THE FOREST REPUBLICAN b pbtM4 tnrj Wta4a, kf J. E. WENK. Cfflo la Bmaarbangh A Co.' Bafldlnf MLM tTBSIT, TJOffBSTA, r Terms, ... utrTtir, erlrlm rclv tm I eUi Mr1o4 tki tftrw Bi.niha, OorrMpsiiSme Mltett lr l prm f t eonrtrf. N. He will k tka f uniMui osmiiktUtu. RATIS or ADVERTISING! On Bqnar, on inoh, n fftMrtlan. , OT On Bqaar, on Inoh, on month..,, I 09 On 8qurt on inoh, thra month. , 00 On Hquar, on inch, on yew ...... 1 H Two 8qu.ru, on yr .. 1ft 0C Quvtxr Column, on rwr , 80 (K Waif Column, on ymnr DO 00 On. Column, on. ymr.-r. ... ...... KWV LC1 advsrtiMiiunta to oat p Um aeh bmrtion. JbORE PUBLICAN, Marrtag tad oaath notion franc. All bill forywu-ly mnrtlnmna VOL. XXVII. NO. 45. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEB. 27, 1895. S1.00-PER ANNUM. quartarly. 1 amporary adrwum b paid In advano. Job work -oub on daltvwy. RE California supplies Boston with cod fish and beans. ' In spite of the large boantios it en joy the mercantile marine of Franoe continues to dwindle. For the area, the cost of street cleaning in Now York is nearly double that of any other city in the world, Tho New York Advertiser maintains that tho frying pan is responsible for at least COOO ailments that flesh is heir to. L. .. .. . . . It costs 80,000,000 a year to gov ern New York City. The total ex penditures of the National Govern ment in 1850 wero no larger. The centnry is old ; only six years remain to it. But thia is quite suffi cient to work mighty changes in the map of Asia, and perhaps in that of Europe, also. The arrival of 6,718,000 hogs in Chicago during the past year would teem to indioate to the New York'Ad vertiser thnt that city is getting tho fat of the lund. Since the year 1891 more than 11,000 claims, aggregating $10,000,000, have been made fur land taken from tho In dians. The sums paid since 1799 un der tho act passed that year for what' re called depredation claims will amount to more than one Lundrod billion dollars. According to the Real Estate Reoord, office buildings which oost upward of SI. GO a oubio foot ton years ago can now bo creoted for from thirty to forty cents a cubio foot. This great ear ing, due to the increasing use of 6team and mechanical devicos, mast finally result in a marked reduotion of rents. Football playing is not only e. teemed an excellent advertisement for college, but some preparatory schools are said by tho Now York Bun to have gone to the length of enticing good players from rival schools by th offer of free tuition. This means good deal, sinco tuition in fashion able preparatory school costs a pretty sum. The gypsy moth which is taking possession of New England is an im migrant from Franco. It reached New England in 1870, 'and has since multi plied in an alarming way. Its cater pillars are very destructive, and New Englund would like to have a Federal appropriation of (200,000 to use in preventing it from interfering with in terstate coninieroo. Deputy Sheriff Hall, of North Caro lina, stood in that State and killed an escaping prisoner who was across the line in Tennessee. Aooording to a recent decision of the Supreme Court of North Carolina he seems likely to escape punishment, as he was not in Tennessee when he committed the crime, and the crime was not com mitted in North Carolina. The Interior remarks : Asa nation, Japan is s child of the nineteenth cen tury. Tbe progress of Christianity in Japan is one of the marvels of modern church history. The first five years of faithful Christian struggle pro duced one convert. In 1872 was or ganized the first Evangelical Church of eleven members. Now thore are 8C5 churches with a membership of 85.C35. A little loss than 2000 miles of rail road were built in the United States lust year. That is almost the low water mark ia railway building, though tho yoars 1805, 18GG and 1875 J".ade likewise a meagro showing. For five years now the additional annual mileage has shown a steady and rapid decline. In 1890, CG70 miles were built; in 1891, 4282, and in tho three ensuing years, respectively, 4178, 2633 aud 1919, bringing the record down to January 1, 1895. . But all signs now indieute that the bottom has has beon reached, and that the busi ness will again resume its normal vol ume and activity. It is of great im portance to the prosperity of the ooun try at large tbat this form of industry be not impeded or prostrated by ad verse aud ill-considered legislation, as it sometimes has been, and it is to be hoped that all artificial obstacles to its resumption will bo speedily re moved. There are in the United States 179.C72 miles of coapleted road, 54,300 of which has been laid iu the lust ten years. Between this and the year 1900, with any luck at all, we ought to reach tho 300,000-mile lime, and are quite likely to do so. It looks now as if steel rails would soon be turned out at $15 per ton, a fact which in itself will impart a powerful impulse to railway building and all the indus tries allied with it. THE LITTLE VALENTINE. Though 'lis fnded now ai yellow With the dust of mnny years, Ami lis versss float before m To the mist of unshed tears, Vet of all tbe tender treasuros That around my honrt entwine, Titers U none 1 love so fonlty As this little vnlnntlno. For aronnd It rlln? nnd cluster Mom'rle of the long ago ; Of the sunny days of chllrihoo I, And the joys I medtokoow; Cherished drosms and youthful fannies, Thnt In thews old days were mine, Hover, like tho breath of roses, Itound this little valentine And like shadows flitting softly, Loving faces com nnd go Faces thnt have long been sleeping 'Neath the blossoms and th saow i Kni deir hnnde, that long hav vanished, On attain I olusp In mine, As I gas lu love and roverenco On this little valentine. Voices sweet that death bas silenced, Whisper to mo words of love, Iiiko the sound of angel mnsto Floating downward from above t Till nt last, the eohoes dying In tbs depths of mem'ry's shrlno, I am loft In sllenoa gar.lng On my little valentine. Bo, although 'tis dim and faded With the dust of many years, And Its versos float before me In tho mists of uushad teats; Vet of nil the tender treasures, That around my heart entwine, There is none I love so fondly As this little valentine. Julia T. Itlordan. A VALENTINE ROMANCE, BY. J. L. BARBOUR. Mfyff knowho'irftho mZSJO. l"nd of the livin' fW-vW.'. fei' nvnr snnt mn thai wooden rocking-chair, with her bon net and shawl still on, although she was ono of the most methodical of spinsters and mado it a rule to put her gloves, bonnet and shawl away, neatly and carefully, the moment she entcrod her house. But on this oc casion she- had sunk hastily into tho rocking-chair with oven her gloves on. She had been to the village post ofllec, and, to her unspeakable amaze ment, had received a valentine. She had not oven remembered that it was St. Valentine's Day until she had passed one of the village shop windows, hanging full of valentines, and she had said to herself when ehe saw them: "Dear me ! I thought that silly and redikilons custom of sending valen tines had about died out. Such non sense as, it is I But I gness only chil dren and fools do it." Five minutes later, Mr. Moses Moss, tho village postmaster, handod Miss Dyko a square, highly embossed white envelope through the littlo postoflice window. "I gaess somebody's sent you val entine, Miss 'Cindy," he said. "I don't think anybody' been so silly," she repliod, a little tartly. She was raroly given to joking, and she always resented jokes having even remote reforence to affairs of the heart. She acknowledged herself to be "touchy" on this point, and she felt offended when she knew that it was really a valentine that she hold in her hands. She dropped it quiokly into the blaok-cloth Laud-bag she carried, her face flushing crimson with indigna tion. She was so disoouoerted by re ceiving the valentine that ehe forgot to ask for the postage'stamps and en velopes she had come to the office for, but marched out very primly and stiffly, giving tho door of the post office a sharp little bang behind her. She felt quite mire that Moses Moss was watching her through the one lit tle front window of the postoffioe, and she hold her head very high and swung her black alpaca skirts scorn fully as she walked away. "I wish to the land I'd torn the thing into a thousand pieces right be fore him I" she said, as she turned the corner, "lie likely knows who sent it, as he's the postmaster and familiar with ev'rybody's writin'. An' Mose is such an old gossip ho'd be sure to tell the person who sent it if he'd seen me tear it up. Wish I had. " Her brown eyes were none the less beautiful because of the angry sparkle in them, and the flush of crimson on either cheek was very bocoming to MissLuoinda. She found her scissors, tho moment she entered her house, and cut off au end of the envelope with a snap. Then she drew out a dainty littlo cre ation iu pink and blue and gold on a foundation of white, satiny paper, with an edge of paper laoe. She held it out at anus' length, in her gloved hands. Hor eyes fairly glittered now, aud the crimson flush on her cheeks deopened. "Whoever sent me that thing is a fool !" she said. Thou she held tho valentine a little nearer, and said, scornfully ; "Humph I Hearts with arrers run through 'em. au' nasty little Cupids an' weddiu'-bells the idea of it I It's a perfect iu-sultl WlaD a wouiau gets to be forty-three yours old, as I um, tbe less sue thinks of Cupids an' weddin'-bells an' such nonsesnse, the better off she is. I've a good mind to put the thing into tbe tire, and what's this? l'oetry, as I'm a sinner !" The valentine had suddenly opened in her hands, and, in gilt letters, with a gold hear above aud below it, wns this verse ; 'Oh, lonely, lonely is my heart, Ho louoly, love, for thee, I'm happiest when I'm where thou art, Oh, wilt thnn oome to me? Oh, wilt thou come to m for aye, And be forever mine, To gliddnn all the future yonra? Buy i 'Yrs !' Bay i 'Yes ' My valentine. "Mercies I" cried Miss Dyke, as she let the valentine fall into her lap, whiio her arms fell limply to her sides and sue almost gasped for breath. I res- ently she said slowly, nodding her bonneted head to and fro : "I just wonder wbo did send me that silly thing? Some mischiev oils school-boy, likely. But, no; he'd sent me one o' them nasty comios with a picture of an old maid on it with a nose a yard long and a sassy verse printed on it. 1 never saw thut writ ing before, that I know of." She took up the envelope and scru tinized the address carefully. "No," she said, "I never saw that writing before. Now, if I knew who sent mo that thing, I'd send it right back with a note, telling 'em just what i thought of em. I vow I would!" She put the valentine back into the envelope and gave it a spiteful little toss over to a small stand near her. Then she rose briskly, took off her bonnet and sbawl. exchanged her black alpaca for gray mohair house-dress ond a crisp white apron with wide crocheted lace on it, and sat down by ttio littlo stand with a piece of half finished sewing in her hands. The valentine fell to the floor at her feet, when she took uu her sewiuir. She let it lay where it had fallen for several minutes, while she stitched away in silenoe, drawing the thread through the cloth with quick, short jerks. Suddenly she stooped and picked up the valentine. "How did that silly verse go?" sho said, as she drew the valentine from its envelope, "Suoh stuff as it is anyhow I" She road it again and again, heed less of the foot tuat the cat was snarl ing up dreadfully the contents of her workbasket. "1 know what I'm going to do," she said, suddenly. "I'm going back to the postoflice and make Moses Moss toll me whose handwritin that is on the envelope. He'll know, and he'll tell me, too. Mose always was a good natured follow, and he'll tell me if he knows. I've just the faintest s'pioion that old Jasper Hoyt may have sent me this. They say he's half cracked to marry again, and his first wife not six months in her grave. La t I want it flying back to him with as sassy a letter as ever ho got, if I find Jasper iioyt aid sena.it. "Or it may bo that it came from Silo Lawson. Some think ho wants to marry 'cause bo's painted and fixed up his plaoe so, and got himself so mo decent duds. He'll never marry me. It may have oome from Judaon Sparks, and there ain't no one I'd sooner send it flying buck to than him. He worried his first wife into her grave, and he'd never get the obunco to worry mo there, not if he'd get down on his bended knees and begged me to have him. John Gleeson may have sent it for but I'll just go and find out of the postmaster who did send it, I'm just ourious to know." But there was something more thnn mere curiosity in Miss Luoinda's .lonely heart as she walked back to the post office. Not for the world would she havo admitted it even to herself, but there was a feeling of pleasure as well as of curiosity in her breast now. She could not dismiss the doggerel lines of that verse from her mind ! " 'Say i "Yes I" Say : "Yes !" My Valen tine.'" she repeated, reproaching and scorn ing herself for her weakness in doing so, and saying stoutly to herself : "The man don't live that I'd say; Yes' to ; no, he don't. What a big goose 1 aui anyhow." She . reached the postoflice. The postmaster was alone in the neatly kept little room. He was a short, stout, kindly-looking man of almost fifty years. He had childish-blue eyes and a round, honest face, a little inclined toward efl'omiu acy iu some of its outlines. The softness and sweotnoss of his voice were surprising when one looked at his Bwelhng chest and broad shoul ders. Everybody knew and every body liked Moses Moss. Lucinda Dyke had known him all of her life, aud sho had never called him anything but "Moses" or "Mose." Now she said quickly, eager to do her errand before any one came in : "bee here, Moses, 1 want to ask a favor of you. " "All right, 'Cindy. Ask away." "You know that some great goose had no more sense than to send me a valentiue?" Moses's smooth, round cheeks crim soned. "I knew you got one a while ago," he said. "Think of it! Tha idea! Well. now Moses, I want you to tell lue whose handwritin tbut is." She laid the envelope before him. He lookod at it and then at her, the womanish blush deepening in his cheeks. "You know, don't you?" asked Mint Lucinda. "I felt sure you would, you being postmaster and seeing ev'ry- body s handwriting so much. iuu know thut, don't you?" "What you want to know for, "Ciudy?" "Well, because I do," she said, quite sbarply. "If it come from the person I s'pect it come from, he'll get it buck in short order." "Whom do you suspect, 'Cindy?" "I uiu't going to say." "It may be ag'iu tho Qov'ment Postoflice laws for me to tell without a written order front tho l'o.itolllee Ueu'ral." ".Stuff, Moses I Mose, how's he go iuuf to kuow anything about it? And, do you s'pose tbe Postoflice Oen'rul cud the President aud his Cabinet u going to hang you if you should hap pen to tell an old maid who sent her a silly valentine? You know bettor than that I Did Jas Hoyt send it ?" "No, he didn't." "It ain't Silo Lawson's handwrit ing?" "No." "Nor Judaon Sparks's?" "No, 'Cindy." "Did John Gleeson send it?" "It ain't his writing.'? "Well, who in creation didsendit?" "You'll get mad if I tell you." "Well, 1 won't get mad at you, any how, Moses." "Sure not, "Cindy?" He was leaning over a little counter, now looking up into her face with an eafur, pleading, searching look. "You sure not, 'Cindy?" ho asked again. "No, of course not," she said. "Why should I? I 1 why, Moses Moss'l" She stepped back with a wild, fright ened look. Something in his face and manner startled hor. "'Cindy," he said. "Why, I well?" "I sent it, 'Cindy. ' "Good Lor' I Mose Mobs!" "I did, 'Cindy. I Wait a mo ment, 'Cindy !" She would havo fled from the post oflice, but he reached across tho counter and caught both her hands in his, saying eagerly: "I did, 'Cindy 1 I did I I sent it." "Let me go, Moses Moss!" "Yoa won't send it book, 'Cindy?" "I I why, Moses Mossl" "You won't dear?" "Oh, mercy!" "Say you won't" "Well, I I won't -there." "Oh, 'Cindy, I've wanted for months and months to say what that poetry verse said, but I ain't dared to say it myself. I am lonely, and you must be, too, 'Cindy. You'll say 'yes' to that verse, won't you, 'Cindy?" "I I let me think. Oh, there comes old Mrs. Duke into tho office. Lot go my hands. She'll tell it all over town before sunset, if she saw yon holding my hands. I must go. I must go. " She jerked her hands away; and Moses called out after her : "If it's 'yes,' 'Cindy, when I go by to supper, you be settin' by your front winder, with that red ribbon bow in your hair, that you had on to the church social last night. Please, Cindy." Sho made no reply, but hurried out with orimson cheeks and shining eyes. At five o'clock that evening Miss Dyke's nearest neighbor, Mrs. Price, came home from a walk to the village store and said to her daughter, Martha : "'Cindy Dyke seems mighty happy to-night. Sho was soreechin' out a silly love song when I came by her house a minute ago, and she came to the door as I passed, and she had on her brown Bilk dress and best white apron and a red ribbon bow in her hair," "Maybe somebody sent her a valen tine," said Martha, with a little titter ing laugh, never dreaming that she had guessed aright. New York Led ger. A Crew of Deaf Mutes. The schooner Mary and Belle is probably the only vessel in the world that is manned by a crew that is deaf and dumb. The schooner is not a large vessel by any means, being about seventy feet long, but she is a neat-looking craft and her decks, spar and rigging look in much better con dition than those of many other ves sels whose crews can speak the lan guage to the Queen's taste, says the Providence (it. 1.) Journal. The cap tain of this craft, George Bennett, is a most intelligent-looking man, ap parently fifty years old. He is alive to all that is going on around him and seems toenjoy his silent and speechless life. The "crew," Charlie Malone, is also deaf and dumb. These two duaf and dumb men manage the stanch schooner Mary and Belle admirably. They are always on the lookout and sleep with one eye open, as good sailors always should. When they are caught in heavy squalls tbe Captain ranuot shriek out his commands, but simply attracts his man's attention by a wliistlo and tben tells bim what be wants by signs, while he sticks to tho wheel. The First Methodist Church. The 128th anniversary of the Meth odist Church in America has recently been oelebrated. Tbe first Methodist church in this couutry was organized in a sail loft at 120 William street, Now York. When the congrogatiou bud outgrown its quarters the edifice in John street was built. In 1818, when the church was erected, there wero 400 members of that denomiua tiou iu America ; now there are more than 5,000,000. Some of the old relics owned by the present congregation are tne origiual pulpit chair, the altar railing of tho Williuxi street churcb, tbe subscription book, which ooutaius the "iims given by tho charter mem bers aud entered in their own band- w riting, and other interesting articles. New Orleans Picayune. Dr. Lnrkwnod'ji Curious Experiments. A ffurious series of experiment on tbe hereditary transmission of mutila tions has been made by Dr. C. (1. Lockwood. By tho iu-aud-in breed ing of white mice for niuety-uit gene rations be obtained a larger aud tiuer animal thnu tbe origiual pair. Iu or der to breed their ttf.ls off, be selected u pair, aud, puttiug tUoiu iu a cuu;c by themselves aud clipping their tails, be got a breed of tuilltvis mice iu thy seventh generation. Then, by tnkin,' oue with a tail and on s without a tail, uud alternating the sexes iu each fen eration, ho linaliy h'aiu got u breed of all-tail mice. New York A Iver-tutr. THE WORLD'S SEA POWER, WITH OUE NEW NAVY WE RANK FIFTH. Modern Shipbuilding; a Itecent Art In America The Strength ol Kuro pean Nations. 1 HE navy now contains thirty- ' I one modern high-class war- Jt ships in active service, and fourteen more soon to be put in commission, together with thirteen iron and wooden steam vessels manned and armed, elcveu steel, iron and wooden steam tugs, thirteen single turret monitors and twenty-five ob solete steam and sailing vessels used for various pnrpo3ea. The number of sailors in the United States Navy is about 9000. Of tbe new war ships iu terviee, eighteen are steel armored or protected cruisers, seven sre steel gunboats, four are steel coast defense monitors and two are steel torpedo boats. Of the other new war ships well advanced in building or almost completed, five aro steel battle ships, three are steel cruisers, threo are steel gunboats, two aro steel coast defenso monitors and one is a steel ram. Three more torpedo boats, authorized at the last session of Congress, are soon to be built, raising the total nnmber of vessels of tho new navy in eight to forty-eight. Of tho ships now finishing, the three sister coast line battle ships Massachusetts, Indi ana and Oregon are nearly ready for commission, as well as the leaser battle ship Texas, the cruisers Maine and Olympia, the monitors Puritan and Monadnock and tbo ram Katahdin. The greatest of all, tbo mammoth sea going battlo ship Iowa, the crniser Brooklyn, and gunboats Nos. 7, 8 and 9, now building at Newport News, Vo,, will not be completed for a con siderable time. The others havo been delayed chiefly through lack of prompt deliveries of armor plates. In point of real effectiveness auJ practical naval power our new nav stands fifth in the list of Nations- Great Britain being first in rank. France second, Bussia third and Italy fourth, with Germany and Spain be hind us. Our great progress since the: beginning of tho new navy in 1883 has been achieved not so much in tha mere number of our ships as by their greater power and efficiency in speed, excellence of design 'and construction, quality of armor, penetration of guns and variety of types. The first ves sels were begun in 1884. They were the cruisers Chicago, Boston aud At lanta, and tho gunboat Dolphin, now used as a dispatch boat. At that time modern shipbuilding was an unknown art in America. No modern war ship had ever been constructed in the Uni ted States, and no armor plant had ever been established, nor had any groat naval guns been fabricated. But plants were rapidly reared, and to day we havo some of the best ship yards, armor plants and gon factories that can be fouud anywhere. Thero is not one of our new war ships that will not compare favorably with tho best vessels of her type in other couu tries during tho some period. Ono fact of which Americans enn fuel especi ally proud is that every part of our new ships and all the materials that have gone into them are exclusively of home production and manufacture. The principal Nations of the world are computed to have 2201 war ships, manned by 237,000 men and mount ing 8383 guns of heavy calibre. The average cost of maintenance per mau in the American Navy is 81500, in tho British Navy it is $1021. Great Britain, the foremost naval power, has in commission and in re serve 34 battlo sbipp, 17 coast defense ships, 100 cruisers, and 118 other ships not torpedo boats, or a total of 275. In addition sho is now buildiug and completing for sea service I) battle ships, iy cruisers and 22 other ships. Fiance has in commission aud re serve 24 battle ships, 8 coast defense ships, 43 cruisers and 112 other ships not torpedo, boats, or a total of 187. Then sho htiB in process of buildiug and completion 8 buttle ships, 2 coast defeuoe ships, 19 cruisers and 5 other ships. Guruiauy has iu commission aud re serve 14 battle ships, 0 coast defense ships, 31 cruisers, aud 21 other skips, besides 7 buttle ships, 3 cruisers and one other ship in course of construc tion. Bussia has 12) war ships, princi pally small ones, aud Italy hu 93. Including torpedo boats, the total number of effective war ships of all classes owned by the principal uavul powers of Europe is tttated to be: (Iroat BriUia, 723; Frauce, 707; Bussia, 380 ; Italy, 35 1, uud Ger many, 227. New York Recorder, Tha .Alan Who Picks Lock. In tbe lowest spheres of life the force of inventive faculty may be de tected. The burglar himself as a me chanical genius may be u rival of na ture. Au houest genius of an iuveu tive kiud invents a lock ; straightway another inventive geuius of a dishou est kiud picks tbut lock. A man, not a burglar, but a professed lockpickor, picked a subtle lock of a bureau for urn because I bad lost tho key. Tbo science tho man showed, the resource, the ingenuity, iormed a study, uud his efforts were soou crowned with suc cess. I wus struck by tbe skill the man displayed, but still more by the philosophy. "They call tbe muu wbo invented that there lock, sir, a gen tleman, uud they say hu'tf mule a tre mendous fortune by it ; but they gives no credit to them an lias learned to pick it, not a bit of it! Not they! And somo of them us cuu pick it they culls burglars and gives 'iu years ol bard labor, though they wus just ui clever as tbe lucky uu who set the thing a-goiug."---New York Advertiser. SCIEXTiriC AD 1SDUSTRIAL. Garbage is cremated in fifty-five English towns. Chicago's death' rate for tho year 1894 was only 15.1 per 1000. Soap bnbbles are round because every part of their surface is equally pressed by the atmosphere. A colony of medusae has been com pared to a collection of muslin sun bonnets floating right side up in the water. Over one-half of the sand of every shore is composed of minute ehclle, each of which was once the home of a living creature. Timbers have been removed from immense swamps, where horses could not penetrate, by building an elevated trolley through tho tree tops. The Pasteur Institute will hereafter obtain its serum for the treatment of diphtheria from horses condemned as no longer fit for the French cavalry service. The action of coffee on the body is mainly duo to a certain acid and oily properties contained in the berries, and greatly developed in the roasting process. The Japanese University has the most delicate series of instruments in the world for measuring earthquake shocks and plenty of material to use them on. The giant of all the telescopes of the world, the great Yerkes instru ment for the University of Chicago, will soon bo scanning the heavens with its immense cyclopean eye. The scintillation of stars, according to a new theory suggested by S. E. Christian, is largely due to the con stant passage between tho earth and the stars of small moteorio bodies, which are now believed to be drifting in space in the immense numbers necessary to produoo this effect. "Cancer is contagious," declared Dr. Guelliot, of Bheim, to the con gress of French surgeons held recently at Lyons, France. "The transmission may be direct from tho body, but it is effected more frequently through wear ing apparel or tabla utensils ; in two cases it was through a tobacco pipe." The ling has been found in the Col umbia River, which Professor Eigen niann finds to present no specifio dif ferences from those of Lake Michigan. The fish is found in all three of the great water basins of the Atlantic Slopo the Saskatchewan, St. Lawrence and Mississippi and its distribution is now extended to tho Paoifio Slope. It is estimated by Professor Dolbear that a lump of coal weighing a pound has in it energy enough to lift its weight 1000 miles high. He says that this energy is inherent in matter that every particle of matter is constantly exerting its force on every other par ticle, and that if not prevented they will come together no matter how far apart they may be. Some curious balls of hair, rolled up by the action of the waves, have been collected by M. Forel on tho beach of tho Gulf of Morgos, near some great tanneries. Iu some places they wero numerous enough to form n continuous stratum uudor the ground, and it is suggested that in time they might form very puzzling fossils for future geologists. Signs ot a Wet Year, P. Y. Baker, of Traver, made a trip to Fanoche grade last week, and on his return told of some woather signs pointed out to him by an old Mexican of that section. The Mexican showed him a number of tarantula nests that were built in an unusual manner. The tarantula digs or appropriates a hole six or eight inches deep and nearly an inch in diameter. He then makes a cement wall from bottom to top of the hole and about a sixteenth of an inoh thick. On the top he fits a lid so nicely that when it is closed the nest is impervious to the elements. His spidorahip raises and lowers the roof of bis mansion by meaud of a fiber hinge, which ho bus deftly placed on one side. The walls are always built up half an inch above the ground, but the pecu liarity about them this yeur is that they are built up four or five iuches above the surface of tho ground on which they are located. This is one of the many instances that have been observed iu which ani mals havo beeu prompted by instinct to protect themselves against incle ment weather, aud it is regarded as an unfailing sign of a very wet season. Selma (Cal.) Irrigator. A Famous Tonu Fair. Lancaster, Penn., is one of the few American towus with tho tradition of an annual local fair. It is a loui; time since the fuir was held, but it flourished onco so that it was tho event of tho year. The principal street of the little city was utmost hidden iu booths aud tables, and every sort of merchandise wus sold, from ginger bread to rich silks. Couutry lads saved their pennies tho whole year t have money for the fuir, uud ou fuir day every lad bought somothiug pretty for his lass. Lancaster wus then iu many esscutiuls a Gcrmuu village. New York Sun. A Street-Car Pulled by a Thread. A s'.reet-cur fitted with bull-beuriiigs was druwu a distance of Koverul hun dred foot by men pulling ou threo strands of ordiuary sowiug thread iu a recent experiment iu Cuuuda. A car riage manufacturer put another btyle of ball-bearings ou the uxles of n coach ordinarily pulled by four horses. A trained dog was hitched to the pole uud be drew the coach around the yurd with littlo effort. Tho com biuutiou of pneumatic tires an. I ball bearings would relieve much of tho strain now put ou horses. American Agriculturist. HEART-COIN. One day I gnve my heart's best dower To one whose tears were flowing, My sympithy In thnt dark hour Her poor, grieved henrt was knowlns. To ma she gav a rose, to-day. From oat her Iovb and sorrow 'TIs ever thus along life's way, We lend, or elso wa borrow. Did w rt . Diber "love or hate Thol.k loin will render," Mnyb, sometime, bofore too late, Our words weald be more tender f M.irgnret May, In New York Observer. Ill'Mim OF THE DAY. A man vh is crooked usually fol lows his own bent. You can usually tell an ass by hid lack of horsfc-seuse. Puck. Miss Elderly "I fainted last night." Maude "Who proposed?" Life. A man would be snrpiisedif hewers what a woman thiuks he is. Detroit Free Press. She "And what would yon be now if it weren't for my money?" He "A bachelor." rail Mall Budget. Elsie "She says s.e i twenty two." Ethel "Then s'lio must have deducted her timo allowance. " Puck. Let a piny house bo built Which no others may usi Thnn tha girls with big hats And the mon with big shoes. Washington Star. ne "Darling, will yon love me when I'm gone?" She "Yes, if you aro not toj far gone." Londcn Tid Bits. Miss Olds "Xcs ; he said yesterday that to him my faco was like a book." Miss Frend ".'a plain as that?"--Pnck. ' The first setback in many n man's life occurred at school when ho waa setback among thti girls. Rockland (Mo.) Tribune. "But what earthly rtso is it to ti.i cover tho North Toie? I can't Bee. ' "It will save future expeditions." Harper's Bazar. "How can there bo suoa a thing a whole day, yen kuow," mused Fwcddy, "when it bwoaks evewy ruawniug?" Chicago Tribune. "You'll please look over this small bill." Exclaimed tho duu. Tue debtor took it And tben said he, with weary sinlle, "I'd rather overlook it." Philadelphia Beeord. Pertly "There is one thing I have to say in favor of the wind when il whistles." Dullhead "What's, thai?" Pertly "It never whistles populai airs." Harper's Bazar. No matter how good tho doacon is, he will always look wise and pleased if anybody suggosts that he was a pretty lively young fellow when ha was a boy. Somerville Journal. 'I thought you told me that Mis; Brown had spent a groat deal of mouej on her voice?" "Well, so I did." "But she can't sing." "Well, Ididn'i say that sho oonld, did I?" Truth. Littlo Kich Girl "Don't you wish you had a pair of lovely red glovei like mo?" Littlo Poor Girl "Don't you wish you had a pair of lovely ioi hands, like mo?" South Boston News, Bronsou "Havo tho detectives found out anything about that burg lary yet?" Johnson "Yes j they've oome to tho conclusion that the mo tive for the crime was money." Bos ton Herald. There is a woman in Goorgia weigh ing COO pounds who makes moonshine whisky. Hasn't a woman who weight 600 pounds got trouble enough of hei own without making it for other people? Rockland (Mo.) Tribune. She (at the dinner) "I think our hostess is the most perfect lady I ever saw." He "Yes, but I notice that she made one break early in tho even ing." She "Sho always does that. It puts her guests more at thoirease. " Now York Herald. Rambling Raggsy "Will yer pleaso givo me a dime, 6ir, to get sumthin' to ent?" Citizen "What can yoa gel for a dime?" U. It. "I kin get a plate of hush for a nickel, sir." C. "What do you want with the othor five cants?" It. It. "That, air, is fur a tip fur tho waiter." New York Press. Sir Goorge "Look here, Johu ! My lady complains that when you see boi in tho street you never salute her. What do you uiten by it?" Johu "Boggin your pardin. Sir George, but iu a book on ettyketty which I pos seSH it ic set down thnt tho lady ought to bow first." Household Words. Tbo neighbor who borrows yout wheelbarrow aud rube aud spriuklinjj hr.so aud lawn-mower and one thiuj; and another iu tho summer never comes to borrow your suow shovel iu the winter. Aud when ho shovels oil his own walk it is touching to note with what exactness ho works np to the line where your lots divide, with out infringing the smallest fraction of uu inch upon tho snow that lies on yout part of tho sidewalk. Kocklaud (Me.) Tribune. 'J ho Tumi's (Jitwr Way. Paternal nlVection is uot perhaps tbe precise emotiou thut wo should be dis posed to look for iu tbo cold-blooded frog. But the Surinam toad tif which no fewer thuj ten specimens have just arrived at the Zoo -appear to oxhibit this pruisewoi thy uUitudo of luin.l to ward his Humorous progeny. When his mate lays hor egs tho solicitor father places them carcdill) upon her book, where in duo time thoir pret ence causes un irritation that pro. bice Humorous small holes, into which the eggs forthwith drop, la tbefo cells, which, from mutual pressure, gets to be hexjgomt), Itku honeycomb, Ihx young frogs are finally batohod, aud lor a bit scramble u'j.mt their moth er's back, hiding in their nurseries when, danger threatens. London News,
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