THE FOREST REPUBLICAN RAT2S OF AOVERTISINCl T7 la pabllihea .very W1mkUj, kf J. E. WENK. Offlo. In Smearbaujh ft Co.' BuUdluj LM rrailT, TIONMTA, fa, Terms. ... tl.80p.rY.ar. st Republican. iOR One Square, one inch, one insertion..! One Square, one inch, one month.... One Square, one inch, thre? months.. One Square, one inch, one year... . . Two iSuuares, one year l on 800 8 00 io oo 15 00 Quarter Column, one vear 30 0", Half Column, one year 60 00 One Column, one year . 100 "II Legal advertisements ten cent per line each innertioo. Marriage and death notices gratis. All billsfor yearly advertisements collected quarterly. Temporary advertisement, must be paid in advance. Job work cash on delivery. Onrnnpondrac solicited freia a MrU mt thm r 1,111 VOL. XXV. NO. 20, TIONESTA, PA., "WEDNESDAY, OCT. 19, 1892. SI 50 PER ANNUM. V There tie 7,500,000 young men iatha United Stutes. Chicago has begun it canal to cost $30,000,000, which will carry larg. vessels from the lnkos to the Mississippi It is said, by the Now York Mail and Express, that the wealth of the Russian Church is almost incalculable; it could pay the Rtis-sinn National debt (some $3,500,000,000), and would then bo enormously wealthy. A Fiji missionary says that ninety per cent of the Fiji Island population, which is 110,000, is found in church on Sun dny. That is much better than many civilized Nations can boast, comments the Now York Mail and Express. Too average duration of lives in the United States isi 41.8 years for store keepers; -13.6 years for teamsters; 44.6 years for seamen; 47.3 years for mechanics; 43.4 years for merchants; 62.5 years for lawyers, and 64.2 year, for farmers. The postal telegraph system of Great Britain and Ireland is uow the most gigantic aud completo organization for tho transmission of messages in the world, says tho New York Commercial Advertiser. Tha staff numbors 3153; tho annual amount expended in salaries and wages is $322,96:), and the total uumber of tolograms passing through the office per aunum, 32,537,779. Mcxxo is now in an era of economies, declares the Boston Tnuscript, and the first step will bo tho reduction of the army, and probably thcro will also be a reduction in the number of officers now on tha pension rolls. The all-absorbin? topic Js tho high price of provisions, duo to drouth, which causes great suffering among the poor, though no actual cases of starvation have occurred in tho city Business continues very dull. The cus toms receipts have fallen off consider ably, as merchants are not importing anything. One of tho most familiar objects in Wall street ofllocs is the stock ticker with its oudlcji convolutions of tape. It has loug been supposed that this thin tape was a necessary evil, aud that theiecord of the little typo wheels could not be re- coived on any othor medium; bat Ainer lean ingenuity, announces the Now York Post, has, as usual, grappled with tho problem, sceiug that thero would bo a good market for a machiue capable of .delivering the message upon a sheet of paper rather than upon tho objectionable band, which is difficult to read, liablo to kink, ready to snap in several pieces unuer mo Slightest strain, and not an easy thing to filo. In Europe, dispatches received by printing telegraph are torn into short lengths aud pastol clumsily on ordinary delivery blanks, but the labor aud duluy caused by such an op eration offsot the advantage! of legibility and speed in sendiug. In a machino recently brought out in this country, the idea of securing a typewritten page, by telegraph, appears to have been carried to practical perfection. The message is received in the form of a printed page, eight inches wide, by au instrument that is automatic in its action and is under the control of the operator at the dis patching end. . The practice involved may be said to correspond to that of the every-day typewriting machine. A speed of over forty words a minute on a 200-mile circuit is said to have been reached. No stronger evidence of the safety of electric lighting installations can be afforded than the fact that a great many explosives factories are now being lit by electricity. It is obvious that a build ing wherein the preparation of iudam mable or highly explosive substances is carried on very special care should bo taken in order to avoid even tho small est risk, and powder mauufactuiers now flud that the electric light adds a con siderable percentage over gas to tho chances of safe operatiou. While cleo tricity increase, the safety of this branch of Industry in ouo way it lessens it in another. There is a great deal of free electricity thrown oil iu various stages of manufacture, and tho disposition of this, so far as it can bo remsvod out of harm's way, is a serious question. The charge of a powder cake press with 'ebonite plate uiuy practically be con sidered as an electric pile, and a large amount of friction or electric iufluenco from outside may cause a sufficient clec trio charge to give off sparks. Several undisputed cases of this kin 1 have been known. Another source ol dauger from friction occurs during the glaziug, rounding end sieving off gunpowder. ine powuer is subjected to a cousuut rubbiug of its particles against each other, and during the glazing especially there is danger of electricity accumula ting. Therefore precautions should ba taken in l.rder to convey away auy chir1 thai may accumulate iu the glaz ing reU, HIGH-TIDE. The high-tide of the year has come at last; From their mysterious de3ps the waves of white And pink and green are breaking on our sight; The airy cloud-mlpf, slowly sailing past, Light shadows on the shimmering orchards cast. The frag! tot breeze teems to rep9l their flight. And on the outspread trees the songsters light, Yet with the win? of muslo travel fast. Then comes the full, delicious rise and fall Of night and morn; and dreamy twi lights OH The soul like sweet responses to a call; w nere once were roses mere are roars still The ea. th must pattern after her old ways As long as there are Junes and summer day a Mary A. Mason, in Youth's Companion. HELEN'S GOOD DEED. H, yes," said tho doctor, solemnly, "she shows every in disation of going into a decline. Host, re laxation, change of air and scene that's what she ought to have." Mrs. Dardanel looked perturbed. , "Dear, doar," she said; "what a pity I And sho's quite a pet of mine, too, dear littlo thing. She is very quick with her needle and really in gemous and the way she puts trim mings on a dress positively reminds one of Mme. Antoine heraolf. "The seaside cottage would bo the place for her, suggested Dr. Midland "You are ono of the lady patronesses, I believe, and " "Yes," but the seaside cottage is full," said Mrs. Dardanel. "Not an inch of room unoccupied. I bad a note from tho matron yesterday." "Ah, indeed!" said tho doctor, fnm bling with his watch seals. "Unfortun ate vcrv." "But," cried Mrs. Dardaool, an idea suddenly occurring to her much bepuffed and befrizzled bead, "there is Mrs. Dag gett's farm a lew miles further down the shore. She takes boardcis for $5 a week, and believe it is a very nice place. If you iiiiuk is aavisnDio i win take a month's board for the girl there. I reallv feel as if the dear little girl belonged to me ' "Au excellent plan," said the doctor. oracularly. "I hive no doubt but that a month of sea air would make a different person of her." Helen could hardly believe her own can when Mrs. Dardanel beaunugly an nounced her intentions. The seashore I ' she cried, her pale lace nusned all over; "the real seal Oh, Mrs. Dardanel, I have dreamed of it all my life! And for a long, bright sum nier mouth. Oh, how shall I ever thank you?" "By getting well and strong as. fast as yon can," said Mrs. Dirdaiel, touched by the girl's enthusiasm. "And here is a $10 bill for you," she added, with a smile. "You may need some trifle of dress, or there may be a drive or a picnic or an excursion going in which you will waut to participate." The poor girl s brst impulse was to ro- turn the money. "No, you shall not give it back it is a present from mo, and I choose that you Keep it." Helen Ilvdes heart beat high with de light when first she saw the D.ur:rctt farm house, a long, low red building. with an immens; stack of chimneys, a cluster of umbrageous maple trees guard ing it about with shade, and a dooryard full of sweet, old-fashioned flowers, whilo in sight of the windows the At lantic flung its curling crests of foam all along tbe shining shore. Mrs. Daggett welcomed her warmly; she had been Mrs. Dardanel's housekeeper once and knew the value of that lady's patronage. "I've just ouo room left, my dear," she suid, "under the eaves of the house. It's small, but it's furnished comfortably and there's a view of the ocean. I could have given you better accommodations if I had received Mrs. Dardanel's letter a day earlier. But our young ladies, teachers in the Ixwood Institute, came yesterday, and I'm sleeping in the parlor. But we will make you as snug as possible, and the very first good-sized room that is vacant ou shall have. Ilelou was very happy in her little nook, from whoso casement she could see the ocean, dotted with white sails. Mrs. Daggett was a driving, eucrgetic woman, r arraer Daggett was an honest man who invariably fell asleep of an even ing with his chair tipped back against the wall, aud every available inch of the ouse was filled with summer boarders. mostly ladies. There were but three masculine appendages to the house be sides its master an old clergyman whoso parishioners clubbed together every sum mer to treat him to six weeks vacation, literary man of large aspirations and small income who had come hither for rest and opportunity to study up the skeleton lor bis next novel, and old Mr. Mitllm. It wus some time before Helen Hyde fairly comprehended who old Mr. Milllin was. A bent' aud bowed little man, with silver hair curling over the collar of his coat, a rullled shirt liko the pictures of our Revolutionary forefathers, aud blue eyes that glistened from behind a pair of silver spectacles, he shuffled in aud out to bis meals -.fter an apologetic fashiou and sat all the bright afternoons under the maples staring at the sea. Who is that old geutleman? " sho at last ventured to Mrs. Daggett. That lady frowned. "It's old Daddy Mifflin," said she and I wish it was anybody else." "Is be a boarder! ' "Well, he is and be isn't," obscurely answered Mrs. Daj:gett, who was pick ing currants for a pudding' whilo Helen sat by and watched her. "But ho won't be here long. You see, mv dear, he hasn't any friends. When me and Dag gett camo from Vermont nnd bought this place we got it cheap because of old Mif Bin. We were to give him the northeast chamber and thoy were to allow us so much a month for his koop. It ain't every one that would be willing to have an old man like him about. But he's harmless and quiet, and the $2 a week helped us. But Breezy Point has grown to be a fashionable resort, and things have changed. And what's worse his folks have left off sending the money." 'I wonder why! faid Helen, her lnrge, dreamy eyes fixed sadly on tho old man, who sat under the maples wistfully watching the sea. "They're dead, p'raps," said Mrs. Dag gctt. "Or p'raps tho've gottirod of him, Anynow, it s inree months since we ve heard a word, and mn and Dagsett have made up our minds that we can't staud it any longer, so we're going to put him ou the town. Lawyer Boxall says it's legal and right and tbey can't expect afly thing else of us. 'Squire Sodus is to send his covered carryall next Saturday, an) old Daddy Mifflin'll suppose ho's goi'ng for a rido. And so things'll go off smooth and pleasant." "Smooth and pleasant'" Helen nydo lookod across the grassy lawn to the lit tle old man with his mild, abstracted face, his ruffled shirt front, the silver bair that glistened in the sunshine and the white, claw like fingers that slowly turned themselves backward and forward as he sat there. "He owned the placo once," said Mrs. Daggett, "but his sons turned out bad and he indorsed for Squire Sodus's cousin and lost everything. And here he is in his old age, without a ponny ! What is it Bockyt Tho oven ready for the pies? Ye3, I'm coming." She bustled away, leaving Ilolen alono. A sort of inspiration entered the girl's heart as she sat there with the briny smell of the ocean filling her senses and the rustle of the maple leaves mur muring softly overhead. She took Mrs. j Dardanel s $10 bill from her pocket and looked long and earnestly at it. She thought of tho littlo one-horso carryall which she and the girls from Ixwood Institute were to have hired together to drive over tbe hills and glens all those sweet, misty summer afternoons, of the excursions to Twin Rock by steamer upon which she had counted; of the new black bunting dress which she had de cided to buy. She must abandon all these little darling extravagances if she indulged in this other fancy. "As if there could be any choice," sbo said to herself. Then sbo got up and wont softly across the grass ana clover blossoms to where Daddy M.llliu sat. 'Do you like this place?" she asked softly. "It's home, my dear," he answered seeming to rouse himself out of reverie; "it's home. I hove lived here for eighty odd years. I could not live anywhere else." 'But thoro are other places pleas anter. ' "It may be, my dear; it may be." he said, looking at her with troubled eyes uirough the convex lenses of bis glasses iiut they wouldn t bo the 'same to mo. Helen went to Mrs. Daggett, who was baking pies and rolls and strawberry suortcake all at once. urs. Daggett, said sno. "nero nro $10 which Mrs. Dardanel gave to me to do as I pleasol witb, and I please to give it to you to keep old Mr. Minim hero five weeks longer." "Mercy sakos alive!" said Mrs. Dag- gett; "he ain't no kin to you, is he?" "No," said Helen, "but ho is so old and feeble and friendless, nnd and please, Mrs. Daggett, take the money. Perhaps by the time that is gone I shall be able to send a little more. My em ployers are going to pay me generously in city, aud I feel myself growing hotter able to work every day." So Helen Hyde adopted the cause of one even poorer and more friendless than herself, and for over a year she paid $3 a week steadily, and Mr. Mifflin never knew what a danger had menaced him. At the end of that time the old gentle man s graudsou came from some wide, wild region across the sea, a tall, dark- eyed young man with the mien of a prince in disguise. "My father has been de-- a year," ho said. "And his papersuave only just been thoroughly investigated, so that I have just learned for tbe first time that there is an arrearage due on my grand father's allowance. I hope ho has not been allowed to suffer" "Oh, he's all right," said Mrs. Dig- gett. "Wo have taken excellent care of him." "You are a noble-hearted woman," said tho young man, fervently clasping bcr hand, "and I will see that you uio no loser by your generosity." It am i me," said Mrs. Daggett, turning red and white, for Helen Hyde, now spending her second summer at the farm-house, sat by, quietly sowing in tho window recess. "I'm free to allow that me and Daggett got out of patience and was going to put him on tho town, but Miss Hyde, here, one of our board ers, she's paid for him ever since." 1 beg your pardon if I have inter fered," said Helen, blushing scirlet as the large black eyes fell scrutinizingly on her face, "but be seemed so old aud helpless that " "Uod bless you for your noble deed! said Ambrose Mifflin, earnestly. But there wus something in Helen's manner which prevented him from otter ing any pecuniary recompense to her. .My grandfather will require your services no louger, said he. "We have been fortunate in our Australian investment, and I am prepared to buy the old farm back again and settle here permanently." Aud when Mrs. DarJanel began to thiuk about gettio.' her winter dresses made up she received a note from Miss lljiie, which rau as follows: "Dkab Mhs. IlAHPAA'ix; J am sorry to disappoint you, but I cannot under take any more orders, for I am to be married next month to Mr. Ambrose Mifflin and we are to livo at the Daggett farm. And, oh I how proud I should be if you would come hero and visit mo next summer, when tho roses are in bloom and tho strawberries ripen. Am brose is all that is mco and I have the dearest old grandfathcr-in law in tho world. Affectionately, "Hki.ks Htdb." And all this life's romance had grown out of Helen's month at the seaside. Farmyard Oddities. Among the farmyard oddities about Reading, Penn., are a six-legged pig, owned by Elias Seaman, of N iftzingers town, and a four-legged duckling, treas ured for luck by John Smithingor, of Union Township, near Birdsborough. Jacob Licb, also of Naftzingcrstown, owns a male guinea that has just hatched out a brood of nine young guineas, which he takes care of with tho same pride and attention that a well-regulated guinea nen would manifest. A snow-white crow that had for some time been flying around tho neighbor hood of Cain, Chestor County, Ponn., in company with a Hock of ordinary black crows, was shot tho other day by Farrier II. A. Bcalc, who bad the bird mounted by a taxidermist and now keeps it as a trophy, its plumage does not include a single feather other than pure white. John Anderson, of Hancsvillc, Penn.. has a hen that has adopted four young kittens, now two weeks old. Tho hen had been clucking fruitlessly oa a nest which Andersen afterward covered with a board to prevent her further efforts to set, and when tho would-be chicken mother found she couldn't raise little chicks she transferred her atteution to the litter of littlo kittens, beating off the parent cat and taking possession of tho young mewing family as her own. A spaniel dog belonging to Mrs. George Taylor, of West Chestor, has also adopted a litter of kittens, and now claims them as his own progeuy. When the mother cat or auy member of Mrs. Taylor family approaches, tho dog flies into a towering passion and asserts his guardianship of tho little pussies. innkeeper Heald, of Turks Head. West Chester, has a wayward goat that chews tobacco with marked appreciation ana reusn. acw Xork Times. Wolf Vengeance. During one of my hunting and B3b.lna excursions in Louisiana I was fishing on a lake two or three miles long and from I one-quarter to one-half mile wide. On I mo side tho hill land came down near lle bake, leaving about oue-quartor mile of sUd beach, and whilo there I saw a deer running at the top of its speed towara me lake, ana a moment later a wolf appeared in hot pursuit. Expect ing tnein to plunge into tho lake, when 1 could overtake and kill them both in the water, I kept my place. Just before tho deer reached the water it wa's caught by the wolf, which pulled it down nnd killed It. Then the wolf stalked around, looked abont, trotted off some distance and set up a howl, went further and again howled and then into the woods, when 1 heard more howliug. The wolf being out of sight, I rowol my boat to the place and got the deer and then went liJWny tish hooks. anortiy mere appra,- llo scene a pack of ten or twelv5"volves. They smiled and moved all around where the deer had been killed. These movements occupied considerable time. They would huddle together, chaugo about aud trot about in all directions, keeping close together. Finally they got into a fight; the whole pack attacked oaVwolf and killed it. It was literally bit and chewed to pieces. Now, what was the wolf killed for? The probability is, and 1 am almost positive, that the dead wolt was tbe one that killed the deer. I have talked to many hunters upon this subject, and nave come ajross but two who had seen anything similar, and they thought tbe wolf had been killed for lying. If it was done in the case I saw ior lying it was the ouly tiino I ever knew a wolf to be killed wrongfully. . r orest and Stream. White Hair Turning Wncfc. There is nothing unusual in hair turn- og white, but a case in which the hair turned black again after being white was recently told by a gentleman from De troit. A lady of that city originally had black eyes and bair, but in the courso of time, when she bad attained the age of about seventy years, her hair turned pure white, lull was expected, but about a ear ago her bair begau darkening, aud is uow as black as jet. Thcro is no doubt about the change, nor was any artificial means used to produce it, so that the case is certainly one of the most remark- hie recorded in the annals of medical history. Tho lady was not conscious of any chango iu diet or iu her physical condition that would justify the curious iheuouienou, so it la ab Mutely luox- luinable on any known hypothesis. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Gluss Rolliu?-Piu. The housewife who delights iu tender, aky pastry will hail with joy theadvuut f the glusi rolling-pin. It is an ide:tl adjuuet to the pieiuakiii'; outflt, noteveu lelding lir-it place to the m irole slab. bich has been adopted by the housu- eeper who keeps abreast of the time, in lieu of the old-fashioned woodeu mold ing board. By simply unscrewing the handle of the glass rolling pin tho re volving cylinder may bo kept tilled with cracked ice, thereby insuring the re duced temperature necessary for milking puff paste or good pie crust of auy kind. It may be a consolation also to the heart of the good housewife that the new rol-ling-piu so easily kept sweet aud cleau and so desirable iu every way Co Us less than half a dollar au I may bu obtained iu the hou-e furnishiug department of any of the big stores. Chicago Herald. There are 140,000 L'uited States, Chinese in the FJSU REGARDED ASA FOOD. THERE AHE ONE THOUSAND VA BIET1ES TO CH003K FROM. Tho Myth About It Ilclng a Brain Hlrcngt hener Lms Nntrative a is n is T Thau Flesh Its Ileal Value. HE housekeeper in each family win uo wen to remember tbe fact that thcro are 1000 differ ent species of edible fish in this country. Not that she need expect to be called upon to chooso from this be wildering lot each time she goes to the fish market, but only because tho men tion of possible fish in such large quanti ties as this makes the mere fact of selec tion for dinner a more important and awe-inspiring achievement. Professor Atwater, in the recent re port issued by the Fish Commission, has settled the number of edible fish at no less than that, and Professor Atwater's authority is not to be disputed. The food value of fish is a matter of great Interest to anybody who cats fish. It would be worth while to traco back the legend about tho value of fish as a brain food and discover, if possible, whether tho originator of tho idea ate fish in large quantities, for the idea is a brilliant fraud. In the first place thero is no proof of tho fact that fish contains phosphorous in larger quantities than any meat docs. In fact, the analysis of fish has proved that it does not. And, in tho second place, there is no proof that phosphorus is any more of a brain food than any other substance. The real value of the commoner kinds of fish as food is about as follows: In all fish there is a larger per cent, of water and aess per cont. of fat than thcro is in a like quantity of the flesh of fowl and domestic animals. Thero is therefore less nutritive material, pound for pound, in fish than in flesh. In tho flush of tho flounder thero is Bixtecn per cent, of nutritive material and eighteen per cont. in tho fresh cod. In tbe fatter fish, the herring, the shad, the wbitefish, the mackerel and others, the per cent, of nutrition is somewhat higher and near the value of beef, which ranges from twenty-five to thirty-three per cent. Curiously enough dried and salt fish are more nutritious than tho same fish when fresh. Salt codfish contains twenty-eight per cent. of nutrition, salt mack erel forty-seven and dessicatcd cod lis as high as eighty-two per cent. Part of this increase in nutrition per pouud is to bo accounted for by the fact that the wasto materials, the bone, skin and re fuse, are more or loss removed from dried and salt fish ; tbe removal of the moisturt also has considerable influence. Because of tho presence of so much water the juicy shellfish, such as oysters, clams, lobsters and crabs, have a low per cent, of nutrition the oyster being rated as low as from seven to ten pet cent., with tho lobster about on a par al eighteen. Nearly all of tho oyster at much as 87.3 per cent. u water, in s quart of oysters the solid portior weighing but two to five ounces. This, of course, makes oysters a costly food, sinco, in order to be properly nourished by oysters, one would need not only to buy, but to eat them in extremely large quantities. Tho nutritive value of any kind of food is proportioned to tho amount a given quantity contains of three thingi protein, carbo-hydrates nnd fats. Ol these three the protein, containing nitrogen, seems to be tho most essential to human well-being. The Aaiericau fault in eating is eating too much fat aud carbo-hydrates and not euougn protein. "This," said Pro lessor Atwuter recently, "is a natural result of our agricultural conditions, which havo led to the production of large quantities or m uze, which is rcla tively deficient in protciu and of ex ccssively fat beef aud pork. Our agri cultural production is in this sense, one sided. .New York Wor d. .Mr. Armour and ills Clerk. Philip D. Armour, the millionaire pork packer ot Chicago makes it a practice every year to make the clerks in hii olhce the present of a good business suit of clothes. 1 here is an unwrirten law that this suit shall not exceed in cost forty dollars, for which sum. it is rightlv consiuereu, a very handsome everyday ouiuc can do purchased, llut one new clerk, upon being told to go to a tailor, make his selectiou and have tho bill sent to Mr. Armour, determined not to be hampered by apy forty dollar limit. He accordingly ordered a suit costina eighty-five dollars, in due time the bill was presented to Mr. Armour. He called for tho young man who had cou tracted it, ntd that worthy appeared. confident smile overspreading his face. Ho bad no thought of impending danger. "You're Mr. So aud so?" inquired Mr. Armour, with great oppareut allability. l en, sir. 'You hud the suit uiado?" Yes, sir." "Kits you well, eh!" very blandly. "Exceedingly well, sir," replied the clerk, rather surprised by this liuo of questioning. "Well," said Mr. Armour slowly, in that stem, crushing maimer of his, "I've sceu n great many hogs iu my day, but you a.-o tho biggest one I "huve ever came across." Aud that day the clerk with tho eighty-five dollar suit begun to hunt a uew job. New York News. Artificial I'earls. Artificial pearls are merely small blown-glass balls, lined with the color ing matter obtamel from the iusido ol the kcules of a small fish called tha "bleak" that is plentiful iu Europe. They are filled with wax to make theui stmu,' and keep the liuing from scaling oil. Washington Star. London's six principal railway lines curry annually over 200,000,000 people, aud the tramways about 100,000,000. SCIENTIHC AND INDUSTRIAL. A patent lias been issued for a lock which can bo operated only by a magnet ized key. A Berlin inventor has invented an in strument which measures the 1000th part of a second. At ordinary temperature mercury in an equal quantity in bulk weighs about two-thirds more than gold. At an ordinary temperature mercury in an equal quantity in bulk weighs about two-thirds more than gold. Electric accumulator lamp?, weighing four pounds and giving light seven hours, aro now used by London police men. "Masrium" is tho name of the new chemical cement which has been dis covered in the bed of an ancient Egyptian river. The latest of photography's triumphs is a snap shot of a flying insect. The negative was exposed fcr only the 12oth part of a second. Sage-brush, hitherto supposed to bo useless, and which covers millions of acres of tho Western plains, can be con verted into a superior grade of coarso paper. A scheme is now being developed in Scotland by which a high grade of brick is being made from chipped granite nnd clay. Tho experiments aro said to have been successful. A "porous plaster" for building purposes is formed, according to a re cent patent, by adding bicarbonato of soda alone, or with a limited amount of dilute acid to ordinary plaster of paris. African travelers tell us that the white rhinoceros frequently dies from eating poisonous plants which havo no effect on the black one, probably because tho fine sceut of the latter tells him it is danger ous. The famous Khajah tunuel of India pierces tho Khwaja Amrau Mountains about sixty miles north of Inclta at an elevation of 6400 feet. It is 12,800 feet long nnd was constructed broad enou to carry a double lino of rails. It appears that a colored or dark pig ment in the olfactory regions is essential to perfect smell. In cases whore am mala are pure white they aro usually totally devoid of both smell aud taste and some, the whito cat for instance, are almost invariably deaf. Two English naturalists have recordod a remarkablo instance of tho dccalciu cation of bones in water. Tho bones those of a fallow deer discovered last summer in a Yorkshire peat-beg are quite pliable and elastic, and of a dark brown color; and the teeth also are so light as to float on water. A striking reminder of the gaps yet to be filled in our maps of the earth's surface is Dr. O. Buumanu s discovery in Eastern Africa of n hitherto uuknown lake eighty miles long. This great lake, to be called Eliasi, is betweon tho Man vara Salt Lako and the Victoria Nyauza, und receives tho Wanibero River, supposed by Stanley to bo tho southernmost tributary of the Nile. How Do Mores Bought C.ittlo. "Tho way the Marquis do Mores was skinned, buueoed and generally done up out in Dakota was pretty tough," said A. L. Dowler to a Chicago Times repor ter. "I have just returned from Modora Montana, whero the Marquis lived," con tinned Mr. Dowler, "aud I guess the Frenchman doesn't owe the Medora peo ple anything. "He rau a bank there, and the cashier. bookkeepers, discount clerks, payin teller, and iu fact the entire staff ot the establishment consisted of De Mores's English valet and a big Newfoundland dog. When this valot was not engaged in his menial duties ho attended to tl fiuaucial affairs of tbe bank. "While Curran was there the Marquis bought 10,000 head of cattle from two Englishmen. They wore first-class cattle aud cost f 4U a head. When these two Britons delivered the cows they worked one of the neatest skin games that I've ever heard of. Medora, you know, sits in a valley, witb table lands on each side. Well, the Englishmen ran 5000 head of cattlo in ou the Marquis ami collected for 10,0001 Tho way they did it was by running the same 5000 twice urouud the hllU De Mores never tumbled until ho had paid his $400, OUO and the merry cockueys were bound for South America, it was a clear steal of $200,000, but the .Mar quis didn't make much bones about it. lie had pleuty of money aud didu't care. "He was tho game of everybody iu that section of the country, lie paid four prices foreverything ami was theoret ically, if not literally, held up upon every occasion." A Boon for Poor .Sailors. A method has been devised by Mr. Thornycroft, the English builder of tjr pedo boats, boilers, etc., for chocking the rolling of a vessel at sea, namely, by moving a weight, under atriut control from Bido to side of a vessel, so as to continually balance, or ubtract from, the heeliug movement of the wave slope. It consists of a large mass of iron iu tho form of a quadrant of a circle, which is placed horizontally, with the center ou the middle line of the ve-sel, buiug there connected with a vertic il shaft ; the latter is turned by a hydraulic engine, which is very ingeniously controlled by an automatic arrangement, aud the heavy iron quadrant is swept round fro u side to side, revolving about its center, to the exteut that is required tocouuUr act the heeliug movement. This device is claimed to meet a growing need the tendency at the present day, it is thought, being rather iu the direction of increased thau diminished rolling, as the steadying influence of sails, which ren ders the motion easy and agreeable iu sailing, is fast disappearing iu steamers. St. Louis Republic. The slaughter of cattie by electricity js practicad in Scotland, MY Q1FT3. Give not to me life's splendors they wonkl blind The eyes that now have light to see tbe way; Only a Httle sunlight for my day. And for my nightthe shadows softandsind; And for my weilth tho quiet of the mind. Oentle and sweet; and !ip that ulngor say In kindness, and are answered when they pray, And for my glory, duty, love defined. And give to me the love other whose kiss Is recompense for toil; whose smiles await My coming, brightening with expected bli In some sweet spot where twilight lingereth late; And yet ono other blessing crowning thl?, In little footsteps pattering to the gate! Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. HUMOR OF THE DAT. A alt-scllor Tho vendor of cod-fish. The criminal always wauts more time until he is convicted. It is always best to insure. Iu fact, It's a matter of policy. "I am banking on you," as tho farmer snid as he proceeded to hill up his po tatoes. Dallas News. As for putting the screws down on a man, thoro is no one can do it so effect ively as the undertaker. Riggs "How long has your wife kept servants?" Jiggs "Two weeks, some times." Elmira Gazette. "Your cousin is wedded to charity, is she not?" "Oh, no; sho has only promised to bo a sister to it." Harper's Bazar. Ethel "What a faultless dresser Mr. Lightcoinis." Etta "Yes; Victor says mat even his bills are tailor made. Chicago Inter-Ocean. New Barber "Excuse me, sir; havo you got your mu? bore?" Mr. Mulligan "Yis; roight in this chair, on top av me neck." National Barber. Most of us liko to hear ourselves talk, but after we have wrestled with the tele phone we are couteut if we can hear the other fellow. New Y'ork Sun. Miss Blossom "I didn't sco you at tho Barclay ball." Miss Budd "It was probably because I was surrounded by men nil tho timo." Brooklyn Life. "Don't you think Widgely is distress ingly boisterous?" "Well, yes; ho wears such loud trousers bo hn to shout to mako himself heard." Chicago News. Boarder "It scorns to mo that every morning tho past week tho cakes have grown gmnbefr" Landlady "Y'ou probably forJPTthat theso aro flanuel cakes." -Chicago Inter-Ocean. Johnny (reading) "Say, pa, what is a debt of honor?" Pa (who has had ex perience) "It is where n dear friend borrows $50 till the next morning, and you never see him ngaiu." Brooklyn Life. "I think," said Willio Wishington, "that Miss Pepperton is a typical guhl of tho perwiod, you kuow." "Why?" "Because she puts a full stop to nil my pwoposals ot marwiage." Was'uiugtou Star. Joss "I thought you hated Jack and yot you have accepted him." Boss "I did hate him, but ho proposed under an umbrella, and said if I refused him he would let tho raiu drop on my uow hat." Boston Post. Didn't Stop to Think: Miss Elbarby "You have never met my eldest sister, hnve you?" Clevertou "Why, no, Miss Elderby. I didu't suppose it was possible that you had an elder sister."- Detroit Free Pres. Neighbor "And you erpect to sup port my daughter ou $10 a week?" Clarklets "Yes, sir.' Neighbor- "Woll, go ahead; my heart refuses, but iny pocketboo.-; consents. Sue costs me $50." New Yor Herald. Men aro so peculiar that as a ruin a man tells his wife the most when sho asks him tho least questions. A turtle will keep its head iu if it is poked aud bothered, aud a man is a great deal like a turtle. Atchison Cilobo. When a man is possessed of a mania to steal a woman's shoo, tho Hermans call it fraueuschustcciiluionomauie. It makes ouo shudder to think of what they might call it if the woman herself was stolen. Buffalo Express. Chappio "Fwed lie, do I walk a littlo stwaugely this evening?" Fneildie Just a twitlu ouu-sided. ileah bov." Chappie "I told that howl. I inveastly bahber thut he was pahtiuir my hair a little tooue side." Chicago lutcr-Ocean. Penelope "I don't like to see you dangling around with mere boys all the time. What do you fin I that's so in teresting iu that smooth-faced young Paris?" Ptrdita "Why, l'en, his face isn't so smooth as it looks.'" Brooklyn Life. "Dismissed from your boarding- house I Why?" "Well, tho landlady said 1 would eithor havo to roJuci. mv weight or go, and 1 can't reduce. " "But why did sho want you to get thin J" She said my appearance arou-ed ex pensive hopes on the part of the other boarders." Brooklvn I', igle. Most people huve two kinds of man ners. One they use in the kitchen and the other is saved for pal lor use. Y ou never know a mau until vou know his kitchen mauuois. One reason that mar riage brings out so m my unpleasant sur prises is that tho courtsuip was based ou the parlor maimers. Atchison Ciiohj. The family had stewed tonia'ces for dinner aud ouo of tho diners lono.l something louud and h ud iu a t-p i.inful of the vegetable. It turned out to be a drop of holder that had lalleu iu wueu the can w as being sealed. It wasslio .vu to tho baby with the explanation that it was a pretty little bullet. Tneu tho baby, who happens to be a boy ol a' .it four years aud very much intei. su I in guns, looked up aud ulol: "Do they shoot ton. aloes to kill cm.' ' (.'vluubu Diipiilch- I
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