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TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1897. ffil.00 PER ANNUM. vf "V 3T7 ST The New Yorkf'imes estimntan the present popnlntioil of "Greater New York" at 3,105,000, and its debt $217, 000,000. Brooklyn became a city in 1834, when its inhabitant numbered 45,000, and it ends its separate history no a mu nicipality with a population of 1," Water power seems to have takenan extraordinary development in France. Out of a total of 118,655 separate worh shops, fifty-nine per cent, generate their power by water. It is amusing to notice the awe with which the Japanese newspapers refer to the Czar and his empire. Russia is almost invariably spoken of as "a cer tain country," and the Czar is "a cer tain Emperor." Says the Philadelphia Rocord: The .population of the United Rtat.es is now nearly double that of the British Isles, yet notwithstanding tho disparity in natural resources the commerce of Great Britain is more than double that of the United States. It is an interesting fact that the new Chinese Minister at Washington is a Christian mnn, a member of the Church of England. His suite nearly all speak English, and one of them, who it is ex pected will be Consul-General, belong! to a -well-known Christian family in Hong Kong, Indifference to pain and quick re roverT from serious wounds, whicl have been noted by the war correspon dents as characteristic of the Turkish soldiers, are in reality, says the New York Times, clear proof that they be long to a race still in the barbaric stage of development. Chinese are even more tolerant of injuries than are the Turks.. The Boston Herald observes: "Time was when it was more or less fashion able for certain well-to-do Bostontians to go out of town on the first day of May, in order to escape taxation here, but we don't hear so much about this sort of thing nowadays. Everybody appears to have reached the sensible conclusion that there's no money made or happiness achieved by attempting I to dodge one's taxes." 1 1 ,.i;,. t.i. 11: : l n v.u miu Dnuuiuuni Hue UUUIU UU1 of Tort Huron, Mich, has a standing rule that clergymen and Indians can travel on its boat for half fare. The other day the agent of the line was ap proached by an Indian preacher from a Cauadian reservation just across the river, who asked for free transporta tion to his destination on the ground he was entitled to ouo-half rebate be cause he was an Indian and the other half because he was a clergyman. Speaking of a State flower for Rhode Island, 'the Providence Journal sug gests that the violet is small enough to be appropriate for the smallest State in the Union, and that the rose might be supposed to have a certain philol ogical claim to attention on account of its Greek name, rhodoii, which sug gests the name of the State, but it ex plains that Rhode Island derived its liarue from Adrian Block, who called ' it Roodt Eylaudt, from the red clay along its shores. Recourse has been had to the courts in Philadelphia by some reputable and public-spirited citizens to prevent the city's incurring an additional debt ol $11,000,000 which has been author ized by the city councils for public im provements, ttie claim being made that .the city has already passed the consti tutional limit of liabilities. That limit is seven per cent, of the taxable prop erty, with an allowable addition of two per cent, upon a favorable vote of the taxpayers. The total debt of the city is now $54,023,120. The Swiss Government is not throw ing away- valuable franchises. The account of the conditions under which franchise was recently granted to the Jungfrau Railway Company is enough to paralyze an American railroad magnate, believes the New Orleans Picayune. The company is forbidden io fence off any portion of the moun tains or interfere With foot passengers who wish to climb to the summit. It is required to erect at a coHt of $20,000 a permanent observatory on the inouu tuin top and pay $250 a month for keeping up the name. The road must be under ground for uiue-teuths of the distance, and the fare is fixed by law. A certaiu percentage of the gross receipts are to be paid to the Govern ment, which also luys claim to all the mineral and other specimens brought to light by the excavations. The pre cautions for safety are stringent, and the company is liable to the Govern ment for all violations of a long libt of regulations'. REGRET. They como to me In the shadows That cover the dying day, Thny take their forms and substance. Out of the twilight Bray; They have no tangible fontilros. Nor any form of speech, But they point their misty fingers To heights I can never reach. They bring up out of the darkness Old-timo hopes nnd fears. Till tho shadow faces are fninter Behind a mlHt of tenrs. The saddest things of a llfetlmo Are theso shades of old regret For the dear Idenls that missed us And the Joys that we didn't got. it. T3TTTT TTTnT-TTQ ' A ltnitnl "Sport" Every Mexiuau ciiy has one or two bull rings, and iu ut least two cities there are double rings where two fights cau be seen at the same time for one admission fee, on the plan of the big American circuses. Troupes of bull fighters travel from one city to another, just the same as Vircnses. playiug engagements of seveil weeks tn each city and receiving a stipulated sum for each kerfprmance. Bull fights ae held on SundcVs and feast days. It was to the Plana de Toros bull ring that jhe writer 1 made his way. This ring i. shaped I ke an amphitheatre, open to the sky.l The arena is inolosed by a punk fencE) four feet high, with jaib a. footlwide, eighteen inches from the ground on the inside, on which jlrformors .step and vault over the fAice when too hotly pursued by an 4gry bull, land ing in a narrow alli"that separates the fence from the not row of seats. The arena is 200 feet diameter, and the floor is of sal packed hard. Back of the alley twevl tires of plank seats rise up. Abovtjf hese are the boxes, furnished witliMairs, crowded closely together.' Faojj the arena on the first tier of seats i e private box of the referee and his Vler, and near by is the band stand, lie amphithe atre will seat 10,000 peijlle. The ad mission ranges from tw jity-flve cents to $2, seats, on the sunn side of the ring costing just one-han as much as those in the shade. A b t costs from 88 to $20, and will hold m four to ten people. The fights begin at 3 o'clock and end at 6, but the crowd ,(tgius to arrive an hour before the spo begins. Mexican peons are poor, but- (one of them is so poor that he ranno lig up money enough at least every othet Sun day to buy a ticket for the buli Ight. They Bit so close together oil the sunny side that their broad-brim, high crown straw hats resemble circles of toad-stools. The well-to-do and fashionables occupy the boxes, and there is always a liberal sprinkling qf foreigners in the crowd. Twenty minutes before 3 o'clock the band arrived and was welcomed with a prolonged cheeV .from the bleachers. The leader arose aud bowed his acknowledgments, and then the band struck up a quickstep. Then came the referee, and he was cheered, too. The referee is a Gov ernment or State official, and has charge of the performance. It is his duty to see that the bulls have a fair bIiow, to impose fines if members of the troupe do not put up a good fight, aud to act as master of ceremonies. The sport is governed by as stringent rules as prize fighting. One rule is that the bull must always be attacked from the front, never from the rear or side. To violate this rule means a fine and an unmerciful scoriug from the bleachers, who are as sharp oritics as those who sit iu an opera house gal lery. The referee no sooner takes his seat than an indescribable yell goes up from the impatient bleachers. The referee nods to his bugler, who blows the signal blast. The band strikes up. The gates opposite the referee's box swing open and the troupe of bull fighters enters the' arena, advancing to the referee's stand and bowing low. The matador hearts the procession. He is the star performer, who finally kills the bull, considered the most ex citing aud perilous feat performed. He is followed by the capeadors,who flaunt gaudily colored capes at the bull to anger him. Then come the bauderilleros, who, when the bull is sufficiently stirred up, thrust sharp barbs on each side of his vertebra) that make hiui wild with rage. The picadors follow on horseback, aud the procession ends up with three white mules, harnessed abreast, w ith bright oolored ribbons flying from the harness aud strings of tiny bells jingling. The mules draw out the dead bull at the end of each act. Your first thought is that a bull fight is a tame affair. The little procession is pleasing to the eye, and the feeling of horror thr.t possesses you when you sat down has worn away. The men are picturesquely dressed in knee breeches, short velvet jackets, trimmed with gold luce and silver braid, aud silk hose. They might be French pluyactors, and they step about and bow iu as courtly a mauuer as a prince might. The bleachers appluud the poraders Jong aud loudly. The horses are gaily ca parisoned, and the trappings hide tlio fact that they are poor, old, woruout hacks that have been doped and fed up for the killing. The mules are driveu out, aud the .troupe arrange themselves about the arena. The muK.o of the baud ceases aud a hush comes over the 6000 people who have gathered to see the sport. The referee uods to his irVler. Before the blast has died awajhe low gates opposite the band staud fly open aud the bull enters the arena from the dark pen whore he has been confined for Tho prayer that never was answered, The prise that never was won, Beautiful thoughts unspoken. Work that was left undone, The help that never was offered, The letter I didn't wrlto All lift reproachful faces Out of the gathering night And the finished work seems nothing Heside the work undone, And the given victory small and weak To that which I might have won. They fill me with vague longings, These sad ghosts of regret, For tho only Joys worth holding Are those I didn't get. -Marie Conway, la Savannah Tress. w TNT MTYTPH Graphically Dcficr.becl. three days, Just as he passes under the railing a dart, to which are at tached the colors of his breeder, is thrust into his shoulder, and the pain maddens him. He comes bellowing to the centre of the arena, and the bright sunshine blinds him for an instant. He stops and stares at the howling mob above and around him and won ders what it all means. The capeadors qniokly run up and flaunt their buckskin-lined capes at him, and he charges them, but they step deftly aside and the bull slips and falls to his knees. In an instant he leaps to his feet and the oontest is renewed. When hot pressed the capeador leaps over the fence. Sometimes the bull follows after him, and sometimes he kills the capeador. After the capeadors have taunted the bull they retire and the picadors advance on horseback. The horses, with the right eye blindfolded, go forward to almost certain death. The picador swings a long lance in his right hand and grasps the reins in his loft. The point of the lance is sharp enough to irritate the bull but not sharp enough to inflict injury. The time to injure the bull has not arrived. The picador advances to the centre of the arena and awaits the charge. As the bellowing black mass rushes for ward with head lowered the picador tries to repulse him by pressing the lance against his neck and head. Three times the picador must repulse the bull if he follows the rules. But the advantage of strength, momentum and weight is with the bull, and often at the first charge he knocks down the horse and throws the rider to the ground. Instantly the capeadors snr round the bull and attract his attention while the picador extricates himself from under the .fallen horse. The blindfolded horse is whipped to his feet and staggers about the arena, sometimes desperately wounded. Perhaps the bull will charge him again and literally gore him to shreds. If the wound is not too severe the horse is hurried out of the inclosure, thrown on his back, and the wound sewed up. Then the animal is doped and ready to re-enter the arena when the next bull is let in. Sometimes the sharp horns Vf the maddened bull meroifully pierce the horse's heart and end its sufferings at once. When the horse is gored and stumbling about the arena the bleaoh ers are on their feet and yelling at the top of their voices. They love to see blood run. iThe horses ore now removed from tufc arena, the bugle sounds again and the banderilleros are introduced. There are three of them and each Car rie tw banderillas, a stout stick the size of t broom handle and a trifle less than thiee feet long. There is a barb in one aid as sharp as a trout hook, and the sticks are wound with bright colored tissue paper. The banderil lero takes his place ia the centre of the ring aii assumes a defiant atti tude. He ties not retain it long. The bull charge him with lowered head. The banderiliero does not move, and you fancy, for an instant, that he will be gored to '.eath. As the horns al most touch hia, he drives the bander illas into the bull's shoulders; then, with wonderful dexterity, steps aside and out of iVaugnr. It is done so deft ly that you are puzzled, The jfeull bellows withyaii. and tears aboulfu a frantic, effort' to remove the barbs. Blood trickle down his sides. Two other bauderilleros repeat the trick, and with six barbs liauging from his shoulders the bill is frenzied with rage. If a banj!erill,iro fails to plant a barb in the!ill'i4 shoulders he is hissed, aud if he niif&es both thrusts he is fined. A certain lumber Vf misses in succession, aud the little knot of hair he wears on the back of his head will be cut off by order of the referee and he will be compelled to desert the arena disgraced. You ad mire the dexterity of the banderiliero, but your sympathies are with the bull. It is a feat that requires great nerve. A misstep means death. The bull is now wild with rage and pain, and the most exciting act is yet to come. The bugle blows again, aud the matador, king of the bull fighters, enters the arena and bows to the mul titude, who rise to do him honor. He advances to the centre of the arena aud faces his foe. He carries a red cope over his sword, a Damascus blade, three feet long. The blood-red oape attracts the bull's attention at once, and he charges the matador, who must dodge three rushes before he has per mission to kill. As the bull wheels for the fourth charge the matador poises his blade iu the air and calmly awaits the rush. The bull bends hit head, shuts his eyes, and comes on with great force until within threo feet of the matador. The sword flashes iu the sunlight and is buried between the bull's shoulders, piercing the heart. ...A -fll jl . a stream oi uiooa spurts over tiie apt' mal s back. His rush is checked alid he comes to a sudden stop. The mi titude cheer frantically aud scores hats, canes and adobe dollars are showered into the arena by the excited admirers of the matador. He bows his thanks. The bull totters, falls to his knees and buries his nose in the sand. An attendant runs np and buries the point of a dagger deep in the bull's brain. As the attendants hand the hats and canes to the excited people on the plank seats the bugle sounds again. The three white mules are driven in. A rope is fastened about the horns of tho dead bull and he is drawn out. The spectators wait impatiently for the next. Six times was this performance re peated during the afternoon. When six bulls are dead the gome is over for the day. There are cowards among bulls as well as men. The second bull that entered promptly jumped the fence, and could not be induced to fight. The bleachers were disgusted, aud shouted their taunts loudly, hurl ing all kinds of epithets at the coward ly animal. The refereo heeded their cries, and ordered the bull returned to a pen. This was accomplished by let ting in three spotted steers with bells fastened to their necks. When they turned to go out the bull meekly fol lowed them. The third bull trotted iu with the majestic air of a lion, his tail swung to one side. He was a big black fellow with magnificent horns and full of fight. He killed two horses in less than three minutes, and almost killed two capeadors. They escaped death by a miracle. When the matador drove his sword into this bull he missed the heart, and the point of the blnde emerged from the animal's body sev eral inches, just back of the foreleg. Catcalls and shouts of derision greeted the failure of the matador, but he re deemed himself. Deftly he recovered his sword, and at the next attempt drove the blade in to the hilt, piercing heart. The Mexican bleachers love blood and skill; they want no false moves. The greatest Mexican bull fighter is Ponciano Diaz, and he' is the most popular man in Mexico with the masses. Some of the feats he performs are won derful. He will stand in the centre of the arena, sword in hand, and await the approach of the bull. By a deft movement he places his feet between the bull's horns, drives his blade into the bull's heart, and withdraws it so quickly that there is not a stain left on the silk handkerchief he draws the blade through. He is the personifica tion of all that is great to the people. There were six bulls and eight horses killed the afternoon the writer visited the Plaza de Toris, and his only regret was that he did not see a bull fighter gored. If the troupes do not give a good per formance the referee imposes a fine of from $100 to $250, which goes to the city treasury. The bulls are bred on purpose for the sport, and the original stock came from Spain: The matadors receive large salaries and a great deal of homage. The troupes ride from their hotel to the bull ring in open car riages and are saluted all along the route. A troupe of Spanish bullfight ers once came to Mexico and received $1 80,000 for eighteen exhibitions. Bull fighting is a scientific sport and not a hit-and-miss game. It is also very dangerous work. At Durango, on the afternoon the writer saw tho fight iu the City of Mexico, four performers lost their liveB, two of tbem being killed by the same bull. At another fight the same day a bnll tossed a man thirty feet in the air, killing him iiiHtautly. Such accidents are wildly cheered by the crowd, aud the bull gets credit for taking the opportunity. New York Sun. Pigmy Cocoanuta From China. "What in the world do you call these things?" asked a customer of a South Wnter street commission man yester day, as he carefully examined four or five small, slightly oval shaped objects. "Guess," Baid the commission man. "Can't ?ive np." "Those are Chinese coeoauuts." "Why, they aren't much larger than marbles." "They are very scarce in this coun try. I happened to get a hold of these through a friend of mine. He spent the winter down iu Florida, aud one day he was walkiug along the beach and discovered these Hunting in the water. They don't grow anywhere around here, and the natural conclu sion reached as to how they got to the Florida coast was that they drifted all the way from China of their own ac cord." "What makes them so small?" "I don't know, but you see that they are exactly like the common cocoauut, except in size. In China they are used a great deal for flavoriug purposes." Chicago Record. Jap. Want 1'ower. It has been written that no mail by giving thought unto himself cuu add one cubit to his stature, but the enter prising Jop does not despair, and an ordinance has gone forth exhorting the people to eat more freely of meat, with a view to increasing the average height of the race. Whatever results may follow the method proposed, they are certaiu to be a long time coming, but it is only another instance of the determination on the part of the Japanese not to let the slightest chalice slip for attaining all the ad vantoges which they see,- or think they Bee, iu Western civilization. (reek felloe Ar. Funny. Greek shoes are lieurly alway? made of red leather. They turn up at the toes and are ornamented with a red and blue pompou of floss silk on the instep and are sometimes embroidered with a gold aud silver thread. Unless elaborately embroidered a handsome pir may be bought for a dollar. The people who wear the native costume all of them wear these shoes, which are made iu coarser leather for the country. THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Our Trn-uipa-Wliy 11a iMdn't 11 ny A flrrnt Truth Tan (Joncl tor tho Finer An Appropriate Tnnrt (Inve Whnt Ph AkMl On II Im I'ppm, Ktc, Ktr. Tut nwny tho littlo rirpfwH That our rinrllnif nd to wr. Clip from Mint fair hmw tho trows Shining roils of sunny hnir, Lnv ai(lo tho dainty ffiirmmit. With tho rinKlntfl wo loved ho; For our Johnnie Is In "broeohv," Asxd tho "Binsy purls' must ro. Virginia Kiug Frye. Why Il Dliln't Tiny. Little Man (golf enthusiast 'Why clou t you piny golf? Big Man (blase) "Why, because I object to chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture." Olrla anil the Mn. May "I wouldn't brenk my heart over the best man in the world." Choperone "Certainly not, dear. It is over the worst man that girls break their hearts." Truth. A GrpRt Truth, "The overage man hasn't half os much sense os a clock." "Why not?" "Because when a clock is run down it quits." Detroit Free Tress. Uave What Shct Aakrd. Mabel "I wonder how did Clnra induce him to propose?" Minnie "Sho told him she was am bitious to win a name for herself, and common politeness made him oiler his." Truth. An Appropriate Tune. Drusilla "Do you play 'Home, Sweet Home,' on the piano when it is time for Charlie Peterbee to say good night?" Dorothy "Xo; I hnvo to piny 'In the Morning by the Bright Light. ' " On Ills I'ppers. Editor "This poem that was hand ed in to-day is signed "Short." Do you know the writer?" Assistant "Never saw him before, but I guess the signature is genuine; he looked it." Commercial Advertiser. A Talented Srheme, "Joe got the inside track of his wife this veor." "What did he do?" "He read her a whole lot of news paper stories of men who had dropped dead beating carpets." Detroit Free Press. A Hardened Monster. Mother (angrily) "The brute. IIo has dared to scold you?" Daughter (sobbing) "Not so bad as that, mamma. I scolded him from the house five minutes ago, and the un feeling wretch hasn't come back yet!" New York World. Too Good fur the l'lnce. Bill "Did you get that job as office boy, Jimmy?" Jimmy "No. The gont arsked me if I was a good whistler, an' I told 'im I was the best whistler iu our street, au' then 'e said I wouldu't do. S'pose 'e wanted a perfessional." rick-Me-Up. A Suspicious Circumstance. "Poor Mrs. Jaysmith!" exclaimed Mrs. Gargoyle. "Her husband must treat her shamefully." "What makes you sny that?" askod Mrs. Gummey. "She never com plains." "I know it. That is what makes me suspicious." Lite. The Magnet. Brown "There fies Wheeler, the most popular ninu iu town. The girls are just crazy over him." Jones "Impossible! Why, he's only a bookkeeper and as poor as a church mouse." Brown "That may be. But he is the owner of a new tuudom bicycle." New York Journal. Culture a Failure. "Hortensia," said her father, "will you have some taters?" "If you refer to the farinaceous tubers which pertuiu to the solatium tuberosum, and which are commonly known as potatoes," replied the sweet girl, "I should be pleased to be helped to a modicum of the same. But taters? Taters I'm quite sure, papa, thut they are something of which X never before had the pleasure of hearing." The old muii pounded on the table until the pepper caster laid down for a rest, aud then remarked in a voice of icy coldness: "Hortensia, will you have some of the spuds?" "Yes, dad." Is our boasted high school system a failure, or is it not?" Boston Post. (lave Iter Slater Awuy. It was a loivg time since they had seeu each other, and naturully enough they had lots of real nice things to say to each other, but herlittlesisterGrace was very much in the way so to speak. "Run along to mamma, di ar," she said to the little one. "I'll give you some candy if you will." "No, I don't want to." "Ah now, please do, like a good lit tle gill." "Hut I'd rather slay lur.." "1 won't tuko you out driving wilh mo to-morrow, if you don't." Her pleading were in vain, mid so the little one remained. Presently luumina cume iu, and the conversation Jagged a trille. Kud leuly u thought struck Utile sister. ".Shv, she asked, "v but did you want me to go to mamma for a little while ago?" Twinkles. Augustus Perowe, mi eleven-year-old Bath (Me.) boy, has St 8 to his credit in the bank, every cent of which he earned himself with his flock of fifty liens. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. An absolutely fireproof chimney, fifty feet high, has been built of paper at Breslau. It is the only one of the kind. Thirty-two and three-quarters knots an bofir is tho recent record made by the British torpedo boat Turhinio on her trial trip on the Bivcr Tyne. Since pneumatic tires have come into nse on cabs in Paris, it has been found that owing to the redneed shock to vehicles, the cost of repair has been lessoned fifty per cent. The dry volcanic ore along the Col orado River, above and below Yuinn, has been found to be rich in gold. It is necessary to roast the rock in order to make it yield up its treasure. The Yale Class of 1897 has bought and presented to the Pcnbody Museum a valunblo meteoric stone, found three years ago on the Smoky Hill Biver, Kansas. The stone weighs sixty-five pounds. The British Museum con tains only two stones which are larger. A prominent member of the Eng lish Itoyal Botanic Society proposes to devote the Sahara desert to the rois iug of esparto grass, which is almost as useful as wood pulp. Paper makers have forgotten that they were once concerned about the scarcity of rags. It is calculated that a fluent speaker utters between 7000 and 7500 words iu the course of on hour's uninter rupted speaking; many orators of more than usually rapid utterance w ill roach 8000 and even 9000. But 125 words a minute, or 7500 au hour, is a fair overage. Strougely enough, the X rnys will not penetrate glass. Eyeglasses, if photographed, come out black. This proved useful in the case of a Vienna glass worker who got a bit of gloss into his finger. By tho aid of the rays its was discovered, extracted, and the workman cured. The evening primrose opening about dusk has a very light linen yellow color for the attraction of night flying moths, by which, almost en tirely, it is fertilized, although it re mains open during the day to Borne ex tent, and may at that time receive some visits from bees, but it is pecu liarly adapted to fertilization by night flying moths. The other species of the primrose family (so called) are fertilized by bees, which, of course, are day flying. The temperature at the bottom of the ocean is nearly down to freeziug point, and sometimes actually below it. There is a total absence of light, as far as sunlight is concerned, and there is au enormous pressure, reck oned at about one ton to tho square inch in every 1000 fathoms, which is 160 times greater than that of the at mosphere we live in. At 2500 fath oms the pressure is about thirty times more powerful than the steam pressure of a locomotive when drawing a train. COOD ROADS NOTES. This is a great country but somo parts of it are too soft. Material for making a road isn't lucking half as often as is the disposi tion to get at it. The man who appreciates the differ ence between good and bad roads may be said to have "horse boiibo." The cyclists in tiro vicinity of Potts town, Peun., have boon instrumental in securing 600 tons of cracked stone placed on the roads in the vicinity of their town. A writer in the Des Moines (Iowa) Farmer's Tribune urges the superiority of gravel roads for that State. His reason is principally the trifling cost of the gravel as compared with tho cost of stone necessary for a macadam rood. The Worcester (Muss.) Road Im provement Association has a novel plan for awakening the public to the need of better streets in that city. They have offerod prizes for collections of photographs of bail streets taken during the spring ami summer, which will be put on slides by the association and exhibited in public ucxt fall. Mississippi now has a road law which, if properly carried hit i effect, and if kept iu ell'ect for a material length of time, Mill, iu tho opinion of the Mobile (Ala.) Register, "probably give the State a system of public rouds superior to any that it has ever hud, and perhaps superior to that of a majority of the Southern States." The Itound Cotton Hale, At first transportation companies and muuufueturers were doubtful of the advisability of introducing the new cotton presses which turn out cylin drical bales. They believed they could uot be packed readily, and that it would be difficult to remove samples. The latter objection was soon shown to be groundless, aud it was demonstrated that the new presses packed the cotton so compactly thut it requires less space than by the old system of square bales. This same compactness wus proved, by actual experiment, to be a great pro tection iu case of fire. Inky water water was also thrown over it and would not penetrate. There is a grow ing belief iu tho South thut the round bulo is coming iuto general use. At lanta Constitution. i The TlireMd-Miid-eedlu Tree One of Mexico's most curious is called the thread and-ueedlo and it bears a close resemblance overgrowu asparagus. Along tl of the leaves, which are tin llushly and full of tiliv fibres ol strength, very sharp "ueedles" If pushed buck iuto the leuf, u ut loose from its tough setting tho .norn muy be eusily pulled out, a lot of the tough little fibres attached to the root of thorn coming out with it. When these fibres are twisted together with wax a stroug, smooth thread is the remit. THE COOD OLD THINCS. Vi'fl iisr-.l to have ili.rn'il"int thing, like hominy nml Kn'en. AVo tn to linvn just common Foup, nintlo out. of pork nrt'l homis But now it's bouillon, oonHoinmo, and tiling mnl from s bonk. And pot mi fMi nnl julI'Miii". siiwo nay duuijhtrr's l''nrn"l to conk. We ust'l to have a pl'vv; of liei'f just ordi nary meat. And plekied plus' fet, spam rils, too, anil otlier tiiiims to eat. Wlillo now It's 111 let nnd r;o?nut, ami leg of mutton bruised, And noi'viroiil nu Kratln, and sheep's head Hnllaudnisad. Th" good old tilings hnve poised nwny la silent, sad retreat; We've lots of hiahfnlullii' tliliiKs, but noth ing mueli to ent, And while I never sny n word nnd always plensnnt look. You bet I've Imd dyspepsia sinee my daugh ter s learned to cook. --('lileni?o lilndo. HUMOR OF THE DAY. "That is Mr. Peninnn. He is a poet." "What does he do for a liv ing?" Puek. She "Let us stop dancing; my hair is coining down." He "Nevermind, I'll pick it up." Le Mond Cotnique. Prison Librarian "What, sort of book would you like to hnve?" Convict "Got any bicycle catalogues?" Tuck. I'ynic "I can't see why n man who is happy when single should ever niar rv." Friend "Ho never does." Puck. Scorcher "Do you think the horse will survive the bicycle?" Piekimup "I don't think anything else will."--. Truth. Mr. Newlinb "What does it mean when a bride promises to obey?" Mrs. Newhub "Simply that she pre fers not to make a scene." ruck. "Would 'you consider it proper to precede the father of your sweetheart down stairs?" "It may be proper, but it isn't always safe. " Yale Record. Mrs. Pancake "I enu't see why a great big fellow like you should beg." Hungry Hank "Well, mum, I s'pose me size help to gimme an appetite!" Truth. Connoisseur "How dare you claim that thatbnrean is 500 years old? It is no more thuu fifty." Dealer "Oh, that kind always ages very rapidly." Fliegende Blaetter. "I sow a man to-day who had no hands piny tho piano." "That's noth ing! We've got a girl down in our flat who hns no voice nnd who sings." Youkors Statesman. "How did old Coltherstone take tho news of his aunt's death?" "Well he was sorry she had to go but ho was glad she had 25,000 sho didn't tuke with her." Puck. Dolly Swift "Isn't old Jack Rush, who is paying court to Miss Thirty Bniith, rutherfust?" Sally Gay "De cidedly so, but not fast enough to get away from her." Puck. Priscilla (just arrived) "Are there any men here?" Phyllis "Oh, there are a few apologies for men!" Pris cilla "Well, if au apology is offered to mo I shall accept it." London Tit Bits. Polite Visitor "Why, tho baby looks just, like its father." YoUg Father (aside to servant) "Mary, there any laudanum iu tho house? I do not wish to live any longer." Standard. He "Miss liellacour claims to be long to a very old family." She "Well, she'ii justified. There ore six of those girls, and the youngest of them must be at least thirty-five." Cleveland Leader. Edith "I hope he didn't make a speech when ho proposed to you." Maud "Why, no; he wus so nervous he could hardly speuk." Edith Poor boy! He's a better lover than when I first knew him!" Truth. Ho (salesman) "Deer little hand (ubsontmiudedly) ; I wonder if it will wash?" Sho (con spiiito) "No, sir, it won't; nor it won't scrub, either; but, if yon want it to play the piuno, it's yours, George." Londou Tit-Bits. Big Culf (vainly) "(Set out of my way or I'll step on you. You're no body! Burnyard Fowl (haughtily) "If you could hear folks grumble hen they find veal iu chicken salad you'd change your tune." New York Week- "I throw myself on your mercy!" wailed tho 250-pound leading lady. The leudiug man sank beneath her weight. "I now realize," he mur mured, "what is meant by the power behind tho thrown." Philadelphia Record. "I limy lead a wild life," said Jig gers; "but I take care about the peo ple my boys associate with." "I know you do," said Hawkins. "I've observed thut you spend very little time with 'cm yourself old mnn, and I honor you for it." Harper's lluiur. "Tho mail who brought this in," re marked the editor's assistant, "told me coutldeutiully thut he needed the money for it." " Yes," us the mel uucholy answer; "it's, a strunge fact that the longest poems seem almost in variably to bo writtcu by the shortest poets." Washington Star. Old Lady "Fill ufiaid your story ot your wife's death a fortnight agn uud your children's illness is not qiiita tho truth." Tramp "Not true! Look 'o 'ere lady; I've been iu this uu foit'nate pcrsiliou for more nor live yeur, u'ld 'nvo suid the sunie thing Sindruds of times, uud you re the fust is ever doubted my void afore!" Loudon Fun. A Wi-IkIoj IU II.-, 11. hi. "flic h iiievmouii," said tho solemn boarder, "is treated wilh levity, heu really it is a matter of much gravity." "And the honeymoon b.-iad," sug gested the Cheerful Idiot, "is u mutter uf uiiuh speeilic gravity. " ludiuiiapJ-
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