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VOL. XXIX. NO. 21. TIONESTA, PA AVEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9, 189G. &1.00 PEll ANNUM,
Canada, having secured the little in
ternational mug for yachts, may try
for the big one the Defender's cup.
This conntry exported $24,000,000
more of breadi-tuffs during the year
ending June 30 than during the same
period of last year.
. i
If the votaries of the wheel continuo
to increase in number, Tacit thinks it
will simplify matters if the stray pe
destrian trill ring n boll as he ap
proaches the crossing.
Though Italy loads the rest of Eu
rope in suicide, as well as in homi
cide, Russia is ahead of her in the
proportion of professional u.en, espe
cially doctors, who commit suioiJo.
The story of tho fortunes of T. II.
Rogers, one of the new Sheriffs of
London, reads as if tho scene were
laid in America. IIo began to make
shirts years ago in a small room in
London, where he cut the garments
ont himsolf, and now he employs 1800
persons in that business.
An oil lady, such as would have do
lightod tho heart of the Emperor
Napoleon, has just been discovered at
Bodmin, Cornwall, England. She is
the mother of seven boys, all of whom
re serving in the British army. She
has recently been in receipt of a
portrait from tho Queen and a cheek
for 850 as an nppreoiution of her sor
vioe to tho country.
MoxO'Roll has no use for tbo Anglo
Saxon new woman. Ho declares her
to be, "the most ridiculous produc
tion of modorn times, and destined to
be tho most ghastly iailure of the cen
tury." Ue says tho wants to retain
all tho privileges of her sex and seoure
all thoso of men besides. "She will
fail to become a man," Max kindly
assures ns, "but she may cease to be
a woman."
A circular of the Section of Foreign
Markets, Department of Agriculture,
compares our imports and exports for
the past threo years. The figures
show that wo exported of agricultural
products $73, 000,000 loss in 1895 than
in 1894 and $24(1.000.000 less than in
1892. Tbat shows why we are short of
money. Tho deficit in receipts is
mainly dno to tho shrinkage of prioes,
the quantities exported remaining
about the en mo. As against this we
imported goods in 1895 to tho value
ol $87,000,000 more than in 1894.
The heavy and somewhat anoient
ordnance in nse in Norway and Sweden
are to bo replaced very shortly by
armaments of more modern manufac
ture. For this purpose a sum of $1,
000,000 will probably be expended on
field and machino guns, and the order
will, it is expeoted, be placed with an
English firm. In any case, this order
may be regarded as a merely pre
liminary installment of extensive pur
chases, as a decided tendenoy has
manifested iUclf throughout the Scan
dinavian peninsula in favor of modern
methods throughout. There is to be
a thorough overhauling in both Nor
way and Swcdon, and a long list of
contracts may be looked for by British
manufacturers. It is worth mention
ing that all the old rifles whioh were
reoently collected for disposal have
just been sold at an average price, of
less than seventy-five conts.
Harper's Weekly says : It is some
months since newspaper readers all
over the country began to read of the
remarkablo effectuality of the elevated
railroad pillar opposite No. 5 Fulton
ttreet, in Brooklyn, in killing and
maimiog inoffensive citizens. This
pillar, it seems, forms one of the sup
ports of the Fulton itrcet terminal of
. the Kings County Elevated road. It
stands between the tracks of the Fifth
avenue trolley line, at a point where
the crowds front the forry board tho
eurfaoe cars. The pillar is so near
the track as to brush off with cer
tainty and despatch any person stand
ing ou the foot-board of a passing
car. Since tho 1st of January twenty
two peop'e have been crushed between
this pillar and moving curs. Two of
them have been killed, and a large
proportion of those hurt havo been
badly injured. The pillur has been so
muob talked about, and its destructive
cess is so notorious, thut it had come
to be known as Death's l'illur. Strange
to say, nothing had been douo about
it uutil tho 11th of July. It smashed
man's head thut duy, und the Fifth
avenue trolley lino concluded it would
be uecebsury to tuke extra precaution.
So now every car stops when it
gets to that pillur. Thut trolley cars
should bj allowed to run uuiuck
rgaiust uu irou pillur in a civilized
. meriuuu city for six months, with
sjeh a rt mil tin g tule of death aud in
jury, is au amazing uud iucouopra
hefcaiblo thing.
TME DOORWAY OF THE HOSfc.
Over tho doorway of the rose
Wandered s Jcllow bunded hee.
If the llpj f noon
Wero to hum a lino.
They would bum thnt drowsy melody.
That same low, resonant chant that ho
flung there til the sweetest flower that blow".
Fast asleep lay the blushing rose.
Lulled by th f notes of that monotone,
Even the duncing foot
Of the aophyrs fleet
Blood still at souud of that murmurous
drone,
That note noxt higher that Bllouee, blown
Along tho tube where the honey Bows.
Forth from tho doorway of tho rose
Flashed tho rings of tho !adon beo,
Yet. it yon will
You may liear film still,
Novor from luturo'a harmony
la lost one coord that may well agree,
Sho does not forget tho song she known.
Curtis Hay, In Bachelor of Arts.
STOPPING AN EXECUTION.
BY VICTOR Xi. WHITSOHUB.cn.
T the time of which
I am writing ). was
living in seclusion
in a small town
about thirty-five
miles north of Lon
don. I was en
gaged in rather a
lurira 1 itnni nn.
dertnking; in fact,
i was writing a
novel. I had en
9
cased myself to get
tho work h question completed by a
certain ilal. and in order to do so I
found mynii toniTielled to throw over
nil other lyr-.patian for the time be
ing. 'I kr vorv fow people in the
town when I yos Vving, and for five
or six veo md mrcoly seen anyone
to speak t
So engrtTBl was I with my task
mat i Had -vo time to read the news
paper, aud yri it qiUe ignorant of what
was eoing o m te world. The only
relaxation 1 aDowul mysolf was a good
brisk walfc Hit the oouutry every
afternoon. With this exception I had
hardly stiAed from my house, except
to ruu up V London oneo or twice for
ihe purpoM ol vmting the docks, and
.making drtmn techuioal invostiga'
lions concerning them. This I did.as
a good portion, of the novel I was
working at wa about the life of dook-
surrouudisgs tn the vicinity of Both
erhithe.
It was a little after eight o'clock one
evening m April, that I finished the
eeoond volume of my work. It was
with great satisfaction that I wrote.
and with a considerable flourish, too,
the words: "hud of Volume the Sec
oud." I generally worked up till ten or
eleven, but it was useless doing any
more that night; so I put on my bat
ana ooat ana started oil tor an even
ing stroll. I had no sooner stepped
into the street than a boy accosted me
with a bundle of papers under his
arm, and the request : "Buy an
evening paper, sir?" I bought one,
put it in my pocket, and resumed my
walk.
It was a fine night, and I went some
little distance, reaching home a little
after half-past nine. My landlady had
brought in my supper, and as my walk
had given me an appetite, it was with
no small pleasure that I viewed a
goodly joint of cold beef waiting my
attaok. I took off my boots and put,
on my slippers. Then 1 sat down and
did ample justice to my oold repast.
I had laid down the nowspapcr on
tne table when entering tho room, in
tending to read it during supper, but
my appetite bad got tne better of ary
craving for intelligence, so it was not
till I bad lit a pipe and subsided into
a cosy arm-cbair by the Ore that I uu
folded the sheet of printed matter, j
looked at the "leader." Something
about a new "Greek Loaa." That
didn't interest me. I skipped through
the little items of news and hurried
jottings, and summaries peculiar to
onr evening papers, l'resontly my eye
nas caught with the following pura
fraph heading:
"IMPENDING EXECUTION OF THE
CLINFOLD MURDERER."
There is a morbid fascination for
tost people in an execution, and so,
yielding to this feeling, I prooeeded
to read tne paragraph.
"The murderer of the unfortunate
James Renfrew will be hauged to
morrow morning at 8 o'clock. The
wretched man, whose name Charles
Fenthurst is now in everybody's
month, still per.iiats in his plea of in-
nooenoe.
Here I became deeply interested,
The name of Fenthurst was most fa
miliar to me. I had formed a deep
friendship with a man of that name.
Ue was a good fifteen years my senior
ana had died about two years previ
ously. I knew he had a son named
Charles, a young follow, who had em
igrated to South Africa eurly in life,
and who was generally supposed to be
working at the diamond mines. Could
this be the same man ? I reud on.
"It will be remembered that at the
trial the strongest ciroumstautiul evi
dence was brought to bear upon Feu
burnt. The murder took place in a
house on the outskirts of the small town
of Clinfold. It was proved thut Fen
thurst was in the habit of frequenting
Renfrew's premises, aud that appar
ently ho wus expectod theru ou the
evening in qucttiou. He was seen
near the place soon after the crime
was committed, and several other
proofs of a strongly condemnatory
character were also luid aguiust him.
He has permuted from the first, how
ever, in muiutuiuiug that he was ab
sent from' Cliufold at the very time
the murder took place. This wus
about 7 o'clock in the eveniug. At
that hour, he says, he was returning
from Loudon, where he had been
spending part of the day; only ono
witness. Le says, could prove this, aud
that is au individual who trnvolot
with him as far as P and entoro
into conversation with him. Adver
tisements have been insertod in at
the pnpors by Font burst's legal advis
ers, for the purpoco of discovering
the individual in question, bnt as n
answer has been forthcoming, it it
generally believed that the whole story
is, a myth. At any rate, there seeme
out small obanoe of an alibi being
proved at the last moment. The mnr
dor was committed on February 6.
Since his condemnation the murderci
has been confined in Silkminster jail,
where his execution will take place."
Astonishment and dismay confront'
ed me as I laid tho paper down. J
was the missing witness they had sc
vainly sought. I distinctly remem
bered, early in February, running up
to town rather lute in the afternoon.
spending just half an hour thero, and
returning by the first train I couli!
oateh. My landlady didn't even knofl
but that I had been for rathor a longei
walk than usual. I had entered intt
conversation on tho return journey
with the only other occupant of my
compartment, a young man with s
Bmall blaok bnz, on whioh were paint
ed the lotters "O. F." I remembered
all this distinctly. In order to make
sure I snatohed up my diary, and
quickly turned to the date of the mur
der, 1 obruary C. There was the en
try: "Ran op to town in afternoon.
Inquired concerning material fol
Chap. vii. Saw B for half an hour.
Retained by 0.24 train."
Tho horror of the situation now
flashed upon me. A man's life the
life of my old friend's son depended
upon me. I looked at my watch. II
was just eleven o'clock. Hurriedly J
draggod on my boots, thinking tho
while what I should do. My first im
pulse was to rush to the telegraph
offioo. Then, with dismay, I remem
bered that it was shut for tho nighl
after 8 o'clock, aud that the postmas
ter took tho o.J'J train to the largo
town of F , about fivo miles off,
where ho lived, leaving the office fol
the night in charge of a caretaker,
and returning by on early train the
next morning.
It was impossible to telegraph. Then
I thought of going to the police (thero
wore just two constables and a ser
geant in our little town), but what
oould they do more than I? Country
polioo are proverbial for the leisurely
"routine" manner in which they set
about an inquiry, and it would not
do to trust them. I was in desp?;r.
Madly I throw on my hat and rushed
out. I ran ia a meohanioal way to the
postoflloe. Ofoonrse, it was shut
aud if I had aroused tho caretaker he
oouldn't have wired ; bosides, all oui
wires went first to F , and, as I
have said, all commutiicution was shut
off after 8 o'clock. Thou I started
for tho railway station. This wat
about half a mile from tho postoffiee
and well outside tho town. As I hur
ried along, I thought, with fresh dis
may, that this would also prove a
fruitloss errand, for the last train to
Silkminster was the 8.30 p. m., by
which I have mentioned the postmas
ter always traveled. Silkminster, I
must mention, was nearly 150 inilot
down the line.
Should I wait till tho morning anri
telegraph? I remembered that tht
office did not open till eight o'clock;
I had, by thin time, reached the sta
tion. Of course, it was all shut up and
all the lights were out, excopt thoso in
the signal lamps for tho night express.
It was now haf past eleven. Wai
there no hopo? Yes.
At this moment my eye caught (
light in the signal box, about a quar
ter of a mile up the line. I could see
tho signalman in his box, the outline
of his figure standing out against the
light within. I looked at my watch:
the down express from London wai
almost due. I would make a rush fo)
that signal box, and compel the oecu
pant to put the signal against it ant
stop it. It was a desperate game, bu1
only get that train to stop for au in
slant, and all would be right. By get
ting into it I oould reach Silkminste)
in the early morning, and what caret
I for any action the company migl
tako if I eaved my friend's sou? f
the sigualmaa refused to put back th,
lever?, the strength born of desperi
tion would enable me to master him,
and relax them myself. All thi.
flashed across me in au instant, and I
clambered over the railings on thi
side of tho station, and fouud mysel
on tho line.
Even as I reached the rails a soma
phore signal that was near me let ful
its arm, und the rod light changed in
to a brilliant green. The express wai
signaled I Would thero bo time? ?
dashod along over the rough sleeper
toward the signal box. It was verj
dark and I stumbled over and ove.'
again. I had oleared about half thi
distance when I heard tho ominow
roar ahead, and in a few seconds couli
distinguish the distant glitter of tht
engine's head lamp bearing towart
me. Tho train wus just over a mill
from me, rushing ou at cxprcss'spced
With a groun I ejaeulutcd, 'Tot
lute!"
At thut instant my eye fell upon I
ghastly looking structure by tho sidi
of tho track, looking grimly throug)
tho durkues. It resembled a out
armed gallows with a man hau-jiu;
from it I For a moment I thought il
must huve beou a fearful fancy con
jurod up by tho thought of Feu
thurst's drea Iful fate, but iuiuiodiute
ly I remembered thut this struugi
looking appuritiou wus nono othei
than a mail I ag suspended from apoa
iu fact, purt of the uppurutus b)
which a train going ut full speed piokj
np the muilf. The cxpres train tha
was coming hud a postal oar uttuchuc
to it. From tne side of the cur a strouf
rope net would be laid out, catching
the bug I saw suspended before me.
As a ba would be deposited fron
the train iu a somewhat nuiilur mau
uer, there out;ht to have bteu a mai
ou guurd. 1 ulterwurd fouud he hat
luft his pout tin J kouj to have a chai
with his friend in tho cheery sign
box,
A mod and dospcrate idea took pos
session of mo. Tbo train that was
hearing down, and which would reach
mo iu one minute, should pick me up
with tho mails I I grasped the idea of
the thiug in a second, if I could haug
on to that baq; so that it came between
me an I the net, it would break the
force of the shock, and the not would
receive mo as well ni the bag. Fol
tuuuto!" I am a small man. Tho bag
hnug just over my head. I jumped at
it, seized it, drew myself np parallel
with it, hold it firmly at the top,
where it swung by a hook, and drew
my legs up so as to present as small a
compnss as possible. It did not tako
me half a minute to do oil this. Then
1 waited. It was but a few seconds,
but it seemed hours. I hoard the roar
of the approaching train. Then tho
engine dashed past me. I shall never
forget tho row of lightol carriages
passing about a foot away from me
oloser evou thuu that, I suppose and
I hanging and waiting for the crash to
come.
And it came. There was a dull thud
a whir and a rush, and all was dark.
When I came to my senses 1 wai ly
ing on the floor of the postal van.
Two meu in their shirt-sleeves wero
busily engaged in sorting letters at a
rack. I felt bruised and Btiff all over,
and I found that my loft arm was
bound in a sung made oat ol a hand
korchief.
"Whcro aro wo?'1 I asked.
Tlioy turued round.
"Oh, you've come to, have von?"
said one them. "Now, perhaps, you'll
give an account of yourself. It's
precious lucky you're hero at all, let
me toll you that, for if you had been a
taller man we should only havo got
part of you in tho net. As it is, yon ve
got your oollar-bone broken. We've
lied it np a bit. Now, perhaps, you 11
speak out; aud look heie, if wo find
rou ve been dodging tho police, don t
you go thinking you'll give 'em the
Blip any further. The mail van ain't
rofune of thut sort."
I told them the iuolivo that had
prompted mo to take the desperate
Jtop I hnd dono. They wonldn t be
Uevo it at first. Luokily, though, I
had put the evening paper and my
jiary in my pocket, so I showed them
paragraph and tho entry. They
O civil enough then.
"Well, sir, wo thall bo in Silkmin
ster uboa.' threo, or a little after.
hopo you'll .o able to save tho poor
beggar. You Bur.st excuse our turning
to work again, au'.'io bo3t thing for
you will be to rest you;-eIf.
They piled a quantity of empty
weal-bags on the floor and m.do me a
rough shakedown. Before he wor.t to
his work aain, tho other one said;
"What o pity you uevor thought a
better way out of the difficulty than
aoming iu here so sudden-like.
"There was no other way."
"Yos, there was, sir."
"What was that?"
"Why, you should have got the sic-
nalmuu to telegraph to Silkminster
uc eou'a nave none it an right.
What au idiot 1 had been after alii
However, I should be in time to stop
tho execution.
A little after threo wo drew up at
Silkminster station. Thero was a po
licemen on the platform, and I at once
iold my story to him, the result being
that wo drove round to the jail and
insisted upon seeing the Oovernor.
Of course, he was deeply interested in
what I had to tell him, and at once
made arrangements to stop the exeou
tion. The Home Secretary was com
aiunicated with by means of speoial
wire. Fortunately, ho happened to
be in town, and after a couple of hours
of anxious suspense, a reprieve was
reoeived for him.
"Well," said the Oovernor, "I don't
know which I ought to congratulate
most, Mr. Fenthurst or yourself, for
you have both bad a narrow escape."
iiittle remains to bo told. I coon
identified the condemned man as the
Serson whom I bad met in a train,
"e also turned out to be t he sou of my
old friend, us I had fully expected.
After the duo formalities ho was dis
charged. Suspicion having strongly
attached itself to his name, however,
he was vary miserable autil about a
foitnight afterward the real murderer
was discovered and captured. CC'
Fenthurst and myself beeamt fb
friends, aud although I was fearfull,
shaken and upset for somo weeks aftti
this adventure, I never regretted the
night on whioh I was picked up with
the mails. Strand Muijaziue.
American Paper Abroad.
Several journals of London, Eng
land, are now printed ou white panui
made in the United States; a Now
Hampshire paper mill is supplying
white paper to a Scottish publishing
house, while the Freeman's Journal,
Dubliu, Ireland, has eontructod with
an Ottawa (Cunada) paper munufao
turer tor its regulur supply of news
paper. Australia also uses Americas
paper. The American continent must
over be tho leading factor in the
world's supply of whito paper. The
paper mills of tbo future must be
located withiu easy reach of the greut
spruce forests. A single paper pulp
mill in the Statu ol New York usei
seventy curlouds of lo ;s uu 1 short
wood daily. Its uiiuuul consumption
is 311,000,000 feet of wusto lumber.
Had tit Keep Coo..
A Massachusetts Congressman who
wus ou board tho truiu which tm
wrecked ut Hyde i'urk, Mass., lui full,
lays thut wheu the shock cutne, one of
tuu pusseugers wus pitched over teverul
louts just in time to receive the eon
louts of the wutor-coole, which tipped
jvor and soaked hi. elotbiu;; with ico
water. A highly excited pasaeuger
rushed up to him aud told him to keep
sool. "Clo awuy," caul the wet man,
"1 am tho coolest uluu iu tho cur. 1
have jut hud two buckets of U'o water
(uiptied down my buck."
THE MUY SIDE OF. LIFE.
STORIKS THAT ARB TOLD BT THE
FUNNYMEN OF THE PRESS,
A Lover's Tale A Spell-Hinder His
Views A Sad Case I'rotectlou
From Harm, Kte., Ktc.
She heard my suit.
And then in ooynnps blushed,
And In a whisper bushed.
Acknowledged that my paslon grand
Had caused her dear heart to expand,
And bid me ask her father fur her hand.
Away I went.
He heard my suit,
And thon in fury tore
About the room, and sworn
That my presumption was Immense,
inouiru Dackeil oy littlu common sense,
Aa bid me, ero he throw mo out, go hence.
I went.
l'hlladephla North Amerlcuu,
HIS viKwa.
Sho "Young Spilkins appears to
bo a man of extensive views."
He "Yes, to bo suro. He's a kodak
fiend."
A STELL HINDER.
"People seem to pay a great deal of
attention to Filkcr's opinions on poli
tics." "Yes; bo bac such a deep, bass
voice." Chicago Record.
PB.OOP AGAINST TEMPTATION.
Mrs. Brown "Mrs. Smith is a wo
man of romarkable strength of mind."
Mrs. Jones "Is she? '
"Yes. Sho never buys anything
ho doesn't want." Life.
NOT IMPOSSIBLE.
Jones "Think an absolutely truth
ful man can be a successful diploma
lkt" Smith "Oh, yes in tho absence of
international complications I"
THE REWARD OP EXPERIENCE.
Young Lawyer "Why do you take
'.hat case when there's nothing in it?"
Old Lawyer "Nothing in it? Blunt
paid me a big retainer and I'm charg
ing him $50 a day during the trial."
PROTECTION FROM HARM.
"Weren't yoa awfully frightened,
31adys. when the oyolono struck so
icar?"
"Oh, no, dear; George had his orra
iround me tho whole time." Detroit
Tree Frees.
A 6AD OAST,
Little Mendicant "Please, sir, givo
ue a nickel."
Benevolent Clergyman "Have you
o paronts?"
Little Mendicant 'No, air; I am
tn orphan by birth." Texas Sifter.
ONE LONG HONEYMOON.
She "It seems rather hard, dear,
that yoa can't afford to tako me on a
wedding trip."
"But, darling, you will never know
the difference. In the little flat I have
engaged it will be just like living in a
I'ullmnu car." Life.
ONE ON THE OLD MAN.
Mr. Chaflie "Johnnie, your mother
complains that you are disobedient.
That's got to stop. You must obey
your mother."
Johnnie "Not much. It's you who
havo to obey her. It isu't me that's
married to her." Texas Sifter.
DECLINED.
"For your birthdoy, Johnnie, I'll
make you a present of the licking you
have earned by your bad oonduot dur
ing the past week."
"Well, pa, if I havo eurnod that
licking it belongs to mo, anyhow.
There is not much of n present about
that." Texas Sifter.
PROBABLY. J
.Toues (uBt introduced) "I suppose
you don't remember me, but 1 was
once a witness against your side in a
certain trial, and I remumbor that you
cross-examined a e with the greutest
oourtesy."
Tho Lawyer "Is that so? Porhaps
your testimony was not material,"
Puck.
NOI A CASE OP "ROOM POR ONE MORE."
Aunt True "If you tell lies, Dicky,
you will go to tho bad place. '
Dicky "Does everybody who tells
lies?"
Aunt True "Yes, Dicky, they all
go there."
Dicky "Then I guossl ain't afraid
much. It must be overcrowded now."
Truth.
WHOM TO CONSULT.
Doctor (to patient) "What oils
you?"
Patient "Indeed, I don't know. I
only know thut I suiter."
"Whttt kind of life do you lead?"
"I work like au ox, I eat like a wolf,
I am as tired as a dog, und I sleep like
ahorse."
"iu that case 1 should edvUo you to
oousult a veterinary surgeon." Texas
Si Iter.
ENCOfllAOlNU LITTLE BODUY.
Little Bobby's Mother "Bobby
broke one of thoso pretty vases of mine
to duy, Philauder."
Little Bobbj 's Father "The rascal 1
And of cour.-io you "
"No. Ho came ri,'ht to mo and told
mo tho truth about it."
'To encourage him in doiii right I
told him ho luif;ht huvo two pieces of
pie ut diuuer."
"You took tho proper course, Mi
rundi." "I uin gla I yoa approve of it. Pail
under." "Yes. Bobby will come and toll
you tho truth ayuiu to morrow."
' 1 am sure he will !"
"Yes. To-morrow he will come uu I
tell you he has brokcuthw other vuo."
St'IESl'IHC ASD IXDU.MTKIAL.
Experiments made at Taris by Dr.
Bertillon have proved that kleptomania
is easily cured by hvpnotio suggestion.
A prize of $20 is hereafter to be of
ferred eomi-annnally to the surgical
in.orno of the Boston City Hospital
who rdmimsters ether in tho most
skillful and humane manner."
Various nostrums are proposed for
the exlurmination of the army worm,
but tho majority of them seora to have
the knack of destroying the plants
themselves, root and branch.
Superintendent D. W. Croft?, of tho
gas company of Northampton, Mass.,
has found by experiment that a refuse
from the gas works known as "spent
time" is very effective in exterminat
ing tho army worm and similar pesK
According to a Singapore paper six
ty per cent, of the cholera patients
taken to tbo pauper hospital have
been cared by hypodermio injootions
of Btryohnino, while fifty per cont.
were savod in the general hospital by
other treatment.
The newest thing in tho way of
aoronants is the proposal of Professor
W. W. MoEwan, of Jaokson, Md., to
ascent to a height of two miles by
means of a rooket. This is not a sui
cide sohemo, as the professor will pro
vide a parachute to assist bis descent.
Egyptologists are engaged in con
sidering a scheme, presumably emana
ting from the Egyptian Government,
for tho preparation of a comprehen
sive aud descriptive catalogue of an
tiquities of Egypt in tho possession of
all tho publio museums and private
collections throughout the world.
A case of complete and immodiate
relief from tho effects of ivy poisoning
ib reported in the Medical World by
Dr. W. L. Shanks. His patient was
swollen from head to foot, but ia an
hour after bathing in a solution of
sodium hyposulphite was attending to
business as if nothing had happened.
It is said that an Ohio driver has an
ingonious eleotrio contrivance for
shooting speed into a tired horse. It
is claimed that this battery was used
for tbo first time ia tarf history at tho
rocent Akron (Ohio) meeting. There
has been somo talk about it and some
protests against its nse on tho ground
of cruelty.
Tho Evolution of a Tornado.
Usually it is in the afternoon, be
tween the hours of two and five, after
a warm and moist day, that the omin
ous tornado clouds begin to form. For
two hours before the breaking of tho
storm the sky may have the peculiar
scalloped appearance given it by tho
ball like masses of vapor, or thoro may
be a warning of only half an hour be
foro the clouds become suddenly
stirred to violont agitation. A vast
oommotion is taking place on high ;
there seems to be a panic among tho
clouds. Like great monsters black
masses advance heavily but rapidly,
sending out diro threats and warnings
in jagged lightning flashes. Fleecy
olouds beneath them race madly along
and twist and whirl and scurry this
way and that, as it terrorized and un
certain where to flee. The light grows
less and less until houses are dark and
men running for shelter seem like
blaok phantoms. Everything is very
quiet ; the loaves on the trees are stir
ring slightly and tremulously, in
strange contrast to tho vast movement
and exoitement ovorhoad. Thero have
been a thousand rapid changes among
the harrying olouds ; now a supreme
one comes. Off in tho southwest, near
the horizon, the clouds seem to rush
together aud drop from tho sky in a
black mass that sends out a great
streamor to the ground. Hailstones
and great drops of rain begin to fall,
and with flushes of lightning aud a
grinding roar tho thing somes rushing
on. Tall trees in its path shoot sud
denly upward ; houses collapse, and
their roofs and furuituro soar aloft un
til this demon cloud becomes laden
with impediments. But it quickly
tires of these toys of its fury ; it hurls
them violently asido and comes tearing
on as if wild with insatiable rage and
a desire for greater victims. Huge
buildings of stone burst as if under
mined with dynamite when it reaches
them, The water in rivers mounts in
a monster wave, and stanch vessels are
left capsized and foundering. The
tornado's duration at a given point
rarely lusts ovor ten minutes, and fre
quently not over two or threo ; at the
end of this brief period it has gone
raging aud loaring on. But they have
been long and cvoutful moments.
Demoiest's Magazine.
An Educated llore.
Thorois a horse in Philaaelphie
whose business is to draw a collection
wagon over a postoffiee route iu the
middle of tho city which knows the
locution of letter boxes as well as ltt
driver, the postman, Thero are t
cumber of these boxes near together
ou Broad street, just below Chestnut
too near together for tho postmun ta
bother about driving from ouo to the
othei. He is saved ull trouble ol
loading his horse, however, by tho iu
tolligeuce of that auimul, which as
soou us tho postman ulights at tho first
box walks off to the bccoud und
patiently waits thero for his master.
(iullerit's.
Galleries are becoming fushiouublo
iu England, lurgo tracts of laud in
mutable spots beiug ubuudoued to the
birds, ou which they muy build their
nest", lf.it is true thut gulls' eggs can
by coloring uu I cliemiculs bo palmed
off ou the publio for plovers' eggs, it
is possible that tho birds muy bo pro
tected for commercial reasons us well.
One Melodious lioose,
Henry Giles, furuior of Lythum,
Euuluud. is the owner of a black 1' vn-
. . - - . . .
tiuu gooso which has a voico liko a
j rauary bird. Every evening ut dusk
rlio t;"osu twitters aud trilln most beau-
iiluliy.
THE LINNETS SONO.
Ono day a sorrow opened wide my door,"
And wlillo its shallow lengthened on the floo
Its fad habiliments of sombre gray "
Drovo ail the rosy flame of hope away.
-t'S
Just then a linnet from tho choir of Jane
Touro l throngh the window his ecstatic tune,
As If to mako tho welcjmo gospel plain
That joy shell triumph over grief and pain.
I turned to find my spectral guest had gono;
A fresher glory flushed the Holds and lawnj
December's gloom hid tn tho almanac,
And novernjore came thnt sad taller back.
Jool Bouton, in Harper's Bazar.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Tho wasp has one strong point, but
it is not in his favor.
A man without enemies may not bo
mach of a man, but ho has a soft time
of it.
Man wants but little here below,
As someouo said before.
Hut when begets it, don't you krow,
Ue wants u little more,
no is the brightest lawyer who,
when confronted by a cloud of wit
nesses, can further beclond thorn.
Truth.
Muggins "Is your son in busi
ness?" Buggins "He's a contractor."
Muggins "What lino?" Buggins
"Debts." Philadelphia Record.
Uomekecp "Ever drink any of
theso substitutes for coffee?" Day
board "I haven't drunk anything else
for seven yoars." Cincinnati En
qairer. "Summer is a rough season on ns
parents." "Why so?" "Our daugh
ters, who have boen graduated, try to
make us talk grammatically." Chi
cago RecorJ.
"I went to take a quinine capsule
this morning, aud the blame thing,
just as I got it in my mouth, oamo
opart "Au, that was a bitter port
ing, indeed." Indianapolis Journal.
He "I am going to pay you the
highest compliment a mau cau pay
woman." She "This is so sudden."
Ho "I knew it can you lond mo ft
dollar until to morrow?" Now York
World.
Wiggles "There's one good thing
bboat Hicks. He is always willing to
admit it whon ho is in tho wrong."
Wagglos "I don't think it is a good
thing. It doesn't Becm to trouble him
a bit." Somorvillo Journal.
"It seems to me, Mr. Stillson, that
your now houso is lacking in a jn
dioious uso of irotwork." "Well, my
wifo will fill that dotloionoy just as
aoon aa eho gets her cyo on those
measly closots." Cleveland Plaio
Dealer.
"And how is your papa, Eddie?"
"Papa is feeling ever so much bettor
to-day." "I snpposo it's tho change
in the weathor?" "No, ma'am, 'taint
the weather. Mamma has decided to
start for the seasido to morrow."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
First Wheelman "I always get rat
tled whon I sco a woman crossing tho
street ahead of mo." Second Wheel
man "So do I. They have so many
pins iu their clothes that if a fellow
collides with thorn ho is always euro to
puncture a tire." Now York Mer
cury. "No," said Dismal Dawson, in an
swer to tho benefuotor's question,
"hard time3 is not the best foi our
business. Nor yet good times. The
times that auils mo best is about me
dium when tho work ain't too plenty,
nor niouoy too scarce." Indiauapolis
Journal.
Fuddy "Snapshot was showing mo
a lot of photographs ho has taken.
They uro only passable, but to hear
Snapshot talk you would think thein
marvols of tho photographic art."
Duddy "Yes, Snapshot isu't much of
au artist, but then his viows ore better
than his opinions." Boston Trans
cript. 31nlag;isy Cookery.
Cooking beiug on art, every raoa
bos a stylo ot its own. Tho Malagasy,
like the gentle Hindoo, knows how to
prepare his mess of rieo. It ia not
boiled to a musb, as in England, or aa
our potatoes aro sometimes pulped,
but covered with a proper sullioieuoy
of water, it is carefully treated uutil
the grains arc swollen lit to burst, and
yet remain full, intuct, soft and rather
mealy. Tbo mtuioo root is aa easier
dish to prepare. It is sometimes
sorvod boiled, as ynms and sweet pota
toes, aud again as a sort of cold por
ridge. Nutivo coffee they understand
how to make, uud tho uroma is x
cellout; but tea, ulusl you have to
look to tho browiusr of thut Irom start
to finish if you deoiro a drinkable cup.
Poultry aud giimo uro eaten fresh, and
tho cooks have a clever uud withal
cleanly trick of dipping tho dead aui
muls iu boiling water, which enable
them to pluck easily und quickly. Tho
preparation for trussing comes later.
There is no luck of variety at a Mala
gasy table, but, ull tbo sumo, you miss
tho wheuteu llour bread, sugar and
condiments, wheu oloyid with rice,
fowls, manioc uud cn. Tho staple
luel is buueh crass, which, whoa
dried, bums fiercely uud settles into a
(;lo iug tmber that gives off a deal of
heat. All tho cooking is douo on
eurtheu hearths, uud tho roasting,
boiliug aud baking in big irou pots.
The grass being slightly uromutio, the
odor is us ii;;reeablo hh thut of a hard
wood lire. Loudon Telegraph.
AlmMMU'a I liiuatt',
Abyssinia, uccordiug to M. Marcel,
a French traveler, bus throi oliiuates,
according to the nltitudo ubovo tbo
sea. In tbo low country or valkns ba
nanas, date, in l:go, eollou uud other
tropical plants l!o;ui.-b, elephant?,
lions. jjiiuiKs, zebras uud i;u.el!ea
abound. Tho intermediate oue re
calls tbo climate of S.cily.or of Anda
lusia in Spain. Thero is (;ood pa-tin j
for llocUs und herds in t ho hihcat U'
tion.