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VOL. XXVIII. NO. 34. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 11, 1895. 1.00 PER ANNUM.
Russia is goinjr to spend 10,000,005
roubles year for forty year on a
system of local railroads.
In Cleveland, Ohio, thoy hare a
machine for unloading coal car, which
will empty a car in just four minutes.
The other day it unloaded forty-five
cara in three honrs.
Statistics aver that ainco bioyoling
lias become a popular pastime, the
rubber trade, in consequence, has
risen probably $:,000,000 within tho
last eighteen months.
Besides the coal yet to be brought
to the surface in Europe and America,
it is estimated that there are in Jnpnn
workable seams containing 700,000,000
tons, equal in commercial value to
Australian coal. .
The programme of shipbuilding for
the French Navy promises great no
tivity. Forty-eight vessels are to be
completed by the end of 1893 and
twelve are to bo bogun in 1800 via:
one ironclad, fonr cruisers of different
clashes, one gunboat, four torpedo
boats, one torpedo-boat destroyer, and
one despatch- boat.
Neill, or Cream, the prisoner who
nas executed in England three rears
Bgo, according to a recent statement
of tho Chaplain of Holloway Prison,
bad murdered beyond a doubt no less
lhan thirty-five women. Ho was the
mot t proficient 15iblo student ever ad
mitted to tho jail, being able to repeat
half the Biblu from memorv.
Tho enormous extent of the forests,
and bIfo of the lumber industries, of
the Northwtt U indicated by the fact
that this seaso: Washington will mako
shipments of lumber aggregating
400,000,000 feet, Oregon 130,000.000
:eet, and British Columbia 40,000,003
fet t. And there is no danger of the
supply running short, do"d.rci the
New York Sua.
.Tobn Bull can bo generally f:r
when he tries to be, but the New York
Advertiser notes that he cannot help
but show just a little naturul sensitive
ness at being constrained to look olso
w here for a dictionary of his own lan
guage. "Strange." tho London Liter
ary 'World exclaims in speaking of the
Staudurd Dictionary, "that tho
tjueen's English should find its chief
autocrats in tho country of tho Presi
dent." A political situation that is probab
ly unique developed in the little town
of Acree, near Albany, Ky a short
time ago. It was tho annual eloction
of municipal officers, relates tho New
York Sun, and there wera forty-two
voters on tho lint When tho ballot
ing took place it was found that only
one of the forty-two voters was prop
erly registered. That one was tho
candidate for Mayor. Ho cast tho
only ballot at tho election, and duly
elected himself and a Board of Alder
men. Several expert engineers connooted
with the Franklin Institute have de
clared that the recent trial of electric
locomotives at Nautaskct Beach, Mass.,
clearly proves tho superiority of this
tystem over steam for short hauls. A
speed of sixty miles an hour has been
attained in the tests. A maximum
speed of fifty miles an hour can, it is
thought, be readily developed, or a
locomotive can pull 12,000 tons at tho
rate of thirty miles an hour. The sys
tem has been in operation near Bos
ton for some months. "
It h been Baid the Turkish Empire
is based upon no Nationality; it is
marked by no unity ; it is careless to
administer justice and powerless to
preservo peace j it rose out of cruel
religious conquest ; it survived on the
plunder of old civilization; it h
made the garden spot of oilier ages a
place of desolation ; it is a barrier be
tweeu the East and the West, a stum
bling block in tho way of progress,
and a menace to the peaoo of Europe.
Ko more timo should be lost in getting
rid of it, says a thinker who thinks
Nations can be wiped out wheuever
they do not progress in his way.
Henry Miller and Charles Lux.
cattlemen, of San Francisco, confess
to owning more than fourteen million
acres of laud in three States of tho
Union. This makes an estate equal in
area to the States of New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Con
necticut together. It is half the size
of New York and three times the sizo
of New Jersey, It is about the size
of West Virginia uudau eighth the en
tire area of California. It is as large
as Greece with the Ionian Isles, of
which Byron wrote. It is four times
the area of Alsace-Lorraine, over
which Franco and Germauy fought.
It is but little nmaller than Iruluud
ktid half as lurge sguiu h Switzerland.
THE HEART'S SOHO.
Tho sky bends bltin above ut
And sing the sweotnst blrdst
Here's home and one to love us.
And gnntle dnnds and words.
lint stormy be the skins or clear.
The heart keeps singing all the year.
Our pnthwav blooms with rosea
That woo us on tho way
And every evening closes
A peaceful, porfoet day.
lint thorn'or roses, while lovo Is near
Tho heart koops sinking all the year!
-S". L. Htanton, In Atlanta Constitution.
THE CAPTAIN'S STORY.
APTAIN HARRY
Beaufort wan a
tall, handsome,
middle-aged man,
who traveled for a
leading Chicago
firm. In response
to a request for a
atnry to while away
the time as we
traveled from Vin
cennes to Cincin
nati, he said : "Ab
I'm going to stop off at my homo this
trip, I believe I'll tell yon abont my
little Yankee prisoner. Let mo see"
retrospectively "it was in Novem
ber. 1863, when our brigado the old
Stonewall brigade was lying below
Winchester, Va., momentarily expect
ing an attack from the Federals. We
were a ragged set, I tell you. Half of
the brigade was costless and hundreds
were shoeless, and all of ns were
hungry. One night I was put on
guard in a little hollow facing the
Y'ankee front. Tho glade was sur
rounded on three sides by low hills
covered with nnderbrush, with an
opening directly at my front of sev
eral hundred yards. Immediately
surrounding my position there was a
growth of low bushes, so thick that it
seemed almost impossible for a man to
penetrato it. In my rear all was clear
of growth of any sort, so yon can see
that I was not likely to bo surrounded
and captured if I kept my eyes open.
Well, I had been standing there per
haps an hour when I heard a thrashing
and crashing in the bushes at my left.
It seemed to me so much liko the
sort of a racket that an old cow,
tangled in the brnsh, would make,
that I paid little attention to it, nntil
a heavier crath than common, fol
lowed by 'Confound the brush !' in ac
cents of annoyance, attracted my at
tention to a point about thirty feet
away, and while looking, expecting to
see the draggled gray make-believe
uniform of one of my regiment, I was
astonished to see the blue uniform of
a Yankee emerging from the brush.
"Tho fellow, who had not yet seon
me, was little more than a boy (I was
only eighteen years old myself at the
time) and a pale-faced, fair-haired
boy at that. 'Halt I Drop that gun
and stand where you are, Yank 1' I or
dered. I needn't have told him to
drop his gun, for ho was so muoh as
tonished that be dropped it involun
tarily. 'Well, I'll be blamed! You're
a Johnny Reb, ain't you? What are
you doing here?' were a few of tho
questions ho rattled off in his surprise.
'Yes, I'm a Johnny Reb, Yank, and
I'm on guard here, said I, as I ad
vanced and picked np his gun. 'And
you're my prisoner,' I added.
" 'That's juBt my luck,' said he. I
might have known I would get lost in
these blamed Virginia hills. I wouldu't
give a ten-acre farm on an Indiana
prairie for ten miles square of this
wooden country."
" 'Ought to have stayed there, said
I. 'But you won't get back soon,
Y'auk, for you're bound for Libby
Prison in short metre.'
" 'Libby Prison 1 I hope not 1 But
I say, Johnny, got any grub? I'm
blamed near starved. I've wandered
about trying to confiscate something
to eat ever since 3 o'clock, and to tell
you tho truth I'm too huugry and
tired to talk
" 'That'a nothing," said I. 'I've
gone three days without anything to
eat except green corn, aud that on the
"ear. But I'll tell you what I'll do,
I've got a hunk of corn bread in my
giub bag; over thore nnder that little
tree. You can have half of that."
"'Thanks, Johuny. I'll do the
same for you some day," coolly said
said the little Yank, and without uuy
more ado oil he hustled aud got tho
grub.
The fellow was hungry and no mis
take. He lit into the chunk of corn
bread like a hungry wolf, and while I
stood looking at him and laughing at
his efforts to get a four-inch section
of core poue into a two-inch mouth,
I'll be blamed if he didn't gobble
down the whole mess, crumbs aud ull.
I saw it going, but I couldn't stop it
to save me, aud I don't really believo
I would have done it if I could, huugry
as I myself was.
"But you should have seen that
Yank's face alter he had got away with
my rations. 'Blame my riggin',' said
he, 'if I liuveu't goue and swallowed
tho whole of it. I'm mighty sorry,
Johnny, but '
" 'Oh, never mind," said I, for it
was plain that the half-starved fellow
had not been ready conscious of his
abuse of my hospitality, and although
I was mad euo igh to give him a good
licking my sense of the ridiculous pre
ponderated and 1 couldn't help laugh
ing to save my life. The whole all'air
had been so confoundedly ridiculous
that I laid down my gun and actually
rolled over aud over until my side?
fairly ached.
"The little Yaukee looked at me a
miuute or two, and theu the comical
side of the affair suddenly struck him,
too, and the next minute both of us
were laughing like schoolboys.
"When both of us had laughed un
t 1 we were completely exhausted we
tut down together under the littlo true
and hud a loug talk. He belonged to
u ludiau regiment ttud hi. I tuu iu
Mm
JiT" iJijr
i . -
tlia service abont six month!'. He Held
his parents were living near Brown
field, Ind., on a prairio farm, and
spoke of his father and mother in
terms of tho greatest aflection. He
had a little sister Jennie two rears
old, whom I saw that the boy fairly
worshiped. There had been three
other children, but they were all dead.
"Before the "war I hod a number of
friends in Indiana, and I spoke of
thorn, one or two of whom I found
were known to my prisoner. Of course
I told my story of how, with thirty
fivo other schoolboys, I had left school
boforo I was seventeen and had joined
the Confederate Army, and of tho
many battles wo had been in. There
were at that time but seven of the
thirty-five left alive.
"Well, to moke a lonj story short,
we had not talked an hour before we
felt we had known each other a life
time. It saddened me to think of that
jelly, fun-loving fsce in Libby or some
other of onr prisons, with their neces
sarily short fare and miserable quar
ters. Somehow I thought I could see
tlmt boy's mother appealing to me
with her eyes to save her boy from
prison.
"It may have been some hypnotio
or clairvoyant force or some psychio
power unknown to mo, but, however
that may be. I determined to do tho
best I conld to got my little Yankee
ont of trouble. I had scarcely come
to this determination when the relief
guord came np. Tho officer merely
asked me where I got my prisoner, and
when I told him he ordered me to take
him to camp and turn him over. Our
fellows were allowed considerable li
cense, and I took advantage of the fact
by going back with my prisoner with
out any other escort. It was very dork
in camp, and 1 hod no trouble in es
caping observation with my compan
ion aud getting into my tent.
" 'I suppose I'm a goner, Johnny,"
said my littlo Yank, after we stretched
out on a blanket.
"We'll see," said I. 'Stay right
hero and don't move till I get back.'
And then I slipped ont of the tent and
mauaged to book several pieces of
corn bread, one of which I ate in
short order. Then we lay down. again
and talked in a low tone of voice nntil
I thought it might be about 2 o'clock
in tho morning. Then I again stole
out, and after a little scrutiny man
aged to get possession of an old gray
hat and jacket. These I ordered my
little Y'auk to don, leaving his blue
cap and blouse on the ground. Then
when all was quiet I led him out, and
by a dark glen which ran close up to
camp I got him safely down into tho
brush-covered glado where I had cap
tured him. An hour later, by creep
ing and crawling, wo bad dodged the
pickets and were out of reach.
1 1" 'Now, Yank," said I, 'wo part here.
There, n littlo to your right, is your
picket line. Be careful that they
don't shoot you for a rebel. Good-by.'
Aud back I went, getting oafoly into
camp before day.
"The next morning we went into
the fight, and my Y'ankee prisoner was
forgotten by the other guardsmen.
"That was the last I saw or heard
of my little Y'ankee prisoner during
tho war. Twenty years after, or in
1833, I was traveling then, as now, out
of Chicago, in Illinois and Indiana,
and one summer evening I was sitting
in a store in one of the small country
villages in Indiana, in company with
perhaps fifteen or twenty others, most
of whom had been in the army. Stories
and jokes were told over pipes, and
we were all in good cheer. When it
came my turn I thought of my little
Yankee, and told the story just as I
have given it to you. One of the list
eners, a tall, broad-shouldered, sandy
haired giant, listened so intently thut
I saw that at least one of my hearers
was interested, and when I concluded
the big follow arose and took Watson
aside. Watson was the storekeeper.
They talked excitedly for perhaps a
quarter of an hour before they came
back, when Watson said : 'Captain,
I've beeu thinking about that order.
I don't need the goods now, but I'll
tell you what I'll do. If you'll stop,
say within sixty days, aud give me a
day or two's uotico I'll give you a good
big order. What do yon say?"
"Consulting my book I found that
six weeks from that time I would be in
, and would have three or four
days' time with nothing special to do.
I told Watson that I could not reach
him sixty days hence, but would be
abio to do so just six weeks from that
day.
"'That will do nicely, Captain;
don't forget the date.'
"I was not apt to do so, as Watson's
'big orders' meant big sales, and so it
was agreed.
"On the day agreed upon, I drove
up to Watson's store, which I found
full of people, among whom were
many men who looked as if they might
have been seasoned veterans at ono
time. 1 had shaken hands with Wat
son aud one or two of his friends whom
I recognized, when I heard some say:
' 'Hero he is now!' Not thinking
the remark had any refereuce to my
self, I paid no attention until 'Give us
yer paw, comrade,' sounded in my ear.
"1'urniug, I stood face to face with
tho big bearded giant who had list
ened so intently to my story on that
uight six weeks before. By his side
Btj.l a fuir-facod, fair-haired, bluu
eyed man of thirty-five or thirty-seven
years. The youug man looked wo
over from head to foot, then back to
my face again, as if looking for somo
point of identification, until bis intent
began to annoy me, but a minute later
his eyes brightened aud his face lit up
with u LUiilo of pleasure.
" 'Don't kuow me, do you?' fni 1 he.
' 'No, I don't buliove 1 evv:' l . . ;-u
before, yet' us a s-oiilo lit up his face
'yet there's something ubout you
teems fuiuiliur.'
" 'Didn't think you would forgot
your Yankee prisoner the ono who
tut up your i;rub down u-ur W;u
clivlvf :u 'o J, '
" 'What!' I ejaculated, and then it
all became cloar. There was the same
tunny smile, the same laughing eyes,
but the man before mo was almost
middle-aged, bearded and stalwart,
whereas my prisoner had been but a
stripling of a boy. I forgot the years
which had elapsed, but that all came
to me in a flash, and there before me,
twenty years after it had occurred,
stood my quondam Yankee prisoner.
'Two hours later we were trotting
up a long avenue of cottonwoods to
wards a beautiful white mansion, em
bowered in vines. As we rode up to
the broad veranda which facod the
avonuo the ball door openod and a
sweet-faced, motherly old lady, occom
naniodby a beautifn', fair-haired, blue
eyed young woman, stepped out. Tho
older lady stood at the head of the
stops, and as I advanced she placed
her hands upon my shoulders and,
bending forward, kissed me on the
forehead.
" 'God bloBsyon, my son 1' she said,
while the tears streamed down her
cheeks. 'I have prayed to see this
day.' The younger woman pressed
my bond gratefully, but my ayes were
moist and I could scarcely see her.
"I remained that night, and it was
difficult to get away even the next day,
but business demanded my attention.
I promised to visit my friends fre
quently, and did so every time I
could get a day off. But here's my
stopping-place, and there's my wife
and mother-in-law and babies. Yes,
that fair-haired, blue-eyed woman is
my wife.
"You have gnessed it. She was
Jeanuio Northup, and that sweet-faced
old lady is our mother." Chicago
News.
Trip to a Fixed Star.
There is a perpetual fasoination
about the stars and the immense dis
tances at which they lie from one an
other and from us. To demonstrate
the vast distance of Centanri from
this planet a popular scientist gives
the following illustration in Answers :
"We shall suppose that some wealthy
directors, for want of outlet for their
energy and capital, construct a rail
way to Centauri. We shall neglect,
for tho present, the engineering diffi
culties a mere detail and suppose
thorn overcome and the railway open
for traffic. We shall go further, and
suppose that the directors have found
the construction of such a railway to
have been peculiarly easy, and that
the proprietors of interstellor space
hod not been exorbitant in their terms
for the right of way.
'Therefore, with a view to encourage
traffio, the directors had made the
fare exceedingly moderate, viz., first
class at one penny per 100 miles. De
siring to take advantage of these
facilities, a gentleman, by way of pro
viding himself with small change for
thfl journey, buys up the National
debt of Britain and a few other coun
tries, and, presenting himself at the
office, demands a first-class single to
Centauri.
"For this1 he tenders in payment
the scrip of the British National debt,
which just covers the cost of his
ticket, but at this time the National
debt from little wars has been run up
3,500,000,000.
"Having taken his seat it occurs to
him to ask :
. ' 'At what rate do yon travel?"
" 'Sixty miles an hour, sir, includ
ing stoppages,' is the answer.
" 'Then when shall we reach Cen
tauri?' "' 'In 48.GG3.000 years, sirl""
A Grasshopper Raid.
"I remember that during grasshop
per time I was near the corner of Sev
enth and Delaware and watohed the
approach of the insects from tho West.
I remember distinctly that it was in
the afternoon. At first I noticed
quite a number between myself and
the buu. It was not loug, however,
before they seemed to come in cloud?.
The sun became darkened exactly as
though a thunder storm were coming
up. They wero flying perhaps 400 or
500 feet high. It must have been less
than an hour when the town was liter
ally covered with grasshoppers, and
in less than a day there was not a
green thing to be seen anywhere. A
great many people dug trenches in
their yards, in tho bottom of which
they had piled paper and kindling
wood. After sweeping hundreds of
the pests into these trenches they were
burned up. In walking along the
streets one would crush hoppers under
his foot. They went as they had come
almost in a moment. I suppose it
was go or starve. They had eaten
everything in sight, and, as a conse
quence, thought it best to sook other
fields." Kansas City Journal. ,
Indian liable us Souvenirs.
A Harbor Springs (Mich.) resort
lady saw a little papoose, which she
thought so cuto that she offered the
mother a big sum of money for it. As
tho squaw had a large supply at home,
sho let it go, aud since then the ro
sorters havo beeu posteriug tho life
out ot tu-j natives by trying to buy
their papooses to take homo as sou
venirs. The squaws thiuk it's ouly a
clever scheme to exterminate their
race, aud they are hiding tho little
redskins in every oouoeivablo place.
Minneapolis (Minn.) Jourua'.
(JiiiillikaUons ol London lojtinen.
Ono of tho greatest essentials with
regard to the recommendation of a
London footman is not only his height,
but tho size aud form of his logs. To
Fiiit the neods of those who havo not
beeu gifted with a wull-formod leg,
livery makers now supply artificial
calves, which pud out the leg to a re
spectable size. A pair ot these pads
cost ubout five shillings. They are
stated to be ul-n in request among oy-oti-tn
who urn sensitive of their ttuti-iM-ry
in r.-.-peji ii' 'i-npiiMug calves,
CuivaO TjiU3-U,f;t!d.
THE MEUUY SIDE OL' LIFE.
STORIKS THAT ART? TOLD BT THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PKE33.
Cried Wolf in Vain A DIsocrnln
Friend Homeopathic Compar
ing Notes Conscious Cullt, Ktc.
Mv wife smnllnd fire for twenty years
Eanh night when she awoke;
But when at lot we hod one, did
Not even smell tho smoke.
Judge.
A DISCT.RNINO: FRIEND,
The Artist "How do you liko it?"
The Friend "Best work you ever
'did. What does it represent?" Lile.
COMPARING NOTES.
"What a lot of people there were at
the Wortlcburys last week and yet
how dull it was 1"
"Yes, dear. But it was much
brighter after you loft." Punch.
CONSCIOUS QUILT.
Wallace "How did you feel tho
first time you got into a barber's
chair for a shave?"
Ferry "To toll tho truth about, I
felt like a bare faced fraud." Cincin
nati Enquirer.
nOMEOPATHIC.
Mowlor "I see some philosopher
says that tho woy to cure yourself ot
a love affair is to run away. Do you
believe it?"
Cynicus "Certainly if you run
away with tho girl." Truth.
ITER CHIEF FAULT.
"By Jove, I left my pocketbook nn
der my pillow !"
"Oh, well, your servant is honest,
isn't she?"
'That's just it sho'll toke it right
up to my wife I" Chicago Record.
HELPING EACH OTHER.
Mr. Cawker "I admire the'helpful
spirit the Wilberforco boys display.
They are always doing what they can
for each other."
Mr. Cumso "What they have dona
lately?"
Mr. Cawker "John has become a
dentist, while James has established a
candy factory. "Life.
IS
PROFIT IN HOTELS.
Clerk "No. 45 says that he had tho
best dinner here that he has had for
four years."
Hotel Keeper "Good I Chargo
him a quarter extra."
'And No. 54 says it was the worst
he ever saw."
"So? Make his bill half a dollar
more for kicking." Indianapolis
Journal.
A FRIENDLY DISPOSITION.
"I can count on your sympathy in
in this campaign, can't I?" said the
candidate.
"Y yes."
"That means, 'of course, that you
will vote for me?"
"N no. I don't go so fur ez that.
I won't do no more'n jes promise sym
pathy ; an' I'm bonu ter say I think
yer goin' ter need it." Washington
Star.
HE BAD SCRUPLES.
It was during tho last visitation ot
Mr. Turkey trod's mother-in-law to
Mrs. Turkeytrod that the old lady
was taken down sick, aud tho family
physician had to be called in.
"It is a very serious case, Mr.
Turkeytrod," was tho doctor's edict ;
"she must be sent to a warmer cli
mate." Mr. Turkeytrod solemnly retired to
tho woodshed aud camo in with an
axe. "Yon hit her, doctor," said he ;
"I don't just like to do it." New
York Mail and Express.
HER TENDER HEART.
It was the woman who will stop a
horse car twice inside of twenty feet
to keep from walking the small extra
distance aud who will let a mau with
both arms full ol bundles stand up
rather thau move over half a foot to
lot him sit down.
"The doctor says that we must boil
our water," she said to her friend.
"Yes," was tho replv. "Isn't much
trouble."
"'o. But 1 hate to do it. It docs
sooni such a horrible death for those
poor littlo microbes and tJ.'Jigsl"
Detroit Froe IVess.
HE WAS WARNED.
"Mr. Clinker," said the thrilling!?
beautiful heroiuo of this tale, as she
turned her head and looked straight
into tho eyes of the youug man, who
was sittiug a close to h.r on tho sof
as it was possible to get, "there aro
some things which even a girl of my
er advancement will not easily
brook. Whou you first outore I this
room, half an hour a;,'o, you bowed
formally us you shook hands, did not
dream of calling mo by my first uame,
and when you sat down, you took a
chair which was at a conventional dis
tance away. You had not"
"But, my dcur Miss Springer "
,, Don't interrupt me, sir. You had
not beeu hero ten minutes before
your chair was six feet nearer where I
6at. In 'another five minutes you
called me dear. Shortly afterwards
you deliberately sat down on the sofa
next to mo. It was theu that you at
tempted to take my hand. You need not
douy it. You know it is too true.
And now, sir "
"Hear me. I"
"Aud now, sir," repeated the young
girl, her slight form trembling with
emotion, her eyes blazing, her whole
atttitude expressive of the deepest con
cern, "I waut you to distinctly under
stand that if you tihould mi far forget
yourself us to attempt to kin me, you
do so at Tr owj. ptrill" iUiptl's
SCIENTIFIC AS1 INDUSTRIAL.
Copenhagen, Denmark, boasts paper
telegraph poles.
Alma Tadema, tho painter, soys that
bright blue has a depressing effect.
Scientists believe that all salt, wher
ever fonnd, has come originally from
the sea, in some way or other.
A flowing well of petroleum was dis
covered in the Olynipio Mountains in
Washington recently. The oil ir, said to
be identical in character with that ot
the Eastern wells.
Professor Willis Moore, head of tho
Weather Bureau, is taking observa
tions in the upper strata of the atmos
phere with kites aud expects to im
prove his forecasts very much.
A Philadelphian has invented a sys
tem of telegraphing which will send,
he claims, a thousand words in a min
ute over a single wire. Actual experi
ment with it has given 910.
The first fossil insect ever found in
tho southern coalfield of Pennsylvan
ia, according to Naturalist W. Victor
Lehman, of Tremont, Penn., was sent
by him to tho Smithsonian Institute.
Plumbago brushed over the face of
a medal or other metallic object an
electrotype copy of which is desired
in intaglio will prevent tho copper or
other metal electrically deposited
from adhering.
Field magnet cores, for ring ma
chines, should be 1.66 times tho di
ameter of the armature core, if of
wrought iron, or three times if of cast
iron. For drum machines the figures
are 1.25 and 2.3.
Ohio stands at the head of the States
in clay manufacture, its product being
valued at $10,608,000, or over sixteen
per cent, of that of tho whole country.
Illinois comes next with, with thirteen
percent., and Pennsylvania stand third
with eleven per cent.
Venomous snakes are slow in doing
mischief. xho cobra di copello, the
toy of Indian jugglers, retains its
fangs, but never uses them except to
resent injuria?, and then, opening its
crest and hissing violently, it darts on
its victim, who has notice to escape.
Austria-Hungary has 174 paper fac
tories, 120 pasteboard factories and
thirty-four pulp factories. The yearly
production la about 350,000,000
pounds of paper, 20,000,000 pounds of
pasteboard and 150,000,000 pounds of
pulp, worth more thun 820,000,000.
Fortunes in Melodramas.
Tho history of melodrama in tho
Duited States for the past twenty
years has been somewhat peoulinr. It
may be said that its first great impetus
came with the production of D'Ennery'a
"Two Orphans." It is estimated that
$400,000 was mode from this one
drama alone. Then came the "Lights
o' London," "Romany Rye," and a
host of others so thick and fust that it
was not long until tho publio became
surfeited.
However, while many fortunes wero
wrecked by adventurous speculators
who desired to repeat the "Two Or
phans' " success, not a few made
money. Mr. Shook, of Shook A
Palmer, retired worth a fortuno of
S30O.OJ0 from melodrama. "The
Fatal Card," iu part of ono season,
netted a profit of $30,000. But the
greatest modem day success in tho
way of profits has bleu "In Old Ken
tucky," whic'i is an American play
purely and vritteu by an American
author. After its lr?t production two
years ago, no less thau six compauies
were for a long timo touring the coun
try, aud iu tho New York run nlonrt
there was a profit of SSO.OOi). It is
estimated that the piny has made over
8250,000, tho author alono receiving
in royalties SlOO.OilO. Since tho enor
mous success of this play many others
have rushed into the i.iclodramatiu
field, and while, as stated here, three
plays havo mado ovnr SI, 00;), (100, it
will probably be a 1jii; time before
there will be another winner like "iu
Old Kentucky." Pittsburg Dispatch.
EflorUt) AbolUii s SiinT-ititio,i.
Tho French ontloi': established in
the town of Langrfr are determined
to call attoution by every means iu
tUoir power to tho absurdity of tho
superstition about presents of knives
"cutting friendship." The belief,
they allege, no doubt with somo show
of reason, is injurious to their trade.
Amoug the wedding gifts presouted to
a newly married couple, for instance,
one never sees any knives, although
metal articles of other k'udsare never
wanting. Tho Langrea cutlers havo,
thoreforo, begged the French Minister
of Public Works, M. Dupuy-Duteinps,
to accept a littlo preseut of two faucy
knives and a pocket knife of tiuo
workmausbip. M. Dupuy-Duteinps
has graciously accepted tho gift with
out sending the traditsoual penny or
half penny iu exchange with which
the superstitious ordiuurily sock to
disguise tho nature of such a trans
action. London News.
Water Supply by tVoudeu l ipcs.
Several toA'ns and cities in Onvmn
and Washington havo lately obtained
an excellent aud adequate water sup
ply iu un inexpensive manner by the
use of woodeu pipes. The pipes are
!u ide from common pine logs, ten in
dies in diameter, hollowed out with a
six inch bore. It is claimed that the
woodeu pipes la-.t as long us iron
pipe. One town h;is a line of pipes
suvcu miles loug that, with ull connec
tions, cost but SJUOO.
A Xuvel Knewfe.
A novel revenge for, his discharge
was taken ty uu elevator boy in a bin
furniture store in Portland, Me. Wheu
every one else had left the store he
changed the price tags on all tho fur
uiiure iu the place, marking some
things down iu a startling wuy, putting
biirli prices oil common stool., am)
hopelessly mixing up thiun general
ly, New York Sun,
AT HOMt M'lTH LOV"
I've built my cit
tn a little spot.
With a little hoav.-in has .euf;
i'.et the world go liy
With its mmr and si'n.
l"'ir I dwM with lovo auntont-
A littli" way
From that cot cn'-h ilny.
In tho liiflit that honva has lent
With son? ami ib'o l
Ami lovo to leail -
In life ami death contonjl
Anil, frifml or (.
Or thorn or rose,
Or suns or storms a' ovx
Life drift nlom;
A (,'lad, sw""t sonu.
In tho lij,'bt of tin- smile of love.
Frank I,. Stanton.
IlU.MOlt OF THE DAY.
Mr. Doiley "Medical exports say
that the uucarbolized kiss is deadly."
Miss Flypp "I'm no coward." De
troit Free Tres.
'Trofessor, how doci tho hair-cut
sait you?" "The hair is altogether
too shorn a littlo longer, please. "
Fliegende Blaettcr.
Teacher "Why did you have yonr
hair cut so short, Bobby?" Bobby
"So that you couldu't pull it, ma'am."
Albany State Journal.
He (at 11 p. m.) "Well, misery
loves company, you know. " She (re
pressing a vnwn) "'.oi at this hour,
I think." Detroit Free Vrare.
Oh. loKlsliitor", wliil" you .-"irivj
To r-mit'ily our UN,
If you would koep us all aliw,
Puss somo ten dollar hid.-!
Atl:mta (-Vu!iiutios
Half Back "Scared a dozen peoplo
into fits yesterday." Centre Rush
"How?" Half "Back "Rodo 1115
wheel homo dressed iu my football
soit I" Chicago Record.
Lady Teacher "hiIdreD, you
should always respect your teacher.
Now, Willie Green, tell mo why you
should respect me." Willie "Ou ac
count of your age." Now York Week-
ly.
"Now, that wo nre married, Pene
lope, and have uothiu? to conceal
from each other, how " "I'm twenty
nine, George. How mnjli did you
give the preacher?" Chicago Tri
buue. "Frederick, I am sure you love me
no longer. You are weary of hip, for
I saw you yo vu." 'That is easily ac
counted for. Y'ou po.!, you aud i aro
now one, aud solitude is apt to prjve
wearisome." Judge.
Visitor "What iu the world aro
they doing up'-tairs? It sounds as if
they were throwing c:innou balls
around." Fat Woman "Vuy, the
manager's bouncing the India Uubbar
Man." New York Herald.
It doesn't pay tj wo ry. 'lave a
good timo yourself H!i 1 . et tho other
fellows do all tho worrying. If you
follow this advice strictly the chances
are that they will havo some worrying
to do. Somerville Journal.
Johnny "What's tho dill'er.'uej be
tween a visit uud a vi itatiou?" Pa
"A visit, my sou, is when you go to
eee your graudmottior on your moth
er's side." "Yes." "A visitation is
when sho comes to bju in." Tit
Bits. Willis "I'd hute to be as hard up
as Broker seem 4 to lu. " Wallacj
" What lea Is you t thiuk he is
hard up?'' Willis "Why, h.''s beeu
to see me teu times this week to get
that fiver I borrowed frjni him six
mouths ngo." Tit-HiK
"Are all these young men auxiom
to become surgeon-.?" asked the visi
tor. "Thoy are," replio I tho lecturer
upou surgery. "Hut how eau so many
expect to inako a living?" "Eisily,
sir; easily," aunvered the lecturer.
"Think of the elV-et of tiie present
bicycle cra'.e." I'hicago l'o.l.
In reply to tho cry for assistaucc,
the professor said : "If I could help
you, I couldn't help h-lpiu-J yon. It
is because 1 cannot help you that I
cannot help refusing to help you."
And the mendicant darted utouu I the
corner, with terror iu his eye aud
cries of "Help !" iu his mouth, Bjb
ton Transcript.
Wanto I U"iit lor u Fount liu's Silr.
Lord Sackville West achieved fame
by attempting to screw a small rout
out of tho people of .Stratford on
Avon for tho ground mi which h, m.ls
the Shakespeare fountain, re.-eutcd
to tho towu by tho late li. W. Child.",
of Philadelphia. Tti fo i:i!um is
located iu the market pi ic uu I the
Stratfordilcs told I. or 1 Saekvillo that
they would us soon pay rent lor thj
sub soil of the pan-h pinup or lor the
ground occupied by tlu gas lamps.
Upon this Lord mi kvillo wr.to that
if tho towu authorities wo.ild almit
his right to levy rent ou tho fountain,
ho would consent not to tuforce it.
No reply was voiu'h-uiel to this and
there tho matter remain, to this day.
Chicugo Record.
Lightning's Trick.
Duriug a recent thunder .-form in
Berlin uu iutciv.-.iing eil'cct ou an elec
tric train was noted at night. All the
electric lamps iu-ddu an I outside the
carriages were extinguished every tune
the lightning Hashed, uu i the pa-.Si.u-j-ers
remaiue I a lew moment iu com
plete darkues'. Theu the lamps r J
kiudlcd. Loudon Graphic.
Valkiug .Made Ills Feet liigifei.
"Wi'l walking increase the biiie of
your feet? Well, I just i;iiess that
is, it has in my case," aid one of lue
most popular ol tho Coronet's depu
ties. "When I liin . eamo to 1 his odi.-o
1 wore only u No. li .hoe. Now I :imi
7. 1 havo no doilld tbe iue.ea-e ill
M.o is due 10 1!ih it amount ui
walklUy I Uo."- I'hlla Jvlpliia Call.