X 6, HI FOREST REFDBLICAN RATI 8 or ADVCRTISIRdt ' One Square, on looh, on Inaartloa. .1 1 On Sqacr, on Inch, on month. . . JJJ On Bquare, on inoh, tbre months. , 0 On Bquar, one inch, on year,... . ! Two Hqtmrn, on yr 1 001 uartr Column, on yar. .. W10C Half Column, on year MJJ On Column, on yar. - l00.'18 Ial adTsrtiMmtiit tot onto par tmm ach tMTtfam. MarriM nft Aftth utfM V1AIAb For .Jf'' Is Mblltkt UTtry WacaetAiy, J. E. WENK. Offlo In Bm.arb.ngh A Co.' Bufldlnj ui trijst, tionmta, r. Term. . . . tl.gp p,r T.r, iKraxs: re-T4 ' - Oorre.pond.ne Mltel4 On a Mrta f th. KEPUB CAN. All bllliforyearly adverttmen1 B quarterly. Tamporary dTartanemnl I it paid In advano. Job work oah oa delivery. -v. VOL. XXVII. NO. 25. TICWESTA, PA,, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 10, 1894. ,00 PEB ANNUM. Tho Now Zealand Maoris own nbont 10.000,000 acres of land. Tho spring and autumn maneuvers pf European armies cost annually $10, O00, 000. J In twelve months Amorieon railroad companies havo paid $239,010,284 as interost on bonds and 895,337,081 as dividends on stocks. , Tho Egyptian Government pays In terest on $00,000,000 Nila Canal debt and $30,000,000" Sues Canul bonds, squeezing tbo money out of tho farm ers. The most unhealthy eity in Earopo, aeoording to statistics reoontly issuod, is Barcelona, Spain, ono of the love liest plaoos in that part of the con tinent. One who lives in Barcelona increases considerably his chances ol death. i The stutomout that a child five and a half ycarH of ago would not have more than ono hundred and fifty words in its vocabulary that it was able to ubo nndorstandingly, led a carofnl mother to noto for a month the number of words used by her child. All tho parts of speech used wero recorded, with tho result that in this case the child appoared to have a vocabulary of 1528 words. 'W. ' A young man of Lcwiston, Mo., who pride himself on his attractiveness for tho gentler sex, got on a train tho other day and saw a good-looking young lady, who seemed to have no body with her. Ho approochod her, rolotes the Now Orleans ricoyuno, and did tho masher act. She was re sponsive, and he was having a very uioe time whon a man came in and . thankod him for having made the task of taking a lunatio to tho asylum easier than ho dared hope. i An estimate of tho charitable bo quests in Englnud during 1893 puts the total sura at about $7,000,000. This is held to bo about one-tenth of the estates upon which probate duty has been levied. Among tho larger amounts givon are tho following : Earl of Derby, $100,000 ; Richard Vaughan, of Bath, a retired brewer, $225,000; tho Rev. James Spurrcll, $1,300,000; John Horuiman, a tea merchant, $150, 000 ; Henry Spicer, tho well-known paper dealer, $750,000; Sir William Mackinnon, $300,000. Tho largest legacy of all is by Baroness Forrostor, ' 51,500,000. N. & Nestoroil, an attache of the Russian Department of Agriculture, is in Miohigan inspecting methods em ployed there in cuttiug and marketing-lumber. His object is principally to get information respecting im provements in sawmill machinery. Mr. Nosteroff pronounces the Saginaw Valley mills the finest he has ever seen. He was especially interested in the maplo sugar industry in the spring, and spent a month in a New York State sugar camp. This busi ness was eutirely new to him, and ho will try to introduce it into his native country, which has, he Bays, au abun dance of sugar maples. The Chinese trade unions can truce their history back for more than 4000 years. The Chinaman does not dis cuss with his employer what he is to receive for the work he doos ; ho sim ply takes what he considers a foir and proper remuneration. He lovies toll on every transaction according to laws laid down by his trado union, and without for a moment taking into consideration what his employer may consider proper. Ho is, therefore, says a correspondent of tho Philadel phia Telegraph, generally called a thief; but ho is acting under due guarantees, in obedience to laws that are far better observod and more strict thau any tho poliou hava been able to impose It takes 3200 mail cars to distribute Uncle Sam's mail, and the New York division alouo requires 819 railway pout clerks to handle it. Last year these clerks huudlod 1,207,220,577 pieces of mail bound past their divi sion, of which 753,970,835 were letters. To get a clour idea of the immense amount of mail matter in this number of letters, Bupposo they average four inches in length and are laid end to end. They will stretch over a line 2975 miles long. All ruilway post clerks must be quick aud intelligent and have a thorough knowledge of tho whole country. In tho second divi sion thero are 18,000 postoflices, and the clerks know every one. This sys tem of railway postoflices bus proved so valuable, buys the writer from whose interesting urtielo iu Harper's Young People these facts ore drawn, that it is now being operuUd on tk trausut- Uilttia .teumsiblu. TEt.HNO STORIES. I know of a boy that's sloop)-, I can toll by tho nodding bond, And the eyes that cannot stay open While the good-night prayer Is sold. And the whispered "Toll a 'tory, Sold In suoh a drowsy way, Makes me heart ho bolls of Dreamland That ring at close of day. Bo you want a story, darling I What shall the story bo? Of Little Boy Blue In the haystack, And the sheop be tails to soe, As they nibble the nioadow olovor While tho cows are In the oorn? 0 Little Boy Blue, wake up, wako up, For tbo farmer blows his horn t Or shall It be the story Of Little Bo Poop I toll, And the shocp he lost and mourned for. As If awful fato bofell? But there was no need of sorrow For tho pot that wont ostrny, Since, loft home, he oame back homo In his own good time and way. Ob, the pigs that wont to market Tbnt's the tale for me to tell 1 Tho groat big pig, and the llttlo pig?, And tho weo, wee pig as wall. Here's the big pig what a beauty! But not half as ounnlng Is he A( this llttlo tot or a baby pig That oan only sny "We-we !" Just look at tho baby, bless him 1 The llttlo rogue's fast asleop, 1 might have stopped telling stories When I got to Little Bo Peep. Oh, llttlo one. how I love you 1 You are so dear, so fair ! Here's a good-night kiss, my baby Ood havo you In His oare ! Eben E. Rex for J. OCTAVJA'S CHOICE. DY BELBN WHITNEY. CLARK. T ain't right, no acordin' to my idees of what's right an what's wrong, Octavy!" said Grandma Mockbee, severe ly. "An' I shan't give my con- sent !" added tho old lady, winding briskly away on a big ball of clouded red and white yarn. Miss Octavia Mockbee, black-eyed and scarlet-lipped, turned sharply around with an impatient frown on her shapely forehead. "I haven't asked your consent yet I" sho retorted, imperiously. "When I do, it will be time enough to refuse!" "Then you ain't a-goin' to marry him after all, Ootavy?" cheerfully commented Aunt Adaline, looking np from the sponge pudding she was mak ing for dinner. "I'm to glad I Mr. Fothcrgill may be respectable, for all we know, an' then ag'in he mayn't. But we know all about Jerome Mead owgay, an' his folks afore him. Not a shiftless rne among 'em." "An' like as not the t'other one is a wolf in sheep's clothin'," sagely com mented Miss Martha Phipps, who was spending the day. "It ain't best to take no resks, Ootavy." "But you hadn't ought to enoour age Mr. Fothergill so much, Ockie," admonished Mrs. Mockbee, with a mollitled glance at her tall grand daughter. "It ain't right to accept the attentions of any man without you think" "Now, look hero, grandma, and Aunt Adaline and you, too, Miss Phipps!" The black-eyed beauty wheeled around and leveled a whole battery of angry glances at her startled hearers. "You may all keep your good advice till it's called for 1 I don't want it ! I'm going to marry Ferdinand Foth ergill and live in the city. I shan't tie myself down to a common farmer like Jerome Meadowgay, and you needn't thiDkit!" And the offended Xantirpe flounced out of the room, leaving her auditors breathless with astonishment. One hour later, sixteen-year-old Margie, coming in from the barn-loft with a flat split-bosket of fresh-laid eggs, met Jerome Meadowgay leaving the house. "Oh, Jerome, do stay to dinner 1" greeted Margie, cordially. "We're going to have rioe waffles and sponge pudding." But Jerome gloomily shook his head. "I'm going away, Margie," he said gently, "This is the last time I shall toe you for a long while perhaps for ever." Margie's dimpled face clouded over like au April sky. "Going away, Jerome! 'Bat but where?" Bhe asked, blankly. "I I don't know yet," hesitated Jerome. "Maybe to Greenland," he added, recklessly. "Butgood-by, lit tle Margie. Don't forget me, will you? There'll bo nobody else to re member me." But Margie clung to his hand. "Oh, Jerome, mamma and grandma will remember you, and so will I !" she declared, impulsively. "And if Cousin Octavia prefers that little dado of a Ferdinand Fothergill to you, she'll rue it some day, see if she don't. "But you'll write to us, won't you, Jerome?" she pleaded, looking at him through a pair of forget-me-not blue eyes fringed with thick, curling lashes. "That's is, if you don't get frozo up iu Groenland," she added, dubiously. Jerome laughed in spite of hi gloomy prospects, and a ray of warmth seemed to find its way to his chilled heart. "1 don't think I'll freeze, Margie and I'll certainly write to you," ho promised. - And releasing the mito of a hand, be strode away, while Margie hurried into the house. "I tnustu't watch hint out of sight, buoauM it would bring bad luak, and wajrlo hi jruuld uevw euuit Uk," she commented, gravely, to herself, as sho stowed the eggs away in a stone jar on the pantry shelf. "Ugh I how I would hate to go to Grconland 1" sho reflected, with a shudder at tho pict ure her fancy conjnred up. How Jerome Meadowgay had Come to fall so ilosperatcly in love with Oc tavia Mockbee wis a mystery seeing there wero plenty of other girls -quito as pretty, and with more amiable dis positions around tho village of Hills dale. However, lovo is proverbially blind to all defects, and though Octavia was as hoartless as ono of tho marblo Bacchantes at Forest Turk, she was really very attractive-looking, with her red lips and Spanish black eyes. And as Jerome Meadowgay was con suJered quite an eligible match among the belles of Hillsdale, the eourso of his lovo seemed to drift placidly along, and bid fair to ran in a smooth chan nel for a time until Ferdinand Foth ergill appeared upon the scene. Then everything was changed. Mr. Fothergill was an insurance agent, and made plenty of money ; at least he spent it plentifully, which amounts to tho same thing as far as appearances are concerned. He was a dashing young man, with sharp gray eyes, and whiskers cut a !a Vandyke. He wore a seal-ring, a dangling gold watch chain and the finest of broad cloth attiro. And as Octavia Mockbee was one of those persons who are caught by superficial attractions and outsido glitter, sho straightwny gavo Jerome Meadowgay the cold shoulder. Tho forty-acro farm, well stocked and timbered, with its snug cottage, Gothic-roofed and covered in spring with clambering hop vines and Vir ginia creepers, whereof Jerome had hoped to make her the mistress of compared to the prospects offered by the dashing city dude, soon dwindlod into insignificance. And in spite of all opposition, Octa via determinedly took her fate into her own hands and mado no secret of the fact that she was "ofT with the old love, and on with tho new." Seeing that she was determined to follow her own course, Grandma Mockbee and Aunt Adalino deoided to give her a respectablo wedding, at least. "It's tho best wo can do fnr her," sighed the grandmother. "A willful girl must havo her own way ; but if sho lives to repent, it won't be laid to our charge." And so the wedding drew near, and there was whisking of eggs and baking of cakes, to say nothing of dress making and clear starohing, within the old Mockbee homestead. The prospective bridgroom had gone on a collecting tour which would detain him till the eve of the wedding day, and the morning before the aus picious event arrived. Octavia was trying tho effect of a pale pink necktie against her creamy complexion ; Aunt Adaline was basting the box pleats iu a silver gray poplin that was to do duty as a "second-day" dress; Grandma Mockbee was thread ing the laces in a French corset, over which the wedding gown was to be tried on. Margie alone was idle, having re fused to lend any assistance whatever toward the coming festivities. "I shall not help to injure poor Jerome 1" she declared, with a curl ing lip. "Poor Jeromo, indeed!" mimicked Octavia, sneeringly. She was about to add some stinging remark, when a scream from the dress maker, Miss Martha Phipps, drew every eye in her direction. "Oh, Miss Mockbee Ootavia look here ! I don't understand it. Maybe it don't mean him, thongh." "Dear me, what a fiiBs you are mak ing Miss Phipps !" cried Octavia, im patiently. "Can't you tell what the matter is, oahavo you lost the use of your tongue?" Miss Phipps resented - tho caustio speech with a toss of her head. "No, I haven't lost the use of my tongue," sho responded, spitefully "nor my eyes, either, or I wouldn't have spiod this notioe in the Poplar Bluff Gazette ! It's the marriage li cense of Ferdinand Fothergill, Hills dale, aud Miss Amy Cotterill, of Pop lar Bluff." "It's a lie 1" shrieked Ootavia, evi dently verging on hysterios. "I don't believe a word of it !" "It's right here in black and white," asserted Miss I'hippu, holding up the paper. And at that very moment a letter was brought by a special carrier, ad dressed to Ootavia. Bhe tore it open and read i Dear 11 Us Mockbee Owln? to the hard times nU'l buain S3 reverses, I regret to say tlmt I Had myself unable o support a wife. Under tho olrcutnstancos I c.iuuot afford to marry (or lovo alone, and, tbi-relore, I give you back your freedom, aud hope you will soon forgot tbat them ever win suoh a par son as -Ferdinand Fothergill. "Throe years since I went away a bachelor forlorn," laughod Jerome Meadowgay, as he strode along toward tho Mockbee farm and turned his steps toward the old stile at the foot of the laue. A tall figure stood iu the dusky twilight, saintly outlined against the slowly-fading crimsou of the west. "Welcome home I" called a soft vobwi. Jerome sprang eagerly forward. "Margie !" ho cried. "No, not Margie !" in pettish tones. "It's Octavia. Don't you kuow me, Jerome?" she asked; then added, in dulcet accents, " I did not know my own heart when I sent you away. For give me, Jerome, aud aud let us bury the post 1" A soft bund was laid on his arm, and Octaviu's liquid eyes looked apparently into bis. Jerome put the hand voldly aald. 'I'll pwt is buiwd, o fat' UlIlU concerned," ho nssnrod her. "You, said all was over between us that day, t i it i-.i .-.i : ..: vein m, HUUl Itcccjneu uur uuviniuu. "But hut it is not too late yet, Jerome. I" "It is too late I was tho stern re ply- Pretty, pink-obockecli Margio made a charming bride a few woeks latcr and the Gothic-roofed cottage, with its hop-vinos and Virginia creepers, is no longer in want of a mistress. Saturday Night. New Building .Material. A new building material called compoboard is thus described by tho Northwestern Lumberman : It is made of one-oighth-inch strips of wood from three-quarters to ono and a quarter inches wide, placed be tween two sheets of ioavy strowboard and united under heavy pressure with a strong cement. ' The process of manufacture is peculiar. Into tho machine that molds the board are run two sheets of the strawboard from rolls, ono from above and one from below a table onto which aro fod from a feeding device the strips of wood. A roller running in a tank of the liquid cement rolls npon the inner surface of the sheets of strawboard, and the three layers of material run together between rolls and into a hy draulio press capable of exerting a pressure 120 tons to the square inch. Ten feet of the board is stopped auto matically for a few seconds in the press, then run out upon a table fit ted with cut-off saws, where it is sawed to tho desired length. It is then run upon trucks, placed in tho dry-kiln, and when taken out is trimmed to forty-eight inches in width. Tho strongth of tho board as com pared with its weight is marvolous. The ends of an eighteen foot can bo brought together without breaking or warping it. No conditions can warp it. Wall paper is put upon tho board and the finish is as fine as upon any plastered wall. The strong points claimed for the board : It is not more expensive than first-class plastering. It forms an absolutely air-tight wall. It stiffens a building much more than any coat of mortar can. It is quickly put on and produces no dampness, thus causing no swelling and shrinking of floors and casings. It is light, thus avoiding tho dragging down of tho house frame, the consequent cracking of walls and the warping of the door frames. It forms a solidcr, cleaner, drier wall at no more expenso titan is involved in the old way. Paper Maiiulaclurc in America. It is a curious and rather startling fact that next to the articles entering into food snd clothing, papor is the most universally used commodity in the world, says the Philadelphia Times. The daily output of news print papor in the United States is about 1200 to 1500 tons. Just think of 125 or 150 carloads of newspapers mentally de voured each day in this country ! Tho production of news print is larger than any other grade. That of bcok paper is probably as much as 1000 tons and of writing 450 tons each daily. The gross daily capacity of the paper mills of tho United States in opera tion during 1892-93 for all kinds and grades of paper was estimated at about 10,000 tons. Of this amount nearly 2500 tons represented nows print and book paper, 1800 tons wrapping paper, 850 tons strawboard, 450 tons writing paper, and almost 2400 tons of the various other kinds and grades. The States which rank first in tho production of paper are New York, Maine, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois. From theso seven States oome nearly three fourths of tho entire paper supply of the country. By far the greater part of the vast output is consumed iu tho United States, the greatest paper using country in tho world. Death From Fright. "During my forty odd years of praotico I havo nevor seen but ono case where death was caused by fright," said a physician. "Tho in stance I speak of huppened iu South America, through which I wus making a tour. Ono ufternoon we experi enced a rather severe shock of earth quake. Some time before tho shoe's was felt a young Mexican w ho was em ployed to work about au anatomical museum in the towu where I was then visiting fell asleep in a chair in tho room which contained all tho ghostly relics. Suddenly ho was awakenod by an extraordinary noise. He wot hor rified to see all the death's heads nod ding and grimacing, and the skeletons dunoiug about aud waving their flesh less arms madly in tho air. Speech less with terror, tho poor fellow tied from the scene, aud upon roachiugtho street fell to the ground unconscious aud half dead with fright. After a few hours ho became somewhat ration al, and it was explaiued to him that it was au earthquuke that had caused all the commotion among the specimens, but the shock had been too severe aud his deuth followed in a few days." St. Louis Globo-Douiocrut. Tbo l'otomau to Light Washington. Tho War Department has been uiak ingau investigation iuto the feasibility of making the great falls of tho Po tomao furnish power for the lighting of Washington City, aud tho report which has just beeu submitted shows tlmt the project is eutirely practicable. Tho engineer iu charge of the matter say that there is no trouble about transmitting the power to Washing ton ; that at a reasonable cost a canal can bo constructed urouud tho falls to a power plant below them, aud ut tho lowest stage cf the water thero id 03113 available huiso-power, whil 4400 horsu-powi.' is nil that is hbsJsJ t yrsMut, Qrlvani Pivavuuih THE GLACIAL MILESTONES. OKIOIN AND VATURK OV THESE ERRATIC BOWLDERS... The Goli Has Been Slowly Forming Over1 Them Since the rent lee Age Stony Aliens. 1 f HE folio I from "fi j Ice Age by T. I y HE following is nri extract nome ivocorus oi ine e About New lork, Mitchell Trudden, M. D. , in Harper's Magazine; Many of the glacial traces about New York aro buried np by tho soil which has been slowjy forming over them since tho end of the great ice age. If, however, one lingers in his wanderings here abouts where the ground is being cleared for building, he will observe, almost everywhere, where much soil and earth and gravel are being dug out and cartod of! to clear the rock surfaces in preparation for blasting, that larger and smaller rounded rocks are found imbedded in the gravel. They aro usually too round and awk ward in shape to be useful in the masonry even of the foundations of buildings. Many of them are too large to be shoveled into the carts aud car ried away with the dirt and gravel. And so one usually sees them rolled off on one side, out of the way, on the bared rock surfaces, until these ara freed from soil, when they, too, are hoisted up and dragged ofi to some convenient dumping-ground where land, as they say, is being "made." If one looks a little closely at these despised bowlders he' will find that many of them are of entirely different character from any of our native rocks. Sometimes they aro rock called trap, like that which makes the Palisades; sometimes rock like that which is at home in regions many miles to the north and west of Now York. And they are rounded and smoothed in a way which indicates an enormous amount of wear and rub bing sometime somewhere. It is curious turning back in the books to the reoord of a time only a few decades ago, to read the specula tions of the learned as to the origin and nature of these erratic bowlders, which, from their noteworthy shape and their structure, often so different from that of the rooks over which they lie scattered, early attracted at tention. Some thought that they mu-t have been cast up out of a dis tant volcano in an earlier time and fell scattered here. For some they were rounded by the wash of Noah's flood, and swept by its fierce torrents into alien regions. Others sank in theory tho earth's crust thereabouts for many feet, and in theory still let enormous icebergs from some dis tant arctio region drift over here, and melting, drop their ice-borno freight of rocks. -Some would have it that the earth was once surrounded by a separate rock shell which somohow came to grief and left its shattered remnants down broadcast. Others, still more dramatic, worked up thair facts and fancies to tho point of as suming collision with a comet. Tho reoord, graven on tho rocks told the true story at last, however, when tho people got ready to read it. These rounded rocks or bowlders these erratics, waifs and alieus are, as well-known to-day, tho torn-off and transported fragments of rock masses which the great ice mantle brought down here during the cold weather bo long ago aud incontinently dropped when tho climate changed and the sun swept its borders back toward Greenland aud tho pole. Many of those erratics still bear bruises and scratches testifyiug to their tierce en counters with the old bed rock along which the relentless ice mass ground them in their journey toward the coast. Here they have lain, these stony aliens, through all the long ages, buried up with other glacial wreckage, covered in by soil later formed, sharing their Secrets with tho rootlets of vanished generations of plants and trees, until at last another alien, Italian or Celt mayhap, breaks in upon their seclusion with pick aud shovel and rolls them ignomiuiously away. Then, at tho scarred rock sur faces, the steam-drill pocks viciously, puny successors to the gigautio sculp tor of the old ice age, whoso recordi it and its explosive allies soon erase. How He Saved the Baby. Elijah Davis, a motormau on car 121 on the Lake Breeze liue of tho Salt Lake City Bailwuy, some days ago saved the life of a babe which had crawled upon the track between Ninth aud Tenth West on Second South. As the car turned on to the clear stretch iu the vicinity of tho Fisher Brewing Compuuy's works Davis gavo it all the curreut possible, -aud the motor was doing its best. Tho motor man had his eyes fixed ahead, and to his horror saw a little child not over eighteen months old moving iu tbo grass and weeds in the middle of the track. He threw off tbo curreut, set his brakes and rang the bell. Tho track was slippery, and tho wheels continued to move. Tho car was rap idly approaching tho babe, and it seemed as though no power could savo it. The continued ringing of the gong and tho shouts of the luotormuu at true tod the attention of tie child, aud it crawled out of tho weeds aud di rectly upon the rail. Hero its posi tion was even more daugerous thau the other, for the cruel wheels was sure to grind the little bojy into small pieces. Seeing that he could not control his car, Davis left his post, jumped to tho step, and, cling ing to the outhide hau l rail, reached out ahead of tho ear. The b:ily was still ou the track, aud as tho car rushed down upon it the plucky mo tormau grasped its dros uud druw the child out oi brut' way, a tilt Ltkt (Utah) UvUld, HCIKMIFIU ASI) lXDL'STKIAL. A fish swims with its tall, not with its fins, Indiil ship-worms ruin a vessel in five months. A new species of gifalo has boon discovered iri Africa. Owls without tiifts aro day owls; those with tufts are night owls. ltocent experiments indioato that tho normal eyo can discriminate fif teen separate tints in the spectrum. Tho latest German Government re ports show that eight persons have died of loprosy (throe of them sinco 1870) in tho district of lvontgsberg, and that ten persons ore now suffer ing from that disease. If it were possible to cut sections out of the side of soap-bubbles, an 1 then by some delicate process handlo the pieces, thero would be requireJ fifty million films, laid one upon an other, to make a pilo ono inch in height. Meteorologists say that the heat of the air is due to six sources: (1) That from tho interior of tho earth; (2) that from the stars ; (3) that froniHho moon ; (4) that from tho friction of the winds and tidos ; (5) tbat from the meteors ; (G) that from tho suu. A novol way of illuminating a tun nel has boen devised in Paris. Re flectors throw the light from many electric lamps sixteen feet above tho rails to the sidos of the tunnel, where it is again reflected by buruished tin The trains automatically turn the cur rent on and off in entering and leaving tho tunnel. The apparatus for keeping the eyo moist is complex and efficient. It com prises tho lachrymal gland, which secretes tho tears ; the lachrymal car unole, a small fleshy body at tho iuner angle of tho eye ; the punsta lach rymie, two small openings at the na sal extremity of tho cyolids; tho lachrymal ducts, which convey tho tears into tho nose, and the lachrymal sac, a dilatation of the canal. Linseed-oil increases in weight when exposed to the air in a vessel protest ed from the dust. So far as iti phys ical qualities are concerned, it under goes a gradual change, assumes a darker color, becomes moro vicious and less inflammable. An cxporimont made by a Bavarian chemist resulted in 3.5 ounces of pure linsoed oil in creasing 0.31 ounces in weight after the oil had been exposed to the air eighteen months an increase-of about eight per cent. When eleotrio motor3 were firit ap plied to cars grave doubts wero enter tained as to the resultant effects of the extreme jarring on the polos of the field magnet, in the light of tho knowledge that a permanent magnet loses its magnetism by jarring. Tho law of compensation scorns to abound in nature, since it is now proven that tho field magnets, which aro not per manent magnets, iuoreaso in magnet ization by the jarring to which they are subjected. An arrangement for heating water by an incandescent electric lump iu the lighting circuit has been devised by M. Leon Pitot, of Paris, by which he utilizes eighty-live per cent, of tho heat given out by tho lamp. Ho claims that an eight-caudlo lamp will maintain the water at a temperature of forty degrees centigrade ; while a sixteen-candlo lamp will maintain it at boiling point. Tho receptacle, holding about a pint, affords, within tho larger lamp, boiling wut.T in ten minutes.. Fear as a Cause ot Disease. An eminent medical authority makes the statement that a great deal of contagion is due largely to norvouj apprehension aud fear. Terror causes radical changes in tho secre tions and nerve cells, aud while tho possibility is not the direct cause of disease, it certainly is sufficient to put the person iu the proper condition to be attacked by the prevailing malady. It is a well-understood fact that ex cessive anger infuses a toxic element into the secretions, nud the bite of a man iu a stute of frenzied rago is al most as deadly as that ofainnddog. Fear destroys tho resistive capabili ty and, as it were, lets down tho drawbrido and makes way for the en emy. Iu seasons o' cpiduinio, there fore, it is necessary to cultivate tran quility and cheerfulness, to learu not to fear and to surround oneself with au atmosphere of personal, mental aud physical defiance of daugers. If, iu addition to this, due precautious us to dress, diet aud rest are taken, one may walk in tho midst of the postilouco aud dwell in infected regions, and u j deadly thing shall harm one. New York Ledger. Sonic Oil Statues Found. Some interesting disooveries ure re ported iu the aucieut ltoinuu ci'y oi Thamugodis, in Algeria, now known as Tiuigad. Iu excavating the capitol many frugiucuts of colo isal statues, at least tweuty-eight feet high, havo beeu found. Truces of painting have bueu discovered ou three other statues re cently unearthed. It now appears in disputable that the uueients wero not content with the mere beauties of form, but p tinted their beuiittiul statues iu all tho colors of life. New Orleans Picayune. IUiimiucd lioM Fish. Mr. Edisou, at oua of his enjoyable scientilio seances, ha I a luto glo')o of gold fish whose unatoiuy was dis tinctly outlined and every u:'tiou oi each organ, was pluinlyseon. Tliistlio "wizard" accomplished by making the fish swallow miuuto iucau descent lumps uud by invisible wirucou lucted the eleotrio current. The tish ap parently wito not iujj.uuiodj I by their diut of sUotrijity, --Atlanta Co;i. sttiutiuu. MY SWEETHEART. Twos a quaint rhyme scrawled In B spelling book, And nondod to me with a bashful look, By my blue-eyed sweetheart so fondly true, In the door old school days long yoars ago "If you love me as I love you No knife can cut our love in two." ' That "Sanders' Bpollcr," to tatterod and torn, Has always a halo of romance worn, ) And nevor a poet with honoyoj pen Has written so precious a rliy mo slnco thon- "If you love me as I love you." Ah, doar, you know I did I do. I've kept It safely for many a year This dog's-enrod, shabby old spolling-book, doar, And now, as I hold It within my hand, Atfain In tho school-room I seem to stand Reading once more with rapture new "If you love me as I love you." How omo foolish snylng from out the pas! Like a rose branch Is over the pathway cast, And the time of flowers, wo still remember, Till minds blow cold In the bleak peoomber. Ood grant It always mny bo true ' . "That you love mo as I love you." Carolyn L. Bacon, In Buffalo Express. HUMOR OF THE DAY." N Doing time Tho lady who grows younger every year. Puck. It is usually a great big man who insults you. Atchison Globe. The politician's fovorito novel "Put Yourself in His Flace." Puck. Many do a heap of hard climbing iu search of easy grades. Chicago Her ald. Order of tho Bath Come right out of that water this miuuto ! Boston Transcript. No man can worry about how ho looks and keep his bank account grow ing. Atchison Globe. Some people aro of such happy dis positions that thev never amount to much. Atchison Globe. A great deal of the piety of to-day is a thing of groat beauty because it is only skin deep. Puck. Never put any confidence in the answers of a man who is afraid to say "I don't know," occasionally. Don't think that because a man has done .you a favor ho is undor everlast ing obligations to you. Puck. Butter is prime whilo it's fresh ; but a man has long lost his freshness when he reaches his prime. Puck. , "Are you certain that yon love mo?" "I am." "But are you suro that you are certain?" -New York Press. The lawyer who worked like a harso was engaged in drawing a convey ance. Boston Commercial Bulletin. May "Next to a man, what's tho jolliest thing you know of?" Ethel "Myself, if he's nice. "Brooklyn Lifo. One of the dampers of ambition is the foot that the mantle of greatness has to be worn as a shroud too often, Puck. One's own capacity is a poor stand ard of measurement ; tho stars shine, though my near-sightbd neighbor deny it. Puck. When a man docs not want to do a thing he says "I cannot;" when he cannot do it ho says "I don't want to." Fliogendo Blaettcr. The iverage dwarf is ftt ft very se ripus disadvantage. No matter how largo his income he is always sure to be short. Buffalo Courier. When a boy goes out West hunting, and writes home that he killed a deer, he can fool" his mother, but he can't fool his father. Atchison Globe. As the express dashes through the station "O, porter, doesn't that train stop here?" Portor --"No.mum ; it don't even hesitate." Tit-Bitv To his mute the caterpillar s il l In a toae o( otutlou, soft aud fow. As tliny eluuK to the branch just overhead, Got onto the the girl iu the hammock below. Washlngtou Htar. A mm regard his newspaper muoh as he doos his wife something to find fault with wheu ho feels cross end something houover approves of--Atchison Globe. ' "I love to listen to the patter of tho rain on tho roof," said the miserly poet. "I supposo you do," said his wife. "It's a cheap auiusomoiit." Harper's Bazar. Dora "Don't you think my gowns fit better than they used to? ' Cora "Yes. Your dressmaker told me yes terday sho was taking lessons iu geome try." Harlem Life. Mr. Oldstylo "I don't think that a college education amounts to much." Mr. Sparerod "Don't you? Well, you ought to foot my boy's bills and see." .Now York World. No woman is such a slouch nt mathe matics that she can't tell in half a minute how much her husband would save iu tho course of u year if ho shaved himself. Atchison Glob'.1. One of tho unexplained mysteries of life is how difficult it is sometimes to get iuto a comfortable posit iou wheu you go to bo l, aud how unusual to iind one that isn't comfortable wheu you havo to get up. --1'uck. Jiuks (on the rai!)--"I vas tulking with au eminent physician iu tho smoker." Mrs. .liuks "What is his name?" "Uo didn't mention it, aud I did not like to ask." " Then why do you think ho is au eminent physi cian?" "I asked him w hat was tho best euro for consumption, aud ho said he didn't know." Puck. C'.tbmau (at library) "-Say, is this here the novel you advised mo to read?" Librarian -- "Yes ; that's the one.'' Cubmau - "Well, yoa eautako. it back. There's nine penplo iu the first four chapters ttlin hired cabs, nud each of 'cm wheu he got out 'lluug his purse to the driver.' Now wheu I Waut that sort uf literature, I'll (,o to Jul)j Vai'ue aud gvt it puts. '' CUi'
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