THE FOREST REPUBLICAN b MbltakH trtry Waaaetaay, kf J. E. WENK. Offloo In Bmoarbangh A Co.'e Bafldlnj MLM strut, tionuta, r. Torma. . . tUoMrTMr, Pa nkaertptlms raoT4 rt t Mart t1o4 OnrrMvandmea Mltclti4 fnna ftl af tha minify. N saUca U1 r,l UkM ll uninil anainaalcMloaa. ratis of ADvcarisiaai On. Square on. Inoh, ana lmarHaa.. 00 On. Kqtiara, on. inoh, on. month. ., $ 00 On. Rquara, on. In oh, Uirw montaa. , 00 On. Hquara, on. Inch, on. jw, ., 10 10 Two Hquaryi, on. jMr IS Ot Quarter Column, on. rear.. mm. Half Column, on. ;nr DO 00 On. Column, on. jnr, 100 HI Laal odirartiMmMita Urn onto par Dm ach inaartlon, Marriages and death aotlon. fratla. All nlllaforTearly adrertimrnanta eoOil quarterly. Twnporarj edvartuemaala aaaal tea paid in advanoa, Job work ea.li on dalfvary. VOL. XXVII. NO. 41. TIONESTA, PA.. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 30, 1895. .00 TER ANNUM. Forest Republican. A literary genius remarks that Japan needs on epio and China an epitaph. New Mexico ranks eighth in its out put of silver, and seventh in its out put of gold. Strange to say, llio improvement in firearms has not increased the mur tlorons result of battles. A French picture dcalor soys that all of his unsold pictures ore sent to the United States, where they bring fancy prices. . A: recent parliamentary return, fcliows that thoro ore upward of $21, flnn nnn i . ious Government departments of Great Britain. Of the 12.000 miles whioh form the land girdle of China, 0000 touch Rus sian territory, 4800 British territory, nd only 400 French, whilo 800 may bo described as doubtful. The warden of the Missouri Peni tentiary feeds the 2000-odd convicts in his charge at an average cost of eight cents each a day, and, accord ing to the Now Orleans riooyuno, they live reasonably well, too. The doliberato judgment of Jadgo is "that the oontinnanoe of the Turk ish Government after the last slaugh ter in Armenia is an insult to decent humanity the world over, and the Eu ropean politics that treats it feobly or overlooks it is a hideous crime." The mountainous regions of the western part of North Carolina truly nnora a typic.il section for both sum mer and winter resorts. This fact has been token advantage of by Northern people, who are now found in large numbers, enjoying life in this most delightful spot. Land suitable for fruit culture in California commands a much higher prioe per aore than 'in New York. Anywhere near railroads the prioe is from tl00 to $300 per note, without any improvements, and of course if there aro buildings and fruit trees planted, tho price is more. Dr. Joseph Parker, of the City Temple, London, is wswring with the reporters for reporting his sermons. He thinks that newspaper reports in terfere with tho profits of his pub lished sermons, aud has boon asking advice as to how he can prevent re porters taking notes of bis addresses. It is believed his only remedyis.to make a contract with Lis audience that thoy will not publish liis ser inons. " The ago limit in the Chinoso array is clastic, if there is any truth in an edict which is attributed to the Chinese Emperor. The document grants a pieoe of silk, ten bushels of rice and ten pounds of meat to sol diers upward of eighty years of age! A double quantity is allowed to those who have reached ninety yearn. A potent of nobility is granted to those who have survived their hundredth year. A man in Australia had a new and brilliant idea not long ago in regard to the interpretation of the clause in his marriage vows : "Till death us do part" His wife died, luokily for her, as the following facts demon strate, and since he was boqnd only till death to his wifo, the husband re fused to pay her funeral expenses. The court promptly decided that a husband's duties only cease when the Undertaker's bills are paid. Says the Electrical Roview: In young electrician, now in 1891 Paris, on looking through Carnegie's great steel rail plant at Braddock, Penn., casually suggested that elec tricity could be made to operate the widely separated pieces of machinery at a saving of tunny thousands a year. Recently Andrew Carnegie visited the plunt for the first time in two year andaw electricity doing the work. This wovomeut, together with ot.' J fylies it possible for eight men to do the work 600 did in 1891. An unusual thing, related by the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, in connection with the court is the holding, by the United States Grand Jury, that Scrip tural quotutions may be libelous. II. A. Busby, of Means, Harrison Coun ty, was indicted for writing letters and postal cards to David Haudley, of Colu ubus, Ohio. On the envelope of the letters were the quotations : "Owe No Man Anything," "Let Us Walk Honestly," aud "Many Years Tbou Shult Be Troubled." Ho was indicted on tout counts on tho ground that the language used ivfis libellous and calcu lated to injure the oharnctor of Mr. Hundley. ".-- THE TEL-EORAPH, The darkness and the sllenoa 111 Between your soul and mine, Like somo grout rlvor rolling by B.-neath a night of stormy sky, Where not a star nwy shlno. Iiit, as beneath the sullen brtnS "fwlxt Innds of klndrod speech, Tliore runs a slender, living line O'er which there flish.by ltghtnlngslgn, The thoughts of each to eaoh, Bo, 'nnnth the parting flood of donth There runs a living lino OI steadfast memory and fnlth, Of love not born for mortal bre ith, Between your soul and mlno! -Samnntha W. Bhoup, In Independent. AS IN A LOOKING GLASS. ficKNE. Boudoir nnd toilet of a society belli". . The belle, who. bolides uclnir vorv beautiful. Is (-till voumr nnd fresh. Is seated In front of hor dressing tnlle under the hands of her innld, who Is preparing her hair for tho night. On the dri mlng table are a tnlr- rorand various article of the tollot. HE Maid "Mado- moisello was a great triumph to night; no?" The Belle (ab stractedly) "Yes, Celeste, I think so." The Maid (with fftittu.kjwit4 nil fall down and adore mademoiselle ; no?" The Bolle "No, not all the men. Some of them. Enough of them. (Sighing). Too many of them." The Maid "That is good. Made moiselle has embarrassment of choice. " The Bolle "Yes, an embarrassment of choice. Yon speak truly, Celeste. (Sighing again). It is that which makes me but, bah ! why think of it all? I suppose it is the experience of all girls like me in society, with a for tune, a face and a faoilo tongue. There! That will do for to-night, Celeste ; I am going to sit np for a little. I may read and I may write, I cannot say." The Maid (horrified) "But made moiselle has already lost so much of the boauty sleep. The Belle "I am restless. Be sides, if alt be true that men have told me to-night, I do not need it. Good night. Celeste. " The Maid "Good night, madomoi solle !" (Exit maid). Tho Belle (alone) "Five proposals in one night That is, counting one that I suppose does not ought not to oount. Four of them at any rate such as a girl in her second season should jump at. As for the fifth well, I won't think of it, I mean, if I can help it I won't. Yet but what nonsense 1 Let me review the others. First came old Totterly. Sixty years old he said he was. lie is eighty, if he is day. Worth fonr millions, he said. That part is probably true. But, oh I Let us pass on to the next. Philip Egcr ton Denning, the writer and thinker; 4 he literary lion of the season. Funny no should fancy me. I like him, too, myself, I cannot help admiring -his intellect, and I feel that I should al way s respect him. Yet (mnses sev eral minutes, then sighs). Who next? Oh, yes. (Laughing heartily). I must not forget him. Lord Tuffnut, the latest British importation, who did me the honor to offer me, with a monocle in one fishy eye, his title, his mortgaged estates and tho family tree that, in iU time, has borne an abundance of just such overripe fruit aa he is. And for what? My youth, beauty, and money. Nonsense. Next. Ahem I The same thing, in a measure, oulv of our own manufacture. Tracy do Puyster Van Trefter, of the most oernlean of blue blooded Knicker bocker stock. Truly our country bos reaohed a wonderful height in her in dustries when she can turn out any thing so nearly like the English arti cle, even to his morals, as Traoy de Puyster Van Treffer I There they are, all of them, labelled to the best possi ble advantage. All except Jaok. Poor Jaok I Well, I might as well list him. Jack Willoughby. Something down town. X oor as a church mouse, handsome as Apollo, and true as steel. Ah, welll (sighing) I suppose I must not think of him. It is lucky, though, that some one interrupted us when he proposed, or I might have said yes. I was overoome with the heat of the ball room ; and when he put his arm around me, and whisperingly begged for an answer, I felt so weak, for the moment, that 1 don't think I should have had strength to refuse him. But somebody came, Bomebody always does, and I suppose I am safe. I promised them all au answer in a week An embarrassment of choice. Celeste said, (Closes her eyes and thinks.) as A half hour or more passes, during which the belle appears to bleep, bud denly she opens her eyes. The Belle 1 must have slept. But nothing in my dreams seemed to offer me any help. Oh, dear ! Is there anything or anybody that can show me what to do?" A voice "There is." The Belle (startled) "Good gra cious! What wag that?" A Voice "Don't bo frightened. It was I." 1 The Belle (still 'more alarmed) "But who are youj? ."Where are you?" A Voice "Your mirror." The Belle "But, good heavens! Mirrors cannot speak. " The Mirror "Mirrors can do a great many more things than people give them credit for. We reflect; why should we not speak? That we can do so is proved by my talking to you now. I have listened to all you have thought aud would help you." The Belle (trembling) "Was I thinking aloud?" The Mirror "No. Butyoucanuot think aud look into my face without everv thought l'-jiu- known to ma Mm mm tveu though J niay nut reveal what is in your mind. I want to help yon to decide yur future. Are you willing, that I shuld?" The Belle "You mean with regard to-" The Miiror (blandly) "I nionn with regard to the fivo proposals you receive 1 to-night." Tho Bello (after a pnuse) "Which shall I accept?" ' Tho Mirror "That I may not tell yon. I can simply help you to judge for yourself." The Bolle (anxiously) "How can yon do that?" The Mirror "By showing you yourself, your surroundings and your condition of mind, live years after your marriage with any one of your wonld-bo husbands of this evening." Tho Belle "Ob, dear! This is worse than chiromancy. Wouldn't eh wouldn't it be wicked?" The Mirror "Not so ricked as it wonld be to marry the wrong man." The Belle "I suppose that must be true. Well, what must I do? Tho Mirror "First, turn down the gas. Then place yourself facing me, and light the spirit lamp of your curl ing-iron apparatus. Now, take some of your pearl faoe powder, sprinkle it on the name, and wait, (she does so, The Biirfaoe of the mirror becomes heavily clouded). Which would you see first?" The Belle (laughing hysterically) "Oh. take thorn in their regular or der." The Mirror "Then, Mr. Totterly, the eighty-year-old millionaire, first. What can you see? Speak!" (The cloud on the faoe of the mirror gradu ally clears in the centre, disclosing a picture.) The Bello (in a low voice) "I see myself, handsomely dressed, covered with jewels, at an evening reception. Many men are around me offering me attentions. For some reason I dare not accept them. In a corner, jealously watching me, I see Mr. Totterly. He scowls every time a man pay? me a compliment. Everything is bright around me, but the very brightness seems to weary me, and remind me of something lacking." Tho 'Mirror (grim'y) "Are you happy?" Tho Belle (shuddering) "No. Al though bored to death where I am, I droad to go homo, because I shall be alone with him, my husband. I see nothing bnt despair and waiting, con stant waiting for release." (Picture vanishes). Tho Mirror "Yon will not forget that. . Now look upon this. (Again a picture forms). What do you see?" The Belle "I see myself again, but alone. I have been reading, but hay tired of it There is something I want to do, something I want to'feel, bnt I cannot. In a little room nearby I see Philip Egerton Denning, my literary, intellectual husband. He is very busy, writ'hg. In ray utter loneliness, I get up and go to him. Stooping over, I gently kiss him on the brow. Ho frowns, pushes me away, and tells mo I destroy his ideas. I sign, turn away, and go to bed." The Mirror (ironioally)-"Are you happy?" The Bello (bitterly) "No. All the warmth in my heart is gradually be ing frozen by the oold indifference of the man I have married. Ho is too brainy to lavish any affections on his wife; his growing fame is more im portant than domestio ties. Show me the next" The Mirror "Well, what see yon here?" The Bello "Another reception. I am Bitting alone, however, utterly ignored by the many women present except in the way of an occasional supercilious glance at my gown, or a whisper to some one else about me be hind a fan. I think it must be in England. Some of the women have red noses, and they all look tired and bored to death." The Mirror "It is. It is tho fifth year of your reign as Lady Tuffnutt." The Belle "1 see myself moving into another room where everybody is playing cards. His Lordship, my husband, is there, gambling like the rest. I tell him I do not feel well aod would like to go home. He advises me to go home alone or amuse myself in the conservatory.' He says there is too much of his money on the table to go then. He meaus my money. I have seen enough of this." The Mirror (mockingly) "Aro you happy?" Tho Bjllo (sadly) "No, but I am gradually beooming deadened to my misery." The Mirror (as a new pioture ap pears) "Now you are Mrs. Tracy do Pnyeter Van Treffer, a member of the native aristocracy of New York. Can you see yourself?" The Bello "Yes. I see myself once more alone. The room is haudsomoly furnished ; everything looks nob. and good. But I am waiting anxiously and listening intently. At every sound I get up and look through the blinds into the dark night. At lust, as dawn is breaking,, a cab drives up ; I hear it. A few miuutes afterward my husband enters the room- He suolus me iu-a thick voioe for remain ing up. A quarrel ends in. my burst ing info tears. He stoops over me to kiss me and I nearly faint with nau se" 1 " The Mirror "Are you happy?" The Belle (derodly) "No. I am hu miliated by his neglect, diBgusted with his manner of life, and harassed with constant suspicion. I am utterly wretched." The Mirror (slyly) "There is only one more picture. Do yon want to bee it?" The Belle (confusedly) "Yes, I sup pose I may as well. It is probably like all the rest." The Mirror (as the last picture ap pears) "Then behold ! Aud tell what ou see." i Tle Belle (very softly) "I sue my self again. I am sitting in front of a co.oy fire of eoft coal, sewing some thing light. Near mo is near me is yes, it is Jack. Mr. Willoughy. I mean. He is talking to me very goy ly, and I am smiling nnd listening. Now tho door opens and two children como bounding into the room ; a boy and a girl. They want to bid us good night, they say. They look so mnch like Jack they might almost be al most bo his nephew and niece." Tho Mirror (gently) "Aro you happy?" There is no answer from tho bolle, for she wakes np with a start. The Belle (after looking earnestly at the mirror, which is as bright ascrys tnl) "I have been dreaming and it is nearly five o'clock But I am not sorry. An embarrassment of choice, Celeste said. I thought so, too, but we were both young. I told her I might read nnd I might write. (Smiling.) Well, I have read a great deal ; I think I will write a little. (Writes.) My Dearest Jack : I don't think I will keep you waiting a weak for my answer. I am yours as soon as yoa come to claim me. Ethkl Life. WISE "WORDS. A rogue is a roundabout fool. A full jail is better than an empty one. Gossip is gencaliy desire to get even. --''' A drop of ink may make a million think. It ia a rare man who can do a favor delicately. You seldom admire a man you see a great deal of. Rank and riches aro chains of gold, bnt still chains. It is not hard to forgive a lie told with good intent. One drop ot scandal will spread over a whole life-time. What we place most hopes npon generally proves most fatal. Everything a man likej to do a woman can prove is wicked. . The man who Knows the worid and is not a cynio is usually a fool. An evil intention perverts the best actions and makes thorn sins. In the meanest hnt is a romanoe, if yon but knew the hearts there. The fools are not all dead yet, and, what is more, they never will be. Every humin heart ought to be a bird cage with a singing bird in it. - Of all virtues justioe is the best. Valor without it is a common pest. The happiness of your life depends npon the character of your thoughts. The wise man expects everything from himself ; the fool looks to others. The people pay more for love than for any other necessary evil on earth. The more friends a basinnss man has the more things ho sells below oost The trouble with most people's economy is that they don't save any money by it. The younger a woman is the more indignant she is when she hears of a bad husband. It is all right to vote for the coun try's prosperity, but yoa must work for your own. What is birth to a man if it be a stain to his dead anoestors to have left such an offspring? A Remarkable Fall ot Stone. M. L. Fletcher, an English mineral ogist, tells of a remarkable fall of stones whioh took place at some early date in the history of Mexico. He describes fourteen hnge masses in all, and advances the very likely theory that they originally formed a single meteorio mass that was shattered by the intense heat engendered while passing through the earth's atmos phere. The fragments of this immense meteorite are scattered over a section of country sixty-six miles in length and twenty-two iu width, and it is es timated that its total weight was but little short of 20,090 pounds. One piece oi it, now iu the National Mu seum at Washington. Atlanta Consti tution. How Horses Sleep. When the horse sleeps, one car is direotly forward, why it is not known. A naturalist thinks this is to guard against danger, being a survival of their original wild habits. Ho says : "Watch a horse asleep through the window of his stable, and make a faint noise to the front. The ear will be all attention, and probably the other will dy round sharply to assist. Now let him go to sleep again, and make the same noise on one side. The forward ear will keep his guard, with possibly a lightning flick round, only to re sume its former position. Mew iork Dispatch. laineJ a Pair otElk. A Chchalis County (Wash.) farmer has lately been creating a good deal of interest with a pair of elk whioh he had tanned and trained to do many things usually done by horses. A few days ago a traveler ottered him a good yriea ior Ids elk, . but the farmer re fusi.fl to part with"" them. The same ft isrTL t aougar got into his barn and ate up'ono of the creatures. Chicago Herald. . : MVrolu Silver." "Wrath "silver," from the several parishes of his hundred of Kuightlow iu Warwickshire, iu England, was col lected a few days ago by the Duke of Buucleugh as lord of the manor. The custom dutes back to feudal times. For every penny uot forthcoming the prescribed penalty on tha defaulter is jO or eloe tiie forfeiture of a white bull with a red uooo and ems. Chicago Herald. TI1E MERRY SIDE OF LIFE, STORIES THAT ARB TOLD BT THE FUNNY MEN OF THE FRE33. Busier Than the Bre Abasement Mteral The Point of View Adds Nothing to It, I.tc, i:tc. How doth the little busy ad Improve esch shining minute. And gather dollnrs, dimes r.nd orn'.t For the merchant who Is In It. THE POINT OF VIEW. Carson "To what school of writers does Scrawls belong?" Vokes "He poses as a realist; but bis creditors ssy he is a romancer." Truth. ABASEMENT. Penelopo (freezingly) "You do not' love me." Ten Broke (convincingly) "I wor ship the very ground that you in herit." Life. ADDS NOTHING TO IT. "The telephone is like a woman ; it tolls everything it hoars." "Ye;, that's so. And it's unlike a woman, too ; it tells a thing just as it hears it. " Life. NOBLE SELF-SACniFICE. Friend "Does Arthur smoke?" Sweet Girl "No; ho never smoked in his life, and he has promise 1 that if I marry him he will never learn. Is n't he noble?" Puck. LITERAL. "It's a good idea to make light of yonr troubles." "I do," repliel Happigo ; "when ever a creditor sends me a letter I burn it." Washington Star. oot rr. nopgood "Yes; Jobson hal rw peace of mind nutil he married that girl." Dewberry "Well, last night I heard her giving him a pieoe of hers." tucthfci,. "Waiter, is this cheese importe.1?" "Yes, sir; part of it." "What do you mean?" "Well, sir, the t.oles camo from Switzerland, but just the substanoe was made here." TWO STRINGS. "Why is Charley letting his hair grow?" "For two reasons. Ho intends to try football, an I if he's not a success nt it he's goiug to join the woman's rights party. " Judge. A MATTER OF INDIPFERKKCS. "Do you take any interest in the problem of whether or not Mars is in habited?" asked the young mau. "Oh, dear, no," replied the young woman. "Even if it were the people wouldn't belong to our Bet" Judge. GETTING EVEN. Jones "I told you tb.it I would get even with Smith, and I hive." Brown "flow did you do it?" Jones "I mde my wife pnt on her new two-hundred-and-tifty-dollar sealskin sioque and go anl call on his wife." Puck. A SATISFACTORY SUBSTITUTE, Irate Woman "Git out of hore, yon dirty Injun t Is it dinner you have the face to beg for? I'll sic one of the dogs on you I" Chiel Mnch-'fraid-of-water (placidly) "S'pose sio fat dog on big Injun; him heap glad. "Judge. RESIGNATION. "Is your wife lecturing on the des tiny of woman?" was the sympathetic inquiry. "Yet" "Isn't that a pretty heavy Bubject?" "Yes. But it could e worse. She might be at home making biscuit." Washington Star. an AurnoRmr. "Football, sir, is brutal. It is based largely upon the exeroise of brute force, and the opportunities of unfair tactics are such " "Oh, soy hold on. Have yon ever seen a game tf football?" "No; but' I hold clinics iu three hospitals in a college town !" Chicago Record, GOOD TO THROW AT TBB OAT. Book canvassers should take cour age from a story told by an English lecturer on "The Art of Bookbiudiug." A man of thoir profession had called at a house whose occupant met him with a growl. "It's no use to me, I never read." "But there's your family," said the canvasser. "Havou't any family nothing but cat. ' ' i'iVoll, you may want something to throw' at tho cat." Tho book was purchased. HB DIDN'T WAIT. "Mary I" It was the voice of the old man in the upper hall. "Yes. pa." "Is Mr. Simpbou still there?" "Y yus, pa." "And didn't the clock just strike one?" "I I rather think it did." "Well, you just tell him if he is there in ten tniuutts from now thai that is just what I shall do, and Mary!" "Yes, pa." "He will be that oue." I'lfteeu seconds later the frout dooi opened aud dote again softly and Mary was nloue iu the hall. New York World. SCIEMIFIU AX1) IXUUSTniAL. Imperfect c'othing is a cause ot much bad health. A Swedish musician has had a violiu made of aluminum. In Berlin they era making nnitri tions bread from flour and sawdust. An English paper contains the an nouncement of a cure for blushing. The very latest astronomical works catalogne between C000 and 7000 "double stars." The Somerset Railroad of Maine has purchased a snow plow weighing twenty-three tons. If a can of milk is placed noar an open vessel containing turpentine, the smell of turpentine is soon communi cated to the milk. Bulbs of incandescent lamps nro now blown with artistic designs in re lief, thus obviating tho use of a shade and increasing tho beauty of the lamp. An electric street sprinkler is in uso in Philadelphia. It has two thirty horse-power motors, holds 2700 gal lons of water and runs fifteen miles an hour. Platinum has been drawn into smooth wire so fine that it could not be distinguished by the naked eye, even when stretched across a piece of white cardboard. In Sweden a new electrolytic pro cess is being used in the extraction of zino from ores which have hitherto been considered worthless. It is said that pnre metallic ziuo has not been produced in Sweden for thirty yearr. Tho greatest astronomers, in specu lating upon what there is in space and the distance of external galaxies, cal cnlate that the nearest external uni verse is so far distant that light from it, travelling at the speed of 180,000 miles a second, wonld take nearly nine million years to reach us. A Mexican paper states that a new project for the sanitation of the sew ers in the City of Mexico, at a oost of about $25,000, calls for the building of some twenty-five winlmills in differ ent parts of tho city to rotate paddle wheels in the sewers and quicken the current to one metre per seoond. Six devices for the humane slaugh ter of domestio animals, four for horses and two lor oows, have just been im ported from Paris by the Connecticut Humane Society. A hood which blinds the animal is put on, and at tacked to it is a 'spike which when driven in with a hammer pierces the brain and causes instant death. A meteorite, weighing 196 pounds, has been found on the salt marsh east of Mnlga downs, Northwest Australia. It was an iron-stained mass of bright, pure metal, not a particle of stone be ing visible, and when struck with any hard substance rings like an anvil. It is two feet long, one foot at its great est width and eight iuohes thick. Uncle Sam's Farm. The following are the numbers of miles in each State and the Territories : Alabama, (32,250 square miles; Alaska, 577,390; Arizona, 113,020; Arkansas, 63,850; California, 158,300; Colorado, 103,925 ; Connecticut, 4990 ; Delaware, 2050; District of Colum bia, seventy ; Florida, 58,080 ; Georgia, 59,475 ; Idaho, 81,080; Illinois, 56, 650; Indiana, 36,350; Indian Terri tory, 31,400 ; Iowa. 56,025 ; Kansas, 82,080; KentuoKy, 40,400; Louisiona, 48,720; Maine, 33,040; Maryland, 12,210; Massachusetts, 8315; Michi gan, 58,915; Minnesota, 83,365; Mississippi, 46,810; Missouri, 59,415; Montaua, 148,080; Nebraska, 77,510; Nevada, 110,700; New Hampshire, 9305; New Jersey, 7815; New Mexioo, 152,583; New York, 49,170; North Carolina, 62,250 ; North Dakota, 70,. 795; Ohio, 41,060; Oklahoma, 39,030; Oregon, 96,030 ; Pennsylvania. 46,215 ; Rhode Island, 1259 ; South Carolina, 30,570 ; South Dakota, 77,650 ; Tennes see, 42,050; Texas, 205,780; Utah, 84,670; Vermont, 9565; Virgiuia, 42, 450;. Washington, 69,180; West Vir ginia, 24,780; Wisconsin, 56,040; Wyoming, 97,890. The total area of the United States is 3,602,990 square miles. New York Dispatch. liigh Smokestacks for Factories. Aside from the fact that tall chim neys are better for the publio health, by lifting the deleterious product of combustion far into the upper air, it would seem that technical considera tions alone might recommend them. But there has been a fad lately for low chimneys in factories, and W. B. Lo Van expresses the weighty opinion that they are a mistake. As to first cost, there is no saving over a high, well-proportioned chimney, and the entire drift of manufacturing require ments demands the building of high ohimueys so as to enable more fuel to be burued in a given time aud space, thus increasing the power and output of the boilers. A rapid draft is equiv alent to a large lire-grate urea, and has the advantage that the htrt'is transmitted much more rapidly to the boiler by reason of the higher temper ature obtained. Moreover, iu many industries, the gooJs produced are liable to be spoiled by smoke and smut permeating the lower strata of the atmosphere. Atlanta Journal. Wild Animals iu Texas. Sheep and cuttle ranchers iu South west Texas are asking tho State to help them to exterminate or keep down the wild animals that are playing havoc with ttock iu that regiou. So fur from the advent of settlers thinning out the panthers, wolvec, and coyotes, the animals are increasing greatly in numbers through the plenty of food afforded by the vast herds of cattle aud sheep. The rauchers have spent thousuuds of dollars in trying to abate the pest, but without avail, uud now they waut the Stute to take a baud. Chicago UvralX LULL AD Y, Denr little glil, good-night, good-night t The pretty birds In their nosts are still We watched the sun ns he Mnk from sight, Over the tree tops on yonder hill. T Two stars have come since the daylight Wflnt, Away over there In the sky's dark blue, rhry must be angels that Ood has sent To watch my baby the wholo night through. Denr little girl, gool-nlght, good-night I I hear the frogs In tho mondow call t rhey croak and croak In the evculng light, Down In the pond by the old stone wall, t think, perhaps, that they tell the flowers Never to fonr, though the world Is dark , They know the flreflv lights th hours All night long with his cheerful spark. Dour little girl, good-night, good-night ! Dear little head, with your silky hair, Dear little form that I hold so tight, Cozy anl warm In the nursery chair ! White lids ore veiling the eyes S3 cloar, Over their blueness tha fringfn creep, Slower and slownr I rou t you dear, My little girl Is aslo?p, asleep. Good Housekeeping. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Only the untried man wholly trusts himself. Dallas News. What nine men out of ten want u a home with hotel comforts. Puck. A preferred creditor is ntually ono that doesn't fight for prompt pay ment. Puck. These balloon sleeves evidently come of a desire to widen woman's Bphere. Boston Transcript. A man who is a complete failure is nearly always particularly fond of giv ing advice. Atchison Globe. It was a junior in tho Abilene High School who wrote "Evening Dawned at Lost." Leavenworth Times. An egotist reminds one of a lizard ; lop off a bit of him, he squirms a littie and straightway grows on again. Borne future generation. If wo make no mistak -, Will kick about the biscuits That papa uso I to bake. D.trolt Trlbun". If yoa can't remember what the string tied on yonr finger was to re mind you of, you are getting old. Atchison Globe. "That mast be a very good book Jumper is reading." "Impossible. He seems to be profoundly interested." Chicr.go Inter-Ocean. A housekeeper up town says her grocer is so slow with his delivery that when she orders eggs the boy brings her chickens. Philadelphia Becord. Morton "Are yoa sure that Penam is really reconciled with his wife?" Crandall "Yes, I am sure of it, for Bhe reads what he writes and he eat what ehe cooks." Truth. "They say it is electricity," said Pat, as he stopped before the iucandescent street-light, "but I'll be hanged if I see how it is they make the hairpin burn in the botthle." Yale Becord. Sympathy "My lord," said au overworked parson to his bishop, "1 have not had a holiday for five years." "I am very sorry for yonr congrega tion," replied his lordship, with a smile." Tid-Bits. Hostess "I am going to ask yon to take a charming widow down to din ner. Will you?" Burrows "Cer tainly. I'll take her anywhere that there is a crowd to protect me." Boston Transcript. Loud sobbed the tramp ; tne great wet to.irj Left large and briny tracks. "Fray what," quoth I, "if not too boM, Y 'ur heart so sorely racks?" " iw ! ' sobbed he, "I've just bean told About this Income tax." Boston Budget. We often snoer at the Egyptians fox being a slow people, but on the con trary they must have been a very busy race. Even the mammies appear to have been pressed for time. Book land (Me.) Tribune. "But, Emma, how con yoa prefer" the plain and shabbily-dressed Julius to my elegant and handsome broth er?" "That is quite simple; your brother is in love with himself, and Julius with me." Life. "I think Miss Smith and Mr. Jones must be engaged ; they have had their portraits taken together." "Indeed? I am glad to hear it. I knew wiien I introduced them that she wmild bo taken with him." New York Tr Jis. A Huge Moorse-llead. What is probably one of the finest moose-heads in the world was taken to Bangor, Me., this week by G. H. Crocker, of Fitzburg, Mass. The ani mal was shot up in Aroostook County at the Ox Bow, and the moose weighed 1400 pounds. It is about absolutely perfect in size, shape aud spread of the antlers. Tho antlers spread sixty inches, and when it is considered that fifty-oue inched is a large spread, some idea of the iuimentte antlers of this moose is obtained. The largest sot ol antlers of which there is any record if - ixiv-ono juclie.-i, and thisjujoae sur passed that animal in the shape and formation. Boston Herald. Loat Sugar iu Morocco. An important article of trade ia Morocco is loaf sugar, which is in general demand for presents. Every person approaching a superior, whose favor or good will it is desired to pro pitiate, is bouud to bring a gift. Ho cauuot appear oinpty-h&uded, and the form that is most oommonly taken by the gift is loaf sugar. New York Dii patch. ' A Stern Disciplinarian. General Couut von Uoseler, of tho German Army, is a stern old soldier and a strict diseipliuarisu. He has been kuowu to stop a subordinate iu the etreet and make him remove hit boots aud stockiu js to seo if his feet were clean. Chicago Herald.
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