TSI FOREST EIF3ELIC1N la mb!MM4 twT WMtaMaty, by - V J. K. WENK. enolt la TBMrbnch C.'aoaUn x rnumrr, tiorbsta, r. Tm, ... H39irTnr, KAT18 Or ADVKKTiaiWCl On Bqnar, on laoh, en Inaarttoa. . 1 00 On. Fquara, on inch, one month . . . , I 00 On. Kquara, on fnnfa, thrae month . . 00 On. Hquar, on inch, on year , 10 W) Two 8quaras, on year 18 00 Quarter Column, on year...... ...... 80 00 Half Column, on year 80 00 On Column, on year . 100 V Legal advrtimwota tea ortta par ttm aaaa laaeniuu. Marriage and death notioo. gratia. Al bill fory early advertisement aafl1 quarterly. Temporary advertisement aaaa b paid in advano. Job work oah on dallrary. t Re ID' ICAN "rlTitii nntnt fr afcartar Mrloi Mwm Una nonlha, rno unrfMpMA.M. NllclM lm a Mrtl f fct VOL. XXVI. KO. 15. TlONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUG. 2, 1893. .50 PER ANNUM. '" tlleU, wm m Ukam C aa Fores UBL Th Celestials buy 811,000,000 worth from us per year. We reciprocate by buying fUft.OOO.OOO worth from them. Petroleum j our lorgeat item of pc port, for wry gnllon of which w. bny $1 worth of ton. I The city of Now York, the popula tion of which in now beyond 2,000,000, 'nnmt within a very few yearn, predict the New York Bun, be the second city in the world. Tho next census will most likely show its population to be greater thou that of Taris. Thin city is growing more rapidly than any of the other chiof cities of the world. There wero but 00,000 people here at the opening of the century there are mow over 2,000,000. One very novel feature of the new suffrage law which wm recently wrested from tho Belgian Parliament by tho np fixing of the working clans is the be stowal of a double vote upon every .roan who is married, or who has at tained the age of thirty-five. The theory of this is that in tho former case he represents, not merely his own share , in tho public weal, but that of his fam ily. In the latter ho is supposed to have at least a double share of judg ment. f A curious exodus has been for some years and in st ill going on from Canada to the United States. The descendants of Revolutionary Tories and sympa thisers with Great Britain in the war of 1812-14 nro emigrating to tho State of New York and to the Northern New England States in large numbers. They cumu quietly, aud because this country wan tho home of their fathers they fuel it to be their natural home. The New York News asserts that the feeling is lioreditary, aud of a piece with the de sire of the Israelites in Babylon and Egypt to go back to tho homes of their ancestors. Among tho most beautiful charities of New York, remarks the Indepen dent, is au estate of about 184 acres ten miles north of the city, left by the Into Robert B. Minturn as tho seat of ft number of buildings crowded out of the city itself. Several of them have recently lieen completed and aro to be dedicated this week. The main object in view iu erecting the buildings has been to provide homes, instruction and worship for the boys and girls gathered from the slums of the city by various organizations, such as the "Sheltering Arms," "Children's Fold," etc. Special attention will be given to industrial training. The Sultan of Turkey has, it is said, got the notion into his head that he must have a world's fair at Constanti nople in 1891. It is to be hoped, ob serves the New York World, that the civilized Nations of Europe will frown severely upon the scheme. The tax ridden people of his dominions aro al ready mulcted of nearly 10,000,000 annually to support his harem. The Turkish notion of a world's fuir will necessitate the invention of a new levy, the appointment of a horde of new tux gathers ud the enlargement of the present system of official incompetency and tyrauny that makes life in Arabia and Syria little bettor than slavery. ' The inventor of the bullet proof uniform, Herr Dowe, in Mannheim, who only a few months ago refused to nil an American order for a single bullet proof overcoat, for which gar ment the American offered $250, has had the misfortuno of accumulating small debts as fast as newspaper noto riety, and the other dayallhispersoual property, including his furniture and the evening dress suit which he bought to wear at a hoped for audience with the Kaiser, was sold at auction. Thus another one-day wonder has been trampled into the dust. The man who seemed to be destined to bring about a change in modern warfare iu the hands of the sheriff 1 This is, in deed, a queer world. Tho following table shows the armies of Europe on a war footing iu 1809 cud 1832: 1HG9. 1892. Franee 1,850.000 4,350,000 Germany 1.800,000 5,000,000 Hussia 1,100.000 4,000,000 Austria '. 760.000 1,900,000 Itily 670.000 3,236,000 England. a.'iO.OOO 602,000 Bpstu 460,000 800,000 Turkoy 3.10,000 1,150.000 tiwiteerlaud 150.000 489.000 Sweden-Norway 130.000 838,000 Belgium 93.0Oi 258,000 1'ortugol 70,000 154,000 Dt-uuinek 45.009 Hl.OOO HulJauit 4000 1MS,000 Montr SHgro. ,: JO.OOO 65,000 Qrunutf---' 85,) IHO.000 ltomuidila. S.'t.MiO 20.000 fiervla !,... 26,000 10,000 We v see tlmt in 18IJ Europe had 6,958,1)00 soldiers mid that now fch has 21,248,00(1, uioio thun triple th sumler iu 1SC0, "WHERE HELEN .rr9. Whers Helen sits, Hi darkness Is so deep, Mo golden, sunbeam strikes athwart the gloom No mother's smile, no glance ot loving eyes, Lightens the ihadow ot that lonely room. Yet the clear whiteness of her radiant soul Dorks the dim walls, like angol vestments shed. The lovely light of holy innocence Bbinei Uk a halo round her bended head, Whets Melon sits. Where Helen ills, the stillness Is so deep, Mo children's laughter comes, no song of bird. rts great world storm along Its noisy way. But In this plooe no sound Is over heard. let do her gentle thoughts make molod Sweeter than aught from harp of viol flung And Love and Beauty, quiring each to each, Sing as the stars of Eden's morning sung, Where Helen sits. Laura E. Richards, In (he Outury. Helen Keller, deaf, umb and blind. BARBARA'S ESCAPE, 1ST RKLBK roBRBSY ORAVKS, EALLY and ac tually engaged t It is a strange sort of feeling, and yet it lsn t unpleasant. Barbara Esmond stood in the middle oi the room, one II Brrar. i slender hand poised holding back the jetty tresses from ber pure, low brow, Bho was very beauti ful, in a dark, glit tering (style of beau ty, and in that elegant room she might have reminded one of a pearl in its satin casket. lllnck-eyed and haired, with a creamy skin, fine grained as velvet, and straight, deli cately chiseled features, hers was an uncommon beauty, yet strangely fas cinating. Eighteen years old, and engaged to be married I It was a new leaf in the book of life for Barbara Esmond ; a sensation as' novel as it was delightful. "I wish I had a mother to go to, or a loving, tender, elder sister," mused Barbara, restlessly. "I scarcely un derstand my own feelings. I wonder if I do love, him as I should love the man I intend to make my husband. Husband 1" she added, with a little tremulous sort of shudder. "The word implies a great deal. And Har ry Milbrook is to be my husband!" Barbara was like a newly-caged bird, restless, fluttering against the invisible bars of her prisoned exis tence ; captured with her own toils.yet half disposed to break away into the solitude and independence once more. Mr. Henry Milbrook, however, wna troubled with no such vague ideas. He had won the heart of Miss Esmond, the heiress, and what was of rather more consequence to .him, he had won the right to share her wealth. "I'm a fellow of talent," mused Mr. Milbrook, "and fellows of talent never could endure to work like common cart-horses. Therefore it follows that I must have money, and, possessing none of my own, 1 must marry the art icle. And although I object to red hair and a crooked spine, I am quite willing to accept the incumbrance of a beauti ful girl along with said cash 1" That was the decidedly practical and unromantio manner iu which Mr. Mil brook contemplated his approaching felicity. He kept his rhapsodies of romsnce aud soft poetio whisperings for Barbara's ear alone, and she, like any enthusiastic girl of eighteen, be lieved in him. She told no one of the precious se cret enshrined in her heart; it would have seemed almost like desecration ; but her lover was byno means so deli cate. "So you're to be married, Hal!" said Mr. Joseph Piercy, nt the club. "Yes, I'm going to be married ; to a cool hundred thousand, too," answered Mr. Milbrook, rubbing his hands. "Who is it?" "Oh, the lady, you mean?" "Yes, I mean the lady." "It's old Esmond's daughter." "What, the star-eyed Barbura?" "Exactly so." "I congratulate yon, old fellow." "Much obliged, answered Mr. Mil brook, indifferently pulling his mus tache. "I flatter myself it's a pretty good speculation for a fellow that travels on his good looks alone." "I wish she had a sister for me," ob served Mr. Percy. "I don't. I can't afford to go halves in the cash." There was a general laugh among the youths of fashion in the club room at this scintillation of wit, and Mr. Milbrook Eauntered leisurely out. "I promised she should have my picture," thought Mr. Harry, "and I suppose the cheapest place 1 can have it done is at the establishment of that rjor devil of an artist iu Grove street, guess I'll go round there." , It was bard for so exquisitely gotten up a youth as Mr. Milbrook to bo com pelled to hide his light under the bushel of so obscure a street as that toward which he now bent his foot steps, but economy was just ut present something of an object with this mod ern Apollo of ours. Bignor Fernelli, the artist, was nt home, a dark, courteous little Italian, with a wifo and seven s.mall children, and very glad he was to receive Mr. Milbrook's order. "On ivory, I suppose, sir?" "Yos, I suppose so. It's dreadfnlly ei pensive," thought Hairy, with a grimace ; "but engaged girls must have their own way, of course." As ho sat waiting for Signor Fernelli to bring out somo specimens of his art, to MUot tho ucHt appropriate iix sod style, he saw through the open door a dark silk lrA brush by, and the pure, clear profile of a face that be well knew, Barbara Esmond's face. "Hello!" ejaculated our hero. "Fernelli, who the dnse in that young lady, and how came she here?" "That young lady, signor, with the brown dress and the long throat, and the head like the goddess Diana?" "Yes." 'It is tho music mistress of Pauline Delutout upstairs ; she comes twice of a week, and sings, my word, like a nightingale.'' "Who is Pauline Delatour?'1 "A poor girl, signor, who sews on dresses ; but one day she will come out on tho stage she will sing at the opera.'' Harry Milbrook stared at Signor Fernelli like one demented. "Which size did you say sir?' 'I I don't think I'll make a selec tion to-day. I will call to-morrow.'' Aiid Mr. Milbrook rushed headlong down stairs, greatly to tho surprise of Bignor Fernelli. "The dune!" ho ejaculated to him self as he strode along the narrow street, with difficulty restraining him self from tumbling at every other step over the babies who swarmed on the sidewalk, "A music-mistress I Giving lessons in such a hole as that. Upon my word I've come preciously near being taken in and done for 1 So it's all show and empty pretense that wealth of hers, and she was going to entrap a husband on the strength of it. My stars ! it's enough to make the hair stand right straight up on a fel low's head. What a lucky thing it was I saw through the stratagem be fore I was netted past escape." He lifted his hat, and wiped the chill beads of perspiration from bis forehead. 'No, you don't, Miss Barbara Es mond," he muttered to himself with a bitter, sarcastio smilo wreathing his lips. "I am not quite such a fool as that, thank goodness." Barbara Esmond had fluttered lightly up tho narrow staircase, all uncon scious of the eyes that were noting her, through Signor Fernelli's partially opened door, and entered a small room iu the story above. A pale young girl, with a sweet, spirituelle face, sat at her sewing by the window. She brightened up as the delicate figure came in. "Miss Esmond, 'it is so kind of you to remember me so punctually. " "isot at all kind. 1 am a genius worshiper, Pauline, and I have dis covered the divine spark in you. "How shall I ever pBy you, Miss Esmond?" "By cultivating tho talent heaven has bestowed upon you. A ay, nay, Pauline, I am but following out a pet whim." "And tho piano, too, that you sent here. Oh, Miss Esmond, one of heav en's angels could hardly be more gen eroiiBl" "Hush, hush, Pauline I Begin your lesson. I never thought, when first I heard you singing at your work and paused to listen to the flute-like notes, that you would be half way through the exercise book in less than -six months. When you sing at the opera I shall be the first to throw bouquets at your feet. Pauline looked with a shy bright ness at her benefactress. Would that 'time ever come? Tho lesson was longer than usual that day. Pauline and Miss Esmond were both deeply interested, and it was nearly twilight before Barbara emerged from the house, closely veiled, and walked swiftly through the darkening streets. "There's a note for you, Miss Bar bara," said her housekeeper, as she sat down to rest a minute or two in the reception-room of her own mansion before she laid ou her things. "A note? Let mo see it. When did it come?" "About fifteen minutes ago, miss. A little boy brought it." "Light the gas, please, Mrs. Moore, and tuke these wraps upstairs." A soft rose tint flushed over Bar bara's cheek as she recognized Harry Milbrook's handwriting. Bho broke the seal and glanced eagerly at its con tents ; but, as sho read, the soft criin son flush died away into pallor. It was very, very brief, but cruel as a blow. "Miss Esmokd," it read, commenc ing shortly and sternly, instead of the Oearest Barbara she had eawected, "allow me to claim back the troth I have plighted to you. 1 had supposed when I engaged myself to you that I was about to ally myself fo a lady, not to a music mistress in Grove street. It will scarcely be worth while for you to reply to tins letter, as Jean nevar, un dc-r any circumstances, forgive the de ceit that has been practiced on me. Therefore, I shall take it for granted that all relations are ended between yourself aud "Yours very respectfully, "H. Mu.brook." Barbara dropped the insulting letter with a sparkle in her black eyes, a curve to her lip, w hich were wondrous ly eloquent, aud as it lay on the carpet she ground it down into the deep pur ple pile with her contemptuous foot. "The puppy," she muttered between her 6et teeth; "the miserable pol troon I How could lever have fancied for a single second that I loved him? Reply to this letter? Of course I shall not reply to it." And Miss Esmond walked up stairs carrying her head high in the air, far, far beyond tho reueh of Harry Mil brook's petty spito. ihst young man was seated at his hreukfitut tuble next morning when KufuH Kenwurd lounged iu. "Halo, Milbrook! I ve i list heard a little item aliont your lody love, Miss Esmond, tlmt is, to my mind, better than all her bonds and mortgages. What do you thiuk ? She'is Riving sing ing I.hcos to my wife's llttla aaui stress, one Pauline Delaton because the child has a glorious voice and oan t afford to have it cultivated. I wish you could hear Pauline rave about her benefactress. I think her enthusiasm would satisfy even your true lover's ear. Beally, it isn't often that an heiress like old Esmond's daughter stoops to perform so toilsome a benefit as that." Harry Milbrook had sat down his chocolate cup, and was staring with glassy eyes at Mr. Kenward. "Why, What's the matter?" de manded that gentleman, somewhat shortly. "N nothing !" "Dyspepsia, eh?" 'No. I tell yon I'm well enough." Harry had made a mistake a mistake that was likely to be fatal to his bril liant matrimonial aspirations. "Why didn't I wait? What the mis chief was I in such a hurry for?" he demanded of himself, without any very satisfactory answer, as he hurried along the street toward Barbara's residence. The boy might not have delivered the note Barbara might not have read it t5ve were thousand "might nots," and he resolved to try his luck, even in a forlorn hope. "Is Miss Esmond at home?" he asked of the old housekeeper, who came to the door. "Miss Esmond wished me to say specially that she was never at home to Mr. Milrbook any more. " was the cold reply. And Harry went his way lamenting. He had chosen his lot, and he must abide by it And thus Barbara escaped the snares laid for her. New York Weekly. A Thrilling Adventure. . Ezra Thomas, a prospector of Shasta County (where he is known as the "Mountain Boy"), hod an exciting ad venture on Sunday last in the neigh borhood of Toylor's Flat. While leisurely walking along the trail with his pick on his shoulder his attention was suddenly called to the fact tlmt something was running along behind him. On turning around he saw a deer coming on the dead run and with in a few feet of him. He stepped aside, and, as the deer reached hiin, he struck it on the head with his pick, the point of which was embedded deep in the deer's forehead. The deer dropped dead. No sooner had he dis patched the deer than his attention was again directed to the trail over which the deer had come, when, to his utter astonishment and alarm, he saw a huge California lion bounding along after the deer. The "Mountain Boy" had barely time to step aside to give the animal the right of way and get his pick in readiness for an attack when the lion came leaping to where he was. He made a lick at the ani mal's head with the pick, but as the lion wag going at such velocity he missed his mark and struck one .of the lion's hind legs, breaking it The lion with a savage growl and snapping its teeth in rage bounded away on three legs and disappeared. The dead deer was brought to the residence of J. D. Hsyward, where it served to satisfy the cravings of the inner man. Weaver ville (CuL) Journal. Dried Flies From Mexico. "No matter what it may be, if an article brings a fair price I deal in it," said a commission merchant to a writer in the Waverly Magazine. "My lust venture consists of dried flies, just common flies which come from Mexico. People buy them for their singing birds. I sell them retail to the dealers. Flies are plentiful in the tropioal val leys and the time of the Mexican In dian is not particularly valuable. When he can no longer sleep in his hut on account of the swarms of flies attracted by the filth which accumu lates about his front door, he some times is stung into a desire for revenge ou his enemies. Bevenge is sweet, and sweeter if there is any money in it. He goes to the woods and collects a number of green twigs of a certain tree. These he lays in a pile on the floor of his hut, with some dry twigs under them. Then from another tree he gets a gum which he boils into a thin syrup and spreads on the walls of his hut. The flies are attracted by its fragrant and far-reaching odor. They gather to feed on it. When the hut is black with them the Indian sets fire to the twigs on the floor and closes the apertures from the outside. The twigs emit an aromatio smoke which kills the flies and they fall to the floor in thou sands. Then the native's wife dries them while he goes to sleep again. " The First Posts. The ft rat posts are said to have originated in the regular couriers es tablished by Cyrus about 550 B. C, who erected posthouscs throughout the Kingdom of Persia. Augustus was the first to introduce this institution among the Bomans, 31 B. C, and he was imitated by Charlemagne about 800 A. D. Louis XI. was the first sovereign to establish posthouscs iu France, owing to his eagerness for news, and they were also the first in stitution of this nature in Europe. 11m was in 1470, or about 2000 years after thev were started in Persia. In England in the reign of Edward IV. (1481) riders on posthorses went stages of the dibtauce of twenty miles from each other, in order to procure the King the earliest intelligence of the events that passed in the course of the war that had arisen with the Scots. A proclamation was issued by Charles I. in KS31, that "whereas to this time there hath been no certain intercourse between the Kiugdoms of England and Scotland, the King now couimunds his Postmaster of England for foreign parts to settle a running post or two between Edinburgh and Loudon, to go thither and come back again iu six days,"- Chambers's Journal, MARKETING FARM PRODUCE LOADED WARM WAGONS CARRIED TO HEW YORK ON TRAINS. Ilor the Long Inland Farmer Oets His Truck to Town for the Early Morning Trade. TT ONG ISLAND farmers whd I ( bring fresh country produce I V to town each morning and offer it for sale on the big west side plaza called Gansevoort Mar ket do not, as is generally supposed, drive their teams all the way in from their farms. That used to be the way in the old days, but now the farm wagons are placed upon flat cars aud come in by rail. The only way by which farmers could reach their orly morning ens tomers in the city a few years ago wa todrivo) but this was very inconveni ent, for the country roads were usually bad and the distances great. The morn ing market was au early one, and it was generally necessary to start the evening before and drive all night in order to reach Gansevoort in time.' "From 10 toll o'clock every night the long and dusty roads reaching out from Long Island City into the great truck farming country along the North Shore were traveled by long lines oi big two-horse wagons loaded with fresh country produce and drivon by sleepy farm hands. It was an expen sive matter for the farmer, too, for it was necessary to have two complete outfits of horses and wagons and men. The round trip, including the market, required iu most coses nearly all of the twenty-four hours. Nowadays the North Shore farmer loads his truck wagon the evening be fore and goes to bed. He gets up be fore the sky has yet shown signs of dawn, hitches up his horses and drives to the nearest railroad station. He finds there on elevated platform the height of a flat car, built alongside the track. It is approached by a long in cline of slight pitch, up which his horses have no difficulty in dragging the wagon. Then he rolls over on his seat and goes to sleep, or falls to talk ing country gossip with his neighbor. Long before the train comes the plat form is filled with wagons, and others are waiting below. The train at length cornea puffing and rumbling along and stops besido the platform. It consists of a dozen or two broad flat cars and a caboose or an old and shabby passenger car. The farm wagons are pushed aboard the flat cars, the wheels rolling in grooves which hold them in position. They are strapped fast so they won't roll off, for the wagons are run cross way on the enrs. Each car carries four w agons placed side by side. When the wagon is secured tho farmer takes his horses into one of the box oars and puts them in etiUls which are built in the car and plentifully strewn with straw. Finally he betakes himself to the caboose or passenger car and smokes black tobacco in a wood pipe all the way to Long Island City while he talks crops and markets to his fellow farmers. The chances are ninety-nine in a hundred that he growls the whole distance over the bad season and low prices. Long Island Cify is reachod and the farmer hitches up his horses again, drives on a ferryboat and finds him self in Thirty-fourth street He then makes for Gansevoort Market at a round trot so as to get there early and secure a good place ; for at Gansevoort Market first como is first served iu matter of position. By this time it is daylight, but the snu is only just out of bed. The big plaza is full of farm wagons from Long Island and Westchester County and New Jersey. In a short time the streets all around are choked with grocers' and butchers' I agons. and a great swarm of retail deklers call upon tho farmAB nnd buy tne vegetables they require for their day's trade. If the farmer is lucky he is sold out by the middle of tho morning. Then he drives on to Long Island City agaiu, puts his horses and wagon on the train and comes back to New York, if he has time, to enjoy himself after tlm fashion of farmers when they como to town, until the afternoon hour arrives for the market train to go bock into the country. At home the farmer finds that hi? men have gathered a supply of truck for the next day's marketing. This iu loaded on the wagon nt once, and the farmer goes indoors to his ham and fried potatoes, his pipo and his feather bed. New York Herald. Found Hoeing Profitable. As J. M. Cook, formerly of Wood land, but who is now farming on tho ranch of W. M. McGrifT, about ono mile below Knights Lauding, was en gaged in hoeing potatoes, says the Woodland (Cul.) Democrat, he tin earthed a half dollar, aud after a short while he uncovered another coin of like denomination. Believing that there might bo more iu the vicinity, he aban doned all thought of potatoes and turned his attention to a search foi more coin. By digging to a depth of about two feet, ho w as rewarded by hie hoe striking some metullio substance, and upon seeking tho cause he found veritable gold mine, for ta an almoet compact body there luy before him four twenty-dollur gold pieces, one ten-dol-lur piece and $t. 00 iu silver, making the total amount of his find (90. (iO. Mr. Cook immediately declared the re mainder of the iluy u holiday aud cuino to this city, focljug quite elated over his fortunate discovery. Ho informed a reporter t hut the cntiro ground ou which tho money was found was less thun ni: foet iu extent and that none of tho coins were of ller duto than 1870. Ho i-.ltjo announced his intention of resuming the search upoc his arrival at homo. l'U mystery is, how cam to coin thei7 WIEXTIFIC AXD INDUSTRIAL. The sea containsa solution of 2,000, 000 tons of salt. Buckwheat cakes, according to a Berlin physician, will give heartburn. A scientist has discovered that wo men live longer than men because they talk more In the northern hemisphere all storms revolve from right to left ; in the southern hemisphere they revolve from left to right. Simultaneous telephoning and tele graphing on the same wire has been successfully tested in Germany on a line 120 miles long, Toisort ivy is considered less poison ous when the sun is shining on it, while at night or iu tho shadow it is especially dangerous. At Selma, Ala., there is an artesian well provided with two tubes, ono of which spouts pure cold water, the Other warm water st rongly impregnated with iron. A petrified whale, 216 feet long, has been discovered in Costa Bica in a rift bctwoen two mountain peaks some dis tance from San Jose, and 3300 feet above the level of the sea. The world's rainfall cecord has been broken, with a foot or so to spare, at Crohambhrst, a small settlement on the western slope of Mont Blnnc, in south east Queensland. The standard gauge at the meteorological office registered 10 j, 20, 35 and 10 inches, respec tively, on four successive days, Brilliancy of color is obtained by placing complementary colors together and a combination of uncomplemen tary colors subdues them. Thus, when green and red are placed side by side each becomes brighter, but if yellow be placed beside green it throws a blue shade on the greeu and the green throws a red shade on the yellow, both thus losing some of their brightness. According to a table prepared re cently by a French scientist, the aver age growth of the human species varies nt different ages. During the first year after birth the growth is 7 J inches; from 2 to 3, 4 inches; from 3 to 4, 1 1 inches ; from 4 to C, about 2 inches annually; from 7 to 8, l inches; from 8 to 12, 2 inches yearly; from 12 to 13, 1 and 8-10 inches ; from 13 to 14, 21 inches; from 15 to 16, 2 inches; from 10 to 17, nearly 2 inches. After this, although growth continues until sometimes late in the '10' b, it rap idly diminishes in quantity. Professor Wiggins believes that tel egraph wires cause drouth, that the atmosphere cannot absorb moisture unless it is charged with electricity, nnd that upon an oblate spheroid like the earth the electricity will inevitably collect at the equator. Iu this way he explains the frequency of rains at the equator. "If, however," he says, "there lie elevated spots on a sphere, electricity will collect on them. Should these spots or contiueuts be connected by wires it might accumulate on each alternately. This has happened this year, and America has all the electrio energy and Europe has lost it ; so that our continent is flooded and Europe is burned up with drouth." His conclu sion from all this is that electrio wires should be buried. Curious Growth of Rattan. Every one knows the pretty, light and' graceful chairs and other articles of furniture made from rattan, but every one does not know that the ex tremely tough and flexible wood called rattan is that of the climbing palm tree. This curious climber, which is more ol a vine thun a tree, is said by the Phila delphia Times to be one of the singu lar characteristics of forest growth iu tho Celebes and other Malayan coun tries. Starting with a trunk a little thicker thuu a man's arm, it wiiub through the forest, now wrapping a tall tree iu its fold, like some gigantic snake, aud then descending, again to the earth and trailing along in snake like curves until it can find some, othei stately treo to fasten uud climb upon in its pursuit of light and air. The forest is so thick and jungle-like that it seems impossible to follow the course of any of these serpent climbers, but there is little doubt th'tfuit thu. lust the successful aspirant, Veh stooped and cringed so long heloKv, will be found shooting up like a flag-staff a dozen feet or more above the treo which has helped it to rise. A use of rattan, which is unknown to those who who have not seen it in its native forest, is as a water carrier. Tho thristy traveler has at all times a tumbler of cool, refreshing water at his command by cutting off six or eight feet of rat tan and putting j'lio of thu severed ends to his mouth or holding it over a diuh to cnteh the water. Living Over a Volcano. China is populated so thickly that hundreds of thousands of people live all the year round iu hoimc-boats. Jupuu is not so overcrowded as China, but it is populated so thickly that about twenty thoiiHuud persons live in the crater of Aho Sun, a voleuuo about thirty miles distant from tho city of Kumuuioto, "Think, " tuysa writer iu the Chicago Times, "of walking for miles among fertile furms und prosper ous villages, peering into school-house windows and sacred brines, all within the shell of au old time crater, whose walls rise 800 feet all about you. It gives one a queer feeling. Hot springs abound everywhere. In ono place I saw the brick-red water utilized to turn a riee mill. '1 he inner crater ix nearly half a mile iu diameter, slid a steady column of roaring i-U-am pours out of it. The Li.-t M-rioiiK eruption was iu 1H81, when immeUM) quantities of black SMhes and dust were ejected aud carried by the wind ax fur as Kumamoto, wht-ro fr three duys it was so dark that ttrtit'u-iul liht hud to b Uld." ALWAYS SWEEP UNDER THE MAT. A story is told of a poor servant girl, Who once was moody and strange, Who asked for admission to tho fold of tho church, Ai she had exprion'wl a nhsnge. When asked by the pnstor a reason to give Fora step so Important ss that, She answered "Before, sir, I slighted my work. But now I sweep under the mat.' There's a world of good senso In this simple reply, And well worth study and thought To those who are traveling the way that Is broad, Not doing the things which they ought. Be true to yourself ; do the best that you can, In business, at law, or the bat. Whatever you do, be faithful and true, And always "sweep under tho mat." Fits Nigel, In New York Tribuno. . HUMOR OF THE BAY. Many a man is sunstrnek trying to make hay while the sun shines. When a man is generous to a fault, it is never offe of his wife's. Chicago Inter-Ocean. People speak of the face of a note, when it's really tho figure that inter ests them. Sparks. A small boy says if time is made of days and nights, it must be striped like a circus zebra. Puck. It is contended that there is nothing in a name, and yet about all one has is in it. Galveston News. The man who strikes for shorter hours is always willing to except the one allowed for dinner. Puck. Independence is the inclination to mind one's own business, combined with the ability to do so. Fnck. A great deal of repentance nowadays is done in broadcloth and ashes of roses, instead of sackcloth and ashes, Texas Siftings. No girl's musical education is con sidered complete these days until she can sing as if she were having her teeth pulled. Atchison Globe. A correspondent wants to know if it is "the correct thing to eat shad with a fork only." It would be safer to eat it with a sieve. Statesman. The chappie of to-day is tho old fashioned dude dipped in a little de pravity. He has just brains enough to be a nuisance. Texas Siftings. She "How do you suppose the apes crack the hard shells of the nuts they pick." He "With a monkey wrench, of course. " American Hebrew. Alas for the story of gloom That chimes a chill through the blood Ho starts with s wonderful boom And concludes with a siekening thud. Washington Htar. The peck of trouble wo hear so much about, if handled properly, could be easily gotten into a quart measure) without knocking the bottom out Puck. Struckile "I am beginning to think that one's ancestors are important" Miss McBoan "Yes, they como under the head, 'Important, if true. ' " Vogue. No matter how finely tho display window of a store may be fitted up, the pretty young lady clerk will always prove a counter-attraction. Rochester Democrat. Yon have all seen tho littlo thimble sized after dinner ootfee cups, that are so awkward to handle ; well, that's tho size of most men's cup of joy. Atchi son Globe. Johnny "Mamma, can't you tell me a new fairy story ?" Mrs. Braggs "I don't know any, Johnny. Maybe your father will tell me some when he comes in to-uight. "Bulletin. "Here, mamma, is tho clock-key. Will that do?" "Do for what?" "Why, for you. I heard you saying a whilo ago that you were all run down." Rochester Democrat. Little slots for nickeU, Open-mouthed but dumb, Gives the juwlous schoolgirl Wads of ehewiug-guui. Detroit Free Tress. A woman will face a frowning world and cling to the man she loves through the most bitter adversity; but she wouldn't wear o bonnet that was out of fashion to save tho Government. Tit-Bits. Husband "Can't I help you pock that trunk?" Experienced Wifo "Yes, you can help me immensely by going straight in town to your ollice and leaving me to pack it as I see Ut" Somerville Journal. "Is Sir Robert Paulton a very tinf man, mamma?" inquired little Mauii earnestly. "No, my dear, uot very. Why do you ask?" "Because father says he's to sit ou your right baud at dinner to-night." Funny Folks. "Boys," said the teacher, "we niu'st u!l work in this world. Did any of you ever get something for nothing?'' "Yes," replied every boy iu tho room. "What ?" Uhkcd tho teacher iu surprieo. "A liekiu'," wus tho reply, New York Tribune. "You understand, Betty," said tha mistress, "that hu ore to move out of this house the first of next mouth?" "Yes'in," answered Betty. "I've been swet-piu' all the dirt into tho rc-iit-ters for the past three Weeks." Chicago Tribune. Hicks "Look at Guddings! He hna sat listening to Miss Pedalponnder plsy that piano for over an hour. 1 thought you told me that Claddings wusu't fond of music." Wicks "He isn't. But he's just duft ou utuleties. "--Boston Transcript. "Nil, sir," said tho milkman, "lam not going to huvo tin) kiu on my head of injuring any ono by givictf impure milk. 1 hove bud tho water iu my well uuulyzcd and it iu bud. Tho well wauts to be cleaned out, tho uuulytt says, uud I'm going to buve it cleaned out, and duii't yon foxgvt it. " Bostou Courier.
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