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VOL. XXVIII. NO. 52. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1890. S1.00 PER ANNUM.
Mtine has gained 30,000 pooplo in
thirty years, and Vermont gained
about 17,000 in the fame period, and
in the ten years ending with 1890 the
gained 13G iuJiabitnn to.
Jn the Government of Saratov, in
TUifsia, horso thieves and cattle raid
ers ore lynched when caught. Tho
latest case is the beating to death with
idicks of four men by the peasants o)
Biklei.
The late ' Trinoo Henry of Batten
berg had a theory that every Nation
was oivilizod in proportion to its ap
preciation of music On hearing a
Chinese orohestra, he once remarked :
"These people ure hopeless; they will
never process."
Those married iuiiii who have al
ready provided seal skin sacqucs for
their wives and daughters are in big
.'tick, thinks the Atlanta Jonrnol. The
Aln'ka scnl herd has dcorea?ed from
47,000,000 to 170,000 in twenty-fivo
veins and is still falling. It is a con
rotation that a pretty woman dares not
need a seu. skin cover to make her at
tractive. An enterprising London tradesman
undertook to advsrtiso by telegraph
the other day, and sent to scvoral
' thousand prominent ladies a dispatch
to the efToot that a great ralo was in
progross. The ladios havo been ao
oustomod to looking at telegrams as
Matters of importance, and they wore
one and all annoyed. When the
merchant got through apologizing to
Indignant husbands, big brothers and
suoh, and had paid for the Insertion
of not a few abject apologies in tho
newspapers, he had mado np his mind
that nowspaper advertisement! were
the best, after all.
The entire agricultural pross is
seeking to' Ic.trn tho exact profit in
farming. The time has passed, as
serts tho Ban Francisoo Chroniolo,
when the agricultural paper has fnl
filled its duty by making publio the
most successful methods of culture
What farmors want to know Is how to
take in moro than thoy pay out. A
paper published a Springflotd, Mass.,
has offered 850 in prizes to farmers
who send them articles giving either
actual cxpcrioDoe of writora in money
making from tho farm, or the experi
ence of any farmers' organization la
buying or soiling together tho prizes
going to thoso furnishing tho most
Idoas. . There is a third class ol
prizes to thoso who best toll how mark
eting ouabt to bo done.
Los Angolos dispatches chroniolo the
fact that at tho distribution of tho es
tate of Fio Fico, the last Governor ot
California nndcr Mexican rale, only
gold wat oh and chain were left. Tiea
was the riohoat oi all the native Cali
fornia hidalgos exoept Vallojo. lie
owned ranohos which covered hun
dreds ot thousands of aores, and his
cattle were uunuuibcrod, but, like Val
lojo, he had no conception of the
value of land or money. When the
the Americans swarmed in he played
tho hospitable host for several years,
and when bis ready money was gone
be mortgaged his estates. Twentj
years caw him stripped of everything,
and for the last docade the man who
was onoe the most powerful in tho
State simply vegetated on the bounty
of old friends. In the same way Gen
eral Vallejo, who onoe owned tho host
lands in Central California, died in
' poverty in the house which onse wit
nessed bis princely entertainments.
The Atlanta Constitution notes that
the experiments ot Massachusetts and
New Jersey in the construction ot
first-alass highways have aroused a
good deal ot interest in othor States.
Massachusetts spont $700,000 last
year on her roadways, and she is will
ing to spend still more this year. In
New Jersey, too, the people are
anxious to be taxed if they can get
good roads. In many States, North
and South, it is suggested that it
would be a good plan to work theoon
viots ou the publio highways. Their
labor would iu time furnith every lo
cality with good roads, and thus em
ployed they would not compete with
free and skilled libor. Tho outdoor
work would bo a good thing for tho
health of the prisoners, aud if proper
ly guarded they could not escape uny
more easily than under the present
system. With first-jUss highways
our farms will ripidly increase iu
value, and their owners will have bet
ter facilities for carrying their pro
ducts to market, while the item of sav
ing in the wear and tear of vehicles in
of important consideration. With
these improvement, our rural din
trials will attract settlers, and the
country will draw the surplus popula
tion of iie towns. Perhaps this
points to the solution of the convict
problem..
THE SPRINO.
Oyei! Oyfis! a girl bas run awnyt
Bile's truanting from winter's convent
balls;
Slnmpodiug all the world wilh field ward
cull".
And breeding mischief In tho general clay.
8bo romps along tho lanes ncd mimics Mays
The savor of her blown, soft hair enthralls
lite air. The snows melt where her foot
print falls.
On greening meads whose startled flowers
betray
The aoaxtng tune hor floot vagary hums.
The leaves look out to watch her whoro
she comes,
And pell-mull brooks break jail to scamper
after;
And hill-homed cattle frisk that she is
near.
She teases even tho towns with fetching
laughter.
Oy! Who's seen the tomboy of tho year!
Rupert Hughes, In Scribnor.
. THE LAND SLIP.
HOSE broken acres
o f land which
stretchout into tho
sea, on a portion
of England's south
west coast possess
their little history
as well as many, a
better known 'bit
of island scenerv.
The rough crags, which stand out so
boldly here and there amid the tarn
bled, undulating ground around, have,
while old Time's hand has boon bnsy
clothing their ragged outline with soft
raiment of woodbine and clematis,
looked on many a ourions scene ; they
have frowned down on the smuggler,
as ho carried his ill-gotten gains to
safe anchorage beneath their shade ;
they havo listened to the low whisper
of the lover, and have been the silent
witnoss of many a little oomedy ; alas I
too, of many a sombre tragedy.
To the right of those aores lies the
old borough town of Lymton ; to the
loft is tho little fishing village of
Briraley; two plaoes which have
ohangod little with the passage of
years. It was in the early part of the
present oentury, on a hot August
evening, that a girl walked briskly
along the cliffs toward the fishing
hamlet ; she throaded her way among
the sheep tracks, in places braoken
hidden, with tho qniok, certain stop
of a native. She was the Vicar of
Brimley'a only daughtor, and she
oould have walked blindfold the eight
juilos from Lymton to her home, for
the cliffs had been her playground
from earliest childhood. Though now
grown intd a young woman of twenty
summers, she still loved the downs
with nil her heart; she loved tho
swish of tho fern around her feet, and
the touoh of the breeze on her obeek ;
she loved to watch the rabbits at play,
and to listen to the soreamof the galls,
hotter than any rout or festivity
dissipations which, however, seldom
enough came in her way. At Bin
more, where Squire Hayling's estate
bordered tho towns, she loitered in
her pace. Was it the climb up the
hill, or tbo kiss of the breeze which
caused her color to hoighton and the
eyes to dance with pleasure? What
ever the reason, it but gave an added
beauty to the sweet Devonshire face
unier its big straw hot. Perhaps,
some ench thought was in the mind of
the young gallant, who, in spite of
carrying one arm in a sling, lightly
vaulted the fence and aooosted her.
He appeared to be well aoqaainted
with the damsel's movements, for he
at once inquired whether, as usual,
she had been visiting her brother at
Lymton,
"You guess well, Captain Hajling,"
she laughed. "Yes, 1 have been to
see Jim. Poor lad I he does so hate
the office life at Lymton, and I fear
for excitement's sake, he mixes him
self np more and more with the smug
gling. He was out again last night,
and I cannot sleep for fear of his com
ing to harm."
The Devonshire voice was soft and
winning, while the smooth, white
brow showed a pucker of very real
anxiety. The Captain bent towards
her with eager sympathy.
"Yon poor little soul I and you are
worrying over his pranks. He is
young and foolish yet ; he will grow
wiser by and by. What a pitty he
cannot join our fighting boys abroad I
Spirited youug fellows are wanted
there; and it would give his energy
scope."
"Oh, no, no, father would never
consent ; he lost his only brother at
Saratoga, and he has never got over it
he has made Jim promise not to be
come a soldier or sailor, but it is hard
on Jim I We have no interest, we are
poor, and so Jim must drudge at a
desk, aud it galls him ; he wants an
outdoor life, he just smuggles for fun.
You see, he has known all the old
smuggling fishermen since he was a
little chap, and they will always take
him when he want to go.". Sho
paused, thon reading her companion's
silouoe as a sign oi disapproval, she
added, defiantly: "I don't blamo
Jim. either; I should do tho same
were I ho. Oh ! some ot their tales of
adventure and escape are grand. You
should hear old lieu Pugg talk t Why,
they gave tho preventive men the slip
as neatly as possible only the other
night and landed their kegs right un
der their very eyes."
The Captain laughed. "Why, you
are as bad us Jim, every bit ! But all
the sume Jim must stop his pranks.
The authorities have winked for a
long time at the smuggling around
here, but of late they have changed
their tune; since poor Jephson got
killed last spriug. the revenue men
are iu arms; they will catoh whom
they can, and the punishment is
heavy. You must use all your iu'lu
euce to keep Jim in. Nay, Jcau, do
not look so downcast," for the color
Lai laded from her cheek, and her
38$
lips had grown perilously tremu
lous. "I meant but to warn yon,
child ; it will be all right, never a
doubt ! Perhaps, between us, we may
be able to get Jim out of this distaste
ful office ; perhaps my father could
find him n more congenial billot on
his Scotch estate. Come, lot me see
you smilo again. Ah I that is better
--now seriously ; the dear old dad will
do anything I wish, and I shall ask
him to "find something for your
brother. No, it is no kindness," he
leant toward the girl, whose sparkling
eyes spoke her gratitude, and said
softly: "I leave Uncle Hayling to
morrow, but when I return in three
weeks' time I shall ask for something
iu return. But not yet Jean ; not till
I have seen my dear old father, and
have told him of your Bweetself. Ab,
Jean, when I come back will you be
kind?"
She blushed and played with her hat
strings, while a thrush sang its au
tumn song in the scarlet-hung rowan
tree over her head, nnd a robin peeped
at the lovers from the bilberry bush
close by, but she answered never a
word. The Captain smiled. "In
three weeks' time, Jean, I shall come
for your answer have I made you
dumb, have yon no voice left? Come,
then, tell me of your solemn-faced
admirer down there," indicating Brim
loy; "can you tell me how he fares?"
Jean gave her head a toss, and found
speech at once. "I hate him," she
said, energetically, "and yet I fear
him, too I He is hard and harsh, and
dreadfully obstinate. Ah, you lauih,
but really, I do fear him I Is it a pre
sentiment?" Had she known it, the pretty, pen
niless Jean bad won the heart of the
heir to one of the biggest rent rolls in
Soolland, but she knew nothing of her
lover's prospects, and cared not at all ;
to her unsophisticated mind it was
sufiloient to be sure that ho was kind,
brave andtrae knowing it, she loved
him.
The following evening, about the
same hour Miss Jean was making the
same journey on her slender young
feet, bumming a little song to herself
as she walked. She paused at the
Squire's fonoa to recall the meeting of
the previous day. In three weeks'
time Captain Hayling would be back,
ho would meet her again and then !
she did not put her thoughts into
words, but her cheeks hoisted their
crimson flag, and finished the sentence
for her. How glad she was his arm
was nearly wolJ, though it seemed it
must always remain stiff, and unfit him
for active service ; yet it was happi
ness to know he could never again go
to those cruel wars. Sho stopped
some little way from the edge of the
cliffs, remembering her lover's warn
ing; yes, the cliff were slipping more
than usual this season. Only yonder
a large boulder had fallen during the
night, and even as she looked, half a
mile away, a huge crag fell with the
noise of the explosion, churning up
the sea in spray, and leaving thick,
smoke-like dust in 'its wake; she
stayed to seo the frightened gulls set
tle once more, and resumed her way,
choosing more inland track.
Farmer Lodon stood at his gate ; he
had seen Miss Jean advanoing, and,
with arms folded, he awaited her.
When she would have gone on, he
laid a heavy, detaining hand on her
arm, bidding her not to hurry, for he
must have speech with her.
"Mr. Lodon," she said, while she
shrank involuntarily from his toncb,
"it it is the same question, you know
I have but the same answer."
"3oftly, softly I I say yon shall be
my wife, and that in three weeks'
time, or take tho alternative. Your
brother Jim shall pay the forfeit. You
start. Ah I yon think his little pranks
are not known, but you mistake." He
drew a letter from his pocket, and
showed her, making her read it. It
was written by her brother, with all a
boy's carelessuess ; it spoke of his
escapades, of the notorious run of the
previous week when he had helped
triumphantly to hoodwink the revenue
men. The letter, written to a com
rade who had missed the fuu, and
signed "James Alymer," was evidence
enough fully to incriminate the writer.
It had nover reached it destination;
by means of his own, for ends of his
own, Farmer Lodon had gained pos
session of it. Jean wrnug her hands
together, her frightened eyes sought
his pitiless face ; ho answered her un
spoken question. "iVill I use this?
Perhaps. Should I do so, do you
think your fine lover will be able to
help you or save Jim? I think not
If I give this little piper to those who
would like to have it, Jim will be
taken, my gill ; do you understand
that? Jim will be taken, and others
named here ; the punishment you
know."
"Oh, I know!" she moaned; had
not some one else warned hor but yes
terday? "I know, and it will kill the
dad, the poor old dad, as well as
Jim."
"Your face is your fortune, Mistress
Jean, be answered, "it is a lair
one ; don't you know it ?"
She buriod it in her hands. "Oh, I
wish it had been as nyly as sin,
withered and scurred by any aooidout,
if ugliness might have saved mo from
you ;" but she caught his eye, aud the
threat sho read there quieted her;
she was silent, shudderiug iu dumb
misery. An hour later, weary aud
tired out, Jean crept into her father's
house, and up to her small bedroom
under the thatched roof. She, who iu
spite of poverty aud her narrow,
monotonous life, had scarcely known
the taste of sorrow, lay on her bed too
worn out to cry, almost to think,
dazed and btupelied for the time, the
promised wife uf runner Lo.lou.
On her wedding eve a wild thun
dery night succeeding a week of heavy
rains Jean s skirts huur ruuui her
damp aud cliuyiug, soaked from their
contact with tho wet bracken, through
which the girl had just pushed back
Uom Loduu's farm. Sha ha J gone to
make one last frantio appeal to Its
owner's olemency, only to return with
tho resignation of despair in bcr
heart. Twelve short hours of freedom
loft to her, and then she must wed the
mau she loathed. To-morrow her
lover, Captain Hayling, would return,
and the first sound to greet him would
be her wedding bells. To think was
madness! Sho crept to bed to seek
the oblivion of sloop, yot knowing all
too well that she would seok it in vain.
Little did her brother dream for what
his careless recklessness was responsi
ble ; neither did the father, with his
frail health and dreamy ways, guess
of tho sacrifice hit daughter was mak
ing. Was she dreaming? What was the
noise which had awakened her from a
troubled doze? A heavy, dull sound,
coming at intervals, neither thunder
nor wind. Jean rose and looked out;
the night, or rathor early morning,
was stormy, the sea running in big
white, tearing billows ; but above their
roar came this strange noise from the
eastward, between Brimloy and Lym
ton. In that direction a smoke-like
haze hung heavy aud dark. Slipping
on her clothes, she ran down stairs,
looking in at her father as she passed,
to make sure he had not been dis
turbed. She sped on on the wings of the
wind, keeping to the high ground
above Rinmore. - There were collected
most of the fisher folk a scared,
frightened group of men and women,
yet thankful enough, that their own
humble cots stood safe, since only Far
mer Lodon's farm and buildings had
oocupiod the treaoherons acres. An
old fisherman told Jean how they had
been aroused in the small hours of the
morning by the sound of sliding land ;
how their own houses had shaken and
household goo 1s rocked; and how
they had rushed ont to see Kinmore
Point below one heaving, moving
mass, the higher ground falling on the
lower, the whole slipping; forward to
the sea.
Jean turned and went back to
Brimley. Intuitively her feet carried
her home, but all will power, all
thought seemed to have abandoned
her ; she was inoapablo of clear ideas,
her head whirled, thevgronnI seemed
still to be heaving under her feet ; her
brow was throbbing with pain, and
she shivered with the cold ; she stum
bled on blindly with the old fisher
man's words ringing dully in her
brains: "Mr. Lodon is 'dead, never a
doubt ! Mr. Lodon is dead I"
While all the country around was
talking of the Binmore land slip, and
people were flocking from frr and
near to see the strange eight and to
shudder over the fate of the unfortun
ate farmer, Jean was lying between
life and death. The miserable weeks
of strain she had undergone and the
awful climax at tho end had been too
much for even her strong young
frame- Brain fever had laid her low ;
then daring her wild delirium, father
and brother had learned something of
what she had suffered and endured. At
last the weary time of watching and
anxiety was over, and Jean began
slowly to raoover.
During the crisis ot her illness Cap
tain Hayling had haunted the house,
and when, white and wan, she was at
lust brought downstairs to lie on ths
couch by the parlor window, hu was
there waiting to greet her. He knolt
beside her, stroking the thin little
band which lay in his, so weak and
helpless. There were tears ot thank
fulness in the strong man's eyes, an
swering the tears of weakness which at
sight of him had gathered in hers, sho
knew not why.
What need to tell more? There was
a wedding in Brimley Church, when
Captain Hayling wedded fair Jean
Alymer ; a union which brought peaoe
and luxury to the white-haired vioar's
deolicing years, and caused the re
moval of Jim from the obnoxious desk.
Household Words.
Vihj Cjcliug Exhilarates.
Ad enthusiastic cyclist tells yoa that
tho effects of excess in cycling are very
much the same as excess in drink.
And I feel very little doubt that the
dootor is right. Cycling, I suppose,
because it acts as suoh a powerful
stimulant to tho heart, produces, in
the first iustanoe, a feeling of exhilara
tion, which is in itself a pleasure,
especially to the owner of a fagged
brain or jaded nerves. Anything that
produces this effect is naturally
"craved" after when once tasted. Thia
exhilarating edect, too, overcomos the
consciousness of fatigue and conse
quently prevents the cyclist from
judging accurately when he (or Bhe)
has had enough another dangerous
point of resemblance to alcohol. Lon
don Truth.
Wintl-Distributed Seeds'.
It is well known that winds play an
important role iu the distribution of
seeds. Professor Bolley records that
in two square feet of a three-week-old
and three-iuoh-doep snowdrift upon au
ice pond, ten yards from any weeds,
ho found nineteen weed seeds, aud iu
another drift quite similarly situateJ
thirty-two seeds, representing nine
kinds of weeds. While the wind was
blowing twenty miles per hour a peok
of mixed see ls was poured upon the
snow crust, aud teu miuutjs after 101
wheat grains, fifty-three flax seeds,
forty-three buckwheat aud ninety-one
ragweed soedd were fount iu a trench
thirty rods from where they had beou
poured upon the crust.
Sluei'Iu'i Immensity,
A grapbio idea of the immense size
of Siberia may be gleuuot from the
following comparisons: All of the
states, kingdoms, principalities, em
pires, etc, of Kurope (except itussia),
and all of the United State, iticlu tiuj
Alaska, could be pluoe.l side by suit
iu Siberia, and yet but little inert
tUuu cuwr that iuiuiviie cuuutry,
THE MERRY SIDE OF k,IFfc .
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BT Till;
FUNNT MEN OF THE PRSS3.
Subtraction Ills Calculation Value
of Tralninj Jlean Thins I'roof
Beforehanil, Ktc, ICtc.
"Those problems in arithmetic
Am harrowing, I vow.
Last leap year she was thirty.
And sho's twenty-seven now."
Wushiugtoa Star.
HIS CALOt'LAnON.
Inspector "You don't carry enough
life preservers."
Steamboat Man "Oh, I guess there
are enough for the people who would
think of them iu nn emergency."
Puck.
MEAN TIIINO.
"I took out $10,000 insurance on
jay life to-day," said tho moek man.
"I snpposo you will live for sixty
or seventy years now," said his wife
in an agrieved tone. Indianapolis
Journal.
rnooF.
Bridegroom "My friend Mealies
says he is afraid you didn't like his
wedding present."
Bride "Certainly I did I Why, I
kept it a whole month before I ex
changed it 1"
VAMJK OP TRAINING.
She "I shouldn't think such a so
ciety man as you would care about
football."
He "I hive to keep in training as
a matter of necessity. When I go to
receptions it helps me to get down to
supper first." Tid-BitB.
REFINED CRUELTY.
Employer (kindly) "You aro be
coming vory round-shoulderod, Mr.
Faithful."
Bookkeeper (with hopes of a holi
day) "Yes, I fear that lam."
Employer (solicitously) "Hadn't
you better stop riding a bicycle?"
Boston Post.
BEFOREHAND.
He "That little brother of yours is
rather bright, isn't he? He told me
just now ho should expoot a quarter if
I kissed Von.
She "The wretch! You didn't give
him anything, did you?
He "I gave him a dollar iu ad
vance." Puok.
WANTED A SQUARE DEAL.
Dr. Kilsum "Now, Freddy, if
you're a good boy and swallow this
medicine, 1 11 give you a dime.
Freddy "Not much you won't!
Dad sayB you charge him llvo dollars
every time you come here ; so if you
want me to help yon out you'll have
to go halves. Puck.
THERE WAS CAUSE.
"You have fastened tho windows,
dear?" she asked as thoy wore about
to retire lor the night.
"No; what's tho use? I gave you
the last dollar I had to buy that hut,
and we needn't fear burglars."
"But thoy might sit down on my
hat, you know." Detroit Free Tress.
A TOINT IN ETIQUETTE.
Yabsley "Soy, when a follow calls
on a girl, should he leave his hat nnd
cane in the hall, or take them into tho
parlor?"
Mudge "Well, if the girl is living
in a boarding house, aud the hat and
cane are worth anything, I think he
had better hang ou to them." In
dianapolis Journal.
A PARALLEL CASE.
Tommie "You know whon you was
sick last summer the doctor sent you
away for awhile said a chauge would
do you good?"
"Mrs. Figg "Yes."
"I wonder if I wouldn't feel better
if I was took out of school awhile and
sent to the theatre overy day instead?"
Indianapolis Journal.
TO SOME EXTEXT.
"Seen Bill Brown when I was up to
town," said the mau with tho gum
boots, settling himself on tho salt bar
rel. "Conductiu a street car."
"I thought Bill was goiu' into busi
ness for hisself," said tho grocer.
"Wat, I allow he is to some extent,
but the company ain't got onto it
yet." Cincinnati Enquirer.
HEH KIND WOltD.
"Mr. Blykins thinks he knows a
great deal," said one girl.
"Yes," replied her kind-hearted
friend, "but you cau't deny th.it ho
has some intellectual power."
"I haven't observed it."
"The very fact that you mention
shows that ho has a lively imagina
tion." Washington Star.
IN BOtTH AMKIII' A.
The Professional Kevolulionist
"It's no use ! I've seeu a dozen of
them, and uot one will go into in.y
conspiracy."
His Wile "How is that? I thou ht
they were all bitterly opposed to the
Uoverninout."
The Hevolutiouist "They are; but
every one of them has a conspiracy of
his own. " Puck.
THEN HE WENT IIOMK.
The youug man who hadtravelel
boao :
"Aud there I stoo l, Ihe ubyss yawn
ing ut my feet "
"Was it yawning beforo you got
there, or -did it begin after you ur
riveJ ?" ukud the yuuug womuu who
has never beou nwa.v, mid tbtn toe
youug man found that he had jiKt t.ino
to catch the lubt t-ir. luaia'iupolw
Jcurnal. , .
scientific axd ixdistiual.
A ton of good coal in said to yield
about 8000 feet of purified gas.
Twenty millions ot moteors are said
to fall upon the earth every day, their
aggregate weight amounting to sev
eral tons.
A spoonful of Chicago black snow
was recently analyzed by a skilled
chemist and found to contain thirteen
ingredients, the most innocent of
which was black soot.
It is believed that shooting stars are
small solid bodies, revolving round the
sun. As they are tiaveling in a con
trary direction to tho earth, the velo
city with which they enter our atmas
phereisfvery groat -on on average
about thirty miles a socond.
A new and wonderful substitute for
common brittle glass is announced by
a Vienna journal devoted to the glass
and porcelain trade. The substitute
is said to have all the properties of
common glass, exoept that it is flexi
ble. It is made of cullodian woo!.
Professor Mark W. Harrington, late
Chief of the Weather Bureau, and now
President of the University of the
State of Washington, proposes to es
tablish a department of terrestrial
physics and geography iu the univer
sity, and asks authors and publishers
to send works relating to the-e sub
jects to the university.
M. Piltschikoff, in describing recent
photographs of lightning, names three
types of flash band lightning, tube
lightning and water-spout lightning.
The first two he found to occur in all
storms, the third he met with onco
only. From the measured width of
tho band lightning on photographs,
and the oomputed distance, he esti
mates the actual widths to be from
about fifteen to eighty yards.
In tho Boston Museum of Fine Arts
there are many easts of works of sculp
ture which are (lusted in a novel man
ner. A large air-pump is mounted on
a truck and is rolled around to the
various rooms. One man operates
this pump, 'the other applies a fine jet
of air to the sculptures, blowing off
the dust. This blowpipo is conneote 1
to the pump by means of a pole and
rubber tube.
Hugh Miller, the youngest and only
surviving son ot tho famous geologist,
died in Edinburgh the other day. He
had been connected with the English
geological survey ever since his edu
cation was completed. Some time ago
he published a pamphlet finding fault
with the way in which artists depict
landsoapes. He maintained that the
different rock formations should be
accurately represented in pictures of
landsoapes.
"It has been estimated," says W.
n. Lamaster, "that a cannon ball
moving with a velocity of GOO miles
an hour, and leaving our earth at a
certain time and traveling iu the di
rection of the nearest fixed star, would
not reach it in less than 4,500,000
years ; and yet there are stars in the
heavens and visiblo through telescopes
that would require a cannon ball mov
ing with tho same velocity at least
500,000,000 years to reach them."
(Jreat Bill or t'liiuit.
For tho last 100 years China's bell
of liberty, the largest aud most beau
tiful in the world, has been ringing in
Pekiu.
There are two other bolls of liberty,
one in Mandelay and the other in Mos
cow. They are both unhung and the
latter is cracked and defeotive.
China's bell ia iu many respeots the
finest work of art in the country and
could not be duplicated by any Wes
tern foundries of civilization. It
weighs 120,000 pounds, isfourtoenfeet
high, has a ciroumferenoe of thirty
four feet and is nearly a foot thick. It
has not a flaw or defect and is com
pletely covered in relief, both inside
and out, with myriads of Chinese
characters, each an inch in size. They
form prayers from Budha.
It is one of tho ideas of theBudhiets
that tho prayers of the faithful may
be infinitely and acceptably repeated
by mechanical helps, such, for in
stance, as the revolving of wheels. So
when this wonderful bell rings it
breathes forth tho aspiratisns of the
faithful.
Old chronicles state that it was a
time of suspense throughout Pekin
when the molten metal wus about to
be poured into the lettered matrix.
The artists who so successfully accom
plished the casting ot this great bell
were not only congratulated by t lieu
priests and followers, but they were
ennobled by tho Emperor, while their
work itself is us much of a ere lit to
them to-day as it was then. Atlanta
Constitution.
Hard Tilings 10 Say.
Shibboleths to test eo'.iriety, or
comparative sobriety, in the cas9 of
supposed drunkurJs have often beeu
heurd of, and havo generally been
looked upon us jokos for the diuner
tublo or the smoking-room, says tho
Loudon News. From a case reported
at the Westminster Police Court it up
pears that a, doctor, examined as a
witness, has invented a test pbr.tso
which he regur.ls infallible. Tuis is,
"1'ho artillery extinguished tho con
flagration early." This may bo very
etleetive, aud it was tried successfully
ou a cubuiau (the defeuJuut), but the
doctor need nut have taxed his inven
tive powers. There is the "Heter
Piper picked a peek of pepper," etc.,
test, aud oue or two more not quite
so elaborate. "Riblical criticism" oud
"liritish Constitution" have louir been
favorite tet-i, but ihe best is probably
"Mrs. Smith's fish sauce shon."
liinus Won by Matucs.
During tho fourteenth century, in
Fiuucu und paiu, gilts of valuable
ring's to statui of the saints aud Vir
gin Mary were very common. One
statue iu Uurocloua is said to have
wcru rings vulu J at $100,OUO,
TO THE SUM.
Shine on, shine on, thou splendid sun,
With that Imperial brow divine!
The thlrrtln? months have drained thee ona
by one.
Till all the blithe ean'n reeks with WiC3,
And yet the measure Is not done!
A pallid wind-flower waiteth thoe
Beneath gray shadow, in the chine
That yearns with writuea lips toward thJ
sea;
Flood thou those eyes that dimly fchiue,
With light ambroslally.
Bohold how all men love nnd praiso
That golden IIollas-cii of tlilne!
Wherein, dissolved, thy langhter-jjiving r.iyJ
Bubble and plow Life's anodyne
To soothe them by the barren ways.
0 god of summer and tho ros-?!
Bright are the blossoms at thy shrine;
But feebly pale the swoonln? votary go'j
When wearily thou dost decline,
and days are blind with ley snows.
Pall Mall Gazelle.
IIUMOU OF THE DAT.
Old Gent "Don't you know rur?,
Willie? I am your father's uncle."
Willie "Are you the man pa goes to
when he's short of money?"
He "I never shall be truly happy.
have too complex a nature." She
"Complex? And papasaid ho believed
you were simple." Indianapolis Jour
nal. Mistress "And, pray, why do you
want to leave us, Anna?'' Cook
"The dootor has ordered my sergeant
a more generous diet."- London Tit
Bits. "Practice mnkes perfect," says tho
Monayunk philosopher ; "but you don't
need practice to drop a hot pla'e with
neatness and dispatch." Philadelphia
Becord. O
A collecting agency in New York in
run vy wom3n exclusively, wuicu
seems to disprove tho adaje, that a " ,
woman's work is never dun. Texas' -Sittings.
'-.-
Miss Smashnm "I don't' care for
men ; in fact, I've already said 'no' to
seven ot them." Miss Comely "In
deed! what were they selling?"
Adams Freeman.
"Paw, why do they call the custom
house taxes a duty?" "Lr I gnosa
it is because every bo. ly takes such
great delight in dodging it." Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
She "My husband is a brute!"
He "All men are brutes, my dear."
3he "Mine is simply utomiunble. I
Asked him if he did not think you ware
is pretty as I, aud he said 'Yes.'"
.llr-JJlt-S.
"Katie, why haven't you warmed my
itudy better? The therinomtter showi
;nly fifty-eight degrees !" "Liut, pro
fessor, for so small a room it seems to
me fifty-eight degrees are enough 1"
Fliogondo Blaettei.
"What do you mean by saying I
wrote tramp jokes? You know I deal
with nothing but socioty subjects." "I
didn't suy you wrote tramp jokes. I
said your jokes were ou tha bum."
"Oh !" Indianapolis Journal.
llobsou "I don't hear you, nowa
days expressing the wish that it would
snow good and hard. Haven't you got
your cutter still?" N. Peck -"No! I'm
married nor, and we have a mow
shovel in the collar." Philadelphia
Becord.
- if yn. ; i
.mi, papa, sum iuo lyuiuagu gin,
"this book wouldn't interest you. Yon
don't tako any stock iu abstract specu
lation." "Well," said pa, "I mado
my pile mostly iu corn and wheat, but
I'm ready to take a hack at anything
there's any money in." Brooklyn
Life.
Tllrtf rtl- ff , ll1.lfl.nv nl,v,ini., iiV.-B
sir, the sovereign remedy for all this'
is fresh air and plenty of it. People
don't let enough air into their houses.
Well, I must hurry off; I'm on au
errand." Brother Physician "Going
fur?" "No; only down to tho hard
ware store to get half a mile ot .
weather-strips. " Philadelphia Tele
graph. They wero seated in the parlor con
versing on the uncertainty of life.
She "The future is a vast unfathom
able mystery to us, isu't it?'' He
"Yes; all we know is that we have to
go some time." Voice from the
library "It would mit the con
venience of this household if you'd
make it a little sooner than that."
llichmond Dispatch.
Big Figures From t!io WorlJ'j Fair.
Tho number of pai I admissions to
the Columbian Fair was .1.477,'21S, a
daily average of 119,981. Tho gross
attendance was 27,529,100, exceeding
by nearly a million the number at the
Paris Exposition for the sjx mouths
t-ndiug with October, though rather
over hult u million hsj than the total
attendance at Paris, where the Kates
were open u cousiderully louger tiuu
thuu at Chicago. The moutiily aver
age of visitors increased toidily from
about l.OUO.OJO in May to uearly
7,000,000 in October. It is estimated
that in all 12.0J0.0JO different indi
vidaalrt saw tho fair. Notwithstanding
the presence of such multitude.-', the
grounds were always cleau and therd
was no ruffianism the creditable fea
tures which English visitor.) remarked.
The most interesting sight was thj
sight-seers. It was a typical AuKTieau
crowd. Seribuor's.
Aged Uoniau Clubs a Bear to Death.
Mrs. Nancy MoKeon, of West Stone
ham, Me., has the honor of having
killed the largest bear over captured
thereabouts. The bear was etia-.ing
her sheep. Tho plucky woman went
for him wilh a club, and after a hard
fought battle, succeeded in laviu huu
out. Mrs. McKeen is cighty-throo
years of ae, in good health, aud suy
she is ready for another bear. Lor, u
ton (Me.) Journal.