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VOL. XXV. NO. 43.
TICWESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEB. 15, 1893, $1.50 PER ANNUM.
i.nlcauou.
Mexico Is seriously considering plans
or bui'.dlng a nary.
Tlio nsscssnblo personal property In
New York City is sot down at $1,500,
000,000, but only about ouo-fifth of tbat
amount is actually tnxed.
' W. II. Mntlock declares in tho Forum
that Scott and Dickens aro not only rend
by many people, but tlicy aro read by
more people to-day than they ever were
before.
In the consular district of Piedras No
grasj Mexico, there is not a Binglo Amer
ican comrr.eTcial house. Trade is en
tirely in the hands of Mexican, French,
German and English houses.
Augusta, Ok., will realize, in 1803
trom her canal, in water tents from tho
pcoplo and amounts paid by tho facto
ries for water, power, at least $90,000
or 4t per cent, on $2,000,000.
Tho Boston Transcript declares that
'American ongineors have cvory reason to
congratulato themselves over tho fact
that several large bridges on the line o(
the Transandino Railway, In South
America, were, built by American com
panics in the faco of English competi
tion. A "culinnry academy" has been
formed among tho leading cooks of
Faria. Tho members aro thirty in num
ber, and they meet onco a month in an
establishment in the Passage Saulnier,
under tho leadership of a cook attached
to one of the most celebrated restaurant
in Paris,
According to one cstiinato the total
Value of the crops of the United States
during 1S2 -as 3,000,000,000, of
' whroli Iho largest item was $750,000,.
000 worth of hay. The animal products,
Including meats, dairy products, poul
try and eggs and wool, are placed at
at (905,000,000 more.
The Ban Fraucisco Examiner relates
how a St. Paul (Minn.) man has had his
gold plate attached by a dentist for
debt. This not only interferes seriously
with his diuing, but ho- cannot even
gnash bis teoth in disapproval. The
only teeth he has havo the misfortune to
appertain, to the gold pluto aforesaid.
The fame ot Kentucky as a horse
breeding centre has penetrated even to
far Japan, a number o,f line animals hav
ing been purchased thero by an agent of
the Mikado's Government, which leads
tho Chicago Times to remark that it pays
to get a reputation for a specialty estab
lished for a given district. Then buyers
come direct to that market.
' Tho Philadelphia Uncord is horrified
to know that two thousand peoplo be
como insano in New York every yenr
owing to tho noise and confusion inci
dent to life thero. There aro no statis
tics at hand, retorts the Now York
World, to show how ninny are mado
insano by the dullness aud mouotouy of
villugo life in Philadelphia. "Peoplo
who movo thero from tlio cities are suid
to die off rapidly."
France lost a valuable citizen a few
da) s ago, says the New Orleans Picayune,
in Qeorgo Hachotte, tho publisher, who
between 1S67 and 1S78 brought out
1 GOO volumes. Every work bo believed
useful for instruction he published re
gard'rss of fiuaucial considerations, lie
had the monopoly of railway station
libraries, and exercised over them a
supervision which was equivalent to a
vigorous censorship, but it was an en
' lightened censorship, and those who
protested against it had little sympathy
from men of education.
' The eight-hour-a-day proposition for
domestio servants and various other
schemes for getting the British Parlia
ment to interfere between servlfcts and
employers, which have been urged by
the, London Domestic Servants' Union,
have failed to make even a favorable im
pression in a critical examination before
the RoyalVLabor Commission. The com
mission jjave a long heariug to a repre
sentative of the uubn, but the case fell
to pieces under questionings. The im
practicability of the eight hour idea ap
plied to domestio servants was very
clearly demonstrated. It also appeared
that the union itself was very weak, aud
that the vast majority of domestic ser
vants seemed to be well treated aud quite
eouteot. The investigations showed that
the servant is far better oil in regard to
facilities for legal redress than is tho
employer. Tho union had a piopositiou
to substitute a system of paying servants
"in kind" but its representative was
"not quite prepared to Biiggest a system
to take the place of money wages." The
conclusions arrived ut by the Commis
sion so fur are that the relations between
employer and domestic servaut must bu
of a give aud take character, and any in
terference by the Legislature would do
more harm than good.
the childhood of the heart.
Ob, the rosy days ot childhood,
How blissfully they sped,
When not a charm had vanished ,
And not wonder fled!
The year was full of promise then,
The tongue was full of praise
Cut I think the cup I sweeter now
Than in the childish days.
Oh, th laughing wra-ld of childhood,
Of ignorance and easel
The lightest touch could quicken,
And the least pleasure please;
Vet the upward paths are dearer,
With all the thorns ther bear.
Than a garden of a hundred flowers
When Ignorance Is there I
Ob. tb beating heart ot childhood
That little heart of show,
That doubt hot never entered,
Nor sorrow has brought low I
Trust me, not all the rapture
Its eager life can span
Can shadow forth the perfect love
That warms the breast ot man.
Dora Read Ooodale, in Harper's Weekly.
A DOMESTIC REVOLUTION.
UKE MARPOD was
toeitber better nor
worso than the gen
eral ruu of mortals,
wm
and Mrs. Surah Mar
pod, his wife, was,
as the world noes, a
very fair sample of a
woman. Luke Mar
pod was a farmer.
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hence Sarah Marpod was a farmer's wife;
both bard-working, unsophisticated
people, conscientiously pursuing the
straight path of life, while, on the other
band, a little keener insight into human
nature and its motives might have
shielded them from many a blow, and
materially aided their right economy.
lb spite of hard work they advanced
slowly in the acquisition of home com
forts. Disappointments and misfortunes
accumulated with pitiful rapidity and
lrozc the fountains of domestic happi
ness. 'Before marriage the happiest of
couples, they looked with sanguine hope
to the future, not expecting great re
wards, but trusting in Providence and
loving each other fervently.
They never had a lover's quarrel and
the idea of post-nuptial disagresmeuts
dawned not upon their youthful imagi
nation. A comfortable home, -conten t
inent and love was all they bargained
for; all they lought, and surely fate
might yield this to any one who means
well and thinks honorably.
Thus they thought, and thus they ex
pected it would be, but the path of life
runs continually into the dark. What
jagged rocks may pierce the feet of the
traveler on this highway no one can fore
tell. We can only judge by tho light of
the past, and tJ people of limited ex
perience this light is a line so narrow as
not to reveal the rocks and thorns on
either side.
Luke Marpod was simple, honest and
narrow-minded. Airs. Marpod was
was simple, honest and narrow-minded
also, and perhaps the trouble lay in this
very uniformity of tastes and tempera
ment.
Luke's little farm was mortgaged at
the outset, and the few hundred dollars
that Sarah received from her father
disappeared in a twinkling and left no
trace or loot print, lheir Hrst season
was a bad one; crops were a general tail
ure aud weeas ana c .editors arose on
every side.
Tho neighbors, who always liked
Luke's conscientious good nature, began
to look askance at him, for they saw the
tables turned, aud, paradoxical as it may
appear, found it much more convenient
to be Luke's creditor than his debtor.
As time passed without bettering their
condition and creditors became impor
tunate, Luke and Sarah took to brooding
over their troubles and occasionally fiud
iug fault with the ways aud means of the
other, which might never have led to
anything serious had tho second year's
crop proved a good ouu and helped to
make up for the deficiencies of the first.
This, however, was not tho case, for,
whereas, tho year beforo the drought had
baked the soil aud scorched the growing
blades of wheat and rye, the second year
it began to rain in April a very good
prognostication, everybody thought, of
a bountiful harvest, but Pluvus, having
other aims in view, refused to recognize
limits and give tho farmers time to plow
and sow. Through April, May and June
the rain poured down incessantly, day
after day, until at last all hopes were
abandoned aud the Jlsrnods entered
upon their second year of infelicity.
Luke, who began to think that the
cause of all his troubles lay in his mar
riage, was rash enough one day to hint
the same, aud received a retort from his
spouse that roused his latent dignity of
marital lordship. Words were ex
changed, and the result of their first pro
nounced disagreement ended by Luke's
slamming the door behiud him, And go
ing hastily across the lot after the cow.
That night he whipped the dog for lot
tiug the brindle heifer escape through
the bars into the cornfield, hud trouble
with" the same member ot the bovine
genius at milking time, and rose wrath
fully to his feet after extricating the
cow's hoof from the milk pail, to swear
an uumistakable oath for the first time
in his life. Then he beat the animal aud
made such a hubbub that Sarah came in
hot haste to remonstrate on his brutality.
"Shut up; mind you' business, will
you?" shouted Luke, as he hurled the
milkiug stool after the cow aud chased
her around the yard.
The same eveuing Mrs. Marpod, con
doling over the loss ot milk, cava vent
to her indignation at her other half's
carelessness, and the quarrel was re
newed with vigor.
These lirst storm clouds in the do
mestic atmosphere soon cleared away,
but each bad discovered the other's lack
of infallibility, and accordingly, while
Luke lost a little of manly pride, Sarah
lout also in gentleness of disposition.
For more thuu a mouth all went well,
but aggravating things will happen, es
pecially during harvest time when
reapers and mowers are Constantly got-
tihg out of repair. Luke one day went
to cut wheat in a field from which every
stone and sfump had been carefully
eradicated. The sky was lowering and
he wished to finish before A storm.
Around and around tho field went the
horse; faster and faster fell tho grain be
fore the sickle. Luke s blood was
warming with hope, when suddenly,
smash chunk chunk went tho ma
chine and the horses were jerked vio
lently Lack upon their haunches. The
big cast iron seat hurled Luke clear
across tho sicklo-bar into the grain.
(scrambling to his feet he found that
a sad accident had happened. A large
stone had been lifted to the surface of
tho ground and left for removal. lie
had forgotten All about it, and hence a
serious loss of time right in the busy
season.
It took several days to obtain repairs,
and in the meantime the rain came on
apace, levelling the wheat to the ground
and causing great damage. Luke be
came gloomy, and Sarah could not help
speaking regretfully of the loss her hus
band's forgetfulness had incurred)
Everything was propitious idr a
quarrel and tho quarrel came. Mutual
recriminations became frequent and
seldom did a day pass without unlovable
scenes between the two Marpods. The
neighbors began to make comments.
Qossips took occasion to condole with
Mrs. Marpod respecting the unreason
ableness of her spouse, and, seeing her
take their sympathy kindly, grew bold
enough to betray all the rash things
Luke had been guilty of prior to his
marriage, acts which ought to have been
burled long before in the graveyard of
oblivion, so extremely remote was their
connection with the present.
Poor Mrs. Marpod t She took them
to. heart and at the next opportunity
hurled them at the head of the aston
ished Luke. lie owned up to every
thing, not even trying to soften his
wile's too serious interpretation of his
escapades, as he might cosily have done,
for the sinfulness was more against con
ventionalism than morals. lie was in
no mood to extenuate, and declared
coldly that he didn't "care a cent about
it" and that he "would do the same
thing over again for all of meddling
ueighbors and ill-natured wife." Life
gradually lost it charms for the Marpods.
Through perpetual clouds and storms
they . pursued their gloomy pathway to
the grave.
Sarah had begun to think seriously of
preferring charges against Luke for
cruelty and praying for a divorce, when
an event happened that temporarily dis
missed the idea from her mind and made
Luke more solicitous and tonder. A lit
tie cirl was born to them, and because
it was in the springtime of the year tbey
named her Flora. She came like A ray
of sunshine to brighten the hearts of the
parents and show them their dependence
ou each other for happiness, but by the
time Flora was able to toddle around by
herself and lisp the names of papa and
mamma the parents had resumed their
old fault finding habits, and having once
resumed them they were not long in re
gaining their former facility in the use of
sarcasm and taunts.
Luko in the first place found fault
with the mother's method of nursing and
declared it a miracle if Flora did not
prove a weak, sickly child, lie was sure
that so much fussing would engender
frail constitution, yet as she grew older
she seemed as strong and robust as a
child ever is that breathes pure, couutry
air.
On the other band. Mrs. Marpod de
dared that Luke's example was enough
to contaminate the family, and tbat seeds
sown in so young a mind would some
day bring sorrow upon their heads.
"Mercy on me, man I she would
shout, "don't touch that child with
those dirty hands of yours. If you don't
know how to be civilized, you had bet
ter not try to bring up children."
One day, atfer a quarrel had been
brewing between the parents for some
time, they came to an understanding that
something must be done at once. Thoy
seemed tacitly to ajrree that the time had
come for them to separate forever. Dis
passionately they sat down to discuss
terms, aud to an outside party all evi
dence of ill-temper had passed away.
There was no question as to the di
vision of property. Luko was willing to
do more than Sarah wished, but regard
ing little f lora botn were keenly sensi
tive. After discussing tho matter for
sometime they agreed to hitch up the
team ana drive to town to see Lawyer
Hoboes.
Not wishing to go before a court, they
decided that .Mr. ilobbes should draw
up all necessary papers and arbitrato as
to the possession of the child. By this
decision they were willing to abide. So,
with Flora on the seat between them
they drove to town.
In sad and faltering accents tbey told
Mr. Uobbes bow matters stood. Mr
ilobbes, a benignant gentleman, with
long, white locks that had never been
put to shame by a single meau act in all
his life, and whos heart was as tender as
a child's, tried to remonstrate, but both
Luke and Sarah were sure that the old
life would be revived and that it would
be better to separate kindly; and in this
they stood firm; so Mr. Ilobbes, much
troubled, entered upon the business
Little f lora listened witb open-eye:
wonder throughout the discussiou.
At lost she seemed tocomprehcud, and
the tears coming to her eyes, she toddle
to ber father, and graspiug bis coat i
her tiny bauds, lisped plaintively
want to stay wiv oo, papa," and then
turning, she ran, and burying her face
in her mothers lap she sobbed out:
luv oo and want to stay wiv oo."
Mrs. Marpod's eyes sam with tears
Luke's lips worked convulsively, am
Lawyer Uobbes brushed somethiug from
his eves.
Raising her head, she laid her fare
agaiust her mother's cheek and mill'
mured: "1 luv oof bol, I want to liv wiv
oo bof."
I ne long silence that followed was
broken suddeiily by Lawyer Uobbes.
The little girl is right t" he cried, enu
phatically. "She ought to live with
both. Luke, confound your patet you've
got A good wife to bo proud of) end you
Mrs. Marpod, have a husband to be
proiid of; and by gosh," Cried Mr;
Ilobbes, becoming red in the face and
striking the desk a heavy blow with his
fist, "1 11 have nothing more to do with
I tied the knot whon I was magis
trate, and it looks as though you had
lost confidonco in me."
Flora ran to bim, and smiling eagerly
through her tears, cried out: "Yos, yes;
want cm bof."
That settled it, for Luko rose to his
feet, and taking Sarah's band in his mur
mured : "I'll 'low tbat it's been all my
fault, and if you'll forgive me I'll never
get mad Again."
Mrs. Marpod; on her part; protested
that it was sho who had been to blame,
but Lawyer Ilobbes scolded both and
sent them home as lovingly as possible.
Flora, who is now a handsome young
lady, has a slight remembrance of the
event mentioned, but just the tenor of it
she does not recollect. She would not
believo us wore we to tell her how seriouf
that trouble wa?( so great has been the
revolution. Chicago Nows.
A Race With a Waterspout.
Tho British steamship Amur, Captain
Rouse, from Caibarein, dropped anchor
a Gloucester, N. J., on a recent mghl
and her outward appearances foretold
the thrilling experiences she had with
the elements. When on the southern
edgo of the gulf stream, the steamer
had an escape from destruction bv a
aterspout, which fortunately passed
under her stern not many yards from the
hip.
The first seen of this monstrous Uis-
urbauce was in the shape of a heavy
oud on the horizon directly to the
windward. But as it drew near it ap
peared as though it would overtake the
ship and send all on board to the
bottom; It was a desperate struggle to
get out of its way and the ship already
a disabled condition, the engineer
stood by with the. engines wide open,
realizing it was a race for life. Nearer
and nearer the dangerous water column
rew to the ship, but by the time the
noise of its approach met the ears of the
crew the ship had gotten north to a place
safety. It passed the Amur's stern
with a deafening noise. It quickly
passed and disappeared.
The same evening the wind freshed
up and by midnight was blowing a gale,
tbo ship driving directly uuder the
waves and sweeping from her decks
everything movable. The tarpaulins on
the hatches were washed away, ports
were sealed and boat coverings torn
away. A tremendous sea from the
northeast still continued and decks were
started through tho immense pressure
brought about by the great quantities of
water that was being continually
shipped. Everyone on board were more
or less injured through the ship's terrifio
rolling, and Captain Rouse pronounces
it the worst passage he ever experienced.
Now Orleans Picayune.
Antiquity of the Saw.
Tho saw is an instrument of high an
tiquity, its invention being attributed to
cither Davdalus or to his nephew Perdix,
also called Talos, who, having found the
aw of a serpent and divided a piece of
wood with it, was led to imitate the
teeth in iron. Iu a bass-relief pub
lished by Winckolman, Dxdalus is rep
resented holding a saw approaching very
closely in form to the Egyptian saw. St.
Jerome seems clearly to allude to the
circular saw, which was probably used,
as at present, in cutting veneers. There
are also imitations of the use of the cen
tre bit, and even in the time of Cicero it
was employed by thieves. Pliny men
tions the uso of the saw in Ancient Bel
gium for cutting white building stone;
some of the oolitic and cretaceous rocks
are still treated in the same manner, both
in that part of the Continent and in the
south of England. Iu this case Pliny
must be understood to speak of a proper
or toothed saw. The saw without teeth
was then used just as it is now by tho
workers in marble, and the place of
teeth was sunplie), according to the
hardness of the stone, either by emery
or by various kinds of sand of inferior
burduess. In this manner the ancient
artificers were able to cut slabs of the
hardest rock, which consequently were
adapted to receive the highest polish,
such as granite, porphyry, lapis-lazuli
and amethyst. Scieutitic American.
Danger in Feather Spring Rifles.
Army authorities are in great fear that
the new magazine rilles now iu use in the
British army will be the cause of the
death of many soldiers, because it goes
off so lightly that a man, after being
shot, may in the death spasm pull the
trigger aud shoot some of his comrades,
or that even the moviug of the body may
discharge the weapon. It 13 therefore
ordered that two men shall be detained
from each company to follow the line in ac
tion, aud when a man falls to immediately
remove the magazine from bis riflo and
carry it away. The opponents to the uso
of tho new nnu say that this looks to
them to be a very clumsy arrangement
aud oue likely to counter balance the ra
pidity of hnug gained by tho use of
these feather spring weapons. Now
York Press.
lhn Duration of a Dream.
Thobe learned and scientific gentlemen
who have gone into the subject declare
the longest dreamt hardly lait a few
minutes. The following instance leuds
support to their views: Oue evening
Victor Hugo was dictating letters to his
secretary. Overcome by fatiguo the
great man dropped into a slumber. A
few moments afterward he awoke,
haunted by a droim, which, as he
fiouglit, extended over several hours,
mid be blamed his secretary for sitting
there waiting for him instead of waken
ing him or else guing away. What was
his surprise when the bewildered secre
tary told bim that he had ouly just
finished writing the last sentence dictated
to bim.
BREAD F0K ALL WHO ASK.
K DAILY EaRLY-MORNlNtJ SCElfE
BEFORE A NEW YORK SAKEBY.
Human Wr.'Ckt Shnfflinn; Paft A Bin
linker v Door In Lock Stnp lor
Ktalo I oaves A Weird Spectacle.
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HERE is a weird sceno every
morning, while tho tired city
fast asleep, at Broadway ana
Tenth street, which tolls in
eloquent silence of tho depth of human
woe and misery. Jit is proDaoiy Known,
but not always remembered by persons
who have loving families, cheerful
homes, downy beds and well-stocked
lardors, nnd who live in an air of luxury,
that there is A half-starved army in this
city against which the doors of organ'
ized charity are closed. It lives no one
knows where, and it comes out on the
streets, like rats from a hole, After dark,
seeking food And everything that it can
devour. It is only the night workers
who see the big city when the light are
turned low who catch a glimpse of the
starving Army, and the sight is not
pleasant;
It was between 2 and 3 o'clock in the
morning the other day. The wind came
piping with a North Dakota chill
through East Tenth street, and nearly
ripped the tattered clothing from an old
man who came stumping along Fourth
avenue with a feeble step. lie stopped
At tho Tenth street corner. Tho lamp
light showed the skin peopiug through
bis clothes in many places. lie sank a
little deeper into his rags after a quick
glance up the street and moved slowly
toward Broadway.
"Just wait for A little while," SAid
Policeman McConnell to a reporter who
was on his way homo after his night's
work, "and you will see the strangest
gathering that you ever looked at in
this town."
The old man kept moving until he
reached the bright light which shown
Cheerfully from the windows of the
Vienna Bakery, midway on the block.
He looked wistfully at tho scene or good
chser within, then leaned against a lamp
post with head bowed low, violently
trembling from cold and hunger.
"He s the first on the line, saia mc-
Conncll, "and he's not missed the honor
for over a year."
The policeman remark was vague,
but in a little while the explanation
came, xne solitary tramp soon aau
plenty of company. Men with want and
poverty stamped on every feature of
their gaunt faces and every shred of
their eloquent rags turned into East
Tenth street from Fourth oven ue and
Broadway. They came- singly and in
groups, and foil in behind the first ar
rival. At 3 o'clock tho line extended around
In front of Grace Church, and there
wcro over 200 men standing closely
together, waiting, apparently, for some
signal to march. It was a silont crowd.
There was not a word spoken above a
whisper. Some of the men were drunk
and hardly ably to stand, but they were
held in "place by their comrades in
misery. One fellow dropped on the
walk and rolled into the gutter. No
one disturbed him. Not even the po
liceman. There was a flutter of excitement
slong tho line as the doors of the bakery
were thrown open with a loud bang and
several bakers in white cap3 and aprons
rolled a half dozen big boxes filled with
bread on the sidewalk. The bakers
banded out the bread to the men, and
the line moved slowly along with the
shuffle of tho lock step, well known,
apparently, to many of the gang. To
every man was given a loaf of bread a
day old. There was more than enough
to go around and some got two loaves.
The long wait in tho open air seemed
to hnvo added an extra pang to the
hunger of tho men, and almost every
one took a rsveuoas bito from the loaf
as soou as it reached his hand. They
acted like hungry wolves iu sight of
prey, aud to many of them tho dry
bread appeared lit for a kingly feast.
Some sat down on the curb, broko of!
largo chunks of the loaf and fairly
crammed it into their mouths until every
morsel of it was gone. Others, after a
few bites, stowed the bread away among
the rags which covered their bodies, and
a few hurried away without tojclimg it
at all. Iu fifteen minutes the street was
deserted and no sound was heard save
the merry song o( the bakers as they
piled up big btacks of bread for their
customers with the feeling that steals
iuto the human heart when a good act
has been performed.
"That's tho best object lesson," said
Policeman McConnell, as the last bundle
of rags moved away, "of what rum will
bring a man to if he sticks at it. Most
of these poor chaps come here night
after night, and many of them
have told me it's tho ouly food tbey
have had in twenty-four houre. The
gang is made up of ex convicts who
have lost even tho desire to steal, aud
drunkards who have reached tho bottom
of the ladder. Among the latter aro
men who have been in good circum
stances, and thero is ono who about ten
years ago owned a largo wholesale gro
cery in Washington street. This charity
is a godseud to them, snd it's all the de
cent treatment tbey got during tho day.
Tbey are kicked and shunned by every
body, sheek shelter wherever it cuu bo
found, and most of them will wind up
in Potter's Field. No questions are
asked hero if these meu are worthy ob
jects of charity. They are all hulf
starved and drunkards without home.,
and thieves have to eat as well as any
one else. Although they aro a hardoned
lot there has not been the slightest dis
order on the block during tho years that
they have been coming hero." New
York Recorder.
Queen Victoria has given orders for
extensive decorative repairs to be car
ried out iu llolyroid Palace, and the
office of works is now eugugud iu clran
iug aud restoring the ceilings and walls
of Queen Mary's audience chamber and
supper room aud the adjoiuiug corridor.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
The glow worm lays luminous eggs.
Banana flour has been produced in
small quantity in some parts of Australia.
Nutmcgi in the quautity of two or
three drachms will cause both stupor and
delirium.
Oyster shells laid on tho hot coals in
a stove or range will loosen clinkers on
the firebrick, so that tboy may be easily
removed.
It is stated by an actor that the elec
trie lamp used as footlights is harder on
tho eyes of the performers than either
gas or caudle light.
Numerous experiments to determine
the best fire-resisting materials for the
construction of doors have proved that
wood covered with tin resisted the fire
better than an iron door.
Tho nisid elements in the make-up of
tho world are oxygen, nitrogen, hydro
gen, chlorine, carbon, fluorine, phos
phorous, silicon, sulphur, aluminum,
calcium, copper, iron, lead, potassium
and sodium.
Oysters come nearor to milk than all
most any other common food material
as regards both the amounts and the rel
ative proportion of nutrients, tho food
values of equal weights of milk and oys
ters being nearly the same.
It is somewhat singular that, notwith
standing the great advances mado in
chemistry and metallurgy, no other more
satisfactory silver alloy has yet been dis
covered for coining and other purposes
than the alloy used 800 years ago.
The best lighted city in E irope is
Milan. American machinery only is
employed in its two central stations. A
curious feature of tho system of distri
bution is that the wires, instead of being
carried on poles, are suspended from the
brackets under tho eaves of the houses.
In summer at Paris the Sicne delivers
to the two parts of the bridge Pont
Neuf about a hundred cubic inches of
water every second, moving with a force
of 3500 horse-power. Every hour
360,000 cubic metres of water pass un
der the arches of the bridge, or 8,6J0,
000 cubic metres in a day.
A Roman has offered King Humbert
a novel instrument of warfare. This is
a projectile, which on being shot from
a cannon and striking an object will
produce a luminous disc of 100,00'J
candle power, and thereby expose to
view an enemy's position by night at a
distance of from three to four miles.
A miniature thunder factory has been
constructed for the science and art de
partments at South Kensington, Eng
land, with plates seven feet in diameter,
which, it is believed, would give spar'.&
thirty inches long, but no Layden jars
bave been found to stand the charge, all
being pierced by an enormous tension.
M. Bourdolles, Chief Engineer of
French lighthouses, has porfected a sys
ira by which ho can project a forco of
tf,500,000 candles by means of four lenses
instead of twenty-four, as previously,
and by a novel system of rotation make
the "flash" every tweuty seconds. This,
the inventor claims, is the finest result
yet achieved anywhere.
Electric light baths aro among the
latest inventions. The necessary parts
of such a bath are a ca! let which will
incloso the entire body except the head,
and fifty electric lamps of sixteen candle
power, or 110 volts, arranged about tho
body in groups, with a separate switch
for each group. The light is thrown on
a ssction at a time, making the patient
frisky and browning the skin like an
ocean bath.-
C. C. Jennings, formerly Superin
tendent of the Brush Electric Light
Company of Buffalo, N. Y., has pat
ented a system of telephonic communi
cation, bv meaus of which barbed wiro
fences can bo utilized between railroad
statious, farmers' bouses and lnrge
ranches. Tho patent involves tho use of
a portable transmitter or telophone,
which can be attached to the barbed
wire at any point, nnd by which mes
sages can be recoived or soot to railroad
stations or other places at which there
are regular telephones.
Has a Finger-Keilucinr Patent.
Tho Patent Ollico has granted a pat
ent on A device worthy of the ancient
Greeks. It is a system of fluger-taper-ing
and joint-reducing bauds. The idea
is to make thimble-shaped bauds of tbin
and pliant aluminum iu sets of various
sizes to fit the fingers and thumbs, aud
by wearing them at night gradually pro
duce the slender aud tapering dibits so
much admired by the fashionable half of
the "vorld. The aluminum bands ure
provided with rings which are crowded
down ou the outside so as to compress
the fingers and drive the blood back to
any desired state of diminutiveness. The
letters patent do not state whether the
use of this now device is attended with
pain or not. It is said theso bands have
been thoroughly tested by several of tho
best known women of fashion iu Wash
ington and New York, aud they speak of
them in the highest terms of praise. The
leading merchant iu cosmetics nnd toilot
articles in Chicago is forming a stoc k
company to buy the patent and boom
the finger taperer at tho World's Fair.
The patentee says his idea will go like
wildfire, as have so many other inven
tions to produce beauty, ud be thinks
his patent is worth at least $30,000.
Chicago Herald.
Iniiiieuso liiulnir Hall for Students.
An immense diuing hall for students,
to be known us the Mensa Aeademica,
was opened in Vienna, Austria, the other
week. In it 2000' students can diuu
together. The intent of the institution
is to enable students to eat together at a
minimum cost, instead of being com
pelled by reason of their small means to
obtain their meals iu cheap and low re
sorts. Tho privileges of tho Mensa
Aeademica are restricted to reg ular sub
scribers, and the rates are foi diuuer,
$2.50 a mouth', for breakfast aud din
ner, and lor ureuKiosi, dinner
and su I'l'cr. $4.75 mouth. Chicago
Times.
BEHIND THE MASK,
Life Is not what It might hav been,
Nor are we what we would I
And we most meet with smiling mi,
And part in careless mood, ,
Knowing that each retains unemn.
In cells of sense subdued,
A little lurking secret of the blood
A little serpent secret rankling keen
Tbat makes the heart Its food.
Owen Meredith.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
Cut and dried Hay.
The Irish Sea "Say."
Trying work Experimenting. -
A race across the Atlantic The Eng
lish. Life.
Hard pressed for money The produc
tions of the Mint.
Many a man hAS made a goose of him
self with s single quill. Texas Sittings.
Even the highest-priced surgeons will
give cut rates when asked to. Philadel
phia Record.
The office boy who was taken on trial
was let go because he proved too much
of one. Puck.
Contrary as it may seem, it's the tailor
who makes sales, and the lailor who
makes tales. Life.
The man who salts away money does
not thus prevent bis heir from being
"too fresh." Truth.
The stereopticon-man is never blamed
as a turncoat, although he is continually
changing his views. Puck.
Don't judge hastily. What may seem
to be very ordinary drum-majors are
often leading musicians. Elmira Ga
zette. Mr. Hownow "Miss Passee, what is
your opinion of the coming man!" Miss
Passee "That ho is very, very slow."
What's Odd.
Imogene "Oh, stop your flattery, or
I shall put my hands to my ears."
Alonzo "Ah, your lovely hands are too
small." Fun.
The chrysanthemum is a most worthy
flower; but, for tho best of reasons, the
verse-makers fight shy of singing its
praises. Puck.
Now, children, you must very good
to-day, for your father has hurt his hand,
and if you are naughty ho cannot whip
jou. Fliegendo Blaetter.
Some folks not only count their chick
ens before they are hatched, but also
spend in advance the price of the pros
pective eggs they are to lay. Truth.
There was one New York hackman,
the other day, who failed to overcharge
his customer, but he diod on his box be
fore he got to his destination. Truth.
The boy stood on the burning deck
But who could blame him, please.
The price of coal had gone so high
- It was either this or freese.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
judge "Did your wife pick a quarrel
with you!" Victim "No, she don't
seem to have much choice about thom ;
any kind suits her." Chicago Inter
Ocean. First Girl "He said your hair was
dyed." Second Girl "That is false."
"I told him it was false, and he said
that was worse than dyeing it." Phil
adelphia Record.
When a girl gets so she can play mu
sic in which sho crosses her hands, she
stops referring to it by name and title,
ond calls it "a little thiug by Batoven."
Atchison Globe.
"There is ono thing sure," said tho
editor, who was reading the new re
porter's long article; "you are in no
danger of boiug troubled by a shortage
in your accounts." Washington Star.
"He'll be heard in the world," sdd his
mother,
He'll bo beard, It is easily to tell."
And he was, quite beyou I any other.
When bis college cl-iss startei its yell.
W'a-hingtou Htar.
Tommy "Paw, what is a special
providencei" Mr. Fig' "It occur
when some other fellow is the victim of
s misfortuno that would otherwise have
happened to yourself." Iudiauapolis
Journal.
"How do you feel uowl" asked a
Texas lawyer of his client, a coudomned
murderer, who has just been reprieved.
"As playful ss a child, my boy." Lawyer
(slapping bim on tne duckj --au, x
v V i. ...... i.: 1 .r,o ' IViu
you have just skipped the rope
tiiftin
Idaho's Precious Stoiiw.
Collections being mado in Idaho afford
unusual opportunity for studying the
geological and mineral production. The
exhibit for Custer Comity contains a
beautiful specimen of onyx. Indications
are that an agate field exists in the
county. Sapphires have also been found
thoro, one lot of which sold for $1100.
But recent efforts have failed to produce
one for tho exposition.
A samplo of rock has been received
from Lewistou, the exact character of
which has not been determined, but
which appears to be a variety of j as par.
This specimen cuts glass more readily
than the diamond, aud is so hard that
ten minutes' griudiug on an emery wheel
has scarcely any ellect on it. It is varie
gated in color, with pink nnd green
tints. It is quite small, aud efforts are
being made to secure a larger oue. The
value of the rock is not known.
The variety of opals will be very large.
There two mines iu Latah and oue about
forty miles from Boise City. They are the
geuuine tire opals, aud are said to bo ol
a very superior quality.
Petrilicatious ure very numerous in
the Stute. The chief specimen iu this
department is a samplo from the petrified
forest in Custer County, near Challis.
This distinctly shows tiie bark and wood
of a conifer, a species of pine. The
stump from which it was taken is four,
teeu leet above the ground, twelvo feet
iu diameter at the top, and fifteen at the
base. The bark is six inches thick. It
was discovered about five years ago.
Now York Times.
Tho walls of Babylon are f'd by
lleio lotus to lmvo been 3.'.U high atd
100 levl thick at tho blue.
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