V7 THE FOREST RIFDBL1C1K Is nUkc mrj W4m4t, kf J. E. WENK. Offloalu Braxbaiifh A Co.'sVoUdliii BJI IT11IT, TIONHTA, Ffc RATIS OF ADVERTISING ' On Bqaur, on inoh, on Innrtia. .1 1 On Bqnar, on inch, on month . . . , 1 09 On Square, on inoh, tbre month., I CI On Hqu., one inch, on jr,, . 10 00 Two 8qur on yr , 19 00 Quarter Column, on ynr .,. 80 00 half Column, on year 80 00 On. Column, on jimt. . . 100 "0 LC1 adTsrtuwmxit tea oat par U asch insertion. Marring' and death notios gratis. All bill, for yearly advertisement enOiu.! pORE PUBLICAN. Ttrmt, nWrtptlni ct4 tm a Mart Mrloc U ikr maihM. Oorrwpnnc ollIU4 trm d Mrti f tha country. N Ue wul kl takm faranuiu aamuileUau. quarterly, i.mporary aareruMmenu i VOL. XXVI. NO. 20. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 18, 1893. &1.50 PER ANNUM. b paid in adrano. Job work ah oa delivery. RE ST Tho fl nost draught horses i n the world arn socn iu tbu fdroets of English cities. ' An estimate tif tlio size of Texas may bo obtained by considering that it in fifty-four timed ns lurgo ns Con necticut. Tlio owner of somo once busy nliip yards in Waldboro, Mo., bus been plowing them up for conversion into grass field. As evidence of tho loneliness of tho Pncitlo Occuu it is stated thnt the steamer City of Peking on a recent trip sailed 1210 miles without meeting a Biuglo vessel. Homestead fiirmers in this country earn eight per cent, of tho total earn ings of tho -Nation, and their farms and stock represent seven per cent, of tho National wealth. It is reported that tho Ghcxiruh palace, situntod on tho banks of tho Nile, is to bo converted into a hotel ; that a lino of Btoam ferries is to ply across from Cairo, and that the Nile is to be tunneled. The United States produce 2220 pounds of grain to each-inhabitant ; Denmark, 2225 ; Canada, 1500 ; Russia, 1200; Rouinanio, 1150) Spain, 1100; France, 9D0; Sweden, OHO; Argentine Republic, 850; Australia, -700 ; Ger many, 700; Belgium, 600; Portugal, . C50 ; Ireland, 500 ; Scotland, 490 ; England, 800. Henrik Ibsen, tho Swedish dramat ist, is desirous of visiting England, principally, as ho declares, to see tho old men. "In all other countries," ho says, "the best work is done by men between forty and fifty years of ago; in England a man of Beveuty or eighty is still in his prime. I should like to ace such mon as Gladstone, Salisbury and Herbert Spencer." Tho Japanese Government is said to have demanded that tho Hawaiian Government extend tho voting fran chise to Japancso on the islands, tho same as to Europeans and Americans. In the opinion of tho Sau Francisco Chronicle "the demand has no legal baokiug, for every Nation has an ab solute right to regulate tho elective franchise for itself, but if Japan shall insist Hawaii will be powerless to re sist, unless she bo backed up by some strong Natiou. " Says the Century Magazine : Tho United States sells its forest lands at $2.50 an acre, lumber companies in directly acquiring a square mile of land for little over $1603, while tho timber on it iB ofteu worth 820,000. The rencli Liovemmeut forosts return an average profit of $2. 50 an acre annually from timber sules, or two and a hnlf per cent, interest on the value of tho land. The United htates now owns ouly enough forest land to provide a continual timber supply to its present population, if fore-its are managed and used as in Oermany. Tho United States is exactly iu the position of a man making largo drafts on and using up an immense idle capital, which, if properly invested, would return an in terest sufficient for his expenditures. In 1885 tho Govirumeut of Bavaria sent an expert forester to study tho timbers of the United States, who stated: "In fifty years you will have to import your timber, and as you will probably have a preference for Ameri can kinds, we shall now begin to grow them, in order to bo ready to send them to you at tho proper time." Tho Boston Advertiser reports an iu creased demand nt the oflico of the Massachusetts Stuto Board of Agricul ture for its descriptivo catalogue of abandoned farms. This fact taken alone would furnish no iudicatiou that purchases were contemplated, but, as the Advertiser points out, there was also during tho hard times of 1873 noticeublo increase iu the demand for farm lands, and reasoning from this analogy it says : "If by any uufortu uate possibility tho stringency of th past few weeks were to bo continued it is very likely that the 'ubandoued farms' would be bought up very large ly. A not inconsiderable class of mill ooeratives have saved up money, and if there were any very real prospec that the 'shutdown of some of th Massachusetts mills was to lie Jong continued, these operatives would go to farming as a better thing than re maining idle iu a largo city. A uum ber of those who have made good wages as mill operatives are well ac nuainted with farminu methods, aud can make at least a living ou a farm while at the same time they would fcav uo rent to pay. Tho low prices at which the abandoned farms are offered are tempting to many operatives wh desire to own a farm of their own." It is estimated that 119,000,000 cop per pennies havo been lost to circular tion in tbo century since the United Htates began to coin money. It is a foot of curious interest thai twenty-fonr of tho 6100 murderers ar retted in tho United States in 1890 were blind men. A queer now law in Chihuahua, Mex ico, permits any ono to shoot at sight a person caught stealing cattle. Such a law seems like a dangerous invita tion to the holders of private grudges. The American mosquito has crossed tho Atlantic, is entertaining itself to its heart's content on tho bluo blood of England, and, according to tho Now York Ledger, is getting in its fine work most effectively. The religious census of Australia, just completed, shows 1,485,066 mem bers of tho Church of England, 84,118 Catholics, 493,869 Presbyterians and 394,564 Methodists. These aro the four most numerous denominations. A learned German who hag devoted himself to the study of physiology and allied sciences makos a startling asser tion that mustaches are becoming commoner among women in tho pres ent day than in tho past. He says that in Constantinople among tho un veiled women one out of ton possesses an unmistakablo covering of down on tho upper lip. Keroscno oil is rapidly growing in favor as a cheap illumimint in China. The consumption, which was 8,256, 000 gallons in 1882, had risen to 49, 848,000 gallons in 1891. Of this amount eighty per cent, was imported from America and twenty per cent, from Russia. The illumimint before kerosene was introduced wms bean or tea oil. The Chinese have discovered, however, that kerosene is cheaper anal gives much better light. It is called fire oil by them. It is mentioned as an instance of what the foshionablo world has como to that a recent private concert given in London oost the hostess $12,500. According to this figure entertaining one's guests will soon be impossible, and society must inaugurate some new method of keeping its end up in that line. First-class artists over there ask sums ranging from $1000 to $2500 for three or four songs, but, fortunately, tho number of these artists is limited, and those who employ them are tho painfully rich. The Sergeant-at-Arms of tho nonse of Commons would feel lost if he had to exercise similar functions in ono of our American It gislatures say in Kan sas or even Illinois, declares tho Chi cago Herald. He is too easily upset. Mr. Erskine for that is the gentle man's name is described as going about during the recent fracas "be seeching infuriated legislators who were engaged iu the fray to desist, and begging others who were marching around with their hats on, to remove tho offending headgear." Imagine an American Sergeant-at-Arms begging and beseeching. He would use a club. The series of official reports setting forth the material and educational progress of tho country, recently is sued by tho Mexican Government, though not marking so great an ad vance as expected, is still very encour aging. During the past twenty years, the period covered by the comparisons, the railway mileage has increased twentyfold, and the telegraph mileage. eightfold, followed in each ease by a proportionate increase of business. Exports aud imports have largely in creased, as have also manufactures aud agriculture, and the appropriations of the Federal and State Governments and municipalities for educational purposes has advanced from $1,600, 0!M) to $3,500,000. Peace aud pros perity have been secured, especially during the Presidency of General Diaz, who holds the reins of Govern ment with a firm hand, and who is not afraid to suppress the tendency to revolutionary movement by tho prompt application of military force. The couutry still suffers, however, from the lock of esteem for productive in dustry on tho part of the upper classes, whose chief ambition is to hold public offices, imitating in this respect tho Argentines, and the absence of trained habits of industry ou the part of the Iudiau aud mixed races, which consti tute four-fifths of tho population. What is most needed is industrious im migrants to develop the vast natural resources of the Republic, a fact clear ly perceived by the Government, which has already permitted the establish ment of Mormon colonies iu Chihua hua and Souora, aud bid for immigra tion from northern Europe, BONO OF A HEART. Pear heart I love you ! all the day I wonder It skins are rich with blue, Or bending black with tempest and with thunder, Dear heart, dear heart, o'er you t Door heart I love you ! when pale stars are gleaming (Sad stars to me, and tew !) I wondor if God s lovelier lights are stream ing, Dear heart, dear heart, o'er you I Dear heart U llfo had only one bright blos som, One rose to meit the dew I'd kiss it, climbing to your restful bosom And wear Us thorn for you ! . Atlanta Constitution. OLD ROSES' ROMANCE T was a barren country, and Wad gory was generally shriveled with heat, but he al ways had roses in his garden, on his window-sill or in his button-holo. Growing flowers under difficulties was his recreation. That was whv he was called Old Rosea It was not other wise inapt, for there was something antique about him, though he wasn't old ; a flavor, an old-fashioned repose and self-possession. He was inspector oi tanks from this God-forsaken coun try. Apart from his duiies he kept most ly to himself, though when not travel ing he always went down to O'Fallen's Hotel once a day for a cup of tea tea kept especially for him ; and as he drank this slowly he talked to Vic, the barmaid, or to any chance visitors whom he knew. He never drank with any one, nor asked any one to drink, and, strange to say, no ono resented this. As Vie said, "he was different." Dicky Merritt, tho solicitor, who was hail-fellow with squatter, homestead lessee, cocatoo-farmer and shearer, called him "a lively old buffer." It was he, indeed, who gave him the name of Old Roses. Dickey sometimes went over to Long Neck Billabong, where Old Roses lived, for a reel, as he put it, and he always carried away a deep impression of the Inspector's qualities. "Had his day," said Dickey in O'Fallen's sitting-room one night, "in marble halls, or I'm a Jack. Run neck and neck with almighty swells once. Might livo here for a thousand years and he'd still be the nonesuch of the back blocks. I'd patent him file my caveat for him to-morrow if I could bully Old Roses!" Victoria Dowling, the barmaid, lifted her chin slightly from her hands, as she leaned through the opening be tween tho bar anil tho sitting-room, and said: "Mr. Merritt, Old Roses is a gentleman, and a gentleman is a gen tleman till he " "Till he humps his bluey into the Never Never Land, Vic? But what do you know about gentlemen, anyway? You were born five miles from the Jumping Sandhills, my dear !" "Oh," was tho quiet reply, "a wo man the commonest woman knows a gentleman by instinct. It isn't what they do, it's what they don't do ; and Old Roses doesn't do lots of things." "Right you are, Victoria; right you are again I xou uo the Jumping Hand bills credit. Old Roses has the root of the matter iu him and there you i ; i" UB(D lb . Dickey had a profound admiration for Vio. She had brains, was perfect ly fearless, and every one in the Wadgery country who visited O'Fal len's had a wholesome respect for her opinion. About this time news came that the Governor, Lord Malice, would pass through Wadgery on his tour up tho dock uiockb. a great junction was necessary. It was arranged. Then came the question of the address of welcome to be delivered at the bun- fluet. Dickey Merritt and the local doctor were proposed as composers, but they both declared they'd only "make rot of it," aud suggested Old Roses. They went to lay the thing before nun. Ihey found aim in his garden, He greeted them smiling in his enig matical way, and listened. While Dickey spoke, a flush slowly passed over him, and then immediately left liim pale ; but ho stood perfectly still, his hand leaning against a sandal tree, and the coldness of his face warmed up again slowly. His head having been bent attentively as ho listened, they did not see anything unusual. After a moment of silence and in scrutable deliberation, ho answered that he would do as they wished. Dickey hinted that he would require some information about Lord Malice's past career and his family's history, but ho assured them that he did not need it ; and his eyes idled somewhat ironically, with Dickey's face. When the two had gone Old Roses sat in his room, a handful of letters, a photograph, aud a couple of decora tious spread out before him ; his fin gers resting on them, and his look cn gaged with a very far horizon. lho Governor came. He was met outside the township by the citizeLs and escorted in a dusty and numer ous cavalcade. They pushed tho in spection house. The garden was blooming, ana ou tlio root a flag was flying. Struck by the singular char aqter of the place Lord Malice asked who lived there, and proposed stop ping for a moment to make the ac quaiutuuee of its owner, udding, with some slight sarcasm, that if the olli oers of the Government were too busy to pay their respects to their (ioveruor, their Governor must pay his respects to them. But Old Roses was not iu the garden nor iu the house, and they loft with tf out seeing him. Ho was sitting un der a willow at the Billabong, reading over and over to himself tho address to bo delivered before tho Governor in the evening. And as ho read his face had a wintry and inhospitable look. Ihe night como. Old Roses entered the dining room quietly with the crowd, far in tho Governor's wake. According to his request, ho was given a scat in a distant corner, whero ho was quite inconspicuous. Most of the men prosont were In evening dress. He wore a plain tweed suit, but car ried a handsome rose in his bntton- holo. It was impossible to put him at a disadvantage. He looked distin guished as he was. He appeared to be much interested in Lord Malice. Ihe early proceedings were cordial, for the Governor and his suite mado them selves most agreeable, and talk flowed amiably. After a timo there was a rattlo of knives and forks, and the Chairman aroso. Then, after a chorus of "hear, hears," there was general silence. The doorways of the rooms were filled by tho women servants of tho hotel. Chief among them was Vic, who kept her eyes mostly on Old Roses. She knew that he was to road the address and speak, and she was mere interested in him and his success than in Lord Malice and suite. Her admiration of him was great. He had always treated her as a lady, and it had done her good. He had looked earnestly and kindly into her brown eyes, and "And I call upon Mr. Adam Sher wood to speak to the health of his Ex cellency, Lord Malice." In his modest corner, Old Roses stretehed to his feet. The Governor glanced over carelessly. He only saw a figure in gray, with a rose at button- bole. The Chairman whispered that it was the owner of the house and gar den which had interested his Excel lency that afternoon. His Excellency looked a littlo closer, but saw only a rim of iron gray hair above the paper held before Old Roses' face. Then a voice came from behind the paper: "lour .excellency, Mr. Chair man and Gentlomen " At the first words the Governor started, and his eyes flushed searching ly, curiously at the paper that walled the face and at the iron gray hair. Tbo voice was distinct and clear, with modulated emphasis. It had a pe culiarly penetrating quality. A few in tho room and particularly Vic were Btruck by something in tho voice that it resembled another. She soon found the trail. Her eyes also fastened on the paper. Then she moved and went to another door. Here she could see behind the paper at an angle. Her eyes ran from the screened face to that of the Governor. His Excellency had dropped the lower part of his face in his hand, and he was listening intently. Vio noticed that his eyes were painfully grave and concerned. She also noticed other things. Tho address was strange. It had been submitted to the committee and though it struck them as out-of-the-wayish, it had been approved. It seemed different When read as Old Roses was reading it. Tho words Bounded so inclement as thoy were chiselled out by tho speaker's voice. Dickey Merrit afterward declared that many phrases were interpolated by Old Roses at the moment. Tho speaker referred intimately and with peculiar knowledge to the family history of Lord Malice, to certain more or less private mutters which did not concern the public, to the author ity of the name and the high duty de volving upon one who bore the earl dom of Malice. He dwelt upon the personal character of his Excellency's antecedents, and praised their honor able services to the country. He re ferred to the death of Lord Malice's eldest brother in Burnish, but ho did it strangely. Then, with acute incisiveness, ho drew a picture of what a person in so exalted a position as a Governor should bo aud should not be. His voice assuredly had at this point a flue edge of scoru. Tho aides-de-camp were nervous, the Chairman apprehen sive, the committee ill at ease. But tho Governor now was perfectly still, though, as Vio Dowling thought, rather pinched and old-lookiug. His eyes never wandered from that paper nor the gray hair. Presently the voice of the speaker changed. "But," said he, "in Lord Malice we have the perfect Governor ; a man of blameless and enviable life, aud pos sessed abundantly of discreetness, judgment, administrative ability and power ; tho absolute type of English nobility aud British character !" Thou he dropped the paper from be fore his face, aud his eyes met those of the Governor, aud stayed. Lord Mulicolet go a long, choking breath, which sounded very much like im measurable relief. During the rest of the speech delivered iu a fino tem pered voice he sat as in a dream, yet his eyes iuteutly upon the othur, w ho now seemed to recite rather than read. He thrilled all by tho pleasant reson ance of his tones, aud sent the blood aching delightfully through Vic Dow liug's veius. Wheu he sat down there was im mense applause. The Governor rose in reply. Ho spoke in a low voice, but any one listening outside would have said that Old Roses was still speaking. By this resemblance the girl Vie had trailed to others. It was now apparent to many, but Dickey said afterward tlutt it was simply a ease of birth and breeding men used to walking red carpet grew aliko, just as btud-owuers uud rabbit-catchers did. Tho last words of tho Governor's reply Were delivered iu a very con vincing tone si his eyes hung on Old Roses' face. "And, as I am indebted to you, gent lemeu, for the feelings of loyaly to thv throny, which prompted this reception and th address just de livered, so am I indebted to Mr. Adam Sherwood for his admirablo lan guage and the unusual sincerity of liis speaking ; and to both you and him for most notablo kindness. Imme diately after the Governor's speech Old Roses stole out, but as ho passed through tho door where Vio stood his hand brushed against hers. Feeling its touch, ho grasped it eagerly for an instant, as though ho was glad of tho friendliness in her eyes. It was just before dawn of tho morn ing that the Governor knocked at tho door of tho house by Long Neck Bil labong. Tho door opened at once, and he entered without a word. He and Old Roses stood face to face. His face was drawn and worn, the other's cold and colm. "Tom, Tom," Lord Malice said, "wo thought you were dead " "That is, Edward, having left me to my fate in Burmnh you were only half a mile away with a column of stout soldiers and hillmen you waited till my death was reported, and as sured, and then came on to England ; for two things, to take tho title just made vacant by our father's death, and to marry my intended wife, who, God knows, appeared to have little care which brother it was. Yon got both. I was long a prisoner. When I got free, I knew ; I waited. I was waiting till you had a child. lwelve years have gone ; you have no child. But I shall spare you yet awhile. If your wife shall die, or you should have a child, I shall return." Tho Governor lifted his head wearily from tho table where ho now sat. 'Tom, " he said, in a low, heavy voice, 'I was always something of a scoun drel, but I've repented of that thing every day of my life since. It has been knives knives all tho way. 1 am glad I can't tell you how glad that yon are alive." Ho stretched out hiB nana with a motion of great relief. "I was afraid you were going to speak to-night to tell all, even thougn i was your brother. You spare me for the sake" "For the Bake of our name," tho other interjected, stonily. "For the Bake of our name. But I would have taken my punishment, taken it in thankfulness, because you are alive." "Taken it like a man, your Excel lency," was tho low rejoinder. "You will not wipe tho thing ont, Tom?" said the other anxiously. Tom Hallwood dried tho perspira tion from his forehead. "It can never bo wiped out, for you shook all my faith in my old world. That's the worst thing that can hap pen a man. I only believe in the very common people now those who are not put npon thoir honor. One doesn't expect it of them, and unlikely as tt is, one isn't often deoeived in them. I think we'd better talk no more about it." "You mean I had better go, Tom?" "I think so. I am going to marry soon." Tho other started nervously. "You needn't bo so shocked. I'll como back one day, but not till your wife dies, or you have had a child, as I said." Tho Governor rose to his feet and went to the door. "Whom do you in tend marrying?" he asked, in a voice far from regal or vice-regal, only humbled and disturbed. The reply was instant and koen. "A barmaid. " The other's hand dropped from the door. But Old Rosos, passing over, opened it, and, mutely waiting for tho other to pass through, said : "Good day, my lord I" The Governor passed out from the palo light of the lamp into the gray and moist morning. He turned at a point whero the house, would be lost to view, and saw the other still stand ing there. The voice of Old Roses kept ringing in his cars sardonically. He knew that his punishment must go on and on. And it did. Old Roses marriod Vic toria Dowling from the Jumping Sand hills, and there was comely issue, and that issue is now at Eton ; for Esau came into tho birthright, as he hinted he would, at his own time. But ho and his wife have a way of being indif ferent to tho gay, astonished world. Aud, uncommon as it may seom, he has not tired other. Loudon Speaker. Substitutes a l'iuger fur a 'ose. Fred Darcy, a boy eighteen years old, is at St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester, X. Y., recovering from the first stage of a peculiar surgical operation. When young, necrosis of the uasal bones de stroyed his nose, leaving an unsightly depression. Doctor Johu O. Rowe, a Rochester specialist, undertook to pro vide an artificial nose. He has done so by amputating tho third finger of tho left hand at the first joint and takiug tho bone of tho middle finger for the bridge of the artificial nose. Tho skin of tho face was raised uud the finger put iu place uud stitched to the tissue above the nose. Iu order to secure circulation and maintain life iu the finger the hand has been bound to the face for a week, but will be re leased ou Sunday by an amputation at the finger's second joint, alter which now nostrils will be established iu con nection with tho old. Doctor Rowe has had ono case of the kind before. Chicago Record. Human Skeleton Twenty-five Feet Long. M. Le Cat, tho French scientist, iu his monograph ou giants says: At Dauphine ou January 11, Uilli, at u placu known as the Giant's Field, a hrk'k tomb thirty feet long, twelve feet wide und ei;,'ht feet high wus dis covered. When opened it was found to colli-: in a human skeleton entire twouty-tive feet and a half long, ton feet wido uerosi the shoulders uud eight feet thick from the breast bone to the back. His teeth wero each about tho si.e of au ox's foot aud his shiuboiies each measured four feet iu length. St. Louis Republic, RATS. MICE AND ROACHES, THET SWARM AT THE DEPART MENTS IN WASHINGTON. Vermin Are Destroying Many Valua ble Papers Kodents Cleaned Out of the White House. YERMIN make much troublo for the Government at Wash ington. Until recently tho White House has been infested by myriads of rats. They were cleaned out at tho beginning of tho Harrison administration by an expert with fer rets. The wooden floors in tho base ment of the Executive Mansion were taken np and concrete was laid down instead. This was done mainly for the purpose of keeping out such four footed foes in the future. Tho mice in the building are few, by reason of the efficiency of a black and w hite cat that strayed in aud settled down in the kitchen four years ago. When Grant became President for tho first time tho rats were so aggressive that Mrs. Grant demanded the removal of the stable, which then adjoined tho building on the cast. But tho destruction of tho stable did not remove tho rodent pests. In fact, they wero so bold that ono of them tripped up tho fat colored cook as she walked across the kitchen, and she killed it by Bitting down upon it. The animals made a network of tunnels under the brick pavements and in the walls. Thoy were not content with ordinary food, but preferred the rem nants of state dinners. Crump, steward of the White House under Hayes, swore that a banquet committee of the older rats used to examine his books each night for the purpose of 'finding out what would be served for dinner the next day. Tho Pension Office is tho chosen haunt of ruts. Swarms of them adopted the building as their home while it was as yet iu process of construction. At present the walls are alive with them, and tho floors are full of their holes. They feod on the remnants of 2000 daily lunches eaten in tho build ing. Such Bcraps commonly find their way to the waste paper room, which serves tho rodents as a breeding place. In the same binding sparrows are al most as great a nuisance as the preda tory quadrupeds described. They make their nests by hundreds among the timbers beneath tho lofty roof. In summer pigeons fly in through tho open windows and raise, families on tho premises. Some of theso aro "homers" lost on journeys with messages. Rats used to do a great deal of dam age at the Postoftlco Departmeut. They ate quantities of money orders aud postal notes, as well as blank books. Much damage was dono by them to "dead" packages in the storeroom for such goods. So, two years ago, a rat catcher was employed. Ho brought ferrets ami cleared out tho building. Incidentally he astonished the officials by crawling all around tho structure, a distance of four blocks, making his way beneath tho flooring of tho Biib basemont, where there was no Bpaco to wrigglo through save such as had been left in puttiug down the Bewer and gas pipes. This ferret like proceeding is very destruc tive to health, ou account of the bad air onl tuophitio gases encountered. Three hundred and odd cats are regu larly kept on tho rolls of tho Postofliee Department to prevent rats from eating tho contents of mail bags. Formerly rats were very bad at tho Patent Office, but they were driveu ont with ferretn. They used to chew up a great mauy valuable papers, making their nests among the stacks of paten', rec ords, covering half a million inven tions, which occupy many thousand cubic feet in tho basement.. The few rodents which still remain are kept down in numbers by nearly a score of cats. The Treasury has not been able to get rid of the rats which iufest its building. Ferrets wero tried a year ago with only partial success. Some of tho floors were toru up and what appeared to be the principal breeding place was discovered in tho waste paper room. A good many lu sts wero destroyed. Fortunately, the pests cannot get at tho paper money to gnaw it, because it is shut up iu safes. At tho Senate end of the Capitol there uro very few rats. This seems odd, in asmuch as there are a great many iu the sub-basement of tho House wing. Only a year ago they caused a lire in the folding-room by nibbling matches. They aro fond of eating tho paste off tho wrappers of public documents ulso. Tho Government Printing Ollice, which was badly troubled with rats a few years ago, has been wholly de serted by them for some time past. Another nuisance that alllicts tho Government departments is roaches. Tho Pension OlKco swarms with them. At night the watchmen catch big fat ones uud keep them until morning iu pasteboard boxes. Then they feed them to the goldfishes iu the fountain in the middle of tho great cour t. Tho latter gobble them greedily, which fact suggests that possible such vermin might bo made use of by anglers for bait. The scientific library of the Puteut Oflico is visited onee iu two years by nil expert who destroys all "the roaches by contract. The War, State and Navy Building used to be overrun with roaches, but they have been nearly cleaned out. The docu ment room of tho Housi of l!epr seiita tives is bothered u goo I lc:il with roaches. There are not a few of them ulso iu the White House, so that the clerks there are obliged to put their postage stamps in tin boxis to keep the creatures lloni eating the mucilage oil' the backs. Most of the roaches re ferred to are of the kind know n us water bugs or t'rotoii bugs. They were originally imported li'om Ger many. - Washington Mar. In 1K7-1 tin: whole number of fail ures iu this couutry. was only 01-l, THE WIND'S STORV. I am sure that the wind is upcakln?, For each flower is nodding its head. And the limbs ot tho trues are croaking I wish that I knew what it snld. Borne story, perhap, it is Mling, A story of some distant land , But to me it is like the swolling Of breakors upon the white snnd. The leaves wa't a moment to listen, Then shake with a perfect dollcM, All the flowers like diamonds glisten And nod first to left, then to right. The wind posses on In its measure. And long ere tho story is through The forest is dancing with pleasure 1 wish I could understand, too. Flavel Beott Mines, in Frank LcsliCfe HIMOR OF THE IAY. Tho general run of men After tho last street car. Philadelphia Record. Tho man who falls iu love very often dislocates his common sense. Puck. To make bills is human; to pay them these days is divine. Pittsburg Bulletin. Forged notes can always be properly classed amoug the gilt-edged paper ou a bank. Chicogo Inter-Ocean. The most popular bird of passago arriving at the port of New York this month is tho gold eagle. Bait imoro American-. ' "That," said tho man who smote a calamity howler, "is ono of tho best financial strokes I ever made." Wash ington Star. The photograph of a boy never looks like him, because ho ouo ever saw a boy as clean as he is iu a photograph. Atchison Globe. The clerk who attempts to live be yond his means will soon bo obliged to live beyond the reach of his friends. New Orleans Picayune. "What sort of o,girl is she?" "C she is a miss with a mission." "Ah?" "And her mission is seeking a man with a mansion." Sketch. Occasionally you will meet a man who seems to think just as you do. What clever ideas he has, and what a pity ho is so scaroo. Blizzard. Jack the Clipper has been arretted in New York. The girls whoso tresses he cut will be present at his trial to upbraid him. Galveston News. Customer "Do you suppose you can take a good picture of me ?" Pho tographer "I shall havo to answer you in the negative, sir." Voguo. Unmixed evils rarely occur. The fact that money has been tight is sdid to have resulted iu a good deal of eober thought. Baltimore American. It is not true that "eVery man Hfs price has," as they say I know of one, an honest man, Who glve himself away. Vogue. A man never looks so helpless aud insignificant as when standing around a dry goods Btore waiting for his wife to got through trading. Lowell Courier. It is very hard to explain tho attrac tions of country life to a city man who has just investigated tho voltage of a black-faced bumble-bee. Baltimore American. "And yon are poor?" "Yes, but wo are happy." "Happy iu your pov erty?" "Yes, for every ouo around us is poorer than ourselves." New York Press. Miss Antique "How mean theso newspapers are I Hero is a column headed 'Proposals,' aud it is all about public improvements aud such non sense." Tho Club. Mrs. Skidmore (reading) "Ph i ippa Fawcctt, who won such great dis tinction as senior wrangler at Oxford, is still unmarried." Mr. Skidmore "No wonder." Detroit Free Press. Watts "I can't see what reason you havo for comparing old inr.a Gotrox to a sausage." Potts -"Because his stuff is oil that makes him of any consequence. "Indianapolis Jour nal. Gaswoll "I'm disgusted with you ig Mr. Van Praam." Dukane "Why?" "He does nothing but flirt with tho girls." "Then you dou't like to st- J a man's efforts all miss directed." Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. "Can't you settle this bill to-u.iv, sir?" asked tho tailor of the delinquent M. P. "No, Snip, it woul-lu t lie i : r liamentary. I've merely glanced cr it, you know, audi can't pass u I ill until after it third reading." Tid Bits. He blushed a fiery red ; her heart went pit-a-pat; she gently hung her head, aud looked down on tin mat. He trembled in his pceh ; he roi-.i from where he sat, an-1 shouted with a screech, "Vou're sittiuoii my hit!" Tid Hits. "So you only havo a week's vacation instead of two, this year?" "Yes; they told mo 1 must either give up half my vacatiou or iosethi situation; and 1 concluded that half a lo.if was much butter th-.iu uo broad." lirook lyu Life. "Men are not to betniste I," she re marked to her young, r an I moro suc cessful friend. "Oh, my dear," s ai l her friend, sweetly, "has it taken all these years to teach you that?" The silence that followed couldn't bo broken with a sledgehammer. De troit Free Press. A young lawyer talked four Hours to a Indiana jury who felt like lynch ing him. His opponent, a ; ri' l- d old professional, arose, looked s.e,-tly at tho Judge, ami said : " our h..n r, 1 will follow the example of lay young fricud, who has ju-t finished, an li.ili Iii 1 1 the case without argument." Hull ho sat down, an I the sih-nee was lur.;,) uud oppressive. ChriM lull ut Work. There are now seventy lim-sot oceu i mail steamers. In lss th, r- w. re 107,137 steam VenovU oh the liiU u
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers