THE FORES RATI8 Or ADVERTISING! One Sqnar, one inch, en lnsrtloa..t t One t-qur, one Inch, one month. .. , 100 On Square, on inoh, three month. , I 00 On Squ.ru, ona inch, on year.... . . WW Two bquaros, one year 1A 00 Quarter Column, one year . . 90 00 Half Column, one year SO 00 On. Column, on jw . . . 100 hfmi advsrtisemnta ten enu par Mm earn insertion. Marriages and death notion (rati. All bills for yearly advertisements eollaa4 T R 4 b MUth4 vrtrj Wsdautor, ky J. E. WENK. Offloaln BmMrbaagh ft Co.'a alldlnj KU ITEln, TIONMTA, fa, Term. . . . tup pirTtar. nkMrtpl1( nc(t4 f ttwlw frioi tkree vonltaa. Onrraapondtne oH1t4 tnm tl MrU f tht tonnirjr. Me ntlc wul k Ukw ( iinrmoui xwinunlcauou. HOR ICAN. VOL. XXVI. NO. 05. TIONESTA, PA WEDNESDAY, DEC. 2q, 1893. quarterly. emporarj dverusemeau I $1.50 PER ANNUM. D paid la anrano. i ob Fork oaiu on delivery. - The public nml private indebtedness of tho world iH estimated to 1)8 $100, 000,000,000. Tlio Swiss Government has ordered flint hereafter nil slaughtered caltl jnust bo mudo iuMensiblo before thd 'knife in used. A sago complains that whilo it i:j true that "mun wants but little herd below," tho tremble in thnt that littld is usually in someono else's possession. An European mathematician of wovld-wide celebrity chums that from a single potato a careful cultivator could roiso 10,000,000,000 tubers with in a period of ten years. Tho San Francisco Chronicle esti mates that at the present rate of con quest and colonization savage Africa 'will be a thing of the past before the first quarter of tho twentieth century is rounded out. A correspondent of tho Baltimore Sun asserts that "there is no such thing in all this world ns sower gas," and, further, that "there is no evi dence whatover in faot and no ground for believing in the theory that the emanations from a sewer are in any wise unwholesome." ' Many lakes hove, beon formed along the banks of tho South Canadian River in Oklahoma, some of which are many square miles in oxtent. They are caused, explains tho New York Post, by the sand blowing out of the river until a .high embankment is formed along tho shores, and behind tho bank ore formed the lakes. An elderly gentleman of wide travel nd close observation remarked re cently, after reading tho story in the Now York Times of a cruel murder, that ho had long been of tho opinio that the greatest calamity that has be fallen the human race in modern times was tho invention of the revolver. It is too easily carried, and too handy. The report from South Africe that tho 'British recently slaughtered the Matabeles like sheep is probably well founded, says thcan Francisco Chron ical. Tho English have never been noted for their tender regard of the aborigine. Tho pioneers of South Africa, liko those of Australia, regard the natives as hindrance to the develop ment of tho country, and any pretext which can be used to justify killing or driving them out of a district is eagorly welcomed. The St. Louis Star-Sayings thinks that "ono of the most gratifying signs of the times is the operation of tho law requiring all navy ships to be built at home, from materials of domestic production ; American ships in Amerieim bottoms and the estab lishment of ship yards capable of turuiug out vessels of war of the high est spend mid capacity. It is a grow ing enterprise and gives employment 'to thousands of American laborers, and soon wo may anticipate that in stead of going to other countries for ideas and methods in ship armor and gun construction wo shall have the foreigners coming to us to learu." America holds the record in many natural wonders and artificial triumphs, boasts the Washington Star. Tho largest lake in tho world (Su perior), the longest river (Missouri), tho largest park (Yellowstone), tho finest cave (the Mammoth), the greatest waterfall (Niagara) and the only natural bridgo (in Virginia) are all to bo found within the borders of the United States, and here the big gest fortunes are made, the most ener getio commercial enterprises under taken, the largest deals are effected, and the most wonderful inventions are perfected, while tho country produces a greater amount of raw material than anr other. The zone system of railroad rates which is so successfully operated in Hungary, has made a deep impression upon James L. Cowlcs, well known iu railroad circles, lie says : "Distance costs practically nothing in tho transportation of freight or of pas sengers, and, therefore, distance should bo disregarded iu tho dis crimination of rates. The rate now charged for the shortest distance for any particular service is the rate thut should be udopted fur all distances. When once a train starts from Boston to Sau Francisoo, there isn't a mau living that can toll the difference in cost of running that train, whether a giasseugei leaves tho train at the first station out of Boston or goes through from the Atlantic, to the l'ueitic Coast." Mr. Cowles further says that there is not ten dollar dirt'-rence between running a tram from Chicago to Nev Yolk, full of passengers or empty. RETROSPECT. The mans wore not Just so sweet, porhapsi At we thought they would surely bo, And the blossoms were not so pearly white As of yore, on the orchard tree Hut the summer has gone for all of that And with sad reluotant heart We stand at rioh autumn's open door And watch Its form depart. Tho skies were not Just so blue, pcrhap?, As we hoped they would surely bo, And tho waters wore rough that washed our boat. Instead of the old calm sea ; But the summer has gone for all ot that, And the golden rod Is hero-; We can see tho gleam of Its golden shoen In tho hand of the aging year. Tho rest was not quite so renl, perhaps, As we hoped It might prove to bo, For Instead of leisure came work sometimes- And the days draggod wearily ; Hut tho summer has gono for nil of that, Tho holiday time Is o'er, And busy hands in the harvest field Have garnered tholr golden storo. The summer wns not such a dream, perhaps, Of bliss as we thought 'twould be, And the beautiful things we planned to do Went amiss for you and mo j , Vet still It is gono for all of thnt, And we lift our wistful eyes To the land where beyond the winter snows Another summer lies. . Kathleen R. Wheeler, In Llppiocott's. THE LAST SCHOLAR. BX ROBERT BEVERLY HALE. T used to be the fashion to go to Miss Lcpington's school when my mother was a girl. Schools camo into fashion just as crinolines and puffy sleeves .do. T klwiur tnr . yr ber of reasons that it was the most fashionable girls' school in mv mother's time; and what makes it perfectly certain is that my mother would never have gone to it unless it had been. Miss Lcpington used to limit the number of scholars to forty ; and there were many stories current as to the early applica tions made for a place in that school. It was no uncommon thing for a happy father to send in an application as soon as a daughter was born ; and it was said that when Tom Snelling and Eunico Dunbar were engaged, they wrote to Miss Lepington that in case they wero married oud had a daughter they wanted a place reserved for her. I don't exactly know whether to be lieve that or not. I do know that ray mother applied only six years before hand ; but then her mother knew Miss Lepington very well, and so Miss Lep ington was probably willing to strain a point. But things cannot always stay in fashion. Hoop skirts went out of stylo after a time, and ever so many crino line makers were ruined. Even these beautiful great sleeves must go out of fashion. I greatlyfear that they may have disappeared before this story comes out. And Miss Lepington 's school went out of fashion, too. You see, Miss Lepington would not have German taught at her school ; and there was Miss Cartwight's school that had a second con fin of Goethe's as a German teacher ; and nowadays, of course, every girl ought to know German. That was only one reason out of a dozen for tho falling off in pupils. Miss Lepington mu6t have noticed the diminution in applications; but she did not seem to: - She was sterner than ever in, her re quirements. She had never taken any one whose grandfather was not "somebody," she said, and she never would. So at last the . time came when there were only thirty-five pupils ; and then the remaining ones dropped off, one by one, iu a way that puius me to tell of. But Miss Lepington never thought of giving up teaching. She was just as erect as in the old days, and a little stricter ; and sbfc taught just as well as evor much better, I don't doubt, than Miss Cartwright, whose ancestors wero I don't know what when the Lepingtons were lolling at their ease iu Lepington Manor, or fighting for their king at Agiucourt. , I suppose one reason the pupils stopped coming was because Hanover street deteriorated so. Every one lives on Enderby square now, or else on Colliugwood avenue, and you can't really expect a girl of fifteen to wulk past all those queer (hops on Hanover street. It is a straLge old place, and one wonders how it cjmld ever have been so fashionable. Miss Lepington had a nephew, Densil Smith, of Smith, Alen & Com pany. They lived together iu an old house on 1'uritau square. He was rich, unci she must have been quite well off herself. Ho was so wrapped up iu his business that he never know much about her school. He may have had some little suspicion of what was going on ; but one of his business rules was to get everything at first hand. His news about Miss Lcpington's school was always derived from Miss Lepington herself, ami thusbo thought he was sure to know the truth. He was the only friend of Miss Leping toa's who did not know it. The school grew smaller and smaller, till there were only twenty pupils. Then ten of these left in a body to go to Miss Cartwright 's. Then the rejt deserted, one by one, until 1 don't like to say it until Constance Alford was the only pupil in Mi is Lcpington's school. And now the worst is said, for if any one were to have a school with one scholar, Constance would be just the scholar to have. She always seeu-ed to we more liko mm a character in a Htory than n girl in every day life. She was very beauti ful, in the first place, and very amiable, and very good ; and sho was, as you see, so loyal that she stayed with Miss Lepington after every ono else hod deserted her. "I shall undertake the first cIsrs in French myself thin morning, Constance. I have severed my connection with Mlle.'Deroulet, and until such Vme as I have a new instructress, I shall dis charge tho duties of tho position my self." Constance took out her French books and followed Miss Lepington out of tho deserted schoolroom into tho recitation room. "Read, Constance, if you please." Constance read. She read so sweetly in any language that it was hard even for Miss Lepington to find fault. I should liko to hear her read Russian, but then I was always very fond of Constance Alford. ' 'Look out for your 'puis, ' Constance. Did not Madomoisello tell you how to pronounce that word? Now after me : puis." "Puis," said Constance. "That is more tolerable ; but practise j it, my dear, before the mirror. The lips must move in one particular way. Yon can always discover a Parisian by the way he pronounces 'puis.'" And so on, till at last the French was over. Then there was tho study hour, and then the English literature class, which Miss Lepington taught herself, for she had "severed her con nection" with all the assistants except old Miss Nutting, who came in to teach drawing once a week. And Constance Alford often told mo that she was vy glad to get rid of the other instructors, tor Miss Lepington was an excellent teacher, though perhaps a trifle too narrow in some ways. Aft jr English literature came receHs. This as tho first break in the dignity of tie school. Constanco found a chair and drew it up close to Miss Lcpington's, and then they ate their lunch together, and talked affection otely, Jor they were very fond of each other. "Did yon know I was eighteen years old to-day I said tonstance. "Why, my dear child?" cried Miss Lepington. "And I have not given you a present. "Yes, you have, dear," said Con stance (she never called Miss Leping ton "dear" during school hours). "You give me a present cl something every time you teach me. But I have some thing to tell you ; but I hardly dare." "Not quite so many 'huts, said Miss Lepington, stroking her favorite (and only) pupil s hand. "Yes, dear, alLthe 'buts' I want in recess, said Constance, mischievously, "What do you think I have done?" "Becomo engaged to be married?' Constance burst out laughing. "Right the first time! Oh, how ro mantio you are, dear I I never should have believed it. Miss Lepington blushed. "Not romantic, my child. Perhaps it is that I know a little of the world. My dear Coustuuce, I hope that you will be very, very happy. I am confident that the gentleman both is and will be so. Who is he?" "Jack Mackenzie," said Constance. "He's splendid. But I haven't told you everything. I thought I hoped vou wouldn't mind 1 well I think that he rang the door bell just now. Did you hear it? I asked him to come here to see you and mo. You don't mind, do yoin dear?" Miss Lepington tried to look stern ; but she couldn't. No one could look stern at Constance. Miss Lepington did look in the glass to see that her hair was all right, and then changed her spectacles for her eyeglasses. "You were indiscreet, my child, to ask a young gentleman to a girls' school ; but since he is here, of course we must welcome him. Jane, show Mr. Mackenzie in." "I hope you will pardon my intru sion," suid Jack as ho came forward. "But I was so anxious to meet the lady who has been so intimate with Constance ; and Constance would have me see you where she hud known you and grown so fond of you. Will you forgive me?" Miss Lepington blushed again. She was not used to fine speeches from young men. "No one can bo dis pleased with Constance," sho said, "and I begin to think that her fiance shares her immunity. " After that the three had a nice talk about the old school; snd Constance told several anecdotes, which Miss Lep ington had never heard before, about things that had gone on under the teacher's nose ; and Miss Lepington told the t wo young people stories about their mothers, who had been class mates, and pointed out the desks where they had sat. The time for the recitation in nat ural history was past, and they were in the middle of the hour for Latin grummar, and still Jack stayed on. At last he rose to go, and Constance rose, too. They took hold of each other's liiuiilb and stood facing Miss Leping ton. And then suddenly Miss Leping ton understood whut was goiug to hap pen. Jack had come to take Constance away. Miss Lepington was a consummate mistress of her emotions, and yet Con stance is very sure that her dear old teacher's eyes were full of tears. "Good by, Constance," she said, af ter a pause. "I need not tell you to be a good girl. See thut you deserve her, Mr. Mackenzie." "1 can't," said Jack, "but I'll try." Constance and Miss Lepington kissed each other aud parted ; and the two lovers went out, leaving the teacher alone iu the deserted schoolroom. Just as they passed the doorway, Constance looked back and saw Miss Lepington with her head bowed over the desk. Constance had never seen that head bowed before. "Densil," said Miss Lepington tho next morning nt breakfast, "I nm go ing to discontinue teaching. i ester' day was tho last day of school." Mr. Densil Smith looked np with his egg spoon half way to his month. Have your pupils been dropping off?" he inquired. "Yes. Ono of the dearest I ever had left yesterday." "Why, that's too bad. But think of the restof thom," said Mr. Smith sym pathetically. "Don't leave them sud denly this way. " "Thank you for your kind interest, Densil. But I assure you there is no alternative. Let us change the sub ject. Have you heard that Miss Al ford and Mr. Mackenzie are engaged to be married? I have been thinking of what I shall give them for a wedding present, and have finally definitely de cided upon the school-house. I have no further need of it." And that is how Constance and I came to set up housekeeping in Han over street. Munsey's Magazine. A Rawhide Cannon. A Syracuse man named La Tulip, has invented a cannon known as the La Tulip rawhide gun, of which great things are expected. One of the guns, made by its inventor, wns tested at Onondaga Valley. It weighs in the neighborhood of 400 pounds, while the cannon of the same calibre in use by the army weighs nearly 1500. Its pe culiarity lies in its lightness and tho easy manner in which it can be trans ported. Across tho breech it measures about fourteon inches, and tapers to about six at the muzzle. A forged steel cone forming the barrel runs to the full length, and is only three-quarters of an inch in thickness. Then comes layer after layer of the finest rawhide, compressed until it has the strength of steel. In fact, its toughness and staying powers are said to exceed steel. The rawhide is put on in strips coiled around and around, and is several inches in thickness. On top of this lie two coils of steel wire wound to its strong est tension and then filed smooth. The cap placed at the breech can be easily removed for inspection of therawhido filling. The tests were pronounced successful, ' and further trials will be had. A five-inch bore will be con structed as soon as possible, and when mounted upon a movable carriage it will then demonstrate whether it can bo used effectively. The five-inch cannon will be smooth bore and used to discharge dynamite cartridges,' a trial of which will be made. Freder ick La Tulip, the inventor, has been a worker of rawhido for twelve years and is conversant with it in every detail. Rome (N. Y.) Sentinel. Origin ot tho Word "Trolley." Most persons who use the word 'trol ley" probably do not know the origin of this term, or why this name was given to that apparatus by which the electricity is conveyed from an aerial wire. Twenty years ago, tho word was used to designate "a form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying rail road materials or the like." This is the only definition of the word in Webster's Dictionary of the edition of 1848. In the edition of 1892 of the same work, three other definitions ore added. 1. "A narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an ani mal." It is noted that this meaning of the word is in use in England, not iu the United States. 2. "A truck from which the load is suspended on some kinds of cranes." This meaning is technical, according to Webster, and employed only in speaking of machin ery. 3. "(Electric railway.) A truck which travels along the fixed conduc tors, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car." It is easy to see how the primitive form of the electric trolley, which travels upon the wires, came to receive its name from the resemblance to other types of trolley ; and the name, having beon immediately given to its prim itive form, was naturally retained when the method of connection was changed from a littlo truck moving on a wire, to a mast having at its end a wheel pressing on the lower service of thf wire. Detroit Free Press. A Rattler's Bite. I send you recipe for the bite of a rattlesnake that I will warrant to cure in ninety-uino cases out of every hun dred. 1 huvo known it tried for forty years in Illinois and have used it on several animals that were bitten by rattlesnakes since coming to Florida, and have never known it to fail in a single instance. Thoroughly soak the wound and the swelled part with pure hog's lard, and let the patient drink one half pint of this melted lard. In severe cases re peat it in half an hour and give all the sweet milk that patient can drink. This kills the poison almost immedi ately, and the swelling will disappear iu a few days. A horse or a cow must be drenched with a much larger dose, but dogs will eagerly cut lard and drink milk, even when their heads are so swollen that their eyes are closed and the yellow saliva is ruuuiug from their mouths. Don't call iu a doctor if bitten by a rattler (as they are more dangerous thuu the snake), but use the above remedy, and I will warrant a euro. Jacksonville Times-Union. Action ot Cold and Kent. The generally accepted theory of the cooking of meat relates to tho appli cation of heat, but Dr. Kawiezovosky has called attention to the fact thut almost precisely the same chemical and physical changes can be accom plished by exposing annual tlush to ex treme cold. Meit subjected to a de gree of cold equal to fifty degrees below the zero ol r ahreuheit s ther mometer looks and tastes exuetly like meat boiled iu fresh water. St. Louis Republic. SUBDUING WILD BEASTS. NOT BT KINDNESS. BUT THROUGH FEAR ARE THEY TAMED. A Trnlner Tells How He Handles t ne HoHSts When First Tlaced I'nder Ills Charge Nerve Kequlred. "T TEAD KEEPER CONKLIN, l5! in chargo of a large mon 1 J ngerie, tolls the New York (T Herald how wild beasts are tamed. Ho soys! "We have a tremendous amount of work to do with the wild animals up in tho wintor quarters in Bridgeport of which tho public knows nothing. You see wo are getting new wild ani mals all the time, and as they come to us there is not a man living who would dare to go into the cages with them. During the winter we have to break those beasts so that wo can handle them as you see us handle them on the road." "And how do you do it?" "Well, when they come to us they have thick leather collars around their necks, with heavy chains attached. They are more savage then than they wero before capture, their capture only having served to bring out oil thot is ugly in them. They will spit and growl nt anybody who gets near their cage and jump at tho bars until they exhaust themselves. Wo begin to teach them manners the very day we get them, and they take a lesson in etiquette every day after that until the show starts out. " "What ilo you do to them?" "My men catch the end of the chain fastened to the collar around the new beast's neck and fasten it to tho bars in such a manner that the beast can only move a short distance. Then I take a good rawhido whip and stout club and enter the cage. I tako a chair and sit down in tho corner." "Feeling perfectly cool, I suppose?" "Yes, so long as I know that chain is solid and securely fastened. Well, the instant I got in the beast will give a roar and spring for me. I would be torn to shreds if I was within reach, but the chain holds, and instead of getting at me the lion, tiger, panther or leopard simply comes to the end of his rope, as it were, is brought up with a shock that sends him iu a heap to the floor of the cage, and I give him a lash with the rawhide. The beast is at me again in an instant, and again he goes down and I lash him. I never have used the club on an animal, but I always keep it handy in case it is needed. I keep drawing my chair a little closer to him as this goes on un til I get so close that they can touch me with their noses but cannot bite me. Then I just sit there and talk to them, and you would be surprised at the power the human voice will finally be mado to exercise over wild beasts. " "While I sit talking to one, just out of reach of his teeth, if ho gets ugly and attempts to spring at me I give him the rawhide. I keep this up and after a dozen or fifteen lessons they get so that they only snarl and growl at my entrance. As soon as I think it safe I try the beast without a chain. It is a little ticklish business at first, but I have plenty of help ready for the first effort. If it is a success the first timo you generally have your beast mas tered, although once iu a whilo a brute that has been tractable enough will break out aud go for his keeper. We had such a case here in the Garden two years ago, when Joseph Foster an experienced lion tamer, was clawed by a lioness and nearly killed. Mr. Conklin modestly refrained from adding that Keeper Foster would unquestionably have met a terriblo death on that occasion if it had not been for the fearless and prompt man ner in which he attacked the lioness with an iron prod. "Generally in the course of a winter we can get a beast so that he will not attack his keeper when he enters the cage," Mr. Conklin continued. "We not only havo to get thom so that they will not attack their keepers, though, but so that they will not attack each other, and that is a mighty hard job. Sometimes we can never do that. There is an old tiger there, ono of the most savage brutes I ever handled, aud I could take you into his cage with him now without the slightest danger. If I dared to put him in tho same compartment with that big Ben gal there, though, I would have a dead tiger on my hands in two seconds. Notice the long mark on tho belly. That is whe.o the Bengal ripped Lim two years ago, when 1 tried to put them together, as they would show better that way. If the Bengal's claws had not been clipped he would have ripped open the other ono and killed him." "What truth is there in the story of tho power of the human eye over wild beasts?'' "It is a pretty thing to say, and thut is about all," Mr. Conklin re plied. "A man who wants to subline a w ild beust lias got to bu fearless and go about it iu n coiimroiiH way, and the eye plays its part. The man who attempted to handle a wild beast w lio was not chained with nothing elstt than a fearless eye would be iu a pretty bad hole, though. Wlmtumau must have is a goo 1 heart, plenty of pluck lots of hand ill his neck, as the prize fighters say. The secret of suc cessfully lixiulliii'-X wild beasts is to become imbued with a confidence that all wild beasts are really cowardly, especially it they belong to the eat fainilj-. If you are not alraid and you know how to do it it is easy t'uough. " An interesting find is a library o fjO'.l volumes, including seventy manu scripts of t lie tent li ami eleventh, a:, I Sinn' with wonderful miniatures id the fourteenth centuries, w hieh i re re ft nil V iliM'overi'd in f I'l 'uucihfaji cloister near i!n t , Jt.ilv. SCIENTIFIC AM) IMHSTItl.M,. A lump of ni3kel weighing 450(J pounds is worth half as many dollars. The python lays eggs and hatches! them by developing a high degree o heat. It is said that people eat twenty pet cent, more bread when the weather id cold than when it is mild. Paris now gets its water supply front six great springs. It travels through cighty-threo miles of aqueducts. Tho Mediterrsnean has been com monly supposed to be a sea wi thoJ tides ; but, as a matter of fact, at Venico there is a tide in the spring of from one to two feet. The cove animals of North America, according to Professor A. S. Packard, of Brown University, comprise 172 species of blind creatures, nearly all of which are mostly whito in color. The campus at Yalo Collego is now lighted by electric light. This is said to be tho first timo in the history oi the collego that lights of any kind httve beon displayed on the campus. Tho pain caused by tho bito of a mosquito is caused by a fluid poison injected by the insect into the wound in order to make the blood thin enough to flow through the mosquito's throat. In calculating "exact time" at tho National Observatory at Washington, the astronomers do not, as is generally supposed, use the sun as a basis of their calculations. Such deductions are mode only from the relative posi tion of the "fixed stars." The largest sun spot ever noted by astronomers appeared in the fall of 1867. It was 280,000 miles long and 190,000 miles wide. Four hundred planets tho size of the earth, could have been laid side by side in that "spot" without touching each other. A disease known as peach fever is common among the employes in tho fruit packing and canning establish ments of Maryland and Delaware. The more experienced workers seem to be come proof against the irritant after some years in the business. There is no evidence to show that the disorder is contagious. Neither the turtle, tortoise nor tead is provided with teeth. There is a be lief that a turtle can bite off a finger, but the turtle can do nothing of tho kind. Its jaws are very strong and the horny membrane that runs around the jaw, where, in other animals teeth are found, is so hard and tough that the turtle can crush tho bones of the hand to a pulp, but as for biting off a finger, the feat is an impossibility. A Costly Walk. It has been left to a St. Louis busi ness man to construct a gravel walk, neither long nor strikingly beautiful, that is a modern if comparatively hum ble rival of the glistening highways of fiction and fable, for it represents 510,000 hard cash. Edward P. Kinsella, Vieo-president of tho Hsnley-Kinsella Coffee Com pany, is the proud possessor of this unique walk. It is composed of sev eral tons of Brazilian pebbles that came to him in an ordinary business wav during tho past few years. This firm aro heavy importers of Brazilian coffee. Before the berries are ready to be roasted for the market the sacks are opened and the contents carefully examined for twigs, leaves aud other impurities, the latter gen erally taking the shape of small peb bles about the size of a coffee berry. These came with such regularity and iu such quantities that long ago the idea they were accidentally in the sacks was abandoned, aud the conclusion ro luctantly reached that they were pur posely placed iu the bags to make weight. The daily discoveries of theso Brazilian pebbles will fill an ordinary water bucket. The importers pay for coffee. Two years ago Mr. Kinsella concluded to utilize this apparent evi dence of dishonesty of the far away coffee packer, and had the accumula tion of pebbles carted out to his hand some residence, ou tho West Pino street boulevard, No. 4i)'J:, where they were used to make a handsome garden walk. Tho pebbles represent a weight that in coffee would bo worth $15,000, The gravel path is eac h mouth being added to, and it is but a question of time when, Mr. Kinsella will havo the most expensive piece of garden path iu the world. St. Louis (ilobe-Deinoerat. Fouled Him Twice. Tho examinations at a certain "prep." school were iu progress. The boys wero working busily over their papers and the grim old professor was watching sharply from his desk. Pres ently ho noticed that one of the stu dents, a prominent ne'er dowel!, was consulting his watch with considera ble frequency. Tho professor studied him. In five minutes he hail looked ut tho timepiece three times. This was enough for the guardiau. Ho culled the student to his desk and de manded the watch. It was given him and he opened it. Across the face wus a piece of paper bearing the legend "Fooled." But (he worthy prol'essor was not to be so easily deceived. lie gave the student a sharp, knowing glance, turned the timepiece over and opened tho back cover. It opened with considerable tlilheulty, and, be hold, there was another slip of puper bearing the information, "tooled again, --lioston Budget. Where Pee Wrote "The Kavcii." The house where l'oe wrote "The Haven" is still t be seen iu New Yolk I'lty, a few hundred feet from the cor ner of Eiehty-lonrth street und the St. Nicholas Houlevard, formerly the ,)ld BlooiuiliL;dale road. It is u plain, uld-fusliioned, double -framed dwell ing, two stories hiyh. with light win dows at either side an 1 one at either liable. It has a pointed roof, tlaukcdi by two tall brick ehiiuue. Detroit' I ree I jess. THE BILL WE NEED THE MOST, Folks at the legislature they come from np an' down From old-time human nature, clear down to Bill an' Brown ; An' the Inst one's got his row to hoe ; but one thing bothers still j The nt"n-!, 'monst the bills they bavto.r, tho old five-dollar bill. There's hills for county bridges, on' bills icr: new town sites j An' mnny Mils for mountain Btllls, where moonllRht shines o' nights ; But of all the bills we're after, the one that bothers still, Is the bill thnt brings the laughter the old five-dollar bill ! Atlanta Constitution. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Observed of all observers The looking-glass. Hallo. Struggles with the dentist genorally . end in a draw. Hallo. "He is your closest friend?" "Yes, ho never lends a cent. " Harvard Lam poon. Fly paper is gradually being with drawn from circulation. Pittsburg Chronicle. Yachts take spins to show. whether they are tip-top or not. Boston .Transcript. Nearly every boy determines to whip !a certain school teacher when ho grows tip. Atchison Globe. Belle "I can't bear to think of my thirtieth birthday." Alice "Why,1 ;dear what happened?" Vogue. When you can think of nothing bull i the weather to talk about it is a good time to keep quiet. Atchison Globei! ' It is noticeoble that the man who thinks he is a whole show by himself .seldom draws o crowd. Milwaukee t Journal. ' ' There is somo consolation in being a bachelor when you hear a woman talk j fifteen minutes without taking a , full breath. Hallo. Money on call is not to had ; that( lis, not on ono call. It takes mauy.1 :ond then you don't always get it. .Martha's Vineyard Herald. Miss Singleton "I never expeot ito marry." Miss Satefnl ."But yon jknowitisthe impossible that always lhappens. " Bocton Transcript, j "I guess I'll quit," said the boy who ;was scraping a perch at a market Ash stand. "I'm tired of doing business ou Bnch a small scale. " Washington Star. 'Tis now the heartless Iceman, With never the least ado, .Leaves on the steps a piece of lee That will chill the whole house through. Chicago Inter-Ocean. ', A boarder has good roason for sua pecting his landlady of hypocrisy whea' she advises him to oat sparingly if ha wishes to be healthy. New York Jour-' nal. "Painter Sohmierlein's representa tions of tropical life ore so realistio that any critic who examines thom too long is sure to be afflicted with sun- istroke." Schalk. "Mv son. if von think it is hard (work to get up iu the world, just try ito raise o mustache and you will find !it infinitely more difficult to get down." , Kluiira Gazette. Teacher (to class in addition) "Now, take two mince pies and four niineo pies, what does it make?" Johnny Longhead "Nightmare, ima'ttin. " New York Journal. Young Man "I want an eugage 'ment ring." Jeweler "Yes, sir. iAbout what size?" "I don't know ex actly, but she can twist mo round her linger, if that's any guide." Tit-Bits.1 "While tho lamp holds out to burn," j Which line au old souk does begin, Iu Iheso electric days should read : , ' "While yet the dynamo does spiu." JiulTalo Courier, i "What oro yon crying for, Fritz?" i "Because my brothers have a holiday and I haven't." "But why haven't you a holiday, too?" "Because I'm not old enough to go to school yet." Flie geude lihietb r. Bright '!y dividing your detec tives into t vo squads you'd accom plish a great deal more. Burns "What would I do that for?" Blight "So one-half could hunt clews whilo the other went after criminals." Vogue. Tommy (who has been studying with flint poor success) "Pop, my teacher says history repeats itself; does it? Tommy's Father "Yes, my boy, sometimes." Tommy "Well, I wish miuo would repeat itself, 'cause I 'can't. " Philadelphia liecord. The Professor's Daughter "Oh, papa, here is the sweetest little bird, that one of the boys caught in the 'yard, i wopi.i so use io Keep 11 ior a pet, if I only kuew whut it eats." The Absent-minded Professor "We can find that out easily enough. I'll cut t open and c:iiniiio its crop. ludi- nnapolis ,1 otu nal. A J'uzliii'f Fact About WooiN. The problem has puzzled many why two pieces of wood saw u from the same section ot tree should possess very tt ried characteristics when Used indif ferent positions. For example, a gato post w ill be found to decay much faster if the butt end of the tree in uppermo A than would be the case if the top were placed iu tliir. position. Tin- reason is that the moisture of the atmosphere will prenieate the pores of the wood much more rapidly the way the trees grow tliau it would if in the opposito direction. l leroseopn-al examination proves ih.it the pores invite the aseeut of moist uii', while they repel its de scent. Tu'm- the familiar case of a wooden bucket. Many may have no ticed that -unic of the staves appear to be entirely saturated, while others are apparently quite dry. This arises from the same cause ; the dry staves are iu t hp same po.-niou iu which the tree grew, while I lie saturated ones are reversed.-- Chicago Herald. V I
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