iThe Forest Republican II published vry Wednnsdny, by J. E. WENK. Office In Smearbaugh & Co.'i Building ELM BTREET, TIONESTA, TA. Tormt, 81,(1(1 lor Your, ' No sulnorlptlons rnoelvsd for n shortor period than throe month. Correspondence solicited from nil parts of the country. No notlo will hi) taken of anonymous communications. Forest RATI Or AD VC It TIB t NO I On ftrtmra, on laek, an In i Ue, . 1 9 On Kquar, od loeh, ov month. . . 1 001 On Sqnarn, on inoh, tbr months. . 091 On Hquara, on Inch, on yr.... ., laW Two BquarM, on yar ,. 11 Od Quarter Column, on J Mr. ...,.... to (IG UaJf Column, on yr. B000 On Column, on y ar ... ...... 1OOA0 Logal adrortiMinanta' tn eats par Mm ach InMitliin. PUBLICAN. t Manias; and dMth aotle limns. AU blliforTMrlTdvrtlMmnt oaf jaartsrly. Temporary adverUsamoits Saaat M paid In adrano. i Job work oaa oa dHvwy. yj RE VOL. XXVIII. NO. 21. TIONESTA, PAM WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 11, 1895. S1.00 PER ANNUM. Mnrriago scorns to tho Now York Mr.il itiul Express to bo a failure in Switzerland, whero ono divorce ia granted for every twenty-two wed dings. It nppoars tlint canned horso mcnt in really to enme on tbe market. It is said, in tho New York Bun, to bo BwcetiHli and not so good as dog, but it is not nasty. Herbert Spencer takes a gloomy view of tho future. Ho believes tho world is Approaching nu era of Stuto socialism, "which," ho says, "will bo tho greatest disaster tho world has ever known." The Chicago Timos-Heruld offers four prizee, aggregating 85000, for the best American inventions in tho line of "horseless carriages." They must bo ready to run from Chicago to Milwaukee in November. The tSan Francisco Examiner bo liovos that tho English habit of carry ing one's wifo into nn aetivo political campaign could bo adopted in this country without tho wifo being polted with a stale cabbage or au out-of-date cat. Somo of tho republics south of ns lire said to order a good donl of rail road iron from tho United States. "If these fc'tates would buy more railroad iron and fewer guns they would get on much more comfortably," remarks tho St. Louis Post-Dispatch. When it is remembered that on the lines of a single railroad system in Georgia there are 2,083,000 peach trees that grow fruit for shipment, something may bo known of the pres ent magnitude of an industry that scarcely existed twenty years ugo. Tho peach belt now extends over tho greater part of tho State, and somo siuglo orchards number 100,000 trocs. Western Pennsylvania, according to the report of the United States Geolo gical Survey, has twenty-ouo or twenty -two bitutniuous coal seams of commercial value. Dr. Chauoe, the Assistant Geologist of tho Stuto Geolo gical Survey, estimates tho quantity of coal contained iu these seams at 33, 547,200,000 long tons. It is estimated that this supply would not bo ex hausted for 830 years taking the aver age annual production for the past five years, which has been 43,000,000 tons. Tho cxistenco of an international criminal league, recently discovered at Brussels, is only another proof that the world is growing smaller day by day. Just as with us one State is too bounded a sphere for tho exuberant activities of the artists in tho craft of appropriating other people's goods, so it Is abroad. A European federation of thieves, secret agents and receivers of stolen goods has been uuvcilod. Tho headquarters were in London, where the feuco had hid quarters. This is i development of the theory of the solidarity of Nations that is not reassuring. Tho Chicago Tribune observes that a newspaper reporter uaiuod William Weldou invented tho idea of tbe "bi cycle sulky," tho record-breaking sulky with ball bearings and pnou matio tires. Ho suggested tho inno vation iu a uewpaper "fake" article, not really as a practical thing. Tho Tribune bewails the fact that he never took a pateut for the idea, thus los: ing "millions." The Tribuuo if off eeent, however, comments tho Path finder, for tho application of bicycle wheels to a sulky would not to bo patentable. To entitle to patent the invention must bo "novel," and the Patent Oftk-e holds that a mere adap tation of a device to a logical though now use, is not such a "novel" uso ns will carry a patent. This is apparently to bo the grcutcs corn year ever kuowo, and the season is now so far advanced, according tJ a contemporary, us to reduco tb J chances of disaster to a minimum. In 1891 we raised tho greatest corn crop ever grown, but we are gaiug to rou der it iusiguificaut this year. In 18U1 com covered 70,204,000 acres ami yielded au average of twenty-seven . bubhels to the acre. This year the com fields amouut to 82,304,000 acres, or 6,000,000 more tnau in 181)1, and all reports iudiuate a larger yield per acre thau in that year, lint at tin: same average yield tho crop will amount to 2,222,20S,00O two billion two hundred and twenty-two million two hundred and eight thousand bush els. Corn is worth about fifty couts n bushel, not only in the markets, but iu the feeding of hogs. This crop will thereforo add 31,111,101,001 to tho country's wealth. Think of it I Mere than a billion dollars of act mil wealth produced in a siugle year iu the shape of a Biugle crop 1 A LITTLE BONO, A ;ittln col In a Httlo spot, With a Httlo heaven hath seuti A llttli) way from that cot each day A song to sing, and a word to sayj A Httlo wintera lltllo May, And a heart content, content! A Httlo wife, and a Httlo Ufa In love and duty spent; A song and sigh as the years go hyi A grave, perhaps, where the violets lie; . Hut a heaven on earth and a heaven on lire and death ooutont! Frnnlc h. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. OLD SWANLEE'S DAUGHTER WO men were rid ing tired horses down an ill-defined trail through North Cnrolina woods. The one was a New Y o r k e r k e e n, alert, dark haired and chronically one day behind with his sharing. His companion, who rode with difficulty his rough-gaited Kentucky mare, was obtrusively British. Everything, from his deer-stalker cap to his yellow pig skin gaiters, with their buttons down tho shin, botrayed him for a recent importation from the islands beyond the sea. They were not friends, scarcely acquaintances ; they had fore gathered some few miles back at cross roads, aud, finding that they were heading in the same diroction, had jogged along in company. For the past hour the multitude of trails hid bothered them muob, aud there had been a good deal of toss up in thoir choico, and ut last neither had any further ideas to offer about the route, and there was no question that they were most sotisfaotorily IobL The last bine of the sky was turning to n cooler purple, and a couplo of tree toads were already commencing the overture of their nightly opera. "Say," remarked the American, "have you ever ridden down a strange trail of this sort after nigbtfill?" "Can't say that I have." "Then, sir, you've an experience in store which won't be all molasses. You wait till tbe trees begin to sneak up and hit you on the knee-cap, then you'll Oreat Co-lumbus! -see that?" "What, theso green shrubs?" "Corn, sir. 'Indian oorn,' you call it 'way baok in the. old country. And hero's a house." They wheeled round the edge of the corn patch, their horses picking a way cautiously over the outshootiug roots of the timber, and pulled up before a small frame dwelling. As though their arrival had been expected, the rough door swung open and a man stepped out and faced them. He was au old man, and heavily bearded. He stood quite four inches above tho fathom in his boots, and in the hol low of his left arm ho carried a weapon, single barreled and hummer less. He pointed to this and introduced it. "Goutlemen," ho said, "that is about tho latest. llawnsley's 10-Are repeating shotgiu. The first of you that slips a baud toward tlj sly poc ket of his pants will get a hole let into him that a yoke of steers could drive through. If you want to stay, you've got to tight it out." He of the yellow gaiters laughed. "What quaint peoplo you Ameri cans are 1" he said. "Why you should threateu war in this unexpected fash ion, I cau't imagine I" "Hoi you're a Britisher?" "English quite English." "And your companion, iiru't he an xcise-mau, either?" Tho Englishman shrugged his shoul ders, and tbe New Yorker answered for himself. "S. T. Yanreunan, real estate agent, Irving place, New York City. Stick to my own trade, Colonol, and shouldn't know what a blockade still was if I were shown one." For a moment the old mau seemed iuclined to resent this last remark, but only for a moment. Then Southern hospitality asserted ittelf. "Well, geutlemen," he said, "how cun I serve you?" "By putting us on tho road for Ashoville. " "I could not do it. Abbeville's good thirty miles beyond this, aud the trail's far too bud for strangers to fol low in the dark. You must bunk with me, geutlemen, this night." There was a littlo more talk, aud then tho horses were led rouud to u burn ut the back, unsaddled, rubbed down roughly, and presented with six corn cobs apiece ; utter which the two adjourned to tbe cabin, supped off heavy corn bread aud stroug flavored bacon. After tho meal the Yuukee, pleading tireduess, retired to tbe far room and slept. The Briton, who was traveling in tho mountains to pickup character, was glad enough to sit up with his host and talk beside tbe smelly kerosene lamp over granulated tobacco and corn cob pipes. Their conversation was on tho whole desultory. Only twice was it inter rupted. On these occasions footsteps muke themselves heard on the hard, red ground outside, and then, after a pause, a silver half-dollar rolled iu under tbe door. The old man pocket ed the coin, lifted the latcb, and, reaching a band out into the darkness, brought in a quart bottle, which he proceeded to fill from a keg that wafted through the hut a stroug smell of smoky spirit. Afterward bo thrust out the bottle into the night, and the heavy footsteps recommenced and died out in diminuendo. On the first occasion, the old mau commented to bin guest: "Say, sir, you're what they cull iu tbe mountain I a tenderfoot, but, from tbe face of you, you Boem straight. Please re member you've seen nothing." "I'm under the tie of bread and salt," said the Englishman. "You needn't fear me," and fell to talking about tho game in tho woods. When the Englishman awoke next morning ho found that his traveling companion had already departed. "I didn't press him to stay," said the old man, "but I hope you will honor me with a longer visit. My name Is Colonel Swanleo, which you may have seen mentioned in aocounts of the war, and once I had a forty-room house herd and close on two hundred hands working on a fine estate. Tbe house and tbe hands are gone, and the estate has rnu back for tho most part into forost. I've been luckier than some. I haven't sold a rod of ground. I've been spared seeing a filthy railroad plowiug through my land, and I've some other mcroies to bo thankful for. Conio, sir; yon said last night you were iu no hurry to get on. Will you stay awhile and rough it with me?" Tho invitation was genuine, and be cause the life was fresh and interest ing to him, and because Old Man Swanleo was loath to let him go, ho Btayed on tili the weeks grew to over a month. There was much to oscupy his time. Any one with a taste for scenery may gratify it to the full in the wooded mountains and valleys of tbe Alleghany oountry. Sometimes he took his horse and rode along the rough trails far afield over the Great Smokies, and looked down on Tennes see. Sometimes he roamed through tho second growth forest, which had sprung up in tropical luxuriance over the ouco cleared land, occasionally shooting a wild turkey or a hawk or a flying squirrel, or whipping in two a small rattlesnake, but for the most part finding full etjoyment in admir ing this gallery of pictures which na ture by herself had painted. Once, indeed, ho visited tho distil lery iu its weird hiding place under the waterfall, and glanced curiously over the crude appliances with which the fiery corn whisky was produoed. But that wus only oneo, and, indeed, the still was seldom referred to. In the evening, when they sat together under the wooden piazza, the English man and his host cither rocked and smoked in silence, looking into tho warm Southern night and listening to its myriad insect noises, or ol e tho old man would talk and unfold pio tures of past Southern splendor. They seemed to be living then in an atmos phere of nearly half a century before, and at times tho Englishman had hard work to bring himself baok to the true realities. But at lust there camo a breaking up of the pastoral, and it arrived in a bar barous shape. The pluco was raidod by the revenue men. The visitor was away bee hunting in the woods when they arrived, bat hastened back when the souud of heavy firing came down to him over tbe timber. He gained the hut, per haps luckily, too late for interference, but the history of what had occurred was written out before him in ruddy lettering. Three officers of the exoise lay twisted and dead on the red soil, shot down by that terrible 10-fire re peater, which carried its charge like a heavy ball for tho short distance. Farther out was Yanreunan, doubled up over a stump like n half-tilled meal sack. Flitting in and about the trees, still farther down the trail, were four saddled horses leisuroly grazing. There wus no sign of Old Man Swanlce. Had ho run for tho woods, or- Tbe newcomer rushed cross the clomiug and into the cabiu. Tbe blockade distiller, was stretched out on the floor with blood oozing into pools around him. The Englishman shuddered and bent down for examina tion. An ear shredded through by ono bullet, temple grazed by another, left elbow shattered by a third ; none of these were mortal, none could cause this piostrution. Ah! there was a worse wound, in the groin that meant death. Under tho impromtu surgery tho old man woke up. "1'hat blasted detective, Yanrennan 1 However, he's got his gruel, and so have the revouue men, aud I'm dying, aud Hullo ! who are you?" Old Man Swanleo gripped his gun again and started up full of fight. "Oh, it's you, sir, is it? I ask your pardou, I'm sure," he said, bowing with old-fushionod courtesy, "but this littlo domestic trouble must be my exc.use. Those fellows have pumped lead luto me till I've been a trifle thrust oil my balance. Thauks, if you would assist me ou tho floor agaiu aud bring the comer of that box uuder my head." ilo rested a miunto to collect his thoughts, and then wont on afresh. "Now, Mr. (I've forgotten your name), circumstances compel me to ask you an intense fuvor. I've had staunch friends, but some were shot iu the war aud somo have died siuco, and the rest are scattered I know not where. There isn't a soul to whom I cau trust my little girl." "Your daughter is this that you're speaking about?" "That's so. I havou't mentioned her before. I dou't lot her have any truck with the lot down here, aud di lu't intend to until the place was ready to receive her as she should be received as my mother whs received when she camo upon the estate. Yes, sir, that's what I've been toiling and slaving for all theso years, barely spending a dollar in cash exoept a few ceuts au acre for tuxes; holding onto the land with a miser's grip, while the forest stumped tho snake feuuew out of sight, brewing u vil? i--'rlt for tbo mountaineers around. No, sir ; I've not sold moonlight whisky be cause I liked it, or hugged my baluuca at the bunks merely to put myself buck on the aacestral dunghill. I've done my crowing. But, sir, when u:y llUle girl was burn iu Kiohmoud dur . 7 . . . ing the siege, my wife made me prom iso before she died that, come what might, I'd sco tbo child mastress of the house we'd boon driven from here. My wife was a very proud woman, sir ; her familyclaimed descent from Poca hontas. I sent the child to a convent in Paris, and thero she's remained over since. But she's finished her ed ucation, and she's coming home right now coming home to her inheritance. Yes, sir, tbo estate will be hers in an hour or so's time, and with ft a mat ter of 830,000. Now, sir, will you give a dying man a hand?" "I will do anything that lies within my power." "Then find out my daughter," camu the astonishing reply, "and marry her. Horror struck, the Englishman started to bis feet. Did not this man realize that he was a murderer, still red handed ? "My God !" said Old Man Swanleo, "you are not going to refuse mo?" Ho stretched out a bony hand and caught at the other's gaiter. "Heav ens, man, think what you are saying. Think what this means to met" The other turned away his head in despair. "It is not much I am asking. She's beautiful. I had her photograph sent roe only the other day. She's highly educated ; she's well born ; she's rich. What more can a young man want in a wife?" "But," broke in the Englishman, desperately, "I am not free. I met a girl in Paris a while back, and crossed with her hero iu the boat from Havre. Before we landed iu New York she had promised to beojme my wife. I never could marry any one else. I or in short, I love her." The old man's knotted hands wres tled with one another tremulously. "I see," he said at last, with a heavy sigh. "I should like it to have been, but what yon say is final. Still, sir, you must do something else for me, if you will." "Anything that lies within 'my power," exclaimed the other eagerly. "Believe me, anything." "Then find out my daughter and act as her guardian. Give her my dying command to obey yon in everything, and she will do it. See that she has her rights ; guard her from adven turers ; watch that she marries a good Jiuabaud, a man that is worthy of her, ono who will treat her well." The old man's voice had died down utmost to a whisper. His companion stooped over him. "I will do all you ask," he said earnest ly. "But you had bolter tell me now where I shall find Miss Swanlee." "Thanks; you are very good. But ought to have told you she is not bearing that namo now. To avoid complications which arose after tho war I made her take another, which she will carry until she comes back here. Sho was christened Miriam, af ter mother, and " The old man's voice drooped. "Yes, yes," said the Euglishman, impatiently; "but what was the sur name?" "Lee." "What, Miriam Lee?" "Yes, sir; Miriam Francos Lee." "Just Godl That is tho girl to whom I am engaged I" The Englishman reelel against tho tablo, staring wildly at his host. Old Man Swanlee had ceased to live, but tho anglo of the hut propped him against falling. On his grim old face there was a ouriotis look of satisfac tion. New York Advertiser. Baby in a Ten. Inch Will. Tbe oightoen-months-old child of Bill Geo, a farmer living near Tiger town, had a terrible experience ou Tuesday evening, says the Galveston News. A ten-iuch bored well had just reached a depth of twenty-nine feet, being-near the house, when the little one went out nloue to investigate. Somehow he managed to fall in foet first and was impaled upon the eud of the boring machinery, a part of which was yet in the well. The frantic mother was a witness to the horror and immediately gave the alarm. Tho child could not be gotten out of the hole, so the neighbors were all sum moned and some eighty of them went to work digging a great square hole near the woll. This beiug completed to u depth ou a level with the child, a tunnel was made from tbo hole to tho well aud the child rescued after beiug in its perilous condition twouty-tlireo hours. Its pluiutivo cries, "Mamma! mamma, come take me out!" were heurtreuding. The child will recover. Curious Tyranny. A newspaper printed at Lubcck. Germany, gives a curious iustuuee of police tyranny in tbo neighboring town of Dassow. A poor lubonug womau named Dorothea Bruhu, whoso husbaud had for many years been bed ridden, went to the pastor of tho town with a request that he would olheiate at tho burial of one cf her children. The pastor merely said that ho would see about it, aud fulled to appear ut th-3 grave at tho appointed hour. In default of other religious services tho mourning mother recited over tho grave a siuglo verse of a hymn ex pressing her faith in the child's welfare in the other world. For doing this she wus reported by a zealous police man as having violated an ordinance forbidding any lay persou to make a discourse ut au interment. Tho l'olieo Justice found her guilty and she was ttued the sum of a little less thuu $1, with the alternative ou uou-puymuui of a day's imprisonment. Kalmuck Are Dying. In Astrukhun, Bussiu, the Kalmucks are dying out. They ure afflicted by some mysterious mental disease that is tilling the usylums aud hospital, and tho mortality in so great that thero will probably s.ioii be not one of tho race leit iu tho district. THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT ARB TOLD BT THE FUNNT MEN OF THE PRESS. After Tribute Neighborly Feellng , Instanter Doubly AlTllcted 1'he Small Hoy's Idea, Ktc, Ktc. Come lot us wnnder o'or the mead This pleasant summer day; Let's watch the bovine at his feed, The farmers toss the hny ; And through tho clover let us stray, O summer girl and I The usual trlliute sweet will pay When coming through the rye. Harper's Bazar. DOT'DLY AFFLICTED. "Hi, Jimmy, wot's do matter?" "Back's blisterod." "Swimmin' or lickin'?" "Both." Chicago Becord. NEIOHBOllLY FEELINGS. Fond Parent "She's got a lot of aiusio in her." Sarcastio Neighbor "Yes. What a pity it's allowed to escape." Truth. INSTANTEH. Thomas "Have thoy named tho twins over at your house yet?" John "Yep; pa called them Thuu .Icr and Lightning as soon as ho heard bout thorn." Puck. THE SMALL noy'a IDEA. Boy "I want to buy somo pnper." Dealer "What kind of paper?" Boy "1 guess you better gimme fly pnpjr. I want to make a kite." I'hiladopbia Becord. HE WANTED TO KNOW, Little Cloreiuo "Ph?" Mr. Callipers "Well, my son?" Littlo Clarenco "Pa, which is tbo biggest nuiBnuce tho man who talks in his sloop or tho mau who sleeps iu his talk?" Truth. A OREAT BACUIPICE. Miss Uppercrust "She's awfully self-sacrificing. Do you know, she stayed away from church last Sunday in i rder to sit with a sick frieud. " Mr. Cynicus - "I dou't see anything so self-sacrificing in that." Miss Upperoruit "Yes; but she had just got a new dress and hat." New York Ledger. imacAfiE3 of orn lanouaoeh. "Mother," said Johnnie, after dcop thought, "suppose I should knock this vase off the table and catch it then I wouldn't catch it, would I?" "N n no, I suppose not," bis mother slowly assontod. "But," continued Johnnie, still toy ing with tho vase, "if I should knock it off and not catch it then I would catch it, wouldn't 1?" "Yes, you would," his mother grimly returned, this time with quick decis ion. Itocklund Tribune. TWO COm'OKATION.S CLASH. "This bill," protested the mau at the window, "culls for 82. fil for gas burned in June, and there wasn't any body iu the house during the entire month to my certain knowledge." 'The meter tells a different story, sir," replied tho cashier at tho gas company's office, "aud we have to go by tho meter; $2.61 is right." "Well, I'll pay it," said the other, taking out his pocketbook with great apparent reluctance. "Your name, I think, is Buggies. Here is your ice bill for last February, amounting to $2.00. We havo colled your atteution to it several time?, but yon havo al fusod to pay it on tho ground that you did not know any ice was left at your door during that mouth aud you didn't need it. It wasu't our fault if you didn't kuow it. The books show that the ice was loft thero, aud we huve to go by our books. The differ ence is thirty-two ceuts, and if you will just hand over tho amouut " Here they clinched. Chicago Tri bune. THIS WAS A UOOD ONE. "Did I tell you the latest bright thing my little boy got on?" asked McBride, as he joined a group of friends at the club. "Yes, you did," replied all, iu con cert, with discouraging uunnimity. "That's where I've caught yon," re torted McBride, "or it only hap pened last evening, ami I hnveu't seen a soul of you fellows since. Besides, this was really a good one." "Then you haven't told it to us," replied Kilduff, speaking for the crowJ. "Go on." "Yes, toll us quickly," added Skid more, "and let us havo the agony over." Thus enoouruged, MoBride began : "You know, boys, littlo people have sharp ears, and they ure not at all backward about telling any littlo scraps of information they pick np. This peculiurity bus led u good many pureuts to resort to spoiling words when their young children are pres ent. Of course that sort of thing is of no avail after tho youngsters loam to spell. Well, Mrs. MoBrido aud I aro in tho spelling stage now, and little Freddy is often very much mystified by our remarks to euch other. Lust night wo hud our new minister to dinner, aud Fieddy watched the good man helping him self very liberally to biscuits, ilo thought it a good opportunity to put luto use the family verbal cipher, feel ing p 'rfectly certain tbut the minister would flud it unintelligible. So ho culled out, '.Mamma!' " 'Wbut is it, Freddy?' asked my wife. " 'Mamma, isn't tho m-i-n-i-s-t-e-r u p-i-g?' spelled out Freddr, triumph antly.'. The fellows had to admit that this story about MelJiido's boy wus really uyoud one. Hurler's Mugaziue. StlESTIFIC AXD INDUSTRIAL. Tho electrio lines in Chicago now extend over COO miles. A motallio ribbon is tho latest sub stitute for bicycle chains. The only dyes impervious to the bleaching power of the sun's rays are Prussian bluo and chrome yellow. The meat of tho herring gives the muscles elasticity, the body strength and tho brain vigor, and it is not flesh-forming. A mastodon skeleton unearthed iu Border County, Texas, in August, 1H94, had tusks atachod to tho skull which were ten feet long. Tho problem of employing spirits for lighting on a new principle similar to the incandescent gas light is re ported to have been successfully solved by a German. A French medical authority asserts that death caused by a fall from a great height is absolutely painless. Tbe mind acts very rapidly for a time ; then unconsciousness ensues. It is nrged that photographers gen erally should be prepared to catch views of lightning in order that it may be studied photographically as effectively as astronomy is now done. A new method for identifying hand writing is roported to havo boon dis covered. It consists iu enlarging the lottersby photography and measur ing the alberatiou duo to beating of the pulse. One of the most recent projects for rapid transit is tho suspension of tho cars, the motive power beingoloctrici ty. Tho inventor claims that tho enormous speed of 180 miles per hour may be attained. Tho Cincinnati Enquirer has discov ered that a drop of air at a tempera ture of minus 180 degrees will freeze a hole through a person's hand just as quickly as would tho samo qn intity of molten steel or lead. An expert says that iu tho ncrvei at the finger tips of blind persons well defined cells of gray matter, iu all re spects identical with the gray matter of the brains, are formed. They car ry their brains in their hands. Slag brick chimneys aro being tried abroad. The weight is but half that of brick, and a special ceinont binds together tho blocks composing tho chimney so firmly as to require neith er chain nor iron band for strength ening. It has been poiutod out that tho hairs of some caterpillars, prevalent at this season of tho your, may cause serious infiamatiou of tho eye, and impairment of .vision. They should be removed from tho eyo ut ouce if introduced there. A Lucky Accident. . As an examplo of how a remunera tive specialty iu hardware forced it self ou a receptive aud appreciative Yank oe, tho following incident will bo of interest : Among mauufuctuvers small cast ings are often put in revolving cylinders with pickers or stars made of cast iron, having usuallyBix points, the extremes of which arc about au inch apart. They are also famihnr to toy deal ers, who sell thorn to children as "jackstoues. " Tho pickers, together with small custiugs, aro put into the tumbling barrels, so that any particles of sand adhering may be removed and a better finish given the castings. A large and well-known New Eng land concern, which, iu addition to tho other lines, manufacturers screw wreuchci largely, formerly used a poculiurly shaped malleable iron fer rule, with irregular openings at tho four sides aud circular openings ut tho two ends, weighing about au ounce. Some of theso ferrules chanced to bo a part of tho content t iu ouo of tho tumbling burrels. Wheu the barrel was opeued tho attendant noticed, what to him seemed almost incredible, that the picker with all its prongs wus inside the ferrule, tho openings of which were comparatively small. Tbo observant mechanic logically con cluded that ns it ha 1 got in it could be got out agaiu. The phenomenon was brought to tho attention of parties who decided to apply tho idea iu a puzzle, aud the re sult has beeu that tho original manu facturers aro now making tho two purts uuder contract, iu tou lots, while the first order is said to havo netted a profit to tho promoters of $1700. lrou Ago. A HI ituliiiH Ciistiim. But thero is nothing more uiuusin;', perhaps, iu ull tho quaint and curioiu "customs" of the House of Common i than the straugo ceremony which marks the termiuutiou of its every sit ting. The moment the uouso is ad journed, stentorian voiced messengers aud policemen cry out iu th- lobbies and corridors: "Who goes home?'' Those mysterious words havo souu led every night for centuries through tho l'uluco of Westmiuster. The performance originated ut u time when it was necessary for mem bers to go home iu parties for com uiou protection ugaiust the fcotpa Is who infested tho streets of Londou. But, though that danger has long since passed away, tho cry of "Who goes home?" is still heard night ultir Dight, receiving no reply, aud expect iug none. Chambers's Journal. The South American Tc.l. Ono of tho principal prjlucts of Turaguay is tho yerba matJ, which is largely used us tea iu South Americt. It wus discovered recontly that adul teration wus practised in tbe com merce und preparation of that plant, aud the Minister of the Interior, at Asuncion, lias recently taken severe measures to detect and punish tluuo who practice adulteratiou. N't York, Tribune. IN THE ORCHArtD. A lengthening vista of yellow and (frecn. With shafts of deep shadows and: inligbt ls)t ween ; Tho branches, wind-tossed, dayi'le tree trunk and Kroiind, With ripples of llk-ht on the soft whvc of sound. The npplc trees old, with arms Kimrl"d and gray, Like sentinels grim stand in martial ar ray. Their armor of green disclosing oVrhrad Itleh treasures of fruit shining yellow and red. The vnnishing point ts a crooked rail enco Where scampers a squirrel with mnlico prepense; Aelmttering robin doth hotly pursue The little red thiol and chnxes him through. B. . Jarjues, In American Agriculturist. HUMOR OF HIE DAY. A war club Tho triple alliance. It's all up with a man when he') turned down. Somo peoplo can keep thoir minds on a mighty small object aud uot feel cramped for room. Puck. A large majority of those who think they need coaxing really require club bing. Milwaukee Journal. Mrs. Peastraw "How on earth did you get yourself so dirty?" Johnny "I was in swimmin'." Truth. You can salt down your money, but you can'tot catch golden eagles by puttiug salt on their tails. ---Truth. It's the summer tty that hustles. Till within the spider's gates. And the spider never hustles, But he gets there while he waits. Truth. Too many men regard death as they do their banker, aud expect ample no tification wheu their time will be up. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Iuveulors of collego-yolls cau find a mine of inspiration in Bitting around listening to women talk baby-talk to their babies. Atchison Glob?. Isn't there some way in whicli we can arrange to got our weather prop erly mixed instead of taking tho in gredients separately? Troy Press. "Our landlady says alio likes to see her boarders have good appetites." "Well, I'm not surprised. Somo wemen aie naturally cruel." Life. Johnny must have got his guu lly exhortations goaded: 13ut his silence is suggestive that Ho didn't kuow't was loaded. -Tuck. "What is the name of that mau?" signaled ono deaf mute to another. "It's queer, but I cau't recall it," was the reply ; "though it is right ut my finger ends." Puck. "Why is it," asks tho Muuayuuk philosopher "that wheu a mau is af flicted with chills and fever tho chills nlways como on tho cold days and tho fover on hot days?" Philadelphia llecord. Prepurod for tho Worst : Edna "Whom is Miss Golighty going to marry?" Millie "Old Moueybogges." Edua "How do you know?" Millio "Sho's having most of her trousseau made iu black." The Mourner. Stern Father "Do you realize, young man, that up to tho present time it has cost mo at least $2.), 000 to bring up aud educate that girl?" Fond Lover "Yes sir; and from my point' of view I should say, sir, that sho is fully worth it." Somervillo Journal. Tho Third Timo Proposal: Sho (bored) "Xo, Mr. Lytely, I cau never lovo you. I honor and respect you. I am sure you would make somo other woman a good husbaud. 1" He "Well or could you er give mo a letter of recommeudiitiou to my next place?" Vogue. Au F.xtra: Lady "Your testi monials aro satisfactory aud I am will ing to take you at the terms you usk, namely, thirty llorius, ouly 1 expect that you will treat my ehildreu with affection." Nursery Maid "Affec tion? Then I sbull want five llorius a mouth extra." Der Floh. Squildig "Did the bride's father do tho correct thing wheu youug Spud kins married Miss Cushbox?" Mo Swilligeu "Well, ho gave tho bride " Squildig (interrupting) "I knew ho would do something haud some." MeSwilligcu (resuming) "He gave tho bride away." Pittsburg Chrouiolo-Tolegmph. ' ".Mercy !" cried tho editor's wife, ua she arose iu tho morning to liiid two windows pried open uu I the lump overturned iu tho middle of the Door, "Thero was ft burglar in the house last night -a burglar !" "Yes," said tuo editor with a yawn, "hu struck us j ust before daylight, but ho was evidently a very poor inau. I ouly got 8 '1 out of him. You'll find it iu the bureau drawer. The key's under my pillow." -Atluutu Constitution. The Clock Didn't ltu:i ou Siiinl.n. A Loudon gossip writes: "Tuo Aquarium peoplo have organized un exhibitiou of curious old clocks and watches. Among tho 200J examples acquiiod ore several of special inter est. Of tho general exhibits, ouo of tho most interesting is a clock built by a pious Scotohmau a ceutury uu I a half ago. To guard agaiust any pos sible consequences of breaking iho Sabbath, ho so constructed it that ut midnight ou Saturday it stopped ilea 1, uud never so much as ticked until Monday morning beguu."--Jewelers' Ciroulur. IliMiiaTiVs (ieiu I'hcstbuui'il. Prince Bismarck was recently tho recipient of a handsome present iu tho shape of a chessboard inlaid with alternate squares of yellow aud milk white umber laid ou uu under suifuco of gold. Tho figures, which ure inarv elously carved, ure also of umber, and euch minute detail is fuultlessly car ried out.
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