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VOL. XXIX. NO. 0. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 189G.
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st
Thirty-five per cent, of the gradu
ates from our women' colloges marry.
Soventy Amoricnu
founded between tho
1880.
colleges wore
vears 183S and
Tim population of Enropo bus in
creased 2'3,928,003 during tho past
ten years, nearly ono half the increase
being iu llussii. Franco gained bat
07,000.
Ai n time when tho Kronen difdiko
for England is strong cuongh to
prompt Frunce to consider nn alliance
with Ocrtuauy, thero is surely no toll
ing what may happen in tho European
complication, remark the Chicngo
llccrrd.
Sir W. Foster, momlierof thoBrithh
Parliament, Fpeuking at a banquet at
Derby, Raid that if they had Mr. Glad
stone's clarion voico ringing through
the I'.ritisli Isles to-day it would scat
ter tho blood v emblems of Turkey
nnd make such atrocities as they had
heard of impossible of fulfillment.
Tn fivo years surprising changes
often occur in public sentiment. In
1S90 tho rcpres ntntion of Sardoa's
"Thermidor" was stopped in Paris
niter two performaueos because of tho
tumult nmoiig tho audience. Now tho
navao play has been produced thero at
the Porto St. Mnrtiu Theater without
any excitement.
Smoking out an obsticato juror is a
new wny of arriving at a verdict which
was successfully tried by eleven good
mcu and truo in Hartford, Conn., a
few days ago, according to tho Timop.
The obstinate juror stood out for a
long time, ami his will was only con
quered when ho bocamo physically
prostrated by tho volnmos of smoke
that filled tho jury room from the
cigar.", pipes and cigarettes of the
eleven other jurymen.
New York's philanthropic pawn
broker shop is a financial and moral
micciss. It was organized to resoue
tho deserving poor from tho throo
per cout-a month moneylenders. Last
year it had 35,038 customers, 23,879
of whom rodeomod their pledges. A
total of over 8000,000 was lont at ono
percent, a month, with tho result that
that tho institution made a net profit
of betweon Bis and seven por cent., and
a great amount of good was done and
suffering relieved. There is a hiut in
this enterprise for other cities than
New Yoij adds tho Sun Francisco
Chronicle.t
Ono of perhaps many little consid
ered ways iu which tho forosts of tha
country tiro being eaten up is in sup
plying timber for railway trestlo
work. There are tiro thousand miles
of trestle, structure in tho United
States, according to an estimate by
tha Forestry Division. This trestle
work has to bo roplacod entirely every
uino years, on an average, and every
year timber amounting to2G3, 000,009
feet, board measure, is usod for this
purpose. Nearly all the timber is cnt
from the largest and finest trooa. Tho
annual expenditure on this work is
ostiuiatod at about $7,030,000,
Tho trolley car aud tho bicycle are
credited with beiug mainly responsi
ble for tho romarkablo foot, stated iu
tho Department of Agriculture re
ports, that the value of the horses
aud mules in this poantry dooroased
by almost ono-httf betweon 1892 and
tho end of last year. The aggregate
decline in the valuo of horses is put
down at 8303,000,000 and of mules
80,000,030. The stories that have
come from Wostern ranges lately seem
to bear out the figures in geuorul. A
Lewiston (Idaho) nowspapor a few
days ago spoko of the homely but unoe
highly necessary cayuso as being a
"pest and a nuisance" in that region,
and rejoiced over tho advent of a
company seeking 5000 cayuses to sup
ply a rendering establishment.
Tho "old Dutch estate" fever is pre
vailing in tho United Slates and Cau-
nda to such an exteut that United
Stutes Consul Dowus, at Amsterdam,
has been impelled to warn his coun
trymen against spending time or
money toward the collection of those
Obtates. lie writes tho Stato Depart
uu ut that for tho last three months
luxuries on this subject at bis Consul
ate have beeu so numerous as to al
most baltlo reply. The Anneke Jans
estate, tho Vaucot estate, tho Van
Du-sau estate, tho Webber estate, tho
Brandt estate, the Mozger estate, are
souio of tho fancy titles supposed to
represent millions actually repre
senting nothing. "Thoso estates do
not exist," writes tho Consul. "They
urumvths. vill-o'tho-wisp fakes. Tho
Buuk of Holland, iu which the un
cluimol millions aro alleged to be d
posited, does not exist. Every dollar
epent iu reference tu these estate
l&o much money waste1,"
A DYOONE SUMMEP,
An linmbln scene among tho bygone sura-mors,
When limbs wnro round nn 1 mill. Inns' lips
were rod.
Among the grass the rhymes of In wot hum'
mere;
Tha katydids' harsh triolets overhoad.
Whoro tho white road tho mountain's ooarse
hair parted,
Bnlllod noctar, but a moment sunshine
flowed i
TUowlilppoorwIUs tholrnight-long chansons
started,
And on tha sky-plains tonts of bedouins
showod.
Two stood bosldo tho farmstead gnto a
maiden.
And ho who thnro with Hope's misguiding
eyes
Baw fame ahead, as some child legend Indcn,
llelioves beyond tho rainbow treasure Una.
They stood togethor In the locust" shadows
Tholr faoes pale buncnth tho twilight glows
And shesnld, soft as vespers over meadows
"I hnto so much, so much, to see you go!1
Tho years went by In disappointing fashion,
For who has soon tho future's scroll un
fold,
Nor learned that thoso wo love with youth's
first passion
Are not tho onus wo wed when wo are old?
Vot, llttlo mold, In momory's blue now sloop.
Ingr
A lover yot, an old man's toar.lrops flow,
If there wore only ono tochoor him wooplng.
And say "I hato so much to boo you go
Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
A HERO.
T the dead of night
there was a cry
"Fire, flrol"
Even in tho great
city, whoro thou
sands are at hand to
render aid, it is
j terrible cry at that
hour. But on a
lonely plantation
bow inexpressibly
If 1
awful I
"Firo, fire, firel
It rang through the
wide balls, and
was echoed from the
colored quat ter, in every variety of the
tones of horror and alarm.
Tbo mistress of the mansion, awak
ening at the cry, sprang from bod, and
uurriedly began to dress, gazing
around bewildered. For a moment
Bho was conscious only that her has
band was absent. She was recalled to
something like herself by the shrieks
of tho maid who bad slept in tho
room, and who, instead of a minting
her toilot, was pointing, with terrified
gesticulations, to tho ruddy reflection
playing against tho trees in front of
the homo.
Suddenly, to add to the confusion of
the scene, the chamber door was flung
open, and a crowd of female servants
rushed in, flocking affrightedly to
getber, like a covey pursued by tho
sportsman, lnoy closed around Mrs.
btewart s bed, screaming, weeping,
wriugiug their hands and dopriving
her of what llttlo presenco of mind
had been loft.
"Oh, missus, we shall bo barnod to
doath, wo shall, all of us. The fire
bos caught the staircase. The blossod
Lord above bab mercy on us I" These,
and similar exclamations, filled the
air and distracted her attention,
Meantime the conflagration became
more serious each minute. Had that
terriflod group hstenod they could
have heard the roar of tho Hames in
the hall outside, and the crackling
sound that announced the approach
of the fire to tho woodwork near the
staircase, warning tbem that, if thoy
would save thoir lives, their flight
must be instant. But thoy only hud
died the closer together, sobbing,
moaning, embracing one another
frantically.
All at once a man dashed into the
room, with agitutod lace and dress
disordered. Thrusting aside the ter
rifled maids, bo hastily approachod
bis mistress.
"Fly," be cried, breathlessly, "this
moment, or you'll be too late." And
glancing rapidly around the room, he
snatched tho rich cover from a center-
tablo, which stjod in tho middlo of
the apartment, covered with books,
pretty trifles and flowers in vases.
inis ne inrow arouna nis mistress, ex-
claiming, "It will keep tho fire from
caicning. vomu.
The sight of bis faoe bad reassured
his mistress. Juba was about her own
age, had been born in her father's
family, and had always shown the most
devoted attachment to herself per
sonally. Above all tne cervauts on
tbo plantation, be was distinguished
for a strict, religious performance of
bis duties, for Juba was consistently
pious. He was also shrewd, and ready
in every emergenoy, aud Mrs. Stewart
felt that ho would save her, even at
the peril of his life.
Juba, eveu while speaking, bad
seized her hand aud dragged her to
ward the staircase. But now a gust
of wind drove such volumes of thick,
black smoke toward them, that she
was almost suffocated, and sho paused,
unable to proceed. It was not a time
to hesitate, so Juba, suatchiug her in
his arms as be would a child, and
dragging the cover entirely over her
face, dashed into the- rolling volume
of smoke, and down tho great stair.
case.
lie was not a moment too soon,
Scarcely had ho reached the bottom,
followed by the allrighted maids, be
fore the passage was closed entirely by
a douse wall of flame. Neither he nor
tho female servants, indeed, escaped
entirely uuhurt. But the table-cover
elfectually protected Mrs. btewart.
Juba had scarcely, however, placed
bis mistress safely on the fawn, be.
fore she started up, crying, "Where
is the baby? Who has seen the child?
Oh I it is iu the house yet" And she
would Lave rushed toward the blazi-jg
r 1
doorway if she had not boon iueUntly
and forcibly detained.
The servants looked at eacli other in
dismay. In the suddennoss with which
the conflagration had spread, and in
the excitomont of thoir mistress' dan
ger, nobody had thought of the child.
It was an only ono, a boy about two
years old, who slept with his nurso,
or "mammy," as she was called in the
household, in a back room in the up
per etory. Mrs. Stewart's first thought
on her escape had been to look for her
darling; and but for thistue absence
of tho child might hi.ve been even
longer overlooked.
The hall of tho houso was now all in
a flame, the fire pouring out through
tho doorway as from tho month of a
furnaoo so that ingress by that path
was impossible, Most of the second
story was also bnrning, and the entire
first floor, for the conflagration bad
broken out there originally. To reach
the apartment wbero tho nurse, prob
ably paralyzed with terror, wai Btill
with tho child, seemed out oi tne ques
tion entirely.
But there was one tboro who deter
mined to make the attempt. The sight
of the mother's faoe, and the sounds
of her broken moans, as she sank into
the arms of those who restrained her,
exhausted by her struggles to escape,
determined Juba to try at least to ros
cue his young master.
"I will go, missus," ho said ; "don t
cry no more.
lie looked around as he spoke lor
some means of scaling the second story.
There was no ladder, aud only one
staircase, but tho bough of an orna
mental troo, that overshadowed the
bouse, fortunately held out a means of
access to a bold heart and a strong
arm. Not stopping even to hear his
mistress' thanks, be clambered np tho
tree, ran out on tho limb, and drop
ping on the roof, disappeared within
tho dwelling.
How breathless wcro tho moments
that ensuod. The flames were sprend-
inar with frightful rapidity. The oaves
of tho building began to smoke, show
ing that tho lire within had reached
tho roof, and soon after the whole line
of them flashed into conflagration.
Meantime the lurid dement poured
out from the windows, ran upward
ii0kjDlT the combustible front and
,..i n..inir ,Wlinir nvr.
rni j over tQ0 top of tho mansion,
far into the blue firmament. Million
of sparks, nccommpaniod by volumes
of rolling smoke, sailed down tho sky
before the breeze, completely obscur
ing the heavens at intervals, though
oooasionally this thick canopy, r. artially
blowing aside, the calm moon was seen
peacefully shining down through tho
rent, iu strango contrast to tho other
terriblo scouo. The roar of the con
flagration had now become intensely
loud ; and, to add to the horror, thero
began to be heard tho awful sound of
timbers falling within the house.
Mrs. Stewart bad watched tho fire
in silence, her hands clasped and lips
parted ever sinoe Juba had disappeared
within the house. Each moment ap
peared an (age to her. At last the
suspense, thus lengthening out inter
minably, as it seemed, became intoler
able. Oh I it is vain," she cried, making
a now effort to rush into the flames,
"be cannot find my boy. Let me go
myself. For the love of God '
But at that iustaut, through tho
smoke that almost hid the only window
that was not already on lire, appeared
the faithful Juba, holding aloft the in
fant. The llatne3 were all around, and
in a moment more would overtake him.
Ho made a rapid gosturo for some one
to approach.
Four of the males, comprenencling
his wish, snatohed a blanket and
rushed promptly forward. The heat
was intolerable, but they disregarded
it, and standing benoatu the window,
with the blanket outstretched, they
shouted to Juba to throw the child
down to tbain. He had, however, an
ticipated them. The infant foil while
they wore spoaking, was caught safely
in the blanket, and was hurried imme
diately to Mrs. Stewart, who clasped
it to her bosom with frantic dellgut.
The whole was the work of less time
than we have taken to dosoribe it
But simultaneously a terriflo crash
was heard, that made the very earth
tremble beneath tho spectators ; a
nUga column of smoke shot up toward
the gw fr0m wheie tho roof had
i,ecn : and. as if nrouelled from a foroe
panip, a gush of inteuio flame fol
lowed, leaping far up into tho highest
i heaven.
The crowd, one and all. (rasped for
breath. Then canio a deep, long
drawn sigh. For the roof aud floors
had evideutly fallen in ; and the faith
ful Juba, alas I was nowhere to be
seen.
A dozen persons rushod toward the
building, aud, uutil driven back by
the heat, stood close by the window
where ho had been latest visible. Ihey
had hoped to find hitn there. They
had fluttered themselves that there
had been time enough for him to leap,
But it was now plain this had not
been the case. He most probably felt
the floor giving way before ho throw
tho child, aud if so this explained the
cause of his haste, ihey said this to
each other as they fell buck.
But thero was little time for words,
Scarcely had this thought been ex
changed before thero was auother
crash, aud, with a momentary waring
motion, almost tho eutiro building fell
in, so that what had beeu a stately
mansion an hour before was now only
a shapeless pile of blazing timbers.
Tho shouts, the exclamutions, the
sobbings which hal tilled the air but
the instant before, ceased again at this
appalling spectacle. Neighbor looked
at neighbor, aghast with horror, the
lurid light adding a wild, spectral look
to each enquiring face. Theu a sim
ultaneous cry rose from the crowd,
that Juba aud the old nurse were
buried in the ruins.
Bat suddenly from out the flame aud
smoke, iu the direction where Juba
had luut been seeu, what seemed to be
a buman ngnre began to emerge,
crawlinir painfully on hands and kneos.
A human figure, yot crushed almost
out of the shape of humanity, but still
with lifo in it, for it moved.
And bark, a voico; a voice coming
from that mangled body. What did it
say?
Not words of pain, but words of joy.
Words such as the martyrs used at the
stsko. 'Uallolujab I Hallelujah!"
For was not he a martyr, toot lie
bad diod to save his master's child.
He was both hero and martyr. New
York News.
A Meteor When in Business.
We owe our immunity to our at
mosphere, which serves as a bullet
proof cuirass for the world. When a
meteor enters tho atmosphere, the
friction produced by its gigantic speed
makes it flash up like the arrow of
Acestes, only more so. The ingenious
experiments of Lord Kelvin have
shown that the heat thus produced,
just as a brake showers sparks from a
carriage wheel, or a luoifer mutch
lights on tbo box, is sufficient to con
sume the meteor ar if it were suddenly
cast into a furnace heated to three or
four million degrees. Obviously the
smaller meteors are utterly consumed
before tbey have penetrated far into
the atmosphere, which their fate has
shown to rise to a beight-of about 120
miles.
Only a very large one can desoend,
as that of Madrid is said to have done,
to within twenty miles of the earth
before being burst by the expansion
duo to heat and by tho resistance of
air. The fact that fragments do oc
casionally roach tho earth is the best
proof of the great size of some of the
meteors that wo encounter. ' If it were
not for the "blossod air," the explo
sion of them all, with the accompany
ing fervent heat, would take place in
our midst It is safe to say that such
a etato of things Tvould ronder our
great towus uninhabitable. In Lon
don we are somewhat lucliuo l to gird
at the atmosphere, with its smoke and
its fog and its east wind. But none
of us can tell how often it has saved
him from a tetrible and invisible fate,
in being, as Mark Twain has it, "shot
with a rook." If wo are more iuclined
to reoognizo the atmosphere services
in future, tho Madrid meteor will not
have exploded in vain. The Spectator,
Eealiug Finger Print.
By a combination of the Bertillon
method of measuroment with the An
ger print system any prisoner can be
identitied with almost absolute cer
tainty and in a very short space of
timo. Mr. Galton, says the haturday
Review, calculates that the chance of
two Auger prints being identical is
less than 1 in G 1,000,000,000, and
when we consider the relatively small
numbers of the criminal population,
and that other personal evidence
would be available in any doubtful
case, mistaken identity ought now to
be a thing of the past, lhe method ol
indexing finder prints proposed by
Mr. Galton is at first sight somewhat
complicated, but with a little practice
we aro told that about uvo minutes
would suffice for the oomplete veriflsa
tion of any one of 2032 sets forming a
directory.
A specimen directory of 303 sots
has been given, together with numer
ous finger prints. TheK .od of ob
taininz the prints is J press the
thumb or finger upon i jiato of cop
per which has previously beeu coated
with a very thiu film of printer s lnK.
The inked fingers are then pressed or
rolled upon the card which is kopt as a
record. Although finger prints have
been usod as a sign manual from the
earliest times, yet it is only recently
that they have been studied irom i
scientific poiut of view, and the evi
deuce accumulated is asyet insufficient!
to enable us to realize their valuo to
the anthropologist. Now that a good
system of classification bos been
worked out. it is to be hoped that ob
servers will multinlv rapidly, and that
the bulk of material at our disposal
will soon be considerable. .
Oilglu of the Straw Hat Trade.
The origin of the straw hat trado is
lost in the mists of antiquity. Jt ap
pears from "Coryat's Crudities,'
published iu 1011, that "the most del
icato strawen hats" wore worn by the
men and women of l'iedmont, many
with at least a hundred seams.
It is evident that the ait of straw
plaiting had arrived at a great stato of
perfection more thau two centuries
since, but it does not appear to have
reached England till a hundred years
later. It is within the memory of
some of the old inhabitants of the
straw districts that the wives and
daughters of farmers ueed to plait
straw for their owu bonnets before it
became an established branch of
trade.
Indeed, the custom of wearing boa
nets at all is of a comparatively recent
date, as hoods were used by women of
the lower classes, while ladies of rank
adopted hats made of silk and other
textile fabrics.
A 1'rutitable lirapelrult Tree.
The returns from tho sale of the
product of a single grapefruit treo iu
the Terra Cula Island grove, near
Braidoutowu, ure given iu a lute issue
of tho Manatee ltiver Journal. The
fruit filled twenty-six boxes aud sol
for 8170. Tho freight, cartage au
commissions amounted to $2li.3t), mak
ing the net proceeds $113.01. Jack
sonvillo (Flu.) Citizen.
A Feat ol Mechanical Skill.
A story of a feat of mechanical
skill of wonderful delicacy is told in
Iron Age. An expert mechauio
said to have taken a common sewing
needle of medium size, 1) inches
long, aud drilled a hole through its
entire length, from eye to poiut, the
hole being just lurge enough to admit
of the pasiuge of a very fine hair.
THE MKKKY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BT THE
FUNNY HEN OF THE PRESS.
Correct Heartless How It Hap
pened Delays Arc Vexatious A
Good Thing, ICtc., Ktc.
"Where was tho Magna Charter
signed?" asked the teacher.
"Please, sir, at the bottom. rhua-
dolphia American.
A OOOD THISd.
Jazbcy "What's a gocd thing for
rboumatism?"
Chimloy "You seem to bo ; jon'ro
always complaining of it." Boxbury
Gazette.
DELATS A1IE VKXATTOfS.
Georgo (hesitating) "But. darling,
if we elope will your parents over for
give us?"
Ethel "Yos, dear, if wo ro not too
long about it." Buck.
HOW IT HAITENEP.
Visitor "How do vou coma to havo
SO many Chinese figures?"
Hostess "Oh, at tho time ol my
wedding there was a sale of them, and
these are all wedding presents." Bos
ton Transcript.
nis OBJECT.
Johnny "May I wako tho baby,
momma?"
Mamma "Why do you want to
wake the baby ?"
Johnny "do s I can ploy on my
drum." Judge.
CROOKED ADVlr-E.
Doctor "I don't think that boil on
your noso is a very serious matter, but
you had better keep your eye on it"
fationt (nervouslvi "urcat ocon i
doctor, that'll make mo squiut" Min
neapolis Tribune.
NOT TO BE CONOnATCLATED.
Fuddy "So Gaddy is doad?"
Duddy "Xes, poor fellow,
bo has
gone to his reward ut last."
Fuddy "Strango how a fellow's ill
luck will follow him sometimes. "
Boston Transcript.
HEARTLESS.
Actress (taking tho leading character
in a tragedy) "Where can my mother
bo?"
Voico From the Gallery "She is sit
ting in tho Konigsplat, selling upplos."
fiiegoude Blactter.
BOTH IIAVE A CnASOE.
Sho "It is all so nicofor you to go
down to tho club to break the mono
tony and all that sort of thing, but
whoro do I como iu?"
Ho "You get your sLniro iu getting
rid of mo lot a while." Cincinnati
Enquirer.
A RARELY ACCOMrLISUCD WOMAV.
"Miss Cayenno is a very bright
young woman," ho remarked, admir
ingly. "Does sho say clever things?"
"Better than that. She sees the
point when somebody else s.iys them. "
Washington Star.
AS OOOD AS GAS.
Victim "You say you supply bnl
loons to guests ou tho top floor iu caso
of fire? Aro they already filled?''
Chicago Hotel Clerk "Oh, no.
Just wait until the firo has made pro
gress enough and you cau fill your
balloon with hot air." Life.
AbVANTAGEOl'S.
"Stammering is an awful afllction,"
remarked tho young woman.
"Still it has its advantages," re
marked tho youug mau. "Fellow
doesn't neod moio than two or three
ideas to keep him in conversation a
wholo evening." Amusing Journal.
TUB ntOllAIILE 11EASON.
Dolly Swift "I just met Miss Thir
tysmith, and sho told me, as proof of
her popularity, that two men called
oiAer at tho samo timo last night."
Sally Gay "That may have been
the reason, or it may have been be
cause they were afraid to go alone."
Puck.
ADAPT AHILITV.
Inspector of Prisons "Iu provid
ing you with work your former occu
pation shall bo taken into account
What were you?"
Convict "An anarchist."
Inspector "Uui, urn. Wo can put
bim to road blasting." Fliegeudo
Blucttcr.
DOMESTIC ECONOMV.
"This year, my dear, you must cur
tail your expenses. I do not see more
than eight thousand dollars coming iu
the next twelvo months."
"Oh, don't worry, you considerate
darling! I will skimp ou dress and
we'll still have threo thousand dollars
to livo on." Judge.
KESEMllLANt'E.
"That poem of yonri-," remaiked
the flippant person, "reminds me of
'Spencer's Faery (Jueeu." "
"But," said tho uspiring writer,
"you told mo yesterday that you had
never read the "Faery tiieuu.'"
"Yes. That's why your poem ro
uiiuds mo of it" Washington Star.
WAU OP THE H'll ltK.
"Lieutenant I"
"Yes, bir!"
"Havo you a platoon of scientists
ready for active service?''
"Yes, sir."
"Deploy them iu frout of the forti
fication opposite our right win,' with
instructions to turn ou the cathode
rays aud find out how large a force tho
oneuiy has behind thoso wulls." Chi
' csgo 1'ost
SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL.
The hardost precious stone, aftor
the diamond, is the ruby.
Trofessor Scripture, of Yale, has in
vented a machine for measuring hal
lucinations. There is a 259-ton coal dock at De
troit, Mich., where tho coal is ban Hod
entirely by machinery.
Tho bicycles used in the French
Army each have an electric light
which can bo turned on or off at will.
In the normal state a dog executes
twenty to thirty respiratory move
ments a minute, but while he is ex
cited or is running in the heat of tho
sun this increases to 303 or 350.
The Baltimoro and Ohio finds that
the coBt of operating its eloctric ser
vice in tho Baltimoro tunnel is thirty
eight cents per engino mile, while tho
steam milo was twenty-threo cents.
It has lately been established that
tho temperature of the carbon in tho
electrio aro is about 750 degrees F.,
heat, or over forty timos tho differ
ence between the boiling and freezing
water.
The poison of fatigue is stated by
Professor Wedensky to bo exactly
similar to tho deadly vegetablo poison
known as curare. The former, it if
maintained, is capable of inducing
fatigue in fresh animals inoculated
with it
The thcrmophono is an instrument
recently devised for measuring the
temperature of a distant or inaocossi
bio placo. It was devised for the
purpose of obtaining tho tempcraturo
of the water at tho bottom of a pond,
and is said to fill expectations.
Slight tapping of the forehead over
the nose and cyos with a rubber bnm-
mor is a German romody proposed for
insipicnt colds, witu heavier tapping
in chronio catarrh. Tho first con
tracts tho blood vessels and the seoond
dilates them, and favors a frco secre
tion of mucus.
The blackness of tho atmosphere in
many factory towns soems to havo
more considerable cause even than
most of us would have gnossed. The
smoke stack of a German Btigar fao
tory was rocently provided with a soot
catcher, from which C700 pounds of
soot was taken at the end of six days,
and it is concluded that the Btack of
such a factory pours 200 tons of car
bon dust annually into the air.
Profossor Lodgo, of University Col
lege, Liverpool, states in reference to
the Boontgen radiography, that by
the application of greater power than
he previously possessed bo was able
to see tho efluct of tho rays which pen
ctrated a twelve inch baulk of timber
and tho palm of his own band. In
addition ho had bcon able to see, in
tho same sense, through the head of a
boy at tbo laboratory connected with
thecollego, and through every part of
his body, clothes and all.
Gold Mining.
Tho nature of tho revolution indi
cated will best bo understood by con
trasting tho conditions of gold mining
twenty roars ago aud at the present
time. Tho chief source of tho gold
supply, up to a vory recent day, hoc
beeu the rich gold-bearing alluvium,
which bears the same relation to gold
deposits in general as a layer of cream
to a pot of milk. It is estimated that
from 1818 to 1875 nearly nine-tenths
of the world's gold camo from this
alluvium. Now, iu greuter part, this
rich cream has been removed and at
the present time not muoh more than
a third of tho supply is derived from
this source. In other words, placer
mining has changod places with lode
mining and the greater part of tho
world's gold can no longer be washed
down from tho hillsides at oompara
tivcly slight expense, but has to bo
Bought in tho bowels of the earth,
often at fur depths. Mora thau this,
quartz mines of extraordinary rich
ness are by no means bo common at
tho proseut timo as they were two
or three or four decades ago. Tho
difficulty of working has steadily in
creasod, while tho average valuo of tho
ore has steadily increased.
You may judge of the comparative
cost of working by a comparison bo
tweon this and tho former day. Tho
gold-bearing beds of the Transvaal are
not diflicult of access nor expensive
to work. They lie in a curiously regu
lar fashion, resembling gold beds much
moro thau tho general run of gold
bearing veins. The totaPotitput of
theso fields was about .'13,000,000 iu
1891, and a mining authority, Pro
fessor Bickurds, has estimated that to
gain these 833,000,030 of gold will
probably cost as much as all tho 3113,
(MKI.OOl) which the California aud Aus-
truha put forth in 1851-1853, taken to
gether. Or, to put tho matter in au
other way, it has beeu computed that
in tho bonanza placer days two men
with a shovel, a pick and a rocker
could gain as much gold as ten mcu
and teu stamps ut tho present time.
Beview of Keviows.
Decay ol ltussluu Nobility.
Some startling statistics of tho de
cay of tho ltussiuu nobility are given
in a list of mortgaged estates fur
nibbed bv tho British Consul ut St
1'etersburg. At present moro thau
100,000 estates, or foity-ouo per cent,
of tho eutiro area owned by uoblis,
are burdeuo 1 by mortgages, uud the
amount of money advanced ou them
has reached jfii:l2,.r)!l l.lMKl, of wui
tflM), 000,000 remains unpaid. Tho
Nobilitv Laud Bunk, created by tho
Government to make loans to strand
cd laudlords, has advuueud nearly its
entire capital of gJ.iO.OdO.OUO, aud ro
ceived but little in returu.
Sla!u by Spain,
It is computed that 10,003,00) Iu
diuti sluve perished from Spain's
brutality during tho century aul a
half that followed till discovery of
America, -- Pittsburg Dispatch.
THE TWJ TIDE?.
In a vast tMul-wuvo of rsy light
Tho morning breaks on tho rvdlnir shrc,
Where sounds tho swelling, multitudinous
ronr
Of Life and Labor rising in their might;
While, farlmhlnd, with cntlllant sp'-cks of
wnite-
Drownlng the tumult which it dwpeus
o'or
In earth-long curvature, rolls evermore
Tho black an 1 silent avalanche of night.
O thou of Bolllh power and f irtune proud,
Tho world rovolvos. The night shall over
shrnud Its face, unshadowed though It bo with
cloud.
O thou from whose wi 1 lifo all linht seem?
gone,
Beyond the Mack horizon lino the dawu
In rosy tide comes rolling swlttly on.
Edward P. Jackson, In Youth's Companion.
IIUM0H OF THE ll.VT.
Advico to a brnnctto who is about
lo become a blonde Keep it dark.
Statesman.
"Whol makes you think Bilker is
over fifty?" "Oh, ho has begun act
ing silly again." Chicago Record.
"Uncle Bob, what is a movable
feast?" "The waffles and Wienerwurst
wagon, my boy." Chicago Becord.
Had tho prodigal's money held out
he would never have kuown the tasto
of his father's fatted calf. Barn's
Horn.
"Lovo me littlo, lovo mo long," eho
warbled. "Yes," said he. "But will
you lovo mo when I nm short?" In
dianapolis Journal.
"I don't see Jimpson any more."
'You aro not likely to for samo time.
no's got a new camera and a baby at
his houso. Cincinnati Enquirer.
"Say, loan mo 810 for about n
week?" "Can't; haven't got but
five." "That'll do lend me tho fivo
for two weeks I" Chicago Becord.
The difference between a somnam
bulist and a messenger boy is trilling:
One walks in his sleep, and the other
sleeps in his walk. Philadelphia
Press.
Little Lulu "Mauima, papa is com
ing." Mother "Can yon seo bim?"
Littlo Lulu "No, mamma, but I can
hear the voico of his footsteps." Rox
bury Gazette.
As tho hurricane swept tho deck and
upset a few yachtsmcnt it breezily re
marked : "I guess I cau turn an occa
sional summer 'silt' myself." IlioU
mond Guzctte.
Vexed Mother "James, how many
more times must I tell you to stop
making that noise?" James "I'll
leave that to your owu judgment, ma."
Philadelphia North Americau.
"I havo dono nothing but blush pll
day," complained the rose, "aud still
that idiot of a poet goes on talking of
tho modest violet, as if there were not
others." Cincinnati Enquirer.
"Oh, mnmma," said littlo Vyllie, as
he made his first eloso inspection of a
bieyclo, "this machine Ihs got rub
bers on to keep its wheels from get
ting wot I" Harper's Bound Table.
Do Vore "I heard a compliment
for you to-day." Miss Antique "In
deed! What was it?" De Vero
"Young Chapman says you carry your
years well." New York 'lown Topics.
"Shoos wcro blacked as early as tho
tonth century," says an exchange.
And it might havo added that many of
them look as though they had never
been blacked J since. Boston Trans
cript. "Mr. Crayons is very sucossful iu
his drawing," remarked the young wo
man. "Yes," replied tho discourteous
rival, "I understand ho disposed of
several pictures at a ratllo." Wash
ington Star.
"People don't think I amount to
much iu this concern," said the office
boy ns ho filed away the paid bills,
"but they'd think different if thoy
knew I handled all tho receipts."
Boxbury Gazette.
He (admiring a vaso of flowers)
"Are they not beautiful? Do you
know they remind mo of you?" Sho
(softly) "But they aro artificial." Ho
"Ah, yes; but you'd never know
it." Washington Town Talk.
Mother "Did you try to mako
yourself agreeable at Mrs. High
stone's?" Littlo Daughter "Yes'm ;
1 told her all tho fnuuy tiling! our
cullers said about her, uud Bho seemed
to bo real interested." Good News.
The Netr Woman,
Chloroform aud ammonia killed a
centipede and saved a cat at Spring
field the other day. The centipede
dropped from a bunch pf bauauas up
on the cat, aud at once buried its
poisonous fangs in tho animal's legs.
Its mistress, with rare preseuoo of
mind, dropped chloroform ou the in
scot, which succumbed, and then sho
applied ammonia to the cat's leg. It
was a triumph of presjuoo of miud,
apparently. Boston Herald.
Hungarian Gipsies.
A census of tho gipsies in Hungary
has just been takeu. They number
271, 'Jill, about half settlers iu towns
and villages, while the other half
keep np a nomadic life. Ol the total
number cau only speak tho
Tsigauv or llomauy language ; 101,753
speak liuuguriau, too, as tueir mother
tongue; t". 7.04 ij Bouiuauiaii, US57
Slovak, 5Sill Servian, 23 JO German
and '.'008 Kuthculuu.
Horsi-less t'arriugi's in Is 10.
Horseless carriages aro by no means
new, as iu volume 13 of tho Encyclo
paedia Britauiea, publi.-hod iu Edin
burgh iu IMi, thero ure diagrams and
a description of a hoistlcs carriage
invented by Mr. Uiuhurds, a physician
in Boehelle. Tho machinery by which
tho movement was tlleeted as plucud
iu box iu tho rear of the carriage.