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VOL. XXV. NO. 1.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1892.
S1.50 PER ANNUM.
' There nro now 3715 places in th '
United States which have a population of
(noro than 1000.
' The attendance of women at tho Bos
Ion University, amounting as it does to
BOO, illustrates how the causa of woman
is progressing nowadays with a rapidity
that surpasses even that of geometrical
progression.
New Mexico has a very wide range of
climate. The temperatures registered in
the Territory during January varied con
siderably over 100 degrees. The hot
test place during the month was La Luz,
Dona Ana County, where the ther
mometer registered seventy-sir decrees
one day, and the mean temperature for
the month was 60.7 degrees. At Dulce,
Rio Arriba County, the mercury on one
chilly January day crawled down to
thirty-two degrees below Bern, and its
record for the month in that bracing
spot was 1.6 decrees below zero.
- Few people perhaps are aware of the
fact, believes -tho Boston Transcript,
that tbvCwas ouco a Postmistress
Genet. N'he did not sorve in this
country oVin the present century, but
the fact that a woman ever served in
that capacity is indeed remarkable.
Denmark was tho home of this remark
able woman, whoso name was Countess
Gyldenloro, or Dorothea Krag, as she
was called during her term of office,
which extended from the year 1703 to
1711. The present postal system in
that couutry, which Is considered one of
the best in the world, was inaugurated
by her.
Professor Jameson, of Brown Univer
sity, is lecturing on tho historic co..nial.
mansions on the James River in Vir
ginia, especially those at Shirley, Wost
over and Upper and Lower Brandon.
This region nnd the country about Will
iamsburg, which the professor designates
as "the quaintest place in the English
portion of America," was once a virgin
field of discovery for the seeker after old
colonial furniture. Many a raro find of
ancient mahogany tables and sideboards
ha been made thereabouts, and quaint
Chippendalo chairs used to bo found
there in numbers interesting objects of
treasures-trove that could be secured for
the proverbial song. But time has
changed all that, and such articles when
discovered there now are held at fair
price. It is said that much of this sort
of colonial furniture may be obtained
nowadays in parts of Kentucky, rare
pieces having been inherited by the
present generation sf Kentuckiaus from
their Virginia ancestor!.
People who think that the free-pass
business is carried to extremes in the
United States should uote how they do
it in Russia. The Railroad Gazette says
that the Russian railroads have been ac
customed to give free passes not only to
their employes, but to relative of their
employes, a practice which may have
been heard on this side of the Atlantic.
The term "relatives," however, has been
found to be extremely elastic, and re
cently . the Great Russian Company put
its foot down and issued positive orders
that hereafter passes will be granted to
no other relatives of employes than their
wives, though a trifling reduction of
seventy per cent, on the prices of tickets
will be made to parents, brothers and
listers of employes and of their wives, but
all aunU, cousins and stepmothers must
pay full fares. If your brother receives
a salary of as much as $750 from the
company, you can get your discount only
on first-class tickets; if he has from flJO
to $750, you have second-class tickets ;
if less than $150, third-class tickets.
The idea of the bicycle railroad finds
favor at Seattle. A line is soon to be
constructed between that city and Taco
ma. The contract calls for its comple
tion within a year. The following de
scription is given of tho road: "There
will be two tracks, each of a single line
of steel rails. A timber will be laid on
the ground across the width of both
tracks at intervals of tweuty feet, and
across these, lengthwise of the track,
10il2-inch stringers will be laid, to
which the rails will be spiked. To each
end of the sills will be bolted upright
timbers 2x13 iuches and eighteen feet
high, with 4x6-inch braces. These up
rights will be connected overhead by a
cap, which will support a 4x6-inch
wooden guide-rail, directly above each
line of rails. The cars will run on
wheels under their centre on the siugle
line of rails, and, when running on a
straight truck, will be held upright by
their own impetus. When rounding
curves, however, the cars will be held
upright by two rubber wheels affixed to
their roofs and ruuning one on each side
of the guide-rail, while a third rubber
wheel will revolve against the under side
of this rail, pressing against it and keep
ing it in position. It is intended in the
course of a few years to replace the tim
ber with steel superstructure. Steam
power will be used, but ultimately elec
tricity will be the motive power,"
A. GOLDEN HOUR.,
A beckon in I spirit of gladness seemed
afloat.
That lightly danced in laughing air before
us;
The earth was all in tune and you a note
Of Nature's happy chorus.
Twas like a vernal morn, yet overhead
The leafless boughs across the lane were
knitting:
The ghost of some forgotten Spring, we said.
O'er Winter's world oomes flitting.
Or was it Spring herself, that, gone aBtray,
Beyond tbe alien frontier chose to tarry?
Or but some bold outrider of the May,
Some April-emissary?
The apparition faded on the air.
Capricious and inralcu able corner
Wilt thou too pass, and leave my chill days
bare.
And fall'n my phantom Summerf
William Watson, in the Spectator.
THE RUNAWAY
PATIENCB 8TAFLETOIT.
OULD they put her
in the asylum," she
wondered, "if they
caught her?"
FoIks would sure
ly think she was
crazy.
She stopped at
the stone wall to
rest, and looked
liailr timirrMinlv of
tfYU? the old familiar
scene.
Far behind her strcchod the meadow,
a symphony of olive and green in tbe
lato fall. Here and there tho sunken
boulder stood soldiery, golden rod, or
berry bushes clothed now in scarlet and
gold. At intervals in the long Blope
stood solitary trees, where fluttering,
brittle leaves fell in the gentle, chill air.
In summer timo she remembered well the
haymakers rested in the shade, aud
the jug with ginger water she mado for
the men was kept there to be cool.
She seemed as she sut there to re
member everything. The house was all
right, the wss sure of that; the key was
under the kitchen door mat, the fire was
out in tho stove and the cat locked in
the barn.
She held her work hardened hand to
her side, panting a little, for it was a
good bit of a walk across the meadow,
and she was eighty years old on her lost
birthday. The cows feeding looked
homelike and pleasant.
"Goodbye, critters," she said aloud;
"meny's the time I've druv' ye home an'
milked yc, an' I alius let ye eat by the
way, nor never hurried ye as the boys
done."
With a farewell glance she went on
again, smoothing as she walked the
scattered locks of gray hair falling under
tho pumpkin hood aud keeping her
black scant gown out of the reach of the
briars. Across another field, then
through a leafy lane where the wjod
was hauled in winter, then out through
a gap in a stump fcucc, with its great
branching arms like a petrified octopus,
to the dusty high road.
Not a soul in sight in the coining twi
light. John, the children and the scold
ing wifo who made her so unhappy,
would not be homo for an hour yet, for
Fast Mills was a long drivo.
Down tho steep hill went the brave
little figure, followed by an old shadow
of itself in tho waning light, and by the
tiny stones that rolled so swiftly they
passed her often and made her look be
hind with start to see if a pursuer was
coming.
"They'd put roe iu the asylum, sure,"
she muttered wildly as she trudged
along.
At the foot of the hill sho sat down
upon an old log and waited for the
train.
Across the road, guarded by a big
sign, "Look out for tbe engine," ruu
two parallel iron rails that were to lio
her road when the big moustcr should
come panting around tho curve.
At last the dull rumble sounded, n
shrill whistle, and she hurried to the
track, waving her shawl as a signal.
This, iu the conductors' vernacular,
was a cross-roads station, where he was
used to watch for people waviug articles
frautically. The train stopped aud ,tbe
passenger was taken aboard. lio noticed
she was a bright eyed old lady, very neat
and precise.
"How fur'' he asked.
"Bostio."
"Git there in the mornin'," be said,
kindly, waiting for the money, as she
opened a queer little reticule, where,
under her knitting, wrapped in a clean
cotton handkerchief, was her purse with
her savings of long years the little
sums Sam had sent her when he first be
gan to prosper in tho West, and some
money she had earned herself by knitting
and berry picking.
At a cross road, us they went swiftly
on, she saw the old sorrel horse, the
rattling wagon aud John and his family
driving homeward. She drew back
with a little cry, fearing he might see
her and stop the train, but they weut ou
so fast that could not be, aud the old
horse jogged into the woods, aud John
never thought bis old Aunt llauuuh, his
charge for twenty long years, was ruu
ning away.
At Boston a kindly conductor bought
her a through ticket for Denver.
"It's a long jourucy for an old lady
like you," he said.
"But I'm peart of my age," she said
anxiously; I never bed a day's sickness
since I was a gal."
'Going all the way alone?"
"With Providence," she answered
brightly, alert and eager to help herself,
but sileut and thoughtful as the truiu
took her into ttrange landscape where
the miles where the landscape weut so
swiftly it seemed like the past years of
her life as she looked back ou them.
"Thy works are marvelous," she mur
muied often, sitting VitU her hands
folded, aud few idle da had there been
in the world where she hasat and jested
so long.
In the day coach the peopla were kiuJ
and generous, sharing their baskets with
her nnd seeing she changed cars right
and her carpetbag was safe. She was
like any of the dear old grandmas in
Eastern homes, or to grizzled men and
women like the memory of our dead
mother, as' faint and far away a the scent
of wild roses in a hillside country bury
ing ground. She tended babies for tired
women and talked to the men of farming
and crops or told the children Bible
stories, but never a word she said of her
self, not one.
On again, guided by kindly hands
through the- great bewildering city by
the lake, and now through yet a strange
land. Tired nnd worn by night in the
uncomfortable scats ber brave spirit be
gan to fall a little. As the wide, level
plains, lonely and drear, dawned on her
sight she sighed oftcu.
"It's a dre'ful big world," she said to
a gray bearded old farmer near her; "so
biz I feel e enmost lost in it, but," nope
fully, "across them deserts like this long
ago Providence sent a star to guide tnein
wiie men of the East, an' I hain't lost
my faith."
But as the day wore on, and still the
long, monotonous land showed no human
habitation, no oasis of green, ncr eyes
dimmed, something like a sob rose under
the black kerchief on the bowed should
ers, and the spectacles were taken off
with trembling hand and put away care
fully in the worn tin case.
"Be ye goin'fur, mother?" said the old
farmer.
IIo had bought her a cup of coffee at
the last station, and bad pointed out on
the way things he thought might interest
her.
"To Denver."
"Wal, wal ; you're from Now England,
I'l be bound."
"From Maine," she answered; and
then she grew communicative, for she
was always a chatty old lady, and she
had possessed her soul in silence so long,
aud it was a relief to tell the story of ber
weary years of waiting to a kindly lis
tenor.
She told him all the relations she had
were two grand nephews and their fami
lies. That twenty years ago Sam (for
sho had brought them up when their
parents died of consumption, that takes
so many of our folks) went out West. lie
was always adveuturous, and lor ten
years she did not hear from him; but
John was different and steady, and when
he came of age she had given him her
farm, with tun provision that sue should
always have a home, otherwise he would
have gone away, too. Woll for years
they were happy, then John married, and
his wife had grown to think her a bur
den as the years went on, and the chil
dren when they grew big did not care for
her; she felt that she had lived too long.
"I growed so lonesome," she said
pathetically, "it seems I couldn't take
up heart to live day by day, an' yit I
kuowed our folks was loug lived. Men
years back, when Sara wroto he was doin
fair au' sent me money. I begun to
think of him ; fur he was alius generous
an' kind, an' the gratefulest boy, an' so
I begau to save to go to him, fur I
knowed I could work my board for a
good many years to come. Fur three
years he ain't hardly wrote, but I laid
that to the wild kentry he lived in. I
said b'ars and Injuns don't skeer me
none, fur when I was a gal up in
Aroostuk kentry there was plenty of
both, au as fur buUnlcrs them horned
cattlo don't skeer me none, fur l ve been
used to a farm alius. But the lone
suuiucss of these medders has sorter up
sot me and mado me think every day Sam
was further off than 1 ever calc'lated
on."
"But what will you do If Sam ain't iu
Denver?" asked the farmer.
"I hev put my faith in Providence,"
she answered simply, and tbe stranger
could not mar that trust by any word of
warning.
lie gave her bis address as he got off
at the Nebraska line, and told her to
send bim word if she needed help. With
a warm hand clasp he parted from her to
join tho phantoms in her memory of
"folks that bad been kind to tier, uod
bless mo," and then the train was rum
bling on.
But many of the passengers had lis
tened fo her story and were interested,
aud they came to sit with her.
One pale, little lad iu a seat in front,
turned to look at her now and then and
to auswer her smile. He was going to
the new country for health aud wealth,
poor lad, only to find eternal rest in the
sunny land, but his last days brightened
by the rewurd for his thoughtful acts of
kiuduesi.
"She probably brought those boys
up," he thought, "and denied her life
for them. Is she to die unrewardeJ, I
wonder? There cannot be any good in
the world if that be so." He thought of
her and took out his purse! There was
so little money in it, too, every cent
made a big bole iu his store; but the
consciousness of a good deed was worth
something. "I mayn't have the chance
to do miny more," thought the lad, but
toning his worn overcoat.
He slipped off without a word at a
stutiou and seut a telegram to Denver.
"To Samuel Bluir" for he hud caught
the name from her talk "Your Auut
llauuuh Bluir is on the W. und W. train
coining to you."
It was ouly a straw, but a kiudly
wiud might blow it to the right one after
all.
When he was sitting there after his
message had gone on its way, she leaned
over and handed him a peppermiut drop
from a package in her pocket.
"You don't look stioug, dearie," she
said, "hain't ye no folks with ye!"
"None on earth."
"We're both lone ones," she smiled;
"an' how sad it be there ain't no one to
fuss over ye. Aur' be keerful of the
drafts, aud keen flannels alius on your
chist; that is good for the luugs."
"You are very kiud to take an interest
iu me," he smiled, "but I um afraid it
is too lute."
Auother night of weary slumber iu the
cramped seats and then the plain begau
to be dotted with villages, ami soou ap
peared the strangling outskirts of a city,
Ibt uor; of 4uilU, the gleam, of the
Platte River and a network of iron rail,
bright and shining, as the train ran
shrieking into the labyrinth of its des
tination.
"This is Denver," said tbe lad to her,
"and I'll look after you as well as I
can."
"I won't bo no burden," she said
brightly. "I've twenty dollars yet, an'
that's a sight of money."
The train halted to let the eastward
bound express pass; there was an air of
excitement in the car, passengers getting
ready to depart, gathering up luggage
and wraps, and some watching the new
comers and the rows of strange- faces on
the outward bound.
The door of the car slammed suddenly,
and a big bearded man with eager blue
eyes came down the aisle, looking sharply
from right to left. IIo had left Denver
on the express to meet this train. His
glance fell on the tiny black figure.
"Why, Aunt Hannah 1" he cried, with
a break in his voice, und she she put
out ber trombling hand and fell into tho
big arms, tears streaming down the
wrinkled face.
"I knowed Providence would let me
find ye, Sam," she said brokenly, and no
one smiled when the big man sat down
beside her and with gentlo hand wiped
ber tears away.
"Why, I've sent John twenty dollars
a month for five years for you," he said
angrily, as she told him why she ran
away, "and he said you could not write,
for you had a stroke and was helpless,
and I have written often and sent you
money. It's hard for a man to called hit
own brother a villain.
"We wun't, Sam," sho said gently,
"but just furgit; and I wouldn't be a
burden to ye, fur I can work yit, an' for
years to come."
"Work, indeed I don't I owe you
everything?" he cried. "And ray wife
has longed for you to come. There are
so few dear old aunts in this country,
they're prized, I tell you. Why, it's as
good as a royal court of arms to have a
dear handsome old woman like you for a
relation."
Then he found out who Bent the tele
gram and paid tho lad, who blushed and
stammered like a girl and did not want
to take it.
"I suppose you want a job," said tbe
big man. "Well, I can give you one.
I'm in tbe food commission business.
Give you something light? Lots of your
sort, poor lad, out here. All the refer
ence I want is that little kindness of
yours to Aunt Hannah."
"Here's tho depot, Aunt Haunah, and
you won't see 'bars and In juns' nor the
buffaloes; sunniest city you ever set your
dear eyes on."
He picked up tho carpet bag, faded
and old fashioned, not a bit ashamed of
it, though it looked as if Noah might
have carried it to the ark.
They said goodby, and the last seen of
her was her happy old face boaming
from a carriage window as she rolled
away to what all knew would bo a
pleasant home for all her waning years.
New York Herald.
Took a Wire From a Bevy of Panpers.
James Dunlop, a well-to-do farmer,
living near Boone vi lio, Mo., recently
went to the County Poor Farm and
selected a wife from among the paupers
there being cared for. Ho said that he
had no time to be going courting among
women and thought he could get just as
good a wife from the Poor Farm as any
where else. An account says: "Dun
lop, after looking over the assembled
women, selected Mrs. Johnson, who ho
been a resident there for several years.
He told Mrs. Johuson that he was look
ing for a good woman to become his
wife and take care of his house for him,
and if she was willing he would marry
her at once and tbey could go right
home. Mrs. Johnson accepted him on
the spot, and the couplo came to town,
whore the ceremony was performed by
the Probate Judge. Dunlop has since
been in town acd fays that he is per
fectly satisfied, andjahiuk ho has found
a good wife, even though from the
County Farm. Mrs. Johnsm was tho
wife ot a prosperous farmer who lost all
his possessions several years ago and
died, leaving her penniless. She was
partly crippled and could not support
herself, and consequently was com
pelled to become a burden to the county,
although she was a most estimable
womau." New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Frnit Prices In Pioneer Days.
Tbe early fruit growers of Oregon had
a wonderful market for a few years ut
San Francisco. In 1854 500 bushels ot
apples were shipped from Oregon to
California, and returned a net profit of
from $1.50 to $2 per pouud. In 1855
the shipments rose to 0000 bushels,
which sold at from $20 to $.'it) a bushel.
Iu 1856 the shipments rose to 20,000
boxer. Even in this year big prices were
received, and for choice fruit faucy fig
ures were obtained, one box of Esopus
Spitzenbergs selling for $U0. The Cali
fornians planted apple-trees, and after
I860 the shipineuis of apples from Ore
gon began to decline. Apple-raising was
more profitable than gold-miuing for the
first half doz.-u years of the industry iu
Oregon. Eugene (Oregou) Guard.
I-.ny to Became Ambidextrous.
A majority of those persons unfortu
nate enough to lose au aim, lose the left
arm it is said, but once in a while some
or.e Iohcs a right urni. Now then, did
you ever think us to your probable digital
facility in case you should losu your right
ami to-morrow? In the language ol the
cxliorter, "It may be your turn next?"
It is a useless, senseless, harmful habit
this neglect of the left arm and its ad
juncts, but we are all of us too thought
less, too lazy perhaps to correct the habit,
it can be corrected however, as I have
found after two weeks regular practice.
Any man or woman who is iu earnest,
and will practice half au hour at some
certuiu time each day, can loaru to write
a legible hand and with reasonable rapid
ity with the left hand. Detroit Free
Press.
LIFE ON AN OCEAN LINER.
A WEEK SPENT ON A GREAT AT
LANTIC 8TEAMEH.
Tho Life of tho Passenger is One Con
tinual Hound ot Iteat and Pleas
ure Entertainments on Hoard,
P ESCRIBING a trip on a big At
lautic liner, the Philadelphia
Times says: Directly the ship
leaves the doik ut New York
the search begins for tho90 who have
resolved to go to England free, and they
are generally discovered and routed out
in time to go off with the pilot.
Before the first meal is served the
scats at table must bo secured, and a
long line forms to await tho selection
made for them by tho chief steward. On
most vessols there are two or three long
tables running lengthwise in the saloon,
and seven or eight smaller ones along
the lidos. The captain presides at one
of the smaller ones, ns do also tbe pur
ser and surgeons at two others. It is
generally regarded an honor to be at the
captain's table, but in reality it does not
make one bit of difference.
Very few acquaintances are made the
first day, and if they were they would all
have to bo made over agaiu, as tho next
morning every one appears in their sea
togs, and it is very difficult to recog
nize tbe bowling swell of the day before
in tbe miserable individual clad in a
huge ulster, nearly all cape, and a steamer
cap drawn down closely over his eyes.
If the voyage is pleasant and the invalids
are few, then you see life at its best, but
under any circumstances there is nothing
in the world so enjoyable as a week at
sea, fot tnal do mor rarely last more than
a day or two, and when you once get
your sea legs on the novelty of the Situa
tion, the bracing nir and the grand rush
through the water fills every vein with a
joyous appreciation of life, and life on
the ocean in particular.
It seems perfectly marvelous that
people, active and pushing on shore,
could absolutely dawdle through a week
and wonder at its end where the time
has flown, but such is the case, and
though you are supplied with reading
matter enough to las. you through each
minute, it is doubtful if you read one
volume to the end, so much of outside
interest is continually occurring to dlS-
frOr-t Vnil. aftnntinn anil ..af If aaama
I imnrobAble that four mind nii-nlft n Hnv
with many a bite between them, could
leave you still hungry, so that beef
broth, sandwiches or cold chicken will
taste good at eleven when at nine you
consumed a breakfast of four or five
courses and intend to do likewise at
luncheon, but an hour and a half later,
In the afternoon tea, crackers, lemon
ade and ginger ale are always on tap and
the Bteward makes enough taffy to feed
a regiment, but finds it insufficient. Be
fore retiring you enjoy a hearty supper
of grilled bones, sardines on toast and
welsh rarebit, and your di earns arc not dis
turbed by visions of your maternal an
cestor.
For amusement cords largely figure on
the bills. The smoking-room, of course.
has its gamo of poker, which begins at
Sandy Hook and ends at' Fustnct Light,
beside the pnols on the run of the shin,
and other little amusements which aio
apt to prove dungerous to the unwary.
as in keeping with so large a ship there
are always sharks in hor wake. Ladies
nnd gentlemen who nro not engrossed
in the mysteries of the emokiug-room
play euchre, cribbage or a quiet game
of whist. Shuffle-board aud ring-toss
are largely patronized by the children,
and let it be said right here that nowhere
do children enjoy themselves so much as
ou the grand deck of an ocean steamer.
It seems as though it were just made
for delightful games of tag ami hide and
seek. The steamer chairs, with their
mummy occupants, are such splendid
places tor idling away the hours in de
sultory conversation, with just a dash of
sentiment engendered probably by some
glowing sunset or soft, low-hanging,
luminous moon. The evening promen
ade is an established institution, and if
it be mild, many sweet voico is heard in
plaintive love songs or old plantation
melodies to the accompauiment of tho
sentimental mandolin, or the strumming
of the banjo.
Sometimes a paper fillcJ with bright
jokes and personal mention is published
and sold for the benefit of the Seaman's
Orphanage iu Liverpool, and for the suine
excellent charity a concert is always
held. What voyage would be complete
without a concert I Sometimes really ex
cellent talent is heard, and then again
no professionals being on board, ama
teurs come to the front, aud though per
haps not so great a success,tlie entertain
ment always affords much enjoyment.
A tug-of-war, a potato race and en
tertainments by the tailors fill the days
to repletion with pleasant thought and
laughable incident, while the ever
changing marine life about us shown in
the appearance and fading away of a sail
on the horizon, the glimpse of nn ice
berg, tho spouting of u whale or a trio
of Mother Cary's chickens, dissipates
time nnd ennui, until it seems impossible
to believe that according to the papers
brought ou board at Queenstown
we have uctually been liviug out of the
world for au entire week.
On Suuduy the Church of England ser
vice is conducted iu thu suloou by tbe
captain, and to this the second cabin
passengers are invited. The pleasure
aud comfort to be derived from a trip
such as this may be materially enhanced
by the judicious feeing of all those who
servo you in any capacity. They expect
it, and unless they receive it you will rind
yourself made uncomfortable in many
iittle ways and in such a manner that you
have no redress.
This bit of advice to the uninitiated
may seem entirely unnecessary, but to
one who contemplates a trip abroad an
immediate adoptio.i id the plan of feeing
may us well lit eomireiicod on shipboard.,
for it will pursue him through each town
and couutry of the old world until he
once agaiu sets foot ou his native heath
und realizes that A'liciica is about as
fcood a place as you can find anywhere
idler all.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Electric welding is now applied to
the work of manufacturing iron wheels.
Zinc expand up to the melting point.
A bar of hammered zinc six inches long
will expand 1 1-100 of an inch in rais
ing the temperature 100 degrees F.
The averagn mortality of unmarried
men between the age of twenty and
twenty-five is 1174 in every 100,000,
whilo that of married men is only
697.
It is stated that a Garinnn firm has
perfected a meaus of making a profitable
disposition of sawdust. An acid is
mixed with the sawdust and the wholo
mass molded into blocks or any other
form, resulting in a fine material for
building purposes.
A new machine is beiug used in
England to level tho tip and nails in
the bottoms of boots and shoes and to
produce a fiue polish and finish hitherto
impossible by hand work. The machine
is arranged to run by power and is firmly
placed on an iron base, with counter
shafting and pulleys.
A design of au electric boat, pro
pelled by a sea-water battery, has been
exhibited before the French Academy of
Sciences. Tho battery plates are uudcr
the boat, in the form of a keel, nnd the
current generated drives a motor oper
ating the screw. The plates (copper or
ziuc) are raised or lowered by means of
pulleys.
Iu the Electricity Building at tho
World's Fair, Chicago, there will be
forty thousand panes of glass, or more
than in any other exposition structure.
This building will be especially con
spicuous at night, as, owing to its ex
tensive glass surface, tho brilliancy of
its electrical exhibit will bo strikingly
visible from tho outside.
Thomas Meehan says that striking
variations in plants occur at times sud
denly by bud variation as well as by
seeds. The curled-leaved weeping
willow suddenly assumed this character
on a tree of the ordinary kiud; the red
sweet potnto is also a bud variation from
the ordinary white variety; the double
flowered tubcroso is believed to have
originated by bud variation.
One of tho most attractive of the ex
hibits at the Frankfurt Exposition is
that in which the process of manufactur
ing the celebrated Sevres china is shown
to tbe public. Bohemian girls, attired
in their national costume, manipulate
the plastic clay and wax into life-like
leave and birds. The mass is then
placed in a furnace and the heat is so
regulated as to solidify the substance
without the least fracture. A second
furnace evaporates all that is left of the
wax, leaving a very friable dead whito
china flower. On this the coloring artist
reproduces tho dclicato. shading of the
natural flower and the article is again
placed in the furnace to burn the color.
A Philadelphia sciontist has made au
Analysis of the brains of a gorilla, nnd
the results of his investigation are calcu
lated to give little comfort to those who
have maintained there is ouly a "missing
link" between mau and tho gorilla in the
chain of evolution, it was found that
the bruin of the' gorrilla was really of a
much lower order of dcvclopcment than
that of the ourang-autang or tho chim
panzee. The gorilla's frontal lobo, in
stead of being round and convex, was
pointed and concave, and the lower
portion of the brain, visible in the
chimpanzee as well as mau, Is missing.
The gorilla, insteud of standing at the
bead of the monkey tribe, is lower than
at least two other members of it.
No Wonder Indians Are Dying Out.
The conversation hail drifted on to
Indians, and apropos of the topic a lum
berman in the office remarked that at the
lust camp on Prairie River, from which
ho bad just returned, ho had seen a
goodly group of these noblo aborigines
camped neai- tho lumber shanties.
"They came to look after a horse," raid
he. "Lost a horse?" "No,wc lost on;
got killed, and they came down to cut
aim up." "What for?" ' Why, to eat
him.. They stayed right by the carcass
and hung up and dried every pouud of
meat ou him. Queer how tbey found it
out. The horse hadn't been dead twenty
four hours before the whole tribe were
after him; crows cou du't have doue bet
ter." "That' nothin.'," said au old logger
standing by. "Last winter six horses
died in our camp of epizootic, aud I'll
be hanged if they didn't pick the bones
of every one of tbein cleuu. There is no
trouble in accounting for the rapid re
duction of the Indian population when
you know what they tut. Minneapolis
(Minn.) Lumberman.
Tho Canniii; Industry.
The total pack of corn last year was
2,778,453 cases, aguiust l,.VSS.O0i) cases
in 1800, 1,760,:10U iu lHH'.l, 3,491,474
in 1888, which was the largest iu the
history of the trade. Maine packed
614,894 cases lnt year; Maryland and
Virginia together, 461,210; New York,
536,814; Illinois uud Indiana, 476,733;
Iowa, 213,000; Ohio, 191,800, etc. Of
tomatoes, 3,405,635 cases (two do.uu tiu
cans) were packed last year, against
3,106,177 the year before. New jersey
stands first iu tomato cuuning, with 950,
833 cases last year; Maryland comes
next with 744,010 coses; Indiana packed
3U.217; Delaware, 261,940; Cali
fornia, 218,311, and Ohio, 90,500
American Grocer.
Masterpiece of Burmese Art.
Prince Bismarck has just received a
valuable present from tueGcrmuu colony
in liurmub. It consists of a centre-piece
of solid silver two feel long and three
feet high. The pedestal is entirely cov
ered with beautifully worked figures, aud
at each corner are artistically wrought
dragons, each of which carries a huge
ivory tusk, which is hollowed out aud
decorated with Burmese carvings. This
gift is prouuuuced by experts to be the
most perfect masterpiece of llimnc-se
art-industry which bus ever leached
Europe. New York Pest,
WHEN THE COWS COME HOMaV'
With the klinjrle, klangle, klingle,
Far down the dusky dingle
Th. cowa are coming borne.
Now sweet and clear, and faint and low,'
The airy tinkling, come and go,
lake chiming from a far off tower.
Or pattarings of an April shower
That mnkes the daises grow,
Kollng, kolang, kolingelingle, . ;
Far down the darkening dingle
The cows comes slowly home.
And old time friends and twilight plays.
And starry nights and sunny days.
Come trooping up the misty ways
When the cows com. home.
With jingle, jangle, jingle,
Soft tones that swelling mingle,
The cows are coming home;
Malvine, and Pearl and Florimel.
DeKamp, Red Rose and (JreU-heu Scbell,
Queen Bes and Sylph nnd upangled Sue,
Across the field I hear their loo-o-o
And clang of silver bell.
Goling, golang, golingrtincle.
With faint, far sounds that mingle,
The cows come slowly home.
And mother songs of long gone years,
And baby joys and childish tears
And youthful hopes and youthful fears,
When the cows come home.
With riugle. rangle, ringle.
By twos and threes and single.
The cows are coining home.
Through violet air we see the town, '
And the summer sun a-skipping down;
And the maple in the hazel glade
Throws down the path a longer shade,
And the hills are growing brown
Toring, torang, toringleringk",
By threes and fouis and single,
The cows come slowly home.
The same sweet sound of wor.iless psalm,
Th. same sweet June-;':ty rest and calm,
The same sweet smell oi budsnud balm,
When the cows come home.
With tinkle, tankle, tinkle,
Through fern and periwinkle).
The cows are coming home;
A -loitering in the checkered stream,
Wbero the sun's rays glanee and gleam,
Clarine, reachbloom, l'hebe and Phillis,
Stand knee-deep in the creamy lilies.
In a drowsy dream.
Tolink, tolank, tolinklelinkle,
O'er banks with buttercups a-twinkla,'
The cows come slowly home.
And up through memory's deep ravine
Come the brook's old soug and its olJ-time
sheen,
And the crescent of the silver iiieeii,
When the cows come home.
With klingle, klangle, klingle.
With loo-oo and moo-oo and 1 ingle, ,
The cows are coming home,
Aud over there, on the Merlin hill,
Sounds the plaintive cry of the whip-poor-will,
And the dew-drops lie on the tauglel vines,
And over the poplars Venus shines
And over the silent mill.
Koling, kolang, kolinglelingle.
With a ting-a-ling and a jingle.
The cows come slowly home,
i.ot down the bars, lot iu the train
Of long gono song aud flowers and rain.
For dear old times come back again
When the cows come home,
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Startliug figures Ghosts.
A catch phrase Sick hi ml
A man may bo lantern-jawed and yet
his face never light up. Eastou Free
Press.
The astronomer who has made a tele
scopic discovery is naturally proud of hi
good looks.
The moon ia.ahovo all human follies
and always looks down on lover. El
miru Gazette.
A coal dealer cau't be a musician. He ;
can never learn to run the scale accurate
ly. ninghamton Republican.
Tho most dangerous "chargo of the
light brigade' is that made by the gas
oilice clerk. Columbus Post.
Wheu s man is "beside himself" he
generally demonstrates Hint be doesn't
like the company. Boston Courier.
Plenty of tall men are "short," loose
men "tight," cold men "warm" and big
mcu "suiull." Philadelphia Record.
From the prescriptions of some physi
cians, it is evident that they have for
gotten their boyhood. Columbus Post.
"Will the coming man use both
arms?" asks a scientist. "Yen, if he
can trust the girl to handle the reins."
Philadelphia Press.
Prominence has its drawbacks. Tho
drum major doesn't sec near as much of
the parade ns the man on the curbstoue.
Indianapolis News.
Anarchist "We expect to argue our
cause with bombs, sir!" tjuiet Citizen
"A bomb, my friend, is an argument'
that ha been exploded long ayn "
Chicago Tribune.
Jobsou (at the restaurant) "Waiter,
give me some chicken calid and a bottle
of oda." Jagsou "Give me the
eame." Jo'.ison (who is from Boston)
"Excuse me; it cannot be the same
i.ay, similar.'" Shoo and Leather Re
porter. Bultiuch "How is that litllu mining
scheme of your getting nlong? Any
money iu it?" Wooden "Any money
in it I We'. I, I should say so! All of
miue, all of my wife's, und about fifty
tbousaud that I got from my fricuds."
Boston Courier.
The Astronomer Are Puzzled.
One of the most mystciioiis c'.iauges
witnessed iu the ever-chuiK'iug solar sys
tem is the variatiou iu the brightness of
the moons of Jupiter. Two of the four
satellites occasionally cr.)ts thu pluuet'a
disc as dark objects, although it U known,
that their sunny sides are presented to us
uud should appear no less brilliantly il
luminated than the planet itself. The
third uud fourth tatcllitcs nlteii make
these dark transits and the lint is some
times seen us a Inoun object, but the
second has never bieu noticed otherwise
than us a bright ili.-c. The phenomenon
still remains without satisfactory eipluua-
J tiou. St. Louis Republic,