J THE FOREST REPUBLICAN U pabutke nnj W4May, kf J. E. WCNK. OfiBoala Brntubtnih Co.' Vulldlrji mim run, tiorbbta, r. Terms, ... HJOM'TMr. t ntoertptlm rwiT4 fee start, s-arlcxl tha tkra m.nlha. OnrreapondniM Mllclu frr kl arta f th. RATI8 Or ADVERTISING ' REPUBLICAN On Sqnar, on. inch, on lnrtioa, .1 I On Square, on Inch, on month. . ., I On Kauare. on. inch, three month. . b ORE On Hquare, one inch, on ;w,tl. . 10 no on 1 wo oquire on year ic Quarter Column, on year. 10 Half Column, on ywr 00 On Column, on Titr 100 00 00 r0 Legal dvrtisnint ten onto pw sea limrtlon. Marriage and death aotti-e gratia. All bills for yearly advertisements ec qutrUrir. Temporary adTertuma(i be paid la advane. "T' MIW WW M MM If U.TMII VOL. XXV. NO. 50. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1893. S1.50 PER ANNUM. Job work oal ih oa deliver? . ST I The four great ocean routes employ 1100 steamship;. The output of the American raamu factoriei for the post year was 97,215, 000, Q00. Every State and Territory in the Union has an orgnnizod militia except the Ter ritory of Utah. . The number of foreigners who took up their residenco in America last year was 543,4527, of whom 118,273 came from Germany. What was once the heart of the Wis consin pino region is now Importing thousands of feet of that timber from Washington State. General Schkopp, of the Germnu army, says: "If his majesty draws his sword it will never return to its scabbard until his last enemy is crushed, or he, with bis people, is overthrown." The increase of more than a million ot sheep in this country during the past year is more than matched by the in creased use of wool in producing woolen goods, which was 69,000,000 pounds. The Chicago Mail estimates that the 3,000,000 peoplo who are expected to visit Chicago during the World's Fair will expend while in that city not less than 1200,000,000. This is an average of over C5 apiece ' The New York Sun figures that if six - men were to start on successive days from six Amcricau cities, and travel in a straight line around the world to the point of starting, the Chicago man would probably claim to have made the quick . est time, while the Ohio man, if thore was one, would be the first to arrive home . but the distance traveled by all six, if added together, would fall 70,000 miles short of the nilroad mileage of the United States, double tracks not counted. Should the Sandwich Islands really become part of the United States they will be the most picturesque feature of the Republic, declares the Chicago Herald. They deserve the title "Flow ery Kingdom" perhaps even better than Japan, since flowers bloom on the islands all the year round, and are pecu liarly beloved by all the inhabitants. The foreign residents, and even transient visitors, catch the uativo fondness for flowers, and at times people of all sorts go about garlanded with abundant blos soms. It occurred to the long-headed, public-spirited citizens of Pennsylvania that the time had come to devise measures for the preservation of the forests of that State. Accordingly they procured the introduction of a bill in the Legislature which provided for the appointment of a forestry commission whose duty it shall be "to examine und report on the con dition of the slopes and summits of the State and the presauco or absence of forests thoreon, for the purpose of de termiaing the influenco on the stage of . the water in the rivers, the amount of timber remaining standing and bow the supply can be increased and maintained." The American Library Association, which has the co-operation of nearly all the great libraries of the country, will make a notablo exhibit at the World's Fair. It will include samples, models, and photographs showing articles and mechanical devices in actual u-e; print ed matter, forms, blaaks, constitutions, by-laws, rules for subscribers; accession departments and their management; cat alogue, classification and reference de partments; binding department, with samples of binding, temporary covers and receipts for restoring, mending and cleaning, shelf and building depart ments and an architectural exhibit show ing plans, elevations, perspectives and models of the best library buildings. There will also be a model library of 5000 volumes, selected from lists pre pared and sent in by the various librari ans of the country. It is related that a man who was writ ; ing a history ot New York employed an ' I expert to find out for him how many speculators in Wall street succeeded in the long run.' After a laborious inves tigation the expert reported that the only single instance which he could dis cover was a man from Rhode. Island, named Smith, who had actually won. f 30, 000 in . a speculation in the street and carried the money away to specu late no more. It was the single bright instance in a long line of wrecks, adds the New Orleaus Picayuue, and was written down iu the book to hand the name of Smith down to immortality. Unluckily for his reputation, however, hardly was the book published before Smith turned up on the street and put his $30,000 into another speculation, lie never heard of it again, and the sole in stance of a successful speculator was ruthlessly destroyed. England continues to Increaso her .rrned force in Egypt, and France is .herefore irate. The Protestant Episcopal Calhedrsl, it. John the Divine, in New York City, frill cost 110,000,000. Vegetarianism is making great pro rress in Uerlin. The Gorman capital sow contains twenty vegetarian restaur ints which are largely patronized by the working people, clerks and studonts. In 1883 there were 43.94 square miles in Chicago. Now there are 181.70, and Rogers Park is soon to bo annexed. The New York Recorder estimates that this will make as big ah area as a Manhattan Island a hundred miles long. Tho police force of Now York City numbers 39C6 men, including the rank and tile. The police force of Chicago is sbout 2700. The area of New 1 York City is forty-six square miles. The area of Chicago is four times as groat. ' A long-suffering London journalist, whose nerves were no longer able to bear the noise made by putting fuel on the Gre from a coal-box, recently gave vent to an earnest prayer that some inventor might be mercifully disposed to provide a silent coal-box for domestic sufferers like himself. A response to this appeal is now recorded by the Chicago News Record in the shape of an ordinary coal box lined with linoleum and falling on projecting rubbers, so that no slamming is possible. Even the shovel has its case lined with felt, and is, therefore, lifted out and replaced noiselessly. The timber' used in the construction of the Chicago Exhibition buildings is estimated to exceed 75,000,000 feet, which represents the wood from ten square miles of forest. All the buildings are covered, with a composition of plaster, ' cement and hemp, and the amqunt of this work is equal to covering the wall of a four-story building fifteen miles in length. The electric lighting will require 5000 arc and 93,000 incan descent lamps, which is about ten times as much electric-lighting as the Paris Exhibition was provided with. Tb electrio lighting plant has cost over $1,000,000. The Philadelphia Times says: . .The growth of many of the textile industries during 1892 was marked. The summary of new mills for 1892 shows a total of 272, with a combined list of employes ot 31,500. In other words assuming that none of the new textile mills were erected to replace those destroyed by fire or abandoned, for other causes, 31,500 new employes were set to work, and the productive textile capacity of the coun try was increased seven per cent. Au examination of the statistics showing the textile growth of the year reveal some interesting facts, the first of which is that there were seventy-three new cotton mills employing 15,000 hands. The new cotton mills do not number one half the total of new mills erected, but the mills were of greater capacity than in any other branch of the textile trade, thus absorbing one-half of the new la bor employed. Massachusetts erected nineteen new cotton mills, employing 5775 hands. The next greatest in crease was in the South, North Carolina building sixteen new mills, employing 1835 new hands, South Carolina eleven new nulls, with 2040 employes, Georgia five new mills, with 940 hands, and AU' batua four, with 740. New York aud Pennsylvania built three new mills each, Connecticut two, and Illinois, Indiana, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Ver- uicot aud West Virginia each one, There were forty-nine new woolen an! ninety-three new knitting mills erected, the first employing 2500 and the second 7500 new hands. Massachusetts leads with eight, Maine follows with seven and Pennsylvania third witu six new woolen mills. The South does not figure much in the new woolen Industry, Kentucky with three and Missouri with two mills being the only Southern States represented. Of the ninety-three new knittinz - mills Pennsylvinia furnishes thirty-two, or more than one-third ; New York, twenty, ind the rest distributed among twenty-two other States. Silk figures fourth in the list of new plants to the extent of twenty-one new mills, the majority of which are In New York, New Jeisey and Pennsylvania, with Paterson, N. J., as the center of the in dustry, both old and new. In the mis cellaneous list are six new plush mills, six making shoddy, seven cotton batting, three linen, three lace, two upbolsterj and two gimp and dress trimming (all four in Philadelphia), and a scattering list, including dye, bleaching, jute.bag ging and a few others. New England, Pennsylvania and the South seem to be the most prosperous manufacturing sec tions, if the erection ol new plants foi manufactures can be accepted as an in dex of prosperity. HOME. Tb prince rides up to the palnc gates And his eyes with tears are dim, For he thinks ot the beggar maiden sweet Who may never wed with him. For home is where the heart is, In dwelling great or small. And there's many a splendid palaoe Thai's never a home at all. The yeoman comes to his little cot With a song when day Is dona, For his dearie Is standing In the door And his children to meet him run. Fur borne is where the heart is, In dwelling great or small, An t there's many a stately mansion That's never a home at all. . Could I but live with my own sweetheart In a hut with sanded floor, I'd be richer far than a loveless man With fame and a gol den store. For home is where the heart is, 4n dwelling great or small, And a cottage lighte J by love light Is the dearest bom of all. George Horton. CUPID IN THE KITCHEN. BT MART KLTB DALLAS. V-es-"1-1 " cook has given waiuiug, buu me chambermaid says that, where Susan goes she goes like wise," said Mrs. Montgomery, in a tone of despair. "And as I have just paid their wages they are packing to go. What wicked, wicked women. Not a word of warning." "Why, mammal what is the reason of this sudden deser tion t" queried Emily, the only daughter of tho house, aged eighteen and she laughed. "Your papa found fault with the beef last Sunday. Ah there is nothing to giggle over, I am sure," said the matron, dropping into a rocking chair "A week st the intelligence office for me, while the house goes to wreck and ruin, and your papa loses bis temper over the dinners, for old Mrs. Chump, the only person I can send for, always ruins every dish she touches." "And we cannot have Mrs. Chump this time, mamma," said Emily. "She is in bed with rheumatism. I met her little niece in the drug store buying medicines and lotions for her, and she said she was very bad." "Then the end has coine I" sighed Mrs. Montgomery. ' "Don't fret, mamma, I'll do the work," said Emily. "I thiuk it might be fun for awhile." "Do you?" Mrs. Montgomery sked, sarcastically. "Ah!" Emily laughed again. "It's the best you can do," she said, "and I'll give papaa'high tea; with ome lette and chicken saudwich, and all the little things he likes, and no doubt you can find some one to come to-morrow." "Oh, no doubt," said Mrs. Montgom ery, in still more sarcastic tones." I wish I had your sanguine temperament, Emily." "Good-bye, mum and miss," said cook, looking iu at tho door. "Good-bye, and I wish you luck suiting yourself, I'm suro. No doubt there is them that might if they had the patience of Job; not else." . "Gool-bye, ladies, "said the chamber maid; "I'm sorry to leave you, but Susan and me goes the two of us to gethct, always, and if she is insulted, I am likewise," "Good-bye," said Emily, calmly. Mrs. Montgomery turned her back, and muttered "Ungrateful wretches!" between her teeth. "And I actually made over my navy blue Bedford cord dress for that woman," she said, after the door closed; "and never has she had to buy an aprou. There, I'll go and begin my martyrdom and, Emily, if you do go into the kit chen, put on my rubber gloves and my mob cap, that I wear for dusting my room coal ashes are the ruin of the hair and a big apron your looks aie my pride." Emily kissed her mother, saw that she went off comfortably, and then obedient ly donned cap, gloves and apron, and descended to the kitchen. Cook, in her wrath, had left the kit chen in a state of chaos. Dishes piled high in the sink, towels on the floor, pots and kettles in sore need of scouring, overflowing tubs, a pan of potato peelings, a kettle of ashes all by the way of revenge for the in sulting criticism of last Sunday's dinner. The prospect was alarming, but Miss Emily went to work with a will, finding it rather more difficult than in her inex perience she had supposed, and wishing that her mother had not so carefully guarded her delicacy at the expense of her usefulness iu kitchen affairs. Just as she took her pots and kettles in hand, Jack Spinner, the millionaire's son. flyinc along upon his bicycle, came ery near running into a young man who sat upon a curbstone, moaning piteously, and at once alighted. "Good heavens! I haven't hart you!" he cried. "No, sir," replied the person ad dressed, who was enveloped in a mys terious waterproof costume, and covered Jrout head to foot with ashes. "J was clane dad when you came up. I've got the choleray or the typhus, I djnno which, and I'll loss my job, for I au able for it no longer, and there's no mercy on you if you neglect a thing, if it is ever so with you no mercy." "That is very cruel," said young Spin ner, who had the teuderest heart in the world. "Is it that ash cart you are driving?" "It is indeed," suid the unfortuuate. 'And there is six bar'ls to empty yit, and ine not able for it. I could drive back, but I couldn't lift the bar'ls." At home they called .lack Don Quix ote, (or he was always succoring some SI :tff Hp forlorn being in distress, maid or man I it made no matter which. Now he in stantly bethought him what to do for this poor ash crt driver. "Come along," he said, taking the man by the arm and leading him into a drug store hard by. "I'll tell the doctor to see you, and empty the rest of the barrels for you jolly fun for me, you know, and you'll keep your place, and all that." The man, petrified with ostonishmont, could only lift his hands, and in a mo ment more a still more astonished drug clerk had a patient well paid for in advance and was dropping cholera mix ture into a glass, and applying mustard plasters, in the little back room behind the store. "Six more houses," said Jack, walk ing beside the cart, "straight down, the man said." He shouldered the first barrel and dumped it. A shower of ashes covered him, but he only laughed. Next came a sine can, quite elegant in appearauce, but filled with decaying vegetables, and orneraented by the inanimate forms of three murdered kittens. Mr. Jack gasped, but he intended to finish his work of charity now that be had begun it. And, with varied results, new experiences to him, the young ath lete emptied five barrels. On the sixth pavement ho found none. What an ashman's duty was he did not know, but he bad his invalid's interests at stake, and must do his best for him, so he descended the area way and rang the bell. In a moment a girl in a mob cap, a big apron, and rubber gloves, opened the door. "Beg pardon, I am sure," said Jack, bowing, "but do you wish your ash barrel emptied?" He spoke in the most elegant manner, but he was covered 'with ashes as with a garment; his mustache was whitened, his hands begrimedcinders adhered to his hair and his facotwas dirty. The maiden bcfnrehim was not quite free from marks of kitchen labor. It was Emily, who had' been washing 'the pots and kettles for the first time in (her life. "What a beautiful manner he has," she thought; "he must beaotne one in reduced circumstances." And she smiled upon him: "You are the tbea9h gentleman, I suppose?'' she queried. "I call In that capnefty," said Jack. "Then if it is not too much trouble, the ash can stands in .this little place under the front steps, '"said. Emily. "No trouble whatcrer," said Jack, diving into tne place indicated; "I'll bring it back when it issernptied." "You are too kind," 'said Emily, un aware of the pot-blackion her chin. "Not at all' said .Jack of the Cin ders, and they' bowed as if they were dancing the lanciero. In a moment Jack had dumpedlthe ashes, and returneavwitn tne can. He was greeted swith a great puff of smoke, and Emily blushing and 'cough ing, came out into the area for air. "Beg pardon," sand Jack; 'but tho house is not on tire?" "I hope not," saidHEmily ; "the ,fire went out, and Ira trying to kindle it, but it smokes so." "Perhaps it is the damper," said Jack : "1 11 look, if yoin don t mind." "I shall be grateful,' gasped Emily. "It is the damper," Baid Jack, "and these things in tho ovens; now if fl may have a bit of paper and. some wood? ' He found them himself, mado 'a fire, opened the windows and waited until the smoke vanished from the (kitchen, and then shut the windows. "What a wonderful ashman," 'Emily thought. "What an elegantjgirl bo be acook," Jack said to himself. "It is kind-of you," saidj Emily: "so stupid of me. But I did not! know about tne dampers; i neverjmaae fa ure before, but the servants have i taken French leave. "Oh!" said Jack to himself. "The young lady of tho house doiux amateur kitchen housework. . I might, have known it. And she thinks me thai ashman," and he sighed. "Good-day, he said, bowing. Before Etuilyxould replyfa head was thrust in at the window 4uat of tho original ashman. "An' here you aie, sir?" hetsaid. "An', sure, the medicine the doctor did be givin me has niodeiine a neev-mau, an' I'm forever obliged. And . sorry I am you've spoiled the fine clothes you .have on ye. And you'll find yoar boy-sucklo in the doctor's shop. I've trounced the rascal that was goin' off wid it to a jelly. I'll drive down, sir, and nevtr forget your kindness. Miiy you be Mayor ol New York yet." "Oh, you are welcome," said Jack,, and now Emily wati staring at him. "Not the aahnianU" she was sayingtun der her breath, and Jack, laughing,, an swered her glance. "My first ash-cart, as this was, your first lire," he said. "Thie driver wsis ill, and I took his place, ltihas been great fun, though rather dirty -work. May I introduce myself?" He took a card from his .pocket and presented it. "I am Miss Montgomery,"! said Emily; "and I think my father must'know yours very well, if you are Mr. William, Spin ner s son. Tney are in tne same busi ness. " So it proved. For special voccssions who can say what the etiquette may be? Emily said to herself that it would be simply humane to help thisiuartyr to his kindly sympathies out of his coat of ashes, and sent him to her brother's room to find clothes brush and wash basin. When he met her again she wore neither mob cap nor apron, but was at tired iu a pretty morning dress, and her hair curled bewltchingly on her fore head. And, since this was the son of her father's old friend, it seemed but hos pitable to ask him to lunch. -Mamma would not be at home, she was quite j aloue. 11 was awiuuy improper uui i this latter point never occurred to Emily, nor to Jack, and these two were both young and liked sweet things, and Jack declared that he had never had to de lightful a lunch before. It was a romance which is different from a flirtation that little episode, and it always remained in the memory of those two young people as the sweetest moment of their lives. When her mother returned, Emily wore cap, apron and gloves. The high tea was ready, and all the work accom plished, after a fashion, and the girl looked so pretty, so happy. "Cooking must agree with you," Airs. Montgomery said. But Emily did not speak of the ama teur ashman, or her lunch party of two, until long after oh, long, long after for it was some days before Mr. Spinner called on the father, bringing bis son witn him some weeks before they were asked to an afternoon tea some months before Jack became an intimate friend of the family and quite a year before his engagement to Miss Emily Montgomery was announced to his friends. And it was cnlv on the very eve of her wedding that Emily told her mother that Jack had fallen in love with her at first sight, and how and when and where. And Mrs. Montgomery declared that it would have been very, very shocking frightfully imprudent if it had been any one but Jack; but that made all the difference, Jack was such a nice fellow. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Rose diamonds are liable to explode. Some of the stars move with s veloc ity of nearly fifty miles a second. There are estimated to be over six hundred deposits of iron ore in the State of Missouri. The origin of the geysers at Sonoma, Cal., is supposed to be s volcanic crater filled by a landslide. The moon gives out heat enough to affect the thermometer and uake a dif ference of two or three degrees. If fish get beyond a certain depth in the sea they die from the pressure of the water, which they are unable to support. The most important domestic sources of potash are wood ashes, cotton seed hull ashes, tobacco dust and tobacco stems. Professor C. S. Sargent, of the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, has re turned from Japan, where he has been making a study of the botany of the islands. It is not an easy matter to freeze out trichinae. After subjection to a tem perature of twenty-five degrees below zero for two hours they again became active when exposed to light and heat. A simple method of keeping iron and steel from rusting is to coat them with a solution of rubber in benzol, made about the consistency of cream. It may be applied with a brush, and is easily rubbed off when desired. In one of the Comstock mines a new water wheel is to be placed which is to run 1150 revolutions a minute, and have a speed at its periphery of 10,805 feel per minute. A greater head of water than has ever before been applied to a wheel will be used. Interesting experiments on the sense of taste in ants have been made by H. Devaux. Among other results he has found that Lasius flavs, while fond of sugar, dislikes saccharine. The ants swarmed around sugar laid out for them, but turned away from saccharine as soon as they bad tasted it. Even sugar be came unpleasant to them when it was mixed with saccharine. It seems, there fore, that sweetness is not the only quality which attracts them to sugar. It is very probable that, for health's sake, there will, after a time, be uni versal cremation ot the dead jn cities. Burying in the earth is said to be very inimical to the health of cities. Then there will be no ground to spare tor burial purposes in couise of time. It is probable that the dead will bo quickly and effectually reduced to ashes by means of electricity. The remains cf a human body thut has been cremated weigh only eight ounces no matter how fleshy and heavy the corpse may have been. A Kind-Hearted Giant's Embargo. A number of anecdotes have been told of late of the famous old Keuuebeo lum berman, Bodthb, whose stentorian voice resembled reverberating thunder and could bo heard distinctly "from Ken dall's Mills bridge to Ticonic Falls," distance of two miles. An old-timer says BouTish, who lived at Kendalls Mills, though a rough uiau in his ways, had a kiud heart and gave aid to many poor people he thought deserving. Once a river driver was drowned at Kendall Mills and Bodlish having subscribed s handsome sum himself to aid his family, nouuted a barrel beside the street, from which he harangued the people in aid of the aufforcrs. He laid (Iowa the rule that no man should pass that day until he had contributed, and in that way held up travelers all day long, securing a con siderable amount by nightfall, when the odd embargo was raised. Lewistou (Me.) Journal. Test For the Purity or Milk. Whether it is worth while to know exactly the degree to which one's milk seller is watering his milk is an open question which each must decide for himself. For those who do notcousider that ignorance is always bliss a simple way of setting at rest any doubts t to the purity of the milkman's stock in trude is provided io a new galactoineter. The instruments ordinarily used for this purpose consist of a glass tube with a graduated scale of paper inside, and their record is not as a rule reliable. The new instrument is said to be much more accurate, and shows at a glance whether the milk is pure or adulterated. The instrument is a glass tube open at both ends, along which a little ball of blue glass acts as indicator. The density of this ball is 1U2'J, and it is so adjusted that it can flout only oa pure milk, Chicago News Record, THE BOOK OF ALL BOOKS. RTOTHINO THAT'S PRINTED CIRCU LATES LIKE THE BIBLE. Millions ol Copies Going Ont Into All 1'arle ot the World In Almost Kvery Known Tongne. INCE 1804 the Bible societies alone, here and abroad, have distributed over 230,000,000 copies of the book. The American Bible Society, which is lext to the largest distributor of Bibles n the world, during the seventy six years f its existence has issued over 55,000, )00 copies of all or a portion of the Bi jle. The exact number is 55,531,908 The headquarters of the society and its presses are in the Bible House, in this sity. Last year this society printed 450,900 Bibles, 370,705 Testaments, 141,400 portions of the Bible, and 082 Bibles for ;he blind, makings total of 713,687 vol imes. Of these volumes 72,622 copies ivere sent to foreign lands. There were irinted abroad for the society 18,923 Bibles, 38,190 Testaments and 249,919 portions of the Bible. The foreign presses of the American Bible Society are it Beirut, Constantinople, Bangkok, Bremen, Shanghai, Foo-chow and Yoko hama. The work of the foreign presses of the lociety at the different places was as fol lows. At Beirut, 6000 Bibles, 5000 Testa ments, and 22,000 portions in Arabic. At Constantinople, 5000 Bibles in Bulgarian, 5000 portions in Koordish, 4000 Testaments in ancient Armenian, 5000 Testaments and 3000 portious in modern Armenian, 6000 Testaments and 2500 portions in Turkish. At Bangkok, 39,509 portions in Siamese, and 2000 copies of tho Gospel of Matthew in the Laos language. At Bremen, 5000 Bibles and 10,500 Testaments in German. At the China agency 189,398 volumes, partly in Shanghai and partly at Foo Chow, including 1400 Mandarin Bibles, 5790 Testaments, and 156,000 portions in Mandarin, 21,960 portions in Soo Chow colloquial, acd 1343 Bibles and 2900 Testaments in Foo-ChoW col loquial. Enoch L. Fancher is President of the American Bible Society. There are auxiliary societies in almost every State and Territory in the Union. The society is unsectarian and sells all its publica tions at cost. It receives from eub scriptions and spends annually about $500,000 in printing the Scriptures, and through colporteurs and In every way in its power it energetically circulates the Bible all over the earth. The British and Foreign Bible Society sinco 1804 has printed and distributed 127,855,581 volumes of the Scriptures; the National Bible Society, of Scotland, has distributed 12,710,390 copies; the Hibernian Bible Soeiety, 4,968,450 copies; the Prussian Bible Society, 6,059,801 copies, and a hundred other Bible societies have for generations been swelling the total annuul output. The Americau Bible Society has printed the Bible in the following tongues: English, Welsh, French, French Basque (Pyr enees). Syriao (ancient), Hyriao (modern), Arabic, (Mesopota mia), Ejon (Marshall Isl Spanish, ands), (JatAlau (Eastern Kusaien (Strong's Spain), lslanli, Portuguese, Gilbert lalanJs, Norwegian (In Ger- Pons pa (Asceusion man type), lslanil), Swedish (iu German Mortiock, type), Hawaiian, Finnish (in German Zulu, type), Beuga (West Afrlfli), DuUiti, IJretx) (West Africa), German, Mpongwe (West Polish, Africal, Hungarian, Dikele(West Africa), Bohemian (in Roman Mohawk, type), Choctaw, Italian, t'herokee, Bulgarian, 8jueca, Kstnonian (Russia), Dakota, Esthouian (Dorpsat), Ojibway, Armenian (ancient ), Muokokee, Armenian (modern), Delaware Mayan (Yucatan), Me feres. Arabic, The British and Foreign Bible Society has priuted the Bible iu 200 languages and dialects other than those mentioned in the above list, including two dozen native African dialects, and including every Nation in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australasia. Here is the first verse of the first chapter of the Lamentations of JerciniuU from the English Bible: How doth the city sit solitary that wni full ot people! How is she tieeoine a widow' Hhe that was great amoug the .Nations and Princess among the pioviuces, how is she become tributary ! Translated phonetically into the lan guage of the Gilbert Islands and set up in Roman type, the above verse reuds as follows: E a tekateka kaua te kawa ni kauiaroa, ae on irouia iouisU 1 E a riki kaua n aine ae mate buna I Neie kakauato i butkom botanaomata, ae t toka 1 buakonaba aika burawiuti. E a riki kaua u te tut auauauai uakoa te ueul The verse in the Gilbert Island tongue is printed after the manner of poetry. The old King James veision o( the Scriptures treated the Lamentations as prose. The Gilbert Island word for Jeremiah is lerciuia, aud the word for Lamentations is Balbaeti. The Book of the Prophet Eaekiel becomes, in that language, Ana Bokl te Burabeli Eteki era. Iebovah is the way they prououuee Jehovah iu the Gilbert Islands. For the missions in the I'aeiric Oceau which are under the care of the Ameri can Board of the Congregational Church, the American Bible Society has now in the press an edition of the Books of Genises and Exodus of tho Old Testa ment in the Ruk language spelled pho netically in English. The edition will number 20U0 copies New Yark Times. Mrs. Adlai Stevenson is a petite, fragile appearing woman of cultured mind. She is the daughter of a college President, and was reared in literary atmosphere. LAUOH AND GROW FAli Aye, lengh and grow (at I Full often a chat Proves more potent than potion; Laughter acts on the heart. Gives the blood a fresh start And a Vigorous motion. Yea, langh and grow fatl "Care," you know, "killed the cat?' It will you if yon let it; There's no surer relief For many a grief Than to laugh and forget it, Yes, laugh and grow fatl Though some sceptio hnreat May scoff, wholesome laughter Doth body and nnl, Mind and morals, control; They are all bettor after. Then langh and grow fatl Don't be prim and "a' that;" Why should features be lengthened? Just smile till you've hear), And I pledge you my word You'll be gladdene J ami strengthened Yonkers Statesman. HUMOR OF THE DAT. Dust-proof A bank-book. In at tbo death The heirs. A dog star The prize setter. Tough characters Hieroglyphics. Puck. The crinoline is coming with a hoop and a hurrah. Washington Star. "No, Maud, dear, Joan of Arc was not Noab's wifo." Philadelphia Record. The greatest part of a self-willed man's estate usually goes to the lawyers. Troy Press. The newspaper man is tho great writer of the people's wrongs. Galves ton News. Tho pen enables a young man to give his girl an inkling of his sentiments. Texas Sittings. Thore is some hope that the fashion magnates will stave off the hoop-skirts. Lowell Courier. To one traveling through the country milestones are pretty good signs of pro gress Troy Press. When you see a boy unable to behave himself you should lend a helping hand. Clevelaud Plain Dealer. Every dog has his day, but the nights belong to the cats and the clubmen.- Kate Field's Washington. "Gee, that was a cold snap," as the bulldog remarked after biting the Bos ton girl. Philadelphia Record. An Ohio physiciun proposes to abato kissing, but the averago young man pro poses with a view to keeping it up. 'It is pretty hard to be shoved to the wall this way," plaintively remarked the bill to tho bill poster. Washington Star. The mother who starts to get a sleepy boy out of bed these moruiugs may be said to have a rousing time o( it. Phila delphia Times. Citticus "I wonder how it is that so few women stutter wheu they talk?" Witticus "They haven't got time." Brooklyn Life. Mrs. New Lee Wed "You are a fail ure, John. You've never had au luck." Mr. New Leo Wed "Yes, once; I was born single." Brooklyn Lilc. "You needn't nssu ne that I am holier than thou air," growled tho Rochcfort to the Schweitzer; "everybody knows you are not up to my tone." Puck. "Why did Columbus forgive tho mu tineers?" asked the teacher. " 'Cause thoy was half seas over when they kicked," said Johuuic. Broklyu Life. "I'm a 'Joaab,' " said ths urchin, With a most expressive wail; "And 1 ate by father's manner, I'm about to meet a whale." Washington Star. "1 think," murmured tho handcuffed convict, "that I must be a poor finan cier, for I have more bonds on hand than I cau mauago." Baltimore Amer ican. Tho two most exciting periods iu woman's life are when she is listeuiug to her first proposul au 1 bidding an a bos ket of broken crockery tit an auction. Siftings. "Were you in perfect health when you wero struck by the street car?" asked the lawyer. "No, sir," said tho plain tiff, "I was a good deal ruu down." Boston Commercial Bulletin. Mrs. Goodkiud "Thero's ouly one trouble- about poor Mr. Cureless. He's generous to a fault!" Mr. Gruff "Humph 1 It's a pity that he isn't gen erous to his family." Hluck aud White. In '97' M s rest (to her maid of all work) "Miss Mulloney, the tire is get ting low; will you be kind enough to go to my room aud bring me three pices of coal from my jewel case." Elinira Gazette. Making the Bos, of It- "Good morn ing, Uncle Charles. Did you sleep well I I'm afraid your bed was rather hard and uneven; but " "Oh.it was all right, thanks. I got up now and then during the night ami rested a bit, you know." Puuch. "Could you give ino something to cat, ina'uni?'' humbly asked the tramp iu the suburbs of liostou of the stern visaged woman who opened the kitchen door. "Yes," said tlu tterti vis-aged woinau, as she energetically closed the door iu his (ace uud locked it with a jerk. "1 could." Soinomllo Journal. One of the r, chest specimens of a neat Irish bull was perpetrated by the clever and witty but blundering Irish knight, Sir Richard Steele, when iuvitiug an English uoblemac to visit him. "If, sir," said he, "you ever cmio within a mile of my hi use, I hope you will top there." lusuiuuco Ecououiist. Aboriginal America, iu the persou of a Sioux squaw, is to show its ideas oa dress a, the World's Fair. She live near San 1h--o, Cal., and has been at work for to year making this gow n of deerskins embroidered with sixteen pounds of bea Is.
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