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VOL. XXVIT. NQ. 2. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1894.
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Job work oash on delivery.
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"Jnclo Bam has 1416 clorki sixty
yars old and over.
According to present eat i mutes about
20,000 miles of cablo will be laid with
in the next two yours.
Houston, so the Post announces, is
bow the largest city in Texas, its new
directory giving it a population of
61,530.
Mexicans are allowing; American ma
chinery to enter that country free, in
order to hasten development. It is
enormously wealthy, but its wealth is
hard to develop
"Not only was Jhe . blarney stone at
the World's Fair bogus," laments tho
New York Mail and Express, "but the
beautiful girl from Kildare in one ot
the adjoining booths was born in Pitts
burg." ; "
Lord Rosebory, the new British Pre
mier, once introduced a bill to substi
tute an elective Senate for the House
of Lords. He is said to be heartily in
favor of removing the veto power of
the Lords.
Quinine is not used in the United
States as extensively as it was ten years
go. In that time the consumption
has been reduced fully twenty-five per
oent. There is more quinine sold in
Louisiana thsn in any other State in
the Union.
Says the Washington Star : It is
with difficulty that people generally
can bo made to realize to-day that the
long business depression is ended.
Yet that is the weloome and demon
strablo fact. For somo weeks now
the news dispatches have contained
each day a lengthening list of manu
facturing establishments that had re
sumed operations.
Tho use of carrier-pigeons has in
creased to inch a degree that the
French Government has deoided to
impose severe penalties upon all per
sons found keeping them without a
lioenso, and to prohibit the importa
tion of foreign born pigeons, even
when merely destined for ' pie pur
poses, the object being to prevent any
possible carrying of news with regard
to French military matters, should
there be necessity.
The United States Government owns
a great many miles of 'longshore tele
graph lines, connecting lighthouses,
live-saving stations and other Govern
ment property on the coast. It is
usually easy to recognize these Gov
ernment lines by their low poles of
rather small iron piping. These poles
are planted deep in the sandy beach,
and, being of small diameter, they
present littlo hold to the sea winds,
and thus are seldom blown down.
The United States Government is
seeking by piecept and example to
induce towns with names ending in
the forms bnrgb, borough, boro, and
burg, to adopt this last form. Burg
is the usual pronnnciation in the
United States of the form burgh, and
most Americans refnse to sound the
final "h," even of Edinburgh. These
several suffixes, and, as well, bury,
brongh, nd barrow, are related to
the Anglo-Saxon verb beorgan and the
German bergen, to hide or to sheter.
The Beveral suffixes are also related to
several Anglo-Saxon forms meaning
an earthwork, and from this came the
application of such suffixes to indicate
a fortified town.
' One element of difficulty in bring
ing Spanish-American offenders against
the laws to justice in our Territories
derived from Mexioo istha,tirs of race
and kinship. An atrocious criminal
of Mexican blood may be protected
through years of a lawless career by
relatives and family friends who them
selves are eminently respectable and,
except where the safety of friends or
kindred are concerned, law abiding.
This protection is continued after the
criminal has been brought into the
courts, in the way of the bribing and
packing of juries and in the providing
of avenves of escape from prison.
Thus for years the murderer and out
law Porfirio Trnjillo has gone at large,
or, when apprehended, has found it
easy to escape tho penalty of his
crimes. His present headquarters are
in the Manzano Mountains, east of
Albuquerque, in Eastern Bernalilo
and Valencia Counties, where, with a
price on his head, he perpetrates his
depredations and outrages with a high
aud defiant hand. One form of plun
dering with Trnjillo and his gang is to
go into a flock of sheep and drive oft
hundreds at a time, or tc ran off cat
tle from the plains ranges, kill them,
and sell the meat to inhabitants of
the mounUiu towns. They do not
hesitate at murder, either for booty
yr revenge.
PATIENCE,
Be patient I Easy words to speak
While plenty fills tho eap of Wo,
While health brings row to the cheek,
And (or removed are oare and strife.
Vailing so glibly from the tongue
Of those I often think ot this-
Whom suffering has never wrong.
Who soaroely know what patience Is.
Be patient I when the sufferer lies
Prostrate beneath tome foil disease,
And longs, through torturing agonies,
Only for one short hoar ot ease.
Be patient ! when the wonry brain
Is moked with thought and anxious care,
And troubles la an endless train
Seem almost more than It eon boor.
To feol the torture ot delay,
The agony of hope deferred i
To labor still from dsy to day,
The prise nnwon, the prayer unheard.
And still to hopo and strive and wait
The dne reward of fortune's kiss
This is to almost conquer fate,
This Is to learn what patlenoe Is.
Despair not 1 though the clouds are dart,
And storm and danger veil the sky ;
Let fate and eoorage guide thy bark,
The storm will pass ; the port Is nigh.
Be patient I and the tide will turn,
Shadows will Dee before the inn. ,
These are the hopos that live and bum
To light us tilt our work is done.
Alt the Year Bound.
LILLIAN'S LOVER,
BX HELEN FORREST GRAVES.
H , I am
afraid,'.' said
Jessie Mor
ton to her
self, "that I
have missed
my way."
Down in
the rooky
gorge the
Chiqnct Riv
er roared and
foamed ;
across the
now- man
tled land
scape a red glow of sunset yet lingered ;
while the black pines and cedars
quivered in the wind.
"I wish," added Jessie, "that I
had asked that man bMow whioh was
he right turning to take. But I was
afraid of him; he looked so cross."
She was a tall, slim slip of a thing,
with blue, wistful eyes, hair of the
real Scotch gold, and red lips, that
trembled partly with cold, partly with
a oertain vague terror at the position
in which she found herself.
In her hand she carried a heavy
bag, for Jessie had no money to pay
omnibus hire, or to engage a sleigh at
the railway station.
"Suppose," she said to herself,
"this lonely road should lead no
where, exoept into the woods? Sud-
pose it should conduot me straight
inw a gypsy camp? Dor it seems
rovi aud more desolate the farther I
go. Suppose I should be frozen to
death, all alone here, with no helping
hand to snve ne?"
"Take car, child," cried a loud,
clear voice. "Do you want to be run
over?"
It was no gypsy, nor yet a black
brown tramp, simply a plump, com
fortable woman, driving herself in a
trim jittie red cutter. She eyed Jes
sie curiously through her spectacles.
Jessie returned the gaze with interest
"Pleaw, madam," said Jessie, "can
yon tell me if I am near Bucknor Hall ?"
"Bless me," said the woman, "don't
yon know? Bucknor Hall was burned
down last night, and the old ladv was
suffocated in the smoke. Friends of
ycurs?"
Jessie put he; bag down in the
snowy road ; she trembled violently,
"No not exactly friends," she said,
"But I was engaged to go there as
companion and reader, and and
Oh, what shall I do now?"
The old lady looked meditatively at
me la&n oi ner wnip.
"Come from New York?" said she,
after a pause.
"Yes from the Wilberforee Protec
tive Agency. And I spent all my money
for the ticket here. "
"One or two bright round tears de
tached themselves from the long lashes
and rolled slowly down her cheeks.
Mrs. Parkhurst, who prided herself
on her knowledge of physiognomy,
made up her mind on the spot.
"One thing is very certain," said
she. "Mrs. Bucknor will never re
quire a companion an! reader now.
And if you're puzzled what to do next,
yon had better jump in and go with
me."
"Where?" said Jessie.
"Home," said Mrs. Parkhurst
Now, Jessie Morton herself was not
a bad judge of the human face divine,
and in the indescribable solitude of
this moment, she oaugln at tho wel
oome idea of sheltei and company.
She got ito the red cutter, drew the
buffalo robe around her shivering form,
and nestlod close to Mrs. Parkhurst,
before she ventctd to ask, timidly :
"Whet is nome?"
Mrs. Parkhurst shook the reins. nhe
pony darted merrily over the smooth
road into the purpling dusk.
"It's the Bassett Military Institute,"
said (he, with a very visible pride.
"I'm housekeeper there."
"What!"
"Oh, take i re !" scolded Mrs. Park
i nrst 'Y- n should held on tight
when we turn those sharp curves. Yeu
hU- very nearly fallen out Yes, the
Bassett Instit lie. And a fine place it
is I I was 'hinting if your references
turn out what they thould be we
might make room for you there. We
need a smart young woman in the linen
room. I suppose you can do something
Jse besides companioning and reading
-eh?"
'Uh, yogi"
Si
mm-
l rnfirisi I I r .
"You'd like a place?"
"I must have one."
I'Then," said Mrs. Parkhurst, "woU
think ot it. Fourteen professors and
one hundred and ton boys that's a
family to take core of, isn't it? For
the colonel's wife is an invalid, and
don't trouble herself about the house
keeping. I and my widowed daughter
run the wholo establishment, and
there are nine of us ' sit down to din
ner in the housekeeper's room. There 1"
as they drove in between two massive
stone gate-posts, into an avenue of
rustling tamaracks. "Do you see that
pretty young lady gathering holly
berries? It s the colonel s daughter,
Miss Lillian Bassett. "
"You've come baok, have you,
Parkey?" cried a sweet, girlish young
voice. "via you bring my cnooolate
caramels?"
"The candy store was shut up, Miss
Lilly."
"Oh, how perfectly shamefull"
And a cluster of glaring red ber
ries, aided by a not unskillful hand,
hustled through the air, and hit the
housekeeper exactly on her nose. But,
instead of evincing offense, Mrs. Park
hurst only laughed.
"Isn't she pretty?" said she, "and
such a mad-cap. Well perhaps mar
riage will sober her down.1'
"Is she to be married soon?" asked
Jessie.
"We don't quite know," said Mrs.
Parkhurst "But one of the yonng
professors admires her very much,
and we think she don't quite dislike
him."
Jessie looked wistfully back to
where Lillian Bassett's scarlet mantle
lighted up the snowy terrace. Why
were same girls so happy, whilo others
toiled ceaselessly on in life's shad
ows? Why was life such a problem?
For awhile, however, the wheels re
volved smoothly. Jessie's references,
forwarded from the Wilberforee Pro
tective Agency, proved all that could
be desired, and she was engaged to
take charge of the linen-room.
During an outbreak of scarlet fever
she found herself particularly efficient
as a nurse, and Mrs. Parkhurst soon
began to wonder how it was that she
had ever got along without her.
"Married, Lilly 1 Really married !
And to that handsome young pro
fessor of mathematical" cried Adela
Maurioe, Lillian's ex-schoolmate.
"Well, I never expected to see you
caged I And he's quite a self-made
man, they tell me."
"I telTdear Lillian," said Miss Bella
Basaett, the sharp-nosod maiden sister
of the genial colonel, "that she should
not make too sure of anything in this
world. The captain is very hand
some, and all that sort of thing, but
I'm afraid he's inolined to be a
flirt."
"Nonsense 1" cried Lillian, coloring
wrathfully.
"Oh, but indeed, I've met him
twioe at the shrubberies, walking with
that pretty yellow-haired girl that
takes oare of the linen-room," per
sisted Miss Bella.
"What!" exclaimed Miss Maurice.
"One of the servants?"
"Now, Aunt Bella, why can't you
hold your tongue, " flashed out Lillian,
"when you know very well that old
Parkhurst says she is a reduced lady?"
"Reduced ladies have no business
wandering about the laurel hedges
with handsome young engaged men, "
viciously retorted Miss Bassett "And
I really think my brother ought to
inquire into it. There she goes,
flouncing out of the room. Well, I'm
really afraid, Adela, that our Lillian's
temper isn't altogether perfect. "
"I don't think mine would be,"
said Adela Maurice, "if I were bad
gered like that."
"It is a dreadful trial, isn't it, to
see your lover drifting off into an
other woman's snares?" said Miss Bella,
wilfully misunderstanding things.
While Lillian, running up stairs,
paused to catch her breath at one of
the big mullioned windows on the
staircase.
"How I should like to cram a big
bath sponge into Aunt Bella's cen
sorious old mouth 1" said she. "Only
to think oi
Suddenly she paused. Down on the
lower pine walk, where the west winds
had swept the path dry of snow, Cap
tain Moreton was pacing up and down
with the gold-haired young girl at his
side.
"Well, why shouldn't they?" said
brave Lillian, swallowing the rebel
lious lump in her throat "I sup
pose he happened to meet her, and "
At this preoise moment, however,
the couple paused beside a group of
dark spruces. She could distinctly
perceive her lover bend his toll bead
to kiss yes, to kiss the yellow-tressed
lassie. And then they passed on into
the tamarack thickets and were lost to
view.
Lillian stood still, her bright eyes
brimming over with tears, a pang
transfixing her heart as if some poi
soned arrow were buried there.
"And I loved him 1" she said, aloud,
"Oh, how I loved him ! But this is an
end of it all. To-night, when he comes
to talk to me to-night there must be
an end of it all I"
The young professor was certainly
a very handsome man, with his brill
iant blue eyes, his brown hair, shot
with golden gleams, and those straight,
clear-out features of his ; and wheu he
came cheerily in that evening, Lil
lian's heart failed within her.
"How can he bear himself so
bravely?" she thought. "Where is
his conscience his manly truth?"
' 'I am glad, Lilly, to find you alone, "
said Captain Moreton, tenderly, tak
ing her hand in his.
She jerked it away.
"I hate sitting hand-in-hand," said
she, in answer to his surprised glanoe.
"It's so so spoony I"
"Well, just as you like, darling," ha
acquiesced, seating himself beside her.
"To find you alone, fur J wanted to
talk with you very particularly. I
have a secret to tell you."
"There may bo more secrets than
one in the world," said Lilly, in a low
voice.
"A secret that is not entirely my
own a secret that may, perhops, alter
all our existing arrangements "
"It undoubtedly will," said Lilly,
rising to her feet in her excitement.
"Yon need not go on, Captain Moreton.
I know all, and I give your betrothal
ring back to you I"
'Lilly, I would scarcrly have thought
this of yon I" he said, gravely.
"No? For what did you take me,
then? Am I not a woman, with a wo
man's'spirit? Do you think I can con
tinue to love a man who is false to
me?"
"False to you, Lillian? But I am
not that. Sweet, whether you marry
me or not, I shall go on loving you
loyally to my life's end !"
"How many girls do yon love at
once?" bitterly asked Lillian.
"I? Why do you ask that question?"
"Because I saw you this very after
noon in the pine walk with another
woman. I saw your arm around her
waist. I saw yon stoop to kiss her t"
"Oh, you saw me, did you? Then
my story is half told already. It is
but a short time, Lilly, since I knew
it myself."
-She stood looking at him with large,
surprised eyes.
How dared he speak bo lightly and
to her? ,
"Lilly, that sweet young girl whom
Mrs. Parkhurst has employed in the
linen-room Miss Moreton, she calls
herself is my own sister, and she has
concealed herself from me, fearing
that the knowledge that he was in the
institute in such a capacity would
prejudice my future Unfavorably.
She was a governess in New York
she was coming here as companion to
poor old Mrs. Bucknor, who wan killed
in the fire and Mrs. Parkhurst,
ignorant of any relation between us,
bro.ight her here. And, noble heroino
that she is, she would have gone away
without betraying herself, had I not
chanced to meet her by accident. She
thought I would be mortified, but in
stead I am proud of her beyond the
power of words to express.
" 'But Miss Bassett?" said she.
"And then I told her that this even
ing you should know all. I have kept
my word. Now I await your verdict.
Have I not reason to triumph in such
a noble sister as this?"
Lillian burst into tears : she hid her
face on Morel on's breast.
"Oh, Will," she cried, "what a
dreadful goose I have been to doubt
your love 1 Go and bring her here at
once. Tell her I want to see my dear
new sister. Tell her that, hereafter,
her home must be with mo. There's
plenty, of room in the new house for
your sister. But first, Will, kiss me
and tell me that you forgive me,
quite."
And so the brave young girl, who
had subordinated her wholo life to her
brother's success, was promoted to her
proper place on life's ladder.
"I oould have been happy anywhere
had I known that Will's future was
assured," said she.
And Lillian laughingly told her that
she could be as happy in the new col
lege as anywhere else.
"And we," said she, "will be a deal
happier I"
Miss Adela Maurioe and Jessie were
the bridesmaids.
Aunt Bella put her disappointment
in her pocket, and the wedding came
off at Easter, greatly to Mrs. Park
hurst's delight.
"I knew," said that worthy dame,
"that she was something out of the
common the first look I had in her
face. Physiognomy never yet failed
mel" Saturday Night.
At Sea on an Ice Floe.
Recently the lifeboat society at
Cronstadt received news that toward
the south shore of the Gulf of Finland,
about thirty miles from Cronstadt,
some 200 fishermen and peasants, and
their horses and sleighs, had been
suddenly carried out to sea on a large
ice floe, whioh had been detached ap
parently by a recent storm. The ioo
cutting boat j at Cronstadt were laid
up for the winter and could not be
used. Twenty sailors, however, with
two officers and assistant surgeons,
were dispatched over the ice with two
lifeboats on runners, and a similar
party started to the rescue from
Oren'eubauni, on the other side of the
mouth of the Neva. The latest tele
grams from Cronstadt state that the
fishermen and others have been found
and all rescued by means of a bridge
made of poles and planks, whioh were
thrown out from the firm ice. They
had been cut off from the mainland
for at least forty-i Ight hours, during
the latter part of which provisions
were passed over to them by the in
habitants of the nearest shore. Scien
tific American.
A Dog of Destiny.
Fhrenix, Arizona, has a bob tailed
dog which is destined to make a place
for himself in history. Reeently he
broke up a race between hose teams.
He acts as chief mourner at all funerals
held in the city. But now one more
has been added to his accomplishments.
On several occasions recently he has
stopped runaway horses by seizing the
lines in his teeth and holding on till
the animals stopped. Ban Franoisco
Chronicle.
Caerphilly Without Care.
Apropos of the prevailing inability
of trainmen on our elevated and other
railroads to cull out the names of sta
tions with distinctness, a gentleman
who Las lived for several years in
Wales says that there is at least one
station in that country which the rail
way guards are bound to pronounce
carefully. It is Caerphilly. New
i'vrk Tribuuu.
AN ARTIFICIAL ICE RINK.
SAN FRANCISCO'S NOVKI. IKDOOB
AMUSEMENT,
Real Ice Artificially Prodneed, on
Which People Skate In Summer
Clothing How the Ice Is Made.
KATTNG on real ioe in eummei
attire is rapidly beooming one
XfD ' oe i"108 popular indoor
amusements in San Francisco.
To native sons and daughters who
have never experienced the rigors of
an Eastern winter, it is a thrilling
novelty. To those who have enjoyed
the exhilarating sport in a land of
blizzards and frosts, it is made more
enjoyable by the fact that winter dress
is unnecessary.
These are only a few of the reasons
why the frozen lake in the big Me
chanics' Pavillion, with nearly 10,000
square feet of polished surface, is
visited daily by hundreds who can
skate and many who are speedily learn
ing. The sheet of ioe is five inches in
thickness, 100 feet long, and sixty feet
wide. At least 500 persons can skate
with comfort at a time, but it was a
trifle crowded on the opening night,
for no less than 811 glided or strug
gled over the slippery surface, accord
ing to the respective skill of the skate
wearers.
' This idea of a big skating rink with
natural ioe," said W. W. Donaldson,
"is not exactly a new one in this
country. Right here in this city it
has been tried three times, but each
attempt failed because the organizers
did not master the intricate mechani
cal appliances. This is the first
natural ice skating rink operated in
the United States, and the fourth in
the world. There is one in Paris, an
other in Berlin, end a third in South
ampton, England. Therefore this is
the fourth in the world and the first
in tho United States. The successful
construction of this rink is the result
of ten years of careful study and ex
periments on my part while engaged
in the cold storage business. I was
preparing a similar rink in Chioago
when the disastrous fire destroyed the
big cold-storage building at the
World's Fair". The plant being de
stroyed, we had to abandon the
project
"How is this natural ioe produced?
There is no seoret about it. The ioe
is produoed by a machine of the
ordinary type employed in cold-storage
work. The difference here is in
the manner of freezing, In cold stor
age it is done in tanks and insulated
rooms. Here the ioe is frozen three
times a day and the refrigerament
used is anhydrous ammonia. This is
employed to cool the strong brine.
After the brine is oooled it is pumped
through a system of pipes 40,000 feet
in length, " which run through the
water that is turned into ice. The
cold brine absorbs the heat The floor
beneath is insulated and made up of
dead air cells and covered with lead
to make it watertight.
"In the placing of the pipes lies the
principal secret The pipes run in
three centers from a header at each
end of the tank. These headers are
six inches in diameter, and the pipe is
taken out of each header at six-inch
centers. This admits of circulating
the brine from both ends at the same
time. The return is also taken from
both ends and carried back to the
brine tank. By this means we have a
cooling surface exposed to the outside
air. In this way we outwit nature, and
our ioe surface has an even tempera
ture all over. Through inch pipes
leading from the headers the brine is
kept in constant motion.
"Of oonrse, after being used several
hours the surface of the ioe becomes
cut up and somewhat rough. That is
why we have three sessions daily
morning, noon, and night During
the intervals the snow is swept off the
ice, and with a hose or orchard spray
er a thin coating of water is spread
over the ioe to fill up the cuts. In
this manner we have a perfectly
smooth surfaoe three times a day. The
water is frozen at a temperature of
about ten degrees above zero, whioh
would be as cold, probably, and as
hard as ioe frozen in any cold coun
try when the temperature is above
ero." San Francisco Call.
A Very Variable Star.
One of the most remarkable stars In
the sky, whose antics have puzzled the
astronomers ever since it has been
carefully observed, is Argus, some
times the brightest star in the constel
lation. Argo Navia, one of the most
brilliant constellations in the southern
heavens. When this star was first cata
logued, in the seventeenth century, it
was set down as a star of the fourth
magnitude. In less than a century it
rose to the second ; then at the begin
ning of this century diminished again
to the fourth, rose in a few years to
the second, became in 1827 of the first
magnitude, then again of the second,
again in 1838 of the first, rivaling
Sirius in brilliancy, then gradually
dwindling down to a star which at
present is barely visible to the un
aided eye. A satisfactory explanation
of these rapid and singular changes
has thus far battled the sagacity of
astronomera Picayune.
Australian Eggs.
Eggs are now shipped from Aus
tralia to England. A trial shipment,
made by the Hon. J. JI. 'Conner, of
Victorian eggs and cheese, was lately
inspected by an officer from the de
partment of the Agent-General for
Victoria. With regard to the packing
of the eggs, they hud, in the first
place, been rubbed over with grease
and afterward placed with bran, flour,
lime and pollard iu small case". When
opened they were fouud to be :i -rfeet-ly
fresh aud sweet. Tho t 1:mhsc8,
which consisted of both forty .union
aud "smull loaf" sizes, were soun uud
of gcod tUvor. Kuiuutitlo Auwj .4,
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Bilk is woven by electricity.
Aluminum doos not rust or tarnish.
The steam engines of the world to
day give 60,000,000 horse-power.
There is a prospect of steam tur
bines being applied to torpedo boats.
Zoologists say that all known species
of wild animals are gradually dimin
ishing in size.
A large meteor fell near Atchison,
Kan., and people for miles around
went looking for ii.
The inventors in Chicago are quar
relling over the ownership of an ap
paratus for the transfusion of blood.
Opticians say that the eye can de
tect the oolor produced by adding but
one-millionth of a gramme of fuchsme
to a glass of water.
According to careful estimates,
three hours of close study wear out
the body more than a whole day of
hard physioal exercise.
Italian fire engines are supplied with
hose fitted with electric wires, so that
the fireman handling the hose can
communicate with those at the en
gine. Every well-developed adult of the
human species has lung surfaoe equal
to 1400 square feet The heart's power
is sufficient to lift itself 13,000 feet
each hour.
Among the most astonishing freaks
of tornadoes are the stripping ot
feathers from fowls aud of clothing
from persons. As these effects cannot
be produced by the wind, they are
ascribed to electrioity.
In the Western deserts a spot of
ground becomes excessively heated,
causing tho air above to descend. This
produces an influx of the atmosphere
from all sides, but unequally, the re
sult being a gyratory motion and a
sand-storm.
St Mary's Falls, Mich., isnow being
i -liized for electrio power produc
tion, tho power being transferred to
the Sonlt by wire. A new flouring
mill "vill be run by electricity, and it is
contemplated to use electrio power in
the iron mines.
Smokeless powder has been followed
by a chemical combination called a
"fog creator." A German named
Reihm is the inventor. It is a shell,
whioh, when it explodes, enshrouds in
darkness the troops at whom it. is
aimed. It also causes the soldiers to
cough.
Edison is now at work with a plan
to grease the sides of ships so that
they will slip through the water more
readily. He says the friction of salt
water and its constituents is much
more than is genei ally believed, and
if he can only do what he is trying to
do the Campania can make the voyage
between New York and Liverpool in
four days.
Professor Falb, of Berlin, prophe
sies' a very probable collision between
the earth and the comet of I860 on
November 13th, 1399, when the comet
will out the point where the earth ar
rives every year at that time. But he
does not think harm oould come of
such a collision, the material of the
comet being so light, unless the car
bonic acid gas, of which it is probably
composed, should poison our at'
mosphere. But, anyway, he says we
may look out for a magnificent shower
of meteors on that date.
A Student's Confession.
D. A. Costigan, a student at the
University of Fayette, West Union,
Iowa, who was alleged to have been
sandbagged and dragged out of town
on Tuesday night, has made a full
confession in writing exonerating
every one but himself. To avoid tak
ing part in an oratorical contest,
Costigan besmeared his clothes with
dirt and his face with blood and in
jected fluid under the skin above his
eye so that the eye appeared swelled
as if struck by a club. He reappeared
at his room at 11 o'clock at night and
told his room-mate that unknown men
had knocked him down, carrying him
four miles in the country. The matter
was investigated by the college offi
cers, but no clue could be obtained.
Costigan's actions excited suspicion,
and finally his room-mate charged
him with complicity in the mutter.
Costigan then admitted that he had
planned the whole affair to escape the
contest and create a sensation. Costi
gan is about twenty-live years of age.
He was a candidate for County Superin
tendent of Schools in Clayton County
last fall. He has left the university.
New York Post.
Lotus Eaters.
According to Homer, the lotus eat
ers were a people who lived ou the
northern coast of Africa, visited by
Ulysses in his wanderings, and who
endeavored to detain his companions
by giving them the lotus to eat who
ever ate of this fruit wished never to
depart The Aralw called tho fruit of
the lotus the "fruit of destiny,"
which they believe is to be eaten in
Paradise. The lotus is a shrub two or
thrt-e feet high, and its fruit, whioh is
produced in great abundance, is
dwarf of the size of a wild plum,
which has a pleasant, sweet taste. The
name lotus has bee ngiven to several
beautiful specimens of water lily, es
pecially to th blue water lily and the
Egyptian water lily. Chicago Her
ald. An Alrlcau Prince.
What do you think of this for a
name? Eyo Ekpepyon Eyo II. That,
however, is the name of an African
J'riuoe taken by an Englishman to
Liverpool to be educated, and now he
is so cold, shivering all day over the
lire, he asks but for one thing iu the
world to go back to Africa, where
once he went about iu bure feet aud
MiUhhiue to his limit's oouteut, New
I Yuik Journal,
BONO OF THE FED BIRD.
When tho first faint glow of light
On my window, pale and white,
Wakes the thought that night is o'er
When I fain would slumber more,
And strange visions fade and glow
As my dreams flit to and fro, '.
Suddenly without I hear
Piping clear, but soft and near :
"Cheer up, oheer up, cheer I Cheer I
Day is aoming, day is here !
Merry, merry, morning, morry !
Bleep no more, O do not tarry,
Light Is breaking, cheer, oheer, cheer T
Lying there In vain regrot
That the day owes night a debt .
That the dark Is soothing still,
Though the light will lead and thrill 1
Musing o'er a fading dream,
Conning o'er some worldly schem,
Suddenly again I hear
Sweet and mellow, strong and clear :
"Oheer up, oheer uy, oheer 1 Cheer t
Love Is waiting, love is near !
Money, money, nay, not money,
Makes life hnppy, makes love sunny I
Work is blessing, cheor I Cheer ! Choer V
Charles W. Stevenson, in Chicago Reoord.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
A close friend The one who nevef
lends you anything. Philadelphia
Reoord. '
Are the members of a college Pi Eta
society particularly partial to pastry f
Lowell Courier.
Generally a man can get into fash
ionable society with a golden wedge.'
New York Journal.
Woman's sleeves must be hot-tempered,
as they are nearly always ruffled
np. Florida Times.
Jones "What does he do?'' Brown
'Do?" Why, he doas e 'erybody."
Florida Times-Union.
As muoh hate can sometimes bo pnt
into a word as can be fired out of A
musket. -Ram's Horn.
A genuine sign in a Market street
restaurant, Philadelphia: "Six o'clock
dinner here from 5.30 to 1. 30. "Life.
The fellow who tells all he knowa
wouldn't be half so insufferable if he
knows all he tells. PhiadelpUia Reo
ord. It is an indisputable fact that every
man who wears his watch In his vest
pocket is behind time. Philadelphia
Record.
Nedders "What's a bon mot?"
Slowitz "Something yon always think
of after it's too late to say it." Chi
cago Reoord.
If you have nothing else to do see
how rapidly yon can say "soup
soothes theosophists thoroughly."
Texas Sittings.
The Benefits: "What makes soma
girls look yonng so long?" "The men
are to blame. They won't propoee."
Life's Calendar.
A man denies himself pleasures whon
he is young that he may have money
to pay out to the doctors when he is
old. Atchison Globe.
It is a mistake to suppose that wo
men ever marry for money; some
times, however, they marry for the
want of it Boston Transcript.
Sime "Your father was n old
whaler, wasn't he, Jimmie?" Jimmia
-"Yes; but near as I can remember
ma did her share of it I Boston
Courier.
"My wife is very sick, Doctor " "Is
she suffering much?" "SufferingJ
Well, I should say so. Why, she had
such a bad cold she can't talk."
Spare Moments.
"How is it that Li?htop takes so
much interest in all that Nupop's baby
tries to say?" "Oh, he's writing a
dialect story and depends on the baby
for ideas." Inter-Oceau.
Stuyvesant "Half the world never
knows how the oiher half lives."
Madison "That's what comes of liv
ing in flats without an air shaft."
Browning, King & Co.'s Monthly.
Affable Swell "Well, the fact is,
my name is not Smithson. You see,
I am traveling incog. There's my
oard." Fellow Posseiui "Glad to
heor it. I'm trav- yin pickles.
Here's mine. " liar Life.
Mother "Do jfw think that a
boy of your eizeVwrmld take the tacks
out of this carpet if he wanted to?"
Small Son "I guess so. Shall I take
my sled and go out aud see if I can
find one who waits to?" Good News.
Lady "You say you are a musician.
Well, I'll give you a little practice.
Just go over to the woodshed and
tackle a few chords." Tramp "Ex
cuse me, madam, I am a tenor and I
fear those chords are too heavy f j
me." Philadelphia Record.
"I wish some missionaries didn't
vary so much," said King Kanunbilc,
as he swallowed his portion of the roast.
"I wish so, too," said Queen Kanaa
bile, "but there are so many brands of
Presbyterians these days it's hard to
tell what to order." Harlem Life.
Man of Fashion (reading a news-paper
that a village schoolmuKter ha I
shot himself beouuse he could not puy
a debt of fifty marks) "Ridiculous 1
Why, if I were to shoot myself for
every fifty marks that I owe I shou-d
le kept at it nil the year round!"
Fliegeude Blaetter.
Mrs. Honeymoon (to brid 'groom, in
railway train) "Do you love me?"
Old Party (confidentially fiom tho
other Beat to the bridegroom) "She's
asked you that fo'ty seven tin.es al
ready. I get out here, but I'll leav.
the score with this gentleman by the
window." Tit-Hits.
It Worked Both Ways: She
"Does the fact that I have momy
make any ditfereuce to you, deares.' '
He "Of course it do. s, uiy own. It
is such u comfort to kuuw that if 1
should die you would Iu provided for."
Hhe "But suppose 1 hIuuI. ilio?"
He "Then 1 would be provided fur,"
-Ljfe'i Calendar.