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S1.00 PEU ANNUM, Dtp KE EST 3 v. 0 In tlio public schools in Japat the English language is required by law to bo taught. In the United States 9.000,000 farm hands raise half ns much grain an Crt,000,000 in Europe. The Nashville Banner says there is a chil l throe months old iu thot city who can talk distinctly. Girl, of course "Every new crevasso in the South ern river hanks is a now appeal for preservation of the forests," maintains the Now York Tribune. The total building in Atlanta, Ga., will greatly exoeed that of any previous year. Hard times do not seem to be having much effeut iu this progressive city. A Chicago man has invented a kind of cloth which ho. says is absolutely bullet-proof. Why not test that in vention on the cheerful imbecile who persists iu rocking the rowboat about this time of year? Professor Taylor, of the Louisiana A. and M. College, hits the nail on Win head when ho says, there is no situation iu which tho American work man makes so unsatisfactory nn appear ance as whon he is endeavoring to do tho least possible amount of labor which is to account as a day's work on--1 the highway of his district. Caterpillars are doing great damage to trees and shrubs in some parts of western New York. The entomolo gists of Cornell University say that they are hatched from eggs that wero deposited on the trees last July, and that the eggs were covered with a sort of varnish to protect thorn from tho f suow.and raiu. They are called "tent caterpillars," nud after hatching o,ut they weave for themselves a kind of tent. After attaining their growth they form cocoons, aud about the first of July develop into moths. Iu his address nt the unveiling of the bust of Sir Walter Scott in West minster Abbey John Hay, the United States Ambassador to Great Britain, told how ho had heard from his father, a Kentucky pioneer, that, in the early days of tho century, mou would sad dle their horses and ride fron all the neighboring counties to the principal post town of that region wheu a new novel by the author of "Waverley" was expected. Through the important formative days of the Republic, ho said, Scott was tho fuvorite nuthor of tho Americans. "A few days ago," says the Rail way Review, "a mau walked iuto the Chicago office of tho Canadian Pacific and handed Ticket Ageut C. L. Will iams a $3 note. He said thai ho had ridden over a stretch of the Canadian Pacific a few years ago without paying for the ride, aud his conscience had been troubling him. He refused to give his name or address, but told Mr. Williams that $5 would cover his in debtedness to the railroad." The man iu whose heart of hearts there dwells an upbraiding conscience and the memory of a ride that was never paid for is said to be au intermittent but familiar correspondent of all rail ways. Tho" American Agriculturist says: The German farmers are prosecuting with energy their fight against tho grain exchanges which deal in "fu tures." Obliged to abandon former Open trading of this character, a co terie of Berlin grain merchants has been meeting in the capacity of a club, pursuing their old methods. The law tiui followed them, however, aud the Hitter will now be appealed to the highest court in tho empire. The utiul decision will prove interesting iu view of the strong sontiuieut not only among the agricultural classes of Ger many, but in Englaud and United Stutes as well, against this form of speculative trailing. A Louisville gentleman, who has at tained theripe agoof eighty-nine years, . ..I is still hale and hearly, attributes Lis longevity to exercise at quoit pitch ing for two hours every duy. The game of quoits is au aucient and honorable duo, aud tho gentle exertion it requires is unquestionably beneficial to health, but this recipe for attaining long life is no better than thousands of others. Exercise, prudence iu diet und regular habits unquestionably do much to pro long life, but iubtauues of extreme and vigorous old age cuuuot be attributed t any of these. Men live long aud retain their faculties to exceptional year's inaiuly because they have been favored by nature with extraordinary constitutions. Physical powers can be conserved, but the lack of inherent vitulity can no more be made up for thau the man -of ordinary muscular development cau become a Suudow. COMMON SENSE. Ot nil the gifts this sldn of honven That ever worn to mortals Riven, The best to hnvo. the worst to miss, Tho tniost, sweetest soureo ot bliss, Tho one rail loft of Kdou's fence, Ktanils tho pure charm of common sense. To earn our right to "dully bread," To not regret when time Is fled. To wisely speak and net and think. To keep life's boat from ruin's brink, To balance every hour's expense We need tho aid of common sense. Hometlmes, no doubt, wo need to view, The lightning bolts some genius threw; Hut now we neod, well mixed and stlrrod, With Bllent thought or spoken word, A sort of humnn fool's defense The wholesomo aid of common scnBO. Homo things, perhaps, must still bo taught, Whero mighty minds their power in wrought; But how to guard the priceless wealth Of peace and love, of youthful health, Ana how to keop our own fuw pence, Is taught alone by common souse. We pray for fnltb, and light, and peace, For sin's remove, and love's increase, For strength to meet tho tompter's power, For dying race, for dying hour, But now, right In the present tense. Give us, OLordl good common sense. To keep from useless jar and strlfo, And bless tho chauging path of life To make each fountain purer still, To tuko from loss Us fatal chill. And bring thy own sweet reooinponso, We bow to thee, blest common sense. - O. 8. Itlce, In Boston Transcript. 30030000030003030000003Q A LITTLE COMEDY. 8 BY W. 0. ROSE.- H )3303330O303O0O03O0000QOCd OGER Tinsley. Helen. ins daughter, Herbert Torrance and Mary, who is only suggested. The gray haired man at the desk looks up from tho mass of papers before him aud turns toward the door. His quick ear hns detected the swish of skirts in the passageway. There is but one visitor who is permitted to thus invade his private room unannounced. The door swings in aud a young woman enters. "Ah, Helen," says the gray haired man. luis is au early visit! The young woman runs her hand caressingly across his scattered locks and stooping, kisses him lightly on the forehead. "Just as glad to see me, aren't you, papa?" she cries. She is a very beautiful young woman and most bewitchingly gowned and booted and hatted, but there is an ex pression of discontent on her well bred face that is not pleasaut to see. "And what is the ju ice of this queen ly favor?" inquires the gray haired mau ashe leans back iu his chair aud looks quizzically at his visitor. She grows grave lit a moment aud regards him with a troubled gaze. "Thero, there," he says. "Don't worry yourself over jt. Speak up. What shall it be? A brocelet, a coupe, a necklace?" "Papa," she says, "you think I'm a dreadfully selfish little beast, dou't yon? I am, I know I am. I've just been a nuisance and a bother to you ever since ever since mamma died. Don't contradict me. Everybody knows it. I'm just a selfish, money spending, proud, little little pig." The gray haired man takes the daintily gloved hand that rests upon his desk. "Why, Helen," ho says, "what's this? What's gone wrong? Have I ever denied you anything?" "No, no, papa," she half sobB. "You've been much too good to me. You've spoiled me." "Dear me, child," he slowly mur murs, "how much you are like your dear mother." Ho turns his head a little away and puts his baud over his eyes. "There, there, papa," cries the young woman, and her soft cheek rests against the gray hair. "I didn't meau to distress you. There, there! I am goiug to make you pay for this visit oh, such a price! But not now. No, not just now. Cousin Mary is waiting for me iu the carriage, and aud, after awhile I will come back aud tell you what it is. You are good natured now, aren't you, dear? Say that you are good natured." He smiles and nods like a nodding mandarin, and she kisses him again und darts to the door. "There!" she breathlessly cries as she pauses on the threshold. "Just hold that expression, sir, if you please. I'll be back iu such a little while, dear daddy." And the door closes aud she whisks through. The gray haired mau sighs. "She grows more like her dead mother every duy," he says. "But, heavens, how thoroughly she is spoiled twenty-three years old, a finished coquette, a creature of the wildest and most extravagant whims. And yet she has a heart aud a warm place in it, too, for her doting old father. I wonder what came over her this morning. I never saw her quite so hysterical. If she would marry but no, she appears to despise every man she meets. She Hirts with them and throws them aside like cast-oft" gloves. What a load it would be off my mind if she would find some hon est, ambitious young fellow who suited her wayward fancy. But, no. She turns from them all, and hunged if I blame her. They we a precious poor lot." He pauses as the door swings opeu aud a boy euters with a card, "In five minutes send the gentleman In," the gray haired father says, and the boy withdraws. "Herbert Torrance." reads the trrnv haired man. "A fine young fellow, straightforward, honest, true. I half wish he was in society. No, I don't; it would spoil him. Wonder whnt he wants with me." He busies himself w ith his papers for a nioiuont or two, and then the door swings open and a well knit young fellow with keen gray eyes en ters. "Ah, Torrance," says the gray haired man, "have a chair. What cun I do for vou?" "Thank yon, Mr. Tinsley," says the young man, and he draws a chair close to the desk. He seats himself with an embarrassed air. "Nothing wrong with tho brokeroge business, I hope?" says the old man, kindly. "No, sir. The business exceeds my expectations," replies the voting man. "And yet I could wish it were fifty times its present proportions." "That's a rather ambitious wish, my boy," says the older man. "Why this display of grasping greed? "Because, sir, it might win me a more favorable consideration at your nanus. "And why are yon so anxious to win my favorable consideration?" The young man hesitates. "Yon are the man, sir," he slowly answers, "whoso good will I value above all others. If I had wealth and position I might approach you in a far different spirit; but, as I have neither, I" "Tut, tut, my boy," says the older man. "Never mind what you haven't got. What do you want? By Jove, you ore the second person who has hinted at some mysterious favor with in the past half hour. " Aud ho smiles at the recollection. "What I want," says the young man hurriedly, "is au inestimable treasure. It is yours to give or re fuse. I feel my own unworthiness, sir, yet I boldly ask this gift at your hands. I I hope you understand me, sir?" "I think I do," says the older mau, kiudly. "But really I didn't know that you had ever met." "It it wasn't right, sir," says the young man, hurriedly. "I met her first at the seashore quite by accident there was a little accident, in fact, but she said she wouldu't distress you about it. And our acquaintance rapidly ripened. When sho came back to town, I met her ot various places, sometimes quite by accident and later on by by uppoiutment. It wasn't right, sir, but I I was very deeply iu love." "The little minx!" cries the older mau. "Why, sho never breathed a word of this." "So she told me, sir, and that and Unit makes my present tusk all the harder." "Well, never mind that. You are not her dearest friend aud yet I sup pose yon think you ore. Come, ore you sure sho loves you?" "I have her word for it, sir. She sent me to you." "Well, well, aud so quiet and de mure." "Wh-what did you say, sir?" "I say, why didn't Helen tell me?" "Because she wanted to keep it a socret." "And she was in it too?" "Sir?" "Well, well, she is a good girl and yon must make her happy." The two men shake hands solemnly, the younger man's face beaming with delight. Then Mr. Tinsley rises and goes to the safe that stands in a cor uer. From it he take a large envelope. "She'll not come to you exactly empty-handed, Torrance," ho says as ho looks the contents of the envelope over. "I've put aside from time to time certoiu securities for her, and I see thut they now amount to something like $20,000. Of course when I leave there'll be more." He puts the envelope in the safe and comes back to his dusk. "She is a very good girl," ho con tinues, "a sweet tempered, dutiful girl. Really, I couldn't think more of her if she were my own child." "Not your own child?" gasps the young man. "Certaiuly not. She is my brother Edward's daughter. Wheu her parents died ten years ago I took charge of her. I've brought her up like a daughter, but she is my niece. You look sur prised." "I am," replied the young man. "I I thought she was your daughter." "She didn't tell you so, did she?" "Why I I think Bhe led me to be believe that such was tho case." "Astonishing! And you've been courting her all this time in the belief that she was my daughter. Perhaps but, no, I won't Bay it. I believe you are au honorable mau. You surely wonldn't wreck her happiness for the sake of the paltry dollars. No, no. I'll I'll add to that $20,000." "Sir," says the young man, his face all aflame, "I would marry your your niece if she didn't have a dollar." "Spoken like a man," cries the old gentleman. "I'll double that $20,000." The young man stirs uneasily in his chair. "Wait," says the old man. "I can't understand about this little piece of deception. It isn't a bit like Mary." "You mean Helen," Bays the younger mau. "No, Mary." "Helen." "Mary." The youug man pushes buck his chair a little. "She she never told me her name was Mary," he gasps. "Who never told you?" "Helen." The older man leans back in his chair aud shakes his forefinger at Robert Torrance. "Will you kindly tell me what Heleh has to do with this muddle?" I he asks. "You mean Mary." "No, Helen." ' The young man rises and takes his hat. "Mr. Tinsley,'.' he says. "I came here to ask the hand of your daughter, and yon toll me she is your niece. You even insist that her name is some thing else. I I don't kuow what to think, sir. I have fear I've" his voice trembles, and he stops. "Hark," murmurs the older man. A voice comes to them from the passageway a sweet and timid voice. "Oh, is he engaged. Then I'll wait," "That that's her voice," cries Her bert. "Not not Mary's voice," gasps the older man. "No, no, Helen's voice." The gray haired head drops back against the cushion. "Helen!" he cries. "Good Lord!" He stares at the young man as if fascinated. "And Helen loves you?" he gasps. "She snys so," replies Herbert. "But bIio threw over an earl!" "But she didn't love him," says Herbert. "And I thought all the time it wat Mary," murmurs the old man. "I don't know any Mary," says Her bert. Mr. Tinsley rises and walks toward the door. As he passes Herbert he tups him lightly on the shoulder. A smile breaks across his face. "Not a word about tho $20000," he whispered. "Come in, dear," he calls at the doorway. And Helen enters with much rus tling of skirts and a charming blush. She nods shyly to Herbert and puts her arm around her father's neck. "You know now tho price you have to pay?" she murmurs. "Yes, my dear." "And I lean have what I want?'' "Yes, my dear." She kissos him gently and he stretches out his disengaged hand to the young man. "You and Herbert must bo very good friends," laughed Helen. "He has some excellent qualities. He saved my life Inst summer." "You didn't tell ino that," says the older man as he looks reproachfully at Herbert. "Iliad something mn,ob more impor tant on my mind," murmurs the latter. "There, there," cries Helen, "thai wasn't a bit pretty." Then she adds "Now yon must all eome to tho win dow. Somebody is out there whe knows about Herbert and who is just dying to hoar the news." They follow her to the window. In a carriage drawn np at the curb a gen-tie-faoed girl is sittiug. To her Helen smiles and pantomimes, and points t Herbert and to her father with monj pretty nods. Aud tho gentle-faced girl 8-uiles and nods back again. The older man nudges the younger "That's Mary," he whispers. Cleveland I'lnin Dealer. Character t'niiilfttakuble and Kterual. Character is always knowu. Theft! never enrich; alms never impoverish murder will spook out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie, for ex ample, the smallest mixture of vanity, the least attempt to make a good im pression, a favorable appearance will instantly vitiate the effect; but speak the truth, aud all nature and all spirit! help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness. See, again, the perfection of the law as it applies itself to the affections and becomes the law of society. As w are, so do we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus, of theii volition, souls proceed into heaven into hell. These facts have always suggested to man the sublime creed that the world is not the product ol manifold power, but of one will, of one mind; and that one mind is every where, iu each ray of the star, in each wavelet of the pool, active; aud what ever opposes that will is everywhere balked und battled because things are mado so aud not otherwise.-r-lt. W. Emerson. Danger In the Third lull. One day recently, says the Hurt ford (Conn.) Oouraut, au ltaliau section mau, employed ou the Berlin electric branch track, happened to hit the third rail with his iron bar, and as a result of the electric shock he was thrown distance of several feet aud rendeed unconscious. His fellow-workmen hurried to his side, lifted him up, and took him to his boarding house. It was several hours before ho regained con sciousness. He has not beeu able tc resume work, complaining of severe pains through his hips and back. The bar which lie was carrying and which came iu contact with the electric rail retained a perpendicular position, and for a time no one dared touch it. Fi nally one of the men, who had rubber gloves ou, removed it. The Vlre-Prciildeiit'a Lunch. An apple or two is oil the luncheon that Vice-President Hobart eats, so that he does not go down to the res tauraut ot all, and, unless he is culled out of the chamber to see some impor tant visitor iu his own office back of the Semite, he sits iu the chair from the chaplain's prayer at noon until whatever time adjournment comes. A llu.liand Inttcador an A.yluin. In Jewell Count v. Kansas, wheu judge, before whom a father had brought his eighteeu-ycar-old daughtei 1111 n cliuriM nf iiiHRiiit v fitliml tlmt the father's reaj object iu tho proceedings was to prevent her from marrying the young man of her choice, he called the lover, who was among the spectators, and performed the marriage forthwith. THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Appreciation (f t'onre Pnttlna II I m tn Ilia FlareTlte t'ncertaln Kntnre A Natural Ojteatlon An Kxceptlnnnl Case Vernal Vexation., r-.te., t.tc. Around this wondrous world ot ours Oo where you may or can, You'll find they woleoroo everywhoro The well-dre8sod man. Yea, even In tho Houth Hoa Isles You'll find one In the van, Or In tho pot, served nice and hot, A well-dressed man. New York Journal. Or Course. "Pop, what's the best kind of paper for a kite?" "Er fly paper, my son." Ne York Journal. rutting Him In Ilia Place. Stuffins "I don't believo I eat enough to feed a bird." His Landlady "Do you . mean an ostrich?" Puck. Vernal Vexations. "How that woman did glare at you I" "Yes; and I glared back at her. The hateful thing! she had on a shirt waist just like mine." Naturally. "Why is it you don't put ony faith in a man who stutters?" "Why, it is the most natural thing in the world for him to break his word." And He Hail It, or Course. Cora "What did you say when Dick expressed a desire to kiss you?" Dora "I told him that I supposed he was just mean enough to have his own way." New York Journal. An Kxceptlonat Case. Anna "That was a peculiar love affair of Fauny's." Rose "In what respect?" Anna "She didn't know George was in love with her until he told her." The Vncertaln Future. He--"My darling, I always feel like taking off my shoes when I. enter your sacred presence." "Well, I would rather you did it now thau alter we are married." Life. A Natural Question. Miss Yellowleaf "Yes, I have had my picture taken once a yoar every year of my lifo." Miss Y'oungbud "How did yon niauago before photography was in vented?" Puck. Dividing the Task. "My dear, yon should not bo bo anry about my not mailing that letter. Let your motto be: 'Forgive and for get!'" "Oh, yes, indeed. You do tho for getting, aud I can do the forgiving, I suppose. " Cincinnati Enquirer. Klcmeutally Described. Ethol "When did you first meet him?" May "Ho ca'iie up aud offered me tho use of his umbrella when I was caught out in a storm." Ethel "Then he was your rain beau?" It', a Four Kule. It was post midnight, aud M. Ivre mort was fumbling about iu the hall aud mumbling angrily to himself. "What's the matter?" called out Mine. Ivremort from the floor abovo, "There's two hatracks here," ho answered, "an' I dou't know which ouo to hang my hut on." "Oh, hang oue ou each aud come to bed." Petit Journal Pour Rire. Her Defiance. "No; you can't kiss me," she said. "I think I can," he replied, proceed ing to prove his view ot once. Tho maiden's eyes gleamed ominously, while tho young man, his bravado gone, trembled for the conse quences of his audacity. She spoke excitedly. "You're a menu thing. That's what you are! But you can't do it again. So there!" New York Journal. At Mountatu Kewrt. Proprietor "I tell you, sir, this is the grandest site on the face of the earth. The elevation is simply in comparable. You cau look as far as the eye cau rea m, and you will fail to see anything higher." Guest "With one exception.'! Proprietor "There is no exception, sir." Guest "Beg pardon, but this bill you have just handed me proves that your charges are very much higher." Richmond Dispatch. Moppet Kearvll Too Kuoll. "Last night," said tho Pessimist, "I went all over this towu trying to find a person who seemed to bo en joying himself." "How many did you find?" "Not one," said the Pessimist, gloomily. "If you had come up to my room about twelve-thirty," remarked tho Optimist, "you might have seen oue." "Humph," suid the Pessimist, "aud what were you doing?" "I was asleep," said the Optimist. Bostou Budget. Keen Ken of Humor. A man was up before a Judge the other day for stealing coal. The ruil road detective said he caught the fel low iu a coal car, but the man suid that ho was only sleeping there be cause his w ifo had locked him out aud he had no money to go to a hotel. "Pretty hard bed, wasn't it?" asked the Judge. "Oh, no, sir," ho auswered, "it was soft coal." Aud tho Judge was so struck with the joke thut he, let him go..- Buffalo Enquirer. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A new speaking tube for steamers has the pipe insulated y a waterproof textile covering which mokes it easy to hoar speech in tho engine room from a distance of 300 foot. One of tho most curious results of the investigations made by doctors in the Russinn jails is the statement that eoch group of criminals has its own peculiar color of the rye. Anthropologists have ascertained that the Andaman Islanders, the small est race of people in the world, overage less thon four feet iu height, while few of them weigh more than seventy-live pounds. Evidence of tho complexity of cathode rsys is found by M. H. Dcs landres in the fact that when a ray is turned aside by a neighboring body it is divided into several unequally dev iated rays. "Growing pains" ore a myth, say! Dr. Irving S. Haines. The pain means PoUs' disease of tho spine, and the ignorant or lazy doctor does not find it out until the limp or tho hump on the back appears. Taris and Marseilles are now con nected by telegraph lines entirely tin der ground. They are placed in iron pipes, aud buried four feet beneath the surface with manholes 3000 feet opart. It cost $7,000,000 to bury the wires. Chelsea district in London ntilizcf its street refuse by separating theragf and paper, which are converted intc brown wrapping paper, while tho rest of tho refuse is burned in the furnaces of the reducing works aud the residuum is used in brickmaking. The Illinois Central Railroad ie about to experiment with electricity of a motive power, with a view to its adoption on all the suburban lines ol Chicago. It is said that both tho third rail and overhead trolley systems will bo tried exhaustively before a decision is come to on equipment. From records extending back tc 1689, M. Camilla Flammarioa finds that tho raiufall of Paris has gradually increased about three inches, being now a little more thau twenty-two inches a year. The amount of differ ence seems to indicate that the increase is real and not due to greater accuracy of observation. The director of the gas works at Aix-les-Bains, France, has perfected a simple system of automatically light ing and extinguishing gas jets from auy distance. The burner is closed by a steel plate, which is magnetized aud drawn aside while on electric cur rout is passing through it, the escap ing gas being ignited either by a spark from the plate or the incandescence of a suitable material. The plate falls baok over the bnrncr on being demag netized. Motive Power of the Future. Electricity as a motive power on long distance roads is likely to be in troduced, according to tho reports, much sooner than has been anticipat ed. The successful experiments of the New York, New Haven aud Hart ford road, receutly referred to, have demonstrated the practicability of the third rail system. Tho adoption of thot system by the Manhattan Elevated system iu New York City gave a fresh impetus to tho movement, and now it is reported that tho managers of sev eral other important railroads running into New York City, among them tht Erie, the Pennsylvania and tho Long Island ruilroads, are nil preparing tc introduce the new system upon their roads. The Longlslaud directors, it is said, are enthusiastio over the sub ject, believing that iu u very short time the public would see the intro duction of the third rail system, or something equally as good, over the entire western half of the island. The Pennsylvania, it is well known, has beeu experimenting with electricity on one or more of its branch roads for some time past, und tho Erie propones to equip some of its branch roads with electricity as soon as possible. There seems to be no end to the possibilities of electricity, and the prediction thut it would be the great motive power of the future seems to be near its realiza tion. Treutou (NT. J.) American. Key to the Mediterranean. The fortress Gibraltar is iu many ways the most remarkable pluco of its kind in the world. The height of the rock is over Mm) feet and this stu pendous precipice is pierced by miles of galleries in the solid stone port holes for cannon placed at frequent in tervals. The rock is absolutely ini preguable to tho shot of tho enemy, uud, by means of the great elevation, a plunging lire cau be directed from au enormous height on a hostile fleet. A garrisou of from olIiU) to 10,0110 men is constantly maintained, with provis ions aud ammunition for a six-mouths' siege. Iu 177'J tho celebrated siege lasted three years, the fortress being successfully defended by 7000 Eng lish, w hile being uttuoked by ou army of over -10,000 men; 1000 pieces of ar tillery, forty-seven sail, teu great flout ing batteries and a largo number of small bouts composed the attacking force. For mouths over (5000 shells were thrown iuto tho tower every duy. A Lung Probationary T.-i-ui. A civil engineer, mechanical engineer or architect, in the employ of the Ger niuti railways, must, on au uvcruKO, wait till he is thirty-eight or forty years old before his position is per manent. The u. eras' o time they are employed on temporary work before they uro permanently appointed is twelve years. A New Milllury ItU-.nle. A military bicyclu recently patented is fitted with un extension una pro jecting iu the rear, with a piece of canvas rolled over the haudlebur, which can bo unrolled aud strung from tli. handles to the end of the urm for use as a stretcher. THE PESSIMIST. Ho climbed a peak all wrapt In snow. And looked not at tho view below. To seek his treasure did he room And left It all the while ot homo. ' Before the swine his penrls ho strewed Then cursed their base Ingratitude. ' He carefully shut out the llirht, Then cried: "Tho world Is dark as night; "And all," lie snld, when this was done, "Is vanity beneath the sun!" Norley ' Chester, iu London Lltororv World. HUMOR OF THE DAY. The Tramp's Motto "Wot are yei givin' us?" Puck. The European concert has given a very expensive performance. Puck. Ethel "Do you believe in palmis try?" Mabel "Oh, it's all right for a starter, if the fellow's shy." Harp er's Bazar. She "Do you belong to a cycling club, or ore you unattached?" He "Neither. I'm married." Indianap olis Journal. "Has the unpardonable sin ever been discovered?" "Yes; it is the act of sprinkling tacks on a bicycle path." Philadelphia North American. "An allowance is something like a bicycle." "How so?" "A man can put his wifo on it but he cauuot make her stay on it." Chica.ro Record. Cholly (splashing about iu the briny) "Oh, girls, X love the ocean! It does mo good." Miss Pert "Yes, und the Salter tho better." Truth. Ills wife cleverest of dears! She's held ou to her cough for years; For well she knows nt health's behest He'll take her oast or south or west. Chicago Hecord. ''It looks fresh." "Are you talking about mo, sir?" "Certainly not. I am talking about the paint on the bench yon are sittiug on." Cleveland Tlain Dealer. "Gibbs ot last has got his wife to buy a wheel." "How did ho manage it?" "Had somebody start a report that ho didn't want her to ride." Chicago Record. Snooper "I noticed you took no part in the debate as to the host make of bicycle." Swaybaek "My physi cian has warned mo to avoid nil ex citement. " Life. . Counsel (investigating client's story) "Now, you must keep nothing from mo." Client "I haven't. I paid you e.vcry cont I had in tho world for your retainer." Pittsburgh Dispatch. Jennie "How did you enjoy your trip across tho oce.iu?" Cl.va "Im mensely. Of course, thero was noth ing to see but sky and water, but the landscape was sublime." Judge. War News "Goodness, Jimmy, what's tho matter with your cheek and where did you get that black eye?" "Me au' Sammy Dix has bin havin' a pound party!" Detroit Free Press. "There was a strange man hereto see you to-day, papn," said little Ethel, as she ran to meet her father in the hall. "Did ho have o bill?" "No, papa. Ho had just a plain nose." Household Words. "Yes," said the young mau just out of college, "I am willing to do any thing to nuiko a living thut is, of course," he added, "iu ony position thot brings in ot least $2."00 salary." Somerville Journal. "First Villager "Thero is no tell ing how a boy will turn out." Second Villager "No; but siuco we got the curfew law we have the satisfaction of knowing when he will turn in." In dianapolis Journal. Dawkins "If you had all tho money, Bill, yon could possibly over desire, what would you do with it?" Kilsam "Do with it? Why I'd in vest it souieu hero where it w ould dou ble its jlf." Bostou Transcript. "How diil the manager get nil those women out of the burning building so quickly?" "He went ou the stage aud announced that a man down nt the en t 'auco was giving uwny samples of baking powder." Puck. The World'. Itlln.l. It is stated that there are 1,000,000 blind people in tho world, or oue to every 15(10 inhabitants. Latest reports show 2J.000 blind persons iu Englund, or K70 for each million inhabitants. Blind infants ' of less than five years, lt'if) for each million; between five and fifteen, i!88; betweeu twenty and twenty-five, 422; betweeu forty-live and sixty, 1025, and above sixty-five years, 7000 for each million. Russia aud Egypt are tho countries where tho blind constitute the lastest proportion ate number of the total population, iu Russia ou account of the luck of ex perienced medical utteutiou, and iu Egypt because of ophthalmia due to irritation caused by movement of the sand by the wind. Thero are nearly 200,000 blind persons iu European Russia, the larger number being iu Finlaud and tho northern province. This is ascribed to the Hat country aud imperleot ventilation in huts of tho peasantry. Though more than half of tho blind population of Europe is fouud iu Russia, there are only twenty-five asylums for the blind iu the empire, one-tenth of the total number in Europe. Loudon Mail. A New Mudli-ul Instrument. A newly devised musical instru ment is formed of o sounding board with strings aeioa:i the top uud a bow set in a sliding frame over the strings, which ure depressed at diiVt-reut points by tho fingers tj produce the proper notes wheu tho bow is diuwn over them. Wi-llluif lur Over lxlv V.-aii. Dr. James Marliueuu, who the other duy celebrated his ninety-second lurlii day, is one of tlu very few rei.uii.iing uuthors whose literury activity date from tho begiuuiug of the Victorian reigu. Dr. Martiueuu published his first book, "The UuUouuleof Religious liKiuiry," iu 1837. if
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