THE. FOREST REPUBLICAN la aabUakat ararr WadaMday, ay J. E. WENK. Offloela Bmaarbangb. A Co.'olldlnc km rrsirr, tiokwta, r Trm. IU ptrTnr, RATXS OF ADVERTISING! FOREST REPUBLICAN. On Rqaara, on inoh, en lni Mim On Hquara, on Inch, emu month. On Square, on Inch, thraa mmtaa 00 Una Hqu.re, or. inn, on yaar Tiro Kquaras, on rnr low ... ioo tyuanr ijiuuiii, Half Column, on yaarsa. ,? Jj? On Column, on jmt Mfl' LafaJ advartiMmMits tn eaata pr OM aarh insartlon. Marriages and death notiose gratia. m All bills ror yearly advertisement cnOaaM quarterly. Taraporary advertneoiauta ataat b paid in advanca. Job work cash on delivery. ......... flu v.i nbaertptloM nealTa fat t akarUl arloa Uua tarea BHtotba. OorrwnAtXlanM Mllftttad fMM . . VOL. XXVI. NO. 12. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1893. $1.50 PER ANNUM. duq wiu lasaa ar um iftymoua muaHlcauaaa. - Washington has como to bo quito a .honeymoon city. Each of tho four British Australian Colonies has a Scotchman nt tho head of its government. Statistics aro said to bIiow that tho introduction of machinery into manu factories hns decreased tho number of the unemployed. Our foreign visitors, now bo numer ous nmong us, nro pleased to any wo havo better and cheaper restaurants thnu even rnris affords. Moro factories for tlio making of handles for implements liavo been established in the South during tho past year thnu in any five previous years. AVith no drunkenness, no crime, no flres and no diHtitrhanccs of any sort during tho past year tho Boston Her ald adiuity that "Brattleboro, Vt. ,may fairly lay claim to being tho Utopia of America." By a simple invention, just adopted, every lighthouse on the count is to identify itself hereafter by flashing out its number. This will relievo mariners from tho necessity of remembering many combinations of colors and also from uncertainty in ascertaining whether a light Been dimly through the fog is white or rod. Tho wonder is, observes tho New Orleans Ficaynno, that such a useful and simplo device was not adopted long ago. 8yB tho New York Independent : If tho United States of America hns no name, neither hns it a definite National air. Of course tho National air called "America" is English and identical with "God Saw tho Queen." "The Star Spangled Banner" possibly should bo considered our National air and sung as snch at the Chicago Exhibition. At Trinity College, Dublin, when tho American candidates camo forward to receive their doctorates the band played "Yankee Doodlo" and set tho Ameri cans in a titter. Tho lato Doctor Agnew, of Phila delphia, said that catarrhal affections were almost unknown among the Quakeresses whom ho attended, and ho ascribed it to tho fact that the Quaker bonnet protects tho back of the head and tho nape of the neck from cold air. He might havo gone further ami added that the Quaker women havo como nearer thnu any others of their sex to discovering tho perpetual bloom of youth. One meets in and about Phila delphia scores of Quakeresses who re tain in old age fresh, unwrinkled faces, clear eyes, and erect figures. Tho peace and health of their spirits seem to conform face and figure. In tho great momentum of tho wo man movomeut, which gaius new re cruits every day, the Chicago Herald protests that one is inclined to over look tho fact that woman was a power morally, socially and iutcllectuully in tho Fifteenth Century as well as the nineteenth ; that tho doors of univers ities were open to her not only to study but to teach within their sacred pre cincts. In the University of Salamanca she has hud a place, ami when Isabella of Spain desired to. acquire tho Latin tongue, it was to a woman she turned for a tutor. In Italy, even in the Thirteenth Centr.ry, a noble Florentine lady won tho palm of oratory in a pub lic content in Florence with learned doctors from all over the world. It is said that the Austrian authori ties are very much concerned about the constant heavy immigration from their territories, and are doing all they can to check it by publishing harrow ing accounts of the miseries undergone by their emigrants in foreign countries. They have lately published a state ment to the effect that Austrian emi grants in Brazil havo appealed to their consul at Bio do Janeiro to request tho Brazilian Government to givo them work or assistance. As the re. suit of this intervention, up to the first harvest, they were provided with fifteen days' work per mouth, at nominal daily wages of two florins eighty-four luvutzers, or about $1.18. This, however, explains tho New Orleans Picayune, was uot paid in ready money, but in paper, which shopkeepers would only accept at such a heavy discount that the unfortunate laborers were burely able to secure the necessaries of life. Tho present . Brazilian Government, moreover, have not kept tho promise made by their predecessors to assign laud to settlers and fcdvance money for its cultivation. Consequently, the im migrants havfc been reduced to desti tution through the increase in the prL of provisions, the bad harvest, tljUpJr"ition ' work on the roads stoppage of cultivation. MY QUEST, Whan Tlma and I sot forth together In April weather, tender was the lllans' morning For winter dead 'Iroen tassels, maple-tops adorning, Tossed high o'arhend i nd underneath a blue and sparkling sky iVa journeyed Joyously, young Time and I. I could not tall you how it happened so, But this I know, flint some time 'twlxt bright dny and dark some nlht, Time slipped away, Vanished this airy winged sprite Who will not stay Tho kings by suble art strive to unchain , And left mo only hope "Wo meet aRaln." What should I do? Bend criers through the town To hunt him down? Or should I pray tha clooks, "When next ye chime Rome passing hour, With both hands seize this trunnt, Timet Onee In my power (d clip bla wing, he eould not fly so tost. Already golden summer is o'erpast?" . At length we mot, both gray and bont and old, With greetings eold , The snowflakos foil from out the leaden sky, And in my ears The wind's sad spirit seemed to sigh, "Alas, tho years 1 Whuro are tha deeds thou promised in thy prime, Who now art old, but In thy youth lost Timer Nancy Maun Waddle, In the Independent. A GRAND JUROR. M ROBERT C. V. METERS. 1 ' '.HE day Mary Ham 1 i . ri mond aooepted Joyce, her mother handed her a thousand-dollar b o nd, her share of her father's life insur ance. She thought of pretty gowns to bo worn as a bride. Then she sobered up. David would think her silly, he was so practical. She was sorry for David. About a month after the engagement John Alroy was made postmaster of Garrett He was young, quick and clever, and handsome. Joyce was busy at tho store, so Mary ofteu went to social gatherings without him, he calling for her later on in the evening. Ho did not dance ; Alroy did. It gradually dawned upon him that Mary danced a good deal with the post master. Ho also found that the post master often mot Mary by chance whon she took sunny walks. n April no made his usual spring trip to buy goods. He bad been away a week when he received a letter from Mary. She asked to be absolved from her engagement with him. The calm-: ness with which Mary met him told him bis doom. "It is Alroy, of course?" ho said. "It may seem to you that I treat you badly," sho returned, "but I never knew what love was till I met him ;" and Jovce went away. Throughout the summer he saw little of the happy pair, invented business excuses taking him much from home. Winter came, and the store claimed him. April loomed up tho anniver sary of bis shattered hopes and he heard that Mary would be married in June. In June the marriage was put oil till autumn. This was the reason. The postoflice at Garrett was third-class. Out of his Bslary tho postmaster was expected to defray all office expenses. In a second-class office, clerk hire and other liabilities were met by the Govern went, while tho salary of tha master was considerably increased. Alroy proposod to raise his office to second class, so as to be in a position to mar ry. To do this he must prove that the business of Ins olhce bad increased for a year to such an extent that it equalled existing second-class offices. Late in the summer he said that this was so. In September an expert dis' covered that, while the sale of stamps for a year equalled that of an office of the higher grade ,it did not represent a corresponding increase in mailed matter. Alrov was accused of fraud, In January Joyce was summoned to net as grand juror on the 20th of Feb ruary, in the city, more than a hun dred miles awav. The afternoon of the 18th brought Garrett a blinding snow-storms: the streets wero deserted, business was at a standstill. About four o'clock and nearly durk, a lady entered Joyce's private room at tho store. It was Mary Hammond. "I have heard," she eaid at once, "that you are a grand juror in the February term. The postmaster's case comes up before you. " Joyce's heart gave a bound, ne had not thought ot that. "The grand jury, I am informed." she went on, "docide if there is suffi cient ground to make out a case to go before the court. You will have a voice in deciding whether or not there is a case against the postmaster. " Joyce's eyes were like coals of fire. "If it were in your power, you would convict the postmaster," she said. Joyce found his voice. "If I knew him to be guilty, yes," he said. "He is guilty," she went on. "The stamps were bought by me, with the thousand dollars of my father's insur ance. 1 proposed the frifud. Love for liua made me do as I have done ; love for me made him do the rest." Without another word she went from the room out into the snow-storm. Joyce trembled in every limb, The insult drove him wild. She knew that he still loved her, and she called upon that love to save Alroy even at the cost of honor. Tho outrage of it 1 Alroy Mil i was guilty, and there was but one thing to do. Love and honor coutended hopeless love, inalienable honor. There could bo no question aa to which would win. Tha following day, the outrage- the insult gnawing at him( he went on the hundred-mile journey. On the morning of the 20th ho took oath that ho would do hia duty as a good and loyal man in the matters to be placed before tho grand jury. In a few min utes more he was sitting with twenty three other men round a long table listening to detectives and others testi fying against unseen people. How many cases were disposed of he hardly knew, when he heard the name ho had waited for. Jayco raised his head. Now would come the revenge for all the pain he had silently suf fered; and yet his reveDge would be only his honest duty. His face grew hard and grim. A postofTlee expert testified among other thing, that Alroy had openly boasted that ho would raise his office to second grado so that tho increase of salary would warrant his marriage. Two other witnesses testified as to the facts already known. "Well, gentlemen," said the lore- man of the jury. I move that a truo bill be found," cried a juror. "I second the motion, said another. "All in favor of a truo bill signify their assent by saying 'Aye.' " Several "Ayes. "Contray 'No.'" Several "Nob." The foreman and an officer of the court looked round tho table. He may, or may not, have thought the saleB legitimate," said one. Oughtn't he to have the benefit of the doubt?" asked another. "It is getting very easy to accuse men in of fice of dishonesty. "An official like a postmaster," said a third, "should bo above suspicion." "Bather urfair to make his wish to bo married tho cause for his rascality," said the youngest juryman. "And to blame him for his ambition in tryiug to raise his office," said a kind voice. "Gentlemen," said the court officer, "a majority of one is sufficient to make out a true bill, and a liko majority of one may ignore a bill. Those in favor of a true bill will please rise." The man next to Joyce sprang np to his feet. Another got up. Joyce counted three, four, five. "If he knew the bare sale of the stamps did not substantiate his, claim, that would make a truo bill against him, " said a juror. Another man stood up, still another. "Only seven. Ah, eight, nine, ton, eleven." Tho juror on the other side of Joyce rose. "Twelve." Joyce with a feeling of exultation that his revenge was to be even great er than ho had hoped when he could give the casting vote to decido the case against Alroy staightened his kuocs to riso and form the majority of one. At that moment he heard a low, tremulous voice: "I proposed the fraud. Love for him made me do as I havo done ; love for me made him do the rest." He glanced fearfully around, almost expecting to see the owner of that voice the woman he loved tho woman who had treated him so badly the woman who had gaugod his honor and his love. "Your duty as a good and loyal man " "No majority," sang out the court officer, "a tie. Let me try again an other way. Those in favor of ignoring the bill please to rise." ("Your duty as a good and loyal may ") Twelve men wero standing up. "How is this geutlemen," said tho court officer, "still a tie." ("I proposed the fraud," came that low, tremulous voice. "Love for him made me do as I have done.") Love. Did Joyce know what lovo was? Did ho know the power Mary's lovo must have exercised over the man she loved the man she had ruined? Did he know her suffering now that she realized what sho done? And did he think of Alroy 'a love for her; of his striving after hap piness with her even at the price of that which men hold to be tho first principle of man hoodhonor? Was there not yet a chance for retrieving, a chance for their peace, made purer by mistake and Buffering? Was there nothing higher than mere duty? Was it duty to irretrievably ruin two lives which might yet bo made better? Mary would never be sure of the part her discarded lover played in this case, de spite her guessing, and oh, his honor, his honor I and oh, his pain his hope less love I "Still a tie," impatiently said the court officer. Oh, his honor! and oh, his pain his hopeless love 1 But oh, Mary's happi ness I Joyce, the thirteonth juror, suddenly shot up on his feet, making the ma jority of one. "JNIajority !" proclaimed tho conrt officer. "The bill is ignored." The thirteenth juror fell in a heap to tho floor. New York Storiettes. (Juwr Matrimonial Methods. A convenient way they have in Hol land and Batavia of tying tho matri monial knot when the lady is in one country and the gentleman in thn other. For the Hollanders are such a thrifty industrious people that they like not to lose time even over the most solemn services. The marriage is af fected by procuration. The watches of the two parties-the one suy in Am sterdam and the other in Batavia are regulated to accord, or the difference in longitndo allowed for. Then at the same instant of time the marriage cere mony is performed in both places, and thj thing in done, THE PICTURESQUE COWBOY sb is jtapidlt pab8ino a wat in Tub far west. Rapid Decline of the Kange Business the Cause nt Ills Disappearance What He Was In Ills Prime. THE rapid decline of the range business of Wyoming began six years ago. Before that it had been of a character to tempt even tho rich. At one time men paid two per cent, a month for money, and made 100 per cent, profits a year. That was when cows came np from Texas at a cost of $7 each, sold in two years for $22, and in three years for $40 and more, when the ranges were not overstocked, the pasturage was good, and all the conditions, including boom" prices at the stockyards, were favorable. Tho men who did the best pushed into new territory as fast as the Indians were crowdod off, and kept finding new grass and plenty of it. But the risks Boon came, and multi plied. If one man was careful not to overstock a range, he could not be Bure that another cow outfit would not do bo precisely where he had put his cattle. Prices fell, fences cut up the ranges and shut off the water, winter losses became heavier and heavier, and the "good old days" of this inhuman, devil-may-care, primitive, and clumsy business came to an end. The cowboys of picture and Btory existed in the brilliant days. At first they had come from Texas, but in the zenith of their romantic glory they came from every where and from every class. They in cluded young Englishmen, college graduates from the East, well-born Americans all sorts who did not "strike luck" at anything else,- and who were full of vim and love of ad venture. They got $40 a month and good keep during tho greater part of each year. They rode good horses, that had as much of the devil in them as the "boys" themselves. They bought hand-stamped Cheyenne saddles and California bits that were as ornate as jewelry, and stuck their feet in grand tapaderos, or hooded stirrups, richly ornamented, padded with lamb s wool, and each as big as a fire-hat. Their spurs were fit - for grandees, their big broad felt sombreros cost more than tho Prince of Wales ever paid for a pot-hat. . And then, alas 1 the cow-men began to economize in men, food, wages everything. The best of the old kind of cowboys, who had not become own ers or foreman, saloon-keepers or gamblers, or had not been shot, drifted away. Some of the smartest among them became "rustlers" those cattle thieves whose depredations resulted in what almost came to be a war in Wy oming last year. They insisted that they had to do it t? live. From the cowboy stand-point it was time for the business to languish. Towns wero springing up every here and there, each with its ordinance that cowboys must take off their side-arms before they entered the villages ; wages were low down ; men had to cart hay and dump it around for winter food ; settlers fenced in the streams, and others stood guard over them with guns; it was time such a business languished. From tho stand-point of Nineteenth Century civilization the same conclusion was reached the rango business was an obstruction to civilization, a bar to the development of the State, a thing only to be toler ated in a new and wild country. And now I am assured that there is not an intelligent cow-man who does not know that tho business is doomed in Wyoming, and that the last free-roving herds must move on. There is not one who does not know that small bunches of cattle, held in connection with agri culture, must take the places of the range cattle, because better grades of cattle can be bred, better meat can be produced, nil risks will nearly disap pear, and the expenses of the care-of the cattle will not be a tithe of those of the old plan. Julian Balph, in Harper's Maguzine. A Papler.Maclie Hospital, rapier-mache, which can be com pressed almost to the solidity of iron, promises to come into vogue as a building material. A portable hospi tal large enough to aocouimodate twen ty beds has been made of compressed paper. Every part of the building is numbered, anil the whole can be packed up in such a way as to be car ried by three transference trucks. These trucks are Bo planned as to form the bases of the hospital, T-shuped joists of iron keeping the foundation steadily in place. Over this comes a flooring of compressed and varnished paper boards, which adapt themselves admirably to cleanliness. The walla and ceiling are of the same material, while the beams, composed of thin galvanized iron wire, connect the parallel walls. Holes are bored be tween the walls and tho eeiliry; for purposes of ventilation, and tho win dows are made of wire gauze with a transparent coating. Such a building would be of great service in tropical countries, especially if in addition to its lightness and strength it can be uiado fireproof. New York Telegram. Can Telegraph to China. One can now telegraph from New Orleans to any of the principal cities of China direct, if he wants to, and is willing to pay the charges. The Chi nese land system has made connect ions with the Kussian system and the Celes tial empire is now no further away than across the street. The charge for tele graphing to China is said to be $2 a word, plus the cable rates across tho ocean, and the service is rapid and satisfactory. Hunan is the only pro vince of China that is not reached by telegraph. It remains indomitably opposed to all foreign innovations. NVw Orleans Picayune. WISE WORDS. Superstition tenders a man a fool, fcud skepticism makes him triad. There is no substitute for thorough going, ardent and sincere earnestness. Tho less A mail thinks or knows about his virtues the better wo liko him. Honorable industry always travels tho same road With enjoyment and duty. To love to preach is one thing', to love those to whom wo pTeach, quito another. Poets are the mirrors of the gigantio shadows which fntnrity cants upon the present. The strokes of the pen need delibera tion as much as those of the sword need Bwiftness. . From the body ofpne gnilfy deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed. Every burden has two handles one rmooth Bnd easy to grasp, one rough and hard to hold. The wealth of a man is the number of things he loves and blesses and by which he is loved and blessed. He that honors his neighbor on ac count of his money will in the end part company with him in disgrace. Long customs are not easily broken ; he that attempts to change the course of his life very often labors in vain. The world is seldom what it seems. To man, who dimly sees, realities ap pear as dreams, and dreams realities. The martyrs to vice fajj exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. So blinded are we by our passions that we suffer more to be lost than to be saved. Offer to the world a large, generous, true, sympathetic nature and, rich or poor, you will have friends, and will never be friendless, no matter what catastrophes may befall you. A Strange Charity. Of tho many strange ways of bestow ing charity which owe their origin to the eccentrio whims of wealthy testa tors there are few more peculiar than that which takes place at the Priory Church, West Smithfield, every Good Friday. This is the Money Dole. On that day twenty-one widows might have been seen picking up sixpences from a tombstone. This singular cus tom has been observed for so many years that the actual date of itsMncep- tion is forgotten. Even the name of the benefactor is unknown. It is stated that a Bum of money was originally left by a lady to provide masses each vesr for the repose of her soul, but when the Beformation dawned the trustees were puzzled how to carry out the bequest without incit iug hostilo criticism. Eventually they resolved to distribute the interest which accrued each year from the fund to a certain number of poor wid ows, who should be obliged to kneel over tho tomb, and pick up the money from the stone which covered it. In this way it was hoped that the recip ients would involuntarily offer a prayer for the welfare of her soul. Another difficulty, however, arose in tho fact that the nave of the churh in which the lady had been buried h been demolished, and tho site con verted into a graveyard. Utterly un able to decide where the lady actually was buried, the trustees selected a rude, unlettered gravestone in the churchyard, and upon this slab the money was placed for the women en titled to receive it. About the end of the last century tho fund which Blip ported the charity was diverted, and since that timo the custom has been maintained by the generous donations of wealthy people who are unwilling that sneh a quaint charity should be discontinued. The Million. Frightful Slaughter of (.ame Birds, A clipping from a Texas paper u.i nounces that an official of one of fie Panhandle counties of that State li:w made a contract with a Kansus City firm to deliver 30,000 dozen prairie chickens within tho next five months. These birds, it is said, are to be sent to Chicago to fill a contract made with parties in that city, so that Chicago may have a supply of these hens dur ing the whole time of the World's Fair. It is hard to imagine that 3t0, 000 prairie chickens could be deliv ered by any one contractor, but it is certainly worth the while of tho au thorities of Texas to investigate this matter and to endeavor to protect the birds that still oxint in the Lone Star State. The game of Texas, like that of other plains States, has been ruthlessly slaughtered, and to-day there is little of it left in comparison with what there used to be. This little should be preserved by every legitimate means. The destruction of the prairie chicken over so large a portion of tho territory where it was once enormously abun ilimt is still fresh in the public mind. This is one of tho birds whose ex termination over a vast territory has been complete, and unless measures for its preservation are soon tukeu in sec tions where it still exists, it seems likely that in the course of a few years it will stand in the same position now occupied by its relative, tho heath hen of Naushou; that is, rnuy exist only iu little colonies which are always grow ing fowerin numbers aud are speedily to die out. Forest and Stream. Two Mammoth Apple Trees. The two largest apple trees in tho State of New York are both near the town of Wilson. The largest was plmited in 1H15, and thirty-three full barrels of apples wero once picked from its branches in a single season. The other is ou the farm of J. (1. O. Brown, ami yielded twenty hum-Is of "choice" fruit and five barn-la of "culls" in tho season of 18U1, St, Louis Republic SUE.YflHC AM) INDUSTRIAL. An electric railroad is one of tha nights of Siam. The Greenwich clock was electrically connected with several London rail way clocks in 1 8f0. Scientist affirm that ice frozen at tcro temperature is more durable than that which forms when tho mercury ia above that point. The Lancet says that Egypt as re gards sanitation is now about on a level with what England was in tne days of Queen Elizabeth, when the mortality of London was forty-five per 1000. It has been determined that the tem perature of an electric aro light re mains constant at about 3500 degrees. This temperature cannot be increased or diminished by changing tho size or amperage of tho arc. It has long been known to architects that the perpendicularity of monu ments is affected by the rays of the sun. This phenomenon ifl due to the greater expansion of the side upon which the sun's rays fall. A remarkable increase in the nso of oil as a fuel on Russian railroads is shown by recent statistics. In 1881 there were nsod 1914 tons of naphtha, while in 1890 there were used 291,307 tons of naphtha and naphtha residues. A French novelty in the way of a timepiece is a floral clock, the long hands of which sweep above twelve flower beds, each bed being different from all the others in color and varie ty of flower. The hands are moved by subterranean mechanism. The smallest holes pierced by mod ern machinery are one-thousandth' of an inch 1n diameter. Thisdrilliug ap paratus, which was the invention of one John Wennstrom, is designed to make 22,000 revolutions per minute and is used in boring sapphires, rubies, diamonds and other gems. It is estimated that tno Mississippi River annually discharges into the Gulf of Mexico 19,500,000,000,000 cnbio feet of water. Of this prodig ious quantity the l-200th part will be sediment. Thus the Mississippi River annually deposits alone into tho Gulf of Mexico sufficient mud to cover a square milo of surface to a height of 240 feet. It is a well-known fact that heavenly bodies invisible to tho human eye, even when assisted by the most power ful telescope, may be detected by the photograpio plate. A practical illus tration of the value of photography in this connection is found in the ex perience of March, when no fewer than eighteen small planets were detected photographically. Twelve of these were discovered by M. CharloiB, at Nice. Dr. E. Hutchinson said, in a recent lecture before the Royal Institution, at London, that with an electric motor speed of 1000 miles an hour could be obtained "though beyond that point they perhaps entered the region of projectiles rather than of locomotives. This remarkable speed is obtainable because of the great advantage of the purely rotary motion of an electrical motor over the reciprocal motion of the piston and connecting rod of the steam locomotive. Something wonderful in tho clock line has been constructed by a mechan ic in Warsaw, Poland. It represents a railway station with a clock tower giving tho time in four countries. Truins run into or depart from the station every fifteen minutes. Station agents, telegraphers, ticket Hellers, with lines of passengers, are seen in action, and the usual bustle and tumult of a station are hesrd and seen, bells ringing, whistles blowing, etc. The (iarUi-n Way. In a little village in Sussex, England, there is a veritable milky way of lilies, whero thousands ot white blossoms shed their perfume aud whero women gardeners tend and pack and ship the fragrant products. Twenty-five years ago a single lily bulb was given to Mrs. Bates, a farmer's daughter, who tended tho gift with the euro women bestow on flowers, and when sixteen bulbs had resulted from the original one, and Mrs. Bates, finding that her chil dren, as she culled them, had outgrown the sunny window where they grew, sho planted them iu the corner of the garden. Ten years ago a daughter of Mrs. Bates, inspired by the enterprise of the time, scut some blossoms to the Loudon market, and now. in associa tion with her sisters, has made the Bates lilies famous for their beauty and perfection. Tho daughters are keen business women, interviewing their buyers at the six o'clock market, selling without interference of agctitt to private customers, florists and com mission merchants. The average pro duct is liOlt do.eus a week, which are packed by women iu the gardens. Women are taking up floriculture to a considerable extent in England, aud at the Horieiiltural College luudscupe and kitchen gardening aro taught by lectures, demonstrations aud practical work. It is an interesting fact that applications are received at the college faster than tho women can be trained. Prairie Farmer. Bow to Secure Confidence. This from an authority: "Don't ask questions, don't mention mimes, listen occasionally, and you will find yourself a society fuvorite. " The first "don't" seems to havo been most cor rectly placed. There is uothing which creates a plcasttnter impression, and which really leads to the most complete confidence than the tact which listens sympathetically to all a companion will cay, but never probes deeper by au impulsive interrogation. One learns to trust such an aeipiaintace, and feels iu her company a pn-ulnii- seii.se of be ourity that is veuy satiaiying. Brovk lyu Citiaeu, THE VALUE OF ADVERTISING A woalthy man endeavored once to show, That Fortune roar's to those who advert! k poor man said, ' 'Twas monoy throwa away," And seemed tho othor's loi?lo to despisw. Picy argued long, till each to his own view, CJnknoWtng, had the othpr one converted. rhe rich man hastened to withdraw his ads, rhc poor man rushed to have an ad. Inserted. A year ago or moro is it, I trow. Since those two men thus argued and con versed. One rich, one poor, they still exist to-day- But Fortune their positions have reversed. Yankoe Blado. nUMOR OF THE DAY. Headquarters Hats. Puck. V" A rakish craft Tho gardner's. y Slight of hand A refusal to marry. ' An open secret The combination to your safe. Truth. Cupid beats all Congress as an intro ducer of house bills. Puck. Like nnto a woman, tho beauty of a cheek is seen in its face and figure. Life. The matrimonial race is often begun at a rattling gate. Chicago intcr Ocean. "He's an ideal ladies' man." "But ho never says a word." "Precisely." Detroit Tribune. 1 It is a strong boarder who can eat three plates of hash without turning o, hair. Boston Courier. Few men are driven to drink in com parison to those who walk thero vol untarily. Troy Press. Millions aro striving for wealth, thousands for fame, a dozen to be good. Chicago Tribune. . Originality is the ability to present old thiugs in a new form that meets popular approval. ruck. At tho Midway Plaisance a man can have a fight in forty languages. Memphis Apeal-Avahiuche. Life is no joke, but we refuso to give it up, even when it becomes tho oldest kind of a chestnut. Truth. In the household the children usually find that "pa" is the most martial an "ma" tho most partial. Boston Courier. People who "would give tho world! for" something seem to forget that the desired object is a part of that world, they give up. Truth. , Miss Grostesque "Do you know te-he-no man has ever kissed me." Calloway "Most men are cowards.'' New York Herald. Rose "Does Mr. Yerydull know anything?" Lillian "Know any thing? Ho doesn't even suspect any thing." Life's Calendar. Wlmt wondering eyes on him will turn Whnt e'er may he ills track ! lie is the borrower who gives I His neighbor's pencil back. v Washington Star. "Miss Billion looked as if sho felt awfully cheap when she was intro duced to Suvepcnny." "She knew how, to appear attractive to him." Chicago Inter-Ocean. Sympathizing Friend "You ought to ask old Skinflint to keep one thing in mind " Discouraged Debtor "He'd charge mo for storage. "-De-' troit Tribune. Thero aro said by statisticians to bo about 420,000,0011 Christians ill the world. Nevertheless, it isn't sufo to lose sight of your umbrella even for tt moment. Shoe aud Leather Reporter.' Merchant (to applicant) "Do you think you know enough to assist me in tho office?" Boy "Know enough? Why, 1 left my last place because tha boss said I knew moro than ho did." Society Journal. Son (who is studying bookkeeping) "Whnt is double entry?" Absent minded Father (who hns had experi ence) "Putting half the money iu tha drawer and half in your own pocket." Harvard Lampoon. Doctor "Well, my fine fellow, you havo got quite well again ! 1 was sure that tho pills I left for you would onre you. How did you take them in water or cake?" "Oh, I used them in my pog-guu. " Tid-Bits. Brido (just after tho wedding) "Fred, you promised to give me grand surprise alter wo were married. Whut is it ?" Bridegroom (who is widower) "I havo six children, my pet all boys." Bride "flow de lightful, dear! I have four daughters. Shan't we all be huppy together, love?" Tid-Bits. , i A Itoniuiitlc Story. V A wedding recently took place in St.1 Petersburg, Russia, which excited vorji general interest. It wus tho marriage of tho daughter of tho Semenvoskr Regiment of tho Imperial Guard with Lieutenant Alexander lieilunsK y of the Eighty-sixth Infantry Rcgiincur. Tht young lady, who is now eighteen yeare of age, and has always gone by the namo of Suiueliovskaia, taking hex patronymic from tho regiment, wa found as u baby, lying iu a ditch, by the men of the Sciiienovsky Regiment as they were inarching from Plevna upon Constantinople in December, 1K78. The little Turkish foundling' was tenderly cared for, aud after a! time baptized into the Russian Ortho dox religion, her godfather being tho Surgeon of the regiment and her god mother tho Princess Eugenie of Old enburg. The regiment intrusted her education to qualified persons, audtlio bride now brings to her husband handsome dowry, provided by her military guardians St. James's iJuzette. Carthage was forty-live miles in cir cumference, situated on a pcuins iila. the laud side there were triple wu lis., uurded by towers so lutvo that the jtSHeiuunt of each contained stalls for 100 elephuuta.
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