1 THE FOREST REPUBLICAN U pibllihed mrf WaeltT, tf J. E. WENK. Offlo In Smaaxbangh A Co.'a Building LM ITEirr, TIOIWTA, !. Terms, . . l.gfl prTlr, 1U nbMrtptlrai receive Imr ikrUr Mrlod than tare month. Oorrnapondene solicited frm tM muia f the enimtrr. Ne tieilct will UUw tftuiinoui RAT5S Or ADVERTISING One Square, one inch, one insertion..! 1 00 ne Square, one inch, one month . . . . 8 0( One Square, one inch, three months. , B (HI One Square, one inch, one year... , 10 OK Two (Squares, one year 15 0(1 Quarter Column, one year 90 (K Hulf Column, one year MOO One Column, one year. . 100 "(I Legal advertisements ten cents per Una each insertion. Marriages and death notices gratia. All hills for yearly advertisement collected quarterly. Temporary advertisements mult be paid in advance. Job work cash on delivery. , orest Republican. VOL. XXV. NO. 18. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUG. 24, 1892. S1.50 PEIl ANNUM. London has more than doubled iti population in tho past half century. Collectors of autographs remark that, while the typowritcr never will supplant holograph letters altogether, it will niako them scarcer and more valuable The Boston Ulobo figures it out that 31,000 out of our population of 65, 000,000 own $:jfi,2.ri0,000,000 of our Nation's total wealth of $132,510,000,000, otherwise ono man out of every 2000 owns nioro than all tho rest of the 2000. Tho announcement that California would shortly becomo the seat of an ex tensive perfumery industry is now re ported to bo without adequate founda tion, as the (lowers are said to lack tho strength of odor required to make tho manufacture of extract profitable. Determined not to lose its reputation a? tho grcst obituary paper of the country, the Philadelphia Lodger, with what tho New York Advertiser esteems commendable alacrity, has secured auto graph obituaries of all tho members of the. Fcury relief expedition. It could not have been a very cheerful occupation for tho writers. A woman of inventive mind, dis covered by tho New York Sun, is experi menting on a rubber coating for Iron stono china ucd in restaurants and do mestic porcelains. She thinks these should be as feasible as the noiseless tire and tho'mounting of chair legs In libra ries and reading rooms. Incidentally she expects to find iu her invention n large fortune, but her aim is distinctly phi lanthropic. Tho New York Independent believe? that the cultivation of athletic at girls' schools and colleges is likely to receive some stimulus from au award made by the United States Treasury Department to Miss Bertie Burr, uf Nebraska, for rescuing two youug women from drown ing. Miss llurr, who learned how to swim at Lascll Seminary, Auburndale, Muss., will receive, not tho silver modal awarded for heroism, but tho gold medal only granted for cases of extraordinary daring and endurance. A novelty in business enterprise is soon to be introduced in Nov York City, accordiug to tho News. It may be tersely described as a benevolent pawn shop. Tho mere suggestion of a pawn ship with an aspiration higher than three per cent, a month makes this subject highly interesting. It is said that cer tain wealthy persons, connected with tho Charity Organization Society, have de'.ormiucd to establish pawnshops throughout tho city, to be operated at cost. Benevolence and philanthrophy usually fail in the conduct of business enterprises, however, and the project of a cut-rate pawnshop may disappoint its well-meaning projectors. Flying machines for uso in war have engaged no little uttuutlou of late on the part of inventors. Maxim, the designer of tho famous gun, claims to have pro duced ono which can bo controlled. Ho declares that he cau fill his aerial car with explosives and hover in it over the city of London, holding that great me tropolis at rans'om to tho extent of as many millions of pounds as ho chooses to mention. Thus situated he can announce his terms by dropping a small packago cootainiug a statement of them and his ultimatum of "Cash or Crash I" His contrivance is a cylinder of aluminum containing a throe-fourths vacuum, its collapse being prevented by strong rib? inside. It is propelled and steered by electric gear, and is further sustained and balanced bf tho wiugs of a great aeroplane, with au automatic arrange ment of a compensatory nature that brings tho machiuo immediately back to the horizontal whoa it tends to vary therefrom. When Bernard Schmiz, having been la this country tweuty-six years, went back to Germany on a visit two years .ago, he was seized and put into the Germau army to serve his term as a German citizen. Vainly his Kansas neighbors seut peti tions for his release, as nobody paid any atteution to them. Finally his little eleven year old girl, Maggie Schmiz, wrote a letter to the Empress of Germany, telling her iu artless, child fashion how her mother and tho children all missed their father, and begging that he might be sent back to them. Tho letter was neither properly addressed nor stamped, but each official into whose hands it fell sent it ou, ami at lust it reached the Empress. Tho little girl's plea touched her motherly heart, and through her in tercession, as stated by the Berlin papers, Schmiz was released aud given free pass age back to his home. The neighbors have been celebrating his return, and in a triumphal procession little Maggie had the first place. Thus writes F. W. Howe, the author of "The Story of a Country Town," in which (Atchison) this inci dent has just occurred. THE SONO OF PEACE. A song ta astir In the air. And I would drink it in With the scent of the roses rich and rare; But still the battle's din Rings In my ears and deafens me; I cannot hear the strain. The noise of the world, its misery. Throbs like a bitter pain. But now and then, as In despair I seek to rend the bonds, Comes a burst of harmony on tho air To which my heart responds; And then the echo of the fray A moment seems to cease; Though the wondrous harmony dies away, That moment brings me peace. And then I pray I may retain A peacefulness of heart, Though the warrior's laurels I fail to gain, Or riches of the mart. For that sweet song will givo me rest, And banish all distress; The flowers of Ood and the gold of the West Will be my happiness. Flavel Scott Mines, In Harper's Bazar. HIS DAY AT HOME. BY EMM A Ol'PKIt. O, I can't sny I enjoy George's sick days at home," said Mrs.Par fitt. "He's sure to be poking into things and making himself generally disagree able. Dear boy!' ho isn't that way any other time. I'll war rant you, Conny" Mrs. Parfitt shot a humorous glance at her husband's ex tremely pretty young cousin, who stood, in street attire, waiting for her "that he won't want to give mo the money for my now jacket to-duy nt all. But there's the Carpenters' reception Thursday,aud Wait for me! I'll try it." And Mrs. Parfitt ran down stairs, with A valiant smile. Sho found her husband in the library. IIo was young and comely, but a strip of red flannel on his throat, a shawl untidily worn,- and a gloomy expression of couu teuauco, did not improve, him. "I'd stay at home, dear," said Mrs. Parfitt, "if there was anything I could do for you." "There isn't," said her husband, short ly. "This beastly cold has got to wear itself out." "Conny and I are going out for a Ut ile shopping, then. And if you can let me have the money for ray spring jacket now, George? I'm a little lute about getting it as it is, you know. It's the tan one, with a striped satin lining aw fully pretty at Brigut's " "I dou't kuow anything about any jacket !" George snapped. "I'm harassed enough in mind and body, Kate, without your persecuting me." "Iu mind?" said Mrs. Parfitt, patiently resigning herself. This was oue of George's days at home. "Yes, in miDdl" lie threw oil his shawl, and sat up and glowered at her. "What do you think about Hugh Dudley and Constance, anyhow?" "Hugh Dudley and Constance?" Mrs. Parfitt stared a littlo. "That's what I said. He's coming hero all the time, isn't he? What's he coming for?' Mrs. Parfitt looked into her lap. A smile dawned on her fresh lips. "I really, I " she murmured. "I feel responsible for Constance," said George, scowling impartially at everything. "I asked her here, aud if she docs anything to to disgrace the family,I shall feel to blamo for it. Hugh Dudley! Would Uncle Joe or Aunt Agnes want her to marry Hugh Dudley? A mero mere " no tit term presenting Itself. "I don't liko himl" Mr. Parfitt proceeded, warmly. "In the cotlee busi ness! And I don't believe he knows who his grandfather was!" Mrs. Parfitt looked oddly demure. "Isn't tho coffee business creditable, George, dear?" she queried. "And the Dudleys are a very good family, George, really, and everybody likes Hugh." "I don't!" George retorted. "Hugh Dudley I wheu, with the slightest en couragement, Thomas Dunfoith " "Oh!" Mrs. Parfitt murmured. "You needn't thiuk that has set mo against Hugh Dudley, though. It husu't it hasn't at all. It isu't merely that Tom's a friend of uiinc; it's the differ ence in the fellows. Tom's a brick a brick, Tom Dau forth is!" said Mr. Par fitt, with an emphasis which amounted to fierceness. "And for Constance Bergen to deliberately take up with the worse man of the two, when she might have the better, it galls me! I'll never Invito her here again, mind you that nor any body else 1" Ho flung back into his chair. "I thiuk Conny will perhaps be living here before long, dear,'' his wife rejoined, mildly. She had retreated to the hall. "And you wou't givo me the money for my jack " "No!" said her husband, emphatic ally. He heard the front door closo directly, and said to himself that he was more than glad to be alone. He supposed that Constance was up stairs, but he was in no mood for talking to Constance fur from it. Ho was thoroughly and indignantly out of putieuce with her. He went into the kitchen aud asked the cook to make him some ginger tea immediately. Kcturuing, he saw from the window a sight which caused him to utter an exasperated growl. Hugh Dud ley was driving up briskly in his road cart the cart and his well-groomed horse aud his own good-looking fuce all shining in the rays of the morning sun. George met him at the door before the maid could answer the bell. "Is Miss Bergen " the caller began, with a questioning smile, offering to bake hauds. Mr. Purtitt ignored his hand. "tihe is not at home," he said, de v liberately, with no traco of his accusing conscience in his displeased face. To admit Hugh Dudley and hear him and Constance chattering mid giggling for two hours in the parlor was too much. Ha wouldn't have it, The young man's face fell perceptibly. "When will sho bo at homo?" he faltered, embarrassed betweeu his dis appointment and his nwo of Mr. Parfitt's stern looks. "I havo not tho remotest Idea," George responded. Would the fellow keep him there uttering mendacities all day! Not but that tho cause was good and sufficient, but he was not accustomed to lying. "I'm sorry, Hugh Dudley declared." He lingered, looking t.uichingly un happy, only Mr. Parfitt was not touched. He looked at though he was waiting to shut tho door, and tho visitor retreated down the steps and into his cart. Ellen had the ginger tea ready. It was not strong enough, and too sweet. And when Ellen, having been some what gruffly informed of it, had mado some afresh, Mr. Parfitt drank it, and resumed his shawl and his chair nud his uncomfortable reflections. Tho door-bell rang again. Georgo thought ho know the ring. Sure enough, it was Tom Danforthl "Laid up?" that young man demand ed, coming iu breezily, big aud broad shouldered and bright-eyed and cheerful. "Too bad I On your lungs? Have you tried a capsicum plaster? I can get you one in five minutes if you want mo to." "It's in my head," said Georgo dis mally. But ho smiled his pleasure at Tom Danforth's appearance, and wrung the young man's hand and took his coal and hat. "I'm glad you came glad to see you! Stay to lunch, won't you? Havo this foot-rest, Constance is home up stairs," he said, in a breath. "'Just wait," he ended, eagerly. I'll go get her." But ho came back sulkily. "She wont out with Kate, it seems," he explained in an injured manner. "I didn't know it. Thoy'ro always gadding about. Have somo maraschino or some thing?" "Cordial at this hour of the day?" Tom protested, looking the soul of reas suring good nature and betraying no ex citement at the fact of Constance's absence. Ho even took up a newspaper. 'Ho doesn't care," George mused, gloomily. "May'be ho isn't in lovo with her after all." And ho sat and eyed his stalwart friend, and thought what a husband ho would have mado for Constance, aud how blind aud contrary and exasperating they all were and how helpless he him self was to arrange mutters as they ought to be arranged. He fell into unhappy silence. "Has the cashier of tho Freesoborough Bank really gone oil with tho funds?'' said Tom, with his handsome uose in tho paper. "There's a rumor to that effect. Stewart's his name. He's rich cuough anyhow. He ought to be " The bell again! It was Mrs. Parfitt, looking pretty and pink cheeked after the fresh air, and us blithe as though going to the Carpen ters' reception in her old beaded wrap were not going to be a horrid necessity. "Oh, you, Tom?" she cried, cordially. "I am so glad! Poor Georgo is so wretched with that cold, and you cau cheer him up!" "1 don't nee I cheering up," said George, huddliug his shawl closer. "Where is Constauce?" "Conny?" said Mrs. Parfitt, brightly. "Oh, we met Hugh D.idley iu his cart, and he took Conny along with him. What a stylish turnout ho has!" Mrs. Puruf.tt unpinned her bonuet. "IIo did, did he?" Her husband twitched in his chair so violently that his elbow kuocked the gingor-tea cup to the floor. - Tom picked it up. "I wonder if that scamp has taken the money, if it will burst the bank?" he said. "It's a shame!" What bank?" Mrs. Parfitt ques tioned. And an animated discussion ensued. Mrs. Parfitt knew the defaulting cash ier's daughter; Tom Danforth had known his brother. Georgo, who knew more about him than cither of them, contri buted uothiug to the conversation. Ho leaned back aud shut his eyos, three distinct vertical lines showing be tween theai. Ho confessed to himself that he was entirely out of temper; but ho had certainly he hail ample cause for being so ample distracting cause. Ho beguu to thiuk about goir.g up and going to bed as a temporary escape fiom his afflictions. "And I'm sorry enough for Sally Stewart There's Conny!" said Mrs. Parfitt. "Said sho shouldn't bo goue long." Constance came sweeping in. Her stylish loug dress trailed after her with fine effect. Her light coat was open, aud showed the white silk vest of her dress. Her little has set back prettily ou her fair hair which was blown into many straying teudrils. George thought, with a meutal groan, that (he had never looked so lovely. "Oh, Tom, you?" Constauce cried, quite as Mrs. Parfitt hail done. And then, not at all as Mrs. Parfitt had done, she gave him both her hauds and it was no hutluciuutiou, it was a fact and let him kiss her. She turned upou her cousin with her blue eyes sweetly dewy. "Do you like it, George?" she said. "Are you glad? I kuow you like Tom. Aren't you pleased? We'd have told you before, but we've only been engaged a week, and nobody but Kate has kuown it so far." "And I thought I wouldn't blurt it out," said Tom, standing, flushed and beaming. "I thought I'd let Couny tell you, you know." "Are you two engaged?" George roardd. lie sought vainly to get his wife's eye. "Then how about Hugh Dudley?" "Mr. Dudley?" said Constance, vaguely. "Oli, George! You haven't thought that Hugh Dudley wanted me or I him? Why, it's all about Grace (Julnby. They were engaged, you know, and then they had soma ridiculous trouble or other; and Grace and I have been so chummy ever since I've been here that Mr. Dudley came right to mo with it. He's been hero two or three times to tell mo things to tell her, and I've told her all of them, for Graco was foolish and hasty, and it really wasn't Mr. Dudley's fault at all, and I've been anxious for them to make it up. And now thoy have. He cams this morning to get mo to go thoro with him, and he met rao on the street and we went. And Grace began to cry when alio saw him, and I camo away, and " Constance was sympathetically tearful. "We'll never quarrel, will we, Tom?" she demanded, tenderly. And Tom stroked her hand. "Katol" cried Mr. Parfitt, sternly. But his wife, laughing till her pink choeks were red, slipped her han 1 through his arm. "You'ro a dear, good boy," ho avowed, "and I was a mean, drcidtful girl to do itl But, Goorge, you were so cross about my jacket that I wanted so you'ro always a little cross when you'ro at homo sick, you know and I thought you'd know it so soon anyhow, and it was a temptation, and I'm awful sor ry," said Airs. Parfitt, pleadingly. "Where's my pocket-book?" said George. "You shall huvo that jacket. I meant you to all tho time. I'm over joyed and rejuvenated and cured, and I'm going down to tho office. " Saturday Ni"ht. Drawn by Hie Wcbfootert Cows. The webfooted cows who inhabit tho marshes along the St. John's Itivcr in Florida I know that they are webfooted, for Captain Lund says so, and Cnptaiu Lund never lies are of somo use after all, it seems, and this is the how and the wherefore of it. In the merry month of April tho water iu tlie St. Jolin s gets very low, and the two big steamboats, Frederick Do Bary and City of Jacksonville, which go up ana elown it during the winter season, are sometimes hard put to it to get over the numerous bars. If it were not for the webfooters, Captain Lund says aud Captain Lund never lies they would never get up to Sandford and Comfort Cottage, aud would havo to come North a month or more before they could be ol service. The worst bar of all is Volusia Bar. and here four times a day, at the hours when the steamboats are due, a numbei of Floridiuns put in an appearance with from four to eight yoko of tho gay and festivo kind, almost too thin to cost i shadow, hitched up for business. Then follows a scene such as lew steam boat men have ever witnessed. The cows are hitched to tho boat by three stout chains, the drivers laiso a shout, aud with all steam on and a mighty tug-of-war, the stout iron steamboat is dragged through the mud and sand nud lauded iu deep water again. Captain Lund says he has a set of irou tires which he puts on the paddle wheels the first of May, which e'nable him to take shortcuts across tho country, thus shortening the distance by about one hulf, and as Captaiu Lund was never no, never known to draw the long bow or to tell a story which was not strictly according to Iloylc, down go the tires across country aud all. And yet there are peoplo who persist in going to Europe strange sights tor to see. It is ono of tho wonders which no man, aud not very many hundreds of wouieu, cau fathom. New York Herald. Freak of a Tliuuilcrbolt. Tho anuals of a French Academy of Scieuco tell of a tailor's adventuro with a thunderbolt. Ho lived in a house pro vided with two chimneys, ono for a fire place and the other for a stove, tho latter not iu use. During a thunderstorm a tremendous report was heard, and evoiy- boiy thought that tho house had been struck by lightning. Instantly a blue flaming ball dropped into the fireplace aud rolled out into tho room, seeiuiugly about six inches above the floor. Tho excited tailor ran around tho room, tho ball of fire playing about his feet. Sud denly it rose above his head aud moved oil toward the stovepipe hole in the ceil ing, which had a piece of paper pasted over it. The ball moved straight through the pupir and up the chimney. Wheu near tho top it exploded nud toro tho chimney into thousands of fragments. The sight of the debris left by tho ex plosion showed tho family what would iiave been the cousequouces had it ex ploded whilo ou its gyrating passage through the room. St. Louis Hepublic. A Strange Disease. James Mullen, of Louisvillo, Ivy., bled to deuth the other day, as tho result of a strange maludy which has for mouths baffled the skill of tho physicians. His blood lost all its cougulutivo properties and hal taken on tue appearance aud consistence of fresh milk. Tho corpus cles of the blood had becomo perfectly white. From a small scratch or cut the blood flowed with such rapidity that ou several occasions it was scarcely ub!o to be stopped before causing deuth. One morning one of the smallest of the blood vessels under the tongue became broken. The point where the blood came from was so small that no danger was appre hended at ail. All efforts, however, to slop tho flow were futile. Every remedy was resorted to, but to no avail, and iu littlo less than uu hour Mr. .Mullen bled to death. New Orleans Picayuue. A Norel Fly Trap. A restaurant keeper iu Washington has trained a large rut to catch tho (lies and candle moths that infest his estab lishment. The rat, it is said, has de veloped au iuordinate taste for this kin I of food, aud spends nil his time iu hunt ing flies, iu catching which he has become very expert. Ho is very tame, and pays no attention to the people who may be in the building, or to anything else except his winged prey New Or leans Picayuue. THE MISSISSIPPI FLOOD. WHAT CAUSES THE ORKAT RIV E1VS ANNUAL OVERFLOW. River anil Rayon Havo Built lip Ridges on Which Thoy Plow In initiating I ho lliiilnni Lands. T VER spring the Mississippi Riv- er, swollen by tho melting of 1 the snow in tho Hocky Moun tains and by the abundant spring rains, threatens with inundation the low lands of Mississippi and Louisi ana. Not infrequent it breaks through the bonds which confine its course and spreads its muddy waters over thousands of square miles of that fertile region, destroying tho fields of young cotton and cane, and burying the fertile soil be neath layers of river mud. Those who read accounts of these iu undations, of their wide-spread destruc tion and of tho immense areas covered by them, may be at a loss to understand how the mere fact of this river overflow ing its banks can lead to such extensive floods. These bottom lands are a peculiar re gion. Originally a shallow arm of the gulf, they havo been filled by deposits from tho river. Even at present nine tenths of tho region is a marsh covered with graes or cypress forest, through which flows the Mississippi with its branches, and which are intersected by countless bayous, forming an intri cate network of water courses. Al! tho streams, with scarcely nn exception, flow upon tho tops of ridges. These rides are low, risiug but teu to twenty feet above tho intervening ares of marsh, and range in breadth from a few rods up to perhaps four miles. The stream bed is iu a notch upon the summit. These ridges huvo been built by the streams. Iu former times, before the streams were confined to their beds by levees, they overflowed their banks with every high "tide," as tho flood is called. Tho river, always muddy, is in time of flood heavily charged with sediment, brought perhaps from tho high plaius and tho Kocky Mountains. Where the stream is rapid it has no difficulty iu bearing onwurd its loud of sediment, but, when its velocity is checked, as it is when the stream is suddenly broadened, it is lorccd to deposit some of it. When tho stream overflows its bauks it be comes thus broadened, its velocity is checked, and it consequently deposits some of its load, tho coarsest material first, tho finor material later. By this process of overflow have tho rivers and bayous built up the ridges ou which they flow. Tho only habitable and tillable parts of this region aro tho gcutlo slopes of these river ridges, and upon these, which form but a trilling proportion of tho en tire area, tho inhabitant.; nro congre gated. Tho roads commonly follow tho river, running immediately at the foot of the levee, and it is along these roads that tho houses are found. The planta tions stretch in narrow strips back from the river. The levees, which are built continu ously along both sides of tho river and principal bayous of this region, aro somctimos ten or twelve feet in height, and in time of flood tho river is fre quently full up to tho top of the levee. One may ride along tho road under tho levee with the water of tho river five or six feet above his head. Wheu the river is in flood tho levees are putroled night and day by the in habitants, watching lor the slightest in dication of weakness. A thin stream of water the size of one's linger breaking through tho lower part of the levee may iu au hour, if unchecked develop into u break or crevasse which can not be closed, and which may involve a loss of millions of dollars to tho neighboring country. Such breaks au often caused by the bur rowing of auiumlsjor more frequently by rico flumes or openings through tho levees for the purpose of letting water into the rice fields. Scarcely a spring passes that such cre vasses do not occur from such trilling origin. Tho levee, once broken, tho waters pour through, rapidly widening tho breach, uud rush down the slope of the river rid go directly away from the river. On reaching the swamp, the cur rent is broken and diverted and tho waters, spreading up uud down stream, gradually rise back toward the levees on cither' side. They pour also through tho swamp, and extend to the ridges of neighboring streams, flooding the culti vated lauds upon them. Thus it is e isy to seo that, since the whole country lies below tlu level of tho river, if a way is once opened for the water into the coun try, it may spread indefinitely and involve widespread ruin aud destruction. Courier-Journal. A II i-A Is Moiii.tain Itailwuy. The most recently completed high iiountai n railway in Switzerland is that jp tho ltothhorn, 7-50 feet high, from lake and town of Brienz, not far from luterlukeu. The roud was completed so ;hut a locomotive reached the summit October 31, and will be opened the com ing season. Thu lfothhorn will com- land a muL'uiliceut view of the Jun"fruu and the other mouutaius south and south cast of luterlukeu. The material through which the eleven tunnels of this line uru excavated consisted of debris which had ilippe l dowu the mountain, and whi- h l eme l disposer to go ou 1 1 i i n r when disturbed. Subterranean springs also made the work difficult, uinl iu places new beds had to be made for uiouutuiu streams. Sciculilic American. A Sun Beater. The highest velocity ever given to a canuon bull is estimated at l'i'.'li feet per second, being equal to a mile iu '.'! i-ec- onds. The velocity of the earth at tho equator, due to its rotation on its axis, is 1000 miles per h ur, or a mile iu o.ti seconds. Therefore, if a ciluoii bull were fired due west, and could maintain its initial velocity, it would beat the sun iu his apparent journey arouud tuce.utu. St. Louis Hepublic, SCIENTIHC AM) INDUSTRIAL. By ye.ar of exposuro to atmospherio temperature, hardened steel loses hard ness. A new application of electricity con sists in determining by the conductivity of milk the presence of adulteration. Steel not only loses its magnetism, but becomes non-magnetic when heated to an orange color. A remarkable strike has been made in the Eclat miuo, Crecde, Col. Tho ora runs high in silver. Specimens assay over $800 a ton. When a lamp is first lighted leave tho flame low until the metal of the burner is heated: then turn as high as possible without smoking. This secures a steady flame. A small cabinet containing au alarm clock, a three-caudle-power lamp, a medical coil and a gas-lighter, all op erated by" electrieity from four cells of dry battery, is among tiio novelties re cently devised. Silvanus Thompson says that the sud den slamming on of tho armature' of a permanent magnet is liable to deteriorato tho magnetism ; and that the sudden de taching of tho armature is of advantage to the magnet. The Government authorities at Wash ington are experimenting with a vege table rarity called tho "jumping bean." If placed on a smooth table it keeps con stantly on the move, jumping about, turning over, and performing all kinds of acrobatic tricks. Dymoud has recently succeeded in ex tracting from lettuce an alkaloid which closely resembles belladonna in appear ance', taste aud smell, but which iu u dose of five grains, is without injurious effects. Thu alkaloid corresponds iu formula closely to hyoscyamine. Too quick a discharge buckles tho plates and a very sudden discharge draws the paste out of them. When fulled charged plates which havo been removed from the electrolyte ure to bo replaced, the liquid put in should huvo the same specific gravity as it was before. Coal is mined in Turkey, in Heracloa and Koslu, both on the Black Sea and about 100 miles from Constantinople. The mines nt Heraclea are controlled by the Ottoman Government; tho Koslu mines by a private firm, Kurtschi & Co. Tho coal obtained is inferior in quality to the-lCuglish mineral, especially to the Cardiff and Newcastle coal. Few people havo an idea how thin a sheot of veueer may bo cut with tho aid of unproved machinery. There is a firm in Paris whichmukeabusiuessof cutting veneers, and to such perfection have tley brought it that from a single tusk thirty inches long they will cut a sheet of ivory 150 inches long and twenty iuches wide. Some of the sheets of rose wood aud mahogany arc only about a fiftieth of au inch in thickness. Of course, they cannot cut all woods so thin as this, for the graiu of many vurietios is not sufficiently close to enable such tine work to bo done, but the sheets of box wood, maple and other woods of this character are often so tliin as to be translucent. Freaks of Human Vision. "I do not suppose this world looks alike to any two persons," said Thomas McIIeury at the Southern. "A dozen of us were looking nt the moon the other night. To one it appeared tho sizo of a five cent piece, to another much lursjor thun a cart wheel. To one it appeared a weil-rounded globe, and to another a flat circular piece of brass. I noticed this diversity of human vision once iu Galveston, Texas. I saw a man named O'Delt shoot u fellow gambler named Ojiiuluu to death. He lired four shots from a largo revolver. At the trial one man testified that tjuinlau hud a knife in his hand lit tho timu uf the shooting. Auother thought it was a cauc, whilo a third expressed the opinion that it was a billiard cue. I was standing facing him when he was shot, and would make oath that his hauds were open and con tained nothing. Those who testified wero disinterested spectators, and told on the staud what they honestly though they saw. The shooting began in a sa loon. Quiuluu run out, followed by O'Dcll, who kept shooting. Sumo thought oue shot was fired in the saloon, others thought three, yet ull were look ing rifrht at tho two men. You often hear peoplo say that what they see they know; but they don't. They have no assurance that they eaw riht. A man who implicitly believes his eyes is liable to fall into grievous error." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Lighting the Mars. Mabel Greene is a Hrooklyn five-year-old. Sho is full of odd conceits. The other evening she sloo I at a window of her homo with her pretty face flattened aguiust tho punc intently watching a slowly gathering storm. Darker crew tho low hanging clou Is, but .Mabel showed no signs of fear. Instead her features were animated uud she appeared to be absorbed iu thu scene. Even when a violent clap of thuuditr seeuie 1 to rend tho hcuvcus uud forked light ning flashed the child was unmoved. At lust, tiring uf thu si.ht, .Mabel turned to her mother, sitting near. "Mamma," she said, "I link l) ) l is dettiu' weudy to light His stars." "Why, darling f" ' 'Cause he's scrutchin' mutches ou the sky." New York Suu. Yellow Dust Sturm. Prof. Milne, of Tokio, rec u-Is u dene storm of yellow dust which sud denly covered the decks of a vessel ninety live miles from Nagasaki, Japan, whicu is upwards of I'll) miles from 1A" nn,; of ( Una. This dust was so line that, 1 1 1. -u : i composed of felspar, quai l., and a le v shreds of plants, it did not all -el lie' eyes, aud had not the decks li en env ered with it, it might have been mis. taken for peculiarly yellow fo. vi it seems to have exteuded for nearly 2000 miles, and to have coiuu liom thu loess" jilain of China, THE CUP OF -IFE. "Bat is It rweer, or hitter, tell me trw This Cup of Life?" Then, lying deep in dew, A youth, who wore a rose in bud, 1 think. Made answer: "It is bitter. Wherefore drink?" With that he toro his heart's first flower away s "Love is a rose that withers in a day. Love leaves a thorn that tears one's hands and see, How red the blood that thorn was wrung from met" So hummed the boy and vanished through the trees. Astir with dove-wings and iu bloom with lees, But, when dead leaves had whirled in frozen rain For many a year, 1 met that boy n;aiu. Hid In his mask of scars, I knew his face. ' His white bear I blow about him with a grace. All winds of Hod had wailed about his head, "But isit sweet or bitter?" still I said. Oh, but that youth laughed lightly I "In my day I called it bitter. Golden heih turn gray, I longed when youug to break it at my feet. But oh, its last drops are cxeoelins sweet 1'' t Sarah Jf. U. 1'iatt, in Independent. IIU.MUR OF rilK DAY. Hard words break no bones; there arc no bones in tho heart. Puck. "Were you upset by the bunk failure?" "Yes. I lost my balance." Life. Self-made men usually try to mako themselves from gold dust Puck. The world comes to him who waits; but he is dead wheu it gels there I Puck. "Figures can't lie," you say? Hush! As long as a liar cau ligure. Prison Mirror. llio tortoise once beat tho hare the hare is not so sleepy nowadays but it utisn t iiappeued since. Puck. I occupio I tho pew alone, Hhe sat rilit nt.ar to me Whatcoul.l i do? f had no cimni Aud so 1 dropped that V . Life. AVe are all mado out of dust ; the ouh difference is that some people have more sand iu them thuu others Atchison Globe. The heart is that part of you which leads you into scrapes from which your head has to extricate you. Atcliisou Globe. Mcu aro a good dud liko Immmcrs. Their "blow" is much more clfeclivo whon they have a handle to their name. Puck. It would not bo so bad for a man to thiuk constantly of himself if h0 were ever able to givo an impartial criticism. Washington Star. Every man blushes as he ;;cS older at the recollection that at one time his idea of bravery was to do something to make the girls scream. Atchison tiloljc. When the prescription clerk gets thi bottles mixed it becomes easier to see why prescriptions ure always written in A deud language Washington Star. A good name is different from other kinds of property. The best way to keep it from being stolen is to leave it open to the inspection of all. Puck. If "It takes nino tailors to make a man" (Suppose 1 gram .vu're only huaiuio. How many dressmakers does it tufco To malie a fusliionablo wuiuaui' -Life. B. K. Woods "I want a plain wedding-ring." Jeweler "Selidf" B. K. Woods "Well, if we wasn't 1 guess wo wouldn't hardly be gitth,' kj beod."--Jowelers' Weekly. There is a man for whom tlia fuu. (If life ih turned to gull; His paths in lonely places run He never played bus. ball. Washington Star. Prospective Purchaser l-,x m- Keo your latest prices for hard coal, plea-c." The Proprietor "Jiruny, show this gentleman to our ustronuuiYtil observa tory." Chicago News Hecurd. 1 he little busy hee toi.s ou Through every d, y that's sunny; And then .some man who never wors t omes 'round and gets the honey. Wa-hinjjtou' Star. Circus man (hunting for u stray ele phant) "Have you seen a strange uui mal arouud herei" Irishman 'liegorru, Oi hov that; there was uu injur-rubbcr bull around here pulliu' carrots wid his tail." Harvard Lampoon. Irene is fair an I tall And iKviutiful uud yoiui', Well nulit lu r graft all in poetry bo Mlllg; Hut then her mouth s so ,ieall It cuuuot hold her ti -is ;ue. Judge. Wlierr- There's So M il! Tin re's a M ay. A proniincut business man of northern Ohio recently exprc-scd to one of tl o uliiers of a city bank a novel idea of leaving his money so that there might bo no contest after iiis death. lie In. u wife, three sons and a v. ay ward daughter and purposes keeping his property ill municipal ncu.H. 1 lis plan is this . He has divided his bomls iit, ilnvn purls, after providing for his wilt, uud put them into three scpaiu'e li 'es at tho safe deposit vaults: the kevs he has put into envelopes marked for each one of his sons, to be delivcre I to tin m after ins eleatli. r or Ins daughter he has de posited with a trust comoonv certain ao. curilicj which wid yield her JI M ,er mouth us long us ie lives, the pinieip.il to revert to the sous coiullv. shale aud share alike, at her death. Ou Ins mer cantile and limuufui t tiring iMeir-t- ho has likewise arranged a very clever tehemo. lie has given outright to hii three suns all the inertaulile and inauu fiifturing property, share and i-iiarc uiike, but they have iu turn executed to him a leu-.e of the .same during his lite ft r a nominal consideraiou, m lhat he i is the control of every tiling so Ion- as he lives. This man says no will can hcuiauu which will stand every lest and that tim ubove scheme is the only practical thing he knows of whe'e there are family com plication. CieveUud Putin Ik tier.
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