The Forest Republican ratis or ADVrftTiatMOl Forest Republican. ( II published ovory WodnojJay, by J. E. WENK. Office In Smearbaugh & Co.'i BuIlOing ELM BTllEET, TIONE8TA, TA. 1'ornn, - bi.oo Per Your, No iiterlntloui riwnlvaj for a shorter period thno tliroo month. ()orrmpun(lun-a sollcltu I from nil purls of the country. No not loo will bu lulcoa of nuouymoui communication. On Bqnara, on laoh, m Idjh tlrm. ,f I iO On Hqnar. on inoh, on month. ... $ CO On Bquwe, on inoh, tbraa month. . IM On Bquaro, on Inch, on yar.,.. .. W HQ 1 wo KqunrM, on ymr 15 OC Quarter Column, on yar, .... 00 OC Half Column, on yr -.- WOO On Column, on year. -r. ... ...... 100 ti Lal adTM-tlMiiunt to easts par Um toch iBsartioa. Marriaire and death aottaas graMa. All hUlafmTflrlvadrertlamtnt aa VOL. XXVIII. NO. 20. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 10, 1895. 1.00 PER ANNUM. quarterly. Temporary adverUaeiiia.t 1 v paid la advmnoa. Job work cash oa dalirarr, Tho "scramble for Afrlcu" goes steadily on among tho European Pow ere. Arizona is looming tip ns a honey produoiug Territory. Tho shipments this Reason will, it is estimated, bo not loss tbnn 123 touH. Tho remarkable growth of business in steadily illustrated by tho activity of tho railroads, rnpociully in tho Boutb, Wont nnd Southwest ueotioup. Chief JuHtico Fuller, of tho United fitntes Siii)reiuo Court,. said tho other lny in tho course of nu interview : "If wo wnnt to live to a preen old no wo should stay in hnrnesft. Tho dry rot of aiiiiloBHuoss outs out existence." Franco reports 21.1 centenarians, all except sixty-six being wouiou. They ore generally ahead in tho tables of longevity, n fact sometimes expluinud, tho New York Tribune stutes, by tho superior tranquility of their lives, but this does not hold good in tho case of tho women of Frnuoe. By act of tho Lcgitilaturo of tho State of Ohio a cloy-workers Bchool hasbeen established in tho Ohio Slate University, where tho chemistry, mechanism aud mauuul work ot every thing oounccled with clay iuduHtrios is taught. Professor Ortou is tho di rector of this school. Two nioro Blabs of btouo inscribed with words and uiusio have been found in tho Treasury of tho Athen ians at Delphia by tho French. I5y using some of tho frugmouts previous ly discovered, n second Hyiuu to Apol lo, with its notes, has been put to gether. Tho date is after tho con quest of Oroeco by tho Romans. Tho Greeks soem to have used tweuty-ouo notes in their musical notation, where modern inusiciuns use only twelve. A oongregutiou iu Kansas seems to havo found a now way of raising funds for their cTiureh work, relates tho Now York Independent. They havo agreed to sow ICO acres of land with wheat, and, after deducting a certuiu sum for rent, dovoto the rest to pay ing church expenses. Tho members furnish team, plows, laborers and scod, and expect to bo nblo to provide preaching for evory Subbuth from tho proceeds. It is claimed that t,ho first trolley lino ever operated iu America was opened at Itiehmoud, Va., iu Febru ary, 1888. "3inco thou," says writer in tho Engineering Mugazino, 'there have boou put iu operation in England, France, Germany, Italy and tho United Stutes not less than 700 tleofrio railways, coveriug 7000 wiles." This is o good beginning, but it is only a beginning. Tho capi tal a'ready invosted in such rouds is likely to be doubled iu the noxt twelve months, predicts tho Now York World. Tho number of the pioneer mission aries of tho early part of this coutury is fast diminishing, observes tho New York Independent. One of the latest to go is tho venerable Dr. Dean, who Bailed for Siam among the curly Bap tist missionaries in 1831. lie labored for many yoars at Bangkok and after ward ot Hongkong, then again at Bangkok until 1881, when ho returned to Lis native land. Dr. Dean .gave much attention to translation both of tho Bible and other books, and to tho writing ot commentaries. Notwith standing his more than foursoore years, ho has been well until within a few weeks, when ho suffered au no oidont at tho ago of eighty-eight. This was more serious than had ho been a younger man; and ho died at Bun Diego, Cul. The Bureau of Animal Industry of tho United Btutes Department of Agriculture Las, for tho last five or eix years, been experimenting upon the connection between ticks aud the Texan oattle fever. Iu the blood of cattle affected by this disease thoro is au infusoriuu which quickly destroys the rod blood-oorpusolos, aud the same infusoriuu has also been detected in the body of the tiok. It Los boon repeatedly transferred from diseased animals to healthy ones by moans of tho tick. Tho presence of this in fusoriuu is regarded as diuguostio ol tho disease, uud, adds a writer in Nature, the elloot of its corpuscle destroying powers is seen all over the body, as well as fa tho rod-oolorud urine, giving tho name of "red-water" to tho disease. Tho "louping-ill" or "trembling," of tho north of Britain, Las been truced by sotno directly to the presence of ticks upon the sloop ; and tho sumo may be said of a disease called "heart water" at the Capo of Good Hope. It is quite possible that certain other obscure oattle diseases in different parts of the world are cansod by ticks, HOPE. W snilod nnd nailed upon tlio desert win, Wbcro for whole days wenlonosoemod to bo. At InsPwa saw a dim, VRun lino nrlnu Iliitwuen the lonely billows nnd tho skirt), Thnt grow and Krnw until It woro thn shnpo Of cove, and Inlet, promontory nnd enpe; Then hills and valleys, rivers, fields nnd Woods, Btoeplus nnd roofs, nnd vlllngo neighbor hoods. And thou I thought, "801110 lima I shtill oin Imrk Upon n son more desert nu 1 moro dark Than evorthis was, uud between tho Bklou Aud lonely blllowH I shnll sou nrlno Another world out of thnt wuste mid lupso, Liko yonder luud. i'orhnps porhnps porhnps!" V. D. IIowoIIh, iu Harper's Mairnzino. ABB1K COLEMAN'S NEPHEW BBIE COLEMAN was straugoly des titute of kith or kin. Bo far as she kuew thcro was only one person in tho.world whose voins ran red with enough gen uine Colemnn blood to entitle him to bo called a relative of hers, and thnt was a half-unolo of her father's, who Lad long sinco passed tho allotted ago ot three score and ten and who was still fighting duily battles with his chronic aches and pains for tho solo reason that Providence Lad never scon fit to lot him die. On tho morning when sho was thirty two Miss Coleman thought sorrowfully of tho unmerited plnguo that had swept oway her kinfolk, andmore than ono tear rollod off tho end of hir nose nnd plained in tho cup of lukewarm tea that stood on thotnblo beforo her. Bho finally swnllowod tho last drop of the concootiou of Oolong and waters of Murah, nt tho snmo time drying her eyes with tho corner of her white linen handkerchief, that sho might make Buro of tho identity of tho messenger boy who camo slowly tip tho walk and rouud the corner of tho Latino to tho door of tho dining room, which oc cupied tho front portion of the north L. lie Lad a telegram for Miss Abbie. That worthy lady had learned to look upon telographio communications as thn most potent disturbers of tho pub lic peaoe that wore allowed unbridled circulation throughout the land ; per haps sho had well grounded reasons for bo rcgurding them when it was tuken in consideration that overy one sho had ever received hud notified Ler of the death of another Colemnn. Bo that day sho let tho yellow envolopo lie on the table where tho boy Lad put it and eyed it suspiciously for several minutes after Le had gone. Consol ing herself at last, however, with tho thought that thore was only oue more Colemnn to die except herself, she opened it aud read : "Dear Aunt Will urrlvo nt 10.30 over tho Wabash road. Your loving nephew, "Tom Colbma.n." Bho pinched herself as she Lad been wont to do in childhood days to us sure herself that sho was not dreutuing and then sho read it again. A sccoud reading necessitated a second pinch ing. That reviving process having beeu brought to a satisfactory ter mination, she culled in the uiuu-of-nll-work, who was trimming rose bushes just outsido the wiudow uud prooeedod to lay the matter before him, in the hope that both bruins in conjunction might cvolvo Borne plausible solution of the strango message. "John," she said, holding tho tola gram out for inspection, "I Lave just hcarl from my uophow Tom." John laid down his pruning knife, which he had unwittingly carried iuto the house, and removed his hut. "Have you, ma'am?" Le said quiet- "Yes, " she returned, "ho will bo hero this morniug at half-past teu." John shifted his hat quickly from oue Luud to another and looked at Miss Abbie woudoriugly. "I didn't know you had such a thing as a nephew," he sail at luugth, his curiosity gettiug tho bout of him. "I've been here fifteen years come next mouth and during that time I have seen everybody die oil that was uuy kuowu relation to yju. Where's ho from." Miss Abbie gave vent to her emo tion iu a shrill little laugh. "You know us much about him as I do, John," she said, coutldeutiully. "J never heard of him beforo iu my life. Of course, I have no nephew, never did Lave a nephew aud never can have a nephew, but what am I to do? There is no other Abbie Cole man within fifty miles of here, so, of course, tho telegram is meuut for mo. In Bo.uo way this young fellow Lai githcrud up a scrap of my history, uud the only way I can get even is to investigate his pedigree iu return. Auyway, it will be a comfort to shako Lands with a young inuu who has for u time supposed himself to be my boua-tide relative. Lot tho rose bushes uloue this morniug, John, uud get reudy to drive down to the station and meet him." The l'J.20 truiu over tho Wabash roud was three minutes ahead of time that day uud wheu Misj Colemuu's mau, who was five minutes later thuu he hud luteudod to be, drove up to the uupuiutcd wooden station, the only persons left in sight were the sta tion master uud a middlu-ugul gentle man, who seemed to bo barastiiig that crusty official with numerous uuwel come questions about the topogruphy of tho couutry thereabouts aud the means of reaching auy desired d-jsti-uutioti. 'There's Miss Colemnu's man now," paid tho station muster, locking tho door aud throwing the mail sack across Lis shoulder. "He can toll you whatever you want to know," hocu'llod back, as ho Ktnrtcd down tho road toward tho village, "and maybe givo you ahrt in tho bnrgnin." John drew tho horses up besido tho plntform, whrro tho stranger Bnt.lenn iug against tho wall 'of the station, and clambered out of the wagon. "Are you Mr. Tom Uolomnn?" ho asked, producing tho telogram as ho would a letter of introduction oud handing it to tho other as an evidence of good faith on his pnrt. Tho man took off his hnt, brushed buck his gruyish-brown hair and nod ded. Then, as if fearing that that silent acknowledgment of his identity was insufficient demonstration, he added : "Yes, I am. Who are you?" "I'm tho general mannger of Miss Abbio's place," John answered, with a touch of resentment at tho brusque ness of tho speaker. "Sho sent mo down to meet you. Are you roady 1" For nuBwcr the gontlouian climbed up to tho scat besido tho driver, and twenty minutes later ho followed John up tho path to tho Lall door ; it was as a grave dignified exponent of au old-school politeness that ho met Miss Abbie on the threshold. "My dear aunt," ho said, taking both her hands iu his and drawiug her toward him. "I am glad to Beo you. Cun you honestly say as much?" That claunish little WDiuan's lonely hourt was filled to overflowing with tho joy of having some one who called himself by tho family namo como into her life uud greet her affectionately, and her ever-ready tears trickled down on his strong white hand. "Ah," she cried, forgetting that sho had no nophow, never did Lavo a nephew and never could Lave a nophow. "You are welcome, indeed. I am moro than glud to see you." At dinner, whon Tom Coleman sat opposite his now found aunt, he hud au opportunity to study Ler mi nutely. "Do you know. Aunt Abbie," he said, ruefully, "it makes me feel liko an overgrown schoolboy to adlress you so. I had you all pictured out in my mind. You wore to bo nt least fifteen years my senior, and I am forty. Yet here I find you still in the thirties, and as pretty aud fresh look ing as a girl in her teens. 1 can't ac count for it. Had I not already known that you wero much voungor than my father, aud ouly a half-sister, I would think 1 had made a mistake and got switched off on a sido struck some where." Miss Abbio's faco flushed and she was on tho poiut of making a confes sion of her poverty'stricken condition, so far as blood relations were con cerned, but tho delusion of fancying herself communing with some oue bouud to her by tics of nature was sweet and she Lugged it to her heart aud let tho mistake drift ou for future reparation. "There aro many things I want to know about my father's family," he said to Lor that evening, "and you, of course, are tho one I look to to straighten out tho tangle of circum stances that has been voxing mo for several months. Whon are you roady that each of us should turn biographer?" "Not yet." sho said, hastily. "If there aro any unploai;ant and unan swerable question troubling you put them aside aud let thiugs take their own courso for a time. Wo will con sider thorn by-aud-by." "I bow to your superior judgment, my dear aunt," ho said, with mock humility. "Wheu, in your opinion, tho proper time hus arrived, let me know. " It was two weeks before he broached tho subject again. "I ought to go away to-myrrow or tho next day," Lo commenced abrupt ly one evening, wheu they sat ou the steps watchiug Johu at work among the rose bushes, "aud before I leave I think it only just that you enlighten mo on tho family history iu general. But perhaps I ask that you will con sider it a point of honor that I take the initiative and tell you what I know of my father after his family lost sight of him. I should Lavo done thin in the boginuiug, but you will remember that my attempts to loud up to any such a conversation wero discouraged by you." Ho paused. "Yes," she murmured, "I romoui momber. Go ou." "I have but little to tell, and I shall say that without auy attempts at rhe torical embelishmeut. I was born iu tho fur West. Whon I whs loss than a year old my father died. My mother lived but a short timo after thut aud I was brought up if bringing up you could call it by her people, who had moved to a neighboring town the year before. From somobody, 1 presume it was my futher, I had inherited oou tidorublo independence aud ambition, aud us soon us I was old enough I commenced to try to make for myself a way iu the world. How fur I huve suoeeeded you cuu perhaps bu tho best and most impartial judge. It was ouly within the last few years thut 1 huvo entertained uuy active interest iu my futher's fuuiily. Ouo day I uskud uu old woman who had been my mother's nearest neighbor uud closest friend if sho hud ever beard either of my parents say uuythiug about his life beforo he camo West, aud she told me thut just previous to his death he hud spoken t J my mother of a Judge iu St. Louis to whom she could write if she ever found it necessary or expe dient to make auy inquiries ubout his past. There was but little Lope that tho Judge wus liviug, or if so Le could be fouud, but relying ou thut slight bit of information, I set ut work. Strange to suy, ho wus still well known iu St. Louis, although ho hud retired from active lifo. All ho could tell me wus thut my futher hud lived iu tho koutueru part of this Stute ; thut Le had been wild uud Lad run away from homo when ouly a boy. Ilia father mnrriod again after several years and they had issuo a daughter nnmod Abbie. I followed up branch aftor branch of tho Coleman family, but nowhere could I find a woman with such a praonomon. At last I hoard of yoit and straightway startod to boo you. Guided by boiuo stxnngo and pcrhnps unpardonable impulso I tclo graphod you the news of my oxpoctod arrival withot taking timo to notify you in a moro formal manner of my existence nnd discovery of your where abouts. Bo hero I am, your wayward nephew, rondy to ntono, bo far as it is possible, for my own trausgrossions and those of my fathers." John had finiHhod Lis work, and for 'Btvernl minutes after Tom consed talk ing thoy lookod out in silence over the gnrden of roso bushes and tho fruit orchards beyond. "I thank you for your confidence," she said at length, catching her breath between words, as if choking with some suddon emotion. "You havo made a mistake. I knew it from tho tirst, but for my own Bnke I did not like to nndoceivo you. My futher nnd mother both died when quito young, as did my two little brothers. I never had a relative who could possibly havo been connected in any way with your pooplo. I know it when your telegram came, but I told John we would find out who you really wero. Then after you came it sooraod very hard to set the mutter straight. You see, I have been so lonely sometimes," she said in a toue of self justification, "and you cannot know what a comfort it was to me eveu to claim relation ship with scino ono who only fancied I was his aunt. I nm very Borry I let you drift on and ou in your false im pression so long. Of course, I saw it would all havo to come out some time. Pray forgivo me." "My doar auut," he said with a laugh, "for so I shall contiuuo to call you iu spits of the absurdity of tho title wheu applied to you by me, I cunnot blame you. I should not havo plunged into tho mat ter headfirst as I did. In spite of the mistako, I do not see why our rela tionship should bo counted a thing of tho past. I shall leave to-morrow, but is it necessary that I stay away?" "Certainly not," sho nnswerod. "You will always be welcome. " His interests demanded Lis presouco in many placos and John was trim ming tho roso bushes the next summer wheu he oamo agaiu. "I found out tho truth of tho case during my nbsenoe," Le explained, whon he agaiu brought up the old sub ject of their relationship. My father's sister Abbie diod whou only a little child. The same scythe that Las laid your own Louso low scorns to Lavo reaped a rich harvest in mine as well. We aro the ouly Colemuns left in which oither of us Las any interest. Do you think it well that wo should spend our lives opart?" Bho looked at John, who was toiling patiently over a rofractory trailing rose bush, and thon sho glauccd up at him. "I don't know," sho said, naively. "How can it be helped?" He laughed again. "By marrying your loviug nophow, Tom," was tho prompt reply. Chi cago News. A Human Autograph Album. A singular modical froak Las been exhibited before the Clevelaud (Ohio) Medical Society. The subject, whoso name is Brokaw, and who works in a steel mill, is twenty-four years of age and finoly developed physically. He went to Dr. Aldrich a few days ago to havo his lungs examined, aud as the physician tupped aud hammered ou his brawny chest ho prosently noticed that little elevations nnd ridges wero appearing everywhere he struck. Amazement Bucoooded interest as the doctor discovered in a few minutes thut tho mau's whole breast was swol len and angry looking. Ho was in formed that thut couditiou Lad long existed and that the effects of . irritat ing the skin iu liko manner lusted sometimes for hours. Wheu the pa tient was placed on exhibition before the society a letter, which had beeu impressed upon his arm during the alteruoou, was still visille. Borne of the physicians experi mented with mutch sticks until the mau's back was a veritable autograph album in embossed letters. Brokaw said ho wus in perfect health and thut this peculiar sensitiveness caused him no trouble, ths ouly sensation being a slight burning. Letters uud words written upon him during the time the society wns in session appeared with distinctness wheu he retired from tho room. Philadelphia Record. Wanted lo Steal Curs ot Steel Kails. A Chicago muu undertook to steal eight cur loads of steel rails, which were stacked up at Grand Island, Nob. He churtered tho cars aud boguu to loud tho rails iu tho night, but the stution agent soou fouud what wus go ing on, uud the game was up. If tho muu hud succeeded in gettiug tho rails awuy from Grund Island he would huvo hud au elephant ou his Lauds, tor he never could huvo fouud a purchas er, uud would havo certainly beeu caught. Such things uro too easy to truce. Ono cuu hurdly believe thut Chicugo hus such a fool. New Or leuus Picayune. Stone Sawing. Did you know thut stone can bu cut with a saw, uud marble, too? The saws look very like tho big saws used iu steam saw n ills, but aro heavier. Pcrhups wheu you kuow thut it takes one hour to cut through eight inches of stone you will reulize what a Lurd substance it is. A mau iu Philadel phia has invented a saw whioh recently out through a stouo teu feet long uu 1 two feet thick iu forty-live minutes, so that a grout guiu hus beeu made in stone sawing. The Outlook, THE ME11RY SIDE OF LIFE. ST0RIK3 THAT ARK TOLD BT THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Strayed A Veteran Tlio Mother ot 1 11 ventlon M Isu mlvrst ood losl blllty of Roosters, Ktc, Ktc. Mt'ry bad n little lamb; it followed hor HRib day. Till Mary put tho bloomors on And tbeu It ran nwny. Louisiana Timo.1. A VETERAN. Lawyer ' 'The cross-examination .fidn't seem to worry you a littlo bit. Have you Lad any previous experi ence?' Client "Six children. "Brooklyn Lifo. THE MOTI1EIC OF INVENTION. "Whnt yo be pulliu' off tho pig's tail for, Maudy?" "Well, you see tho dinner horn's broke, and my voice ain't stroDg enough to reach where the Lauds are, bo I hit on this kidea." llurper's Ba zar. MISUNDERSTOOD. Boarder (suspiciously) "Thnro in do foreign substance iu this coffee, is there?" Landlady "Umer well, I'm afraid there in, sir. Tho spoon in it is a souvenir from India, I beliovo." Detroit Free Press. POSSIBILITY OF HOOSTEM. At the gardener's: Lady "What aro those littlo green plants?" Gardoner "Eggplants, mum." Lady "Well, now, if I should buy somo and pet them out are you sure they'll lay?" Chicago liecord. HIS DEEP-SEATED TnOl ULE. "Doctor, kin yer proscribo fer a sick feller fer uothin'?" "What's the matter with you?" "Indigestion." "Overeating?" "Nawj uothin' iu me stuinick to digest I" Chicago liecord. THOSE SENSELESS QUESTIONS "Whoso funoral is thnt?" "Charley Hookersmith's." "What I Is Chirley dea l ?" "Oh, no! It is his twiu brother who is dead, but as Charley a bach elor and his brother has a wife aud four small children, Charley prevailed npon thorn to bury him iu his broth er's stead." Now York World. NOT A BOMBAKDMEST. Kissam "Has her papa ever fired you?" Iliggius "He has never resortod to bombardment. His tactics are moro in tho uaturo of a passive blockade." "How is that?" "When I call to see Lis daughter. Lo remains iu tho parlor during the whole of tao intorviow." Detroit Froo Press. WOMAN'S 1'IiEltS. Tho new woman prisoner ' looked jver the jury of gentlemen in tho box. "Moy it please the court," she 'said with great hauteur, "I desire to bo tried by a jury of my peers." "That is impossible, madam, I am sorry to say," replied tho gallant judge. "This court Lnau't the power to summons augels to serve on juries." Detroit Free ProsH. HE rOl'IiD BE Tlit'STED. "Do you thiuk, sir," said tho girl'i mother, "that you havo the putiouco and forbearance to bo a kind hus band?" "Madam," replied tho young mau, in ouruest tones, "I cau put a four teen and a half stand-up collar ou a number fifteeu shirt without saying a single strong word." Aud she consented to tho match at once. Household Words. ONE OF TUB UNITED STATES'. 'Miss St. Upid "How inauy Btates are there, Mr. Jester?'' Mr. Jester "Forty-four, I think, without couutiug matrimony." Miss St. Upid "Matrimony?" Mr. Jestor "Yes; it's oue of tha united states, you kuow." Miss Bt. lipid "No-o, I didn't kuow, but thoy'vo admitted so mauy lately that 1 never c:iu remember all their names." Harper's Buzar. IT STOOD THE TEST. A publio writer had a partition wall fixed up in his study, uud ordured the carpenter to made it iu such a way thut no sound could penetrate through it. "The best thing will bu to till it iu with shuvings," said the muu, uud set to work. When he had finished his employer went and stood ou ouo sido of the par tition aud culled out to the man, whu was ou tho other side: "Do you heur me, Juutke?" "No, sir I" wus tho prompt reply. MR. lllOUi'S At'CI'.sroMED AWAKENING?. "How do you muuage to wake up so early every morniug?" inquired Boggs of his friend Biggs, who goes to work ut 0. "Alurin clock," replied Biggs. "I huve one, too, but I never hear it go off. " "I never Lear mine, oither," de clared Biggs. "Then how in tho world do you wake up?" "My wife wakes me up every morn ing buying : 'For goodness' sake, get up uud stop tho ulariu ou that clock I It will aro us 3 the neighborhood.' By the lime I am awuko it Lus stopped." r-Buu Francisco l'ost. SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL. Lend deposits of almost illimitable extent are found in Missouri and Kansas. The Rev. Cnrr, of Triatnm, England, has a collection of nbout i!0,();)l)stiiffod birds, which aro to be placed in n Liv erpool museum. Dr. Luigi Buinbou has recently made a collection of Roman surgical instruments which indicate that tho Romans had a high degroo of oper ative skill. M. Junsscu recently informed tho French Academy of Boiences that he had determineil tho oxintouco ol water vapor in the planet Mars by means of tho spectroscope. M. Camillo Boulo read a report re cently before the French Academy of Bcionco on the discovery of somo gi gantic remains of elephants. Ouo tusk measured no less thuu 2.8j metres. Taris has established a municipal laboratory for bactoriology iu tho old Loban barracks, where analyses of suspected cases of diphtheria ore made within twenty-four Lours after tho materials have been Landed in. The balloon by means of which M. Androo, tho Swedish ongiuecr, will en deavor to reach the North Polo, will, it is said, bo capable of carrying three porsons, four months' provisions, a sledge and a Bailing boat, and will bo sufficiently gas-tight to hovor in thu air for thirty days. It has beeu fouud that ono volume of water will dissolvo only .007.1 vol umo of tho gas helium. This is tho lowest solubility thus fur. recorded. Helium is totally insoluble iu bon ziuo and absolute alcohol. Its temper ature of liquofuctiou hus not yet been determined, but it is thought'to bo at least as low as that of Lydrogcu. In calculating tho cost of electrio cooking, tho cost of thu lamp is put at about ono per cent, per hour. Om pint of water con be brought from sixty degrees Fuhreuhoit to tho boil ing point at the cost of two sixteen-oaudle-power lamps for one hour, or, by the use of tho oquivalont of five lumps, it can be made to boil in twelve iniuutos; while by tho uso of the equivalent of sixteen and one-half lamps it can be made to boil in 3.7 minutes. The Origin ol tho Word I)a?o. The Times-Herald Las recently La 1 several inquiries as to tho meaning of tho word "dugo." It is not au Italian word, nor 1 legitimate word iu any luugunge. It is derivod from the Spanish proper name Diogo, pronounced Dyngo, which is the most cotnniou Christian name of men in Bpnin, Bt. Diogo or Bt. James beiug the tutelary saint of that couutry. All Spanish methurs namo ono sou ufter the saint, and thu result is that Diego is tho Christian name ono oftoucst henrs amoug thu Bpuuiurds and ou the borders of the Moditorrauouu. From this -camo tho habit of the sailors of all nationalities iu the Medi terranean of culling evory man em ployed on vossels whose uumo wus un known to them Diego or Dugo, that boiug tbo namo thoy most frequently heard among such employes. Just at mutes und captains 011 our lakes aud rivers cull the gouerulity of their roustabouts "John," that beiug the namo most usually heard among us. From this ouslom ot the sailors the transition was eany in this country to call all foroigners Dagos that uumu from the Mediterranean shores, uu.l heuce the namo is applied indis criminately to Itnliaus, Greeks, Si cilians and Spaniards. It is a mere nickname, but it is so deeply rooted in popular speech that it will always endure. It is like the word yaukee, which among foreigners is considered to bo tho name of tho whole American people, though pmung ourselves wo discriminate largely as to its applicability. Chicago Times Uerald. A Window In His Ilea I. Although "every dog has his day,' few of tho species uttaiu to the dis tinction and oority of ouo which form erly belonged to tho late Arthur Dur ham. The famo of this auimul wus spread fur aud wide ubout live uud twenty or thirty years ago, and "Dur ham's dog" wus as wull kuowu iu scientific circles us tho Prcsidcut of tho Royal Society. For tho better pursuit of his investigations iuto the stute of tho braiu iu sleeping and wuk iug Mr. Durham hud removed a large purt of tho uuimul's skull aud hud glszed tho on (loo with a stout watch gluts. The operation Lad beeu per formed with tho ussiutuueo of uu;ii t hi. tics, uud the dog wus quite uua wuro thut uuything of tho kind hud occurred to him, or thut ho hud u truuspurent crown to his crauiuui. But through his watch kIuss the statu of tho circulation iu his bruiu iu sleep ing or wukiug could bo observed with thu greutost accuracy aud euse, uud much useful iuformutiou wus thus sup plied by him. I believe thut ho lived huppily for many yeurs ufterwurd uu 1 thut hu Buffered uo iueouveuieueu from Laving a gluss top. Londou World. The Illusions ol Distance. Tho three bright stars which consti tute the girdle or buud of Oriou never ehunge their form ; they preserve the buiuu relative position to each other, uud to tho rest of the coustellutioii from yeur to year und age to uge. Aud yet tho profound rust of these stars there is a ceaseless motiou ; iu their apparent stubility uud everlast ing euduruueo there is constant change. In vast courses, with incou ceivablu velocities they uru whirliug urouud invisible centres, aud over shifting their positions iu space. They uppeur to us motionless uud change luss because of our own great distuuoo from them. Atluuta Constitution. A HAPPY FELLOW. He was tho happiest fellow aliv. lion't rare how trouble might try him Tjovln' bis brother.-) An' iloiu' to others Jent like he'd have "e:n do by him. Summer or winter - h sllll was 00 iteii ( lion't enre how corn w.e: 11- "Hiii' Wheal tumblin' over An' "corners" ou clover Trouble steered clear o' hi d n-eliu ! Huuhiuo or cyclone, it still iv tli sam Never could phase him a minute; Tnko ull bis money. An' skies were still Miniiy. ' !,rovidene.i...p1-.ivi lenee n, ii' That w.'Li iiis Hiiyin', 11 in iller w'l it en-i-, Aud when, with tli Inn: of a l-ioile'i-. That eniints not the b.- Asks uo ctuwn for croi, -Iln laid down hi.-, life fi r miot'ii'M , Uo smiled 1 brave snil"! -'ei-o hi., spirit took fiitflil To tin-' heaven (he w.i- wo'-lhy t iwinil') Passed under the ro I With a simple 'Tlian! i..J' frovld-'iiee providi-u-'c in ii!" P. L. Ktantou.ln Atlanta I'-m-l il-itio-!. HUMOK OF THE D IV. Love mallei tho world no roan 1 1 but it will not make tho eligible youuj men go round. Puck. If Mahomet wcut to the Mountain it was doubtless fur tho purposo ot getting his name iu tho society col umn. Boston Trauscript. "Whnt isChurley doing for a living now?" "Writing." "I didn't kuow he was literary." "Uo isn't. Uo writes homo for remittances." Tit Bits. "How do you like my now trolley hat?" "Trolley hat! It's very pretty, but why do you call it thut?" "Why, Johu snyu it's perfectly killing." Brooklyn Life. Weston "Do you thiuk a yoiia-' man cau safely marry ou $10 a week ?'' Eastou "Well, that depeudi n good deal vn how much tho gill's father is worth." Sotuervillo Journal. Ilcsorter "Aud is everything ou your farm nico and frosh?" Farmer "Nice and fresh? I gucs you'd thiuk so if you'd seo come of our city boarders." Boston Traveler. "I must bo careful," observed tho cyclone, us it caromed across the country, "about taking a drop too much. It's all up with me if I onco get dissipated." Detroit Tribune. "Whnt boennio of thut trilling fel low. Tweodies?" "Oh, ho weut West nnd opened a store." "Doing well?" "No; doing time. Uo was caught in tho net." Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Princely "Did you see Jaberson last nitrht, spending money like n prince?" "Liko a priucu? Ho blew in nbout $1. Do you cull thut like n prince?" "Buro; the mouey wus his wifo's." ludiuuupolis Tribune. 'How did you feel ou your fiftieth birthday?" asked ouo of Bustou's bachelors of another who is bogiu niuir to grow old. "Never happier or friskier iu my life," said ho, "but I had a bud LoadaoLo next morning." Boston Heru'd. "It's hard to tell just what the pub lic wants," said the theater munitger, with a sigh." It hadn't struck mo thnt way," replied tho treasurer. "It seems puiufully easy to mo. in niue cases out of ten it wants its money buck." Washington Btar. Btrauger "Do tho people do much hunting urouud here?" Native "They do, for u fact. Dead loads of it." Btrauger "What do they hunt doer and qiiuil?" Native "Nope. I.iouey to meet thoir notes in bank with." Floridu Times-Uuiou. Miss Coygirl "Jack Boftleigh told mo last night thut I ought to accopt him becauso ho was willing to prove his love for me." Her freud "What did you say?" "I said I couldn't seo it iu thnt light." "I'heu what did ho say?" "Nothing, lie just turned tho light out." Philadelphia Hocord. "I've always said." remarked Mr. Scrabbles, "thnt too much education jest amounted to mukiu' people furgit ull about common sense." "WLut's tho matter?" "My daughter this rnoruiu' asked 1110 how 1 felt. I told her 1 wus iu pretty bud shupe. 'Oh, pupul'suid she, like bho wan goiu' to faint. 'Don't you kuow that bud bhupo is bud form?' Kas if uuybody didu't know thut !" Wusluugtou Stur. "Do you think, "uskud the t'olouel, us Lo cocked Lis revolver, "thut yon can make room to-morrow for thut communi jatiou of mine which hus lain ou your desk for six weeks past?" "Certainly I" guspud thu editor, "if we're crowded I cau eulargo tho paper, or--" "Thut is satisfactory," interrupted the Colonel, still eyuiug his weapon. "I heard that you wero crowded for spuoo up here, uud I thought if I got you uud thu foreman out of tho wuy there would be inoro room." Atlanta Coustitutiou. A UiHTr Stone. Did you ever seo a goode, the ugly crcttiuy-ycllow, rouuded rock, which, upon beiug broken open, presuutt a perfect wilderness of diamoud-liko cryt-tuls? They uro oddities of thu oddest kiud, uud uru not too pluutiful uuywhere. The word "geode," meuus "ourtlif.inu," uud is applied to ull hol low stoues which uro Idled with cry stallized mutter. Wheu brukeu open some ure fouud to bo tilled with puru looliiug clour water. Others uppuur to bu full of yellow or brukeu puiut, while u third class uro tilled With whut nppeurs to bu a fair quality of tur. No odds whut thu lllliug of the cavity may bu composed of, tho tides are ulwuys studded with crystals. Should tho tilling bo yellow, tlio crystals uro likely to bu of tho suuio color, out by far tlio greater portion of thorn uru us clour u ioo or diamonds. Suu Fran cisco Call,
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