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VOL. XXVIII. NO. 16. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1895. &1.00 PEE ANNUM.
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Job WOT
work cmh oa dattvery.
J
The Amerioaa bioyolor dividos the
honors abroad with tbo American
trottor.
Colonel JoIiq Cookerill thinks that
the attitudo of Russia in the East must
force on allinnco botweon England,
Japan and China.
Cornwall, in England, loads all other
countries in freodom from crimes
"gainst property. Next in compara
tive honesty oome the western counties
of Wales.
Elizabeth Cody Stanton enys that if
eho was Street Cleaning Commissioner
vt Now York City, she would organize
a brigado of needy, deserving women
to do tho work, and it would be done.
The Bob ton Journal of Commerce
announces that an electrical type-setting
inaohine has bocn invented in
Italy by a Dominican friar, which is
said to produce words in typo faster
than the linotype can make tbein in
metal.
Tho Salvation Army is said to hare
a:onred a strong foothold in Bncnos
Ay res. During the financial troubles
it was able, according to Ram's Horn,
to help thousauds of men out of work
to food and shelter. It has a thriving
farm colony, and is training Spanish
speaking cadets.
If some archaeologist in the year
0000 A. D., happens to dig up a fash
ionable woman's costume of the present
day, he will draw sum o very queer
conclusions from it concerning the
ahape of its one-time wearer, prediota
tho Washington Pathfinder. Women
wear big sleeves because they are
"pretty." If a' thing is pretty, that
settles it with the conventional woman.
Next thing one shall see sooiety bellos
hanging themselves about with oil
paintings and water colors in gold
frames to make themselves "pretty."
The whaleboat Kite is to be sent
Arcticward after Feary, and in a little
while a new Peary will probably have
to be sent after the whaleboat Kite.
That, adds the New York Tribuno, is
tho general operation of Polar dis
covery. Tho magnet of tho North
draws eternally, operative on ships
and men, perhaps finally on balloons
and bicycles as it is on the mariner's
needle. Whether the fruits of Polar
adventure equal thoir cost and peril is
question on which the economist
and tho geographical and scientific
enthusiast are entitled to. hold differ
ent opinions ; but it is a quest never
likely to be intermitted. Tho line of
discoverers will continue, however
lean and conjectural thoir tales of dis
covery, and such of them as are not
lost in Symme's ITolo will have to bo
sent for now and then to organise new
expeditions and keep alive a healthy
interest in the region.
We look with horror on the pic
tures left us by Assyrian and Egyp
tian conquerors of prisoners' hands
and foot cut off, their bodies impaled,
and their heads nailed up against the
city walls, forgetful, suggests the New
York Independent, that just such
things may happen nowadays within a
few hundred miles of tho world's great
capitals. A telogram from Tangier re
ported the other day that four loads
of human heads were being brought
to Fez, to show the Bultan that people
were really punished for the last re
volt. The telegram in tho London
Times says that tho "heads were in
bad oondition whon they reached
Rabat, and were re-salted at that
place, the work being done by lie
brews under compulsion of the Gov
ernment." It was pictured deedi no
worse than this which led Gutsimd to
declare that tho old Assyrians were
the echreklichste of all Nations.
i -.-
Opposition to crime is growing fast
iu the mountains of Kentucky, notes
the Louisville Courier Journal. The
Jackson (Breathitt County) Hustler
says : "Word comes to us from every
direction of the revolution in the sen
timent of the people of this section of
the mountains in regard to punishing
criminals. A man told us tUi.t week
that he had been in eight counties
since the Fields-Adkins trial at Bar
boursville, and that tho intouse feel
ing against lawlessness was universal.
A gentleman who has beeu in Perry
County much of tho time in the past
six weeks told us that there would be
lo trouble to get a jury in that coun
ty to hang a man if he deserved it. In
the counties where lawlessness has
boeu worst this feeling is greatest.
The revolt from the state of terror and
death will sweep a number of men
into the State Prison and some into
their graves. Woe to the despera
does of these counties now. Their
race is ruu. The grand Juries are do
ing their work aud the petit juries
'.heir duty."
THE MORNINO BIRD.
fOne of the most treasured rollcs I have is
a poem which my father wrote when I was a
little boy. Mr father wan anntlve of Maine, but
for all that he was a innn of sentiment, and
lie bad much literary taflte and ability, too.
The poem which he Rave and which I have
always treasured, will (If I am not grievously
in orror) touch a responsive chord In many
B human heart, for all humanity look hack
with tenderness to tho time of youth.--Eugone
Field, in Chloago llooord.)
A bird sat in the maple tree
And this was the song be song to mo;
"O little boy, awake, awake, arlsel
The sun is high In the morning skies)
The brook's a-plny in the posture lot
And wonderetb that tho little boy
It lovoth dearly eomoth not
To share its turbulunce and joy;
The grass hath klssos cool and sweet
For truant little brown baro foot
Ho oome, O child, awake, arise!
Tho sua is high la the morning skies'"
Bo from the yonder mnplo tree
The bird kept singing unto mo;
But that was very long ago
I did not think -I did not know
Else would I not have longer slept
And dreamt the proolous hours away;
Else would 1 from my bed bave leapt
To greet another happy day
A day, untouched of eare and truth,
With swout companionship of youth
The dear old friends which you and I
Knew in the happy years gone by!
Btlll in tho maple can be board
The muslo of the morning bird,
And still the song is of the day
That runnoth o'er with childish piny
Btlll of each pleasant old-time place
And of tb. old-timo friends I knew
The pool where hid the furtivo dace,
The lot tho brook went scampering through
The mill, the lane, the bellflower tree .
That used to love to shelter mo
And all those others I knew then,
But which I cannot know again!
Alas! from yondor maple tree,
Tho moruing bird sings not to me;
Else would bis ghostly voice prolong
An evening, not a morning, song;
Aud he would tell of each dear spot
I knew so well and cherished then,
As all forgetting, not forgot
By him who would be young again)
0 child, the voice from yonder tree
Callcth to you and not to mc; .
Bo wsk. and know tboee friendships all
1 would to Ood t could recall 1
"TilOlI ART THE MAN!"
si tlioxk roRRE.fr a bates.
7 TS the last straw
W that breaks tbo
oamel'a back,"
said Lucy, burst-
mto tears.
The pleasant
June sunboams
ryWFwo the coon
came neeoinir
stnne-paved dairy, where pans of
milk and cream wero ranged in or
derly array ; great stone pots stood
under tho shelves, and a blue-painted
churn was already placed on tho table
for service.
Mr. Bullenden was justly proud of
his dairy. Not a ohaneo guest camo
to the house but was invited down to
see it; not a housekeeper in the
neighborhood but secretly envied its
many conveniences and exquisite
neatness.
"And it isn't the dairy alone 1" tri
umphantly remarked Seth Bellenden.
"And you may go through the house
from garret to cellar, and you will
never End a speck of dust or a stain
of rust. There never was each a
housekeeper as my wife."
Mrs. Uellenden was yonng, too
scarcely three-aud-twenty. She had
been the daughter of a retired army
officer, delicately reared and quite ig
norant of all the machinery of domes
tio life until she married Seth Bcllon
dcn. "It's very strange," Lucy had writ
ten to her father. "The farm is
beautiful. You never saw such mon
strous old buttonball trees, nor suoh
superb roses, and the meadows are
full of clover and the strawberries
shine liko jewols on tho sunny hill
sides. But nobody sketches or reads.
I don't think there is a copy of Ten
nyson in the whole neighborhood,
aud no one ever heard of Dore or Mil
lais. All they think of is how many
dozons of eggs the hens lay, and how
many cheeses they can make iu a year.
Aud the woman who has a new re
ceipt for wstlles, or a new pattern for
a horriLlo thing that they call crazy
quilts, is the leader iu society."
But presently young Mrs. Bellenden
herself caught the feT and became a
model housewife. Examplo is all
powerful, and Lucy began to believe
that the wholo end and aim of life was
domestio thrift, money-saving and tbo
throadmill of work.
"My door," said Seth, "if you
thought you could get along without
Uepsy, the maid, I might bo able to
aflord that new reaper before the oat
crop comes in."
"I'll try," said Lucy.
And after that she rose before day
break and worked later into the night
than ever.
"What is the matter with your
bauds, Lucy?" Seth asked one day.
"They sro not so white end beautiful
as they used to be."
Lucy colored as sho glanced down
at tho members in question.
"I suppose it is making the fires,"
said she.
And then sho took to wearing old
kid gloves at her sweeping aud dust
ing aud digging out of ashes.
"My cout is getting shabby," Seth
one day remarked.
"Why dou't you buy another one?"
asked his wife.
Seth laughed a short laugh.
"What do you think Mrs. Higgin
bothaiu has done?" said he. ".She
ripped up her husband's old suit aud
cut a pattern by it, aud niude a new
one, aud entirelv saved him tcu dollars!"
"I could do that I" said Lucy, with
sparkling eyes. "I will try it I"
"You can do anything, my doer I"
said Mr. Bellenden, admiringly.
And Lucy felt that she had her rich
reward.
Company began to come as soon as
the bright weather set in.
All the affectionate relations of Mr.
Bellenden soon discovered that the
farmhousd was cool and shady, that
Lucy's cooking was excellent, and that
the bedrooms were neatness itsolf.
Bomo of them wore even good enough
to invite their relations as well, and so
tho houso was full from April to De
cember. All tho clergymen mado it their
home at Brother Bellcndon'a when
they came to Silvan Bridge for ecclesi
astical conventions; all the. agents
for nnheard-of artiolos discovered that
they knew somebody who was ac
quainted with the Bellendcns, and
brought their carpet-bags and valises,
with that faith in human hospitality
which is one of life's best gifts.
Mrs. Bellenden'a fame went abroad
among the Dorcases of the neighbor
hood in the matter of butter and
cheese. She took prizes in the do
mestio department of all the agricul
tural fairs, and the adjoining house
wives took uo trouble to make things
that they could borrow of Mrs. Bel
london, "just as well as not."
And one day, when poor Lnoy, un
der the blighting influence of a borri
bio sick hcadaohe, was endeavoring to
strain three oi four gallons of milk
into the shining pans, the news ar
rived that Uncle Paul was coming to
the farm.
"Auothcr guest I" said Lucy, de
spairingly. And then she uttered tho proverb
that heads our sketch.
"Oh, it's only Unolo Paull" said
Mr. Bellenden. "Don't fret, Lutio;
he's tho most peaceable old gentleman
in tho world. He'll make no more
troublo than a cricket. John's wifo
thought she couldn't have him, be
cause she has no hired girl just now "
"Neither have II" said Luoy, re
belliously. "And Sarah Eliza don't liko com
pany." "I am supposed to be fond of it!"
observed Lucy, bitterly.
"And Bouben'a girls don't want old
folks staying tlyjro. It's too'tnuoh
trouble, they soy, added Seth.
Lucy bit her lip to keep baok the
words she might have uttered, and
said, instead :
"Where is he to sleep? The Bel
fords have the front bedroom, aud
your Cousin Susan oooupies the back,
and the four Miss Pattersons sleep in
the two hall chambers, and the hired
men have the garret room."
Sho might have added that she and
her husband and the baby bad slept in
a hot little den opeuing from the kit
chen for four wooks, vainly expecting
Mr. and Mrs. Belford to depart, and
that sho had never yet had a chanoe
to invite her father to the farm in
pleasant weather.
But she was magnanimous and held
her peace.
"Oh, you can find some place for
him!" said her husband, lightly.
"Thero's that little room at the end
of the hall where tho spinning-wheel
is."
"But it isn't furniebod?" pleaded
Lucy.
"You can easily sew a carpet to
gether out of those old pieces from
the Bedfords' room, and it's no trouble
to put up a muslin ourtaiu to tho win
dow and lift in a cot-bed. There are
plenty of good sweet husks in the
eorn-housc, and you can just took to
gether a mattress and whitewash the
ceiling, and What's that, Beniah?
The cows in the rye lot! Dear me!
Everything goes wrong it I step into
the house for a moment. Aud really,
Lutie, these things are your business
not mine !" he added, irritably.
Lucy could not help laughing, all
by herself, ai her husband ran up the
steps.- - .
But it was a very sad little laugh,
and 'soon chanqed into a nigh.
"I wonder," said she, in a whisper,
"if my poor, tired-out ghost would
haunt these stone pavements and
scrubbed shelves if I were to die? I
never heard of a ghost iu a dairy be
fore, but I should think that it might
easily be."
But the little bedroom was filled up
for all that, as fresh as a rose, aud
Uncle Panl arrived, a dried-up, yel-low-coinplcxioned
old mau, with au
old-fashioued cravat tied iu many folds
aionud his neck, aud a suit of navy
blue, with broHS buttons.
He hud the polite war of half a
century ago, aud Lucy thought she
should like him v.-ry much, if only
she had time to get aequaintod with
him.
But she was churning ten pounds of
butter a day, and there was the baby,
and the company, and the youug
chickens, and the baking to do for the
sewing sooiety, which was to meet at
her house this week.
She was almost too busy to sleep.
But Uncle Paul wus watching her
quietly all the time.
He came out oue day to tho barn,
where his uephnw was putting a new
haudle on a sioklo blade.
"Pretty busy timos, eh, Uncle
Paul ?" suid the farmer, scarcely taking
thj leisure to look up.
"Aye," ubseutly answered the old
muu. "Did I tell you, Nephew Seth,
about the reuuou I left your Cousin
Eliab'e!"
"Not that I remember," sai l Seth,
breathing on the blade and polishing
it with his silk handkerchief.
'Doroihy died his wife!"
"Oh, yes!" said Seth. "Mai 'rial
fever, wasn't it?"
"No !" bluntly answered Uncle
Paul. "It was hard work. That wo
man, Nephew Seth, did the housework
for eight persons. Eliub didn't even
let her have a wouiau to help with the
washing and tho irouiug."
"Mut have beeu a re8uI'ir-S0'nS
brute," said Seth, tightening the ban
dlo a little.
"All the sewing, too," added Undo
Paul "tho mendin; and making.
Never went anywhere exoept to church.
Eliab didn't believe in women gad
ding about."
"Tho old savago!" said Seth.
"She was fond of reading, but sho
never got any timo for it," said Uncle
Paul. "She rose bofore sun-up, and
never lay down nntil eleven o'clock. '
It was hard work that killed that wo
man, and Eliab coolly declared that it
was sheer laziness when she "couldn't
drag herself around any loager. And
when she died he rolled up his eyes
and called it tho visitation of Provi
dence." "Why didn't the neighbors lynch
him?" cried Seth, fairly aroused to
indignation at last.-
Undo Paul took off his glasses, wiped
them vigorously and looked his nephew
hard in tho face.
"Why don't the neighbors lynch
you ?" said her
Seth dropped the sickle and started.
"Nephew Seth," said. Undo Paul,
impressively, "'thou art the man f Are
you not doing the very same thing?"
"I?" gasped Seth.
"Yonr wifo is doing tho work of a
household of sixteen peoplo," said
Uncle Paul. "She is drudging as yon
could hire no foreigner to drudge.
She is rising early, and lying down
late ; she i, offering up her life on the
shrine of yonr farm and its require
ments. I have seen her grow thin and
pale even during the few days I have
been here. I have carried water and
split wood for her because there was
no one else to do it. I have seen her
curry up Mrs. Bclford's breakfast
daily to her room, because Mrs. Bel
ford preferred to lie iu bed ; and
oooking dainty dishes for Helen Pat
terson, because Helen wouldn't eat
what the reBt like. No galley-slave
ever worked as she does. And yon,
with yonr hired men whose board
only adds to ber cares and your array
of labor-saving machinery, Btand
coolly by and see her commit slow
suicide. Yes, Nephew Seth, I think
it is a case for lynching ?"
Seth had grown pale.
"I I never thought of this," said
he. "Why didn't some one tell me?"
"Whero wero your own eyes?" said
Uncle Paul.
Seth Bellenden rolled down his Bhirt
sleeves, put on his coat, and went into
the house.
He told the Belfords and Pattersons
that it was inconvenient to keep them
any longer. He gave Cousin Susan to
understand that her room was needed.
He made arrangements to board tho
hired men at the vacant farmhouse,
and engaged a stout dairyman and a
house-servant to wait on Lucy. And
ho telegraphed to her father to come
to Silvan Bridge at once.
"She deserves a treat," he said.
"He shall spend the summer with
us."
And then he went to tell Luoy.
She had fainted among the butter
cups, picking strawberries for tea.
Poor little Lucy I The machinery had
utterly refused to revolve any longer.
His heart grew cold within him.
"Sho will die," he thought, "and I
shall have murdered her?"
- But she did not die. Sho recovered
her strength by degrees.
"It is ' better than any medicine,"
she said, "to know that Seth is think
ing of me and for me."
And Undo Paul "the last straw,"
as she had called him had proved her
salvation. ,
"I don't want her to go as Eliub's
wife did," said Uncle Paul. Saturday
Night.
In Cliiuesc Villages.
Mr. Weldou and I often went into
tho villages, walkiug between tbo
fields of shivering rice, but faroftcner
the villagers came to see in iu oar
house-boat - men, (mou, . babies,
dogs, and all. Always soma little side
oaual, the offshoot of a main water
way, was the only street belweeu or
bofore the villao houses. There was
always the towpath, but the beat
route was by a seooud path leading
behind the houses. By following that
we passed through the farms aud
yards. Wo saw the meu aud women
thrashing the rice by beating a log
with handfuls of it to soatter tho ker
nels on the ground. .We saw the
farmers turning the soil over and
breaking it up laboriously, or puueh
ing holes in the thick day, dropping
seeds in them, and then Btuuariug the
holes over with a rake. We weut iuto
the iuner courts of the better nouse-i,
and noted how the meu, aud even tlio
tiniest baby boys, thrust themselves
forward to greet us, while tho women
and girls sluuk behind or merely
peeped through the doorways and
open windows- the latter being Eliza
bethau contrivances, framed for little
panes of oiled paper or the ouuuielled
inner coatiug of seasbells. White
gout', wollish dogs, common-sense
chickens, . hump-backed cows uud
nose-led buffaloes make up the animal
life that is so paiofully missing in
Japan and so abualaut iu Chiuu.
Juliuu Kulph iu Harper's.
Fortunate Waiter.
In Frankfort, Germany, there i a
restaurant the waiters of wl ijh have
juet reoeived what must assuredly bo
the largest "tip" uu record. Among
their customers for many years wus a
gentleman of independent menus,
Herr Wilhelui Peutzel. Kecontly this
geutleman went ou a trip to Eypt,
and i?ied while there, at Port Said.
By his will, it is fouud, he has left
1 1)00 to the fortuuate waiters iu ques
tion. ---Loudon News.
Extent vt Cotton Making.
Cottou manufactories are fouud iu
nearly every State except the extreme
Northwest, thoH.,1- the priucipal seat
of this manufacture basal ways beeu iu
New Eugluud. it. LjuisCi lobe-Democrat.
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIkS THAT ARE TOLD BT THE
FUHNT MEN OF THE PRESS.
The Angler's Guide Her Choice
Faithless Tho Imperlou Hired
Girl A Humorist, Etc., Ktc,
Burnish np the reel ond rod.
Straighten out the line,
Take a Bpade anil turn tho sod
Fishlu ii gi'ttln' line.
Tramp along to where thoy say
Kpeokloil Ituautiee swish.
Bit around for half a day
Oo aud buy your llsli.
Buffalo Courier.
A ni'MORlST.
A 'I fail to see how you can
laugh at such a silly remark."
B "My doar fellow, I can't help it.
owe the man a hundred dollars."
I NDEH TUB BAN.
Teacher "Speaking of import?,
with what does Canada supply us?"
Bright Boy "Silver coins that
won't pass in the horse-cars." Judge.
HEH CHOICE FAITHLESS.
"I love, and I am loved."
"Then you must be perfectly hap
py." "But it isn't the same man I" Life.
THE IMPERIOUS HIRED OIBU
"Are you the boss here?"
Mr. Meekly "Do I look like a man
that would allow his wife to get along
without a cook?" Chicago Inter
Ocean. PREHUMPTIVg PROOF.
"Whon your son graduated did he
leave anything behiud him to enrich
the traditions of the college?"
"I guess so ; his manners are gone."
Puck.
BATHER SNAPPY.
Man (to Baker Boy) "What is yonr
dog's name, sonny?"
Baker Boy "Ginger."
Man "Does Ginger bite?"
Baker Boy "Naw, Ginger snaps."
Atlanta Journal.
BAIL REPARTEE.
Trolley Car Conductor "Settle now
or get off."
Dignified Citizen "What do you
take me for, air?"
Conductor "IY cents, same as
anybody else"--Indianapolis Journal.
A COAL-OIL JOHANNA.
"Rich," exclaimed one emancipated
woman to another; "why, she's the
queen of the stock exohange."
"She's very lavish, I'm told, in her
display."
"She can afford it. She's so rich
that she uses hundred-dollar bills for
curl papers." Washington Star.
NOT CP TO DATE.
. Jones fouud Smith vigorously pol
ishing his shoes.
"What are you doing that for? I
always thought you wore patent
leather?"
"These used to be patent leather,"
replied Smith, painfully bringing his
Bpinal column iuto its normal posi
tion ; "but the patent on them has ex
pired." Washington Pathfinder.
UNLIKE ALL OTHERS.
Several men were talking about how
they happened to marry.
"I married my wife," said one,
after the others hud all had their say,
"because she wai diSerent from any
woman I had ever met."
"How was that?" chorused the
others.
"Sho was the only women I ever
met who would have me." Detroit
Free Press.
now HE oot rr.
"Did that farmer's wife give you
the oold shoulder?" asked Wobbly
Wibbles of his pal, ai he came ruu
ning down the road.
"She didn't give it to me," replied
Wiggley Waggles, with a grin, "I
swipped it when her baok was
turned."
Aud, as he produced the remains of
a fine piece of roast mutton from un
der his coat, his comrade saw the
joke and joined in tbo laugh. Brook
lyn Eagle.
LIKE MOTHER, XJKB lMV'aiirER.
"Please, sir,'" whistled tho boy with
two front teeth missing, "Miuuie
Williams's mother says Miunie oau't
come to school, 'cos she's got a stitch
in her side."
"Who is Miunie Williams's moth
er?" the new school teacher asked.
"She's the dressmaker."
The teacher turned reflectively to
the blackboard.
"Haw wonderful are tho iulliieuoos
of heredity," muttered he. ltockluud
Tribune.
TUB Itl'LlNO l-ASSION.
"Gentlemen," said the college Pres
ident at the meeting of the faculty,
"we must take meaus at onoe to stop
the game of football. It is briugiug
our fraud old institution into disre
pute." Just thcu a great noise wus heard
outside, and the Presideut demanded
the cause of it.
"News has beeu received." ex
plained one of the younger professors,
apologetically, "that nine of our
eleven will surely be back iu college
next year, and that our chauces of
beatiug Yule next full are of the best."
"Good I" shouted tho President,
flushing with pleasure. "Er I think
er, young gentleuieu, we ha I bet
ter not be too er hasty iu this mat
ter." Harlem Life.
It is stated that Assam tea is the
richest iu theiue, that CVylou au I In
dian teas will not keep, and that Day
tiling is the best of all.
fcCIEXTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Aluminum is being usod in making
the bodies of cab?.
Iu nearly all the arid land rogions
water can bo obtained at a depth of
300 to COO feet.
A Pittsburg oompany has secured a
large foreign contract for aluminum
for army purposes.
A stool ship has bocn constructed
in Cardiff, with the standing rigging,
a well as hull, all of steel.
The castor oil plant and the tobacco
plant are both looked . npon by the
animal world with almost unanimous
disapproval.
M. de Montessus de Balloro has cal
culated that in the known earthquake
regions of tho world a shock oocurs on
the average every half hour.
The Simplon tunnel in Switzerland
will begin two and a half kilometres
from Brieg and come out twenty-flvo
kilometres from Domo D'Ossola.
A plumb-line suspended a few feet
from the side of a large building in
clines a little from the perpendicular,
beoanse the weight is attracted by the
edifice.
There have been instances where
bodies, when exhumed, have been
found turned on their faoes ; but that
has been explained as having been
caused by some chemical action accru
ing during the process of decomposi
tion. The Bolivian tin mines aro very
rich, but they are generally situated
at an altitude of over 14,009 foet
above sea level, so that between high
freights, lack of railroads and inaulH
cient capital they are hardly devel
oped at all.
A new device for utilizing ooal dust
for fuel is to mix coal, molasses and
water, coal dust and petroleum. .An
other fuel mixture is that of siwdust,
Irish moss, asbestos fibre and burned
limestone, these being heated together
and made iuto bricks with coal dust.
Take a polished knittiug-needle and
dip it into a deep vessel full of milk ;
withdraw it immediately in an upright
position. Some of the fluid will hang
on to tho needle if tho milk is pure,
but if water bos been added, even in
small proportions, no milk will re
main on the needle.
An engineer of tho Chicago Drain
age Board has figured out from care
ful experiments and computations that
the level of the great lakes will bo
lowered permanently betwoen one and
a half and two inches by tho big drain
age canal. The effect will be greater
on the upper than on tho lower lakes.
While genuine hydrophobia is not
understood, there is an increasing
tuspicion among pathologists that
many cases of what is supposod to bo
hydrophobia are meroly acute hys
teria. As it is as fatal to the sufferer,
however, it will make no difference
what it is oalled unless a rojiedy is
fouud for it.
Malliijr Wall Paper.
It is very interesting to go through
a wall paper factory and follow tho
processes of manufacture. The de
signs are the first things observed.
Formerly there was a scarcity ot these,
but now there is a Hood, ami a manu
facturer must exercise much artistio
taste and business ability iu making
selections. Various designers have
different specialties some llowere,
others architectural idea?, etc. aud
of recent years architects have devo
ted many of their spare momeuts to
originating wall paper desius. A
complete design consists of threo
pieces side wall, border and ceiling.
Tho general width of patterns of the
side wall and coiling as usod iu tho
trade and manufactured by American
machinery is eighteen inches, and the
length of tho repeat iu the pattern is
eight, eleven and three-fourths or
fourteon and three-fourths inches, as
suggested by the character of the de
sign, the shorter repeats being the
most satisfactory to tho trade iu gen
eral. Many of the best effects ore
produood iu papers containing ouly
four to six color, but as many as
tweuty or twenty-five are sometimes
used. Each olor aud shade iu a de
sign meaus a separate roller to tho
manufacturer. New York Telegram.
Weight ol the Hair.
An interesting article was published
in a Paris paper recently reardin
the weight which a hair from the hu
mau head can support. "-lair," says
the author, "have a force of resistance
hard to believe unless oue has con
vinced himsult by tuu experiment."
Biohst does not fesr to say that noth
ing else, not even excepting a libroiu
tissue, cuu support so large a weight
iu proportiou to its volume. Greliier,
who shares his opinion, has estimated
thut a single hair can carry a weight
of 1031 decigrams (more thuu a hun
dred grams). According to Richter,
a blond hair cau bear more than tax
ounces, and a black one still more.
Oue cuu thus uppreciutu the great
strength of the ropes whioh the Car
thaginians made of the hair. New
York Advertiser.
Martlcii the Coiigrciru'loii.
The new eauou ol Westminster,
England, is credited with a ready wit.
A story is told of his having once beeu
terribly interrupted by the incessant
coughing of his oougrejjutiou. Where
upon he suddenly puused iu his ser
mon, aud interjected the romarU :
"Last uifiht I wa.i diuiug with the
Prince of Wales. "
The effect was miraculous, and u
deathly silence reigned ui the preacher
continued :
"As a mutter of fact, 1 vi not din
ing wit a the Prluco of Wules last
night, but with my own family. I am
glad, however, to lin 1 thut I have ut
last secured your attention,'' Pear
Bon's Weekly.
rmtw ioNo.
In twilight's gray one hour alone
Timo yields, unburdened, all my own
Holt winding thoughts the Kilence nil
With wondrous peace a love-sweet thrill,
fioolhing my heart, o'er pensive grown
In twilight's gray.
Toor heart. Its ley mood of stone
In this calm hour is gladly thrown, ti i
Aide with every pain ond ill,
In twilight's gray.
Furgotten all tho wrong; tho tone ','
Of misery; tho visions blown
By sinful storms my heart Is still,
Obedient to the kindest will
Of gentle courtiom, only known
In twilight's gray.
-George E. Bowen. in Chicago lulcr-Ocem
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
The man who always looks before
ho leaps, never leaps. Puck
The size of a lunch basket depends
altogether on who carries it, tho hus
band or wife. Los Angeles Express.
In angry mood she flirts her fan,
Hmall wonder she's euraged.
For every eligible mau
Bhe finds out is engaged.
Judge.
Mrs. Eazeum "How iu the world
did yonr hunband get so terribly
choked?" Mrs. Snapper "Eatin'
boneless codfish." Boston Courier.
Overheard atthe Horse Show : "That
horse is fnll of ginger, and seems well
bred." "Yes; he's a sort of ginger
bread horse." Philadelphia Record.
"Oh, wed with me; oh. bo my wife,
I'll be the sunshine of your life."
"rtunshine! Horrors!" 'said the mnid
"Such talk at ninety in the shade!"
Iniliaunpolis Journal.
"Thero is something about you,"
remarked Rubberneck Bill, as he
gently removed the traveler's money
belt, "there is something about you "
that I like." Indianapolis Journal.
A great deal has been written lately
about the threo rings of Saturn, but
nobody seems to have thought of the
field that planet offers for an enter
prising circus man. Buflalo Courier.
Once more the summer bring to view
This most extraordinary chap.
The farther from tho sea bo gets,
The more ha wears that yachting cap.
Washington Btur.
Whyte "I thought you said yout
wife wrapped up this buudle." Browne
"I did." Whyte "You must bo
mistaken. Tliere isn't a pin in the
wrapping-paper anywhere." Souior- .
ville Journal.
Htanding with reluctant foet,
Where the brook and river moot.
Now the sweet girl graduate,
Expectant, eager and elate,
Devotes her every thought and core
To what Is just the thing to wear.
Detroit Free l'ress.
"I hear that you are engaged to a
girl with an ideal. You are likely to
find that sort of girl pretty hard to
get along with." "Ob, I guess I am
all right. You see, I am the ideal."
Cincinnati Tribune.
Kansas Former "Yes, sir; that
well is seventy-five feot deep. Had to
dig down all that distance to get
water." Visitor (from Kentucky)
"And you dug seventy-five feet for it?
Great Scott." Chicago Tribune.
Colonel Clay (of Lexington)
"What's that curious hole iu the
ground over yonder?" "Tboy'ro dig
ging a well." "Ah, yos. For water,
I suppose. What queer things one
sees away from home." New York
Recorder.
Lady (in Central Park, a baby in
orriago)--"Wby, you pretty little
thing!" Nurse, proudly "Yes; it's
a good thiug." Policeman, approach
ing "Well, push it along, then.
You'ro blocking the sidewalk." New
York Herald.
Freddy "I told Mr. Lovemau that
you said you were going to kiss him
next time he came to the house."
Maud "You horrid boy. What did
he say?" Freddy -"Said ho wouldn't .
believe it till ho had it from your own
lips. " Truth.
Wyld "Seo that woman sitting
alone iu the corner? That's Miss Anti
que, the lecturer. Tho womou rave
about her, but I dou't tbink she .
thoroughly grasps her subject." Mack
"What is it?" Wyld "Hon."
Brooklyn Life.
Si'leulillc Uses of Liquid Air.
In a recent lecture ou the seieutiflo
uses of liquid air Professor Dewar
froze a soap bubble by menus of the
intense cold produced near the sur
face of liquid air. The suuio effect,
however, was obtained by Mr. Pirn by
natural cold in Colorado lust wiuter,
when the thermometer stood at four
teen degrees below zero, Fahreuheit,
that is to say at forty-six degrees of
frost. Acting ou the suggestion of
his little boy, who was blowing soap
bubbles, he seut oue iuto the cold air
outside. - It froze iustuutly, and set
tled to tho ground as a hollow shell of
ice. When tho thermometer rose to
zero the bubbles would not freeze,
but whether this wus owing to tho
chuuge of temperature or some other
condition of the air Mr. l'im is unable
to say. Loudon Globe.
A lieu Hilli Teeth.
Nathan Bitzick, a poultry dealer of
123 Suffolk street, has a heu without a
beak or bill, but instead a (urge mouth
with lips clearly defined and teeth
whioh cau be easily felt. She has a
nose, forehead uud extraordinarily
large eyes, which bhow Intelligence,
like those of a do;,'. The face resem
bles that of a monkey.
The tougue is uuliUo that of any
fowl and the licks her chops liko a
eat. She bites olf a piece of breud
crust, holdiug it with one claw while
she eats. Wheu asleep she breathes
like a quadruped, with a souud very
much like a gentle snore.
Sho weighs between live uud six
pouuds aud was brought from the
country a few days ho. with ot,-er
fowl. New York World,