; t THE FOREST REPUBLICAN fa Mbllk.l twj W.JieuUy, j J. C. WENK. ffloala Bmaarbanjh ft Co.'aSuiiaint rmirr, tionwta, r, Trm, . . . tl.BQ pifTMt, ,k'""l,wrtT'll' iwatvrt far t s31 t1o4 tare, ai.ntba. RATIS OF ADVERTISINOl ?0R EPUBLJCAN. On Sqtiara, one laeta, an lnMrttoa. .9 1 On.Bouara, on. inch, one month..., I 0t On Squars, on inob, tbrae month., Ons Square, on Inch, on yr Two Square, on yaar Oii.rtivr Cnlumn. on vaar. 19 OO 80 OC Half Column, on yaar -. On. Column, on yaar . , lOO Legal advert tmnta Un eaats pr Umm sen iBMrtkoa. Marriage, and daath notice gnaw All bill, for yearly advertisements a quarterly. Tamporary adverUsunenta b paid in advanoa. Job work aah on delivery. vorreapondtnc. Mllclud trm U nuti .f tha VOL. XXVI. NO. 40. TIONESTA, PA., AVEDNESDAY, JAN. 24,1894. fil.00 PER ANNUM. Con -....-J. lliiC vui as taaaa af w oannaiueau.as. unmoui K J'lioro aro fewer blind persons in tho United States than any other conn- I Mir Edwin Arnold says that there nro about 20,000 "poetesses" in Great Britain. I A Los Angeles (Cal.) preacher thought he was delivering tho funeral aermon of a woman, whereas the man of tho houso wbh dend, and the woman Lad to listen to a eulogy upon her self. Tho managers of American Mi cet rail wnys may bo interested in tho infor mation thnt London's underground railway has carried over 1,088,000,000 passengers )u th" thirty years of its existence, and hasn't killed a single, passenger. By tho now bui of railway tickets adopted in Hungary, the traveler makes out his own tickot. Tho Gov ernment sells stamps and supplies blank cards. Tho passenger, when ho desires to take a journey, writes on a card tho name of his starting point and destination, and affixes as many stamps as tho published list of fares calls for. Home years ago it was decided in an English court that an engagement ring is not recoverable in any circumstances. Vermont has Jits', given a different de cision. A young man sued to recover. a ring that he had given a young woman who, after accepting it, repudiated tho engagement. The Judpo decided thnt it must bo returned, or else that tho recipient must fulfill tho conditions on which it was presented. In Paris tho owners of a dog which bit a man, who subsequently died of hydrophobia, are now being prosecu ted by the authorities on a chargo of manslaughter through carelessness. This is the first ense of tho kind, and its result is being anxiously awaited by tho thousands of proprietors of dogs throughout France, who, in case of a conviction of tho defendants, will be called upon to bear a now and heavy burden of responsibility. A novel and interesting plea has been entered before tho United States Commissioner at Buffalo on behalf of no Indian charged with murder on the Cattaraugus reservation. His attorney denied that tho United States had any lawful jurisdiction over tho caso. Tho Indian, he said, belouged to the Fivo Nations, a government that was in ex istence long beforo tho United States was heard of, and whose existence was recognized by tho Uuited States. This point will probably havo to go to tho (Supremo Court beforo tho case can bo tried. Hays tho Boston Transcript: "Tho first lady w ho ever gave money to Har vard Collego could not havo fancied in her most imaginative moment thnt moro than 2.10 years later her girl hood's uamo would be given to a col lego for women ut Harvard. Ami Kadeliffe, who was afterward Damu Moulson, sent her hundred pounds over seos from England to aid the causa of education. She cast her bread upon tho waters, and it is returned to her memory iu honor after ull these many days. Mrs. A"ussiz, tho President of tho Harvard Auuex, is congratulated on this most charming and suggestive choico of a name." New York grows 5,000,01)0 tons of hay and rr.'.ses 30 000,000 bushels of votatoes. Tho internal trade of New York exceeds $3, 000, 000, 000 a yeur; l,Gr0,000,000 of freight pusses over railroads, 8150,000,000 over tho canals and $250,000,000 over tho Souud nud lakes. New York sustains over 1000 newspapers and periodicals, has $000,- 000,000 in tho savings banks, $:100, 000,000 in insurance companies and $700,000,000 in capital and loan of tho banks. There 0000 milec railroads, which cost over$500,000,000, There are 2M, 000, 000 acres of farm lands, valued nt $1,050,000,000, nud auuuslly producing $17, 000, 000. Baron Edmund do Rothschild, whose presence at Constant inople has been of materiul advantage to his colonists in Palestine, has bought a largo tract of pasture land, the personal property of tho Sultau, near tho Jordan. 11 intends to fouud there a large Jewish colony. Life and property in that region have been much more secure within the last fifteen years than for merly owing to the important military etutiou established there by tho Gov erument, which has also constructed a bridge over tho Jorduu to facilitate communication between Jerusalem and walleye on the other sido of tlmt jf, whence the Holy City obtains iuost of its cereals. An iron bridge is now being built near Surono, on the road from Jaffa to Sbechem, ty the ro4 Um teea improve., A SONO OF THE WORLD, "World ain't 'what It usotor be," you'll hoar a feller any As he crosses of li Is log an' li naves a sigh ; But If happens,she's the best world that she' ever been to-day, Ad' she's whlrliu' like 3 :0 'round the sky. The stores give bigger measure j The mines, a sight o' treasure ; Tnore's more o' love an' pleasure In tho land. The skip Is mostly sunny You Jingle more o' money. An' the brown bees bring ttaolr honey To your hand I "World ain't what It useter be." Of course, It ain't, because It's eultln' out a newer kind o' wny. It ain't got time to worry 'bout the kind o' world It wan, For It keeps a glttln' happy on the way ! Brighter blossoms twlnln' j Brighter suns n-shlnlu' ; What's the use In plnln' An' whinln' through the land? Kklesis mostly sunny; You jingle more o' money, An' tbo brown bees bring thoir honey To your band ! Atlanta Constitution. MRS, MEDLICOTf. BY E. M. HALLTDAY. YfA k Iffc Mrs. Medli Wr pott married Mr. V V T Medlioott there was wonder. All of his friends sent gifts, because Mr. Medli cott had spent a large percentage of his not too largo in conio upon wedding presents, for some thing like twenty years. It was nn cveninc weddinir in a Harlem church. Mr. Modlicott's friends seemed to have gathered to gether upon ono sido. Tho ladies woro rather splendid gowns and diamonds, and carried an ostentatious look of wonder in their eyes as they gazed around. Tho men wore expressions of conscious good nature in hnviug conic to help an old comrade through a rather tight place. Mrs. Lupin, -who had sent a superb set of painted plates, put up her lorg nette and let the corners of her mouth speak her thoughts as the brido went by. Good natnrod Mrs. Richards, who had como with her, looked kind. "Now I think she is pretty," letting her ryes roam to the pure profile and delicate pink ear of tho young brido. "Look at that back," Mrs. Lupin said sternly. "Well now, that is probably tho fault of hor modisto." "Modiste 1 Sho made thnt herself." gown t Mr. Hart, ono of Mr. Modlicott's oldest friends, his associate on tho houso committee of tho Philistine Club, leaned over the back of the pew where tho two ladies sat. Mr. Medli cott was just now taking the hand of Mrs. Medlieott to be, and Mr. Hart heaved a deep sigh. "Poor old Mat 1" aud then aloud in his usual tone of gossip: "My dear Mrs. Lupin, you give a new explanation for Mat's in- Jatuation for the village maiden. If she can make her own gowns, doubt less she can cook," and ho chuckled his loose laugh. Ou tho other side of the church, where tho -elderly ladies were uniform ly clad in tho clegunco of stiff black silks, and the young girls in that sim plicity which is "so sweet," the scru tiny was all directed toward Mr. Men licott. "How strango it is," Miss Alice Grant, tho President of tho local charity society, said, "that a serious girl will mako such a choice. A ciub man !" "I do hope" Mrs. Graves, whose, plump and pretty daughters sat flushed and excited, beside her "that Marguret will reclaim him. There is no influence like a good, wife's, but I should fear, were it ono of my girls. I hope they will never even meet any men of that sort. ft seems almost a providenoe that Margaret's mother is not nlivo." "Well, I rather fancy Murgaret will set him straight." Miss Grant re marked with a short laugh. "She will know how to manage. She isn't going to givo up her work with us. Hhe is going to contiuno to edit part of the Woman's Friend. 1 suppose that man thinks ho is marrying a girl like those he knows in his own set. He'll find out the difference. She will open his eyes to the meaning of Woman. Mifs Grant always spoke tho word with a capital W. Mr. Medlieott had arrived at the ago of forty, aud in marryiug he cer tainly did not think that he was tak ing a woman like those ha knew iu his own set. If ho had, he would have gone there to look for a wife. Mr. Medlieott hud begun lifo with a small inherited fortune, which years had not increased. Mr. Medlieott, being unable to enlarge his income to lit his tastes, had wisely cut his tastes to fit his in come, and had lived like a gentleman on little money, la his youth he had fallen in love with a beautiful, frivo lous girl whom he could not afi'ord to marry. 'Ho had seen her carried oft' by another man who could give her au appropriate setting, and been best man at the wedding. Love had never stirred again until now. When Mr. Medlieott met Miss Davis at tho house of his lawyer (not a very expensive one) whoso niece, she was, sho was sitting under a lamp, em broidering. Homo way it seemed to Mr. Medlieott that she breathed the spirit of home, and he had grow tired of being homeless. The courtship hud been short. Mr. Medlieott had soft and elegant ways, and a considerate speech, which wne unknown charms ia the kick of Minn ,livis' acquaint,-aoti, They did not stop to ask much about each other's inner lifo. Tho in come which seemed Bo small to Mr. Medlieott and his friends seemed Inrgo to Miss Dsvis, and thr.t pleased him. Sho was evidently domestic, and knew how to economise. Hhe was a pretty young woman, twenty-five years old, and Mr. Medlieott, '.i looking past his wedding day, saw himself, with all his stock of worldly knowledge, training his young wifo in his wr.ys. He felt that ho was in her eyes a superior be ing. He waa glad sho was so much younger nud had lived such n simple lifo. He thought of how her opinions, her ideas, would bo molded upon his. 5.r. Medlieott was very happy. After tho honeymoon was over and they came back to New York they went to a hotel. "Now, my dear," said Mr. Medli eott, "wc will go ont and look for a little home. I have a list here that an agent sent me." Mrs. Medlieott enmo . and looked over his shoulder, sitting ou tho arm of his chair, whilo he put his arms caressingly around her waist. "But," sho pursed np her pretty red mouth, "all these places are ever so far down town." "Down town? Do yon call Fifty Ninth street down, down? There are only ono or two down town. This one on Gramercy Park, and another ou Irving Place." "They're all below the Park." "Well, where do want to live?" "Why, up by my old friends ; up in upper New York." Mr. Medlieott laughed. "My dear child, nobody would ever come up there to see us." "Wouldn't they?" There was, a compression of his wife's lips which Mr. Medlieott did not see. "I have some friends who would not find it necessary to come up," she went on. "They live there." When they went out to walk, Mr. Medlieott enticed her into a furnished apartment which was a little gem in its way. The price was a little more than Mr. Medlieott enred to pay, Tint he had a young wifo to introduco to his old friends, and this apartment was in a moRt desirable neighborhood, very near the club, and the dining room was large aud pleasant for a flat. Mr. Medlieott anticipated giving din ners. Dinner giving wos very expen sive at the club, but with a clever wife who had been brought up in a domesto fashion it would be different. Mr. Medlieott a week later invited Mr. Hart and the best man at his wed ding to dinner. He announced the invitation to his wife, and made ono or two suggestions ns to the menu. When the evening of tho dinner ar rived, ho had a little fire in tho draw ing room, and when the bell rang, stood beforo tho grate feeling like a lord, ut home iu his own house! But there was not the entry of two quiet, well bred gentlemen ; instead of this tho shrill voices of women. Presently Mrs. Medlieott ushered in Miss Grant and a friend of hers, a shy looking girl. Mr. Medlieott was surprised. "I thought," his wife said, "that we had better have some ladies." Mr. Medlieott said nothing. He went out into tho dining room to look at the table, nnd on into the kitchen. They had a very satisfactory cook, but Mr. Medlieott shuddered when ho saw what ho had been about to ask Hart nnd Elliot to sit down to. Ho had always known how to order a dinner, and he ordered one now from the restaurant around the corner. "I know tho tasto of men better than yon do, my dear," ho said to his wife. "I took the liberty of changing some of your arrangements." Mrs. Medlieott was perfectly calm aud well bred, nud looked delightfully pretty in a pink dinner gown which her husband had insisted upon order ing for her, although she said it was useless. Sho had gowns. . Miss Grant talked a great deal, but tho ono or two little tales Hart tried to tell seemed to full flat. Tho con versation finally settled between tho three ladies. Thoy discussed tho re cent death of a noted woman reformer, aud her published opinion upon mar riage. The men looked respectful, but not very hilarious. Mr. Medlieott made up his mind that it wouldn't do to stop with that dinner. It must be lost iu a series. Ho couldn't havo it going about tho chilis that ho kept such a menage as this. So iu a few days he asked a half dozen friends in, and he nnd Mrs. Medlieott made out the menu together, or rather ho made it out, and Mrs. Medleott wrote it down. "I wouldn't er ask anybody else if I were you." "I must entertain my friends," Mrs. Medlieott said. "Oh, certainly. Let us have any body you like on Tuesday. Wo might make out the menu for that dinner now." It was quite as good as the first one. Mr. Medlieott reflected rather sadly that the two would como high even though they were made up at home. Hut Murgaret must be gradually weaned uway from her friends. The winter went ou in this way. It hadn't been the great success that Mr. Medlieott had anticipated. To be sure, it was sweet to go home, and his 'wife was domestic, almost too domestic, Mr. Medlieott thought sometimes w hen he saw that she was rather bored by Mrs. Lupiu, and that his intercourse with all the women whoso houses had once been opened to him, had taken ou a new aud formal character. He fell into a way of asking men to lunch nt the club, and he thought ruefully that he was spending a great deal of money. Aud then, one night, ho was sitting at home after dinner, reading. Mrs. Medlieott, in her little houso dress she never dressed for dinner when they wero nlone, nor did he any more -.was sewing, The evciiing uii was "By Jove I" Mr, Medlieott exclaimed good nalvtredly, "here ia a bill from the restaurant around tho corner. I never paid for that first dinner wo had. What I Whew ! Why there's some mistake here." -Ho looked again. "Why, this is nonsense. Sis hundred aud fffty-cight dollars! They havo sent ns somebody else's bill. " "Oh, no, I think not. That corre sponds with my account," Mrs. Modli cott said calmly. Mr. Medlieott looked from the bill to her, and from her to tho bill. "Yes," she said, going on evenly with her stitches. "You know you did not like my dinners, so I always sent to the restaurant when our friends camo in. I had no time to waste in the kitchen nil day when we were going to entertain. I have my own life wrv.'k." A week or two later Mr. Medlieott said: ', My dear, I beliove you were right as you always are about our living in upper New York. Suppose you find an apnrttnent. " "I thought you would know how to manage him,', Miss Grant said, when she heard the story. Munsey's Mag azine. Burglars Lotifh at Locksmiths. Detective William Henderson of Philadelphia discussed the evolution of burglars' tools in a reoent inter view : "The modern burglar is like love iu ono particular," said he, "in asmuch as he laughs at locksmiths. His seemingly simple tools indicate that the attempts made to bar his pro gress are not difhcult to overcome, and yet not many years ago they were possessed of a very different idea, and in Old Man Hopo's prime brute force was in a measure tho leading idea iu forcing a safe. In those days ono crook was selected t o go with the gang, not because of his brains, but on ac count of his muscle, and his duty was to carry tho heavy tools. Big crowbars, hugo logs nnd strong men were then the order of things. Snfes were literally dragged apart. "In a few years things went to tho othor extreme. Men intending to rob a safe would take hardly any tools, but would break into a convenient blacksmith shop, get a crowbar and a sledge, and then go to the place to be robbed. As safes were then con structed, a few blows with tho sledgo would knock off the hinges of one door, and then a pry with the bar would wrench tho door away. But safe manufacturers soon caught on, nnd when the handle of the safe was turned by the owner, bolts shot both ways, removing tho responsibility from the hinges. "Then came the era of powder. A safe would havo tho crack running around tho doors plugged with oakum, two littlo spaces only being left. From one all the air would be drawn by a pump, and through the other powder would be allowed to sift in. When they touched it off tho safe would be ripped apart. But this method, de spite all precautions, was noisy, and then camo tho modern tools. In tho case of au ordinary safe, tho knob is knocked off, a punch removes the com binations, and a piece of wire throws back the tumblers. In better safes the drag is used. If I had a safe, no matter how good, with many valua bles in it, I would not trust a burglar alone with it for over ten minutes at the outside. So fur the burglars are abreast of tho makers of safes, and no improvement is made by the latter thnt the former in a short time do not learn to circumvent." The Secretary Bird's tJood Sfomnrh. The authorities at Cape Colony pro tect the secretary bird on account of the thorough way in which it protects gardens and poultry from poisonous snakes. A blow or two from its pow erful legs or a pick from its sharp bill is sufficient to break the back of any serpent, and if tho reptile succeeds in gettiug in a blow with its fangs it is adroitly received ou tho long outer feathers of the interposed wing of the bird. Then tho suuko is swullowed whole, a parting blow of the head on the ground being given it just as that part is disappearing from view. But suokes by no means constitute the en tiro bill of faro of this hungry creat ure. The contents of the stomach of one of them have thus been described: "I found iusido one threo snakes as long as my arm, eleven lizards seven inches long, twenty-one tortoises about two inches in diameter, besides a largo quantity of grasshoppers and other insects; or, in other words seveL' aud a half feet of snake, six and a half of lizard, three and a half of tortoise aud, say, a yard of miscel laneous trifles." As thisdignified and always reliable bird cau be trained to protect the poultry yard from all kinds of birds of prey, small animals and other enemies, and as it can bo accli mated iu this country, it would seem that it would bo well to introduce it hero as a regular barnyard inhabitant Mysterious Tides of Fundy. Statistics regarding tho tides iu tho Bay of Fundy are so startling as to seem almost incredible. At Grand Munau tho full is from twelvo to fif teen feet, at Lubeo and Eastport twenty feet, at St. John from twenty four to thirty feet, at Moucton on tho bend of the Potitcodiae, seventy feet, while the distance between high and low water mark on theCobequid River is twelve nujes, the river actually be ing twelve miles longer at high than at low water. Vessels can be run up so far ou the flood iu this river and iu tho Avon that the ebb will leave them high and dry for sixteen hours, so that they can be repaired between tides. Chicago Herald. A fow years ago horses in Australia multiplied to such au extent that they became a pebt, bo that iu cuo district tbv Government Ud IW,W1 iot. JN OLD MONTANA DAYS THE FLAW IN THE GLASS ETE WAS VERT SERIOUS. The Old Indian Wanted One Thnt He Could See With An Experi ence of Importance With Indlnrs. THE old pioneero had settled down for their smoke in the brain room of the Montana (s Club, when Hugh McQuaid remorked : "I sco that somo smart newspaper man down East has started a rumor that tho Crow Indians will get out of their blankets in tho spring and clean up tho settlers and the United States Army. I would bet that a lot of cigar Indians would fight just as quick. Why, a Crow hasn't got the courage of a jack rabbit to fight. Tho only trait of a white man that is, somo white men outside of this room that a Crow has got is humor. "Of course you mean yourself when you say outBido this room," said Dr. Churchill. "Well, I mean all mining experts, any how, but I remember back in '72 when a party was sent out here by tho Interior Department to look up tho condition of tho Indians, and they asked me, as a newspaper man, to join them on a trip to the Crow agency. We had a fine time ; no end of gogcl shooting before wo got to tho agency. Then for the first day or two there were lots of figuring with the agents, distributing tracts and re ligious food to the squaws, etc., and finally a trip of twenty miles to tho topee of a chief named Horn-in-the-Foot, who lived near by the big medi cine man. There was a fellow in our party from the Smithsonian Institu tion who wore a glass eye that was a dandy. Said that it cost him $700 in Paris, nud could roll around in his head same as the other one. Well, we got to tho old chief's camp nnd found him dressed like a fashion pinto to re ceive us. Long headdress of eagle feath ers, bead-fringed moccasins, nnd all of that, but having only one eye. Learned later that the medicine man made him tear out the other in a war dance, We passed tho time of day, and he said "How," nnd inado the squaws nnd young bucks get down in tho alkali dust and snluto ns. We made a few signs in which tho chief BBked for firewater by trying to stand on his head, bnt we couldn't let him have any because it was against the law. Finally the Smithsonian fellow thought he would have a littlo fun, so ho takes the glass eyo out of tho socket and rolls it around in his hand. Well, you ought to see tho old chief's face and tho young bucks andsquaws. They couldn't'have been more surprised if that ghost that they looked for last year hod dropped down in tho party. Tho chief, however, rocovercd quicker than tho rest nud seemed to catch an idea, for he reached out for the glass eyo nnd, nfter nwhilo, put it where his missing eyo had been. Then tho squaws nnd bucks givo nuother yell, and off tho whole crowd started for the medicine man's tent with us a-trailiug iu the rear. When we got there the chief let out a whoop, und out came tho medicine mau. He gave ono look at the glass eyo and then fell on tho ground, and began to tremble and groan. You see, ho understood thnt ho had lost his pull. Tho chief gave him a kick in tho ribs, nnd when ho got up talked a littlo Crow, and pointed over toward the Yellowstone River, tho bamo ns to say that ho was giving him ten minutes to get out of the cainp. The interpreter told ns r.f terward that tho chiof said that any man who had to loam to make medi cine from white people was a poor kind of a medicine man, and was not needed in thoso parts. Any how the Doctor sneaked out of tho tepeowith a couple of blankets aud a pipe, and was soon out of sight in tho foothills. "Well, wo had n good tiuio laughing while tho Indians wero dancing, not knowing of courso where the eyo came from. The chief put the horso on us, though, when ho got ready to leave by handing baok tho eye to tho Smith sonian fellow and saying iu Crow to come back next year, and tho new medicine man would havo an eye made that ho could see with." New York Sun. Instruction ot Chlldreu. Tench children to do littlo things about tho house. It trains them to be useful, not awkward, in later and moro important uffairs, it gives them occupation whilo they nro small, and it really is an assistance to tho mother in the end, although she always feels, during the training period, that it is much easier to do tho thing herself than to show another how. This last excuse has done much to mako selfish, idle, unhandy members of an older society, and should bo remembered, in its effects, by tho mother whilo her little ones are beginning to learn ull things, good nud bad, at her knee. Occupation makes happiness and occu pation cannot bo acquired too young. St. Louis Republic. Trotting Uxe it. Trotting oxen are being developed in India. Tho sloping quarter and straight hock of tho oxeu may possi bly account for something of their horse-like gait. Ono of tho first thiugs to strike a fctruuger in India is the hur rying ox. All through the Mnhratta country tho ox is the couimou draught auimul, differing in speed und size ac cording to the work for which he is required. Cattle of the Kagore breed, used by rich ineu to draw their state carriages, used to be kept near Delhi for curr) iug dispatches. The Nagore cattle hava I'one of the awkward swing ing motion of the legs of our cow. They bring their hind legs under thew iu ten btraight a line uh. Jh boiH.. yew Yoik World, SCIENTIFIC AM) IMHSTKIAL An electric cloth cutter is new. There is an electric rock breaker. A steam bicycle is a German inven tion, Thfl breaking strain of an inch rope is 9000 pounds. People eat much more bread in win ter thon in summer. Butterflies regularly migrate north and south like birds. The cost of running a locomotive a year is estimated to bo about 83000. Human blood is composed of 77.8 parts of water, 6.2 of albumen, 14.1 of coloring matter, and 1.9 of saline. A new system, by which smokeless combustion of coal is rendered possi ble, has been adopted by the North German Xloyd and tho Hamburg American Packet companies. A strange fact has arisen iu connec tion with long-distance telephony; women have great difficulty in making themselves understood. It is said the high notes of women's voices, while all right on short lines, do not carry well for long distances. A German has taken out a patent for producing varnish from linseed oil by means of an electric current. The oil, after being purified in a proper man ner, is thoroughly mixed and agitated with sulphuric acid and water and sub jected to the action of an electric cur rent for two or three hours, so that the oxygen produced in the nascent state by tho passage of tho current converts the oil into varnish. The varnish so produced is said to be almost colorless and perfectly free from all mineral or metallic admixtures or impurities. The electric locomotive which the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com pany has secured for the purpose of hauling passenger cars through the Baltimore Tunnel, is capable of haul ing the heaviest troins, weighing 1200 tons up tho grade, nnd through tho tunnel under tho city, a distance of three miles. The weight of the loco motive is 180,000 pounds; its length a trifle over fifty feet; the height is fourteen feet three inches, and the ex treme width nine feet, 6 inches. It is claimed that a possible spaed of fifty miles an hour can be attained by this locomotive. With the ophthalmoscope and oph thalmometer there nre very few prob lems with regard to the functions nnd diseases of the human eyo that cannot be determined by nn expert iu n very few moments of time. It may safely be asserted thnt there is no department of knowledge of the functions nnd dis eases of tho huuinn body that is so ad vanced as that of ophthalmology, nnd this has been the work of the civiliza tion of the nineteenth century. With tho ophthalmoscope the circular open ing the iris, which we call tho pupil, is made a window looking in upon a scarlet picture, iu the center of which is a beautiful white moon-like disk, over which rndiatu vessels pulsating with tho blood constantly pumped in by tho heart. Tho darker returning current in tho veins is also seen, while the varying and almost numberless changes made by diseases aro noted by tho practised eye, and tell tale of warning and ofteu of woe. Effects ot Opium Smoking. I made a point of watching tho ef fect of the successive pipes on myself carefully, says a writer iu the Pull Mull Budget. As before, the first pipe had no effect at all ; after tho second pipe I was beginning to perspire gent ly, nnd the skin was soft nnd related. I smoked fivo pipes one after thoother and fancied that the action of the heart -wns slightly depressed; but beyond this I felt nothing whatever. After 1 had left tho place about a quarter ol ail hour I began to find that the opium was taking effect. My limbs felt ns il they did not belong to me ; I could control thorn, but they seemed to bo n part of someone else. My brain seemed quite clear and very active, but 1 be came aware thnt it was doiii the thinking on its own account ; I could not govern or direct tho chain of mj thoughts, which proceeded iu the most grotesque order, the most irrelevant ideas following ono another, and get ting mixed up with the ideas called up by externul surroundings. My sight, too, wns affected ; I fancied there was a very faint tlazo over everything, and it seemed as if the powerof adjustment was lost, aud size and distance were difficult to determine. I had slight hallucinations, also. For instance, I was, for a moment, certain that a cen tipede, about four or five inches long, with a chain round it, was walking up fay leg ; at tlio sumo time 1 know it, was only a vision, and that it arose from my huviug seen during tho (lnv a mau iu the street selling ono of the reptile toys which run along and are held by a string. Soon alter I found the greatest difficulty in keeping my eyes open, though my bruin wuh Htill abnormally uctivc ; this passed off and 1 felt no ill effects of any kind, aud I muy mention that next morning 1 hn I neither headache nor the leant feeling of discomfort of anv kind. Romance of a Treasure Trove. A tin can filled with a incited mass of silv.il- weighing about, eight pounds was fouud the other week by quurry meii near Roudu, Ttwut, buried about two feet below the surface iu the banks nf a creek some lwlvo nah'i: from the Red River. Whilo Texas was ytt a .Spanish province a rond known an the Suutu Fe trsil ran ttlon:', besido tho Red River, and it is sur mised that tlio silver was buried by somo traveler who wa-s hard pressed by Indians, nud who cither wait 1 iiivd or who could not nttcraard l;en!o Lit buried treasure. Tho trunk i an ohi saddle, found near tho anuic p!nce short time ago, wu probably part oi the wayfaf-r't; i-'juii'iri.-:;'. thi ewu HeialJ, WHE.M I GET TIME, Whfn I get time I know what I shall do ; I'll cut the leaves of all myookn, - And rend them through and through. Whn I get time I'll writo some letters then That I have owod tor weeks and week To many, many men. Whin I get time I'll pay those bills I owe, And with those bills, those countless hills, I will not ba to slow. When I get time ' I'll regulate my Jlfo ' In such a way that I may get Acquainted with my wife. When I get time Oh, glorious dream of bliss , A month, a year, ten years from now But I can't finish this I have no time. Tom Mnson, In vogue, HUMOR OF THE DAY. The season is here when the bravest of us are glad to get under cover. Buffalo Courier. Filing a will sometimes rasps the feelings of disappointed legatees. Lowell Courier. Maud "Our engagement is a se cret." Lena "So everybody tell me." Brooklyn Lifo. It will not help your own crop any to throw stones at your neighbor's truck patch. Ram's Horn. Watts "Yon look rather shakythia morning." Potts "Naturally. I feel rocky." Indianapolis Journal. The girl of the period says she ob jects to flattery, but she likes to have her sleeves puffed. New York World. She "Do yon think he is a real nobleman?" He "He must be; he isn't an ideal one." Detroit Free Press. A Philadelphia doctor ti ied to "raise the dead," bnt was immediately fired on by the cemetery watchman. Plain Dealer. Young America, with his parents to help him, is rapidly educating the timid teachers of this country. Galveston News. No matter if a man is peaceful at all other times, when he meets a cy clone he is sure to strike a blow. Rochester Democrat. Naturalist "And now. how shall we prove that man is the superior crea ture?" Pi-.pil "By asking him." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Barber "How would you like your haircut, sir?" Undo Hayseed "Fust rate, young man ; fact is, that's what I cum iu for." Brooklyn Life. It doesn't make much difference to barbers how hard times are. Even in the best of times they have to scrnpo for a living. Philadelphia Record. Oh. woodman, spam thnt tree, I pray you let It stand, A refuge It inav bo When tho bulldog Is nt hand. v Atlanta Journal. She "What ft foolish reason! So she wouldn't marry you on account of your family ?" Ho "No ; and I only iiad a wife aud one child" Pick Me U... Mrs. Flatte "Maria snys sho can cook." Mr. Flutte "Oh, that girl would any that she could read a Chinese laundry-ticket." Kate Field's Wash ington. Student "T tell you frankly that I shall not be able to pay for the suit till next year. When will you have it ready'?" "Tailor "Next year." Flic goude Blaetter. "Yer kin talk," said a phihMophet of the East Side, '"bout it's beiu' vulgar t' wear di'mou's, but I notice that them that has "eiu wears 'em." Buffalo Express. Young Men (ut restaurant) "Hear, you, we wanted these oyster cooked. Waiter "Den vot for you keep cry rail! rah! all dor dime? llowvosdot?" Cleveland Plain Dealer. Griggs -'Why, don't you ever have any trouble whatever in meeting your bills?" Hpriggs "Trouble? Not a bit of it. 1 meet 'em cv.ry where I go." Somcrvillo Journal. New Yorker "You don't see any grass in our streets, anyway." Sho (from Philadelphia) "No-o. Must be the climate. The soil is certuiuly rich enough." Brooklyn Life. "1 was careless this morning at church and put a dollar in tho box when I intended to give only a dime." "A ease of contributory negligence, so to speak." Detroit Tribune. Good Samaritan "Don't you know better than to drive thst poor horse up hill so fast ?" O'Connor ---"Up hill, is it ? Oh, btgorra ! the nag's blind aud he can't see it !" Life's Calendar. Hn dropped a curtridK iu the slot And llieu he south' I lie lair (if forest game, nnd soou he got A fat und jui ) bear. - Detroit Free Tress, "I think a love of football must be inherent in tho J'igs'kiu family." "What makes yon think so?" "Why, whenever littlo Jcniiuie wants to play the game, his mother kicks." New York Press. Duriug the siege of Paris a French lady, driven by hunger to cat her pet dog, excliiiine l when ';lo had finished her meal: "Poor I'ilinc! how pleased she would have been t i gnaw her own bones!" Lo 1'apillou. Mamma "Robbie, your face doesn't look uny cleaner thun when 1 sent you to wath it. Did you n?e tho soap?" Robbie "V.::, nr.d it made tho dand iest soap bubbles you ever m blowcd. " - Inter Ocean. The Right Rev. -Mr. Cassock "1 greatly bur, my dear madam, that your husband is destined to reap a harvest of tareu." Mrs. Swiftly Cuy "Indeed, 1 fear so, j!:s-hop; lu has bvTU ou 01:0 for t'y :ll threw vli'Vi,"
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