) t. i THE FOREST. REPUBLICAN J. E. WENK. Offloeln BmuUii(k St Co.'s Julldli.i Ul mtXIT, TIOHK8TA, Ft, Tarma, . . . tIJtO nryr. RATXS or ADVERTISING ' ' On. Bqnara, on. inoh, on. lnmrt(o..9 ffV) On. Squnre, on. Inch, one month. ... , On. Square, on. inch, three month... . 0O One Square, one inch, on. yr 0W Tiro Square, on. year jMO Quarter Column, on. year WOO Half Column, on. year BO 00 On. Column, on. y.ar. - VQ Legal aMrertlMiDMita ten ewnta imrUam eaoh Insertion. j For PUBLICAN. All bills lor yearly advertisement, eo in try. M Bat tnanlcAUou. VOL. XXV. NO. 47. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1893. S1.50 PER ANNUM. quarterly. Temporary advertisemaats I be paid In advance, ; Job work cuh on delivery. Re -I A During tlio last ninety-six yean 848, 815,000 pound, of gold were coined in France. fj . . . j There aro now 7000 loan association, in this country, with a membership of 2,000,000 persons. The populntion of the Sandwich Island! Ii about 8S.000, of whom 85, 000 are natives, 15,000 Chinese and 20, 000 Japanese. Wong Chin Foo, the New York jour nalist, is authority for the statomont that tlio next Chinese Ministor to the United States, if the people ol this country do not object, will lie a genuine, simon pure Tartar. Working ezpensos are increasing upon the French railroads. The ratio of working charges upon the Northern of France Railway in 1891 was 49.48 per cent, at compared with 47.40 per cent, in 1890, 43.01 per cent, in 1889 and 45.8 per cent, in 1883. Bo alarming has boon tho increase in ! the ivory trade that if it continues much longer at the present rate the elephant will soon become extinct. Ono firm alone In Sheffield, Eaglaud, last year re ceived tho tusks of 1280 olephantt. A few years ago 600 pairs of tuskt were sufficient for them. Socialists and anarchists might have their opinions of millionaires changed 1 somewhat," the Chicago Herald thinks, by learning of tho act of Moses Loria, born in Mantua in 1814. Loria died latoly in Milan, Italy, leaving $3,000,000 to thc-fity to establish an international borne lor lnboriug pcoplo out of employ ment. -I L It it reported that Indian Commission er Morgan has receivod a letter signed by Lewis Millor, and fifteen other Indiaut, Cheyennes and Arapahoes, members ot Troop L, Fifth United States Cavalry, asking him to take steps to procuretbeir discharge from tho army. - They say that -they are tired of military lifo, and can do much bStter for themsolves by working on their farms.' The letter has been leferrod to the Secretary of War for tucb action as he may deem proper. Military lifo is a little tiresomo, but white men that enlist are not therefore dis charged whenever thoy desire it; and to discharge these Indians now would be to destroy the, to them, most valuable part of their military lesson. The degree of poverty existing in the city of London is not expressod by tho figures of tho census of paupers, al though, admits tho San Francisco Chron icle, they are formidable enough. It is appalling to think of 105,000 publicly registered paupers in one city, but if the assertions ol missionaries and others who are familiar with the subject are to be credited, that number is scarcely a titho of the whole. A writer in an English review, nearly two yeurs ago, declared that there were a million persons in London always hovering on the verge of starvation and another million whose condition, while not so precarious, was always menaced by tho wolf of want. Bince these uncballeugcd assertions were made, the depression of business la Eng land hat been greatly increased, so there is good reason for believing that the conditions are much worse now. What ever may be tbo cause of this extra ordinary state of affair?, iis no credit to Nineteenth Ceutury civilization, .and there is little wonder that the contem plation of it drives sympathetic men into all tort of vagaries of opinion. Suicide is increasing as rapidly at murder in this country, according to th statistics gathered by the Chicago Tri bune. There were douu last year a compare with 3331 in 1891, 201) In 1890 and 2224 in 1889. The cause) for this large number ot self-murders ait given as follows: Despondency 146' Unknown Insanity Domestic infelicity Liquor , Disappointed love , ill health lJusinees Iusms ... .... According to this total a innu had about one chance iu about 1U,829 of commit' ting suicide in 1892, calculating the pop ulation at 65,000,000. In hurrying themselves into eternity 1300 of these suicides sought death by shooting, 1010 by poison, 008 by hanging, 890 by drowning, 319 by throat cutting, ninety. one by throwing themselves before loco motives, fifty-six by jumping from win. dows, fifty by stubbing, fifteen by burn iou, preferred starviug and the same number took thqyiynatuite route, while one each chose freezing, a trip hammer or beating his head against a stone wall It is not honorable to men to have to say that 2555 of these suicides were males aud only 805 females, and that mediciue heads the list of the professions whoso members sought an untimely death, with thirty-seven physician tui ids. LOVE'J SEASON, tn sad weet days when hectic flushes Burn red on maple and sumach leaf, When sorrowful winds wail through the rusher, And all things whisper of loss and grief) When close and cloeer bold Frost ap proaches To snatch the blossoms from Nature's breast, When night forever on day encroaches Oh, then I thluk that I love you best. And yet when winter, that tyrant master. Has burled anturan in walls of snow. And bound and fatterei where bold Frost east her Lies outrage! Nature in helpless woe. When all earth's pleasures la four walls cen tre. And side by side in the snug home nest We list th. tempests which cannot enter Oh, then I say that I love you best. But later on, when the Siren Season Betrays the trust of the send. King, And glad Earth laughs at the act of treason, And winter dies in t i arms of Spring, Whan buds an i birds all push and flutter To free fair Nature so long oppressed, I thrill with feelings I cannot utter. And then I am certain I love yon best. But when In splendor th. queenly summer Reigns over th. earth an1 the skies above, When Nature kneels to th. royal corner. And even th. Sun flames hot with Love, When Pleasure basks In the luscious weather. And Car. lies out on the sward to rest Oh, whether apart or whether together. It is then I know that I love you bast. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in Lippincott. PBISCILLA'S MANAGEMENT. BY MARA.H CROBBR FARLEY. EACON DODGE felt "blue" enough, as be sat down to his six o'clock tea, in his humble home on Forest Hill. It was not that the tea was either badly served or poor in quality, for he in variably purchased th" best groceries th e market afforded, and nothing Miss Prissy ever tried to do or make ever resulted in fail ure. It was neither the eatables nor yet the drinkables that caused the cloud on the deacon's brow. As he expressed it, he "felt bluo as a whetstone," and the cause arose from the tightness in money circles. Miss Prissy, the deacon's strong minded daughter, perceived the lower ing countenance, and wishing to con ciliate the old gentleman a little, put an additional lumo of sugar in his tea. "Third, and lastly," he said, in an abstracted manner, as he passed tho cup for refillment. Prissy smiled almost involuntarily at this "power of habit'' exemplified. The worthy deacan, busy with his bread and butter, did not see bis listener's face. - "I'll tell you what," said he, carefully adjusting his knife and fork, "unless something happens in our favor pretty soon, we are gone to smash completely." Even the lingering shadow of the smile that bad played round the corners of Prissy's mouth died out, and she looked anxiously at her father as he went on: "There is a four-hundred-dollar mort gage on the house, with interest at seven per cent., and no man can stand such a per cent, as that. There is that one-hundred-dollar - note, and two of fifty dollars each, besides one hundred and sixty dollars yet unpaid on the lumber, seventy-five dollars got to come some howfor the carpenters, twenty-five for the, mason, twenty-five more for the painting.' Besides, that leaves us with the house not yet half finished, the ground yet to be grubbed and laid out and fenced, and not a cent, mind you not a single cent to do it with." The deacon leaned back in bis chair and fairly groaned. The strong minded Priscilla got up, and walking round to his aide of the table, laid her hand on his arm. "Listen to me, deacon," said she, thoughtfully she always called him that when she felt particularly in earnest "listen to me, now, and I'll tell you the plan I have for extricating our affairs from financial annihilation." "Talk away," growled the bear. 'Talk, at any rate, is cheap enough; even in these hard times." Pnesy declined to nctice the slight put upon her tongue, and continued, bravely: "You know you have always refused to keep a cow, pig, or chickens. Now, then, let us have all three, and I will show you this fail that your interest money shall be forthcoming, besides having our grocery bill footed as it is made." "Pshaw, Prist I" ejaculated he, with groan of ditapproval, "how could you do itl Besides, my credit isn't worth a blue bean. I haven't the money to pay for a cow, nor a pig, not even the chick ens, so there's an end of that." In no wise discouraged, the strong minded young woman coolly continued : "I have ways and means for all of 'em, deacon. And it you will solemnly agree to do in all things as I suggest and ad vise, I in turn will promise and ratily it, too, to take these debts and the unfin ished house on my shoulders, metaphori cally speaking, and in three years' time we will owe no man, aud our house and ground shall compare favorably with any in the country." The deacon considered a moment, "Show me your ways and means, Priss." "Well," a little reluctantly, "you know the Laurels I Mrs. Laurel wants to trade a young new milch cow, with the calf, for twenty-four yards of that new ingrain carpet of our, and as I have already carpet enough, besides that to cover all the floor we shall use for a year k MS or so, I have accepted the offer. That is cow No. 1, eh!" 'Cow No. 1 yes." 'Uncle Bcmus has taken a fancy to my gold watch, and wants to trade me a cow and a hog of the female persuasion for it, and as the watch is useless to me in our present circumstances, I have made up my mind to close with him. So there is cow No. 2, and aforesaid Pi-" The deacon opened his eyes. " 'Pon my word, Priss, you're a born trader. But what about the chickens t" "I have bought five four hens and one rooster of the Bowers, on 'tick,' as they say. The bens are wanting to set, and I shall send you to Neighbor Tootle for eggs to sot them with. Too tle charges fifty cents per dozen for eggs, but his are an extra kind of large fowl that can be made to bring four dollars per dozen as early spring chickens by the first of June. I can have at least thirty or forty chicks for the June mar ket and the proceeds therefrom will take up a certain note of yours. In the meantime the butter shall pay our house hold expenses as we go along. There shall be no butcher's bill, nor any other kind of a bill, run up for future settle ment. The calves we will fatten and sell this fall, the hog ditto. Uncle Bo rnus advises mo to keep the litter of pigs until next year, when tbey will fetch us something over a hundred dollars. The eight acres of ground, for the use of which we pay forty dollars, must be planted with corn, and I have already selected the seed. As the land is partic ularly clean and of uncommon good soil, the yield should be not lest than sev enty-five bushels to the acre, which, if corn comes down to an unprecedentedly low figure, will still pay all expenses for seed, rent, Ullage, and leave us enougt to fatten our hogs after all." The deacon was silent from astonish ment. "I shall raise as many chickens as possible through the heat of the coming summer; so that the next spring I shall have eggs by the quantity, when the market reports quote a good price, with supply less than the demand." "You talk like a farmer, Priss," eiac nlatedjthe dazed deacon. "When did you learn so much, i wonaerl 'Don't ask me questions, but promise me," giving him a tight squeeze. "I promise." She shook herself loose from him, and poured out for herself a cup of hot tea. "Very well; go to work and make roe some chicken coops and a hen house, and fetch home my hens to-morrow, and this fall I will show square accounts with some folks I know of." In the course of time the cows were driven homo, the chickens roosted in the deacon's hen house, and the "female hog, with her seven children, occupied the attention of the deacon's daughter , Of a morning Prissy went into the cellar and skimmed, and strained, ana churned, and outside the deacon himself, with the spade and ax made good time among the stumps, thereby saving hired help and the additional cost of a wood pile. The deacon had lived all his life under a lazy cloud. He couldn't cut wood, he said, because it made him so tired. He couldn't work at farming, because the weather was either too hot or too cold, or too wet or too dry. He couldn't stay all the while at his place of business (he was a photographer) and wait for cus tomero, because he "wanted to get out and stretch his legs." But suggest the idea of an impossible enterprise to bim, or ask him to invest in a lottery ticket, or talk travel, and directly the deacon was your man. He was utterly and abominably lazy and selfish. He forced Prissy to pinch and save a dollar, while he would squander fifty, and have notbiug to show for what he had paid out. Such is man that is, so much of it as went by the name of Deacon Dodge. One of the things the strong-minded girl got him to do was to make a fence, which she insisted should be hedge. A hawthorne hedge, she declared, was both beautiful and attractive, besides just as useful as any other. So, under her vigilant generalship, he delivered some trees tor the nursery men and took bis pay in hedge plants, which she made bim set out and attend to. Little by little she put the deacon on his mettle, until at last she -herself was surprised to find how much she had made him accomplish. At the eua of the first year he had grubbed their one and a halt acres, put the first coat of paint on the house, made tbe fence, dug the eel lar, built outhousos, cut all the fire wood and made five dollars a week besides. At the end of their first year Prissy found she has sold six dozen chickens at four dollars per dozeu, and had as many more to winter over. She had sold six hundred pounds of butter, at an average of thirty cents a pound. The two calves fetched twelve dollars readily, and the fatted hog twenty-seven more. 1 heir household experses had been just oue hundred dollars, aside from what she bad raised in ihe garden, aud the butter and eggs were of home manufacture, also. She speut not a penny for cloth ing. Together they checked oh! accounts one evening, and to bis intonse surprise the deacon found a little matter of four hundred and fifty dollars to his credit, besides having a much better start tor the next year. He paid the balanco due on his lum ber, and thankfully took up three other notes, after which he breathed more freely. The next year the invincible Prissy sold two hundred dollars' worth of bogs, eiity dollars' worth of eggs, and ten dozen chickens, still keeping house hold and personal expenses at the lowest possible point. The deacon, too, had better luck, or perhaps attended more strictly to his business, and the end of tbe secoud year was also the death knell of the iusutiuble mortgage. As this is no fuuey sketch, but, on the contrary, is a veritable "leaf from life," I cannot state what the result was for tho third year of Miss Prissy's manage ment. But I saw the deacon the other day trimming his hedge, which wot ail white and sweet with bloom, and he tells me that the carpenters are busy at his home, and that he shall have enough produoo to dif pose of in the fail to take him com pletely out of debt. He certainly has the handsomest place in the country, and by far the most stylish house. As for Prissy, her face is tanned a light brown, and her hands are not quite so white and small as they once were not "so useless by half," she says, turning them over carefully, and showing the little cal loused lumps on the palms. But we are out of debt anyway," she added, triumphantly. "This thing of being dunned by every other person one sees is anything but funny." May Forrest Hill long outshine its ceighbors, and stand aa a striking me mento of one woman's will. New York Weekly. An Old Settler. Geologists agree that many thousands of years ago they do not agree on the number of thousands great ice fields, like immense glaciers, moved slowly out of tbe north over a large part of the United States and Europe. These glac icers were so thick that they have left on the top of the White Mountains bowl ders which they had carried hundreds of miles, and they had much to do with shaping tbe hills and valleys of New York, Pennsylvania, and New England. Tbe marks made by these glaciers as tbey .ground and crushed tbeir way over the rocks are still plainly visible in many places, and it is easy to trace the large bowlders tbey carried northward to regions where such stone occurs in large quantities. Tbose were days ol great things, ana among the huge creatures that roamed about in the segion of tbe advancing glacier was the Elephas Americanus, or American elephant. Part of tbe skele ton of one of these animals bos just been unearthed at Carl Junction, Missouri, and sent to the Washington University. These bones show this animal to have been from twenty-five to thirty feet long, and fifteen feet tall. It fed on trees and bushes, and a wagon-load of pine branches and cones would have made a light sup per for this monster. Its molar teeth had grinding surfaces nine by tour inches in size, and its tusks were nine feet long. Coarse long hair covered the big fellow from head to toes, aud a drove of such animals must have been an imposing sight, even in the presence of the mighty glaciers. In a cave in France bos been found, scratched on a bit of ivory tusk, a rude picture of one of these prehistoric mam moths. This picture is supposed to be the oldest known, and was made by some man or boy who was more clever than his fellows, but who lived in a cave, ate raw meat, and wore scanty clothing made from untanned skins of wild beasts which the filthy and savage men of those far-oil times killed with clubs and stones. It may be, therefore, that human beiugs saw the living animal, pieces of whose skeleton were dug the other day from beneath twenty feet of soil out in Mis souri. Harper's Young People. How Deaf Mates Dauce. "I never felt so lonesome iu my life," said a gentleman recently, "as when I chanced to be thrown one day with a picnic party of deaf mutes. They could understand each other, laughed and carried on and had a good time gener ally, while I sat like a mummy, apart, looking on, but unable to participate in any of the fun. "One thing that surprised me greatly," he continued, "was to see them indulge in dancing. I had always supposed that it was absolutely essential to bear the rhythm of the music in order to keep tbe time of a waltz or a polka. To be sure they had an orchestra on the dancing barge, and for a time I regarded that as peculiar, for few if any of the party could hoar the strains. "After a little thought I solved the mystery. The mutes could not hear the music, but they felt it, which was just as effectual. To be sure of the matter I spoke to the loader of tbe orchestra and he assured me that my surmise was cor rect, and that when he was employed by the party it was expressly stipulated that ho should bring bis biggest bass drum and bass viols. Tbe deep tones were more vibratory than the others and the mutes kept excellent waltz timo by fool ing the vibration of tho wood flooring upon which they danced." New York Herald. A Tame Mountain Lion. The author ot "A Hide Through Won deilund," says that she was invited, when in Colorado, to visit a hunter's store and see a mountain lion; the only one, as its owner asserted, which had ever been tamed. It was in a little back room, chained to au iron staple in the floor, round which it was pacing, utter ing low growls. It appeared very much like a small pan ther, and seemed anything but tame, snaiting at us as if it longed to spring. It was in awe of its master, however, and cowed down every time he cracked bis whip. He made it do seveial tricks with a retriever dog, which did not seem to like the task very well. "Come aud kiss Miss Pussy," said the man, and the dog went up to it, laid a paw upon its neck, and licked its face. The master then put a piece of meat on its nose, and told the dog to fetch it away. "He doesn't care for this part," was his comment. "She has had bim by the throat once or twice. Just look at her iron i-aws I One blow would lay you dead as mutton. What, you brute, you would, would you I" Miss Pussy had tried to gnaw his boot, aud needed to be lashed off. 'Did you ever take her out!" "Oh, yes, she goes walking with me in the mountaius, sometimes. I take her chain off when we're out of the towu, but I'm precious careful to follow her and never let her step behind ine I'1 ' SETTING BOTTLES AFLOAT. TOOLS! SAM TAKES A HINT FHOM 8HIPWBE0KED MAHINEB8. I Etndvlng Ocean Current by Patting Messages In Bottle, and Throw- 1 IngThem Overboard. fy ETTING afloat messages in hot VW ties, writes Rene Bacha in tho JjVJ Boston Transcript, has been an experiment resorted to by ship wrecked mariners for many centuries. Often has a writing' thus consigned to the waves been the happy means of res cuing castaways, bringing succor to those whom hope had well-nigh forsaken. More frequently such a document, picked up years later perhaps, has relieved sus pense by making certain the fate of miss ing voyagers. It seems odd that this idea should have been recently adopted by science for the practical and unro mantic purpose of finding out about the surface currents of the ocean. Tbe work is the newost that has been undertaken by the Hydrographic Office of the United States Navy. Within the last two years it has distributed tens of thousands of "bottle papers" among the 2500 skippers of sea-going vessels, from sailing craft to Atlantic liners, who con tribute reports as voluutary observers in exchange for supplies ot pilot charts, etc., given by the Government. ' These bottle papers are printed forms which the observers are requested to enclose in bottles and throw overboard, after mark ing upon each of them the latitude, longitude and date. On each paper it a separate space in which the person who may find the bottle is asked to write the date and locality, afterwards forwarding the paper to the nearest United States consul or to the Hydrographio Offloe in Washington. Directions as to these matters are printed on the paper in sev eral languages. Up to the present time 261 of the bottle papers thus scattered broadcast have been returned, but thou sands of them are still afloat, and of these a considerable percentage will be picked up sooner or later. Of course, it is impossible to know how many of those placed in the bands of observers have been duly bottled and launched. The courses taken by the bottles toll the story of the ocean currents, and knowledge of these is of the utmost importance to mariners. Chiefly is it valuable for enabling vessels to seek such routes across the seas as will make it possible for them to take advantage of favoring streams and to avoid unfavora ble ones. Columbus knew nothing about the currents of the Atlantic, and so be made his way to the New World by the path which the surface drift laid out for him. Thus, after being driven far to the southward, he finally brought up at San Salvador. Knowing where he started from and tho point at which he finally arrived, hydrographers to-day can draw a curved line on the map show ing exactly tho course which he must have followed. Just at this timo such a fact possess no little interest. Only a few months ago the Hydrographic Oiiice was called upon to determine the proba ble location of a Pacific Mail steamship which was lost in the Pacific Ocean. Her machinery having broken down, as was reported by a vessel which had sig nalled her, she had dnftod oil and nothing had been beard of her fcr week;, The Pacific Mail Company, be ing unable to find her, appealed to the experts at Washington, who promptly pointed out the exact spot where she would be discovered. And sho was found there, six hundred miles west of where the owners had been looking for her. This was figured out from known facts respecting the dircctiou and velocity of the currents in that great wasto of wateis. Somo of tho bottled papers set aQoat by the Prince of Montco floated for moro than five yean before thoy wero picked up. His Serene Highness, who it an en thusiast in such matters, has devoted much attention to experiments of this kind. For the purpose of studying the surface currents of tho Atlantic, he luuuched from his sailing yacht iu 18S5 and 1880 a great number of floats con sisting of wooden cask?, capper globes and glass bottles. All of thorn were weighed to prevent any part of thetn from being out of the water t j catch the wind, the object being to determine tho dritt. Ho finally determined that tho best float for the purpose was a thick glass bottle coated with pitcii and cov ered over this with copper. Of such bottles he launched 931 m tho year 1887, in a line stretching from tho Azores to tho Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Each of them contained a document iu nine languages, asking the finder to re cord on it the locality and date of dis covery and to forward it to the nearest maritime authorities. Of all tho bottle papers thus distribed ho got back 227, some of them bringing up in Iceland, others on the west coast of Africa, others on the shores of America, and fourteen as far away as Japan. Tho prince has published charts which show most inter estingly tbe courses taken by the Atlan tic currents as proved by the bottles. A Marvellous Escupa From Death. Geary It. Griffith, of Jenuer Town ship, Somerset County, bad a remarkable experience last Wednesday. Wtilo out hunting with a shot gun be "lot drive" at a covey of partridges. The guu ex ploded, leaving only a imill piece of the butt in bis bauds. He was uuinjured, but the charge of the gun got to tho mark and killed seven of the birds. Philadelphia Times. A startling headgear is worn by Frank Suuboro, the well-known writer, trav eler and sage of Concord. It is a round crown affair, just like half of a musk melon stuck on top of au immense circle of felt which stands out as straight as a piece of board. Crisfield, Md., is lalercsted in the op uratious of a stranger who has bought seven islands to raise delicacies for mar ket fish, soft-shell crabs aud perhaps terrapin among tbe possibilities, SCiLsnnC and industrial. There arc 235 varieties of dynamo. An invalid's chair is electrically pro pelled. Wbaleback boats are lighted by elec tricity. One-fifth of the coal mined is lost in culm and refuse. The longevity of trees is much influ enced by climate. The flesh of the oyster contains about ninety per cent, of water. A body weighing 10,000 pounds at the equator would weigh 10,031 pounds in London. For the destruction of microbes cinna mon is said to be as effective, if not as quick, as corrosive sublimate. At Cherbourg, France, an electrical canoe is in successful operation. It will run for twelve hours at the rate of nearly eight knots an hour. Genuine volcanic dust has been found in Kansas and tbe Indian Territory. There is a deposit near Galena, in the Territory, which is said to be many feet in thickness. A fossil elephant has been found ten kilometres from Brioude, in France, on the slope of an old volcano, the Seneze. It is the skeleton of an elephas meridion als, and is nearly entire. Tbe latest method of decorating metals makes the working out of most beautiful and artistic designs possible. The means by which this is effected are the etching and oxidation of the metal. Some experiments have lately been made by the Northern Pacific car build ers at Tacoma, Washington, to test the strength of oak and fir timber. The latter proved one-third stronger than eastern oak, and more than one-half stronger than eastern white pine. The officer who will command the United States cruiser New York, now ncaring completion, will have tbe use of as fine a gig as ever commander sat in. The Secretary of the Navy has author ized tbe construction of an electric launch twenty feet long and capable of going through the water at an eight-knot speed for at least five hours. Tbe little craft will cost $3500, and is expected to be ready for the cruiser when hor pen nant is hoisted in February. A cleverly constructed little machine has been designed for the purpose of af fixing stamps to letters and circulars, and by its means the process can be car ried out with extraordinary rapidity. The motions of detaching, damping and fixing are all performed by one revolu tion of a small wheel attached to the machine. From four to five thousand letters an hour can be stamped, and oue of tbe most important advantages of the machine is that it will register the num ber of letters thus treated. A useful guard has been put on tbe market for the protection of incandescent lamps. In its construction care has been taken to eliminate the disadvantages of guards hitherto in use, and it not only requires no clips or catches, but secures itself firmly on the socket almost auto matically. It has, moreover, a very firm bold on tbe socket, having a bearing contact longitudinally on the shell of over half an inch, so that it is almost im possible for any but tbe severest blow to force it against the lamp. In appearanco the guard is light and symmetrical. A Very Clever Dog. "Is it a fact that the Scotch collio is the most intelligent dog in the world f" If innumerable anecdotes of tho intelli gence displayed by the Scotch shepherd's most faithful companion are to bo trusted , the collie is hard to beat. But we can tell a story of a Mexican sheepdog that ought to make his Scotch brother sit up. The Mexicans educate them to tend the'r flocks and herds, and they perform the duty with more fidelity and satisfac tion than a man. They will take a flock of sheep or herd ot goats out iu the morning, drive tbem to tho feeding grounds, defend them from the attack! of predatory "varmints," and bring tbem back to tbe bedding place at night with out losing a single animal. Up in New Mexico there was an iso lated ranch, which was one of a system controlled by a wealthy sheep owner. He, or one of bis agents, usually visited it twice a year to shear the sheep and take provisions to the pastors, or herder. On one of these semi-annual visits be found the herder dead in his cabin, aud hit body nearly decomposed. The sheep were quietly feeding in a fertile canyou near by, jealously guarded by the dog. In tbe rear of tbe corral, into which the sheep were driveu every night, lay the skeletons of a dozen or more sheep. Astonished at the sagacity of the dog, the ranchman secreted himself and waited until night. As the sun began to sink tho sheep raine trooping iu with the dog in the rear. They crowded into the corral through a narrow opening, and ss the last one pushed forward the dog seized and killed him and dragged the lifeless body to tbe rear of the corral, where he made a comfortable supper off a portion of the carcass, leaving the balance for future meals. He had been doing this ever siuco the death of his master, aud would probably have continued his guardiauship over the flock until he died. Yankee Blade. Curiosities About Snow. The pure white lustra of snow is duo to the fact that all the elemeutary colors of light are blended, together iu the ra diance that is thrown off from tbe sur face of the various crystals. More than a thousand distinct and perfect fcrms of snow crystals have beeu enumerated and figured by the various investigators in that line. Oue hundred aud fifty-one different form, were once obnoived by Die English scioutist, Gluahier, who cure fully made eugraviugs of each and printed them iu a puer attached to the report of the British Meteorological So ciety in the year 1855. St. Louis Kc-publio. WOMEN S B10HT3, A right to tread so softly .Bend, tbe couch ot paint , To smooth with gentle finger The tangled locks again; To watoh beside the dying V In wee, small hours of night, And breathe a oonsecrating prayaP When the spirit takes ite flight. A right to cheer th. weary On th. battle fields of life: To give the word of sympathy Amid the toil and strife; . To lift the burden gently j From the sore and tired hearts, j And never weary of the task Till gloomy ear. departs, A right to be a woman In truest woman's work s If life should be a hard one, ' No duties ever shirk; , , A right to show to others t How strong a woman grows. When skies are darkening aud lowering An life bears not a rose. A right to love one truly And be loved back again; A right to shir, his fortunes Through sunlight and through raln A right to be protected From life's most cruel lights By manly love and courage Sure these are women's rights! ' lioston Qlobs. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Indian meal Government rations. Short intervals The periods between pay days. A bald headed man may yet be a bare brained fellow. A no-account fellow Tho man who never asks credit. Life. On tbe roll of fame The champion wheelman. Galveston News. An all-round man A fat freak in a museum. New York Journal. Onions are healthy. Plumbers get fat on leaks. Philadelphia Times. A high-binder The publisher of ornamental books. Washington Star. It is very convenient for a rapid writer to have a good train of thought. Troy Press. There is no help for the case ot tho woman who can't get a servant. Phila delphia Record. "What you need," said tbe aeronaut to the balloon, "is a good blowing up." Washington Star. No one can know the value of a little scratch on a red wagon until he offers it for sale. AtchUon Globe. Ob, roses, go and nestle Next the roses 'ueath her locks, That were made with a mortar and pestle And cost one-fifty a Ikx. Chicago News Record. "Did you ever go to Bins, the tailorP' "Yes. Got two suits from bim. One dress suit. One lawsuit. Very expensive man." Waif. A boy never looks iu tho glass to see if his face is clean after he has washed it; he looks at the dirt on the towel. Atchison Globe. "How long cau a man live without airt" "It depends on the air. Forever if it's 'Ta-ra-ra booui-de-ayo.'" Kate Field's Washington. Ccnsidering tho fact that coal bills are presented every month, it's a wonder that more people don't dio of heart fail ure. Washington Nows. The best wishes ono can offer the im-provment-of-roada crusaders is that tbeir chosen walk in life may bo ovor smooth ways. Bultiiiioro American. An Irish carpenter fell from the roof to the ground, and whou picked up re marked: "I was coming down after nails anyway." Harvard Lampoon. Breathing through the nose is the only proper way to sleep. If you awake in tbe night and find your mouth open get up and shut it. Tamaqua Recorder. A fashion journal asserts that "the hoop skirt is comiug in aguin." Queer that a thing that stands out so should come in, too. Philadelphia Ledger. A servant girl puzzled a Chestnut Street druggist's clerk yesterday for moment by asking for a dozeu three grain Queen Ann pills. Philadelphia Itecord. "My first ofTonse," the footpad orled, If is victim uuu his Ixavi. "To thiulc that 1 was livid up by ''An amateur!'1 he suid. Washington Star. , Clerk "I advise you to try these socks, sir. We call era the mussenge boy." Customer "Why?"' Clerk 'Because they don't run." Clothier and Furnisher. "Are those shirts of Wigby's ready!'. asked the laundrymau of his assistant.' "No, sir," she replied, "I haven't had' time to tear off the neckbands yet." Buffalo Express. "1 love you," he wit'i ar lor said; "At last I'll show it." She smtltxl and gayly tiwsed her head And said, "1 know it." Wasliiugton Star. ' Guest (angrily) "Seo here, you'v opset half that sjup ou my coat I ' Wait-' er (soothingly) "Never miud, sir; we've got a lot more iu the kitcheD." New York Journal. "I have oue advantage ovor you," said the Gifted Liar. "D.i you know what it is?" can't imagine," replied the Truthful Citizen. "Kxacily. Thats it." Chicago Tribune. Spellmau "Are you goini South oiij business or " Mr. Setrich "Well, busiuess aud pleasure combined. It's to attend ths funeral of the uncle who left me a fortune." Inter-Ocean. Teacher "What part of speech il phonograph?" Hi i U.iy "A noun of the feiiiiuiue goudcr.'' Teacher "Why feminiuet" Dig Hoy "Ilecanso it aK ways talks back.'' New York Jouruaff) Tommy "Paw, 1 heard a uian say that Mr. Watts was a self made man Whui is a selt made man?" Mr. Figg-r! 'A man who knows how to buy a dofj lar' worth of work for fifty cents." lnr Uiauupoiis Journal.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers