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Forest Republican.
The Baltic Canal i. tUo outoorao of a
rojoct formulatod 500 yours ago.
When the Siberian ltailway is com
plete ono can go from London to Japan
in sixteen days, and girdlo tho earth
in about forty.
Jn their jubilant delight in thoir fine
crops WoHteru Kaunas und Nebraska
aro already proffering to send "relief"
to tho effete East.
Tho mortality among cattle at bco,
resulting from cruelty, want of water,
etc., was formerly stated at sixteen
per oent., whilo at the presont time it
is one per cunt.
"Health," said Miss Arnold in Bos
ton, to tho Chauncoy Hall kindergar
ten graduates, "is tho first requisito
of success. Tho 'now' woman has none
of tho old-fashiouod bolicf in nerves
and notions."
A colored man and a Chi nose woman
were married in Lawrenoe County,
South Dakota, a few days ago. The
Clerk of the Court hod serious doubts
as to whether thoy were a good legal
match, and postponed granting the
necessary liconso until he was fully
satisfied that suoh a union was not
forbiddon.
The St. Louis Tost-Dispatch says
this year will go into history asbiorclo
year. Tho growth of tho wheel's
popularity has boon so amazing that it
seems as if all the world had suddenly
discovered that tho whoel is a good
thing and is trying to get on one as
soon as possible. The roads ore alive
with cyders. The fnetorios cannot
meet the demand. The supply of
tubing is exhausted.
. Economy in email things is tho rule
of life among the poor of Franco. In
this country we wasto enough in a
week in tho way of food to supply a
French family for a month. Thoy uti
lize crumbs and scraps and bits of
food whioh wo seemingly regard with
disdain, and all of whioh is perfectly
healthful and suited for food. It is
no wonder to the San Francisco Chron
icle that under such conditions that
tho pooplo of Franoo have more avail
able property and wealth than any
people in tho world.
The common cotton tail rabbit op
pears to be continually pushing its
way northward and replacing the
Northern hare. Mr. Bongs finds that
the latter is rare in Massachusetts,
Las almost wholly disappeared from
maty parts of New Hampshire, though
it still abounds in Maino, New Bruns
wick and Nova Sootio. He oocounts
for the spread of the cotton tail to the
northward as the result of tho de
struction of the pine and spruce for
ests whioh are replaood by a scrubby
sooond growth of shrubs. "The hare
goes into the coniferous forests and
the cotton tail oomos in with the seo
ond growth."
The new impulse lately given' to
gold mining has brought new life iuto
many deserted towns and abandoned
camps in the West. One of the most
notnblo of theso resurrections revival
does not accurately describo the situa
tionis in the cose of the oamp of
Florence, IJuho. In 18C1 this oamp
had a population of 30,000 people,
with banks, saloons, hotels and every
thing that goos to the inoking of a
city. It was a plaoer camp, and gold
was plentiful as grovol.whilo it lasted.
But it didn't last long, aud iu those
bonanza days miners would not stay
to work quartz. So tho population
deserted Florence as quickly as it
came, and for many years the town
was absolutely deserted, and as much
a ruin as ancient Carthage. Rocentl y
several good quartz lodges have been
discovered ot the old camp, and Flor
ence is building up again.
Sheep furmers, the world ovor, have
been very busy during the last thirty
five years. In that period tho St.
Louis Star-Sayings estimates that the
increase has been teu-fold in the
Argentine, nine fold in Australia uud
five-fold in South Africa and the
United States. At the commencement
of the Civil War the clip was two
pouuds per head of our population J
now it is five. New suuroes are also
being opened up to us daily by uo.v
railroads, and clothing should go down
in price at a very brisk rate, l'urts
even of Asia uro now sending wool
westward. Tho Afghan "doomchee"
a sheep with a tail tho heigh th of
the auiinal uud as broad as its hiud
quarters, furnishes good wool, as ul.so
do tome of the Persian itud Thibet
sheep, but India, China uu.l Burmese
sheep euuuot do so. The sheep there
grow hair instead of wool, uud another
peculiarity they puise-j is that no one
ever saw a purely whitj uutive thcep
ia Iudia or Burmah.
OLADN ESS.
A warmth of gold, all summer stored,
Thegoldon rod gives up;
And filled from springtime's scantier hoard
Rhinos the sweet buttercup;
And from the singing of thebreozu
And low, sweet aouud of ralu,
The little brook learns melodiua
To sing them book again.
Forgotten all tho oloudy sky
Of dark days ovoreast ;
For flowor-hourU lot gloom go by,
.But hold the sunshine fast.
Aud, all year long, tho little bum,
Though wintry boughs bo wet,
Ticks out the happy days to learn
The sad onos to forget.
Charles B. Going, in St. Nicholas.
THE BICYCLE'S STORY.
AM a bicvclo.
(vI II Not suoh as.swopt
o "J " m"
tide of power, the
conqueror leads to
crimson glory and
undying fame, but
a plain, ordinary
no, not as "ordin
ary," but a safety
bioyole for hire.
True, I am in a
srood state of renair
and am as comfortablo as my keepers
can make me, but I am not decked in
ribbons and nurtured in commodious
quarters and ridden only by the aris
tocracy over smooth pavements and
for short distances.
I never oven had suoh luck when I
first camo from the factory. I thought
I wos going to fall into that good for
tune, but a man took me on trial
that is to say, he took ma on the in
stalment plun and tried to pay tor mo,
but couldn't, and was forced to return
me at the end of a mouth, and then I
was only good enough to go among
tho hirelings, and there I have stayed
ever sinoo. Goodness mo, how long
it seems since 1 got tho first wrench to
my steel ribs and had my frame
skinned against a treo box t
I was born a combination wheel
that is, you can take out my spinal
column, and then I can be ridden by
a lady, not in bloomers, and thank my
stars no bloomers have ever yet en
veloped me in thoir fold?.
That time tho man had me ou trial,
I think it was my most unoomfortablo
experience, for he was green at the
business and so was I, and the result
was that both of us got bumps innu
merable, and though he came out of it
with a twisted kneo and sprainod ankle
and a barked nose and a lame arm and
a hurt back and a block eye with a few
other incidental casualties, I was noth
ing to brag of myself. That's why
when ho had to give me up they put
me on the hiroliug list.
But I was experienced and that was
something.
A bicyole has a good deal to learn
whon it first leavos the factory.
People who camo to hire wheols
looked a little shy at mo as I stood
quietly in my rack and then passod me
by, but not for long. My koepers put
a now coat cf enamel on me and other
wise put mo in shape, and thereafter
I bncatno quite popular. Riders who
had mo out for a spin when they re
turned would say they didn't know
why it was, but I soomed to bo more
intelligent than other wheels thoy had
tried, and I was not half as liable to
moke a sudden swerve and bang into
a wagon in the street or into a gate
post or ovor a bank, or to do any one
ot the forty dozen other things a bicy
cle is likely to do when the rider is
least expeoting it.
Of course, I knew this myself and
was constantly striving to please, just
as any other publio servant is, for
hadn't I had enough of bang and
butter with that instalment plun party?
I guesi yea, and I am sure a properly
regulated bicycle knows when it has
had enough.
Sometimes, though, I couldn't help
being a littlo frisky. Onoe I remem
ber on athletic sort of a fellow took
me out aud for six mortal hours he
podalel me all over every rood "iu the
suburbs, rough uud smooth, aud al
most drove every bit of breath d'it of
my tires. I submitted because I
couldu't well do otherwise, but the
time of my revenge was at baud. He
was pumping me along abit of pleasant
couutry road where tho shade would
havo boeu very grateful to mo if he
hud ouly run along slowly, when he
caught up with a pretty girl on an
awfully oruameutal wheel.
I could hear him luugh wit ha chuckle
at his luck, and he sailed alousido of
her aud bogau talking. Of course, ho
had no business to, but bicyclists that
way are not so extremely formal, and
she talked book to him, aud it wasn't
long until he was entirely absorbed iu
the girl, aud was leaving all tho rest
of the matter to me. Then I pricked
up my ears aud got ready, and all ut
ouoe, whon we came to a good plaoo,
1 took a header iuto a ditch, the girl
screamed, tke man swore, und I lay
over on my side helpless, but happy.
Ho aud I rodo home iu a pussiug pie
wagon, the girl disappeared, aud it
cost him $7 for repairs.
All kiuds of people hired me, aud
with most ot them I could do very
well. Never, though, with u fat wo
man. Thero was one of theso that
thought she could reduce her flesh by
ridiug, and she lit right down ou uij
the first time she camo iuto my place.
How I regretted thut I had not been
born a mau's machine, when she
settled herself fifuily iu my Huddle,
uud began poddliug like a duek iu the
water. After that every day she came
after me, and I began to feel my bur
den was more thau I could bear.
But there was auother woman uh,
me, what a delight it was to go flying
with her. She was a duinty little
creature, light as a fairy and strong as
wire, aud bho kuew where all the
prettiest places were, and there we
went together, and she drew pictures
0
of sylvan soonos while I lonned up
against a tree and watched her by tho
hour. One dAy a hnndsomo young
follow wheelod by, and they noddod
pleasantly, sho blushing a bit, and he
smiling. Sovcral days after that they
oanoo'to my place together, and she
took me away with her for three days.
That was a delight to me, for we went
far off by easy stages, and the young
man o i his own wheel o beauty it
was, too went with us.
There woro others in the party, but
my interest was in these two, and I
paid no hoed to whot the others did or
where they went. Tho third day, as
we wont bowling homeward, my lady
appeared to be ill at ease, and there
were tiraos when if I hod not had all
my wits about me we would surely
have gone off tho road aud over the
bank into whatever may havo boen
below tohavorocoived us. The young
man was never far off, but ho was not
as he had been, and after wondering
noarly all day what could hove hap
pened, I remombered to havo seen
them the night before on tho piazza,
where I leaned up against tho wall.
I was feeling the need of rest and
did not pay much attention to them,
but I remembered that they were
quarrelling (one of those lovers' quar
rels, you know) and sho was an inde
pendent littlo body, quite equal to
copo with any man. I knew this and
so let it pass and took my rest quite
oblivious to my surroundings or theirs.
What really happened I don't know,
but it must have been more serious
thau I suspected, for our homeward
trip was anything but pleasant.
Then 1 '.didu't see him any more,
though she and I took many little af
ternoon and morning spins together.
I say I did not seo him any more I
mean, for somo time. That was sev
eral weeks later. We had gone iuto
quite a remote section, whore there
wasexoallent sketching ground, and
she had left mo by a feuco and clamb
ered across a stony field among the
crags overhanging a stream. I sup
pose she had been gono ou hour whon
I hoard her scream, and a minute or
two later a man's voice shouting. No
answer came to it, and presently his
head showed above the rocks and he
came tearing my way. He looked
dreadfully frightened, and when ho
saw mo he said "Thank Ood 1" with a
sincerity thut seemed like a prayer,
and swinging me out into the road he
cent me along at a speed I thought was
not in me. By degrees I began to un
derstand that my lady washurt in some
way and he was going for help, for ho
was the young man my young lady ad
mired most, and it wua his face I bod
seen in her sketches even more 'of
thorn than before wo had gono on that
throe days' trip and hod come homo in
a quarrel. Of course, when I knew
what was expected of me to get the
young man where help was, I braced
myself to do my bost, and I think I
added greatly to his spocd by my
prompt response to his efforts.
Ho didu't know that a dumb wheel
knew anything, but I am sure my lady
would hove known, for we were suoh
good friends and 1 had never given her
a moment's pain iu all my life. Well,
after five miles of a run wo reached a
physician's office iu a little village and
tho young man hurried the dootor in
to a carriage and back again wo went,
he riding uway, tolling tho doctor
whero to come I won't say what kind
of time we made, but I think wo did
that five miles iu ton minuter, though,
being excitod at the moment, I may
be exaggerating. In any event the
young man got book quite a time be
fore the doctor did, aud when he came
he found me leaning against the rooks
and my lady's head resting on the
young man's arm. She was as white
as a lilly, "vith a littlo line of blood
rnuning down from under a handker
chief the young man had tied about
her bead, and whon the doctor come she
fainted, though she was conscious when
tho young man and I got back. Tho doo
tor immediately went about fixing her
so ho co n Kl carry her to a better pluoe
among those rocks, aud as he worked
over her I heard tho youug man telling
him how ho hod been fishing iu the
stream below, buj.1 how he had soon
her on the crags above, where a stone
loosend nudo her foot, throwing her
over into the water, where she struck
a glauciug blow upon a rock, which
cut her temple. The water was not
deep, but stunuod as she was, she
wouht havo drowned if ho hud not
becu there to rescuo her, aud ho had
bound up hur hoa.l and rushed away
ou mo for the help that was needed.
The dootor laughed softly as the young
man was telling ull this to him, und ho
looked at him rather queerly, I
thought, for a physician to do iu time
of such awful danger, for my lady
looked like she was dead, sho was that
white.
"Is sho your wife?" asked the doo
tor, still smiling.
"Oh, no," replied tho young man,
blushing furiously.
"I thought it hadn't gouo quite
that far," said the doctor, aud he
laughed so that the young man got
mad, and begun to cay words at the
doctor.
"That's all right," luughod the doo
tor agaiu. "I like to see your inter
est iu her. She will be your wife
some day or I'm uo judge of sigus.
Help me to put her iu tho carriage.
( think by the time wo got her to my
ullioosho will be sufficiently recovered
to go homo."
Going back, tho youug man wheeled
right uloug behind the ourrisge as if it
ull depended ou him. I rf.iu'i think I
ever saw so youug a luaa kliut had
quurrelle J with a girl take so much in
terest iu her. He even forgot me ut
the doctor's office, aud they hud to
send out for me the next 1 - Hut
my lady was all right, and iu. was
enough glory for both of us.
Postcript Didn't I bogiu this by
Haying thut I was u bicycle for hire?
I wish to correct that. My lady ami
the youug uiau c:ne iuto my plaoj tj-
day, and sho put her prettv whito
hand on me and pattod mo as if I woro
very dear to her, and she told tho mau
in charge of tho place to send mo up
to her houso and aond tho bill along.
"My husband will pay it," she said,
and the young man smiled radinntlyon
her, and, giving mo a sounding slap
on the saddle, remarked: "Old fel
low, you're a oorker."
I don't know what that is, but I
guoss I must be it, for ho would
hardly toll a fib in the prosonoo of my
lody. Detroit Froo Press.
Oklahoma's Do? Killer.
Down in Oklahoma they havo many
queer ways and queer things. The
way they dispose of outlawed dogs
would cause a oitizou of Kansas City,
who is used to tho comparatively
peaceful ways of tho dog catcher
and his nooso and profanity, s
shock. They havo neither wagon
nor noose in Oklahoma cities,
but thoy havo few stray curs whioh
have forfeited their right to live bo
causo they have no master. ....
Not long ago a Kansas City man
stood on ono of the principal streets
of a bustling town, looking up and
down and figuring on the tablet of his
mind a future great city, when up the
street bo heard the report of a gun
aud saw a crowd of people run in
every direction.
'Ah!" he thought, "a tragedy.
What luck." For your ordinary
peaceful citizen likes nothing better
than the stimulus of a shock of that
kind when in a oountry with a reputa
tion for desperate deeds and men.
Standing in tho street was a small
man holding a smoking shotgun, and
writhing upon tho ground was a big
yellow dog. Auother shot and tho
dog was dead. Then tho crowd
swarmed in, and the man with the gun
wormod his way out, followed by a
orowd of adoring small boys. It was
the city dog catcher. No noose aud
long torturo for dogs iu that town.
The city exeoutioner just loads up his
gun and goos out and cancels a dog or
two, and then ooileots a salary from
tho town. ---Kansas City Star.
Learn to Listen.
If the reader will listen to any
heated dobate, he will almost certainly
find that neither of the disputants is
making the slightest effort to recog
nize tho force of his opponent's argu
ments ; but each is only watching for
somethiug in the other's words that ho,
can criticise, some weak spot that he
oan assail. That sort of thing may bo
all very well for soldiers on the field
of battle, or for lawyors before the
bar, but it is altogether unworthy of
intelligent men in discussing the
eternal verifier. Evory man should
realize that as his own knowledge of
spiritual truth is necessarily imper
fect, it is altogether likely that he can
learu some thing from the man who
differs from him most radically, and
that it is far better to loam what ho
con from that mau than to wasto time
and make sacrifice of good-fellowship
by aimless controversy. That seoms
a very simple proposition, and yet all
the bitter controversies and religious
persecutions of the pat, and all the
doctrinal disputes of tho proeent are
duo to tho failure of men generally to
see the truth th.it each cau ieuru
somethiug from the other, but that no
man can convince another against his
will.
It is not the most fluent talker, not
the most plausible debater who gives
the greotest proof oi intelligence, but
the man who is always ready to listen
and to learu. Now York Witness.
Thumping Through Sens.
Something entirely now in vessel
propulsion has been pateutod by Lor
enzo Julio Y. Ping, a Spauish captain.
Two propellers are employed, one at
each side of the keel, the propeller
huviug tho same weight as tho water
to be displaced, ond being forced out
ward by steam power ond returned by
tho pressure of the water iu its rear.
The propeller is a hollow cylinder,
moviug in a stulliug box through open
ings at each side of, aud so us not to
interfere with, the rudder tho majot
portion of the propeller when iu Hi
inner position being exposed aud uo
oessible from the interior of tho ves
sol. In front of each stulliug box is I
steam cylinder, ttio piston head auri
propeller being connected by a rod,
uud steam beiug admitted ouly to tho
front ot tho piston head to force the
propeller outward. Tho propeller if
designed to have u very easy motion,
with no tecdency either to rise ol
lower, thus rodueiug the friction to a
minimum, uud ull of tho propelling
mechanism is so located to be readilj
accessible iu case repairs aro needed,
Too Much Thistle.
Western furmers find that individual
attempts at lighting the Hussiau
thistle uvuil uothiug, because the
plugue grows ugain faster thau the iu
dividual farmer cau fiud time to hoe
it down, bo they ull uuito a often a?
convenient to have "hooiug bees" in
designated localities. Tho detuils ol
operations uro settled by tho towu
councils, everyone iu tho neighbor
hood takes a day off to tight thistles,
uud in this way it is possible to mukc
ut least some stand uguiust the per
severing plague aud to keep some sec
tions fuirly tree for other thau tuistlt
crops. Some day science will Uud tht
thistle useful aud thou it will immedia
tdly become delicate, difficult to raise
uud scarce.
Taught 31 any Schools.
William Mark Brooks, of Norway,
is now iu the sixty-eighth yeur of hit
age, und claims that he has taughl
mure schools thau any other man iu
Maine. Iu tho lit schools ho hut
taught ho has whipped 115 pupils
Ho says ho does nut believe iu puu
ishiueut, except in cxtieuio casus.
Auueta (lie ) Jojiuu;.
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BT THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.
The Hose From Iter Hnlr-Hls Hust
ness No I-ionjrcr Aristocratic
Talking Shop, Klc. Klc.
Bhi gave him the roso from her hair;
Ho had called and was going away:
She gave htm tho rose, but she did not sup
pose He would keep it forever and aye.
Yet the dead rose was cnrefully kept;
As he was too true to her, far!
For tho roue that chu gave him found nu
odorous grave
In his other girl's potpourri jur.
Washington Tost,
nis BUSINESS.
"Yon ought to see that fellow striko
a balance."
"I supposo he's a bookkooper?"
"No, he's a professional juggler."
Detroit Free Press.
OMilTEnATED.
Probbs "So you wero iu tho Iowa
cyclone. At what point did the storm
leave the town?"
Dobbs--"It didu't loave tho town
took it along. "Truth.
NO LONGER AMSTOCBATU. .
Soyles "You're surely not going
to hove Mrs. Nay lor arrested t Don't
you remember that sho had klepto
mania last winter?"
Thredd "Yes; but her huiband
has failed since then." Puck.
MIGHT BR DIS1IIACBD.
Young Wife-"Whatl You think
of joining tho army ? Horrors I"
Husbaud (tenderly) "Aro vou
afraid I'll got killed?"
Youug Wife "N-o; I'm afraid
you'll run." Now York Weekly.
HE HAD HIH DOfBTS.
Ziggsby "I think a man is a
toward who would striko- a woman,
don't you?"
Perksby "Well, I don't know. No
coward would dare to strike my
mother-in-law. " Brooklyn Eagle.
NOT AN ENCOUBAOISO EXAMVLB.
"Give me tho man who sings at his
work," quoted the citizen who believes
all he reads.
"Well," rejoined the skeptio. "I'm
not so sure about it. You know tho
mosquito does that. " Washington
Star.
TALKING SHOP.
"Is my proposal accepted?" he asked
of the daughter of the naval construc
tor. "It is reooivod and filod," sho re
sponded, "but I expressly reserve tho
right to reject any or all bids."
Judge.
EASILY EXI'I,AI.M:d.
"I wonder what makes these but
tons burst off so?" Dora petulantly ex
claimed. David looked nt her tight-fitting
dress. "Force of habit, probably,"
he said after a thoughtful pauso.
Bockland Tribune.
HER METHOD.
"Mrs. Brown never sits up to wait
lor her husband?"
"No?"
"No. When the expects him to bo
out late, sho retires early, sets the
alarm at 3 o'clock, and gets up, re
freshed and reproachful." Life.
DIDN'T l'HASE HIM.
"So you think you oan stand the
arduous duties of a vaiiety actor?
You kuow in our play we find occasion
to throw you down a thirty-foot flight
of stairs iuto a barrel of rain water."
"1 thiuk I can stand it," said tho
hungry man. "I was a tax collector
for three years. "Tit-Bits.
THE UEASON WHY.
New Parsou "Which do you like
best, Willie, your day school or your
Sunday-school?'"
Willie "My Suuday sehool."
Now Parson "I am glad to hoar
that. Why do you like your Sunday
school the best?"
Willie ''Because it is only onoe a
week. "
TWO VAU1ETIES 131 ONE.
Bass "And of which variety is
your wife, tho clinging viuo or tho
self-assertive?"
Cass "A littlo of both. When she
wants a new dress or a new bounet sho
generally bogius iu tho cliuging-viue
rule; if that doesn't bring tho money,
theu she changes to the self-assertive;
and well she iuvariably gets the
diess or tho bonnet." Bostou Tran
script. TUB BhyV WOIIKED.
At 7 o'clock iu the morniug two
duellists, who are to tight to the death
at a place in the suburbs, u.et at tho
ticket ollico of tho railway statiou.
"Give me a return ticket, as usual,"
says the first duellist to the clerk, iu a
terrible tone aud with a ferocious
twi.it ot his moustache.
"1 I say, do you always buy roturu
tickets?" stammered his opponent.
"Always. "
"Then I apologize." Tit-Bits.
UE VICES Of THE MILKMAN.
"I declare !" Mrs. Wirgiu excluiiuod,
pouring a light blue stream out of the
pitcher, "if the milk doesu't grow
poorer every day I What shall we do
with the luilkmau?"
Mr. Wiggiu sawed gloomily at Lis
incut.
"1 supposo there's no way out of it,"
he grumbled; "I'll have to pay his
bill."
Aud the uext uiuruiu thoy hud real
inilk for breukfust. Bockluud Tribune.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Sulphate of zino is used to reudcr
molasses pure amber color.
It would take sound fourteen years
to travel from the sun to the earth.
Paper is being usod as an insulating
agent for threo main telcphouo wires
that are being laid iu Nottingham,
England.
The ptarmigan of the Arctio regions
resembles tho prairio chicken in size
and habits, and in their summer plu
mage are almost identical in color.
Meerschaum in good quality is now
mined just like coal near Eski-Shehir,
Turkey. The veins are small and tho
expense of working up the material
is considerable.
It is said that the kola nut, so com
monly used by the Africans in the
Congo country, besides boing very re
freshing and strengthening, is almost
a certain euro for asthma.
By the disoovery of helium on our
globe only two permanent lines aro
left in tho chromosphcro spectrum of
tho sun which do not correspond to
tho lines obtained in terrestrial spec
tra." The assistant engineer of tho Chi
cago Diainago Board reports that tho
drainage canal will not hurt naviga
tion on the lake, nor lower water more
than a fraction of an inch, except
when it is high.
The summit of Mount Baker, Wash
ington, which is just becoming visible
through the melting suowx, is said to
have chaugod its shape. A new peak,
between the dome aud the south peak,
U said to be plainly visiblo from New
Whatcom.
By moaus of a recent invention tho
blind ar enabled to write with facil
ity, using the ordinary Koiiiiin alpha
bet. Tho invention is described as a
hinged metal plate with square perfo
rations arranged in parallel lines, iu
sido of whioh tho stylus is moved iu
making the letters.
Argon and helium havo been ex
tracted together from a meteorite, say
Professor Itamsoy and M. Bert helot,
which points to the existenoe of argou
outside of this earth. Profossor Hodg
kinson has found gases, which ho
believes to be the two now elements,
in minerals of the samarskite and enx
cnite group.
One'of tho greatest mistakes about
food which pooplo make is to forget
that the true value of food to any
body is tho measure of its digestibil
ity. Half a pound of cheeso is vastly
more nourishing, as regards its nioro
composition, than half a pound of
beef; but, whilo the beef is easily di
gested, and thus of vast scrvioe, tho
chooeo is put out of court altogether
for some folk by reason of its difficult
digestibility.
Revolution in the Oil Industry.
The refined oil, worth SI a gallon, is
largoly usod for food. One-half the
whole product, or 500,000 barrels, is
used in tho four groat centers of tho
industry, Chicago, Kansas City, St,
Louis aud Omaha, for making lard ;
half the remainder is sent to Holland
for making bogus buttor, and tho rest
of the product is usod at home, or seut
abroad to other localities for tho same
use or for filliug cheeso. Some of it
appears on tho tables us refined olivo
oil for use iu salads, aud some is used
for the preparation of tho popular
Saratoga potatoes. Thus, for small
and great uses this new product is en
tering iuto almost every opening thut
oan be matte for it by the withdrawal
ot other oils or fats. It is curious to
notothe effects of this now product.
It has wholly chaugod the mauner of
making pork, from tho production of
heavy pigs to light, small ones, for
thin, lean meat, aud no uso for tho
inside fat. It has greatly restricted
the sale of butter, especially the lower
qualities of it, aud changed to a large
extent the mauner of making cheese,
obliterating to a serious degree tho
market for puro dairy uoods, aud, in
the end, causiug.what is culled in the
parlouco of tho uiurketiucut, the great
slump iuthe vblue of cheeso. It has
led to tho destruction of tho olive
groves in great part. It haschaugo I
the destination of tallow from its use
as a muteriul for soup uud a lubricant
to its use as butter, uud the material
for making oluomrgoriuc, uud it sheds
light upou tho studios of the student
who is iu the habit ot buruiug tho
midnight oil, formerly derived from
the sperm whale. Thus tho world
changes, uud wo change with it.
New York Times.
A Lazy Man's Labor Light I'ueil.
Ho cau bo soeu at Longport, near
Atlantic City, N. J., and is probably
us lazy us any amateur fishermau that
ever baited hook or hooked bait. He
was seen tho other duy with threo
lines in tho water. Ho was cutchiug
as mauy fish us the others with consul
erably less effort. Tho linos of this
iugeuious individual wero fastened to
small pieces of umbrella ribs ubout
twelve iuchos long. About ono inch
from the end of the wires were fast
ened small sleigh bells. Whcu he cast
tho liue iuto tho water he drew it t int
uud then stuck the wires into the
ground. Wheu u lish woud nibble ut
tho bait the bell would jiu -jlo and thus
draw the attention of tbo tishermuu to
the liue. It is beautiful. Tho ol.l
mm drops his fish a line, aud when
they call ou liiui they riug u bell, lie
is not obliged to thiuk, everything is
uo comfurtublo ubout him.
Armed for Emergencies.
A whiskered Wcsteuer from Alma,
Kan., was urrestjd iu Kansas City u
few days ago fur bellicoso bearing iu
the public streets, uu I was louud to
be carryiug iu his pockets u pistol, u
pair of brans knuckles, aud u copy
each of tho Old uud New Testament.
He declured he was a good church
member iu his own touu.
THE SMOKE.
Dovo-wlngod ogaluKt a tender, lurquoiso ski
Tno whlto smoke flits; or through tho lam
bent nlr
Qui v rs to fudiug violet spirals fair:
Or shifts to gray, curled upward heavily.
It rises in strong, twisted column high
From grimy funnels, flecked with fitful
flare;
Or through the planks of creaking bridges
bare
It sifts a sinuous way to trail and die.
The still, vast skies ore background for Its
strife;
'Tis like man's yearning, mourning from
man's pain,
Reeking the tranquil heavens, waverlngly;
Earth's ceaseless clash nnd clungur give It
life;
'Tis like mnn'B prayers, that rie from toll
and strain,
Trail, and aro lost. In God's immensity.
Hannah Tarker Kimball, in Scribner.
HUM0B OF THE DAY.
A woman is irresistiblo only when
she doesn't know it. Detroit Froo
Press.
How much a plumber's kit resembles
n burglar's kit of tools ! Atchison
Globe.
A thoroughbred is a man who for
gets that he has on now clothes. At
chison Globe.
Wo speak of some men as all wool,
probably because thoy sbriuk at noth
ing. Boston Transcripf.
How by the strttesmtin insincere
Man s weary soul Is vexou.
He'll shake your hand ono minute aud
Io 11 shake your Hand ono minute
He'll pull your leg tho next!
t!
--Truth.
"What !" exclaimed Bobinson Cru
soe, as he spied tho foot-priut ou the
island, "Is Trilby here, too?"
Truth.
The business mau who docs not ad
vertise is often caught in tho act of
counterfeiting prosperity. West
Union Gazette.
Citticus "I wonder how it is that
so few women stutter when thoy
tulk?" Witticus "They haven't
time." Tommany Times.
Johnson "Why are you so particu
lar with your poems?" Mason "I
can't afford to turn out poor work un
til I've made a reputation. "Truth.
Experienoe In the world's ways shows
That its a general rule
The politician who has tho push
Is tho one who has the pull.
boston Courier.
Don't throw old shoes at a bride.
Mako a noat package aud scud them
to her three years ofter her marriage.
They may bo acceptable. Atchison
Globe.
Sister "There, you have the candy
ull over your new suit 1 What will
mamma say?" Littlo Brother "Well,
mamma won't let me have any fun iu
these clothes tili I get 'em spoiled."
Puck.
She (poutingly) "Bofor3 wo wero
married you used to briug mo caudy
every time you came." He (briskly)
"Yes, my dear, aud it cost a good
deal less than the meat aud potatoes I
briug you uow."-New York Weekly.
Willie S. "Mamma says sho al
ways likes to call ou you." Mrs.
Twickenham (highly grutiiiod) "Doos
she, Willie?" Willie "Yes'ui. When
the goes away sho says Bho feels so
satisiled with herself." Brooklyn
Life.
A pupil whispered in the next boy's
ear, "Our teaohor is a regular duller."
The master, who had just put a ques
tion to the whole class, thought tho
pupil was framing a reply, aud said to
him : "Come, my lad, speak up ; per
haps you ure right," Chrouiquo.
Her head had dropped upon his
shoulder. "If ouly," ho whispered,
"thy cheek could remain there for
ever," Little thought ho what was to
be. Littlo thought ho uutil he got
homo aud tried to remove her cheek
from the dress coat with ammonia aud
ulcohol. Detroit Tribune.
"Poor little creature!" exclaimed
Uuolo Alton to tho mosquito that was
buzzing about hnu. "There's room
iu this great would for both you aud
mo. But you Bhouldu't try
to crowd mo," ho udded, a moment
later, us tho insect ulightcd ou his
nose. And ho crushed it remorseless
ly. Chicago Tribune.
An Eccentric Empress.
Tho eccentric Empress of Austria,
lifter wandering in tho Grecian 11
uuds, has at last returned to Vicnuai
The court functionaries notice thuP
she has developed scverul peculiari
ties. For instance, sho always dresses,
for no matter what ceremony, iu a
high gown of uurelieved Mack. Theu
bho absolutely refuses to listen to mu
sic, even tho music of Strauss. She
avers that her nerves uro shattered,
ii ud uuulilo "to bear the straiu of mu
sic." Hor Majesty's most remarkable
eccentricities, however, have to do
with her food; sho lives ultuust en
tirely ou milk tho milk from a spe
cial sort of cuw reured in Corfu. New
York Dispatch.
Hi I ;auils ol Sicily.
At Aci l'.cule, iu Sicily, two broth
ers who had sold some i-utt'o uud hud
the inouey with them wero attacked iu
their furm house by uiuo masked bri
gands, und one of them was shot. The
curubiuieri theu camo iu, uud, nfur a
lung liyht, killed six of tho brigands,
captured tho other three, und fouud
that they wero all townspeople, umoiig
them tho villugo shoemaker uud tho
barber. Louisville Courier-Journal,
Mil lor a tueer Ecus ni.
A womuu iu Atlauta, (la., is suing a
local druggist for $1UjM damages be
cause wheu she sent to his store for a
certain coru cure ho sent u substitute,
which, bho claims, "poisoned her feet,
made her suffer from anxiety, uud
brought her muuy weary uiyhts. "