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FORES L The Transvaal is tlio thirty-ninth Power to welcome tba Red Cross So ciety. In Bath, Me., in order to socure a large attendance at one of the city's churches, it is announced in the daily pnpors that souvenirs will be distrib- Sir Henry Irving, in laying the Zo'inciation atono in England of the new Passmore Edwards Dnlwioh Pub lic Library, recently, "poke briefly ol i -"-fvlcolljle value o( free libraries r: r",c-mm of good. ioe I) at oh have a delightfully orig inal way of collecting their taxes. If, after due notioe Las been given, the money be not sent, the authorities plaoe oqe or two hungry militiamen in the house, to be lodged therein until the amount of the tax is paid. "$otoha" and "Mahsayo," with thd """ter aooenjed on the second syllable, vouched for by the Trenton (N. J.) uerican as correct pronnnoiation cf tuo two words trooha and Maoeo, which are frequently found in the news from Cuba. Gomoz is pro nonnoed "Gometh,"' with the aoeent on the second syllable. At some of the Pennsylvania mines . coal is soiling for fifty-five and sixty cents a ton, and the miners are paid . seventy cents. The owners of the mines apparently lose mono) on eaoh ton of coal taken out, bat, as many of thorn are interested in the railroads which oarry the ooal to market, tbey probably more than make good the The greatest irrigation eohomo yet is tliit of a Swiss scientist, Rioul Pio , tet, who has been studying the climatio conditions in Egypt and proposes to flood tho desert of Sahara with water from the Kile. His plan is to build1 great heaters of sheet iron over the rivers to convert the water into steam for power. The water oonld be raised to 153 degrees under the terriflo solar ! .t and a huge heater or boiler of ' I covering two aeros would - JO J horse power. -1 rection of the Omaha (Neb.) r 1 of Education boys in the public slHooU are asked to sign of their own .'ca will a pledgo to abstain from the ii'o of tobaooo during their school .lays, with a proviso that they ean be released from their pledge at any time ou a personal request. The teaohers report that the plan has worked well, that very .many of the boys have signed the pledge, and that keeping it has come to be regarded as a matter of honor. Better scholarship, better morals and more cleanly habits are among the direct results of the move rucnt. Senator Davis, of Minnesota, says that the country has never experienoed tuoli hard times as in 1857. "Money was not only scaroe, but thero was no money in circulation none to be had , anywhere. Along tho Chippewa, Claok, Mississippi and other rivers sawlogs were legal tendor. In faot, everything that possessed any sort of value passed as token money. Up in Northern Wisoonsin copper was wined, and copper cents were minted and issued - by private individuals. The general storekeepers issued their own script, and it passed for money. I have seen a ten-oent postage stamp incased in mioa passing for money many a time. We bad every kind of tokeu money exoept wampum. We didn't jtrite get that far back to the primitive method and medium of ex change. - To improve further the publio schools of Massachusetts, the State Board of Education, in addition to seeking legislation which would re quire each teacher to have pedagogio training, will seek to have tho princi ple of skillod supervision of schools extended to eaoh town in the State, observes the New York Post. Thus lar there is supervision in 253 of the 353 towns in the State, covering ninety-one per oeut. of the number of teachers and ninety-three 'per cent, of the number of pupils. It is appar ent, therefore, that only the smallest towns lack skilled supervision. Among the improvements claimed in the towns under supervision aro a better class o' teachers, 'with a truer professional spirit ; a more regular attendance of pupils in all grades and increased at tendance in the grammar and high sohools; a well-nrraoged and properly balanced course of study ; greater care in the selection of books, apparatus, etc., and greater intorest in' the tchools ou the part of parents and tax payers. This plan of skilled super vision is advocated in Pennsylvania by the State Superintendent of Educa tion. Detroit is .seeking, by other melius, tosrouee sohool interest among parents. THE CROWN OP MISERY. And he whoso blessed wondering eyes Have gazed upou Love's raradiso. Whose voice hath caupht tho strain divine, Whose soul hath listened at the shrine, What hnth he found It love bo bound? The B'ht but plerceth empty space, Tho voice hath Jost its Joyous graoo, The soul no melody aoth And, Though neither deaf nor dumb nor blind A misery yot more profount, It love be bound. . M. E. Ford, tn the Tonny. THE TELLER'S STORY. BY. E. I. VERY. IIAD been in tho employ of the bank ing house of Day & Co. from a boy, and worked my way up ward from one po sition to another nntil I occupied the responsible post of teller.. Old Mr. Day liked and trusted me, and, as an es peeial mark of his favor, was in the habit of inviting me to dinner on Sunday afternoons, a favor I shared with Jerome Naylor, the cashier and junior partner in the firm. Mr. Day was a widower, and his only daughter, and heiress, Enid, did the honors of his table. Beautiful Enid Day I I shall never forget, nor do I wish to forget, while 1 live, that afternoon of our first-meeting. It was one of those dull, sound' less autumnal days, when the frowning sky threatens storm and yet withholds it, oppressing the heart with a vague sense of something evil to come, and a profound melanoholy which one can neither define nor shake oil. Yet as 1 entered that parlor a swift change to inexplicable happiness came over me, standing there, where the warm hue from the half-drawn crim son curtains foil aoross her simply clad figure, she seemed to me like the embodiment of all the song, perfume, sunshine and exhilaration of early spring, one was very young, but her form, despite its girlish immaturity, was nobly developed. Her face, with its soft, oval outline, its pallor, deep ening in the cheeks to the tints of a rose's heart, the large, violet eyes a ohild's eyes in their innocenoe, and yet a woman's eyes in their depth and suggestion ol strong emotion her face, I say, as I saw it at that moment, never again faded from my soul. At that first instant I loved her; and it was with a voioe that shook and a hand that, touohing her littlo palm, trembled as it guilty of a sacrilege, that I greeted her. ' Jerome Naylor, standing by, wit nessed our first meeting ; and as, by some Intuition, I glanced aside at him, I saw look in his pale eyes that I re called long afterward. Then I was too confused, too inexperienced in lore of love, to comprehend its meaning. Bnt there oame a day when I could inter pret only too clearly, its bitter malioe and hateful resolve ; for Jerome Nay lor had long loved Enid Day, as such men love ; had, even ottered himself and been refused, and his keen glanoe bad already detected a rival in the blundering, stammering youth, whose sole thought at the moment was hum ble, almost nnoonsoious, adoration. Yes, it was more than simple love ; it was wonder, reverenoe and devotion such as, in the old time, the prostrate worshiper felt for his divinity. As time went on, and I saw her again and again, my love grew upon me, un til it booame the ruling principle of my life; and as I came to know my own heart 1 also learned how wild hope it was that I nourished in my breast. Even if so rare an example of God'shandiwork could have stooped to love so unworthy a man as I knew myself to be, how could a salaried olerk of the rich banker pretend to the hand of his only daughter and heiressr So day by day the gloom of a deep despondency darkened upon my life. I grew silent and abstracted. I ptr- formed my duties as faithfully as ever, but I no longer laughed and jested with my follow clerks, nor joined in the amusements of their leisure hours. Jerome Naylor was invariably courte ous in lis treatment ot me, bnt caught more than one sidewise glance ot his eye, that, had l been less ab- sorbed in my own trouble, might have startled me. But hopeless of the oue thing which oould have made existence valuable to me, what had I to fear from the worst his malioe oould devise? Latterly I bad absented myself from the usual Sunday afternoon gathering at my employer's table. One day he oame to inq where I bent ovor my books, and shoulder, in ion, said ; dapping me npon the his gonial, kindly fash' "Trescott, my boy, if you do not dine with ns to-morrow afternoon, you will make'an enemy of Umid. ' I muttered something about not having felt very well of lute, "That is what I told ray girl," re plied Mr. fay. 1 eaid you were looking thin and pale and generally out of sorts. Whereupon she aston i&hed me by getting very augry and aoousing you of what was it? ego tism, I believe, though why, why, I do not quite understand, Any way, she made it a condition of her future favor that you should take dinner with us to-morrow. So I have deliv ere i my message. You'll come, of source, Naylor?" Then I saw that the cashier bad boen standing behind Mr. Day and had overheard our conversation, "I shall be delighted," responded Naylor, with a peculiar glance at me. "And sorely cur youuj friend cannot res'st an invitation couched insuoli terms nnd emanating from such a sonroe?" 'I will oome," I said briefly, for the cashier's manner affected me with an nexplicably unpleasant sensation, and turned again to my work. I reached the Day mansion at an early hour the next afternoon, and, as I had hoped, yet feared, found Enid alone in the drawing room. bhe did not turn to meet me as I entered, but remained standing near the window, partly enfolded by the ourtain. I advanced toward her nnd timidly of fered my hand, which she did not seem to notice. Resentful, and yet loving her ob, more than ever I drew back, and said : "lour father invited me, MissLnid; I I thought you wished me to come, or I should not have troubled you. It is not too late now. You might con voy my excuses to your father, and I will go" I paused, hoping she would answer, but, with her ince averted, she re mained silent. I waited a moment, looking at her graceful figure with a foolish mist rising in my eyes. Then I turned softly about and was making my way out of the room, when there was a sudden swieh of skirts, a quick tap of little feet upon the carpet, and my arm was caught and held. I paused at onoe, and looking down oaught the gleam of two violet eyes lifted to mine eyes that at onoe smiled and reproached, promised and reproved. 1 turned and caught both the warm little hands in mine, and, scarcely consoions of what I did, lifted them to my lips and Kissed tnem in tnrn. Her name seemed to tear it self from the depths of my bosom with an accent of passion and pleading that must have told uer my .wnoie story, had she been ignorant of it be fore. "Enid I Beautiful Enid I" A wave of delicious color swept over her face and throat. For a second her hands trembled in mine, nay, clung to them ; her beautiful head drooped ; her eyes sought my eager gaze, and fell ; then, with a quick gesture, she withdrew herself, and in cool, even tones woloomed Mr. Jerome Naylor, who pushed aside the portiere and walked quietly into the room. Had he seen, had he overheard any portion of our interview? It was im possible to judge. He was gallantly respectful toward Enid, and frank and friendly toward me. JJunng the din ner he oonversed fluently, touching, as it appeared, casually, upon oertain defalcations of a trusted clerk in a bank with which we held intimate business relations. Onoe, and only onoe, I - thought I detected that male' volent glance fixed upon me ; bnt if 1 was right it pissed like a flash, and was not repeated. I left the Day mansion with a heart that sang like a joyous bird. I was at peace with the whole world. Life was a glorious, gorgeousthing. J. he pur ple bud of hope seemed to be upon the point of unfolding into splendid flower. But I was reckoning withont Jerome Naylor. As the days went by I became cog nizant of a whisper, whose source no one oould trace a whisper ot some thing wrong in the accounts of the bank ; of money unappropriated, of books falsified. Absorbed in my dreams I gave no heed to the change in the demeanor of my fellow clerkB, of the ooldness of my employer, of the glee of the oashier, Jerome Naylor, until, without preparation, without warning, the blow fell 1 I was accused of robbing the bank of funds en trusted to my care. For the moment I was utterly stunned, prostrate, helpless! When the charge was flung into my teeth I stared, stammered, stood thunder struck, unable to defend myself, or to comprehend the magnitude of the crime of which I was declared guilty. I was commanded to appear before my employer, at his residence, to un dergo an examination. When I en tered the room, Mr. Day, looking sad and grave, was seated before a small table covered with books and papers. At his elbow, with an evil smite upon his dark features, sat Jerome Naylor. In a loud, angry voioe I denied the charge of a long and systematic course of peculation, and demanded the pro duction of evidence. Mr. Day looked hesitatingly at Naylor, who, drawing his chair nearer the table, and clear ing his throat, begun : "I am sorry to see our young friend adopting this unwise oonrse, know ing, as he must, that I have a confes sion of his wrong doing, under his own hand and signature." I stared at him open-mouthed. The infernal imprudence ot the man abso lutely bewildered mo. "Yes," he continued, in a tone of profound melanoholy, "more than five years ago I detected this unfortunate young man stealing money from the bank. I charged him with his crime, and in the agony of his remorse he wrote a fu',1 confession, begging me to spare him and to give him another chanoe. Considering his years, and the fearful consequenoes of suoh an exposure, I consented to condone his otlenoe, making good his peculations from my own slender means." "Noble fellow I" murmured Mr. Day, grasping his cashier's band warmly, while I remained mute, chok ing with rage, incapable of uttering a word in my own defence. "But in view of these latter develop ments," went on the cashier, "I feel that I Bhould do wrong to withhold the truth any longer." "Surely 1 surely 1" ejaculated Mr. Day, gazing at me sadly. "But I would never have believed it of you, Tresoott. Never!" "May I see that paper purporting to be my confession?" I aiked, rinding my voioe at last. "Do not let it pass out of youi hand, Mr. Day," interposed Naylor, hastily. "I do not desire to touoh it," I said. "If Mi. Day vill allow me to look at it as it lies npon the table before him, 1 it will Huflioe." Then I bent over and rend ; and a; I read the letters swam before mj eyes, nnd a thrill of utter terror seized my limbs, for there, in my own hand writing, was a shnmefni confession nl Fin and degradation. My own hand writing? No! a thousand times, no! I knew that it wns not, that my finger; had never pouned thofe damning words. But who could detect the dif ference? Who would nail the foui forgery? No one, no one! For tht moment I felt crushed and wholly lost. As I stood hiding my face in mi hands, fooling that in another moment I must sink to the floor, there was a light, quick step behind me, the rus tle of skirts, a soft tonch'on my arm. "I do not I cannot think wrong o) yon, Reginald," murmured a voice that thrilled every nerve in my frame. "Father, let me look at that paper." Mr. Day would have objected ; Jer omo Naylor, with a white face, at tempted to snatch the paper from her grap, but she was too quiok for him, and taking the written sheet to the window she stood studying it long and attentively. I watched her breathlessly. It seemed to me that life, love, honor, the whole future, lay in the next words she should utter ; and Naylor, with his drawn, ghastly face, and the old man, with his sorrowful, benig nant aspect, watched her too. Presently she came toward us again, and the look she cast upon me was one of mingled love, pride and triumph. She went to her father's side, opposite the cashier, and bending a cold, con temptuous glance upon his white face, said in slow, even tones : "Mr. Naylor, I have been an unseen auditor of this interview an eaves dropper, if you like and I heard you tell my father that this paper is a con fession of dishonesty, written by Mr. Reginald Trescott, five years ago, nnd confided to your hauds. Am I right?" Naylor bowed silently. His dry lips would not give egress to the words. "Well, then, Jerome Naylor, yon lied !" Her voice rang out with tho clear ness of a bell. For an instant there was dead silence in tho room ; then Mr. Duy made a gestnre of protest. "My daughter " he began, but she checked him. "Let me speak, father," sho said. "I know you wish to do justice be tween these two. This man," she pointed at Naylor, "is false-hearted, unworthy of your confidence, a liar and a forger. This man," touching mo npon the arm, "is innooent, hon orable and incapable of falsehood. will prove it." Looking Naylor, who seemed scarcely able to stand, straight in the face, she continued in the same bell-like tones. "Here is a confession which purports to have been written in May, 1881, but it is on paper that was not made until 1837 1 Will Mr, Naylor please to explain?" "What do you mean?" cried Mr, Day, in amazement. "Look, father 1" said Enid, holding the sheet up before the light. "Do you see that water-mark? 'Amoskeag Mills, 1887."' Mr. Day gavo but a glance, then turned a darkly frowning face upon Naylor. "Can you explain this?" he asked. Once, twioo, Jerome Naylor essayed to speak, but oould not. Then, at length, a hoarse murmur escaped his lips: "I loved her, and I knew she loved him!" That was all. Staggering like a man strioken blind, pitifully groping to ward the door, he left tho room and the house. He nover returned to his desk at the bank, and in due course I bocauio cashier in his plaoe. I hold tho water mark beyond price, both because it saved me from ruin and disgraoe, and because it aided me to win the sweet est and noblest wife that ever fell the lot of undeserving man. Caught a Kig Owl. The largest owl ever scon in Indi ana was exhibited in Grceusburg by Conduotor John Carloy, of tho Cin cinnati division of the Big Four road. The circumstances of its capture were very peculiar. Engineer Bevington, who captured the bird, eaid that shortly after pass ing Batesville, twenty miles out, he heard what he took to be the "toot ing" of a locomotive whistle. As no train was duo he could not recount for the whistling, but when it con tinued he became alarmed and stopped his engine. The "tooting" still con tinued, and, walking to the front of his locomotive, he discovered the huge owl perched upou the cowcatcher aud hooting in deep tones that sounded like the whistle of a passenger engine. It is the largest owl ever known in tho State. It was learned that the owl had captured a ten pound lamb and had dragged it out of the pasture to the track, when overtaken by the train. New York Mail and Express. An Aired (ioldllsh. The goldfish is not as tender an ani mal as is imugiued, suys the Iudianap olis Journal, for in handling un-i mov ing them from one pond to another they are dipped up m nets and oar Tied about iu baskets niuoh like oorn or potatoes. Somotimea they are out of the water thirty minutes, and sol dom is it that they are injured. How long they will live depends altogether on thoir treatment. In tho Govern ment Aquarium at Washington is a goldfish that is known to be titty years of age, und it is not perceptibly larger than when firct palced there. There is said to be in the Uoyul Aquarium at Kuan, Italy, a tlsh that is more thau 100 years of age, but it has grown slightly in the last tweuty-live years. Its color is the saiue except a slight ohuugo with the seasons. THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT ARB TOT.O BT THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Not Particular A Cutting Ilemarlc Milking Preparations No Placo for Her A Tabooed Topic, Klc. The men who always liffht upon Thulr feet, no mnttor what they do, Arc nit-n who are not worried if Taej light on someouo else's loo. Truth. A CtJTTIKP- BEMARK. "I hear they've laid off a number of hands down at the sawmill?" "Yes; so the surgeon was tellin? me." Detroit News. NO rt,AOE FOR IIEIt. "I'll wager that womnn submarine diver doesn't stay nnder the water more than ten miuntes nt a time." "Why?" "Nobody down there to talk to." Chicago Bucord. now IT HAPPENS. Tools (meditatively) "After all, there are as good fish in the sea ns wero ever caught." Grimshnw "Yes, nnd very much better. The biggest onos always get away, you know." Judge. MAKING PREPARATIONS. Emma "And, Charlie, dear, would you have really shot yourself if I had refused you?" "Indeed I would I I had already sent to four houses for price lists of revolvers." Fliegende Blaelter. A TA300EC TOPIC. She "Would you love me just tho same, dearest, if I were poor instead of worth a million?" He "I have registered a solemn vow never to discuss the financial question agaio." Detroit Free Press. TUB MODERN HERO. Maud "Who is that deformed young fellow talking to May Sn.iley?" Ethel "Why, that's Mr. Dawkins, the famous fullback. He had his shoulder twisted in the last big match." Maud "What a lovely deformity ! Introduoe me, dear." Cleveland Plain Dealer. A NEW BREED. "That's a nice looking dog," re marked the kindly old gentleman, who takes an interest in everything. "Yen, sub. He looks nil right," re plied the colored man who was lead inz him with a piece of rope. "He looks like a pointer." "Yes. suh. Da's what ho look like. But dat nin' what he is. He's a dis appointed " Washington Star. THE WRONO TRAIN, First Train Robber (out West) "Hullo, Bill, how'd yer git along wid that job ter-day !",' Seoond Train Bobber fondly) Didn't git along noway. Got the wrong train." "Eh? Didn't yer git tho express?" "Naw ; we made a mista'. oan' struok an excursion of real estnto agents, nn' they took every cent we had." New York Weekly. STOCK. "Tho female sex," said Monsieur Calino, lately, "is the most illogical in the world." "What new proof have you of the want of devotion of women to the canons of logic?" he was aeked. "Why, take my wife," answerod Calino. "I had all the trouble in the world to get her to enter her thirties, and now, a dozen years later, I can't get her out of them." The Wave. forgot he was in rr. Tho palm for absent miudeduess is probably taken by a loarned German, whom a Berlin ooraio paper calls Pro fessor Dusel, of Bonn. One day the Professor noticed his wife plaoing a large bouquet on his desk. "What does that mean?" he asked. "Why I" she exoluimod, "don't you know that this is the anniversary of your marriage?" "Ah, indeed, is it?" said the Pro fessor, politely. "Kindly lot me know when yours oomes around, and I will reoiprooato tho favor." Pittsburg Bulletin. AN EXPLANATION. Boncvolent Gentleman (indignantly) "You're a fraud, ion told me the other day you wouldn't be begging but for your wife and two children, aud I learn from the police that vour wife has been dead a long time, and that your two children are grown up and in good circumstances." Beggar "Indeed, I told you noth ing but tho truth, sir. I wouldn't be begging, as 1 said, bnt for my wifo and two children. My wifo sup ported me till she died, and my two children might support me, but they won't. 1 wouldn't want to be begging with a lie on my tongue..'' Truth. A (SKELETON EIPOHEI), The new woman orutor waxed elo quent. "And what," she demanded, as she came to the climux, "is to be the re sult of our emaucipation?" She looked around with the calm assurance of ouu who ha 1 asked a poser, and this wus too much for the littlo man who was waiting for his wifo in a far corner of tho hall. "I know," he shouted. "Ah," returned tho now woman ou tho platform, scornfully, "the littlo mau with the bald head thinks he has solved the problem that we came hero to discuss this afternoon. We will gladly give our attention whilo he tells us what is to be tho result." "Cold dinners aud ragged children," roared the little mau. Chicago Post, SCIENTIFIC AMI lM)tvrKlAI,. Occasional instances havo been found of perfectly puro native iron in mctooritos. Two Taris aeronauts aro poinir to try to bent the balloon record by re maining twenty-four hours in tho clouds. A kerosono lamp with nn electrical attachment is something new. You press a button, and an elcttrio flnrao lights the lamp. A pinmaking machine turns out 8000 an hour, and somo factories have as many as thirty or forty machines at work at one time. A Gorman inventor at Sanrgemnnd has patented nn arrangement by means of which a runaway horse can be stopped by simply tonohinj a button. Size for size, a thread of spider eilk is decidedly tougher than a bar of steel. An ordinary thread will bear a weight of throe grains. That is about fifty per cent, stronger than a stool thread of the same thickness. Lucium, which enjoys the distinc tion of being the first supposed ele ment to be pntented, has been ex amined by Crookes, the great English chemist, who pronounces it an impure yttiia, and not a new element at all. It is now said that X rays exist in nature and are produced by the com mon glow worm. The light from these tiny creatures has the same ca pacity ns the Boetgon rays for passing through ordiuary solids. It will even penetrate thin sheets of aluminum. The latest catalogue gives 11,092 specimens as the number of snakes in the British Museum, London. This ii the most complete collection ever made, representing, according; to Dr. G. A. Boulenger, 1327 of the 1G33 species that are known to have existed. The chief of the Berlin police has invited his colleagues in tho various cities and towns of the German Em pire to take part in a meeting for the purpose of discussing the advisability of adopting the Bertillon system of identifying criminals by anthropo metry. It is known that the manganese de posits of Arkansas are more extensive than has heretofore beon believed. Instead of pockets, it is alleged, beds have been found, and veins varying in width from four inches to six feet. In places almost pure mineral is found, suitable for making both sleol and glass. Irrepressible Boys. "There was a certain Exciseman in Shrewsbury who was very trim and neat in his attire, but who had a bot tle nose of more than usual size. As he passed through the sohool lane tho boys used to call him 'Nosey,' and this made him so angry that he complained to Dr. Butler, who sympathized, and sent for the head boy, to whom he gave strict injunctions that the boys should not say 'Nosey' any more. "Next day, however, the Exoiseman reappeared, even more angry than be fore. It seems that not a boy had sail 'Nosoy,' but that ns Boon as he was seen coming the boys ranged themselves in two lines, through which he must pass, and all fixed their eyes intently upon his nose. Again Dr. Butler summoned tho head boy nnd spoke more sharply. 'You have no busir.ess,' said he, 'to annoy a man who is passing through the sohool ou his lawful oooasions ; don't look at him.' But again the Exciseman re turned to Dr. Butler, furious with in dignation, for this time, as soon as he was seen, every boy had covered his face with his hand until he had gone by." "Life and Letters of Dr. Sam uel Butler." An Equine Artist. Last year two performing horses named Alpha and Beta amazed all England with their marvelous tricks. Alpha, dressed liko Sairey Gamp, wheeled Beta in a baby carriao, Beta being a very small pony. Besides this, Alpha played on the harmonium, and his friends wero convinced that he played "God Save the Queen," al though there were scoffers who sail it took a finer ear thau theirs to make out the air. Bat he did write his name, holding a pen in his lips, and he pioked out the letters of the alpha bet as they were called out to him. This year Alpha aud Beta are before the publio ayaiu with an enlarged repertoire. In udditiou to writing his name, Alpha now draws the portrait of Mr. Gladstone and aims aud tires off a gun strapped to Beta's back. In tho musical line ho has added "Home, Sweet Home" to his list, with Beta as sisting. Both horses havo bells tied to the fetlocks and manure to tiuglo out tho air so that it is clearly recog nizable. London Sketch. A Curious Eviction. Ardcanny, County Limerick, saw a curious eviction recently. The Augli cau rector of tho placo had been proved guilty of heresy by tho Gen eral Synod of tho Church of Iteluud and had boen ordered to give up his living. He refused, hoisted tho Union Jack over tho rectory, nailed protests against the way he wus treated to tho outer walls, barricaded the house, uu 1 declared ho would resist. Tho Sheriff and his bailiff, however, got in through a window, when tho clergyman quiotly wulked out of the front door, with a black bug ou oue shoulder aud a par cel of books under tho other arm. New York Sun. (Jreat (Uncial Bowlder. One of tho largest glaoiul bowlder lyin;j above ground iu tho Statu of Pennsylvania is ou the lurui of Enos Stump, near ('uakertowu, in Bucks County. This monster relic of tho grout "ice ago" is fifty feet long, forty-six feet wide an I fourteen foot thick. Boston. Globe. PAFITNEHS. Love took chambers on our street Opposite to mine; On his door he ta-ke I a neat, Clearly lettnred slim. MrniKhtwsy (trow his custom (Treat ' Fur his siitn read to: "lb-arts united while you wait, Htep In. Love and Co." Mm-h I wondered who was "Co," In Love's partnership; Thought aoross the street I'd go Learn from Love's own Hp. Bo I went; and since that day Life Is hard for me.) 1 was ImncoeJ! (By the way, "Co." Is Jealousy. ) E lls Pnrker Under, In Century. III'MOR OF THE DAT. "Why do you always carry your umbrella with you?" "Because it can't walk." Truth. When you tnrn over a new leaf it is just as well not to mention the num ber of the page. Life. "A man is foolish to bet on elec tions, isn't he?" "How much have you lost?" Boxbury Gazette. He "I dreamed last night that you promised to marry me." She "Did you? Dream again." Somerville Journal. Somo people nre so engrossod in thoughts of a possible rainy day that they cannot appreciate the sunshine of the present. Truth. Deserted Wife (in converfation with sympathetic grocer) "And I trusted him so?" Grooer "Confouud it ; so did I." Boston Transcript. She "Is it not true that two people can live as cheaply as one?" He "Yes, if they are married. Not if they are engaged." Puck. She rose, agitated. "Janitor," she cried through the speaking tnbe, "sve must have some fresh air. Sup pose I should wish to inflatd my bi cycle." "I want to order this suit," said Chumpey, "but I can't pay for it till the end of six months." "All right, sir ; it will be ready for you by that time." Detroit Free Press. Minister "Why is it, Bobby, that your fatbor never oomes to churoh any more ?" "Bobby "Ob, it turned out that he didn't havo the cousump tion, after all." Cleveland Leader. Mrs. Brown "Sh-h! I hear a burglar in tho pantry. I believe he is going to steal the cake I oooked to day." Mr. Brown "Poor dovil I Ho may have a family, too." Up-to-Date. Edith "He told me I was so inter esting and so beautiful." Maude "And yet you will trust yourself for life with a man who begins deoeiving you even at the oommeuoement ot his -courtship." Boston Transoript. "What chumps these old-time fol lows must have been. They used to write and talk by the hour about tho value of a college eduoatiou." "Well?" "And they never heard of football." Clovoland Plain Dealer. "What kind of goods, ma'am?" ' asked the salesman. "I think," re plied the young womau who had just j bought a wheel and was about to order ! hor first riding suit, "you may show mo some of your early fall styles." Chioago Tribune." Johnny "Oh, I like my new gov ernoss ever so much. " "1 am so glad my little boy has a nioe toaoher." "Oh, she's awful nioe. She says sho don't care whether I learn anything or not, so long as pop pays her salary." New York Weekly. "What a wide-awake young fellow lt Jn-gw"' Barter is !" said Alice. 'Altogether 3 too wide-awake," responded Edith. 1 "The lust evening he called at our house hd stayed till one, and then pupa hud to get the burglar alarm go ing." Detroit Free Pross. The Long Polnr Sight. Generally speaking, we figure Europe as being wholly within the tem perate zone, but wheu we oome to in vestigate matters we find that North Cupe (the most northtrly point of Norway) is in the shadow of the North Pole. At that point you can see the "midnight sun" iu all its ghastliness, the great luminary being constantly above the horizon from May 6th to August IHh, or just oae day over three months. But the long wintry nights makeup for this 100 duys of constatt sunshine. It begins on September 2'2d and constantly increases iu length uutil November tith, when the "polar night" commences in earnest, the sun never appearing above the horizon from the lust mentioned date until February Oth, one day less thau three months. Origlu ot tlio Thimble. A thimble was originally a thumb bell, because it wus worn on the thumbs, as sailors still wear their thimbles. It is a Dutch invention and, iu 1881, in Amsterdam, the bi centennial of the thimble wus cele brated with a great deal of formality. This very vuluable addition to my lady's work basket was first made by a goldsmith named Nicholas van Ben schoten. And it may further interest Colonial dames to know that the first thimble made was presented iu ICiSl to Ann van Wedy, the Becond wife of Kiliueu vail Beusselaer. Mil lip in:; Perishable Products. Thero is no limit to the iugonuity dis played in shipping perishable products Jong distances to the Euylieh market. Butter is sent from Australia to South Afuca, and thou 70U miles to Kimber ley, aud received as freoh as when it started. It ib packed iu glas oaseu, staled with puper and the cute in closed in plaster of paris, which is a bud conductor of bout und will pre serve un even temperature iu the b'luss box throughout the wholo journey. I
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers