THE IORIST REPUBLICAN fa rbUtk4 .nrv WxlMMtif, y J. E. WENK. OfBow In Bmaarbaush A Co.'a Vofldlui mlh vraxrr, tionhtta, re, Trm, . . . tut pr Yar . Ht nhoWIm rmirW fat a tkertat Mrio4 Is, tkra n.ntha. OorrMponSaiHw Mlletu. dn Ml wu f the Country. N. aeUot wlil lakes if utiraoui oaimulcMlras. RATXS OF ADVERTISING! ' On. Bqnare, on. I nob, on Inaertioa. .9 On. Hquara, one inch, on. month. . ., On. Square on. inch, tbrae montlu, , -O On. Square, one inch, on. year,... IMT Two Square, on. year .. ISVsM Quarter Column, one year WOO Half Column, on. year , 00 00 On. Column, on. year .. 1009 LK1 alTertiMmwnta tea Mat. per Hmm each lBMrtlon. Marriage, and death notice, gratia. All bill, for yearly advertisement aaaaataal quarterlT. Temporary adverUsfflnf Maat be paid in advanca. Job work oaab on dellrary. Forest Republican. VOL. XXVI. NO. 4. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1893. S1.50 PER ANNUM. "We spend 80,000,000 a jenr oo our loncci. The Chinose propose trying to dislodge the Russians from tho Pamir, or that part of it to which China lays claim. Our navy will rank as tho fifth iu the world whon our now ships are afloat, be ing surpassed only by England, France, JiuwlA and Italy. The Chicago Herald allogei that "our language is phonetically so di fficutt to for eigners that to lecture before an Eug-lish-spcakiog auilieuco in the English tongue gives them an ncuto pain in the jaws. The statement that a woman could bo implicated in every case of bomb throw ing which bat taken placo in Paris has boon proved. The Now York World facetiously asserts that women are em ployed almost exclusively in the dyra roite factories of France, aud ore equal upon provocation to blowing mon up. A Chicago paper recently gathered the statistics for sovcral years of murders, legal hangings and lynchings. In 18S7 tho murders wero 2335; in 1889, 3567; in 1800, 4290; in 1891, B90G, and in 1692, 0792. There were 123 legal hangings in 1891, or 1 legal banging to 48 murders, and 107 legal hangings in 1892, or 1 to 63 murders. Scionco makes slow progress in aerial navigation, exclaims the lirooklyn Citi zen. The balloon of to-day is scarcely an improvement in auy souse on the Montgolfler affair of a hundred yenrs'ago, and the flying machines, though raoro complicated, are no -bettor guarded against abrupt descent toward the center of gravity than that of the Scotchman who announce! about a century since that he was going to fly out of Edin burgh on a pair of big wings, and broke bis leg at the first attempt. i i In the latter part of October a good roads congress will be held under the auspices of the Agricultural Department of tho Columbian Exposition Road ma chinery, taxation, legislation, tolls, free roads, repairs, and material for construc tion, will bo discussed. The object is to advance the cause of good roads in America, and to develop a more practi cal system of improving our highways, best methods of construction, and to en courage the public aud private Bupport for the same. The congress will be held in the permanent Memorial Art Palace in the Lake Front Park. T. Butter worth, of Chicago, is Chairman of the committee. The labor troubles in Liucashire, England, which ended by a compromise, take rank as tho greatest strugglo be tween capital and labor which the world has seen. The campaign lasted twenty weeks, involved directly and indirectly 125,000 employes, aud cost in loss of wages alone 110,000,000. Each side was equally williug at the outset to engage iu a test of strength, aud at last they were just as glad to call a truce with the honors even. Great sacrifices have been endured, with no result, save that both parties to the conflict have had all desire for fight taken out of thorn, and the advantages of mutual compromise are for the time beiug fully conceded. Tho operatives have iu the terms of peace conceded just a shado more than the masters, but there bus been really no victory for either sido. The plans agreed upon for settling future disputes teem to be the best ever devised thus far. They assure the necessary stability in the cotton market by limiting all futuro changes to Ave per cct t. at intervals of not less than one year. The New York Financial Indicator says that railway construction will soon be in full swing again, aud prints a table showing 161 new lines iu thirty-fhe States and Territories, with over 4S0J miles of proposed milcage,on which some work has been done or is about to be begun. At the clone of last J ear, or at the present time, we fiud the following new lines and mileage credited to the South' "ate. Line. Ml lea Alabama 0 'JJ Arkansas.... 8 2o:i Florida. 5 271 Georgia 7 Sli'J Louisiana 3 41 Mississippi 3 31 Tennessee 4 12J Texas U 3o,l Virginia a Ul West Virginia 13 2v7 Total 6J 1,730 Other lines will doubtless be projected or started durirg the year, adds the At lanta Constitution, aud the outlook is oertaiuly full of promise. The figures quoted show that railway construction is fairly active in the South, an J they in dicate a more prosperous state of af fairs than has been supposed to exist. If it be true that money talks, t'ue million-; invested in these big enterprises should be regarded as positive testimony of the nma t encouraging nature. THE QUIET HOUSE. O, mothers, worn and weary With cares which never cease. With never time for pleasure, With days that have no peace. With littl. bands to hinder And feeble step to guard, With tasks that lie unfinished. Deem not your lot too hard. I know a house where childish things Are bidden out of sight; Where never sound of little feet Is heard from morn till night: No tiny bands that fast undo, That pull things all awry, No baby hurts to pity As the quiet days go by. The bouse Is all in order And free from tiresome noise, No moment of confusion, No scattered, broken toys; And the children's little garments Are never soiled or torn. But are laid away forever Just as tbey lone were worn. And she, the sad-eyed mother- What would she give to-day To feel your cares and burdens, To walk your weary way I . .. Ah I happiest on all this earth. Could she again but see Tb. rooms all strewn with playthings And th. children 'round her knee I Alma Fendexter Hayden. MISS M1LLFS ROMANCE. BY HELEN FORREST OUAVBS. 189 REDWYN is .behind again this week," said Miss Duluth. 'What I again?" said Miss Milly. Miss Milly was seated at her desk, the big account book open before ber, and a pcu be tween her fingers. Milly Duluth had been a beauty in her day. She was not unpleas ant to look upon evon at forty-odd. Her blue eyes were as blue as ever, there was not a gray hair in her nut-brown tresses, and a fresh color still glowed in her cheek. Miss Martha, the elder sister, was tall and gaunt, with a Roman nose and a projecting shin; but that signified little. Miss Duluth made no pretensions at all. Milly had always been the family au thority, even when the old Judge was living, and they owned the pretty place on Lake Pontchartrain, and now that they were "roduced" and earned their living by letting rooms, she was the au thority still. 'That won't do," laid Miss Milly. "No,'1 meekly acquiesced . Miss Du luth, "it won't." "If she can't pay her ront," severely observed Miss Milly, "what was she doing with that new surah Bilk dress? Only a typewriter, at that I" "Well, she's young," said Miss Du luth. "Young lolks liko to dress." ' Miss Milly compressed her lips. "Young folks ought to like to pay thoir debts," said she. "Tell her she must go." "But, Milly" Miss Milly closed the big book. "Tell her," said she, in a very soft voioe, "she must go." Miss Duluth came nearer to the table. "Sister," said she, "perhaps you bavon't observed that Professor Mellon takes a good deal of notice of Miss Red wyn." Miss Milly colored. "No," said she, "I hadn't." "lie's not so very young," said Miss Duluth. "But he's very handsome still. And then he's so talented. And when he has published that learned volume on 'The Languages of Christendom,' he'll be a very famous man. And he occupies the whole of our first floor. Sitting room, bedroom and bath room furnished beautifully. Think what It would be for Mary Hedwyn only a typewriter, who has tho cold hall bedroom on the third floor, and gets her breakfast over a kerosene stove to marry the profes -sor!" Miss Milly tossed her head. "I didn't know you were such a matchmaker, Martha." "I'm not, sister." A bar of ssarlot came out on Miss Duluth's high cheek bones. "But don't you think it would be a good thing?" "They can do as they like," said Miss Milly. "But if you send hor away, you do stroy all her chances." Miss Milly tapped her foot impatiently on the floor. "Business is busiuess, and she owes us a month's rent," .aid she. Miss Duluth said no more. It was rarely that she venture'd to dispute her sister's reign. Late iu the afternoon Miss Milly went up to see about a leak In the roof that had been reported to her, but she got no further than the little hall bedroom on the third floor. There, on her shabby little bed, lay Mies Iiedwyo, the typewriter, shaking with suppressed sobs. "Why, what's the matter?" Miss Milly asked, pausing on the threshold. "I've been discharged V said Miss Redwyn, deflautly, sitting up and look ing angrily at her questiouer. "Isu't that' matter enough?" Miis liedwyn was very pretty, indeed, with abundauce of fantastically crimped red-gold hair, a complexion all suow and caruiiuo, and hazel eyes, fringed with curly lashes. "Just the sort of face and figure that would become an actress," thought Miss Milly, with a sort of resentmeut. "I wonder what Professor Mullen can so to like in her?" But there was a great deal of the womanly in Miss Milly's nature, and she spoke kindly to the despairing girl, iu uch sore straits. "Don't ory, Mary 1" said the, stroking t ie red-golden hair, which had fallen down from its imitation shell pins. (Mary Redwyn was one of those girls who indulge a good deal in imitation.) "Why did they discharge you?" "Ob, I don't knowt Old Foxall has been grumbling this long time I" sighed Mary. "And to-day, just because I happened to spell a word wrong But I don't caret I wouldn't work another day for him, not if he'd pay me a thou sand dollars I I'd rather starve! And, for all I can see, I'm going to starve, too. You're going to turn me out." "No, I am not," said Miss Milly, molted by the utter childishness of tha girl's despair. "You can stay here un til you get another situation. Ontydont fret I" Mary lifted ber big hazel eyes in a sudden revulsion of joy to Miss Milly's face. "Will yon be so good?" she cried. "Oh, I thought you were so old, you wouldn't sympathize with a girl like mel" Miss Milly winced. It was nonsense to notice a trifle like that, but she felt now that she liked Mary Redwyn less than ever. "And now," added the Titianesque beauty, "I'll look out for another place at once. I wonder if old Mellen don't want a stenographer?" Again Miss Milly froze. "You mean the professor?" "Well, he is old, isn't he?" giggled Mary. "Lie writes a lot, I know, and ho's very polite when he meets me on the stairs. Would you ask him forme, Miss Milly?" Th 3 elder lady drew herself up. "1 never have exchanged a word with him since he has been in the house," said she. "My sister and I do not mingle with our lodgers. Hannah acts as our agent." Mary laughed. "You're so queorl" said she. "How ever, it don't matter; I'd as soon ask him myself. I wonder what salary he would pay?" The tears were dried on her carmine cheeks now, her eyes sparkled, and her enchanting lips were wreathed in smiles. Jms Milly eyed her curiously. Yes, that was tho face, those were tho melting glances, that could not but fascinate any man alive 1 Did the professor really care for this beautiful, soulless Undine the pro fessor, who had been Millicent's beau ideal, her chovalier sans peur et sans re proche, when he and she were young, on the shores of Lake Pontohartrain? Yes, this was Miss Milly's secret the one romance of her almost forgotten youth. Professor Mellen had beon studying at Heidelberg whon her stepfather, Doctor Mauraude, had diod and loft herself and Martha poor. They had counted their small possessions, considered every side of the question, and finally decided on coming North to invest their little all in a lodging house. They had dropped the name of their mother's second husband and became the Misses Duluth again in tho new life which they faced so boldly. And when, by one of those strange coincidences which happen ai often iu real life as in novels. Professor Mellen engaged the first floor suit of rooms at 19 Murray Place, because it was suffi ciently near to the Astor Library to ena ble him to prosecute his literary work to good advantage, he never knew who his real landlady was. Milly he never saw. Martha wore spectacles, and looked ten years older than her actual age. "I don't caret" said Miss Milly to herself. "Let Mary Redwyn have him if she can win himl" That very evening, however, Miss Redwyn came borne from the advertising bureau, where she had been to register ber name, with a severe headacho and a high fever. "I'm glad now we didn't lot her go," said Miss Milly. "The child has no one belonging to her." "Who is to take care ot her?" asked Miss Duluth, wringing her hands. "I will," Miss Milly answered. This was in the early spring. Tho June roses were in blossom when Miss Milly herself, having been also ill, first sat up in her big cushioned chuir aud viewed herself iu a looking-glass. "How funny I look," said she, "with my face so white and all my hair cut oil I Oh, I must have been very sick 1" "You almost died," said Miss Redwyn. "And I was so glad when I got well enough to take care of you, because I knew you had risked your life for me." "And the lodgers?" Miss Milly roused herself once more to active interest in the affairs of the outside world. "They've all gone," said Miss Duluth. "Of course you couldn't expect them to stay in a house where typhoid fever was raging." "Except Professor Mellen," said Miss Redwyn, with a toss of the red" gold rings which were beginning to grow out where they had cut away her splendid coils and waves of hair. "Ho's a per fect herot Not afraid of anything I Look, Miss Milly, he seut these roses." Miss Milly glanced up at her sister. "Yes," said Martha, answering the look, "he has discovered who we were. I never saw a man so astonished as he was." "And, oh," cried Miss Redwyn, "I've such a secret to tell youl I'm engaged-" Just then the doctor came in; but Miss Milly caught a motnont to press Mary's velvet-soft hand aud whisper to her: "I congratulate you, deal I" Later iu the day there came a gontle tap at the door. "May I come in?" said the professor. Miss Milly sinilud and hold out her hand, while he gently reproached her for hiding herself away from him so loug. "Why did you do it, Millicent?" said he. "Could not you trust me?" "You were in Heidelberg," said she, coloring, "And we wauted to leave all the old lifo behind us. We we didn't know how people might feel I" "But it seems," said the professor, with a smile, "that the old life has fol lowed you. Do you know, Milly, it soems as if it was only yesterday that I went away? Do you remember " She interrupted him, quickly: "Oh, I forgot I" said she. "I have not yet congratulated you." "Upon what?" My new book? It isn't published yet," said be. wi."i a puzzled air. "No upon your apprcachiag mar riage." "My marriage? To whom?" "To that pretty little Mary Redwyn, of course," said Miss Milly, trying to smile. "I've suspected it this long time." "Mary Redwyn? Oh, the little type writer!" said he. "I've just secured a place for her at Dickendall's publishing house. But as for marrying ber Why, Milly, don't you know that there's only one woman in the world for me? Don't you know that I loved you before I went to Heidelberg, though I never had the courage to tell you so? Did you suppose I could care for a little doll like that, when I might hope to win your sweet heart?" Just then Miss Redwyn thrust in her curly head. "Good-by, Miss Milly 1" said she. "I ts'.d you, didn't I, that I was engaged as stenographer at Dickendall & Co.'s? I'm going there now." Ocod Martha Duluth was close be hind. "Milly," said she, "you must not overtire yourself. You have told her, professor?" "Yes," said the professor, "I have told her." Miss Milly looked up with a smile. "I think I shall never be tired again," said she. "Oh, lam so happy!" Sat urday Night. Quick Shooting in Border Days. "Have you any idea how fast a man could shoot a pistol in the bordor days?" said J. W. Delany, a Montana ranch man. "A man who couldn't pull a trigger so fast that you couldn't distin guish between the successive shots was slow. When they emptied their guns it sounded like one long report. And pull! Why, I've seen men that could kill you before you could shoot if you had a gun leveled at them. Fact. Take the time when Doc Hamilton, the notorious bad man of Colorado, killed Sheriff Harrity in Denver. Hamilton had been wanted for several killings aud was dead shy. When he tuined a corner he'd walk away round near the edge of the pave ment. Afraid somobody would get the drop on him if he turned too sharp, you know. One day be was in a hurry, however, and ran around a corner and looked square into a Wihchcster held by Harrity. " ' Well, Doc, I got you,' says Harrity. " 'You've got too strong a hand, Har rity, and I can't call you,' says Hamil ton, taking it cool and easy as you please. " 'Yes, full house, Doc; guess you had better travel on in front.' "Hamilton was standing with his um brella on his hip, leaning on it. He looked tbesherill square in the eye. Mind you, the rifle wasn't four feet from him, and leveled straight for his head. Just as Doc started to move a runaway horse came down the street. Involun tarily Harrity glanced in that direction. Doc saw his eyes waver for an instant, pulled his gun you see he had his hand on his hip and snot Harrity stone dead before he could pull the trigger of his rifle." Washington News. Singing to the Herd. Some cowboys and cattlemen laugh ingly assured me that they only ting on watch to keep themselves awake; others say they sing, talk loud or make a noise just to let the cattle know they are ap proaching so as not to frighten and stampede them, but the greater number hold as I mjsolf had read and been led to believe that the sound of the human voice, singing, talking or calling out cheerfully, quiots and reassures tho ani mals. However it may bo, they all sing aud talk or whistle to them, and among my most vivid and picture-like recollec tions is ono of a certain night when an aching head and heavy heart hold mo awake, and, slipping from the house in tho little hours, I went aimlessly across tho level plain towards whose a big herd was camped. When within thrco or four hundred yards of the bunch I could see, under the white Texas moonlight, the dark mass of cattle and occasionally a sil houette, between me and the sky, of one of the guards on his pony, and in the in tense loneliness of the plain's night the singing of the one boyish voice holding his untaught, unconscious way through "A Fouutain Filled With Blood," and the whistling of his companion on a lit tle harmonicuin, "Home, Sweet Homo," as they came round past me in turn, were as lovely and touching sounds as I ever heard. Kansas City Times. Three Tall Brothers. "The life of a Maine woodsman and hunter is very healthy," said Charles E. Hayden, oi Auburn, "and it is not au unusual thing that men who follow the life from boyhood develop into the verit able giauts of old. While I was at Castle Hill, Aroostook, I made the ac quaintance of three brothers, who were said to be the tallest meu in the couuty. Their names were Allie, Eliliu and Elidad Frank. These three brothers, laid along in- line on the floor, would measure tweuty-oue feet to au inch iu their stocking teet, and without their caps on. Two of them were more thin seven feet tall, and the other one was a little less. Old Mr. Frank, their father, was taller than auy of them. Their oc cupation is that of woodsmen, farmers, hunters and horse swappers." Lewiston (Me.) Journal. Uncle Sam's salary list calls for the couual payment of abjut $90,000,000. IMMIGRANTS WITH MONEY. A PROSPEROUS CLASS IS NOW COMING TO AMERICA. Dow the) Fresh Arrival. Hldo Their Caih-Some Queer Receptacles) for Worldly Wealth. TT ' FTER a long stoppage the stream of immigrants it again Jiy flowing Into America through d Uncle Sam's patent valve at Ellis Island. A strange feature of the renewal of immigration after the quaian tine embargo is that the newcomers bring more money with them on the average than they ever did before. Their cash comes from queer hiding places. Although gold is the standard of currency, yet the incoming wanderers prefer the big silver dollars of the United States to either gold or paper. Ten or twelve occasions each day Fran cis J. Scully, the expert of exchange at Ellis Island, has gold turned back, with the request in some jargon unknown to any but the Initiated, from some rough shod, unkempt immigrant, with a shake of the head and a suggestive gesture to ward a shining heap of "cart wheels." This means that the man wants the American dollar. Gold doesn't please him. In every Instance his wish is grat ified, and he goes away a happier but a heavier weighted man. Immigrants are always superstitious. Many of those who have money say they have none, while those who ate poorer than the proverbial church mouse say they have plenty of it. The Italian im migrant is the most deceptive. With his loaf of bread under one arm, a bottle of sweet oil and a bunch of garlic hang ing over his shoulder he is prepared to go out into the world. He seldom has baggage. The only clothes he brings are those on his back, and in nine out of ten cases he could not sell these as old rags. Every Italian carries a long tin tube in which his money and passport are kept. The popular coins of the Na tion are lires; equal to nineteen cents American money. Sometimes one im migrant has as many as 500 lires, and on other occasions 1000 immigrants from that country will not exchange more than 500. English, German and French immi grants carry the most money. Colonel Weber, several months ago, was standing in tho registration department, where he noticed a Frenchman clothed almost in rags. The Colonel had some doubts as whether the man would be able to sup port himself, and was anxiously waiting for his turn to go and be registered, as he wanted to hear what was said. The half-dozen immigrants who were in front passed through, and tho greasy French man presented himself. "Have you any money?" the man was asked. The immi grant looked up, smiled a smile of con tentment, unwound a dirty neckcloth and brought to view i pocketbook that looked as though it had gone through a threshing mill. From it he took a bag containing $5000 in gold. To show that he was rich in the world's goods, the greasy old immigrant showed a letter of credit for $7000. He was allowed to land. Usually the giddy Frenchman carries his money in a short, brass tube. If ho is rich, the money is in Napoleons, or twenty frano gold pieces. If he is poor, his money is "five franc" silver pieces. When he gets change, he wants good American silver dollars, which tit into his coin tube and are always worth their face value. An immigrant, more than usually intelligent, who presented him self at the money counter one day, asked for silver dollars. After giving them to him, Scully inquired why it was that Frenchmen always wanted silver. The immigrant said that a tube full ot silver was pretty heavy, and when a man put it into his pocket he could always feel its weight and know it was safe. English and Irish immigrants are seldom very heavily weighted with wealth on arriving here. The arrange ment tbey use for carrying their money is a sort of watch-shaped alluir, which is made to hold twenty sovereigns. The Irishman, probably from native preju dice, changes what English mouey he has for that of the United States. But the Englishman has a pride in holding on to his sovereigns and 5 notes. Ho may leave England, but for all that he likes ber money, and if he has some with him it reminds him of "ome." It is not unusual for him to buy food at the laud ing bureau and to hand in payment a coin of Her Britannic Majesty's realm. Arabs carry very little money. Some times they have a sovereign or a napoleon. They have room, though, for the wealth of Golconda in the capacious belts which they cany about their per son. When a son of the desert has money to exchange ho does so in a way which would make one who could only hear the rattle and not see the transfer of the coin believe that be had a million dollars. He seldom has a thousand cents, and for that reason he makes as much show as possible.. In getting his change be wants pennies, for five dollars worth of coppers makes quite a big bag full and feels heavy, which is the way the Arab seems to judge the amount of wealth. Swedes use pocketbooks, while tho Germans and Hungarians carry leather pouches or linen bugs. The krone, valued at twenty-six cents American money, is the money used by the Swede. Sometimes he has from teu to fifty pieces. The Hungarian comes here to work iu tho mines, and changes vory little money, kuowiug that as soon as he goes to labor he can use the money ho makes to purchase his necessities of life. New York Press. Den ud Colon. Dow is a great respecter of colors. To prove this take pieces of glass or boards anil paiut them red, yellow, green and block. Expose them at night and you will find that the yellow will be covered with moisture, that the greeu will be damp, but that the red aud the black will bo left perfectly dry. Chicago Times. SCIENTIFIC AND IMlLSIKlAL. The length of the alimentary canal Is about thirty-two feet. A valuable discovery of a loucito-bear-iog rock bat been made at Harden, New South Wales. The least distance dolermined for the fixed stars from the earth runs into bil lions of miles. The molten metal in a Bessemer con verter Is 5000 times fainter than the light of the sun. Pound, traveling in air, from tun to earth, would require about fourteen year to accomplish tbe journey. Platinum can now be drawn into wire strands to fine that twenty-seven twisted together can be inserted into the hollow of a hair. A new aro lamp has a pair of carbons which meet at a point like the strokes of tbe letter V. It is at this point that the light is produced. A mixture of two parts of pounded ice and one of common salt will reduce the temperature of a body surrounded by it from fifty degrees to 0 degrees. Professor L. H. Bailey, in his report to the Cornell University, formally es tablishes the commercial value of electro culture for certain winter crops, and es pecially for lettuce. An interesting invention is that of an incandescant lamp in which the plug carrying the leadin-in wire is made up of a composition which unites with the glass to make an air-tight joint. Light, proceeding with 10,000 times tbe velocity of the earth in its orbit, gives us some idea of distance, when we learn that its flight from the sun to our globe occupies rather more than eight minutes. An excellent method for waterproofing the surface of a wall is to cover it with solution of soap. After twenty-four hours a coat of lime solution is app'icd. This process is repeated several times, aud is claimed to make the wall perfectly water-tight. . Sea serpents, flying dragons, birds with teoth, connoctiug links between birds, fishes and reptilos, animals so large and clumsy that a second brain, located near their tail, was necessary to properly direct their movements, all these have existed in past times, and have left the traces of their bodies in the rocks, for our instruction in these latter days. The water spider, which spends most of its time under water, carries a bubble ot air for breathing on the undct side of its body; and when this air is exhausted, it comes to the surface for more. It is enabled to carry the air bubble because the under side of its body is covered with tiny hairs sot so close togethor that the surface film of the water does not pass them. It is not land vegetation merely that is large in the Northwest, but the plant life of the sea. Among the shoal of the British Columbia coast tho algai and kelp, which on tho Atlantic side of tho continent soldom grow to be more than six feet long, aro found thirty feet in length, and at tho ebb and flow of the tide their loug, leathery leaves are often seen in parallels along the surface, like exaggerated lily pads. A Unique Industry. One of the unique industries of Key West, Fla., is the catching and curing of tpongos, and there is not anything about this queer animal that one of the gray haired old colored sponge fishers cannot tell. The sponges grow in beds on the coral reefs from a nucleus very much as coral does, and the complete growth occupies but seven or eight months. The sponge flailing fleet of a score or more of small sloops go out over tbe beds and drag for the sponges with an iron claw at the end of a line. Then from the brown mass of oozy, sandy sponges the diflereut kinds are sorted out and laid ou racks in the sun to dry. Then the land and coral and shell are worked out and tho "trimmer" with a pair of shears trims the edges and irreg ularities off, after which the sponges aro ready for shipment, unless they are to be bleached for bath sponges, for which purposo only a comparatively small num ber are used, for it is to the various arts and trades that most of them go. The coarsest grade is the rough brown "grass sponge," then comes a close fibred, tough variety called a "glovo sponge," but the flue soft variety that make a man in a bath tub smile is toe "lamb's wool," and it is this kind that is bleached to a snowy whiteness and sent to the drug gist trade. Washington Star. A Trick ot tho Eye. By cutting three strips of whito paper of the samo length exactly, with one ol them half as wide as tho others, one of neatest tricks of optical illusion cau be produced. If those of the samo width are laid crosswise, the narrow strip placed in the con tie, it will iuvariably seem as if the broad strips were con siderably shorter than the narrow one. The illusion is enhanced by laying tho pieces of paper on a black surface. By placing tho throe strips in the form of au invcrtid "N," aud using the narrow strip for the diagonal line, the latter in turn will appear much shorter than the other two. To an unpractical rye tho illusion will seem very remarkable iu deed when it is demonstrated that all the strips are of the same length. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. American (,'oul Is ( heap Abroad. Within the past few years American coal has almost entirely replaced the Eugliah fuel used ou the Island of i'Iar tiniquo, West lodios. Tho averago con sumption there amounts to about 5000 tons a mouth, nearly all of whic'i goes from Philadelphia. The price delivered is $5.00 per ton, aguiust $5.33 for Eng lish coal. Within the last year or two quite a large trade in soft coal for Wcit Iudian points has beet built up at tins port, aud it keeps on increasing at a very satisfactory rate, Philadelphia Uncord. WAITINO. As thrwe who on some lonely mountain, height,' Watching through all the weary hours of night, Await tb. pale rose of the morning light I await for thee. As on. who, waking on a bed of pain. And helplasa In his arony, Is fain To wait the sweet return of sleep again, I wait for thee. As be who, in some vaat cathedral, dim With shadows, silent waits, on ben led limb. The musio of the Eucharistic hymn, I wait for thea. As deaf men crave for song, and blind for sight, At weary sons of toil long for the night. And as tb. fettered spirit longs for flight, I long for thee. Arthur T. Froggatt, in The Spectator. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Coming to time The promissory note. An eavesdropper Tho convict who escapes by way of tho roof. Tbe greatest circulating medium is the drummor. Galveston News. A distinction without a difference A unanimous nomination. Puck. Dead men tell no tales, but the ones who write their obituaries often do. Texas Sittings. The difference between tack and tact is that the tack has the big head. West field Standard. Artistic cookery turns the plain grub into tbe butterfly of gastronomical beauty. Puck. Making love is a gamo that two can play at. Wheu there aro three it is work. Sittings. When a thing is whispered it travolt faster than when it is shouted from the house tops. New York Sun. The man who doesn't yoll at a run away team has missed a great opportu nity. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Speaking of forcing an issue, that' just what the newsboys are trying to do when they are yelling an extra. Tho sore head Is a fellow who gets jammed between his own ideas and pub lic sentiment. Westfield Standard. "I wonder why he always has lady stenographers?" "He probably believes in woman's writes." Dotroit Tribune. "Yes," said Mrs. Beaconstroete, "my father made his fortune by the perspira tion of his forehead." Harvard Lam poon. "What made Carter try dialect writ ing?" "Becauso he has never been able) to spell anything correctly." New York Mercury. The sawmill sometimes impresses the operator with the fact that it has an "off hand" way of doing things. Bos ton Courier. Father (coming home) "Is Carrie out?" Hopetul "No but the lamp it. That Spitkins feller's here again." Bos ton Transcript. Jason says, speakiug of school disci pline, the hardost thing to keep in order at a cooking school is your stomach. Elmira Gazette. Whon tho criuoline comes there will still be plenty of room at tho top. But men, unfortunately, can not walk ou the coiling. Puck. Chappy "You needn't try to put ma in the soup." Maud "I shouldn't think of it; noodles go in the gravy." Kate Field's Washington. "I haveu't any of the liquid quality that musicians talk about," said tho bass drum, "but I can drown out the rest of the band, just the same." "If a person is talented I cau always tell it from his face." "So cau I; one glanco at Miss Soluso's face would prove to me that she piiuts." Truth. A number of students at Yalo have been found guilty of cribbing at exami nations. The faculty Bhould have put a Yalo lock ou the cribs. Philadelphia Record. He "Remembor that you have prom ised solemnly to bo a sister to mo.'' She "Yes; but you mustn't act as if you thought you were tho only relative of that kind I have iu the world." Boston Beacou. "It is conducive to health to kcet the mouth closed, is it not, doctor?" "Gen- -erally speaking, yes. In fact, when one gets out iu Arizona, it is the only sure way to avoid sudden death." Indian apolis Journal. Jaspar "Bighead is a strange man for a philosopher." Jumpuppu "In deed I" Jospur "Vcs. He said that all mon are merely animals, and yet got angry when I called hiiu au ass." Bullalo Express. "What is tho difference between hu mor aud nonsense?'' said tho inquisitive man. "Humor," replied the candid man, "is represented by the joke you make yourself ; uousenso is represented by the joke some other fellow makes." Washiugtou Star. IJ roe u (.ogles for Cows. Tho practical valuo of greeu goggles for cows to prevent suow bliudnest is well understood ou the American aud Russian plains. The work of opticians for other animals is u uioru recent de velopment. We now have short sighted horses aud dogs which wear spectacles aud appreciate highly the alvautao of thus being euabled to recognize fneuds and surrounding, whicu were formerly iudistiuqt. Tho owner of a ntur siguted horse which has spectacles 1 a.-teue.l on the head.stail says the animal objects eveu to going out to pasture without his glasses. Tho horse was a little startled wheu they were first put on, but clearly manifested Ins delight wheu ho fully re alized their benefit. If turned out to grize without them he will stay near the barn aud whinny pluiutively till the stable man brings his spectacles. Chi cago Herald. ft
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