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TIONESTA, PAM WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3, 1894. SI. 00 PER ANNUM.
b. paid in advanoa. i
Job work oaab on dellTery. J
Forest Republican.
The rate of taxation has nearly quad
rnplod ia Franoo sinoo 1830.
The centre of population is now mid
way between Cincinnati and Indian
apolis. The Slay has uot tnrnod out na in
dustrial or social success in tbo colio
regions, oonfesscs tbo New York Tri
buna. .
President Harper says that ho en
tered upon his duties at Chicago Uni
versity opposed to oo-odiicatiou, hay
ing great misgivings becanso of the
presence of the 'girls. He now de
clares that the young; women's depart
ment of the university is tho only ono
that never gave him any trouble.
The world' tunnels are estimated to
number abont 1142, with a total length
of 514 miles. There are about 1000
railroad tunnels, ninoty canal tunnels,
forty oondnil tunnels, and twelve enba
queous tunnels, Laving en aggregate
length of about 850 miles, seventy
miles, eighty-flyo miles, and nine miles
respectively.
. The University of Lille, France, Is
said to be the first institution of learn
ing on the Continout to add a depart
ment of journalism. Abbe Dr. Cooton
will road lectures ou tho great editors
of England aud Germany. Professor
Gaud wijl lecture on the laws govern
ing tbo prcBs, and M. . Tavermer, of
tbo Paris "Univers," will sp?nk upon
tho dutios of nowspaper men and tho
way a paper is printed.
California will pay dearly in the
end for the bounty of $3 granted for
every coyote scalp presented to tho
State Treasurer, predicts the ' Now
York: Tribune. This bounty law was
passed to protect sheep, but it has
been costly.. Last year over $500,000
was paid out, and this year it is esti
mated that $G5Q,000 will bo needed to
satisfy the claims. As the coyotes livo
on jack-rabbits, tbo slaughter df ono
pest will simply lead to tho increase
of tho other.
There' are American ladies who have
more valuablo lace than any European
potentate. The laoea of tho Astor
family are valued at $300,000, those
of the VanderbilU at $500,000. More
laoo, it is said, is bought- in New York
than any other City in the world. The
Pope's lace treasures nro said to be
worth 1375,000, those of the Qneen
of England 375,000 and those of the
Prinooss of Wales $250,000. Tho
Queen's wedding dress was . trimmed
with a piece of Honiton costing $5000.
Heine has produced men of aston
ishing vigor and longevity, but none
more notable in this way than Dr.
Westbrook Farror, of Biddoford, if
the stories told of him are true. He
is said to be a physician in aotive
practice, though ninety-eight years
old, and, still more remarkablo, to be
in the habit of visiting his patients
regularly on a bioyole. He attributes
bis exceptional vigor at this advanoed
age to the use of wintorgreen tea, of
which he is said to be an ardent advo
cate. '
The Province of Quobeo Los a law
bestowing 100 acres of Government
land on every father of a family who
has twelve living children. Up to tho
present tiuio 171,200 aores Lave been
given nnder this law. Not all of
these fathers, however, are satisfied
with the amount of this bounty, for
families of twenty children ere not
rare, and the fathors of these want a
proportionately higher reward. One
old gentloman, Paul Belanger, of
River du Loup, wants 300 sores in
recognition of his family of thirty-six
living children.
The Ban Francisoo Chronicle re
lnarkB: When Colonel Belters in
"lue Untied Age spoke of the im
mense soma of money ho proposed to
make by dispensing Lis eye water to
the orientals Lo threw out a. hint
which inventors have been alow to act
upon. The conditions of life in the
Orient are very peculiar, and the peo
pie have oertan wants which we in tho
Wostorn world are hardly more than
aware of. Among these is some rem
edy against the euoroachmeuts of
white ants. Thoso destructive insects
make life a burden to the Europeans
living in China and other oriental
countries. They eat everything made
of timber, anil as a oonsequonoo it is
almost impossible to keep a Louse or
its adjuncts in repair. A oorrespon
dent suggests that the known fact that
these auts Lave an aversion to lime
may put some ingenious American on
to an idea which if properly worked
out would bo a benefaction to peoplo
living in the Orient, espeoiully Euro
peans, who would pay liberally for
some practical remedy for the uui
a&noa,
THE BUGLE CALL,
Rave you heard the troops a-marchlngT
Marching, marching,
O my soul, to bear the bugle and th. long
roll of tb. drum I
In the hill and down th. valley, I oan bear
. his step among them.
efor yon sea his soorlot coat, I'll know
my love has com..
"I can see the troops a-marohlng,
Slowly, slowly.
As they near, th. puis loaves tremble at
the coming of that band (
there Is neither sound nor footfall, nolthor
ringlo-blast nor dram-oall ,
A silent host thoy pass from sight Into a
silent land."
Nny, I hear the bugle calling,
Calling, calling,
O tbo foot stops of my soldier, I can count
them as thoy fall j
As I time mine to the echo, over hill and
ovor valley,
I am marching, marching ever, to that
soen bugle's call I
Mary Stewart Cutting.
A KOREAN REBEL'S FATE.
BX CYRUS O. ADAMS.
KOREAN of noble
birth, long prom
inent in publio life
at home, stepped
from the Yoko
Lama steamer in
March last to the
wharf at Shanghai
and a few minutes
after lay dead in
the street, the vio-
tim of an assassin,
A fellow, country
man who had in
duced him to no to
ohangnal, hastened ostensibly to greet
Lim, and they had hardly exohanged
a word before tbe false friend stabbed
the newcomer to tbe heart. The crime
was a politioal mnrder, planned in the
court of Korea, counived at by the
Chinese authorities, and the story
vnrows a carious light upon the nieth
ods and practices still in vogue in
oriental society. . The viotim was Kim
Ok Kiun, who, ten years ago, headed
on unsuccessful revolutionary attempt
at Seoul, the capital of Korea. From
the day he failed he had been followed
by emissaries of tho Korean court,
bent first npon his extradition to the
home from which he had fled, and
finally, equipped with instructions to
kill him, and to carry out this meri
torions service to their country in
such a way as to save the court from
any appearance of complicity.
When the deed was done last March,
it was evident that China and Korea
had a perfect understanding in the
matter. The murderer was not
dragged off to tho Shanghai look-np,
like a common malefactor. On the
contrary, he was treated with respect
ful consideration, as soon as his name
and that of his victim were made
known. He not only went free, but he
was permitted to buy tickets for one
passenger and one coffin to Korea,
and he departed for home with the
body of his victim and the distinction
due to man who had rendered a
publio service. In the capital of
Korea the assassin was honored as no
ordinary patriot. The body of the
murdered man was divided into eight
parts, and one part was sent to each
of tho provinoes of the kingdom to be
exposed to view on the publio high
ways. This much of the tragedy has been
published. It is believed, however,
that the extraordinary story whioh
had this bloody termination has not
been retold, and it is well worth re
lating in connection with the crime
that has closed tho chapter. It was
told in October, 1886, when tbe Jap
anese newspapers were alluding in
very issue to the lively correspond
ence between the Governments of
Japan, China and Korea, concerning
Kim and the attempts of his enemies
to kill him ; and he himself appeared
in print with tho evidence of tho plots
against Lis life, which were the basis
of Lis appeal to the Government of
Japan for protection.
One night near the end of Decem
ber, 1884, a number of the highest
officials of Korea gathered at a ban
quet in the new poatoffioe building in
BeouL A servant suddenly opened
the door and cried that the house was
about to be attacked. The men at the
tables fled into the darkness, only to
find that enemies surrounded them.
Some of them were killed on the spot,
and others were severely wounded.
Then the mob and its leaders rushed
to the palace to seoure tbe person of
the King. By this time news of the
uprising Lai spread through tho city,
aud tho guard' of the legation bad
hastened to the palace to add their
strength to the King's bodyguard.
The rebels, who were attempting noth
ing less than the destruction of every
leadiug official of the Government,
beseiged the building, but the pluck
and discipline of the Japanese kept
them at bay. Then the Chinese troops,
hearing that the Japanese were inter
fering unwarrantably in one of the
internal commotions of Korea, marched
from their camp outside the city and
gave battle to the Japanese at the pal
ace, but tbe latter 1 Ul their own
tbrougLout the nig' the morn
ing it was found' -ue King had
fled, and the Japanese had to fight
their way to the coast, where they
were protected by their warships.
The rebellion was soon put down,
China and Japan patched up their
misunderstanding aud the matter
ended.
The principal actor in this furious
outbreak, and the instigator of all the
assassination, was Kim ok Kiun, who
Lad held the highest oflice in Korea,
and was jealous of the preponderance
in tbe King's counoils of the members
1 tbe Min family. Tbe Queen, a wo
Eun of strong character, belong to
this family, and through her in
fluence, it has been the predominating
power and has controlled all tbe prin
cipal offices. It is the opposition to
this family, led by the King's own
father, that has stirred np the recent
insnrreotion. In 1884, the leader of
this opposition was Kim Ok Kiun, and
he hoped, after murdering his leading
rivals, to seize power for himaolf and
his adherents. Failing in his plans
he fled with some of his fellow con
spirators to Tokio, Japan. Then be
gan the efforts of Korea, abotted by
China, to induce Japan to givo tho
arch rebel up, and failing in this, to
assassinate him among Lis protectors.
A Korean mission was despatohod to
Japan in a Chinese man-of-war to de
mand tbe extradition of Kim and Lis
followers. They were assisted in their
efforts by the Chinese representatives
at Tokio and, it is aid, by Li Hung
Chang, tho great viceroy of Chl-Lii.
Many weeks were spent in the negoti
ations, but Japan was firm in her re
fusal. She took the ground that she
had no extradition treaty with Korea ;
furthermore, she alleged, that the
crimes for which the fugitives were
wanted to answer in Korea were of a
political nature, and it was against
tbe law of nations to surrender politi
cal offenders. So the mission went
home defeated. Kim and four of Lis
associates lived for a while in peaoo at
Tokio. Three of his comrades, doubt
ing the ability of Japan to withstand
the pressure, fled to oan t rancisco.
Had Kim respected his asylum it is
barely possible that ho might Lave
lived there securely for the rest of his
days. But in the following year,
188a, there was another plot to over
turn the Korean Government, and
there was evidence that Kim, the dar
ing, restless and designing politician,
was at the bottom of it. Demands for
his extrdition were at once renewed.
China and Korea both asserted that as
long as Kim remained in Japan he
would be able to create disturbances
in his native land. Japan remained
firm in her refusal, giving as her only
reason that political offenders were
never extradited in Western countries,
and if the Eastern nations desired to
be treated as equals by those of the
West, they .must learn to act npon the
same principles, Ho further attempt
to secure the extradition of Kim was
mado, but Korea at onoe began to take
measures to effect the removal of this
troublesome person by other pro
cesses.
Three futile expedients for the as
sassination of Kim were attempted in
tho following year, and were described
in the pubue prints, as far as the de
tails were known, late in 13SG. The
instrument in the most interesting of
these attempts appeared in Japan in
the person of Chi, an official in the
Seoul war department. In Kim's
palmy days Chi had been an ardent
disoiple of the advanced views of that
astute politician, but he was now faith
fully serving a Government composed
of Kim s enemies, lie traveled quiet
ly to Japan, acd took lodgings in an
ordinary inn in Tokio. On May 2,
1886, he wrote to Kim, protesting that
their old friendship still continued on
his part, that he deeply sympathized
with Kim in his misfortunes and exile,
and requested an interview. The old
assassin was too sharp for the young
one, however, and ium bluntly re
fused to see him. At the same time
ho directed his friends to worm their
way into Chi's confidence, and one of
them did so with considerable skill.
He told Chi that the exiles were
tired of their life iu Japan, sorely re
gretted their folly, and longed to be
back in Korea, Kim wis the cause of
their presont plight. He had deceived
thorn, and they all hated him for it.
Would Chi interoedo for them with
the King and the Government I They
would cheerfully seizo Kim and carry
him off if they could. Nay, they had
become so embittered by his conduct
that they would kill him, if ridding
the oountry of him would lie the means
of making their peaoo with their sov
ereign. Kim was very wary, but no
one oould lull his suspicions to sleep
as Lis companions could, and thoy
wonld do anything to show the sin
cerity of their repentance.
Chi listened seriously to these things,
but was quito non-committaL It took
some weeks for oonfidenoe to begot
confidence. At lost he convinced him
self of the sincerity of the exile. Then
Chi confided to Lim that be had been
sent to Japan by the King for the ex
press purpose of killing Lim, and that
he would pay a sum equivalent to
$5000 to anyone who would give him
effective assistance in carrying ont
this bloody task. Kim's envoy at once
became very circumspect. It was a
perilous affair, he said. He was will
ing to do the work, but suppose, for
instanoe, that Chi Lad never received
a commission from the King, then any
one killing Kim would be seized by
the Japanese, and would be repudia
ted by the Koreans. Chi was able to
soothe these suspicions. He first pro
duced a large Korean dagger, which,
be said, bad been given to Lim by tbe
King for tbe purpose of slaying Kim,
and finally he exhibited this mandate,
to which tbe royal seal was actually
attached :
'We hereby commission you to
cross the sea aud apprehend the rebel,
to accomplish which object you shall
have full power to act according to
circumstances, using due caution not
to inuke fruitless attempts."
On tbe same day, tbo supposed con
spirator also secured in writing from
the unsuspecting Chi a promise to pay
him $5000 for his service, and on tbe
next day Kim, armed with these doou
mentd, which he laid before tbe Japa
ueje Government, demanded protec
tion. A demaud for an explanation
was at onc9 telegraphed to Seoul, and,
of course, all knowledge of tbe plot
was at once repudiated by tbe Korean
Government. These proceedings may
seem almost inoredible to us, but we
caunut apply our roles of morality to
Korea. Kim was a leading statesman
of tbe oountry, and if not an assassin
himself, he had inspired assassination.
Aocording to Korean ethios it was not
improper for his enomios to remove
him by the knife or bullet, political
methods that have been employed more
than once in tho East in this genera
tion. Japan now decided that Kim was a
heavy load to carry, and he wai or
dered to leave the country by June
27. Kim, however, had other views.
When the police went to see him at
the expiration of the timo, he fled to
the French embassy and appealed for
protection. He was, however, turned
over to the authorities, and Lis foro
iblo removal from tho country was or
dered on the gTound that Lis presence
tended "to endaugor the peace, tran
quility and external safety of the em
pire." What to do with him, though,
was a knotty problem. Japan wished
to insure his safety. If he was sent to
China he wonld be killed. Russia
would not harbor him. San Francisco
was proposed, but Kim was without
means, and it was feared that he
would fctarve there in a land of plenty,
unless tbe Americans took very kindly
to him. It was finally decided that it
was not desirablo, for his own sake, to
turn him loose upon the world. Japan
has a little group of islets in the Pa
cific, the Bonin Islands, which at that
time were uninhabited save by a few
retired pirates and runaway sailors.
So Kim was sent to these far-away
sunny islands to be supported by the
Japanese Government. For some years
he contemplated the mutability of for
tune in this retreat, but at last, just as tbe
little islands wera beginning to blos
som nnder tbe nurture of the Japan
ese farmers who Lad gone to them, the
Government listened to Kim's piteous
appeal and took him back to Japan.
The fact was not generally known, but
it had not escaped the observation of
Korea's agents.
In his retirement and obscurity Kim,
on an evil day, made the aoquaintanoe
of a fellow oonutryman. The man ap
peared to be of very little importance.
He did not thrust himself upon Kim't
notice nor appear at all anxious to
cultivate his acquaintance. He was
an agent of the court of Korea, but
Kim seems never to have suspected it.
For weeks and months he would never
go near the man he intended to mur
der. Ho was carrying on a legiti
mate business in Japan, and
was so slow, discreet and pa
tient in promoting the real
purpose of his sojeurn there that his
conduct exoited no comment. Very
little is really known of his acquaint
ance with Kim. What he proposed
to do was to murder the man on
friendly soil whore he would not be
called to account for the crime, and
he bided his time. At last his oppor
tunity came.. Kim had a claim for a
considerable snm of money in South
China. His pretended friend under
took to negotiate for the settlement of
this claim. He knew that he had
completely deoeived the old man when
he went to Shanghai to prepare for
the denouement. His dagger was ready
for the victim whose perfect confi
dence he had won. His plans were
cunningly conceived. Tbe problem
was to get Kim to Shanghai though he
seemed to be doing everything in his
power to make it unnecessary for Kim
to make the journey. He reported at
last, that it would be positirely nec
essary for Kim to go to tbe Chinese
port to sign documents that would not
or oould not be sent to him. He knew
very well that Kim would not consult
anyone with regard toa visit to China,
and he assured his dupe that there was
not a particle of danger. He could
travel in disguise, transact his busi
ness in a few hours and return to
Japan, in perfeot safety . by the next
boat.
Kim's cunning had apparently de
serted him, and he went unsuspect
ingly to the cruel death prepared for
him. The Japanese Government did
not know he was out of the country
until the news came- that he had been
butchered on Chinese soil. They made
some effort to investigate the matter,
but finally decided that Japan had no
jurisdiction, as Kim was a foreigner
murdered on foreign soil. So the
chapter ends. Kim died as ho had
made others die. Ho became the vic
tim of political methods that he had
used with considerable effect upon his
rivals; and the manner of Lis taking
off shows bow stealthily and persis
tently some Governments of the Orient
are still capable of plying the arts of
the assassin in the pursuit of their
enemies. Detroit Free Press.
An Interesting People.
Interesting information is given by
a French traveler in China of the Man
tzu, a people who oocupy all the ter
ritory between China proper and
Thibet. The feudal system prevails
among these mountaineers, who are
divided up into more than eighty small
States. Lamaism is the religion pro
fessed by tho majority. The lan
guages of these States, whioh are more
Thibetan than Cbiuese, differ very
much one from another. The Mau
tza are fairly well mado and strong.
They do not wear a que like the Chi
nese, and dress iu coarse woolen fab
rics, which they make for themselves.
The men wear a shirt with a collar,
and the women wear dresses consist
ing of body aud skirt, two styles un
known in China, and reminding ono
of European fashions. Their houses,
too, built of stone, have usually one
or two stories above tho ground, the
latter being always occupied by cattle,
upon which they chiefly depend. The
animals reared by the Ma i-tzu are the
horse, the homed aud the horulesi
yak, tao species of cow, sheep with
ioug, spiral horns, and tbe goat, one
variety of which has four horns. Tbe
pigs, dogs, cats and fowls whioh are
bred there are ideutiual with those
found iu the rest of China. Kouhcwtwx
Post-Excreta,
SCIENTIFIC A!tD ISDTJSritUL.
A flash of lightning equals 12,000
horse power.
Tbe mouth of the starfish is exactly
in the centre
Tho wrist contains eight bones, the
palm five and tho fingers fourteen.
During digention the flow of blood
to tho stomach is increased tenfold.
Tho principles of rainfall were first
correctly set forth by Dalton in 1787.
In proportion to the weight of tbe
body, woman's hair is longor than
man's.
Enamel of tho teoth contains over
ninety-five per cent, of calcareous
matter.
Four-tenths of tho working ex
penses of an eloctrio light plant are
for coal.
In London, aocording to Halley,
there was no total eclipse of the sun
between 1140 and 1715.
Soap babbles are round because
evory part of their surface is equally
pressed by the atmosphere.
The heart ordinarily beats about
seventy times a minute, and throws
abont two ounces of blood at eaoh con
traction. The chemical composition of tho
epidermis of the heel is nearly tbe
same as that of the matter of nails,
horns and hoofs.
The song of wild birds is usually a
sucoession of three or four notes con
tinued dining the same interval,
mostly without interruption.
It is so hot at Massowah, Abyssinia,
that when tho northwest wind blows
from the desert the thermometer
sometimes registers 1G0 degrees.
In tests last year in the German
town of Dessau it was shown that
cooking by wood and coal costs a little
more than twice that done with gas.
Of the mineral spangolite only two
specimens are known to exist. One
was taken from Cornwall, England,
and the other is near Tombstone,
Arizona.
The hair has a life of its own apart
from that whioh animates the human
body. This acoounts for the growth
of hair on the dead long after their
interment.
A meohsnical fluid is the reoent in
vention of an Amerioan engineer. It
is a mass of hard steel balls of two
sizes, one-eighth and one-fourth of an
inch in diameter, respectively. Under
pressure this mass flows and transmits
pressure in all directions like a fluid.
The device is calculated for use wher
ever fluid pressure is desired without
leakage, and it has already been em
ployed for tightening the brasses of
connecting rods, a pocket at the side
being filled with the balls and pressure
applied with a set screw.
Tho Worcester (England) munici
pality will utilize its plant, put in for
supplying eleotricity for lighting, to
run electric motors for pumping pur
poses at its waterworks, instead of
employing steam, as originally in
tended. There will be two thirty-horse-power
alternate current motors
having a guaranteed efficiency of
ninety per cent., working pumps
capable of delivering 10,000 gallons
of water per hour to an elevation of
800 feet through three miles of ten
inch pipe.
Moisted by Her Own Petard.
When Yale athletios were in New
York, prior to their departure for Ox
ford, a well-known Brooklyn society
woman gave them a dinner. It is part
of the creed of these young men never
to express surprise at any joke at
thoir expense. This their hostess
knew. She was determined to oompel
a departure from this law and con
ceived her plan with that object in
view. The women of the party had
been notified, but were bound over to
silence, until some comment should
be made by the broadclotbed guests.
At an exquisitely appointed table the
party eat down. The butlers first
served coffee, liquors and candies.
Next came ices. Then salads. Talk
flowed on brilliantly and easily. Evi
dently there was no stupidity ou the
part of the servants in serving thus
contrary to established etiquotto, for
the hostess remained unoonoerned.
So did the Yale men.
The reversed dinner went through
its courses without hitch or jar, until
after the soup and just before the
clams were served. Then tho Yale
men asked to be excused. The host
ess acquiosed with a broad touoh of
wonder on her face. In ten minutes
the team filed back into the dining
room, each with his "swallow-tail" ou
"hind part boforo." Thoy Lad done
Lonor to the reversed dinuer. The
surface of uuoonoorn was brokou down.
The hostess was hoisted by bur own
petard, but the table rang with ap
plause. Argonaut.
Cockroaches With Kix-Inc't Winy.
When the transportation company's
bargos brought tios for tbe trolley
here they also brought some Southern
cockroaches that dwarf tho looal spooi
mens. The tios ootuo from North Car
olina and Georgia, where those giant
oook ran olios are abundant. Thoy aro
about two inches long, aud when thoir
wings are spread out iu fly lug they
measure nearly six inches ajrou. Thoy
are harmless aud look somothiug like
a beetlo when their win:s ara drttwn
in. Hartford (Conn.) Courant. '
Smallest Bird Known.
The fly eater of Cuba is the smallest
bird know to ornithologists. . It iu
about ono-third tbo size of the hum
ming bird. In the year 1592 Kesaou
Espisioto, a man of fabulous woult j,
caused 7000 of those birds to be caught
with nets and mado into a pot pie,
which he ate at ono sitting, aud eveu
then Le complained of beiug Luugry.
Espisioto was a man of must capricious
aij)uu.
BIBLES FOR THE BLIND.
FIRST EDITtOlT KTER PRINTED IK
THE POINT ALPHABET.
The Hook Is In Eleven Volumes
Kach lietter Represented by a Dif
ferent Number of Raised Dots.
TnE only Bible published in
the point alphabet to be used
by tho blind has lately boen
printed in Louisville. It con
sists of 1839 pages, is in eleven vol
umes and was turned out by tbo
American Printing House for the
Blind, an annex of the Kentucky In
stitute for the Blind. The eleven em
ployes of the printing house wore en
gaged on the work for about ten
months, and on May 7, 1894, just a
little over a year after the work was
begun, the first shipment to tho
American Bible Society at New York
was made.
Of oourse this is not tbo only BIblo
that can be read by the blind. Those
thus afflicted have beon reading a Bi
ble for forty years, but it was pub
lished in what is known as tbe lino
alphabet.
The line alphabet is mvlo up of tho
Roman letters enlarged and raised on
the leaves of tbe book, so that the
blind reader may know thorn by fol
lowing their outline with his fingers.
Every school child can road a book
printed in that way. But with tho
New York point alphabet each letter
is represented by a difforont number
of raised dots arranged in a fixed posi
tion. Strange to say, this seoaal
method is the easier to learn, anl is
always taught before the line mothoL
That any sort of a Bible for tha
blind came out at all is due to a ba
quest of $40,000 mado to tho Amoriciu
Bible Sooiety by a wealthy woman o,f
New York City. It was malo opar
manent fund for printing Bible for
the blind. The four girls who do tho
typesetting began their part of tho
work April 23, 1853. As soon as on3
page was setup it was carried into tho
molding room and an impression
taken. The page was then ready to
be cast. It was carried down stiirj
and plaoed in the stereotyping ma
chine. A thin coat of tin foil was than
laid over the mold and a light pouring
of metal made, so as to melt tho tin
foil into tho mold. Another pouring
was then mado to fill in the blank
spaoes between lines and re-enforao
the back. A piece of ordinary roof
er's tin the size of tho page was than
laid over tho back of the thfn metal
impression, and another light pouriaj
made to make the two adhere. When
this had cooled off tbe workman ha I a
true copy of tbe page on a vory light,
flexible plate of stereotype. All tin
rest of the 1039 pagos were treated in
the same way, and on January 21,
1894, the day the last page was set up,
the last plate was also completed.
The work of printing was then be
gun. The leaves aro necessarily very
heavy, and, of course, can be printed
only one side. Four sheets, or page,
were printed at a time. When th J
pages were ready for binding Bix of
them were grouped togatbsr anl
stitobed with wire. Tho iniida edga
of eaah sexto is bound by aolotb-lina I
card-board guard. This is mvlo noa
essary by tbe thioknosi of tha leivej
and tbe constant handling by tha rot
dor. When those sextos are bound to
gether thoy make a voluma varying in
thsckness of from three to four inahes.
The New Testament is include! in
three volumes, the Old in eight.
The whale work of printing the first
set of this Bible cost just $3 m. Tho
cost of binding is $1 a volume. Tbo
interest on tho bequest nearly half a
century ao has grown so thit the
books oan be sold to tho blind at loss
than the cost of the binding. The
whole set is sold at $7, and tho New
Tastarnaut alone oan bo seonred for $5
loss. These Bibles are boing sent out
to all the schools for the blind in the
oountry through tho American Bible
Association.
Mining- and Milling Yellow Ochre.
"A very important Georgia in
dustry that has sprung up iu the last
few years is the mining and milling of
yellow ochre as carried ou at Cartors
ville," said Captaiu B. M. Hall, tha
well-known mining engineer. "Like
most new industries, it made a small
beginning and tbe product bad a very
limited market. But its superior
quality soon gained for it an eajer
demand at a high price. It it now
sold at Cartersville for $10 to $18 per
ton, while the standard Penuiylvauia
ochres sail for less than half that prica
in Philadelphia. The Cartersville
oohre.u aooouut of its great purity,
is essentially a metallio paint, while
the ordinary oahras of ooinnieroa ara
eierely clays stainel with iron oxide.
Its beautiful greenish yollov color
and its high per cent, of iron make it
peculiarly valuable as au iugrediuut
in the manufacture of linoleum. A
large proportion of the Cartersvillo
product is shipped to Europe. To
new iniuos are beiug opened and put
iu operation that will greatly increase
the output. Oue of these belong to
William B. Shaffer, of Pennsylvania,
and tbo other to T. It. Jones, of Car
tersville. I can say from a personal
examination of these properties that
their operation will add largely to tha
material wealth of Georgia." Atlanta
Constitution.
A Colonel at Ten Yeri.
The third son of the Emperor Will
iam, Adalbert Ferdinand, ojlebrata I
his tenth birthday, by hU form il en
trance at Berlin, into tha iin;)ciiil
army, the youugster iu kuiekerboak
er beoomiug a Colonel of tho famous
Uhlan ltagimeut. Tbo entrance was
marked by ceremonies of oouai dura
ble pomp, and at night the reimant
Lad a graud banquet iu eelebration of
the vtiiit. Nw York Advertiser.
MY SERENADE.
I have a envnlior.
At dusk he dmweth near
To wait outside my wlclcct.
I hear htm draw his bow i
lie playeth soft and low,
Hid in the mnple thicket.
The listening leaves are stirred i
nred f
The droamlng flowers bav. henrct
His stralu from out the shadow
The brond moon, whlto and still,
Cllmbeth tho dusky hill -,
The mists dance In the meadow.
My faithful cavnlier,
At dusk he drawotb neir
To wait outsldo my wiokct. f
I hear him drnw his bow ;
He playeth soft and low,
My dreamy little erlcket.
-Dorothy Dean, in Knte Field' Wnshlngton.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
There aro some very good peoplo
who love to tell bad news. Barn's
Horn.
The world owes a man a living, but
he must go after it. Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Love abhors a crowd, but does not
want to bo left entirely alone. Gal
veston News.
If you notice, the fellow who pays
his way is the one .who weighs his pay.
Buffalo Courier.
A growler is a man who wonld much
rather sleep in a cyclone than in an
ordinary draft. Galveston News.
When men speak of a woman, tbo
first question, and frequently tbo last,
ia "Is she pretty?" Ram's Horn.
A setting hen is quite anxious as to
tbe outcome of her mission ; she
broods over it constantly. Lowell
Courier.
A,bont tbo only martyrs for con
science's sake that we have in modern
times are our baseball umpires. Dal
las News.
A "forelady" advertises for work.
We hope she is accustomed to tho
managoment of "sales-gentlemen. "
Ch'oago Post.
Ho "I love you. I know that I am
not all that I ought to be " She '
"Yes, everybody has told me that."
New York World.
A head-line in a contemporary
reads, "On to Chicago 1" Tho coun
try has been on to Chicago for somo
time. Kingston Froeman.
Mother "Tommie, I am going to
spank you. Do you know what for?"
Tommie (indignantly) "Yes. Yon
want to ease your own feelings by
hurting mine." Harper's Bazar.
Stranger "What price do yon set
on that red cow of yours?" Mr. Hai
cedo "See here, mister, oir you a as
sessor, or has she been run over by
the railroad?" Indianapolis Journal.
The Judge "I should think yon
would be sorry for having so forgotten
yourself as to throw a plato at your
wife." Tho Prisoner (penitently)
"I am, your honor; that plate cost
ten cents." Buffalo Couriei.
"I don't seo tho least nso of this
tool caso beinft put on my bicycle."
Ho "Why, iu case of an accident,
yau'd have something to work with."
"Oh, yon absurd mau ; don't I always
have hair-pins with me?" Chicago
Inter -Ocean.
New Use for Natural Gas.
Tbe possibilities of natural gas evi
dently have not yet bean exhausted;
Tbe latest uso which would seem to
have beon found for it is the making
of ice, the idea boing to simply expand
tbe gas from its usually high initial
pressure down to or near that of tho
atmosphere, nature having done all
the preliminary work of compression
and cooling, making tbo gas ready to
absorb beat from its surroundings im
mediately upon beiug released from
confinment, All that would be neces
sary would be suitable coils or cham
bers into which the gas could ho al
lowed to expand. It hat been calcu
lated out quite plausibly, in fact, that
with an ordinary gas well, furnishing
2,500,000 cubic feet per day, some
thing like fifty tons of ice could bo
turued out daily at an expousa of
about fifty cents a tou. The gas
loses nothing but its pressure, retain
ing all its caloriilo value, au I hence,
all its virtue for rolling mill aud ylass
works use, for heating brick, lime aud
pottery kilns, and tbo endless number
of other furnaces to which it is adapted.
In a certain way, therefore, the gas
may bo regarded as affording some
thing for nothing a desideratum to
which many in this world aro con
stantly looking forward. St. Louis
Star-Sayiugs.
Russian O.Holals rear Turtle Dims.
Most pooplo regard tha turtle dova
as an ideally inuo3cut creature, but
the liiusiau Minister of War evidently
looks upon it as a positivo daugor to
the stability of the Czar's domiius. A
lady prestidigitator fro'n tha Folies
Bergere, in Paris, was traveling to St.
Petersburg to fultll au euagouieut iu
that city. Aloux with ber she carried
a number of turtle doves for profes
sional purpos'-s, but ou roar.'jiug tbe
Russian froutier tacso wore toizod iu
virtuu of tho War Minister a order
really ui iud at the supprcssiou of car
rier pigeons prohibiting the intro
duction of any kiud of piodu ou uuy
pretext whatever. Prayers and ex
postulations wore iu vain, but it is
pleasing ta thiuk tb it the general
oommau.lii'it of tho town gallautly
uudertook to take good caro of the
birds until their owner should re
oross the froutior. Wotuiiustcr Ga
zctto. The "Lamp Itii J."
Some people oall tha tiormy petrel
the "Jump bird." It is so oily that tho
tishermeu of St. Kilda stick a wick iu
tbe mouth of dead spuciuieu, light it
and it burns for au hour. New Yua
Advertiser.