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VOL. XXVIII. NO. 30. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13, 1895.
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Job work caah oa JltTry.
Railway traveling m Norway is
cheaper than in any European coun-
try-
' According to English census reports,
the number of occupations of women
in 18151 was five, while now it is mora
than 150.
In ccvcrul districts in SioilT the
lands i-.f tl t.',d communal fiefs are
being 'IlViljutcl to peasants, despite
the epptv,hi:n f tbo clerical coun
cils. During tbo patt year $300,000,000
worth of stock Jn tho Afrioan gold
mines hits been sold in England and
France, "Marketing boats mining
badly," exclaims tho Now Orleans
I'icaynno.
Pauperism assumes prodigions pro
portions in London. Oflloial relief of
:ne kind or another was afforded to
07,909 paupers during the month of
J tily. This is supposed to mean 150,
000 paupers iu midwinter. Tho pros
pect fcr the elimination of pauperism
is anything but bright.
The citizens of Sheffield, England,
have itbkod the Duke of Norfolk to be
their m Ivor next year, and it it un
derstood tb:it he will accept, thus de
voting bin spnro titno and energy to
municipal duties, and giving him a
chanco for nsofulness that the New
York Observer thinks any duko might
envy.
llus'-ia is stimulating emigration
from tho congealed districts at home
lo Eastern Siberia, and selecting her
material, too. Fine grants of land
are given, cullla and seed aro fur
nished, and religions toleration exists
to a degree unknown in European
Russia, Ilenco tho StundiBts are
multiplying.
A writer in tha Popular Science
Monthly who has been studying the
habit of bluejays finds that thoy make
war on and get the better of the Eng
lish sparro r. The sparrows, however,
join other small birds in common
cause against thorn, and it is not un
common to see a jay in soreaming
flight with a score or more of small
birds pursuing him.
IT. M. Stanley's maiden speech in
tho British House of Commons is de
scribed as delivered with oasy confl
uence and as evidently unprepared;
his rmilo was pleasant, the tinge of
Americanism iu his aocent threw his
individuality into a sort of relief, while
his quietly assured eelf-oonfldenoe in
terested the members. On the other
hand, his own party journals, while
admitting that his manner was excel
lent, say the matter of his speech was
not judiciously chosen for the reason
that ho managed to offend the imper
ialists, who desiro to rooonquor the
Soudan, and thoso who wish to evaou
ate Egypt because it is a source of
weakness to the empiie.
Ilarper'a Weekly observes : A con
temporary newspaper is greatly
shocked by the remark of Dr, Baoh,
of the Medico-Legal Society, that
physicians eomotitnos administer
drugs to end the agony of a patient.
It wonders what reply a trustworthy,
honorable aud law-abiding physician
would make to Dr. Baoh's statement.
The chances are that a physician of
the sort specified would make no ro
ply at all. The statement being tine,
it was injudicious enough to make it
nt a publio meeting, without confirm
ing it afterwards. To confirm the
truth of it by the testimony of physi
cians might interest a newspaper, but
there would be no attraction in it for
the physicians. It is as reasonable to
suppobe that some physicians some
times give drugs to end suffering as it
is to believe that they do not tattle
oreruiuch about it afterwards.
Professor Runnobaum, of Berlin,
sent by the German Government to
examine the timber resources of our
Fucitlo coast, expresses amazement at
tho waste he witnossed there. Ha
buys tho end of American forests is
ueur at hand uulossthey are protected
by law against reokless cutting and
conflagrations. While tho leading
. countries of Europe are trying to
make trees grow the Atncrioaus are
sweeping away not ouly the mature
trees, but the saplings, whioh are the
rightful boritago of future genera
tions. "If nothing is done by your
Government," iu his opinion, "you
may live to soe lumber shipped from
Germany to Tuget Sound." Wheu
tho professor was in Oregon and
Washington the whole coast was dark
ened with tho smoke from fires de
vouring enormous traots ot timber
unsurpassed iu the world. His remark
thai, tho life of the forests is the life
of the people iu, in the opinion of the
New York Tribune, no flourish of
j Utter;
ERIV1NQ HOMB THE COWS,
lie drops the bars down, onn by on", tnd
lots the cows pas through.
Then follows them along the lano as onot he
usod to do,
And memory whispers as he climbs the
grassy meadow slope
Of happy days when, Ion ago. a boy so full
of hope
Used often hero to lie and dream upon the
hill's soft crest,
Whon tlrod of piny, his head upon Its dalsy-
fleckod breast,
Till leaping dog awakened him with sharp
and loud bow-wows,
To warn him that the time had come for
driving homo the cow?.
And now he splashes In the brook that flows
from yonder spring,
It ripples, bubbles, murmurs, like a bright
and living thing;
Upon Its sparkling current, here, he used to
sail bis boats,
And once again he throws a chip to watch it
as It floats;
Whirling, dancing, J u mplng, fur away a-down
It goes,
Up and down and here and there, with all
tha changing flows,
Till out of sight it whirls at last, down where
the channel bows,
As once he did when years ago while driving
home the cows.
And all day long In the meadow, while rak
ing the fresh-cut hay,
The brightest fancies come to him with the
brightness of the day.
And every cricket chirping, and the lark that
soars and slugs,
The butterfly that dazzles with its brightly
painted wings,
All seem to be companions, as he works and
works away,
Till sun sinks low and lower, with the pass
ing ot the day.
And a voice calls through the shadows and
the slowly gathering gloam;
"John, mv dear, lot down the bars, the oows
aro coining home."
Walter S. Strunahan,
TI1H LOST EARRINGS,
A TALE OF TUG SKILLFUL THIEVES OF PARIS.
T was in the palmiest
days of the Second
Empire. It was an
evening in in l d
winter. The Paris
sense n was at its
height, and a brill
iant audienoe had
assembled at the
Theatre Franoaia to
witness the per
formance of Jules
Saudeau's delight
ful play, "Madem
oiselle de la Seigliere,"
The empress was present, graceful
and beautifnl ; the emperor at her
side, wrapped in his favorite air of
gloomy abstraction, whioh, like Lord
Burleigh's celebrated nod, was sup
posed to mean so much, yet which,
viewed by the impartial light of sub
sequent veracious history, seems to
have signified so little. Several offi
cers in glittering uniforms were in at
tendance, sparkling with decorations
showered upou them by a grateful
sovereign ; and among these gallant
warriors, conspicuous by reason of
his attire, was a solitary, humble,
black-coated civilian, iu ordinary
evening dress, with the inevitable
speok of red at his button-hole.
In a box almost immediately op
posite that ocoupied by their imperial
majesties was a young and exceedingly
handsome Russian lady, Countess
Ivanofl, conooruin- whose manifold
graces and fascinations the great world
of Faris elected to interest itself con
siderably at this period.
Tho beauty and wit of this fair
northern enchantress were tho theme
of every masculine tongue, and her
magnificent diamonds the envy and
admiration of all feminine beholders.
The countess was acoompanied by her
husband, a man of distinguished ap
pearance. The ourtaiu fell after tho first act.
Tho emperor and empress withdrew
dnring the entr'acte. Many humbler
mortals followed their example;
among them Count I vanoff, apparently
in nowise disturbed by the fact that
the golden youth in tho stalls were
bringing a small battery of opera
glasses to bear upon tho dazzliug
charms ot his beautiful wife.
The countess leaned baok in her
luxurious fuuteuil, fanning herself,
serenely indifferout to the interest she
was exciting. In the dim light of her
curtain-shaded box, the glitter of her
splendid diamonds seemed to form a
sort of luminous halo round her grace
ful head; a myriad starry brilliants
gleamed among tha masses of her
gold-brown hair ; and two priceless
stones Hashed and twiukled like twin
plauets in her little shell-tinted ears.
The count had been gone but a few
minutes, when there was a gentle
kuock at the door; and, in answer to
tho countess's "Eutrez," the ouvreuse
appeared, and said deferentially :
'Tardon, Mine, la Comtesso ; a
gentleman charged with a message
from her majesty the empress waits in
tho corridor, and desires to know if
madame will have tha gooduess to re
ceive hiin."
"Coitaiulyl Enter, I beg of you,
monsieur," replied the countess, as
she recognized the distinguished-look
iug civilian she had alreudy noticed iu
close proximity to tho emperor in tho
imperial box.
The visitor advanced a few steps,
and, still standing in deep shadow,
said, with grave dignity:
"I trust my iutrusion may be par
doned, 1 am desired by ber majesty
to ask a favor of Mine, ia Cointesse,
and, at the same time, to beg that she
will nave the gooaness to excuse a
somewhat unusual request."
"The obligation will be mine if I
can fulfill even the least of her ma
jesty's wishes," answered the countess.
"The case is .this," explained the
gentleman. "Au argument bus antvD
concerning the size of the diamonds in
your earrings and those of the
Countess Woronzoff. The empress
begs that you will intrust one of your
pen Jan ts to her oare for a few mo
ments, as the only satisfactory method
of disposing of her vexed question. I
will myself return it the instant her
majesty gives it back into my keep
ing." "With the greatest pleasure,
agreed tho countess, detaching the
precious jewel forthwith, and deposit
ing it without misgiving in the out
stretched palm of the imperial mes
senger. The countess bestowed a
smile and gracious bow of dismissal
upon her majesty's distinguished em
bassador, who responded by a pro
foundly respeotful inclination as he
made his eiist.
Shortly afterward Connt IvanofT re
turned. "I have been talking to Du
niont," he remarked, as he seated him
self. "Clever fellow, Dumont. I am
not surprised at the emperor's par
tiality for him ; he must find him use
ful when he if in want of an idea."
"Who is Dumont?" inquired tho
countess, with languid interest.
"That lsrather a difficult question,
replied the count, smiling; "there are
several editions of his biography all
different, probably none of them true.
Look, he has just entered the emper
or's box the man in the black coat."
"Is that M. Dupont?" exclaimed the
oountens; "if so, he has been here
while you were away. He came on
the part ot the empress, and carried
of! ore of my earrings, which her
majesty wished to compare with one
of the Countess WoronzofTs."
"Dumont! Imptssiblel I was talk
ing to him the whole time I was ab
sent, and ho only left me at the top of
the staircase two seconds before 1 re
turned." "Nevertheless, mon ami, he has been
here, and has taken my earring. See I
it is gone."
"Effectively," agreed the count,
with a grim smile; "but Dumont has
not taken it. It is to the last degree
unlikely that the empress would make
such a request. Depend upon it, you
have been the victim ot a thiof, made
up as Dumont. "
"Impossible 1" cried the countess,
in her turn. "The affair is absolute
ly as I tell you. It was the veritable
M. Dumont I soe opposite who came
into this box and took away my dia
mond. Only wait a little, and he will
bring it baok intaot."
"To wait a little is to lessen the
chance of its reoovery. I will go and
inquire of Dumont, if I can get at
him, whether he has been seized with
a sudden attaok of kleptomania ; be
cause the idea of the empress having
sent him roaming about the theatre,
borrowing a lady's jewels, I regard as
preposterous. Ah, these Parisian
thieves! You do not know what
soientiflo geniuses they aro in their
way."
With this tho count departed, and
the second act was nearly at an end
before he returned. In the mean
time, the countess perceived that she
was an object of interest to tne occu
pants of the imperial box.
"I was right, whispered tne connt,
re-entering and bending over his wife's
ohair; "Dumont knows nothing of
your earring, and, needless to say,
the empress never sent uim or anyone
else upon such an errand. 1 have put
the matter into the hands of the po
lice, and they will do all that is possi
ble to recover it." "
The countess was duly commiserated
by sympathizing friends ; but nothing
more was heard of the stolen jewel un
til the following day.
Early in the afternoon the countess
was about to start for her daily drive
in the Bois. The frozen snow lay
deep upon the ground, and her sleigh,
with its two ict-blaolf. Russian norses
jingling their bells merrily in the
frozen air, stood waiting in the court
yard while the countess donned her
furs.
A servant entering announced that
an offioer of the police in plain clothes
asked permission to speak with Mme.
la Countess concerning the lost dia
mond.
"Certainly," said madame, gra
ciously : "lot the officer be shown into
tho boudoir."
Into the boudoir presontly came the
countess, ctatoly, beautiful, fur-clad,
buttoning her glovos. Near the door
stood a short, wiry-looking man, with
keen, blaok eyes, closely-cropped hair,
and compact, erect, military figure.
The small man bowed profoundly
while he said, with the utmost res
pect, at the same time laying a letter
upon the table :
"I am seut by order of the chief of
police to inform Mme. la Comtesse
that the stolen diamond has been sat
isfactorily traoed, but there is unfor
tuuately some little difficulty con
nected with its identification. I am
charged, therefore, to beg that Mme.
la Comtesse will have the goodness to
intrust the follow earring to the police
for a short period, in order that it may
be compared with the one found in
the possession of the suspected thief.
Madame will find that the letter I
bring corroborates my statement."
The countess glanoed hastily through
the letter, and, ringing tho boll, de
sired that her maid might be told to
briug the remaining eurriug immedi
ately ; this was done, and the dapper
little man, bowing deferentially, do
parted with the precious duplicate
safely in his possession.
The countess descended to her sleigh,
and drove to the olub, to call for her
husband en route for the Bois. Cross
ing the I'laoe do la Concorde, she re-
luted to bun the latest incident in tho
story of the diamond earring.
"You never were induced to give up
the other I" cried Count lvauoff, in
credulously.
"iiut I tell you, mon ami, an officer
of the police came himself to fetch it,
bringing a letter from his superiors
vouching lor the truth of his state
iveut.".
"If tha prefeot himself had oomo, I
don't think I should have been cajoled
into letting him have it after last
night's experience," laughed her hus
band. "However, for the second time
of asking, we will g and inquire."
The coachman turned and drove, as
directed, to the Bureau of Police at
Which the count had lodged his com
plaint the night before. After a some
what protracted delay, the count re
joined his wife with a semi-grim look
of amusement upon his handsome
bearded face.
"The polioe know nothing of your
detective or his epistolary efforts," he
said, drawing the fur rug up to his
chin as the impatient horses sped away
over the frozen snow ; "your seoond
earring has been netted by another
member of the light fingered frater
nity, and, upon my honor, I think he
was the more accomplished artist of
the twol"
And from that nnlttoky day to thin,
the Countess Ivanoff's celebrated dia
mond earrings knew her pretty ears
no more. San Franoisoo Argonaut.
Death In Awful Form,
A crowd of nearly a thousand people
watched a man drown in Los Angeles
to-day and was powerless to help him.
His name was Thomas Reynolds, and
he was a laborer for a sewer building
on Los Angeles street, near Boyd.
The scene was the most agonizing that
can be imagined.
At about 3 o'clock Reynolds wa9
working iu a new sewer that is build
ing directly underneath an old brick
one. The ground is soft there and
Reynolds was cangbt by a small cave
in. His legs were pinioned by the
falling earth, but no one thought his
situation serious. A rope was made
fast to him and an attempt was made
to pull him out, but his shovel had
fallen across his fe9t, and it was soon
seen that he would have to be dug
out.
The work was at once begun. Sud
denly, to the horror of the great crowd
that had assembled, the old brick
sewer right over the wretched man's
head burst and a large stream of water
flowed into the excavation, gradually
driving the rescuers out. A fire engine
was sent for, and attempted to pump
the iuflow of water ont, but it proved
of no avail.
The man was doomod and nothing
could be done for him. He was up
right in the hole and the water soon
reached his waist. For the first time
he realized that he would die. Inch
by inch the fluid rose, and the poor
fellow lost his nerve and commenced
to utter the most heartrendcring
shrieks and appeals for help. The
streets became blocked with people,
and as the news spread of what was
going on in that hole the crowd be
came frantic with a desire to save the
man. But absolutely nothing could
bo done to sucoor him. The water
reached the throat, then the chin,'
then a ripple struck his lips. The
watohers at the brink of the hole
turned their faces away and
groaned as a last despairing shriek
came from the victim. His arms beat
the water baok frantioally and then
were still. San Francisco Examiner.
Uiiiuue Suit for lama,re.
A mined playground is the basis of
a damage suit for $10,093 in the dis
trict court, Dulutb, Minu. The plain
tiffs are Amuud and AtnathihU Olsou
and the defendant is the contracting
firm of Fredin & Wilson, who recently
built a blook near the Olsou home iu
the East End. The Olsons allege that
the land adjoining their home was 'an
excellent playground for their chil
dren, that it was a good place to
stretch a clothes line and that on it
was a fine well of water. All this had
been wreoked, so they claim, byl the
defendant firm. It is also alleged that
the dirt left around by the contract
ors Jias ruined the Olson home and
rendered it unfit to live in. The
health of the children has been dam
aged, the complainant states, by tea-
son of their now having no plaoo to
play. Chicago Times-Herald.
Resembled a Criminal.
The Bavarian minister at Berne is
likely to feel a good deal of natural
resentmeut against the Wwiss police
force for some little time to come. He
went to Wiutertbur, the Swiss Bisley,
where the National rirle festival wat be
ing held, and was enjoying himself in a
quietly Teutonic fashiou wheu sud
denly he was seized by detectives and
hauled off to the nearest lockup. Hi
demand for an explanation was met
by the confident assertion that he was
no other than a notorious criminal,
who had been "wauted," for many
months. The detectives were so sure
they had tho right man that it was not
until a high Government official had
identified the unfortunate diplomat
that they consented to his release.
They had a portrait of the malefactor
which closely resembled the features
of the minister.
The Ulow-Woriu Cavern,
The greatest wonder of the Auti
podes is the celebrated glow-worm
cavern, discovered iu 1 S'J 1 iu the hear;
of the Tasuiauian wilderness. Tut)
cavern or caverns (there appears to bo
a series of such caverns in the vioiuity,
each separate and distinct), are situ
ated neur the town ot Souttiport, Tas
mania, iu a limostoue bluff, about tour
miles from Ida Bay. Tho appearance
of the main cavern is that of au un
derground river, the entire floor of
the subteraneau passage being covered
with water about a foot and a hu!f iu
depth. These wonderful Tasiuauiau
caves are similar to all caverus fouud
in limestone fortnationf, with the ex
ception that their roofs aud sides lit
erally shine with the light emitted by
the millions of glow-worui. which in
habit them.
THE MERRY" SIM OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARR TOT.T) BT THE
FUKNT MEN OP THE PRESS.
A Sa1 Dilemma The Contrariness of
Things A I'rservatlon lly the
Audience The Cynic's View, ICtc.
"O dearest heart, be mine," he yalil,
When rfnini? for a wife;
"I cannot live without you, love,
You are my very life."
'Alas! I cannot toll y . in. Hir,
To take mi'," she replied;
"Frr If you take your life, of course,
You'll be a sutcifle."
Hichmond PlapajMi.
A TiESKUVATIOX.
"Yon say that horse isn't afraid of
anything. Can my wifo drive him?"
"I don't know, sir. I've never seen
yonr wife." Life.
THE COSTnABINESS OF TniNUS.
Tie "That little trip of ours to
Boulogne never came off, after all 1"
Sho--"Xothing ever does come off
except buttons I" Punch.
HE MAXAfiES TO COLLECT IT.
Gummey "Young Hurkins says his
rich wife is all the world to him."
Glanders "I know. Ho also says
tho world owcshiin a living."
I)T THE AUDIENCE.
"Histl" whispered tha villain,
creeping stealthily away.
"I expected you would be," rejoined
the stage manager, with curling lip.
Puok. .
THE CYNIC S VIEW.
"What," said tho emancipator,
"what has the bicycle done for
woman?"
"It has enabled her," said the cynic
on the back scat, "to take her place
in the middle of the road, nlori,; with
horses." Buflalo Express.
no Dorm Auorr ir.
Mrs. Fairview "Doctor, do you
thiuk my husband fully realizes his
condition?"
The Doctor "I do. ne asked mo
to-day if I was a married man." Life.
FRODAULV TRUE.
"You know, George," she was ex
plaining, "I was brought up without
any care."
"Marry me, my darling," said
George, "and you shall have nothing
else but care." Detroit Free Press.
THE NEED WAS SUPPLIED.
Creditor "Now, I want that money.
When you came to me six mouths
ago you said yon wore in neod of a
temporary loan."
Debtor "Not at all. 1 said I was
in temporary need of a loau."--Puck.
AN AKISTOCKATIC PATIENT.
Doctor "Countess, 1 should be
glad if you would lot iuo hoar you
cough."
Conntess "I dou't feci disposed to
do so just now. (To her maid)-- Eliza,
ploase cough like I did this moruing. "
DISTINGUISHED AUOVB THE 11 list.
Mr. Hatnphatt (tho dashing, voting
romantic actor) "Now, why, may I
ask, do you call your dry goods clerk
your star boarder? Ho has tlio cheap
est room and is not a 'i'hospiau. "
Mrs. Hashleigh "ilo pays lm
board; that's why I" Puck.
WHY HB WOUUIKD.
"I would u't worry so much about
that boy of yours at oolljge, " said tho
frieud, ot thu family. "He's not a
poker player."
"I kuow he isn't," replied tho father
ruefully, "but from tho sizo of his ex
pense accounts I'm afraid ho tUmln
he is." Chicago Post.
A DASUEHOUS PKACTIUK.
A. "Is dyeing tho hair as danger
ous as the doctors would make it ap
pear?" B. "Certainly, you may take my
word for it. Only last spring au tiu
cle of miue dyed his hair, au 1 iu three
weeks he was married to a widow with
four children." Fliegcude Dlaoltcr.
NO MOKE KXrElllMUN'l INIl.
Mr. Slimpnrso "Are you euro yo t
can be couteutod with love in a cot
tags?" Adorod One "Yen, so lou.'j as the
love lasts."
Mr. Slimpurse (who has been mar
ried before) "Utn-perhaps we'd bet
ter wait until I eau adord n rcjiilur
house." Now York Wookly,
IT IS TIIK USUAL TH1NU.
The Cbairuiau ot the Meeting
"Geutlemeu, you seu ouly ruin
around you. The lurid flames have
wiped us out. Our towu is gouo. It
is iu ashes. We were not very well
insured, but no must try to bull I up
agsiuuuwbai little money we have.
Now, the Chairman would like to re
ceive suggestions us to tho wisest
thiug to do. What shall be thu lir.it
step? "
Leading Citizen --"I move, Mr.
Chuirmuti, that we club iu and buy a
lilO-tu inc. "J u!e.
SIBltELY A MA-Ii:H OK IIUSINI'.SS.
"Glorious sport !" cried tho man by
the roadside as the seoroheis went by.
"1 can't see it," rutnrnu I tho muu
who was watering his horse.
"l'hat must bu Lveiuisu you uro
prejudiced," i.ail the uiau who bad
first spokeu. "it has everything iu
its favor. 1 even tiu I 11 au exctlleut
thing for business."
"1 dou't," replied the o'.Lr, sullen-
lj.
"From that 1 iuter you ara tuo t
privtor of a livory sUlilu. "
"I am. Aud you?"
"Oh, l'ui a surgeon." Chieujju
Tost.
BCIESTIFIfJ AX1 IXDUSTRIAL.
Welding by electricity is spreading.
A pound of cork will sustain in tho
water a man weighing 131 pounds.
Forty to fifty miles a dsy is about
the maximum distance attained by or
dinary riders on a tricycle.
Tho Sonthern Pacifio Railroad Com
pany will use crude petroleum from
the Los An gel os oil fields as fuel lor
a number of their locomotives.
A folding bicycle has bceu devised.
By a simplo snd ingenious arrongo
ment the connecting rods of the framo
may be folded until the machine is re
duced to the size of one wheel.
Russian philanthropists propose that
freeh blood from the abattoirs bo nsud
in tho preparation ot bread, crackers,
sausages, etc. Fresh blood contains
much bitumen andean be obtained at
nominal cost.
The recent Geographical Congress
nt London declared iu favor of tho
universal use of the meridian of Green
wich, It also deolared in favor of the
metro as the geographical standard of
measurement.
A vein of natural gas extends along
the eastern andsouthern shore of Lake
Ontario in the counties of Jeffersou
and Oswego, and wells have been sunk
at different points, gas being found in
sufficient quantities for commercial
and illuminating purposes for several
villages.
Professor Stoddard writes that whilo
"argon" is undoubtedly a new sub
stance, the evidence does not warrant
the positive assertion that it is an ele
ment rather than a mixture of ele
ments. Having discovered its exist
ence, the scientists are now busy at
tempting to imagine a use for it.
It appears that certain fungi may bo
disseminated by snails and toads. Au
Italian naturalist, Voglino, has found
in the digestive canal of these animals
an abundance of the epores of speoics
of Russula, Trioholoma, Lactarius and
other kinds of toadstools. But tho
power of germination of these spores
hud not been destroyed by passing
through the body of the animals in
question. -
The completion a few years ago of
the object glass ol the Lick refractor,
with a diameter of thirty-six inches,
was rightly contidered an important
event in astronomy. But tho Yerkcs
lens, now ready at Cambridge, Mass.,
is forty-one and a half inches in diam
eter, end is without an equal in 'size.
When it is mouuted at tho Lake
Geneva (Wis.) observatory, the atten
tion of astronomers throughout tho
world will be turned in that direction
as the most probablo poiut of now dis
coveries. Employed In Odd AVajs,
Here are a few instances of tho
many extraordinary ways in which
people find employment nowadays :
An aged commissionaire, to whom
the faces of all "men about town"
were familiar, recently obtained em
ployment on the opening of a new
West End club, bis duties being to
simply stand at the door and touch
his hat to all the notabilities who
passed, in order to attract attention
to the new venture.
Giving evidence as a witness in a
running down ca;p, a shabbily dressed
individual recent! declurcd that for
years he had picked up a living by
roaming about the streets aud patch
ing up broken harness with a few
pieces of stout leather, needle and
waxed thread that he carried in his
pocket, and affirmed that on Derby
days, bank holidays and such liko spe
cial occasions he had sometimes mado
as much as fifteen shillings.
There is au old aud artful fisherman
who regularly, in the season, infests
the Balmou rivers of tho NorMi aud
sells tho results of his own illicit an
gling to London sportsmen desirous of
returning to their friends with hand
some evidences of thoir skill with rod
and line, and in this way he use to
declare ho made sufuciunt every
season to keep him during tho winter.
Pearson's Weekly.
New Potatoes.
This is the way now potatoes are
manufactured in 1 .tis : Old pota
toes, the cheapest and smallest that
can be obtained, are purchased by the
rafistoleurs de pommes de terre, as
they are called, who carry their prop
erty to the banks of tho Seine, a good
supply of water being ueccssary. The
potatoes are put into tubs half filled
with water ; then they are vigorously
stirred about by the feet aud legs of
the manufacturers, who roll up their
trousors aud stamp on the raw pota
toes until they have not only com
pletely rubbed off their dark skius,
but have also given thum that smooth
and satinlike appearance which is so
much appreciated by gourmand.'.
They are then dried, uoUly wrappo t
iu paper and arranged iu small baskets,
which ara sold at the Marchunds do
Comestibles for five francs apiece.
The oddest part of the whole business
is that the rafistoleurs make no secret
of their trade, aud may daily bo seeu
at work near the Pout Louis Philippe,
within sight of tho Hotol-dc-Yille.
Boston Commonwealth.
liatluT Suggest ire.
A humorous incident occurred at a
weddiug conducted iu a Melbourne
church not very long ago. The
ollioiuting clergy muu had just reached
that part of thu set vice when the
question is put to tho bridegroom :
"Wilt thou have this woman to he thy
wuddiul wifo?" aud iu firm tones ho
replied, "I will," when a fishmonger
chauccd to bu passing tho church, and
cried out iu stentoriau toues: "1'iuo
fresh lltttheadb!" There wti au anJi
ble smile, aud the bridegroom, at lue
subsequent breakfast, remarked that
he was so disconcerted at the lime
that he felt as if he could have duuu
lor the fellow, Ljudou ToKiapU.
WH EM POLLY SMILES.
Whon Tolly smiles tho grayest skies
Take on a heavenly blue;
And O, the light in Toily's eyes
How bright it is! How trif!
And from his pereli, on hersdato
Young shoulders, you can sim
Love shoot his arrows swift and straight.
When Tolly smile nt me.
But O. my soul! when Tolly frowns,
How black and fierce the skies!
And. oftentimes, a raindrop drownj
The light iu Tolly's cyey.
XSut when I kiss her all the rain
And storm elouds quickly fleo
And happy skies are blue again,
For Tolly smiles at me!
Now York Truth.
HUMOR OF THE 1UT.
Time is money iu the sense that it
cannot be teld. ruck.
Policeman "Is there anything un
touched?" Proprietor "Yes; the
burglar alarm."
"All things como to him who
waits ;" but all things aro not worth
waiting for. Puck.
We all hate a flatterer that's why
we liko to stand by and scold him.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A woman always means what sho
says at the exact moment ot her say
ing it. Detroit Free Tress.
'I would send you a kiss, papa,"
wrote little Lucy, who was away on a
visit," but I have boon eating onions."
Tit-Bits.
Bacon "Mrs. Lipton ssys her baby
has begun to crawl, already." Eg
bert "He must bs a born pugilist."
Harper's Round Table.
A. "I hoar that your friend X.
has gone to South America. Was it
upon his phvsiciau's advice?" B.
"No; his lawyer's." Tit-Bits.
"Mamma, where do eggs come from?"
"Chickens, my dear." "Well, that's
funny. Papa says that chickens ocme
from eggs." Harper's Round Table.
Jaspar "I- consider Vokes the
greatest actor in tbe world." Jump
uppe "Why?" Jaspar "Jo is toj
philosophical to bother about philos
ophy." Puck.
"Wcro you at the fete of tho flow
ers?" "Yes, and I was knocked sense
less. One man peltel me with roses,
forgetting to remove thorn from the
flower pots."'
"It depends on tha way a man
weighs with a penny-in-the-slot ma
chine whether he determines his
weight, or waits to find tha blamed
thing won't work.
Anxims Inquirer (to crusty old
gentleman) "When do you suppose
this rain ia going to stop?" C. O. G.
"When It gets to the ground."
South Boston News.
Physician "And yon have felt this
way for. several days? H'ml Let me
Bee your tongue." Patient "It's no
use, dootor ; no tongue can tell how I
suffer." Boston Transcript.
"I dreamed last night that I met
that sccnnerel Riggs." "What did
you do?" "Nothing, that's the worst
of it." "Well, if ever I catch him out
in a dream I'll knock him down."
A Holy Fair at Allahabad.
At Allahabad, in the northwest prov
inces of India, a religious fair is held
periodically on the dry part of the bed
of the Ganges, to which natives ot all
castes aud from all parts of India
travel iu order, by bathing in the
sacred river, to obtiin release from
sins or to otire disease. Thousands
l .TT -l 1 . ll :
upon tuousauus oi uiuuoos mase mis
long aud weary pilgrimage, and during
the height of this gathering the oity
teems with natives of all conditions.
Souio make a vow to measure tha
whole journey of their pilgrimage,
hundreds of miles, perhaps, by tbo
length of their bodies. This they
effect by lying flat upou the ground,
making a mark where their held
comes, rising and toeing this mark,
and then lying down again, and so on
until they arrive at their destination.
Others carry weights, others gall
their flesh with chains. Indeed, the
means adopted for self-mortifi catiou
are countless. The bathing is con
ducted ou remarkable Hues. The
sacred river itself is by no means in
viting. Withiu a few yards of the de
votees who are driukiug of the holy
stream or bathing iu it vultures may
be seen preying on human corpses
that float dowu. Yet this very water
is takeu away by meu iu various ves
sels suspended from lour poles de
corated with tiuy flags, aud sold far
away up couutry at mauy auua, and
evou ruDees, for a single drop, so deep
aud strong is the lliulu's faith iu tbj
water of tho saered river. Pull Mall'
Gazette. t
A Juryman's Lugic.
A well kuown lawyer ou circuit iu
the North of Euglaud, curious to
kuow how a certain juryuiau arrived
at his verdict, meeting him one day,
ventured to ask.
"Well," replied he, "I'm a plain
man, uud I like to be fair to every
one. I dou't go by what the witnesses
say, I dou't go by what tho lawyers
say, and I don't go by whut the judges
fay ; but I look nt tho muu iu the
dock, aud I say, 'He inuit hnvo douo
soinelhiug or ho wouldu't bo hre, ' so
i briu'.' them all in guilty." Pear
sou's Weeklv.
A .Naval Problem.
Duriur tho receut uiaueuvers tho
British fleet successfully accomplished
u tactical problem. Two fljets woro
placed iu tlio Atlautie, separated by a
distance of lOd miles, aud iu pojitiou
uukuown to each other. They went
instructed to tiu 1 each other au 1 effect
a juuetiou. They fouud eaobi tlier iu
m hours uud uffeotol the juuetiou iu
twelve.