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VOL. XXVIIT. NO. 2.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1895. S1.00 PER ANNUM.
Fores
The Cznr of Russia tolls bis subjects
thnt he ia an autocrat, as his father
was, and means to remain so.
M. Andre, a European aeronaut,
thinks he could get to the North Pole
in i balloon at an expenditure of
about 835,000v lie is still looking for
m millionaire to blow him off.
The New York World announces
that a prize of 9100,000 is offered by
this Government for the best air-ship
for passenger and freight traffic In
ventors have nntil 1000 to perfect
their plnns.
A movement is on foot in England
to oolobrate the sixth centenary of the
British Parliament, which will be
rounded out this summer. It was in
1295 that Parliament first assembled
on the basis from whioh has grown the
form of the present assembly.
The statistioal fiend has been figur
ing ont the coat of the chain letter
business asking for stamps. He esti
mates that if (he letter reached its
fiftieth Dumber and brought baok ten
stamps for eaoh letter written it would
take 101,372,794,958,094,779 cars to
carry the stamps. -
The examples of New York and Ohio
in founding colonies for epileptios is
about to be followed by Illinois, an
nounces Harper's Weekly. Tho medi
cal sooieties of thnt State and of the
city of Chicago are moving in the
matter, and have submitted a bill for
tho purpose to the State Legislature.
The Atlanta Constitution announces
that "Bishop Potter, of New York,
practically endorses the plan suggest
ed by Rev. Mr. RainBford, some years
ago, of having saloon attachments to
the churches. In this way good
drinks may be obtained by the thirsty,
and the desire for company be grati
fied." Twenty years ago the persons of the
Emperor and Empress of Japan were
sacred ; they were seen by none save
bigh court ofEoiale, and even to these
the Emperor's face- mnst be veiled.
The Empress now visits the free hos
pital of Tokio, and talks or gives
present to the patients as freely aa in
any Western land.
J. Bom writes in the Engineering
and Mining Journal that sinoe the
diamond discoveries in Sonth Africa
the Brazilian diamond-mining indus
try has fallen so low that the annual
output is now not over $150,000, when
thirty years ago it was upward of $2,
500,000. Brazilian diamonds are so
much smaller than the African that it
does not pay to mine them against
African competition.
The political and financial pro
gramme of the Bussian Qovernment
for this year is of a comprehensive
aharaoter. It inoludos the improve
ment of publio crodit, the extension
sf roads and communications, the de
velopment of oommeroe and agricul
ture and the promotion of the export
of Russian manufactures. A special
tax is proposed on all merchandise
entering the port of St. Petersburg.
There were issued during the year
1894 20,803 patents. The inventive
Yankee is not losing his grip, the New
Fork Mail and Express makes appar
ent. In proportion to population
more pate nts were issued to citizens
of Connecticut than to those of any
other State. Massachusetts ranks next.
Rhode Island is third, New Jersey
fourth and New York seventh. Mon
tana and Colorado are fifth and eighth
respectively.
Kleptomania is the polite term for
common stealing when the thief has
money or social position, remarks the
dan Francisco Chroniole. The latest
instance of this vioe of the period
comes from Paris, where a rich old
collector of curios looted the Louvre
and stole mauy valuable arc relios.
If these kleptomauios were treated
(ike ordinary thieves we should hear
of them less frequently. Because a
man has no iLcentive to theft except
oupidity is suflioieut reason why he
should be more severely punished than
one who fteuls from necessity.
What the New York Mail and Ex
press esteems an excellent scheme for
an international postage stamp is
shortly to be submitted to the various
Governments of Europe by the Ger
man authorities. The exceeding in
convenience now existing in the case
of those who wish to inclose stamps
lor reply in a letter addressed to a
foreign country will be wiped out, and
a stamp bearing the names of all the
countries in which its value as postage
is recognized, together with a table
giving its value iu the coiu of each of
these countries, will become universal
i! the scheme is adopted.
GRANDMA. LAND,
There's wonderful oonntry far awsy,
And Its Dame la Grandma Land;
lis a beautiful, glorious, witching plana
With grandmas on every hand.
Everywhere you may look or go.
Everywhere thnt the breezes blow,
Just grandmammas! Junt grftndniftmma.il
In this wonderful country far away
Where grandmammas abide.
In this beautiful, witching Grandma Land
The good things wait on every side
Jam and jelly cake heaped In piles)
Tarts and candy 'round for mile;
Just good things hero! Just good things
".-tjiere!
In this wonderful country far, afar,
Where blow the candy breezes,
In this beautiful, glorious pudding land
Each child does just as he pleases.
All through the night, all through the day,
Every single child has his way,
Each his own wayt Just as he plaasosi '
In this wonderful country far away . .
In this gorgeous grandma clime
When tired children can eat no more,
There are stories of "Onoe on a Time."
Stories are told and songs are sung,
Of when the grandmammas were young
"Onoe on a Tlmel" "'Well, Let lie Boel"
To this wonderful country far, afar,
Where only good things stay,
To this beautiful, glorious OrandmaLand
Good children only And the way,
But when they sleep and when they dream
Away they float on the gliding stream
To OrandmaLand! To Grandma Land!
Harper's Young Feople.
A NEIGHBORLY FEUD.
LL toll yon, Frank,
it's got to the point
where something
l1', mnst be done,"
said Mrs. Burnett,
she rapped at the
small knuckles that
were moving to
ward the sugar
bowl. Morton, aired
ess
nine, jerked his hand out of the way
and laughed at his mother, who
pursed up her lips to conceal a smile.
"Don't do that, Morton," said Mr.
Burnott Then turning to his wife
he asked : "What have they been do
in' now?"
"That boy and some more of his
crowd put tin cans along the top of
the. fence and then threw at thorn to
knock them off. About every other
stone went over the top of the fenoa
and went sailin' aoross our baok yard.
If one of them had strnck anybody he
wouldn't have known what hurt him."
"What did you do?"
"What did I do? I went out and
told them if they didn't stop I'd send
for a policeman. I said to that Dea
kin boy: 'It's a shame your mother
can't teaoh you to be little better
than a savage.' "
"Maybe she didn't know they were
doiu'.it."
"I do believe she puts 'em up to it.
That boy's enough to try the patience
of saint"
"Next time he comes into onr yard
I'll bet I throw something at him,"
pnt in Morton, whose chin was drip
ping with a mild mixture of milk and
coffee.
"You leave bim alone," said the
male parent. "You get into enough
fights already."
"Well, Frank, those boys are for
ever picking on to him," said Mrs.
Burnett . -
"Boys are a good deal alike," re
sponded her husband. "I'll bet when
he gets out he's the same as the rest
of them."
Morton grinned and said nothing.
The only member of the Burnett
family who had not joined in the ar
raignment of the neighbors was Alice,
six years of age. She knew all about
the feud and shared in the suspicions
of her mother, but at present she was
too busy with supper.
The Deakins lived next door, and
although there was a dividing fenoe it
bad nut kept the two families apart.
In the year dnring which the two
households had dwelt side by side
there had been a growing enmity. Yet
Mrs. Burnett had never spoken a word
to Mrs. Deakin, and her husband
knew nothing of Mr. Deakin exoopt
that he workod with his hands for a
living and spent a great many of his
evenings at home.
It would have been rather difficult
for either the Burnetts or the Deakins
to explain how the feud started, but
it was operated from the start through
the children.
There were two Deakin children,
Lawrenoe, or Larry, aged ten, and
little Willie, who, at the tender age
of three, had learned to regard the
Hurnett tribe with soorn and hatred
and suffer, to some degree, under the
indignities heaped upon his family by
that arch fiend of juvenility, Morton
Burnett
For when the Deakins sat around
the supper table and cost up the ac
counts of the day it was Larry who
posed as the persecuted and abused
child, while Morton Burnett was pic
tured as an infant of dark intents,
beaded straight for the Bridewell.
"If I was a man, Tom Deakin,"
said the wife, "I'll warrant you I'd go
over to that house and give notice
that things are simply going too far.
To-day that boy got up on the fence
and oalled Lawrence all kinds of
names."
"He said that his mother said that
ma didn't have clothes fit to wear,"
suggested Lawrence, who had begun
to breathe hard during the reoital of
his grievances.
"Anyway, I don't try to make my
self look like a peaoock every time I
start to church," said Mrs. Deakin.
This comparison of Mrs. Burnett
tickled the children, and they laughed
immoderately. Tom Deakiu restrained
them with a quiet "Tut, tut," and
aaid that the proper war to set alonir
was to pay no attention to the neigh
bors. "I'd like to know how you can it,"
snid his wife. "That boy is np to some
mischief every hour of the day, and
his mother seems to encourage him iu
everything he does. He throws things
over into our yard, teases Willie and
makes faces at me."
"Next time I see him piok on Willie
I'll give himanothor licking," suggest
ed Larry.
"You'll do nothing of the kind,"
exclaimed his mother. "Don't yon
remember the talking to I gave you
the other time you had that fight with
him?"
Lawrence i emembered the mild re
buke, and his inward resolution was
not changed. Tom Poakiu went for
his pipe, oppressed with the thought
thnt he had been very unlucky in his
selection of neighbors.
These complaints had come to him
day after day from the downtrodden
members of his family.
The feud had grown from a thousand
aggravating circumstances.
Suppose Morton Burnett to be on
the fenoe. His mother would open
the back door and say loud enough to
make herself heard through the open
windows of the Deakin house : "Morty,
get down from that fenoe I Haven't I
told you about that?"
Mrs. Doakin would hear and under
stand. Then she would wait her op
portunity to appear on the back
stoop and retaliate.
In summer time, when both women
were out of doors much of the time,
tbey occasionally exchanged glanoes
which wero more significant than any
thing they oould have said.
When Mrs. Burnett put out her
washing she knew that Mrs. Deakiu
was watching her and counting the
number of pillow slips and table
cloths. When Mrs. Burnett came to the
baok door and called out, "Come,
Alice, dear, and praotice your musio
lesson," it was equivalent to saying to
Mrs. Deakin: "Aha, we have a cot
tage organ in onr house, but you
haven't any in yours."
Mrs. Deakin had frequently in
formed Tom that the Burnett organ
was a cheap, second-hand thing.
One day, when Mrs. Deakin came
home from a funeral in a covered car
riage, there was consternation in the
Burnett family, and aooounts were
not fairly balanced nntil the new coat
of paint was put on the Burnett house.
The Deakin children told the Bnr
nott children all that their mother had
said about the probable character of
Mrs. Burnett. Likewise the Burnett
children repeated to the Deakin chil
dren all that they heard at the supper
table. Mrs. Burnett knew that she
was being reported to Mrs. Deakin,
and Mrs. Deakin felt it to be her duty
to learn what the viperish thing had
been saying. Frank Burnett and Tom
Deakin became oonvinoed each that
the other's family was probably more
to blame over the fence, clothes-line
and garbage-box issues.
Allie Burnett started to rnn across
the street one day in front of a deliv
ery wagon. She fell, scrambled to her
feet again and a horse's knee struck
htr in the back again. She fell on the
block pavement and lay quiet
Mrs. Deakin saw it all from her
front window. She ran into the street
and gathered the muddy child in her
arms. The frightened driver had lei t
his wagon, and he followed her timid
ly to the front door of the Buruult
house.
Mrs. Burnett screamed and thou
began to cry.
"Run for a dootor, you loony,"
said Mrs. Deakin to the driver as she
placed the limp little body on a bed
and then ran foroold water and cloths.
When the girl opened her eyes she
found her mother on one side, Mrs.
Deakin on the other, while a reassur
ing physioian smiled at her over the
footboard.
"She's little jolted npand bumped
her head when she fell, but it was
mostly shock," he said.
"Law me I gasped Mrs. Deakin,
"when I saw that child fall my heart
just went into my throat Don't cry,
Allie, you ain't a bit hurt The doo
tor says I can put some more poultice
on your bad old bump."
"1 11 get it, said Mrs. Burnett
"No, you sit still. You are as pale
ac a ghost."
That is how it happened that Frank
Burnett, coming home from the works
by the back way, found in his kitohen
the hated vixen, the trainer of crim
inals, the woman without character
Mrs. Deakin.
She told him what had happened
and begged him not to frighten his
wife, as there wasn t any real dan
ger.
Mr. .Deakin was likewise surprised
upon arriving home. Supper was not
ready and his wife had gone over to
the enemy. He went after and was
taken in.
Mrs. Deakin told him she couldn't
come home because Mrs. Burnett was
all uptet, and some one would have to
take care of the child. So Mr. Deakiu
and his two boys ate aoold lunch with
Mr. Burnett and his boy.
Mr. Burnett sent Morton out to get
two cigars, and while the women
sat by the bed in the front
room the men sat in the back room
and smoked, while the three boys,
awed by the revolution, kept very
quiet.
"If Morton ever bothers you, Mr.
Deakin," (aid Mr. Burnett, "you
just let me know, and I'll tend to
him."
"I was just going to say to you that
Larry's apt to be too gay now and
then, and if I ever hear of him pick
ing on your children I'll make him
remember it"
lu the frout room Mrs. Burnett was
thanking Mrs. Deakin, who was hop
ing that her children had never both
ered Mrs. Burnett very much. The
little girt went to sleep and the Deak
in family went home.
That was the end of the fend. In
each household (here was a general
order that in case of neighborhood
riot punishment shonld be visited npon
those nearest at hand.
Those two houses, side by side, be
came the pence centre of the west di
vision. The Deakin ohildren were at liberty
tc go over and thump on the Burnett's
cottage organ.
But who ended the foud the men,
the women or the six-year-old? Chi
cugo Beoord.
The Age ol Trees.
Much speculation has been in
dulged in as to the length of time
during which trees of particular kinds
may livo ; bnt anything like an abso
lutely accurate estimate is obvionsly
impossible. Approximation to exact
knowledge is all that can be obtained.
Such an approximation, however, is
interesting, and here it is. The cedar
has bceu known to live 2000 years,
the cypress 800, the elm 800, the ivy
335, the larch 575, tho limo 1100, the
maple 616, the oak 1500, the olive
800, the oiange 630, the spruce 1200,
(he walnut 900 and the yew 3200. It
is not unreasonable to suppose that
some of the giants of the Yosemite
Valley are older than any cf thoso
given, their years being almost, if not
quite, equal to those of tho period
since the flood, according to common
chronology. The existing cedars of
Lebanon are supposed to be contem
poraneous of those cut down by Solo
mon for the building of the Temple.
Doubless there are trees to be seen
in every primeval forest as old as the
Christian era, and some, perhaps, that
antedate the Pyramids of Egpyt.
While we look with undisguised awe
and wonder upon the ancient monu
ments of civilization, we fail to real
ize that we may have almost every
day within our view, in the shape of
an aged oak or towering pine, a yet
living and vigorous witness of the
far-off morning of the world. New
York Ledger.
To Prosrrre the Hair.
"What'll yon have on your hair,
sir?" interrogated a barber to the man
in the chair. "Nothing at all? Not
even water? Well, do yon know that
you are one man in fifty? The other
forty-nine want a deooction of some
sort to make their hair lay smoothly
and shine nicely. To tell the truth,
though," he continued, in confiden
tial tone, "it would be a great deal
better for their hair if tbey also per
sisted in having their looks combed
dry. Nature has placed a little oil
sao at the root of each hair, the duty
of which is to supply the hair with
natural oil, and make it smooth and
supple. The use of water, bay rum,
oil and other hair dressings takes the
place of this natural oil, and the sacs
soon wither from disuse. And so,
unless the use of dressings is con
tinued, the hair is liable to grow hard
and stiff. I would advise every one to
discontinue the use of all hair dress
ing, and have the hair combed dry.
About three weeks of dry brushiug
will reopen the oil sacs, and there
after the natural oil will do the work
thoroughly. No, air, I wouldn't ad
vise any one to wet the hair in comb
ing it Bad praotice. Next." New
York Advertiser.
Detective Ability.
A some what ghastly but quite suc
cessful bit of eluoidation is credited
to M. Bertillon, the anthropometrist.
On his back, in bed, a man was tound
the other morning, shot dead through
(he mouth. The revolver was still in
his hand. There were doubts, how
ever, whether it was a oase of suicide,
after all. For one thing, deceased
had never been known to possess a re
volver. Of course, he might have
bought one for the occasion. It was
ndvitable to try to ascertain this, and
it was M. Bertillon who hit npon the
way. He had the corpse taken ont of
bed, drossed it himself in deceased's
clothes, and set it in deceased's cus
tomary attitude in his usual chair.
The coiflure was as it used to be, and
the hue of life was brought back to
the face as nearly as stage paints could
make it. Then the revival was photo
graphed, and the photograph was sent
to every gunsmith in Paris. One of
them recognized a person who had
bought a revolver two days before,
and this witness identified the weapon.
Pall Mall Gazette.
A Widow's Yow.
An English parish clerk, seeing a
woman in the churchyard with a bun
dle and a watering can, followed her,
curious to know what her intentions
might be, and disoovared that she was
a widow of a few months' standing.
Iuquiring what she was going to do
with the watering pot, she informed
him that she had been obtaining some
grass seed to sow on her husband's
grave, and bad bronght a little water
to make it spring up quickly. The
clerk told her there was no occasion
to trouble ; the grave would be green
in good time. "Ah I that may be,"
she replied, "but my poor husband
made me take a vow not to marry
agaiu until the grass had grown over
his grave, and, having had a good of
fer, I do not wish to break my vow,
or keep as I am longer than I can
help." New York Sun.
Persecuting a Poet.
John G. Whittier was greatly loved
by strangers, who not only oalled on
him, but thriftily insisted on putting
up with him all night. "Thee has no
idea," said his sister, "how much time
Greeuleaf spends trying to lose these
people in the streets. Sometimes he
comes home and says J 'Well, sister, 1
had hard work to lose him, but I have
lost him. But I can never lose a her.
'I'll" u.mi.'u are more peitiuaoious tuas)
the n 1 jn't then liu I them
Maria? '
THE MERRY SIIMJ OF m
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BT THE
FDNKT KEN OF THE PRESS.
Mortal Man Uncomplimentary A
Sad Loss L'p-to-Onte Young Slits
Woman's nights, Ktc, Kto.
Oh. why should the spirit of mortal be prond?
When he knows he's a weak-minded flat,
By a fear of fair woman too utterly cowed
To ask her to take oft her hat.
Cincinnati Tribune.
TIN COMPLIMENTARY.
The Physician "Your fever always
seems to leave you when I come in."
The Patient (irritably) "Can you
blame it?" Chicago Kecord.
A SAD LOSS.
"Mrs. Do Paster lost all her dia
monds when they had that fire at her
house."
"Indeed I Were they burned?"
"No water-soaked." Puck.
RHS HADN T.
Darley "Did you go through my
trousers pooket last night?"
Mrs. Darley (indignantly) "No,
sir!"
Darley "Well, there's a hole in
it" Judge.
TTP-TO-DATJt TOFHO MISS.
Little Miss Mugg (proudly) "My
papa is goin' to buy me a bicycle."
Little Miss Freckles (loftily) "I've
had one for a year."
Little Miss Mugg (disdainfully)
"Huh I I wouldn't be seen ridin' a
last year's bioyole." Good News.
MORIS THAN HE EXPECTED.
Chicago Man (politely) "Ah 1 al
low me to hand you your hat, sir.
This wind is terrible."
St Louis Man "Yes; I saw you
piok it up. Glad yon confessed hav
ing it. I shall not forget your hon
esty, sir." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
FRIGID ARISTOCRACY.
Carruthers "A reception at the
Van Winkle mansion always leaves me
feeling as if I had been sojourning in
a cold storage warehouse. "
Waite "Yes; that temperature is
necessary to display the Van Wink
les' blue blood, you know." Fuck.
woman's rights.
"Do you believe in woman's
rights?" aBked the Amerioau young
man.
"Certainly," replied Lord Doddle
by. "My fianoee has 8500,000 in her
own right, and I consider it deuced
charming in her." Washington Star.
A SAD DISCOVERY.
"Never put off things," said the old
man, impressively.
"You wouldn't have me wear rub
bers into the house, would you?"
called the young man, smartly.
And too late the old man realized
that he had nurtured in his bosom the
ooming newspaper youmorist Rock
land Tribune.
STRICTLY CORRECT.
"It strikes me," said the man who
knows something of everything, to the
theatrical manager, "it strikes me
that you havo a good deal of nerve to
say that you engaged your company
at an enormous expense, when I hap
pen to know that not one of them gets
more than (10 a week."
"Just you wait till yon see them
act," said the manager. "If you don't
think $10 a week is an enormous ex
pense for tho work they put up, I'll
buy the dinner." Cincinnati Tribune.
BOW BCRIMPLS WOULU BE OF VALUE.
"Mr. Scrimple," said the magnate
to the rising yonng lawyer, "I want
to make use of your valuable ser
vices. "
"Very well, sir," said Scrimple, as
he gaspod at the joyous prospect of a
first brief. "What can I do for
you?"
"A firm whioh competes with my
house," replied the magnate, firmly,
"is about to bring a damage suit
against me aid I want you to get them
to engage you as their attorney."
Chioago Kecord.
AN ACCOMPLICE.
Briggs "You remember, you told
me yesterday about how you called on
Miss Willowsnap and Buoooeded in
kissing her."
Griggs "Oh, yes, I bolieve I did."
Briggs "Being a hard girl to ap
proach, it took the utmost care on
your part."
Griggs "Yes, that's so. Just like
frightened bird."
Briggs ' 'Exactly. It won over half
an hour before you evou dared to taki
her hand."
Griggs "Fully that."
Briggs "You were sitting on the
ohair at the time. Then you moved
over to the sofa."
Griggs "Yes, 1 reiuembor."
Briggs "Then you talked Platonio
friendship for a while."
Griggs "That's right."
Briggs "Gradually leading up to
more sentimental view of things. Arm
around her waist tuju."
Griggs "That's it."
Briggs "Then you kissed her. But
it had to be done gradually. Every
step had to be considered."
Griggs "Vou bet it did I Very
timid girl that."
Briggs "Precisely. Now, old fel
low, it's important ttat this tiling be
kept quiet."
Griggs-"Kept quiet! What for?"
Briggs "It miiot be jut-t between
ourselves. You mustn't let a j otner
fellow know about it."
'irigs "Why u jt?"
l-riyja "Well, 1 was up there my
self last uihl, und foil u I ion- pro
.'raiu n was a reat huuct," .im -per's
Buzar,
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Aluminum heel tips are coming in
vogue in Lngland
An eleotrio tree feller is one of the
most recent inventions.
Argon, the new can whioh has boen
discovered in the atmosphere, coBts
2U,000 a pound to produce.
Some students delving in old li
braries now wear muzzles to prevent
inhalation of the book microbe.
The French Government discovers,
through recent investigation, that mi
crobes are to be found in common ice.
Dr. Lombard, of Geneva, Switzer
land, who has just died, was for many
years regarded as the leading medical
climntologist of the world.
It is proposed to generate electricity
in the coal regions, using the culm as
fuel, and transmit it to large cities by
wire, there to be used for light, power
or heating purposes.
To prevent the possibility of conta
gious diseases spreading through the
use of the telephone Paris physioians
recommend the use of a specially pre
pared antiseptio paper.
No watch keeps perfectly oorrect
time, and even the best obronometors
used in observatories and on board
ships must be regulated aooording to
tables which are kept to fix the varia
tions to whioh all watches are liable.
Professor Qeikie writes in Nature
that geologists have been on the whole
inclined to aoqutsco in Lord Kelvin's
theory that the earth is about a hun
dred million years old, but some biolo
gists have reduoed the estimate to
only ten million years.
The sky is whiter over the culti
vated than over the uncnltivated por
tions of the earth's surface because a
great deal of coarse duBt is present in
the atmosphere in the former instanoe,
with the result that a larger propor
tion of white light is diffused.
Strasbnrgor, an authority on vege
table biology, finds transpiration to
have much effeot on the size and shape
of plant leaves, and deduces the gen
eral law that the more sunlight and
tho drier the atmosphere the thicker
and smaller the leaves will be.
A Malaysian spider, whioh is nor
mally of a bright golden tint, is said
to have the power of "darkening down
its brilliant coloring when fright
ened." It is well known that oertain
spiders can change their color under
the stimulus of changing surround
ings. A projeot is on foot to ereot a monu
ment to Lavoisier, the great Frenoh
chemist. As every country is reaping
the benefit of his wonderful dis
coveries, it is proposed to make the
memorial an international one. Sub
scriptions are already being solicited
in England and Ireland.
It is now believed, and with high
probability of the truth of the theory,
that the shooting stars whioh some
times fall to the earth in a semi-molten
oondition are almost or wholly devoid
of heat when they enter the atmos
phere. They are set on fire by fric
tion against the air, due to tht rapid
ity of their motion. It is possible that
the foroe of the earth's attraction solid-
j ifies such meteors from a gaseous
oondition in whioh they may exist in
spaoe.
A Novel Experiment.
A novel experiment is being made
at Martha's Vineyard by the Massa
chusetts Highway Commission. In
macadamizing the roads at that place
it has been found that the ballast
stone would not stay in position in
the sandy foundations, for the sand
constantly worked to the top, while
the stones were lost in the depths of
the sand. Gravel was tried for a
foundation, with fairly good suooess,
bnt it was oostly and scarce. Cheap
cotton oloth was then tried with good
results, as it seems, apparently, to be
the material needed. It is found that
the sand does not work up through
the stone, and that much less stone is
required. Layers of tarred paper
were tried before the oloth, but it was
found that the stone pressed through
it A small seotion only of the road
has been experimented upon thus
far, but if it oontinues to be as suc
cessful as at present the experiment
will be carried still further. Paving
and Municipal Engineering.
Five Acres ol Winlerreeii.
Wintergreen Island, situated oppo
site Essex, Conn., was in post years
considered as profitable a five-acre
tract of land as the town contained,
owing to i's produoing immense quan
tities of wintergreen. This laud was
heavily oovered with pine trees which
shaded the viues. The berries were
so plentiful that mauy bushels werd
gathered every year and were taken
by agents, who shipped them to Bos
ton and other cities. But their eud
came wheu the trees were cut down.
The harvest was from the middle of
November until (he snow covered the
ground. Birch has takeu the plaoj oi
wintergreen, and the sectiou abouuds
with birch oil distilleries. The dif
ference betweeu liirou oil an I wiuter
greeu oil is very slight, and thoustu Is
of gallons of the former are cold every
year for wintergreen extract. New
Orleans Pioayuue.
An Unhid Fa J.
Joseph Chamberlaiu's fidelity to the
orchid has done more toward strength
ening the cult of the flower tbau the
action of anyone else. His attentiou
was first directed to the orchid iu an
accidental manner about twenty years
ago, and sinoe that time he has beeu
adding coutiuually to his collection at
Highbury, near Birmingham, Eug
laud, until at the present moment tie
has betweeu 5000 and 6 100 plants of
ali kinds, which have beeu drawn from
all parts of the orchid producing
world. Altogether they fill thirteeu
f?mm houses.- Chicago Times-Herald.
UNFAITHFUL.
If man could nilo his love of cliani?n would
mar
The purple dignity that wrnjH th" hills;
Thick out from the blue eky some perfect
star,
And set it clsewhnre, as his fancy wills.
Train tho gnarled apple treo more straitflitly
up:
Lift violet head, so Ion? and mwkly bowed;
With some new odor fill her purple cup,
Aud gild the rosy fringes of a cloud.
For mark! Inst year I loved tho violet bet,
And tid her tender colors in my hair;
To-day I wear on my InonHtant breast '
A orimson rose, and count her just as fair.
We ore unfaithful. Only God Is true
To hold secure the landmarks of the past,
To paint year after year the hnrclwll blue,
Andinthcamepww't mold its shape to cast.
Oh, steadfast Nature, let us learn of the!
Thou canst create a new flower at thy will,
and yet through nil the years canst faithful
be
To the sweet pattern of a daffodil.
From Sometime, by May Riley Smith.
HUMOR OK THE DAT.
A fast man easily runs into debt
Puck.
The poorest form of loating is be
longing to a litorary society. Atchi
son Globe.
Unless you flatter some people they
imagine you are slandering them.
Galveston News.
It is very hard to admit that a man
younger than yourself has more sanse.
Atchison -Globe.
In the bright lexicon of the groocr,
even allspice is adulterated until it is
not all spice. Puck.
Sheriff's advioo to a merchnnt
"Don't advertise and I'll do the rest"
Profitable Advertising.
The man who becomes a successful
hypocrite has to work at it every day '
in the week. Kam's Horn.
China invented gunpowder, but it
was so long ago that she forgot what
it was for. Cincinnati Tribune.
A man doesn't look as pretty at a
piano as a girl ; but, as a rule, he
sounds prettier. Atchison Globe.
The man who commits suicide for
love perpetrates a slur on all the
women in the world except one.
Puck.
"Those are pretty poor patent leath
ers you have on." "Yes; but they
were all right before the patent ex
pired." Yale Reoord.
It's a wise young housekeeper who
excuses her bad cooking on the ground
of typographical errors in her cook
book. Philadelphia Kecord.
Nearly every one has been wicked
enough in his life to feel painfully
embarrassed whon invited to a mind
reading party. Atchison Globe.
Professor "Mr. Wakeup, can you
tell what besides chloride of iodiue is
found in salt water?" Wakeup
"Why, yes; fish." iTale Record.
Weazer "The Populists used to
have a band wagon ; what have they
got now?" Teazer "Nothing but the
wagin' tongue." Philadelphia In
quirer. Time flies. It seems but a few days
since a woman we know was outtiug
out scraps of poetry, and now she onts
out only sure cures forrhematism.
Atchison Globe.
Chioago Alderman "Who are you
and what do you want?" Old Party
(with lantern) "My name is Diogenes.
Let mo pass. I'm not looking for
you." Chioago Tribune.
Mrs. Elephant (after tying knot in
her spouse's trunk) "There, now! I
guess you won't forget again to bring
the baby some of those ooooanuts when
you go down to the jungle." Puck.
One fact should be known by him who'd
drink
From Fortune's golden oupt
By Fate Is the man turned down who waits
For something to turn up.
Puck.
Madge "I wish we oould meet some
of the leaders of our set this after
noon." Mamie "That's easy enough
to do. Just put on your ugliest dress
and go out for a walk." Chicago
Reoord.
Little Sister "Any new studies
this term?" Little Brother "One
elocution." "What's that?" "It's
learuiu' how to read a thing so it will
souud as if you was at the other end
of a drain-pipe. Good News.
Visitor "It must be very diffloult
to produce such an exquisite work of
art." Dealer "Nousouse. Almost
anybody oau point a picture ; but
fin ling a victim to buy it utter it is
painted is whor tho art comes in."
Tit Bits.
Little Dot "Uncle George says I'm
too loquacious. What does that mean."
Mamma -'That means you talk too
much." Little Dot (after reflection)
"I 'spose big word was made so
folsa oould say mean things wifout
liurtiu' anybody's feelings." Good
News.
"Eustace lias beeu cured of his hab
it of boa.-tiug. " "How was that
miracle accomplished?" "He was
dilatiug ou (lie size of his income the
other eveuiug in a mixed crowd wlieu
one of the persons present spoke up
and remarked that he was au iucome
tax collector." Chicago Kecord.
A Strike Ai;alnt (he Hospitals,
There is a strike a.aiust the hospi
tals iu Yieuua. lu Austria the private
doctor is almost unknown, as nearly
everybody belongs to a medical club,
by whioh, ou payment ot a trirte, medi
cal attendance is furnished whenever
required. These clubs havo long had
u agreement with the publio hospi
tals to give admission to sick member
for thirty-six cents a week. The hos
pitals are uow trying to raKe the rata
to titty uoiiU per wuek au 1 the clubs
havo struck agaiust them. Chicago
Herald.