FQBEST " REPUBLICAN aabUshet ory WeddT, fry , ' J. E. WENK. vfflo i Bmearbangh Co.'m 'ullding ui rntur, tionmta, r. Trm, ... tlJOpwTkr. RATIS OF ADVERTISING! One Square, one ineh, one insertion,.! I 6" One Hquare, one inch, one month. . $ QQ One Square, one inch, three month., 6 00 One Square, one inch, one year . . . . , 10 00 1 wo Squares, one year ... 15 00 Quarter Column, one year S0 0G Half Column, one year AQ 00 One Column, one year. 10010 Legal alTertisemnta tea eenta par ttm each UMertion. Marriage and death notioee gratia. All bill (or vearly advertisement eoIlata4 Vorr.ponil.r Mlllt4 trn ll ma f the quarterly, temporary advertisements I oe paid in advance. Job work oaih on delivery. Forest Republican. VOL. XXV. NO. 40. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, JAN. 25, 1893. $1.50 PER ANNUM. AH of Southern Mexico it now openod up to Northern capital and enterprise. The navals vessel now being con structcd by our Government will cost $53,000,000. There is a tremendous agitation in England egninst the uso of ennned goods from America. The Chicago Sun avers that the ex traordinary supply of nil kinds of ma. terial is making spcculntioa almost nr impossibility. Americans hnvo often murvolcd thnt members of the British House of Parlia--ment wear their hnta during session. Blackwood's Magazine solves the mys tery. They have nowhere else to put them. Industrial enterprises nro being placed upon stock basis, so that any one who has money may invest it safely and in a paying way, "This is co-oporntion," adds the Chicago Sua, "but without the solialistic feature." The census report slates that 29.57 per cent, of the farm of Iowa are hired and 70.43 per cent, are owned by the persons cultivating them. The totnl liens on the farms of the Ftato amounted to 101,715,924, the average rato of in terest being 7.36 per cent. Ex-Surgeon General Hamilton believes there will be more cholera with the com ing of spring. There is little or no doubt of it, agrees the New York Re corder.' The country ought to be ready 'for it, and so ought cveiy town and every person in the country. Economists cay that about 1,300,000 persona of both sexes aud all ages per ished by reason of the Franca-Prusian warof 1870; and if one adds to this enormous number the' 336,000 men de stroyed in preceding wars of the second empire, it is found tiiat the reign cf Na poleon III cost France 2,000,000 human lives, not counting the billions of money, the ruins of homes and the dismember ment. Slates the Now York Post: Tho as tounding news comes by cable that Prince Bismarck by way of proving that he really did cause the consolidation of the German Empire, and that it was not the result of chnnce, has avowed that he forged that dispatch from Ems which precipitated the Franco-German war of 1670. That the fatal dispatch was er roneous has long bee a known; that it was lorged by Bismarck has been sus pected by many. Co-education certainly teaches women to demand their rights as men do, re marks the San Francisco Chronicle. Tuua the female students of the Ohio State University, when their complaints about. the sanitary condition of their .recitation and lunch rooms resulted in no improVcment, struck and walked out in a body. This brought things to a head and roform is promised speedily. The Incident will probably servo as a pre cedent in colleges, where too often the just complaints of the students are un heeded. rhe Bochoster (N. Y.) Jewish Tidings tnyt : The utter destruction of American fur-bearing naimals is regarded as a question of only a few years. It is claimed thnt 200,000 trappers aro en gaged in the industry, and that their mode of acquiring the fun is defined to wipe our, before many years, tiiu many varieties of these animal". Their cup ture is accomplished by traps whic'j aro decimating the aniinnls much tho sumo aa,nets are destroying the fish. Souie idea of the extent of this industry may be gained from the export trade, whic'i to England alone, during tho last year, amounted to over 3,000,000 skins, com prising some 1,390,000 rauskrats, 551, 000 skunks, 549,000 raccoons, 123, 700 fur seals, 12,700 bears, 11,000 beavers and 7300 others. The Census Office bas issued a bulle tin, giving statistics of the railroad mile age of the world in 189.). It shows that out of a total railway mileage for tho world of 370,281 miles, the United States have no less than 163,597 miles, or 43.8 per cent, of the whole,, and that the railway mileage of the United States exceeds, by 3197 iniios, tho entire mile age of the old world Europe's 130,865 miles, Asia's 18,798 miles aud Africa' 3992 miles, making an aggregate of but 159,655 miles. It is interesting to note the astonishing growth of the railway mileage of the United States from tli) census year of 1830, when there were less than forty miles, up to 1890. In 1810 the figures were 2755 mile, in 1850 they had risen to 8571 miles, in 1860 the total had swelled to 28,919 miles, the census of 1870 showed the mileage to be 49,168 miles, that of 188'J placed the figures ut 87,724 miles, while the eleventh census figures give tho as tonishing total of 163,597 miles. THB) OOOD-BY KISS AT THE DOOR. I Her eye were illumed with a glance of pride J And her heart with love aglow as sue (ortiy tripped to her husband's side When he opened the door to go. And there In her morning wrapper trim, While a smile her red lips wore, Bhe stood on the steps and gave to him A good-by kiss at the door. Bhe turns to her duties with cheerful heart, For the has not now to learn That the wife and husband must often part When the dally bread's to earn; And there's peace and Joy in her gentle breast As she sews, or sweeps the floor, And every task Is essayed with s-st For the good-by kiss at the door. And the husband striving in life's rough race. Where there's little time for play, Has many a glimpse of her smiling face In his mind through the busy day And his look Is tender, hi eyes are bright As he cons his ledger o'er, For be thinks of the welcome that walte at Bight, And the good-by kiss at the door. O wive and husbands, the world Is bright When the heart with love doth glow, And It path is smooth and it burden light If you're willing to make them so; And the sun will shine throujh the darkest day And scatter the clouds that lower And the rose blossom along life's way For tb good-by kiss at the door. Cape Cod Item. AN ATONEMENT. A BU8SIAK LOVE BTOIIY. RENE VRADSKI and Vladimir Po niatefl occupied tor iTam ... jEgpXjsg tions in life. Al fT:V?fl thouoh he was nnf. versaily esteemed for the fairness of his judgment, his superior ability as a counselor in the village mir, and his undaunted courage as a hunter and horseman, yet he was the only son of a humble trades man, while she was no less than the daughter of the proud and wealthy Prince Vradaki, Governor of Perm in East ern Russia, whose immense castle tow ered over the tcp of lofty Mount Kon jikofski, and overlooked the foaming aud rushing waters of the Sosva. Irene was a tall and slender girl of nineteen, and very beautiful. Her large, dreamy black eyes showed at once the purity of her tout and the tenderness of her heart. She resembled her mother, who wor shiped her only child; the two always bore each other company, while the Prince passed most of his time in Perm, the capital of the province of the same name. On a stormy November day, when the snow was more than twelve feet deep, and a keen, strong wind drifted it over rocks and bushes, Vladimir was return ing home from hunting sables on the Prince's vast property, when, on turning the corner of a bluff where the ground suddenly sloped to the valley below, his experienced eye detected an unusually large and peculiar drift which he had never noticed there before. lie surmised what it was, and at once turned toward it his fiery staliions, who, snorting at the excited cries of their master, sped like the wind over the hard-packed scow. There, sure enough, ley an overturned sleigh, but no sign of life was visible about it. The horses must have run away, or more probably had been hurled into the deep ravine now filled with snow. With all his might Vladimir re moved the snow as best he could on the leeward of the drift, and soon he came upon a human body. It was thnt of a wom&n and was frozen stiff; then he found another, a man's, that of the driver; and after more, digging he came to that of a girl. He saw that the oven alone could resuscitate the first two bodies, if indeed life had not: already loft them; but that of the girl was only benumbed. Without losing a moment he began to rub her fore with snow until it showed signs of animation. As she opened her eyes, she murmured : "Mother, what has hnppenod?" Then, realizing her position, she blushed, and recogniziug her rescuer, said brokenly: "You, Vladimir Poniateff I Do I owe my life to you?" - The hunter bit his lip, for he thought her words implied disappointment at being saved by a plebeian! "Oh, I am not worthy to even snatch her from death's grip!" he muswi. "How long shall my name be thus de spised! But to her I could foigive al most anything t" With Hh:s reflection he carried tho beautiful damsel to his own sleigh, and never before did his heart leap more wildly than now, when bis arms were laden with this frail'cceature. How his eld flame, his love for her, which he had thought almost rooted out of bis soul by avoidiog meeting or even seeing her, now sprang up again in his besom and and fired the innermost fibres of his whole frame. lie carefully placed the girl upon the soft rugs; then went again for the moth er, and again for the driver. He piled upon them the furs from their eloign; but on Irene he laid his own bear skin overcoat. Fifteen verls of snow and drift lay before him, and although he felt that he needed food and rest, he turned his wind footed steeds to the keen blast, and urged them ou with shouts aud whip. The snow storm had abated, but not the wind, aud the suu, though it shone with majestio spleDdor and rendered the whole scenery perfectly dazzling, was as cold as a winter moon. The snow crackled under the iron shod feet of the flying stallions, the cold grew more and more intense, and the gallant rescuer began to feel tho blood mm freezing in his reins. Under any other circumstances he would have halted his horses, rolled himself on the snow, and have run about until his bluol flowed freely; but now three human lives were at stake, one of which was dearer to him than his own. On, on rushed the swift stallions, reeking with sweat from tho mad race, end even when tbeir brave driver ceased to urge thorn forward, as he leaned frozen stiff against the dash board, the faithful and intelligent animuls kept up their homeward course as fast as ever. At Inst they sopped before his house, and their neighs brought out the in ma!(g, who, seeing Vladimir s anding erect and without lurs, at once divined what had befallen him. With Rtssian love and intelligence they has enod to carry him in, stripped him of-his clothes, plunged him in cold water, and then rubbed him until he came to life again. H i first words were to ask bow Irene and her mother felt; but seeing the va cant lcok on their fuc.s,. he hurriedly dressed, and rushed out to bring mother and daughter into the houso. The wo men of the household attended to tbeir .needs, and ere long res:ored them both to CODSClOUSOfSS. Night fell. The hors?s were spent and must bo carefully stabled. Her Lady ship must needs pass one night in the humble home of the Poniatcffs. I sty her Ladyship, for Irene remained for some time nursing her rescuer, who, through the exirtion, and the exposure and the suddeo. reoni mation of his only and all absorbing love, fell a prey to a fever, which made him linger at death's thres hold for loug and weary weeks. The girl had asked for this privilege, in or der that she might testify her gratitude to Vladimir Poniateff for saving her life and that of her mother. He raved about his Irene, who thus learned what sentiments were harbored in the brave young man's breast. In his delirium, be fancied that he was snatch ing her from a pack of hungry wood wolves; then the scene shifted to an icy lake, and he thought that ho arrived just in time to rescue her Irom a hole in the ice into which she was sinking, be numbed and frozen. Then it was an avalanche that had overtaken them both, and with his hands he opened a passage through the snow-slide and carried from under it the inanimate form of his darling. - His rsviogs lasted for nearly a week, and his life, despaired of by the village doctor, bad been in constant danger; but Irene's unflinching devotion con quered disease and death, and re paid him the debt ot her own life. He was saved at lost, and convalescence began. She still remained by his side, and attended to all his wants, and now sho discovered how learned he was, and that, besides his self-taught Latin and Greek, he knew also the old Slav. One day she asked him how and where he had learned the old Slav. In answer lie begged her to fetch him from his bookcase a carefully wrapped parcel which he described to her. She com plied with his request, and he unfolded an old manuscript, written, he said, by ooe of "his ancestors." "Your ancestors?-' she inquired in as tonishment. "Yet, by Ivan Vradski." "Ivan Vradski I Why, that sounds rather like one of my ancestors. I am a Vradski." "Irene, vou are not. You are a Ponia teff!". Ho said this in such a serious tone that she knew it must be true; but what were his proofs! "Ycu are a Poniateff, and I a Vrad ski; so says this n'anuscript. which gives the whole history of your family and mine from the remotest times. I will read it to you. Listen." When the convalescent paused, ex hausted from reading, she knew that Ivan Vradski, an undoubtedly genuine prince and former owner of all that her fathor now possessed, was, at the time Russia was divided into provinces, out witted by Alexander Poniateff, his half brother, who usurped Vradski's estate and name and reduced the real Vradski to bondage, whence he was freod only on the sworn condition that he and all his successors should take the name of Poniateff and be satisfiod with a civil offics in the small villuge of Bogoslovsk. Ivan had accepted this degradation in preference to slow death in the dungeon where he had been thrown. To corrob orate the story, the writer had purpose ly given dates and details which, he said, when compared with certain books in the library at the Vradski Castle, would be fouud true. Vlndiinir soon became well enough to warrant Irene's return to hor father's mansion, where she at onco set out to compare Ivan Vradski's startling manu script with the books mentioned in it, and still extaut in the castle library. Winter advanced rapidly, and Ylndi mir was the constant and pleasant sub ject of Irene's thoughts. Now that she knew he was even her superior in educa tion and birth, and that he wauted none of those qualities that form the character of a true nobleman, she felt that her father would bless her love for her res cuer. How happy she was when Vladi mir would come to see her with the ex cuse of presenting her and her mother with the choicest spoils of his hunt, and how wretched when he left ber and stayed away ! She could wish to be again under the snow-drifts, or lit hit humble home nursing him I Christmas was very near now, and the greut chapel of the Vradski Castle was being prepared for the midnight mass, to which the whole village flocked on Christmas Eve. It came at latt; the chapel was thronged with pious meu and women. Prince Vradski had corns from Perm for tho occasion, as was his wont, and with the Princess and his daughter mingled with the rest of the worshipers. Muss is commenced, the gray-haired lbpe is abut to conse crate the bread and wine; he has turned himself to the people and solemuly shouted to the awed o-i'gregation : j "Christ i born, uoto jou.'1 The bells ring merrily forth the happy tidings, and tho faithful follow their time-honored custom of kissing their neighbor. me t'rinco kisses his wife, and Irene, under her parents' eyes, kisses, not her wealthy cousin, Pariowski, at her right, but Vladimir at her loft. Everybody has remarked it; and albeit the villagers find it only too natural, her parents are astonished and her cousin is highly in dignant. He bestows a look of scorn upon the penniless Vladimir, who returns it as haughtily. Pariowski decides to ask an explana tion from the Prince the very next morn ing, but finds his uncle quite changed from what he had been during their journey from Perm to the castle the pre vious day. Irene has asked and obtained a private interview with her father, who, although greatly astonished at her recital of Ivan's manuscript, could not gainsay its veracity, and before Christmas Day is over he feels happier than ever before in his life. He has atoned for his an cestor's great sin by granting his beauti ful daughter to the brave Vladimir. Translated for Romance. Feeding Iho Berlin Poor. Here in Berlin, writes Frank G. Car penter in the Washington Star, meals are served to poor people at almost cost prices, and among tho collar institutions of the city are the "Volks Kitchens" or the Peoplo's Kitchens. Thore are a number of these, and they are managed by the ladies of Berlin, who superintend them and who take turns in managing them. They have good cooks, and they feed hundred of people every day. In them you can get a dinner for about five cents, and a bowl of soup or of ricu costs you three cents, while you run get a first-class cup of coffee for a cent. I visit ed one of these the other day. Two nice looking old ladies stood behind a clean, white counter, and back of these were great bowls of soup, with cooks presid ing over them. The room was, I judge, about fifty feet long and not more than twenty wide. It was in a cellar, and it was divided up into compartments for women and men. At the entrance there was a cashier, who gave you checks for what you wanted upon the payment of the money, and you walk buck to these old women and get your soup or coffee and carry it to the benches in the room, where you can sit down at long tables and cat, I laid down three cents and bought a bowl of soup. It was made of beans and it contained nearly a quart. I took a bowl of rice of about the same size, and I sipped at a one-cent cup of coffee and found it not bad. Every thing was as clean as could be, and the closs of people who were eating appeared to be respectable. One of the old ladies told me that they often fed ss many as a thousand a day, and that they gave sup pers as well as dinners. Tbey said that the institution paid its expenses, and that it did not try to mako money. Gold Nugget Shaped Like a Tlund. There have been many large and oddly, shaped gold nuggets found in the United States and elsewhere, but the oddest of them all was that discovered at the Midhas Mine on Sulky Gully, near Melbourne, Australia, in 1887. The nugget was flat and almost the exact counterpart in contour of a colossal human band held open, with the excep tion of the thumb and forefinger, which were closed together in a manner so as to make ic appear that the thumb was holding the fiuger in place. Its great est length was 121; inches and its great est breadth eight inches. It was of the very purest gold, with but a little of foreign substances adhering (mostly be tween the "fingers"), and weighed 617 ounces. It was found in the northwest main drive of the Midhas Mine, 120 feet below the surface of the earth and at a spot only fifty feet from where the famous "Lady Brassey" nugget was dis covered the year before. It weighed fifty-one pounds of pure gold, worth 225 per pound. . In 1891 a nugget of fifteen pounds weight, shaped exactly like a cross, with the ex ception of tho right arm, was dis covered in the Buriss Mine ne ir the same place. St. Louis Republic. Source of Colorinr Matter in Grapes. . In a report of foreign investigations appears an account of careful experi ments made by A. Gauticr in the vine yard. He discovered, as have others already reported upon, that the removal of leaves just before the ripening of the H rail os in a dry season is injurious, the fruit being relatively acid, deficient in sugar, yielding wines ol poor color and quality and more readily succumbing to attacks of fungus diseases. The main object of the experimenter's investigations, however, was to deter mine the source and nature of the color ing matter of the fruit. It appears that this is elaborated in the leaves and trans ferred to the berry at time of ripening, for the removal of leaves about the time of maturity was accompanied in every case by a decided etiolation of the berry. Furthermore, examinations of the leaves revealed the presence in them of the characteristic grape coloriog matter. Analysis showed this coloring matter to be made up principally of three acids. New York World. The Soldier's Poc'iet Handkerchief. Some years ago handkerchiefs were not considered a necessary part of a sol dier's kit, says the Leeds Mercury. Permission to cairy these article! will now probably be given, for I see the War Office authorities have sauctioned a mil itary handkerchief being patented by Lieutenaut-Colouel Fulton. Ou this handkerchief is printed all sorts of useful information concerning the use aud construction of the Lee Metford ride, the alpiisbal used by army signalers, general rules to be observed in auy position in which a soldier may lind himself on campuigu, the various bugle calls and other things, many of which are so nicely illustrated that it would be a thousand pities to use it in the mauner aatnrally prompted bj a cut ting "nor' easier," SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL Over 385 electric roads cover 4000 miles. Leanness is generally caused by lack of power in the digestive organs. In Scotland some of the nlntightor houses are being furnished with appar atus for stunning the cattle by alec tricity. A safety device for window cleaners consists of a strap fastened to each side of the window frame and also to a hook in the belt of the cleaner. Stains from nitrate of silver may eas ily be removed from the bands by a sol ution of chloride of lime. Fruit stains may bo removed by holding the hands over a burning match or sulphur set on tire. A glass factory at Liverpool, England, has glass journal boxes for all of its machinery, a glass floor, glass shingles on its roof, and a smokestack 105 feet high built wholly of gloss bricks, each a foot square. One of the latest applications for heat produced by electricity is the drying ot lumber for planning purposes. The production of heat is becoming in Otta wa one of the most important functions of electricity. From experiments made by English scientists it appears that camphor and oxygenated water are the most energetic excitants of growth' not only as regards the acceleration of germination but as affecting the vigor of plants. In August last the planet Venus was visible in tho daytime at Sao Diego, Cai. A California correspondent writes that he was one of many who witnessed the phenomenon, and (ays it was espec ially noticeable, as the planet could be seen with the sun almost shining in one's eyes. It is said that a larger cave than tho Mammoth Cave, situated in the Ozark Mountains, near Gulena, Mo., has been explored for a distance of more than thirty miles. In it have been found bones of recent and prehistoric animals, including the hyena and cave bear, and flint arrow-heads, but no bones of man. A few animals of the usual forms found in caves are still living there, including a white newt. Authorities in France have been try ing the cryptophone, devised about nino years ago for military and naval purposes. For military use, the apparatus consists of a highly sensitive vibrator and a mi crophone suitably arranged in a pine box, which is buried two or three feet under the road to bo watched. Wires lead to a bell or other signal at tho ob serving station. When an alarm is given, the observer connects a telephone, sad is able to hear the movement over the road and even to determine its direc tion, the apparatus being so sensitive as to indicate the passage of a half-dozen men or a single cart. Jny Gould's Traits of (hnracte.-. An acquaintance ot Mr. Gould says that a remarkable trait in his character was that fierce instinct for family so con spicuous in General Grant, but which has never found the same occasion for its exercise. When he came home from his office bis wife was always awaiting him. In the country, if entertaining guests, Mrs. Gould would disengage her self for this moment ot homecoming. After Mrs. Gould's death, her daughter Helen took her place, and no enticement without ever prevented her from wel coming her father ou his return home. His womankind were kept apart from all considerations of business. At Mrs. Gould's death her fortune, which was considerable, was still invested as it was left ber by her father. In no viciss tude was Mr. Gould ever tempted to touch it. He abhorred all business dealings with women. This dates from an experience early in his career on the market. Two maiden aunts up in the country sent him their savings, $500, to speculate for them in stocks. He did so, and lost it. The money was strictly returned to them, and at no inconvenience to Mr. Gould. But this was not business; it seemed to open depths which might become deeper. He was frequently entreated afterward by women who were near to him, as by women outside, but his dealings thence forth were with men. In one respect Mr. Gould was said to resemble Kenan, who, when he utterly disapproved of an opponent, said: "You are right a thou sand times," and having disar.ned him, procoeded to efface all that he had put forth. When Mr. Gould wished to wipe out au objector he began by agreeing with all he said. St. Louis Star-Sayings. Big Game. The magnifying power ot mist has of ten been described, but perhaps never in a more striking manner than by Mr. Pike in his account of his travels in the "Barren Ground in Northern Canada." We were traveling in a thick fog and saw an animal, apparently at some dis tance, bounding along tho horizon at a most remarkable pace. All down tho line there were cries of "Musk ox!" "Wolf 1" Guns were snatched from tho sleighs, and the dogs charged at a gallop in pursuit of the strange animal. After a rush of ten yards the quarry disappeared. The first man had put his foot on it, and it turned out to be oue of the small mice so common in that country. Philadelphia Record. El hty Eight Degrees Beloir Zero. The coldest known spot on the earth's surface is on the Eastern Slope, a shelv ing mountain that runs down to near the warer's edge, on the eastern bank of the Lena River, in Northeast Siberia. The spot in question is nine aod a fourth miles fro.u Serkerchoof, about latitude sixty-seven north, and longitude 131 east. Dr. Woikoff, director of the Russian Meteorological Service, gives 1 1 j9 minimum temperature ot the place as being eighty eight degrees below zero. It is a place of almost perpetual calm. In the mountains tear by, where windy weather is the rule, it is not nearly so cold. St. Louis Republic, IN A MACAIUM FACTORY. BOW A PALATABLE ITALIAN PRO DUCT 18 MANUFACTURED. The Ingredient Ari Himpta Flrrar and Water The Dough I Pressed Through Holes In Siring. FEW people who ent that tooth, some article macaroni know how or where it is manufac (, turcd. They, however, do know that when it is properly prepared it forms one of the most palatable and healthful dishes that is set upon the table. Many imagine that macaroni, vermicelli, spaghetti and noodles aro chiefly made in Italy and imported into this country. To a certain extent this is true, but of late years the industry has so grown on this Me of the ocean that now but one-tenth of the entire amount consumed in the United States is im ported, says the Philadelphia Times. Some years ago it was distinctively an Italian dish. The natives of that coun try were the first to make it, and they made a National dish of it. Other countries took up the article, until now it is known the world over. Wbilo at first Italy bad the monopoly ot its man ufacture and exported large quantities of it, -now it is made in different coun tries ot Europe and also in the United States. In this country the work is done nearly entirely by Italians, who have immigrated from the mother soil, or by their American descendants. In New York Citv thero are several large factories which produce an average of 85,000 pounds a day, wbilo in this city, with a smaller number of factories, between 7000 and 8000 pounds are made daily. Probably the largest factory in this city is at Eighth and Christian streets. In this one alone 3500 pounds are manu factured each day. Much of this is con sumed in this city, but quantities are shipped to different places in the United States and to Canada and Cuba. A representative of this paper visited the factory at Eighth and Christian, and made a tour of inspection through its three floors and watched the different steps which converts the flour into the hard and brittle substance that after ward becomes so palatable in the hands of the chef or adept house wife. The flour and water is first put into what is called a dough-mixing machine. It is cylindrical in form, and within it are knives or plater, which are worked by steam power. The dough is kept in this machine until it is thoroughly mixed. Then it is thrown into a circu lar trough about six feet iu diameter. Through this troujli rjlls a lnre stone weighing 3300 pounds. Over and over the dough this heavy weight passes, rolliug it out flat. This process is kept up for half an hour. Tli3 next step is the placing of this well-rolled material in a powerful circu lar press worked by steam. The bottom of this machine is a copper pit to or mould. It is about au inch thick and perforated with holes, in the center of which is a pin. Tho dough is forced through those hole?, the little pin iu the center of each making the hollow center in the macaroni. It comes out in long strings, soft and so pliable that it could be tied in a knot. It is then takeu upstairs where a man lays it out in straight lengths on wire trays covered with paper. The whole is covered with heavy paper and the trays are put up in racks to dry. It lies in this position for eight da before it hardens and dries completely. It is kept as much from the air as possible, as tho dampness prevents it from drying properly. Ou nice, clear days tho win dows are allowed to remain open, but on windy days they arc kept closed and the steam is turned on running the tempera ture up between seventy and ninety de grees. This heat does not affect the macsronl, but keeps the air dry. Vermicelli, spaghetti aud noodles are all made tho same way, except that the holes in the moulds through which they are forced are smaller. Tho vermicelli is made both white and of a yellowish tint. The coloring is dono with saf fron. When it is taken upstairs to dry it is laid out in curled-up shapes that give it a fancy appearauce. There is yet another product that tho factory makes that is fancy pastes. Theso are used for soup tho sumo as noodles, but present a much nicer appearance. For the pastes the same mixiug aud roll ing process is gono through with as iu making tho maccaroni. Then the dough is taken up to the second floor, where it is placed in a pressing machine set in a hori zontal position. Instead of the ordinury round poles in tho moulding plates, tho perforations take a number of different forms. All the letters ot tho alphabet are produced. They are very sranll and complete as to form and enlarge afler being placed In the soup. Thus the Himths, the Joneses, the Browns nod the Johnsons may have served the initial letters of their names in their soup. Numbers, stars, rings and wheels are also made, while the pretty shapes of the pepper olivo and melon seeds are also produced. After the different article! are thor oughly dried and harieued they are packed for shipment. The macaroni is made up in pound package's wrapped in tho familiar biuo paper tb At many a housewife imagines has come all the way from Italy. It is also put up iu other colors, with lubels of different kinds, bearing Italian names, all of which give it a foreign look. flie Mart:uet aid the Trouih no'. There is a story told of u newly ap pointed Colonel in the. days of tho old mutiuels, who expressed his dissatiifau lion with tho baud as it luurchod past, because the trombone; vbd not dress the slides of their instruments properly. Ouo man would be half-way donu while another wus ju-t starting. 1:1 vain it was represented to him that di'Tcrent iusiru rucuts were of Jilleien'. i o upas, and re quired dillcreut niinimiWtmu. That was nothing to him ; Im mmt have uniform jty iu the tuuki. A..I tiiu Vear Round, THE STREAM OF LIFE. Like a small streamlet on a motmtain side, A white thread glancing in the summer sun. Lightly down leaping with joyous spring, 8o passes happy childhooi's playful hour. Next, through green dells and 'neath o'er- shadowing crags, ' The growing stream with heedless flow winds on, Now gladly lingering round some glowing isle That smiles with heavenly Ieauty, and allures With promise of perpetual delights; Now fiercely dashing down some rough cas cade - Where rushing waters split on hostile rocks, Spouting aloft the iridescent spray Drifted in sunless cleft by swaying winds; Bo pass the years ot youth. Our riper age Is like the broadened river's stately march. Whose current slacken?, yet admit no pause, But passe field and coppice, tower and town. Not wholly 'scaping from defiling stains, Yet to ling onward restlessly. Adorn It smooth yet ever-sliding stream we haste, Nor mark the progress of its quiet speed. Till, faster rushing as it nearsthe end, It sweeps us onward in resistless course. Through the torn rapids of disease and pain, Till, plunging down the cataract of death, W glide into a vast and unknown space, The boundless ocean of eternity. Walter W. Skeat, iu The Academy, HUMOR OF THE HAY. It rather puts a belle on her mettle when she is extolled. Statesman. Lantern-jawed people can't always throw light on a subject. Sparks. The man that is buried in debt should of cqurse wear grave clothes. Chicago Inter-Ocean. There ate men such sticklers for the truth that tbey never indulge in self denial. Boston Transcript. "Here's another case of kid napping," said the messenger boy who found a comrade asleep. Washington Star. "I hear you didn't catch any fish, M si Emerson, yesterday." "Xo, Mr. Bleccker, they did not seem to be con tagious," Town Topics. Dashaway "What do you think of my new pepper-and-salt suit?" Jag way "It makes me thirsty to look at it." Clothier and Furnisher. The speed of railway trains is better brought to a point where even people on bridal tours regard the tunnel as a nuis Mice. Washington Star. "The survival of the attest," Is a phrase that'll rather rule. It suggests that the chrysintiie Alum will one day wear the Ou le. Washington Star. Caller "What are you looking through that big pile of comic papers fori" Exchange Editor (with a sigh of disappointment) "For f un. " Cnicago Tribune. Publisher "Is your novel realistic I" Author "It is. The hero and the heroine get married in the first chapter and are happy ever afterward." New York Herald. "Say, Job, Iliava just patented a new invention." "What is it?" "A chair that will sink to within a few inches of the floor when a worn in who wears a tall hat sits upon it.'' Tailor "Is the Ladies' Sewing So ciety doing its usual kind of work?" Hostess "Indeed. Ono-half the mem bers are not on speaking terms with the other half now." Chicago Iutsr-Ocean. "These are hard times," sighed the young collector of bills. "Every place I went to-day I was requested to call again but one, and that was when I dropped in to see my girl." Texas Siftings. His Parting Shot: He "But couldn't you learn to love me, Ida?" She "I don't think I could. George." He (reaching for his hat) "It is as I feared 1 You are too old to learn I" Chicago Tribune. Murray Brown "Aren't you posi tively ashamed to meet your creditors, Madison?' Madisou Gall "I don't meet them. Do you suppose I would associate with such people!" Kate Field's Washington. Mabel (to Frank, who has had to take Miss Weighty for a row) "Well, Frank, bow did you like her?'' Frank (wearily) "I wasn't particularly pleased, but she made a great impression on the water." Harvard Lampoon. Mr. Bronson "Did you have an in teresting subject preseuted for your con sideration this morning at church?" Mrs. Bronson "Very. But I couldn't make out whether the lace trimmings were real or imitution." Chicago News. A dilapidated-looking individual who was among tho unfortunates at the Cen tral Police Court yesterday, when asked by the Judge what he was, replied: "Well, yer Honor, I'm a gentleman, but I'm not workiu' at it now." l'uila delphia Record. Madge "Poor Mr. Bentley was just taken home ic a cairiagc; he had dreadful shock." Arthur "What was it?" Madge "His wife made au ap pointment to meet him at a rerti iu hour, and she was there right on the minjte." Chicago Inter-Ocean. Dell "Come on aud we'll have a real good old-fashione.1 dinner alter our shopping trip." Nell "Yes; a sub stantial meal rests me so." Dell "Waiter, bring apluteot macaroons and some very sour pickles, and let me see yes, a pouud of caramels." Inter Oceau. What simple people there are in tho world, to be sure 1 There are tiie 1'iaue leyf, lor example. They went iuto au auction room the other day aud sat spellbound for two hours. They thought it was an elocutiouary entertainment, aud I hey allowed it wus the bust they had ever heard, ami I hey bad listened to some of the best elocutionists iu the city. Boston Tiuuscupt,
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