THE FOREST REPUBLICAN J. E. WENK. Offlo la Bmearbanjh ft Co.'a Building km rrun, tionksta, r. It ATI S Of ADVEftTISINOl Fore ;PUBLICAN On Bon arm, on Inch. , M ifUM turn, .1 On quara. on inch, on month On Square, on inoh, thrae months.. On Hqu.m, on inch, on JW Two Hqnar, on yar .. Quarter Column, on ya&r....,, ...... Half Column, on yaar Una Column, ons yaar. ...... Lagal advartiaaniaiits to, east p each lum tVm. Marriage and death aotlca gratia. All billafnr vflarlvadvartimmanta Ofl 00 M no mot anoc 00 00 100 "tt JLk. tl4l0 pr Yvor. . ..tocrtrti..! ratalvcs fw a atari frto Ut lit n.nttia, vnrjtpndiir. MIICIU4 Itn U f tti quarterly. Taraporary advertiaammta b paid in advanoa. Job work oah on daltvary. eouruy. Ma aauoa will k Uki aaaiymaiu VOL. XXVII. NO. 50. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1895. S1.00 PER ANNUM. OUCaUaa. Hut one per cent, of tlio entire pop ulation of tins country has boon di voroed. A Minnesota judge has just ruled thnl a husband is responsible fol slanders uttered by bis wife. The nincteonth century will bo end ol with the ond of the yoor 1000, and Jot at its beginning, as a great many pooplo suppose, ho year 18D4 in the United Statei closed with 0800 mnrdors to its debit. "There are not 300 mnrdercrs on trial it. this conn try at present," signifl oastly remarks tho Detroit Free Press. Lord Coleridge and others have formally protected against the nse of rir.ti-toxine in English hospitals on tho ground that "publio monoy onght not to be devoted to experiments in physiology." . A Texas judge has declared the anti scalper law unconstitutional. He says that when a railroad company sells a tioket it presumably gets all it is worth, and that a scalper has the same right that dealers in other second hand articles have. W. H. Harvey and his wife, Mrs. L, M. Harvey, of Fullinon, 111,, hare been admitted to the bar of Whitman County. The New York Suu shudders to think of what would happen if they happened to bo retained on opposite siues in the same ease. It may be fairly questioned, admits the New York Recorder, whether the army and nary of Japan are not now oqnal to those of several of the Euro pean powers, and whethor the new Na tion on the Pacific isn't in a command ing position for future diplomatio vio toriea. i The Meade County (Kentucky) Mes senger complains that there are many prominent farmers in that oounty who taka no interest in politios. "Men who own hundreds of acres of land and who aro rated high in their com' munitles," says tho Messenger, "oan not tell you who are the probable can- ouiaces on tne state tioket." The number of desertions in tho French army inoreases oonstantly. In single week lately no fewer than fire deserters arrived at Strasburg alone wane at the present time some six hundred French deserters live in Al sace-Lorraine. About the same num ber have taken up their residence in Belgium; and Switzerland boasts still larger contingent. It will be remembered how the tor pedo boat, the Cunning, sneaked into Newport harbor in spite of the fact that a sharp lookout was kept for her ashore with the t istanoe of big search-lights. The value of these lit tle destroyers is shown to the New York Sun in despatches from the seat of war in China. The destruction of the biggest ironolads in the Chinese navy seems to have been the reeult of audacious and successful dashes by these tiny oraft. They oan finish any thing afloat so long as they are not found out in time. The fish supply La Lake Ontario is substantially exhausted, and the Chi cago Herald announce that the sup ply in Lake Erie is going rapidly. Fishermen have oauaed the fish famine by selling for fertilising purposes the mall fish caught in the net with those of eatable sice. The Ohio Leg islature is trying to devise a law for flab, protection in Lake Erie, but such legislation practioally would be use leas unless similar laws were enacted by other States bordering on the lake, and by Ontario. The magnificent fish preserves of the United States are not exhaustless, and, unless care is taken for their perpetuation the flnny tribes in publio waters will follow the fate of the buffalo. An attractive feature of the Cotton States and International Exposition, to be held at Atlanta, Go., next Sep tember, will be the reproduction of the World's Columbian Exposition in miniature by Q. W. Ferris, the builder of the Ferris wheel. The great World's Fair will be reproduced in its en tirety, complete in ovry detail, on a soale of 1-1 40th. This makes the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Build ing about ten feet long, and the whole exposition seventy-five feet long. Searchlights will be shown on the battleship and the various buildings, the intramural railway will be seen with oars in motion, the whaleback steamer will be seen arriving and de parting, and Lake Miohigau will ap pear in the distance. By electrical aud mechanical effects, sunrise, day light, mooDrise aud the White City by moonlight will appear in succession. YOU NEVER CAN TELU You on a never toll when you send a word- Like an arrow shot from a bow By aa archer blind be It cruel or kind, Just whoro It will chnnee to go. It msy pierce tho breat of your dearest friend, Tipped with Its poison or balm; To a stranger's heart in life's great mart It may carry its pain or Its calm. Ton never can tell when you do an act Just what the result will be; But with every deed you are sowing a seed, Though Its harvest you may not see. Each kindly act is an acorn dropped In God's productive soil; Though you may not know, yet the true shall grow And shelter tho brows that toll. You never can tell what your thoughts will do In bringing you hate or love; For thoughts are things, and their airy wings Are swiftor than carrior doves. They follow the law of the universe Each thing must create its kind; And they speed o'or the track to bring you back Whatever wont out from your mind. J Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in Munsey. HE DREW TEN THOUSAND. T 3.45 on the af ternoon of March 6, 1887, the roy iug cashier of the bank, in the city of London, cashed a check for $10,000, drawn by the highly respected Hrni of Ployd, Oow & Co., ol Fenchurch street, merchants. It was presented by the manager of the firm. At 3.55 the manager of Ployd, Gow A Co. handed in his books and checks amounting to $20,000. Tne paying cashier looked up as he heard his voice. tie oalled some one to take his place and disappeared into tho sec retary's room, and within twelve min utes the polioe . were at work on the case. The check presented at.3.45wasa forgery and the man who presented it some "bunimy," who had made himself up like Mr. Smith of. Ployd, Crow 4 Co. 'a. This was not a difficult -task. The counterfeit man was the same height aa the original and about tbe same make. - Smith had not spoken 100 words to the cashier during the five years his firm bad dealt with the bank. - , ; He always wore a blue serge office coat whatever the weather. He al ways wore a Bilk top hat, and it invar iably worked its way to tne back of bis head before he had worn it three minutes. . ' No oue ever saw him at the bank without his gold-rimmed eyeglasses and his tightly rolled umbrella. Smith had a friendly nod for the patrons he knew in a business way, but he seldom spoke a single word to any one. . , Offioers were ' lent to every railway terminus; they eearohed tbe hotels and very likely plaoe for a man to try to change his clothes. If the fellow had not some safe hiding plaoe se lected in advance the ohanoes were more than ten to one against his mak ing an esoape. 1 In room 5 of Cremane's private and commercial hotel, whioh I will admit waa not a first-class establishment, but still good enough for a traveler earn ing $20 a week, I read most of the particulars given above in the even ing paper. The officials had done their best to keep tbe whole affair dark until some clue was gained, but the reporters had been too many for them. I had como in from my rouud of calls utterly tired out. Beaching my room, I pulled off my boots, lighted a pipe, sat down with my feet on the bed, aud this bank business was the first thing which which caught my eye as I glanoed over the paper. I had just finished the article when the night porter came up. "Heard about the bank swindle?" he asked, aa he entered my room, without the preliminary trouble of tapping. "Just read it" "Cool chap, wasn't he? And, I say, there are a couple of detectives downstairs now. They say they've shadowed him here, aud they're go ing to search the whole plaoe. They are on the Moor below now, and will want to come in here in a minute." He had scarcely finished speaking when the men appeared. I was a head shorter than Ployd's manager. I was thin, while be waa stout, and I was young, while he was middle aged. But those old aleuthhounds came in on tiptoe, looked at me out of the cor ners of their eyes, and sat down on the edge of my two chairs to question me, the bigger of the two taking the precaution to place his Beat between me and the door. It was fully a quar ter of an hour before they had fin ished, and then they seemed to take it as a personal injury that I hadn't com mitted the crime. . Before my visitors left one of them suggested with a wink to his comrade that I might as well bo taken along on general principles, as there was no tolling what I would not own up to af ter a week in prison. But the other was not so evil minded. In fact, he took a fatherly interest in my welware and put his hand upon my shoulder pleasantly and compas sionately as he advised me it would be better to restore the money while there was yet time. I refused to dis gorge, and he went out sorrowing, saying that I had missed a golden op portunity and that I should like to re pent aud wear a convict's suit. - Tho hotel was thoroughly searched. Those men did their duty ; and I think would have carried off every soul within the place as a suspicions char acter had not the manager interfered, and the detectives finally withdrew,' with at least two pocketbooks crammed with notes. At 10 o'clock I was finishing my thud pipe and had long before ex ohanged my paper for a novel. I was just getting sleepy whon a queer thing happened. My bed was in ono corner of the room. I sat on a choir on thejeft hand side, with my feet across the middle. I had my book on a line with my eyes, and all hail been quiet for tbe last half hour, when suddenly a voico exclaimed : , " ' "Well, old man, that must bo an in teresting yarn. I bounded to my feet and saw no one. I looked around the room care fully, peering into every corner no one. I slipped toward tho door on tiptoe and opened it with a jerk and saw no one. Then I turned, and there was a man standing on the other side of my bed, He wasn't a ghost. He was made of blood, flesh aud bones like myself. To say I was frightened is putting it mildly. I was scared. I sank right into a chair, with my mouth open and my eyes bulging out, until my visitor laughed outright. "Who are you?" I gasped, faintly. "Well, that's a fair question," he replitjd. "I suppose you've got a right to ask. For the last three hours, up to a minute ago, I was the man under the bod, and now I'm the man on the bed, and emting the ac tion to word he lay himself out at full length. He was a cool hand. I knew human nature well enough to know he had plenty of nerve behind his cheek. "It wasn't all put on. As he lay there I noticed a revolver in his hand. Then I began to understand. Tho evening paper bad given a por trait of Smith, and I saw this was his double. It dawned 'on me all of a sudden that he was tbe identioal chap. "You were under the bod when I came in?" I queried, as we sat looking at each other, and I waa wondering how to reach the bell. "Exactly," he replied. "And you heard1 what the porter said and the detectives? " "Every word." "And, to come to the point, you're tne man they want. "I am." "How- the dickens did you get here?" "I didn't choose this abode for its oomfort," he said, "nor for its oom pany. I had other plans, iu faot. But they misoarried. I dodged into this hotel in searob of a temporary asylum, and it looks as I had found a lunatio asylura. Did you ever see 810,000 in one pile? It's a refreshing eight. See here." He watched me with pioroing eyes, and though he was toying with his re volver carelessly enough I saw he had his finger on the trigger all the time. He bent over from the bed and pioked up a bundle of notes from the floor. "This means a visit to the tailor's, quail on toast with champagne, a long trip to America or the Continent," and ho fondly patted the money. "So they've got an aocount in the papers, have they? I'd like to read it. Thanks." He ekimmed through the article with evident enjoyment, now and then chuckling to himself. The he said : "Pretty close shave, that. I'm sorry for the cashier, but suppose he will wriggle out of the responsibility somehow. Exouse my asking the question, but what do you do for a living?" "I n a traveler in calicoes." "Married?" "No." - "Ever been abroad?" "No." "Look here, old ohapfie,nhe went on with easy familiarity, as he. stretched himself on tbe bed, "you're giving me shelter and I'll do you a turn. Hand in your resignation and come with me. It will do you good and, open your eyes. This little pile will do us first class for a year'" 'l ll see you hanged first, you cheeky villuiu," I shouted. "I'm not making tours with bank thieves and jailbirds. Your trip will end in pris on, if it ooesu t start there. "Too peppery, altogether too pep pery for the head traveler to a reepeo- table firm, he quietly observed. "And do you think I'll be arrested, as you know so much about it?" "Certainly. 1 m going to take you down stairs and baud you over to the polioe." That a a lie, he said, as he swung his feet off the bed aud stood up. "I don't blame you for refusing a trip to America, but please don't make an ldot of yourself in other ways. "How do you moan? 1 asked, also getting up- and trying to keep my. head. "Just look at things straight and you'll see. I'm no chicken. Having played for a big stake aud won it, I am not likely to lot myself be balked by a kid like you. I'm armed, as you) see xoureuot, so keep your back hair on. Even without arms I could do for you, being the larger of the two. "You oold-bloodod scoundrel," I muttered. "No, don't osll names. It's low," he said, pleasantly. "Let's oousider what is your path of duty. I've got the best of the bank. And how many people have the bank got the best of before? Last year over twenty banks olosed their doors iu the fuoe of de positors. Every failure was brought about by aoruo kind of fraud. Aud don't flatter yourself that you owe a duty to the publio. The publio would lot you starve or freeze awl not movo a finger. You owe a duty to your self. It is to take change o,f air. And now's your chance. Preserve tho present state of your health, that's my advice, and very good advice, too." "All of wlich means," I interposed, "that you will shoot me if I give the alarm?" . "Precisoly." "Then I shan't do to.'" , '1 thought as muoh." lie climbed again onto the bed ond continued : "I thought was right when I sized you up. Wo. have now come to an understanding. I've got one or two favors to ask, but I won t keep you long, and I see you want to go to bed. Ah, there are -your scis sors. I must sacrifice .tny mustache. Please sit over by tho window." He laid his revolver on the dressing tablo and cut off his fine chestnut mustache. . I sat.watching him and wondered if 1 had gone out of my mind, or if, perchnnce, I was dream inir." "You shave yourself, don'lyou?" he finally asked, as he turned round and faced mo. I pointed to ray razor and strap, and in barely another moment he stood before me clean shaven. He had sandy hair, while his eye brows were almost red. There was a bottle of black ink on the table. He dipped bis handkerchief Into it and painted his eyebrows. With the same fluid be made as neat a block eye as any prize fighter would care to boast, and he was chuckling as he turned to me : "Just one thing more, old man a suit of clothes. I must get off this blue serge. Perhaps it will fit you. Your oldest suit, please. I will pay cosh for it." I handed over a much worn suit. "Bather a tight fit, but it will do," he said. "Here's $25 for it." "I don't want your dirty money," I said, savagely. "Don't be finicky, it's silly. Now, then, to wrap up the money in a news paper, and then I'm off. Look here, my boy, take this $500 ; it will make up for any little inoonvenienoes I have caused you." "I'd starve first" "Oh, oome now, you're too good for this world. What are you going to dp when I leave the room?" ; ' J. ' "Kick myself.for an ass and tHen go to bed most likely." . . - i "Go to bed without the kicking part You are a very sensible young man, you may take my word for it. If I'm arrested I'll say nothing about what happened here. Ta, ta." He reached the doorway and then he turned. "Here's a present for you," he sang out and threw his re volver on tho bed. "Its no nse to me, I lost my cartridges getting here. Adieu," and he was gone. I locked the' door and sat down.' After a quarter of an hour I slipped into bed. The next morning I awoke with a fearful headache. 1 went to my dressing table, and there, rolled up in a neat parcel, was the $500. Did the man get away? Yes; he walked downstairs and out into the streets, and the doteotives never got a clew of him after that night About the money. I returned it to the bank by post, and that part of the business is still worrying the' detec tives. I could tell them a thing or two, but I won't Boston Post A Wonderful Stone Saw. A newly devised stone saw that has been put in operation in West Phila delphia is demonstrating extraordinary cutting powers as compared with former processes. It is the invention of an expert stone mason and carver. By tests made with tho saw, using a chilled-iron shot abrader and cutting through the hardest of all brown stone, known as the Hummellstown, using a blook of stone' ten feet by six inches long and two feet two inches in thickness, the following results were attained : Tbe first cut through was made in one and three-quarters hours, the second, with increased feed, in one hour, and the third out, with the fnll limit of speed, in three-quarters of an hour, which is equal to cutting thirty-three' inches per hour. Four inches per hour has been considered good work in the ordinary mills -of the country with other saws. Thin slabs are also-out, leaving no ridges on the face of the picoes after cutting, although the saw passed through various veins of flint. In the improved saw is used a lineal or horizontal motion, while in other saws the pendulum motion has been depended on. Further, the im proved has a thinner blade, with thicker teeth, which allows the abrad ing material to fall ddwn between the teeth to the bottom of the kerf. Philadelphia Ledger. . He Killed Superstition. .The Count do Lesseps never seomed to lose sight of the odiioatiou of 'his children, even in the smallest detail. One morning at breakfast a ..beautiful Dresden teacup was broken. "Ah J" cried the Ooautess, "a disaster ! Two more of that set will now be brokou. It always happens so." "Are you so superstitious," asked the Count, "at really to believe thut two more will be broken?" "1 know if "Then let us get it off our minds." ml, taking up two of the cups by the handles, he dashed them together. The anger and dismay of the Countess proved con clusively that she had not seriously held to ber superstition. It also loosened any hold the absurd idea may have hud tm the minds of tho children. New York Recorder, Lucky lor Her. Conoealed in caudle moulds that had been unused siuee her grand mother's time, Mrs. White, of Middle town, Mass., found a quantity of bank notes a few duvs ao. New Yui'.t Journal. THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT ARB TOLD BT THE FTJNirx" MEN OF THE PRESS. Interested Her More A Clean Sweep The Safo Dose Repudiated Au Ignoramus, Ktc, Kte. "Now, as to the Coming Woman" fine yawned behind her fnn: "Bog pardon, Mr. Layte. but how About the goliiK man?" Cincinnati Tribune. A CLEAN SWEEP. Depositor "Is tho cashier in?" Directors "Yes, he's in all that the safe held. " Judge. REPUDIATED. First Tramp "I dunno why they call 'em tramp steamers." Second "No more do I. They'll go anywhere to git work." Puck. TIIK SAFER DOSE. ". "It isn't advisable to swallow every thing a doctor enys '"No; but it's much safer thou swol lowing everything he prescribes." life. INStJP Ell ABLE DRAWBACK. Cumso "A good sewing machine is said to do the work of twelve wo men. Do you believe that, Cawker?" .Cawker "No; it can't talk." Puok. AN IGNORAMUS. 'She "Do you known anything about the vanity of women?" He "Not a thing. You know tho i .. v..,.. ,1 .man V ,.,..1.1 rT Detroit Free Press. ; NEVER SETTLED. '"What have you two thermometers iiyour room for?" '"The doctor said I must have more exercise." ."What has that to with it ?" "I am on my feet continually see ing if the theremometers agree." Chicago Inter-Ocean. " AN ASPERSION ON HIS SPELLING. .'"How does Blufkins manage to get along so well in the world?" asked the critioal acquaintance. ."He minds his p's and q'e." ."Well, I didn't observe particularly on that score. I suppose p's and q's are his speoialty, for in a letter I got from him he certainly played smash with the rest of the alphabet." Wash ington Star, i , THERE 8 SOMETHING IN NAMES. Tublisher "Fine number this week, isn't it? All big names every contributor famous I" Subscriber "But it struck me as being one of the stupidest issues of the year. Publisher "Great heavens, man I wliat do you expect? We give you fame this month next month we'll hayo something really interesting." Judge. ' f EXPERT ON CHEESE. The French are a witty raco, bnt French servants; are reported the stupidest in the world. It is of a per son of that race that this story is told. Justine was reproved by her mis tress for bringing homo lobsters that were not fresh. "You must positively not get any lobsters, Justine," said her mistress, "unless they are alive." The servant took the injunction deeply into her consciousness. A few days afterward her mistress sent her to get some cheese. ''Is this fresh cheese, Justine?" asked the mistress. "Oh, yes, madam," answered the servant. "I took pains to see that it was1 alive." Philadelphia Inquirer, A HOIIH1BLE FATK. . Long qhe stood at the window aud mused. The rays of the setting sun entangled themselves in her Titian hair, or surrounded her glorious height of five feet eight with an aure ate hlo. Proud, queenly, limbed like a goddess, she was indeed a mag nificent specimen of femininity, "Strange," she muttered. And then a soft, self-pitying, half-happy smile flitted across her face like a gleam of April sunshine. "H t range, " she mut tered again, "to think that I, who only six short months ago was the quarterback of the Emancipated Maidens' Football Eleven, should have lost my heart to a man whose collar is a size aud a half smaller than mine. But suoh is fate. Aud I love him I" Carelessly picking up a forty-pound dumbbell she tossed it out of the win dow and then sought her boudoir. The Amusing Jouruul. ENUMERATING THEM. Mrs. Crewe Doyle reuohed her own homo the other afternoon just as Mrs. Knickerbook was about to ring the door bell. Mrs. Doyle had been pin ing for a call from Mrs. Kuiekerbock, and was extremely anxious to make a good impression upon her now she had her. When the servant bad let in her mistress and her mistress's culler, Mrs. Doyle said : "Were there any eullors while I was out, Kolherine?" "Yes, mum," replied the faithful servant. "Where are their cards?" "They didn't luve cards, mum. They left bills, and the butcher especially was very anxious to have his " "That will do, now, "said Mrs. Crewo Doyle, and she took her caller into the parlor and tried to engaye her iu conversation, but Mrs. KuickorUock could only stay a uiiuuto, for she had ever so many culls to make. Phila delphia Life. SCIENTIFIC ASD INDUSTRIAL. The average annual amount of dew in England is equal to five inches of rain. Chesapeake and Ohio Bailroad pas senger trains are lighted solely with electricity. A number of Western water powers transmit electric power from fifteen to thirty miles. It is probable that Tampa and Port Tampa, Fla. , will be oonnected by an electrio railway. In France the population averages about 187 to the square mile. In this oountry the average is twenty-one to tbe square mile. A recent survey has established the number of glaciers in the Alps at 1155, of which 210 have a length of more than four and three-quarter miles. The cold of Canada seems to dimin ish with an increase of population. Between 1828 and 1837 Hudson's Bay was closed an average of 181 days every year; now the ice last 179 days. The deepest ice ever found lies at a depth of 116 metres under a great for est between the Ural Monntains and the Sea of Oohotsk. A well was driven and the ground was found to be frozen stiff at that depth. It is stated that Dr. Frolioh, of Ber lin, has discovered a method of ob taining nitrio acid from the free nitro gen of the air, and will soon make it publio. It is understood to be an eleo trio process, based on the action of ozone. - A French railway has arranged its telegraph lines so that at a given sig nal me wires are switonea irom tne telegraphio instruments to telephones, thus enabling the operatoas either to talk or to communicate by the tele grnphio oode at will. An English chemist named Arm strong asserts it as his belief that no chemical action ever takes plaoe ex cept in the presence of some substance capable of being decomposed by eleo- tricity, and that, therefore, all chem ical phenomena are eleotric. Owing to repressive measures by the County Council, glanders declined at the rate of sixty per cent in Lon don lost year. Owners of horses and stablemen have been warned that the disease may be easily oommunioated to man ana is almost always fatal. Ground mustard, mixed with a little water, is an excellent agent for cleans ing the hands after handling disagree able or strongly odorous substanoes such as cod liver oil, musk, valerianio aoid, and its salts. Scale pans and vessols may also be readily freed from odor by the same method. Captain W. J. L. Wharton writes that ocean storms originate chiefly in regions where warm and cold currents meet. One of these regions is south of Newfoundland, where the Gulf Stream meets the Arctio Current. An other is south of the Cape of Good Hope, where the Tropio and Antartio (Jurrents meet Damag Doae by Oue Shell. What a!;i(t shell can do one modern projmtiU dying true to its mark waa i4u;.f.)Ud at the battle between the Chinese and Japanese fleets off the Iain llivenn September, One Cauet shell weighing nearly 1000 pounds, of the Holtzer make, struck the Chinese battle ship Ping Yuen, crushing through the after part of the armored, deck, tearing a vast bole, through whioh the water poured in sucn volumes that the vessel went down, carrying most of her officers and crew with her. The oost of suoh a shell is somewhere between $500 and $1000, but the oost of a battle ship is from $3,000,000 up. Suoh evidence of the power of a'single shot goes far to support Admiral Faragut's belief that in the race between projeotile and plate the former was bound to win, and the result would be that armor would oome off ships as it came off men, and for the same reason, that ceasing to be a protection it beoame a burden. London Engineering. Odd Preferences In Flows. Manager Frank M. Whitney, of the New Castle Plow Works, makes a curi ous assertion. He says: "Plows are made differently for certain oounties and States. I he tendency of a son is to use the same kind of a plow used by his father. In Lawrence County the use of the left-hnuded plow it almost the rule, but inMeroer County the right-hand plow is used, and this unaooountable difference in tbe kind of plow used extends to other States in the Union. Iu oentral and eastern Pennsylvania the left-banded plow is used, and wherever the Amiuh Ger man farmers have emigratod from this county the sons are almost sure to use the left-handed plows. We would never dream of sending a left-handed plow to Michigan, neither would we to Ohio. Among Gerinau people only left-handed plows are used, while the reverse is the case with people from Mexico and Italy, 1 cannot tell why this is so, but it is." Pittsburg Dis patch, Rapid Speed Photographs, Professor C. V. Boys says that to take photographs of a bullet as it is being projected through the air at a maximum possible speed it is neces sary to have recourse to a method of illumination lutiuituly more rapid than that given by au electrio spark. For this purpose a steel mirror, so mount ed as to revolve at the enormous speed of times per senoud, is used. This mirror is not larger thau a silver tweuty-tive-ceut piece, aud the beams of light givuu od from it pass across the screen at such an uuthiukablu rata of speed thit . it euables the pho tographers to take pictures of the bul let ou exposure of only oue-iuilliouth of a second. St. Louis Bupublio. THE DRAMA OF THE ROSE. Once I was white as any snow that falls From the far skies, with storm -and sun light blended; Until that day when stood a hero splcn did Before the lion in the Roman stalis. Then, when the lcaet's loud roaring shook the walls And her on cheer In thunder tones as cended, A woman's hand, all white and undo fended, Plucked me and cast mo fr m their coro rials. Ho caught me kissed me held mo to hb heart; A momentary glitter in tho air A roar of voices! . Well he played hl part! Arid I prono with him, but vigorow there, Caught on my petals, scented by the south. The red rain dripping from the lict's mouth Frank 31. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution Hl'MOK OF THE IMY. No man ever traveled to fame on a pass. When a man is his own enemy he can't help winning the fight. Puck. "There goes an old flame of mine!" as the sun said when the comet came into perihelion. Puck. Dentist "What are the last teeth that come?" Brilliant Student "False teeth, I guess." Life. Example is stronger than precept ; but precept is expected to do a great deal of example's work Puok. His love, he said, was like the sea. The maiden answered quick Bue thought that he was right in that Because it made her sick. Life. Of course we don't know what it ii to pass a night in tho tomb, but w have slept in a Bpare bedroom.- -Atchi son Globe. "3o Mr. Onedge is averse to musio?" "I should say so. He won't even use rubber bands in his ottloe."-New York Mercury. "I see you have a glass eyo, Pat" "Yes, yer 'anncr ; but it's a swindle, sir. I can't see nuthin' out ol it" New York Moronry. We often hear men complaining of their hopes being dissipated, and as a rule that's just what ails the complain ant. Biohmond Dispatoh. "When will man be able to fly?" in quires an exohauge. Just as soon as he has been a trusted bank cashier for eight or ten years. Troy Press. This world would be a happy world And men would all be brothers. If people did themselves one-half That they expect of others. Boston Courier. Mr. Smith is an estimable and ami able but harmless gentleman who during his lifetime has starved hit brains to feed his whiskers. Syracuse Courier. Mrs. Bacon "It is terrible down el your boarding houHO. You con never get any hot water." Mr. Baoon "Ooly we have soup, my dear." Statesman. A clergyman named Fiddle refused to accept the title of D. D., because, as he said, he didn't want to be called the Rev. Ichabo Fiddle, D. D." New York Mercury, "How could you conscientiously tell Miss Elder that she is the only woman you ever loved?" "It is a fact Com pared to her, the others were mera girls." Boston Budget. Bagley "That pawnbroker bowed to your wife; does he know her?" Brace "I presume he feels that he does ; he has seen her picture so often inside the case of my watch." Blinks (moditatively) "What a greedy world this is ; the great ma jority of people, always after money." Hardup (sadly) "Yes ; and a long way after it, too. " Buffalo Courior. "Your new servant girl is very pious, I hear?" "Yes. If she was as careful about the crockery as she is about the ton oommandmeuts she would be a jewel." New York Press. "So Busher has got a job at last, eh? I wonder is it that one with the sleeping car company?" "I guess not. At least he told me he'd struck a comfortable berth." Buffalo Courier, Primus--"Dul ton's sight has become strangoly affected, poor fellow. He sees everything double." Sooondus "By .Jove t I'm glad you mentioned it I owe him a pound, aud I'll tender him this half sov." Tit-Bits. "Dear me," said Mr. Meek ins, "it seems so absurd for men to be con stantly talking about their wives having the lost word. I never object to my wife having the last word." "You don't?" "Not a bit. 1 always feel thankful wheu she gets to it" An Irishman recently applied for an enlistment in a United States army re cruiting office. "Do you kuow any thing about drilling?" asked the offi cer. "Oi do," answered Pat. "lt' twelve an a hulf ointa a yard at anny ay th' dry goods shtores." -London Globe. Kute "I want to toll Aunt Susan about my engagement, but I don't know whether I cuu trust her or not. I don't want it to get out just yet." Edith- "Trust her? Of course you can't. You kuow she makes no secret of her age, and a woman who will tell her age will tell anything." Bostou Trausoript. Tho Reprehensible Small Boy. There are some smart boys in Mas. saohusetts. The Massachusetts school law does not permit the schools to bo kept unless the thermometer registers above forty-five degrees iu tho school room. Under this law oue school iu Worcester has had many half holidays. Finally the teacher discovered a six- year-old boy packing the thermometer with kuow below the bulb. --New Haven Journal aud Courier.
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