Tiie Forest Republican Is publtihed every Wednos lay, by J. E. WENK. Office In Smearbaugh & Co.'i Building ELM STREET, TIONESTA, TA. Tcrim, - 91.00 Por Year, No su'werlptlons received for a shorter period Ihnn threo month. Correspondence aollolte J from all parti of lha country. No notloa will be taken of nnony mous ooiumunioallons. ratis or ADVCVTtamOl BLICAN On. Bmm on. !. is MM is an MOC MOO jnoio On. Kquar, on. Inch, entb.... On. Bqaare, on. Inch, three month. . On. Square, on. Inr-h. on nv Tin UqnarM, on. Twr Quarter Column, on. yr half Column, on. jr,i. ... Od. Column, on. jw. -r. ... .. Lok1 odrortlMuwnt. tea Ota. p each insertion Man-lares an4 doatk aetinaa fratfa. Al I bill, fory early unroimnini quarterly. 1 mporarv aavi VOL. XXVIII. NO. 42. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5, 189G. .00 PEE ANNUM. b paid la adraooa. Job work oaah am rory. FOREST JV1V-1L J "The Solid Eolith" will be finan cial phrase ton years hence, predicts the Chicago Tinies-Herald. Tbe pencil blossom lias been select ed by a vote o( tbe school cbildren of Dolawaro as tbe floral emblem of the State. ' It ia remarked by a statistician that the States which have the largest per centage of women teachers hare also the lowest per cent." of illiteracy. Professor Cosnre Lombroso, who ad vises that cbildren and yontha of habitual criminal tenlenciei bo iso lated ns lunatics, says there is scarcely a child who docs not aim Be his power over those who are weaker than be. If England sees fit to equip its most important war vessels with wire wouud guns, this country must follow suit, declares tbe New York Telegram. Tbo wire-wound segmental cannon is nil Amuricau device that has proved under tests by tbis Government to bo practically nubnrstable. ' Professor Dyche, of Kansas Univer sity, tays that he has practically de cided to roako another trip to the Arctic Ocean in search of the North role, having received an offet of as sistance from a ton roe which ha de clines to name. His plan is to creep around tbo west const of Greenland, find then make a daeb for the polo by Bledgc or boat. So great has been the reduction of tteamboat accidents in tbe waters of tbo United States since the Federal Government introduced the inapeo tioa system that Inspector-General Dumout now aeterls that travel by water is mnch safer relatively than travel by railroad or even by street oar. He asserts, on the strength of the fatality records, that ono is safer on a steamboat than in walking the streets of a city or even sleeping in ono'sown bed. The New York Snn thinks it wonld doubtless surprise many folk to know tbo number of furs that are taken an nually in Connecticut and Massa chusetts. William Clark, of Vernon, Conn., makes a tour of Tolldan County, Couneoticut, and Hampden County, Massachusetts, every fall col lecting furs from the farmers. Last season ho collected some 1500 skins, mostly skunk rkins, but many of them wink. These animals aro probably not more plentiful in these two coun ties than in some other parts of the two State?. The result of the census taken the other day in Berlin has caused some surprise. It shows the total popula tion of tbe German cap.tal to be 1, G74.112, whereof 797.18G are male and 870,926 females. The estimate, based on tbe periodical returns of births aud deaths and of departure. and arrivals, which in Prussia have to be reported to tbe police, had shown, as worked out on November 10, a total population of 1,757,898. Moreover, tbo iucrease in tbe population during tbe last Ave year.-, according to this census, has been only sis per cent., as against twenty per cent, be tween 1885 and 1890, and sixteen per cent, between 18S0 and 1885. The esplanatien lies iu tbo enormous growth of tbo 4ubrabsas compared with Brlia proper. Tbo Atlanta Constitution says: About sis months ago Massachusetts created the State Highway Commis bion, and since that time eighty-nine miles of firet-class roads have been constructed under tha auspices of the new Board. Tbe experiment is to sntif fnctury that the Legislature this winter is expected to make a larger appropriation for roadways, and it ia now certain that the work so auspic iously begun will be pushed forward with iecreased vigor. The faot that tbe people are willing, after spending 8700,000 iu 1895, to speud a atill larger sum shows that the movement in fuvor of good roads is already pop ular enough iu Massachusetts to hold its own, aud it is natural to suppose that other States will organize their commissions and go to work on the tame line. New Jersey had a some what similar experience a lew years ago, aud after a few score miles of substantial roads bad been completed the people all over tbe State demand ed tbuir extension aud expressed their williu?,ucs to submit to a niuou higher tax rata iu order to secure these improvements. " As tbe oountry lillB up with population tbe highway question will assume greater promi nence and good roadways will be con structed at tha expense, of future generations, iusteal of causing tbe entire cofct tot lull upon Ibe people who are pio'esaive euoug.li to inaug urate U' h reforms, gm A BONO OF LIBERTY. . Across tbe land from strand to strand Loud ring the bugle notes, And Freedom's smile from lele to isle Like Freedom's banner floats! The velvet vales ring "Liberty!" To answering skies sernnei The mountains sloping to the set Wave all their flam of greenl The rivers dashing to the deop The Joyous notes prolong, And all their waTea in glory leap To one Immortal song! - . One song of Libert; an' lite, That was, and Is to be, Till tyrant Hugs are trampled rags And all the world Is free! One song! the nations hall the notes From aounllog sea to sear And answer from their thrilling throats That song of Liberty. Tiiey answer, and an echo comes From ebained and troubled Ules And roars like ocean's thunder-drums Where brave Columbia smiles. Where crowned and great she Bits in state Beneath her flag of Stars. Her heroes blood the sacred flood That crimsoned all its bars! Ball to our eountry! strong she s'ancU, Nor fears the war-drum's beat; The sword of Freedom lu nor hands The tyrant at her feet ! : Frank L. Stanton, In Atlanta Constitution. THE PHANTOM BELLS. BT MBS. M. I . BAYNR. A?TWSHE ladiei of the nao ' had invited their . bf TIAPA ft Antra. V vTW them a visit in 'ja?TS- order to explain Sj&.'iU- "j . to ner ne etrange shadow . wbiob hung over their house for nearly hundred years, and to whose baneful Influence she must become habituated. when a member of tbe family.. When they first saw Clotilde, she was so young and timid they made np their minds to wait nntil Gaspard-faim-elf came, but one night as they eat round the great hall-fire there was great jingle of sleighbells and the sound of swift runners on the crisp now outside, and then that muioal clash at the door which announced the stopping of the turnout, and the arrival of guests. Snrely there was nothii; ; uncommon in this, the coming of a party of merry people to a country house, and on a magnificent moonlight night when the whole landscape was as light as day I Yet instead of looking pleased or surprised, the ladies sank baok in their chairs, and covering their faces with their hands, murmured a prayer. Clotilde, the little one, clapped her hands, and asked earnestly ( "Might it be, my friends, that it is Gaspard, who has come with a sur prise ?" "No, no, Clotilde, it will notbeonr Gaspard. Mon Dieu, bow then shall we toll her? Child, go you not to the door? Those sleighbells yon hear are not of the . flesh and blood I mean the driver is not" But the little Clotilde had run joy ously to tha great hall door, and though no servant stood there to open it, she swung it wide on its massive hinges. A bitter blast of cold air rushed in with a dreary, wailing aound, and no sleigh stood ontside, bnt even as the startled girl watched, a clash of musical bells and the swift sound of the steel-shod runners filled the area of snow. She turned whiter than a lily in the somber moonlight, and flung the door to, affrighted. "Come to the fire, little one; yon have seen, then, our skeleton in the oloset?" "I saw not any skeleton nothing nothing, bnt I heard, the bells -oh, what does it mean?" ' . "You tell her, Agatha," said the younger sister. "I wonld greatly prefer that she should hear it from your lipsj Oeeilo" answered the other.. f .. , ! .'. "I am not afraid," said the girl proudly. Tbe color was coming baok to her lips and cheeks, saud bee eyes sparkled. It could not be worse than the legends of the LoapGorou whiob her uncle had told her since she was a child not so very long ago that but now she was a woman and wauld not show fear. ....... "You will now know why our' Qua pard has dark spells when not even his sweetheart can comfort him, why the shadow is never lifted Iroin our lives, and we cannot be quite like otherpeo pie. Perhaps you will not then like to marry our brother, who ' is the bent and dearest in tbe world, but like us, under tbe ban. "It is the more I would" love him if I might, when he has tbe trouble ; bnt tell me, please, is it that some wicked souls come baok because that they can not rest?" "We know not, petite, but the story ia like this : So long ago, maybe, that not our oldest relation ean remember, there was another Gaspard de iron tenao, a brave, good man like this one, bnt hot-headed and fiery. And you know, the steep hills that shut us iu sol high with the big ravine the preoipiee on either side? And in the winter there was always'snow, and the peoplewent coasting and sleigh-riding with swift horsesdowu those long bills, but never could two meet, for the road was just tbe width for one sleigh, and the people all knew this, and they waited at tbe plaUau on tbe top, and each took his turn. "It was my great uncle's pleasure to take his young wife and go out on these steep hills and drive her like tbe wind with a swift flying hone, au I she loved the sport aud wrapped iu furs, with her curls floating ia tbe ind, a fine picture the eountry folk thought her; and that Gaspard was much admired, too, for so the story has come to ns, and their pictures are in tha salon, though some think ns not of the right mind to keep them there. It come soon now, petite, the tragedy of those two. One night, just such a night aa this, they went riding in the to gay spirits, and going up bill for the second or thifd time what should they see but another sleigh ooming down I It was coming fast, and my great unole knew it was death for one side or the other, since pass they could not. And he shouted to the other driver to halt 1 "Ab, it was too sad. On, on, came the other sleigh, fast like the wind, and my great unole Gaspard saw that it would into him crash, and he quickly drew a pistol, and fired to kill i the horse, before it was too late. And bis own horse, he get suoh a fright he plunge over the side, throwing him out, but taking his bride down to death I "He lived, but like a man in a dream, till ' tome one tell him tbe truth that on tht night there was no other sleigh bnt his own, and that he aw tbe shadow was of his own, in some way I know not the exaot, the . moonlight make that effect by what you call projecting the shadow, and when he know that, he take again tbe pistol and with it end his misery and bia life." , A long ilenee emoeele I tbis weird tale and then Clotilde asked in a broken voice : "Is it then that the sleigh is a ghost ?" "Yes, petite, a what you call phan tom." "1 am not afraid. I accept, and will pray to give the poor ghosts peace." It was not like tbe Loup-Garou, not to tbe mind of Clotilde hulf as dread ful, but she was not really afraid of these beoause her old nncle had much sense, and he did not believe one of these stories, although tell them he did, and most graphically. Again on tbe following evening came the sound of bells, and this time Clotilde went not near the door, but sat moving her sweet lips in prayer. Then tbe door was Hung violently open and a brusque, cheery voioe oalled : "Hellf- there. Victor. Alnhonse. yon verlets,( jere are you if"'ag?" Certainly this was no ghost, and tbe three women who clung about bia neck gave frantio evidence of joy at his ooming. Clotilde was not one of the three. A big old man in a fox-skin coat had taken her in his arms, and was talking to her in gentle burr, the old anole who told her. the dreadful stories, and then she slipped one small hand into her lover's and looked at him with shy, happy eyes. It was so good of yon to come in stead of the ghosts," she sail, when later the) A cooing in a corner, while the nncle, who was a great favorite with the young Gaspard, was making himself agreeable to the ladies. 'Then you know, dear little one? said the young man. "And you aro not airaid to mane yonr home in the Chateau Frontenao?" Not with my Gaspard," came the soft answer, "but I like it better if the ghosts oame not, and your sistet -they are sorry, too. Bnt afraid no P 'What of this so mnch being afraid?" asked a gruff voioe, and the old uncle of Clotilde hobbled over to the eorner where snatches of their onversation located the two lovers. Then be was told tha story of the ghostly sleigh, and looked wise and thoughtful for the rest of the evening. The shrewd French Canadiau was filled with marvelous stories of ghosts whiob he loved to relate, but none of which he believed, not even his stook fright-story, the legendary Loup Garou. . The next morning Unole Pierre was missing from the chateau, but no one was disturbed, ho bad taken his gun, and would return when he pleased, which was at nightfall, and simultan eously with his ooming rang out the jangling, invisible bells. lie ' found the family shivering around the great fire u if tbeyweie stricken with deadly cold. Even Gas pard looked troubjnd and the little Clotilde was trying to assure him that she was not "Ob, uo, not the least afraid!" "Fine ia the night," he said in salu tation, "and the air Is the clear, so yon hear-r-r, oh, so far I Heard you not, my Clotilde, tbe sleighbells that oome me with?" "Oh, oh," cried the ladies of tbe chateau in a faint chorus ; "the bells do make our hearts to shake," and they said an audible prayer. "What you make ui raid? Not the bells of echo, that tbo wind do bring to your door for tbe too weet music? Pah I Ghost is it, not at all, but tbe r-r-ravine, and the hills, they do make of the bells of the sleighing ooinpame, the echo which for tbe miuu-t-e stop at your door; 'tis eoho always this so many years that you think it tbe ghosts!" Unole Pierre was compelled to es cape from the room when the family had accepted his soientifio explana tion, which he further elaborated iu their native tongue, he was so over whelmed with thanks and praises. So the shadow was lifted forever from tbe house of Froutenao, and the story which had so and an eudiug aud was accountable for tbe ghost, is no longer related as the cause of Buoh a dreary effect, and it is now the pleas ure of the ladies of tbe chateau, as it once was the abhorrence, to ask visit ors to listen to the "so strange echo," aud out of the materials of a tragedy they have really evolved a comedy. Detroit Free Press. A Chcsterville, Maine, couple re cently celebrated their goldou wedding iu the very house, into whiob they moved on their wedding day, fifty ears ago. SELECT SIFHXUS. Cora is being used as fnel in Central Iowa. Bristol, ronn.,-claims tbe credit of hold in t tbe first annual fair in Penn sylvania. Crab pots and eel pots are exaot modele, on an enlarged scale, of the Emperor moth. It is said that two women swindlers Lave been selling colored pawdust for ground coffee at Dunkirk, Penu. A citizen of Bridgcton, Maine, who is nearly ninety years of age, was shaved for the tir.it time one day recently. Tbe Mexican tword, in nse among the aborigines at the coming of the Spaniards, was modeled after tbe nose of tbe sawfish. Chicory is nsed ti adulterate coffee, Chunks of dried carrot are used to adulterate' oliicory, but the carrot is rook bottom. Thieves visited John Brook's farm, at Plymouth, Montgomery County, Pcnn., and stole a live porker weigh ing 250 pounds. Lots of acorns are bought in Pike County, Missouri, and sent to spioe mills in St. Louie, to be made into coffee and spices. A mountain lion measuring eleven feet from noEe to tail, and weighing 50 pounds, was killed ,in San Antonio canyon, Cal.,.reoenlly . . Tbe use. of nets in fishing for Stur geon is rapidly supplanting other methods of taking tbo big fish in the upper Columbia and Snake Rivers. The nets aro from 000 to 909 feet long, and the meshes vary in siza between twelve and nineteen inches. In the possession of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts is a guinea which she treasurers above all her minor belong ings. Her grandfather, who was a gentleman of slovenly outward ap pearance, was given it by a benevolent old party, who chanced to mistake him for a pauper. Several large consignments of salm on eggs have lately been sent from this country to Europe. A crate of 60,000 eggs was shipped from the Uni ted States fishery at Baird, Gal., to Ireland, and another crate, containing 50,000 eggs, was shipped from the same place to Geimany. Two hunters of Boise, Idaho, had a sorrowful experience. They Bpent half a day loading shells, being dissatisfied with those on sale,, and next morning drovo twenty-two miles to the hunting grounds. On arriving there they dis covered that they had left all their ammunition at home in Boise. A fox and a hunter together stalked a partridge near Tyron, Vt., the other day, but each unknown to the other. The bird alighted in an apple tree be hind a ham, and tbe hunter tiptoed around one side of tbe barn and brought the bird donrn. But as the bird dropped, the fox, coming round the other side of the barn, seized it nnd was off with his dinner before the hunter could appreciate what had happened. "Lltllo Kentucky." "Little Kentucky," as it might be dubbed very appropriately, is located opposite Island No. 10, where Ken tucky and Tennessee meet. The river, by gradually cutting out the Kentuoky bank, had worn off a narrow atrip of land, nntil one brigbt morning several people who lived on this side of the line woke np to find themselves on tha other side. In other words, the swift current had washed away tbe neok of earth which made tbo extreme south western corner ot tbis State a part of the commonwealth of Kentucky, 'i'be section of territory thus separated from its parent, as it were, is ten miles long and five miles wide--quite a good mouthful to take in at one bite, even lor the greedy MiBaisEippi. Every well-posted river man and every person who is acquainted with tbe geography and typography of this State will understand how such n thing could happen. Bight at the State line the river forms a loop about ten miles long, Tbe loop extends up into Fulton County. The swift stream lias simply drawn tbis noose tight and formed an island out of what was formerly a peninsula. Hickman is tbe closest town of any size to thu place where all this land making oc curred. Darnell, a little hamlet over in Obion County, Tennessee, is quite near tbe spot. The boundary line between Ken tucky and Tennessee has always been rather complicated down about Island No. 10, owing to tha peculiar bend in tbe Mississippi mentioned above. Tbe lakes, bayous and sloughs which bisect that corner of Fulton County, iu all directions alro serve to mix matters. The biting oil' of such a large strip of Eoil will add to tbe general confusion, and tbe question may arise as to whether "Little Kentucky'' will here after belong to the domain of the volunteer Stute or still be a part and parcel of the dark aud bloody ground. Paduoah News. Hanoverian Etiipiette. - One of tbe minute points of eti quette upon which the King of Han over inBiKted wus tint he would not receive visitors for a tirst presentation to him except iu uuifuriu. Sir Joseph Crowe hud uo uniform, aud be com ments on "the. fact that u King who was utterly blind could not see sio unless tbe person lie wished to honor wus iu uniform." Au Americau jour ualibt wus onou refused uu interview with the name Kin;.; ot Hanover I'U tbu same ground ; but bo wus ultimately more buccesslul, mr, plcudiug tbut bo wus au American republican, aud therefore could not do otherwise tbau uppuur without a uniform, ho was re reived, the Kiu cumiuuiiliutf lam It at tbo beginning of tha interview upou the special ground for the ex ception. Tbe Atbuuauuw, THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STOSIUS THAT ARB TOLD BT THE FTJNNT MEN OF THE PRESS, The Cow to Follow the llorae A Marine Sketch On Publication) Corroborative Evidence, Kte. We can stand the horsoloss carriage Think It's lust u floe as silk, But we kick hard, harder, hardest, When they mention cowleee milk. West Union (Iowa) Gazette. 'OORROBOBATIVS EVIDENCE. "They say there are fewer persons dying this winter than nsual." "Yes, I know lots and lots of people who haven't died at all." Chicago Record. A MABINE SKETCH. "Say, old boy, when yon lose tbo soap in the bath tub how do yoa find it!" "I step on it getting out." Chi cago Booord. AN TJNFOBTUNATB PRESENT. Mamma "Oh, Johnnie, are you going to break all yonr toys? There, he's trying to open that bank again I" Papa "First thing wo know, he'll grow np to bo a burglar." Truth, OX PUBLICATION, 'Do you pay for poetry?" asked tha pretty girl. "Y yes," replied the editor with some hesitation. "What do you pay?" "Compli men ts. " Pc arson'sWeek ly, AGENTS WANTED. Ferry "How did it happeu that you never took that job of soliciting the one where you could make $10 a day with only two hours' work?" Hargreaves "I found that the only ten a day I oould make wOuld be for the other fellow." Cincinnati En quirer. A COMMON FATE. "Poor fellow I" she anid sympathet ically. " What's the matter ?" he asked. "The poor man was disappointed in love," she replied. "Of course," he returned. "It never does oome np to expootions," Chicago Post. AN INFALLIBLE TEST. A miser had diod very suddenly. The dootor who was oalled iu to cer tify his death appeared to havo his doubts abont the case. "Plaoe a ten -mark piece in his hand," said tho old housekeeper of the deoeased; "if he doesn't grasp it, yon may safely make out the order for his burial." Wegweiser. NO BEVF.ItHIliliE AST FOB HIM. "If you would like something un usually fine," said tho art dealer, "I have a genuine Tamer I shall be happy to show you." "A picture that's painted on one side is good enough for me," re sponded Mr. Boodello, the wealthy oontraotor, transfixing the presuming tradesman with a sharp glanco, "ef it's well done." Chicago Tribune. HIS COCRHE DINNER. "No cold turkey, ma'am, if yon please," said Mosely Wraggs, waving his hand majestioally. "We bed our roast turkey a hour ago, at the first plaoe we struok, follered by scolloped orsters at the next house. We ett punkin pie jeBt now acrost the road. All we're wantin' now, ma'am, is some caffay noyer, an' we'll git a toothpick or two at the next place." And he beokoned to Tuffold Knutt, who was leaning pensively against tbe rainwater pipe. Chiougo Tribune. JDST SAVED HIM. . A oertain Miss X. was in the habit ot calling on a minister's family often, and sometimes the calls lengthened into visits which were very wearisome. One day the dorxinie, in his study, heard Miss X.'s voioe, and kept long and vigorously at work. Some hours afterward, when his wifo summoned him to lunch, ho oallod down stairs: "All right and is that bore gone?" "Yes, dear," replied the wifo, "but Miss X. is hero, and will take lunch with us I" Thus she saved his life. Boston Transoript. nOW TO PURCHASE TENDE1I OKESE. It was one of Piatt Evans's pleasures to teach his friends how to purobase tender geeae, though he could not al ways got them in tbe market. One morning he saw a lot, and inquired how many there were. "About a dozen," was the reply. "W-w-well," said Piatt. "I k-k-eep a b-oardiug-house, and my b-b-bourd-era are the biggest e-eators you ever 8-s-saw. P-p-piok out n-uine of tbo t-toughest you've g-g-got." Tho farmer complied, aud laid aside the other three tender ones. Flutt picked them up carefully, aud, put ting them in bis basket, said, "I b-b-'elieve I'll take these three." SHE HAD TO HAVE IT OCT. "What do you know about women ?" asked the thin old man. "Nothin," said the fat man with the bald head. "1 guess I don't either, and I have been married three months, too. Yes terday my wifo asked mo how I liked the dinner. She does tbe cooking, you know." Tbe fat man didn't know, but ho nodded. "Aud wbeu I begun to pruise tbe dinner she began to cry, and said she feared I loved her ouly for her cook ing!" "Oh," said the fat man, "he bal a cry coming. That waa all." Cin cinnati Emjuirer- SCIESTIFIC A!U INDUSTRIAL. In large doses mate is said to be strongly emetic. Distilled water is recommended as a solvent to act upon tbe earth salts in the blood and expel them from the body. A prize of .1000 has been offered by the German Hygicnie Association for a paper on the efficiency of electrio heaters. That tuberculosis is increased by living in thickly settled communities is shown by statistics collested by Dr. Petit for GG2 French towns. A telegram from New York to Aus tralia has to go nearly 20,000 miles, 15,000 of whiob are by submarino cable, and it is handled by fifteen operators. A Swiss scientist has been testing the presence of bacteria iu mountain air, and finds that notasiugle microbo exists beyond an altitude of 2000 feet above the level of the Bea. Attention has been drawn to the fact that the coal oil nsed in tbo lamps in tbe cars of tbe Manhattan Railway Company, of New York City, is 150 degrees below the tost required by law. . A new kind of water-color paper, the sheets of which can be warranted to be free from blemishes, is to be made by a process discovered by Mr.. North, ussociate of tho Koyal Academy. Only the purest water is employed by the Chinese in washing the finer grades of silk. Ordinary well water in its natural state is unsuitable, and is purified by placing a quantity of molluuks in it for a day. Tbeao prey on any impure organic matter and act as filters. The island of Zealand boasts of au amphibious boat, which makes a daily trip across throe lakes aud tho isth muses which separate them, making its land trip on wheels which run on a track. The seventy passengers make tho entire voyage if it cau bo called such without disembarking. Cripple Creek will be tbo first min ing camp in tbe United States to adopt electricity as a motive power to travel from ono mining point to auother a journey that hcrctoforo has becu made afoot or by mulebaak. A double track-road is to be built to tnko in all the surrounding hilis and all the mines of importance. J. L. Allen, a telegraph operator at Loretto, in Marion County, Ky., has invented a railroad clock that is a marvel of ingenuity. It registers each train as it pasties aud tbu time at which it passes, and an accompanying device gives warning to incoming trains it another train has passed the station within fifteen minutes. Undeveloped Western Resources, Figures are at hand as to the extent ot the building stone industry iu tho United States. A report just issued by the geologioal survey shows that the quarry value of the stoua pro duced in 1891 was $37,377,816, of whioh 833,000,000 was used for tho construction of buildings. Pennsyl vania leads all of the other States iu this product, Ohio coining next and Vermont ooming third. Over three fourths of the total product is in a mall portion of the area of tbo coun try, from Maine to Illinois. It is evi dent that the grer.t stone deposits of the South and West have been only auperfioially worked. Of no State is tbis more true than Oregon. Many buildings in Portland bear evidence of the excellence of such stono as has been uncovered in suflioient quantity to justify large oontraotp. Sun Fran cisco buildings aro also using Oregon stone to some extent. A great deal of stone suitable for ornamental build ings, especially of a light color, un doubtedly exists in the State. Tha trouble has been the quarries were not developed enough to warrant con tracts being made for it in large quan tities. Tbis should be remedied Here after and undoubtedly will be. It is most probable, for example, that when the time comes for a new Court House at Multnomah County, it will be built of Oregon material. Portland Oro gonian. The Shop Has llr.il us. The teudenoy of successful business is to enlargement ; aud with enlarge ment comes a new multitude of agents, a new variety of markets, a new kind of competitivo dau?er, to avert which absolutely requires mind. Tho very number of his employes compels tbo great tradesman of our day to become a judge of character ; tbe very expan sion ot his market drives him to study many countries, many turilT-, muuy laws; aud his extreme danger from competition makes of him uu artist, a chemist, and a critic. Tbe process is slow, beoause he is always governed by the idea of selling, aud be often learns rather to kuon public tasto than to know wbut tasto is, aud to seek iu his purchases the popular rather than t lie good; but still tho process must develop his min i. The Spectator. Birds Hake a .Nest ot S'et'l. A curious gift has been mado to tho Natural History Museum of Soletta This gift consists of a bird's nest con structed entirely of steel. There arc a great many vut h.nuUers at Soletta, aud iu tbo vicinity of tbo workbhops there are always tbo remains el tbo old fprings of watches, which havo been cast aside. Last biunmcr u watchmaker discovered this curious bird' nest, which had been built iu a tree in his oourt yard by a pair of water wa;;tsils. It measures ten centimeters iu circum ference, and is ni.i le bulely of watch springs. Wheu tho birds had Hedged their brood tbo watchmakers teemed their unique nod, us au interesting proof of Xho intelligence of buds in adapting auythiug which comes with in their reach. Loudon News. WIND VOICES Wind, that art walling through the night, With the voice of a soul in pain! Thou hast waked the waves that slept on tha shore, 1 hear them rise, and dash one? moro 'Gainst the sullen, fixed, nnd changeless rock, Which has flood-unmoved through many a shock Of tho raging storm, and the breaker white That must sweep to the sea again. Wind, that art walling through the night, With the voice of a soul In pain! Thou hast waked the passion of wild regret, Which slumbered go lonir to rae and fret 'flalnst tbe pitiless, flxei decrees of life; A) well .'may tbo waves with tho rock hold strife! Back to the tide of the Infinite, Poor heart, that hast cried In vain! Wind, that art watting through the night, With the voice of a soul In pain! Thou hast Rnthered up each cry of earth That from mortal anguish ever had blrtb, At tho door of the living to enter in, ' Weeping for sorrow nnd death and sin; - l'et heart, mnke answer, "Qod's will Is right," And rest lu His peace again. Mary Gorges, in Chambers's Journal. IIU.HUU Ur J HIS DAI. , , -. "She has married the man she want ed." "That's nothing to marrying tbe man Borne other girl wants." Life. " "Every time I see you lam remind- ' od of Ilerr Hummel." "How so?" "Ho owes me $20." Fliegende Blaet ter. "Ynn nnvpr told m Miss Faircirl was au athlete." "Well, -is ahe?' "Yes; sho bus thrown me over." Tit Bits. . . There is a difference bntween'a cold and tbe grip, but yon will not realize it until yon receivo tbe dootor's bill. Truth. Neli "Jack Softleigh doeen't know his own mind." Belle "I nevtr knew " he was as ignorant as all that" Phil adelphia Becord. "I tell you what, Sharp, marrying i i . j i. t 1 1 V . uu ueiress una us urawuautB. . . -to, but think of tho greenbacks, Bond," Harper's Bazar. Westumble on the gifts wo prise All other things above, For ever since tbo world began, We've fallen Into love. Now York Recorder. Scene: A schoolroom in the year 1900. Teaoher (to new boy) "Hans, have you got your certificate of vac cination against smallpox?" New York Sun. Fussy Old Lady -"Now, don't for get, conductor. I want the Bank ot England." Conductor "All right, mum. (Aside). She dou't want much, do sho, mate?" Punch. "If you will giveyour hand to me, I'll toll your fortuno true." "No doubt, dar eouut, tho maid replied, "Aud you would spend It, loo." Now York liocordor. , "The world owes mo a living," he said bitterly. "Of course," replied tbe other sarcastically. "But I don't seem to' got it. " "Well, you never were much good as a collector." Chi cago Post. Sho "So there are the Alps at last!" ne "Must bo. You don't suppose a first class tourist company like tbis would work oil any substitu tions or imitations on its patrons?" Household Words. Mr. Goodbcart "My income is $2200 a year. Don't yo'i think yonr daughter could live on that?" Mrs. Spendwell "She pro'bahly could, with economy; but bow would you live. " New York Weekly. The salo (lew open, aud there inside A recelp.od kus bill lay. Tim bain.) I burglar shook his head. "J vi) eomo a little to late," he said, Aud ho uioururully turned nwav. Chicago Tribune. Tbougbtfulness: Magistrate "It you broke into the house with honor utile intention, as you say you did, why did you tako of) your boots in tha hall?" Burglar "I was told bv my inuto that tbo muster was lying ill in bed." "Six months." Dorfbarbier. Fully Explained : First Detective "Strange that I didn't reoognize him I 1 thought I'd kuow him in any dis guise." Second Deteotive "But wheu he was eunght be had no dis guiho." First Detective "Oh I that accounts for it." Puok. New Use lor Corncobs. Frank Shafer took to Lacon, 111., recently, a sample of sirup which a number of experts pronounced geuu ine maple sirup. It was nothing more nor less than cornoob sirup, made aa follows: Twelve clean cobs were put iu a gallon of water and boiled nntil koft. Then tbo juice was strained off and a gallon of dark brown sugar so- ' lotion added. Tbis is boiled a little while, resulting iu a fine quality of birup, hardly distinguishable from the maple product. Chicago Times-Her-uld. a uarguiii ai i en i ems. A horso was sold by tbe Sheriff at public auotiou iu irout of tbe court house aud was bought by Flint Hen drix, tbe ouly bidder, at ten cents. The horse was the property ot B. it. Morris, and wus bold to butisfy amort i;uge, amounting to about H5. Mr, lleudrix afterward refused au odor of $2.50 for his bargain, if such it miht be considered.- Aikou (S. C.) Journal aud lteview. A r'uxr lux. Tho fox's reputatiou for smartness was well sustained by a member of tbe tribe near Falmouth, Me., tho other day. A couple, of houudu aud a hun ter wtro alter it, aud tbe fox led tbe lumuds to a fru.eu poud, uud out ou ico to thiu tbut it just supported tho fui, which escaped, while tho honndu went through aud word drowuod. New York buu. 1 m
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