THE FOREST BEPDBLICAK I pabllthet rrtrj WdnMdj, ky J. E. WENK. Offlo la Bmcaxbangh & Co.'a Building klm min, tiokhta, r. Trm, . . tl.BO pr Tar. t three montha. Correspondent solicit fra U awts f the RATSS OF AOVE RTISINCl f One Square, one ineh, ono Insertion..! 1 0V One f-'quare, one Inch, one month. . 8 OO On. Pquare, one inch, three months. , BOO One r-'quarr, one inch, one year... .. 1000 1 wo Squire, one yeir ?J m Uuarter Column, ono year nm lialf Column, one year J On. Column, on. year Ijegal advertisement ten cent per Una eai'h inertion. j Marriage and c!eth notifies gratis. All bills lor yearly advertisements collected quarterly. Temporary advertisement! mus be paid in advance. . Job work rash on delivery. jf Forest Republican. VOL. XXV. NO. 8. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1892. fll.50 PER ANNUM. Illinois farmers ate emigrating to northern Iowa and southern Minnesota. Tbe discover; is mado that the Alaska oil and climate are peculiarly adopted to hop-raising. The Swiss havo done the least fighting this century, and their only important outbreaks have been more of a civil than a military chara ctcr. In the evont of war Russia could show an army of 1,803,003 men, besidos Cossacks; France, on a war footing, an army of 2,800,000; Germany, an army of 2,301,000 tinder twolve years' scr Ticc. floss Vinans,the Maryland millionaire, whose deer forests in Scotland already extend from sea to sea, has just bought more property thcro. The British press complains about tbo "land grabbing" propensities of Americans. It is believed that fully twcnty.flvo per con t. of the population of tho Argen tine Republic at the present time con sists of European settlers, most of whom now that the undesirable ones havo been compelled to leave are well es tablished and have nil thoir interests identical with the country. A military map has been published in Vienna, Austria, showing the relative strength of Russia and England and Asia. Russia is represented as having 200,000 infantry and 38,000 cavalry with which to thrcatou northern India. To this fotco England is able to oppose, at most, 100,00 J infantry and 11000 cavalry. Tho prospects of tho Chines tea trade continue to grow more gloomy, says London Figaro. At a general meeting of teamen recently hold in one of the Foocbow districts, it was stated that during the last fivo years, the hundred and eighty horses engaged in the busi ness lost over $2,000,000. More than half ol these decided not to go on risk ing thoir capital, and are therefore re tiring. It is believed that tho foroign merchants will benefit by the reduced competition. Mr. Riis, author of "How tho Other Half Lives," in Scribncr's Magazine as sorts that tho lack of small parks nnd playgrounds in tho tenement-house dis trict of New York, nnd the consequent perpetual tussles between tho children, at harmless play in tho street, and the j.olico, are the chief forces in tho devel opment of the "tough." Tho germ ol the gnngs, ho says, that terrorize whole sections of the city at intervals, and feed our courts and jails, may, without much difficulty, bo discovered in these early and rather grotesque strugglos of the boy with the police. It seems that sculptors of the rank of Anne Whitney and Harriet Hosmcr de cline to show their works in tho Woman Duilding of tbe World's Fair, but will exhibit iu the Liberal Arts Buildlug. Their idea is, of course, explains the New Tork Suu, that there is no sex in urt, and that competition in thoir profession bo not been with woman, but as mem bers of the commonwealth of art past and present. This viow of the subject is one that the women comuissiouors wil have some trouble to counteract in order to presetve the women's department from taking on the aspect of an colossal county fair. . s One of tho ieatures of that World's Fair at Chicago will bo a Religious Con gress in which not only all branches ol the Christian Church are to come to gether Catholics from everywhere, rrotcstunts of all denomiuatious, Holy Orthodox Greeks from Constantinople and Alexandria and Moscow, Copts and Armenians and members of the other Oriental churches but also Jewish rabbis, representatives of Buddhism from India and Japan, Confuciau teachers from China, ami Mohammedan doctors from Cairo. According to the Review of Reviews, the Congress is to seek for the thiogs that are common in the faith and philosophy of all tho great cults of the civilized world, and to promote har mony and good understanding. One of tho curiosities of French legis lation was brought to public notice by a recent incident in tho Riviera. An Eng lishman, who rented a cottago there on the seashore, directed his servant the other day to bring him a pailfull or two of sea water for his bath. The servant informed biiu that it was ngaiust the law, and if done without the special permis sion of the civil authorities would sub ject him to vuiious pains aud penalties. He investigated tho matter, aud found that the permission was not easy to ob tain, and was only grauted on his making affidavit that the water was to be used for uo culinary purposes, and was not to be boiled down for the salt. Nobody can have salt in Franco, even from the ea, without payiug the Uoverumeut for IU COLUMBUS. Columbus was, they tell us now, A man of flaw and fleck A man who steered a pirate prow, And trod a slaver's deck; In narrow, bigot blindness curloj, Cruel and vain was he To such was given to lift a world From out the darkened sea. Though weak and cruel, vain, untrue, From all earth's high and tow, God picked this man, His work to do, Four hundred years ago, There in the distance standeth ha, Bound on his mighty quest, This rough old Admiral of the Sea, Btill pointing toward the West, There stands he on his westward prow, A man entirely strong; So great, the bald truth spoken now Can never do him wrong; Though slaver, pirate, he might be, He had that gift of fate That wise and sane insanity That makes the great man great. Sam W. Fos, in Yankee Blade. AT SKELETON GRANGE BY HELEN FOnilBST GRAVES. HE driver stood at tho door of the coach, a leather mem orandum book in one hand, a stumpy lead pencil in the other. "Lady for Tow- lins's Corners." he had checked off my camphor- scented neighbor in the coach. "Gent for the Abbey Arms little boy to be left at Doctor Stokum's school and you, miss" (with a nod at me), "for Skeleton Grange!" "Skeleton Grange!" I cried, with a start that knocked the camphor bottU from the baud of my Leighbor and seri ously incommoded tho fat gentleman in the opposite corner. "Lor', miss," said the man, a slow mile overspreading his countenance, "it ain't the real name of the placo. It's what tho folks hereabouts calls it. Short, miss, for Skelliugton. It was built by old Squire Skcllington, in the year 1800." "Oh I" said I, sinking back into my scat with a little nervous laugh, while every ono else regarded me with frozen stares of disapproval, including tho lady who was sopping tho split camphor lrom ner lap witu a pockct-hundkercnicf, and the old gentleman whose wig had been knocked on ono side by my sudden movement. For, you see, I was only eighteen, and I was going to my first situation, as reader and companion to Mrs. Pinkuoy, of The Grange, near Port Keut, on Lake Champlain. It was necessary for some of ns to earn our own bread, as my mother's little school had not proved a success, and uotn imino ana J-.mily were and more timid than I was. younger Tho preliminary arrangements had all been transacted through a mutual ac commodation bureau iu New York. I had been given to understand by tbe lady in charge that my position would be very desirable, if I could be sufficiently fortunate to suit the fancy of Mrs. Pink ney, who was an elderly lady of excel lent means and some eccentricity. Well, here I was at lost, en route for The Grange, my railway novel read 'to the last page, the contents of my luuch basket all eaten, and a crimson sunset flooding tho beautiful surface of Lake Champlain with tho loveliest of glows, aud just as I was admiring the red-tiled roots of a long, low house, embowered iu elms aud beeches, tbe stage came to a atop, aud the driver bawled out: "Passengers for Skeleton Gra-a-ange 1" My insignificant little trunk was lifted down, a bell in tbe stone gate-post was violently rung, and I stood knee-deep in tall, floweriug grasses, looking forlornly after the disappearing coach, as the eyes of a shipwrecked mariner might follow tho vanishing masts of some retreating vessel which bcurs heart and hope away with it. "Is this The Grange? Is Mrs. Pink ney at home? I am Miss Carrick, the coiupauion, from New York, please!" I faltered out tho words in a sort of terror, induced by tbe suddcu and start ling appearance of a little old woman, in a black silk quilted hood and cloak, who had hobbled out of the house by the aid of a knotted stick and uulocked the gate with a shining brass key. She nodded her head to my interroga tories and favored me with a long stare in answer to my lost statement. Then, stooping to lift one end of my trunk, she said, briskly - "Can ee lift t'other end ceself? Ee ain't no monfolk about place an' I ain't overly strong mcsolf." I obeyed with alacrity, being ycung and vigorous, aud the truuk not especi ally heavy, and thus I made my appear ance before a tall, spare woman of sixty, with a dress of lustreless black silk, glit tering gold eyeglasses, aud a flue Roman profile, who stood on an Eastern rug before a blazing wood fire. The walls were covered with old an cestral portraits, whose steady stare added to my confusion; every nook and corner was crowded full of Chinese dra gons, Chippendale cabinets, old china ou brackets, and grotesquely-embroidered screens. "Ab," said the tall lady, "you are the reader and companion?" I made a quaint little courtesy, un consciously infected by the proximity of tbe still Chippendale furniture and tho family portraits. "Miss Currick, madam," I said "at your service." Looking back upon the circumstances by the dispassionate light of tho past, it seems to uie that this was the longest evening I ever spent. Although the trellis outside was covered with Juue roses, the walls of The Grange were so thick, and the atmosphere so damp, that we sat close to the tire, and drunk hot tea aud ate toasted luultlus to keep our- 4 r selves warm, while Mrs. Pinkney related to mo in sepulchral whispers the history of her grandfather, Squire Skcllington, whilhom of Wales, who had built this venerable mansion, apparently without the slightest reference to tho modern fads of drainago and ventilation. "He was a man of unusually strong mind," said Mr). Pinkney, "and to show his scorn of popular opinion he built the house on the site of a former graveyard, which partly accounts for the way people havo of calling it 'Skeleton Grange,' instead of using the proper ap pellation. I hope, Miss Carrick," with a sudden pause in the stream of words, "that you are not superstitious?" "Oh, not at all!" said I, with chatter ing teeth and ashy-white face. Old Hannah had brought her knitting in, after the tea things were removed, nnd sat at a respectful distance. " If ee missus likes to live over dead-un'-gone folks, I don't," said Hannah. "I'd ruthcr have live neighbors than dead una any time." "You old gooso," said Mrs. Pinkney, with a superior smile. "All the bodies were taken nway years before my grand father built the house, and re-interred bnsido Saint Sulpicius's Church, three miles down the lake." "Maybe ee were, maybe eo weren't," said Hannah. "Which room is ee young mees to have?" "I told you before the south cham ber." Is it near yours?" I whispered to Hannah, as ray new mistress leaned for ward to replace a vividly-painted fan on tho mantle. "Thank Goodness!" assho answered me with a nod. The rest of the evening was spent iu readings from various authors and iu various styles to prove to Mrs. Pinkney what my qualifications were, and sho was pleased to profess herself surprised and gratified. "To-morrow," sho said, "I will show you my books aud curios, and your duties will commence." At eleven o'clock precisely some hot lemonade uod crackers wore produced, and wo went to bed, Hannah guiding me with a candle in an old-fashionod silver sconce. "Hannah!" I cried, clutching her arm as I look at the dim old chamber with its carved high-post bedstead, its polished wood floor and the dim sheets of mirror that seemed to glisten everywhere, "where is your room?" "Just ee first one as ee came doon the stair, miss," said Hannah, "with ee little roond door. Don't ee fret, dear; ee'll sleep raro and well, seo if ee don t." And wishing me good-night, she with drew. I sat crouched on a chair in front of the antique toilet table, looking piteously at my own white laco aud tbe reflection of the glimmering candle. All of a suddcu 1 became uuploasantly aware that a dim, opaque sort of face was peering over mv shoulder. I looked around with a spasmodic start. It was ouly the reproduction of a feeble old family partrait that hung above tho mantle; but I spraug on a chair and resolutely turned its simmering face to the wall. As I jumped down again my eyes fell on something that turned the warm cur rents of my blood to ice a pair of big cowbnla boots, stainod with red mud and literally set with nails in the heel, that wero protruding from under the chintz valances of the bed. One glance was enough. I opened the door ana fled wildly out into the ball without waiting for my candle. At the foot of the winding stairs I looked around for the little round-topped door of which Hannah had spoken ; but there was no door there, a circumstance which was afterward accounted for by tho fact that I had turned the wrong way in ray mad flight, and taken the south stairway instead of the north. With a smothered shriek I made for the apartment where we had spent the evening, whose open door revealed the remains of the still Bmoldcring lire on the hearth. To my unspeakable terror, I was confronted ou the very threshold by the crouchiug figure of a huge Bengal tiger, whose green, glassy eyes mirrored the uoleaping flames, aud sturtiug back, with a wild shriek, I lost ull consciousness. "Take mo back home I Take ine to mother and Emily!" was my piteous murmur, as I once more reguined con sciousness and became aware that Mrs. Pinkney was drenching my forehead iu lavender water, while old Ilaunah stood by with a sheaf of burnt feathers and a pitcher of iced water. 'Don't ee be scared, my deary," said the old woman, soothingly. "Now don't ee!" "Hannah, hold your tongue!" said Mrs. Pinkney. "The trouble is purely nervous, and nerves can, aud must, aud shall be controlled I Now, Miss Car rick, brace yourself up aud tell us whut frightened you." "A maul" I gasped. "Hiding with big, nob nailed boots under iny oedl" "O-o-b!" said Mrs. Pinkney. "Is that all? Why, I thouht I'd told you about 'em. I keep 'em iu every room of tho house, to make burglars think there s men on the premises. I told ilaunah to remove them from your chamber, though." "As truoas ee lives, ma'am," croaked Hannah, "eo clean forgot all about it I" "Aud the tigor? He spruuer at my throat," I sobbed, hiding my fuco in the bedclothes. "No, he didu't!" said Mr.. Piukney. "How could he, when he's ouly stuffed, poor creature? I put him there every night since Don, the watch dog, wus IKiisoned, to etui tie any thieves who may make their way in. Goodness met we poor, solitary womankind are driven to all sorts of contrivances to protect ourselves, in a loucly place like this." I darted a reproichful gluuce at Han nah. "Why didu't you tell me this," I de mauded. "Bless ee dear heart," said Ilaunah, "I niver once thought o't!" "'Jut dou't fret," soot bed Mrs. Pink ney. "We won't need the eld boots aud uiy grandfather's stuffed tier after to-day. My nephew, Colonel nalkott, and his mau, Giles, are coming this evening to stay six months, and they'll bring a new gardener, and two St. Ber nard puppies. Tbon you shall see 1 For Giles makes a crack butler, and my nephew is a great geologist, and can tell you the Latin name of every bug and bee tle he sees. And on this encouraging showing I re- maiued at Skeleton Grange after all. Yes, ( ought to have married the colonel. But how could I? He wa f jrty, ahd woro a wig. More over he was a greater old granny than both Mrs. Pinkney nnd Hannah put to gether. But he was a sanitarian as well ns a scientist, and in less than a month he had Tho Grange properly drained and remodeled so that the sunshine streamed into every room, and summer fires were no longer necessary. And Mrs. Pinkney, although extreme ly eccentric, proved the finest and most considerate of patronesses, and I found myself able to send money homo to mother and the girls every month. And I'm not afraid of the Bengal tiger any more, although he still glares at me whenever I go up and down stairs. And I only laugh whon people! ask mo if I'm not afraid to live at Skeleton Grange. Saturday Night. Songs nnd Their Writers. "The composition of a really populai song, one that catches tho fancy of the classes and masses, is a feat that is gov erned more by luck than knowledge," recently remarked a well-known musio publisher. "From a literary point of view the majority of successes iu this line are atrocious, while their sentiment if they are of the sentimental order is gener ally inclined to bo both insipid and mawkish. 'A well. written piece of verso, con veying an uqponventional sentimental idea, would have about one chance in a thousand to succeed. The quality of the entire composition must be moder ately bad, viewed from a high-class stand point, but exactly how bad only the fates can decide. "In comic songs that catch on original ideas are absolutely necessary, though any humorous ballad in which the char acters are knocked down and dragged out with great frequency appeals strongly to the popular fancy. "Down Went McGinty' and 'Throw Him Down, McCloskey' are beautiful ex amples of this type. "Some song writers make a great deal of money from their compositions. Tho author of 'In the Gloaming' rakod in about $15,000 from it, but the greater number do not realize much from their work. 'But it is like gambling in a way, and tho knowledge that some day they may stumble on a song that will bring them fortune if not fame for nobody evci remembers the author of a popular song keeps them at it. Aud it's almost a certainty that they'll never be ablo to re peat their first success." New York Commercial Advertiser. A Rainr.nl Through the Brain. An Australian journal gives the follow ing case, which is nearly ns remarkable as tbe crowbar accidont to Mr. Phineas Gage: "Robert Campbell, a young man connected with tbe Postal Department, was admitted to the Melbourne Hospital with a pistol ramrod through his brain. The story of the accident is that Camp bell was out shooting with a inuzzlo loading pistol. While he was ramming home the charge the weapon exploded, and the ramrod, which was composed of fencing wiro, with a lead plug at the end, made by the victim, was sent through his cheek across tho eyo and came out at the top of his head. Dr. Harris stated that when the man was admitted to tbe hospital it was found that the ramrod had passed through his cheek, on the left side of the nose, into the infraorbital plate of the superior maxilla, right through the eye, goiug in its course through tho superior orbital plate of the frontal bone, the brain, nnd coming out at the top of the skull, about the middle of the internal portion of the parietal bone. The wire portiou of the ramrod was sticking out of tho skull about six inches. "Dr. Charles Ryan, assisted by Dr. Harris, trephined the skull, having first cut off the wire. When the bono was removed the leaden base came with it, and the eyo, which bad becu completely destroyed, was taken out. AntiBeptio lotion was then syringed through the eyi socket, along the course the ramrod hue taken, and by this means the wound waf well washed. Campbell is now convales cent." Medical Record, What Millstones Are Made Of. All the millstonos used in the Uuitec States formerly came from France, where they were made of a silicious iocic found in greut blocks near Paris. The stone is mostly quartz, but has a regular cellular structure, is extremely hard aud com pact, aud of all shades of color, from s whitish gray to a dark blue. A number of years ago, however, an excellent sub stitute was found in An. erica, in tho buhr-stone of Northwest Pennsylvania aud Eastern Ohio. Where millstones are employed at all this is now the favorite rock, and it answers the purpose so well that there is no need of any miller going abroad for his millstones. A Fashionable Fuel. A fashionable fuel tor what is there no a a lays that has not grades of elegauce is the "spectrum wood" of the draw ing room hearth. This is fireplace leugths of the timbers of old whaling vessels which, seasoned by uiuuy a voyage and saturated with accumulated drippiugs of whale oil, offer a beautiful blaze as they burn themselves out on glittering andirons. As the supply is tit some extent limited, aud as it cunuot be manufactured in a day, but must accrue with the years, it is likely to be kept sufficiently rare to retain its exclusive, and consequently choice aud lu-hioubU characteristic. -New York Times SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Pearls from Ceylon will bo scared thin year. Violent storms have washed away all the oysters from the famous banks, so that the annual fishery must be aban doned. An attempt has lately hin made to cultivate oysters in the Baltic. Last summer 50,000 were transplanted from the North Sea, but tho experiment has been a failure. The brain of Schneider, tho Austrian assassin, who murdered eight servant girls, was shown by tho post mortem ex amination to bo affected with hydro cephalus so that nearly all moral sense was gone. The volcano of Kilauca is very active at present. The cavity produced by the lost breakdown has not filled up, but there is au active hike two or three hun dred feet below the general level of tho floor and a quarter of a mile in diame ter. Doctors maintain that no more favor able medium for tho culture of micro organisms can be found than warm sew age. Cases ate cited in which hot water and steam introduced into old cesspools have resulted in an epidemic of diph theria. The installation of the multiple speed and traction system of platforms which has been in operation at the World's Fair grounds in Chicago for tho past six months is now assuming a much more complete form that would seem to be in dicative of success. Dr. B. W. Richardson states that he hus occasionally subjected two nuimals of the same age, breed and condition sun ultaneously to the same atmosphere of chloroform and common air, aud hns found one dead and tho other alive, aud apparently free from danger. Mr. Yarrow says that tho cause of vi bration iu screw vessels when ruuning in smooth wntcr with their propellers well immersed is mainly duo to tho forcci produced by the unbalanced moving parts of tho machinery, such as pie tons, piston rods, valves, gear, etc. The famous clock in Strasburg Catho- dral la the only timepiece whith marks the old time in Alsace-Lorraine, now that the whole province has adopted tho Greenwich meridian. Experts dccluro that any nttcmpt to alter the routine of the clock would effectually disarrange the elaborate mechanism. According to Lord Rayleigh, if tho beat engines of the future are at all an alagous to our present steam engines, either the water, as tho substance first heated, will be replaced by a fluid of less ichereut volatility, or else the vola tility of the water will bn restrained by the addition to it of some body held iu solution. In regard to the various processes pro posed for the recovery of metallic iron from slag, a writer in London Iron re marks that, though in very niiuy cases the slag as taken from the furnace will bo found to contain a largo amount of iron in a metallic state; which will well repay for any moderate outlay in its re covery, an essential point is that all the work be as nearly as possible automatic A machine often wanted is a small, cheap and efficient water motor for driv ing small .dynamos for laboratory or trade purposes. Such a motor is now successfully used and consists of a simple arrangement of force buckets propelled under high pressure, house or other water supply. Inside tho case is a thin drum of considerable diameter, ou the circumference ot which nre small double buckets. The water entering by tho supply pipe impinges with force on these buckets aud drives the wheel with great rapidity and power. The Famous "Unter den Linden.'' It is the widest street of the capital (Berlin). In the middle there is a broad, unpaved,but excellently cored for prom enade, bounded on one side by n riding path, and upon the other by a stone paved road, designed particularly for heavy vehicles that might interrupt traffic. Enclosing this central avenue and the two sido ones nro four rows of liudeos, which have given the street its name. Put you must not think of tho huge, wonderful lindeus of our Northern Germany. Tbe old trees have suffered a gicnt deal from time and the hostile in fluences of a great city, especially from the gas always fatal to vegetation and they are now a very shabby, mean and melancholy sight. The electric light hus here for some years dispossessed its rival, and gleams down lrom tall, beau fully shaped posts, that are really orna mental. Parallel with the outermost rows of lindens there are two more road ways, asphalt on one side aud excellently paved upou the other, and ulso a broad sidewalk on both sides; so that the street has consequently seveu divisions two sidewalks, three roads for vehicles, a bridlo-path and u promenade. Scrib ner. The Cause of Trichinosis. The Secretary of the Massachusetts Stnto Board of Health said the other day, iu response to au inquiry as to what that Board had to state regarding the trichiua cases, that if people would eat raw pork they would be sick, and that siuce tho middlo of February there hud been upward of fifty cases of trichinosis in Boston, with five deaths, a larger number than had ever before been re ported to the Board iu the past fifty years. Oue tenth of ull the pork aro md Boston, ho said, was allvcted. The only safety in the use of pork was in it thoiough cooking. New Vork Times. A Horse Cnu L'ut All Day. A proaiineut horseman says that a horse can conveniently cat twcuty-foiii hours every day, 'he reason, being that "its stomach is reully small in proportion lo tho size of its body, uud, therefore, it requires feediug ofteu, not less thtn four times a day, two of which should be early in the tuoruiug aud at night, while liny iu its stall should be always withiu itt teach." Picayune. IMPROVEMENT OF ROADS THE ADVANTAGES OF OOOD OOVK- THY HIGHWAYS, Making Hot tor Thorough trp Would tic of (ireat Advant ijro to Farmers Work ot TIivp. JC WIDESPREAD interest in the improvement of public roads in f& America is one of the healthiest (J" signs of tho time. We havo given so much thought and money to building our great railroads, and bringing the distant lauds of tho West into direct competition with the farms of tho more cultivated regions, that we hase overlooke I the necessity for improving local transportation facili ties. Just in proportion ns our rail transportation is extended, the necessity increases for improving our roadways and every avenue leading to the railroad station. Every community is clamorous for branches to sonic truuk Hue. These communities will subscribe money and tax themselves to death in order to bring tho railroad a few miles nearer tho farm, but they will do absolutely noth ing to bring the farm a few miles nearer the railroad. Ono gazes in wonderment at the figures telling of the tonnage of our great rail road systems, but we saeni never to nsk how this great amount of freight reaches the railroad. It comes in wagons drawn by hones over worn out streets or dirt roads. Tho cost of this first transportation is some thing immense, but it is rarely ever gath ered into a tttblo of statistics. Farmers five miles from the railroad will denouueo tho extortion of theso great corporations, and never stop for a moment to think that they aro robbing themselves much more seriously by their neglect of the country roads than it is possible lor the railroads to rob them. It is not possible to construct a system of country roads in a few years. A per fect system is not possible in a poor couu try, but nothing would so add to the market valuo of farin lauds anywhere as a thorough and systematic improvement of the roads, bringing the farms iuto easy and direct communication with the rail road systems of the world. Senator Ingalls, in a recent article on tho subject of public roads, saysc "Many of the Western roads are very much like the roof of the cabin of the Ar!ansuw Traveler, which did not leak in dry weather, and when it rained could not be repaired. The prairie highways," he says, "are for nine mouths iu tho year the best highways in the world, but for the other three months, when the frwtU leaviug tho ground, during the continu ous rains of spring or autumn, or while the roads aro frozen, nothiug worse can be imagined.'' Such roads as theso could be easily mado perfect by proper drainage. Con cerning tho highways of Europe, Mr. In galls says: "Tho public roads of England and the continent nro tho growth of a century, and, like those of Rome, were developed before railways had become the principal avenues of communication. It should bo remembered also that tho climate nnd foil aro different; the supply of labor there is greater and the rate of wages less; land is much more valuablo and population more dense. It would be a mistnko to attempt tJ construct in this country im mediately a system of macadamized high ways lileo those between Oxford and Reading in England, or Hantry Bay and Killarney Lakes iu Ireland. The work must be gradual, and tho public opiniiu must be brought by degree! to this high standard." This is true. The work must bo gradual. Public opinion must be brought by degrees to this high staudard. The country that has to be improved is mar velous in its proportions, ns well as iu its resources. It has n system of rail trans portation that is the wonder of the world, but it has taken more than fifty years to build it, and teu thousand million dol lars. What is needed for the construc tion of good country roads is co-operation, information and some little taxation. Courier-Journal. A Raro Ii.diau Relic. Jonas Do Turk recently found a rare Indian relic in the shape of a "poison pot'' on the liaudeuhush farm, near I'op lar Neck, iu Cil nru Township, Peun. The poison pot is a large flat stone with a circular pit iu the centre an inch deep aud two inches iu diameter, bearing uumis tukablu evidence of having been carved out laboriously with a sharp flint instru ment. It till shows plain traces ot the poisons und acids which wero mixed iu it and used in tho poisoning of arrows. The poisons extracted from the sacs ol copperheads aud rattlesnakes aud from certain deadly plants were u-ed in cou cocting the baueful fluids. Tho poisoned urrows were employed by the Indians iu killing their enemies iu war and iu shoot ing dangerous wilil animals. Few poison pots of this kind are iu existence, even in the most complete museum collections of Iudiau relics. New York Times. Wonders l i tlm Kquiiio Fo.it. The foot of a horse is one ot the most ingenious uud unexampled pieces of mechanism iu the whole range: of animal structure. The outside hoof is made up of a series of thin, vertie il laniiinc of horn, ubout 500 in number. Into this uro tilted about Sou more thin lamiuic, which belong to the coiliu bone, both sets being elastic aud adherent. The edges of a quire uf papir insi rted leaf by leaf iuto another quire will furnish a uood idea of tho urruui iueut of the linuiuic as inoutioncd above. Thus tho weight of the uuiiual is supported by as mauy elastic springs as there are lamina: in nil the feet, amounting to about 4000. These uro distributed iu the in st secure manner, and in u way that every spring is acted upon in au ohliquu direction. Verily there is a display of uaturo's wonder everywhere. Si. Louis l(o-miIjUc. LIFE AND LOVF. Life's a fabric of fancier, whims, dreamt, silhouettes, Interwoven with pleasures and pangs smiles and sighs 1 Lcve is simply a tissue of tears and regreta, Lost delight, bitter bliss, broken hearts, weeping eyes! Yet, withal, there are pnssions conceived an-1 confess d. Come what may throughout life, whosv sweet fragrance may cling Like the breath ot a rose that is kissed and caress'd Around hearts, tho" Fate crude disillusion! may bring. Nor does love dream that Destiny oft holds in store Certain bitterness, clevorly hidden from view; Even so, I still worship, still fondly adore You my life aud my love and I am loyal to you. E. H. Carroll, in Detroit Free Press. HUMOR OF THE DAY. The man who dyes his hair has learned tho secret of keeping things dark. "Laugh and the world laughs with you," or wants to know what you are grinning at. An athletic record is the only thing that improves by breaking. Uiugham ton Republican. Don't talk about yourcolf in company it can be done much more satisfactorily after you have left. Life may be a stage, but is more like a courthouse from the fact that it is full of trials. Elmira Gazette. Philanthropy now demands the culture of a species of shad that shall bo bone less. Pittsburg Dispatch. A mau who sells clocks cannot be blamed for being occasionally behind the times. Washington Star. "That's nn angel of a house!" said she. "Not quite," ho replied. "It only has ono wing." Harper's Bazar. Brigge, "Do you think that Robinson loves her?" Griggs "lie went shop ping with her." Cloak Review. "I guess that must be a watch-dog," remarked Tommy, "for his tail begins to tick whenovcr you speak to him." Judge. A petrified ham has been found in an Indiana field. This is the first supply of matorial for World's Fair tumlwichcs. Oil City Dorrick. Manager "I'll engage you for a trial season." Actor "Before 1 accept I'll ask you for a trial advance of salary." Fliegeudo Blacttcr. "Oh, yes, ours is a hard business," said tho dressmaker. "it's snip and tuck with us all the time, you kuow." Harvard Lampoon. It is curious how much faster n it roe t car humps along wheu you are running after it than whon you nro riding on it. Richmond Recorder. A Bath truckaiuu, wh'j owns two horse0, has named one McGinty aud the other Annie Rooney, both being chest nuts. New York Sun. A girl of sixteen walks us if she owned the earth, nnd after sho has been mur lied a few years she walks as if sho weie carrying it on her shoulders. Atchison Globe. "So that young hciros has promised to marry you?" "Yes, in three years." "Is'nt that a long while to wait?" "It may be, but sho's worth her wait in gold.'- Washington Star. Tho old, old story before marriage has three words iu It : "I love you." The old, old story after marriage has tho sumo number, to wit: "Wanted a cook.'' New York Mercury. Wife "Here's somcthiug new nnd nice an advertisement of 'a folding baby-carriage'." Husband (ubseutly) "That is a novelty. But I never saw a folding buby." Pittsburg Bulletin. Piudeut Mother "I trust, my dear, that you do not encourage young men iu their attentions." Daughter "O'j.dear me; no. I threaten to tell you every time any ono of them kisses me.' New York Sun. Mrs. Pancako (wearily) ''Itl as true as gospel woman s work is never done." Mr. Skyo Parlor "Aherat Judging from the beefsteak, ma'am, I should say that it is sometimes too much done." Harper's Bazur. "I observe, James," mid the Boston employer, "that you say 'eether' and 'needier'. Arc you not aware that such is nut our pronunciation of those words?" "It doesn't Seem to me," replied tho boy from New York, despondently, "that you ought to expect me to say 'eyether' aud 'nyther' ou a salary of sixteen dol lar a mouth." Chicago Tribune. Quester "Do you call Dr. Ranter a man who, as a preacher, is eminently fitted to his calling?" Jester "Well, as to that, he reveals elements of fitness and unfitness." Ijuester "Please explain your meaning." Jester "Why, as a pulpit orator he is a failure; but judging from tho number of people I observe no hling in his church during a discourso I should ussuuiu him to be a great com poser." Bostou Cojrier. Waggle "Yes, it's all up with mo and Miss Sweet leigh. 8!ie got milled about something or other and scut back all my letters." Wiggle "That was bad." Waggle "I thought so for uwhile, but it was a blessing in disguise. I've got another girl now, aud wheu I write 1 just copy one of my old letters to Mss Sweetleigh. Justus good as a uew one, you know, und it is such a saving ou I lie bruiu tissues." Bostou Tran script. A clergyman iu Minneapolis was lalo ly culled upon to officiate at a very fash ionable wedding. After the servico was performed the liuppy groom called him lo one side uud usked "what his charges were." The minister replied that he was ii' t in the habit uf mtikiug a charge. "Well," replied the groom, "I will call und see you later." The happy groom railed the next week and presented the m vi m n, geutleiueu w ith a dozen sticks uf chewing gum. Hoiuiluliv Review,
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