THE FOREST REPUBLICAN bltik4 nrj wamaay, tf J. E. WENKf TJffle la Bmaarbanca Cw.'a BuCdln mi mm, tiohwta, r. Tarma, ... tij MrTir, OomapmAnta Mltn4 fraa a MM f tk country, h. wUct 1U k IUa ! uaarMM Ji'.o .-proposes lu encourage eoUon- grawiu.j by loans and subsidies tv the grower. Negotiations aro in progress to be gin the astronomical day, like the business day, at midnight instead of at noon. v The Chicago Reoord avers that mat rimonial statistics provethat the mas culine girl'a wedding usually oomes long after all hor frienda are married. The Sao and Fox Indiana are said to be the pnrost-bloodod red men in the country. They neither marry in or give in marriage outside their own tribe. Tho Texan Legislature has, by roso Intion, invited cotton manufacturer in the North to remove to Texaa and get tho trado of Mexico and South America. Edward Atkinson says that the time will some when the fiber in the cotton stalk will bo utilized, and there are important elements for tanning and dyeing in the root. The Live Stook Roport, of Chioago, Bays that every indication pointa to a deorease in meat supply, whioh is likely to bo goncral in all branches, and that the market U now in healthy shape and brighter for the producer than for several years. The New York Independent says: AVe have quite overlooked, many of ua, the extoiffcive and valuable forests of the South. We are already getting lumber from across our Northern bordor. Would it not be well to make larger use of our timber resources in the South?" Finland must be sportsman' para dise, opines the Atlanta Constitution. In ten years 90,000 domeatio animals, including 21,000 reindeer were de stroyed by wild beasts, and in that time U00 bears, 1200 wolves, 65,000 lynxes and foxes, 19,000 ermines, and 68,000 birds of prey, eagles, hawks, etc., wero killed. Modern processes of preserving meat by freezing it wore anticipated by nature in her process of preserving the mammoths or great woolly ele phants of tho far North. After the flesh of those animals has been frozen for several thousand years it can still be oaten. A correspondent of M. Taul Boca reported to that scientist that mammoth flesh thus preserved tastes a good deal like leather. The story is told of old President Humphrey that be got a bequest all unknown to himself for Amherst Col logo, made by a woman, a atranger to him, to whom he had given up hit seat in a stage coach. The story is dearly matched by the bequest of $13, 000 given to Dr. Talmage'a wife by woman to whom Mrs. Talmage had shown personal attention by visiting her when she was sick in a hospital. A very serious fall has taken place in the price of horses in Paris, also in various French towns, saya the Phila delphia Record. This ia said to be mainly due to the extraordinary in crease in the number of biccles and tricycles, th production being during last year excessive namely, over 100, 000 more than in the year prior. The complaint is bitter on the part of boraedoalers, who say the bioyole is taking their bread away ; but ' they must, like the rest of society, suffer for the benefit of the million. The New York Sun remarks : Form erly men lived in palaoes and con ducted their business in. the plainest of buildings. The many big white edifices recently erected in this oity indicate a change in this reepect. The Bcmi-publio corporation lead the way in movement whioh must improve publio taste. Some of these structures show oompleteuess in detail, a breadth in total effect whioh recall the profusion of the Italian Ronaissence. Then the. tendency was to seek the beautiful in the surroundings of pub lio worship, in places of trade and in the furnishing of the home. In Lambeth, Bays the London Tele graph, a milk vendor displayed a tin plate, sotting forth that all the milk sold from "this establishment" was guaranteed pure as delivered at the dairy farm. An inspector purchased pint for analysis, and informed the milkman of its destination. "All right," said the vendor, "there's its certificate of birth," aud he tapped the tin plate with a milk can compla ocntly. "Perhaps I may be able to send you its certificate of baptism soon," answered the inNpeutor, whioh be did in the form of a summons, which subsequently wan transformed into a flue of $J5 for adding fifteen per eeut. of water, . tartar Mr1o4 1 ' JZL irr-. I TfT V WTTT XT "i 1 mTAVTOfTI 1 TT A ItTTinVIJCin T 1 miTT A mn t rr -rt-rt-n ' -K-r-K-TYv-. r WJUl. .o.. V aa A llUi a.. X Ah M XJLJ1 lkjji I . ill 111 li in;;.). ffll.UU" I Ml . 1 v iv I J 11 - I MPwauiaT.no ' ' ' I Job work asb as du! vary. I o j r (J . , i j Strike mn a not of sweet degrees Of sweet dogmas v Like those In Jewry hearts of olds My lov. If thou wotildst wholly pleasn, Hold In thy hand a harp of gold, And touch the string with fingers light, And yet with strength as David might As David might. Linger not long In songs of love in songs of love No serenades nor"w'a'nton airs The deeper soul of miifilo movej Only a solemn measure boars With rapture that shall never conflo My spirit to the gates of peace rjThe Kates of peace. Bo tool I when Franwwa sings Franeesea sings My thoughts mount upward; I am dead To every sense of vulgar thing?, And on celestial highways tread With prophet of the olden time Those ml net nil kings, tho men sublime ' Tho men sublime. T. W. Parsons. TIIEREUNIOiN. HE stage rattled into the village one pleasant July day nd drew up at the store. The Q. A. B. man, tho only passenger, climbed out of the lumbering vehiole, dragging after him his nondescript traveling bag. He limped up the stops in the wake of the driver, who was helping the storekeeper with the mail pouch, and onoe on the porch stopped and nodded a gruff greeting at the three men who were seated on the bench kicking their heel together the Chronic Loafer, the School Teacher and the Miller. The trio gazed at the new arrival solemnly ; at his broad brimmed block slouch hat, which, thongh drawn down over his left tem ple, did not hide the end of a band of oourtplaster ; at his blue coat, two of its brass buttons tnixsing ; at his trou sers, several rents in whioh had been clumsily tewed together. "From your appearance ono wonld indge that yon had come home from a tattle instead of a reunion at Gettys burg," the School Teacher remarked. "He'd never come out of no battle lookin' like thet," the Chronio Loafer cried. "I've come home 'fore my 'sonrsion tioket expited,"said theO. A. R. man, removing his hat and disclosing the great patch of plaster that adorned his forehead. "Oetteespurg was a sight hotter fer me yesterday 'an in '63. But I've got to the end of my story." "So thet same old yarn you've ben tellin' at every camp lire senoe the war ia finished at last. That's blessin'." The veteran seated himself comfort ably npon his upturned satohel and began : "Fer tho beny fit of the Teacher, who I ain't never seen at our camp fires, I'll repeat my experience at the pattle of Getteespurg, aud then tell yer all 'bout my second fight there. I served as corporal in the 295th Pennsylvany Volunteers, an' was honorably dis charged in '64." "For whioh you drawa pension," the Chronio Loafer ventured. "Thet ain't so, I got the malary an several other complaints that I got down on the Peninsula thet hinders me workin' steady. But thet ain't here nor there. Our retobment was alius known as the Bloody Pennsylvany Betchment, fer we'd been in the front in every fight in the Wilterness and bed some very desperate engagements. Whenever there waa any chartohin' to be done, we done et ; ef there waa fylorn hope we was in et ; if they was a breastwork to be took, we took it ; aV by the end of two years seob fightin' we was pretty bad cut up. When we come ter the fight et Get teespurg et was decided as they wasn't many of us left we'd better be put to guardin' baggage wagons. Thet was a kinder work didn't need many men, but took fighters in oaset the enemy give the boys in front a slip and sneaked in on our rear. "The trains, with several brigades, among whioh our retohment, was a couple of miles behind Cemetory Hill during the first day's fighting ; but on the second day we was ordered book about twenty-five miles. Et was pretty hard ter have ter be drivin' off inter the country watching a lot of mules when the boys was hevin' et hot bang ing away at the enemy, but there was orders, and a soldier alius hes ter obey orders. "The fightin' begin early on the seo ond day an' we could hear the roar of the guns an' see the smoke risin' in cloulda an' then settlin' down over the country. We got our wagons goiug an' I tell yer we felt pretty blue, for the wounded and the stragglers begin ter come hobblin' book bringin' bud news. They would tell how the boys was being all out up along the Em mettsburg road and how we'd better move fast, fer we was losin', an then they'd hobble away agin. Then be sides the trouble with the mules and wagons and the wounded, we had to be continual watchin' for them Coufod'rit cavalry we was expeotin' ter pounce down on us. Eveuin'.oome an' we lay to an' prepared for the night. The fires was started and the coffee sot boilin', an' the fellers hadachancet lo set down and rest for a while. "The wounded and the stragglers that jest tilled the oountry were com in' in all the time, sometimes alone, sometimes in twos and threes, some with their arms tied up in all aorta of queer ways, their heads bandaged, or hobblin' on sticks, about the misera blest lookin' set of men I ever seen. The noise of the fight had stopped, an' the whole country was quiet, as though nothin' had be'u happeuin'. The quiet aud the dork and tli four we waa go- "v ' WHMiilLMMMWaTU ..' ter meet the enuiiir at auv mymeiit mado et mighty unpleasant, and what with the stories them wounded fcllys give ns we didn't rost very easy. At 10 o'clock I went out on the picket line an' seemed 1 hadn't been there more than an hour whon I mado out a dark figure of a man comin' through the fields very slow like. Me an' the fellys with mo watched sharp. Sud.lon lie stopped and sank down in a heap. Thon he picked himself up and enme staggorin' on. He couldn't hev ben more 'an fifty yards hway when ho tnrew up bis hands and pitched for a d on his face. Me an' 'nothcr feller run out an' picked him up an' carried him inter the fire. But et wasu't no use ; he was dead. "There was a bullet wound in his shoulder aud This clothes was soaked with blood thet hed beu dritmin'. drippin as ho walked tell he fell the lat time. I opened lm coat and in his pocket found a letter, stamped and di rected apparent to his wifo thet was all to tell who be was. So I went back to the line tuiukin' no more of ct an' never noticin' thet thet man's ooat 'ud 'a' fit two of him. "Mornin' come, and the firin' begin over toward UettoeHpurg, an' wo oould see the smoke risin' agin an' hear the Dig guns roarin' tell the ground be neath our feet secnied to swing up an' down. 1 tell you nns thet was a grand sight. We was awful exoited, far et seemed like the first two days hed gone og'in us, an more stragglers an' tho wounded come limpin' back more an' more, all with bad news. "I was gittin' nervous, an' thinkin' an thinkin' an' wishin' I was whore the fun was. Then I conoided maybe I wasn't so bad off, fer I might a be'n killed, like the poor folly I seen the night before. 1 remembered the let ter an' got ct out. I didn't 'tend ter open et, but final I thot et wouldn't be safe ter go mailin' Jotters without knowin' jest what was in 'em, so I read et Lt was wrote on a pieoe of wrap pin' paper with a pencil, an' in an awful bad hand-write. But when I got through it I sot plumb down an' cried like a ohil. - - "Et wus from John Parker to his wife Mary.hvin' out in Western Penn sylvany. He begins be mentionin' how he was on the eve of a big fight, an' 'tended tec do his duty, even if et come to fallin' at his post. Et was nard,-ae sayd, but ho know d she d ruther hev no husban' 'an a coward. He was alius thinkin' of her 'an the baby he'd never seen, but felt sat'sfao tion in knowin' they was well fixed. ' "Et was sorrerful, he continyerd, thet she was like tor be a widdy so young, an' he wasn't goiu' ter be mean about et. He oilers know'd, he soyd, how she'd hed a hankerin' after young Silas Quiucy 'fore she tuk him. If ho fell be tho't she'd bet ter merry Silos, when she'd recovered from the 'fects of his goin'. He ended np with a lot of last goodbys jnd talk about duty to his oountry. "I set right down on' wrote thet poor woman a few lines, tellin' her how I found the letter in her dead husbmd's pocket. I was goin' ter quit there, bat decided et would be nioo to add somothin' oonsolin' fer the poor thing, so I told how we found him on the field of battle, faoe to the enemy, an' bow his last words was for her an' the baby. Thet day we wo n the fight, an' the very first chance I mailed Mrs. Parker her husband's let ter. Et seemed 'bout the plum blamedest saddest thing I ever hed ter da with." "I've alius be'n onr'ous 'bout thet widdy, too," the Chronio Loafer re marked. -The School Teaaher cleared his throat and began : Now night her course began, and over heaven Inducing darkness, grateful truoe imposed, And silence on the odious din of war; unuer nor oiouu "Don't begin no po'try jest yit. Teacher," said the veterau. "Wait tell yon hear the sekal of the story. I never beard no more ol Widdy rarker tell last night an then et come most sudden. ' Our retohment hed a reun ion this year on the fiold, you know. an' last Monday I went back to Get teespurg for the first time sence I was honoroblo discharged. "The boys was all there what's left of 'em an' we jest had a splendid time visitiu' the monyments an' talk- in, over the days back in 63. There was my old teutmates. Sam James on one leg, an Jim Luohenbaob, who was near tuck down before l'etersburg be the yeller janders. ' There was the Colonel, growed old an' near blind, an our Captain, an a hundred odd others. "Last night wo was a lot of us Bet- tin' in the hotel tellin' stories. Et come my turn an' I told about the dead soldier's letter. They was a big felly in a uniform leaning agin the bar watchiu us quiot like, an wheu I begin he pricked up his ears a little, an' as I got furder an' furder he be gin ter get more an' more interested, I notioed. By an' by I een him be oomin' red uu' oneasy, an' final, when I finished, he walks' croist the room ter ' where we was an' stands there starin' at me, never sayiu' uothiu'. "A minute passed au' then I sais: 'Well, comrade, what's you unsstariu' so fer.'" "Sais he: 'Thot letter was for Mary Parker.' " 'True, sais I, surprised. "Then he shakes his fist an' yells: 'You fool, I've tended 'most every re uuion here senoe tho war hop in' ter meet the mau that sent thet letter an' wrote thet foolishness 'bout findiu' my dead body. Au' after twenty-five years I've foun' you.' "He pulls off his cost 'au' tLe flleys all jumps up. 1, half skeered tur death, yells: 'But you ain't the dead man I' " 'Dead 1' he yslls, 'never be'u near et. Nor did I ever "tend ter hev every blame fool in the army uailiu' my letters, nuttier. Never be'u dead. Because you finds a mau with my coat on, thet aiu't no reason he's uie. I R-J was g.ilir.' t tUo riir wii j or.lci's aci lively as a cricket and throwedofT thet coat becouso ct was warm ruonin'.' "When I seen what I'd done I jump; for'a'd, grabbed his arm I was so ex cited, an' yolls: 'An did sho marry Silas Qnincy?' " 'Et wasn't yonr fonlt she didn't,' ho said deliberate like, rollin' up his sleeves. 'Fer I got home two days after thet letter an' stopped the wed din' party on their way to church.' " "Sights I" cried the Chronio Loaf er. New York Sun. Atmospheric Fuel. Tho possibility of carrying about with him the means of counteracting a tendency to become chilled, and a stock of available fuol with which to koep warm, does not seem to be recog nized by the average individual. But that oce may by proper breathing keep up a comfortable temperature or throw off chillnoss in almost any de gree is a fact well established by abun dant experiments. Almost every per son may be exposed to the cold at times when there is no opportunity to pre pare for it, and when there is no chance to secure extra clothing. In such coses it is only neceesory to keep up deep and rapid breathing. Fill the lungs as full as possiblo at every in spiration. If the air is very cold, it is well to hold a handkerohief lightly bofore tho nostrils, in order that the suddon ingress of a large quontity of cold air may not injure the lungs. The air should be drawn in with some force, and exhale at onoe in the same way. Do not retain the air, but get rid of it as soon as possible. Two seconds is long enough for filling and emptying tho lungs. Breathe fast, almost like panting after violent exer cise, but with the utmost caution, stopping the instant any distress or uneasiness is felt. Wait a moment, then begin again, a little more slowly. Bo steadfast in the effort to fill the lungs as full 09 possible without strain ing. Within a few moments the blood will begin to grow warm, the extremi ties will feel the glow, and soon the entire surface will be at a comfortable temperature. If one wakens in the night with a "creepy," cold feeling, this is an excellent thing to do, and will restore the circulation, and often produoe a desire to sleep. There is another advantage in deep breathing that is far too little appre ciated. One of the most eminent medical authorities deolares that one can by full, rapid and free breathing eliminate almost all disease germs and tendencies from tho eystem. Rapid breathing furnishes fuel by means of whioh oil waste matter of the system is consumed. The blood is purified, the tissues are supplied with necessary material,' and the entire body rapidly returns to healthy 3on ditions, New York Ledger. Will Sustain 845 ,706,800 Persons. Havo you any idea of the number of persons that the United States would sustain without overcrowding the population or even going beyond the limit of density now shown by the State of Rhode Island ? The last cen sus of the pygmy State just gives it a population of 80,000. The . area of the State in square miles is only 1250. Thus we find that there is an average of 313 per sons on every square mile of her ter ritory. We can best illustrate the sustaining oapaoity of the whole of the United States and of the other States by making some comparisons. The State of Texas has on area of 206,780 square miles, and were it equally as densely populatod as "Lit tle Rhody" would comfortably sus tain a population of ' 83,623,628 in habitants a greater number of per sona than the whole country is ex pected to have in the year 17U0. Soatter people all over the whole land from the Atlautia to the Pocifio and from the Gulf to the British posses sions as thickly as they aro now in Rhode Island, and we would have 945,66(1,300 inhabitants, instead of an insignificant 62,000,000. In other words, if the United States could be peopled to their .utmost sustaining ca pacity, we could take- core of nearly two-thirds of the the present popula tion of the glebe. St. Louis Repub lic . He Knew the Boy. This story is told of Budyard Kip ling, as illustrating very dearly the characteristics of the vigorous English boy who was afterwards to oehieve such widespread fame with his jeu. When a boy of twelve, he went on a voyage with his father, who, becoming desperately sea-sick, retired to his berth, leaving young Budyard to his own devices. Presently the poor father heard a tremendous commotion over his head, and down the oonipau ionway dashed the boatswain three steps at a time, bhouting excitedly, "Air. mpling, your boy has crawled out on the yard-arm ; if he ever lets go he'll drown, sure." "Yes," said Mr. Kipling, falling back on hU pil low, with a sigh of relief, "but he won t let go. Household Words. Wafer lluuuiiiir l'p Hill. "Ono of the few iustauoes of a stream running up hill cau be fouud in White County, Georgia," said T. R. Faulk ner, at the St. Nicholas. "Near the top of a mouutniu is a spring, evident ly a u.phon, and the water rushes from it with sullicieut forou to carry it up the side of a very steep hill for nearly half a mile. Reaching the crest the water Hows on to the east, aud eventually fiuds it way into the Atlan tic Ocean. Of course, it is of the same nature as a geyser, but the spectacle of a stream of water flowing up a steep incline cau probably be fouud no where else iu the country, aud appears even more remarkable than the gey sers of the Yellowutoue. " Cincinnati Tribune. PUBLICAN. THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFI STORIES THAT ARE TOT.T DT THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRE3?. Quite Another Story Annoying Hadn't the Open Sesame The Preference, Ktc, Ktc. Ho'd a dreamy far-off look In his eye, Huh a wholly unconscious air, While the busy conductor passed nlnn A oet ho km, you'd swour Out no, he was only trying to look As If he had paid his' fair. Piek-Me-Up. BlonT IN HID LINK. Porinhioner "Do you ever apocn lote in bonds, Mr. Thumper?" Pastor "Only matrimonial, Mr. Pewront. " J udge. On, THESE WOMEN. Minnie "I do believe that Mrs. Sumyears gets younger every day. " Mamie "Nji; only every evening." Cincinnati Tribune. BiDS I THE OPEN SESAME. Willy "I hear you havo been a good deol confined lately. What was the cause of it?" Wally "I . didn't have ton dol lars?" Life. ANlfOYINa First Baby "What is the matter with you? You look as cross os two stioks this morning I" Second Baby "I overslept myself last night." Puck. KXVEB SMOOTH. Barber "You ought to know the man he lives down the street. " Customer "Smooth-faced man?". Barber (contemptuously) "No; he shaves himself 1" Puok. SURFEITED. She "I have been listening to on awfully clever man for the post hour." He "Then you may find me dull." She "Not at all. One can't stand too much of that sort of thing, you know. " Life. THB PREFERENCE. She "The superior man rises on defeat; the ordinary man rises on SUC00S8." He "All things 'considered, I be lieve I prefer to be an ordinary man." Detroit Free Press. FOSTERTNO A POET. Magazine Manager "Shall I send Wildeye ten dollars for this poem?" Editor "Wildeye has real poetio genius, and nothing dulls poetio ge nius like overfeeding. Better send him our thanks," Puok. A TOCNO PHlIiOSOPBXR. Momma "It seems to me, Johnny, that the earlier you go to bed the later you get up in the morning." Johnny "I shouldn't wonder, mamma. I must make it up at one end or the other, you know." Judge. NEW SYMPTOMS. "Mr. Allills was terribly frightened about his wife aud sent for a doctor in great haste. " - "What was the trouble?" "His wife complained of feeling perfectly well." Chicago Inter Ooean. PLENTY OF ATTENTION. Littlo Boy "That watch you gavo me doesn't keep good time." Father "Perhaps you forget to wind it." Little Boy "Forgot to wind it? Why, I wind it forty times a day I" Good News. epicures. . Bronsonhnrst "As you ore living out in the suburbs, I wish yon would tell me something about chickens. What kind of food do they like best?" Hewson Lott "Mine seem to pre fere the flower seed my wife plautod in the garden." Judge. BO UNLUCKY. Mrs. VeraShort "Everything goes against us, it seems." Visitor "What's tho matter, dear?" Mrs. Vera Short "John's so un lucky I Salary reduoed ond notlfing goes right. Would you believe, dear? John's been carrying a five thousond accident policy for three years and hasn't realized one cent. (Sighs.) And tho trolleys running tool" Judge. NOT FOHOIVINO. Kind Gentleman -"That boy just hit you, did ho?" Smoll Boy -"Yes, he did." Kind Gentljinan- "Well, now, why don't you heap coals of fire on his head, line a good boy." Small Boy "Do good boys do that?" Kind Gentleman "Yes, indeed, all good boys." Small Boy "Well, I guess I must be dead wicked then, 'cause I don't want to burn the chump to death, I just want to punch his houd." Life. LOCATED AT LAHT. Mr. Duinblotou, who is too eco nomical to keep any extra collar but tons on hand, aud who devotes a good shore of bis matin moments to hunt ing for these wayward essentials of male attire, startled his wifo tho oth er morning by a more than usual overflow of emphatio language. "What's the matter now?" she ex claimed. "Matter enough I" ho returned, with a series of paralytic gasps; "1'vo swallowed my collar button !" "Thank gooduesst" snapped out Mrs. D., "lor ouce iu your lifo you know where it is." Philadelphia I'ret. iKiZXUilV AVI) IMH'sntUL, Fruit before breakfast will prolong one's life. Nations whioh cat most moat have the most hair.' A rival to peppermint oil rejoices in the title of methylio-decahydroqnino-line-carbonate. Ten per cent, of the patients treated nt the dispensaries of Berlin have been found to suffer from the deleterious effects of tea. The Algerian mountain, Dshebel Naiho, is slowly sinking. In the time of Ciear it was 1400 feet high ; now it is only 800. An extremely thin film of bichro mated gelatin applied to the silvered surfaces of mirrors will proteot them from atmospherio tarnish. A medical authority asserts that colds and catarrh are most frequently caused, not by cold, outdoor oir, but by warm, impure, indoor oir. The latest anthropological statistics prove that the daily, monthly and yearly number of births exoecd the deaths in a ratio of three to one. Tho recent hygienic congress at Budapest, Hungary, brought out the fact thot there ore four times as many men who stammer as there are women. A new fuel made in France is of cool dust compressed into briquettes and soaked with chemicals whioh make it last a long time in a glow when once alight. A Japanese chemist, Jokichi Taka mine, has discovered a now method of preparing diastase and some other substances from a plant called Euro tinm oryzae. Diastase is a fermenta tive agent much more powerful than yeast. The death of the German scientist, Helmholtz, left unfinished the work of preparing a universal electrical unit, which had been referred to a commit tee of which he was the head. Pro fessor Marsh, of Yale, now has tho matter in charge. Dr. Friedrich Lehner, of Zurich, has perfeoted a process for making artificial Bilk out of wood pulp or vegetable fibres. A company has been organized for its manufacture in Bradford, England, and one is talked of for this oountry. The longest distance a projectile can be thrown by a modern great gun is sixty-five thousand six hundred and fifteen feet, whioh is an effective range of twelve and one-half miles. This was the record made by the best nine-inch Krupp gun at the Chicago fair. The mammals of Florida, as enuru eroted by Frank M. Chapman in a re oently prepared list, embrace fifty three speoies and sub-speoies, exclu sive of water animals. The largest forms are the Virginia deer, the black bear, the puma and the wolf, the last being nearly extinct. A leaf-nosed bat. probably an accidental visitant, is the only West Indian speoies. L'Industrie Eleotrique says that by laying a very large cable to be used in connection with the microphone we oould telephone across the Atlautio. It does not think, however, that the future of long-distanoe telephoning depends on larger cables, but rather on microphones of high resistauoe. Tho French chemists have dis covered a new amalgam, of ninety- four parts copper ond six parts anti mony, whioh is deolared to be a won derful substitute for gold. Wheu polished it almost exactly resembles the aureate metal, and cau be drawn, wrought and soldered precisely like gold. Besides, it can be manufac tured at a cost of only about a shilling for a pound of avoirdupois. A Thousand Dollar an Acra. In recounting his experience, C. E. Chapman, of Peru, N. Y. , said that he had heard that blackberries would grow anywhere, and he, therefore, bought some plants of Kittatioy, took no particular paius to set them, and many died. He used on the ground a quantity of row, coarse mauure, aud tho next year many of the' oancs broke. He then concluded that to grow blackberries required some study. Asa result of the study he prepared a pieoe of client nut loam, put it iu prime condition, bought some plants of Agawaui & Snyder from good, careful growers, at prices that would warrant him iu expecting good plants. He set them carefully iu trenches seven feet apart aud eight inches deep in the trench. He fouud these varieties ' deep-rooted aud thrifty, aud where mulched, pruued and not fed too much raw manure, he had little trouble from wiuter killiug. Whon setting his plantation he ap plied 800 pounds of potash to the acre. He was careful to have all plants well set, and he frequently .clipped the tops. All weak caues were out out. Every spring he applies a light dressiug of commercial fertilizer. Immediately after fruitiug he cuts out and destroys all old canes, as ttieo are the scut of nearly all the troubles of this fruit. Iu the wiuter he luulclirs heavily aud leaves the mulch on Into iu tho spring to prevent early start-in-. Although ho did uot believe a thou sand dollars au acre could be realized uuder ordinary conditions, yet this was an achievement worth striving for, aud small patches had been male to yield at that rate. It required the right combination of man, soil, variety aud cultivation, but it oould be doue. Scicutillo American. A Florist's "Vellow Aiter." A "yellow ater" is uo longer a nonentity one has actually been pro duced and is c tiered for sale by Bur pee, the Philadelphia seedsuiau. Now let some of his equully enterprising brethren iu the trade givo iu u blue or purple chrysanthemum. Ameri can Agriculturist RATI8 OF ADVERTISING! On Bqnv, an lash, en InrHrm. .( r) On ftqaar, on Inch, on month. . IW On Bquar, on inoh, tbrw months., t 00 On Hquar, on Inch, on yaar.,. .. 1 00 Two Kquam, on yaar MOC Quarter Column, on yaar. ........... 80 0C Haif Column, on TMr , 00 00 On Column, on yr 10010 Lcl kdTrtiwniMini to enti pr Km oh umrtloo. Jdarriagas and dath nottoa gratta. All bill for Yearly adrartlmnt ed quarterly. Taropcrary advartuauMnts I A WINDY DAY. The dawn was a dawn of splendor, And the blue of the morning skloa Vfas as placid and deep and fender As the blue of a baby's eyes; The sunshine floods the mountain, And flashed over land and sea Like the spray of a glittering fountain- 13ut the wind, the wind. Ah, met Like a weird Invisible spirit, It swooped in its airy flight; And the earth, as the stress drew near it, Quailed an in mute alTrlght; The gross in the green fields quivered The waves of the smitten brook Chilly shuddered and shivered, And the reads bowed down and shook. Like a sorrowful miserere, It sobbed and it wailed ami It blew Till tho leaves on the trees looked weary, And my prayers wen) wear)-, too; And then like the sunshine glimmer That failed in the awful strain, All the hope of my eyes grew dimmer, In the spatter of spiteful ralu. Bt. Louis Olobc-Pomoerat. HUMOR OF THE DAT. When yon givo others advice take some of it yourself. Ram's Horn. A roan's experience teaches him to fear nothing on enrth but his friends. Atchison Globe. There ore a few fossils in this coun try that os yet ore in no collection. West Union Gazette. The reason more short men do not buy tall hats is because they are short. Rockland Tribune. A courtship by mail is about as sat isfactory os a perusal of the bill-of-fare in place of dinner. Adversity is like the frosting on a sumptuous coke, and its rewards are like the plums below. Puck. It is estimated that o woman has the last word and eighty-two per cent, of the preceding conversation. Pnck. There are many rules for merchants, But these two will suffice: Be diligent in business, And don't foil to advertise. Detroit freo Press. "Move on," said the ollioer ; "you're full." "Thash right," said the dizzy one; "who told you?" Adams Free man. It is easier to throw stones at o pro cession than it is to twirl the drum major's baton. Cleveland Plaiu Dealer. There ore two important periods in a woman's life. One is when sua has a hired girl and the other is when she hasn't. Rockland Tribune. The man who sighs for the happy day When a barefoot boy he rati Is the same old boy who used to say "I wisht I wuk a man." Philadelphia Record. The world is like a fruit basket Tne big aud attractive ones get on top, while the little ones aro crushed out of sight in the bottom. Texas Sittings, Mrs. Murphy "Yes, sonny, I've had a fruit stand on this block for thirty years." Tim Ryan "If you'd have advertised you might have owned the block by this time." Boston Globe. You think your old hat looks pretty well until you come out in a new one. Then you notice by the enthusiasm of your friends that they'd been hoping for this for some time. Rockland Tribune. "It's all nonsense, dear, about wed ding cake. I put ou enormous piece under my pillow and dreamed of no body." "Well?" "And the next night I ate it and dreamed of every body." Life. Old Player "When next you try you want to forgot everything but that you are on the stage." Amateur Slippupp "That was just the trouble ; I did forget everything but that. " Boston Courier. Wiggles "Why did they call it a charity concert, do you think?" Wag. gles "I don't know. Possibly be cause it is so often necessary to be charitable toward the performers." Sonierville Journal. "There is some satisfaction of being a kodak fiend," mused the amateur photographer, as he sent a bundle of pictures to a friend. "At least, a man can express his own views." Philadelphia Record. As t lie cow ou tho barbed wiro scraped ken self Hhe gave a tremendous bound. And remarked: "1 think tlio wires should all lie put right under the ground!" -Puck. Caller "I am going to send my little girl to oookiug school at ouoe." "Does she care for such things?" Caller -"Dear me, no; but I am sure she will make a good cook, she breaks; ao many lovely dishes." Chicago iu-tar-Ocean. Wife "The language you used last night wheu you came home was some thing dreadful." Husband-' "But " Wife "Don't try to deny it I am as positive as I am that I sit here that wheu 1 slid 'Who's there?' you said 'Me.' " Chicago Tribune. "Do you iuteud to pay au iucomo tax?" "No; I've had my salary re duced to $3400." "Then, of course, you'll expect a Christmas present of about f.")00 or 8(100 from your em ployers." "Yes, that is about the size of it." Boston Budget. Let's fad no mure ou llouaparti, As we have lately doue; Aud, sett'ng him aside, lei make A fad of Vtttbliiugtou. He might object if he were hero; Hut really it too Imd To go to foreigu parts when wo Cau have a home-made fad. lletroit Free Prei-s, If all the nennlri vha kIhiI tl.. .!... in the summer could bu sent to the euuaUir. aud nulled to it. and all tun people who leave tho door opeu in tuo wiuter carried to the .Virtu i'.ile, aud tied to it, what a oouif'.i 1 1 dj world this would be to the rest ol us. Rockland Tiibuue.
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