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VOL. XXIX. NO. 50. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAIICII 31, 1897. 1.00 PER ANNUM.
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Americans nro tbo greatost travo
lorn on tho fnoe ol tbo earth.
Englnnd ha nno fourth of tho wealth
of Europe, although possessing only
one-ninth of tho population.
8omo of tho German scientists are
limiting for (ho germ of epilepsy.
tL".w'" 8'T0 fits i' thoy ever catch
A mavomcut litis licen started among
n number of tho progressive farmers
of Goorgia to havo an exhibitiou of its
agricultural products and resources
next fnll.
Thrro has been no alarming inorease
in orimo during tho years betweon
1850 and 18J0, as hIiowb by tho United
States Cousit", rising from oae criminal
in 8442 .to one in 757.
Enormous purchases for tho pulp
mills trill mako Ibis year's lumber out
in Muioo larger ttiun ever.' Tho
Kennebec Journal nays that two mills
will buy 15,000,00J feci of spruce to
grind np.
Altogether tho most remarkablo do
vclopment in tbo theatrical world in
recent years, ileolurea tho Now York
Sun, has been tho astonishing growth
of that form of entertainment known
nowndoys us tho vaulcvillo, but in
olden times passing under tho namo of
variety,
W0H0 Barry, President of the Insti
1 Into of Civil Engineer, warns British
manufacturers I hat tloy must wake up
lo the fact that American castings are
boiug used in the new underground
tunnels in London. Mr. Barry says:
"A deoado ago tho idea of Americans
' exporting castings to England would
havo been laughed at. Now it is a
fact."
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In the Berfin Produoa Exchange a
eommissioir, composed of five repre
sentatives of agricultural interests and
two from the milling trado, supervise
all trading. . Dealing in futures is
strictly prohibited. All Iraijlig must
be done on tho exebauge and between
certain hours. Prioos are fixed by
. members of tho committee and daily
quotations are oftioially listed. While
the German grain, gamblers are in
clined to rebel, observes Farm, Field
end Fireside, they are powerless
against tho great pnblio sentiment in
favor of a system which insures a fair
return to the farmer for his toil.
The Xow York Herald remarks : The
production and distribution of sugar
cont-tituto one of tho largest factors
in Uie great ' aggregate of the world's
business. -The business of refining
ugarL or reudering the raw sugars
pnreand fit for consumption, measured
by the value of its products, ranks
ninth atnoug the so-called manufactur
ing industries of the United States.
Now this (Jgautio industry,' which
directly affects every citizen in the
United States, whioh is more or loss
directly affiliated with a soore of other
industries, is practioally in the hands
of one-man. That man is Henry O.
LTavcmoycr, the' head of that consoli
dation of firms which oalls itself the
American Sugar Refineries Company,
The railroads, next to our farms,
represent the greatest properties
owned by our people. In no other
country in tho world have bo many
and euah valuable lines been built.
The sum of all the mileago iu the
United States exsceds 180,000 miles,
sud their value with their equipments
is about twelve thousand millions of
dollars. Tho great bulk of these
roads are now the property of onr own
' citizens, though they were largely
built with foreign oapital a circum
stance which, iu tho opinion of Robert
P. Porter, "is responsible for muoh of
! lo prejudice ngaint them. It would
be vastly to' the advantage of the
whole country if these investments
wore profitable, but us a matter of
fct they are not."
Malconi Townsrnd has pointed out
coincidences ol events in the lives of
Lincoln and Jeff Davis. Both were
born in Keutuoky Lincoln in 1809
Davis iu 1803. Both removed from
their native State in childhood, Davis
going to the Southwest, Lincoln to
tho Northwest. In the Black Hawk
War Davis was a Second Lieutenant
of regulars; Linooln a Captain of
volunteers. Both began their political
career at the same period 1811
Duvis being a Presidential Eloctor for
Polk, Lincoln a Presidential Elector
for llourv Clav. Both were elected to
Congress at about the same time,
Davis in 1815, Linooln iu 1810. Lastly,
in the Same year aud almost the same
day, they were called upon to preside
over the dottinie of their respective
Government. Davis at President of
the Confederate Stat.s. February 8,
IBol, aud Lincoln as 1'resideit of thu
United Slates) March 4, 1861.
THE OOOD TIME 3,
Let's sing about the good times the happy
times lo be-
As sing the rivers rippling on in muslo to the
son!
As slnir the. birds tbeyktow not why when
spriuirllme days begin;
80 lot us sing the sad times out, au J siir; the
glad tlmus in!
Lot's sing about tho good times, wlwn cvory
cot and clod
Shall aond a benediction to luo living skies
of God!
Whoa the world a brighter boauty nuj a
rnror grace, shall win,
And life shall slugtlie saltings out audrln3
the glad tinvs lu!
Lot's slnn about tho good times! Thoy'll
gnwt us on tho way
A rose upou the morning's broast .1 sun
throughont thn day;
Whoa life sprlngs'liko a blossom from tho
color of tho clod,
And tho wwrld rolls on In music to Ihe Bhln-
ijr- gates of Ood!
Faauk L. Btauton, in Atlanta Constitution.
IN LOVH WITH I1IS EN EM.
BY EUQENIA.D. BIO U AM.
WOULD rather
hear that old man
talk about his early
lifo than listen to
a play at a first
class theatre, eaid
an intelligent-looking
gontleman, ad
dressing the hotel
clork.
I glanoed in the
direction indicated
by a nod of his head, and I saw a
silvery-haired old man with a stout
walking cane pass slowly by on the
sidewalk.
I was an utter stranger in the vil
lago, but a month of enforced idleness
was ahead of me, and I determined to
beoome friondly 'with the old man.
This did not prove hard to do, for ho
was genial, aud I have always had a
liking for elderly people. Short and
etont, ruddy of face, with perfeotly
white hair and whiskers, and blue
eyes quick to light up with laughter,
he was very good to look at. In talk
ing, he had a trick of occasionally re
peating tho last words of a sentence, a
habit amusing to strangers, but rather
pleasing than otherwise on closer ac
quaintance. When I had put myself on a fairly
good footing with him, some two
weeks after our introduction, 1 found
him one aftornoon in an easy-chair on
his front piazza. Sitting down on the
stepB, I loaned against a post and pcou
led him to talk about his young days.
Well." ho said, "I will tell yon the
story straight, for I see you have had
several second-hand nibbles at it al
ready.
"When I was a young blood, like
tourself, I lived on a largo, plantation
in Georgia, my father being one of
the riohest planters in his State On
the same road that our houee faced,
with about two miles of field and
woodland between, was another exten
sivo farm. This was owned by the
Orantlands, a family who were our
bitter ouomies, though we had onco boon
on tho friendliest terms yes, friend
liest terms. Tbo oldest son of that
house had killed the oldest son of my
fathers house; that caused the on
.mity, bitter to the core. The young
men had been bosom friends; one
wouldn't go 'possum hunting unless
the other went. I remember the
morning when my brother's body was
brought home. I was about sixteen
then, and he twenty-three. My father
stood by the oorpse and swore eternal
hatred of the whole. Urantland faintly,
and the rest of us partook of his
spirit.
" 'Why, yon married a Grantland,
,didn t you, Mr. Dearing,' 1 asked.
".Not so fast, young man, not so
fasti Yon are like one of these eloo
trio machines; didn't have suoh in my
day.
'To go baok to my story. Ofoourse
none of the Grantlands came to the
fnneral, and the young fellow who had
done the killing had skipped the coun
try. It was a fine thiug for him that
he got away, aud his family took good
care that he did not como baok good
care, I tell yon. They held their heads
as high as we did, for. none of them
believed the killing had been inten
tional. Wo took our membership away
from their church, going five miles
further to auother. Thoy would not
got their mail from the same office
where we got ours, but sent fourteen
miles to another office, and neither
family would attend an entertainment
in the neighborhood where the other
family might be met.
"All this wont on, and at last
found myself tweuty-two years old.
Then something happened that was
like gall to my taste like gall.
"Mr. Grautland had a daughter who
was about eighteen years of age at that
time, a girl named lieur etta. Litving
so near together, of course there were
times when members of the two fami
lies were obliged to see each other,
end it seemed to me that I was forover
seeing lienr'etta Urantland. I would
pass hor, face to face, both of us on
horBebaok, run across hor at a piouio
where I did not dream she'd be, and
meet her in town at the home of some
mutual friend. Pretty soon I foun I
myself watching out for hor, looking
at hor on the slv, wondering wnat it
was in tho set of her head that was so
taking, why it was that her hair seemed
to catch and hold the glint ol tbo sun
thine and all the like of that, you
know.
"It made me angry every time
found myself watohing her, for I hated
ber, you see hated the whole Urant
land generation. Despite all, however,
there was something about the girl
that compelled me to look ber way and
to think about her. I just fairly des
pised myself for it, Jelt worse than a
traitor worse than a traitor. And
father, he began to notico me ; said he
could see I was troubled.
"It was one night when ho and I
were together on tbo front piazza, he
smoking, that ho asked me about it.
We always were companionable, and
I just mado a clean breast of it; told
him I wanted to gj away, that itseemed
to mo I could not turn around but
that lienr'etta Grautland was coming
face to faso with me, wielding a power
over me a littlo short of torture.
"Father pitched his fresbly-lightod
cigar into the flower yard and sprang
from his chair.
" 'Does she try to attract yon docs
sho try?' bo asked excitedly.
"I told him no, that sho treated mo
like the sand under her feet never
noticod mo at all. Father walked np
and down the porch as if driven by the
wind, but halting stildenly in front of
mo ho said :
" 'lou would hotter go away. How
would yon like a trip to the gold mines
among the Bockies? The mountains
might put yon straight. Suppose now
you go. I am ture your mother could
got your things together by Thurs
day.'
"The idea pleased me, pleased me
no little, and when Thursday came 1
was on my way to tho Jlocky Moun
tains. 1 pretty soon fell tn with a
party of young bloods like myself, aud
for a while 1 did not bother much
about my attractive euomy not muoh
All the time, thonsh, 1 was traveling
ust as directly as I could toward an
event that would bring her vividly bo
fore my mind, and would show me in
a whito light a truth 1 was then look
ing at through a very foggy atmosphere
very foggy,
'Perhaps it was two monthn after 1
left home I beoame soparated from my
party during a hunt and was lost. It
was an unhappy experience, young
man. 1 nallooed until 1 was hoarse,
climbed a tree and tied a handkerohiof
to its highest limb, and did all the
other things that lost people do, you
know. At last, striking aimlessly down
ravine, I found myself at sunsot
emerging into an almost circular de
presBion among mountain peaks. And
right at me was a wigwam. It startled
me so that I jumped behind a tree,
The next moment somo ono oallod to
me, told me to come on ; that I would
meet friends. An Indian boy advanced
toward me, and iu tho wigwam I found
a siok Indian. Both spoke English,
and I was glad of the good supper the
lad gave me. None of us cared to talk
much, aud I was soon fast asleep, worn
out.
'I suppoEO it was long toward mid
night when I awoke, feeling some
thing punch mo in the ribs. it was
the siok Indian's bony baud. Enough
light from the fire without came
through the crevices to make the in
terior ot tho wigwam dimly diseorni
ble.
" 'What is it?" I asked. 3hall j
call tho boy?"'
" 'No, I beg, ho answered. uive
me water. I believe I am dying.
1 gave htm the water promptly
enough, meaning to call tho boy just
as promptly just as promptly. But
while 1 was putting down the tin cup
he uttered words that were paralyzing
in their effect on me. I sank down
on my blanket and clasped my hands
around my knees, and gazed as best 1
oould at tho poor feliow.
" 'I am not an Indian ; I am wQite,
he said. 'My name is Garland Grant
land, and because 1 killed by aoci
dent tho man I loved best in nil
the world, I was foroed from home to
live an outlaw's life. Under my head
is a tin box; I trust its contents to
you.'
lie began gasping painfully then,
and I tried to raise him, though I was
trembling violently,
'Promise to help the Indian bury
mo, and to bury mo deep, no said
" I promised htm that he should bo
buried as nearly as possible like the
people back at home were buried, and
that the box should be my care,
There were a few struggles, poor fel
low, and he died while trying to thank
me. Then I sat there and thought
abont him until my heart throbbed
itself tonder. It seemed to me I had
traveled all those miles from home
just for this. Life is a strange mix
ture, youug man, a strange mixture,
I don't know what yonr faith is, but
mine is au over ruling Providenoe,
My meditations during that night do
stroyed my enmity toward the Grant
lands.
"I bnried Garland two days later, at
sundown. And I buriod him in
coffin. Yes, it was a rude affair ; tho
boy and I made it from the seasoned
trunks of trees long since fallen. The
wood was not diffioult to split with the
tools they had concealed among the
locks. The lad was greatly impressed
by my oaro of the body of a half
breed, as he thought his one-time friend
was, and it won his devotion won hi
devotion
"He finally guided me to a camp of
miners, and ho would have followed
me home bad I allowed it. I was so
fortunate at the camp as to hoar of my
party who were searching for me, an
to commiinioate with them, letting
them know my inteution to return
home. First, though, I had a secret
commission to fulfil,
"In the deail man's tin box I had
found a letter addressed to his mother
tnd a note addressed, To the friend
who receives this box.' Both had evi
dently been writton during hia illness,
aud the contents of my note made my
youug. hot blood tingle iu my veins,
It ooutaiued minute directions as to
how to reach a certain place, and to
find a certain crevice between two
gigantio rocks, a crevico not exteuding
straight down, but almost at onoe curv
ing westward. With a stout, sharp
look attaohed to a pliable rod, 1 was
to drag this crevice and fish out five
skin bags containing gold dust an
nuggets. I was to have my ohoice of
the treasure bags, and the others were
to be forwarded to Mr. Urantland,
"Of course I knew that no matter
how the hate bad vanished out of mv
own heart, it burned just as florooly as
ever in the hearts of all at home. 1
meant to do all that Garland had re-
nested, but I meant to do it seorotly
do it secretly, you know. Then I
meant to go home and live as usual.
was not so wibo thon as now. It is
trno that I fouud Ihe troasuro crevice,
fished out the five bag?, kept one for
myself aud sent the other to Mr.
Grautland, Mr.. UrantlBnd's letter
pinned to ono of them. I had pen
ciled the dato of Garlaud's death on
the letter, thinking they would liko
to know it. I say it is true 1 did all
thoso things, and did them secretly ;
but I did not go home to live as 1 had
n tho old days.
After being there ft few wocks,
after hearing from neighbors about
tbo mysterious coming of the letter
and the gold, after seeing Henr'etta
drcssod in deep black, the eolf samo
poise to her head, tho self same sweet
ness of fact, I learned a lesson yes, I
learned a lessou. I learned that
miners' camps, nor hunting parties,
nor mysterious crevices ot treasure.
nor the Bockies themselves, can crush
out of a life tho emotion called love ;
not even if it spring to existence where
bate is rife.
"I became moro unhappy than ever,
and was continually brooding over
schomcs to heal the breaoh' between
the two families heal the breaoh.
El Re, how was I to make Henr'etta bo
much as seem conscious of my exist
ence? All this time my father watched
me so closely that it made me nervous.
Ono that hurried things guess it
did. Anyway, I was not very good
humored one morning, and when my
father said something about it I
whoeled round and told him all about
Garland's death and the things I had
done afterward, ending with the bold
statement that I loved Henr'etta and
could not help it.
'To this day I wonder that my fiery
old father did not foil me to the floor
with a chair, for he was a qniok man
a qniok man. He stood and looked
at me pretty much as he would have
looked at a cur that had dared to bite
him. Then ho turned on his heel and
wont away, took his hat aud left tho
house went straight to the woods.
Needn't ask mo how I felt; mean
enough, that's certain, mean enough
mean cnongh. lie didu t come
home to dinner, and I did not eat any.
Toward night I saw him coming down
the spring hill from the direotion of
tho family burying ground, and I
knew where be had been last, if not all
dav. My elder brother had boen his
idol.
"You can talk abont bravery, but I
tell you it took bravery to make me
face'my father at the supper table a
fow miuutes later. He said next to
nothing during the meal, and his hands
trembled when he passed the plates. I
do hope I'll never again feel like I did
luring that meal. After it was over
the big horn was sounded, a very un
usual thing at suoh an hoar, and tho
hands from all over the plantation
came pouring up to the house. Thoy
gathered olo3e about the baok poroh,
and the bouse servants and the family
were on the porch.
"1 felt like running folt like run
ning ; didn t know what on earth was
coining; lelt lilto 1 was to be ourseu
and sent from home, lather stood
close to the old water shelf, and here's
what he said, the words fairly burning
into me :
'I have called you together to put
vou on notice that the trouble between
Mr. Grantland's family and mine is at
au end. Hereafter there will be peace.
His family will dine here next Thurs
day ; and the day following his hands
end mine will huve a barbecue in the
spring grove. You may go to your
places.'
"1 can t tell you now we all dis
persed ; but amid the pleased ejacula
tions of some of the servants I found
myself wiping the tears off my face
before the whole crowd. Perhaps I
was shedding ters because mother was
sobbing; never could bear to see her
cry.
'Well, this about ends my story.
The bag of gold dust and nuggets that
fell to me holpcd to buy this bouse,
young man. Aud you noedn t think:
ve ra lonesome when yon pass by nere
late in the day and see two old folks
sitting close together, for they're
Henr'otta and mo. Wo haven t been
enemies now for many years many
years." Waverloy Magazine.
Balloon Lifeboats.
The big ocean greyhouuds will soon,
it is thought, be equipped with life
boats harnessed to balloons, so as to
bo practically nusinkable. Cylinders
filled with compressed gag will be
placed in compartments ot the life
boats, and from these the balloons,
which will be harnessed with cords to
a hollow mast oonnected with the
cylinders, is inllatod. The mast, which
is iron tubing, is aljustablo, aud.when
turned forward, tho big balloon acts
as a sail, oars proving quite unneces
sary. The combination boat will
doubtless prove of the greatest ser
vice in saviug pooplo far out at sea.
Iu a rccout test it was shown that,
even with the boat filled with water to
tho gunwales, the lifting power of the
balloon prevented the craft from
either sinking or upsetting.
Man at Ills Best.
Said George D11 Maurier once in a
private ohat: "I think that the best
vtars in a man a Ufa are after he is
forty. A man at forty has ceased to
hunt the inoou. I should add that iu
order to enioy life after forty it is
perhaps necessary to have achieved,
boforo reaching that age, at least some
success."
Great Place for Shipping.
Over 1000 ships of all kinds and
sizes pass up and down the English
Chauuel every twouty-four hours, and
there aro scarcely ever less than 200
near Land's End, leaviug or bearing
up for the Channel.
TIIKMISKKYSIMS OF LIFIi.
TORtliS THAT ARE TOLD BT THD
FlfMrMEN OK THE PRESS.
Ila-t to Think Twice An Kvaslvi
Answer Knpld Keiidlna Hl
Convictions To UcKxiectcd,Ktc-
Oh, bo not hasty," friend, I crlod;
"llilnk twice, o'er all yon ultr."
'Tin bound to do sn," bo replied;
"1 etui tut tat tm timer!"
Dal rolt Free Press.
AN P.VAS1VB ANSWER.
"Do you believe that the world it
hollow?"
"There is nothing in it." Cincin
nati Enquirer.
nts CONVICTIONS.
"How came you here?" said the
visitor to a prisoner in the peniten
tiary. "I was brought here by my cocvio
tions," was the firmly Bpokeu reply.
Londoa Tit-Bits.
RAPID HEADING.
He "That is just like a woman
reading tho end of a novel first. It
seoms to bo the nature of a woman to
jump at a conclusion."
She "I didn't jump in this case. I
skipped." Indianapolis Journal.
TO BB EXPECTED.
Mrs. Strato (severely) "Edward, I
think that new typewriter of yours is
very giddy."
Edward "But remember,' my dear,
she is compelled to work on the eight
eenth etory." Philadelphia North
American.
A BAD CASE.
"Yon wouldn't believe it, but
Gratnpy has a bad caso of swelled
head.
"There must bo some mistake."
"Not a bit of it. Genuine old fash
ioned mumps on both sides." Detroit
Free Press.
HER STANDARD OF BEACTT.
"She said she thought I was look
ing well," remarked the young man
who was very pensive.
"M yes. But you'll notice that
the next minute she asked mo if I
didn't think hor pet bulldog was the
handsomest nniinal in tho city?"
Washington Star.
NOT AN CNBSUAI, CASE.
Sagemm "I suppose you hava
heard about your neighbor Goldleaf?
He is very seriously sick as a result of
overwork."
Seeker "Don't Bay I What has ho
been doing to bring it about ?"
Sageman "Trying to collect bis
thoughts." Boston Courier.
KNEW HIS BUSINESS.
"Bring me my glass." commanded
the lady pirate, for thero was now no
field of human endeavor to which the
gentler sex was not admitted, "that I
may see it all is well.
The faithful lieutenant brought two
glasses, knowing it to be impossiblo
to size up tho baok hair with one."
Detroit Journal.
rnET wint hear watching: sometimes.
"You," said the new oashier, "will
fiid me like a watch. You can judge
SB by my works."
"All rifi-ht." responded the banker,
arising to the morry oocasion : "I will
bear your case in mind and see that
you do not accumulate any superflu
ous dust in your movements." In
dianapolis Journal.
TWO PHASES.
"When Nan was engaged to Jack
she didn't get enough sloop, beoauso
she had to lio awake and think how
muoh she loved him,".,
"Woll?"
"And now their engagement is
broken she doosn't get enough sleep
because ho has to lie awake to
hate hip." Chicago Record.
snn'p save him the thovble.
Jack "Maud wants to know why
you shun hor company now?"
Tom "Woll, tho fact is, I'm
broke."
Jaok "I'll toll her, and you needn't
shun her any more."
Tom (brightening) "By Jove ! Do
you thiuk bo I"
Jack "l'csj she'll tliuu you."
Tit-Bita.
THE fcYNID.
ne "I wondor how ho got suoh a
good job.
She "Why.don't you know? When
ho applied for it he told them that his
marriage the following week depended
apon his getting something to do at
nee."
Ho "How ready pooplo ore to help
a mau to get into triable, arou't thoy ? '
Chicago Post.
II.ti-IIltSCTKD SYMPATHY.
Clara "Why so melancholy?'
Belle "Oh I I had tho worst shock
this afternoon that I ever experienced.
You know those flowers 1 was going
to tako down to tho jail to that poor
man who murdered oil his first
cousins? Well, I got lulo tho wrong
cell nud gave them to a big bloar-oyod
bruto who was there for robbing a
bauuua stand." Pack.
A MISAN ADVANTAOK.
Charley "No, I guess I'll not cull
at the Piukhaius any more."
George "Why not?"
Charley 'Tho old mau lias had a
system of elcetrio appliances put into
the house that enables him to stand iu
the hall, aud by simply pressing a
buttou, light tho gas all over the
place. He worked it on mo last night.
Say, throw me that cuhiou. will
youi." Clovelaud Leader.
SCIENTIFIC A5D ISDUSTKIAL.
Dr. Koch is Bald to have discovered
another anti-tuberculin.
A process has been discovered by
which milk can be hardened to form
buttons and billiard balls.
A Berlin physician, Dr. Fcahlincr,
says that rheumatism is often duo to
the excessive nso ot meat.
The poles of Jupitor are flattened
almost exactly like thoso of tho earth.
The phenomenon can bo plainly seen
with the telescope.
It rains on an average '203 days in
the year in Ireland, about 150 in Eng
land, at Kozan about ninety days aud
in Siberii only sixty da-yt.
From figures recently published nt
Munich, it appears that there are now
in Central Europe 15,041 gas engines,
whioli aggregate 52,0111 horse power.
In tho fiords of the Norway coasts
the clearness of the water is wonderful.
At a depth of thirty fathoms objects
the size of a silver dollar may bo
clearly seen.
Of the 100 kinds of car couplers
enumerated by the United States
Interstate - Commerce Commission,
sovonty'eight wero in use in 1895,
whon the number ot automatic
couplers of all kinds had increased to
408,850, from 80,510 iu 1880.
A London inventor's driving wheol
for cycles, motoscars and railway lo
comotives has its circumfcrcnco
mounted on sixteen or more smal'cr
wheels, which strike tho gronnd in
succession, It is claimed that a bi
cycle gearod to 150 inches is propelled
as easily as an ordinary one geared to
sixty inches, a speed of a milo a minute
not boiug difficult.
A product called "wire glass," which,
it is asserted, presents au effective bar
rier against fire, consists simply of a
moeh work of wiro imbadded m a
glass plate. Even when licked by
dames and raisod to a rod heat it does
not fall to pieces, and it not ouly
resists tho heat of fire, but also tho
shattering effects of cold water poure d
aver it whilo it is yet g'owing hot.
The oonstruotion of the owl's foot is
peonliar. Unlike the well known foot
of the parrot, which has two toes in
front and two behiud, and that of the
eagle or a more familiar example,
the common sparrow it has one toe
behiud and three in front ; but the
first of these is capable of much lateral
taction, while the fourth or outer toe
is reversible, and when tho bird
poroh os is turned backward, bo that
the bird Bits on its perch with the two
middle toes in front and the two outer
toes bohind.
Producing Pain.
A simple experiment iu producing
rain may bo made by the uso of a cyl
inder of glass, about four inches in
diameter and eight'iuchos high. This
is to behalf fillod with ninety-two per
cent, alcohol. A china saucer is placed
over the. cylinder, which is then put
into a hot water bath nud heated quite
hot, but not the boning point for al
cohol. Then tho cylinder, still cov
ored, is carefully aud quickly plaocd
upon a table in 11 cool portion of tho
room. ery soon vapor will be dis
covered on the nuder side of tho sau
cor, clouds will form and from them
littlo drops full down upon tho alco
hoi. This miniature showor mav last
for an hour or more. The top part of
the cylinder clears diroctly po that the
condensation is seen midway between
the alcohol and the saucer. It is a
curious and interesting sight, the
water below tho clouds and tho clear
atmosphere above. If immediately
after removing tho cylinder from tho
Lot water bath a cold saucer replaces
tho hot one, etorm currents arc dis
ceruiblo. Often tho currents will ae
semble upon one si do of tho cylinder
and doscend upon the other. Conduct
ed npon a somewhat larger scalo, this
experiment would bo of great interest
to classes of students. It is not an ex
pensive ono, and is very easily man
aged even by amateurs.
Tho Food of School Children.
It is a lamentable fuot that too little
attention is given to tho hygieuio eur
roundingsof the pupils iu the schools,
end by tar too littlo to tho nuturo of
the food aud the manner ot eating.
Tho aim often seoms to bo to so pro
pare tho food that it will require
little or no masticatiou before it is
swallowed, and when solid food lx
taken it is not sufficiently masticated
to properly prepare it for tho digos
tive organs. 801110 years ago a doctor
requested mnuy of his patients to re
port as to tho number of bites it re
quired to masticate different foods.
Ho especially desired to leara how
much less children chewed tho food
before swallowing it than their parents.
Ho got reports from oue hnudred aud
fifty intelligent people, and learned
that practice in this regard varies
very much, that tho children generally
wero entirely too apt to bolt their
food. Ho thought tbo habit of swal
lowing food before it was properly
mastnated tho cause of insufficient
nourishment in many casus.
Social Status of .Models.
A Loudon oourt has recently dono
something to settle the social status of
artists' models. A yuiiuc woman
brought suit for breach of promise
agaiust a man who promised to marry
her, but had been ul.iruiud by tho dis
covery that iuotcud of sitting for tho
head alone sho ha I also sut for tho
figure, though not without drapery.
The decision of tho Court was that the
profession is respectable and that sho
was entitled to iluma-cs.
Apoplexy Iu l;iiglaml.
Apoplexy has in. ri.ased iu England
iu a very rumaikuulo decree siueo
1H50. lu tho sixteen year cudiu; with
1800 thero wero 107 ileaths of apoplexy
per l,0i)0,000 inhabitants. Last year
year the ratio was 577 per l.UOO.uOJ.
THE PLEDGE OF LOVE.
I pledge! my soul to dwell with Love
In the Joy of swoot content;
In a snow-whlto cot with tho blooms above,
By sIqkIdk robin nnd sighing dovn,
Oil, I plodded my soul to dwell with love.
But the tlthc-men came for rent!
And Love had neither purjo norscript
The tlthe-mea heard him sl'h;
lint what enred Ihey fir bis rosy lljis,
For the thrilling touch of n flnffer-tlp
Or the honey-blooms that tho brown bees
sip,
Oe Ihe light of a loving eye?
'Pack and travol!" They eriod, nnd far
Over valleys and plains we went;
But wo saw tho lluht of a beckoning star,
And tho lnnd whero the fairy dwellings aro:
Lovo tossed his curls nt the tlthc-men far,
And kissed his hrinlft to tho rent!
F. L. Stnnton, lu Atlanta Constitution.
HUMOH OF THE U.VY.
"Thnt contortionist seems very con
ceited." "Yes; he is completely
wrapped up in himself." Yale Kecord.
"Who was Ananias, papa?" "I be-
liove ho was the loader of the opposi
tion to George Washington." Truth.
Farmer Whillletree "Did you say
yon was lookin for workr woary
V likens " es, boss wid de accent
on de was." Jndge.
"How would you define nn opti
mist?" "As a mau who expects to pay
last week's board by drawing his next
Weok's salary. " - Truth.
Mrs. Easton "I understand that
your husband can't meet his credit
ors." Mrs. Weston "I don't believe
he wants to, especially."
She "There's that Mr. Flyp across
tho street. lie says he knows all the
pretty girls iu our club." He "Knows
you also, doasn't ho?" Puck.
Jorkins "When young people
marry thoy get into a pickle." Nowed
"I suppose that is why all their
friends send thota picklo dishes."
Truth.
"Sort of a Damon aud Pythias com
bination. But isu't it funny they don't
see through each other? ' "That's of
ten the way whou pcoplo get so thick."
Puck.
Wild-Eyod Customer "nave you
any goods made of solo loather or boiler
iron?"' Clothing Merchant "No,
sir; wo don't keep boys' clothing. "
New York Weekly.
Papa "And did yoa think for one
momont that that clerk of mine was in
a position to propose to yon?" Daugh
ter "Why, certainly, pap ; he was on
his knees." Yonkers Statesman.
"Why did Simpson send his boy to
tho prize ring?" "Well, ho always
displayed a love 'or argument, aud
tho old man oonsiders tho field of law
overcrowded." Priuceton Tiger.
Emma "And, Charlie, dear, would
you have really Bhot yourself if I had
refused you?" Charlie "Indood, i
would. I had already sent to fonr
houses for price-lists of revolvers."
Fliegende Blaotter.
Journalist (ta editor) "Excuso vna,
sir, but I am literally starving. Will
you buy this article, sir?" Editor
"VVhfrt is it about?-' Journalist
"It's on Tho Bad Effects of Over
indulgence iu Eoting.' sir." Fuu.
Mrs.Kittywiuk 'Tommy 1 Tommy I
Como horo this minute I What do you
mean by using such louguage?" Tom
my "Well, ma, you told ns to play
some play whero wo didn't have to
light, and we's playing Goueral Wey
Icr; and we had to do something. "
Washiugtau Capital.
V joker oflered to bet SIC to $1 thai
he would ask sixtcou persons one and
the samo questiou to which he would
receive the same answer. The bet was
aooeptcd, and tho joker asked Aaclua
one of the sixteen this qttostion : "Did
you hear that Smith is bankrupt?''
and "Which Smith?" was tho stereo
typed reply.
"Do my vocal lessons disturb you?"
askod tho young woman with musical
ambition. "Xot that I know of," re
plied tho truthful young mau. "Why,
1 should thiuk you'd know if they
did." "No. Siueo tho dentist took
tho front room on tho first floor, I
can't tell whether you're practising
uiusio or he's practising on his
patients." Dublin World.
Visibility ol Lights at Night.
Tho result of tho experiments in
light visibility oouducted by the inter
nitionul committee on behalf of the
governments of the United States,
Germany aud tho Netherlands, says au
article quoted in Current Literature,
aro giveu as follows : A light of one
oandlo power is plainly visible at ouc
milo, and oue ot throe c.iudle power
at two miles. A ten candle powei
light was seeu with a binocular at four
miles, ono of twenty-five at five miles,
though faintly, aud ono of thirty
three candles at the same distance
without difficulty. On an exception
ally clear night' a whito light ot 8.3
caudlo power could bu distinguished
at three miles, ouo of 5.0 at four, aud
ono of 17. J at live miles. The exper
iments wero made with green light, as
it has beeu conclusively proved that if
a light of that color tills the required
touts', u red light ot tho samo inteusitv
will more thau do so. It was fouud
that tho caudlo power of greou light,
whioh remained visible at oue, two,
three aud four miles was ", 15, 51 and
100 respectively.
"Vinegar li Lie,"
Tho "Vinegar Bible" wan thus
named from a ludicrous typographical
bluuder "l'ho l'aiablo ot the Vino
yard," in the twentieth chapter of
Luke, being made to road "J'uoPura
bio of tho Vinegar." This edition of
tho Bib'e wis published iu 1717, and
most of the copies wore destroyed by
ho publishers, though several got into
circulation boforo tho bluuder was dis
covered. It is inserted 1 hat 00 more
than a dozen copies of this book are
now in existence.
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