THE FOREST REPUBLICAN b Mblltht tTlrry Wsteesday, ty J. B. WENK. Offloaln Bnarbaash ft Co.'s Valldlu.1; HJf ITMIT, TIONBSTA, ft. RATS OF ADVERTISING l Forest republican. One Sqaar, one inoh, one Insertion, . I I 90 One Hquare, one Inch, one month. . ., I W One Fquare, one inoh. three months. , 09 One Hquare, one Inoh, one year.... . . 10 00 Two Kqnares, one year 5 00 Quarter Column, one year.. 8000 Half Column, one year . 00 00 One Column, one year. 100 "O Legal adTertiiemMite ten ceate per U each inaartion. Marriage and death notice fratin. All bills for yearly advertisem"nts eHeei4 Trm. ... ti ao 1. nkwrfptlrat ncet-ra fw shatter Mrlod una tknw ai.nths. Cnrrpoiidrc alllt4 frra al put. of lh country. N. ..He wUI 1U .f uninogi owmanlcUea. VOL. XXVI. NO. 33. -TTONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 0, 1893. S1.50 PER ANNUM. quarterly. Temporary aaverueoineuw i be paid in adranoe. Job work oaih on delivery. Malaria is responsible for half, the deaths of nil iiinnkiml, according to an English physician. It is seid Hint two-thirds of nil the r-ottiin duck produced in tho world is inndo within twenty miles of Baltimore, M1. Tr. Burneh recently told the New York Academy thnt less drugs and more hygiene ought to be used iu the euro of the hick. 1 A treble showing tho monetary sys tem of tho world has been jiropnred by Director of the United Stntos Mint rrcston. The statistics show thnt the aggregate stock of gold is 582,605, 000; silver, $4,042,700,000, nud un covered paper, $2,0:15, 873,000. It is stilted by the Chicago ITerald thnt nn American house1 hss coneludod n eout met for 2, 500, 000 tons of Japanese coal, to bo delivered nt Snn Francisco in tho courso of the next ten years. Hitherto tho oonl imported at San Franoisco has been prinoipnlly Aus trnlinn. Tho American Farmer admits thnt "tho New Zonlnuders nro moro pro gressive than wo ore. They havo passed a law giving women, married or single, all the rights nud privileges of citizenship. Every woninu in New Zealand is now nn good na any other mnn, nud better if sho behaves her self." The effect of a newspaper pnragraph may be far-reaching iu its legal conse quences sometimes especially in France. AX. Comet, overseer nt tho West of Franco Engine Works, was severely attacked in tho columns of n railroad newspaper L'Eeho des Chem ist do Fer (Eulish, "Tho Railway Echo"). . Ho took these criticisms so much to heart that he committed sui cide, leaving a widow and child. Tho raid widow brought suit for damages against L'Eeho, holding that her hus band's death was tho direct result of the criticisms in thnt paper, and the court, concurriug in thnt view, award ed the full amount claimed, ten thou sand dollnrs, and condemned tho news paper in tho entire costs of the action. In his annual report Brigadier-Gen-ernl Cnrliu, commanding the Depart ment of tho Columbia, says that tho experiment of tanking the Indian a soldier is a decided failure so far as his experience goeB, and he has recom mended tho discharge of the few Indian soldiers now in his department, less than a company. General Cnrlin re ports that there has been a decided increnso iu desertions during the past year, due, in a great measure, to the unpopularity of the ten year service law, and ho recommends tho repeal of thnt law. Ho also recommends thnt tho small posts in his department be abandoned nud tho troops concentrated nt a general post nt the principal rail rond center. Tho varieties of sleigh bells this sea son will bo larger than ever, announces the Chicago Herald, and manufactur ers will cater more to luxurious tastes. As one can now pny $50 or moro for a whip, so can he give $40 for a body Mr p of bells. For that he can get a btrap covered with Alaska sealskin, with sixty silver, brass, gold or nickel bulls, the metal not being, of course, so precious as tho names indicate. Somewhat cheaper straps re made of beaver or miuk, wool senl, kangaroo, ooze calf or Persian lamb. Or if the pleasure-seeker wishes, he can imitate the tastes of the Russian, tho Lap lander or tho Tartar. Iu foxtail plumes ho can find tho upright, the drooping and the hanging plumes, or some elegant horse hair plumes, for 830 per pair. That grand being, the American heiress, specially created for the re lief of embarrassed nobles, says the London Speculator, has attained al most to the summit of her ambition. She has not won a throuo yet, though she may, if the King of Servia is a wise man ; but she has almost up proaehed that surpassing altitude. Ac- cording to the Fall Mall Gazette, Prince Iseuberg-liirusteiu has been ac cepted by Miss Pullman, daughter of the lord of the diuiug cars, and the hereditary prince is not only the eldest son of a mediatised prince, one of the even-born who might murry a Haps burg, but is himself an imperial high' uess, his mother having been au Aus trian archduchess. At least so says the Almahach do (iotha, which is a tlnal authority. American brides who have only won Oolouuus, Borghesoi or English dukes, will feel quite eclipsed and take no further pleasure iu din juonis. The passion fur rank is cor taiuly not confined to England, though here it is so strong that ever, the Queen felt promoted when fehg was saluted Emjnebb. LITTLE ALL-ALONEY, Mttle All-Aloney's feet I rittnr-patter la the hall, And his mother rune to meet And to kiss her toddling sweet, Ere perchance he fall. He is, eh, so weak and small I r Tat what dnger shall he fear When his mother hovoth nenr And Be hears her cheering call "All-Aloney?' Little All-Aloney's face It is all aglow with glee, As around that romping place At a terrifying pace LunRoth, pluugeth ho " And that hero seems to he All unconscious of our cheers Only one dear voice he hears Calling reassuringly ; "All-Aloney !" Though his legs bend with their load. Though his feet thoy seemed so small Thnt you cannot help forebode Borne disastrous cplsodo In that noisy hnll ; Neither threatening bump nor fall Little All-Aloney fears, But with sweet bravado steers Whither oomes that cheery call I "All-Aloney !" Ah, thnt In the years to come, When ho shares of Sorrow's store, When bis feet are chill and numb, When his cross Is burdensome, Mki his heart is sore ; Would that he could hear oneo more The gentle voice he used to bear Divine with mother love and cheer. Calling from yonder spirit shore i "All, all alone!" Eugene Field, in Chicago Record. REGINALD. BY EMMA A. OPTER. RTHUR CRAIG tossed his cigar away and strolled around to where a red-nnd-blne ham mock was slung be tween two oak trees, in the big lawn which was the great attraction of the select summer hotel though it was summer no longer ; there was an autumn scent in the soft air. , But Lucy Winslow was staying here still, with her brother's wife and her little nephew ; therefore Arthur Craig stayed on also. She was sitting in the hammock, with little Reginald beside her. Reg inald always was beside her; their fondness for each other was great, it had been a sourco of affliction to Craig all summer. He told himself that ho wasn't jeal ous ol Kegmalil, but if a fellow could get a chance to ace a girl alone once a week or so, it would be a relief. Luto ly he had particularly wished to seo Miss inslow alone. "Hello, Arthur !" said Reginald. "Ob, Reginald, smd his pretty aunt, flushing, " say Mr. craigi ' "That fellow that was down here to see hiin culled him Arthur, and I'm going to, said Reginald. He was eight years old, and had the blue-eyed, fatr-skinned face of cneruu. inn no cueruo was ever so pert and precocious as Reginald. "Let hiin, Miss Winslow," said Craig. He dropped down on the grass at her feet and looked up at her. Surely Bhe must know by this time I "Say," said Regil.nld, "you said you'd take me boating on the river again and you haven't." 'We've been several times, haven't we?" said Craig. How sweet she looked ! "Oh, well, Aunt Lucy's always been ulong I You said you'd take me, and you got to!" "Reginald, dear !" his Aunt Lucy remonstrated. "So I will," Craig agreed. "Did you read that poem I gave you, Miss Lucy?" "Youp, she read it," 6aid Reginald. "Read some of it to me. It ain't any good. Got a nice cover, that's all." Lucy laughed softly. "It is a beautiful thing, Mr. Craig," she said. "I enjoyed every word of it. " "You you saw the passage I marked?" Craig's face was flushed and eHger. "Ycb!" Lucy murmured. She looked closely at Reginald's tailor-hat, in her lap. "I'll tell you, Arthur," said Regin ald, swinging his lithe little legs, "if you'd rather take me down to Murphy's and buy me two ioe-oream sodas choo olate first and then strawberry in stead of taking roe out in the boat, w'y, you can it won't make any dif ference to me." "Oh, Reginald!" Lucy begged, with a distressed luugh. "Now, that is magnanimous !" Craig responded. He wondered if his henrty wish that Reginald w as somewhere else was apparent? "I think I'll accept that alternative. That passage I marked, Miss Winslow I didn't do it idly. There comes a time in n man's life when he feels a a love like that for some woman. " Did she know all he meant? Her face was downcast and averted. Reg inald, however, wasstaringfull at him, and Craig's inward chafings intensified. "Huy, you want to make a trade?" Reginald demanded. "I got a k'leid oscope, and I'm sick of it. I want a printing press. 'Cuuso you haven't got any, but if you'll buy one and give me, I'll give you my k'leidoseopo and mebbe fifty cents or so besides. Say, '11 you do it, Arthur?" "I'll think about it. Do you want to run over uud see if tho mail is iu, Reginald? I'm expectitg a letter." Reginald reflected and shook his head. "I guess I'll wait till byuie-by," he said, "and you e:u go with uie and we'll top at Murphy's " "Miss Winslow," said Craig, des perately, "I don't know whether yon know whether you hnve guessed I don't know, Miss Winslow, whether you you have suspected " "My goodness !" said Reginald, with a high-pitched eight-year-old laugh ; "what are you trying to say, Arthur?" Craig looked nt Lucy. Was she laughing at him, too? His face grew warm with tho sudden wretched sus picion that she was. After all, was he not a fool to think for a moment thnt sho could care for him? Of a sudden ho saw matters in a new, a painful light. If sho had cared for him, would she not hnve managed now and then that they might see each other alone? How rarely had that occurred how continually had that little nnisifnce of a nephew dogged them ! Had she con trived it? Had she made Reginald a defense, a guard against unwelcome advances? He was all at once misera bly certain of it. He waB warm with mortification, and cold, at heart with keen unhnppinness. He had been stupidly slow of percep tion, thnt was all. But that was a thing which could be remedied. Ho rose from the grass, and looked down at Lucy Winslow with a set sinile. "Well, I don't believe I know my self what I'm trying to say, Reginald," ho answered. "I needn t say good-by to you just now, Miss Winslow, for I'll be here a day or so yet. But I'll bo off about Thursday, I guess, and after a month or so at home, I expect to go out West on business that will keep me there indefinitely, I imagine. I shall think of this summer often, nnd with pleasure, I assure you. He bowed, and turned away. He took himself and his bitterness up to hisroom. He felt thnt ever hour until Thursday would be a period of anguish ; and he began to put things into his trunk in helter-skelter fashion. He had half filled it when Reginald walked in, without knocking. He sat down in the largest chair. "Ho?" he remarked, scoffingly, "that tho kind of a trunk yon got, with cloth all over it? Mine's got wooden slats on, nnd tin and brass nails. What's that thing? Opry- glasses, ain't it? Say, '11 you give 'em to mo ! "Yes, tako them," said Craig, wear ily- Reginald spent several minutes in ex amining objects in the room through the glasses, for which he saw nt to re turn no thanks. "Say," he observed presently, turn ing them upon Craig, . "she's crying. That's whnt I come up to tell you. I thought mebbe you'd like to know." "Who's crying?" Craig demanded. His heart stood still. "Aunt Lucy's crying," said Regin ald. "Sho began to cry soon 's yon turned round, most. I told her somebody'd see her, but sho didn't stop, and I wasn't going to stay there and her a blubbering, and 1 thought I'd come up and tell you." Reginald looked up with his augolio blue eyes and his cherubio smile. oay, l m going to see what s in that pniHh box, Arthur. You care.' Craig strode from the room. Ho got down the stairs two at a time, and rushed around to the red-and-blue hammock between tho shady oak trees. "Lucy !" he said, bending over her. "You are not you can't be crying because 1 in going away, Lucy There was a hot Hush in tho tearful face she raised to him. "Oh, Lucy," he implored, "don't bo ashamed of it ! If yon are crying about me, don't you know I am tho happiest man on earth? I was so cer tain you .didn't enre for me, and had tried to ward me off with with Reginald, you know, because he was lorever around. But if you can cry because I am going away, Lucy, then I can finish what I was trying to say to you. Y'ou know what it was." Lucy caught a sobbing breath. "But you are going out West!" Bhe faltered. "Yes, and you with mo !" Craig re torted. Nobody was near them, and ho sat down beside her, his hand warmly clasping hers. "How did you know I was crying?" Lucy queried, suddenly, after ten minutes of glowing happiness. "Reginald came and told me. Reginald is a trump," snid Craig "a jewel !" "There he comes," Baid Lucy. "Oh, Arthur, he's got your your smoking jacket on !" "It's my bath:robe," Craig re sponded, with the composure of a perfect, all-sntisfyiug beatitude. "I don't mind it iu tho least 1" Saturday Night. (Jus For Cooking. While electricity is trenching so seriously upon the field of gas light ing, any recent application of gas which leads to nn extension of its con sumption is of importance to gus pro ducers. Some foreign companies seem to have done this quite successfully iu at leust one direction. At the recent Dundee meeting of tho North British Association of Gas Managers one mem ber, Mr. J. Ballautyne, of Rothesay, stated thnt the company had gained nn increase of consumption of at least l'ctty per oeut. iu about six years, due to eookmg by gas umoug its custom ers. Tho gas company furnishes the cookerB to its patrons nt a rental of ten per cent, of tho list cost price per annum, which charge also includes putting them iu, taking them away and keeping them in order. About eleveu per cent of the customers are supplied. His and other companies have not only found thin a protitablo part of their market, but it has the added advantage of being nearly a day light consumption, thus tending to equalize the demand on tho plant. Engineering Record. SCIENTIFIC A XI) INDUSTRIAL. Clonds are on tho average about COO yards in thickness. American tools aro far better thnu those of European make. Tho largest flnh known to science is the basking shark, an enormous but harmless variety. A steel ship has been constructed iu Cardiff, Wales, with tho standing rig ging, as well as the hull, all of steel. The largest known species of night flying insects is the Atlas moth, a resi dent of the American tropics, which has a wing spread of over a foot. Human hair varies in thickness from the 250th to the GOOth part of nn inch. The coarsest fiber of wool is about one 200th part of an inch in diameter; the finest only the 1500th part. South Amorican ants havo been known to construct a tunnel three miles in length, a labor for them pro portionate to that which would bo re quired for men to tunnel nnder tho Atlantic from New York to London. Many larvsa of beetles and other insects are UHed for food ; tho bee gives honey and wax, the coccus mnnnn nnd cochinenl, tho Spanish fly a blistering drug, the gnll insects an astringent, and tho silk worm an articlo of dress. In Japan there are now twenty pub blio electric companies in operation. Further companies aro proposed, and there is a considerable demand for electrical engineers. Nearly all of tho companies are conducted by Ameri cans. . A New England firm is introducing an automatio gas lighter for Btreet lamps, which works on the prin ciple of an eight-day clock. It is explained that the only attention tho lighter requires is a weekly winding of the clock movement, and that it lights the lamp at the required time and extinguishes it at daybreak. Safety matches that can be used without a box are to be placed on the English market by a German inventor. The idea is to tip the two ends of the wood separately with those composi tions which in the ordinary way go one on the box and the other on tho match. To use, break tho wood across the middlo and rub the ends to gether. An agent of tho Suez Canal Com pany has invented an apparatus to split the electric lights that illuminate the canal into two divergent streams, one sending out rays one way, the other in tho opposite direction. This enables ships to approach each other and meet with perfect safety. Formerly the lights blinded pilots so that they could not see vessels coming in the op posite direction. A physician points out that fnt people endure most kinds of illness much better than thin people, because they have an extra amount of nutri ment stored away in their tissues to support them during the ordenL Moreover, there are ninny other con solations for persons of abundaut girth. They are generally optimists by nature, genial and jolly com panions, whose society is universally preferred to that of people with angular frames and dispositions. At a recent State fair an inventor exhibited a machine that he had con structed for converting grapes into sugar and syrup. Experts who wit nessed the operation and others affirm, that the process is a complete suc cess. The experiments were mostly confined to Muscat and other sweet grapes known to carry a large amount of saccharine matter. Heretofore tho difficulty has been iu granulating grape sugar. But by this now pro cess it is claimed that granulation is perfect. Tombs ol the Banish Kings. In tho resting place of the old kings of Denmark, the Cathedral of Rokes kild, a reoent visitor notes thnt there is a column against which n number of inonarehs have been measured, and upon which their different heights are recorded. One of them is Peter the Great, and we learn by this meaus that the shipwright C.ur meusured no less than eighty Danish inches, equiv alent to something like six feet, ten inchts in our measurement. Only one other of the sovereigns was taller, and that was Christian I of Denmark, who, according to this authority, was jiiht a trifle over seven feet English. Tho Czar, Alexander HI, is about six feet ouo inch, and is si-out a couple of inches taller than Christ iau IX of Denmark, and about four inches taller than King George of Greece, neither of whom, nevertheless, is whut would be called a short man. It is worth noting that in the same ancient cathe dral where this column is to be seen, Saxo GrammaticiiH, the Danish histo riun from whom Shakespeare borrowed practically the entire plot of Ham let," lies buried. London News. Sewing In I'uhlic Schools. The course of study iu sew ing in the Bobtou public schools is interesting for au amateur of sewing to consider. To rend of "thimble, emery, scissors, " set oil' neatly as articles of study, uud aud to gaze upon a printed curriculum of "basting, baekstitching, overcast ing, half-backstitehiiig uud combina tion of one running and one-half back stitch," is to realize most iuteusely the advantages Boston oilers to her daughters. Iu tho fourth year are taught, among other things, stocking darning, straight uud bias felling, whipping ami sewing on rulhVs, hem stitching, blind stitching, tucking if not taught previously, gathers over handed to a bund, bewing on hooks and eyes uud buttons, eyelets, loops, and in the fifth year there is u system of dress cutting by which girls am taught to take measures, draught, cut aud tit a dress wnixt. Boston Transcript. HIRTIIPLACES OF FOODS. IHE NATIVE LANDS OF THE VARI OUS DRAINS AND FRUITS. Most of Them Have F.volvcd From a Wild State The True Home of Indian Corn The Cherry's Origin. THE grains and fruits used r i food by man originated :' different latitudes, and first (, existed in a wild state some being indigenous to the tropics and some to temperate zones. As they be came improved and differentiated they were distributed in different countries according to their utility and the jprend of agriculture It was but nat ural that tho first gradual changes from a wild to a cultivated state should have taken place in general in warm countries where the climate and the advanced state of civilization conspired to effoct amelioration. For instance, tho grape is indigenous to America, nnd hnd existed here in a wild stato long nges before tho conti nent was discoved by Oolnmbns, but it was first put to practical uso in Egypt and Central Asia, to which lo calities its origin is sometimes attrib uted, and whence it was in reality distributed throughout the Western world. A similar remark may be made of rye, one of the less valued cereals, which is a nativo of tho temperate zones, and spread thenco toward the South. It is supposed to have been unknown in India, Egypt and ancient Palestine, and, though it was more or less used by the ancient Greeks and Romans, it was from the north of Europe that thoy received it. Nearly all the grains now in use are of unknown antiquity. Wheat was cultivated in eighty-six latitude as far back in the past as we have authentic, knowledge. Barley is thought to have originated in the Caucasus, but it was known and used everywhere in the most ancient times. Oats, like rye, was unknown in ancient India and Egypt and among the Hebrews. The Greeks and Romans received it from the north of Europe. Had there been an early civilization on this continent tho wild oats found here and there would probably have developed into the useful cereal now considered abso' lutely essential for the proper nourish ment of horses. Xnis continent n credited with having given Indian corn to tho old world, but this useful cereal was doubtless known in India and China many hundred years before the discovery of America. Cotton wai used for making garments in India at a date so remote thnt it cannot even be guessed at. The fact is mentioned by Aristotle. The first seeds were brought to this country in 1621. In 1606 the cub ture is mentioned in the records of South Cnrolina. In 1736 the culture was general along the eastern coast ol Maryland, and in 1776 wo hear of ll as fur north as Cape May. The use ol flax for making clothing is nearly ai ancient as thnt of cotton, and perhapi more so, plants of soft and flexible fiber having been without doubt among tho first vegetable productions of tht ancient world and their practical valiu discovered soon after the invention o'. weaving. The eherrv in its improved eondi i tion is of Persian descent and is am I other fruit that might have been ira proved from our wild varieties had oni civilization been contemporary witl that which preceded Egypt and Baby lon in tho valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates. Peaches, plums and cher ries were nil known to the ancient Greeks and Romans. The apple, the most useful and sntis factory of nil the fruits of the temper ato zones, has been known from tim immemorial. It originated from somf of tho hardy wild species that are found sometimes almost as far north as th Arctic c 'role. It is a fruit thnt like.' tho cold, and is found iu the greatest perfection iu parts of New England, New York nnd Michigan, where th winters aro severe. As it npproncbel the equutor it loses its finest of taste, while still preserving its beauty. I is a notable fact that, owing to care it the culture, aud iu part to a preference fortheclimute, all the fruits mentioned in this list uro found of better quality in Europe uud America than in the lo calities where they are thought tohavt originated. The oranges of India, Burmah uud Cochin China are abso lutely tasteless and those of Malagt scarcely better. Tho best grown it Spain come from the region of Valen cia, where they have been introduced nt a comparatively recent date. So o! the cherries, apricots and peaches which have attained a perfection ir Europe and America of which the an cient Persians never dreamed. Al. these fruits appear to increase iu siz and improve in flavor in latitude) where the winter is sufficiently severe to check the growth of tho tree and give it u needed rest. It could Hot be expected, for the reasons alleged, that Anieiicu, in habited until a recent date by suvagc tribes only, should furnish to tht world products that require thousand of years of care and culture to give them their perfect development. The potato, however, is au invaluable boon conferred by the new world on the old. The toiuut-, is uImi of South American origin, uud, though it playe a much less important part iu alimen tation, it is uu article v( food that Americans would not willingly par) with. As to the fruits in common use, though America has done much to im prove them, there is not one of then: of which it can reasonably claim to be the place of origin. Suu l'rancisci Chronicle. In Brazil not one per cent, of tli male or female tcrvauts t ill Bleep iu their master's house. They insist mi leuving at thf latest by 7 o i lock iutHt evening and will not ret urn befoi'u 7 or s :a tli uioiuin;., WISE WORDS. Love gitfns every time it is testoil. Home is the fortress of the virtues. The truthful man is dead.; been dend a long time. The real ruler of the man is within him, not without. The mnn who throws a stoiio at an other hurts himself. It is time wasted to nrguo with a doubt. Kick it out. It's the youngest mnn who thiuksho has the least time to spare. The whisper of a slanderer can bo heard farther thnn thunder. There is no good quality which does not become a vice by excess. A woman is seldom quite so hnppy as when she is thoroughly miserable. Finding fault with another is only a roundabout way of bragging on your self. Some people are kept poor because they will not believe it is blessed to give. Tho mnn who is nfraid to look his faults squarely in the face will never get rid of them. No man is perfectly consistent. He who is nearest consistency steers tho crookedest course. The Ethics of Weariness. In a lecture at Cambridge, England, on the subject of "Weariness," Pro fessor Michael Foster said undue ex ertion was exertion in which tho mus cles worked too fast for the rest of tho body. The hunted hnro died not be cause ho was choked for want of breath, not because his heart stood still, its store of energy having given out, but because a poisoned blood poisoned his brain and his whole body. So also tho schoolboy, urged by prido to go on running beyond tho earlier symptoms of distress, struggled on until the heaped np poison deadened his brniu, and he fell dazed and giddy, as in a fit, rising again, it might be, and stumbling on unconscious, or half un conscious only, by mere niechuuienl inertia of his nervous system, fnlling once more, poisoned by poisons of his own making. AU our knowledge went to show that the work of the brain, like the work of tho mnscles, was ac companiod by a chemical chnnge, and that the chemical changes were of the same order in the brain as in tho muscle. If an adequate stream of pure blood were necessary for the life of the muscle, equally true, perhaps even more true, was this of thebrnin. More over, the struggle for existence had brought to the front a brain ever ready to outrun its morehumblo help mate, and even in the best regulated economy the period of most efleetivo work between the moment all tho complex machinery had been got into working order and the moment when weariness began to toll was bounded by all too narrow limits. The sound way to extend those limits was not so much to render the brnin more ngile as to encourage the humbler help mates, so that their more efficient co operation might defer the onset of weariness. New York Press. A Remarkable Career. A remarkable autography goes with a damage suit for $5000 filed at Wash ington, D. C. The complaintisagainst a Washington street railway. Tho complainant is Henry Johnson, who says he was badly cut aud bruised by tho car starting while he was getting off. Attached to tho complaint is tho affidavit of Johnson that he was born in Georgetown on Christmas day in the year 1800 ; was hired out to Geiieral Walter Smith, who comminded the militia at the battle of Bladousburg; was captured by Captain Patrick, uud was present and saw them burn tho Capitol, and when ho was seventeen years old he went with Commodore Porter as a cabin boy on a four years' cruiso. In 1824 he went ns a footman with his old mistress to meet General Lafayette, and escorted him to Gen eral Smith's iu Georgetown ; was with General Macon in Florida duriug the four years' war with tho Indians; had waited on General Scott, Gaines and Jessup; lived with General Totteu, and waited on Daniel Webster, Clay and Calhoun when living with Mr. Nicholsou ut Georgetown Heights. Was with Captain Herudou on the George Law, that was burned, nud when the women ami children aud crew were off he stood close to Cap tain llernil 'ii at tho wheelhouse, and he saiil to him : "You go uud shift for yourself," and he begged tho captain to come with him, when he replied: "No; I must stand by my ship." Then strapping himself to a door he was thrown into the sea and saved, and saw the ship go down with the captuin. The Cats Ate tho Crickets. There is a man in Harlem who has a much respected aunt. The aunt is wealthy aud eccentric. She came to live with this Harlem resident, aud having been reared iu the country and having recently fomo from there she missed the rural hum of insect,-) and the agricultural noises of a country residence. Being anxious to -please his rela tive and muko her reconciled to city life this llurle n man hired a number of boys to Becure crickets for him. He bought twenty cans of crickets nud turned them out to pasture iu his buck yard. For several nights the cheerful chirping of the crickets proved very soothing to the u;fed nit tit. Tho various eats in the neighborhood soou became uwaro of the unusual number of crickets in this back yard. Cuts Hre fond of crickets, ami now the Harlem umu has cuts und no crickets iu his buck yard. He says th it all tho cuts in Harlem have made his yard a trystidg place aud tho uuut threatens to move back into the couutrv. New York Herald THE SILENT BATTLli Phnll I tell ymi about the battle Thnt was fought In tho world to-dny, Whero thousands went down like heroes To death In the pltll"ss fray? You may know some of tho wounded And somo of the fallen when I toll you this wonderful bnttle Was fought In the hearts of min. Not with the sounding of trumpets, Nor clashing of sabers drawn. But, silent as twilight in autumn, All dny tho fight went on. And over against temptation A mother's prayers were cast That had come by silent mnrolies From the lullaby land of tno past. And over the flold of battle Tho force of ambition went, Driving before It, like arrows, Tho children of sweet content. And momorles odd and olden Came up through the dust of years, And hopes thnt were glad and golden Were mot by a host of fears. And the heart grew worn and weary And said : "Oh, can It bs That I am worth the struggle Yon are mnking to-dny for me?" For the heart itself was the trophy And prize of this wavering fight ! And tell me, O gentle reader, Who camps on the field to-night? Alfred Ellison. II UXOR OF THE DAY. Kisses are tho coupons of love. Don't be a valet to your hero ; it may disgust him. The most lovsde of dumb animals is a good listener. Puck. After all, tho love knot is the top knot on the head of human hnppiuess. Puck. A cynio observes thnt the most popu Inr nir with the girls these dnys is a millionaire. A girl will never forgive a follow whom she has jilted for making a suc cess of life. Puck. When a mnn gets a hearing in court, he is likely to hear something thnt ho doesn't like. Puck. It is tho man who wenrs Congress gniters who wonders how tho shoe string sellers make a living. Bhe told the young mnn oftentimes She really couldn't love him : Six fuel, she : but live foot, he Of course she folt above him. Detroit Tribune. Solemn Stranger "All flesh is grass." Deaf Mnn "Hey?" Solemn Stranger "No, grass." New York Press. The bulldog has a pretty tight grip in this world, though he often escapes trouble by tho mere Bkin of his teeth. Truth. Gunson "Another increase in your family, eh? Son or a daughter?" Pilbee (gloomingly) "Son-iu-iaw." Kuto Field's Washington. "I've como out of this tight squeeze in pretty good shnpe," snid tho new half-dollar, fresh from tho stamping machine. Chicago Tribune. "Man wants but little hr below," Dut 'tis this fact that daunts He's sure to get a little less Thuu the little that he wants. Washington 8tnr. Some of the fushiouublo schools nre making world-wide reputations by teaching the young lady students to spell their names wrong. Galveston News. In tho American Colony: Sho "Is Miss Bond engaged to Princo Sans sou?" He "Not exactly. He has uu option for ninety days, 1 believe." Harlem Life. When a woman has quail for dinuei sho wants to invite iu a neighbor, so the neighbor may know it, but a man doesn't want anybody there but him Bclf. Atchison Globe. Customer (in bookstore) "I would like to get some good book on faith." Clerk "Sorry, sir, but our rule it to sell nothing to strangers except for cash." Buffalo Courier. Miss Newcombe "Seems to be rat her a good year this for fruit, Giles? Are all your trees as full of apples an that one!" Giles "Oh, nuw, miss, only the apple trees." Judy. Ho had a sorrel trotting-horto Which was so praky slow Ho named him Chinese, utter a while. llecttuso he wouldn't go, Detroit Free Press. Van Noodle "D'yer know, Miss Tuiigbit, that old iluffer Chapwith culled me a mull' tho other night?" Miss Tungbit "Indeed Why, I think you more closely resemble n boa." Brooklyn Life. Jack (who has popped) "It takes you a long time to decide." Nettie "I know it ; and I've about concluded to wear a dcnii train of white chiffon over lute silk and have no brides maids. " -Ti mih Sittings. .Mrs. llillus (after the company had gone) - "Johnny, you shouldn't have eutoii those preserved fruits. They were not intended to be eaten. They were put on the tahleto till up." Johnny Billus -"Well, that's what I used 'cm for, lu imiua. "-Chicago Tribune. Two cubmcua short time ago had a fishing imiteh for half a sovereign and drinks. Suddenly one of the jurvies fancied he had a bite, uu I, being over anxious, had tho misfortune to fall into the river. On his regaining tho shore, his rival shouted out : "Ml bets are oil', Jim ; none o' yerdiin' in after 'cm. " Tit Hits. Landgrave is the only one of the old Teutonic titles that surics. It was Invented iu 1130 by Louis of Thuriu gia, to distinguish himself from tlio crowd of Grufs who tilled the German courts. Mexico's standing Hi'iny number 44,0:1(1 men, or r.boiit double tiuit o.' tl;y I'll!' f M ltrs
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