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TlONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUG. 2, 1893.
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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.