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VOL. XXVIII. NO. 51. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1890. S1.00 PER ANNUM.
German iron now finds ifa way into
India, Australia, South Amerioa and
von Great Britain.
Vital statistics of Massachusetts
show that in that State women are
much longer lived than men.
The statement that the population
of Kansas to-day is 100,000 less than
it was in 1890 is probably within tho
truth,
Famine, floods and rebellion in
China, it is estimated by the Rot.
Timothy Riohnrds, cause the death of
3,000,000 annually.
It is said that the fees of the United
States Marshal of Oklahoma last year
amounted to 8250,000. That offloe is
fire tiruos as good as the Presidency.
A sharp observer notes that unmar
ried womon will never own to more
than twenty-two, and marriageable
men make o sticking point of thirty
three.
The Atchison (Kan.) Globe man no
tices that "when a woman takes np
literary pursuits the nnmber of canned
f;oods on hor grocery bill steadily in
crease.." The Portland Oregonian is tnuoh
concerned that after all that is done
to discourage it the migration of
Northern farmers toward the South
continues nnabateJ.
Mexico is eaid to produce anything
Mint can be raised in any other coun
try. , So varied is the olimate that in
the Fnmo Stato can be raised any
product of the tropics and of the polar
region.
Edward Simmons, the artist who
designed the decorations for the new
Criminal Court building in New York
City, rcjeoltho idea of blind justice,
nod ho depicted that deity with both
vyea open, holding her scales in
ono hand an J the American flag in the
other.
Tho Chicago Timcs-IIerald thinks
some uniformity should be introduced
in tho- pronunciation of Iowa. It is
variously spoken in Congress.
"I-owub," "I-oway" and "I-owy,"
with the accent ou the first syllable;
"I-o wy" and "I-o way," with tho ac
cent ou the second syllable, and
"1-a way," with the accent on the
third syllable. None of these is cor
rect. Senators Allison and (Sear and
the members of the Iowa- delegation
agree that "I-o-wah," with a little ac
cent on the first aud emphasis on the
liual cyllohlo is the only right thing.
The conference of mutual aooident
insurance oomnanies oT the United
States, which assembled in Boston re
cently to discuss tho bieyolo rider at
nn accident risk, has finished its de
liberations. The results are disastrous
to th bicycle riders. The following
resolutions were uaanitnously passed:
"Resolved, That the use of the bicycle
should bo covered by additional cost
or a reduction of the amount of death
and indemnity benefits, and it is rec
ommended that this be provided for
by either of the following methods:
1. The adequate increase of premium!
to cover the added risk j or, 2. Th
classification, an occupation of bicycle
riders in a clus twice as hazardous aa
the preferred risk. 3. That benefits
by accidents by bicycle riding be
specifically reduced. 4. The includ
ing of bicycling under the policies to
be covered only by speoiflo permits at
an extra premium." The next thing
to come, suggests the New Orleans
Picayune, may be the refnsal of life
insurance oompanoes to take risks on
the lives of bicycle, riders.
Perhaps the most curious incident
growing out of opposition to railway
monopoly is found up in Miuuesota. I
A farmer named Bines, who owned
nothing in the world but quarter
section of mortgaged land and a spav
ined team of horses, suddenly conclud
ed that tho country was being ruiued by
railroads, aud that the farmers must
build a road of their own. He started
out. The farmers did not have auy
money with which to subscribe for
stock, but they pledged so many days'
work on the road. Others made a gift ol
the right of way. Still others went
into the woods and cut out tho ties.
Farmer Hiues was nmoh ridiouled when
be started bis agricultural road, but
be bus stuck niaufully to his task, and
uow the chances are tho road will be ao
tually built. He has 150 miles of right
of way, pledges for tho earthwork,
ties enough to oover the line, and it j
now in New York negotiating boudi ;
for tho rails and rolling ttoek. Tin
road will run for Duliith west througl '
tho Red River Valley into North Da- j
Lota, opening 'up a new soctiou o!
country. 'That ia what au Amerieui )
farmer with a bpaviued team and faitl
ju himself cuu do wheu he sets about it
MY LIiTL.fi WOULD,
My little world-it lies Sway
O'er meadows musical with May,
Post pleasant fields where wild doves wing
And birds breast-donp In blossoms fllntfi
And morning glories ollmb and Cling.
And there love's banners are unfurled;
Love relgnoth o'er my little world.
I pray you, mark In fields and glens
Theoqrly-headfld Citizens!
On every brow the morning glows,
Aad every pattering footstep knows
The way to white realms of the rose!
And still their steps, where'er thoy bo,
Make pathways to the heart of me.
And lo! in fireside lights serene
Hor gracious majesty, the queen!
Bhe wearelb love's own diadem;
Her gentle hands no Jewels gem,
But love bonds low and kisses them.
Bwoetheart and mother friend and wife,
Queen of my world and of my life!
Fare with me to my little world!
The sleepy citizens are etlrlod
And ouddled now In snowy coti
Tho twilight shades the garden plots,
But not these sweet forget-me-nots!
For they are smiling in their dreams,
And on my world the morning beams!
Fare with me to my world, and rest
There where the Love is sweetest best;
No shadows dim its walls of light,
No olouds drift o'er Its morning bright
Whose rosy rays bring heaven in sight!
Enter from thorny ways and sad,
And kiss the Queen's hand, and be glad!
F. L. Stanton, In Chicago Tlmes-IIorald.
AN AVERAGE MAN.
OTTER was in lore
with the pretty
girl who was stay
ing with Mrs.
Chase on Minetta
street, and he
hardly knew what
to do about it. He
thought that this
was his first at
tack. Indeed, he
felt sure it was.
He reasoned to
himself that the
others could have
been nothing but
fanmnfl. ImnaiisA Via
wan not oeen so anxiously careful to
conserve his attitude toward them.
Ho had not lain awake at night won
dering how he could pay them atten
tions which thoy would aosspt as lead
ing up to serious things, without at
tracting tho notice of hissister-in-law,
and inviting tho consequent ruin of
his hopes.
Cottor could not tell what taotics
his sister-in-law employed to keep him
still a widower, but he knew they were
eflloaolous. She never said anything
to him ; she employed herself entirely
with tho party of the second psrt.
Any nnmber of times in the years
since ho began to "take notice," he
had seen girls whom ho bad found
charming, and who had displayed just
that piquant spice of consciousness,
when in his vicinity, which can
sometimes add twenty per cent, to
tho value of a protty face. One
at a time had filled him with an emo
tion which he called interest. One
by ono be had seen them grow chilly,
indifferent, and commonplace, after
tho blight of an interview with his
sister-in-law. And now that he was
as he told himself honestly in love at
last, he lay awake nights thinking of
ways in which he could lead up to a
declaration and yet leave Mrs. Shears
in ignorance.
If any man has tried to keep a se
cret in a town of ten thousand inhabi
tants, be knows how hopeless a task
Cotter had before him.
It may sound strange to say that
Cotter had never been in love before,
although he hat had a wife; but it
only souuds so beoauso it is an uncon
ventional thing to put on paper. Ho
had married at twenty-three or,
more properly opeakingjbad been mar
ried, being passive in the matter. He
had been a lanky, rather shy young
man who had sever had a home in his
life, and who knew nothing of the
ways of worueo. He was a serious
fellow, to whom vulgar dissipa
tion meant nothing as a temptation,
and who laoked the vanity to read the
innocent advances of young girls. So
uutil ho met Miss Clinch he had hardly
known a woman. She was thirty,
small, compact, with curls, sympathy,
a lisp, and arched eyebrows that gave
ber an expression of childish wonder.
She treated Cotter as though ha were
head and shoulders above any other
man ; and the sensation being new to
bis simple heart, he drank it in like a
sponge.
Miss Clinob, under her semblance
of youth, was wearily reminding her
self that it was "now or never." Hor
charms had never been those that ap
pealed to maturity. Men like young
girls, but they like them in natural
stato of bud, giving promise of luxuri
ant bloom ; not as stunted little roses.
At thirty, with Miss Cliuch, it was a
boy or nobody, and Cotter was at her
baud. Heave u knows, his conquest
was easy I She married him in less
thtiu six mouths; before another year
she was dead, having done Cotter no
particular harm, and leaving a not uu
pleoeant fading memory behind her.
It is a wibe provision of nature
which makes so many men the vic
tims of a youthful passion for a wo
man older than themselves. She edu
catoa them, keeps them free from en
tanglement, aud lets them go, with
open eyes and their eye teeth cut en
tirely through ; but in the freemasonry
of femininity the cider woman who
married tho boy is a traitor and a
"cut," and when tho inevitable ar
rives, nud tho boy, grown a man, re
alizes that ho has been tricked out of
the prizo of life, she gets the scorn
instead of tho sympathy of her sex.
No warning in the Book of Proverbs
is bad enough to lit her fate. But
happily Mrs. (letter died, leaving
tva fortunately tut) Ujvj of u
it.... .
tor-in-law to keep her memory groen.
Mrs. Shears, who had been the old
est Mii-s Clinch, was a power in the
community. She mauaged all the
church , fairs find mothers' meetings.
net rather aggressive nose was carried
triumphantly, not only into, but
through, the affairs of everybody, and
Cotter was by no means least in ber
regard. She always spoke of him as
"my brother, Mr. Cotter," and took
credit for his prominence. In the
fifteen years between twenty-fonr and
thirty-nine, he had neve been
able to throw off her yoke. Ho bad
established meek little Mr. Shears in
his bank for Cotter had grown rich
in these passing rears and was edu
eating her boys, taking upou himself
the good natured obligations of a
brother. And Mrs. Shears exercised
ber sisterly prerogative by keeping
mm trom marrying again,
"If I onlv knew What she said to
them I'1 Cotter said as be doubled bis
pillow nndor his hot head, and looked
through tho maples at the lady moon
sailing by his window. "I'll ask Lucy
llittl' And then he close t his eyes
and went to sleep.
Now there is an unwritten law in
Clarksonville that no man shall call on
a married woman alone, and that no
married man shall call at all. When
in the course of human events it bo-
comes necessary for a citizen to ring
a neighbor's door bell, the person who
answers it stands in the door with an
inquiring air, waiting to be told the
oaller's business. That it might be
social in character is out of the ques
tion. So Cotter had to wait two or
thcee days bofore he saw Lucy Hitt.
Mrs. Hitt was a widow in the last
stages of mourning; audit Cotter had
called at her home, every woman on
the block would have put on her bon
net and gene to tell her most distant
klu the delicious piece of news. Cot
ter was the handsomest and richest
man in town, and his lightest move
was full of meaning.
In the mean time, tho pretty girl
had been walking and driving with
evory eligible in town.
The Clarksonville library was partly
supported by charity. As there were
not enough subscribers to keep it go
ing, the ladios of the town took turns
in acting as librarian, and fortunately
Mrs. Hitt's day was not long in coming.
Cotter went np tho rickety stairs
which led to the abode of culture, with
a year's subscription in his hand, and
sat down opposite Mrs. Hitt at the
green maguzino table, where he could
look full into her face. It was a pret
ty, pleasant face to look into, with
little fluffy tendrils of red gold hair
pushed behind the small ears, and a
mouth which had no severity of lines.
"What can I give you?" she asked
politely, when she hat entered his
name in tho book. "Will you have
'Art in Laoo Making, or Lombroso's
'Female Offender'? Those are our new
books. Silly Rice wanted to read ono,
Mid Dr. Smith the other, as they are
stockholders" She waved hor baud
expresiively. ,
"I don't want anything to read. I
want to know what Mrs. Shears says
to a girl to make her give mo the cold
cut."
Mrs. Hitt looked at him, her blue
eyes growiug wider, and a tinge of rod
stealing its way to tho top of her
rounded cheek, where two or throe
golden freokleB lay.
"Why do you ass me? How should
I know?"
"Beoause," Cotter said boldly, "you
were one of tho girls. When you came
here visiting Mr. Dr.' Smith on Rioe
avenue, I "
"You? Yes?"
Mrs. Hitt's color deepened as be
hesitated. He thought how protty
she was when she blushed..
"Oh, well you know. I spent
noarly half my time hanging about
after you, until you gave me to under
stand that you liked Pom Hitt better."
"And you think I preferred Tom
because Mrs. Shears" she Degau in
diguantly. m
"No, I do not. Now be reasonable.
But I do know that Mrs. Shears wont
to see you, and asked you to drive
with her in that old pumpkin phaeton
of hers, and you never wero the same
afterward."
"Why did you think it was some-
thiug she said?"
"It wasn't only you, but"
"Innumerable others. Who were
they? I should like to know who else
listened to Mrs. Shears. Itwilltiokle
my eunse of humor to imagine them
listening to what she told me." And
she laughed rather loudly to prove
her words.
"What was it?"
"That was a long time ago,"
"Maybe it was," Cotter said ; "but
to look at you, it might have been
yesterday."
tie looked at her rather closely, as
if to make sura of his words. The
table wus only two feet'wiJe. She had
been just eighteen when she called
down upon her head the confidences
of Shears, aud Cotter had not had a
good look at her since. It is not cus
tomary for young meu to look very
closely at marriea women iu Clarkson
ville ; and Tom Hitt hud been an in
valid for a long time, aud had kept his
wifo with him.
As Cotter looked at her now ho ro-
in n -ered that Bhe had been the first.
A little tiuglo ran along the backs of
his bauds as he let his memory carry
him buck over those twelve years. His
wile bad been dead three years then ;
he boarded with Mrs. Shears, oDd
Ijtioy was aotuully the first young girl
ho had ever kuowu very well. A new
light camo up from tho coruers of his
bluek eyes, aud his voice grew confi
dential. "Do you remembor how 1 mot you?
How that skittith colt of the doctor's
bolted at the engine ou the bridge?
And you nearly sawed his head oft "
"To keep him from climbiug iuto
your buggy I Ye, and 1 remember
how bo pitohe 1 me" "ii.t-i jour lap,"
cli-s. Hitt was u'j'jut tv buy, but tho
thought better of it. "And von took
me homo," she went on lamely.
"I bought that oolt," Cotter said.
"He is out on the farm now."
There was silence for a rndnient.
Wagons lumbered along Center street
and storekeepers called sooiably from
curb to curb. Cotter drummed on the
table with his fingers, and smiles
tucked themselves under his mustache.
"Do you remembor the pionio at
tho island, when we rowed home in
the moonlight, and"
"Our skiff stuck fast on a sand
bar "
"And I had to corry you ashore be
fore 1 could get it off ?"
Mrs. Hitt laughed, but the white
territory of her forehead took on the
red, as Cotter, still smiling, still look
ing straight into her eyes, with an ex
pression that made her uneasy, went
on, "I was choking over the choka
ble Words, when that skiff stuck. I
suppose if I had gotten them out, I
should have asked you what Mrs.
Shears said only I did not oonneot
her with it then."
A look of disdain swept the blush
out of Mrs. Hitt's faoe. "It took
dozens of times before you awoke to
that, I suppose?"
"Not oxactly dozens"
"And" furiously "you would
have married dozens of girls if she had
let them alone, I suppose?"
Cotter leaned across the table and
took her hands. "Lucy," he said,
"would you have married me if she
hadn't meddled.
The itiff bosom of Mrs. Hitt's laven
der Bhirt waist heaved once or twice,
and her Bailor hat bent down until
Cotter oouldn't see anything but a
pink lip twisted under the clutch of
whito teeth; but a hot drop splashed
on his thumb, and brought him
around the table as if he were an auto
maton aud his spring had beeu
touchod.
Two or three minutes later, when
there was a calm, Cotter asked,
"What did Mrs. Shears say to you,
anyhow?"
"You know I married Tom," she
began hesitatingly.
"Yes 1" he said impatiently. Tom
did not seem to belong here.
"I would you like it now, if I if
anybody were to tell you that I kept
all of Tom's things by me and .kissed
his photograph good night, and"
"No." Cotter's voice was cold.
Lucy went on rapidly. "Do you
remember the story of the bride who
cried and explained that she couldn't
be happy, because, if her husband
loved her as much as he said he did,
ho couldn't be sorry his first wife died ;
and if he wasn't that made him too
brutal for her to love?"
"Well?"
"I'm not a bit like that I"
"Know this," Cotter said solemnly ;
"I never knew what love was until I
knew you ; I nevor loved any woman
but you."
Lucy looked at him. As a sage
long ago discovered, whatever a wo
man may doubt, that statement she al
ways believes.
"Thoso others?"
"Figments of my imagination."
She hold both his ; hands, and
looked into his faoe, with hers against
his coat.
"I know it," she whispered, "when
you camp in and asked that question,
I think I always knew that you would
come."
Cotter was standing where he could
see out of the window. Tho pumpkin
phaeton was going by, with the pretty
girl from Minetta street sitting by
Mrs. Shears and looking rather un
happy. For the thousandth part of a
second Cotter had a sinking of tho
heart. It was all np again ! Mrs.
Shears was telling that girl that ho
kissed his wife's picture good night.
He gave a "st" of indignant amuse
ment; and thou ho remsmberei, and
looked happily down into Lucy's faoe.
Muueey's Magazine.
Continental Currency.
Several attempts wero made to hav
the Continental currency funded oj
redeemed, but without snooess. . The
Continental Congress had no power U
tax, aud, being accustomed to papel
issueB as the ordinary form of money,
naturally turned to that expedient.
The outpour of ourrouoy began in
1775, and $9,000,000 had been issued
before it began to dopreoiato. Io
177G, when the depreciation set in,
Congress adopted stringent measures
to sustain tho bills, but at the eud o
17T8 the value of a paper dollar had
fallen to sixteen cents in the Northern
States and twelve cents in the South.
In two years more its value had fallen
to two cents, and before the end o.
1780 it took $10 in bills to make one
cent iu value. It is hardly necessary
to add that the currency soon ceased
to circulate. It was then that the ex
pression, "not worth a continental,"
was adopted as indicative of absolute
absence of value. Boston Cultivator.
Kt fusel His Parole.
James Johusou, a lifetime convict
in tho Indiana Stato Prison at Jeffer
Bouville, has refused a parole from tho
Goveruer, saying he is iot guilty ol
murder, the crime charged, aud will
accept nothing less thuu an uncondi
tional purdon. Ho was feuteuoed in
18 J3 for killing Leslie Boll, but oluiuu
it was done iu belf-defeuso. It is the
ouly case on leoord where a parole
was refused by auy prisoner, as it li
practically tho sumo as a pardon.
Kansas City Star.
The 'luraisii .Needle.
A curious needle with a polished
triangular eyo lurge euougU to carry
btiips of beaten gold and for uso upou
embroidery of lmeu was onoe shown
to an American woiunu iu Constanti
nople. Tho particular iuterest at
taching to the Lucille was tho assertion
ut u.s uwurr that it. had been in the
1 IK.-'.'SiloU lif hi-, fliuul;- UIOl'.! thllll ;iij,
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE" 1
STORIKS THAT ARE TOI.D BT THE
FUNKY MEN OF THE PRESS.
Dropped Into felang A Lamb ,1ns-tlce-In
It, But Not of It-A Mttle
tioes a Long Way, Etc., Etc;
Bhe held a daisy In her band
And p'.ueked its petals one by one;
As fair a picture was shothen
As e'er was shone on by the sun.
The rude young man, who, unawares,
Approached her, m arly had a fir,
To hear her rosoleaf lips ennun-
Ciatei "Ho loves me loves me nit!"
Indianapolis Journal.
IN IT, BUT NOT OF IT,
"Willie doesn't seem to have had its
good a time as the rest of you boys."
"No'm."
"Why is that?"
"Y'see, we had our fun with Willie 1"
-Chicago Record,
TUB NF.W FnOTOOIUPHT.
"Well, Doctor, is there anything
the matter with my foot?" asked J ones.
"My answer," replied the Dootor,
"is in the negative."
He had taken up the new photog
raphy. Pick-Me-Up.
KANSAS REPARTEE.
"Did you fall?" Baid a man, rushing
to the rescue of s woman who slipped
on the icy pavoment, this morning.
"Ob, no," she said, "I just sat down
to see if I could find any four leaf
clovers I "Atchison Globe.
A LAMB.
Clerk "What oan I do for you,
madam?"
Mrs. Sweetly "My husband told
mo this was a bucket shop, and 1
thought you might have some cheap
wash tubs for ealo." Philadelphia
Reoord.
THE DUTEBENCE.
Biggs "I am so stout that J know
exeroise would do me lots of good."
Tams "Then why don't you get
out and shovel that snow off the
walk?"
Biggs "That's not exercise; that's
work." Truth.
LITTLE DEARS.
"I hoar you spent Sunday up at
Witl,,.'.
"Yes."'
"Has ho any children?"
"He says so but it's my private
opinion it's a nienegerio ho's got."
Harper s Bazar.
sMooTfn.va rr over.
Susie "Say, auntie, dear, you're on
old maid, aren t you?
Aunt Emma (hesitatingly) "Cer
tainly, Susie; but it is not nice of you
to ask such a question.
Susie "Now, don't be vexed, auntie;
I know it isn t your fault."
A LITTLE GOES A LONG WAT.
"StamDr.ering is an awful affliction,"
remarked the youug woman.
"Still it has its advantages,"
remarked the society young man.
"Fellow doesn't need more than two
or threo ideas to keep him talking a
wholo evening." InJia inpolis Jour
nal. Ti A NECESSARY TRIP.
Mis3 New woman "I will have to
go to tho city to-morrow and make
some purchases."
Miss Strongmind "Can't you get
what you want here?"
Miss Newwomau "No, there isn't
a gent's furnishing store iu town."
Life.
A PRACTICAL ANSWER.
"This is leap-year," remarked the
maiden, timidly, "aud I am disposed
to avail inyBelf of my aex's privilege.
Mr. Tillinghast, I love you. Will you
be mine?"
"But can you support a husband?"
nsked Mr. Tillinghast, anxiously.
Judge.
JCST1CE.
Willio "I was kept in to day for
throwing a plug of paper at another
boy."
Mamma "And wasn't that perfectly
just?"
Willie "I don't think so, mamma,
whuu I missed tho boy by a foot."
Truth.
FOIt PROPRIETY'S saee.
Niece "Auntie, dear, Mr. Maler,
the artist, has asked mo for my photo,
lie wants to make uso of it for his last
pietutc. Ought I to send it to him?"
"Yes, you can do to, but be sure to
enclose with it a photo of your mother
or some elderly lucly. It would be
highly improper to Bend your photo
by itself !" Tit-Bits.
OVEHUOSE.
"You remember Mary Simmons,
who married Will Fiunix chiefly ou
Hceouut of his super-neat appear
auoo?" "Yes. What bus become of her?"
"The poor thing hastoxtuy at home
all tho tune to see that there isn't a
upeck of dust visible about tho house
when he gets home." Cincinnati En
quirer. A WELCOME EPISTLE.
She "Xhore must be good news iu
your letter."
He "Why, it's from Cousin Bob.
Ho just writes to say thut it isn't con
venient for him to pay mo that money
he borrowed."
She "1 don't eee anything in that
to make you look ao pleasant."
He "But ho doesn't ask for any
more." Puck.
In Norway a law provides that no
person shall be permitted to out down
a tivu iiiilc,i ho plant1) threo saplings in
ii p: .
SU.MIflO ASO IMIL'S'fltlAL.
It is said that ly the aid of Roent
gen's X rays one oan see the heart
beat.
Among the children of Paris wet
nurses the average mortality is seventy-seven
per cent.
The skull of a human being is apt to
beoomd thifl in spots over the sections
of the brain most exercised.
Very feW people know the sound of
their own voice. When they hear it
in a phonograph they are much sur
prised. Pennsylvania engine No. 2106 is
said to have run 250,000 miles with
out once being taken to the Bhops for
repairs.
Sunlight is superior to artifioal
light because its action upon the eye
is equable and unvarying, hence it
may be used long without fatigue.
In the year 1598 there were only
four kinds of hyacinth, the single and
the double blue, the purple and the
violet. At the present time there are
many thousands of varieties.
The eleotrio railroad will be in op
eration between Washington and Bal
timore by next August. It will be
operated by trolley, has no grade
crossings, and an extraordinary rate
of speed is expected. , k
"Gold steel," which is beingmanu
faotured at Sheffield, England, is an
amalgam of aluminum and bronze. It
takes a good polish and is easily kept
bright, It is used for knives and
forks, but the knives do not hold an
edge.
During 1891, 1315 patents relative
to electricity were granted in Great
Britain, tho United Stutes and Ger
many. Of these 113 wero British,
being one-twentieth of all British
patents; 1701 were Atflorioau, and 431
were German.
An electrical road for rural freight
traffJo is being constructed from St.
Louis to Morse's Mill, thirty-five miles
distant. Along the routo there are
now nine post offices, six flour mills
and twenty-six stores or factories' that
transport thoir purohases and sales by
wagon.
There is a spider in New Zealand
that usually throws coils of its wob
about the head of it? prey nntil the
wretched victim is first blinded then
choked. Iu many unfrequented dark
nooks of the jungle you come across
most perfect skeletons of small birds
oaught in these terrible snares.
The Edson cure tor consumption is
being experimented with in the State
Prison, at Auburn, N. Y., on some of
the oonviots. A largo percentage of
the deaths of convicts is due to phthi
sis, and the practical demonstration
of the worth of Dr. Edsnn's discov
ery would be a boon to the prisoners.
The timidity of fish afforded ono of
many interesting discussions at a re
cent reunion of tho Piscatorial So
ciety. It was remarked that tho big
gun praotioe on tho soaooast, while it
would cause lobsters out of sheer
fright to cast one of thoir claws, would
drive millions of fish iuto other
waters.
Dr. Saunders, an eminent specialist
and a member of tho Health Board of
London, is a great believer iu the
value of the electrio light. He claims
that electricity is a great moral power ;
that it protects humanity better than
the philanthropist, and, by purifying
tho workshops an t tho factories, the
sanitary laws are carried out with
much less friotion.
Even Silk Is Adulterated.
Some "improvements" in tho treat
ment of silk are aunounocd. Ordin
arily silk is "weighted" by dopositint
tannate of tiu on tho liber ; tho mate
rial receives a bath of tmnia asid nn I
then another of perchloriile of tiu, c
repetition of this being made until an
increase of the woight amounts tc
from fifteen to twenty per cent. fc?
yond which it is not considered soft
to go in theciso of ei'k intended to be
dyed light shades or to bo bleached.
Recently a German inventor has
brought forward a process in which
silica is tho weighting agent. Iu car
rying out this method three stops are
described. First, tho silk, raw or in
any stage of manufacture, and either
before or after dyeing, is worked for
an hour in a bath of porculorido oi
tin; then, after Bqueezinz and wash
ing, it is worked in a warm solution ol
water glass or soluble silicate of eodn
for about an hour, followed by wash
ing, haviugalso been previously passed
through a solution of phosphate of
soda. The operation may be repeated
again and agaiu, with no harmful
effect on the fiber or on the subsequent
dyeing, and in live operations the silk
may be increased iu weight boioo 100
to 120 per oeiit. Tho silk is now
soaped, aud, if already dyed, isoleared
iu an emulsion of olive oil and acid.
Detroit Nows-Tribtine.
New Use lor au Artesian Well,
Artcsiau wells are iu use in some
parts of tho Wot to give power foi
running electrio light and powei
plants. At Chamberlain, South D.i
kota, last week a new, big, nrtebiai
well, sunk to fcupply power for tht
electric lighting of a toi, was pui
into service, aud the results aro high
ly satisfactory. Tho water is force i
through a tbicu iuc:i uozile onto e
l'eltou water wheel, which runs Ihj
ilyuamo, giving power for i!7.
caudle-power iucaudesceut lights.
There is ponor sullicieut for twice
this number.
A Blind liit'iclist.
J. O. Perry, of Sau Francisco, whr
is stone blind, ri les a bicycle, aud i?
tsiuj to bo au expert. Over unaccus
tomed roads he has t J have nuothe
whculmau with a bull before bun as u
Ktiide, but in bis resulur mutes hi
rides uloue a ltd n 1 1 i!i .1 c-.l, aud ta
bu t fiiw aooi'.i;)t,
A MOTHER'S SONO,
She's the sweetest of the girls,
An' I'm kissing of her curl?,
For they're Tallin' like a shower o'er my
bosom;
An' I've never soen the skiee
That were bluer than her eye",
Nor a blossom that Is sweeter than my blos
som! Itock away, rock awav.
Where the sleepy people stay,
An" the birds an' all tbe fairies are a
singin'; Rock away, rock away.
Till the brcnkln' o' the day,
Rock away while the dream-bells are a
ringin'! Bhe's the sweetest of the girls, ,
An' I'm kissin' of her curls,
For they're lyln' like the moonlight on my
bosom;
But there ne'er waa moon ae bright
As my darlin's curls o' light,
Nor a sweet rose that Is sweeter than my
blossom!
Itock away, rock away,
Where tho sleepy people stay.
Rock away where the poppy-blossoms aro
swlngin';
Rock away, rock away,
Till the breakin' o' the day,
Rook away while the dream-bolls are o
ringln'! F. L. Stanton.
HUMOR OF THE BAT.
After a woman has tied up a bundle
there is no string left in the house.
Atohison Globe.
"Am so glad you had tho doctor ;
did he relieve you?" "Yes; of 920."
Boston Courier. ,
"Iamblowod" as the gas remarked
when the rustio Con'gresmon put it
out. Tho Capitol, Washington.
Now the timid, doubting siiltor.
By Professor Roentgen's art,
May. before he speaks, discover
If she has a marble heart.
Indianapolis Journal.
Dr. Pills "Who was tho most suo- .
cessf ul of all tho girls who were study
ing medicine with you?" Dr. Squills
"Miss Ketchem ; she got married."
Harper's Bazar.
"For the life of me," said the youug
man, "1 dou't see why a woman was
not born with tho capacity for swal
lowing exouses that she has for ioo
cream. " Indianapolis Journal.
Lawyer (a few years henco) "Mako
your mind easy. The jury will disa
gree." Prisoner "Sure?" Lawyer
"I know it. Two of tho members aro
man and wifo." New York Dispatch.
"You ore the only doctor who ad
vises me to stay at home. All tho
others say I ought to go a wiuter re
sort." "I suppose they have all tho
patients they want." Fliegoude Blaet
ter. Disappointed Guest "I thought
you eaid there was au extensive view
from you hotel?" Disappointing
Landlord "Well, you can see tho
moon, can't you?" Samervillo Jour
nil. Ardent Lover "If you could see
my heart, Belinda, you would kuow
how fondly" Up-to-date Girl (pro
ducing camera) "I intend to eee it,
Hiram, Sit still, please." Chicago
Tribune.
She "He whistled as he went for
want of thought. Of conrse it was a
boy. You wouldn't find u girl whist
ling for want of thought." He "No;
she wouldu't whistle; sho'd talk."
Iudiannpols Journal.
Ho "Oh, dear! 1 wish I could got
hold of some good biscuits like mother
used to make lor mo I" Sho "Audi
wish I could get some good clothes
like father used to buy for mo." Iu
(linuapolis Journal.
"I hardly know whether to mirry
her or not," said the couut; "her
father is in tho clothiug trade."
"l'hero is money in clothes," said tho
duke. "There isn't any in niiue, "said
the count. Indianapolis Journal.
First New Woman (at tho club)
"What makes you bo blue?" Second
Ditto "My father-in-law has come to
stay with us, and John au 1 ho sit at
their knitting all day, aud cry about
my treatment of John," Philadelphia
Record.
"Laura," fcaid tho fond mother,
"what are tho intentions of that youug
muu you are permitting to call ou you
sooftou?" "Never mind thut, mother."
answered the maiden ; "I know what
my iuteutious are." Cinoiuuati Kn
qtiirer. Teacher "George, what exeuao
have you for. being late?" George
" Only a far-fetched ono." Teacher
" What do you mean?" George " I'ha
conductor ef tho cur carried me several
blocks pa-t tho school." Harper's
Round Table.
" vVuiter," said tho guest, "I'm a
lit tl o afraid of this milk. Haven't you
auy boiled water?" "Wo van boil
you some, sob," replied tho waiter,
"but tho milk is all right. Wo uso
nothiug but artesian well water here,
sub. " Chicago Tribune.
He "But of courso you will furgol
me." She "Nonsense; I shi.ll think
of you when you uro gone." Ho
"Oh, shall you?" Sho "Yes; there
lore, the longer you uro gone, the
longer I i-ball think of you. Won't
that be uic?" llo.itou Trauscript.
"Papa, can I keep the wolf from tht
door with my tunging?" lie wat
without hope, ulthju-U ho smiled.
"My chilil," he sighed, "your singing
would keep ultnost anything from tho
iloor, but tho wolf is pretty nervy,
you know," Detroit Nows-f ritmuo.
"GeutUtneu of tho jury," said at.
eloquent youug Dallas lawyer, "take
into ooum lerution the children of my
unfortunate client." "But he has uc
children," interrupted tho District
Attorney. "Then, geutlemou of the
jury, will you cousigu to a living
tomb a man who has no rhildreu auii
who U the sola support ui his wilt?'
Tin is Si!t 'f.