THE FOREST REPUBLICAN fa pablUtl.d mrj W4awlj, T J. E. WENK. Offlo la Bmearbauga A Co.1 Bull din km mum, noRwrri, rs, Term, . . . fi.(o prTur, BATE 8 OP AOVRTtIBl On. Sqoar., on. Inch, on. Inrss.. I fl On. Square, on. Inon, on. month ... ?J FOR PUBLICAN. """i u On. Square, on. Inch, three montos. on. Bquar., on. men, om . Two Squares, on. year . Quarter Column, one year......... 1000 18 00 WW Vll J -.. V- " fhtB HaIhhih muliur ........... I1 wuw , Legal adr.rtl5.mnnt. ten cents) V" aarh InMrtlon. Marriages and death notices f rati All bill for yearly advertisement, collae quarterly, l.mporarj advertisement BHM b. paid In ad ran op. Job work oah an dsliverT. , uorratpoTKlfflc telleltad from il Mrt. .. VOL. XXV. NO. 3. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY U, 1892. S1.50 PER ANNUM. anrnou Re EST George W. Cable fays that the Ameri can literary taste is risiug. Ia Algicra, North Africa, twelve mill ton aero, of ban en land have bcon re claimed and planted in vineyards. Ono of the fluent possibilities of unl versity extonsion in tlio United States, argues tho Washington Star, is in the aid it will give to ambitious workingmcn. The number of students now registered at the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, is 2691, tho largest number ever attending any American institution of learning, and leading Harvard by twenty eight. , Chacicj A. Berry, a prominent railroad man of St. Louis, Mo., believes that the timo is not far distant when railroad colleges will be established, as the rail road business "requires as much technical knowledge and skill as lw or medicine." Socrclary of War Elkins has amended regulations so as to confine the enlistment in tho United States Army of boys be tween the ages of sixteen and eighteen years to tho grade of musicians or to learn music, and then only to fill a known vacancy. . . i The opening of tho gradunto course in philosophy at Yale to students of both exes It on important step in tho higher education of women. It will certainly lead to similar privileges at other uni versities which havo hitherto deniod de grees to women, predicts tho San Fran cisco Chronicle. The poultry products of the United States Inst year amounted to nearly $20.1, 000,000; no less than 18,000,000 dozen eggs were imported at a cost of nearly 92,600,000, while the annual importa tion, for the past four years has been ff2, 216,826. With these facts before them, marvels the New York Independent, some still cnli poultry raising a trifling occupation. What the New York Independent calls "a most timely article" appeared recently in a Japanese vernacular paper, lamenting tho strong inclination which young men display toward political life. Men without nny aptitude for politics waste their energy in disctissiug current questions. Such persons nro urged to turn their attention toward some other spheres of action equally important and noble. Such advice is greatly needed by the young men of Japan to-day, and a careful following of it would conduce to the future safety of the country. Says the Louisville Courier-Journal: "A good deal moro gold coin would be in circulation if it were uot for the fact that many persons hoard small amounts of it, though thsy are no more benefited by this saving tbau if it wero silver or paper. Theso hoarders are chiefly women, many who keep every gold piece they find in the pockets of their husbands and hold on to every one that comes to them in any other way. It is just as well that this should be so, as handlers of much money prefer paper to any kind of coin. The ladies may as well keep their gold pieces out of circulation nt long as possible." Protection from tho contagion of leprosy is becoming a serious sourco ol concern in Louisiaua. A young lady, connected with one of the old Creole families of Louisiana resident in Ibor ville, recently died of the disease at the hospital for lepers in Now Orleans, to which she hud been brought barely a month ago. Cnsei of leprosy, it seems, are not uncommon in the parish of Iber ville, und (hero it was the girl, who was only twenty years of ago, contracted the loathsome disease. Licnl treatment was of no avail, and as a last resort she wool to tbo hospital in New Orleans, where her case was found to be past humaD relief. Several farmers near Wapakoneta, Ohio, havo been inf. Jo the victims of two very smooth fruit tree men through very ingenious scheme. A well dressed man, driving through tho country sell ing fruit trees, would stop at a farmer's house. Whilo there ho would be taken very ill and ask tho furmer to hand him a bottle of medicine out of a grip, which, however, tho latter would not find. lie would then ask him to go or send omobody to town for a prescrip. tion, giving him a louutuiu pea and a fruit tree blank on which to writo tho prescription, and as the modiciuo was of such nature as to require tho pur chaser's signature the unsuspecting farm er would sign it. Just hero stiungor No. 3 makes his nppuaranco from the opposite direction, goiu to town, lie tops for a drink of water, and as ho is coming back at once and is visiting in the neigborhood, he is asked to take the prescription to town. Shortly nfter he ' has gone No. 1 finds his medicine, re covers, and goes to towu. Iu a few days the farmer has a note to pay and the -'ascription never com back. TWO CIT1E3, Bid. by I1. they stand, ' These cities two, But a breath of land Between them lies; Above, the self -same skies, Serene and blue. ' One is full of strife And weal and woe, Quick with rent loss life; The other fair, Yet of Its Joy, or caro, No one may know. Never word doth pass. Nor any signs; It. streets ar. soft with grass; The light winds blow Like murmurous voice, low Amid the pines. And a silence falls, Profound and deep; Though the sad heart calls In IU despair, No answer comes to prayer For those who weep. I know not which is host Wherein to dwell Life's strife, or Death's calm rest; ' Not I. who stand One side this breadth of Inn J; I cannot tell. Henry C. Wood, in Frank Leslie's. ALL UOLLTS DOING. DY UtLK.N FOIUIKBT O HAVES. HE yellow sky barred with lines of dark cloud, the ground tight- irozcn like a mask of Iron a windy March sunset this was the time. The old nursery at Peakllill.lightcd by the flicker of a wood fire this was the plane. Two girls, seated on a dilapidated tiger-skin rug, hugging their knees and staring disconsolately in the blaze these wero the persons present. "Hasty pudding and milk I" said Dolly Peak. "Thnt isn't much of a supper. For my part, I think Arthur is kicky to be detained in town to-night. The bank managers can't, in ordinary decency, oiler him anything less thau sandwiches and coffee. I wish I was a bank clerk." "Do hold your tongue, Dolly!" said Margery. "Do you suppose it isn't as hard for me to be poor as it is for you? When I am tho oldest, too, and tho one that ought to be out in society! It's enough to drive one frautic to be invited to the ball nt Skip ton Court, and not be able to go!" Margery sprang to her feet and began walking swiftly up and down the door, her black hair gleaming in the firelight, her thin hands clasped. Dolly eyed her, half In sympathy, half in curiosity. "Perhaps," said she, tentatively, "if you bad a dress fit to wear, and could o, some one might tail in love with you!" Margery smiled a scornful smile. "Stranger things hare happened," said she. "Margery" hesitated Dolly. Wclli" "Don't pcoplo hire dresses some times?" "Yes, if they have the money and the opportunity, and no particular sense of dignity. Do you thiuk I would wear a hired dross?" Once more Dolly hugged her knees. "Margery," said she, "it sometimes seems to me as if the world were out of joint. Our world, I mean. Hero we are, as poor as Job's turkey or a church mouse, or any other of those proverbially poor things. What business have we to live in a big house like this, with only old llebecca to take care of us? What business have we holding our hands while our brother is working hard as a clerk, to maintain us?" "Because Arthur wants us to live like ladies, in the house where our parents ud grandparents lived before us!" said Margery, curtly. "Because we can't do anything else." "Don't ladies evpr work, Margery?" "Dully, don't ask such foolish ques tions. Of course they do sometimes." Just then old Hebecca came in, bring ing a lighted lamp. She drew the faded moreen curtains, put a fresh log of wood on the tire, and limped out again. She was very old, but she had waited on these girls' mother before I hem, aud still liked to keep up the semblance of attendance. "They're ladies," said Rebecca, proud ly, "every inch o'them. Look at their white bauds. Look at the way they carry themselves." Half an hour ufterward. Margery roused herself from a lit of abstraction, to Unit that sho was alone. "Why, where has Dolly gone?" she asked herself. Aud iu the same moment tho door flew open, a sudden gust of perfume freighted the air, and Dolly came in, with a candle held high above ber head like Lady Macbeth, a roll of old drapery under tier arm, and a basket of delicious white-and-yellow narcissus iu her hand. "Where have I been?" she repeated. "Why, everywhere! Up garret, down into the old green-bouse, into the land of the possible and impossible! Smell these flowers, Margery !" And she held the narcissuses close to Margery's straight little Greek nose. "Where did you get them, Dolly, at this time of year?" cried Margery. "I planted them in the greenhouse benches, lost fall. I was determined to have something to brighteu us up when the March whirlwinds set iu. It's true that the hashes are ull broken, but I tacked old blankets up, and made it weather tight, and the sunshine pours iu like gold, aud the old Harrison rose is in blossom, aud there are lots of blue eyed pausits, and all theso sweet spriug tars, Well, I remember the torj we read about the girl who went to a party in her great-grandmother's wedding dress. Girls in stories always discover dresses packed away in old sandal scented trunks in garrets, so why shouldn't we? And 1 went up stuirs and had a regular rummage." "Dolly, what a goose you arel" "I just am, Msrgory. Of course there was nothing thero but cobwebs and little bright-eyed mice, and old rags that tho ragman's groat-grandmother would have been ashamod of. But I found this old cream colored silesia back of the mahog any cheat of drawers. It'Jl make better curtains for this room than yonder faded moreen things. Oh, Margery, how pret ty those narcissus flowers look ia your hair. Sit still a minute only a min ute!" She draped the pale yellow stuff artist icnlly over Margery's tall shouldors; sho fastened it with a knot of deep gold nar cissus; she showered the other flowers in a yellow drift upon the jetty braids ot her black hair. "Margery," sho cried, gleefully clap ping her hands, "what a lovely straight profile you have I I shall turn artist and paint you, nnd cnll you Springtime.' " Margery uttored a suddon exclamation which made Dolly whirl swiftly around, anil there, to her infinito otnbarrassment, stood her brother Arthur, the young bank clerk, with another gentleman- Mr. Somerset, of Skipton Court. "Is it a tableau?" said that young man, smiling, "or a full drew rehearsal?" Margery filing off tho pale yellow draperies the narcissus stars rained down on the shabby carpet at her feet. "It's only Dolly's nonsense," she said, with a glance of smothered indignation at her sister. "Oh, but what a pity to spoil the effect?"' said Somerset. "Such lovely flowers I .My sisters are besieging the florists' to get just such blossoms for the ball decorations. Speaking of toe ball, Miss Peak, we are determined that you shall reconsider your refusal to come, because " And Dolly, going from Ihe room in conscious disgrace, lost the rest of tho sentence. Down in the kitchen the only othor roora in which there was a fire there ensued a lively discussion between old Hebecca and her young lady. "My doario sweet," coaxed tho an cient servitrcss, "you can't?" "But I can!" said Dolly. "But you mustn't, Miss Dolly I" "But I willl" cried Dolly, .with a stamp of her ill-shod foot. "You're a Peak, dearie,, of Peak Hill." "But you're not, Becky. Dear Becky, good Becky, if you put on the old sleighing hood and blue spectacles, no ono will know you. And poor Margery I Think of Marjory! Oh, Becky, you will you must!" The soft kisses on Rebecca's cheek, lip, brow, were enticing beyond every thing. She felt hersolf yielding. "La, child," said she, "don't stifle mel If I must, I must!" The next morning Margery Peak sauntered down to the old greenhouse. "If the (lowers are really there," laid she, "I may as well pick them and send them to Skipton Court. It'll be a neigh borly thing to do, aud Why, where are they I Dolly, 1 thought you said " In the middle of the old place stood Dolly in tho attitude of a tragio muse. "They've all been picked and taken away in the night," said she, dramati cally "every one!" "Gooduess me!" cried Margery., "Who ever heard of such a thing? Who can have done it?" "Of course," sighed Dolly, "the door is never locked. Any one could have done it." The night of the ball at Skipton Court arrived. Once more the sky glowed yel low as the sweet spriug jonquils them selves aud tho wiud howled down tho chimney of the nursery. Ouce more Margery sat on the old fur rug, .thinking sadly. "Mareerv I" breathed a soft voice. "Dolly, aro you there?" cried tho elder, with a start. 'Yes, I'm here. Listen Margery. When we were children, don't you re member how we used to play at 'Making Believe?' Well, let's make.believe now. Suppose we had a grandmother, liko the story heroiues, and she had a wedding dress; would you liko it to be like this ?" She shook out the clouds of a soft, white tullo dress, threaded with woven gleams of gold, and knottjd up here und thero with buuehes of yellow narcissus. Margery sprang to her feet ecstatically. "Oh, Dolly!" she cried. "Am I dreamiug?" "No!" criod exultant Dolly; "It's real truth 1 I bought the dross aud old Becky made it after the pattern of your last white muslin aud I trimmed it with flowers my flowers." "Child, where did you get the money?" "Becky sold the pansies and the nar cissuses and the jonquils. The florists would have given any money for more. They had a big order from Skipton Court. Now, Margery, 1 know how to earn money and help Arthur along. As for you " "Well, as for me?" "Why, here's the great -grandmother's dress, and there's the enchaute 1 ball room, waiting at Skipton Court, aud the yellow gold pieces raining down, in the tho shape of narcissus anl jonquils. And I shouldn't a bit wonder," sho added roguishly, "if the royal prince himself wasn't so very fur oft, because Mr. Somer set told Arthur that he never had seen any one as beautiful as you were that night when you sat iu the firelight draped in amber silesia aud crowucd with flowers. Quick 1 let me help dress you, Margery. There isn't a moment to lose.'1 "Yoj dear little good fairy!" cried Margery, with swimming eyes. "But I must stop long enough to give you a kiss. How did you ever come to thiuk ol it?" For ouce iu a way thiugs happens 1 just exactly as they ought. Mr. Somer set was already half ia love with Mar gery Peak, and the ball room experience concluded the other half of tho delicious captivity. When she came home, early in the windy spring morning, Dolly was sitting up for her, drowsy but smiling. "Weill" cried Dolly, rapturously. "Do you know, Margery, I've been dreaming in front of the firo here? And what do you guess I dreamed? That Louis Somerset asked you to bo his wife!" Margery's sweet, flushod faco drooped on bcr sister's shoulders. "It wasn't a dream, Dolly," sho whispered. "It was tho truth, and I think you must be a magician 1" "One nsodn't depend much on the magic art," said sagely Dolly, "if ono keeps one's ears nnd eyes open. I knew he was in love with you long ago. Oh, hw sweet the flowers smell !" "Poor things!" said Margery, caress ing tho drooping petals; "they are all withered. He took one of them, to keep forever ho said. I shall always lovo narcissus after this! And to think, Dolly, dear, that this was all your do ings!" Saturday Night. A Great Apple Orchard. Tho Wellhoii'e orchard of Kansvs is becoming knewn the world over. This orchard is a piece of good, well drained soil, about ono thousand feet above son level. The trees were planted In trenches ra ther than in holes, the trenches be ing made by plowing out furrows nearly or fully ten inches in depth. Trees are thirty-two foot apart, east and west, and twelve feet apart, north and south. Corn was planted between the trees while young. After tho trees have come into bearing the ground is sown to clover. This is cut down every year when tho seod is ripe. The tool used in the operation is a homo made rolling cutter, consisting of a stick of timber twelve or fifteen inches square and ten feet long. The corners aro dressed off so as to form an octagon, and eight knives, running the whole length, are inserted, one at each corner. This stick of timber is fastened in a frame, nnd revolves in it when pulled over tho ground by teams, its own weight boing sufficient to chop up the clover and chance weeds. The trees are all low headed, trained in pyramidal form, with limbs starting out about one foot from the ground. This is best, as the bodies of the trees must be protected from the fierce sun rays, otherwise they will bo sun scalded and ruined. An ordinary box trap is used for tho rabbits, which are very plentiful. Most of the insect enemies are destroyed by spraying with London purple. Almost five-sixths of all the fruit thus grown can be reached by the pickers while standing on the ground. In the packing house the apples are carefully assorted by hand. Three and even four grades are made. All unfit for other use are left in the field or fed to hogs. The yield on the 225 acres in 1880 was 1S94 bushels; in 1890, 79,170 bushels. The Missouri pippin is the best yielder, followed by wine sap, theu by Ben Davis, Jonathan, and lastly by maiden's blush and Cooper's early. The last named is not profitable. The most fruit and most money has been obtained from the Missouri pippin, but the trees are becoming exhausted and fruit small. Ben Davis is now the leader. The ex penses up to the time that the trees came into bearing (in 1883) aggregated $20, 852, or about thirty-five cents per tree. Rent of land is not included in this, however. Western Stockmau. A Good I'ockct-Knifc. The costliest pocket-knives manufac tured for sale are retailed at a store in New York City, which sells nothing but knives. There are 1500 different kinds on exhibition in the window, ranging in prue from five cents to ifZo. The 25 knife is the costliest known. Tho out side plates of its handle are solid gold, ami it contains two small blades only, a nail tile and a miniature pair of scissors. There is a little hook in the handle by which it may be attache! to the watch chain. The sales of the $25 knife are very slow. The largest knife in America is sup posed to be in Cincinnati. It has fifty six blades and a chest of tools in itself, containing almost anything from a tooth pick to a cigar punch, from a pair of scissors to a handsaw. It is for sale at $500 and weighs thirteen pounds. The largest knife ever kuown was made by Jonathan Crookes, a workman for Joseph Rodgcrs iu Sheffield. It had 1821 blades. St. Louis Republic. A Toet't Definition orroetry. Whether sung, spoken, or written, poetry, says L. C. Stcnlmin in the Cen tury, is still the most vital form of human expression. Ono who essays to analyzo its constituents is an explorer undertak ing a quest in which many havo failed. Doubtless he too may fail, but he seti forth in the simplicity of n good knight who docs not fear his fato too much, whether his desert be great or small. In this mood seeking a dofinitioa of that poetic utterance which is or may becomo of record a.detlaition both de fensible and inclusive, yet compressed into a single phrase I hreve put together the following statement: Poetry is rhytluuical, imaginative language, expressing the invention, tnslu, thought, passion and insight of tho hum,u soul. Helpfulness of Wires. Hundred of fortune! that lnvoibcco ascribed to the iudustry of mon bear upon them tho marks of a wife's hand, declares Rev. T. Do Witt Talmoge. Burglwm, the artist, was us luzy as he was talented. His studio was over tho rcom where his wife sat. Every few minutes all day long, to keep her husband from idleness, Mrs. Bergham would tako a stick uud thump against the ceiling, and her hus band would answer by stamping on the floor, the signal that he was wido awuke aud busy. One-half of tho industry and puuctuality that you witness every day in places of busiue&s ia merely tho result of Mrs. Bergbais's stick thumping against ths ceiling. New 'York Observer, THE ROAllOF GREAT fiUNS. THE ORDEAL OF SOLDIERS WHO SUPPORT A BATTERY. The ICffnct of a Terrific and Continu nns Cannonade Upon Man, Boast, lilrrl and Fish "T "J" ERE arc two field batteries I twelve, six and nine pounders I I in nil firing as rapidly as J" ' they can bo loaded. The re ports blend into a roar, and you must raise your voice as if a hurricane was howling about you. You are not im pressed, but rather aggravated and annoyed. There's a snap to each report like the cracking of a great whip a spiteful sound which reminds you of a dog following at your heels with his yelpl yelp! yelp! There is no more trying situation for a soldier than to be lying down in sup port of a battery. He is only a few yards in front of the guns, and he not only feels the full force of the coucussion as communicated to the earth, from the "kick" of the gun, but the report itself seems to strike the spinal column nnd travel up to the back of the head. Then, too, thero is the fear of shells explod ing prematurely or of grape or canister ter "dribbling" to cause wounds or death, and it is a positivo relief to see a column of tho enemy break cover for a charge. Tho roar of the guns does not linger for hours after, as is tho case with mortars and siege guns, but you find your nerves on edge and your temper spoiled for a day or two. The men who lay in lines with a battery firing over tbem probably endured more mental suf fering than the enemy at whom the guns were pointed. The tire of great guns is terribly trying for the first few minute, but this feeling gradually gives way to one of awe and sublimity. There is something terrific and appal ling you feel yourself so atomless iu comparison that you would speak in whispers if the roar could suddenly ease. You are an onlooker; if assisting to work a gun, physical activity would tako away from the mental strain. When Admiral Porter got his twenty mortar boats, each armed with an eight and a half-ton mortar and a thirty-two pound riflo cannon, at work against the forts below New Orleans, and the big guns in both forts had opened in reply, there was something akin to tho sound of heaven and earth coming together. The mortar shells weighed over 200 pounds a piece, and the rush of them tnrough the air made one's hair feel as if it crawled. The venomous hiss of a big skyrocket wa9 magnified thousands of times, to be followed by a crash which seemed to split the sky open into cracks nnd crevices. When the firing had continued uutil nil reports had been merged into one steady roar there was little short of an earthquake on land or sea for ten miles around. The earth shook' as if a great stcamwnaranier was pounding it a few yards from your feet. If stauding near a tree, you could feel the roots letting go of the soil with a sound like bugs crawl ing over dry leaves. On the water great mud spots rose up here and there to show where the earth, forty feet below had been disturbed. In the Mississippi River itself huge catfish leaped above the surface in fright and pain or fhated aud were carried along with the current, gasping for breath. Out on the blue water air bubbles as large as dining plates floated to the surface and bursted with a snap, and fish of all kinds exhi bited the greatest confusion and alarm. Thirty miles away ths roar was like that of a gale sweeping over a pine for est. Horses aud cattle sought to hido away, birds flew about iittcriug cries of distress, and dogs pointed their noses toward tho sky and howled dismally. Birds aud fowls felt tho uir aud earth waves long before human beings did, and their uctions were so queer as to be come alarming. Tho coming of the roar to those afar of was preceded by a jar ring of the earth and a moaning in the air. Spriugs overflowed, and the water iu we'.ls circled around as in a whirl pool. The wildest species of birds left the woods and thickets and came flying about the houses, au 1 rabbits deserted thtir burrows and sought the companion ship of domestic anin.als. The thunder storms of a score of years combined could not have rent the heavens nor dis turbed the solid earth as that canuonado did. If the beginuiug was painful aud ex asperating the ending was something to be remembered for its grandeur. Ono mortal after another, ono great gun after another, was silenced by order. The re verberations had traveled through air and earth and water a distance of fifty miles. They now seemed to return back to the guns. The rent aud riven skies had kept up a constant mouuiug and ccmplaiuiug. Those sounds gradu ally died away, as a man in pain tludly drops olf to sleep. The earth resumed its solidity again, the suu shone forth in its old familiar way, nnd the bank of clouds piled up iu the west and tinged with gold ull along their lower edges seemed proof to the eye that the world still stood us we had lived in it the day before those monsters awoke and de manded huuiuu blood and wreck and de struction as the price of their silence. M. (Juad, iu W. Louis Republic. How a Lion Attacks. An Englishman from Bombay, India, savs that the nomilar niftnm. nf lima bounding at their victims misrepresent uii.amimu s muueoi uiiuc c. LaKe other fierce auimuls the lions as u rule endeavor to avoid the spor'smun until wounded, when, like the tiger, they charge with a coughing roar. sVheu he dots at aek you, the lion goes ut great sped close to the ground ami knocks you olf your lens, lie sneaks ( oui exnerience. as lie has killed many lions, and was uenrly kit ed by one that hu had wouuded. He was dreadfully luceruted, but says that the lion's claws uud teeth did uot hurt his flesh so badly as he suiipoi. I they would. The really painful )tit of tho operation was the crunching of the bouts. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. An average man breathes about 20, 000 times in a day. A process has recently been discovered for making flour of bananas. When a belt gets saturated with waste oil, an application of ground chalk will soon absorb the oil and make the belt workable. A tricycle to be propelled by electricity and to run at the averago speed of ten miles an hour his been patented at Washington. Bismuth melts at a point so far below that of boiling water that it can be used for taking casts from tho most; destruc tible objects. Steel is now being used in the manu facture of fence posts. This is an inno vation on tho old cedar method, and promises to meet with extended use. The Midland Railway in England has now running between St. Pancras and Bradford trial trains fitted with a hot water apparatus, supplied from tho en gine, for heating the carriages. Electricity has now been put to many uses, tho very latest being the working of a machine which it was said will revolutionize tho art of stone carving. The inventor is a Colorado man. It has been proposed to make the upper half of war balloons of very thin steel, and the lower portion of ordinary bal loon material, the whole so constructed as to hold hydrogen instead ot ordinary gas. The descendants of a single wasp num ber as many as 30,000 in ono seisnn. November is the fatal month which kills them all off, except two or three females, on whom depends the perpetuation of tho race. No animal has more than five toes, digits, or clows to each foot or limb. The horse is one-toed, the ox two-toed, tho rhinoceros is three-toed, the hippo potamus is four-toed, and tho elephant and hundreds of other animals are live toed. Sheet-irort kites, to enablo a vessel when in distress during a storm to com municate with the shore, have been sug gested. It would be a curious experi ment. Of course, sheet-iron can be made as thin or thinner than writing paper. In its wild state the elephant foads honrtily, but wastefully. It is carof ul iu selecting tho few forest trcos which it likes for their bark or foliage. But it will tear down branches and leave half of them untouched. It will strip off tho bark from other trees and throw away a Inrere portlou. Lettuce is a sleepy vegetable. It has narcotic properties In the milky juice that exudes when it is cut. The proper: tics of this fluid are analogous to those of opium, but without the litter's disngree iblo after effects. Tho rapid growth of lettuce in a cold frame diminishes tne somnolent quality of its juice. The hop vine is said to be sinistrorse because it twines with the motion of the lun, that is, from right to left. Beans, morning glories nnd all other species of climbing plants, with the exception of one of the honeysuckles, are dextrorse, turning opposite to the apparent motion of the sun, or from lett to right. After you have become tired of paying a tool-maker to forge and grind up tools, you will try to cast iron tools made out of old car wheel iron and albuminum al loy composite, in cither a cupola or cruci- I 1 . t Tl mill , U . n . I-l.Il 1 IT bite and not get discouraged ; and will not require grinding so often as steel tools. Electricity for Health. The value of electricity in hastening the growth and maturity of certain vegetable forms, and iu bringiug out the vivid colots of flower, promises to bo supplemented by a value more directly useful to humanity. When Pasteur pro posed to bring young animals up on sterilized milk and food he opened the way to the idoa that the water supply of cities could be improved, and be made perfectly harmless, by applying the death-dealing agency of electricity to millions of Injurious germs floating in it. The sterilization of water sources by means of electricity may bo far iu tho future, but tho fact that the work is practically demonstrable is stifticicnt to sho.f that great advances havo been made in the direction of solving the question of water supplies in cities. Not less imporiaut is the agent iu destroying lifo in tho sewers of tho cities, and iu the great mass of garbage aud waste which scatters around every city whole cordons of threatening diseases. Aa other peculiarity of tho powerful agent is that it has results upon tho general health of people similar to thoso of the sun. In crowdod quarters of tho cities where the sunlight is seldom admitted, electric light is far more conducive to health than any other mode of lighting. It is still a mooted question whether it cannot be made to force growth in tho individual as it does iu the plants and flowers of tho hothouses where the light Is applied night and day. Youkeo Blade. Total Ellipses of tile Sun. Evory your there must be two cclipcs of the sun, and there may be live. There are partial . eclipses, however, excopt in the comparatively rate cases iu which the moon pauses nearly centrally over the sun's disk aud produces a total obscura tion of his light, riincc the iuventio i of the spectroscope in 18ti(), there have been barely a score of total eclipses, and a number of these could not be observed because the belt of totality fell at tho earth's polur region or upon the ore ins. The belt of totality is a nurruw strip never more than a hundred and ncvcnty miles wide where the point of th'i moon's shadow fulls upon the earth. Total ei liie8 rarely occur, therefore, at the same point of tho earth. At Loudon, for example, there has been no eclip-e since the year 1140, except that of 1715, nd there will be uoue during (he next osotury. Ctotury, REGAINED. Like the note that stir and die When a barp string maps'in twain, Like a fading sunset sky After driving wind and raiaj Like a sound within a shell, Like an odor in the air. Like an echo in a dell, hike's star, remote and fair, 0 my child, thon art tom! ' And thy soul is linked to mine, As the pale moon draws the sea, Or the sun lifts up the vine. In the passion of my tears, In the blindness of my grief. Through the melancholy years I eschewed th. sweet relief; And I stretched my vearniug hand Through the dark, roclnup thee near But to bind me in the bands Of an ever-haunting fear, 1 smiled on those beside me. And deemed I did tbee wrong1, Ami dreamt thou mighst deride me For sharing joy or song. Now thy face comes back to me, All free from tear or stain; A brighter image of thvsolf, Triumphant over pain. I seught it not, for heedless, I nursed my own despair; And so I hold it likeness Of reality most fnlr; No picture could unfold it To any stranger's eye; 'Tis like a starlet shining Within a winter sky. Good Words, HUMOR OF THE DAT. A tell-tale The Gcssler story. Life. The rabbit-hunter is a hare-brained fellow. Rochester Post. Outside of diplomatic circles the fish cries question is often purely one of ver acity. The time when a woman lias no mercy is when she gets a mouse in a trap. Ram's Horn. "My ideas," insisted the architect, "were all right. I am the victim of mis cons'.ruction." It is au aggravation for a hungry tramp to find ouly a fork in tho road. Texas Siftings. Teacher "naus, namo three beasts of prey." Hans "Two lions and a tiger." Tolas Siftiugs. One trouble with the world is that so many have more reputation than char acter. Rum's Horn. The physician is ho man who tells you you need change nnd then takes all you have. Elmira Ga -tte. The man with a "splitting headache" ought to get a. job at making rails. Binghumton Republican. "I hear Cholly Slimpate is sick. Havo you had any intelligence from him?" "Not a gleam." Chicigo Tribune. The only way to win in nn argument with a woman is to w-Uk off when you have stutcd your side of it. Atchison Globe. Mr. Gurley "Are your family related .to the Scaddses, of Philadelphia?" Miss Scadds (haughtily) "No; they are re lated to us." Life. Edith "Lord English said my image was photographed on his mind." Ethol "Yes, photographs ure usually made on blanks." Yule Record. Fair, rosy cheeks had Kitty (.rimes, Uright eyes and open brow, She jumped the rop. 000 times Hhu isn't jumping now. Chicago Tribune. Barley (at church fair) "Let's go up nnd huve that pretty girl tell our for tunes." Brace "Not any; what's the use? Don't I know I'm broke." Graphic. Sharpson "Old fellow, yon look seedy. It is time you had a new suit." Phlatz "I know it, but my tailor re fuses to h'm to renew the modus vi vendi." Chicago Tribune. "Very , pretty surset," lie remarked. "Yes," she replied. "I don't wonder that pcoplo write about the shades of evening. I had no idea that thero were so many dltlercnt shades or that they matched so nicely." .Teams (tho porter) "Hog pardon, sir; I have bad news for you. Mr. Cnih box died this morning. Old Skinner "Died this morning! Now that's just like Cashbox. He knew this was tbi busy season." Life. "Yes," said young Rudjliins, who sat in calm disregard of the clock, "I may say that I am a fixture iu our office now." "I know, Mr. Rmlgkins," she answered, gently, "but this isn't your ollice, you know." Lausiug News. Mrs. Brush "Has the Hanging Com mittee decided about your picture yet?" Brush "Yes." Mrs. Brush "Are they going to hang it?" Brush (dubious) "I heard t lie Chair nan say lie thought hanging was too good for it." Brook lyn Life. Tho Lecturer ".My hearer., I shall have to ask your indulgence for a fw minutes. I forgot my manuscript, aud have sent my little boy for it." His son, mounting rostrum (in loud tone.) "Mamma couldn't Und the writiu', but here's tho took you copied it from." Tid Bits. Overdoing It: Fund Mother "I do so hope thai George has studied hard at college. I huve tried to impress upon bis mind the value of a liberul educa tion." Father "I uiu afraid, my dear, that you have rather overdone the mat ter. I had to send him a check for $500 to-Uay." Funny Folks. The other day X , tho Bohemian, on receiving some money from a licit Uncle, took it into his head to square off some of bis most pressini. delils. lie first railed ut his tailor's und heard that the poor man hud jimt died. His widow, ull in tears, desired to know the visitor's errand. "1 huve come to pay my bill," he simply replied. "Ah I'' sobbed out the widow, "if my poor husband hud only lived till this morning, the shock might hav. Irou.ht him round," L Figaro. New Orleans I'icayuue. I
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