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VOL. XXV. NO. 42.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8, 1893.
S1.50 PER ANNUM.
Forest
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Rudyard Kipling say American, do
not know how to enjoy a good rest.
'General Dryhonccforth" Is what they
are beginning to call the Government
rainmaker.
The Uoston Cultivator observe that
"young men are coming to tbo front in
every department of business, io politic
and in literature,"
The people of California are protest
' lag against the drop-a-nicklo slot ma
chines as lesscuing tho supply of their
smallest current coin.
, China has a sccrot society to which it
is a capital crimo to belong, fiiwmay
be the reason, suggosts the Now York
Tologram, why it has thirty millions of
members.
In addition to a rocking horso, tho
young King of Spain gets $750,000 a
year at salary. It is a fat job for the
fat little rascal, comments the Atlanta
Constitution.
Tho Army Gazette of Vienna an
nounces au addition of 3000 mon to the
peace standing of tho Austriau army.
Tho measure is commented upon as
indicating that the Emperor of Austria
is disposed to follow tho policy of the
perman Emperor.
Oeology predicts that m 18,136 the
osrth will be coaled and, it might be
said, vested with loo. Tho cheerful
view to take of this, according to the
Sau Francisco Examiner, is that tbeu
the cholera microbe will cease from
troubling and the vellow fever irerui bo
In the late Church Congress at Folke
ttoae, England, one of the clergymen
said that the clergy could only fully un
derstand the wants of tho working
classes by living among them, living as
they did, eating the same food", and sur
rounded by the same influences and thus
acquiring real sympathy and compassion
for them.'
The Vermont State Board of Agricul
ture reports that during 1891 there were
sold in that State 1764 farms, of which
252 were of the class known as aban
doned farms. Most of the purchasers of
these farms, says tho Now York World,
were, as was the case in Massachusetts,
young men born in the State who be
lieved that these farms properly handled
would make better homes than could be
secured in the Far. Wcs, and bring la
fair living.
The Cherokee Commission, which has
just concluded an agreement with the
Pawnee Indians for the cession to th
United States of 283,000 acres of land,
bears this emphatic testimony to the
good influences of education among
these people: "The Pawnee schools
aro well attended, and the older and un
educated Indians are manifesting an in
terest therein, not common to Indians
generally in that thoy defer to the judg
ment ot their educated and English
speaking young men. In our councils
they would submit matters to their
judgment and be guided by them."
The HarrUburg Independent says that
the glory, lu!ciousuc9, richness of
flavor and solidness of tho old varieties
of Pennsylvania apples aro becoming
luxurious more in the memory of the
oldest Inhabitants than in the appetising
enjoyment of the epicures of the present.
The famous Raniba, Imperial, Gold on
Pippin, the delicious Komau Knight,
rich in its cider-producing fragrant
juices; the unrivalled Bjllertowur, tho
odor of which perfumed the palate long
after it was eaten; the mellow Smoke
house that had poetic qualities in its
flesh, though its name was unsavory;
the Greening, which retained its flavor
during the eutire winter, as did the
Grindstone all these were, anl are still
In degrees, peculiarly Pennsylvania
.apples, each of which had a taste
peculiar to its variety, but they are be
coming extinct.'
The report now going the round?, in
which it is stated that Northwestern
New Mexico has been without rain for
two years, that nearly one hundred
thousand cattle have perished and that
the water courses are dried up, is all a
mistake, declares the New York World,
As a matter ot fact, tho northwestern
portion of New Mexico is one of the very
best watered sections of the whole Rocky
Mountain region. It is traversed by
several rivers and is essentially a farm
ing and fruit growing couutry, San
Juan County last year produced 500,000
pounds of peaches, 250,000 pounds of
apples and at least 100,000 pounds of
other fruits. This is a good record when
it is considered that the orchards are yet
young. There are farms there which
produced 500 tons of alfalfa hay. It
has not infrequently happened that so
great has been the rainfall that the roads
between Junction City aud Aztec have
been impassable.
TH CHILD-GARDEN.
In th ehfld-gardan buds and blows
A bkxnom lovelier than th. rose.
If all the flowers of all th. earth
In on. garden broke to birth,
Not tb. fairest of th. fair
Could with this tweet bloom oo-npara;
FT or would all their shining be
Peer to its lone bravery.
Fairer than th. rote, I sayt
Fairer than th. suo-brlght day
In whose rays all glories show,
AU beauty is, all blossoms blow.
What this blonom, fragrant, tender,
That outbeamt the rose's splendor
Purer Is, mora tinct with light
Than the lily's flam, of white?
Of beauty hath this flower tfle whole
And its name tb. Human Soul I
While beside it deeply shine
Blooms that take it. light divine:
The perilous sweet flower of Hope
Here its hiding eyes doth ope,
And Gentleness doth near uphold
Its healing leaves and heart of gold;
Here tender Angers push the need
Of Knowledge; pluok the poisonous weed.
Here blossoms Joy one tinging hour,
And her. of Love the immortal flower.
R. W. Gilder, in the Century.
LOVE AM) LUCRE,
AURA," said Mr.
Cyrus Merive!e to
his wife, as be drew
a close fitting pair of
kid gloves over his
large, fluffy fingers,
'Jack Hoburtonhas
been paying consid
erable attention to
our Catherine of
late, and I shouldn't be surprised if
something came of it."
"I hope so," returned Mrs. Merivalo,
languidly, "for he has lots of money,
people say."
"Oh, Hoburtoo is a bright young
man and will make his mark yet, there
is no doubt about that, and he may be
able to help us out of our miter able
debts," said Mr. Merivale.
The speaker went to the window and
for some time stood contemplating the
the landscape, "The painters have
been working on Robertson's house,"
said he, finally, "and everything looks
brand new."
"Yes," said Mrs. Merivale, "and it
make our place look simply wretched.
You must borrow some money,Cyrus,and
get things fixed up or we shall bo so
cially ostracised."
"I will see about it," said Merivale,
in a dojected tone, "but I don't know
where I can got any. I wish Kate and
Jack were married ; they might help to
keep up appearances."
The keeping up of appearances hod
been Mr, Merrivale's lifelong hobby.
This and tendepcy for risky specula
tion had kept him poor, but ho lived in
anticipation of future opulenoe and pos
sessed the cordial sympathy of his
wife, so things were not as bad as they
might have been had the domestic tastes
of the couple been less harmonious.
As their daughter Kate grew in years
and stature she became so decidedly
beautiful that the parents' hopes grad
ually centered in her. She had many
admirers, but Jack lloburton was the
favorite. Jack was a steady young
man, good-looking, well-educated and
the possessor of a nest egg that in tho
minds of Kate's worldly parents would
be sure to hatch unbounded wealth.
The parents were gracious and paved the
way to an excellent understanding be
tween the young people, so the next
winter when Kate went away to board
ing school and Jack went to seek his
fortune in the great West, matters were
eminently satisfactory all around.
"Yes," said Mr. Merivale to his
daughter, "Jack lloburton will make a
model husband,. one that will tend to
elevate the family station. That's how
it always should be. I would be very
much pained to have you marry anyone
poorer than ourselves."
"Why, papa," said Kate in reply, "I
am not going to marry Jack because ho
has little money. I am going to marry
him because I love him."
"That's right," laughed her father,
"but the money is a requisite that must
not be despised, for without it love
would be a very tame affair, indeed. If
Jack were below you in worldly station
there would be a grotesqueness about
love that would soou destroy it. Io
marriage the social equilibrium should
always be maintained."
About two years after Tack's engage
ment to Kate, and a year previous to the
proposed celebration of the nuptials,
Mr. Merivale startled the bosom of his
family one day by suddenly entering
their midst greatly flustrated and per
spiring from every pore. He threw him
self into a chair, and after prolonged
sileuce that nearly frightened the mother
and daughter out of their senses in
formed them that at lost "the goal was
in sight."
"What goall" they cried.
"At last," said he, "wo shall rise to
our proper station. Henceforth we have
no need to envy Robertson. The credi
tors who have dogged me for the past
ten years shall be relegated along with
bills
s marked 'paid' back to their miser
paid' back to their miserly
level.
In fine," he added, "we are
j "Explain, pray explain," they gasped.
"It's the Arapahoe mine," said he.
"We are worth a cool hundred thousand
and people will think it a million."
The news of Mr. Merivale's sudden
acquisition of wealth spread rapidly and
Eeople exaggerated the reports, as he
ad anticipated. New friends sprung
up on every side. Wherever Kate ap
peared the was more than ever the centre
of attraction.
Mr. Merivalo began to plan changes on
grand scale. A lot was purchased next
(0 Uobertion's and preparations were
mado for the erection of a magnificent
mansion. There- were to be carriages,
servants, gravelled walks, horses, dogs,
fountains in short, all the attributes of
aristocracy.
One day, after a long interview with
his wife, Mr. Merivale summoned Kate.
"I wish to talk with you about that fel
low lloburton," said ho. "You do not
suppose, now, that he will try to hold
you to the engagement, do you!" he
inquired, nervously.
"What!" exclaimed the daughter,
reddoning; "do you mean that he should
forsake mo because we have been for
tunate!" "I mean," returned tho father, more
coolly, "that since our circumstances
have materially changed we should regu
late ourselves accordingly. My principle
is the same as I have always endeavored
to inculcate. No one should ever marry
below his or her station. Our station
has risen and those who wero once our
social equals are ni longer so. Person
ally, Hoburton is an estimable young
fellow, but I must insist that the pro
jected alliance be broken off at once."
If Kate gave her fathor a look of scorn
il was .lost on him, for he continued
ithout looking up: "You have always
been a dutiful daughter, and I have im
plicit confidence in your obeying my
wishes. We have a social status to main
tain. It would be 'flying in the face of
Providence' to disregnrd the advantoges
which our altered circumstances present.
This you would be doing were you to
marry a poor man."
"Why, father," exclaimed the daugh
ter, "Mr. Hoburton is by no means poor.
He has, as you know, over (10,000, and
with the assistance that you might now
afford be could easily add to it."
"Ah," said her father, "you forget
that while he has (10,000, you will have
ten times that. He is altogether too
many rounds in tho ladder below you,
and the sooner ho is informed ot the
change the better for all concerned. No,
no," said he, interrupting her as she was
about to continue the argument. "I can
never consent to the marriage. I should
commit a flagrant breach of duty were I
to allow the equilibrium to be thus dis
turbed. After you have thought the
matter over candidly you will see that
my position is the only one tenable."
The daughter sat for some time after
her father had left the room, over
whelmed with grief at his proposition.
She thought of Jack struggling along
in tho West to prepare for her a home,
and tho idea of abandoning him just
because her fathor had acquired wealth
was not to be tolerated. Even if she
had not loved him so dearly she could
not be io base. Sho wont to hor room
and poured forth her grief in an agony
of tears.
Finally sho gathered up sufficient
courago to writo to Jack, and in a
wretched tear-stained scrawl sho con
fessed her lather's disapproval of the
marriage. While sho was penning this
letter, full of endearments and protesta
tions ot constancy constancy she de
clared that would endure evenlif hor father
"should acquire ten millions" tho pa
ternal Croesus was soatod in his private
office, writing a loiter of a contrary
sentiment.
Mr. Merivale wrote two letters, one to
Mr. John Hoburton, politely requesting
the discontinuance ot attentions to his
daughter, the other to Mr. Joel C. no
button. President of the Ampahoo Min
ing Company, Dotrvor, Col., stating that
he would havo tho pleasure ot calling
upon this official tho following week on
business rtlating to his mining Interests.
Mr. Merivale arrived in Denver on a
Thursday aftornoon and took apartments
at a hotol.
Early in the evening, while inspecting
bis person in the mirror after tho com
pletion of a careful toilet, ho was startled
by a knock upon the door. Ho opened
it and stepped back in unfoigned aston
ishment, for who should bo stauding
there but his once prosumtive son-in-law,
youug Jack Hoburton.
"I saw your name iu the register,"
said Jack, "and have taken tho liberty
to seek an interview."
"Step in," said Mr. Merivalo, rnd
with cool pomposity he ' waved him to a
chair.
"Now," said be, as he seated himself,
"my time is precious. I suppose you
wish to confer concerning your unfor
tunate relationship with my daughter,
but upon that point I have nothing more
to say than what I expressed in my let
ter. I have duties to perform as a parent
that you doubtless understand, and I
hope you will not dwell upon a point
that must necessarily be painful to us
both."
"I did call for the purpose you sug
gest," said Jack, "for I hoped that after
all the circumstance wero made known
you might possibly not be so much op
posed to our union. In the first place,
you know, Kate and I love each other,
and in the second placo, I have acquired
sufficient property to maintain a wife."
"Yes, yes, all that is true, no doubt,"
broko out Mr. Morivale, " but 'suffi
cient' is ouly a relative word. My
daughter's prospect are not what thoy
were. I believe I made you aware of
that in my letter, did I not!"
"Yes," replied tbo young man, con
tinuing his argumentative manner, "but
my prospects are good. I have made
some money and what I have is safely
Invested."
A frown settled over Mr. Morivale's
brow, and he rose and walked rapidly
up and down the room. "The subject
annoys me," said be, "and 1 must beg
you to close this interview. I have al
ways considered you a promising young
man, and if 'thing were different I
would say, marry my daughter and re
ceive my blessing, but as it is, never,
and I must ask that the matter cud
here."
He opened the door and Jack took
leave, the perfect picture ot a broken
spirited youth. When well into the hall,
however, he broke iuto au uproarious tit
of laughter.
The next morning, on repairiug to the
office of the Arapahoe Mining Company,
Mr. Merivale fouud the Preaidout absent
and took a seat iu the reception room.
Aftor he had waited for some time the I
door suddenly opened and Jack Hobur
ton entered.
Mr. Merivale rose to his feet with an
angry scowl. "Young man," ho
blurted out, "I cannot havo you follow
ing me about like this. What do you
mean!"
The office boy stood staring at the
two men with eyes and mouth wide open
with astonishmont. At a motion from
Mr. lloburton he disappeared into a side
room, where he sat for some time with
eye and ear alternately at the keyhole.
Mr. Merivale," said Hoburton, "you
aro laboring under a mistake; this is my
place of business. I had no intention ot
following you, although, to be sure, 1
ex pec tod to meet you here in accordance
with your letter ot last week. Here it
is now," said ho, picking out a bit of
correspondence from a pigeon-hole.
"D.do you mean to say that you aro
Joel O. Hoburton, President of the
Arapahoe Mining Company!" cried Mr.
Merivale.
"Why, yes," replied Mr. Hoburton:
"I am that individual. People back
East refused to call me anything but
Jack, and as that seemod to be an im
provement on my right name I let it go
at that."
"And you must be rich, then!" in
quired Mr. Merivale, rather rod in tho
face.
"1 have been quite fortunate," re
plied Mr. Hoburton, "fori own the con
trolling interest in the Arapahoe mine,
as you may learn on investigation ; but
things can be evened up on the score. 1
love your daughter, and if you will give
us your blessing I shall try to maintain
the family station."
Though somewhat chagrined, Mr.
Merivale made no further opposition and
the nuptials were'finally celebrated amid
all the pomp and dignity apposite to
such an occasion.
House Plants and Health.
An interesting experiment was recently
performed at Harvard University, say
the Boston Herald, for the purpose of
finding out just bow much carbonio acid
is exhaled by plants at night. A. num
ber of plants were put into a gloss case
trom which all air was excluded except
such as bad first pasted through a chemi
cal which freed it from all traces of car
bonic acid. A constant stream of
purified air was made to flow among the
plants all night, and pass out through
another chemical which absorbed what
carbonio acid the air had taken from the
plants. By testing the second chemical
It was easy to find how much caibonio
acid had been discharged by the plants
during tho night. It was found that the
amount was much less than had been
supposed. The quantity of gas given
oil by a room full of plants is actually
loss than would bo geuerated by a can
dlo burning the same length of time.
It is proved then that to far as car
bonio acid is concerned, plants, Instead
of being harmful, are on the whole bene
ficial, sinco during the day thoy holp to
purify the air by absorbing from it the
carbonic acid which is so harmful to
people In regard to the kind of plants,
though, a little care should be used,
especially if any person in the bouse is
very susccptiblo to odors. Heavily
scouted flowers in a sleeping room are
apt to cause headache and sleeplessness,
and to a sick person a strong odor is sure
to be disagreeable. Aside from this con
sideration, house plants are desirable
wherever they will thrive.
Onr Degenerate Littlo Too.
The whole history of the organism
boars testimony to the marvelous per
sistence of parts in spite ot contumely
and disuse. Take, for example, tho pres
ent position of the littlo toe in man. We
know not the condition of this digit in
prehistoric man, and have but little in
formation as to its state among savage
tribes at the present day, but we do
know that in civilized peoples, whose
feet are from infancy subjected to con
ditions of restraint, it is an imperfect
organ
"of .very function shorn
Except to act as a basis for a corn.
In one per cent, of adults the second
and third joints hate anchylosed, in
three per cent, the joint between them
is rudimentary, with scarcely a trace of
a cavity, in twenty per cent, of feet the
organ has lost one or more of it normal
complement of muscles. But though
shorn of some of its elements, and with
others a9 mere shreos, the toe persists,
and he would be a bold prophet who
would venture to forecast how many
generations of booted ancestry would
suffice to eliminate it from the organiza
tion of the normal man. Popular Sci
ence Monthly.
Care of Street Trees.
Street trees sometime need pruning.
If, however, they have been originally
well selected a small knife will be all
that is necessary for a few years to re
move an occasional branch that starts
out in the wrong place. There is rarely
any necessity of cutting off a large limb.
Is this necessity ever does come the limb
should be cut off close to tho trunk and
the place smoothed over and painted, so
that the wound will be ultimately
covered with healthy bark. We have
often explained that wherever a stub is
left this must inevitably die, aud as the
trunk grows about it there will be a
plug of rotted wood where the branch
originally grew, and tho disease will eat
inward and downward as the water
soaUs in from without. After street
trees have attained mature size pruning
is rarely needed beyond the occasional
cutting away of a dead branch or the re
moval of oue which interferes with an
other. Garden and Forest.
A Talking Watch.
M. Sivan, a Geneva watchmaker, ha
informed the Society of Arts of this
town that he has forwarded to Berne,
with the object of taking out a pateut, a
sample of a repeater watch which apeaks
tbo hours and tho quarters instead of
striking. The mechanism of this watch
is an ingenious adaptation of the phon
ograph. Le Tribune de Ueueve,
UNCLE SAM'S STAR GAZERS
WONDERS TO BE SHOWN AT THE
WORLD S FAIR.
A Gigantic Image of the Kim Spl.
dors' Wrbn lor TnlcHcope Sup
plying at Nation WHh Tim.
' OVERNMENT star gnzem, says
I a Washington letter to theBos
JJL ton Transcript, have been hav
ing a great time moving into
the new National Observatory, which is
the most beautiful building for astro
nomical purposes in tho world, situated
on the heights overlooking Wsshington
from the northwest. Naturally, the
transfer from one place to another of in
struments so delicate that a finger must
not ordinarily be allowed to touch them,
lest their adjustment bo spoiled, is at
tended with no small difficulty. But
the article which required the greatest
care in its removal was tho object lens
of the famous Equatorial telescope.
Until the lenses for the Lick Observatory
In California were made, this was the
largest one in America, being 26J inches
in diameter. It cost $30,000. This
precious thing was wrapped in the soft
est of old linen sheets, packed in a box
between mattresses, and conveyed in a
sprng wagon at a funeral pace over four
miles of road uphill and down, reaching
its destination safely. The new obser
vatory will havo eight telescopes, two of
which the public will be permitted to
use for amusement, one of these having
a rive inch and the other a 9-inch gloss.
The exhibit of the Naval Observatory
at tho World's Fair will include a five
inch telescope, through which visitors to
the exposition will be allowed to gaze at
whatever is most interesting in tho
heavens both by night and by day. It is
also intended to sho. v a picture of the
sun on a large scale, a pencil of rays be
ing thrown through a Ions by a mirror
forty feet into n dark room. In this
camera obscura a huge image of tho orb
of dny will appear on a screen, showing
the tremendous flames which leap 7000
miles above its surface, and also the so
called "spots," which are llcry chasms
capable of swallowing up hundreds of
such planets as the earth at a gulp. At
noon each day the astronomers in Wash
ington will drop a time ball five feet iu
diameter on tcp of the main building at
the fair.
The astronomers of tho Naval Ob
servatory hove looked all over the world
for spiders' webs. Such gossamer fila
ments spun by industrious arachnids are
utilized in telescopes for cross-lines ex
tended at right angles with each other
across the field of view, so as to divide
the latter into mathematical spaces.
Threads of cobweb are employed for tho
purpose because they ore wonderfully
strong for their exceeding fineness, aud
also for the reason that they aro not
affected by moisture or temperature,
neither expanding nor contracting under
any conditions. Specimens were ob
tained from China, because it wns im
agined that the largo spiders of that
country would perhaps produce u parti
cularly excellent quality of web. How
ever, it was fouud that the belt web U
spun by spiders of the United States,
such as are plentiful in tho neighbor
hood of Washington. Accordingly, ex
peditions are mado enrly in June each
year, to get from the fencas nnd f.arns
hereabout the cocoons of the big "turtle
back" spiders. Each coc ion is oinposed
of a single silken filameut wound round
and round, though there are apt to be some
breaks in it where Mistress Spider left
off work for a time. Attempts have
been made to use tho cocjous of spiders
like those of silkworms, and exquisite
fabrics have been manufactured fro-u
them. Unfortunately it was fouud im
possible to make the industry a commer
cial success, owing to tho combative in
clination of these creatures. When kept
together they will always goljblo caivi
other up iu a short time, the linal result
being a single very large and fat spider
aud one cocoou.
The rive-foot time-ball to bu dropped
at the World's Fair will be ma.lo of can
vas on a steel frauo. It will be wound
up each day to the height from which it
is to fall, and it will be set and electri
cally connected iu such a manner that
the breaking of the circuit at l'l noon
will release it. Tuo touch of a button
at AVashiugton will instnutuueously
transmit notice of the hour over 350,000
miles of wire. Wuen the button speaks
the whole country will listen, and the
baud of 70,000 eieeiic clocks all over
the United States will poiut to the cor
rect minute and second.
Treatment ol CoHee.
Guatemalans belict-c there is no better
coffee than that raise! ou their own
plantations, aud Central America h.is ot
late years acquired a high reputation
in the markets of the world, it is us
ual for wealthy Guataiuu'an to inalco
sure of good coffee in traveling by tak
ing along a store of their own. A loug
glass tube, several inches iu diameter,
but tapering to a funnel at one end, is
tilled with ground collee, aud through
the moss is poured cold water. A strong
solution of coffee slowly drips from tho
narrow end ot the tube, and this liquid
is carefully put up in air-tight vessels, to
bo warmed up iu small quantities and
drunk on the journey. Ne.v Yurlt Wit
uess. lied of 1'eut in Canada.
There is au enonuoui bed of peat on a
Canadian islaud in tho Bay of St. Law
rence, and the penppi of that part of the
world are begiuuiug to use it as fuel.
It has oue peculiarity, however, which
cost the discovers something to find out.
When cut aud heaped iu Jargu ma-ses it
undergoes a process of fermentation
which heats it often to tho point of
spontaneous combustiuu. Wueu it
takes tire the whole interior of the mass
seems to heeoinu alow hi once, aud uo
water can put it ou'. If dried iu single
block or very stnUI piles uo phenome
non of this kni'l is nutieecl, ul u a liiel
is liitle inferior to coal. Buiitou. 'j'rau-script.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
I & new Iran. Ul uiitumi w un ucvu
truck in Ohio.
! In Europe there are rather more than
100 women to 100 men.
The death rate in this country from
i tuberculosis, or consumption, is on the
A I 11 I 4 I
decrease.
The apple contains a larger percent
age of phosphorus than any other fruit
or vegetable.
Out of a total of 513 known species
of animals in Africa, 472 of them are to
be found in no other country.
A 2000 horse-power electric locomo
tive has just been finished at Baden,
Turich. It is the largest in the world.
Over the whole world the proportion
of the sexes is about equal, but in sepa
rate parts of the world it varies greatly.
An Englishman has invented a new
system of electric mains whereby one
wire of the present three-wire system can
be saved.
An Austrian engineer proposes to carry
passengers from Vienna to Pcsth, Hun
gary, by an electric locomotivo at tho
rate of 123 milet an hour.
Tho Victoria Railroad Bridge over tho
St. Lawrence at Montreal, Canada, is
two miles long, cost over $5,000,000,
and contains 10,500 tons ot iron and
8,000,000 cubic feet of masonry.
An electrically controlled machine
which will effectively stamp 30,000 let
ters iu an hour is one of the interesting
inventions that has been adopted in the
United States Postofflco Department.
Th united capacity of all the plants
now in operation in the world for re
fining copper by electrolysis amounts to
nearly one hundred tons of copper de
posited per day of twenty-four hours.
Many years since, apples were packed
In barrels from which limo had just been
emptied. On opening them in spring,
they were nearly all sound, while the
same variety not thus packed was badly
rotted.
II. Devaux has been making experi
ments with the sense ot taste in ants, in
course of which he found that while
fond of sugar they dislike sacchariu, and
even refused sugar when mixed with
saccharin.
Dr. Murray, of the Royal Society of
Edinburgh, estimates the mean height
of the land of the globe to be 1900 feet
above sea levol. Humboldt's estimate
placed the same level at only 1000 feet
above high water mark.
By the transfusion of artificial or chem
ical blood in her veins the lifo of Mrs.
Louise Christian, of Lyon Mountain, N.
Y., has been saved. She bad been very
ill for a long while and was apparently
about to breathe hor last.
What is claimed to be the largest wire
nail machine ever built in the United
States was finished recently by a Green
point (N. Y.) firm, and shipped to a nail
concern at Everett, State of Washington.
The total weight of the machine was 12
tons, and it is capable ot making nails
weighing a half-pound each at the rate
of one a second. Nails- of auy desired
length can, however, be manufactured
by simply adjusting the feed.
A comparative estimate, made by an
English engineer, as to the cost of train
lighting by gas, oil and electricity, in
dicates that oil varies from one to two
cents per lamp per hour, coinprcs9e 1 ga9
costs one cent per lamp per hour aud
electricity one-half cent per lamp pet
hour, while the cost of plant was about
five per cent, less for electricity than fot
gas. This will be a welcome piece of
news to railroad companies. The su
periority of the electric light in giving
more uuiform illumination and not foul
ing the air commends it, irrespective of
any question of expense.
The Stormy Petrel's Endurance.
During a recent trip across the At
lantic the passengers on one steamer had
a vivid illustration of the endurance ol
the stormy petrol. Shortly after the
ship left the Irish coast two or three of
these birds were sighted at the stern of
the ship. Oue had boen caught at some
previous time, and its captor tied a bit
of red flannel or ribbon round its neck
and let it go. Tho bit of red made the
bird very conspicuous, and it could be
easily identified. That bird, with othert
that could not be so easily distinguished,
followed the ship clear across the ocean.
Hurely, during the day time at least,
was it out of sight, and if for an hour or
two It was lost to view while feeding ou
the refuse cast overboard, it soou reap
peared, and the last seen of it was with
in a few miles of Sandy Hook, when it
disappeared, perhaps to follow some
outward-bound steamer back to Ireland.
When the fact is considered that the
ship, day and night, went at an average
speed ot nearly twenty miles an hour,
the feat performed by the daring traveler
can be better appreciated. When or how
It rested is inexplicable. St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
A Strange Canyon.
Goorge W. Dunn, the veteran natur
alist of California, has returned to Ban
Francisco from a strange canyon iu tho
Tantillos Mountains. Lower California,
where he went recently to secure some
rare plants, nolauasaud seeds of the blue
palm. He says that the cauyou has uever
to his knowledge before been explore!
by white men, aud that its declivities are
altogether mure rough aud frightful than
any he has seeu ou tho Pacific const,
though bu has traveled much. About
tvo thousand Cocopah ludiaus were
there gathering the fruit of the palms
and pine nuts. They reached it, as did
Mr. Dunn, by going down the almost
perpendicular sides of the Tuutillas
Rauge. The drop is f -4 ) feet in three
miles. Dead Indian ponies aud horse
skeletons lined the way. The formation
from the bottom of the terrible canyon
to the saw-toothed backbone is cleau and
pure granite. Along the cuuyou is u
tumbling cascade of pur" :uouutaiu water,
and on either side f jr miles are groves ol
the pretty blue palm. Boston 'i rautcript. '
WHICH WAS RIOHTT
A small, clear brook set out one day
To search for the dark bine sea;
It babbled and spnxklrd, it rippled and sang;
And cried, "Just look at me;
For I have started, dear neighbors and
frionds.
To And my father, the Seal"
"Oh dear little brook P orgel the
bank.
As the stream slipped tinging by
"I beg you most earnestly give It np;
lr yon'U wait, 1 will tell you why r
But th. brook would not listen, and ran
away
Beneath the smiling sky.
"Ob, where are you going, you gurgling
brookr
Asked a pollard-willow tree,
Wbtoh leaned where the brook formed
limpid pool.
Its tresses green to soo -Tra
going, dear malam," ssnr th. brook,
'To find my father, the Sea."
"O dear, small brookr' cried its pollard
friend,
"Great danger will meet you this day;
There's an awful thing which will swallow
you up
Before you go half the way 1"
"I don't believe it," rippled the brook, j
"I'm going, for all you say P1'
And the brook and the pollard both were
right,
As you will presently see;
For a great dark river hurried along,
And swallowed the brook, and its merry
song;
And carried it off to Sea.
Annie L. Hannah.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A yard stick The clothes pole.
Never too old to lenrn The ancient
classics.
Measuring a vessel's speed is a knotty
problem. Boston Courier.
The monetary question Con you set
tle that bill to-day? Omaha Wold
Herald. The trouble with tho lynx eyed de
tective is that he sometimes drops some
of the links. Puck.
She "How do you pronounce C-h-i-c-a-g-ol"
He (of St. Louis) "Guilty."
Detroit Free Press.
A girl gives her lover a mitten, wo
suppose, because a pair is out of the
question. Binghamton Leader.
Macy a man who couldn't train de
cent dog properly confidently undertakes
the training ot a child. Puck.
There are a good many successful lion
fighters who will run at the sight of a
hornet. Indianapolis Ram's Horn.
The woman with the new sealskin
sacque is just as anxious for cold weather
as the plumber. Pittsburg Dispatch.
Ah, very fair, in leed, is sb?,
1 his maiden fair by me adored ! .'
But it's very plain to me
Bhe's dearer than 1 cau atf jrd.
-Puck.
. When a lady "condescends" to do
something, she can only preserve hei
self-respect by doing it very badly.
Puck.
Inquisitive people are reminded that
the rhnn n-hn llnnmi.') . 1, -
- j v. ...jia luu urjau ua s .
the one who brings out tbo music f t 3
t...i. r U
Many unkind things aro said of tho
telophone, but one of its redeeming fea
tures is that you can't lend money
luruugu ii. ruiittueipnia Uccord.
"Sure, Pat, the wather's terrible close
to tho idge o' the boatl" Yis; an il
the toido rises six inches more we'll botb
be drooned." Yale Kecord.
"It's all very well," said the gravs
digger, "to advise a young man to begin
at the bottom, and work up, but in my
business it ain't practicable." Life.
Binks "I rea 1 a curious article, th
other day, advocating a tax on beauty."
Jinks "Good idea. They won't hav
much trouble in collecting it." Quips.
"A joke's a joke," the horse thiof said
lieu they led him 'neutli the tree;
"Hut you fellers seem iu dead earnest;
While you're a-striugiuj; me."
Puck.
An Irishman has written a stroug ar
ticle in favor of cremation, and says thai
cremation has one great advantage: il
will prevent "dead" people from being
buried alive. Truth.
Orr E. Eutle "I hear that Ned Bird
say has giveu up his bachelor apart
ment." Marlboro "Yes, he hai
changed his bachelor quarters for a bet
ter half." Brooklyn Life.
Mrs. Snaggs (as she removes hei
wraps) "I h I a lovoly time at the dif
ferent stores thij afternoon." Suaggs
"There you go talking shop again I"
Pittsburg Chrouiclo-Telegraph.
Duinsqulzzle "Young Timberwbeel
has a suit of clothes for every day in the
week." Skiiugullet "1 never see him
wear but one." Duinsquizzle "Yoi,
that's the suit." Brooklyn Life.
Tug Captain "Boss, the boat's
workiu' very badly uow, au' we ought to
do somethiu' about it." Tug Owner
"She won't work, eh? Well, theu, dock
her, seel" Philadelphia UecjrJ.
TIia military man was once
A u.to to us all.
The football player now it is
W huge carnage we recall.
Wanliiiitfton Star.
Ihikutio "Speaking of stor.ui, I once
saw hailstones as larre " Uaswell (in
terrupting with a sneer) 'Chestnuts!"
Dukaue "Oh, bigger than that! A
large as horse-suestuuts." Pittsburg
Chronicle.
Mrs. Snystcr do Puyster 'Hensselaer,
that Miss Westlaudi you pay such assid
uous attentions to betrays ucythiug bul
a refined training." Hensselaer "Ah,
mother, she it a rough diau.oiul!'' Mrs.
Shyster de Puyater "Theu you ought
to cut her." The Jewelers' Circular.
In the State of Maine the yield of po
tatoes varied greatly from fifty bushels
per aero in the older portions of the
State to 250 id tun lei tile Aroostook,
region.