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KEPTJBL Mr. Dcpcw calls Now York "tho typical State." Four of the six Populist Senators in Washington ore university mon or graduates of college. Ooncral Miles is heartily in tutor of tho bioyolo for army uso, and doolaroa tht it can bo use! in nearly every 0 mntry and in most nil seasons of tbo yenr. The safost ol modern yeirs of rail way travol was in 1883. Tho propor tion rotnrnel as killod and injured from causes boyond thoir own control to tlie number oarriod was: killed, 1 in 116,202,171 ; nnd injured, 1 in 1, 699,112. Napoleon III. once romarkod to Mr. Washbnrne, tbo American Ministor to Paris, that Spain could not hold Cuba, and that the result would be that she would pncriflce nil her soldiers and f peud all hor money nnd thou lose the island in the end. The Melbourne (Australia) Argu called attention some years ago to the remarkable fact that three young mon dostlned to high distinction in difler- eut spheres Lord Salisbury, the statesman, Sir John Millais, the paint er, and Thomas Woolner, the soulp' tor were simultaneously in Viotorla at the hoight of the gold fevor in the early fifties. This bioyolo business is assuming tromendons proportions, and even the imagination gets tired thinking abont it, observes the New York Herald. Ton years ago it was a fad, a crazo, and 1 few cranks, so called, were seen 00 the streets trying to got their nooEs broken. Now all the world rides the wheel ; polioemon ride them, soldierc ride them, gontlomon and ladios of all ages take spin. To supply tho de mand there aro something like four hupdred firms, making money hand over fist, and it is ostimatod that io the various plants more than $25,000, 000 is invested. Why, tho whole thing has corao upon us like a tor rndo, China is sending out a new dotaoh incut of her youth to be eduoated in our schools, showing an enlightened nd progressive spirit in 00 way di minished by her reoent military re verses. If she oontinuos in this exool lent custom, equipping her chosen young men with the scienoo and cul ture of the modern period, and at the same time admits, as she is now doing, progressive idooa in hor administra tion, she will not bo so easily whipped the next time, the Now York Tribune observes, and will take the plaoe in civilation which properly belongs to her, as her sister Nation Japan has already done, to tho wonderment and admiration of mankind, inoluding that of the humbled pigtails themselves, who may, aftor all, gather out of the . nettle of defeat a ohoioor flower than the rose of triumph. If she is not quite so grandiose in her general atti tudes as she was . bofore she was whipped, she knows more, a faot vari ously evinood, bnt in no partioular more showiogly than in again sending her youth hither to be instructed in our schools. .j Chief Fernow, of the Forostry Division at Washington, D. O., makes some valuable suggestions in his . eleventh bulletin. The bulletin states that the South can make the cultivation of the cork oak very prof itable in time. We pay about $2, 000,000 a year for imported oork, and prices are steadily rising. The Gov ernment distributed cork oak aoorns in the South an fur back as 1858, and there are now standing several oork trees in the Southern States, one of them as far north as middle Georgia, A large one is now standing in Mis sissippi City, Miss,, and there are probably twentyin California. The faot that the tree will flourish in the South baa been demonstrated. Tho wattle tree, a native of Australia, is also reoommended for cultivation. It belongs to the acacia family, and contains more tannio aoid than the oak. It is propagated from seeds, which are soaked until soft in boiling water before planting. This tree will do well in warm climates. This euoa lyptus is recommended on aooount of .. its rapid growth, the value of the wood and the oil contained in the foli age. Some claim that it is an antidote for malaria. Tho bamboo deserves a trial, maintains the Atlanta Constitu tution. It is not a tree but a giant grass, allied to our cane. One variety grows in Florida, where it has been known to grow a foot a day in height, and reach twenty-two feet in a single season. It is in demand for many useful and ornameutal purposes. We have been wasting our forests long enough. Why not turn over a new leaf aud try the trees recommended by the Forostry Division? FOR HER BAKE. All day long, with sigh or song, Toll I for hor snknt Blio Is where the roses throng- I whoro thunders brenk From the restless olty's mart But a rnlnbow's round my boartt For I sing: "The day will die Toil will soon be past, And the stars In Love's own sky Lead me home at Inst! Homo! beneath the tranquil skins, Whore she waits with wistful eyes. "Homo! where love Is kindest best, Whore the hearth Is bright; Ilome! whore sweetly on my breast Fall her curls of light! Home! from all the world bogullod By tbo kisses of a chill!" F. L. Stanton. AUNT SUSAN'S QUILT, F Jimmy and his ride ain't leased with that, I don't know what would Tl-ia Piease -cm," saia fLftJT "WlaMra. Dake ILkVti- fi with arms akim bo and hoad twisted to one side, as she stepped back and gazed with ad miration at the objeot spread out on the bed. It was a carefully pieced quilt, of a somewhat intricate (pat tern. "Jimmy's bride can't help being tickled with that," said Mrs. Dake, as she smoothed out a fold; "and if she knows anything about nice quilting, she'll see that wa'n't quilted in a day. Well, I guess not I I quitted ev'ry last stitch of it myself, and there's a good half day's work in somo of them blocks with the feather and herrin' bone patterns and the shell border all 'round the aidge. I had that quilt in the frames five weeks and threo days, and I put all the time I could get on it, and there ain't no slaok work, tired as I did get of seeing it 'round." She smoothed out another crease. "Lemme see," she went on. "There's 2117 pieoes in the quilt, and a good many of em are pieces of Jim' my's baby dresses. That'll please his wife, I iost know. Here's a blook made of calioo like a little pink dress he bad when bis ma first put him into short dresses. I remember it was made with a low neck and short sleeves, like they made baby dresses in them days. and bis little shoulders and arms wore almost as pink as tho dress. "And here's pieoes like a little dou ble gown ho had 'fore he went into short dresses. And this piece of blue chambry is like a little sunbonnet he bad, all lined with fine white laoonet. And hero is a pieoe of floe muslin with a little pink sprig in it like the first short dress Jimmy ever had. He did look so onnnin' in it, with the sleeves looped back, and a tumble-curl on the top of his head I "I'll show his wife-to-be all these pieces, and if she ain't tickled with the quilt, she'll be a queer one." Thon Mrs. Drake went over to an old-fashioned mahogany bureau with brass knobs, and took from the upper drawer a largo, square oream-tinted envelope, out of which she carefully drew tbo "invito" to Jimmy's wed ding. "Mr. and Mrs. William H. Hoi brook invite you to be present at the marriage of their daughter Helen and James Barolay Larkin, Wednesday evening, noptember 14th. Then followed the address of the bride's parents, in a oity four hundred milos from Mrs, Dake s home. "But I'm goin'l" she said, gleo fully, as she slipped the invitation back into its envelope. "I'd go if it was twioe as far. I ain't seen Jimmy for near on to five years, and he al ways seemed like my own boy to me can so 1 never bad none o my own, and I helped to bring him up after his own ma died, wjien he va s t but just in bis lirst little trousies. "I ain't been so far from home in many a long year, and I reokoned my tf avelin' days was done, but I've got to go and see Jimmy married. I must see Elviry Hodge right away about turning and making over my black silk, and I must see Sainanlha Hose about a new cap. I guess I'll have to have somothing smart for a oity wed- dm , where they'll all be finished up so. I don't want Jimmy to be ashamed of his old aunty ; but lawsy me I Jimmy wouldn't bo ashamed of me if I went in my plain calioo house dress. He wa'n't raised to sot olothes above his relations, and he ain't got nothicg to be ashamed of in any of his folks." Then Jimmy's aunt, her face aglow with loving thoughts of seeing Jimmy again, folded up the quilt carefully in an old sheet, and laid it away in lower drawer of tho bureau, saying : "I s'pose they'll have lots of nice presents, but I'll warrant you they won t have one that represents much loviu' labor as that quilt. I had to cry a little when I quilted them blocks with the pieoes of bis baby drosses in cm. . His wife ought to thiuk the world and all of the quilt. 1 hope to the land she won't go to using it common." Mrs. I Dake, who was a widow and childless, lived in a small, remote country town, in which her nephew. James Larkin, had been born, and from whioh he had gone to beoome successful young luwyer in the city He had not been back to tho home of bis childhood for five years. As his Auut Susan said, he "wa'n't no hand to write letters," but he often sou brief notes and little gifts to his aun to assure her of his afloction and grati tude. lie bad not announced bis engage meut to her, and the invitation to his wedding was one of the groateut sur prises of Mrs. Drake's uneventful life, IS Ill h Kf- M p if tell fle iost wanted to cive hi, old I aunty a big s'priBO," she said to Elvira I Hodiro. the villngo seamstress, wlion to ene came to "fix over Aunt Susan s blnok silk. "I couldn't believe my own a eyes at first. It don't seem no longer than yesterday that Jimmy was run- niu round here in pinafores ; and to think of him bcin' married I declare I can't eit over it I "But I'll give him a s'prisc, too. I don't intend to give him a hint that I'm comin' to bis woddin', and if he won't be took back when ho sees me marohin' in on him, my name ain't Susan Elizabeth Dakel Don't you reokon his wife'll be tickled with that Quilt, Elviry? They'd ought to be, that's Bnre," said Elvira. I think it's a kind af special Pro vi denoe that I put in the frames when I did. I didn't cal'late on qniltiu' it until next wlntor, but I had a kind of feelin that I'd bettor do it when I did, and now it's turned out that there was a good reason why I should quilt then. There was quite a compauy of Aunt Susan's friends at the little station to see her off on the morning she started. There was unusual color in her cheeks and unwonted sparkle in her eyes, She bade each of her friends good bye two or three times, and promised to take good care of herself. Some of them she promised a crumb of Jimmy's wedding cake, and a full aooount of the wedding festivities. "An if you could git me a sorap of the bride's weddin dress an' of any of her other dresses for my silk quilt, Susan, I d be so pleased with einl said old Mrs. Qray. "I will if I can, Nancy," said Aunt Susan. "There s the tram comin I I'm so glad I could got my trunk checked dean tbrougb I I d be in a nice fix if that trunk should get lost with Jimmy's quilt and my black Bilk in it I Where's my lunoh basket? Oh, you're coin' to carry it away on the train for me, are yon, Hiram Drew? I'm 'bleeged to you, but mind you git 011 the tram lore it starts. Uood-bye, Nanoy ; good-bye all I In a moment the train was on its way, Aunt Husan s nandkeroniei nut' tered from one of tho oar windows as long as the train was within sight of the little station, All the people in the car notiood the happy old lady in her quoor, -old fashioned garb. Borne bad not seen for many years a shawl like the one sho wore, with its fringe a foot long and silk embroidery in the corners; but nothing was coarse or amiss in her dress, and there was a quaintness and charm about her that attracted the sympathy of all the passengers. bhe bad not gone twenty-nve miles before she was telling some of them nearest her all about Jimmy and Jim' my's quilt, and the wedding to take place on the ooming Wednesday. She was delighted to find that a middle-aged, kindly-looking woman who was one of the passengers lived in the city in whioh young Mr. Lark in lived, and oould easily show her his boarding house, I'm so much obleeged to you I said Aunt Susan. "I've been bo dread- house myself, I hated to write to him 4- i 1 ... 1 11 A A A - U .1 1L. U-.TI ".i" . J. " V" v ,..1 to walk right in on him. That was just what' she had the pleasure of doing the noxt after noon. James Larkin was just taking his wedding suit from the box in whioh it had been sent home, when there came a knock at the door of his room, Aunt Susan was trembling with ex oitement when her nephew opened the door. Why, Aunt Susan I" he cried ; and then he took her in his arms and kissed on both cheeks. There was no lack of tenderness in her nephew's greeting, vet the changes in him were painful to her. He was a beardless, boyish-looking young man when she had seen him last. Now he was a tall, broad-shouldered, full bearded man with a way that made it hard for her to call him "Jimmy." He did not say so, but sho felt that he would rather havo her call him James," and that sounded so cold and formal to her. He now had the graoes of a city- bred young man. Sho found it hard to accommodate herself to them, and to the usages of the fashisnable board- house in whioh her prosperous young nephew lived. Ho might, perhaps, have wished that Elvira Hodge had mnde his aunt s gar' ments more stylish, when he took her down to diuuer, but be was in no sense ashamed of her. When they were going downstairs with her hand timidly rcstiug on bis arm, be made her very happy by looking down into her faoe and saying tenderly and heartily, "1 am so glad you came, Aunt Suan." "I thought you would be," she said, patting his arm affeotionately. "You know you're the only boy I ever had. "And you were always tho best of mothers to me." But when she was alone in her room she wondered if it had been wise" for hor to 00 mo after all. Sue did not doubt now that James was genuinely happy to see her, bnt she bad discov ered that his betrothed was the duugh ter of a rich man, and that the wed' ding was to be an elegunt affair. Aunt Susan learned she would be out of plaoe that she might in her innocence do or say something to givo James aud his bride cause to be ashamed of her. The wedding was to tako plaoe the next evening, and there would be no opportunity for her to meet the bride or her family until theu. All was so new and strange to her I She had expuoted to take right hold and help Mrs. Holbrook with the wed' ding dinner, even it she did keep girl. There was a big, new kitchen apron in her trunk, brought with Aunt busau to be worn while she was "making herself useful in Mrs. Hoi- brook's kitchen." It disappointod bor bo tow py uer nephew that ner ser vioos would not bo required, and that caterer would provide the supper. She did not know what a caterer was, and felt confued and uneasy, and went to Bleep nan wishing nerseu home. When the next evoning she found berfolf iu the beautiful home of Mr. Holbrook, surroundod by flnely- dressod ladies and gentlemen, who looked curiously at the odd-looking, little old woman in the queerly-made and old-fashioned black silk, she heartily wished that she had not eomo. Mr. and Mrs. Holbrook were as at tentive to her as they could be with house full of guests ; but Aunt Susan soon found it convenient to slip off into a corner, where she hid like the little country mouse she was. lint she was glad after en that she had come when James, looking bo tall and happy and handsome, came into the great parlor with bis bride on his arm, in her .trailing, white satin dress and long veil. Aunt Susan was so completely overawed by this magnift- oenoe that, instead of going forward with the others to offer her congratu lations, she slipped off upatairs to the room in which she had taken off her bonnet and shawl. In it was her wed ding gift to Jimmy the quilt that had but yesterday seemed to her as beauti ful and appropriate a gift that she oould bestow upon him. Across the hall was the open door of a room almost filled with shining silver and glittering glasi, with pic tures and rare ornaments and beauti ful books, gifts to James and his bride. Aunt Susan folt that her own offer ing, although it was the gift of her own labor and love, would be out of place. It might onond her nephew and his bride to see it there. Some one might laugh and jeer at it, and she oould not bear to think of that. It seemed bo poor and trifling now; Bhe oould not think of allowing Jimmy and his wife to know that she had brought them such a gift. She turned baok a corner of the quilt, and looked at a pieoe of the pink and white muBlin of which one of Jimmy's first garments had been made. A flood of tender memories filled her heart, and she buried her face in her gift and cried as she had not cried for years. There she sat for a long time, pay ing no heed to the noise and merri ment downstairs. Presently she heard a rustle of silk and satin in the hall, and a low murmur of voices. ' In a moment a pair of soft arms were around her neck, and a girlish voioe was Baying : "1 am so glad we have found yon at last 1 We have been looking ovory whero for you 1" When Aunt Susan looked up sho found the bride kneeling by her side, while James was bending low over her. "10a haven t been up here all this time, have you?" he said. "We have wondered where you were. Helen was so anxious to see yon." OI course I was, said the bride. "There is no one I am so glad to Bee, J.ames f" " .bo lJoa B,n? lit was so good of you to come so far to see us married. You must kiss us j j , " - J w 'If you 11 let me, said Susan, with the tears still in her eyes. "Let you 1 said James. "We should think it very strange if yon didn't. What have you here? It looks like one of the quilts you used to make. It is a omit, isn t it?' Aunt usan tried to conoeal tbe quilt, but James took it from her and unfolded it. Suddenly he said "Why, Aunt Susan, didn't you bring this for a wedding present ? "Woll, I 1 did think I'd give it to your wife, James," said Aund Su sun, soberly. "I thought that well well, you see, I made it ev'ry stitch my sol f and and -there s lots of pieoes in it from the first olothes you ever had, and I thought maybe she'd like it because I did it ev y slitoh my self and "Like it?" cried Helen. "I shall value it above any gift I have had I It is beautiful I never saw such exquis its needlework I What weeks of labor it must have oost you, I am so proud of it 1 "She said them very words," said Aunt Susan to halt a dozen of her de lighted friends who came to see her the day she reached home. She was bo tickled over the quilt. She fairly cried when I showed her the blocks made out of pieoes of Jimmy's things. "She said she'd think the world and all of it. She and Jimmy had to go off on their weddin' tower in about an hour, and I expeotod to come home that night; but Mr. and Mrs. Hol brook wouldn't hear to it ' "They made me stay there a whole week, and they treated me as if I was one of the greatest ladies iu the land. They took me to ride ev'ry day, and thoy never seemed to mind a bit about 11 y old-fashioned ways and clothes. "I had a beautiful time, and the best part of it is Jimmy and his wife are ooming to make me a visit on their way home from their tower next week. Yoi. nover see suoh a splendid young womau as she is 1" The Downington Archive. Old Sermons in Dcniaud. Tbe wife of a minister down in Cin-' cinuati traded a barrel of his old ser mons not long ago for a new bread pan. The next spring tho rag mau cume around again and allied if she had any more sermons to sell. "Why do you want sermons?" "Because I did so well with those 1 got here a year ago. I got sick iu the summer and a preacher iu the country boarded me and my horse three months for that barrel of sermons, and he has since got a great reputation as a proaoher up there. I will give you five cents a pound fur all you have got." Chiongo lUcord. THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT ASE TOLD BT THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PHE33. The Perils of Versatility A Case In Point A Valuation Not tho Right Word, Etc., Etc. He sent a squib he thoncht it was One To "Fun tor Funny Folks," But they returned It with this 11a. "We publish onlyjokos." He sent a sonnet, which ho thought Quite full of mastor-strokes, To 'Toesy." The next mail brought! "Wo nover publish Jokes." Charles liiittcll Loomls. LOVE AT SIGHT. Fanglo "Americans ard noted for thoir record-breaking ships." Anglo "Yes; particularly in thoir oourtships." Truth. . ON. Nervous Passenger (on steamship that has run aground)-"What on earth is the matter with this ship?" Captain (sorrowfully) "That's just it I" Puck. A CASK IN POINT. Wado "Do you believe, with Ihoso Boientifio fellows, that disease can be communicated by handshaking?" i Butcher "I dunno. .There's tho grip." Puck. A VAIiUATIO. ' "My daughter has been accustomed to every luxury," i "Well," replied tho duke, "don't I come high enough to rank as a lux ury?" Truth. EASILY DISILLUSIONED. Clara "Miss Darling thinks you ato quite a clever fellow." Dannie "By Jove, I guess I'll call I" Clara "No; you hod better etoy away." Wrinkle. KOI TUB MOOT WORD. "You carved your own way to suo coss, didn't you, Paddingtou?" : "No; I didn't have much of any' thing to carve nntil after I achieved Bucoesa. Chioago liecord, PBOGBESS. , "How is your daughter getting on with the piano, Nnmson? , "First rate. She can play with both hands. Says she will bo ablo to play with her ear in bix months. Houso hold Words. HUMAN NATURE. Visitor-"Why do you have 'Keep Oil the Grass' signs all over thiB park? xod don t soem to onfore the rule. Sparrow "We do it so that people will more thoroughly enjoy being on the grass. Truth. AN ECONOMIST. Gladys "Mr. Pennypackor told me he took you to tho church fair last night and spent a most enjoyablo even ing." Mabel (with a sigh) "Yes; but that was about all." Pack. VOICES FHOM TIIE BASKET. First Egg "Think of going to tho theatre? Seoond Egg "Probably, if I foil strong enough. I'm willing to go broke on a good, loud tragedian any time. Cincinnati Inquirer. HOPEFUL. At tho Restaurant: Diner "When I saw you a year ago you had jnut left college You were then about to make yonr fortune, yon said." Attendant "Yes; and now I am waiting for it." Boston Transcript. THE SEASON. Crummcr "Why don't thoy mako tho ladies take off their hats in tho theatres?" Vokes "Because thoy have no spare rooms about tho theatre large enough to stow tbo ample headgear in." Truth. FROOIiESSIVB EXPENSES. Mother (lookiug over her son's col lege expouses) "I don't suo why William's expenses should be so muoh more this year than last. " Father (a former collegian) "Well, you see, the police fines are higher after tho first offenoe." Puck. THE YOUNO IDEA. Dcotor (to pa?o boy) "Who was the gentleman who called just now?" Page Boy "Smith, sir." Doctor "What's that? You should say Mr. Smith." Page Boy "Please, sir, I didn't know ho was married." Judy. ; HE AGREED WITH HER. Mrs. Scrapleigh "Bah I I've made a different man of you since I married you." Mr. Scrapleigh "I believe you havo. Very different, indcod I So different that now I can't see what iu tbe world ever possessed me to marry you." CAN HE TAEU A HINT? Wiggles "That was rather a shrewd thing that tbe people in tho Fifth Street Church did with their pastor," Waggles "What was that?" Wigglss "Oh, thoy gave him twenty volumes of 'the collected ser mons of Buccessful preachers." Soui crvillo Journal. A CAUTIOUS INVESTOR. Mrs. Brown "But I must havo a new hat I" Brown "Don't buy on this mar ket. I've watched millinery prices for years, and anything that had such a boom is sure to have a slump. Murk my words, you oau't pick out a single hat that won't bo lower vtitUiu tin inont1 ' Puck. SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL. Dishes ore washed by electricity. In the now edition of tho British Pharmacopoeia, the motrio system of weights and measures will be adopted. Crookes tubes, for use in taking X- ray photographs, have already ap peared on the bargain counter of a Chicago dopartmont store. Thoy cost CO. 93 eaoh. Dr. W. n. Hanker, Superintendont of the Delaware Insane Hospital, is going to try the effects of the X rays on the brains of a number of tho in sane people unde( his charge. The experiment of electrical trao- tion in the Baltimore Tunnel has now been tried about a year, with results so far to the advantage of the eleotrio motors over those propelled by steam. By o special permit, and in mailing packages approved by tho Post office uopurtmont, Daoceria or disease tissues may now be sent through the mails to United States or municipal laboratories. The entomological collection of M. Jules Fallon, which includes twenty- five thousand moths and butterflies. has been presented to the museum of the Jardin des Planter, at l ane, by his grandsons. Herr Wilckens, of Vienna, has found that two full-blooded English horses transmitted the color of thoir coats to their offspring iu 580 cases out of 1000. Where the parents were of different colors, he found the hair of the foals, in most cases, took tho color of that of the mother. A oarboy of aloohol burst in the basement of a Chicago drug store, and, taking firo, a tremendous blaze, whioh threatened a disastrous fire, followed. A clerk turned tho valve of the eoda water cylinder on the flames, and the carbonio acid extin guished the flames before the Firo De partment oould reach the spot. M. Meslaus has examined the rela tion between the penetrability by the rays from Crookes tubes of various subBtanoes and their chemical nature. He finds that carbon and its combina tions with hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen are peculiarly transparent to the rays, while the prosenoo of other elements, chlorine, sulphur, phos phorus and, above, all iodine with metals increases the opaqueness. Oil burners on a system invented by an engineer named Cnniborti have been put into all the now Italian war ships and have also been adopted by the German Government. Tho fuel used is- not crude petroloum, but petroleum rosidnum, which is more, eoonomioal and has the advantage of not produoing smoke when burnt. The British Admiralty is about to ex periment with liquid fuel on the new fast cruiser Gladiator, What we call light is a wave motion in the ether, and is a transverse move ment, too. Molecules have nothing to do with it excopt to produce it. The waves of ether whioh a Hoot tho eye range from about four hundred millions of millions per second to eight hundred millions of millions por seoond, tho longest waves being what we call red waves, while the shortest is oallod violet, though it is well known that waves muoh shorter than those in the common spcotrum can bo seen by some eyes. Ills Writing Reversed. Drs. Bichards and Gordon, of Quinoy, hold a consultation Thursday over the case of Postmaster Charles F. Wilde, of Wollaston, whioh has been puzzling the publio during tho past week. After a oaref ul diagnosis of the case the physioians decided that he was suSering from congestion of the base of the brain aud that the disease had beon developing during quite a long period. One peculiarity of his mental condition has been a change in his method of writing. In stead of writing from loft to right, as he has previously been aooustomed to do, he has, during his sickness, when attempting to write, reversed the style and has written baokhanded, or from right to left. Thursday he wr'oto his name in his ordinary manner, how ever, whioh was considered a striking sign of improvement in his oonditiou by his physioians and friends. Boston Herald. The Evacuation of Fort Ontario. On July 15 next will oocur the ono hundredth anniversary of the British evacuation of Fort Ontario at Oswego, whioh was the last plaoe ovor whiuh the fla? of Great Britain waved in the United States. Whon that flag was hauled down tho American flag toot its place, and ever since has waved there. A publio meeting of citizens of Oswego, called by the Mayor, has been held, at whioh it was determined to celebrate this centennial, with a oiyil day, a military day, and a so ciety day, with a sham battle and rep etition of the fort's capture in Tho Knights of Pythias are organiz ing for sooiety day. It is proposed to regarrison the old fort, and to attempt to interest the Federal aud State au thorities in the celebration of the oeu tennial, which has a National signifi cance. Syracuse Journsi. First Cork iu 'this Country, What is said to be the first oork ever grown in the United States of a si.o suitable for commercial purposes was recently stripped from tree in Au gusta, (J a. The tree was one of a number set out under Government supervision some thirty-tlve years aio. The bark obtained wai two and a half inches thick and of a solid un l c'.uso texture. Philadelphia ltecord, ltttftuuruiits Iu Turkey. In Coustautiuople tho reutanrants are now expected to provide kuiv.'i aud forks for their customers. Ju Persia, however, the diner is givou u fork, aud in place of it Used bit uf unleavened bread. LOVE'3 ALLIANCE Whlto flags of parley tho pnlo snowdrop) raise And evory bcrald noto of spring Is fain To sound a tonder truco to thy disdain. " Oh, thon no moro In loneliness ot days Dolny tho due alliance that lovo pray?, But lot us, yielding to his goldlng gyros, One sweet surrender mako of our two lives. We'll seal nr tronty by the blossoming M:iy And la tne woodland bind bright ooronals Of summer; and besldo tho qulot hearth Fostor tho cheorful glow whon autumn falls. Thon may tho old leaves tromblo down to earth Content upon hor kindly breast to H05 Upon hor breast, who gave them llfo, to dlo. Fall Mall GanJtto. HUMOR OF THE DAY. A fool friend is a greater monaco than an avowed enemy. Puck. Large bodies movo slowly ; also small bodies when oalled up to break fast. We wish we could go to skep as easily as our feet do. Atchison Globe. Consistency is a jewel with which beauty is often content to bo un adorned. It's protty bard for any man to un derstand why any one doesn't liko him. Puok. Some people want to hide their light under a liushcl when a pint would serve just as well. Money may be the root of evil, but from the first man to the last wo all dig where the roots grow. Truth. The man who works too hard will soon find himself discarded, liko tho watch that runs too fast. Truth. Most people show their greatest genius in making their religion com fortably fit their desires. Atchison Globe. "The better half," says the mnrried cynic, "is so called because elio usual ly gets tho better of tho other half." Puok. "Better times now," said tho tramp, as an old gentleman handed him ten five-cent pieoes; "I feel the change. Texas Sittings. Queen Victoria owns $2,000,010 worth of ohina. How sho manages t J obtain so many enreful servant girls is a mystery. Norristown Herald. Bhe was the nnplo of his eyo, For hor he deeply caiua; But with some othur fellow now tihe has been latuly pared. ruck. "Yes," said the cornfed philosopher, "it is not so dillloult to gut somothing for nothing, but when ono gets it it is not worth tho price." Indianapolis Journal. Miss Hoiress (passionately) "How much do yon love mo dearest?" Mr. Fortune Hunter "I love you, my darling, for all you are worth I" De troit Free Press. Mies Antique "How gray you are getting lately, my dear. Why, I havo not a single gray hair I" Miss Passes "So I pcroeive. Do tell me what you use." Detroit Free Tress. Grazjin Longreaoh U one of your regular boarders, Marm, isn't he?" Boarding House Mistress "Yes; but to judge him by his appetite you'd think he was Bix of them." Hoxbnry Gazette. ' Feminine Loglo: "Marie, what are you doing upon that slop-ladder and why don't yon havo Nori wash the windows?" "Beoauso, if sho falls and hurts herself, I'll have to do her work." -Chioago Record. When a man goes into Wall street and comes out several millions in debt, he is a Napoleon of finance. When ho goes in and drops all he owns, ho is merely a oommonplaoo, every-dav fool. Texas Sifter. "The natural history class will now write down tho names of twelve Arctic auimalc," said tho teacher in monot onous tones. Little Johnnie dashed off the following and handed his sluto proudly to the teacher: "Six seali', five polar bears and one walrus." Corpsos Rented for Hlgwectloii, Tho terror that the average colored woman has ot the medieul students and oollogoi is absolutely overpower ing. Few people relish tbe idea of be ing oarvod up after death, but this feeling seems especially accontuuted in the bosom of the colored woman, especially if she comes from the couu try. Many of thorn cannot bo hired to go by a medical colluge after night, for they fear being oapttired by tho studeuts aud dissected alive. It is hardly to bo woudered that there is a superstitious dread ot tho surgeon's knife, as so many "stiffs" are required on the many dissecting tables of tho Louisville medical colleges. There is tt largo supply from penal and other institutions, but tho demand is great. As a result it is not uuoouimon for tho medical colleges to rent corpses. Tho body will generally be sunt wita a noto requesting that the face be not muti lated. Tho remains are theu placed in the ootllii with the clothing prop erly arranged about the uumutilutod face, and none besides those who aro purties to the transaction are uuy tUo wiser. Louisville Courier-Journal. Ueorjro tllot's Hope. A writer iu one of tho Kugliiih re views relates that during a couver.-u-iiou vith George Eliot, not long be fore her death, a vase toppled over on tho mantelpiece. The great writer quickly and unconsciously put out her hand to ttop its fall, "1 hope," said sho, replacing it, "that the time will come when wo nhall iu.-tinctivcl y hold up the mau or womau who begins to full as naturally and uucuu iotnly u we arrest a lalliu,' piece of fi.ruiiuro or uu ornament." Detroit X'reo l'robs.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers