IBS FOREST EEPDELICAN It rablMef T.ry WdMUy, ky J. E. WEHK. Cfllo i Braearbaugh A Co. Bonding km muurr, tionwta, ra, rm, . . . tl.69 pwTwr. ,.,r"'T' N1" rlo i.rrn.pondnir solicit fr U tarts f th Troinuy NbUc WM1 ft HUM funrniii RATIS OF ADVERTISING l REPU ICAN. On Bquer, on inch, on insertion. .1 1 00 On Pqasra, on inch, on month. . ., 00 On Square, on incb, three month. . B 00 On Rquare, on Inch, on year . , , . . , 10 00 Two Squares, on year 1600 Quarter Column, on year 80 00 Half Column, one year (0 00 On. Colainn, on yar, . . 100 "0 Legal adYrtimnta ten oent par Uat each Insertion. Marriages and daath notion gratis. All bills for yearly advertisements colltuaii VOL. XXV. NO. 33. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 7, 1892. S1.50 PER ANNUM. quarterly, i.mporary advertisement I oe pain in aavance. Job work cash on delivery. - J BL Every Northern State west of the Al hniaBirs has a Stnto university. London publishers are said not to relish the Increasing ante in that city of tlio American, magazines and porir di calf. Aocording to the New York Indepen dent "business Is growing more sctiye nt nearly every Important point, whether in the East, West or South." A well-informed statistician has stated that more Ilobrew synagogues have been set up in this country during the past , tcu years than in all previous years of American history. Tho popular subscription of $13,000 raised in New York City to provide for sick babies did a great work. Over 116,000 families were visited and over 10,000 sick were prescribed for. The Doston Transcript laments that whales aro gottlng almost as scarce at sea serpents, and that whalebone is got tlng to cost so much that dressmakers' bills aro just about half "or trim mings. " The Kalmucks have an original method of treating cholera. Whenever one of thcin is attacked by tht epidetnio ho mounts a horse and gallops as long as ho has strength to stay on the animal's back. A Russian journalist tried this remedy recently and is said to have found it ef fectual. Columbus is everywhere, the Now V"rk Journal exclaims, and -the very i- mils seem to shout his name. Even p yasht clubs talk of having lectures u tho voyago of Columbus, and before Inter is over some of them may be ' biding the question "Was Columbus .;r,b of a sailor!" U was lately quoted in British shipping -:!o as a proof of the depression affect Ini; tho shipping trado that a splondid fo;ir-iunstod iron bark of 2000 tons reg 'er, owned on the Clyde, came into i t from Australia in ballast, was un "Mr to get a caro, and sailed baok for 'io antipodes again with the same ballast 'i i brought with her. Tho Azores are to be connectod with ' irnpa by cablo and European weather : ruphcts are indulging In tho hope that ; .m: Hands so eligibly situated in mid Atlantic ooean may be utilized at meteo rological stations. As most of the Euro pean storms come from that quarter the Chicago Herald thinks that a station in the Asorcs would be of the utmost value to science as well as to tba world's com iv.iTC.tal marine. ') l.o railroad building of 1893 in the Vuiii.d Statei is entrusted by the New York Independent at a little less than 4'JOO miles. This 4000 miles will bring Uib railroad mileago of tho country up to nn aggregate of 175,000 miles. Only 10,000 miles of railroad wero built from 1830 to 1851; duiing the next five yean ns many more were built, and then tho increase was greater until 1837, when 13,800 miles were built, tho largest num ber of new mileage roc r led in any ono year. Capitalists ate preparing to establish a line of steamers between Portland, Ore gon, aud tbo Sandwich Islands to obtain u share of the trado which San Francisco i i.v mcnopolir.es. The Islands last year i to San Francisco firms $37.3,000 for 1 1 and $165,000 for grain and fcod. i ':aud can supply these staples cheaper i.i.. ii its rival, nod in return for thorn . to bring bananas, pioeapnlos, .u-u.joub, and other fruits to its own door. As a loctl merchant puts it: "There is co reason why Portland should pay Ban Francisco a commission on our f r-.i it., and no reason why the islands , i.i pay San Francisco a commission . a Oregon flour and feed. Closer com- m relations must prove profitable ' ' . to Portland aud the islands, and I i. : reason why the enterprise should . . . l a success." u Eastern paper appears a lament - r the departure of tho typical grand-'-"tier. A pretty picture is drawn of ' .o gray haired old lady that is a mem ry of childhood, with her sweet and ( iUiout face and gcutlo manuers. Theu : t is affirmed that she is no more. In r place has como a womau who uses rouge and has her children's , children call her "Aunty" There would be iutsous for lamentation had the grand mother really vanished, admits the 8au KriinciKCO Examiner, but she hasn't. The i-ni writer may have been deprived e, imJ may have seen a spcoimeu . of the bogus aunty. But the . . ; i.jsUlt is a fixture. In many a ...1.1 she is tho central object of at .'I, us sweet and gentle as ever. M i -) of living" ohauge, and not al . , i .r the better, but they have never ..! so radically and badly as to . .u'.n tho grandmother, and when v do the time will have coma to writ . i,,iiou a failure. WHF.RBTHE BOUC5H ROaD TURNS, Where the rough road turn and th valley sweet ' Smile soft with Its balm and bloom, We'll forget the thorns that have pierced th feet And th nights with their grlet and gloom. And th skies will smile and th star will beam '' And we'll lay us down In th light to dream. We shall lay us down In th bloom and light With prayer and a tear for res As tired children who creep at night To th lov of a mother's breast; And for all tho grief of th stormy past Rest shall b sweeter at last at laatl Swoeter because of th weary way And th lonesome night and long, Whtl the darkness drifts to th perfect day With its splendor of light and song: Th light that shall bless us and kiss us and lov ns Anu sprinkle the rose of heaven above ns! F. L. Stanton, In Atlanta Constitution. A SWISS LOVE STORY. BY. ANNA PIKRPONT BIVITBR. N a pretty chalet that nestled high agnintt the shaggy breast of Mount Ob' gadin lived the widow Neur and her daughter Marie. A lonely home you would have thought It, but the fir trees that wailed so in iyour ears whispered good cheer to Marie, When fierce winds came rushing down the mountain side, the knew the trees would bend their tall heads together and twine their strong arms arouud her home, until, robbed of bis victim, the bafBed storm rushed by. When morning broke, the same friends stood erect and stately, drawing aside their leaves and branches, that the sunbeams might not linger In their soft embraces, but hasten down to awaken their favorite, Marie. Very lovely was the little 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 shut in her pearly teeth, and when she smiled a tiny dimple danced foi a mo ment on her peachy check. Her hair clung in caressing curls around her low white forehead, and fell in ripples of golden sunshine far below her slender waist. And her voice I Ah I that was Marie's greatest charm. Soft and clear, not a discordant note marred its sweet, pure harmony. Sometimes as she sang at her evening devotions the herdsmen 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's beauty. For when she went with her mother on on of her raro visits to the hamlet be low, she brushed ber wavy hair straight and smooth back from her forehead, and braided it in long still plait which fell down her back. Her eyelids, with their curtains of long illky lashes, drooped over her danc ing eyes until one looked in vain for a glimpse of their beauty. Her red lips shut firmly over her pearly teeth, while the dimple hid itself resolutely away from sight. And ber sweet voice, frightened at its own sound so far from home, grew faint and huiky, until, in this shrink ing, sober damsel, walking so timidly beside the Widow Neur, you would havo found it hard to recognize the beautiful Marie of the mountain. So it happened that only her mother and one other person knew bow good ana sweet ana now lair Mane 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 be spent whole nights gazing at the heavens through a long tube; that he could foretell to an hour when the sun would cover 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 which no one elsj could understand. "Vick, tick, tickety tick," It said, and it told him things that happened miles and miles away. Marie did not know how wise the wizard was when he csme to hor home one morning and asked for a drink of water. He followed ber to the spring when she 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 teldher 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's chalet for rest and refresh ment on his long rambles, and Marie un 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's home lived another widow. Sh?, too, bad but one child, a son, who was the pride and delight of her life. This was the brave young hunter and guide Qustavus Friel. Every one knew and liked Qustavus. He was tall, straight, and huudsotue, with flashing brown eyes, and a laugh as frank ai 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. Qustavus, however, cared little for th Obgndin maidens. lie would far rather chase the chamois Up tho mountainside or guide travelers through its dangerous passes than spend his time with the finest of the maid, of the hamlet. His mother often said, "My son, when wilt tbou bring me home a daughter and thyself a wifet" And Qustavus, 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 mother said more sadly and seriously than ever before: "Qustavus, I am growing old and feeble. I 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." Qustavus reluctantly gave ber the de sired promise, but it weighed heavily upon him. He could think of nothing else, and the more he pondered the heavier his heart grew. At last be seized bis gun and went out on the mountain, but the perplexing questions followed him, until at last be threw himself on the ground groaning, "Oh, that some wise man would make this choice for me 1" A moment after he looked up and saw, as if in answer to his wish, the wizard approaching him. "Why," he exclaimed to himself, "did I not think of him before? Surely he, if any one, can help me." Then, with a throbbing heart, Gnstavos sprang up to meet him. ' The wizard greeted Qustavus warmly, for he felt a strong friendship for the young guide who had taken him safely through many a dangerous mountain excursion. " And now his sympathetic question, "Why, what's troubling you, my boy?" opened the way for Qustavus to pour out ail his perplexity, euding his recital with the question; "Canst thou not help me choose a good wife who will make ray life hap py! For now I have given my mother tny promise to find a wife at the fete next week." The wizard smiled sympathetically, and then thought in silence ft little while before he answered. "If a pure, true heart ie united to a true, pure heart, both lives must bo bappy." "Alas I" answered Gustavui, "but I know not which maiden among them all has the purest, truest heart I" "There will be ono such heart at the 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." Here was comfort, indoed, and with a light heart Qustavus thanked his friend and bounded forward. Left alone, the wizard continued down the mountain-side until he came in sight of the Widow Neur's 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!" be 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 the young men will care to dance with me." "Hut 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 I know not what to aay, 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 in all the land will dance with you quite joyfully." The happy Marie thanked the wizard as Qustavus had done, and ran off to tell tho wonderful news to her mother. Early next morning Qustavus went for his charm. Ho lound the wizard waiting for him, aud taking him into bis strange room, the wise man said, smiling, as he had the day before, half quizzically, half sympathetically: "Here's the charm, my good fellow. You see it is a magic ring. Put it on before you go to the 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 nil 1' Qustavus, greatly wondering, thanked the wizard and slipped on the ring. , It was a curious circlet of iron, with a flat extension, which the wizard bade him wear pointing toward his palm. When the fete day came Qustavus was there among the other young men, eager to try his charm. All the maidens of Obgadin were there also, and on the outskirts of one of tho gay crowds little Marie hovered timidiy beside her mother. "Why didst thou come, Marie I ' asked ono of the girls. '4idgt thou think any youth would want to dance with a mouse to-day t" asked another. Then seeing the quick tears trembling on Marie's lashes, she added more kind Iji "Ah, well, thou canst at least see our good times." "What a lovely belt thou hast, Marie 1" cried another maiden. "Where didst thou get it!" "The wizard gave it to her," the Widow Neur answereJ 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." Marie ntatled close to her mother' i side, and as the hours fled and no youth asked her to danco, her head dropped lower, and she wondered if the wise man had made a misiake. In the mean time Qustavus danced with one after another of the maids, but though he watched with intense eager ness, not once did he feel the strange thrill for which he waited. 'I have danced with them all," he said at last to himself, "oxcept that shy one over there: surely she is not the girll" 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 Marie for a moment forget her shyness. The wizard's words had come true! Rising quickly, she said, smiling upon him, and showing her beautiful eyes already dancing with delight, and the dear little dimple in her cheek: "Art thou come!" "She is not so plain, After all," thought Qustavus, as be answered: "Wast tbou looking for me, Marie!" Marie hung her head without answer ing, and Qustavus, wondering a little at ber words, led ber to the dance. As he placed his arm around her his band touched her shining belt. Instantly a strange thrill ran through them both, and Qustavw's arm seemed to cling to Marie's waist. "Marie, didst thou feel that!" he asked earnestly. And Marie smilingly answered I "Yes." So they began dancing, and as they danced it seemed to those watching them that a wonderful transformation came over Marie. Her hair, shaken loose from its long, stiff braids, hung like a glittering gol den veil all around her, her beautiful eyes shone like stars, 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 hei rosy lips. Not one of the village maid ens was half so fair as she I "Surely," said the amazed villagers, "there was never suoh a handsome couple." "But is not Marie under a charm," cried others, "she has suddenly grown so lovely!" "Love's witchery, it it is true and pure, will transform all of us and bring out all that is loveliest and best within us." As for Qustavus, he thought rightly that he never seen so good nnd beautiful a creature, and he blessed the wizard for the charm which had led his heart to hers. Long before the summer encled, Qus tavxs took home Maria to be his own and his mother's greatest joy and bap piness. When M. le Wizard returned to Paris that winter, be read a scientifio paper before the savants of the Academy, In it he detailed many of his wonder ful discoveries and his work during the summer. But he did not speak of the 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 Topeka, which anived from Alaskan ports early the other morning, brought a mammoth skeleton that was the center of attraction to large number of sight-see re rs at Pacific wharf, states the Port Townseod (Washington) Leader. The skeleton 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 some years ago near Oxford, England, and is one ot the most valued specimens now on exhibition in the British Museum. J. L. Buck, of Everett, claims the honor ot having brought this valuable relic to light, although it was discovered four years ago by a prospector named Frank Wi'.loughby. The 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. The skeleton was finally located by Buck and his Indian assistant on top of the cele brated Muir glacier, six miles inland and SOU foet 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, presumabl) by a fall or by being crushed, and was somewhat dam aged when taken ont. The rhamphoreates, or whale-lizard, bos been extinct for over five centuries, and is described in natural history as the "king of the land and the sea," this cog nomon being undoubted lyabased on the fact that it was equally at homo In the water, on land or in the air. In the first instance the rate ot speed was something terrific, the momentum being produced with the legs, while the enormous wings served to keep the 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 the fact that a single bone weighed 7tt pounds, while the entire skeleton tipped the scales at 2400 pounds. The bones will be put together by Buck at bis borne in Everett, aud after being exhibited will be sent to the Smithsonian Institution. The specimen is valued at 130,000. The lace bark tree grows in the West Indies. It is a lofty tree, with ovate, entire smooth leaves and white flowers. It is remarkable for the tenacity of its inner bark and the readiness with which the inner bark may be separated after maceration in water into layers re sembling lace. Two land granta, said to bear the signatures of John Adams and Martin Van Buren, were recently found in a lot of waste paper at the paper mill In Palmyra, Mich. THE SAVAGES OF BRAZIL. CURIOUS TRIBES OP INDIANS WHICH INHABIT THE COUNTRY. Habit ot the Uotocndos Pleasant People 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, ore "Caucasians," and in the majority of individual cases they are so largely "mixed" as hardly to deserve the name. Another third are negroes ; less than one tenth are Indians, and the rest como un der the general head of Metis, or mixed beyond classification. The first, the ed ucated, generally wealthy and compar atively white Portuguese, Brazilians, Spanish-Brazilians and Suxon-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 the controlling ele ment. To these should be added the soldiers, or 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 the wishes of the majority of Brazilians out side the capital;, who ousted the first President in the beginning ot his term, and are capable at any time of any sort of political overturning. Brazilian Indians are said to be about the ugliest human beings on the face ot 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 euough to till small patches of land, live in huts, raise cattle and weave mats for sale. The Portuguese gave them their singular name from the word potogue, meaning a barrel bung from their habit of wearing large, round disks of wood in their ears and under lips. This fashion used to go so far that in middle life many of them had stiff uuder lips pro jecting five or six inches, holding a plug as big as the top of a coffee cup. Of late years the custom is mostly discontinued. The men varnish 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 ot white and red to their faces aud arms. Though many of the Bjtocndos are now partially civilized, we are assured that those of the far interior are yet cannibals to the extent of eating their captives taken in war. Like the Qreeks of the Homeric age, they consider it the great est of evils to lie unburied after death; so tbey delight in making 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 ot 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 personal 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 doubtless 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 and property. 'I hero are many scat tered tribes of unreclaimed savages, most of whom are wandering caunibals and all implacably hostile. Perhaps the most interesting among these (at a safe distance) are the Muudrucus or "IJe headers," who, with their ullius, are said to number between twenty and thirty thousand. They live up the Ma dura Tapajos, Itio Negro and other trib utaries of the Ama.ou, in palm leaf huts set around a central malocca; the latter not the dwelling of a chief, as might be supposed, but rather a grand council chamber, fortress, arsenal and general pow-wow room. Ta it aro deposited those horriblo trophies, the preserved heads of their enemies, which have given to the Muudrucus their title of "Bo headers." Vnlikethe Jiveros of South eastern Ecuador, tbey do not extract the skull, but by some savage process of embalming keep the cranial relic as nearly entire as possiole, inserting false eyes (made ot bits of shell or polishod quartz), the long hair combod carefully out and decorated with strings of rockcock and macaw feathers, feather earrings in the ears and dyed strings passed through the tongue by which to suspend it to the rafters. In peaceful times hundreds of these aro ranged around the walls of the malocca or set in rows arouud the mandioca 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 poiuts ot tho warriors' spears. Strange to say the Dyaks of Borneo have a similar custom of preserv ing their enemies' heads, and are pro vided with blowguns, almost identic with those of South Americans. Like most other Amu.nniun Indians, the Mundrucus cultivate a little mandioca, corn and plautains. They know how to prepare farinha meal from the mandioca, and also to brew a sort of intoxicaut re sembling chica. They have gourd ves sels, some of them quaintly carved, ruUe j-jta ot baked clay sud utensils of wood and stone. Their canoes are hollowed tree trunks, snd besides tho blowguus for killing birds, they have bamboo s-iears with poisoned points and arrows tipped with the deadly curare. By the way, the latter is now generally conceded to bo neither a vegetable poison nor the veuom of serpents, as was formerly supposed, but the putrid matter from ducked human bodies, the arrows bein'j stuck into a festering corps aud left uutil soaked full of the deadliest poison known. 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 the present time the average height of the tides the 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 opco for repairs or other purposes. The use of minute quantities ot 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. The life of a locomotive crank pin, which is almost the f.rst thing about an engine to wear out, is 60,000 miles, and the life of a thirty-three-inch wheel is 66,733 miles. A California company makes a splendid article 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 the same regularity as do the ocean tides. It is believed to have some mysterious connection with the sea. The lower grade of molasses sells for such a poor price (two cents a gallon), that some of tho Louisiana sugar houses use it for fuel. Several ot the Cuban sugar 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 the sex ot the egg. It appears that a colored or dark pig ment in tbo 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, the white cat for instance, are almost invariably deaf. A Boston dentist advocated hypnotism as a local anooithctic in a paper read be fore the New England Dental Society and hypnotized a patient there and then as an object lesson in the practise, 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 an 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 its natural enemies. He illustrates tho value of this protection by the statement that the inhabitants 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 the application of coal tar. The latter is employed in a boiling state, in ono or more layers, or it may be made to flame up before being used, the first being suitablo for surfaces ex posed to the air, while tho second is ap propriate in the case of parts intended to be covered up. This method of treat ing foundations is declared to be of special utility in all publfo buildings, particularly those designed for the pres ervation of works of art, preventiug as it does exudations of water charged with lime salts from the mortar. Morale of Thirteen Fnrs. A rug, ten by fifteen foot, made up the fur of thirteen wild animals is now in the possession ot W. II. Wallcnbar, who has an office on Dearborn street. Mr. Wal lenbar 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 pcaranco ot a rich mosaic, the deep yel low ot the tigor woven into the 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, the patch-like diamond pieces radiating from a circular tuft of monkey skin and bordered by a rim of otter. The ground woik of the entire piece is in monkey skin. Outside 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 ottor. The inner rows contain sixteen circles of Russia sable and monkey akin. At either end aud on the sides is a six-inch selvage of Russian silver fox bide and twenty silver-gray fox tail adorn the ends. In tho make-up pieces of the furs from the Russia sable, Per sian lamb, Angora goat, China goat, mink, otter, South sea seals, monkey, Thibet lamb, musk rat, weazel, leopard and the Russia silver-gray fox are used Chicago News Record. EhkUhIi Fruit Market. There is a prevalent notion that? our markots arc richer iu fruits and vegeta bles than those of Enlaud, yet a woman writiug home of the great Coveut Gardt-u market in Loudon says: "Of the lovl -n ess aud variety of fruits here expose I Americans have no adequate Idea. 1 sa v so oi os of varieties ot Euglisband foreign grapes, peaches as large as cricket balls, glossy nectarines, scarlet and browr, downy apricots, freckled by the sun, monster nlunis. luscious Lrreen cajes. Orleans plums and swans' eggs, glowing magnum bonums, pears from the Chan nel Islands and the south of France, mul berries, melons, the ambergris, and lato strawberries big as eggs, in temptiu,' bouquets, bringing from teoptnee to a shilling apiece." New York Post. THE ORIOIN OP olt. He talked about the origin -Of sin. Bat present sin, I mart confess, He never tried to render lew. Bat used to add, so people talk. His shar onto the general stock But grieved about the origin Of sin. H 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 ot 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 effect; He deemed it best to use no forco, But let It run it natural course But moaned about the origin Of sin. Sam W. Foss, in Yankee Blade. HUMOR OF THE DAT. Of course a young woman expects to be killing when sho puts on a kilt. Fun. It takes a master stroke to smooth down a rebellious schoolboy. Texas Siftings. About all some peoplo want with re ligion 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 some fool dropped it. Galveston News. Figures wont lie, but they aro as clay to the potter in the hands of an expert. Boston Transcript. "She's a very upright young lady." "Yes, but she's bout on matrimony." Philadelphia Record. A man who lives fast cannot expect that enjoyment will keep up with him. Binghamton Republican. "Was the pug dog mad that the po lloemnnshot!" "Gee, whiz I no; but the woman that owned him was." Inter Ocean. Forrester "How time doei fly." Lancaster "I don't blame it. Think how many peoplo there are trying to kill it.1' Brooklyn Life. At Home: Jack Dashing (angrily) "Pen, I have found you out!" Penelope Peachblow (yawning) "I really wish you had, Jack." New York Herald. When on bis hobby once he mounts, He'll chatter by the hour. His eloquence is not what counts; ! It is bis staying power. Washington Star. Al ft rule, a man who has a moustache he can twist, or whiskers he can stroke, Is three times as long making up hit mind as one who hasn't. Atchison Globe. "Was your son graduated at the bead ot his clots ( ' "No, Indeed. He 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 why he doesn't try holding his breath when ha has hiccoughs." Jaglots "I guess it's 'most too strong for him." Chicago Inter-Ocean. "Well, this Is tough 1" exclaimed Jack Frost. "What is J" asked tho man in tho moon. "Hero is a newspaper allud ing to me as Jack the Nipper." Indian apolis Journal. "Why is it that Mr. Hardy proved such a flat failure in socloty?" ""That's easy enough to answer. He talked sense when out at sociul functions." Chicago News Record. Ho "A woman can't couceal bet feelings." She "Can't, ch? She can kiss a woman sho bates." He "Yes, but she doesn't fool tho woman any." Brandon Banner. ' "Do you think it is a symptom of in sanity for a man to talk to himself!" "Not uecossarily. It may bo merely a good-natured toleration of poor society." Washington Star. Wife (excitodly) "If you go oti like this 1 shall certainly lose my temper."' Husband "No danger, my dear. A thing of that size is not easily lost." Commercial Bulletin. It does not follow that a niau is super ior to bis fellows becuuse he makes au impression in society. The dull r.izor is most successful in making its prcseuco known. Boston Transcript. "Do you see double'" asked the oculist who was examining Farmer Fodder's eyos. "Of course 1 do," replied the farmer. "I have two eyes, haven't It" Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. Van Arndt "She told me it was ber first year out." Maid Mariau "Why, she's been out four seasons." Vuu A. "Ah, woll, she counts four sextons tho year, I suppose." Kato Field's Wash ington. A Jersey City ollicial who is in tho coal business, anil has been underselling bis neighbors, has beeu put uuder arrest for selling light tons, aud is now likely to learn something about the famous weigh of the transgressor. Philadelphia Ledger. Jimmy "Cau you talk, Mr. Flypp!" Mr. Flypp "Yes, of course I cau. Why did you ask!" Jimmiu "Why, 'cauiu I heard mamma say that your voice was diowned lust night ut the concert, aud that she was just awful glad of it." Chicago Inter-Ocean. Mrs. Goodluck "I don't believe I evr missed any oue as I do Mrs. Ill- tone." Mrs. Dasher "1 didn't kuow that you were acquainted with her." Mrs. Goodluck "I wasu't exactly, but we bad the same washerwoman aud we have been exchanging haadke chiefs for a loisg time." luter-Oceaa.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers