l- TBI FORLST REPUBLICAN Is Hbltakrt erary Wtaaeifer, W J. E. WENK. fflo la Bmrbnfh Co.', Buildlnij ui mntiiT, tionmta, r. RATIS OF ADVIT JtTISIJIOt One Square, on. inoh, one Inwwttoa. .1 I On. qilr, on. inch, one in nth. ., I 00 On .Square, one inch, turee months. , Oil One ."quarw, one inch, one jams ... . , 10 TO rl wo tqur one year 15 OC Quarter Column, one year. HO OL half Column, one year BO (W One Column, one year 100 'W Leeal advertuunruats tr ceata per Umm each tnaertioo. MamaiM end death aotloes gratia. All bills lor yearly advertisement oTIiiiii quarterly- l emporary aaverueeaiw i nnitrr. Ne Kile will lak VOL. XXVIT. NO. 15. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1. 1894. 1.00 PER ANNUM. a u p. paia In advano. Job work cub on delivery. UflfUQi Forest Republican. The marriage rate in England in lower at present than ever before. A geographical expert estimates tho fertile portion of the earth' surface at 20,2(50,200 square mile and the barren region at 22,900,00 square miles, Russia is the only country from which there has beon an inoreased im migration into tho United States dur ing the last ton months, notes the Rochester rost-ExproHs. Our trade with the Hawaiian Isl ands twenty years ago amounted to only 1, 031,580; Vmt for the lBt fis cal year exports and imports were valued at nearly twelve million dol lars. Competent authority, even in Eu ropean countries, is unanimous in the view that the wild flowers of America are tho finest in the world, yet, la ments the Detroit Free Press, Ameri cans know practically nothing about them. The Protestant population of all Europe is about 50,000,000, or equal to that of the United States ; but while continental Europo has only about eight per cent, of the Sunday-schools of the world, the United States has forty-nine per cent., or nearly one half. Henry Labouchero Bays in Londou Truth: "The rending publio maybe divided into three classes : Those who read and remember ; they are few. Those who read and forget ; they are many. ThoBO who read little or noth ing, and they are most. The original writer of to-day belongs to tho first class, and, it may be said, ho writes for tho others." There has recently been some dis pute as to the authorship of the song ''The Vacant Chair," which has been snug all over the world for nearly thirty years. Tho Watchman, of Bos ton, says it was written by the Hon. Henry S. Washburn, in memory of Lieutenant J. William Grout, who was shot in tho retreat from Ball's Blufl. The song was first printed in the Worcester (Mass.) Spy. According to tho Glasgow (Scotland) News it appears that the latest statis tic issued by the German Imperial Health Department give to Berlin the honor of being the healthiest city in the world. The death-rate is given as only 16.3 per 1000. The unhealthiest city is Alexandria, which, despite its unvarying fine weather, its 300 foun tains and its soft soa breezes, has a death-rate of no less than 52.9 per 1000. Professor Biohard L. Garner is cer tainly an enthusiast in his investiga tion of the language of the simians. Speaking of his recent visit to Africa, he said : "The world at large expects too much. People seem to insist jpon it as their right that I shonld go to the gorilla country, spend a few months there, and return with a complete dictionary to the goiilla language. Why, if I were sure of lonrning eventhree words a year, I would forsake trionds and family, go to Africa and devoto the rest of my life to study that yielded such rich result in tho present and promised such im mense possibilities for the future." It is not only in Japan that incom petent doctors aro punished for pro fessional failure resulting iu the loss of Hfo of their pnticuts, but in Russia also, where physicians are held simi larly responsible. A well-known medi cal practitioner at'St. Petersburg has just been sentenced to sovon days' im prisonment, to a fine of 1000 rubles and to the payment of an snuuijy of 800 rubles to a lady who was injured by his unskilful treatmcut. Russia is already lamentably deficient as far as the number of its medical men is con cerned, and this somewhat drastio punishment is soaroely of a character to increase tho popularity of the pro fession. Captain Moore, of the sailing ship Mary Gibbs, tells a suggestive story of his lost voyage. He whs from Boston to tho gold coast of Africa, and his Cargo oonsisted of New England rum. Oddly enough, he also took out as pas sengers twovomeu missionaries, who had been sent out to exort a civilizing and Christianizing influence on these benigted people. The brigautine stopped at thirteen ports to unload the cargo of rum, which was reoeivedwith wild enthusiasm by the natives, while nobody seemed to want the mission aries. The latter seenied discouraged, but nevertheless went stoutly to work to counteract the effects of the rum. Before he could tell what suooess they were Laving the Gibbs sailed for hornet Almost seventy-five per cent, of the men manning tho British mercantile marine are foreigners. Forty-four out of every hnndred persons in the United States aro agriculturists; fifty-six in Canada, forty-eight in France, seventeen in Germany and seven in England. The United States maintains in China one hnndred and thirteen mis sionary stations, quite forgetting tho fact that China maintains, in Califor nia alone, forty heathen temples. Mark Twain asserts that there are less than fifty original jokes in exis tence, all the others being simply modifications of these. There are only seven notes of music, but we get a great variety of harmony out of them. Our Uade with Japan is falling off. In 1891 88.25 per cent, of the goods exported by that country came to tho United States; but in 1893 only 31.49 per cent. In 1891 10.87 per cent, of all the goods bought by Japan crime from this country ; but in 1893 only 6.91 per cent. A triumph of art over nature was illustrated rooently when a well-known English artist made a painting of some old beeoh trees in a Kent pasture, which he sold for $1400. The owner of the pasture sold his land and tho trees together for $500, and called it a good sale at that. United States Consul Fenfield, at Cairo, says that Egypt is aggressively comparing iu a small way with us, not only in Europe, but at home, in sup plying raw cotton, and the consump tion of Egyptain cotton by New Eng land spindlers has grown from noth ing, ten years agoj to more than 60, - 000 bales, and valued at 3,000,OOJ. Within a few months Pekin will be nnited by wire with St. Petersburg, and, in consequence, with the tele graph system of the entire civilized world. ' Acoordiug to the latest issue of the Turkestan Gazette, the telegraph line from Pekin has been brought as far west as the city of Kashgar. The European end of the line is at Osh, and a small stretch of about 140 miles now alone breaks the direct telegraphic communication from the Atlantic to the Pacific. . The Secretary of the Interior has given up the experiments which tho Government has been making for som j years past to iudioe rain over arid tracts. The railroad companies opera ting in New Mexico and Arizona will, however, continue experiments along this line. Getting blood out of a turnip would not be a difficult opera tion if the plebian vegetable contained biood, and so artificial methods might precipitate moisture in tho form of rain it there were any in the atmos phere, but there are places where the air is as moistureless as a live fish in a lime basket, and neither powder nor dynamite can shake out of it what it does not hold. The exhibition cpidemio is raging the world over. Not only have all the capitals of Europe somo kind of an in ternational show running this year, but very many of the smaller cities have an exhibition on their hands. The United Exhibitions at Milan were opened on May C. They comprise ton exhibitions, of fine arts, oils, wines, nnd other specialities. An Interna tional Sanitary and Health Exhibition is to be holiCm Boulogne from July to September next. An International Exhibition opens in Bucharest ou August 26 and closes November 12. Aud now Tasmania comes forward with an invitation to the world to partici pate iu an International Exhibition at Hobart on November 10 next. The balance sheet of tho Suez Caual just issued cauuot fail iu the opinion of the Now York Tribune to he most sntisfaotory to the English nation, which, thanks to the foresight of Lord Beaoonslield, secured a controlling voice in the management of the prop erty. The aggegate of nearly J, 000, 000 tons of shipping that have passed through the caual during the fisoal year that has just closed exceeds even the most sanguine estimates of Ferdi nand do Lesseps, and in view of the fact that the vast majority of the ves sels passiug through the caual were of EugliaU register, there being nearly 8000 British ships as compared with 170 French, the British directors have done the right aud graoefnl thing iu moving for and securing a vote mak ing adequate and generous provision for the wife and family of the now moribund and completely ruined orig inator of this magnificent enterprise, Ferdinand do Lesseps. THI CLOVER. Rome sing of the lily and daisy and rnan, And the panslns and pinks that the summer time throws In the green, grassy lap of the modder that lays, Bllnkln' op at the skies, through the sun shiny days ; But what Is the Illy and all of the rest Of the flowers to a man with a heart In his breast. That has sipped, brlmmln' full of the honey and dew, Of the sweet clover blossoms his boyhood knew? I never set hevey on a clover Held now, Or fool round a stable or climb In a mow, But my ehlldhood comes back just as clear and as plain As the smell of the elover I'm snlffln' again And I wander away, In a barefooted dream, Where I tangled my toes In the blossoms that gleam With the dew of the dnwn of the morning of love, Ere It wept o'er the graves that I'm weeping above. And so I love elover. It seems like a part Of the saoredost sorrows and Joys of my heart ; And whenever It blossoms, oh I there let me bow, And thank the good Lord as I'm thankln' Him now, And pray to Elm still for the strength, when I die, To go out In the clover and tell It good-by, And lovingly nestle my face In Its bloom, While my soul slips away on a breath of perfume. James Whitcomb Riley. MONTE BOB. Bt GODFRET QUARLES. OBERT HARRIS was his right name, but in honor of his calling we all called him "Monte Bob." I well remember his advent among the citizens of Lone Horse Guloh. It was in '57, just after a rich find had made the heretofore isolated and lonely gulch famous in a day, and caused the eager gold-seekers to ponr in from all quarters. He was at that time very young. His fresh, boyish face had apparently never made the acquaintance of a razor. His blue eyes were round and laugh ing, and his mass of jet black hair, fine and soft as silk, would have been an enviable source of beauty to any woman. 'His figure was slight and youthful, and strongly suggestive of the truant school boy. A single day served to make the newoomer a citizen of Lone Horse Gulch, and soon after his arrival "The Kid," -as he was called, on ao count of his boyish ways, bis soft white hands and apparent inability to work, was known to the whole camp. Every one liked him; but when one uight he won five thousand from one of Frisco s most noted sport ing men, and pocketed the money with careless indifference, his reputation was made ; pity was changed to ad miration ; Lone Horse Gulch was en thusiastic, and its citizens to a man vied in doing honor to the new found hero. From that day forth he became a leading citizen, and the faro bank whioh he soon after set up was well patronized. Like many others, "Monte Bob" was very reticent in regard to his past history. He was frequently the re cipient of letters bearing an Eastern postmark. Some were directed in the weak, nervous hand peculiar to wo men of advancing years ; the rost in the round, graceful hand of a school girl. But it was a noticeable fact, vouched for by the postmaster, a gen' tleman of unquestionable veracity, that "Monte Bob," though he always read them carefully, very seldom re plied to the letters received. But, as the postmaster had been a heavy loser at Bob's faro bank, these state ments in regard to his neglect of his private correspondence were received with a marked grain of allowance. Oa the other hand, the agent of the Wells, Fargo &. Company express line, a gen tleman of equal standing in the com munity, asserted that "Monte Bob" often sent large sums of money to a certain Mrs. John Harris in the East. This statement was made before a crowd of citizens at the Eureka sa loon, where the testimony of the post master in regard to the domestic at fairs of "a well-known business man" were undergoing careful examination The trusted agent of tho great express company was a warm admirer of the youthful gambler, and always con cluded tins evidence ol ms nero s re deeming qualities by saying: "And you may bet yer boots, he sends that thar money to his old mother back in the States; and ten to one he is the only galoot in this yer camp that does do it." And a large majority of the camp acquiesced in this opinion. At an early period "Monte Bob" showed that he was a publio minded citizen and deeply interested in the welfare of Lone Horse Gulch. When it was determined that the spiritual welfare of the town was sadly neglect ed and that a place of publio worship was one of the prime needs, he was the first to head the building subscription with a handsome sum ; aud when the young preacher fell sick of fever aud after a long sickness died, "Monte Bob" took upou himself the task of seeing that he was decently buried and that all the debts incurred by his sickness were paid. Then iu a quiet way he furnished the weak, i'rai widow means with which she reached itW frieuda in the East, And, again, when the dread soouren. smallpox, boko out in the camp and scores of strong men sickened and died, unmindful of danger, "Monte Bob" put to shame thoso who bid fled in fear, by closing his bank and nurs ing those around him as tenderly and carefully as any woman. When the scourge died away Bnd those who had fled came back, he returned onco more to his fascinating calling and was never hoard to mention tho good work ho had done. Like many other mining town, in two short years Lone Horse Gulch saw its inception, its glory and its decay, One by one the bars petered out. The dissatisfied miners were forced to seek newer and more paying fields of labor, and I lost sight of ".uonte 13ob. Five years had passed ami I was la boring on one of the well known Sac ramento dailies as city editor. In the hurry and rush of daily journalism the old life at Lone Horse Gulch had long sinoe become a thiug of the past, when suddenly several things occurrld to bring it back, fresh and vivid, to mind ; for going to my duties at an early hour one morning, I chanced to overtake my old friend "Monte Bob." Tho flight of time had left its shadow upon him, and be was changed. A heavy raoiiBtache coveted the smooth lip. The rakish high hat had been dis carded, the shiny suit of broad cloth had been supplemented by a plain business suit, and the dazzling dia mond had disappeared. Ho was teller, his shoulders broader nnd his step firmer than when last we met. The dashing, reckless gambler of five years before was gone, and his place had been taken by a quiet, earnest man. He knew me, and by the hearty, cor dial pressure of his baud, I knew was glad to meet me. He talked freely of the old life at the Gulch, and of those who had beeu our companions there. We ohatted for a few moments and then I left him at the door of a well knewn business house with au invita tion to oome and see me. That very af ternoon I learned from another old citizen of the Gulch that he had long since abandoned the life of a gambler, and was now and had been for two years working as a bookkeeper. And let me say that my informant was none other than "Monte Bob's" warm friend, the old-time express agent at the Guloh. I also had it from that gentleman, that a larger portion of the young man's wages was regular sent to his mother and sister in the East. Contrary to mv expectation, Bob availed himself of the invitation I had extended to bim, and soon after spent au evening with mo iu my cosy bach elor apartments. I found him au in telligent aud pleasant companion. Besides reading much he had been a shrewd observer of men ; and in the flow of conversation the evening slipped away before we were awaie of it. When he arose to go it had been arranged that he should spend an evening of every week with me. In the months that followed our acquain tance ripened into friendship ; from friends we became confidants, and ere long I knew the history of his past life. His father had died when he was a mere boy, leaving him to the care of an uncle. Until twenty his life was passed at his uncle's house aud at school. Lacking the kind, watchful care of a father and deprived by cir cumstances of the loving thoughtful ness of a mother, he had been led astray by the influences which sur round the youth of a great city. In the course of time he became heavily indebted to a gambler, and fearing exposure, he had forged his uncle's check to the amount of several hun dred dollars, hoping to replace the money ere his uncle should learn what he had done. This he failed to do and when his crime became known, ho was foroed to flee the couutry to save himself from a felon s cell. 15 y his mother he was giveu money to aid him in his flight, aud had como to California. Made reckless and des perate, he had first adopted tho gam ing table as a means of Biipport, and with what success I well knew. Tho money given him by his mother and that taken from his uncle had beeu promptly rehired. He had also paid for the education of his young sister and enabled bis mother, who has lost most of her property, to live in com fort. Her love had always followed him, and through her entreaties an 1 the promptings of his own better self he had given up drink and nbau.lone.l the gaming table. He was working hard; had won tho confidence of his employers ; was re ceiving a fair salary aud by frugal liv ing was constantly saviug money. Two years had passed since we had become fust friends, and Bob was now the confidential clerk of his firm, and the prospect of his becoming a part ner was not far distant. There re maiued nothing for him to do but to bring his loved ones to California ami there make them a home. This he determined to do, and when his sister wrote him that his mother's health was failing aud that she had lint a few years to live, he redoubled his exer tions, hoping that the pure air and suuuy skies of California would win back the health of the invalid. His salary had beeu increased aud ho was self-sacrificing iu bis efforts to save; but, notwithstanding these fads, mouths, perhaps a year, would have to pass before he could have his dear ones with him. . But in the meant i rue fickle fortune was preparing to do in a few days what the hard work of years oould not have accomplished. My friend and I both held stock in the "Ttioliiuiue Mining Company," whose veins of oro ha I liu silica played out and beeu abandoned as worthless. The stock was not even .worth the paper on whi'jh it was printed, aud the world had forgotten that suvh a company had eyer existed. But the original proprietor of tho com pany was ono of a class of mon to whom many a wealthy man of to-day owes his sudden rise to riches add nflluence. He had energy and perse verance and unbounded faith in the possibilities of his claim, and kept working away long after his fellow stockholders, having wasted their money, ha I given up in disgust. At last the labor of yearn had been rewarded, and he had struck a vein of ore so rich in quality and capacity that the stock which had long beeu ralueloss leaped at onoe to par and began Rteadly climbing. The papers were filled with accounts of the rich find, and the Stock Exchange was crowded with eager, excited men, anxious to buy the long-neglected Btocks. Daily we eagerly scanned the reports and noted the rapid rise of ( lnolumne Mining Company s stock. At last when it paused and stood still at seventy five above par we sold and found ourselves each seventy-five thousand dollars richer than we had been one month before. Bob seomed but little elated by his sudden rise to wealth and only thought of the happi ness it would bring to those whom he loved. The modest little oottage which be had rented was given up and a handsome mansion purchased and fitted up with ths utmost care. Then he wrote for his mother and sister to join him. A month later they came, and no happier group could have been found in all the West than tho fonr who sat down together on the night of their arrival. Many years have flown sinoe the "Tuolumne Mining Company" made its president and stockholders rich in a single day. Loving care and most skillful medical aid could not win back the health of the good old moth er and she long siuoe passed to her home above. Robert Harris is a nmn well known in the business circles of Sicramento. His hair is now gray, and pretty, bright-eyed children climb upon his knte and call him "papa." The friendship began in Lone Horse Gulch so many years ago has not diminished, but has grown stronger with the flight of years; for the lady who sits opposite to me while I write and whom I call wife, is "Monte Bob's" sister. Birds at the Pole. In the conntrics bordering on the Polar seas, where the changing seasons bring alternately the two extremes of dearth and plenty, birds are more numerous iu the short summer than anywhere else all the world over, and in winter absent altogether. All are emigrants t ;ere by foroe of oirouni stauces. In like manner the birds of temperate climates are affected by tho seasonal changes, though in a less de gree, ' through the influence of cold aud heat .upon their food supplies rather than by efloct of cold upon their well-protected bodies. A coat of mail is not to be compared to a coat of feathers for safety, so far as a bird's lifo is conoerned. Layer upon layer of feathers can withstand any amount of water or any degree of cold ; in proof of this see how the delicate tern, after wintering in com paratively mild weather, go back to the ice floes of the Polar Sea and lay their eggs on tho ice. For two or three weeks the tender breast of the sea swallow is pressed against a cold block of ice. Again, as another ex ample of the influence of food rather than climate in governing bird aotiou, take the colony of beccatlcos. The beccaAoo is a Mediterranean bird common on the southern shores of Spain aud Italy, iu the Grecian Islands, Sicily and Malta, and on the northern shores of Africa. Formerly it was quito unknown iu the British Isles, but some years ago a large orchard of fig trees was plantod near Brighton, and the beccaOcoa havo dis covered the fact and come over to sliaro the spoil. Doubtless the nightingales told thorn the story of English tigs and showed them the way over. Be this as it may, tho littlo birds from tho warm shoros of the Mediterranean bid fair to become es tablished as naturalized British sub' jeots. --Liitoll's Living Age. (ionlsklus or Sealskins, It is said that sealskins are going out of fashion, and perhaps the United States are goiug to a great deal of unnecessary trouble nud expense iu guarding the preserves of the sealskin monopoly in Bering Hea. Curtain it is that last winter a great many of tho fashionables of Europe, who formerly never appeared out of doors iu cool weather unloss arrayed iu sealskins, appeared in other furs, notably the skins of the thibetau goat, which is a a very handsome fur. It is hinted that the parsimony of tho North Amer ica ii Commercial Compauy is largely to lilnino for this fact. While the Alaska Commercial Compauy con trolled tho output of Jieriug Sea, it was accustomed, it is said, to make its wares popular by making sure that tlio royalties of Europe, the opera queens and other people, who set the fashions, had sealskiu saoques and overcoats of tho finest skins au I latest cut, aud all for nothing. The past year, under the present management, the free list was entirely suspended, and it is asserted that not a siuglo complimentary jacket was received at tho Court of St. James. Ladios of fashion waited iu vain for their cus tomary tip, and iu revengj for the neglect proceeded to array themselves iu goat aud other furs. It seems rath er hard to have to give t xpeusive furs to the people who aie best able topuy for them. But it is the way, tho world over. Thoso bent able to pay are the ones that do not havo to. New Oileau Picayune. The in i ii in regions of Califoiu'i cover a belt of couutry about 2'2 I I miles long by Iroiu fwrty to 1UU wid. THE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS. INTERESTING FACTS ABOTJT THIS PESTIFEROUS INSECT. How He Grows and Spreads Over the Country Insect Knemles of the Locust. IT i only within the last twenty years that the locust has attract ed much attention by its ravages. H Locusts had several times been known to do damage to vegetation in Manitoba and Minnesota as early as 1819, when they are said to have been very numerous. Indians speak of hav ing seen them flying in great swarms in the air, but as there were no culti vated fields for them to destroy, they were thought nothing of. There is no account of their doing much damage before 1874. Whether swarms of th tse insects visited those districts as often prior to their settlement as they have Bince, it is not easy to ascertain. The breeding places of the locusts in the West have been arid plains ele vated above theBurronnding country, where the wind is brisk; they are treeless and without rank vegetation. When the insects migrate from the West to the East, as they have been doing lately, they find no such plains, bnt they seem to have a faculty of adapting themselves to their sur roundings. Dampness spoils the eggs bo they will not hatch. The general opinion is that as soon as these lands are settled and cultivated and trees planted, which will not be many years hence, the locust will be greatly di minished, if not driven entirely from our Western States. Eggs laid in June often hatch in July, bnt the time required varies greatly in different latitudes, at various altitudes, nnd at different times of the year. The young, after hatching, require from forty ti sixty days in whioh to mature, varying, of course, according to the state of ths weather, the abundance of food, and also their vigor. Soon after hatching the little fellows begin traveling in search of food, as they are generally hatched on grounds partially bare. In a very short time they moult or shed their skin, which operation is performed four more times in most cases before arriving at matu rity. The larva quits feeding and becomes dejected and drowsy, creeps to some sheltered nook and there lingers for a time, when the skin of its head and thorax cracks and it wriggles itself out, ft soft and tender looking hopper. Soon, however, the tender limbs and body become dry and rigid, and the locust is again in trim for its raids. Its appetite is now very keen from its late fasting, and it devours everything in its way that is eatable. The prinoipal change from the larval to the adnlt locust is the acquisition of wings. The wings are developed as folds of the integument and strength ened by hollow rods called "veins." There are in the veins of most in sects fix main veins. These usually contain an air tube and a nerve. The arterial blood flows through them, so that the wings of iDsects act as lungi as well as organs of flight. As soon as the wings of the loenst are fully ile veloped it leaps into the air, unfolds its hitherto-untried members and takes a short flight. Each one does this for himself. Then soon, when there is a brisk breeze blowing, great numbers with one accord spring into the air and begin rising in a circling manner until they have attained a sufficient altitude, when they permit the wind to carry them along. They do not fly but float on tho breeze, with their face to tho wind. When hungry they come down and feed and then are off again. This con tinues until near the time for deposit ing their eggs. It is evident that the enormous powers of flight possessed by tho locust, especially its faoulty of sailing for many hours in the air, is duo to the presence of a great number of air sacs. It will be seen that, once hav ing taken flight, the locust can buoy itself up in the air, constantly filliuj aud refilling its internal balloons with out any muscular exertion, aud thus be borne along by favorable winds to its destination. The number of enemies of this dreaded pest is "legion." Professor Sam Aughy says that during a period of twelve years, ho dissected t30 birds of ninety different species, all show ing their great fondness for the locust as food. Not only wild birds, but all kinds of poultry vatthumwithavidity. Even squirrels, mice, chipmunks, weazles, skunks uud larger animals devour them in great number. All reptiles and fishes do a groat deal to ward lessening the numbers of this as well as other injurious insects. How ever great is the dostruotiou of locusts by these animals which wo cannot ---ee, it is carried ou in a much larger scale by insect parasites which wo do not notice. These aro very numerous in species and individuals. Somo of them confine their attacks exclusively to the eggs; others to the young ; and still others only destroy the mature locust. The locust also hag internal para sites, which do much toward dimin ishing this dreaded pest. In view of all tho enemies, includ ing man, this poor insect has, it is truly surprising that a single one at tains maturity. N w York Suu. The Custom Ilou.se receipts iu Guat emala amounted during the year 181)3 to 31,-) ll.Hln. The tux ou the expor tation of coffee produced (1,190,81)7, which gives a total for all resources from the Custom House, exports and imports included, of nearly $j,500, 000. There are nine Vale men in the House of Representatives and , four in the United States Senate. THB FELLOW'S MOTHER. If he knows It all, ss some chaps do, And thinks he's smart, nnd ssys so, too, Who holds the same erroneous view The fellow's mother. Ifhe'snarrow-ohnsted, weak at knees, And soft of musole, tell us please, Who thinks he's a modern Heriulest The fnllow's mother. If, In the eyns of woman dear, He fondly thinks he has no peer. Who entertains the same Idea? The fellow's mother. If the life he leads Is fast and gay, And If weak his morals, tell us, pray, Who's la9t to think he's not O Kf The fellow's mother. If, perchance, a time comes when He's slek and friendless, tell us men, Who hurries to his bedside thenr The fellow's mother. If, later on, he should be found Watering with tears a granny mound, Who'll slumber there in the quiet ground? The fellow's mother. Joseph Banister, in Raymond's Monthly. IICMOtt OF TIIE DAT. A lean dog generally growls tho most. Ram's Horn. Those who serve friends never lack employment. J udge. Beats the world The impecunious tramp. Texas Sittings. When a man hears of distress, he longs to give advice. Atchison Globe. A Boston woman speaks of a dirt wagon as a "real estate conveyance. Statesman. It is strange, but true, that cold cash always burns in tha spendthrift's pockets. Truth. Mamma "Mamie, don't I" Mamio "Oh, please don't make me don't, mamma 1" Judge. The less people kuow about each other, the politer they are to each other. Atchison Globe. MisBed his calling The fellow who was forgotten by tho hotel olerk. Dansville (N. Y.) Breeze. The fool has one great advantage. He never lets his better judgment get away with him. Galveston News. I always know wlnn comp'ny's here, I can tell It any day ; For papa then calls mamma "dear," And never calls her "say." Dutroit Tribune. "Yes," remarked the egg; "my the. atrical venture was a success. I Was cast for the villain and made ft great hit." Truth. Farmer "Now, what do you s'pose that man's a yellin' at?" Son "fl appears, father, to be yellin' at tha top of his voice." Judge. As a supreme test of the bullet-proof cloth it is suggested that it bo made into seats and knees of trousers for small boys. Kansas City Journal. Little Girl (to her mamma) "What is a dead letter, please?" Mamma "Ono that has been given to your father to post." Jewish Messenger. Though ambuscades have passed away Along with things of liyxoue date, It is a fant that e'eu to-day The tlsheraian dot i lie iu weight. ltulTalo Courier. As soon as a man makes a little money it fa discovered that his wife is qualified by birth aud education to shine in the best society. Atchison Globe. There is nothing that gives one such an idea of the importance of an old saw as the fact that it sometimes per versely works just tho other way. Truth. He "Well, for my part Hike a pic ture that tells a story." She "Mrs. Witherby's portrait ought to suit you, theu. It makes her positively hand some." Harlem Life. Fond youth, though summer bids youshlrk, For picuii'H ue'er forsake your work-, Close to your otuVe duties elinir Don't undertake to push a 8wiii. Washington Star. Euglish Visitor "What are the dis eases peculiar to yer H'mericao youth?" Yankee "Croup, measles, ohiokeu-pox, huppiu cough an' love." Cleveland Plain Dealer. If people would exercise the same ingenuity in paying a debt that they do in contracting one, interest rates would be lower than they are now. American Investments. There is no peu powerful enough to describe the feehugs of a niau on the oooasiou when for the first time he goos out walking with his first wife, wearing his first plug hat. Truth. Sirs. Newlywed "Aud do you al ways trust your husband implicitly?" Mrs. Experience (enthusiastically) "Indeed I do that is to ay, ol course, to a certain extent." lioms Journal. "I don't mind a woman bein'ueat," said old Mrs. Jasou, "but one woman I used to kuow was jist a little too neat for any use. Why, that thera woman used to take a oouple of gold fish she had out of their tank every Saturday uight aud give 'em a bath." Indianapolis Journal. Some day a great genius will develop. He will invent a double-barreled alarm dock that will go off a second tims after any desired iuterval. After th first rude half aukeuiug a mau oau enjoy the best part of any night's sleep that of not having to get up right away iu the sereue half-oouscious confidence of having a sure thiug of not overalcepiug himself. Puck. "Carat in the Jewelers' Lauxungc. Twenty-four carat gold is all gold, twenty-two carat gold has tweuty-twj parts gold, oue of silver and ono ol oopptr; eighteen catat gold 'ias eight een parts, ot pure gold and three parts each of silver au I copper iu its ;oui position ; twelve carat gold is half gold, the remainder beiu made up of 3j I parts ot silver aud 1 parts of copper, ajt, LHU liopublw,
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