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VOL. XXIX. NO. 3.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 0, 189G. ' 1.00 PER ANNUM.
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.