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VOL. XXX. NO. 1. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1897. Sl.OO PER ANNUM.
RE
EST
It is ettiinnted that tlio copt of ves
Beta cow being bnilt at lake ship yards
is about $3,000,000, as compared with
$9,000,000 a year ago.
According to the statistic of the
JYentber Buronn, the property lose
from tornadoes during the last ten
years hns been live times as great ir
Missouri as iu any other 'State.
Greece has only 2,200,000 inhabi
tants, butlfevcry mau of them is roacTy
to fight like sixty. Her area is only
half a great as that of the State of New
York, but every aore of it in dedicated
to tho cause of liberty and civiliza
tion. That the gentler sex is fast becom
ing emancipated is shown by the (act
that in 1896 there were in the United
States 82 women woodohoppers, 147
bartenders, 24 bostlors, 29 fcirs, i
locomotive engineers, 28 plL. Vers,
CO blacksmiths and 6 boilermatxrs.
A great emigration movement of
Russian Jowa from the Vistula
provinces to Africa is taking plaoe at
present. The movement has reached
snch proportions in several districts
of these provinces that tho Jewish
male population is grout ly diminished
and business iu shops is principally
carried on by women.
Roy. Miles Grant, of Boston, thinks
he has solved tho problom of living.
Ho is a strict vegetarian, and never
uses meat, pics, cakes, tea, coOee.
sugar, salt or spine.". Jli food
is unleavcnod graha voge
tables, cheese and mill , je Ba7a
that he lives well at a cost of eighty
seven cents a week, the result being
that ho is healthy and strong.
Of tho $200,000,000 war indemnity
. which Japan is to rcooive from China
it is expected that nearly eighty por
oont. will be expended in naval oon-
6t ruction. It is therefore in order,
deolares tho New York Mail and Ex
press, to ascertain what portion of
this vast sum cu be acquired by tho
enterprise of Amorieau shipbuilders,
. ' steel forgers, gun makers and com
petitors in other mechanical indus
tries. ' A oonntry with that amount of
money to spond-desorves to be looked
after by American manufacturers who
have things to sell.
Modern soienco is beginning to
throw all tho talcs of Munchausen in-
to tho shndo. Thcro is a rumor that
rofessor MncKendrick, of Glasgow,
as Euocecdod iu devising an appar
atus whioh will enablo the deaf and
dumb to hear operas. He uses tele
phones conjSAcd with the ttago at
one end, and at the othor with vessols
filled with a ealino solution, into which
the deaf insert thoir hands. No
sooner have they done so than thoir
faces are illuminated with tho joy of a
new sensation. They can hear the
singers and the orchestra distinctly,
" This sounds "American," as foreigners
say, but after the Roentgen rays and
kinetoscopo everything seems possible.
Naturalists believe that inseots have
soVes utterly different from ours, and
it uot impossible that with the aid
of eleotrioity aud Roentgen rays man
may practically aoquire a new sense or
power to perceive tho unsoen world.
There, have beeu printed recently
somo astonishing fnotg about tho aban
doned farm lands of England. Some
of those farm;, although within an
hour or two'of Loudon city, go bog
ging for tenants. Earl Darrington,
.who Ljjor many years owned 23,000
aercstaid in Rucks and Lincooshire
counties and whose every dollar is in
vgstsd in agriculture, soys the de
pression of tho industry in England
hns been largely due to the extrava
gance and bad management of the land
lords thcmsolves keeping up costly
country houses, and neglecting repairs
and improvements, piling up mort
gages, driving away tenants, etc'.
When be took charge of his estates,
they were burdened with a debt of
1152,000,000. Ho disposed of the great
country house, with its tremendous
expenses, repaired the buildings'on all
the farms, lowered jates one-third, and
encouraged tenants to work small plots
of land. In spite of almost constantly
decreasing prices of farm product,
during the past twenty years he bus
by this means paid all but oue-tenth
of the original debt, audyet his estates
are not as well situated as regards
markets as are many farms near Lon
don that are practically abandoned,
While conditions are entirely different
iu America, it is true that thousands
of farmers in this country have, on a
smaller Bcale, by prudent management,
paid for thoir farms and ure to day
comfortably well fixed, as the .result
of good farming aud good business
methods during the past ten or twonty
years of increasing competition, lower
prices and readjustment of rapidly
chnugiug conditions.
HEMEMBERINQ.
It may lio years s Ineo one muoh lovod
Was locked in death's mysterious sloop;
It may bo tlint thn (lowers we keep
Because of them,
Are no inoro wet with tear.
Our lives ko on without thorns
Tho aching void that Death has loft,
Is Illlod by othor lovos,
And we are less boron
Than wh.a wo hoard the dull thud-thud
That orasorl us with Its uttor hopoloasnos;
Dut when we ton a certain shade of hair,
Or tone of voice, or cvou bul tho lifting of a
linn. I,
It all comes baok
As something we have known before,
Aud wo, remembering, understand.
EJua Ilealil, In Womankind.
ON A JAUNTING CAB.
BY ANNIB F. JOHNSTON.
I was a June
morning in
Cork. Miss
Briggs and her
niece had left
the rest of their
party at the ho
tel, to reoover
from the effects
of a rough pas
sage, and had
started out to
explore the
quaint old tows.
The jauntiug car rattled along
through the crooked street?, and
turned into a wide, smooth avenue,
whose hawthorn hedges were white
with blossoms, and whose wayside
trees covered it with a cool, deep
shade; then back again into the
crooked streets, where a detachment
of. soldiers passed them. "Look I"
cried Emily with girlish enthusiasm,
"there are some Highlanders I"
A band came next, followed by sev
eral carriages, while a noisy rabble of
hooting, barefoot children and bois
terous men and women struggled after.
"What is the matter?" she asked of
the driver, who bad stopped his horse
to let tho procession pass.
"It's O'Brien, miss," he explained.
"He'll be after spakin' in the park, the
day, and they're fearful av a riot,
miss."
The procession was a long one, and
they waited several minutes for it to
pass. Just as they started on again,
Emily, .happening to look across the
street, saw a man, evidently a tourist,
hastily shutting up a small camera.
"Auntie," ehe almost gasped, "1
fiolnally boliere that man has beou
taking a photograph of ail"
Miss Briggs looked quickly, but they
had turned a corner, and he was out of
sight. "Well, it con't be helped," she
said laughingly, but with an indignant
pink flushing up into her obeeks. "It
serves us right for making a speotaolo
of ourselves by getting on to such an
outlandish conveyance."
On the following day, while Miss
Briggs sat alone in the parlor of tho
Imperial Holol, busily engaged with
her journal, Emily entered, her hat
awry aud her face glowing.
"Look I" she cried breathlessly,
"Here is a sketch I mado this after
noon, auntie. I did it in sepia. And
oh, I've had snch an interesting ex
perience! We all went opto Shan
don churchyard, .ud old Mr. Lumb
took me up in the tower to read the
inscription on tho bells. When wo
camo down again, you couldn't guess
who was standing in the churchyard,
by Father Front's tomb."
Miss Briggs held the sketch off at
arm's length, surveying it critioally,
and shook her head.
"Well, it was that man who took
our picture yesterday. As soou as he
saw me, ho came directly towards me.
He took off his hat with as friendly a
smile as if we had always known eaoh
other, and said, 'Pardon me, miss, are
you not the youug lady whom I saw
yesterday on a jaunting car while the
procession was crossing the bridge ?'
I was so amazed I did not know what
to say, and he began at onco to apolo
gize aud explain. He said he was out
with his camera, taking pictures of
interesting types of Irish cbaraoter,
and was attracted by our coachman's
face. He paid no attention to us un
til we were driving away. Then he
saw me, but did not notice you par
ticularly. While he was developing
I he picture, that afternoon, be was al
most startled, he told me, as your fea
tures gradually appeared on the plate.
He said : 'They bear suoh a striking re
semblance to one I knew years ago.
Will you allow me to ask if the lady
with you was a Miss Briggs? Miss
Caroline Briggs?' "
Emily paused to noto the effect of
her words, aud Miss Briggs looked up
with lively interest depicted on every
feature.
"Go on V ehe demanded.
"Just tb?u Mr. Lumb came hurry
ing up aud slapped him ou the back,
and suid, 'Hullo, Fritzie, old boy I Is
it really yon?' It must have been
'Fritzie, old boy, for they began talk
ing about old times, and forgot my
existence ever so long. Then Mr.
I. umb introduced him Howe, or
rower, or tome such name. He's
stopping at our hotel, and is going to
join our party till we reach Belfast."
Emily paused to observe the effect.
Miss Briggs opened her mouth as if to
bay something, gave a little gasp and
closed it again.
"It's Frederick Powelll" she de
clared with an air of conviction. "I
know It I Yes, I knew him fifteen
years ago." She looked out of the
window a moment as if considering,
nud then we ft on in her concise, mat-ter-of-fuot
way, "We were to have
beeu married then, but we had a quar
rel and the enueuieut was broken off.
It was a good thing. We were both
high strung aud obstinate, and never
could have learned to agree."
Miss Briggs gave this little bit of
personal history as unoonoernedly as if
wero speaking of the auoient
Greek, aud bcuu to gather up her
mm,
rliii
writing material. Emily looked at her
curiously, wondering if there could
have been a spark of eentimeot in such
a severely practical Dature.
"He showed me the photograph,"
said Emily, as they climbed tho stairs
together. "It was bad, even for an
amateur. Only the baok of my head
was taken, but you were in a strong
light that made you squint and wrinkle
up your face, aud your lect looked im
mense." When Miss Briggs wont down stairs
to dinner that evening, she had laid
aside her customary gray serge dress,
as homely as it was serviceable, and
wore a dark blue, tailor-made mit.
Remembering that Emily had said her
feet looked immense in the photo
graph, she had carefully changed her
heavy, broad-soled boots for dainty,
low-out shoe?. She stopped a moment
in the hall, hearing a familiar laugh.
She remembered that the last time she
had heard that voice it bad bidden her
good-by in hot anger. Then she
pushed the door ajar and entered the
parlor, where the party had congre
gated to wait for dinner.
Dr. Frederiok Powell was standing
by a window in animated conversation
with Emily. He scarcely noticed her
aunt's entrance, so engrossed was be
with the fair niece. Miss Briggs had
been a pretty eirl in her day, but the
photograph he had taken, and which
was still fresh in his mind, was that
of a wrinkled, faded woman, careless
of her attire. He looked up with sur
prise as she advanced toward them.
The brnsk independence of manner he
had expeoted to see bad given place to
a Btately dignity. She was one of those
women for whom a becoming dress
docs wonders.
"I'm glad to see you !" they both
said in the same breath, and shook
hands as if the moat platonio of friend
ships had always existed between
them.
Miss Briggs was not so well pleased
with her survey. "He's getting stout,"
she thought critioally, "and a trifle
bald. He's not the handsome man he
used to be."
Emily was charmed with Dr. Powell.
She found him entertaining and agree
able. He praised her sketches. He
told her interesting incidents of his
trave's in many lands, and amusing
anecdotes of his professional life.
When the party went sight-seeing, he
was her tete-a-tete if they rode. When
they walked, he was always at her side
to bold her umbrella.
Seeing this, Miss Briggs calmly ro
volved iu her solitary orbit a trifle
more independent in manner, perhaps,
and if possible more outspoken in her
radical opinions. Emily tried in rain
to persuade her aunt that the old serge
was too unbecoming for further use
fulness. Every morning she put it on
with tho grim satisfaction of carrying
her point, and looking her worst.
The days went by too fast in the old
town. Night and morning and noon,
they listened to the chiming of the
bells in the ivy grown Shandon tower,
and then it was night and morning and
noon again. Still the little party lin
gered. One day, after lunch, they started
out to make a farewell visit to Blarney
Castle. Dr. Powell and Emily gaily
led the way on jauuting car. Sev
eral of the party followed on horse
baok, and the rear was brought up by
a light wagonette. Miss Briggs rodo
in this, net being an excellent horse
woman, and having a mortal antipathy
to jaunting cari.
It was a drive none of them eould
ever forgot. But by the time they had
readied the cattle, the sunshine had
faded out, the landscape was gray and
blurred, and the rain began to pour
in torrents. There was nothing to do
but sit down and wait for it to stop,
but they had grown acoustomed to
this peculiarity of the weather in Ire
land. An old woman came to the door,
begging. They tolled her in with a
shilling, and she entertained them
with gruesome tales of the banshees
and witches that inhabit the bat
haunted ruins of Blarney at night.
The doctor handed Emily a pencil and
a leaf torn from his memorandum book,
and she began to sketoh the old peas
ant, wich quick, effectivestrokes. Miss
Briggs sat baok in a dim corner, listen
ing carefully, for the woman's brogue
was almost unintelligible to ber. Twioe
she glanoed up, to And Dr. Powell
looking at her.
Presently iu a piue of the story
telling, he walked over and stood be
side her. "What does this remind you
of, Caroline?" he 'asked abruptly.
"Nothing," she answered. "Why?"
"It reminds me of a gypsy camp we
visited one time. You have not for
gotten It, I hope. It was the last day
of August, tixteen years ago. The
soeno comes baok to me very plainly.
An old hag told our fortunes. Some
how, you look just as you did then."
He walked over to Emily again.
Miss Briggs drow back a little farther
into tho dim corner, and listened no
more to the legends of Blarney. She
heard, instead, the crackling of a
oump fire, tho stamping of horses tied
iu the background, the whining tones
of the old gypsy who pretended to
look into the future, when in reality
she had only to look into the faces be
fore her to guess their fate. Then
she heard the laughter of the young
folks rambling slowly along in the
moonlight behind them, Then tho
low, earnest voice of the one beside
her no, she would not listen t She
would not recall a single word. The
old love had lain buried deeply too
long for its ghost to trouble her now.
She turned resolutely to the old wom
an, although she couldn't help remem
bering, now and then, that he 1 ad said
she looked just as she did that night
aud that night ho had called her
beautiful.
"I know that isn't sol" ehe kept
telling herself, to quiet the little thrill
of pleased vauity. "He's got an axe
to grind. He wants mo to use my in
fluence with Emily."
It was nearly dark when the rain
finally stopped, and they started back
to tho hotel. There was a shifting of
seats. The wagonette led the way,
followed by those on horses, and when
Miss Briggs came through the gate,
Dr. Powell was waiting to help her on
to the jaunting car.
They drove along in silonoe some
time, before tho doctor remarked un
easily, "Tho drivers have been drink
ing. I hope they'll not get us into
trouble."
"I have nover been in any kind of
an aocidont," answered Miss Briggs.
"I have always thought I should like
to be, just for the sensation."
For a short distance thoy enter
tained each other by recounting the
most dreadful aooidents of which they
had ever beard both on land and sea.
They roaohed the climax at last. They
could recall no supremer horror than
had already been related.
Just thou the half intoxicated driver,
having fallen behind the others, took
np his whip and lashed the horse furi
ously. The frightened animal leared
and broke into a run. Now was Miss
Briggs' opportuuity for a sensation.
They were running away. She gripped
the seat firmly and held on with
all her might. She would have stuck
on valiantly to the end, had not the
horse veered suddenly to one side, and
then plunged on more madly than bo
fore. Both she and the dootor were
thrown violently out.
When the dootor picked himself up
and looked around in a dazed way, she
was standing etect as ever, vigorously
brushing, tho mud from her drees.
She had experienced an accident and
had come out of it, as Ehe had oome
out of everything else, unscathed.
The party on ahead, alarmed at tho
sight of the runaway horse dashing
past, despatched Mr. Lumb, who was
ou horsobaok, to investigate. As they
were near town, it was not long be
fore he had sent a cab to thoir assist
nnoe. "Caroline," said tho dootor, as they
drove baok in the twilight, "I have
always been impressed with the rapid
ity with which the brain acts, Man
thinks at lightning speed."
"That depends on the man," Miss
Briggs interposed laconically.
"When we went flying through the
air," he went on, without notioiug the
interruption, "it Hashed across my
mind that I should find you lying
stunned and insensible that I would
pick you up tenderly in my arms, and
kiss you, as I did long ago that I
would claim you for my own again."
"Well," she answered provokingly,
"I suppose the shock of such a fall,
to a man of your weight, would natu
rally bring him to his senses."
"It was not that," he said, a little
confused and nettled by her cool re
ply, "but the situation was not as ro
muntio as I had imagined as I hoped
it would be."
"Yon had hoped, then, that I should
be stunned?"
"Oh, Caroline," he remonstrated,
"is there never to be anything but
misunderstandings between us? You
must listen to me, for it is fate that
has brought us across the sea to find
each other at last. I was sure of it
when I first met you, although you
seemed so stolid and indifferent.
Think of the time :hen we were all in
all to each other."
"I thought Emily" began Miss
Briggj.
The doctor laughed happily. "No !
No t Emily is not as blind as her aunt.
She has known what I wanted from
the first. Yon have not said no," he
added presently, as thoy rode on
through the darkness, "and I shall not
let you say it now. You aro mine
and a thousand times dearer than
wheu you were the sweetheart of my
boyhood."
lie Blipped his arm around her, and
felt ber shaking with suppressed sobs.
"Why, what's the matter?" he asked.
"1 dou't know," she answered. For
Miss Briggs had met with an experi
ence she could not fathom. The ten
der undercurrents of her nature,frozen
so long that she doubtod their exist
onoes, melted as in a February thaw,
and found vent in tears.
At the hotel entrance they found
the druukeu driver awaiting them, hat
in hand, "I'm sorry to be troublin'
yez, sorr, but ther's the two shillin'
Bixpenoe for the journey out, and two
shillin' Bixpenoe for the journey baok.
An' the same shud be more, for it
broke me vehicle an' lamed me haste."
The dootor smiled down into the
face beside bim, where his food eyes
saw blooming agaiu the beauty of girl
hood, and said, "The rascal knows the
acoident was all bis own fault, but if
it had not been for him, I might never
have found you as I did, ou a jaunting
car."
He dropped a shower of silver pieces
into the outstretched hand.
".Shure an' ye'ro fit for a prince,
sorr I" cried the man, delighted at the
unexpected generosity, aud shrewdly
guessing its cause. "Good luck to ye
an' the swate leddy I"
And as thoy walked on down the
corridor, his voioa followed them, in
voking the blessing of all the saiuts in
his calondar. The Puritan.
Ago of tho Premiers,
Care aud worry do not seem to
shorten the lives of the British Pre
miers. Gladstone by completing his
87th year has brokeu the record
whioh was held by Lord Sidmouth,
who died past 80. Earl Russell died
at the same ugo; the Duke of Wel
lington at 82, Lord Palmerston and
Earl Grey at 81, Earl of Bcaoousneld
77, Earl oT Aberdeou 70, Earl of
Derby SO, Sir ll;bort Peel 02. Glad
stone and Sir Robert aro the only two
J'remiers who were net peers and did
not accept a peerage from the (jueun.
Expert Thieves.
Thieves threw a hoo'c and lino
through an open window of a house at
Monterey, Mexico, and stole tho bed
clothes, under which tho owner of tho
bouse was bleeping.
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BT THB
FUN NT MEN OF THE PRESS.
It Does Satisfy Illm Same Old Styles
Used to It The Supreme Test
No Distinction, Ktc, ICtc,
This is a quonr old world of ours,
For alwaya it has been,
The time a man fuels most put out
Is whoa bo's taken In.
Judgo.
SAMR ODD STYLES,
"Has your wife gone iu for dress
reform?" "Iguossnot; hor bills aro
as big as ever." Chicago Record.
THB BtTPRBMB TRST.
"Do you think he really loves her?"
"I am sure of it. He exchanged his
wheel for the kind she rides." Brook
lyn Life.
NO DIBTIXCTIOX.
He "I don't think very muoh of
Jaok's manners, Miss Sweet."
She "No, they are like his calls,
they laek finish."
A FOBEION AUTICIiB.
Proud Pops "My daughter studied
painting abroad."
Friend "I thought so. I never
aw a sunset like that in this country."
C6ED to m
Mr. Newman "You're a nice little
boy, Tommy."
Tommy "That's what they all say
when thoy first meet sister." Tit
Bite.
TUB LINE OF LEAST RESISTANCE.
"Why do so many modern writers
seem to prefer notoriety to fame?''
"Because a man has to olimb for
fame, but he can get notoriety by an
easy tumble."
A GENTLE HINT.
"Nice dog I Have you taught him
any tricks siuce 1 was here last ?"
"Ob, yes; he will fetch your hat if
you whistle," sail she sweetly.
Dublin World.
SOME MEN TOO CkV.
Brown "Da you think you can
judge a man by the kind of shoes he
wears?"
De Flyppo "I always judge a girl's
father that way."
flyixowedoe's practice.
Smith "Is young Flyingwedge
practicing law?"
Williams "I think not. He was
oallcd to the bar, but I think he's
practicing economy." Illustrated
Bits.
BIOnXY PROGRESSIVE.
"Is Soryrasor progressive?"
"Progressive? Why, that fellow
can tell when his wifo is going to
make minoe-pie ; he always has the
nightmare the night bofore." Chi
cago Record,
CONVERSION BY FORCB.
"Do you thiuk, Harry, you could
induce one or two boys to come to
Sunday-school?"
"I could bring one," ho replied.
"De udder fellers in our alloy kin liok
mo." Dublin World.
IHRESISTIULB ELOQUENCE.
"We had a unique proposal contest
and Madge got the prize."
"How did the young man propose
to her?"
"He just walked in 'and threw a big
aolitaire diamond ring into her lap. "
IX CUBA.
"The insurgents," reported tho
officer who had mado the reoonnois
cance, "are enoamped about two miles
to the north."
"Good I" exclaimed General Wey
ler. "We will march at onco."
And he did march to the south.
LOTS OF FUN.
"Do you really enjoy shooting?"
"Why, yes, of courso," said the
dear girl, who had lately bought a
light ritle and a lovely pair of huntiug
bloomers. "Every time I mauage to
kill a rabbit cr a poor little bird I
have just the loveliest ory imaginable."
Indianapolis Journal.
A PROMISE.
"It is customary to remember the
waiter, sir," said tho waiter, as the
guest was about to take his leave
without feeing him.
"Oh, rest easy," said tho guest. "I
shall not forget you. Next time I
oome I shall have another waiter, or I
shall lunch elsewhere." Philadelphia
Press.
PROOF POSITIVE.
Miss Grace "They say that men
think only of themselves, but it isn't
so. I'm sure Charles is tho most un
seltich of mortals."
Mrs. Blaze "As for example?"
Mrs. Grace "Why, he says he is
never happy but when ho is with me;
and he stays out eveniugaftereveuing.
There, isn't that self-denial for you?"
Boston Transcript.
A DIKMAL OUTLOOK.
"I don't see much oliuuco for me
any way you take it," remarked the
prisoner iu a disconsolate tone.
"But no decision has yet been ren
dered," said a bystander.
"I know that.' But if the court be
lieves what the prosecuting attorney
says, I'll go to jail a heap longer thau
I deserve. And if I get turued loose
on tho community with the reputation
for lumb -like innocence giveu me by
the lawyer for the defense, it'll keep
me miserable the rest of my days try
ing to live up to it," Washington
Star.
SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL,
It is estimated that 2,000,000 toM
ef pure silver are held in solution by
all tho waters of the earth.
The banks of Newfoundland are
formed by the sand, ice and stone
brought from tho north by the ice
bergs. Within the last fifty years the rate
of speed of ocean steamers has trebled,
and the usual horao power inoroasod
from 700 to 10,000.
According to tho deductions of a
well-known astronomer, we reoeive as
muoh light from the sun as could be
emitted by 680,000 full moons.
Nicola Tesla says that the cause of
tho curious sunburn olfects upon the
hands by the X-rays is not tho rays
themselves, but tho ozouo generated
by them in contact with the skin. The
hands may be protected by immersing
them in oil beforehand, and thus pre
venting an access of air.
Gypsum has been dif-ooveredin large
quantities in Big Horn County, Wyom
ing, and is being used by the settlerf
for roofing their houses. Mixed with
a thin mortar and spread upon tho
roof it soon beoomes as hard as adam
ant and makes a most excellent pro
tection against the eloments.
A company has been formed at San
Antonio, Texas, for tho purpose of de
veloping the wonderful asphalt de
posits situated in the state of Tamaa
lipas, Mexico, which was recently de
scribed by United States Vice Consul
Von Vileuberg, of Matamoras, Mexioo.
The company has sooured a leaso for
fifty years on the property.
A Kansas man has been granted a
patent on a devico for fastening houses
together and holding them on thoir
foundations, whioh is simply a series
of rods fastened to opposite sides of
the house and to foundation walls and
roof, and fastened by means of turn
buckles, the idea being to prevent
houses from blowing away in cyolones.
Telephone wires seem to have au
important inducnoe in preventing
lightning from striking, aooording to
the investigations of the Gar mau tele- I
graph department. Three hundred
and forty towns with telephone sys
tems and G50 towns without them were
nnder observation. In the former the
lightning struck three times for every
hour of storm, in the latter five times.
Moreover, the violence of the light
ning was much less in the formor case.
A Child's Pica.
A pretty little golden-haired girl of
seven years walked timidly into a New
Jersey police court room the other
day and asked for "the man who sent
my mamma to jail." The judge hap
peped to overbear hor remark and
asked tho little miss what sho wanted.
Tears came into her eyes as she turned
to the judge and asked, "Did you send
my mamma to jail?" Whon told her
name, the judge recalled that a short
time before he had sonteuoed a woman
to jail for sixty days for drunkeuuess
and told tho child so. Looking up into
the kindly faco of the judge sho asked :
"Judge, did you ever have a mam
ma?" aud then, chokiug with sobs, sho
could control her feelings no longer
aud begged piteously for hor mother's
release. "Your mamma has been very
naughty," said tho judge. "She gets
drunk and abuses ber neighbors."
"But she is so good to me, and I love
her," sobbed tho goldon haired plead
er, "and if you'll let her go I I
won't let her be naughty auy more
I love hor so. Please, please, oh.ploaso
let hor go." That was too much for
the gray-haired, kind heartod magis
trate, and as he turned away to ordor
the roloisoof the mother, ho used his
bandkorohiof vigorously and his vtioo
was husky from a "bad cold," whioh
had suddenly developed.
Netilo Plant Fiber.
The nettle plant has long been known
to have a fiber finer and better than
hemp. In 18(19 tho sum of $25,000
was offered to tbo discoverer of a ma
chine to separate tho bark from tho
fiber. It seems that while no machine
has been found the chemists have had
good success. Tho fiber was used bo
fore the art of writing books; Rhoa
cloth is usod to wrap arouud tho mum
mies iu Egypt; for nets aud lines it is
the best thing known ; it is sometimes
called "China grass;" it is well known
to the Chinese, Malays, and Hindoos.
It has beeu worked up into ropes,
canvas, aud eveu clothing.
An English chemist, a Mr. Go moss,
uses zincato of soda to take out the
gums that aro in the liber; the fiber
comes out white aud strong ; it can be
vnrlrnil infrt nnv lrin:l r 9 ttlV und fnl
exceeds linen for luces, handkerohiefs, I
eta. It is vory light, too. One thou
sand yards of Rhea weighs as muoh as
000 yards of linen. It will probably
beoomo one of the prominent produc
tions of India. Tho common wild
nettle that grows lurgely on the road
sidos in tho t'nited States is a variety
of the Rhea plant, aud it may be that
it is susceptible of like treatment.
Big Orchid Collectors.
Thero is an idea abroad that Mr.
Chamberluin is the greatest amateur
orohid grower iu the world, but this
is not tho case, the collection of the
Empress Frederick of Germauy being
worth nearly double that of Mr. Cham
berlainprobably about 8200,000.
Miss Alice Rothschild is an enthusias
tic lover of flowers ; her collection ot
roses uloiio is said to bo worth $50,
000. W. W. Astor paid $0000 the
other duy lor tho stuck of a siuglo
variety of rose tree.
Riviera Flower Culture.
Tho cultivation of (lowers for export
and for the perfumery factories at
Grasse is au luiportuut industry on
tho Riviera, it is ollioiully estimated
that the value of Dowers annually ex
ported from Nice, Cuuuus, Bcaulieu j
sud Muutouo is 5uuu,uuj.
CLOSE TO NINETY
John ITnwnr 1 Bryant, nn only surviving
brother ol William Cullen Ilrvunt, apwd
about nlnnty years, re-.d.y, In Prlnoeton, 111,
J tin KorhnHtcr (S. Y.) Times myt of blmi
IIo Is unknown to famn, but not for want ol
native ability which, Jn.lR iu? from tho fol-lowlnnfreshly-written
Rem, might havemadi
him as Illustrious as his brother. Tb llnei
are entitled, "Close to Ninety," and wer
evoked by the action of a Uellefontaln.
(Ohio) Bryant literary society In maklna him
an honorary member:
Hero now I staoJ, upon life's outor vetno,
Close at my feet su oooan wide and deep,
Dark, sullen, sllont, and without a surge,
Whore earth's past myriads lie In dream
less steep.
'Tis here I stand without a thrill of fear,
la lonellniws nllled to the sublime;
Tho broken links of lovo that bound me
here,
Llo shattered on this treacherous shoal ol
time.
But still I oling to friends who yet remain,
Cling to the glorious scones that round ma
He,
Striving to stay tho haste-ef yoars In vain
As swifter yot the winded moments fly.
Idly, I seek tho future to explore,
I partly know what Is, but naught that Is
boforo,
John Howard Bryaat.
HUMOR OP THE DAY.
He "Her fuse is her fortune." She
'Then she is a self made woman."
Vale Record.
Edith "Did ho whispor swoet noth
ings when he proposed?" Ethel "Oh,
yes! sworo he'd bo ever true, and all
that."-Puok.
Young Solioitor "Make yourself
easy, my dear sir ; the sncoessful man
tgomont of your case shall be the task
if my life." Tit-Bits.
"What U 'pronunciation, Uncle
Tim?" "It is something you hunt np
in a dictionary one day and forget the
aext" Chicago Record.
Ada "Which was the most serious
engagement Captain Slasher was ever
in?" Jaok "fhe ono that led to his
marriago, I presume." Larks.
"Now, they Bpenk of hor as an up-to-dato
girl. What do you understand
by that?" "My boy, a girl that is up-to-date
is up to anything." Puck.
Mrs. Gray "Do vou like steam
beat?" Mrs. Brown "Ueolly, I don't
know. Yon tee, we only have steam
cold in our flat." Boston Transoript.
"8pring Is hore," the poot said,
Aud as the storm door hitolie 1 its belt,
And slammed him down ten llltfhts of stairs,
Tho force of his remark he felt!
Ulnulnuntl Tribune.
A sportive youth will fcol compli
mented if you call him "a gay young
dog," but not if yon refer to hirn as
"afresh young puppy." Philadelphia
Record.
Dorathca "There goes Jack with
his wealthy bride, girls." Thoodosia
"Yes ; aren't men fickle? To think
that only last summer he wai engaged
to us!" Truth.
First Artist (patronizingly) "Van,
Dike is a good fellow, but he never
will bo a finished paint r." Sjoond
Artist "No; all of his figures are en
tirely too life-like." Judge.
Thero are over sixty millions of peo
ple in this country, and at least fifty
millions of them have been cured of
somothing at one time or another.
West Union (fowa) Gazjtte.
Cumso "Why don't Mr. Gilgaland
Miss Perkasie get married i" U iwker
"Shyness on both sides." "How do
you make that out?" ".She is a shy
little thing by nature and ho is shy of
cash."
"Do you see anything ooming our
way?" asked tho morning tlT of
companion. "Not yot," ww the re
ply ; "but I see n servant below there
who is about to light hor kitoheu fire
with kerosene."
"That Willio Feathers is the most
impudent man lover mot." "Really?"
"lie is. I told him I had never beeu
kissed by a muu in all my life, and he
said 'I oan well believe you.'" Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
Tommy "Paw, what is adding in
sult to injury?" Mr. Figg "Well, I
once had a dentist at work on uy teeth
for half a day, aud when he got
through he said he hoped I had a
pleasaut time." Iudiuuapolis Jour
nal. She "You are always talking about
the fashions. Now, honestly, do you
think you would know tho latest fash
ion in hats if you were to enter a mil
liner's?" He "Certuinly." Hue
"How?" Ho (ruefully) "By looking
at the prioos." Comio Cuts.
Tho thoosophist gazed at tho op
posite wall with a far away smile. "We
become what we eat," sho murmured.
That is a great truth." "Groat Je
hosophat I" exclaimed a voioe in the
corner ; "what kiud of a menagerie do
I become when I eat hujhV Wash
ington Capital.
Chumpley "That hypnotist is a
fraud. He couldn't coutrol my mind
at all last night." Pokley "Of
course, he had some excuse." Chump
ley "Yes, he taid there was do ma
terial to work ou. You ought to have
beard tho audience give him the
luugh." Detroit Freo Press.
Slaking an Artificial Skin.
A process has been patented in Ger
mauy for making a substitute for the
natural skin for use in wounds. The
muscular coatiug of the iutustiues of
animals is divested of mucous mem
brane and then treated iu a pepsin
foiutiou until tho muscular fibers are
bid! digested. After a second treat
ment with tan nia uu l gallic aoid a
tissue is produced which tuko the
plucu ot the natural skiu, and which,
wheu luid ou the wound, is entirely
absorbed during tho healing procets.
lairopettu population.
Europo has iucjii'c-d its population
by sixly-two per cent, within the last
sixtv-two years, but in the same time
IM.OO.llllJ of its iuhuliitouts have emi
grated to otlier couutrie.