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VOL. XXVIT. NO. 12. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1894. Sl.OO'-PER ANNUM.
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The sugar beet industry is being
rapidly pushed in Australia.
The countries of the world where
women already havo some suffrage
have n area of over 18,000,000 square
miles, and thoir population is over
850,000,030.
Says Texas Sittings: Seven out of
every ten railroad accidents are settled
with an annual pass. Some monwonld
be run over by a whole freight train
for the Bake of a few free ridos.
A" the roRult of statistics showing n
large increase in the number of youth
ful criminal, the German Ministry of
the Interior is discussing a reorgani
sation of tho system of compulsory
education.
The New Zealand farmers are the
most prosperous in the world. Within
the past ten years the agricultural re
sources have beeu developed until the
dairy and frozon-moat industries havo
attained enormous proportions.
An English pnascngor rooontly
bought a ticket from London to
Vienna, After twenty-four hours'
traveling without having had a ohauco
to get any food, tho traveler stopped
off at Dresden rather than ooutinuo
hipourney for the remaining twelve
JTiti in it nt ii i a t i : mi
i Di.nrvttl.iuu. AUO
German railway company cancelled
his ticket, which contained no stop
ping privilege, aud ho was forcod to
buy it her.
Australia has not yet reoovored
from her financial troubles. Rigid
eoonomy has boon praotioed in all de
partments of the various Governments
for months past, and there has boon
entrenchment all around, but yet tho
revenue returns are not satisfactory.
In the Colony of Victoria the expendi
tures of the Government during the
quarter just ended exoeedod the rev
enue by something like $2,000,000.
The interest on deposits in tho State
savings banks has been reducod from
8) to three per cent.
The strong faoial resemblanoe which
married couples often acquire after
living together a long poriod of years,
harmonious in thought aud feeling,
and subject to the same conditions in
life, has often been commented upon.
The Fhotographio Society, of Geneva,
reoently took the pictures of seventy
eight couple for an investigation of
this subject. The result wai that in
twenty-four cases the resemblance in
the personal appearanoe of the hus
band and wife was greater than that
of brother and sistor ; in thirty cases
it was equally great and in only
twenty-four was there a total absence
of resemblance. ,
The Atlanta Constitution is con
vinced that no money-making scheme
is too rascally for some men, as wit
ness the gang lately arrested in New
York, which for years has bion plun
dering insurancooompaniesand cruelly
killing horses in order to seoure in
surance money. They rentod a stable,
fillod it with fine horsos, good har
nesses and carriages, gutting as largo
insurance upon the contents as wat
possible. Then a lot of worthless
horses, worn-out wagons, etc, were
substituted and tlio stable sat on tire.
The gang is known to have destroyed
more than a dozon stabios, involving
the death of 100. or more horses. The
law having got these rascals in its
olutohos, it is to be hoped a dose will
be given them that will serve as a
warning to others.
A writor in tho Lady's Journal, iu
commenting on the story of the doc
tor's page introducing a patient .as
"Jones" instead of "Mr. Jouos," upon
the ground that he did not kuow he
was married, ooutonds that tba boy
was not to blame so mil oh as our own
lingual deficiency la the matter. Mau
ought to have a prolix, she says, which
should indicate at onoe whether they
are married or siuglo. It would be
iuoro convenient, doubtless, for the
feminine world but some married
men, writes James Payu, would not
like this plan at (til. Th ' only chance
they have of beiug reoeived with civ
ility by the other sex is this doubt of
their eligibility for matrimony. More
over, though it be true the In lies hitva
their-"Mrs." and "Miss" to douota
thoir connubial or celibate condition,
there is nothing to indicate it iu their
epistolory communications; tUey par
Slut in withholding this information
from their correspondents, who conse
quently never know how to nddrcsi
thorn. Editors, of course, ars con
stantly plaoed iu this embarrassing
position. It is safer to write "Mrs.";
most women, unless they are advo
cates of female rights, prefer it to be
supposed that some male has fallen 8
Victim to tljeir bow and spear,
Thero are 68,000 postofflces in tho
Unitod States, arid of these 67,000 do
not pay tho expenses of operating and
maintaining them.
Ex-Secretary of the Navy Tracy is
quoted as saying to a friend that in
addition to the work and worry hi
cabinet life cost him $30,000 every
year above his salary of $8000.
"Worth its weight in gold" is said
to be an inadequate expression when
applied to a copy of the first edition
of Walton's "Complete Angler." The
amount of gold its value represents in
England would outweigh many copies.
Tho Japanese Government has is
sued an ordinance for the purpose of
restraining and regulating emigration
from Japan, and has made a rule that
no emigrant will be permitted to leave
his own country for a land where his
coming would be in violation of the
law of that country.
If the iuhoritanoe tax law, just en
actod in England, had been in force in
this country at Jay Gould's death, his
estate would have paid to the Govern
ment $5, 600, 000. Mr. Rockfeller's es
tate would have to pay $10,000,000;
William II. Vondorbilt's estate would
have paid $16,000,000.
Supervisor of Indian Schools Moss
has sent to the Bureau of Indian
Affairs a denial of the statement that
"Apache Kid," the noted outlaw, was
an educated Indian, which has been
nsod as an argument against eduoating
the red men. While at San Carlos
Superintendent Moss inquired about
this, and learned that the outlaw was
never in school a day. He was a Gov
ernment scout, and while in that posi
tion learned to speak some English.
A novel and extremely interesting
experiment is soon to be tried in Ohio,
announces the Now York Tribune. It
is a new departure in road improve
ment, which is claimed by its anthor
to have points of marked superiority
over the building of macadamized
roads. The plan is to extend the eleo
trio railway tracks from cities and
towns into the surrounding country,
and to construct the roads in such a
way that they can be nsed for wagons
and carriages drawn by horses ob well
as by cars. Of course there will be a
great saving in horse power wherever
such roads are usod, since far heavier
loads can be drawn on steel tracks
with the same force. In two counties
of Ohio trial will be made of this sys
tem the present year. It nood hardly
be said that the result will be awaited
with much interest not only in Ohio,
but in other States. The question of
road improvement is filling a large
plaoe in the pnblio mind nowadays,
and anything in the direotion of solv
ing it is sure of earnest and respectful
attention. Something similar to the
Ohio idea was suggested by an Eng
lish writer years ago, but nothing, we
believe, oyer came of it.
Some interesting facts present them
selves as to the sooial condition of the
people of the United States in a study
of the statistics of the Census Bureau,
remarks the Boston Herald. The
Census was taken on Jnne 1, 1890,
and then ont of 32,067,880 male in
habitants of this country the un
married numbered 19,915,576. The,
married were 11,205,228, the widowed
were 815,437 and the divorced were
49,101. Out of 30,554,370 female in
habitants 17,183,984 were single, 11,.
126,196 were married, 2,154,615 were
widows and 71,895 were divorced. The
number of married females is thus
much larger than the proportion of
married men, and the fact that the
proportion of widows is three times as
great as the proportion of widowers,
and the number of divorced women
much larger than the number of di
vorced mon, shows that the men who
are widowers and divoroed more fre
quently married again than women in
the same condition, Again, it is
shown that, by comparing the in
habitants of fifty principal cities with
the country at large, the greater pro
portion of married men are in the
cities rather than in the country.
This is contrary to expectation, and
the percentage of married males in the
cities is one per cent, higher than it is
on the average in the country. In
classifying the divorced persons, it is
found that they are most numerous in
the western division, and least numer
ous in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
the twoCarolinas, Georgia and Florida.
In Maryland the proportion of mar
riages is exceptionally high and yet in
that State there are three times as
many widows as there are widowers,
Divoroes are more common at th
West than in the East. These are
few of the facts that appear in the
study of the Census from the point of
view of tli conjugal relation,
SILVER AND GOLD,
Farewell, my little sweetheart,
Now fare you well and free
I claim from you no promise,
Ton ololm no vows from ma.
The reason why? the reason
Right well we oan uphold
I have too nrooh of silver,
And you've too muoh of gold.
A puszle this, to worldlings,
Whose love to lucre flies,
Who think that gold to silver
Should oount as mutual prise 1
But I'm not avarlolous,
And you're not sordld-souled
I have too much of silver.
And you've too mush of gold.
Upon our heads the reason
Too plainly can be seen i
I am the Winter's bond slave,
You are the Summer's quoen ;
Too tew the years you number,
Too many I have told j
I have too much of silver,
And you've too much of gold.
You have the rose for token,
I have dry leaf and rime ,
I have the sobbing vesper,
You, morning bells at chime.
I would that I were younger,
(Yot you grew never old)
Would I had less of silver,
But you no less of gold.
Edith M. Thomas,
BACK FHOM THE TOMB.
BT GUT DS MAUPASSANT,
HE guests filed
slowly into the
hotel's great dining
hall and took their
places, the waiters
began to serve them
leisurely, to give
the tardy ones time
to arrive and to
save themselves the
bother of bringing
Dacs tne courses ; ana the old bathers,
the yearly habitues, with whom the
season was far advanced, kept a close
watch .on the door eaoh time it opened,
hoping for the coming of new faces.
New faces 1 the single distraction of
all pleasure resorts. We go to dinner
chiefly to canvass the daily arrivals, to
wondor who they are, what they do
and what they think. A restless de
sire seems to have taken possession of
us, a longing for pleasant adventures,
for friendly acquaintances, perhaps
for possible lovers. In this elbow-to-elbow
life our unknown neighbors be
come of paramount importance. Curi
osity is piqued, sympathy on the alert,
and the social instinct doubly aotive.
That evening, then, as on every
evening, we waited the appearance of
unfamiliar faces.
There came only two, but very
peculiar ones, those of man and wo
man father and daughter. They
seemed to have stepped from the pages
of some weird legend ; and yet there
was an attraction abont them, albeit
an nnploasant one, tha,t made me set
them down at onoe as the victims of
some fatality.
The father was tall, spare, a little
bent, wiih hair blanched white, too
whito for his still young countenanoe,
and in his manner and about his per
son the sedate austerity of carriage
that bespeaks the puritan. The daugh
ter was, possibly, some twenty-four
or twenty-five years of age. She was
very slight, emaoiated, her exceedingly
pale countenanoe bearing a languid,
spiritless expression ; one of those peo
ple whom we sometimes encounter, ap
parently too weak for the cares and
tasks of life, too feeble to move or do
things that we must do every day.
Nevertheless the girl was pretty, with
the ethereal beauty of an apparition.
It was she, undoubtedly, who came
for the benefit of the waters.
They chanced to be plaoed at table
immediately opposite to me; and 1
was not long in notioing that the
father, too, had a strange affection
something wrong about the nerves, it
seemed. Whenever he was going to
reach for anything hia hand, with a
jerky twitch, described a sort of zig
zag before it was able to grasp what he
was after. Soon the motion disturbed
me so mnch I kept my head turned in
order not to see it. But not before I
had also observed that the young girl
kept her glove on her left hand while
she ate.
Dinner ended, I went ont as usual
for a turn in the grounds belonging to
the establishment. A sort of park, I
might say, stretching clear to the lit
tle station of Auvergne, Chatel
Gnyon, nestling in a gorge at the foot
of the high mountain, from whioh
flowed the sparkling, bubbling springs,
hot from the furnace of an ancient
volcano. Beyond us there, the domes,
email extinct craters of which Chatel
Guyon is the starting point raised
their serrated heads above the long
chain ; while beyond the domes came
two distinct regions, one of them needle-like
peaks, the other of bold, pre
cipitous mountains.
It was very warm that evening and
I contented myself with pacing to and
fro unier the rustling trees, gazing at
the mountains and listening to the
strains of the band, pouring from the
Casino, situated on a knoll that over
looked the grounds.
Presently, I peroeived the father
and daughter coming toward me with
slow steps. I bowed to them in that
pleasant continental fashion with
which one always salutes his hotel
companions. The gentleman haltod
at ouoe.
"I'ardon, me, sir," said he, "but
may I atk if you can direct us to a
short walk, easy and pretty if possi
ble 1"
"Certainly," I answered, and I
offered to lead them myself to the val
ley through which the swift river
flows a deep, norrow cleft between
two great declivities, rocky aud
wooded,
They ooooptod, ond as wo walked
we naturally discussed tho virtue of
the mineral waters. They had, as I
surmised, come thore on his daugh
ter's aoconnt.
"She has a strange malady," said
he, "tho scat of which her physicians
oannoi determine. She suffers from
the most inexplicable nervous symp
toms. Sometimes they declare hor ill
of a heart disease, sometimes
ef a liver complaint, again of a
spinal trouble. At present they at
tribute it to the stomach that great
motor end regulator of the body this
protean disease of a thousand forms, a
thousand modes of attack. It is
why we are bore. I, myself, think it
her nerves. In any case, it is very
sad."
This reminded mo of his own jerk
ing head.
"It maybe hereditary," says I;
"your own nerves are a little disturbed,
are they not?"
"Mine?" ho answered, tranquilly.
"Not at all ; I have always possessed
the calmest nerves." Then, suddenly,
as if bethinking himself :
"For this," touching his hand, "is
not nerves, but tho result of a shock,
a terrible shock that I suffered once.
Fanoy it, sir ; thin child of mine has
been buried alive I"
I could find nothing to say ; I was
dumb with surprise.
"Yes," he continued, "buried alive ;
but hear the story ; it is not long.
For some time past J nliette had seemed
affected with a disordered action of the
heart. We were finally certain that
the trouble was organic, and feared
the worst. One day it came ; she was
brought in lifeless dead. She had
fallen dead while walking in the gar
den. Physicians came in haste, but
nothing could be done. She was
gone. For two days and two nights I
watched beside her myself, and with
my own hands placed her in her coffin,
which I followed to the cemetery and
saw placed in the family vault. This
was in the country, in the province
of Lorraine.
"It had been my wish, too, that she
should be buried in her jewels, brace
lets, necklace and rings, all presents
that I had given her, and in her first
ball dress. You can imagine, sir, the
state of my heart in returning home.
She was all that I had left ; my wife
had been dead for many years. - I re
turned, in truth, half mad, shut my
self alone in my room and fell into my
ohair dazed, unable to move, merely
a miserable, breathing wreck.
"Soon my old valet, Prosper, who
had helped mo place Juliette in her
coffin and lay her away for her last
sleep, came in noiselessly to see if he
could not induce me to eat. I shook
my head, answered nothing. He per
sisted. " 'Monsieur is wrong ; this will make
him ill. Will monsieur allow me,
then, to put him to bed?"
"'No, no,' I answered. 'Let me
alone.'
"He yielded and withdrew.
"How many hours passed I do not
know. What a night I What a night t
It was very cold ; my fire of logs had
long since burned out in the great
fireplace; and the wind, a wintry
blast, charged with an icy frost,
howled and soreamed about the house
and strained at my windows with a
curiously sinister sound.
"Long hours, I say, rolled by. I
sat still where I had fallen, prostrated,
overwhelmed; my eyes wide open,
but my body etrengthless, dead ; my
soul drowned in despair. Suddenly
the great bell gave a loud peal.
"I gave suoh a leap that my chair
craoked under me. The slow, solemn
sound rang through the empty house.
I looked at the clock.
"It was two in the morning. Who
could be coming at suoh an hour?
"Twice again the bell pulled sharp
ly. The servants would never answer,
perhaps never hear it I took up a
candle and made my way to the door.
I was about to demand :
"'Who is there! 'but, ashamed of
the weakness, nerved myself and drew
back the bolts. My heart throbbed,
my pulse beat, I threw baok the panel
brusquely, and there, in the darkness,
saw a shape like a phantom, dressed
in white.
"I recoiled, speechless with anguish,
stammering:
" 'Who who are you?
"A voice answered :
" 'It is I. father.'
"It was my child, Juliette.
"Truly, I thought myself mad. I
shuddered, shrinking backward before
the spectre as it advanced, gesticulat
ing with my hand to ward off the ap
parition. It is that gesture which
has never left me.
"Again the phantom spoke:
"'Father, father I See, I am not
dead. Some one came to rob me of
my jewels they cut off my finger
the the flowing blood revived me.'
"Aud I saw then that she was cov
ered with blood. I fell to my kuees
panting, sobbing, laughiug, all in one.
As soon as I regained my senses, but
still so bewildered I soarcely compre
hended the happiness that had come
to me, I took her in my arms, carried
her to my room and rang frantically
for Prosper to rekindle the fire, bring
a warm drink for her and go for the
doctor.
"He came running, eutored, gazed
a momeut at my daughter iu the
chair, gave a gasp of fright and hor
ror and fell back dead.
"It was he who had opened the
vault, who hid wounded aud robbed
my .child aud then nbuudoued her ;
for he could not efface all trace of his
deed ; aud he had not even taken the
trouble to return the coflin to its
niche ; sure, besides, of not being
suspected by me, who trusted him so
fully. We are truly very unfortunate
people, monsieur."
He was silaut. Meanwhile, tho night
had come on, enveloping iu the gloom
the still and solitary little valley; a
suit of luxurious, dread teemed to
fall upon me in the presonoe of these
strange beings this corpso came to
life aud this father with his painful
gestures.
"Let us return," said I; "the night
has grown chill."
And, still in silence, we traoed our
steps back to the hotel, and I shortly
afterwards returnod to the city. I
lost all further knowlodgo of the two
peculiar visitors to my favorite sum
mer resort.
SCIENTIFIC ASD INDUSTRIAL.
Artificial ear drnms are a success.
Insect eggs have the greatest vi
tality. The sour gourd trees of Africa are
the oldest living vegetation.
The applo contains a larger amount
of . phosphorous, or brain food, than
any other fruit.
The United States has a lower per
centage of blind peoplo than any oth
er country in the world.
Microscopists say that the strongest
microscopes do not, probably, reveal
the lowest stage of animal life.
There are 100 students taking the
course of electrical engineering at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
It was twenty-nine days from the
casting of the Lick objective glass be
fore it had cooled sufficiently for safe
removal.-
The Electrical Review says the elec
trical purification of sewage "is a com
plete success, chemically and bacter
iologically." The South Sea Islands is the home
of a worm which emerges from its
hiding plaoe only one day of a certain
change of the moon in October.
The East Indian ship worm will in a
few months destroy any vessel by eat
ing out the interior of the beams and
planlta. They will be left a mere shell
that can be shattered by the fist.
The onion has virtues to which
thousands of people will swear. This
is its ability to ward offattaoks of ma
laria in any form, and to cure cases
as rapidly as the strongest doses of
quinine.
A New York lady has so contrived
matters that she can, before getting
out of bed, start a fire in the kitchen
by turning on the current, and when
Bhe comes down stairs finds the kettle
boiling and the place comfortably
warmed.
J. J. Hogan, a mechanical student
of Yale College, has invented a re
markable instrument, called the Kino
simeter, which is nsed to measure the
slightest motion perceptible to the
test of touch. The measure is one
millimeter per second.
The important discovery has been
made by Doctor Backeland that the
addition of a minute amount of a solu
ble fluorid to yeast will preserve it for
more than six months. Doubtless other
important applications will be made of
this remarkable property of the solu
ble fluorids.
Mr. Graham, the great British eleo
trieian, has invented a "loud-speaking
telephone," an apparatus whioh
gathers and materializes the wave
sounds to such a wonderful degree
that they can be heard any plaoj in a
large room, even after traveling over
the wires hundreds, of miles.
How Hard Times Hake Soldiers.
. It is an interesting fact' that hard
times usually briug plenty of reornits
to the United States Army. A recruit
ing sergeant told me that it is easier
now to recruit a good class of young
men and plenty of them than it has
been for years.
"You see," he said, "there are hun
dreds of young fellows who usually
earn good enough wages in the mills
and factories of New York, Newark
and other cities in this vicinity, who
have been out of work during the past
winter. When every other resource
seems to be exhausted many of those
yonng fellows tarn to Uncle Sam and
enlist in his service.
"It isn't patriotism nor love of ad
venture that impels them to put on
the blue. It is stern necessity. The
pay is poor and the task is hard, but
they enlist, many of them, rather
than turn to beggary or theft." New
York Herald.
StrAnge History ol a Cherry Tree.
In the management of a cherry tree
the late Almeron Higby, of Watson,
Lewis County, may be regarded by
some people as wiser iu his day and
generation than the youthful George
Washington. Wheu uiue years old he
planted a cherry atone, from whioh
grew a tree that was known by his
parents as "the boy's tree." When it
began to bear cherries he picked the
fruit, sold it, and saved the money.
This he oontinued to do duriug his
entire life. Last summer, at the age
of fifty-nine, his health declined, and
the tree also began to decay. So he
cut it down, had the tmuk sawed into
boards, and with his own hands made
a pretty cbtrry colli n for himself. A
few days ago ho died, and all of his
funeral expenses were paid from the
money that he had saved as the pro
ceeds of the sale of the cherries. Mil
waukee Wisconsin.
Oil ol Eggs.
Extraordinary stories are told of
the healing properties of a new oil
which is easily luude from the yolks
of hens' eggs. The ej-'ga are first
boiled hard, and the yolks are then re
moved, crushed aud placed over a tire,
where they are carefully stirred until
the substance is ou the point of catch
ing tire, when the oil separates and
the oil may bo poured off. Oua yolk
will yield nearly two teaspoonfitls of
oil. It is iu general use amou,; the
colonists of South ltussia as a lue.nis
of curing cuts, bruise?, etc, St, Loi
tftttr-Sayimjs.
ODD FREAKS OF THE SEA.
SOKE STRANGE 9IOHT3 AND QUEER
EXPERIENCES.
Effect of Olgantlc Waves Sub-Ma.
rlne Eruptions and Storms Show
ers offish nones.
SAILORS have more than thoir
fill of strange sights and
strange experiences. Big
waves range amojg these
strange experiences. We do not refer
to those waves which are the imme
diate consequences of high winds and
atmospherical disturbances, but to
those single waves of immense height
which shew themselves suddenly in
the midst of a sea comparatively
smooth. A vessel may be sailing along,
in fine weather and with no swell on
worth mentioning, when, without the
least warning, comes sweeping along
a wave that towers like a mountain,
falls on the dcok, and carries away
everything movable, members of the
crew among the rest.
The steamer San Francisco was once
struck by a tidal wave of this sort in
the Gulf Stream, and 179 persons swept
into the sea and drowned. In Maroh
hist all the orew save one of the bark
Johann Wilhelm were washed over
board by a single wave. In June last
year the ship Holyrood enoountered
another such sea which is said to have
risen up "suddenly like a wall" and
to have flooded her decks fore and
aft.
TheOunardors, Etrnria and Umbria,
have both encountered, the phenom
enon, and the former had one man
killed and several others injured. The
case of tho Pomeranian will be fresh
in the minds of all. Sometimes these
waves are the result of submarine
eruptions and land earthquakes occur
ring in close proximity to the sea.
An English bark crossing the North
Paciflo met with one of these big
waves and immediately afterward the
ooean seemed to be boiling, and the
sulphur fumes that emerged from the
water were so powerful as to drive the
crew into the rigging. Clearly there
was an eruption here as the ship sailed
over, and the wonder is that the great
wave did not do more injury.
Again, the American sohooner Dors
J. Ward, while on a voyage to Seattle,
Wash., from Cooper Island, was sail
ing quietly along, when suddenly she
was lifted as if a whale had struck her
bottom, and then experienced a suc
cession of shocks whioh cast every
thing loose about their feet. There
were a few big waves succeeding the
main one, and then everything was
smooth again. The biggest solitary
wave ever known was that caused by
the Peruvian earthquake of August
13th, 1868. In no other instance, we
are assured, has it been known that a
well markedjwave of enormous propor
tions has been propagated over the
largest ocean tract of the globe by an
) earthquake whose action has beeu lim
ited to a relatively small region not
situated in the centre but ou ouo side
of the area traversed by the wave. At
Africa it was fifty feet high, aud en
veloped the town, carrying two war
ships nearly a mile beyond the railway
of the north of the town. It inundat
ed the smaller members of tho Sand
wich group, 6300 miles away, aud
reached Yokohama, in Japan, iu tho
early hours of the morning, after tak
ing in New Zealand on the way. ft
spent itself finally in the South At
lantic, having traversed nearly the
whole globe.
A singular occurrence was reported
reoently by the English ship Cuoi
para. She was about midway bet ween
the Cape and Australia wheu she en
oountered a hurricane. About mid
night of August 4 last the sea sud
denly fell almost calm. "It appeared
as if the sea was aftected by some
tremendous pressure," wheu su ldeuly
the whole vessel fore and aft was en
veloped in sheets of flame that rose
half way up tho masts and overran
the dooks for three-quarters of an
hour. It was an electrical storm, aud
the crew, never having enoountered
such a thing before, were puuio
stricken, and very naturally so. They
expected every minute to see the
masts go by the board. After what
must have been a very cheerful forty
five minutes the flames snuffed out
suddenly, and left darkness so thick
that it might have been cut.
Another singular occurrence was
that of the bark Peter Pridell, which
Was off Valparaiso when a whirlwind
passed over her stern, taking away
everything movablt, sails aud all, on
the after part of the ship, leaving the
forward part untouched. Hero was
the sharp end of a storm with a
vengeance. Almost as surprised at
their good fortune and narrow escape
must have beeu the orew of the barken
tine Fortunate, which, while on a
voyage from llio Grande to Liverpool,
felt a tremendous khook that could
not be aocouuted for until the vessel
was put into dry dock, wheu the
sword of a swonlfish was found to
have penetrated some feet into the
wood of tho hull.
Yot another of the curiosities of the
sea is the oocasioual shower of fish
bones or the like, falling ou deak
when many miles from land. These
showers are easily explained. The
fish are taken up iu waterspouts, aud
oome down in more or less raretiej
ooudition. But perhaps the most
awful of all things that oau happen at
sea is a fire. A severe squall break
ing over a vessel unprepared for it,
and with all her sails set, is had, but
the experience is short, sharp and
generally deuisive ; but for long-drawn-out
agony there is nothing like
a fire, especially if it is among coal,
and there is also dynamite or gnu
powder iu the cargo. Pall Mall
Gazette.
If a snail's head be out off and the
animal placed iu a oool, moist spot a
new head will be growu,
OOLDEN HOURS. GOLDEN DAYS.
Everything has beauty In It
Tn the world that 'round us line,
Lilting up each waking minute.
Giving Joy to longing eyes,
That shall All the hours with pmlse
Qolden hours make golden dnys.
By us Joys are ever flying,
Let u make our hearts their snnre
Let us share the sweetness lying
All about us everywhere !
Let us walk In happy ways
Golden hours make golden days.
Troubles come but they are fleeting i
Boon their shadows will go by,
An the clouds the sunlight meeting,
Pass and show the smire sky.
Life Is full of sunny rays
Golden hours make golden days.
George Blrdsoyo, in Detroit Froo Press.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A trying situation The cloak mod
el's.
It is seldom difficult to appear nat
ural when you have no desire to
please. Puck.
It frequently happens that tho fire
of gonius has difficulty in making the
pot boil. Puok.
My neighbor calls his cat "Thero
by" because from it hangs a tail.
Arkansaw Traveler.
Strange as it may seem, it some
times happens that an old salt gets
into trouble by being too fresh.
Almost every womon we know would
like to know what some other woman
has got to be so proud of. Atchison
Globe.
Paddy's latest feat was to pawn his
grin, preparatory to a day's shooting,
in order to buy cartridges. London
Truth.
There is plenty of room at the top ;
but there isn't enough for one-teuth of
the people who think they ought to bo
there. Puck.
The peaoe maker is a commendable
character, but he is not esteemed by
the follow who is getting the bcBt of
the fight. Puck.
The part of a man's salary that ho
usually doesn't spend is the part he
would receive if he were getting what
be is worth. Puck.
"Gal ton had his lawn mower stolen
last night." "Great Caesar I What
a luoky fellow he has always been."
Chicago Inter-Ooean.
Speaking of bereavement, Jones af
firms that no death ever affected him
so sadly as that of his wife's first hus
band. Salem Gazette.
Two words sometimes make a long
sentenoe. For instance, when the
judge remarks to the prisoner:
"Twenty years." Truth.
You may speak as you will of podi
gree generally, but in a sleeping oar
it is a man's berth whioh raises him
above his fellow passengers.
An exohange tells "how to make a
fountain pen work satisfactorily."
Another way is to give it to one of
your enemies. Texas Hif tings.
There is that in a woman's disposi
tion that induces hor to give anythiug
he has to the poor, providing tiiey
will use it her way. Atchison Globe.
I kissed her a dozen times last nlb'W,
And now It makes me sore
To think that It I'd only stayed,
I might have had oua more.
Life.
A woman's idea of loyalty is to loan
her best silverware to a neighbor who
is giving a party, and say nothing
when she hears it praised. Atchison
Globe.
Jack "What sort of a girl is she?"
Jim 'Oh, shn is a miss with a mis
sion." "Ah I" "And her mission is
seeking a man with a mansion."
Spare Moments.
The lightning flashed, the lightning orashod,
The skies were rent asunder,
With shriek and wail loud blew the gale,
And then It rained like thunder !
Puck.
Willy Wilt "Do you know, I fanoy
I have quite a literary bent." Van
Demmitt "All right, my boy; keep
on and you'll be worse than bent
you'll be broke." Puck.
Madge "Er Miss Laura, I hopel
am not talking too much abont my
self." Miss Laura -"Oh, no. You
have to be talked about by somebody,
of course." Indianapolis Journal.
No wonder the modest violet
Drops shyly out of sight
It It hears all the poems
People about It write.
Chicago lutur-Odnan.
Housekeeper "Are you sure that
this tea isn't half copperas?" Dealer
(oonvinoiugly) "We couldn't afford
to sell oopperos at the extremely low
prioe we oharge for this tea, ma'am."
New York Weekly.
L'Enfant Terrible "Have you got
another faoe?" Mrs. Homeleih
"No, dear; why do you ask?" L'Eu
fant Terrible "Mamma sai I you are
two-faced; but I thought if you had
auother one, you wouldn't wear that
one." London Tid-Bits.
In the gloaming, O my darling,
Whero the nlglit urj six mouths long;
It I siayed till ml. Illicit, darling.
Would you think tliut it was wrong?
Would you work the old gags ou mot
Would you murmur, suit and low,
That I inigut be late lor breaklatt.
Or the oloek was six weeks slow?
Detroit Frtw Prees.
Teacher "Now, Johnnie, you may
tell us this : Suppose your mother had
told you to oome home at five o'clock,
and you did not go; what would you
be doing?" Johnnie "I don't kuow
whether it would be swiiumiu' or
play in' baseball." Chicago luter
Ooean. "What have you named your new
boy?" "William. I wanted to get a
name that would be sure to fit." "J
don't quite catch." "Why, don't you
see, if he grows up to be a real nice,
good kind of young mau he will be
oalled Willie, aud if he should happen
to turn out pretty tough he can bo
calivd Bill," lu44Uitpolis Journal,