THE FOREST REPUBLICAN as rDUh ry Wtdaesday, t J. E. WENK. mo In Bmearhaugh Co.' ufldlni Kit ITK1IT, TIONnTA, fa, Tarmj, . . . 9MOp9rymr, RATIS Or ADVERTI8INOI One Bqaar, one inoh, on lnrtkm.. 1 On Hquara, on Inch, on. month. . . OB One Square, on. inch, three month. , 00 On. Pquare, on. Inch, on year WW Two Hquarm, on yar 19 W Guartxr Column, on year...., ....... MOO Bait Column, on year MOO On. Column, on. year 100 AO Lfal advertiMnMit ten eanti par Nm MKtti laMrtioD. Marriage and death notion gratia. AllbillefT'yearlyadvertisement eoCaaM quarterly, femporary adrrtlaeniaij Mat be paid in advance. Job work oaah on delivery. . Repxj HOR CAN. MxaaaioaUeas. aaiou VOL. XXV. NO. 45. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MA11CH 1, 1893. S1.50 PEE ANNUM. BLI A Only two per cent, of the Siberian runaways escape with their llvei. There are now 7000 loan associations in this eountry, with n membership of 2,000,000 persons. It is sai l that Christian missionaries In foreign countrios haro mora trouble to convert Mohammedans than any other class of people The Chicago Ilorald bolleves 'it Is afe to say that almost every five miles of main public road in Grout Britain is better than almost any five milos of pub lic -road in our country." The firo loss for 1892 for the United Ptatci nod Canada foots up $132,701, -700; a largo sum of money to bo com pletely wiped out of cxistenco in twelve months, observes tho New York Inde pendent. A correspondent of the Chattanooga Times, writing from Glou Mary of the abandonment of sheep raising on account of the raids made by. dogs, says that there is not a fnrmer in that small section but losses twenty-five percent, or more of his slioep through tho work of worth test curs. Tho dog question is a lively one in Tennessee just at this time. Dr. Parker, of tho London City Tem ple, not long ago hold a service for the unemployed, and invited each of his hearers into tho vutry after service and prescuted him with small sum of money. One of tho recipiouts, with cynical candor, said to sonu one as ha came away: "I've not done a day's work for scveu-nnd-twenty years and I don't menu to f Reports lately made concerning the oyster fisheries of Louisiana load to the belief, says the Chicago Herald, that a large share of this country's supply of oysters will come from that quarter in the future. It is reported that the beds are of enormous proportipns, possess every natural advantage for the growth of the shellfish, and in many cases are hardly touched by the rake. Scientific distinction by women is to seldom acquired, even when deserved, that of special interest is the receut ac tion of tho Academy of Science in Ba varia in electing a woman to full mem- , borship. This honor" has been con ferred upon tho Princess Thoresa, sister of the Prince Kogeot, the only woman whose scientific works have boon con sidered worthy such recognition. In round numbers, there are 80,000 convicts in the penitentiaries and 20,000 able-bodied man confined in jails, mak ing a total array of 70,000 men available for employment in road improvement in the United States. Why not employ them in this work? suggests the Farm, Field and Fireside'. Many of them are lying in idleness, fed at the people's ex pense, while the labor of others in the penitentiaries is let by contract to manu facturers aud employed in direct com petition with honest labor. A man rcceutly offered to carry the mails between Boonsborough and Keedysville, Maryland, daily, except Sunday, free of charge. The distance between the two towns is about three milit, and the bidder thought ttat be bid low .enough to secure the contract. It was not awarded t him, however, for notber man offered to do the work for ai annual couipeusatiou of one cent, and 4o him the contract was awarded.- The man who offered to deliver the mail free of charge it now wondering why he was t not permitted to- do so. It looks to the New York Sun as though the cave-dwellioi' race, which once lived in Arizona and the regions thereabout, had been discovered as fur north as Alaska, or upon a small island off the Alaskan coast which was recently visited by the United State cruiser Bear. The dear's officers, while explor ing the upper surface of the rock known as King's Island, which rises above the waters of the Bering Strait, found an ab original tribe of cave dwellers, who seem to possess some cf the characteristics of the curious people which in old times existed far to the southward. From the account giveu of the dwellings wo infer that, in construction aud iu grouping, they resemble '.hose of the cliff dwellers of Arizona, New Mexico aud Colorado. Some of their implements are similar to those that were made by the cave and cliff .people elsewhere; but their food ii not like that which was used by their southern kin, who had uo opportunity of fattening upon whale blubber or wal rus meat. It is hardly worth while, however, to speculate about these Alas kan cave dwellers until we have fuller information concerning them. That the Island had some inhabitants was known before it was visited by the Captain of the Bear, whose report is likely to be of interest to American archteologists. THE RNOW.wBa.Vbr'S SONd, Baok and forth the shuttles go, Fashioning; the oloth of snow, And th weaver you may hear At the wind loom singing clean "Slumber, little Sowers, and dream Of th silver throated stream, Shining through the April day As it war a music ray Bearing melody along From th mellow sun of song. Slumber, little fragrant faces. Dreaming in your quiet places; Boon the dreams shall pass nd then You and spring shall wake again 1" Thus the weaver at his loom Sing away tlie winter's gloom, While he weave tho coverlet For to. dreamers who forget: "Slumber, little flowers, and dream Or th April's golden beam Which shall com and fill your eyes With the sunlight of surprise: Wsklng, you shill hear onoe mors Hons; birds at the daybreak's door. Number, little fragrant flow, Pre-ralng in your quiet places, Boon thedreamsshall pan anil then You and spring shall wake again !" Frank Dempster Sherman. NINETTE'S CAREER. BY AMY RANDOLPH. T was snowing still, sharp prickles of whiteness in the gloomy December ausk, when Ninette Beauvoir was driven up to her cousin's house. The air was intensely cold, the houses on either side of the street loomed up like huge phan toms, and the gas jets seemed to thrill and shiver in tbe wind. And the wel come of Mrs. Berry, hor cousin's house keeper, was a dead match for the weather and the wind. "I am expected, I suppose?" said Ninette, wondering why the woman did not open the door a little wider. "What name)" cautiously inquired Mrs. uerry. " Mist Beauvoir, Geargia." from Atlanta, "1 have heard nothing of it," said Mrs. Berry, without opening tbe door a fraction of an inch farther. "Mr. Trebloton is at home, I suppose?'' "No, Miss, he't not," ttill frigidly. 'I will come in," said Ninette, trying to swallow the suffocating sensation in her throat. "I will wait for him. It is to cold, and I I am half frozen." - Mrs. Berry hesitated a moment, then opened the door, ungraciously enough. "Well," the said, "I suppose you cau wait in the study until be comes." She showed Ninette into the red-curtained, cozy little room, lined with books, lighted by the soft ring of flame that streamed from a shaded gas-jet, warmed with the glow of a coral-red tire upon the hearth. And here, surrepti tiously turning tho keys in tbe secreury drawers and writing-table and takiug them out, Mrs. Berry left her. "There are the paper-weight," said Mrs. Berry to herself, "and the ivory paper-cutters and tho inkstand with the stag's head in bronze; but I don't be lieve she'd take them 1" While Ninette, left alone, crouched down in the low chair before the lire and burst into tears. "Is all the North as cruel, as hard, as frozen cold as this?'' she asked herself, with a convulsive shudder. "Oh, it would have been better to have died of starvation in my own tunny, golden South 1 If a stray dog, there, had crept in out of the storm at night, they would, at least, have given him a bone and a kind w.ord. But for me there is no tuch welcome I" When Mr. Trebleton came in at nine o'clock, he found Ninette still looking at the tire through eyes that swan like tears. "I am Ninette Beauvoir, your cousin's child," said the, rising with varying color. "Happy to make your acquaintauco, I am sure," said Mr. Trebloton, apparently to busy in removing his gloves that he never noticed her offered hand. "Whnt can I do for you, Miss Beauvoir?" Ninette looked at him with large, grave eyes. "Papa said, before he died," she faltered, "that you would give me a home with your daughters. I huve no longer a home of my own. Papa's ill ness was expensive and took all our means." "Quite out of the question; quite out of the question," said Mr. Trcb'cton, hurriedly, as he took up a poker and began beating the topmost lumps of coal on tbe fire. "Perhaps you are not aware Miss Beauvoir, that I have a large and expensive family of my own, and I couldn't think of undertaking any ad ditional expenses." Ninette listened, apparently incredu lous of her own seuses. "But what am I to do?" sho asked. "What do other girls do who are thrown on their owu resources?'' rather curtlj demanded Mr. Trebleton, secretly wishing that the interview was over. "I don't know," said Ninette, simply. "I am only an ignoraut Southern girl. No one every told me. I supposed, of course, that I could come and live with jou!" "Humph I" ssid Mr. Trebleton. "They teach; they take in towing; they go into stores, shops, factories. They strive for independence." "Cousin Trebleton," said Nluotte, with a quiveriui) lip, "if I could see your wife your daughters they are women like me; they " "I sm very sony," said Mr. Trebloton, stonily, "but they are out of town. There, there ; don't cry. If there's any thing I hate, it is to see a woman mike a scene. Of course, you can stay here to night. My housekeeper, Mrs. Berry, will take care of you. In the Morning you will be better able to look things in tho face." Mrs. Berry, still, stiff and silent, con ducted Ninette to an arctic-cold bed room at the top of the house, where the very candle seemed to shiver. "What's the matter now?" said Mrs. Berry. "Why are you crying?" "I am so hungry," sobbed Ninette, In whose nature starvation had completely overcomo the hcroio eloment. "I have had nothing to cat since eight o'clock this morning." Airs. Berry bit her lip impatiently. "And the kitchen fire gone dowD," said she, "and not a drop of milk leftl Well, I'll go down and see what I can find." But when she came back, poor little Ninette, who had crept into bed to get warm, was sound asleep. And tho nig gardly tandwich and slice of withered cake were too late. Mr. Trebleton took Ninette to a gen teel intelligence bureau the next day. "This lady," he said to her, indicat ing a stout female in b'ack-silk behind a tall desk, "will procure decent lodgings for you, and put you in the way to em ployment. And, if I can be of any further service to you, pray let me know." And he had given her hand a fish-like pressure and was gone, beforo she fairly comprehended that this was hit way of getting rid of her. Poor Ninette I Poor little tropical child of the South, how infinitely lonely the felt at that moment. But tbe stout female took up a pen, opened a big book and began to ask questions with bewildering brusqueness and rapidity, and Ninette toon caught tbe infection of her energy. The rest of the week was like the shifting scenes which Ninette remem bered to have seen at a pantomime,years and years ago. She was hurried from place to place in the great, noisy bedlam of a city. Nobody wanted a nursery governess; the school lists were crowded to overflowing; from the stores Ninette shrank with trembling horror, after she had seen tbe smooth, nice, oily-faced superintendents of one or two. "I can do nothing more for you," said the stout female at length, "unless, indeed, they can give you employment nt the Decoration Rooms. It won't cost anything for you to go and toe!" To the Rooms of Decorative Art Nin ette accordingly went. The directress was engaged. She would see the young person presently. Let her be shown into the workroom. A great, bright, well-ventilated apart ment tilled with busy workers, some at frames, some at tables, some standing before easels; and one pale, middle-aged women was drawing a design for wall paper on a huge sheet of coarse paper daisies, corn-flowers, trailing vines, all tangled together. "That is not right I" exclaimed Nin ette, involuntarily, as she watched the slow, uncertain progress of the pencil. "Let me show you bow to l ring that vine out!" The woman stared, but Ninette had caught the pencil from her hand, and, with two or three bold strokes, altered the whole character of the design. From mediocre it became original; from stiff ness it took on a wild, woodland grace. "How did yo-i do that?" asked the stupid, middle-aged woman in bewilder ment. "I don't know," confessed Ninette, crimsoning, "lint don t you see can t you comprehend? It could u't ba other wise! It must come out sol ' A band was laid lightly on her shoul der, and turning around she found her self looking iuto the calm, amused eyes of the directress. "You are right, my child," said she, "it could not be otherwise. But it is not one in a thousand who would know it. Come here, I must talk with you I" That half-hour in the work-room of the Decoration Society was the turning point of Ninette Beauvoir't life. She had found her niche in life's temple. She could scarcely reckon up within her own mind the number of years that bud passed when she sat aloue in the little private parlor of the Decoration Rooms in the soft dusk of a March even ing, with the rod gleam of tho lira tilling the room with dreamy softness. She had grown from an impulsive child into a tall, beautiful, self-poised woman, who presided over the ramifications ot the great society with queonly dignity and well-balanced judgment. And Ninette was happy now in having discovered her true career. The girl entered with lights. Mist Beauvoir glanced up. "I shall not need the light, Gretchen," she said. "I am going home as soon us the carriage comes for mo." "There is an old gentleman, Miss Beauvoir, to see you," said the girl, apologetically. "I told him it was past hours, but he said he had walked a loog distance to see you, aud seemed so old and feeble that I didn't like to refuse him. He has a portfolio under his arm." "Where is ho, Gretchen? Iu the re ception room?" interrupted Miss Beau voir. "I will go to him." A tail, stooping old man, with scanty locks, threadbare clothes and gloves mended uutil they resembled a piece of mosaic, turned as she entered. "Do I speak," he asked, "to the hea l of the establishment?" Miss Beauvoir inclined bor bead. In the dark silk drees and mantle edged with fur she looked even older, more dignified than her years. "I am very poor," he said. "I have met with reverses in business aud am ijuite dependent on the exertions of my daughters. They have been brought up ladies, and, consequently, are compara tively helpless; but they hare done a little needlework, for which they would be glad to obtain a fair price, and " "Mr. Trebleton!" cried out Ninette, holding out both her hands. lie Unshed deeply. "That is my mime," he said," but 1 was uot aware " "Have you forgotten me?" she inter rupted. "Little N incite Beauvoir! Don't you remember that we are cousins My circumstances are good," she added. rolormg a little. "I receive an ex (Ulcnt salary here and have money laid ut.. Do you think I can allow my f stair's cousin to want? I have a com fortable home; it shall bo yours, and my cousins' also. My carriage is at the door now. Let ut go together to your home." And Minette, in her enthusiasm, over ruled poor Mr. Trcbleton's feeble objec tiont. "A comfortable home" she bad called it, but to the poverty-stricken inhabi tants of a tenement-house on Grand street the little brown-stone dwelling seemed a palace, with its bright open fires, its sweetness of hot-house flowers, its moss-soft carpets, dark oiled boards and walls tinted with the softest of colors. Mr. Trebleton sat feebly down in the big velvet arm-chair; bis pale, sickly daughters stood beside him, embarrassed, yet happy in their young cousin's warm Southern welcome. "Do you moan," he faltered, "that we are to live here always?" "What else could I possibly mean?" said Ninette, kneeling to arrange the coffee and fruit on the table at his side. "Are you not my cousins? Where should your homo be but with me?" Mr. Trebleton brushed something from hit eyelashes. "Ninette," toid he, faintly, "I do not deserve this. I I didn't treat you so, when you came a solitary orphan to my house !" "Let all that be forgotten," said Ni nette, gently. "Remember, only, that you are welcome, more than welcome to my hearth and home I" So Stephens Trebleton and his daugh ters stayed on, always, in the sunny lit tle brown-stone house. And Ninette was harfpy, for Bho had it in her power to bestow happiness. "Of what use is money, if not to help others with?" said tweet Ninette. "And they are my cousins, tool" But Mr. Trebleton had not argued thus on that snowy December night when Ninette Beauvoir came, homeless and solitary, to him. "Lord be merciful to me, a sinner," he breathed. "But I never knew, until I saw it in the uncompromising light of the past, what a miserable, sottish brute I was." The Ledger. She Remembers Her Newsboy Friend. "There is a young man in Mobile, Ala.," said Colonel Robert McEachin, of Winchester, Vs., "who has cause to re member Amelie Rivet, the writer, twice a year. When the now distinguished lady was a little girl and lived in that city, she became fondly attached to a newsboy who cried out hit papers every morning in the neighborhood in which she lived. They met one day and a friend ship sprang up between them that hat lasted to tbe present time. After the boy's stock of papers were sold in the morning he would call for the pretty little blue-eyed miss and theywould take long strolls down Froscute road, pluck ing the orange blossoms and; the magno lia blooms. They soon got to be fami liar figures on Government street, as they would walk along that busy thorough fare with the young girl's head garlanded with wreaths of beautiful Mowers and the little boy's arms filled with viuea and evergreens. Then Miss Rives moved far away into Virginia, but she never forgot her newsboy friend, for it was her custom almost daily to write him, telling how sadly she missed the walks and strolls, his joyous, sunny face and the music of bis boyish laughter. I doubt if Mrs. Cbanler, as she now is, ever wrote love lier or more poetic or passionate sen tences than those she used to send in her letters to ber newsboy sweetheart. The boy met with a misfortune tome yaara ago which crippled him for life. He it poor, but his purse is twice a year re plenished by a postoffice order from Mrs. Chanler. One of these arrives in Mobile on his birthday, which is in June, and the other on Christmas Day.1' St. Louis Republic. Surgical Progress Illustrated. In ono of the best known restaurants in this city a few weoks ago thero was seated at a table enjoving a hearty lunch a well known physician aud a well known lawyer. When tho feast was about ended the physician, rubbing the region of his stomach covered by the lower part of hit vest, said : "I'm out of order down here. I believe I'll go to Dr. (naming a well known young surgeon of this city, who has a reputation for skill and ra pidity in the use of the knife), and have my stomach cut open to see what's the matter." The lawyer was amazed, and unwilling to take the doctor at his word, asked him what he really meant. "Why," said the doctor, "I mean what I suy. The right way to treat the stomach is by opening it and finding out what s the matter. I hat s what surgery is coming to. It will be tho regular practice iu a few years indeed, it is frequently done now. They used to thiuk it was certain death to expose the bowels, but they've got over that. I am in medicine, but not in surgery, but I know what tho surgeons are doiug, and even now they take out a man's bowels, fix them up again, and put them buck all right." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Paris Doles on Horseflesh. O-ie of the most properous iudustries iu Paris is the sale aud disposal of horse- flesu for food. There are in the city of Paris 180 shops for tbe sale of horseflesh, and in the course of this year more than 21,000 horses, sixty-one mules and 275 doukeys have been killed and eaten by the Parisians. The most singular point about this traffic is that the price of the flesh is equal to that of good beef, 20 cents a pound. It is only fair, however, to add that two-thirds of this meat has been couverted into sausages, so that it is more than possible that the consumers Hie ignorant of the source of their tooth some dish. It is uow easy to under stand how it is that good lior.us are so scarce in the Paris fiacres; at 20 cents a pound a fat horse would be worth more when he was dead thau alive. Chicago 1 News Record. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Wood pavements cause opthalmania. A diamond for cutting glass lasts about three months. Psycologists say that people do their dreaming, or most of it, after 4 a. m. A German savant has discovered what he thinks it a sure means of disinfecting rivers. Physicians are now able to wash out the system through the naturat channels of circulation by meant of injected fluid. The copper plating of theet zinc has been successfully accomplished and the process is recommended where wear takes place. Pittsburg now claims the largest glass flattening oven in the world. This new oven will take a sheet seventy-five inches by 111 inches, or in narrow glass one of thirty inches by 131 inches. The most valuable bit of ore ever melted in the world, so far as is known, was a lot containing 200 pounds of quartz-holding gold at the rato of $50,. 000 per ton, and was found in a mine at Ishpeming, Mich. It it said that one of the new armored cruisers will have smokestacks 100 feet high. These high funnels will be un sightly, but appearances are to be sacri ficed to utility. The increase In height will give additional draft in ordinary steaming. Recent studies o( cancer not only in dicate that it is an organic growth, but almost certainly prove that it is itself liable to tbe attack of another parasite. Better acquaintance with the relutions of these parasites may possibly bring the long-sought method of arresting cancer. There are two fixed rules for propor tioning tbe human form;. just two. They are that eight heads (that is, skull lengths) make tbe total height of the figure and that the invariable center of the total length ot the whole figuro should be the front termination of the lowest part of the pelvis. By placing two iron bars at seven or eight yards distance from each other and putting them in communication on one tide by an insulated wire and on tbe other side with a telephone, it is said that a storm can be predicted twelve hours ahead through a certain dead sound heard in the receiver. Sneezing is averted by pressing the upper lip, because by doing to we dead ea tbe impression made on a certain branch of the fifth nerve, sneezing being a reflex action excited by tome slight impression on that nerve. Sneezing does not take place when the fifth nerve is paralyzed, even though the sense of smell is retained. Paper tough as wood is said to be made by mixing chloride of zinc with the pulp in the course of manufacture. It has been found that tbe greater the degree ot tbe concentration of the zinc solution the greater will be the tougn ness of the paper. It cau be used for makinek gas pipes, boxes, combs, for roofing and even, it is added, for mak ing boats. Still another use for aluminum has been found in the construction of slate pencils. It was accidently discovered that aluminum wouid give a stroke on a slate, and a German forthwith set about manufacturing pencils of tbe new metal. They are five millimeters thick and four teen millimeters long. They are said to need no pointing, and are practically in exhaustible and unbreakable. The writing, which can be erosedwith a wet sponge, is as clear as that of the ordin ary pencil, only requiring a little more pressure. The Tale or the Telcpho le. The first telephone that was ever used was not electrical, nor was it a scientific instrument in any sense of tbe term. A little more than fifty years ago the em ployes of a large manufactory beguiled tbeii leisure hours by kite flying. Kites largo and small went up daily, and the strife was to see who could get the largest. Tbe twine which hold them was the thread spun and twisted by the ladies of tho village. One day to the tail of tho largest kite was attached a kitton, sewed iu a can vas bag, with a netting over the mouth to give it air. Wbon the kite was at its greatest height, some 200 feet or more, the mewing of tho kitten could bo dis tinctly beard by those holding the string. To the clearness of the atmosphere was attributed the hearing of the kitten's voice. This is the first account we re member of speaking along a line. Sheffield Telegraph. Some Carious I'uiiisliiuiMits. During the time of Richard I., and by the advice and consent of that monarch, the British Parliament promulgated some strikingly original codes for tbe main tenance of order on his Majesty's fleet. Thus, if any seaman killed another on shipboard he was to be bound face to face with his victim by means of stout thongs "of not less thun three-ply," the living and dead bundlo to be thrown overboard together. Auy uiau who maimed another, the samu having been done with malice intent, was ordered to be served in like manner as his victim. One section of this law real as follows: "He who draws bloude from another by wilful blow struck, he that blow strucs with a weapon or with bee's hand ouly, must lose tbe baud with which tbe wound was inflicted; a hand blow that causes no bloude to flow must be punished by ducking the olfeuder thrice. St. Louis Republic. tourers Abound lu Washington. Complaints are made in eastern parts of the State of Washington that cougars are entirely too pleutiful for comfort to the settlers. Several of tbe auiuials have lately visited stock pens and farms in Spokane County, and oue was seen calmly trotting along the main load just outside Spangle. This latter beast was uot at all frightened at tlie hi;mih Ii of uieu, but ambled off into the woods at a leisurely gait. YARNS SPUN BY WHALERS. QUEER STORIES TOLD BY AROTIO BLUBBER HUNTERS. Slngnlar Effect ot the Moon on Whale' Kye The Crew fjmally Humanity' Odd and End. STORIES of the sea always have a fascination for the landsman, and so it was that a group of Arctic blubber hunters had a lot of interested auditors. "How would you like to hsye eight or ten thousand dollars on a string?" asked one of them, knocking his pipe on the edge of the stringer and addressing the group of landsmen collectively. "Well, I've had that much many a time," he went on without waiting for a reply, "and it makes a fellow rather nervous guessing whether he's going to land his fish or whether he'll get flipped overboard. I've been to sea now thirty four years and I expect I've struck about as many whales as the next one, but it't pretty exciting business yet. Why, last season one of our boats struck a big sperm whale and he started down. Our ship had five boatt and each boat carries 280 fathoms of line. That whale took down tbe whole five of 'em 1100 fathoms in all. It began to look as we bad lost tbe whole thing, but he was too tired, and when he came up wo feathered into him." "You wouldn't believe that fish at least spouting fish are influenced by the moon?" said another of the group. "Well, they arc. I've seen it time and again, and I've called other people's at tention to it, too, but I never found any one else who bad noticed it. Sometimes when you are at sea and whales are to be seen frequently it may be at the full moon or at new moon well, all at once they will disappear and you won't tee one for two weeks. Then just as sud denly the water will be full of them. I've compared notes with other vessels. Maybe they were sixty miles or more away at the time and the whales there would be numerous just at the tame time they appeared near our vesse'.. Oh, you fellows needn't laugh. There is some thing in it. "And then I've noticed another thing about this same class of fish. When you catch them you will always find that they have tbe pupil of the eye the same shape as tbe moon at that time. If the moon is full the pupil will be round, and it it is a half or a quarter tbe sight will be like a crescent." The Captain stopped to light a fresh pipe and another one of the whalers spoke up. "I've bad tome experience myself," said he, "but two years ago I came the nearest taking utter Jonah that a man over did. We had made a strike all right and tho whale went down, not very far, but when he came up he had his mouth open, and some how or other he came up with one jaw on tbe portend the other on the lea side of our boat. Surprised? Well, that whale looked very much as If bo was ready to receive company, but I wasn't invited, so I made a streak for another boat." "You would be surprised," said the first speaker, changing the direction of the talk, - "what queer mixtures there are in a whaler s crew sometimes. Why I've had lawyers and doctors and any number of young men with a decree of some kind. And once I shipped a fel low that turned out to be a preacher. and I wish I could get him again, for we got eight whaleti that season. I be lieve he was a mascot. One poor felljw who went overboard in a gale, had in his trunk a physician's diploma, and any number of letters with high recommend ations, but I guess he bad gone wrong i?me how, and wanted to get out of the way lor a while. He succeeded better than he intended. I guess they won't think of booking for him at tbe bottom of tbe Arctic. "We get lots' of men for a season's cruise that way. If a fellows wants to hide himself for a while I don't know of any place he could do it better than on board a whaler. Nobody would think of looking for such a man iu this busi ness, and then they couldu't look much if they wanted to. That kiud of a sea man never makes you any trouble. It's tbe shiftless fellow you pick up here on tho wharf that you've got to handle pretty roughly before he learns how tc keep a decent tongue in his head." "On one of my cruises I had a big, black West Indian in the crew," said the first speaker. "Oue day for some reason he jumped overboard. The sea was a little rough aud it was quite a while be fore we got tho boats lowered, and we lost sight cf him. But we pulled back a little way aud I soon saw him, swim ming with all his might, but iu the op posite direction from the boat. I yelled to him, and when he saw he was discov ered he made uo further effort to get away. And where he was goin x is more than I know, for it all happened in mid ocean. We hauled him into the boat, and made for the ship. It was four months before we made port and yet iu all thut time, Suudy, for that was his name, never spoke a word. No one on board could get a sound from him. Some times he would lie down on the deck and seem to be asleep aud some of the crow would slip up uud stick him with a pin. At first he would twitch a little and then would uot move at all. We made a bed for hiiu dn.ru below and kept him away from a knife or other weapou. You could tell him ti take the wheel and he would steer right enough, but if you asked him what course the ship wus making he was silent as the grave. And when we made the first port he went ashore and I uever saw him ugaiu. But some of the crew said he regained his tongue on laud and thought he had been 'playing' us all the time. But it was a strange case." San Fran cisco Examiner. Only 2'IC.) sea otter skins were imported to England by the Afiiska Commercial Company and other traders iu 18tfl. Thep were sold at au awruge piice ot 4o5 apiece. . . ' THE OLD BACK STAIR. Of all th sports of childhood, I know of none so rare As sliding down th banister Of th old back stair. I remember well the eirouo. And tbe fun it used to bring. While watching fearless riders A-dashlng Youn I the ring. But this jolly old attraction Could never near com par With sliding down the banisten Of the old back stair. Then t recolleot the barn loft. Chucked full ot clover bay; Mother used to send ut there To pass a rainy day. But I often stole away from that And while mother wasn't there. Be sliding down tbe banisters n tbe old back stair. I have grown into manhood now. And often wander borne The old folks always welcome me- They're glad to have me oome; But while they're not looking I'm tempted, I declare To slide down th banisters Of tbe old bac stair. -C. E. EdwarJs, In Kansas City Journal, HUMOR OF THE DAT. A bouncing baby The rubber doll. Fair and square The angular blonde girl. Settled out of court Tho confirmed bachelor. Gossip will very toon die without proper ventilation. Fighting tooth and nail The dentist and the chiropodist. The barbed wire fonce is the thing that can give you points. A bird that can't sing and will ting ought to be made into a pot-pie. When a bad examplo is set it it apt to hatch mischief. Kate Field's Washing ton. Many a man has made a goose of himself with a single quill. Texas Sitt ings. Sleep is not the period of conscious ness; it is only the coma, so to speak. Boston Courier. It takes years for a wise man to ma ture, but a fool can get ripe iu a minute. Washington Star. The diamond that poets prais?, Though still a favoreJ jewel, Will be outranked era many day, By carbon used as fuel. Washing ton Star. This would be a much happier world if we couldn't borrow trouble without collateral security. Puck. "A little learning is a dangerous thing," as the poor skater remarked at he picked himself up. Puck. "This it a first-class sugar loaf," said the candy merchant as he retired from business. Washington Star. Wheu some people get on the roll of honor they must roll it up and take it off with them. Galveston News. The height of impudeuce Taking shelter in an umbrella shop till the shower is over. Le Monde Comique It has been deuioustratel oft A man ne'er reaches fame. Until tbe world familiarly Makes use of his first name. Washington Star. Photographer "Now, mitdame, pleasant expression, please,-" Soo-in law (in the back ground) "Whew! I must not miss that !" Fliegeuda Hlaetter. 'I am not afraid to say what I thiuk," exclaimed Hiladd. "I always express my views." "They are too heavy to go by mail, I suppose," replied Larimer She "Dudes haven't moro than half tense." Mr. Sappy "Aw, Miss Mawy, are there uo exceptions?'1 "O, yes, Mr. Sappy; some haveu't any." Brooklyn Lite. "Poor Mr. Mills is so sympathetic, I think." Dolly "What did he do?" "To-day he sat with his eyes closed on the car rathsr thau see the ladies stand up." Chicago Iutcr-Ooean. "What have you got nil those pictures out on the window gill for?" asked a friend of an amateur photographer. "I am simply airing my views," was the re sponse. Yonkers Statesman. Oh, novelist, a little light We humbly be ot you. Why are the cUn'ksot which you write Ail made of ormolu? Washington Star. "Hello, Diuwiddie!" exclaimed Shin giss, when the two met on Fifth avenue, "I haveu't seen you in an age. What do you do for a liviug uow ? ' "Ibreathe," replied Dinwiddie, languidly. Pitts burg Chrouicle. Neighbor's Boy (looking through the fence) "My father's a heap bigger man thau your'u !" New Boy (with cold dis dain) "Size ain't uothin'l When my father coughs you cau heur him half a mile I" Chicago Tribuue. Elderly Maiden (out rowing with a possible suitor aud a little sister who is frightened by tho waves) "Theodora! If you are so nervous now, what will you be at my age?" Little Sister (meekly) "Thirty-seveu, I suppose." Tid-Bit. Stranger "I uotico you called your friend Professor. Is he really a pro feasor" Uoweryite "I should say so. Why, dat feller swollen a sword eighteen inches, stands ou his eur aud eais lass out of a churn. Professor! WVII, I should just smile." New York Herald.
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