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TIONESTA, rA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1892. S1.50 PER ANNUM.
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The world' population is said to bo
increasing at tbe rata of 6,000,000 per
year.
In Paria the common public schools
are provided with medicine cases, and
instructiout ,are given for uiug the
remedies.
Labouchero, of London Truth,' is op
posed to woman suffrage, on the ground
that there are more women than men,
and that woman's suffrage therefore
means petticoat government.
In France fortunes are counted not in
dollars but in francs, and .the French
have invented a new word to describe
men like tho late Mr. Astor, whom they
call not a millionaire but a niilliard
aire. It will undoubtedly surprise many per
sons, tho New York Commercial Adver
tiser remarks, to learn that tho nursery
or floral interest in the United State
now reach a value of nearly $12,000,000
and claim an empire of more than
170,000 acres.
The development ot the petroleum in
terest in Peru has made such progress
that it has been found necessary to lay
pipe lino botweon tho wells and tbe
ports on the coast. It is believed that
the Peruvian wells will soon supply the
entire demand of the west coast of South
America.
m
America grows tho bulk of the wheat
that is used la England at present, but
thcro are fears, chronicles the Chicago
Timos, that with tho increased facilities
for traffic tho wheat from India will drivo
out the wheat from America. The Rus
sian competition, of which much was
feared, ha been checkod, at least for
some years.
The street of Berlin aro toon to bo en
rioliod by a large number of so-called
"Urania pillars," of which it is propotod
to set up in all 300. Tbeso pillars will be
about eighteen feet high, constructed of
cast iron, aud will each coutain a clock,
meteorological instruments, weather
chart, astronomical and geographical
announcement, and also, as in the
street of Ptris, a plan of the neighbor
ing street In enlarged form to euublo
strangers to find their way.
All that coven Egypt with fertile
flolds, hemmed in everywhere by sterile
wastes, is the sodiment which the Athara
Iliver, the Nilo's great tributary, brings
from rich Kassala and the mountains of
Abyssinia and spreads over the Kilo
Valley. It lias been maintained by
Sir Samuel Baker that if the Soudanese
only knew thoir power it would not be
difficult to divert tho Athara from its
channel and dry up its water in the
Nubian desert, turning Egypt into a
barren wilderness like the surrounding
waste.
It seems that in Corsica you secure
your personal safety by koepiug a bandit.
In an articlo in the National Roviow
Basil Tbompson explain that the tax of
supporting a bandit is not without its
compensations. Bandits are a hidden
. power in the country. They control the
petty olections; they menace those who
are feostilo to their own friends. Thus,
while tbe existence of 600 of them is a
real danger to public security, it is no
tmall advantage to a Corsican to be re
lated to a bandit. You support, you
pay, protect the bandit; and in return
he places his gun at your disposal. It is
an exchange of service!. "Ho has a ban
dit in his service" is a common expres
sion. Are you in debtt Tho bandit
will gain you time. Are you disputiug
the ownership of property! The baudit
will show your oppoueut ho is wrong.
Have you land on which shepherds tres
pass! lie will keep them off.
According to a St. Louis decision,
quoted by tbe Boston Transcript, tbe
Etealing of electricity is a misdemeanor
in tbe eyes of tbe law. A hardware
dealer with some knowledge of electri
city placed a fine wire across the connec
tions to bis meter, and caused it to
register in a certain time about 320 am
peres less thuu was actually used. When
brought to trial his lawyer interposed tho
ingenious deieuce that, as at common
law electricity was unknown, and could
not under tbe code bo made a subject of
larceny, and as no statutory law had been
passed making it a felouy or misdemean
or to steal electricity, for tbe reason that
its character was not known, aud that it
was not subject to asportation as person
al property, bis client could not bo con
victed of larceny. It was, however,
shown by the prosecution that gas, also
unknown at common law, was neverthe
less something whose larceny was recog
nized by the law us a misdemeanor.
When the attorney for tho defence inter
posed tbe plea Unit the act in question
was fraud or deception instead of a
larceny, the judge took advantage of the
Missouri statute which makes fraud per
petrated with a view to theft a felony,
and set the defendant's bail at $3000.
the marching of the orass.
O the marching of the Orassl
O the Joy that comas to pass
When the mighty silent army with green
banners overblown
Drags the winter from his throne!
Conquers all his shining valleys, climbs tbe
rampart of the hill,
Bteal by lonely wayside hedges, ford the
river broad and still.
Undermines the fortress forest, overtops the
eastlo wall,
Bwift invading wins the cities, and the
hamlet brown and small.
Till the whole wide world is captured,
And the soul of man enraptured,
Thrills wth passion of delight
Bunny morn and dewy night;
And the joyous rhythmic pulsing marketb
time In lad and lass
To the marching,
Marching,
Marching,
Of tbe Gran.
O the marching of the Grass 1
Fairer things may come to pass
In the golden days of summer; roses drunk
with wine of June;
Flitting wild birds all atune
With the odorous breathed dawning; won
drous tapestry ot flowers;
Balm of incense; rest of shadow; tangled
roll of joweled showers;
Hymning choirs of happy musio backward
tossed from earth to sky;
Tbe full beauty of completeness in rich
chorus lifted high 1
But what means its regal splendor
To the love beat shy and tender
With which Hope, the Blest, doth chime;
In man's pulses marking time
To the haunting spell of gladness that doth
come and go, alasl
With the marching.
Marching,
Marching
Of the Gram.
Mary E. Blake, in Independent.
SUMMER B9AKDER&
BY HELEN FOBRXST GRAVES.
CTBOOL was over for
the day, and Mis
Merritt stood by the
i open window, breath-
iug-iu mo 4icDu nir
fromi tho May woods.
All th e grimy
late and pencils
were inrtheir places;
the dogta eared books
piled up; the copy
books inftho big desk.
Evenlittle Tommy
Pepper,: tho prettiest
and worst behaved boy in school, had
been let off from his diurnal half hour's
detention, under solemn bonds of never
offending again in the bentjpin and spit
ball question, and Mis .Merritt was
drawing a long sigh of relief when the
door flew open with a jerk, iud Irene
Evans came In, carrying a ' bundle of
books.
Miss Merritt opened her eyes.
"Why, Irene, I thought you mutt bo
sick," said she. "You have not been in
school for two days.
Irene was tall and shapely, with largo
blue eyes, black hair growingjlow on ber
brows, and very red cheeks. Her calico
gown fitted her badly, and tho ribbons
on her coarse straw hat were faded inithe
sun, and spotted by manya ahower.
"No," said she, jerking out the
word somewhat a she had jerked open
the door, "I ain't sick. . But I ain't
coinin' to school any mere. Father, he
say it's a waste o' time."
"Oh, Irene I"
The girl sat down on oneoffthe hacked
and whittled benches and burst into
tears.
"If I knew anywhere to run," said
he, "I'd run away. Yes, yl would.
Father don't treat me raore'n ; half de
cent, and he hain't, since mother died.
I ain't nothin' but a drudge, aud I hain't
do clothes to wear, and he won't pay me
a cent wages, beg and implore as I will.
And I'd sorto' set my heart on takin'
summer boarder this year, like Ellen
Holt did last season, but he soy bo's
hired extra farm hands,- an' I've got to
cook for 'em for notbin'. Ob, Mbs Mer
ritt, what shall I dot"
Miss Merritt smoothed down the black,
crinkly hair with a kindly touch, as sho
stood over the girl' drooping form.
"But, Ireno," (aid she,;"if he puts all
this additional work upon , you.be surely
should allow youiome of the profits."
Irene gave a short laugh.
"Catch him 1" said she. "He just
wontl"
"Irene," said Miss Merritt, ''haven't
I always heard that half the farm wo
yours!"
"It wo mother'," said Irene. "Ho
was only mother's second husband, you
know, and their farm joined. It' mine
by will. But father he don't care noth
ing about wills."
"Isn't there an old house on the
place!"
"Yes," Ireno answered. "But it ain't
so modern as the one we live in. Fath
er's always talkin' about lettin' it to
some o' them Swede farmers up north o'
here."
"I it in tolerable repair!"
"For all I know it i," Irene an
swered. "Then why don't you fit it up and go
into the boarder business yourself!
You're eighteen and post, for all you're
so behind in your rule of three and geog
raphy. And you are an excellent cook
and a good housekeeper, and you've
managed for Mr. Parson's ever since your
mother died."
"Mel" gasped Irene; "all alone!"
"I would come and be your first
boarder," said Miss Merritt. "My pres
ent home is too far to walk, now that the
warm weather has set in. I must make
some change."
"Bat 1 ain't got no furniture," said
the girl.
"I will lend you a little toward that,"
smiled Miss Merritt. "I can take it out
iu board afterward. "Matting for the
floors, and cheap pine furniture cannot
oust much. City butuder tare more
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for fresh milk, plenty ol fruit and striot
cleanliness than they do for style."
Irene's eyes sparkled.
"Two of the Jersey cows i mine,"
said she. "And there's an early straw
berry posture on the side hill just beyond
the old house, and lots o' blackberry
tangles all along tbe river shore. Do
you think wo could venture, Miss Mer
ritt!" "I don't know why not," said tho
school teacher, reflectively.
"What I" roared old Mcdad Parsons,
when tho first load of furniture passed
under the willow along the road be
yond hi doorway; "Irene furnishin' up
that old ramshackle shell of a house for
boarders! .Why, we've got boarders
here, hain't we! Four on 'cm, for hayin'
timo. An' who' goin' to cook an' wash
an' scrub for me, I'd like to know!"
"Not Irene, I guess," said old Mrs.
Simmon, who stood by tho gate.
"Irene's got sort o' tried o' the way you
manage matters, Deacon Parsons."
"But," stuttered the doacon, "it'll
cost me a dollar an' a horf a week to get
Nancy Nutting here."
"I shouldn't wonder," laid Mr. Sim
mons. "I guess," marled Parsons, "Irene'll
find I've got a word to say on this 'ere
question."
But Irene had more spirit than he had
given her credit for.
"I've got to have clothes," said ho,
"an' I've got to earn a little money of
my own. And I'm goin' to earn it this
way."
"You haiu't no business in that house
nor on that land," snarled the old man,
"unless you rent it of me."
"It's my mother's land, not yours!"
flashed out Irene.
"And I'm your guardeen till you're
twenty-one 1"
"Not legally!" cried Irene.
"Wal, if you want to tako it into the
law courts, I'm wlllln'," said Parsons.
"I guess you'll find out I'm light. And
what's more, I leased that land last
week for five years, to Squrib Tolland'
son. He's a notion to go into the tobacco-raisin'
business."
"But," gasped Irene, "I've papered
the house and painted it, and furnished
itl And my city boarders are coming
next week I"
"I can't help that," chuckled Par
sons. "You might a-took counsel with
me. But look a-here, Irene. I don't
want to see ye cornered. You can lot
your boarder come here to this house.
It' a deal comfortabler an' more sightly
than tbe other one, and the hay hands
can hev them little chambers in the barn
loft. Tbar's room for all of em."
"And will you allow me for my
work!" eagerly questioned Irene.
"I'll allow ye yout board an' clothes,"
said tho flinty-hearted old man. "An'
tbut's all ye'ro wuth."
"No," said Irene, firmly. "If I atri
to be your maid-of -all-work, father, I
must have a maid-of-all-work's wages."
"Well, yo won't !" indifferently spoke
Deacon Parsons, as he put hi clay pipe
on Jhe windowsill.
And a he watched Irene go out of tho
room, he muttered to himself:
"I guoss I've got her this time."
Quietly and silently, like one smitten
by a deadly blow, the girl put on her
hat and walked quietly up tho dusty
road to the old farmhouse where her
mother had been born.
Tho window were all open, the pretty
muslin curtains fluttered in the wind, the
cinnamon rose weiv .11 in bloom.
In tbe kitchen the carpenter was put
ting up tbe last wooden shelves. Miss
Morritt wo hanging buff linen shades
in the parlor window.
Irene stood at tbe foot ot the garden
path, dreading to go in and tell her how
tho deacon had frustrated all their plans
by hi wily machination.
Just at that moment there came a
quick, elastic tread down the road. It
Wo Harry Tolland himself tbe young
fellow newly returned from Montreal.
"Irene!" he cried, gaily. "I it you!
Well, what do you think of my new
speculation, eh! Halloa 1 Why, there'
some one living in the house I Your
father never told me '
"A woman was planning to take sum
mer boarders," said Ireno, in a choked
voice. "Women hain't many way of
earnin' a livin', you know."
"Well, she 11 have to earn hers somo
other way," said Tolland, lightly. "I've
leased this land aud I m going to live in
this house. And I want you to live there
with me. Don't start' so, Irene," passing
his arm caressingly arouud her poor little
calico-clad waist. "I've always loved
you since I was a boy, and I've always
looked forward to this time. Will you
marry me, Irene! We'll buy the furni
ture of the boardiug-houso keeper, if it
suits' you, dear. I don't want auy poor
soul to lose money through mo.and we'll
move right in. Come, dearest, let us go
through our own house together!"
For her head had fallen on hi
shoulder. She hud burst into an April
storm of smiles and tears.
'Oh," she cried, "it seoms as if I
must be dreaming) Do you love mo,
Horry! Do you really care for poo,
stupid, insignificant uie!"
"I love you, Irene, he answered sim
ply. "Don't I toll you that I always
loved you!"
'Then, Harry," she whispered, "let
me tell you a secret. I'm the boarding
house keeper."
And she confided to his astonished
ears the whole story of her venture.
"Aud you must lot me go on all the
same, Marry 1" coaxed she. "Because
you know, dear, we're young people just
beginning tbe world, and I want to con
tribute my share. And Miss Merritt has
assisted me, and she must be paid. And,
oh, Harry, I shall bo so proud to do
something to help my husband 1"
"For the sake of those two sweet
words you shall havo your own way, uiy
darling," said young Holland, cxult
ingly, "But, Irene, what a plucky girl
you are, to be sure. Uo you know I'm
proud of you!"
Tbe city boarders were rather sur
prised when they arrived, in the purple
dusk of a lovely July tveuiuii. la ail
the negotiations nothing had been laid
about Mr. Tolland. j
"t didn't know there was a man of
tho house," said Mrs. De Poyntz.
"Why, of course there isl" said Miss
Merritt. "Who clso would take you for
long drives to all tho cascade and grot
toes and mountain tops! Who would
put up the lawn-tennis net and hang
the hammocks! You might have known
we couldn't get along without a man
about the house!"
'He's very handsome, anyhow," laid
Mis Gramont. "But how extremely
young our host and hostess are!"
"Oh, they'll get over that every day
they live," said Miss Merritt, laughing.
And Deacon Parsons gnashed his teeth
in vein. Irene had outgeneraled him,
after all. Saturday Night.
How a Fish .Seen.
The medium in which fresh-water
fishes live give them a chance to seo a
great distance only in the horizontal
direction, and the proper adjustment of
the eye would make, under usual con
ditions, tho optical axis take this direc
tion. To me it seems impossible to ex
plain the constant revolution of the eye
ball on any other hypothesis except that
given, viz. : That the optical axis ex
tends forward instead of sidewise.
When a fish wishes to cat anything,
either at the bottom of tbe pond or at
tbe surface of the water, - it swims
directly toward the object; and in this
case the eyes are instantly adjusted in
line with tbe body, so as to biing the
imago of the particle desired upon the
posterior portion of the retina. In this
case tboy lose their usual horizontal
position.
If a fish wishes to turn to tho right or
left in the water, says Professor Apgur
in the American Anglor, the first move
ment is that of the eyes in unison in the
diroslion of the turning. This would
be entirely unnecessary if tho apparent
axis was the axil of most distinct vlsiou,
a one of tbe eyos would oo all that was
to bo leen on the side of the turning.
After thi movement of tho eye the
body turns enough to bring the eyas Into
their normal position, then there is again
a movement of the eyos and next a move
ment of the body. Thi causes a peculiar
jerking motion of the eyeballs during
the whole timo of the turning of tho
body. .
Umbrellas lit Tnrkcy.
In many Eastern countries an umbrella
i a mark of distinction, and it use is
confined to people of rank. Turkey is
one of the few Asiatic countries where
the umbrella is in common use, and car
ried as a protection from rain. In most
places its use is that of a parasol. Says
an Eastern traveler.: "Arriving at Con
stantinople from countries further to tho
east, where tbe umbrella is considered a
badge of high rank, I wo much aston
ished to find it in common use in rainy
weather. However, I soon learned that
traces of the same luperstition existed.
One rainy morning I had occasion to
walk along the road which faces the
Bosphorus. One of the buildings I
passed 1 a favorite palace of the Sultan,
in which he was then residing. As I
approached tho gate with my umbrella
over my head, one of the lentiucls
stationed there accosted me in a threat
ening manner. Not understanding what
he said, I went on, whereupon he ran at
mo with his fixed bayonet lovelcd. At
that moment a friendly Turk, who was
walking behind me, snatched my um
brella with violence from my hand and
thrust mo forward. Then the soldier
returned to his station, and allowed me
to proceed in peace. On returning my
umbrella the Turk explained that every
one is obliged to take down his um
brella on passing the actual residence of
the Sultan. No matter how heavy the
rain, each person passing tbe palace must
lower the umbrella, and not elevate it
again until fully past the building."
Indians Not tiireu to Lying.
The Dakota, unless they have boon
corrupted by bad white men, are strictly
and literally truthful. One has to bo
careful not to mako a mistake in talking
with them. When they asked how many
"sleeps" (nights) before we meant to do
any certain thing, we had to be sure of
the number for fear of shocking them
by not keeping our word. One is not
allowed to change one's mind about en
gagement either. On one occasion we
bad gone the rounds of the camp invit
fng all, old and youug, to a sort of en
tertainment a reception we called it,
for want of another name. On the day
appointed I was seized with a fever, and
my sister decided that we would have to
postpone our treat. So she sounded tbe
police sigual, three taps on the bell, and
seut our faithful Still-Arm to let the
camp know that no one was to come to
the school house that day. But she reck
oned without her invited guests. In
dians are punctuality itself, and prompt
ly at 4 o'clock, the hour set, they begun
to pour iu. The first comers were al
lowed to come iu my bedroom, that they
might report my illness to those on tbe
way. But it did no good. Tbe entire
camp arrived. My sister rushed for the
hardtack that we had meant to be a part
of the refreshments, and distributed it
among them at tho door, and bade them
good-by. Theu thoy went reluctantly
home. New York Post.
Columbus' Idea of the World.
Columbus believed the solid part of
the sphere to be larger than tho liquid
part, aud the distauce by tho suuset road
between the East Indies and western
Europe to be less than it is.
But in those two capital errors lay tho
great inceutive to tbe execution and suc
cess of his purpose. Had he kuowu tbe
vast planetary spaces covered by the
waters; the continent interposed between
his own Europe and the laud of dia
monds, pold, aud spices; the difficulty
aud peril of the passage yet to bo braved
in the fur regions of the auturctic pole
la order to sail from our continental
Europe to the oriental Indies by the
western way, he would perhaps have '
shruuk bock in alarm aud dread. Cea- '
turj. j
M ANUFACTURING BUTTONS.
ANAHTIClB THAT HAS BECOME A
M4CES3ITY TO CIVILIZATION.
Invented Only ISO Year Aero What
They Have Done for Costume
Methods of Mannfactttre.
ft I UTTONS have played a great
I "C part in the world," said a
1 J scientific man to a Washing.
6 ton Star writer. "They
were invented only a century and a half
ago, and yet they have revolutionized
clothes. Until modern times people do
lighted in loose and flowing robes, which
were flung around tho body. In day ot
old the tailor and dressmaker paid no
attention to "fit," having regard merely
for the graceful adjustment of drapery.
All this was changed by buttons. They
were not worn originally for any useful
purpose, but merely for ornament. Thus,
if you look up (heir history, you will
find that the earliest pattern of them
were splendid and costly. However, it
was not long before their utility for fas
tening garments came to be realized.
They rendered it possiblo to make
clothing fit closely to the body, and bo
they brought about a complete alteration
in the theory of costume.
"Buttons have becorao necessary to
civilization. It is difficult to see how
mankind could get along without them
now. Only savages and the indolent
peoples of the Orient dispense with
them. They are made of every con
ceivable material almost, including all
tho metals from gold to pewter, pearl,
ivory, tortoise shell, bone, horn, hair,
indio rubber, wood, amber, jot, glass,
porcelain, clay, leather, papier macho,
vegetable ivory, precious stones and all
sorts of stuffs and cloths. Metal buttons
are (ither stamped with dies or cast.
One firm in the United States turns out
65,00O,0J0 iron backs for covered but
tons every year. Glass buttons are made
by pinching the half soft material in hot
pincers. Tbe pincers are furnished with
a die, if it is desired to impress a design
on the buttons. Wooden button molds
come largely from the south of France,
where plenty of wood suitable for the
purpose grows.
"Common shirt buttons are made by
mixing finely powdered soapstono with
silicate ot soda, otherwise known ai
water glass.' The mixture is dried and
repulverized pnd the powder is pressed
into molds by machinery. The freshly
molded buttons are baked in a furnace,
dipped in 'water gloss' and again baked.
When cool, they are polished by bein;
placed in a rotating barrel of water.
Finally they are dried and given an ad
ditional polish in a rotating batrel with
soapstone powder. Porcelain buttons
are, manufactured like small ornamental
articles of earthen ware. The moistened
clay is pressed into plaster of parii
molds, and tbe buttons thus molded, af
ter being dried on boards, are given I
first firing and baking in the 'biscuit
oven.' At this stage tbe baked button)
are called 'biscuits.' Then thoy a
glazed directly, or, as i preliminary, ar
adorned with colors, which are fixed bj
further baking in the 'enamel kiln.
The colors are put on by hand painting
or by 'transfer printing.' By the lattci
process the design is printed from a cop
per plate with a peculiar iuk on tissuo
paper, which is placed while the im
pression is moist on tho biscuit ware.
After the ink has had timo to dry the
paper is removed, leaving the design on
the buttons.
"Mother-of-pearl buttons are cut by
hand with a small revolving circular saw.
The work requires great skill, uu impor
tant object being to get as many buttons
as possible out of each shell. If tho
mother-of-pearl is thick enough, it is
sometimes split into two layers. Finest
of all pearl buttons are : those made from
the white edged Macasary shells brought
from the East India seas. These shells
are worth $800 a ton in tho crude. The
waste mother-of-pearl is ground to a fine
powder, which is mixed with gum to
a paste and molded into buttons of an
inferior quality."
How Pepsin is Procured.
"While I have always had a vague idea
as to tho nature and properties of pep
sin," said a gentleman to the Man About
Town, "I never fully realized that it is
the veritable product of the animal
stomach until recently. During a visit
to New York I saw the process of manu
facturing in a factory that has the oddest
method of preparing the article that
ever entered the human mind. Br fly ,
stated, a number of perfectly healthy
hogs are fattened for market, and for
thirty-six hours before killing time aro
deprided of all food, not even allowed a
drop of water. Then tbe trough from
which they are accustomed to eat is cov
ered with strong wire netting and tbu
most appetizing slops and hog delica
cies, smoking hot, are poured into the
trough. Tbe fumes ascend with grate
ful fragrance to the porcine nostrils, the
hogs all run to tbe trough and stand over
it, ravenous with huuger, squealing and
fighting with each other for a chance to
get at tbe food. The irou netting pre
vents them tasting the food, and while
they aro still thinking about the matter
they are killed, and their stomachs being
taken out are fouud perfectly full of gas
tric juice, from which pepsin is pre
pared. The process was quito a revela
tion to me." St. Louis Hepublic.
Tigers la the Malay Peninsula.
The tiger of the Malay peninsula is
more savage thun his neighbor, the tiger
of the Indian jungles. In appearance he
is much similar, but if anything a triilo
larger. I have walked through jungle
day after day which was swarming with
tigers, yet I have never seen one in tbe
day time unless he was being hunted.
At night you often hear them, roaring,
more especially during rainy weather. A
tiger is supposed to kill its victim at
once by a geutle rap from his huge paw
on the back of tbe neck, which at once
breaks it. This is the tradition of the
Malays, but I will not vouch for its ver
acity, though it seems probable enough.
Su Fuweiaco ChxoiuUo. '
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
An English doctor declares hot bread
at night is not injurious to health.
A thunderstorm in hot weather trav
els at the average rate of thirty miles an
hour.
An alloy of gold and aluminum has
recently been made. Its color is a most
beautiful purple, and it will be valuable
in making jewelry.
The blood-vessels in the white of the
eye aro so small that they do not admit
the little red corpuscles to which the
color of tbe blood is due.
Two ingenious Swedish astronomers
aro reported to have produced an artifi
cial aurora by establishing electric cur
rents between two mountains.
Some tinsmiths use leaden-headed nails
for roofing purposes. Tho last strokes
flatten 'the head over the hole made in
tbe tin, and leaking is thus prevented.
An English electrician mentions a curi
ous case of one-way conduction. Hot
gas conducts the current, but with one
electrode cold it conducts best when that
elcctrodo is negative.
Cincinnati, Ohio, is to bo lighted at
an expense of $34.90 per lamp per year.
The present contract price is $144. The
new price is twenty-throe cents a night
for lamps of 2000 candle power.
Observations made to determine the
longitude of Montreal, Canada, show
that the transmission of the electric cur
rent across tho ocean and back occupied
a trifle over one second, the distance be
ing 8000 miles.
Tbe ordinary, commonplace soap bub
ble ha recently been playing an impor
tant part in experiments on the magnctio
qualities of gases, and has provod itself
to be one of the toughest and most elas
tic membranes known.
The earth's surface only exceods the
moon's by about thirteen and one-half
times. The moon's surface is fully as
Iqrgo as Africa and Australia togothor,
and noarly as large as North and South
America without tho islands.
The "sea serpent" has been made a
subject of special study by the Director
of the Zoological Gardens at the Hague.
He has collected reports ot 1C6 appear
ances, and concludes that the reports
must all refer to a single unknown ani
mal species.
A test of three spoons during sixteen
years has given these results : The sil
ver spoon lost 8.78 per cent., part of
which was due to polishing; the alumi
num, 5.85 per cent., which represents
the actual wear; and tho German silver
spoon, 6. 62 per cent., a result far too
low, as this spoon, unlike tbe others, was
not in constant use. Tbe durability of
silver and aluminum, therefore, appears
to be about the same, and much greater
.than that of German silver
Lepers Proof Agaiust Electricity.
"Down at Honolulu," said Hary Dia
mond, "I had a battery and worked tho
innocent Kanakas with the old trick of
the five dollar gold piece. That is, I'd
place the piece in the bottom of a jar of
water connected with the battery. Then
I'd tell tho native boys that they could
have the money if they'd pick it out of
the jar and hold the hand on the other
pole of the battery at the same timo. Of
course tho moment their hands struck
the water the circuit was comploted,
their fingers would be doubled up and
they couldn't touch tho money if their
fortunes had depended on getting it. I
had many a laugh and achieved quito a
reputation among the boys as a wizard
who controlled tho devils in tbe water."
"One day when several young ladies
wore in the office a lad came iu, pushed
ou by a number of companions who had
attempted to secure the $5 and failed.
He had been persuaded to try for tho
money, and I explaiued tho trick to the
ladies in un aside as I arranged the ap
paratus. The boy took the handlo and
we all prepared for a great laugh.
"He put bis band into the water,
slowly drew out my fiver, and quietly
walked oil with it, while 1 stood with
my month open, afraid to face those
girls, and praying for a volcanic eruptiou
to turn the trend of thought.
"The boy had the leprosy, and the
electricity didn't affect him." San Fran
cisco Examiner,
Marrelous Popularity of Bicycles.
The marvelous growth of ' the bicycle
industry during tho lust few years is
putent to all who live in the upper sec
tion ot the city or in any other part of it
vhere fairly good roads exist. There
the wheel mau or woman can be seeu at
all times, but it is only at somo ot tbe
larger establishments where tbe manu
facture or salo of wheels is tho sole pur
suit that the lull popularity of tho bi
cycle is ascertained. One establishment
iu this city aloue sells bicycles worth
nearly $1,000,000 yeurly, while another
doing an extensive wholesale business iu
medium and low-priced wheels, reaches
$500,000. In 1891 110,000 "wheels"
were constructed iu this country, nearly
all of which were sold, iu additiou to
20,000 English ones importoi.
The giving of lessons in bicycle riding
has become uu established feuturu in tho
cycle business, several instruction halls
existing iu vurious parts ot the city. At
the best known of these nearly l.'J.OUO
lessons were givou lout year, many
people coming from towns as far dis
tant as Stamford, Conn., uud New
iiruuswick, N. J. New York Tribuue.
Tbe First Hull nay Station.
World's Fair Commissioner John
Boyd Thuchrr, of Albuuy, N. Y., be
hoves that be bus got upou the track of
the first railway station ever erected iu
America, aud if the structure proves to
bo such he intends to have it transported
to Chicago. Tbe station was used ut tho
Albuuy terminus of the Albany and
Schenectady iluilroud, uud up to IS-1'J
stood at the cornet ot Brou i aud Vau
Yechtcu streets, (now Third avenue).
At that date it was removed to its pre
sent locution. It is one story iu height
and about twenty-live feetsiuuie. New
Yolk Times.
MY SWEETHEARTS FACE.
My kingdom Is my sweetheart's faoe,
And these the boundaries I trace;
Northward ber forehead fair;
Beyond a wilderness of auburn hair;
A rosy cheek to east and west;
Her little mouth
The sunny south.
It is tbe south that I love best. f'
Her eyes, two crystal lakes,
Rippling with light,
Caught from the ran by day,
The stars by night. '
The dimples in i
Hor cheek and chin
Are snares which Love hath set,
And I have fallen in!
John A. Wyoth, in Hirper's Magazine.
UUXOIt OF THE DAY.
A str.ge coach The prompter.
"Out of sight" The owl at noon.
The lard refiner never knows what he
can do until he tries.
Tbe fixod star is one that has enough
money to settle down. Dallas News.
A star gazer must have a far away
look in his eyes. Binghainton Republi
can. A poem that is always sure of a
market the lay of the hen. Lowell
Courier.
Among the newest things in stockings
this summer is tbe baby's foot. Boston
Transcript.
Tenant "The roof leaks." Janitor
"Well, you shouldn't have taken tho top
Bat." New York Sun.
A great many things are laid before
Congros', but comparatively few oftheai
hatch. Washington Star.
Jagson says it is proper to wish tho
anxious candidates many happy returns
on election day. Elmira Gazette.
Baglcy "I don't believe in borrowing '
troublo; do you!" Brace "Of course
not; money is tho thing." Now York
Herald.
Prnctico makes perfect. You cun see
lawyers and doctors walking on thoir
uppers for want of practice. Bingham
ton Leader. "
Every thrifty farmer will keep his
land well dressed, but he has no res sou
to be ashamed of a strawberry patch.
Lowell Courier.
When a boy begins to wash his neck
without being told it is a sign he is pass
ing into the ordeal ot his first love affair.
Atchison Globe. .
' There are men with natures so small
that, if there is anything in transmigra
tion, they will probably reappear as ml-'
crobes. Washington Star.
First Preacher "Doos your choir
sing in hsrmony!" Second Preacher
"Yes, but tbey don't live in harmony."
Kate Field's Washington.
Tho latest thing in Ohio is a babe bom
without hands. If he eventually drifts
into politics ho will have to depend on
the hands of his friends. Washington
Post.
"What a sly animal the fox is, to be
sure I The othor day I followed one for
three hours, and when I dually shot it I
found it was a red dog." Fliegondo
Gleattor.
True to tho nature of tho beast, many
i man who in his time has cast sheep's
eyes at a pretty girl has afterwards bad
the wool pulled ovor them. Phila
delphia Times.
We have noticed that when you tell a
woman her daughter is just the image of
her when sho was that age, the mother
looks pleased and tho duugbter looks
scared. Atchison Globe.
Yeast "What are you going to mako
out of your boy!" Crimsoubeak "A
lecturer." "Has ho a taste for it!"
"Oh, yes; he iuherits it from his mother."
San Francisco Examiner.
Mamma "When that boy threw
stones at you, why didn't you come a' d
tell roe, instead of throwing tbom back."
Littlo Son "Toll you! Why, you
couldn't hit a barn door." Good News.
Publisher "I wish you would .vrite
us a good sea story." Great Author
"But I have nevor bcou to sea." Pub
lisher "I know it. I want a sea itory
that people can understand." Tit-Bits.
It is strange, as he known,
tine's in love with another;
He should like to propose,
VVhuu. so sure as lie goes,
He'll return as her brother.
New York Sum.
"Mrs. Chiuner seems to have a very
pleasaut time of it." "Pleasant time)
'(Thy that womau's life is ouo complete
rouud of enjoyment." "It is!" "It is
that. She belongs to v-.tu sewing
circles." Now York Press.
Witherby "I made the mistake of
my life this morning. I told my wife I
didn't like her new gown." Plaukiug
ton "What, was she augry i" Wither
by "Oh, no, it wasu't that, but sho
wuut another one." Cloak He view.
Lady (to her regular begging custom
er) "I see that you have brought somo
one with you to-day, aud I cannot give
to both." Beggar "Certainly not,
ma'am. I am only taking bun the
round of my clients, us I have uu idea of
selling the business I"
Teacher "Won't you sit down,
Jimmy?'' Jimmy "Nop." Teacher
"Why not." Jimmy "Jis because."
Teacher "Because what?'1 Jimmy
"liecuuse wbeu pop was puttiu' down
the carpet this uiorniu' uud hit his thumb
with the tuck-hauuuer I luugbed."
Boston Post.
Clara "I hope you won't bring that
Mr. Hatter uround to seo me. I don't
waul to see him." Maude "But, my
dear, he bays he used to play with you
wheu you were a little girl." Clara
"Tbut's why I don't want to meet him.
It reminds me of the time when I wore
a homo made cloak to Sunday-school."
Cloak Review.
Increasing favor is shown by British
stockmen for cotton oil us a fatteuiug
iugredieut iu stock rations. Itupe oii
has fuilcu in value rather badly, aud li i-
(eU oil birely liuids its own.
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