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TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUG. 3, 1892.
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An English paporsays that "shortened
honeymoons appears to be in vogue."
A writer in Orchard and Garden sajt
that "the apples from the Blue Ridge
region from Virginia to Goorgis will
lend the whole United States in respect
to line quality.''
Ninty-five per cent, of all the money
transactions in the associated banks of
New York are ncooinplishod by means of
checks and drafts, leaving fire per cent,
of the total businoss to be represented by
coin or paper money.
This tot ought to lire long and pros'
per, exclaims Once A Week. At the ago
of two years Charles Leo Burdon, of Pro
vidence, fell into a cistern and floated
around in seven fect of water until his
grandfather bffidod him a pole, to which
he "caugh ,n."
Perhaps, muses the New York Com.
moTchfi Advertiser, science will soma
dayleach us how to use petroleum in
yditary operations, when we will have
an agency by which our harbors may be
converted into Infernos to consume the
navies of the world.
Tbero are just 1157 millionaires in
New York City, according to the Tri
buno's final reckoning. The Vauder
bilts couut six, the Goulds four, the
Astors three, the Goelcts four, and tho
Rhinelandors fivo, while the omnipresent
Smith family lead all the rest with
eight.
"The Bering Sea offers less attractions
to Canadian poachers this year than
last," argues the Sun Francisco Chroni
cle. "Very fow of thorn feel inclined
. to take any risks, so we may safely con
k elude that the close season under exist
ing arrangements will prove a complete
success."
A company has been incorporated, in
New Jersey for tho manufacture of
' membranoid, a fancy leather made from
tripe nothing else than tanned tripe.
The patent-office authorities Insisted
that tripe was tripe, no matter through
what chemical process it might have
been put, and some tiuio elapsed and
there was much parleying before a com
promise was ad' cted ou tho name of the
product now called membranoid. This
new species of leather is suid to be pretty
and durable.
Miss Angotina Brooks, who is a recog
nized authority on all questions of kin
dergarten methods, has recently devoted
her time to a careful investigation of the
curbstone children in this city, says the
New Yoik Commercial Advertiser. She
has ascertained that there are 140,000
boys and girls between the ages of four
and six who spend their Uvea in the
streets and never once see the inside of a
school. She ia trying to enlist sympathy
for these unfortunate waifs which will
ultimately lead to 'the establishment for
them of free kindergarten school.
It is asserted that after this year the
United States will not only bo able to
stop importing fruit, but will begin to
be a factor in supplying the markets of
the world. The estimate is that New
York will have 20,000,000 pounds of
fruit from California alone this summer.
.Fast fruit trains now cross the continent
ia seven days, aud enable the growers to
harvest a riper product than heretofore.
Aiizona and Oregon are coming to the
front as fruit states; Mississippi is getting
famous for tomatoes, and Florida oranges
nnd Georgia peaches are always sure of a
ready market. The outlook has never
been so promising.
Frank Leslie's Weekly states that the
State of Pennsylvauia shows the largest
percentage of foreign born adult males
who are aliens, the percentage ia that
State beiug 33.13 of the total number,
representing 139,52 persons. In the
State of New York, 193,014 foreign
born adult males, or 23.13 pur cent., are
aliens, and in Now Jersey, 41,877 or
28.87 per cent, are aliens. Now York
shows tho greatest number of naturalized
foreign-born adult males, there being iu
that State 4 16,3o3, or 60.74 percent,
of the total number of foreign-born adult
mules returned. The city of New York
shows the lurgest percentage of foreign
born of the total population, the foreign
element-in that city representing 42.23
per cent, of the total . population as
a-ainst 39.68 per cent, iu 1880. Buffa
lo shows 35.00 per cent, of foreign-born
as against 33.05 per cent, in 1830.
Brooklyn shows 32.48 per cent., an iu.
crease from 31.30 per cent, iu 1880.
Long Islaud City has a forcigu-boru
population of 36.67 per cent., while iu
1880 the foreign-bora element iu that
city was 31.27 per cent, of tho total
population ; sixteen places show a groat
er per ceut. of foreign -born population
. in 1880 than is shown in the State as a
whole, while in 1880 nineteen places
were reported as having a larger percent
age of foreign-bora population tuau v.'a
reported in the Suto as a whole.
A SUMMER'S DAY.
Black bees on the clover-heads drowsily
clinging.
Where tall, feathered grasses amttbutter
eupt away ;
And all through the fields a whitemprinkle,1
of daisies
Open-eyed at the setting of day.
Oh, the heaps of sweet rosea, sweetcinna
mon roses, '
I i great crimson thickets thatfcover the
wall!
And Books of bright butterflles&iddy to see
them,
And a sunny blue sky overall.
Trailing boughs of th. elms 'drooping over
the hedges,
Where spiders their glimmering laces
have spun;
And breesea that bend the! light tops of th
willows
And down through the meadow grass
run.
Silver-brown little birds sitting close in the
branches.
And yellow wings flas.ung from hillock to
tree,
And wide-wheeling swallows that dip to the
marshes,
And bobolinks a-axy with glee.
So crazy, they soar through the glow of the
sunset
And warble their merriest notes as they
fly.
Nor heed how the moths hover low in the
hollows,
And the dew gathers soft in the sky.
Then a round beaming moon o'er the blos
somed hill coming, .
Making paler the fields and the shadows
more deep;
And through the wide meadows a mur
murous humming
Of Insects too happy to sleep.
Enchanted I sit on the bank by the willow
And trill the last snatch of a rollicking
tune ,
And since all this loveliness cannot be
Heaven,
I know In my heart It la June.
Mrs. A. G. Woolson, in Boston Transcript.
LOVE AND LUCK.
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.
" Under a spreading chestnut tree.
The village smithy stands "
RETTY little
Elma ' iElwood
was whispering
the words softly
to herself as she
leaned both el
l. ...... nn .uA
WWSuStZsi dow-sill, and gazed
WS.:&H8$?.t:l& out across the rrlow.
jjiK'fj for breakfast, Miss
W Elwoodl" primly demanded Mrs.
Porkins, the governess, as she
manciured her nails at the marble wash
basin. "No. Come here, Perky," said the
audacious girl, "and I'll show you the
corner of that picturesque old black
smith's shop I told you of the cne I'm
going to sketch this afternoon."
"It's past eight, MissElwood, and you
know jour grandfather attaches great
importance to punctuality," began tho
governess.
"Right there, over-the top of those
mountain pines, Perky," composedly
continued Elma, extending her slim
forefinger in a due northerly direction
along the valley of tho river, "you can
just see the odd little three-cornered ga
ble peeping out through the trees"
"And -there's tho bell, now," ex
claimed Mrs. Perkins, with a little ner
tous start.
"And the smith, a mighty man is he."
"Hummed Elma, beginuing to tie back her
curls with a fillet of blue ribbon. "But
not nearly so handsome as that young ap
prentice of his, who tixjd tho crooked
nail in Swallow's shoe, yesterday. I won
der if I could sketch the placeJ To be
sure, I have bad only seven lessons, but
one must try one's wings sometimes, you
kuow."
Mrs. Perkins straightened Emma's
sash, gave her curls several twitches this
way and that, and dragged her into the
breaktast-ioom just in time to avert the
usual morning lecture from old Major
Elinwood on the evils of late risiug.
But that afternoon, iu the purple soft
ness of twilight, Elma managed to evade
her proclso guardian, and slip oil into
the woods with her sketch-book.
And she was sitting on a moss-cushioned
rock, working with all her might,
when Louis Dulzell strode toward the
spring for a pail of water.
The sleeves of his red flannel blouse
were rolled high up on the forearm,
lie still wore his stained leathern apron,
and his short, chestnut curls plainly re
vealed themselves through the rifts in
bis tattered straw hat.
Had be but known it, he never had
looked better in his life; yet a deep flush
of mortification rose to his brow as he
encountered the pretty twelvo year old
dutnsel in white, with the shady, rose
garlanded hat, aud tbo soft Romau sash
tied loosely around her waist.
"Good afternoon !"uid Emma, calmly.
"Please step a little to one side, Louis,
if that is your name. I'm trying to
sketch the smithy."
Dalzell ventured to glance over I.ji
shoulder.
"It's beautiful," said he. "You cau
almost see the wiud blowing that sweet
biitr bushl"
"Yes," complacently observed the ar
tist, "I think it is rather good."
"And the little dog sitting by tho
door it just exactly as natural as life!"
he added.)
Ella frowned.
"The little dog, at you call it," said
she, "is the stump of the old tree.
Don't staud quite so close, pUasel I
can't move my elbow."
Dalzell colored. Ho took up hit pail
and moved ou.
"I'm always saying the wrong thing,"
aid he, in a sort of desperation.
Eluut hoped she hud not offended the
young man. She rather liked hira, al- I
though it was awarkward for him to mis
take tho butternut stump for a little dog,
and she made up her mind to say some
thing pleasant to him when ho enmo
back to the spring.
But he did not come back at all. Evl.
dontly there was some other way between
the smithy and the littlo brook.
At six o'clock, according to compact,
Mrs. Perkins camo for the artist to es
cort her home.
"And you've been all this time doing
that little bit of work?" said Mrs. Per
kins. "Oh, I haven't worked all the time,
Perky 1" impatiently spoke the girl.
"Besides, one can't hurry art."
As they strolled slowly down the shady
road, Elma suddenly stooped and picked
up something.
"What's that?" said , the governes?,
lifting ber crisp flounces out of the dust.
"A horseshoe an old, common horse
shoe. Put that down at once, Mist El
wood 1"
"Wait for a moment, Perky 1" cried
the girl, rushing away through the
bushes. "I've forgotten something."
Half a minute later, she was down in
front of the closed smithy, balancing
herself on tho identical butternut-wood
stump.
With a round stone for n hammer, she
drove in a rusty nail, and hung the thin
old horseshoe over the door.
"There's good luck for Louis Dal
zolll" she cried, as she sprang lightly
backward.
"Take care!" said a voice behind her.
And then she became aware that Dal
zell himself had emerged from the bow
ery shadow of the trees, and that sho
had nearly knocked him over.
"Is that for me?" ho said. "Oh,
thanks 1"
And placing both bands lightly on her
shoulders, he kissed her, driven by somo
sudden impulse for which he himself
could scarcely account. -
Elma Elwood turned scarlet all over;
she rubbed ber cheeks to efface all ves
tige of the oltense, and Btamped her kid
shod foot in the sand with futile passion.
"How dare you?" she cried. "How
daio you?"
And like a flying nymph sho vanished
into the dense shadow of tho woods,
leaving the young man transfixed with
surprise. "Why does she make such a fuss?" he
asked himself. "Sbo's only a child
but good fatel what a beautiful child!"
He reached up and took down the
the thin, old horse shoo and put it in his
pocket. He and the picturesque, long
bearded old blacksmith had quarrelled
that day, and be meant to leave Wyndalo
with the break of the morrow's dawn.
"I'll lake my luck with me," he said
to himself. "God bless the child for
thinking of me!"
Just a year afterward old Major El
wood died, leaving his affairs hopelessly
entangled; and when the lawyers had
squabbled long enough over the busi
ness, it was formally announced that
there was nothing left for the child to
to live on.
"What am I to do. Perky?" said
Elma, with big, blue eyes of apprehen
sion and dismay.
And good Mrs. Perkins, who had suc
ceeded in obtaining a situation as Eng
lish teacher ia a boarding-school, bar
gained to forego a part of her own salary
lor the sake of having El ma's education
go on at Watlcy Hall.
"A teacher's life isn't all roses," said
she, "but I can't bear the idea of hav
ing the poor, little dear bound out to a
trade or stood up bchiud a counter.
And, really, her voice might be mado
something of."
All these things happened years ago,
and Denveras was not the big city
it is now when Mrs. Perkins and her
adopted daughtor decided to cast their
lots in the shadow of the Black Hills.
"Music is overdone in the Eastern
States," said the good ex-governess .
"But I think we'll make a try for it
here, Elma, dear. I'm told that if we
can iutcrest that rich iron man that lives
in the castellated mansion out beyond.
Plaza River, his influence cau do every
thing for us ."
"Really 1" Elma's dimples danced
roguishly. "What a very curious sort
of a person an Iron man must be ! I'm
very curious to see him, Perky, do you
know?"
"Nonsense, my dear!" cried Mrs. Per
kins. "You know what I mean per
fectly well. He's made his fortune in
the iron business railways, and that
sort of thing. And I'm going to call
there this very afternoon, to bespeak his
recommendations and good offices."
"Oh, Perky, must I go?"
"Of course you must go, child I"
Elma Elmwood sat trembling iu the
great entrance hall of the Moresque
mansion, on the south shore of the Plaza
River.
The sunshine glimmered on the floor
of rose aud white marble; giaDt myrtles
and blossoming lemon trues filled tho
angles, and a low easy-chair on a tigcr
skiu by the door, was drifted over with
newspapers. Preseutly Mrs. Perkius
came smiling back.
"He will be with us presently," said
she. "Really, my dear, he's quite a
young man not at all the bald-pate 1
railroad king I expected to see. And he
is most kind aud gracious, and has
promised to recommend us everywhere."
The door openod and the iron man en
tered, followed by two or three magnif
icent hounds. Elma sprang up with a
cry.
"Why," she exclaimed, "It's Louis
It's Louis Dalzell!"
He held out both his hands.
"I can't have changed so very much
then?" said he."
At the same instant Elan's eyes caught
sight of a strange object above the
arched doorway a gold-plated hone
shoe, worn thin at the ends, with here
and there a bent uail in its curve. Liuis's
glance followed her own.
"Yes," said he. "it's the very horse
shoe. It has done it task, Miss El
wood it has brought me luck ! Miss
Perkius," lie a'lded, turning to the elder
la ly, "1 shall expect yuu aud youi
young friend to remain here as my
guests for the present. I have a large
house, and I am a lonely man."
"Oh I" said Miss Perkins, her eyes be
coming larger than the lenses of her
spectacle glasses. "You're not married
then'"
"No," said Mr. Dalzell. "Beforo I
left the East, I fell in love. I shall
never marry until I can many that first
love of mine."
He looked Elma full in the eyes as he
spoke. She colored. Her long lashes
drooped.
At the end of the month Mrs. Per
kins aroused herself to the exigencies of
the cose.
"All this is like life in fairyland, dear
Elrna," said she. "But itisn't business.
I see by tho papers that several music
teachers have recently arrived from the
East, and if we are to get to work "
"But," said Elma, patting the dear
old wrinkled hand, "I don't really see
any particular reason for our getting to
work."
"Eh?" gasped Mrj. Perkins.
"You see," went on Elma, "Mr. Dal
zell is engaged to that first love of his.
He has given me back the horseshoe,and
as I couldn't think of breaking the cur
rent of luck by taking it from the house,
of course I must stay here."
"Oh !" said Mrs. Perking. "Then it's
true? He's the same young man that
kissed you when you were hanging good
luck up over tho smithy door the 'un
der the spreading chestnut tree young
man'?"
Elma nodded assent.
"Oh!" again uttered Mrs. Perkins.
"But you said you never, never would
forgive him."
"Don't you know, Perky," coaxed
Elma, the audacious, "what the Bible
says about forgiving people? Anyhow,
it's all settled, and wo are to be married
very soon, and you are to live here with
us always. Does that plan suit you?"
And Mrs. Perkins said that it did.
How Chinese CaUh Shrimp.
"There are some very curious fisheries
carried on by the Chinese on the Pacific
coast," said an officer of the United
States Fish Commission in Washington
recently. "One of the most lemarkable
is tho catching of shrimp, which is an
important industry in San Francisco Bay
and adjacent waters. These little crus
taceans upon being captured are taken
ashore and boiled in big iron vats, aftoi
a rude fashion, holes being scooped out
of the side of a steep bank for fire
places, which are built up with stones.
After the shrimp have remained in boil
ing water for ten minutes they are spread
out to dry upon bare ground. One such
shrimp yard at Huntor's Point is about
fifteen acres in extent. The Chinese uso
brooms, shaped somewhat like hoes, for
spreading the shrimp and to turn them
at the required intervals.
"After being thoroughly dried by ex
posure to the sun for about five days the
shrimp are crushed by being trodden
upon by Chinese in wooden shoes. This
process loosens the meat from the shells,
which latter are removed by shaking in
a basket or by passing tbem through a
ciude fanning mill. Both meat and shells
are then packed in sacks for exportation
to China, where the meats are sold for
food and the shells disposed of as a fer
tilizer for tea plants, rice and so forth. All
classes of people in Chica eat the meats,
although regarding them as inferior to
the native shrimp, which are compara
tively scarce and proportionately dearer.
Both meats and shells are fed to fowls,
with remarkable egg producing results.
"Another interesting fishery prose
cuted by the Chinese on the Pacific Coast
is for abalones. These beautiful uni
valve mollusks are found along the rocky
shores, at low tide, clinging tj tho rocks
above the water line. Each shell is
slightly lilted, sq that the fisherman can
thrust a stick under it and pry it off;
but, if alarmed, tho animal shuts down
its valve, so that it can only be removed
lay breaking it to pieces. The meats are
taken from the shells and boiled on
shore in vats mado of sheet iron. Shells
and meats are then packed in sacks and
forwarded to San Francisco, whence
most of the meats are exported to China,
and the shells shipped to Franco, the
latter being highly valued for their beau
tiful mothcr-of-peurl." Baltimore Amer
ican. A Dust Detector.
Some curious color phenomena have
been observed by John Aitkin when air
is suddenly expanded, and have led to
the construction of a new instrument
called tho "koniscope," for roughly de
termining the amount of impurities in
the air. The instrument consists simply
of an air pump and a tube twenty inches
long, provided with glass ends. The
air to be tested is drawn into the tube,
where it is moistened nnd expanded. If
comparatively few dust particles are
present, say 80,000 cubic centimeter, the
color is very faint, but a blue of increas
ing depth occurs as the particles increase
in number, becoming a very dark blue
with 4,000,000 per cubic centimeter.
The kouiscope makes it easy to trace the
pollution arising in our homes from
open flames and other causes, and to
separate pure from impure currents in
tho rooms. Trenton (N. J.) American.
I! .th Boy and Cub Walled.
One of Mr. Lampson's boys came near
having a serious eucouuter with bear
the other day. While going to work be
met a large bear aud two cubs. The
mother and one of the cubs took to the
woods while the other cub climbed a
small tree. The boy thought to capture
the cub, and climbed up after it, where
upon the cub set up such a wail that the
mother soon returned aud started up
after the boy. It was now his turn to
nail, which he did quite lustily. Owing
to the smallness of the tree, the bear
could not reach the boy ; but tho situa
tion was anything but pleasant during
the interval that elapsed before the ar
rival of the boy's father. The old bear
took to the woods. They succeeded in j
cupumiig tuu cuu uy uieau. 01 rope, suu
:uuny sacks, and took it home. Lum&s
Cut I Wosuiutftou) News.
WASHING BY MACI11NEKY,
WOBK IN THE BIOOEST LAUNDRY
IN THIS COUNTRY.
Quick Work With an Ocean Idner's)
Wash Steam Power Used Alto
gether Pay ol Employe
P1D you ever see a big laundry in
full blast? It is worth seeing.
When tho News reporter
visited this Hudson River fac
tory, the washing from one of the great
Inman liners had just come in. It was
the washing for a whole week the
washing for 2000 persons. There was
bedding, linen, napkins, towels and
some few articles belonging to the ward
robe of some of the officers. The rest
of the wash belonged to the ship. It
rolled up to the door in two wagons,
and it rolled out on the floor of tho
sorting-room and spread out like a dirty
snow storm in a high wind.
The work ol sorting this wash took
just . twenty minutes, and four young
women, with bright brown eyes and
bright red arms. After it was sorted,
the big pieces going with the big pieces,
and tho little pieces staying with them
selves, it was taken to the washing
machines. Once there were wash-tubs.
There are wash-tubs now, but they are
simply amateur appliances. The pro
fessional wash shop employs washing
machines, otherwise called "washers."
These contrivances are from five to eight
feet long, and are shaped like the boiler
of a locomotive. Tbey are made of
metal and they revolve on their axes,
like the cylinders in lawn mowers.
They are connected with the shaft by
pulleys, and when the clothes are put in,
the door closed aud the water let in by
a pipe, the crank is moved, and then
they begin to revolve with a mighty
swishing and slashing in their insides.
After a few minutes of this, which is
called the soaking, the water is let off
and hot water is turned on. With hot
water soap is brought in and the crank
is turned again. This time it is for
keeps, and wheu the washer stops the
clothes are clcau. This is the sort of
washing that requires no starching, so it
goes direct to the wringer. This is the
kind of a wringer that the original Inun
dryman knew naught of.
The wringer up to date is a round box
ret upon four round legs, made of gas
pipo and hollow. The interior of this
box revolves several hundred times a
minute. This turning interior holds the
wet clothes, and from it dry c.otbcs are
turned out. They are not entirely dry,
but they are dry enough to go to the
ironing room. The revolutions of the
interior are so swift that tho water is
thrown oil in showers.
The ironing-room is filled with iron
rollers, set in frames, so that one roller
rolls against another, like the rubbor
rollers in an old-fashioned wringer.
One or both of these rollers is hollow,
and is heated by either gas or steam, and
the sheets and pillow-cases, napkins,
towels and table-cloths pass between
these rollers and come out steaming hot,
smooth as glass, and white.
For some kinds of laundry work a
dry room is required. Now this dry
room bears about as much relation to the
drying-room in the ordinary house as a
French bonnet does to a bread bowl. It
is a small affair, heated red hot by steam
pipes. For starched goods this is used,
and does its work in a hurry.
The laundry that the reporter visited
does not make a practice of doiug family
work, although it has facilities for do
ing any kind of work. It devotes its
time chiefly to hotel, club and steamboat
work. It can turn out 100,000 pieces a
day, and the average price for 100 is
from thirty-five to sixty cents. These
figures are for unstarched work, and
they are very low. It requires 140 per
sons to do tho work. The washing is
done wholly by men, who get $12 a
week each. Tho rest of the work is
done by girls and women, who aie su
pervised by four forewomen, who get
f 17 a week and their board.
Tho workwoman get from sixty cents
to tl a day, the folders ju tho ironing
room commanding the highest wages.
New York News.
A Great Tree For the Fair.
The tree selected by the Tulare Board
of Trade for exhibition at the World's
Fair stands ou the land of Mrs. M. C. K.
Shuey, one-half mile southeast of
Summerbome, on tho summit bclwecu
North and Middle Tulc, about thirty-live
miles northeast of Porterville. The tree
was selected at tho request of tho
National World's Fair Association. Mrs.
Shuey donates the tree as a gift. It is
said to be a magnificent speciiccu of
sequoia gigantea, some 30(1 feet in
height. At the base it is 7ti feet in
circumference, and eleven feet from tho
ground it is 63 feet iu circumference.
This gives a base diameter of 24 i feet.
The section that will be removed for ex
hibition will be a portion thirty feet
long. This piece will be cut luto two
fifteen-foot sections, with a natural slab
between them. This circular piece will
be 21 i feet in diameter aud 16 inches
thick. It will serve as a roof for tho
lower section when hollowed and a floor
for the upper one. Visalia (Cul.)
Times.
Wonderful Work of Bees.
Bees must, in order to collect a pound
o( clover honey, deprive 62,000 clover
blossoms of their nectar. To do this
the 62,000 flowers must be visited by an
aggregate of 3,750,000 bees. Or, in
other words, to collect his pound of
bouey one bee must make 3,750,000
trips from and to the hive. The euor
mous amount of work here involved pre
cludes idea of any one bee ever liviug
long euougo to gather more tiau thu
fraction of a pound of nectarine sweets.
As bees are kuowu to fly for miles in
quest of suitable fields of operation it is
clear that a single ouuee of honey re
presents millions of miles of travel. It
is no wonder that theso industrious little
insects have earned the reputatiou ol
beiuir "busy'1 lives. St. Lcuis Republic,
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Bad salt meat is said to have caused
cholera on a British vessel. '
It is rumored that Dr. Pasteur has dis
covered a cure for epilepsy.
Part of a mastodon havo been un
earthed near Sherman, Texas.
If cork is sunk 200 feet deep in the
ocean it will not rise again on account of
tho great pressure of the water.
Experienced planters in the South now
raise the mule cotton plant, being thus
enabled to secure the seed without the
lint or cotton.
Three broad patents on electric loco
motives and electric railway systems, ap
plication for which have been filed sinco
June 3, 1880, have just been issued to
Thomas A. Edison.
The General Manager of the Wiscon
sin Central Railroad is reportod to have
said that all the trains on that line will
be run by electricity before the Colum
bian Exposition is ovor.
The greatest enemy of suburban tele
phone and telegraph poles is tho wood
pecker, whose search for the numerous
insects which inhabit the wood often
leaves tho pole literally honeycombed.
A medical officer of tho French army
is credited with a remarkable simple
cure for obesity. His plan is to restrict
the diut to one dish it does not greatly
matter what at each meal, and it has
proven very effective.
The part of tho lnrynx commonly
known as Adam's apple has just been re
moved from the throat of a man at tho
Carney Hospital in Boston, Mass., the
first operation of the kind iu that city.
A cancerous growth had started in the
affected part.
The electrical apparatus for extracting
teeth without paiu has an arrangement
of adjustable prongs, carrying buttons
and connected with a battery. The
buttons are placed over the nerves lead
ing from the teeth to the braiu, and a
circuit is established tho moment the ex
tracting instrument touches the tooth.
Trials of compound armor plate at
Shocburyncss, England, are held to have
demonstrated that, when these plates
have been submitted to the Tresiddcn
supplemental process, they possess pow
ers of resistance and endurance much ex
ceeding the compound plates tried ia
this country in competition with nicklo
plate.
The longest span of telephone wire in
tho world is said to cross tho Ohio Rivor
between Portsmouth, Ohio, and South
Portsmouth, Ky. The wires spaa the
river from a pole on the Ohio side, meas
uring 102 feet above ground, to the
Kentucky hills on the opposite side, the
distance being 3773 feet between poles.
Tho wire is made of steel and its size is
No. 12 gauge.
A Host Wonderful Creature.
The chameleon has for ages been an ob
ject of curiosity, not only on account of
its ability to change its eolor at will, as
one might suppose who had read ac
counts which mentioned only that one
characteristic, but also on account of a
remarkablo power which admits of the
creature instantly changing its form. At
times it takes upon itself almost the ex
act form of a mouse; again, with back
curved and tail erect, it is the exact
counterpart of a miniature crouching
lion, which no doubt gave origin to its
name, chamol-lcon, which clearly means
"ground lion." By inllating its sides
and flattening back and belly it takes
upon itself tho form of an ovate leaf,
the tail acting as tho petiole, the white
line over the stomach becoming the mid
rib. When thus .expanded it also has
the extraordinary power to sway itself
over so as to present an edge to the ob
server, thus greatly nddiug to its means
of concealment. As is well knowu, the
least excitement, as in handling, will
cause n chnngo in the color. In its nor
mal state it is of a light pea green.
When excited the grouudwork remains
tbe same, but transverse stripes ubout
thirty in number appear on the body.
These stripes, which are of a very dark
green to begiu with, soou chango to inky
blackness. The prevailing idea that the
chameleon takes upon hhnnulf tho pe
culiar hues of whatever he is placed upou
is as curious and widespread as it is er
roneous. Placed iu boxes liued with red
or blue silk, they retain their pea green
color with no leaning toward the brighter
hues of the surroundings. St. Louis
Republic.
The Trade iu Old Shoes.
There is a largo aud growing demand
in big Now York for second-baud shoes.
All Jtlong Soveutu avenue' there are deal
ens who make a specialty of old shoes.
The men usually have stalls in cellar).
Their wares embrace shoes of all sorts,
from the baby's tiny slipper to tho big,
stiff brogans of the laborer.
"We get our old shoes," said one of
them, yesterday, "from all sorts of
places. I usually make a couple of trips
a week myself to a lot of stylish Hats iu
the upper part of the city. I collect all
the old shoes I am able to buy. What
do I give? Oh, verv littlo, of couitc. I
usually pay forty cents or ao for a pair
of rive dollar shoes, but they must bu in
good shupe to win such a price, for, you
know, we do not get much more than
twico that sum wheu we retail tucui
again over the couuter."
"Who sell shoes to you?"
"You would be surprised if you saw
the tine, swell fellows that havo to put
up their shoes occasionally to help koep
n l appearances. We take the shoes,
black them up, repair tucui, aud then
offer them for sale."
"Who bujs them?"
"All classes. Yes, we have nice,
prosperous peoplo who wear tecou d-lutud
shoes, aud think nothing of it. Tlieu
tin ru is a class of young fellows iu New
York who have expensive tastes and
tin. ill capital. Tbey co ne to us, pick
out a good-looking patent leather shoe,
pay BBVeuty-five cents or so for it, aud
HO away rejoiciug. Tbey go home, put
tin in ou, and, then, who can tell tJiu
eucef" Now Voik ltocoidur.
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O TIME AND CHANGF.
O Time and Change, they range nnd range
From sunshine round to thm lorl
They glance and go as the great wimls blow,
And tbe best of our dreams drive under:
For Time and Change estrange, estrange
And, now they have looked nnd feon ur
O we that were dear we are all too near
With the thick ot the world between us.
O Death and Time, they chime nnd chime
Like bells at sunset falling 1
They end the sonz, they right the wrong,
They set the old echoei calling:
For Death and Time bring on tho prime
Of God's own chosen weather,
And wo lie in the peace of the Groat Release
As once in the grass together .
W. E. Henley.
HUMOR OF TUF. DAY.
Not enough to go around A semi
circle. Life.
You cannot batch Ideas by sitting on
goose eggs. Dallas News.
A baseball maxim A run iu time
saves a nine. Boston Transcript.
If poor relatives had their way thoy
would not have rich uncles very long.
Dallas News.
Young man, no one may be able to tell
your fortune, but you can work it out .
for yourself. Troy Press.
You can't tell how much money a man
has ia his pocketbook by the size of tho
strap around it. Rim's Horn.
Watts "Did your barber shut up on
Sundny?" Potts "No. He merely closed
the shop." Indianapolis Journal.
The summer girl osks the same ques
tions at baseball games this season as she
did last year. Boston Transcript.
The dog that loses his master it with
out a friend, and so are some men wheu
they lose a dog. Binghuiutou Repub
lican. A baby born in Ohio is without hands.
When he grows up bo will be ablo to
sweep his town for the otlico of Treas
urer. Philadelphia Ledger.
A man always knows what ho would
have done in another fellow's place, but
the other fellow docsu't ahv ys believe
It. Louisvillo Courier-Journal.
Mamma "Don't you know that your
father is the mainstay of thu family?"
Freddy "Golly, ain't he, though! Aud
the spanker, too." Brooklyn Life.
Miss Antique "Won't your mothor
go with us?" Miss Rosebud "No, she
says sho doesn't think she is old enough
to chaperon you, dear." Detroit Freo'
Press.
"Oh, dear!" sighed Henry, whoso
clothes nro all mado of his papa's old
ones, "papa's had his mustache shaved
off, an' I suppose l'vo got to wear it
now." Tid-Bits.
Fidgety Lady "But -what am I to
do? I can't ride with my back to the
engino." Sarcastic Youth "Better
speak to the guard. He'll turu the train
around." Tid-Bits.
Train Conductor "All aboard. Hurry
up, miss, if you are going by this train."
Little Girl "Just a miuutc, till I kiss
mamma." Conductor "Jump aboard;
I'll attend to that." Oaklaud Echoes.
Billy the Beau "Anything uow in
engagement rings?" Jeweler "Yes;
our new 'Seaside' plated goods are cheap,
aud are warranted to out-wear any sum
mer resort engagement." Jewelers'
Weekly.
Hostess "Whathas become of Saudy
Smith, who stood so liigb in your class?"
Alumnus "Ol he's taken orders."
Hostess "He's iu the ministry, then?"
Alumnus "No; iu a restaurant." '
Brooklyn Life.
Frieud "Docs your son belong to the
old or the new school?'' Old Lady
(whose son is a physician) "Olj, ho
doesn't belong to any school at all uow;
he's been graduated for two years."
Detroit Free Press.
Mrs. Watts "Mary Ami, these lulus
ters seem always dusty. I was at Mis.
Johnson's to-day, and her stair rails are
e'eau and us smooth as glass." .Mary
Aun "Yis, mem. She has t'lee schumll
boys." Indianapolis Journal.
"If you like," said the young man at
the desk, "I'll have your poem sub
I'littcd to tho editor." "No," sho
answered positively, "I'll read it aloud
to him. I prefer to liavo tin: editor sub
mitted to tbe poem." Washington ttar.
"I told you yesterday I would not
marry you," said she. "I know it,"
said ho. "That is why I ask you agnia
to-day. You would not be so larking
iu originality, I hope, as to repeat to-day
what you suid yesterday." Harper's
Bazar.
Judge "You Btolo tho pocket-book,
but how is it thut you did not appropri
ate the watch lying by the side of it?"
Prisoner "You don't lueau to Bay I was
as daft as that? I couldn't have noticed
it. You must t-xcusu me, Judiju!" .
TcxtuSiftings.
He "I thought the bride and groom
were going to start rigiit oil ou their
weddiug trip, instead of waiting.'' She
"They were, lint she had to change
her wedding dress lor a traveling gown,
and they didn't get stalled uulil liie next
day." Cloak Review.
Miss Piukvrly "Von act as if you were
uucomfortablu.Mr. Tuttcr." Mr. Tuttor
"Yes, Miss I'iuki'ily, the fact is, I
have I ever beeu able to get a dress suit
to tit me." Miss Pinkerly -"Perhaps
jo:i don't get there early cuou;;U."
Clothier and Furnisher.
Ills Loud Ittii'iiftl I "p.
A teamster iu i',ustou, Mass., bad ipiito
a nurpr'se tho other day. Ho was haul
iii' a lo,ul of furniture through thu yard
.; a railroad, wheu somebody sh.mted
liie. T'. ruing urouud he discovered that
his load of furniture was all iu a b!az..
Ho jumped oil the wagon and unhitched
bis hoises as promptly as possible, anj
nu alauu brought a lire engine that e
tiuguiitliud thu bluze, but imt until tue
furniture was destroyed and the waguu
iindy badly damage I. A spark from 4
iiM-orotive cuu-e I lay trouble. .Nu
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