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TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 28, 1892. S1.50 PER ANNUM.
Two-fifths of the companies started an
Dually ia England are said to fail.
It is said that ia no three cities in the
world have greater advance in sanitation
been made during the last twenty years
than in Bombay, Madras and Calcutta
ia India.
If you wish to increase your chances
of life, marry, admonishes the New York
Journal, for, as a rulo, married men live
longer than bachelors ; yet out of every
thousand persons in England more than
iz hundred are unmarried.
Execution by electricity appears to thn
San Francisco Chronicle to have bjon
reduced to a science in Now York, for
two murderors have been put to death ia
the chair with no evidence of suffering,
This now process is as instantaneous as
that by the guillotine and far less
ghastly.
British Columbia is dividod into two
distinct agricultural parts by the mount
ains which form the coast range. Tlio
coast region has a mild equable climate,
while the interior has a climate of ex
treracs, the southern part being very dry
and needing irrigation. Cultivation, as
a rule, is restricted to the valleys.
Attention is called by the press to the
rapidity of the changes made in the
army by the present German Emperor,
Since his accession to the throno eleven
generals have been retirod. The Prus
aian army consequently, adds the New
Orleans Picayune, is now commanded by
ruon as inexperienced as is the Emperor
himself.
Washington City contains in its streots
and squares over seventy thousand trees,
although the work of systematic plant
ing was not beguu until 1892. There
are 330 little parks at the intersections
of the streets and aveuues, besides the
groat consolidated Government reserva
tion extending westward from the Cap!,
tol to tho Washington Monument, two
miles away. About $75,000 nnuually Is
cxponded by tho Government and tho
District of Columbia in planting aud
earring for trees.
The Boston Trauscript is convincod
that the mero possession of money con
fers little pleasure, except upon mero
misors, and they aro few. William II.
Ynnderbilt was worth about 500 tons of
solid gold when he died more than
would have accumulated if all of his an
cestors in a direct line had received sal
aries of $30,000 a year ever since the
coming of Adam, and had saved it all.
But he never handled the money. IIo
never was in its presence in his life. IIo
never saw more than a tenth part of tho
interest. It gave him little pleasure.
He dressed no bettor thau his clerk, and
ate less than his coachman. He drank
chiefly milk. He slept ia only one bed.
Envy and ignorance raised an army of
enemies about him. The pubho press
abused and villilicd him. He was a vic
tim of indigestion. He was ia constant
peril of apoplexy. Ho couldn't walk in
the park without being assailed or in
tuited by sociulistio philosophers. An
enormous fortune is a very heavy burden
to carry, and brings annoyances from
which there is no protection.
In ramie a Louisiana writer sees a
plant which, il a machine to decortic ite
it can be invented, will bocome tbe most
valuable fibre for manufacturing pur
poses in the world. "I do not say," he
observes, "that it will supersede cotton,
for the cheapness of the latter and tho
high price of the former will, for quite
a while, prevent this. But the enor
mous profits to be made in raising it, if
the proper decorticator can be found,
will induce almost everybody to plaat it.
This great increase of product will alti
mately cheapen its price, and the with
drawal of many planters of cotton will
tend to help the price of that article.
Flax will be almost a thing of the past,
for it has all the merits of that fibre, aud
utterly transcends iU best features. I
take it that tbe silk industry will have
such a blow struck it as will nearly par
alyze it. Every one who has ever seen
ramie or worn it falls in love with the
fabric It is as cool as liuen, soft as
silk, far more durable thau either, tensile
power far greater, aud has a lustre, with
an iridescence suggested of tho opal.
For summer wear, cither external or for
underclothing, it would curtainly dis
tance all competitors at the South aud
in all warm countries. It would pass
into table-liuou, napkins, towels, etc.
Its uses in cordage of all sorts would
ensue just as soou as prices should justify.
Its power to resist struiu aud breakage is
almost incredible. I have tried in vain
to snap an untwisted piece pulled two
days ago, not over the sixteenth part of
au inch in diuuietur. What cables it
would make! A hawser, with good
anchorage, would hold a ship to her
moorings in iuy storm." Colonel G. A.
Breaux of Lafayette, La., is growing sev
eral acres of ramie. It is said to be a
beautiful plaut.
A BONO IN THE NIOHT.
Yesterday's sunshine
Was so brightl
Yesterday's burdens
Were so light I
Yeaterday's hand-clnaps
Were ao sweet I
Yesterday's hours
Were ao fleet 1 , .
Well-a-day I YeaterJay drops her ross
Petal by petal, and softly goes
Book to the bosom of Go i's repose.
Israel Jordan, in Youth'a Companion.
BRIER ROSE.
HE Weening Wil
low telegraph office
faced the level
prairie. Up and
down before it, like
shining ribbons, lay
the railroad tracks,
converging mys
teriously until dis
tance blended them into one.
Back of it flared the wide main street,
with stores and cottages indiscriminate!
mingled, which marks tho disconsolate
prairie town. Beyond, inclosed by
white picket fence, straggled tho deso
late graveyard.
The only thing in plenty which
nature supplied was room. There was
an abundance of space. It was quite
walk to cross the street. Neighbors'
nouses stood alooi. isobody was
crowded, even in the graveyard.
The telegraph operator, satiated with
landscape, (caned back, stretchod him
self prodigiously, yawned audibly and
collapsed in his chair, which creaked iu
vexed remonstrance. IIo tossed a re
mark over his shoulder, "So this
what you areycarnin' for, Dave!"
Dave took his cane, and, limping to
the door, viewed the inertness in
silence. Then he roused himself and
said cheerfully:
"A telegraph operator is all I'm good
lur since I got hurt."
"Seems like the com'ny might have
done more for you when you got smashed
up in thoir.own accident. 'Twouldn't
have hurt 'em none to keep you as
conductor," grumbled his friend.
Suddenly the afternoon stillness wus
broken by excited voices and the sharp
b irking and yapping of dogs. Joe
brought his feet to tho floor in a hurry,
"I can t lcavo the machine, Dave. Go
and see what the rumpus is about
bet Brier Rose is up to something It
takes that there girl to stir up the boys
No, Foxy, he said to his terrier, who
was whirling around in aa testacy of
anticipation, "you stay here. If Brier
Kose is at the bottom of it, a littlo
feller like you 'night got lost iu the
Bhullle."
Dave obediently limped up the street.
where, in the midst of a crowd of rough
men, stood a girl holding some little
animal high above her head, while tbe
dogs leaped and snapped around her,
The girl, with scarlet cheeks, begged
and scolded and threatened them all to
their infinite amusement.
"Cell off your dawg, Jim," she laid
fiercely' to the owner of the largest.
whoso leaps sometimes almost reached
tbe quivering little object in her hands
"Throw down the beast an' 1 will,"
he answered.
"If that there dawg gives another
jump, I'll pien him before suaup," she
srid, slowly."
Jim made a lunge for tho dog, and sat
on him to keep bun down, while the
crowd hooted in derision of his obedi
ence. "What's all this," cried Dave, com
ing up aud pushing his way through
their midst.
"Brier Hose is being held up!" cried
a voice.
The crowd yelled with delight. Tho
girl's whole f--e became white with rage
as she single ut the speaker.
'You 11 : for that. Ben Miles, as
you ve paic jefore," she said.
(Jail ot those brutes," cried Dave,
rapping the nearest dog with his cane.
"For shame, to tease a woman!"
.Look a oyer, s:ranger, said a
young giant, menacingly. He towered
above Dave, who stood his ground.
"l m lame and no account in a fight,"
said Dave; "but half a man ain't going
to see a woman tormented."
"Who in thunder " began his
threatener; but Ben Miles laid a band oa
bis arm.
"Hold on, Jim," he said; "that
there's Dave Comstock, conductor of
the smashed up No. 7."
"Not the feller that got hurt savin
the baby!"
"The same."
"Sho, strungcrl" said tho mollified
Jim.
"You're welcome to interlere. Give
us yer hand. We wouldn't hurt her fer
oothin'. Bless my stars I Brier Kose
can take care of herself bctter'n most
men."
Tbe dogs were all held now, and tbe
girl put her tired arms down. She
looked curiously at tuu man, whoso
brave story she knew by heart, as sho
beard him defend her.
To bo sure, she had been defended be
fore; there was hardly a mau who
would not have risked his life to save
bora, but they teased her unmercifully
when they got the chsnco. Dave's in
terference was on a new line. She did
not quite understand it, but it appealed
to her at once.
When Dave went back to tho station
to tell Joe, the lutter roared with de
light.
"Just like herl i-xzattly like lierl"
he cried, slapping his leg so iuhumualy
that his lame friend winced for him.
"Who is Brier Kose?" ho repeated, iu
answer to Dave's question. "You don't
know much if you don't kuow old
Bryan's duughter. She's the best known
girl from Horseshoe Gap to Powder
Crik. Old Bryan's been engineer on
the road ever si nco tho track was laid.
All eyes she Jwus then, as she is now.
What wasn't eyes was temper. Same
now, savin' that now she bosses the boys
la addition to M Bryan, See can ruu
an engine with the best of 'em. Bryan's
taught her all tho tricks, and ho thinks
the sun rises and sets for just her."
"Strange she would defend a gopher,
when she's so hard on tho boys," ob
served Dave.
"That's just it. That's Brier Rose 1
She's got more tamo pets; she's friend
lier with every beast in Weepin' Wilier
than with any of the boys. Sho ain't
even got a head fur anybody but old
Bryan j you notice I make no mention of
heart concernin' Brier Kose; I don't
keer to talk of what she ain't got and
just now she's specially bewitched about
him. After keepin' straight for forty
years he's taken to drink. Tho girl
knows he'll lose his job if the company
gets wind of it, and sbo watches him
like a hawk."
"What's Bryan's Run!"
"norsoshoo to Powder Crik. She
knows every inch of track and siding.
And I wish you could see her handle the
critter. She knows all Bryan does, and
she a a heap sight quicker calc latin than
tho old man. It's wuth while to see her
oil and clean the machine. She goes
over it spry as a kithou."
"She's handsome," said Dave, sim
ply. ''Humph! Handsome is as haudsome
does, observed Joe, grumpily. "She
is cold as ice and hard as a rock. It's
my belief that she ain't got no heart
same as other wimmin. And sassy?
Lor'l"
In spite of what he hid heard, or per
haps, because of what he has heard, all
things, even the melancholy town itself,
grew rose colored to Dave's sunny eyes.
With his unfuiling cheerfulness he
waited hopefully for news of his ap
pointment at lied Valley, and hovered,
as if fascinated, around engine No. 44.
Neither tho boys nor old Bryan were
slow to notice this, tho latter having ac
cepted such attentions periodically Irom
all the young men. It was so inevitable
a proceeding that up to the time of the
Middleton's dance they paid no attention
to it.
But that night something extraordin
ary occurred.
The next day, as Brier Rose rode down
the street on her hardy littlo pony, tbe
boys gathcrod around her oageriy, not
withstanding the fact that she had a
stout little whip in her hand. Tbey had
something new and strange to tease her
about.
"Brier Rose," called out Jim, as she
drew rein, "you don't care nothin' about
daucin', do you!"
"loud ruthcr set all tho evenin'.
would'nt you, now!"
"D you liko tho name o' Dave, or do
you reckon you d rather have Corn
stock?" Rose looked from ono to tho other as
the bottlod-up taunts foil rapidly upon
her cars, her cheeks and lips growing
scarlot. For once her ready tongue
failed her. Small need to ask tuem
what they ineaut. Too well sho knew.
But was her subjugation apparent in such
a trifle f And so toon? And Dave as
yet had said nothing. Emboldeued by
her silence they went further.
"What does he say about it?"
The shamed crimson leaped to her
very temples and receded, leaving her
face pitifully white. Her wounded
pride now pantei for but one thing a
way out. Probably he knew it, too.
She saw him coming down the street.
"Do vou lovo him! Say, Brier Rose,
do you love Dave?" cried tbe one furth
est from her whip.
Her courage came back at Dave s ap
proach, and the spell of her unwonted
silence was broken.
Do I love him?" she cried, looking
him fairly in the face. "I come nearer
to hatin' him !"
She turned her horse sharply, and the
blows the boys had expected fell on her
fiery little pony. He craned his neck
and went up the street on a dead run,
but fast as Kose flew the grieved look
In Dave Comstock s blue eyes kept pace
with her.
That night Joe nageteu around, un
able to decide whether or not he should
peak to Dave about the occurrence of
the afternoon. Dave's genial smile and
cheory hopefulness were gone. He sat
with his face buried in his folded arms.
Joe coughed noisily and said nothing.
Dave looked down at his poor maimed
foot.
"Joe, do you know that littlo baby I
saved from the wreck had brown eyes
like Brier Rose! I remember the baby
smiled when I held it out to tho men.
You know my foot was caught and I
couldn't move. I've never seen Briar
Kose smile at me that way. If I had
saved her perhaps she would. Do you
think so, Joe?"
At home, Kose was thinking of the
story of Dave's bravery in the wrecked
tram, of the lives lie had saved, of his
defense of her.
And to-day iu return she had mocked
him. Aye, if the look he gave her spoke
truly, she had cut him to the heart.
Tears tears in tbe eyes of Brier Kose!
Tbe positioa of telegraph operator at
Red Valley was given to Dave Comstock.
The afternoon freight, heavily loaded,
id just pulled clumsily out ot tbe
Weepiug Willow station, with Dave on
the rear platform of tho way car.
The 41, baving.come down on tbe
rear of the freight as second engine, now
stood on the siding, waiting to go back
to Horseshoe for the midnight express.
Old Bryau was up in a crowd of men
in front of the postolHce. Brier Rose
atched him anxiously. Aa loug as he
kept away lrom the Owl she felt easy.
Ho kuew she was watching him. He
also kuew that she would not hesitate to
come after him if the Owl proved too
stroug au attraction. Therefore he kept
away.
She trod fearlessly along the sido of
the boiler, rubbing the hand rail with a
black oil sodden cloth. Stio touched the
eugine as if she loved it. Every part o!
shone like the sun. Every valve
worked with precision. Every screw
was secure. Joe laughed to see her fling
shovelful of coal iuto tbe furnace like
born tiremuu.
Flis own ma:hioo called his attention
from the 44. Then Roso heard him cry
out, and, springing down, she rushed
into the station.
"A runaway engine coming this wayl"
ho said hoarsely. "Spite work of a dis
charged engineer. No one On her going
twenty-five miles an hour a single track
Dave's train only going fifteen the
44 and that ore car on tho only siding
between here and Red Valloy. My
God I"
"Where is it?" cried Brier Rose.
"It broke away from Horseshoe Gap.
Message is from Prairio City. It's already
passed Prairie City, headed straight for
here. It's bound to catch Dave before
his train gets to Rod Valley."
Roso turned white to her very lips.
Sho covered her face with her brown
hands. Only for a momont, though.
Then she flung back hor head and looked
Joe full in the face.
"I can save him?" she cried. She
sprang for her engine and climbed into
the cab.
"Rose! Rosel" roared Joe in dismay.
Rose turned her white face towards
him imploricgly. "Be at tho switch,
Joe, and listen for my signals, as you
value Davo's life!" she cried. Thon she
pulled the ithrottle valve out to its full
extent. The engine shivered all over,
and at fifty-two miles an hour the 44,
driven by Brier Rose, leaped down the
track to meet the runaway.
There was not a moment to lose. A
certain n amber of milos lessening every
moment, lay between the lumbering
freight, with Dave on board, and the
cruel, senseless runaway engine. Be
tween them was Brier Rose, with just a
chance of safety.
She knew that a loosened rail or any
obstruction would hurl her to her doom,
and still not avert disaster from Dave.
Tho whistle of tho 44 shrilled out a un
earthly screech continually to warn even
the birds from fluttering too near the
messenger of life.
The engine rocked from side to sido
at the dizzy rate of speed. For the first
timo the odor of hot oil made R sa feel
faint. She hung half out of the cab
window panting for breath and her
hands clinging crazily to tbe window
for support.
Suddenly she saw smoke in tha dis
tance. Larger and larger grew the
black speck on the track. Faster and
faster flow the 44 to meet it. Nearer
and nearer came the runaway. When
she could plainly see the shapo of tha
approaching engine she closed tbe throt
tle with a rush that mado the 44 tremble
She reversed her engine, and at little
less than twenty-flvo miles an hour be
gan running away from the ruuaway.
Slowly, almost imperceptibly, it
gained on her bravo engiue. A horrible
fear took possession of her that it was
coming too slowly, and that they both
would reach Dave's trsiu before she
stopped the runaway. Sbe changed the
speed and let the engine gain oa her
faster.
"I can signal for tbe siding if I fail."
thought Brier Rose. "Joe will obey mv
signal." But she shuddered.
In sight of Weeping Willow at last.
The 44 whistled frantically. Rose sig
naled for a clear track, and only a train
length apart tbe 44 and tbe runa
way flew past tbe little station platform.
crowded with every man, woman and
child in town.
Joe understood her plan now. Ho
bounded into the station, frenzied with
excitement, telegraphed to Red, Valley
what Brier Rose was doing; then, from
sheer nervousness, ho squeezed Foxy un
til he yelped wildly.
Out of sight of Weeping Willow and
Dave's train in the distance, nearer and
nearer came the runaway. The 44 snorted
in defiance of being caught. Rose
braced herself for tho shock. Crash!
came tbe cowcatcher of the runaway into
tbe unprotected rear of the gallant 44.
Rose had loosened her bold, and the con
cussion flung her to the floor, with her
soft cheek against the cab seat.
Faint with her fall sbe gathered her
self together and shut oil the steam.
The with the nose of the runaway vic
iously pushing the 44, Brier Rose cropt
like a cat over tbe tender, down over tbe
trembling engine, aud on her hands and
knees she crawled over to the-runaway,
up along the boiler side into tbe cab,
aud crashed the throttle shut when the
44 was within a car's length of Dave'
train.
When sho came to herself she was ia
the Red Valley station. Dave was bend
ing over her, and culling her name with
trembling lips. Sbe opened her eyes
and smiled into his face.
"Oh, Brier Iiose, how could you do
it?" he whispered with a shudder.
"I did it for you, David for you."
New York Press.
An Unshorn
Sheep.
David L. Hadley, a well-to-do farmer
living near Clarksville, Clinton County,
Ohio, is the possessor of a seven-year-old
wether that is attracting wido-spread
attention in that aud adjoiuing couuties.
For years Mr. Hailey has exercised
'he greatest care in the raising of sheep,
and as an experiment thought to permit
tbe wool to grow upon one of his flock
until it was absolutely necessary to re
move it.
The sheep selected was a three-quarter
blooded Saxony and oue-fourth Spanish
merino, suys the Ciucinaati Commercial
Gazette. For more than seventy-lhroe
mouths this sheep lugged his increasing
fleece and now he re wauls his owner with
an eighteuninch growth. He cannot
he down on his side and get up again.
owing to the heaviuesi of the wool, but
uiuuuges to rest iu a sqmttiug posture.
Iu speaking of his prize, Mr. Hudley
suys: "My opinion is thut a hue-wooled
sheep will never lose its wool, if kept in
good living coudition. I have let them
run two or three years, aud never had
ouu to lose any of its wool. I huve
watched this one very closely, aud ho
has not seemed to stiller from tbe heat
any more than thosj thut were sheu-ed,
and has never been housed one uight iu
his life,"
THE AMERICAN ANTELOPE.
FLEET-FOOTED GAME NOW AL
MOST EXTINCT.
Their Markings Tho Family to
"Which They Uelonjr Hunting tho
Antelope Liong-Kango Shooting;.
r
T is a peculiarity of antelopes, es
pecially as shown in their head
quarters of South Africa, that they
stand out conspicuously as connect
ing links. They grade off almost indis-
tinguishably into sheep, goats, doer and
even the ox. Often in tho hornless
females dissection is necessary for dis
tinction. Tho horns, which aro always
present in the male and usually in tho
females, are round, without sharp edges,
and though compressed are usually an
nulatcd, while those of tho goat and
sheep have abrupt ed-gos and aro usually
grooved longitudinally. Thoso of all
the bovines come out sidoways and are
cylindric and smooth. Deer's horns are
all rough, much branched, solid and
deciduous. Antolopes are liko the sheep
in the general presence of the gland bo
twecn Jhe hoofs and under the eye, and
they are like the goats in tho presence of
horns in both sexes, which have no
tendency to recurve forward. They
share with the deer the tear pit and
many other peculiarities of form and
anatomy, while some are like tho ox in
bulk and body. Our pronghorn, how
ever, differs much from the Old World
genera. With it tbe tear duct is absent,
as in the goat; tho horns nro branched,
as in tbe deer, and the accessory hoofs
are wanting as in no other ruminant ex
cept tho giraffe. It lacks, also, certain
groin glands found in the African kind,
and the British Encyclopcd'a states that
it drops the sheaths of its horns annually.
I have been unable to find any American
record of this fact. If tho statement be
true, it forms, in this respect, a con
necting link between tbe hollow-horned
and solid-horned ruminants not found
elsewhere.
The horns of our prongbuck aro apt to
vary much with ago, the protuberance iu
front being often wanting in tbe young,
which would argue to some extcut tho
annual shedding of the sheath. Tho
eyes are bright and prominont, enabling
it well to see its pursuers during flight
and to keep a good lookout before. In
the adult, il makes no attempt at con
cealment and from its enemy it expects
nothing but a knowledge of his ap
proach. The color of the pronghorn is
generally a tawny brown, shading off ba
low and backward into a light fawn color.
Beneath it is white. While this would
argue a certain amount of color-protection
whoa lying down, tho two trans
verse white bars across the breast, aud
the conspicuous whito disk around tho
tail argue that on approach or flight no
attempt at concealment is lutoudod.
The rear mark is claimed by Mr. Wallace,
the great English naturalist, us an exam
ple of a guiding mark specialized for tho
purpose of enabling tho youug aud weak
to follow better in flight, but he leaves
the purpose of the breast bars unex
plained. In keeping with tha theory,
they may better enable the flock to reas
semble, or tho young to run to the
mother as she returns to its hiding place,
for, like other ruminants, sho often hides
her young whilo she feeds. To a natur
alist tho marks would at onco imply that
the animal was a night feeder, or at least
crepuscular a fact borne out by actual
knowledge. Sho kids uro never spotted
not even at any stage before birth a
fact hinting no close relationship to the
deer. The hair, resembling course rotted
manila struuds, is hollow like feathers,
and crushes into fragments readily be
tween the fingers. They stand out oa
end like bristles iu a brush, varying iu
length from one inch on the sides to four
to six iuches on the neck, whero they
form a sort of mane, erected during
a-jger or excitement.
Tbe antelope is about exterminated
from the plains east of the Rocky Mount
ains now, where it recently raugod from
Central America to about latitude fifty
three degrees north. It migrates slightly
north and south with the seasons. It
was no uncommon thing as late as '80 to
'S'S to see small herds ll-eing from the
trains as they crossed the plains, and
very fair long-range hunting could bo
had then. But now one must go higher
up iuto tho less frequented mountain
parks, und even there they are getting
scarce, f rom uctoner to jJccumber is
the season, with perhaps November as
the favorite. Of course one takes a
wagou or packs, but fuir saddle horses
are a necessity, for the guino is ofteu
found in rather inaccessible places. The
cool nights wiil require all needful com
forts for camping. Whilo a sneaking
stalk is the usual method of hunting,
antelope have been killed on tho plains
by direct chase and u pistol shot, us
Washington Irviug killed his buffalo,
but an unusuul horse, of course, is re
quired for this. For tho distance of
three or four milei, perhaps, no lleeter
animal runs than our pronghorn, but if
pushed to its utmost within this limit it
soon shows Bigus of fugging. Coursiu"
it down on the plains with greyhounds
was once a favorite form of capture. Tho
best meuns of approucii (necessary in any
form of hunting it) is by concealment in
draws or behind ridges.
A good Ueldgluss is u great help. By
noting at long range the direction they
are feeding, they may be iuicrcepte 1 us
they pas It tho ground be favorable,
but their senses are all so acutn that
every precaution must lie taken. The
souud of horses' hoofs n mile or more
away will often alarm them. In peeping
over an eminence always remove the hut
aud if possible intrust this delicate mis
sion to the fuirhaned man of the party.
By no ineaus pass to the wiudurd of
them. Frequently long detoius wiil
have to be made ufoot or on ull fours
even, so it is well to huve u boy bring
up the horses ut a signal. The old
method of decoying this game within
close gunshot by means of iu curiosity
cannot now bo depended ou. They have
had too much enperieuco. It is ouly the
long range rille that makes their capture
now at all possible. .St. Louis Republic,
SClEYliTIC ANN INDUSTRIAL.
The most co9tly of the metals It
didynium, which soils at $4500 a pound.
A largo vein of copper is said to have
rccentlv been uncovered near Stratford,
Vt.
Gold assaying as high as $1300 a ton
Is said to have been found at Pitkin,
Col.
The moons of Mars are namod Dclmos
and Phobos after tho war horses of the
Greek god.
In this country moro deaths are said
to occur in December than at any othor
time of tho year.
The electric motor operates through
the alternate magnetization aud demag
netization of a bar of soft iron.
During tho influenzal epidemic in Ger
many tho proportion of ozone in the air
was found to bo scarcely tea per cent, of
the normal amount.
The first electric light wa tho inven
tion of Stake & Petrie, in 1810, but scores
of men have sinco mado improvements
and auaptod it to popular use.
A celebrated aeronaut asserts, after
patient Investigation, that the ninth day
of the moon is the most.
of the
whole twenty-eight, and 4 o'clock in
the afternoon the rainiost hour of tho
dny.
Apoplexy needs medical treatment at
once, but, until tho physician nrrivos,
clevato tho head and shoulders. Use tho
fan freely to givo plenty of air, and ap
ply cold to the head by means of an
iced bag.
Tho best isinglass comes from Russia.
where it is obtained from the sturgeon
wmcu inhabits tho Caspian 8oa and tho
rivers which run into it. This rish ofteu
grows to tho length of tva-uty-llve foot
and from its air bladder tho isinglasj is
prepared.
The famous termites, commonly called
"white ants," although thoy belong to
the order of the dragon fly, infest Ceylon
iu countless swarms, devouring every
thing eatable, and even gutting tho tim
bers of dwelling houses so that tbo lat
ter are reduced to mere shells.
In observations on "squinting," Dr.
Stevens, an English oculist, has taken
over 2000 photographs of persons affect
ed. Tho investigations demonstrate
that certain well defined types of facial
expression are both associated with aud
dependent upoa certain relative tensions
of the muscles of the eyes.
At one time it was held that there was
a considerable difference in tho height of
the European seas so littlo removed
lrom each other as tho Atlantic and
Mediterranean. Dr. Supan, however,
shows this to bo bused on errors in level
ing; measurements mado at thirty-eight
stations from the Adriatic to tbo Baltic
proving thut iu most cases ouly a few
centimetres of difference exist, so that
for practical puqioscs it may bo tuken
thut the sea level ou all the cousts of
Europe is the same.
Killing Fish by Wholesale.
Everybody passing over the Long
Island City ferry at Thirty-fourth streot
must have noticed of late the great num
bers of apparently dead fish that float
about on the surfneo of tho river. Off
Thirty-third street is a dredging float,
and men are continually trying to blow
up tho rocks in tbe river bed with dyna
mite. Every explosion kills or stuns all
the fish iu tho river about tho pluce fur
nmuy hundred feet. A man watched the
apparently dead fish tho other day. Ho
reached the pier at the foot of tho street
just before tho men fired a blast.
About a minute after the explosion the
fish beguu to come up to the surface of
the river. They lay oa their backs, ap
parently dead. They floatod about.
After awhilesomeof them began to como
around. About half of them came buck
to life. Tho others floated about until
some men ia bouts weut out aud gath
ered them in. Tho men in tho boats said
thut they went out after tho fish after
each explosion. Sometimes they col
lected huudrcds of fish.
Some of tho deud fish apparently had
their skulls broken by the shock in tbe
water. Others were merely stunned.
The fish were good eutiiig. Sometimes
they would put tho fish in buckets of
water until they cumo buck to lifo again,
and that they would lire a torpedo off
near the bucket and fco the lish dive
down iuto tbe water and try in other
ways to get out of the reach of the noise.
Tbey hud watched somo of the fish in
the river come to after tbe explosion and
make trucks to get out of the neighbor
hood before a recurreuco of the explo
sion. Locusts Iu Morocco.
The liritijh consul at Mogudor, Mo
rocco, mentions, iu his lust report, that
while on an excursion inland, about a
day's journey from Mogador, ho met
flights of locusts. He says it was an as
touishlug and interesting though pain
ful sight, the air being ia some parts so
thick with them thut they formed a
denso living brown fog, through which
he could hurdly flud his way, whilo they
so completely covered the grouud thut
the utmost caution was necessary in
walking, us he could not tell whether he
was treading on soft saud, hurd slippery
rock or what. Many birds feusted ou
the insects, iucluding lurgo flights of
gulls from the seu, uud beasts evidently
enjoy their share, for in the middle of
the densest swarm lie saw a tine red fox
dancing about ia the must frantic man
ner, leaping up aud snapping dozens of
the locusts in the air, until, seeing the
stranger, he suddenly dropped ou ull
fours, uud quickly vanished in the
live fog. Not only did tho burbel
put their share ot the novel food
(the consul used tho locusts success
fully us bait fur them), but some of
the lish of thu Atlantic were found
gorged with locusts w hich ha I been
blowu off tho Ian 1 by easterly winds. As
usual, they were extensively eaten by the
native populutiou. Scieutilic Americun.
Tbe man who laughs bu6 dJM uot
always laugh, loudest,
A WOMAN'S HATE.
"I hate you, I hate you I" the maiden said,
And her eyelids drooped and her facte grew
red,
And she turned from her lover and bung hor
head.
The flush crept up to her rich brown hatr.
And she plucked to pieces a rosebud fair
As she stole a glance at her lover there.
And he, these men are so full of guile!
Ilia eyes, a-gtlstenlng with mirth the while,
Looked calmly on, with a doubting smile.
"I hate you, I hate you 1" she said agnin.
And she tapped her toe on the carpet then.
As if each tap wore a stab at men.
Her lip was aqulver, her eyes in mist,
Her cheek and throat, as the sun-gods
kissed,
Were bathed in the essence of amethyst.
And then her love, with a startled look.
Grew serious quite, and his fnce forsook
The confl lont glow which It erstwhile took.
And "Oh, very well," as he rose to go;
"And if it pleases you to have it so
Why, so it shall b?, as you doubtless know.1
Ho took one stop, but a sudden turned
Oh, much the sweutost is bliss unearned
Aud looked in tho tear-wot eyes that
yearned.
No word she spoke, hut her arms entwined
Around his neck. Oh, "a woman's mind
Is a puzzle, to which no key you' 11 find.
Upon his shoulder she laid her head.
And he kissed her cheek, which was still
rose-red;
"You know I hate you!" was all she said.
The Wasp.
HUMOR OF THE BAT.
Sailors prefer a lark on lnnd to a night
in gole on tho seu. Tho Jester.
The calendar is a very good reminder
that our days aro numbered. Puck.
When the public bus faith in a writer's
name, it is a faith which must be bucked
up by good works. Puck.
Extremo of beat and cold produce liko
effects. When a man is "frozen out"
ho is apt to get red hot. Life.
"Well, I'vo sworn off my worst habit,
Williojn." "Which one?" responded
William. Cbicago News Record.
Why are girls so afraid
IV Dim the lightnings are activor
'Tis because each clear maid
Is aware she's attractive.
Judge.
He "No one can undersjaod 'what
the wild waves are saying.' " Sbo "Of
courso not. The oceuu is so vory deep."
New York Herald.
A West Philadelphia man wunts to
sell his purrot, which he advertises as
boing "suitublo for a deaf family."
Philadelphia Record.
The coffeo palaces of Melbourne, says
au exchange, aro the finest iu the world.
Tbe grounds are probably likowiso very
fine. Rochester Post.
Our English luuguugo is full of eccen
tricities. Wo wiud up a watch to set it
going. But we wiud up a business con
cern to stop it. Lowell Courier.
Brazenly she begs for kisses,
boldly makes arch eyes ut me;
Such a shameless minx us this is
My daughter, lelat three.
Chicago News Record.
From timo immemorial men have been
held up for examples, uud now and then
they've been held up for what they
had about their clothes. Biughamton
Leader.
Tho fellow that's up with tho times,
An 1 sees with a glass nil things,
Gets awfully left in the lurch
By the circus that has three rinB.
Jhieugo luter-Oeeuu.
Twynn "They say that Dingier
hadn't a friend iu tho world." Triplett
"No wonder. Ho went about recitiug
elocutionary selections at parlor enter
tainments." Detroit Free I'rum.
"I ought to study photography,"
mused the seaside youug man who had
proposed again. "I really ought. I can
develop more negatives in a giveu timo
thun anybody I know of." Washington
Stur.
Hostess "I've got such a cold to-dny.
I feel quite stupid." Prize Idiot (cull
ing) "I've got a bad cold, too; but I
don t feel particularly stupid. Hostess
"Ah, I seo you're not quite yourself."
Loudon Puucb.
"I will improve my mind," said he;
"1 can, though 1 aou t look it."
An I she responded merrily,
first emeu your Hare; then cook It." i
1 ushiugtou htur,
"Dear Futher: We aro well and
happy. The buby has grown ever so
much and has a greut deul more sense
thau he used to huve. Hoping the
sumo of you, I remain your daughter,
Molly." Texas Sittings.
Twillinger "I hoar that Tompkins
drank up all his diamonds in thu last
mouth." Wife "I know theu thut
they are not of lirst water or be would
never havo tasted them, tho horrid old
sot. " Chicago Intel -Ocean.
The King of tho Cannibals nothing could
save
He passed from uu lhly labors;
Aud kmd uiisstou'iri -h wrote ovoi his grave
"A man who luvel his neighbors."
Life.
Tbe Mistress "Vou really don't waut
thecolleef" Tho Tramp "I'lirdon ue,
madam; but I detect the presence of two
lumps of sugar. My invariable habit is
to tuko oue lump only. I may be ragged,
but 1 possess thu true instincts of tho
epicure." Pittsburgli Bullet iu.
A Wuldo County cluui-diggcr, of cou
siderublo creutive faculty, wanted to say
something real bad of a ueighbor and
delivered himself of this: " i'he fritto.
aiu't got any brains; tho iusido of hit
head ain't even lathed, let alono being
plastered." Levvisrou (Mo.) Journal.
"Tell your -worthy mother thut am
coiniug t-o seo her soon," said u lady oil
Austin avenue to Mrs. Suiverly littlo
boy, who was playing in front of tho
gate. "I urn glad you are coming, aud
uiu will be glud to see you, too." '-How
do you kuow sho will bo glad to see me I"
asked Mrs. Suiverly. "Hecuuse I heard
her say yesterday she would be glad to
see somebody who didu't come here to
collect a bill," Texas Siftiii-s,