J I THE FOREST REPUBLICAN I whltoke' rery Waeaay, ay J. E. WENK. OMoe la Bmearbaugh ft Co.'a Vntldln bji rmxrr, tioiwta, r. Tarma, ... f.Bv pcr Yoar. RATJ8 OF ADVERTISING l On Square, oil inch, on lnmrttaa..$ IW On. Square, on Inch, on month. ., IW On Kquare, on inch, three month. , SO On Square, one inch, on year... . . WW Two Squares, one yenr 16 Quarter Oilumn. on rear DO 90 Half Column, on. year BOM On Column, on yar M0 LgJ art vert lmnU torn eeota pas Jta each innrtion. 1 Marriair and death notfoea fratla. Ali bills for yearly advertisement aaWs4 quarterly. Temporary advertisanMOki aaassl p paid in advance. ; Job work cash on delivery. T" ORE PUBLICAN, "r'l'l relv tor a slMrtar rlo4 r tki months. Unrrap.nA sollclte fr.m a aH tilt Con VOL. XXVI. NO. 1. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1893. $1.50 PER ANNUM. "anttsu. rmons RlFC ST The United States contniu more than 1700 itinct nrnl irpurnto mil ways. It is now held that tbcro wcro tw distinct pidemics of cholera in Europo but jrttr. Mortality Is groator among the Alas kans than among any otlior citizens of the United State. The Congress of Colombia at its Into sosaion appropriated $150,000 a year for the encouragement of foreign immigra tion. Ocnera a is tbo ouly surviving tx-rrcsidont of tho United States; Mr. Morton is the only living person who tins occupied thoofll:o of Vice-Presi. deut. The Coiirin -Journal learns that Pro. lessor Wiggins lnys the binme for tho cold weather, the clnlora and the rest of tho ills with which the earth has recently been alllictod on the. conjunction be tween Jupitor and Mars. Travel from tho North to Florida has nevor been greater than during the pres ent season, declares the Chicago Ilorald, and the large sums ol money that have bcon invested in railroad and hotels' to -accommodate this travel are paying good dividends. Tho latest legislative break in Missouri, recorded by the Detroit Free Prosi, is a bill req linng'nll tho buttorino sold in that liinrket to bo colored pink, this mark being cvider.es to tho purchaser that he is not buying the genuine article. No special provision seems to hare been made for the protection of those who are color blind. Tho St. Liui Star Soyinjs is con vince.! that a little learning is uot so dan gerous a thing nftcr nil. Eaglish insur ance statistics show that fifty per cent, of the authors nud statesman, forty-two per cent, of tiiu clorgymou, thirty per cent, of tho luvycrs, twenty-seven per cent, of tho teacher) and twenty-four per cent, of tho doctors reach tho age of seventy. With Franco still in a ferment, Ger many looking for so.nj one t i tread on tlie tail of its coat, Italy financially troubled aud tho Czir of all tho Russia hiding in a bomb proof collar it was a great sight, exclaim tho Washington Star, to soe Pris'dent Cleveland bow and sruilo to half a million repressnta tives of the happiest and most loyal peo ple iu the world. Tho Chicago Herat 1 alleges that a Freuch syndicate is buying up all the worn out ponies on the frontier for ex port to Pari, tho iuteution buing to con vert them into food for tho people of the gay metropolis. Hippnphagy in France has evidently become a disease, for a healthy stu.nach would hardly crave tho flesh of spavined horse in preference to the healthful beef from the C'licago abat toirs. According to the Baltimore American Mr. Cleveland has a middle aged Cab inet Thuir agis are thus given: Cleve land, lifty-six years; Stovensou, fifty eight; Orcshum, sixty-one; Carlisle, fifty-eight; Uissell, forty-six; Limont, forty-one; Herbert, fifty; Olney, fifty, eight; Smith, thirty -eight; Morton, sixty. Secretary Herbert's short ar.n cau sympathize with Secretaiy Gresbam's short lej. It was a Fede.;! buHst in the Wilderness that shortenol tit's, for mer and a Confederate buiiet near At lunta that shortoua 1 tho latter. Baron Blcichroeder, the millionaire Berlin banker, is dead. He was one of the syudicate w'.iich undertook tho ad justment of Austria's currency system for the purpose of restoring specie pay ments. He was the author of thnt por tion of the movement which so di rected the currency of foreign exchangos as to draw the flood of gold from the United States, which now bus amounted to nearly $100,000,000 iu two years. There is uo reason, however, to suppose that gold shipments will ceuso ou account of lllehhroodor's deith. A mathamaticinu, who evidently has abundant leisure, haa been figuring, re lates the New York News, ou the size of tbo mortgage we should now be carrying if Columbus hit 1 pledge I this country for fie cost of his outfit. Starting with the asstmptioa tb it the expenditure cost Isabellu $10,000, he' adds interest com(ouudou every six months. At the present time the ainouut foots up nearly 271 quadrillion dollars. Taking the population of the United States at 5, 000,000, the little obligation reaches nearly 417 million dollars for each inhabitant. It is con sequently a great relief to know that Columbus never set foot ou North America. It would be very embarrass ing to have a musty mortgage for that d'zzy figure presence 1, wi'.ii the cus tomary notice of foreclosure. EASTER. Easter, smile o' the year) Bringor of music and flow-era I Raster, n hose skies are clear With spring days' lengthened hours! What shall we any that 1 new? What shall we sing that Is old? Sermon or sonnet or ohant Gliding reflnded gold , Yets Oh Brightness! returne.l, Well may I glorify the! Never the world again 8unleas and chill shall I see. Quickened from clay, the reed Springs from the glow above; Up from my heart baa leapei The shining Illy of love. Peal, Oh carillon, peal Every change to be heard I Sing In the ohapel, choir I Trill in your meadow, bird I Thou who kneelest iu church (Tby thought from earth apart) My Easter offering, love, To the altar of thy heart I E. Ireuoous Stevenson. TOE OLD WELL SWEEP. BY DBLKH FORREST GRAVES. OU ain't goin' to take that well sweep, away, J o t h a m t h e well sweep that was there when I was a baby I Don't do it, Jotham don't!" Squire Bed gi ok beckoned to his son to lay down the uplifted axe. Mrs. Sedgick stood in the doorway, with a fat, old-fashioned tumbler and a glass-towel in her hand. Ellen, the daughter, paused in the act of tying up au obstreperous young honey tuckle shoot; and old Grandsir Sedgick, leaning on bis staff, with his gray hairs blowing in the fresh Bpriog wind, look ing not unliko oueof the ancient Druids. "Why, father, we didn't know you'd care," said the squire. "It's a riekety old thing, anyhow" "Well, so'ra I a rickety old thing!"' quavered the octogenarian. "But you wouldn't go at mo with an axe and a mallet, would yout I uied to draw water with that well sweep afore I stood as high as the curb." "Well, well," soothingly uttered tho squire, "if you've any feclin' about it, it shan't be touched t Only, sence tho pipes have been laid from the spring up on Savin nill, Eunice, she thought " "I don't kcer what Eunice thinks!" said Grandsir Sedgick. "The pipes from Suviu Spring ain't nofhin' to me. I'd ruther hev a glass o clear water from the old well than all the springs in crea tion!" "So you shall, father so you shall I" said Mrs. Sedgick, picking up the knotted cane which the old man had dropped, and tenderly guiding his foot steps back to the cushioned chair on the porch, which he had just left. But Ellen tossed her much be-crimped head. "It's the only well sweep left in Ken dal, "muttered she. "Horrid old fashioned thing! Everybody calls our home 'the place with the well sweep.' It's too bad I" "Hush, dear!" said Mm. Sedgick. "Graudsir's a very old man, and he's never got over the shock of Dora's run ning away." Deaf though he was, the old man's ear caught a word here and there, when it was least expected that he would, lie looked quickly around. "Dora," he repeated "little Dora! My son Adam's daughter, with the black eyes and the real Sedgick features! There ain't but a few thiugs that I care for left in this world, and Dora was one of 'em. What have you done with Adam's orphen gal eh, Eunice! Tho gal that hadn't no one but me to look after her! ' A distressed look crept aver Mrs. Sedgick's kindly face. She hesitated visibly. "It wasn't our fault, father," said she. "Dora was always a restless child, and be somehow couldn't seem to be con tented in this quiet place." ihe old man shook his looninu white head. "I dunno nothin' about that," said he. "All I know is I miss littlo Dora, ana 1 want her. Jotham," turning ab ruptly to bis stalwart son, "where's DoruT "I don't know any more than you do, father," said the squire, leauing up against the porch pillar, and saying to wife in a lower tone: "What has sot him oil thinkiu' of Dora just now!" "Thickin'l Ain't I always thinkin' of her!" piped up the old man. "Adam's gal, that was left to us to take care of; and Adam was always the best of the family! You nagged her, and you wor ritefl of her, and ahe was too high sperited to stand it, and now she's gone, an' you say you don't know nothiu' about it. EU" and bis voice grew thriller "that was what Cain said, miud you, when the Lord asked him where his brother was! That's why I set here on the porch, where I can see half a mile down the road, to get a sight of Adam's gal, Dora, comin' back where she be longs!" The three lookers on glanced un easily at each other. Murtin Sedgick, the son, flung his txe emphatically on the ground. "Grandsir speaks tho truth," said he. "The house ain't itself since Dora went away." And be stalked gloomily down the hill, to where bis handsome four-year-old colt was tied to the fence rail, await ing its daily exercise around the squara. "Eunice," said Squire Sedgick ts bis wife that afternoon, "Martin is getting restless again. He wants to go West." Mrs. Sedgick clasped her hands nerv ously. "Martin our only son!" she cried. "He was just beginning to be m ou died to life oa Ue farm, whn Dora went away," said the squire, dejectedly. "And It wns she that reconciled him. Eunice it we Could get Dora bock againt It's as my old father says she was the luck of the house," Mrs. Sedgick burst into tear, "It wasn't my fault, Jotham I" she said. "I always liked the Child, though she wasn't no more like our folks than a corn flower is like a squah blossom. But she and Ellen couldn't somehow agree. Ellen always wanted Martin to marry Miss Brownlec, and she up one diy and accused Dora of settin' her cap for Martin, and Dora couldn't stand that; and whon thoy appealed to me, I'm afraid I didn't take Dora's part quite to strong at I might hev done." ''I knowed a woman's tongue was at the bottom of it all," said the squire, with some bitterness. "Poor Dora I" TJiat night the whole Sedgick fam ibwere aroused by a light blaze in the niooryard the old-fashioned well sweop burning up. Grandsir, in his flannel dressing gowoNsad knotted stick, his leonine bead well outlined in the scarlet glow, looking more Drutd-hke than ever. "You done it o' purpose," said he, feebly shaking the stick at the assembled family, who were tremblsng in the door way. "You know you did. First Dora, and then tho old well sweep. The only things I keered for in this world and now they're both gone, an' I may as well lie down and die! "I didn't mean any harm!" hysteri cally sobbed poor Ellen. "I was light ing a taper to seat a letter Marian Brownleo always uses the new-fashioned colored wax to seal her letters and it burned up too quick, and I flung it out of tho window, but I never dreamed it would fall among the dead leaves around the old well curb and set it on tire I I didn't mean any harm I" "Don't fret, father," said the squire. "We'll build it up ag'in me and Mur tin jnst exactly like it was before." The old man shook his head. "It won't be the same," moaned he- "it won't be the same! Nothin'a tho same in this world!" And he took to his bed from that day. Poor Ellen hung down her head like a drooping lily. In neither case had she intended any actual harm, but in both instances she felt acu'ely responsible. Martin was making preparations to go o at West. Grandsir seemed to have lost all interest in the surrounding world. Her mother went about with swollen eyes and a pale face, and Squire Sed gick sat by the hour on the front porch, looking as if he bad lost his last friend. One violet-scented April afternoon, however, Martin came home from the city, whither he had beeu to purchase some absolute necessity for his travels, with a flat parcel under his arm. "Look, mother I" he said. ''It's sotiio thing for grandsir. I don't know but what I've been extravagant, but I declare to goodness I couldu't help it. The minute I set eyes on it, I thought of the dear old man lyin' up stairs in his bed. It's a picture," he added, as Ellen came hurrying to bis side "an oil painting with a fine gilt frame. Extctly like our old well sweep that was burned down, with the red barn in the distance, and the suu settin' behind the woods, just as I've seen it go down times without end. Ynu don't know how queer I felt when I saw it iu the store window, and I went in and paid tweuty dollars for it. I'd do without them cam pin' blankets and the fur robe, mother; but I wantod grandsir to have that picture." They hung it up on the wall opposite the head of his bead, and when the old man waked from a nap, just as the sun set beans shone over the mute canvas, he looked at it with a smile. "It's our old well," said he, not evinc ing the least surprise. "Just like I was a-look in' out of the window at it. I've got the well sweep back ag'in now, and p'raps Dora'll come next. Who kuowsl" And for the first time in a week, he got up and dressed himself, and deigned to give a sort of conditional approval to the repairs going on in the burned dis trict. "It looks too new now," said ho, ad justing his "far-away" spectacles. "But p'raps in a year or two it'll be moro weather-beaten an nat'ral-like. I can allays look at the picter, though, when I waut to see the old well sweep." Ellen pulled her brother's sleeve as he stood intently regarding the bright little oil painting on grandsir 'a wall. "Martin," said she, "nobody ever could have painted that picture by guess. It is oor old well sweep, and there's the very butternut tree and the broken shingles on the barn roof. And don't you remember, Martin, how fond sbe used to be of painting!'' He turned suddenly around with an ir radiated face. "Why didn't I think of it before!" ho cried. Mr. Solomon Feldman, sitting behind his desk rail in the darkest corner of the dark little art store, was startled from an abstruse financial calculation by the ques tioning gleam of a pair of dark eyes close beside him. "Is it sold!" a solt voice timidly asked "my -O.d Well Sweep!' I see it is gone from the window. Oh, is it possi ble that I can be so lucky as to have sold that picture?" Dora Sedgick was very plainly dressed. Her shoes and gloves were unmistably ihabby; there was a certain pallor iu her skin aud sharpness in her features which told of a battle with the world, iu which ihe had not as yet gained the advantage. But at that moment her face seemed traustigured with exultant joy. Mr. Feidman referred to his books. "Tweuty dollars," said he, with lead pencil between his teeth. "Not a bad price for a beginuer, and twenty-five per cent, couiniifcsioo. Price of frame, five dollars, and and here is your ten dol lars. You might o well send something else." A shadow from without made the lit tle gus lighted cubby hole look a degree dingier than before at this moment. "Could you give me the name and ad dress of the person who painted the pic ture 1 purchase 1 yesterday the 'Old Well Sweep!' '' asked the Voice of Martin Se Igick. The toiled and shawl wrapped figure turned suddenly around, so that the flickering gaslight shone full on the dark eyes and mobile lips. "Martini" she cried out, with an in voluntary stop forward. "Dora my Dora 1 No, you shall not draw away your hand !" he cried. "I'vo got you now, and I mean to keep you yes, always, Dora!" "Eh I" cried Grandsir Sedgick, rous ing himself from one of the frequent slumbers of extreme old age. "Dora, is it! Adam's little black-eyed gal! Well, I knowed she would come back before the Lord sent out a oil for me. Some thin' told mo she would. They've fixed up the old well sweep, Dora, and you're bock again I I hain't nothin' left to wish for now." "And she's promised to be my wife," declared Martin, with his arm passed carelocslyaround the girl's slim waist. "And Martin's given up the Western plan," ecstatically cried Mrs. Sedgick, "and he's going to be content to settle down here for good and all." "And ob, I'm so glad !' gasped Ellen, while the squire slapped his son's back in an encouraging fashion. Old Grandsir Sedgick looked from on'e to the other with a serene smile. "I hain't nothin left to wish for," ho repeated. Saturday Night. Facts About Hie Skeleton Imlnstry Paris is the head-centre of the skele ton trade. The mode of preparation is a very delicate operation. The scalpel is first called into requisition to remove the muscular tissues. Its work being done, the bones are boiled, being care fully watched meanwhile that they may not be overdone. After this cannibalis tic procedure they are bleached in the sun. Evon then spots of grease are sure to appear when they are exposed to heat. The French treat these. with ether and benzine, securing thereby a dazzling whiteness, which is a distinguishing mark of their skeletons. They are war ranted never to turn yellow and to stand the test of any climate. New York in midsummer is not too hot for them. They are put together by a master hand. A brass rod with all the proper curva tures support the spinal column. Deli cate brass wires hold the ribs in place. Hinges of the most perfect workmanship give to the joints a graceful and lifelike movement.' Cleverly concealed hooks and eyes render disjunction at pleasu-e possible. The whole construction plainly indicates tho care and skill of at artist and connoisseur. Domestic skeletons are generally tho woik of amateurs. Janitors in medical colleges rescue bones from the dissectiu j rooms and cure and articulate them. They find purchasers among the students, who on the completion of their studies resell the skeleton, if happily the market is not glutted. A second-hand skeleton may thus be had at quite a reasonable figure occasionably as low as $15. The impjrtod article, however, ranges from $50 to $t00. The very high-priced ones are valued because of the preserva tion of the nervous anl circulatory sys tems. Of course, they are beyond the reach of modest purses, and, as a taste for medical and scientific research has not yet developed among the millionaires, very few $100 skeletons aro sold. Thoy are always a special order. A very fine French skeleton may be had for $150, and that is as high a the general run of purchasers care to go. skulls, bands, and feet may be pur chased separately, but to obtain a rib, an arm, or a collar bone, the whole atlair must be bought. A skull and cross- bones, suitable for decorative purposes, cost but $10. Tue skull has but one cut; it may be pretty, it is not artistic. For $22 a skull that will unhinge and reveal its bidden contents is possible. The bones of the ear are co uprise 1 in this treasure. Boston Herald. The Sound City's Name. The city having been na nod iu honor of St. Louis many suppose that tho pro nunciation should be "St. Looie," be cause that is the correct pronunciation of the name of the saiut. Louis is not an English name, and Hume, in angli cizing it in his history, always writes it "Lewis." All the French kings of the name "Louis" are "Lewis" in Hume's writings. Those who say "St. Looio" in speaking of the city may think it is more honor to the sainted King of Frauce, for whom it was named, to use the French pronunciation. On the other hand, our language is English, and it is perfectly natural that there should ba those who hold that the name of our cities should be as nearly English a possible. The "St. Looie" pronuncia tion will never cause any one to forget why the city was named St. Louis, and if it is the most popular it should be generally accepted. Doubtless the ear liest settlers never said "St. Louis," but it is a long time since they were here. St. Louis Post-Dispatc'i. Aristocratic Indians There are no people in Maine in whom the aristocratio instiuct is stronger or who have more pride of birth than some of those who live in Ol itown Island. At present the tribe is greatly agitated over the questiou whether an adopted child shall be admitted lo the inner circle of the island's Four Hundred. A year or two ago Mr. aud Mrs. Subotis Shea adopted a child from another tribe, the chilil being half white, as are many ot the Maine Indians. "Owing to the fact that the child is a half-breed and belonged to another tribe," says an island correspondent, "there is a certain class on the island that is trying to prevent her from having her rights, while Mr. Shea claims she is entitled to all the rights of the tribe, as she was legally adopted. There are other cases of simi lar nature, but no trouble was ever made before, and Mr. Shea proposes to tight it out in a loul way." Lewistou (Me.) Journal. 'PUESIDENTS AT DINNER, i . HOW TH NATION'S CHIEF IX ECTTlVEB HAVJS DINED. Washington and the Shad Knter tainment oft Karly Daytliatef President Careless Eater. "V" "T'dTTHAT did the Presidents cat! is not so frivolous a que Y Hon as the light-minded and unscientific would im agine. Let us try to answer it with gravity and reverence. Washington had plain tastes. As President he was even inclined to be economical. He used to lecture his : steward every week on the evils of ex travagance. But the steward, an ex cellent man named Fraunces, who wor shiped Washington and had a proper sense of the dignity of his position, would mutter at the end ot each weekly lecture; "Ay, he may discharge me if he will, but while he is President and I am steward hi table will be supplied with the best the conntry can afford." Washington bad a special fondness for fish. One February an early Delaware had, caught in advance of the season, was seized from the market by Fraunces and served up triumphantly at the Pres idential table. "What fish is that!" cried Washing ton, as the savory odor met his nostrils. "A shad, sir," said Fraunces, glee fully. "The only one in the market, the first ono of the season." "But the price!" Washington's face grew stern. "Three three dollars, "stammered the steward. Washington's sternness in:reaed. "Take it away," he cried. "It shall never be taid that I set such an example of extravagance." And the -dish which was too great an extravagance for the President was carried off into the kitchen, where the servants ate it with no qualms of con science. Washington's immediate successors, Adams and JelTcrsou, were light eaters in private, but the former gave stately and inagnificeht banquets, while the latter kept a generous table in the largo free-handed Virginia style. Forty guests was uo unusual number, and it is said that the marketing for a single day fre quently amounted to as much us $50. Madison revived the State dinners of Adams's time with a good deal of the attendant ceremDuial, which Jefferson had discarded. Yet Mrs. William Winston Seaton in her diary rather slights one of the banquets nt which she was present. "The diuner," she says, was certainly fine, but still I was rather surprised, as it did not surpass some I have eaten in Carolina. There were many French dishes, and exquisite wines, I presume, by the praises be stowed upon them; commeut ou tho quality of tho wine seems to form the chief topic after the removal of tbo cloth. Candles were introduced before the ladies left the table, and the gentle men continued half an hour longer to enioy a social glass." But Madison himself was a light drinker. Whon he had hard drinkers at his table be would invariably dilute his wine with water in order to keep up with them, or olse merely touch the glass to his lips while tho others took deep draughts. In strong contrast to Madisou's ban quets were those given by Andrew Jack son. He hated conventional etiquette even mere than Jefferson did and set his faco more sternly against ceremonial. He always used a steel fork himself and provided his guests with one steel fork and a silver one. After dinner he moked a long-handled corji-cob pipe. At his farewell reception Jackson intro duced a curious novelty. This was nu enormous cheese a yard thick and as big as a barrel in circumference, wh:ci was cut into three-pound pieces and dis tributed among the guests. This proved such a great success that Van Buren was tempted to emulate the exumple. But the carpets and the furniture suffered so severely from the greasy crumbs which fell upon them that the experiment was never . again repeated, and indeed the cut torn of serving eatables at general receptious came to an end forever with Van Buren's lest term. It had grown to be such a glaring abuse that just prior to the election of 1810 hungry crowds had besieged tho East Huom, clamoring to be fed, and threatening to vote against Van Buren if they were uot entertained. The deaths of two Presidents may bo directly associated with the table. The first President Harrison caught a fatal cold while out marketing, his invariablo custom, before breakfast. Taylor died of cholera morbus, resulting from a hearty meal of cherries washed down with ice milk, which he partook of on his return from a Fourth of July 'cele bration. In au hour he was seizid with cramps; in five days he was dead. With the exception of President Arthur, the later Presidents have all been rathei careless caterc, paying small attention to the delights of tnj table when they dined en famille, and allow ing their stewards or the Iu lies of the White House to take full supervision over the State banquets. President Arthur, however, though a light eater was essentially an epicure, who took a great iuterest in the affairs of the kitcbon, and made the supervision of his dinners a mallei of earnest study. His private dinners are said to have cost as much as $5 a plate, his public oues over $10. President .Cleveland, ou tho other hand, during bis first term, is said never to have entered the kitchens of the White House, aud though blessed with a wholesome appetite and a stomach capable of digesting auytbiug set before him, he has uo epicurean tastes. Garfield, when be eutered the White House, was tormented with dys pepsia, and was forced to confine him- j self to plain diuncrs. He and liutber ford B. Hayes were the ouly Presidents who were uot accustomed to serve wines with their meals. Like iinust abstainers, Hayes had a sweet tooth, aud was es pecially foud of c.vke and caudy. Now SCIENTiriC AND INDUSTRIAL. Chinese botanists can grow oaks in thimbles. Science announces that cholera bacilli do not live Ion in the body that has been properly buried. The University of Pennsylvania, Phil delphia, is to have a building entirely devoted to chemistry. It is necessary to use high pressure m order to transmit the electric current economically to long distances. The Edinburgh Review says that the commonest form ot color blindness is that which thinks green identical with red. Coal of an excellent quality and in large deposits has been discovered at Djobeli-Ebou-Feyaz, in the district of Zer, Asia Minor. There is a reptile common to the Sacramento Valley, California, known as the blowsnike. A full-grown blowsnake thinks nothing of swallowing a half dozen eggs at a time. The auger that bores a square hole consists of a screw auger iu a square tube, the corners of which are sharpened from within, and as the auger advances, pressure on the tube cuts the round hole square. The modern lecturer relies greatly up on the projection of illustrations upon a screen, and the lanterns for this purpose have been so improved that effects and illusions of a most wonderful kind are now obtained in the lecture-room. M. Van Rysselberghe, who died re cently at Antwerp, was the inventor of the meteorgraph, an electric weather register, bv menns of which the con ditions prevailing in various localities may be shown at a central station. Much research and investigation war rant the assertion that man is not the only animal subject to dreams. Horses neigh and rear upon their hind feet while fast asleep; dogs birk and growl, and in many other ways exhibit all their characteristic passions. Electricians are now considering tho feasibility of using potentials up to hun dreds of thousands of volts. With the potential of 100,000 volts tho pow :r of Niagara could be transmitted to Chicago, with a loss not exceeding twenty per cent., and it could be sold at that placu in competition with steam power, prob ably to commercial advantage. A large dirigible balloon, intended to make headway against air curreuts of twenty-eight miles an hour, is boinj made in France. It will be simitar in form to the La Francs of 1331435, but larger 230 feet in length and forty three feet in its greatest diameter. It will weigh sixty-six pounds per horse power, and will be propelled by a screw in front with a rudder behind. The enameled iron of various colors which bos become such a o n nun ar ticle of electrical commerce is mvlo, ac cording to a French industrial pipur, by dipping the iron plates into an enamel ing liquid composed of: Borax 21 parts (by weight), soda salts 6, boric acid 15, washed sand 25, feldspar 12.5. saltpctc 3.5, flour spar 3 parts. The plates are then dried and fired. Coloring i ob tained by using metallic oxides. Chaniro lor tho 1'usscii er'.s 1). There is a conductor on the K icli I avenue street car line who playe 1 a clever trick on a passenger the ot ter morning, which bus probably ta ilit him to have his faro ready hereafter when he boards a car. I'no passenger lives away out at tho end of the line, and was so punctual that he ciuht tin same car every morniug. About a week ago he tendered a $1(1 bill in paymeut for his lure. The conductor did not have so niuc'i money at the beginning of his trip and told the pusseager that he would pay the nickel out of his o.vu pocket and be could return it tlie fol lowing morning. Tue next morning I'm business man again presented a $10 bill. Again the conductor paid the fare for him. This occurred four mornings iu suc cession. The fifth morning the same $10 bill came around, but the conductor was prepared. He drew a heavy bag from beueath the seat and ban le t it to the passenger with the re nark: "Here's your change, sir. It's all right. I've countod it." He had secured 10 )0 pcu nies the night before aud kept twenty five of them for the fares he paid for the business man. T.ie bag contained U75 copper coins. The passenger took tUu bag and raug for tho car to st-p. He now rides on uuother car. 'Jlevol.ial Plain Dealer. A Tree oDOU Lars Uld. Ou the island of Teueritle, onu of tlie largest if not the very largest of the Canaries, about naif way betweeu the Porto Sauto and the su uuiit of tliu fa mous Pico de Tyde, the highest point of land on the island, stands the consider able town of Orotava, famous for its wjuderful "Dragon Tree," the identical botanical specimen which Humboldt pronounced "the most aucieut vegetable relic iu the world." Humboldt made calculations ou its age iu several didereuc ways, and declared that il was bot.veeu 5000 aud 6000 years old. Sir Joliu Hurschel often alludes to it as tliu oldest tree in the world. For at least tweuty centuries the Guanches use 1 theimmeuse hollow of this aucieut tree as ute.uple of worship. Its eveullul career wai su 1 deuly terminated iu the summer of 1S07, when it was uprooted aud almost tu:irely destroye 1 by a hurricane. St. Lo us Kepublic. Kalslu ; .Swans. Swans are not hard to raise; they sell at $10 aud $75 per pair. A farmer at Biddeford, Me , is makiug quite a suc cess at swan breeding, and his profits must be qu.te lurge each seusou. Tou average hatch yields from three to six young swans. 1'bey hatli usually about June aud mature in fourteen mouths from birth. Tuey are very cross waen with s brood, and need watching c on ktanlly uuless pucned up closely. New York ludconudout. THE PATIENT SEASON, How patiently the seasons bide tbelr timet No murmur from tho bud that months ago Was ready, where the earth Inclined; to blow; The birds are happy in their chosen home. No doubt there are communings 'neath the snow. And some bright eyes that never clo to sleep. And soma sharp ears that listen well and keep Sweet hope alivs in little hearts below. Then let the winW wear Itself away. Borne thither on the breast of freighted rills; A dream of spring has touched the con stant hills. And made the valleys patient ot delay. Mary A. Mason, in Youth's Companion, HCttOR OF THE DAY. Bright periodicals Comets. The man with a long head is rare!) head-long. Binghamton Leader. It's queer about shops they're never shut up unless they're shut down. Elmira Gazette. There never was so big a fool that ba couldn't learn how to count money. Atchison Globe. The figurehead of a college is usually the professor of mathematics. Phila delphia Record. Many a man who "starts off well" spoils everything by coming back. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Few men who go iuto maple-sirup manufacturing make an unadulterated success of it. Troy Press. Some men are like woodpeckers they can't send in a bill without making big noiso about it. Truth. Many a parachute jumper would ba living to-day if he had never taken a drop. Binghamton Leader. The man who waits for appreciation generally gets it iu the shape of an epitaph. Milwaukee Journal. "Does sbe makes good wife!" "Well, it is doubtful. Her husband belongs to four clubs." New Y'ork Press. To harrow one's feelings is not the most profitable way of cultivating an . acquaintance. Boston Transcript. The picket fence was outlined s'larp, The moon was clear and pale. Her lover Ion;; ago ha i le: t, But thereby bangs a tail. Life. "Tae pleasantcst way to take cod liver oil," says an old gourmand, "is to fattoa pigeons with it and then eat the plgeojs." Tit-Bits. The Professor "What is happiness!" The Philosopher "The condition of forgetting that you are uuhappy." Chicago News. A man whoso tongue is his entire capital defies the exigencies ot commerce and succumbs to nothing less than paralytic stroke. He's a dealer in rhymes an I in "-', " An exponent ot UjtU avoe ttio is. And cau furnish quotations ol stoe'rs. Or supply you with stoc tsof quotations. truth. Dives "I always shave myself. I won't trust a barber on my face." Laza rus "I always shave inyjelf, too. No barber will trust mo on my face." Chi cago Tribune. Blunter "I ma le a speech to-night at the buuquet which will make me immor tal." Mrs. B "And it was only last month that you got your life insured I" Boston Transcript. "Charlie, didn't you promise to try and break yourself of the habit of using slang!" Cuarlie "Yes, tnainini, and you bet I'm gettiu' there with both feet, don't you see." Iuter-Ojeau. "Do play something, please, Mist Pianothuuip," said tho hastes', a dvanc iug to lief music loving guest; "it'l getting pretty late, but uot half thf guests tire goue yet." Cuicago News. Mr. Nuwife "S this is uo'.tajo pud' ding, eh!" Mrs. Nuwife (proudly) "Yes. Can you guess how it's made!'' Mr. Nuwife "Well er 1 should thinl of pressed bricks, dear." Chicago lute" Ocean. Johuson " When I do marry I iutend t marry a sensible girl, if I can find ono." Toinsou "Now, there's Miss Shsrpv; she gave me up." Johusou "Just the girl I waut. Won't you in troduce met" Tit-liits. No man has ever beeu able to explain so simple u problem as why t ie brilliant sun should lavish its light iu broil day light, while ouly a second baud lumi nary is vouchsafed to uia'i iu the night time. Boston Transcript. "Your travel so much on tue cars I should think you would go armed." "Armed!" exclaimed the suburb mite. "I do. I uever travel with less than fifteen or thirty pounds of heavy bundles that I could use iu uu emergency. " Chicago Tribune. Little Mabel--"Mamma, don't you think I cun teach Fido to talk i" Mam ua "No, dear; what made you thiuk you could?" Little Mibel" Weil, wheu I gave him his dinner ho growled just like you say papa doos wheu his meal doesn't please him." Chicago luter-Ocean. Mr. liillus "Seems to me, Maria, the children don't speas: half us good Eug lish as they did before they began to gj to school." Mrs. Ilillus "For meroy's sake, John, how cau you expect the n to learu cviiythiug at &c iooW 1 wished you would quit harping uu that Erglish language lad of yours." Chicago Tri buue. His Secret ot Happiness. "Professor" said a gentleiuau recently to the famous Professor Ultckie, of Edinburgh, "may I ask the secret of your happiness I" "Yes," replied the genial Professor, who, iu bis o'.J age is as sprightly aud merry as a schoolboy. "Here is the secret. 1 have uo vain regrets for the past, I loolv forward with hope lo tue I ut ure and I always strive to do my duty." New York Ilorald. aura norm,
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