RATIS OF ADVERTISING i Forest republican On Bqaara, on inota, on InM-ttoa..! Iff On Square, on inch, on month. ... 1 0 On Bquara, on Inoh, thrm months. . 00 On Isquara, on Inch, on year.... . . MM Two bquarys, one year 109 Quarter Column, on ymr. 80 0C Half Column, on yaar MO On Column, on y.ar. - 10019 Lagal adTartiaamant Un eaata par Uma each inMrtton. Marriages and dmth notion era!. AU bill lor yearly advertisement Mat tkrc months OorrMpondme mIIIU rm tl mtU f tb eonnu-y. N Batlo wul k UkM f unmu iluIuuu. quarterly. Temporary advertisements i M paid in advano. Job work oaah oa dsl'var j. VOL. XXVI. NO. 40. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1894. S1.00 PER ANNUM. THE FOREST. REPDBLICiH b ptbltettt rtKj W4atdar, kf J. E. WENK. Offlot la Bmrbauh ft Co.'s Bulldlnj ut min, tionmta, n, Terma, ... (.8e prTtr. - X Ninety-one por cent, of tho farmers in Utah own thoir farms. Encouraging reports continue to come from tho cotton manufacturers of the Bontb. The average time ppent by the British Houso of Lord in the Nation' work, according to a contemporary, in fifteen minutes per day. I Australia is a country without or phaiiH or nn orphanage Each waif is taken to a recuiviug house, where it is kept until a country home is found for it. , The new programme of publio in "trucMon adopted in France devotes more time to the study of English and less to tho study of German. ' Iu thirty-six State prisons in this country solitary confinement is used ns a punishment, and in twenty the prisoner is handcuffed to the wall. An English widower returns thanks to a choir for their sweet singing at his wife's funeral, "thereby enliven ing and brightening up the dullness and monotony which notunfroqnently characterizes a funeral service." Russia has decided to spend a quar ter of a billion in tho improvement of her navy. This is a pretty expensive outlay in pursuance of a plan to keep the peace : but the leading powers of Europo aro not stopping at expense. England will have to meet those fig ures, and France can bo relied upon to slide several big war ships into the water. It looks to the Detroit Free . Press as though the test of modern naval improvements was not far off, and it may be followed by very mate rial changes in tho map of the eastern continent. Says the New York Observer : "The poor we have always with us and the lazy. To discriminate between them is somewhat of a task. In some oases the wood-pile marks tho division. They go to tho right or left according to their disposition. Home of the hungry go right to work, while by others the opportunity to labor, and so earn a breakfast, is left severely alone. If the newspapers are to be be' lieved, and we see no reason for doubt ing their statements, then while in Chicago the unemployed number tens of thousands it is hard to get men to labor at fifteen cents an hour on canal work. When men were recently asked for from Milw iVkeo by a Chicago busi ness firm, tlit aswer came that while there was plL of steady work in the Wisconsin woods for willing men at fair wages, the men were not to be had. There was work, and there wore workers enough, but the men were shy and refused to be introduced." The New York Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, which keeps a daily record of the fires in this country, and is deservedly high au thority on all questions of insurance, reports the total losses by fire in the United States and Canada in the year 1893 at $150,445,875, against 132, 704,700 in 1892. In but one month of 1893 did the total of fire losses sink below $10,000,000, and thatvas in February, when the return of the Journal 6f Commerce place the figures at $9,919,900. The same paper reports 235 fires in December of a greater de- structiveness thau $10,000 each. It says that tho underwriters attribute much of tho loss to careless iustalla tion oi electrio light ana power plants. Under these circumstances it ought to be the oocasiou of more than insurance interest to learn that the electrio risk is being investigated by experts who are gathcriug particulars of all the fires traceable to electricity. Electricity is a good servant who will bear a lot of watching. The Baltimore. Sun's tribute to the South is worthy of reproduction : "Less complaint has been heard from the South during the last eight or ton months than from any othor part of the country, but this is not because the people of thisseoiion have not felt the financial stringency, lit becaus they have learned to softer and be strong and tilent, too. Itey are not given to making an outcry ivery time they come to rough places iu the road of life. For a people who, prior to 1860, enjoyed an exceptionally lux urious existence, the mannar in which they bore the poverty and privations that followed the war was amazing in Its .calm strength and quiet endurance, and was fully as heroic as their bearing during that conflict. The bravery and patience w ith which they have since struggled to redeem their forluneJ have been no less admirublu, and their progress toward prosperity has been noted with heartfelt iuterett by thcil ON THE ROAD TO DREAMTOWN, Com here, my sleepy darling, and climb upon my knee, And lo t all in a moment, a trusted steed 'twill be To bear you to that country where troubles are forgot. And we'll sot oil for Dreamtown, Trot, Trot, Trotl 0 111 ton! Bells of Dreamland are ringing soft and low I What a pleasant, pleasant country it is through which w go j And little, nodding travelers aro soon In every spot, All riding off to Dreamtown, Trot, Trot, Trotl The lights begin to twinkle above us In the sky, The star-lamps that the angols are banging out on high, To guide the drowsy travelers where danger lurketh not, As they ride off to Dreamtown, Trot, Trot, Trotl Snug In a wild-rose cradle the warm wind rocks the bee ; The little birds are sleeping In every bush and tree. I wondor what they dream of? They dronm, and answer not, At we ride by to Dreamtown, Trot, Trot, Trotl The sleepy Our jjurnoy's almost over. town's in sight Wherein my drowsy darling must tarry over night. How Btlll it is, bow peaceful, In this delight. ful spot, At we ride Into Dreamtown, Trot, Trot, Trot! Elen E. Itoxford, In Independent, RESCUDAT LAST. BY HELEN FORREST ORATES. ORWARD, 1 a o e counter I" shouted the floor-walker. "Mi sb Garrick, what are you think ing of? Show these ladies heliotrope chiffon and be quick about it 1" I s o 1 a Oarrick hurried to her post, with one hand pressed to her foro head. All day long she had suffered from a Tacking headache, but in this promising dry goods firm headaches were not business, ana no allow ances were made for them. "Why, mamma," whispered a tall, red-cheeked young woman, in a seal coat and a velvet toque, nodding with jets, "it s Cousin Isola ! "Hush snl sairt the other lady, who was stout and short, with a gold eyeglass and big diamonds in her ears. "Wo are not supposed to recognize her now. No" to the young girl be hind tho countor "this is not the right shade. This is violet, and I in quired for heliotrope. Some people seem to be absolutely color blind! Isola looked wistfully at her aunt, Surely Burely she could not intend entirely to ignore her ! iiut Jura. 1'ierson uarriok a gaze was wholly unreoognizing. "We have heliotrope also," said she, taking down another box. But the tall young lady tossed her Lead impatiently. "It isn't the right color at all 1" said she. "Come away, mamma." The floor-walker administered a sharp rebuke to Miss Uarrick, when the cus tomers were gone. "Really," he said, "it would seem as if a sale might have been made. " Isola's eyes brimmed over with tears which it would have been "uubusi ne&s-like" to shed. Six months ago sho had come, a timid, inexperienced orphan to Hew lork, and naturally her first idea was to go to her father's brother, Mr. Flerson Oarrick. That gentleman, however, was not at home he generally contrived to be out of the way when any embarrassing circumstance occurred and his wife gave Isola to understand that it was quite impossible to do anything for her. In the old Connecticut farmhouse a generous hospitality had always pre vailed, and the girl rmld hardly be lieve that she was uu Velcome to these relatives. "I dure say," said Mrs. Oarrick, ab sently, "you can get something to do, 'for satan rinds some mischief still' Oh, no, that isn't the right quotation ! 'Where there s a will, there s a way, was what l meant to say. iiut your uncle isn't at home, and Cornelia is just going out, and the house is full of company." "I could wait a little while," haz arded Isola, glancing at an inviting easy-chair. "It would be of no use," sharply ut tored the lady. "We really can't un dertake to open a hotel for all our country cousins." Isola rose, with burning cheeks and indignantly-sparkling eyes, aud bade her aunt good morning. Where to be take herself she did not kuow, but of one thing she was quite certain she would be no burden on these super oilious people. A kindly oountry neighbor had daughter married aud settled in confectioner's shop on Third avenue, and here she took refuge. "Surely," she argued within her self, "my good education must stand me in stead here !" But she was destined to be speedily disenchanted, and after various inter vals of sickening suspense, Mas finally fterjoyea W MOUte . situation. iU tU dry goods houso whore she received tho smallest possible salary for the largest possible amount of work. As it happened, Mr. Benjamin Gar rick, of Rio Janeiro, was staying at tho house on Lexington avenue, the one sole guest who represented the "household of company," mentioned by Mrs. flarrick. In his younger days Cousin Benhad been the black sheep of the family. But the Tiorson Onrricks, who had been the loudest in his censure whil ho was under a financial cloud, were his most devoted adherents, now that he had come home the lucky possessor of ruby mines, railway shares an thriving coffeo plantations. "You must do your very beBt, Cor nelia, to make yourself agreeable to him," said Mrs. Oarrick to hor tall daughter. "Who knows how he may decide to leave his money? Oh, by-tho-way 1 said Cousin Ben, tho first day that ho came homo to dinner. "I met Burley iu tho Ex change, and he was telling mo that Alfred was dead. "Yes, "smiled Mrs. Garrick. "Some soup, .benjamin? It s lobster bisque, and very nice. Oh, yes wo aro all mortal !" "Well," quoth Ben, smiting the table with his fist, "there isn't a soul that I've calculated more on seeing when I came back than Alfred! No body but myself ever knew how good Alfred was to me in the days when all yes, Louisa, yon and Fierson, too turned their back upon me. Ab, you never know it, but I went up into the old garret ono day, with a clothes line, to hang myself. There didn't seem to be anything else to do. And Alfred came after ine it was when that little baby of theirs was so ill of croup, and he was looking for herbs to make horb tea and I tell you he talked to me as no one else had ever done. And he took his last five hundred dollars out of the bank and packed me off to South America with it. Oh, I sent back the money long ago I But what could pay for the kind words and the helping hand eh? Foor Alfred ! So he's dead? And that pretty little wife of his and the child? She grew up didn't she? What has become of her? I mean to go out to Elmville to-mor row and see after the child. They called her some strange Spanish name Jsulora or Isola. Alfred 8 wife was always fanciful." Mr. Fierson Garrick swallowed his soup silently. Mrs. Garrick and her daughter exchanged glances behind the tea urn. How lucky it was that thov had sent their country cousiu away ! For the Onrricks were money worshipers, and the idea of diverting one cent of Ben's fortune from their own coffers terrible to them. Benjamin Garrick went to Elmville the next day. but to no purpose. l he old house was closed, padlocked. and drifted knee high with frozen January snows, and no one could tell him what had become of the solitary chilil with the strange Spanish name. And no ono sympathized more deep ly with him in his disappointment than Cornelia Uarrick I Isola had heard her father speak of tho wayward consiu who had drifted off into tho auriferous South, but that was all. Of his return sho knew noth ing, or she might have felt more hope ful that evening when the floor-walker notihod her in an incidental way that. as it was necessary to cut down their expenses after tho holidays, they had decided to dispense with her services thereafter. Foor Isola! 'Did the floor-walker know that she had but twenty-five cents in ner pocKetr that she was in debt to tho confectioner s wife? that in all the groat, dreary city she knew not whither to turn .' The man made some little careless jest as he counted out their week's sal ary, minus sundry fines, to her and the five other victims who were on the discharge list. They looked blankly at each other, but went quietly away. Whot elso was there to do? "I must go to Mrs. Fierson Garrick now," said Isola, ''even though she stared me full in the face and never chose to recognize me to-day. She is at least a woman, and she has daugh ter of my own age. The next day she paid her .small stook of money to the confectioner's wife for the boar J bill it was little enough, and the poor woman had sore need of it aud walked through the deep snow to the handsome houso on Lexington avenue. As she stood hesitating at the foot of the steps, a stout, elderly gentle' man, dressed in a tall silk bat and fur -trimmed overcoat, came down them. He glanced casually at her, but she hud turned away her face. It seemed as if everybody must know that she was a beggar, and the shame of it oh, the shame of it I "Pretty girl," said Cousin Ben to himself. "Hangs down her head too much, though." "He has a kind face," thought Isola. "I wish Uncle 1 lorson was like him. And then she timidly ascended the slippery steps and rang the bell. Mrs. Fierson Garrick was adding up her housekeeping accounts in a pretty little room opening Irom her husband i library. Between the two apartment hung a portiere of richly-colored ltal lan silk. She looked up indignantly as the parlor maid ushered in the unwelcome visitant. Fair Cornelia raised her eyes from the novel she was reading "Well. I declare !" cried she. "Aud wb'U is it that brings you here, Isola? Did not rnauma tell you that ycu must depend on yourself.' i never saw sucn assurance in my life 1 . said Mrs. Fierson Oarrick, grow lug very red. Isola looked piteouslv from one to tlto other, 'i bav UUl to pcu4 oamjieM," said she, "and I have failed, Please don't look so cruelly at me. All I ask is a little money to tako mo back to Elmville, I can get housework to drt there, or I can work in tho factory. But oh, this cruel city is killing me !" She burst into tears; but Mrs. Tier- son Oarrick did not relent one whit. This is all nonsense, Isola," said sho. "I have already told you that we can do nothing for yon. Why don't yon go to the intelligence bu reaus or the employment agencies? Mr. Fierson and myself have all wo can do withont providing for all our penniless relations. And I beg you will go away at once. This is dear Cornelia's at home day, Bnd I can't have her nervous system upset. 1 "Hello I wliats all this? ' spoke a deep voice, and Cousin Ben appeared from botween the rich ltoman por tieres. "Who is this girl? Not Isola, Alfred Pierson's daughter? By Jove ! believe she has hor father s very eyes ! And what are you bullying her for, Louisa? Turning her out of your house? Then, as sure as the world, I'll go, too. Come here and kiss me, Isola. I ve held you on my knee many timo when you were a baby. I m your Cousin Ben, and your father was the best friend I ever had in the world. And I've looked for you I've hunted high and low, and these people have allowed mo to believe you were dead. Yes, Louisa," in answer to Mrs. Gar rick's pleading glance, "I did go out, but I returned after a paper I had left behind me in Pierson's study, and so I heard it all. I couldn't believe that a woman could have been so false and cruel. Little iBola, will you come to mo and bo my adopted daughter? I owe more than that to your father's child." And Isola ran, sobbing, into his arms. That was the last of all tho dark days she had endured. Nothing was too good thenceforward for Cousin Ben's adopted child. But Mr. Fierson Garrick shrugged his shoulders. Ho was one who al ways laid the blame of things on other shoulders. "You have outmanaged yourself, Louisa," said he. Saturday Night. Poisoned Arrows, Poisoned arrows have been in nse since time out of memory. We have it on the authority of both Strabo and Aristotle that the ancient Gauls poi soned both their arrows and the shafts of their spears with a preparation of vegetable poison extracted from what is now believed to have boen a species of hollobore. The Scythians went a step farther and used the venom of serpents intermixed with the virus of putrid blood, the latter being one of the most active and incurable of the poisons known even to-day. The natives of Japan, the Ainos, prepare their arrow poisons from a se cretion of the bamboo, and the same may be said of the Aborigines of Bor neo, Java and New Guinea. In Central and South America the "Woorara" poison was the terror of the early explorers, as well as of the modern scientific expeditions. Analyses of several specimens of arrows rubbed with this poison prove it to bo a mix ture of rattlesnake venom, putrid blood aud juice from the plant or tree which produces the strychnine of commerce. Among the North American Indians the Sioux, the Apaches, Comanches, tha Bannocks, the Shoshones and the Blackfeet were the chief tribes which used poisoned war implements. The Sioux obtained their supply of venom and virus by forcing large rattlesnakes to Btrike their fangs repeatedly into the liver or kidney of a deer or buf falo, and then allowing the meat to putrefy. When a war party went out, one of their number was made bearer of this putrid, venom-soaked mass, and whenever a battle was imminent each brave would take turns at jab bing his arrows into tho poison. Among the other tribes mentioned, al though tho process of obtaining the poison supply was not always iden tical with the above, the general mo dus operandi and results were very similar. St. Louis Republic. Much Like a Man. The Kuln Karaba is more like a hu man being, aooording to Professor Garner, than any other animal. The principal difference between tho phys ical organization of a human being and a gorilla, according to the same authority, is that the spine of the gorilla is not so regularly jointed as that of a man, some of the joints hav ing seemingly gone into partnership. The difference, or to put it more finely the distinction, between the chimpan zee and the Kulu Kamba is still a mat ter of coujecture, Professor Garner says, as ho does not possess a skeleton of the Kulu Kamba. Skeletons of gorillas aud chimpanzees aro the same to him as a varied collection of pipes are to some men, and he expects to bo just as well supplied with tho inani mate remains of Kulu Kambas some day. Having been in Africa on scien tific exploration bent, he naturally in tends to go again. The Aft ican fever seldom leaves a man upon whom it has once taken a grip. Fall Mall Budget. Remarkable Little Magnets, A magnet which the great Sir Isaac Newton wore as a set in his finger ring is said to have been capable of raising 746 grains, or about 250 times its own weight of three grains, and to have been much admired in consequence of its phenomenal power. One which formerly belonged to Sir John Leslie, and which is now in the Royal So ciety's collection at Edinburgh, has still great powers. It weighs but lit tle more than Newton's curiosity even 3 grains yet it is capable of supporting 1500 grains, and is, there fore, tho strongest inaguet of its sjzy THE POSTAL (i HAVE YARD. THE WORKINGS OF THE DEAD LET TER OFFICE. A System of the PostofTlre Depart tnrnt About Which There Is Al ways Something New to be Told. TnE infinite pains taken by this great Government of ours with even the most trilling interests of its GO, (100,000 of people is most forcibly il imtratod in tho workings of tho Dead Letter Office. The scrawl of the illiterate receives as oIobo attention as tho polished chirogrsphy tf tho uni versity graduate, a modest penny as much care in the handling as a preten tious $100. Six million pieces of un delivered mail matter are annually received attho Dead Letter Office, and and not one, however insignificant, is overlooked or slighted, according to a writer in Harper's Young People. Early each morning the great Gov ernment wagons marked United States Mail may be seen lumbering through the stone archway leading into the court of the Postoffice Department limWing Hero they aro speedily unloaded, and the great leather pouches quickly dis appear, beinct borne by tho messen' gers to the elevator, and then to tho Dead Letter Office. ' Each one of tho 20.000 dead letters received daily passes at least through the hands of throe clerks, and Bhould it chance to contain nnything of money value, throuch at leant three more. A "dead" letter, strictly speaking, is one that bears a correct address, is fully prepaid, and has been duly de livered at tho ollico oi acstinauon. Remaining there unclaimed for one week, such letters are advertised for the period prescribed by law, aud then sent to the Dead Letter Office. Here, first of all, each day's "dead" mail must bo accurately counted, ana a correct reoord made of the number of let ters and packages. Thero are usually four clerks employed on this work. Should any ignorant or care less postmaster send in with his "deads" a letter bearing a written or printed card or request, a letter with no address, one without a stamp, or one bearing a foreign stamp, tho counting clerk must winnow them out ana reo' tifv, as far as he can, these errors, Being counted, they aro tied in bun dies of usually 100 each by the meS' scngcrs. They aro now ready for the second set of clerks, whose duty it U to "violate the sanctity, of tho seal with the long, keen knives with whioh they are provided. It is curious to watch these men. With ono quick stroke tho envelope is split lengthwise and in tho next instant tho contents are deftly extracted aud examined, and if of no money value quickly laid asido and another taken up. Each opener averages about 2500 letters per day. Should tho letter chance to contain money, even a singlo cent, a stomp, postal note, a money-order, green' backs, notes, drafts, checks or any le cal tender, ho immediately seizes pencil, notes the kind and value ol tho find on the envelope, and beneath it places his own initials. Besidei this he has a small blank-book in which he makes a duplicate entry, and in ad dition adds the name and address found on tho letter. This work he usually does at the closo of tho day, and then both letters and book are civen in charge to tho chief of the division. Whenever it is possible tho letter with its contents is returned to the sender in care of tho postmaster, who is responsible for its safe delivery, and who must return a receipt for il to the department. Every possible protection is thus thrown around it. When the money cannot be thus ro turned, on account of the failurre o) tho writer to sicn his name or aa- dress, then it is held in tho odico for year, in tho hope that it may be ap' plied for. Failing in this, tho money is turned into Uncle sums aireauy corpulent money bags. The carelessness of the people in sending money is almost incrediblo. Abont 1500 letters that bear no ad dress whatever are receivad each month, aud, curiously enough, they very often contuin money or its equiv alent. 1 recall one that canio undei my own observation that revealed, when opened, drafts to the amount ol $2500. Accurate records are kept of all valuable letters and their final dispo sition. In rouud numbers about $;l(),000 aro received in cash annually, and $1,400,000 in drafts, notes, etc. Tho remaining dead letters, that have only their literary merit to commend them, or want of it to condemn them, are given one last chauco before being consigned to the watte paper dealer. They are placed in the hands of clerks, who" do their utmost to return thoin to their writers a thankless task at best. Each clerk is expected to av erage at least 250 per day, and tho supply is never exhausted. In addition to tho "deads" there is another class termed "unmailuble," that includes such as aro held for post age, sent from hotels, fictitious and misdirected. The oldest cIuhb of un bailable letters aro tho misdirected. Those form u curious study, aud aro accorded careful special treutineut. They number about 2000 daily. They aro forwarded daily from the mailing offices, not being detuiued or adver tised as dead letters aro. Postmasters are unable to deliver them on acoount of some error of deficiency in tho ad dress, or because the writing is illegi ble. Tho clerks on this work have from long experience become very ex pert in handling these Inters, and de liver many thousands yearly. The Sultan of Turkey has issued decree that three oopies of every book aud pamphlet issued since he ascended the throne must be stmt to his new Ji irury at Constantinople. KtlEXTIFIO AND ISDUSTULVL. The English language contains forty- one distinct sounds. When oxygen is in a liqnid state it strongly attracted by a powerful electro magnet. The beef extract foctories in South America make one pound of extract from thirty-four pounds of meat. A cubic foot of new fallen snow weighs five and one-half pounds on tho average, and-has twelve times the bulk of an equal weight of water. It is strange, though true, that in Asia and Africa, where grass will not grow, tho most beautiful flowers and shrubs flourish to perfection. In filing band saws, tio a string where you begin to file, and then you can tell when you get around, and therefore all the teeth will be sharp, and you will not file any of them twice. Dr. O. V. Thayer, of San Francisco, has successfully used tho solar cautery burning glass in removing facial discolorationsof the skin of largo area, also in removing tattoo or India ink marks. At the two large abattoirs of Lyons, France, the guards protect the ani mals to be slaughtered from seeing anything connected with the slaught ering of other animals ; a terror is found to have an injurious effect upon the secretions aud flesh of dumb creatures. Refined orystolized sugar, whether made from the beet or the sugar caue, is almost chemically pure and sac charose, and is the same substanco in both cases, t ew articles oi food are so generally free from adulteration as granulated not powdered or conee crushed sugar. The rato of mortality of London is shown by a recent report to havo steadily decreased with the introdnc tion and perfection of adequate means of disposing of the sewage of the city. At the end of tho eighteenth ceutury tho annual average mortality was esti mated at fifty per 1000, aud in 1892 it had dropped to 10.1 per 1000. In South America among the monn tains the evergreen oak begins to ayi pear at about 5500 feet, and is found up to the limit of the continuous forest, which isabout 10,000 feet. The valuable cinchona tree, from which Peruvian bark is obtained, has a range of elevation on the mountain slopes running from 4900 to 9j00 feet. In the process of extracting gold from its ores molten lead is used in stead of mercury. The lead is melted on a shallow hearth and the powdered oro is fed at one end and rattle I for ward as a film over tho surfaco of the lead by means of an agitator moving over it. It is thus brought to the other end, where it escapes through a hopper. In order to prevent oxida tion of tho lead tho chamber is kept filled with carbonic oxide from a gas producer. A Man With Three L'sr.i. Of late years I have lost all trace ol my old and oddly malformed friend George Leppert, whom I first met at Tiffin, Ohio, in 1881. Ooorge was Bavarian by birth, and came to this country twelve years ago, settling at Baltimore, where he followed the trade of a wood-carver. Should you happen to meet him on the street you would notice nothing peculiar either in his gait or general makeup, unless it was that the rurht lea of his trousers was something near twioe tho size of the left, aud too full to wrinkle besides This lopsided appearance w as eauseii by a remarkable malformation, Mr. Leppert being the not over proud pos sessor of two right legs aud oue lett or. in other words, of three perfect!' formed lower limbs. I often remarked that should nature, through some o her odd freaks, choose to increase my normal supply of le;' by fifty per cent. I W'Uild do my best to play tho $100-a-wcek fiddle iu a diiuo museum before the setting of the sun on the day following the addition of the ex tra member to my anatomy. ilo often told mo that when he was a small boy in his Bavarian home he had perfect use of all three of his leg.", but when I saw him last iu 18S7 the extra member was slightly paralyzed, probably the result of being bound to its companion, an operation that was uecessary in order to get both into one trousers leg. When 1 last heard from him, iu 1891, he was at the Belle vue (X. Y.) Hospital, undergoing treatment for rheumatism. St. Louis Republic. The First Iron Bridge. Tho first iron bridge ever erected in tho world, and which is in constant use at the present time, spaus a little river to the County of Salop, on the railroad leading from Shrewsbury to Worcester, England. It waM built in tho year 1778, is exactly ninety-six feet in leugth ; total amount of iron used iu construction, 378 tons. Stephenson, tho great cngiueer, in writing concerning it, said: "When we consider tho fact that the casting of iron was at that timo iu its infancy, we are convinced that uublushiug audacity alone could conceive aud carry into execution such au under taking." St. Louis Republic. Effects ol Meet deity ou Lunatics. It is said that when the electric cur rent was turned ou the circuits at Long View Insane Asylum, at Cincin nati, Ohio, for the first time, the in sane patients were much allected. They tossed their hands about, iell into each other's embrace, danced with glee aud displayed an exaltatiou sm h as irratioual animals soim-timcs do when stirred by emotional music. Im provement iu many of tho patients has been noted, due, it is believed, to the buoyant effect out lie system of tho ui'yriitv,-Xew Ygjk. Tekjjiauj, POET AND PEASANT. A poet and peasant, side by sid, Together dwelt within thnaolf-same town The poot's fame was noted far and wide, The peasant's not beyond the township's bound. Ths poet snng of lovn and household joys, But neithnr wife nor children made him Rind ; Thn peasant had a wife, two girls and boys, YiUo with hitn lived and his small cottag shared. The pot mused, ''What is this gift of mine? Tis but a drnam, a hollow drnam of bliss I I would exi'haoga it gladly at the shrine Or Hymen's altar for a young child's kiss." The peasant sighed while at his dally task. Turulns tha furrows while he held the plow j Had I my neighhor's gift I would not ask For higher houors to beduek my brow." i Ah ! such is life, common fate of all, With pain and pleasure ever strangely blent ; The gilts we crave on othors lightly fall. And with our own we never seem content, Boston Tort. HUMOR OF THE DAY. The man who labors under a delu sion works for a bad paymaster. Anybody can see through peopl who make spectacles of themselves. Dallas News. The borrower is a good deal like pie crust he is very "short" and very sweet. Truth. When a man has no bills against him he must feel as if ho belonged to the nobility. Texas Sittings. Eating one's own words isn't exaotly a love-feast, but sometimes our friends enjoy Beeing ns do it. Truth. A man's worth and what a man's worth, are, it frequently happens, widely different things. Puck. If a man gets up when the day breaks can he be said to lisv.) a whole day be fore him? Minneapolis Times. Sneezing is probably an effort of nature to force lazy peoplo to take somo exercise. Milwaukee Journal.' Cholly "Yaas, we missed each other in the crowd." She "That's just like her. She's always losing things." Life. , A large part, of tho average hack- ' man's success is doubtless due to his knowing how to take pooplo. Buffalo Courier. Clarissa "I owe you an apology, dearest." Frod "Don't speak of it. I wish to remain a preferred credi tor." P.ick. "Aud do you ever invito your poor relations to visit you?" "0 yes, in deed. You see they are all too poor to got here." Judge. "Bilkein's is a strong face, or I'm no judge of physiognomy. " "Itonght to be. He and his whole family are living ou it." Buffalo Courier. Mamma "Aren't you homo from school earlier than usual to-day?" Bobby "Yes, mamma, I wasn't kepi iu to-day." Harper's Young Feople. "I wonder what this image repre sents?" "The god of humor, proba bly. Don't you sea that it is full of little funny cracks?" Indiapolis Jour nal. "Why in the world do you want to got your daughter a violiu, Jawson? Sho is not musical, is she?" "Not at all; but violins havo chin rests." Judge. Jinks "I don't think it looks well for a minister to wear diamonds." Ellkius "Why not? Aren't there sermons iu stones?" Kate Field's Washington. "I wouder how it was discovered that fish was a brain food?" She "Probably by the wonderful stories that meu tell who go fishing." Chi cago Inter-Ocean. He "Did you ever hear that Jag son's wife speaks two languages?" She "Yes." He "What aro theyl 'The one for company and the othef for Jagson. luter-Occaii. "Now, what must I do with this wedding cake to dream of it ?" asked a gushing damsel of a matter-of-fact young man. "Just eat it; that's all," was tho reply. Tid-llits. She "Tell me, now, have your af fections always remained constant?" He "Jean truthfully sny that they have, thongh I admit that their object has often changed." Boston Tran script. Muggins "Somo peoplo are never satisfied to know that certain things are so, but are eoutiually wanting to know the why and whereof of it." Bugging "Yes, I wouder why it is?" Philadelphia Record. "It's bad luck," said the bad boy, "to give a person something sharp or pointed. 1 shouldn't be a bit sur prised if youug Mr. J inkles and I were to part friendship after 1 leave this pin iu his chair for him." Wash ington Star. Barteuder- "Look here, therel That'll do ! I've counted ten crackers aud seven junks of beef you've eaten already." lluugry Oue "They hire you to tend hen', don't they? One lunch counter is enough see?" Bos ton Transcript. Timid Young Author "Haveu'tyou read my poem too hastily? I'm sure, sir, it has some good features about it that you would see ou a more careful reading." l'. litor (with a sudden sus picion) "You are not trying to work oil' an acrostic ou us, are you, miss?" Chicago Tribune. Penelope I triumphantly) "I heard last night, that Jack was head over ear in love with me." Grace (jealously) "You cauiiot believe a 1 you hear." Penelope- "So, but 1 should not won der if there was something iu it." Oracf --"Why! Who told you? 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