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VOL. XXV. NO. 52. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1893. S1.50 PER ANNUM.
One-fourth of the land surface of tha
globe it occupied by English-speaking
people,
Tha year 1893 began on a Sunday ind
Will finish on Sunday, so that it will
ontala fifty-three Sundays.
Indiana has more Germans than any
other State, Thoy constituo flfty-flvo
per coat, of the population.
Ex-Boctetary of War Elklns inclines
to the abolition of both the word and
the saber, on the grouud that they are
no longer of the slightest practical use
in actual warfare.
One of the most striking .features in
connection with this age of electricity,
"remarks the New York Independent,
is the wondorfully iargo and rapid
growth of books and pamphlets bearing
upon the subject.
An electrical journal recently assured
Its readers that within a comparatively
hort time many trolley roads will be
constructed in country districts for the
express purpose of carrying farm pro
ducts to market:
The New England Farmer is authority
for the statement that "the condition of
the average farmer in New England, all
things considered, is much better than
that of the average farmer in most other
sections of the country.
Two car-loads of Boston girls have
gone to Texas to supply the demand
there for wives, which leads the Detroit
Free Press to exclaim that "the man who
seeks to escape from woman recklessly
tackles the Impossible."
Fresh Government clerks in Washing,
ton are tempted by offers of credit on
11 tides. This, explains the Atlanta
Constitution, is because persons em
ployed by the Government must pay tha
dobts contracted while in office oi suffer
dismissal. When a clerk is tardy in set
tlement the creditor can have the
mounnt of the debt doducted from the
debtor's salary.
During the year 1892 England
published 4915 new booke and 1339 new
editions, or a total of 6331. Last year
the figures were 5 TOG. The increase has
been especially iu tho department of
novola, uanu-ly 1147 as compared with
890 in 1891. Thoology reports 528,
philosophy 679, medicine 127 new pub.
lications, while law has only twenty-six,
altho paetry has 185, history 293, and
geography 250.
Chief Justice Fuller, having gone to
bis doctor's houo In Washington recent,
ly in preference to sending Jor the
physician, found that gentleman absent
and was invited into the library to await
his return. The attendant who ushered
the visitor In was ignorant of the latter's
station, but recognized him as a man of
culture and kind impulses. This was
evident from the surprising request that
the Chief Justice should improve the
time by writing a love letter for the man
who let him in. Pens, ink, paper and
envelop were proffered, and without
hesitation the favor was granted, the
missive being completed before the phy
aiciun's return.
It is said that when a native of Hawaii
wishes to give evidence of his sorrow
at the loss of a kinsman he goes to some
secluded apotaud endeavors to knock out
one of his frout teeth. In case it it his
maiden effort at mourning, relates the
Atlanta Constitution, the bereaved not
uo frequently bungles the job, and ou
looking over the debris often finds that
he has knocked out a couple or more.
If the griet stricken party, however, lacks
the .nerve or distrusts his prowess to
accomplish the tooth's displacement, a
dear and obliging fricn 1 is always at
hand to offer his assistance. As a result
of this custom a inau of middle age Is
often short so many teeth that gastronom
ers are embarrassed iu eating their
food. American dentists will do a land
office business in Hawaii if the United
States au nexes the islauds.
The New York Tribuue maintains that
there has been no revolution in the pro
duction of cotton siuce Whitney In
vented the gin and too t the "seeding''
of it out of the bauds of the old women
and chudrea. Now, however, there is
a prospect ot another great change.
Over 600 machines have beeu inveuted
in the last twenty years for picking the
cotton from the boll, and all have failed
to give satisfaction. Hut still another is
to be tested, and cottou men believe it
will bo successlul. It will pick, it is
said, 10,000 pouud a day. An ordin
ary field band cau pick of the short
staple about 150 pounds a day, and of
the' long staple about 350, so that the
new machine will do the work of about
forty men. Fifty cent a hundred pounds
is considered fair wages in the cotton
belt. The machine, therefore, will earn
50 a day.
I
BONO,
Whore wind-flowers to the kissing win
Tk bend their dainty leave,
And gold ot chaery celadlds
Doth mock tho August sheave.
Where blu. bells, elfin marriage-bells,
King out their tiny chimes
There will I baste me In lb. Bpring,
To fashion fragrant rhyme.
There will I haste ma In the Spring,
My lovely lady's charm to sing .
Oh 1 Lady mine, what wind-blown flower
Hnth half thy way wnrJ grace?
What blossomed gold was e'er so bright
A. that which crowns thy face?
What blua balls hut thine eyes would shame
And make with envy pale?
Tbou art more fair than gracious Spring
E'er drest a Winter vale. '-'
Then haste thee, haste thee, pretty
Spring,
That I may prove the truth I sing.
Amelia Rives Cbanler, in Oncj A Week.
AT LONE MOUND STATION.
BY TOM P. MORGAN.
OOD-BYE, Hall"
the conductor
called from his
perch in the turret
of the yellow ca
boose of freight
train No. 43.
"Good-bye,
Abel" Keanley
answered, as he
trudgod along be
tide the long train
toward the small
depot, beyond the
brown water tank,
me engine soon
slaked its thirst at
the tank and got under way again. A
moment later the caboose passed Kean
ley, and, with ever increasing speed,
swayed onward toward the curve at the
Lone Mound.
As Keanley nearrd the little depot,
the strains of a violin floated toward him.
Soft and tweet came the tuno, liko the
tinkle of musical glasses, and there was
in it pathetic, wailing undertone, as if
the player was striving to tell in music
of a heart ache and trials bravely borne.
Keanley could hardly repress an ejacu
lation of surprise as he entered tha littlo
office and behdld the wiolder of the magic
bow, a pale-faced boy, almost a child.
As the lad carefully deposited the violin
in the open box at his tide, and slowly
rose, Keanley taw that tho little fellow
was a cripple. One leg, distorted and
shriveled, swung, a useless member.
Resting on his crutches, the boy raised
bit hat.
"You're tho new agent, I t'pose," ho
said.
"Yes," Keanley answered, "I am tho
new agent. And who are you?" he con
tinued, kindly. "The ex-agent?"
"No, only bis ton," the boy replied.
"And where is your futherf"
"Over there, on the tlope."
The boy't chin quivered as he spoke.
Keanley looked from the wiudow. On
the tlope ot the Lone Mound was a tiny
grove yard. One oblong black blotch in
itt midst marked a new made grave.
The agent was, there.
"Pardon me," Keanley taid; "I did
not know. My instructions simply told
me to take charge of the station. I sup
posed the agent bad been promoted or
discharged."
"He was promoted," tho boy said
gravely.
"And what will you do now?'' Kean
ley asked, presently.
"I don't know," the boy answered.
"I've been thinking and thinking, but
it's no use. I don't know what to do.
P'raps the superintendent will give me a
Elaco in an office. I can write a fair
and and wire pretty well, but I ain't
much on heavy work."
This last with a rueful glonco at his
crutches.
Then Keanley lied, tnd deliberately,
too. He had no need of an assistaut,
but a lightning resolve flashed through
bis brain, and he said to the cripple:
"You are just the chop I am looking
for. I need a boy to help roe."
"What for?" asked the lad.
"To to why, to write and look out
for things generally," Keanley answered,
half desperately. "I'll feel safer to gad
about when I have an assistant whom I
know I cua trust. Then, too, I might
be sick, you know."
The boy looked doubtfully at him.
"If you are in earnest, I'll jump at the
cbauce to stay," be said.
"In earnest?" Keanley cried, in pre
tended pique at the lad's doubt. "Of
course, 1 am. Do you think I don't
know my own mind, young man?"
The boy taid nothing. Aud so it was
settled, and crippled Ben became Kean
ley't assistant, although there was not
work enough to occupy half of oue per
son's time.
At the days wheu the breeze brought
from tho slope the perfume ot the wild
verbenas were succeeded by those when
the snow came with a rush aud hiss
against tho little depot, Keanley grew
more than fond of tho little cripplo. To
be sure, to board and clothe the lad and
to pay him an occasional dollar made
quite a gap iu each mouth's salary, but
Keanley never grudged a penny of It.
It was pay enough to witness the boy's
gratitude, and to sco the lad's great eyes
following him with their glances of posi
tive beatitude.
Often nud ofton the violin tang its
tweet songs, but now they seldom had
the pitiful, wailing undertone.
The lad's father had planued to do
justice to his talent by having him taught
by a Waaler of the violin. .Now, Kean
ley and little Den planned in a happy,
visionary way. Tlicy wore to save what
money ihcy could, nud thus littlo Ben
was to have the coveted musical i us t ruc
tion . But, at best, the accumulation of
funds went on t'owly.
The plans of the two went further than
this. Keanley ha1, "once upon a time,"
been foolish enough o fall iu love with
old Senator llicks's daughter, and the
returned his love. The old senator,
when be founJ how matters stood, pro
ft
ceeded to squelch the whole affair; Ite
even forgot the time when he bad boon
as much bf a pauper as the young fellow
uo acni pncKing irom nit presence.
Tho girl, with her tear-wet face up
turned to his, promised Keanley to wait
for him till he succeeded in accumulating
the $ 10.000 that tha nl.l un. n..,1
as the amount of wealth Keanley must
l . . .
potauss oeiore ne could aspire to winning
her. Then, when order hud mnt trn.
ley to tho west, ha had gone with the
determination strong within him to very
soon gam toe money and the girl.
But he speedily grew despotidenti
The fates seemed against him. He struck
ho bonanza or highway to speedy wealth,
and finally half gave up the stiuggle.
Tho money that would flow to Utile Ben
aS tha BUllfltftntifll MwirJ nf Ilia ffnnlm
was to be invested by Keanley, who, in
tola manner, won hi innn nM. n
coveted (10,000. Then when prosper
ity .mill .V... . J
found son-in-law, little Ben't wealth
was to De returned to hlra. The two
plotters placed great faith in 'this plan,
chimerical as it was.
Then, came the great storms, and,
with them, one that the "oldest inhabi
tant," popularly supposed to know every
thing, declared was tho largest and
heaviest rainfall since '31. The creeks
seemed to have wholly forgotten their
boundaries, and, later, the work begun
up toe rain was completed by the cloud
burst, over in the next, county, near tho
bead of Hackberry Creek. It was nearly
10 o'clock when a message went clicking
oy, and Keanley, who had been nursing
an acning tootn all day, remarked to
Bun, who was playing the violin loudly,
to shut out the sound of the rushing rain :
"Dispatcher it telling them to look out
for an east bound special that leaves
Hamilton al 10:40. That means 11:29
when it passes here."
Ben nodded and went on with his
tune. Presently the train dispatcher was
heard calling "G." That was Giddings,
the station just beyond, whero the rail
road bridge spanned Hr.c'tberry Creek.
"What is tho condition of bridge
381?" the message ran.
The operator at Giddings presently
clicked back the answer:
"Bridge 381 is O. K. Water high but
not. dangerous."
The cloud burst bad not yet oc
curred. Meanwhile Keanley't tooth grew more
painful, till its victim did little but
walk the floor and anathematize the of
fending molar.
"If it don't ease up toon," he taid,
presently, "I'll tiamp over to the settle
ment and have it out, storm or no
storm."
Soon, the pain not abating, he donned
hit rubber coat and boots and started
away in the darkness and storm.
With hit violin tor company little Ben
scarcoly felt lonely. He wondered pres
ently if it were not time for Keanley't
return. Suddenly tho sender bogaa to
click furiously: "II. H. H." the
Hamilton call.
Then came the message:
"Bridge 381 is down. For God's
sake, hold the special I"
The cloud burst bad done Itt work.
Ben glanced quickly at the cloe'e. The
hands indicated a fraction of a minute
less than 12:26. The special was on
time, and, even as Beu turned, there
came the flash of tho headlight through
the storm that drowned the noise of the
engine's approach. No time even to take
the red lantoin from the cuddy and
light it.
Little Ben remembered afterward how,
even in the intense excitement of the
moment, it had flashed through his mind
how useless the effort of the frightened
operator at Giddings had boon iu tele
graphing to Hamilton, when ho might
have known that the special had passed
there half an hour before.
The engine gave no call for brakes,
and Ben knew that no stop would be
made there and that the train would rush
ou to destruction at tho wrecked bridge
at Hackberry Crook. Tue headlight
seemed abreast of him as he flung
open tho door, and, with a mighty
spring on his crutches,, threw himsolf
out on the platform of tha little depot.
Thsre wot no use or time to signal, and
there seemed nothing to do but to let
the train rush on to wreck. Then, like
a flash, the littlo cripple raised his right
crutch, and, with the rapidity almost of
lightning, hurled it, lance-fashion, at
the window of the engine cab, just as it
flashed past him. Then ho slipped and
fell headlong on the wet platform.
Passing just above the back of the d re
man, as he bent to open tho furnace
door, the crutch struck the engineer's
shoulder with a force that made him cry
out. His quick perception took in the
situation, and he knew that something
serious had caused the train to be sig
naled in that manner. Soon the train
came to a standstill. Then it backel up
to the little depot, and the eugiuoer,
crctch in hand, descended hurriedly
from the cab. Ho found the owner of
the crutch crawling to his feet with a
face much paler than usual. The story
was toon told, and then it was retold in
the parlor car, whero the conductor
speedily carried little Bon.
In the cab, the engineer said to the
grimy fireman: "Bill, it utmost makes
me ashamed of myself to have my life
saved by such a weak, palo little feller,
an' a cripple at that." Though not
numerous, the passengers in the parlor
car were generous, aud the sum of
money that they droped into the hut,
parsed by a white-bearded man whom
they called "Senator," was a goodly one.
Then, when little Bun had bashfully
expressed his gratitude, ho asked,
timidly, it any one present could tell
bun where to go to obtain tho coveted
musical education. The story of his
hopes bad to be told, and when he was
done, the while-bearded man cleared his
throat in a manner that souuded sus
piciously as if be was choking back a
sob. Then he took Beu into the little
depot, aud the two talked euruestly to
gether. When Keauley returned, muddy and
wet but minus the aching tooth, he was
3tuuisheJ to ee the special stuudiug in
front of the depot, and Senator Micks
and little Ben in earnest conversation In
the office. The old senatir did not ap
pear to recognize Keanley.
"So y'i are tho agent, young man,"
he taid. "Allow me to congratulate you
upon your good judgment in selecting so
efficient an assistant. Now let me in
troduce my recently engaged private
secretary, who will accompany me when
the special leaves."
The old man laid bin band caressingly
on Ben't shoulder.
"And," spoke Bed, eagerly, "he says
I shall have the best teacher ho can find,
and all the time I want to study 1"
Soon the special left to return to
Hamilton, and with it went little Ben.
"Good-bye! Good-byel" tho cripplo
called from the receding parlor car, and
Keanley answered with a mechanical
farewell.
Then ha sat in tho little office and
stared moodily at the fire for a long
time.
"How lpnesomo it is without him I"
he taid, "I loved that little cripplo,
think."
Then the sounder began to click irom
Hamilton, and the message came:
"Good-by, old follow. Little Ben."
Then Keanley sat listening to the fall
ing rain for a long time.
Three months later he was surprised
at teeing Senator Hicks and little Bon
alight from a train at the faded station.
"Young man," said the Senator,
abruptly, "hov much of that $10,000
have you accumulated, hey?"
"A trifle over $100," Keanley an
swered, dejectedly.
'Near enough, near enough I" jerked
out the old man. "This boy has been
continually talking of you, and and I
sometimes change my mind, and well,
there it a girl at my house who seems
anxious to soe you."
And to it all turned out happily, just
at all stories should.
There is a new agent at Lone Mound
station now, and Hal Keanley is rising
in the lucrative position procured for him
by the old senator.
At tho wedding that made Keanley
Senator llicks's son-in-lnw, a young
musical artist, who, though a cripple, is
rapidly rising in popular favor, held tho
guests almost spellbound by the strains
of a violin, that seemed tinging a song
of happiness.- Romance.
A Stork Monopolist.
In Skane, In the southern part of
Sweden, a pair ot storks lived for many
yean on the roof of my father't parson
age. One tpring, a pair ot young storks
appeared in the place, who, after survey
ing the old nost probably their parental
home set about building their habita
tion on the opposite side of the roof.
When it was finished and the eggs had
been laid, the old female stork returned,
took a look at the new-comers, but al
lowed them to remain in their borne in
peace. Her attention was soon occupied
by a number of young suitors, who zeal
ously wooed her, though she rejected all
their offers. Some days later, this Pete-
lope among birds was rewarded by the
arrival of her old mate.
But then came an end to the truce with
the young birds. That very evening the
old stork, followed by his female com
panion, flew to the nest of the new
comers. By violent blows of their beaks
they first put the young male ttork to
flight, and then began to attack the sit
ting hen. Patiently she suffered all ill
usage and remained upon her eggs. The
assailants then altered their tactics. One
continued to attack the young mother-
bird, while the other, watching till iu
bcr struggles to evade the blows an eg;
became uncovered, instantly pushed it
out of the nest. Thus, one by one, the
(our precious eggs were remorsely sacri
ficed. When all the eggs bad been de
stroyed, the youug female ttork. after
ttaoding for some time in the courtyard,
looking up to her ruined home as in de
spair, sadly flow away. There was never
any sign of that pair of storks on our
root again. The old ones had attained
their eud; henceforth they were the only
storks in that part ot the country, and
were left in sole possession of its food
supply. To the inhabitants of our par
sonage, whoso sympathies for the old
storkt were thus rudely shaken, it seemed
a just retribution that, though the birds
had some eggs that summer, nooo were
hatched, and thus the old storkt had to
return alone to their Southern quarters
that winter a solitary pair. London
spectator.
How to Bun Fast.
In the mountainous villages of Gor-
many the lotter carriers are the hardest
worked people in the country. They
carry all the mail and are compelled to
go at the rate of about five miles an
hour. You know that in running even
a short distance you quickly get "out of
breath," as you suy. The German letter
carriers, to avoid this shortness of
breath, carry a quill in the mouth so
that the air cauuot be so rapidly ex
pellod from the lungs. It boys who
want to become "sprinters," or very fast
runners, will practice carrying some
thing iu the mouth wheu ruuning, they
will una that they can soon run a loug
time without losing breath. They must
be very careful, though, not to swallow
what they are carrying iu the mouth.
And they must be such careful runners
that they will not fall. Very youu.f
sprinters would do well to wait awhile
before tryiug to become champions.
.New iork Ledger.
Mongolian Pheasauti.
If the Mongolian pbeasaut at all re
sembles in gatuy spirit its European af
finity it is hiore fitted for a barnyard
fowl thau a sportsman's trophy. Proba
bly it it juat as easy ot dotuesticatiou.
It is a common thing to hatch out
pheasant under ordinary fowls, aul
they readily come at the cill for lood.
The less of the game quality they have
the better are they fitted for the spit. It
is amuaiug to learn that as the Mongo
lian pheasants are greedy grain feeders
they should be boarded out ou the tinn
ers of the Siicrumuuto aud San Jonjuin.
Jlarysville (Cul.) Appeal.
UNCLE SAMYSGRUATSUAL
ITS TKTJH HISTORY AS PREPARED
BY THE STATU DEPARTMENT.
It Is Contained In a Massive Mahog
any Bos and la Caret ully Guard
ed by tha Clerk.
THE great seal of the United
States, which is contained in a
massive mahogany box in the
Stato Department and carefully
guarded by the clerks, whose duties are
to see that its impress1 it ptoptirly affixed
to Stato papers, is of much interest to
visitors to the department, but its true
history was never written until a few
months ago, when, under orders from
the Cabinet, an account of it wns pre
pared by one of tho historians of the de.
partment and printed at the Govern
ment's expense for distribution among
Stale libraries and prominent persons.
The pamphlet was prepared with all the
care that its importance carried, beund
In rich covering, with the stamp of the
teal imprinted upon the outside. It tells
that the final attempt to perfect n seal
was made by order of tho Continental
Congress, which appointed a committee,
consisting ot Thomas Jefferson, Jobn
Adams and Bonjamin Franklin, who
were told to go ahead and prepare a dc.
vice for the National seal aud coat of
arms. After several months' labor the
committee suggested a disign most
elaborate in execution, but which did
not meet with very general approval.
This device represented Pbaroah sitting
in an open chariot, with n crown on his
head and a sword in his hand, passing
through the waters of the lied Sea in
pursuit of the Israelites. Rays from a
pillar of fire in a cloud, expressive of the
Divine presence and command, beamed
upon Moses, who stood on the Bhore and
extended a hand over tho sea, which
caused it to overwhelm Puaroah. Under
neath was tho motto, "Rebellion to ty
rants is obedience to God."
Later on another attempt was made to
arrange a device by a second committee,
which resulted in one not quite so ela
borate and pretentious. This design
contained a constellation of thirteen stars,
with the same number of alternate stripes.
This, too, met with disapproval, aud the
matter was let alone for soiuo years.
Then, after tome experiments, a device
was submitted that suited, and was
adopted on June 20, 1782. The first
seal was cut out of brass, and was fust
used upon the commission grauting full
power and authority to Washington to
arrange with the British for an exchange
of prisoners. This device was iu use for
fifty years, and varies little from the pres
ent seal etcept in detail of execution.
The second seal was cut in Philadel
phia in 1841, and, by some mistake, seven
ot the thirteen arrows which it should
have bad were left out. The present seal
was mtde by Tiffany in 1885 by order of
Secretary Freylinghuysen alter the de
sign had been passed upon by a commit
tee of historical scholars and authorities
on heraldry. It is not true, as generally
supposed, that the seal is affixed to all
appointments made by tho President, as
its imprest is put only upon commissions
of Cabinet officers, ceremonious commu
nications from the President to heads of
foreign Governments, conventions, treat
ies, and formal agreements of the Pres
ident with foreign powers, pardons, or
commutations of sentence, warrants and
miscellaneous commissions of civil of
ficers, whose appointments are not now
especially directed to bo signed under a
different seal. All treaties to which the
teal is affixed have the impression made
also with a wax wafer, with a red, white
aud blue cord running through it. The
treaties are then packed in boxes of
highly-polished and expensive woods, to
be sent to the country negotiating them
with us. The treaties of some foreign
Givertments have been sent in boxes of
gold and silver, richly ornamented, in
some instances, with valuable stones.
These boxes are carefully stored in the
archicves of the department. New York
Sun.
The Couraxe ol Elephants.
They will submit day day after day to
have painful wounds dressed la obedi
ence to their keeper, and meet dauber in
obedience to orders, though their intel
ligence is sufficient to understand the
peril, and far too greut for man to trick
them into a belief that it is non-ex stent.
No animal will face danger more readily
at man's bidding. As au instance take
the following iucldent, which recently
occurred in India and was communicatod
to tho writer. A small female elephant
was charged by a buffalo In high grass,
and hoi rider, in the hurry of the mo
ment and perhaps owing to the sudden
stopping ot the elephant, fired an ex
plosive fchell from his rifle, not into tho
buffalo, but into the elephant's t-houldcr.
The wound was so eerere that it bad not
healed a year later. Yet the elephant
stood firm, although it was gored by the
buflulo, which was theu killed bj an
other gun. What is evcu more titruuge
is that Ihc elephant was not "guu-suy"
afterward. London Spectator.
Frozen la a ilospilul.
It seems to be a tacitly understood
principle in Eugland that oue who is nol
robust euough to resist the efl icts of cold
is not fit to survive, and any attempt to
keep public places reasonably warm in
the winter is teldom made. A public
hospital is the last place iu tho world,
oue would think, that could do without
heat, but it is reported that a child was
actually frozen to death the other day in
the waitiug room ot Guy's Hospital, one
of the most famous institutions of Lon
don. The child wa". sick with ttcthing,
mi l tho mother took it to the hospital
to see the doctor. She had to uit live
hour iu the cold till her turn ca ue, and
when the doc.or finally did see the baby,
lie loiiuti it iu the liiit stages of freezing
to deaili. An inquest was held, aud
thero has been mucli talk about cold
waiting iiiDin", but so fur as beard from
i n .-t.ive has liceu put up iu that one,
New Orleans 1'icuyuue.
sCltMlt'iC AM) IMJt'Si'li'.L.
Professat Hermann bos photographed
(he sound of vowels.
Tanning extract is ilsed to treat rail"
road ties to preserve them front decay.
Bacteria grow most rapidly In tho
warm, sultry conditions which usually
precede a thunderstorm.
Among tome recently observed inter
esting results of application of cold, M.
Ilaoul Pictet bos found that at 150 de
grees all chemical reaction is suppressed.
A Brussels dispatch says a now phar
maceutical bottle has recently been in
vented which indicates the hour at which
the medicine is to be taken. A Belgian
establishment has secured tho solo right
to manufacture these bottles.
A considerable freight business is be
ing carried on by an electric railroad in
Maryland operating eighteen miles of
track in a good farming country which is
not reached by steam roads. The cars
used have a capacity ot five tuns.
Sugar is nothing but charcoal and
water, combined in certain proportions.
This is proved by weighing resultants
Into which sugar resolves. If weight
wore loss, something lost; if more,
something gained. But weight of re
solved charcoal always equals weight ot
sugar.
The operation of the electric under
ground ro.id to South London has not
only demoralized the telephone service
of the entire vicinity, but has rendered
futile observations on the earth's poten
tial. At Greenwich Observatory, tome
miles distant, it has been found neces
sary to abandjn the testa.
A Frenchman has recently conducted
a series of experiments which will go far
towards correcting a popular impression
regarding the effects ot electricity ou
vegetable growth. He has demonstrated
that currents ot electricity passed
through tho roots of vegetables tends to
Injure them, but that static electricity
might be considered slightly beneficial.
A wide awake New York real estate
agent proposes to remodel antique office
buildings on the electrical plan. He has
a large steam plant lying idle in the
basement of one of his buildings, and bo
is utilizing this plant for the geueratiou
of electric powei to be distributed to
manufacturing concerns in tho sime
block with the office building, besides
Installing in the building itself electric
elevators, electric lights, elcctrio fans
and electric heaters.
An effective method of warning line
men who may be at various working
points of a city, of the approach ot the
electric current, has been provided in
the "screechur" whistle. Oue ot these
whistles has been attached to the boiler
at the electric-light station in Chatham,
and will be blown each day five miuutes
before starting the dynamos. Thore cau
be no mistake as to the fituess of this
Instrument for tho purpose to which it
has been applied, as it is guaranteed to
bo beard at a distance of fifteen milos.
A startling proof of the value of the
fire-proof wire was given by its in
ventor, who, taking a number ot
pieces of various insulated wires and
joining thcin together, had a current of
150 amperes passed through the circuit.
The current destroyed the pieces on tho
outside of either band, but the section
of wire held between the bauds re uaiue 1
in such a cool conditiou that its holier,
in spite of the risk he would have ruu
with an ordinary wire, was the calmest
and least concerned member of the
party.
Dost Way to M Iti I ol Rats.
The best way to get rid ot rats an 1
mice Is not to poison the n, but to mika
them thoroughly tired ot the locality au l
so induce them to leavo. They ars gen
erally too smart to eut poison, even when
it is prepared for their benefit in the
most seductive fns'iioa, but they are not
so particular about tartar emetic. When
a little ot this is mixed with aoy favorite
food they will eat as groodily as thoug'a
the phyic woro not there, but in two or
three hours there will be the most dis
couraged lot of rats about tho place
that anybody ever saw. T.ie tartar will
not kill them, it only makes them deathly
sick. If you put your ear to their holes
you cau hear theiu trying to vomit;
sometimes thoy will crawl out ami wulic
about like a seasick man, a ill tint they
do not seen to care what becomes of
them. But it disgusts thorn with the
whole vicinity, aud as soon as they ure
able to travol thoy march oil and you see
them no more. New York News.
A Chan ?e of Air In n Sick Roam.
A clever doctor has just completed a
wonderful inveutiou, whereby a chauge
of air desirable for auy patient may be
brought direct to the sick ron.u. Bot
tled ozone, condensed Alpine uir, or
tinned tropical summers; theto are tho
possibilities the discovery appears to
open up. Tho poor patient whose menus
do not reach the sum necessary for the
physiciun's prescribed chaugo ot uir will
perhaps, be I ore long, take halt au ho.ir's
inhalation four times a duy before meals,
or the overwoiked business man, unable
to leave town fur a holiday, may take bis
fresh air iuto the city with him every
day. However, the iuventiou does not
go so tut just at present. What cau be
accomplished is the impregnation of u
sic't room with the frugrauco of pine
forests, the beulth restoring perfuuu
which delicate persons are seut to
Swilzerluud to breath. New York
Times.
A (juuiiit Edtapll.
A collector of curious epitaphs and
there seem to be ua many such as there
are collectors ot coins and stamps aud
imiccU aud ferus claims, accordiug to 1
Harpers touiig People, to have louud
this tiugular iuscriptiou upou i;ravu-
stouu iu a New Hampshire buryiug
ground :
To all my frion la I hid a lieu,
A iiion huuutm tiuatu yon uuver ku-w
As 1 wcu Ifattiu.i thd ol t mart to tlriuk
blie kickuu, aua killed iud i)uielcec'u wmk.
ins. WiTCHINO HOUR
Snow for hours hail blown and drifted.
And the rack went scudding by
Spectral ly the branches lifted
Naked arms against the sky. ?
Wnnt cared we though time was flitting.
Waat eared wo though winds made moan,
In the witching twilight sitting
All aloner"
She with a rock -r coiy,
I upon a hassock low,
Watching o'er her face tha rosy tf.'..
Cupid dimples com) and go;
For the lover firelight heightened J
Krery blush with ardor bol I,
And ber looks of brown warn brightmed
Into gold.
Llka the fabulous "Jack II wnar"
Of the merry nursery psg
Gleeful from a dusky corner
Grinned an idol gray with -re;
And raetbought bis dark lip. mu'.teral.
What I longed to there avow:
"fell herl" were the wjrd uttoro !,
"Tell h?r now rr
Then there fell a sllenos swjetnr
Than when air is stirred with onj,
Than when strains Iu mellow meter
Swing with rhythmic tweopatoug.
In her eyes a look beguiling
Bade me not to break the spolf.
Something tol I me In her smilinj
All was well .
Slowly grew the firelight dimmer
Till the angles of the roo-n.
Lighted by no ruddy glimmer.
Molted in tha shrouded gloom f
And not e'en the ancient I Jot
Saw love's apotheosis.
Or the presage of a bridal
In a kiss.
Clinton Scollard, in Munsey's.
IIUMOIt OF THE DAT.
Stand and delivor Saleswomen.
A common report The sunset gun.
A force pump A repouer't inter
view. Out of the fashion A drcssmakei't
profits.
A checkered career Tho chesr-.
player's.
Love is merely a very pleasant faith
cure. Galveston News.
The auctioneer is a man who likes
to have you talk bank. Statosmau.
Even when hard at work the cooper
has a staving good time. Boston
Courier.
"We will lot it go at that," taid tho
young boy as he threw aa applo at a
dude. Harvard Lampoon.
When a man sayt that the world ia
growing better, it meaus that the opinion
of himself is growing higher. Rnm's
Horn.
"I can dispose of a whole boat load
of sailors," remarked tbo whale, "but
it's when I swallow their yarns that I
feel worsted." E mir Gazette.
When doctors Jis.rje,
An' dunno w.iat Jo.'i ail yer,
Then, 'twixt you an' mo.
They joe' c ills it "heart lailure I"
Puck.
The bee of Northern Greenland has no
sting. But there is nothing in Northern
Greenland worth stinging. Nature sel
dom makes a blunder. Chicago Tri
bune. Tho great difficulty about politics it
that it is utterly impossible for the ap
pointments to make any kiud of a nu
merical showing alongside of tho disap
pointments. The idea of employing pretty women
for bill collectors looks feasible, but it
would not work. Tuc delinquent debt
ors would all want tuom to c ill again.
Somerville Journal.
The question ot deportment is not au
uniuipoi taut one. A man always looks
bettei who carries himself well than
wheu two or more frieuds are trying to
carry him. Philadelphia Times.
He talkn I of lovd in i cottage,
It wan his fon'lest drea'ii;
fiat h- lariat tha awlul fiensa
U. ht-itiDj it tiy steam.
L h icii jo lnter-Oc?an.
Pi'.ys'ciau "Considering the weak
state of yom eyes, it will be ns well If
you gazo as iuucuus posible into empty
space." Patient "All rig it, then; I'll
keep looking iuto my puri" Ulu ncn
lese. Yupsley "Miss Pasuty seemed offend
ed at you U"t evening. What did you
sayl" Mudge "Blusted if I kn iv. I
ouly asked her if she didn't drea 1 having
to wear hoops iigaiu." Indianapolit
Journal.
"I thought the Miltons wore going to
give a Inrgo party.'1 "T-iuy wero, but
a water pipe broke iu tha house."
"Couldn't it be mended?'' "Yes, but
thu plumber took tho home as part pay."
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Flora "Why dues Mrs. Miuton
Worcester invariably wear while tbit
seasonf" Dor.i "Oil, hadn't you heard
that her )Udi"J vasu was broken I And
white, you know, is t'.io mournin ( color
for China." Vogue.
Wife "Oo, George, tho wu'or pipe
is leaking aud the water is spoiling tho
new ballcirpet. G a-i l got a pi imber,
quic'.tl" Husband "That's all right,
my dear; let it go; it's chewier to get a
new carpet." Harvard La np ioa.
Cook (ou the ilay after het arrival)
'Please, mil n, I'm a bit liery at times,
and wheu I'm tiery I'm apt to be a bit
roirh spo ;eu; but yoa uee l i't let that
put you about with a little present you
can alius bring me round agiin." fit
Bus.
Mistros "No.v,Jaue, cleat away tho
bre.tklast dishes and thua loo: after tho
children. I'm giiug iirouu I thu earner
to have a dress iltted. ' Kiiith'ttl
" Yes, mil u. Will ye la ;e the night key,
or .iaU 1 set u,i for yd" l'eu Sifl
iug. New II ly " There's a man n itsi le as
acts as if he i viie I the pi n"." A'ent
'-Tell him l'.n out. (Iitei) What
did he say I" No.v B n -- l'h it if yon
couldn't stay heie and a'ten I to lnnimMS
lie woul.i ct au a.-cti'. will Aoild."-
iu v V ji Suu,