THE FOREST REPUBLICAN If pablhike tTtry W.daday, y J. E. WENK. Offlof In Bmearbaugb. & Co.'e Wuildbit hlm mutrr, tconk8ta, r Terms, ... lUoptrTur. RATIS or ADVCRTISIffOl One Sqnara, on. inch, on lmrtioa..9 On. Fquare, on. Inch, on. month. ... W On. Square, on. inch, three month.. . 00 On. Hquara, on. inch, on yar t ! Two Bquares, on. year 1 JJJ Quarter Column, on. jmr JJj Half Column, on. your .522 On. Column, op. ynr.- .. - MO") Lagal aHv-tis.mita' tea eants par men lnrtkm. Mwiaa nlt Haf.h fintlnM RIU. Fore EPUB CAN. A II U1l.fM.I.itrtiMIIIUltl Mil quarterly. Temporary atlTertlmnt I OorrMpondmc tolletua tnm tl mim f th. VOL. XXV. NO. 44. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22, 1893. S1.50 PER ANNUM. Job work -oath on delivery. Philadelphia has 23,000 more women than mm. Tlio Chinese postal torvlce, which I. low and crude, is controlled by many privato companies. According to lifo insurance, statistics tlio avcrago of man's lifo has increased five per cent, during tho last twenty -fivo years. Lord Dunravon valuos the English "pleasure fleet" at $")0,000,000, and says it finds employment for six or seven thousand roon at sea, besides those on shore. A woman writer for an Eastern pub lication attempts to explain why to many rich American girls marry titled foreigners. It is, she says, because the young society mcu of this country ape foreign manners, and the girls prefer the genuine articlo to the imitation. The Rural New Yorker says: The day is coming when every milk dairy mnn will be compelled by law to havo a veterinarian examine his cows regularly and give them a character for health. "Why shouldn't we know there is health in our milk as well as wealth in our fcrtilizcrt It is a curious fact, muse the Chicago Herald, that tho father of Alexander Qrahnme Bell once devised an alphabet of "visible speech" to represent all the sounds of which the human voice is capable, and that his son, from teaching deaf mutes, should have enlarged the possibilities of sound almost to in finity. A food enthusiast has arisen, who says that the banana is the universal food and clothing of the human race. lie claims that before long bread, muffins, por ridge, soup, pies, and sausages will be made out of bananas. Bcsidot that, au indelible ink can be made out of the skin, and a beautiful cloth can be made out of the fibre. t Says the Boston Transcript: "Few geographies montion the district in the South known as tho 'Poor Man's Belt.' It is a tract of country generally very tardy and producing little timber save the long leafed pine. It begins not far south of Richmond, Vu., and extends along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts into Texas. Its length is not far from 1800 milof, while it is from B0 to 150 miles in width. The soil is poor, but the forests produce nst only lumber in abundance, but also largo quantities of pitch, Ur and turpentine. It got a bad name during anti-bellum days because no cotton was raised in it, but, since the South is beginning to look elsowhero than to the cotton field for its wealth, the 'Poor Man's Belt' promises to be come one of the richest paitt of the Southern States." Ono of the most remarkable schemes cf the day, in tho opinion of the New York World, is the plan of Sir Cecil Rhode?, the Premier of Cape Colony, South Africa, to build a telegraph line from the Cape to Eypt. Sir Cecil, it it said, is now on his way to Cairo to look after details, and the project, chi merical as it rnay seem, has been indorsed by many public men ip England. Sir Cecil's proposition takes the British fancy, because his telegraph is intended chiefly as the first thread upon which a great British empiro in Africi is to be atrung. It is believed in England that the Gtrmans will yet get out of Africa and leave their extensive possessions on the east coast to the Union Jack. Then England will have the unbroken right of way from the Capo to Cairo, by tho way of Zanzibar and the district of the Great Lakes. The Society for the Protection of Birds appears to bo making headway in Eng land. According to its second annual report, which has just been issued, the number of members has increased from 1200 to 2500. There is evidently plenty of work for them to do if they wish to preserve birds of bright plumage from the annihilation threatened by the do mandt of fashion. It appears that even to common, hardy and prolific a bird as the goldfinch is in danger of extinction. The fashion of mounting whole birds on hats and bonnets has been peculiarly fatal. What the society is anxious to bring about it the extension of the wild birds protection act, the operation of which begins too late and ends too toon In the year to be of much practical ben efit. The report points out that it is not only the direct slaughter of birds for which fashion is responsible. There is an enormous demand uowadayt for real winter berries for the purpose of feminine adornment. As a result a good many birds which escape the snare of the fowler die of starvation for lack of their natural food. Artificial berries last longer thau the real and look just as pretty, while the manufacture of them would provide empluyuieut for luauy dwtitute women. THE SWEET, SAD YEARS. The swes, sad yean, th. sun, the rain, Alas I too quickly did th.y wane, For em .nine boon, torn, blaming boroj Of smiles and tears each had its store, lt checkerod lot of bliss and pain. Although it Ml. be and vain, Yet cannot I the wish restrain That I had held them evermore, Th. sweet, sad years! Like echo of an old refrain That long within the mind has lain, I keep repeating o'er and o'er, "Nothing can e'er the past restore, Nothing bring baok th. years again. The sweat, sad yean." Rev. Charles D. Bell. DUALLA. BT BENRT M. STANLEY. HILE proceeding to Zanzibar in February, 1879, in the chartered tteamer Albion, we stopped at Aden to take in coal. Pres-J sently bright ' Somali youth, who bad paddled his bll Vwn rinna. .Wllnry , l - " -ft VI 1 .1 j ujiuouii auuuru our ship, and, after making fast hit lit tle craft with a lanyard, accosted me with, "Want a boy, sir!" "No." "Me good boy, sir. Do anything." "No, thank you." "I hear you go to Africa, and want men. I been to America, been 'fore the mast, been coachman, been butler in Brooklyn, with Mr. llinct. I'd like to go with you, sir." "Why, you are quite a prodigy I How old are yout" . "Seventeen, tlr." I now examined him closely. lie was a tall, shapely, comely, intelligent young man, with curly silk hair and a look of "quite ready for anything" about him. "Well, what wages do you want?" Anything you like to give, sir. Dol lar, two dollar, three dollar a month. You find out yourself by-m'-by what I worth. If I'm no good, no money." 'Why, you are extraordinary; I'll give you ten shillings a month, and we shall tee afterward. Eh?" "Aw-right, tir." And upon these terms Dualla, tbe Somalia boy, entered my service. For several months I did not pay murh heed to him. There had been no occasion for any exhibition of superior ability or courage. 1 observed, however, that on Sunday Dualla attracted every eye by the splendor and varigatod colors of bis dress. . One time he would resemble a young Genoese dandy, another day be would astonish us by a rich Mussulman attire, the text he would emerge from bit cabin a la Zanzibar, in tarboosh and khansu, but always exceedingly trim and clean. Still we had several smart young anziuaiis, wbo, though not ' such exquisites as Dualla, were, nevertheless, favorites for their intelligence and dash, and as yet there was no chance for promotion. One day new rifles were served to Company No. 1. They were taught how to manipulate them, and how to disconnect their parts. Finally target was sec up at a point blank range, and a prize was offered to the best shot, and in ordor to show the Zanzibaris what good shooting was, five European officers were requested to step forward and exhibit their skill. But, to my shame, not one white man hit the target. Dualla was called upon. Straight as an arrow he stood a second and fired, plugging the target near the center. A few weeks later while engaged on the highway for the wagons, I wished to make an "indent" for provisions on the Main Depot below, and asked the commissariat officer how many rations bo had distnbutod that morning. He took out his note book and turned the leaves over backward and forward so often that at lost I got impatient and said: "Do you mean to say you do not re member bow many rations you aro daily serving out!" "I'll tell you directly, sir." I waited pen in hand for another five minutes. My time was valuable; every miuute was precious. "Here, Dualla," I at last cried. "Tell this gentleman how many rations he served out this morning," never suspect ing that he did know, but at an indirect chall at the commissariat. "Odo hundred and forty-eight, sir. One hundred and forty-eight pounds rice, one hundred and forty-eight pounds beans," he replied. "How do you know," I asked, aston ished. "I help weigh them, tir." "That will do, thank you." At Stanley Pool an officer requested the lan of our new steel barge that he might proceed up river and visit hit friends at the next station. The steel boat pulled twelve oars and, completely equipped and launched on the Upper Congo, bad cost us about (800. It was lent with an injunction that on his return he should draw her up carefully on the beach out of barm's way and padlock her chain. Tfce Lieu tenant faithfully promised, went up river, and on coming back reported him self and assured me of the aecurity of the bout. Tbe next morning the boat was need ed for apecial service. But she was not on the beach, and no one knew what had become of her. The Lieutenant was questioned, and it was discovered that he had given the orders for securing the boat, but bad not waited to see bis orders carried out. The orew, it then transpired, had simply rowed her ashore, and each man bad sprung out and gone to hit own mess. It was then obvious to all of us that the surge from the Great Cataract, which was but two mile below, bad entered Of tbe cove, lifted tho boat cloar of the strand, and receding toward the terrible vortex, had borne her away with all her equipment aboard. Though it appeared hopeless we should ever hear of the boat again, four several triplets of messengers were dis patched in as many directions across country to warn the natives down river and offer rewards for hor recovery J and I set oS with Dualla and another toward the Great Cataract of Kintamo, over the hill of Leopoldville. On reaching the summit overlooking the cataract, Stretch, one of the young attendants, with his sharp eyes, de tected the boat about midstream, stranded upon a reef, the lower put of which seamed to hang over tbe edge of the roaring cataract. With my glass I could see her like a tiny speck compared to the mile-wide river. Above the reef the puissant Congo was treacherously placid, but we, who had to often crossed it two miles above the station within view of the gulf, had often occasion to dread its terrible velocity, and below the reef it was all a scene of remorseless fury, a countless series of tossing waves and spray crowned crests, and here and there veritable towers which were no sooner formed than they seemed to be twung bodily into the air, to be fol lowed by others. Tbe eye waa fascinated by the wild picture ot tremendous strength and incessant rage which tbe Great Cataract furnished at this view of it. One could gaze at it for hours, for its tuggestlon of ceaseless passion, power and its awful engulphing nest, while its hoarse roar is in fit volume accompaniment to the watery horror. I sat down and studied the river above tbe reef. From our Bide tbe boat was quite seven hundred yards, and about one thousand yards from the opposite bank. The low rock on which tbe lay was probably fifty yards in width, and rose aboat a foot above tbe water, and by one of those surges caused by the vicinity of the cataract and shifting cur rents the beat bad doubtless been swayed aside and rested in what appeared to be the beginning of a groove or a channel. Various plans were vaguely formed for saving her, but were dismissed,owing to tbe imminent danger. A foot rise in the river wou'd also sweep the boat over tbe reef into certain destruction. We returned to the station. At our beach were a paddle tteamer and a canoe. We set a mark by driving a peg at the water line, and resolved to wait and tee whether the river rose or fell. Twenty hours later tbe river had tub sided six inches. I went back to the bill ot Leopoldville. Tbe boat waa higher out of tbe water, the reef waa larger and extended further up the river in a low gray tongue of rock. That was one great comfort. On the third day the river bad sub sided several inches more; the reef was still larger. Dualla was by my side, and looking at the river I conceived a plan which I audibly revealed, saying that, "If I were younger and had not to many responsibilities on me I could save her. I would have liked such a job. But whom have I that could be trusted for a deli cate task as this! And if a single life were lost I should never forgive myself. ' Yet if I had a man who could remember in structions and obey them to the letter that boat would be in our cove in a short time." "Can I do it, sir!" asked Dualla, as though I had been addressing him. "You, sbol I was thinking of a dar ing young officer who could learn his iesson by heart, and act according. What could you do?" "I could try, sir." "No doubt you could try, my boy ; but it wants a bead as well as a bold heart here." "Well, sir, I do not see myself how anybody could get to that boat. I think sue is already lost, for she is only five yards from tbe cataract, and long before we could get to the reef we should be over the falls, as the current flows like a I flying arrow. But how do you think, tir, any one oould got there!'1 . . 1 1 r ii 1 1 a 1 3 J "Won. me ming is easy, pruviueu one was sure of bis crew. I would take that new coil of Manilla rope which is in our store room and which is 300 yards long, and I would tie one end of it to our steamer anchor. 1 would then choose the best canoe men in the camp, man our canoe at the beach, strike out boldly for tbe ceutre of the river from our cove, and when I saw that the boat and reef wero directly below me I would tteer straight toward them. When about two hundred and fifty yards above the reef point I would then drop my an chor and pay out the hawser half its length. The other half, after making fast at the bow of the canoe, I would pay out along tbe length of the canoe, make fast at tbe stern, and then the best man should swim down to the boat with the other end of the rope and make it fast to tbe ring bolt at tbe boat't bow. Then tbe rest of the crew would float down by the rope to the reef, and all hands, after putting an oar under her bow, would roll the boat up bit by bit over tbe reef until she was afloat. All the crew, except tbe steersman, would then haul themselves hand over hand to the canoe, and when all were aboard would haul the boat abreast of the canoe. Then I would transfer all the crew, ex cept the steeramao,. into the boat, and, pulling up boat and canoe until the an chor was near atrip, seat everybody in his place with every oar out and ready ; then, at a word, lift the anchor into the boat, and away we would fly for this shore, and we should fetch up well above tbe Cataract. Do you see! What do you think of that, DualU?" "Oh, I can do that perfectly," cried Dualla. "Nonsense, my lad; you would forget every word I said, and then I should lose you; for no boat can live in that cata ract." "No, tir; I feel I can do it; and, if you leave it to me, it will be done." "Very well, then; but take your time and think of it. Take all day aud think of it. The river it falling steadily aud tut rainy season it over, Now, I should like to henr first whether you can re member what I said." And Dualla, with bit wonderful memory, repeated the operation word for word as I had de scribed it. After that Dualla was left to himself for tho day, and when I retired for the night I had heard no word. The next morning, while I was taking my bath, I beard a great shout in the station, and looking ont of tbe window, I taw the Zanzibaris rushing frantically to tbe beach. They were shortly after seen marching in procession to my bouse with Dualla hoisted high, and seated like a hero on their shoukiers. At the door I met them, and, gravely taking off my cap, said, "Good morning, Mr. Dualla." Dualla leaped smartly to the ground, and saluting, said, "The boat is at the beach, sir." "Thank you, Dualla; there are three cheques for you, for 25 each. One Is from Lieutenant , who was the cause of the great danger you have been put to; the second is on behalf of the Inter national Association, for saving their property; the third it from myself, for your bravery. Out ot the jaws of death. Out ot th. mouth of hall. Thank God I" Dualla performed many other brilliant feats, but after six years' jervlce with me on the Congo he had 100 pounds in Bank of England stock and a complete kit. lie subsequently took service with Captain James in bis expe dition through Somaliland, and latet was employed by ' Mr. G S. Mac kenzie, of the I. B. E. A. Company, in East Africa, at a salary ot xlj per month. He is the same Dualla who is mentioned to often and so creditably in Captain Lugard's dispatches as having assisted him so loyally and so cleverlj in his negotiations with the Mahomme dana of Uganda. Pall Mall Budget. . A Bird's Eye View of Dahomey. Although previously but little known to outsiders, Dahomey his been brought by tae recent French invasion into the light of the world'a attention. It will, therefore, be timely to call to mind tomo of the more important features of this African State, a few of which are hero given : "Dahomey, situated on the western coast of Africa, comprises an area of 4000 square miles, and reaches from the Yor uba States on the east to Ashantl on the western boundary, which it marked by tbe river Volta. On tbe north liot tbe Wangera territory. Once tbe largest and most powerful kingdom on the slave coast, it has been greatly reduced by long and disastrous wars with neighbor ing States. Its population it estimated at 250,000. Tbe capital is Abomey, in the interior, and its seaport is Whydah, seventy miles away. "The monarchy, founded early in tho Seventeenth Century, is of an absolute type, King Behanzin maintaining, be sides ordinary soldiery, the now famous body guard of 6000 Amazons, or female troops, wbo are well disciplined and formidable warriors. Tbe natives, who are fetish worshipers and of pure Afri can blood, are industrious farmers, pro ducing and exporting maize, cattle, ivory, India rubber and the bestpalm oil made in Upper Guinea. The hostili ties with France first began in 1S90, arising from the disputed stations, on the South coast, of Porto Novo and Kotonu. A peace was concluded in October of that year, but lasted only until this sum mer." In spite of their extreme barbarism the Dahomeyans were f und by the French to possess the arms of modern warfare. They have been accustomed to practice cruel outrages upon travelers and mis sionaries in the past, and their subjuga tion by France, after a most stubborn resistance, is a matter of congratulation to the civilized world. Mail and Ex press. Photographing Vowel Sounds. At the recent International Congress ot Physiology at Liege, Professor Herman demonstrated bis method ot photograph ing the sound of vowels. The vowels were tung out before one of Edison's phonographs. Immediately afterward they were reproduced very slowly, and tbe vibrations recorded by a microphone. The lutter was furnished with a mirror, which reflected the light of an electric lamp upon a registering cylinder, covered with sensitized paper and protected by another cylinder with a small opening which gave passage to the rays of light from the reflector. By this means was obtained very distinct photographic traces, and the constancy was remark able for the different letters. New York Commercial Advertiser. Tracing the Name "Chess." Tbe word "chess" is said to be a cor ruption of tbe Arabic word "sheikh," meaning chief or king. The game came westward by way of Persia, where the word sheikh became shah. It was the ga-qe of the king. The term "check" is merely to gi7e notice' that the king is attacked, and "checkmate" means "the king is dead;" tho verb raata being from tbe same root as tbe Spanish matador, the slayer ot the bull. The word check, whether verb or noun, may be traced through several curious ramification back to the Persian and Arabic. Even the word exchequer is curiously tangled up in this verbal network. Churchmuu. Marvels ot hhoeinikins". The Boston Globe says that in a pait ot flue shoes there are two sewed pieces, two inner soles, two stiffening, two pieces of steel to give a spring to the in step, two rands, twelve heel pieces, two sole lin'ngs, twenty upper pieces, thirty tacks, twelve nails in the heels and twenty buttons, to say nothing of thread, both silk and flax, but the wonder is fouud in the rapidity with which these multitudinous pieces are couibiued in a aiuglo completed work, for, as au exper iment, some shoe factories have from the leather complete I a air of shoes iu leas than au hour aud a half, aud, as a test, a single pair of men's shoes have been finished iu twenty miuuttg. SCIENTIFIC And industrial. Metal money it bacteria proof. London omnibuses are to be lighted by electricity. It is twelve years since Pasteur began hit notable experiments in germ culture. The atmosphere, if compressed, would make a sea thirty-five feet deep around tho globe. A case of bleeding through the sound skin it the subject of a European med ical report. The moon, whether full or not, hat not the slightest effect either upon food, tho weather or the mental condition of insane persons. The English Board of Agriculture hat classed glanders and farcy as one disease, and any animal suffering from which it to be tlaughtored at once. Statistics in London tbow that in that city the consumption of gas it steadily increasing, notwithstanding the more general adoption of electrio light. Some of the English pumping engines perform work equaling the raising ot 120,000,000 gallons one foot high by the consumption or 100-weight of soal. Experiments with bi-sulphide of car bon show that it will destroy all stages of the insect known as bean weevil eggs, larvteof all sizes, pupte and adults. The moth has a fur jacket and the butterfly none, because the nocturnal habits of the moth require it; the diurnal movements of the butterfly do not. The Queen of the Belgians has just ordered two or three phonographs, tbe purpose of which is to record her maj esty's extempore compositions on the piano. Comparison of results of the tunthine recorder at Greenwich, England, for fourteen years, shows that thronghout the year the average dally amount of sun shine it little more than three hours. Tbe first hospital In America devoted exclusively to the treatment of dogs was opened December 30th, as an adjunct to the veterinary department of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Compressed air for cleaning cart is used on the Union Pacific Railroad at its Portland (Oregon) shops. The air, un der a pressure of fifty pounds per square inch, is delivered from a flexible hose with a amall nozzle, and is used as water would be. Ice one to two inches thick will bear men. Two inches thick- is estimated fit to bear infantry; four inches thick to bear cavalry or light guns; six inches to bear teams with moderate loads or heavy field guns; eight inches teams with heavy loads. Charles H. Peck, the New York Stato botanist, claims that thirty now species ot fungi have been found during the year. Of tbe fifty-nino edible tpectet illustrated in hit annual report, he states that at least forty have been used as food by him. "The more I experiment in this direction," he further savs, "the more firmly I am convinced that the number of really poisonous or dangerous species of mushrooms is very small." Millions or Quail, There surely will be an exodus from tome tcctions of tbe world take up its lino of march for tho Mohawk Valley in Yuma County. The children of Israel were at one time fed by the number of quails thut flocked around tbom and manna from heaven. If they wero in Mohawk Valley to-day they could do equally as well. Tbe quail literally cover the ground, and can be caught by hand. Those wbo are profiting by catch ing them and shipping to San Francisco catch more than they can bag. Hun dreds of dozens are shipped daily by ex press. They have used up all the lum ber for boxes and have about used all the barley sacks in the county shipping them in that ruauner. The children make from seven to twenty dollars a day catching them, and their numbers do not seem to diminish. Similar reports of their numbers come from Agua Call ente and Gila Bend, and their slaughter goes daily along. You fun-loving sportsmen, the world over, if you wunt to have a genuine good time shooting quail now is the time to get pleasure. There are millions upon millions of them, and no let up to their numbers. When a band it routod the tound ot their wings is simply deafening, re sembling a distant thunder roll. There is no telling what a Yuma climate will not uext produce. Yuma (Arizona) Sentinel. A Great Philanthropist. The new Peabody Institute, recently dedicated at Danvers, Mass., was necos tarily built of wood, but at long as It stands it will be a very worthy memorial of the gift of the philanthropist to bis native town. George Peabody was born in Danvers, February 18th, 1793, and died in London, November 4th, 1869. In 185tf- he donated $10,000 for an insti tute iu his native town, and in 1868 he endowed it with $10,000, but unfor tunately tho original structure was burned in 1890. The present structure cost but $28,000. The architecture is colonial, and the dimensions are fifty-two feet in width and ninety-two teet long. It stands in a beautiful park, which it bordered by Sylvan and Pond streets and Peabody avenue, aud is fluiehed in fine woods, with the usual rooms of such a building, us library, main ball, etc. The latter hat a seating capacity of 1100, with a large stago fitted up with scenery for plain theatricals. Tbe library has sholves for 30,000 volumes, and the reading room adjacent it a vary cozy and pleasant place. In one room hangs the portrait, six by I iue feet, of Mr. Peabody, which was save I with great difficulty when the original building was burned. Its cost wus $1500. The structure is designed for library, museum, social hall and general uthering place for the Dauverait. New York Advertiser. CAPTURING THE CATARACT. NXAOARA FALLS IS "HAKNESS&D" FOR MAN'S BENEFIT. Equal to 1,000,000 Horw-Pnwcr More Than One-Tenth ot That Amount Will Soon Xm Available. FOR more than fifty years, says a Buffalo letter to the New York Press, the dream of engineers hat been to "harness Niagara." Well, the dream has como true. Niag ara is in harness. To bo sure, tho trace chaina have not yet been hooked to the whifflotrces of industry, but the col lar and bames, the bridle and bit are in position and ready for tbe strain when it shall come. The greatest citaractof tbe world has been subdued, and if, in knowledge ot its captivity its roar is more sullen than of yore when it existed only as an insurmountable) obstacle to navigation and a wonder for sightseers to grow solemn over, the smiles on the facet of capitalists, the new jingle In tbe pockets of residents of the village of Niagara Falls, and the complacent prophecies of the Buffalonian that ten years hence "Chicago will not be in it, sir; no, sir, not on your life," are atone ments. It is estimated that the total powor of tbe great waterfall is equal to that of 15,000,000 horses. To any one who has seen its mighty volume this does not seem absnrci. The present scheme will only utilize less than one-hundredth of that vast wasting force, but it may be ssretcbed in the future to as great a length as may be made useful. Tbe effect of this great enterprise may not be as great as tbo sanguine remark of the Buffalo man who has been quoted would imply, but it will be very great. Of course many ot the manufacturing interests which will be attracted by cheap power will gather in the little town which hovers on the brink of the cataract, and which has in the past been notable principally for its big hotels, its clamorous cabbies and its Indian bazaars. But a plan has been devised whereby the power will be electrically transmitted to Buffalo with comparatively small loss, so that this city will undoubtedly come in for many of the pudding's plums. The village ot Niagara Falls itsolf has gone wild with a boom almost Western in its enthusiasm. The first attempt to utilize the water power of Niagara Falls was made by Horace A. Dey, who in 1850 built the old Hydraulic Canal ruuning from above the rapids to what are now knowu as Shoelkopf's Mills on the brink of the cataract. This canal discharges its water into wheel pits only sixty feet deep, which in turn discharge at a point more than 100 feet above the level of the river below the falls, so that moro than three quarters of the possible force is wasted. Tbo old Hydraulic Canal gives in all only about 6000 available horse power. Tbe new method is the same principle differently applied. A canal has been cut from above the rapids as in Dey's plan; but It rjns only a short distance before it reaches the pits, which are 120 feet deep. A sheer fall through groat pipes is thus obtained, which is nearly as gieat as the height of the falls. Thus far tbe work was comparatively easy. Tbe fun cime in giving the water a vent from the botto:n of the wheelpits. Tins was accomplished by the construc tion of a great tunuel through solid lime stone rock, from the wheolpits to below tbe falls. Tbe water abstracted from the river thus flows for a short distance through the caual, then takes its big tumble through the pits down to tbo turbine wheels, and then flows through the tunnel to the river's lower level. This tunnel is 8713 feet long, twenty eight feet high and eighteen feet broad, in semi-circular form. It is bricked up along its whole length, an undertaking which has consumed 13,000,000 cubes of baked clay, and which, had it been done by a single bricklayer, would havo occupied his entire attention for twenty- four years. It was thought to be a bet ter plan to employ 7M)) mou in its con struction, however, and they have man aged to dig it and line it in a little less than threo years, havini; kept hud at it day and niht. Tho total cost of the enterprise so far had becu a trille of $2,500,000. With the wheelpits already fiiiished or under way, the plant will develop a minimum of 120,000 horse power. This would be more than sufficient to run seven of the largest steamships afloat, and steamships are not easy thiugs to run. It is highly improbable, however, that the power from the falls will be utilized in ocean navigation. But it the dreams of the projectors of this big entorprise come true, somo things almost as remarkable as that would be are likely to occur. Its pro motors have been devoting almost as much atteution to studying how to trans mit tbe power as they have to studying bow to develop it. Iu order to increase the power it will bo necessary only to dig new wheel pits. The canal aud tbe tunnel are big enough to hold water for 1,000,000 horse power, and that is what the company pluccs its maximum capacity at. Of course there are sneers, but the company has Niuar Falls aud the engineer! on its side, aud seems likely to coma out ahead. They Eat Dos. It is said that dogs arc slaughtered at Munich for gastronomic purposes iu large and increasing numbers. They are openly sold In tbe markets with m attempt at disguise, and there is mi in creasing demand for the meat, which is openly bought aud served at table just as any other meat. It is said that the cus tom of eatiug these animals wa intro duced in to the Bavarian capital by the Italian laborers who have settled there in lar' numbers. New Orleans 1'ir.iyiiiie. The historic cliatu.m ul Cirry, Fr.iiico, lias been sold to a rich miiiiula'-! in -i lor $."iil(ltJUU. It waa ouce tiie home ol Vol-luiie, fHE SONO OF THE ICE. Sing bolting hoi for tbe later, oh! For the flying feet ntxlthe winds that blow I For the blood, that runs to the ehek, to glow Like the western skyl 'H. Sing bo I once more for th. flying shorat ' And th. groat long cracks in our Icy floorl And the tree tops that wail of th. sad no mors Of the days gone byt Sing hoi sing ho I as we glide aw) go Where tbe pine, on tho edge of th. shore bend low. Over the ice, and the stream's still Bow As in times gone by 1 Sing hoi once more while the pine tops roar With a song that they sin; to us o'er and o'er As the old sun walks through th. great red door Of the western sky I Charles G. Roger, in Outing HUMOR OF THE DAT. A chafing dish Crow. Cold feet Two feet of snow. Creature comforts Household pets. A partial payment Tho favorite's salary. in old-timer Your great grand father's clock. Troy Press. The editor may enjoy good health, buthe is always "in a critical condition." Puck. Talk about your transformations t We have seen a square man turn round. Statesman. Some philanthropic women seem to work everywhere except at home. Somerville Journal. Great wit may be allied to madness, but tbe stupid man need not brag of his superior sanity. Puck. "Hero's another case of kidnapping," said the messenger boy who found comrade asleep. Washington Post. A man may be supciior to false social standards, yet it makes him uncomfort able to be cut by his barber. Puck. A young man never thoroughly appreciates his own iusigniScance until he attends his own weddiug. Puck. In Missouri they sell Shetland ponies by tbe perpendicular foot, and the pur chaser has to pony up. Chicago Tri bune. Mincer "What brought about all this trouble between Morgan and his wife! Is bis mind unsettled?" Parsons "No, it was bis coffee." Mrs. Singer "Patti has a diamond ring worth $5000." Mr. Singer "Ob, well, I wager she got it for a mere song." Jeweler's Weekly. Mrs. Trolley "Do tell ino, Mr. Kan vass, which is the greatest work of art?" Mr. Eanvoss "Selling tho paint ings." New York Sun. "Jenny, do you know what a miracle is?" "Yes'in. Ma says if you don't marry our new parson it will be a miracle." Brooklyn Lifo. Martin "How well Miss Greenbough keeps her age 1" Mis. Grinder "J v, of course! nothing would induce bv, give it away." Inter-Ocean. 4 "I really feel that I am a public example of pole-lightness," said the caibon as it was put in readiness for tbe electric current. Washington Star. "Our gardener will make a good vil lain in a melodrama." "Vhy so?" "Because he is always laying out plots that amouut to nothing in the end." Boston Gazette. Eleanor "Don't you think Miss Noyes plays with great feeling!" Tom (dryly) "Yes; she does seem to feel about for the notes a good deal." Har vard Lampoon. On tho Ocean Greyhound: Captain Saylors "I'm sorry to say, mmtame, we're delayed. The vessel's broke her shaft, ma'am." Mrs. J. S. (sympatheti cally) "Oh, dear! Can't you fix it with this hairpin?" Chicago News Record. "The great problem that I have to deal with," said tho keeper of tho im becilo asylum, "is to fiud some occupa tion for tho peoplo uuder my charge." "Wby not set them to inventing college yells," nsked the visitor. Buffalo Ex press. Old Lady (to chemist) "I want a box of canine pills." Chemist "What's the maUer with the dog?" Old Lady (.in dignantly) "I want you to understand, sir, my hu&baud is a gvutleman." (Chemist puts up quinine pills in pro found silence.) Philadelphia Times. Novel Climbing Device. A French inventor has devised a novel and practical arrangement for use by firemen and others to facilitate rope climbing, and, at the same time, to per mit the climber to have free use of his hands. The apparatus consist of two boards joined by a hinge, a hole passing through both the biuge and the boards, and the extremities of the latter are pro vided with straps, which cau be fasteued to the feet of thu mnn using the appara tus. The method of climbing involved in this arrangement is simple. When the feet attached to the boards are lifted the rope is free, but the moment the feet are pressed down on the two boards tho rope is firmly gripped. It is only neces sary, therefore, to Jift the body with both bauds us far as possible, and it can then be held by the hiuged clamps until another lift is made. By thu use of a belt to hold tlit body close to the rope tbe hands may be leit free for work. Fire and Water. A Curious Sprinir. Three miles north of Aurora, iu Al bany County, Wyomiii.', a stone bluff rises abruptly from the plains to a bight of 600 feet. Thirty foet from the ground the rock has a torn and jaggr-1 apear once as if it bad boeu struck by liht ning. From tlin clefts thus formed there gushes forth a spring, or spring, of uiaguificent water, the volume being qui to large. Amencau 1'aimer,
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