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VOL. XXVIII. NO. 15. TIONESTA, .PA., AVEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1895. S1.00 PER ANNUM.
The Gornions number 8,000,000 ot
our population.
Out West they are said to bo turn
ing their wire fences into tolophone
lines.
Sir Edward Braddou, a now author
ity on big gamo, Bays that tho elophant
is revengeful and troaebcrous, and is
an arrant coward.
Tho police census reveals tho fact
that there nro more than 00,000 chil
dren in New York City who are with
out school facilities.
Dr. Leslie Phillips, a well-known
scientist, warns tho now woman
against wearing her hair short, and
says that the cause of baldness in
innuis due to the fact that ho cuts his
hair.
Tlirco-tciiths of tho earnings of a
Belgian conviut ore given to him on
the expiration of his terra of impris
onment. Borne of thorn thus save
more money iu jail than they ever
saved before.
The Agricultural Department is
niakiug arrangements to linvo a corre
spondent in every township in tho
country to make reports on tho condi
tion of tho crop. It wiil muko tho
crop reports much fuller auJ moro ac
curate thuu hcrotofore.
Nowcst wrinkles in dining-cars are
to be found on tho Chicago and East
ern Illinois, where, according to a
Western paper, tho passenger who
dines on tho train now has his atten
tion drawu away from tho high prices
on the bill of fare by inusio from a
Swiss music box. Each box has tbrco
cylinders, and each cylinder plays
eight tuues.
It is snid that thero are in tho State
of Kansas twenty well-built towns
without a single inhabitant. Saratoga,
in that State, has a (30,000 opera
house, a large briek hotel, a $20,000
school hoUBo, nud a number of fine
business houses, aud yet thero is not
a single person to cluiui that city as
his home. At Fargo a herder and his
fumily constitute tho solo population
of whut was ouco an incorporated
city.
Thero is no room far doubt that the
construction of good roads pays in the
end, says tho Now Jersey Forester.
In wooded districts roads serve as fire
breaks. A road is always an excellent
point of vantage iu lighting a fire.
Were the sides of roads iu forests dis
tricts kept freo from oompustiblo
matter thero would bo much loss dan
ger from forest fires. The valno of
timber is rated mainly by tho nature
of the road over which it is. necessary
to huul it. Iu Gcriuuuy some roads
for transporting timber are mac
adamized and one is mentioned in the
report of tho Chief of tho Forostry
Division for 1SD3 which saved its cost
iu two years.
"There is no such thing as low,"
was tho surprising and comforting
piece of information given by Gover
nor Clarke, of Arkansas, to tho last
graduates of tho law department oi
the Arkuusus University. Tho Gover
nor had but just presented diplomas
to tho youug men, which tho recipi
ents might naturally suppose were
evidence that they knew some law, as
a result of several years of study.
Governor Clarke explaiued that thero
wero rules accepted as law, but theso
were so complex in principle us to
render tho law a myth. Ninety per
ceut. of oppeulod cases could be
decided either way, ho averred, aud
lawyers on the bench very frequently
divide on tho quostiou of what is tho
law.
Soys Harper's Weekly : There is "a
cry now aud then for cleaner paper
money, aud not long ago there was a
rumor that the Treasury proposed to
do bettor by us in the way of provid
ing us with clean bills. Whether it
tried or not does not appear, but cer
taiuly our tuouoy is not clean yet. The
owner of a big department store iu a
Western oity took a Uotiou the other
day that be would give his customers
clean money iu change. So he bought
two thousaud ouu-dollur bills, and one
morning ho filled the money-drawors
of his cashiers with them. The mouoy
had not been iu use half au hour bo
fore tho head cashier applied for help
in makiug chaugo, and said ho would
havo to have another assistant if oleau
money was used. The uuw bills, it
seems, ure stiff, and it is Blower work
to handle them than to handle old
bills that have beeu lubricated by uso.
Dank of England notes, which are al
most always clean eud fresh, are so
thin that it is probably easy to haudle
them even when they are new. Hut
it would seeiu that there are practical
objections to new greeubooks, even ii
they could be furnished.
THE WORLD OOOD ENOUOH.
I wit upon the lg-wig fence awullo last
Bunduy morn
An' looked about across my fields of rustlln',
dow-touohed corn;
I lookod upon tho browsing shoop within tho
postur (Troon,
The cattle an' tho horses-slock ns any that
Is scon;
An' further on, upon tho shocks of whoat 'at
sprond awny; .
An' further, au' ylt further on, whoro rise
my mows of buy;
An' lookln' on this sconory, I'd naught to
say, you see,
Agin the way the world is run it's good
enough for mo!
I snt upon my gallery steps last Sunday eve,
I did,
As down bohlnd the Western hills tho sun,
all sleepy, slid.
The honeysuckles' fragrancy was swoot as
any flowers
That ever gleamod all red and rnro about
the Eden bowers;
An' over at the barn the girl was milklu' of
tho cows,
While kctydids sent up tuolr songs from
shrubs around the house)
Au' louklu' on this sounory, I'd naught to
say, you see,
Agin the way the world Is run It's good
enough for me.
Memphis Commercial Appeal.
THE NARROW WORLD.
I)X CHAIILE8 DWIOHT WILLAHD,
OMETHING had
happened 1
There was such
a rosy flush on her
cheek, so bright a
gleam in her eyes,
and on his face
inch an utter
abandon of joy,
that any one
even a man
o o u 1 d have
guessed the truth.
Fortunatoly
they had chosen
the hill road, the
least travolod of
all the ways that
lead down from
the Montecito
Valley into Santa Barbara, aud for the
first half hour after the event they
met no one.
It was what the inhabitants of the
Channel City call a "gonuino Santa
Barbara day." The sun shone warm
and bright, and ' soft perfumed
breeze came out of the west. There
was June in tho air, although tho cal
endar was set for mid-winter. The
birds sang in the trees above them,
tho squirrels chirped from tho hill
side, and their horses, wandering at
times from the road, sank to tho knee
in a waving boo of flowers.
"First of all," she said, breaking
tho silenco of a whole minute, "you
must toll my father."
"Certainly," said the young man.
"Who's afraid?"
"You havo never soon papa do tho
role of the cruel parent," said the
girl ; "he cau be quite a dragon. As
you are a kinsman, however "
"A fifth cousin," cried the young
man, with a laugh.
"Well, fifth cousins aro better thou
nothing, aren't they?"
"Truly ; how else should we be bore
to-day?"
Then tho young man added with
peculiar and significant emphasis :
"I am inclined to pride myself on
that little scheme."
The girl brought her horse to a
suddon Btop and turuod her clear
brown eyes, half opened uuder thoir
long lashes, upon her companion.
"That little soboiuc," she repeated,
blowly. "I don't understand."
The youug man laughed uneasily.
"Why, Cotheriue," said he, "you
don't mean that you have believed in
the entertaining fiction about our
greot-great-et-oetero-graudf other?"
"Old Ebonozor Strong?" exclaimed
the girl, "liow dare you call him
fictitious, when 1 saw his portrait at
luy own grandfather's."
"As your ancestor, my dear ono, ha
is au undoubted reality but ns wine,
I regret to say, he is merely a figment
of your worthy father's imagination.
Iu short I would foiu break it to
you as gently as possiblo wo are not
fifth cousins ut all, but just plain cr
diuary "
"Not fifth cousins!"
"No, darling; and if you ore going
to fuiut, please full on this side, with
your head right here on my shoul
der." "I won't I Wrotohod boy, how
could you deueivo poor pupa so?"
"I didn't deceive him. lie deceived
himsolf. From the very beginning of
our acquaintance he seemed determ
ined to locate mo somewhere on the
Weston family tree, aud you aided
and abetted him iu the attempt."
"ltichord Stroug, how can you !"
"I have a sweet uud gentle disposi
tion and wheu ho asked ino if I was
not desoundod from EUonezor Strong,
of West Brighton Centre, and you
looked at mo so appeoliugly "
"I didn't any such thing I"
"Why shouldn't I assent? I have
doubtless had several hundred uuces
tors named Strong, aud I took the
chances that some ouu of ttiotu re
joiced iu the preuomuu of Ebenezer.
It is just the sort of a name that my
forbears were given to putting upon
themselves."
"You may laugh, if it pleases you,"
said the girl, severely, "but if papa
had ku'own you were not a relative we
should not be riding alone together,
lie geuerally disapproves of the East
ern people who spend the winter at
the hotel. "
"If you really feel that I have bceu
guilty of false pretenses," said the
youug mun, drawing his horse a little
nearer, "suppose we bogiu ull over
aguiu."
"Keep your distuuee, sir!" ex
claimed the girl, steering for the op
if
posite side of the road. "If we nro
to start afroth, let it be from tho
very beginning, three weeks ago."
"Now, as to your father," resumed
the young man, "I think I understand
him pretty woll, because ay one and
only parent, the governor himself, is
constructed on much the sumo plan.
Wherever ho goes ho is contiuunlly in
search of tho lost tribes of the Strong
genealogy. Tho last let tor I had from
him iu Colorado, where he is spending
tho winter, contained the announco
mont that ho had unearthed four or
five now cousins choice specimens, I
doubt not, that ho will expect me to
meet and cmbraco on my way home.
"l'erhaps it was wrong," he contin
ued, after a momont of reflection, "to
play upon that little peculiarity of
your father's, to get into his good
graces, but you must consider the ex
traordinary provocation, dear. It
seemed like my only chance ore you
sorry I took it?"
She looked her answer but did not
speak it, and then, avoiding the hand
extended to seize ber own, she struok
her horse a light blow and dashed
down the road ahead.
A long, oven canter in silence fol
lowed, and they were well into town
before the conversation began agoin.
Then, fearful of observation, they
spoke in commonplaces.
They turned into State street, and
stoppod at the postofllce, the morn
ing's moil having constituted the chief
causo for the trip to town. Richard
Strong dismounted aud presently ap
peared with a letter in his hand.
"None for you," he said. "This is
for mo, from tho governor. I'll wager
it has something in it about cousins."
"Let me see," Baid the girl, hold
ing out hor hand, llo tore the letter
open aud gave it to her. Then he
swung himself into his saddle, and
they startod slowly down the street.
Suddenly tho girl gave a fuint cry.
"Papa has been writing to him,!"
she exclaimed.
"Writing to him? What for?"
"He has asked him to pay us a visit
on the score of relationship, and your
father"
"Well?" said tho young man, ex
citedly. "lie says he will start immediately
the very noxtday."
"Let me seo the date of the letter.
Yo gods ! It has been delayed ! He
must have got here this morning!"
"The traia has been in two hours,"
she said, glanciug at ber watch.
"I must see him immediately," said
her companion, nervously turning his
horse first ono way and then another.
"Who would have droamed that both
the old boys would take that cousin
ship so seriously?"
"I diil, sir. I knew from the very
beginning thut it would make trouble
some time."
"From tho very beginning?" re
peated tho youug man, pausing iu his
excitement long enough to note the
force of this chanco admission. "So
you acknowledge, do you"
"There's the hotel 'bus," criod tho
girl, hastily changing the subject.
"Perhaps tho driver cau tell us some
thing." A long empty vehicle was passing
them ou its wuy up the street. Strong
called to tho driver and ho stopped.
"Did you bring up a tall gentle
man this morning, with a white mus
taohe and goatee and gold eyeglasses?"
"Yes, sir. Your futher, don't you
meau?"
Tho young people exchanged star
tled glances.
"How did you know?"
"He was inquiring for you, sir, as
soon as ever he got to the hotel; and
when he found you were gone, he
went and hired a buggy."
"A buggy what for?"
"lie asked tho way to Judge Wes
ton's place iu the Montecito. Ho said
the Judge was a near relativo of his."
"A near relative!" groaned the hor
rified Strong while his companion
turned away her face, although
whether to oonceal a look of anguish
or a laugh will never be known.
Tho omnibus proceeded ou its way.
"We must hurry," said tho youug
man, spurring his horse to a confer.
"The less time they have together be
fore explanations are made tho bet
ter." "What do you thiuk they will do?"
asked tho girl.
"I dou't dure to thiuk. Y'oii seo on
everything except this family tree
business our respective parents are as
far apart as civilized humans cau be.
Your father, now, is uu elder iu tho
church, while uiiuo has never recov
ered from tho habit of using swear
words acquired during years of ser
vice iu tho regular army."
"Heavens! Let us ride faster. Papa
will have slain hiin beforo we get
there."
"lloally, Cotheriue,' said the youug
man, when they had blackened their
puce to climb the hills, "it would not
surprise me if they positively refused
to outer iuto partnership as fathers-in-law."
"Never mind, Kioburd," said tho
girl, smilingly. "Father has never
yet refused me uuythiug, wheu my
happiuess was ut stake as it is now."
Strong shrugged his shoulders.
"Mina has," ho answered. "He is
made of rliut, the old General ; aud if
he should take it iuto his head to say
no, it would be awkward iu ways I
dou't like to mention.".
"Never miud," said tho girl, snail
ing uguiu and liftiug her veil to tho
riiu of the jaunty sailor hat.
Aud a moment later Hi" youur man
felt much encouraged, uud tlij gallop
was resumed.
Ou a slight knoll surrounded by a
grove of live-oaks uud faced wi'h uu
uveuuo of old pulm?, there ' i the
ample resideuoe ot Judge Westou. As
tho youug people cumu through the
gate and entered upou the gravelled
roadway, they observed two elderly
gentlemen emerge from a small forest
of rose bushes aud sturt briskly down
the path toward them. Presently the j
shorter of tho two took his com
panion's at m and they walked along
in evident peace and amity.
"They haven't found it out yet,"
the young man whispered.
Judgo Weston asisted his daughter
to alight. "Catherine," said ho, "this
is General Strong, tho father ot our
young friend."
The Oonoral bent low in an old
fashioned obeisance, and Miss
Catherine instinctively mado him a
courtesy out of the minuet.
"Fathorl"
"Dick, my dear boy?"
"See here," exolaimod the Judge
suddenly. "You were mistakon, Rich
ard, in wh it you told me about old
Ebenezer Strong."
The young man braced himself for
a struggle
"And to think, Dick," cried the
General, reproachfully, "that you
never onco mentioned to the Judge
that your great-great-grandfather,
Hezekioh Stroug, married a Weston."
"And that bringsuseven nearer than
we had supposed," added the Judge.
"Fourth cousins instead of fifth."
"It was stupid of me to forget that,"
said the young man, huskily.
"And now that I have soon Miss
Catherine," said the General, taking
her hand and passing his arm about
her waist, "my ouly regret is that tho
relationship is not several degreo
nearer yet."
Then Cathorine looked at Richard,
and he told what had happened on the
way to town. Straightaway there was
a great amount of handshaking and a
good deal of kissing dono in broad
daylight under the palms. The Land
of Sunshine.
Mortars aud Men.
During tho recent trial of tho now
Sandy Hook coast defences it was
found desirable that the striking
points of the big mortar projectiles
should be accurately determined. At
the long range of G000 yards, or three
and a half miles, the 800 pound mass
of cost steel buried itself ten feet deep
in the sand, and it is the duty of the
observer at the target to mark the po
sition by a stoke in order that the
shot may be afterwords dug up and ex
amined. Two sergeants of artillery
had been detailed on this delicate ser
vioe, and when the party of officials
and guests arrived at the target
grounds the observers met them smil
ing and enthusiastic and with their
hazardous work successfully per
formed. A newspaper reporter asked
one of the men how ho enjoyed the
task of retrieving cannon-balls.
"It was beautiful, sir; beautiful,"
said the smiling sergeant. "I stood
there (pointing at a spot twenty-five
yards from one stake) and I oould
see 'em coming. They turnod straight
and came dowu point down. They
throw the sand up like water and
scattered it in every direction. It was
beautiful, sir."
"Were you not afraid?" demanded
ono man.
"What would I be afraid of, sir?"
asked the sergeant.
Was there over a finer example of
true pride iu ouo's profession? Tho
familiarity that breeds contompt could
never have spoken thus of a peril
compared to which tiger-beoting iu au
Indian jungle is but a dull nud sopo
rilio pastime. It is indeed au adiuir
ablo quality of moral courage that is
here presented, the educated sang
froid of the man who nuither underes
timates a danger nor rtins away from
it, the pure impulse to duty that looks
for no reward and seeks for no end
outside of itself.
It is still the men who are behiuJ
tho guns. Harper's Weekly.
Work and Weather.
So marked is the iuduenco of the
weather on certain temperaments that
tho employers of large numbers of
men aro beginning to take this iuto
account iu promising to fill largo or
ders. Iu somo establishments, it is
said that in very gloomy and whot is
called depressing weather from ten to
twenty-live per ceut less work is done
than on bright, cleur days. A little
investigation showed that accountants
are much moro likely to moke mis
takes iu bad then iu clear weather,
and scientists sometime! ducliuo to
pursuo their investigations wheu tho
atmospheric conditions ure uncon
genial. This being the case, there is
little wonder that foggy, dreary,
chilly days have frequently becu called
"suicide weather." New York Lod
ger. Nipptu' Mok's Muzzle.
Nippin' Nick i" a Muuayuuk horse,
owned aud driven by a youug fellow
in Mauayuuk who makes a livelihood
by hauling dirt aud rubbish. The
animal has acquired his name by bit
ing everybody eround tho dumps ad
jucent to Muuayuuk. The other day
the horse bit a small boy aud a police
man recalled to Nick's driver that he
had beforo been ordered to muzzle
tho horse. "Now, if that horse aiu't
muzzled to-morrow I'll pinch yer,"
said the officer. Nothing more was
thought of it until the next day, wheu
tho owner saw the policemau shuttling
along up the street, aud quickly hang
ing ou old coul scuttle ou tho horse's
head ho made it uuswer for a muzzle
aud saved himself arrest aud fine.
Philadelphia Record.
A Fait h! ill Dug.
Rufus M. Merrill, aged seventy
uiue, a well-kuowu ship builder,
while walking ou tho Portluud and
Rochester Rood ut Portluud, Me., was
struck by au eiigiuo uud received in
juries from the ell'eet of which he died
two hours later. His dog, his con
stant companion for many years, tried
to drag Ins master from the truck, uud
hud both hind lugs cut oil'. Mr. Merrill
seemed more concerned about his dog
thuu himself. 'Ireutou (N. J.) American.
THE MERRY" SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.
Gentle Hint Needless Criiflty
Another Objection An Opportun
ity Not to He Missed, Ktc, Etc.
Bho wore a locket round her neck,
A looket of shinini gold;
The shape of a heart and large enough
A picture petite to hold.
I opened the locket to ascertain
Who was her partlculnr pet;
Cut instund of a miniature photograph
Was a sign which read "To Let."
Spare Moments.
" NEEDLESS CBCELTY.
lie "I can tell a woman's age, no
matter how old she is."
Sho "You must be a brute I"
Puck.
BAD HABITS.
She "There are 60,000 people iu
Chicago who smoke opium. "
He "That's nothing. Just think
how many there are who smoke hams."
Detroit Free Tress.
NOT CONFINED TO KEDSKTNg.
"All the good Indians, they say, are
dead Indians."
' '3o aro all the good white people.
Go and read the epitaphs on the tomb
stones, will you?" Chicago Tribune.
GOT ALL THE! WANTED.
Pennuck "A gang of burglars
entered the House of Correction a
short time since."
Dullyer "Did they get anything?"
Paunuck "Yes, five years apioce."
Boston Courier.
MONET IS FEMININE.
Teacher "What is tho gender of
'money.'"
Scholar "Feminine."
Teachor (severely) "Why?"
Scholar "Because money talks."
Detroit Freo Press.
ANOTHER OBJECTION.
Dick Singleton "Does your wifo
object to your going to the club of an
evening?"
. Benny Dictus "No, but sho ob
jects to my coming borne from it in
the morning. " Harlem Life.
AN OrPODTUNITr NOT TO BB MISSED.
Young Mr. Callow "Yes, Miss
Jump, the woman I would marry
must in every way realize the highest
ideal in beauty and mental qualities."
Miss Jump "Oh, Mr. Callow! This
is so sudden !" New York Moil aud
Express.
A MODEL HUSBAND.
Frioud Perrichon, accompanied by
bis wife, took a trip to the outskirts of
Paris. Very tired and hungry, they
entered an eating house. The pro
prietor declared that he had nothing
but a chop to offer them.
"Ouly one !" exolaimod Perrichon ;
"then what is my wifo to have."
Paris Gaulois.
A YEARNING.
"Do you not sometimes hove soulful
ycaruiugs which you long to convey
in words, but cannot?" asked the senti
mental girl.
"Yos, indoed," repliod the youug
mou. "1 was once dreadfully anxious
to send home for money, and I didn't
have the prioe of a telegram." Read
ing (I'cuu.) Telegram.
IS A MEEK 6FUUT.
Judge "Prisoner at the bar, you
are charged with breaking into tho
complainant's store and carrying away
a large amount of goods. What have
you to say in your own defence ?"
Burglar "I did it, your Honor, out
of compassiou. He had a sign np that
he was selling his goods less than cost,
aud by taking them I saved a big loss
see?"- Boston Transcript.
' A SAVING INSTANCE.
"Tell mo honestly," said the novel
reader to tho ' novel writer," did you
ever boo a woman who stood and
tapped the Hour impatiently with hor
toe for several moments, as you de
scribe?" "Yes," was tho thoughtful reply;
"I did once."
"Who was she?"
"She wag a clog dancer." Wash
ington Star.
BECK LESS THOUGHTLESSNESS.
The judge of a Western court, iu
order to secure a safer and more civi
lized condition of affairs iu the oourt
room, asked tho twelve jurymen aud
the ten uttorueys present to place
their pistols iu a pile iu tho coruur of
the room, but there seemed to bo
somo hesitaucy iu complying with the
request, aud tho judge insisted.
"If your Honor will put his down
first," suggested the foremou of tho
jury, "I guess tho balaucu of us will
toiler suit."
"Certainly, gents,' replied his
Houor, aud laid his guu down iu tho
corner.
Iu a few miuutes all the others hod
doue the same, exeeptiug the Sheriff
aud his deputy, who were not includ
ed, aud twenty-three pistols were re
posing peacefully ou the floor.
"Now, gents," said his Houor, sud
denly whipping out a guu, "the first
muu that goes near that pile gets it iu
the neck."
In ou iustuut every man's hand went
tohisotlier hip pocket, aud us hisHouor
dived behind the desk tweuty-two bul
lets weut through the window but:k of
where he hud beeu sitting, aud tweuty-two
men were waiting for him to
stick his heud up, but ho did nothing
so rush.
"Put up them guns," he yelled;
"put up thjiu guus, or I'll tine every
oue uf you for contempt of court."
New York Suu,
SCIENTIFIC AND IX Dl'STIMAL.
Music relieves muscular fatigue in
man. .
With an ordinary breeze tho height
of waves is from four to six feet.
If tho earth's surface were level,
the water of the ocean would cover it
to a dopth of 600 feet.
Monazito, a rare mineral, which
noither melts or burns, is found in the
rich metallic heart of the Appa
lachian Mountains that lio iu North
Carolina.
Epidemins of typhoid fever havo
lately been traced iu Calcutta and
Bombay, India, to the use of water
cress which grew in soil pollutod by
sewerage.
San Francisco papers thiuk that the
problem of transporting fruit to the
East might be soived without ice by
using the chemical refrigerator, car
bon dioxide.
Dr. Louis Pasteur has refused, on
patriotio grounds, a German decora
tion tendered him in recognition of
bis discoveries in the line of curiug
hydrophobia by inoculation.
A marble medallion portrait of
John Couch Adams, the discoverer of
Neptune, has just been set up in West
minister Abbey, London, closo to tho
memorial to Isaac Newton, Durwiu
and Herschel.
Among the different varieties of
seals caught, tho hogasrock is consid
erably the largest, and will weigh
probably 500 or 600 pounds. Tho
skin of this variety is mostly used for
covering the boats of tho Eskimo.
The tattooing on the fuccs and bod
ing of savages iB heraldic iu its origin.
Ellis says that the New Zoaluud chiefs
totoo their faces with the armoriol
bearings of their tribes, which are as
distinctive as tho plaids of the High
landers. A new inveutiou has bceu desigued
to prevent collisions at sea. At a re
cent test the force from electro-magnetic
coils stationed ou board a ves
sel successfully influenced a chemical
ly prepared compass stationed somo
six miles uway, causing it to ring
bells.
The "eohippus," whose skeleton is
one of the treasures of tho American
Museum of Noturol History, is the or
iginal tour-toed horse. It was hardly
larger than a fox, but a fanciful Eng
lish scientist says it "powessos all the
oharaclcristicsof the full-grown horse,
including the space for the bit at the
ond of the lower jaw."
A medical journal Bays that in tho
continued use of the eyes in such work
as sewing, typesettiug, bookkepiug,
reading and studying, the saving
point is looking up from the work at
short intervals aud looking around
the room. This practiced overy ten
or fifteen minutes relievos tho muscu
lar tonsiou, rests the eyes and mokes
the blood supply much better.
Mineral Woof.
It is au artificial product made from
blast furnace Blag or certain melted
rocks, by tho action of a jet stream iu
which the liquid material is trans
formed iuto a fine fibrous or filamen
tous condition. In this state it close
ly resembles cotton wool, heuco its
name. Among its most important
properties ure strength combined with
lightness, resistance to transmission of
heat, cold aud Bound. It is especially
adapted as a liuing between .vails,
floors, partitious, roofs, etc., in build
ing construction, thus rendering a
building to a greater degreo lire-proof.
In shutting out the rays of suu iu
summer the buildiug is kept cool,
while in winter the hot ascending air
is retained, keeping the building
warm. By deadening bound ull com
munications aud noises betweeu of
fices are avoided. As uu iuorguuic
substance, it does not decay or breed
and harbor insects or vermin, as do
earth, mortar, felt uud sheuthiu;
papers wheu used as liuiugs, a good
property from u sanitary standpoiut.
It is especially adapted to col I storage
aud refrigerating housed, aud has also
been applied as a cover for water pipes
to prevent them from freezing. A
more extended uso of miueral wool
seems very probable. Ago of Steel.
The Weliliirr IYucpsn Like t'l-eivdu .
Iu a paper by T. Wrightsou, real
beforo the Royal Society recently, evi
dence is brought forward to show that
tho welding of iron au I steel is simi
lar iu character to the regulation of
ice. Irou has beeu found to expand
iu passing from tho liquid to the plas
tic state uud then Contracts to the
solid form. ExpcrnncuU ut IUj Mint
have also showu that at tho welding
point iron cools uu lor pressure. Wei 1
ing differs from melting pieces togeth
er iu that iu the former case the union
tukes place below the temperature of
fusiou. Engineering and Mining
Journal.
Filly Thousand Truants.
Tho Board of Education of New
York City has received a summary of
the school census recently taken by
the police. According to this report
thero are 16S,020 mule and 171.7JJ
female school children lu this city,
The table shows there are 50, Olj'J tru
ants, which means uu expenditure of
between 3 ,Uim,OJ0 and d, OUU, DUO for
new schools before these delinquents
cuu be taken cure of. Thero is now
gii,!iOO,00) available for the erection
of new school buildiugs, uud it is cli
mated thut tweuty-live of them will bo
required. Scientific Aluerieau.
A .New Hurl ul Oiumpioii.
Thero seems to bo uo eu 1 to thj op
portuuities for a person to ujiiive
fame us o "chuinpiou." A painter iu
Hue ), Me., tucked three dozeu eggs iu
seven miuutes uud lilty livc second.-,, a
few doys ago, uud is uow ready to
suck eggs for the chumpionship with
uuy oue of his class iu the country.
New Orleans Picuyuue.
THE COUNTRY POY.
Ifappy tho hoy who whistles down the glon,
And shrilly calls his cow to hie th'.'m home;
Or loitering by the cool swift-flowing brook,
I'll In his b et to plash tii" whirling foam.
Dear boy, thy votee Is ever sweet 1 1 me.
Thy cri"s bring Imefc Ihe sriin. again
OT ny young life I hear the oii ko'i I-y(
And roeily call of wiii-lles down the wimliug
lane.
Tho cry of darting joy. the hum of i,n s.
firing to my mind th trnse of boyhood
days;
Ouco more I roam the Holds whore biuo-licllj
hide,
Or lie 'ncnlh shading tree.., from the suu'3
fierce rny.s.
I see (he dew upon tho waving gnus.
The banks where course .sedgirusln s grow,
And watch the waters ki-s the I on ling tings,
As l!owiug on they nui'mnr soft and luW.
I hear again the wind's low minstrelsy.
As through Iho pines they chant in solemn
tones,"
Just as In boyhood when ;hev softly lulled
Me to tho slumber which i.s now unknown
Slug thou, my lad, aud let thy jovial cry,
Thy whistle, unrul, nil s und on tho air:
If ore I cau :.it and faneying bo again
floppy like thee, and like thee, freo from
enre.
Hartford Times.
IIUMOK OF TllF. DAY.
Wo wish we could feel os coulented
as a girl iu a shirt waist looks. Atch
ison Globe.
Teddie "What are woman's rights,
pa 5" Pa "Every thiug they wont,
my boy; always remember that!"
Boslou Courier.
"You seem to be cultivating old
Kojoues. Whoi, do you see about hiui
to admire?" "His .luughter Luura."
Chicago Tribune.
Clubman "Colonel, I understand
yon aro acquainted with warfare iuall
its forms!" Colouel "No, uo ; not
iu all forms. I'm a bachelor. " Spare
Moments.
"A man died iu a Turkish bath iu
Now York yesterday," said tho Mere
Newsgetter. "Aucther swentshop out
rage," commented tho Sociologist.
Buffalo Express.
A Pioneer: Student (to Professor)
'Has it over beeu discovered who was
the man in tho irou mask?" Pro
fessor Oldsport "He was tho origiuu'.
umpire." Harlem Life.
"That's whot I call getting out of a
bad scrape," groaned the mau in tho
first straw bat as ho tottered from tho
barber shop, rubbing his bleeding
jaws. Kocklnnd Tribune.
"The curious things about my busi
ness," said tho mosquito, alighting
softly upou the nose of tho deeping
victim, "is that it's more fuu to go to
work thon it is to stay to hum." Chi
cago Tribune.
Prince Areeno Karugoorgevitch aud
M. Dollfns fought a duel at Paris with
swords, and M. Dollfus was wounded,
but tho Priuco's name camo out of tho
fight without any abbreviation Pitts
burgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
"Are you a ball crank, Miss Beekiu
strete?" "I was nlllieted with a mild
attack of spheromunia lust summer,"
ausweied the Boston maiden, "but
this year I havo taken but little in
terest." Indianapolis Journal.
"I'm very much afruid," his mother
said, "that this pie needs more short
ening." "Mamma," said tho boy iu
ou audible undertone, "that isn't whut
my piece needs." "Jsu'tit?" "No'ni.
My piece needs lengthening. "---Washington
Star.
Mrs. White- "And do you meau to
say that you uud your husbuud ulways
agree about everything?" Urn. Black
--"Always; except, of course, now aud
then when he's out of humor or pig
headed, or something of that sort."--Boston
Transcript.
"Keep out 'of debt, youug mau,"
said the philosopher. "People will
thiuk better of you for it." "Per
haps," was the thoughtful reply ; "aud
yet l'vo noticed the moro I owe peo
ple the gladder they always seem to'
see me. " Wushiugtou Stur.
"Ouly think," exclaimed 1'eudersoii,
"of the many uses to which paper is
now put!" "1 know," replied Bass.
"I was at the theatre tho other night,
and I was told it was all paper. An. I it
was u line, substantial looking struc
ture, too." Bostou Transcript.
Auuuius "Blood and dcutu, but
there ure some insults too great to bo
borue!" Sophira- "Woll.whot uow?"
Ananias "I dou't mind being collul
a pretty big liar. I'm used to that.
But a fellow just accused ino of being
the author of tho Cuban war news."
J'ulbilo Express.
Judgo "Do you mean to nay, sir,
thut you prosecute this man for theft,
wheu you have no better evidence of
his guilt than that he ha 1 1 J ou his
person?" Attorney "Ves, sir."
Judge "How dure you ask a couvic
tiou ou such evidence?" Attorney
"Tho mau i.i a poet, your Honor."
Chicago Tribune.
Doctor "1 would advise you, dear
luaduui, to take frequent baths, ileuty
of fresh air, and dress in co d gnwus."
Husband (au hour Inter)-- "What i .d
the doctor buy ?" Wifc--"ile said I
ought to go to o watering place, and
ul Ur wards to the mountains, uud to
got some uew light e.owus ut once."
l'liegeudo liluetter.
A Al a ii liooilcr."
Ed. H. Dugiiy, proprietor of thj
Juekson Square l!ir I Stoic, has,
among other lreaks and curious, things
ut bis store, u "mau ro.kr, so ealU d
by tho fuiicur, which ho has immed
"Picayune." The bird stands, up
straight, with u body perpendicularly
poised, somethiug after the manner ot'
u penguin. The bird is u tighter, uud,
standing up straight us he does, wilt
do some lull crowing if the next elec
tion goes riht. .'icw Orleans Picuyuue.