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VOL. XXIX. NO. 2. TIONESTA, PA,, WEDNESDAY, AP1UL 29, 1890.
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The population of Mexico is two and
one-half times that of Canada.
Chile has aoro poets in proportion
to her population than nny other
country.
By 1900 Greater London will prob
ably have a populotion of 0,490,000,
whilo Greater Now. York will hove
3.900,000.
There aro eomo 0,000,000 "super
fluous women" in Europe that it doet
not know what to do with. There
are not enough bachelors to go
nroucd.
Alfrod Austin recciv.es a salary of
3300 a year as English Laureate, and
draws back salary from tho time of
Tonnyson's cloatb in 1892. Bo far
Austin is a long woy ahead of tho
fame.
Spain allows Cuba ouly $182,000 a
year for public instruction and mnkos
Ihe University of Havana a source of
profit to tho State. Even Hayti sponds
more than Cuba for tho education of
its people.
While horses in tho United States
fdiow a decrease of only two per cent,
in number in four years their value
baa decreased within a motion of fifty
per cent. To-day a good bicycle costs
more thou an ordinary horse, but it is
far lens expensive to keep.
Germany is among the strongly ad
vancing commercial countries. Her
ndvnnco has been most mnrked in tho
value of hor imports, which increased
during the eleven years from $S15,
000,000 to $981,000,000 a year. The
vJlIno of her exports concurrently fell
off to tho extent of $10,000,000 a year.
Sigoor Cairn no, an Italian, lawyer,
will not be snfo in South America. He
Las written a book on "South Ameri
can Dictator?," in which ho gives the
"TresidcntB" of tho Southern Repub
lics anything but a good name. Fresi
dent Diaz, of Mexico, he says, is tho
best of them, but ho is practically a
dictator, though devoted to tho inter
ests of the people.
There were 114,139 fewer children
being educated in French primary
sohools than there were five years ago,
according to tho last report of tho
Minister of Publio Instruction, whilo
in tho five years the number of pupils
in tho schools of tho Christian
Brothers nearly doubled. Tho
Brothers nro now teaching 1,305, 887
children, with no aid from the Gov
ernment. The horto-flcsh cannery in Portland,
Oregon, has been forced to shut down,
and the mustangs of the Oregon plains'
will bo allowed to roam unmolested
for soma time. It seems that the Bel
gian market, on which the promoters'
of tho enterprise counted, was ruined
by Cbioago can tier?, who shipped rot
ten meat, and the Jupaueso failed to
fttko kiudly to horso-tlesh. The man
agers of the new enterprise have prob
ibly come to the conclusion that tho
way of the reformer is hard.
New York oontaius a remarkable
woman hypnotist romarkable from
the fact that the hypnotizes herself.
She is the wifs of a collcgo principal
at Great Beud, Kun. Her narao is
Elizabeth Strykor. "Three months
ago," she says, "I came hero a ner
vous paralytic, I could not stand.
After spending much money on lead
ing specialists I tried hypnotism as a
last recourse. After tho second sit
ting I discovered that I was ablo to
hypnotizo myself. I do it by simply
emptying my mind of all thought
whatever. Thou tho hynotio state
comes over mo. Then I suggest to
myself that there is nothing tho mat
ter with roe and I am nil right. Tuo
result of it is that I ouu do a duy of as
hard work as any woman in New York
and I am going back home."
Tho Association for the Preserva
tion of Virginia Autiqu.ties, since its
organization in 1889, has purchased
the old powder magazine in Williams
burg, which is now being converted
into a museum for ooloniul relics; the
home of the mother of Washington, in
Fredericksburg, and . tho hibtorio
home of General Nelson, in Yorktowu.
It uow desire to purchase the site of
tho anoieut House of Burgesses, in
Williambburg, in which the assemblies
that governed the colonies met aftci
the seat of Government was removed
from Juinettown, in 1093, ami to erect
upon it a simple stone, engraved with
the names of the eighty-nine members
of the Assembly who, under the leader
ship of such men as Feytou Randolph,
Robert Carter Nicholas, Richard Henry
Lee, Richard Bland, l'utnok Houry,
'Thomas. Jefferson and George Wash
ington, Droit the torch of patriotism
tud trct-dow.
NOTHINO 13 LOST.
Nothing Is lost; the woods and fields grow
green again in spring,
Tho earth and flowers are full of life, now
life In everything.
Wo full asleep and rest, and wako, find Call
It dally life,
And sleep at Inst, and end of pain, and end
of caro and strife.
Nothing Is lost, for life itself Is only a pass
ing thought!
We lose our ycstorJay, 'tis true, but hold Ihe
good It brought.
Nothing Is iot, the sweet, sweot songs oomo
to us o'or and o'er.
Tho same fond fucog oft return, and will for
over more.
J. W. Donovan, la Domorost.
A DRAWING ROOM PUPPET.
ILDRED WARING
considers herself
ts)ll J I an intellectual por
tf"0XU - .on. Herintelleo-
4jSNx tual capacities dis
play tueuiseivus m
v rSffL'. tne occasional pe
$f$V rusal of nninter-
in the subsequent
distribution o f
fragments of their
contonts to unwilling listeners. Ordi
narily, the only result is to render
cenversation impossible, but that
evening, in Mrs. Arkwright'a snug
gory, she annoyed me into argument.
She had been reading some idiotic
book about the Indian Mutiny, and
began to fabricate generalities about
men as the result. Generalities only
hurt their perpetrator; but I knew
Mildred's generalities were not gen
eral. Little Dicky Whitbread had
been ohaftlng Harold Pilkiugton, who
had hovered about Mildred for tho
last season ; and her remarks about
strong men and drawing-room pup
pets obviously opplied to them. Mr.
Pilkington is a large, dark man, with
a small, dark mind the kind of man
who only smiles to show his teeth ;
and Dicky well, Dicky is what you
wonld expect in a mac whom men and
many women call Dicky.
"Nicholson," said Mildred, sonton
tionsly, in the course of our argu
ment, "was a real man. Ho was a tall,
silent man, who in a great crisis rose
to the occasion."
"That was a comfort," yawned Lena
Dawson. "He might have improved
it."
"He was probably," I said, without
the least notion who tho man named
Nicholson was, "a person whom men
consider stupid and his wife brute."
"And there was Lord Lawrence,"
went on Mildred, with a contemptuous
sniff; "they were both heroes."
"It's much easier to be a hero than
a decent huiband," said Mrs. Frobish
cr, who is so attached to her own hus
band that she is compelled to conceal
it with cynicism.
"Thank you, Mrs. Frobisher," I
said, "that's exactly what I mean. I
believe real good sorts ere real good
always; and the littlo things, mean
most because it's so hard to mako
them melodramatic"
"At Lucknow " began Mildred.
"Bother Lucknow," I interjected
rather rudely; "I never was in an In
dian mutiny ; but if I were, I'd rather
be there with a man who's been nico
when he's been wet through."
"Let's play at it," said Lena Daw
son, wakiug up. Lena makes life a
kind of round game. "We might
have a hero prize. I ehonld like to
know whether there's a real hero in
the house."
Lena eventually arranged the game.
The next night there were to be pistol
shots emanating from a fictious burg
lar, and the hero prize was to be given
to the man who behaved best.
"I wonder what the men will do,"
en id Lena.
"Lit me foe. Old Major Tumor
will certainly God-bless-his-soul. And
your Uiibband will probably at onoe
save you, Mrs. Frobisher. And what
do you think Mr. Arkwiight will do,
Mrs. Arkwright?"
"It would be a great opportunity
for his fire grenades. I should think
hu'll invent a new burglar trap that
will mulio the house uninhabitable,"
suggested Mrs. Arkwright, mali
ciously. Her husband's inventions
are a trial to Mrs. Arkwright, and he
hud recently almost succeeded in per
manently extinguishing two of tho
Arkwrigbts with a patent grenade.
"And Mr. Pilkington?" went on
Lena.
"There is a gallery in the aflairs of
men," I said.
"We nbu.ll eee," said Mildred.
"He'll take good cure of that, if he
does anything," 1 answered.
"I know," said Lena, "It will make
it better fun if we draw for the men
and make a sweepstakes of it."
Lena always regulates the rules of
her games, aud we acquiesced from
force of habit.
"I've got Mr. Arkwright," she an
nounced, as the result of the draw.
"I hope he'll be heroio and not eloo
trio, or anything of that kind. Mrs,
Miller, you and Mrs. Foulkes have ex
changed husbands. You've got Major
Turner, Mrs. Arkwright. And I'm
afraid, Mrs. Frobisher, you'll have to
hope for heroism in your husbaud.
Mildred, Dicky's fullen to you I fear
he's not a big, silent man. And you,
Kittie," she said to me, "will be pi ml
that you've drawn Mr. Pilkington."
1 believe Leu it cooked that draw,
but none of us protected, except Mrs.
Frobisher.
Tho affair came off the next night.
Mr. Arkwright went down and got
her husband s revolver out of the gun
room. Lena tired two shots, and
Mildred and I were deputed to alarm
the smoking-room.
"There's a burglar upstairs," I ex
claimed, breathlessly, "in Miss Daw
sou's room. He's tried to shoot Miss
Dawson. "
"God bless my soul I" paid Major
Turner,
"Send for the police at once," said
Dean Foulkes, firmly.
"Where'e my wife?" said Mr. Fro
bisher, "Is he in tho house still?" asked Mr,
Arkwright,
"I think so," I said. ''Wo've locked
the door on the outside.'
'He'll get ont of the window," re
marked Major Turner, with a bloody
thirnty look. "Make a row at the
door. I'll wait for him on the lawn,"
which I believe he did, with a donblo
barrelled gun.
There was a rnsh up stairs. It was
rather a funny scene. They all got
some kind of weapon excopt Mr. Pilk
ington and Dean Foulkes. The latter
strode up with unruffled pomposity,
apparently prepered to combat the
foe in tho mere strength of his official
capacity. Dicky stayed alone in the
smoking room and smoked on.
"Dicky," I said, "are you afraid?"
"I don't think I'm afraid of the
burglar," be replied; "but if those
idiots are going to fire abont a bed
room promiscuously, I'd rather be
here."
I cast a withering look on him and
followed the others up stairs. I saw
Mr. Pilkington np to the door and un
look it, while the others paused.
"You'd better surrender quietly,"
he exclaimed.
He looked tho ideal of quiet brav
ery. "Let. the ladies go away," he went
on, when there was no answer. . "We
mnst search the room-"
He walked boldly in and the others
followed. Of course there was no
traco of a burglar. We were awaiting
further developments with interest,
when that silly little Mrs. Frobisher
quieted her perturbod husband with
the truth. He imagined, I think, that
a burg'ar's solo objeot would be shoot
or steal Mrs. Frobisher. Of course
the game was rather spoilt, for we
might have had a good long burglar
hunt.
The men went again to the smok
ing room. Major Turner said some
thing abont lumbago when he oarao
in, otherwise they took the thing
rather well. Dicky merely remarked,
I believe: "Glad I didn't bother
about it."
"Kittie, yon win Mr. Pilkington,"
said Lena afterward, "though the Ma
jor was a good second. The burglar,
probably, would have got out of the
window, and the lumbago is in many
ways worse than a burglar. He's a dear
old thing. I shall make his gruel my
self if he does got bad."
"My man was an inglorious last,"
said Mildred, triumphantly.
"What, Dicky?" asked Lena. "I
didn't notice him. What did ho do?"
"With a masterly inaction," an
swered Mildred, smiling maliciously
at me, "he stayed in tho smoking
room, mounting guard over the
cigars. "
"Cowardioe," said Mrs. Foulkes,
who was immensely pleased at the
Dean's behavior ob the Church Mili
tant, "argues an entirely bad moral
disuosition."
Several other people made several
other severe romarks about Dicky.
"Wo shall have to try him for cow
ardice," said Lena. "We might ploy
at that to-morrow night."
I went to Wed, and left Lena arrang
ing tho details ot the gnme.
At breakfast next day poor littlo
Dicky got freely snubbed, aud Mr.
Pilkiugton smiled with a plaoid air of
heroism. I had to pretend to thank
him for winning the sweep for me.
Afterward I overheard him remark to
Mrs. Foulkes that "she mustn't be too
hard on the little beggar." Magna
nimity is the kind of quality that such
a man revels in. Altogether I was
very much annoyed. . Dicky didn't
seem to mind in the least. He meroly
smiled when Lena told him of the
trial, and departed to the summor
house with a novel and a pipe.
I went out to talk to him soon af
terward. "Hullo? Miss Anstey," be said, as I
came near, "you'd better not speak
to me. Unclean, nncleau."
"ahut up, Dicky," I answered.
"What does it all mean?"
"Oh, ouly that I'm a coward, Miss
Anstey," he replied with a smile, "aud
Pilkiugton is a hero. Havo they got
him a laurel crown yet?"
"Don't bo silly' I said. "What
did you do it for?"
"I am to be tried to-night," he an
swered, "aud you mustn't attempt to
extract admissions from me. By the
way, who is the learned proseoutor?"
"Miss Wariug."
"The Lord hath delivered Do
you ever bet?" he chuckled.
"I've bucked you for a good many
gloves already, Dicky," I said.
"You've a taste for backing outsid
ers, have you, Miss Anstey?" he an
swered. "Well, it would spoil it for
you if I told you ; but don't hedge.
There's ouly one thing more I'm pray
ing for."
1 couldn't extract anything less or
aculur from him 'except that ho was
reading Kipling to cultivate a taste
for spurious biavery. He strolled
across the lawn soon nfterward with a
large white feather in his buttonhole,
and went out for a long walk.
At dinner Dicky was quiet and said
very li tie. But he whispered to me.
"ty to make Miss Waring angry.
The thicker she lays it on, the better
it'll be."
"Mildred," I anil afterward,
"Dicky's got something up his sleeve."
"Has lie?'' the said auxiously.
"What is it?"
"ilia arm," I answered.
Mildred, like mo.st superior pertous,
hates catches, aud though this ouu is,
1 am told, ancient, it hud the i". .- I
effect. I wuuted to do my beBt not
ouly for Dicky, but for myself, for 1
hud' been pluugiug on the re.ult of tho
trial duriug the day to au extent that
alarmed me.
"Vou'll get horribly scored off, Mil
dred," I winl on. "I In-'ievo ho'll
I just Uujju your case out of lourt, His
cross-examination of Mr, Filkingtoo 1
ought to be lovely."
"Oh, is this his idea?" said Mildred
aud I left her in a state indignation
concocting further pleasantries lor the
luckless Dioky.
As the evening was warm, we held
tho trial in thd garden; Mildred made
a most offensive speech abont Dicky.
"Fashion's popinjay," "fin-de-siecle
spoons," "chicken hearted tailor's
model," wore, I remember, among the
gems of her denunciation. Major Tur
ner, who was judge, tried to moderate
her once or twice, and Lena whispered
to me that she would make Mildred an
apple pie bed. But it was the eulo
gium on Mr. Pilkington that was the
most interesting part of her speech,
for it concluded with a melodramatic
announcement of Mildred's engage
ment to him.
"The one thing wanting," murmured
Dicky softly to me.
Then there were a lot of witnesses,
of whom I was one. Dioky just sat
and smoked and smiled. When the
case- for the prosecution was over,
Dicky said quietly, "Mrs. Arkwright,
might I borrow your butler for a fon
minutes."
The butler came, and Dicky asked
him :
"Did I speak "to you yesterday after
lunch?"
"Yes, sir."
"Did I induce you to tell Mr. Pil
kington that you had heard from Mrs.
Frobishcr's maid that there was to bo
a pretended burglary ?"
"Yes, sir."
"Did you?"
"Yes, sir."
"What did he say?"
"He gavo mo an inducement, sir,
not to tell any one else," said the but
ler, with a broad grin.
"Thanks," said Dicky. "That's all
I want to say excopt, perhaps, that
Mrs. Frobisher and Mrs. Foulkes
shouldn't discuss socretsnear the sum
met house."
I don't think I ever saw any one
look a more complete idiot thau Mr.
Pilkington or any one angrier than
Mildred. .The conrt broke up inform
ally, and every one apologized to
Dicky. Mildred and her hero went
off alone. Later in the evening I sent
the proceeds of the sweep round to
Mildred at Lena's suggestion. That
was the last 1 saw of her for some
time. She disappeared early the next
day, and Mr. Pilkington was suddenly
called away in the afternoon.
"Prig sticking isn't bad sport," was
Dicky's oomment. Piok-Me-Up.
Stepped It Off.
It is a commonly accepted theory
that a man steps three feet, aud many
a tract of land has been "stepped off"
instead of measured with a chain. In
tho West they obviate the difficulties
of Burvoys by the land being divided
into sections, bnt in Pennsylvania
much of the propeity, especially in the
mountains, must still be described by
motes and bounds.
In one of the counties in Western
Pennsylvania are two brothers, one of
whom is tall and lank, the other short
and fat. Many years ago they pur
chased a tract of mountain land call
ing for a mile square. They divided
the labor of measuring it, one step
ping off one side, the other the other
side. Then they fenced it in and were
perfeotly satisfied nutil recently when
suit was brought to recover a consider
able tract of the land. Each brother
swore that they knew the measurement
to be right, aud told how it had been
done. Then, as the speotutors saw the
short legs of the one, scarcely long
enough to reaoh the floor wbon he sat
in a chair, and the clougated extremi
ties of the other, there was a general
laugh, in whioh the judge and attorney
joined. Upon surveying, it was fouud
that one line was a mile aud a half
long, and the other only a littlo over
hah a mile. Washington Star.
Electricity at the Geneva Exhibition..
At the coming Swiss National Con
vention, of which Mr. Theodore Tur
rettini is President, 12,000 horsepow
er electrically transmitted from tho
River Rhone from a poiut about six
miles distant will be on tap. It is an
nounced that a traveling footpath op
erated by oleotricity will traverse the
machinery bnilding, and that horse
less carriages, appliuuoes for aerial
navigation and many other inteiesting
apparatus driven by machinery will bo
exhibited. Among other things Pro
fessor Pictet will exhibit his appar
atus for produoing intense cold.
Electricity.
Labouc here's Mistake,
nenry Labouchere tells of au awk
ward mistake be made about De Per
signy, Napoleon's right-hand man and
the "maker of the Second Empire."
His appearauee was plebiuu, and when
the Loudon editor saw him at an
evening reception ho took him for a
waiter aud asked for a eup of tea.
"De Persigny good-huraoredly went
for it," says Mr. Labouchere, "and I
was knocked iuta a heap at seeing his
grand cordon of the Legion of Houor,
but kept down my confusion aud got
into a rattling chut with him,"
Gladstone's I'utliliiig.
Shelley once blurted out that pud
ding was a prejudice; but aooordiug
to a contemporary, which tells the fol
lowing exciting story, Mr. Gladstone
merely regards the hubit of euting it
too hot as a prejudice : "One day, not
long ego, he was going for a drive
into Chester after luuoheon. His pud-
: diug was very hot, to he went awuy
irom too table, changed his clothes,
:.ot ready for the drive and cutue back
and finished his pudding, thus saving
ten minutes during which his pudding
cooled I"
Ameer Abdur Uahman has doter
mini d in 1 1! I rail u o an clccdrin light-
j m.'i y.iteui ul I'uliiil, In.liu, and elec
tric motors in his kii'toii'js.
THE MERR SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES) THAT ARE TOLD BT THE
FtfNNT MEN OF THE PRESS,
Education t'p to Date A Doubtful
Expedient Unique Ills Idea of
It Softening the Blow, Etc, EtC
We teaoh the children Danish,
Trigonometry oud Spanish;
Fill tbelr heads with old-time notions
And the secret of the oceans,
And the ounelform Inscriptions
From the land of the Egyptians;
Learn the dote of every batfle,
Know the habits ot the cattle,
Know the date of every crowning,
Bead the poetry of Brownlnir.
Make them show a preference
For each musty branch ot science;
Toll the acreage ot Hweden,
And the serpent' wiles In Eden:
And tho other thing we teach 'ma
Make a mountain so immense
That we have not a moment loft
To teach them Common Hunse.
London Truth.
BIS IDEA OP IT. 1
Teaoher "Tommy, what is meant
by 'nutritions food?' "
Tommy "Something to eat that
ain't got no taste to it." Indianapolis
Journal.
CN1QVK.
"She is the most original woman I
ever knew."
"How is that?"
"When she hasn't anything to say
she doesn't talk." Life.
A DOUnTFUL EXPEDIENT.
Clara "Is be bashful?"
Maude "Dreadfully so.' I
bare to urge him to kiss me."
may
Clara "Aren't you afraid you will
scare him away?" Truth.
TJOCUTTUIi.
Chollic "I had a fevah once and
for three weeks I positively didn't
know anything.
. Kittie "That was dreadful, but
don't yon think you'll ever get over
it?" Life.
OSE WAY.
"Bridget, you've broken as much
china this month as your wages amount
to. Now, how can we prevent this oc
curring again?"
"Oi don't know, mum, unless yez
raises me wages." Life.
SOFTENING THE BLOW.
Grace "I must rofuto him, poor
fellow; but I wish I could do some
thing to lessen the pnin ot it."
Maud "Get some one to tell him
that you haven't so much money as ho
thinks you have." Brooklyn Life.
ADVICE OP AS EXr-EBT.
Hojack "I don't know what to do
with that dog. I've tried a dozen
times to give him away, but no one
will have him."
Tomdik "Tried to givo him away,
did you? That's no way to get rid of
a dog. Ask $45 or S50 for him."
Pack.
THEY. MERELY EXISTED.
Profsssor (lecturing) "Oxygen,
gentlemen, is essential to all animal
existence; there oould be no life
without it. Strange to say, it was not
discovered until a century ago
when "
Student "What did they do bofore
it was discovered, Professor?" Puck.
COMPULSOlir.
"You like music, I understand?"
"Very much."
"Then yon ure very happy in the
location of your flat. "
"I am miserable. "
"But that young lady next door
plays all the time. If you enjoy
musio "
"It is beoauso I enjoy mii-io that I
intend to move out." Chioago Post.
TWO KINDS OP LOSS.
Two of tho lady survivors of a rail
road wreck were bemoaning their
losses to each other iu tho hospital
after it was all over.
"Oh," groaned one, "I have lost my
arm."
"Think of me," cried the other; "I
have lost my husbaud."
"Yes, yee," moanod the first, "but
you can get another husbuud."
Truth.
ISl'EUENCE.
Garrulous Boarder "For ten years
my habits were as regular as olock
work. I rose -t the stroke of 0;
half an hour later I sat down to break
fast ; at 7 I was at work, dined at 12,
ate supper at 0, aud wus in bed at
9.30; ate only hearty food, and wasn't
ill a single day."
Sarcostio Boarder "Dear me? And
hatwereyouiufor?" (Awful silence.)
-rFick-Mo-Up.
' didn't oet it.
"Did you hear about Samuels ?"
asked Mrs. Gruyinare's husband.
"No; I didu't hear about Suwuole,"
the lady answered. "When you have
anything to tell, why don't vou, tell
it?"
"Yes, dear. Well, Sumuels was go
ing home the other uigut, when a
footpad shot at him and the ball hit a
latchkey in Samuels' vest pocket, and
hit life was save 1. So you bjo what
good a latchkey is."
"Indeed. If Samuels ba l been go
ing home at a reasonable hour he
wouldn't have met any footpad. Sec
ondly, he curries $jU,000 iusuruuee,
payable to his wife, and if it had not
been for that key she would be a rich
widow right now. So. if you are hint
ing around for a latchkey, you will
have to bring home some better story
than that one. That' all. I'm going
to go to bud now, and if you want to
read you'll have to go to the kitchen.
And don't Waste the coal." Cluoiu
hull Euquirer.
SCIENTIFIC AM) 1XDUSTRIAL.
The seamless tube finds favor.
Germany has a steel wire flywheel.
Paper telegraph poles aro increas
ing. Harvard College has discovered
fourteen new variablo Btars of long
period.
A bill has been introduced into Con
gress for the Construction of cruisers
in which electricity will bo used as a
power.
Dr. Peters, tho African explorer, is
about to undertake a now exploration
of Somaliland under tho auspicos of a
number of wealthy Americans.
The Pennsylvania has introduced an
economical innovation On its South
west system by having the fires on all
its locomotives started with crude oil.
Naphtha is now used for scouring
wood. It is claimed to bo less injuri
ous to the wood iibor, and in ore pure
wood oil can bo saved thau when the
wood is scoured with alkali.
The layer of decaying matter cover
ing forest soil has been found by M.
E. Henry to increase gradually for
about ten years, when it reaches 0U0J
or 7000 pounds per acre, and thereaf
ter remains very nearly constant in
quantity.
Dr. de Ronzi, professor of clinical
medioine at the University of Naples,
reports that in twenty-two cases whero
he has used Dr. Maragliauo's treatment
for tuberculosis he has found a (lis
tinot improvement, and in some has
cured tho disease.
One of the novelties exhibited at the
National Cycle Show at CryHtul Palace,
London, was a canopy which protected
tho rider from sun or raiu. This
canopy is like the ordinary buggy top,
and is steadied by moans ot a small
wheel at the back which ruus on tho
ground.
The moisture of the eye is a genuine
solvent. Many persons havo gone to
bed troablod with a foreign substanco
in the eye, and havo waked up in tho
morning to find it gone. In many
cases of this kind the foreign matter
has been dissolvod by tho moisture of
the eye.
Large deposits of platinum have
been discovered at Fitfield iu New
South Wales. One bed of platinifer
one lead ore is a mile long and from
sixty to 150 feet wide. The crude
metal eontains about sovcnty-fivo per
cent, of platinum and soils on the field
for $6 an ounce.
The oommon house fly is said to bo
provided with 10,000 eyes; that is to
say, his two compound eyes havo each
SOOO faoets. By this singular arrange
ment he is enabled to soe in every di
rection, and to eludewith great skill
and success the many dangers that
threaten his daily existence.
AChicago dispatch states that the
Bret needle factory in tho United States
is soon to be established in that city.
The needles are to be made by a new
machine of American invention, which
san turn out, it is asserted, 2500
needles an hour at a cost materially
lower than the present price of im
ported needlos.
George B. King, in Psyche, a well
known entomological journal, asserts
that insects freeze solid during the
winter and thaw out when warm
weathor comes. This surely has novcr
been demonstrated. If onco the
power of evolving heat is lost lifo goes
with it. At least this is a great prin
ciple in biology. There are liquids
which do not freeze under a low tem
perature, and these possibly outer into
the insect organism.
He Was His Own Dictionary
A good story comos from Mocker
County, Minnesota, and has to do with
a well-known country school district
thore. When it came time lust sum
mer to hire a teacher, tho local
Board discovered that thore wero
two applicants, both young men.
As to salary there was uo dif
ference botwecn their bids, but
the second one insisted that, if he
wore employed, tho Board should pro
vide a dictionary for the schoolroom.
The first ono raudo no such demand,
and said that ho would be well able to
get along without a dictionary. Ashe
expressed it, it was useful ouly iu tho
matter of defiuiug words and giving
their "pronunciation." Number ono
got tho school. Last week tho Board
made its first visit to the building.
Everything weut well for tho first fif
teen minutes, but finally a red-headod,
freckled-faced youth iu the rear of the
room held up his right bund and
snapped his fingors in a very energetic
manner.
"What is it, Charlie?" asked tho
teacher.
"I want to know how to pronounce
a word," said Charlie.
"Spell it," replied the teacher.
Charlio, in a loud voice, spelled out
tho word "vocabulary."
"Vo-ca-bull-ary," rospoudud tho
toucher, placing tho accent on tho
"bull ;" and he added, as to its mean
ing: "Appertaining to horned cut
tle." The Board cut short its visit and is
now looking for a new teacher and get
ting ready to buy au unabridged dic
tionary. Minneapolis Journal,
The Souvenir of Gratitude,
An instructive and pathetic custom
ttill prevails in Munich. Every desti
tute child fouud begging iu the streets
is arrested aud curried to a charitable
institution. On his arrival he iu pho
tographed dirt, rugs and all. Aiter
being muiutuiued and educated, when
he leaves the institution to begin life,
the before mentioned photograph is
given to him, and he is required to
make a solemn declaration that he will
keep it as a reminder of the wretched
state from which he wus saved and of
the kindness shown. Tho bociety has
received many p.itts from its rcciuimed
waif.j. The Sketch.
I LOVE YOU, DEAR.
"I love you, dear."
There Is no phrase so worn and old
In all tho world; nor one so sweet
To lover's Hp or maiden's ear
As this retrain: "I love you. dear."
"I love you, dear,"
There I no change as time goes oo.
No new word" seem to mean a much
A when they're uttered fondly near
In trembling tones; "I love you, dear."
"I love you, dear."
No night so dark, no day so long
But Hope brings comfort to the heart;
If only "some one" 9tandeth noar
To murmur low: "I love you, dour."
Form
11UM0R OF TIIE DAT,
Some temptations are like privileges)
-gTanted only to a few. Life.
"How was the bride given away?"
"By her complexion." Chicago Rec
ord. The man who is ahead of his time)
usually isn't worth muoh when hi
time comes.
She "Have you really got a coro
net?" The Lord "No; but hero's
the pawn ticket." Life.
The man who can learn from his
own mistakes, can always be learning
something. Ram's Horn.
Misery may love company ; but tho
host should remember that the guest
is not likely to reoiprocnte.
Before taking the will for the deod
please remember that wills are more
easily broken than deeds. Truth.
After men have become prominent,
it is discovered that their laziness
was a sign of genius.- Atehison
Globe.
Smokeless powder must bo an em
barrassment, at times, to the warrior
who doesn't know which way to run.
Tiuth.
Gazely "Is it good to sat at night
beforo going to bed?" Lazbcy "Be
dotinite, man, is what good to eut?"
Eoxbury Gazctto. ,
"Have those people in tho other flat
been married long? "I think not; he
takes naps on her best silk pillows."
Chicago Record.
"Tho game is up," remarked tho
hungry customer, as ho noted the ad
vance in price of birds on tho bill of
fare. Philadelphia Record.
Mr. Boodles "You begun life as a
bare-footed boy, I understand?" Now '
Clerk "Yes, sir ; I was born without
shoes." Now York Herald.
"Poster designs are said to be often
mere acoidents." "Somo of them
must bo regarded as fatal acoidents,
too." Chicago Evening Post.
Drug Clerk "How will you have
your soda hot or cold?" Customer
"Guess I'll havo it hot ; haveu't
time to wait for it to get cold." Rox
bury Gazette.
Louise "How do yon como on with
that loap year proposal?" Emma
"I don't know yet. Harry is still ex
amining my letters of recommenda
tion." -Judge.
Easily Explained : "Here, yon are
no kind of an ollico boy if you can't
I toll the time of duy." "Please, Bir, I
J was eddicated at a night school."
Chioago tribune.
Bert "1 can't think of marriage
just yet; yon know I'm not rich." Au
golina "What difference docs that
make?" Bert "None, providiugyou
are." Roxbury Gazette.
"So you wero thrown out?" ro
marked the ashbarrel. "That is what
you get for being crooked." "My
crookedness is not my fault," said the -'
nail. "I was driveu to it by a wo
man." Indianapolis Journal.
"Jenuie," said Mr. Portly, "I wish
you'd put a 'V in my dress trousers.
I'm gettiug too stout to wear 'em."
"I will," responded his spouso ; "but
I wir-b you'd put a couple of 'VV iu
my purse. It's gettiug so thiu that
it slips through my linger.-1."
Hermione "Isn't Jack 'good? Ho
has engaged himself to me, you know ;
but ho says he will uot bind ino to him. '
If I cuu get somebody else, be says he
shan't iuterofcre." Blanche (sweetly)
"It is evident thut ho feels perfeotly
sure of you." Boston Transcript.
Looking for a Lost Dj.
Sum Hughes lost a fine dog some
time ago. Ho scoured the town,
watched the ferry bouts and adver
tised, but btill he could not find his
dog. One duy ho received au anony
mous letter stating that his dog was
locked up in a shed back of a house on
Bryant htreet.
Hughes reasoned that it would be of
no use to go aud demand hi dog, for
the people who were keeping it would
simply deuy all knowledge of it, aud
us soon us he got out of the way would
conceal the annual somewhere else,
lie knew he would have t report to
Btruteyy.
He rung the boll one morning aud
told the woman who came to the door
thut he was the gas m in and wanted to
see her meter. She slummed the door
iu his face, f. r uo gus was used iu the
house. 'The next week Hughes went
to a grojory and bought a dollar's
worth of sugar. 'Then ho stuck a
pt-uoil bchiud his cur an 1 trie.l to got
urotiud tho back way to deliver it. A
bulldog chased him out.
A few days later he rented a room
from one of the neighbors aud de
termined to watch, His persevcreuco
was rewarded by seeing the old lady
curry milk out to the shed back of tho
house. 'Thut uight he dropped over
the back fence and crept iuto the place
whero he expected to find his i-.og. lie
called softly, oud the auimul rubbe 1
against his leg. He stretched out hi ;
hand to pat it and felt a pa rof horns.
Jt wan the old lady's goat ho was pet-tin-.
Hughes abandoned tho search for
his dog. Suu Francisco 1'uat,