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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.
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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.