fine Forest Republican li publishod every Wednis lay, by ' J. E. WENK. Ofllce in Smearbaugh & Co.'g Building , ELM STREET, TIONE8TA, TK. Tormt, - ttl.OO lor Year. RATXS Or ADVKRTISINOI For "DTT UBLICAN. nn Rjin Miainnh thi-Munnntlu. . ft 00 w 00 oc 00 On. Kquara, on. Inch, on, jr.. ., JO 1 wo tsquarw, on yaar 1" Quarter Column, on. year. Half Column, on. ;..,-. . JO On. Column, on. jr.-r WO Laga! adTMrtiMounti tea ati po seen inmrttan. Marrlaira and daatb aottaM (ratia. All bUI. f or yearly adTartlaamanta aDaal 1 No subscriptions received for a shorter period ttmn throe month. Correspondence tollnitol from nil purls of Iho country. No noilo will bo takeu of anonymous commutilo.ulorn. quarterly. Temporary adTWtJm. VOL. XXVIII. NO. 31. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 20, 1895. S1.00 PER ANNUM. b paid In adranoa, Job woi work oash oa daUvwy. RE EST Tbo Duke of Argylo co mplains tbnt tbo Highlanders are too prolific "Tho bicycle in responsible for e serious decay in public manners," de clares tlio New York Sun. China propones to fortify Fekin by building a chain of huge, forts, pro vided with the best of artillery, around the city. Our War Department coi:t lust year, 1801. $51,507,931). Our army is the most expensive, proportioned to its numbcro, in the world, stales tho New York Mail and Expross. A Babylonian tablet in the British Museum which has just been de ciphered has nu accouut of tho death of King Sennacherib, almost identical with that in tho Biblo (II. Kings, xix., 37). Tho Department of Agriculture is preparing n gigantic rood map of the United Slates. Tho inajftrhen com pleted will show the condition as re gards paviug or macadamizing, con struction and repair of every highway in tho United Stales. The first Btep in (ho construction of good roads ii to find out how many bad ones there nre, which this mnp will set forth. Tho Volk points out that the Ger man courts discriminate in favor of duelling. If a tailor or cobbler re sents; an insult by knocking clown his I'efumcr ho suffers imprisonment with nil its rigors, but if an officer or other chap of "quality" punishes a similar insult by shooting his adversary, or running a sword through his body, he is merely detained within tho confines of some fortress and there treated as a "gentleman." Maine is well in hue, cote- the New lorkSun. Her corn crop this vest will be one of the lurgcst over known. It is also a grc:ii year for beechnuts iu Maine. It's been a bij year for lobsters, too, over 4,000,000 lobster? having been taken along the Maino roast this season, Recording to tho es timate of tho Fish Commissioner. This is a greater quantity than was taken on all tho rent of tho Atlantic coast from Now Hampshire to Florida. Tho fishermen got au average price of eight cents apiece for tho tisb. There is considerable talk again in tho Michigan peninsula about the pro posed canal to connect tho southoast end of Lake Michigan with tho west oud of Lake Erie, that is, to connect Chicago and Toledo, and thus save tbo several days of transit through the length of Lake Michigan 'and Like Huron. It is said Chicago capitalists have recently been making investiga tions in connection with the scheme. Tho undertaken ii spoken of as the "Trans-Michigan Ocean Ship Canal." It looks fasciuatiugon the map. Batavia, N. Y., formerly paid $7, 200 for seventy-two are lights, or $100 a light. By the issue of bonds a new municipal plant costing $23,000 was completed one year ago. The number of lights was increased fourteen, mak ing eighty-six in all. The actual cost of ruuuing tho eighty-six lights was Tj70.0S, or 11.(32 per light per year less than eleven and one-half cents per night. Adding extraordi nary expenses, Batavia paid for eighty six lights uuder village ownership So', 055.57, or at the rate of sixteen cents a night per light. A lumber dealer in New Hampshiro of advanced age, and who retired from active operations many years ago, expresses great surprise at tho rapid Change in the distribution ol wood uud lumber since his active business period. Ho referred to many piles of Southern pine timber along the tracks of repair shops and railroad yards, throughout New Hampshire and Ver mont, ready for use in bridges, plat forms, car construction aud general .repairs. Ho also referred with disap pointment to the almost total cessatiou in the use of hard wood for fuel by the railroad corporations. Those com panics in yours gone by made large contracts at almost every station along the road for hundreds or thousands of cords of firewood for the engines and "boilers, also for the stoves in the tail wny cars. Now the amount of wood consumed by the railroad corporations is quite iusiguilicunt aud only for kindling purposes. Thus a large in come is withdrawn from the towns and villages along tho lines of New Englaud railways, and the price of cord wood has sunk to an uuremuuer atire rate, diminishing the present valuo of hard wood lands, but allowing the same to grow up and finally t be used as timber fur many aud vaii sd industries which are sure to b ia iY a duced in the future ooouoiuy of AVm JJljUud. LITTLE KINDNESSES, tf you were lolling up n weary lil'.l liearln? a load beyond yum- strenglli to bear, Straining each nerve v.niiriugly, and still Htumhlliig and losing f--o!hol .1 hero ami there, And each one passing by would do so ninc-h As glvo one upward lift and go Jlhelr way, Would not tho slight reiterated touch Of li.lp and kindness lighten all the day? If you were breasting a keen wind, which tossed And buffeted and chilled you as you strove, Till, liaflled and bewildered quite, you lost The power to see tho way, aud aim and move, And one, If only for a moment's space. Clave you a shelter from tho bitter blast, Would not the touch givo you tho strength to face Tho storm again when tho brief rest-was past V There is no little and there is no much; We weigh and measure and doflne in vaiu. A look, a word, a light responsive touch Can be the mlnlstors of Joy to pain. A mau can die of hunger Walled in gold, A crumb may quicken hopo to stronger .'' breotb, And every day wo give or we withhold Some little thing which tells for lifo ol dest b. Hunday School Times. DAPHNE. ALL, angular and peculiarly plain, she was the wife of a Queensland Bush Carrier; and it is, I bolieve, an ac cepted fact that ladies of that sta tion are not noted cither for their culture or their re finement. Crawling with heavily-ladoned bul lock wagons across plains aud never ending scrubs would not appear to be an existence possessed of muny charms, and yet I behove there is no case on record of a man or woman who, having ouce served his or her ap prenticeship to the trade, has ever re turned to a civilized life again. In tbo Qneenland Bush carrying trade, you must understand, tbero are three main arteries, the townships of Hugbondun, Longreaoh and Charle ville, and from eaoh of these places there flows continually a stream of enormous table-topped wagons, bound for stations in the Oreat West, all more or less remote from what is generally supposed to make lifo worth living. Tho existence of the carrier is rough to a terrible degree, and must in no way be confounded with that of the respectable, jog-trot class who ply their trade in English rural districts. Small wonder that the women grow to bo hard and rough, consorting, as they do, with nono but the sternest of the opposite sex, and daily doing work that would test the patience and en durance of the strongest man. These are some of the folk who in reality do the building up of our colonies, al though the credit goes to another noisier, uglier and far less useful class. But to get back to my story. As I have said at the beginning, she was tall, angular and peculiarly plain, and, in spite of the glaring incongruity of it, it must be recorded that her baptismal name was Daphne. Her husband was a carrier on the Hid-geree-Kalaba track, and she was at onuo tho brain and the mainstay of his business. My first acquaintance with them occurred ou the edge of a Boree scrub, a dismal place, and more than a hun dred miles removed from either of tho above townships. They were camped boside a big .water hole, and ou dis mounting from my horse 1 was intro duced by the carrier, with becoming ceremony, to his wife. Greatiwero tho proofs of friendship they showed to me, aud long will X cherish tho memory of that rough but hearty hos pitality. Next morning I went my way, they theirs, and it was not for nearly a yoar that we met again. Wuen next I heardjof them. Daphne was in the township hospital, recover ing from a serious accident occasioned by n full from the wagon ; aud her husband, au enormously built mau, with a rough manner, which, by those unskilled iu such matters, might easily have bceu mistaken for insolence, had that very day returned with loading from the west. By inquiring alter his wife, whose illness I was aware of, I touched the right string ; for ais eyes lit up, his voice softened aud ho au swered my questions with surprising meekness. "3he was getting on well," he said, "but all the same, it was terrible slow work." Now, it must be kuown here that although tlio Kalaba Hospital ocoupies tho best position iu the township, even theu it if, il anything, a little less cheerful thau an undertaker's show room. Oreat gray plains surround it ou three sides; the township, with lis ugly whitewashed roofs, stares at it from tho fourth; aud it would be im possible to say which view would be likely to have the most depressing cifleut upon an invalid. I am told that Kalaba was only desigued as adepot for tho Great West, aud I console my- Kll with the reflection that in the very near future the Overland Railway will obviate that necessity, aud theu it will be scattered to the four wiutls of heaven. At present it is tho Deca logue turned backward. W hen iny business was finished I io. to up to the hospital aud left some newspapers. Duphuo beiug the only putieut, I found her ocupyiug the hest bed iu tho ouly ward. Her wiry black hair atraggled in rank confusion about the pillow, while her complex ion huriiiouiy.ed, us well as a well tunned skin would permit, with the dingy whitvuw-t of tiiu count "'.' iuc Only the great dart boaest eyes lent relief to the monotony of her expres sion, and they were now full of some thing which, when read aright, spelt hopelessness of an extraordinary do gree. Toward the end of tho afternoon tho husband made his appearance, and, preceded by tho matron, stalked into hiswifos pretence. For r. moment he stood in tho doorway, dazed, be wildered perhaps by half darkness; then, recognizing bis wife, ho ad vanced toward the bod. "Daphne, old gal," he said, with a liitle tremor in his voice, as he bent over her, "an" 'ow"s it with ee now? le looks better by a good sight I" She gave a little sigh before she ro plied. "I'm nearly well, now, Bill; bet ter'n 1 'ave been by a long chalk. Sit ye clown, old man, and tell ne w it it goes with the children an' the team !" Bill sat very gingerly on the edge of the bed, and as if out of compliment to toe peculiar cleanliness of the place, fell to scrubbing his face with a flar ing red cotton handkerchief. "Tbo kids is fit, and the team's first class I" ho answered. Theu with a gesture of almost awe, he assumed possession of one of the tbin brown bands upon the coverlet. "My lass, 'ow dog poor yer 'ands has got, to be sure ; but they was al ways pretty 'ands to my tbinkin'." Dnphue patted his great brown paws and allowed a little wan smile of grati lied vanity to flicker across her faoe, Let the woman be ever so old and plum, shs is never beyond the reach of a compliment from the man she loves. "An' 'ow's tho roads lookin' out back?'' she asked. "Al, an' no mistake; green as a leaf all tho way. irom here to Kidgeree Creek there's water in every hole, an the little wild flowers yer used to like is that thick along the track yer can hardly see tho grass tor em. I brought yer some 1" Out of the lining of his big cabbage- tree hat he took a tiny bunch of Bush bluebells and placed them in her band. It was a critical moment for both of them. He was acntely afraid of ridi cule ; she, for somo reason she could not have explained, did not know whether to laugh or cry. She laid the flowers on the table by her bedside, aud then turned to her husband, tho better to expross her thanks. "Bill," she said softly, "you was alius a good chap to me 1" "Nay, nay, my lass, you mustn't say that. You don't know 'ow we misses yer out yonder ; things ain't the same at all without you. Make 'aste an' get well an' come back to the kids an' me, au' let's get out of this 'ere town. "Bill! I shan't be " Shan't bo what, lass?" He laoked rather anxiously down at her. "1 Bhau't be " The weak voice paused as if to think of n word, then she seemed to choke, and after that a painful silence ensued. Finally she said : "I I shan't be long." Bill gave a sigh of relief and con tinued : "I'm 'avin' now tires put on the forewheels, an' we've got the new pair o' steers in place o' Billabong an' Blossom that were too old for work. We've got full loadin' out to the Dia mautiua an' back, an' when the trip's dono there'll perhaps be a matter o' 20 to put in the stocking for the kids. Out well, my lass, an' come back to yer place ou the load ; tho Bush wind, an' the blue sky, an' the sight o' them wild flowerB'U soon set yer right. Yer ain't foelin' any worse, are yer?" "No, old man; the doctor says I'll be out this side o' Sunday." "That's the talk! We're camped dowu yonder on the creek, an' the day ye're out I'll como up and fetch yer meself. The team'll be all fresh, tho loadin' '11 be aboard, an' the very next mornin' we'll have the yokes on, au' bj where a man's got room to breathe I" "Why, Bill, I never 'card yer talk so before! It's like what the parson, who comes here every Monday, oalls poetry I" Thera was an ocean of pathos in the man's reply : "Yer sue, old girl, I must talk a bit different, ior yer aiu't never been ill liko this afore I" Another long sileuco fell upon the pair. Then ho rose to say goodby, aud his wife's faoe grew, if possible, paler thau before. "Bill I" she began falteriugly, "I've been a-tryin' aU the time yer've been here lo tell yer sometbin', but I duu uo bow to begin. It's this way " "Out wi' it, my l iss. What's wrong? Ain't they been a treatin' yer well in 'orsepital?" "It's not that, Bill," sho answered, "But there I can't tell you. Flesh aud blood couldn't, let aloue yer wife. You must just ask the doctor, when yer get otitkide, if 'e's got auythiu' to hiv uiu' mo wulkiu' with tho team, will yer?' "If yer says so, iu course. But, Daphne, there ain't nothiu' agi'n it, is there?" '.ki ax him; 'e'll tell yer, Bill. But 'eru's tuo rn'itriu comin'; I guess yer'd better bo goin'. Tell them kid dies their mother ain't forgot 'em!" liaising herself with an effirt, sue pilled the big u.au's tangled h?al iown to her, uud kissed bim ou the l'oreheud with a gentleness that would have been grotesque, if the sentiment tiiat promoted it had not bee so growsomely puthetio. Then, l., niutrou upproached the bud, he went dou u the corridor to find the house surgeon. The latter, I may tell you, was a roue.ii mau, embittered by bar 1 work and iufculliitient l' t u i us ; t'i' pj. ition boing but little Bought after by tho sbinicg lights of the profession. When Daphne's husband entered he was engaged writing to the Board, de manding for the sixth time, an in crease in his meagre salary. He looked up, and, seeing the man before him, said roughly: "Well, what do you want?" The carrier shuffled from one foot to the other with evident uneasiness. "Beg yer pardin, sir, an' sorry for interruptin' ; bnt the missus axed me to ax you if it were likely yer'd have auy objection to 'er walkin' alongside the team when she comes out?" "Whose missus? Oh! I under stand ; tho woman in the ward there. Walk beside the team? Good heav ens, man ! What are you talking about? Are you mad? Howon earth can she walk beside the team?" "I mean, in course, sir, when she's well enough to come out." "Well enough to come out? Why, man alive 1 she's as well now as ever she will be. It was compound frac ture of both femur, and a double amputation. She hasn't a leg to stand ou, much lees to walk with I No! No ! You'd better look out for a bouse in the towftship, and find some body to move her about for the rest of her life. She'll never be able to trav el with you again. Here ! hang it, man, go outside if you are going to be ill!" "I ax yer pardin' sir, but if yer don't mind, I'll just sit down for a minute. Everything a-goin' round an' round, an' I don't somehow fee) kinder well." Chambers's Journal. New Uses lor Teat. Oermen chemists have been experi menting with Irish peat, and havo secured such remarkable results that a syndicate has been formed for the manufacture, on a commercial scalp, of the various products that may be obtained from Ireland's bog 'lands. One of these products is an antiseptic "wool" for dressing wounds. It pos sesses absorbant qualities so great that it will soak up nine times its weight in moisture. The medical de partment of tbo French army has adopted this substitute for lint, and 12,000 kilograms of it were sent with tbo expeditionary force to Madagascar. By a different process of chemical treatment the, peat is formed into a material from which any article re quiring hardness and durability can be produced. The Gorman syndicate has now on exhibition in London in snlatois, axle boxes, machinery bear ings, gun stocks, pianoforte legs and numerous other things to illustrate the possibilities of this new material. Peat has been used in this country for lining rofrigerators and cold stor age rooms and to some extent as a oovering for steam pipes, because of its value as a non-conductor of heat. But by these new German processes a wido field appears to have been opened, in which capital and labor may be profitably employed, and the Irish pout bogs acquire a value hith erto unknown. One of the largest beds of fine peat in this country un derlies the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia. If the experiments of tho German chemists should ultimately result in a large utilization of Iroland's great deposits, it will not be long be fore some American ohemiit deter mines whether Virginia peat can be treated in like msuner and the same products bo obtained. Woroester (Mass.) Spy. Nightingales Sold lor Food. M. De Farville, our Paris corre spondent ssys.'asks for tho suppres sion of bird markets. lie counted in one Paris bird market last May 200 nightingales, hundreds of pinsons (charming little songsters peouliur to French woods and fields) and 2000 finches. Ship loads of quails are sent from North Africa to France for tho food markets. The goura, heron and bird of paradise are becoming rare. The plover must Boon disappear, its wings beiug a favorite tiimming for hats and its eggs a supper table deli cacy. The white of its eggs has also, when dried aud hardened, great in dustrial value, imitations of meer schaums being made with it. Japan is the only country that shows itself well alive to the value of all birds. Every species is now protected in tho nest ing time. M. I'ichet, an authority on bird life, unites with M. Do I'arville in demanding protection for all birds in the nesting season. They are man's one auxiliary against the insect. London News. A Ueuiarkable Vog. "1 have a dog," said a iuinister.who had just heard a precocious crow story, "who is very sagacious. One Sunday he followed me to church and sat among the people and watched my movements iu the pulpit. That after noon I heard a terrible howling in my baok yard, aud of course I went to see what it meant. I fouud my dog was iu a woodshed, standing ou his bind legs in a dry goods box. He held down a toru ulmuuao with oue paw and gesticulated with tho other, while he swayod bis head and howled us to au audieuee of four other dogs even more sadly thun I had done iu the morn ing." The narrator of the crow story threw up tho sponge. London Tit Bits. Au Extraordinary Beggar. At Bilboa, Spain, a beggar diod lately at the aqe of one hundred aud three years. There are said to be quite a number of ceutenarians iu the laud of the Hidalgos, and the beggar's death would hardly have been deemed worthy of public notice if the autopsy of his body had not disulosed the very extraordinary fn -t that the deceased I.nr.n-'ts wh ii consumptive for certain iy .ii.t less t'mu li.ti.' cvutury. New V,rU World, THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. 8T0RIK3 THAT ARE TOLD BT THE FUNNT MEN OF THi PRESS. Fulfilment Itrjectrd Very Profi cient There Anil He Owes K very body A Martinet, Kte., VAc. She grasped the bar, arranged her skirts With dainty little tucks and flirts; Posed on the saddle, felt the tread Of pedal, and, "I'm ofT," she said. A whirl of wheels, a swerve and sway, And from the roadbed, where she l;ty, Hho realized in full dcree Tho climax of her prophecy. llichmond Dispatch. veiiy rnoKiriENT there. "They say that Gertrude's husband is almost illiterate." "Well, he signs a check beauti fullv." REJECTED. Business Man "Are you a good whistler, my boy ?" Applicant "Yessir; daisy." Business Man "Get!" Boston Courier. AND HE OWES EVERYBODY. "Jones has a good deal of money, hasn't he?" "Well, he ought to have," "How is that?" "He never pays any out !" Chicago Becord. IN NEED OP llErAlUU. Sandstone "Weren't yon dancing with Miss Calloway last night?" Fiddleback "Yes; how did you know?" "I saw bcr go into a chiropodist's this morning." Life. SHY. Lothair "How do yon manage about your poor relatives now you have got rich?" Staythair "Oh, I sift all my rela tions, rich and poor, the good from the bad, and keep 'em strained." Judge. A MARTINET. A soldier leaving the barracks is stopped by the Corporal of tbeGnnrd. "You cannot go without leave." "I have tho verbal permission of the Captain." "Show me that verbal permission." London Globe. CRAFTY. Doctor "I really don't understand. There is no reason why you should go in for a reduction of corpulency." Patient "Still I want you to put me through a course of anti-fut treat ment. My Eulalia shall see with her own eyes how I pine away for lovo of bcr." NO ACCIDENT. Mr. Grogan (with tbo evening paper) "Phwat's this Oi soe ! Two yachts turned oopsoido don?" Mrs. Grogan (turning the Bleak in her excitement) "Bado it, Moike! How many drowndid?" Mr. Grogan "Wait a bit, thin it's moi mislitake. Oi hod tbo iapir oopsido down." Puck. THE FAMILY MOCrOK. New Resident (at Faraway) "Who is tho best phyBiciau in tbo place?'' HighLocal Authority- "Dr. Germs, by all means. He is becoming a very famous man. Why, people aio send ing for Iii in from everywhere. I ad vise you to try bim." New Resilient--"What is his spe cialty?" High Local Authority (with pride) -"Autopsies, I believe, sir." Jud;.;e. A flESEllOVS LAD. "Tommy I" No answer. "Toiu-mec !" "Well?" "What are you doing lo your broth er Willie?" "Nothiu'." "Yes, you nre. You are making him cry." "No, I aiu't I'm beiu' generous. I'm giviu' him half o" my co Uiver oil." Harper's Round Table. NOT (C1TR HOPBt.CKrf. Husband (after a long tirade) "You have talked for an hour about that letter I forgot lo mail." Wife "I havo a right lo. Just thiuk how " "And yon are Mire I am ju.st as bad as yon make out ?" "You are utterly and entirely " "Ono inomunt. Give me credit fur at least one thmc. " "Well, what?'' "I didn't steal the stump," Now York Weekly. A llldl.odll AI. KIU. First Scientist "Eureka ! What a find! Hero is conclusive proof of all our theories. See this rock? it is us rouud as u barrel, uud just about the same shape and si.e. It must have rolled for ages at tbo bed of khuiu swift htreaui. Note how smooth it is." . Second Scientist "Jt is uuliko auy rock iu this vicinity, it must iiuvo been brought from a great distance, probably by some inihty iceberg iu tbo agei that aro gone." Third Soieutist "There aro moun tains near here. It muy have come dowu iu a glacier." Fourth Scientist "It is uuliko auy of the rock on those mountain, iu faot, it is unlike any rock to be found ou earth. It mu-t havo dropped lrom the moon. lie re comes a furm baud. I w ill ask bim if tin re nre any tru li tions concerning it. Sen here, my good mini, do you Know uuvtliing about this htruiiij roc!; y l.rm Hand "That tisiter bo u bur lei o' cement," New lork Weekly, SCIENTIFIC AX!) IXDL'STHIAI. In tensile strength mahogany is next to lance wood, 'sustaining 2 1,000 pounds per square inch. Some Danish naturalists in Green land have brought up lobsters from a depth of 1300 fathoms. What argon is is still n puzzle to scientists, as all attempts to discover its chemical nature havo so far failed. It is said that tbo largest crauo iu tho world is in the Krupp iron works, Essen, Germany. It lifts and turns a weight of 150 tons. The French makers of horseless car riages claim to bo able to propel them at cost for fuel of 1 cents a mile, where the cost of oats for horses is about four cents a mile. A naphtha spring has been opened at Grosni, in the Terek province, in the Caucasus, Russia, which is throw ing jets to a groat height and discharg ing a large amount of the fluid daily. Galton declares that the pattorns on the finger tips are not only unchange able through life, but that the cbanoe of the finger prints of two persons be ing alike is less than one in sixty-four billions. Dr. G. Schwalbo, of StraBburg, Ger many, is making a tour of the world to make a scientific collection of the measurements of tho heads of various races and tribes, besides an assortment of skulls and hair. A committee of tho British Dental Association has examined the teeth of 11,422 school children. One thing shown is that the teeth of children of the rich are more prono to decay than those of children of tbo poor. I'ictet, the great Swiss chemist, has fouud that a combination of sulphur ous and carbonic acid gasos possesses remarkablo power as a disinfectant. It not only kills disease germs, bnt it also diffuses itself iu such a wonder fully penetrating way tbnt it acts more rapidly than other fume. The importation of steel wire gauze with prepared wood pulp has rendered it possible to employ paper for build ing purposes. The rigidity of the wire counteracts the buckliu; tendency oi the paper. The material is water proofed and readily fastened with steel bands. It is said to bo nu effective non-conductor, successfully resisting heat, cold and wot, and to lend itself well to artistic treatment. Pencil That Went Throii?;i the War. "I havo a very flue and choice cab inet of relics and specimens of thq late war," said J. Fillmore, of South Dakota. He is an old veteran, and is returning home from tho Louisville encampment. "In thu collection is an old-fashionod common lead penoil, only three-quarters of an inch loner, which was given to me by Major L. B. Fairbanks, who carried it through the entire war, aud iu presenting it to mo the Major gavo me this biographi cal sketch of the penoil : 'This peucil is a veteran of tho late war. When it enlisted it was rouud and of full length. " 'When tho war was over it wa liko muny other veterans badly used up. Diiriug its sLTvico it campaigned in dust Bnd mud, over the hiiU au 1 plains of Maryland and Virginia, through the swamps of Mississippi, across tbo mountains of Kentucky and Teuuessee aud ag.vin through Vir ginia, from tho Wilderness lo Appo mattox. It has witched upon the picket lino iu daylight and in dark ness, iu bent and cold, iu ruin aud iu snow. It has taken part iu many skirmishes, and iu more thau half v scoro of regular battle, aud iu addi tion it went through tho sioge oi Petersburg, aud was engaged in several of the assaults upon that stroughold. With it, for eight mouths, while the owner was first sergeant of bis com pany, be kept the daily record aud re port of the company. " 'It wrote tho nuuio and the num ber of those ou detached service, oi tho absent with leave, of those daily detailed for ordinary camp duties or occasionally for somo special duty, of the number present for duty nu I of the siok in qimrk'r.-'. At the roll call alter battle it bus noted tho names of those wha did not answer. It has re corded tho names of those men as killud iu battle, wouude.l iu buttle, died of wounds, died of disease, dis charged on account oi wounds received, aud diseuso contracted iu line of duty. Iu its own way it has written its bumble puge iu the history of the most eventful epoch of nil times. Preserve it aud cherish it.'" Kansas City Times. Knows die llelu-eir Bible hy Henri. Whon Professor Jacob Cooper, of Rutgers, was examined for udiuisiiou to Valo iu 1852 Tutor Tuleott said to Mr. Cooper: "How muah Greek havo you read?" "Over pages," was tho reply. "You don't menu that, do you?" said Mr. Tuleott. "Isu't it 30110 lines?" "No, bir," was tbo reply. "When 1 say pages f mean panes." Iu later lifu ho declined that if ul! the Hebrew Bibles iu tlio world were il stroyed ho could reproduce the text from memory. Professor Cooper's scholarship was recognized by the bestowal last summer of a degree of I.li.D. by Tuluno I'niveril v.tho Pres ident of which, Professor Juiiusou, was a nicubcr of tho same class at s'a!o uud remembered tlio iuuideut cited above. Chiougo Chronicle. A I'll iv lo;1 Marnier. In Poluud it wn-i once tho custom to teutouce backbit, -r.) to go ou ull four uud bark liko a do,- for the sp.u-e o. u quarter of au hoar. This mo le o piiuishmeut was iiitro lac-d diuin., tho reigu of Charles V., lull il .i boou abolished, as it had to Im ap plied so fre.jiieiitly t'lit his niiji.ty',; rest was tlist'irue I, for t'l i laii,;u. went ou ull tho jloi a noon while l!ii Courts wore sittiu j. THE MYSTERY OF LOVE The million stars that throng the skies A score of mcons would make; Yet now their twinklings Just suffice The glonm of night to break. So friendship may the offering bo Of scores of royal hearts, Yet fail to give the ecstasy 'rhat love alone Imparts. Joseph W. Qulnn, in Womankiu l, HUMOIt OF THE DAT. As a rule, when a story is funny, it is not true. Atchison Globe. If nobody considers yon a crank, you must have attracted very liitle at tention. Tho family tree would be all very fine if it were not all tree and no crop. Life. A dog will always fight another dog quicker if it has a ribbon around its neck. Atchison Globe. "I will snatch a kiss!" heexclaimod. "I verily believe," she faltered, shyly, "you have the face to try it on." The man who can compose a song without the word "Ob" at the begin ning should be given a medal. Peck's Sun. Friend "Was the season satisfac tory?" Actoi "Well, wo escaped with our lives and somo of our trunks?" It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie were you in his place. Bos ton Transcript. Cave Gnome "What's driving you ashore?"- Seo Serpent (shu lderingly) "The mermaids are trying to wear bloomers. "Chicago Tribune. If )re 's a fact that 's truo to tho cyuio As to the old gray-'ieur led susc: The up-to-date woman is never llight square up to date in her age. -Pack. "Miss Passe indulged in somewhat withering sarcasm when she was talk ing of yon.'" 'It is her privilege, poor thing. Sho is somewhat withering herself." Indianapolis Journal. "Anyhow," said Dismal Dawson, "they ain't no man can lay his hand on bis heart and say truthfully that I took bis job of work away from him, and that goes!" Indianapolis Jonr nal. "Better wait awhile," said the Cut miugsrille sage. "After you get to be n few years older you won't want any thing to live for. Just living will be considerable satisfaction." Cinuiu uati Enquirer. Horteuse "I suppose there is al ways something in life to spoil a man's happiness?" Van Jay "Yes; if a mau is poor he can't be happy, and if if he is rich the chances are he will get marriod." Brooklyn Eagle. The Guest "Here ! What do you mean by waking me up three times this morning and telling me it is breakfast time? And hero I catch you running away with the sheet." Boy "Well, you see, sir, we'vo got to git tho tablecloth whether you get up or not." Tit-Bits. Old Mercator (to httlo Billy Ducks, just left school, who applies for situa tion as oflico boy, and produces testi monial from clergymun) "We dou't waut you ou Sundays, my good littlo boy. Have you a rofereueo from any ouo who kuows you on week days?" Sydney Bulletin. "Why," asked Dismal Dawsou, leauing over tho fence, "why do you keep ou diggiu' when the boss aiu't arouud!" "Because I really like the job," said the new farm baud, "Got it real likin' for work?" "3urel" "You'd orter take treatment." In dianapolis Journal. Judge B. fell dowu a flight of stairs, recording his passiigo iu a bump on every stair uutil he reached the bot tom. A servaut rau to his assistance, unl raising hiin up said: "I hope your Honor is not hurt?" "No," caid thu Judge, sternly. "My honor is not hurt, but my bead is." The laics', addition to Americana abroad is the ninurt saying ot a New York girl to an Englishman who took her iu to dinner. "I sometimes1 won der what becomes of all the peaches in your country, he said. "Ob, we eat what we can, and can what we can't," answerod the ready-tongucd maid. New York Sun. First Olliee Boy "Do you like your job?" Second Oflico Boy- "Naw I Tbo typewriter is thirty-five, tbo book keeper's sore 'cause he cau't be a dude ou i8 u week, the instalment company took tho head clerk's bicycle uwuv , Trout 1 1 i in last week 'cause be hadn't paid up on it, and the boss won't let me whistle uuy where. " Soiucrviilo Journal. A Whale fa.- Aliiw TiU'WAter. Captain J. II. D. Gray, of Astoria, r. has tho petrified vertebrae of a whale, which was found thirty foet uuder grouud ou ouo of tho hills buck of As toria, at au elevation of 1S3 feet above tlio boa level. There was also a lurgo deposit of clam shells around the whale's bone, but the rest of the bones of tlio whale were not visible. The fact that a wbulo was stranded 1S 5 feet ubova tho present water level iu Astoria shows conclusively thut there has bceu a Hood at Astoria iu duys gone by, to which tho flood iu Port laud a year ueo last Juno was not a murker. Portland went through that ioo.l, uud is stilt here, 1 nt it is plum that liio Astoria which existed when that wbulo was strauded was annihi lated. Portland Oregouiau. Ingenious Sniudliuif Di vic:'. Tbo French. customs authorities ou tlio Swiss fioutier have detected a novel and ingenious swindling ujuce. Watebes uvio seut aerosi tlio border, i ealed up in o ms of cou leusvd milk. It is t--.lunuitd that '22.0J'I Matches, vulued ut $40.1,0011, have entered i'l'uuct thus iu tho past su mouth,
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