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VOL. XXVI. NO. 23. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 27, 1893.
$1.50 PER ANNUM.
Tho way to stop tho grado-eropsing
laughter is to mnko tho railroads pay
for killing people.
Over 81,000,000,000 of tlio scenritiei
of tlio United States, micli oh railroad,
State, municipal end United States
bonds, are hold in Europo.
Tho Atlanta Constitution think"
peppermint must bo n profitable crop.
It is stated that a Michigan funnel
mado $11,000 out of it this year,
Tho Chicago Times figures
that all civilized countries nro
it on I
Buffer-
.ing because of a rebound from extrav
agance, speculation, overproduction
and wild dissipation.
Tho new pastor of tho Duryen Pres
byterian Mission in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
has tried, unsuccessfully, tho experi
ment of having young lady ushers in
the church in order to got young men
to attond.
In tho United States 0,000,000 farm
hands raise half as much grain as (,
000,000 iu Europe. Thus the uso of
proper machinery makes ono farm
laboror iu this country worth three in
Europe
A physician maintains in tho Medi
cal Journal that it is not poverty of
diet ho much as monotony of diet that
exercises an niihealthful influence on
tho poor. As a matter of fact they eat
Ifongcr" food than tho rich, more
bread, meat and si mplo vegetables, but
their cookiug iB rude, and they eat tho
samo things tho whole jear through.
People who are well to do, or who aro
better cooks, get more variety with
fewer things, and always have some
thing to tempt tho appetite. Sonp
can bo mado to reaemblo greasy dish
water, or it can bo mado a really savory
- and nutritious thing, and there aro a
hundred different ways of serving pota-
toes. Tho physician thinks that free
cooking schools would bo a first rate
thing in tho tenement districts.
Hays D. Brock, in tho British Fort
nightly Review : "The American poo-
pie are now tho moist comfortably
housed, tho boot clothed and tho best
fed people in tho world. This won
derful progress has never been moro
marked than it is at present. In the
field of science there is an netivo re
search and investigation, producing
results that aro a constant surprise.
Inventive genius is continually do
vcloping new and better methods and
applianoes by which labor is lightened,
There is wonderful activity in all lines
of industry, which turns out finer
products iu greater abundance from
the looms, the mills and tho factories,
aud at lower price thun ever before.
Tho opportunities for education by
schoojs, colleges aud free libraries
have been constantly increased. Never
before has religious aud philanthropic
thonght been more awakened and gen
erous efforts more freely exerted to
relievo the suffering, to provide for tho
needy and minister to the unfortunate.
All of these facts indicate, a great ad
vance on right lines to a higher, better
and purer civilization than has ever
beforo existed in the world's history."
Experiments that are uow being
made with tho palmetto in Florida
point to tho growth of a new and
profitable industry from tho prolilic
scrub growth of tho Florida forests
aud fields. It has been proved that
the leaf of the saw palmetto can bo
ground into a pulp w hich makes an ex
cellent article of hollow-ware for do
mestic and other uses, aud the present
experiments are expected to prove the
adaptability of this material to the
making of all kinds of paper. For
some time past tho peculiar eabbuge
liko substance in the top of tho cab
bage palmetto has boen used with the
tender tops as well, as a fibre in tho
manufacture of parchment. It iB now
proposed to obtain cheap paper fibre
from tho ordinary scrub plant. Some
of this pulp has been Biiccessfully
worked up by o manufacturing cou-
cent iu Bostou into puils, tubs, basins
and other hollow-ware. Tjio supply of
saw palmetto is practically inexhaust
ible in Florida. Millions of acres are
covered with it, and when cut down to
tho ground it grows up again two or
threo limes a veur. Tho Florida
Times-Union, commenting on its pro'
jectod use, says that for a plant that
grows without cultivation, and in such
inexhaustible quantities, the eaw pal
uictto bids fair to have "more money
iu it than most of the cultivated crops
of Florida," and adds: "A fibre made
from the loaf cuu be used profitably
by upholsterers wherever curled hair,
moss, or 'excelsior' is used ; tho root
cau be turned into brushes of almost
endless forms aud innumerable Uses;
and the poplar aud other wood pulps
of commerce are now likely to find a
daucrous rival in palmetto pulp."
BUTTERCUPS.
Jennie was watching the cows home,
lown by the meadow bars alone,
And her eyes were as blue as her bonnet
Jennie was only a fnrmnr's lass,
And she lut down tho bars so the oows could
para
Out ot the waving, blue-cyod grass,
With buttercups sprinkled upon It.
Jennie was watching young Farmer Payne
Picking a buttercup out of the lane
Stephen was strong and merry.
! 'Jennie !' she heard hor mother call,
Dut there at her side stood the furmor tall,
And her cheeks grew as rod as a chorry.
I'm coming, mother 1" she turned to go,
Dut 8tophen stood at tho path bolow,
And there went Daisy and Doss and Flo
over Into the clover,
riis arms were strong as her waist was slim,
"I'll keep you till every cow gets In,
Or tell me the name of your lovor."
'Jennie, Jennie 1 'tis getting late,"
Came mother's voice from the farmhouse
gate,
But Jennie was slender and could not mate
With the tender strength of a lover.
And who could do a single thing
With a yellow bulteroup under their chin,
But nestle the great strong arms within
And grow as red as the clover.
"Maybe 'tis Ben," thon she blurficd again,
"And maybe 'tis only Stephen Payne"
Then the dnrk crept over the meadow lane
And buttercups a-sprinklo
Not a single sound In the dusky dell
Save tho tinkle of Daisy's silver boll,
"Tlnk-s-link-a-tlnklo !"
For mother's volco and the bars forgot
The oows are into the meadow lot
Knee deep in the dewy olovor.
Jonnle and Stevo camo slowly up,
Her soft chin yellow with buttercup,
His handsomo face flushed over.
"Where are you, Jennie? 'tis lato and cold.
"We're comlu', mother," sold Stephen bold,
"Tho cows got Into tho meadow,
Wo stopped to drive them slowly up,"
Then he slyly hid the buttercup
And kissed her again In the shadow.
The Modern Argo.
HOW DOLLY PROVIDED.
BY 8. A. WEISS.
II I S house does
seem mightily
changed since
Dolly came," said
Miss Martha to her
neighbor, Mrs
Staples, as tho two
siit knitting iu the
cool entry, with
lWi- . . mo iromaooropen
and looking on the
street. "I don't foci nigh as lonesome
as I did when I had uo company but
Pinky and that Clarke girl ; and the
land knows I'm glad to get rid of her 1
Dolly's only six years and five
months next Tuesday ; but she's got
more senso than a dozen Sairy Clarkes,
and she's such company !"
"Well, I'm glad to heur you say soj
for seems to mo you weren't over
anxious to have her at first."
"Well, mebbe not. You see, I've
never been used to children, and I
thought she'd bo such an everlasting
trouble, and keep the house turned
just inside out. But I couldn't refuse
Cousin Emily Jane when she wrote to
beg mo to take cure of Dolly whilo she
went to nurse her sick mother. bho
offered to pay board ; but I wouldn't
dream of taking board for Dolly. She
pays for herself in good oompany ; and
then she's snch a provider. "
"Provider? Why, what can Dolly
provide ?"
'Oh, pretty nigh everything that
she thinks is wantin'l Why, sho
hadn't been here three days when she
wanted to know why I hadn't vines
trained over the porch, like her
mother's ; aud when I said I didn't
know where to get any, off she wont
and got a couple of sprouts of Madoiry
vino from Capt u Winston. There
they are, you sec, set out in tho yard,
and growing like possessed. Then,
t'other day, when I was bothered with
mice eating my spice cake, I said Pinky
was growing too old aud lazy to hunt
for mice, and that same evenin' in
comes Dolly with a white kitten, and
bb'vs she, 'Aunt Marthy' you know
she calls me aunt 'this little cat will
be growed up by tho time Pinky dies,
and then she'll cuteh mice for you.'"
Tho two ladies joined iu a laugh over
Dolly's "cutouess;" aud Mrs. Staples,
craning her neck as she looked out of
the front door, said :
"Why, there's the child now, a-set-ting
in old Capt'n Winston's porch,
alongside of him. Poor man I he's
been terrible lonesome since his sister
Nancy married and went away. I de
clare, I feel downright sorry for him."
"Uh, ho don't seem to hanker after
company ! He's got his business place
down at tho wharf, and when he comes
homo he jest goes to work iu his bit of
garden, or Bets in his porch playing
with the dogs and children. Dolly's
powerful foud of lit'i, and loves to
hear tell about how ho was ship
wreckod once, and all about the
strange places he's been to when he
was cupt u of the Nuuoy.
"Pity he ain't married. But Dau'l
says he's about the most backward
mun on yearth where there's wimuicu
concerned. You know, when Nancy
went away he tried Miss Snelliu's
boarding-house, where tho Widder
Tomliu was living, and them two wim
miu set their caps so p'iutedly at him
that ho got skeered, aud went back to
his own house aud got that old colored
womuu, Chloo, to come every day and
cook ami clean up for liini. Ana sict
cookm I I'jverytuing burnt or over
done, and the risen bread like so much
putty. It's a wonder he ain't dead of
dyspepsey beforo this?"
"Dear, dear!" Baid Miss Murtha,
pityingly.
Mrs. Staples commenced rolling up
her kuittiug.
"Talkin" of cookiug, reminds me
I've got supper to got, and tho sun no
higher than a beaupolo ; so I must bo
going."
And reaching her calico Run bonnet
from a peg, ho bustled off, stopping
to kiss Dolly, who was just entering
the front gate.
Dolly accompaniod Miss Martha as
sho went into the garden to got a fow
radishes for supper. It was a poorly
cultivated garden, for it was not al
ways possible to get a man to work it
properly. But there was a big cherry
troo on which the fruit was just ripen
ing, and as they camo in sight of this
they bbw that the ground beneath was
strewn with torn leaves, while prints
of bare feet lod to a looso board in tho
fence.
"Oh, them boys!" Miss Martha ex
claimed. "They've begun, a ready,
jest as they do every year, and now I'll
have no rest nor peace until tho fruit's
all gone. LaBt summer I could hardly
save enough to make three jars of pre
serves.
"Can't yon do something to keep 'em
. mr . nt 1 T- 11
away, Aunt Martyr saiu uuuj, sym-
pathizingly.
"No, deary there's nothing could
keep 'em away but a dog, and I haven't
got ono. I'm afraid to keep a dog ;
he might bite me somo time."
She hunted up some rusty nans, ana
with an axe tried to fasten up the
loose board, but it was of no avail.
She was a small, neat, dohoateiy
formed woman of forty, with a pleas
ant, comely face, which now became
flushed as sho toiled at her unwonted
task.
"The whole fence wants mending,"
sho Baid at length, despairingly, "and
I'd bo as likely to knock it all down as
make it whole. Bun over to old
Chloe's, Dolly, dear, ani boo if hor
husband can't eome and help me. If
this board ain't fastened tip at once,
Miss Curry's pigs will get in and root
up the whole garden-"
Dolly skipped away as light as a
fairy, but in threo minutes was back
again, accompanied, not by the old
colored man, but by Captain Winston,
bearing in his hands a heavy hammer
and a box of new noils.
"Aunty, old Uncle Jake wasn't at
home, bo I brought Cap'n Winston."
"Oh, Dolly"
"Bo ploased to do anything for you,
ma'am," said the captain, lifting his
hat politely. "Took tho liberty of
bringing those things, thinking possi
bly you mightn't have 'em handy."
He handled the heavy boards as if
they had beon shingles, and securely
fastened up bfilf a dozen which were
hanging loosely by their rusted nails,
Dolly looking on admiringly.
Anything more I can uo ior you,
ma'am?" he inquired, when tho lust
heavy blow had been struck.
. "Oh. res!" Dolly cried, eagerly.
"We want a dog to scare away those
bad boys a good dog that wou t bit,
'cause Aunt Marthy 'a 'fraid of dogs.
Won't you lend us Pilot, cap'n?"
"Why, Dolly, I'm surprised at you,"
remonstrated Miss Martha.
But tho oaptain laughed.
"That's a fust-rate idee, Dolly," ho
said, patting her curly head. "Pilot
never bites ; he's too good-natured for
that. But he makes noiso enough to
scare away a baud of robbers. So if
you're agreeable, ma'am, I'll just fetch
him over at night and anchor him to
this tree till inoruin', and you may de-
pond he'll do his duty. .
So thonooforth every evening until
the fruit was all ripe and gathered,
Pilot was tied at the foot of the cherry
tree, and iu the morning unloosened
by Miss Martha and allowed to go
home.
Tho result was that besides having
plenty of fruit to send around to her
neighbors, she made preserves enough
to fill a dozen jars one of which she
presented to Dolly to toke home with
her as her very own.
Bv this time there was a very good
acquaintance established between Miss
Martha and her bachelor neighbor, the
cautain.
Whenever ho brought over Pilot,
there would bo a little chat in the gar
den : and he more than once insisted
upon doing her some little service,
such as pruning hea grape vinos and
mending the back doorstep, to which
Dolly was afraid to iu'.rust her small
weight.
'And onco, when the captain was sick
and Dolly reported that he wouldn't
eat the breakfast which tjuloe prepared,
Miss Murtha sent over a duinty tray of
her own delicious watHes and broiled
chicken, which the child reported glee
fully the captain ate "every bit, and
said 'twas the very nicest cooking he
ever saw.
It was about this time that Dolly be
gan to look reflectively at her relative
as tho latter would sit knitting iu her
low rocking chuir in tho entry, aud
ono day sho surprised her by saying,
gravely :
"Aunt Marthy, I think you wants a
man to tako card of you."
"Good gracious, child 1 What put
such an idea iuto your head?"
'"Cause," answered Dolly, with un
ruffled gravity " 'cause there's a heap
of things you can't do for yourself.
My papa takes care of my mamma.
Aunt Marthy, why ain't you never
married?"
Miss Martha broke iuto a laugh, but
when the question was repeated, she
said, with a sigh which seemed to como
despite herself :
"Because, deary, nobody ever asked
me. "
"Why not? Mamma said you was
pretty and good."
"Mebbo 1 was too quiet for folks to
notice me ;" answered the old maid,
dreamily. Aud then her thoughts
seemed to po aw y from Dolly away
iuto the )w4, perhaps hi speculations
of what might have own ; und she
never noticed Uiut the child slipped
nuii't v awav uud rau swiftly ucross
tlio street to tho little cottage of her
friend. Captain Winston.
The captain was seutod in his little
back porch, sewiuac a button ou his
coat ; Bnd Dolly sat and watched him
for awhile ; then sho said, solemnly :
"Men can't Bew. My mamma always
bows on my papa's buttons. Why
don't you get married aud have some
body to sow for you 1"
Ho looked up and laughed.
"Why, Dolly, you've got a wise lit
tlo hoad on them young ehonlders,"
shaking his own hoad gravoly ; "but I
don't know of any real nice, goodJ wo
man who would have an old fellow like
me."
"My Aunt Marthy is good and
nice," said Dolly.
"But Bhe wouldn't have me, Dolly."
"I guess she would. Sho thinks
you're real nice. And she ought to
havo a dog and a man to take care of
her and tho garden." -
Tho captoin laughed until his jolly
face was red and his blue eyes full of
tears. Dolly was offended; and she
slipped down from the bench on which
she was seatod and ran home, without
saying a word of good-by.
' But the next day the little girl was
sick. She had taken cold ; and for a
whole week the captain saw nothing of
her. His conscience smote him that
he had, however unintentionally, hurt
the feelings of his little friend ; so one
evening he stopped at the door with a
pretty box of candies in his hand,
which ho intended to leave as a peace
offering.
"Good-day, ma'am! How is tho
little one to-doy?" he inquired of Miss
Martha, who came to tho door in an
swer to his modest knock.
But Dolly heard him, and as she
was almost well and sitting up now,
she insisted upon his coming in, and
thev had what she called "a fine tirao"
examining and sorting the contents of
the box.
I am sorry I ever offended you,
Dolly," said the visitor, at length, as
he rose to go. "You must forgive me
and come to see mo again soon as you
are well enough.
"Why, I never heard of Dolly '
being offended 1 Miss Martha said,
"Whot was it about?
Tho captain oolored ; but Dolly said,
franklv :
"I wasn't mad sure enough, Aunt
Marthy. I wanted him to take care of
you, 'cause you ought to havo some
body to"
"Dolly, you'll got flick again staying
in this cold room. Go and sit by the
kitchen fire."
The child obeyed, taking her preC'
ious box with her J but the captain
hesitated and lingered.
"Maybe," ho Baid, a littlo shyly
"maybe, Miss Marthy, since the little
one's mentioned it, we might aswoll
talk tho matter over now. It ain't the
first time I've boen thinking over it."
What they said nobody ever knew ;
but that night, when Dolly had said her
prayers, Miss Martha took her on her
lap and into her arms, and kissed her
with unwonted tenderness, whilo the
child was sure sho saw tears in her
eves.
"Are you sorry for anything, Aunt
Marthy? she inquired, anxiously.
"No. deary; I'm glad."
And as the child sank to sleep,
rocked in her arms, the little lonely
old maid looked down at the fair face
with a smile through her tears, and
murmured :
"Bless the child!"
Dolly was such a provider. Satur
day Night.
A Dentist Talks,
rather have three women pa
than one man," said a well
practitioner in dentistry,
show without doubt a far
amount of courage and pa
"I'd
tients
known
"They
greater
tience under the often excruciating
tortures of the drill and forceps than
men."
"Have they more pluck?"
"Indeed they have. Dozens of my
women patients I could mention who
undergo the most acute agony almost
without a wince, while I find that the
majority of men aro absolute cowards
iu the operating chair, and tho very
sight of the instruments is often
enough to make some great, big,
strong fellow pale with nervousness.
"Men always demand gas when their
teeth aro to bo extracted ; on the other
hand I havo seen fragile-looking wo
men refuse gas and sit down calmly in
a chair and submit to tho otherwiso
nuavoidublo painful process of extrac
tion without a murmur."
"Which has tho best teeth?"
"Well, I think women are moro apt
to attend strictly to their teeth, where
as tho average man is too busy to stop
for dentistry until tho stern necessity
of pain causes them to do so. Tobacco
is as great an evil with men as candy
and sweets with women.
"Whom do I consider tho best pay?
Well, 1 cun very truly state thut I
havo never lost a penny of money
owed me by a woman. Oftentimes I
have been warned by my brother dru
tibts not to havo actresses as patients,
but they have never failed to pay mo.
In some cases it was two years after I
had done work for an actress that 1
received the mouey nil the way from
Engluud, explaining that circum
stances had rendered it impossible for
her to pay before then." St. Louis
Bepublic.
Underground Canal Sixteen Miles Lonir.
The canal between Worsley aud St.
Helena, iu North England, is probubly
the longest and most remarkable canal
of the kiud iu the world. It is sixteen
miles long uud is underground from
ono end to another. M'iuy yeurs ago
tlio managers of tho Duko of Bridge
water's e.stuto filled its old mines with
waU'r that they mi','Ut transport tho
coal under ground instead of uu the
surface. Ordinary canal bouts uro used,
the power being furnished by tho men.
The tuunel urch over the eunul is pro
vided with cross pieces, und tho men
propel the boats along as they lie u
their backs on the loads ox coal.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
SCIENTIFIC AXD INDUSTRIAL.
Tidal wBves will often acquire a veloo
Ity of one thousand miles a minute.
Herbert Spencer haB invented a lit
tlo ear-machine by which ho can shut
out all Bounds.
A steam jetcastsbuta Blight shadow,
but if it iB given a chargo of electricity
it tako an orange-brown huo and its
shadow is very dark.
To tho residents on other planets,
that is, of course, providing there nro
such beings, our earth is a bright bluo
this on account of the cerulean nuo
of our atmosphere.
A Frenchman declares that vegeta
tion can be aided by electricity. Pota
toes planted in the path of the electric
current grew enormously, andelcctri-
neu tomatoes ueuauio nye ciu, uujo
before the others.
The snako worm is the name of a
small creature which, when alone, has
almost no power of locomotion. Large
numbers of them, by forming a close
rope-like procession, move with ease
from ploco to place.
A remarkable discovery has been
made by Professor Emmerich. He
finds that the blood of an animal which
has recovered from an infectious dis
ease can cure another animal suffering
from the same disease, and the discov
ery is likely to prove of tho greatest
importance.
Lieutenant Apostolow, of the Kussian
navy, recently exhibited to some naval
offioers in Odessa a now style of ship,
without screw or paddle, but which
had instead "a kind of running elec'
trical gear round the vessel's hull un
der the watcrline, and a revolving
mechanism, which, he says, will pro'
pel a ship from Liverpool to New York
in twenty-eight hours.
An ingenious contrivance for record
ing sunshine is tho recent invention
of Frofessor Marvin. The professor
describes the instrument as consisting
in principle of a Leslie differential air
thermometer mercury, however, bo'
ing used to separate tho air in the two
bulbs, and the whole thermometer is
designed in the form of a straight
tube, having a bulb at each end.
Experiments have been mado with
aluminum for horseshoes by a Penn
sylvania manufacturer within the last
few months. Methods and machines
used with steel had to be modified
littlo first. The shoes aro light, of
courso, but they wear rapidly, not last
ing over a week or ten days on a dirt
road and breaking easily. The experi
menter thinks that possibly an alu
minum alloy might be more servicea
ble. Insects that spend most of their lives
in a torpid or somi-torpid condition are
not always killed by being frozen. In
stances are numerous of travelers in
the Rocky Mountains finding butter
flies above tho snow-line frozen stiff.
When carried to a warmer climate or
into a cabin they often completely re
vive. Their normal vital power is so
low that a degree of cold thut would
prove fatal to other creatures does not
kill them.
The decorations of walls prove to
have a very important influence upon
gas bills. From recent flguros it has
been calculated thot with the different
decorations a room would be equally
lighted by the following candle pow
ers: Ulack clotn, iuu; nark orown
paper, eighty-sevon ; blue paper,
seventy-two ; clean yellow paint, sixty ;
clean wood, sixty ; dirty wood, eighty ;
cartridge paper, twenty; whitewash,
15. Only about one-sixth as much il
lumination is necessary for tho white
washed room as for the same room
papered in dark brown.
A Queer Horned Snnke.
Rome time during the first or second
week of June of the present year, the
children of Mr. Sol Benson (a well
known farmer who lives seven miles
north of Kuoxville, Iowa, and whoso
postofiice address is at the above named
place) came home from school and
made the startling announcement that
their teacher had killed a suako with a
forked tail. Sol does not claim to bo
"up" in "snakoology," but he says it
struck him that this particular ophid
ian must be "curiously ami wonder
ously formed" to say the least, yet ho
diil not take sullleient interest in the
matter to walk over to where the
plucky "school marm" had disputched
tho monstrosity to make un examina
tion of its bind caudal termination.
The next morning, however, he was
riding past the place with one of bis
sons who was present when tho creature
had met the school teacher and the ax,
aud concluded to take a lesson in de
formed herpetology. Arriviug at the
place he found to his grout surprise a
snake four feet oight inches in length
with a perfectly formed horn on tho
end of its tail. Closer examination
disclosed the remarkable fuet that this
horn was split from luise to point, and
that it would open liko the beak of a
bird ! It had probably beeu open
when tho children examined it the day
before, which caused them to infer it
was a fork-tuiled snake. St. Louis
Bepublic.
Six (Jeueratlous.
Phillis Jones, now nearly 100 years
old, but active aud iu full possession
of her faculties, lives near Greens
boro, Ala. She sews, und iu threading
a needle has no need of glasses. Phillis
is the mother of twenty children, her
descendants number over 200 now,
and sho is probably the only greut-grcut-gruudmother
in tho United
States.
Phillis was born on White Oak lliver,
Xorili Carolina, exactly when is not
recorded. There are those who doubt
the story, but the proof lies in tho
represent dives of each of tho six gen
erations of her descendants, who ure
to be seen to-day, and whose connec
tion with Phillis is perfectly clcur.
.Wv York Advertiser.
DOGS HITCHED TO CARTS.
WHERE HAN'S CANINE FRIENDS
DO THE WOEK OF HORSES.
Their I'se as Draught Animals In
Ilrlglum Described by a United
States Consul.
T IEOE, Belgium writes United
I f States Consul Nicholas Smith,
I V is a city of largo wealth and
great industrial activity, pos
sessing tho largest manufactory ot
machines and machinerj- in tho world,
and cmployuig as ninny Iiothcs ai any
other town of its sizo in Europe, and
yet for every horse at least two dogs
Bre to bo seen in harness on its streets.
They are to bo met at all hours of tho
dav, but in tho early morning tne
boulevards are literally alivo with
them. Traffickers (mostly women)
ith caily painted carts drawn by well-
fod doga are then seen striving to be
first in the market place. A pretty,
bnie-hcaded Walloon peasant girl,
moving briskly at the side of a flower
cart drawn by a stalwart mastiff, is a
pleasing vision to the early riser. But
not only the gardener, but the butch
er, the baker, the grocer, the porter,
the expressman common carriers of
all kinds, indeed engage his services.
His step iB so much quicker than that
of the horse that he will in an hour
cover twice the distance and carry with
him a greater burden in proportion to
his size.
Six hundred pounds is the usual
draft of an ordinary dog, though a
mastiff is often taxed with as much
again. They are driven single, doublo
and Bometinies three and four abreast,
and are hitched indifferently, in front
of. beneath, or behind the cart or
wagon. When the vehiclo is loaded,
the driver walks, directing its course
and in emergencies laying his shoulder
to the wheel ; but w hen the load has
been discharged, ho often mounts the
box and rushes liko Jehu through the
streets.
It will not surprise those who know
that the steam engine was familiar to
the Romans as a toy to be told that
the hollow revolving cylinder used in
snuirrel cases has been turnod to ac
count hero in the movement of light
machiaery by enlarging its scale and
substituting "lido for "Bunny.
have also seen him treading an endless
belt in tho service of a wood-sawyer,
A gentleman of Liege, retaiuing his
fondness for lounging upon tho bonlc
vurd after losing the nso of his legs
had a perambulator so constructed
that a Danish hound which had been
his companion for years could be
hitched and almost concealed between
the wheels and now appears as regU'
larly in his old haunts as any of his
frionds. The hound is not only as happy
as when ho loitered at his master i
heels, but is manifestly proud of tho
service he renders him.
Let it not be forgotten thnt the Bel
giuns are among the most refined and
cultivated people on earth, and that
this new use of the dog is one of the
latest and most approved developments
of their civilization. Thirty years ago,
I have no doubt, a dog iu huruesg
would have excited as much remark in
this city as he would to-dav in Louie
ville or Memphis, though ho is now as
well recognized an institution of the
people as tho niulo is in either of those
cities.
Rigorous diseiplino and the long
habit of wearing muzzles seems to have
subdued tho belligerent instincts of
these dogs, for they uow meet asstrang
ers at the crossings without those su
percilious inspections and hostilo de
monstrations which characterize both
men and dogs till they have received
the lust touches of civilization. There
remains, however, a rudimentary love
of the chase, of which the artful driver
often avails himself to quicken their
speed; though, as Lord Chesterfield in
his excessive refinement is said to have
laughed without cachinnation, they
have learned to hunt without barking.
But a more interesting incident of
their labor is the complete extinction
of the Bbeep-killing propensity. Gen
tlemen bred in tho country assuro me
that this offense uguiust pastoral mor
tality is no longer known in Belgium
a reformation which would in itself
justify tho harnessing of all tho dogs
in America.
Tho expense of feeding them where
a number urn kept, or when placed,
like horses, ut a livery is from live to
six rents per day, horseflesh aud black
bread forming the staple of their food ;
though lure, us elsewhere, tho main
tenance of one or two in a family is
practically without cost. The expense
of shoeing, no small item to the keeper
of horses, is also wived.
All the experiments of breeding
which havo from time to time been
tried for tho improvement of horses
are now being made to produce a dog
of special fitness for harness. New
foundlands and rough-coated St. Bern
arils are ruled out on account of their
long hair. The mastiff has beeu found
too long iu the back and legs, ami it
is thought a desideratum to graft tho
splendid chest and breathing capacity
of tho bulldog upon this still Hurt
stock. Markets are established, where
they aro bought and sold like their
equine co-laborers at Tattersnll's, and
it is no uuusuul thing for a compactly
built and well-broken dog to sell fur
Sfi!) or 825.
This Is Klshliiif.
Frank Vinton and others caught u
'JOO pound sturgeon lust week aud
made the line fast to a young tree
standing on the shore. Later, when
thev went to draw the big fish to laud,
they found it had escaped by pulling
the tree up by the roots uud taking
over eighty feet of small ropo along.
The fishermen had three other big
lish tied up ut different places uloug
the stream, Asotin (Washington) HeU-tineL
THE ANGELIC HUSBAND,
There are husbands who are pretty,
There are husbands who aro witty.
Theroepre husbands who In public are M
smiling as the morn ;
There are husbands who are health-,
There are famous on'-s and wealthy,
But the real, angelic husband, well he's
never yet been bom.
Borne for strength of love aro noted,
Who aro really so devotod
That whene'er tholr wives aro absent they
are lonesome and forlorn-;
And while now and then you'll find one
Who's a fairly good and kind one,
Yet the real, ang"llc husband oh, he's never
yot been born.
Bo the woman who Is mated
To a man who may be rated
As "pretty fair," should cherish him for ever
and a day ,
For the real angelic creature,
Forfeit, quite, In every feature-
He has never been discovered, and he won't
be, so they say.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Copper bottomed The National
currency.
The Cherokee strip was formerly a
scalp. Dallas News.
Imitation is a flattery that woman
doesn't relish in mntters of dress.
It isn't prido that makes a man in an
attio look down on his neighbors.
'That iiiBt fills tho bill," said tho
robin as ho seized a fat worm. Lowell
Courier.
Kicking a mnn when ho is down is
sometimes the only way to make him
get up. Puck.
Hitch your w agon to a star if you
will, but look to tho strength of the
harness. Puck.
The street paver isn't far wrong in
characterizing his work as beneath
him. Buffalo Courier.
"I alius wonder if tho fish feels as
big as he looked to the fellow who lost
him." World's Fair Puck.
A gentlo maiden, voting anil fulr
Of loveliness a dream.
And she juit dotes on no, not ma,
but caramels and cream.
New York Herald.
There's a married man's scheme to
abolish seal fishing altogether. No
seals, no sucques. Mcridan Republi
can. Contentment is better than riches,
but it takes about the samo amount of
money for ono as the other. Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
Horsedealer "I always pick my
customers." Friend "Do yon? I
was told that you skinned them."
Brooklyn Life.
Thieves may break through - ?d
steal, but they can never rob tho tele
phono girl of her rings. People's
Home Journal.
It is interesting to eoehow sorry tho
man who wont to tho country for a
vacation and tho man who stayed home
are for each other. Washington Star.
To lovo In a cottage she didn't demur,
Her taste quite inclined her to that j
The only occasion for worry to her
Was the prospect of love In a Hat.
Washington Htnr.
A curious thing about politicians is
that just so soou as they have a fiuger
in tho pie they begin to talk of getting
there with both feet. Philadelphia
Times.
The first year after a. girl graduates
she makes the same disheartening
struggle to live up to her ideals that
sho makes after murriugc. Atchison
Globe.
Miss Whacker "Do you consider it
a sign of weakness in man to weep,
Mr. Factor?" Mr. Factor "That de
pends on who is playing the piano."
Clevelnud Plain Dealer.
"We hear a great deal about the
seven ages of man, but no ono ever al
ludes to the seven ages of woman
what is tho reason?" "ihillantry my
boy, gallantry." Boston Gazette.
"It must have beeu a lovo mutch,
for she know he was poor." "No, he
told her he had only a remuaut of his
fortune left, and she, of course, thought
she'd get a bargain." Inter-Oceau.
Miss Sweetly "I bought ono of the
veils that uro so thickly dottid I cau
scarcely see, and I look like u fright
yi it, don't I?" Miss Tartly "No,
no; it almost conceals your face."
Chieugo Inter-Oceau.
A gentleman having noticed that his
wife, instead of wearing her wedding
ring on her finger, kept it concealed
in her purse, took her to task about it.
The lady replied: "What would you
have? That is its proper place; you
didn't marry me, but my purse!"
Fliegendo Blatter.
"I nm hunting for a place to cut,"
said the hungry man W illi I lie lunch
basket. "You can look at all the
places you please, sir, " replied the Co
lumbian Guard, stillty, "but you can't
eat any of them unless you get u cou
ces ." But the hungry man had
pulled his hat down over his eyes aud
trudged on. Chicago Tribune.
Soundbite the Deep Scu.
A method of sounding the deep sea
without a lino has been devised by
John Muuro. Jt consists iu dropping
a lead containing a cartridge hieh
explodes on striking the bottom. The
sound of the explosion is received by
a submerged microphone apparatus
comuiuuicat ing with the ship. The
depth is estimated by the time occu
pied by the lead ill sinking to tho bot
tom. A very ingenious method of ac
complishing the same end was em
ployed iu Sir William Siemeii's bathy
meter. This instrument was inteudtd
to sound the deep sea without a line
through the varying uttruetion ot
gravity on a mercury eoluinu produced
by tho different depths of water un
derneath it. The bathymeter was
tried on a cable ship, but given up V
cause it was too seiisntive to the Mil
face waves.---Chicago Record,