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VOL. XXV. NO. 28.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2, 1892.
S1.50 PER ANNUM.
Forest
Ad observer say that mnn'i dre.
from head to ankle consist of a 0)1
leeiion of atove funnel made of cloth.
The pension agency in Topcka, Kan.,
l.i the largest in the country. It pays
out annually fifteen million dollars to the
veterans of Kansas, Missouri and Col
orado. ' It it estimated that during the bus;
season Id London, when the fashionable
set aro not away, $10,000 worth of
cream and $150,000 worth of milk are
consumed daily.
Say tho New York World: Con
gratulations are due to our sister Repub
lic of Mexico on the completion of iU
eighty-second year of Independence;
lo on tho condition of prosperity
which President Dial recognizes in bis
address to the Congress.
It is estimated that in the United
Rates the annual expenditure for publio
charitable institutions is fully $125,000,.
000, and not leas than $500,000,000 is
invested in buildings and equipments
for carrying on the work of these insti
tutions. In this estimate no account
tukeu of penitentiaries and jails.
The New York Post states that the
Russian language it to be taught in two
i the Paris colleges, and that if the ex
j tuiment succeeds, Russian will be placod
a tho samo footing as German and Eng.
H in secondary education. The appar
it intention is that if one day French
men, and Russians fight side by side they
shall be able to understand each other.
There is a gjod deal of profit in the
prophet businoss in Java. A prophet of
that inland hat been paid 400 a year for
;lo last fifteen years "for not predicting
ii tidal wave which will tweop clear over'
the bland." But, after all, he cannot
bfl very enterprising, concludes tho New
York Tribune. With the amount of
credulity ready at hand to work uparr,
he could get (1000 a year as easily at
not.
An American, biologist, who returned
recently from a yuar't ttudy in the Gor
man, laboratories, declares that the
Vcod't Hull (Mass.) Laboratory is now
uoing mora research work than any otl ,
institution of its kind in the world, the
X a plea Station alone excepted. There is
certainly no doubt that the most emi
nent of fo "eign biologist are taking a
profound interest in it, as their letter
to Dr. Whitman, the specialist in charge,
testify.
Tho little house in whioli Benedict
Arnold it said to have plannod his trea
toa has just been demolished to make
room for a laigor buildiug. It stood in
Market street, Philadelphia, and was
over 125 years old. It was to this spot
that Arnold invited Clinton's . agent to
be sent from New York to meet him; it
was here that he lived. A mob chased
him to this house once on account of
some unpopular measures with which be
was supposed to be identified, and from
its wiudowa certain celebrities of the city
saw bitn hanged in effigy in 1780.
Washiugton met Jefferson and Hamilton
ia this cottage in later years, separately,
in an endeavor to patch up a truce be.
tweea these two statesmen.
A tunnel, the longest in the world,
hus been projected and begun, practic
al!,;, uuder Slmpion, to supersede the
; uncus road over the mountain con
r; runted by Nupoleon. Tho "Route of
Sir&pion" is thirty-tight miles in
i.iigth; the tunnel will be a trifle less
than twelve miles and a half. The
wagon road it 6592 feet above sea level,
is twenty-five to thirty feet wide, crosses
Gil bridges, and passes through several
tunnel. It takes eight or nine hours to
cross the mountain by the wagon road;
-he tunnel can be traversed in three
f iiarter of an hour. The power to run
iUe drills, light the workings and venti
Ute tho tunnel is to be derived from the
iiver Marsa. The cost it estimated at
-,!.out $1,210,000 a mile.
liiiTaio, N.Y., seems to be the magnet
r Poles who came to this country. No
!.er city of its size, the New York Post
i-rs, has to large and prosperous a
aish colony. P.ir litis of between one
ml two hundred are continually arriv-
ng; and although they bring no money
. .ith them, or at best a trifle with which
t make a new sturt in life, it is not long
fore they find some employment aud
u age to save something out of their
lilies. Their versatility often excites
:rie. One Pole who appeared in
:ilo with $100 five years ago it now
ith $50,000, which he made as a
-.ntbout ticket seller and real estate
L The business of telling tickets
1'jliah imuiiLjrants, by the way, it
fur the most part on this aide of
iter, and furnishes meant of tup.
to many a shrewd exile with a large
:,tuce in his native land. The
. population of Buffalo at tho pre.
U miJ to be 50,000,
THB TIMES.
The time ar not degenerate! Man's faith
Mount higher than of old. No crumb
ling creed
Can take from th Immortal oul IU need
Of something greater than itself. Th
wraith
Of dead belief we eherlnhed In our youth
Fade but to let us welcome new-born
truth.
Han may not worship at the ancient sbrln
Prone on hi face In elf -accusing- scorn
That night is passed; he halls a fairer
morn.
And know himself a something halt divine:
No humble worm whoa heritage I tin,
But part of God be feels the Christ
within I
No fleroa Jehovah with a frowning mien
lie worships. Nay, through love and not
through fear
Ha seeks th truth, and finds It source is
near,
And feels and owns th power of things un
seen Where onoe ha scoffed. God's great pri
meval plan
I fastunfoldlng In the saul of man.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, In the Cosmopolitan.
SIDE DY SIDE.
BT L. H. BICKrORD.
"jgsgalKST, to discover a
1 lmine. Second, to
know that you have
something to base
your hopes on, and
last, to get into a law
suit and evenually the
Supreme Court by
litigating with your
neighbor in under
ground adventure.
This, I believe, is the
Aspen method. With
out entering upon a
discussion scientific
and chemistic as to apex and side lines,
I can tell you of an Aspen exception. It
bad, at the outset, all the elements of a
good case on both sides, from a lawyer's
point of view, and might now be enjoy
ing its musty run in the Circuit
Chambers with others of it class. It
almost seems a pity that it isn't, if you
look at it from what tho newspapers call
a "legal aspect."
The case in point it that of Boulder
Trampennitig, a prospector. One of hit
claims was in the Woody district; no
matter where; it is enough that it was
and It. Boulder usually spent the month
of September at this particular claim,
and frequently did more of his assess
ment than the law required. It was an
itsolated place, half way up a hill, and
Trampenning seemed to fit in with it,
being rather of the rockt and burnt
stumps than apart from them. He was
very like a middle-aged tree anyway, be
was as silent. There were four reasons
for this; the first was that be was dumb;
no matter about the others; if there were
four hundred it would be, under the
circumstances, useless to tell tbem.
The claim adjoining belonged to one
Asechiga. It was said that he was
a Mexican, but Boulder and he got along
very well considering everything that
was likely to cause troublo, from wind
lass to bedrock. They met duriug two
Septembers. When the third came
Boulder reached the ground first.
Asechiga' cabin was closed when he
got there. It was closed for two days.
When Boulder woke up on the morning
of the third, be looked across the littiu
ravine and taw the door open.
A woman came out.
There is no questioning Boulder's sur
prise. He was not much for women.
He had seen them during the winter at
tho restaurants and in the vaudevilles at
Aspen, but be never had to do with
them. And in the summer he was too
far away. Hit ideas of them were un
substantial. This woman was not much for looks,
to far as he could judge. Her hair was
wbispy and like streaked talc. Her
complexion was patchy, like rillle blocks,
and in carriage she was not graceful. At
this time she was fetching water from
the spring, and the sleeves ot her dress
were tolled up, showing big arms, with
firm muscles. Seeing Boulder, she
stopped an instant and regarded him
with a speculative tUre. Boulder
bowed, principally because be could
think ot nothing else just then to do.
She did not return the salutation, but
walked on into tbe cabin. A little
while later tbe came out again, this
time with pick and shovel and her feet
encased in boots. She wore a red shirt
of tome thick material and a miner's
cap. The effect was wholly sanguinary.
One would guest that the either in
tended to rob an express train or to lead
a f rentied mob of revolutionists against
the bastile assuming that there were
express trains and bostilus in the Woody
district, which there are not.
She walked over toward Asechiga'a
little tha!t and paused on the dump to
again contemplate Boulder. It hat been
mentioned that this mine, which has
been named the Cheetah not that there
were cheetahs thereabout, but because
tbe Mexican bad once aeon auch au
animal in India was but thirty foet
above Boulder's owu modest prospect,
the elevation being abrupt.
Boulder. retivo uuder thit deliber
ate observation ot the person in skirts,
bowed once more, with results equally
at unsatisfactory. The woman turned
toward the windlass, lowered tbe bucket
and shortly afterward disappeared down
the shaft. Boulder shook bis bead
and went to work himself. It was not
just clear to bim as to what course
he should pursue. The Cheetah was
Asechiga' claim; what manner of right
had a woman to work it? He could come
to but oue theory. 8'ie was trying to
jump it. If it bd been a man in tho
matter, Bouldrr's course would have
been inslautly plain; but a womanf
Midway between the claims, and
terving as a boundary post, there was
small blackbouid, securely nailed to au
old tree. Tbis bad been provided by
Boulder as a convenient metbed of in
tercourse betweeu Aevbi;;tt and himself
T
when they were "on top" during the
day. It was hit custom to write his
question and answers on the black sur
face witti a piece of chalk which be
kept banging by a string from the top
of the board. When he came up, an
hour latter, he noticed thnt the woman
was just leaving tbe tree, .and, further
more, that the had writtem something.
Boulder went up to the lice, no
roid :
'I know you. you ate dum. i am
Asechegat widow, be gojt kilediin a mow
slide, i am here to worlds hit dame."
She was (landing on a knoll, a little
way off, and Boulder nodOed again.
This time tho returned recognition.
Carefully rubbing out 'het' words, the
man replied:
"i am pleased to makev your acquain
tance 1 am not deef you kan tak to me
all rite but ill have to wrlteto you."
She came down to tho board again
and took the chalk:
"i dont care wether, you aro y pleased
or not. I dont talk 'because I am in
your fix only worse I am def and
dum."
Boulder'looked at hersympathizingly;
a look that met with avcold return.
The reply shocked him.
"go to grass with yiur sympathy!
dont want eny more to say to you.
just -wanted youto now loaint here to
jump."
With thit the went to'ber cabin.
Bounder returned to bit prospect. If be
bad known anything about women he
would, probably, have considered her a.
queer one but, atil have aaid.jhe didn't,
and was merely puzzled. He went
about his work in hit usuabrmetmodical
way, ignoring hit neighbor juttias suc
cessfully at she ignored hin. In this
way an unevontfiul month passed. Finally
Boulder struck ,a vein in.'his prospect
and prepared to follow It up. It led
norfbward, and in the eccentric way
some veins have, trended up instead of
down On the seventh day he was in a
good ten leet wben he met with a sur
prise. He could diatincty hear the un
steady and yielding thump of a pick
almost in front of bim. Now, by all
reasonable-calculations, Bnulderfs claim
extended twenty feet to the north; the
stump blackboard proved this; that was
mainly what it was there for. It was
plain to him that the woman, striking
the evidence of a veint its upper end,
was, with a true minor's instinct, fol
lowing it up, or, in this, case, down, and
had, in her ambition .overstepped the
bounds.
Making this disco vety Boulder paused
a while, aud in tbe cool blackness at
tempted to decide whattcourae to (pursue.
Finally the sound above him became
more and morodiatlnct. Suxldnnly there
was a crash. Tbe yielding mast came
down and with it a red petticoat in
which floundered a very geeatly excited,
not to tay frightened "woman. Sitting
tbeie on the most of mineral debrit the
blinked in a dazed manner at.Boulder't
candle and then at Boulder. In an in
stant she was up again, and climbing
through the aperture she had uncon
sciously made. Boulder also started for
the surface through Ms own property.
They arrived at the blackboard by a
common impulse almost at the same time.
Boulder seized tbo chalk.
"Your on my ground."
Her fingers were atill yellow -and gray
from the mass of stall she had struck in
her fall, but she found them, useful
enough to write:
"Your a lire."
Bauldcr did not Uesitato thisftime. He
wrote:
"Your a lady."
Perhaps tb.it appealed ber rsbmewhat.
Perhaps- the modest and indisputably
manlike attitude of tbe miner1 took her
fancy. She was-certainly less vehement
in ber use of the balkwhentsbo .replied:
"Whare it the line."
Boulder indicated the tree. and board
and, taking a ttick, traced a mark in
tho ground for soveral fee Ijetween the
claims. Commou soone was enough to
thow the creature in the petticoat that
the mau was right. She did not traat
herself to reply, but walked away. Fif
teen minutes biter Boulder saw a blanket
flying, withoutany risible meant of lo
comotion, from the doorway ot ber
cabin. It was fdllowcd by another and
then another. Therovwas no-doubt of it,
Mrs. Asechiga was pneparing to leave,
aud that suddenly.
Boulder, looking vumaclf over, hesi
tatingly walked timidly toward the door
and beckoned ber to come out. She did
so and walked behind bim ungraciously
toward the blackboard, bbe followed
him with interest as be .formed the fol
lowing: "I don't like to give you the-wuratot
it. Thai o is ono way out of this: Tak
i iotrest in my clauie aud I'll tak) J ia
yours.
She nodded "no," ana wrote:
"No, that wobla't be fare tot you,
you haf the vane.'''
But the was wavering in toe toiler,
even after she had declined it. They
looked steadily at ojie another for tome
time; finally, seized with an idea and
growing bolder, the. man ventured thit:
"i am 45 yrs. old and waut a part
ner, and baf a little money and we mite
get rilcb. Will you except, a proposle
of maragef
Mrs. Asechiga looked at hi nx doubtfully
for a second, aud then even became coy
as she took tbe chalk :
"Asechiga sed be mare J me because I
was deef and dum and coukln't talk him
blind."
This time, the handed the bit of white
over to him, and their hands met for tbe
first time. I believe there was tome
blushing, and Boulder inscribed. bit final
message :
i know a justice of the pece in aspin
who will marry us for $2, we can go over
to-morrow; will youl
And the decided:
"Very well."
I believe they are working the Chee
tah Tiger totjolher now. New York
Press.
The entire Salt River Valley of Ken
tucky is said to be honeycombed with
cuvc.
WISE WORDS.
Matrimony is hard work.
Love it material pantheism.
Women are great in small things.
Most men outlive their usefulness.
Occasional defeat has a tonio effect.
A good laugh is sunshine in a bouse.
A bath is often timet a great moralizer.
The man who can't tell a lie it dead.
A man will get fat quicker on paid-for
board.
If a family has no skeleton gossip will
give it one.
It is almost as difficult to stay there at
to get there.
A rose would not be halt a rose with
out a thorn.
Cupid does not care whether he pays
house rent or not.
In this world a man must be either a
hammer or an anvil.
A good deed it better than gold, but
not nearly to negotiable.
Before a man hat begun to think a
woman has begun to talk.
Lifo is a campaign, not a battle, and
bit its defeats as well as its victories..
A woman with pretty teeth finds many
thing in this vale of tears to laugh at.
The intelligent have a right over the
ignorant; namely, the right of instruct
ing them.
The more one endeavors to sound the
deptht of hi ignorance, the deeper the
chasm appears.
It you have great talents, industry will
improve them ; if you have but moderate
abilities, industry will supply their de
ficiencies. Language ia the memory of the human
race. It is as a thread or nerve ot life
running through all the ages, connecting
them into one common, prolonged and
advancing existence.
There it no happiness, there is no
liberty, there is no enjoyment of life,
unless a man can say, when be rises in
the morning: "I shall be subject to the
decision of no unwise judge to-day."
Oil From Cora.
It will probably be a surprise to many
to know that there it a company which
purchase! corn tololy to extract tho oil
from it. Thit is precisely what a sugar
refining company in Chicago it doing,
Thit company is tbe only one which has
tbe secret of obtaiuing the oil, and em
ploy it alter the corn hat been converted
into a starch or glucose to that nothing
will be wasted. The oil ia a toft yellow
liquid, and resembles linseed oil in ap
pearance. Dr. Arno Behr discovered
tbe process of separating tbe oil from tbe
corn, and tbe doctor says thit in regard
to the oil: "It has been known for a
long time that maizs contained an oily
property, remaining for tome one to turn
the idea to account. There it no dan
ger of corn oil ever taking the place of
linseed oil. In the first place, it will be
too scarce. The amount ot oil contained
in corn is only four per cent, of it total
weight, and we lose almost halt of it in
the process of abstraction, to that we
get a very email amount of oil after all.
The assertion has been made that corn
oil can be put to little use that it can
not be employed in making either soap
or paint. The great value of linseed oil
paint is that it dries readily, and it has
been asserted that corn oil will not dry.
Now, this is a mistake, and as a matter
of fact, corn oil can be used in making
paint or varnish, and also in toaps. It
makes a splendid soft soap. That there
are valuable uses to which it can be put
is shown by the fact that there is a de
mand for it in foreign markets." Amer
ican Farmer.
A Mooted Question.
Why some seals sink and are lost
after being shot and others float, is a
mooted question not likely soon to be
decided. Wnere they are struck or
whether they have much or little blub
ber, all of which have been urged to ac
count for tbe anomaly, seems to have
little or no influence. It has been often
observed that a teal falling head down
on being shot will come up and float,
while if the head is up he sinks and it
lost. It may be that in the latter case
he more readily fills. With weak seals
or pup it has been seen that they, too,
are often not recovered. Of those that
are killed, discarding pups, the chances
teem to be about equal as to whether
they will sink or float. Sometimes a
considerable interval elapse before the
dead body rises to the surface and haite
or carelessness may loose it. The great
damage to the sealing iudustry lies un
doubtedly in the indiscriminate killing
which lays low so many cows on their
way to tbe islands, heavy with young,
whereby two lives are lost. It is impos
sible to distinguish the female iu the
water, and she would not be spared were
it possible to do to. Detroit Free Press.
A Fly Klllini Brigade.
The last Siam Free Press aayt that an
order hat just been issued from Siamese
military headquarters directing that tbe
troops in garrison at Koh-si-chaug should
be employed in killiBg flies. Each man,
aid the order, must exert himself to tbe
utmost and capture each day at least a
match box full of blue bottle flies, or be
punished in default. Says the paper:
"Though the order reads exceedingly
ridiculous there .it no small need foi
thinniug down the myriads of imperti
nent blue-bottles that bask in the smile
of royalty at Koh-ti-chang. Tbe Siamese
warriors will have their hands full, and
are not to be envied. Tbe pity it that
the troops were uot exercised in some
evolution by which tbe nimble enemy
may be annihilated at one ttroke. How
ever, with our new colonels we hav
tuflicient military talent to guaranbti
the success of tome strategy by which
the grand army of blue-bottles might be
destroyed, and at the same time a very
covetud decoration well earned coin
mauder of the fly catchers in ordinarj
to bis Siamese Majesty may yet be eag
erly competed for among Siamese militarj
wen."
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Mart is five times at bright now at
be will be when on the far tide of the
tun.
The average duration of life in the
cold climate of Norway is said to be
greater than in any other land.
The number of stars visible to average
eyesight on an ordinary night does not
much exceed 4000 for both hemi
spheres. After considerable study a Connecticut
scientist calculates that there are 43,
560,000 mosquito larva to an acre of
swamp land.
An astronomer baa figured it out that
it would take a cannon-ball 3,000,000
year., moving at its ordinary rate of
apeed, to reach Alpha Centauri, the
nearest fixed ttar.
Dr. Koch has expressed himself
ttrongly against excessive watering of
the streets during a unolera epidemic,
on tho ground that the bacili thrive un
der the influence of moisture.
Corrosive sublimate, in the strength
of tixty-four grains to tbe gallon ot
water, it found by tbe Health Depart
ment of New York City to be tbe most
effective of the germ-destroying agents.
The new sub-treasury building at San
Francisco, Cat., has an electric burglar
alarm installod between the rows of
bricks to that any interference with
either the bricks or cement will cause an
alarm to tound.
A fendsr for electric can it made of
sheet iron attached directly to the
trucks, the lower plates coming within
an inch of the rails, springs of great
stiffness enabling the fonder to throw
aside any object before it.
The difficulty of making an indelible
marking on ivory push buttons has been,
it is said, overcome by a London con
cern. The process employed is called
endolithio printing, and the markings
are claimed to be indelible in any
climate.
The Swedish Government has adopted
a new smokeless powder, which is
said to have the following advantages:
It is easy of manufacture, produces no
flames and does not heat the rifle. It
gives tbe ball an initial velocity of 2100
feet, with a pressure ot 2260 atmos
pheres. Jacques Inandi, tbe French lightning
calculator, sayt that it is tound which
guides his mind in its process, and not
the memory ot or imagination how
figures look. He was born with a gift
for figures ; long before he could read or
write he solved the most intricate
arithmetical problems.
The bones of the hoad of tome large
prehistoric animal were taken out ot tbe
ground at Ruby Creek, Washington, the
other week, at a depth of 250 feet. The
great mastodon, judging from the depth
at whicn the bones were found, must
have lived in an early period and is at
present extinct. The shape ot tbe head
resembles that of a cow, only it is much
larger.
The three single eyes of bees have
been a puzzle as to their use. Mr. Grim
shaw, of England, starts the theory that
they are not eyes at all, but bull's -eye
lanterns that emit a very feeble light to
guide the bees in their work at night.
Such production of light is quite com
mon among insects, and the source of tho
theory gives it some title of respect, for
Mr. Grimshaw is an able observer.
Mr. Romanes is experimenting in
breeding rats and rabbits, with reference
to heredity. Those now bred are tbe re
sults ot experiments intended to dis
prove what Mr: Romanes believes to bo
cortain errors made by some writers on
heredity. In the particular case's experi
mented on by him tbe progeny have
certainly taken cither wholly after the
father or wholly after the mother. Mr.
Romanes does thow certain cases of
commingling, or rather reversion, whicli
are highly tuggestive.
The Lnugs of a Plant.
One of the prettiest microscopical
ttudiet it the examination of the luns
of a plant. Most people do not know
a plant hat lungs, but it has, and its luugs
are in it leaves. Examined through
a high-power microscope, every leaf
will show thousands upon thousands ot
oponings, infinitely small, ot course, but
each provided with lips which, in many
species, are continually opening and
closing, Tbeso openings lead to tiny
cavities in the body ot the leaf, and by
the opening and closing of the cavity
air Is continually passing in and out, so
that tho act of respiration is continually
going on. The sap of the plant ia thus
purified, just as the blood of an anitml
is cleared of impurities by passing
through the lungs, and the average
sized tree will, therefore, in the course
of a day, do as much breathing as a
man. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Growth of the Poetry Habit
"When I began writing verse," said
Mr. Whittier once to the writer, "it was
considered a great gift to be able to
make a rhyme with any facility. Percival
and Bryant were the active poets then.
Now almost any one can turn a couplet
or stanza and many write poetry which
in a less voluminous time would be re
garded as remarkable." Nothing so
emphasizes the advance in general cul
ture in this country as tbe fact indi
cated by Mr. Whittier in that remark.
It is a more difficult thing to achieve a
reputation as a poet now than a half
century ago, and there is no occasion to
grieve because we have so many "versa
writers'1 aud no "poets." Boston Jour
nal. A Simple Text for 31 ilk.
The following test for watered milk is
simplicity itself. A well polished knit
ting needle it dipped into a deep vescel
of milk and immediately withdrawn in
an upright position. If the sample it
pure some of the fluid will hang to the
needle, but if water has been added to
the milk, even in small proportions, tbe
fluid will not adhere to the ueedle,-
Bootot) Commercial,
KILLED BY ELECTRICITY.
HOW MILLIONS OF BUGS, BEE
TLES AND BIRDS PERISH.
Their Vain Flatterlngr Around the
Aro light l)-lroctlon of Blrda
by the Cloddes ot Liberty Beacon.
"T" T"PT"ilEN a person meet death
' from contact with an elec
Y Y ,rc current the news is
heralded far and near, but
of tbe millions ot the lower forms of
animals life which are daily sacrificed,
we rarely hear a word. Tbe employe of
the electric light company who goes
about supplying the lamps with fresh
carbon sticks each morning learns more
of the damage to animal life than Is evon
dreamed of by others, but he is not an
entomologist generally, and only cares
to trim the lamps and removes the accu
mulation of dead insect which are found
in every globe in the summer months.
He' carries a brush with which be quick
ly whisks out from a gill to a pint of
charred bodiet and singed wings. Now
and then a struggling insect is found in
tbe mass, minus a wing, a pair of legs or
so, and occasionally a lace wing or moth
takes wing and escapea from tbe gen
erally dead collection. At these fall to
the ground they are scattered to the
points of tbe compos;, and in half an
hour not a vestige ot a bug or a fly can
be found, so quickly are the light bodies
blown about, or ground into the load by
passing men and teams.
In a round made with the carbon sup
pi yer in the month of July or August, it
is safe to count on 500 insect to be
found in each globe visited, and tome
times as high as 1500, but of course an
accurate estimate cannot be made, aa
many bodies, winga and lega are sadly
mixed in the mass. Thit collection in
cludes members of all the order of in
sect life, and about every well-known fly
and beetle may be collected during a
morning t search, and many rare ones,
seldom found in other situations, are
taken.
On a favorable night, when it it very
dark, and there it no wind to drive the
giddy insects away from their death at
traction, a great many may be seen flying
close to the globe, where their rankt are
often invaded by shadow-like bats, who
dash dangerously near the globe iu
chasing their prey. The bats are never
injured by the lights and avoid it most
adroitly in their evolutions.
No one who is an observer hat failed
to note the change about our residences
in the tummer evening!. Once the
rooms were filled with several varieties
ot moths, bugs (so-called) and beetles,
and if windows were lowered to prevent
tneir entrance, numbers of thorn could
be heard bumping against the panes and
bumming about. All of this is now
done away with, for if tbe electric light
is burning neat your borne, the bugs and
moths visit it and leave you in peace.
I be difference in tbe persecutions ot the
mosquitoes is a favorable theme for dis
cussion, and all are willing to give tbe
electric light the credit of performing an
agreeable change.
However, if we aro to free to ignore
the destructions of the insects we are
constrained to resent the devastation
upon our birds, for there are fortunately
very few who are possessed of to little
sentiment as to abide ill to our feathered
friends. It it impossible to secure sta
tistica on the extent of the danger, but
enough is known to convince all that
elevated lights of any kind are a sad
menace to the birds during migration,
Some years ago the Government invest!
gated in relation to the destruction by
light houses, and the dauage was found
to be very heavy, and a list of 160 spe
cies was received, many being valued
game birds and nearly all others well-
known insect destroyers.
Thousandi of birds are killed each tea'
ton by tbe light in the Goddess of Lib'
erty in the.harbor, as they migrate to or
from tbe .North, and all tower lights
throughout the country aro more or leas
destructive, according to their location.
But these greater dangers in a few cases
are as nothing compared to tbe generally
dispersed, combined lesser duugert ot
the innumerable city electric lights,
New York Advertiser.
On:-Kyed People.
Tbe most one-eyed people are found
ia Germany, and in some portions of tbe
United States. In the former country
this is probably owing to tbe sword
duels so common among German stu
dent! when tbe faces ot the combatants
get terribly scarred. In the United
States, which contains the rough ele
ment from almost every other country,
quarrelling is frequent, and tbe gouging
out of an opponent's eye is too common
an incident amongst toe brutal portion
of the population to attract much notice
when it occurs. An eye-maker calculates
that there are 336,000 persons with only
one eye in tbe Republic. In proportion
to tbe population, there are more one
eyed people iu Patcrsou, N. Y., than in
any other town in America or any other
country. Apart from eyes lost in duels
or rowdy tights, tbe great majority of
artificial eyes are used by workmen, es
pecially those engaged in iron loundries,
where many eyes are put out by the
sparks which fly about in all directions.
It is a very rare occurrence to meet a
woman having a glass eye. xankce
Blade.
A Llly-liko Cuoumb r.
Tbe Indian cucumber is a t rt of lily,
which grows iu great abundance iu
almost every part of this country,
and i said to bo an excel
lent remedy for the dropiy. The best
part of the cucumber is the root, which
grows in the sizy of two inches in length
by one iu thickness, aud was formerly
eaten raw by tho Iudians just as we eat
cucumbers. Its mediciuul virtues weie
discovered by some old woman in Penn
sylvania, and afterwards admitted by tho
doctor, which is not the only ciwe ot
the efficacy of an old womtn' remedy
being acknowledged by the medical pro
ftjMiou, Chicago Herald,
RECOMPENSE,
When the haze of autumn day
8tte over dale and hill,
And the note from wood-birds' throat
Break tbe tilenoe deep and still
When the breezes bring a chill.
Then we feel over ns steal
Something of sadness and dread,
Sweet regret and yearning yet
For the summer that is dead,
For the sunshina that is fled.
But we know every woe
Has a joy not wholly sighs
Is our life, not wholly strife.
Though we miss the aim we priza,
It It farewell to the Hie.
Detroit Tribune.
RUMOR OF THE DAY.
A double chin A dialogue. Life.
When a man is hopelessly in love it
greatly increases hit sighs. Sittings.
Even an all-round man ought to be
square in his dealing). Lo.voll Courier.
Little Johnny thinks it a good deal
nicer to be tanned at the seashore than
to be tanned in school. Boston Tran
script. They have "potato socials" in Kansas.
Tbe name may be from tho fact that
young folk go there to pare. Texas
Sittings.
"Do you enjoy good health, Mr.
Testy V asked McQueary. "Yes, when
I get any," snapped tbe old dyspeptic.
Puck.
Jake "I presume you love animals!"
Cora "Ob, yes; a girl of my age is
usually in love with somo man." Yan
kee Blade.
"A man may be drove to drink," said
Officer McCobb, "but to git Mm away
from it I find be has to bo pulled."
Indianapolis Journal.
"Charles is too timid to propose, and
the it too timid to help him on." "I
should think such a timid pair could
easily shrink to one." Harper's Bazaar.
He "It this the first time you've
ever been in love, darling!" She
(thoughtlessly') "Yes, but it'a so nice
that I hope it won't be the last." Tid
Bits. Manufacturer "What makes you
think electric clocks should sell so
freolyl" Drummer "They're nil to be
charged, are they not?" Jeweler'
Weekly.
Shrewd Girl: Jennie "Do you be
lieve in fate?" Bossie--"Yes, but I
believe in giving fate a helping hand by
doing a little judicious flirting." New
York Herald.
Secretary Nibbes "Did you discover
any irregularities in tbe Red Tape
Bureau?" Inspector Sharp---"Ycs. Four
of the employes were hard at work."-
New York Herald.
Lovell "This marrying a rich wife
is of no use." Markhatn " Why not!"
Lovell "Because even after she's
asleep you can't find her pocket."
New York Herald.
Teacher "What are you doing there,
Johnny, acting like a monkey?" Johnny
Bellows "Picase let mo off this time,
teacher, and I won't never mock you no
more." Yankee Blade.
Mamie (aged six) "Mamma, wa
Mr. Gourmand born with a silver tpoon
in bit mouth!" Mamma "I guess to,
dear, and maybe with a knife and fork,
too." Jewolers' Weekly.
It is not always tbe man who looks the
wisest who knows the most, but most
people don't know this, so that it will
pay you to look just as wise as you pos
sibly can. Texas Sifting.
Cora "I'm much pleased with my
new acquaintance, Mr. Jimpson. I
hope to know him better." Dora
"Well, it would be impossible to know
him worse. "---Yaukee Blade.
Brown (who is very proud of his
argumentative powers) "I always carry
my p'int." Gray "I think I have seen
you when you were carrying a good deal
more than that.'' Boston Transcript.
Miss Young "Have you seen Mis
Waite't engagement riug'f" Miss Green
"Yes, I think it is a horrid insult.
The idea of a man giviug a spinster of
her year a ring of old gold." Jewel
ers' Weekly.
"They say be is a literary man, and
perhaps be is. He talks rapidly, but,
upon my word, I can't make head nor
tail of what he talks about." "Ifa!
Perhaps he ia a nutaziue poet." New
York Press.
"Her taste in music is improving
wonderfully," suid oue youn woman.
"Why!" replied the other, "she never
plays or sings now." 'Yes," was the
rejoinder, "that is how I know."
Washington Post.
Tho Rev. Dr. Fourthly "I shall see
you at church next Sunday morning, at
usual, Mrs. McBwat, I presume!" Mrs.
McSwat "I I am afraid not Dr.
Fourthly. Bridget ha just got a new
bonnet." Chicago Tribune.
"Don't you thiuk Mr. Twiddles it
very abseut-miudud!" said a young
woinau. "No," replied Miss Pepper
ton. "He displays admirable caution.
Wbat little ho bus he always brings
with bim." Wushiugtou Star.
Mrs. Keone "There are time when
I wish I were a mau." Mr. Kccue
"For iustaucc?" Mrs. Keeue "When
I pass a milliuei's wiudow and think
bow happy I could make my wife by giv
ing her a new bonnet." Texas t'iltiug.
Mamma (enthusiastically) "How I
wish we could afford to uetid Nellie
abroad for a few finishing touches to her
musical educatioo !" Pupa (no ear for
luusic) "If I could buy the finish with
out the touches, I'd pawu the furni
ture. "-Lippincott's Magazine.
Tbe Professor "In some respects
Miss Wbackster is a highly gifted young
woman. At school, 1 remember, she
excelled iu mathematics, in a large
class in geometry sue was easily the
first." Miss Laura Kajones ' Vcs, the
dear girl was ulwavs toso aii'-ulur.
you kuow,"--Chitau TriOuuo,