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VOL. XXVIT. NO. 12. TIONESTA, PAM WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1894.
.OO'FEE ANNUM.
Mpaia in aaranaa.
Job work aah oa delivery.
BLI
The sugar beet industry ia being
rapidly ptiBhed In Australia.
The countries of the world where
women already havo some suffrage
have an area of over 18,000,000 sqnnre
miles, and thoir population is over
S50,000,OCsr.
Eays Texas Sifting: Seven ont of
evory ten railroad accidents are settled
with an annual pass. Some men wonld
be run over by a whole freight train
for the aake of a few free ridos.
An the result of statistics showing a
large increase in the number of youth
ful criminal, the German Ministry of
the Interior is discussing a roorgani
cation of tho system of compulsory
education.
The New Zealand farmers are the
most prosperous in the world. Within
the past ton years the agricultural re
aouroes have been developed until the
dairy and frozon-meat industries havo
attained enormous proportions.
An English passenger rooontly
bought a tiokct from London to
Vienna. After twenty-four hours'
traveling without having had a ohanoe
to get any food, the traveler stopped
off at Dresden rather than oontinuo
hipourney for the remaining twelve
ours in a state of starvation. The
German railway company cancelled
his ticket, which contained no stop
ping privilege, and he was forced to
buy her.
Australia has not yet recovered
from her finanoial troublos.' Rigid
eoonomy has boon practiced in all de
partments of the various Governments
for months past, and there has boon
entrenchment all around, but yet the
revenue returns are not satisfactory.
In the Colony of Victoria tho expendi
tures of the Government daring tho
quarter just ended exceeded the rev
enue by something like (2,000,000.
The interest on deposits in the State
savings banks has been reduced from
3 to three per cent.
VTho strong facial resemblanoe which,
married couples often aoquire after
living togother a long period of years,
harmonious in thought and feeling,
and subjeot to the same conditions in
life, has often been commented upon.
The Fhotographio Socioty, of Geneva,
recently took tho pictures of seventy
eight couple for an investigation of
this subject The result was that in
twenty-four cases the resemblanoe in
the personal appearance of the -husband
and wife was greater than that
of brother and sister ; in thirty oases
it was equally great and in only
twenty-four was there a total absence
of resemblanoe. ,
The Atlanta Constitution is con-
vinoed that no money-making scheme
is too rascally for some meu, as wit
ness the gang lately arrested in New
York, whioh for years has bsen plun
dering insuranoo oompaniesand cruelly
killing horses in order to aeoure in
surance money. They rented a stable,
filled it with fine horsos, good har
nesses aud carriages, getting as large
insurance upon the contents as wai
possible. Then a lot of worthless
horses, worn-out wagons, etc., were
substituted and the stable sat on fire.
The gang is known to have destroyed
more than a dozon stables, involving
the death of 100. or more horses. The
law having got those rascals in its
olutchos, it is to -be hoped a dose will
be given them that will servo as o
warning to others.
A writor in the Lady's Journal, iu
commenting on the story of the doo
tor'a page introducing a patient .as
"Jones" instead of "Mr. Jouas," upon
the ground that be did not kuow he
was raarriod, oouteuda that the boy
was not to blame so niuoh as our own
lingual deficiency la the matter. Man
ought to have a prefix, sua aiys, whioh
should indicate at once whether they
are married or single. It would be
tuora convenient, doubtless, for th
fonllnine world! but some married
meni writes James Payu, would not
like this plan at alL Th only ohanoe
they Lave of being received with civ
tlity by the other sex is this doubt ol
theif eligibility for matriiuouy. More
over, though it be true the la lies have
their- "Mra." and "Miss" to douota
their connubial or celibate condition,
there is nothing to indicate it in their
spistolory communications ; they por
sist in withholding this information
from their correspondents, who consc
Quehtly never know how to addrcai
thorn. Editors, of course, are oou
atantly placed ia this embarrassing
position. It is safer to writs "Mrs.";
biost women, unless they are advo
oates of female rights, prefer it to be
supposed that some mala has fallen a
Victim to their bow ud spear,
There are G8.000 postofllccs in tho
United States, and of these 67,000 do
not pay tho expenses of operating and
maintaining them.
Ex-Secrctary of the Navy Tracy is
quoted as saying to a friend that ia
addition to the work and worry bis
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 rale that
no emigrant will be permitted to leave
his own country for a land where his
coming wonld be in violation of the
law of that country.
If the inheritance tax law, just en
acted 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. Kockfeller's es
tate would have to pay $10,000,000;
William H. Vandorbilt's estate would
have paid tlC, 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
used 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 soont, and while in that posi
tion learned to speak some English,
A novel and extremely interesting
experiment is soon to be tried in Ohio,
announoes the New York Tribune. It
is a new departure in road improve
ment, whioh is claimed by its author
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 auch a
way that they can be nsed for wagona
and carriages drawn by horses aa well
as by oars. Of course there will be a
great saving in horse power wherever
such roads are used, sinoe 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 need 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 publio mind nowadays,
and anything in the direction of solv
ing it is sure of earnest and respectful
attention. Something similar to the
Ohio idea waa suggested by an Eng
lish writer years ago, but nothing, we
believe, eer came of it.
Some interesting facts present them
selves as to the social 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 June 1, 1890,
and then out 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 815,137 and the divoroed were
49,101. Out of 30,551,370 female in
habitants 17,183,981 were single, 11,
126,196 were married, 2,151,615 were
widows and 71,895 were divoroed. The
number of married females is thus
much larger than the proportion of
married meD, and the fact that the
proportion of widows ia three times as
great aa the proportion of widowers,
and the number of divorced women
much larger than the number of di
vorced men, shows that the men who
are widowera and divorced more fre
quently married again than women in
the same condition, Again, it ia
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 iu the country. In
classifying the divorced persoEs, it is
found that they are most numerous in
the western division, and least numer
ous in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
the two Carolines, 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.
Divorces are more common at tba
West than in the East. These are a
few of the faots that appear in the
j study of the Census from the point of
view oi tfi conjugal tviauv.
SILVER AND OOLD,
farewell, my littl. sweetheart,
Now lore you well and free
X olalm from you no promise,
Ton elalm no vows from ma
The reason why? tho reason
Right well ws oan uphold
I have too muoh of silver,
And you've too muoh of gold
A puzzle this, to worldlings,
Whose love to luor. Dies,
Who think that gold to silver
Should oount aa mutual prlsel
But I'm not avaricious.
And you're not sordld-souled
I have too muoh of silver,
And you've too muiti of gold.
Upon our heads the reason
Too plainly oan be seen t
I am the Winter's bond slave,
You are tba Bummer's queen ;
Too few the years you number,
Too many I have told i
I have too muoh ol silver,
And you've too muoh of gold.
Ton have the rose for token,
I have dry leaf and rime ,
I have the sobbing vesper,
Ton, morning bells at chime.
I would that I were younger,
(Yet you grew never old)
Would I had less of silver,
But you no less of gold.
Edith M. Thomas.
BACK FROM THE TOMB.
BY. OUT DB MAUPASSANT.
HE gnesta 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
eave themselves the
bother of bringing
back the courses ; and the old bathers,
the yearly habitues, with whom the
season was far advanced, kept a close
watch on the door eaohtime it opened,
hoping for the coming of new faces.
New faces t the single distraction of
all pleasure resorts. We go to dinner
chiefly to canvass the daily arrivals, to
wonder 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 donbly aotive.
That evening, then, on every
evening, we waited the appearanoe of
unfamiliar faces.
There came only two, bnt very
peculiar ones, those of man and wo
man father and daughter. They
seemed to have stepped from the paces
of some weird legend ; and yet there
was an attraction about them, albeit
an unpleasant one, tht made me set
them down at onoe as the victims of
some fatality.
The father was tall, spare, a little
bent, wiih hair blanohed white, too
white for his still young oountenanoe,
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, emaciated, her exceedingly
pale oountonanoe bearing a languid,
spiritless expression ; one of those peo
ple whom we 6ometiines 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 oame
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 his 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 much 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 out as usual
for a turn in the grounds belonging to
the establishment. A sort of park, I
might Bay, stretching clear to the lit
tle station of Auvergne, Chatel
Guyon, nestling in a gorge at the foot
of the high mountain, from whioh
flowed the sparkling, bubbling springs,
hot from the furnaoe of an anoiont
voloano. Beyond na there, the domes,
small extinct craters of whioh Chatel
Guyon is the stalling point raised
their serrated heads above the long
chain ; while beyond the domes oame
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 under 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 perceived the father
and daughter coming toward me with
slow steps. I bowed to them in that
pleasant continental fashion with
which one always aalutes hia hotel
companions. The gentleman halted
at onoe.
"Pardon, me, sir," said he, "but
may I ask if you oan direot ns to a
short walk, easy and pretty if possi
ble I"
"Certainly," I answered, and I
offered to lead them myself to the val
ley through which the swift river
flows a deep, narrow cleft between
two great declivities, rocky aud
wooded.
They aocopted, and as we walked
we naturally discussed the virtue of
the mineral waters. Thoy had, as I
surmised, come there on his daugh
ter's account.
"She has a strange malady," said
he, "the seat of whioh her physicians
cannot determine. She suffers from
the most inexplicable nervous symp
toms. Sometimes they declare her ill
of a heart disease, sometimes
of a liver oomplaint, again of a
spinal trouble. At present thoy at
tribute it to the stomach that great
motor and regulator of the body this
protean disease of a thousand forms, a
thousand modes of attack. - It is
why we are here. I, myself, think it
her nerves, in any case, it is very
sad."
This reminded me of his own jerk
ing head.
"It maybe hereditary," says l;
"your own nerves are a little disturbed,
are they not?"
"Mine?" he answered, tranquilly.
"Not at all ; I have always possessed
the calmest nerves. Then, suddenly,
as if bethinking himself :
"For this," tquohing his hand, "is
not nerves, but the result of a shock,
a terrible shock that I suffered once.
Fanoy it, sir ; this child of mine haa
been buried alive 1"
I oould find nothing to say ; I was
dumb with surprise.
"Yes," he continued, "buried alive ;
bnt hear the story ; it is not long.
For some time past J uliette 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. Fhysioians came in haste, but
nothing oould 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 conin,
whioh 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, necklaoe and rings, all presents
that I had given her, and in her first
ball dress. You oan 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
chair dazed, nnable to move, merely
a miserable, breathing wreck.
"Soon my old valet, Prosper, who
had helped me place Juliette in her
coffin and lay her away for her last
sleep, came in noiselessly to see if he
oould not induoe 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 1 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 screamed 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 atrengthless, dead j my
soul drowned in despair. Suddenly
the great bell gave a loud peal.
"I gave such a leap that my chair
cracked under me. The alow, solemn
sound rang through the empty house.
I looked at the clock.
"It waa two in the morning. Who
oould be ooming at suoh an hour?
"Twioe 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 I 'but, ashamed of
the weakness, nerved myself and drew
back the bolts. My heart throbbed,
my pulse beat, I threw back 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 yon?
"A voioe answered :
" 'It is I, father.'
"It was my child, Juliette.
"Truly, I thought myself mad. I
shuddered, shrinking backward before
the spectre as it advanoed, gesticulat
ing with my hand to ward olT the ap
parition. It is that gesture which
has never left me.
"Again the phantom spoke:
" 'Father, father I See, I am not
dead. Home one came to rob me of
my jewels they out off my finger
the the flowing blood revived me.'
"And I saw then that she was cov
ered with blood. I fell to my knees
panting, sobbing, laughing, all in one.
As soon aa I regained my aensea, but
still so bewildered I soarouly 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.
"lie came ' running, entered, gazed
a moment 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 b id wounded aud robbed
my .child and then abandoned her ;
for he oould not efface all trace of his
deed ; and he had not even taken the
trouble to return the oofiin 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 ailsut. Meanwhile the night
bad come on, enveloping in the gloom
the still and solitary little valley; a
suit of lavbteiioua (tread, seemed, to
fall upon me in the presonoe of these
strange boings this corpse came to
life and this father with his painful
gestures.
"Let ns return," said I ; "the night
has grown chill."
And, still in silence, we traoed our
steps back to the hotel, and I shortly
afterwards returned to the city. I
lost all further knowledge of the two
peculiar visitors to my favorite sum
mer resort.
RCIEimFIC ASD INDUSTRIAL,
Artificial ear drums are a success.
Insect eggs have the greatest vi
tality. The sour gourd treos of Africa are
the oldest living vegetation.
The apple contains a larger amount
of . phosphorous1, or brain food, than
any other fruit.
The United Statea has a lower per
centage of blind people 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 ore 100 stndents 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 oooled 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
planks. 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
she comes down stairs finds the kettle
boiling and the place oomfortably
warmed.
J. J. Hogan, a mechanical student
of Yale College, has invented a re
markable instrument, called the Kinn
simeter, whioh ia nsed to measure the
slightest motion perceptible to the
test of touch. The measure ia one
millimeter per second.
The important discovery has been
made by Doctor. Backeland that the
addition of a minute amount of a solu
ble finorid 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 fluoride.
Mr. Graham, the great British eleo
trician, 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 faot' that hard
times usually bring plenty 'of recruits
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," ha 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
young fellows t.irn 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 of 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. When nine years old he
planted a cherry stone, 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 continued to do during his
entire life. Last summer, at the age
of fifty-nine, hia health declined, and
the tree also began to decay. So he
cut it down, had the trunk sawed into
boards, and with his own hands made
a pretty chirry coflln for himself. A
few days ago he died, and all of hia
funeral expenses were paid from the
money that he bad saved as the pro
ceeds of the sale of the cherries. Mil
waukee Wisconsin.
Oil Ol Eggi.
Extraordinary stories are told of
the healing properties of a new oil
which is easily made from the yolks
of hens' eggs. Tho eggs are first
boiled hard, aud the yolks are then re
moved, crushed and placed over a lire,
where they are carefully- stirred until
the substance is on the point of catch
ing fire, when the oil separates and
the oil may be poured off. One yolk
will yield nearly two tuaspooufuls of
oil. It ia in general use anion,; the
colonists of South Kuia as a iiK.Hie
of curing cuts, bruiser, etc, tii, Loitia
Star -baying,
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ODD FREAKS OF THE SEA.
SOME STRANGE SIGHTS A WD QUEER
EXPERIENCES.
Effects of Gigantic Wavea Sub-Ma
rlne Rrnptlons and Storms Show
era of Klsh Bones.
AILOES have more than thoir
fill of strange sights and
JJ strange experiences. Big
waves range among these
strange experiences. We do not refer
to those waves whioh are the imme
diate consequences of high winds and
atmospherical distnrbanoes, but to
those single waves of immense height
whioh 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 hike a mountain,
falls on the deck, and carries away
everything movable, membera 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
but all the crew save one of the bark
Johann Wilhelm were washed over
board by a single wave. In June last
year the ship Holyrood encountered
another suoh soa which is said to have
risen np "suddenly like a wall" and
to have flooded her deoks fore and
aft.
TheCnnarders, Etrnria and Umbria,
have both enoonntered, the phenom
enon, and the former had one man
killed and several others injured. The
case of the 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
ocean 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 en eruption here as the ship sailed
over, and the wonder is that the great
wave did not do more injury.
Again, the American sohooner Dora
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 Bhocka 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 instanoe. we
are assured, has it been known that a
well markedwave of enormous propor
tiona has been propagated over the
lamest ocean tract of the globe by an
i earthquake whose action has ueeu urn
ited to a relatively small region not
situated in the centre but on one side
of the area traversed by the wave. At
Afrioa 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 the Saud
wich group, 6303 miles away, aud
reached Yokohama, in Japan, iu the
early hours of the morning, after tak
ing in New Zealand on the way. It
spent itself finally in the South At
lantic, having traversed nearly the
whole globe.
A singular occurrence was reported
reoently by the English ship Cnoi
para. She was about midway between
the Cape and Australia when she en
countered a hurricane. About raid
night of August 4 last the sea sud
denly fell almost calm. "It appeared
as if the sea was aftected by some
tremendous pressure," when suddenly
the whole vessel fore and aft was en
veloped in sheets of flame that rose
half way np tho masts and overran
the decks for three-quarters of an
hour. It was an electrical storm, and
the crow, never having enoonntered
such a thing before, were pauio
stricken, and very naturally ao. 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 ao think
that it might have Wen cut
Another singular ocourrence was
that of the bark Peter Pridell. which
waa off Valparaiso when a whirlwind
passed over her stern, taking away
everything movable, sails and all, on
the after part of the ship, leaving the
forward part untouched. Here waa
the sharp end of a storm with a
vengeauce. Almost as surprised at
their good fortune and narrow escape
must have been the orew of the barken
tine Fortunate, whioh, while on a
voyage from Bio Grande to Liverpool,
felt a tremendous shook that could
not be aooounted for until the vessel
waa put into dry dock, when tha
sword of a swordfiah waa found to
have penetrated some feet into the
wood of the hull.
Yot another of the curiositioa of the
sea ia the occasional shower of fish
bonea or the like, falling on deok
when many miles from land. These
ahowera are easily explained. Tha
fish are taken up in waterspouts, aud
ooine down in more or less rare tied
condition. But perhaps the most
awful of all things that can happen at
sea is a fire. A severe squall break
ing over a vessel unprepared for it,
aud with all her sails set, is bad, but
the experienoe is short, sharp and
generally deoisive; but for long-drawn-out
agony there is nothing like
a fire, especially if it ia among ooal,
and there ia also dynamite or gun
powder in the cargo. Pall Mall
Gazette.
If a snail's head b out off and the
animal placed iu a cool, mois( spot a
new head, will be grgwu,
GOLDEN HOURS. GOLDEN DAYS.
.Everything haa beauty In It
In the world that 'round ns lies,
Lifting np each waking minute,
Giving Joy to longing eyes,
That shall fill the boors with praise
Oolden hoars make golden days.
By ns joys are ever flying,
Let us make our hearts their innro
Tet na share tha sweetness lying
All about us everywhere t
Let ns walk In happy wars
Oolden hours make golden days.
Troubles come but they are fleeting t
Soon their shadows will go by,
A the elouds the sunlight meeting,
Pass and show the simre sky.
Life Is full of sunny rays
Golden hours make golden days.
George Blrdseyo, In Detroit Freo Press.
HUMOR OF TUB DAY.
A trying situation The cloak mod
el's.
It is seldom difficult to appear nat
ural when yon have no desire to
please. Puck.
It frequently happens that tho fire
of genius has difficulty in making tha
pot boil Pnok.
My neighbor calls his oat "There
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 woman we know wonld
like to know what some other woman
has got to be so proud of. Atchison
Globe.
Paddy's latest feat was to pawn his
gun, preparatory to a day's shooting,
in order to bay cartridges. London
Truth.
There is plenty of room at the top ;
but there isn't enough for one-tenth of
the people who think they ought to be
there. Pnok.
The peace maker is a oommendabla
character, bnt he is not esteemed by
the fellow who is getting the best of
the fight. Puck.
The part of a man's salary that ho
usually doesn't spend is the part he
wonld receive if he were getting what
he is worth. Puck.
"Galton had his lawn mowor 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
sentence. For instance, when the
judge remarks to the prisoner:
"Twenty years." Truth.
Yon may speak as you will of podi
gree generally, but in a sleeping oar
It is a man's berth which 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 Sif tings.
There is that in a woman's disposi
tion that induces her to give anything;
the has to the poor, providing tiiay
will use it her way. Atchison Globe.
I kissed her a dozen times last night,
Ami now it makes me sore
To think that 11 I'd only stayed,
I might have had ona more.
Life.
A woman's idea of loyalty is to loan
hex 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 ahe?"
Jim "'Oh, sho is a miss with a mis
sion." "Ah!" "And her mission is
seeking a man with a mansion."
Spare Moments.
Tha lightning flashed, the llghtnlngorashod,
The sklea were rent asaodur,
With shriek and wall loud blew the gale,
And then It rained like thunder 1
Pack.
Willy Wilt "Do yon know, I fancy
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 .muoh about my
self." Miss Laura -"Oh, no. You
have to be talked about by somebody,
of oourse." Indianapolis Journal.
No wonder the modest violet
Drops shyly out o( sight
If It hears nil the poems
People about It write.
Chicago luter-Oonan.
Housekeeper "Are you sure that
this tea isn't half copperas?" Dealer
(oonvinoingly) "We oouldn't afford
to sell copperas at the extremely low
prioe we charge for thia tea, ma'am."
New York Weekly.
L'Enfant Terrible "Have you got
another faoe?" Mrs. Hoinelei:,'h
"No, dear; why do yoa ask?" L'En
fant Terrible "Mamma said you are
two-faoed ; but I thought if you had
another one, you wouldn't wear that
one. " London Tid-Bits.
In ths gloaming, O my darling,
Where tha nights are six months long,
If I stayed till midnight, dnrlin.
Would you thin Ic that It was wrong?
Would you work the old gags on mat
Would you murmur, soft and low,
That I might be late (or breaklatt.
Or the clock was six weeks slow?
Detroit Frew Press.
Teaoher "Now, Johnnie, you may
tell us thia : Suppose your mother had
told you to come home at five o'clock,
and you did not go ; what would you
be doing?" Johnnie "I don't kuow
whether it would be ewiuiuiiu' or
playiu' baseball. " Chicago Inter
Ooean. "What have yoa named your new
boy?" "William. I wauted to get a
name that would be sure to fit." "J
don't quite oatoh." "Why, don't yoa
eee, if he grows up to be a real nice,
good kind of young man he will be
called Willie, and if ha should happeu
to tarn out pretty tough be cau bo
called. BUI," Indianapolis Journal
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