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VOL. XXV. NO. 20, TIONESTA, PA., "WEDNESDAY, OCT. 19, 1892. SI 50 PER ANNUM.
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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
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