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VOL. XXVIIT. NO. 3.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1895. S1.00 PEIl ANNUM.
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I0D work
ih oa dsltvarr.
1 jI is said that tlio Into patent de
cision is likely to cheapen tolephone
service amazingly.
Athletics aro said to be languishing
in our colleges. Football is under ban
and baseball in too slow.
There are about 12,000,000 honsos
in this country, with loss than six
pco)lo to each on the average.
"Ninety-six per oont. of our trndo
is confined to tho homo market," es
timates the Atlnuta ConHtitution.
An educational qualification will
hereafter be required of men decking
enlistment in the Unitod States
Army.
Tho world's chief supply of .alabas
ter oomos from tho quarries of Vol
tcrra, somo thirty miles southeast of
Pisa, in Italy, whero this industry
has been handed down for genera
tions. Schools of tonography and typo
writing turn thoir pupils to use by
doing at rather low rates typewriting
for lawyers and othors. The copying
makes good prnotico for tho pnpil
and incidentally brings in consider
able revenuo to the school.
The Boston Transit Commission will
relieve the narrow, crooked and
crowded streets by a subway, begin
ning in the Public Onrden and ending
at Park street. The subway will be
partly double-track and partly quad
ruple, and will be lightod by elec
tricity. England is not generally thought of
M a gold producing country, bnt
Knowledge says that there ore per
haps few countries in the world in
which the metal is more genorally dis
tributed. The principal mines in
Wales, now abandoned, were workod
as long ago as the Roman occupation.
The Southern Florist and Gardenor
says:. The last census shows that tho
earth yields to the Southern farmer
twenty-five per cent, on his capital
annually, against a yield of only four
teen per cent, to his Northern brother.
If the value of machinery and live
stook is included as capital, the dif
ference in favor of the Southern far
mer is even greater.
Says the New York Observer: The
death of John Stuart Blaokie removes
one of Scotland's most interesting
oharaotors. While a loyal subjeot of
Her Majesty of Great Britain and Ire
land, he was pre-eminently a Scotch
man, and opposed with decided earn
estness all influences calculated to ig
nore or lessen the distinction between
things English and things Sootoh. His
sorvices to his own oountry have boon
very great; his iufluenoe for good
upon the young men who have come
in oontaot with him during his long
professorship is beyond computation.
The Boston Transoript says that the
British Iron and Steel Institute has
just awarded the Bessemer gold medal,
the highest prize to which metallur
gists may aspire, to Henry Howe, of
Boston, a son of Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe. "This honor," it adds, "has
been conferred on only four Ameri
cans hitherto Peter Cooper, Abram
B. Hewitt, Alexander L. Holley, who
introduced the Bessemer prooess into
this oountry, and John Fritz, who do
signed and built the great Bethlehem
Iron works. Mr. Howe received the
medal for his writings and investiga
tions into the scientific features of
steel making. Among the European
recipients of tho medal are Sir Will
iam Siemens, the inventor of the open
hearth steel-making process; Sir
Joseph Whitworth and Lord Arm
strong, of gun fame, and O. S.
Thomas, the inventor of the basio
Bessemer prooess."
The St Paul Pioneer-Press remarks :
While the farmers of the Northwest
are deploring the advent of the Rus
sian thistle, a new forage plunt, also
of Russian origin, has made its appear
anoe, which promises to prove suoh a
blessing to farmers as to more than
atone for the damage done by its
pestilent oompntriot. It is known as
eacaline. It requires no cultivation.
Onoe planted, it propagates itself in
any soil, in dry, sandy, barren or in
wet, alluvial swamps. It stands the
drouth, for its roots strike deep. It
drinks in the rain, when there is any,
like a camel loading np for a journey
through the desert. It is as nutritious
as any of our grasses. It possesses a
combination of remarkable properties,
whioh adapt it wonderfully well for
the conditions existing in Minnesota,
and especially tbeDakotas and beyond.
Our impression is that the Minnesota
agricultural college is trying it, or
has arranged to try it on tho Stale
experimental furin.
CRADLE SONO.
Th8 maplft A! rows the embers of lis leaves
O'erths laggard swallows nestled 'ncnth the
loaves,
And the moody cricket fnlfcrs lu his cry
Jluhy-hyc!
And thn lid of night is fulling o'er tho sky
Hahy-by"!
And the lid of night is falling o'er tho sky.
Thn roso Is lying pallid and tho cup
Of the fronted eulln Hty folded up.
And tho tirewos through tin- garden so!) and
sigh Iluliy-bye!
O'er tho sleeping blooms of summer whero
thoy lie Buby-byo!
O'er the sleeping blooms of summer where
they lie.
Yet, baby oh, my baby for your snko
This heart of mine Is ever wide awake.
And my love mny never droop a drowsy eye
Uaby-bye!
Till your own are wet above mn when I die
Baby-bye!
Till your own are wet above mo when 1 dlo.
James Whlteomb Klloy.
STOPPING AN EXECUTION,
NE spring
some years
Cb""; I IS o 1 was
yrfj living in SO1
email town
about thirtv-
five miles
northofLon
don. 1 was
writ i n g a
novel. I
knew very
lew people in
the town
where I was living, and for five or bix
weeks had scarcely seen anyone to
speak to.
So engrossed was I with my task
that I had no timo to read even the
newspapers, and was quito ignorant of
what was going on in the world. Tho
only relaxation I allowed myself was a
good brisk walk into the country
every afternoon. With this exoeption
I had hardly stirred from my house,
except to run np to London onoe or
twice for the purpose of visiting the
docks and making certain tochnioal
investigations concerning them. This
I did, as a good portion of the novel
I was working at was about the life of
dock surroundings.
It was a little after 8 o'clock one
evening in April thot I finished the
second volume of my work. I put on
my hat and coat and started off for an
evening stroll. I had no sooner
stepped into the street than a boy ao
oosted me with a bundle of papers
under his arm with the request:
"Buy an evening paper, sir?" I
bought one, put it in my pocket and
resumed my walk.
It was a fine night and I wont some
little distance, reaching home a little
after half-paBt 9.
I had laid down the newspaper on
the table when entering the room, in
tending to read it during supper, but
my appetite had got the better of my
craving for intelligence, so it was not
until I had lit a pipo and subsided
into a cosy armchair by the fire that I
unfolded the sheet of printed matter.
I opened my paper Joisurely nay,
lazily. I looked at the "leader."
Something about a new "Greek loan."
That didn't interest me. I skipped
through the little item of news and
hurried jottings and summaries pecu
liar to our evening papers. Presently
my eye was caught with the following
paragraph heading: "Impending Exe
cution." There is a morbid fascination for
most people in an execution, and, so,
yielding to this foeling, 1 prooeeded
to read the paragraph.
"The mnrderer of the unfortunate
James Renfrew will be hanged to
morrow morning at 8 o'clock. The
wretched man, whose namo Charles
Fenthuret is now iu , everybody's
mouth, still insists in his plea of in
nocence." Here I became deeply interested.
The name of Fenthurst was most fa
miliar to me. I had formed a deep
friendship with a man of that name.
was a good fifteen years my senior
and had died two years previously, I
knew he bad a sou named Charles, a
young fellow, who had emigrated to
South Africa early iu life and who was
generally supposed to be working at
the diamond mines. Could this bo
the same mau? I read on.
"It will be rememberod that at the
trial the strongest circumstantial evi
dence was brought to bear upon Fent
hurst. The murder took place iu a
house on the outskirts of the small
town of Clinfold. It was proved that
Fenthurt was in the h'abit of frequent
ing Renfrew's premises, and that ap
parently he was expected there on the
evening in question. He was seen near
the place soon after the crime was
committed, and several other proofs
of a strongly condemnatory character
were also laid against him. He has
persisted from the first, however, in
maintaining that he was absent from
Clinfold at the very time the murder
took place. This was about 7 o'clock
in the evouing. At that hour, he says,
he was returning from London, where
he bad been spending part of the day.
Only one witness, he says, could prove
this, and that is au iudividuul who
traveled with him us far as P and
entered into conversation with him.
Advertisements have been iusertod in
all the papers by Fenthurst 'a legul ad
visers for the purpose of discovering
the iudividuul iu question, but as no
ausAer has been fortheoming'it is gen
erally believed that the whole story is
a myih. At any rate, there seems but
small chance of the alibi being proved
at the li.nt moment. Tho murder was
committed February 6. Since his con
druuuutiou the murderer has been oou
tiii;. in Silkuiiusrer jail, where his ex
eoi.iiou will take placs."
A.-ii ouishmout uud dismay confront
a mm 1
ed mo as I laid the paper down. I was
tho missing witness they had so vainly
sought. I distinctly remembered,
onrly in February, running up to town
rather late in tho afternoon, spending
just half an hour there, and returning
by the first train I could catch. My
landlady didn't even know but that I
had been for rather a longer walk than
usual. I had entered into conversa
tion on the return journey with the
only othor occupant of my oompnrt
meut, a young man with a small black
bag, on which was printed 'tho letters
"C, F." I rcmotubcred all this dis
tinctly. In order to make Bure I
snatched up my diary and quickly
turned to the date of tho murder,
February 6. There was the entry :
"Kan up to town in afternoon. In
quired concerning material for chap
ter vii. Saw B for half hour. Bo
turned by 6.42 train."
The horror of the situation now
flashed npon me. A man's life the
life of my old friend's son depended
upoc mo. I looked at my watch. It was
just 11 o'clock. Hurriedly I dragged
on my boots, thinking the whilo what
I should do. My first impulse was to
rush to the telegraph ollioo. Thon,
with dismay, I remembered that it
was shut for the night after 8 o'clock
and that tho postmaster took the 8.30
train to the large town of F , about
five miles off, where he lived, leaving
the office for the night in the charge
of a caretaker and returning by an
early train the next morning.
It was impossible to telegraph. Thon
I thought of going to the police I there
were just twoconstables and a sergeant
in our little town,) but wnat could
they do more than I? Country polioe
are proverbial for the lowurely "ron
tino" manner in whioh they set about
any inquiry and it would never do to
trust them. I was in despair.
Madly I throw on my hat and rushed
out. I ran in a mechanical way to the
postofiice. Of course, it was shut,
and if I had aroused the caretaker he
couldn't have wired. Besides, all our
wires went first to F , and, as I havo
said, all communication was shut off
after 8 o clock. Then I started for
the railway station. This was about
half a mile from the postoffloe and
well outside the town. Aas 1 hurried
along I thought, with fresh dismay,
that this would also prove a fruitless
errand, for the last train to Silkminis
ter was the 8.30 p. m., by which I
have mentioned the postmaster always
traveled, bukminlster, 1 must men
tiou, was nearly 150 miles down the
line.
Should I wait till the morning and
telegraph? I remembered that the
office did not open till 8 o'clock. I
had by this time, reached the station.
Of course, it was all shut up and all
the lights were out, except those in
tho signal lamps tor the night ex
presses. It was now past 11.30.
Was there no hope ? Yes 1
At this moment my eye caught a
light in the signal box, about a quar
ter of a mile up the line. I could see
the signalman in his box, the outline
of his figure ttanding out against the
light within. I looked at my watch ;
the down express from London was
almost due. I would make a rush for
that signal box, and compel the occu
pant to put the signal against it and
stop it. It was a desperate game ; but
only got that train to stop for an in
stant and all would be right. By get
ting into it I could reach Silkminster
in the early morning, and what oared
I for any action tho company might
take if I saved my friend s son. If
the signalman refused to put bock the
levers, the strength born of despera
tion would enublo me to master him
and relax them myself. All this
Hashed across me in an inBtant, and I
clambered over the railings on the
side of the station, and found myself
on the line.
Even as I reached the rails a sema
phore signal that was near me let fall
its arm, and the light changed into a
brilliant groen. The express was sig
naled! Would there be time? I dash
ed along over the rough ties toward
tho signal box. It was very dark, and
1 Btumbled over and over again. I
had cleared about half the distance,
when I heard the omiuous roar ahead.
and in a few seconds oould distin
guish the glitter of the engine's head
light bearing toward me. The train
was just over a mile from" mo, rushing
on at express speed. With a groan I
ejaculated, "Too late!"
At that instant my eye full upon a
ghastly looking structure by the side
of the track, looming grimly through
the darkness. It resembled a one
armed gallows with au arm hanging
from it I For a moment I thought it
must have been a fearful fancy con
jured up by the thought of Fenthurst 'e
dreadful late, but immediately I re
membered taut this strauge looking
apparition was none other than a mail
bug suspended from a post in fact,
part of the apparatus by which a train
going at full speed picks up the mails.
The express train that was coining had
a postal car attached to it. From the
side of the cur a strong rope net would
be luid out, catching tho bug I suw
suspended before me.
As a bag would bo deposited from
the train in a somewhat similar man
ner, there ought to huve been a muu
ou guard. 1 afterward found he had
left his post and goue to have a chat
with bis friend in the cheery signal
box.
A mad and desperate idea took pos
session of me. The train that was
bearing down, and which would reach
me in one minute, should pick me up
with the mails I 1 grasped the idea
of the thing iu a seooud. if I could
hung on to that bag so that it came
between me and the net it would
break the force of tho shook, and the
net would receive me as well us the
bug. Fortunately I am a small man.
ilia bag hung just over luv head. I
jumped at it, seized it, drew myself
up parallel with it, held it firmly at
the top, where it bung bv a hook, and
drew iry les uu so uu vo present as ,
small a compass as possible It did
not take me half a minute to do all
this. Then I waited. It was but a
few seconds, but it 'seemed hours. I
heard the roar of the approaching
train. Then the engine dashed past
mo. I shall never forget the row of
lightod carriages passing about a foot
away from me closer than even that,
I suppose and I hanging and waiting
for the crash to come.
And it came. Ibcro was a dull thud
a whirr and a rush, and all was dark.
Whon I came to my senses I was ly
ing on the floor of the postal van.
Two men iu their shirt sleeves were
busily engaged in sorting letters at a
rack. I felt bruised and stilt all over,
and I found that my left arm was
bound iu a sling made out of a hand
kerchief. "Where are .we?" I asked.
They turned around.
"Ob, you've come to, have you?"
said one of them. "Now, perhaps,
you'll give an account of yourself.
It's precious lucky you're here at all,
let me toll you, for if yon had been a
taller man we should only have got
part of you in the net. As it is, you vo
got your collar bone broken. We've
tied it up a bit. Now, perhaps, you'll
speak out ; and look here, if we find
you've been dodging the police, don't
you go thinking you'll give 'em the
slip any further. Tho mail van an't
a refuge of that sort."
I told them the motivo that had
prompted me to take the desperato
step I had done. They wouldn't be
lieve it at first. Luckily, though, I
had put the evening paper and my
diary in my pocket, so I showed them
the paragraph and tho entry. Thoy
were civil enough then.
"Well, sir, we Bhall bo in Silkminis
ter about three or a little after. I
hope you'll bo able to save the poor
boggar. You must excuse our turn
ing to work again, and the host thing
for you will be to rest yourself."
They piled a quantity of empty
mail bags on the iloor aud made me a
rough shake-down. Before he went
to his work again the other one
said :
"What a pity yon never thought of
a better way out of the difficulty than
ooming in here so sudden like."
"There was no other way,"
"Yes there was, sir."
"What was that?"
"Why, you should have got the sig
nalman to telegraph to Silkminster ;
he oould have done it all right."
What an idiot I had been, after all I
However, I should be in time to stop
the exeoution.
A little after 3 we drew up at Silk
minster station. There was a police
man on the platform, and I at once
told my story to him, the result being
that we drove around to the jail and
insisted npon seeing the Governor. Of
course, he was deeply interested in
what I had to tell him, aud at once
made arrangements to stop the execu
tion. The Home Secretary was com
municated with by means of special
wire. Fortunately, he happened to
be in town, after a couple of hours of
anxious suspense a reprieve was re
ceived from him.
"Well," said the'Oovernor, "I don't
know whioh I ought to congratulate
most, Mr. Fenthurst or yourself, for
you have both had a most narrow
esoape."
Little remains to be told. I soon
identified the condemned man as the
person whom I had met in the train.
He also turned out to be the son of
my old friend, as 1 had fully expected.
After the due formalities ho was dis
charged. Suspioion having strongly
attached itself to his name, however,
he was very miserable, until about u
fortnight afterward tho real murderer
was discovered and captured. Charles
Fenthurst and myself became fust
friends, and although I was fearfully
shaken and upset for some weeks after
the adventure, I never regretted tho
night on whioh I was picked up with
tho mails. Strand Magazine.
The Dcuuly Candy Bar.
There is an immense amount of non
sense uttered in the guise of scientific
advioe, and nothing more thoroughly
foolish than the perpetual attacks up
on candy and confectionery, says
Margherita Ailina Hamra. The argu
ments are the same as those employed
fifty years ago, when two-thirds of the
bonbons of the market were made with
terra alba aud other abominations. At
the present there is scarcely a pound
of candy in the market thut is not pure
and wholesome. Good cundy iu mod'
eration is heathful aud nutritious.
The desert Arabs of Africa use as their
chief article of diet tho dried dates,
which are so rioh iu sugar us to be al
most candy in themselves, aud thoy
are about the strongest and healthiest
men in the world.
Every child who is healthy cravet
oandy, aud the craviug merely repre
sents tho food value of the thing do
sired. To forbid a little child a fe
bonbons now and then does far more
harm than to gratify its natural aud
unobjectionable desire.
Candy in excess is injurious, but
more so thau ripo fruit, roust beef,
plum pudding, or even mashed p.H
toes. New York Muil and Express.
Pressing Wouuus With Aolies.
Receut wounds slimiM lie driua.l
says Dr. Pashkutl', with a thiu l iver of
1 A . 1
whdb jjruimiuu ejiiempore uy lu
ciueratiug some cotton stuff 01 liuou.
The ashes mingliug with the blood
form a protecting scurf under which
the lesion bents v.irv runidlv Tbi
1 1 J 1 J
simple and convenient method Uu
ueeu prucueej by tne Uossunk
peasantry from time immemorial, and
the doctor mentions that iu Lis own
expeiieuso of twonty-eiht onset) ot
outs, stabs, crushes, etc.. tuuutv-six
healed without any suppuration. Hj
also reoom me inl.i thut dirty-looku;
wollllils should lit u.t0't..i iiili, ii
horaoio solution before buiu dressed.
New Orieuus J'iouvua.
THE MERliV SIIIKUF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BT THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.
Ijlttlo Mary Following I'd the Ques
tion Oesperate Remedy Not
(iotten That Way Accuracy, Ktc,
Mary had a set of teeth
And they were white as snow,
And every where thut Mary went
The tocth were sure to go.
But, oh, alas! she once forgot
To put them In her cheek,
And then the neighbors nil olwrvei!
That Mary was antique.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
FOLLOWING VI" THE Ol'EHTIOH.
Cumso "Are you working, Jay
smith?" Jaysmith "Yes."
Cumso "Whom ?" Judge.
NOT GOTTEN THAT WAY.
Pruyu "Arc you installed in your
new home?"
Mrs. Younglove (haughtily) "No,
sir ; our furniture was a gift from my
parents. "- Puck.
A DEsrr TB REMEDY.
"John, dear, j must take up some
kind of reform this year. Now, if I
take np dross reform, w hat will you
take?"
"Chloroform. "Life.
WISE ANCIENTS.
Traveler "The house in some of
the ancient cities had walls ten feet
thick."
Mr. Brickrow "I presume some of
the neighbors were musical." New
York Weekly.
NEW SLEEVES INSTEAD.
"What has Mrs. De Style done with
the money her uncle loft her?"
"She did intend to build a house,
but I see she has come out with new
sleeves in two dresses instead." Chi
cago lntcr-Ooean.
THE BOY EXPLAINED.
Teacher "Can any of you tell me
why flannel is comfortable in winter?"
Bright Boy (in new underwear)
"It makes yeh hitch and wriggle
around, and the exercise keeps yeh
warm." Good News.
PLANNING HER CAMPAIGN.
Jeannette "Ma, are you going to
give me another piece of pie?"
Mother "What do you want to
know for?"
Jeannette "Because, if not, I want
to eat this piece slowly. "- Pearson's
Weekly.
ACCURACY.
"What time does the last train
leave?" asked the traveler.
And the gatekeeper at the Boston
depot gave him a haughty look, and
replied :
"When the road quits business."
Washington Star.
WORKS BOTH WAYS.
"It's curious, "said one philosopher,
"that a man is always wanting some
thing that he can't get."
"i'es," replied the other; "und
that he is always getting something
that ho doesn't want." Washington
Star.
A ror.ND OP PREVENTION.
Penologist "Our prisons and pen
itentiaries are a disgrace to civiliza
tion. The convicts are abused, un
cared for, and poorly fed. Can yon
snggest a remedy?"
Philanthropist "Yes; let 'em keep
out of such places." Puok.
VALUE OK GENERALITIES.
"I suppose you wuut the lady's name
eugraved inside, sir?" said the jewel
er, after Tillinghast had selected an
engagement riug.
"Oh, no," replied tho careful young
mau. "Just put inside 'To my
heart's own treasure,' or 'The star of
my life.'" Life.
A CnANGE EXPECTED.
Jones "Jack man is a nico fellow,
but he thinks he know it all."
Brown "Is ho married or single?"
Jones "Got married about a week
ago."
Brown "Don't worry about him.
His mind will uudergo a change be
fore very loug." Detroit Free Press.
NOT THE ANSWER HUE WANTED.
Hostess (who has made unusual
preparations for a fine diuuer) "1
tell John, that if he will hrin people
homo unexpectedly to diuuer, thoy
must tuke just what we have."
Guest (wishing to put her at ease)
"Oh, that's all right, Mrs. Bluffer!
I'm an old traveler used to roughing
it now aud then, you know." Puck.
LOOKING AFIKIi THE TRIFLES.
"It is only by looking closely after
the triiles that a profft can be mado
iu these days of close competition,"
said the grocer to his new assistant.
"Ves, sir, 1 understand," replied the
boy.
"For example," continued his em
ployer, "when you pie't tho flies out
of the sugar, don't throw them away.
Put them among the currants."
Life.
AN OMIKHION.
"ltomeiuhor, boys," said tho
teacher, "that iu the bright lexicin of
youth there's uo such word as fad."
Alter a few moments a boy raise I his
bund. "Well, what is it, ".Soorates?"
asked the teacher.
"1 was merely coiuit to suggest."
replied the yjiiugter, "that if suoii is
tho eusti it would bo udvisubie to write
to too puldisln rs of Unit lexicon aud
cull their attciiiiciu to the omission."
Chieuo Kiito.
SCIEJiTinC AM) INDUSTRIAL.
An instrument has been invented to
measure thought.
In all tropical countries the vulture
is the natural scavenger.
Red phosphorus oombines with
chlorate of potash to make an explo
sive of great violenoe.
Thomas A. Edison intends to in
vestigate the properties of argon, tho
element recently discovered in the air.
A ton of cottonseed meal, when fed
to cattle, just about replaces the fer
tility which is sold in C000 quarts of
milk.
Work has been commenced by the
Pennsylvania Bailroad on a new typo
of eight-wheel, compound, consoli
dated passenger engine, which, it is
thought, will be faster and of greater
traction than any engine yet built.
Owing to its unfavorable situation
for observations, the Carlsruhe Ob
servatory is to be transferred to the
summit of the Geisberg, half an hour's
distance from Heidelberg, and will
thereafter be known as the Heidelberg
Obsorvatory.
M. Fremont has provod by experi
ment that water kept for twenty min
utes at 176 degrees Fahrenheit loses
all the deleterious germs it may have
contained without being deprived of
its gases or precipitating the salts con
tained in it, and that the flavor is not
modified by the process.
Professor John Michols writes in
the Scientific American of a parasite
called "taroosperidium," the eggs er
germs of whioh ofton exist by mill
ions in the flesh of 'hogs. It is sup
posed to be harmless, but it is never
safe to eat pork or any other meat un
til it has been thoroughly cooked.
The Yaoillus of diphtheria is ono-twenty-five-thousandth
of an inch
long, and when fixed in the human
throat it grows into a network with
other bacilli produced from it, all
operating together to produce a viru
lent poison which when taken into tho
blood causes the fatal cousoquenoos bo
apt to follow from the disease.
Professor Gore believes that tho sun
of our Bolar system is a member of a
group of stars "possibly distributed
in the form of a ring," and that at a
muoh greater distanoe from us than
the stars of this ring is another cluster
of suns at such an immense distance
that their light is visible only in the
Milky Way gleam of our midnight
skies.
The higher up the animal scale we
travel the larger amount of nitrogen
that enters into the struoture of the
organism in proportion to .weight or
volume. In any given animal, the
higher the funotion of any tissue that
enters into its structure, the largor
the amount 0 nitrogen. The bones
have the least, and the nerve struoture
the most, while the brain has far more
than any other part.
A House ot Tube.
A German inventor has built - a
houBe of hollow tubes, whose advan
tages are, he says, a oonstant temper
ature and incidentally strength, dura
bility, comfort and beauty. He first
put up a frame of water tubing, al
lowing continuous circulation to a
stream of water. Around this framo
he put np his house in the ordinary
way. The peculiarity is that all floors
and ceilings are crossed and recroBsed
by the water pipes. The water, after
passing through horizontal tubes un
der the floors and ceilings passes
through the vertical tubes until all
have been gone through. In summer
fresh, cool water circulates under
pressure through the network of
tubes, oools off the walls, and, after
having run its course, flows off con
siderably warmer than when it en
tered. In its course it has absorbed
muoh heat, whioh it carries away.
During the long and severe winter the
water entering through the basement
is first heated to nearly 100 degrees
and then forced through the tubing.
Of course, muoh of the heat is left all
over the house, and at the outlet the
temperature of the water is about forty
degrees. The speed of the circulation
Df water oan be regulated so as to al
low the fixing of a certain tempera
ture whioh is equal throughout th
omiding. New York Bun.
Washington Sees a Mundog.
Washington saw a parholion at 8
o'clook the other day. This phenome
non in usual parlanoe is called a suu
dog, and is peouliar to more north
erly latitudes than that of Washing
ton. The parhelion in question was
exoeedingly brilliant and was observed
by thousands of people. The sky was
hazed and presented a dull, milky ap
pearauoe. Tho outer circles had a
radius of about thirty degrees, the sua
occupying the center of the circle.
The inner edge of the circle wus red
and well defined, but the outer edge
was not so well defined. The sky
within the halo was muoh darker thau
it was for a distauoe of several do
greos without tho halo. The light, as
is always the case iu parhelia, was
polarized in the direction of a tungeut
to the circumference, proving that
tho light had suffered refraction. This
balj waa formed by the refraction of
the light of the suu through the crys
tals of ioo floating iu the atmosphere.
Chicago Times-Herald.
BluniHu'i (jiroatest Feat.
Blondin, the tight-roya walker, now
over seventy years of whon be ia
interrogated as to tho most difficult
feat he has ever performed, always
refers to his walking ou a rope from
the muiuinust to the inizzeu ou board
tho Peninsula and Oriental Company's
stoamer l'ooimh on his way out to
Australia, there being such a heavy
sea ou at the time th'it he was forced
to sit down on the rope ilve times as
the largest waves approached the ves
sel. Now Ifork Disuateh.
THE AFTf-H-VISION.
Pomeflme, when nil life's lessons linvfl been
learned.
And sun and stars forevermoro have set,
The things which our weak judgments here
linve spurned,
The things o'er which wo grieved with
lashes wet,
Will flash lieforo us, out of life's dark night.
As stars shine mMt in deeper tints of blue;
And wo shall see how nil God's plans are
right,
And how what seemed reproof was love
most true.
May r.iley Smith.
IIIMOK OK THE D.VY.
So long os your gray hairs can be
counted thoy don't count.
A man can earn a fortune on paper
in twenty minutes. Atchison Globe.
Tho snying that "silence is golden"
probably originated with some black
mailer. Puck.
It hns always been n mystery how
straight an iusano murderer can shoot.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
It is better to be alone in tho world
than to bring up a boy to play on tho
Accordion. The South-West.
Cupid isn't any moro liko the pic
ture wo see of him than courtship is
like ninrriuge. Detroit Froe Press.
If yon do not bcliove thore is an ex
ception to every rule, consult some
lawyer who has lost his case. Adams
Freeman.
A deaf mute student recontly broke
three knuckles while conjugating the
Russian verb "to love" with his left
hand. Puck.
Bank checks are considered the best
kind of noto paper fcr absent hus
bands to use in corresponding with
their wives. Syracuse Post.
Mr. Usher "I have always bceu
afrnid of being buried alive." Dr.
Pulser "No danger, man ; I am your
doctor." Philadelphia Inquirer.
A man is always proud of his chil
dren who are largo for their age, ex
cept when ho is trying to pass them
on half-fare tickets. Atchison Globe.
Traveler (inquiring at famous castle)
"Can I see the autiquitios to-day?"
Servant "I am afraid not, sir. My
lady and danghters have gono to town. "
Household Words.
Figg "I guess you would have
been glad to get a slice of pie when
you were iu the army?" Fogg "If
I could only have been at home to eat
it." Boston Transcript.
Wife "Do you really love mo, my
pet?" Husband "I adore you, my
swoot, and am prepared to give you
any proof of the fact not exceeding a
hundred francs I" II Carliuo.
Little Miss Freckles (proudly) "Mv .
new doll winds up aud walks." Little
Miss Mugg (airily) "If I'd a-known
that kind was beiu' sold, I'd a-got one
for a waiting maid for my dollie."
Good News.
Mistress (on tho second day to new
cook)- "Kathi, just be so good as to
lend me five marks." Cook (aside)
"Ha, ha I that's why she said yester
day the cook in her house was treated
as one of the family 1" Der Sehalk.
Mrs. Smallwort "I don't know
what has come over my husband. He
Booms to be snfToriug from an attaok
of pessimism." Old Mrs. Beddoe
"Law, mel Why don't you give him a
good dose of tansy aud bitters?" Cin
cinnati Tribune.
Pelted by (Jobl Fire.
Lientenant John P. Fiuley, oue of
tho best-informed meteorologists in
the service of the United States, tells
a wonderful story of a most remark
able snowstorm which he once encoun
tered in making the ascent of Pike's
Peak, aud which, he says, could be
best described as a "shower of oold
fire." In reality, the "shower," as
he expluined to a Bepublio reporter.
was a fall of snow, iu which every
fiake was so charged with electricity
as to present a sceuo that can bo bet
ter imagined than described. At first
the flakes only discharged their tiny
lights npon ooming in contact with the
hair of tho mule upon which the Lieu
tenant was mounted. Presently tbey
began ooming "thicker and faster,"
each fluke emitting its spark as it
noiselessly sunk iuto the drifts of the
same substance or settled upon the
clothing of the observer, or the fur ol
tho buust upon which he had essayed
to make the usoeut of the peak. As
the storm iucreused in fury and the
flakes of snow became smaller each of
tht icy particles appeared as a loug
blaze of ghostly white light, and the
roaring produced by the electric ex
plosions conveyed au impression of
nature's grandeur, which Mr. Fiuley
declares ho w ill never forget. When
tho electric storm was ut its height,
uud each flake was as a streak of tire,
sparks of the electric fluid escaped iu
streams from Mr. Finley's finger-tips,
as well as from his ears, beard and
uose.
Aiuiisin;; Admiralty blunders.
Admiralty blunders are not, says
the Puris correspondent of the Loudon
News, a privilege of Great Britain
uloue. The French Minister of Ma
riuo kept ut St. Pierre Miquelou, near
Newfoundland, a stock of empty bar
rels which had contained lard, wine,
anil salt meat. Tho Colonial Gover
nor, not knowing what to do with
these "empties," which were rotting
and lulliug to pieces, asked that they
might be removed. The Commissioner
of the Minister Murine ruled, how
ever, that thoy must be sent to Francs
As no transport is to bo found in th
Newfoundland wuters, it was ueees
Miry to charter a sailing vessel, the
(Si uilower, w hioh was on its way to St.
Mulo. The vessel luuded, tho other
day, its precious lreinht, u sum of
f.riO(l being puid by the Admiralty to
the ow ners. The barrels ere sold by
auction the other day, and fetchej
(be sum of iM.