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I; V0L' XXVIT. NO. 52. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, APHIL 17, 1895. 81.00 PER ANNUM.
aii on it roryaariy adrrt)Mm.DO.
quarterly. Temporary adTertaaanu
b paid in adranoa.
Jobi
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rork mh oa delEnrr,
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Soienco has discovered that pcanu
re more nutritious tlinn beef.
The Apache'chief, "Red Tail," who
attempted to hold np a couple of cow
boy in New Mexico tho other day, now
belongs to tho Improved Order of Red
Men. I to is dead.
Fcrsia in about to make the expert
raent of producing its own sugar,
Beet root culture on a stuall scale ban
already proved a success, and this year
the root is to bo cultivated very ox
tensive v.
The twelve States or Territories of
South Africa Lave a population of
about 6,000,000, of whom 1,400.000
are whites. Tho principal Htato is
Cape Colony, whoso exports last year
wero $50,000,000, imports 833,000,
000.
a . y i i .
ouiiia nine ago uauiornia ottered a
bounty of $5 each for coyote Renins.
It was supposed at the time that thore
were not more than 2000 coyotes ia
tho State, but the claim for bounties
for the last quarter of 1894 already
mounts to 353,000 with seventeen
other counties to hear from.
It is probable that Norman A.
Mozely, of Missouri, will be tho
jronngost member of tho next House
of Representatives. Ho was born on
farm in 180(1, and worked as a farm
hand until 1887. when he had educa
ted himself snraciently to teach sohool
ud stndy law. Colonel George B.
McClcIIan, of Now York, who is abont
thirty, will be another of the youthful
members of House that bids fair to
be noted for the young men in it.
The total number of Scandinavians
in thisoonntry is about 1,000,000, but
instead of boing distributed through
out the various States, they are to bo
found almost exclusively in the North
west, observes tho Atlanta Constitu
tion. Norweigans are most numerous
in Minnesota, whore the total Scandi
navian body amounts to 250,000,
double the number of Germans and
eight times more than the Irish.
Swedes are most numerous in Illinois,
where they number more than 90,000
in total Scandinavian population of
bout 125,000. In the city of Chicago
thero are more than 10,000 Swedish,
more than 5000 Norweigan and more
than 2500 Danish voters. The Danes,
the smallest of the groups of Scandi
navian votors in the country, are most
numerous in Iowa.
The Rev. Dr. Reuen Thomas, .of
Brookline, Mass., devoted consider
able time last summer to listening to
other preachers, and as the result of
his experience makes report strong
ly in favor of written sermons. He
ays: "I have tried to recall the ser
mons whioh held me at that time and
which have stayed by me sinoe. To
my great astonishment, not one of
them was extemporaneous. With
one exoeption, I did not hear s single
extemporaneous sermon that was
scholarly, with much of intellectual
flavor about it, logically suggestive or
strikingly devout. I did not hear one
sermon in which the preacher used a
manuscript which had not about it a
delightful intelleotual flavor, with
logical continuity of thought, devo
tional feeling and much of suggestive
ncsg." Dr. Thomas's observations
were made among Episcopalians, Pres
byterians, Congregationalists, Luther
ans and Roman Catholics.
M-JLiLT
The New York Independent says:
There must be something highly valu
able in the use of the bioyole, which
has long passed the stage of "oraze,"
nd has become so much the estab
lished order of things as to have ser
iously injured the market jfor horses.
There is every reason to suppose that
moderate and rational use of the
bicycle directly contributes to health
of course the mental strain aud pro
tracted over-exertion called for 'in
raoing are an immense tux ou the vital
force. It has long been known that
the violent muscular eftort of the
hunted hare, who is coursed to his
death by dogs, produces just as un
natural a condition of the blood as
does a severe infectious fever ; and the
occasional cases of persons who have
unsound hearts, dying from the extra
efforts of the "cycle," should be a
warning. Dr. Tessie, of Bordeaux,
studied carefully the effect of the
efforts of M. Stophaue, whose objeot
was to see how many miles he could
ride in twenty-four hours. He ac
complished 3H3 mileB. He lost in
weight fourteen pouuds. His food
consisted of five piuts of milk, one
pint of tea, one pint of lemonade, aud
three ounces each of rum and cham
pagne, and seven ounces of mint ; aud
the secretions so chunked as to show
that "his body ate itself." This kin 1
of living will do for a "spur;," but
would be ruinous iu the lun ruu.
m I tl-ul I , . , .
In the silence of the night.
If I waken with affright,
From dream that's lull of terror and
annoy,
There's a sound thnt fills my heart
With a melody of art,
Full of beauty, full of pleasure, full of Joy,
'TIs the steady "tick, tick, lock."
Of my sturdy little clock,
As It sits across the room upon a shelf;
And it saysi "Don't bo afraid,
For I've closely by you stayed
While you wore off in the land of dreams
yourself.
'With a steady 'tick, tick, tick,'
1 am never tired or sick,
And I oount the minutes over as they fly;
I'm tho tniost frlnnd you've not,
And I share your ev'ry lot,
And I'm ready to stand by you till you die,"
It's a common sort of clock,
Hut I like Its lusty "tock,"
And It fills my soul with courage by its
BODg.
In tho storm, or cold, or rain,
I hear its bright refrain,
As it faithfully pursue its path along.
For It tells me to be true
To each thing I have to do,
And, no matter if the world applaud or
scorn,
Thot full oon must pass tho night,
And the sweet and precious light
Be unfolded with tho coming of the morn.
Hamilton Jay, in Florida Times-Union.
A DREADFUL HEADACHE.
BI W. . 1.4MPTON.
; HAD a head-
aohe. I don't see
any especial rea
PS" Bon wh7 young
tPr-ii isEiiv .Z 'lac? moral cnaracter
nd temperate
JmfflMWg? habits, who takes
V 0-tf )V 8 hours' sleep
seven nights in the week should have
headache, but I did. It was one of
that popping kind of headaohes, that
makes one feel as if his lungs bad gone
to his head and they were trying to
expand mere ubout four diameters, at
intervals of a minute. I believe they
call them nervous headaches, but I
fancy they wouldn't be any more
agreeable by any other name. Then
my heart was as heavy as lead, and
once or twice as I walked along, I
really feared it was going to pull loose
from its fastenings and drop down
upon my duodenum, or whatever it is
that the doctors tell us is concealed in
our persons in that neighborhood.
Possibly it was the heavy heart that
gave me tho headache. Butnoi- I
recall now that I was going to see
Kitty, tho one girl in the whole world
that made it any kind of a world for
mo, and we had a slight misunder
standing. It wasn't the head that
gave me the heart ache ; it was the
heart that gave me the headache. I
believe I said that I took eight hours'
sleep sevuu nights in the week. "'At
this point, I wish to modify that
statement. In the week past, I had
done so only six nights, for the night
before the day ort whioh I was on my
way to lee Kitty we had disagreed
with each other. I ddk.'t think I slept
at all.
I was going now to seo the young
woman and settle the matter finally,
and though I was a promising younir
lawyer ready to make a case for any
body else, I had no papers in this
case, and was going empty handed.
I didn't even have so much as my brief
witn me.
At the -doer Mrs. Miltbv Mrs.
Miltby is Kitty's mother, and a most
exemplary and motherly soul mot
me, and on the instant started back in
amazement.
"Why, John" the always called
me John, for she had known me sinoe
I was a mere baby "Why, John,"
she exolaimed, "whatever is the mat
ter with you? You look like you
were going to have a bad spell."
"Oh, that will be all right ia a duy
or so," I replied evasively. "I have
a severe headache. Is your daughter
ut home?"
"Yon tncun Kitty?" she asked in
surprise.
"Of course," said I. "Yon haven't
any other daughter, have you?" and I
mude boliove to smile.
"Oh, I didn't know," she stam
mered. "Didn't know what?" aud I tried to
smile again. "Didn't know whether
you had another daughter or not?"
"Why, to be certainly I know that.
Why, how queer you do talk," she
rattled on half hysterically, and laugh
ing oue of that creepy kind of laughs
one dreams of when ho hasn't eaten
the right thing for snpper, "Ar ar
you quite sure, John," she broke
put excitedly, "that that headache
hasn't gone to your head?"
It was cruel to tease her, and with
a supreme effort I talked rationally to
her for a few minutes they seemed
like hours to me, aud then she said
ehe would go aud tell Kitty.
As for myself, I went into the little
parlor aud waited. How sweet and
pretty it looked, aud how like a sand
stone on a gold sottiug I felt. Every
thing was as I had seen it so often,
the picture of her grandpa over the
cottage piano ; the frame in whioh my
picture had been for so many months,
but empty now on the corner of the
mantel ; the large photograph of
Saiut Cecilia looking heavenward, as
we had to often told each other we al
ways felt when we were together; the
two big friendly obairs inviting each
other to oouio nearer, which we al
ways sat in when I first came in the
evening, and the snug little sofa in
tbe corner that was always my point
of departure when I told her good
night, aud went my way back to my
own cheerless apartments in a home
less boarding house. I looked at them
ull, aud as the drowning man sees all
his sins before him, so did I see these
all things twice over.aud multiplied by
thousand as the greatest blessings of
my life. Then I shut my eyes. I
could not help it. My head felt as if
dozen sots of lungs had gotten into
it and were doing expansion turns for
prize.
I oponod my eyes Suddenly at th
sound of a voice.
"Mother told me you wishod to sen
me, it BHid as chilly as if it had boeu
luit out over night in the frost.
"Oh, ICi ," I began, as I stood up
uoiore tier. I beg your pardon,"
continued, "your mother was quite
rigur, l aid wish to see yon."
1 nan scarcely understand why,'
sue went on, "after what ocenrre
last night. Still, yon may be able to
explain and I am willing to listen, at
least for a few minutes, as I have an
engagement," she added, with the
faintest kind of a smile.
It was such a miserably mean littl
smilo, I thonght, thot it was ashamed
to show itself openly.
''Oh, don't lot mo detain von
tried to say with biting sarcasm, but
i only bit my tongue iu saying it.
"I shall not," she replied. "When
I am ready to go I will lot yon know.
1 ray, be seated, and Bhe waved me
to my chair again, taking one of our
"our, think of that big chairs and
nestling down in it so cozily that I
wanted to throw a book at her.
I really wanted to throw myself at
tier, but X bad never dared do that,
and this was scarcely an appropriate
time to begin.
"I presume," I said, "your engage
ment is with that Mr. Kilmer and my
presenco here is an intrusion.
Kilmer had been the cause of the
trouble the night before, and Kilmer
was such a good follow generally, that
I couldn't help but wish that he had
died several years before with the
cholera or some of tho other epidem
ics which visit our shores and carry
away so many excellent people.
"Oh, no, Bho sail, "no intrusion
at all. At least, not yet. He was
here this morning and told me he
would not be around again until
o'olock."
She looked np at the pretty brass
clock I had given her. Both its tiny
hands were clasping the 11 sure throe,
Three-quarters of an hour, and t
whole lifetime thereafter I
Isn't it enough that you should
nave killed me, 1 said, "without be
ing so eager to out me up."
"I was merely defending a friend,"
she retorted.
And you claim Kilmer as
friend?"
"I certainly do. Isn't ho a friend
of yours?"
"Not at all. If he were, he would
not have interfered with my happiness
as he bas done.
"I beg your pardon," she said.
didn't know he had."
"Didn't I tell you last night he was
a scoundrel, intent ouly uponscparat
ing us?" I asked hotly.
"And rtidn 1 1 tell you that I would
permit no friond of mine to be called
a scoundrel by anyone without resent
ing it to tho utmost?" she repliod.
nut l aid call him that," 1 in
sisted.
"Yes, and what good did it do
you?" she said, stepping to the mantel
and holding out the empty frame in
whioh my picture had formerly been
the attraction.
His will take tho place of the
former oooupont?" I said, scornfully.
"ills or another s, Bho responded,
and actually giggled.
A giggle from a girl is dreadful
enough under any circumstances, but
at this time it was positively galling.
"Great Seottl" I exclaimed, stag
gering to my feet, "am I then a two
fold dupe? Are the returns all in?
Have the back counties been heard
from, Miss Miltby?" and I buried my
face in my hands.
I could hear the cl ick of the frame
as she set it back on the mantel and a
mild sort of a dull thud as she dropped
into the big chair.
".Mr. Kilmer is, at least, enough of
a gentleman, scoundrel though, you
say he is," she said, "not to tulk to a
lady as you do."
"Oh, Ki I bog your pardon, Miss
Miltby," I apologized, "I hope you
will forget that I spoke so rudely. In
deed, I did not mean it."
"I don't seo what reason you have
for objecting to Mr. Kilmer paying me
any attention he sees fit to pay," she
told me for answer. "I have known
him for a long time and he is held in
the highest eoleem by everyone except
you."
''But I have known you quito as
long as he bus," I contended.
"Which is hardly a reason for act
ing as you are now acting," she said.
"Does he love you?" I asked, and I
could feel a thousand throbs iu my
head at once.
"I presume not," she replied, smil
ing. "If he does, he has been too
modest to say so."
"Do you love him?"
"That is my own affair," she an
swered, freezingly.
I threw my hand quickly to my
aide, for, as I live, I thought that in
stant that my heart would certainly
break loose and drop down. I think
if I could have stepped ou a scale that
moment with it in my bosom, I would
have wuighed a ton.
"It ia not altogether yours," I said
with a gasp.
"No?" and the interrogation point
ran up into her eyebrows aud arched
them sharply like a spear-point, it
seemed to me.
"No, and I want you to so under
stand it." I was growing desperate.
"1 have some rights whioh I propose
to see are respected and I shall not
stand like a post and be dumb as
one."
"And what rights have you, pray,
that I should respect them?" she
asked so sarcastically that it felt as if
I had stepped across the path of a out
ting hailstorm.
"The right ' having July claim
heard before .. i.i. allowed audi
thrown out of court," I responded,
dropping into shop talk without know,
ing it.
"Have yon ever presented your
claim?" she inquired with judicial
dignity.
Had I? That was the question. Had
I? For years I had known Kitty Milt
by. We had grown tip from child
hood together. We had gone to school
together. For months I had loved
her. By day she was ever in my
thoughts, and by night her spirit
filled my dreams with music. I had
given her my heart without the ask
ing, but I had never asked for hers.
It didn't seem necessary. I thought,
of course she knew I wanted it. Now,
I was brought face to face with the
facts. Had I ever presented my claim?
Well, I had not. At leaBt, not with
the formality which my training as a
luwyer demanded that I should.
"Oh, Kitty, Kitty," ond I almost
cried from the reaction. "I love you
more than all the world, and I want
you as much as I want the world ; for
you are the world to mo. Now, will
you say that my claim has not been
presented?"
It doesn't make any difference what
she said, or how she said it or whether
my arms wore on the mantelpiece, or
where they were ; and it is nobody's
business how much that man Kilmer
had to do with bringing me to a real
izing sense of my situation, or why he
and Kitty smiled when 1 told him it
was all right.
I think Kilmer is the best fellow ia
the world, and so docs Kitty, with one
exception.
When I left the houso Mrs. Miltby
met me in the hall.
"Here's a sovereign remedy for the
headache, John," she said, handing
mo a bag of herbs, "I've used it for
forty years, and it never fails."
"Oh, that's all right, moth Mrs.
Miltby," said I; "I guess I'm cured
of that kind of headache forever," and
if Bhe hadn't stood in tho door as I
went down the walk, I'm sure I should
have jumped clean over the gate, and
acted in a manner utterly unworthy
of my dignity as a rising young
lawyer.
It was 6 p. m., and Kitty had not
missed her engagement at 4, because
by that time it was permanently set
tled. Detroit Free Press.
United States ot South Africa.
Recently in the Imperial Institute.
London, at a meeting presided over
by tbe .Prince of Wales, Dr. Jamison
gave an aoconnt of the rush ot prog
ress witnessed in South Africa, and in
dented that all signs tended to the
federation of the various colonies un
der the name of the United States ot
South Africa. In no part of the world
is history made so rapidly, Dr. J ami
son declared, as in the country stretch
ing from the Capo of Good Hope to
Lake Tangenyiku, several thousand
miles northward. The area now un
der the oontrol of British colonizing
influence equals that of the whole of
Europe. Besides gold in largo quan
tities, coal and iron ore, those primal
requisites of civilization, have been
found and are under prospect of rapid
development. In the last three years
nearly 2000 miles of telegraph lines
have been established, and three dif
ferent lines of railway, from as many
points of the compass, are opening up
the splendid country. The oolomes,
together with the quasi-independent
Transvaal Republic of tbe Boers, to
be federated, would number some
eight or nine members, aud the racial
problem, as regards the native Africans,
has so far not presented itself. The
natives have not been vested with the
ballot, nor is it likely that the young
conieaeracy win, lor tue next ten or
twenty years, trouble itself with the
attempt of considering the subject.
r Utsburg Chronicle Telograph.
Education ot Military Doirs.
The education of military dogs in
the Herman army proceeds as follows :
First ho is put through a general
course ol training, buviug for its ob
ject to teach him prompt obedience to
command aud signals ; then he is
taught to ruu errands with oertainty,
so that he may go from tho advance
patrols back to the rear divisions and
return at the word of command, and
that he may keep up communication
between stationary divisions and posts ;
finally he is taught to be vigilant and
make known the approach of any
stranger to the post. Training to fit
them for search after the missing is
not usually required. It would have
a result only in rare cases except iu
the use of dogs by suuitary corps, di
visions of volunteer nurses, etc., to
whom in case of war specially trained
dogs will be assigned but would
rathor lead the dogs to expoee them
selves uselessly to danger and get lost.
Evon this, however, sometimes enters
into the oourse of instruction, when
individual dogs show themselves especi
ally fitted for it uud the teacher pos
sesses great aptness in impressing on
the dog his duties in this direction.
Native Country ol Indian Corn.
We believe that both the Japanese
and Chinese claims to have known our
so-called Indian coru for a thousand
ears or more, but this does not in
any way invalidate tho story of its
American origin. It may have been
carried from this country to Japan
ither by some person or iu au aban
doned canoe ; and, iu fact, there are
various ways in which an ear or a few
grains of coru might have reached the
Eastern Nations. Jt was certainly cul
tivated here aud used for food by the
prehistorio races of this country more
than one or two thousand years ago,
because the charred and dried grains
Indian corn, beans aud pumpkin
eeds are found in many of the ancient
u ms ol the homes of a peonle who
lived hero long before the Indians ap
peared, or what we call the "red
men bcL'au to roam over the Western
plains. New York Sun.
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE,
BTORiEg THAT ARE TOLD BT THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.
Too Quiet Xo Oil to 1 rouble -Part of
the Player's fnlform Kocal hi
the Bullet - Warned in Time, Ktc
A strango scauuod with curious eye
A store that did not advertise,
As ho was passing bv it:
Invited in, he shook hls'liem!;
'I thought it was to let." he said,
"It looked so very quiet."
Fri liters' I-ik.
NO OIL TO TROUBLE.
Mrs. Banks "How do you manage
to seep your cook? "
JWrB. IJrooks "We keep the kero
seno can hid." Life.
HIS SHAPE.
Mrs. O'noolihan "An' is yure 03I
mon a square policeman ?"
Mrs. (iilhooly "No, ho do bo
rouudsmon." Syracuse Tost.
PART OP THE TLAYBB'S UXIFOKM.
Trivvet "It's a hair-raising busi
Hess r
Dicer "What is?"
Trivvet "Football. "Detroit Freo
Press.
WARNED IN TIME.
Junior "So you didn't propose to
ner, alter an
Weed "Xo; and I'm not going to,
When I got to her house I found her
chasing a mouse with a broom."
Puck.
LOCATING THE BULLET.
"And you ssy your father v
wounded in the war?"
"Bad, sir."
"Was he shot in the ranks?"
"No, bit; in the stummick !" At
lanta Constitution.
WHERE BREVITY IS A BLESSINO.
The Professional Lec;nrer "Isn't
it funny? They frequently pay mo
as much for a short lecture as for a
long one.
His Friend "I should think they'd
pay you more. Uhicago ltecord.
AT THE TEA.
He (breathlessly) "I can't get you
any tea this minute, Ethel. It seems
to have run out."
She "Never mind. Hand me that
empty cup and stucer from the man
tie. It'll do just as well." Yalo
Record.
A CHIEF AMONO MEN.
Hungry Hawkins "An what did
der doctor down to der hospittle say
was de matter wid yer?
Weary Haggles "He said me liver
wotildn t work.
Hungry Hawkins (admiringly)
"Shake, old man, shake t Yer one of
us down to the de werry core, ain't
yer? Puck.
A FAMILY JAR.
At last she had rebelled mildly.
"They tell me you lead a double
.. ... .. .
me, sue satu, looking straight into
the eyes of tho confused man before
her.
"Me?" he gasped.
"les, you. 1 neat that when you
are away from home you are as pleas
ant and good natnred a man as can be
found anywhere. Indianapolis Jour
sal.
AN ALIBI.
"What time of night was it yon saw
the prisoner in your room?" asked the
defendant s attorney in a reoent suit.
"Abont 3 o'clook."
"Was there any light in the room
at the time?
"No, sir. It was quite dark."
"Could you see your husband at
your side?"
"No, sir."
"Then, madam," said the attorney
triumphantly, "please explain how
you could Bee the prisoner aud could
not see your husband."
"My lim. baud was at tho club, sir."
Philadelphia Call.
A MAN 8 I-EKVEHSlrV.
"Did you mail that letter I gave
you?" asked Mrs. Junius,
Her husband hesitated.
"Well, there," Mrs. Junius cried,
raising her hands and eyes in tho air,
"I always have thought that those ar
ticles in the papers about husbands
not mailing letters for their wives
were just got up for jokes and were
put in the papers every year because
all the jokes for that year had been
used once and they had to begin all
over again but I do declare that here
is the very first letter I have written
to ina siuoe wo were married I mean
of course since you aud I were mar
ried aud nut ma whioh would be ab
surd and if you haven't gone and car
ried it arouud in your pocket all the
week and I suppose woru it into shreds
it not lost it altogether an I ma won
dering and wondering what has be
come of us aud why I don't write or
at least semi her a postal card which I
suppose really we ought to do part of
the time aud to save postage for we
have got to economize iu ctartiuir out
else when we grow old ami come to
die we won't have a cent to live on
aud now you horrid man I suppose
I'll have to forgive you but hand mo
back that letter instantly."
As Ailrs. Junius with a lucky flitlo
reached second and the umpire pro
nounced her safe, Mr. Juuius pussad
out a letter.
"Why, that's not mine." exclaimed
his wife.
"No," returned Mr. Junius, "it's
from your mother. I mailed vours
the day you gave it to me."
Aud noticing that his wife was about
to make a dash for third he went out
iu the shed alter the kindlings, v. Hik
ing to himself sofllv us he did so.
Rockland Tribune. "
SCIESTIFIC A XI) INDUSTRIAL,
1'nenmatio saddles are more Com
fortable if ridden half-pumped.
The southwpst wind is the mos
prevalent in England. It blows 01
twice as many days as any other.
A blow on the head seems to cans
a flash of light in tho eyes becaus
light is the only impression the opti
cal nerve is capable of receiving.
The pneumatic v-tccination shield i
a circular tube of rubber, fully iu-
uaieu, wnicn surrounds the vaccin
ateu ppot and protects it from hurt,
Chicago is to have a great scientific
library under the bequest of John
Crcar. The beqneBt yields 8100,000
a year, and this is to be used, leaving
mo principal untouched.
Ihe committee of tho French
chamber appointed to examine the
scheme for the conversion of Paris in
to a seaport by the canalization of the
oeine nas rejected the project.
Iu a paper road before the sciontifi
congress at Parn it was stated that
i,MV,mo yoars will slip around ho
fore the mountains of the earth, which
are decreasing in size, entirely die
pjjenr.
A drnor firm at Excelsior Hnrincm
Mo., will award a prize of $50 to the
members of the Mississippi Valley
1 uarmaccniicai Association who iden
tifies the largest number of drugs by
tue emeu.
An English chemist named Arm
strong asserts it as his belief that no
chemical action ever takes place ex
sopt in the presence of some substanoe
capable of boing decomposed by eloo
tricity, and that therefore all chemi
cal phenomena are electrical.
The first sailing vessel to be lighted
by electricity is a Spanish vessel. Sh
is fitted throughout with incandescent
lights, the power for the dynamo be
ing lurnished by an oil engine, which
also furnishes power to pump her oil
largo wneu loading oriunloadiug.
Ihe unit used in fyeasuring the
strength of electno currents was first
Jailed "an empere" by the French
Eleotrio Congress of 1881. the name
being given to it in honor of Andre
Marie Ampere, the Frenoh scientist.
who elucidated the theory that the
magnetism of the earth is the result
of eleotrio ourrents oiroulating around
u irom east to west.
P-of. E. E. Barnard, of the Link
Observatory, doet not think much of
tbe scheme of a Chioacro man for
building an enormous telescope near
San Diego, CaL. whioh is to have the
largest glass in the world, made up of
1 1 ,, . . . 1 .
uuiuuoness smaii lenses. "tla ia
working on a wrong hypothesis." he
laya. "wnat be wants is not a great
glass of the kind proposed, but to do
what has not been dona find a means
of quieting the atmosphere. In other
words, his proposition is an absurdity. "
Creeping of Iron Rails.
It is a well-underetood faot that
railroad rails, under certain condi
tions, will move lengthwise for a con
siderable distanoe. This is due nartlv
10 gravitation and partly to the iar
and push of the wheels of passing
trains. Where the travel is all in one
direction, the rails may move back
ward, unless there are frequent stops,
when the great strain on the wheels
from the brakes oouuteracts the back
ward tondoncy. On roads where there
are many up and down grades, the
wheels may pull so strongly npon the
rails as to cause them to oreen Ho
ward ; and when the top of the grade
is reached, and the descent begins,
the tremendous grip of the heavy lo
comotive is able to throw the rails be
hind it, as it were, thus making them
creep upward from both sides of the
grade. It has been said that one rail
creeps faster than the other, and that
there are magnetio or other sientitio
reasons for the fact. Unquestionably,
one rail does sometimes creep ahead,
but this is owing entirely to the fash
ion of handling. The line-rail, as it is
called, receives tbe most atteutiou aud
is. as a rule, much more securely fas
tened than the gauge-rail, consequent
ly the latter is more likely to get out
of bonds. New York Ledsrer.
No Beginning to History.
It is more than forty years atro since
I was much impressed by hearing Pro
fessor Sedgwick say iu his emphatic
manner: "Geology knows no begin
ning knows no begiuuiugl" I was
very young then, aud the words caiut
upon me as a new revelation for which
was not prepared. Mr. Cadaverous
was my guide and mentor in thos
ays, aud 1 went to him in my per
plexity.
"Is it true? What docs ho mean?'
"Quite true, my friend. Reach
what point we may in tho past, there
is always something behind it."
Then it is true of history?"
'Yes of history) History, too.
knows no beginning ! Yet be it re
membered tint history knows many
beginnings. Abraham's start from Ur
of the Chaldees was oue of them. M
hammed's Hegira from Mecca was au
ther, and a third was Caesar's first
campaign iu Uaul. Nintoontu (Jou-
tury.
Too Many Servants lor Comlurt.
Sometimes the more help the less
work acoouiplishe.1. A family living
iu the New Jersey suburbs kept eleven
servants, but finally took to boarding
because the lady of tho house was
threatened with gouoral prostration
from the labor involved iu superiuteud
ing her household. New York Suu.
Plowed I p a YValrli.
General E. W. Price, of Kejtest
ville, Mo., leeeutly recovered a huut-iug-ease
silver watch that he lost in
lHoti while riding through the woo, is.
A colored boy plowed it up uear tbe
spot where it was lost. New York
IVtt.
UN CON FES 5 ED.
' Atoss the fleMs of summer Moora
I A wind went, slew and sweet,
To lay his burden of perfume
Low at my lady's feet.
The brooklet murmured, "Stay, my dsarl
The white rose whispered. "Wait!"
Ami the red rose hinted, "I am here.
Close to the garden Rat?!''
Cut on and away tho wild wind went,
liummlnR a love-song old.
Till he found my lady, and died content,
Kissing her locks of Rold.
The brooklet's murmur m-iy reaeh her ear
The white rose climb to her breast.
And the red rose follow! but I stay here,
With my one love uueonfessed.
Hester A.. Benedict.
HUMOR OK THE DAT.
Even coasting has its drawbacks. '
Yale Record.
When doctors disagree Every time
they hold a consultation.
There are two ways of putting up
an umbrella, so as to soak it. Life.
The most helpless creature iu the
world is a mau with a sore thumb.
Puck.
Many people delude themselves into
thinking that laziness is poor hoalth.
Ram's Horn.
"Yes, I married a poet." "Indeed.
And how did ho manage to keep you
from knowing he was one?" Life.
When I entreated for her hand
I was quite unaware
Of what I've learned siuee to my cost
The gloves that she would wear.
Detroit Free Press.
Man is a curious animal ; at least,
be is the only animal that feels itself
insulted on being called an animal.
Puck.
A mirror should bo hung opposite
every table where mon with whiskers
sit down to eat soup. Atchison
Globe.
The true aristocrat is never a snob ;
but it takes a snob a good many years
to find it out. Cleveland Plain
Dealor.
Bacon "Troubles never come sin
glo." Egbert "Oh, I don't know;
I've soon a fellow with only one black
eye. " Statesman.
He asked his wife at eventide.
"How does the new (?irl strike you, pet?'
His wife in meekest tones replied:
"She hasn't struck me yet."
Detroit Free Tress.
It has been observe I that the man
who is easy to please always gets the
poorest service at the restaurant.
Somervillo Journal.
Silence may be golden, but a rea
sonable amount of pertinent verbal
observation helps to bring in some
kind of legal tender. Puck.
Did you ever see a womau
Tass a mirror anywhere,
In absolute iimoraueo
Of its being tilery?
Detroit Free Press.
The other fellow is all right, of
course, with his few millions and his
undying fame and his won Irons intel
lect, and all that. Too bad he has
that one constitutional disability. It's
congenital, and can not be cured. He
isn't us. ruck.
"Nay," said the younot editress,
ooldly, to her penniless lover, "ask
me not to break every tradition of my
chosen calling I cannot return your
love for it is unaccompanied by
stumps !" Life.
American Millions in a tJerinan Town,
One town in Germany has roason to
rejoice over the rapid rise iu value of
New York real estate, and that town
is Waltdorf. William Waldorf Astor
will speud much ot his time there this
yeur. The millionaire has just beguu
to take the liveliest iuteresb in the
little plaoe that Rave the first John
Jacob to the world, and the name of
which will be hereafter borne by the
heir of tho greatest branoh of the
house of Astor. A memorial fountain
is to be placed there and various looal
benefactions have already beeu tin le.
The name of Astor is evon now a Very
great oue iu Walldorf, aud the small
dignitaries of the place were on the
point of organizing a festival in honor
01 the patron, which was to have been
graced by the preseuce ot Mr. Astor
this year. But Mrs. Aster's death
nterfored with the plau.
Ihe ecoeutric little old mau who
totes Mr. Astor's personal belongings
about and does his best to be a body
servant, is a Wulldortian specimen of
humanity. Iudood, there is a large
faction iu Walldorf claiming to be re
lated to the house of Astor through
common descent, and the funny old
Walldornau seems to have some such
notion of himself. There is eveu
movement in Walldorf to have the
name of the place changed to Astor.
New York Press.
Lillian's Suit lor Less ol Ills Hair.
Hoit Soit, au Indian of the Umatil
la Reservation, Oregeu, had bis hair
out off by the iudiau oourt last week
for drunkenness. He bore the same
atllieliou eighteen mouths ago, but
since then it has beeu decided that
Indians to whom lauds were allotted
iu severalty are Aiuerieau oitizeus.
Hoit Soit comes under this head, aud
so he brought suit ai,'aiust the Iudiau
officer who cut his hair, clai.niug 3-!')0
(amazes, ltd wou his case, but the
dofonduut will appeal to the higher
courts. Post-Iutolligeuoer.
Silver d'urdeu Tools.
Ono of the absurdities of tho ab
dication of silver to all sorts of things
is its use iu trowels for the use of the
conservatory. Silver is no better
suited for trowels than some other
aud cheaper uoucorrodiug metals,
since the used trowel, ot whatever tna-
erial, is alwavs bright. Au irou or
steel trowel of the best material aud
workmanship costs 1.50, while tho
liver trowel costs from tiight to
wouty ti'itt--i Hi iu 1 U. -Chicago Her
ald.