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Forest Republican.
Dairy cows lrin moro per head
thnu horses nowadays in Missouri.
The Government statistics show that
tho fnrmors, ilenpito their luok of
money, are really belter off than any
other clacs.
It is announced that there is to be a
"Woman's Uible," translated under
tho auspices o( soma of tho leading
women of the day.
Atlanta, Oa., has moro ohnrchos
than any city in the South, the Chi
cago Record estimates, and their seat
ing capacity will accommodate 03,000
peoplo.
Tha Progroseivo Engincorg' Associa
tion, of Now York, a colored organiz
tion, is going to send one of its mem
bers out to Liberia to sco what, if any,
inducements that country offers for
colonization.
Emin Pasha's doath, it appoars, wad
due solely to tho vanity of a petty
African chief, who wished to show his
neighbors that be was not afraid to
kill a white man. He was hanged for
it, alt the same.
Besides tha rather numerous Chi
nese, thora are probably less than 8003
foreigners in all Japan, though tho
number may reoontly have risen above
that. What progress has boon made,
then, is clearly due to tho Japanese
the Japanese themsolves, and not to
foreign residents.
A farmer named Waldin discovered
that a Burlington, Coda Rapids and
Northern Railroad bridge, near Bur
lington, Iowa, bad boen burnod, and,
knowing that the regular passenger
train was due in a short time, walked
two miles down the track and stopped
tha train by waving a burning brand.
The train carried 103 passengers and
much valuable express and baggaga
matter.
The Louisville Courier-Journal says :
A list of Western Virginians of ro
markably longevity is boing publish
ed, and cases similar iu various parts
of the United States are cited as evi
dence of tha lengthening of hutniu
life. Nothing could be more falla
cious, for most so-thought very aged
people are unlettered and keep no re
cord of birth or death. This is par
ticulary so with tha oolored popula
tion of the Southern States, among
whom centenarians are said to be
somewhat common.
"Docs slavery survive in England?"
naked tho London Christian World,
and this is its answer: "After reading
last Sutnrday's 'spooial' number of tho
Schoolmaster on tho subject of 'Half
timers,' wo find it difficult to answer
that question in tho negative. An in
spector writes: 'I examined a child
yesterday who roso at 5.33, worked at
mill) and then walked a couple of
miles to examination. This should
be stopped. It is cruel.' Another
girl of eleven 'rose soou after S a. m ,
and walked through the frost and
now nearly two miles to tho mill.
Work commonoed at 0 and continued
till 8.30, whon there was an interval
of breakfast, tha child not leaving tho
mill. At 0 work again till 12.30' six
hours in all 'and then dinner at the
mill. At 1.80 the child trudged oft"
to school. ' now mauy British chil
dren are liable to this sort of experi
ence? Not less than 170,0001 Shame
on us I" Such facts, comments the
New York Observer, are a shame, in
deed, to any civilized, not to' say to
any Christian community.
"The Cuban rovolt is a continuous
and perpetual thing," remarks the
Atlanta Constitution. "Sinoe 1831
tha native inhabitants of the island
have never been perfeotly quiet. When
not in open warfare they have made
it as unpleasant as possible for the
Spaniards in the intorior. Between
1831 uud 1873 official statistics show
that it has oost Spain for reinforce
ments sent to Cuba $200,000,000, and
a like amount for property destroyed.
Iu that period 8000 Spanish officers
have perished and 200,000 private
soldiers all killed in buttle or through
disease. More than 19,003 Cubuns
have beon killed in war and 13,000
have been taken prisoners aud ex
ecuted. Those are startling figures,
but there will be no permuuent pence
in Cuba under existing conditions.
The natives aro deniod all oivil, polit
ical and religious liberty. They aro
exoludod from all positions of honor,
trust and profit, and they are cruelly
oppressed aud taxed to death. Na
turally, Spain suspeots that the Ameri
cans sympathize with tho Cubans, aud
this explains her oontluual insults
and outrages in dealing with our mer
chant vessels. We cun never feel
court nor count ou peace with Spain
until Cuba is indepeudout or under
our flag.
THE PLACE CALLED EASY STREET.
Oh! what Is the wny to Easy street which
turning shall I go?
For many a day I've sought the way that no
one Booms to know. '
How do you turn? do you keep straight on
and gat there Just the same,
Or Is it tha ease that yon And tha plnoo by
chanoe aud happy luck?
Bom say tlits and soma say that, for ovory
one I meat,
Oolng It blind or searching to find, Is look
ing for Easy stroot. , ;.
Easy strot! Easy street! The street so
hard to find!
No sign boards show the routo to go save
tha ways that Ho behind,
But fortiHio's shills Is worth tho whllo, so
novor know dofeat,
When the vory next turn for you may earn
tho way to Easy stroot.
From little Queer stroot through Ilard Times
Court to tho Highway of Buoeoss,
Is tho nearest way, I've board soma say, and
It Is true, I guess.
So through Toverty Tlaoo my way I trace
(with Queor stroot loft bohlnd),
But In Hard Times Court tho way's cut
short It ends In an alley blind.
In the Lane of Chance I sometimes glance,
but the risk sooms all too groat.
To turn and stray down Its wlndiug way and
blindly follow fate.
So, with courago high, I strive and try, set-king
with weary foot,
My way to grope, nerved still with hopo, tho
way to F.sy stroot!
Easy stroot! Easy street! Whoro happy
mortals dwell,
Out of the strife, of work-day life and the
battlos of buy and sell.
Wearing good clothes, having no foos, with
life's good things reploto,
Oh, happy fate! to dwell In state, at last,
on Easy street !
We will all of us llvo on Easy street when
thiugs have gone our way,
When fortune and fame shall attond our
name and leisure oomoa to stay,
Through the doed achiovod we'vo had our
minds tho long last year or twoj
Giving us so.st to finish the rest of tho thiugs-
we-aro-golng-to-do.
With the toll of these struggling days forgot,
and In our happiness all oomplote,
No trouble or care will bother us tbore whon
WO live on Easy stroot!
Easy stroot! E vsy street! Where the skios
are always blue,
And nil of the schemes of our woll-lovej
dreams are ever coming true.
We'll live at our ease and do as we please
and find that life Is sweet
When through toil aud pain at last we gain
our way to Easy street!
ruck.
JEAN'S HOUR OF TRIUMPH.
nEY all soid it
could not be done ;
that is, all but
Jean. She insisted
that it could, even
though Jaok
ranged himself on
the side of those
who called her
scheme impractic
able and foolish. And Jaok was the
young fellow, a telegraph operator, to
whom she was to be married the next
weok.
When marriage was seriously dis
cussed as the end of their long court
ship, it bad beon suggested that thoy
should either live with Joan's father
Jack's folks being in Connecticut or
take a ootiplo ot pleasant furnished
rooms until they saw their way to go
to housekeeping. Then it was that
Joan gave the first curious proof of
her woman's impracticability.
"No," she said, "I want to go to
housekeeping as soon as we are mar
ried." "So do I." said Jack, "but bow are
we to manage it? Setting np house
keeping moans turning your rooms
into a kitchon."
"No, I don't mean that sort of
makeshift housekeeping," interrupted
Joan. "I mean taking a small flat,
furnishing it, and beginning life as
housekeepers on pur own aooouut."
Jock laughed rather uneasily.
"It's all very well to talk of furnish
ing," ho said, "but you know very
well, Jean, I haven't any money for
furnishing a fiat, aud I'm sure you
haven't. "
"Well, I don't know about that,"
said Jean. "You keep what little
you've got saved up, Jack, and add to
it as much as you can,' dear. I'll
furnish the flat."
"you?"
"Yes, sir, I. I've got 8100 saved up,
and with $100 I'll furuiuh a fiat of four
rooms parlor, bedroom, dining room
and kitchen and 1'Jl furnish it so
nicely that we'll neither of its be
ashamed to ask our friends to visit us
iu it."
At this Jack burst out laughing, and
thought it was so good a joke that he
told the old folks, and thoy had great
sport at Jeau's expense.
"That's all right," said Jean. "I
don't road the newspaper advertise
ments and look into store windows
ond visit bargain couutcrs for nothing.
I want to toll you folks that right hero
in New York, you oan furnish four
rooms comfortably, nicely and neatly
for 8100.
"l'cs," said hor mother, "with a lot
of scoond-haud stuff."
'No," replied Jean, "I meau with
all now, good material ; and without
especially hunting for bargains,
cither."
"Well, now, look here, my girl,"
said her father, "muybe you're right,
maybe you'ro wrong. Certain it is
that things are wonderfully cheap
nowadays, but $100 my, but that's
a small sum to do anything with iu
New York. Now, see hero, Jean, I'll
tell you what I'll do. You go ahead,
pick out yonr four-room Hut with
juuk, aud theu if you furnish it for
((10U so that it (ooks ueitber poor nor
cheap, why, I'll give you another hun
dred dollurs, just to cultivate bonis
taleut, on tha presentation of re-
coiptod bill for every article in the
apartment."
"I'll do it," said Jean, stoutly,
"and, moro than that, I'll do it in
threo days, nud I won't ask a oent's
worth of assistance or advico from
any of yon not even of Jaok."
That wi on Sunday. The flat was
found by Wednesday afternoon, and
they saw very littlo of Jean for the
next throe days. She was very quiot
and vefy tired ench evening, but her
mother took charge of ber simple
trousseau so as to give hor some rest
ing time, and on Saturday evening
when they bad all sat down to tea Jean
said very quiotly that she should be
very glad if thoy would go over with
her to Fiftieth street to see her bouse.
They saw that she was rather ner
vous, and so spoke of other things as
they walked over from Sixth avenno.
When they reached the flat house,
Jean, who knew the valuo of offoct,
asked the janitor if be would not Tight
np for her before she took her people
up stairs, and the janitor; - who bad
been taken largely into ber confidence,
and was not a bit like most janitors,
willingly ran ahead to attend to the
illumination. '
It had been a week's bard work of
finding and fitting for Jean, but she
was amply repaid whon she saw the
look of surprise which the folks wore
when they walked into ber parlor grow
into one of wonder as they passed into
the bedroom, and deepen into one of
amazement as they saw tho dining
room and kitchen.
"Well, I must say it beats me," said
Jean's mother, while her father pulled
hard at his cigar and felt for the check
in his vost pocket as be walked from
room to room, and Jack gave her a
hug right before them all, aud said be
always knew she was a wonder.
"Now, then, my girl," said her
father, when they had made the graud
tour, "tell us how you did it all."
So Jean took them to the parlor, and
while the others sat down she moved
around, pointing out uach thing, show
man fashion.
'Thoso enrtains," sho began, "are,
of course, imitation Nottingham, but
tho pattern is copied from the real
article aud thoy are good enough to
begin with. The two pairs cost $3,
aud the poles and rings, which I put
up myself from the janitor's stop
ladder, cost twenty-five cents a sot.
This bookcase, oak with movable
shelves, oost $2 ; the books are mine
and the drapery is from an old crepe
ncckorchief. That table in the oentre
cost $2.43, without the work basket,
of course, which used to be yours,
mother. The smaller two of those
three pictures, which aro imitation
etchings in real whito frames, cost
thirty-nino cents apioco; while the
larger ones, which is a good photo
gravure of a masterpiece, cost sixty
nine cents, polished oak frame and all.
Tho three rockers which you are sit
ting in, ono plush seated, one with a
cobbler's scat, and the other a Shaker
pattern, oost just $7, and the draper
ies are my fichus. Tha two-cane bot
tom chairs cost ninety-eight cents
apiece. The ornaments on the cabinet
mantelpiece, imitation Venetian glass
and imitation Japanese vases, made, I
bolieve, in Birmingham, cost $1.01.
As to the matting, I may as well tell
you now that it took sixty yards to
cover tho three rooms and the bath
room, with several scraps left over.
Iu the parlor and bedroom I used a
foity-yord roll, which cost me $3.57,
whilo tha dining room took one
twenty-yard roll, which cost $2. The
reason why I put the better matting
in tho dining room is because I knew
the thin matting would pull up with
tho rolliug of the table and pushing
of heavy chairs over it. Besides
which, you see, I have covered a good
deal of tho matting here which is
cotton warp, mind you with these
two Japanese rugs which I got at a
bargain at $1.08, and this heartbrng,
which is not the real thing, of course,
but whieh looks Persian, and cost mo
just $1.61. The portieres between the
bedroom and parlor oost $3.25, al
though I could have got a pair with
out the fringe for $2.97. And now,
pray what do vou think of my par
lor?" "Very pretty, frosh looking, and
nice," said hor mother.
"flood enough fur mo," said her
father.
IJack,"without so much as by your
euro, gavo her uuother hug.
"Now, then, tha bedroom," said
Jean, drawing aside the portieres.
"First I thought I would get an oak
set, but when I saw there was running
water here and that the washstaud
would not be needed I very gladly
changed my mind and bought this
white iron bed with brass trimmiugs
for $3.98, which iucliidod the spring
mattress. The fibre muttress oost
3.18. The blankets (Saxony) 1 picked
up for 98 cents. The sheets aud pil
low cases nud see, mother, there are
four more of eaoh in tho closet here
I bought for $1.02 for tuo halt dozen
of euoj. My towels, one dozen, cost
$1.10. These two chairs cost 60 cents
apiece. The bureau cost 80.05, and
tho mirror is cood Amerioun French
plate, with real autiquo rings to the
drawers of tho very latest desigu.
These two rugs oost 81 couts, and this
table with the sprowly legs oost 03
cents. Oh, the cointorpuue cost 95
cents, and you know Aunt Frauo prom
ised me ber crazy quilt for 'drosg-up.'
".My dining room nearly broke my
heart," said Jean, loading the way to
that apartment. "I thought sura I
should have to go beyond my limit.
However, by dint of following upcor
tuiu newspaper iJads, running my feet
off, aud by a buppy thought I man
aged it."
The clever young woman had bad
the table set with a light luucheou,
aud it was while sitting down to this
that tho rest of the inventory was
gone over.
"This table, which Las tlirse other
loaves to it, I would bava you know,"
said Jean, "oost me 17.80. Th four
chairs in which we are seated cost me
$2.10, real .Cordova leather from
Philadelphia, and all. These tum
blers only cost seventy-five cents a
dozen, and there are plenty that are
cheaper, only I do like a thin glass to
drink out of, and I know you all do.
I got two damask table cloths for
$1.40, and one dozen napkins, quite
fair ones, only they're a little stiff,
you know, for ninety-nine cents, one
of those cunning prices where yon
just miss the dollar. Spoons I had.
For crockery I bought a very neat
porcelain toa set for $5.40, and I
added six dinner plates, six soup
plates, two platters and two vegetable
dishes for $1.48. I was in despair
over a sideboard till I recollected that
there Vas another cabinet mantel
piece hero, sp I detcrminod tomake
that do, together with a plain table,
which cost me $1.25 that one over
there with the red cloth on it I mean,
the cloth, I should tell you, costing
just thirty cents."
"By the way, Jean," said Jack, "who
laid yonr matting?"
"The janitor and I," said Jean,
proudly. "I paid him a dollar for
helping me, and gave his wife an old
dress to pay for the tacks. My kit
chen, as you see, is very simply fur
nished, aud I intend to keep it so.
The stove cost $4, utensils $0.64, and
the table and ohair just $3. Fortun
ately, there are stationary washtnbs,
and, as the floor is painted, I don't
foe any need to cover it, and," con
cluded Jean, with a wbimsioal smilo,
"I don't know that I should have beon
ablo to, even if I bad wanted to. And
so, dad, there's my $100 ; now where's
yours?"
"Well, I must say, my girl," said
her father, "you've dona wonders.
But a bargain's a bargain, you kuow.
Lot's see the recipted bills first."
"Here they are," said Jean, bring
ing out a bundle of papers, very much
thumbed and very much covered with
calculations in irregular pencil fig
ures. So down they sat again, and, wben
the old man had called out each item
and Jack had sot it down, they made
np the following summary:
Parlor f 23 Ct
l)3droom 24 62
Dining room.... 80 92
Kitchen 11 01
Matting and laying 6 57
Portieres between parlor and bedroom . 3 25
Just as they were abont to cast up
the addition Jean's mother came in
from the kitchen with a look of mis
chief upon ber face.
"The landlord has provided wash
tubs," she said, "but I don't see that
be has put in a refrigerator."
At that Jean turned palo, and she
began to tremble a little,
"Oh dear, oh dear," she cried. "I
do declare I forgot the refrigerator."
And when she saw fuilure before
bor, and knew she was wrecked in
port, she laid ber bead on Jack's
shoulder quite distressfully. But
her father came bravely to ber res
cue. "Hold bard a minute," he cried,
"you're all right, Jean. You've made
a mistake here. You've only spent
$99.99 and I'll sell you our old re
frigerator for a cent aid be glad to
get anything for it."
And then be added this item:
One refrigerator 01
Total for furnishing four rooms aud
buth 100.00
"Well for sura," be said, "that
$100 has gone further than any hun
dred I ever heard of. But the best of
it is," be added, "that anybody iu
Now York can do tho same thing.
Here's your other hundred, Jean."
New York Sun.
' A Cough That Slciv Thousand.
Recent history proves to us that it
was a cough that was mainly responsi
ble for tho immense amount of blood
shed that attended tho coup d'etat
whereby Napoleon III obtained his
throne. The field marshal in charge
of the military operations was unwill
ing to assume the direct responsibility
of ordering the troops to fire upon the
people. So whon the moment of ac
tion arrived, and tha mob began to
show signs of sweeping the troops, tho
generals under bis orders sent an of
ficer to him at headquarters for in
structions. Just as the field marshal
was about to respond bo was seized
with a violent fit of coughing, which
lusted several moments. When at
length he cease 1, be managed to gasp
tho words, "Ma saeroo touzl" ("My
cursod cough 1") Tuo officer waited
to hear no more, but returned post
haste to his superiors with the news
that Saint-Arnaud bad said, "Massa
cres touz I" ("Massacre everywhere?")
These commands being carried out,
thousands of peoplo were shot aud
bayoneted iu consequence.
Barbaric Spleu lor ol a Moilera IYinea.
Tho appointment of Friujs Lobau
off as Chancellor and Forciga Minister
of Russia has occasioned new stories
of the barbaric splendor of his life.
With a liuoago prouder thun that of
tho Czar himself, the Prtuco has in
dulged himself in au independence
that once lei to tuo snubbing of a
grand duke. Ho is a m-.in of vast
wealth. His horses are the finest iu
Iiussin, aud are uhod with silver
(though that is no longer a prerogative
of prince), and the numerous pages
iu utlondauoe iu bis pulaoo aro the
sous of chieftains of thd Caucasus.
Tho Prince is a bachelor and about
seventy years old. Ha is a studeut
and a historian, and tho only woman
he has ever devoutod loved, it is (aid,
is Mary, Quoon of Scots. Frank Les
lie's Weekly.
Helmet oi Jeru-jali'iu's Conqueror.
Iu the Doctor Abbott case of Egyp
tian antiquities, iu tho museum of the
New York Historical Society, is pre
ervsd the irou helmet of Shisnak,
who took Jerusalem from lWhoboaui
00 J years B. C Culostp Tliues-Uerald.
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BT THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.
Love's Paradox In n "Quick Lunch"
Room ("nrrlcd Of! A Doubled
Burden, Ktc, ICtc.
nosnid, "g'od-lv!" and kissed m.
'Oood-bj !" tlio cruel word
riorerd my fnnd heart ns with the thrust
Of a two-edtfod sword I
My loving benrt, and fender:
How could It bear the pnlu?
Yet ho kissed me! Oh! I wish he'd conic
And say "Oood-by" nirnin!
F.d. Molt.
A SrrEHFM'ITY.
Mother "Your pen-wiper has never
beon usod nt all."
Little Johnny "Don't need it. My
now pants is black." Good News.
A DOTTBTjKD Bt'llDTIN.
"Henpcok moro than shows bis
years. "
"Yes; bo has to carry part of bis
wife's. She still sticks to thirty."
CAMUED OFF.
Friend "What have you dono with
that terrible fierce dog you paid so
much for? The one that would tear
any one to bits?"
Owner "Ho was stolen." Puck.
IS A "QUICK LFXCIl" ROOM.
Waiter "Did ycu get everything
yon ordered?"
Patron "Well, no. I muffed that
npplo dumpling. " Detroit Free Press,
A HEWAUD FOR THE OIUXDEU.
"Papa gave ine two ponuics to put
in tho plato iu church."
"Do you kuow who thoso pennies
were for ?"
"Conrso I do; for tho organ man. I
hoard tho music." Life.
TRADE SECRET.
"Seems to me you bavo put on tin
usual amount of smolco in this tiro
scene," mildly complained the editor.
"Had to do it," said the artist. "I
hadn't any idea how high the build
ing was, so I had to hide it. See?"
Cincinnati Tribune,
WHAT nB ALWAYS MEANS.
"There is one satisfaction," said
the fin do sieclo girl, "in being tho
reoipient of attentions from a titled
foreigner."
"What is that?"
"You know that when ho proposes
ho means business." Washington
Star.
A SAD INFIRMITY.
O'Brien "Poor Dohcrty ! He's so
short-sighted he's bound to work him
self to death."
O'Grady 'Thwat has bein' short
sighted to do with it?"
O'Brien "Whoy, ho can't see when
the boss aiu't lookin', au' his to keep
shovclin' away all the time ! Puck,
RESIGNATION.
"Maria," said Mr. Mcokius, "is my
bat on straight?"
"Why, Henry 1 What do you
mean?"
"Well, I'm just gettin'mto trainin'.
So long as you're dead sot on being
tho coming woman, I thought I might
ns well try my hand at being the com
ing man." SVushiugtou Stur.
COVERIXO) EVERY POINT. '
Caller "Is your sister in, my littlo
man?"
Wiilio Wise ".-Sho said if Mr. Sweet
came, tell him sho was sick ; If Mr.
Rush came, to say she was uot in, and
if it was Mr. Earl to say sho was out
with Mr. Sweet. Sho said sho'd give
mo a nickel if I got it right. 1 don't
know which you ure, mister, but you
bet I'm goin' to get that nickel."
Pittsburg Post.
WHY IIE SAVED.
Qus do Smith "California is a per
fect paradisn. I'm au enthusiast on
the subject of California. I dream of
California at nights. I could write
poems about its grand scenery."
Peto Amsterdam "Were you ever
there?"
Do Smith "No, but tho girl I am
going to marry has most of her money
invested in California mining stock."
Texas Sittings,
CIIANOF.AUI.K VALVE.
"Bendibble wants to sell hishouse.''
"l'cs, bow much does ho want for
it?"
"Ho told ono inquirer to day that
it was worth $10,000 at least."
"Littlo enough for it."
"Ten minutes lutor ho told another
inquirer that its valuo wasn't moro
than $1000 at tho outside"
"Is Bendibblo crazy?"
"No. Tho second inquirer was tho
tax assessor." Browning's Monthly,
ADSF.NT MINDED.
There is au Illinois Congressman
who is a tritio absent minded. His
friends toll a story about him which
exasperates hiiu so that ho has threat
ened to kill the very next person who
repeats it. That only proves that it is
true, you kuow. However, thisistho
story. The Congressman was walking
along a Chicago street one duy u ith a
friend, when ho was stopped by a
beggar.
The Congressman you kuow how
tender-hearted Congressmen are
went ilcwu into his pocket. Ho looked
at tho beggar sympathetically us ho
banded him u hulf dollar.
"How long have you beeu dumb?"
he asked.
"Twenty years," suid tho bi'ggar.
"Dour ine, ilear mo!" murmured
thu CoiiKfcsjinuu, us ho nl!.t d on.
"Isu t that dreudfull Dumb tweuty
years."
Aud theu the point dawned Ou liiui.
Washington Post.
SCIENTIFIC ASB lSUUSTRlAt,
England reports fireproof oelluloid.
Krupp claim? to have inventod a
machine .that will roll iron so thin
that it takes 1800 sheets to make an
inoh.
M. Bay, a Persian, is the invontor"
of a riew sort of ornamental glass,
whioh closely resombles boar frost on
glass id the feathery forms upon it.
The now English torpedo boat re
cently made a nine-hour trip during
which tha averaged the remarkable
speed of twenty-eight knots an hour.
Thero is talk of disinfecting all tho
wills ia Somerset Houso, London, be
cause many of thora were drawn up
andexecntod in chambers of conta
gious dioases.
Professor Gilbert, the geologist, has
como to tha conclusion that tho hugo
bolq in tho ground known as tha Di
ablo Canon, in Arizona, marks tho
place where a large meteor onco
struok the ground.
According to Nature, the old idea
thft the woOd-peokor transfixes its
prey with its sharp-tipped tongue, is
again denied by Prevot, who states
that tho insects adhere to its tonguo
by the sticky socretion which thickly
covert it.
Mortuary tables show that; tho aver
age duration of tho lifo of womon in
European countries is something less
than that of men. Notwithstanding
this fact, of the list of centenarians
colleoted by the British association, a
fraction over two-thirds were womon.
W. D. Dale, of Dnnsmuir, Cal., has
inventod a revolving locomotive bead
light that will turm on curves. Ho
attaches bis gearing to the front
truoks and as they turn ou tho traok
the headlight turns. It is expectod
that tho invontion will prove very
valuable.
Dangers of ballooning are to be mit
igated by tho invontion of a French
man whioh provides for tho equipment
of a cylinder of mombrane to the car,
so arranged that by the pressure of a
button it may be automatically iu
fiatod with air in the event of tho bal
loon falling into the sea.
Experiments wore recently nido
nonr Aurillao of the penotratiou of the
Lobel ritla against a bank of snow.
Walls from three to six meters thick
were built, and from a distance of
fifty-five yards tho .bullet stopped in
every case at a peuetrationof five feet
six inohes. The striking velooity was
2035 feot per second.
InoandcEcent electric light is tho
least harmful to the eyes of .all artifi
cial lights, says Dr. Trousseau, sur
geon of the Paris kQuinzo Vingts Eyo
Hospital. Next comes tho light giv
en by kerosene lamps, which is good
for ordinary purposes. He condemns
as injurious the light of oil, and par
ticularly by caudles, and considers tho
gas jet the most hurtful of all.
'To Pronounce Ills ame.
William A. Jones, editor of tho
Syracuse (N. Y.) Post, recently ad
dressed a letter to M. Faure, Presi
dent of France, asking how his name
was pronounced in English, as thou
sands of Americans were desirous of
tho information. A reply in French
has been receive! from M. Blonre,
chief Private Secretary of President
Faure, containing tho first authorita
tive pronunciation over given to tho
United States.
Tho Post prints a f.ic-similo of tha
French letter, a translation of which
is as follows :
"Presi lency of tho Republic.
Paris, 19th of February, 1893. Sir:
In respouso to tho desiro you expresi
in your letter of tho 7th of this
month, I hovo tho honor to inform
you that tho exact pronunciation of
tho name of the President of the Re
public is as follows :
"Felix Bhould be pronounced Ful,
hh iu fellow. Ix as iu ixou.
"Faure exactly like tho word for.
"Accept, sir, tho expression of my
distinguished consideration."
Alabaster a Limestone.
AUbester is a tine-grained, whitish
limestone. There aro two kinds
gypsum alabaster, which is firmer iu
grain. Tho latter, which is used for
sculpturing large objects, Hiich us col
umns and chimuoy-pieces, is some
times called Oriental uUbister. The
namo alabaster is now goner.illy given
only to tho gypsum kink, which is
carved into vuscs, bta! uettcs, boxes
and small ornaments. Xo preparation
is uecetsary when curving nl ibaster.
When first takeu from tho ground it
is so soft that it may be indented with
the finger-nail, au 1 it is cut and euis
elod with groat easj for weeks after
ward. It never g:ts in b'.rl ai
murblo. New York Disp itch.
A I!use!:all ( rank.
A prosperous Philulelphiti banker
was noticed by sevi-r.il frieu.li a few
dajs ago ou a subur'o m train deeply
absorbed iu a largo tablo of ilguros in
a uewspapur. Every now uud tUru
the banker lu.ido h.iiuc tinuuur.-iudu iu
a small note lo.k, a cireumstau u
whieh led thj w.Uch..'1's t i bilievo
some important I". u.iuoial ii .i I was in
progress. Finally, one in ao intrepid
tliau tho others appro uhe I tha linm
cier and begge 1 t bu let into tho
secret of the figures. With a nmilo
tho banker h au led over tho mysteri
ous table, whieh prow.l to bo thu
league butbull schedule If: l'.:e year.
Chicago Times-lieral I.
A t'u J ol l!m 1'zir.
Olio cf the fads of thu Cur ui' l'. iisi a
is tho study of elc.'li'icity. Ho is in
tensely iutere.ite l iu i vei ) thing per
taining to electrical science, and read-
eagerly descriptions of tlio latent ex
periments uud uppliauees in that line
of endeuvor. lie is said to havo made
several ingenious contrivuuoes hiuiscU
iu tha simpler hues ot electrical man
ipulation. Detroit Ficu l'l'i.'ss.
ADVICE IS CHEAP.
"Got up, young man," the poet wrote,
"And breathe the air so sweet;
Tut on your light spring overcoat
And walk beforo yon rat;
With lambkins in the early mom,
Go sport upon the grfen'."
Kext day tho pnot forlorn
AroPO nt ten-fifteen.
It is an cosy job to givn
Advlee we all can teaeh
But suoh an awkward thing to livft
And practlco what wo preach!
Of kindly precept none bavo lacked
8o far as I have seen;
But words by good example backed
Are few and far between.
Tho country stands in need of thoso
Who do as Enoch did.
And while their weary jaws repnso
Wulk right side up naid
Tho mnd, discordant, surging llimng
That trends the pavement bloeks
Eueh men do moro to crush out wrong
Than one who simply talks.
We have too much of vocal noiso,
Too groat a waste of breath.
This life is robbed of hall Its joys,
And talked almost to death;
If more would bravuly do and dara
The land of heavenly bliss
Would have a few reenits to spare
From those who dio in this.
Nebraska Rate Journal,
HUMOR OF THE BAY.
Strained relations Stories long
drawn out. Puck.
Do not try to push your rival off
the earth. Galveston News.
A great many peoplo tiro in such a
hurry that they hovo no time to live.
Texas Sittings.
Wo have never met a pessimist to
whom tho bright side of u dollar
seemed dark. Puck.
"Oh, John! tho baby's swallowed
your lntoh key 1" "On, that's all
right. I can climb iu the window."
Lifo.
As the bubiuess men aud sodato citi
zens enter politics the brass band and
torchlight procession move out.
Washington Post.
A New Albany (Ind.) woman kissed
ber pug dog in preference to her hus
band. Some men aro born lucky.
Norristown Herald.
So many fool schemes are suggested
every year that tho proper way to ro
raomber a legislature is by what it
hasn't done. Boston Globe.
Though time writes no wrinkle ou
the ocean's azuro brow it writes scores
of wrinkles on every other brow in
reach. Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Napoleonic crazo has reached
the boarding houses, and tho laudlady
nearly always offers her guests the
bony part. Florida Times-Union.
Kind words nr.e moro thnn corojiets,
No doubt ot It, and still
Cold cash Is better tlmu them both,
To pay a bill.
Detroit Free Press.
Mrs. Brownstono "I think Mary's
niusio professor has a beautiful touch. "
Mr. Brownstone "I should Buy ha
had I Seven dollars a lesson." New
York World.
When the clergyman remarked that
tbore was a nave iu tho new church
the sooioty was building, au old lady
whispered that she knew tho party to
whom be referred.
Judge (to prisoner) -"Your state
ment does not agree with tho evidence
of tho last witness." Prisoner "I
don't wonder ; ho't a bigger liar than
I am." Loudon Tid-Bits.
He "That's Mrs. Grim'shaw, who
leohires on bimetallism. I'vo heard
ber. How exasperatingly clever sho
moans to bo I" Sho "Yes, but how
consolingly ugly I" Puuch.
The antique Roman who fell ou bis
sword made a much better historical
figure than tha modern militiaman
who tripped with the came weapon
twisted between bis legs. Puok.
The perambulator is all right for
the baby ; but, after tho baby stage
of existence is passed, ono cannot
hope for suocoss who depends upon
others to push him ahead. Boston
Transcript.
Jack "Madge has beautiful hair,
hasn't she?'1 Noll "Yes; sho gets
that from ber mother." Jack "I
didn't know her mother Lad hair of
that color." Noll "Oh, yes I Sho
has all kinds iu her store." Philadel
phia Record.
"Shakespeare was a great writer,"
admitted the principal of the Plunk
ville Commercial College, "but how
much hotter writing ho could havo
done had ho tukeu a courso iu our do
pnrtmout of ornamental penmanship."
Ilooklaud (Me.) Tribune.
Tho older wo prow tlio more sus
picious we get. When we aro young
mil the lookiug-fdues cays wo aro
pretty we believo it implicitly, but
later along wo incline to think that
the glass is losing its reputation for
ftcourucy. Rockland (.Me.) Tribune
Stopped tor Twelve II ours.
Tho Buffalo papers of April 1, 1848,
published a wonderful htory to tho
i fleet that tho waters o:i tli Amoricau
si lo of Niagara Fulls lul ceased to
How for an entire day. it wus sup
posed t J bo a hoa', but was ulterward
proved correct. Tlio phenomenon was
caused by tho ice in the river becom
ing jammed against the islands .so that
mi enormous dam was funned, uiul tho
water was held back lor moro tliau
twelve hours. Tlio lac i atloted by
many witnosocs.
A Dimuoul Willi Am. ilij, t Selling.
A lapidary in London fuuii 1 a tiuy
amethyst imbedded iu thu very center
uf a nino-kurnt diamond which ho had
bceu employed to cut. Tuero is no
record of any such thing having prev
iously happened iu tha history of dia
mond cutting. Chicago Xiiues-ller-aid.