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Went of tho Allcghanies noarly all educational institutions, from the primary school to the college or univer sity, aro co-cducntionnl. The boiling-water fad at meals is dying out. Thousands of people are glad, adds tho St. Louis Ropublic, and now some doctors who recommended it say it's all Aj official of the World's Fair says that twenty-five foot of right of way nt Sevonty-flrst street, Chicago, controlled by the Illinois Central, keeps 80,000 miles of railroad from entering the fair grounds. The French Minister of War hat issuol an ordor that houcef orth every offl. cor and every man in the French army shall, when on active service, carry on his person material for a first dressing iu case of hia being wounded. Rye has become an important cereal in the West. Field and Farm tells that the farmers on the divido a few miles south of the Denver have been meeting with greater success in growing rye than they have with any of the othor cereals. "For some reason or othor," muses tho Chicago Sun, "tho possessor of capital is enjoying more advantages in the building up of business than years ago, whilo tho great trusts seem to be losing in coherence nud power, and in some instances are disintegrating." i Tho Now York Nation asserts in a notice of a German book on Greek soulp turo that art is not necessarily tho more idoal for being less natural, that the greatest idealists havo been tho greatest realists too; and also that there is more than one kind of beauty, tho artist's business being to reproduce that which seems beautiful to him. It is noted by an English financial jour nal as one of the causes of the failure of so many Australian banks that many of them hold such vast quantities of land that when a pinch comes tbey nro unable to realize and aro compelled to stop pay mept. In Now South Wales t waive banks and financial syndicates own about 45,000,000 acres of land, ono Instiution alone owning 8,S00,000 acres. Two new occupations have cf late been found for dumb and bl Ind persons. Ono Is for the employment of deaf and dumb persona as typewriters, where, aa much of the work is written, their de formity does not interfere with its suc cess. Tho blind woman are allowing themselves expert and Intelligent ai massage operators, their delicate sense of touch and doft movements being ol special advantage. 'Filial duty is tho strongest trait in tho Chinese and Japanese character, remarks the San Francisco Chronical, but it is frequently perverted and becomes to Western eyes more of a vice than a vir tue. Such a perversion was seen re cently in Japan when tho daughter of a sick man brought him a cup of blood taken from her own Veins and besought htm to drink it, aa she had had a Vision that this was the sole means of his re covery. The recent publication of a paragraph to the effect that living children of Revo lutionary soldiers were few and far be tween has started a general search for such persons in a few States. The na-nes of nearly a doaeu have been sent to the Philadelphia Ledger, nud as many more to tho New York Tribune, which appears to have originated tho inquiry. Williuin AVallacc Lee, of Meridan, says ho believes that at least fifty surviving children of Revolutionary soldiers could be found iu Connecticut atone. Tho State of Illinois Is sutd to be (ho first in the Union to establish an efficient Bureau of Entomology. Tho clinch bugs with which that State was long afflicted occasioned this public attention to euto niology and. it has paid in many ways. Even the prophesies of clinch bug years have been extremely useful, as when this insect promised to be abuudnnt farmers were fore-warned to plant crops it would not attack. In this way tho numbers of destructive insects have been greatly de creased and they are now rarely injurious to any extent. It will doubtless bo a satisfaction to theable-bodied men of Germany to know how tho statisticians have figured out som j results of the iucrease in effec tiveness of "arms of precision."' In tlte lasi war, it is stated, the number of sol diers killed iu action was about twe per cent, of those engaged. In tho next it will be greater, though not more than three per cent. that is to say, only about 1200 out of an army corps of 35,. 000. Of tho same number about 5800 will be wounded. It is well to have these things settled before hand. It is the percentage ot this sort that increases the percentage of Ceriuun emigrants to litis couutry, THE END OF THE DAY. I hear the bolls at eventide, t Peal elowly one by one, Near and far oft they break and glide , Across the stream float faintly beautifu The antiphonal bells of Hull; ' The dav Is done, done, done, The day Is done. The dew has gathered in the flowers Like tears from some unconscious deep! The swallows whirl around the towers, The light runs out beyond tbs long cloud bars, And leaves t he single stars; 'Tis time for sleep, sleep, sleep, 'Tli time for sleep. The hermit thrush begins again. Timorous eremite, That song of risen tears au 1 pain, As if the one he loved was far away: "Alasl another day " "And now Good Night," "Good Night" Duncan C. Scott, in Youth's Companion, "THE CACTUS." sr o. n. lkwis. lib, vac t u s ' was the namo bestowed upon her in Cinna bar. Her signature, if she had written it, would probably have been Mollie Pres cott; at least such was the declaration of Rosewood Jim. "I see this yere female a year ago in Tombstone," as serted that veracious chronicler, "where wr" - v oue coons at me mage KJ -1 i . .1 station, an she gives it out cold, she's called Prescott Molllo Prescott an' most likely sho knows her name, an' knowed it a year ago." As Rosewood was a historian of known petulance, no one cared to challenge cither his facts or conclusions; so tho real name of "The Cactus" was accepted by the Cinnabar public as Prescott. "The Cactus" was a personable lady, comely and round ; and her advent in to Cinnabar society had caused some thing of a flutter. Her mission was to cook, and in the fulfilment of her des tiny she presided over the range at the O. K. Hotel. Being publicly hailed as "The Cactus" seemed in no wise to de press her, and it is possible she even felt a secret glow over an epithet which was meant by the critical taste that awarded it to illustrate thoso thorns in her nature which repelled aud held in check the male of Cinaabar. Women wear jewelry in Cinnabar, and on her first coming "The Cactus" had many admirers. Every man in camp loved her the moment she stepped from the Tucson stage six months before. From the terra "every man," however, a careful writer would except Rosewood Jim. That obdurate scientist, given as he was to the inner workings of faro as a philosophy, had no time for such a soft and dulcet affair as love. Another thing, Rosewood had scruples of honor born of hia business. "Life behind a deal-box is a mighty sight too fantastic," quoth the thought ful Race wood, "for a family. It does well enough for single-footers,. which it don't make much difference with, when a player pulls his six-shooter an' sends 'emshoutin' home to heaven some abrupt. But there ain't no room for a woman with a man who turns cards as a pur soot." As time went on, tho score of lovers who sighed on tho daily trail of "The Cactus" dwindled down to two. The re t gave out dispirited. "I'm clean strain enough,"- said Bill Tutt, In apolegctic description of his fuilure to persevere, "but I knows when I've got through. I'll play a game to a finish, but when it's down to the turn an' my last chip's gone over to the dealer, why I shoves my chair back an' quits. An it's about that a-way of an' concernin' my lovo for this jcro Cactus girl. I jest can't get her none, an' that settles it. I now drors out an' gives my seat to somo one else." "That's whatever," said a personage known as Texas Joe, who was an inter ested listener to the defeated Mr. Tutt, "an' you can gaauble I'm with you on them views.' I lsves 'The Cactus' my se'f to a frightful degree, an' thar's times I jest goes about wbiuin' for bcr; but yere awhile back I come projuctin' around her kitchen, an' 'bifgl' comos a skillet at my head, an' that let's me out. You bet I don't pursoo them explorations round her no more. I don't want to get my rope onto no woman who is that cal lous as to heave kitchen bric-a-brac at a heart that's pantin' for her." Two lovers still knelt at the shrine of 'The Cactus." Theso wore hailed by men of Cinnabar respectively as Rice Brown aud Riley Brooks. A descrip tion of one would have besn a portrait of the other. They were young, good looking, of the breezy Southwestern type, tunned as to face, and lithe and limber as black snakes as to person. These stilt held the affections of "The Cactus" iu siege and demanded capitula tion. That estimable virgin paid no heed to" thoir court, nor the Oomnieut of onlooking Cinnabar. She pursued her path in life even and unmoved. She compounded her daily bread, compiled her daily flapjacks, aud broiled her daily beefsteak by that simple and ingenious process, popular in the Southwest, of burning it on the griddles of her lauge, and all as composedly as though Leander never swam the Hellespont nor Antony sighed or sung in the ear of Egypt's Queen. Still it was possible that "The Cactus" was a shade less thorny in her treatment of Rice Brown aud Riley Brooks than of any of the others. Per haps she was becoming tired out. Bo the reason what it may, these two persisted when the others failed, aud .at last were recognized as rivals. "All I'm afraid of," said old man Armstrong, tho head of tho local vig ilance couimittee,"that these yere young bucks 'U take to uawiu' rouu' fur trouble 1 with each other. As the upshot of sech doin's would most likely be thestringin' of the survivor by the Cinnabar commtt teo on lariats, these yere nuptials, which now looks some feasible, would be clean busted, an' the camp pet a set-back jest that much. I wish this yeie maiden would tip hef hand in this to some dis creet gent, so a play could bo made in advance to get the wrong man outen the way. Whatever do you think you'se'f, Rosewood t" "It's a delicate deal, "said that sapient card is t, "to go tamperin' round a young female for the secrets of her soul, but I shorely deems it a crisis, and public inter est demands somethin' is done. These yere boys is growin' mighty hostilo of each other, which I notes last night over in the Gold Mine saloon, whore they was paintin' up for war, an' onles wo all in. terferes yere it's my jedgment some of this yere love-makin' '11 come oil in the smoke." "Thar oughter to be a nact of Con gress," said Tutt, the pessimist, "agin lnve-makio' in the Far West, an' the East should be kept for sech purposes speshu', same as reservations for Injuns. The Western climate's too exyooberant for love-makin'." "S'pose me an' you an' Tutt yere goes over to this young female, an' all polite an' congenial like, we ups an' asks her intentions?" continued Armstrong, in an interrogative way, to Rosewood. "Excuse me, pard," said Tutt, with sad earnestness, "but I don't think I wants cards in this at all. 'The Cactus' is a mighty spirited lady, an' you all re calls as how I've been pesteriu' 'round her in the past myse'f, for which reason, with other, she might take my comin' on sech errants derisive an' bang me over the fore'erd with a dipper, or some sec'.i objectionable play. So I reckon I better keep out of this yere embassy a wholo lot. I ain't airain' to shirk nuthin', but it'll be a heap more shore to win if I do." "Tutt nin' onlikely to be plenty right about this," said Rosowood, "an' I reckon, Armstrong, we all better take this trick ourselves." The mission was not a success. When the worthy pair of peace preservers ap peared in the preseuce of "The Cactus" and made tho inquiries noted, it excited the scorn and ire of that retiring damsel beyond the power of words to describe. "Whot be you all doin in my kitchen!" she asked, her face flushed with rage and noonday cookery. "Who sent you all canternin' over yere to me with those insultin' questions, anyhow 1 I demands to know." "And yere," said? Rosewood, in relat ing the exploit in the Gold Mine saloon immediately after, "she stamps her foot like a buck autclope an' let's fly a stove griddle at us, on' all with a proud, high air, which reminds me a mighty sight of a goddess. At the time it would seem the duo at tempted an apologetic explanation of their presence, and made effort to point out to "The Cactus" the crying public need of some decision on her part. "You don't want these two youug male persons to take to shootin' of each other all up none, do you?" said Arm strong. "I wants you two sots to get outen my kitchen,"' replied "The Cactus'' vigor ously, "an' I wants you to move some hurried, too. Don't never lot me find your moccasin tracks 'round this ycra water-bole no more, or I'll turn in au' mark you up a whole lot.'1 "Yere, you," she continued, as they were about to leave, something cast down by tho conference, "you all can tell that Riley Brooks an' Rice Brown if they're blamed fools enough to go niak in' a gun play over me, to make it hard. Tell 'em I can pick my man out when the smoke blows away." "Tutt's way right about 'The Cactus' bein' some serited," said Armstrong, as the two walked away. "She's shore spirited, an' that's fact," mused Rosowood, in assent. The result of the talk with "Tho Cactus" found its way about in Cinna bar and in less than an hour bore its hateful fruit. The peaceful quiot of that Gold Mine saloon, which, as a rule, heard no harsher note than the clatter of a stack of chips, was sullenly broken. "You all who ain't interested yore better take to a lower limb." It was the voice of Riley Brooks. The trained instinct of the Cinuabar public at once fathoned tho trouble and proceeded to hide its many heads be hind barrels, tables, counter and any place which promised refuge from the bullets. AU but ono, and that was Rice Brown. He knew it meant him the moment Riley Brooks uttered the fir it syllable, and his pistol came to the front with a brevity born of long prn? tice. His rival's was already there, and so the shooting began. As a result Mr. Brooks received a serious injury which crippled bis good right arm for many a day, while Mr. Brown was picked up with a wound in the side which even the sentiment of Cinnabar, inured to such things and inclined to optimism at all times, admitted as dan gerous. "Well," said Armstrong, after tho duelists had been cared for at the O. K. House, "yere we be again an' mitbiu' settled. Yere we has all this shootin' an' all this blood-lettin', an' the camp gets all torn up; an' still thar's jest as many of these yere people now as there was .before, au' most likely the whole deal to go over aain." "I shore abominates things a-splitiu' even this a-way," said Rosewood, "but Cinnabar must b'ar it's burdens same as other camps. It cau't be he'ped nonf." The next day the two duelists were still in bed. A new phase was given the affair when "The Cactus," clothed in purple and fine linen, and with two vio lent red roses in her straw hat, took the stage for Tucson. The management of the O. K. House reported, iu reference to the e-ited state of the Ciunabar mind, that "The Cactus" would return in a week. "Goiu' for her weddiu' troosoe, most likely," said Armstrong, as he gazed after the stage. J'o vuv seemed to kuow the iutf utious or "The Cactus." The shooting had in nowise disturbed her. That may have been her obdurate heart, or it may have come from a familiarity with the evanes cent tenure of human lifo born of long years on tho border. Be that as it may, she experienced not tho least concern touching the condition of her brace of lovers wouuded upstairs, and took the stage without even saying good-by to them or anyone else. "An' some fools say women is talkers," said Rosewood, in high disgust. Three days later Old Scotty, the stage driver, came in with startling news. "The Cactus" had married a man in Tuc son, aud would bring bim to Cinnabar in a week. "When I first hoars of it," said Old Scotty, with a groan, "an' when I thinks of them two pore boys a-layin' in Cinna bar, an' their rights bein' trifled with that a-way, I shore think I'll take my Winchester an' go an'f slop them rites a whole lot; but, pards, the Tucson Mar shall wouldn't hnve it. So she nails bim, an' I hears in a saloon over thar she's been aimin' to marry him before she ever hops into Cinnabar at all. I sees him afterward, an' he's a little, mcasly-lookin' prairie dog, and from his looks he couldn't get a job clerkin' in a storo." "Thar you be," said Armstrong. "An other cose of woman's inhumanity to man. However, if 'The Cactus' has done gene a-flutterin' from her perch in this yere fashion, jest the same we must prance 'round an' give her a high old time on her return. The honor of the camp bein' concerned, of course wo whoops it up in style." And they did. Kansas City Star. A Wonder of Science. Ono of the most delicate surgical operations ever performed in San Fran cisco was that to which A. Baehm, a patient nt the City and County Hospital, was subjected recently. The operation was remarkable in that an endoscope, or small electric light, was used during the process. This was thrust into tho thorac ic cavity, and by its illumination the ac tion of the heart aud lungs was pluinly visible. Baehm was afneted with an abscess, which had formed in tbe.plciiinl cavity and attacked the left lung. The opera lion was an exceedingly dangerous ono, and in order not to shock the patient no mention of the intention of the physicians was made to him. The sick man was quickly anesthet ized and tho In tinted breast was exposed to view. A discoloration on the left side showed that the troublo lay under the tissue in that direction, and Dr. El linwood began operations at once by makingjtwo deep incisions crosswise, from which the blood spurted in streams. Several of the larger blood vessels wero necessarily cut, but these were quickly ligatured with Dr. Stiltman's assistance. The flaps of flesh were laid to one side, exposing tho third rib to view. This rib was resected for three inches, and whe:i it was cut away a dark and bloody open ing was revealed, through which the thoracic cavity and the space between tho lungs could be seen. Dr. llirshfcidcr inserted the endoscope through the open ing in Baehm's breast and the light was turned on, illuminating tho interior of the cavity with rcmarkablo distinctness. The heart worked slowly, owing to tho effect of ether. Tho aorta dilated aud fell with every heart beat. The lung was also plainly visible. During tl o one hour and a half consumed in making tho operation tho action of the heart was dis tinctly visible, and the unusual sight was the subject of much comment upon tho pnrt of tho operators and spectators. When the process was completed and every vestigo of pus removed, tho endo scope was withdrawn, aud the opening in Baebra g breast closed. The operatiou was a highly successful ono In every par ticular, and Baehm's couditlon shows that he is gaining strength. Electricity. Tho Earth's Southernmost Sotlloiiient. There is something patbetio about tho description of the town of Punta Arenas, Terra del Fuego, located on the strait about midway between the two oceans, that town which is tho southernmost settlement upon the faco of the earth. Fifteen hundred people find lifo worth living in this place, notwithstanding tha fact that one of the characteristics of tho neigborhood Is the frequent prevalence of a mighty wind which sweeps down from the mountains back of the town with such force aud suddenness as to overwhelm a ship lying broadside on be fore she can swing her head around and ride out the gale. The town itself is a miserable collection of huts and hovols, but is a point of great strategic value to this country as a coaling station in case of war with a South American power. Professor Lee presented several views of the inhabitant of Terra dol Fuego, charming creatures, with their thin, at tmituated limbs and portly stomachs. These beauties allow their hair to grow long and hang down straight. Then they plaster it with seal oil and red clay, which hardens and makes a complete waterproof covering for thoir heads. Tho natives possess the faculty of imitating a sound ami Professor Leo undertook to teach them a aoug. He succeeded so well that when he departed from their midst a group stood upon the shore aud seren aded him with "Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now." Washing ton Star. Tripe for Binding Books. A company has recently been incor porated in Newark, N. J., with a capital stock of $100,000, for the maniifactura of iiicmbrauoid. The article and its nature are alike new. It is a fancy leather made from tripe nothing else than tanned tripe, in fact, It is faid to be very pretty aud durable. '1 lie inventor of the process of manu facture, James W. Deckert, of Newark, had considerable troublo with the Patent Ollice people until he and they com promised on tho name of the product given above. They insisted upon il previously that tripe was tripe, no matter through what chemical process it might have bevu put, St. Louis Republic, SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Bmall machines in 272 tailoring shops id Rochester, N. Y., are running by electricity. Japan has no fewer than 700 earth quake observing stations scattered over the Empire. Fish do not soem to exist below 400 fathoms (2400 feet) with the exception of the shark. Engines to be worked by wind are to be made in Michigan and shipped to Af rica and Asia. Philadelphia, Penn., has the biggest reel truck. It weighs 16,000 pounds and can carry or bear 150,000 pounds. The Vioby Springs in France and the Hot Springs in Kansas, are recommended by physicians to sufferers from the gout. An electric tuning box for the use ot lcadors of orchestras and others interested in music has been invented by a French man. Two new steamers are being built, each 600 feet long for the Atlantic ser vice, guaranteed to cross in five days and ton hours. The first trace of a Cretaceous mammal discovered in Europe is a tooth of a Plagiaulax, from the Wealdon formation of Hastings, and allied to that genus whose teeth have occured in the purbeck (Jurassic) beds. Ninety per cent, of the male, popula tion of the United States are afllcted in some degree with nervous debility or weakness and decline, caused either by improper training, sedentary occupations, the use of stimulants, and excesses in habits otihfe. Some experiments in connection with the artificial production of clouds by burning cases of resinous matter were lately made in Paris, France, but were only partially successful on account of the wind carrying the clouds away as soon ns formed. It appears that the song of the cicada in Natal, South Africa, is appreciated by lace-winged flics which, while the cicada is shrilling, were observed to gather, sometimes in a group of fifteen or six teen, forming a rough semicircle at a short distance around its head. Professor ncim, of Zurich, Germany, says that the most agreoablo death is by falling. He has conversed with many people who have escaped death by falling by a hair's breadth only, and reports that those who experienced such acci dents suffered neither pain nor terror. Fogs frequently rise in the morning and fall again in the evening because. warmed by the sun's rays, tbey become more rarefied, and disperse to an attitude when they appear to be entirely dispelled; but at night, when the earth cools by radiation, the vapors, near tho earth again condense, and settle in the form of fog. In some fine caves discovered in Ta mania, the lights carried by the explor ing party having been extinguished, the ceiliiiif and sidos of the caves seemed studded with diamonds, an effect due to millions of glow-worms hanging to the sides of the walls and from the celling. These were the only living beings seen in the caverns. Tho largest band-sawing machine in t ne world has recently been completed iu England and sent to Tasmania. Tho machine can saw through a maximum depth of seventy-five inches and the car riage will accommodate logs fifty feet long and weighing about Hay tons, It is assorted that this saw culBTcvon faster than a circular saw, whilo wasting sercu-ty-fivo per cent, less wood. A good illustration of the amount ol change brought about by deep-aoa inves tigations iu our ideal ot tho distribution of tho fishes is to be seen In the recent history of the discoboli. It is now shown that the discoboles, diskbearers, lumpfishes, suckling fishes, or sea snails, as they are variously called, aro no tonger restricted to tho Atlantic and Pacific in their northern parts and to tho Artie Ocean. The Mamelukes. Tho Mamelukes were a former class of slaves in Egypt, who became and con tinued for a loug time to be tho domi nant race of that country. Their name comes from the Arab, "Mamluk," that is, slave. As far back as tho year 050 we find mention ot them, but it is not for several centuries thereafter that they are known as a power. In the twelfth century the Sultan of Egypt bought of Genghes Khan 12,000 Circassian, Miu grelian, Tartar and Turkish slaves, and In the year 1240 Malek Sulah made them his body guard; and ten years later they killed Turaa Shah and becamo masters of Egypt, in more modern times they played an important part in the battle of tho Pyramids in 1708, where they were exhibited as fine horse men, but where they were annihilated. The great part of their number were massacred by Mehemet All iu 1811, a remnant only escaping, and for a few years maintaining themselves at New Dongolo, but thesowero exterminated in 1820. The Mamelukes kopt up their numbers by the purchase Circassian and Georgian slaves. New York Dispatch. Wearluir Dojrg In Muffs. The fashion of wearing dogs in muffs began when Richelieu was great in France, and it was ot long duration. Tho animal was of a miniature species which seems to have disappeared from the fauna of France, and was as remark able for its diminutive size as for its vicious disposition. That of Ninou l'Knclos had peculiarities which history has taken tho pains to pre serve. The beautiful epicurean had the habit of taking Raton that was the name of tho microscopic beast with her when invited out to dinner, nud placing it in its little basket beside her plate, wheru it watched over its mistress's health by growling when' she was disposed to eat of any dish likely to cause uu indigestion. -Mu If dogs were iu such general use that there were per rons who bred and sold them as a branch of toiumerce.-San Francisco Chronicle, THE MOTHER AS DOCTOR. I SOME REMEDIES WHICH SHU I SHOULD HAVE AT HAND. CasAs W hero an Ounce ot Prevention is Better Than a. round ot (tare What to Have In tho Hutine. T YEItx mother ot littio cnildren should be, to a certain extent, 1 her own family physician. A woman possessed of an average share of common sense can hardly nurss one or more children through the dia orders incident to babyhood and child hood without acquiring a good stock of information as to how to treat attacks of slight indisposition. Her domestic practice should, however, bo restricted to the administration of the simplest remedies, of external applications and of preventives rather than professed cures. Her knowledge should stand her in good stead in emergencies, and yet be tempered with the judgment that will direct her to call in a physician ut the least menace ot serious sickness. A child should be so closely watched by the mother that no derangement of its system may escape her notico. She should afctrtaia, for Jierself that all its bodily functions are in proper working order. Her trained touch should note in a moment any unusual heat or chilli ness of the child's body, the dryness of the skin, the over-quickness of the pulse. She should learn to know nt a glance whether the throat and tongue aro in their normal condition, aud her ear should be schooled to detect tho differ ence between natural and labored or shortened respiration. A fever ther mometer should be is every family medicine chest, and tho mother should understand how to take her child's temperature, and thus make herself absolutely cure whether tho patient is feverish or not. Even when tho symptoms arc such as to cause alarm, a physician is not always at hand, and upon the mother there devolves the charge of tho little one. A few general hints as to simple nodes of treatment may not be amiss. Some children have a tendency towards croup that manifests itself as night approaches in fevcrishness, hoarse ness and a barking cough. Sucn symp toms must not be disregarded. The child's feet must be well heated before it goes to bed, its chest rubbed with cam phorated oil and covered with a bit of red flannel spread with vaseline. Aconite may be given at tho rate of halt a drop in a teaspoonful of water every half hour for three or four doses. If tbo cold is a fresh one this may check it and pro duce a gentle respiration. When the un pleasant symptoms remain, fifteen drops of syrup of ipecac may be given every t-rcnty minutes until tho hoarseness is relieved or the child vomits. Should the little one waken suddenly from sleep with a hoarse cough aud tightened breathing, a teaspoonful of ipecac con taining as much powdered alum as can be heaped on a silver dime may be ad ministered. If the child does Dot vomit within half an hour, the dose may be re peated. A bath in wntcr of about ninety five degrees is, of course, excellent in croup, as in congestion or convulsions. Croupy children should bo kept boused whilo there is melting snow on the ground. The snow air often affects them even then, and mukes thaws anxious sea tons for mothers. . Slight bowel troubles can usually bo regulated better by diet than by drugs. Children suffering with looieness of tho bowels should be fed with boiled milk, boiled rice, arrowroot jelly, rice flour porridge, sago or tapioca and soft toast. Raw fruit and sweets should bo especially avoided. The regimen is not severe, and is more attractive than dosing. Children whose tendency is in the opposite direc tion should have a laxative diet, consist ing of oatmeal, hominy, mush, wheaten grits, baked potatoes, beet juice, apple sauce, etc. Sugar of milk may be added to the food as a gentle corrective, a tea spoonful three times a day usually being enough to produce the desired effect. 1'aiu in the stomach or bowels, or colic, is so varied in its manifestations that it is hard to lay down any fixed rule of treatment. If tho colic springs from acidity, a teaspoonful of lime wa ter, or a pinch of carbonate of soJa dis solved in a little water will often relieve the patient. Where there is any iucli nation to sourncts of stomach, lime water should always be added to tho milk which a child drinks. For pain iu the bowels a teaspoonful of anise cordial mixed with a teaspoonful of hot water often produces a happy effect. Flan nels dipped in hot spirits and wrnug out nay be laid on the bowels of tho sufferer, and frequently prove very soothing. Iu sharp pain laudanum may be added to the spirits. An old fashioned spice plaster in excellent remedy. It is made by mixing a heaping teaspoonful each of ground cinnamon cloves, mace aud all spice with two of ginger. The mixture is quilted between two thicknesses ot red flannel about fight inches long by six wide. The plastei may be applied dry or dipped iu boiling alcohol and laid on the little patient's uldomen as hot as he can bear it. Iu cases of weakness of the bowels this plaster may be woru con stantly with benefit. Although an overuse of drugs is al ways to be deplored, each home where there are little folks should be supplied with its medicine chest or cabiuet, kept locked, and the key iu the mother's possession. In this box or cupboard, besides the paregoric, ipecac aud pep permint bottles, there should be aconite for feverishness, linseed oil for burns, ammonia for bee stings, camphor for influenzas, aud a vial of brandy for sud den fainting fits, or the ecriuus accidents that will sometimes occur in the best regulated families. New York Recor der. The last picture upon which Mcissonier worked is now on exhibition in London. It is a water color i-tudy of a soldier mi horseback, aud is dune cm the top sheet of an ordiuary water color block. It was found near the paiutei's bedside after his death. HINTS OF SUMMER.. Buds a swellin', geese a squawking Everything a stirrin'; Robins whistlin', quails a pipln', , Fa'tridgea a wliiirin'. Old man looks around about him Sees tu ground a crackin' Kase the present timo for freerln' Lacks old winter's backin'. ' Farmers mendin' up their harness, Girls a huntln' roses, Mud knee-deep in all the roadways; Old folks count in' noses. Thus by curious methods find we. Spring is slowly waning; And that summer long a laggin' On our path is gaining. Browne Perrluian, in Yankee Blade. HUMOR OF THE BAY. An old salt Epsom. A cut and dried affair ITay. v Hungers for fame Tho forty-day faster. Motto for a dictionary of proverbs "Old saws filed here." Truth. A boot and shoo trust is n corporation with a solo. Now York Journal. , There is ono brauch of labor which must always bo done by hand Picking pockets. A man is as old as ho fools, but not always aa big, not by a heap. Indian apolis Journal. "Faith" was described by an Ohio boy as "expectlu' something ye ain't goln' to git." Columbus Post. A "statement that you won't wash", can't bo trusted to tho dampened tissuo of tho official letter-book. Puck. A merchant may drive a fast horse, but he never objects to taking other people's dust. Binghanituu Republican. Maud "What a terrible thing drown ing is I" Mabel "Yes; it would just kill me to dio that way." Harvard Lampoon. "Ten lifetimes," snys a writer, "will not suffice to solve the enigma, woman." Indeed that is so; and yet wo must not give her up. Judge. You can't convinco a girl by arguing that a man is not au angel. Tho only Way to convince her is to let her marry him. Atchison Globe. Tho expert has become so necessary a part of our civilization that nothing is certain but death, and that is ih doubt until after tho funeral. Judge. How does love take the lifo out of a man I But then a man cau't bo expected to have much pluck after ho has given away his heart. Boston Transcript. Possibly one reason why men who talk loudly seem so generally successful is that thoy can't bo easily disturbed in their occupation. Washington Star. Shakcepcaro speaks of sermons in tho stones. Now I understand why women pay so much attention to ono another's jewels when in church. Now York Herald. "I never thought vou wero tho sort of man to got married.'1' "No; but you see I go about a good deal, and I found it necessary to havo some ono to leave cards for mo." Fun. Miss Vassar "Do you know, Mr. Blank always carries a noto book in which to put down any bright remark ho hears." Miss Smith "Why, I know him very well, und I never saw it." Yalo Record. Every time Miss Amanda, whoso understanding is romcwhat large, stops at a hotel, sho cleans her own hIiocs and sets outsido tho door a small pair, which she carries with her expressly for that purpose. Fliegendo Blacttcr. A polico officer met a sarcastic organ grinder on tho street and said: "Have you a licenso to play If not, you must accompany mo." "With pleasure," an swered the street musician. "What will you siug?" Providcuco Telegram. Physician "You owed mo another littio "bill, Mr. Judkins, which I can't rcrcombor your having paid." Mr. Jud kins "Well, don't grumblo at mo about it. I am not responsible for your bad memory, am Ii" Pharmaceutical Km. Judgo "Prisoner at tho bar, tho court has assigned counsel to defend you." Prisouer (with a glance at the counsel) "is dat my lawyer, yer honor!" Judgo "Yes." Prisoner "Deu I pleads guilty." Brooklyu Life. "Well, Uuclo 81, you nro a prophet; tell me what Is the weather prospect for to-morrow?" "Yo'll hev ter excuse mo ter-day, sir, I'm too buy to toll ye. Call around day after to-morrow, and I'll give you all the information you want about to-morrow." Harper's Bazar. Doctor "If your husband's hiccoughs don't stop very soon, madam, he'll bo a dead man. There is only ono thing to bo done. He must bo startled out of them. Can ydi sugucst any way?" Anx ious Wife (thoiiL-htfully) "I might tell I i i in that I had decided not to order that new silk dress." Cloak Review. Young Medical Man "Thank good ness, I have pulled through my exams at last. It is horrible- to think of all tho hard work I havo had to go through these last four year." Elderly Practi tioner "Well, my dear colleague, thero is ono consolation ; you won't havo t'.ny thiug to do for a long, long while now." -Der Floh. "D''ar, dear!" faid a kind hearted matron on meeting a friend whom she had uot seen for a long time; "aud you're uot yet married, Jane with jour good looks too" "No; I'm not mar ried yet," icplied Jane, with a laugh. "Well," said Jane, with a twinkle of her eye, "I expect it is because I was born so." Wasp. The New KngluutfStates use Formosaa teas, the Middle Slates all kinds of Oolung teas, green teas and a lew C'ou gos; the Socth principally green teas, and the Northwest aud Canada, Japan teas, which latter constitute over ono halt vi the euluc counuuiptiou,
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