THE lOBBI EEFDBLICAN b f iblM.. rr.ry Wd..lj, fey 4. E. WENK. Oo In Bmoarbaugh A Co.'s Bulldlnj sai ram, TIOKWTA, r. Trm, . . gl.BO pr Yo,r. "l,K'r'Tl7l nedvrt to a Btertar wrlos ! tkrrn Bicniha, Oormpondmc Mlltlt4 tnm U MrU of tk. Conntrf. N tM wul be UkM if unjMu RATXS OF ADYERTISINOt ' On. Bqtni-a, on. inoa, on. Innrtkm, .1 1 0 On. Hqur, on. Inuh, on. month..,, i 09 On. fiqur, on. inoh, three months. . 00) On. Hquar, ou. Inch, on. fnr Is) W Two bqaarM, on. Jnr IS 00 Quarter Column, on. ;Hr,n BO OC Hm.lt Column, on. Tr , 00 00 On. Column, -on. year. YWV Lagal fc'iTRrtiMmAfiU ten easts pas Mm each lnMTtkvo. Mairiarn and death notion rrtlji. AU bill, for yearly advertisements ed VOL. XXVI. NO. 4G. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1894. S1.00 PER ANNUM. quarterly. Temporary adverUasiiMats I b. paid in advano. Job work oaah on del'vary. Forest republican. i Ninety-one por cent, of tho farmer ia Utah own thoir farms. Encouraging reports continue to come from the cotton manufacturers of the South. The overage time epent by the British House of Lords in the Nation's work, according to ft contemporary, is fifteen minutes per day. I Australia is a country without or phans or an orphanage. Each waif is taken to a rocoiving house, where it is kept until a country home is found for it. The new programme of public in struction adopted in France do votes more time to the study of English and less to the study of German. ! Iu thirty-six State prisons, in this country solitary confinement is used as punishment, and in twenty tho 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 not unfrequently characterizes a funeral service." Bussia has decided to spend a quar ter of a billion in the improvement of her navy. This is a pretty expensive outlay in pursuance of a plan to keep the peace : but the leading powers of Europe are not stopping at expense. England will have to meet these fig ures, and France can be relied upon to slide several big war ships into the water. It looks to the Detroit Free . Tress as though the test of modern naval improvements was not far off, and it may be followed by very mate rial changes in the map of the eastern continent. Says the Now York Observer : "Tho poor we have always with us and the lazy. To discriminate between them is somowhat of a task. In some oases the wood-pile marks the division. They go to the right or left according to their deposition. Some 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 tena 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 Milwfkee by a Chicago busi ness firm, tlit aswer came that while there was pllf 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 were workers enojigh, but the men were shy and refused to be introduced." The New York Journal of Commerce aud Commercial Bulletin, which keeps a daily ' record of the fires iu this country, and is deservedly high au thority on all questions of insurance, reports the total loBsea by fire in the United States and Canada in the year 1893 at $156,445,875, against $132, 704700 in 1892. In but one month of 1893 did the total of' fire losses sink 'below $10,000,000, and thatas in February, when the return of the Journal of Commerce place the figures at $9,919,900. The same paper reports 235 fires iu Deoember of a greater de etructiveness than $10,000 each. It says that the underwriters attribute much of the loss to careless installa tion of electrio light and power plants. Under these circumstances it ought to be the oocasion of more than insurance interest to learn that the electrio risk is being investigated by experts who are gathering 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 tho South is worthy of reproduction: "Less ooraplaint has been hoard from the South during the last eight or ten months than from any othtir part of the country, but this is not because the people of this seojiou have not felt the financial stringency, but because they have learned to suffer and bo strong and tilent, too. They are not given to making an outcry every time they oome to rough places iu the road of life. For a people who, prior to 1860, enjoyed an exceptionally lux urious existence, the manner in which they bore the poverty and privations that followed the war was amazing in its .calm strength and quiet induranoe, aud was fully as heroio as their bearing during that conflict. The bravery and patience with which they have since struggled to redeem their fortune1 Lave been no less admirable, and their progress toward Jirospertty has been uoWJ with heartfelt interest by (kcij ON THE ROAD TO DREAMTOWN. Com here, my sleepy darling, and climb upon my knee, And lo I all In a moment, a trusted steed 'twill be To bear you to that country where troubles ar. forgot. And we'll set off for Dreamtown, Trot, Trot, Trott O 111 ton! Bolls of Dreamland are ringing soft and low t What a pleasant, ploasant country it is through whloh we go ; And little, nodding travelers are seen in overy spot, All riding off to Dreamtown, Trot, Trot, Trot! 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 lurkelh not, As they ride off to Dreamtown, Trot, Trot, Trot! Bnug In a wild-rose cradle the warm wind rooks the bee i The little birds are sleeping in every bush and tree. I wonder what they dream of? They dream, and answer not, As wo ride by to Dreamtown, Trot, Trot, Trot! Our Journey's almost over. The sleepy town's in sight Wherein my drowsy darling must tarry over night. How still It is, bow peaceful, in this delight, ful spot, A we ride into Dreamtown, Trot, Trot, Trot! Eben E. Rexford, in Independent. RESCUED AT LAST. BY HELEN FOB REST OH AVE. ORWARD, laeo counter V shouted tho floor-walker. "Mi as Garrick, what are you think ing of? Show these ladies heliotrope chiffon and be quick aboat it 1" I s o 1 a Oarriok hurried to her post, with one haud pressed to her fore head. All day long oho had suffered from a racking headache, but in this promising dry goods firm headaches were not "business," and 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 sh !" said tho other lady, who was stout and short, with a gold eyeglass and big diamonds in her ears. "We are not supposed to recognize her now. No" to the young girl be hind the countor "this is not the right Bhade. This is violet, and I in quired for heliotrope. Some people seem to be absolutely color blind!" Isola looked wistfully at her aunt. Surely surely Bhe could not intend entirely to ignore her ! But Mrs. Pierson Garriok's gaze was wholly nnreoognizing. "We have heliotrope also, "said she, taking down another box. But the tall young lady tossed her head impatiently. "It isn't the right color at alll" said she. "Come away, mamma." The floor-walker administered a sharp rebuke to Miss Garrick, 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 "unbusi nesslike" to shed. Six months ago she had come, a timid, inexperienced orphan to New York, and naturally her first idea was to go to her father's brother, Mr. Pierson Garrick. That gentleman, however, was not at home he generally contrived to be out of the way when any embarrassing ciroumstanoe oocurred and his wife gave Isola to understand that it was quite impossible to do anything for her. In the old Connecticut farmhouse generous hospitality had always pre vailed, and the girl vuld hardly be lieve that she was uu Velcome to these relatives. "I dare say," said Mrs. Garrick, ab sently, "you can get something to do, 'for satan finds soma mischief still' Oh, no, that isn't the right quotation ! 'Where there s a will, there s a way. was what I meant to say. But your unole 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 tered the lady. "We really can't uo dertake to open a hotel for all our country cousins. " Isola rose, with burning cheeks and indignantly-sparkling eyes, and bade her aunt good morning. Where to be take herself she did not know, but of one thing she was quite certain she would be no burden on these super- oiuous people. . A kindly oountry neighbor had a daughter married aud settled in a 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 bo speedily disenchanted, and after various inter vals of sickening suspense, was finally eterjorea w icvure situation, m tu dry goods house whore she reoeived the smallest possible salary for the largest possible amount of work. As it happened, Mr. Benjamin Gar rick, of Rio Janeiro, was staying at the house on Lexington avenue, the one sole guest who represented the "household of company, mentioned by Mrs. Garrick. In bis younger days Cousin Ben had been the black sheep of the family. But the Fiorson Gnrricks, who had been the loudest in his censure whita be was under a financial cloud, wer his most devoted adherent, now that he had come home the lucky possessor of ruby mines, railway shares an'I thriving ooffee plantations. "You must do your very best, Cor nelia, to make yourself agreeable to him," said Mrs. Garrick to her tall daughter. "Who knows how he may decide to leave his money?" "Oh, by-the-way !" said Cousin Ben, the first day that he came home to dinner. "I met Bnrley iu tho Ex change, aud he was teiling me that Alfred was dead." "Yes "smiled Mrs. Garriok. "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, you and Pierson, too turned their back upon me. Ah, you never knew it, but I went up into the old garret one day, with a clothes line, to hang myself. There didn't seem to be anything else to do. And Alfred came after me it was when that little baby of theirs was so ill of croup, and he was looking for herbs to make herb 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? Poor Alfred! So he s dead? And that pretty little wife of his and the child? She crew up, didn't she? What has become of her? I mean to go out to Elmville to-morrow and see after the child. They called her some strange Spanish name Isidora or Isola. Alfred's wife was always fanciful. " Mr. Pierson Garrick swallowed his soup silently. Mrs. Garrick and her daughter exchanged glances behind the tea urn. How lucky it was that thev had sent their country oousiu away 1 For the Garricks were money worshipers, and the idea of diverting one cent of Ben's fortune from their own coffers was terrible to them. Benjamin Garrick went to Elmville the next day. but to no purpose. The 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 child with the strange Spanish name. And no one sympathized more deep ly with him iu his disappointment than Cornelia Uarrick ! Isola had heard her father speak of the wayward oonmn who had drifted off into the auriferous South, but that was all. Of his return she knew noth ing, or she might have felt more hope' ful that evening when the floor-walker notified her in an incidental way that, as it was necessary to cut down their expenses after the holidays, they had decided to dispense with her services thereafter. Poor Isola! 'Did the floor-walker know that she had but twenty-five cents in her pocket? that she was in debt to the oonfectioner's wife? that iu all the great, 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 ei-ch other, but went quietly away. What else was there to do? "I must go to Mrs. Pierson Garrick now," eaid 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 a daugh ter of my Awn age." - The next day she paid her .small stock of money to the confectioner's wife for the board bill it was little enough, and the poor woman had sore need of it and walked through the deep snow to the handsome house on Lexington avenue. As she stood hesitating at the foot of the steps, a stout, elderly gentle man, dressed in a tall silk hat and a fur -trimmed overcoat, came down them. lie glanced casually at her, but she had 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 ! "Pretty girl," said Cousin Ben to himself. "Hangs down her head too much, though." "He has a kind face," thought Isola. "I wish Uncle Pierson was like him." And then she timidly ascended the slippery steps and rang the bell. Mrs. FierBon Garrick was adding up her housekeeping accounts in a pretty little room opening from her husband's library. Between the two apartments hung a portiere of richly -colored Ital ian 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 I" cried she. "And wbtit is it that brings you here, Isola? Did not mamma tell you that you must depend on yourself?" "I never saw such assurance in my life!' said Mrs. Pierson Garriok, grow ing very red. Isola looked piteously from one to the other, 'J ky UM to Upe4 outtjiolf," said she, "and I have failed. Please don't look so cruelly at me. All I ask in a little money to take mo back to Elmville, I can get housework to do there, or I can work in the factory. But oh, this ornel city is killing me !" She buret into tears; but Mrs. Pier son Garrick did not relent one whit. "This is all nonsense, Isola," said she. "I have already told you that wo can do nothing for yon. Why don't you go to the intelligence bu reaus or the employment agencies? Mr. Pierson and myself have all we can do without providing for all our penniless relations. And I beg you will go away at once. This is dear Cornelia's at home day, and I can't have her nervous system upset. I " "Hello! what s all this? spoke a deep voice, and Cousin Ben appeared from between the rich Roman por tieres. "Who is this girl? Not Isola, Alfred Pierson 's daughter? By Jove! I believe she has hor father's very eyee ! 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 a 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 me 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 papor 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 Isola, will you come to me and be 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. Pierson Garrick shrugged his shoulders. He 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 use 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 tho 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 Now Guinea. In Central aqd South America the "Woorora" 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 be a mix ture of rattlesnake venom, putrid blood and juice from the plant or tree which produces tho 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 foroing large rattlesnakes to strike- 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 t.his putrid, venom-soaked mass, aud whenever a battle was imminent each brave would take turns at jab bing his arrows into the poison. Among the other tribes mentioned, al though the process of obtaining the poison supply was not always inden tion! with the above, the general mo dus operandi and results were very similar. St. Louis Republic Much Like a Man, The Kulu Kamba is more like a hu man being, according to Professor Garner, than any other animal. The principal difference between the phys ical organization of a human being and a gorilla, aooording 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 conjecture, Professor Gamer says, as he does not possoss a skeleton of the Kulu Kamba. Skeletons of gorillas and 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 the inani mate remains of Kulu Kambas Boine day. Having been in Africa on scien tific exploration bent, he naturally in tends to go again. The African fever seldom leaves a man upon whom it has once taken a grip. Pall Mall Budget. Remarkable Little Magnets, A magnet which the great Sir Isaao 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 8 grains yet it is capable of supporting 1560 grains, and is, there fore, the strongest magnet of its tt iatbe woilX at, Louw buMo, THE POSTAL GRAVEYARD. THE WOHK.IHGSOF THE DEAD LET TER OFFICE. A System of the PostofTlee Depart ment About Which There is Al ways Something New to be Told. THE infinite pains taken by this great Government of ours with even the most trifling interests of its 60,- f 100,000 of people is most forcibly il iuI rated in tho workings of tho Dead Letter Office. Tho scrawl of the illiterate receives as close attention as the polished chirography t the uni versity graduate, a modest penny aa much care in the handling as a preten tious $100. Six million pieces of un delivered mail mutter are annually received atthe 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 aroh way leading into the court of the Postoffice Department Building. Here they are speedily unloaded, and the great leather pouches quickly dis appear, being borno 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 three clerks, and should it chance to contain anything of money value, through at least three more. A "dead" letter, strictly speaking, is one that bears a correct address, ia fully prepaid, and has been duly de livered at tho office of destination. Remaining there unclaimed for one week, such letters are advertised lor the period prescribed by law, and then sent to the Dead Letter Office. Here, first of all, each day's "dead" mail must be accurately counted, and a correct record made of the number of letters and packages. There are usually four clerks employed on this work. Shonld 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, the counting clerk must winnow them out and rec tify, as far as he can, these errors, Being counted, they aro tied in bun dles of usually 100 each by the mes sengers. They are now ready for the second set of clerks, whose duty it U to "violate tho sanctity, of tho seal" with the long, keen knives with which they are provided. It is curious to watch these men. With one quiok stroke the envelope is split lougthwieo and in the next instant the contents are deftly extracted and examined, and if of no money value quickly laid aside and another taken up. Each opener averages about 2500 letters per day, Should the letter chonce to contain money, even a single cent, a stamp, a postal note, a money-order, green' backs, notes, drafts, checks or any le gal tender, he immediately seizes a pencil, notes the kind and value ol the find on the envelope, and beneath it places his own initials. Beside this he has a small blank-book in whioh he makes a duplicate entry, and in ad' dition adds the name and nddresf found on the letter. This work he usually does at the close of the day, and then both letters and book are given in charge to the chief of the division. Whenever it is possible tho letter with its contents is returned to tho sender in care of the postmaster, who is responsible for its safe delivery, and who must return a receipt lor 11 to tho department. Every possible protection is thus thrown around it. When the money cannot be thus re- turned, on account of the failtirre ol the writer to sign his name or ad dress, then it is held in tho office for a year, in the hope that it may be op- plied for. Failing in this, the monej is turned into Unole Sam's already corpulent money bags. The oarelosHuess of the people in sendiug money is almost incredible. About 1500 letters that bear no ad dress whatever are received each month, and, curiously enough, they very often contain money or its equiv alent. I recall one that came undei my own observation that revealed, when opened, drafts to the amount ol $2500. Accurate records are kept of alh valnable letters and their final dispo sition. In round numbers about $30,000 are received in cash annually, aud $1,400,000 in drafts, notes, etc. The remaining dead lotters, that have only their literary merit to commend them, or want of it to condemn them, are given one last chance before being consigned te the waste paper dealer. They are placed in the hands of clerks, who do their utmobt to return them 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. Iu addition to the "deads" there U another class termed "unmailablo," that includes such as aro held for post age, sent from hotels, fictitious and misdirected. The oldest class of un bailable letters are the misdirected. These form a curious study, and are accorded careful special treatment They number about 2000 daily. They are forwardod daily from the mailing oflioes, not being detained or adver tised asd letters are. Postmasters are m Lb to deliver them on acoount of some error of deficiency in the ad dress, or because the writing is illegi ble. Tho clerks ou this work have from long experience become vory ex pert in handliug these ldtters, and de liver muuy thousands yearly. The Sultan of Turkey has issued a decree that three oopies of every book and pamphlet issued since he ascended the throne must be seut to his Ijew Ji. brary at t'onstautiuyplvi KCIEMIFIU ASD IXDUSTKIAL. The English langttage contains forty one distinct sounds. When oxygen is in a liquid state it is strongly attracted by a powerful electro magnet. The beef extract foctorios 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, the most beautiful flowers and shrubs flourish to perfection. In filing band saws, tic 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 the solar cautery burning glass in removing facial discolorations of the skin of large 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 and flesh of dumb creatures. Refined erystalized sugar, whether made from the beet or the sugar cane, is almost chemically pure and sac charose, and is the same substance in both cases. Few articles of food are so generally free from adulteration as granulated not powdered or coffee crushed sugar. The rate of mortality of London is shown by a recent report to have steadily decreased with the introduc tion and perfection of adequate means of disposing of the sewage of the city. At tho end of the eighteenth century the annual average mortality was esti mated at fifty per 1000, and in 1892 it had dropped to 10.1 per 1000. In South America among the moun tains the evergreen oak begins to ap pear at about 5500 feet, and is found up to the limit of the continuous forest, which is about 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 UoOO feet. - In the prooess 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 ore is fed at oue end and carrie 1 for ward as a film over tho surface of the lead by means of an azitator moving over it. It is thus brought to the other end, where it escapes through a hopper. Jn order to prevent oxida tiou of the lead the chamber is kept filled with carbonic oxide from a gas producer. A Man With Three Lpk. Of late years I have lost all trace ot my old and oddly malformed friend, George Leppert, whom I first met at Tiffin, Ohio, m 1HS1. ueorge was a Bavarian by birth, and came to this country twelve years ago, settling nt Baltimore, where he followed the trade of a wood-carver. Should you happen to meet him on the street yon would notice nothing peculiar cither in his gait or general makeup, unless it was that the right leg of his trousers was something near twioe tho size of the left, and too full to wrinkle besides. This lopsided appearance was caused by a remarkable malformation, Mr. Leppert being the not over proud pos sessor of two right legs aud one left ; or, in other words, of three perfectly formed lower limbs. I often remarked that should nature, through some of her odd freaks, choose to increase my normal supply of lej,'S by fifty per cent. I would do my best to play the $100-a-wcek fiddle iu a dime museum before the setting of the sun on the day following the addition of the ex tra member to my anatomy. Ho often told me that when he was a small boy in his Bavarian home he had perfect use of all three of his legs, but when I saw him last inl8S7 tho extra member was slightly paralyzed, probably the result of being bound to its companion, an operation that was uecessnry in order to get both into one trousers leg. When I last heard from him, iu 1801, he was at the IVllo vue (N. Y.) Hospital, undergoing treatment for rheumatism. St. Louis Republic. The First Iron Bridge. The first iron bridge ever erected in tho world, and which is in constant use at tho present time, spans a little river to the County of Salop, on the railroad leading from Shrewsbury to Worcester, England. It was built iu tho year 1778, is exactly ninety-six feet in length; total amount of iron used in construction, 378 tons. Stephenson, tho great engineer, in writing concerning it, said: "When we consider the fact that the casting of iron was at that time iu its infuuey, we are convinced that unblushing audaoity alone could conceive and carry into execution Bitch an under taking." St. Louis Republic. Effects ot Electricity on Lunatics. It is said that when the electrio cur rent was turned on the circuits at Long View Insane Asylum, at Cincin nati, Ohio, for the first time, the iu saue patients were much afleoted. They tossed their hands about, tell iuto each other's embrace, danced with glee aud displayed au exaltatiou such as irrational animals sometimes do when stirred by emotional music. Im provement in many of tho patients has been noted, due, it is believed, to the buoyant effect on the system of tho luryrUv. NW York, Xsltrauj, POET AND PEASANT. A poet and poasnnt, slds by side, Together dwelt within the self-same townj Tbe poet's fame was noted far and wide, The peasant's not beyond the township's bound. The poet sang of love and household joys, But nnithnr wife nor children made him glad; The peasant had a wife, two girls and boys, Who with him lived and his small cot tag. shared. Tho poet roused, ''What la this gift of mine? 'Tia but a dream, a hollow drnam ot bliss f I would exchange it gladly at the shrine Of Hymen's altar for a yountf child's kiss." The peasant sighed while nt his dally task, Turning tho furroirs while he held tbo rlow ; "Had I my nelghhor's gift I would not ask For higher honors to bodeclc my brow." i Ah ! such U life, common fate of all, With pain and pleasure ever strangely lilCDt ; Tbe gilts we crave on othors lightly fall. And with our own wo never seem content, Boston Tost. HUMOR OF THE DAT. The man who labors under a delu sion works for a bad paymaster. Anybody can see through peoplo 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 he belongad to tho nobility. Texas Sittings. Eating one's own words isn't exaotly a love-feast, but sometimes our friends enjoy seeing us 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 hive a whole day be foro him? Minneapolis Times. Sneezing is probably an effort of. nature to force lazy people to take somo exercise. Milwaukee Journal.'; Cholly "Yaas, we missed each other in tho crowd." She "That's juct liko 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 people. Buffalo Courier. Clarissa "I owe you an apology, dearest." Fred "Don't speak of it. I wish to remain a preferred credi tor." Puck. "And do you ever invito your poof relations to visit you?" "O yes, in deed. You see they are all too poor to get here." Judge. "Bilkein's is a strong face, or I'm no judgeof physiognomy." "Itought to be. He and his whole family aro living on it." Buffalo Courier. Mamma "Aren't you home from school earlier than usual to-day?" Bobby "Yes, mamma, I wasn't kepi in to-day." Harper's Young People. "I wonder what this image repre sents?" "The god of humor, proba bly. Don't yon 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, Jawaon? She is not musical, is she?" "Not at all; but violins have chin rests." Judge. Jinks "I don't think it looks well for a minister to wear diamonds." Ellkins "Why not? Aren't thero sermons in Btones?" Kate Field's Washington. "I wonder how it was discovered that fish was a braiu food?" She "Probably by the wonderful stories that meu tell who go fishing." Chi cago Inter-Oceau. 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 othel for Jagson. ' " Iuter-Ocean. "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 the reply. Tid-Bita. She "Tell me, now, have your af fecous always remained constant?" He "I can truthfully sny that they have, though I admit that thoir object has often changed." Boston Tran script. Muggins "Some people are never satisfied to know that certain things are so, but are contiually wanting to know the why aud whereof of it." Buggins "Yes, I wonder 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. Jinkles and I were to part friendship after I leave this pin in his chair for him." Wash ington Star. Bartender--"Look here, there I That'll do ! I've counted ten crackers aud Bereu junks of beef you've eaten already." Hungry Oue "They hire you to tend here, dou't they? One lunch counter is enough see?" Bos ton Transcript. Timid Young Author "Haveu'tyou read uiy poem too hastily? I'm sure, sir, it has some good features about it that you would see ou a more careful reading." Editor (with a sudden sus picion) "You are not trying to work off au acrostic ou us, are you, miss?" Chicago Tribune. Penelope (triumphantly) "I heard last night that Jack was head over ears iu love with tue. " Grace (jealously) "You cannot believe ail you hear." 1'euelope- "No, but 1 should uot won der if there was something iu it." Graoo -"Why! Who told you?'" Fcua
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