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TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12, 1892.
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Statistics show that trade does not
decline fn Presidential years.
The United Spates spend $125,000,
000 a year for public chanties and char
itable institutions.
Within the borders of the Stato of
Muino are wild lands ot a total estimated
value of $32,000,000.
A queer illustration of British back
wardness is found by the San Francisco
Examiner in the fact that this year sees
election returns exhibited to street
crowds by the stereopticon for the first
tima iu London.
The English Hackney horse, which is
rapidly coming into favor in this coun
try, is in England superceding the Cleve
land bay stallion as a siro for carriage
horses. Tho Hackney is a thoroughbred
of tho linnter type, with more bone,
stoutnoss and action than the Cloveland
bay.
In Japan a play culled the "Extermin
ation ot Christianity" is on the boards.
In the slaughter of make-believe mis
sionaries to the shrieks of the orchestra
is wildly applauded. However displeas
ing this circumstance may be, the San
Francisco Examiner thinks it is less to
be deplored than the more practical
method of China, in which real mission
aries are used.
In view of the recent complaints about
the "injurious action" of tinned gaodj
on the human economy, it is interesting
to noto in the Now York Recorder that
recent experiments by Lunge and other
well-known Carman chemists have de
monstrated the fact that aluminum is
piactically uuattacked by fruit juices,
condensed milk,' and the various aeon
stitucuts of preserved meats and vege
tables. There is n patient and industrious man
named Itila Kittridgc, of 13 jl fast, Mi.,
who is putting Mr. Glidstone's great
speeches on postal c irds, which he sends
to the "Grand 0ld Man." On some of
the cards he manages to get 20,000
words. Mr. Gladstone is himself ad
dicted to the postal card habit; but
when he gets some of these missive), he
must feel that ho has the disease in a
very mild form.
Mr. George Bird Grin Dell, of the
Forest and Stream Publishing Company,
a enthusiastic hunter of wide experi
ence, gives, in Scribner, a graphic nar
rative of a now extinct sport, and writes
with force and feeling respecting tho
shameless slaughter that has made the
title of this article, "The Last of the
Buffalo," so 'appropriate. He says: "Of
the millions of buffalo which even in our
own time ranged tho plains in freedom,
none now re.nain. From tho prairies
which they used to darken, tho wild
herds, down to the last straggling bull,
have disappeared."
The American bog is still engaged in
pushing his nose into other countries,
announces the Chicago Sun. Persecu
tion, proscription, libel, infamous slan
ders, and even bayonets cannot keep him
from inserting bis savory snout into a
foreign land, and when once he lifts bis
small, twinkling eyes upon a people they
Immediately become charmed with his
toqthsome possibilities and are the will
ing slaves of his porkshlp. The latest
conquest which the Yankee hog hat
achieved is that of Mexico. According
to a dispatch from Kansas City, Senoi
Enrique Torcz, a Mexican merchant, has
been in that city making arrangements
for shippiug hogs to Mexico for . slaugh
ter. What the New York Pos: consMors a
fraud of a peculiarly abominable char
acter has cotrie to light in Germany,
where a number ot workman and en
gineers employed at the great Bochum
Association for Mining aud Steel Foun
dry have been arrested on a charge of
selling defective rails, wheels, axles,
etc., by means of a system of forgery.
This material was supplied to the Ger
man State Railway, and then iome for
eign corporations. It appears that the
State Railway employed an impoctor to
stamp such goods as had withstood the
regular tests. The incriiuiuated work
men are accused of baviug made false
stamps, with which they marked mater
ial which had not been examined; with
repairing holes, cracks, and other de
fects iu the rails with a particular
cement, and so giving the inferior and
useless material the appeirunce of fin
ished work, and with substituting re
jected rails for tuose which the officials
had haurivid over to be slumped as sat
isfactory, and marking the good rails
with the forged stumps. The incentive
to the frauds was tho fact ilb work
men are paid a premium t'u the i mount
of worfe Y'fcd ly tho inspector. How
oug they have been indulging in these
dishonest practices, how general t'uo
distribution ot defective material has
been, is still as uncertain as the possible
consequences of the rascality. v
RUST,
Water the roots of a row when the sun that
has scorched each patal
Sinks beyond distant hills, a circle of
burning gold;
Give to the steed a stall when the flight that
has proved his mettle
Is past, like the cyclone's breath, or the
spell of a tale that's told.
Nourish the root of a lite when the hope
that lured It dioth
Blow beyond hills that rise all darksome,
and far, and grim;
Give to the soul that flew, more lofty than
eagle-wing flieth,
A rest when the plumes droop tired a
rest In life's twilight dim.
Mary C. Preston, In New York News.
ZULEIKA'S WILD RIM '
.
A TALK OF TUB DKSKHT.
HO can the horse-
of Mirouan, sitting
erect in his saddle,
with lance at rest?
As soon as ho came
in sight, the date
merchants pointed
him out to one
another and spoke
together in low
tones.
It is the invincible Ei-Malek, chieftain
of a fierce mountain tribe, who venerate
him as a saint
Since ho lost his eldost son, two years
ago, El-Malek speaks but little aud ne
ver smiles. His beard haR become al
most white, but his arm has lost nothing
of its power; be handles his deadly lance
as if it were a reed, and when he urges
bis faithful horse Ycsmf across the desert
terror follows ns his shadow. Yussuf,
like all the hoiacs of the South, bos a
strong back, slender logs, and large
hoofs; like the five favorite mares of the
prophet, ho is descended from Solomon's
famous stables; his coat is snow white,
and his long, flowing tail is soft as silk.
Yussuf understands aud obeys bis mas
ter's lightest wish.
Erect in his saddle, El-Malek follows
with a keen glance among the motley
crowd a man iu a gold embroidered bur
noose, who has just come to Mirouan.
The tradesmen, also, point at this man
with their finger, but with a scornful
air, as though indicating one stricken
with the plague.
This man is Hassan Bey, the insolent
chief of the Ouled-Naylt, who, jealous
of his brother Ahmed, killed him with
arrows shot from afar; be boasts of this
deed, and laughs when he sees the crowd
move away from him.
He bad built upon the D'jelcfa
plateau, in the ccutre of his tented
village, a stone house, which was also a
fortress. For many years he had passed
his nights watching the Arab girls dance
to the sounds of the derboukas; but, one
evening, passing near the fountain, he
had stopped to look at tho young girls
fifting their copper urns. And now he
has come to Mirouan to buy bridal
ornaments, for Hassan Bey, chief of the
Ouled-Nayls, is to marry the beautiful
Zuleika.
Zulcika is only a weaver's daughter,
but she is very beautiful. The poor
child wept, but she went in vain, for the
weaver is a miser, and the chief of the
Ouled-Nayls is not the man to allow
himself to be thwarted in his wishes.
She must marry Hassan Bey, the fratri
cide. Who would prevent it, since God per
mits it?
El-Malek had beard this story only an
hour before he reached Mirouan, and he
had said to himself : "God will not per
mit it, for I will prevent it."
Zuleika had placed her urn upon the
ledge of the fountain, but had not
thought of filling it. Her companions,
one alter the other, had gone away, but
she still remained, it was the last time
that she would come to the fountain, for
to-morrow Hassan Bey would carry her
away to his battlemented house, which
was sombre as a tomb.
She lifted up her little bronzed hands
to heaven imploring that death might be
sent to her. But from the leaden sky no
consolation came. Instead, Hassan Bey
appeared, riding upon his flame colored
horse, and escorted by his warriors. He
knew that she was at the fountain, aud
wished to see her there where he had
met her for the first time. She was
compelled to hear his lying words. The
youDg girl turned her eyes away, and,
as she began to fill her urn, her tears
mingled with the water.
"Zuleika!"
Who calls? Certainly Hassan Bey
cannot have disguised his' ' voicn with
such a grave and manly toue. Who is
this man, with the white beard, sitting
erect in his saddle, lance in hand, look
ing at her so compassionately?
"Zuleika!" he called once more,
pointing to Hassan Boy, who was ap
proaching. She looked up, and suddenly her eyes
flashed with a new light, for she lell
that this man had been sent by God.
"Save me!" she cried; "save me!"
El-Malek held out his baud aud aided
the young girl to mount before him.
Gently holding her frail form, ho mui
mured: "Do not be afraid." Theu, as
though calliug upou a brother, El-Mulek
said: "Yussuf!" The noblo animal
neighed, and started off like tho wind.
After Yussuf rushed Hassan Bey, with
furious clamor, followed by his warriors.
Some ot them made as il to draw their
bows. "No I" cried Hassan Bey, "du
not shoot. I want them both ulive!"
Urged on by gentle caresses, Ynnuf
flew faster and yet more fast. With
loud yells Hassan ISey spurred his hone
on, riding ahead of his escort. "They
shall not escape me!" lie cries, trem hliu-r
with rage and auxiety.
"Com age, Yussuf," murmurs El
Malek; "you are culled the wind of the
desert. Show that you deserve your
name, my beauty."
Tho day udrnuces, the sky teems to
be on ere, but Yussuf does uot falter.
uiltcatcd, at firs-, by this furious flight, j
Zuleika now began to breathe more
freely; so much ground already gained
In the direction of El-Mulck's -mountain
tribe meant possible deliverance. The
child added her gentle exhortations to
El-Malck's encouragoments- Hassan
Bey's cries seemed to grow more faint.
Had he given up the chosef
But whence come these clamors that
seom to start from tho heights above
them? Have his followers climbed the
rocks and found a shorter way?
It is not the chief's escort that utters
these cries. They come from a cabin
high up in the mountain; the occupants
are watching the exciting chase. Will
El-Malek find allies among these people,
or will he meet new enemies? His tribe
is not far away; if he is recognized tho
fugitives are saved. Arms are raised;
they are called I
No, the bows send forth their arrows t
Yussuf utters a painful neigh and El
Malek responds with a cry of anguish.
An arrow has struck the horse's flank
and another has pierced the rider's
shoulder.
"Faster, Yussuf I Fastorl" beseeches
El-Malek.
With a desperate effort, Yussuf
straightens himself out aod flics under
tho whizzing arrows. He bounds like a
gazelle that feels that the lion is on her
track.
"Well done, Yussuf"
Now there are no more arrows to fear ;
a wall of rocks crowns this height. But
death is only staved off blood is
streaming from the side of the noble
beast; he begins to slacken his pace.
El-Malek plies his spurs in vain and Zu
leika wastes her caresses aud praise, for
tho poor animal's hoofs slip in the nar
row path and he staggers. El-Malek'i
arm trembles; he is beset with fever; the
cool of the falling night does not suf
fice to refresh his brow; the profile of
the violet mountain and the confuse 1
shape of the turpentine trees, with their
blood-red clusters suspended over the
abyss, are mingled before his eyes. He
is blinded by vertigo. He cannot stop to
drink at the brook which flows in" the
ravine, though a swallow ot water
would, perhaps, save him.
Hassan Bey has seen traces of blood
upon the rocks, and his cries of hate
have become cries of joy.
"We have them," he cries; "they are
ours I"
And yet his voice trembles; he fears
the final struggle and El-Malok's terrible
lance. ,
Night has again passed and the light
of morning chases the jackals that have
come, scenting their prey frjra afar.
Yussuf still runs, but much more slowly.
Two days' journey separates him from
the tribe of which his master is chief.
Two days! and Yussuf has but a few
hours to live! He feels that with his
last breath his beloved master, too, will
die. The path becomes narrower. Yus
suf reaches the ridge, and, reeling, stops.
"The end has come!" murmured Zu
leika, terrified, and for the hundredth
time she besought El-Malek: "Do not
remain with me. Your horse can still
save you alone. Fly 1"
"Yussuf can save neither you nor
me."
"Then kill me."
"I have promised to save you!"
"God bos not wished it to be so. Save
me from this man I"
"That is what I am going to do.
! Alight."
"Ah, yes; I understand you death is
at the bottom of this abyss, I shall
seek it."
"You do not understand me. Look I"
and, with his hand, El-Malek pointed to
the north, to the other slope of the
mountains, which could be seen through
the hollow of the rocks.
"You see," he said, "that mirror that
shines down there? It is Luke Zabrez.
The mountain on the other side of tho
lake is the Djebel Sahari. There is the
tribe of my fathers, there are camped
my. people. Hasten with all your
strength. Order tho first herdsman you
n eet to call iu my namo to his nearest
neighbor, so that, from summit to sum
mit, my name rr.ay wake my warriors.
Cry to all the echoes of the mountains:
'El-Malek shall not die unavenged!'
Go!"
"But it will take two days, at least."
"God be with you!" She kissed the
hand of tho chief who had saved her
life; theu she ran down the road as
quickly as her failing strength would let
bar.
El-Malek plaoted his lance in the
' ground aud supported himself against
I it, erect in bis saddle. He talked for a
' long time to Yussuf, and the auimal
I shook his bleeding head.
"Halt r ordered Hassan Boy. Reach
ing a turn iu the road, he had seen El
Mulek pluuted across the defile, and this
uiw attitude astonished and disturbed
him.
"Does he pretend to oppose us now?
Let us wait, aud iu the meantime
breathe a little."
The iidvico was good, aud no one '
gaiusaia it. iuen uuu norses sought a
spring. Hassaa Bey, however, did not
take his eyes oil the redoubtable mau
who sat there ruotiouloss upou his horse
between the two walls of rock.
"Aud now that all have reste 1 enough,
forward !"
No one stirred. So long as it was a
question of pursuing El-Malek, the
chief's followers felt brave enough.
Now that they were culled upou to at
tack him face to face, the boldest were
afraid, llossau Bey himself trembled.
"Let hiiu begin," said oue, "let him
come on."
"Very well," growled tho chief.
The day declined; tho redoubtable
3cutiuel, who hud gleamed white in the
burning sun, now stood out in block
silhouette ugainst the starry sky. Neither
horse nor master stirred, aud the lance
still stood pluuted iu the ground.
Tho nio'-n rose, aud it was an awe
some sij,u. his motionless warrior
uudet the pale light; ho watched the
enemy with .us steady eyes still open
like diumoudb.
"He is covering Zuleika' retreat!"
Hassan Bey had sal ' U himself at the
very first. He ell iuut it would soon
be too lato to continue the pursuit. And
yet he remained in his place, changed
into a statue, powerless to conquer the
fear that emanated from this grand
guardian.
After the rosy dawn, the leaden sky;
after the red twilight, the blue night;
then the aurora again; and the sentinel,
still motionless, as well as those whose
way he bars. Somotimes the shadow of an
eagle makes a fleeting spot on the rocks;
then the shadows increase, and great
birds come from all corners of the
heavens, drawing closer their rapid
circles; now it is no longer eagles, but
vultures.
They almost touch the lance of the
cavalier, but he did not appear to see
them. One of them perched upon his
shoulder. El-Malek did not stir.
"He is dead!" cried Hassan Bey, mad
with anger and spite; and, turning to
ward his men who still hesitated, h
gave the order: "Forward!"
Neither Hassan Bey nor his men ad
vanced twenty paces. The noise that put
the vultures to flight was the the gallop
ing of the Bedouin horses that had com
from the Djcbel-Sahari. The threati
that Hassan Bey uttered to keep up hit
courage were never finished ; an arrow
pierced his throat, and, lulling from hit
horse, he rolled into the abyss.
"Each one for himself 1" cried thi
Oulde-Nuyls.
And while they rushed down the path
at full speed, without daring to look
back, Zuleika, sobbing, kissed the icy
hand of the chieftain who had protected
her iu death as in life. From the French
in Argonaut.
A Cloud of Swallows.
Two days after leaving Port Said,
E ypl, says a correspondent of the New
castle (Eng.) Chronicle, we had some
very unsettled weather. Date, April 30,
at 6 p. m., latitude thirty degrees north,
longitude twenty-three degrees . east,
Looking southward, I observed what ap
peared to be a small black cloud, rising
and comiug steadily toward our steamer.
When I looked again a few minutes
later, instead of seeing the cloud I saw
some hundreds of swallows. They flew
around our steamer several times, as
though undecided whether to stay until
tho storm passed away or not. At last,
just before dark, several of them alighted
on . the. stay rim of our main funnel,
which was soon one black mass of birds.
The rain came down in torrents, and it
was pitiful to see those frail creatures,
struggling with the wind and rain.
Those of them that could not find a
roosting place soon commenced to fall on
deck quite helpless. I picked up all
those that fell on the bridge deck and
lodged them in the chart room. Those
birds that fell on the fore deck were
sheltered in the forecastle by the crew.
The next day came in bright and clear,
with a liiht westerlv breeze, and all the
swallows took flight just at sunrise, fly
ing in a northwesterly direction. The
captive birds were soon set free, and
they followed in the wake of the others.
I may say all the birds we had were able
to fly, except one, and it died during
the day. Several dead ones were found
on the decks at daylight. These birds
had beautiful plumage, and I fancy they
looked rather smaller than the swallows
I have seen in England. The captive
birds had golden-brown feathers just
above and below the beak and white
breast; back black feathers with a bluish
tinge; wings and tail brown, and four
round white spots across.
Prodigious Memory in a Child.
An infant phenomenon has been dis
covered at Plaisance, a suburb of Paris,
in the person of a little girl called Jeanne
Eugenie Moreau, aged only five, but
endowed with a most extraordinary
memory. She is a walking encyclopedia on
all matters appertaining to the history of
France, aud especially of the great Re
volution; is an adept also in natural
history, and at the same time answers
without hesitation or error practical
questions about cooking, gardening, and
household management.
The youthful prodigy was born in
Paris in January, 1887, her father,
Phillipe Moreau, being an humble labor
er, but descended from a revolutionary
hero whose name figures in the auoals of
1789, and who was decorated by Gen.
Lafayettu after the taking 6f the bastile.
Owing to the poverty of her progenitor,
Eugenie Moreau was adopted by a widow
Madam Calley-p-who, noticing the re
tentive faculties of the child, cultivated
aud developed them with assiduity until
the phenomenon has become capable of
passing a stiff competitive examination
aud of putting to shame many a school
boy and school-girl of maturer years and
more expensive educatiou.
The fate of Eugenie Moreau will no
doubt be that reserved for all intellec
tual prodigies of tender years. She will
be exhibited to scientific men and re
ported upon, she will probably receive
an offer from an enterprising showman,
and in all likelihood Eugenie, should she
survive academical testings and public
examinations, will eventually settle down
to the life of a schoolmistress a calling
for which her muivelous memory will
pre-eminently fit her. Loudon Tele
graph. Matching Teeth,
Perhaps the greatest difficulty that
deutists meet with is the matching of
false teeth with the natural teeth of their
customers. The tooth factories supply
dentists with riugs upon which are
strung thin metal bars, each carrying a
tooth at its extremity. There are twenty
live of these sample teeth, that run all
the way from nearly white to a shade
that is almost olive. Some of the twenty
live usually almost mutches the patient's
teeth, and, at any rate, enables the den
tist to mttch the teeth by application at
tho factory.
Lunipli.'hters to the tjuecu.
The "vttxfittcr" in Queen Victoria's
household arrauges the candles on the
dinner table, ior which he draws $300
year, but he does not light them. That
duty is performed by two lumplighters,
drawing a salary of $500 each.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A storm travels at the average rite ot
fifty miles an hour.
In ten years the descendants of two
rabbits will number 70,000.
A typewriting machine which will
print on the leaves of a blank book of
any thickness is the latest invention.
A French artist has succeeded in
photographing a flying insect. The
time of exposure was but l-250th of a
second.
A plant for the manufacture of hand
grenades has been erectod in connection
with the National Artillery foundry of
Mexico.
African travelers tell us that the
white rhinoceros frequently dies from
eating poisonous plants which have no
effect on the black oue, probably because
the fine scent of the latter tolls him it is
dangerous.
Aluminum is found combined with
195 other minerals, and therefore con
stitutes a large part of the crust of the
earth, but until recently has been very
expensive because of the difficulty in
separating it.
A company in Louisville is manufac
turing watering carts driven by electric
ity. A long pipe pierced with small
holes diffuses the water, and in case of
meeting other vehicles the pipe can be
swung alongside of the cart.
Observations at thirty-eight stations
in the Adriatic, Mediterranean, Atlantic,
Nortlfy and Baltic, have shown, according-
Xt. A. Supan, that all the
seas of E Nie, contrary to an ol t
hypothesis, . practically the same
level.
In order to prWent persons under
standing telegraphy from reading the
messages in offices and hotels, as they
are received by the sounder, a secret
telegraph receiver has been devised,
fitted with a resonator ot aluminum of
extreme sonorousness.
A Tennessee inventor has patented a
gauge for determining the age of horses.
The device consists of a steel plate, hav
ing a tapered body portion, one of its
longitudinal edges being marked by
lines and figures. By applying the scale
to the teeth of a horse, its approximate
age is said to be determined.
Dr. Da reste has demonstrated that
monsters and monstrosities during ani
mal development ure not the results of
pathological changes in the embryo, as
hitherto supposed, but modifications of
the processes of organic evolution, such
as bring about the difference between
individuals and races in mankind.
A new fly trap is run by an electric
motor, and consists of a belt of sweet
ened paper, about fourteen inches long,
passing over two pulleys, onu of which
is covered by a cone containing a brush.
The paper moves slowly, and as it passes
under the brush the flies are swept into
the cone, from which they can find no
exit.
Currents of water serve to a vast ex
tent the purpose of distributing seeds.
Walnut, butternut and pecan trees are
found close to streams, where they drop
their nuts into the passing flood, to be
carried far away and start other groves
perhaps hundrodsof miles distant. Tree
seeds of many sorts are carried by
oceanic currents.
Among marine architects it is be
ginning to be a serious question if iron
is not better than steel for shipbuilding
purposes; and the cases of the old Sarah
Sands, Great Britain and Great Eastern
are quoted as proving that iron-plated
ships, with thoir increased thickness and
better riveting are much stronger aud
more lasting than any steel-constructed
vessel yet put to a breaking up test.
Tho Delaware Indian as au Artist.
Much might be said of the skill of the
Delaware Indian in all of the many
phases of his industry, but I propose
only to speak of him as an artist. A
love of bright colors was always, and is,
a prominent characteristic, and probably
tbe first attempt at personal adornment
was the attachment to the person of
feathers and small stones of bright hues.
Mica aud quartz crystals are common iu
graves. The glitter and glistening ol
these would be sure to attract, lint
what of the next step, that of shaking
Iroin formless masses objects that strike
the fancy of the wearer? To shape a
pebble that it might better meet the
needs of a club-head or hatchet called
for little skill, and the labor of making
an axe bai recently been shown to be but
slight! but the idea of symmetry was
developed and cultivated until a weapon
was finally produced that can not be im
proved upon. The same is true of chip
ping from flint points for arrow-shafts.
A mere splinter of stone, if sharp aud
narrow, would be as effective as any
shupe that could be devised ; but such
chance splin ters do not appear to have
been used, except directly after tho in
vention of the bow and arrow; a, id, so
far as is now discoverable, a series of
artistically designed patterns have been
in use for hundrodsof years. Popular
Science Monthly. .
A Grain Pipe Line.
A Chicago woman, Mrs. N. E. Bess
ley, has invented a scheme for carrying
small grains through pipe . lines. Hei
scheme is to lay pipes from Chicago to
the Atlantic coast through which grain
is to forced by pneumatic pressure at the
rate of twelve miles au hour. Tbepowei
stations are to te placed tweuty-livt
miles apart. Sho suys that the grain
will be subject to no friction, and
that the cost of transporting it f i on
Chicago to New York would ho umVi
three cents a bushel. A working in .l
of the contrivance is to be erected ..
Chicago this fall.
Portable Electrlo Lanterns.
In trying to solve the difficulties ol
searching lor tho wounded ut uighl alter
a great battle tho experiment has been
tried with fuir success at (Jrau of send
ing out men armed with portable elec
tric lanterns, which were fod by accu
mulators coutuiued iu their kuuu&auks,
A GREAT NAVAL REVIEW.
PREPARING FOR A BIO GATHER
ING AT HAMPTON ROADS.
Tli 1)1 (Tor cut Governments That
Will Send War Vrsftcls Grandest
Dikplny ot Modern Time.
TT LREADY tho naval authorities
arc beginning to prepare for
the great naval review that is
J" to inaugurate the celebrations
in honor of the Columbian year, next
April.
The appropriation made by Congress
($"0,000) will Hot cover the expenses of
mobilizing the fleet, let alone the ex
penses of maintaining it for several
months, on uur coast, so Secretary
Tracy will havo to draw liberally from
the regular naval appropriation for the
running expenses of tbe navy. Invita
tions have been prepared for all tho
countries of the world to be represented
at tbe international review. It is ex
pected that all the maritime powers of
the Southern Continent will accept.
"Over on the other side" tho nations
will watch each other. Of course Rus
sia and Germany will scud a fleet out of
good feeling toward the United State?,
aud if Italy properly honors tho mem
ory of her son Columbus she will send
some of her teii-thousaud-ton battle
ships. The English uavy, largo as it is,
is very well divided over the world, so
it is not probable that she will send a
very large fleet, and upon her action in
the matter depends largely the action of
France. It is understood that Jupan is
to send a cruiser, of which she has some
fine ones, across the Pacific and around
the horn to take part in the first interna
tional review held in tho country that
first visited Japan to secure a mercantile
treaty, and that Turkey will unbend
from her religious rigor enough to send
over one of her fine war ships. This
vessel will have a distinguishing feature
that may be new to many Americans. As
an article of the Mohammedan religion
makes the bell sacred it cannot be used
on board Turkish ships, as it is upon
others, for striking the hours aud sound
ing fog signals, aud by a special suspen
sion of the navigating rules a drum is
used instead.
Of our own warships all the new steel
ships will be iu the review except the lit
tle Petrel, which is out in China, probably
to spend the rest of her life there. Sev
eral of the ships now under construction
will be in commission by that time, but
it is doubtful if tho big cruiser New
York will be finished in time to partici
pate. In case the Cramps do get her
completed by March she will probably
be Admiral Gherardi's flagship during
the review. The Montgomery, Detroit
and Macbias will be in commission by
that time. The other ships taking part
will be the Baltimore, Philadelphia,
Charleston, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta,
Miantonomoh, Concord, Yorktown, Ben
nington, Vesuvius and Kearsarge. If
the regulation fleet formation is con
formed with the sixteen vessels will
form a fleet, with Admiral Gherardi as
commander-in-chief; then there will be
a division of the fleet into two squadons,
with a commodore or rear admiral in
command of each; tho subdivisions of
the squadrons go under technical namo
of division and are composed of four ves
sels, then the divison is again divided
into two sections.
When all the ships anchor in Hampton
Roads next April it will be a grand
array, and the visiting and wining and
dining, the balls, parties and receptions
will bo something for officers to romotu
ber and tell of for years, whilo the din
when all the ships salute somo new
comer will dwarf a large-sized bombard
ment. And an "officer of tue deck"
on any one of tho ships will have to keep
his eyes open for commanding officers'
pennants, signals and all tho routine of
a warship if he docs uot wish to receive
the augry "bonedictioa" of bis captain.
After tho mobilization of the fleets at
Hampton Roads they will proceed in
company to New York harbor. In
column at cruisiug distance, 400 yards,
fifty ships, which number seems quite
probable, will make a parade twelve
miles loug, and by tho time the lust oue
has passed, the leader will be "bull
down," only a patch of smoke or a light
network of rigging. It is to be earnestly
hoped that the review will bo the
grandest naval display of modern timos,
all calculated to increase the friendship
of tho nations. Washington Star.
'Sick" Pearls Iu a Submerged Cn're.
At the foot of a clill under tho win
dows of the Castlo of .Miraiuar, formerly
the residence of the Mexicau Emperor
Maximilian, at a depth of uigjity feet
below the surfuco of the clc tr waters of
the Adriatic, is a kind of cage fashioned
by divers in thu face of the rock. In
that cage are some of the most magnifi
cent pearls in existcnoo. They belong
to the Archduchess Hilnor. Having
been left unworn for a long time, the
gems lost their color and became "sick,"
uud the experts were unanimous in de
claring that the only means by which
they could be restored to their original
brilliancy was by submitting them to a
prolonged immersion in 'he depths of
the sea. They have been lying thure for
a number of years, aud are gradually but
very slowly regaining their former uu
rivulled brilliancy.
Statistics on Growth.
The year of the greatest growth in
boys is the seventeenth; in girls, the
fourteenth. While girls reach full huight
iu their fifteenth your, they acquire full
weight at the age of twenty. Boys are
stronger thau girls from birth to the
eleventh year; then girls become su
perior physically to the seventeenth year,
when the tables are agaiu turned and
remain so. From November to April
children grow very little and gaiu uo
weight; from April to July they gain in
height, but lose iu weight, aud from
July to November they increase greatly
in weight, but not in height. British
Medical Moulhly,
HATH A THOUSAND
EYES.
The night hath a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of a bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eye.,
And the heart tiut one;
Yet the light of the whole worl 1 dls,
When love is don .
F. W. Bour.lillon.
nUMOR OF THE DAY.
Knights of labor When the baby's
teething. New York News.
"Every man has his price." "What
is Jobson's?" "He gives himself away."
Puck.
When a grain field has got about all it
can hdld it Is ready for some mower.--Texas
Sifting.
The aotonaut loves his balloon, In
fact, he's completely taken up with it.
Binghamton Leader.
"How's trade?" inquired Chuinplefch
of his tailor- "Oh, just sew sew."
Kate Field's Washingtou.
After the pickpocket has succeeded in
gotting his lur.d in hn takes things eas
ily. Binghamton Leader.
Before Marriage: lie "Kiss me, Car
rie" Alter marriage: She "Kiss me,
Harry." Boston Transcript.
A girl may not want to wear her love
on ber sleeve, but she usually likes to
have her lover there. StaUsman.
There is a fat mau down in tho Neck
who is so closo fisted that ho even hates
to perspire freely Philadelphia Record.
Amenities in Wyoming. Bella "How
old is Miss Simpson?" Stella "Old
enough to vote." Chicago News-Record.
"How are you getting aloni;?" askc l
tho farmer of tho miller. "Same old
grind," was the hitter's reply. Detroit
Free Press.
A late fad is to make ice cream in the
shape of billiard balls. The boys are ex
pected to take the cue at once. Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
Clara "I want something to match
my head to-night. What would you
wear?" Mamie "Something light."
Detroit Free Press.
The stoiy that the brewers throughout
the country are purchasing grasshoppers
to get their hops for making beer is said
to be incorrect. Carlisle Herald.
"Docs a man have to be a Christian to
get through college, nowadays?" "Not
at all, but h '?ut be a nuncio man,
without doubt. Boston Courier.
"Do you refuse me ou account of my
age? I am only fifty-five. " "That's
just it. You may live fifteen or twenty
years yet." Indianapolis Journal.
He "Congratulate me. I have just
resisted a temptation." She "What
was the temptation?" He "To pio
pose to you." New York Herald.
The gentleman, so oitcu mentioned in
novels, who riveted people with the guze,.
has now obtained permanent employment
at a boiler manufactory. New Moon.
Bella (explaining with difficulty)
"Er do you follow me, Mr. Masher?"
Masher "Urn! I'm after you, Miss
Fadds, it that's whai you mean?" Tid
Bits.
"Mercy I" cried Juliet. "This glove
is tight." "I, too, should be intoxic
ted," rapturously responded Hi
"were I a glove upon that hand." lia
pcr's Buzar.
The tenor who attempted to whip tho
editor ot the Dramatic Gazetto tor a
sharp criticism, wheu ho got through
had uo ear for music. The editor had
both of them. Now York News.
Mr. Bullion "You aro fur too young
to marry my daughter. You are only
eighteen." Tom "Yes, sir, but .Miss
Julia is thirty-four, so the two of us
would average about right." Jester.
A barrister observed to a learned
brother iu court that he thought his
whiskersvery unprofessional. "You aro
right," replied his friend; "a lawyer
cannot be. too barefaced.'' i'it-liits.
Mike "it's like owld times to see
you again, Pat. Why did you niver
wroite me a letther since last we met?"
Put "Oi didn't kuow yer address,
Muike." Miko "Thin why in the naino
o' siuse, did ye uot wroite fur ill"
Harper's liazar.
Always puss tho fruit to cveryhly
else before helpiug yourself. L'oui uou
politeness will induce your company to
leave the choicest specimens upou tho
plate, aud wheu it comes to your turu
you cau cat theu without exciting 10
uiurk. Bostou Transcript.
Pupa "Well, Tommy, and how did
you like it?" Tommy (who hus been
taken to churcu for the first Inui)
"Very much, iudee.l. Everybody had to
keep veiy quiet, but one man sio d up
and talked thu whole time, uud at last
we all hud to get up and slug to keep
him quiet." Pick-Me l'p.
.Mudgo "Jud'e lblligus is a remark
ably easy mau to net acquainted with,
don't you think?" Vubsley "I never
noticed it." Mudge "lie is, though.
1 hadn't known him for over an hour lie
fore 1 borrowed a dollar of him, and iu
sido of the next hour we got o well
acquainted that he refused to h ud mo
uuotber oue." ludiunapolis Jouk.jI.
Mother (iuose.
Mother Goose waa a real character,
and was nut au imaginary personage, as
we used to suppose. Her maidi u namo
wns Elizabeth Foster, and she was torn
oi 1001. Sho married Isaac tioo.-e iu
10113, aud a few yens ufterwaid becamo
a member of the Old South Chinch. Sho
died iu 1757, uged inneiy-two yi us.
The lirst edition of her songs wa-. pub
lished in Boston (lTlOi, by her sou-ui-law,
Thomas Fleet. Tlie house in w ii;c.i
a great part of her lile was spent was a
low, ouc-story budding, with dormer
windows aud a red tiled roof, looking
something liku uu old ilulisli couuiry
collate.
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