THS FOREST REPDBLICAH I 11Mm4 STrf WdeUj, by J. E. WENK. Offlo la Bmaaibamjh ft Co.'a Vafldlog LM ITHMT, TIONISTA, r. Trm, . . II.BO ptrTur, RATI Of ORE ICAN.. On. Bquara, on I nob, on Imtb On Hquara, on Inch, no. month.... On Bquarp, on. inch. tbrae month.. On square, on Inch, on year ...... Two Bqnsre, on year umtt uoiumii, mm yar.., ....... bo a J naif Column, on year... On Column, on TMT . mi' pJM (rati. J LkI adTcrtuwnoMiti ton eats aca taaartkm. Mwriarf. and riaath aotli mWertptiwi netl-nt tt I Bbtrtsr Mrloa tkrea months. (KimapmdmM slltu frmt Ut mm f tha eonmry. N lie will Uka ( unimni anletlM. All bills for yearly advertisement VOL. XXVI. NO. 10. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1893. quarterly. Temporary adTrUnmaai ba paid In advance. Job work oath on delivery. $1.50 PER ANNUM. ST Tho farmer in Japan who has ten arrow of land in looked upon an a mo EupoliHl, I ' Tho New York World concludes that Philadclphiuns lieliovo in life insnr Biice ; Wanumaker has taken out poli cies aggregating $1,500,000, Hamilton Disstou $000,000, and J. B. Stetson, 8515,000. In California, Vermont, Oregon, Idaho, Utnh, and Wisconsin days of ?raco on maturing notes, drafts, ac ceptances mid bills of exchanges have been abolished, unless there is express stipulation to tlio contrary. Professor Vambery has been lectur ing on the, "FiiHhion of Language:." be fore the Buda-Posth (Hungary) Eng liHhClnb. "English," ho said, "may How l)o railed tho iiiont fushionnhlo language iu all tho flvo parts of the world." Chicago in now tho fifth greatest sea port in tho world, and yet, remarks the Farm, Field and Fireside, tho trade of tho grent lakes is only beginning to show its possibilities. Twenty years from now, at the present rate of growth, it will lie among the threo greatest, if not the greatest of nil. Tho country's money circulation has increased from 8720,000,000 in 1873 to over $1,(100,000,000 at tho present time. The coiungo of silver has in creased from $(,000,000 iu 1873 to nearly $40,000,000 in 18!H). There was no silver in tho treasury or in cir culation in 1873 and to-day there is $100,000,000. Says tho Now York Run : Tho re port of the Civil Service Commission allows that women are going into civil service in larger numbers than ever,' and that thero is a comparative decrease in the number of men who are now en tering the executive departments. Thero is no great reason to regret that such is tho case. Tho pay that the averago Ooverumeut clerk receives is by no means enormous for a man of ability, wljilo tho work is of a kind that most women can do easily and well. A department clerkship ought not to tempt any young man of enterprise, and talent, but many such have buried both qualities in the dispiriting routine of such a 'career. At this time of year, when every body is fretting nhout letters of credit and all the other makeshifts to avoid penury in a foreign land, it occurs to tho mind unskilled iu questions of finunco to wonder why we cannot have one single international coin, which would bo good wherever it is spent, says Kate Field's Washington. An en tiro National curreucy is a boon re served for our grandchildren, but a single gold coin of the value say of $2 and a half would be an immense con venience to travelers. A moderate sum in such coins would not bo bur densome, and before leaving each coun try the National curreucy could bo ex changed into them at the hotel oltice or tho nearest shop without any fuss and feathers whatever. Multiples of such a coin, to the extent of a hundred or more, would be easily portable, and fractions of it would not bo large enough to cause serious embarrassment to most travelers. ,Tho amount of time and trouble which a single inter national coin would save is almost in calculable. An electric railway shortly to be con structed from New Y.rk to Philadel phia will carry passengers tho entire trip, ninety miles, in an hour, and it CI ' "nnouneed that a similar line, run- cars at the speed of 100 miles an will soon connect St. Louis and Chicago. Already, there aro signs of a conflict between electric and steam railway interests, remarks tho Atlanta Constitution. Electric roads do not need deep cuts, heavy tills and ponder ous locomotives. They can bo run very cheaply, and hence their charges will bo lower thun those of the steam railways. Naturally, these new lines will bo formidable competitors of the old ones, and iu granting charters the Legislatures will have onie difficult questions to consider. Connecticut has just adopted a geueral law which provids for tho control of such enter prises by local coimnuuiticH. No speed is allowed higUer thuu tweuty-tivo miles an hour, and the railway com- I mission must grunt its consent before t any electric road can be constructed which substantially purulkls a steam road. Merchandise and heavy bag gage are not allowed to be carried on the electric cars, and tins whole sys tem is under the rules of the railway commission. Steam may always bo a "actor of transportation, but it goes ithout baying that the cheap electric ' vvs will revolutionist) travel and The ptatistic of rvime throughout the couTitry show a marked incrcaBO in the number of murders during recent, years from 23315 in 1887 to 500(1 in 1891- while for several years prior to 1887 the nnmbor fell short of 2000. According to the Shoe and Leather Koporter, a convict in a certain peni tentiary, whoso crime was dishonesty, is compelled to spend his days cutting out pieces of pasteboard to be put be tween the outer and inner soles of shorn which will be sold as made of solid leather. A statement recrntly published by the authorities of Munich, Bavaria, gives some startling information as to tho increased consumption in that city of dog flesh. 8o great an appetite seems to have developed for tho food, declares tho Chicago Herald, that tho authorities have thought it time to in terfere for. the' protection of dog ownors. "It has passed into a proverb that racing is the sport of kings ; it can with truth bo stated," declares Outing "that trotting is the international equine sport of the American people. It is true that in New York, Chicago and a few Southern cities tho thoroughbred flourishes while tho trotter does not, but throughout tho balance of the country and in the Dominion of Canada, trotting and its relative gait, pacing, provide the popular and universal sport. It is natural that it should bo so, for while it gratifies that love for equino contests which is a leading character istic of tho Anglo-Saxon race, it also appeals to tho patriotism and the utili tarianism of the American nature. Tho trotter is an American production. He is a grand and distinct type or branch of the equine family. By the applica tion of the laws of selection, training and development, the American breeder has evolved a perfect trotting raco as superior to its original crude elements as tho thoroughbred of to-day is to the parent horse of the desert." Visitors to the Columbian World's Fair at Chicago will find 500 guides ready to do their bidding at an expense of fifty or seventy-fivo cents an hour. Guides for parties of five or fewer per sons will be charged for at the rate of fifty cents, and, from fivo up, seventy flve cents an hour. The business of tho guido is not going to be profitable, as the salaries paid will not be greater than $30 a month. The educational advantages are expected to compensate for the small wages. There are to be twenty-five women guides. Mrs. Pot ter Palmer thought that unescorted women would be in need of the services of a guide, and in deference to her wishes appointments will bo made. The information givers are to be formed into an organized and officered corps. There will be at least five companies under the command of sergeants. Tho first sergeants will be paid $('() a month, there being five of them. Thero will bo twenty second sergeants, with sal aries of S40 a month. The grounds will bo divided into districts. There aro district headquarters where visitors may apply for the services of guides. The New York Post says : The prob lem of the ultimate source of the Nile seems finally to havo reached a solution through the recent explorations of Dr. O. Baumaun. Thirty years have elapsed siuce Speko sent to the Koyal Geographical Society of London his fa.nous luconio despatch, "The Nile is settled," announcing tho dis covery by him of the great equutoriul lake, Victoria Nyauzu, supposed to bo main head basin of Africa's mighty river. This, discovery was followed soon afterwards by that of a second, seeming still larger, equatorial lake, tho Albert Nyauza, which divided the honors of "Conqueror of tho Nile" be tween Steko and Sir Samuel linker. The progress of more modern African exploration, while it lias served in many ways to bring about a truer knowledge of the mutual relation of these, two large lakes than was known to Spike and Baker, and to estabiish the more positive claims of tho Victoria Lake, had not, until Dr. Baumauu's journey, answered tho still significant question, regarding tho position of the headwa ters of these lukes; iu othe.- words, the actual fouutuiu-luud of the Nile had yet to be discovered. This is now ehown to be on tho eastern face of tho "height of laud" which closely bor ders Lake Tanganyika on tho north east, the sourco of the Kagtru, or Ruvuvu, a western, and the mobt pow ful, tributary of the Victoria Nyauza. This position was reached by Dr. Kall mann on tho l'Jth of September last. With its source thus placed between the third and fourth parallels of south latitude, the Nile traverses thirty-live degrees of latitude, mid boeomei: u rival iu length of the combined Mic-itippi-Mhaouri system if rivers, TWILIGHT, Btng, sweet, It Is the twilight limit---Thy voles brings rest slid fieaco, And onto thns is given the power . To bid all discord oease. Let day fade with Its loud of sorrow, Now Is enough for me i I on re not for the coming morrows, For they may banish thee. Oh, that this eve oonld last forever, Ambition's sun be set, For with thee near my heart would never The busy world regret. Only count us as Love's Immortals, Lot eaoh be one In soul ; Bid Night halt at the western portals, And Death colfctct no toll ; Then twilight would be fraught with splendor, Bathed tn Faith's golden stream j And eaoh to eaoh all love would render Blag, sweet, and let me dream. Flavel Scott Minos, In Harper's Weekly. A SHOPPING EXPEDITION. HE report started in Blake's store. ' To disbelieve a re port that started in Blake's store was a n unheard of heresy at the Cor ners. So, astonish in or as this was. the Vjjl&ji?3 j Corners received it wi;ijiM4a without a shadow of doubt. It hardly needed to be known that Mrs. Goodrich herself wos the authority. She was down at the store Saturday afternoon as usual to make her weekly purchases. Anson Blake, who never failed when groceries were purchased to conduct the customer to the other side of the store to look at the dry goods, and vice versa, endeavored to leod Mrs. Goodrich over to look at somo new winter goods. Then it came out. With" a bit of pardonable prido she let him know that she had no need to look at fall goods in Witham Corners or in Witham Centre, either, since "her Hannah was going to the city next week to do their fall shopping ; that she, Hannah, had an aunt there who had tho whole sum mer been urging her to come, and that now she was going for a few days." Mrs. Goodrich shook her large skirts and swept out figuratively speaking, of course, as her garments always es caped the floor by some inches. Meeting was hardly over the next day before Hannah was interviewed as to her intended trip, and the ladies wno were not present in the morning interviewed hor in the evening on the subjoct. Ihey were so numerous then and kept her so long that Jerry Down ing, waiting patiently for her outsida, concluded she had gone out the back door on purpose to cut him, and walked home with another girl. His mother, who had not been on speaking terms with Mrs. Goodrich since that good lady made some remarks on tho strength of the butter Mrs. Downing brought to the minister's donation last winter, let Jerry know when he got home of Hannah's intended trip, and suggested that a girl who couldn't buy her winter dress at the Corners, but must go to New York for it, was too fine to bo a farmer's wife. Jerry went to bed in despair, while Hannah was crying her self to sleep, wondering how she could have offended him. The next afternoon, when she came in from her school, Hannah was more than surprised to find Mrs. Downing in the sitting room with her mother. As the visitor had not been iu their house for a year, Hannah was sure that she bore some message from Jerry, and greeted her accordingly, wonder ing meanwhile, why her mother looked so grim, and knit as furiously as if the whole family were barefooted and suf fering. It was no message from Jerry, how ever, that brought Mrs. Downing there to-day. The lad was plowing in a distant field, and did not know of his mother's call. After her little remark lust night about Hannah's city shopping tour, she had thought best to keep this visit a secret from him. "I was just telling your ma," she began, when Haunuh, flushed and ex pectant, was seated, "that I'd beeu down to Blake's to get my winter dress, and that there wa'u't a thing there I'd put on my back." "Ob, not a thing!" Hannah assented quickly. "I'm going to New York for our winter things." "So I heard, and I was telling your ma that, as long as you are going to town and going a-slioppiu', buying one more dress wouldn't bo no more trou ble to you." xiuying a wuoio wararooe lor Jer ry's mother would have been a de light I "Oh, uu trouble a pleasure!" Hannah cried, despite her mother's frown. "There's thut brown merino I got three years ago last fall," Mrs. Dowu ing went on. "The wear I've hud out of it just beats all I've worn it steady wherever I went. I was telling your ma that I didn't know as I could be suited better than to huve another just like it. So, if you won't mind getting me ten yards of dark brown merino say, about eighty ceuts a yard or you might go as high as eighty-live I'd be much obliged, and will do the same by you." "Don't mention it," cried Haunuh, taking out her notebook and a Ming the small item to the long family liht. "The money '11 bo ull right," added Mrs. Downing. "Of course it w ill," Hannah laughed. "Going to stay long?" "From Thursday to Monday only. I can't leave my school longer." "I'll be over, then, Monday night after it." j "Waal, I must say," Mrs. Goodrich ' burst out, as the door closed ufter Mrs. Downing, "tht's got brass I The idu ' of her asking you to lug a dress up front the City for her I I didn't give her any encouragement when she Spoke to me about it, I ran tell you. " "Oh, mother, I wouldn't refuse for tho world," Hannah rctnrned. "now could I?" Tea was over. Mrs. Goodrich was washing the dishes. Hannah was dry ing them, when the kitchen door was unceremoniously opened. A tali, gaunt woman, with a commanding air, as if she were at the head of a disorderly regiment, marched in. It was Mrs. Moore. "I was down to Mrs. Downing's," she began, without a small prelude of a greeting, "fur a dish o' tea an" a few minutes' set, sn'she was tellin' me that Hannah was goin' to the city this week." "Yes, on Thursday," Hannah answered. "Will yon sit down?" "I hain't no time fur a set. Mary she's gone over to her grandmother's, and there ain't nobody to hum to git Moore's supper. Mrs. Downing was saying yon was goin' to git her a brown mereener." "Yes." "I s'pose it won't be no trouble, as you're buyin', to buy me a black mereener, too, at the same time?" "None whatever." Hannah's smile was getting hollow. "How long be vou goin' to stay?" "Till Monday." "I'll be round Monday evenin with the money. Yon can git me seventy cent stuff, about seven yards." She departed with as little ceremony as sho had entered. "I told you so I told yon bo," said Mrs. Goodrich, as she lighted a candle and went down cellar with the milk. "Ef yon do fur one you'll have to do fur the whole town." Miss Brown, thedressmaker.dropped in a little later. "I heerd only just now that you're goin' to York," she said, as if to apolo gize for not coming sooner, "and that you're goin' to get somo things for Mrs. Downing." "Yes, a dress," Hannah returned, while her mother gave a tremendous "Ahem." "So I heerd. I don't get to York very often myself, and I'm afraid I'm getting a little behind the fashions. It don't pay, you know, for me to get be hind," Bhe simpered. Miss Brown was more noted for her simpers than for the correctness of her styles. "So I made bold to step round and ask yon, as you're going to the city anyway, an' will be lookin' at the fash ions, to just give a look fur me." "I shall certainly study the fashions well for my own benefit." "I can't say exactly how many pat terns I'd like you to buy me." "Oh, you want me to buy patterns, do you?" Hannah asked quickly. She was one of the most obliging girls in the world, but this sort of thing was becoming monotonous. "As long us you're in the city an goin' right by the fashion stores, I s'pose it won't be no trouble for you to step in and buy a pattern or so? Yon can get whatever you think is pretty some sacks, bodies and skirts, and so on. Yon can tell better'n I can when you see 'em. You might get about five dollars' worth. I think it'll pay you. I'll let yon have the money when you know how much it is, or I'll sew it out." While Hannah was Bileutly making a note of this Mrs. Dobbs, their next nefghbor, came in. "Pretty neighbors yon are," washer greeting. "Pretty neighbors ! 'Melie, she just come from the store. 'Ma,' sez she, 'what do you think? Hannah Goodrich is going to the city a-Thurs-day a-shoppin' an' is going to get Mrs. Downing a dress. I wonder if she wouldn't buy me a felt hat. I'm sick an' tired o' Miss Miller's hats!' 'Of course she would,' sez L 'A pretty neighbor she'd be ef she wouldn't.' " j "Why, certainly," said Hanutih, try ing to call up a smile. It was only the ghost of one tliHt responded, however. "What kind of a hat will Amelia want ?" "She's goin' to leave that to your judgment. Somethiu' pretty and dressy and stylish, and thut'll bo becomin' to you." Hannah was dork, with delicate fea tures and very pretty. Amelia was light, with coarse features and homely. "She's willing to go as high as $5," Mrs. Doblis went on. "Still, ef you don't have to spend so much she'll be tickled. Looking around a little and not taking tho fust thing that's offered, you kin sometimes save us much us fifty cents." The school where Hannah vainly btrove each day to make the Witham youth learned was some distauce from her home, and she took her luncheon with her. She had just settled down to it the next noon, when a delicate, withered looking, long ago comely woman entered the room. Haunuh greeted her with unfailing politeness, hoping against hope thut she had not heard of the intended trip. Mrs. Union would not sit down. She had run over only for a moment. She had just heard thut morning that Mixs Goodrich was going on Thursday to the city, and wanted to know if she would be willing to do the least bit of uu errand there. Would she be so kind? ! (f course Hannah could not say no, and Mrs. Guiou chose to consider her . emburrussed silence an assent, and ! took from a bug three pieces of silk blue, yellow, and green, ull peculiar ' shades. Would Miss Goodrich be so kind us to match them in Zephyrs? She ! had vainly tried here ami iu adjacent towns to do so, but then you never ' could get anything outside ol the city, mid you Could get everything there. I Would Miss Goodrich be so kind as to j get a hulf pound of each? j The very smull item of matching three peculiar shades of silk was added to Hannah's list. j Mjv iMuujgtbut vvviiiug when Mrs. Clark, the physician's wife, cams iu. This lady was well bff, dressy, btlt economical and vefy fussy, All Withant knew that she Was hard td plense. She would hot burden Miss Goodrich for anything, she began, if she could possibly find time to go her self to the city or if she could get what she wanted in Witham. She had a piece of brown plaid which she would like matched ; would Miss Goodrich be so kind bs to get the came quality exactly and the same pattern? See? There was that fine stripe did she notice that. It was bought three yeors ago Mi's. Clark did not remember now whether it was in New York or Philadelphia ; she had paid a dollar a yard for it, and she would like six yitrds more. Mrs. Green, from the Corners; Mrs. Drake, from the Centre ; Mrs. Will iams, from North Witham ; Mrs. John son, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Cole, one after the other, were ushered into the sitting-room and begged to have a piece of goods matched or something big or little bought in the city. They always knew it would bo no trouble for her as long as she was buying for herself, and not one offered to advance the money for the purchase. After supper on Wednesday evening Hannah wrote out her list in full. Sho was studying it, a little amused and very mnch vexed, when her mother entered. "Ma, I've been counting up," sho said. "Waal !" "The things I am requested by the neighbors to buy amount, at a rough guess, to $180. They would easily fill three trunks, and the work of hunting for them would .occupy me at least four days. Not one has offered me a cent in advance or the money to pay expressage. I have just $80 and two days to spend in the city." "I told you so I told you so." "What could I do? 1 should have offended every one of them if I had put the case to them as it is. " "Waal, what air you going to do? You're in for it, you see." "I'm not going that's what I'll do about it. We'll buy our winter dresses at Blake's, as the rest of Witham will for all me. Tho next time I make np my mind to go to New York not a soul in Witham will know it till I am gone, if yon please, ma. " Mrs. Goodrich did please. When Hannah' went early tho next spring even Mrs. Downing was not told till the last moment, and then it was be cause Hannah changed her name to Downing the day she went, and was as pleased as before, of course, to under take any commissions for Jerry's mother. True Flag. Climbing and Swimming Rabbits, On the continent of Australia the rabbits, by force of circumstances, are obliged to modify their mode of life. These animals ore often observed to climb trees in search of food when they cannot obtain it on the ground. At a recent session of tho Zoological Society of London, Mr. Tegetmeier exhibited the forcpaws of one of these Australian rabbits, which were seen to be adapted to this new mode of locomotion. It is found, in the first place, that they Bre more slender than those of the English wild rabbit. Their color is paler and the spots are dark. Besides, their claws are sharper and slenderer. In the Australian rabbits differences have also been observed in the manner of raising their young. Thus, in cer tain localities, we find their ordinary seats, but in others the litter is placed upon the ground, without any cover ing. In summer they sometimes enter the water, with only thtir heads pro jecting above the surface. . When they are pursued, during their migra tions, they swim exceedingly well and cross the wide rivers with ease. Scientific American. Washington's Xarrow Escape. From an "Unpublished Autograph Narutive by Washington," in Scrib- ner's Magazine, we quote as follows: It was conceived that our party was yielding the ground, upon which G. W. with permission of the General, called (per dispatch) for volunteers and immediately marched at their head, to sustain, as was conjectured, the retir ing troops. Led on by the firing t'll he came within less than half a mile, uud it ceasing, he detached scouts to investigate tho cause, and to commu nicate his appruch to his friend Col onel Mercer, advancing slowly in the meantime. But it being near dusk, and the intelligence not having been fully dissimiuuted among Colonel Mer cer's corps, and they taking us for the enemy who had retreated approaching in another direction, commenced a heavy fire upon the relieving party which drew fire iu return iu spito of all the exertions of the officers, one of whom, and several privutes were killed and many wounded before a stop could be put to it, to accomplish which G. W. never was iu more imminent dunger, by being between two fires, knocking up with his sword the presented pieces. To Preserve Pictures. A new method of preserving pictures is being experimented w it h iu Loudon. It consists of placing the surface of the picture, ho it cuuviis or paper, iu a vKcniiiu, thus protecting it from atmos pheric action. The picture is enclosed in a metal frame or ca.se, covering the buck uud hides und projecting from the sides like un ordinary frame. A plate of glass is inserted iu the edges of the ruse, junt us in uu ordinary frame, und heriuet ically sculed to the metal. The air is then withdrawn from between the surface of the picture and the glass und the painting is in a vacuum, it is believed this plttll will ell'eetllallv pro tect pictures lroui the action of dump nesh, uir, gases uud other causes thut operate to destroy paiiilines exposed or framed iu the yjdmury wuy. Uoit 1 itl 1 1c bo. KCIESTltlC AM) INDISTKIAL. Knbber is mode from cotton seed oil. Flies sometime infvet eatables with cholera germs. Scientists are of the opinion that some icelergs last for 200 years. An electric railway will probably be built between Atanii Bnd Odalvara in Japan. T. D. Curtis, the scientist, expects to see country roads lighted with elec tricity. Comb honey is said to bo a remedy for dyspepsia. The wax must be eater With the honey. Fourteen wind planets were dis covered during last month, bringing the total number of small planet known np to 375. Successful experiments havo beeD made in stimulating the growth of such plants as wheat, corn and tobacco bj means of electric currents. Granulotedcork and bit umen, pressed into blocks, is the latest favorite fol paving London streets. Its elasticity is its special recommendation. The Chinese have bred a whole colony of goldfish, each having two well-developed tails and two sets of anal fins. Biologists say it would be equally easy to breed quadrupeds with eight legs. The position of the lamprey eels has been reviewed by Professor Howes, who thinks that instead of being primitive forms, they aro aber rant fish-like forms, which have lost their lower jaw, their sucking mouth having been secondarily acquired. If the heat of the sun were produced by the bnrning of coal, it would re quire a layer sixteen feet in thickness, extending over its wholo surface, to feed the flame a single hour. With the sun a solid body of coal, it would burn up at this rate in forty-six cen turies. Edison, the grrot inventor, is hope ful of being able to generate electricity directly from heat, Btid thus dispense with the steam engine and dynamo now used for producing electric power. If this plan be successful, it is likely that a simple piece of mechanism placed over tho kitchen chimney will supply electric lights to every room in an or dinary residence. As the ashes contain only about six per cent, of potash and less than two of phosphoric acid, the value is not more than forty cents per 100 pounds, or $8 a ton. This estimate is based on a value of potash of 4 cents a pound in muriate of potash, selling at $45 tho ton, and phosphoric Bcid st six cents a pound. The common price of woo I ashes is far beyond the actual vabi ) compared with the price of other fer tilizers. As everybody is learning now, boil ing kills tho microbes iu water, and it was only when the authority of a law forbidding tho use of the infected river water was put in force iu Hamburg last autumn that the cholera was really checked ; and it is interesting to learu that Cyrus, who seems to have had good ideas of sanitation, w hen crossing the river Choaspcs, had all the drink ing water for his army boiled in sil ver bowls, tho legend snys. Preserved a Fine Leg of Million. There was an immense sensation created at the M station the other day, just previous to tho startiug of the afternoon express for Paris. The inspector was about to start the train when a short, fat and pussy old gen tleman trotted up to him and ex- dunned : "Wait a minute, will you, please, while I- " "Impossible, sir!" interrupted the officer, putting the whistle to his lips. "The train is overdue now.". "But you must wait!" cried the old gentleman, excitedly. "There is a man's leg underneath the wheel." "Good irracious! Why didn't vou say so at first? Where is he?" inquired the horror-strickeu inspector. "Hold on there !" And having stopped the train he hurried after the old gentleman, w hire a couple of porters jumped dowuou tho line, amid tho excitement of a number of spectators. After a short search one of the porters handed up a rush basket containing a large and flue looking leg of mutton. "Thank you!" said the old gentle man. "What do you mean, sir?" roared tho exasperated inspector. "You said "I said a man's leg was under the wheel, and so it was," interrupted the old geutlemau. "1 bought this leg ami paiil for it, and if it isn't mine 1 should like to know who it belongs to, that's ull." Then the train moved on. Paris Figuro. The Ancient Name ot (reut llrllain. The oldest form of the name Britain is Ortuuis, front which comes the ad jective Ortuiiicos, which in Irish in Cruitnech. This last is the name which the Irish gave to tho Pict-4, once mas ters of Greut Britain. The adjective mentioned became iu the language of the Gauls Pretanieos. Pytheus, the Greek navigator of Marseilles, who tlourished about the time of Alexander the Greut, uud is said to havo made a voyage to Britain, iu one of his few frugmcuts now extant calls Great liri taiu the Pretauio island. A century after Pytheus, a Gallic people the Brituuui drove the Picts out of the larger portion of Great Britain, and established themselves there. from this cuuio confusion iu the minds of Greek geographers between the name of tho coinpicrors ami that of the cm. quered island. Out of this couiu-.ii.ii arose various uud mixed forms. The Pretauio Island became Bret innie, and theu Britannic, which form be ..un fixed, ami has coino down to u Jivvue Archculoificjue, HOHSE SENSE. Wain hoss senoo'll pull yer throngs; Wen there's nothlu' else'U do ; You may still be poor and needy With yout bead a cyloped" An' Mg poets, so they say, K.metlm" oat one meal a day. Plaid hrw aense'll pull yer through d When there's nothin' elso'll do. There are big men I epeet Wallerln' in Intellect, Hpontln' swimmln' In a sea Of their own philosophy, Who might grab the shorn an' stand On the dry and solid land Plain boss sense'll might pall 'em through Whn philosophy woultln' do? With horse sense you'll never fall If you haven't been to Yale, Don't be senred, but use your bead, Not some other man's instead , Don't lay up there on the shelf, Walk about an' trust yerself ; Plain hoss sense'U pull yer through, When there's nothin' else'll do. Bam Walter Fos, In Y'aukeo Blade. HUMOR OF THE BAY. A rank failure Tilted imbecility Truth. A peck of trouble Four quarts of green apples. In contempt of court Tho con firmed bachelor. Truth. Tunefully considered, the human neck isapipe organ. Dansville Breeze. A bridge should never be condemned until it has been tried by its piers. Judge. Women certainly have room enough,' in these times, to laugh iu their sleeves. Puck. - Some housekeepers arc so rxasper atingly industrious that they give the dust no time to settle. Truth. In politics the coming man finds the roads badly blockaded by the going man. Cleveland Plain Dealer. People speak of the face of a note when it's really the figuro that inter ests them. Philadelphia Times. Jagson says the messenger boy moves so slowly that he has come to be standing joke. Elmira Gazette. A fashionable woman is one who has whut everybody else has before any body else gets it. Ebnira Gazette. Trite saylnu-s rhymed are llkod by some ) They'll like this one, no doubt : The s.'hoolgirl's string of chewing gum S Is "sweetness long drawn out." ' Truth. Only a man bearing a title can be considered a "real live" nobleman on the simple evidence that he merely breathes. There is nothing especially irritat ing about an air of importance, pro vided it is being sung instead of being worn. Puck. The people who follow tho fashion most religiously generally look as if they were trying to get ahead of it. Somervillo Journal. A young man with pushing qualities can always jret something to do, even if it is nothing better than engineering a lawn wower. Buffalo Courier. The humble individual who saws wood for a living is of more benefit to bis race than the man who does noth ing and that poorly. Troy Press. Hunger overcomes superstition. If a man is really hungry thirteen is no more unlucky than thirty, if the vic tuals hold out. Dansville Breeze. U, what's the uho o' grievin" We're jes iu love with life, x For tliehloHMom'8 on tilt melon -An' the edire is ou the knife-! -Atlanta Celistit alien. The dividing line between inuuisi- tiveness and impertinence is lurgely imaginary. Few people can be in quisitive without being impertinent. 'Troy Press. "Hello, Charlie! Not at wo'rk? What's up?" ')li, we're out ou a strike." "What's the trouble?" "Don't know ; but we'll not give iu till we get it." boston Beacon. Columbus and Newton. Fniukllu nil I WhUs, In their discoveries found great zest ; Y t what to compare with tli joy of the man, With a quarter ho lluds iu a last summer's vest. The man who is hailed us a public spirited benefactor at the time a louu is wanted muy live to hear himself howled at ss u blood-sucking vampire when tho money falls due. Truth. lb1 asked her If she thought pop -oru Win good for iu'lig'-stioa . Khe suld she didn't know ; would hi Pleas., pop Koine otlier .ie-.lu.ii. Kansas City Joarn il. When a man speaks ilisparingly of everybody, one of three things is true: He has the "big head," ison bud terms with himself, or liasan intensely jealous and envious disposition. St. Paul Globe. "Poverty is a distase," howled speaker. "And yet," murmured tha poor chap iu the buck of the hall, "we who are alllicted with it are arrested whenever we take anything for it !" Vogue. Mudge "That waiter iu there is en tirely too smart for his business." I'apsley "Why?" Mud "I told tim to get un- a rare steuk, and he said :t couldn't bo done." Indianapolis 'ournul. He "liwothiih Chawlev has tho bwuiu fevuh uud he can n't liu l auurso High or low." Sin ".Sit up with huu yourself. There is no human poiwi bility of your catching the diceuse." Detroit Free Press. A Costly 1'iec. A North Carolina man sold a single tree the other day for .VI I, and tho purchaser said thut he expected to realize ut bast 1 ."( )' l for it when it was worked up. The treo measured three und a half f. et ut tho stump, and was a beautiful eurley wal nut, curled lroui root to the topmost twig. There Is a gn at ileal of walnut ill that Stat.', and it is very aiua'.le, siuglu trees selling at from JluU t) f'iW. New Orleans l'icuyuuc, y
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