THE FOREST REPUBLICAN b pabllike rrmj Wtinninj, ky J. E. WENK. Offlc in Bmeaxbangh Co.'a Building nji nun, tiokmta, n Trm, ... f.eo ptrTar. RATJIS OF ADVERTISING! On Square, one inch, one insertion. . 1 On One Hqtiare, one inch, one month .... 3 00 One Square, one inch, three months. . B W One Kquare, one inch, one year... . 10 00 Two Htyiflros, one year f 00 Quarter Column, one year 30 m llalf Column, one year 60 Oil One Column, one year . 100 "O Legal advertisements ten cents per line each insertion. Man-inges and death notices gratis. All bills for yearly advertisements collected quarterly. Temporary advertisements must be paid in advance. Job work cash on delivery. t REPUBLICAN. ORE H nkeeitptleas receJvea fot skertar Mrlod tan tare month. OnrrMpondrac. tolleltea rrsm &1 MrU mi th VOL. XXV. NO. 14. TIONESTA, PA., AVEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1892. $1.50 PER ANNUM. coonvy. n.nauc WUl M Ukea f un)D armoua The Postofllce Department has de cided in favor of Pittsburg without tho "h." It is calculated that since tho begin ning of time the world has had sixty-six quadrillion of inhabitants. Tho miners of the world produce twenty-five tons of gold every week, but the precious metal remains as raro at ever. , A London jourual estimates that a dentist who is busy six hours a day can make f 5000 a year by extracting teeth at twenty-flvo cents each and lllliug them for $1 each. When evils are to bo remodiod nowa days, the Now York Advertiser notes, it is done through the instrumentality of societies. Tho latest in London has for' its object the protection of witnesses ngalnst insult by counsel. President Elliot, of Harvard Univer- y, says that "tho immigrants who orae to our shores from abroad will be found to have received a better common school tramiug than tho average- rural population in this country." A bicyclo Jnsuranco company, to in. sure bicycles against nccidental break age, has been startod iu New York, When a brokon wheel cannot be satis factorily repaired by the company's mechanics tho policy holder is givou a new machine. The boy King of Spain, known a, Al fonso No. 13, who is just six years old, Is said to bo very obstinate, and if ho wants a thing and cannot fret it he gets into a rago which his mother alone can appease. He has a great desire to be a man, and above all is anxious to havo a moustache. All of which goes to show, muses tho Boston Transcript, that the divinity that hedges a king docs not prevent tho weaknesses of human nature from invading the royal mind. Cheap laborers, tho Baa Francisco Examiner doclaros, are pouring into At lantic ports in a veritable flood. Some of them impoverished, some actually vicious, and nearly all anxious to work at any wage, their employment and ulti mate assimilation present a problem of the utmost gravity. It would be folly to allow the condition to bucomo moro complicated by admitting anothor flood ol cueap laborers, under contract, through Pacific port. Happily, tho at tempts to bring in Japancso unlawfully have failed. The Japanese are coming fast enough without great corparations bringing them in herds, ns they havo shown a desire to do; Tho efforts in this direction have simply been sufficient to arouse a proper degree of caution. In Wall street, accordiug to tho At lanta Constitution, no cash passes. Checks take the placo of money.. The rich men of New York do not carry money. The highwayman who "held up" Jay Gould or any of thu millionaires would profit little. Only a few dollars would be secured. If $100 lasts Mr. Gould throe months, as it does, tho rob ber must have a pretty accurato knowl edge of his affairs to know when to con front him with tho hope of getting over ten or twenty dollars. The leading mill ionaires are men, without exception, of plain ways and few requirements. They do not use intoxicants or tobacco, and there are few things they need mouey for. The average man who works for his daily broad has more money in his pocket than the average luilllionuiro. Tho millionaires, toA, are us methodical in ..theft ftirsonal us iu their business affairs. Tlley IPccp strict account of what they draw for vhoir. expenses and what thoy pay out. Mr. Gould carries his cash in an old-fashbned wallet iu an msido pocket. Days at a time pass without his opening the wallet. Horse flesh . for food has increase 1 wonderfully in popularity in. Franco, states the Boston Transcript. At Paris, the first horse butchery was opened cn July 9, 1866, and in that year 9U3 horsus were slaughtered. Through seventeen years the business steadily increase ! , and the count shows that 203,537 solipcds were consumed in the city. On January 1, 1889, the horse butcheries numbered 132. In other cities of France the out put of the horse butcheries it enormous. Ilippophagy is also iu great favor at Rot terdam. Horse meat is used there as human food to an extent that is unknown in Denmark, Sweden aud Switzcrlaud, as well as in parts of Italy. It is exten sively used in Milan, whilo it is scorned in Turin. In the latter city ouly fifty five horses were slaughtered iu 1838, and the flesh was used exclusively for feeding the animals of a uionagory. A Spanish writter regrets that htppophagy is not adopted in Spaiu, where it would benefit numerous poor laborers, to whom ordinary meat is an article of luxury on account of its high price. In Paris, the price of horse meat is about half that of beef lor corresponding cuts. KATY DID. I sent a note to Katy, and was waitlcg her reply; But the carrier went his several rounds and always passed me liy. The shades were gathering thicker, and the sun hung very low, I was lying in the hammock and was swing ing to and fro; And I asked myself the question, "Did she answer me or nof And In tlie leafy maple a little Insect hid. And declared as though he know it, ' Katy did." And she did. 1 finally received It, uad 1 grasped it with a start. Did it contain an arrow or dagger to my heart? I hastened to my chamber, very nervous, I confess; I tore the letter open and beheld the fond address, - But I burned to know the answer. Did she tell me "Yes!" And in the leafy maple a little Insect hid. And declared as though ho know It, "Katy did." And she did. Jay Knye, In Overland Monthly. tom's bargain; T is very, very wl nice, and I am ex- trcmcly proud of And here little f:fW't&SZ hesitated. It was 3 W$S$ very nice, irom Mio u neut little drawing room, simply but elcgant'y furnished, right away to the kitchen, whero every thing shone again. Aud Tom had got everything together in eighteen months, too, when tho luck had chungod and his writing all at once got to be appreciated. But, as Maggie put it, there was one trifling drawback, consisting of an al cove iu tho drawing room which would uever no, never look complete without a piano. "And a piano you shall havo," Tom said, looking up heartily from the break fast bacon. "I had a good slico of luck last week which I never expected. You remember that long love story I wrote three years ago, and which I have sout to pretty well every magazine in Lou don. Well, Ned Hartley advised me to send it to The Woman's Companion, where it was accepted. They paid me 35 for it,not quits a hulf-n-crown a page, but it's better than nothing. Don't you think. I could get a decent instrument for the money 1" Maggie smiled pleasantly. She was extremely fond of music aud, being a managing little soul, equally fond of a bargoin. It would be far better, she said, sapientiy, for Tom to koep his eyes open than to go direct to a maker, by which he might save at least 10 of his hard-earned money. "Thore are lots of them advertised every day," she observed. "Give me the paper and I will show you what 1 mean. Now listen to this one." FOR SALE A bargain; magnificent piano, by a well known maker; upright erand, overstrung, double check action, bott pedal, steel frame, full compass tri chord throughout; the property of a lady going abroad; cost 75 but a few months ago; will mci-itice for i. Apply "Bee thoven," 11H liunnersbury road, Oreju thorpe Park, Hauipstoad, or personally any day this week. Tom nodded approvingly. An instru ment costing but a few months ago up ward of "three-quarters of a century" to bo disposed of for a third of the ainouut struck him as the very thing le desired. It was a little strango, though, an outsider would havo decided, that so valuable a property should have goue so long begging, or that tho lady going abroad did not get to see the folly of ad vertising regularly at the rato of Jtl per week. "1 tell you what it is," said Tom, "as Gunncrsbury road is close I'll just walk over there after dinner and interview Mrs. 'Beethoven' personally. If I like tho look of the instrument you can come over afterwards and try it." So it was arranged, and Tom retired to his writing den, whore for three solid hours tho anticipated purchase was for gottcu. There was pleuty of work now for the young writer aud journalist, who for the last live years had found it a ter rible strugglo to ke-jp himself, and find Maggie, who had until recently been out as a governess, with those trilling luxu ries which even the princely salary of a governess does not afford. But tho tide had turned now, and although Tom would never be a great novelist or brilliant essayist, ho earned a comfort able income, which by the end of the yeur promised to touch close upon four figures. It seems a lot of money, but I know more than one of tho quiet oues of whom the geucrul public have never heurd who are doing quite as well. It is so cosy to get a liviug in literature if you have tho ability and know how to set about it especially know how to set about it, which, perhaps, iu the long run is better than ability. But this secret is only learnt by much grief and paiu aud bitter disappointment. So Tom (hushed his morning's work, and, after dining comfortably, w liked over to Guuucisbury road, a pleasant, semi-genteel street, with little house, all bearing a strong family likeness to each other aud all striving to look as if they were semi-detached residences and not the occupants of u common terrace. No. 195 was, perhaps, a 1 ittlo cleaner and neater thun its neighbors; tho door had been painted within recent memory, thcro were extremely white curtains in the windows, aud a ueat little maid took Tom's card after she had ushered him into a tiny drawing-room, the furniture of which struck him as being new aud cheap. But tawdry as his surroundings were, Tom speedily forgot them as. the door opeucd aud a lady entered holding his card iu her huud. "I presume you conio to see mo about the piano," she said. Tom was tolerably self-possessed man, I but he felt at a disadvantage now. Tim Pkcr was the ujnttituU wou.au he had ever seen in his lilo. She was young not more than twenty-two or three, tall. with an elegant figure; sho had a won derful mass of red gold hair piled up in some bewildering, fascinating fashion; her features were wondorfully sweet and regular, and her sorrowful blue eyes, half bold, wholly shy, went straight to Tom's heart and enslaved him on tho spot. He was a very sensitive, feeling kind of fellow, nnd when he noted tho black dress and tiny white cap perched upon the golden, wavy hair, Tonv felt that, ho could do anything for hor, or die happy in the attempt. "It is of no consequence," ho stam mered, unconsciously paraphrasing Mr. Toots. "I did come over to see the in strument, which I thought of purchasing if it that is" "If it is satisfactory," tho lady said, with a smile, and concluding tho speech Tom deemed it almost heresy to utter. "It is there, as you see. You arc, no doubt, a good judge, and in that case tho piano speaks for itself." It did, and pretty loudly, too, as any cennoisscur of the popular form of hnr- monial torture would have readily testi fied. It was suspiciously new, tho var nish was bright and obtrusive. Thero was also some little difficulty in raising tho lid, nnd when Tom did clumsily run his hand over the keys, even he igno rant of music as he was felt startled at the metallic demon he had aroused. "It is a great bargain," tho lady re marked, "and, as you sec, almost new." Tom did see, and hastened eagerly to pay a fitting tribute to its youth, which apparently was the only virtue it pos sessed. And yet the soft hearted fel low, with those pathetic blue eyes turned upon him, could not steel himself to pronounce the liat which his commou sense dictated. "I will not decide now," he hesitated, man-like. "You see, I am not buying for myself, but for a lady my sister nnd I should like her to see it first. If thero is no objection I will call again to morrow afternoon." "My my husbaud chose that instru ment, and ho was a well known mu sician," the lady said, almost timidly; "indeed, did not circumstances compel mo, I would not part with it now; but I am not so well oil as She turned away abruptly, so sud denly that for a moment Tom was con scious of an idiotic desire to take bcr in his arms and comfort her. Yet usually he was a keen hand at reading character, and some inward monitor warned him even now that the pretty, child-like widow was merely acting a part. But we nro only mortal, and Tom knew too well what poverty was not to feel for the others who suffer from Its blighting influence. "I am very Borry Mrs. Kerr, I think you said? but I cannot decide now," he said, almost humbly. "I will bring mv sister to morrow." " Maggio listened with iutcrest to tho story of the interview, but, sister like, she by no means liked Tom's encomiums concerning the widowed possessor of tho instrument chosen by a well known mu sician. "1 declare you are quite iu love with her," she said, half jealously. "It would be a romance if you went to buy a piano and fouud a wile instead." "Natural enough, too," Tom returned "Why shouldn't I irarryt I should not bo in the way then when Ned Hartley comes of an evening." It was Maggie's turn to look confused now. Ned Hartley aforesaid, a great, chum of Tom's, and a dashing young journalist of somo repute, certainly spent n deal of time in Maggie's company, to Tom's secret gratification, for Nod was a good fellow, and well able to afford tho luxury cf a wife. "We will go and see the lady," Bhe said. "I can t trust you alone again." Tom assented, although not without certain misgivings. Being, like most of the craft, of a sentimeutal, emotional nature ho did not care to bring his di vinity under the cold, practical eye even of his own sister, and as she sat await ing the arrival of the disconsolate widow, and coolly criticising tho unfortunate piano, Tom begin to scent something like trouble in the future. "My dear, the thing is a regular take in," she said, decidedly. "Any one but you would have knowu that half those advertisemeuts were mere dodges " "Not forgetting that you advised tho dodge to be tried," Tom retorted. Any fulthcr conversation was termi nated by the entrance of Mrs. Kerr, who stood iu tho doorway looking from ouo to the other. A stray ray of suushiuo touched her lovely hair and sweet, pa thetic face so softly that even Maggie, the practical, was fain to admit that Tom's extravagances had not been so ex aggerated after all. "I am sorry to have kept you wait ing," she commenced, "but " "It is," Maggio cried, impulsivoly, "actually it is, dear Marion." Dear Marion, thus accosted, smilod redly, aud returuod Maggie's warm em brace "It is an old school friend of mine," the latter said, incoherently. "Tom, you have heard mo speak of her? What a memory you have, to bo sure ! And to think of you being married, aud I never knew it! And a widow also I Let mo seo. I have not seen you for four years, tiuce you left -Mrs. Griniehaw's. V'ou must come and see our house, the dear est little placo iu Ilauipstcud, I call it." Tom, looking on, thought that although Mrs. Kerr seemed pleased to see her old friend, she was slrungely ill at euso. She parried Maggie's questions both hur riedly and confusedly; the strange feel ing that Bhe was playiug a part struck him with a new uud uncomfortable force. "You must come aud stay with us, and if you uro leaving hero Tom thull lind you a customer for the piano," Maggio decided, vigorously. "Anyone, so loug us lie docs not buy it himself. Your late husband must have been sadly taken in, dear; that showy thing is not wo-th picking up in the street." Tom never quite kuew how it came nhoiit, but a fortnight Utur Men, Kurr found herself established at The Laurels for a few days before, as sho said, sho could finally dispose ot her furniture and piano ocloro going abroad. She seemed very pleased to come, and and yet at the same timo strangely loth; nt onetime sho was iu the best and brightest of spirits, at another the beautiful face looked sad nnd sorrowful, and occasionally tearfully also. Ono evening she knocked timidly at the door of Tom's sanctum, and, having taken the scat he offered, looked into his face and said, in a tearful voice: "I have a confession, a shameful con fession to make, and it had better be made now. When my parents both died last years I found myself ponniless, friendless and without a situation. I was gettsng desperate when I was introduced to a tradesmen whoso business it was, I found, to buy cheap pianos and sell thcra to unsuspecting customers eager for a bargan. I was a good lure, and I played an important part for two years." "I have tukan cheap lodgings in su surban London, a piano lias been brought in our advertisement inserted in the London daily papers, aud well, you can gucsg the rest. I tried to deceive you. What could I do, as you were a stranger to mo thont but I have suf fered. I would, not bavo come hero unless I had been forced to, and you cannot tell how I have longed for a little rest and quiet. My employer was angry; but I was equally determined, and besides, I half promised to go back again ; but I cannot go now. If you can only say that you forgive me, remember ing how hard I wus pushed 1 Tom murmured a few incoherent words and the next thing happened wat that his arms were round her, and she was crying gently on his breast. Sho made an ineffectual strugglo to free her self, but the clasp was strong and kind. "That is your place," ho suid, firmly; "rest there, my darling," And with these words ringing in her cars sho struggled no longer. "I havo not finished yet," sho said, lifting tho swoct rosy face to his. "Do you know' that I am not even entitled to that name I am not a widow at all? "So much the better." Tom said, cheerfully. "Do you know I half sus pected that there was soui3thiug wrong all the time; but although, my darling, I Hid not buy that very elegant looking piano, I am inclined to think that after ull I got quite a bargain." "And, like most bargains dear at any price," Marion laughed happily. "You would be dear to me at any price, great or small," Tom replied. "Don't forget, sweetheart, that I am going to marry an heiress, and, what it more, a wife who really is liked by her prospective sister-in-law. I am a fortu uuto man." "And 1" Marion's blue eyes were turned upon him full of trust uud tener ncss "and I am more than a fortunate woman. What will Maggio say" And at that moment .Maggie was ask ing Ned Lauglcy a similar question. Our First Lighthouse. The first lighthouse built on this con tinent was at St. Augustine, Florida. Its chief uso was as a look-out, whcice the Spanish people of the town could seo vessels approaching from Spain, or get notice of the coming of foes in timo to run away. The tower attracted the at tention of Fnncis Drake us he was sail ing along the coast with his fleet of high-pooped ships, on his way homo from pillaging the cities of tho Spanish Main. So he stopped long enough to loot the town and destroy what he could not take away. In 1830 the ancient structure of Coquinu rock, which the United States had adopted for a light house, fell down, but before that hap pened another ono had been constructed. Fire-towers at the entrance to ports were established in the earliest historic times. Bonfires were built on top of them ut uight. Tho most famous lighthouse of antiquity stood ou the island of Pharos, oil tho city of Alexandria, in Egypt. It was one of tho seven wonders of the world, and was put up duriug tho reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus. After stand ing for 1000 years it wus destroyed by an earthquake. It is understood to have been over 500 feet high. Boston Culti vator. Ciottliij Into "a Scrape." The origiu of tho expression above quoted is us follows: Iu Scotlaud they play a gaura culled golf, the favorite grounds for such sport being the "dows," or "links." Tho rabbits fre quent these "links," aud the hole made by them U called "u scrape." Golf is played with a hard ball of wood or other substance, which is driven from point to point with a mallet usually made of wood, but sometimes of iron. Tho gauio ! itself is a cross betwecu our croquet and "sliiuuy; thus it will be seen that when the ball go's into "a scrape" it is very difficult to get out, and tho player is in a correspondingly bad fix generally. Such iueidonts'occur so frequently that tho books on "golliug" have laid down rules as to what may be done iu the timu of such au emergency, "getting into a scrape" being tlio golfer's greatest draw back. From this has arisen tho term now iu such commou use among us, meaning in u had fix. St. Louis ltcpub lie. No Need of llyliitf Young. I Bismarck declares thut ho owes his I rugged old age to tho practice of bathing regularly aua ireeiy in com water. Gladstone ascribes his longevity to tho simplicity and regularity of his habits. Tennysou believes that his having cele brated his eighty-llrst birthday is due to his not haviuir worried or fretted ovei the small affairs of life. You Multke thought his ripe old age win owing to tempeiauce in ull the ulluirs of life, and pleuty of exorcise in tho open air. De Lc.-st'is thinks he owes his advanced age to like causes. Taking all these life giving agencies together, aud cousider- inn linur (.mhv tliHV Rl-rt nf iiIImi ii int-nt tlu.re --o j j 1 doesn't seem to be any good and suf ficient reason why we should die youug, I De.Uoit Frue I'ruti. AN INTERESTING JSI.AND. THE PEOPLE OF OOZ UMEL OFF THE YUCDIAN COAST. Tlioy Wero Highly Civilized, nnd iSuhdiieit a I'.sni) ot Pyjrmle, Als Advanced In. Civil '.oil Arts. Gr OLDTIIWAITE'S Magazine con tains an article, by Eugene M. Aaron, describing tiro people on tho island of Cozumcl, east of Yuculiin,who had attained a marked ad vancement in civilization, and whose records were preserved in voluminous documents nnd with great care. Most of these records wero destroyed by tho Spaniards, but copies Btill remain and are being deciphered. Stranger still is the fact that these peoplo subdued an other race, a race of pygmies, not more than three feet high. These pygmios were also advanced in civilized nrtr,and and have left their traces in houses nnd temples in Cozutnel, which are still to bo seen, most of thcra being too small for men of present stature to occupy. Such a race would accord with a theory that the earliest men were of small stature, not exceeding two or threu feet in height, end that man lias developed physically as well as mentally iu succes sive ages. Tho population which tho Spaniards found on Cozumel belonged to tho Mayas race, which was tho predecessor of tho Aztecs in Mexioo, and probably of tho Incas of Peru. They were once the masters of all Central America. They lived in Cozumcl in great sim plicity, but with indications of much wealth. They made a paper from roots and bark, and applied a varnish to it that gave it a white finish as lustrous us fine note. This paper they used to in scribe their records. Tho material was almost indestructiblo, and it was pre pared in rolls of twenty feet or more, which folded like a fan. On theso rolls their priests wrote, and the Spanish priests say that theso Mayas had their volumes of medicine, chronology and theology, besides histories of their own people, and their predecessors, with accounts of other nations known to them.' The Spaniards concluded there was nothing but deviltry in these books, and burned them, much to the distress of the natives. Four of these volumes wero preserved, sent to Spain with a copy of the alphabet, which is now tho key that remains to decipher these records. These histories would probably throw somo 4ight on tht pigmy raco which they overcame, and whoso traces are scattered all over tho island. At ono point near San Miguel, the principal village, aro ruins that suggest an old temple, sur rounded for several hundred feet by a stone pavement still to be traced, and which indicated that a paved thorough fare occe extended to tho sea a mild dis tant. Thero are few inscriptions ou these ruins, but the interest and curiosity is aroused by their size. A houso, whoso exterior was only nine feet high, four teen feet long, and twelvo feet deep, with doorway feet wido, and threo feet high, would afford cramped accom modations to the avcrugo man of to-day. Tho monuments, a kind of triumphal arch, are ouly from eight to ten feet in haight. It has been nrgued that theso wero simply tombs or burial pluces, which accounts for their small size, but tho monuments do not accord with known burial customs. In addition to this, there are numerous traditions of tho survival of individuals of this race to within a recent period, and their proba ble existence at tho present time. Be sides other interesting ethnological ques tions, the investigation on this subject alone might throw light upon a moat important problem. Sunflowers In Itnssla. Unitod States Cousul-Goncral J. M. Crawford, of St. Petersburg, hai been investigating the culture of the sunflower in Russia, and reports that there aro over 700,000 acres of laud devoted to the sunflower culture in tho Empire, al though tho first effort to grow this plant for mercantile purposes datei back no further than 1842. Tho chief product is tho seed, the average yield of which has been about 1,'IjO pounds to the ucre, this selling in Russia at an average prico of one and oue-half cents a pound. Tho yield to the farmer growing sunflower is about 20 an acre, against tho usual return of about 41IO per ucre of ordinary products, and the soil in which the suufluwer is grown becomes very porous and belter pre pared for the rotation crops. Tho seeds of some species of Minitower is used in making oil which, iu consequence of su perior eoler, flavor, uud taste nnd its low price, has largely taken the place iu Russia of tho I'Vncb. lablu nil. In an other species of sunflower the seeds lire sold to be eaten somewhat as peanuts are in tiiis country. After tho oil h h been pressed out of the seed it is sold in a cake form us food for cattle, the exports of this from ltussia to Germany, Den mark and Great Britain nggregitiug of lato years nearly 100,000,000 pounds a year. Tho sunflower sta'ks are gathered from the fields aud dried iu pile?, ami have very la.-gely taken the placo of firewood iu the country districts. In fuct, thusu stalks ure pruferrcd evcu to pine wood, producing a quick and hot flame lire. As about a tou ofsucli Cue wood is gathered from an acre of land, this is looked upou as a decided a Ivuu tago iu thoso districts whero wood is scarce. The ashes of the sunflower con tain a high percentage of potassium, and ure lurgely used as u fertilizer. Under the system of cultivation adopted, tho sulks of tho suufluwer uro often thire luches in diameter ami about eight feet loug, sometimes forming muuy heads, some of which ure more than a foot in diameter and containing about 2000 seeds. In order to grow the plant prol itably, it is necessary to have 4 fertile soil, which at the mine time must he suf ficiently deep aud compact to sustain the stalk with its roots. Amuiicm Fariuur. SCIENTIFIC AMI INDUSTRIAL. A steel rail lasts, with average wear, about eighteen year'1. Tho rise in tho price of camphor gum is due to iU extensive uso iu tltc manu facture of smokeless powder. A German has invented an incandes cent lamp apparatus for showing tho in terior of boilers while under steam. Waterproof cellulose paper of one and two colors is being introduced by a German firm for tablecloths, lookbacks, temporary covers for roofs, etc. A new electric heat alarm consists iu the employment of a column of mercury, which by its expansion above a certain point completes tho circuit mid riugs au alarm. A novelty in the way of metal car roofing is made of corrugated iron or Btcel. This gives great stiffness between tho car hues. The roof is perfectly water-tight, easily repaired and cheap and strong. A patent has been issued in Germany for a process of manufacture of a iub stance to take tho place of gum-arabic. Wheat brau is the substance treated chemically, resulting in u strongly ad hesive mucilage. Tho Belt Lino Tunnel in Baltimore, Md., will soon be equipped with threo electric locomotives, capable of develop ing 1200 horse power each. About two hundred freight and passonger trains will bo moved through thu tunnel a day. A machiuo for the manufacture of steel aud iron pipes is the invention of a Pennsylvania mechanic. A bar ol steel ut white heat is fed to the machiuc and comes out a perfect piece of pipe. The size and thickness can be made as de sired. The vaults of tho Unitod State; Sub Treasury iu San Francisco, California, are being fitted With wires for protec tion from thieves. Tho wires are to he between every two rows of bricks, and any attempt to interfere with the cement or bricks will disturb uti electric current and sound a warning. 1 To mark steel tools; Warm them slightly aud rub the steel with wax or hard tallow until a film ga'.hcrs. Thou scrutch your name on the wax, cutting through to tho steel, Alittle nitricacid poured on tho marking will quickly cat out tho letters. Wipe acid and wax oil with a hot, soft rag, and tho letters will be securely etched. A Bimplo mode ot purifying water is to sprinkle a tablespoonful of powdered alum into a hogshead of water, stirring the water at tho same time. This will precipitate all tho impurities to tho bot tom after being allowed a few hours to settle, and will so purify it that it will be found to possess nearly nil tho fresh ness uud clearness of tho finest spring water. A pailful containing four gal lons may be purified iu this maimer by using no more than a toaspoonful of tho alum. A Wonderful Lighthouse. One ol the most wonderful lighthouses in the world :s that nt Miuot s Ledge, near Boston. Its history has been one of romance. Tho greater part of its founda tion, is under water nt low tide. In IS 17 a skeleton lighthouse of iron was erected there on iron piles placed in holes drilled into tho rock. A turious Imriicuuu burst upon the coast iu April, 1851, and anxious watchers from tue Cohasset shore thought that tho structure had been car ried away. But, us the sun auk, out shone tho light across the storm-tossed waters. At 10 v. 11., the light was seen for tho lest time. At ouu hour after midnight the fog bell was heard above tho roaring of the breakers. At day break tho ocean was a blank ; the li'dit j house wus gone. Knowing that no help could reach them, the keepers had lighted their lamp us a warning t.) others, ami their lives had gone out with it. Now u granite tower occupies tho spot. So difficult was it to lay the foundation in thu surf that only thirty hours' work could be douo duriug the first year, but the tower stands to-day as enduriug as the ledge itself au isolated pile of stone timid the waves, by the force of which it is swayed like a tree iu wind. During the loug winter mouths ull communica tion with the laud is shut off. Iu sum mer the occasional visitor is hoisle I into tho lighthouso from his boat by means of a chair, and from time to timu a skill is lowered by pulleys to convoy ona or another of the fivo kecpera to the shore. The life tells 011 them frightfully. Sev eral of them havo been removed because they havo gone insane, aud moro thau ono of thom has attempted suicide. Boston Transcript. Pigmies of llnniliirits. In the early days of the America1! ma hogany trade iu tho interior of tho main land 11 party of woodcutters oil the Molio liivcr, British Honduras, claimed to have discovered and captured u strange little being which suddenly emerged from the forests, and was too startled by the sight of thu whites to maku its escape. It was u dark BKiuned girl, about eighteen years old, aud not quito tluen feet high. She hud no covering except her luxuriant black hair until one of the meu gave her his red llaiiucl shirt, which ou her reached to tho ground. Though very wild she was by no means stupid, us was proved by her ready consent to pilot the party to tho settlement of her people, who, she tidd thum in thu .Maya tongue, were au ttgrieiilt ural pcuplo living iu a secluded valley. Having guided them for some ili.slance into the forest slid sud denly htopped to listen, when her cip tors plainly heard a l.tibbub of voices. Telling the woodcutters to remain quiet while sho weut to prepare her pooplu (or their appearance, which to liu little lolks would be so strange, -sho dinted oil into the woods, an 1 that re I shirt au ! its contents have never since liren a. eu by Anglo-Saxon eyes. Wliatevir liny bu the present peculi.u ities of the inhab itants of those uncxploitd wiMs, certain 11 seems that within historic t i 11 11-3 a pigmy race lias occupied this lauuul luc Mukak. NmV YurV inn THB USELESS. Poets should not reason, Let them shir; Argument is treason, Bells should ring. But the poet duly ' Fills his part When the songs burst truly From his heart. As the loaf grows sunward Hong must grow; As tho stream flows onwarc Bong must flow. Csolossf aye for measure Hoses die. But their breath gives pleasure. God knows why I John Boyle O'ltoilly. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Our natioual bird Tho foul, "A sea of troubles" Bering. lias hisups and downs The balloon ist. Tho hare may be timid, but he dies game. The best business collcgo Tho school of experience. "Who shall decide when doctors disa gree?" The autopsy. All things come to those who arc wait iug for something else. Twirling coins is hardly tho way to "turn un honest penny." Tho grain elevator is a soit of maga ziuo of cereal stories. Puck. When we say that a man is a brick, wo do not mean that ho is made of common clay. A "signal triumph" Tho weather man's prediction which happens to come true. Even when a ship parts with her anchor sho still keeps her hold. Texas Sittings. A poem that is always sure ot a market Tho lay of tho heu. Lowell Courier. AVheu tho office seeks the man, it is uot requested to "call arouud next week." Is tho fellow that "points the town red" guilty of a cardinal siui Atlauta Journal. When a French o litor gets mad he al ways dips his pen iu Gaul. Boston Transcript. No matter what foolish things you try to do, peoplo won't laugh at you il you succeed. A man must go back to his ancestors when they do not come forward to him. Texas Sittings. If any boat can shoot the rapids suc cessfully wo should think it would bo tho guuboat. Texas Sittings. Thero aro some people so morally con stituted that they would uso a 110-ton gun of reproaf to kill u sparrow of wick edness. "This is highway robbery," suid Mor rison Essex, as tho heavy rains washed the road away from in front of his pluc- Puck. What nation In frugality With Scotland can euuiparef We knosv it lor reality ISoiuo Heotclimeu Jivo on Ayr. Judge. "Trotter seems to bo n very happy man. He never has any bills to pay." "How's that 1" "No one will ever trust him." Judge. Nearly 2U00 musical instruments wero burned up iu a Chicago liro the other night, because the tlrcmeu could not play on any of them. Statesman. Mrs. J. Brown Stone "After nil, tin plumber who was working fur us is s very satisfactory man." .Mr. Slouo "Yes; he tills tho bill." Pticlc. "Tho Cuuntoss do Kieui'," 1 heard, "Amuneau some W'o-storn town The ruiniii); bulte" I lo jkej ant kuew My old scnool-juate, iSai.iuutlia lirowii. I'uck. Wynch "So poor Staggers has khuf fled off the mortal coil." Lynch "No. As I understand it, ho tried to; but the boys had tho ropu too liiuily teemed around his neck. Wife "Charles I w tut some money." Husband "I can't let you have it. I gave you a check yesterday.'' Wife "Well, that's no sign you should want to give 1110 a check to-day." Detroit Free Proas. The papers are mentioning as au item of news that tho typewriter girls are forming a uniou just us though the typewriter girls hadn't been busily form ing unions ever since they became an in stitution. Kansas City Journal. Tke teachers in tho public schools aro telling a good story on a little Newark buy. It is said that thu teacher asked the class to couipaiu tho word "sick." Tho boy held up his hand, indicating that ho was ready to answer, and said: "Sick, sicker, dead!" Columbus School Jourual. Begun to Save Souls Early. A rescue seldom equalled for bravery was accomplished by theological stu dents at the wreck of the steamer Calu met 011 Lake Michigan, November 28, 1SSH. They were assisting themselves iu a coins.) of study ut Evanston, III., by accepting employment as surfiiien at tached to the lile-saviug station there. The disaster occurred near Fort Sheridau, fifteen miles away, uud the crew of gal lant young fellows was suiuuumed to tho 81 cue by telegraph. Fivu ot them reached thu scene at f A. M., in ouu of the most severe storms of recant years. Tho thermometer was ouly ten degrees above zero, und tho sleet aud ruin wero blinding. Alter dragging their bouts ami apparatus through wood uud over steep hills, they folia 1 themselves ou U bliiif opposite the vessel, which lay half a icilo ironi shoie, too far to bo reached by a shot-line. Nevertheless, they low ered the boat Willi ropes into the sea, launched her H14.1i11.st desperate chances, undo three trips and s)cd all ot tho eiyhteeu pusou ou LiOAld. Washiulou bUi.
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