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VOL. XXtXi NO. 20. TIONESTA, TAM WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2, 189G. S1.00 PER ANNUM.
Three timed n many herrings are)
consumed m any other kind of fish.
There were but twenty-eight foreign
ers naturalized in Mexico tholast fiscal
year. '
The people of the Uuited States use
oq an averago 12,000,000 postage
stamps of all kin. Is enoh and every tiny
Of the yoar, or a total of 4, 380, 000,006
per anbttiri;
A rdnobmari) whd lives on the Will
(.incite Rivbr, below tlolbrdok Station;
Urofcbd, lias solemuly declared thai
the onip in tho river are destroying
his meadows by eating tho grass and
grubbing up the roots.
Postmaster General Wilson hai is
sued an order forbidding railroad olTl
oialsor employes from carrying or de
livering letters on which Government
stamps have not been affixed. He
claims that by this praetioo the Gov
menl lotcs $233,000 annually.
Electric- lighting is to be applied to
art in Brussels. On the Anspnok Me
morial St. Michuol is represented on
horeoback slaying the dragoon. The
word will be made to blaze like a
word of fire, lights will be put in the
saint's eyes and in the insides of the
dragoon.
The law against undignified compe
tition in trade hns cleared the win
dows of Berlin shopkeepers of the
once familiur placards which told of
selling off stock bolow oost, of dam
aged good' suloa, etc, which, if they
wcro untrue, laid thoso displaying
them liable to punishment under the
low.
About a year ago a Wichita (Kan.)
man was a juryman at the trial of a
man accused of counterfeiting. The
implements of tho counterfeiter were
in evidence and the juror examined
them olosely. After the trial wai over
be went home and made some ooun-
leriemog toois nimseii. tie was
caught, was recently tried and is now
in prison.
For a tag time past it has been a
cause of private complaint where it
was not hailed with delight that
danoing was going out of fashion in
London. The assertion is now of
ficially confirmed by the fact that the
British Association of Teachers of
Danoing callod a special conference to
consider how beBt to rescue the busi
ness from the total collapse wbioh
threatens it,
M. de Mahy recently brought for
ward In the Freuoh Chamber of Dep
nties a proposition to the effeot that
ODly Frenchmen should be eligible to
office iu the French colonies. He
ahowed that the Tamatave Munioipal
Committee, formed siuoe the war in
Madagasoar, wi oomposed of three
Englishmen, one American, one Prus
sian and only three Freuohmen. The
Chamber took no aotion in the matter.
The demand for the short sermon is
not quite so universal, says an English
paper, as some superficial people
imagine. The people of a village in
Cornwall recently presented a petition
in favor of long sermons. Evidently
they wanted to be well fed, comments
the New York Observer, and rooog
uized the fuot that while a few minutes
rury do for lunch the larger fraotion
oi an hour is required for a good
spiritual dinner.
How many bunches, big bunches,
of bananas do you think were imported
into this oountry last year Tasks the
New York Herald. Make yonr figures
tremendous, then double it, then mul
tiply by four. Well, you are all wrong
in your guess, and it isn't half large
enough, so I may as well say at onoe
that the number of bunches was very
close upon eighteen millions that is,
one bunoh for every five people in
this oountry, inoluding bnmmers,piok
pockets, children and olergymcn. We
are evidently a fruit consuming peo
ple. Between 18S0 and 1890 the number
of farms in the United States increased
from 4,008,007 to 4,504,611, gain of
over 550,000. In the same period the
number of farm mortgages increased
om 870,931 to 623,091, a gain of
only about 150,000, loss thau one
third of tho gala in the number of
farms. Eotweeu 1830 and 1890 the
value of furuiiog realty iuoreased from
810,197,090.770 to $13,279,252,619, a
gain of over 33,000,000,000. In tho
tame interval the amount of farm
mortgages iucreasel from 8312, 500,
477 to 8533,729,719, an advauoe of
only about 8210,000,000, or consider
ably lees than a tenth of the iucreaso
in lbs value of furuiicg realty. At
the same time the value of the imple
ments nud machinery on farms in
cti'dwd nearly $9J,00;,0 0;, nud tho
vulue of live etock over 87OO.0O0.UOa
THE DARRED DATE.
Onr lives are prisons) we can touch
The liars they are so lowl
We cnnnol see the path we tread,
An hour before we goi
A look, a sigh, a whispered word,
A struggle, fierce and alow,
A oloslng down of eyelids palo
And this Is all we know!
fost Wheeler, In Kew fork Press.
EPISODE IN CLAIRVOYANCE
was Mrs. Sher
win Blake's after
noon "At home"
at 52 Maoclosflcld
Squnro, 8. W.,
aud that fasoioat'
iug lady was en
de a v o r i n g in
heroio fashion to
administer tea aud
ooffoo, to remem
ber who took
sngar and who did
not, and to chat
ter a Q ably to some
half dozen lndv
frisnds clustered around her, inoking
ocoasioual bolts toward the doot to
receive new visitors, Of course, her
daughter Miss Nettie Blake, ought to
novo neiped ner mother with the so
cial duties t. but that young lady Wal
Billing in a lar corner, engaged in
earnest conversation with a certain
Mrs. Ilspley, who professed to know a
great dual about spiritualism.
"But tell me," Nettie was saying in
nu awesiricnen voice, "can this wo
man you were talking about really see
what is going to happen to people, and
do hor prophecies always come true?''
"As to that," replied her friend, "I
have oertainly known hor foretell the
future wonderfully; bat she succeeds
bott in discovering people's ohsrao
ters and lives irom merely holding
in ner nana something belonging to
them. For instance, if vou give her
a letter she will, without even looking
at ii, tea you an about the writer.
though both yon aud the writer are
quite unknown to her."
Now, besides the number of lady visi
tors at Airs, mane s that afternoon
there bad been one man Captain Le
otreme xassung or the Life. Guards.
lie baa left a little while before, but
Nettie' thoughts werestill full of him j
in fact, though she had known him
but a brief time, this foolish girl, fresh
irom me schoolroom, bad lost her ro
mantio little heart to the handsome
soldier, and had accepted him as the
ideal man. Of his feelings toward her
he knew nothing, but she pleased
nerseu witn imagining that his oharm
ing manners were even more oharming
with her than with otherp, and that
his dark eyes had a particularly ten
uur ioo m mem wnen in nor com
pany. buch thoughts were buried
deop in her inmost heart, and were
never breathed to anybody, oxoopt, of
oonrse, her especial girl friend, wno
didn't oount ; but she pined to know
whethei her conviction was right, or
whether his calls and attentions were
for her mother alone. The talk with
Mrs. llapley at onoe suggested to her
mind a way of satisfying herself on
this point.
"1 should so much like to see this
marvellous thought reader." bogan
Nettie again. "I wonder how I could
manage it. Does she live far off?"
"She lives in Philippa Bood. St
John's Wood," replied the otbor ; "but
I should advise you, if you think of
going, to ask your mother s leave."
"Oh, no, I don't think I want to go
really at least I might," stammered
the girl, "but I'll ask mother. What
number did you say?"
"Number 43 ; it's a small provision
store," answered Mrs. Kapley, rising
to depart ; "but probably Mrs. Blake
will not let you go. Good by."
The visitors having gone, Nettie
hsstened to make a note of the ad
dress, privately resolving she would
not give her mother the chance of re
fusing her permission to visit the clair
voyant.
A day or two afterward, when a din
ner party was nnder discussion, Not-
tio was strongly in favor of inviting
Captain Tussling ; and though she had
to bear some banter about this eager
ness tne gained ner point, and also
promise that the gallant Captain should
take ber in to dinner. The invitation
was sent, and next morning at break
fast Mrs. Blake laughingly tossed
note across to Nettie, saying :
"There, my dear; I hope that will
satisfy yon.
It merely contained the usual formal
words, "Captain Tussling has much
pleasure in aooepting Mrs. Sherwin
Blake's kind invitation to dinner on
16th instant." Yet Nollie preserved
the note carefully, and, like the little
goose that she was, read it over and
over again when she was alone, taking
in every letter of the beloved hand
writing, and even but no ; it were
unkind to mention every little girlish
folly that she commuted, and, besides,
Nettie is not the only silly girl iu the
world.
The time had come to put her plan
into execution, however, and tn con
siderable tropidation she crept out of
the house, armed with the precious
scrap of paper, by means of which so
much was to be revealed to her. By
the time she readied the District Kail
way station Nettie well nigh repented
aud abandoned her plan ; for she was.
on the wholo, a good, dutiful daugh
ter, and her oouuoieuce reminded her
that her mother did not like her going
out alone, and would assuredly obieu
to suoh an expedition as that whereon
she was bent, hull, the burning de
siro for an answer to one queatio
overcame all other considerations, an
having resolved within herself that
she would stay but five minutes with
the cluirvoyaut and then go straight
home, she took a ticket and rus'je
down the steps iu time for a Baker
street train, bt. John's Wood station
kufdly reached, the next point was to
nnd rinlippa itoud, and thu wud no
Jl Si!
cany matter. She first consulted a po
liocman,bnt he only repeated 'Thilip-
a Itoa l, miss? in a querulous tone
that implied a certain degree of inu'.g-
nation at the notion of any place pre
suming to exist without his knowledge.
But the noxt moment bis face as
sumed an expression of studious medi
ation, and he appeared to be pondcr-
ng over the problem Nettie bad pro-
Eoundedi For several seconds she
Opofully awaited somfl sign in his
countenance which might betoken a
solution!, but in Vain j the thodghtful
bxptossiori gradually gave plaoo to one
ot resigned melancholy, arid, With a
desponding head shake, he said : 'M m
raid 1 can t tell yoa, miss."
"Thank you," said Nettie whit it
sigh, "I'll take a cab," and, bailing a
ausom, she left the policeman and
drove away, reeling rather depressed,
This did not help muoh, for the driver
had the vaguest of ideas as to the
whereabouts of Fbilippa Road, and
bad to make inquiries every few min
utes. Half an hour passed, and poor
Nettie, Well high in tears, was on the
point of otdoring the cabman to drive
back td the station, when he turnod
into a dark, narrow street, with a wel
come tame, Fbilippa lioad, at the
Corner. Tho vehicle stopped in front
of a small grooer s shop. Out she
jumped, and telling tho driver to wait,
dashed in and asked td see the pro
prietor's wife. She was dismayed to
Bnd ho late it had crowd, and de
spaircd of getting home in time td
avoid awkward questions) but she was
determined to go through with it now
at all costs. The grocer, who looked
knowing, and seemed quite Used to
this sort ot thing,showed her upstairs,
and shouted for his wife. The latter
was an exceeding quiet, mild looking
little Woman, not at all resembling the
wild witou Nettie had pictured.
"Please," began the girl, timidly,
feoling somewhat foolish, "I am in
great hurry, but I should like you to
tell mo what you Can about the person
who wrote this," and she handed her
the note.
"I'll trv, inisfl, replied the woman,
but, to tell the truth, I'm not at my
best just now. You see, folks begiu
ooming to see me early in the morn
ing, and to-day I've had a great many
one alter the other, till I'm tired out."
Nettie looked blank 1 this was too
bad, after she hal come suoh a long
way.
But can't . you tell me anything?
she inquired, beseechingly.
1 he woman smiled at her engernoss.
"I dare say I can toll yoa something,"
she said: "but 1 never invent, as
some clairvoyants do. It's rather
peouliar thing about me, that, no mat
ter how tired I am, I can always see
and describe places, though I can't hit
off people or obaraoters at all unless
I'm feeling absolutely fresh."
'Well, the plaoe will be better than
nothing," said the girl with a sigh i
"and, please, be as quiok as yoa oan.
Nettie watched the woman curiously
as she stood with the note that had
been taken out of its envelope, though
it was still folded up in one hand,
Presently she began :
"Overlooking a great park I see
large red brick building, with a clock
tower iu the centre, surmounted by a
weathercook. Fart of the building is
low and long; there are iron railings
iu front and some sentry boxes with
tall soldiers in red uniforms on guard,
They wear helmets with long, white
tassels. Other soldiers, mounted on
beautiful black horses, are just riding
in pairs through the large iron gate,
their helmets sparkling in the sun
shine."
The girl listenod in amazement ; the
woman had described the barraok
wherein Captain Tassling was quar
tured, and she waited feverishly the
answer to her question.
"Oh, please go on I" sue cried,
"What do you see next?"
"Outside the railings in front of the
build'ug," continued the other, after
a brief pause, "I see young womou
wheeling children in perambulators
they are looking through the bars
at
the soldier j in the oourtyard, and '
Here Nettie gave a little stamp of im
patience, and begged her to speak
the writer of the note.
of
Thore was a Bhort pause ; then the
woman started afresh : "I see in one
wing of the building a beautifully fur
nibhed room ; there are a great many
photographs standing about, nearly
all of different young ladies, and some
are in theatrical costume " Here
Nettie interrupted onoe more, saying
with a remarkable amount of heat for
a girl usually so sweet tempered, that
she did not care about the photo
graphs.
The clairvoyant protested that such
interruptions would spoil everything,
but at lout she niauaged to come to the
point. "In this room I see a tall, fair
man with dark eyes; he looks strong
and soldier like, and ho sits polishing
the hut of a sword, as he whistles
tune."
Nettie's heart beat faster. "Oh I
she exclaimed, "can't you tell me what
he is thinking about, and whether he
is she was about to say "m love,
but she stopped and merely added
"tell me something about him,
"Just now," continued the woman
"ho appears to be in some perplexity
I cau't be quite sure what about, bu
it seems that he is deeply attaohod to
someone, and does not know whether
his love is returned or not. But
think he is fairly hopeful that it is.
At this point the exertion appeared
to be too much for her, and, breaking
off suddenly, she put her hand to her
forehead, exolaiming: "I can't goon
auy more I
The girl scarce heard ; she repeated
the words ' Deeply attached to somo
one," over and over again to herself,
aud her eyes sparkled as she exclaimed
"Please, pleuse take a little rest, an
try and sou something about the girl
he is attached to, or wait a minute
perhaps you could describe where she
lives Xhat will do quite as welll
"Ves, I will do. that if I oan," an
swerud the woman, "but, indeed,
miss, you mustn't ask me any more."
She seemed to make a tremendous ef
fort to colloct herself, and tlien re
sumed : "The house conneoted in somo
way with the man's thoughts is a good
sized one, painted a dark rod, with
creepers round the lowor windows and
climbing up the balcony. It is in a
square, near one end, and at the other
thore is a church with a tall spire."
"That's it I ' cried Nettie, wild with
excitement, "that s St. Gregory's,
Macclesfield Square I Go on, go on !"
"There is a large figure 02 painted
id gilt on the brown doors nnd on the
balcony 1 see A large white bird with a
yellow orest od o stand."
"Oiii" crioa jNettie in ruptures,
'that's quite' enough the old (Jocks-
too settles it. I can't tell yod how
grateful I am 1" And iu proof she
gave the woman a sovereign; tnen
hurried back to ber cab and drove the
whole way home, where she arrived
late for lunch. But she was in such a
state of bliss that none of the ques
tionings or sooldinga naturally show
ered upon ber had the slightest effect,
and this sudden abnormal elevation of
spirits completely mystified the mem
bers of her family, who made futile
efforts to divine its cause.
On the day of the dinner party she was
moreexuberant than ever ; and she was
dresaod and waiting in tho drawing
room half an hour before any body else,
listening eagerly for the front door
bell, and blushing every time she
beard footsteps on the stairs. When
Captain Tassling arrived, everybody
was electrified to see the quiet, demure
Nottie rusk forward all smiles, and
present him with a beautiful carna
tion, accompanied by a tender look,
meant to speak volumes, that puzzled
the good Captain not a little. Her
behavior toward him throughout the
evening was altogether extraordinary,
and any one who did not know her
would have classed ber as a hardened
flirt. This was Captain Tassling's
conclusion after a time, and, though
it did not agree with bis first impres
sions, he could give no other inter
pretation to hor forward demeanor to
ward himself.
Well," thought the Captain, as he
drove back to barraoks, "I never made
a greater mistake than in thinking tho
little Blake girl a quiet, bread-and-
butter sort of creature. By Jove,
what eyes she oan make, and how she
did go on t And what would my Lily
have said, I wonder, it she had seen
usl"
Meanwhile Nettie was having her
hair brushed out, feoling jubilant in
doed, despite the severe lecture her
mother had given her. Somehow,
the happiness iu her face seemed to be
rofleoted in her maid's, for Baiver was
positively beaming with satisfaction,'
and at the same time her thoughts
seemed far away, for she repoatedly,
in a fit of abstraction, brushed her
young mistress's faoa, whioh was most
painful.
'Uarker, what are yon thinking
of?" remonstrate 1 Nettie, after tho
third face brushing. For answer,
Barker threw down the brush, aud an
nounced with tears of joy in her eyea
and a happv giggle in hor voice:
"Oh, Miss Nettie, I'm so excited I
hardly know what I'm doing I I'm go
ing to be married I And his name's
Tommy Green, and ho' is so good look
ing, miss but stop, 1 11 show you his
photo." She pulled an envelopo out
of her apron pocket, and took from it
a photograph of a handsome man in
uniform, whioh she laid triumphantly
before her mistress on the dressing
table.
But Nettio did not look at the pho
tograph; her eyes were fixed on the
address of the envelope, which was in
the handwriting she had so tenderly
studied as that of Captain Tassling.
"lell me, Barker, she ejaculated,
who is this man you're going to
marry?" And sho snatohed up tho-
portrsit hastily.
"Lor', miss," answered Barker,
"he's the servant of that Captain
Tussling who was here this evening,
and the Captain thinks no end of him,
and-"
"Oh, I see," said Nettie, greatly
relieved, "he directs his letters for
him. Can't your soldier writo, then?
"Can my soldier write I" exclaimed
Barker indignantly. "Why he s most
highly educated, miss, far above the
common run of soldier servants; and
as to writing, he does it so well that
sometimes when the Captain's busy ho
gets Tommy to answer letters for him,
like a private secretary. Not impor
tant letters, of course, miss; but I
mean, for instanco, he'll sometimes
toss him an invitation and say 'Just
except this for mo Green,' or perhaps
he is to refuse it, as tho cose may be,
miss; and then, you see
"Yes, yes Barker; good night. I'm
very tired," said Nettie, somewhat
abruptly, "and I wish you every
happiness.
"Thank you, Miss Nettie; I was just
going to tell you it was Tommy as
answered . Mrs. Blake's last note
inviting the Captain "
"Good night, Barker," repeated
Nottiu, with a sharpness that sent the
maid away in a great hurry, wondering,
what was wrong.
Nottie did not mention Captain
Tassling when she o Jul 1 possibly avoid
it. When an invitation to his wedding
with Miss Lillian Baukford came,
Nettie did not go; but the rest o.tUo
family did, and said it was a very
pretty wadding iudood. Black and
White.
A Sew Umbrella.
Umbrella making is among the most
interesting of industries. Something
like 1000 puteuts have been taUeu out
during the last twenty yearo. The
most recent iuvcutor, who, if success
lul, will eolipso all rivals, U a maker
who claims to have contrived a trans
parent umbrella, which, while being
equally waterproof with silks aud al
paca, will have the greut ad-vuntage of
allowijg the wayfarer iu a rainstorm
to avoid collision with lamp posts, and
otb.er obbUelod along the w.iy.
THE MELIUS SIDE OH' LIFE,
STClRiES THAT ARE TOI.O BT THE
TXtSSr MEM 0? THE PBE33.
Longfellow lie vised Bald-tlended
The New Art It Seemed So to
Him Nothing New, Ktc, Ktc.
"Try not to pass," the blkor sold,
As he the other oyolers led,
"UnloM you want to break your bead."
Exoelslor.
BALD-HEADED.
"Davie, do you know Mr. Baldley?"
"Is ho tV feller that's troubled with
ingrowin' hair?" fudge.
tmAVOIDAtlnr HEAVt.
He-"Wonderful how some pcoplo
weigh every word they say."
She "More wonderful that they
don't breakftho scales." Judge.
Tire Ew a nr.
Tommy "Paw, what is a designing
villain."
Mr. Figg "Oh, the description
would apply to one of these poster
artists about as well as anything."
TOO ACROBATIC.
"That was tough on Dnvis."
"What?"
"He stopped on a banana peel, fell,
tnd was arrested for giving a street
porformanoe without a license,"
Truth.
ir SEEMED 80 TO HIM.
Mamma "I think the baby is grow
ing very fast, don't yon?"
Papa "Decidedly. I thought ho
reighed three pounds more at four
'clock this morning than he did at
wo." Truth.
EQUAL OFFENDERS.
Little Clarence 'Ta?"
Mr. Callipers "Well?"
Littlo Clarence "Which is the
aiore abominable, pa, the man who
cnows it all or the man who has al
ways heard it before?"
UNDER ANOTITEB HEAD.
Old Olivier (atthe)ibrnry) "Where
will I find that great anthropological
voik called, 'Man, tho Ruler of tho
World.' "
Bluestocking Librarian (scornfullv)
-"Under the head of 'notion,' sir."
-Truth.
A POINTER OX SKEPTICISM.
Brobson "I'm a good deal of a
Jteptio I"
Craik "Well, skepticism is dead
iasy. Ait a man has to ao is roiuse
o believe whatever he cannoi oompre
lend ; and the bigger fool he is, tho
rreater skeptic he booomes." Puck.
KOTBINO NEW.
Adorer (nervously) "Isn't that
ronr father's step on the stairs?"
Sweet Girl ".Yes, but aon c minu
ihat;' it's only a scare. He won't
lome down. He always stamps around
ihat way when 1 sit up with young men
ifter eleven o'clock." New York
Weekly.
A NEW WAT OP PITTING) IT.
He "Now, darling, you know how
itrong is my love for you. De not
wy you will be a sister to me."
Bhe -No, ueorge; a win uut uy
to. xon
He "Then you will
She "Vou may be a brother to me,
3eorge." Judge.
BIB EXPERIENCE.
Jones "There is a man with a great
leal of faith in human nature."
Smith "I thought that was Kiowa,
ihe deteotive."
Jones "So it is. Ho has known
9eoplo who were accused of all sorts
if things, but he never oonld find any
thing against them." Pack.
A PROFIT ABLE INVESTMENT.
Cobwigger "It's no wonder he be
same a millionnaire, for he is tha best
business man I ever saw."
Morritt "I guoss that's so. Before
no announced his daughter's engage
ment to the Count he advauoed tho
fellow enough to sottlo all his debts
it fifty oents on the dollar." -Puok.
RRC1HET.
Business Man "Yes; I'm euro it is
useful book. I'm rather sorry I
iidn't get it somo timo ago."
Canvasser "Then you'll tnko a
oopy?"
Business Man "Oh, no I Its too
late now I But if I had it before you
Bailed it might have saved both of us a
great deal of valuable time.
his VIEW.
He Urchin "3ay, Mag, did yer
hear de lady as just went in dere tell
de little girl what she has wid her as
she could have all she wautod ter
eat?"
Bhe Urohin "Yes."
-' He Urohin "Well, dat was all a
bluff. ' Dere's two pius left in de win
der, an' doy're bote gottin' up from do
table." Puok.
llut'i Bobbers.
"Now you know tho details of tho
affair," said tho doctor to the luwyer a
few days later, "what would you ad
vise me to do about it?"
"Go back to your pruotice," re
plied the luwyer, promptly. "You
have no case. Ton dollars, please.
"Now that I have told you the symp
toms," said ihe lawyer to tha ilojior a
few days later, "whut w.ml 1 vou ad
vise mu to do?"
"Go back to your practice, replied
a l.livhinian. uruuiDtlv. "Vou have
tho i
nothiug teriotiBiy wrong
i j . . - . .
with you.
Ten dollars, please.'
Thus it happens that to inou i
ealliug casta other TcbVvri. ft''"
Fobt.
BCIESTIFIC AJiD ISDI'SIMAL.
Over SOd.OOO species of animals bav
been described by naturalist np to the
presont date.
The new British army magazino rifle
will throw a bullet to a distonce of
over 4000 yards.
The la in England now compels
every case of lead poisoning to be re
ported at once to tho authorities.
A rofipntlv o noned guano cave ill
Georgia was found to be inhabited by
great swarms of white flies having yel
low legs and pale pink eyes.
It is said that a woman's voice can
be heard in a balloon at a height of
two miles, while a man's voice cannot
be heard at a greater height than ono
mile. !
Lawson Tait, tho well known Bir
mingham doctor, has designed en in
strument whereby the electric onrrent
is applied for tho surgical arrest or
bleeding.
The fiftv-six largest towns of Anstria
have an aggregate population of 8,-
530,000. The death rote in 18'JJ varied
from 1.22 per cent, at Weinberge to
3.C7 per cent, at ieschon.
The wearing of oorsets has been pro
hibited in the electrical department of
a California High School. The steels
were found to have an effect on the in
struments, and in oonsequonoe delicate
experiments were found impossible.
President Octave Channte, of the
Amerioan Society of Civil Engineers,
has offered a speoial prize of 8100 for
the best monograph on the kite, giv
ing a full theory of its mechanics and
stability, with quantitative computa
tions appended.
It has been discovered after nnmer
ous experiments that a dark hair is
much stronger than a light one. One
dark hair oan carry a weight of 113
grammos, while a light colored hair
will break if a weight of 73 grammes
is hung from it.
A trial of what is known in electri
cal scienco as "the third rail system"
was made recently near Boston, with,
the result that an open eloctrio car,
in tho teeth of a breeze blowing fif
teen miles an hour, ran several miles
at the rate of eighty miles an hour.
The Proctor Memorial Association
contemplate erecting an international
observatory on San Miguel Mountain,
California, with a telesoope constructed
on a new principle, with a magnifying
power four times greater than the new
Yerkes lens recently set up in Chicago
or the 30-inch lens in the famous Liok
observatory. The lens is to be built
on the sectional plan, the invention of
Louis Gatbmann, of Chicago. The
bite for the observatory has been dona
tod by Mr. Isham.
New Way to Light Fires.
This Inventor may not get a monu
ment in this generation, but in years
to come the new women will bo called
upon to subsoribe the money that will
in enduring bronze commemorate the
virtues of the men who removed from
their husbands' lives the great bug
bear of making a fire in tho cold range
or the chilly or draughty grate, says
tho New York Journal. The new fire
lighting fan does away with the
treaobeious kindling that gayly burns
out and loavos no impression upon tho
stubborn coal.
It is a simple mechanical contriv
ance this "fan, shapod us its namo.
It fits close to the stove front or the
grate. Within its sheet-iron walls is
a main spring and olook whocls to
work it. It is wound up by turning a
handle at the side and set going or
stopped by a lever.
When the apparatus is to be used a
small quantity of pnratllne oil is
poured into a cavity in the blow pipe,
which is filled with asbestos fiber.
When the fiber is thoroughly soaked a
light is applied, and the fun set to
going, thus forcing from the outlet
into the grate an oxidizing flame
which quickly spreads through aud
thoroughly ignites the ooal with whioh
the crate has already boon filled. The
machine is also used for blowing up
dead firo, the spriug being wound up,
and the fan set in motion for from
throe to ten miuutes.
Japs Are loud of a Joke.
The skill of a Japanese juggler is
illustrated bv a recent inoidout at a
Japanese dinner, whero ono of them
was employed to entertain the com
pany. A foreign guest determined to
have no optical delusions about what
the juggler did.
Ho never let his glunoes be distracted,
aud was not once off his guard. JNotic
ing this, the old juggler played to him
entirely. An immense porcelain vase
was brought in and not in the middle
of the room, and tho juggler, crawling
up, let himself down into it Blowly,
The skeptic then sat lor hall an
hour without taking his eyes from the
vase, which ho had first been con
viuoed was sound and firm and stood
on no trap door.
Alter this prolonged watch, the rest
of the company assailed bim with
laughter aud jeer-j, and pointed to his
tido, where the old juggler wis scatod
funning himself, and uad beeu so
seated for some uiiijutos. London
Tit-Bits. '
The Palestine Itailwny.
It is proposod to extend the railway
between Jerusalem uud Jaffa to l'ort
Said, a distance of about 0 miles
from tho former city. This would ad
mit of tourists now pussing throiiKh
tho Suez Cuuul visiting the early
t,eu')oa of the CLriutiuu religion with
out delay.
iiieat Brltitlu's Ship'.
The number of vessels which en
tered the ports of Great Brituiu last
veur was 313,330, and their total ton
nage was over 91,000,000. Of these
khips 357,:'.89 were sailing under the
British flag, and no lets than 217,0J'J
vtejt) btuuiuel's.
THE MAN FOn HER.
"Somo girls ask for men who are worthy,"
A mntd who was sensible snbt,
"And somo want men who nro handsome,
While others prefer them well-Urud.
"There Is Knfe, wants a mnn who's an artist.
And Sue sighs for ono who can write
Write sonnets conoemiiig hfr beauty.
To All the wide world with deliijht.
"Fair Eunice tvduII marry an actor.
A irtle sweet Alice prefers;
An athlete alone mar ever claim hor,
The gentle Gwendoline avers.
"Fair Frances doclarw that she nover
Will marry unless Bhe Is wooed
By a man who regards as abhorrent
The silly and simpering dude.
"A Btntesmnn for draco, while Ucorgluua.
Upon the mlllttnmnu dul
As for me, well, all that I waut Is
A man who has sown hts wild oats
Cleveland Leader.
HUMOIt OF THK HAY.
When the oflioo seeks tho man, ho
seldom compels it to scorch. l uck.
The man that sips from Fortune a eup
May, in hltuself, be small;
His greatness lifs In picking up
The Ideas fools lot fall.
Truth.
An inability to make a long story
short detracts much from soma peo
ple's popularity. Pack.
"How beautifullv it pumps I Bold
the profeBsionol i nterviewer, gazing ad
miringly at the mosquito. Jndgo.
He told her he had lost his heart',
As he gazed In her lovely eyes;
But. alas! the oruel maid answered:
'Why don't you advertise?"
Up-to-Date.
Lord Noconnt (proudly) "I can
trace my descent from William tno
Conqueror." Cynicus "Yoa have
been a long time on tho downward
path." Truth.
Cumso "Well, Johnny, how do
yon like vour new teaoher?" Johnny
"Not muoh. She doesn't know any
thing. To-day she asked mo who dis
covered America." Brooklyn Life.
Now. Eleonor, you weigh 130
pounds and the weight gauge on the
hammock registers auu pounus. naero
did that Other 170 poundscomofrom?"
"From N-new York, 1 think, -uue.
"1 see the JackBons have put screens
nil around their piazza." "Yes, ana...
I have mv opinion of people who are
bo stingy that they won't even let flics
it on their porch. "Chicago Beoord.
"Make hay while the suu shinus
Is advice often nooded.
"Makelovewhtlnthomoon shines"
Is oltener heeled.
Washington Star.
Freshly "Well, Professor, I sup-
poso you are devoting all your time
nowadays experimenting with X rays."
The Professor "No, my son, I have
many outside interests." Brooklyn
Life.
"Oh, would you mind doing me a
favor?" "With pleasure. What is it?"
"Kindly remove that costly mantle
out of yonrwiudow." "Why, pray?"
"I shall be possing your shop witn my
wife in a few miuutes. " Wegwoiser.
I thought hfr mlue-my rival watohod
Us ride away, then ho
Went straight aud bought a tanden, and
Of course that settled me!
Clovuland l'luiu Doulor.
Young Lightpayte "How long does
a man have to study if he wants to bo
a good lawyer?" Lawyer Sharpe
i"Why do you ask that question?"
"Because I am thinking of studying
law myself." "Five hundred years."
Chicago Tribuno.
A little four-year-old occupied an
upper berth in the sleeping oar.
Awakening onoe in tho middle of the
night his mother asked him if he knew
where he was. "Tourse I do," ho re
plied. "I'm in the top drawer."
Youth's Companion.
Mrs. Casey "Hurrigan's daughter
is turnin' out for a medium. She do
be hearin' voioes in the npper air,
they tell me." Casey "I hear thim
every day, meself. Sometimes they
yells -mortar,' and sometimes 'brick,'"
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Mr. Figg "young man, what sort
of misohief hnvo you been into?"
Tommy "Ain't been in nono." Mr.
Figg "Oh, yes, you havo. Didn't
your mother just toll me that yoa
were getting to be just like me in your
ways?" Indianapolis Journal.
The Teacher "Now, an alturist is
one who is williug to subjugate his
own iuterest to tho interest of his fel-low-mnn.
Does any little boy here
understand what au alturist is? The
Kid "Ycs'm. A alturist is a feller
that makes a sacrifice hit." Indian
apolis Journal.
Care of the Eyes.
Do not poultice an eye under any
oiroumstniloes whatever. JJiuding a
wet application over an eye for several
hours must damage that eye, the asser
tions of those professing to have per
sonal experience iu this to the con
trary notwithstanding, ine iuuure to
aggravate au existiug trouble by bind
ing a moist application over an in
tlumed eye, which application is sup
posed to remain for au entire night,
can only bo oxplaiued by the supposi
tion that a guardian angel has watched
over that misguided case, and has dis
placed tho poultice before it hud got
iu its lino work. All oculists condemn
the poultice absolutely, iu every shape
cud in every form. Tea leaves, bread
aud milk, ruw oysters, scraped beef,
ccrupod raw turnip uud ruw potato,
and the medley of disgusting domestic
remedies popularly recommended are,
one aud all, capable of producing ir
remediable duuiuge to the integrity of
the tissues of the visuul orguu.
Autiitiity ot .Mosaic il .ors.
Mosuio tloors, lui l with email pieces
of different colored stouts set iu regu
lar patterns, werekuowu to the l-p-tiiius
'J 100 11. C lu liubvlon tloorn of
this Uud dutel fruui lioj li. C.