'V THE FOREST REFDBLICiK b pabUtke rr Wtdmiiaj, ay 4. E. WENK. B3 la Bmaarbaugh Co.'a Boll ding km mail, tiootmta, r, Trm. . . . tl.POprTT. mhacrlptlns nmIt4 fat a akrtr Mrlo4 Oorretpondoix toilette' ftm U Mid f till RATIS OP ADVERTISING I One Bquare, one inoh, on Insertion. , 100 On Bquara, one inch, on month. . . , 8 00 Ona Square, one inch, three monthi. . 8 00 One Hquare, one inch, on year ...... 10 00 Two (Squares, one year 1500 Quarter Column, one year. 80 0(i Half Column, one year 80 00 On Column, on year. ... 10010 Legal advertisemtnta ten oenta par Um each insertion. Marriages and death notices gratis. All bills for yearly advertisement coilet4 quarterly. Temporary advertisement moat be paid in advance. Job work cash on delivery. j ORE PUBLICAN. H VOL. XXV. NO. 33. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 7, 1892. S1.50 PER ANNUM. JlL JUL y Every Northern Stnte west of the Al Ivghanirs bus a State university. London publishers are said not to relish the increasing salo in that city of the American, magazines and porirdi calf. According to the New York Indepen dent "business is growing mora active at nearly every important point, whother in the East, West or South." A. well-in formed statistician hat state J that more Ilobrow synagoguos have been set up in this country during the past . ten years than in nil previous year of American history. Tho popular subscription of $ 13,000 raised in New York City to provide for aiok babios did a great work. Over 116,000 families were visited and over 10,000 sick were prescribe! for. The Boston Transcript laments that wholes aro gottlng altnoit as scarce as ca serpents, and that whalobone is get ting to cost so much that dressmakers' bills aro just about half "for trim mings. " Tho Kalmucks have an original method of trenting cholera. Whenever one of them is attacked by the opidemio ho mounts a horso and gallops as long as he has strength to stay on the animal's back. A Russian journalist tried this remedy recently ami is said to hare found it ef fectual. Columbus Is evorywhoro, the New York Journal exclaims, and tho very winds scorn to shout his naino. Even the yacht clubs talk of having leoturos mi tho voyoge of Columbus, and before the winter is over some of tlioin may be debating the question "Was Columbus much of a sailor!'' It was lately quoted in British shipping circles as a proof of the depression affect ing the shipping trado that a splendid four-masted iron bark of 2000 tons reg ister, owned on the Clyde, came into port from Australia in ballast, was un able to got a cargo, and sailod back for the antipodes again with the same ballast bUo brought with her. The Azores are to bo connected with Europe by cablo and European weather prophet are indulging In tho hope that the inlands so eligibly situated in mid Atlantic ooeaa may be utilized as meteo rological stations. As most of the Euro pean storms come from that quarter the Chicago Herald thinks that a station in tha Azore would be of tho utmost valuo to science as well as to the world's com- tuercia! marine. The railroad building of lSdi In the United States is esti nated by the Now York Independent at a little loss than 4000 miles. This 401)0 miles will bring the railroad inileago of the country up to an aggroate of 175,000 miles. Only 10,000 miles of railroad were built from 1830 to 1S51; duiing the next five year as many more wore built, and then Iho increase was greater until 1887, when 12,600 miles wore built, tho largest num ber of new mileage roe r led in any ooo year. Capitalists ate preparing to establish a line of steamers bctivccu Portland, Ore gon, and the Sandwich Islunds to obtaiu a share of the trado which San Francisco notv mcnopolir.es. Tho islands last year raid to 6an Francisco firms $37.1,000 for Hour and $465, 000 for grain and feed, i'ortland can supply these staples cheaper timn its rival, and in return for them expect to bring bananas, piueapntas, - mangoes, and other fruits to its own door. As a iocsl merchant puts it: "There is no roason why I'ortlaud should pay 8a Francisco a commission on our fruits, and no reason why the islands bhould pay San Francisco a commission on Oregon flour and feed. Closer com mercial relations must prove profitable both to Portland and the islands, and I lo no reason why the enterprise should i;ot be a success." la an Eastern paper appears a lament -rer the departure of tho typical grand notber. A pretty picture is drawn of tho gray haired old lady that is a mem ory of childhood, with her sweet and patient face and gcutle maimers. Tbeu It is affirmed that she is no more. In her place has como a woman who uses rouge and has hor children's , ohildren call her "Aunty" There would be reasons for lamentation had tho grand mother really vanished, admits tho Ban Francisco Examiner, but she hasn't. Tho istern writer may have been deprived . i one, and may have seen a spcoimeo rrtwoof the bogus aunty. But the grandmother ! a fixture. Iu many household she is tho central object of af f. ciioo, as sweet aud gentle as ever. Maimer of living ohuuge, aud not al for the better, but they have never rounded o radically and badly as to eliminate the grandmother, and when hey do the time will have come to writ filiation a failure. WHERETHE ROUGH HOADTURNS. Where the rough road turns and the valley sweet ' Smiles soft with its balm and bloom, We'll forget the thorns that have pierced tha feet And the nights with their griet and gloom. And the skies will smile and the stars will beam And we'll lay us down In the light to dream. We shall lay us down in the bloom and light With a prayer and a tear for rest, As tired children who creep at night To the love of a mother's breast; And for oil tho grief of the stormy past ReKt shall be sweeter at last at lastl Sweeter because of the weary way And the lonesome night and long, While the darkness drift to the perfect day With It splendor of light aud song: The light that shall bless us and kiss us and lova us Auu sprinkle the rotes of heaven above us! F. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. A SWISS LOVE STORY. BY ANNA PIERPONT RtVITER. N a pretty chalet that nestled h i a h against the shaggy breast of Mount Ob gadin lived the widow Neur and her daughter Marie. A lonely home you would have thoutrht it, but the fir trees tliat wailed so in your ears whisnerpd Llgood cheer to Marie. wnen ncree winds Came rilshlnrr ,lnan tho mountain side, she knew the trees would bend their tall heads together and twine their strong arms around her home, until, robbed of his victim, the ba tiled storm rushed by. When morning broke, tho same friends stood erect nnd stately, drawing aside their loaves and branches, that the suubeams might not linger in their soft embraces, but hasten down to awaken their favorite, Mario. Very lovely was the llttlo Swiss maid, with violet eyes that now danced and sparkled and then grew soft and tender a a little child's. Two rose rod lips hut in her pearly teeth, and when she miled a tiny dimple danced foi a mo ment on her peachy check. Iler hair clung in caressing curls around her low white forehead, and fell in ripples of golden sunsbino far bolow her slender waist. And her voice I Ah 1 that was Marie' greatest charm. Soft and clear, not a discordant note marred its sweet, pure harmony. Sometimes as she sang at her evening devotions the hordsmen far below in the valley, catching faint notes of her song, looked up and crossed themselves, half believing they heard the echo of an ange' choir. But very few knew of Marie' beauty. For when she went with her mother on one of her rar visits to the hamlet be low, she brushed her wavy hair straight and smooth back from her forobead, and braided it in long still plaits which fell uuwn ncr dsck. Her eyelids, with their curtains of long silky lashes, d rooned nvpr hnr dimm ing eyes until ono looked in vain for a glimpse of their beauty. Her red lips shut firmly over her pearly teeth, whilo the dimple hid itself resolutely away from sight. And her sweet voice, frightened at its own sound so far from home, grew faint and husky, until, in this shrink ing, sober damsel, walkiug so timidly beside the Widow Neur, you would have found it hard to recognize the beautiful Marie of the mountain. So it happened that only her mother and one other person knew hew good and sweet and how fair Marie was. This other was a stranger who came from a far away country and spent his summers in a little house on the moun tain's very top. The simple villagers called him "the wizard," aud told strange tales of how he spent wholo nights gnzing at the heavens through a long tube; that ho could foretell to an hour when the sun would covor itself with darkness; but, strangest of all, he had a little wire stretched for miles over hills and valleys to the great city I This wire talked to him in a queer language wbich no one els J could understand. "Vick, tick, tickety tick," it said, and it told him things that happened miles and miles away. Murie did not know how wise the wizard was when he came to hor home one morning and asked for a drluk of water. He followed ber to the spring wheu he went for it and stopped by the way to break open a curious stone. He showed Marie how queerly marked it was inside, and then tcld ber a story about it. The usually timid maiden was so inter ested she forgot to be frightened, and thus a strong friendship between the two was begun. After this the wizard often came to the widow' chalet for rest and refresh ment on his long rambles, and Marie uu consciously revealed her charms to him, one by one, until, long before the first summer was ended, the stranger knew that no girl in all the canton could be compared with Marie. On the other side of the mountain from the Widow Neur' home lived another widow. 6h, too, had but one child, a son, who was the pride and delight of her life. This was the brave young hunter and guide Gustavus Friel. Every one knew and liked Gustavus. He was tall, straight, and handsome, with flashing brown eyes, and a laugh as frank as a child's; he was the favorite of the canton, and there was not a girl within its bounds who would not have been proud to plight her troth with him. Gustavus, however, cared httl for the fl?W 1:1 i-L'i Ohgndin maidens. He would far rather chase the chamois Up the mountainside or gUido travelers through its dangerous passes than spend his time with the finest of tho maids of the hamlet. His mother often said, "My son, wbon wilt thou bring me home a daughter and tuyselt a wife? ' And Gustavus, smiling and and press ing a kiss on her forehead, would an swer. "When I find a maid as good as thee, mother; but I want no idle, shrill-voiced wife to disturb our quiet home. But one day his mothor said more sadly and seriously than ever before: "Gustavus, I am growing old and feeble. 1 can no longer make and mend thy clothes and keep our home. Thou must have a wife. Promise me at the fete next week thou wilt choose one from among the maidens there." Gustavus reluctantly gave her the de sired promise, but it weighed heavily upon him. He could think of nothing else, and the more he pondered the heavier bis heart grew. At last be seized his gun and went out on the mountain, but the porplcxing questions followed him, until at last he threw himself on the ground groaning, "Oh, that some wise man would make this choice for me I" A moment after lie looked up and saw, as if in answer to bis wisn, tbe wizard approaching him. "Why," he exclaimed to himself, "did I not think of him before? Surely ho, if any one, can help me." Then, with a throbbing heart, Gustavas sprang up to meet him. Tho wizard greeted Gustavus warmly, for he felt a strong friendship for the young guide who had taken him safely through many a dangerous mountain excursion. And now bis sympathetic question, "Why, what' troubling you, my boy?" opened the way for Gustavus to pour out all his perplexity, ending his recital witn tbe question; "Canst thou not help me choose a good wife who will make ray life hap py? For now I have given my mother my promise to find a wifo at the fete next week. The wizard smiled sympathetically, and then thought in silence a little while before be answered. "If a pure, true heart is united to a true, pure heart, both lives must bo happy." "Alas I" answered Gustavus, 'but I know not which maiden among them all lias tho purest, truest heart 1" "Tbero will be ono such heart at tbe fete," answered the wizard, "but you may fail to recognize it. However, if you will come to me to-morrow I will give you a charm that will show you this heart." nere was comfort, indood, and with a light heart Gustavus thanked his friend and boundod forward. Left alone, tbe wizard continued down the mountaiu-side until he came in sight of the Widow Neur' chalet, where he found Marie sitting by the spring. In stead of her usual sunshiny smile, tiny tear-drops stood in her eyes, and there was a grieved look about her rosy lip that made him wish to comfort her. "What is the matter little one!" he asked gently. Oh, sir," she said, "I want to see the great fete next week, but I have no pretty ornaments to wear, and then Tho long curtains drooped over her shining eyes and the sweet voice sank almost to a whisper. "The good mother says none of tbe young men will care to dance with me." "But why ?" asked tho wizard in sur prise. "Because I cannot talk and laugh with them as other maidens do. My heart beats fast if they do but glance toward me, and 1 know not what to say, and so," here a tear slipped from under the long eyelashes "my mother says I had better not go." "Courage, little one," the wizard an swered, "Tell your mother," he added suddenly, "that I am going to lend you a silver belt to wear, and that my knowl edge tells me that the bravest, hand somest youth iu all the land will dance with you quite joyfully." 1 be happy Marie thanked the wizard as Gustavus bad done, and ran off to tell the wonderful news to her mother. Early next morning Gustavus went for his charm. Ho found tho wizard waitiug for him, aud taking him into bis strange room, the wise man said, smiling, as he had tho day before, half quizzically, half sympathetically: "Here' the charm, my good fellow. You see it is a magic ring. Put it on before you go to tbe fete, and be sure you dance with every maiden there. When you place your arm about the waist of the one whose heart is true and good a strange foeling will run through you and your hand will cling to her. But you must be sure that you dance with olll" Gustavus, greatly wondering, thanked the wizard and slipped on tha ring. , It was a curiouB circlet of iron, with a flat exteusioo, which the wizard bade him wear pointing toward his palm. When the fete day came Gustavus was there among the other young men, eajer to try his charm. All the maidens of Obgadin were there also, and on the outskirts of one of the gay crowds little Marie hovered timidiy beside her mother. "Why didst thou come, Marie? ' a9ked ono of tbe girls. "Didst thou think any youth would want to dance with a mouse to-day?" asked another. Then seeing the qutck tears trembling on Marie's lashes, she added more kind- 'y; "Ah, well, thou canst at least see our good times." "What a lovely belt thou hast.Marie !" cried another maiden. "Whore didst thou get it?" " The wizard gave it to her," the Widow Neur answere I shortly, for she did not relish the girl's tone, aud she drew her daughter away. "Come, Marie, let us lit here under the trees and watch the dance." Maria naatled clos to her mother' side, and as the hours fled and no youth asked her to dance, her head dropped lower, and she wondered if tbe wise man had made a misiake. In the mean time Gustavus danced with one after another of tbe maids, but though be watched with intense eagor ncss, not once did be feel the strango thrill for which ho waited. "I have danced with them all," he said at last to himself, "except that sby one over there: surely sho is not the girl I" He asked her name of one of the girls, and then going to her, said sim ply: "Marie, wilt thou dance with me?" Astonishment and delight made Mario for a moment forget her shyness. The wizard' words had come true! Rising quickly, she said, smiling upon him, and showing her beautiful eyes already dancing with delight, and tbe dear little dimple in her cheek: "Art thou come?" "She is not so plain, after all," thought Gustavus, as be answered: "Wast thou looking for mo, Marie?" Marie bun; her head without answer ing, and Gustavus, wondering a little at her words, led her to the dance. As he placed bis arm around her his hand touched her shining belt. Instantly a strange thrill ran through them both, and Gustavus's arm scorned to cling to Marie's waist. "Marie, didst thou foel that?" ho askod earnestly. And Marie smilingly answerodl "Yc." So they began dancing, and as thoy danced it seemed to thoso watching thorn that a wonderful transformation came over Marie. Hor hair, shaken loose from its long, s till braids, hung like a glittering gol den veil all around her, ber beautiful eyes shone like (tars, and the dimpled cheeks and pearly teeth formed a fit hiding-place for tho laughing voice that now and then rang sweet and clear from hct rosy lips. Not one of the village maid ens was half so fair as she! "Surely," said the amazed villagers, "there was never such a handsome couple." "But is not Marie undor a charm," cried others, "she has suddenly grown to lovely?" "Lovo' witchory, if it is true and pure, will transform all of us and bring out all that is loveliest and best within us." Aa for Gmtavus, he thought rightly that ho never seen so good nnd beautiful a creature, and ho blosscd the wizard for the charm which had led his heart to her. Long before the summer ended, Gus tavxs took home Maria to bo his own and his mother's greatest joy and hap piness. When M. lo Wizard returned to Poris that winter, he road a scientific paper before tbe savants of the Academy, In it he detailed many of his wonder ful discoveries and his work during the summer. But be did not speak of tbe most interesting of all how, by the aid ot a little magnet, ooncealed in a steel belt, and a rude ring, he had brought together two loving human hearts, and by so doing had caught some of the happiness of Paradise and imprisoned it in a ohalet on old Obgadin Mountain. Pittsburg Bulletin. An Extinct Monster. The steamer City of Topoka, which ariived from Alaskan ports early the other morning, brought a mammoth skeleton that was the center of attraction to a large number of sight-seerers at Pacific wharf, states the Port Townseod (Washington) Leader. The skeloton is is that of a rhamphoreates, or whale liz ard, only the second one known to be in existence. The other, a much smaller specimen than this, was found somo years ago near Oxford, England, and is one of the most valued specimens now on exhibition in tbe British Museum. J. L. Buck, of Everett, claims tho honor of having brought this valuable relic to light, although it was discovered four years ago by a prospector named Frank Willoughby. 1 be spot where the skeleton was found by Buck, who went north for that pur pose, was nearly a mile from where the original location was reported. Tho skeleton was finally located by Buck and his Indian assistant on top of the cole brated Muir glacier, six miles inland and SOU feet above the sea level, securely im bedded in a largo cake of ice, requiring the service of the entire party for two days to dislodge it. At some time dur ing its existence the skeleton was badly shattered, presumably by a fall or by being crushed, and was somewhat dam aged when taken ont. The rhamphoreates, or wlialo lizard, has been extinct for over five centuries, and is described iu natural history as the "king of the land and thosoa," this cog. nomon being undoubtedlyabased on tbe fact that it was equally at homo in the water, on land or in the air. In the first instance the rate of speed was something terrific, the momentum being producod with the legs, while the enormous wings served to keep tho body out of the water, the operation bordering upon the impos sible feat of walking on the water. The great size of the whale-lizard can be judged from tho fact that a single bona weighed 794 pounds, while tho entire skeleton tipped the scales at 2400 pounds. The bones will be put together by Buck at his home in Everett, aud aftor being exhibited will be sent to the Smithsonian Institution. The specimen is valued at 30,000. The lace bark tree grows in tho West Indies. It is a lofty tree, with ovate, eutire smooth leaves and white flowers. It is remarkable for the tenacity of its inner bark and the readiness with wbich the inner bark may be separated after maceration in water into layers re sembling lace. Two laud crants. said to bosr the signatures of John Adams aod Martin van uuren, were recently round to a lot of wast paper at tbe paper mill la Palmyra, Mich. THE SAVAGES OF BRAZIL. 0TJRI0U8 TRIBES OF INDIANS WHICH INHABIT THE COUNTRY. Bablta ot the Ilotocndos Pleasant Pcopio Who Make Parlor Orna ment of Their Enemies' Head,. OF the 12,000,000 people now occupying Brazil not quite one third, says Fannie B. Ward in the Washington Star, aro "Caucasians," and in the majority of individual cases they are so largely "mixed" as hardly to deserve the namo, Another third are negroes ; less than one tenth are Indians, and the rest come un der the general head of Metis, or mixed beyond classification. Tho first, tbe ed ucated, generally wealthy and compar atively white Portuguese, Brazilian;, Spanish-Brazilians and Saxon-Brazilians, whether planters, politicians, merchants or gentlemen of leisure, are naturally the ruling class; as in all Nations of mixed races the whitest, though in ever so small a minority, arc tbe controlling ele ment. To these should be added the soldiers, for though the rank and file shade from black and tan to ebony they are officered by white men of command ing talent and influence. It was they who wrought the recent revolution which overthrew an Empire (really against tho wishes of the majority of Brazilians out side the capitalj, who ousted the first President in the beginning of his term, and are capable at any time of any sort of political overturning. Brazilian Indians are said to bo about tbe ugliest human beings on the fuce of the earth, not excepting the "Diggers" of lower California and the tribes of Ticrra del Fuego. The Botocudos, who are most noted, have advanced far enough to till small patches of land, live in huts, raise cattle and weave mats for sale. The Portuguese gavo them their singular name from the word potogue, meaning a barrel bung from their habit of wearing large, rouud disks of wood in their ears and under hps. This fashion used to go so far that in middlo life many of them bad stiff under lips pro jecting five or six inches, holding a plug as big as the ton of a coffee cup. Of lato years the cuIk 'a mostly discontinued. The men vrni., themselves all over with bright yellow paint made from the bark and gum of a species of palm; and the women "dress up" as some civilized ladies do, by applying a few streaks of white and red to their faces nud arms. Though many of the Bjtocudos are now partially civilized, we are assured that those of the far interior are yet cannibals to the extont of eating their captives taken in war. Like the Greeks of the Homeric age, they consider it tho great est of evils to lie unburied after death; so tbey delight in makiug flutes and trumpets of their enemies' bones. I have the questionable pleasure of own ing one of these ghastly trophies, which has five holes, and is ornamented with tufts of red and yellow feathers attached to the bone by strings; but it requires somebody more courageous than your correspondent to test its value as a musical instrument by peraoaal experi ment. There is another Brazilian tribe, whose name I do not remember, who are an almost exact counterpart of the Pue blos of Mexico and Arizona simple, peaceful and industrious. They live near the coast and are doubtlus descendants of those Pinzon and other early voyagers first encountered. But unfortunately they are few in number and rapidly dying out, for among their tierce neigh bors tho "turn unto him tho other cheek also" principle is disastrous to life nnd property, 'i hero are mauy scat tered tribes of unreclaimed savages, most of whom arc wandering cuunibals and ail implacably hostile. Perhaps the mo9t interesting among these (at a suf distance) are tho Muudrucus or "Be headers," who, with their ullies, aro said to number between twenty and thirty thousand. They live up the Ma dura Tapajos, Kio Negro aud other trib utaries of the Ama.ou, iu palm leaf huts set around a central malocca; tbe latter not tbe dwelling of a chief, as might be supposed, but rather a grand council chamber, fortress, arsenal and general pow-wow room. In it aro deposited those horrible trophies, the preserved heads of their enemies, which have given to the Muudrucus their titlo of "Be headcrs." Unlike. tho Jiveros of South eastern Ecuador, tbey do not extract tho skull, but by some savage process of embalming keep the cranial relic as nearly entire at possible, inserting false eyes (made of bits of shell or polished quartz), the long hair combed carefully out aud decorated with strings of rock cock und macaw feathers, feather earrings in the ears and dved strincs na4Ai1 thrnitrh ilu, rniimm l.u which to suspend it to the rafters. In j peaceful times hundreds of these aro ranged around the walls of tho malocca or set in rows around the niamlioca fields to keep the ghosts away that might otherwise injure the growing food, and on warlike and festive occasions they are trotted out on the points of tho warriors' spears. Strange to say the Dyaks of Borneo have a similar custom of preserv ing their enemies' beads, and are pro vided with blowguns, almost identical with those of South Americans. Like most other Amu.oniun Indians, the Mundrucus cultivate a little niaudioca, corn aud plantains. They know how to prepare farinha meal from the maudiocu, and also to brew a sort of iutoxicaut re sembling chica. They have gourd ves sels, some of them quaintly carved, rude pots of baked clay aud utensils of wood aud stone. Their canoes sre hollowed tree trunks, and besides the blowguns for killing birds, they have bamboo s;eurs with poisoned points uud arrows tipped with the deadly curare. By the way, the latter is now generally conceded to bu neither a vegetable poiscu nor the veunm of serpents, as was formerly supposed, but the putrid matter from Uecajed human bodies, tho arrows beiu stuck into a festering corps aud left uutil oaked full of the deadliest poison kno wn. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A door-closer is operated by gravity. A machine is made for grooving horse shoes. Plowing by electricity is In contempla tion for a large property in Spain. At tbe present time the average height of the tides tbe world over is only about three feet. An incorrodible metal, which is like wise very hard, is made by amalgamating nickel with steel. A French chemist has succeeded in making imitation diamonds that cost more than the genuine. It is believed that diphtheria is some times contracted by little children while playing near the sewers when the latter are open for repairs or other purposes. Tbe use of minute quantities of chro mium in steel to give it exceptional hard ness was probably first carriod out on a commercial scale by Julius Bauer, of New York. Tho life of a locomotive crank pin, which is almost the f.rst thing about an engino to wear out, is 60,000 miles, and the life of a thirty-three-inch wheel is 06,733 miles. A California company makes a splendid nrtlclo of toilet soap from the froth skimmed from a boiling compound. It is supposed to bo a mixture of borax, alkali and mineral oil. At Baku, Russia, there is an immense oil well that "ebbs and flows" with tho same regularity as do the ocean tides. It is bclievod to have some mysterious connection with the sea. The lower grade of molasses sells for such a poor prico (two cents a gallon), that some of tho Louisiana sugar houses use it for fuel. Several of the Cuban Btigar houses thus use It. Sir John Lubbock, who probably knows more about bees than any other man in the world, living or dead, says that there is strong evidence that the queen bee has the power of control ing tbe sex of the egg. It appear that a colored or dark pig ment in tho olfactory region is essential to perfect smell. Iu cases where ani mals are pure white they aro usually totally devoid of both smell and taste, and some, tbe white cat for instance, are almost invariably deaf. A Boston dentist advocated hypnotism as a local amcithctic in a paper read be fore the New England Dental Society and hypnotized a patient there and then as an object lesson in the practice, per forming a dental cutting without elicit ing from the patient any manifestation of feeling. The paper was unaccom panied by drawings. The gall of a gall-fly produced on au oak attracts, states Dr. Rathay, by their viscid secretion, a number of small ants, which he believes to be advantageous to the tree in killing quantities of caterpil lars and other insects which are it natural enemies. He illustrates the value of this protection by the statement that the inhabitant of a single ant's nest may destroy in a single day upward of 100,000 insects. It is found that masonry may be ren dered impervious to water, especially in positions exposed to direct contact to that element, by tho application of coal tar. The latter is employed in a boiling state, in one or more layers, or it may be made to flame up befjro being used, the first being suitable- for surfaces ex posed to the air, while tbe second is ap propriate in tbe case of parts intendod to be covered up. This method of treat ing foundations is declared to be of special utility in nil public buildings, particularly those designed for tbe pres ervation of works of art, preventing at it does exudations of water charged with lime salts from tbe mortar. Monlc of Thirteen Fur. A rug, ten by fifteen feet, made up the f nr of thirteen wild animals is now in the possession of W. II. Wallcnbar, who has an office on Doarboru street. Mr. Wal lenliar keeps his rug, which cost him $1500, locked up iu the vault in his of fice and takes it out only occasionally to exhibit it to particular friends. The rug was made in Moscow and took one man two years to put tho pieces to gether. Finished the rug has tho ap pearance ot a rich mosaic, the deep yel low of tbe tiger woven into tbe coal black of the South sea seal in diamond shaped blocks. The center is made up of three rings of a diameter of twenty inches, tho patch-like diamond piecci radiating from a circular tuft of monkey skin aud borderod by a rim of otter. The ground woik of the entire piece is in monkey skin. Outsido the large cen ter pieces are two rows of circles. The outside contains fourteen circles, six inches in diameter, made of mink, an gora and otter. The inner rows contain sixteen circles of Russia sable and monkey skin. At either end aud on the sides is a six-inch selvage of Russian silver fox hide and twenty silver-gray fox tails adoru the ends. In tho make-up pieces of the furs from tbe Russia sable, Per sian lamb, Angora goat, China goa', mink, otter, South sua seals, monkey, Thibet lumb, musk rat, weazel, leopard und the Russia silver-gray fox are used Chicago News Record. Eiiglish Fruit Markets. There is a prevalent notion th.it our markets arc richer in fruits and vegeta bles than those of England, yet a woman writing homo of the great Coveat Garden market in London says: "Of the lovl -ness und variety of fruits here exposed Americans have no adequate idea, t sa v Korcs of varieties ot English aud foreign grapes, ptachca as large as cricket ball, glossy nectarines, scarlet uud browr, downy upricots, freckled by the sun, monster piumo, luscious green ga,'es, Orleans plums and swans' eggs, glowing magnum Imnums, pears iioiii the Chan nel islands and the south of France, mul berries, melons, the ambergris, and la'e strawberries big as eggs, in temptiug bouquets, bringing from teapenre to shilling apiece." New York I'oti, THE ORIGIN Of oltst. He talked about the origin Of sin. But preeent sin, I must confess. He never tried to render less. Bat used to add, so people talk. His share onto the general stock But grieved about the origin Of sin. He mourned about the origin' Of sin. But never struggled very long To rout contemporaneous wrong, And never lost his sleep, they say, About the evils of to-day But wept about the origin Of sin. , He sighed about the origin Of sin; But showed no fear you could detect About its ultimate efT.-ct ; He deemed it best to use no forco, But let it run its natural course But moaned about the origin Of sin. Sam W. Foss, in Yankee Blade. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Of course a young woman expects to be killing when sho puts on a kilt. Fun. It takes a master stroko to smooth down a rebellious schoolboy. Texas Siftings. About all some peoplo want with re lij'ion is to make them feel good. Ram's Horn. When the head of a mortal gets turned it is always turned the wrong way. Galveston News. Many a wlso man has picked up a good suggestion where somo fool dropped it. Galveston News. Figures wont lie, but they arc as clay to the potter in the hands of an expert. Boston Transcript. "She's a very upright young lady." "Yes, but sho's bent on matrimony." Philadelphia Record. A man who lives fast cannot expect that enjoyment will keep up with him. Binghauiton Republican. "Was the pug dog mod that the po liceman shot?" "Gee, whiz! no; but the woman that owned him was." Inter Ocoan, Forrester "How time does fly." Lancostor "I don't blame it. Think how many peoplo there are trying to kill it." Brooklyn Lire. At Home: Jack Dashing (angrily) "Pen, I have found you out!" Pcnelopo Peachblow (yawning) "I really wish you had, Jack." New York Herald. When on his hobby once he mounts, He'll ouatter by the hour. His eloquence is not what counts; i it is bis staying power, Washington Star. As a rule, a man who has a moustache he can twist, or whiskers he can stroke, Is three times as loug making up hit mind as one who hasn't. Atchison Globe. "Was your son graduated at the head of his claes? ' "No, indeed. Ho was in a much more responsible position at the very foundation of it." Black and White. Walking is said to be the best exer cise for brain workers, and it is worthy of note that brain workers can seldom afford to do anything else. Boston Globe. Mrs. Coldwatcr "I wonder nhy he doesn't try holding his breath when ha has hiccoughs." Jaglots "1 guess it' 'most too strong for him." Chicago Inter-Ocean. "Well, this ts tough 1'' exclaimed Jack Frost. "What isi" asked the man in tho moon. "Here is a newspaper allud ing to me as Jack tbe Nipper." Indian npolis Journal. "Why is it that Mr. Hardy provod such i fiat failuro in society?" ""That's easy enough to answer. Ho talked sense when out at social functions." Chicago Iscws Kecord. llo "A woman can't conceal hct feelings." She "Can't, ch? She can kiss a woman she hates." lie "Yes, but she doesn't fool tho womau any." Brandon Banner. "Do you think It is a symptom of in sanity for a man to talk to himself?" "Not necessarily. It may be merely a good-natured toleration of poor society." Washington Star. Wife (excitedly) "If you go on liko this I shall certainly losu my tcm cr."' Husband "No danger, my dear. A thing of that size is uot easily Ion." Commercial Bulletin. It does not follow thai a man is super ior to his fellows because he makes an impression in society. The dull razor is most successful iu making its prcseuco known. Boston Trausrript. "Do you see double."' asked the oculisl who was examining Farmer Fodder's eyes. '-Of course 1 do," replied the farmer. '! have two eyes, haveu't 1" Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. Van Arndt "She told me it was her first year out." Maid Marian "Why, sho's been out four scasous." Vuu A. "Ah, well, she counts four seasons tho year, I suppose." Ivato Field's Wash ington. A Jersey City ntliciul who is in tho coal business, and has been underselling his neighbors, has been put under arrest, for selling light tons, uud is now likely to I cam something about the famous weigh of thetrausyrcssor. Philadelphia Ledger. Jimmy "Can you talk, Mr. Flyppf" Mr. Flypp "Yes, of course I cau. Why did you ask?" Jimiuiu "Why, 'cau-so I heard mamma say that your voice was drowned last night ut the concert, aud that she was just awful glad of it." Chicago Inter-Ocean. Mrs. Goodluek "I don't believe I cvnr missed any one as I do .Mrs. HI tone." Mrs. Dasher "i didn't know that you were acquainted with her." Mrs. Goodluck "I wasn't exactly, but we had the same washerwoman aud we have been exchanging haudkf chiefs for a lou time." luter-Oceau.
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