogs is to fry them. Wipe them oil, season with salt and pepper, squeeze a few drops of lemon juice over them if you wish; dip them in beaten egg and then in the finest sifted bread-crumbs. Liy t'-iOia in a frying-baskct so that they do not touch aud plungo them into a kettle of boiling fut. When they have fried for five ininutei lift them up, lay them on a hot platter, and serve the:u with a little decoration of green, Tartaro sauce is very good with them. No one who eats frogs' legs cooked in cither of these ways will be tempted to try tho most elaborate fricassee of frogs' legs. New York Tribune. Electricity Serves All Purposes. Wondrous boasts are made in this couutry of the progress of electrical science, and many Americans seems to imagiue that thu United States leads the world in this regard. But the fact is claimed that little Switzerland is fur ahead of all ompetitors iu the use of electricity. Its rushiug streams aud waterfulls are everywhere utilized for the production of electric power. Arrange ments have just been completed at Ma- lojv Kursaul tor heating a great hotel by tuiswgent. The heaters are to bo scat tereoAbout the buildings, just as stores or steam toils would be, aud it is understood that the curieut is to be employed for cooking too. The circuits run, of course, into every room, aud at night nothing will be easier than to unship one of the little lumps and put in thu wires for a hot-water "grog" boiler, or lor a bed war.ner, both of which will stay warm through the whole night, anil at one pre letermined heat. New Orleans Pic ayuue. Alaska's International Fair. The Esquimaux wear reindeer skins for clothing. They buy them from the Sib -riua Chuckchee, who come over to an iuternationul fair that is held cviry summer on Kotzebue Sound, just above Ueriug Struit on the Alaskan side. For the pelts seal oil and walrus r, il are ex changed. There is much dan. ing anil leusting on these occasions, as well as trading. All thu tradiug is dime by barter, no sort of money beiug iu cir-c-ula'iou. At this fair also ma iy r . are bought. One can purchase a good article of u wife for 10. Wiv. among the Esquimaux people aru usually bought. Sometimes the woiucu are cou. suited, Chicago Herald. THE NATIVES OF ALGERIA, THET C0NSI8T MOSTLY OF ABABS AND KABYLE9. Tall and Comely nUkr!. Iioosv9lii pcreit Moors "Mahometan lro patants" Enormous KarrlnRS, TT" LGERIA'S native population, says a letter from Algiers to the Picayune, consists, generally J speaking.of Arabs and Kabyles. When at home the latter live in the mountains, are nearly always on foot.and own houses. Tho former.howevcr, lives only on tho plains, is an incomparable horseman, and resides under tents. Those Arab who live in cities bear the name of Moors; and among these, the chief element, are numerous other tribes and races, so that, not count ing Europeans, the inhabitants repre sent many peoples. Perhaps the most picturesque of them all aro those known as the Biskris. They have tall, erect figures, comely features, flue car riage and very dark eyes. They always have thoir head covered, tho capote or hood of the burnous beiug usually bound around the head with a thick cord made of camel's hair and wound round six or seven times. Their women are shrouded from head to feet in white haicks and burnous, the only sign of difference in rank or social standing being shown in fineness of tho stuff worn as outer covering. They wear a veil, of course, and it covers all the face except one eye, and sometimes they piously or coquet tishly conceal it also. The Moors have oval faces, clear brown skins, and are fairer than the pro vincial Arabs. Their costume is also different. They wear a turban or piece of white muslin, wound round a sort of skull cap of red ; a jacket of bright colored cloth; two waistcoats, both richlv embroidered ; trousers that reach to the knees and which are very baggy; and thev are bare-limbed, almost bare footed, for they wear only very short socks and loose slippers. How tney manage to keep these slippers on is a mystery to me, for they "are a mile too big" in every way. The outdoor cos tume of their women is the usual haick and burnous. Some of them wear stock ings, with patent leather slippers, and some are less chic and go bare-limbed. All have on cumbersome white trousers, a sort of bagg7 breeches, with about ten times too much material In them, and which keep the limbs so far apart that they don't walk, they wobble. This veil shows both eyes, a part of the nose and some of the forehead. They marry young, sometimes at twelve or thirteen, but the union is not consummated at that early age however. The man only wants to be sure of his property, and only by-and-by does she become his wile iu reality. The Mozabites have boen called "Ma hometan Protestants," becauso they do not go to any mosque or place of wor ship and use no form of prayer. They are honest and truthful, and, if I am to believe half what I hear,:such persons are scarce in Algiers. The Kabyles, sometimes called Ber bers, are distinguished by their striped black and white woolen haicks and burnous, their leather aprons and their bare heads, wiiich are often shaved. These are the industrious fellows, and they are willing to do nny and all kinds of work. Their wives walk about with faces uncovered, and therefore they nre not Mahometans. The women also dress differently from the Moorish ladies; there is more color to their costume, they wear striking jewelry, itarrings so enormous that they havo to besupported by holes through tho utper as well as the lower part of the ear; heavy pieces of wrought silver, inlaid' with precious stones, on their heads or on tJieir bodies; bracelets and anklets. The tattoo marks of their different tribes nre visible on their faces, a peculiar sign Diko a clover leaf, an arrow point or something of that sort, inked indelibly ou the iforehead, or the chin, or both. But I do not know half the names of these tribes and races that wojrk and loaf and proy in the steep streets, of the old town, or along the rues aud boulevards of the modern city. There aro Biskris struggling under loads which would break the back of the big pirttr of tho St. Charles Hotel; and thero are water carriers trotting along with a large cop per jur poised ou one shoulder, held in place by uplifted lett arm, and full to the top, yet never do they spill a drop. You see Mzabi driving half a dozen donkeys, heavily loaded; Arabs seated in little stalls, selling fruit aud vege tables, or preparing their national dish of couscous ; Bedouins, Tonisiaus, Moors and Coulougles, and who not besides of strange appearance. The Cinder iu the Eye. One of the simplest and most effective cures for that often serious affliction to a traveler a cinder in the eye is that of a common flaxseed. Ouu or two of these may bo placed in the eye without injury; they shortly begiu to swell and exude a glutinous substance that covers the ball of the eye, enveloping any for eign substance that may be in it; tlieu seed and irritant may be washed out. Keep a dozen of these seeds in a com partment of your purse aud they may prove an invaluable accessory. New Or leans Picayuue. A Wonderful Tusk. Sholton P. Smith, of Reidsville, Ou., has a curiosity iu the shape of a hog tusk. It is in the jawbone intact. It bad grown round and round iu circle. It measured three and three fourth inches in diameter. Straightened out it would have been one foot in length. The piece of bone containing the tusk was found in Appling County a Dumber of years a , 'o. Didn't tho hog t'iu of too much tusk or toothache? Let the scientist reply. Atlanta Constitu tion. The Nebraska Supreme Court has de cktad th,t pencil umn-s ou Australiau boh'oUi . legal. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. France now produces incombustible shoes. There are twenty thousand different kinds of butterfly. Animal life ceases to exist in the ocean at a depth of one and a half miles. Fifty-one metals aro now known to exist. Four hundred years ago only seven were known. There is talk of putting a fleet of elec trically propelled launches on the la goons at the Chicago World's Fair. It has been found that milk can be thoroughly sterilized by heating it to a temperature or 1W aegrees ranrenneii. A recent improvement in malting water conduits consists in imbedding wire netting in the cement used. The piping thus mode is greatly strength ened. J. J. McDonnell, Day Chief Operator in the Western Union Telegraph office at Tacoma, Washington, has developed a sextuple system of telegraphy and ap plied for a patent on it. Frederick Schwatka, who once ex perienced a temperature of seventy-ono dogrccs below zero in the Arctic regions, is said to be tho only civilized being who ever endured such cold. Tho Dead Sea loses every day by evap oration several million tons of water. This enormous mass is easily drawn up by the rays of the sun, the valley wherein the sea lies being one ot the hottest upon the globe. Tho skeleton of a whale, over 100 feet long, has been discovered buried in the sands on the shore of Baranhoff Island, off Alaska, far above the high tide mark. It is supposed to have been there hundreds of years. Pipes of cement, in which wire net ting is imbedded, are now manufactured in Berlin, Germany. The wire netting is said to greatly increase the strength of the pipes against bursting, so that they aru well adapted for water conduits. Recent experiments show that the per manency of the power in magnets is greatly increased by heating them in steam and remagnctizing them. When this has been done several times the magnet will suffer very little from heat. When Portland cement is mixed with water and used in atmosphere below the freezing point it will set, but rapidly disintegrates. It has rcceutly been found tbut the mixing of a small amount of caustic soda will overcome this diffi culty. To say that Venus and Jupiter recently came in conjunction is a figure of speech, by which is meant that Venus, in luuniug ber orbit, swings into the line of sight from the earth to Jupiter. Jupiter is really 1400 times as large as Venus, and their distance apart is more than 400, 000,000 miles. A French physician is authority for tho statement that the regular tramp of marching soldiers is much more harmful to bruin and body thau tho less regular walk of the ordinary pedestrian. Ac cording to the scientist, walking ten miles in line is as exhaustive as walking twenty at a go-as-you-please gait. A novelty in thu line of building ma terial comes from Germany, where a firm has perfected a means by which sawdust is mixed with an acid and the whole is then pressed iuto the required shapes. The process makes the material non-combustible. It is lighter than iron or steel and stronger than wood, being also very cheap. Electric heating is now attracting great attention, due iu part to thu success which has lately been madu in street-car work, but more particularly to the iu creaso in the possibilities of obtain in? current at a reasonable figure. The strides made in the transmission ot power from a cheap source has opened up a very wide field for this branch of the electric art. Miss Eleanor Omeroed is the most dis tinguished entomologist of England. Her first object in taking up the science, it is stated, was to save the farmers' grain from destruction, aud, in or lor to render herself familiar with tho habits of insect life, she often spends hours stretched upon tho ground studying them. She has been appoiute 1 C insult ing Entomologist to the Rjyul British Agricultural Society. The "Oldest Living Lawsuit." The "oldest living lawsuit" has re ceived a longer lease of life from the Supreme Court. Thu suit's official des ignation is "March Term 1814, No. 82," so that it will be able to celebrate its seventy-eighth birthday, with every pros pect of living to thu ripe age of four score. Two full sets of heirs, a trust company, four lawyers, an auditor and a deputy escheator are sueiug that it wants nothiug in cure. The suit was brought by the assignees of one James Mooru against William Ruwle, in which Mr. ltawle paid into court the amount of the judiruicut re covered against him. About IH'H) some of this money was paid out ou a judg ment recovered by the executors of one of the assignees ;aiust thu other two. The balance, was paid to Juuiet Read, theu President of thu Philadel phia Bank, to be held by him subject to the further order of thu court. Mr. Read, aud, luter, the (iirurd Trust Com pany, handled the fund till it has grown to 18,702. Th'i Auditor-tieueral took proceedings to escheat it to the common wealth. Two sets of claimants, one huiliug from Chester Couuty, iu Pennsylvania,' and cluiuiiug to be grandchildren of James Moore's brother, and the other from Marjlaud, and claiming to bo grandchildren of James Moore himself, was stirred up. Thu Auditor awarded thu fuud to George W. Pepper us cuuuel for the Pennsylvania heirs. Exception to this decision have been 1 i It-1 cm be half of both the ('ouiiuoinve:iUli ami Hie Maryland heirs, and yuslerday tin: Su preme Court trdeied these exceptions to lie placed upou the list for h;'inuinl during thu present term. Philadelphia Kucoid, LIFE'S TANGLED THREAD A woman sits the livelong day By a swiftly moving whee', While through each hand a Bingle threasV Runs from a whirling reel: And as the wheel turns round and rounjfj In ita unvaried track The threads are twisted in a cord Of mingled gold and black. A fickle goddess sits supreme Upon her throme of tatp, "s5' While joy and sorrow through hor hangar Pasa lika the threads of .fate; And as the wheel of destiny Turns out life's cord, behold. From end to end the fibpr ruus. Of mingled black and gold. Hope Is the thread of shilling gold, The sable, dark despair, And not a soul exists, but both Are strangly blended thcr; Yet when the tangloi cord of lif By death's cold ban 1 is riven, Faith, like a silver thread ot light, Still reaches up to Heaven. L. P. Hills, in Atlanta Constitution.' 1IUX0R OF THE DAV. ' A wedding trip The broken engage ment. The minister's study How to make both ends meet. Life. The gossip believes hr.U' she hears and tells the other half. Elinira Gazette. No form of error is more nauseating than that which lauds itself as exclusive truth. Life. The strango thing is that hotel run ners ara not the people who run the hotels. St. Joseph News. 'Ve shall live by hook or by crook," said the fishormau when he married the shepherdess. Boston Post. That no ono will tuko a fellow's word is not necessary proof that he will keep it. Binghnmton Republican. If you have a Jonah among your friends don't sit down ami cry about it; ben whale. Atchison Globe. The professional thief U sometimes called a bird of prey, and yet he's only a robin'. Binghnmton Louder. It must not be supposed that a woman is out of temper because she moves about with a bang. Boston Gazuttc. Astronomers do not attempt to knock the spots off the sun. They only stand and look at them. Picayune. Of course a fellow is pushed for time) when an officer hustles him into a peni tentiary. Binghamton Republican. Wonder if this agitation against "sweat-shops" will affect parties who aro running Turkish baths? Boston Bulletin. No wonder the swine ran down into the sea. Is there anything mora .rash than a rasher of bacon ? Binghamtdn Republican. ' High-school Teacher "Why do come dies always end with a marriage!" Pu pil "Becauso that is where the tragedy begins." La Figaro. "Who is that across the street!" "Ob, that's a very close friend of mine." "Indeed!" "Yes, he never lends me a cont." Texas Siftings. "Waiter, this steak is much smaller than the ono I had yesterday. How's that?" "Oh, it comes from a smaller ox." Flicgoudo Blatter. Raving Is Parsons us much of a bibliomaniac as ever?" "i'es. He paid $"00 to get his own book published last summer." Brooklyu Life. It is often tho case that thu wo nen who give their children romantic names have husbands who do not know how to spell them. Atchison Globe. Humanity appears to be very unequal-. ly divided between those who can't stand prospeiity and those who can't get any to stand. Binghiuntou Republican. "Do you wear your sunuiest smiles when you want to i;et an unusual favor from your husband J" "No; I wear my briuiest tears." Yarmouth Register. The two-headed boy may uot havo so mauy corns iu proportion to his sits as other boys, but ho must havo a great deal more toothache. Bingham tou Re publican. Officer "Private Iluber, how is a soldier to bchuvc wheu he comes in con tact with a civilian!" Soldier "That depcuds ou how the civiliau behuvca." Texas Siftiugs. She "What is that little silver design on your lapel?" He "Examine it." (She "It's a tiny tree with unuxe lyiug near." He "Exactly. It means that I only need to be "axed." Pittsburg Bulletin. Mrs. Childors (at .'I a. m.) "Charles, something's the matter with baliy's arm. Hear how he cries? Perhaps his Krru'a asleep." Mr. Childers "Is it I Then don't wake it up perhaps it will spread to the rest of him!" New Orleans Times Democrat. Stem Father "Aro yo;i aware, sir, that my daughter has always been ac customed to every luxury that money could buy?" Thu Young Man "Yes; but bless you, that won't make any dif ference wilh me. 1'1 just at lief mar ry that kind ot girl as uuy other." Chicago Tribune. Au American lady, viMtiug P.nis, was coutiuually interested in thu smart little boys, iu white caps aud aprons, who '. liver the wares of the pastry cooks. One day she said to ouu ol tkcu boys, who had brought her some cakes: "Ah, I Kiippuse you gut the bcuetii of one of these cakes yourself sometimes ."' "What do you mean, madam?" "You eat a cako now aud then?" "Eat them? Oh, no, inadumc, that wouldn't do. I only lick 'em as I come uloug!" Argonaut. A Montana inaii has invented a lunch snow plow, to bo used in scrapiu,; the snow olf the ranges so that the catllucau get at the glass. Il is reported that tho machine works very sulisluc torily. Thou, sands of rattle peris'i every year, tin I tho number this year was mine tl.au usually large from starvation, mi uccmi'it of the dcip tnows cutting oj. the food supply.
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