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VOL. XXVIII. NO. 25. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 9, 1895. S1.00 PER ANNUM.
Chicago expects soon to monopolize
the industry of mulling enr wheel tires.
A London physician is now reeom
rncuding tho liioyelo as a provontivo
nuil euro for asthma.
' f'tnlistici show tbnt in Germony's
population of fiO.OOO.OOO tho females
outnumber Iho mules by nearly ft mil
lion. Tho tnx ou bicycles paid Franco
nbont MOO.OM this year. There aro
nenrly 200,000 machines in use in that
eonutrv.
Mussillon, Ohio, has granted a pen
sion of 5330 a year to a school lut'am,
who has been assisting its young idoas
to shoot fur tho past tifty years.
Andrew Carnegie has got Oroat
IJrituiu down on him by comparing
tho equipment of their railroads un
favorably with that of tho Amorioaa
rouds.
American railway engines aro moro
fuvorod in Jiipau than Euglish ones.
But tho Japs will build thoir own right
away, lament tho Now York Uo
corder. Ia 1S90 the horses of the United
States wore valued at 8078,000,000.
At present they aro valued at about
8370,000,000, though there are a mil
lion moro of them.
In tho high schools of Japan tho
English language is placed on tho same
footing as tho Japanese and its study
is compulsory. Tho Japs aro as good
at looking after tho future as thoy nro
in keeping up to date iu current af
fairs. Max EdeJ, a German bacteriologist,
recently took a bath and thon exam
ined tho water for microbes. Ho
found that it contained 5,830,000,0001
After a bath of ono foot only ho esti
mated tho number of microbes at 130,
000,000. A report to tho Euglish Parliament
fhows that frum 1877 to 1893, in
elusive, 333 English convicts wore
sentenced to bo floggod under laws
which allow this punishment to bo in
flated iu certain gross cases of assault.
It is mid that such crimes have not
diroiuihhed in frequency as a result of
tho severity of tho puuishment.
Miss Edith Sessions Tupper says the
new man as scon in Now York City
has a vacant stiro in his eyos. No
wonder, observes tho Chicago Times
Herald, tho new woman is crowding
him out of nearly every chaunol of
activity, aud ho has beon hunting for
a vacancy for so long ho can bo ex
cused if ho has p vacant look about
tho eye.
Fish-hutching in China issomotim9s
condnctod with tho aid of a hen. Tho
spawn is collected from the water's
edge and placed in au empty egg-shell.
Tho egg is then scaled with wax and
placed under a sitting lieu. After
some days the egg is oarafully broken
aud the spawn emptod into water woll
warmed by tho sun. There tho little
tish are nursed until they are strong
enough to bo turuod into a lake or
stream.
Paris has now 81,201 "houses," 835
"workshops" and 1807 buildings
which uro designated as "a mixture of
houses and workshops" --representing
a valuo of 82,200,000,000. Tho value
of real estate has doubled sinoe 18G2.
As especially notable in connection
with these statistics, tho Petit Journal
mentions thut, just as tho residence iu
the richer quarters must have horse
stables convenient, so, now iu the con
structiou of new buildings nearly
everywhere provision is being made
for properly "stubliug tho steel
horses" tho all perva liuj bioyclo.
The New York Hun says : At last it
is beginning to be realized that the
case ol the English grain raisers is
permanently hopeless. Tho fact was
practically admittoj ut tho confer
enee on the question of National
bread supply held this week. Tho
comforting notion had boon clung to
for several years pust thut there is
such a thing as a limit to tho doprcs
fcinu. and when that has been reached
matters will necessarily begin to moud.
Last year it wus thought that British
com had reached such a point, and
that us tho fratucr could not pos
sibly do worse he wus bound to do
better. This cheerful calculation has
been upset. Iu the coming season
Engluud will import a larger propor
tion of meat and flour even than last
year. As matters stand wheut can
only bo grown at considerable loss,
and though the largo farmers may
coutiuuo to produce it at a loss for tho
eukeof collateral advantages, the small
ones cauuot afford to do so, and more
arable land 1 bound to g oat of oul-tivatieu.
THE nEAPERS.
The long day's toll was over
A bird sang In a troi';
The sunshine kissed the clover
Oood-by, and she kissed me!
Tben lovellor seemed the sunshine,
And sweeter snug Inn bird;
And if the plover listened -My
throbbing heart it heard,
For all day long, n-ronping
In fields of silver-shine,
I felt her heart a-crooplng
And cuddling done to mine.
Ami lighter seemed the lalior,
And wlnsoinur the wheat
That spread Its got leu trosse.1
For the fHlllug of her feet.
And when the toll was ovor
A bird snug iu a tree:
Tbi sunshine kissed the clovor
Oood night, and she klsse I me!
Frank I.. Htiiutou.
A MODEL EXISTENCE.
KS. DEWSFORD
But in her own
room employed
in fastening but
terflies on a sheet
of pasteboard,
with an "Ency
clopedia of Ety
mology" lying
on tho tablo be'
side her.
Hue was a
spare, prim,
bard-featured
matron ono who
beliovod in Women's Rights, and
thought woman generally n much
abused personage, deposed from her
proper sphere and trampled on by the
tyraut Man I
Mtb. Dewsford had come very near
being a man herself what with a deop
voico and bearded chin, and a figure
quite innoceutof all superfluous curves
or graces I
But Lizzy Dewsford was quite dif
ferent Lizzy Dewsford who stood bo
.side her mother with ohoeks round and
ripo as a fall peaoh, deep blue eyes
made mystio and shady by their long
las lies, aud brown hair wouud round
her pretty head in shining coils. You
wondered, as you gazed at her, how
they could both be women, and yet so
unlike.
"Nonsense, child I" said Mrs. Dews
ford, critically examiniug a butterfly
with pale yellow wings, sprinxlod with
carmine.
"But, mamma, pleaded Lizzy, "it
isn't nonsense, lie really does want
to marry ine.
"Marriage is all a mistake, Eliza
beth," said Mrs. Dewsford, laying
down her magaifying glass. "I don't
meau you shall marry at all."
"Mammal"
A woman wno marries, went on
strong-minded matron, "is a woman
enslaved. If I had known as much
about life when I was eighteen as I do
now, I would Dover liavo married.
From tho standpoint of a graud mis
take committed in my owu life, I can
rectify yours, Elizabeth.
"But, mammal" cried poor Lizzy,
"what shall 1 do? "
"Do, child! dot" eiaoulated the
mother. "That is a pretty question
for my daughter to ask I Why, read
stuuy improve your mind. De
vote all the energies of your nature to
the solving of the great social pro
blems that surround you.
"I don't care a pin for the social
problems, mamma," remonstrated
Lizzy. "I like Charley Everett, and
1 m going to marry him.
"Xevtr with my consent. "
"Ob, mamma, "cried Lizzie, aghast,
"surely you would not
"Elizabeth," said Mrs. Dewsford,
in a tone of judicial calmness, "don't
you see what a confusion you are cre
ating among those insects which
have so carefully classified. I bog you
will interrupt my studies no longer.
Uo aud read that 'Report of the Eug
lish Convention for the Amelioration
of Womaukind.' What are you cry
mg for A well-regulated woman
never cries."
"1 wish I wasn't a woman," sobbed
poor Lizzy. "I whh I wasn't some
thing that had to be elevated aud itn
proved and cultivated I Oh, mamma,
darling, you weren't in earnest when
you said you wouldn't consent to my
marrying utiarieyl we suall be so
happy together ; and he says he will
be miserable without me, aud
"Elizabeth, I am astonished at you
Of courso I was iu earnest ! I have
neither gold nor jewels to lay ou the
shriuo of tUa cause; but 1 have
daughter, and I intend to show the
world what a woman uushackled aud
unfettered eau bo capable oft You,
Elizabeth, should glory in thus bu
coming an offering."
But Lizzy, apparently uuappreciu
five of the great lot iu store for her,
cried moro piteously thau ever.
"Tears will not mult me," said
Mrs. Dowsfor , calmly resuming the
euoyclopediu. "I only regret to bo
the mother of so degeueruto a daugh
ter! '
"Mamma," ventured poor Lizzy,
after a few minutes of sileut grieviu
"I I promised Charley tj ride out
with hiiu this aftoruooub
"You must give him up, Elizabeth.
On such a subject 1 cuu accept no
compromise.
"But I promised, mammal"
Mrs. Dewsford gravely rubbed tho
end of her nose.
"A promise is a promise, Elizabeth
uor shull I require you to break it.'
(Here Lizzy visibly brightened,
"But I shall accompany you." (Tho
pretty faco beoauio olouded and over
:ast onco more. ) " Where aro you go
mg?"
'To the woods beyond tho glen
mamma. Charley is goiug to get
lome wood sorrel for my herbarium.
"Nor will the expedition prov un
profitable to me," said Mrs. D.w.forJ
meli "Iter art tutoy caulsj v'
I m
rieties of Adiantum nnd Asplenium to
bo found in those woods, and my col
lection of ferus is as yet incomplete."
And Lizzio went away in great con
sternation not to read reports, nor
to study paleontology, but to slip out
n the snrdon wliero a great Michigan
roBe carpeted tho velvet grass with
showers of soft pink petals at every
passing breath of air, and where
Charley Everett was busied in whit
tling out stakes for carnations t
"Oh, Charlev, Charley I 1 am sq
miserable I"
"Lizzy, what is the matter?"
He dropped knife, and all, in dis
may at her woeful countenance, and
Lizzy told him to the best of her abil
ity what "the matter" wasl
"Is that all," he asked quietly, when
the recital was concluded.
"Isn't that enough," she rejoined,
piteously. "When we were goiug to
huvo such a nice drivo all by our
selves, and come home by moonlight,
and-"
"Don't fret, oara mia, it will bo all
right. So she won't consent to our
marriage, ch?"
"Hue says most positively that she
will not."
"Whtttshill we do, Lizzy? Shall
we elope quietly?"
Oh, Charley, yon know I would
never marry without her oonsent I"
"And are two lives to be made mis
erable just because she thinks matri
mony a mistake?" he asked gravely.
"1 suppose so, Charloy 1
Lizzy Dewsford's pretty head
dropped like a rose in the rain
Charley watched her quivoringlip and
tear-wet eyelashes, and said no more 1
Mrs. Dewsford was ready, with a
preposterous drab umbrella to koop off
the sun, a tin case to putforns in, and
an extra pair of boots, in the event of
swampy walking, when Mr. Everett's
little light wagon drove up to tho door,
The springs creaked ominous! as she
stopped in, and Lizzy, meekly follow
ing, was nearly overwhelmed by her
mother's voluminous draperies.
"I had better sit in tho middle it
preserves tho equilibrium of the ve
hicle bettor," said Mrs. Dewsford,
wedging herself in between Lizzy and
Mr. Everett with a smile of great com
placency. Aud sho immediately began dis
coursing on the properties aud habits
of tho fern, with unpausiug volubility,
while Lizzie, perched on tho extreme
outer edge of the seat, had all she
could do to keep in the wagon, and
Mr. Everett s eyes were in extreme
danger with the points of the drab
umbrella, which veered to and fro
like a ship in a storm, as Mrs. Dews
ford's tale waxod in interest.
Suddenly she checked herself, as
her eye caught a cluster of greeu wav
ing vegetation on the crest like point
of a rock which overhung the road.
"Charles! Charles I" she cried,
"stop a miuut6! Can't you reach
that Asplenium Ebenum?
"Is this it, ma am? said Mr. Ev-
erott, making a dive at a tall mullein
stalk.
No, no ; not that the little green
thing with the black stem !
"This, ma am? hazarded Charley,
clutching at a fat leaved clover of
woedy growth.
"Oh, dear, dear, Charles, how stu
pid you are 1" sighed Mrs. Dewsford,
'1 11 jump out and get it myself!
"Mamma!" remonstrated Lizzy.
"Oh, I'll help her !" nodded Charley,
springing nimbly on tho cliff, and
pulling Mrs. Dewsford by main force
up the steep side of the rock. "Here
you are, ma am !
Yes, panted Mrs. Dewsford : "but
but it wac very steep. I really think
women should devote more attention
to gymnastics. Oh, here's the AspSoa
in in very choice specimons, too.
Charles, where aro you going?"
For Mr. Everett had sprung back
into tho wagon.
"Only for a liltlo turn, ma am,
while you are collecting your botani
cal treasures.
"Yes; but. Charles-"
Mrs. Dewsford's words of remon
strauco were drowned in the rattle of
tho wheel?, as Mr. Everett drove
briskly away, with Lizzy nestling up
at his side. One long lingering glance
sho gave after the departing pair, and
then returned to nor tin case and um
brella.
"They'll bo back preseutly," she
said.
But tho afternoon sunlight faded oft
from tho cliff, and tho red orb of day
suuk majestically down behiud the
evergreeu gleus that bounded the
western horizou, aud Mrs. Dewsford
grew tired aud cross and rheumatic,
aud still, like the character of ro-
uiauoiv"they cauio not.
Something h:is happened r cried
tho prophetic soul ot Mrs. Dewsford.
It cuu I be possible that 1 shall have
to stay here ull night!
hhe lookcil nervously rouud. It was
tall, steep cliff whereon sho stood, cut
off from the woods beyond by the
rush aud roar of a wide und by no
means shallow streum on ono side,
while ou the other three it was almost
perpendioulur, ribiug eomo twenty
feet up from tho road. Mrs. JJews
ford began to feel, as she surveyed it,
very much like St. Simou Stylites ou
his column in tuo wilderness.
"If they shouldn't come," she
thought.
But at tho sumo instant a welcome
rumbling of wheels broke the hushed
stilluess of tho seldom traveled moun
tain road, and Mrs. Dewsford's
struiued eves caught sight of Mr
Everett's spirited grays Uashiug rouud
the curve of the hill.
"Well," sho cried, "I never wa3
more thankful for unythiug in my
life ! I'm tired to death waiting."
"Are you?" suid Charles Everett,
as he cheeked the horses in tho mid
dle of the road.
"Yes." Why don't you drivo
closer?" sharply ilemaudod Mrs.
Dewsford.
"Oh, did you wiy.'t to drive borne
with usl"
"Whr, of courso I did. I'd LV
been homo loni ago if 1 could got o3f
this place."
"Well, ma am'ssid Charley, in ac
cents of the coolest deliberation, while
Lizzj ol uncr, frightened and yet smil-
ng, to his side, "I shall no very
happy to help you off tho cliff ou ono
condition."
"Condition ! Charles Everett 1" ex
claimed the astonished and indignant
matron; "what do you meau?"
"Simplv this, Mrs. Dewsford; I
want to marry your daughter. But
Lizzy, like a too dutiful child, will
not become my wife without your con
sent. "
"Which sho sholl never have!" said
Mrs. Dewsford, emphitically.
Very well, mo am I (.tot up,
Whitey," and ho shook tho rein.
"You re not going to leave mo
here?" shrieked Mrs. Dewsford, in a
panic of trror.
"Unless you comply with my condi
tion, ma'am, I most certainly shall."
"And that condition is
"Your consent to my marriage with
your daughter."
"Elizabeth 1 cried Mrs. Dowsford,
"will vou be a witness to this this
atrooious conduct and not inter
fere?"
"Charley won't let me have a voice
in the matter, mamma, at all," said
Lizzy, demurely. "Ho says ho don't
believe in womou s rights.
Mrs. Dewsford gave a hollow groan.
Mr. Everett touchod his horse slight
ly with the whip.
"Stop r cried Mrs. Dewsford. "I
consent but it is under protest !"
"Yon can protest all you like, "said
Mr. Everett, driving closer to the
rock, and standing up to assist his
mother-in-law-elect into the wagon.
Silently Mrs. -Dewsford entered tho
vehicle silently she rodo home
ilently sho crossed the threshold of
her house, as became a conquered
party.
"lo think, sho said in a hollow
voice, as she sat down to a woman's
universal solace, tea, "that after all
my precepts and example Elizabeth
should end her career by getting mar
ried!" "Momma," said Lizzy, timidly, "I
don't think it is so very terrible, after
aii r:
"To think," sighed Mrs. Dewsford,
paying no attention to her daughter's
reply, "that you should meet tho fate
of any ordinary woman 1"
"But, mamma, 1 never bad any am
bition to be an extraordinary wo
man." And bo was brought to a termina
tion the plots and plans for a "model
existence which had been formed for
Mrs. DowsfordVdaughtor 1 New York
News.
Mysterious Thirteen Trees.
Over a centnry ago, on the upper
West Side, in Now York City, at a
spot known as Fort George, but now
a part ot Harlom, Alexander Hamil
ton, whoso breath was stopped by
Aaron Burr's bullet, planted thirteen
trees within a radius of thirteen
squaio feet. Now they are sturdy
oaks, and a splendid object lesson in
forestry. Although planted in tho
knoll of an obscure hill, this bunch
of timber uttraots the attention of all
who pass that way, whether they
know its history or not. Like Ham
ilton was, these trees are now name
ly, eccentric. One. may face them
from any angle, or range of vision,
and count them, but by some hocus
pocus ono is sure to miscalculate their
number, invariably fulling short at
least one tree, a round dozen alone
being visible.
In order to accurately count the
trees in this big trunked maze one
must scale the dilapidated fence sur
rounding the oaks and count them
ono by one, marking them in order
to avoid a second error. You will
then find that the unlucky number is
there. Uaricmites who are acquaint
ed with tho mystery frequently lay
wagers with the uninitiated. After
rousing a stranger's curiosity, thoy
eagerly bet him liquid refreshments
or money that he cannot couut the
Hamilton oaks correctly. They al
ways win, of conrse. Then they take
pride in tolliug tho loser how to play
the game on others aud get even. The
thirteen trees were planted by Alex
ander Hamilton to commemorate the
original thirteen States. Pittsburg
Dispatch.
"Insolent. "
From Paris comes an excellent story,
though the flavor (as tho Morning re
marks) seems aneieut. The other day
a heavy ruin storm converted the lino
Yivieuue into a good-sized stream, to
the despair of a great lady who was
uuable to cross the street. A power
fully built youug Englishmuu was
passiug at tho time, and, seeing tho
embarussment of the lady, uncere
moniously lifted her iu his arms au I
set her down iu safety ou tho other
side. Ho salutod her, but tho lady
only thuuked hiiu by exclaiming "In
solent !" Whereupon tho young Eng
lishman, without Buying a word, took
the lady onco moro iu his arms, car
ried her to tho pavement where ho
fouud her, ro-salutud her, aud walked
off. New York Journal.
A Blind MullieinuUeI:iu.
Trofessor John A. Simpson, of Ra
leigh, N. C, blind from birth, has
mastered mat hematics "from addition
to quutcruious" mentally, has learned
aucieut aud modem luuguages, aud
like many other blind people is a good
musiciau. His blindness is without
doubt the cuuso of liii extraordinary
mental development. It is thought
that the too great use of pen aud pa
per or of sluto aud pencil to relieve
the memory has a marked effect in
checking mental growth. The iudus
triou bliud, relieved of this thuok,
often aoeonipliau what the seeing (
Mid m raixaeU. Kow York World.
THE MKKKYSinE OF LIFE.
BTOR1KS THAT ARB TOLD BT THI
FUNNY MEN OF THE PHE33.
A KisliprniHii's Hon-isncc Hcfrospeo
lion Tru Afloat and Asliorc-A'1
Honest Mini, Klc , ICte.
I walked tiie slr ni the llfelmii; day,
With rod snd re"l aud fly.
And then went home and reveled In
One long, luxurient 1',.'.
";illad"ldils. I'.eoorl.
A HtiOWLr Arii':sni ami.
Dora "Can't you ride a wheel yet?
Why, Mr. Silverspoon bus been teach
ing you for three weeks!"
Cora "I know it. But ho hasn't
proposed yet."
FhAN'ELV HOST1L.C.
Mrs. Dotell "What is your policy
with reference to old bachelors?"
Mrs. reuormore (mother of a largo
family of marriageable daughters)
"Extermination ! ' Puck.
on tub ruzzt.
"How long has Miss Short been a
summer girl?"
"Well, I'vo beon comiu; her.i ten
years oh, hero she u -why, Mm
Shoit, howyouug and pretty you look
this morning?" Boston Gazette.
nncuiTors.
"Why did sho marry Fiddlobas?"
"Because she was iu love with an
other man, and tho mnu wa iu lovo
with another girl, and the girl wa in
love with Fiddleback. It was the ouly
way she could get even with other girl,
you see I" Life.
KETHOSPECnON.
Nuwed "According to you, I never
told you a single truth before we were
married."
Mrs. Nuwed "Oh, George, you
weren't quite as bad as all thut. Don't
you remember you always used to say
ycu were unworthy of me?" Life.
THOSE FOOLISH QUESTIONS.
Stiffkins (a neighbor) "Hello i
Jones, what you doin'? Laying dowu
a carpet?"
Jones (who has just whacked his
thumb) -"No! yon blasted idiot the
carpet was here when we moved iu. I
am just putting the floor under it."
Truth.
TRUE AFLOAT AND ASHOKE.
"Why," asked the new boarder,
"why do you say thnt there is a re
lemblanco between riding a bicyclo
ud sailing a boat?"
"Because," said the Cheerful Idiot,
"becauBO you lose tho wind when you
?et on tho wrongtack." Indianapolis
Tourual.
A LOT OF TnoVBI.E.
Lottie "It's a very inonvenieul
sustom to wear the engagement ring
on the third fiuger of tho left hand."
Kiltie "Why? What difference
does it make?"
Lottie "Because it's bo hard t
learn to use your left instead of your
ight hand."
HTIE MEANT KOTHlSa.
"Do you know," ho was Kayinc;,
"that I never eau keep my hen 1 tiuder
water when I go swiuijniug. I've tried
and tried."
"Perhaps you don't try loop;
enough," she said iu an absent-mindod
way, and he is still wondering what
he meant. Detroit Free Press.
a pnoruKT.
"This is a hot summer, " said Jig
gles, as ho and Mr. Wiltou sat on tho
piazza.1
"Yos," said Tillou, with u nod at
Mrs. Wilton mounting her bicycle out
on the driveway "yes; but if Mrs.
Wilton doesn't tako cure, I thiuk we
shall have an oarly fall." Harper's
Bazar.
AS flONKST MAN.
Tho Blind Man (in loud voice)
"Hi, there! you variuiut! Let that
'ere call's liver alone. I'm poor, but
I'm honest, au' I wouldn't let even a
dog of miuo steal."
Sy mpathetio Old Lady (overhearing)
"Here is a quarter, poor man ! 1
always like to reward honesty and
truthfulness." Puck.
TOLD THE TlttTH.
Boarder (from tho city) -"You
wrote me you. were never bothered by
uiosquitoB ; and they have nearly
stung mo to death before I've been
here rive minutes."
Farmer "I didn't say uuythiug
'bout 'em botheriu' you, did I? 1
said they never bothered me, aud they
don't; I'm use' to "em." TucV.
uitcaM K m ".
"Country raised?" usko I the moro
cultivated raspberries, with a super
cilious sneer.
Tho watermelon flared up at tho iu
tcuded insult.
"I'm not so green as I look," it re
torted hotly.
But tho doctor who came iu ut i i ; : i 1 1
aud felt of the boy's pulse said he
wasn't so sure about thut. llojkluu 1
Tribune.
TOOK tilANCEH AND LOST.
"If you're tho muu that aussverstuo
questions," enid tho luuky perou go
iu the laile I brown suit wli t La I
climbed four flights of stairs in search
of information, "1 wi-.li you would tell
mo who it was that shrieked nheu
Kosciusko fell?"
"Freedom," replied tho auswei i-to-questions
editor, glancing up at hiiu
aud resuming his work.
"Then I've loht a gool hut," re
joined the luuky ciller, sijhii'K
heavily aud turuiug to go. "i thou jh ;
it.. Kit Murco iivsztris. " CliicjiyK
Tribune.
sciEvrmc amj ixdustkial.
London's pneumatic system consists
tt thirty-six punMmatic tubes which
radiato throughout tho metropolis.
A lightning'rod is the seat of a con
tinuous current, so long as the earth
at its base and the air at its apex arc
of different potentials.
A writer in Electric Tower thinks
that in electrocutions tho current
Bhould bo turned on for several min
utes, instead of a few seconds.
The effect of age and of strong cur
rents on German silver is to render it
brittle. A similar chango takes jdaco
in an alloy of gold and silver.
Tho rays of the nro light, when tho
are is unprotected by a glass globe,
are said to dissipate bad odors, an t
even to have a really purifying action.
The rato of transmission on Atlan
tic cables is eighteen words of five
letters each per minute. With tho
"duplex" this rate of transmission is
noarly doubled.
By means of varied nnd exhaustive
tests, a Swiss scientist has establishod
the fact that not a single microbo ex
ists beyond an altitude of 2000 foot
abovo sea level.
Tho highost ortiflcial structure in
America is tho newjwater works tower
at Eden Park, Cincinnati, Ohio. The
floor of the tower, reached by tho ele
vator, is 522 feet abovo tho lovel of
the Ohio River.
It has been found by M. A. Chan
veau that during negative work, de
scent or lowering, tho temperature of
the muscles concerned is raised to no
tably less degree thau during corre
spondingly positivo work, ascent or
raising.
The paper cables used in insulating
electrio wires iu Chicago are made by
wrapping strips of mnuilla paper
around the wire and coating it with
rosiu and rosin oil. When sheathed
in lead pipe theso cables are said to bo
highly satisfactory.
New machine guns are wanted in
the navy. The demand is for guns of
six millimetre calibre, using smokeless
powder and jacketed bullets. Rapid
ity and accuracy of aim, resistance to
pressure, facility in dismounting and
freedom from injury by dust and rust
will bo considered.
Krushite, tho new abrasive material,
consists ol chilled cast metal shot,
varying in size from that of the clover
seed to a mere powder. It is claimed
that krushite is three times as effect
ive as the sharpest sand for polishing
diamond drills, in boring, etc., aud
that the wear on tho saw blade, or
rubber, is also very much les.
After a spectroscopic comparison
with the gas of clevite in which ter
restrial hollum was first discovered
M. H. Deslandres announces that tho
permanent radiations of the sun's at
mosphere that are not rocognized on
the earth are reduced to a single one.
This is a green ray, called the ray of
the corona, which is peculiar to the
highest regions "of tho solar atmos
phere, allowing us to suppose that it
belongs to a gas lighter thau hyrogeu.
Have Faces Like Mask.
Actors' and actresses' faces aro of
great interest to the physiognomist.
An actor's art must of necessity in
volve tho stimulation of both tho mus
cular and trephio factors of expres
sion. Not only has he to emphasize
the facial movements which are ap
propriate to his part, iu order that
his expression may be plainly seen by
tho pit and the gallery, but he is as a
rule obliged to chango hii role fre
quently, and to assume a succession of
characters requiring very different fa
cial renderings.
As a result all his expression mus
clos are exorcised as thoroughly as are
the body muscles of an athlete who is
undergoing a systematic course iu a
gymnasium. Henco, iu a typical ac
tor's face, whou seeu at rest, uo ouo
group of expression muscles outpulls
the others, and as a consequence ot
this state of muscular balance there is
about it a peculiar aspect suggestive
of a mask. Moreover, this impassive
and almost wooden look is enhanced
in many cases by au even layer of sub
cutaneous fat the result probably of
emotional stimulation of a constantly
varying character. Blackwood's Mag
azine. New I'so lor llunaiia Kkius.
New York bootblacks are generally
credited with being about as smart aud
up-to-date iu tho practice of their
"jToledsiou" as their fellow shiuuers
iu aiiy city, but it is evident that they
can learn a point or two from some
of tho little colored urchius who pol
ish shoes iu Now Orleaus.
The New Orleaus bootblacks have
discovered that tho heretofore worth
less banana skin is a capital thing
with which to put a polish on tun or
russet shoes. They say it gives a
much finer and more lasting shine
than any oil or "dressing" to bo fouud
iu the market, uud their customers
agree with them.
SomoNortheru visitors to Now Or
leaus brought tho discovery to this
city recently, and have satisfied their
friends it is worth knowiug. All that
is necessary is to rub the shou well
with tho inside of tho bauuua skiu aud
theu give tho shoo a gooj rubbing
with a piece of cloth. Oun banana
skin wilt provide for three puirs of
shoes. New York Hearld.
Believed in Hoggin,
Dr. Valpy, who wroto the Greek
grammar, was tho teacher of Arch
deacon Groom, whosa reminiscences
were printed lately. Ho but floggod
ouo el his beys, an 1 the father cauio
to cjmpluiu. ".Sir." said Vulpy to
bin:, "1 flogged your sou because ho
riu.1:'. deserved it. If ho ttguiu do
serves it i tLiill flog him agatu; aud
', yon come iiere, sir, interfering with
my duty, shull flog you." Tho
(a I her Id I t.
III3 MOTHF.1T3 KISS.
ft wn? her wont when, tiret n pliiy,
Ife to h'r bo-ioin erept,
With giddu hair In ili-irrny.
To kiss him a. lie slept.
And still her plen would be but IIiIh:
'1 obeli not wake him with n klw!"
Ho heavenly-sweet his fleejii:i J fa1: -
Ho bautirul an 1 brubi.
I know the angels lift tie- l-i-i
To kiss my boy good night!
For still he Htuiles In drevn. of blis':
"How should I wake liim with a klsX'''
Ho did bis mother s:iy; an t when
Ood whispered His sweet will.
She only moaned "Hejieeps!" and th' a
Kneeling, she kissel lilm ut ill.
And weeping, murmured only tilt -.:
"I cannot wake hl u Willi a KI-"! '
- Frnnk L. Hienton.
Ill MOIl OK THE NAY.
Facts are almost as stubborn as somo
people. Life.
A great deal of tho wakefulness of
this world is caused by tho uncertainty
jf euro things. Puck.
It is no evidence of ft violent temper
that tho camper pitches his tent out-jf-doors.
Lowell Courier.
Two-thirds of existence is male up. of
striving
To hurry up thing-, that nr- slow in arriv-
ing.
WeA Union (lunette.
Tom "Did yon ever do any deep
ica fishing?" Emily "Well, 1 be
inine engaged ou nn ocenu stc.Tuer."
Judge.
Thero is a deplorable tendency now
idays, by somo parents, to disobey
iheir children. Nothing so annoys a
shild as a hesitating compliance.
Ubany Argus.
Sawdley "Snaggs says ho is a fail -iro
as far ns success is concerned."
Drills "In other words, he's a auo
joss as far as failure is concerned."
Boston Courier.
Herdso "What is your idea of thn
Millennium?" Suidso "A period of
existence thousands of years hence,
when everybody shall have become as
jood as I am now." Puuk.
Mrs. Flatto Uouser "It is the
aoight of folly for thut man to sf iu I
outside a fifth storv window to clean
it." Mr. Flatto Hotiser "It would
bo tho depth if his foot should slip."
J udgo.
"Bliggins is still complaining about
the businoss depression?" "H:isu't
ho got work yet?" "No. Can't find
anything that suits him." "That's
the way it goes. Tho mau that keeps
talking about hard times is invariably
looking for a soft thing." Washing .
ton Star.
"The actions of somo of these re
formers," said tho corufed philoso
pher, "remind mo much of the way
my father used to pull weeds in tho
garden for about a iuiuuto to thow ine
how easy it was. Theu ho would go
off aud sit down in tho shade and leavo
me to keep at it all the forenoon."
Indianapolis Journal.
The hoarso Bhouts of tli9 mo!) in
dicated that tho fell work w.h done. 4
"Stole a horse, I presume?" veutured
the tenderfoot, gesturing iu the direc
tion of tho deceased. "'Bicycle," thoy
rejoined, uot without revealing the
pain tho suggestion of tho other oc
casioned. Tho end of tho age was at
hand and progress was spurting iu the
stretch. Detroit Tribune. . .
Our National DisH Abro.nl.
Soino ouo writes toau English paper
for a receipt for "American dry hash,"
atnost forbiddiug aud unfamiliar title ;
aud tho reply comes as follows: I do
uot know this dish by namo, bnt is it
nnything like tho following, both real
American dishes? Chop a pint of un
cooked potatoes, and stew them for five
minutes with a pint of water ; now add
a quart of cold cooked beef chopped
fine, and a litlo more water if
nocessary ; then lift it off tho lire, stir
iuto it two whole, well beatou eggs, a
teaspoouful of salt, aud three dashes
of black pepper. Turn the mixture
iuto a baking dish, and bake twenty
minutes iu a quick oveu. Auother re
ceipt known us "Boston brown hash,"
is more liko our "Shepherd's pie."
For this cover tho bottom of a well
greused pio dish with coll cooked
potatoes passed through a potato
masher, theu ou this put a layer of
cold cooked meat, (auy remains ot
meat, roast, stewed, etc., will do if
finely minced), theu a layer of stale
breadcrumbs, sprinkling it all with
salt uud pepper ; place over it soma
small morsels of butter, moisteu it
with a gill of gravy or stock, cover it
ull with auother layer of mashed po- '
tato, smooth the top over with a knife
dipped iu milk, aud bake iu a moder
ate oveu till nicely browned (about
hulf au hour.)
American housekeepers will smile to
discover that our nimplo breakfast
hash has reached tho dignity of a
formula.
Chuuihi'i'liiiu tin the Stuiuji,
An American who saw a good deal
of the political excitement iu Euglaud
during the recent tkctious and who
utteuded many of tho meetings says
that Hon. Joseph Chamberlain wus
the most interesting of tho speakers.
His composure ou tho platform in tun
face of iusults undreamed of iu Amer
ican polities was marvelous. "Judas!"
"lieuegude!" "Traitor!"' "foady!"
"Villum !" tho crowd shouto 1, but tho
worse tho insult, the more virulent the
abuse, the more the orator seemed to
like it. Ho stood calmly before the
mob without a tremor, an I ulthough
every sentence was interrupted with
vindication he went ou to tho end of
his address with us much calmness as
if he hud been in tho House ot Com
mons. As for his persuasiveness, "it
was a shell-game speech all the way
turoii(;b, uud you was always seeiug
tho bHll wheu it wusu't there," De
troit Free Fret.