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"Franco Tim 422 fighting ships, and tho number will bo incroascd to 515 by 1897. Vircliow, tlio celebrated German man of ccionco, regards diphtheria as the most dangerous of all contagious diseases, not excepting cholera. Lunatics and epileptics abound in tbo 'Imperial family of Austria. It is slated that, with the solo exception of the Em peror himself, almost every one of the archdukes and archduchessos belonging thereto is subject, in a greater or lest degfeo, to fits of epilepsy. The Schoo.Mauagoincnt Co'timittoa of the Chicago Hoard of Kduration has decided to recommend to tlio Board that, after the present school year, clay modelling studies bo discontinued, and that unmarriod women tako precedence of thoso who are married when appoint ments as teachers are made. The salaries paid to persons in the Civil Service 'of tlio United Slates amount to $90,000,000 annually. This seems like a tremendous amount, says tbo Chicago Herald, but whon it is borne in mind thut this sum pays tlio wages of 180,000 persons it need not ap pall anyone. Tho average is only $500 year. 5 " l Watting's Islandj whore Columbus first landed when ho discovered America, has twolve white and six hundred colored residents. Tuo blacks nre very poor and the whites aro not much better off. The crops fulled last year and the people having little or no communication with the outside world flad it a hard matter to live. They are in great need of a schooner to enablo them to communicate with neighboring islands. A noteworthy example of the vast agricultural resources of our country is found Jn the official report of the cereal harvest for the year 1892. The j'eld of tbree cereals wheat, corn and oats reached the enormous aggregate of 2,311,450,000 busbols. Assuming that the population of tho United States is 65,000,000, those threo crops would give an average of over thirty-six bushels to every man( woman and child in the whole country. The hospital work of our flower mis sions bas always been recognized as most beneficent and helpful, observes the New York Press. In Londou, musicians have formed an association kuown as 'Tho Guild of St. Cecilia," to cheer and beguilo tho patients in the hospitals of that great city with good music. There .is In this a suggestion for the young people in tho ' conservatories of New York. Physicians and nurses agree that music is the most valuable agency for healing in the influence it baa over the minds of the sick and suffering. Says the Atlanta Constitution: A story irom Sun Domingo rivals in drain atio interest anything that has ever been told of tbo world's most famous tyrants. The President, lleuruaux, bad bis brother-in-law arrested on a charge of conspiracy. The prisoner remained in confinement for soino time, when the President one day wont to tho prison to see him. Uunreaux ordered a tine dinner aud during the meal was so cordial that the unsuspecting victim felt confident of hi speedy release. At tho close of the dinner the President assumed a serious look, and asked his relative in solemn tones if he was prepared to die. The alleged conspirator could not believe that be was in any danger, but his every confidence was changed to surprise and terror a few minutes later when a file ol soldier appeared and escorted him to the prison yard, where he was promptly shot. The despot who could plan such a horror must have a naturo akin to that of Richard the Third. Doctor Nansen' late lectuie bo, ore the British Geographical Society con tained many ingenious devices suggested for the benefit of future arctic explor ers. So many of those devices are de pendent upon a supply of electricity, that the outfit of the coming successful explorer will not be considered complete without its dynamo. Djctor Nausea's proposed method of generating elec tricity is to some extent original, even if it be somewhat deficient in the quality of reliability. Ho proposes to have a wind mill on deck to drive the dyuauio, and, when tho wind fails, to have the men ojwrate a "wulkinill" by shifts, which would afford them such exorcise as would be involved in heaving an anchor. The generation of electricity for lighting the darkness of the long arctic night is a good idea, and, if it prove a success, why not suspend an imaginary arc lump upon the hypotheti cal North Polo aud thereby estublish a station from which to signal the people ca the planet Mars I THB COUNTRY FMTH. Hare in the country's heart, Where the grass 1 green. Life is the same sweet life AS it e'er hath been. Trnet In God still lives, And the bell at morn Floats with a thought of Got O'er the rising corn. God oomes down In the rain. And the crop grows tall This Is the country faith, And the best of all Norman Gale, AS BLUE AS HER EYES. HT MABT (TLB DALLAS. OOD gracious I you are loaded, Aunt Jane," (aid Patty,, running down to help her aunt with the boxes and bundles she was bringing up stairs. "Don't talk," aid Miss Jane. "Madame Sprigen heimcr will have the most she can out of every body, and when work was over ahe gave us each four bandboxes to leave as we came over in the morning. 'It Till giff you an early valk,' ahe said; 'and you vill see some roees In your cheeks by that. I do it for your healts.' Old screw she does it to save errand girls' wages; and it meant getting up at live o'clock. For we are not to be late she conveyed that idea to us very plainly." " What a shame 1" said Patty. I must say," said Miss Jane as sho put the bandboxes upon the table, "that I do not believe that there was ever a Paris bonnet lovelier than Mr. Figgs's." "Mrs. Figgs I" queried Patty. "A retired grocer's young wife," said Miss Jane. "lie's old himself. She's nervous but beautiful. They say she throws things at him and has hysterics, and then be forgives her and gives her diamonds. She is very vain. She or dered a bonnot 'just the color of her eyes blue, you know,' and madamo matched the ailk to them. Well, it is lovely I Take it out of the box, the white one, and look at it." Patty obeyed, and. went off into oh'sl" and "ah'sl" as the children do over skyrocket on the Fourth of July. "I made that," aaid Aunt Jane. "If ever I get a little money I'll start a place of my own and call myself Madmoiselle Janette Smitbette." With this she carried the boxes into the middle room, put them on the bed, shut tho door, and the two sat down to tea, which Patty bad made ready. Rather a high tea, with eggs and btcon and fried potatoes, for neither got homo to dinner. And whilo they ato and chatted a knock came at the door, and in bounced a email boy, Ben Brown's brother Ben was a hrakeman on the H. B, R. "Why, Toral" cried Patty. "Hullo 1" said Tom. "Ben sent me over to say he's off to-night, and is com ing to take you to the theatre he's been given some tickets." 'How nice," said Patty. "Have some supper, Tom?" queried Miss Smith. "No'm," said Tom; "I've got to tell Bon if she'll go." "Of course I will," said Patty. Tho boy was oil. A. moment after Patty criod: "Ob, I have got to wear that old felt turban 1" "Lands 1" exclaimed Aunt Jane, I've been trying to get time to make you a hat, for two weeks. What a shame but you can cover it up with a veil." Patty poutod. Aunt Jane had no bonuet to lend her, for she was in mourn ing. Invitations always came liko that, she thought. "If I had a pretty bonnet, Ben would not havo had the tickets." She left Aunt Jane taking an extra cup of tea, and went out into the middle room to dress. "If I could wear it to-night," she thought, "I conld put a handkerchief on my head under it, aud it would not be soiled. Perhaps Aunt Jane would say Yes I' No, she would not, I know bet ter that. that. I've a mind to do it. I can cover it with a veil. She'll not open the boxes to-night; no one will ever find it out. Ob, it does so become met" She dropped her own brown turban into the box and put the cover on. "What harm could it do?" sho queried of some invisible familiar. At this instaut the door dashed open and she ducked below the head-board. Her gray suit fitted well, and was quite new so were her gloves. Some one had given her a little bunch of blue flowers; the water she had put them in had kept them fresh. They looked well in her belt. Oh, if she had not had to put on that old brown felt turban 1 Then it came into her mind to try on Mrs. Figgs's blue bonnet. "Blue as her eyes," she repeated, "or mine, for the matter of that!" And out of the bandbox it came. And when it was perched on her fair hair oh, well, words will not suffice to describe the effect. Miss Jane had come in and rushed out again, and in a moment more ihe cried out: "Hurry up, Patty I" called Ben, "we're none too early I" And Patty covered the beautiful bon net with her veil, and went into the other room. 'I'm saved one walk," said Miss Jaue; "Mrs. Figgs's maid came for her bonnst. Bhe went to madame's first, aud madanie tent her here. It seems Mrs. Figgs got one of her nervous spells, and danced on all her hats, and then burned them in the grate, ao she had to have this at once I just gave her the bandbox saved me a walk, says I." "Oh, you didn't give it to her?" criod Fatty. "Why not?" cried Miss Jane. "If 1 had but kuown I" gasped Putty. C2J "You saw mo come and get it," said Jane. "But why Ah, I see you think it is a trick to steal it. But I know Eliza by sight, nd she had a note from madamo." "Como along and don't stop talking of bonnets," said Bon, jocosely, hauling Patty off. Despair seized upon the poor girl's heart it seemed to her that the end of the world had come. What would be done to her to her dear Aunt Jane? Sho was scarcely herself as Ben hur ried down the stairs to the avenue and hailed a trolley-car she sat beside him, mutely. The pin came out of her veil and it dropped to her lap. "Patty, 1 declare you have got a pretty bonnet this time," said Ben. "It will cost me enough," muttered Patty, between her teeth. "Eh?" said he, wondering at hei frightonod face. At the next corner the car stopped an old gentleman helped in a young lady. They took the seat before Ben and Patty. They were talking, fast and loud, the words came to the girl's ears: "But, my love, you could wait until to-morrow," said the old gentleman. "Mr. Figgs," said the lady, "I'd con sider myself a coward if I did. Eliza says that when Miss Smith opened the door of the inner room, she saw her niece there, with a blue bonnet on, and that she hid behind tQ0 bed-head, and in the bandbox was this old turban that I have on my head. The girl meant to wear it to-night and send it home to-morrow, no doubt. But I'll show this to madame first, and then get a warrant for the ar rest of both women I'll punish them." Patty suddenly threw her veil over her head. Evidently this was Mrs. Figgs. The poor girl felt very ill. "Did Ben hear?" she asked herself. "Did he guess the truth?" Bon, however, was interested in cer tain vagaries of the electric lights, which blinked and flared surprisingly. "Well, now", that's kinder hard on tho poor women," said the grocer. "I will have revenge I" said Mrs. Figgs, gritting her teeth and becoming hysterical . "There I there I you shall, dearest," gasped Mr. Figgs. "Ain't we going there as fast as we can?" "You're always thwarting me 1" sobbed the lady. "I ain't," pleadod Figgs. "Why, wlfey, I ain't no such thing. I always do what you want, only" At this moment the electric lights blinked madly and wont out altogether mimic lightning begau to play along the floor of tho car, and cries were heard outside. The car stopped; Ben jumped up and walksd to the door. "Lend us a hand," said the guard. "Ay," replied Ben. The car was in utter darkness. A sudden jerk overset Mr. Figgs, and he sprawlod on the floor. Mrs. Figgs shrieked : "I'm struck by lightning I I'm dead! It's all your fault, Mr. Figgs, all your fault I" and went into hysterics. But Patty did not. She seized the op portunity. With one band she pulled down the shades, so that not even the faint light of tho street couldbetray her; with the other she whisked her old tur ban from Mrs; Figgs's head, and in au instaut had pinned the blue bonnot to her golden braids. Then she soated herself, put her - despised old hat, so precious now, upon her own head and covered it well with hor voil. "Oh, thank goodness 1" she gasped, "thank goodness I" The light flashed up again. "All aboard I" roarod the guard. " Ben was at her side explaining all that had been done all the danger, all the value of the aid he had offered. She did not understand a word, but she beamed upon him. "Seems to have cheered you up," he said. "Well," said Patty; "a little excite ment does, now aud then." "Abominable things those cars," said the passengers, in chorus; "fright ful accident some day a mercy we were not all killed." "There's one gentleman struck," said an old lady. But Mr. Figgs had only been wedged between two seats Ben extracted him safely, and be resumed his position be side his wife. "Better, love?" he asked. " "No, I shall never got over this," said Mrs. Figgs, "and you ought not to have taken a trolley car I am sure you did it to be rid of me." "I didn't," said Mr. Figgs; "my dear, your hair is down and your bat askew." Mrs. Figgs put up her hands, took off her hat, and deftly twisted hor beauti ful, golden hair. Then sho lookod at the blue bonnet, lying in her lap lifted it turned it about, gasped and glared. "What does this mean?' she said: "Mr. Figgs, that shock of lightning has driven me mad what docs this look like to you?" "As handsome a bonnet as I ever saw you wear, dear," said Mr. Figgs, "and a lovely blue just like your eyes, pet." "This is the one 1 ordered to match my eyes," said Mrs. Figgs, "but when I left home I had on a greasy, brown tur ban. You saw it, Eliza saw it why it's supernatural work spirits, or some thing!" "I guess," said Mr. Figgs; "somehow or other, electricity has done it." "I'm frightened to death; take me borne," said Mrs. Figgs, aud they alighted at the next corner. Ben and Patty arrived at the theatre a little late, but they eujoyed tho per formance. In its midst, Beu said to Putty : " Why don't you tako off your veil and show us your pretty bonnet?" "It's rather ugly, and quite old, Beu," said Patty demurely. "Only my old brown turban." But she leuioved the veil. "Why, Putty, I'd have sworu you had a new blue bonnet on," said Ben. "Bright blue as blue as your eyes." "You see I haven't," said Patty de murely. "I hope Tm not getting color-blind," said Ben, in a terrified tone. "That would be a bad job for a railroad man." "Oh, I suppose it must have been the electricity that mado it look blue," said Patty. And Bon nodded, but still looked be wildered. As for Aunt Jane, she never knew anything about all this. But before next Sunday she had made Patty a bonnet, as blue as her eyes, she said, and as pretty, if not as costly, as that which hysterical Mrs. Figgs now refused to wear, "Be cause it was bewitched, and had turned into a greasy, brown turban, and then changed back again, all in an hour." Family 6tory Paper. A Country Doctor's BI? Fee. In the summer of 1875, writes O. B. Mason, I was sojourning with a friend for a few weeks in a little fishing vil lage on the coast of Maine. One night my friend was seized with a sudden and painful illness which necessitated my summoning the only doctor in the vil lage, who lived on a farm a mile dis tant from our hotel and who combined agriculture with the practice of medicine. I aroused the sleeping physician with some difficulty and stated my errand, but despite my importunities he flatly refused to leave his home, as it was against an inflexible rule to leave his house at night, no matter urgent the call. However, he generously consented to compound a mixture, with which I hastened back to the hotel, where I found my friend racked with pain and pleading for medical assistance. I again traversed the road to the doc tor's house and thundered at the door, determined to force or bribe the pill compounder from his domicile. When the identity of the intruder was dis covered the usually placid physician became irate and somewhat abusive. . In vain I urged the necessity of the visit and pleaded the cause of humanity. Finally I offered any foe, in or out of reason he might demand. This gradu ally softened him. and looking at me critically to see the full effect of his words, ho said: "Young man, if I go up there with you it will cost you a pretty penny." Apprehensive of a mammoth fee beyond the resources of a compara tively slender purso, I queried somewhat timidly, "What would you charge?" to which, with the same quizzical lobk fixed on his face, the answer slowly came: "If I go up there to-night it will cost you $1.50" Joyously consenting to the condition, while concealing my amusement, I has tened home, and by a recital of the story put the sufferer in such good hu mor that the doctor, on his arrival, found the patient so far on the road to recovery that two visits completed the restoration. Subsequently I learned that the fees charged the villagers dur ing the doctor's exclusive practico among them of four decades had been fifty cents for calls made after midnight and but half that sum for visits in the day time. Detroit Free Press. Dug Up a Colonial Ship. Maybe it is 150 years since the old ship whoso remains have just been uncovered in Front street, New York City, sailed tho seas. She was a ninety-footer and a three-master, and she may have been a ship-of-war, for an old bayonet was found on her, as well as a seven-pound cannon ball. The finders were workmen engaged under Superintendent J. A. Heary in excavating for the Front street power-bouse of the Broadway cable road. One day the Italian cellar-diggers reported to Superintendent Heary that they had struck a solid timber and could go no further. Trenches were sunk along the mass and it proved to be the hull of an old sailing vessel, buried almost twenty feet below the level of the street. The oak ribs were as solid as if they had just been turned out of a ship yard. The ribs were eight by ten inches and fastened together with woodon pins. There was not au iron nail found about the vessel. An old salt said that he had always known of a tradition that an Euglish vessel had been Bunk by the colonists iu New York harbor about the time of the tea riots in Boston. He was convinced now that the tradition was founded in fact and this was the ship. Old maps of the city show that just where the vessel was found was at one time a dock fenced in by a breakwater. The old hulk may be that of the ship Judith, a Nan tucket whaler, which was sunk off the Battery in July, 1740. ChiUgo Herald. Mulberries. The mulberry hai been a neglected tree ever since the passing of the "Multlcau lis craze" of the thirties, although it possesses decided value iu ornamental planting, and some of the varieties, Pro fessor L. H. Bailey tolls, are useful for ledges, shelter belts and small timber. Tie fruit has merit for dessert, is easily grown and is produced more or less continuously throughout a period of two to four months of every year. In a bulletin issued from the Coruell Uni versity Station at Ithaca., N. Y., Profes sor Bailey names sixteen varieties as truit bearing kinds, the new American boiug recommended for the Northern Status. Black Persian is occasionally grown in the South and on the Pacific Coast. Hicks is a heavy bearer of indifferent fruit, but valuable for poultry. Stubbs is a profuse bearer of large fruit, of ex cellent quality. The Russian type is valuable for orna mental bodges, especially in the prairie States, for planting spuringly as single specimens or in croups and for small timber. The mulberry is easily grown upon ordinary soils. It is often tender in the North during the first two or three years. . ,The mulberry is propagated by cut tings of the mature wood of the roots, by root and crown grafting, and by bud ding with dormant buds iu the spriug. New York World. WnY THE HAIR WHITENS' SUDDEN BLANCHING IS DUE TO AIR BUBBLES. A Compositor's Startling: Experi ence A Doctor's Experiments With Hairs In Ills Heard. THE blanching of the hair and beard of O vide Musln, the vi olinist, following serious in juries in a train wreck, has ex cited much speculation and theorizing us to the causes of hair so suddenly turning white. Some physiologists are of the opinion that the hair may become white in the course of a few hours, and this is the popular impression. Others assume that such sudden changes never take place, although it is certain that the hair fre quently turns gray in the course of a few weeks. It is difficult to find in the works of the older writers well authenti cated cases of these sudden changes, most of those quoted having been taken on the loose authority of persons evi dently not in the habit of making scien tific observations. Such instances un supported by analogous cases of a reli able character must necessurily bo re jected as not fulfilling the rigid requirements demanded by scientific in quiry, in which all possible sources of error should be rigidly excluded. Regarding the subject, however, from a .purely scientific point of view one must acknowledge that there are a few cases of comparatively recent date in which sudden blanching of the hair bas been observed and carefully investigated by men trained to accurate scientific methods. One of the cases is reported in Vir chow's Archives for April, 1855, by Dr. Landois as occurring under the observa tion of himself and Dr. Lohmer. In this case the blanching of the hair occurred in a hospital in a single night while tho patient was under the daily observation of the visiting physicians. The patient, a compositor, thirty-four years of age, with light hair and blue eyes, was ad mitted into the hospital July 9, 1865, suffering from an acute attack of de lirium tremens. A marked peculiarity in the disease was excessive terror when ever any one approached the patient. He slept for twelve hours on the night of the 11th of July, after having taken thirty drops of laudanum. Up to this time nothing unusual had been observed regarding the bair. On the morning of July 12th it was evident to the medical attendants and to all who saw the patient that the hair of the head and beard had become gray. The patient himself remarked the change with intense astonishment. The hair re mained gray as long as the patient was undei observation, to September 17th. An interesting point connected with this case is that the hair was subjected to careful microscopic examination. The color of the hair in general is due to the presence of pigment granules and of a few air bubbles. In the case of the com positor the white hairs were found to contain a multitude of bubbles of air in the medulla and cortical substance of the shaft of the hair, but the pigment granules were everywhere preserved un altered. The hair filled with bubbles of air is white for that same reason that granulated sugar aud tho foam ou the seashore are white. The individual granules of the sugar and the individual bubbles that form the foam are transpa rent. The reflection of light from gran ule to granule and from bubble to bub ble makes the mass of the sugar and of foam white. In a similar way the re flection of light from air bubble to air bubble makes the hair seem white. Dr. Landois quotes instances of blanching of the hair in which there were alternate rings of white and brown. Another very curious case of sadden blanching of the hair is reported by Erasmus Wilson in the proceedings of the Royal Society, London, volume xv., No. 91, page 406. In these cases also tho white portion presented on micro scopic examination great bubbles of air, but no diminution in the quautity of pigment matter. The possibility of suddon blauchiug of the hair is further illustrated by the curious observation mado by the cele brated Brown-Sequard of elixir of life famo. He observed in his own person four white hairs on one side of his beard and seven on the other. These be pulled out. Two days after be found two hairs on one side and three on the other that were white throughout their eutire length. This observation he verified several times. The microscopic examinations made leave no doubt as to the cause of tho white color of the hair iu cases of sud den blanching. All are agreed that there is no diminution in tho pigment, but that the greater part of tho medulla be comes filled with air bubbles, small glo bules of air being found in the cortical substance. The hair in these casos pre sents a marked contrast to hair thut bus become gray gradually from old ae. The change of color due to age is cuused by an actual diminution in the quality of pigment. How the air finds its way into the hair in sudden blanching it is difficult to imagine. In all of the cases recorded the blanching of the hair was apparently depeudent upon strong emotions, gen erally terror. This is all thut can be said on the subject of its causation, tho mechanism of the chauge not being un derstood. Sun Francisco Chiouicle. Thirteen Dollars for Shave. This story is told by the New York News about an old-established Eust-side burber shop : Some years ago Edward L. Curcy and William H. Sheers came in both simul taneously aud both were iu a hurry to get shaved. Oue asked the other bow much he would pay for the privilege of getting first chuuee. The bidding begun at $1 and before it stopped the price was raised to (13, which lid ward L. Carey paid. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Jupiter was known to the Chaldeans as a planet as early as B. C. 3000. It is said to be a geological fact that gold strata underlie Philadelphia. The planet Neptune has the longest year, consisting ot more than 60,000 of our days. More than one-half of the street rail way mileage in Massachusetts is now op crated in whole or pnrt by eloctricity. The moon gives nut heat enough to, affect the thermometer and makes a dif ference of two degrees or three degrees. The average weight of the Chinese brains is said to be heavier than the av erage weight of the brain in any other race. On the Royal Sovereign, the new Eng lish battleship, there aro 800 electric lights, connected by thirty miles of wire. Inventors are now turning their atten tion to devices for the utilization of electrio heating, especially for domestic purposes. The largest pumping plant in the United States was that placed in a mine at Iron Mountain, Mich. It pumps 4, 000,000 gallons in twenty-four hour?. Genuine volcano dust has been found in Kansas and the Indian Territory. There is a deposit near Galena, in the Territory, which is said to bo many feet in thickness. To make glue water proof, dissolvo of gum sandarac and mastic each five and one-half drachms in one-half pint of alcohol, and add five and one-half drachms of turpentine. Seventy, five miles an hour is 110 feet a second, and the energy of 400 tons or a train of cars, moving at that rate is nearly twice as great as that of a 2000 pound shot fired from a 100 ton Arm strong gun. In the manufactures of Great Britain alone the power which steam exerts is estimated to be equal to the manual labor of 4,000,000,000 men, or raoro than double the number ot males sup posed to inhabit the g!obc9. From a rift in a great rock at Santa Cruz (Cal.) water spouts to a height of sixty foet. The waves that beat on the shore near by have worn a tunnel through the rock coast, beaten through the roof of the tunnel and formed this apparent geyser. A fine specimen of tho egg of JEpyor nis, the extinct giant bird of Madagas car, end obtained from southern Mada gascar, was exhibited at a recent meet ing of the Zoological Society of Lon don. It will be remembered that this egg is about thirteen inches long and of the capacity of 150 hens' eggs. The captains of ships which carry bricks have to bo very careful. An or dinary brick is capable of absorbiug a pint of water. So with a cargo of brick in the hold serious leakage may quite well go ou undetected, for tho water that enters is sucked up as fast as it gets iu. If this should be the cose, the con sequences are bound to bo most serious. Exploration is improviug the popular knowledge of the Sahara. Instead of being largely below the sea, tho greater part of it is from 6000 to 8000 feet above the level; iustead of being rainless, showers make it bloom and cover it with green grass for a tew weeks every year; large flocks and herds aro maintained upon its borders; the oases nro depres sions where the wator can be collected and stored and are villainously unhealthy in hot weather because of this stagnant water aud the habits of the inhabitants. Isle of Wight Samphire. Our samphire gatherer in tlio Is'.o of Wight, after asceuding to u point at which his form was hardly discernible among the giuut fragments of rocks, cast, a great armful of pulo green aromatic cliff herbs into the boat samphire and sea poppy and wild mignonette. Of these the samphiro is the strangest, with its thick, flesny leaves like iccplunt, its salt and puugeut sceut and taste, aud pule, uncanny-looking flower. To gather it in any quantity it would be necessary to scale the most dangerous parts of tho cliff, ami it was while seek ing this and sea fowls' eggs that a crags man was engaged when iiis death oc curred. It was his practice to go alouo on his perilous expeditious, nud the ex act ' muuuer of his death will never bo known. It is more usual for two or throe rock climbers to work together. A crowbar is planted iu tho turf above and two ropes are used. One go;;s round tlio body and the other is held iu the baud. The first is wrapped around the crow bar, so as to be let out ut pleasure; the second is fixed to it by a noose, aud when the cragsman wishes to rcasccud he shakes this second rope as a signal and the men on the tcp of tho cliff haul ut the waist rope, while ho assists by climbing up the eecoud baud over hand. The greatest risk is run whuu the climber throws oil his waist rope and clambers along tho sbolviug ledges of slippery turf which seams the cliff, where the least slip is fatal. Londou Spec tator. Queer Terrapiu Cooking ( oiliest. An intermuuicipal terrapin coi.te: took place the other il.iy ut Mcudowurook, near I'uiladclphiu, l'enii., the country place of Thomas li. Wauamakur, sou of Johu Wanuiuakcr. it w the result of a discussion that has long been iu pro gress betweeu some club men ot Haiti more and Philadelphia as to which method of preparing terrapin was the better. Arthur l'udolford took up toe guuutlct iu behalf of the Baltimore rec ipe. Ho was represented by James Pot ter, ulso of that city, and uccoinpuuied by a Baltimore chef and a party ot seven gentlemen to actus a jury. They brought with them a number of Maryland ill i moud back "birds," which arc quoted just now ut $150 per dozen. The ter rapin was prepared uc ordin to the i'orius iu vogue iu the twii cities, n i l nine of tho jurors decide I m tavorol the Bultimore recipe. Chicugo 1 lei aid. HI OlVaTH HIS BELOVED SLEEP. What would we j?ive to our beloved? The hero's heart, to be unmoved , The poet's star-tuned harp to sweep i The senate's shout to patriot's vows The monarch's crown to light the brows? "He giveth his beloved sloop." What do we give to our beloved? A little faith all undisproved A little dnrt to overweop. And bitter memories, to make The whole earth blasted for our sake! "He giveth his beloved sleep." Mrs. Browning, HUMOR OF THE DAY. With an emerald ring The Irishman's voice. Truth. Not a common bark An ocean grey hound. New York Journal. On the roll of fame Tho champion wheelman. Galveston News. A discarded official stiuding about is out of place. New Orleans Picayune. The man who fancies ho writes poetry frequently wrongs it. Now York Morn ing Journal. Old Diogenes would havo had an anxious time of it in France. Louisville Courier-Journal. It is certainty of continuance, not the present amount, that is the measure of kindness. Puck. When there is a great falling off in a hod-carrier's business some one gets hurt. New Orleans Picayune. The best cure for trouble is labor. Who ever heard of a wood-sawyer com mitting suicide? Buffalo Enquirer. Iiw, physio or divinity Which is the easiest ot the three? Diviuity; because the fact is TU easier preaching than to practice. J mlge. Little Elsie "Who was Shakespeare, pa?" Seribbleuns (the play irright) "One of my predecessors, child." Tit Bits. Just as soon as a young man finds that he can't have a girl he begins to imagine that ho can't do without her. Dallas News. . "This is a vane struggle," as the breeze said after trying and failing to turn the weathcrcack. Philadelphia Record. No man can sleep well in cloudy weather when ho knows that he bos a sandy foundation under his house. Ram's Horn. Most creatures are entirely harmless when they aro asleep. But tho moth does tho most mischief when it is taking a nap. Sifting3. "What I am looking for," said Blig gius just after ho had rented a telephone, "is the man who said that talk is cheap." Washington Star. He (painting) "If you were I, Miss Maud, 1 wonder how you'd treat this subject?" She (posiug) "Oysters." KUo Field's Washington. "It is an odd thiug," mused Indigest ion, "that the samu foo 1 winch makes the bruin so stupid by day, keeps it so ferociously active at night." Puck. The Professor "Ah, Miss Iris, it's very pretty, but it's not the least liko the model. I'm ufraid you've painted the eyes out of your own head." Punch. Ob, from that swell deliver us Od whom it may her-nll The s wellness is mot.t noted iu The. region of ths Ilea I. Washington Star. "Matigie," called Mulligan to his ac romplis.icd daughter. "What do you waut? ' "Is the piauuy bruk or are you playiu' classical music!'1 Washington Star. "But why do you always bear them called etchings!" Father "Urn sr well, 1 supposo becauso it takes such hard scratching to pay for them." lnter Ocean. "The early bird gets tho worm," mused tho big fowl. "I'll just hang round iu a leisurely way till he does, aud then I'll take it uway from him." Wash ington Star "Ou tho Vcrgo of tho Unknown" is tho title of au editorial iu a recont issuo of tho Fort Worth Gazette. So they have hash iu Texas too, do they? Chicugo Mail. Mother (to her child, who litis just had some sweets giveu her by the mun opposite) "What do you say to the gentleman, Mabel?'1 Mabel "Have you got any more, please!" Judy. Diner "Waiter, 1 find I have just money to pay for tho diuuer; but it nothing iu the way of a lip for yourself." Waiter "Let ino add up tho check again, sir." New York Herald. Tommy Figtr "Sister's beau kicked my dog yesterdav, but I got eveu with him, you bet." Johnny Brings "How?" Tommy Kig "1 mixed quinine with her facc-powdor." ludiuuupolia Sen tinel. Whilo Mr. Donovan was watching an engine thut was uuguged iu backing the other day ho was tcird to remark, "Faith, that's the iuo?t roundabout way of goiu' forrard Oi iver taw." Wash iugtou Star. Caller "So you mean to be an M. P. when you grow big. Tommy!'1 Politi cian's Youngest "Yes J like pa." Caller "Then you've made up your tinud to do a great dial of talking ("' Politician's Youngster "Vos; like iua.'' r'uuny Folk. Yabley "I tell you, when I see oue of these hard woi king, patient lichool luu'ums 1 feci like takiug oil my hut to her iu reverence." Mudge "I tried that once ami her brother kicked me clear acioas tho street." Induiuupulis Journal. Miss G met u l eggar in the street and was moved to help hi n. "Here's my card," she said. "It you'll cull ut my house, I'll givo you some clothes." Ho (ailed to put in an appearance; but a day or two Inter she chained to .-co liitu uaiu uml asked: "Why di.lu't you cull I" "Ind.ide, mum, but ) t in curd do say 'Thuisdakl' " IhouUyu Lifo.
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